None of the alternative energy plans can provide electricity on a 24-hour basis. If we're all to drive Al Gore's pokey electric cars, we need a way to charge millions of batteries at night. That means producing enormous additional amounts of electricity. Electricity green energy (wind and solar) can't produce once the Sun goes down. We built all of the useful dams on all of the useful rivers decades ago. Green pundits will never allow coal fired plants, and they don't like burning anything. What they like is wind and solar. Ethanol is very hard to produce using low-sugar crops like corn and grasses. Beat sugar makes more sense, but the Fed is owned by Agribusiness companies like ADM. It would cost a lot of money to switch away from corn. Since the 60s corn was introduced into nearly everything we eat.
If anyone thinks we're protecting Ma and Pa farmer on the plains, think again. They either went bankrupt in the 70s or sold out when the kids graduated and moved away. The remaining independent farmers either don't farm or are being squeezed out through skillful cross pollination of their crops from neighboring corporate farms.
Even better. Just as the settlers followed the pioneers and explorers and trucks followed the more exclusive horseless carriages, a private firm could build repair bot versions and start the first industrial space enterprise. With near Earth space filling up, this will be a necessity.
I agree. If AT&T's US data caps are adopted by my country's ISPs, bittorrent will become a much less popular option. RIAA and MPAA may get through greed what they failed to get through litigation.
I think it's a code for another code that could translate as:
Pass the Moose Milk
I'll be at Tim Hortons, and no place else!
Don't interrupt me while hockey is on.
Remember, Apple was trending towards the college market. At that time, colleges were wiring dorms with ethernet and porfessor were accepting electronic submissions. The floppy was on the way out. The growth of multimedia finished it off.
The CD/DVD is next.
Teachers are government employees serving a system most people take for granted. Teaching is the only profession that continually demands NOT to be evaluated or held accountable, "because I'm tenured." This cultural attitude has created social promotions, and indifference towards any student that doesn't fit the facory school model. A general lack of local election voting by non-retirees created the most broken educational system in the developed world.
Teachers have far-reaching infleuence on our future than they know. They teach you how to read, how to comprehend, how to perform research. They should teach how to consturct a decent argument, write a decent setence, and how to operate in the adult world.
As public servants, teachers must be evaluated. Tenure was designed to protect what college professors choose to research and publish, not to protect the lazy, the entitled, or the burn outs.
This was said about the auto industry, yet we build more cars in the US today than we did in the 60s...just not in Detroit. Similar things have happened with Sony. There is no reason to believe this won't come full circle either.
In any war, escalation is inevitable. First we had spyware that took over your browser. Next spyware silently monitored your actions. Today spyware removes competing or incompatible spyware prior to installation. We've seen the future and it requires no local code execution.
Loan guarantees are nice. Really they are. When I see an actual reactor go online in spite of hundreds of protesters, I'll believe the President's "safe nuclear" campaign promise.
If 2010 is "The Year of IE6's Demise," will 2012 be "The Year of IE6's Death?"
From what I'm reading, users aren't upgrading browsers till they upgrade machines (or Operating Systems). With Vista on the outs and Win 7 on the rise, will IE8 come to dominate the average and corporate user base?
BTW, I swtiched Mom to Firefox two years ago. Now I have far fewer problems with her Vista laptop.
Apple provides free toolsets to developers. Yes they lock out some features. Features that if opened would prevent cell carriers, content providers, etc from supporting the device. These feature lockouts allow this conversation to occur in the first place.
For those who want to directly access the hardware, we have the *nix distros, jailbreaking, and magazines like Make. Kids will find plenty of wonder, just in different ways.
Anyone buying a pistol for personal defense will likely forget to enter the PIN for the following reasons:
1. Most businesses don't allow open carry
2. How many times have you set down your keys or cell phone and forgot where they were?
3. Who uses a figgin.22 for self defense?
As for the rest of the article. Rubber bullets = lawsuits. Better to kill than to maim. Beanbag rounds have similar issues. It looks cool on TV, but in reality it's something else.
"This injury has permanently destoryed my quality of life!" That's someting a defendant never wants to hear in a civil case.
Three shot Tasers? I've talked to guys who went through Taser training. None of them said being hit by a Taser dissuaded them from using one. In fact, it encoruages Taser for two reasons: Tasers are non-lethal, and they hurt like hell.
If Acer and MSI can't beat Apple's price point, and I doubt they can, Apple will be the top seller in this non e-book category. As for DRM e-books, I don't thing you can get away from it.
No multi-touch on yet another Android device? What gives?
Slashdot Mirror
Nuclear Power.
None of the alternative energy plans can provide electricity on a 24-hour basis. If we're all to drive Al Gore's pokey electric cars, we need a way to charge millions of batteries at night. That means producing enormous additional amounts of electricity. Electricity green energy (wind and solar) can't produce once the Sun goes down.
We built all of the useful dams on all of the useful rivers decades ago.
Green pundits will never allow coal fired plants, and they don't like burning anything. What they like is wind and solar.
Ethanol is very hard to produce using low-sugar crops like corn and grasses. Beat sugar makes more sense, but the Fed is owned by Agribusiness companies like ADM. It would cost a lot of money to switch away from corn. Since the 60s corn was introduced into nearly everything we eat.
If anyone thinks we're protecting Ma and Pa farmer on the plains, think again. They either went bankrupt in the 70s or sold out when the kids graduated and moved away. The remaining independent farmers either don't farm or are being squeezed out through skillful cross pollination of their crops from neighboring corporate farms.
Even better. Just as the settlers followed the pioneers and explorers and trucks followed the more exclusive horseless carriages, a private firm could build repair bot versions and start the first industrial space enterprise. With near Earth space filling up, this will be a necessity.
Once someone cracks the battery/power source problem, we'll see armor and power assist devices become standard.
Which is good, till someone uses a sticky bomb or an RPG on the suit's power cell.
make it in 3D!
I agree. If AT&T's US data caps are adopted by my country's ISPs, bittorrent will become a much less popular option. RIAA and MPAA may get through greed what they failed to get through litigation.
I think it's a code for another code that could translate as: Pass the Moose Milk I'll be at Tim Hortons, and no place else! Don't interrupt me while hockey is on.
Remember, Apple was trending towards the college market. At that time, colleges were wiring dorms with ethernet and porfessor were accepting electronic submissions. The floppy was on the way out. The growth of multimedia finished it off. The CD/DVD is next.
Agreed. I smell a union behind it. Gotta save "our jobs" after all.
Yeah, my packets are always spicy!
Teachers are government employees serving a system most people take for granted. Teaching is the only profession that continually demands NOT to be evaluated or held accountable, "because I'm tenured." This cultural attitude has created social promotions, and indifference towards any student that doesn't fit the facory school model. A general lack of local election voting by non-retirees created the most broken educational system in the developed world. Teachers have far-reaching infleuence on our future than they know. They teach you how to read, how to comprehend, how to perform research. They should teach how to consturct a decent argument, write a decent setence, and how to operate in the adult world. As public servants, teachers must be evaluated. Tenure was designed to protect what college professors choose to research and publish, not to protect the lazy, the entitled, or the burn outs.
This was said about the auto industry, yet we build more cars in the US today than we did in the 60s...just not in Detroit. Similar things have happened with Sony. There is no reason to believe this won't come full circle either.
Backwards-compatiabiliy makes me sad.
In any war, escalation is inevitable. First we had spyware that took over your browser. Next spyware silently monitored your actions. Today spyware removes competing or incompatible spyware prior to installation. We've seen the future and it requires no local code execution.
All hail our future overlords!
Let's hope we have a few hot machine-made-flesh cylons to serve
"It's ion power Captain."
I hope your civil rights struggles against your government go well.
Loan guarantees are nice. Really they are. When I see an actual reactor go online in spite of hundreds of protesters, I'll believe the President's "safe nuclear" campaign promise.
If 2010 is "The Year of IE6's Demise," will 2012 be "The Year of IE6's Death?"
From what I'm reading, users aren't upgrading browsers till they upgrade machines (or Operating Systems). With Vista on the outs and Win 7 on the rise, will IE8 come to dominate the average and corporate user base?
BTW, I swtiched Mom to Firefox two years ago. Now I have far fewer problems with her Vista laptop.
How true! The platry sum we spent on the Moon landing created more technology and more jobs than any "stimulus package" ever did.
Apple provides free toolsets to developers. Yes they lock out some features. Features that if opened would prevent cell carriers, content providers, etc from supporting the device. These feature lockouts allow this conversation to occur in the first place.
For those who want to directly access the hardware, we have the *nix distros, jailbreaking, and magazines like Make. Kids will find plenty of wonder, just in different ways.
Anyone buying a pistol for personal defense will likely forget to enter the PIN for the following reasons: .22 for self defense?
1. Most businesses don't allow open carry
2. How many times have you set down your keys or cell phone and forgot where they were?
3. Who uses a figgin
As for the rest of the article. Rubber bullets = lawsuits. Better to kill than to maim. Beanbag rounds have similar issues. It looks cool on TV, but in reality it's something else.
"This injury has permanently destoryed my quality of life!" That's someting a defendant never wants to hear in a civil case.
Three shot Tasers? I've talked to guys who went through Taser training. None of them said being hit by a Taser dissuaded them from using one. In fact, it encoruages Taser for two reasons: Tasers are non-lethal, and they hurt like hell.
Does this mean we'll have service packs for future autos?
Imagine the horror if Microsoft ports Windows to ECMs - Care to hack a car?
If Acer and MSI can't beat Apple's price point, and I doubt they can, Apple will be the top seller in this non e-book category. As for DRM e-books, I don't thing you can get away from it.
No multi-touch on yet another Android device? What gives?
I'm still waiting for my $50 Star Trek type pad
GPS in our cell phones. Location-aware OSes. Now Google has figured out how to identify where packets came from.
Google turning evil nothing. Imagine what the government could do with this.