Was this summary written by an oil company executive? Or was this a contest to see how different the summary can be from the actual article? I RTFA'd this news story yesterday was glad that the Roadster has achieved its purpose -- now Tesla Motors can focus on its Model S, not to mention the Mercedes A-Class E-Cell, Smart EV, and Toyota Rav4 EV 2nd gen. I think the 10s could be the decade of the electric car.
It's simple: Blu-ray adoption is competing with digital downloads. And people sticking to DVDs are the same people who bought VHS tapes well into the 00s and audio cassette tapes well into the 90s -- they'll switch eventually, but don't hold your breath.
I see this creating a precedent whereby any damaged party could sue a U.S. company for importing / selling any products made overseas by manufacturers who have broken laws in their home country, including environmental. Say good-bye to pretty much anything sold in the U.S.
Or, at the very least, disable all uploading ability on YouTube or posting ability on Blogger or any other user-contributed Google sites from Italian users, citing this case and the unwillingness of Google to accept any more user submissions from Italian users until the case is resolved. I think that would be totally fair and completely within Google's rights.
That being said, regardless of what technology is used to create the setting for a film adaptation of Foundation, it would have to be considerably ground-breaking and not your average "sci-fi" look. This because Foundation is set tens of thousands of years in the future and life would need to be fundamentally different. Throughout Asimov's Robots-Empire-Foundation timeline stories are hints that the human race has evolved somewhat since then, like when the protagonist of "Pebble in the Sky" ends up in the future and they're surprised to see where he has hair growing and that he has extra teeth.
Emmerich is just about the worst candidate (Michael Bay aside) for making a good film adaptation of Foundation, if one is even possible at all.
I find it amazing how bureaucracy has reached such levels that the costs of employing the bureaucratic machine are much, much higher than the costs of corruption that it's supposed to prevent.
It seems like only yesterday I noticed the story that/. was gonna start implementing user accounts (1998?) and I picked one up on the first day... been lurking ever since!
Truer words have not been spoken on slashdot... as a guy who's tried to start and run several businesses, I can attest to the fact that the incredibly high government overhead to keep them legal makes them impossible to run. The payroll taxes alone turned profits into losses and it was impossible to get ahead or even wonder how so many stay afloat without cooking the books.
Very true. Steve Jobs has pretty much set up a foundation for what Apple products should work, should look like, and the level of innovation involved in launching a new product. You can't easily go back from that.
I believe that a post-jobs CEO will continue with the evolution of the iProducts, and the company will release a lot of cool stuff, but I don't know if you'll see the same kind of "revolution" that Jobs regularly brought to Apple's customers every couple of years.
Yea I've noticed the Diebold logo on many an ATM and they do actually work very well, not to mention seem solid. After all these are boxes of cash we are talking about, they had better be secure and work correctly given how often they are used.
But as for voting machines -- why are people foaming at the mouth to use them anyway? What was so horrible about paper ballots? I can't figure out a good reason to be switching to voting machines at all... so what if it takes longer to count the votes? At least it's done properly! I'll never use a voting machine or any voting system that doesn't involve writing an X on a piece of paper. I wouldn't consider my vote to count otherwise.
Broadband connectivity is getting cheaper in Costa Rica, where I live, because of competition between ICE (the government telecommunications monopoly) and its own subsidiary called RACSA.
Cable modem access is available by 2 private companies (Cable Tica and AMNET), using RACSA as an upstream provider, and costs $35 for 512/128, $50 for 1024/256, and $70 for 2048/256, with unlimited bandwidth. Availability is limited to higher-density areas, but some of the beaches have connectivity via cable.
ADSL is a newer option and is provided by ICE, the telco. Costs are $19 for 256/128, $25 for 512/128, $38 for 1024/512, $62 for 2048/768, $72 for 1536/768, $91 for 2048/768 and $169 for 4096/768. Availability is limited to proximity to the telco's CO, and ports, but they've installed ADSL ports throughout the country, including more rural towns and beach communities.
Just recently, RACSA launched a pilot program for WiMax in one part of the Central Valley. Costs are $29 for 512/256, $74 for 1024/512, and $244 for 2048/1024. Once this rolls out throughout the Central Valley, I hope to try this out because my house is just a little too far for cable modem or ADSL availability, but the 5-mile radius of WiMax and the great view I have will make it possible.
But seriously folks, there are benefits to editor-based blogs as opposed to Digg. I do like being able to keep track of the stories and comments on a daily basis. I would put more stock in the quality and relevance of the stories and links than the quantity any day. Slashdot will always have to battle upstarts for the eyeballs, but to succeed in that, it should stick to its winning formula, and refine and improve it whenever possible.
The 1949 consititution bans a standing army, but also places the burden of national defense to the Ministerio de Seguridad Publica (Ministry of Public Security), which consists primarily of la Fuerza Publica (a federal police force) and the OIJ (Costa Rica's version of the FBI).
Are you considering the Fuerza Publica, a police (and therefore paramilitarym, or military-style) operation, to be the "Army" in this case? For example, one of the gun control laws here state that a single person or organization cannot own more than 1% of the firearms total of the Fuerza Publica, in the interests of national security.
If a country were to invade Costa Rica, it is true that the F.P. and the OIJ would be employing military strategy to repel that invasion. Is that considered an Army?
One more thing -- one way Costa Rica has been able to get away without having a standing army is because of their neighbors (Nicaragua and Panama for the geographically challenged):
Costa Rica's president at the time, Oscar Arias, negotiated the peace accords that ended the Nicaraguan civil war, and in those accords included a drastic reduction in Nicaraguan military force. It also means that the people and the government of Nicaragua are grateful for Costa Rica's help in ending the bloodshed, and thus are less likely to spontaneously invade the country (however, they are invading it with immigration!).
When Noreaga got booted out of Panama, the US did a fine job of eliminating Panama's entire military (along with a good chunk of a few cities). When the old president was re-installed, none of the Latin American countries wanted to recognize this president since it seemed to them to be yet another example of US meddling. Costa Rica said they would recognize it -only- if Panama's constitution would ban a standing army. Since their army was nowhere to be found, they have banned it. However, you'll find that Panama's police force, unlike Costa Rica's, is visibly militarized (submachine guns, combat boots, camo, and so on). But at least it's not a standing army that can invade another country without massive re-organization.
Mark Stone has been an active member of the Linux and open source community for a long time. He's been using Linux for over 10 years and has been active from early on with the Bay Area LUG, Executive Editor for Open Source at O'Reilly, and has been one of the most important figures in VA Linux and now OSDN.
I've had the honor to work with him on Linux.com in '99 and 2000. This guy knows what he's talking about.
Also in Costa Rica -- the "Sony Center" which is owned by Sony's Costa Rican division. It's in the bigger malls in the central valley. Very cool stuff, and is overdue for a U.S. presence.
However, given CA's immigration culture, they'll be able to give hundreds of thousands of people instant permanent residence and fill those jobs up right away.
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Was this summary written by an oil company executive? Or was this a contest to see how different the summary can be from the actual article? I RTFA'd this news story yesterday was glad that the Roadster has achieved its purpose -- now Tesla Motors can focus on its Model S, not to mention the Mercedes A-Class E-Cell, Smart EV, and Toyota Rav4 EV 2nd gen. I think the 10s could be the decade of the electric car.
It's simple: Blu-ray adoption is competing with digital downloads. And people sticking to DVDs are the same people who bought VHS tapes well into the 00s and audio cassette tapes well into the 90s -- they'll switch eventually, but don't hold your breath.
I see this creating a precedent whereby any damaged party could sue a U.S. company for importing / selling any products made overseas by manufacturers who have broken laws in their home country, including environmental. Say good-bye to pretty much anything sold in the U.S.
Or, at the very least, disable all uploading ability on YouTube or posting ability on Blogger or any other user-contributed Google sites from Italian users, citing this case and the unwillingness of Google to accept any more user submissions from Italian users until the case is resolved. I think that would be totally fair and completely within Google's rights.
That being said, regardless of what technology is used to create the setting for a film adaptation of Foundation, it would have to be considerably ground-breaking and not your average "sci-fi" look. This because Foundation is set tens of thousands of years in the future and life would need to be fundamentally different. Throughout Asimov's Robots-Empire-Foundation timeline stories are hints that the human race has evolved somewhat since then, like when the protagonist of "Pebble in the Sky" ends up in the future and they're surprised to see where he has hair growing and that he has extra teeth.
Emmerich is just about the worst candidate (Michael Bay aside) for making a good film adaptation of Foundation, if one is even possible at all.
I find it amazing how bureaucracy has reached such levels that the costs of employing the bureaucratic machine are much, much higher than the costs of corruption that it's supposed to prevent.
How's this? I know a few ppl with even lower though... and obviously the staff!
It seems like only yesterday I noticed the story that /. was gonna start implementing user accounts (1998?) and I picked one up on the first day... been lurking ever since!
Does anyone else find it odd that the White House's twitter page uses bit.ly urls when .ly is the top-level domain code for Libya?
Truer words have not been spoken on slashdot... as a guy who's tried to start and run several businesses, I can attest to the fact that the incredibly high government overhead to keep them legal makes them impossible to run. The payroll taxes alone turned profits into losses and it was impossible to get ahead or even wonder how so many stay afloat without cooking the books.
Very true. Steve Jobs has pretty much set up a foundation for what Apple products should work, should look like, and the level of innovation involved in launching a new product. You can't easily go back from that.
I believe that a post-jobs CEO will continue with the evolution of the iProducts, and the company will release a lot of cool stuff, but I don't know if you'll see the same kind of "revolution" that Jobs regularly brought to Apple's customers every couple of years.
They're gonna need a longer stick for THAT collection basket!!!
That begs the question, will the actors have a thick Finnish accent?
Yea I've noticed the Diebold logo on many an ATM and they do actually work very well, not to mention seem solid. After all these are boxes of cash we are talking about, they had better be secure and work correctly given how often they are used.
But as for voting machines -- why are people foaming at the mouth to use them anyway? What was so horrible about paper ballots? I can't figure out a good reason to be switching to voting machines at all... so what if it takes longer to count the votes? At least it's done properly! I'll never use a voting machine or any voting system that doesn't involve writing an X on a piece of paper. I wouldn't consider my vote to count otherwise.
I, for one, welcome our Anonymous overlords.
The one thing that definitely is obvious is the USPTO has no clue what they are doing.
Why not mint some more of that $1 kennedy coin and print some more of those $2 jefferson bills? You can't be too cheap to tip a stripper for $2!
Broadband connectivity is getting cheaper in Costa Rica, where I live, because of competition between ICE (the government telecommunications monopoly) and its own subsidiary called RACSA.
Cable modem access is available by 2 private companies (Cable Tica and AMNET), using RACSA as an upstream provider, and costs $35 for 512/128, $50 for 1024/256, and $70 for 2048/256, with unlimited bandwidth. Availability is limited to higher-density areas, but some of the beaches have connectivity via cable.
ADSL is a newer option and is provided by ICE, the telco. Costs are $19 for 256/128, $25 for 512/128, $38 for 1024/512, $62 for 2048/768, $72 for 1536/768, $91 for 2048/768 and $169 for 4096/768. Availability is limited to proximity to the telco's CO, and ports, but they've installed ADSL ports throughout the country, including more rural towns and beach communities.
Just recently, RACSA launched a pilot program for WiMax in one part of the Central Valley. Costs are $29 for 512/256, $74 for 1024/512, and $244 for 2048/1024. Once this rolls out throughout the Central Valley, I hope to try this out because my house is just a little too far for cable modem or ADSL availability, but the 5-mile radius of WiMax and the great view I have will make it possible.
But seriously folks, there are benefits to editor-based blogs as opposed to Digg. I do like being able to keep track of the stories and comments on a daily basis. I would put more stock in the quality and relevance of the stories and links than the quantity any day. Slashdot will always have to battle upstarts for the eyeballs, but to succeed in that, it should stick to its winning formula, and refine and improve it whenever possible.
Did somebody mention low user ids?
The 1949 consititution bans a standing army, but also places the burden of national defense to the Ministerio de Seguridad Publica (Ministry of Public Security), which consists primarily of la Fuerza Publica (a federal police force) and the OIJ (Costa Rica's version of the FBI).
Are you considering the Fuerza Publica, a police (and therefore paramilitarym, or military-style) operation, to be the "Army" in this case? For example, one of the gun control laws here state that a single person or organization cannot own more than 1% of the firearms total of the Fuerza Publica, in the interests of national security.
If a country were to invade Costa Rica, it is true that the F.P. and the OIJ would be employing military strategy to repel that invasion. Is that considered an Army?
One more thing -- one way Costa Rica has been able to get away without having a standing army is because of their neighbors (Nicaragua and Panama for the geographically challenged):
Costa Rica's president at the time, Oscar Arias, negotiated the peace accords that ended the Nicaraguan civil war, and in those accords included a drastic reduction in Nicaraguan military force. It also means that the people and the government of Nicaragua are grateful for Costa Rica's help in ending the bloodshed, and thus are less likely to spontaneously invade the country (however, they are invading it with immigration!).
When Noreaga got booted out of Panama, the US did a fine job of eliminating Panama's entire military (along with a good chunk of a few cities). When the old president was re-installed, none of the Latin American countries wanted to recognize this president since it seemed to them to be yet another example of US meddling. Costa Rica said they would recognize it -only- if Panama's constitution would ban a standing army. Since their army was nowhere to be found, they have banned it. However, you'll find that Panama's police force, unlike Costa Rica's, is visibly militarized (submachine guns, combat boots, camo, and so on). But at least it's not a standing army that can invade another country without massive re-organization.
Mark Stone has been an active member of the Linux and open source community for a long time. He's been using Linux for over 10 years and has been active from early on with the Bay Area LUG, Executive Editor for Open Source at O'Reilly, and has been one of the most important figures in VA Linux and now OSDN.
I've had the honor to work with him on Linux.com in '99 and 2000. This guy knows what he's talking about.
Also in Costa Rica -- the "Sony Center" which is owned by Sony's Costa Rican division. It's in the bigger malls in the central valley. Very cool stuff, and is overdue for a U.S. presence.
The previous story is true, I guess coffee IS addictive!
However, given CA's immigration culture, they'll be able to give hundreds of thousands of people instant permanent residence and fill those jobs up right away.