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Finally, someone with some sense about this netbook rubbish.
At first I thought this was a garbage comment but it's actually a fairly clever reference. The article is about harvesting methane gas hydrates (which can be thought of as methane gas trapped in ice).
But I question the use of methane gas hydrates. There is no denying methane gas is one of the worse gas responsible for the green house effect. The article makes it seem like methane gas hydrates is a solution but in the end it's not a renewable source of energy. It would still be harvested and drilled for like oil and even though there's the trillions of cubic feet of gas to be had, one day it could run out.
I agree. He starts off making some good points outlining the vulnerabilities of our economy due to our capitalistic ways. Then he talks about the most ridiculous predictions for the future of the economy, workforce and government regulations. I don’t believe we’re going to be seeing the type of restrictions Scott Adams claims, it would kill America. The only valid prediction he makes is the stronger credit requirements banks might impose but he backs it up as if it was because we were spending too much.
What stood out to me as completely ridiculous:
“Depending on how bad the economy gets, you could also see rules banning single passengers in cars.”
I'm tired of all these apple netbook rumors.
The lack of syntax highlighting in books don't bother me too much, it's the size of the book. I've gotten used to a wide screen monitor for code so it's nice when that long if statement is on one line.
For the purpose of learning from a book the bold and italics in print is often good enough for me. Have def in bold and comments in italics and i'm generally pleased. Then again it could just me a bias I have since i prefer to reading books than pdfs on a computer.
Ditto. I've never wanted to get rid of my pinkie, I always wanted it to be stronger. I'm sure the author would also agree seeing how he broke his.
I require more data!
So San Francisco/San Jose/Oakland and Seattle/Tacoma is on the at risk list because:
"relatively high numbers of residents who watch analog over-the-air television broadcasts and relatively low participation in the NTIA's TV Converter Box Coupon Program."
but how many of them don't need the converter box coupon? The Bay Area is home to Silicon Valley, would it be safe to say that a large number of them have purchased HDTVs and don't require a converter box?
How exactly is carbonating fruit an "Edible Electronic Birthday Cake"?
Here I thought it was a poorly titled article, perhaps for something like a super lower power microcontroller running linux powered by a potato. Instead I find totally senseless satire (which I do appreciate, just not on HN) mocking the linux community and slowly turning this site in another reddit/digg.
This is such a crappy link covering the details of this case. Here's better information:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081124-teacher-in-por...To summarize:
She was a substitute teacher.
She lost her teaching credentials instead of 40 years in prison.
It was a windows 98 computer.
She didn't have the sense to turn off the monitor, she tried to fight the battle of endless spyware pop ups.
The "expert" they had to explain the computers knew nothing.
According to the Zen of Python (
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/), and the whole idea upon which python is created:
"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."
That right there sums up the whole point of Python 3, necessary evil (reverse incompatibility) for future good.
I don't have a friend at cisco but I have friends in other large name companies and usually when they force shut down (esp. around the holidays) It comes out of the employees vacation days.
I have actually thought very deeply about this question and would often ponder about it in my spare time. Hypothetically speaking if I could go back in time and tell my younger self one thing it would be:
DO NOT FORGET
February 13, 2002: 1,4,19,28,46 M4
If I could say a little more on top of that it would be:
invest in google stock.