I don't think this is really a problem of local governments in general but maybe more the way the American system works. As in Europe for many years countries need to pay attention to what they are dumbing into a river. And European countries are a lot more seperated then US states but they work together on enveriomental issues.
So perhaps a state should have the right to sue another state if its pollution is reaching a neighbour state? Anyway its more American way of life thats causing you these problems.
Yes but at least then its only a state that is screwed when its governments seems to have a whole in their hand and spend like crazy or do other crazy stuff.
If the tax policy, vision or what ever of the state government is not the way you like it then instead of moving to for example Canada you can just move to an another state.
It will allow for more diverse politics and political systems. And in my book diversity is good as you can learn from each other.
About nation wide spending such as a space agency or the military. I think you can take as an example the European Space Agency (ESA). European countries can choose to join the ESA and how much money they are willing to donate to it. However the ESA is obliged to buy the same value as the donation in high tech parts, products or services from each donor country.
The military is a bit harder but could also work in the ESA way in some degree but only all states must donate for example 5% of their budgets. But the states will see some of that money return by having more non strategic local bases in their states, more military orders for bigger donors.
However the problem is that big companies like Boeing and the car manufacturers will have to open shops in the respective states if they want local government orders as the governments will prefer to deal with local businesses as that returns tax payers money into the states economy or nation wide businesses could make agreements like they do now in Europe that is that they will order parts and services from local businesses if they get the order to build to product they are selling to the government.
Federal systems can cause more overhead but I believe in general the efficiency of the local governments will increase as they will or can react faster to changes or local demands.
Most birds will not plumet to the ground when they stop flying. Ever seen albatrosses, eagles or vultures? They will just like a plane glide to the ground.
BLOCKQUOTEThere is no concept of "urban planning" in most African countries; it might not be "American-centric" but the game is highly prejudiced toward a western mindset./BLOCKQUOTE
I think thats why the original poster told it was educational.
Its probably a good an idea to implement these things on desktop CPU's as well as they tend to be implemented on Linux/BSD first (fastest if the manufacturer wants to) and this gives embedded devices developers a chance to see how it works (in practice and software) without an expensive embedded device prototype.
I don't understand this should be only true for system files. Shared application binaries should just be unloaded, updated and reloaded. Or if it added something to the path. But a reboot is not needed for that either.
In my experience its mostly bad installers that ask you to reboot. 99% of the times when it asks you to reboot you can just say no and use the application straight away.
A lot of what the first slideshow says is already available in Rise of Nations from Microsoft Games. However I fon't know if its their plan to make CivIV real time or turnbased.
I heard people telling the same things about the dialogs of Gundam Wing but I really liked them and they seemed to teach something.
Personally I think the dialog for Gundam Wing are for adults watching the show and the cool robots, effect for the kids. But together they made a nice anime for every age.
I agree with you and I have my own ideas on how it should work. The following post is from what I wrote in the thread Privatizing NASA from the forum newmars. You should check out the forum.
I like the idea of NASA working as just the order giver. Congress and Whitehouse will state the missions and goals of NASA and give it a budget, which it can't exceed. To make sure that NASA is not given new orders at every new elected government, it must pass through the senate (they are for long term things right?).
NASA should be given one of these goals and thats it:
Then using one of those goals it will work through these five stages:
Stage One: Bid on the projects by anyone NASA will take the missions and goals set by the government and allow any party (even a professor) to bid on them. However to bid you will have to pay $20.000 (just to make sure that not any nutcase can bid) and each submitted bid must be fully worked out and follow certain rules. NASA is obliged to study and comment on any bid that is made. If a bid is rejected it must explain why and the bidder can counter this via by forwarding his bid to an independent council, who will then judge it.
Stage Two: Working it out Each bid receives back comments or a rejection from NASA. Those that receive comments back are basically possible to NASA with some modifications or none.
The bidder can post a new bid with the modifications if asked and do a bid again at a cost of $20.000. Which will be studied again and commented, however now each new modification will not cost you money to bid in this stage, only to enter it, if accepted.
As at this stage it's just about the bids and not working prototypes so the cost to submit a bid shouldn't really hurt the serious bidders.
Stage Three: The details A small number of final bids will only enter this stage. Lets say five of them. They are all given a budget of $8.000.000 more or less. This is to get all the details straight. I mean every little detail from what socks to wear to things that can go wrong.
Stage Four: Prototypes and computer models In this stage the bidders need to proof their concepts with prototypes and computer models. They will get funding and help for this, however limited.
Stage Five: The decision In this stage the final bidder is decided, the ones that were able to proof the computer models and prototypes and stay within budget and then the best of them is given orders to organize or build the mission/goal.
This plan is basically worked out so that you don't get a plan from NASA as in the Bush I administration that stated the cost of a human mission to Mars in trillions without asking other opinions. Or so that only big companies as Boeing and Lockheed will get the project for their possibly inefficient plans. So any guy that's able to do workable computer models and prototypes (no bigger then a car) and with a detailed plan is able to get the order.
The ISP's should just implement a cache then. Then after the first users download it, it will be just ISP client traffic, this should be cheaper then inter ISP/backbone traffic.
Is it NASA's mission to get cheap access to space? Or is its mission to explore and design/fund new technologies that American companies can use for whatever?
They also have labor costs a tiny fraction of what our labor costs are.
I don't think that in the (very) high tech industry labor costs are the problem. If it were then the sjovet union would not have gone bankrupt while trying to keep up with the US.
That was my point - they hadn't thought of the specific failure scenario for Apollo 13, but they had spent a lot of time thinking about how to recover if things did go wrong. Contrary to what the movie showed, they didn't (for example) just make up the method for using CM CO2 scrubbers in the LEM on the spot. That was something they'd already worked out ahead, and had in a "playbook" of responses to possible crises. Don't get me wrong, the Apollo 13 team did a fantastic job getting their crew home. But they did it by improvising based on a set of pre-prepared actions. Unlike shuttle, they had options available if things went south.
I don't think you are comparing the same things. If the Apollo rocket blew up when launching there is not much that the playbook could have done.
If the Shuttle had an impact with space debris while in orbit or if live support failed, I'm sure nasa would have a similair playbook.
Most of the treebased PIM's are shareware or for Linux but after looking hard I found something free,opensource, nice and working for Windows called Keynote
Download Keynote and try the sample files to see what you can do with Keynote.
BTW: If you know Delphi you can help out adding new features.
No that guy is doing nasty stuff. First when I click on the link it loads and then loads something else and then I get a message about can't connect to localhost ip address.
And also if you look at the source of the his mirror you will see this at the bottom:
The funny thing is that about a year ago I had the same idea. Well almost the same idea and using a mini-itx board however with one HD and you buy a second server for backups. Here is what I wrote a year ago:
Network Server: Ability to serve web pages, mail, files, printers and other traditional network resources. Also act as firewall and router.
Key feature: You use one computer for multiple roles each role will run in its own space like a virtual machine. This is for enhanced security and stability. For example if you're using a computer for both web page serving and file server. If the web server goes down due to an error or hacking. It will only affect the particular virtual machine.
Using User Mode Linux for this. Yes it does have a speed penalty but this is not noticeable in low bandwith situations.
If a virtual machine fails. An email is send to the admin and he can check what made it fail and restart it. It can also be restarted automatically.
Backups: If possible each virtual machine will be backed up each night totally or only configuration and data. This happens on a separate server or back up medium. This can of course happen automatically. If a server goes down and data is lost. A back up will be automatically restored without user input. Total back ups will be saved for a defined number of days. However the second back up method (configuration and data changes) for longer.
Key feature 2: The OS's running is a stripped down version and so need very little extra resources except for the task they are build for.
So a virtual file server will only have the bares to run a file server and a web server the bares to run a web server. The host OS will only be able to host the guest OS's.
Key feature 3: Extensive remote administration capabilities for each virtual server and the host. This can be done via SSH or other command line utilities. Or a web interface like WebMin.
This allows you to outsource the administration of the servers.
Key feature 4: Zero maintenance and configuration.
Basically once installed everything should be running for years.
Everything will work from any client OS using several mechanisms like FTP, DHCP, DNS and universal email clients. So using universal protocols any OS can be used as client to any service provided.
Motherboard Onboard graphics, audio, 10/100 Ethernet, USB and TV-Out VIA EPIA 800 - 800Mhz 100 Ram Major 3rd 256MB PC2100 DDR DIMM 39 Hard drive 20 GB 2.5" HD 59 Power supply Morex 55W PSU and DC-DC Converter Kit 50 Casing DIYS 30 Other (cables & stuff) dunno 15 Total Price: 297
However this server is about the size of thick book and generates alsmost no heat so can be placed anywhere. As its cheap the idea is to add servers then to upgrade this one.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't think this is really a problem of local governments in general but maybe more the way the American system works. As in Europe for many years countries need to pay attention to what they are dumbing into a river. And European countries are a lot more seperated then US states but they work together on enveriomental issues.
So perhaps a state should have the right to sue another state if its pollution is reaching a neighbour state? Anyway its more American way of life thats causing you these problems.
Yes but at least then its only a state that is screwed when its governments seems to have a whole in their hand and spend like crazy or do other crazy stuff.
If the tax policy, vision or what ever of the state government is not the way you like it then instead of moving to for example Canada you can just move to an another state.
It will allow for more diverse politics and political systems. And in my book diversity is good as you can learn from each other.
About nation wide spending such as a space agency or the military. I think you can take as an example the European Space Agency (ESA). European countries can choose to join the ESA and how much money they are willing to donate to it. However the ESA is obliged to buy the same value as the donation in high tech parts, products or services from each donor country.
The military is a bit harder but could also work in the ESA way in some degree but only all states must donate for example 5% of their budgets. But the states will see some of that money return by having more non strategic local bases in their states, more military orders for bigger donors.
However the problem is that big companies like Boeing and the car manufacturers will have to open shops in the respective states if they want local government orders as the governments will prefer to deal with local businesses as that returns tax payers money into the states economy or nation wide businesses could make agreements like they do now in Europe that is that they will order parts and services from local businesses if they get the order to build to product they are selling to the government.
Federal systems can cause more overhead but I believe in general the efficiency of the local governments will increase as they will or can react faster to changes or local demands.
Most birds will not plumet to the ground when they stop flying. Ever seen albatrosses, eagles or vultures? They will just like a plane glide to the ground.
Thinking about star ship troopers?
I forgot the preview, ALL RIGHT!?!
BLOCKQUOTEThere is no concept of "urban planning" in most African countries; it might not be "American-centric" but the game is highly prejudiced toward a western mindset./BLOCKQUOTE
I think thats why the original poster told it was educational.
I guess you are not aware of DesktopX which exists for some years now.
Well anyway let me not stop your little fantasy about Apple the innovator, the squasher of the ISV's.
Its probably a good an idea to implement these things on desktop CPU's as well as they tend to be implemented on Linux/BSD first (fastest if the manufacturer wants to) and this gives embedded devices developers a chance to see how it works (in practice and software) without an expensive embedded device prototype.
Thats ok but how many individuals design, build and sell PDA's? Talking about hardware + software here.
I agree $995 is more or less a moderate developers week salary. And it will take much more time then a week to develop your own toolkit.
I don't understand this should be only true for system files. Shared application binaries should just be unloaded, updated and reloaded. Or if it added something to the path. But a reboot is not needed for that either.
In my experience its mostly bad installers that ask you to reboot. 99% of the times when it asks you to reboot you can just say no and use the application straight away.
Your explanation of management and what they want sounds a lot like the automation of IT.
Instead of robots doing repetitive jobs you have Indians doing it. This is only because there are no AI's and robots able to do coding.
A lot of what the first slideshow says is already available in Rise of Nations from Microsoft Games. However I fon't know if its their plan to make CivIV real time or turnbased.
It doesn't hurt my eyes at all. Graphics design is not about colours in general but about contrast.
How does the dialog compare to Gundam Wing?
I heard people telling the same things about the dialogs of Gundam Wing but I really liked them and they seemed to teach something.
Personally I think the dialog for Gundam Wing are for adults watching the show and the cool robots, effect for the kids. But together they made a nice anime for every age.
Block embedded images?
I agree with you and I have my own ideas on how it should work. The following post is from what I wrote in the thread Privatizing NASA from the forum newmars. You should check out the forum.
I like the idea of NASA working as just the order giver. Congress and Whitehouse will state the missions and goals of NASA and give it a budget, which it can't exceed. To make sure that NASA is not given new orders at every new elected government, it must pass through the senate (they are for long term things right?).
NASA should be given one of these goals and thats it:
1. Explore (Scientific advantages)
2. Conquer (Social and Economic advantages)
3. Destroy (Military advantages)
Then using one of those goals it will work through these five stages:
Stage One: Bid on the projects by anyone
NASA will take the missions and goals set by the government and allow any party (even a professor) to bid on them. However to bid you will have to pay $20.000 (just to make sure that not any nutcase can bid) and each submitted bid must be fully worked out and follow certain rules. NASA is obliged to study and comment on any bid that is made. If a bid is rejected it must explain why and the bidder can counter this via by forwarding his bid to an independent council, who will then judge it.
Stage Two: Working it out
Each bid receives back comments or a rejection from NASA. Those that receive comments back are basically possible to NASA with some modifications or none.
The bidder can post a new bid with the modifications if asked and do a bid again at a cost of $20.000. Which will be studied again and commented, however now each new modification will not cost you money to bid in this stage, only to enter it, if accepted.
As at this stage it's just about the bids and not working prototypes so the cost to submit a bid shouldn't really hurt the serious bidders.
Stage Three: The details
A small number of final bids will only enter this stage. Lets say five of them. They are all given a budget of $8.000.000 more or less. This is to get all the details straight. I mean every little detail from what socks to wear to things that can go wrong.
Stage Four: Prototypes and computer models
In this stage the bidders need to proof their concepts with prototypes and computer models. They will get funding and help for this, however limited.
Stage Five: The decision
In this stage the final bidder is decided, the ones that were able to proof the computer models and prototypes and stay within budget and then the best of them is given orders to organize or build the mission/goal.
This plan is basically worked out so that you don't get a plan from NASA as in the Bush I administration that stated the cost of a human mission to Mars in trillions without asking other opinions. Or so that only big companies as Boeing and Lockheed will get the project for their possibly inefficient plans. So any guy that's able to do workable computer models and prototypes (no bigger then a car) and with a detailed plan is able to get the order.
The ISP's should just implement a cache then. Then after the first users download it, it will be just ISP client traffic, this should be cheaper then inter ISP/backbone traffic.
Is it NASA's mission to get cheap access to space?
Or is its mission to explore and design/fund new technologies that American companies can use for whatever?
You may be right as nuclear fission came before fussion.
I don't think that in the (very) high tech industry labor costs are the problem. If it were then the sjovet union would not have gone bankrupt while trying to keep up with the US.
I don't think you are comparing the same things. If the Apollo rocket blew up when launching there is not much that the playbook could have done.
If the Shuttle had an impact with space debris while in orbit or if live support failed, I'm sure nasa would have a similair playbook.
Most of the treebased PIM's are shareware or for Linux but after looking hard I found something free,opensource, nice and working for Windows called Keynote
Download Keynote and try the sample files to see what you can do with Keynote.
BTW: If you know Delphi you can help out adding new features.
oops slashdot cut of the source of the mirror let me try again:
t eKerry">/html
META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="1;URL=http://zeikfried.no-ip.com/GNAA/Vo
Please note that I had to remove the at the beginning at at the end forslashcode to accept my post.
No that guy is doing nasty stuff. First when I click on the link it loads and then loads something else and then I get a message about can't connect to localhost ip address.
And also if you look at the source of the his mirror you will see this at the bottom:
The funny thing is that about a year ago I had the same idea. Well almost the same idea and using a mini-itx board however with one HD and you buy a second server for backups. Here is what I wrote a year ago:
Network Server:
Ability to serve web pages, mail, files, printers and other traditional network resources. Also act as firewall and router.
Key feature:
You use one computer for multiple roles each role will run in its own space like a virtual machine. This is for enhanced security and stability. For example if you're using a computer for both web page serving and file server. If the web server goes down due to an error or hacking. It will only affect the particular virtual machine.
Using User Mode Linux for this. Yes it does have a speed penalty but this is not noticeable in low bandwith situations.
If a virtual machine fails. An email is send to the admin and he can check what made it fail and restart it. It can also be restarted automatically.
Backups:
If possible each virtual machine will be backed up each night totally or only configuration and data. This happens on a separate server or back up medium. This can of course happen automatically.
If a server goes down and data is lost. A back up will be automatically restored without user input.
Total back ups will be saved for a defined number of days. However the second back up method (configuration and data changes) for longer.
Key feature 2:
The OS's running is a stripped down version and so need very little extra resources except for the task they are build for.
So a virtual file server will only have the bares to run a file server and a web server the bares to run a web server. The host OS will only be able to host the guest OS's.
Key feature 3:
Extensive remote administration capabilities for each virtual server and the host. This can be done via SSH or other command line utilities. Or a web interface like WebMin.
This allows you to outsource the administration of the servers.
Key feature 4:
Zero maintenance and configuration.
Basically once installed everything should be running for years.
Everything will work from any client OS using several mechanisms like FTP, DHCP, DNS and universal email clients. So using universal protocols any OS can be used as client to any service provided.
Motherboard Onboard graphics, audio, 10/100 Ethernet, USB and TV-Out VIA EPIA 800 - 800Mhz 100
Ram Major 3rd 256MB PC2100 DDR DIMM 39
Hard drive 20 GB 2.5" HD 59
Power supply Morex 55W PSU and DC-DC Converter Kit 50
Casing DIYS 30
Other (cables & stuff) dunno 15
Total Price: 297
However this server is about the size of thick book and generates alsmost no heat so can be placed anywhere. As its cheap the idea is to add servers then to upgrade this one.