You make some good points, but I'll take up issue with some of them.
First, we need to persuade the Sheeple that (A) we are going to run out of fossil fuel...
Considering all the media hype that's gone into oil in the past year (and to a lesser extent, the past two years), I think this is common knowledge. If not yet, maybe $2.50 gas prices will... and seeing the recent decline of SUV sales, I think that message is getting through at least.
At the moment, to the average Merkin, it will sound amazingly ridiculous to "waste" a 100x100 mile area "just so some pinko environmentalist wackos can stop using oil". (I'm sorry, but that's how the right-leaning folks in this nation will interpret it.)
Among other things, people live in this 100x100 square mile area, you don't know what kind of an environmental effect covering it with algae would do to a desert, environmentalist wackos are generally limited to people that are a part of the A.L.F., and... have you ever considered that maybe, just maybe, right-leaning folks (like me) are looking at the bottom line and think about how much money this would cost to actually do the things you said instead of talk about them? I am looking forward to owning my own house and installing a solar panel system. That is possible. 10,000 square miles of algae is just less possible, less feasable, and less economical.
"Poppycock; there's no way we could run out of fuel. God wouldn't let that happen to us!" It sounds like an anti-religion troll, but I seem to recall actually hearing rubbish like that from the far-right...
You're not the only one, I've heard this from people at church, too, and it bothers me to no end, considering we're supposed to take care of what we've been given.
When technology becomes economical, you'd be surprised at what happens.
Interestingly enough, you'd find that shrimp farms aren't all that great for the environment either...
Judging by the review of his book, it sounds a heck of a lot like this one, only I happened to read that book and pick up a Java cert while the reviewed book probably didn't have that type of information.
I'm probably being overly simplistic (I'm very interested in the examples of practical reflection and proxies, two features I've not found a use for yet and also were not on the exam), but that's my view in a nutshell.
The word emission generally means sending something out. Because of this argument, Hauser is a city located in Kootenai County, Idaho. After Idaho, the Liberals formed the government in Alberta for the first 15 years of the province's existence.
Yeah, those were random snippets from the Wikipedia. Who knows? Maybe this technology got around?
I live in Chicago, and as far as I know, this will affect millions of people from here to Texas. It should at least get an honorable mention for that. Most strikes I hear in the news seem to be about things/.ers don't really care for (not as much as technology) -- you know, mass transit, newspapers, mass transportation... umm... air traffic control (thanks, Reagan.:-( ). Since these are telecom workers, they would be one of the closest parallels to you average everyday software developer unionizing.
There are plenty differences, which I'm sure are to be pointed out in various child posts, but hey, it made front page for some reason.
I would have to imagine it would be a little more like red magic. Pretty versatile, borrows a bit of both, and largely effective, but if you want hardcore effects, you'll have to go all white or all black.
We too also use a Wiki to communicate. Unfortunately a quick glance at the "Recent Changes" page shows the last change was made on February 28th despite three large projects between then and now.
About the only thing proven here is that when e-mail is shown to be sufficient, it's sufficient, and developers won't be quick to jump to other technologies, even when they are more useful.
I RTFA, and this is really sweet and promising technology that'll be in use in only a few years. However, not even babelfish could tell me what "gobsmacked" meant.
Here's a very direct link to Northwest Indiana's current solution, which doesn't incorporate all you asked for but does show everything I need and want:-). I do like your ideas, though.
Is this the first news story to be posed in the form of a multiple choice question? If so, can it also be the last?:-)
On another note, at least mention the fact the article is New York Times.
Now for on topic stuff... I like the idea of flashing lights for crosswalks, but not so much the cameras. It's sort of messed up to think that every single reflector in the road can be a camera.
Also, at what point does this start becoming a distraction? Can I see the lights from my front window? Being LEDs, I would hope not, but it'd be nice to know. I also would be interested in seeing whether these things stand up to the weight of a Chicago winter... regardless of what the article says.:-)
Anyone got any solutions on dealing with the rain in wet weather? Fortunately, our county has some pretty sweet bike paths, so alternative transportation is at least an option.
Judging by the tone of your post, I would guess you've never ridden one.
Try it. You'll actually admire how it works. It's not worth $4,000, but it's an impressive piece of technology that does what it's designed to do extremely well. The hardest part of riding it is starting out -- just like, oh, riding a bike. But I can easily see it being the new yuppie way of getting around.
I hear you loud and clear. Damn, was Wind Waker pretty. It wasn't a long enough game, but it was pretty.
It was unconventional. It kept my attention. It pushed processors like they should be pushed every now and then -- with something different. When I was younger (read: 10-12) and played various cartoon games (Tiny Toon Adventures was a classic)... the ultimate goal of cartoon games was Wind Waker. It was finally playing in a cartoon you could interact with. For its sake I hoped it sold, and I think it did.
When I first read your question, I was definitely under the impression that the sensor system would have been entirely motion-sensitive, not an RFID solution of some type. Under this assumption, I would have to say that it would be okay to keep the images you'll get from such a system for a limited time (seven days should be adequate). Mark that on a sign, and for the really paranoid, I suppose you could also provide for ways to hikers to contact you about removing their pictures with no questions asked. None.
Of course, this would require the hikers to provide to you a pretty good description of themselves, and the time they walked past the crossing, but there's really no other way to do it.
A blog is a one-person message board, where people reply with comments. Usually. Slashdot is kind of like a blog. A bunch of one-person posts biased (often heavily) one way or another.
People read blogs because it either a.) Validates their thinking (my guess: 95%), or b.) Offers an opportunity to challenge their current ways of thinking, and an avenue to respond to the opportunity (again my guess: less than 5%). Remember, blogs are usually heavily biased, so the people that read the blogs often enough to see every post probably agree with the author. Are not both stories and comments on/. heavily biased?
So I've rambled enough, but to paraphrase Pirates of the Caribbean... You'd better start believing in blogs, because you're living in one.:-)
Okay, fair deal. You try being National Security Advisor for a day.
It's their job to separate real threats from, well, fantasy threats. It always has, and they happened to suck it up one September day three years ago. Repeatedly, may I add.
What's the alternative? Close your eyes and hope? Iraq or not, September 11 or not, there's always going to be someone that doesn't like America, and there will always be people shouting "1984" when the gov't decides to do something, and people holding pictures of loved ones killed by terrorists when the gov't doesn't prevent incidents.
So, in all, this paper is not insignificant, but it's also not a reason to completely give up on security or to install a cone of silence around your computer.
I'm not sure that I could fit this around a computer in the first place.
Under the terms of some of the deals, the prices for some of the most popular singles could rise to $1.25, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.
Just supply and demand, folks. I don't think many people here would be interested in what goes for $1.25, anyway.
If prices across the board get raised to $1.25, on the other hand, you've got reason to cry "bait and switch." But that's not what this article is saying.
Wind Waker, SSX (not exclusive, but it counts as a good game, I'd think), Super Monkey Ball (and maybe 2 if you're really into that kind of thing), Rogue Leader was good for its time as a leadoff game for the GC... but not the Star Wars game that came after it... Eternal Darkness. I could count Mario Kart and Super Mario Sunshine, but those are generally not counted as Nintendo's very best. Still good, though. There was a James Bond game (I obviously don't have) that got pretty rave reviews. I'll throw in THPS4 (another game I don't have) as 'ok'.
I can sit here and knock their image and lackluster advertising, but never really their games. They may not have the same originality as they used to on the SNES (face it, it's harder now), but they're still pretty darn good.
At some point somebody (Windows apologist or not) is going to point to Longhorn as the solution to security problems. Is there hard data on whether or not worms have been increasing or decreasing (in frequency and effects) the past couple of years?
We know what problems they've caused and how the media's gone nuts over each virus, making things seem bigger and bigger. But some old viruses were much nastier, and I sure don't hear about those types of infections anymore.
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You make some good points, but I'll take up issue with some of them.
First, we need to persuade the Sheeple that (A) we are going to run out of fossil fuel...
Considering all the media hype that's gone into oil in the past year (and to a lesser extent, the past two years), I think this is common knowledge. If not yet, maybe $2.50 gas prices will... and seeing the recent decline of SUV sales, I think that message is getting through at least.
At the moment, to the average Merkin, it will sound amazingly ridiculous to "waste" a 100x100 mile area "just so some pinko environmentalist wackos can stop using oil". (I'm sorry, but that's how the right-leaning folks in this nation will interpret it.)
Among other things, people live in this 100x100 square mile area, you don't know what kind of an environmental effect covering it with algae would do to a desert, environmentalist wackos are generally limited to people that are a part of the A.L.F., and... have you ever considered that maybe, just maybe, right-leaning folks (like me) are looking at the bottom line and think about how much money this would cost to actually do the things you said instead of talk about them? I am looking forward to owning my own house and installing a solar panel system. That is possible. 10,000 square miles of algae is just less possible, less feasable, and less economical.
"Poppycock; there's no way we could run out of fuel. God wouldn't let that happen to us!" It sounds like an anti-religion troll, but I seem to recall actually hearing rubbish like that from the far-right...
You're not the only one, I've heard this from people at church, too, and it bothers me to no end, considering we're supposed to take care of what we've been given.
When technology becomes economical, you'd be surprised at what happens.
Interestingly enough, you'd find that shrimp farms aren't all that great for the environment either...
I'm probably being overly simplistic (I'm very interested in the examples of practical reflection and proxies, two features I've not found a use for yet and also were not on the exam), but that's my view in a nutshell.
The word emission generally means sending something out. Because of this argument, Hauser is a city located in Kootenai County, Idaho. After Idaho, the Liberals formed the government in Alberta for the first 15 years of the province's existence.
Yeah, those were random snippets from the Wikipedia. Who knows? Maybe this technology got around?
Grade: A+++
"Hit the damn ball!"
I live in Chicago, and as far as I know, this will affect millions of people from here to Texas. It should at least get an honorable mention for that. Most strikes I hear in the news seem to be about things /.ers don't really care for (not as much as technology) -- you know, mass transit, newspapers, mass transportation... umm... air traffic control (thanks, Reagan. :-( ). Since these are telecom workers, they would be one of the closest parallels to you average everyday software developer unionizing.
There are plenty differences, which I'm sure are to be pointed out in various child posts, but hey, it made front page for some reason.
Maybe he ran defrag in windows and measured how many bright blue blocks were next to the medium blue blocks and the dark blue blocks. :-)
I would have to imagine it would be a little more like red magic. Pretty versatile, borrows a bit of both, and largely effective, but if you want hardcore effects, you'll have to go all white or all black.
About the only thing proven here is that when e-mail is shown to be sufficient, it's sufficient, and developers won't be quick to jump to other technologies, even when they are more useful.
I RTFA, and this is really sweet and promising technology that'll be in use in only a few years. However, not even babelfish could tell me what "gobsmacked" meant.
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On another note, at least mention the fact the article is New York Times.
Now for on topic stuff... I like the idea of flashing lights for crosswalks, but not so much the cameras. It's sort of messed up to think that every single reflector in the road can be a camera.
Also, at what point does this start becoming a distraction? Can I see the lights from my front window? Being LEDs, I would hope not, but it'd be nice to know. I also would be interested in seeing whether these things stand up to the weight of a Chicago winter... regardless of what the article says. :-)
5/11 -- Rain
5/12 -- Rain
5/13 -- Thunderstorms
5/14 -- Rain
Anyone got any solutions on dealing with the rain in wet weather? Fortunately, our county has some pretty sweet bike paths, so alternative transportation is at least an option.
Try it. You'll actually admire how it works. It's not worth $4,000, but it's an impressive piece of technology that does what it's designed to do extremely well. The hardest part of riding it is starting out -- just like, oh, riding a bike. But I can easily see it being the new yuppie way of getting around.
It was unconventional. It kept my attention. It pushed processors like they should be pushed every now and then -- with something different. When I was younger (read: 10-12) and played various cartoon games (Tiny Toon Adventures was a classic)... the ultimate goal of cartoon games was Wind Waker. It was finally playing in a cartoon you could interact with. For its sake I hoped it sold, and I think it did.
Of course, this would require the hikers to provide to you a pretty good description of themselves, and the time they walked past the crossing, but there's really no other way to do it.
People read blogs because it either a.) Validates their thinking (my guess: 95%), or b.) Offers an opportunity to challenge their current ways of thinking, and an avenue to respond to the opportunity (again my guess: less than 5%). Remember, blogs are usually heavily biased, so the people that read the blogs often enough to see every post probably agree with the author. Are not both stories and comments on /. heavily biased?
So I've rambled enough, but to paraphrase Pirates of the Caribbean... You'd better start believing in blogs, because you're living in one. :-)
It's their job to separate real threats from, well, fantasy threats. It always has, and they happened to suck it up one September day three years ago. Repeatedly, may I add.
What's the alternative? Close your eyes and hope? Iraq or not, September 11 or not, there's always going to be someone that doesn't like America, and there will always be people shouting "1984" when the gov't decides to do something, and people holding pictures of loved ones killed by terrorists when the gov't doesn't prevent incidents.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
I'm not sure that I could fit this around a computer in the first place.
Computers can be formatted, and the whole deal mostly forgotten. Human lives don't exactly work the same way.
Demand = Price
Just supply and demand, folks. I don't think many people here would be interested in what goes for $1.25, anyway.
If prices across the board get raised to $1.25, on the other hand, you've got reason to cry "bait and switch." But that's not what this article is saying.
I can sit here and knock their image and lackluster advertising, but never really their games. They may not have the same originality as they used to on the SNES (face it, it's harder now), but they're still pretty darn good.
Or maybe it depends on more than just the best games... like actually bothering to advertise and get gamers' attentions in the places gamers go.
At some point somebody (Windows apologist or not) is going to point to Longhorn as the solution to security problems. Is there hard data on whether or not worms have been increasing or decreasing (in frequency and effects) the past couple of years?
We know what problems they've caused and how the media's gone nuts over each virus, making things seem bigger and bigger. But some old viruses were much nastier, and I sure don't hear about those types of infections anymore.
It was my favorite show when I was younger and watched Nick at Nite regularly. :-) Not to mention the shoe phone was frickin' awesome!