The argument that you need separate devices for everything doesn't hold water. Twenty years ago, many folks argued over stereo receivers vs. component systems. Yes, the components were frequently higher quality, but as time goes on you get to a point where the quality is GOOD ENOUGH. It's hard to even find separate amp, preamp, and tuner components now...okay, it's not that hard, but they're not common anymore. The same will likely happen with the cell phone, camera, mp3-player, PDA, kitchen sink...weather you like it or not.
This is Insightful??? Weather you're pro or anti-Bush, this is not Insightful.
For those who want to spin this great news one way or the other, you should be ashamed of yourselves. It's wonderful for the Iraqi people, and that's that. Hopefully, we'll capture Bin Laden soon too.
Ah, it's so good to see that a historian from my home state of VA is busy rewriting history to his liking. Hopefully, my daughter will chose to go to VA Tech.
As a cold war veteran (two years at SAC headquarters and six in Germany, six in Korea), my memory of those years must be completely shot. But then, maybe if you got out from behind that desk, and actually saw up some of the cold war up close you'd have different memories too.
It's certainly enough memory. The Mac started out with 64K, which is one sixteenth of what the Lisa started out with. Because the Mac's bit map is smaller than the Lisa's, we thought we could do something with that amount of memory. But we were pushing for 128K all the way, and about a year ago we switched to 128K. We figured out how to squeeze the applications down to that size.
Hmmm...the original Mac (my first home computer) started out with 128k. The original Lisa came with 1 Meg! Both had the Motorola MC68000 CPU.
You've obviously never been to the ROK. GDP isn't the only factor in classifying a country as "third world". I lived there for six years. It's improved dramatically over the last fifteen years (with the '88 Olympics being a major turning point for them), but it's still pretty backwards in many respects.
I try to convince myself I've gotten out of the rat race of Upward Mobility, and it's morally superior to have Downward Nobility. But I just want a fucken job. I helped build this industry in the early 1970s, now I'm supposed to be in the peak earning years of my career, but I'm locked out due to the bad economy. It sucks. There is nothing good about being unemployed.
As a 45 yr old Principal SW Eng., writing this from my cube, I'd suggest to you that peak earning years in the 40s are due more to age discrimination than to economical issues. Otherwise, you'd see the peak at retirement age. This economy is NOTHING compared to the unemployment we saw in '81. It's easy (I won't debate the merit in this thread) for companies to dump us higher paid folks and hire a couple of recent grads or H1B Visa types for less. Your best bet is to find a niche, do work that others aren't willing or able to do, keep current on tech issues, and make sure your boss is aware of the value you're adding to his bottom line (from his viewpoint, if you're not adding then your dispensible). Anyway, good luck to you...from my vantage point, it looks like things have started picking up over the last six months.
I agree it would be a mistake to say that greenhouse gasses are definitely the problem. However we have a theory about how greenhouse gasses could be causing the problem, and it's something we can take relatively easy steps to correct (as opposed to stopping an alien death ray.)
Therefore it would seem to me to be reasonable to state that greenhouse gasses seem a likely cause and take action to reduce them while simultaneously doing more research on the subject to figure out what the cause is for sure.
Yes, relatively ease, and extremely expensive. It's not reasonable to spend billions of dollars to "take action" on this (or any other theory) without significant scientific evidence that that's the real cause of the problem. Certainly it should continue to be investigated, but we shouldn't have to change our lifestyle for every Chicken Little that comes along!
But seriously, can anyone tell me what you want with such a car on North American roads? Even on the German autobahn you really seldom have traffic conditions that allow going more than 125mph.
Unless things have changed dramatically since I lived there for six years, driving 125 on the Autobahn was rarely a problem. I owned a new '85 Vette back then...topped out around 155mph, but only got to drive it there for six months. In those days, there wasn't much around that could hit those speeds. Now I'm stuck commuting in northern Virginia, but still managed to get my Infiniti FX45 up to 100 on the way into work today.
I keep reading this stuff from all of you claiming to be geeks, but "can't believe" that RF interference can be caused by typical consumer toys...especially inside a metal cage.
I have a fond memory of attending computer tech training (software engineer & private pilot now) when I joined the USAF back in 77, and was shown how my new programmable TI calculator could interfere with a FM radio.
We'd all like to fix the problem so that we can have our toys, but we also want cheap airfare. Fixing the problem won't be cheap, and the last time I looked at my airline stocks they weren't doing very well...so don't expect them to be "fixing" their planes anytime soon. Shielding would add too much weight, and you can't just run fiber everywhere in the plane.
That said, I thought I heard that Northwest was going to start allowing cellphone use on their flights.
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." -Martin Luther King Jr.
And if you don't spend enough, you're asking for another Pearl Harbor or 9/11. As a result of the end of the cold war, we all were expecting the "peace dividend" as it was called at the time. Certainly, we didn't need the number or type of forces that we were maintaining previously. Unfortunately, our intelligence budgets were trimmed back as much as the rest of the military...thank you very much congress (who's to blame for the "intelligence failures"...my finger points there). Until we live in Utopia, our intelligence agencies need to be well funded.
"Speak softly, and carry a big stick!" - Teddy Roosevelt
I'm all for free speech...and gladly advocate protecting people's right to make opposing viewpoints. That said, Title 18 has been around for a long time, and if you didn't know that it was illegal to advocate the violent overthrow of the government when you did it, then it sucks to be you.
I'm betting they will. Just check out the insider trades done by SCO executives lately. They're all selling... none of them buying. True, the sums are not Gatesian, but not exactly chump change. Plenty of 'em are exercising options where they bought shares for pennies a share, and are selling for eleven and twelve dollars a share.
Looking at those insider trades actually makes me feel better about the whole thing. SCO executives are obviously in this to pump up the stock and make a killing in the market. They are not in it for the lawsuit, per se. I'm not sure what the standard of proof the SEC would need to charge these criminals, but their motives are obvious, given their insider trading.
These kind of trades are very much in line with the way exceutives of most all companies trade. Take a look at virtually any Fortune 500 company, and you'll see much of the same.
> However, if artificial limbs become far superior to natural limbs, people will be able to choose whether they want their (perfectly healthy) natural limbs removed in favor of mechanical ones. At that point you will certainly have fear and loathing between the people who undergo the procedure (the superior beings) and the people who don't (the all-natural people).
>Both of my Mars-plane concepts are much like the U-2 Spyplane (designed to operate at around 100,000 ft, in simlar density air)...
I like the simulator, but since we're into realism here, we should mention that the U-2 does NOT fly within even 4 miles of 100,000 ft...and yes, I do know this for a fact. The NASA version only goes to ~70k.
>Oh, and they fail to grasp: flight sim experience might as easily save a plane, as doom it. What if some nutter shoots the flight crew? A flight trained passenger could save everybody's necks.
Oh PLEASE!!! You have NO idea. I'm an instrument rated private pilot, and there is simply no way you're going to land that 747 with just some X-Plane experience. It would be a high pucker factor even for someone like me. You just can't get the seat of the pants experience with X-Plane, and yes I have used it...it's a great simulator.
>What bothers me is when some govermnet agency decides to come in and start regulating this kind of thing (even if it isn't a law yet, it's only a matter of time if people don't fight back
Ummm, the French have had this agency for ages...they've always regulated what is "official" French, and nobody seems to have been fighting back.
Slashdot Mirror
The argument that you need separate devices for everything doesn't hold water. Twenty years ago, many folks argued over stereo receivers vs. component systems. Yes, the components were frequently higher quality, but as time goes on you get to a point where the quality is GOOD ENOUGH. It's hard to even find separate amp, preamp, and tuner components now...okay, it's not that hard, but they're not common anymore. The same will likely happen with the cell phone, camera, mp3-player, PDA, kitchen sink...weather you like it or not.
This is Insightful??? Weather you're pro or anti-Bush, this is not Insightful.
For those who want to spin this great news one way or the other, you should be ashamed of yourselves. It's wonderful for the Iraqi people, and that's that. Hopefully, we'll capture Bin Laden soon too.
Ah, it's so good to see that a historian from my home state of VA is busy rewriting history to his liking. Hopefully, my daughter will chose to go to VA Tech.
As a cold war veteran (two years at SAC headquarters and six in Germany, six in Korea), my memory of those years must be completely shot. But then, maybe if you got out from behind that desk, and actually saw up some of the cold war up close you'd have different memories too.
You've got alot of gall talking about ethics and then advocating death squads, as do those of you who moderated this "Interesting"!
It's certainly enough memory. The Mac started out with 64K, which is one sixteenth of what the Lisa started out with. Because the Mac's bit map is smaller than the Lisa's, we thought we could do something with that amount of memory. But we were pushing for 128K all the way, and about a year ago we switched to 128K. We figured out how to squeeze the applications down to that size.
Hmmm...the original Mac (my first home computer) started out with 128k. The original Lisa came with 1 Meg! Both had the Motorola MC68000 CPU.
You've obviously never been to the ROK. GDP isn't the only factor in classifying a country as "third world". I lived there for six years. It's improved dramatically over the last fifteen years (with the '88 Olympics being a major turning point for them), but it's still pretty backwards in many respects.
I try to convince myself I've gotten out of the rat race of Upward Mobility, and it's morally superior to have Downward Nobility. But I just want a fucken job. I helped build this industry in the early 1970s, now I'm supposed to be in the peak earning years of my career, but I'm locked out due to the bad economy. It sucks. There is nothing good about being unemployed.
As a 45 yr old Principal SW Eng., writing this from my cube, I'd suggest to you that peak earning years in the 40s are due more to age discrimination than to economical issues. Otherwise, you'd see the peak at retirement age. This economy is NOTHING compared to the unemployment we saw in '81. It's easy (I won't debate the merit in this thread) for companies to dump us higher paid folks and hire a couple of recent grads or H1B Visa types for less. Your best bet is to find a niche, do work that others aren't willing or able to do, keep current on tech issues, and make sure your boss is aware of the value you're adding to his bottom line (from his viewpoint, if you're not adding then your dispensible). Anyway, good luck to you...from my vantage point, it looks like things have started picking up over the last six months.
So now we get to change the phase to:
Obesity is the mother of invention.
I agree it would be a mistake to say that greenhouse gasses are definitely the problem. However we have a theory about how greenhouse gasses could be causing the problem, and it's something we can take relatively easy steps to correct (as opposed to stopping an alien death ray.)
Therefore it would seem to me to be reasonable to state that greenhouse gasses seem a likely cause and take action to reduce them while simultaneously doing more research on the subject to figure out what the cause is for sure.
Yes, relatively ease, and extremely expensive. It's not reasonable to spend billions of dollars to "take action" on this (or any other theory) without significant scientific evidence that that's the real cause of the problem. Certainly it should continue to be investigated, but we shouldn't have to change our lifestyle for every Chicken Little that comes along!
Not even close...look here: http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/Archive/patent /Mouse.html
I'm positively repelled by this, flux you very much.
But seriously, can anyone tell me what you want with such a car on North American roads? Even on the German autobahn you really seldom have traffic conditions that allow going more than 125mph.
Unless things have changed dramatically since I lived there for six years, driving 125 on the Autobahn was rarely a problem. I owned a new '85 Vette back then...topped out around 155mph, but only got to drive it there for six months. In those days, there wasn't much around that could hit those speeds. Now I'm stuck commuting in northern Virginia, but still managed to get my Infiniti FX45 up to 100 on the way into work today.
I keep reading this stuff from all of you claiming to be geeks, but "can't believe" that RF interference can be caused by typical consumer toys...especially inside a metal cage.
I have a fond memory of attending computer tech training (software engineer & private pilot now) when I joined the USAF back in 77, and was shown how my new programmable TI calculator could interfere with a FM radio.
We'd all like to fix the problem so that we can have our toys, but we also want cheap airfare. Fixing the problem won't be cheap, and the last time I looked at my airline stocks they weren't doing very well...so don't expect them to be "fixing" their planes anytime soon. Shielding would add too much weight, and you can't just run fiber everywhere in the plane.
That said, I thought I heard that Northwest was going to start allowing cellphone use on their flights.
After being raided by the BSA in 2000
Hey, I knew we went overboard with the Patriot act, but when did the BSA (Boyscouts of America) start doing raids?!?
Or are you just happy to see me?
Better than than a floppy
Well you can listen to music on your iPod while working on your iBook and sitting in your iBot whilst invading iRaq.
i'Ve gotta go iNto iSolation to get away from all these iDiots before i go iNsane.
So now computers can get me laid!!!
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." -Martin Luther King Jr.
And if you don't spend enough, you're asking for another Pearl Harbor or 9/11. As a result of the end of the cold war, we all were expecting the "peace dividend" as it was called at the time. Certainly, we didn't need the number or type of forces that we were maintaining previously. Unfortunately, our intelligence budgets were trimmed back as much as the rest of the military...thank you very much congress (who's to blame for the "intelligence failures"...my finger points there). Until we live in Utopia, our intelligence agencies need to be well funded.
"Speak softly, and carry a big stick!" - Teddy Roosevelt
I'm all for free speech...and gladly advocate protecting people's right to make opposing viewpoints. That said, Title 18 has been around for a long time, and if you didn't know that it was illegal to advocate the violent overthrow of the government when you did it, then it sucks to be you.
I'm betting they will. Just check out the insider trades done by SCO executives lately. They're all selling... none of them buying. True, the sums are not Gatesian, but not exactly chump change. Plenty of 'em are exercising options where they bought shares for pennies a share, and are selling for eleven and twelve dollars a share.
Looking at those insider trades actually makes me feel better about the whole thing. SCO executives are obviously in this to pump up the stock and make a killing in the market. They are not in it for the lawsuit, per se. I'm not sure what the standard of proof the SEC would need to charge these criminals, but their motives are obvious, given their insider trading.
These kind of trades are very much in line with the way exceutives of most all companies trade. Take a look at virtually any Fortune 500 company, and you'll see much of the same.
It's only slow cuz them boys were testing the French Connection. Now whatchya shud be using is Patriot.net
Sincerely,
Dubayah
> However, if artificial limbs become far superior to natural limbs, people will be able to choose whether they want their (perfectly healthy) natural limbs removed in favor of mechanical ones. At that point you will certainly have fear and loathing between the people who undergo the procedure (the superior beings) and the people who don't (the all-natural people).
Isn't that already happening with hooters
>Both of my Mars-plane concepts are much like the U-2 Spyplane (designed to operate at around 100,000 ft, in simlar density air)...
I like the simulator, but since we're into realism here, we should mention that the U-2 does NOT fly within even 4 miles of 100,000 ft...and yes, I do know this for a fact. The NASA version only goes to ~70k.
>Oh, and they fail to grasp: flight sim experience might as easily save a plane, as doom it. What if some nutter shoots the flight crew? A flight trained passenger could save everybody's necks.
Oh PLEASE!!! You have NO idea. I'm an instrument rated private pilot, and there is simply no way you're going to land that 747 with just some X-Plane experience. It would be a high pucker factor even for someone like me. You just can't get the seat of the pants experience with X-Plane, and yes I have used it...it's a great simulator.
>What bothers me is when some govermnet agency decides to come in and start regulating this kind of thing (even if it isn't a law yet, it's only a matter of time if people don't fight back
Ummm, the French have had this agency for ages...they've always regulated what is "official" French, and nobody seems to have been fighting back.