If you want something done by a contractor on a budget, get a fixed bid. That will give them incentives to move Heaven an Earth to keep the margins fat and timelines short.
Of course the contract should include a series of binding quality criteria, else "fat margins" will equate to non-performing "product".
I've been on both sides of the fence, and that's the best way for both contractor and contractee to have a fruitful relationship.
Webasto sells this nifty gadget which is basically a miniature gas furnace which heats the coolant, starts the water pump to circulate it in the whole circuit and the cabin fan to "defrost". Much more efficient in fuel use, keeps your engine from idling wear, and bypasses the idle parking laws. Avaliable for big cars and trucks, where space is avaliable under the hood.
Fusion power has been "adecade away" for 30 years. Stop counting on it.
Moreover, nuclear waste cannot be broken down, you have to wait an eon or two for it to transmute into something else (aka wait 3 half-lives or more). Of course, it could be recycled in breeder or CANDU reactors, but I digress.
a) Genuine democracy does not scale with current population levels. As someone else here said, the American Constitution was originally written for a population of 3 million, which is 1/100th of the population's current size.
"democracy" is not a machine that has been designed with tolerences and load ratings. It is not a machine with a sticker on it "MAX population: 30 million".
It's been dead for a while because of all the open-source goodness of Openmoko's Freerunner, our real savior from proprietary-ness! Open hardware, software and runs Debian for ultimate freedom.
I can't see how insightful that is. First, you only enter what you wish, most of the fields are not mandatory on a profile (esp. the birthdate)
Next, if people post photos of you, they can still tag your silly ass if you are not their "Facebook friend" or even on Facebook. It's a new feature, and it appeared silently, too.
Privacy is NOT simple, except if you are an hermit. Then you get famous for being one.
They bought Trolltech and their Qt Extended phone OS last May, which is completely open-source.
If you want to see what the OS is like, go and see one of the forks: QtMoko, Qt Extended Improved, and probably others. I am using QtMoko on a Freerunner and the interface is sweet even if some parts need more polishing.
I agree that the current social system(s) need to collapse to enable real reform. My counterpoint is that elections can BE the collapsing point. Revolutions certainly are, and civil war more so.
So, a new party that the people chooses because it will make "the change" happen, if voted strongly enough, can mark the collapse of an old social order, without bloody insurrection. 20th century example: the "Quiet Revolution" in the province of Quebec(Canada) provoked enormous changes in social and economic ordrer (including the nationalization of all electric power companies) and all started with the ouster of the established political party.
Money currently supports power, but if the gap between haves and have-nots widens too much, it loses any power it has. We have a saying here: "nothing is more dangerous than a man with nothing to lose".
Well, it is already illegal, and has been so since the DMCA. FTFA: "a federal law has nonetheless made it illegal to manufacture or traffic in a device or tool that permits a consumer to make such copies.' "
I can't currently find a better link than wikipedia, but there is a class of HUDs that are called "Visual retinal displays" that project the HUD info on the retina of the wearer. I have read about a system that uses a very low power laser and a micro-mirror to paint on the retina; the system can be integrated in the glasses' branches. Of course, there is still a need for control hardware somewhere, but it can be remote (ex.: on the hip)
Since most humans have more than one SO in their lifetimes (even in the context of strictly respected serial monogamy), your advice is stupid. A similar advice was spouted when AIDS was called GRID: "stop fucking gay men"
I'll leave the proof for you to do as an exercise.
In other news, spermicidal gel can be applied on a penis too.
My theory is this: being ruled illegaly invasive in Canada, which has a good international reputation, is extremely bad publicity for a user-driven website, which would scare away users from all around the world.
That's probably *the* reason why they are working with the Privacy Commissionner, and not direct canadian revenue loss.
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If you want something done by a contractor on a budget, get a fixed bid. That will give them incentives to move Heaven an Earth to keep the margins fat and timelines short.
Of course the contract should include a series of binding quality criteria, else "fat margins" will equate to non-performing "product".
I've been on both sides of the fence, and that's the best way for both contractor and contractee to have a fruitful relationship.
Webasto sells this nifty gadget which is basically a miniature gas furnace which heats the coolant, starts the water pump to circulate it in the whole circuit and the cabin fan to "defrost". Much more efficient in fuel use, keeps your engine from idling wear, and bypasses the idle parking laws.
Avaliable for big cars and trucks, where space is avaliable under the hood.
This does not work with patent trolls, because they do nothing, so even IBM has nothing to throw at them.
It's because muscle is more dense than fat. Those people probably lost 15 pounds of fat and gained 8 pounds of muscle.
And that monarchist army, of course...
Did you take an international flight into or out of the US lately? If so, you are in the database with all the "bad people".
As for computational intensity, CPU cycles are cheaper than dirt, and getting even cheaper than that by the minute.
Easy: the one where you are building the cloud.
Makes sense to me!
Fusion power has been "adecade away" for 30 years. Stop counting on it.
Moreover, nuclear waste cannot be broken down, you have to wait an eon or two for it to transmute into something else (aka wait 3 half-lives or more). Of course, it could be recycled in breeder or CANDU reactors, but I digress.
Amen brother, bad coders re-making existing functions or API's is what fills up The daily WTF
One word: MintyBoost.
Now that I'm old, everything seems old and dull.
Just polish your glasses, and that problem will be fixed.
a) Genuine democracy does not scale with current population levels. As someone else here said, the American Constitution was originally written for a population of 3 million, which is 1/100th of the population's current size.
"democracy" is not a machine that has been designed with tolerences and load ratings. It is not a machine with a sticker on it "MAX population: 30 million".
It's been dead for a while because of all the open-source goodness of Openmoko's Freerunner, our real savior from proprietary-ness! Open hardware, software and runs Debian for ultimate freedom.
http://openmoko.org/
or the Bomb.
Maybe I can get a flying car if I start a research project for a flying humvee...
I can't see how insightful that is. First, you only enter what you wish, most of the fields are not mandatory on a profile (esp. the birthdate)
Next, if people post photos of you, they can still tag your silly ass if you are not their "Facebook friend" or even on Facebook. It's a new feature, and it appeared silently, too.
Privacy is NOT simple, except if you are an hermit. Then you get famous for being one.
They bought Trolltech and their Qt Extended phone OS last May, which is completely open-source.
If you want to see what the OS is like, go and see one of the forks: QtMoko, Qt Extended Improved, and probably others. I am using QtMoko on a Freerunner and the interface is sweet even if some parts need more polishing.
I agree that the current social system(s) need to collapse to enable real reform. My counterpoint is that elections can BE the collapsing point. Revolutions certainly are, and civil war more so.
So, a new party that the people chooses because it will make "the change" happen, if voted strongly enough, can mark the collapse of an old social order, without bloody insurrection. 20th century example: the "Quiet Revolution" in the province of Quebec(Canada) provoked enormous changes in social and economic ordrer (including the nationalization of all electric power companies) and all started with the ouster of the established political party.
Money currently supports power, but if the gap between haves and have-nots widens too much, it loses any power it has. We have a saying here: "nothing is more dangerous than a man with nothing to lose".
Well, it is already illegal, and has been so since the DMCA. FTFA: "a federal law has nonetheless made it illegal to manufacture or traffic in a device or tool that permits a consumer to make such copies.' "
At least, you can still possess it, for now.
I can't currently find a better link than wikipedia, but there is a class of HUDs that are called "Visual retinal displays" that project the HUD info on the retina of the wearer. I have read about a system that uses a very low power laser and a micro-mirror to paint on the retina; the system can be integrated in the glasses' branches. Of course, there is still a need for control hardware somewhere, but it can be remote (ex.: on the hip)
Since most humans have more than one SO in their lifetimes (even in the context of strictly respected serial monogamy), your advice is stupid. A similar advice was spouted when AIDS was called GRID: "stop fucking gay men"
I'll leave the proof for you to do as an exercise.
In other news, spermicidal gel can be applied on a penis too.
My theory is this: being ruled illegaly invasive in Canada, which has a good international reputation, is extremely bad publicity for a user-driven website, which would scare away users from all around the world.
That's probably *the* reason why they are working with the Privacy Commissionner, and not direct canadian revenue loss.
One of the major reasons why OLEDs are so interesting is because they are *not* vacuum-deposited, but deposited with ink-jet or screen printing techniques.
Of course, 75% reduction of the already-small power consumption of OLEDs is probably worth it for mobile apps.
To an oilman of that caliber, 2B$ is small change, esp. viewed in light of the expected returns.
Wasting it, on the other hand, is... well his garage can't hold them :-P
I got most of my financial knowledge from "Corporate Shadowfiles": put options, selling short, commercial paper, hostile takeovers, the works.
And I still have to acquire a multinational corp to put that into practice :-(
That's just great. I can't use all the features of the iPhone because it is crippled by the providers, but any dumbass can get root by SMS?
If I had "bought" one (I consider the current way of getting it as rent-to-own), I would be pissed.