The problem is that we are talking about middle schoolers. First off they didn't define what a "middle schooler" is - that can be a pretty big age group depending upon your definition. Secondly these children are developing mentally, physically and sexually. Finally, you havent controlled every other possible factor. As a result of the first two things - a big, diverse age group - you can't draw a meaningful conclusion from this particular set of data. Especially because of the second point. A mature kid will be responsible enough to do his homework first and then do games, whereas an irresponsible kid won't bring his homework home and will just play games. But as a counterpoint, that is why as a good parent, you check up on your kids, review their homework with them, and if they aren't bringing homework home you find out by the end of the week.
It would be like saying that America has experianced a moral decline since 1993, therefore the video game Doom caused it. "Correlation matters" right? No.
When it is found out that a successful company used open source tools to make a viable commercial product, open source gains recognition and credibility and another success story is added to the stack. Pretty soon another company thinks "ya know, I've heard a number of good success stories about people using those open source thingies..." and your user base grows.
Anyway so QT costs a lot of money, why not use wxwindows, FOX, FLTK, or a dozen other perfectly fine open source toolkits.
He required support. Guess you missed that or were "cherry picking" as you say for your own arguments. FOX and FLTK (I know from personal experiance, I have developed with both) do not offer commercial support.
You really can't make generalizations about children when it comes to things like this. Different children develop differently, and generalizations become too broad to be useful applications. But here are the rules for my kids. The homework is done first. After that they get a modest amount of playtime. We check the homework, if the homework is done well then the kids deserve a little playtime.
The King commercials are a corny kind of funny that is different from the mainstream (mostly lame) humor that is always showing on TV. A king in full rainment doing the craziest stuff - from slapping steelworkers 60 stories up to sacking quaterbacks to cruising down the highway picking up the ladies (I swear, I watch 1 TV show a week and 1 football game... I must be the target demographic)... the commercials are offbeat funny, in a Napolean Dynamite or Kung Pow kinda way. Coveted 18-34 male demographic. Guess they can't get all of 'em.
Dryers. Dishwashers. Microwave ovens. Kitchen sinks that aren't porcelain or plastic. Refrigerators....
However the difference between these devices and a computer is the types of metal. If we ever get in a scramble for gold, titanium, tantalum, etc. - a store of computers in a concentrated area might be the most cost effective way to get them. Not yet though. Check out an issue of FastCompany about 3 months ago, there is a company trying to streamline the process of harvesting tech landfills for various substances but it is still waaay too expensive.
* Are they capable of staying after normal work hours every now and then to see to something getting finished?
Oh, that kind of job. Sorry, despite what the above might lead one to imply, I do in fact have a life. Or at least, enough of a one not to waste it patching up someone elses mistakes.
Heh. Sucks to be you. You should try looking for a job you enjoy. When you find a job where you genuinely **want** to be there - the work is challenging and engaging and keeps you interested for 8+ hours a day - it is truly a joyful experiance. Hope you find it someday. Until then work is just a job, not a career.
Apple specializes in selling low quantities of very expensive items. Wal-Mart specializes in selling high quantities of very cheap items.
Congratulations, this is why it could work out. You now have the spectrum of people who buy cheap (walmart) and people who pay the Apple Tax (apple). You have two different segments of the market that neither one can hack due to stereotypes. And when you combine their powers...
Whitehorn and Branson both said that SpaceShipTwo will rely on a new type of hybrid rocket fuel, one slightly different from the rubber and nitrous oxide mixture that propelled SpaceShipOne into suborbital space three times in 2004.
"If you're going to build a spaceship, you've got to build a green spaceship," Branson said, adding that the carbon dioxide output from a single spaceflight is on par with those of a business class seat aboard commercial aircraft.
Whether that is good enough for you, I don't know. I find that to be acceptable.
I was going to mention this but you beat me to it. The russians are still spying on the US, but we don't blind **their** satellites. (One I know of firsthand checks, among other things, the US Space and Rocket Center every day to make sure the big Saturn V / Saturn I and other decent sized missiles dont just go missing)
Vulnurabilities are directly proporitonal to user base and increase with access to source control.
Opera has a low user base and is closed source. Therefore, few vulnurabilities. In short, no one cares.
Firefox, on the other hand, has a moderate user base but the source code is right there, the vulnurabilities are ripe for the picking. Hence why the vulnurabilities are high but the turnaround time to fix them, also quick.
IE on the other hand, high user base closed source. High vulnurabilities because of the high user base but potential hackers have to work harder.
Really, this study is a no-brainer. The results make perfect sense.
That is YOUR morality. How dare you impose your morality on someone else? And fine, so you won't work on DRM. There is no reason why someone else can't use GPL'd software to do DRM. If they are using their own time and their own talents and the coder of the upstream software is OK with it - what is the problem? The GPL is only meant to cover redistribution of software (it is a licensing agreement not a terms-of-use).
My problem is all you people who want to impose your morality on others in a flurry of holier-than-thou richeousness. Once you take a freedom away, which freedom goes next? Taking away the ability to experiment with DRM is a freedom, I don't care if you agree with it or not. "preserving freedom" by removing freedom is hypocritical of the FSF. What freedom goes next?
Hello? They own our economy (via the trade deficit), and they 'can't afford our services'? I'm just wondering what americans do that the chinese can't learn to do for themselves.
Scientific research. Building their own spacecraft (see my post in this thread that started all of this). Building their own high-performance (military) aircraft that aren't Soviet (or other) clones. China has low-tech manufacturing but not high-tech, and no real scientific or industrial research. Really, when you think of China, what are the first things that come to mind? iPods and cheap computers...
Oh, and a couple of years later your planned CEV ( a copy of the Russian Soyuz) might launch.
No, a copy of the Apollo vehicle. The architecture is different than a Soyuz vehicle. Try reading the actual Wikipedia article - the dimensions are different, look at the pods - a cone versus an ogive for the reentry vehicle, different propellants, and the Soyuz never had any design point for entry to another planet. Yes, there are designs on paper but none ever built. This is a new beast built on Apollo documentation. (I know. I have friends working on it.)
As for the space seeds, your NASA [nasa.gov] is doing the same thing.
Read the f****ng article. Those seeds were **grown into plants** in space. They are checking for biological differences. The implications being whether food can be grown in space from seed to fruit (stated explicitly in the aritcle). What the chinese did is expose seeds to a space environment and bring them home **to grow on earth**. Completely different.
And while your shuttle fleet was grounded, they launched two manned spacecraft in orbit.
Yeah, with a copy (they have blueprints) of a Russian Soyuz capsule. They didn't innovate, they copied. Welcome to the space race, 40 years late...
And while your country is spending gazillions on invading Iraq and others, they improve their economy with 10 percent each year.
Since when? And for how long? I'm skeptical of the figure but I will tell you this, rises are followed by falls. And if you think the american economy is crappy... well you don't live here and you have no idea. I can't complain... gas is cheap again and I take home more than it costs me to live... but irradiated seeds? Any first-year biology student will tell you what happens with irradiated seeds.
The reason for the NASA ESAS man-rating concerns was due to the 25mT CEV mass requirement, which ESAS maintained could not safely even be met by the massive Atlas V Heavy variant. According to a Lockheed Martin paper unveiled this week at the Space 2006 conference, the basic Atlas V 401 can meet FAA and NASA man-rating requirements with little modification with a much smaller capsule mass of 20,000 lbs.
At 20,000 lbs, there is enough margin in the Atlas V 401's flight envelope to allow the crew to safely abort at any time during launch, closing all unsafe 'black-zones'. Also, at 20,000 lbs structural loads on the vehicle are decreased enough so that a detailed Lockheed analysis indicates that all primary structures meet NASA 1.4 Factor of Safety margins.
It had more to do with the payload than the man-ratability. The design is "perfectly man-ratable" and has been discussed for **years**. Check out this article (which is what I cited) which states that with the reduction in mass full aborts from launch to orbit are attainable: here.
By the way let me be the first to say this is freaking cool. Between the quater billion LM has on the COTS and the design of the CEV they have the potential to drastically reduce the cost of space flight for tourists and eventually private research. The reason the Atlas is so darn expensive is there are only a few launches a year. The bigleow deal increases that five-fold. Increasing launches decreases cost due to limited manufacturing runs. And repeated reliability is a Good Thing for the new emerging commercial space market.
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We're seeing quite a few articles in that style right now, and I predict we'll see several more before the Wii launches.
Wii're seeing quite a few articles in that style right now, and I predict wii'll see several more before the Wii launches.
Three years down the line it's still running like brand new. I could never say that about my old Windows machines...
apparently too dumb to configure one with a simple firewall. My home computer which I built a year ago is still on its first install of Windows and shows no signs of slowing. I've had Windows computers with year+ uptimes. Sounds like a problem between the chair and the keyboard in your situation. I hear macs are good for people too incompotent for windows... and windows isn't that hard at all.
You're telling me that a Cessna 172 can't generate lift by deflecting air with its wings
TEchnically it is not deflecting air, it is accelerating the air above the wing to lower the pressure to create a pressure differential across the wing surface, generating lift.
The difference, though, is that a Cessna can't haul 500 people from New York to Minneapolis. But supposedly a Macbook is just as good as a Thinkpad. Yet they can't seem to get a Thinkpad marketshare. Equivalent beasts, they do the same thing, but they can't crack the market.
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The problem is that we are talking about middle schoolers. First off they didn't define what a "middle schooler" is - that can be a pretty big age group depending upon your definition. Secondly these children are developing mentally, physically and sexually. Finally, you havent controlled every other possible factor. As a result of the first two things - a big, diverse age group - you can't draw a meaningful conclusion from this particular set of data. Especially because of the second point. A mature kid will be responsible enough to do his homework first and then do games, whereas an irresponsible kid won't bring his homework home and will just play games. But as a counterpoint, that is why as a good parent, you check up on your kids, review their homework with them, and if they aren't bringing homework home you find out by the end of the week.
It would be like saying that America has experianced a moral decline since 1993, therefore the video game Doom caused it. "Correlation matters" right? No.
you mean, selling software?
When it is found out that a successful company used open source tools to make a viable commercial product, open source gains recognition and credibility and another success story is added to the stack. Pretty soon another company thinks "ya know, I've heard a number of good success stories about people using those open source thingies..." and your user base grows.
it is all about growing the user base.
Anyway so QT costs a lot of money, why not use wxwindows, FOX, FLTK, or a dozen other perfectly fine open source toolkits.
He required support. Guess you missed that or were "cherry picking" as you say for your own arguments. FOX and FLTK (I know from personal experiance, I have developed with both) do not offer commercial support.
You really can't make generalizations about children when it comes to things like this. Different children develop differently, and generalizations become too broad to be useful applications. But here are the rules for my kids. The homework is done first. After that they get a modest amount of playtime. We check the homework, if the homework is done well then the kids deserve a little playtime.
The King commercials are a corny kind of funny that is different from the mainstream (mostly lame) humor that is always showing on TV. A king in full rainment doing the craziest stuff - from slapping steelworkers 60 stories up to sacking quaterbacks to cruising down the highway picking up the ladies (I swear, I watch 1 TV show a week and 1 football game ... I must be the target demographic) ... the commercials are offbeat funny, in a Napolean Dynamite or Kung Pow kinda way. Coveted 18-34 male demographic. Guess they can't get all of 'em.
Dryers. Dishwashers. Microwave ovens. Kitchen sinks that aren't porcelain or plastic. Refrigerators....
However the difference between these devices and a computer is the types of metal. If we ever get in a scramble for gold, titanium, tantalum, etc. - a store of computers in a concentrated area might be the most cost effective way to get them. Not yet though. Check out an issue of FastCompany about 3 months ago, there is a company trying to streamline the process of harvesting tech landfills for various substances but it is still waaay too expensive.
* Are they capable of staying after normal work hours every now and then to see to something getting finished? Oh, that kind of job. Sorry, despite what the above might lead one to imply, I do in fact have a life. Or at least, enough of a one not to waste it patching up someone elses mistakes.
Heh. Sucks to be you. You should try looking for a job you enjoy. When you find a job where you genuinely **want** to be there - the work is challenging and engaging and keeps you interested for 8+ hours a day - it is truly a joyful experiance. Hope you find it someday. Until then work is just a job, not a career.
Apple specializes in selling low quantities of very expensive items. Wal-Mart specializes in selling high quantities of very cheap items.
Congratulations, this is why it could work out. You now have the spectrum of people who buy cheap (walmart) and people who pay the Apple Tax (apple). You have two different segments of the market that neither one can hack due to stereotypes. And when you combine their powers...
from the article, which you should have read:
Whitehorn and Branson both said that SpaceShipTwo will rely on a new type of hybrid rocket fuel, one slightly different from the rubber and nitrous oxide mixture that propelled SpaceShipOne into suborbital space three times in 2004.
"If you're going to build a spaceship, you've got to build a green spaceship," Branson said, adding that the carbon dioxide output from a single spaceflight is on par with those of a business class seat aboard commercial aircraft.
Whether that is good enough for you, I don't know. I find that to be acceptable.
Metallic anti-skimming material incorporated into the front cover and spine of the e-passport book prevents the chip from being skimmed, or read, when the book is fully closed
In this case, the readers are rather limited. 10cm, give or take.
I was going to mention this but you beat me to it. The russians are still spying on the US, but we don't blind **their** satellites. (One I know of firsthand checks, among other things, the US Space and Rocket Center every day to make sure the big Saturn V / Saturn I and other decent sized missiles dont just go missing)
you should read the article and see his concerns with respect to the Apache license.
... gas is already under $2.15 and steadily falling in Huntsville, AL. It was $2.25 last week. I bet we see sub-$2.00 in a month.
And oil prices are not the only price driver on gas prices...
And some of us commute 5 minutes to work in a town of 250,000. Maybe I just got lucky ... I fill up my gas tank once a month.
Vulnurabilities are directly proporitonal to user base and increase with access to source control.
Opera has a low user base and is closed source. Therefore, few vulnurabilities. In short, no one cares.
Firefox, on the other hand, has a moderate user base but the source code is right there, the vulnurabilities are ripe for the picking. Hence why the vulnurabilities are high but the turnaround time to fix them, also quick.
IE on the other hand, high user base closed source. High vulnurabilities because of the high user base but potential hackers have to work harder.
Really, this study is a no-brainer. The results make perfect sense.
DRM is something none of us should contribute to.
That is YOUR morality. How dare you impose your morality on someone else? And fine, so you won't work on DRM. There is no reason why someone else can't use GPL'd software to do DRM. If they are using their own time and their own talents and the coder of the upstream software is OK with it - what is the problem? The GPL is only meant to cover redistribution of software (it is a licensing agreement not a terms-of-use).
My problem is all you people who want to impose your morality on others in a flurry of holier-than-thou richeousness. Once you take a freedom away, which freedom goes next? Taking away the ability to experiment with DRM is a freedom, I don't care if you agree with it or not. "preserving freedom" by removing freedom is hypocritical of the FSF. What freedom goes next?
Hello? They own our economy (via the trade deficit), and they 'can't afford our services'? I'm just wondering what americans do that the chinese can't learn to do for themselves.
Scientific research. Building their own spacecraft (see my post in this thread that started all of this). Building their own high-performance (military) aircraft that aren't Soviet (or other) clones. China has low-tech manufacturing but not high-tech, and no real scientific or industrial research. Really, when you think of China, what are the first things that come to mind? iPods and cheap computers...
Oh, and a couple of years later your planned CEV ( a copy of the Russian Soyuz) might launch.
No, a copy of the Apollo vehicle. The architecture is different than a Soyuz vehicle. Try reading the actual Wikipedia article - the dimensions are different, look at the pods - a cone versus an ogive for the reentry vehicle, different propellants, and the Soyuz never had any design point for entry to another planet. Yes, there are designs on paper but none ever built. This is a new beast built on Apollo documentation. (I know. I have friends working on it.)
As for the space seeds, your NASA [nasa.gov] is doing the same thing.
Read the f****ng article. Those seeds were **grown into plants** in space. They are checking for biological differences. The implications being whether food can be grown in space from seed to fruit (stated explicitly in the aritcle). What the chinese did is expose seeds to a space environment and bring them home **to grow on earth**. Completely different.
And while your shuttle fleet was grounded, they launched two manned spacecraft in orbit.
...
Yeah, with a copy (they have blueprints) of a Russian Soyuz capsule. They didn't innovate, they copied. Welcome to the space race, 40 years late
And while your country is spending gazillions on invading Iraq and others, they improve their economy with 10 percent each year.
Since when? And for how long? I'm skeptical of the figure but I will tell you this, rises are followed by falls. And if you think the american economy is crappy... well you don't live here and you have no idea. I can't complain... gas is cheap again and I take home more than it costs me to live... but irradiated seeds? Any first-year biology student will tell you what happens with irradiated seeds.
The reason for the NASA ESAS man-rating concerns was due to the 25mT CEV mass requirement, which ESAS maintained could not safely even be met by the massive Atlas V Heavy variant. According to a Lockheed Martin paper unveiled this week at the Space 2006 conference, the basic Atlas V 401 can meet FAA and NASA man-rating requirements with little modification with a much smaller capsule mass of 20,000 lbs.
At 20,000 lbs, there is enough margin in the Atlas V 401's flight envelope to allow the crew to safely abort at any time during launch, closing all unsafe 'black-zones'. Also, at 20,000 lbs structural loads on the vehicle are decreased enough so that a detailed Lockheed analysis indicates that all primary structures meet NASA 1.4 Factor of Safety margins.
It had more to do with the payload than the man-ratability. The design is "perfectly man-ratable" and has been discussed for **years**. Check out this article (which is what I cited) which states that with the reduction in mass full aborts from launch to orbit are attainable: here.
By the way let me be the first to say this is freaking cool. Between the quater billion LM has on the COTS and the design of the CEV they have the potential to drastically reduce the cost of space flight for tourists and eventually private research. The reason the Atlas is so darn expensive is there are only a few launches a year. The bigleow deal increases that five-fold. Increasing launches decreases cost due to limited manufacturing runs. And repeated reliability is a Good Thing for the new emerging commercial space market.
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We're seeing quite a few articles in that style right now, and I predict we'll see several more before the Wii launches.
Wii're seeing quite a few articles in that style right now, and I predict wii'll see several more before the Wii launches.
Three years down the line it's still running like brand new. I could never say that about my old Windows machines...
... and windows isn't that hard at all.
apparently too dumb to configure one with a simple firewall. My home computer which I built a year ago is still on its first install of Windows and shows no signs of slowing. I've had Windows computers with year+ uptimes. Sounds like a problem between the chair and the keyboard in your situation. I hear macs are good for people too incompotent for windows
You're telling me that a Cessna 172 can't generate lift by deflecting air with its wings
TEchnically it is not deflecting air, it is accelerating the air above the wing to lower the pressure to create a pressure differential across the wing surface, generating lift.
The difference, though, is that a Cessna can't haul 500 people from New York to Minneapolis. But supposedly a Macbook is just as good as a Thinkpad. Yet they can't seem to get a Thinkpad marketshare. Equivalent beasts, they do the same thing, but they can't crack the market.