as for crossing state lines, i doubt there will ever be an ID necessary for that unless the government wants to put checkpoints on every crossing. which would never happen.
What is that id in motion system on freeways?....I live in the midwest but you can probably count on that being put on interstate system borders one a national ID system is in place. Not to mention the GPS that will be on every car by that time.
All that aside I don't think that is something we will be able to stop by denying a national ID.
A national ID system while expensive would be a great thing to phase in over 10 years or so. Law enforcement could verify IDs easier with mobile identification systems. State Troopers would have an easier time tracking criminals. ID systems could be created for businesses that sell controlled substances. Not to mention the cleaner National databases. The list goes on.
glad to hear you thought it was worth it. I wanted to do something similar for an anniversary then subsequently for each kid. Given the prices of artwork that I have in mind for our house to collect throughout the years this didn't seem too pricey, great conversational piece I would think though!
I would love to get something like this done for my wife. Of course I would need to remove my tinfoil hat and not think about how they could just be gathering dna samples for the genetic superarmy.
Ok but at the size of a razor, remind me again how big 2.5 drives are and their capacity. Then look at the size of a bluetooth chip and battery. I will take the extra inch on the device and the extra 140GB capacity.
Hell, I will take a 3.5" drive if it were the size of a brick if I could set it next to my laptop, PC, PDA or whatever and have it act like a NAS. Why create the storage space, if I were a competitor I would create a happy little USB adapter that you can plug any device into and hand the information to an OS. Wireless NAS is the way to go, is there any way someone could retrofit FreeNAS to do this?
Figure that one out let me know. I have gone through several digital watches as well, usually losing several seconds a day. I have a simple watch now with a leather backing that seems to be working well.
ya, I think it is funny that our department has a USB floppy drive sitting around since many of our servers have no 3.5 drive but we cannot live without it yet.
Couple things will keep the floppy alive for several years to come.
Non-standard disk drivers and windows installs, requirement - floppy.
That one computer your company has had since the dawn of time that simply sits there and prints data to the screen never being turned off never being replaced because no one really knows how it works but it is "needed".
Geeks will need the sex jokes about floppy drives and hard disks.
I for one am happy to see floppy drives go. I discovered with windows 95 that I am an unfortunate person who ruins 3.5 disks when holding them too long. The floppy had a long and well lived career but it is time for it to step down.
I know guys who work long hours just for time away from their wives,
That is another conversation for another day, but to sum up, they married the wrong person, probably someone they were sexually attracted to and had no intellectual attraction or any other thing in common with. Sexual relationships rarely last longer than 5 years from initial sexual contact.
Again, look me up in 10 years and we will see how your perspective is after a bit more life experience.
Fuck fixing shit! If you have a wife (who you have become inevitably sexually exhausted with--yeah i've studied human psychology) or worse, kids, then that may seem like a valuable use of your time.
Since you are obviously an expert in psychology, you would also have read the studies that show that happily married couples are far more sexually fulfilled than singles on average.
and second Once I have kids (as Darwin demands) I can guarantee you are going to be one of the guys who's world is going to be put in perspective if you are ever blessed with kids:) trust me on this one. If not find me again in 10 years after you have a wife and kids and tell me I am wrong.
So then it is a lifestyle investment choice, different people have different ways of making money. There is a lot to be made in real estate speculation but there is also a bit of work. However if you have 300K to throw around all there is to do is find areas of growth, hire a contractor and have him build away! Not much different than picking or choosing your own stocks. The stock market is a bit of work and if money can be made quickly then it can be lost quickly. I learned my lessons from the friends of mine who were going to make it big with stocks, given it has only been five years since I left college, but my investments have pushed me well beyond them and I am far more stable. But it goes the other way just as easily. I am too busy living life than bothering with high risk stocks and real estate speculation. But check out what good ol Mr Buffet is doing.
Since 2000, one corner of Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK ) empire has quietly built the nation's second-largest real estate brokerage operation.
After reading all that I retract my statement about your stupidity, you have at least thought it out. At least you sound intelligent enough to hedge yourself against an economic crash. Although one thing you are forgetting about with home ownership is what a few of my good friends do. Buy a house, fix it up, sell it after living in it the appropriate amount of time. Sure you move about every 2 years, but when you look at it as an investment who cares. A friend recently built a house for 300K, before the house was even finished they had an offer for 425K and now houses are being built with the same floorplan for over 500K, and it has barely been a year since they moved in. I am not a speculator but enough of my friends have made a crazy amount of money on their homes alone, makes for a great hobby.
Personally I live in a 4 bedroom my mortgage is about $600 less than an 3 bedroom rent in a similar neighborhood. My budget includes about $1000 a year for lawncare and maintainance (gotta love brick). And I have that extra $600 a month invested. A balance is key, but almost ever single investor I have ever talked to has given me the same advice, buy a house, then invest. I can find the book titles if you would like of my personal literature. But thanks for the different perspective.
I bought a Wii just a little while ago and I love it for short bursts of fun. My wife loves the tennis and a good time is had by my non-gamer friends.
However I need to ask the question, What is going to keep X-Box and PS3 from stealing the Wii thunder? They simply need to make a remote to match their systems and Nintendo will be off the board, perhaps for good. I guess Nintendo will still have the low price but that is about it other than fanboys.
spoken like someone trying to salvage dignity after frying their oven.
What part of kindergarten did these "common people" skip? Follow directions, the directions state what is to be done clearly and concisely. Laziness is the problem here with a touch of arrogance. These are the same "common people" who refuse to read maps, basic instructions for a swingset, or distinguish between bake and broil.
wow, sure glad we never see stories on outsourcing vs in house on Slashdot. This discussion can be summed up by this conversation between Batman and Robin.
Robin:Holy crap batman, we hired incompetent staff members, better outsource!
Batman: But if we outsource all the geeks will know where the Batcave is and they will steal our technology!
Robin: Your ideas suck Batman.
Batman: You are an incompetent fool with no foresight.
Robin runs off crying, having lost all remaining respect of his mentor
Correct me if I am wrong but humans can go a bit deeper than 1000 feet as mentioned in the article.
http://www.ussubs.com/faq/luxury.php3
a small deep submersible could be carried "piggy back" by the Seattle, allowing a small group of 2-3 people to board the deep submersible through a transfer lock and dive to depths of up to 3000 meters or more.
I agree, the problem is, not coding efficiently is causing a plateau in speed. I remember getting my 333 dell back in 98 and thinking it was smokin. I was running windows 98, word, and a couple misc games. I could boot in under 30 seconds. I now have a 3.6GHz Intel P4 with 4 GB RAM that behaves no quicker when typing in word, boots a bit slower and unless I am doing something intensive like encoding is the same machine.
Having that small footprint is really all that is necessary, even on my Ubuntu machines I have a hard time seeing any speed difference from my 1998 machine. You can just get more eyecandy.
That all being said, if the average joe would sit down and think what they really need a home PC for, internet browsing, e-mail, music, and word processing, Amiga OS would be fantastic. I want to multitask and tab between apps without waiting several seconds between programs.
I had a CS prof once tell me that you can take your knowledge and represent it as a circle on a piece of paper. Everything in the circle is what you know, everything on the edge of the circle is what you know you dont know. As the circle gets bigger so does what you realize you dont know, I thought it was a good depiction of knowledge.
Yes I would like to see more profs like her, sometimes she takes students failing or not caring, too personally. Oh well, I could go on for a long time about apathetic students but you have been in academics for long enough to have seen them too!
See that is what gets me. I am a person who isnt striving for a huge paycheck in life, just a fun job that pays the bills, supports my hobbies, and family. But this enormous gap in salaries is disturbing. It has nothing to do with job difficulty or stress, it is all about power. Bigger paycheck means more power, when was the last time you saw a supervisor make less than the engineer who's work the company relies upon. You have CEOs making millions upon millions a year, increasing the class gap, and benefits for their employees have not changed in 30 years. I would like to see someone draw up a fair model for salaries without destroying capitalism. Because if this class gap keeps increasing, soon we will be in a dangerous place as a republic.
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What is that id in motion system on freeways?....I live in the midwest but you can probably count on that being put on interstate system borders one a national ID system is in place. Not to mention the GPS that will be on every car by that time.
All that aside I don't think that is something we will be able to stop by denying a national ID.
A national ID system while expensive would be a great thing to phase in over 10 years or so. Law enforcement could verify IDs easier with mobile identification systems. State Troopers would have an easier time tracking criminals. ID systems could be created for businesses that sell controlled substances. Not to mention the cleaner National databases. The list goes on.
glad to hear you thought it was worth it. I wanted to do something similar for an anniversary then subsequently for each kid. Given the prices of artwork that I have in mind for our house to collect throughout the years this didn't seem too pricey, great conversational piece I would think though!
I would love to get something like this done for my wife. Of course I would need to remove my tinfoil hat and not think about how they could just be gathering dna samples for the genetic superarmy.
ya, a 500 dollar laptop, metasploit, and a decent wireless card and you will have more than you bargained for.
Hell, I will take a 3.5" drive if it were the size of a brick if I could set it next to my laptop, PC, PDA or whatever and have it act like a NAS. Why create the storage space, if I were a competitor I would create a happy little USB adapter that you can plug any device into and hand the information to an OS. Wireless NAS is the way to go, is there any way someone could retrofit FreeNAS to do this?
Figure that one out let me know. I have gone through several digital watches as well, usually losing several seconds a day. I have a simple watch now with a leather backing that seems to be working well.
Then you should check out this if you havent already... http://www.ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=54
ya, I think it is funny that our department has a USB floppy drive sitting around since many of our servers have no 3.5 drive but we cannot live without it yet.
Non-standard disk drivers and windows installs, requirement - floppy.
That one computer your company has had since the dawn of time that simply sits there and prints data to the screen never being turned off never being replaced because no one really knows how it works but it is "needed".
Geeks will need the sex jokes about floppy drives and hard disks.
I for one am happy to see floppy drives go. I discovered with windows 95 that I am an unfortunate person who ruins 3.5 disks when holding them too long. The floppy had a long and well lived career but it is time for it to step down.
I know guys who work long hours just for time away from their wives,
That is another conversation for another day, but to sum up, they married the wrong person, probably someone they were sexually attracted to and had no intellectual attraction or any other thing in common with. Sexual relationships rarely last longer than 5 years from initial sexual contact.
Again, look me up in 10 years and we will see how your perspective is after a bit more life experience.
Since you are obviously an expert in psychology, you would also have read the studies that show that happily married couples are far more sexually fulfilled than singles on average.
and second Once I have kids (as Darwin demands) I can guarantee you are going to be one of the guys who's world is going to be put in perspective if you are ever blessed with kids :) trust me on this one. If not find me again in 10 years after you have a wife and kids and tell me I am wrong.
Since 2000, one corner of Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK ) empire has quietly built the nation's second-largest real estate brokerage operation.
All the best.
Personally I live in a 4 bedroom my mortgage is about $600 less than an 3 bedroom rent in a similar neighborhood. My budget includes about $1000 a year for lawncare and maintainance (gotta love brick). And I have that extra $600 a month invested. A balance is key, but almost ever single investor I have ever talked to has given me the same advice, buy a house, then invest. I can find the book titles if you would like of my personal literature. But thanks for the different perspective.
However I need to ask the question, What is going to keep X-Box and PS3 from stealing the Wii thunder? They simply need to make a remote to match their systems and Nintendo will be off the board, perhaps for good. I guess Nintendo will still have the low price but that is about it other than fanboys.
considering what tinfoil does in a microwave you may at least go out in style like a giant sparkler.
What part of kindergarten did these "common people" skip? Follow directions, the directions state what is to be done clearly and concisely. Laziness is the problem here with a touch of arrogance. These are the same "common people" who refuse to read maps, basic instructions for a swingset, or distinguish between bake and broil.
But seriously, I would rather have a heat gun pointed at me than tear gas next time I feel like rioting.
wow, just wow, stunningly stupid. You really need to re-investigate investment ideas. Check out some warren buffet material.
ya caught my mistake after posting, I really should start previewing or at least proofreading. I meant 1000m.
Robin:Holy crap batman, we hired incompetent staff members, better outsource!
Batman: But if we outsource all the geeks will know where the Batcave is and they will steal our technology!
Robin: Your ideas suck Batman.
Batman: You are an incompetent fool with no foresight.
Robin runs off crying, having lost all remaining respect of his mentor
http://www.ussubs.com/faq/luxury.php3 a small deep submersible could be carried "piggy back" by the Seattle, allowing a small group of 2-3 people to board the deep submersible through a transfer lock and dive to depths of up to 3000 meters or more.
Having that small footprint is really all that is necessary, even on my Ubuntu machines I have a hard time seeing any speed difference from my 1998 machine. You can just get more eyecandy.
That all being said, if the average joe would sit down and think what they really need a home PC for, internet browsing, e-mail, music, and word processing, Amiga OS would be fantastic. I want to multitask and tab between apps without waiting several seconds between programs.
Yes I would like to see more profs like her, sometimes she takes students failing or not caring, too personally. Oh well, I could go on for a long time about apathetic students but you have been in academics for long enough to have seen them too!
See that is what gets me. I am a person who isnt striving for a huge paycheck in life, just a fun job that pays the bills, supports my hobbies, and family. But this enormous gap in salaries is disturbing. It has nothing to do with job difficulty or stress, it is all about power. Bigger paycheck means more power, when was the last time you saw a supervisor make less than the engineer who's work the company relies upon. You have CEOs making millions upon millions a year, increasing the class gap, and benefits for their employees have not changed in 30 years. I would like to see someone draw up a fair model for salaries without destroying capitalism. Because if this class gap keeps increasing, soon we will be in a dangerous place as a republic.