Here's a cool idea: take your laptop, hook it up to an fm transmitter, program the transmitter to cycle through radio stations (start on 85.1 and add.2 until you hit 105.9 or something) and then play a sound byte in sync with each station, once. (example: gov'ner arnold saying "who is your daddy, and what does he do?") If you were sitting in traffic, watch other drivers start laughing or get weirded out.
The quest for profit is ultimately a quest for more efficient markets. That means that as people try to get more money they are (in the long run) making things better for other people. There are exceptions of course, which is where government legislation comes in. But don't ignore how much greedy people can improve your life given the right market. Take for instance commodity exchanges. Every day people work there trying to put more dollars in their pockets. But they are only rewarded for making the market more efficient - for example, keeping the price of oil steadier. Ultimately this benefits you. When Honda comes out with a new engine that gets 10 more mpg and costs the same as a regular engine, they are trying to get money. Ultimately this benifits you - even if you don't buy their car. So don't hate the concept of profit. Don't hate anything. Our world is a continuing, imperfect, improving system. Try to fix it and you'll get paid.
That is exactly what a president is for. To make choices that the public would dislike in the short term or dither about(mostly the later, of course). It is a representative democracy. I'm not saying that later on the UK will be happy with some of the things that Blair did. If you aren't happy later then he didn't do his job well. However, you can't complain about them not listening. They don't have to, as long as they don't care about being re-elected.
There is a big problem with this vote. It removes the concept of culpability for the minister who was "pressured" into voting. Ultimately how far is such a public figure from a vote of no confidence? When you implicitly say he didn't have a choice and then you go in and change what he did, you're saying he can't do his job right. This is big egg in the face of the minister.
With all the costs of linux (accountability, support services, re-writing inhouse software, re-training IT), I think that most businesses will stick with MS and license their software. This recurring cost may be more than Linux's recurring cost, but the barrier for exit from MS's world is high. However, I do think that once MS releases a new OS and eventually businesses feel pressure to switch to it, many will instead switch to Linux. The cost of switching to Linux, while higher than the cost of supporting Windows, will be lower than the cost of switching to a new Windows OS, and will present a lower forward cost. Never underestimate greed as a tool to switch people to OSS.
Try and imagine, a sentence, with lots of commas, some in places they shouldn't be, going on and on, far past the boundaries of normal sentences, standing tall like a great dark god of sentences, like a toilet full melodramatic examples, and then when you think it might end and the commas stop and you yearn for a period, more come like a never ending journey towards a final ending.
Going further down one of your reasons why not to - if you melt the ice, where is it going to go? Melting the snow on your roof would only result in wet ground around your house, i imagine melting ice off the roof would just put ice around the building, eventually locking it into place!
I think a more reasonable example is if your building has a brownout, and you run a big UPS or generator, then it automatically shuts down nonessential systems like the air conditioner or certain computers, etc. At the same time it might be good to have them on for a few minutes so they can be shut down "properly". Or whatever. I know some buildings do this too, as I work in one. And as I'm also an electrical engineer, the whole control systems responding to electrical and temperature demand is very interesting to me:-D
Not to mention the computing power necessary to perform good weather predictions. Earth simulator (#1 on the supercomputing list) predicts the weather. The source code for some of the forecast techniques is available for free, if I recall correctly. I looked into it once and it was a nightmare. And in reality the Accuweather guys don't have a leg to stand on because the MRF (medium range forecast) is about as good as they are, and free, and not provided in an excel sheet.
Japanese animation has plenty of philosphy in them (not all of them admitedly), and can be very deep, so it takes more to appreciate them than your average american cartoon, which in contrast are very shallow.
Don't be so quick to brush off American cartoons. While they don't take themselves seriously, they are a major force for political satire. Just look at South Park and sometimes the Simpsons. They are modern day equivalents to early British satire, such as Gulliver's Travels. That satirical (read: funny) writing was an examination of the current political environment. A lot of the time Japanese anime throws in things that don't belong. For example, the recent anime series Samurai 7 is based on the breathtaking film "The Seven Samurai". But for some reason they throw in mysticism when there was none in the original. The same sort of mysticism gets thrown into a lot of other anime series for seemingly no reason, or worse yet to make them seem more "philosophical." IMHO they push some of them over the edge from deep to stupid.
Actually this was originally the human (or ancestors of our species) method of hunting. First stab the animal with some crude spear weapon, then run it down as it slowly bleeds to death. Humans can't run fast but they can run a long time if they have to. Add that to some intelligent hunting techniques, such as scaring animals to where other hunters are waiting, and killing off competitive predators. There's no wonder why humans are the most successful predators on Earth.
That is a very limited and poor approach to the problem. I don't see what relays are going to do other than turn the motor on or off - what we're dealing with is a power problem. A series of relays makes even less sense, they don't help at all and will drain some amount of power and add to the weight. The thing is, smaller electric motors just aren't as effecient as bigger ones. To get more power to them you need a bigger battery. Bigger batteries weigh more. To lug around the big battery you need stronger motors... you see the problem? I think the answer is instead of taking the parts of a radio controlled car and putting them in a lawnmower, take the weedwacker spinny fishing line thing and stick it on a big rc car. Gear down the motors so that they'll move slowly and powerfully instead of fast and weak. Then you might have a viable cheapish solution. (both time and money)
I prefer to deal with companies on a case by case basis. id software has almost never disclosed release dates until they were done. They've always followed the "when its done" philosophy of development. When they finally said it will come out this summer, I trusted them. The Aug 3 release date is in the summer, so if it comes out that day I'll continue to trust them where it comes to releases. The one thing that disappoints me is that they're letting quake 4 be developed on the doom 3 engine.:-(
Imagine yourself covered in speakers or organic LEDs
Heh imagine instead a riced-out body! I'll look like I'm tearing ass when I'm sitting still! And if I get high on a little NO2 I'll be able to put a NOS tattoo on my ass! R type baby!
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I was guessing, that was what the or something was for :-( Don't listen to the radio myself.
Here's a cool idea: take your laptop, hook it up to an fm transmitter, program the transmitter to cycle through radio stations (start on 85.1 and add .2 until you hit 105.9 or something) and then play a sound byte in sync with each station, once. (example: gov'ner arnold saying "who is your daddy, and what does he do?") If you were sitting in traffic, watch other drivers start laughing or get weirded out.
The quest for profit is ultimately a quest for more efficient markets. That means that as people try to get more money they are (in the long run) making things better for other people. There are exceptions of course, which is where government legislation comes in. But don't ignore how much greedy people can improve your life given the right market. Take for instance commodity exchanges. Every day people work there trying to put more dollars in their pockets. But they are only rewarded for making the market more efficient - for example, keeping the price of oil steadier. Ultimately this benefits you. When Honda comes out with a new engine that gets 10 more mpg and costs the same as a regular engine, they are trying to get money. Ultimately this benifits you - even if you don't buy their car. So don't hate the concept of profit. Don't hate anything. Our world is a continuing, imperfect, improving system. Try to fix it and you'll get paid.
That is exactly what a president is for. To make choices that the public would dislike in the short term or dither about(mostly the later, of course). It is a representative democracy. I'm not saying that later on the UK will be happy with some of the things that Blair did. If you aren't happy later then he didn't do his job well. However, you can't complain about them not listening. They don't have to, as long as they don't care about being re-elected.
There is a big problem with this vote. It removes the concept of culpability for the minister who was "pressured" into voting. Ultimately how far is such a public figure from a vote of no confidence? When you implicitly say he didn't have a choice and then you go in and change what he did, you're saying he can't do his job right. This is big egg in the face of the minister.
With all the costs of linux (accountability, support services, re-writing inhouse software, re-training IT), I think that most businesses will stick with MS and license their software. This recurring cost may be more than Linux's recurring cost, but the barrier for exit from MS's world is high. However, I do think that once MS releases a new OS and eventually businesses feel pressure to switch to it, many will instead switch to Linux. The cost of switching to Linux, while higher than the cost of supporting Windows, will be lower than the cost of switching to a new Windows OS, and will present a lower forward cost. Never underestimate greed as a tool to switch people to OSS.
Egad, a slashdot editor has apologized for giving an incomplete story blurb! Did I cross over into... The Twilight Zone?
Thanks timothy
Try and imagine, a sentence, with lots of commas, some in places they shouldn't be, going on and on, far past the boundaries of normal sentences, standing tall like a great dark god of sentences, like a toilet full melodramatic examples, and then when you think it might end and the commas stop and you yearn for a period, more come like a never ending journey towards a final ending.
Going further down one of your reasons why not to - if you melt the ice, where is it going to go? Melting the snow on your roof would only result in wet ground around your house, i imagine melting ice off the roof would just put ice around the building, eventually locking it into place!
I think a more reasonable example is if your building has a brownout, and you run a big UPS or generator, then it automatically shuts down nonessential systems like the air conditioner or certain computers, etc. At the same time it might be good to have them on for a few minutes so they can be shut down "properly". Or whatever. I know some buildings do this too, as I work in one. And as I'm also an electrical engineer, the whole control systems responding to electrical and temperature demand is very interesting to me :-D
I too, have been "forced" to post /. stories from work. It has nothing to do with the fact that I'm a shiftless slacker - ack here comes my boss!
Not to mention the computing power necessary to perform good weather predictions. Earth simulator (#1 on the supercomputing list) predicts the weather. The source code for some of the forecast techniques is available for free, if I recall correctly. I looked into it once and it was a nightmare. And in reality the Accuweather guys don't have a leg to stand on because the MRF (medium range forecast) is about as good as they are, and free, and not provided in an excel sheet.
I may or may not be someone who hangs around in #doom3 with an evil in front of his name :-P
Or you could switch to aim in both windows and linux. Heh. If you enjoy stabbing puppies' eyeballs out.
:-D
How's roomjuice going?
Japanese animation has plenty of philosphy in them (not all of them admitedly), and can be very deep, so it takes more to appreciate them than your average american cartoon, which in contrast are very shallow.
Don't be so quick to brush off American cartoons. While they don't take themselves seriously, they are a major force for political satire. Just look at South Park and sometimes the Simpsons. They are modern day equivalents to early British satire, such as Gulliver's Travels. That satirical (read: funny) writing was an examination of the current political environment. A lot of the time Japanese anime throws in things that don't belong. For example, the recent anime series Samurai 7 is based on the breathtaking film "The Seven Samurai". But for some reason they throw in mysticism when there was none in the original. The same sort of mysticism gets thrown into a lot of other anime series for seemingly no reason, or worse yet to make them seem more "philosophical." IMHO they push some of them over the edge from deep to stupid.
I had to look at the calendar to make sure it was not April 1.
And I thought I had problems oversleeping! You don't even know what month it is!?
be lean enough to be fast on your feet
Actually this was originally the human (or ancestors of our species) method of hunting. First stab the animal with some crude spear weapon, then run it down as it slowly bleeds to death. Humans can't run fast but they can run a long time if they have to. Add that to some intelligent hunting techniques, such as scaring animals to where other hunters are waiting, and killing off competitive predators. There's no wonder why humans are the most successful predators on Earth.
That is a very limited and poor approach to the problem. I don't see what relays are going to do other than turn the motor on or off - what we're dealing with is a power problem. A series of relays makes even less sense, they don't help at all and will drain some amount of power and add to the weight. The thing is, smaller electric motors just aren't as effecient as bigger ones. To get more power to them you need a bigger battery. Bigger batteries weigh more. To lug around the big battery you need stronger motors... you see the problem? I think the answer is instead of taking the parts of a radio controlled car and putting them in a lawnmower, take the weedwacker spinny fishing line thing and stick it on a big rc car. Gear down the motors so that they'll move slowly and powerfully instead of fast and weak. Then you might have a viable cheapish solution. (both time and money)
What a horrible thought! ... ... starts coding it.
Romero, will you never admit quake was better? We know its you!
I prefer to deal with companies on a case by case basis. id software has almost never disclosed release dates until they were done. They've always followed the "when its done" philosophy of development. When they finally said it will come out this summer, I trusted them. The Aug 3 release date is in the summer, so if it comes out that day I'll continue to trust them where it comes to releases. The one thing that disappoints me is that they're letting quake 4 be developed on the doom 3 engine. :-(
Imagine yourself covered in speakers or organic LEDs
Heh imagine instead a riced-out body! I'll look like I'm tearing ass when I'm sitting still! And if I get high on a little NO2 I'll be able to put a NOS tattoo on my ass! R type baby!
jesus christ, is it too much to ask to have someone read the fscking thing first??
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Illustrating the difference between terrorism and widespread rebellion.