But don't act like renewable energy is some kind of pie-in-the-sky myth. It just makes you look ridiculous. We've passed the point where solar panels now pay for themselves. Having one on a house actually brings down the cost of home ownership over time.
Agreed about Solar Power, It pays for itself quickly and gives a more reliable (when combined with a redflow.com / lithium battery) grid.
I upgraded the solar on my roof to 8.5kw/h (from 3kwh), it works well, and when you work out the rebates (15c feed in to grid vs 45c import from grid) the payback time is 2-3 years. In South Australia we are very energy conscious given that 2 years ago the grid failed and the blackout for several hours took the whole states infrastructure with it. Since then Musk installed the worlds largest battery (plus Sanjeev Gupta investing to build another large scale), so currently we are one of the world leaders in Solar Wind & Geothermal, and as the big coal plants come to the end of the working life, and when problems occur as happened last year, the battery system kept the nations grid up. Unfortunately our federal government has coal for brains, but on the ground with people like myself Solar and other renewables are essential.
We cant keep raping the planet, so any initiative to mandate solar panels I see as important as mandating plumbing ( and I would suggest double glazing to increase the energy efficiency of homes). The Extra $AU4,000 for the 5.5kw upgrade is negligable when you are building a home when you factor that in three years (largely depends upon your location) is paid for and for the next 20+ years you are in front.
Its time to be smart, so a little extra upfront is the greatest bargain, whilst its not mandatory here, I would guess about 40-50% of homes here have solar pv panels currently.
Microsoft has decided they own your computer, so (&*#^%$ em... Been using Windows desktop since 3.1, mostly for work and gaming, helped move the games industry off DOS4GW to Windows a long time ago. And this sort of crap has moved me from Win 10 to dual boot Win10/Linux Mint, soon to remove the Win10 partition. I've moved almost my work onto Mint, only use Win10 when I have to run a Windows app, and the few left there I'll be exploring Wine or relocating into a Win10 VM. Steam provided great Linux versions of enough of my games I no longer need Windows, and my job is moving from C++ on Windows + Linux to JS on Azure & AWS, so no longer need Windows desktop for anything bur work corporate apps and have throwaway laptop for that. Good riddance. Will be helping all interested friends make the same transition.
Same here
With all the violations to my privacy I had enough about 12 months back, there is a much better way to work than to just take the crap thap Microsoft slings at people, combined with NSA spying and violating our security (im now semi retired due to severe health issues so have time to volenteer when I have pain levels under control) especially with voluntary pre-patent work to assist with genetic research (which the NSA is known to assist their "commercial interests" against ours who develop it), this spying made it mandatory for all researchers to protect our IP and boycott Microsoft (and others) completely. The leaders in the "five eyes" countries should be called to account for their "cooperation" which benefits the wealthiest fraction only to control all assets and the rest as slaves.
Once you move over to Linux (Im on Mint 17.3) you never want to move back.Its fast, its reliable and so flexable, you just need to make the paradigm shift and do it. Yes it was a reasonable amount of work to move our data and applications over, but once done you notice a significant acceleration in productivity.
Sadly showing my age here, at 50 (last week), but remember gopher well too, kind of like an early yahoo but where the community really made life so much more informative and far far less junk (and basically no advertising) until the world "spoiled" it. When I wanted to know something I was able to find what I needed to know and was fairly confident (give or take) that what I found was reliable and accurate, and in less time that it would take now with my broadband connection @6mb/s than it was on a 300 and later a 1200 bps modem at the time.
Started using bbs's at 12, old by todays standards but then it was about 15 being average, and from 15 on the early stages with AARNET (and later Senet one of the first commercial ISPs) and from there onward working as systems programmer & analyst when I started work at about 16, up until I had to retire (for health reasons) 2 years ago.
I do miss the simpler times pre www (although I do like technology and how far it has come) but productivity wise we are no near near ahead as we should be.
Who knows though with the way surveillance and intrusion into out privacy, maybe in 20 years time people will be talking more about.onion and how it was when http / https was around.
Darren
The more the world changes, the more it stays the same
I do a lot of work with Excel and writing code in VBA, but when the recent details of Microsoft's Security Violations came to light we had to investigate the changeover to Linux ( My secondary machine is Linux Mint and has been for nearly a year now).
Libreoffice actually was very good, and although it means an entire rewrite of the codebase (fortunately not as big as it sounds) which does the data mining research as Libreoffice is very different in the way code needs to be written to interface from Excel VBA, it was actually not a great issue with over 90% now ported (although the last 10% will take time due to lack of documentation at this stage).
The biggest Issue I have is that NTFS on Linux is a bit of a hack and I dont consider reliable, meaning I have to transfer something like 40+TB of research raw data to drives formatted under EXT4, and verify the data (Tip - Try DC++ to generate the TTH for the files so you can compare), before the previous source drive is reformatted for the next transfer of a drive. As im working with sensitive data I have no choice but to ditch Windows for good after air-gapping the network for now.
When it became apparent what was happening with the Microsoft/NSA spying, it sent shudders down my spine, I am trained in PCI Compliance and data mining/security and this would mean the all corporates who deal with creditcards (and users who use their card online) are leaking data to Microsoft and NSA et al, and this is NOT ON!.
Goodbye Microsoft, you may have had me as a customer for over 30 years being an IT professional, but no more. The only issue I have now is finding a good antivirus (dont laugh I have used Trend for sometime, and they just dont have one as Linux is a lot more damn secure than Windows).
Where Do I want to go today? Definately not with MS.
Seti's current data explosion is just a small step, once the Paul Allen (Co Founder Microsoft) new array of telescopes and research centres comes online, the data requiring processing will go up by several magnitudes (dont know how they are going to solve that one, maybe ask Larry Page and Sergey Brin if they could "borrow" the spare clock cycles from all the googleplex data centres), unless Paul has also provided a few millions for their own setiplex.
Is it just me who cant understand why you would fly a plane (which is basically nothing more than an aluminum balloon pressurized at a much higher density than the atmosphere at that height) , through a meteor shower which hoping to get the best view of the largest meteor shower at the same time as not actually wanting to get hit by something which could do damage to the plane itself.
It seems to me that its kinda like going outside during a record hail storm and hoping not to get hit.
Hey Im all for science, but has anyone actually checked the "sanity" of the chief executive who authorised the flight, after all a well placed hole with a piece of meteor which is a) flaming hot b) flying at x thousand km/h ( or miles per hr if you prefer) after just coming through out atmosphere could very knock out something kinda important like an engine, hydrologics, pilot etc like a hot knife through butter. Todays aircraft are generally safe, but isnt this just tempting fate just a tad?
Even if the theory were true, you still would be going through multiple computers, so you would be unable to detect skew, let alone packet latency which would differ.
In Australia we did away with 1c and 2c coins sometime ago, which has made a lot of Common Sense.
For Example when you go to the Supermarket, you bill isnt going to be $2.53 is more likely to be $102.53 which we round to $102.55, its just an accepted thing.. 1&2 go down to 0, 3-7 round to 5, 8&9 round up.
We Dont need to carry these poxey little coins, and soon we will see the 5c removed from circulation. Its no problem.
Maybe the US Government should look at no longer minting below 10c and apply rounding, eg 1-4 down to 0, 5-9 up to next 10.
Afterall you elected Bush to be the President with his case containing the nuclear codes.. then again we're probably safe, he has to learn how to open the case first.
Then again who are we to Judge, we (I take no responsibility for - I put a big F U All on the compulsory ballot paper, here you get fined quite a bit for not voting, or at least look like voting) voted that snivelling little big business lackie Howard in who has just revoked virtually all protection for Australian workers against explotiation and as such weve lost many benefits such as overtime, weekends and irregular shifts and banning abilty for unions and worker advocated from ensuring individual employment contracts are fair.;) Give me the Gun and ill fix our problem, and someone can fix yours..
What can you expect when ads are intrusive and frequently block themselves over using Javascript over the text you are trying to read.
I got so fed up after yet another wired blog was covered over by their own paid advertising I started to block them, if they would have be un-obtrusive (for example google who I think do a good job in balancing the ads to be there but not in your face!) I wouldnt have bothered.
Until companies like Wired stomp on this practice rather than encouraging it they are going to be seen as just as much as (well not quite this bad) a pariah as companies such as zango.
Just because the difficulties in doing a job isn't easy, doesn't mean its not of importance.
In the early 1960s a wise man spoke
/ quote
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
/ unquote
We Went to the Moon, and all the signals received including a high definition picture quality version (by the technology of the time) was recorded at Nasa (and also I believe at the receiving station of Parkes receiving station in Australia where the signals were received through their deep space network radio telescope), these most important "documents" of our time have been lost, lost and never able to be recovered leaving us purely with the broadcast version which was at a much lower quality standard (eg a poor quality photocopy).
Its important for the nature of our history and our essence of our technology and who we are as a people to preserve these important events for our future generations.
When you look at this Planet, we regularly goes on a rampage where the technology is lost and we are thrown back hundreds of years, Take Ancient Egypt, The Technology of the first milenium, The great library of Alexandria, (atlantis etc) so much of the past for which we have lost and are poorer for as a result.
Cant we get it right this time as we face our possible next destructive surge, whether it be by climate, economic, famine, nuclear war, microbiological warfare / disease (whether natural or manmade), chemical accident causing a chain reaction etc..., so many risks, lets do this before its too late, too late to be done and too late to be able to be done.
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Hey Just my 2c worth but it sounds like something the likes of Google are good at picking up on and doing.
Im sure not even the swollowing of youtube would stretch the googleplex let alone something like this.
Just a quick note to wish his family much love and regret for their loss.
Having been to Australia Zoo a number of times and seeing first hand the number of risks Steve took it was a toal suprise that it was something so unexpected that a docile animal would be the one who was his undoing.
One example I witness first hand was when he and a dozen blokes were moving a giant salty, he always was more concerned with the crocs health and safety than he was his own, and to see his face right next to the crocs snout really did blow me away, there wasnt anything false about Steve, what you see on TV was the guy in real life, he gave his all for the safety of the animals in his care and also wild out in their domain.
The main point of Steve and Terri's life was conservation and about making the world a better place to which they were born, in this he will be very sorely missed here in australia as no doubt all over the world.
I think that many people looking at the ISS are missing the big picture in all of this.
The Alternate purpose of the ISS is to bring many nations together to do something BIG where we all contribute as a planet and invest, not in the thing itself but invest in the relationships between the various partners, afterall twenty years ago who would have suggested to have the US and the former members of the USSR working together on a project designed to have a leapfrog to the planets and beyond..
What if the former soviet scientists who were unpaid for many months went to work for countries where theyre expertise would have been used to create weopons systems (yes I know many did go) instead of building something which proves the inter-dependance of all of us on this planet regardless of race, religion or nationality.
We face a time on this earth where the planet and our misconduct to it is about to get even.. you only have until 21st December 2012 then its all game over, so the best thing is to live in peace as much as we can until the time where events will test our human fellowship and endurance. The only real good points to us which will last for time in memorial are that our voices and a gleam of our civilisation is slowly floating away about the voyagers.
Yes the ISS costs a lot of money, but comparing it to the budgets of the war machines (especially the US military) the cost is a drop in an ocean, and if it brings us together as a leap of faith, the monetary figure is totally irrelevent.
We Need more of such events (iss), just astral travelling to the other planets and solar systems isnt enough, theres so much to see out there. Just watching the dark clear sky from Myponga (South Australia - 50miles south of Adelaide, a very high glowing energy place to those like myself who are highly intuitive) we can all see the satellites and our interstellar travellers out (often) there but its important that we do have more meaningful contact on our terms.
In order to survive we must do more, this planet has had many generations of civilisations on it before, we werent the first and we wont be the last but still lets leave a legacy to the next group as we received from the ancient egyptians/atlantians civilisation who gave to us, maybe then we may rise from our level zero civilisation (see http://mkaku.org/article_physicsofextra.htm for description of level 0-4 civilisations) that we may sew the seeds so we do finally make it to eternity, to become a creator ourselves.
Why Remove the Caps Lock key, its QUITE USEFUL.. but lets look at the design of the modern keyboard.
Im from the old school as a programmer of 20+ years experience, and as someone who does a lot of data entry you appreciate a good keyboard.
Look at the logisitics.. do you know what key we use most? think about it.. the Space Bar.
When I got my old at keyboard many years ago the space bar was 11.5cm.. (about 4.5 inches) which makes a lot of sense, and whilst the days of sensible keyboards is long gone at least i take some solice from my teco typists keyboard which like my sense of humour is a little warped!.
The Modern keyboard has a small space bar given you have a windows key.. (the second most useless key on the bottom line) which is usually made out to be a larger key and on the other side of the space.. what?? ANOTHER ONE.. next to that is the most useless key.. and guess what its a large right click key.. Um.. who doesnt use a mouse/trackpad/ball and uses windows.. All taking space from the most important key on the keyboard.
Next part of insanity (BELIEVE ME IVE TRIED!!) try BUYING a keyboard with a decent size space bar? think its easy? hummm.. so did I.. UNTIL i actually tried to buy one..
FORGET IT!!!!
So leave the poor Caps Lock key alone, its on an upper level, it has its uses.. but maybe the manufacturers should actually think about ergonomic design and get the useless windows and right click keys and stick them somewhere else if they MUST have one.. maybe above the print screen and scroll lock, that way we have the most useless keys in one place.
I remember the comparison between microsoft windows and the automobile industry..
Is it just me or is anyone else worried about their cars "crashing".. and I dont just mean the computer...
Driving along at 115 km/h (thats about 70mph) and all of a sudden the car computer decides to crash and you have no brakes or response from the car in general..
Personally ill stick with my 1980 datsun stanza.. sure it might use a little extra fuel but i know when i press the brake, the car is going to stop.
108 years... dont worry American and other taxpayers will be paying for the War on Terror.. (or more particular war on their own and everyones own populations) for probably about this time as well.
Kill the DCMA, Kill the Warmongers ability to influence anything, Kill only the real militants.
Just Enough of Killing Democracy and the Human rights of everyone on the Planet!!!
Darren
Slashdot Mirror
shhhhh.... Dont Tell China.. theyll sue for trademark violation.
But don't act like renewable energy is some kind of pie-in-the-sky myth. It just makes you look ridiculous. We've passed the point where solar panels now pay for themselves. Having one on a house actually brings down the cost of home ownership over time.
Agreed about Solar Power, It pays for itself quickly and gives a more reliable (when combined with a redflow.com / lithium battery) grid.
I upgraded the solar on my roof to 8.5kw/h (from 3kwh), it works well, and when you work out the rebates (15c feed in to grid vs 45c import from grid) the payback time is 2-3 years. In South Australia we are very energy conscious given that 2 years ago the grid failed and the blackout for several hours took the whole states infrastructure with it. Since then Musk installed the worlds largest battery (plus Sanjeev Gupta investing to build another large scale), so currently we are one of the world leaders in Solar Wind & Geothermal, and as the big coal plants come to the end of the working life, and when problems occur as happened last year, the battery system kept the nations grid up. Unfortunately our federal government has coal for brains, but on the ground with people like myself Solar and other renewables are essential.
We cant keep raping the planet, so any initiative to mandate solar panels I see as important as mandating plumbing ( and I would suggest double glazing to increase the energy efficiency of homes). The Extra $AU4,000 for the 5.5kw upgrade is negligable when you are building a home when you factor that in three years (largely depends upon your location) is paid for and for the next 20+ years you are in front.
Its time to be smart, so a little extra upfront is the greatest bargain, whilst its not mandatory here, I would guess about 40-50% of homes here have solar pv panels currently.
Darren
Microsoft has decided they own your computer, so (&*#^%$ em...
Been using Windows desktop since 3.1, mostly for work and gaming, helped move the games industry off DOS4GW to Windows a long time ago. And this sort of crap has moved me from Win 10 to dual boot Win10/Linux Mint, soon to remove the Win10 partition. I've moved almost my work onto Mint, only use Win10 when I have to run a Windows app, and the few left there I'll be exploring Wine or relocating into a Win10 VM. Steam provided great Linux versions of enough of my games I no longer need Windows, and my job is moving from C++ on Windows + Linux to JS on Azure & AWS, so no longer need Windows desktop for anything bur work corporate apps and have throwaway laptop for that. Good riddance.
Will be helping all interested friends make the same transition.
Same here
With all the violations to my privacy I had enough about 12 months back, there is a much better way to work than to just take the crap thap Microsoft slings at people, combined with NSA spying and violating our security (im now semi retired due to severe health issues so have time to volenteer when I have pain levels under control) especially with voluntary pre-patent work to assist with genetic research (which the NSA is known to assist their "commercial interests" against ours who develop it), this spying made it mandatory for all researchers to protect our IP and boycott Microsoft (and others) completely. The leaders in the "five eyes" countries should be called to account for their "cooperation" which benefits the wealthiest fraction only to control all assets and the rest as slaves.
Once you move over to Linux (Im on Mint 17.3) you never want to move back.Its fast, its reliable and so flexable, you just need to make the paradigm shift and do it. Yes it was a reasonable amount of work to move our data and applications over, but once done you notice a significant acceleration in productivity.
Make the move
Sadly showing my age here, at 50 (last week), but remember gopher well too, kind of like an early yahoo but where the community really made life so much more informative and far far less junk (and basically no advertising) until the world "spoiled" it. When I wanted to know something I was able to find what I needed to know and was fairly confident (give or take) that what I found was reliable and accurate, and in less time that it would take now with my broadband connection @6mb/s than it was on a 300 and later a 1200 bps modem at the time.
Started using bbs's at 12, old by todays standards but then it was about 15 being average, and from 15 on the early stages with AARNET (and later Senet one of the first commercial ISPs) and from there onward working as systems programmer & analyst when I started work at about 16, up until I had to retire (for health reasons) 2 years ago.
I do miss the simpler times pre www (although I do like technology and how far it has come) but productivity wise we are no near near ahead as we should be.
Who knows though with the way surveillance and intrusion into out privacy, maybe in 20 years time people will be talking more about .onion and how it was when http / https was around.
Darren
The more the world changes, the more it stays the same
Hi Everyone,
For me the answer is absolutely nothing.
I do a lot of work with Excel and writing code in VBA, but when the recent details of Microsoft's Security Violations came to light we had to investigate the changeover to Linux ( My secondary machine is Linux Mint and has been for nearly a year now).
Libreoffice actually was very good, and although it means an entire rewrite of the codebase (fortunately not as big as it sounds) which does the data mining research as Libreoffice is very different in the way code needs to be written to interface from Excel VBA, it was actually not a great issue with over 90% now ported (although the last 10% will take time due to lack of documentation at this stage).
The biggest Issue I have is that NTFS on Linux is a bit of a hack and I dont consider reliable, meaning I have to transfer something like 40+TB of research raw data to drives formatted under EXT4, and verify the data (Tip - Try DC++ to generate the TTH for the files so you can compare), before the previous source drive is reformatted for the next transfer of a drive. As im working with sensitive data I have no choice but to ditch Windows for good after air-gapping the network for now.
When it became apparent what was happening with the Microsoft/NSA spying, it sent shudders down my spine, I am trained in PCI Compliance and data mining /security and this would mean the all corporates who deal with creditcards (and users who use their card online) are leaking data to Microsoft and NSA et al, and this is NOT ON!.
Goodbye Microsoft, you may have had me as a customer for over 30 years being an IT professional, but no more. The only issue I have now is finding a good antivirus (dont laugh I have used Trend for sometime, and they just dont have one as Linux is a lot more damn secure than Windows).
Where Do I want to go today? Definately not with MS.
Looks Like Chernobyl isnt the only thing that suffered a meltdown.. another incident of the slashdot affect.
Seti's current data explosion is just a small step, once the Paul Allen (Co Founder Microsoft) new array of telescopes and research centres comes online, the data requiring processing will go up by several magnitudes (dont know how they are going to solve that one, maybe ask Larry Page and Sergey Brin if they could "borrow" the spare clock cycles from all the googleplex data centres), unless Paul has also provided a few millions for their own setiplex.
We Live in Interesting times.
Darren Stephens
Adelaide, South Australia
Is it just me who cant understand why you would fly a plane (which is basically nothing more than an aluminum balloon pressurized at a much higher density than the atmosphere at that height) , through a meteor shower which hoping to get the best view of the largest meteor shower at the same time as not actually wanting to get hit by something which could do damage to the plane itself.
It seems to me that its kinda like going outside during a record hail storm and hoping not to get hit.
Hey Im all for science, but has anyone actually checked the "sanity" of the chief executive who authorised the flight, after all a well placed hole with a piece of meteor which is
a) flaming hot
b) flying at x thousand km/h ( or miles per hr if you prefer) after just coming through out atmosphere
could very knock out something kinda important like an engine, hydrologics, pilot etc like a hot knife through butter. Todays aircraft are generally safe, but isnt this just tempting fate just a tad?
Darren
Thats ok. the squids from Tasmania...
Two headed from imbreeding down that neck of the woods.. a giant squid is nothing new.
Darren
South Australia
Seems like a pile of steaming bs.
Even if the theory were true, you still would be going through multiple computers, so you would be unable to detect skew, let alone packet latency which would differ.
NEXT
Darren
In Australia we did away with 1c and 2c coins sometime ago, which has made a lot of Common Sense.
For Example when you go to the Supermarket, you bill isnt going to be $2.53 is more likely to be $102.53 which we round to $102.55, its just an accepted thing.. 1&2 go down to 0, 3-7 round to 5, 8&9 round up.
We Dont need to carry these poxey little coins, and soon we will see the 5c removed from circulation. Its no problem.
Maybe the US Government should look at no longer minting below 10c and apply rounding, eg 1-4 down to 0, 5-9 up to next 10.
It seriously does not make sense to make cents.
Darren
Well Why Not...
;) Give me the Gun and ill fix our problem, and someone can fix yours..
Afterall you elected Bush to be the President with his case containing the nuclear codes.. then again we're probably safe, he has to learn how to open the case first.
Then again who are we to Judge, we (I take no responsibility for - I put a big F U All on the compulsory ballot paper, here you get fined quite a bit for not voting, or at least look like voting) voted that snivelling little big business lackie Howard in who has just revoked virtually all protection for Australian workers against explotiation and as such weve lost many benefits such as overtime, weekends and irregular shifts and banning abilty for unions and worker advocated from ensuring individual employment contracts are fair.
Lets see this go either into Funny.
Darren
Im sure this is a fake.
Most of their (if not all of) call centres rely on voip to communicate with "customers", without voip there will be no call centres.
I cant see the indian government killing their cash cow. About as likely as the US or China banning all Pollution. It aint going to happen.
Just my 2c worth.
Darren
What can you expect when ads are intrusive and frequently block themselves over using Javascript over the text you are trying to read.
I got so fed up after yet another wired blog was covered over by their own paid advertising I started to block them, if they would have be un-obtrusive (for example google who I think do a good job in balancing the ads to be there but not in your face!) I wouldnt have bothered.
Until companies like Wired stomp on this practice rather than encouraging it they are going to be seen as just as much as (well not quite this bad) a pariah as companies such as zango.
Darren
Just because the difficulties in doing a job isn't easy, doesn't mean its not of importance.
In the early 1960s a wise man spoke
/ quote
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
/ unquote
We Went to the Moon, and all the signals received including a high definition picture quality version (by the technology of the time) was recorded at Nasa (and also I believe at the receiving station of Parkes receiving station in Australia where the signals were received through their deep space network radio telescope), these most important "documents" of our time have been lost, lost and never able to be recovered leaving us purely with the broadcast version which was at a much lower quality standard (eg a poor quality photocopy).
Its important for the nature of our history and our essence of our technology and who we are as a people to preserve these important events for our future generations.
When you look at this Planet, we regularly goes on a rampage where the technology is lost and we are thrown back hundreds of years, Take Ancient Egypt, The Technology of the first milenium, The great library of Alexandria, (atlantis etc) so much of the past for which we have lost and are poorer for as a result.
Cant we get it right this time as we face our possible next destructive surge, whether it be by climate, economic, famine, nuclear war, microbiological warfare / disease (whether natural or manmade), chemical accident causing a chain reaction etc..., so many risks, lets do this before its too late, too late to be done and too late to be able to be done.
Darren Stephens
Adelaide, Australia
*** News Flash *** News Flash *** News Flash ***
SCO acquired by NTP.
That should keep the courts busy for the next millenium.
Hi,
Just thought you may find http://www.beyondblue.org.au/ of interest.
Hey Just my 2c worth but it sounds like something the likes of Google are good at picking up on and doing. Im sure not even the swollowing of youtube would stretch the googleplex let alone something like this.
Just my 2c worth but I remember seeing this in a story (from Samsung) using the same technology at least 12 months ago Is this a reissue?
Just a quick note to wish his family much love and regret for their loss.
Having been to Australia Zoo a number of times and seeing first hand the number of risks Steve took it was a toal suprise that it was something so unexpected that a docile animal would be the one who was his undoing.
One example I witness first hand was when he and a dozen blokes were moving a giant salty, he always was more concerned with the crocs health and safety than he was his own, and to see his face right next to the crocs snout really did blow me away, there wasnt anything false about Steve, what you see on TV was the guy in real life, he gave his all for the safety of the animals in his care and also wild out in their domain.
The main point of Steve and Terri's life was conservation and about making the world a better place to which they were born, in this he will be very sorely missed here in australia as no doubt all over the world.
Goodbye Mate.
Hey Guys,
I think that many people looking at the ISS are missing the big picture in all of this.
The Alternate purpose of the ISS is to bring many nations together to do something BIG where we all contribute as a planet and invest, not in the thing itself but invest in the relationships between the various partners, afterall twenty years ago who would have suggested to have the US and the former members of the USSR working together on a project designed to have a leapfrog to the planets and beyond..
What if the former soviet scientists who were unpaid for many months went to work for countries where theyre expertise would have been used to create weopons systems (yes I know many did go) instead of building something which proves the inter-dependance of all of us on this planet regardless of race, religion or nationality.
We face a time on this earth where the planet and our misconduct to it is about to get even.. you only have until 21st December 2012 then its all game over, so the best thing is to live in peace as much as we can until the time where events will test our human fellowship and endurance. The only real good points to us which will last for time in memorial are that our voices and a gleam of our civilisation is slowly floating away about the voyagers.
Yes the ISS costs a lot of money, but comparing it to the budgets of the war machines (especially the US military) the cost is a drop in an ocean, and if it brings us together as a leap of faith, the monetary figure is totally irrelevent.
We Need more of such events (iss), just astral travelling to the other planets and solar systems isnt enough, theres so much to see out there. Just watching the dark clear sky from Myponga (South Australia - 50miles south of Adelaide, a very high glowing energy place to those like myself who are highly intuitive) we can all see the satellites and our interstellar travellers out (often) there but its important that we do have more meaningful contact on our terms.
In order to survive we must do more, this planet has had many generations of civilisations on it before, we werent the first and we wont be the last but still lets leave a legacy to the next group as we received from the ancient egyptians/atlantians civilisation who gave to us, maybe then we may rise from our level zero civilisation (see http://mkaku.org/article_physicsofextra.htm for description of level 0-4 civilisations) that we may sew the seeds so we do finally make it to eternity, to become a creator ourselves.
Live in Peace everyone
Darren
Hey
Why Remove the Caps Lock key, its QUITE USEFUL.. but lets look at the design of the modern keyboard.
Im from the old school as a programmer of 20+ years experience, and as someone who does a lot of data entry you appreciate a good keyboard.
Look at the logisitics.. do you know what key we use most? think about it.. the Space Bar.
When I got my old at keyboard many years ago the space bar was 11.5cm.. (about 4.5 inches) which makes a lot of sense, and whilst the days of sensible keyboards is long gone at least i take some solice from my teco typists keyboard which like my sense of humour is a little warped!.
The Modern keyboard has a small space bar given you have a windows key.. (the second most useless key on the bottom line) which is usually made out to be a larger key and on the other side of the space.. what?? ANOTHER ONE.. next to that is the most useless key.. and guess what its a large right click key.. Um.. who doesnt use a mouse/trackpad/ball and uses windows.. All taking space from the most important key on the keyboard.
Next part of insanity (BELIEVE ME IVE TRIED!!) try BUYING a keyboard with a decent size space bar? think its easy? hummm.. so did I.. UNTIL i actually tried to buy one..
FORGET IT!!!!
So leave the poor Caps Lock key alone, its on an upper level, it has its uses.. but maybe the manufacturers should actually think about ergonomic design and get the useless windows and right click keys and stick them somewhere else if they MUST have one.. maybe above the print screen and scroll lock, that way we have the most useless keys in one place.
Darren
Adelaide,
South Australia
I remember the comparison between microsoft windows and the automobile industry..
Is it just me or is anyone else worried about their cars "crashing".. and I dont just mean the computer...
Driving along at 115 km/h (thats about 70mph) and all of a sudden the car computer decides to crash and you have no brakes or response from the car in general..
Personally ill stick with my 1980 datsun stanza.. sure it might use a little extra fuel but i know when i press the brake, the car is going to stop.
Just my 2c worth
108 years... dont worry American and other taxpayers will be paying for the War on Terror.. (or more particular war on their own and everyones own populations) for probably about this time as well. Kill the DCMA, Kill the Warmongers ability to influence anything, Kill only the real militants. Just Enough of Killing Democracy and the Human rights of everyone on the Planet!!! Darren
Yes.. theyre called republicans