It might be simpler to have an morning, afternoon and evening code each day instead of integrating everything.
You could change 3 passwords pretty easily on two systems.
Every cable box dvr is sent out with a good size hard drive.
Now combine that with bit torrent that can access everything recorded by other cable customers. You put in digital rights so people can only see what they are subscribed to. You patch over the cable connection nightly with a new encrypted key to prevent hacking (like everquest did to slow down the programs that sniffed the eq streams).
As long as a show is recorded on any box in the cable tv network you can watch it.
Imagine- in a city- you would be talking 20,000+ user swarms with superhigh speed lines. In a state, there might be hundreds of thousands in a swarm. Plus the cable company could record 1 master copy of everything and keep it for a few months.
And of course they charge for this service- another couple bucks on top of the 6 dollar dvr surcharge (or include it to sell dvrs).
It's so obvious I do not know why they havn't done it yet. I've been thinking of it for over a year now.
Most powersupplies are good enough- even under load.
The 80mm fans are quiet now for about 10 bucks.
The 120mm fans are dead quiet.
But the 50mm fans are very noisy and induce a lot of case vibration because they have to turn so fast. These are usually on the chip set. I have been unable to find a solution. Does anyone else have one?
But the 50mm fans are very noisy and induce a lot of case vibration because they have to turn so fast. These are usually on the chip set. I have been unable to find a solution. Does anyone else have one?
Part of the houston amiga users group.
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Happy Birthday, Amiga
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I had an apple and then went up to the amiga.
It had "HAM" graphics (hold and modify) so you could finally have real pictures (lots of porn of course).
It had true multi-tasking (not sure if windows has that yet- I think it got it with win2k). By true- I mean if one process dies, the machine didn't hang- that process did and everything else kept running with it's preemptive slice (come to think of it my win2k machine still hangs up for over a minute sometimes in azureus or when the virus scanner runs so win may not have preemptive multi-tasking yet).
It had an incredible battlemech game that we just played to death (probably helped some guys fail college).
It had a great networked tank game where you drove around a city blowing it up and hunting for your buddy's enemy tank- but the atari had one with smily faces that supported more people.
I wrote a shareware game for it (Spaaaaace Aaaace!) which was a space war clone with cool graphics and hit location- got a cease and desist order from "Bluth Enterprises" - they had a video tree game with the name B(. It was right about then that game started requiring 10-15 people to produce (since you needed real artists and musicians and the programs were so large you needed multiple programmers)
I got my first virus on the amiga. My buds didn't believe me until it happened to them- it spread via floppies but tended to make the floppies crash. It said
More than 40% of our population has no health care. There is no national health care ( imagine if -everyone- had a basic $5,000 a year policy from the government for things like broken bones and so on- they wouldn't be slaves to big business then tho). Basic point- you get no benefit healthwise from those tax dollars. Oh yea, and many large corporations pay no taxes- their shareholders do pay some.
roads kept in good condition
Many of the new roads in my area are toll roads. So rich people get to use them but not the rest. Even better- they are now selling access to the HOV lanes for $6 a day (something only the rich can afford really).
and other quality of life issues...
But I agree with your basic point. The government has to collect SOME taxes to provide basic services. The problem is- it is mostly coming from the middle class these days while those making over $200k and under $30k are getting a lot of free services compared to their incomes.
They sort of have something like this now where you encrypt data into a jpeg or an avi. It looks like a downloaded copy of LOST (so you get sued by RIAA or the MPAA for a few grand) but actually it's plans for a nuke-q-lar bomb.
American soldiers and Israeli soldiers are legitimate targets if you are claiming to be holding a revolution. If you kill them, you may argue that you are a freedom fighter. You could even argue attacking them out of uniform (tho you would be treated a spy and shot).
13 year old girls and 5 year old children are not. When you kill them you are a murderer, a terrorist, etc. Civilians (of any age) are not legitimate targets.
If you do this enough, then your civilians become legitimate targets and we get genocide.
I'm saying that I read an article in the last year where a service station in the united states published a notice like you ahve and was legally forced to take it down.
Perhaps the rules are different in your state.
Time for serious consideration on minwage jobs
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Humanoid Robot HR-2
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Just to focus this... consider your local supermarket.
What do they really need human employees for besides dealing with unusual situations?
The shelves can (and will) be stocked by robots very soon- probably within the next 5 years). You still need one or two human checkers but they are close to being automated.
So we face the very real possibility of supermarkets having 9-12 employees where they used to have 50-60 employees.
Now extend that to every low level jobs-- robots will at some point be cheaper than illegal immigrant labor.
It is my belief we are headed towards utopia or hell since many (at least 50%) humans will not have any function that can't be performed cheaper by a machine. We can't all be artists. How are we going to justify giving food, clothing, and shelter to millions who have no income?
This only matters for the current generation of consumers. The companies (being essentially immortal now that copyright is being extended infinately) can take the long view- get the restrictions in place and then raise a new group of consumers that have never known content that didn't have to be rented.
They are putting it into a battery and extracting power from the battery with an inverter. The wave pattern of the power doesn't matter.
Efficiency only matters with regard to space taken and cost of the raw parts compared to the electricity produced. If you had a source of magnets, wire, wood and metal that was cheap/free, then your windmill could be pretty inefficient.
Let's see...
Almost 4 -weeks- lost to a new project management methodology.
Much of it literally just sitting at the desk after secretly finishing the work but not being allowed to check it in to the code bases.
Then there are the documents -- about 8 hours a week on documents put on a hard drive and -never ever- looked at again (except 1% by auditors to confirm we did those useless documents).
I remember what it was like to be productive but I'm so hamstrung by red tape it is hard to get in that mode any more.
But what if limited (or even medium use) of nuclear weapons is actually effective. I mean - it won the war for the US and saved a lot of resources.
Lots of "facts" are asserted by the left and right (and by business leaders) as being true that turn out to not be true when tested. In some cases we go for 20-30 years on those assertions before someone points out that the emperor has no clothes.
For example- the domino theory really never panned out and we spent 50,000 lives for that one.
It's looking like the "rumsfield" doctrine isn't how you win the peace but it's okay for winning the first part of the war.
Managers at large corporations try various management theories all the time- inflicting huge wastes of time and effort on their workers most of the time- and finding things that really work occasionally.
Sid implicitly buys the position that "nukes are bad" which was pushed hard from about 1960-1985 (when he was growing up) but we don't know that position is correct. Consider what North Korea has gotten away with because it has nukes.
There are many commercially developed crappy, partially finished programs that never did what they said they would do. Funding ran out or they didn't get enough customers to finish the job. I know- I've bought enough of them over the years and either tossed them as unusuable or suffered with them until some other less unusable program came out (esp. w/ regard to video editing).
Businesses are constantly at risk using commercial software because the authors out and out lie about abilities and say they work so you bet the farm on them and then guess what- they don't work!
My business put a lot of faith in Microsoft project until the salesmen finally just came out said, "listen- these features don't work.. and they probably never will work because not enough customers need them to fix them." We were probably only told that because we are a multi-billion dollar company with a huge contract with them.
We still use microsoft Project (I guess it is the best at what it does even with bugs) but we probably shot half a mill on those features that really didn't work.
Who said we are working for free when what we are really doing is bartering.
I work on a video editor, or the docs for openoffice, or beta testing for Blender.
In return you do something similar.
In return, I get a $500 package (openoffice) free without needing to pay taxes.
In return, I get access to code that does 90% of what I want so I only have to write the 10% instead of 100%.
OSS moves ahead because it doesn't have to care about -cash- payments. It can take almost as long as it wants on any project and when it gets "good enough" then it starts eating into the commercial software it compets with.
I passed a key marker in the last 3 months - I no longer install Office on all my boxes. THat followed another key point 6 months ago when I said the default programs were Writer and Calc instead of Word and Excel.
Now I'm seriously looking at Umbuntu and it's very likely I'll be using it 100% on one box.
Anyway- back to my basic point- even businesses can benefit enormously from open source. They get access to code 90% written, write the 10% they need and contribute it back to the stream. This allows them to make deadlines they otherwise could not and to get software that works (bypassing a huge amount of risk) that they only have to tweak.
And some of them are STILL greedy and try to take the free code and hide their changes (fortunately they are getting busted lately).
It's not that hard folks- get thousands of dollars worth of free software- make your business profitable and give just a little bit back.
Slash dot should support hitting enter and not require bracketed "br's". It is bizarre that it doesn't support returns (unlike just about every other web site out there).
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I felt similar but then I watched the show in order.
It made a big difference for me and now I'm a fan.
Aye 'ave gno plobrem w/ mspelled werds. but both people arguing about it kept spelling it incorrectly- pushed a button. 4ghiphe mne
It might be simpler to have an morning, afternoon and evening code each day instead of integrating everything. You could change 3 passwords pretty easily on two systems.
Coercive. Forgive me- it was the argument, not the misspelled word.
Real Dolls look kinda freaky to me. The android actually crosses the line to looking realistic to me.
Every cable box dvr is sent out with a good size hard drive.
Now combine that with bit torrent that can access everything recorded by other cable customers. You put in digital rights so people can only see what they are subscribed to. You patch over the cable connection nightly with a new encrypted key to prevent hacking (like everquest did to slow down the programs that sniffed the eq streams).
As long as a show is recorded on any box in the cable tv network you can watch it.
Imagine- in a city- you would be talking 20,000+ user swarms with superhigh speed lines. In a state, there might be hundreds of thousands in a swarm. Plus the cable company could record 1 master copy of everything and keep it for a few months.
And of course they charge for this service- another couple bucks on top of the 6 dollar dvr surcharge (or include it to sell dvrs).
It's so obvious I do not know why they havn't done it yet. I've been thinking of it for over a year now.
Thank you- that is VERY helpful!
Certainly gives new meaning to putting someone in your "kill" file!
Most powersupplies are good enough- even under load.
The 80mm fans are quiet now for about 10 bucks.
The 120mm fans are dead quiet.
But the 50mm fans are very noisy and induce a lot of case vibration because they have to turn so fast. These are usually on the chip set. I have been unable to find a solution. Does anyone else have one?
Most powersupplies are good.
The 80mm fans are quiet now for about 10 bucks.
The 120mm fans are dead quiet.
But the 50mm fans are very noisy and induce a lot of case vibration because they have to turn so fast. These are usually on the chip set. I have been unable to find a solution. Does anyone else have one?
I had an apple and then went up to the amiga.
It had "HAM" graphics (hold and modify) so you could finally have real pictures (lots of porn of course).
It had true multi-tasking (not sure if windows has that yet- I think it got it with win2k). By true- I mean if one process dies, the machine didn't hang- that process did and everything else kept running with it's preemptive slice (come to think of it my win2k machine still hangs up for over a minute sometimes in azureus or when the virus scanner runs so win may not have preemptive multi-tasking yet).
It had an incredible battlemech game that we just played to death (probably helped some guys fail college).
It had a great networked tank game where you drove around a city blowing it up and hunting for your buddy's enemy tank- but the atari had one with smily faces that supported more people.
I wrote a shareware game for it (Spaaaaace Aaaace!) which was a space war clone with cool graphics and hit location- got a cease and desist order from "Bluth Enterprises" - they had a video tree game with the name B(. It was right about then that game started requiring 10-15 people to produce (since you needed real artists and musicians and the programs were so large you needed multiple programmers)
I got my first virus on the amiga. My buds didn't believe me until it happened to them- it spread via floppies but tended to make the floppies crash. It said
Something wonderful is happening
Your Amiga has come alive!
Great computer that commodore ruined.
More than 40% of our population has no health care. There is no national health care ( imagine if -everyone- had a basic $5,000 a year policy from the government for things like broken bones and so on- they wouldn't be slaves to big business then tho). Basic point- you get no benefit healthwise from those tax dollars. Oh yea, and many large corporations pay no taxes- their shareholders do pay some.
roads kept in good condition
Many of the new roads in my area are toll roads. So rich people get to use them but not the rest. Even better- they are now selling access to the HOV lanes for $6 a day (something only the rich can afford really).
and other quality of life issues...
But I agree with your basic point. The government has to collect SOME taxes to provide basic services. The problem is- it is mostly coming from the middle class these days while those making over $200k and under $30k are getting a lot of free services compared to their incomes.
They sort of have something like this now where you encrypt data into a jpeg or an avi. It looks like a downloaded copy of LOST (so you get sued by RIAA or the MPAA for a few grand) but actually it's plans for a nuke-q-lar bomb.
Freedom fighters target the military.
American soldiers and Israeli soldiers are legitimate targets if you are claiming to be holding a revolution. If you kill them, you may argue that you are a freedom fighter. You could even argue attacking them out of uniform (tho you would be treated a spy and shot).
13 year old girls and 5 year old children are not. When you kill them you are a murderer, a terrorist, etc. Civilians (of any age) are not legitimate targets.
If you do this enough, then your civilians become legitimate targets and we get genocide.
I'm saying that I read an article in the last year where a service station in the united states published a notice like you ahve and was legally forced to take it down.
Perhaps the rules are different in your state.
Just to focus this... consider your local supermarket.
What do they really need human employees for besides dealing with unusual situations?
The shelves can (and will) be stocked by robots very soon- probably within the next 5 years). You still need one or two human checkers but they are close to being automated.
So we face the very real possibility of supermarkets having 9-12 employees where they used to have 50-60 employees.
Now extend that to every low level jobs-- robots will at some point be cheaper than illegal immigrant labor.
It is my belief we are headed towards utopia or hell since many (at least 50%) humans will not have any function that can't be performed cheaper by a machine. We can't all be artists. How are we going to justify giving food, clothing, and shelter to millions who have no income?
dude-
that's because you are paying almost 20% taxes on the gasoline and they are legally prohibited from telling you that fact.
The government would LOVE it if cable bills couldn't list the fees seperately.
This only matters for the current generation of consumers. The companies (being essentially immortal now that copyright is being extended infinately) can take the long view- get the restrictions in place and then raise a new group of consumers that have never known content that didn't have to be rented.
Okay. I see your point! -- It's interesting to know but not much use in the real world.
They are putting it into a battery and extracting power from the battery with an inverter. The wave pattern of the power doesn't matter.
Efficiency only matters with regard to space taken and cost of the raw parts compared to the electricity produced. If you had a source of magnets, wire, wood and metal that was cheap/free, then your windmill could be pretty inefficient.
Let's see...
Almost 4 -weeks- lost to a new project management methodology.
Much of it literally just sitting at the desk after secretly finishing the work but not being allowed to check it in to the code bases.
Then there are the documents -- about 8 hours a week on documents put on a hard drive and -never ever- looked at again (except 1% by auditors to confirm we did those useless documents).
I remember what it was like to be productive but I'm so hamstrung by red tape it is hard to get in that mode any more.
Actually that is a good example of bias.
We assert that using nuclear weapons is bad.
But what if limited (or even medium use) of nuclear weapons is actually effective. I mean - it won the war for the US and saved a lot of resources.
Lots of "facts" are asserted by the left and right (and by business leaders) as being true that turn out to not be true when tested. In some cases we go for 20-30 years on those assertions before someone points out that the emperor has no clothes.
For example- the domino theory really never panned out and we spent 50,000 lives for that one.
It's looking like the "rumsfield" doctrine isn't how you win the peace but it's okay for winning the first part of the war.
Managers at large corporations try various management theories all the time- inflicting huge wastes of time and effort on their workers most of the time- and finding things that really work occasionally.
Sid implicitly buys the position that "nukes are bad" which was pushed hard from about 1960-1985 (when he was growing up) but we don't know that position is correct. Consider what North Korea has gotten away with because it has nukes.
There are many commercially developed crappy, partially finished programs that never did what they said they would do. Funding ran out or they didn't get enough customers to finish the job. I know- I've bought enough of them over the years and either tossed them as unusuable or suffered with them until some other less unusable program came out (esp. w/ regard to video editing). Businesses are constantly at risk using commercial software because the authors out and out lie about abilities and say they work so you bet the farm on them and then guess what- they don't work!
My business put a lot of faith in Microsoft project until the salesmen finally just came out said, "listen- these features don't work.. and they probably never will work because not enough customers need them to fix them." We were probably only told that because we are a multi-billion dollar company with a huge contract with them.
We still use microsoft Project (I guess it is the best at what it does even with bugs) but we probably shot half a mill on those features that really didn't work.
Who said we are working for free when what we are really doing is bartering.
I work on a video editor, or the docs for openoffice, or beta testing for Blender.
In return you do something similar.
In return, I get a $500 package (openoffice) free without needing to pay taxes.
In return, I get access to code that does 90% of what I want so I only have to write the 10% instead of 100%.
OSS moves ahead because it doesn't have to care about -cash- payments. It can take almost as long as it wants on any project and when it gets "good enough" then it starts eating into the commercial software it compets with.
I passed a key marker in the last 3 months - I no longer install Office on all my boxes. THat followed another key point 6 months ago when I said the default programs were Writer and Calc instead of Word and Excel.
Now I'm seriously looking at Umbuntu and it's very likely I'll be using it 100% on one box.
Anyway- back to my basic point- even businesses can benefit enormously from open source. They get access to code 90% written, write the 10% they need and contribute it back to the stream. This allows them to make deadlines they otherwise could not and to get software that works (bypassing a huge amount of risk) that they only have to tweak.
And some of them are STILL greedy and try to take the free code and hide their changes (fortunately they are getting busted lately).
It's not that hard folks- get thousands of dollars worth of free software- make your business profitable and give just a little bit back.
Slash dot should support hitting enter and not require bracketed "br's". It is bizarre that it doesn't support returns (unlike just about every other web site out there).