Re:Similar technology - Methane Farming...
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There a BIG fallacy here, and I highly suggest people watch the documentary film The End of Suburbia, because such fanciful idea of an alternative fuel misses out on the fact that, for example in this case, cattle is fed cheaply thanks to the availability of cheap oil, without which agriculture would be far more expensive. A cow may produce a lot of cowdung, but it also consumes a whole lot more food, and if you consider the cost of producing such food and related expenses, it ends up being a net loss in caloric and economical terms. The same is true for other sources of so-called alternative fuel. We still don't have an alternative to oil.
Can someone tell me the tax advantages of "charitable causes"? I often heard the philanthropic interests of the rich often had more to do with managing their taxes. Also, to what extent are his charitable donations are "real", either by not being tax write-offs, or, for example, software to schools that really costs FAR less than its advertised value and is actually of strategic benefit.
The Microsoft analogy doesn't apply here; they sought to monoplize the market with their closed proprietary products and kill off competitors. Mozilla is different; it's open source. There's no danger of that happening with an open source product. I think It's excellent that they're extending the language; after all, innovation is welcome in open source... things need NOT stagnate, and standards can be revised to meet the needs of the times.
This is a new revenue stream for them; they can start classes to teach the basics of openoffice and linux, and then perhaps the scripting languages such as python and et cetera. They can also offer training and support to local small businesses and organizations, and help them migrate from proprietary to open source.
Eratosthenes (284-192 B.C.) , the librarian of Alexandria, was able to determine the circumference of the Earth to an accuracy of 0.1-0.5%. Around 250 B.C., Eratosthenes knew that on a particular day, the sun cast no shadow in a well in the modern-day village of Assouan. At the same time, on the same day, it cast a minor shadow in Alexandria - the distance between the two was known to high accuracy, and Alexandria and Assouan are almost at the same longitude. Thus, by dividing 360 by that shadow angle and multiplying by the distance, the polar circumference was measured. Eratosthenes measured it to be 40,000 km (24,855 miles), and the current accepted figure is 40,032 km (24,875 miles).
The whole article is a troll by WSJ; they're in cahoots with the crazy religious "right" and like to bash scientists, because this administration has angered the scientific community, so the GOP is in attack mode now on science and everything related; I saw a similar article the other day.
You haven't been to a cinema lately; I have, and I was disgusted how before the movie started there was a feature that linked piracy to terrorism. I was disgusted because terrorism seems to have become the buzzword these days to justify anything, from torturing opposition leaders in middle eastern countries by dictators, to opening fire on peaceful protestors in former soviet republics, to persecuting minorities in south east asia, to assailing civil rights and liberties in the US, to even the friggin' movie industry! The word "terrorism/terrorists" has become a lousy excuse for whatever agenda you can creativeuly associate with it.
A former boss used to be hugely annoyed when people used abbreviations in writing, especially, I recall, those that seemed to need more "writing" than the words they stood for. One that annoyed him the most was when "at" was abbreviated to "@" - not in emails, but in regular paragraphs; he used to throw a comical fit that 1)"at" does not need abbreviation 2) "@" seemed to take longer to write than "at"
Trying to appropriate my sympathy for "orphans" to a global corporation mighty enough to dismiss 13,000 European workers, the most protected in the world, in a single decision, only earns my disgust.
It's curious that these days orphans are mostly mentioned by the rich or their mouthpieces; I am yet to hear an orphan make much noise about his property, generally because real orphans usually live under the care of the state, or, if lucky, are supported by their relatives. Whenever I heard much mention of "orphans", it's usually been by the rich, about millions upon millions of dollars, and the "orphan" being someone in his forties suing an entity.
Perhaps big business should know that their lobbying of Washington to limit their social responsibilities is hurting the orphans. Perhaps the religious right, many of which regard the majority of real orphans as the abandoned fruit of "wicked" acts, should care more about orphans. Perhaps folks like you should stop mentioning them when discussing megacorps.
Wait... why should *your* opinion matter *more* than theirs? At least they're talking about something they're have expertise in, not being cynical "out the ass".
Re:Take a look at the insider stock trading !!!
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IBM Europe Workers Strike
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"$13 million in the proceeds of a stock grant sale and options exercize to J. Bruce Harreld alone.
Bruce Harreld came from Boston Market several years ago where he also helped drive that company straight into the shitter."
The US is diseased and along this line may eventually be deceased. This is something that I had observed for a long time; a short-sighted corporate culture in the US that rewards executives for self-serving, soul-sucking practices. US company after US company are being driven into the shitter; the exceptions seem mainly those companies that are run by their founders or their family, but for those in which management is recruited, there's too often a streak of executives whose sole concern is their rewards during their term, and to hell with any hint of a future for the company or anyone else. The US will pay for this, as US company after US company will fold. Look at GM and Ford suffering now thanks to the shenanigans of the 1980s and since; you could develop products that people want and grow a viable business, or you could cook the books, sacking left and right, playing with numbers to show what you want, and too often US executives have chosen the latter. It's a shame for Ford and GM; they've done every henious thing, from addresses in the Cayman Islands to blaming unions and social responsibilities and lobbying washington, eventhough their competitors in Europe and Japan face bigger social responsibitilies and higher costs of doing business, yet their companies have prospered and are taking US carmakers to the cleaners, thanks to a stricter set of legal rules that forced their executives to focus on the essential and true ways of running a company. Warren Buffet, a man whose preferred holding period for a stock is "forever", has been yelling for a while now that executives need to be disciplined by a new set of rules encoded into law; and I wholeheartedly agree.
I agree; ARM for iPods or mobile processors for their forthcoming tablet. You won't see any OSX machine on intel.
Re:An Example of a Short Sited Administration
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It's all done the same way; in much the way that Bush is deliberately running a huge budget deficit to bring down the "welfare state" thanks to fiscal crises he has created, the same was done with NASA. O'Keefe had nothing to do with space; he's a guy from business who joined the Bush administration on its very first day and was sent to NASA to carry out a partisan politics agenda, and he did it to the letter. The manned mission to Mars is simply a huge cost that will keep NASA distracted and in crises such as this one that will force it to cull science programs, in much the same way they plan to cull social security programs, and Bush has already culled 150 social security and welfare programs in his last budget, on the excuse that they can't afford them. Additionally, Hubble is primarily from the liberal state of MD, whereas the missions the Bush administration imposed on NASA are those that will primarily benefit the military-industrial complex and conservative states such as FL and TX.
Re:An Example of a Short Sited Administration
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I have said this many times before and here I'll say it yet again, and those idiots who called me a conspiracy theorist nutcase should know that they have been yet again blind to the obvious and evident. I have emphatically said before that the Bush administration opposed Hubble on ideaological and electoral basis, and did everything they could to ensure that it won't be serviced, and foresaw that even its successor probably will be aborted (in response to those who aruged Hubble is not being serviced because a successor will be launched). Ever since Galileo warned that the evangelicals want to tell us how the heavens go so that they tell us how to go to heaven, so that we do as they tell us, they have been in fierce opposition to astronomy, the science of the heavens, and for many centuries, from Copernicus to Darwin, the history of secularism had been primarily a history of Astronomy and its conflict with the Church. You still have people of such tenacity that, more than a century and a half after Darwin and nearly 5 after Galileo still insist that God created man and woman 6000 years ago, insist on it being taught in science classes, and send their folks in buses from their megachurches on voting day to elect a president in their image.
Ever since I switched from palm to pocketpc I have sorely missed vexed, possibly the best puzzle game I have ever played. On my desktop I play chess. What puzzle games do you guys know for either desktop windows or pocketpc?
Companies too often get a bad press when they do the responsible and praisworthy thing of honoring their promises to consumers and recall their products to repair a fault. Yes, ideally the product should not have the fault in the first place, when that would be in an ideal world, and these thing just have to happen from time to time. I think companies should get a bad press when they don't recall a product when they should, not when they do the right thing.
I really think it would've been better had palm fitted this with a microdrive-compatible flashcard reader than an internal microdrive. I got an iPaq last year when I switched from Palm that had dual card readers, SD and Flash, and I got a 2gb microdrive in the very first days that merely sat idle till I took it and put it in the drawer, only to sell on ebay a little later on. If I want a microdrive I'd buy a PDA with a flashcard reader so I can use the microdrive in my other devices, such as a digicam, or use the flashcard reader for other uses. In my experience microdrives consume too much power and are FAR from reliable with data.
Dear; there's nothing revolutionary about pen and paper; that's exactly how I had managed most of my life before I got a PDA last century! I think things such as "'surfing' the web" are, for the most part, far from useful as far as a PDA's primary functions originally were. I'd agree that would mostly be using it as a toy. I started using PDAs in their early days and then watched them in horror being morphed from what they were, personal digital assistants, to gimmicky toys thanks to the section of consumers who hammered palm with whines for not being able to watch "simpsons' episodes", "seinfeld episodes", or "movie trailers" on them!!!!
A PDA is only as useful as how you make use of it. And for me; it's been immensely, immensely useful, in fact, for a long, long time I had the conviction that I could easily live without my computer, in fact, even live better(!), but having had gotten used to my PDA, I could certainly not live without it.
I wish all this energy and enthausiasm expended on "rights" over or to music is at least partly expended to more essential matters such as food, medicine and shelter; there's much poverty in the world and there are attempts to practically euthenise the poor and cut off their pittance through fabricated social security crises.
Torrent has given indie filmmakers, documentarians and producers an invaluable "word of mouth" advertising, especially those on the far fringes of the mainstream.
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There a BIG fallacy here, and I highly suggest people watch the documentary film The End of Suburbia, because such fanciful idea of an alternative fuel misses out on the fact that, for example in this case, cattle is fed cheaply thanks to the availability of cheap oil, without which agriculture would be far more expensive. A cow may produce a lot of cowdung, but it also consumes a whole lot more food, and if you consider the cost of producing such food and related expenses, it ends up being a net loss in caloric and economical terms. The same is true for other sources of so-called alternative fuel. We still don't have an alternative to oil.
Can someone tell me the tax advantages of "charitable causes"? I often heard the philanthropic interests of the rich often had more to do with managing their taxes. Also, to what extent are his charitable donations are "real", either by not being tax write-offs, or, for example, software to schools that really costs FAR less than its advertised value and is actually of strategic benefit.
The Microsoft analogy doesn't apply here; they sought to monoplize the market with their closed proprietary products and kill off competitors. Mozilla is different; it's open source. There's no danger of that happening with an open source product. I think It's excellent that they're extending the language; after all, innovation is welcome in open source... things need NOT stagnate, and standards can be revised to meet the needs of the times.
This is a new revenue stream for them; they can start classes to teach the basics of openoffice and linux, and then perhaps the scripting languages such as python and et cetera. They can also offer training and support to local small businesses and organizations, and help them migrate from proprietary to open source.
Perhaps they can start classes to teach openoffice and linux.
Eratosthenes (284-192 B.C.) , the librarian of Alexandria, was able to determine the circumference of the Earth to an accuracy of 0.1-0.5%. Around 250 B.C., Eratosthenes knew that on a particular day, the sun cast no shadow in a well in the modern-day village of Assouan. At the same time, on the same day, it cast a minor shadow in Alexandria - the distance between the two was known to high accuracy, and Alexandria and Assouan are almost at the same longitude. Thus, by dividing 360 by that shadow angle and multiplying by the distance, the polar circumference was measured. Eratosthenes measured it to be 40,000 km (24,855 miles), and the current accepted figure is 40,032 km (24,875 miles).
The whole article is a troll by WSJ; they're in cahoots with the crazy religious "right" and like to bash scientists, because this administration has angered the scientific community, so the GOP is in attack mode now on science and everything related; I saw a similar article the other day.
You haven't been to a cinema lately; I have, and I was disgusted how before the movie started there was a feature that linked piracy to terrorism. I was disgusted because terrorism seems to have become the buzzword these days to justify anything, from torturing opposition leaders in middle eastern countries by dictators, to opening fire on peaceful protestors in former soviet republics, to persecuting minorities in south east asia, to assailing civil rights and liberties in the US, to even the friggin' movie industry! The word "terrorism/terrorists" has become a lousy excuse for whatever agenda you can creativeuly associate with it.
A former boss used to be hugely annoyed when people used abbreviations in writing, especially, I recall, those that seemed to need more "writing" than the words they stood for. One that annoyed him the most was when "at" was abbreviated to "@" - not in emails, but in regular paragraphs; he used to throw a comical fit that 1)"at" does not need abbreviation 2) "@" seemed to take longer to write than "at"
Looks exciting; can't wait for them to make a PDA out of it. I just wish they'd used regular SD instead of reduced size memory cards.
"orphans", huh?
Trying to appropriate my sympathy for "orphans" to a global corporation mighty enough to dismiss 13,000 European workers, the most protected in the world, in a single decision, only earns my disgust.
It's curious that these days orphans are mostly mentioned by the rich or their mouthpieces; I am yet to hear an orphan make much noise about his property, generally because real orphans usually live under the care of the state, or, if lucky, are supported by their relatives. Whenever I heard much mention of "orphans", it's usually been by the rich, about millions upon millions of dollars, and the "orphan" being someone in his forties suing an entity.
Perhaps big business should know that their lobbying of Washington to limit their social responsibilities is hurting the orphans. Perhaps the religious right, many of which regard the majority of real orphans as the abandoned fruit of "wicked" acts, should care more about orphans. Perhaps folks like you should stop mentioning them when discussing megacorps.
I am really disgusted.
Wait... why should *your* opinion matter *more* than theirs? At least they're talking about something they're have expertise in, not being cynical "out the ass".
"$13 million in the proceeds of a stock grant sale and options exercize to J. Bruce Harreld alone. Bruce Harreld came from Boston Market several years ago where he also helped drive that company straight into the shitter."
The US is diseased and along this line may eventually be deceased. This is something that I had observed for a long time; a short-sighted corporate culture in the US that rewards executives for self-serving, soul-sucking practices. US company after US company are being driven into the shitter; the exceptions seem mainly those companies that are run by their founders or their family, but for those in which management is recruited, there's too often a streak of executives whose sole concern is their rewards during their term, and to hell with any hint of a future for the company or anyone else. The US will pay for this, as US company after US company will fold. Look at GM and Ford suffering now thanks to the shenanigans of the 1980s and since; you could develop products that people want and grow a viable business, or you could cook the books, sacking left and right, playing with numbers to show what you want, and too often US executives have chosen the latter. It's a shame for Ford and GM; they've done every henious thing, from addresses in the Cayman Islands to blaming unions and social responsibilities and lobbying washington, eventhough their competitors in Europe and Japan face bigger social responsibitilies and higher costs of doing business, yet their companies have prospered and are taking US carmakers to the cleaners, thanks to a stricter set of legal rules that forced their executives to focus on the essential and true ways of running a company. Warren Buffet, a man whose preferred holding period for a stock is "forever", has been yelling for a while now that executives need to be disciplined by a new set of rules encoded into law; and I wholeheartedly agree.
I agree; ARM for iPods or mobile processors for their forthcoming tablet. You won't see any OSX machine on intel.
It's all done the same way; in much the way that Bush is deliberately running a huge budget deficit to bring down the "welfare state" thanks to fiscal crises he has created, the same was done with NASA. O'Keefe had nothing to do with space; he's a guy from business who joined the Bush administration on its very first day and was sent to NASA to carry out a partisan politics agenda, and he did it to the letter. The manned mission to Mars is simply a huge cost that will keep NASA distracted and in crises such as this one that will force it to cull science programs, in much the same way they plan to cull social security programs, and Bush has already culled 150 social security and welfare programs in his last budget, on the excuse that they can't afford them. Additionally, Hubble is primarily from the liberal state of MD, whereas the missions the Bush administration imposed on NASA are those that will primarily benefit the military-industrial complex and conservative states such as FL and TX.
I have said this many times before and here I'll say it yet again, and those idiots who called me a conspiracy theorist nutcase should know that they have been yet again blind to the obvious and evident. I have emphatically said before that the Bush administration opposed Hubble on ideaological and electoral basis, and did everything they could to ensure that it won't be serviced, and foresaw that even its successor probably will be aborted (in response to those who aruged Hubble is not being serviced because a successor will be launched). Ever since Galileo warned that the evangelicals want to tell us how the heavens go so that they tell us how to go to heaven, so that we do as they tell us, they have been in fierce opposition to astronomy, the science of the heavens, and for many centuries, from Copernicus to Darwin, the history of secularism had been primarily a history of Astronomy and its conflict with the Church. You still have people of such tenacity that, more than a century and a half after Darwin and nearly 5 after Galileo still insist that God created man and woman 6000 years ago, insist on it being taught in science classes, and send their folks in buses from their megachurches on voting day to elect a president in their image.
You stop buying. Simply that.
"Just a student"?... The guy is doing a PhD; many programmers have not even been in college.
Ever since I switched from palm to pocketpc I have sorely missed vexed, possibly the best puzzle game I have ever played. On my desktop I play chess. What puzzle games do you guys know for either desktop windows or pocketpc?
Companies too often get a bad press when they do the responsible and praisworthy thing of honoring their promises to consumers and recall their products to repair a fault. Yes, ideally the product should not have the fault in the first place, when that would be in an ideal world, and these thing just have to happen from time to time. I think companies should get a bad press when they don't recall a product when they should, not when they do the right thing.
I really think it would've been better had palm fitted this with a microdrive-compatible flashcard reader than an internal microdrive. I got an iPaq last year when I switched from Palm that had dual card readers, SD and Flash, and I got a 2gb microdrive in the very first days that merely sat idle till I took it and put it in the drawer, only to sell on ebay a little later on. If I want a microdrive I'd buy a PDA with a flashcard reader so I can use the microdrive in my other devices, such as a digicam, or use the flashcard reader for other uses. In my experience microdrives consume too much power and are FAR from reliable with data.
Dear; there's nothing revolutionary about pen and paper; that's exactly how I had managed most of my life before I got a PDA last century! I think things such as "'surfing' the web" are, for the most part, far from useful as far as a PDA's primary functions originally were. I'd agree that would mostly be using it as a toy. I started using PDAs in their early days and then watched them in horror being morphed from what they were, personal digital assistants, to gimmicky toys thanks to the section of consumers who hammered palm with whines for not being able to watch "simpsons' episodes", "seinfeld episodes", or "movie trailers" on them!!!!
A PDA is only as useful as how you make use of it. And for me; it's been immensely, immensely useful, in fact, for a long, long time I had the conviction that I could easily live without my computer, in fact, even live better(!), but having had gotten used to my PDA, I could certainly not live without it.
I wish all this energy and enthausiasm expended on "rights" over or to music is at least partly expended to more essential matters such as food, medicine and shelter; there's much poverty in the world and there are attempts to practically euthenise the poor and cut off their pittance through fabricated social security crises.
Why did pascal lose popularity?
Torrent has given indie filmmakers, documentarians and producers an invaluable "word of mouth" advertising, especially those on the far fringes of the mainstream.
How is this a bad thing? Viewing figures would drop because it's a bad show, not because hyperdistribution is bad.