...quoth Kermit. I'd say it's more likely your brain is compressing detail when time seems to fly by quickly (no point in storing repetitive detail, is there?) and analyzing potential means of escape in high-res when time seems to drag.
Or to put it succinctly, time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana (thanks Noam).
"We don't think it'll compete with Office - we just want the customer base that uses it"
Got it in one. Add this to the commercial domain packaging Google is offering and it looks like the platform for a lot of small businesses. $50/user/year and you can throw away all your departmental Microsoft servers. If you get controlled logins, Gmail, Writely, spreadsheet and presentation as well as a portal with your own domain name, why bother with Microsoft? Oh and you can throw away all the operations support structure and those dusty MCSE's as well. That's gotta save you more than $50/user/year, and you get a reliable platform too. I mean, it isn't like Google doesn't have a bit of redundancy here & there.
I'm an old and dusty MCSE/network engineer too and I don't see why a small business needs that kind of infrastructure or expertise any more than you should have a television engineer in your home to switch channels for you.
I was once a Microsoft shill until I discovered my inner Fear of Flying Chairs...
of course events like this will be less frequent in a country with 10% the population of america
True, it's all in the numbers, isn't it? I mean if you say 1 person in 10 million is an armed, homicidal maniac, that gives us 1 or 2 in Australia, and what -- 20-30 in the US? The next pin the marble hits is density of population - available targets. One such person might kill two people in the outback, or 30 in a university.
What's done is done, infinite sadness. I have nothing constructive to say, except -- communication does help. Quote from Princess Di : "the way to dismantle a personality is to isolate it". And others in this post, who say "someone talked to me and pulled me back from the brink".
By the same logic, one can discover an O-ring in the Challenger solid fuel boosters that has eroded half way down and say the design was 100% overspec.
I hate it when Microsoft is so totally dogmatically sure that all their changes are in our best interest. Such an attitude is universally pernicious. Or, as a brighter person than me said:
"Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." -- Richard Feynman
Astonishing. I am astonished that you have gotten that deep into that astonishing book. Have I overused the word "astonishing" yet? I think I need a few more before I reach the average page loading of that word in that astonishing book. Put it down, it doesn't get any better.
I left Kramden, my Level 41 Demicanadian Battle-Felon running on ProgressQuest while I went off to Rowany Festival. I came back and found him at level 50. What an amazing thing! I could RPG while I was off getting dust on the tent in RL.
...and it's been with us for a long, long time. Auto makers were early adopters of it, both by changing styles and tying them to fashion via carefully sculpted image (if it flies past the cerebrum, you win!) and by eventually withdrawing support for old models. PC's just accelerate the process.
If it works, it's obsolete.
Marketing firms live and die by it.
In software, the term is "bit decay" -- the principle whereby a perfectly functioning and stable piece of software will, over the course of time, eventually cease to work. It's not a matter of the code itself, it's the travelling context that makes it so.
Well, the technical hurdle is capturing the energy from a massive electrical discharge and then releasing it in a controlled form
Build a very large capacitor with it's positive pole at the anchor point. If you build it large enough you might be able to keep it from melting. Large glass Leyden jars? A cap is a cap (you should see the ones I used to build my Interociter) but the methods, conductors and dielectrics can differ widely. Surround the base with induction coils to grab lumps of current that leave the cable. If necessary dump the spare voltage as heat into a bank of aluminium or other highly heat-conductive metal.
This may or not be practical, but for a device worthy of a 1930's Popular Mechanics cover it would be retro-superb to look at.
Hear hear! My daughters told me I might as well unplug the cable TV because there was never anything on it worth watching (took me by surprise, but they're smart kids). That was two years ago; have watched less than 2 minutes of TV since then, total, amongst the whole family.
Of course they spend all their non-study time playing WoW, which is a total waste of time. Some day they'll have the maturity to go beyond that, and waste their time in a more productive and satisfying way -- playing Vanguard like their parents.
Sorry about the SOE reference, but certain online games are worth putting up with Windows and Sony Online Entertainment. But there ye go, I'm too old to be that moral any more.
Also, my Demicanadian Battle-Felon is level 41 now, I'm so proud... http://www.progressquest.com/ Stop reading this and go have fun.
iirc they were trying to prove that her computer was the one used because they'd traced it to a NAT box and started making fairly gross assumptions about the target host and calling it incontrovertable proof. Intervention of the Groklaw audience pulled some very astute questions to throw at the "expert" in a deposition. Find it and read it if you're interested in the details. Deposition was a real snow-blower (as in "snow removal tool").
Golly, here it is -- I finally found the culprit! See -- 192.168.1.1, just like the ISP log said...
Imagine we stop sending shuttles or other spacecraft up, then fast forward a couple hundred years.
We've slowly converted all our methane and petroleum into CO2 and other products. We've used up all our petroleum reserves on fuel, leaving none for the polymers we need to build insulation we'd need for solar cells, fertilizers for biofuels (fertilizers are a huge consumer of petroleum -- why else do the oil companies end up owning so many farms?), synthetic fibres for clothing and rip-stop tents, you name it -- if it used petroleum, it's a few hundred years since the origin of Slashdot and we've run comprehensively out. We are running low on uranium now, and we're running out of steel (uses fossil fuel do do anything with -- even my friend the blacksmith uses coal to recycle old auto parts) so we can't build the alternative structures we need. If you think we have enough, well, fast forward a couple hundred more years. But it won't be that long, I think.
We will have run out, as in have no more, and can't get any and exhausted the alternatives. We will, as a civilisation, die.
Isn't it worth spending some of our free carbon to reach for save civilisation?
Definitions of reactionary on the Web
extremely conservative
an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism
(wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn)
A reactionary (sometimes: reactionist, or regressive) is someone who seeks to restore conditions to those of a previous era.
Dreams! Control population how? And by whom? Who's baby do we shoot, which prospective mothers' hearts do we break? All of them? Or just the intelligent and moral ones with sufficient self-control to replace only themselves? Do we include Catholics too, or do we exempt people on religious grounds?
We'll be out-bred by people who don't care about the greater good. And it won't be just our numbers that diminish, it will be our aspirations as well. If we force people to stop having families, the reality is there will be either revolt or steadily increasing repression followed by an even more unpleasant civil reaction.
I'd rather we had a working escape valve than simple dreams of a better life for more and more of us on less and less. I don't like to fool myself any more than you do. If there's a way to continue to feed an expanding population indefinitely we have to find it. I would much rather we found a technological solution than solve the problem passively in a way that ends up killing people.
Probes to promising galaxies? How many thousands of years do you think we have at our present rate of growth? I'd be more inclined to think O'Neill colonies rather than terraforming. We need that steady supply of space food sticks first.
I find your dismissive attitude disturbing. I'm 57 years old and I've developed spacecraft systems for NASA and I don't watch television at all. My understanding goes a little beyond Star Trek fantasies -- I'm aware there's much more than a "rocket ride" involved. I develop large-scale networks for a living (scope of the current infrastructure refresh is about $3B) so I think I can stand as having a fairly mature and logical point of view on the subject.
I'm bloody well aware that we live in a fragile ecosystem comprising elements that can only be apprehended in very large networks and complex physical repositories.
Point is, we live on the Earth, and we're using it up.
The only way the Earth's population will diminish is catastrophically; until that happens, we will continue to attempt to grow.
There's more out there if we want it. We may have to live on space food sticks for a while until we can establish enough of a biosphere to act as a backup for the one we've got, the one with the smoking bearings making that scraping sound.
I would think a more plausable description of such behaviour would be -- analysis. Poke them, prod them, measure the results -- don't contaminate the experiment by introducing yourself into it. Pick a monkey and paint him green, see what happens (obligatory anthropology reference).
I just hope a better metaphor isn't bugs in a jar. Some kid's going to pick it up and shake it, just to get us angry...
...and the beginning of the Space Age. There was an attempt to drill past the crust to the mantle in a spot where the transition came up fairly close to the Earth's surface, called Project Mohole http://www.nas.edu/history/mohole/. This referred to the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, or "Mohole". The IGY was an early attempt at an international cooperative effort in Earth studies.
The importance of this effort was underlined by the fact that Walt Kelly's "Pogo" sent it up. Since the event was a "year" of 18 months, Pogo suggested naming the extra months after foods -- Octoberry, Novemberry etc.
In a side note, the US response to Sputnik included a science payload named Nora-Alice 1, beacon transmitter for Discoverer satellite, which took it's name from a poem Pogo wrote in honour of the IGY. http://www.ece.uiuc.edu/about/history/reminiscence /space.html/ has a picture and a small quote down the column a bit.
So as you can see, drilling a hole in the Earth past the crust to the mantle inspired some of the first orbital satellites. Remarkable! Oh, and then there was LAGEOS, of course, but I'll let you look that one up.
Slashdot Mirror
-- Albert Einstein (Yahoo Serious).
Or to put it succinctly, time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana (thanks Noam).
Got it in one. Add this to the commercial domain packaging Google is offering and it looks like the platform for a lot of small businesses. $50/user/year and you can throw away all your departmental Microsoft servers. If you get controlled logins, Gmail, Writely, spreadsheet and presentation as well as a portal with your own domain name, why bother with Microsoft? Oh and you can throw away all the operations support structure and those dusty MCSE's as well. That's gotta save you more than $50/user/year, and you get a reliable platform too. I mean, it isn't like Google doesn't have a bit of redundancy here & there.
I'm an old and dusty MCSE/network engineer too and I don't see why a small business needs that kind of infrastructure or expertise any more than you should have a television engineer in your home to switch channels for you.
I was once a Microsoft shill until I discovered my inner Fear of Flying Chairs...
True, it's all in the numbers, isn't it? I mean if you say 1 person in 10 million is an armed, homicidal maniac, that gives us 1 or 2 in Australia, and what -- 20-30 in the US? The next pin the marble hits is density of population - available targets. One such person might kill two people in the outback, or 30 in a university.
What's done is done, infinite sadness. I have nothing constructive to say, except -- communication does help. Quote from Princess Di : "the way to dismantle a personality is to isolate it". And others in this post, who say "someone talked to me and pulled me back from the brink".
I hate it when Microsoft is so totally dogmatically sure that all their changes are in our best interest. Such an attitude is universally pernicious. Or, as a brighter person than me said:
"Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." -- Richard Feynman
That's Tasmania, thank you very much. Albert also invented surfing and rock & roll, the latter event related to his girlfriend Marie Curie.
Astonishing. I am astonished that you have gotten that deep into that astonishing book. Have I overused the word "astonishing" yet? I think I need a few more before I reach the average page loading of that word in that astonishing book. Put it down, it doesn't get any better.
I left Kramden, my Level 41 Demicanadian Battle-Felon running on ProgressQuest while I went off to Rowany Festival. I came back and found him at level 50. What an amazing thing! I could RPG while I was off getting dust on the tent in RL.
Nope.
If it works, it's obsolete.
Marketing firms live and die by it.
In software, the term is "bit decay" -- the principle whereby a perfectly functioning and stable piece of software will, over the course of time, eventually cease to work. It's not a matter of the code itself, it's the travelling context that makes it so.
Build a very large capacitor with it's positive pole at the anchor point. If you build it large enough you might be able to keep it from melting. Large glass Leyden jars? A cap is a cap (you should see the ones I used to build my Interociter) but the methods, conductors and dielectrics can differ widely. Surround the base with induction coils to grab lumps of current that leave the cable. If necessary dump the spare voltage as heat into a bank of aluminium or other highly heat-conductive metal.
This may or not be practical, but for a device worthy of a 1930's Popular Mechanics cover it would be retro-superb to look at.
I'm happy to wait for stepping discs.
Hear hear! My daughters told me I might as well unplug the cable TV because there was never anything on it worth watching (took me by surprise, but they're smart kids). That was two years ago; have watched less than 2 minutes of TV since then, total, amongst the whole family.
Of course they spend all their non-study time playing WoW, which is a total waste of time. Some day they'll have the maturity to go beyond that, and waste their time in a more productive and satisfying way -- playing Vanguard like their parents.
Sorry about the SOE reference, but certain online games are worth putting up with Windows and Sony Online Entertainment. But there ye go, I'm too old to be that moral any more.
Also, my Demicanadian Battle-Felon is level 41 now, I'm so proud... http://www.progressquest.com/ Stop reading this and go have fun.
No, that's a web server.
Golly, here it is -- I finally found the culprit! See -- 192.168.1.1, just like the ISP log said...
Don't talk with your mouth full.
Erk. Sorry, the clicked too soon. Should read "...free carbon to reach out for new alternatives that can save civilisation?"
We've slowly converted all our methane and petroleum into CO2 and other products. We've used up all our petroleum reserves on fuel, leaving none for the polymers we need to build insulation we'd need for solar cells, fertilizers for biofuels (fertilizers are a huge consumer of petroleum -- why else do the oil companies end up owning so many farms?), synthetic fibres for clothing and rip-stop tents, you name it -- if it used petroleum, it's a few hundred years since the origin of Slashdot and we've run comprehensively out. We are running low on uranium now, and we're running out of steel (uses fossil fuel do do anything with -- even my friend the blacksmith uses coal to recycle old auto parts) so we can't build the alternative structures we need. If you think we have enough, well, fast forward a couple hundred more years. But it won't be that long, I think.
We will have run out, as in have no more, and can't get any and exhausted the alternatives. We will, as a civilisation, die.
Isn't it worth spending some of our free carbon to reach for save civilisation?
Definitions of reactionary on the Web
extremely conservative
an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism (wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn)
A reactionary (sometimes: reactionist, or regressive) is someone who seeks to restore conditions to those of a previous era.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary
We'll be out-bred by people who don't care about the greater good. And it won't be just our numbers that diminish, it will be our aspirations as well. If we force people to stop having families, the reality is there will be either revolt or steadily increasing repression followed by an even more unpleasant civil reaction.
I'd rather we had a working escape valve than simple dreams of a better life for more and more of us on less and less. I don't like to fool myself any more than you do. If there's a way to continue to feed an expanding population indefinitely we have to find it. I would much rather we found a technological solution than solve the problem passively in a way that ends up killing people.
Probes to promising galaxies? How many thousands of years do you think we have at our present rate of growth? I'd be more inclined to think O'Neill colonies rather than terraforming. We need that steady supply of space food sticks first.
I'm bloody well aware that we live in a fragile ecosystem comprising elements that can only be apprehended in very large networks and complex physical repositories.
Point is, we live on the Earth, and we're using it up.
The only way the Earth's population will diminish is catastrophically; until that happens, we will continue to attempt to grow.
There's more out there if we want it. We may have to live on space food sticks for a while until we can establish enough of a biosphere to act as a backup for the one we've got, the one with the smoking bearings making that scraping sound.
Read the sig...
I just hope a better metaphor isn't bugs in a jar. Some kid's going to pick it up and shake it, just to get us angry...
-- Mark Twain
The importance of this effort was underlined by the fact that Walt Kelly's "Pogo" sent it up. Since the event was a "year" of 18 months, Pogo suggested naming the extra months after foods -- Octoberry, Novemberry etc.
In a side note, the US response to Sputnik included a science payload named Nora-Alice 1, beacon transmitter for Discoverer satellite, which took it's name from a poem Pogo wrote in honour of the IGY. http://www.ece.uiuc.edu/about/history/reminiscence /space.html/ has a picture and a small quote down the column a bit.
So as you can see, drilling a hole in the Earth past the crust to the mantle inspired some of the first orbital satellites. Remarkable! Oh, and then there was LAGEOS, of course, but I'll let you look that one up.
Climate does not equal weather.