Which requires money to pay the lawyers, which the companies will have more of and the regular folks in said society not much of at all. Plus the companies' ability to buy off elected officials, including judges, goes way up as they have proportionally more money and fewer laws and regulations to govern them. So they get to affect and/or decide what laws do get enacted (by purchased elected official proxy), and subvert the laws that exist more efficiently. Yes, companies bribe officials now, but those horribly invasive government regulations make it more difficult than it would be in a libertarian utopia. Bottom line: your argument is pure unadulterated bullshit. Sorry no other way to put it. Reality hurts some times. Get a clue and get over it.
Google no longer returns any useful data anyway. Search for anything and all it will turn up are thousands of web sites trying to sell you something that might be related to the search query you typed in. I think that is why Wikipedia is so popular. At least there you get some information on a topic you search for... and it doesn't contain the words 'best price on the net' etc. either. I have just about given up searching on Google or Yahoo, or any of the big search engines, since they usually don't return anything useful anyway. Except when I need to buy something. If you don't personally know a specific web site that has info on the subject you are researching, you are screwed as far as getting anything useful from Google.
I don't know why iterative development excludes deadlines. Deadlines are important for businesses. If they can't meet a deadline for a product to be released, people eventually ignore you and buy the competition's product. Even if it sucks. I realize that sometimes it is better to let a deadline slip than to ship a crappy product (in fact I advocate it as my sig implies, and most PMs forget), but you should at least try to be close. Now I can't wait for my copy of Duke Nukem Forever to arrive.
use "K1A 0A9" as the postal code if you are interested. It is the postal code of the Canadian parliament buildings. The web site authors of Canadian Tire are retards the way they set up the site entrance.
How long do the fingerprints have to be on the metal to corrode it enough to get a good fingerprint from this method? For example, if the perpetrator uses a cloth to wipe the fingerprints off the metal immediately after the crime, will the metal have corroded enough to still give a fingerprint by this method? Or do the fingerprints need to be there for some time in order to corrode the metal enough to give a good print? And if they wipe the fingerprints off is there still enough residue to still corrode the metal, or will they need to wipe the fingerprints off using some sort of solvent or cleaner? etc. etc. etc. It would be interesting to here more.
penitentiary... root word: penitence. make an example of him
people seem to think that only crime with violence should be punished. punish them all. whether they physically break into your house or virtually, it is still a crime, even if no-one was hurt. That is why you can shoot someone when they break into your home in America. A law I really love and wish would be adopted in Canada. Too bad they can't find something similar when you catch someone hacking into your system.
The computers on modern planes can actually fly the plane without really requiring the input of the pilot. Most of the flying is on auto pilot. And the computers can land and take off too. Given the sophistication of drone technology now (e.g. the predator attack drone), I don't understand why they can't just retrofit the planes to allow authorized folks on the ground to take control of the plane and pilot it remotely when they think the crew have been killed or are intimidated into following a terrorist's orders. I guess the only drawback would be if someone hacked into it. At least with a remote kill switch you couldn't target what you wanted to drop the plane on if it were hacked, while having flight control would allow you to target things without actually having to get on the plane. hmmmmmmm.... if it can be hacked I bet it will be. It even makes the remote kill switch 'if'y... semi deep thoughts.
I did the same thing. Worked with people all over the U.S. and India via IM. My opinion is that we lost a lot of shared knowledge etc by not having the people in the same place. Knowledge wasn't passed and shared as much as is done when people are in the same place. That alone killed over all productivity for the group and meant each person had to learn individual points each time the individual encountered them... as opposed to the whole group literally hearing about it all at once. Yes, you can broadcast messages in IM but issues are generally handled one at a time by people using IM because it is more difficult to interact with people except in IM and then you don't know if others are encountering the same issues and the solutions don't get shared as easily. When IM is used to converse with people almost exclusively say, in the same building, or in a smaller organization, this might not be as much the case. And when a particularly thorny problem occurred, we HAD to talk on the telephone. It allowed us to solve problems that were literally taking hours on IM to be solved in very short order. Communications is personal... the more you make remove the direct human contact, even losing voice contact, you make communication more difficult. That makes productivity more difficult. Of course geeks have garnered a reputation of being less adept at personal communication. Reputations are gained for a reason. Finally, it makes no sense to ask the people using the tool if they are more productive, they have no objectivity. You need to find a measure of productivity that you can observe externally and compare apples to apples.... objectively.
I wonder if when you are playing a game if it can somehow mimic something like 'force feedback' like you have in joysticks. When someone shoots your character in a first person shooter, can it run a hundred volts through your head. Give you a lot of incentive to play better.
Are you saying that if you want to keep conflicts of interest out of government (hidden or otherwise), then you are a hippie? I would call it trying to ensure that the constituents' elected representatives really represent the constituents, and not the highest bidder. Your sarcasm is pretty lame. Don't come to a battle of whits unarmed.
Only if you constantly keep on top of the money grubbing politicians and bureaucrats who accept money under that table via 'loans', 'scholarships' for their kids, fact finding trips to Hawaii, etc. from the corporations who will profit from software and business patents being approved. Keep on top of and shoot down their efforts to enact bullshit patent laws suggested by same said corporations. And from what I have read in the past, the EU seems to have a number of ways that bureaucrats can skirt the will of elected officials. Only be smug if you can keep on top of them and the politicians.
i remember that in some of my engineering courses, we studied numerical methods and algorithms to solve what would normally be reserved for humans to solve analytically. These courses were hard because it required that someone figure out a way or technique for a computer to solve something abstract quickly. Things like this should be fully patentable, because someone had put in the work to solve something.
There are likely many ways to do the things your novel algorithm is trying to solve. Blocking everyone else from solving the same problem using their own algorithm is ridiculous and counter productive to creating an open market. If you come up with an algorithm to search for widgets on the internet faster than anyone else, then good for you, you will make money at it if people deem it is worth the cost you charge. It should in no way allow you to prevent others to come up with their own fast widget searching algorithm. This is the problem with business/software patents.
If you are in a place like Minnesota or further north, things like this sometimes need to be ten feet or more down to avoid frost heave in the winter. In North Dakota and across the border in Manitoba, water lines and other infrastructure, are often 12 or more feet down. And on cold winters the lines can still be broken if the freeze goes deep enough. Nothing like a broken water or sewer line at 40 below to make your day.
I am very slightly under 6 feet, weigh 250 lbs, and have a percent body fat of 25% (done by a person with a Masters in kinesiology using the pinch test). Yes too high, and I am working on it but what it means is that if I had 0% (absolutely unattainable) body fat I would weigh 188 lbs. With 10% body fat, which is that of a very athletic person, I would weigh 207 lbs.
Now looking at BMI: It says at my current height and weight (25% body fat) I am way over obese (BMI 34). BMI says that if had 10% body fat I would be considered significantly overweight still (BMI 28... at 10% body fat!??). According to BMI doctrin, if I had 0% body fat (188 lbs), I would still be considered overweight with a BMI of 26). If I were to be in a healthy midrange for BMI (21), I would have to have a body fat percentage of... well I would have to be 155 lbs... more than 30 lbs less than I would be if I had 0% body fat. Which is impossible.
Bottom line, BMI is a crock of shit. Use percent body fat. It is a much more realistic way to measure how much you should weigh.
Sure... if you want another company in possession of your company's email. How do you know the other company won't look at sensitive emails? Just because 'they shouldn't' or 'they say they won't', doesn't mean someone there won't. Heck, if people are looking up Obama's and others' passport info in the government, I would be willing to bet that someone at a third party email provider has looked at someones sensitive email. What if they get wind of a business deal on a subject they may have a business interest in? I think anyone who trusts their sensitive data to others with no real consequence to having that data leaked, is not thinking far enough ahead. It is the same reason I detest so much our data going to overseas servers.
I am talking about the average user, not a power user. Most people don't know how to fix or modify configuration files nor want to know. That is my point. I agree that for people like most of us on Slashdot, fixing a lot of the issues with a Linux install is doable, and many are easy. But we are not the majority of the computer users, even if we rule on Slashdot. And to say Linux and *BSD don't break is stretching things way too far. I have seen updates break things, I have seen Linux not work with a pretty average set of hardware, and I have seen upgrades not work. Linux is not bullet proof. It is very stable yes. And it is tough to make it crash, but you will sound like a Mac fanboy if you keep talking about how it just works and never crashes.
So how does having a relatively very small percentage of the population with the time, energy, and ability to understand how the operating works, help the vast majority who don't have the time, energy, or ability who will need to re-install their O/S regardless. Some people just want to use a tool not build or fix it. You don't expect someone who strips the gears on a socket wrench to know how to smelt iron and make steel and mold and machine it into a new wrench do you? Why do you expect the average user to do the equivalent with software when their O/S tool breaks?
The article mentioned that they figure they would save money in transmission charges. I wonder if that meant the wind turbines sent power to private power lines feeding the town exclusively, thinking that saving transmission charges meant a short power transmission route... It made me think that they had some power router to the town similar to what you would have to an individual house if the house had its own wind turbine. The town could draw required power from the grid as necessary or export excess from a single point from the town... i.e. the power router. Not sure if this would work, but it is kind of what I thought about when they said the town was self sufficient.
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Which requires money to pay the lawyers, which the companies will have more of and the regular folks in said society not much of at all. Plus the companies' ability to buy off elected officials, including judges, goes way up as they have proportionally more money and fewer laws and regulations to govern them. So they get to affect and/or decide what laws do get enacted (by purchased elected official proxy), and subvert the laws that exist more efficiently. Yes, companies bribe officials now, but those horribly invasive government regulations make it more difficult than it would be in a libertarian utopia. Bottom line: your argument is pure unadulterated bullshit. Sorry no other way to put it. Reality hurts some times. Get a clue and get over it.
You don't actually interact with your friends in person do you??!! [shocked look] YOU SIR should be BARRED from Slashdot.
Google no longer returns any useful data anyway. Search for anything and all it will turn up are thousands of web sites trying to sell you something that might be related to the search query you typed in. I think that is why Wikipedia is so popular. At least there you get some information on a topic you search for... and it doesn't contain the words 'best price on the net' etc. either. I have just about given up searching on Google or Yahoo, or any of the big search engines, since they usually don't return anything useful anyway. Except when I need to buy something. If you don't personally know a specific web site that has info on the subject you are researching, you are screwed as far as getting anything useful from Google.
I don't know why iterative development excludes deadlines. Deadlines are important for businesses. If they can't meet a deadline for a product to be released, people eventually ignore you and buy the competition's product. Even if it sucks. I realize that sometimes it is better to let a deadline slip than to ship a crappy product (in fact I advocate it as my sig implies, and most PMs forget), but you should at least try to be close. Now I can't wait for my copy of Duke Nukem Forever to arrive.
use "K1A 0A9" as the postal code if you are interested. It is the postal code of the Canadian parliament buildings. The web site authors of Canadian Tire are retards the way they set up the site entrance.
How long do the fingerprints have to be on the metal to corrode it enough to get a good fingerprint from this method? For example, if the perpetrator uses a cloth to wipe the fingerprints off the metal immediately after the crime, will the metal have corroded enough to still give a fingerprint by this method? Or do the fingerprints need to be there for some time in order to corrode the metal enough to give a good print? And if they wipe the fingerprints off is there still enough residue to still corrode the metal, or will they need to wipe the fingerprints off using some sort of solvent or cleaner? etc. etc. etc. It would be interesting to here more.
Tell her you'll only listen to her problems if she fucks you. You'll either get laid or not have to listen to the bullshit any more.
penitentiary... root word: penitence. make an example of him
people seem to think that only crime with violence should be punished. punish them all. whether they physically break into your house or virtually, it is still a crime, even if no-one was hurt. That is why you can shoot someone when they break into your home in America. A law I really love and wish would be adopted in Canada. Too bad they can't find something similar when you catch someone hacking into your system.
incoming government rays... put on your tin foil hat... must*not*get*along*with*rest*of*the*world!!!!
The computers on modern planes can actually fly the plane without really requiring the input of the pilot. Most of the flying is on auto pilot. And the computers can land and take off too. Given the sophistication of drone technology now (e.g. the predator attack drone), I don't understand why they can't just retrofit the planes to allow authorized folks on the ground to take control of the plane and pilot it remotely when they think the crew have been killed or are intimidated into following a terrorist's orders. I guess the only drawback would be if someone hacked into it. At least with a remote kill switch you couldn't target what you wanted to drop the plane on if it were hacked, while having flight control would allow you to target things without actually having to get on the plane. hmmmmmmm .... if it can be hacked I bet it will be. It even makes the remote kill switch 'if'y ... semi deep thoughts.
I did the same thing. Worked with people all over the U.S. and India via IM. My opinion is that we lost a lot of shared knowledge etc by not having the people in the same place. Knowledge wasn't passed and shared as much as is done when people are in the same place. That alone killed over all productivity for the group and meant each person had to learn individual points each time the individual encountered them... as opposed to the whole group literally hearing about it all at once. Yes, you can broadcast messages in IM but issues are generally handled one at a time by people using IM because it is more difficult to interact with people except in IM and then you don't know if others are encountering the same issues and the solutions don't get shared as easily. When IM is used to converse with people almost exclusively say, in the same building, or in a smaller organization, this might not be as much the case. And when a particularly thorny problem occurred, we HAD to talk on the telephone. It allowed us to solve problems that were literally taking hours on IM to be solved in very short order. Communications is personal... the more you make remove the direct human contact, even losing voice contact, you make communication more difficult. That makes productivity more difficult. Of course geeks have garnered a reputation of being less adept at personal communication. Reputations are gained for a reason. Finally, it makes no sense to ask the people using the tool if they are more productive, they have no objectivity. You need to find a measure of productivity that you can observe externally and compare apples to apples.... objectively.
I wonder if when you are playing a game if it can somehow mimic something like 'force feedback' like you have in joysticks. When someone shoots your character in a first person shooter, can it run a hundred volts through your head. Give you a lot of incentive to play better.
The Godwin Principle is bullshit. Sometimes comparing someone to a Nazi is apt.
Are you saying that if you want to keep conflicts of interest out of government (hidden or otherwise), then you are a hippie? I would call it trying to ensure that the constituents' elected representatives really represent the constituents, and not the highest bidder. Your sarcasm is pretty lame. Don't come to a battle of whits unarmed.
Only if you constantly keep on top of the money grubbing politicians and bureaucrats who accept money under that table via 'loans', 'scholarships' for their kids, fact finding trips to Hawaii, etc. from the corporations who will profit from software and business patents being approved. Keep on top of and shoot down their efforts to enact bullshit patent laws suggested by same said corporations. And from what I have read in the past, the EU seems to have a number of ways that bureaucrats can skirt the will of elected officials. Only be smug if you can keep on top of them and the politicians.
There are likely many ways to do the things your novel algorithm is trying to solve. Blocking everyone else from solving the same problem using their own algorithm is ridiculous and counter productive to creating an open market. If you come up with an algorithm to search for widgets on the internet faster than anyone else, then good for you, you will make money at it if people deem it is worth the cost you charge. It should in no way allow you to prevent others to come up with their own fast widget searching algorithm. This is the problem with business/software patents.
the upper crust with stiff upper lips couldn't 'harumph' without it.
We should make you the head of a new religion and elect you president. j/k
I will say that I really like your idea a lot. To do it I think will bring another or new kind of religious war though. I'm up for it.
If you are in a place like Minnesota or further north, things like this sometimes need to be ten feet or more down to avoid frost heave in the winter. In North Dakota and across the border in Manitoba, water lines and other infrastructure, are often 12 or more feet down. And on cold winters the lines can still be broken if the freeze goes deep enough. Nothing like a broken water or sewer line at 40 below to make your day.
make sure they know you want to 'lay some pipe'
Body mass index is a load of crap.
I am very slightly under 6 feet, weigh 250 lbs, and have a percent body fat of 25% (done by a person with a Masters in kinesiology using the pinch test). Yes too high, and I am working on it but what it means is that if I had 0% (absolutely unattainable) body fat I would weigh 188 lbs. With 10% body fat, which is that of a very athletic person, I would weigh 207 lbs.
Now looking at BMI: It says at my current height and weight (25% body fat) I am way over obese (BMI 34). BMI says that if had 10% body fat I would be considered significantly overweight still (BMI 28... at 10% body fat!??). According to BMI doctrin, if I had 0% body fat (188 lbs), I would still be considered overweight with a BMI of 26). If I were to be in a healthy midrange for BMI (21), I would have to have a body fat percentage of... well I would have to be 155 lbs... more than 30 lbs less than I would be if I had 0% body fat. Which is impossible.
Bottom line, BMI is a crock of shit. Use percent body fat. It is a much more realistic way to measure how much you should weigh.
Sure... if you want another company in possession of your company's email. How do you know the other company won't look at sensitive emails? Just because 'they shouldn't' or 'they say they won't', doesn't mean someone there won't. Heck, if people are looking up Obama's and others' passport info in the government, I would be willing to bet that someone at a third party email provider has looked at someones sensitive email. What if they get wind of a business deal on a subject they may have a business interest in? I think anyone who trusts their sensitive data to others with no real consequence to having that data leaked, is not thinking far enough ahead. It is the same reason I detest so much our data going to overseas servers.
I am talking about the average user, not a power user. Most people don't know how to fix or modify configuration files nor want to know. That is my point. I agree that for people like most of us on Slashdot, fixing a lot of the issues with a Linux install is doable, and many are easy. But we are not the majority of the computer users, even if we rule on Slashdot. And to say Linux and *BSD don't break is stretching things way too far. I have seen updates break things, I have seen Linux not work with a pretty average set of hardware, and I have seen upgrades not work. Linux is not bullet proof. It is very stable yes. And it is tough to make it crash, but you will sound like a Mac fanboy if you keep talking about how it just works and never crashes.
So how does having a relatively very small percentage of the population with the time, energy, and ability to understand how the operating works, help the vast majority who don't have the time, energy, or ability who will need to re-install their O/S regardless. Some people just want to use a tool not build or fix it. You don't expect someone who strips the gears on a socket wrench to know how to smelt iron and make steel and mold and machine it into a new wrench do you? Why do you expect the average user to do the equivalent with software when their O/S tool breaks?
The article mentioned that they figure they would save money in transmission charges. I wonder if that meant the wind turbines sent power to private power lines feeding the town exclusively, thinking that saving transmission charges meant a short power transmission route... It made me think that they had some power router to the town similar to what you would have to an individual house if the house had its own wind turbine. The town could draw required power from the grid as necessary or export excess from a single point from the town... i.e. the power router. Not sure if this would work, but it is kind of what I thought about when they said the town was self sufficient.