What seems more apparent is that companies aren't providing opportunities and support to upskill employees that have had their position made redundant and part thereof. I have personally seen this happen when the core part of an employees job was automated and instead of offering to teach them the skills to maintain and improve the automated process the company just decided to offer them a lower income manual job and then let them off when they showed an interest in skillng up. The money saved from automation should be used to improve employee skill sets to enable them to make further contributions to the company.
The problem appears to be not automation but profits getting maximised to the detriment of company health, fat cats and bottom lines being compressed.
Surely you just say something like... Look the cost is in the staff who you already have, it's Open Source and sits on top of an Open Source application, it's free, the platform to host it is either free or low cost commodity, plenty of people use it already (proven technology), it'll look good that the government is investing time not necessarily money from tax payers and it's using Open Source and Open Standards, so you're not tied into some niche technology only supported by a select few large corporation that when things go wrong give you zero support or guarantees (contrary to the contract). That last one is just my rant from an experience I've had already when I failed to convince a company to use Open Source and things went south big time.
How about the Naegleria fowleri amoeba mentioned in a later article. It appears to be getting more resilient and prevalent. Could it also be there? Or perhaps a similar amoeba?
I too am quite surprised to hear that he had these things in his possession. I'm not thinking about the "stolen" label but more about the thought that everything that was in/on the "mission" would've been logged, tagged and bagged on arrival back on terrafirma. After all there were some pretty strict procedures in force around and during these "missions". Does anyone else think that this is a little odd?
I've put quotes around the missions as I'm a believer that something isn't quite right about the whole lunar excursions.
Yeah I wish that this had been the direction that everyone had gone back in the 50's. The US had that option but of course weaponisation was a key part of the economy and security back that way. So here we are staring down the barrel of a loaded shotgun wondering if it's loaded this time round.
Thorium reactors might not be 100% clean but at least the result is far easier to store and contain and the reaction stops when you flick the switch so to speak. This is one of the times when I say "Go China!"
Move along...
If you can't see it then it can't be happening. Keep sucking that black gold. Spewing that hot air. Throw up your glowing energy. Let it drift and fall over us all.
"I see said the blind man to the deaf dog."
"The bull shark, Carcharhinus leucas, also known as Zambezi shark or unofficially known as Zambi in Africa and Nicaragua shark in Nicaragua, is a shark common worldwide in warm, shallow waters along coasts and in rivers. The bull shark is well known for its unpredictable, often aggressive behavior."
This seems like a guaranteed way to stop innovation and learning as well, unless it's islamic. And hey while you're at it why not make the thoughts of workforce exodus to another country more appealing. Duh!
Take your country back into the stone age and prophecies.
We're playing god far too much. What with this and anti-biotics in animal feed. Oh and wait lets not forget Fukushima while we're mentioning more god like dablings. And while we're at it why don't we also forget to maintain the damn things or better yet pretend we maintained them and then blame nature when it all goes pear shaped!
Can't wait to see what 2012 brings. I just hope we can learn to work with nature a little more instead of against it.
Yes great now perhaps it can be applied to, as the above poster hinted at, the container ship, MV Rena, that parked itself on top of one of NZ's well known reefs. Birthday party or not, it should not have happened. This X-prize would be best served by putting it into immediate action over here in NZ, what used to be an innovation hub in the world.
And as a final rant over the stalling due to supposed corporate greed...Money might not grow on trees but if you can apply this innovation and the other one "We Finally Know Why Oil and Water Don't Mix" then perhaps this clude oil could actually be put to good use and converted to something of more use like say methane if you added some hydroxide (Old chemistry 101 but I think that's right?).
Given that the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima is spewing radioactive isotopes like there's no tomorrow (soon won't be if it keeps it up) can't the PU-238 coming from there be captured and "appropriated"?
I was watching a show on SkyTV about IBM's Watson Supercomputer competing in Jeopardy. Perhaps GITGUB could rent time off IBM's Watson to redirect that AI from Jeopardy and recognising and learning from correct human answers to recognising errors and the human contributed corrections and then learning from this and correcting other code that contains the same or similar errors?
Who knows we might finally get rid of those annoying memory leaks in just about every piece of software I had the pleasure of using. What would we get if we gave Watson access to all the open code and asked for it to write something?...or
We could end up with a singular entity that performs all our coding and applications via the cloud and eventually we never have to code again, the world becomes a place for users and when people here the word phrase Watson they think it's a reference to the current show of TV most likely a TV reality show.
What a stupid insane ruling that is! Pompous idiots. Should also be illegal for State Governor's and Senate members to be online friends with large monopolistic commercially destructive corporations and financial institutions.
So what happens if the teacher and student use these social networks to make connections for study use? Doh!
You know that it's also entirely possible that KSplice's site has been hacked by using the exact exploit code that we're all being told about and that this small piece of C code is in fact, as some of it definitely looks like, the exploit. With perhaps a few extra bits and pieces thrown in the divert attention. The thing that really worries me most is that in there is a very obvious statement that we're going to run this exploit and show you what's happening! Holy crappoly batman.
It sounds like crap...It looks like crap...It certainly smells like crap...OMG it is crap!
Why not make up a huge long extra strong heat resistant open ended plastic bag to bring this oil up to the surface. Something like a huge long chimney. The oil eating bateria could be added at the bottom to ride the oil up and start working on it early. Then once you get all that oil up to the top suck it up into oil tankers and take it away to reprocess. I'm sure that they 'BP' can get some good oil out of it to help offset the cost of this cleanup.
Just a thought...Perhaps a very uneducated one...But I'm just thinking out loud here...We already use chimneys to move the out gasing further up above us. So why not use the same principle to move the oil closer to us for collection instead of leaving it sitting underwater with the potential disaster it could cause.
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What seems more apparent is that companies aren't providing opportunities and support to upskill employees that have had their position made redundant and part thereof. I have personally seen this happen when the core part of an employees job was automated and instead of offering to teach them the skills to maintain and improve the automated process the company just decided to offer them a lower income manual job and then let them off when they showed an interest in skillng up. The money saved from automation should be used to improve employee skill sets to enable them to make further contributions to the company. The problem appears to be not automation but profits getting maximised to the detriment of company health, fat cats and bottom lines being compressed.
Surely you just say something like... Look the cost is in the staff who you already have, it's Open Source and sits on top of an Open Source application, it's free, the platform to host it is either free or low cost commodity, plenty of people use it already (proven technology), it'll look good that the government is investing time not necessarily money from tax payers and it's using Open Source and Open Standards, so you're not tied into some niche technology only supported by a select few large corporation that when things go wrong give you zero support or guarantees (contrary to the contract). That last one is just my rant from an experience I've had already when I failed to convince a company to use Open Source and things went south big time.
How about the Naegleria fowleri amoeba mentioned in a later article. It appears to be getting more resilient and prevalent. Could it also be there? Or perhaps a similar amoeba?
And at the same time perhaps they will discover how to tap this energy, or at least a small part of it, for efficient power generation.
I too am quite surprised to hear that he had these things in his possession. I'm not thinking about the "stolen" label but more about the thought that everything that was in/on the "mission" would've been logged, tagged and bagged on arrival back on terrafirma. After all there were some pretty strict procedures in force around and during these "missions". Does anyone else think that this is a little odd? I've put quotes around the missions as I'm a believer that something isn't quite right about the whole lunar excursions.
Nominating the Himalayas as Stone Cold Sober
Perhaps if you complain enough to your set-top box about the ads it'll turn them off for you :P
I was thinking more James Bond Skyfall myself.
Pair this with http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/09/17/2229257/warp-drive-might-be-less-impossible-than-previously-thought and we might just get the attention of the passing star cruiser ;-)
Yeah I wish that this had been the direction that everyone had gone back in the 50's. The US had that option but of course weaponisation was a key part of the economy and security back that way. So here we are staring down the barrel of a loaded shotgun wondering if it's loaded this time round. Thorium reactors might not be 100% clean but at least the result is far easier to store and contain and the reaction stops when you flick the switch so to speak. This is one of the times when I say "Go China!"
This has got to be a segway for making a movie. Lets see that would be John Cleese, Jack Black, Clint Eastwood and Hugh Grant.
there's DOHs!! Ooooh someone's shutting down the generators for cooling. Oh no matter look big lovely donuts. Mmmmm :)
Move along... If you can't see it then it can't be happening. Keep sucking that black gold. Spewing that hot air. Throw up your glowing energy. Let it drift and fall over us all. "I see said the blind man to the deaf dog."
Perhaps RumbleFish could change names to that or perhaps ZambiShark?
Quoting from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_shark]
"The bull shark, Carcharhinus leucas, also known as Zambezi shark or unofficially known as Zambi in Africa and Nicaragua shark in Nicaragua, is a shark common worldwide in warm, shallow waters along coasts and in rivers. The bull shark is well known for its unpredictable, often aggressive behavior."
This seems like a guaranteed way to stop innovation and learning as well, unless it's islamic. And hey while you're at it why not make the thoughts of workforce exodus to another country more appealing. Duh!
Take your country back into the stone age and prophecies.
We're playing god far too much. What with this and anti-biotics in animal feed. Oh and wait lets not forget Fukushima while we're mentioning more god like dablings. And while we're at it why don't we also forget to maintain the damn things or better yet pretend we maintained them and then blame nature when it all goes pear shaped!
Can't wait to see what 2012 brings. I just hope we can learn to work with nature a little more instead of against it.
I'd love to see a few MO and Wall-E style bots around in the garden centres. That would make my morning coffee so much more entertaining :)
Jello Cake? Or maybe Jam 'n Scones (spreading onto media appliances :P)
And I vote for "Smore" when we get to v14 :) oh and I don't suppose we'd have "Twinkie" for v15?
Yes great now perhaps it can be applied to, as the above poster hinted at, the container ship, MV Rena, that parked itself on top of one of NZ's well known reefs. Birthday party or not, it should not have happened. This X-prize would be best served by putting it into immediate action over here in NZ, what used to be an innovation hub in the world.
And as a final rant over the stalling due to supposed corporate greed...Money might not grow on trees but if you can apply this innovation and the other one "We Finally Know Why Oil and Water Don't Mix" then perhaps this clude oil could actually be put to good use and converted to something of more use like say methane if you added some hydroxide (Old chemistry 101 but I think that's right?).
Given that the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima is spewing radioactive isotopes like there's no tomorrow (soon won't be if it keeps it up) can't the PU-238 coming from there be captured and "appropriated"?
I was watching a show on SkyTV about IBM's Watson Supercomputer competing in Jeopardy. Perhaps GITGUB could rent time off IBM's Watson to redirect that AI from Jeopardy and recognising and learning from correct human answers to recognising errors and the human contributed corrections and then learning from this and correcting other code that contains the same or similar errors?
Who knows we might finally get rid of those annoying memory leaks in just about every piece of software I had the pleasure of using. What would we get if we gave Watson access to all the open code and asked for it to write something? ...or
We could end up with a singular entity that performs all our coding and applications via the cloud and eventually we never have to code again, the world becomes a place for users and when people here the word phrase Watson they think it's a reference to the current show of TV most likely a TV reality show.
What a stupid insane ruling that is! Pompous idiots. Should also be illegal for State Governor's and Senate members to be online friends with large monopolistic commercially destructive corporations and financial institutions.
So what happens if the teacher and student use these social networks to make connections for study use? Doh!
You know that it's also entirely possible that KSplice's site has been hacked by using the exact exploit code that we're all being told about and that this small piece of C code is in fact, as some of it definitely looks like, the exploit. With perhaps a few extra bits and pieces thrown in the divert attention. The thing that really worries me most is that in there is a very obvious statement that we're going to run this exploit and show you what's happening! Holy crappoly batman.
It sounds like crap...It looks like crap...It certainly smells like crap...OMG it is crap!
Haha. I was looking at the video and one of those ads popped up at the bottom of the video feed advertising "Top Anti-aging creams". Now I wonder? :P
Why not make up a huge long extra strong heat resistant open ended plastic bag to bring this oil up to the surface. Something like a huge long chimney. The oil eating bateria could be added at the bottom to ride the oil up and start working on it early. Then once you get all that oil up to the top suck it up into oil tankers and take it away to reprocess. I'm sure that they 'BP' can get some good oil out of it to help offset the cost of this cleanup.
Just a thought...Perhaps a very uneducated one...But I'm just thinking out loud here...We already use chimneys to move the out gasing further up above us. So why not use the same principle to move the oil closer to us for collection instead of leaving it sitting underwater with the potential disaster it could cause.