The pattern of the history of technology is the yeast growth curve, and it usually takes two generations for technology to transition from its initial take-off into exponential growth and then into linear growth. The Wright brothers invented the airplane in 1903. By the late 1960's Boeing was building the first models of several models it makes today. Computers and semi-conductors were invented in the late 1940's, I think they will transition to linear growth by the end of this decade. Some evidence -- Intel stopped development of the Pentium IV because of power consumption problems caused by gate leakage. Microsoft is now 2 years late with the next version of Windows and they have removed several key features that were promised for this version such as an improved file system.
I would have stayed with Office 6, but it wouldn't work with the printer drivers for my new printer. It's too bad, because I liked Office 6 more than I liked Office 97.
Hysterical and overwrought. If the accused "freaked out" then he may have an insanity defense. But, the correctness of his judgment or of your tale, are of no relevance. The most wicked, unpopular and obviously guilty man in the world has an undisputed constitutional right to the efective assistance of counsel if he is brought to trial in an American Court. Deprive that man of his right and it is meaningless for all of us.
"Would it change your opinion to know that large portions of the file show Jones Day actively helping Diebold cover up ongoing violations of election law?"
No, protecting the process is more important than any allegation of wrong doing.
"Understand something: as a voter, Heller was a direct *victim* of the misconduct being jointly committed by Diebold and Jones Day. So he had more than a passing interest in the matter, he was directly being screwed over by these actions and through these documents."
No, his interest was no grater than that of any other citizen. That is why the attorney general was joined in the matter.
"It's as if a rape victim working for a lawyer found out that the lawyer was concealing the identity of her assailant."
No, again, his interest was only that of any other citizen.
"Screaming bloody murder about it is a natural result."
Only if we can accept your overwrought premise. But it subverts the system of justice that has served this country for hundreds of years.
And I am appalled by the comments on this thread. The majority seems to be of the opinion that the document leaker has performed a public service. That is as far from the truth as it could possibly be.
One of the constitutionally protected rights that all Americans have, even people you hate (or most especially people you hate), is the right to the effective assistance of counsel for their defense. That right is necessary to protect the even greater right to a fair trial. Counsel must have complete confidential access to client information in order to provide effective assistance. That access is so important, that lawyer-client confidentiality has always been protected by the law.
If employees of a law firm can suborn that right by leaking confidential information then the right to counsel and the other rights that are vindicated by legal process are at severe risk. If the allegations against the leaker are proved, then I should hope that the court deals with him most severely so that others will not be encouraged to do likewise.
I run Windows 2000 on my Athlon 2400s I am a lot less than impressed by this list.
1. Security - Nice, but we have not any real problems, probably because we use Mozilla browsers and e-mail. 2. Internet Explorer 7 - I have used IE only for websites that won't load in Moz. Makes no difference to me. 3. Righteous eye candy - I am over the age of 12. 4. Desktop search - Google and its free. 5. Better updates - Win 2K is no longer being updated. Besides, I never let any progrm load stuff on my system that I do not know about. 6. More media - Might be interesting if did that sort of thing, which I don't. 7. Parental controls - My yougest is 18 now. He is on his own. 8. Better backups - So what? The old one sucked so badly, I just bought some 80GB drives and put them in USB 2 enclosures. Problem solved. 9. Peer-to-peer collaboration - I don't work in a multi-national conglomerate. I run a very small business -- 2 people, my wife's business is even smaller. We don't need it. 10. Quick setup - And if I don't buy it, it will take even less time to install.
Over all, I see no reason to shell out the big bucks for a new Micro$oft product. It does not solve any of my problems and it costs money. Besides, I would be concerned about the inadequacy of my hardware that is only a couple of years old. I don't want to shell out even more bucks for hardware.
Using a terminal (TTY Model 33, IIRC) to connect to an IBM 360/67 at U Michigan in 1970. The computer had 1.5 megabytes of core memory (little electromagnets for you newbies) and cost $14 Million (maybe $70 Million in 2006 money). It occupied two floors of a building.
My first PC was an IBM PC XT, 8088 with a 5 meg hard disk. Green monochrome monitor. I bought it from my employer around 1988.
The chance that any of these people will ever be re-animated is zero. It's not like the world has need for more people, the world population will be 9 billion by mid-century. Further, there is no ability to reanimate frozen fish, let lone frozen people, and I cannot imagine a less urgent area for bio-medical research.
At some point the heirs of these people (or the government, which always need more money) will turn off the refrigerator, cremate the remains and take the money.
Come on folks, learn to deal with the fact that when you die you will be dead (physically at any rate, no opinion is expressed herein on religious doctrines) and your things will belong to others. You can give them away wisely or unwisely, but you can't take it with you.
P.S. the article did not say whether the frozen had filed an estate tax return or whether they were still paying income taxes, but they have to do one or the other. Since a human body in liquid nitrogen is dead, whether or not it may live again, I am going with the likelyhood that the IRS will be wanting their Estate Tax.
I owned a camera that Minolta built in a joint venture with Leitz (the German company that makes Leicas) called a Leitz-Minolta CL. It is a small format 35MM rangefinder, manual everything, that came with 2 lenses a 40mm f2 rokkor (Minolta) and a 90 mm f4 Elmar (Leitz). the lens are great, particularly the 90 mm. The whole thing could be carried around in a coat pocket. I bought in the mid-70s, and took pictures with it from the time we were married until a few years ago.
My oldest child was then in college and she wanted to take a photography course. The course was taught using manual cameras with B/W film. She had a great time with the course and the camera. I don't think her children will have the same experience.
The camera is in good condition, and is worth more today than it was when I bought it. If I can get it back from my daughter, I am going to hang on to it.
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The commenters above are on the right track. This stuff comes around every few years, and has on a regular basis since Revelation in the 1st century C.E.
Why do these books seem to always have a market. I think that is an easy question. They are the intellectual equivalent of horror movies. Being scared is an adrenallin rush, it's fun.
Here is the right attitude:
"Have you heard? It's in the stars, next July, we collide with Mars. Well, did you evah? What a swell party this is!"
"Well, Did You Evah?" by Cole Porter With Bing Crosby From High Society (1956).
I can only imagine the howls of outrage. A couple of years ago, Nikon produced a copy of its 1950s era rangefinder S3 and sold the production run of 8000 for something like $5K/ea. I think there are still a lot of people out there who are not ready fully give up on film.
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How about the Pointy Harried Boss?
The pattern of the history of technology is the yeast growth curve, and it usually takes two generations for technology to transition from its initial take-off into exponential growth and then into linear growth. The Wright brothers invented the airplane in 1903. By the late 1960's Boeing was building the first models of several models it makes today. Computers and semi-conductors were invented in the late 1940's, I think they will transition to linear growth by the end of this decade. Some evidence -- Intel stopped development of the Pentium IV because of power consumption problems caused by gate leakage. Microsoft is now 2 years late with the next version of Windows and they have removed several key features that were promised for this version such as an improved file system.
To change a light bulb.
They have how many tens of thousands of programmers, computer scientists, managers, testers and so forth. They ought to be able to ship software.
Unless, of course, the whole company has devolved into a bureaucratic clusterf#$%.
I would have stayed with Office 6, but it wouldn't work with the printer drivers for my new printer. It's too bad, because I liked Office 6 more than I liked Office 97.
Spit out that Kool-Aid, it's poisoned.
Hysterical and overwrought. If the accused "freaked out" then he may have an insanity defense. But, the correctness of his judgment or of your tale, are of no relevance. The most wicked, unpopular and obviously guilty man in the world has an undisputed constitutional right to the efective assistance of counsel if he is brought to trial in an American Court. Deprive that man of his right and it is meaningless for all of us.
"Would it change your opinion to know that large portions of the file show Jones Day actively helping Diebold cover up ongoing violations of election law?"
No, protecting the process is more important than any allegation of wrong doing.
"Understand something: as a voter, Heller was a direct *victim* of the misconduct being jointly committed by Diebold and Jones Day. So he had more than a passing interest in the matter, he was directly being screwed over by these actions and through these documents."
No, his interest was no grater than that of any other citizen. That is why the attorney general was joined in the matter.
"It's as if a rape victim working for a lawyer found out that the lawyer was concealing the identity of her assailant."
No, again, his interest was only that of any other citizen.
"Screaming bloody murder about it is a natural result."
Only if we can accept your overwrought premise. But it subverts the system of justice that has served this country for hundreds of years.
"This was a peaceful act of civil disobedience"
"However, in a question as serious as this, it was irresponsible of counsel to allow this information to escape."
OK was it an act of civil disobiedience by an individual employee or negligence by the law firm?
And I am appalled by the comments on this thread. The majority seems to be of the opinion that the document leaker has performed a public service. That is as far from the truth as it could possibly be.
One of the constitutionally protected rights that all Americans have, even people you hate (or most especially people you hate), is the right to the effective assistance of counsel for their defense. That right is necessary to protect the even greater right to a fair trial. Counsel must have complete confidential access to client information in order to provide effective assistance. That access is so important, that lawyer-client confidentiality has always been protected by the law.
If employees of a law firm can suborn that right by leaking confidential information then the right to counsel and the other rights that are vindicated by legal process are at severe risk. If the allegations against the leaker are proved, then I should hope that the court deals with him most severely so that others will not be encouraged to do likewise.
The Inquirer says they are backing Blu-Ray.
I assume that is because they make blue movies;-)
Dr. Frankenstein: [shouts] Igor!, Igor! Come here! Where is that boy? I need the brain for the Monster.
I run Windows 2000 on my Athlon 2400s I am a lot less than impressed by this list.
1. Security - Nice, but we have not any real problems, probably because we use Mozilla browsers and e-mail.
2. Internet Explorer 7 - I have used IE only for websites that won't load in Moz. Makes no difference to me.
3. Righteous eye candy - I am over the age of 12.
4. Desktop search - Google and its free.
5. Better updates - Win 2K is no longer being updated. Besides, I never let any progrm load stuff on my system that I do not know about.
6. More media - Might be interesting if did that sort of thing, which I don't.
7. Parental controls - My yougest is 18 now. He is on his own.
8. Better backups - So what? The old one sucked so badly, I just bought some 80GB drives and put them in USB 2 enclosures. Problem solved.
9. Peer-to-peer collaboration - I don't work in a multi-national conglomerate. I run a very small business -- 2 people, my wife's business is even smaller. We don't need it.
10. Quick setup - And if I don't buy it, it will take even less time to install.
Over all, I see no reason to shell out the big bucks for a new Micro$oft product. It does not solve any of my problems and it costs money. Besides, I would be concerned about the inadequacy of my hardware that is only a couple of years old. I don't want to shell out even more bucks for hardware.
Summary, no economic reason to spend money.
I am absolutely sure it was December 15, not December 16. I think he forgot that 2000 was a leap year.
Using a terminal (TTY Model 33, IIRC) to connect to an IBM 360/67 at U Michigan in 1970. The computer had 1.5 megabytes of core memory (little electromagnets for you newbies) and cost $14 Million (maybe $70 Million in 2006 money). It occupied two floors of a building.
My first PC was an IBM PC XT, 8088 with a 5 meg hard disk. Green monochrome monitor. I bought it from my employer around 1988.
It is also just like middle school (shudder).
Now you can watch p0rn and clean-up in real time.
The chance that any of these people will ever be re-animated is zero. It's not like the world has need for more people, the world population will be 9 billion by mid-century. Further, there is no ability to reanimate frozen fish, let lone frozen people, and I cannot imagine a less urgent area for bio-medical research.
At some point the heirs of these people (or the government, which always need more money) will turn off the refrigerator, cremate the remains and take the money.
Come on folks, learn to deal with the fact that when you die you will be dead (physically at any rate, no opinion is expressed herein on religious doctrines) and your things will belong to others. You can give them away wisely or unwisely, but you can't take it with you.
P.S. the article did not say whether the frozen had filed an estate tax return or whether they were still paying income taxes, but they have to do one or the other. Since a human body in liquid nitrogen is dead, whether or not it may live again, I am going with the likelyhood that the IRS will be wanting their Estate Tax.
Speak for your self. I rather like using super glue on my cuts.
I owned a camera that Minolta built in a joint venture with Leitz (the German company that makes Leicas) called a Leitz-Minolta CL. It is a small format 35MM rangefinder, manual everything, that came with 2 lenses a 40mm f2 rokkor (Minolta) and a 90 mm f4 Elmar (Leitz). the lens are great, particularly the 90 mm. The whole thing could be carried around in a coat pocket. I bought in the mid-70s, and took pictures with it from the time we were married until a few years ago. My oldest child was then in college and she wanted to take a photography course. The course was taught using manual cameras with B/W film. She had a great time with the course and the camera. I don't think her children will have the same experience. The camera is in good condition, and is worth more today than it was when I bought it. If I can get it back from my daughter, I am going to hang on to it.
The commenters above are on the right track. This stuff comes around every few years, and has on a regular basis since Revelation in the 1st century C.E.
It is humorous to read the old editions of The Limits to Growth; A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind (1972) and The Population Bomb (1968). Their supposedly scientific predictions of the end of the world haven't come true yet, and don't appear to be imminent. I think the advice to keep hold of your wallet is sound.
Why do these books seem to always have a market. I think that is an easy question. They are the intellectual equivalent of horror movies. Being scared is an adrenallin rush, it's fun.
Here is the right attitude:
"Have you heard? It's in the stars, next July, we collide with Mars. Well, did you evah? What a swell party this is!"
"Well, Did You Evah?" by Cole Porter With Bing Crosby From High Society (1956).
About $500 per copy sold
I can only imagine the howls of outrage. A couple of years ago, Nikon produced a copy of its 1950s era rangefinder S3 and sold the production run of 8000 for something like $5K/ea. I think there are still a lot of people out there who are not ready fully give up on film.
The Throwin' Samoan?
Widescale Biodiesel Production from Algae; Michael Briggs, University of New Hampshire, Physics Department; (revised August 2004).
Just shoot me.