.... 2019! bang! He is essentially saying, "Once I retire there is no one who is worth listening to in person and all professors will become irrelevant. Come on. Face it. I am the greatest prof of all time and after me it is not worth going to the univ. Just stand in line and buy my book."
Seriously, I don't know why people keep talking about high speed rail connecting cities. Think out side the box.
Trains are so much efficient on fuel, the typical claims of a gallon of diesel to move a ton of freight some 400 miles. Imagine driving a typical two ton car on to a flat bed rail car at the intersection of say I-76 & I 79, and the train hauls it for some 200 miles non stop at some 70 MPH and drops off at some major intersection like I75&I80. Fuel cost to the railroad less than 10$. Given volume, the rail roads can and should be competing with your
interstate highway. Add high way toll, savings on rental car on destination, savings on motel stayovers along the way, etc that will give enough pricing power to the railroads to make a play for a significant chunk of medium distance road travel by car. Then they can add internet connections at 5$, DVD rentals and food concessions for additional revenue. Once they have a basic service that breaks even and makes a modest profit they can play for higher fee first class service. Most truckers drive their trucks for 8 or 10 hours and take a mandatory rest break. They would gladly park their trucks on flatbed railcars and cover some 200 miles while they sleep if it is cost effective
Instead they are looking for another pie in the sky high speed train to compete with airlines. This has the potential to steal all travel less than 200 miles from the airlines.
So what is new? The value for money theme has been hyped by so many companies before.
Pontiac Grand Prix comparing itself to BMW or Hyundai comparing itself to Toyota or
even Lexus...
But usually the lower priced value for money guys are the bottom feeding under dogs
while their competition has the market share and huge margins and chic image. Here it
is topsy turvy that is new.
You make the assumption that these muftis, mullahs and imams, whose power and pay check comes from these immigrant muslim population will stand on the side lines when you develop your trust without betraying them. These leaders of the community fear their flock melting and merging into the larger British (or American) society. You assume they will allow this trust to develop and not nip in the bud.
Please sit down, it might come as a shock to you. Muslims who get educated and understand their rights and don't want to be under the thumb of these muftis, quietly leave. They usually marry non moslems, typically Hindu Indians, give their children neutral non muslim names, and allow them to grow up to be regular subjects of the crown. Who is left behind under the thumb of these muftis and mullahs are those who don't understand their rights, who cant/wont resist oppression. That is why the ocean is salty. Water evaporates and leaves salt behind. That is why the muslim immigrant groups in the West have higher concentration of radicals.
It "allows Sharia courts" only insofar as it allows you to appoint anyone to solve your dispute for you.
Of course, all these poor near illeterate immigrant women brought up in a strict male dominant hierarchy will
know their rights and refuse to "appoint" these mullahs, imams, muftis as their arbitrator and seek the full
protection from the agents of the crown. Yup, these groups have a sterling reputation for standing up to peer
pressure & social pressure, defy ostracization. Their fiercely independent streak is known throughout the world.
Yeah, sure. It is just arbitration and the mufti is freely chosen by both parties.
Such an unfortunate choice of acronym. Pity they did not choose on that is truly reflective of the gaming platform they are pushing. Platform Object Obfustcation. Even Peer Encrypted Encapsulation would have been better.
They should have installed a nice distro of Linux instead. Everyone knows Windows is broken. Still they keep replacing windows without even giving Linux some level playing ground.
You mean real windows windows? oops sorry, what a waste of a good rant.
The science challenged retards in Texas and Alabama will become the next centuries' sweatshop workers. And some of us who have learnt science will be the sweatshop owners. And we will be making goods to export to our Chinese Masters. Will serve them Texans right.
I think all drivers should be required to go spend an hour on a realistic simulator that takes them through losing traction or a tire blow out and other such emergencies. Also all teens must go through the simulator that simulates delayed reaction times caused by alcohol.
The simulators should be available 24/7. It would cost money to build and staff these simulators, but hey, what is a couple of billion dollars now a days.
I have used simple Canon A40 to take perfect pictures of dolphins leaping out of water just at the moment they touch the trainer's fingers. I have a shot of my daughter breaking a board in a karate kick just as the board was cracking.
You need to learn to pre-focus the camera by pressing the shutter half way down and waiting for the right moment before clicking through. Or set the camera to infinite focus by default so that you can grab and shoot at a moments notice.
The main problem is that most app developers in Windows world hard wire stuff and assume the users will have admin privileges. On the unix side, because it was used in multi user env from the get go, and it was real pain to get the sysadmin to install something for you, most unix apps are designed to run without admin privileges. If an unix app asks for extra privilege it immediately sets of alarm bells and people ask "why do you need root access?" and the app developer has to convince the user that the process really needs root privilege. It is easier for the app developer to work around the problem by not requiring root privlege. And the system has been poked and probed for years in college campuses and almost all the privilege escalation hole has been found and patched.
In the windows side, people rarely ask the question "Why do you need admin privilege?" Till the app developers learn to write code that lives comfortably in user space with user privilege, you will have problems.
The problem is not users blindly klicking UAC dialogs or MS's auto privilege elevation is not perfect. The problem is users not asking the question, "why the hell you want to be root?".
If the USB analog-digital converter works with this device one could build a DVR out of this thing. When my Panasonic DVR's DVD writer broke down, I went hunting for a DVR that does not involve monthly payments to TiVO. To my shock I find no such device exists and the box I bought in Nov 2006 for 410$ was selling at 1800$ in E-Bay!
Hope some creates really disruptive product to displace TiVO.
I heard from a very unreliable source, the reason why gambling on riverboats was deemed legal in some states. Apparently these states had laws that banned gambling in the land or the soil of $state. Since these boats were not on the land but on water gambling there could not be banned. So technically the AT&T lawyer could argue that he has left the US of A the moment he boarded the ship. It should be obvious by now, IANAL.
nowhere do they discuss why people should want to pay. Nowhere do they explain what extra value they're adding that will make people pay.
OK, how about the other side. Why don't you discuss why AP and other news gathering organizations will continue to gather and report without being paid? Why do you think the people who want to read the news, comment on the news and spread the news always assume AP and other news orgs will continue to provide it for free?
There are settings available to prevent pdf readers from executing javascript or following hypertext links. But when you do that the acrobat reader bitches and moans and gives you a head ache.
Acrobat reader is precisely in the same position as IE4. Widely used and insecure. Users who are security conscious, vendor lock conscious, portability issues aware are the minority. Precisely the conditions that allowed Firefox to come, but the users in control once again, and take a healthy bite out of the market share of the dominant browser. Impact of Firefox is more than its marketshare. It forced web site developers to be aware of portability issues and become standards compliant. I am very sure other readers like FoxIt or something would take a big bite out of Adobe.
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.... 2019! bang! He is essentially saying, "Once I retire there is no one who is worth listening to in person and all professors will become irrelevant. Come on. Face it. I am the greatest prof of all time and after me it is not worth going to the univ. Just stand in line and buy my book."
First read Slashdot and understand all the technical details needed to hide your identity. Then go ahead cut the cable and demand ransom.
In response to India launching yet another satellite into orbit, Pakistan vowed it will redouble its madrassas and launch more planes into buildings.
Trains are so much efficient on fuel, the typical claims of a gallon of diesel to move a ton of freight some 400 miles. Imagine driving a typical two ton car on to a flat bed rail car at the intersection of say I-76 & I 79, and the train hauls it for some 200 miles non stop at some 70 MPH and drops off at some major intersection like I75&I80. Fuel cost to the railroad less than 10$. Given volume, the rail roads can and should be competing with your interstate highway. Add high way toll, savings on rental car on destination, savings on motel stayovers along the way, etc that will give enough pricing power to the railroads to make a play for a significant chunk of medium distance road travel by car. Then they can add internet connections at 5$, DVD rentals and food concessions for additional revenue. Once they have a basic service that breaks even and makes a modest profit they can play for higher fee first class service. Most truckers drive their trucks for 8 or 10 hours and take a mandatory rest break. They would gladly park their trucks on flatbed railcars and cover some 200 miles while they sleep if it is cost effective
Instead they are looking for another pie in the sky high speed train to compete with airlines. This has the potential to steal all travel less than 200 miles from the airlines.
... He actually has a wife. Weirdo! Run for cover slashdotters!
But these iZombies have such cool eye-candy the Windoze and Linux could never catch up in the cool factor in a million years!
If you are going to streak, why do it at the Garden dept of Home Depot?
But usually the lower priced value for money guys are the bottom feeding under dogs while their competition has the market share and huge margins and chic image. Here it is topsy turvy that is new.
Please sit down, it might come as a shock to you. Muslims who get educated and understand their rights and don't want to be under the thumb of these muftis, quietly leave. They usually marry non moslems, typically Hindu Indians, give their children neutral non muslim names, and allow them to grow up to be regular subjects of the crown. Who is left behind under the thumb of these muftis and mullahs are those who don't understand their rights, who cant/wont resist oppression. That is why the ocean is salty. Water evaporates and leaves salt behind. That is why the muslim immigrant groups in the West have higher concentration of radicals.
Of course, all these poor near illeterate immigrant women brought up in a strict male dominant hierarchy will know their rights and refuse to "appoint" these mullahs, imams, muftis as their arbitrator and seek the full protection from the agents of the crown. Yup, these groups have a sterling reputation for standing up to peer pressure & social pressure, defy ostracization. Their fiercely independent streak is known throughout the world. Yeah, sure. It is just arbitration and the mufti is freely chosen by both parties.
sudo \rm -rf /
Have fun.
Someone has been reading really old science fiction. May be just old rerun of the movie.
Such an unfortunate choice of acronym. Pity they did not choose on that is truly reflective of the gaming platform they are pushing. Platform Object Obfustcation. Even Peer Encrypted Encapsulation would have been better.
You mean real windows windows? oops sorry, what a waste of a good rant.
The science challenged retards in Texas and Alabama will become the next centuries' sweatshop workers. And some of us who have learnt science will be the sweatshop owners. And we will be making goods to export to our Chinese Masters. Will serve them Texans right.
... a vulnerability scanner for Windows Vista, for silverlight. If/when they do I will agree HP's intentions are bona fide.
Great idea! Why don't you all come and work for my company for free!
The simulators should be available 24/7. It would cost money to build and staff these simulators, but hey, what is a couple of billion dollars now a days.
You need to learn to pre-focus the camera by pressing the shutter half way down and waiting for the right moment before clicking through. Or set the camera to infinite focus by default so that you can grab and shoot at a moments notice.
Oh, yeah. We know how the spin works. But it works only in the PR side of things.
In the windows side, people rarely ask the question "Why do you need admin privilege?" Till the app developers learn to write code that lives comfortably in user space with user privilege, you will have problems.
The problem is not users blindly klicking UAC dialogs or MS's auto privilege elevation is not perfect. The problem is users not asking the question, "why the hell you want to be root?".
Hope some creates really disruptive product to displace TiVO.
I heard from a very unreliable source, the reason why gambling on riverboats was deemed legal in some states. Apparently these states had laws that banned gambling in the land or the soil of $state. Since these boats were not on the land but on water gambling there could not be banned. So technically the AT&T lawyer could argue that he has left the US of A the moment he boarded the ship. It should be obvious by now, IANAL.
OK, how about the other side. Why don't you discuss why AP and other news gathering organizations will continue to gather and report without being paid? Why do you think the people who want to read the news, comment on the news and spread the news always assume AP and other news orgs will continue to provide it for free?
Acrobat reader is precisely in the same position as IE4. Widely used and insecure. Users who are security conscious, vendor lock conscious, portability issues aware are the minority. Precisely the conditions that allowed Firefox to come, but the users in control once again, and take a healthy bite out of the market share of the dominant browser. Impact of Firefox is more than its marketshare. It forced web site developers to be aware of portability issues and become standards compliant. I am very sure other readers like FoxIt or something would take a big bite out of Adobe.