I'm not an economist, but common sense tells me if you can't produce enough to meet demand, you're having a production problem because they've sold too well.
This has been covered before... factories can only churn out so many of those things per day.
"Oh... my... God... did you just see... the Perl script she just wrote?"
"It's a test of accuracy as coding meets clothing... Strip Compiling!"
Thanks, I'm looking forward to my swimsuit issue of MacWorld any day now...
I would've been a civil engineer, if only I didn't like both computer science and meteorology more.:-)
For the really desperate, why not invest in the types of radios trucks (18-wheelers) use? I imagine HAM radios (or, well, whatever they use) would be best for what you're talking about, and assuming the trucking commnuity is friendly (I hear they are), you could probably request information about the roads you're on.
My complaint about the site is that it's notoriously unreliable, is often subjected to pre-rush hour slowdowns (right when you need your rush hour data the most), and often (once-twice a week during these times) just doesn't return data. It sorta renders Blue-Cove's solution useless.:-)
Fortunately, tollways times are now posted (as measured by people that have I-Pass units), the I-80 corridor west of I-294 is going to be going live eventually, and it gives very good representations of traffic flow out there at the time.
For comprehensive (usually) information on the 8's of every hour (no, I don't work for them), tune to WBBM 780 AM for a general roundup of what's going on. If you're already on the highway, tune to radio to 1610 AM for extremely detailed information on what's going on on your specific road!. This is tremendously convenient! "Traffic congestion is reported from: Illinois 83 to the Tri-State Exit; Mannheim to 25th; Sacramento to Damen. Traffic time from Thorndale: 1 hour and 15 minutes. From Route 83: 1 hour and 10 minutes. From Mannehim: 35 minutes."
Repeats ad infinitum. I've saved some time (and avoided major accidents during off-hours) by listening to these sources. Do other cities besides Chicago have these types of solutions?
It's not necessarily a troll if people legitimately don't know what all of that is. Know what my first *nix-based system was? Mac OS X. There's a reason for that.
Most of the rest of the computing world... and I'd say, oh, probably up to a quarter of the people reading Slashdot, although I don't have a poll (ridiculous as the end figures would be)... wouldn't have been able to relate to me the information you just stated. It's not that I'm ignorant, nor that I lack a basic knowledge of computers, I just work, and was raised on, Windows. (Of course, now I work on Macs.:-p)
The most I've learned was when I *tried* to install Gentoo. It didn't work, but I learned quite a bit, and even then that's just scratching the surface, and despite the many hours I spent doing that, I probably still don't know very much.
For most people, that makes [insert distro here] a bit too scared to try it. Present what needs to be known, in a nice format that non-techies can understand, and make everything that's unknown about Linux known. Yeah, maybe end-user Joe will forget after a while, but at least he's appeased.
Anyways, back to my Slackware box and figuring out how I should really start KDE... or X, as it should be called now.:-p No, I haven't used Linux as a desktop ever, so no, it's not obvious.
Good Lord, that'd be wrong.:-) Consider that the internal temperature of my G4 PB 1.33 already reaches 125 degrees under normal conditions, and 128 under CPU-intensive conditions, with current cooling technologies.
Now consider the effects of 150 - 180 degree temperatures on the male genitalia.
New York and Wisconsin Opt Out of Anti-Crime Database ............
MARK JOHNSON
Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York and Wisconsin have joined the list of states that have pulled out of an anti-crime database program that civil libertarians say endangers citizens' privacy rights.
Just five states now remain involved in Matrix out of more than a dozen that had signed up to share criminal, prison and vehicle information with one another and cross-reference the data with privately held databases.
Questions over federal funding and the waning potential for benefit to law enforcement ultimately prompted New York's withdrawal, said Lynn Rasic, a spokeswoman for the New York State Office of Public Security.
In a letter earlier this week, New York State Police Lt. Col. Steven Cumoletti noted that as more states withdraw, Matrix's usefulness diminishes.
The administrator of the Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation, meanwhile, cited cost, privacy and potential abuses of such a large database.
"When you added it all up, there were more negatives than positives,'' said the administrator, Jim Warren. He said the state signed up for Matrix about a month ago, but withdrew this week without having put any money into it or trained anyone.
Known formally as Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange, Matrix links government records with up to 20 billion records in databases held by Seisint Inc., a private company based in Boca Raton, Fla.
The Seisint records include details on property, boats and Internet domain names that people own, their address history, utility connections, bankruptcies, liens and business filings, according to an August report by the Georgia state Office of Homeland Security.
Officials with Seisint and the U.S. Department of Justice did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
The American Civil Liberties Union has complained that Matrix could be used by state and federal investigators to compile dossiers on people who have never been suspected of a crime. Seisint officials have said safeguards are built into the system to prevent such abuses.
"We're pleased New York has finally seen the light and opted out of this data-mining program that would allow the government to troll billions of private, personal records for information they have no business getting,'' said Donna Lieberman, director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
New York started questioning Matrix when several other states dropped out because of privacy or cost concerns, Rasic said. Alabama, California, Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, Kentucky, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and West Virginia have all left or declined to join after actively considering it.
"It was going to end up costing a lot for something we already had,'' Tela Mange, Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman, said Thursday.
Matrix, short for the Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange, began in 2002 in Florida. Connecticut, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania also remain participants in the program, which was helped by $12 million in initial funding from the federal government.
Julie Norris, spokeswoman for Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro, said the state plans to stick with Matrix, considering it "a powerful investigation tool'' that uses information already available through public records.
"It allows for an intelligent search that is quick, fast and efficient,'' she said.
The Michigan State Police use Matrix on a limited basis and continue to support it, said spokeswoman Shanon Akans.
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I swear, whenever I read about posts that infringe on privacy in this forum, all the dangerous 1984 references sound like more whining and justification based on more fear, uncertainty, and doubt. I've ceased to take any of it seriously.
Worth $68 million over four years, it calls for HP to provide laptops to as many as 132,000 middle-school students in the Wolverine State.
I really do wonder how Michigan schools tech support are going to keep their heads on their bodies after this.
Personal experience tells me; How many students will install Mozilla? Will these computers be running XP? Will they be up to date? Patched? How many of them will click "yes" whenever something comes up as they're surfing the Internet? How much of that software will break the computer? When viruses invade (you know... ones that come in through Outlook that the virus companies haven't quite caught yet) how many computers will break? Spam other computers? How many 6th graders know not to open the attachment? How many would do it anyway?
To each company I will give their own (read: Macs have problems too), but... for as long as I've had a Mac, I haven't had to deal with the above. And for as long as I've given over Windows systems to my parents, I sure as hell have.
Mass transit would be convenient if it actually went where I need it to go. Multiply this explanation by a few hundred thousand, and that's why you see so many cars in the road.:-)
If big cities still acted as hubs with mass transit as spokes to the suburbs, I think we would see much more efforts made. But most (I would dare to say the majority of) commuters... even me... live in a suburb and travel to another suburb. I drive 15 minutes now to get to work. I'm pretty fortunate, but if I need to get another job, I can't control where I work and whether or not I can live there. Mass transit can't take all this into effect.
Of course, there are carpools... I'm too anti-social to appreciate those, though.:-p
I feel that freeways (and tollways, up here) are just another avenue for getting people from place to place. I like driving at 70 during the off-peak hours.
Chicago has a very good mass transit system; it's been in place for the last century, the bus and train network interacts fairly well with each other, and except for the fact that buses come in 3's thirty minutes apart instead of every 10 minutes, it's a pretty good way to go from place to place in the city. Especially since trains and buses are *faster* than driving on average.
The people that can use the El and the CTA buses are pretty fortunate to get from place to place. For those in the city that aren't by a Metra (rail) line to bring them to those stations, like my parents... the way to work has to be to drive.
The slow side of me thought for a second we'd find the other Beagle in the same ocean as the HMS Beagle. At which point my first thought was, "Well, I wonder how it found its way from the TV studio to there..."
Blah. Since I couldn't find anything witty to say about the article, I suppose why not go down this road.:-p
There are questions about both theories that I have that are the main reason why I don't have a firm opinion on either. Putting aside the evolutionary creation theory (that's a convenient mix of both)...
1.) Okay. Say we have evolved over billions of years through the evolutionary process I learned in school. Therefore, there has to be iterations of skeletal frameworks between the fossils that we dug up. If a bird and a dinosaur are even remotely related, there would have to be at least a few examples of some sort of dino-bird thing. To my knowledge these haven't been found in any great number than, well, either birds or dinosaurs. If such a transition happened, wouldn't there be many, many, many examples by now?
The alternative is that, okay, entire species evolved instantly. I'm not sure if the genetics supports this view, and this one doesn't hold as much water for me.
2.) There's a lot of really silly arguments that creationists base their thoughts on, mainly, "because it is." That's fine for some, but the scientific arguments I've found sort of... lacking. I guess it's a good thing to test the theory of evolution, though. One of the arguments I've read about is the one involving the difference between natural selection and evolution. Evolution creates. Natural selection eliminates. Unfortunately, the natural selection theory implies, okay, all species existed on the same earth at the same time and clearly not all of them exist now. For example, dinosaurs. Which then gets into silly arguments like "Is Carbon dating really accurate?" I dunno. Ask people that do it.
And please, no silly comments about "Does that mean dinosaurs were in Noah's Ark too?"
Anyways, I'll let the two sides keep fighting about it... it's not going away anytime soon and there's still a few decades of research to do... regardless, I don't think anytime soon that the creationist vs. evolutionary thing will be one of those faith-deciding issues.
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No explanation required.
This has been covered before... factories can only churn out so many of those things per day.
"Oh... my... God... did you just see... the Perl script she just wrote?"
"It's a test of accuracy as coding meets clothing... Strip Compiling!"
Thanks, I'm looking forward to my swimsuit issue of MacWorld any day now...
For the really desperate, why not invest in the types of radios trucks (18-wheelers) use? I imagine HAM radios (or, well, whatever they use) would be best for what you're talking about, and assuming the trucking commnuity is friendly (I hear they are), you could probably request information about the roads you're on.
http://www.gcmtravel.com/gcm/maps_chicago.jsp
My complaint about the site is that it's notoriously unreliable, is often subjected to pre-rush hour slowdowns (right when you need your rush hour data the most), and often (once-twice a week during these times) just doesn't return data. It sorta renders Blue-Cove's solution useless. :-)
Fortunately, tollways times are now posted (as measured by people that have I-Pass units), the I-80 corridor west of I-294 is going to be going live eventually, and it gives very good representations of traffic flow out there at the time.
For comprehensive (usually) information on the 8's of every hour (no, I don't work for them), tune to WBBM 780 AM for a general roundup of what's going on. If you're already on the highway, tune to radio to 1610 AM for extremely detailed information on what's going on on your specific road!. This is tremendously convenient! "Traffic congestion is reported from: Illinois 83 to the Tri-State Exit; Mannheim to 25th; Sacramento to Damen. Traffic time from Thorndale: 1 hour and 15 minutes. From Route 83: 1 hour and 10 minutes. From Mannehim: 35 minutes."
Repeats ad infinitum. I've saved some time (and avoided major accidents during off-hours) by listening to these sources. Do other cities besides Chicago have these types of solutions?
Most of the rest of the computing world... and I'd say, oh, probably up to a quarter of the people reading Slashdot, although I don't have a poll (ridiculous as the end figures would be)... wouldn't have been able to relate to me the information you just stated. It's not that I'm ignorant, nor that I lack a basic knowledge of computers, I just work, and was raised on, Windows. (Of course, now I work on Macs. :-p)
The most I've learned was when I *tried* to install Gentoo. It didn't work, but I learned quite a bit, and even then that's just scratching the surface, and despite the many hours I spent doing that, I probably still don't know very much.
For most people, that makes [insert distro here] a bit too scared to try it. Present what needs to be known, in a nice format that non-techies can understand, and make everything that's unknown about Linux known. Yeah, maybe end-user Joe will forget after a while, but at least he's appeased.
Anyways, back to my Slackware box and figuring out how I should really start KDE... or X, as it should be called now. :-p No, I haven't used Linux as a desktop ever, so no, it's not obvious.
Now consider the effects of 150 - 180 degree temperatures on the male genitalia.
Nothing says G5 quite like "boiled eggs"...
2.) If you really haven't... hi, I'm Rob! Nice to meet you. :-)
Click me!
Every now and then it randomly stops working, but other than that this is good enough to be a final release, to be perfectly honest.
Duh. The '69 is the year she was born. WTF were *you* thinking?
The day I can use Haskell to compile and output Flash files I'll be happy. Or cry. I'm not sure which at this point.
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New York and Wisconsin Opt Out of Anti-Crime Database
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MARK JOHNSON
Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York and Wisconsin have joined the list of states that have pulled out of an anti-crime database program that civil libertarians say endangers citizens' privacy rights.
Just five states now remain involved in Matrix out of more than a dozen that had signed up to share criminal, prison and vehicle information with one another and cross-reference the data with privately held databases.
Questions over federal funding and the waning potential for benefit to law enforcement ultimately prompted New York's withdrawal, said Lynn Rasic, a spokeswoman for the New York State Office of Public Security.
In a letter earlier this week, New York State Police Lt. Col. Steven Cumoletti noted that as more states withdraw, Matrix's usefulness diminishes.
The administrator of the Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation, meanwhile, cited cost, privacy and potential abuses of such a large database.
"When you added it all up, there were more negatives than positives,'' said the administrator, Jim Warren. He said the state signed up for Matrix about a month ago, but withdrew this week without having put any money into it or trained anyone.
Known formally as Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange, Matrix links government records with up to 20 billion records in databases held by Seisint Inc., a private company based in Boca Raton, Fla.
The Seisint records include details on property, boats and Internet domain names that people own, their address history, utility connections, bankruptcies, liens and business filings, according to an August report by the Georgia state Office of Homeland Security.
Officials with Seisint and the U.S. Department of Justice did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
The American Civil Liberties Union has complained that Matrix could be used by state and federal investigators to compile dossiers on people who have never been suspected of a crime. Seisint officials have said safeguards are built into the system to prevent such abuses.
"We're pleased New York has finally seen the light and opted out of this data-mining program that would allow the government to troll billions of private, personal records for information they have no business getting,'' said Donna Lieberman, director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
New York started questioning Matrix when several other states dropped out because of privacy or cost concerns, Rasic said. Alabama, California, Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, Kentucky, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and West Virginia have all left or declined to join after actively considering it.
"It was going to end up costing a lot for something we already had,'' Tela Mange, Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman, said Thursday.
Matrix, short for the Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange, began in 2002 in Florida. Connecticut, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania also remain participants in the program, which was helped by $12 million in initial funding from the federal government.
Julie Norris, spokeswoman for Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro, said the state plans to stick with Matrix, considering it "a powerful investigation tool'' that uses information already available through public records.
"It allows for an intelligent search that is quick, fast and efficient,'' she said.
The Michigan State Police use Matrix on a limited basis and continue to support it, said spokeswoman Shanon Akans.
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I swear, whenever I read about posts that infringe on privacy in this forum, all the dangerous 1984 references sound like more whining and justification based on more fear, uncertainty, and doubt. I've ceased to take any of it seriously.
This sounds like a good product, but I don't know what "FEHLER AUF DIESER SEITE" means in English... :-(
I really do wonder how Michigan schools tech support are going to keep their heads on their bodies after this.
Personal experience tells me; How many students will install Mozilla? Will these computers be running XP? Will they be up to date? Patched? How many of them will click "yes" whenever something comes up as they're surfing the Internet? How much of that software will break the computer? When viruses invade (you know... ones that come in through Outlook that the virus companies haven't quite caught yet) how many computers will break? Spam other computers? How many 6th graders know not to open the attachment? How many would do it anyway?
To each company I will give their own (read: Macs have problems too), but... for as long as I've had a Mac, I haven't had to deal with the above. And for as long as I've given over Windows systems to my parents, I sure as hell have.
http://www.theonion.com/onion3604/doesnt_own_telev ision.html
Props to someToast@Konfabulator Forums.
If big cities still acted as hubs with mass transit as spokes to the suburbs, I think we would see much more efforts made. But most (I would dare to say the majority of) commuters... even me... live in a suburb and travel to another suburb. I drive 15 minutes now to get to work. I'm pretty fortunate, but if I need to get another job, I can't control where I work and whether or not I can live there. Mass transit can't take all this into effect.
Of course, there are carpools... I'm too anti-social to appreciate those, though. :-p
I feel that freeways (and tollways, up here) are just another avenue for getting people from place to place. I like driving at 70 during the off-peak hours.
Chicago has a very good mass transit system; it's been in place for the last century, the bus and train network interacts fairly well with each other, and except for the fact that buses come in 3's thirty minutes apart instead of every 10 minutes, it's a pretty good way to go from place to place in the city. Especially since trains and buses are *faster* than driving on average.
The people that can use the El and the CTA buses are pretty fortunate to get from place to place. For those in the city that aren't by a Metra (rail) line to bring them to those stations, like my parents... the way to work has to be to drive.
Redmond, WA 98052
Kinda sucks that people are always home, but that's okay, they usually aren't doing anything important.
CTO: 2k isn't safe anymore... you set aside funding for Longhorn, right?
CFO: Yeah, we put $100,000 in 10-year T-bonds yesterday...
The slow side of me thought for a second we'd find the other Beagle in the same ocean as the HMS Beagle. At which point my first thought was, "Well, I wonder how it found its way from the TV studio to there..."
There are questions about both theories that I have that are the main reason why I don't have a firm opinion on either. Putting aside the evolutionary creation theory (that's a convenient mix of both)...
1.) Okay. Say we have evolved over billions of years through the evolutionary process I learned in school. Therefore, there has to be iterations of skeletal frameworks between the fossils that we dug up. If a bird and a dinosaur are even remotely related, there would have to be at least a few examples of some sort of dino-bird thing. To my knowledge these haven't been found in any great number than, well, either birds or dinosaurs. If such a transition happened, wouldn't there be many, many, many examples by now?
The alternative is that, okay, entire species evolved instantly. I'm not sure if the genetics supports this view, and this one doesn't hold as much water for me.
2.) There's a lot of really silly arguments that creationists base their thoughts on, mainly, "because it is." That's fine for some, but the scientific arguments I've found sort of... lacking. I guess it's a good thing to test the theory of evolution, though. One of the arguments I've read about is the one involving the difference between natural selection and evolution. Evolution creates. Natural selection eliminates. Unfortunately, the natural selection theory implies, okay, all species existed on the same earth at the same time and clearly not all of them exist now. For example, dinosaurs. Which then gets into silly arguments like "Is Carbon dating really accurate?" I dunno. Ask people that do it.
And please, no silly comments about "Does that mean dinosaurs were in Noah's Ark too?"
Anyways, I'll let the two sides keep fighting about it... it's not going away anytime soon and there's still a few decades of research to do... regardless, I don't think anytime soon that the creationist vs. evolutionary thing will be one of those faith-deciding issues.