I personally think Open Sauce would be a good thing for the sauce industry in general. Just imagine thousands of people on/. exchanging their favorite sauce recipies, and being able to get homemade recipies from around the world! I'm sick of the large corporate sauce products from Heinz and Kraft dominating the market. What are those "natural and artificial" flavorings they add, the sauce consumer has a right to know and public knowledge of them can only benefit sauce consumption and production.
I say we start even smaller than the moon, how about making Earth a place that can sustain life? There are plenty of underutilized spaces here on this old rock that could benefit alot more from such a large investment that a moon base would require. Personally, I wish they could at least keep the potholes in the highways here in Ohio filled before building new highways on other planets.
Polar ice shouldn't be the biggest problem since most of it is over water to begin with, and ice takes up more space than the water it melts into. The real problems are ice that is over land, such as Greenland or the parts of Antartica that are above sea level. Those are what will make sea levels rise and cause major disturbances.
isn't that exactly what the FCC wants to do by taking back the bandwith now occupied by VHF and UHF television so it can auction it off? Personally I think they should concentrate on merely reducing UHF bandwith occupied by television, do any areas of the U.S. even have more than 6 or 7 UHF stations? I certainly don't think they need over 50 UHF channels.
Working for a computer system distributor, I've witnessed that software typically has higher margins than hardware, and services having the highest margins of all. That's why IBM dumped it's PC and laptop products and is focusing on its sofware systems and services more and more. Now the iSeries, pSeries, zSeries mid-range and mainframe type computers, yes there are larger margins, but not on desktop / workstation machines.
Yes, it just makes more sense for a relatively small country composed of several islands full of mountains to look to something besides physical wires everywhere. In the U.S. dirt is cheap, and the telco/cable people already had ample infrastructure that could be added to for DSL/cable modem broadband. Of course the last time I looked at satelite ISP years ago, the speeds were only like 400Kbs, not in the Mbs range like this.
The problem with alternative energy is that most of it is still more expensive than the dirty sources we use today. Those that are cheaper aren't necessarily practical everywhere or at large scales needed for comercial energy production. The energy bill tries to level the playing field by doing things like tax breaks for hybrid vehicles, promoting processes that allow cheap coal to burn cleaner as opposed to only using the expensive clean coal, and allow for more nuclear energy use. (and before you complain about nuclear waste, remember that the fuel used in nuclear energy was radioactive before it was used as fuel)
Also, the moderator is showing some poor political favoritism there saying this post is 5 insightfull, nowhere does this person even say why they think the energy bill is a mess, just tries to state it as fact.
Technically, isn't that just a suspension, not a solution? I think that's the point the other guy was trying to make. The fullerene isn't chemically reacting with the toluene, as opposed to adding salt to water which ends up giving you free floating Na+ and Cl-.
I've worked with Visual Studio 6,.Net2002, and.Net2003. Haven't looked at 2005 yet, but have heard good things. What I've noticed though over time at least through 2003 version is that Visual Studio's IDE was becoming more and more like what I remember Borland's IDE being in Delphi 3 and 4. Unfortunately I haven't worked with Delphi since version 4 so I don't know how Borland's IDE has progressed.
I still have some problems though trying to create applications in Visual Studio that behave consistantly with mouse or keyboard input. Mouse input can be cumbersome in heavy data entry applications.
I'm still here working about 3 hours late cleaning up someone else's system mess they left behind;-)
oh well, maybe next year I'll get to enjoy the day
but the specs of the XBox are fairly poor except for the graphics card. you can get a used computer with the same or better processor and memory for the price.
I also think the price is outrageous once you add the DDR memory to it. What will be more interesting to me is once flash type memory gets a little faster and a little larger to see solid state disks made out of those. What's available now is still a bit slow for widespread use in this way.
I don't have 5 ideas, but...
- How about hard disks that read from their platters in parallel instead of one platter at a time? This seems like it could speed up access until solid state drives reach more thresholds of usability.
- I'd also love to see a more intelligent Virus Scanning program, that didn't consume tons of memory and CPU cycles to constantly rescan the same files over and over.
- This one is more specific to Windows, but I wish they would not make everything a service unless it absolutely needs to be always running. Otherwise that's what scheduled tasks and dynamic link libraries are for.
how does this comment get a Score 4, Insightful? Maybe deserves a Score 2, Informative. Yes the UN is involved in a number of efforts and organizations, varying in success. The questions at hand here are
: Are they the right people to be governing the Internet and would they be effective at it? Bashing the U.S. and glossing over the flaws in the Oil for Food program provides no insight to either of these questions.
I remember reading an article a few months ago talking about this very subject from the point of view of an American reporter who was in China and trying to get to sites like CNN and such. While he couldn't officially get to any of these, he was easily able to find kids on the street that showed him how to connect to them using proxies and DNS servers that the government censors didn't know about. While it's certainly not the best solution, and I'm sure for every one person that knows these hacks there are probably hundreds who don't know them.
We don't need a successor to C or C++, Delphi's use of Object Pascal provides all the functionality, speed, and a slick IDE, without the awkward pains of C flavored languages and without the hastles of interpreted or pseudo-compiled languages like Java or C#.
"Intel was working on 64 bit chips when AMD's main product was making pentium 1 clones"
Sure, but I think recent history has shown that the Itanium line of processors didn't really help Intel's cause. Working for a company that distributes computer systems, I'm familliar with what has and hasn't worked.
Why does everyone try to say that it has to be Al Qaeda to be terrorism? Did Iraq support Al Qaeda? No, probably not. They did provide training and materials to other terrorist groups though, and even paid Palestinians to become suicide bombers.
Also, do not make assumptions about the U.S. being able to kill Zarqawi. That would mean that we had verifiable intelligence and a means to be able to do that. Just a hunch that he might have been there isn't enough.
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of course you have to deal with the fact that 87.3% of the average politician's biomass is actually just hot air.
I personally think Open Sauce would be a good thing for the sauce industry in general. Just imagine thousands of people on /. exchanging their favorite sauce recipies, and being able to get homemade recipies from around the world! I'm sick of the large corporate sauce products from Heinz and Kraft dominating the market. What are those "natural and artificial" flavorings they add, the sauce consumer has a right to know and public knowledge of them can only benefit sauce consumption and production.
I say we start even smaller than the moon, how about making Earth a place that can sustain life? There are plenty of underutilized spaces here on this old rock that could benefit alot more from such a large investment that a moon base would require. Personally, I wish they could at least keep the potholes in the highways here in Ohio filled before building new highways on other planets.
the article on Reuters explicitly says it will run existing software, so it's not not x86 http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?typ e=technologyNews&storyID=2005-08-12T065412Z_01_EIC 224763_RTRIDST_0_TECH-INTEL-DC.XML
Polar ice shouldn't be the biggest problem since most of it is over water to begin with, and ice takes up more space than the water it melts into. The real problems are ice that is over land, such as Greenland or the parts of Antartica that are above sea level. Those are what will make sea levels rise and cause major disturbances.
isn't that exactly what the FCC wants to do by taking back the bandwith now occupied by VHF and UHF television so it can auction it off? Personally I think they should concentrate on merely reducing UHF bandwith occupied by television, do any areas of the U.S. even have more than 6 or 7 UHF stations? I certainly don't think they need over 50 UHF channels.
Working for a computer system distributor, I've witnessed that software typically has higher margins than hardware, and services having the highest margins of all. That's why IBM dumped it's PC and laptop products and is focusing on its sofware systems and services more and more. Now the iSeries, pSeries, zSeries mid-range and mainframe type computers, yes there are larger margins, but not on desktop / workstation machines.
Yes, it just makes more sense for a relatively small country composed of several islands full of mountains to look to something besides physical wires everywhere. In the U.S. dirt is cheap, and the telco/cable people already had ample infrastructure that could be added to for DSL/cable modem broadband. Of course the last time I looked at satelite ISP years ago, the speeds were only like 400Kbs, not in the Mbs range like this.
The problem with alternative energy is that most of it is still more expensive than the dirty sources we use today. Those that are cheaper aren't necessarily practical everywhere or at large scales needed for comercial energy production. The energy bill tries to level the playing field by doing things like tax breaks for hybrid vehicles, promoting processes that allow cheap coal to burn cleaner as opposed to only using the expensive clean coal, and allow for more nuclear energy use. (and before you complain about nuclear waste, remember that the fuel used in nuclear energy was radioactive before it was used as fuel)
Also, the moderator is showing some poor political favoritism there saying this post is 5 insightfull, nowhere does this person even say why they think the energy bill is a mess, just tries to state it as fact.
Technically, isn't that just a suspension, not a solution? I think that's the point the other guy was trying to make. The fullerene isn't chemically reacting with the toluene, as opposed to adding salt to water which ends up giving you free floating Na+ and Cl-.
I've worked with Visual Studio 6, .Net2002, and .Net2003. Haven't looked at 2005 yet, but have heard good things. What I've noticed though over time at least through 2003 version is that Visual Studio's IDE was becoming more and more like what I remember Borland's IDE being in Delphi 3 and 4. Unfortunately I haven't worked with Delphi since version 4 so I don't know how Borland's IDE has progressed.
I still have some problems though trying to create applications in Visual Studio that behave consistantly with mouse or keyboard input. Mouse input can be cumbersome in heavy data entry applications.
I'm still here working about 3 hours late cleaning up someone else's system mess they left behind ;-)
oh well, maybe next year I'll get to enjoy the day
but the specs of the XBox are fairly poor except for the graphics card. you can get a used computer with the same or better processor and memory for the price.
I also think the price is outrageous once you add the DDR memory to it. What will be more interesting to me is once flash type memory gets a little faster and a little larger to see solid state disks made out of those. What's available now is still a bit slow for widespread use in this way.
I've heard about a slightly better process for producing ethanol from general biomass instead of only from the corn itself. http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/analysispaper/biomass. html
I don't have 5 ideas, but... - How about hard disks that read from their platters in parallel instead of one platter at a time? This seems like it could speed up access until solid state drives reach more thresholds of usability. - I'd also love to see a more intelligent Virus Scanning program, that didn't consume tons of memory and CPU cycles to constantly rescan the same files over and over. - This one is more specific to Windows, but I wish they would not make everything a service unless it absolutely needs to be always running. Otherwise that's what scheduled tasks and dynamic link libraries are for.
how does this comment get a Score 4, Insightful? Maybe deserves a Score 2, Informative. Yes the UN is involved in a number of efforts and organizations, varying in success. The questions at hand here are : Are they the right people to be governing the Internet and would they be effective at it? Bashing the U.S. and glossing over the flaws in the Oil for Food program provides no insight to either of these questions.
I remember reading an article a few months ago talking about this very subject from the point of view of an American reporter who was in China and trying to get to sites like CNN and such. While he couldn't officially get to any of these, he was easily able to find kids on the street that showed him how to connect to them using proxies and DNS servers that the government censors didn't know about. While it's certainly not the best solution, and I'm sure for every one person that knows these hacks there are probably hundreds who don't know them.
We don't need a successor to C or C++, Delphi's use of Object Pascal provides all the functionality, speed, and a slick IDE, without the awkward pains of C flavored languages and without the hastles of interpreted or pseudo-compiled languages like Java or C#.
"Intel was working on 64 bit chips when AMD's main product was making pentium 1 clones"
Sure, but I think recent history has shown that the Itanium line of processors didn't really help Intel's cause. Working for a company that distributes computer systems, I'm familliar with what has and hasn't worked.
Why does everyone try to say that it has to be Al Qaeda to be terrorism? Did Iraq support Al Qaeda? No, probably not. They did provide training and materials to other terrorist groups though, and even paid Palestinians to become suicide bombers. Also, do not make assumptions about the U.S. being able to kill Zarqawi. That would mean that we had verifiable intelligence and a means to be able to do that. Just a hunch that he might have been there isn't enough.