As smart as so many/.ers are, it seems most of the vocal would rather moan about what they're not getting than properly and actively manage what we *are* getting - it's not how much you get, it's how much you keep and what you do with it...
Wy wife and I *together* only gross a touch over $50k - in salary and wages. Investments? ah, yes...
Rail guns at scale would be interesting - what would it take to propel a 5Kg mass from surface to extra-orbital, maybe with a transponder package for data feeds wrapped in an impact-resistant hull... Though I wonder how to protect the egg from the mega-gauss fields launching it...
Room-temperature super-conductors?
Do you have any links for these lifters? How would signal attentuation rate be dealt with in terms of acceleration control? What would one use for any *lateral* accelerations needed? (problem applies to both models)
I didn't say it had been built, or even designed on paper - to be honest, I was attempting to redirect those who were complaining about these companies using "40-year-old technology". Verne thought we'd be going to the moon by way of cannon. Heinlein made popular the idea of magnetic catapult ("The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"), though to be fair, he described it solved from Luna to Earth first. I don't happen to have the fund$ it would take to build/test a launch rail, and going up would definitely be the easier portion of the up-and-down problem to solve, but I *would* be interested in seeing a meaningful collation of investigations done into the *possibilities* surrounding it. Any mathematicians wanna jump in and describe the length necessary for a launch rail providing 3.5-4g acceleration long enough to assure high orbit or better? If multi-ton bullet trains can run at 200+mph, the rest of the problem is magnitude and release mechanism.. Rambling, maybe, but where would *you* start?
As in, not observable by plotting per previously known ephemerae and searching with telescope? It's one thing to lose signal or lose power, but is the darn thing still in its orbit? Has anyone looked? How much mass did it have? (Translation, how hard would how much smaller a mass have to hit it to take it so far out of its orbit as to be genuinely mis-placed?) Space pollution may prove to be one of our biggest obstacles to safe space travel.
A disk, whether CD or DVD, that contained enough to: boot, load the necessary device drivers and control interfaces, and access an online gaming environment (hi-scores, ratings, etc saved on server) would DEFINITELY solve many problems. Files not organic to the game would be much more easily excluded from traversing the network, background processes would be kept to an absolute minimum, older systems could play... of course, much might still depend on bandwidth...
1. Does it work well? (not as well as many others) 2. Does it uninstall cleanly? (HA!) 3. How much does it cost for support (Better put, IS support even reasonably AVAILABLE for it?)
Impersonal corporations held legally liable for their"mistakes"? Perhaps even better, civilly liable? Where do we sign the petition to get THIS enacted into law??
1. Create mind-numbing, time-wasting interactive audio/video drug. 2. Advertise as fun. 3. Profit. 4. Watch profit growth plateau as video-game-drug culture gets generalized as teen lamer geeks. 5. Flatter current customer base and allay fears of potential new customers - "Gaming won't make me less human? Okay, here's my entertainment $.". 6. Hope profts resume upward growth near previous rates.
Let's get one of the big fuel/oil companies to look past it's nose far enough to see that whatever the future may hold, petrochemicals will NOT last forever, and ask them to sponsor a multi-million dollar prize for the best alternative ("best" as provable via ease of mass-production and support, with public appeal and ease of transition also considered as factors). Other potential sponsors could include vehicle manufacturers...
Most people who attempt beginning web-based businesses don't want to learn html/xml/php/whatever, nor pay huge sums to those who know them: We want wysiwyg easy page/site editing that will function.
When Linux can completely (including all ease-of-use features, device drivers for my old stuff, etc...,) replace Win-doze, I'll switch. Until then, if a given web-host service doesn't support what I use, I'll find one who will.
As a (soon-to-be-former) Windows user whose wage-slavery involves supporting Windows users, I'd not have become interested if it weren't for OpenOffice availability on Windows: As more apps get 'ported and prove to be at least as good, more people will consider purchasing their new computers without windows.
Until there is an equivalent "Insert cd, boot, install OS, install apps" ease of use, many of us who lack education (note: NOT necessarily lacking intelligence) will choose to remain with what we're used to, no matter how poorly it compares in other aspects.
As long as either or both of them are only eating nuts belonging to themselves, or possibly those of others with prior consent on all involved parts, why would any clear-thinking folk direct our awarenesses towards their dietary, masticatory, or other oral habits?
(Let alone waste further time speculating on such reasons?)
My job involves supporting windows users. While I'm not stupid, I *am* woefully in need of education about Linux as well as being an icon for lazy.
Is there in existence an objective review of the various Linux setups that would allow me to build a complete desktop windows replacement for Linux/computer dummies, a.k.a. my family? I'm not averse to doing some learning work, I just want to ensure I'm getting the best/most out of that effort.
Help?
Someone, somewhere, imagined - this individual was promptly denounced by those who supposedly knew better, yet that someone got the idea across to others with imaginations, who said "What if...?" - more denouncing took place, some few are still in denial, yet the advances happened, and continue.
As long as the masses want cheaper, more easily available and immediately applicable power and energy, we'll move forward.
Video games = drugs
expensive
short-term pleasure
decrease users' contributions to family/community/society
escape from "real" life (I know, definition lacking)
abuse leads to physical symptoms
psychological addiction potential
The above are from direct personal experience.
Please don't mistake, I *like* some "drugs", and I laugh in derision at the two alleged perpetrators who got busted for dealing what amounted to stolen "drugs". My original response was more in the nature of an acknowledgement that the comparison/analogy applies.
Video games *are* drugs - that said, video games, like white sugar, caffeine, nicotine and alcohol, have sufficient lobbying powers ($) that they need not worry about being legislated against.
(Dragging back to topic) I wonder which drugs the alleged bonehead alleged perpetrators of this blatant stupidity were on when they decided to go for it...
Close-fitting antennae receiving brain output, connected to amplifying circuitry, mutual learning with positive feedback provided at sensory-available levels, outputs translated enough to be digitally useful at first, output translations expandable to additional desired digitally controllable functions - Gives ENTIRELY new meaning to the term "Neuro-Linguistic Programming"...
It may take quantum computing to reach analog functionalities, and I'll leave the "Matrix" comparisons to those so inclined, but I *like* the possibilities I see.
My personal issue is a very basic 'why' question: Why is it that klutzes with fast feet who can't catch and illiterates with expensive degrees who can't form sentences all seem to earn more than me? When it all boils down, it's the speed and the sheepskins that are important to those who value appearance over substance, and it is that mis-prioritization of values that is causing the downfall of our society.
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As smart as so many /.ers are, it seems most of the vocal would rather moan about what they're not getting than properly and actively manage what we *are* getting - it's not how much you get, it's how much you keep and what you do with it...
Wy wife and I *together* only gross a touch over $50k - in salary and wages. Investments? ah, yes...
Rail guns at scale would be interesting - what would it take to propel a 5Kg mass from surface to extra-orbital, maybe with a transponder package for data feeds wrapped in an impact-resistant hull... Though I wonder how to protect the egg from the mega-gauss fields launching it...
Room-temperature super-conductors?
Do you have any links for these lifters? How would signal attentuation rate be dealt with in terms of acceleration control? What would one use for any *lateral* accelerations needed? (problem applies to both models)
I didn't say it had been built, or even designed on paper - to be honest, I was attempting to redirect those who were complaining about these companies using "40-year-old technology". Verne thought we'd be going to the moon by way of cannon. Heinlein made popular the idea of magnetic catapult ("The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"), though to be fair, he described it solved from Luna to Earth first.
I don't happen to have the fund$ it would take to build/test a launch rail, and going up would definitely be the easier portion of the up-and-down problem to solve, but I *would* be interested in seeing a meaningful collation of investigations done into the *possibilities* surrounding it. Any mathematicians wanna jump in and describe the length necessary for a launch rail providing 3.5-4g acceleration long enough to assure high orbit or better? If multi-ton bullet trains can run at 200+mph, the rest of the problem is magnitude and release mechanism..
Rambling, maybe, but where would *you* start?
As in, not observable by plotting per previously known ephemerae and searching with telescope?
It's one thing to lose signal or lose power, but is the darn thing still in its orbit? Has anyone looked? How much mass did it have? (Translation, how hard would how much smaller a mass have to hit it to take it so far out of its orbit as to be genuinely mis-placed?)
Space pollution may prove to be one of our biggest obstacles to safe space travel.
Who's up for building an induction catapult launcher?
A disk, whether CD or DVD, that contained enough to: boot, load the necessary device drivers and control interfaces, and access an online gaming environment (hi-scores, ratings, etc saved on server) would DEFINITELY solve many problems. Files not organic to the game would be much more easily excluded from traversing the network, background processes would be kept to an absolute minimum, older systems could play ... of course, much might still depend on bandwidth...
1. Does it work well? (not as well as many others)
2. Does it uninstall cleanly? (HA!)
3. How much does it cost for support (Better put, IS support even reasonably AVAILABLE for it?)
No thanks, I'll stick with what I've got.
A: Water pollution.
Impersonal corporations held legally liable for their"mistakes"? Perhaps even better, civilly liable? Where do we sign the petition to get THIS enacted into law??
Out of an odd curiosity: Do any /.ers reward UCE senders who send emails in full compliance with CAN-SPAM by doing business with them?
Or, is it more likely the case that "It came by email, I didn't ask for it, fsck it and the (foul slime) that sent it!"
More gamer $$$...
1. Create mind-numbing, time-wasting interactive audio/video drug.
2. Advertise as fun.
3. Profit.
4. Watch profit growth plateau as video-game-drug culture gets generalized as teen lamer geeks.
5. Flatter current customer base and allay fears of potential new customers - "Gaming won't make me less human? Okay, here's my entertainment $.".
6. Hope profts resume upward growth near previous rates.
Let's get one of the big fuel/oil companies to look past it's nose far enough to see that whatever the future may hold, petrochemicals will NOT last forever, and ask them to sponsor a multi-million dollar prize for the best alternative ("best" as provable via ease of mass-production and support, with public appeal and ease of transition also considered as factors). Other potential sponsors could include vehicle manufacturers...
Most people who attempt beginning web-based businesses don't want to learn html/xml/php/whatever, nor pay huge sums to those who know them: We want wysiwyg easy page/site editing that will function.
When Linux can completely (including all ease-of-use features, device drivers for my old stuff, etc...,) replace Win-doze, I'll switch. Until then, if a given web-host service doesn't support what I use, I'll find one who will.
There are many in similar situations.
No eAcceleration/eAnthology/Stop-Sign? hmmm.
Mr. Boros, please allow me to introduce Mr. Ouro;
Mr. Ouro, Mr. Boros.
I'm certain the two of you have much to discuss...
As a (soon-to-be-former) Windows user whose wage-slavery involves supporting Windows users, I'd not have become interested if it weren't for OpenOffice availability on Windows: As more apps get 'ported and prove to be at least as good, more people will consider purchasing their new computers without windows.
Until there is an equivalent "Insert cd, boot, install OS, install apps" ease of use, many of us who lack education (note: NOT necessarily lacking intelligence) will choose to remain with what we're used to, no matter how poorly it compares in other aspects.
As long as either or both of them are only eating nuts belonging to themselves, or possibly those of others with prior consent on all involved parts, why would any clear-thinking folk direct our awarenesses towards their dietary, masticatory, or other oral habits? (Let alone waste further time speculating on such reasons?)
Didn't want to assume anything - 'de Nile' is sometimes more than a river in Egypt...
Thank you, both to the author of the above and the individual who emailed me privately with a link to some other reviews.
My job involves supporting windows users. While I'm not stupid, I *am* woefully in need of education about Linux as well as being an icon for lazy. Is there in existence an objective review of the various Linux setups that would allow me to build a complete desktop windows replacement for Linux/computer dummies, a.k.a. my family? I'm not averse to doing some learning work, I just want to ensure I'm getting the best/most out of that effort. Help?
Someone, somewhere, imagined - this individual was promptly denounced by those who supposedly knew better, yet that someone got the idea across to others with imaginations, who said "What if...?" - more denouncing took place, some few are still in denial, yet the advances happened, and continue. As long as the masses want cheaper, more easily available and immediately applicable power and energy, we'll move forward.
Video games = drugs expensive short-term pleasure decrease users' contributions to family/community/society escape from "real" life (I know, definition lacking) abuse leads to physical symptoms psychological addiction potential The above are from direct personal experience. Please don't mistake, I *like* some "drugs", and I laugh in derision at the two alleged perpetrators who got busted for dealing what amounted to stolen "drugs". My original response was more in the nature of an acknowledgement that the comparison/analogy applies.
Video games *are* drugs - that said, video games, like white sugar, caffeine, nicotine and alcohol, have sufficient lobbying powers ($) that they need not worry about being legislated against. (Dragging back to topic) I wonder which drugs the alleged bonehead alleged perpetrators of this blatant stupidity were on when they decided to go for it...
Close-fitting antennae receiving brain output, connected to amplifying circuitry, mutual learning with positive feedback provided at sensory-available levels, outputs translated enough to be digitally useful at first, output translations expandable to additional desired digitally controllable functions - Gives ENTIRELY new meaning to the term "Neuro-Linguistic Programming"... It may take quantum computing to reach analog functionalities, and I'll leave the "Matrix" comparisons to those so inclined, but I *like* the possibilities I see.
My personal issue is a very basic 'why' question: Why is it that klutzes with fast feet who can't catch and illiterates with expensive degrees who can't form sentences all seem to earn more than me? When it all boils down, it's the speed and the sheepskins that are important to those who value appearance over substance, and it is that mis-prioritization of values that is causing the downfall of our society.