Skunky beer comes from light exposure. The isohumulones react with light at a specific wavelength (exact on escapes me at this moment) to form the compounds that smell and taste skunky.
I've got the impression that Donna Scott has never worked in a factory or in manufacturing. Yes, automation has eliminated jobs, but that's not the reason manufacturing has been hit so hard over the years. It's cheaper labor overseas and being crushed in the quality game by other countries.
While automation can improve productivity, it's never the magic bullet or "paradigm-shifting" force people claim it to be. At best, it's good for dangerous or incredibly routine tasks. It's also good for high tolerance applications (ie, laser cutting sheet steel to within 0.0001").
But when it comes to assembling complex parts or performing tasks which can vary from product to product, you still need a human brain to do the work. I fail to see how the analogy holds for IT.
Let's save everyone some time. Just take all the overused "Lucas ruined SW" arguments and replace "Lucas" with Raimi. They'll be the same disgruntled arguments we always see on slashdot.
I tried to get USB to work in 4.x, and failed, but USB support is supposed to be much better in 5.x. Audio has worked fine for me.
USB support worked great for me in 4.10 as soon as I rebuilt the kernel with support for it. Then again, this was a much older machine, so it was obviously 1.1, not a newer version. Did you have problems with 2.0 or just USB in general?
Yeah, but they'd come downloaded with razor blades or pins and you'd have to buy "special spyware blocking software" to remove it.
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This reminds me of Saturn (at least when they first came on to the scene). Here was a company that did things differently, even in an off-beat way, and was rewarded with the type of customer loyalty that gives Harvard MBAs wet dreams.
Such companies define the "niche" market that everyone seems to talk about these days. It's the narrow market that captures the imagination and excitement of its customers.
Of course, one cannot manufacture this. I think its formation is a rare combination of vision, guts, luck, and a willingness to task risk. Unfortunately, the vast majority of companies today have none of this, valuing things like "vision statements" or "world class (insert skill)" over creativity and audacity.
I wonder how they can patent this when referrer discounts (electronically implemented) would seem like prior art. I can hand out a code from Crutchfield.com. When someone buys a product of enough value, I get a coupon. As for these group discounts, people have already built sites/services where people get together to get a group discount. Then there's the "free X" (iPod, phone, whatever) deal. Put that in your blog, and you've got e-commerce and social networking.
I fail to see how such a thing is novel, new, or full of such inventiveness as to warrant a patent. Then again, that describes a lot of patents.
Basically, complacency. If a terrorist really wanted to accomplish some task (and let's assume he/she doesn't mind getting killed in the process), this travel database is good only for post-mortem analysis. Why? Simple, the terrorist just starts taking "regular trips" to establish a history. Once people are comfortable or consider such trips normal, the terrorist can move with near impunity. Heck, the 9/11 guys conducted test runs!
This is simple social engineering. In my job, I service customer accounts. During my first few visits, I may get asked who I am by several people wondering if I'm where I should be. After a while, even the most security-conscious place treats my coming and going as a normal routine requiring no scrutiny. After that, I'm free to walk through almost the entire plant without question. If I wanted to, I could steal a lot of information or cause damage.
The same applies to the travel database. If the 9/11 guys were willing to plan for years to pull off the attack, what makes anyone think they wouldn't take the time to "establish" themselves as "normal" travelers. This database, like CAPPS, won't do anything but let the government obtain information about its own citizens.
True, but your RoboMower won't drink your beer, invite its pierced, strangely dressed friends over to your house, listen to loud scary music, spend extended periods of time in the bathroom doing who-knows-what, ask to borrow the car and then not put any gas in it, or put you in a home when you get old and senile.
Don't all double carbon bonds fluoresce when exposed to blacklight? I've used this to test cleanliness in industrial applications where a customer was applying an stamping oil and then cleaning the part afterwards. I'm curious as to how you'd turn this into a quick consumer test without making people freak over unsaturated fats naturally present.
If you want to monitor your baby, just go in and check on him/her while he/she is sleeping. Want to go out for a well-deserved date? Find a baby sitter you can trust and give him/her your cell phone number in case of an emergency. All this monitoring technology is a solution looking for a problem.
Sooner or later you'll realize that most likely, your child is fine. We turned the baby monitor off when my second child was about 2 months old. He was such a noisy sleeper that we kept going in to check on him and waking him up. After we turned off the monitor, we all slept better.
Please explain why I am a "young" voter because I'm 33. I have two kids, a wife, a house and mortgage, a job, a lawn that needs mowed, aches and pains in joints I never knew I had, a dog and a cat.
Why do voter advocacy groups put me in this youth group and associate me with others as young as 13-17? I don't get jiggy wit it cause P Diddy says voting is phat. I don't spread the bling-bling to my senate homies cause a certain bill is whack. I don't look to MTV to motivate me to vote and get involved.
10-15 years makes a lot of difference in one's life. Please explain why these groups assume that "youth" campaigns appeal to adults.
cpeterso makes a good point about market externalities. An excellent book that points out how to capture market externalities and use market forces to protect the environment is "Costing the Earth" by Frances Cairncross (sp?), a former environmental editor for the Economist. Does a good job of showing how a carbon tax, eco-tourism, market-based pollution trading, etc. could work. Also does a good job showing why recycling can often be a counterproductive solution (ie, generating a lot of material that no one wants, thus depressing its value and creating even less of a reason to recycle.)
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Skunky beer comes from light exposure. The isohumulones react with light at a specific wavelength (exact on escapes me at this moment) to form the compounds that smell and taste skunky.
Anyone who believes so probably thought the dot com boom would last forever........
I'm sure he'll screw this one up, too, and destroy what used to be a great story....oh, wait a minute.....
I've got the impression that Donna Scott has never worked in a factory or in manufacturing. Yes, automation has eliminated jobs, but that's not the reason manufacturing has been hit so hard over the years. It's cheaper labor overseas and being crushed in the quality game by other countries.
While automation can improve productivity, it's never the magic bullet or "paradigm-shifting" force people claim it to be. At best, it's good for dangerous or incredibly routine tasks. It's also good for high tolerance applications (ie, laser cutting sheet steel to within 0.0001").
But when it comes to assembling complex parts or performing tasks which can vary from product to product, you still need a human brain to do the work. I fail to see how the analogy holds for IT.
No, no, no. The proper question is "Emacs or vi for your Crusher/Troi nude ASCII files?"
I think a 3rd run would probably make Natural Lite...
Oh, and before you jump on me, replace "SW" with "Evil Dead."
Let's save everyone some time. Just take all the overused "Lucas ruined SW" arguments and replace "Lucas" with Raimi. They'll be the same disgruntled arguments we always see on slashdot.
So if the FCC has authority over all this stuff, does that mean everyone has to take down their porn during prime time?....
I tried to get USB to work in 4.x, and failed, but USB support is supposed to be much better in 5.x. Audio has worked fine for me.
USB support worked great for me in 4.10 as soon as I rebuilt the kernel with support for it. Then again, this was a much older machine, so it was obviously 1.1, not a newer version. Did you have problems with 2.0 or just USB in general?
I wish I could download a Samoa or two now...
Yeah, but they'd come downloaded with razor blades or pins and you'd have to buy "special spyware blocking software" to remove it.
This reminds me of Saturn (at least when they first came on to the scene). Here was a company that did things differently, even in an off-beat way, and was rewarded with the type of customer loyalty that gives Harvard MBAs wet dreams.
Such companies define the "niche" market that everyone seems to talk about these days. It's the narrow market that captures the imagination and excitement of its customers.
Of course, one cannot manufacture this. I think its formation is a rare combination of vision, guts, luck, and a willingness to task risk. Unfortunately, the vast majority of companies today have none of this, valuing things like "vision statements" or "world class (insert skill)" over creativity and audacity.
I wonder how they can patent this when referrer discounts (electronically implemented) would seem like prior art. I can hand out a code from Crutchfield.com. When someone buys a product of enough value, I get a coupon. As for these group discounts, people have already built sites/services where people get together to get a group discount. Then there's the "free X" (iPod, phone, whatever) deal. Put that in your blog, and you've got e-commerce and social networking.
I fail to see how such a thing is novel, new, or full of such inventiveness as to warrant a patent. Then again, that describes a lot of patents.
Could be worse. The 12 year old could have written it in some really obtuse Perl that would require months just to figure out what it tries to do.
Did I miss anything?
Basically, complacency. If a terrorist really wanted to accomplish some task (and let's assume he/she doesn't mind getting killed in the process), this travel database is good only for post-mortem analysis. Why? Simple, the terrorist just starts taking "regular trips" to establish a history. Once people are comfortable or consider such trips normal, the terrorist can move with near impunity. Heck, the 9/11 guys conducted test runs!
This is simple social engineering. In my job, I service customer accounts. During my first few visits, I may get asked who I am by several people wondering if I'm where I should be. After a while, even the most security-conscious place treats my coming and going as a normal routine requiring no scrutiny. After that, I'm free to walk through almost the entire plant without question. If I wanted to, I could steal a lot of information or cause damage.
The same applies to the travel database. If the 9/11 guys were willing to plan for years to pull off the attack, what makes anyone think they wouldn't take the time to "establish" themselves as "normal" travelers. This database, like CAPPS, won't do anything but let the government obtain information about its own citizens.
Don't worry. You can always worship Allahzilla or Yahwehzilla. If you're evil, there's always Beelzebubzilla.
I thought this was why people had kids.
True, but your RoboMower won't drink your beer, invite its pierced, strangely dressed friends over to your house, listen to loud scary music, spend extended periods of time in the bathroom doing who-knows-what, ask to borrow the car and then not put any gas in it, or put you in a home when you get old and senile.
Don't all double carbon bonds fluoresce when exposed to blacklight? I've used this to test cleanliness in industrial applications where a customer was applying an stamping oil and then cleaning the part afterwards. I'm curious as to how you'd turn this into a quick consumer test without making people freak over unsaturated fats naturally present.
Any experts out there care to weigh in?
If you want to monitor your baby, just go in and check on him/her while he/she is sleeping. Want to go out for a well-deserved date? Find a baby sitter you can trust and give him/her your cell phone number in case of an emergency. All this monitoring technology is a solution looking for a problem.
Sooner or later you'll realize that most likely, your child is fine. We turned the baby monitor off when my second child was about 2 months old. He was such a noisy sleeper that we kept going in to check on him and waking him up. After we turned off the monitor, we all slept better.
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If it did, you would own the Windows code on your computer and could sell copies of that code with impunity.
Yeah, but who would want to buy it?......
If you use our service, you'll get...one hundred billion GB of email!!!!
This sounds neat and interesting....until you realize (afterwards, of course) that the dog was in the room watching you have sex.....
Please explain why I am a "young" voter because I'm 33. I have two kids, a wife, a house and mortgage, a job, a lawn that needs mowed, aches and pains in joints I never knew I had, a dog and a cat.
Why do voter advocacy groups put me in this youth group and associate me with others as young as 13-17? I don't get jiggy wit it cause P Diddy says voting is phat. I don't spread the bling-bling to my senate homies cause a certain bill is whack. I don't look to MTV to motivate me to vote and get involved.
10-15 years makes a lot of difference in one's life. Please explain why these groups assume that "youth" campaigns appeal to adults.
cpeterso makes a good point about market externalities. An excellent book that points out how to capture market externalities and use market forces to protect the environment is "Costing the Earth" by Frances Cairncross (sp?), a former environmental editor for the Economist. Does a good job of showing how a carbon tax, eco-tourism, market-based pollution trading, etc. could work. Also does a good job showing why recycling can often be a counterproductive solution (ie, generating a lot of material that no one wants, thus depressing its value and creating even less of a reason to recycle.)