Right! We need NAT! Because there's no way you could put up a simple firewall between your cookie jar and the Internetses which could deny access to the exact same set of evil hackers that your cute little NAT box did. It's unpossible.
Telecommuting aside, there's a one-bedroom apartment that I checked out right down the street from my office. Bottom floor in a 4-unit multiplex, right next door to a McDonald's, around the corner from a very noisy major road. And it has a freakishly ineffective kitchen. Other than that, an okay, if smallish, apartment.
And at $1300 USD/mo, I passed.
And that's not even in the expensive part of town.
Get realistic about your expectations there, bud.
I don't have bus-reliability issues. I don't even have bus crowding issues. I have bus-slowness issues. Much slower than cars. They make many stops.
supposedly republicans were to be a bunch that were for less govt. control.
Actually, quite frankly, that's why people* are excited about the Palin nomination, and how McCain can be saying that "change is coming" and not be laughed out of the election by his own party.
*(People, of the appropriate political persuasions. This post does not seek to speculate upon the political efficacy with which any candidate will implement the alluded-to agenda of change in the future, or that the message and results anticipated by people of the aforementioned persuasions are realistic or desirable. Do not take this post if you are pregnant or nursing, or if you may become pregnant. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.)
and I do development on some software that will use RF data from your existing wireless access points to triangulate and display the physical location of every user and device on your network!
So you can call me, uh, Jerry Siegel, I guess?:| that's not as impressive...
Assume, for a moment, that the LHC destroys the Earth by turning it into a black hole. Know what would happen to the moon?
The Moon would be unaffected. It's just as happy to orbit a 5.9736*10^24 kg black hole as it is to orbit a 5.9736*10^24 kg planet.
Black holes are just gravity, people. The only difference between them and anything else with mass is that you can get closer before you hit the event horizon than you could get before you hit the surface.
Remember, though, this is the Moon. Unlike on the Earth, the waste isn't going to be blown around by the wind or leached out by groundwater and carried into drinking water supplies. There's not going to be some giant moonquake to destroy the structural integrity of the disposal site. Your biggest risk is being at the center of a new crater, and that's kinda low.
So give a guy a shovel - or whatever they'll be using to dig foundations for the lunar base - and put it in a hole a few feet deep, stick up a sign, and don't go near it if you don't have to. It's not like they have tons and tons of it that they can contaminate millions of square miles with it (this is a small reactor). And it's not like there aren't other environmental radiation hazards (radiation from stuff that the magnetosphere doesn't block).
On a related note, I would have been all for the Swatch "Internet Time" deal, if they had actually made it useful by basing it off of GMT. But no, some marketdroids were all "let's base it off time in our headquarters in Switzerland!" So there wasn't much chance of anyone taking it seriously...
Well, if you're going down that road, why not take the $5 billion and make a nuclear power plant? You'll generate more electricity, and replace more carbon-from-coal-power.
Or, maybe, possibly, perhaps, this sort of scheme could result in more cooling than the change in carbon dioxide levels.
That is what you're after, right? a cooler earth? Not just the imposition of some "low-impact"/minimalist lifestyle/philosophy/aesthetic? Because, well, I kind of appreciate the aesthetic a little, I admit, but... there are more important things to worry about, such as the planet's temperature.
For contrast with "what could possibly go wrong"....
What could definitely go wrong if we don't?
Because the world is going to have a surplus of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for decades to come one way or another, even under very aggressive carbon-dioxide emission reduction schemes.
you're supposed to visit http://esupport.sony.com/fixmypc. Unfortunately, that just takes you to a page which says 'This is a test'. That's Sony quality for ya!
guess i'll need to wait until I can call their hotline or something. (1-888-526-6219 if you're that interested...)
Google's Picasa is a photo-manipulation application that you download to your computer and install so you can manipulate images. It includes the capability of uploading those files to PicasaWeb, which is actually the photo-sharing site...
My business did this just the other day (we ran into a nasty bug in Perl which was inducing fun memory leaks). Paid a guy $500ish (practically nothing!) to get it fixed a few months faster than it would have normally gotten fixed so we could drop a nicer version in one of our upcoming release. It worked out fairly well for us.
More specifically, in the 2010 book, they send people back to the vicinity of Jupiter, only they're racing the Chinese, who overcome the American head start and get their first by blasting through all their fuel: they land on Europa to get more, find some sort of life, and perish... then the monoliths turn Jupiter into a small star (presumably in order to foster said life) and send out a message about how "all these worlds are yours - except Europa: attempt no landings there".
Perhaps this speaks more of the level of attention that the world pays to activists (during major events versus otherwise) than it does to the level of commitment of activists to causes.
Seriously, this guy been around a while. Your ignorance is not evidence that he's a mere opportunistic attention-grabber.
He does bring up a point though: if it's like any other icky EA games, then you can expect to see dozens of Spore expansion packs just to add new "creature parts". (Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if they sold parts a la carte online, either. Won't that be lovely.)
When I was a kid my mother had an old record collection - mostly 45s but some 78s and such as well. I remember there was one that I enjoyed, with a female vocalist whose name I forget, featuring a song "Pizza Patrick" (all kids love pizza, right? a song about an Irish boy "from County Cork" immigrating to New York who stepped inside a pizza parlor just after he got off the boat, and absolutely fell in love with the substance, eating it in great quantity and attaining local celebrity) and, on the reverse side, something like "My love has become a miner" (he something-somethings... I watch him from the top of the shaft and no one bothers meeeeee./~~~~~~~ later the love goes on to try a variety of other professions including a fisherman and later a sailor, where she watches for him on the ocean shore, or some such).
I was recently reminded of this by SomethingorotherIforget and searched for the two songs, and was kind of left hanging. That stuff is off the edge of the Internet. You can't find anything about it anywhere online. I'll probably never hear them again. (I damaged the record from overplaying it, if I recall correctly.) CD? MP3? If you got 'em send 'em on over, but....
But the aggregators were scraping teh RyanAir website, adding in a margin for THEMSELVES, and processing the transaction. In other words, they were ripping Ryanair customers off.
Really? I would think "ripping me off" would be more like "not honoring a ticket that's been paid for" instead of something like "charge $5 extra for the convenience of using this aggregator which still has given the user a price which they've demonstrated their willingness to pay for". Heck, I'd be liable to book through Expedia/Orbitz/whatever instead of (say) United's site, even for a markup, just because they show me lots of fares next to each other (a necessity) and it's really nice to be able to pick a particular flight when I see it there.
There's a whoooooooooooooooole lot of business that works by charging people extra for stuff they can get cheaper elsewhere. Like gas stations which are closer to the freeway that have higher prices...
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Right! We need NAT! Because there's no way you could put up a simple firewall between your cookie jar and the Internetses which could deny access to the exact same set of evil hackers that your cute little NAT box did. It's unpossible.
This article deserves a "mothballs" tag. :)
It's also a useful bullet point these days (and becoming more so), if you're going to be selling to Big Enterprise and Government Customers and such.
Rally, there's no substitute.
Actually, VersionOne works as a Rally substitute.
:P
... but for Facts, not Truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall.
And at $1300 USD/mo, I passed.
And that's not even in the expensive part of town.
Get realistic about your expectations there, bud.
I don't have bus-reliability issues. I don't even have bus crowding issues. I have bus-slowness issues. Much slower than cars. They make many stops.
Actually, quite frankly, that's why people* are excited about the Palin nomination, and how McCain can be saying that "change is coming" and not be laughed out of the election by his own party.
*(People, of the appropriate political persuasions. This post does not seek to speculate upon the political efficacy with which any candidate will implement the alluded-to agenda of change in the future, or that the message and results anticipated by people of the aforementioned persuasions are realistic or desirable. Do not take this post if you are pregnant or nursing, or if you may become pregnant. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.)
and I do development on some software that will use RF data from your existing wireless access points to triangulate and display the physical location of every user and device on your network!
So you can call me, uh, Jerry Siegel, I guess? :| that's not as impressive...
Assume, for a moment, that the LHC destroys the Earth by turning it into a black hole. Know what would happen to the moon?
The Moon would be unaffected. It's just as happy to orbit a 5.9736*10^24 kg black hole as it is to orbit a 5.9736*10^24 kg planet.
Black holes are just gravity, people. The only difference between them and anything else with mass is that you can get closer before you hit the event horizon than you could get before you hit the surface.
Remember, though, this is the Moon. Unlike on the Earth, the waste isn't going to be blown around by the wind or leached out by groundwater and carried into drinking water supplies. There's not going to be some giant moonquake to destroy the structural integrity of the disposal site. Your biggest risk is being at the center of a new crater, and that's kinda low.
So give a guy a shovel - or whatever they'll be using to dig foundations for the lunar base - and put it in a hole a few feet deep, stick up a sign, and don't go near it if you don't have to. It's not like they have tons and tons of it that they can contaminate millions of square miles with it (this is a small reactor). And it's not like there aren't other environmental radiation hazards (radiation from stuff that the magnetosphere doesn't block).
On a related note, I would have been all for the Swatch "Internet Time" deal, if they had actually made it useful by basing it off of GMT. But no, some marketdroids were all "let's base it off time in our headquarters in Switzerland!" So there wasn't much chance of anyone taking it seriously...
Or, maybe, possibly, perhaps, this sort of scheme could result in more cooling than the change in carbon dioxide levels.
That is what you're after, right? a cooler earth? Not just the imposition of some "low-impact"/minimalist lifestyle/philosophy/aesthetic? Because, well, I kind of appreciate the aesthetic a little, I admit, but... there are more important things to worry about, such as the planet's temperature.
What could definitely go wrong if we don't?
Because the world is going to have a surplus of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for decades to come one way or another, even under very aggressive carbon-dioxide emission reduction schemes.
guess i'll need to wait until I can call their hotline or something. (1-888-526-6219 if you're that interested...)
Google's Picasa is a photo-manipulation application that you download to your computer and install so you can manipulate images. It includes the capability of uploading those files to PicasaWeb, which is actually the photo-sharing site...
My business did this just the other day (we ran into a nasty bug in Perl which was inducing fun memory leaks). Paid a guy $500ish (practically nothing!) to get it fixed a few months faster than it would have normally gotten fixed so we could drop a nicer version in one of our upcoming release. It worked out fairly well for us.
More specifically, in the 2010 book, they send people back to the vicinity of Jupiter, only they're racing the Chinese, who overcome the American head start and get their first by blasting through all their fuel: they land on Europa to get more, find some sort of life, and perish... then the monoliths turn Jupiter into a small star (presumably in order to foster said life) and send out a message about how "all these worlds are yours - except Europa: attempt no landings there".
(Darned fast little program, too. Won a trivial little prize with it.)
Perhaps this speaks more of the level of attention that the world pays to activists (during major events versus otherwise) than it does to the level of commitment of activists to causes.
Seriously, this guy been around a while. Your ignorance is not evidence that he's a mere opportunistic attention-grabber.
For a look at the "uncanny valley" in the other direction, I recall someone posted this link to something about http://inventorspot.com/articles/girls_get_anime_look_with_extrawide_contact_lenses_16872">"anime eyes" contact-lenses in a story a couple of days ago and it certainly freaked a number of people out.
The Moon provides a) gravity and b) moonlight. I don't see either changing.
He does bring up a point though: if it's like any other icky EA games, then you can expect to see dozens of Spore expansion packs just to add new "creature parts". (Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if they sold parts a la carte online, either. Won't that be lovely.)
When I was a kid my mother had an old record collection - mostly 45s but some 78s and such as well. I remember there was one that I enjoyed, with a female vocalist whose name I forget, featuring a song "Pizza Patrick" (all kids love pizza, right? a song about an Irish boy "from County Cork" immigrating to New York who stepped inside a pizza parlor just after he got off the boat, and absolutely fell in love with the substance, eating it in great quantity and attaining local celebrity) and, on the reverse side, something like "My love has become a miner" (he something-somethings... I watch him from the top of the shaft and no one bothers meeeeee ./~~~~~~~ later the love goes on to try a variety of other professions including a fisherman and later a sailor, where she watches for him on the ocean shore, or some such).
I was recently reminded of this by SomethingorotherIforget and searched for the two songs, and was kind of left hanging. That stuff is off the edge of the Internet. You can't find anything about it anywhere online. I'll probably never hear them again. (I damaged the record from overplaying it, if I recall correctly.) CD? MP3? If you got 'em send 'em on over, but....
Phailware. You get it from web sites who phail at security?
Really? I would think "ripping me off" would be more like "not honoring a ticket that's been paid for" instead of something like "charge $5 extra for the convenience of using this aggregator which still has given the user a price which they've demonstrated their willingness to pay for". Heck, I'd be liable to book through Expedia/Orbitz/whatever instead of (say) United's site, even for a markup, just because they show me lots of fares next to each other (a necessity) and it's really nice to be able to pick a particular flight when I see it there.
There's a whoooooooooooooooole lot of business that works by charging people extra for stuff they can get cheaper elsewhere. Like gas stations which are closer to the freeway that have higher prices...