What is preventing the ice on the mainland from melting? The sheet ice! Once the sheet ice goes, its like a domino effect. The ice on the mainland will start to melt faster.
Thats essentially what I meant about the animals and so.
Vegans or not vegans.. it doesn't matter. Animals in the arctic are specially suited only to the arctic! You take them away from their habitat, they will adapt, but only if they are left alone for the next 50 generations. And that is not going to happen because of man's intervention. Do you find polar bears in texas? No.
Your using the " shallow analysis" method. Its like stating, if spammers didn't spam, how would they survive? What will happen to the telemarketers once the do no call list goes into operation?
The people who benefit from this is miniscule. 10 times as more people will be the victim of stronger hurricanes, fishermen will have to contend with less yield etc.. Then even the bankers,insurers and sundry won't benefit.
I don't care if you take it as flamebait. Because it WAS flamebait. Your statement about tankers or so benefitting from the opening of the passage was so illogical and uninformed that anybody with a saner mind can deal with it as flamebait.
Everything comes at a cost. If the northwest passage is opened, it means that other cities located at sea-level are facing increasing problems with the higher sea level.
The artic, however inhospitable it might seem, is the home for countless creatures. If you don't live there does not mean you have a right to destroy it.
And the only fucking people who will benefit from this is the shipping industry who ship oil tankers or so. We have become so shallow, haven't we? You fucking think like that short term investor who pumps and dumps in the stock market. What happens later is none of your fucking business because 50-70 years later you obviously won't be alive to see the consequences. Right? Maybe you should get yourself sterlized so that it evens things out. Fair solution.
Scientists don't indoctrinate. They present facts. If you prefer to listen and agree to the illiterate and the greedy, that's "your" problem.
We are releasing millions of years of stored CO2 in timeframe of less than 250 years. Wake up to the facts, not fiction.
The Israeli government has vowed to expel Yasser Arafat, calling him an "obstacle" to peace. But the 72-year-old Palestinian leader is much more than that; he is a career terrorist, trained, armed and bankrolled by the Soviet Union and its satellites for decades.
Before I defected to America from Romania, leaving my post as chief of Romanian intelligence, I was responsible for giving Arafat about $200,000 in laundered cash every month throughout the 1970s. I also sent two cargo planes to Beirut a week, stuffed with uniforms and supplies. Other Soviet bloc states did much the same. Terrorism has been extremely profitable for Arafat. According to Forbes magazine, he is today the sixth wealthiest among the world's "kings, queens & despots," with more than $300 million stashed in Swiss bank accounts.
* * * "I invented the hijackings [of passenger planes]," Arafat bragged when I first met him at his PLO headquarters in Beirut in the early 1970s. He gestured toward the little red flags pinned on a wall map of the world that labeled Israel as "Palestine." "There they all are!" he told me, proudly. The dubious honor of inventing hijacking actually goes to the KGB, which first hijacked a U.S. passenger plane in 1960 to Communist Cuba. Arafat's innovation was the suicide bomber, a terror concept that would come to full flower on 9/11.
In 1972, the Kremlin put Arafat and his terror networks high on all Soviet bloc intelligence services' priority list, including mine. Bucharest's role was to ingratiate him with the White House. We were the bloc experts at this. We'd already had great success in making Washington -- as well as most of the fashionable left-leaning American academics of the day -- believe that Nicolae Ceausescu was, like Josip Broz Tito, an "independent" Communist with a "moderate" streak.
KGB chairman Yuri Andropov in February 1972 laughed to me about the Yankee gullibility for celebrities. We'd outgrown Stalinist cults of personality, but those crazy Americans were still naive enough to revere national leaders. We would make Arafat into just such a figurehead and gradually move the PLO closer to power and statehood. Andropov thought that Vietnam-weary Americans would snatch at the smallest sign of conciliation to promote Arafat from terrorist to statesman in their hopes for peace.
Right after that meeting, I was given the KGB's "personal file" on Arafat. He was an Egyptian bourgeois turned into a devoted Marxist by KGB foreign intelligence. The KGB had trained him at its Balashikha special-ops school east of Moscow and in the mid-1960s decided to groom him as the future PLO leader. First, the KGB destroyed the official records of Arafat's birth in Cairo, replacing them with fictitious documents saying that he had been born in Jerusalem and was therefore a Palestinian by birth.
The KGB's disinformation department then went to work on Arafat's four-page tract called "Falastinuna" (Our Palestine), turning it into a 48-page monthly magazine for the Palestinian terrorist organization al-Fatah. Arafat had headed al-Fatah since 1957. The KGB distributed it throughout the Arab world and in West Germany, which in those days played host to many Palestinian students. The KGB was adept at magazine publication and distribution; it had many similar periodicals in various languages for its front organizations in Western Europe, like the World Peace Council and the World Federation of Trade Unions.
Next, the KGB gave Arafat an ideology and an image, just as it did for loyal Communists in our international front organizations. High-minded idealism held no mass-appeal in the Arab world, so the KGB remolded Arafat as a rabid anti-Zionist. They also selected a "personal hero" for him -- the Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, the man who visited Auschwitz in the late 1930s and reproached the Germans for not having killed even more Jews. In 1985 Arafat paid homage to the mufti, saying he was "proud no end" to
about the KGB.
An eyeopener. It's a non-subscriber link.
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Jeez man. I am at a loss for words! You work on the tech section of the wsj and you are so tech illiterate? Which websites do you frequent? nerve.com, disgruntledhousewife.com ? cosmpolitan?
Maybe you should frequent some hardcore tech sites before you troll. AMD is more value for money and a better perfomer than the Intel processor.
"My current AMD is way too hot and my laptop burns my lap". Unless you have a ultra low voltage Pentium 3 even the normal Pentium 4 and Pentium 4 mobile will leave you sterile. On hindsight, maybe that's a good idea.
"Oh, and my college computer was an AMD too, and broke several times."
Ok, even more proof that you are fscking clueless about technology. God only knows hows you got employment in the tech section of the wsj.
If the AMD processor was the problem, you would only have to replace the processor ONCE. I've dealt with about 15 AMD processors in the pas 3 years and once the processor went bad( a friend's). Got a free replacement due to the 3 year warranty and everything was rolling again. If your computer breaks repeatedly, the problem is fscking somehwhere ELSE! Why blame the processor? You might have used a el cheapo heatsink, maybe the ram was bad, the motherboard.... The best reason I can think of is maybe YOU messed up something.
Maybe I should use my subscription and let the editors at wsj know what a tech illiterate person they've employed.
Right on. I am a laptop convert for the past few months now. Prior to this laptop, I've had 7 desktops and while I was in college, I had a kickass desktop. I just wish I had a laptop in college. Would have been manna. I have a desktop but that is only for printing or HalfLife/CS. I maybe use it once every 2 or 3 weeks. The screen quality of this laptop is simply amazing. Crystal clear text. I have wanted a laptop for so long and I was not at all disappointed when I got my first one. I now use it for 10 hours a day and love it.
For those looking to get a laptop, don't think twice. Get a good brand. You will be pleased with your investment.
You know, all those goals that the NASA administrator has to set will probably go unfufilled if nothing is done to the deficit now. The deficit is already 455 billion. At the current rate, this deficit will probably reach 8-900 billion even with a relatively decent recovery of the economy. 10-15 years later when the deficit is so big that it hangs like Damocles sword over Capitol hill, NASA's budget will be put on the chopping block.
I would like to know. The US is losing its manufacturing jobs. Have you heard of any factory workers say they want to go work in china? The living standards will probably make you flee in a week or a month. Workers do not have health insurance, the language is a big problem etc.
A while back, I read that a few well known Indian companies were looking for very experienced(8-10+ years) business managers who take charge of the software development units. Many Indian companies are getting contracts but they are usually below 50 million $. The big contracts still go to Accenture, IBM etc. These Indian companies were willing to pay 60,000 $(all inclusive) for these kinds of managers. And still there is a shortage. This is because the software business there has taken off only in the last few years. Prior to that nobody did big business there so that meant that there were not many experienced people to manage large and complex projects. People with that kind of experience earn atleast 150k in the US. So if you have the above skills, Indian companies would probably be interested in you. They have no need for pure coders. There are tons of them there. If you don't have any special skills to differentiate yourself, you're probably going to be run over.
Also, companies outsource because they can! If there was a law against outsourcing, would companies do it. In the same vein, if US companies could avoid paying tax, many would do so.
Don't expect companies to listen to you. Outsourcing is done because its possible. Business is tight. Wall Street is a wolf. Everybody wants a piece of the pie. Ask your representative in congress for answers.
There was a recent article on Business2 that talked about jobs going overseas, and how there are not enough skilled IT workers overseas now to fill the coming job-boom that will be caused by all the baby-boomers retiring..... just something to think about.
I agree that other nations should follow the same rules in labor.
This would make things less attractive for outsourcing. The biggest problem is that we haven't replaced the products we used to produce with something else.
Industries themeselves come and go, but when you no longer have any production capabilities left and you import foriegn workers at a greater rate than you educate your own citizens is a recipe for disaster. We give education opportunities here for foriegn students but fail to provide those same opportunities to those born here.
We have made being smart and hardworking synonomous with failure. No one grows up wanting to be an engineer anymore. Nobody is trying to create technology that will create a dominate place for this country.
As soon as we develop it, the next step is to get Korea to make it for us. The CEO's in this country do not care about creating jobs and performing a valuable service to society. It has become a pure greedfest.
For capitalism to work, their has to be some recognition of the public good. Without it the whole thing eventually collapses. The inverse to that is a pure socialist system where there is no incentive to succeed because everyone is given everything from the government.
The only way for us to get the pendulum back the other way is for the voters to get upset and start a revolt then laws get passed, some good, others reactionary and bad. But hopefully the pendulum settles to something sustainable or the systems comes crashing down. If our economy tanks, so do alot of others. If the world goes into a serious enough economic crises, real big wars generally follow.
It's not a coincidence that WWII started during a world wide depression. Unfortunately weapons are the one product we still produce well and in great quantity.
The US has slowly been converting to a nation of consumers rather than producers. I work in IT, my father was a General Motors slave for 30+ years. I have always disliked this situation. For many years the US produced goods, we had top engineers and we were at the pinnacle of success. The words "made in USA" stood for quality. A product bought in our stores with that stamp meant nobody's children were locked in wharehouses creating goods for fat, under worked, unappreciating slobs.
How long can a nation go on consuming everything produced by others without producing anything in return? How long before nations such as India decide that they've had enough exporting good people? What stops them from deciding that since 90% of a company is now in their country, that it no longer is a US company? Some of you cry about passing laws against outsourcing. But the straight fact is they aren't outsourcing CEO now are they.
In the US we have CEO's stripping companies of all physical assets and personnel for quick profit. They are raping this country's infrastructure and cooking the books to make the stockholders squeal like pigs with glee at the virtual money being produced from thin air.
We import technical expertise because we are too lazy to teach our children that being smart is an asset. And all over the world people hate us because we sit back fat and happy consuming what the world produces for us and demanding these nations pay us interest for all the money we lent their corrupt politicians through the IMF & the World Bank.
All you accomplish through getting the government involved to prevent outsourcing is hurting a hundred people through higher prices for the sake of one person.
You don't have a right to an IT job. If you have one, great. Make sure you have skills that are so valuable that you won't be outsourced. If you can't do that, then find another line of work, you lazy bastard. Should the government have done something to protect operators of horse drawn buggies that were put out of business when cars came to the market?
I was thinking about going into IT. The recent fad of outsourcing makes me rethink my priorities. I don't want to benefit by causing prices to rise beyond free market levels and screwing my fellow citizens who have little to do with this.
When Microsoft pleaded that the GPL would destroy their ability to make money, someone responded, "Tough. Adapt or die."
So, to those IT workers who feel they're being cheated by having something taken from them, when in fact they did not have an inherent right to what they have:
Tough. Adapt or die. Offer something in America in IT that foreigners cannot offer or find some other line of business. I refuse to support people who want to screw me.
Economic illiteracy like this is the reason why we get screwed by the Republicans and the Democrats so often. Quoting John "Candy" Keynes. Sheesh.
Have you tried carrying 3-4 items in your pockets at the same time? If you're travelling on the subway, you'd have to just be checking your pockets to make sure they're still there.
Its about innovation. Cars have been evolving for over a 100 years now. All-in-one devices like this one needs time to evolve too. 3 years down the line when all-in-one devices become mature, you will go for one yourself.
NTT DoCoMo is offering a 2megapixel camera in its 3G phones now. Given a choice of a mobile phone and a digital camera and a NTT phone with a lesser price, which one would you prefer? I'm sure you'd go for the NTT phone.
People like you are falling into the minority now because the sales of mobile phones with built in camera and covergence devices is taking off.
Would a business person(tech savvy) prefer a handheld player or a laptop to see his DVD movies?
Somebody who buys the Archos buys it for its features.
Using the same argument, instead of a Archos, they should go in for a laptop, so instead of a laptop they should go in for a desktop. It will be 300 $ cheaper. Yes, its less portable but that's the argument you use yourself.
Do you think opening up a laptop on the subway and watching a movie is more convenient than just having the Archos in your hand? Don't think so.
of slashdot space. Open internet is dying? How many people here even know what the term "open internet" means?
Its more like doomsday philosophy. Since humans are going to die anyways, why should they eat? Why reproduce? Just kill yourselves and all will be fine.
How many people here think that blogs just sounds like its an bloated piece of shit that isn't going anywhere? When I see blogs, I always think of obesity.
Why can't there be more sites that use journal like livejournal.com or Slashdot's own journal system?
You're right on that front. Quite a few people use Microsoft FrontPage for building their webpages. DHTML support is not that great and even then its a bit cumbersome to use than say Dreamweaver.
Frontpage is good for those building simple websites without much user configuration. DHTML usually does not figure in it.
You drive a electric car, you cannot wish away filling gas. Yes, if you have a hybrid then gas fillups are a little infrequent but you still gotta go. Do you know that the only product that is keeping Ford out of the water is the F150 pickup truck and its variants? When you have companies like that that were it not for their trucks and SUV's why do you think they will spend lots of money on hydrogen fuel research?
Electric only vehicles are a good 7-8 years away and the car makers that will lead the way will be the Japanese.
And hydrogen powered vehicles are a good 14-15 years away atleast( unless of course they can come up with a breakthrough).
11 March 2003 more?Der new one way in the universe? Space transporter of the next generation? if the topic of an high-informative exhibition of the German research council under co-operation of the European space travel organization is ESA, which on Thursday, which 13 March, 18,00 o'clock, open and by 26 April in Munich will have to be visited.
Central problem of space travel are the transport costs for a kilogram of pay load into space. For one-way rocket systems they are to kilogram at present about 11,000 to 25,000 dollar per. Too highly, in order to be able to exist on a long-term basis in the competition. Economical, flexible and environmentalcompatible, re-usable systems are in demand: Unorthodox recycling solutions, which let the costs sink on for instance a tenth. The exhibition reflects this trend in descriptive way. In the center is located the development of a new generation of space transport systems, which can start and land like a normal airplane on an air haven. By the example of a fictitious mission the visitor learns first the elements of a flight? Start, flight, ascent, return, landing? as well as the respective problem areas know. Parallel for this the results of the three DFG promoted special research ranges become?Grundlagen the draft of aerospace planes? the RWTH Aachen?Transatmosphaerische flight systems? of DO Munich and the German Federal Armed Forces university Munich as well as?Hochtemperaturprobleme the returnable space transport systems? of the University of Stuttgart (heat protection tiles) presented. The German center for air and space travel (DLR) is involved with several projects in these special research ranges.
Flow investigations in the wind tunnel Hopper - the euro-shuttle
The compiled bases found entrance into projects of several industrial enterprises, as for example the Astrium GmbH, Bremen and Ottobrunn, to the MAN technology AG, Augsburg, the resident of Munich enterprise Kayser Threde as well as OHB system in Bremen. One of these projects is hopper. Behind it an unmanned autonomous aircraft hides itself, of Europe re-usable space shuttle. The start effected horizontal on 4 km carriages of the European space port Kourou in French Guyana are enough. Hopper in 130 km already suspends and returns few minutes after height the satellite pay load with upper stage then automatically to the earth. The upper stage is ignited. It brings the satellites to the desired place in the low, middle or geostationary orbit (LEO, MEO, GEO). With the return compact hopper is optimized in such a way the acceptance angle into the atmosphere that the developing frictional heat is importantly lower than at the outer skin of the US shuttle. With it the susceptible and expensive heat protection tiles can be replaced by a economical and low-maintenance thermal protection system. Due to its flight path hopper cannot return however again to the starting point. It lands in the territory of ESA member states on the Azores or another island in the Atlantic. The return motion of hopper takes place on the ship way. If the ESA should decide for the hopper concept, then the aircraft can be operational starting from 2015.
Orbital glider Phoenix By aspera ad ASTRA
In order to be able to build hoppers finally, it requires an intermediate step: Phoenix. With the small demonstrator the innovative technologies at the material object are to be tested. Due to the multiplicity of physical influences in the atmosphere all details of the aircraft cannot be examined by computer simulations or windkanalversuchen. Phoenix and hoppers are embedded into the development programs TETRA (technology program for future space transport systems) as well as ASTRA (selected systems and technologies for future applications of space transport systems). ASTRA again forms the German contribution for the development of re-usable transport systems on European level. In the context of ASTRA all necessary system abilities for an autonomous entrance to t
Wow, I know real player is very intrusive but the majority of the users use Windows. Real works fine for them.
BBC is not obliged to put all its content online for free. But they are going to do it. One should be happy about that itself. The amount of data it will put up will be massive.
And some of you guys can complain that its available only in Real player. BBC has been using the Real format for sometime now and it works very nicely. Why will they want to mess with it?
Something to think about is the bandwidth bills. It will cost a bombload.
I don't understand why they are putting it up for free. I for one am willing to pay 5 $ for about 3 hours of programs. Some programs like Horizon etc are available for 125 quid right now.
I don't want the quality of their programming to fall once they start offering content for free.
Paying a nominal price and getting quality is a better choice.
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What is preventing the ice on the mainland from melting? The sheet ice!
Once the sheet ice goes, its like a domino effect. The ice on the mainland will start to melt faster.
Thats essentially what I meant about the animals and so.
Vegans or not vegans.. it doesn't matter.
Animals in the arctic are specially suited only to the arctic! You take them away from their habitat, they will adapt, but only if they are left alone for the next 50 generations. And that is not going to happen because of man's intervention.
Do you find polar bears in texas? No.
Your using the " shallow analysis" method.
Its like stating, if spammers didn't spam, how would they survive? What will happen to the telemarketers once the do no call list goes into operation?
The people who benefit from this is miniscule.
10 times as more people will be the victim of stronger hurricanes, fishermen will have to contend with less yield etc..
Then even the bankers,insurers and sundry won't benefit.
I don't care if you take it as flamebait. Because it WAS flamebait.
Your statement about tankers or so benefitting from the opening of the passage was so illogical and uninformed that anybody with a saner mind can deal with it as flamebait.
Everything comes at a cost. If the northwest passage is opened, it means that other cities located at sea-level are facing increasing problems with the higher sea level.
The artic, however inhospitable it might seem, is the home for countless creatures.
If you don't live there does not mean you have a right to destroy it.
And the only fucking people who will benefit from this is the shipping industry who ship oil tankers or so.
We have become so shallow, haven't we?
You fucking think like that short term investor who pumps and dumps in the stock market.
What happens later is none of your fucking business because 50-70 years later you obviously won't be alive to see the consequences. Right?
Maybe you should get yourself sterlized so that it evens things out.
Fair solution.
Scientists don't indoctrinate. They present facts. If you prefer to listen and agree to the illiterate and the greedy, that's "your" problem.
We are releasing millions of years of stored CO2 in timeframe of less than 250 years.
Wake up to the facts, not fiction.
I posted the text of the article and notified wsj that that link is not working.
Please evaluate that article honestly.
Thank you.
COMMENTARY
The KGB's Man
By ION MIHAI PACEPA
The Israeli government has vowed to expel Yasser Arafat, calling him an "obstacle" to peace. But the 72-year-old Palestinian leader is much more than that; he is a career terrorist, trained, armed and bankrolled by the Soviet Union and its satellites for decades.
Before I defected to America from Romania, leaving my post as chief of Romanian intelligence, I was responsible for giving Arafat about $200,000 in laundered cash every month throughout the 1970s. I also sent two cargo planes to Beirut a week, stuffed with uniforms and supplies. Other Soviet bloc states did much the same. Terrorism has been extremely profitable for Arafat. According to Forbes magazine, he is today the sixth wealthiest among the world's "kings, queens & despots," with more than $300 million stashed in Swiss bank accounts.
* * *
"I invented the hijackings [of passenger planes]," Arafat bragged when I first met him at his PLO headquarters in Beirut in the early 1970s. He gestured toward the little red flags pinned on a wall map of the world that labeled Israel as "Palestine." "There they all are!" he told me, proudly. The dubious honor of inventing hijacking actually goes to the KGB, which first hijacked a U.S. passenger plane in 1960 to Communist Cuba. Arafat's innovation was the suicide bomber, a terror concept that would come to full flower on 9/11.
In 1972, the Kremlin put Arafat and his terror networks high on all Soviet bloc intelligence services' priority list, including mine. Bucharest's role was to ingratiate him with the White House. We were the bloc experts at this. We'd already had great success in making Washington -- as well as most of the fashionable left-leaning American academics of the day -- believe that Nicolae Ceausescu was, like Josip Broz Tito, an "independent" Communist with a "moderate" streak.
KGB chairman Yuri Andropov in February 1972 laughed to me about the Yankee gullibility for celebrities. We'd outgrown Stalinist cults of personality, but those crazy Americans were still naive enough to revere national leaders. We would make Arafat into just such a figurehead and gradually move the PLO closer to power and statehood. Andropov thought that Vietnam-weary Americans would snatch at the smallest sign of conciliation to promote Arafat from terrorist to statesman in their hopes for peace.
Right after that meeting, I was given the KGB's "personal file" on Arafat. He was an Egyptian bourgeois turned into a devoted Marxist by KGB foreign intelligence. The KGB had trained him at its Balashikha special-ops school east of Moscow and in the mid-1960s decided to groom him as the future PLO leader. First, the KGB destroyed the official records of Arafat's birth in Cairo, replacing them with fictitious documents saying that he had been born in Jerusalem and was therefore a Palestinian by birth.
The KGB's disinformation department then went to work on Arafat's four-page tract called "Falastinuna" (Our Palestine), turning it into a 48-page monthly magazine for the Palestinian terrorist organization al-Fatah. Arafat had headed al-Fatah since 1957. The KGB distributed it throughout the Arab world and in West Germany, which in those days played host to many Palestinian students. The KGB was adept at magazine publication and distribution; it had many similar periodicals in various languages for its front organizations in Western Europe, like the World Peace Council and the World Federation of Trade Unions.
Next, the KGB gave Arafat an ideology and an image, just as it did for loyal Communists in our international front organizations. High-minded idealism held no mass-appeal in the Arab world, so the KGB remolded Arafat as a rabid anti-Zionist. They also selected a "personal hero" for him -- the Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, the man who visited Auschwitz in the late 1930s and reproached the Germans for not having killed even more Jews. In 1985 Arafat paid homage to the mufti, saying he was "proud no end" to
about the KGB. An eyeopener. It's a non-subscriber link.
Jeez man. I am at a loss for words! You work on the tech section of the wsj and you are so tech illiterate?
Which websites do you frequent? nerve.com, disgruntledhousewife.com ? cosmpolitan?
Maybe you should frequent some hardcore tech sites before you troll.
AMD is more value for money and a better perfomer than the Intel processor.
"My current AMD is way too hot and my laptop burns my lap". Unless you have a ultra low voltage Pentium 3 even the normal Pentium 4 and Pentium 4 mobile will leave you sterile.
On hindsight, maybe that's a good idea.
"Oh, and my college computer was an AMD too, and broke several times."
Ok, even more proof that you are fscking clueless about technology. God only knows hows you got employment in the tech section of the wsj.
If the AMD processor was the problem, you would only have to replace the processor ONCE.
I've dealt with about 15 AMD processors in the pas 3 years and once the processor went bad( a friend's). Got a free replacement due to the 3 year warranty and everything was rolling again.
If your computer breaks repeatedly, the problem is fscking somehwhere ELSE!
Why blame the processor?
You might have used a el cheapo heatsink, maybe the ram was bad, the motherboard....
The best reason I can think of is maybe YOU messed up something.
Maybe I should use my subscription and let the editors at wsj know what a tech illiterate person they've employed.
Right on.
I am a laptop convert for the past few months now. Prior to this laptop, I've had 7 desktops and while I was in college, I had a kickass desktop. I just wish I had a laptop in college. Would have been manna.
I have a desktop but that is only for printing or HalfLife/CS. I maybe use it once every 2 or 3 weeks.
The screen quality of this laptop is simply amazing. Crystal clear text.
I have wanted a laptop for so long and I was not at all disappointed when I got my first one.
I now use it for 10 hours a day and love it.
For those looking to get a laptop, don't think twice. Get a good brand. You will be pleased with your investment.
Allowing these processors to work on the Xeon motherboards will only cannibalize sales of the Xeon.
You know, all those goals that the NASA administrator has to set will probably go unfufilled if nothing is done to the deficit now.
The deficit is already 455 billion. At the current rate, this deficit will probably reach 8-900 billion even with a relatively decent recovery of the economy.
10-15 years later when the deficit is so big that it hangs like Damocles sword over Capitol hill, NASA's budget will be put on the chopping block.
I would like to know. The US is losing its manufacturing jobs. Have you heard of any factory workers say they want to go work in china?
The living standards will probably make you flee in a week or a month. Workers do not have health insurance, the language is a big problem etc.
A while back, I read that a few well known Indian companies were looking for very experienced(8-10+ years) business managers who take charge of the software development units.
Many Indian companies are getting contracts but they are usually below 50 million $. The big contracts still go to Accenture, IBM etc.
These Indian companies were willing to pay 60,000 $(all inclusive) for these kinds of managers.
And still there is a shortage. This is because the software business there has taken off only in the last few years. Prior to that nobody did big business there so that meant that there were not many experienced people to manage large and complex projects.
People with that kind of experience earn atleast 150k in the US. So if you have the above skills, Indian companies would probably be interested in you. They have no need for pure coders. There are tons of them there. If you don't have any special skills to differentiate yourself, you're probably going to be run over.
Also, companies outsource because they can!
If there was a law against outsourcing, would companies do it.
In the same vein, if US companies could avoid paying tax, many would do so.
Don't expect companies to listen to you.
Outsourcing is done because its possible.
Business is tight. Wall Street is a wolf.
Everybody wants a piece of the pie.
Ask your representative in congress for answers.
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From what I can see, salaries are not the only thing that have crashed.
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That is what quite a few people using windows use. Eventhough it does not have some features, people prefer it because its more standardised.
There was a recent article on Business2 that talked about jobs going overseas, and how there are not enough skilled IT workers overseas now to fill the coming job-boom that will be caused by all the baby-boomers retiring..... just something to think about.
I agree that other nations should follow the same rules in labor.
This would make things less attractive for outsourcing. The biggest problem is that we haven't replaced the products we used to produce with something else.
Industries themeselves come and go, but when you no longer have any production capabilities left and you import foriegn workers at a greater rate than you educate your own citizens is a recipe for disaster. We give education opportunities here for foriegn students but fail to provide those same opportunities to those born here.
We have made being smart and hardworking synonomous with failure. No one grows up wanting to be an engineer anymore. Nobody is trying to create technology that will create a dominate place for this country.
As soon as we develop it, the next step is to get Korea to make it for us. The CEO's in this country do not care about creating jobs and performing a valuable service to society. It has become a pure greedfest.
For capitalism to work, their has to be some recognition of the public good. Without it the whole thing eventually collapses. The inverse to that is a pure socialist system where there is no incentive to succeed because everyone is given everything from the government.
The only way for us to get the pendulum back the other way is for the voters to get upset and start a revolt then laws get passed, some good, others reactionary and bad. But hopefully the pendulum settles to something sustainable or the systems comes crashing down. If our economy tanks, so do alot of others. If the world goes into a serious enough economic crises, real big wars generally follow.
It's not a coincidence that WWII started during a world wide depression. Unfortunately weapons are the one product we still produce well and in great quantity.
The US has slowly been converting to a nation of consumers rather than producers.
I work in IT, my father was a General Motors slave for 30+ years. I have always disliked this situation. For many years the US produced goods, we had top engineers and we were at the pinnacle of success. The words "made in USA" stood for quality. A product bought in our stores with that stamp meant nobody's children were locked in wharehouses creating goods for fat, under worked, unappreciating slobs.
How long can a nation go on consuming everything produced by others without producing anything in return? How long before nations such as India decide that they've had enough exporting good people? What stops them from deciding that since 90% of a company is now in their country, that it no longer is a US company? Some of you cry about passing laws against outsourcing. But the straight fact is they aren't outsourcing CEO now are they.
In the US we have CEO's stripping companies of all physical assets and personnel for quick profit. They are raping this country's infrastructure and cooking the books to make the stockholders squeal like pigs with glee at the virtual money being produced from thin air.
We import technical expertise because we are too lazy to teach our children that being smart is an asset. And all over the world people hate us because we sit back fat and happy consuming what the world produces for us and demanding these nations pay us interest for all the money we lent their corrupt politicians through the IMF & the World Bank.
And you're a bloody hypocrite if you do.
All you accomplish through getting the government involved to prevent outsourcing is hurting a hundred people through higher prices for the sake of one person.
You don't have a right to an IT job. If you have one, great. Make sure you have skills that are so valuable that you won't be outsourced. If you can't do that, then find another line of work, you lazy bastard. Should the government have done something to protect operators of horse drawn buggies that were put out of business when cars came to the market?
I was thinking about going into IT. The recent fad of outsourcing makes me rethink my priorities. I don't want to benefit by causing prices to rise beyond free market levels and screwing my fellow citizens who have little to do with this.
When Microsoft pleaded that the GPL would destroy their ability to make money, someone responded, "Tough. Adapt or die."
So, to those IT workers who feel they're being cheated by having something taken from them, when in fact they did not have an inherent right to what they have:
Tough. Adapt or die. Offer something in America in IT that foreigners cannot offer or find some other line of business. I refuse to support people who want to screw me.
Economic illiteracy like this is the reason why we get screwed by the Republicans and the Democrats so often. Quoting John "Candy" Keynes. Sheesh.
Have you tried carrying 3-4 items in your pockets at the same time?
If you're travelling on the subway, you'd have to just be checking your pockets to make sure they're still there.
Its about innovation. Cars have been evolving for over a 100 years now.
All-in-one devices like this one needs time to evolve too.
3 years down the line when all-in-one devices become mature, you will go for one yourself.
NTT DoCoMo is offering a 2megapixel camera in its 3G phones now.
Given a choice of a mobile phone and a digital camera and a NTT phone with a lesser price, which one would you prefer? I'm sure you'd go for the NTT phone.
People like you are falling into the minority now because the sales of mobile phones with built in camera and covergence devices is taking off.
Would a business person(tech savvy) prefer a handheld player or a laptop to see his DVD movies?
Somebody who buys the Archos buys it for its features.
Using the same argument, instead of a Archos, they should go in for a laptop, so instead of a laptop they should go in for a desktop. It will be 300 $ cheaper. Yes, its less portable but that's the argument you use yourself.
Do you think opening up a laptop on the subway and watching a movie is more convenient than just having the Archos in your hand?
Don't think so.
of slashdot space. Open internet is dying?
How many people here even know what the term "open internet" means?
Its more like doomsday philosophy.
Since humans are going to die anyways, why should they eat? Why reproduce? Just kill yourselves and all will be fine.
How many Moose(Archie comics) does it take to fix a lightbulb? Two. One to hold the bulb and the other to turn the ladder.
How many people here think that blogs just sounds like its an bloated piece of shit that isn't going anywhere? When I see blogs, I always think of obesity.
Why can't there be more sites that use journal like livejournal.com or Slashdot's own journal system?
Journal sounds more elegant....
anybody else think so too?
You're right on that front. Quite a few people use Microsoft FrontPage for building their webpages.
DHTML support is not that great and even then its a bit cumbersome to use than say Dreamweaver.
Frontpage is good for those building simple websites without much user configuration. DHTML usually does not figure in it.
You drive a electric car, you cannot wish away filling gas. Yes, if you have a hybrid then gas fillups are a little infrequent but you still gotta go.
Do you know that the only product that is keeping Ford out of the water is the F150 pickup truck and its variants?
When you have companies like that that were it not for their trucks and SUV's why do you think they will spend lots of money on hydrogen fuel research?
Electric only vehicles are a good 7-8 years away and the car makers that will lead the way will be the Japanese.
And hydrogen powered vehicles are a good 14-15 years away atleast( unless of course they can come up with a breakthrough).
crunching sound you hear is not of earth and mars colliding, its the sound of a server crying for mercy from a slashdotting.
Space transporter of the future
11 March 2003
more?Der new one way in the universe? Space transporter of the next generation? if the topic of an high-informative exhibition of the German research council under co-operation of the European space travel organization is ESA, which on Thursday, which 13 March, 18,00 o'clock, open and by 26 April in Munich will have to be visited.
Central problem of space travel are the transport costs for a kilogram of pay load into space. For one-way rocket systems they are to kilogram at present about 11,000 to 25,000 dollar per. Too highly, in order to be able to exist on a long-term basis in the competition. Economical, flexible and environmentalcompatible, re-usable systems are in demand: Unorthodox recycling solutions, which let the costs sink on for instance a tenth.
The exhibition reflects this trend in descriptive way. In the center is located the development of a new generation of space transport systems, which can start and land like a normal airplane on an air haven. By the example of a fictitious mission the visitor learns first the elements of a flight? Start, flight, ascent, return, landing? as well as the respective problem areas know. Parallel for this the results of the three DFG promoted special research ranges become?Grundlagen the draft of aerospace planes? the RWTH Aachen?Transatmosphaerische flight systems? of DO Munich and the German Federal Armed Forces university Munich as well as?Hochtemperaturprobleme the returnable space transport systems? of the University of Stuttgart (heat protection tiles) presented. The German center for air and space travel (DLR) is involved with several projects in these special research ranges.
Flow investigations in the wind tunnel
Hopper - the euro-shuttle
The compiled bases found entrance into projects of several industrial enterprises, as for example the Astrium GmbH, Bremen and Ottobrunn, to the MAN technology AG, Augsburg, the resident of Munich enterprise Kayser Threde as well as OHB system in Bremen. One of these projects is hopper. Behind it an unmanned autonomous aircraft hides itself, of Europe re-usable space shuttle. The start effected horizontal on 4 km carriages of the European space port Kourou in French Guyana are enough. Hopper in 130 km already suspends and returns few minutes after height the satellite pay load with upper stage then automatically to the earth. The upper stage is ignited. It brings the satellites to the desired place in the low, middle or geostationary orbit (LEO, MEO, GEO). With the return compact hopper is optimized in such a way the acceptance angle into the atmosphere that the developing frictional heat is importantly lower than at the outer skin of the US shuttle. With it the susceptible and expensive heat protection tiles can be replaced by a economical and low-maintenance thermal protection system.
Due to its flight path hopper cannot return however again to the starting point. It lands in the territory of ESA member states on the Azores or another island in the Atlantic. The return motion of hopper takes place on the ship way. If the ESA should decide for the hopper concept, then the aircraft can be operational starting from 2015.
Orbital glider Phoenix
By aspera ad ASTRA
In order to be able to build hoppers finally, it requires an intermediate step: Phoenix. With the small demonstrator the innovative technologies at the material object are to be tested. Due to the multiplicity of physical influences in the atmosphere all details of the aircraft cannot be examined by computer simulations or windkanalversuchen.
Phoenix and hoppers are embedded into the development programs TETRA (technology program for future space transport systems) as well as ASTRA (selected systems and technologies for future applications of space transport systems). ASTRA again forms the German contribution for the development of re-usable transport systems on European level. In the context of ASTRA all necessary system abilities for an autonomous entrance to t
Wow, I know real player is very intrusive but the majority of the users use Windows. Real works fine for them.
BBC is not obliged to put all its content online for free. But they are going to do it.
One should be happy about that itself. The amount of data it will put up will be massive.
And some of you guys can complain that its available only in Real player.
BBC has been using the Real format for sometime now and it works very nicely.
Why will they want to mess with it?
Something to think about is the bandwidth bills. It will cost a bombload.
I don't understand why they are putting it up for free. I for one am willing to pay 5 $ for about 3 hours of programs. Some programs like Horizon etc are available for 125 quid right now.
I don't want the quality of their programming to fall once they start offering content for free.
Paying a nominal price and getting quality is a better choice.