What the hell? What gave you the idea that we genetically modify crops in order to fix some sort of scarcity? They're genetically modified to create crops that have increased resistance to the elements (too much heat, too much cold, not enough water, too much water). So that farmers can have more of their product survive until sale, and make more money.
If it was too cold then would we not have scarcity? BGH (a Monsanto product) created not just mastitis in milk cows but created such an 'obundance' of milk that dairy farmers lost money. But they were/are too afraid not to use the product in case the dairy farmer down the road uses it.
I eat GM foods because I like my seedless grapes. Wouldn't eat them otherwise. And because I know genetic modification isn't some black magic that's going to wipe out humanity. We've been doing selective breeding of plants and animals for a very long time and there's nothing unusual or unnatural about it.
If you don't know where seedless grapes come from how do you "KNOW" that GM "isn't some black magic that's going to wipe out humanity" ?!?!?
You really want to fuck with this guy and his livelyhood?
First make a web/internet based program that distributes your music library to you anywhere in the world. Go to a frat (hunting, bachelor, coming out, etc) party have the frat computer/sound system hook into (i.e. login) your library and queue in your music (temp cache) to be played for your listening pleasure and that of your 100 immediate friends. Lend out your login like you lend out your sweet vynil collection. Sounds like fair use to me?
Now you really start to blur the lines of legality transferring music files. Can't be so easily profiled as illegal by packet sniffing!?!
Then what happens they sell you music like you use linux, licensed, they will tell you you can only use this 'licensed' computer file (albeit music) on a single listener device. M$ does it with OEM software all the time. Good luck arguing against this new legal paradigm.
You better learn to carry a tune if you want "FREE" music in your life. Even then be careful not to sing any songs that your great grandma didn't learn off of her victrola
This is on page 4 of the authors reference documenation. But when you look at the graphs, their time scales seem to be in line. Its not like one is linear and the other logarithmic. Have I misunderstood his point?
The double graph, reproduced below lists CO2 concentration above temperature: but, if the two graphs were superimposed at sufficient scale, as is customary when comparing such similar curves, changes in temperature would be seen to precede changes in CO2 concentration by 400 to 4,000 years. Petit et al. (1999) state that during each of the last four interglacial periods the Earth was warmer than the current
warm period:
I remember looking into this 3 years ago. I could not find a reliable source online for the Sun's darkspots and the related temperature increases. The other thing that bothers me is that I just watched a science show on public TV that correlated the Plague with the cooler temperatures of the Middle Ages. Apperantly a clotting factor in fleas that amps up the tranmisibility of the Plague works best under cooler conditions. Also, did anyone see the reprint of the email concerning the "getting rid" of the Middle Ages warm hump?
I knew a guy back in college whose parents were engineers. They got him into a Cisco certification program BEFORE he got out of High School.
Long short of it. He had a very well paying part time job maintaining networks while going to school full time. Maybe it isn't as brilliant a move today as it was back then but it worked for him.
Another thing you can do is buy a home on/near campus to live in and get some roommates you like for four years and plow your rent money into an investement and sell it four or six years later when you are all done.
Actually I've got the Empower for ISV's subscription which includes Visual Studio 2005 and developer type stuff plus whatever is in the action pack. If I remember right it was $800 (which included licenses to run software as a business and not just as a developer). Thanks for the heads up with the action pack though, I'll tell a friend or two.
I exagerated for the sake of fun (and fact on the retail price) and since MS is the dominant platform the 800 was more than fair. Not complaining. And you really missed the point about SUN's offering which is why I feel my ignorance is not so bad and probably in point of fact is non-existant on this specific fun topic at least:-)
I just paid 35 bucks to have Solaris Enterprise System (a 10 cd box set) sent to me. I am dumbfounded at all the software SUN has sent me for 1/50 the price of a M$DN subscription. I now have both and run full systems on hypervisors. I am happier than a pig in stink.
OpenSolaris, StarOffice, Sun Java Enterprise System (Access Manager, Application Server, Calendar Server,....), Sun Studio 11, Sun Java Studio Creator, Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8, NetBeans 5.0, Sun Cluster Geographic Edition, Identity Manager... THIS IS SO PARTIAL A LIST OF THE STUFF YOU GET.
All the mentioned above with very good documentation (pdf)in one location. Who needs Linux? I need FreeBSD but I don't need Linux!
Why should the federal government do what is the purview of the local government? I'm pretty sure that the boards of education in Dade or Broward County have no clue (nor the 'US Govt' for that matter) about these laptops. They (OLPC) should get these school districts online (pun intended) with the laptop and get high speed wireless courtesy of Bellsouth to all residents of Martin Luther King Blvd. With all the tax breaks Bellsouth has gotten they do owe it to the disenfrachised.
One thing I wonder about OLPC's product, what educational programs do these laptops have installed? Or do they have a web based learning application suite. I mean really, just getting to surf the net is not going to improve human lives (Cart before the horse and all).
The truth is that these clowns should realize that they should sell the laptops to the under priviledged here in the United States first. We have plenty of people who need them, entire school systems for example. Prove the concept here and then ship abroad.
Why do people always try to run before they can walk?
Whats interesting is that without the Amazon's, Yahoo's and Google's there is no point to the internet. That is, they add value to Bellsouth's and Verizon's offerings, maybe they should pay for that added value? What to you think? The telecoms are like the French newspapers ignorant of how and what the internet is.
The telecoms and cable companies actually lease from the cities the land that the telephone poles occupy (a well know revenue stream) so as citizens we do have a very direct ownership in the telecom infrastructure.
"Bill Moyers on America" recently aired a great documentary (watch the show online) in which the salient points made were that telecoms were given tax breaks to the tune of $2000 per household to wire them with fiber optics (back in the 90's) and that they are now trying to charge us again for that promised infrastructure while not allowing consumers the full benefit of the new higher speeds.
Also, it seems that the telecom's foot dragging may well have cost our country $500B to $1 Trillion dollars in lost economic opportunity!!!
P.S. I tried to submit this as a story before but the dimwits in charge denied it twice.
I don't know why we NEED cloned cows or genetically modified anything? The developed world seems well fed (i.e. obese) and the developing world seems just to need peace to feed itself.
Remember mad cow disease? Wait til the next food source is tainted with some new prion like health hazard. It took them several years to figure that one out. I just wish that all the idiots in favor of the genetically modified are the ones to go "vegetable" brain on us since they are the closest ones to it as it is. Die you dim witted assholes.
Why don't you set up a website that collects information about those who have been actually hurt by identity theft and trace it back to its source company if possible. Then give that information to a land shark for a fee. You could make $200-300 thousand.
You're confused. I was for the war. I was for the killing of Saddam & Sons. But again stupidity reared its Bushist head. Remember how the first Bush betrayed the southern Shiites? The only saving grace is not the politically astute Generals you find in the war but rather the brave and thoughtful Captains, Majors, and Colonels.
We could not have held that immoral "no fly" zones and embargo indefinitely. At the cost of Iraqi lives and Iraqi misery. Also, we could not turn our back on Saddam and walk away, just like we can't walk away from the current evil manifestations in Iran.
On the other hand I would never have spent so money to kill Saddam or in the future to hobble Iran.
Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence. Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
Well Mr. StickerBoy you sound and act like a high falutin' physicist well in the know.
Out of curiosity why doesn't the nuclear waste industry take plutonium dilute it into the dirt that the Uranium was taken out of orignally and put that back in the hole in the mountain or ground it was taken out off?
Maybe they could even process the Plutonium in some fashion before hand?
VB was the language to start with (if not pascal) in the 90's.
Today the popularity of C like languages (either OO or procedural) dominate the over all job market, are cross platform, have more books written about them, and have more open resources available to them in aggreagate than VB in all its versions (6,.Net, script, or for Applications).
If you can't learn programming in C you should not be a programming major you should be a business major who is a super user.
Think about it... Linux, Windows, Perl, CPAN, javascript, MONO, C, C++, PHP, C#, sourceforge. I'm mean really, is there a question as to what you should be spending your time on? Go with C#!
One day McNeally says privacy is out the door get over it then he says customers want privacy and deserve it. On another day he hates Microsoft and is going to sue it into the ground and then settles. Yet on another day hardware and software are the most precious thing and Sun will charge an arm and a leg for both and then the next day they are giving it away.
Remember Star Office? They couldn't give away so they had to fork it and try to sell it at a reasonable price. Want to buy a workstation from SUN? Don't bother. Despite great quality (i.e. the case won't cut your hand) you can get a good bang for the buck from Vision Man or SystemMax.
Sun still has enormous potential, but they are all over the place. Hey, dumbasses. Charge a reasonable price for your software and hardware and people will buy it. Get a real business plan for Christ sakes!!!
Google should counter with charging Verizon for adding value to their customers!!!
If there was no Google/Yahoo/etc. there would be no internet. How can you use the internet if you can't find what you are looking for??? Subscriptions would plumet. As a matter of fact while we are at it maybe Gooogle could black hole France and all its newspaper sites.
I got a new laptop and it had MS works installed. I used Word until the trial period expired then when I could no longer open documents I downloaded OpenOffice. Lo and behold when I try to open an MS document now it does open using Word except it does ask me to license the product.
I get the impression that Word looks for OpenOffice and if it finds it decides to go ahead and open the document!!!!
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Why doesn't Red Hat sell computers, taking a similar business model to Microsoft?
What the hell? What gave you the idea that we genetically modify crops in order to fix some sort of scarcity? They're genetically modified to create crops that have increased resistance to the elements (too much heat, too much cold, not enough water, too much water). So that farmers can have more of their product survive until sale, and make more money.
If it was too cold then would we not have scarcity? BGH (a Monsanto product) created not just mastitis in milk cows but created such an 'obundance' of milk that dairy farmers lost money. But they were/are too afraid not to use the product in case the dairy farmer down the road uses it.
I eat GM foods because I like my seedless grapes. Wouldn't eat them otherwise. And because I know genetic modification isn't some black magic that's going to wipe out humanity. We've been doing selective breeding of plants and animals for a very long time and there's nothing unusual or unnatural about it.
If you don't know where seedless grapes come from how do you "KNOW" that GM "isn't some black magic that's going to wipe out humanity" ?!?!?
Yes, and my food though safer has never been more devoid of flavor.
What? Something like a 1/3 of Americans are obese.
100 Million Indians are obese.
China has many millions of obese people.
Food is not a scarcity. The equitable distribution of food may in fact be the scarcity.
How will GM foods fix something that is not broken in the first place? You have to be stupid to willingly to eat GM foods.
You really want to fuck with this guy and his livelyhood?
First make a web/internet based program that distributes your music library to you anywhere in the world. Go to a frat (hunting, bachelor, coming out, etc) party have the frat computer/sound system hook into (i.e. login) your library and queue in your music (temp cache) to be played for your listening pleasure and that of your 100 immediate friends. Lend out your login like you lend out your sweet vynil collection. Sounds like fair use to me?
Now you really start to blur the lines of legality transferring music files. Can't be so easily profiled as illegal by packet sniffing!?!
Then what happens they sell you music like you use linux, licensed, they will tell you you can only use this 'licensed' computer file (albeit music) on a single listener device. M$ does it with OEM software all the time. Good luck arguing against this new legal paradigm.
You better learn to carry a tune if you want "FREE" music in your life. Even then be careful not to sing any songs that your great grandma didn't learn off of her victrola
This is on page 4 of the authors reference documenation. But when you look at the graphs, their time scales seem to be in line. Its not like one is linear and the other logarithmic. Have I misunderstood his point?
The double graph, reproduced below lists CO2 concentration above temperature: but, if the two graphs were superimposed at sufficient scale, as is customary when comparing such similar curves, changes in temperature would be seen to precede changes in CO2 concentration by 400 to 4,000 years. Petit et al. (1999) state that during each of the last four interglacial periods the Earth was warmer than the current warm period:
I remember looking into this 3 years ago. I could not find a reliable source online for the Sun's darkspots and the related temperature increases. The other thing that bothers me is that I just watched a science show on public TV that correlated the Plague with the cooler temperatures of the Middle Ages. Apperantly a clotting factor in fleas that amps up the tranmisibility of the Plague works best under cooler conditions. Also, did anyone see the reprint of the email concerning the "getting rid" of the Middle Ages warm hump?
I knew a guy back in college whose parents were engineers. They got him into a Cisco certification program BEFORE he got out of High School.
Long short of it. He had a very well paying part time job maintaining networks while going to school full time. Maybe it isn't as brilliant a move today as it was back then but it worked for him.
Another thing you can do is buy a home on/near campus to live in and get some roommates you like for four years and plow your rent money into an investement and sell it four or six years later when you are all done.
Good luck!
Actually I've got the Empower for ISV's subscription which includes Visual Studio 2005 and developer type stuff plus whatever is in the action pack. If I remember right it was $800 (which included licenses to run software as a business and not just as a developer). Thanks for the heads up with the action pack though, I'll tell a friend or two.
:-)
I exagerated for the sake of fun (and fact on the retail price) and since MS is the dominant platform the 800 was more than fair. Not complaining. And you really missed the point about SUN's offering which is why I feel my ignorance is not so bad and probably in point of fact is non-existant on this specific fun topic at least
I just paid 35 bucks to have Solaris Enterprise System (a 10 cd box set) sent to me. I am dumbfounded at all the software SUN has sent me for 1/50 the price of a M$DN subscription. I now have both and run full systems on hypervisors. I am happier than a pig in stink.
OpenSolaris, StarOffice, Sun Java Enterprise System (Access Manager, Application Server, Calendar Server,....), Sun Studio 11, Sun Java Studio Creator, Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8, NetBeans 5.0, Sun Cluster Geographic Edition, Identity Manager... THIS IS SO PARTIAL A LIST OF THE STUFF YOU GET.
All the mentioned above with very good documentation (pdf)in one location. Who needs Linux? I need FreeBSD but I don't need Linux!
Linuxes!?! We need no stinkin' Linuxes
Why should the federal government do what is the purview of the local government? I'm pretty sure that the boards of education in Dade or Broward County have no clue (nor the 'US Govt' for that matter) about these laptops. They (OLPC) should get these school districts online (pun intended) with the laptop and get high speed wireless courtesy of Bellsouth to all residents of Martin Luther King Blvd. With all the tax breaks Bellsouth has gotten they do owe it to the disenfrachised.
One thing I wonder about OLPC's product, what educational programs do these laptops have installed? Or do they have a web based learning application suite. I mean really, just getting to surf the net is not going to improve human lives (Cart before the horse and all).
The truth is that these clowns should realize that they should sell the laptops to the under priviledged here in the United States first. We have plenty of people who need them, entire school systems for example. Prove the concept here and then ship abroad. Why do people always try to run before they can walk?
Whats interesting is that without the Amazon's, Yahoo's and Google's there is no point to the internet. That is, they add value to Bellsouth's and Verizon's offerings, maybe they should pay for that added value? What to you think? The telecoms are like the French newspapers ignorant of how and what the internet is.
The telecoms and cable companies actually lease from the cities the land that the telephone poles occupy (a well know revenue stream) so as citizens we do have a very direct ownership in the telecom infrastructure.
"Bill Moyers on America" recently aired a great documentary (watch the show online) in which the salient points made were that telecoms were given tax breaks to the tune of $2000 per household to wire them with fiber optics (back in the 90's) and that they are now trying to charge us again for that promised infrastructure while not allowing consumers the full benefit of the new higher speeds.
Also, it seems that the telecom's foot dragging may well have cost our country $500B to $1 Trillion dollars in lost economic opportunity!!! P.S. I tried to submit this as a story before but the dimwits in charge denied it twice.
I don't know why we NEED cloned cows or genetically modified anything? The developed world seems well fed (i.e. obese) and the developing world seems just to need peace to feed itself.
Remember mad cow disease? Wait til the next food source is tainted with some new prion like health hazard. It took them several years to figure that one out. I just wish that all the idiots in favor of the genetically modified are the ones to go "vegetable" brain on us since they are the closest ones to it as it is. Die you dim witted assholes.
Why don't you set up a website that collects information about those who have been actually hurt by identity theft and trace it back to its source company if possible. Then give that information to a land shark for a fee. You could make $200-300 thousand.
You're confused. I was for the war. I was for the killing of Saddam & Sons. But again stupidity reared its Bushist head. Remember how the first Bush betrayed the southern Shiites? The only saving grace is not the politically astute Generals you find in the war but rather the brave and thoughtful Captains, Majors, and Colonels.
We could not have held that immoral "no fly" zones and embargo indefinitely. At the cost of Iraqi lives and Iraqi misery. Also, we could not turn our back on Saddam and walk away, just like we can't walk away from the current evil manifestations in Iran.
On the other hand I would never have spent so money to kill Saddam or in the future to hobble Iran.
"You're confusing different goals for lack of education and sophistication."
:-)
Actually, things are simpler than you could possibly imagine
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_J._Hanlon
Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
Well Mr. StickerBoy you sound and act like a high falutin' physicist well in the know. Out of curiosity why doesn't the nuclear waste industry take plutonium dilute it into the dirt that the Uranium was taken out of orignally and put that back in the hole in the mountain or ground it was taken out off? Maybe they could even process the Plutonium in some fashion before hand?
Instead of $300B spent in Iraq we should have spent it here on fusion reactor research!!!
Thats what happens when politicians are un-educated rubes.
Forgot!
For all practical purposes C# = Java.
VB was the language to start with (if not pascal) in the 90's.
.Net, script, or for Applications).
Today the popularity of C like languages (either OO or procedural) dominate the over all job market, are cross platform, have more books written about them, and have more open resources available to them in aggreagate than VB in all its versions (6,
If you can't learn programming in C you should not be a programming major you should be a business major who is a super user.
Think about it... Linux, Windows, Perl, CPAN, javascript, MONO, C, C++, PHP, C#, sourceforge. I'm mean really, is there a question as to what you should be spending your time on? Go with C#!
One day McNeally says privacy is out the door get over it then he says customers want privacy and deserve it. On another day he hates Microsoft and is going to sue it into the ground and then settles. Yet on another day hardware and software are the most precious thing and Sun will charge an arm and a leg for both and then the next day they are giving it away.
Remember Star Office? They couldn't give away so they had to fork it and try to sell it at a reasonable price. Want to buy a workstation from SUN? Don't bother. Despite great quality (i.e. the case won't cut your hand) you can get a good bang for the buck from Vision Man or SystemMax.
Sun still has enormous potential, but they are all over the place. Hey, dumbasses. Charge a reasonable price for your software and hardware and people will buy it. Get a real business plan for Christ sakes!!!
Google should counter with charging Verizon for adding value to their customers!!!
If there was no Google/Yahoo/etc. there would be no internet. How can you use the internet if you can't find what you are looking for??? Subscriptions would plumet. As a matter of fact while we are at it maybe Gooogle could black hole France and all its newspaper sites.
I got a new laptop and it had MS works installed. I used Word until the trial period expired then when I could no longer open documents I downloaded OpenOffice. Lo and behold when I try to open an MS document now it does open using Word except it does ask me to license the product.
I get the impression that Word looks for OpenOffice and if it finds it decides to go ahead and open the document!!!!