I'm pretty sure most towns won't let you construct a 17 foot windmill in your yard. There are a lot of ordinances where I live, and I see this as being against at least several of them.
Also, don't windmills produce tons of noise, to the point where they actually are a cause of noise pollution? That ought to make your neighbors thrilled.
I agree. What good is being able to manage users if they don't have any tools to do their jobs? A large majority of people in my area need Excel to function, and open office is nowhere near as good in that department.
When linux catches up in terms of commercial software, maybe it can be used in work enviornments. Then we can easily manage our IDs.
My mobo floppy interface died on me somehow. I wanted to Raid 0 two drives with Win XP on that machine, but couldn't load the drivers for the windows install without the floppy drive. I tried several floppy drives and cables before deciding that the mobo just wasn't working. The only option in the windows install is to put the disk in drive A:. You can't use a CD. My other option was to slipstream the install CD with the drivers. I am way to lazy for that, so I decided to just keep the 2 drives separate.
I hate floppy drives with a passion now. Whenever I have to make a driver floppy, I get a fiery rage in my midsection. What is wrong with companies? Haven't they heard of this new thing called a "compact disc"? You can put stuff on it, and then use it later.
The only floppy drive I have that really works now is the modular one for my laptop. My web server doesn't have one at all, and the one in my primary PC doesn't work. The only floppies I own are the ones from about 10 years ago that I have formatted and reused. I mostly use the old Office disks. The last install before CD was something like 15 floppy disks. Now they contain all kinds of random stuff from Scorched Earth to drivers for things that I don't even have anymore.
Think about some of the dumbest people you remember. The ones that partied all of the time, and could barely handle college. You'll remember the girls the got trashed and danced on tables at parties. The guys that couldn't remember what the captial of the US is.
What major are a lot of them?
Education
Fixing education starts with getting teachers that actually know how to teach, and didn't pick Education because it was the easiest way to get above a 2.0. Not many intelligent people are going to work towards a job with a starting salary of 20k. Most of us here are programmers, and we would laugh at any offer that low. I know that we can't afford to pay all teachers $50,000 out of college, but unless we can find an incentive to get smart people to teach, education is screwed.
The number 1 reason for idiots isn't actually the education system, as bad as it is. It is the amount of quality time the kids get at home and the investment the parents make into their child's education. There is a reason that class issues are extremely prevalent in education. If a low income mother is working 3 jobs, she doesn't have time to teach her kid to read or make sure he is studying instead of surfing porn. Add in that many of those households have single parents. Then add in that the population is too dense to provide enough teachers and the schools are horrible and you have real problems. Individual kids get passed through the system and the parents can't or won't pick up the slack.
Private schools are far from the answer. Most private schools are worse than public ones around me. Some are better, but those are the ones that cost more than your average college. Throwing money at education won't fix it. Unfunded mandates basically derailed it. No Child Left Behind sounds nice, until you see that children are being left behind on purpose to keep them out of the statistics that cause the school to lose funding.
What's next, detainment? "Well we're pretty sure this guy is a terrorist so let's hold him indefinetly while we investigate his entire life and interrogate him." "Oops turns out we were wrong but we're going to keep a wiretap on all your communications forever and regularly checkup on you, just to be sure."
OMG! Are you the guy that wrote the Patriot Act? That's the exact plan.
Somewhere there needs to be a line, but it can't be in the form of random indicators or heresay. That's where it gets scary. At some point I may have looked at a web site or ordered a book that has been deemed a flag for suspicious behavior. Now all of a sudden I get a SWAT team at my front door and they lock me away for 19 months until I either admit I am a terrorist or somehow prove that I'm not. It's a lot like the Salem witch ordeal.
Now, if you are being watched because you just ordered 500 tons of fertilizer to be delivered to a silo built under a volcano, there is probably good reason to investigate.
The judge that wants to uphold the constitution and bill of rights?
The judge should require substantial evidence that the person is a possible terrorist before signing anything that would violate their rights. Of course, that is the slippery slope of preventative policing. To catch someone before they do something, you need to violate their freedom before they do it.
I am all of this technology though. As long as it is used responsibly, it makes a lot of sense. Also, the only people that can afford to use those airline phones are terrorists backed by oil money anyway.
They also installed 50 cams inside to capture what happens when astronauts stop being polite, and start getting real. These cams will be free with the exception of the toilet camera, which requires a $19/month subscription.
This will help them figure out what went wrong if something does go wrong, but it's hardly helpful to the crew onboard.
I doubt there is any way to eject under those circumstances. The amount of Gs on the crew pretty much prevents them from moving, and the amount of time between "Uh oh" and KABOOM!!! isn't exactly long enough to do anything.
Even if there was a way to eject, it would depend on where the problem took place. 100 feet off the ground maybe you live. In the stratosphere, I don't think your chances are very good. Also, jumping out of the shuttle into a giant plume of fire might be a little more than your body can handle.
As long as they provide people with a way to hear the music, there will be a way to store the stream. Not to mention that any possible encryption is hax0red within 12 minutes of it's release.
Instead of companies giving up on protection, I would love to see them give a nod to the hackers by making it something really simple like a key of "12345". How much does your job suck when you design this encryption? You know that the work you did for the last 10 years will last about 2 days.
That makes sense in theory, but the decimal would border on being infinitely small and probably too small to measure with any technology we'll have for a very long time, if ever. The end of the book would be so precise that if you are off by the tiniest amount you wouldn't know whether Captain Ahab was eaten or went out for fish 'n chips.
Haven't "type-in-the-orders" games been around since Advent and Zork?
I think they are aiming for something a little better than:
> GO NORTH
> OPEN DOOR
YOU DIED!
Sierra had a lot of text based games, but the new system sounds more like they want to build a language parser to handle almost any scenario. It's possible, and there are some AI programs that can have conversations, but I don't know how well it will work in a game.
It kind of reminds me of EQ. No matter how hard you tried to role play to the NPCs, you always had to resort to asking "What [Black Dragon]?"
It's not the lawyers coming up with these lawsuits. I doubt many respectable lawyers would take this case. If anything, there might be a whacked-out lawyer that happens to believe in astrology that will take it on. We'd be way better off firing anyone who believes in astrology into space. Heck, they might even be happier. Instead of fantasizing about their comets, they can ride around on them.
US Judges will laugh this right out of court if they accept the suit at all. There is a hefty fine for filing frivolous suits. Clearly, the woman astrologer is delusional, and the court would benefit by putting her in a psych ward.
You don't need any software to use the camera on any PC. As soon as you plug in the camera it detects it as a flash USB drive and you can get the pictures off it that way. It also asks you if you want to download the pictures from it with a wizard, and renames them for you.
The software is just an easier way of doing it for some people, but totally unnesessary.
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I saw MIL cam and immediately the porn part of my brain took over.
It made me wonder if MILILF is a term.
I think I buy enough from Amazon to offset you and anyone else that boycotts them.
They are just too convenient with the 1 click shopping and a huge amount of merchandise. I just got my digital camera from them.
Maybe I am thinking of the windmill farms in various places. Maybe if you have 200 acres of them they get loud?
I don't know as I've never really been near a windmill. The only thing I know about them is that they are a real bitch to get through in mini golf.
How many birds would be saved by replacing coal burning powerplants with wind turbines?
Most of them. In 100 years when greenhouse gasses kill everything, birds will wish they had windmills.
I'm pretty sure most towns won't let you construct a 17 foot windmill in your yard. There are a lot of ordinances where I live, and I see this as being against at least several of them.
Also, don't windmills produce tons of noise, to the point where they actually are a cause of noise pollution? That ought to make your neighbors thrilled.
Yeah. Anything colder than absolute zero is a bit too chilly for my liking.
I agree. What good is being able to manage users if they don't have any tools to do their jobs? A large majority of people in my area need Excel to function, and open office is nowhere near as good in that department.
When linux catches up in terms of commercial software, maybe it can be used in work enviornments. Then we can easily manage our IDs.
My mobo floppy interface died on me somehow. I wanted to Raid 0 two drives with Win XP on that machine, but couldn't load the drivers for the windows install without the floppy drive. I tried several floppy drives and cables before deciding that the mobo just wasn't working. The only option in the windows install is to put the disk in drive A:. You can't use a CD. My other option was to slipstream the install CD with the drivers. I am way to lazy for that, so I decided to just keep the 2 drives separate.
I hate floppy drives with a passion now. Whenever I have to make a driver floppy, I get a fiery rage in my midsection. What is wrong with companies? Haven't they heard of this new thing called a "compact disc"? You can put stuff on it, and then use it later.
The only floppy drive I have that really works now is the modular one for my laptop. My web server doesn't have one at all, and the one in my primary PC doesn't work. The only floppies I own are the ones from about 10 years ago that I have formatted and reused. I mostly use the old Office disks. The last install before CD was something like 15 floppy disks. Now they contain all kinds of random stuff from Scorched Earth to drivers for things that I don't even have anymore.
Think about some of the dumbest people you remember. The ones that partied all of the time, and could barely handle college. You'll remember the girls the got trashed and danced on tables at parties. The guys that couldn't remember what the captial of the US is.
What major are a lot of them?
Education
Fixing education starts with getting teachers that actually know how to teach, and didn't pick Education because it was the easiest way to get above a 2.0. Not many intelligent people are going to work towards a job with a starting salary of 20k. Most of us here are programmers, and we would laugh at any offer that low. I know that we can't afford to pay all teachers $50,000 out of college, but unless we can find an incentive to get smart people to teach, education is screwed.
The number 1 reason for idiots isn't actually the education system, as bad as it is. It is the amount of quality time the kids get at home and the investment the parents make into their child's education. There is a reason that class issues are extremely prevalent in education. If a low income mother is working 3 jobs, she doesn't have time to teach her kid to read or make sure he is studying instead of surfing porn. Add in that many of those households have single parents. Then add in that the population is too dense to provide enough teachers and the schools are horrible and you have real problems. Individual kids get passed through the system and the parents can't or won't pick up the slack.
Private schools are far from the answer. Most private schools are worse than public ones around me. Some are better, but those are the ones that cost more than your average college. Throwing money at education won't fix it. Unfunded mandates basically derailed it. No Child Left Behind sounds nice, until you see that children are being left behind on purpose to keep them out of the statistics that cause the school to lose funding.
What's next, detainment? "Well we're pretty sure this guy is a terrorist so let's hold him indefinetly while we investigate his entire life and interrogate him." "Oops turns out we were wrong but we're going to keep a wiretap on all your communications forever and regularly checkup on you, just to be sure."
OMG! Are you the guy that wrote the Patriot Act? That's the exact plan.
Somewhere there needs to be a line, but it can't be in the form of random indicators or heresay. That's where it gets scary. At some point I may have looked at a web site or ordered a book that has been deemed a flag for suspicious behavior. Now all of a sudden I get a SWAT team at my front door and they lock me away for 19 months until I either admit I am a terrorist or somehow prove that I'm not. It's a lot like the Salem witch ordeal.
Now, if you are being watched because you just ordered 500 tons of fertilizer to be delivered to a silo built under a volcano, there is probably good reason to investigate.
The judge that wants to uphold the constitution and bill of rights?
The judge should require substantial evidence that the person is a possible terrorist before signing anything that would violate their rights. Of course, that is the slippery slope of preventative policing. To catch someone before they do something, you need to violate their freedom before they do it.
I am all of this technology though. As long as it is used responsibly, it makes a lot of sense. Also, the only people that can afford to use those airline phones are terrorists backed by oil money anyway.
They also installed 50 cams inside to capture what happens when astronauts stop being polite, and start getting real. These cams will be free with the exception of the toilet camera, which requires a $19/month subscription.
This will help them figure out what went wrong if something does go wrong, but it's hardly helpful to the crew onboard.
I doubt there is any way to eject under those circumstances. The amount of Gs on the crew pretty much prevents them from moving, and the amount of time between "Uh oh" and KABOOM!!! isn't exactly long enough to do anything.
Even if there was a way to eject, it would depend on where the problem took place. 100 feet off the ground maybe you live. In the stratosphere, I don't think your chances are very good. Also, jumping out of the shuttle into a giant plume of fire might be a little more than your body can handle.
Considering the price of milk in Hawaii is about 3 times more than the continental states, I can't imagine what the cost of rocket fuel is there.
As long as they provide people with a way to hear the music, there will be a way to store the stream. Not to mention that any possible encryption is hax0red within 12 minutes of it's release.
Instead of companies giving up on protection, I would love to see them give a nod to the hackers by making it something really simple like a key of "12345". How much does your job suck when you design this encryption? You know that the work you did for the last 10 years will last about 2 days.
Good point. Looking like Edward Scissorhands is not exactly condusive to utilizing porn.
That makes sense in theory, but the decimal would border on being infinitely small and probably too small to measure with any technology we'll have for a very long time, if ever. The end of the book would be so precise that if you are off by the tiniest amount you wouldn't know whether Captain Ahab was eaten or went out for fish 'n chips.
I'll bet we start seeing guys with all of their nails at 7 inches long. How else are you going to fit all of your porn onto them?
The way she delivered her lines she was basically a prop. A prop that was nice to look at, but a prop non-the-less.
Haven't "type-in-the-orders" games been around since Advent and Zork?
I think they are aiming for something a little better than:
> GO NORTH
> OPEN DOOR
YOU DIED!
Sierra had a lot of text based games, but the new system sounds more like they want to build a language parser to handle almost any scenario. It's possible, and there are some AI programs that can have conversations, but I don't know how well it will work in a game.
It kind of reminds me of EQ. No matter how hard you tried to role play to the NPCs, you always had to resort to asking "What [Black Dragon]?"
That is a terrible design decision. I'm glad I didn't go with a Powershot. I just got the Casio Exilim EX-Z2750 and I love it.
I wonder if he'll get 'Twan to write another review for his book.
The reviewer clearly should have rated this book "Two snaps in a Z formation"
It's not the lawyers coming up with these lawsuits. I doubt many respectable lawyers would take this case. If anything, there might be a whacked-out lawyer that happens to believe in astrology that will take it on. We'd be way better off firing anyone who believes in astrology into space. Heck, they might even be happier. Instead of fantasizing about their comets, they can ride around on them.
US Judges will laugh this right out of court if they accept the suit at all. There is a hefty fine for filing frivolous suits. Clearly, the woman astrologer is delusional, and the court would benefit by putting her in a psych ward.
You don't need any software to use the camera on any PC. As soon as you plug in the camera it detects it as a flash USB drive and you can get the pictures off it that way. It also asks you if you want to download the pictures from it with a wizard, and renames them for you.
The software is just an easier way of doing it for some people, but totally unnesessary.