I am not a Korean, so I guess I'm just talking out of my ass: If you've been eating a lot of live kimchi for your whole life, maybe it would take a lot of research to invent an acceptable tasting dead version. Real kimchi, or at least what I've seen, is a pretty lively brew. Definitely too exciting for space travel. I imagine this program will actually match some of the hype as far as promoting commercial kimchi. I suspect if they only counted irradiation-based processes the research cost would have been far less.
I haven't tried YAHOO! for a search since Google came out, but IIRC YAHOO! nearly always returned mostly irrelevant leads for me. Google has nearly always had a hit near or on top of the first page, first try for me. (Botanical research mostly, YMMV.) Bill is welcome to have it, IMO, It goes well with the feature creature that is Windows.
"in fact it is jobs, not entitlements, that help the poor." That reminded me, it is real productivity, rather than jobs, that help the economy. So much of our effort is for money, which allows us to produce so little with our time. It is a wonder as many of us are still making out okay, as are. I don't pretend to have an answer, maybe some of you Big Brains can come up with something. The states and the people have conspired to shut down the engine of productivity, or at least off-shore an awful lot of it. I think that dealing with the laws that exist is wise in MSs case. OTOH using the law to scam the people is evil. Perhaps if the law was revised to even the field for corporations OPERATING IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, some good real estate might go on the market as Microsoft moves to the nice part of Nevada. (Actually, the nice part of Nevada doesn't need- anybody.) Using the state and the laws to shift money to non-productive uses have created an astounding imbalance. The shit is falling towards the fan now.
Some of us realise that the Military and Police are the biggest tax-suckers. Considering the value addition that they offer, I think I'd rather support welfare. Posse comitatus FTW.
"Some people prefer the printed page." I, for one, have a much easier time with data in a dead-tree format. I haven't yet had to deal with Vista, But have got a David Karp book for each of the other Windows versions that I have dealt with. Some of the stuff IS a bit obvious, but certainly necessary for some users. In my experience, his past books have been very useful for neutering some of the more egregious features of the Windows experience. (As Karp himself points out, egregious features are the hallmark of MS products.) If I have to start running Vista, I will probably be looking for the Karp book before doing the first install, as I have in the past. It sounds like it might be even more rigueur than before, if it could prevent buying an overly-crippled version of the OS.
"Otherwise they are a blight on society from my experience." Yes some industries seem to thrive on the blight model, and the ones that do, sometimes manage to provoke unions that allegedly try to protect the worker's rights. Big Coal? Of course I think unions are a thing of the past. Big Media? As it is now, our fearless industrial leaders need merely employ the legislative system to legalize any means of doing business, and outlaw unions as well, so our only protection would seem to be the largess of the corporation. Thank you and good night.
"When I put computer systems into police departments in the 1980's, we were told that the software had to purge and absolutely delete all records on a person arrested if they were not charged, or found not guilty."
Eau d'yeah, that reminds me of an occasion when I spent some time sitting in the back of a LAPD patrol car, (handcuffed for my protection). I did get to see a lifetime list of all my police contacts (spurious allegations, no convictions) on the in-car computer, including all my juvenile contacts. I asked the officer what it was doing there and he stated he had no records of any of that, then he claimed that it would be incorrect for any non-convictions to be listed, and that I had not seen any such list. Now I am a bit worried that some zealot is going to pull me over some day, see that list, and decide that my time of beating the charges and being released is over. I have personally witnessed that sort of thing before. And telling the court that a cop is lying doesn't seem to gain much traction.
Just like the cold war. Best to spend billions on something completely useless, so that when need actually arises, tax-dollar extraction can start clean in a previously unfunded field.
Ron Lanner has been threatening to re-publish his "Trees of The Great Basin" digitally. I would much prefer it in solid form. I dread having to buy a new ink cartridge just for that. I am the same with music. Sell me the "real thing".
All the pre-configured boxen I have ever seen (not talking high-end here, unfortunately), have historically been inadequate when it came to memory support and bus speed. Adequate for office applications but no headroom for any real upgrades. I've always spent the few extra dollars as if the computer might get upgraded, though when the time comes it seems cheaper to start from scratch since old stuff so goes up in price once it hits obsolescence. I somehow doubt that any cheap Dells are sporting active pfc, Which I'd think would pay for itself in a very short time, but doesn't generate much buzz in the advertising world. I have a thing about fast refresh, so the bundled monitors and video cards are nearly always inadequate for me also. And I don't EVEN play games.
Most of the people who went back to their cars did so because BART is such an Astoundingly Ineffective System. BART costs a ridiculous amount of money to run. The vehicular units weigh far too much for the task. Smaller units with short headway, (I hate to wait), scaled by demand, and available 24/7, would make the system serviceable to far more customers. I never saw any security at 0300 HRS on BART because the crowds were too thick. It is not as if nobody wants to ride. Actually the BART cops are pretty fucked up and would probably mobilise to get all the drunks back on the highways if things normalised at 24/7. Buses to feed the BART are a poor idea as well. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the Key Line and the Red Car Line and whatever else used to serve commuters, for their day. (Don't get me started on THAT one.) I envy that you can incorporate BART into your commute rather than 17 miles of hell. I just said adios to a 47 mile joyride down CA-4 among others. It beat heck out of the three-and-a-half hour (each way) bus-to-BART-to-bus thing that I enjoyed when I got my transmission renewed. Small monorails could be much more cost effective than the system we run now. If you are going from point a to b to a, most of us should not need a private vehicle. And some of us, don't forget, never make it home. "What price?" They always say, but no one thinks the solution is worth it. That's what they've been told, and they're sticking to it. A monorail, by its nature tends to mow down far fewer pedestrians and cars. About an x:0 ratio probably. Had we upgraded the old existing system and expanded the modern result to encompass the urban portions of our state, the highway system could have evolved much more effectively. BART took longer to build than the moon rocket. We've come a little bit further techwise but if the politicians take care of it we'll probably continue with what worked okay (profit-wise) since the steam days. BART has some pretty ancient roots. BART service levels are not crippled?...I disagree. respectfully....(face turning red, hard to breath...)
IMO some sort of parity could be implemented in our support of the infrastructure of transportation. At present I believe it is skewed towards a particular mode of vehicle here in USA at present. OTOH, since it is PUBLIC MONEY being spent, (quit your crying already about who pays gas tax, even the ducks pay for oil), maybe we COULD provide a reasonable level of service to all citizens. Some would choose not to support the Bus/Car thing, and I think we could accommodate bicycles a little better. (Eliminating buses would be a good start. Replace them with ultralight monorail.) Pedestrians deserve better access to the Earth as far as that goes. BART out here on the west coast is a colossal joke. It did almost work temporarily when the earthquake broke the bridge, but as soon as they repaired the bridge, they crippled the train system again. I wonder how many megadollars that glitch cost the oil guys.
AFAIK the efficiency of most urban roads seems to collapse around commute time. A simple solution would be to add an ultralight monorail system. Unlike Buses and cars, nobody would be forced to fear death going to and from work, and it would scale very well with a "packet frequency" rather than a "packet size" approach.
I would rather not share the road with large public buses. Transportation on that scale should more properly be served by light, safe monorails, which would retrofit easily into most suburban neighborhoods. Unfortunately, economical solutions which do not divert the maximum tax money to the private sector are impossible to implement in The Land Of The Free. Perhaps someone could skew -er publish some data of concern: "CHILDREN CRUSHED BENEATH THE WHEELS", or something. A little late for this Election Cycle, any takers for next time?
Having lived in Bezerkley for a few years, I learned to avoid the people with invisible friends. (Warning! Warning! Cross the street, Will Robinson!) I don't think I will ever get used to the borg communicating in public. Very unnerving.
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I am not a Korean, so I guess I'm just talking out of my ass: If you've been eating a lot of live kimchi for your whole life, maybe it would take a lot of research to invent an acceptable tasting dead version. Real kimchi, or at least what I've seen, is a pretty lively brew. Definitely too exciting for space travel. I imagine this program will actually match some of the hype as far as promoting commercial kimchi. I suspect if they only counted irradiation-based processes the research cost would have been far less.
I thought I'd die. TFA gets archived in an old folder named "the_end"
Yeah, like an announcement by our Fearless Leader was needed, for us to know they are tapping our communications.
I haven't tried YAHOO! for a search since Google came out, but IIRC YAHOO! nearly always returned mostly irrelevant leads for me. Google has nearly always had a hit near or on top of the first page, first try for me. (Botanical research mostly, YMMV.) Bill is welcome to have it, IMO, It goes well with the feature creature that is Windows.
AKA Lincoln?
Apple was evil to CoS?
"Soon the system will work the way it is designed to." Bwahahaha fixed it for you.
"in fact it is jobs, not entitlements, that help the poor."
That reminded me, it is real productivity, rather than jobs, that help the economy. So much of our effort is for money, which allows us to produce so little with our time. It is a wonder as many of us are still making out okay, as are. I don't pretend to have an answer, maybe some of you Big Brains can come up with something. The states and the people have conspired to shut down the engine of productivity, or at least off-shore an awful lot of it. I think that dealing with the laws that exist is wise in MSs case. OTOH using the law to scam the people is evil. Perhaps if the law was revised to even the field for corporations OPERATING IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, some good real estate might go on the market as Microsoft moves to the nice part of Nevada. (Actually, the nice part of Nevada doesn't need- anybody.) Using the state and the laws to shift money to non-productive uses have created an astounding imbalance. The shit is falling towards the fan now.
Some of us realise that the Military and Police are the biggest tax-suckers. Considering the value addition that they offer, I think I'd rather support welfare. Posse comitatus FTW.
"Some people prefer the printed page."
I, for one, have a much easier time with data in a dead-tree format. I haven't yet had to deal with Vista, But have got a David Karp book for each of the other Windows versions that I have dealt with. Some of the stuff IS a bit obvious, but certainly necessary for some users. In my experience, his past books have been very useful for neutering some of the more egregious features of the Windows experience. (As Karp himself points out, egregious features are the hallmark of MS products.) If I have to start running Vista, I will probably be looking for the Karp book before doing the first install, as I have in the past. It sounds like it might be even more rigueur than before, if it could prevent buying an overly-crippled version of the OS.
"Otherwise they are a blight on society from my experience."
Yes some industries seem to thrive on the blight model, and the ones that do, sometimes manage to provoke unions that allegedly try to protect the worker's rights. Big Coal? Of course I think unions are a thing of the past. Big Media? As it is now, our fearless industrial leaders need merely employ the legislative system to legalize any means of doing business, and outlaw unions as well, so our only protection would seem to be the largess of the corporation. Thank you and good night.
Cheap bet.
Exactly why I have landscaped the outer perimeter of my yard with giant piles of rock.
"When I put computer systems into police departments in the 1980's, we were told that the software had to purge and absolutely delete all records on a person arrested if they were not charged, or found not guilty."
Eau d'yeah, that reminds me of an occasion when I spent some time sitting in the back of a LAPD patrol car, (handcuffed for my protection). I did get to see a lifetime list of all my police contacts (spurious allegations, no convictions) on the in-car computer, including all my juvenile contacts. I asked the officer what it was doing there and he stated he had no records of any of that, then he claimed that it would be incorrect for any non-convictions to be listed, and that I had not seen any such list. Now I am a bit worried that some zealot is going to pull me over some day, see that list, and decide that my time of beating the charges and being released is over. I have personally witnessed that sort of thing before. And telling the court that a cop is lying doesn't seem to gain much traction.
This has been linked to the Republicans. Ever heard of G.W. Bush?
Just like the cold war. Best to spend billions on something completely useless, so that when need actually arises, tax-dollar extraction can start clean in a previously unfunded field.
Ron Lanner has been threatening to re-publish his "Trees of The Great Basin" digitally. I would much prefer it in solid form. I dread having to buy a new ink cartridge just for that. I am the same with music. Sell me the "real thing".
But it will justify the price increase.
All the pre-configured boxen I have ever seen (not talking high-end here, unfortunately), have historically been inadequate when it came to memory support and bus speed. Adequate for office applications but no headroom for any real upgrades. I've always spent the few extra dollars as if the computer might get upgraded, though when the time comes it seems cheaper to start from scratch since old stuff so goes up in price once it hits obsolescence. I somehow doubt that any cheap Dells are sporting active pfc, Which I'd think would pay for itself in a very short time, but doesn't generate much buzz in the advertising world. I have a thing about fast refresh, so the bundled monitors and video cards are nearly always inadequate for me also. And I don't EVEN play games.
Most of the people who went back to their cars did so because BART is such an Astoundingly Ineffective System. BART costs a ridiculous amount of money to run. The vehicular units weigh far too much for the task. Smaller units with short headway, (I hate to wait), scaled by demand, and available 24/7, would make the system serviceable to far more customers. I never saw any security at 0300 HRS on BART because the crowds were too thick. It is not as if nobody wants to ride. Actually the BART cops are pretty fucked up and would probably mobilise to get all the drunks back on the highways if things normalised at 24/7. Buses to feed the BART are a poor idea as well. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the Key Line and the Red Car Line and whatever else used to serve commuters, for their day. (Don't get me started on THAT one.) I envy that you can incorporate BART into your commute rather than 17 miles of hell. I just said adios to a 47 mile joyride down CA-4 among others. It beat heck out of the three-and-a-half hour (each way) bus-to-BART-to-bus thing that I enjoyed when I got my transmission renewed. Small monorails could be much more cost effective than the system we run now. If you are going from point a to b to a, most of us should not need a private vehicle. And some of us, don't forget, never make it home. "What price?" They always say, but no one thinks the solution is worth it. That's what they've been told, and they're sticking to it. A monorail, by its nature tends to mow down far fewer pedestrians and cars. About an x:0 ratio probably. Had we upgraded the old existing system and expanded the modern result to encompass the urban portions of our state, the highway system could have evolved much more effectively. BART took longer to build than the moon rocket. We've come a little bit further techwise but if the politicians take care of it we'll probably continue with what worked okay (profit-wise) since the steam days. BART has some pretty ancient roots. BART service levels are not crippled? ...I disagree. respectfully. ...(face turning red, hard to breath...)
IMO some sort of parity could be implemented in our support of the infrastructure of transportation. At present I believe it is skewed towards a particular mode of vehicle here in USA at present. OTOH, since it is PUBLIC MONEY being spent, (quit your crying already about who pays gas tax, even the ducks pay for oil), maybe we COULD provide a reasonable level of service to all citizens. Some would choose not to support the Bus/Car thing, and I think we could accommodate bicycles a little better. (Eliminating buses would be a good start. Replace them with ultralight monorail.) Pedestrians deserve better access to the Earth as far as that goes. BART out here on the west coast is a colossal joke. It did almost work temporarily when the earthquake broke the bridge, but as soon as they repaired the bridge, they crippled the train system again. I wonder how many megadollars that glitch cost the oil guys.
AFAIK the efficiency of most urban roads seems to collapse around commute time. A simple solution would be to add an ultralight monorail system. Unlike Buses and cars, nobody would be forced to fear death going to and from work, and it would scale very well with a "packet frequency" rather than a "packet size" approach.
I would rather not share the road with large public buses. Transportation on that scale should more properly be served by light, safe monorails, which would retrofit easily into most suburban neighborhoods. Unfortunately, economical solutions which do not divert the maximum tax money to the private sector are impossible to implement in The Land Of The Free. Perhaps someone could skew -er publish some data of concern: "CHILDREN CRUSHED BENEATH THE WHEELS", or something. A little late for this Election Cycle, any takers for next time?
"On the other hand, it could also be used as a tool for additional unnecessary surveillance."
Can you really imagine our Fearless Leaders not using this tool to monitor dissent? Pfft!
Having lived in Bezerkley for a few years, I learned to avoid the people with invisible friends. (Warning! Warning! Cross the street, Will Robinson!) I don't think I will ever get used to the borg communicating in public. Very unnerving.