On the other hand, social networks are where you go to specifically share info, so the onus is on you to decide what needs to be private. Facebook, Google+, Digg, Reddit, etc. allow for integration so you can share info from other sites on your social network of choice. Why take an active step to share info and then complain when that info is made public? It's moronic at best. I hope Hulu countersues and wins.
> Hulu is now on the receiving end of a lawsuit over the fact that clicking the Facebook "like" button on a viewing page shares that viewing activity on Facebook."
Um, that's exactly what the "Like" button is for. I hope Hulu countersues over this stupidity and wins.
Hint: XP was available for purchase until Windows 7 was released, so most licenses in use were purchased much more recently than 13 years ago. Microsot attempted to kill it but couldn't because Vista was such a spectacular flop in the marketplace.
This is why diesel locomotives have such massive capacity. They're not dinky sub-2L engines, and don't have to accelerate very rapidly for merging, passing, and collision avoidance when things go wrong.
The difference with locomotives is that they don't charge battery banks which in turn power the wheels, but are designed to power the wheels, pull (or push) potentially HUNDREDS of rail cars and have plenty of overhead. They have a primary 3200hp engine producing 4700amps or more of current, and a secondary, smaller diesel engine producing over 500kw for lighting and other systems unrelated to the drive motors. Locomotives weigh in at over 60 tons and are not expected to merge with other traffic on highways, and the railways are very tightly controlled so if a locomotive will end up at 15mph going up a mountain range, other traffic is made to wait until the train has made it. Highways are not managed in such a manner, so again, your analogy fails. Trains are a whole other ball of wax.
Now, if we were to be running cars on light rail systems which are strictly controlled and they weigh in at tens of tons, with a very heavy duty generator directly driving the wheels, the comparison might be more apt. Sadly, this is not the case. What this proposed vehicle would introduce is huge speed deltas that actually cause collisions.
I've had some of these nihilists tell me I'm not a libertarian because I think banking tightly regulated (remember in the fractional banking systems, banks actually create money) and also companies' impact on the environment and public utilities should also be tightly regulated because everyone depends on them, and anything they do affects everyone in that society. The reason they should is so that the rights of the people at large are preserved. Society needs rules, even (or perhaps especially) in a libertarian "utopia." People read too much Ayn Rand and don't think critically, and worship her as some sort of god and take her work as gospel when really she was a writer of fiction.
You're not free to damage other people's property or to cause injury to someone. Such restrictions are preservation of others' freedom to enjoy their property and life.
Your natural rights end where another's natural rights begin. My right to move my fist ends with your right to not have a broken nose, and vice versa. If you don't get that. I'm afraid there is no hope for you.
Unfortunately libertarians catch a bad rap because there are idiots who call themselves libertarians but are really anarchists because they want the right to crap up the environment, hurt others and damage others' property and make the idiotic claim that not being allowed to do so is an infringement of their rights. Libertarianism will never gain traction exactly because of those idiotic nihilistic anarchists.
> And solved already, better than gasoline powered direct drive is solved. The big ships now are electrical engines powered by generators.
A perfect analogy since ships often go up and down mountain roads, sit idle in traffic for long periods with AC running with a puny battery bank and ridiculously small and weak engine+generator assembly, and have to accelerate and come to a stop very often, sometimes several hundred times per mile in heavy traffic.
Okay anonymous coward, tell me this: what happens when you have a very long incline for miles, such as found on I-84, I-76, I-80, I-70, etc. and your batteries run down? Granted most of it isn't steep, but very long distances. Also, what happens when the cells have worn out? The generator has got to provide enough power to drive the electric motors directly in order for the car to be streetworthy. Also, is 75mph the top speed? Speed limits are now 70 or even 80 or 85 on more and more American highways, and the minimum is usually 10mph under the posted limit. Again, on long inclines, when the batteries have drained, will the generator provide enough current to keep the car moving at legal highway speeds?
Now, it's time to turn your snark around against yourself.
The real question is actually, will the car be safe? with 13hp*2, 0-60 will likely be in the high 20s. Not very good for merging, or crossing traffic, or going uphill, or even hauling groceries. Think sub-VW Beetle performance, considering that a Beetle weighed in at less than half the weight of today's nannystate-mandated safety features.
> a result of extremely inefficient solid fuel reactors cooled by water
, a design which was chosen over thorium reactor designs because thorium reactors do not produce any significant amount of "waste" plutonium required for nuclear weapons production.
> I'm so sick of seeing people careening down the freeway at 80 MPH with one hand on the wheel and one hand mashing a smartphone to their braincase.
I wish they would do that. More often they're varying speed between 45 and 55 (in a 65 zone) and meandering between lanes. Buy a bluetooth headset or speaker, fuckos!!!
It seems to me that not switching to wind, solar and nuclear and not putting oodles of funds into fusion research will have not only a negative impact on the human species in general, but a huge negative impact on long-term profits. By fighting clean power they are being very focused on short-term gains, not long-term profits. Just how profitable do they think that rolling blackouts will be?
I'm all for installing solar on every new home, and vertical windmills wherever the local climate supports it and encouraging clean power adoption through tax breaks rather than forcing it by requiring it. If they are first to achieve truly efficient (80%+ efficient) solar panels, THAT would lead toward LONG-TERM profitability. Fighting it is only a short-term money grab at best.
> Not completely anyway:). At four or five you're gonna have a hard time with ET. It's surprisingly complex, especially for an Atari 2600 game. The only things that are comparable are Raiders of the Lost Ark and Solaris (and Solaris doesn't count, it's a 16k cartridge, the larges the 2600 ever had):)
The difference is Raiders of the Lost Ark didn't suck - great puzzles (for the era) and better collision detection. ET was poorly coded - you fall into the pit just being adjacent to them. I played the patched version of ET in an online emulator and it was much better, but still not a great game.
If you're faxing your signature, why not scan in your signature, paste it into the documents, and just fax directly eliminating paper and toner waste? If they are going to accept the fax as an original document (foolish on their part) then you may as well eliminate the waste and extra work.
I used to use photo printers but not any more. Sometimes I would not print for a month or more and find that the print head has clogged, so I'd waste half the ink in cleaning cycles only to give up and bathe the print head in isopropyl then go through a few more cleaning cycles.
I switched to laser and haven't looked back (I've printed entire books on my workgroup laser printer and only now after 3.5 years am I approaching my second toner refill), and for photos rather than buy new cartridges for my photo printer I just go to Costco or CVS to print the photos. Friends who haven't seen my home office laugh at my ginormous workgroup printer at first until I tell them what I've spent on "ink" in the time I've owned it. Most who print have spent more in ink on their cheap inkjets than I've spent for the printer+toner. Yes, it's large but it really doesn't take up any more desk estate than your typical inkjet printer requires. Just a little deeper and a lot taller.
Unless you need to print a lot of accurate proofs and can't accept the "waxy" look of toner, give inkjet a miss. The total cost of ownership of laser printers is far, far less than even the cheapest inkjets.
I would consider however a wide format inkjet if I need to print large proofs, only because I'm not going to spend $9K+ on a laser printer. $2K-$3K is my absolute price ceiling for a printer. It would have to be a lot of proofs though, or final prints if I seriously get into landscape or wildlife photography. I just don't see that happening.
I'm looking at 3D printers to build a custom dashboard panel and speaker enclosures for one of my cars, to upgrade the audio system properly (shit-canning the no highs/no lows BOSE system). If it works out well I might offer the assemblies as a product to pay for the printer, because the printers I am looking at cost as much as the original MSRP of the car. I am also looking into other potential products to make the printer pay for itself. The consumer printers are not large enough for what I want to do, and the materials aren't right.
I could make the parts using composites but then it becomes a bigger job because I will need to make molds and jigs and a vacuum bagging table, with long wait times for curing and wasting a lot of peel-ply if I want strong, lightweight yet thin layups which I then have to finish with a brittle gel coat, brittle flox, or similar coatings prior to painting. A 3D printer with the right material will simplify and speed up the whole process.
One hurdle I see is 3D scanners - they are still a bit limited. Also, yes, the software for 3D printers is still user-hostile and requires one to be proficient at CAD - which I haven't worked with in a good number of years. I can quickly come up to speed in CAD packages again, but Joe Sixpack would not be able to.
I like the Makerbot printers but they are a tad too small and the material choices are somewhat limited - and the finish is not as refined as the higher end printers which can produce commercially viable product with full color (I plan to include labels on some of the parts, which would have to be painted if using the cheaper printers but built as part of the assembly on multicolor printers, with the end result similar to multiple-injection molding processes).
1. Product manager gives a feature list and a hard delivery date based on arbitrary whims of an executive 2. Development and QA comes back with a date that requires a schedule which is 3x longer 3. Product management comes back with the same date and decides to handle the issue by bringing in more contractors insisting that throwing more people at the problem will achieve the goals and the megalomaniac rockstar contractor said "Oh I can get this done in half the time." 4. Reality proves the product manager is an idiot and the project will take even longer than development predicted because the contractors turned the whole thing into a fucking mess and all the code written by Mr. Rockstar has to be rewritten
> A self-declared crypto-anarchist, the 26-year-old Wilson is fighting the situation in court—and relishing every minute of his battle with the government.
Why is he in court? What law was broken? Was he manufacturing arms and distributing them without a license? If not, I fail to see any basis to charge him with any crime or for the government to harass him in any way. Otherwise the Feds need to harass everybody distributing this information:
Now, why don't they (government) stick to protecting the country by securing the border and using the info they're using from the blanket wiretapping to, oh, I dunno, prevent marathon bombings?
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On the other hand, social networks are where you go to specifically share info, so the onus is on you to decide what needs to be private. Facebook, Google+, Digg, Reddit, etc. allow for integration so you can share info from other sites on your social network of choice. Why take an active step to share info and then complain when that info is made public? It's moronic at best. I hope Hulu countersues and wins.
> Hulu is now on the receiving end of a lawsuit over the fact that clicking the Facebook "like" button on a viewing page shares that viewing activity on Facebook."
Um, that's exactly what the "Like" button is for. I hope Hulu countersues over this stupidity and wins.
Yep.
And for the record, for Windows I run XP in VMs, but dual boot Windows 7 and Vista (ugh!) and Linux for the hosts.
Hint: XP was available for purchase until Windows 7 was released, so most licenses in use were purchased much more recently than 13 years ago. Microsot attempted to kill it but couldn't because Vista was such a spectacular flop in the marketplace.
Here is a locomotive engine which drives the generator on 12"x12" ties which gives you a sense of scale:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
This is why diesel locomotives have such massive capacity. They're not dinky sub-2L engines, and don't have to accelerate very rapidly for merging, passing, and collision avoidance when things go wrong.
The difference with locomotives is that they don't charge battery banks which in turn power the wheels, but are designed to power the wheels, pull (or push) potentially HUNDREDS of rail cars and have plenty of overhead. They have a primary 3200hp engine producing 4700amps or more of current, and a secondary, smaller diesel engine producing over 500kw for lighting and other systems unrelated to the drive motors. Locomotives weigh in at over 60 tons and are not expected to merge with other traffic on highways, and the railways are very tightly controlled so if a locomotive will end up at 15mph going up a mountain range, other traffic is made to wait until the train has made it. Highways are not managed in such a manner, so again, your analogy fails. Trains are a whole other ball of wax.
Now, if we were to be running cars on light rail systems which are strictly controlled and they weigh in at tens of tons, with a very heavy duty generator directly driving the wheels, the comparison might be more apt. Sadly, this is not the case. What this proposed vehicle would introduce is huge speed deltas that actually cause collisions.
I've had some of these nihilists tell me I'm not a libertarian because I think banking tightly regulated (remember in the fractional banking systems, banks actually create money) and also companies' impact on the environment and public utilities should also be tightly regulated because everyone depends on them, and anything they do affects everyone in that society. The reason they should is so that the rights of the people at large are preserved. Society needs rules, even (or perhaps especially) in a libertarian "utopia." People read too much Ayn Rand and don't think critically, and worship her as some sort of god and take her work as gospel when really she was a writer of fiction.
> Land of the Free. Lol.
You're not free to damage other people's property or to cause injury to someone. Such restrictions are preservation of others' freedom to enjoy their property and life.
Your natural rights end where another's natural rights begin. My right to move my fist ends with your right to not have a broken nose, and vice versa. If you don't get that. I'm afraid there is no hope for you.
Unfortunately libertarians catch a bad rap because there are idiots who call themselves libertarians but are really anarchists because they want the right to crap up the environment, hurt others and damage others' property and make the idiotic claim that not being allowed to do so is an infringement of their rights. Libertarianism will never gain traction exactly because of those idiotic nihilistic anarchists.
> And solved already, better than gasoline powered direct drive is solved. The big ships now are electrical engines powered by generators.
A perfect analogy since ships often go up and down mountain roads, sit idle in traffic for long periods with AC running with a puny battery bank and ridiculously small and weak engine+generator assembly, and have to accelerate and come to a stop very often, sometimes several hundred times per mile in heavy traffic.
Oh wait, I see a tiny problem with your analogy.
Okay anonymous coward, tell me this: what happens when you have a very long incline for miles, such as found on I-84, I-76, I-80, I-70, etc. and your batteries run down? Granted most of it isn't steep, but very long distances. Also, what happens when the cells have worn out? The generator has got to provide enough power to drive the electric motors directly in order for the car to be streetworthy. Also, is 75mph the top speed? Speed limits are now 70 or even 80 or 85 on more and more American highways, and the minimum is usually 10mph under the posted limit. Again, on long inclines, when the batteries have drained, will the generator provide enough current to keep the car moving at legal highway speeds?
Now, it's time to turn your snark around against yourself.
Easy but regulated by federal law.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
http://www.themirt.com/
http://boingboing.net/2006/04/...
http://www.advancedtraffic.com...
There are several standards in use - ~10Hz, ~12Hz, and ~15KHz
The real question is actually, will the car be safe? with 13hp*2, 0-60 will likely be in the high 20s. Not very good for merging, or crossing traffic, or going uphill, or even hauling groceries. Think sub-VW Beetle performance, considering that a Beetle weighed in at less than half the weight of today's nannystate-mandated safety features.
> a result of extremely inefficient solid fuel reactors cooled by water
, a design which was chosen over thorium reactor designs because thorium reactors do not produce any significant amount of "waste" plutonium required for nuclear weapons production.
Fixed that incomplete thought for you.
More like BANANA - Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone
. . . and also interrupted navigation systems
> I'm so sick of seeing people careening down the freeway at 80 MPH with one hand on the wheel and one hand mashing a smartphone to their braincase.
I wish they would do that. More often they're varying speed between 45 and 55 (in a 65 zone) and meandering between lanes. Buy a bluetooth headset or speaker, fuckos!!!
It seems to me that not switching to wind, solar and nuclear and not putting oodles of funds into fusion research will have not only a negative impact on the human species in general, but a huge negative impact on long-term profits. By fighting clean power they are being very focused on short-term gains, not long-term profits. Just how profitable do they think that rolling blackouts will be?
I'm all for installing solar on every new home, and vertical windmills wherever the local climate supports it and encouraging clean power adoption through tax breaks rather than forcing it by requiring it. If they are first to achieve truly efficient (80%+ efficient) solar panels, THAT would lead toward LONG-TERM profitability. Fighting it is only a short-term money grab at best.
> Not completely anyway :). At four or five you're gonna have a hard time with ET. It's surprisingly complex, especially for an Atari 2600 game. The only things that are comparable are Raiders of the Lost Ark and Solaris (and Solaris doesn't count, it's a 16k cartridge, the larges the 2600 ever had) :)
The difference is Raiders of the Lost Ark didn't suck - great puzzles (for the era) and better collision detection. ET was poorly coded - you fall into the pit just being adjacent to them. I played the patched version of ET in an online emulator and it was much better, but still not a great game.
I have never tried Solaris.
> Gnome told us to FSCK off entirely.
Why not? They already tell Linux users to fuck off when feedback is provided to them. Welcome to the club, BSD!
If you're faxing your signature, why not scan in your signature, paste it into the documents, and just fax directly eliminating paper and toner waste? If they are going to accept the fax as an original document (foolish on their part) then you may as well eliminate the waste and extra work.
I used to use photo printers but not any more. Sometimes I would not print for a month or more and find that the print head has clogged, so I'd waste half the ink in cleaning cycles only to give up and bathe the print head in isopropyl then go through a few more cleaning cycles.
I switched to laser and haven't looked back (I've printed entire books on my workgroup laser printer and only now after 3.5 years am I approaching my second toner refill), and for photos rather than buy new cartridges for my photo printer I just go to Costco or CVS to print the photos. Friends who haven't seen my home office laugh at my ginormous workgroup printer at first until I tell them what I've spent on "ink" in the time I've owned it. Most who print have spent more in ink on their cheap inkjets than I've spent for the printer+toner. Yes, it's large but it really doesn't take up any more desk estate than your typical inkjet printer requires. Just a little deeper and a lot taller.
Unless you need to print a lot of accurate proofs and can't accept the "waxy" look of toner, give inkjet a miss. The total cost of ownership of laser printers is far, far less than even the cheapest inkjets.
I would consider however a wide format inkjet if I need to print large proofs, only because I'm not going to spend $9K+ on a laser printer. $2K-$3K is my absolute price ceiling for a printer. It would have to be a lot of proofs though, or final prints if I seriously get into landscape or wildlife photography. I just don't see that happening.
I'm looking at 3D printers to build a custom dashboard panel and speaker enclosures for one of my cars, to upgrade the audio system properly (shit-canning the no highs/no lows BOSE system). If it works out well I might offer the assemblies as a product to pay for the printer, because the printers I am looking at cost as much as the original MSRP of the car. I am also looking into other potential products to make the printer pay for itself. The consumer printers are not large enough for what I want to do, and the materials aren't right.
I could make the parts using composites but then it becomes a bigger job because I will need to make molds and jigs and a vacuum bagging table, with long wait times for curing and wasting a lot of peel-ply if I want strong, lightweight yet thin layups which I then have to finish with a brittle gel coat, brittle flox, or similar coatings prior to painting. A 3D printer with the right material will simplify and speed up the whole process.
One hurdle I see is 3D scanners - they are still a bit limited. Also, yes, the software for 3D printers is still user-hostile and requires one to be proficient at CAD - which I haven't worked with in a good number of years. I can quickly come up to speed in CAD packages again, but Joe Sixpack would not be able to.
I like the Makerbot printers but they are a tad too small and the material choices are somewhat limited - and the finish is not as refined as the higher end printers which can produce commercially viable product with full color (I plan to include labels on some of the parts, which would have to be painted if using the cheaper printers but built as part of the assembly on multicolor printers, with the end result similar to multiple-injection molding processes).
You use Akamai every day and don't even realize it.
Chain of events:
1. Product manager gives a feature list and a hard delivery date based on arbitrary whims of an executive
2. Development and QA comes back with a date that requires a schedule which is 3x longer
3. Product management comes back with the same date and decides to handle the issue by bringing in more contractors insisting that throwing more people at the problem will achieve the goals and the megalomaniac rockstar contractor said "Oh I can get this done in half the time."
4. Reality proves the product manager is an idiot and the project will take even longer than development predicted because the contractors turned the whole thing into a fucking mess and all the code written by Mr. Rockstar has to be rewritten
> A self-declared crypto-anarchist, the 26-year-old Wilson is fighting the situation in court—and relishing every minute of his battle with the government.
Why is he in court? What law was broken? Was he manufacturing arms and distributing them without a license? If not, I fail to see any basis to charge him with any crime or for the government to harass him in any way. Otherwise the Feds need to harass everybody distributing this information:
https://www.google.com/search?...
It's ridiculous at best.
Now, why don't they (government) stick to protecting the country by securing the border and using the info they're using from the blanket wiretapping to, oh, I dunno, prevent marathon bombings?