Your units are wrong. Energy is not measured in MEGAWATTS. Power is. Energy is measured in Watt-Hours or Joules. Gasoline is grandfathered out of present day laws and regulations of hazardous materials. Gasoline is as hazardous as couple of sticks of dynamite. Because our transportation infrastructure depends on gasoline so much, we let 2000 gallon gasoline tankers into the crowded city streets to supply fuel to the gas stations. We dont seem to realize how dangerous these things are.
What about an annual or even bi-annual vacation or an emergency that requires you to drive 600 miles?
Well, there will be range extender packs. Essentially a gasoline/diesel powered genset on a dolly that could be towed behind your battery vehicle. These range extender tow-packs can be either owned individually, or collectively by condo-associations/clubs or be rented from franchises situated close to highway entrance ramps.
Smoker2, these two nice gentlemen from the FBI would like to have a chat with you about your posting of a detailed set of instructions to make and use a weapon of mass destruction.
The sales and marketing "costs" are counted as costs and then profits are scored from that number. What the poster said "Big players have margins close to 80%" is wrong, the what the poster meant, "For big players close to 80% of their costs is in marketing and sales" is probably on the ball park. That is, for every dollar spent in actual software development, they spend three or four dollars in marketing and sales, including fat commissions to the salesforce, part of which gets kicked back, under or over the table, to the managers and executives buying their software.
Most judges seem to be very uninformed about the ways of the web and emails. Most of them probably have secretaries who read their email, take print outs of non spams and put it up them in a regular bureaucratic binder tied with red tape. I wonder why Google did not use strong lawyers to explain to the judge, the bank screwed up. They should not be asking either Google or the account holder to suffer for the banks mistake.
You know, if only the bank has include some serious sounding lawyerly language like, "This electronic communication is intended for our customer only. Sever legal action will be taken against unauthorized persons who receive this message and do not delete it immediately." That would have been enough right? Now all these lawyers who inflicted 25 line long legal boilerplate on every mail from corporations are high fiving in glee, laughing at the futile attempt of Rocky Mountain Bank trying to close (other people's) barn door, after their horse is stolen.
Your posting is rejected because you included an aircraft carrier analogies. To be standard compliant for slashdot users, please reframe it as a car analogy.
Microsoft announced that even though XP, Win97, Win2K, IE5 etc have been end of lifed, and will not be supported anymore, it has issued a special security update that will freeze IE5, IE6, IE7 and IE8 if Google Chrome Frame plug in is detected. After the update IE will first send a browser agent string pretending to be Google Chrome Frame, and if the website responds to it, it will crash IE and the OS with a BSOD with the message, "See? I Told ya, Google Chrome Frame is bad. It crashes everything".
The new motto in Microsoft is "Windows 7 is not done, until Chrome Frame wont run".
Quadrox is wrong. The Anonymous Coward parent is right. The gp posting by AC exactly summarizes Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, second edition, with chapter 13 titled "Nice Guys Finish First" added. The line "Evolution is tied to the genes, not individuals" is the one sentence summary of that whole book.
Well, that is the next thing. Now that you have outlined a way to attack the school districts, the Association of Ambulance Chasers of America is pooling money and is planning to provide EKG monitors to all schools. Pretty soon someone somewhere will die and there will be a member ready to cash in a million dollar lawsuit.
Today GM announced that the GMC trucks have some fundamental flaw and they are prone to explode randomly. GM said it wont fix the issue because the design is very old, and fixing it is unfeasible. When asked if they will when they stopped shipping trucks with the fatal flaw, GM spokesman said, "we have not stopped building or shipping them yet. We need to compete with the low cost competitors in the net-truck market and so we continue to make and ship the trucks, but we wont fix the safety issue. The drivers may wrap themselves in bags filled with thermocol peanuts to get some measure of protection.
Weihl said Google had not intended to invest much more in early years, but that there was little to buy.
"I would say it's reasonable to be a little bit discouraged there and from my point of view, it's not right to be seriously discouraged," he said. "There isn't enough investment going into the early stages of investment pipeline before the venture funds come into the play."
The U.S. government needs to provide more funds to develop ideas at the laboratory stage, he said.
"I'd like to see $20 billion or $30 billion for 10 yrs (for the sector)," Weihl said. "That would be fabulous. It's pretty clear what we have seen isn't enough."
Google: "Government, please throw in some 20 or 30 billion dollars to into solar energy research"
Govt: Nah, deficits are high. We dont have money. It should be done by the private sector. 20 or 30 billion dollars is too much way too much we cant afford it It is not a trivial sum like 780 billion dollars to clean up after wall street greedy moneybags. Tell you what? Grow too big to fail. Then come back asking for a couple of trillion dollars. Then we will be able to do it. OK?
Why couldn't you have shut your mouth up? At least till Google is ready and agrees to assume the mantle? Now every politician is out there joining hands with all the googlophobes to [e.d.] kill google. Nothing jolts them into frenzied actions of self preservation than any threat to their incumbency, real or imagines, viable or not.
Nah, you are not covered. To get the full protection of posting this legal notice, please also mention your full name, street address, social security number, your mother's maiden name, your password reset secret question, its secret answer, and... why bother? Why don't you just
give me all the money in your bank account and call it quits?
Surprised you two use anecdotal evidence and personal experience as a rebuttal. What you are saying is just as ridiculous as defending public schools because I know 20 kids who joined the top school with full scholarships who went to the public schools.
First you need to define your control group. You had very highly involved parents who devoted so much of their time to you. Find a set of parents who lavished the same kind of attention to their public school attending kids. Then compare the success rate. You know what? With professional public school education and parental involvement, those kids are placed far higher than your group in college admissions.
Dont forget public schools must take all comers. They can not reject problem kids, kids from apathetic families, kids from dysfunctional and poor families. Get a group of parents like this find the rate of success of the children of these losers and see if they do well under home schooling or public schooling.
For every success story like you there are scores of kids who fall through the cracks in home schooling.
But most home schooling parents do goof off. How come people dredge up every failure in public schools and prove how public schools are not perfect. Something everyone already knows, nothing is perfect, public schools are no exception. Then use it to defend home schooling. Suddenly the standard is not perfection any more. One lone case of success or couple of home schooled guys passing tests is enough to justify home schooling?
How come the public schools are held to this impossible standard like "not a single child no matter how bad the parenting shall fail" and when it comes to home schooling the standard gets diluted to "At least one kid somewhere sometime passed standardized tests".
Home schooling works only in the cases of extraordinary levels of parental involvement. At that level of involvement the kid will succeed in any school. Even in crime and drug infested slum schools of New York City.
The whole crowd of people selling devices that use Zero Point Energy and magnetic suspension perpetual motion machines and people who write hundred page manuscripts in purple ink arguing why the Second Law of Thermodynamics must be repealed are going to come out of the wood work now.
Thanks for responding in slashdot. Not many original authors show this much enthu. After all most slashdotters are not qualified in experimental biology and we are prone to comment without reading either the article or the summary. So many authors, quite reasonably, dismiss slashdot criticisms as fluff. Thanks for setting the record stragitht.
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Irregardless is not a proper word. Regardless is what you mean from the context. The prefix Irr is usually negative (example: regular, irregular). If irregardless is really a word, it would mean regardful or with regard.
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Don't blame Microsoft for people still using IE6, blame all the companies out there with lazy IT departments-- they are the ones holding on to IE6 for dear life.
Who sold those IT departments IE6 as the panacea? Which company wrote lazy software that assumed a completely open, no security, no check, ActiveX enabled all the way to hell and back IE6 as the front end to corporate clients? Which company was so blinded by Netscape's rise that it did despo things just to kill Netscape and in that process created a mess that it can not clean up?
It was the shortsightedness of Microsoft that spawned this monster IE6. Microsoft could not tell the difference between ease of use and lack of security. No one else has to be blamed for it.
No vendor likes to compete on price alone. It is one of the basic tenets of marketing that you must create some kind of differentiation first to establish brand loyalty. But all the PC vendors have been faithfully installing IE, repeating the mantra, " $vendor reccommends IE $latest_version". One of the cheapest way to create brand differentiation would have been to install FireFox as the default browser, claim that is a "safer" PC (just marketing talk, I am not claiming FF is safer, but it could be marketed as a safer alternative legally) try to capitalize on the fanboi like enthusiasm FF engendered among the informed PC users, leverage it into some kind of "PC reccommended by all the FF fanboi geeks" and shoot for a slightly better profit margin. This would have been an obvious strategy.
But it did not happen. Even before IE7 and IE8 were released, before Chrome, when FF was rising rapidly among the geeky users. What kind of incentives Microsoft was giving to the vendors to make them forego the obvious marketing plan? Must have been a really really sweet deal. Now a struggling fourth ranked vendor Sony is breaking the ranks. It is to be expected. Sony has least to lose and most to gain by antogonizing Microsoft. But this gives other top three vendors some more clout. They will negotiate for a tougher deal from Microsoft, even if they dont break ranks. If they do, Microsoft will finally abandon all the sweeteners and all the vendors will seek brand differentiation by installing various packages.
But no user is going to accept non inter operable PCs. The result is going to be, Microsoft has to make its products interoperable with others, web sites have to become standard compliant etc etc. It is good for the future. Microsoft's market share might never fall below 50% in OS or Office or 33% in Browser. But merely adding a new player enhances the standard compliance and levels the playing field.
Yesterday members of Americans United for Privacy of Readership took out a procession in Forbes Avenue, carrying placards
denouncing the plans announced by Andrew Carnegie to found a library in each incorporated county in America using his
private funds.
The president of the advocacy group Book P Ublisher, owner of a popular bookstore in the Fifth Avenue,
said that "Right now, Americans buy a book, they pay cash and there is no record of what anyone is reading. In the
new system proposed by Andrew Carnegie, there will be huge amount of record keeping and there will be ledgers
which will record who borrowed which book and kept it for how long. And anyone, including the jackbooted thugs of
the federal government can see the reading habits of the population and the data will be available from one central
location for each county.
Further this system is highly inimical to the interests of the book publishers. They publish books with the expectation
that the book will be read by the buyer and his friends and family alone and anyone else wanting to read the book will
have purchase a fresh copy. The idea of one person buying just one copy and circulating it to be read by multiple
unrelated unknown persons is little more than theft of the intellectual property. The book publishing and selling industry
will collapse if the idea of libraries gains any ground.
The Publishing Industry Association of America, claims that a book is never sold, but is only licensed to be viewed by
one pair of eye balls. Other people looking at the same book is considered a violation of the Analog Millennium Copyright
Act of 1900.
Today with phone companies cable companies and DBS offering TV there is adequate competition. But in the future, with Verizon investing so much of money in getting fiber to premises, essentially others wont be able to compete in the future. We are looking at de facto monopoly. Given that TV and internet are converging into one, this would prove to be a big issue in the future.
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I have already seen this being deployed by the Blue Thunder helicopter. Way back in the 80s.
Your units are wrong. Energy is not measured in MEGAWATTS. Power is. Energy is measured in Watt-Hours or Joules. Gasoline is grandfathered out of present day laws and regulations of hazardous materials. Gasoline is as hazardous as couple of sticks of dynamite. Because our transportation infrastructure depends on gasoline so much, we let 2000 gallon gasoline tankers into the crowded city streets to supply fuel to the gas stations. We dont seem to realize how dangerous these things are.
Well, there will be range extender packs. Essentially a gasoline/diesel powered genset on a dolly that could be towed behind your battery vehicle. These range extender tow-packs can be either owned individually, or collectively by condo-associations/clubs or be rented from franchises situated close to highway entrance ramps.
Smoker2, these two nice gentlemen from the FBI would like to have a chat with you about your posting of a detailed set of instructions to make and use a weapon of mass destruction.
The sales and marketing "costs" are counted as costs and then profits are scored from that number. What the poster said "Big players have margins close to 80%" is wrong, the what the poster meant, "For big players close to 80% of their costs is in marketing and sales" is probably on the ball park. That is, for every dollar spent in actual software development, they spend three or four dollars in marketing and sales, including fat commissions to the salesforce, part of which gets kicked back, under or over the table, to the managers and executives buying their software.
Most judges seem to be very uninformed about the ways of the web and emails. Most of them probably have secretaries who read their email, take print outs of non spams and put it up them in a regular bureaucratic binder tied with red tape. I wonder why Google did not use strong lawyers to explain to the judge, the bank screwed up. They should not be asking either Google or the account holder to suffer for the banks mistake.
You know, if only the bank has include some serious sounding lawyerly language like, "This electronic communication is intended for our customer only. Sever legal action will be taken against unauthorized persons who receive this message and do not delete it immediately." That would have been enough right? Now all these lawyers who inflicted 25 line long legal boilerplate on every mail from corporations are high fiving in glee, laughing at the futile attempt of Rocky Mountain Bank trying to close (other people's) barn door, after their horse is stolen.
Your posting is rejected because you included an aircraft carrier analogies. To be standard compliant for slashdot users, please reframe it as a car analogy.
The new motto in Microsoft is "Windows 7 is not done, until Chrome Frame wont run".
Quadrox is wrong. The Anonymous Coward parent is right. The gp posting by AC exactly summarizes Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, second edition, with chapter 13 titled "Nice Guys Finish First" added. The line "Evolution is tied to the genes, not individuals" is the one sentence summary of that whole book.
And may be Lebensraum.
Well, that is the next thing. Now that you have outlined a way to attack the school districts, the Association of Ambulance Chasers of America is pooling money and is planning to provide EKG monitors to all schools. Pretty soon someone somewhere will die and there will be a member ready to cash in a million dollar lawsuit.
Today GM announced that the GMC trucks have some fundamental flaw and they are prone to explode randomly. GM said it wont fix the issue because the design is very old, and fixing it is unfeasible. When asked if they will when they stopped shipping trucks with the fatal flaw, GM spokesman said, "we have not stopped building or shipping them yet. We need to compete with the low cost competitors in the net-truck market and so we continue to make and ship the trucks, but we wont fix the safety issue. The drivers may wrap themselves in bags filled with thermocol peanuts to get some measure of protection.
If not, why do we let Microsoft get away with it?
Weihl said Google had not intended to invest much more in early years, but that there was little to buy. "I would say it's reasonable to be a little bit discouraged there and from my point of view, it's not right to be seriously discouraged," he said. "There isn't enough investment going into the early stages of investment pipeline before the venture funds come into the play." The U.S. government needs to provide more funds to develop ideas at the laboratory stage, he said. "I'd like to see $20 billion or $30 billion for 10 yrs (for the sector)," Weihl said. "That would be fabulous. It's pretty clear what we have seen isn't enough."
Google: "Government, please throw in some 20 or 30 billion dollars to into solar energy research"
Govt: Nah, deficits are high. We dont have money. It should be done by the private sector. 20 or 30 billion dollars is too much way too much we cant afford it It is not a trivial sum like 780 billion dollars to clean up after wall street greedy moneybags. Tell you what? Grow too big to fail. Then come back asking for a couple of trillion dollars. Then we will be able to do it. OK?
Why couldn't you have shut your mouth up? At least till Google is ready and agrees to assume the mantle? Now every politician is out there joining hands with all the googlophobes to [e.d.] kill google. Nothing jolts them into frenzied actions of self preservation than any threat to their incumbency, real or imagines, viable or not.
Nah, you are not covered. To get the full protection of posting this legal notice, please also mention your full name, street address, social security number, your mother's maiden name, your password reset secret question, its secret answer, and ... why bother? Why don't you just
give me all the money in your bank account and call it quits?
First you need to define your control group. You had very highly involved parents who devoted so much of their time to you. Find a set of parents who lavished the same kind of attention to their public school attending kids. Then compare the success rate. You know what? With professional public school education and parental involvement, those kids are placed far higher than your group in college admissions.
Dont forget public schools must take all comers. They can not reject problem kids, kids from apathetic families, kids from dysfunctional and poor families. Get a group of parents like this find the rate of success of the children of these losers and see if they do well under home schooling or public schooling.
For every success story like you there are scores of kids who fall through the cracks in home schooling.
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Home schooling isn't about goofing off.
But most home schooling parents do goof off. How come people dredge up every failure in public schools and prove how public schools are not perfect. Something everyone already knows, nothing is perfect, public schools are no exception. Then use it to defend home schooling. Suddenly the standard is not perfection any more. One lone case of success or couple of home schooled guys passing tests is enough to justify home schooling?
How come the public schools are held to this impossible standard like "not a single child no matter how bad the parenting shall fail" and when it comes to home schooling the standard gets diluted to "At least one kid somewhere sometime passed standardized tests".
Home schooling works only in the cases of extraordinary levels of parental involvement. At that level of involvement the kid will succeed in any school. Even in crime and drug infested slum schools of New York City.
The whole crowd of people selling devices that use Zero Point Energy and magnetic suspension perpetual motion machines and people who write hundred page manuscripts in purple ink arguing why the Second Law of Thermodynamics must be repealed are going to come out of the wood work now.
Thanks for responding in slashdot. Not many original authors show this much enthu. After all most slashdotters are not qualified in experimental biology and we are prone to comment without reading either the article or the summary. So many authors, quite reasonably, dismiss slashdot criticisms as fluff. Thanks for setting the record stragitht.
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Irregardless is not a proper word. Regardless is what you mean from the context. The prefix Irr is usually negative (example: regular, irregular). If irregardless is really a word, it would mean regardful or with regard.
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Hope you become a regular here.
It does not mention me or Steven Colbert.
Don't blame Microsoft for people still using IE6, blame all the companies out there with lazy IT departments-- they are the ones holding on to IE6 for dear life.
Who sold those IT departments IE6 as the panacea? Which company wrote lazy software that assumed a completely open, no security, no check, ActiveX enabled all the way to hell and back IE6 as the front end to corporate clients? Which company was so blinded by Netscape's rise that it did despo things just to kill Netscape and in that process created a mess that it can not clean up?
It was the shortsightedness of Microsoft that spawned this monster IE6. Microsoft could not tell the difference between ease of use and lack of security. No one else has to be blamed for it.
But it did not happen. Even before IE7 and IE8 were released, before Chrome, when FF was rising rapidly among the geeky users. What kind of incentives Microsoft was giving to the vendors to make them forego the obvious marketing plan? Must have been a really really sweet deal. Now a struggling fourth ranked vendor Sony is breaking the ranks. It is to be expected. Sony has least to lose and most to gain by antogonizing Microsoft. But this gives other top three vendors some more clout. They will negotiate for a tougher deal from Microsoft, even if they dont break ranks. If they do, Microsoft will finally abandon all the sweeteners and all the vendors will seek brand differentiation by installing various packages.
But no user is going to accept non inter operable PCs. The result is going to be, Microsoft has to make its products interoperable with others, web sites have to become standard compliant etc etc. It is good for the future. Microsoft's market share might never fall below 50% in OS or Office or 33% in Browser. But merely adding a new player enhances the standard compliance and levels the playing field.
The deal is good for the future
Yesterday members of Americans United for Privacy of Readership took out a procession in Forbes Avenue, carrying placards denouncing the plans announced by Andrew Carnegie to found a library in each incorporated county in America using his private funds.
The president of the advocacy group Book P Ublisher, owner of a popular bookstore in the Fifth Avenue, said that "Right now, Americans buy a book, they pay cash and there is no record of what anyone is reading. In the new system proposed by Andrew Carnegie, there will be huge amount of record keeping and there will be ledgers which will record who borrowed which book and kept it for how long. And anyone, including the jackbooted thugs of the federal government can see the reading habits of the population and the data will be available from one central location for each county.
Further this system is highly inimical to the interests of the book publishers. They publish books with the expectation that the book will be read by the buyer and his friends and family alone and anyone else wanting to read the book will have purchase a fresh copy. The idea of one person buying just one copy and circulating it to be read by multiple unrelated unknown persons is little more than theft of the intellectual property. The book publishing and selling industry will collapse if the idea of libraries gains any ground.
The Publishing Industry Association of America, claims that a book is never sold, but is only licensed to be viewed by one pair of eye balls. Other people looking at the same book is considered a violation of the Analog Millennium Copyright Act of 1900.
Pittsburgh Gazette, Aug 31, 1903
Today with phone companies cable companies and DBS offering TV there is adequate competition. But in the future, with Verizon investing so much of money in getting fiber to premises, essentially others wont be able to compete in the future. We are looking at de facto monopoly. Given that TV and internet are converging into one, this would prove to be a big issue in the future.