You all missed the point entirely. Its not implying that people are poor BECAUSE they are black, its pointing out the gross disparity in the ratio of black people to white people that live below the poverty line. It is then your job to consider why this is and possibly what can be done about it.
While I didn't think the tag was appropriate. I do feel anti-white in this which is in fact racism as well. Is it a North American white persons responsibility to educate a person somewhere in Africa? Is it our fault they are poor? I think not. But many try to help out of generosity.
What are the leaders in their own countries doing about it? Probably nothing. Their governments are repressively corrupt. In fact their own people keep them uneducated and repressed. And perhaps people should start to think of this as a cultural problem in their societies and the more affluent North American white man didn't cause this. But the hope with OLPC is to perhaps get some education to these children and produce a more enlightened self sufficient people in the future.
The 16 Billion NASA gets is.01% of the 1.6 Trillion that goes into Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid every year. Funding space exploration at this bargain-basement budget level should be a no brainer
So if I did my math right, and Iraq is up to about a trillion, NASA could have been funded some 55+ year (not including interest). Or double NASA's funding 27 1/2 years. What a waste.
Now I know exactly how to manipulate my resume to look like a good programmer.
Cooked CVs are easy. In fact, I use this in the interviewing process. Overstatement of expertise is almost always a bad indicator of ego issues. And pretty easy to weed out. In fact, you would be unlikely to make it past the first phone call interview.
But if you made it to the next interview, there would be subject mater experts listening to your technical talk and "tech communication skills". You will actually even be given some specific problems to solve based on your resume. They will not be tough, nor trivial.
I wash out over 90% this way. BTW I liked Daniel's article. Far too many people are in the programming business and the quality is low, part of the success of any programming shop is to obtain the talent, lose the low end "in it for the money" types and retain a good environment.
Or, people who have a business need to shut out the world every now and then and concentrate, or people who have a business need to work with expensive or confidential stuff which they don't want to trust to a filing cabinet lock, etc.
I beat this by working at home. Have done so for good periods of time from 1 to 5 days a week for some 4+ years. The workplace is too interrupt driven to meaningfully do good systems coding and design. While one DOES need group collaboration, this is not desirable for 40 hours a week.
And my home workstation ergonomically is 100% better. More space, cost less than $1000, nice chair, door, window, fresh coffee from a clean pot. No traffic congestion and stress. My work has hinted no raises, I hinted full time work at home. If someone wants to see my face, I will turn the cam on. I will get may raise from deferring work costs.
I currently deploy Firefox to our corporate workstations, however there are definitely things that Mozilla could do to make Firefox more corporate friendly.
I take it then you are adverse to the lower maintenance costs of FF. It is actually more corporate "shareholder" friendly as about 15% of our FF users never seem to get infected and botted, reducing our workload. While this may be that your average FF user is more intelligent or that FF is more secure, it works for me.
I work in a large corporate environment and have no issues with FF.
I found the comments from the Greens very enlightening. Notice the lack of joy for the poor who will now be able to drive.
Simple solution to that. Import them to the US and Canada, fro say $3500 if I got 4 years out of it I would be happy. Anything after that is gravy. Cars in North America are just too expensive. I would also bet they are easy to fix.
Not a single passenger jet has been downed from the type of missiles these "high power lasers" are supposed to be able to prevent. Not a single one.
You may want to reconsider that statement, Iran Air Flight 655. But granted, it was not an American flight. But you did mention type. But I would consider any such defence good other than the cost. At the $$$ they are talking about, a $5000 flight each way to pay for it sounds pricey.
Unfortunately, State Attorneys General have forgotten this.
I bet the next generation of programmers will not forget it. And I for one am buying AMD next weekend. The PR on this is bad news. While I am a staunch capitalist, I believe it needs to be practiced with integrity. But then that is why I am not promotable these days.
Negroponte, however, appears to be trying to limit consumer choices and stifle competition.
BS. He is trying to stop Intel from raising the costs of the processor that would significantly raise the costs of the PC. This is not part of the projects goals, the goals are to make them cheap enough that many millions can be purchased for children. That is the goal, reach more kids.
Intel in their arrogance thought they could influence the project to use more expensive Intel parts. That is the ONLY reason corporations put people into committees, to exercise partisan influence for profit. I don't mind profit, but Intel was not price competitive. Intel said, you use them, we are going to leave. Negroponte had the guts to keep in the projects goals and said good-bye to Intel. Hey, not everybody is corruptible to corporate influences.
Consumer choices are expanded. Buy reaching more kids, more kids will get educated, earn better livings. By supporting smaller vendors, they survive to compete again with Intel.
Good to see Negroponte is on the ball with OLPC - a corporation should hire him as a CIO/CTO when he if finished with OLPC. But then corporations are not that smart.
Brace yourself for a propaganda deluge from climate change denialists now...
While I do believe the climate is changing, and it always has; I also believe it might be for the better.
Case in point. 7000 years ago there was little if any industrial CO2 from mankind. Mostly limited to camp fires and cooking to a very much reduced population count. mankind's influence was very small.
The fact remains ice caps since then have grown but have recently begun melting. That is since 7000 years ago when life was more diverse (and warmer) many glaciers and ice caps didn't exit. Now even if you don't agree with carbon dating because it is too abstract for your brain, look at this link below.
And if junk science Suzuki or Gore (pretty quiet right now) beg to differ, I would love to hear their rational explanation for 7000 year old tree stumps under glacial receding ice. For if that ice was meant to be permanent, it would carbon date many millions of years, not 7000.
To me, warming is welcome. Many fish will grow larger in Northern and Southern lakes and more habitual land will result. Maybe even in time ferns will once again grow in Alaska.
I'm not an avionics engineer - however, even in a small hotel I service, we keep the guest network and the hotel/admin network seperate. The only common hardware is the AC power and the modem that has a/28 assigned to it.
So what they are really saying is that this technique has a 99.9% false positive rate. Nice.
But it works better than anything else we/they have. Any constructive ideas or techniques that could lower false positives, and let less of the bad dudes through I am sure would be appreciated. I for one appreciate removing the disruptive from aircraft. Makes for a safer and nocer trip.
Does anyone know why increasingly powerful supercomputers are needed to ensure the safety of nuclear weapon stockpiles? Given that these are existing weapons which are (presumably) just sitting around in silos?
If the politicians don't like the results. They buy a faster computer and run it again until the get the results they like.
I guess OLPC didn't pay the kickback moneys in pricing the deal now the corrupt are howling foul. Goes to show us in the free world how well we are off when institutionalized corruption is so rampant.
Or is it the government wanting to keep people dumb and stupid so they don't revolt for a democracy?
Would be interesting to see who bribed who to deprive the children from knowledge. There could be one hell of a story in that.
The pics were great. But that can happen with mobos that have a lot of power requirements and the connectors are "cheap" or seat poorly on the mobo pins. For example, the main 5v line might have 40 amps through it. If the surface contact area of the power supply contacts don't have enough surface areas touching the mobo contacts, it can and will overheat. That is the quality of the power supply connector and it's seating into the motherboard likely had a lot to do with this. But it is also why they went to multiple connectors for power on newer systems as that connector is pushed to it's design limit.
Why is it that Picasa still does not run natively on Linux?Picasa does run on Linux. I am not sure what you mean by natively, unless you mean it needs wine. But why have 2 separate source streams if you don't need them? One could say this about Java apps too, they need the JVM to run. So the point?
Why is it that new products appear for the closed Windows platform before thet appear for the open Linux platform? They should appear simultaneously.
Like what? I am at a loss to say I have seen anything on MS-Windows before I have seen it elsewhere.
It goes beyond the fact that Microsoft has lost its ability to innovate, though that is a significant portion.
Microsoft is a marketing company, they do NOT innovate much if at all. The last innovation was NETBUI and CIFS, only CIFS is used any more and has it's basis in fact to ftp/NFS.
TCP, UDP etc - nope
RPC, ntp, nntp, ftp etc - nope
SMTP, POP3, IMAP - nope
Windows GUI - nope
HTTP/HTTPS, web browser - nope
Word processing - nope
Spread sheets - nope
File sharing - nope
Mouse - nope
DNS, Kerberos, LDAP, SSL, certificates - nope
ASM,C/C++/Java - nope (.NET isn't an innovation, it is proprietary)
Historically, Microsoft borrows others ideas, bastardizes it, packages it, calls it their own and ships it out. It may be hard for Microsoft fan boys to understand, but if you took non-Microsoft innovations out of MS Windows you would not have much left. Microsoft in fact relies on innovation by hobbyists, outside innovators not employed by Microsoft for their product(s).
I for one question that Microsoft could ever innovate more than FUD.
The computing paradigm shifted away from IBM's mainframes in the early 90s. Will the paradigm shift away from Microsoft's desktops?
Inevitable. People are looking for computers more and more like appliances. While the desktop will not per say "die", it will take an increasing second place to appliances and alternatives. No monopoly lasts forever, it eventually rots and decays leaving the next round of real innovation to occur.
Could the United States being in a state of recession have anything to do with Vista's slow growth? Just kidding, I know Vista is TERRIBLE. My karma is bad and I wish it wasn't. I don't want to have bad karma. I am a good person.
Doubtful. A few reasons too. First, computers expire and need to be replaced. Computers are selling, just get wiped and back loaded with XP. Microsoft might even have a good quarter as people double purchase XP after buying a machine with Vista. And some are upgraded with Linux
But in time this double billing customers will backfire in time.
The Apple commercial has Mac vs. PC... not Mac vs. Penguin or Mac vs. Solaris, because nobody would care.
Then you will like this commercial below. I thought this was well done. Made me like Linux even more. BTW, I run both FC8 and Ubuntu, like them both and they work together.
Slashdot Mirror
You all missed the point entirely. Its not implying that people are poor BECAUSE they are black, its pointing out the gross disparity in the ratio of black people to white people that live below the poverty line. It is then your job to consider why this is and possibly what can be done about it.
While I didn't think the tag was appropriate. I do feel anti-white in this which is in fact racism as well. Is it a North American white persons responsibility to educate a person somewhere in Africa? Is it our fault they are poor? I think not. But many try to help out of generosity.
What are the leaders in their own countries doing about it? Probably nothing. Their governments are repressively corrupt. In fact their own people keep them uneducated and repressed. And perhaps people should start to think of this as a cultural problem in their societies and the more affluent North American white man didn't cause this. But the hope with OLPC is to perhaps get some education to these children and produce a more enlightened self sufficient people in the future.
So if I did my math right, and Iraq is up to about a trillion, NASA could have been funded some 55+ year (not including interest). Or double NASA's funding 27 1/2 years. What a waste.
Nope, I don't think the story is wrong:
US Dept of State
Now I know exactly how to manipulate my resume to look like a good programmer.
Cooked CVs are easy. In fact, I use this in the interviewing process. Overstatement of expertise is almost always a bad indicator of ego issues. And pretty easy to weed out. In fact, you would be unlikely to make it past the first phone call interview.
But if you made it to the next interview, there would be subject mater experts listening to your technical talk and "tech communication skills". You will actually even be given some specific problems to solve based on your resume. They will not be tough, nor trivial.
I wash out over 90% this way. BTW I liked Daniel's article. Far too many people are in the programming business and the quality is low, part of the success of any programming shop is to obtain the talent, lose the low end "in it for the money" types and retain a good environment.
at least with our fleet of HP desktops, getting XP drivers is still an option.
My commodity HP runs Linux just fine. 64 bit even.
Or, people who have a business need to shut out the world every now and then and concentrate, or people who have a business need to work with expensive or confidential stuff which they don't want to trust to a filing cabinet lock, etc.
I beat this by working at home. Have done so for good periods of time from 1 to 5 days a week for some 4+ years. The workplace is too interrupt driven to meaningfully do good systems coding and design. While one DOES need group collaboration, this is not desirable for 40 hours a week.
And my home workstation ergonomically is 100% better. More space, cost less than $1000, nice chair, door, window, fresh coffee from a clean pot. No traffic congestion and stress. My work has hinted no raises, I hinted full time work at home. If someone wants to see my face, I will turn the cam on. I will get may raise from deferring work costs.
I wish more companies realized that.
I take it then you are adverse to the lower maintenance costs of FF. It is actually more corporate "shareholder" friendly as about 15% of our FF users never seem to get infected and botted, reducing our workload. While this may be that your average FF user is more intelligent or that FF is more secure, it works for me.
I work in a large corporate environment and have no issues with FF.
I found the comments from the Greens very enlightening. Notice the lack of joy for the poor who will now be able to drive.
Simple solution to that. Import them to the US and Canada, fro say $3500 if I got 4 years out of it I would be happy. Anything after that is gravy. Cars in North America are just too expensive. I would also bet they are easy to fix.
You may want to reconsider that statement, Iran Air Flight 655. But granted, it was not an American flight. But you did mention type. But I would consider any such defence good other than the cost. At the $$$ they are talking about, a $5000 flight each way to pay for it sounds pricey.
Doubtful. The KGB, oops, sorry CCRA would also want GST.
Unfortunately, State Attorneys General have forgotten this.
I bet the next generation of programmers will not forget it. And I for one am buying AMD next weekend. The PR on this is bad news. While I am a staunch capitalist, I believe it needs to be practiced with integrity. But then that is why I am not promotable these days.
Negroponte, however, appears to be trying to limit consumer choices and stifle competition.
BS. He is trying to stop Intel from raising the costs of the processor that would significantly raise the costs of the PC. This is not part of the projects goals, the goals are to make them cheap enough that many millions can be purchased for children. That is the goal, reach more kids.
Intel in their arrogance thought they could influence the project to use more expensive Intel parts. That is the ONLY reason corporations put people into committees, to exercise partisan influence for profit. I don't mind profit, but Intel was not price competitive. Intel said, you use them, we are going to leave. Negroponte had the guts to keep in the projects goals and said good-bye to Intel. Hey, not everybody is corruptible to corporate influences.
Consumer choices are expanded. Buy reaching more kids, more kids will get educated, earn better livings. By supporting smaller vendors, they survive to compete again with Intel.
Good to see Negroponte is on the ball with OLPC - a corporation should hire him as a CIO/CTO when he if finished with OLPC. But then corporations are not that smart.
Sky Is Falling
While I do believe the climate is changing, and it always has; I also believe it might be for the better.
Case in point. 7000 years ago there was little if any industrial CO2 from mankind. Mostly limited to camp fires and cooking to a very much reduced population count. mankind's influence was very small.
The fact remains ice caps since then have grown but have recently begun melting. That is since 7000 years ago when life was more diverse (and warmer) many glaciers and ice caps didn't exit. Now even if you don't agree with carbon dating because it is too abstract for your brain, look at this link below.
And if junk science Suzuki or Gore (pretty quiet right now) beg to differ, I would love to hear their rational explanation for 7000 year old tree stumps under glacial receding ice. For if that ice was meant to be permanent, it would carbon date many millions of years, not 7000.
7000 year old tree stumps under glacial flows
To me, warming is welcome. Many fish will grow larger in Northern and Southern lakes and more habitual land will result. Maybe even in time ferns will once again grow in Alaska.
You are on the right track. People are looking at the options and cutting back. And CDs isn't the only one, lets look at Starbuck's stock price
But there are a lot of factors, including your insight:
CD/DVDs do have one big advantage, proof of purchase. But I think they could come back provided:
But I suspect it is too late. Corporation executives tend to hold on to bad ideas like groupers, they don't know when to let go.
I'm not an avionics engineer - however, even in a small hotel I service, we keep the guest network and the hotel/admin network seperate. The only common hardware is the AC power and the modem that has a /28 assigned to it.
Yes, but you are competent.
Always read the fine print.
Yep, and one of the things is we reserve the tight to change it without notice. Gotta love that.
If it doesn't work in Firefox, I'm not interested.
I will add, if it does not work with Firefox/Linux, not interested.
So what they are really saying is that this technique has a 99.9% false positive rate. Nice.
But it works better than anything else we/they have. Any constructive ideas or techniques that could lower false positives, and let less of the bad dudes through I am sure would be appreciated. I for one appreciate removing the disruptive from aircraft. Makes for a safer and nocer trip.
Does anyone know why increasingly powerful supercomputers are needed to ensure the safety of nuclear weapon stockpiles? Given that these are existing weapons which are (presumably) just sitting around in silos?
If the politicians don't like the results. They buy a faster computer and run it again until the get the results they like.
I guess OLPC didn't pay the kickback moneys in pricing the deal now the corrupt are howling foul. Goes to show us in the free world how well we are off when institutionalized corruption is so rampant.
Or is it the government wanting to keep people dumb and stupid so they don't revolt for a democracy?
Would be interesting to see who bribed who to deprive the children from knowledge. There could be one hell of a story in that.
The pics were great. But that can happen with mobos that have a lot of power requirements and the connectors are "cheap" or seat poorly on the mobo pins. For example, the main 5v line might have 40 amps through it. If the surface contact area of the power supply contacts don't have enough surface areas touching the mobo contacts, it can and will overheat. That is the quality of the power supply connector and it's seating into the motherboard likely had a lot to do with this. But it is also why they went to multiple connectors for power on newer systems as that connector is pushed to it's design limit.
Why is it that Picasa still does not run natively on Linux? Picasa does run on Linux. I am not sure what you mean by natively, unless you mean it needs wine. But why have 2 separate source streams if you don't need them? One could say this about Java apps too, they need the JVM to run. So the point?
Why is it that new products appear for the closed Windows platform before thet appear for the open Linux platform? They should appear simultaneously.
Like what? I am at a loss to say I have seen anything on MS-Windows before I have seen it elsewhere.
It goes beyond the fact that Microsoft has lost its ability to innovate, though that is a significant portion.
Microsoft is a marketing company, they do NOT innovate much if at all. The last innovation was NETBUI and CIFS, only CIFS is used any more and has it's basis in fact to ftp/NFS.
Historically, Microsoft borrows others ideas, bastardizes it, packages it, calls it their own and ships it out. It may be hard for Microsoft fan boys to understand, but if you took non-Microsoft innovations out of MS Windows you would not have much left. Microsoft in fact relies on innovation by hobbyists, outside innovators not employed by Microsoft for their product(s).
I for one question that Microsoft could ever innovate more than FUD.
The computing paradigm shifted away from IBM's mainframes in the early 90s. Will the paradigm shift away from Microsoft's desktops?
Inevitable. People are looking for computers more and more like appliances. While the desktop will not per say "die", it will take an increasing second place to appliances and alternatives. No monopoly lasts forever, it eventually rots and decays leaving the next round of real innovation to occur.
Could the United States being in a state of recession have anything to do with Vista's slow growth? Just kidding, I know Vista is TERRIBLE. My karma is bad and I wish it wasn't. I don't want to have bad karma. I am a good person.
Doubtful. A few reasons too. First, computers expire and need to be replaced. Computers are selling, just get wiped and back loaded with XP. Microsoft might even have a good quarter as people double purchase XP after buying a machine with Vista. And some are upgraded with Linux
But in time this double billing customers will backfire in time.
The Apple commercial has Mac vs. PC... not Mac vs. Penguin or Mac vs. Solaris, because nobody would care.
Then you will like this commercial below. I thought this was well done. Made me like Linux even more. BTW, I run both FC8 and Ubuntu, like them both and they work together.
Linux Windows and Mac.