1) I would implement an ad campaign entitled "The World is my Country, it's people my Countrymen," pushing my press secretary to repeat it every day.
2) I would create a department of peace.
3) I would truly invest in alternative energy by pushing congress to spend $40Billion on a new energy infrastructure, giving grants to businesses who create wind and solar farms, and businesses who are near the completion of high capacity batteries and capacitors.
4) I would cut back on military spending, investing in education, research, the department of peace and alternative energy progress.
I ditched my MythTV box over a year ago. I'm sad to say it, but plugging a Windows box into the t.v. has been more than awesome... I still wonder why someone hasn't made a simple set-top box that can access all the video content that is only available through IE providers (abc, cbs, nbc, netflix, movielink, cinemanow, etc.)
Also, why the hell haven't the same providers made separate web pages (similar to the old m. sub-domains) for television content... I still have an old crappy big screen t.v. and can't read a flippin' thing on a web browser on my t.v. Come on - cater to the little guy!
Interesting point on the overdose issue.
Another random thought: say you've been vaccinated and are handling a dollar bill that has cocaine residue on it... is your body going to be flooded w/ antibodies? What reaction will your body have to this specific flood of antibodies? Maybe the addict's lymph nodes swell to hell and back, all because of other people's addictions. (yeah... i'm not a doctor by any measure.)
I'm with you. In short, this is a scientific article written by a non-geek... "a high-energy compound called ATP," the author says in a tone that gives you the feeling that we really only use ATP to move a sperm's flagellum and power a few random cells. I never took a single biology course in college but certainly remember ATP from high school bio. You are moving your mouse pointer because of ATP to ADP chemical reactions in the muscles of your hands and fingers.
When is the non-geek world (let alone it's journalists) going to catch up to the slashdot community?
What's most shocking to me is that they accept their 'knowledge' whole-heartedly. No questions. No inquiring minds or any of that jive. Rush said so and I believe it.
I figure if there's a 10% chance that global warming is in fact caused by humans (which 90-some-odd% of those in the field contend), then why not plan a little bit... you know... just in case? In the same breath they will go out and buy a bunch of bread and water when there is the slim chance of some disaster. It seems so hypocritical.
Fact after fact is presented every other day, but they'd much rather make broad statements about the media and pretend that there is still a debate about whether or not global warming exists.
If Apple rolled something like this out to the service, would you bite on it? What would it take you to move to this over Tivo or MythTV?
I watch t.v. on my laptop which i connect to the t.v. I've tested through movielink and cinemanow. I get battlestar galactica on itunes regularily (you HAVE to support those guys... don't get it via bittorrent... my $.02).
Will I get a set-top apple box? probably not. Will I get a set-top box that supports movielink, cinemanow, future netflix downloads, pbs shows from their site, itunes, and any/all 3rd party projects/applications, such as the venice project? Yes. Apple's box probably won't do this, so I probably won't get it. The key is open support for 3rd party apps and movie/t.v. downloads.
tivo and apple might be competing with this box in your eyes, and they might be economic competitors when you see the potential of clients dropping cable/satelite (and thus tivo) and opting for a set-top box similar to apple's, but they really are two different products in my eyes. It's not whether or not i'd move from one to the other... I'll never get tivo and probably never build a myth box. I do, however, watch t.v. via my computer, so my laptop-to-t.v. setup is in direct competition w/ apple. I don't see them getting it right.
1)Find a few people who've been tagged and experiment w/ this RFID tagging system.
2)Develop 3rd party hardware and a web application that integrates w/ the google maps api to pin-point where such a person is.
3)Create a web page called Tommy Thompson Watch that shows exactly where in the world Tommy Thompson is at any given minute! At the very least, Tommy's wife might use the site. Hell, I would... Tommy's a sexy for an old man.
you do realize that there is a difference between spam and linking to 'sourced information.' If I wrote an article for the new york times, posted it on my personal webpage and did the extra work of siting where information came from in a wiki, should I not be given the cross-link in exchange for my work? I think so.
But, I also agree that there are more edits for removing spam links than there should be... the 'no follow' is a step towards removing those worthless edits. They just lost me as a contributor in the meantime, that's all. If you're a statistician, I certainly represent a percentage of contributors.
Yeah.... It's a tricky playing field with relevent arguments from both sides. The only reason I've ever contributed was for the possibility of external linking. I figure it's payment for my work and extra effort in posting relevent information. I'm out of the wiki game now baby. See ya Larry and Jimbo.
Very recently, a gentleman brought in his NAS device that had files he accidently deleted but wanted back. He had already taken the drive out, connected it to his windows box, discovered it was an ext2 partition, downloaded some application for his windows machine to read the partition and used a second application to try to recover the deleted files.
For most people this is a recipe for disaster. He was smart enough to know what an ext2 partition was and just smart enough to destroy most all of the accidently deleted data on the drive.
My suggestion: stick w/ your external HD. Hard Drives, while they're the bottleneck and the most likely part to fail, are pretty reliable. There may be up-sides to certain filesystems; here are my 2 cents: fat and fat32 are a no-go if you're using outlook w/ a large pst file that is regularily being backed up. ntfs is a poor choice if you're doing anything outside of windows. If you're a seasoned linux user, or at least able to find a solution to use ext2 and get data on/off the drive inexpensively (and easily) on your windows network, it's the only real choice IMO. If you're only using windows, your external drive is usb or firewire (non-NAS), and you're not comfortable doing advanced tasks on an ext2 partition, you should probably use NTFS.
Open Source best guarantees the future availability of the standard and specification, but are file systems such as ext2 suitable for archival storage?
many NAS devices use ext2. It is probably best suited for your questions of reliability, future-proofing, data recovery, etc. But are you experienced to fight w/ a failing ext2 drive?
It's a simple question and, if you read through all intelligence reports, (i'd imagine that like most all conservatives, you've not read the 911 commission report) you'd see that we have a real problem on our hands. we're not talking about a simple 20 terrorists that we've helped create... we're talking about thousands that will now be a threat for, as is said in reports, over 40 years.
Yes, Al Qaeda has killed some. Our "smart" bombs have killed some. Which do you think is an easier target, an entity that has no central location or one that is a country?
I don't propose that we not stay the course. We now have to. And I support the troops as many of my family members are serving in the middle east. We're poor. You're probably not and probably can't name 10 people serving.
Venequela no longer puts money into t bills after we purchase their oil. Iraq, after we attacked them, is finally trading oil in the dollar again. Iran also announced they are moving to the euro for oil trading... so we're going to have the same response? We cannot because China has said, "We've got your back," (see the chinese ambasador to iran saying so in his visit to iran two years ago around november after condi and cheney made threatening comments following iran's announcement of moving to the euro). China has us by the balls and there's no way we can attack Iran; but economically, (in the eyes of our elected conservatives) it would make sense for us to attack Iran. they won't after weighing the economic pressure china will put upon us after cashing out our t bills, cashing in on our loans from them, and killing the value of the dollar. Hell, China has been selling the dollar now, month after month, for almost a year... we're in a tight spot.
This is all economics. The decision to attack was based upon economics, despite what the administration said leading up to the war, and it has made us less safe... that is all I am proposing.
They only look at economic impact and don't much care for our safety. all of our elected officials have already moved their investment capital into different markets and currencies. They're protected. It's the little guy in the states who will be screwed. Thanks conservatives! You've been in control of all three branches of government for long enough to have an impact and have done a heck of a job.
What percentage of those civilian casualties will result in a very upset Iraqi who hates America? 5%? 10%? 30%? What percentage of those America-haters has decided, or will decide, to get revenge? This is already a mess and is something that we will now have to deal with for decades. Thanks Bush!
Watch the discovery channel special on Quasi here at youtube, here. They only designed the table, the robotics. There's no voice recognition other than the person w/ the headphones behind the robot.
I've had a Prius for 2 years. Have taken it everywhere (including up the mountains -- at 20MPG up-hill; all-electric for the 20 miles down). Never a problem, but the same discontenting voices are out there.
Fact: the CO2 emmissions from an all-electric car (from conventional fossil-fuel energy sources) is between 3 and 4 Short tons. Compare that to the 6-20 Short tons of combustion engine vehicles, and you can go straight to hell where you came from (especially since all my power comes from wind energy -- zero CO2)
I wonder, what percentage of the discenting voices have an income that depends upon the $75,000,000,000,000.00 - $100,000,000,000,000.00 of oil left for us to drill in the next 30 years.
Doubt is your game. You played it with the Prius for a decade, and we're still running strong. Go ahead, tell us that the $3000 replacement battery (that's covered for 100,000 miles) costs $10,000. Even if it did, my low emmissions and great performance still push me to keep it. I've already saved $3,000 in gas.
As far as I'm concerned, if an EV will get me where I need to go w/o going 5 miles under the speed limit, I'm in.
no kidding. i remember when the worst joke in the world was the sending of a forward that was about 2MB of non-sensical text. the 14.4 tonka truck loved that for an hour or two. (when your service provider was in the next state, it made for a very annoying phone bill just to get an email fwd!!)
Awwww, come on... I'm not insane here. I'm just curious about how stories are selected by some (read: lazy) news programs. Fox news @ 9 in Denver has pre-recorded news segments that play and their correspondents comment over (the same segments that Miami's Fox station plays), sent out from corporate. Just curious about it. How do they send them? How does each station select them? Certainly there were more important stories that could have been selected as a headline story, especially at a time when these commercials are released. Not TOO black-helicopterish I don't think... [Hey, At least I'm not saying that a few very rich individuals were behind 9/11: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-826005992 3762628848
It's sort of similar to the way certain companies send jingles out to their subsidiaries. (Anyone ever hear the ghost buster's theme to a car dealership?? out here it's duh duh duh duh duh duh duh JOHN ELWAY! In Miami it is a different name...)
Nobody knows anyone who works for a news station who selects stories? I find the inner workings of news organizations to be pretty interesting; I'm a dork!
The same time the commercial came out, NBC stations around the country had stories about how macs have new security risks. The way the Denver news guy worded it was something like, "Macs are more dangerous than PCs."
Made me wonder how NBC stories are pushed to affiliates. Interesting timing on a story that's old news (mac security flaws).
Anyone out there work for an NBC affiliate? Do you see the parnership with Microsoft (or anyone else for that matter) swaying stories, or the choice therof??
I found the same to be interesting. The same story was pushed to NBC affiliates and it made me wonder what the affect would be on Apple's stock price?!
I submitted the question of how NBC affiliates choose their stories and think it would be super-insightful to learn about how stories are pushed out to affiliates and how they're chosen by news production managers.
Slashdot Mirror
http://techrunch.blogspot.com/2008/04/first-look-gimp-250.html Resulted in the jre kicking in on my machine and a bunch of virus mumbo-jumbo from my (crappy) avast software.
first time avast has ever found anything.
Is that the year it's name changes to SkyNet and launches a world-wide attack? (me, a pro-scientific-singularitist, trying to be funny).
1) I would implement an ad campaign entitled "The World is my Country, it's people my Countrymen," pushing my press secretary to repeat it every day.
2) I would create a department of peace.
3) I would truly invest in alternative energy by pushing congress to spend $40Billion on a new energy infrastructure, giving grants to businesses who create wind and solar farms, and businesses who are near the completion of high capacity batteries and capacitors.
4) I would cut back on military spending, investing in education, research, the department of peace and alternative energy progress.
I ditched my MythTV box over a year ago. I'm sad to say it, but plugging a Windows box into the t.v. has been more than awesome... I still wonder why someone hasn't made a simple set-top box that can access all the video content that is only available through IE providers (abc, cbs, nbc, netflix, movielink, cinemanow, etc.)
Also, why the hell haven't the same providers made separate web pages (similar to the old m. sub-domains) for television content... I still have an old crappy big screen t.v. and can't read a flippin' thing on a web browser on my t.v. Come on - cater to the little guy!
That was my first thought. Lookout for a flood of new registrants for the equivalent of sites like alfabank.ru. (maybe?)
Interesting point on the overdose issue.
Another random thought: say you've been vaccinated and are handling a dollar bill that has cocaine residue on it... is your body going to be flooded w/ antibodies? What reaction will your body have to this specific flood of antibodies? Maybe the addict's lymph nodes swell to hell and back, all because of other people's addictions. (yeah... i'm not a doctor by any measure.)
I'm with you. In short, this is a scientific article written by a non-geek... "a high-energy compound called ATP," the author says in a tone that gives you the feeling that we really only use ATP to move a sperm's flagellum and power a few random cells. I never took a single biology course in college but certainly remember ATP from high school bio. You are moving your mouse pointer because of ATP to ADP chemical reactions in the muscles of your hands and fingers. When is the non-geek world (let alone it's journalists) going to catch up to the slashdot community?
if memory serves correctly, natural gas = CH4
so the chem reaction:
CH4 + 2O2 -> CO2 + 2H2O
Seems like a lot of CO2 for being such a clean energy source.... but what the hell do i know?
What's most shocking to me is that they accept their 'knowledge' whole-heartedly. No questions. No inquiring minds or any of that jive. Rush said so and I believe it.
I figure if there's a 10% chance that global warming is in fact caused by humans (which 90-some-odd% of those in the field contend), then why not plan a little bit... you know... just in case? In the same breath they will go out and buy a bunch of bread and water when there is the slim chance of some disaster. It seems so hypocritical.
On top of that, they ignore the potential impact on the economy, they ignore the news (and seem to listen more to the oil-sponsored AEI's talking points that are touted on right-leaning talk shows) of debunked debunking scientists, the astounding rate at which sea levels are rising (and have already displaced 10,000 people and counting... 50 million, here we come). They ignore the fact that scientists being paid by oil companies to refute global warming, and again seem to listen to the AEI's calculated response and right-leaning talkers repeat-and-re-repeat of those talking points. Scientists were muzzled?... whatever, I'm listening to O'Reilley.
Fact after fact is presented every other day, but they'd much rather make broad statements about the media and pretend that there is still a debate about whether or not global warming exists.
If Apple rolled something like this out to the service, would you bite on it? What would it take you to move to this over Tivo or MythTV?
I watch t.v. on my laptop which i connect to the t.v. I've tested through movielink and cinemanow. I get battlestar galactica on itunes regularily (you HAVE to support those guys... don't get it via bittorrent... my $.02).
Will I get a set-top apple box? probably not. Will I get a set-top box that supports movielink, cinemanow, future netflix downloads, pbs shows from their site, itunes, and any/all 3rd party projects/applications, such as the venice project? Yes. Apple's box probably won't do this, so I probably won't get it. The key is open support for 3rd party apps and movie/t.v. downloads.
tivo and apple might be competing with this box in your eyes, and they might be economic competitors when you see the potential of clients dropping cable/satelite (and thus tivo) and opting for a set-top box similar to apple's, but they really are two different products in my eyes. It's not whether or not i'd move from one to the other... I'll never get tivo and probably never build a myth box. I do, however, watch t.v. via my computer, so my laptop-to-t.v. setup is in direct competition w/ apple. I don't see them getting it right.
1)Find a few people who've been tagged and experiment w/ this RFID tagging system.
2)Develop 3rd party hardware and a web application that integrates w/ the google maps api to pin-point where such a person is.
3)Create a web page called Tommy Thompson Watch that shows exactly where in the world Tommy Thompson is at any given minute! At the very least, Tommy's wife might use the site. Hell, I would... Tommy's a sexy for an old man.
Great point. Dangerously close indeed... I stand corrected.
you do realize that there is a difference between spam and linking to 'sourced information.' If I wrote an article for the new york times, posted it on my personal webpage and did the extra work of siting where information came from in a wiki, should I not be given the cross-link in exchange for my work? I think so.
But, I also agree that there are more edits for removing spam links than there should be... the 'no follow' is a step towards removing those worthless edits. They just lost me as a contributor in the meantime, that's all. If you're a statistician, I certainly represent a percentage of contributors.
Yeah.... It's a tricky playing field with relevent arguments from both sides. The only reason I've ever contributed was for the possibility of external linking. I figure it's payment for my work and extra effort in posting relevent information. I'm out of the wiki game now baby. See ya Larry and Jimbo.
Very recently, a gentleman brought in his NAS device that had files he accidently deleted but wanted back. He had already taken the drive out, connected it to his windows box, discovered it was an ext2 partition, downloaded some application for his windows machine to read the partition and used a second application to try to recover the deleted files.
For most people this is a recipe for disaster. He was smart enough to know what an ext2 partition was and just smart enough to destroy most all of the accidently deleted data on the drive.
My suggestion: stick w/ your external HD. Hard Drives, while they're the bottleneck and the most likely part to fail, are pretty reliable. There may be up-sides to certain filesystems; here are my 2 cents: fat and fat32 are a no-go if you're using outlook w/ a large pst file that is regularily being backed up. ntfs is a poor choice if you're doing anything outside of windows. If you're a seasoned linux user, or at least able to find a solution to use ext2 and get data on/off the drive inexpensively (and easily) on your windows network, it's the only real choice IMO. If you're only using windows, your external drive is usb or firewire (non-NAS), and you're not comfortable doing advanced tasks on an ext2 partition, you should probably use NTFS.
Open Source best guarantees the future availability of the standard and specification, but are file systems such as ext2 suitable for archival storage?
many NAS devices use ext2. It is probably best suited for your questions of reliability, future-proofing, data recovery, etc.
But are you experienced to fight w/ a failing ext2 drive?
It's a simple question and, if you read through all intelligence reports, (i'd imagine that like most all conservatives, you've not read the 911 commission report) you'd see that we have a real problem on our hands. we're not talking about a simple 20 terrorists that we've helped create... we're talking about thousands that will now be a threat for, as is said in reports, over 40 years. Yes, Al Qaeda has killed some. Our "smart" bombs have killed some. Which do you think is an easier target, an entity that has no central location or one that is a country? I don't propose that we not stay the course. We now have to. And I support the troops as many of my family members are serving in the middle east. We're poor. You're probably not and probably can't name 10 people serving. Venequela no longer puts money into t bills after we purchase their oil. Iraq, after we attacked them, is finally trading oil in the dollar again. Iran also announced they are moving to the euro for oil trading... so we're going to have the same response? We cannot because China has said, "We've got your back," (see the chinese ambasador to iran saying so in his visit to iran two years ago around november after condi and cheney made threatening comments following iran's announcement of moving to the euro). China has us by the balls and there's no way we can attack Iran; but economically, (in the eyes of our elected conservatives) it would make sense for us to attack Iran. they won't after weighing the economic pressure china will put upon us after cashing out our t bills, cashing in on our loans from them, and killing the value of the dollar. Hell, China has been selling the dollar now, month after month, for almost a year... we're in a tight spot. This is all economics. The decision to attack was based upon economics, despite what the administration said leading up to the war, and it has made us less safe... that is all I am proposing. They only look at economic impact and don't much care for our safety. all of our elected officials have already moved their investment capital into different markets and currencies. They're protected. It's the little guy in the states who will be screwed. Thanks conservatives! You've been in control of all three branches of government for long enough to have an impact and have done a heck of a job.
How many deaths were there on 911? 4000? There are already, on the low end, between 43,000 and 48,000 Iraqi civilian deaths in Iraq.
What percentage of those civilian casualties will result in a very upset Iraqi who hates America? 5%? 10%? 30%? What percentage of those America-haters has decided, or will decide, to get revenge? This is already a mess and is something that we will now have to deal with for decades. Thanks Bush!
Watch the discovery channel special on Quasi here at youtube, here. They only designed the table, the robotics. There's no voice recognition other than the person w/ the headphones behind the robot.
Same goes for my blue '77 Buick LeSabre.
I've had a Prius for 2 years. Have taken it everywhere (including up the mountains -- at 20MPG up-hill; all-electric for the 20 miles down). Never a problem, but the same discontenting voices are out there.
Fact: the CO2 emmissions from an all-electric car (from conventional fossil-fuel energy sources) is between 3 and 4 Short tons. Compare that to the 6-20 Short tons of combustion engine vehicles, and you can go straight to hell where you came from (especially since all my power comes from wind energy -- zero CO2)
I wonder, what percentage of the discenting voices have an income that depends upon the $75,000,000,000,000.00 - $100,000,000,000,000.00 of oil left for us to drill in the next 30 years.
Doubt is your game. You played it with the Prius for a decade, and we're still running strong. Go ahead, tell us that the $3000 replacement battery (that's covered for 100,000 miles) costs $10,000. Even if it did, my low emmissions and great performance still push me to keep it. I've already saved $3,000 in gas.
As far as I'm concerned, if an EV will get me where I need to go w/o going 5 miles under the speed limit, I'm in.
no kidding. i remember when the worst joke in the world was the sending of a forward that was about 2MB of non-sensical text. the 14.4 tonka truck loved that for an hour or two. (when your service provider was in the next state, it made for a very annoying phone bill just to get an email fwd!!)
I read through the financials and thought, "nah, this is one of those that I'd probably want to buy after 90 days when the IPO buyers sell out."
Jeff Citron is a rich guy who, by the way, has received one of the highest fines by the SEC on an individual, a $22 million fine.
Is Vonage company that makes money by being a 'money-grabby business' or a company that makes money by trying to be a successful company?......
Awwww, come on... I'm not insane here. I'm just curious about how stories are selected by some (read: lazy) news programs. Fox news @ 9 in Denver has pre-recorded news segments that play and their correspondents comment over (the same segments that Miami's Fox station plays), sent out from corporate. Just curious about it. How do they send them? How does each station select them? Certainly there were more important stories that could have been selected as a headline story, especially at a time when these commercials are released. Not TOO black-helicopterish I don't think... [Hey, At least I'm not saying that a few very rich individuals were behind 9/11: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-826005992 3762628848
It's sort of similar to the way certain companies send jingles out to their subsidiaries. (Anyone ever hear the ghost buster's theme to a car dealership?? out here it's duh duh duh duh duh duh duh JOHN ELWAY! In Miami it is a different name...)
Nobody knows anyone who works for a news station who selects stories? I find the inner workings of news organizations to be pretty interesting; I'm a dork!
The same time the commercial came out, NBC stations around the country had stories about how macs have new security risks. The way the Denver news guy worded it was something like, "Macs are more dangerous than PCs."
Made me wonder how NBC stories are pushed to affiliates. Interesting timing on a story that's old news (mac security flaws).
Anyone out there work for an NBC affiliate? Do you see the parnership with Microsoft (or anyone else for that matter) swaying stories, or the choice therof??
I found the same to be interesting. The same story was pushed to NBC affiliates and it made me wonder what the affect would be on Apple's stock price?! I submitted the question of how NBC affiliates choose their stories and think it would be super-insightful to learn about how stories are pushed out to affiliates and how they're chosen by news production managers.