Well at least people in the software industry spend there money more wisely than people in the entertainment industry.
After all, Gates said he's going to give away all his money to charity before he dies. Most millionaires would spend this money on their childern to have many generations of wealth, fancy cars with spinning rims, or gambling in Las Vegas. I'm sure you've all seen MTV Cribs.
The war on terror has been an excuse for the government to do whatever it wants. Hence, that's how we got the war in Iraq, that's how the republicans get more military funding, that's why old people voted for Bush. People are afraid of terrorists. Hell, people even accepted the stupid color coded terrorist alert system because of the war on terror.
I've even seen this idea for illogical amounts of security trickle down to the IT industry. Nowadays, companies don't just need network technicians to setup firewalls and manage security. Companies have to hire overpaid security analysts to obsess over network security. Sure that's resonable for large companies, but companies with no secrets other than payroll and less than 100 computers don't need a full-time security analyst.
This is partially Microsoft's fault for all the Windows security problems. All these old people are just too paranoid about security it drives me nuts.
You shouldn't be surprised it's written in.NET. The top two enterprise development technologies are Java and.NET. Who do you think pays more money to lobby for these types of projects, Sun or Microsoft?
Anyways,.NET isn't a bad technology and HP isn't a bad company either. It sounds like this could have been worse.
In case you were wondering... Blondes have more fun because a woman's hair actually darkens a little during pregency permanently. Therefore, women with naturally lighter hair are more likely to be younger and more furtile than women with naturally darker hair. This makes them more attractive to men, and because of this, they have more fun.
I think that is the same reason that companies like Dell don't bundle quality open source products with the computers they sell. Even though it's better for the customers, they just don't make money off that practice.
For example, if Dell gives users the option of having Open Office preinstalled or Microsoft Office preinstalled, some people will go to http://www.openoffice.org/ and see that they don't need Microsoft Office and Dell sells fewer MS Office licenses.
Hopefully, some of these changes will be included in the next version of the ECMA specification. Then other browsers will provide support, so eventually these changes could mean something to more than just XUL developers.
In 2000, the average CEO made 419 times the average salary.
It's all because of the baseball players. The people on board of directors watch too much sports. They think the CEO is like the Micheal Jordan of the company. They just see jersies with numbers and no names on the rest of the employees.
I wasn't too thrilled with knowing how this one was going to end before I saw it.
While I've enjoyed the prequel movies, I personally liked The Fifth Element more than any one of these movies. The Fifth Element just seemed more fun to watch and it had many futuristic space sci-fi aspects like Star Wars.
If you bury the waste far from any civilization in some container that will keep the waste from excaping, then that's all you need to do. The waste isn't a whole lot more radioactive than when it was dug up from the ground to begin with. As you know, radioactive materals occur naturally.
I agree that we should renrich spent Uranium so it can be used as fuel again. Unfortunately, Jimmy Carter made this practice illegal, as he didn't want the military to renrich spent Uranium for weapons.
Doesn't JBoss do everything Geronimo does? I don't know a lot about Geronimo, but way would anyone pick Geronimo over a more established open source J2EE App server like JBoss?
Lucas also said he won't let anyone else do Star Wars movies either. Yet he let's other people create games, cartoons, and fan films. It's really hard to say whether or not more movies will happen.
The thing we do know is that Lucas has no plans on making a new Star Wars movie now, so it will be at least four years before we see another one, maybe longer.
Some could even argue that disposal costs are INFINITE!
I don't understand that argument at all. While nuclear plants have to dispose of more dangerous materials than coal plants, coal plants have many tons of ash to dispose of each month.
Also, when you look cost of a plant, the two most important aspects are upfront capital costs and average $/MWh expense. Coal plants have a lower upfront capital cost than nuclear units. However, unless you are close to a coal mine, the fuel (including transportation and disposal) costs plus operation and maintainence costs for a Nuclear power plant are lower than a coal plant of the same capacity.
The reason that US utilities build more coal than nuclear are:
Less capital costs for rate payers with coal. It will take years for the reduced expenses of coal to pay for the increased capital cost of nuclear.
There exists some mass hysteria about nuclear power plants, which makes the utility look bad for building nuclear.
The utilities have to go through more bureaucracy to build a Nuclear power plant.
A nuclear power plant takes longer to build than a coal plant
A coal unit can run on Automatic Generation Control, and has the ability to ramp up and down easier than a nuclear unit. As each time a steel mill hits the juice to melt steel a generator has to respond.
In terms of environmental impact and operation cost, you really can't beat nuclear. But, a nuclear plant is a quite an acomplishment to design and build.
Anyways, I think it's great that Europeans are paying attention to the enviromental factors of electricity generation. Maybe some day technologies like wave electricity generation will go down in costs to at least be cheaper than gas/oil units. Although 10 million for a 2 MW power plant is very expensive, I think it's a step in the right direction.
I think this is good use of technology for people who were only in prison temporarily.
However, maybe we should just ship the long-term inmates to a place where they won't bother us anymore... like Iraq or Afganistan. We won't even have to build prisons. Just give them some supplies and send them on their way. A similar solution worked well for the Britsh.
I don't know anyone who would rather watch a show via bittorrent on their computer than watch it on the big screen TV, especially if it was recorded in by their DVR so they can skip commericals.
Only terrorists would ever think of using nukes (Hmm wonder what that says about Truman)
Truman used the Nuclear bomb not so that the US could occupy Japan, but because he wanted to end the war with fewer US casualties. But, nowadays a country using nukes like that will make the rest of the world very angry.
Nuclear power is on the other hand the road to freedom from oil dependence as well as the key to space.
While Nuclear power definately helps reduce oil consumption, oil is not burned in power plants as much as fuels like coal and natural gas. Most plants that do burn oil also burn gas. Probably one of the best ways to reduce our dependency on foreign oil is to build more Nuclear power plants and buy more electric cars, and don't charge your electric car during on-peak hours, as most gas and oil plants are off line during the night.
Just think, people are starting to be comforable with Hydrogen engines and Hydrogen in general and the Hindenburg disaster was only about 68 years ago. The three mile island accident was in 1979, so in about 2025 (this being a lesser accident), the red lamp in the minds of people will be very dim.
If they were really smart they would have found a way to expose the security problem anonymously or quitely.
I'm sure that many high school computer systems aren't secured properly, so I don't see how they were acomplishing much. However, there probably aren't a lot of real hackers out there that are interested in the SS#s of teenagers. The students probably knew what servers had what information on them before they started.
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After all, Gates said he's going to give away all his money to charity before he dies. Most millionaires would spend this money on their childern to have many generations of wealth, fancy cars with spinning rims, or gambling in Las Vegas. I'm sure you've all seen MTV Cribs.
You're forgetting about retired people and church groups. They are the reason we're in this mess.
I've even seen this idea for illogical amounts of security trickle down to the IT industry. Nowadays, companies don't just need network technicians to setup firewalls and manage security. Companies have to hire overpaid security analysts to obsess over network security. Sure that's resonable for large companies, but companies with no secrets other than payroll and less than 100 computers don't need a full-time security analyst.
This is partially Microsoft's fault for all the Windows security problems. All these old people are just too paranoid about security it drives me nuts.
Anyways, .NET isn't a bad technology and HP isn't a bad company either. It sounds like this could have been worse.
In case you were wondering... Blondes have more fun because a woman's hair actually darkens a little during pregency permanently. Therefore, women with naturally lighter hair are more likely to be younger and more furtile than women with naturally darker hair. This makes them more attractive to men, and because of this, they have more fun.
I think that is the same reason that companies like Dell don't bundle quality open source products with the computers they sell. Even though it's better for the customers, they just don't make money off that practice.
For example, if Dell gives users the option of having Open Office preinstalled or Microsoft Office preinstalled, some people will go to http://www.openoffice.org/ and see that they don't need Microsoft Office and Dell sells fewer MS Office licenses.
Hopefully, some of these changes will be included in the next version of the ECMA specification. Then other browsers will provide support, so eventually these changes could mean something to more than just XUL developers.
Scientists have now discovered the secret to why blondes have more fun.
I have absolutely no use for one, but these servers are so cute. I want one!
You could spoof your IP by changing the IP source address header, but you won't see the response from the post.
It's all because of the baseball players. The people on board of directors watch too much sports. They think the CEO is like the Micheal Jordan of the company. They just see jersies with numbers and no names on the rest of the employees.
20,000 out of 35,500 TI employees are in the US. Also, TI is building a new manufacturing facility in the US. See http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/rennerroadfab/index.sh tml
While I've enjoyed the prequel movies, I personally liked The Fifth Element more than any one of these movies. The Fifth Element just seemed more fun to watch and it had many futuristic space sci-fi aspects like Star Wars.
Yes, when I think smart decisions and effiency, I think US goverment.
Texas Instruments. They make lots of electronics.
These lawsuits are absolutely ridiculous as the word SPAM has two completely different meanings. Stupid lawyers always try to ruin everything!
I agree that we should renrich spent Uranium so it can be used as fuel again. Unfortunately, Jimmy Carter made this practice illegal, as he didn't want the military to renrich spent Uranium for weapons.
Doesn't JBoss do everything Geronimo does? I don't know a lot about Geronimo, but way would anyone pick Geronimo over a more established open source J2EE App server like JBoss?
The thing we do know is that Lucas has no plans on making a new Star Wars movie now, so it will be at least four years before we see another one, maybe longer.
I don't understand that argument at all. While nuclear plants have to dispose of more dangerous materials than coal plants, coal plants have many tons of ash to dispose of each month.
Also, when you look cost of a plant, the two most important aspects are upfront capital costs and average $/MWh expense. Coal plants have a lower upfront capital cost than nuclear units. However, unless you are close to a coal mine, the fuel (including transportation and disposal) costs plus operation and maintainence costs for a Nuclear power plant are lower than a coal plant of the same capacity.
The reason that US utilities build more coal than nuclear are:
In terms of environmental impact and operation cost, you really can't beat nuclear. But, a nuclear plant is a quite an acomplishment to design and build.
Anyways, I think it's great that Europeans are paying attention to the enviromental factors of electricity generation. Maybe some day technologies like wave electricity generation will go down in costs to at least be cheaper than gas/oil units. Although 10 million for a 2 MW power plant is very expensive, I think it's a step in the right direction.
However, maybe we should just ship the long-term inmates to a place where they won't bother us anymore... like Iraq or Afganistan. We won't even have to build prisons. Just give them some supplies and send them on their way. A similar solution worked well for the Britsh.
I don't know anyone who would rather watch a show via bittorrent on their computer than watch it on the big screen TV, especially if it was recorded in by their DVR so they can skip commericals.
Truman used the Nuclear bomb not so that the US could occupy Japan, but because he wanted to end the war with fewer US casualties. But, nowadays a country using nukes like that will make the rest of the world very angry.
Nuclear power is on the other hand the road to freedom from oil dependence as well as the key to space.
While Nuclear power definately helps reduce oil consumption, oil is not burned in power plants as much as fuels like coal and natural gas. Most plants that do burn oil also burn gas. Probably one of the best ways to reduce our dependency on foreign oil is to build more Nuclear power plants and buy more electric cars, and don't charge your electric car during on-peak hours, as most gas and oil plants are off line during the night.
Just think, people are starting to be comforable with Hydrogen engines and Hydrogen in general and the Hindenburg disaster was only about 68 years ago. The three mile island accident was in 1979, so in about 2025 (this being a lesser accident), the red lamp in the minds of people will be very dim.
I'm sure that many high school computer systems aren't secured properly, so I don't see how they were acomplishing much. However, there probably aren't a lot of real hackers out there that are interested in the SS#s of teenagers. The students probably knew what servers had what information on them before they started.