Fraunhofer in general is a pretty nifty place as they really develop a lot of stuff.
They DON'T develop long term though, their goal is to make a buck out of their inventions.
There is a second institute in germany called GFM I think (damn, too long away from Germany) who did a lot of basic research with no "product" goal behind it.
They are on the way of getting merged and that created a pretty deep rift between the two institutes because the GFM guys fear that they have to abandon basic research in order to push products on the market like Frauenhofer does.
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After reading the article I have to agree. It is definetly transportation, but I don't think it's a car / scooter or something like that. I rather would guess something that allows you to "fly".
Why? Because he seems to be an avid flyer that alone is a good point, plus a scooter wouldn't do you any good in africa or in the outback (just to name two), so maybe he figured out a way how to produce a cheap, reliable helicopter?
the car industry has their own ideas and they make good money with what they do (and a hefty profit none the less), so no, if you would offer them the idea of something cheap, reliable and "fun" to get around they would probably buy it and forget about it.
I just wonder how he actually can convince cities to accomendate the new device, or more so:
Chicken and egg. How to attrackt customers if the needed(?) infrastructure is not in place.
>>Free software has NO WARANTEE. No one said it was going to work correctly, so too bad for you if it doesn't.
Um... Seems like you never read EULAs they basically also tell you that you get the Software "as is" reads: If it doesn't work, you're out of luck.
Or to put it differently: You are as much screwed with closed source software as with open sourced one. The big difference just is that you can fix the open source yourself (if you know how to program, which in my case doens't make much difference).
As funny as it sounds, unfortunatly it's true, in most companies I worked so far I only learned about the new guy once he was standing at my desk asking for his "configured workstation" to do some work.
I just started at a new place this week, and I fell into the same trap, none of the system people there actually had a clue that I was coming (but hey, I FINALLY got rid of all that NT stuff:) ).
That guy was so paranoid that he actually ripped out the whole security system (finger print ID at the door) because he was unable to only delete my profile apparantly.
back in '99 while working my ass off for a company something like that happened, to me, came in in the morning, and didn't get in.
Apparantly the boss had a bit of a boiling point one night and decided that I costed more than I was worth (yeah right, guess he was high on drugs and alcohol again), and one of his brownnoses put a nice letter on the doort telling me that I was "outta there"...
Oh did I mention that guy never paid the money he still owed me, nor did I get my stuff back?
I shelf that under "life experience" and take it as business, took me 10 minutes to find another job at a company who wanted me for some time.
Some peoples (and companies) are asses, no doubt about it.
In every country I've been so far you could go to a doctor, put down some cash and get treated.
Most plans I've been on where the same way, if they found something you could claim the money back later.
As such I fail to see the logic in your argument. IF you would have paid a different doc in the US, why didn't you do it while in Canada? Do you think the doctor here would have turned you down if you would have put your credit card on the table and told them you pay for your X-Ray's personally?
I think you just happened to have a bad doctor, that is a bad thing, but I doubt that this is representable to the whole system.
You find good and bad doctors everywhere in the world, I wouldn't necessarily say that american doctors are better than european or canadians.
I still think though that a social system is the better way to go, not to support everybody who doesn't want to work anymore, but to prevent people from totally loosing it.
I think part of the problem is for the US that a lot of people seem to like to be in small groups and see everybody outside of this group as an enemy.
>>And if the U.S. health-care system is so awful (i.e. not socialized) like everyone says, how come VIPs from around the world come to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for treatment?
Because those people have money, don't care about basic healthcare, they never have and probably never will.
The Mayo Clinic is a business, they know that, in order to get the big bucks, they have to pay they're doctors a lot.
And MOST people want to make money, so for sure they get very GOOD doctors (I don't say the best, because quite frankly, I rather go to a doctor who does his job out of passion than out of greed, same goes for sysadmins / network admins).
Look at Germany, the parties have to form together in order to be able to actually do business.
In that case, giving my voice to the smaller one, has a bigger impact.
The smaller one has to stay more true to their promises, because if they break them they are off the radar pretty fast.
The Bigger ones have to make concessoins because otherwise they might loose even more votes or the smaller ones can lock them.
So yes, a two party system is IMO a bad thing.
BTW, I saw a nice cartoon on MSNBC during the election, it showed Gore and Bush as the Legs to the "All mighty US Industry".
And I guess that comes pretty close to reality, they might differentiate a bit in regards to "personal freedom", but in the end they both seem to bend over when it comes to the industry.
what's so bad about the socialist system? God beware if suddenly everybody can get decent healthcare without having to rob somebody on the street.
Guess the Immigration Officer I was talking to the last time was right: Americans don't like to "share" things.
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>>and you can bet said second and third world (mostly the latter) armies are using radios old enough and/or cheap enough that EMP sheilding isn't in them.
I think you're wrong, exactly those countries are spending a lot of their budget on High Tech Weapons from Russia / USA.
In the end I guess they are maybe one level behind what you would find in the Russian Army today.
And let me remind you that Russia, China and most 3rd World Countries have the luxury to just throw people at your High-Tech M1 Tank. And THEY are not directly going to suffer from an EMP attack.
They needed (and still need) the power the Reactors are generating.
They PUT the reactors offline immideatly after the accident, but in the end they decided to run it again.
The West (e.g. Germany) wanted to get the reactor taken offline ASAP but they said they would only do it if they would get enough money to build a new powerplant.
I don't know what they did now, but I guess the running costs are too high.
As far as I can tell the c class belongs to dedicated server, in which case they are only providing the pipe.
We had the server open for a brief period after recompiling sendmail and having a misconfiguration, the ISP catched it and informed us, so I think they do a lot to make sure that doesn't happen.
A couple of days ago one of my Co Admins found out that we where also blacklisted, not we directly as our site / ip is not listed but the whole c-class.
When we contacted them and asked to be removed we got sent to interliant as they are the owner of the c class, and apparantly haven't reacted in the past to certain demands.
So fine, we have apparantly 4 IPs in our C class that are an open relay or have been and we are now as f**** as they are.
>>Even a 3DO (when I was a kid, god I wanted one of those things... course now it doesn't even hold up).
Oh thanks, now I feel old, I remember when that thing was only discussed about a new generation of consoles, before it actually showed up ANYWHERE......
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Fraunhofer in general is a pretty nifty place as they really develop a lot of stuff.
They DON'T develop long term though, their goal is to make a buck out of their inventions.
There is a second institute in germany called GFM I think (damn, too long away from Germany) who did a lot of basic research with no "product" goal behind it.
They are on the way of getting merged and that created a pretty deep rift between the two institutes because the GFM guys fear that they have to abandon basic research in order to push products on the market like Frauenhofer does.
After reading the article I have to agree. It is definetly transportation, but I don't think it's a car / scooter or something like that. I rather would guess something that allows you to "fly".
Why? Because he seems to be an avid flyer that alone is a good point, plus a scooter wouldn't do you any good in africa or in the outback (just to name two), so maybe he figured out a way how to produce a cheap, reliable helicopter?
Hardly,
the car industry has their own ideas and they make good money with what they do (and a hefty profit none the less), so no, if you would offer them the idea of something cheap, reliable and "fun" to get around they would probably buy it and forget about it.
I just wonder how he actually can convince cities to accomendate the new device, or more so:
Chicken and egg. How to attrackt customers if the needed(?) infrastructure is not in place.
>>Free software has NO WARANTEE. No one said it was going to work correctly, so too bad for you if it doesn't.
Um... Seems like you never read EULAs they basically also tell you that you get the Software "as is" reads: If it doesn't work, you're out of luck.
Or to put it differently: You are as much screwed with closed source software as with open sourced one. The big difference just is that you can fix the open source yourself (if you know how to program, which in my case doens't make much difference).
As funny as it sounds, unfortunatly it's true, in most companies I worked so far I only learned about the new guy once he was standing at my desk asking for his "configured workstation" to do some work.
:) ).
I just started at a new place this week, and I fell into the same trap, none of the system people there actually had a clue that I was coming (but hey, I FINALLY got rid of all that NT stuff
Oh one more thing.
That guy was so paranoid that he actually ripped out the whole security system (finger print ID at the door) because he was unable to only delete my profile apparantly.
....
back in '99 while working my ass off for a company something like that happened, to me, came in in the morning, and didn't get in.
Apparantly the boss had a bit of a boiling point one night and decided that I costed more than I was worth (yeah right, guess he was high on drugs and alcohol again), and one of his brownnoses put a nice letter on the doort telling me that I was "outta there"...
Oh did I mention that guy never paid the money he still owed me, nor did I get my stuff back?
I shelf that under "life experience" and take it as business, took me 10 minutes to find another job at a company who wanted me for some time.
Some peoples (and companies) are asses, no doubt about it.
What makes you believe that this are not the same people?
I mean after all it disappeared at one location and appeared at another.
In every country I've been so far you could go to a doctor, put down some cash and get treated.
Most plans I've been on where the same way, if they found something you could claim the money back later.
As such I fail to see the logic in your argument. IF you would have paid a different doc in the US, why didn't you do it while in Canada? Do you think the doctor here would have turned you down if you would have put your credit card on the table and told them you pay for your X-Ray's personally?
I think you just happened to have a bad doctor, that is a bad thing, but I doubt that this is representable to the whole system.
You find good and bad doctors everywhere in the world, I wouldn't necessarily say that american doctors are better than european or canadians.
I still think though that a social system is the better way to go, not to support everybody who doesn't want to work anymore, but to prevent people from totally loosing it.
I think part of the problem is for the US that a lot of people seem to like to be in small groups and see everybody outside of this group as an enemy.
>>And if the U.S. health-care system is so awful (i.e. not socialized) like everyone says, how come VIPs from around the world come to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for treatment?
Because those people have money, don't care about basic healthcare, they never have and probably never will.
The Mayo Clinic is a business, they know that, in order to get the big bucks, they have to pay they're doctors a lot.
And MOST people want to make money, so for sure they get very GOOD doctors (I don't say the best, because quite frankly, I rather go to a doctor who does his job out of passion than out of greed, same goes for sysadmins / network admins).
Amen ;)
Plus it seems common sense went down the drain some generations ago.
It seems most people think that what is not spelled out explicitly(sp?) is allowed.
As such living in Europe (or now in Canada) is freer(is that a word?) than it is in the US (or so it seems).
Small parties HAVE an impact.
Look at Germany, the parties have to form together in order to be able to actually do business.
In that case, giving my voice to the smaller one, has a bigger impact.
The smaller one has to stay more true to their promises, because if they break them they are off the radar pretty fast.
The Bigger ones have to make concessoins because otherwise they might loose even more votes or the smaller ones can lock them.
So yes, a two party system is IMO a bad thing.
BTW, I saw a nice cartoon on MSNBC during the election, it showed Gore and Bush as the Legs to the "All mighty US Industry".
And I guess that comes pretty close to reality, they might differentiate a bit in regards to "personal freedom", but in the end they both seem to bend over when it comes to the industry.
Oh please gimme a break,
what's so bad about the socialist system? God beware if suddenly everybody can get decent healthcare without having to rob somebody on the street.
Guess the Immigration Officer I was talking to the last time was right: Americans don't like to "share" things.
>>and you can bet said second and third world (mostly the latter) armies are using radios old enough and/or cheap enough that EMP sheilding isn't in them.
I think you're wrong, exactly those countries are spending a lot of their budget on High Tech Weapons from Russia / USA.
In the end I guess they are maybe one level behind what you would find in the Russian Army today.
And let me remind you that Russia, China and most 3rd World Countries have the luxury to just throw people at your High-Tech M1 Tank. And THEY are not directly going to suffer from an EMP attack.
>>so all the linux zealots can have one fewer thing to use the windows partition on their boxes for, bringing the total down to 793.
Mind to show me the list?
They needed (and still need) the power the Reactors are generating.
They PUT the reactors offline immideatly after the accident, but in the end they decided to run it again.
The West (e.g. Germany) wanted to get the reactor taken offline ASAP but they said they would only do it if they would get enough money to build a new powerplant.
I don't know what they did now, but I guess the running costs are too high.
The problem is not only the running of the power plant but also the storage of the "used" fuel.
I think the Powerplants in itself are a safe way to generate energy, just the storage of the waste is a problem.
I doubt that our ISP is a Spamhouse,
As far as I can tell the c class belongs to dedicated server, in which case they are only providing the pipe.
We had the server open for a brief period after recompiling sendmail and having a misconfiguration, the ISP catched it and informed us, so I think they do a lot to make sure that doesn't happen.
A couple of days ago one of my Co Admins found out that we where also blacklisted, not we directly as our site / ip is not listed but the whole c-class.
When we contacted them and asked to be removed we got sent to interliant as they are the owner of the c class, and apparantly haven't reacted in the past to certain demands.
So fine, we have apparantly 4 IPs in our C class that are an open relay or have been and we are now as f**** as they are.
Thank you.
Michael
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Nope,
not even google comes up with anything on "omniputer".
I guess ACC got creamed.
>>Even a 3DO (when I was a kid, god I wanted one of those things... course now it doesn't even hold up).
Oh thanks, now I feel old, I remember when that thing was only discussed about a new generation of consoles, before it actually showed up ANYWHERE......
.... 26..... am I really that old???
Since around 2 weeks it seems hunting season is open.
I get around 2 e-mails a DAY offering jobs all over the place.
Michael
I agree I got some job offers as well, and even a year ago the stock options they wanted to offer didn't interrest me.
Stocks are nice, but the last 2 companies I worked for are in that "get rich quick" scheme of things.....
Now I am going to an "old" company and that's fine with me, they pay decent and I have the chance to actually move something.
Then maybe our site is of interrest to you guys as well (okay, I admit it, shameless plug):
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