I may be in the minority, but I really am not very enthusastic about expensive space missions that don't really have a tangible purpose (upping morale might be a purpose, learning about other planets or peripheral advances in science because of the missions are not).
I think it's great there's some propsect of purpose in space missions, but there are a few things to think about first.
First off, according to the linked articles (what? you read those?) the fusion reactors that would use this energy source don't work yet.
Second, don't hold your breath waiting for politicians to approve spending that will destroy the coal and oil industries. It may seem like a swell idea, but the collective worth of the coal and oil industries will be fighting it.
And finally, we need to keep a little perspective. Don't run out and buy your stock in Lunar Industries Inc. just yet. It's going to take a long time, especially until there's any profit.
And talking about Terran this and Lunar that is just going to make you look like a sci fi freak, and I don't think you'll be taken very seriously.
who is 'they?' I'd recommend caution in phrasing things this way, as racism, political and religious persecution often are encouraged by blanket statements about 'they.' Just as not all politically left of center people are communist revolutionaries, or not all Muslims are terrorists, so you should address specific people with their specific faults. I think 'they'd' like it that way.
A LiveCD that will mount your windows partition, find the Favorites and My Documents and tar and gzip them and upload them to a server. Then confirm you want to 'upgrade' to Linux, install, download the recently uploaded files and pop them into the right places and welcome the user to their upgrade.
Should be able to do it with a Knoppix disk, right?
Alternately, have the user download a Windows app first that will handle the saving of info and uploading, then you boot up and it asks for the unique username and password you chose, which downloads your stuff.
I don't know about the genetically modified part, but what about making a ship hull model out of garbage or something fun like that, keep it in mussel infested water for a few years, then bring it up, and buff it down a bit. It would be like a ferro-cement hull, or like the fortress walls of St. Augustine in Florida. Might even prove to be a way to get rid of some of those mussels. Maybe you could even start out by putting some tar like goop on the garbage hull (sounds so romantic, doesn't it), and dipping it in the piles of mussel shells littering the beaches, to get your mussel shell hull started! Dip it like a donut in sprinkles!
After staying up all night helping my then girlfriend, now wife study Freud I applied everything I had learned about him in my Medieval French Poetry class, and was hailed a genius. Now that my actions have been... deconstructed, I underst... no, wait... je comprends.
For a job I did for a children's website we set up a form and asked employees to enter every foul word and phrase they could think of, which we saved into the database and used to filter out swear words. It was one filthy database.
"Microsoft's Moncau plays down predictions by Brazilian open-source supporters that government efforts to increase Linux use could create jobs and turn the country into a technology exporter. Open-source software could actually be more expensive than Windows programs when service costs are factored in, he said."
First off, I'm a bit suspect of this statement. But more importantly, service costs would mean the expense would go to employing people, rather than using that money for software liscences. So it would employee more people, which I'm sure the government would love. And does this argument hold water around the world, where labor costs differ so greatly? How much does a Unix Sys Admin cost in Brazil?
Just imagine a voucher with the Microsoft logo on it that just "says you can this for any software you like, even software not produced by Microsoft."
You'd end up with a voucher that has the Microsoft logo and brand name and no information on alternate companies. For the vast majority of people, this would tell them it's for Microsoft stuff.
Or how about if you use if for Microsoft software you just put the code on the voucher into a form box and they ship it to you for free. Buy something else and you have pay for it, fill out a form and get reimbursed in 2 weeks. Again, people will buy Microsoft stuff.
In Queens in NYC Mapquest often tells you to take Queens Blvd., which has tons of lights as well.
I worked for a startup that burned through it's cash pretty quickly, and we were making a system similar to Mapquest. I can think of so many things I'd want in a thing like that! I love Mapquest and would love to make it or something similar even better.
What are society's woes? That there are rich people? That they don't pay for everything for less wealthy people?
The philosophy of cutting taxes for the rich is to keep them happy being here and paying taxes, and for them to be encouraged to spend that wealth to create jobs.
Forbes has written a number of articles on people who give up their US Citizenship to avoid taxes (taxpatriots). Here's a site on those articles:
I couldn't believe it when the DOHS chose all MS products at a gigantic expense the week a number of security holes were found. Read my jornal for a rant about it.
I think you're assuming the owners and editors and extensive staff of/. are funding their swimming pools, mansions and exotic vacations with the ad revenue from this site.
I think it's actually a bunch of cool guys coding over cheap greasy food who liked to talk about nerdy stuff. One day OSDN, a wholly owned subsidiary of VA Software Corporation, a company that's been finding innovative ways to lose lots of money for years now, gave them some money in exchange for them continuing to do what they did.
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...brought to you by the good people at McGraw Hill.
When you make no claims it's easy not to contradict. And if you want a religion that supports your desire to think of yourself as a god, that will justify just about whatever you want to do, then the western versions of northern Buddhism seem to work well. Otherwise, just make up your own religion that best suits your needs.
Why is it people are comfortable with companies sponsoring Yoga, a religious practice? Meditation is one thing, but:
http://www.niharonline.com/culture/religion/cul_ re li_hin.php Bhagavat-Gita, a part of the epic Mahabharata, expounds the synthesis of three yogas or ways of attaining union with the Supreme Self, Gyana-yoga (union through knowledge), Bhakti-yoga (union through devotion) and Karma-yoga (union through action).
http://www.classicalyoga.org/Page18.html There has been and continues to be much confusion over what is religion and/or spirituality. In actuality, these two words have an identical meaning. "Religion" comes from the Latin root "religio" which means "to link-back" to the spirit. This is the identical meaning of the word "Yoga" which comes from the Sanskrit "Yuj;" i.e., "to yoke" to the spirit. Even before the word "Yoga" was used, the Vedas (Hindu scripture) use the word "Yajna" which essentially means "sacrifice." The word "sacrifice" comes from the Latin translation "sacred doing." With this understanding, one becomes aware of the inseparable nature of Yoga/Religion/Spirituality.
Those are some of the worst claims against the Bible I've ever seen. They're really basic items that you can find explanations for in layman Christian books, without any need for serious scholarship. But even better is a small bit of common sense.
However, if you are truely good, creative, proactive and original you will always find good work (or create it).
I have to disagree with this, too. While it might help in the hunt, it's no guarantee. Life is not a meritocracy and hard work is not the simple path to wealth (otherwise there would be some wealthy ditch diggers out there).
When you've been unemployed for a while and can't get any type of job no matter what you'll understand.
There was a recent discussion (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/28/21512 37&mode=nested&tid=137&tid=193) on how the Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the UN, recommended 3rd world nations use wifi to jumpstart their technology. Any possibility there'd be some cooperation, direction or encouragement from that angle?
It's sort of the same argument you find for fascism or communism - that if competition is controlled than energy can be focused for the benefit of more people. But people get comfortable, and they head down their own paths that seem like good ideas, but maybe aren't. You can see what Gentoo appears to be doing to Debian from discussions available on usenet, where they're considering quicker releases and easier install from source options.
And you see forks and imitations in the commercial world, too. MS SQL is a fork of Sybase. Solaris has it's roots in BSD. Commotion was made to be a Photoshop for film.
And the assertion that open source software is made by hobbyists is somewhere between crazy and funny. First off, knowing C or other languages well enough to make window managers, browsers, mailing list managers, etc. is serious. It's not like following a show on TLC to make your own shelves. The same people who work on the commercial software work on the open source and vice versa.
I think free in this case not only applies to speech and beer, but the price of sitting at the bar - in other words, not everyone has their own box to host stuff on and those who don't have to go for one of the shared hosting things. And they nearly all have MySQL. Same reason why you don't see as much JSP, mod_perl, etc. as you'd think you would.
If it's something that would allow you to use the devices while they're charging it wouldn't even matter, really. The convenience would be great. Put on desks, conference tables, even coffee shop tables it could unobtrusively keep you charged up without having to lug big chargers and find outlets.
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I may be in the minority, but I really am not very enthusastic about expensive space missions that don't really have a tangible purpose (upping morale might be a purpose, learning about other planets or peripheral advances in science because of the missions are not).
I think it's great there's some propsect of purpose in space missions, but there are a few things to think about first.
First off, according to the linked articles (what? you read those?) the fusion reactors that would use this energy source don't work yet.
Second, don't hold your breath waiting for politicians to approve spending that will destroy the coal and oil industries. It may seem like a swell idea, but the collective worth of the coal and oil industries will be fighting it.
And finally, we need to keep a little perspective. Don't run out and buy your stock in Lunar Industries Inc. just yet. It's going to take a long time, especially until there's any profit.
And talking about Terran this and Lunar that is just going to make you look like a sci fi freak, and I don't think you'll be taken very seriously.
who is 'they?' I'd recommend caution in phrasing things this way, as racism, political and religious persecution often are encouraged by blanket statements about 'they.' Just as not all politically left of center people are communist revolutionaries, or not all Muslims are terrorists, so you should address specific people with their specific faults. I think 'they'd' like it that way.
A LiveCD that will mount your windows partition, find the Favorites and My Documents and tar and gzip them and upload them to a server. Then confirm you want to 'upgrade' to Linux, install, download the recently uploaded files and pop them into the right places and welcome the user to their upgrade.
Should be able to do it with a Knoppix disk, right?
Alternately, have the user download a Windows app first that will handle the saving of info and uploading, then you boot up and it asks for the unique username and password you chose, which downloads your stuff.
I don't know about the genetically modified part, but what about making a ship hull model out of garbage or something fun like that, keep it in mussel infested water for a few years, then bring it up, and buff it down a bit. It would be like a ferro-cement hull, or like the fortress walls of St. Augustine in Florida. Might even prove to be a way to get rid of some of those mussels. Maybe you could even start out by putting some tar like goop on the garbage hull (sounds so romantic, doesn't it), and dipping it in the piles of mussel shells littering the beaches, to get your mussel shell hull started! Dip it like a donut in sprinkles!
After staying up all night helping my then girlfriend, now wife study Freud I applied everything I had learned about him in my Medieval French Poetry class, and was hailed a genius. Now that my actions have been... deconstructed, I underst... no, wait... je comprends.
For a job I did for a children's website we set up a form and asked employees to enter every foul word and phrase they could think of, which we saved into the database and used to filter out swear words. It was one filthy database.
Wonder what they'd say if one of his buddies flew in with the fuel. In the end they might have less traffic there if they just give him the fuel.
"Microsoft's Moncau plays down predictions by Brazilian open-source supporters that government efforts to increase Linux use could create jobs and turn the country into a technology exporter. Open-source software could actually be more expensive than Windows programs when service costs are factored in, he said."
First off, I'm a bit suspect of this statement. But more importantly, service costs would mean the expense would go to employing people, rather than using that money for software liscences. So it would employee more people, which I'm sure the government would love. And does this argument hold water around the world, where labor costs differ so greatly? How much does a Unix Sys Admin cost in Brazil?
I'd like to see those vouchers.
Just imagine a voucher with the Microsoft logo on it that just "says you can this for any software you like, even software not produced by Microsoft."
You'd end up with a voucher that has the Microsoft logo and brand name and no information on alternate companies. For the vast majority of people, this would tell them it's for Microsoft stuff.
Or how about if you use if for Microsoft software you just put the code on the voucher into a form box and they ship it to you for free. Buy something else and you have pay for it, fill out a form and get reimbursed in 2 weeks. Again, people will buy Microsoft stuff.
In Queens in NYC Mapquest often tells you to take Queens Blvd., which has tons of lights as well.
I worked for a startup that burned through it's cash pretty quickly, and we were making a system similar to Mapquest. I can think of so many things I'd want in a thing like that! I love Mapquest and would love to make it or something similar even better.
What are society's woes? That there are rich people? That they don't pay for everything for less wealthy people?
The philosophy of cutting taxes for the rich is to keep them happy being here and paying taxes, and for them to be encouraged to spend that wealth to create jobs.
Forbes has written a number of articles on people who give up their US Citizenship to avoid taxes (taxpatriots). Here's a site on those articles:
http://www.frissell.com/taxpat/taxpats.html
I couldn't believe it when the DOHS chose all MS products at a gigantic expense the week a number of security holes were found. Read my jornal for a rant about it.
I think you're assuming the owners and editors and extensive staff of /. are funding their swimming pools, mansions and exotic vacations with the ad revenue from this site.
I think it's actually a bunch of cool guys coding over cheap greasy food who liked to talk about nerdy stuff. One day OSDN, a wholly owned subsidiary of VA Software Corporation, a company that's been finding innovative ways to lose lots of money for years now, gave them some money in exchange for them continuing to do what they did.
...brought to you by the good people at McGraw Hill.
...and robots to talk on /. about it. whoa....
When you make no claims it's easy not to contradict. And if you want a religion that supports your desire to think of yourself as a god, that will justify just about whatever you want to do, then the western versions of northern Buddhism seem to work well. Otherwise, just make up your own religion that best suits your needs.
Why is it people are comfortable with companies sponsoring Yoga, a religious practice? Meditation is one thing, but:
_ re li_hin.php
http://www.niharonline.com/culture/religion/cul
Bhagavat-Gita, a part of the epic Mahabharata, expounds the synthesis of three yogas or ways of attaining union with the Supreme Self, Gyana-yoga (union through knowledge), Bhakti-yoga (union through devotion) and Karma-yoga (union through action).
http://www.classicalyoga.org/Page18.html
There has been and continues to be much confusion over what is religion and/or spirituality. In actuality, these two words have an identical meaning. "Religion" comes from the Latin root "religio" which means "to link-back" to the spirit. This is the identical meaning of the word "Yoga" which comes from the Sanskrit "Yuj;" i.e., "to yoke" to the spirit. Even before the word "Yoga" was used, the Vedas (Hindu scripture) use the word "Yajna" which essentially means "sacrifice." The word "sacrifice" comes from the Latin translation "sacred doing." With this understanding, one becomes aware of the inseparable nature of Yoga/Religion/Spirituality.
Those are some of the worst claims against the Bible I've ever seen. They're really basic items that you can find explanations for in layman Christian books, without any need for serious scholarship. But even better is a small bit of common sense.
However, if you are truely good, creative, proactive and original you will always find good work (or create it).
I have to disagree with this, too. While it might help in the hunt, it's no guarantee. Life is not a meritocracy and hard work is not the simple path to wealth (otherwise there would be some wealthy ditch diggers out there).
When you've been unemployed for a while and can't get any type of job no matter what you'll understand.
There was a recent discussion (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/28/21512 37&mode=nested&tid=137&tid=193) on how the Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the UN, recommended 3rd world nations use wifi to jumpstart their technology. Any possibility there'd be some cooperation, direction or encouragement from that angle?
It's sort of the same argument you find for fascism or communism - that if competition is controlled than energy can be focused for the benefit of more people. But people get comfortable, and they head down their own paths that seem like good ideas, but maybe aren't. You can see what Gentoo appears to be doing to Debian from discussions available on usenet, where they're considering quicker releases and easier install from source options.
And you see forks and imitations in the commercial world, too. MS SQL is a fork of Sybase. Solaris has it's roots in BSD. Commotion was made to be a Photoshop for film.
And the assertion that open source software is made by hobbyists is somewhere between crazy and funny. First off, knowing C or other languages well enough to make window managers, browsers, mailing list managers, etc. is serious. It's not like following a show on TLC to make your own shelves. The same people who work on the commercial software work on the open source and vice versa.
Actually, it was the Korean who invented moveable type before Guttenberg did, not the Chinese.
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http://www.korea-np.co.jp/pk/070th_issue/981118
I think free in this case not only applies to speech and beer, but the price of sitting at the bar - in other words, not everyone has their own box to host stuff on and those who don't have to go for one of the shared hosting things. And they nearly all have MySQL. Same reason why you don't see as much JSP, mod_perl, etc. as you'd think you would.
Could this be used to self power a liquid cooling system for say, a server farm?
If it's something that would allow you to use the devices while they're charging it wouldn't even matter, really. The convenience would be great. Put on desks, conference tables, even coffee shop tables it could unobtrusively keep you charged up without having to lug big chargers and find outlets.