Usually when they speak of 'private industry' what is really meant is 'private capital funded' as opposed to TAXPAYER funded.
Do these dollar values include the thousands of paper studies NASA conducted over 30+years regarding Space Stations? Thats another ??? Billions of dollars of taxpayer monies.
To put this all into perspective in the time frame between when NASA studied a SpaceStation and now(tm) (span=30+years) The Soviet Union launched, manned, maintained and dumped 10(ten) space stations and logged more hours in space than anyone. Thats an embarrassing little fact NASA doesn't want you to know about.
NASA is a prime example of whats wrong with the USA and the way it does business. It should be disbanded.
If you scan Slashdot from some months back I described this very concept. No really I did. Ugh. Geex can you patent anything now? Wheres the prototype? The plans, etc.
Yup, YOU are the real targets of the RIAA. The RIAA does not make a penny from you.
And I'll add that around 1995 or so when MP3.com stuff was just starting up, I predicted the death of commercial music. I was just picking songs at random, and a very high percentage were really good (like 9 out of 10). I mean really good music. Somehow, like Linux, free or really cheap music just never hit the big time. yet.
So go ahead point out to us, the Slashdot crowd, exactly which article and paragraph in the Constitution of the United States of America, in plain English, where the Federal Goverment has the authority to require an ID?
Remember, unless EXPLICITLY stated in the Constitution of the United States of America a power granted to the Federal Governement, then its a STATES or the PEOPLES right. And Maine and the other States BETTER stand up for their rights, or we are all sunk.
Neither security of individuals, nor IDs are listed in said Document.
"People [Incandescent lightbulbs] were first developed almost 125,000 [125] years ago, and since that time they have undergone no major modifications, meanwhile, they remain incredibly inefficient, converting only about 5 percent of the energy they receive into light."
Thus and so, I recommend that all Californians be unscrewed.
Also in detriment to your theory is the fact that Mars rotational axis is unstable, and occasionally these 'poles' get equatorial levels of sunlight and presumeably melt.
Correct Sir. Those of you with a memory may now Google for 'Reichstag Fire'. Those who like history may read 'Strategy' by B.H.Liddel-Hart Those without math skills may not be able to put 2 and 2 together. Answer: 22, duh.
True, but I want to be able to tweak some of the supporting things on my LG-8500.
Like have the Calendar work the way I do. And make the status line background transparent, why oh why does it have to be solid blue for the whole line when theres only 1 icon on it?
These are the kinds of annoyances that has me looking at an open, unlocked gsm phone next time around.
That and software is more like art than engineering, but no one wants to admit that. Of all the Renaissance painters that ever painted, only a few became forever famous.
You know on the surface I agree with you. Big mailbox = people storing stuff forever. And your method is completely useless where I work, where no ones msg is text, they are either word docs, pdf docs or html links to the first 2.
Also in the corpse world, when I get "Meeting tomorrow at 9am" msg, 24bytes, which is sent as a Word DOC (128kb), that word doc is chewing up space at orders of magnitudes faster than plaintext.
And I get peoples weekly report word docs that are 1Mb. Wow, my MB can hold 40 msgs?
Sample Mail where I work: email -> worddoc -> html link -> pdf -> "Bob Dick has been promoted to VP of Brooms in Brazil. (more ra-ra words)".
I think something happened to all secretaries (er Admin Assistants) a few years ago.
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I better go trademarkthese names then eh?
iYack. iChattyCathy. iMultiMediaDevice. iVoice. iCell. iCall. iTalk. iTunesTalk. iTele. iTelephone. iAnnoyance. iBrick. iPea, which of course goes right along with iPod. iFone, duh? iExpensive.
M$ is like a huge series of hurdles. I can never get all the M$ hurdles out of my way to develop anything decent.
I am a programmer, since 1987. The era of garage development, the heyday. Sure I bought compilers and tools then. But now, look at M$ coding. DevStudio and MSDN cost THOUSANDS of dollars and thats before you've created ANYTHING. In the late 90's M$ just became so openly hostile to all the developers. And their tools stink, very clunky.
Linux on the other hand, free to download and try. The dev tools are free. Emacs, Vi, and most anything else you want to try usually work very well. So after a few hours work all the hurdles are cleared away and you are ready to make the next great game or business app.
But what I guess gripes me most is the M$ people like yourself who think that DevStudio and C# are THE GREATEST thing ever. Yet you've never EVEN TRIED emacs or eclipse or kdev or vi or well, anything. But I have done both sides for years, and Linux still has the edge in dev tools.
In the corporate world what gripes me about M$ is that managers and staff use the stuff in really weird ways. Heres an example that happens here everyday:
1. use webmail to see email (cause i am in linux) 2. open message from secretary 3. msg says 'read the attached pdf' 4. open pdf 5. pdf contains a html link to corporate webpage 6. corporate webpage link points to a word doc 7. save word doc and open it. 8. docs says something really stupid, like "turn in your timecards at 2:10 pm not 2:15pm."
I am going to get a Tractor-Trailer Rig, and fill it up with 40,000lbs of rocks. Then I will just plow over everyone in my way. THATS the 'merican mentality to driving!
Actually Pimped Big Rigs are the next step is super pimped SUV technology. That or Pimped School Buses I can't decide which.
from last year, that made hourly office workers 'managers' so companies wouldn't have to pay overtime?
My company offered paid OT last summer for a project, we've yet to see any money from that. So guess what, we are not working any OT now. Oh and at completion we had $18mil in new sales.
Using a phone with one hand is pure pain, the keys should NOT be at the bottom of the phone (as you hold it), but at the top, so your thumb can reach the bottom key without scrunching (or dropping your phone).
If our government gets wind of this idea of yours, they'll be hiring hundreds of thousands of new federal employees tasked with keeping your private stuff private. And in the end, the governement will gain hundreds of thousands of new votes for themselves.
Actually, it was enforcement of existing laws. Sometime around 1991 the BATF intercepted a shipment of these high power motors going to Ireland and the IRA. Keep in mind these things will loft 100+lbs over 1/4 mile. The perfect poor mans Katyuska rocket.
BATF then began investigating the activities and industry and decided to enforce all the laws even down to individuals. The laws they speak of have been applied to companies for years.
Frankly, all this does is force these people to make their own motors, and hell, these are people who were plenty dangerous working with pre-manufactured motors. The words "Hey Bubba watch this..." applies to plenty of folks playing with these big rockets. I know I've seen them.
On the other hand, many are brilliant and talented,and got their start in amateur rocketry.
I know I did. Thiokol HSV, Castor IVa Project Engineer, 208 successful firings, GPS 1988-1992
It really more of looking around and realizing "What IS made in the U.S.A. anymore?"
At which point you begin the realize the true horrors of the situation. For years while textiles and manufacturing floated overseas we were constantly told to educate to get nice white collor IT type brainiac job. NOW those jobs go overseas even easier than manufacturing did. There precious few of anything actually made here anymore.
So now kids have to choose between 6-12 years of college because only an advanced degree will get you one of the few high paying jobs left. It simply NOT economically viable to PAY for that much school anymore. My kids will be better served to start their own lawncare business.
So whats left? Government support jobs? The Military? Hi tech? Lawncare? Hollywood?
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Sorry, but historically its a lot easier to drag the smart people down than it is to bring the stupid people up.
Thus the modern edumacashun system.
Besides, if we are ALL the BEST, then wouldn't that just make everyone AVERAGE ??
Uh, 'cleverly hidden' is not exactly what I want in software thanks.
Mine is always the firefight with M-16s.
After firing 800 rounds with one magazine, the actors start talking to each other calmly.
Try this, fire 4 rounds from an AR-15(or M-16 if your lucky) with no earplugs.
Now try to hear ANYTHING.
Your ears will be ringing like churchbells.
The 5.56 is such a high pitch that it rings your ears very easily.
Usually when they speak of 'private industry' what is really meant is 'private capital funded' as opposed to TAXPAYER funded.
Do these dollar values include the thousands of paper studies NASA conducted over 30+years regarding Space Stations?
Thats another ??? Billions of dollars of taxpayer monies.
To put this all into perspective in the time frame between when NASA studied a SpaceStation and now(tm) (span=30+years) The Soviet Union launched, manned, maintained and dumped 10(ten) space stations and logged more hours in space than anyone. Thats an embarrassing little fact NASA doesn't want you to know about.
NASA is a prime example of whats wrong with the USA and the way it does business.
It should be disbanded.
If you scan Slashdot from some months back I described this very concept.
No really I did. Ugh. Geex can you patent anything now? Wheres the prototype?
The plans, etc.
Yup, YOU are the real targets of the RIAA. The RIAA does not make a penny from you.
And I'll add that around 1995 or so when MP3.com stuff was just starting up, I predicted the death of commercial music. I was just picking songs at random, and a very high percentage were really good (like 9 out of 10). I mean really good music. Somehow, like Linux, free or really cheap music just never hit the big time. yet.
NOPE, wrong! The ParentPoster is right.
All these companies could not care less that fraud occured as long as they can get you on the hook to pay it.
Been there done that got the t-shirt, it's so hard in fact, that its plain just easier to hunt down the real thieves and shoot them dead.
So go ahead point out to us, the Slashdot crowd, exactly which article and paragraph in the Constitution of the United States of America, in plain English, where the Federal Goverment has the authority to require an ID?
Remember, unless EXPLICITLY stated in the Constitution of the United States of America a power granted to the Federal Governement, then its a STATES or the PEOPLES right. And Maine and the other States BETTER stand up for their rights, or we are all sunk.
Neither security of individuals, nor IDs are listed in said Document.
"People [Incandescent lightbulbs] were first developed almost 125,000 [125] years ago, and since that time they have undergone no major modifications, meanwhile, they remain incredibly inefficient, converting only about 5 percent of the energy they receive into light."
Thus and so, I recommend that all Californians be unscrewed.
Or screwed some more, I haven't decided yet.
Also in detriment to your theory is the fact that Mars rotational axis is unstable, and occasionally these 'poles' get equatorial levels of sunlight and presumeably melt.
Correct Sir.
Those of you with a memory may now Google for 'Reichstag Fire'.
Those who like history may read 'Strategy' by B.H.Liddel-Hart
Those without math skills may not be able to put 2 and 2 together.
Answer: 22, duh.
True, but I want to be able to tweak some of the supporting things on my LG-8500.
Like have the Calendar work the way I do. And make the status line background transparent,
why oh why does it have to be solid blue for the whole line when theres only 1 icon on it?
These are the kinds of annoyances that has me looking at an open, unlocked gsm phone next time around.
Really, if you just dropped $600 for a phone another $179 is just change...
Bluetooth keyboard.
Get one here... http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/8193/
That and software is more like art than engineering, but no one wants to admit that.
Of all the Renaissance painters that ever painted, only a few became forever famous.
Same thing with coders.
You know on the surface I agree with you. Big mailbox = people storing stuff forever.
And your method is completely useless where I work, where no ones msg is text, they are either
word docs, pdf docs or html links to the first 2.
Also in the corpse world, when I get "Meeting tomorrow at 9am" msg, 24bytes, which is
sent as a Word DOC (128kb), that word doc is chewing up space at orders of magnitudes
faster than plaintext.
And I get peoples weekly report word docs that are 1Mb. Wow, my MB can hold 40 msgs?
Sample Mail where I work: email -> worddoc -> html link -> pdf -> "Bob Dick has been promoted to VP of Brooms in Brazil. (more ra-ra words)".
I think something happened to all secretaries (er Admin Assistants) a few years ago.
I better go trademarkthese names then eh?
iYack.
iChattyCathy.
iMultiMediaDevice.
iVoice.
iCell.
iCall.
iTalk.
iTunesTalk.
iTele.
iTelephone.
iAnnoyance.
iBrick.
iPea, which of course goes right along with iPod.
iFone, duh?
iExpensive.
M$ is like a huge series of hurdles. I can never get all the M$ hurdles out of my way to develop anything decent.
I am a programmer, since 1987. The era of garage development, the heyday. Sure I bought compilers and tools then.
But now, look at M$ coding. DevStudio and MSDN cost THOUSANDS of dollars and thats before you've created ANYTHING.
In the late 90's M$ just became so openly hostile to all the developers. And their tools stink, very clunky.
Linux on the other hand, free to download and try. The dev tools are free. Emacs, Vi, and most anything else you want to try usually work very well. So after a few hours work all the hurdles are cleared away and you are ready to make the next great game or business app.
But what I guess gripes me most is the M$ people like yourself who think that DevStudio and C# are THE GREATEST thing ever. Yet you've never EVEN TRIED emacs or eclipse or kdev or vi or well, anything. But I have done both sides for years, and Linux still has the edge in dev tools.
In the corporate world what gripes me about M$ is that managers and staff use the stuff in really weird ways. Heres an example that happens here everyday:
1. use webmail to see email (cause i am in linux)
2. open message from secretary
3. msg says 'read the attached pdf'
4. open pdf
5. pdf contains a html link to corporate webpage
6. corporate webpage link points to a word doc
7. save word doc and open it.
8. docs says something really stupid, like "turn in your timecards at 2:10 pm not 2:15pm."
WTF went with plaintext emails???
that a handful of LAWYERS get $750,000 meanwhile the real engine of the economy, people who bought and used the thing have to split $75,000.
"If I owned this place and Hell, I'd rent this place out and live in Hell."
Pffft. Screw that.
I am going to get a Tractor-Trailer Rig, and fill it up with 40,000lbs of rocks.
Then I will just plow over everyone in my way. THATS the 'merican mentality to driving!
Actually Pimped Big Rigs are the next step is super pimped SUV technology.
That or Pimped School Buses I can't decide which.
from last year, that made hourly office workers 'managers' so companies wouldn't have to pay overtime?
My company offered paid OT last summer for a project, we've yet to see any money from that. So guess what, we are not working any OT now. Oh and at completion we had $18mil in new sales.
thats all wrong.
Using a phone with one hand is pure pain, the keys should NOT be at the
bottom of the phone (as you hold it), but at the top, so your thumb can
reach the bottom key without scrunching (or dropping your phone).
Duh.
Whoa, whoa slow down there bud.
If our government gets wind of this idea of yours, they'll be hiring hundreds of thousands of new federal employees tasked with keeping your private stuff private. And in the end, the governement will gain hundreds of thousands of new votes for themselves.
Actually, it was enforcement of existing laws. Sometime around 1991 the BATF intercepted a shipment of these high power motors going to Ireland and the IRA. Keep in mind these things will loft 100+lbs over 1/4 mile. The perfect poor mans Katyuska rocket.
BATF then began investigating the activities and industry and decided to enforce all the laws even down to individuals. The laws they speak of have been applied to companies for years.
Frankly, all this does is force these people to make their own motors, and hell, these are people who were plenty dangerous working with pre-manufactured motors. The words "Hey Bubba watch this..." applies to plenty of folks playing with these big rockets. I know I've seen them.
On the other hand, many are brilliant and talented,and got their start in amateur rocketry.
I know I did. Thiokol HSV, Castor IVa Project Engineer, 208 successful firings, GPS 1988-1992
No, but are the ONLY one who never read the EULA.
M$ has had this authority for decades!
Welcome to the party pal.
I think this qeustion has finally come to it end.
It really more of looking around and realizing "What IS made in the U.S.A. anymore?"
At which point you begin the realize the true horrors of the situation. For years while textiles and manufacturing floated overseas we were constantly told to educate to get nice white collor IT type brainiac job. NOW those jobs go overseas even easier than manufacturing did. There precious few of anything actually made here anymore.
So now kids have to choose between 6-12 years of college because only an advanced degree will get you one of the few high paying jobs left. It simply NOT economically viable to PAY for that much school anymore. My kids will be better served to start their own lawncare business.
So whats left? Government support jobs? The Military? Hi tech? Lawncare? Hollywood?
Hey AweSomeO, give us another movie plot!