Slashdot tends to gush whenever anyone does something nice specifically for the Linux community. Much of what Linux has in hardware support has been painfully achieved reverse-engineering.
Why does a plant need to be decommissioned? The only reason I know if is tree-huggers suing or making it unprofitable to operate. I mean, concrete lasts a really long time, esp if you keep repairing it.
Lighting isn't that hard; get a B&W CCD camera and use a lot of infrared LEDs. Invisible to the naked eye, but they work fine for many video cams.
Also, using a still cam with custom housing and a motion sensor is a pretty good idea. But when it comes down to the nitty gritty, a firearm is your best bet.;)
Folks, do not take PETA at face value.
"We don't mind taking uncomfortable positions if it means that fewer animals suffer." Really? Some of you may have seen this very interesting snipped from an article in the NRA magazine. (Monks Poached by PETA!, somemonth 2008)
If nothing else, that explains why--as was revealed in courtroom testimony last year--PETA maintains a large walk-in freezer at its headquarters for storing dead animals.
The fact is, very few escape. Despite raising more than $31 million and spending $27 million in 2006, PETA managed to find adoptive homes for a grand total of just 12 pets that year. Youâ(TM)ve heard of "one gun a month"? At PETA itâ(TM)s "one survivor a month."
The bottom line? For every one pet PETA placed in a new adoptive home, the group put 248 other pets to death. And that seems to be the norm.
Not very when computers are considered commodities, like cars. How sad is it when a human being of normal intelligence can't change his transmission fluid?
I'm not an expert on evolution, so I was reading about Neanderthals on Wikipedia. I don't understand what isn't human about them. They even buried their dead with flowers.
They seem to me like normal people without modern technology.
There is only one source that doesn't ultimately depend on the sun. Nuclear. It also happens to be the most efficient and safer than fossil fuels. Nuclear fuel is plentiful (there's some under my town), but unfortunately, the US government has caved in to the fearmongerers and tree-huggers.
There is so much regulation and red tape that is simply isn't practical to build a reactor. If some entrepreneuring college grad started now, his kids could be married before the first wall went up. It's pathetic.
And it IS practical for third-world countries. GE made a neighborhood years ago to prove a point where every single house had its own little reactor. Why not one for a cluster of towns? Reactors pay for themselves pretty quickly, IF you can get them built.
It's a clever plastic printer that can currently make SOME of itself (the plastic parts). The goal is to get it to make all of itself.
As several people pointed out earlier, although plastic material is cheap, the plastics are actually the expensive parts because of the extremely high cost of making an injection mold. This project is definitely something to keep an eye on.
Unions were good, but now they seem soured. Two recent examples: the US automotive industry and Utah's failure to pass voucher-based education (the teachers unions worked extremely hard to defeat it).
The problem is unions and government regulations. Try firing someone. You have a union to deal with. Try building something really innovative, say a nice new nuclear power plant. Your kids will be grown before you get a single hole dug; you'll still be waiting for the next mountain of papers to be filled out and processed.
The Canadian automotive industry died because it has even more regulations and unions than the US. China kills US manufacturing because it has less regulation than the US plants. Can you believe that a US plant has to not only pay property tax but a tool tax on the machines? Ol' Patrick Henry would roll over in his grave.
There are two solutions to this problem: 1. Protective tariffs: historically a bad idea (recall the Civil War). 2. Deregulate and deunionize: historically a good idea (think the Iron Lady salvaging Britain).
Unfortunately, the US is rapidly adopting Hillary's favorite idea: the government can save you! Guess how?
But then, I don't know of any candidates who don't subscribe to that idea. Republicans just aren't what they used to be. It seems the only differences are on social issues. Economically, all the big candidates look the same. It's so frustrating to talk to people who like what Ron Paul says but dismiss him offhand with a sickly smile and say "But he's not electable."
The only way to save our economy is to somehow break through people's thick heads. Unfortunately, we are living a generation that thinks in a herd mentality, usually delivered by rich morons like Oprah.
I only hope the generation now at college (that like Paul so well) will learn something from the current disaster and do something about it.
(Wow, I this post is all over the map. I feel better after just saying it all though.)
I've been looking at Quest DSL and had some questions, so I've called the number several times (The website is useless for technical details.) I can tell several of the first-tier call staff by voice, and I always hope I get this one girl Jerusha(?) (at least that's the name she gives). She doesn't know anything about the backend (which is what I want to know), but she at least tries to be helpful and always finds someone who does know the answer to my questions. It's the same peculiar shock you get when you call Newegg and realize you're talking to a normal person who's actually in the same country as you.
I got to an engineer who actually works with the equipment, and he basically said that IPv6 is only for Europe and Japan and that some weird new dynamic system is all the US will get. Quite depressing. But he did say they are preparing for a large speed upgrade this month, so I'm staying tuned.
The local cable company is even better for phone service (the first person I get has access to the hardware), but the latency and upload is getting to me, which is why I am looking at DSL.
I like what I see at Qwest except for their oddball pricing plans. They have a "price for life" thing with a 2-year commitment. I don't particularly mind a 2-year commitment, but who wants a price for life? That seems almost backwards. But then, it might be an advantage after all, since the broadband market seems like it might actually slide backwards.
Wasn't there a lot of hubbub a few months ago when drive mfg's were planning to increase the sector size? That would sure make, uh, interesting boot sector viruses more practical.
I'm somewhat of the same opinion, but I actually do use and enjoy the Friends for Sale! app. It's a rather novel idea: you trade your friends around like stocks or something and try to come out on top.
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Slashdot tends to gush whenever anyone does something nice specifically for the Linux community. Much of what Linux has in hardware support has been painfully achieved reverse-engineering.
Hopefully I can use this to get more people onto GTalk (which I prefer over MSN anyway).
But amazingly enough, all the issues seem to have cleared up now.
Why does a plant need to be decommissioned? The only reason I know if is tree-huggers suing or making it unprofitable to operate. I mean, concrete lasts a really long time, esp if you keep repairing it.
Lighting isn't that hard; get a B&W CCD camera and use a lot of infrared LEDs. Invisible to the naked eye, but they work fine for many video cams.
;)
Also, using a still cam with custom housing and a motion sensor is a pretty good idea. But when it comes down to the nitty gritty, a firearm is your best bet.
But really! It's been done!
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The fact is, very few escape. Despite raising more than $31 million and spending $27 million in 2006, PETA managed to find adoptive homes for a grand total of just 12 pets that year. Youâ(TM)ve heard of "one gun a month"? At PETA itâ(TM)s "one survivor a month."
The bottom line? For every one pet PETA placed in a new adoptive home, the group put 248 other pets to death. And that seems to be the norm.
Even better than choosing some random thing G-Ma might forget would be requiring (or at least pushing) her to upload her own photo.
Personally, I think this is a great thing. Finally, people will have major incentive to upgrade from IE5 and 6, the bane of web developers.
Not very when computers are considered commodities, like cars. How sad is it when a human being of normal intelligence can't change his transmission fluid?
I'm not an expert on evolution, so I was reading about Neanderthals on Wikipedia. I don't understand what isn't human about them. They even buried their dead with flowers.
They seem to me like normal people without modern technology.
There is only one source that doesn't ultimately depend on the sun. Nuclear. It also happens to be the most efficient and safer than fossil fuels. Nuclear fuel is plentiful (there's some under my town), but unfortunately, the US government has caved in to the fearmongerers and tree-huggers.
There is so much regulation and red tape that is simply isn't practical to build a reactor. If some entrepreneuring college grad started now, his kids could be married before the first wall went up. It's pathetic.
And it IS practical for third-world countries. GE made a neighborhood years ago to prove a point where every single house had its own little reactor. Why not one for a cluster of towns? Reactors pay for themselves pretty quickly, IF you can get them built.
Some good reading on the subject.
http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2008&month=02
Linux games? I guarantee you that many packages tagged "science" will use this in no time and games will be left to rot.
Your signature is exactly the sort of thinking that got us into this mess in the first place.
It's a clever plastic printer that can currently make SOME of itself (the plastic parts). The goal is to get it to make all of itself.
As several people pointed out earlier, although plastic material is cheap, the plastics are actually the expensive parts because of the extremely high cost of making an injection mold. This project is definitely something to keep an eye on.
Unions were good, but now they seem soured. Two recent examples: the US automotive industry and Utah's failure to pass voucher-based education (the teachers unions worked extremely hard to defeat it).
Yup, that was my second thought.
(My first was "Next up: little green men have been spotted on Mars. Stay tuned.")
The problem is unions and government regulations. Try firing someone. You have a union to deal with. Try building something really innovative, say a nice new nuclear power plant. Your kids will be grown before you get a single hole dug; you'll still be waiting for the next mountain of papers to be filled out and processed.
The Canadian automotive industry died because it has even more regulations and unions than the US. China kills US manufacturing because it has less regulation than the US plants. Can you believe that a US plant has to not only pay property tax but a tool tax on the machines? Ol' Patrick Henry would roll over in his grave.
There are two solutions to this problem:
1. Protective tariffs: historically a bad idea (recall the Civil War).
2. Deregulate and deunionize: historically a good idea (think the Iron Lady salvaging Britain).
Unfortunately, the US is rapidly adopting Hillary's favorite idea: the government can save you! Guess how?
But then, I don't know of any candidates who don't subscribe to that idea. Republicans just aren't what they used to be. It seems the only differences are on social issues. Economically, all the big candidates look the same. It's so frustrating to talk to people who like what Ron Paul says but dismiss him offhand with a sickly smile and say "But he's not electable."
The only way to save our economy is to somehow break through people's thick heads. Unfortunately, we are living a generation that thinks in a herd mentality, usually delivered by rich morons like Oprah.
I only hope the generation now at college (that like Paul so well) will learn something from the current disaster and do something about it.
(Wow, I this post is all over the map. I feel better after just saying it all though.)
I've been looking at Quest DSL and had some questions, so I've called the number several times (The website is useless for technical details.) I can tell several of the first-tier call staff by voice, and I always hope I get this one girl Jerusha(?) (at least that's the name she gives). She doesn't know anything about the backend (which is what I want to know), but she at least tries to be helpful and always finds someone who does know the answer to my questions. It's the same peculiar shock you get when you call Newegg and realize you're talking to a normal person who's actually in the same country as you.
I got to an engineer who actually works with the equipment, and he basically said that IPv6 is only for Europe and Japan and that some weird new dynamic system is all the US will get. Quite depressing. But he did say they are preparing for a large speed upgrade this month, so I'm staying tuned.
The local cable company is even better for phone service (the first person I get has access to the hardware), but the latency and upload is getting to me, which is why I am looking at DSL.
I like what I see at Qwest except for their oddball pricing plans. They have a "price for life" thing with a 2-year commitment. I don't particularly mind a 2-year commitment, but who wants a price for life? That seems almost backwards. But then, it might be an advantage after all, since the broadband market seems like it might actually slide backwards.
Shhh! Brainy people like you are part of the problem. Can't we just let them die off in peace?
Wasn't there a lot of hubbub a few months ago when drive mfg's were planning to increase the sector size? That would sure make, uh, interesting boot sector viruses more practical.
All this from evolution. Who would have though it was smarter than us?
So who do we spam with nasty letters? Physical addresses work best, but email is good too.
I'm somewhat of the same opinion, but I actually do use and enjoy the Friends for Sale! app. It's a rather novel idea: you trade your friends around like stocks or something and try to come out on top.
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