I'm talking about the 80's and early 90's. Pre-web. When GOPHER was considered novel. When 90% of internet traffic was FTP, NNTP and SMTP, in that order.
The ribbon UI is so awesome, that Visual Studio doesn't have it (thank God) So the people who actually *write Microsoft software* don't like the ribbon.
Looks like PAI basically publishes research that attacks papers that deem fracking safe. They might very well be accurate, but something tells me if a well researched and accurate study showing that fracking is indeed safe, it isn't going to make the front page of this site.
I've written "enterprise" software installers, and there's a reason they are complicated. The enterprise software environment is completely different than a regular desktop. We've had to deal with:
- Fragmented domains - where users are broken up across multiple domains bridged over VLANS, needing permission to shares in one, non-hierarchical domain - Insane security where users don't have direct access to the servers - the servers are firewalled from users, and are proxied to regulate access - Push-installs where users have absolutely no admin acccess to their own machine, including "elevated" permissions, though users are expected to be able to do pull-updates, which is impossible without a convoluted services setup - Pre-reqs *requiring* seperate installs, with detailed logs of what got installed, where and why (including system components) - Requirements that functional components be broken up across different servers, even if it makes no sense to do so
This means there is no one installer to handle every possible configuration, there are simply too many variables. Then you do a cost-benefit analysis - you could spend a lot of time making a complicated installer that might not even be able to handle every possible configuration, or you could use those resources to add features your customers are asking for.
Since moving from a client-server model to a web-based model, the install is much simpler and nearly completely automated, but we still run into weird problems fairly often.
People are allowed to breed animals for hunting. People are allowed to shoot those animals. This is what they are doing. Common pigeons aren't even considered game animals or waterfoul - there aren't any limitations on hunting them.
If anything, it looks like New York is better protected, especially Manhattan Island. It's at the north end of the 8-mile-lond Upper Bay, which has a rather narrow (~1 mile) opening into the Lower Bay, which in turn has a couple of barrier islands and a lot of continental shelf between Manhattan and the deep ocean.
Everyone seems to forget that, when looking at a map of New York City, Brooklyn is part of it. Brooklyn sits *right* on the Atlantic ocean. See Rockaway and Long Beach? That's NYC. Now see that narrow gap protecting Manhattan? Half of the gap is Brooklyn and half is Staten Island, which sits across the opening of the lower bay, and is also part of NYC. Staten Island bore the brunt of the last hurricane, along with the outer coastal areas of Brooklyn. You also have the Hudson river and long island sounds draining on either side of Manhattan. These have relatively good flood prevention measures in place, but if there is a lot of water coming from those sources to start, and you get a storm surge pushing back, it would be a complete disaster for the city (a possibility in the late spring.)
The closest Tokyo is to open ocean is over roughly ten miles of land. I'm not sure how you can consider NYC, with large residential populations living directly on the ocean, more protected than Tokyo, which sits a good dozen miles away.
The standard in the corporate world these days is to NEVER admit they are wrong and act as arrogant as possible.
That's because if you admit you were wrong, you open yourself up to a metric *crapton* of lawsuits. From consumers claiming pain and suffering. From stockholders claiming failure of due diligence. From partners or suppliers or resellers claiming breach of contract or bad faith etc...
My wife works for a car company, and we can get really good deals on fleet cars from the company (lightly used cars that get another 10-20% knocked off the price, in addition to the employee discount.)
We *still* have to go through a dealership, though. It's kind of fun, as the salesman hates it - there's nothing to upsell and his commission is crap on the heavily discounted car, but he still has to do all the paperwork.
If I remember the first thing we learned in Macro 101 correctly, if supply goes down, price remains the same and demand remains the same or increases, you run out of supply pretty quickly.
If you increase prices, you can afford to resell more expensive gas, trucking it in from further out of state.
What would you rather have: expensive gas, or cheap but non-existent gas?
GM shut Saturn down because they had too many marques to begin with. Look at the successful names and how many marques they have - the Japanese companies usually have two, there's VW/Audi/Porsche, Daimler has two that they are shrinking down to one. BMW has three in radically different market segments.
GM had Saab, Chevrolet, GMC, Chevy Trucks (separate from Chevrolet) Saturn, Buick, Hummer and Cadillac. They trimmed down to four, which is still a lot (they could probably loose the redundant Chevy Truck and GMC marques)
Limited liability only protects you from torts (some private person suing you personally for something your company does.) It doesn't shield you from criminal liability. If your company breaks the law, you are personally responsible, if it was your decision. This is why Bernie Madoff is in jail - his company was defrauding it's investors, but it was his decision to do so.
For the record, that would actually be *consistent* with the claim that his patents and notes have been seized and kept classified. If you want to debunk the claim that something is being kept secret, you have to do better than, "I've never seen it.".
I'm not debunking anything as I don't have to. Some of Tesla's personal effects were seized by the government after his death and released to his nephew a few years later. Some of his documents went missing. It's possible that the government kept and classified them. It's also possible that they were simply lost, or stolen by someone else.
Now you need some back story. Tesla was a believer in aether theory - a theory that there was undetected type of matter that energy could flow through. These theories were shown false around the same time relativity was becoming popular (Tesla rejected the theory of relativity.)
If Tesla's dreaded beam energy weapon was based on the concepts of aether theory, the possibility of it working is basically nil.
So, what's more likely - Tesla was smarter than Einstein, Lorentz, Feynman, Hawking, Hubble, and a few hundred other extremely bright guys, understood physics in a manner unknown to all of mankind, and it's dumb luck that all our modern gizmos that depend on special relativity to operate function as they should. Or - Tesla was wrong about relativity, his beam weapon never worked, and the papers about this weapon were lost somewhere?
Tesla was a certified genius. His contributions to electrical engineering are incalculably important. That doesn't mean he was infallible.
Looks like hardware drivers are being updated for Windows 8 support (WDDM 1.2 / DXGI 1.2 / etc). This means, even if you really want to upgrade, wait at least a few months. All the problems I had (and most people I know) going from XP to 7 were driver related. New driver models = new drivers = buggy drivers = unstable machine = let someone else be the beta tester.
Not exactly. Power companies have an incentive to maximize the use of their existing power generation capability and infrastructure to within a certain threshold. As long as they are running at near-capacity, they are making the most profit possible (usually.)
If they run maxed-out, though, then they have to start paying for infrastructure upgrades and maintenance, which cuts into the profit margin.
This is why the electric utilities in New York City are giving away internet-programmable thermostats, so they can turn up the thermostat during peak electricity consumption in the summer so the grids don't get overloaded.
The *vast* majority of electricity consumed in the US is from the industrial and commercial sectors, who already almost exclusively use fluorescent lighting. Residential lighting electricity use is a drop in the overall bucket. This legislation is silly.
I'll be stocking up on GE Reveal incandescent bulbs - the best reading bulbs in existence. The new GE Edison halogen bulbs are also very good, but with the rather insane push for CFL's, they are hard to find. I'll be upgrading to LEDs once the price is right, and the dispersion problems are fixed. Screw CFLs, they are the discrete flip-chips of the lighting world (for the uninitiated, nearly obsolete upon introduction)
The judge can, during the proceedings, probably do nearly anything he likes. However, once punishment is decided, I don't think he can do anything else. I'm 99% sure he can't permanently ban you from Facebook forever. She should have just disabled her account, then re-activated it when sentencing was complete.
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You don't need a lot of ideas, just a few really good ones.
And it still had the awful membrane keyboard? Did it still have the fiddly quasi-analog yet directional joysticks?
I'm talking about the 80's and early 90's. Pre-web. When GOPHER was considered novel. When 90% of internet traffic was FTP, NNTP and SMTP, in that order.
... of the internet were wonderful if you were a ham radio operator, scientist, programmer, network engineer, fan of roguelike RPGs or Star Trek.
Other than that there wasn't a huge amount of content out there.
The ribbon UI is so awesome, that Visual Studio doesn't have it (thank God) So the people who actually *write Microsoft software* don't like the ribbon.
So there's that.
Looks like PAI basically publishes research that attacks papers that deem fracking safe. They might very well be accurate, but something tells me if a well researched and accurate study showing that fracking is indeed safe, it isn't going to make the front page of this site.
I've written "enterprise" software installers, and there's a reason they are complicated. The enterprise software environment is completely different than a regular desktop. We've had to deal with:
- Fragmented domains - where users are broken up across multiple domains bridged over VLANS, needing permission to shares in one, non-hierarchical domain
- Insane security where users don't have direct access to the servers - the servers are firewalled from users, and are proxied to regulate access
- Push-installs where users have absolutely no admin acccess to their own machine, including "elevated" permissions, though users are expected to be able to do pull-updates, which is impossible without a convoluted services setup
- Pre-reqs *requiring* seperate installs, with detailed logs of what got installed, where and why (including system components)
- Requirements that functional components be broken up across different servers, even if it makes no sense to do so
This means there is no one installer to handle every possible configuration, there are simply too many variables. Then you do a cost-benefit analysis - you could spend a lot of time making a complicated installer that might not even be able to handle every possible configuration, or you could use those resources to add features your customers are asking for.
Since moving from a client-server model to a web-based model, the install is much simpler and nearly completely automated, but we still run into weird problems fairly often.
And that is legal.
People are allowed to breed animals for hunting. People are allowed to shoot those animals. This is what they are doing. Common pigeons aren't even considered game animals or waterfoul - there aren't any limitations on hunting them.
So they release a few dozen more pigeons into the existing population of hundreds of thousands? I don't think that would be a major concern.
If anything, it looks like New York is better protected, especially Manhattan Island. It's at the north end of the 8-mile-lond Upper Bay, which has a rather narrow (~1 mile) opening into the Lower Bay, which in turn has a couple of barrier islands and a lot of continental shelf between Manhattan and the deep ocean.
Everyone seems to forget that, when looking at a map of New York City, Brooklyn is part of it. Brooklyn sits *right* on the Atlantic ocean. See Rockaway and Long Beach? That's NYC. Now see that narrow gap protecting Manhattan? Half of the gap is Brooklyn and half is Staten Island, which sits across the opening of the lower bay, and is also part of NYC. Staten Island bore the brunt of the last hurricane, along with the outer coastal areas of Brooklyn. You also have the Hudson river and long island sounds draining on either side of Manhattan. These have relatively good flood prevention measures in place, but if there is a lot of water coming from those sources to start, and you get a storm surge pushing back, it would be a complete disaster for the city (a possibility in the late spring.)
The closest Tokyo is to open ocean is over roughly ten miles of land. I'm not sure how you can consider NYC, with large residential populations living directly on the ocean, more protected than Tokyo, which sits a good dozen miles away.
The standard in the corporate world these days is to NEVER admit they are wrong and act as arrogant as possible.
That's because if you admit you were wrong, you open yourself up to a metric *crapton* of lawsuits. From consumers claiming pain and suffering. From stockholders claiming failure of due diligence. From partners or suppliers or resellers claiming breach of contract or bad faith etc...
Tokyo is sheltered from the sea in an inlet. NYC sticks right out into the Atlantic seaboard. What they do in Tokyo won't work in NYC.
My wife works for a car company, and we can get really good deals on fleet cars from the company (lightly used cars that get another 10-20% knocked off the price, in addition to the employee discount.)
We *still* have to go through a dealership, though. It's kind of fun, as the salesman hates it - there's nothing to upsell and his commission is crap on the heavily discounted car, but he still has to do all the paperwork.
If I remember the first thing we learned in Macro 101 correctly, if supply goes down, price remains the same and demand remains the same or increases, you run out of supply pretty quickly.
If you increase prices, you can afford to resell more expensive gas, trucking it in from further out of state.
What would you rather have: expensive gas, or cheap but non-existent gas?
Shoot, I forgot Pontiac. Seriously they had a stupid number of marques.
GM shut Saturn down because they had too many marques to begin with. Look at the successful names and how many marques they have - the Japanese companies usually have two, there's VW/Audi/Porsche, Daimler has two that they are shrinking down to one. BMW has three in radically different market segments.
GM had Saab, Chevrolet, GMC, Chevy Trucks (separate from Chevrolet) Saturn, Buick, Hummer and Cadillac. They trimmed down to four, which is still a lot (they could probably loose the redundant Chevy Truck and GMC marques)
Limited liability only protects you from torts (some private person suing you personally for something your company does.) It doesn't shield you from criminal liability. If your company breaks the law, you are personally responsible, if it was your decision. This is why Bernie Madoff is in jail - his company was defrauding it's investors, but it was his decision to do so.
For the record, that would actually be *consistent* with the claim that his patents and notes have been seized and kept classified. If you want to debunk the claim that something is being kept secret, you have to do better than, "I've never seen it.".
I'm not debunking anything as I don't have to. Some of Tesla's personal effects were seized by the government after his death and released to his nephew a few years later. Some of his documents went missing. It's possible that the government kept and classified them. It's also possible that they were simply lost, or stolen by someone else.
Now you need some back story. Tesla was a believer in aether theory - a theory that there was undetected type of matter that energy could flow through. These theories were shown false around the same time relativity was becoming popular (Tesla rejected the theory of relativity.)
If Tesla's dreaded beam energy weapon was based on the concepts of aether theory, the possibility of it working is basically nil.
So, what's more likely - Tesla was smarter than Einstein, Lorentz, Feynman, Hawking, Hubble, and a few hundred other extremely bright guys, understood physics in a manner unknown to all of mankind, and it's dumb luck that all our modern gizmos that depend on special relativity to operate function as they should.
Or - Tesla was wrong about relativity, his beam weapon never worked, and the papers about this weapon were lost somewhere?
Tesla was a certified genius. His contributions to electrical engineering are incalculably important. That doesn't mean he was infallible.
Allright...
>but he was not even known until the media started there conspiracy over his Monster Tower
Utterly false - he had a famous exhibit with Westinghouse at the 1893 World's Fair. He was quite well known at the time.
> A lot of his patents and notes have been seized and kept classified
I've heard this claim over and over. I've never seen anyone provide any proof.
Looks like hardware drivers are being updated for Windows 8 support (WDDM 1.2 / DXGI 1.2 / etc). This means, even if you really want to upgrade, wait at least a few months. All the problems I had (and most people I know) going from XP to 7 were driver related. New driver models = new drivers = buggy drivers = unstable machine = let someone else be the beta tester.
The Chinese are already unionized. There is one, national union, and membership is mandatory. All other unions are illegal.
A workers utopia!
Not exactly. Power companies have an incentive to maximize the use of their existing power generation capability and infrastructure to within a certain threshold. As long as they are running at near-capacity, they are making the most profit possible (usually.)
If they run maxed-out, though, then they have to start paying for infrastructure upgrades and maintenance, which cuts into the profit margin.
This is why the electric utilities in New York City are giving away internet-programmable thermostats, so they can turn up the thermostat during peak electricity consumption in the summer so the grids don't get overloaded.
The *vast* majority of electricity consumed in the US is from the industrial and commercial sectors, who already almost exclusively use fluorescent lighting. Residential lighting electricity use is a drop in the overall bucket. This legislation is silly.
I'll be stocking up on GE Reveal incandescent bulbs - the best reading bulbs in existence. The new GE Edison halogen bulbs are also very good, but with the rather insane push for CFL's, they are hard to find. I'll be upgrading to LEDs once the price is right, and the dispersion problems are fixed. Screw CFLs, they are the discrete flip-chips of the lighting world (for the uninitiated, nearly obsolete upon introduction)
at which point you need to start complaining about the horrible debts that were racked up putting down the Whiskey Rebellion by Washington too.
Federal debt was completely eliminated in 1835.
The judge can, during the proceedings, probably do nearly anything he likes. However, once punishment is decided, I don't think he can do anything else. I'm 99% sure he can't permanently ban you from Facebook forever. She should have just disabled her account, then re-activated it when sentencing was complete.