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But as an Anonymous Coward, (your name says it, so I'll believe it), I'm surprise you posted so unprepared. I never said nor implied that the stories would better be placed in a tabloid. Just that the headlines seem to be hyped beyond the weight of the contents and therefore sound tabloid-ish. "
20 If understood = False then Goto 10
30 Print "I'm glad you're clear on this issue."
I think we have a way to prevent 0-G bone loss. Accelerate 1/2 the way to the destination at 1 G, then do a 180 and decelerate the remainder at 1 G. This just skirts the issue, because that would take alot of fuel, thus consolidating your problems into one. Propulsion. I love the idea of extended space travel by humans and hope that I live to see it.
This came to mind when I read the article:
Soldier: Thinks to himself "Hmm, suspicious vehicle parked over there." [Pop]..[Splat]..
Terrorist hidden behind car: "Paint Check!"
Soldier: "Ref!, Paint Check, I mean Bomb Check that suspect!"
Terrorist: "No fair, he over shot me." "and Crono that gun!!! Is this freedom? It's got to be at least 305fps!"
How space suites would have looked/worked if they had been designed in the 40's?
btw,
Support the 1st Amendment follow all pop-ups, it's your duty as an average American to mis-understand the bill of rights.
What good does it do to tax oil more when the price is passed through in the forms of goods and services. Consumers would spend more on gas upfront, and more on everything in the long run. Also, your assuming that there is no price fixing in the oil industry. OPEC doesn't truely compete. The good news is, the more we pay for gasoline, the cheaper alternatives look. Alternative fuel 18-wheelers will make for interesting talk. Has anyone seen one yet?
Feed them Acme iron pellets. It will increase their weight + make them more attractive to armor detecting mines.
With the a bonus: When all of the mines are cleared, you can retrieve your remaining rats with your trusty ACME XXX Large HorseShoe Magnet.
You'd have 100ms per bullet starting when each bullet left the muzzle. Say your attacker has a weapon with a ROF of 900 RPM (a bullet hose indeed). You have what, about 67ms to handle each round? That's alot of time in the world of microchips.
As far as vaporizing the bullet, I would just work on reshaping the bullet to something less aerodynamic, and more unstable. Just vaporise one side of the bullet in an airfoil shape so it spins out in a few large loops, or dives into the ground.
After the first burst of rounds, the previously mentioned radar should be able to locate the shooter especially with some help from an acoustic positioning system. Guess where the last laser shot goes? do not look into laser with remaining eye socket! Or, damage the weapons firing mechanism. I think the original poster is on the right track.
Most public companies keep around the same profit level, or improve it, your correct there. With that being said, they are usually forced (by the market) to turn that profit into increased dividends on their stock or reinvest it into othe areas of the business which either turns into hiring more employees or building and improving infrastructure (making the business larger or more competative). Most publicly traded companies don't just add a fee or increase a charge on a product to double an exec's pay. Even if they did, those execs are consumers, and the money wouldn't exactly be put in a mayonaise jar buried in the back yard. It get's put back into the economy and taxed by our government (again). People who make large sums of money spend large sums of money, or invest in business who spend large sums of money.
Now, I guess it's time for the raging/. socialists to "let me have it".
Future/. stories:
Inhale to beat breathalizers.
Loose license to beat speeding tickets.
Wear halloween mask in bank to avoid being recognized as a criminal.
So? The headline suggests false-positive errors by using the word "beat". Come on! Just as the above list wouldn't get you past a guard/cop neither would tearing up, or growing your eyelashes long. You would just cause an error.
"Those people will probbably just routinely be let in." Is a huge assumption. If that were true, then everyone could just close their eyes when being scanned or sniff an onion. I think that it would be more likely, to put the 7% through a more thorough process, or just say, "You don't get a pass."
Wait, I can hear it now. Someone's going to say, well then a potential terrorist can start crying, then you'll have to use conventional methods for some, which can be beat. No, how about develop a correct process around security. For example: if you're crying, then you don't get through, PERIOD. The next comment will be "but what if I perpetually cry"? As in a birth defect/mental illness that causes someone to constently cry. Oh well. 600 lb people don't whitewater kayak either. There are some disabilities that for this moment in technology remain disabilities.
Try to use 3 Mbit/sec for an extended length of time, and see what happens. Chances are, you'll get a nast-gram in the mail saying "You're using too much bandwidth!, 3Mbit/sec is the name of our service, not a description!".
Don't buy one. It's a personal freedom to choose how much of something to view. Sure, I may offend a sushi chef by removing the cucumber slice from my California roll with a chopstick, before I eat it, but I have every right to do so as I have purchased that product. That's a basic right of property.
If an end-user modifies their own licensed copy of someone else's art to better suit their own tastes, be it paintings, movies, or sushi, then so be it. The end-user understands in doing so that it is not how the "artist" intended it at that point.
Have you ever added black pepper to a meal? Have you ever changed the Rims on a vehicle? Redecorated a house? All of these actions change an end-user's own copy of someone else's art to suit whatever reason. As far as it being automatic, well, what's the difference? Is it unethical for me to not finish a book, to skip the boring parts of a Kevin Costner movie, for pausing my television shows on a PVR? Where would civilization be today, if we didn't build on others' work to make it suit our own needs, wants, desires?
If it makes you feel better, consider the end user not as altering someone else's art to suilt their own morality, but reproducing their own interpretation of it. I guess someone never got to play with "Kai's Goo". We all alter someone else's art once it's perceived. A painting is altered after it passes my cornea. Several times more in my consciousness. What's the difference of altering it slightly before perception if I choose to do so. I can hear Beethoven, and imagine it being done in dog barks or on a bad synth. Is it right, or ethical? What if someone made a machine to turn toy guns into ping-pong balls? While ignoring all other toys inserted in the machine? Some could say those toy guns are art. I for one think some weapons are very artistic.
Just my opinion. Feel free to re-arrange the sentances and words in your own mind, but hey, you didn't need my permission for that.
Just give the enduser the ability to censor, and leave the original signal/movie untouched. Example: When the little tikes are in the room, switch to G rated, when they leave, switch to whatever rating you want. Heck, maybe with this tech, you could have a setting to make it all "Naughty-Bits". I don't see it as censorship if it's selectable by the end-user then it's selective viewing. The problem comes in when/if you are mandated to keep the settings at a certain level, or required to have it self-censor. Beyond that, this could help eliminate censorship at the original broadcast.
I would imagine that console game controls would drastically change if for instance PC FPS gamers could play against console FPS gamers. Getting stomped by most key-mousers would bring the lack of a good FPS controller into the light.
I know, I know. I'm worried about the reduction of old growth forests too. That being said, it's a friggin Submarine with a huge chainsaw on it, and it's remote controlled!!! Hell, I'd give up PC gaming just to be able to have a remote submarine that size. No mention of underwater robot wars! I think we need a good look at our geekdom. Combine this with that John Deere 6 legged walker, and you've got one hell of a robotic lumberjack. That or a very impressive security guard.
As info: An e-mail says alot more than verbal in the workplace. It's understood that it may be BCC'd to someone else, and is a record that the conversation happened. Sure, you can have a conversation with your boss, then send an e-mail of the exact conversation and say "Do you approve that this is what was said?". But that seems just a bit disrespectful. My boss is rarely in her office for a sit down conversation. Everything is done through Alpha-pagers and e-mail anyway.
I agree. I see so many posts saying something to the effect of: "Stop bringing it, they'll see how important it is when servers go down because nobody got the pages". Wow, what's happened to our work force? Here are a few ideas that might actually look like you give a shit. It sounds like we're stuck in a "Clerks" version of IT!
1.> Have a little frigging back-bone, people. state the issue to your boss in an e-mail. Document it. Be sure to be detailed on the risks.
2.> Contact HR explain the above.
3.> If the above doesn't work (as American AC in Paris has also suggested the 1st two). Contact internal customers who have jobs running on the impacted systems. Explain the situation and the risks.
4.> Be willing to help develop either a more defined policy (i.e. no private calls, no digital cameras) or accept an alternative (alpha-pager).
5.> At the first issue of an outage because no-one got notified, bring this up. Don't wait for all hell to break loose.
Following these steps with the right tone, enthusiasm, and tact, you'll at worst look like you actually care about your job and the company you work for. Unless maybe, you prefer to live on welfare, unemployment, and bitch about how the internet stock bubble saturated the job market with IT guys. Be a "stand-up geek" and do the right thing.
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10 Print" But as an Anonymous Coward, (your name says it, so I'll believe it), I'm surprise you posted so unprepared. I never said nor implied that the stories would better be placed in a tabloid. Just that the headlines seem to be hyped beyond the weight of the contents and therefore sound tabloid-ish. "
20 If understood = False then Goto 10
30 Print "I'm glad you're clear on this issue."
Other similar headlines include:
/. stories starting to have tabloid feel?
Proof of Dark matter?
Cold Fusion Finally?
SCO's last gasp?
Is it just me, or are some
I think we have a way to prevent 0-G bone loss. Accelerate 1/2 the way to the destination at 1 G, then do a 180 and decelerate the remainder at 1 G. This just skirts the issue, because that would take alot of fuel, thus consolidating your problems into one. Propulsion. I love the idea of extended space travel by humans and hope that I live to see it.
This came to mind when I read the article:
Soldier: Thinks to himself "Hmm, suspicious vehicle parked over there." [Pop]..[Splat]..
Terrorist hidden behind car: "Paint Check!" Soldier: "Ref!, Paint Check, I mean Bomb Check that suspect!"
Terrorist: "No fair, he over shot me." "and Crono that gun!!! Is this freedom? It's got to be at least 305fps!"
How space suites would have looked/worked if they had been designed in the 40's?
btw, Support the 1st Amendment follow all pop-ups, it's your duty as an average American to mis-understand the bill of rights.
What good does it do to tax oil more when the price is passed through in the forms of goods and services. Consumers would spend more on gas upfront, and more on everything in the long run. Also, your assuming that there is no price fixing in the oil industry. OPEC doesn't truely compete. The good news is, the more we pay for gasoline, the cheaper alternatives look. Alternative fuel 18-wheelers will make for interesting talk. Has anyone seen one yet?
No, honey. Dark matter is slimming.... Honest.
Feed them Acme iron pellets. It will increase their weight + make them more attractive to armor detecting mines.
With the a bonus: When all of the mines are cleared, you can retrieve your remaining rats with your trusty ACME XXX Large HorseShoe Magnet.
Or...
Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? Pinky: I think so Brain, but I'd rather go hump a landmine.. Narf! {BOOM!!!}
You'd have 100ms per bullet starting when each bullet left the muzzle. Say your attacker has a weapon with a ROF of 900 RPM (a bullet hose indeed). You have what, about 67ms to handle each round? That's alot of time in the world of microchips.
As far as vaporizing the bullet, I would just work on reshaping the bullet to something less aerodynamic, and more unstable. Just vaporise one side of the bullet in an airfoil shape so it spins out in a few large loops, or dives into the ground.
After the first burst of rounds, the previously mentioned radar should be able to locate the shooter especially with some help from an acoustic positioning system. Guess where the last laser shot goes?
do not look into laser with remaining eye socket! Or, damage the weapons firing mechanism.
I think the original poster is on the right track.
Most public companies keep around the same profit level, or improve it, your correct there. With that being said, they are usually forced (by the market) to turn that profit into increased dividends on their stock or reinvest it into othe areas of the business which either turns into hiring more employees or building and improving infrastructure (making the business larger or more competative). Most publicly traded companies don't just add a fee or increase a charge on a product to double an exec's pay. Even if they did, those execs are consumers, and the money wouldn't exactly be put in a mayonaise jar buried in the back yard. It get's put back into the economy and taxed by our government (again). People who make large sums of money spend large sums of money, or invest in business who spend large sums of money.
/. socialists to "let me have it".
Now, I guess it's time for the raging
That the aliens would have "Their own.. personal.... Jesus" (cue 80's tech-pop music).
"Rimshot!"
Future /. stories:
Inhale to beat breathalizers.
Loose license to beat speeding tickets.
Wear halloween mask in bank to avoid being recognized as a criminal.
So? The headline suggests false-positive errors by using the word "beat". Come on! Just as the above list wouldn't get you past a guard/cop neither would tearing up, or growing your eyelashes long. You would just cause an error.
"Those people will probbably just routinely be let in." Is a huge assumption. If that were true, then everyone could just close their eyes when being scanned or sniff an onion. I think that it would be more likely, to put the 7% through a more thorough process, or just say, "You don't get a pass."
Wait, I can hear it now. Someone's going to say, well then a potential terrorist can start crying, then you'll have to use conventional methods for some, which can be beat. No, how about develop a correct process around security. For example: if you're crying, then you don't get through, PERIOD. The next comment will be "but what if I perpetually cry"? As in a birth defect/mental illness that causes someone to constently cry. Oh well. 600 lb people don't whitewater kayak either. There are some disabilities that for this moment in technology remain disabilities.
Try to use 3 Mbit/sec for an extended length of time, and see what happens. Chances are, you'll get a nast-gram in the mail saying "You're using too much bandwidth!, 3Mbit/sec is the name of our service, not a description!".
I only read part of your reply, but so far, I agree with you.
Don't buy one. It's a personal freedom to choose how much of something to view. Sure, I may offend a sushi chef by removing the cucumber slice from my California roll with a chopstick, before I eat it, but I have every right to do so as I have purchased that product. That's a basic right of property.
If an end-user modifies their own licensed copy of someone else's art to better suit their own tastes, be it paintings, movies, or sushi, then so be it. The end-user understands in doing so that it is not how the "artist" intended it at that point.
Have you ever added black pepper to a meal? Have you ever changed the Rims on a vehicle? Redecorated a house? All of these actions change an end-user's own copy of someone else's art to suit whatever reason. As far as it being automatic, well, what's the difference? Is it unethical for me to not finish a book, to skip the boring parts of a Kevin Costner movie, for pausing my television shows on a PVR? Where would civilization be today, if we didn't build on others' work to make it suit our own needs, wants, desires?
If it makes you feel better, consider the end user not as altering someone else's art to suilt their own morality, but reproducing their own interpretation of it. I guess someone never got to play with "Kai's Goo".
We all alter someone else's art once it's perceived. A painting is altered after it passes my cornea. Several times more in my consciousness. What's the difference of altering it slightly before perception if I choose to do so. I can hear Beethoven, and imagine it being done in dog barks or on a bad synth. Is it right, or ethical? What if someone made a machine to turn toy guns into ping-pong balls? While ignoring all other toys inserted in the machine? Some could say those toy guns are art. I for one think some weapons are very artistic.
Just my opinion. Feel free to re-arrange the sentances and words in your own mind, but hey, you didn't need my permission for that.
Just give the enduser the ability to censor, and leave the original signal/movie untouched. Example: When the little tikes are in the room, switch to G rated, when they leave, switch to whatever rating you want. Heck, maybe with this tech, you could have a setting to make it all "Naughty-Bits". I don't see it as censorship if it's selectable by the end-user then it's selective viewing. The problem comes in when/if you are mandated to keep the settings at a certain level, or required to have it self-censor. Beyond that, this could help eliminate censorship at the original broadcast.
I would imagine that console game controls would drastically change if for instance PC FPS gamers could play against console FPS gamers. Getting stomped by most key-mousers would bring the lack of a good FPS controller into the light.
I know, I know. I'm worried about the reduction of old growth forests too. That being said, it's a friggin Submarine with a huge chainsaw on it, and it's remote controlled!!! Hell, I'd give up PC gaming just to be able to have a remote submarine that size. No mention of underwater robot wars! I think we need a good look at our geekdom. Combine this with that John Deere 6 legged walker, and you've got one hell of a robotic lumberjack. That or a very impressive security guard.
As info: An e-mail says alot more than verbal in the workplace. It's understood that it may be BCC'd to someone else, and is a record that the conversation happened. Sure, you can have a conversation with your boss, then send an e-mail of the exact conversation and say "Do you approve that this is what was said?". But that seems just a bit disrespectful. My boss is rarely in her office for a sit down conversation. Everything is done through Alpha-pagers and e-mail anyway.
"Must think in Russian" "(Fire flare)" Sure, you guys remember, Cliint Eastwood in a movie where he wasn't a renegade cop.
I agree. I see so many posts saying something to the effect of: "Stop bringing it, they'll see how important it is when servers go down because nobody got the pages". Wow, what's happened to our work force? Here are a few ideas that might actually look like you give a shit. It sounds like we're stuck in a "Clerks" version of IT!
1.> Have a little frigging back-bone, people. state the issue to your boss in an e-mail. Document it. Be sure to be detailed on the risks.
2.> Contact HR explain the above.
3.> If the above doesn't work (as American AC in Paris has also suggested the 1st two). Contact internal customers who have jobs running on the impacted systems. Explain the situation and the risks.
4.> Be willing to help develop either a more defined policy (i.e. no private calls, no digital cameras) or accept an alternative (alpha-pager).
5.> At the first issue of an outage because no-one got notified, bring this up. Don't wait for all hell to break loose.
Following these steps with the right tone, enthusiasm, and tact, you'll at worst look like you actually care about your job and the company you work for. Unless maybe, you prefer to live on welfare, unemployment, and bitch about how the internet stock bubble saturated the job market with IT guys. Be a "stand-up geek" and do the right thing.
Cool, thanks, it does, and good luck on your "holy grail" of geek toys. I would be tempted to make a mock-time machine out of it myself.