It seems to me if you avoided tolkien artwork that the word hobbit as a fae creature is up for grabs since it had been used since 1584.
From the wiki (hobbit (word)) entry...
The text contains a long list of sprites and bogies, based on an older list, the Discovery of Witchcraft, dated 1584, with many additions and a few repetitions. The term hobbit is listed in the context of
boggleboes, bogies, redmen, portunes, grants, hobbits, hobgoblins, brown-men, cowies, dunnies
Amazon sells the 60w Phillips for $25. Home Depot sells the 75w Phillips for $39.
They last 50x as long as your $1 bulbs and 25x as long as "extended life" bulbs and consume 1/6th the electricity.
I find the color from the phillips to be the best. The phillips are covered with an orange filter. I've tinted some of my other LED bulbs with water color orange markers and gotten a weaker similar improvement in color.
I like the light spread from the 40w GE LED's with the white fins to be the best (it's similar to incandescents).
I have about 11 LED's of various brands in my house now. My electric bill is $30 per month lower than last year at the same time.
I'm unaware of a good 100w replacement (tho I'll check out the link here). There is an expensive 5000w LED light bulb tho. It consumes about 130w of power.
I prefer warm traditional incandescent light bulb color. I dislike CFL's. I dislike the way they drop in lumens long before their "official" life span.
I have a 20w light LED bulb which cost $30 about 9 or 10 years ago and it's been on 24/7 on my porch since I got it. It consumes 3 watts of power and attracts no bugs. I provides a warm dim light very nice for sitting on the porch at night but not enough to read by.
Or... you set up enough computers to establish a heat and electrical usage signature for your house/the room.
Then you wait a six months to year, then start growing.
With the new LED's and CFL's, it just seems unlikely you would attract attention for a closet.
When I retire, I'll probably grow and use. Lot healthier than booze which is my current option. And you don't have to smoke, you can cook with pot butter, make chocolate candy, etc. Right now random work drug tests prevent the possibility.
K2 was a possibility but it was made illegal and also had a friend's relative smoke a lot of it (like 20 bags in 2 weeks) and go wacko. Docs say the relative is probably permanently wacko. Strange "beautiful mind" type wacko with murderous and suicidal writings on the walls of their closet.
Maybe in india. China is about tapped for available workers and has been seeing up to 100% annual salary inflation on the low end jobs ($200 to $400) and 20% salary inflation in the middle jobs ($5k to $6k). India still has available workers but is seeing similar rates of salary inflation.
It will be a painful 6 to 8 years more, but at some point it won't make financial sense to outsource / off shore jobs.
However the cloud is really also about automation and robotics. Those trends are in place in all countries. If a robot can do the typical human's job for $5k U.S., then that's what the typical job compensation will ultimately fall to.
Currently robots are replacing people jobs that pay about $18k U.S. and there was a post here about replacing a million chinese laborers who were making much lower wages.
This will literally break the capitalistic model and it's going to happen fairly soon (couple decades at most). There will be almost no job that can't be done by robots except for those involving creativity.
My experience is that open office prints the same documents faster than microsoft. They were 100+ pages with 300ish graphics each created under word 2003.
Finally with word 2010, word wouldn't print them any more at all so I ported them over to Openoffice native where they became superfast.
Likewise for a few 5000+ line spreadsheets 20-30 cells wide in calc.
Now, I haven't shifted over to Libreofficeyet because it won't print transparent layers correctly in Draw but I will once that is fixed since it's the active stream and my first test cases for the word documents are that they are going to require some minor tweaks but otherwise they still print faster than word did.
However, following an accident caused by another, unrelated group of urban explorers in the tunnels a few months later, Transport for London applied to have ASBOs issued to the Aldwych four.
What is unique about exploring tunnels that is different than mountain climbing, playing sports, skateboarding, etc. etc. etc.
I think you need to think through your counter example a bit.
iphone, kindle, blu ray are all DRM
You knew the broadcast flag was in your TV when you bought it.
Amazon did not "revoked ownership of books". If Amazon sells an actual copy of the book "1984," there is jack squat they can do to change or get it back from you. They used DRM to revoke your electronic file.
Since you point it out, yea, it's theoretically possible for your blue ray players to patch so you can't use them on sundays, or not play dvd's.
I sell you a book, car, TV, shirt, power drill. You pay a fair price for it.
Then with an update, I remove your book from your reader, limit your car to driving 30mph, your TV to only working with bluray content so you can't use your DVD's any more, remove the pocket from your shirt, and limit your power drill to using phillips head bits so you have to buy a nother drill for star, hex, and flat head bits.
You can't do those things. But with digitial updates, not only can you do it, it is happening already.
Nah- he just needs to call in for support and they revaldate him.
Not sure many home users would be using $10k video systems.
I'm against copy protection but the only true security is when part of the code is not with the customer.
For that matter, it's a combination of serial number and IP address. You could allow slow changes but not multiple people with the same serial number using the program at the same time.
And of course- the serial number would be from a secure list so people couldn't make fake CRQ numbers
Sure. gives me a chance to apologize for the "Oh please" above.
-- Here's what we are implementing and 11 implementations... Note the Army version was just to be installed for the first time in 2007. It was pushed back to 2010... and I think it was cancelled in 2011.
It has already seen delays and more than $53 million in cost overruns, according to the auditors' report. An initial "operational capability" milestone first set for August 2007 was pushed back to September 2010, it stated. A proposed December 2009 target date for "full operational capability" was moved to December of this year, it added.
You should NEVER trust SAP consultants. It was clear to the existing staff that what they were promising was impossible before we started the project. They say- "this project needs complete buy in. If you have any naysayers you need to remove them. everyone needs to beleive in this". So a few naysayers are fired to make the point and everyone else shuts up and the train wreck proceeds.
1) keep a list of your 30 valid customers and their IP range. 2) make the program require a network connection 3) You could load portions of the program from the net, you could validate against a server, you could load key data and then remove it afterwards, you could request a validation key from the server. Best way would be for part of the calculations be on your server. So a few key routines are never present on the customers computers. 4) When the same software starts asking from a new IP range, don't support it.
All bug patches and versions of the program for new O/S and new video drives has to be the patch version.
You'd lose some customers over this policy but it would be uncrackable. You would need someone who could run servers and your programmers would have to think about the design every time.
The business committed delivery of a huge pile of work in 60 days. Despite working around the clock with offshore resources, it still wasn't possible to make it.
Moral: The business needs to pay for any custom development out of their bonuses.
Right now- they pay a fixed amount ot IT and get an "all you can eat buffet" of work based on how hard and loud they scream.
Our current workload is 10 projects per person plus support work plus validation of data for deployment plus determining scope for the next release.
About 6 months ago they recognized we were grossly understaffed and just this week new resources started arriving. In 90 days, we'll have 4x the staff we do now. But that staff will be unproductive for 15 to 30 days after each one arrives.
Yes with copious examples. I'm at work right now so I can't pull up the bug report. But several others have reported it as well and provided examples.
Then it as flagged as having been entered before some change in procedures and so it had to be revalidated as real and the other users posted more examples.
It's reported under Draw. Think it may be in the 33000's but not sure.
This bug was apparently introduced after 3.2 and is not present in later versions of open office. It's been several months and isn't fixed.
If you set shape to transparent, the drawing can be exported correctly to PDF but you can't print them- they become pointy-- the curviness of bezier curves is lost. This occurs on multiple printers and in both windows xp, windows 8, and at least some versions of Linux.
I would like to use Libreoffice but this is a non-starter. Looking forward to when it is fixed.
In my 30 years of watching military documentaries and movies, I don't recall ever seeing the Sherman referred to as a superior tank.
The recent "Greatest Tank Battles" on the military channel points this out with historical examples of sherman shells shattering on the german armor up to 11 times before penetrating while a single shot from the most of german's tanks could go through the front armor of the sherman.
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It seems to me if you avoided tolkien artwork that the word hobbit as a fae creature is up for grabs since it had been used since 1584. From the wiki (hobbit (word)) entry... The text contains a long list of sprites and bogies, based on an older list, the Discovery of Witchcraft, dated 1584, with many additions and a few repetitions. The term hobbit is listed in the context of boggleboes, bogies, redmen, portunes, grants, hobbits, hobgoblins, brown-men, cowies, dunnies
Amazon sells the 60w Phillips for $25.
Home Depot sells the 75w Phillips for $39.
They last 50x as long as your $1 bulbs and 25x as long as "extended life" bulbs and consume 1/6th the electricity.
I find the color from the phillips to be the best. The phillips are covered with an orange filter. I've tinted some of my other LED bulbs with water color orange markers and gotten a weaker similar improvement in color.
I like the light spread from the 40w GE LED's with the white fins to be the best (it's similar to incandescents).
I have about 11 LED's of various brands in my house now. My electric bill is $30 per month lower than last year at the same time.
I'm unaware of a good 100w replacement (tho I'll check out the link here).
There is an expensive 5000w LED light bulb tho. It consumes about 130w of power.
I prefer warm traditional incandescent light bulb color. I dislike CFL's. I dislike the way they drop in lumens long before their "official" life span.
I have a 20w light LED bulb which cost $30 about 9 or 10 years ago and it's been on 24/7 on my porch since I got it. It consumes 3 watts of power and attracts no bugs. I provides a warm dim light very nice for sitting on the porch at night but not enough to read by.
Jessica 6: What is it?
Logan 5: I don't know. Whatever it is, it's warm.
Or... you set up enough computers to establish a heat and electrical usage signature for your house/the room.
Then you wait a six months to year, then start growing.
With the new LED's and CFL's, it just seems unlikely you would attract attention for a closet.
When I retire, I'll probably grow and use. Lot healthier than booze which is my current option. And you don't have to smoke, you can cook with pot butter, make chocolate candy, etc. Right now random work drug tests prevent the possibility.
K2 was a possibility but it was made illegal and also had a friend's relative smoke a lot of it (like 20 bags in 2 weeks) and go wacko. Docs say the relative is probably permanently wacko. Strange "beautiful mind" type wacko with murderous and suicidal writings on the walls of their closet.
Wow. That's pretty brilliant. With a 100% hit rate, enforcement for pot would become completely impractical.
"The sleeping planet"
"King of Argent"
Insufficient rule of law and monoculture. Too many nations and too many laws. Too low a concentration of people. Poor infrastructure.
China and India are single large chunks of people. It's going to be much more difficult to this with peru, albania, congo, etc.
If China and India were 1 mile long trains, most other countries are a 1970's VW Microbus.
Maybe in india. China is about tapped for available workers and has been seeing up to 100% annual salary inflation on the low end jobs ($200 to $400) and 20% salary inflation in the middle jobs ($5k to $6k). India still has available workers but is seeing similar rates of salary inflation.
It will be a painful 6 to 8 years more, but at some point it won't make financial sense to outsource / off shore jobs.
However the cloud is really also about automation and robotics. Those trends are in place in all countries. If a robot can do the typical human's job for $5k U.S., then that's what the typical job compensation will ultimately fall to.
Currently robots are replacing people jobs that pay about $18k U.S. and there was a post here about replacing a million chinese laborers who were making much lower wages.
This will literally break the capitalistic model and it's going to happen fairly soon (couple decades at most). There will be almost no job that can't be done by robots except for those involving creativity.
The museum articles associated with the machu pichu exhibit said that
a) the incans never discovered the wheel
b) they had an extensive system of roads.
This is backed up here:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Machu_Picchu.aspx
Some of the quipus had disks with holes in them at the ends. These were basically wheels.
The entire exhibit isn't available online so I can't easily link the pictures of the rolling pin object. But it was very close and not there.
At the museum we saw they had round disks with holes that they kept on sticks and cords for hundreds of years.
Also some kind of rolling pin thingy.
They never clicked to the idea of the wheel tho.
http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi
Today's $5 gallon gasoline is 2000's $4 gallon gasoline.
http://gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx
Gasoline still cheaper than 2008.
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Gasoline cost about 31 cents in 1960.
What cost $.31 in 1960 would cost $2.26 in 2010.
$5 is expensive. But for most people, it's only $1,000 per year they lose.
My experience is that open office prints the same documents faster than microsoft. They were 100+ pages with 300ish graphics each created under word 2003.
Finally with word 2010, word wouldn't print them any more at all so I ported them over to Openoffice native where they became superfast.
Likewise for a few 5000+ line spreadsheets 20-30 cells wide in calc.
Now, I haven't shifted over to Libreofficeyet because it won't print transparent layers correctly in Draw but I will once that is fixed since it's the active stream and my first test cases for the word documents are that they are going to require some minor tweaks but otherwise they still print faster than word did.
I won't be going back to word ever tho.
However, following an accident caused by another, unrelated group of urban explorers in the tunnels a few months later, Transport for London applied to have ASBOs issued to the Aldwych four.
What is unique about exploring tunnels that is different than mountain climbing, playing sports, skateboarding, etc. etc. etc.
Was the accident especially horrific?
I think you need to think through your counter example a bit.
iphone, kindle, blu ray are all DRM
You knew the broadcast flag was in your TV when you bought it.
Amazon did not "revoked ownership of books". If Amazon sells an actual copy of the book "1984," there is jack squat they can do to change or get it back from you. They used DRM to revoke your electronic file.
Since you point it out, yea, it's theoretically possible for your blue ray players to patch so you can't use them on sundays, or not play dvd's.
Here is how it is different.
I sell you a book, car, TV, shirt, power drill. You pay a fair price for it.
Then with an update, I remove your book from your reader, limit your car to driving 30mph, your TV to only working with bluray content so you can't use your DVD's any more, remove the pocket from your shirt, and limit your power drill to using phillips head bits so you have to buy a nother drill for star, hex, and flat head bits.
You can't do those things. But with digitial updates, not only can you do it, it is happening already.
Nah- he just needs to call in for support and they revaldate him.
Not sure many home users would be using $10k video systems.
I'm against copy protection but the only true security is when part of the code is not with the customer.
For that matter, it's a combination of serial number and IP address. You could allow slow changes but not multiple people with the same serial number using the program at the same time.
And of course- the serial number would be from a secure list so people couldn't make fake CRQ numbers
Sure. gives me a chance to apologize for the "Oh please" above.
--
Here's what we are implementing and 11 implementations...
Note the Army version was just to be installed for the first time in 2007. It was pushed back to 2010... and I think it was cancelled in 2011.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/public-sector/3290394/us-armys-huge-sap-project-at-high-risk-warn-auditors/
US Army's huge SAP project at high risk, warn auditors
The SAP project, which is called the General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS), will manage a $140 billion annual budget and serve nearly 80,000 users once it is complete. Some 15,500 users are now live on the system.
It has already seen delays and more than $53 million in cost overruns, according to the auditors' report. An initial "operational capability" milestone first set for August 2007 was pushed back to September 2010, it stated. A proposed December 2009 target date for "full operational capability" was moved to December of this year, it added.
Here are ten more failures.
http://www.cio.com/article/486284/10_Famous_ERP_Disasters_Dustups_and_Disappointments
You should NEVER trust SAP consultants. It was clear to the existing staff that what they were promising was impossible before we started the project. They say- "this project needs complete buy in. If you have any naysayers you need to remove them. everyone needs to beleive in this". So a few naysayers are fired to make the point and everyone else shuts up and the train wreck proceeds.
1) keep a list of your 30 valid customers and their IP range.
2) make the program require a network connection
3) You could load portions of the program from the net, you could validate against a server, you could load key data and then remove it afterwards, you could request a validation key from the server. Best way would be for part of the calculations be on your server. So a few key routines are never present on the customers computers.
4) When the same software starts asking from a new IP range, don't support it.
All bug patches and versions of the program for new O/S and new video drives has to be the patch version.
You'd lose some customers over this policy but it would be uncrackable. You would need someone who could run servers and your programmers would have to think about the design every time.
Oh please. The on shore resources are working 80 hour weeks.
It's not about the on shore or off shore. The off shore resources are reasonably productive at a fraction of the price (after a couple months).
It's about assigning 22 people worth of work to 5 people. Be they on or off shore.
It's about assigning 50 projects and saying all of them are top priority.
And not slipping release dates - but holding you to them.
We already have people looking elsewhere. If the economy improved just a smidge, this would all fall apart.
They drank the Koolaid and really believed they could deliver a 7 to 10 year project in 3 years.
True story...
The business committed delivery of a huge pile of work in 60 days. Despite working around the clock with offshore resources, it still wasn't possible to make it.
Moral: The business needs to pay for any custom development out of their bonuses.
Right now- they pay a fixed amount ot IT and get an "all you can eat buffet" of work based on how hard and loud they scream.
Our current workload is 10 projects per person plus support work plus validation of data for deployment plus determining scope for the next release.
About 6 months ago they recognized we were grossly understaffed and just this week new resources started arriving. In 90 days, we'll have 4x the staff we do now. But that staff will be unproductive for 15 to 30 days after each one arrives.
Yes with copious examples. I'm at work right now so I can't pull up the bug report.
But several others have reported it as well and provided examples.
Then it as flagged as having been entered before some change in procedures and so it had to be revalidated as real and the other users posted more examples.
It's reported under Draw. Think it may be in the 33000's but not sure.
This bug was apparently introduced after 3.2 and is not present in later versions of open office. It's been several months and isn't fixed.
If you set shape to transparent, the drawing can be exported correctly to PDF but you can't print them- they become pointy-- the curviness of bezier curves is lost. This occurs on multiple printers and in both windows xp, windows 8, and at least some versions of Linux.
I would like to use Libreoffice but this is a non-starter. Looking forward to when it is fixed.
Sweet Irony... a +5 post followed by a Troll post. Now it just needs to be down-modded to -1.
And it wasn't a troll or flame bait. Redundant would be a better mod.
I think Slashdot needs more mods tho.
More +1's and more -1's.
In my 30 years of watching military documentaries and movies, I don't recall ever seeing the Sherman referred to as a superior tank.
The recent "Greatest Tank Battles" on the military channel points this out with historical examples of sherman shells shattering on the german armor up to 11 times before penetrating while a single shot from the most of german's tanks could go through the front armor of the sherman.
We need to get away from all these little taxes and just have a set tax rate.
Because money is fungible this just obscures their ability to route other tax money to their pet projects.
in texas we added a lottery for school funding.
Then as lottery income wentup, they cut funding to schools in tandom and used the money elsewhere.
End result- a lottery and no more money for schools than before.