I am seeing a lot of discussion as far as cost/capacity, speed, tolerance rating. I am surprised no one has brought up the discussion of HDD and SSD in RAID configurations. I think one recent slashdot article discuss about the use of SSD in data centers and its limitations but so far this has not being part of this discussion.
Not really. Xhinhua is politicizing the situation where Google is attempting to receive protection from it OWN government when being intruded upon. Why is it a bad thing for Google to ask NSA for security assistance when their high profile account is being hacked with possible traces to the Chinese government? I am not saying Chinese government has a hand in it but the suspicion should warrant Google to seek governmental help to pin point the issue and prevent additional attack from happening.
Let's not forget Google is a US registered company with headquarter in California. Their stock is listed in US stock exchange. They pay taxes to US government. Seeking help and protection from your own government is well within their rights as a US company.
Further I don't think China has any leg on the issue either since they actively help their own industries and private companies with ties. It's all just a Publicity Stunt to keep its own citizen from sympathizing Google by playing a patriotic card.
that while some Internet users in certain Western countries may see the Internet as something which exists independently of society and is merely a medium through which two individuals may communicate, from the Chinese POV it is a part of society and therefore allowed to be controlled.
To be totally honest, I agree with the Chinese POV, since $People \in Society$ and $Internetusers \subset Society$.
If you are agreeing with Chinese POV, why are you posting as AC? Don't you want to be monitored and controlled and being praised to be patriotic? The simple fact is that everyone online in China are subject to searches and lack of privacy. Any government or any special interest groups outside of the government with enough favors with the government can find you and harrass you. You have no protection when attempting to raise a different voice.
The fact that you are posting as AC tells me you either don't understand what you are saying, or you are a hypocrite who don't practice nor believe what you just said.
Almost all companies lease their offices. They could buy them and save rent. It would possibly be cheaper. They don;t though. They don't want all that capital tied up in property. They can use it for business expansion instead.
Mega corporations like Intel, Microsoft, ang Google with significant real estate needs do not lease their main campuses. They buy them and build them out the way they see fit. It also comes with local government incentives so it makes a lot of sense actually for them to own instead of to lease. Occassionally they sell the properties (like HP did) but in general they still own then property. Same goes for Walmart. I cannot recall a single store now in United States where Walmart does not own the property or the properties being held by subsidiaries or very close affiliates (i.e. Walmart owns shares of the company significantly enough to keep them from screwing with Walmart). In fact I have seen signs of "Walmart Realty" signs pop-up before.
I am sure a few satellite office for their regional sales, etc. are on lease but they are more of the exceptions than the rule for those companies.
One person says Google's bill is zero, because they run the infrastructure themselves.
Another person says Google's bill is not zero because they have to maintain the network.
It's all about perspectives: Do you count internal cost or not in the discussion.
Obviously it cost "something" for the infrstructure. Is it a fixed cost internally which can be minimized and absorbed or is it an external bill which can increase significanly as the business expands.
I think the point of the article is to debunk inaccurate speculations from traders who have no technical and real commercial knowledge who may be trying to trash Google's stock for short gain. Not necessarily figure out how many Washingtons Google has to shell out.
Then again, where would be the fun of slashdot if we can't go back and forth on the chicken-and-the-edd argument...
No high voltage necessary. All you need is a straight 48VDC shot through the USB's power rail and the whole thing should be toasted. 24VDC might work but heck, you want to see the smoke for positive confirmation don't you?
If all things failed and there's a traditional POTS line available, the voltage difference between the line and ground will also work.
Hey pudge nice job trying to have a discussion here on religion with lots fo Christian bashers. You put up a valiant effort.
I think however God intends the Christian believe to be a very personal expeience and therefore you can't really win any heart and soul though arguments of religious doctorine. If that was the case Paul would have won the argument and convert the entire Roman Empire in his own lifetime. Heck why were so many Christian has to suffer the persecution since day one of the Christianity?
To be a Christian is to believe it from the HEART. Not in the mind. I personally don't see any reason to get in deeper into the "Is there a God and are you stupid enough to believe in God" argument (it really boils down to that if you know what I mean). No one is going to change their position except everyone are more pissed-off after the arguments and we lose our ears to listen to conerns truely worthy of our time.
Again I reallly think you are very brave to stand up for what you believe in and attempting to do the impossible to foster a discussion in a rather dis-advantaged position. In fact slashdot is probaly not the best channel to discuss religion in general (excpet we have this article talking about trading Bible for p0rn). I probably should have also send this post in private to you, as what was taught in the Bible. However I hope you would understand that my little effort to show others an aspect of Christianity we lived by daily through demonstration and not just arguments on paper. And we value the principles more by living it than by proping it up and make others abide by it.
It's like Dr. House said, "If religious people could be reasoned with there would be no religious people."
Same can be said about atheist proponent. Some of of them could not be reasoned with to share with the "why" people choose to believe there is a God. They don't respect your stance on believing in God. They just want to make a point and show their positions are superior than others. They are no better or no worse than the religious zealot in any religion, be Christianity, Muslim, Buddhist, or even Hindoism.
I need to make it clear that I am a Christian and I SUPPORT the use of any scientific tools for new scientific discoveries, so long as it is ethical determined by the respective field (no I'm not going to dictate what is "ethical" for the doctors when I'm not an expert in medical field, although I can tell you very clearly what is ethical and what is just plain wrong in my field of work).
Any true believer of God can tell you (including me) that we belive in the existence of God not because it is easy to believe in. In fact we were not won over by clever arguments. Rather it is through our life experience we choose to belive that there is a God, and the God we believe in (i.e. choosing a religion). In fact one of my cousins who was raised in an atheist family choose to believe in God and attending church services regularly overseas, which there are no peer pressure to join a church, you have to want to do it youself.
So what am I saying here? The point I'm trying to make is that at least there are some of us Christian believers respect and value our scientific educations (and training) a great deal. But that does not make us less of a beliver. What it does however is to see through the folley of both religious and atheist zealot whose sole concern is to propel their own philosiphy and has no true concerns for the wellfare of others around them.
Lastly, I think House is real smart and funny! I love the show. But you have to admit that you want to choke him a occassionally (mentally) if he is your co-worker for being a world class jerk...
When Terry's immediate supervisors -- in the IT department -- asked for the passwords, he refused, which is flat out insubordination. The senior IT managers should have access to the network passwords. That is a part of their job description. It's the responsibility of administrators to make sure that the passwords are disseminated to the appropriate people, and stored securely. (e.g.: in a lockbox, safe, or whatever...)
If they have fired him first then ask him, that is no longer insubordination. At that point all he had to follow was the simple ethic rules govern the work of a professionals. At no point he is liable to give the password to people who he know will not put it to good use and worse possibly exposing records that were suppose to be kept secure. All I see was they are trying to get him one way or another. If the jury do not give him a not guilty verdit (after being in jain for more than 2 years) I hope the governor of California does. If not I certainly hope Obama will help the "weak in need" in this situation. Child do not deserve to be jailed for what he did. He may be a pain of you know what but he certainly is getting things done the correct way.
Speak of Obama. No one in the military should allow him to fly an F-22 solo (I'm pretty sure he does not have the necessary military training to operate such advanced plane that costs billions of dollars), even if him or Rhom demanded someone to let him fly. Should a colonel (or even a captain) denied Obama access to the cockpit they should not be jailed 2 years and then tried for that. They followed the rules and did their job. Simple as that. It would be endangering public safety to allow him to fly one, not to mention the extensive tax payer dollar that are at risk of being wasted unnecessarily.
But Childs himself behaved terribly as well. None of those passwords were his. None of those systems were his. It doesn't matter if his employers were competent or not; he should have let them have access to their own property. If he thought they were going to ruin things, speak out.
I beg to disagree. As an engineer public safety is top of our concerns and it is part of the ethics I abide by everyday. A safety concern overrides everything else, until the concerns has been addressed. I still remember I had a discussion with my boss basically he went "I won't stop you from doing anything unless it is unsafe or you are about to make a major mistake", and my reply was simply "I won't follow your order if I know in full will that it will creat an unsafe environment." He agreed with me that that is what I get paid to do, to do things right and make sure no one gets hurt.
I see Mr Childs did just that. Properly secure the network and only give the password to somone who can truely be trusted, when he knows in full will that his immediate supervisor and related management team has no clue and unqualified to make technical decision and is about to creat a major security vulnerability over major accounting information that should have been kept under guards! In a sense he IS protecting public safety and therefore should not, and truely cannot be tried to keep public safe and secure. Too bad that the jury probably won't truely understand it and Child will most likely be sentenced for a very long time with the keys thrown into the pacific ocean.
How ironic that this happens to the most liberal city of United States and is the hometown of our Speaker of the House, Nancy Peloci. I don't see her standing out to protect the weak who are truely in need in this incident.
But having a passion to stop others collecting stamps and become active about it IS a hobby. He/she active engaging in such activies feels rewarded by such activities.
how the average lower middle class person is supposed to pay for healthcare in this country
the conservative answer is "shut up and get busy dying"
As a conservative I don't agree with the current "conservative" leaders on the issue. We need to take a hard look at present health system and conduct a sweeping reforms to make healthcare affordable. I also do not like how the big business like the wireless power (utilities) companies, and airlines that take advantage of general public. I would wish they go back and re-regulate those industries.
However, that does not mean I agree with the other liberal agenda. I don't agree on liberal's idea of passive forrest management which end up causing more major forest fires (yes it was a subject a professior made us to study in geography class, of all places. I wish I had forgot about it. Please find that reference yourself). I also think nuclear and natural gas are strategic in our energy policy and we need to utilize them to eventually migrate to more permenent renewable energy sources. Also I just don't like Nancy Pelosi and I am pro strong immagration policy (why bodering with citizenship when you have a porous border?). I also don't like the attitudes of some liberals who consider anyone who does not agree with them and does not have the skills to artulate their thoughts throughly are just stupid and are not worthy of dignity.
So please, if you are willing to trade out Pelosi I would be happy to trade Limbough out for her. I have no use for him and his talk show anyway. I feel sorry for the people who are still listening to him. You can only take the same joke for so long.
Even when a church does charitable work, it comes with a sermon which is basically a sales pitch to join something very like an MLM scheme. It isn't charity, it's marketing.
I don't understand. Why is it so bad to have a sales pitch to do good rather than evil things? Athiest preach there is no God on daily basis. Can't church members demonstrate what they belive in action, such as prayer before meal and praising God for an opportunity to help others (to love others as yourself)? Prayer is an act of expression, so is lack of it by the athiests.
Also just FYI quite a bit of church sponsored non-profit organization for actual charitable work actually tell their volunteers do not be over-zelous about preaching to the people in need. They want to make sure people are actually getting the assistance they need before someone opening their mouth and say something stupid and cost the foundation an opportunity to help people on a continuous basis.
I'm fairly certain it wouldn't be all that hard to implement USB as a replacement standard(it's the most logical choice), a specialized host controller to connect to a simple easy to maintain driver on the laptop(which would eventually become standard just like RS-232) wouldn't really be that difficult to stick in ROM or in some sort of boot loader separate from the main OS shouldn't be that hard to do.
The challenge is that every vendor comes up with their own implementations of USB and they are not compatible with each other. The USB implementation of Allen-Bradley (sorry I'm in control systems) are not the same as the other vendors, such as schneider, or even Cisco on the other spectrum of seperate industries. You simply can do too much with USB. Honestly we simply need to take a deep breath, swallow our pride in our skills, and just come up with an honest-to-God, so-simple-even-a-good-tech-can-understand protocols for the USB-based terminal communications (and allow bolt-on protocols like Modbus, DH-485,etc, etc.).
I have been looking around for viable options for the past 5+ years and honestly there are simply no good solutions emerging yet. If there was one we would have jump on it as soon as possible and make our vendor to put it in (at least strongly suggesting them to implement it in the next version of hardware design).
Are you frustrating with Modbus or are you frustrated with USB-Serial protocol? Modbus (not Modbus TCP) is probably one of the simplist, best understood protocol that is being used in the industry. In fact a lot of operating companies convert and aggregate data in Modbus protocol before brining them into their centralized control system (SCADA or DCS). You most likely only need to implement a certain subset of Modbus protocol for the thermal probe and it will work just fine.
But all practicality prupose, why are you making a Modbus thermal probe? You probably saved a lot of cost in design time just get an off-the-shelf serial or ethernet based remote IO module that has either RTD or thermocouple inputs on it. Unless you are actually making a product to sell I don't see it as cost effective measure to design it yourself. They are so cheap nowadays.
especially things like port powered 232 to 485 converter
This is why I never use port powered RS232 to 485 converter. It must be externally powered, bit-wise conversion (there were some ASCII only converter out there a few years ago, and they are CHEAP). Furthermore I don't buy RS-485 port in DB-9 form and always choose the terminal block connection for RS-485 so it is easier to install for my techs - if it doesn't work, swap the wires and check it again.
Sure it makes the whole thing a bit more pricy but it works perfectly well under most conditions. Also I find out the PCMCIA or Express card Serial port expander works real well with the DOS based programs (some programs you just can't get rid of them), where USB-based converters will not work at all, unless you have a seperate VMWare Setup for DOS to emulate the serial port.
Humm.. The price of Natural gas went down from the peak of $12 to $5 now. I'm not sure why that will not meant the supply has become more in the market than the actual demand.
Also the technology herdle you mentioned for the Rockies has been overcame (for the most part). Just ask the riggers and the exploration teams. The fact is that there are significant more gas flowing out of Rockies right now because of the technology improvements. New wells are still being developed as we speak. Again I don't think this will last forever, but certainly longer than 20 years since the current reserve without the Rockies are over 20 years in US. We have not touch the coal to methane conversion plants that are being planned. Given the current consideration I don't see transporting natural gas from overseas as a cost effective options, only that given enough time and continue resource it can become more cost effective. Think nano technology that has been under R&D rather than the traditional compression/regregiration techniques.
I don't argue with you that it would be a huge mistake to depend on natural gas as a silver bullet to our energy policy. However I do see it as a very critical resource to bridge us over to a more permanent solutions. The truth is that alternative options are still very costly compare to natural gas (even at $12 per MMBTU), even when you factor in the environmental cost. we need time to develop those technologies so simply berating on using natural gas is simply not be the best path we should be taking today. Rather we need to acknowledge the fact that we are sorely lacking other technologies and actively persuing it over the next decades while taking advantage of the resource we currently have while doing that.
It is really not a eitehr-or solutions, it is a comprehensive solutions that will help us overcome the limited fossil fuel resources in our disposal. unfortunately, the fossil fuels will play an active roles during the transitions while we work overtime to make other renewable energy becoming more of a reality.
Natural Gas will more than likely be depleted within the next 20 years....So unless a massive, massive, Natural Gas field gets discovered AND we start putting all of our rigs out there working on it, gas prices are going to climb upward FAST.
Well, gosh, I don't know how to start. You have a lot of good point with facts but then you obviously is not aware of major events of what is happening in the energy industry. There is this big mountain in US call the Rockies that has one of the biggest known reserves of natural gas that was not tapped previously because of the technical challenges. In addition there are also major finds in the Gulf of Mexico, and another location in East near the coal mining area. The Rockies reserves are estimated to last US for 20 years at the current consumption rate, not mentioning other findings.
I do agree with you that natural gas does not solve all the problems. It is still a fossil fuel and it will still run out. But it is not depleating as soon as some alarmist suggest. It will more likely to peak over a very long period before we see a gradual decline in production rate, here in US.
There are people claiming the US natural gas reserve is running dry since the '80s. But we kept on finding new locations with better technologies and become better at recovering them. Oh, the rigs are "not working" does not means the wells they developed prior ar not producing. As soon as the price is coming back up they will be working again pretty soon here.
Rethink your broken world scenario as: you are better off investing your money in forward-thinking technologies, as not only will your money continue on in other growing corporations, but it also goes to promote a technology that you want to see grow as well.
"forward-thinking" technology without a lot of technical basis to explain the process = high-risk tech experiment that is very well not ready for prime time, less to pay itself off. We are not talking about some software programs here but real phsical process. Heck the reason Google was such a good IPO in the first place was the fact that they have solid, proven technologies and the company was already making tons of profit quarter after quarter.
I'm sorry but I'd rather put my money where I know it works. There are better ways to save the environmentand utilize renewable energy. This 1000-degree oven hasn't convince me it is, dispite what it claims to be.
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I am seeing a lot of discussion as far as cost/capacity, speed, tolerance rating. I am surprised no one has brought up the discussion of HDD and SSD in RAID configurations. I think one recent slashdot article discuss about the use of SSD in data centers and its limitations but so far this has not being part of this discussion.
Not really. Xhinhua is politicizing the situation where Google is attempting to receive protection from it OWN government when being intruded upon. Why is it a bad thing for Google to ask NSA for security assistance when their high profile account is being hacked with possible traces to the Chinese government? I am not saying Chinese government has a hand in it but the suspicion should warrant Google to seek governmental help to pin point the issue and prevent additional attack from happening.
Let's not forget Google is a US registered company with headquarter in California. Their stock is listed in US stock exchange. They pay taxes to US government. Seeking help and protection from your own government is well within their rights as a US company.
Further I don't think China has any leg on the issue either since they actively help their own industries and private companies with ties. It's all just a Publicity Stunt to keep its own citizen from sympathizing Google by playing a patriotic card.
that while some Internet users in certain Western countries may see the Internet as something which exists independently of society and is merely a medium through which two individuals may communicate, from the Chinese POV it is a part of society and therefore allowed to be controlled.
To be totally honest, I agree with the Chinese POV, since $People \in Society$ and $Internetusers \subset Society$.
If you are agreeing with Chinese POV, why are you posting as AC? Don't you want to be monitored and controlled and being praised to be patriotic? The simple fact is that everyone online in China are subject to searches and lack of privacy. Any government or any special interest groups outside of the government with enough favors with the government can find you and harrass you. You have no protection when attempting to raise a different voice.
The fact that you are posting as AC tells me you either don't understand what you are saying, or you are a hypocrite who don't practice nor believe what you just said.
Almost all companies lease their offices. They could buy them and save rent. It would possibly be cheaper. They don;t though. They don't want all that capital tied up in property. They can use it for business expansion instead.
Mega corporations like Intel, Microsoft, ang Google with significant real estate needs do not lease their main campuses. They buy them and build them out the way they see fit. It also comes with local government incentives so it makes a lot of sense actually for them to own instead of to lease. Occassionally they sell the properties (like HP did) but in general they still own then property. Same goes for Walmart. I cannot recall a single store now in United States where Walmart does not own the property or the properties being held by subsidiaries or very close affiliates (i.e. Walmart owns shares of the company significantly enough to keep them from screwing with Walmart). In fact I have seen signs of "Walmart Realty" signs pop-up before.
I am sure a few satellite office for their regional sales, etc. are on lease but they are more of the exceptions than the rule for those companies.
They didn't lay the fiber--they bought it. Before YouTube came into existence.
And they bought them with pennies on the dollar as well.
It's a sunk cost, and leaving it dark is cheaper than lighting it up.
Not if lighting it up means savings on other part of your operation.
This is what I am hearing:
One person says Google's bill is zero, because they run the infrastructure themselves.
Another person says Google's bill is not zero because they have to maintain the network.
It's all about perspectives: Do you count internal cost or not in the discussion. Obviously it cost "something" for the infrstructure. Is it a fixed cost internally which can be minimized and absorbed or is it an external bill which can increase significanly as the business expands.
I think the point of the article is to debunk inaccurate speculations from traders who have no technical and real commercial knowledge who may be trying to trash Google's stock for short gain. Not necessarily figure out how many Washingtons Google has to shell out.
Then again, where would be the fun of slashdot if we can't go back and forth on the chicken-and-the-edd argument...
No high voltage necessary. All you need is a straight 48VDC shot through the USB's power rail and the whole thing should be toasted. 24VDC might work but heck, you want to see the smoke for positive confirmation don't you?
If all things failed and there's a traditional POTS line available, the voltage difference between the line and ground will also work.
Hey pudge nice job trying to have a discussion here on religion with lots fo Christian bashers. You put up a valiant effort.
I think however God intends the Christian believe to be a very personal expeience and therefore you can't really win any heart and soul though arguments of religious doctorine. If that was the case Paul would have won the argument and convert the entire Roman Empire in his own lifetime. Heck why were so many Christian has to suffer the persecution since day one of the Christianity?
To be a Christian is to believe it from the HEART. Not in the mind. I personally don't see any reason to get in deeper into the "Is there a God and are you stupid enough to believe in God" argument (it really boils down to that if you know what I mean). No one is going to change their position except everyone are more pissed-off after the arguments and we lose our ears to listen to conerns truely worthy of our time.
Again I reallly think you are very brave to stand up for what you believe in and attempting to do the impossible to foster a discussion in a rather dis-advantaged position. In fact slashdot is probaly not the best channel to discuss religion in general (excpet we have this article talking about trading Bible for p0rn). I probably should have also send this post in private to you, as what was taught in the Bible. However I hope you would understand that my little effort to show others an aspect of Christianity we lived by daily through demonstration and not just arguments on paper. And we value the principles more by living it than by proping it up and make others abide by it.
It's like Dr. House said, "If religious people could be reasoned with there would be no religious people."
Same can be said about atheist proponent. Some of of them could not be reasoned with to share with the "why" people choose to believe there is a God. They don't respect your stance on believing in God. They just want to make a point and show their positions are superior than others. They are no better or no worse than the religious zealot in any religion, be Christianity, Muslim, Buddhist, or even Hindoism.
I need to make it clear that I am a Christian and I SUPPORT the use of any scientific tools for new scientific discoveries, so long as it is ethical determined by the respective field (no I'm not going to dictate what is "ethical" for the doctors when I'm not an expert in medical field, although I can tell you very clearly what is ethical and what is just plain wrong in my field of work). Any true believer of God can tell you (including me) that we belive in the existence of God not because it is easy to believe in. In fact we were not won over by clever arguments. Rather it is through our life experience we choose to belive that there is a God, and the God we believe in (i.e. choosing a religion). In fact one of my cousins who was raised in an atheist family choose to believe in God and attending church services regularly overseas, which there are no peer pressure to join a church, you have to want to do it youself.
So what am I saying here? The point I'm trying to make is that at least there are some of us Christian believers respect and value our scientific educations (and training) a great deal. But that does not make us less of a beliver. What it does however is to see through the folley of both religious and atheist zealot whose sole concern is to propel their own philosiphy and has no true concerns for the wellfare of others around them.
Lastly, I think House is real smart and funny! I love the show. But you have to admit that you want to choke him a occassionally (mentally) if he is your co-worker for being a world class jerk...
When Terry's immediate supervisors -- in the IT department -- asked for the passwords, he refused, which is flat out insubordination. The senior IT managers should have access to the network passwords. That is a part of their job description. It's the responsibility of administrators to make sure that the passwords are disseminated to the appropriate people, and stored securely. (e.g.: in a lockbox, safe, or whatever...)
If they have fired him first then ask him, that is no longer insubordination. At that point all he had to follow was the simple ethic rules govern the work of a professionals. At no point he is liable to give the password to people who he know will not put it to good use and worse possibly exposing records that were suppose to be kept secure. All I see was they are trying to get him one way or another. If the jury do not give him a not guilty verdit (after being in jain for more than 2 years) I hope the governor of California does. If not I certainly hope Obama will help the "weak in need" in this situation. Child do not deserve to be jailed for what he did. He may be a pain of you know what but he certainly is getting things done the correct way.
Speak of Obama. No one in the military should allow him to fly an F-22 solo (I'm pretty sure he does not have the necessary military training to operate such advanced plane that costs billions of dollars), even if him or Rhom demanded someone to let him fly. Should a colonel (or even a captain) denied Obama access to the cockpit they should not be jailed 2 years and then tried for that. They followed the rules and did their job. Simple as that. It would be endangering public safety to allow him to fly one, not to mention the extensive tax payer dollar that are at risk of being wasted unnecessarily.
But Childs himself behaved terribly as well. None of those passwords were his. None of those systems were his. It doesn't matter if his employers were competent or not; he should have let them have access to their own property. If he thought they were going to ruin things, speak out.
I beg to disagree. As an engineer public safety is top of our concerns and it is part of the ethics I abide by everyday. A safety concern overrides everything else, until the concerns has been addressed. I still remember I had a discussion with my boss basically he went "I won't stop you from doing anything unless it is unsafe or you are about to make a major mistake", and my reply was simply "I won't follow your order if I know in full will that it will creat an unsafe environment." He agreed with me that that is what I get paid to do, to do things right and make sure no one gets hurt.
I see Mr Childs did just that. Properly secure the network and only give the password to somone who can truely be trusted, when he knows in full will that his immediate supervisor and related management team has no clue and unqualified to make technical decision and is about to creat a major security vulnerability over major accounting information that should have been kept under guards! In a sense he IS protecting public safety and therefore should not, and truely cannot be tried to keep public safe and secure. Too bad that the jury probably won't truely understand it and Child will most likely be sentenced for a very long time with the keys thrown into the pacific ocean.
How ironic that this happens to the most liberal city of United States and is the hometown of our Speaker of the House, Nancy Peloci. I don't see her standing out to protect the weak who are truely in need in this incident.
"Atheism is a belief"
Only if not collecting stamps is a hobby.
But having a passion to stop others collecting stamps and become active about it IS a hobby. He/she active engaging in such activies feels rewarded by such activities.
Atheism is a belief. It is a belief that there are no deities/gods/whatever.
No, it's not.
By the way you defend it yes it is. Same way Confucian teach from Chinese culture is being categorized by Western scholar.
how the average lower middle class person is supposed to pay for healthcare in this country
the conservative answer is "shut up and get busy dying"
As a conservative I don't agree with the current "conservative" leaders on the issue. We need to take a hard look at present health system and conduct a sweeping reforms to make healthcare affordable. I also do not like how the big business like the wireless power (utilities) companies, and airlines that take advantage of general public. I would wish they go back and re-regulate those industries.
However, that does not mean I agree with the other liberal agenda. I don't agree on liberal's idea of passive forrest management which end up causing more major forest fires (yes it was a subject a professior made us to study in geography class, of all places. I wish I had forgot about it. Please find that reference yourself). I also think nuclear and natural gas are strategic in our energy policy and we need to utilize them to eventually migrate to more permenent renewable energy sources. Also I just don't like Nancy Pelosi and I am pro strong immagration policy (why bodering with citizenship when you have a porous border?). I also don't like the attitudes of some liberals who consider anyone who does not agree with them and does not have the skills to artulate their thoughts throughly are just stupid and are not worthy of dignity.
So please, if you are willing to trade out Pelosi I would be happy to trade Limbough out for her. I have no use for him and his talk show anyway. I feel sorry for the people who are still listening to him. You can only take the same joke for so long.
Even when a church does charitable work, it comes with a sermon which is basically a sales pitch to join something very like an MLM scheme. It isn't charity, it's marketing.
I don't understand. Why is it so bad to have a sales pitch to do good rather than evil things? Athiest preach there is no God on daily basis. Can't church members demonstrate what they belive in action, such as prayer before meal and praising God for an opportunity to help others (to love others as yourself)? Prayer is an act of expression, so is lack of it by the athiests.
Also just FYI quite a bit of church sponsored non-profit organization for actual charitable work actually tell their volunteers do not be over-zelous about preaching to the people in need. They want to make sure people are actually getting the assistance they need before someone opening their mouth and say something stupid and cost the foundation an opportunity to help people on a continuous basis.
Trust me Texas is way better than Alabama and New Mexico.
I don't know why you are mod insightful. Your post should be modded funny!
Too bad IP can't be equated to brains. Too many shitty patents for that to be even close to a comparison.
Not all brains are created equal: Some are better than others. So are the qualities of all IPs out there.
I'm fairly certain it wouldn't be all that hard to implement USB as a replacement standard(it's the most logical choice), a specialized host controller to connect to a simple easy to maintain driver on the laptop(which would eventually become standard just like RS-232) wouldn't really be that difficult to stick in ROM or in some sort of boot loader separate from the main OS shouldn't be that hard to do.
The challenge is that every vendor comes up with their own implementations of USB and they are not compatible with each other. The USB implementation of Allen-Bradley (sorry I'm in control systems) are not the same as the other vendors, such as schneider, or even Cisco on the other spectrum of seperate industries. You simply can do too much with USB. Honestly we simply need to take a deep breath, swallow our pride in our skills, and just come up with an honest-to-God, so-simple-even-a-good-tech-can-understand protocols for the USB-based terminal communications (and allow bolt-on protocols like Modbus, DH-485,etc, etc.).
I have been looking around for viable options for the past 5+ years and honestly there are simply no good solutions emerging yet. If there was one we would have jump on it as soon as possible and make our vendor to put it in (at least strongly suggesting them to implement it in the next version of hardware design).
Are you frustrating with Modbus or are you frustrated with USB-Serial protocol? Modbus (not Modbus TCP) is probably one of the simplist, best understood protocol that is being used in the industry. In fact a lot of operating companies convert and aggregate data in Modbus protocol before brining them into their centralized control system (SCADA or DCS). You most likely only need to implement a certain subset of Modbus protocol for the thermal probe and it will work just fine.
But all practicality prupose, why are you making a Modbus thermal probe? You probably saved a lot of cost in design time just get an off-the-shelf serial or ethernet based remote IO module that has either RTD or thermocouple inputs on it. Unless you are actually making a product to sell I don't see it as cost effective measure to design it yourself. They are so cheap nowadays.
especially things like port powered 232 to 485 converter
This is why I never use port powered RS232 to 485 converter. It must be externally powered, bit-wise conversion (there were some ASCII only converter out there a few years ago, and they are CHEAP). Furthermore I don't buy RS-485 port in DB-9 form and always choose the terminal block connection for RS-485 so it is easier to install for my techs - if it doesn't work, swap the wires and check it again.
Sure it makes the whole thing a bit more pricy but it works perfectly well under most conditions. Also I find out the PCMCIA or Express card Serial port expander works real well with the DOS based programs (some programs you just can't get rid of them), where USB-based converters will not work at all, unless you have a seperate VMWare Setup for DOS to emulate the serial port.
Humm.. The price of Natural gas went down from the peak of $12 to $5 now. I'm not sure why that will not meant the supply has become more in the market than the actual demand.
Also the technology herdle you mentioned for the Rockies has been overcame (for the most part). Just ask the riggers and the exploration teams. The fact is that there are significant more gas flowing out of Rockies right now because of the technology improvements. New wells are still being developed as we speak. Again I don't think this will last forever, but certainly longer than 20 years since the current reserve without the Rockies are over 20 years in US. We have not touch the coal to methane conversion plants that are being planned. Given the current consideration I don't see transporting natural gas from overseas as a cost effective options, only that given enough time and continue resource it can become more cost effective. Think nano technology that has been under R&D rather than the traditional compression/regregiration techniques.
I don't argue with you that it would be a huge mistake to depend on natural gas as a silver bullet to our energy policy. However I do see it as a very critical resource to bridge us over to a more permanent solutions. The truth is that alternative options are still very costly compare to natural gas (even at $12 per MMBTU), even when you factor in the environmental cost. we need time to develop those technologies so simply berating on using natural gas is simply not be the best path we should be taking today. Rather we need to acknowledge the fact that we are sorely lacking other technologies and actively persuing it over the next decades while taking advantage of the resource we currently have while doing that.
It is really not a eitehr-or solutions, it is a comprehensive solutions that will help us overcome the limited fossil fuel resources in our disposal. unfortunately, the fossil fuels will play an active roles during the transitions while we work overtime to make other renewable energy becoming more of a reality.
Natural Gas will more than likely be depleted within the next 20 years....So unless a massive, massive, Natural Gas field gets discovered AND we start putting all of our rigs out there working on it, gas prices are going to climb upward FAST.
Well, gosh, I don't know how to start. You have a lot of good point with facts but then you obviously is not aware of major events of what is happening in the energy industry. There is this big mountain in US call the Rockies that has one of the biggest known reserves of natural gas that was not tapped previously because of the technical challenges. In addition there are also major finds in the Gulf of Mexico, and another location in East near the coal mining area. The Rockies reserves are estimated to last US for 20 years at the current consumption rate, not mentioning other findings.
I do agree with you that natural gas does not solve all the problems. It is still a fossil fuel and it will still run out. But it is not depleating as soon as some alarmist suggest. It will more likely to peak over a very long period before we see a gradual decline in production rate, here in US.
There are people claiming the US natural gas reserve is running dry since the '80s. But we kept on finding new locations with better technologies and become better at recovering them. Oh, the rigs are "not working" does not means the wells they developed prior ar not producing. As soon as the price is coming back up they will be working again pretty soon here.
Rethink your broken world scenario as: you are better off investing your money in forward-thinking technologies, as not only will your money continue on in other growing corporations, but it also goes to promote a technology that you want to see grow as well.
"forward-thinking" technology without a lot of technical basis to explain the process = high-risk tech experiment that is very well not ready for prime time, less to pay itself off. We are not talking about some software programs here but real phsical process. Heck the reason Google was such a good IPO in the first place was the fact that they have solid, proven technologies and the company was already making tons of profit quarter after quarter.
I'm sorry but I'd rather put my money where I know it works. There are better ways to save the environmentand utilize renewable energy. This 1000-degree oven hasn't convince me it is, dispite what it claims to be.