I smoke dope too, and in fact most of the girls I hang out with also smoke. Just to add insult to injury, we are all damn hot. None of us would even think about going out with anyone who didnt smoke. I hate those damn dregs of society.
I have looked this up and you are completely correct. It was a danger at one point that all high technology companies would become subsidaries of japanese owned tech companies, but it appears that has been countered by various projects such as this:
"Ask yourself, if the United States was really as bad as its(sic) made out to be, how are we still able to kick every other country in the world's ass economically, technologically, socially, etc."
I can answer your question, because you don't own your country. We do. Here are the figures, although I am sure you are aware of them being economically, technologically, socially superior to me. The percentages are the amount of the listed market owned by foreign companies.
Sound recording industries - 97%
Commodity contracts dealing and brokerage - 79%
Motion picture and sound recording industries - 75%
Metal ore mining - 65%
Motion picture and video industries - 64%
Wineries and distilleries - 64%
Database, directory, and other publishers - 63%
Book publishers - 63%
Cement, concrete, lime, and gypsum product - 62%
Engine, turbine and power transmission equipment - 57%
Rubber product - 53%
Nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing - 53%
Plastics and rubber products manufacturing - 52%
Plastics product - 51%
Other insurance related activities - 51%
Boiler, tank, and shipping container - 50%
Glass and glass product - 48%
Coal mining - 48%
Sugar and confectionery product - 48%
Nonmetallic mineral mining and quarrying - 47%
Advertising and related services - 41%
Pharmaceutical and medicine - 40%
Clay, refractory, and other nonmetallic mineral products - 40%
Securities brokerage - 38%
Other general purpose machinery - 37%
Audio and video equipment mfg and reproducing magnetic and optical media - 36%
Support activities for mining - 36%
Soap, cleaning compound, and toilet preparation - 32%
Chemical manufacturing - 30%
Industrial machinery - 30%
Securities, commodity contracts, and other financial investments and related activities - 30%
Other food - 29%
Motor vehicles and parts - 29%
Machinery manufacturing - 28%
Other electrical equipment and component - 28%
Securities and commodity exchanges and other financial investment activities - 27%
Architectural, engineering, and related services - 26%
Credit card issuing and other consumer credit - 26%
Petroleum refineries (including integrated) - 25%
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments - 25%
Petroleum and coal products manufacturing - 25%
Transportation equipment manufacturing - 25%
Commercial and service industry machinery - 25%
Basic chemical - 24%
Investment banking and securities dealing - 24%
Semiconductor and other electronic component - 23%
Paint, coating, and adhesive - 22%
Printing and related support activities - 21%
Chemical product and preparation - 20%
Iron, steel mills, and steel products - 20%
Agriculture, construction, and mining machinery - 20%
Publishing industries - 20%
Medical equipment and supplies - 20%
I have heard rumour that US would not be able to produce a microchip if the foreign companies involved pulled out.
In regard to this comment:
"Second, if you insist on lecturing people about literacy, do yourself a favor(sic) and run a spell check on your posts. You'll look a lot less like the egotistical, asshat, pseudo-elitest,(sic) non-spelling bee winning idiot that you are."
Looking at the very precise way the spelling mistakes are re-arrangements of words rather than right out misspellings, I am guessing it was a deliberate attempt to call out the person that "spotted" them, that is just a guess though.
Now, offtopic I know but I couldn't help myself.
Your sig is currently "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup." which I recognised, but could not think where from. So I looked it up. In doing so I clicked the 3rd link in googles returns and ended up at
which is a list of outputs from FreeBSD's fortune program.
So happy and joyfull was I at reading this funny anicdote and relising the Tolkien reference I thought I would investgate more and so clicked the link at the top sorting the fortunes by "best" as voted by the sites users presumably.
Oddly, ever so oddly what would I find at number three but " A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling by Mark Twain"
"For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped
to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer
be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained
would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2
might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the
same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with
"i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear
with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12
or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.
Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi
ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz
ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud
hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld "
Coinsidence or design? I dont know, but how f*cking scary!
Staying more on topic, a big problem with simplification is like so:
I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC;
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I cannot sea.
I've run this poem threw it,
I'm sure your pleased too no,
Its letter perfect in it's weigh,
My checker tolled me sew.
"When the researchers shortened the ants' legs the insects had trouble finding home."
No, they were maimed and crippled. Thats why they couldnt find their way home!
(I was going to say something about step counters not working in a wheelchair but I i thought it might be bad taste)... Damn
I am not sure if it does come down to greed. When I first heard about the whole net neutrality saga I was of the very strong opinion that it was quite obviously the way forward, the net had to be neutral to continue to allow it's free and unfettered nature.
I began to read up on this net neutrality looking for information and expanding my opinion. I personally came to the idea that net neutrality isn't all its cracked up to be. I understand the arguments for it, but I cant help but think that different types of data deserve different treatment. I am not talking about bandwidth here but rather latency.
As a case in point I share a house with 5 others, people use VOIP, people browse pages and I personally play a lot of online games. I don't need a huge amount of bandwidth but my latency needs to be ultra low to get the responsiveness I need to play, if the network was totally neutral would each of my game requests be given the same priority as someone requesting a web page where a second of lag would not matter a jot?
Please note this is not the same as charging large web sites for higher throughput to their service, but it is part of the issue that needs to be addressed sensibly with none of this religious zealot manner. It is not good just because it has the word "neutral" in it.
We really need to worry about Viruses, Comets and magnetic pole shifts. Look them up, I dont need to provide links, I am not your mentor, if you care you will see.
We are at probably the best time in possible human existence, lets be human and abuse it. space travel is a good time sink.
Modded funny?
should be +5 insightful. What kind morons modded that? Come on...
If that post makes you think "ha ha" rather than "oh shit" then I have a feeling that its the "wealthy and powerful" running their "power politics"
No, they really are. And photographed repeatedly. My friends car stopped working two weeks after she bought it, because the guy she got it from forgot to inform that he was selling it. The car was flagged as out of area for too long i.e. stolen and then immobilized, remotely. It was then broken into the next day, by the local council and removed, for being abandoned
Don't talk tot me about stepping away from the Clancy novels:D
Agreed, I have to say I dont like your link, but your premise is good even if not my taste, I find I learn through... exposure. does that make sense? But again I agree. Everyone works differently, the problem with the corp perhaps?
In an office, ``you're able to put teams together that can learn very aggressively and rapidly from each other,''
Agreed, IMO lower skilled work environments are much better suited to home working. For example call centre work etc. The only reason I say this is that everyday I go into work and I learn something new from the people around me. Not to say this is "agressive" but if I get stuck on a bit of code, or perhaps a general concept I know that others around me may be able to help, and if they cant then we have discovered something that we as a group are lacking in.
Otherwise these thing go unnoticed, you recieve no critism and do not learn as effectively. Ideally in a team the stronger members of the group can carry the weaker members until they have caught up with the rest.
I cant see how this could be as effective in homeworking, in fact some animosity may occur towards weaker members due to percieved "lazyness" when actually they are just have legitimate trouble with their task.
From TFA: "Burning DVDs in stores could happen in 2007," he said, but noted various licensing and technology hurdles still remained.
Technology hurdles? What technology hurdles? The technology is fine, open source (and closed source) software developers have created high speed data transfer protocols, players and burner. As a previous poster said he has a movie burning kiosk in his home, there is no hurdle here.
Main problem, they wont sell the movies for £4 a disk and the only reason you ever paid more than that is for the pretty packaging and inlays, which the kiosk idea's sort of kill
Get with the program guys, stick your entire catalogue on download and charge a few quid a film, watch your market skyrocket.
This sort of technology could be perhaps useful for administration of your mobile phone through a web based interface on your PC. The possibilities for that could be rather interesting if not fun, especially if your phone got stolen.
Other more practical uses could include number and text message management, calanders and reminders could all be set from your pc with having to set up a bluetooth connection or plug it in... Ok I admit I am reaching here a little but I have a feeling that claiming uselessness on this is more a lack of imagination than anything.
I suspect it isnt about using your phone as a server as such but offering you the ability to connect into it, perhaps to send text messages from any pc you happen to be sitting at. It does create a rather large possibility for abuse, but what new(ish) technology doesnt? I suggest not writing it off straight away even if it does seem a little bit perverse. I dont know, getting a new message on my phone and being able to check it in a google mail style interface on my pc without even rummaging around in my pocket, reply and then continue reading slashdot seems interesting to me. And i dont even have to use that crappy predicitive text.
In other news!
"Hackers hit Swedish police site
Logo of The Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay site says it plans to be up again shortly
Cyber vandals have attacked the website of the Swedish police, forcing it to shut down.
Police said the site was taken offline after it was overloaded by net data."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5041848.stm
what do you think? Perhaps swedish police got slashdotted:D
http://www.polisen.se/inter/nodeid=10230&pageversi on=1.htm
I think this is the link, it isnt back up yet from its denial of service. If people could keep checking and let us know when it is back online??
How many of these sorts of burial grounds have been found, surely there have to be many in Egypt after so many thousands of years of civilization? Some writers have speculated on what possible record stores exist on the Giza plateau, some even stating that record halls like large libraries were buried centuries ago. Even if this is not true perhaps (in agreement with previous posters) it is time to stop digging up these sites that in the process probably destroying much data that can't be processed as yet. For example sites excavated before carbon dating have been effectively destroyed so modern carbon dating techniques are ineffective due to contaminants such as the autobahn effect http://anthro.palomar.edu/time/time_5.htm>. Will our grandchildren look at us as heavy handed vandals who went around excavating out future generations heritage?
Perhaps now is the time for a large scale subterranean scanning project to map out more possible underground sites while at the same time preserving them for a time when we might be able to treat them a little more gently?
Slashdot Mirror
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I smoke dope too, and in fact most of the girls I hang out with also smoke. Just to add insult to injury, we are all damn hot. None of us would even think about going out with anyone who didnt smoke. I hate those damn dregs of society.
I have looked this up and you are completely correct. It was a danger at one point that all high technology companies would become subsidaries of japanese owned tech companies, but it appears that has been countered by various projects such as this:
http://www.hawkassociates.com/ptscprofile.aspx
Thank you for a well thought out and thoughtful reply.
"Ask yourself, if the United States was really as bad as its(sic) made out to be, how are we still able to kick every other country in the world's ass economically, technologically, socially, etc."
I can answer your question, because you don't own your country. We do. Here are the figures, although I am sure you are aware of them being economically, technologically, socially superior to me. The percentages are the amount of the listed market owned by foreign companies.
Sound recording industries - 97%
Commodity contracts dealing and brokerage - 79%
Motion picture and sound recording industries - 75%
Metal ore mining - 65%
Motion picture and video industries - 64%
Wineries and distilleries - 64%
Database, directory, and other publishers - 63%
Book publishers - 63%
Cement, concrete, lime, and gypsum product - 62%
Engine, turbine and power transmission equipment - 57%
Rubber product - 53%
Nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing - 53%
Plastics and rubber products manufacturing - 52%
Plastics product - 51%
Other insurance related activities - 51%
Boiler, tank, and shipping container - 50%
Glass and glass product - 48%
Coal mining - 48%
Sugar and confectionery product - 48%
Nonmetallic mineral mining and quarrying - 47%
Advertising and related services - 41%
Pharmaceutical and medicine - 40%
Clay, refractory, and other nonmetallic mineral products - 40%
Securities brokerage - 38%
Other general purpose machinery - 37%
Audio and video equipment mfg and reproducing magnetic and optical media - 36%
Support activities for mining - 36%
Soap, cleaning compound, and toilet preparation - 32%
Chemical manufacturing - 30%
Industrial machinery - 30%
Securities, commodity contracts, and other financial investments and related activities - 30%
Other food - 29%
Motor vehicles and parts - 29%
Machinery manufacturing - 28%
Other electrical equipment and component - 28%
Securities and commodity exchanges and other financial investment activities - 27%
Architectural, engineering, and related services - 26%
Credit card issuing and other consumer credit - 26%
Petroleum refineries (including integrated) - 25%
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments - 25%
Petroleum and coal products manufacturing - 25%
Transportation equipment manufacturing - 25%
Commercial and service industry machinery - 25%
Basic chemical - 24%
Investment banking and securities dealing - 24%
Semiconductor and other electronic component - 23%
Paint, coating, and adhesive - 22%
Printing and related support activities - 21%
Chemical product and preparation - 20%
Iron, steel mills, and steel products - 20%
Agriculture, construction, and mining machinery - 20%
Publishing industries - 20%
Medical equipment and supplies - 20%
I have heard rumour that US would not be able to produce a microchip if the foreign companies involved pulled out.
In regard to this comment:
"Second, if you insist on lecturing people about literacy, do yourself a favor(sic) and run a spell check on your posts. You'll look a lot less like the egotistical, asshat, pseudo-elitest,(sic) non-spelling bee winning idiot that you are."
Looking at the very precise way the spelling mistakes are re-arrangements of words rather than right out misspellings, I am guessing it was a deliberate attempt to call out the person that "spotted" them, that is just a guess though.
I don't think the parent is a troll at all, I also think there are some valid points made. Mod parent up.
Your sig is currently "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup." which I recognised, but could not think where from. So I looked it up. In doing so I clicked the 3rd link in googles returns and ended up at
http://motd.ambians.com/quotes.php/name/freebsd_ fortunes/toc_id/1-0-2/rand/1
which is a list of outputs from FreeBSD's fortune program.
So happy and joyfull was I at reading this funny anicdote and relising the Tolkien reference I thought I would investgate more and so clicked the link at the top sorting the fortunes by "best" as voted by the sites users presumably.
Oddly, ever so oddly what would I find at number three but " A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling by Mark Twain"
"For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped
to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer
be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained
would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2
might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the
same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with
"i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear
with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12
or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.
Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi
ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz
ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud
hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld
"
Coinsidence or design? I dont know, but how f*cking scary!
Staying more on topic, a big problem with simplification is like so:
I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC;
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I cannot sea.
I've run this poem threw it,
I'm sure your pleased too no,
Its letter perfect in it's weigh,
My checker tolled me sew.
"When the researchers shortened the ants' legs the insects had trouble finding home." No, they were maimed and crippled. Thats why they couldnt find their way home! (I was going to say something about step counters not working in a wheelchair but I i thought it might be bad taste)... Damn
Mod parent up, i actually laughed out loud when I saw his picture in TFA.
I am not sure if it does come down to greed. When I first heard about the whole net neutrality saga I was of the very strong opinion that it was quite obviously the way forward, the net had to be neutral to continue to allow it's free and unfettered nature.
I began to read up on this net neutrality looking for information and expanding my opinion. I personally came to the idea that net neutrality isn't all its cracked up to be. I understand the arguments for it, but I cant help but think that different types of data deserve different treatment. I am not talking about bandwidth here but rather latency.
As a case in point I share a house with 5 others, people use VOIP, people browse pages and I personally play a lot of online games. I don't need a huge amount of bandwidth but my latency needs to be ultra low to get the responsiveness I need to play, if the network was totally neutral would each of my game requests be given the same priority as someone requesting a web page where a second of lag would not matter a jot?
Please note this is not the same as charging large web sites for higher throughput to their service, but it is part of the issue that needs to be addressed sensibly with none of this religious zealot manner. It is not good just because it has the word "neutral" in it.
I am not sure if that was flamebait, well actually, it wasnt.
We really need to worry about Viruses, Comets and magnetic pole shifts. Look them up, I dont need to provide links, I am not your mentor, if you care you will see.
We are at probably the best time in possible human existence, lets be human and abuse it. space travel is a good time sink.
I drink stupid amounts of coffee, and stupid amounts of vodka. One day I will die, so will you. So will everyone! Shock!
We have such a tiny stretch of life, seems absurd to argue over the... absurd things.
Socialist, actually. Cheers mate.
Modded funny?
should be +5 insightful. What kind morons modded that? Come on... If that post makes you think "ha ha" rather than "oh shit" then I have a feeling that its the "wealthy and powerful" running their "power politics"
Has slashdot been taken over
In Soviet America, Slashdot laughs at YOU!
No, they really are. And photographed repeatedly. My friends car stopped working two weeks after she bought it, because the guy she got it from forgot to inform that he was selling it. The car was flagged as out of area for too long i.e. stolen and then immobilized, remotely. It was then broken into the next day, by the local council and removed, for being abandoned
:D
Don't talk tot me about stepping away from the Clancy novels
Agreed, I have to say I dont like your link, but your premise is good even if not my taste, I find I learn through... exposure. does that make sense? But again I agree. Everyone works differently, the problem with the corp perhaps?
From TFA:
In an office, ``you're able to put teams together that can learn very aggressively and rapidly from each other,''
Agreed, IMO lower skilled work environments are much better suited to home working. For example call centre work etc. The only reason I say this is that everyday I go into work and I learn something new from the people around me. Not to say this is "agressive" but if I get stuck on a bit of code, or perhaps a general concept I know that others around me may be able to help, and if they cant then we have discovered something that we as a group are lacking in.
Otherwise these thing go unnoticed, you recieve no critism and do not learn as effectively. Ideally in a team the stronger members of the group can carry the weaker members until they have caught up with the rest.
I cant see how this could be as effective in homeworking, in fact some animosity may occur towards weaker members due to percieved "lazyness" when actually they are just have legitimate trouble with their task.
From TFA:
"Burning DVDs in stores could happen in 2007," he said, but noted various licensing and technology hurdles still remained.
Technology hurdles? What technology hurdles? The technology is fine, open source (and closed source) software developers have created high speed data transfer protocols, players and burner. As a previous poster said he has a movie burning kiosk in his home, there is no hurdle here.
Main problem, they wont sell the movies for £4 a disk and the only reason you ever paid more than that is for the pretty packaging and inlays, which the kiosk idea's sort of kill
Get with the program guys, stick your entire catalogue on download and charge a few quid a film, watch your market skyrocket.
I think you wre kind of missing my point. But no matter.
This sort of technology could be perhaps useful for administration of your mobile phone through a web based interface on your PC. The possibilities for that could be rather interesting if not fun, especially if your phone got stolen.
Other more practical uses could include number and text message management, calanders and reminders could all be set from your pc with having to set up a bluetooth connection or plug it in... Ok I admit I am reaching here a little but I have a feeling that claiming uselessness on this is more a lack of imagination than anything.
I suspect it isnt about using your phone as a server as such but offering you the ability to connect into it, perhaps to send text messages from any pc you happen to be sitting at. It does create a rather large possibility for abuse, but what new(ish) technology doesnt? I suggest not writing it off straight away even if it does seem a little bit perverse. I dont know, getting a new message on my phone and being able to check it in a google mail style interface on my pc without even rummaging around in my pocket, reply and then continue reading slashdot seems interesting to me. And i dont even have to use that crappy predicitive text.
In other news! "Hackers hit Swedish police site Logo of The Pirate Bay The Pirate Bay site says it plans to be up again shortly Cyber vandals have attacked the website of the Swedish police, forcing it to shut down. Police said the site was taken offline after it was overloaded by net data." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5041848.stm what do you think? Perhaps swedish police got slashdotted :D
http://www.polisen.se/inter/nodeid=10230&pageversi on=1.htm
I think this is the link, it isnt back up yet from its denial of service. If people could keep checking and let us know when it is back online??
How many of these sorts of burial grounds have been found, surely there have to be many in Egypt after so many thousands of years of civilization? Some writers have speculated on what possible record stores exist on the Giza plateau, some even stating that record halls like large libraries were buried centuries ago. Even if this is not true perhaps (in agreement with previous posters) it is time to stop digging up these sites that in the process probably destroying much data that can't be processed as yet. For example sites excavated before carbon dating have been effectively destroyed so modern carbon dating techniques are ineffective due to contaminants such as the autobahn effect http://anthro.palomar.edu/time/time_5.htm>. Will our grandchildren look at us as heavy handed vandals who went around excavating out future generations heritage? Perhaps now is the time for a large scale subterranean scanning project to map out more possible underground sites while at the same time preserving them for a time when we might be able to treat them a little more gently?