Goodness. Even if what the U.S. does at places like Guantanamo is not as (hmm, searching for a word here...) restrained as some might like it to be, its forces still operates at a substantially higher standard of conduct than practically any other military force in the world. What I mean is, if waterboarding and flushing Korans down the toilet are the worst things we can come up with when accusing the U.S. of torture we don't have to look very far to find far, far worse. Yes, U.S. forces should be held to a high standard, but don't laugh when someone claims that they are, because in comparison to most of the rest of the world, they are. Just maybe not as high as you'd like.
This, of course, is not always what happens. The whiskers, being very fine, don't have much current carrying capacity so they are quite likely to just vaporize. Nevertheless, there is risk.
The problem is that people, most people, have a need to feel secure. Unlike most slashdotters, people are rarely willing to even consider paying the price for liberty. Most slashdotters are unwilling to pay, though they consider it. Take the person from a few posts above crying about having to pay his mortgage so he must comply with all the bullshit that makes most people feel secure. No one made him get a mortgage. He just was unwilling to pay the price associated with not having one. Debt is an enslaving thing, get used to it if you incur it.
Anyway, most people feel a need to feel secure (as opposed to be secure.) Therefore, the TSA spends quite a bit of time on otherwise worthless but highly visible activities that give the impression to people that don't know better they are providing security.
That said, security has been increased. Just not proportionately with the price, I think.
What about a company's reputation with its shareholders. You know, like, you, if you have a retirement account. The first ethical and moral responsibility the executives and the board of directors have is to the shareholders who have entrusted them with their treasure in anticipation of an increase in value. Only legal requirements supercede that responsibility. The ethical and moral responsibility to the public, customers and employees should be in concert with the responsibility to the shareholders, but the thing about ethics and morals is that occasionally they can contradict.
What do you do when you are faced with a moral dilemma? I.E. break a promise or break a heart. The contractual duty of the board and the executives makes this somewhat easier. It always should be to protect the shareholders.
On surfaces where material can build up in front of locked wheels, sand gravel and some snowy conditions, it has been proven that locking the wheels results in shorter stopping distances. ABS is primarily effective on wet surfaces and in panic stopping conditions. However, ABS is generally not as good as a skilled driver who knows how to modulate the brake pedal.
There are a many different ways to measure software.
As programmers, we get very caught up in the concept of "code quality". We truly understand that there is good code and bad code. Shoot, there are websites ( http://worsethanfailure.com/ for example ) devoted to exposing bad code.
However, from the non-programmer's point of view, the value in software is that it solves a problem. If you give something that solves a problem away you are giving away value. Publishing a solution to a problem can often make it easier for someone else to solve the problem. Either of these reduces the value of your solution and therefore directly diminishes the financial value of your venture. Investors don't like this sort of thing.
These are the blatantly obvious reasons that people choose not to release source code.
Number 3 is a short term thing. Economically speaking, if the demand for treatment for a particular syndrome goes up, then the number of providers of that treatment will increase due to a rise in demand and compensation for it. This is just not capitalist theory, just look at how many plastic surgeons there are today compared with 50 years ago. Note how many doctors will address and treat ADD/ADHD versus 20 years ago. Similar comparisons can be with with Bipolar and other mental health disorders.
I agree with the folks talking about these syndromes as a continuum. We are all on the continuum. After a certain point on that continuum, the syndrome is worth treating to improve life and only the afflicted and/or those personally close to the afflicted can make that decision.
What is being ignored in the hypothesis of climate change is the gas with the most dominant heat effect in Earth's atmosphere. That gas is water vapour and none of the models used thus far reliably or consistently include it's affect. The reason is simple. Every time it is included the atmosphere models become unusable as predictors because the effect of water vapour is so great and also because it's effect is not fully understood. That is to say, we don't know to what degree it is insulative and reflective.
Due to volume, this gas dominates all others in the atmosphere and therefore has first order affects and yet, it is so poorly understood that it can not be included. How can we possibly make very expensive decisions without having a reliable enough model that at least considers first order effects?
Abrasively scrubbing your ass clean with paper. I really doesn't seem hard to improve on that concept given the slightest moment of thought. Folks have been using bidets for ages. Even the Romans were smart enough to use damp sponges to clean themselves. The Japanese figured out how to incorporate the bidet function into toilet seats, reducing space requirements and associated expense. I tried these on a trip to Japan several years ago and got one for myself when I got back. I'd never have a house without one. Much more healthy and sanitary.
Employees who feel this way have got it all wrong. They need to start thinking of their employers as their customers, for that is what they are. As soon as you start thinking of yourself as being in your own business (known as your career) and your employer as being your customer (as opposed to someone who is supposed to take care of you), the sooner you will feel like you have some power over your future.
Given the nature of the subjects, it seems to me that everyone has a vested interest. Civil and Geopolitical politics is that way. Who, exactly, would you trust to write the wiki for G.W.? Given partisan politics, for every person you name, there is a bunch of people who distrusts that person. Now extend that question to any politician.
If the health hazard were not there, how would smoking be differnt than speaking? Both are potential attacks on one of the senses. We mandate freedom of speech and broaden the meaning almost infinitely such that in the absense of liability smoking would almost certainly be included.
Slashdot Mirror
"...permission from my father to allow her to request that I read it."
There, fixed that for ya.
You had a Monster Manual??? Luxury! But you tell kids these days that and they won't believe you.
:-)
I would tell you that I did, in fact, have a first edition white box set of D&D AND a copy of Chainmail, but you would only mock me so I won't.
I spent an entire summer doing exactly that (data entry on an 029). I spent every penny I made on AD&D :-)
This sounds kinda credible until you use the word "silicone" instead of "silicon". Then we realize you are just full of shit.
Despite my sig, sometimes it matters.
Goodness. Even if what the U.S. does at places like Guantanamo is not as (hmm, searching for a word here...) restrained as some might like it to be, its forces still operates at a substantially higher standard of conduct than practically any other military force in the world. What I mean is, if waterboarding and flushing Korans down the toilet are the worst things we can come up with when accusing the U.S. of torture we don't have to look very far to find far, far worse. Yes, U.S. forces should be held to a high standard, but don't laugh when someone claims that they are, because in comparison to most of the rest of the world, they are. Just maybe not as high as you'd like.
1's and 0's are my heroes! :-)
This, of course, is not always what happens. The whiskers, being very fine, don't have much current carrying capacity so they are quite likely to just vaporize. Nevertheless, there is risk.
Which is why JTAG gave us IEEE 1149.1
The article mentions Sorghum as an alternative to corn. It says that Sorghum produces 6 times the amount of ethanol that corn does.
The problem is that people, most people, have a need to feel secure. Unlike most slashdotters, people are rarely willing to even consider paying the price for liberty. Most slashdotters are unwilling to pay, though they consider it. Take the person from a few posts above crying about having to pay his mortgage so he must comply with all the bullshit that makes most people feel secure. No one made him get a mortgage. He just was unwilling to pay the price associated with not having one. Debt is an enslaving thing, get used to it if you incur it.
Anyway, most people feel a need to feel secure (as opposed to be secure.) Therefore, the TSA spends quite a bit of time on otherwise worthless but highly visible activities that give the impression to people that don't know better they are providing security.
That said, security has been increased. Just not proportionately with the price, I think.
No one makes you get a mortgage. Sounds like a choice to me.
What about a company's reputation with its shareholders. You know, like, you, if you have a retirement account. The first ethical and moral responsibility the executives and the board of directors have is to the shareholders who have entrusted them with their treasure in anticipation of an increase in value. Only legal requirements supercede that responsibility. The ethical and moral responsibility to the public, customers and employees should be in concert with the responsibility to the shareholders, but the thing about ethics and morals is that occasionally they can contradict.
What do you do when you are faced with a moral dilemma? I.E. break a promise or break a heart. The contractual duty of the board and the executives makes this somewhat easier. It always should be to protect the shareholders.
On surfaces where material can build up in front of locked wheels, sand gravel and some snowy conditions, it has been proven that locking the wheels results in shorter stopping distances. ABS is primarily effective on wet surfaces and in panic stopping conditions. However, ABS is generally not as good as a skilled driver who knows how to modulate the brake pedal.
There are a many different ways to measure software.
As programmers, we get very caught up in the concept of "code quality". We truly understand that there is good code and bad code. Shoot, there are websites ( http://worsethanfailure.com/ for example ) devoted to exposing bad code.
However, from the non-programmer's point of view, the value in software is that it solves a problem. If you give something that solves a problem away you are giving away value. Publishing a solution to a problem can often make it easier for someone else to solve the problem. Either of these reduces the value of your solution and therefore directly diminishes the financial value of your venture. Investors don't like this sort of thing.
These are the blatantly obvious reasons that people choose not to release source code.
"Then again I've worked for several newspapers as a writer, copy editor, and layout editor and I've had my sense of humor beat out of me."
There, fixed it for ya.
$10,000? Wow.
Modern mask sets cost over $500,000 before you hit the manufacturing stage.
Then the equipment needed to control and observe the test device costs in the millions
I have not yet read the article, but typically, the purpose of papers such as this is to attract investment.
Yep. That's the commonly understood meaning of civilian, you moral relativist.
Number 3 is a short term thing. Economically speaking, if the demand for treatment for a particular syndrome goes up, then the number of providers of that treatment will increase due to a rise in demand and compensation for it. This is just not capitalist theory, just look at how many plastic surgeons there are today compared with 50 years ago. Note how many doctors will address and treat ADD/ADHD versus 20 years ago. Similar comparisons can be with with Bipolar and other mental health disorders. I agree with the folks talking about these syndromes as a continuum. We are all on the continuum. After a certain point on that continuum, the syndrome is worth treating to improve life and only the afflicted and/or those personally close to the afflicted can make that decision.
We'll just throw a few FPGA's into the system and solve it in software later.
Another reason to do a leveraged buyout is if the investors believe that they can "flip" the company. Basically the recipe goes:
1. Borrow money
2. Buy Company
3. ???
4. Sell Company at a profit
Where ??? is re-organization, layoffs, restructuring, spin-offs, etc.
What is being ignored in the hypothesis of climate change is the gas with the most dominant heat effect in Earth's atmosphere. That gas is water vapour and none of the models used thus far reliably or consistently include it's affect. The reason is simple. Every time it is included the atmosphere models become unusable as predictors because the effect of water vapour is so great and also because it's effect is not fully understood. That is to say, we don't know to what degree it is insulative and reflective.
Due to volume, this gas dominates all others in the atmosphere and therefore has first order affects and yet, it is so poorly understood that it can not be included. How can we possibly make very expensive decisions without having a reliable enough model that at least considers first order effects?
Abrasively scrubbing your ass clean with paper. I really doesn't seem hard to improve on that concept given the slightest moment of thought. Folks have been using bidets for ages. Even the Romans were smart enough to use damp sponges to clean themselves. The Japanese figured out how to incorporate the bidet function into toilet seats, reducing space requirements and associated expense. I tried these on a trip to Japan several years ago and got one for myself when I got back. I'd never have a house without one. Much more healthy and sanitary.
Employees who feel this way have got it all wrong. They need to start thinking of their employers as their customers, for that is what they are. As soon as you start thinking of yourself as being in your own business (known as your career) and your employer as being your customer (as opposed to someone who is supposed to take care of you), the sooner you will feel like you have some power over your future.
Given the nature of the subjects, it seems to me that everyone has a vested interest. Civil and Geopolitical politics is that way. Who, exactly, would you trust to write the wiki for G.W.? Given partisan politics, for every person you name, there is a bunch of people who distrusts that person. Now extend that question to any politician.
If the health hazard were not there, how would smoking be differnt than speaking? Both are potential attacks on one of the senses. We mandate freedom of speech and broaden the meaning almost infinitely such that in the absense of liability smoking would almost certainly be included.