Otherwise, Macs maybe do this now? (not in my experience...)
Hmmm, methinks you haven't used a Mac this century. If this the time frame that you base you assesment on, I would suggest that most modern Linux distros are much nicer to use than their 1990s equivalents.;P
A cat will remember how to get from A to Z via P, but if you block that path they will not automatically know that they can also get from A to Z via Q. That's why they do that annoying thing of walking in one door and then standing at another door asking to be let out.
I remember reading a thing about how women give directions versus men and apparently women have a similar way of dealing with spacial relationships. Directions are remembered as a sequence of landmarks for women rather than a map as in men, which is why, statistically anyway, men tend to be better at using maps upside down or sideways thanks to mental rotation.
Cats navigate like women, chimps navigate like men.
Yep. I would say it's only fair for schools to be allowed to strip search students if parents are allowed to skin teachers/administrators with rusty vegetable peelers.
Anything less is cause for revolution.
Actually, come to think of it, isn't this exactly what that part of your constitution about carrying guns is for?
...just as you can try to build a perpetual motion machine. Call me when you've actually achieved something.
I just attached a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it. While it did not produce perpetual motion as expected, I feel I have achieved something in attaching said toast without losing any skin. Please post your phone number so I can call you.
No. read TFA. The are doing some good work here, trying to figure out why a particular effect is occurring so advancing our understanding of the process and making it repeatable. Science has had to do this more than once.
And even if it is alchemy, the development of gun powder started when a chinese alchemist mixed honey and sulpher and heated them over a fire in an attempt to make gold. That "experiment which should never be repeated" led to gun powder which had flow on effects for modern chemistry and calculus, just to name two fields.
Deriding this work as alchemy does nothing to further the sum of human knowledge.
Back in the day people had no idea how beer was made (and it wasn't always directly repeatable) but somehow the fermenting process started and beer was formed
So they were able to produce liquid gold, therefore beer production was alchemy and the GP is correct.
Universal remotes also crash less, require less charging, and are more likely to be found near a tv
Which is why they are doomed. New technology must put more artificial obstacles in the way of full and effective use. Just look at the history of Microsoft operating systems, the iPhone and HTC Dream bluetooth support, etc etc.
It is done to create frustration and a strong determination to find ways of making our lives work with this new technology so that we don't notice that we don't actually need it.
Can't find the remote? Maybe you need a spare smart phone.
You're quite right. It's probably overstated by a factor of 200. Especially if, and I'm trying to bring this back on topic slightly, you consider the changes to IP laws that keep extending the life of copyright, etc.
These laws, tied with how they are pushed on other countries such as New Zealand (wow got it on topic again!!!) and the over valued greenback make for a massive overestimation of US GDP.
This has been working for the US for a long time, and probably providing stability to economies around the world, but now the benefits aren't so clear. US dollar, and the US economy for that matter, is what is it is because the rest of the world believes in it and supports it. The rest of the world doesn't have to.
It would be nice if the US included this understanding in foreign policy, but that is not the American way, so I think it's a good time to switch teams. We're all going through bad economic times, but I see the EU as less of a problem than the US because, even with new members in Eastern Europe, they are less of a liability than the US and less inclined to shove their agenda down the throats of other sovereign nations. They stopped doing that half a cenury ago. Perhaps if everyone switched, the EU would become a monster and in 50-100 years we would be in a similar crisis with US would look attractive, or China, or New Zealand. I'm talking about now.
I'm in Australia, and our economy was doing fine, and would still be doing fine, if it wasn't for the sub prime collapse. With freinds like that, who needs enemies?
Intesting isn't it? I reckon if a whole lot of countries stopped pursuing free trade agreements with the US and instead pursued China and pegged their currencies to the Euro, the US would be jumping through hoops to woo back countries like New Zealand and Australia. It would be the end of draconian copyright laws and a whole bunch of other ills.
I just don't get why everyone is still dealing in the greenback given the financial crisis. Sure it used to be dangerous to switch to euros (think 1st gulf war dangerous) but these days, who cares? Especially if China and Europe benefit from a switch, it may even force the US to finally pull it's head in.
First off, lets just start by saying that the whole left/right thing doesn't wash with me. It's an old fashioned concept that doesn't quite reconcile with modern politics as far as I can see.
Your using right and left as if they are concrete political groups, as if people are either one or the other, which makes all your arguments hard to fathom for someone who finds that whole world view quaint and primitive. Your also firmly for one side of this false duality and against the other, as if they are footy teams, as if anyone who identifies as being on the opposite team is an enemy and anyone who disagrees or argues with you must be on the opposite team. This is shown in your "idealist" comment. It really is quite odd.
So none of your arguments mean very much to me except has a fascinating museum piece. I therefore will not attempt to take them apart, because you really do have to take on board certain premises to understand an argument and I couldn't be bothered. It's all about context.
By the way, which part of my post was idiotic idealism? Perhaps you should read the post again. I thought I simply pointed out bigotry and inflexible thought on your part. I didn't really put forward much except to say that you won't understand others unless you at least attempt to see things from their perspective. I also showed that you really didn't offer any valid argument, just name calling and finger pointing.
Bigots who identify with any of the old left/right paradigm shit me to tears.
Your post starts with the assumption that simply because they are economists they are not worth listening to before suggesting critical thinking as a positive thing that most of the slashdot readership do not engage in. This is either an example of an American not understanding irony or a brilliant piece of irony.
You then use the term 'reds', an old propagandist word, as if 'reds' are inherently bad before highlighting "China's lack of respect for IP" as if IP has real meaning beyond your own mindset, as if it is a part of reality that exists outside of you political environment. In doing this you demonstrate that you are not flexible enough to think within the bounds defined in the fine article which has clearly stated that intellectual property is a modern propagandist word.
Even if you disagree with that premise, it is important to take that concept on, suspend disbelief if you will, in order to understand the whole point of what they are saying. You are unable to do this, apparantly incapable of critical thought, so you can only miss the point.
Oh, and the 1950's called. They'd like their bigotry back.
Newsflash: Almost nobody who visits/. is qualified to know what most users of any system want or don't want. Yourself included.
Windows users are the majority of PC users. That's a wide and varied group with a whole load of different ways of looking at the world. I just helped a "Windows User" set up an xfce install because his aging celeron system was taking 5+ minutes to boot XP and he just wanted to surf the web, play his music collection and not have to deal with the regular clean-up-after-malware crap that most non geeks don't do right anyway. So there's windows user that does care about painful boot times - enough to ditch windows - and there are plenty more out there.
Oh, and he's not a geek so his priority is not upgrading the hardware at all costs, rather get the most out of what he has. He only heard of Linux because he saw my laptop.
I beg to differ. Windows consistently has to be told what driver to use for a piece of hardware. Linux, if there is a driver available, just figures it out - at least with all the current distros. All my non geek friends and relatives how use Linux talk about how much easier it is to install new hardware.
Also, I haven't used XandrOS for a few years, but last I did, it came with Crossover pre-installed and configured. So that ran most windows apps out of the box better than free wine.
I don't know if this is the case with this Presto thing, but seeing as it looks like this is for the "quick I need a browser on my aging machine" market anyway, so who cares?
Your personal health has no direct dealing with the government in the nominal case unless you socialize health care.
Unless you die in private and decompose in a run down apartment somewhere, say from an easily treatable condition. It's pretty poor government to allow that to happen.
See, that's the wierd thing, and I also see this as a paradox, you will pay to prevent "an over litigious government entity bankrupting you with legal fees" and you think that's a better thing for government to do than healthcare.
You pay to defend someone's right to their money and their freedom from imprisonment, but not to save their life.
She spent 4 months in Cardio-Intensive Care receiving experimental antibiotics at 10k a dose at the best hospital in the area at a cost I can only guess at but I'm sure some of you who know those costs can do the math.
Soooo, she couldn't afford treatment, so she was used as a guinea pig? Okay.
That's why I'm glad we have public health here. If you want to volunteer for experimental treatments, you can, but you aren't obliged to because you can't afford the conventional treatment.
This is not news. It's been known about for ages. This is just a story about how some dork figured out how to get funding to research something that's already solved.
David Packham is our foremost expert in this area, he "wrote the book".
Hello David.
It is clear that when you let 35-50 tonnes of fuel build up per hectare by not backburning then you will get these sized fires.
There has been more fuel than this built up before, but never fires this intense. Why is that? It can't have something to do with record temeratures for several days leading to an unusually strong wind change, could it?
We have had similar fires in the 1850s, 1870s, 1930s, 1980s. The common factor is the amount of fuel ready to be burnt.
No we didn't. We had similar destruction caused by fire, but then we weren't using skycranes in those fires. We didn't have a week of 40 plus degree days leading up to fires, combined with such a strong wind change. Yes, that cool change was what set off the fire storm.
That's the thing about global temperature rising, some areas get hotter, some areas get colder and there's a crapload more turbulence between. Thus the devestating wind change that nearly blew me off my feet that Saturday.
Shouldn't Climate Change have actually reduced fuel load by killing the trees?
Oh, now you're just being stupid. Trees in this part of the world are actually well adapted to high temperatures an arid conditions. It will take a bit more to kill them all. In fact there is some research that in the short term, higher CO2 levels encourage growth, so climate change potentially leads to more fuel.
It has a lot to do with the fact that the Government departments failed to conduct the necessary backburning.
Check your facts before posting shit like this. read TFA.
There will always be arsonists, lightning strikes and stray cigarettes. We can't stop ignition. We CAN reduce the amount of fuel available to a bushfire. Climate change has nothing to do with proper back burning.
This is true. Climate change does have everything to do with the extreme weather conditions that lead to the fire. You haven't provided a single argument to counter this, and you have in fact made yourself look incredibly ignorant on the subject.
There's no reason not to use some existing FOSS solution and then modify it to your needs. OTRS, Mantis, etc, etc have a lot of features that a helpdesk will want. If you want to add answers to FAQs, you can, you can build in whatever you want. You have the source.
My point is that I think the best approach is to figure out exactly what you want, find a FOSS tool in a language/toolset you can support that is a close as possible to requirements, then modify and close any gaps. If you're feeling generous and your work is generally useful you can give something back.
I think you're more likely to get a bonus for that than wasting a heap of time re-inventing the wheel.
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RISC OS?
I really liked that in 1990.
Hmmm, methinks you haven't used a Mac this century. If this the time frame that you base you assesment on, I would suggest that most modern Linux distros are much nicer to use than their 1990s equivalents. ;P
A cat will remember how to get from A to Z via P, but if you block that path they will not automatically know that they can also get from A to Z via Q. That's why they do that annoying thing of walking in one door and then standing at another door asking to be let out.
I remember reading a thing about how women give directions versus men and apparently women have a similar way of dealing with spacial relationships. Directions are remembered as a sequence of landmarks for women rather than a map as in men, which is why, statistically anyway, men tend to be better at using maps upside down or sideways thanks to mental rotation.
Cats navigate like women, chimps navigate like men.
Yep. I would say it's only fair for schools to be allowed to strip search students if parents are allowed to skin teachers/administrators with rusty vegetable peelers.
Anything less is cause for revolution.
Actually, come to think of it, isn't this exactly what that part of your constitution about carrying guns is for?
I just attached a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it. While it did not produce perpetual motion as expected, I feel I have achieved something in attaching said toast without losing any skin. Please post your phone number so I can call you.
No. read TFA. The are doing some good work here, trying to figure out why a particular effect is occurring so advancing our understanding of the process and making it repeatable. Science has had to do this more than once.
And even if it is alchemy, the development of gun powder started when a chinese alchemist mixed honey and sulpher and heated them over a fire in an attempt to make gold. That "experiment which should never be repeated" led to gun powder which had flow on effects for modern chemistry and calculus, just to name two fields.
Deriding this work as alchemy does nothing to further the sum of human knowledge.
So they were able to produce liquid gold, therefore beer production was alchemy and the GP is correct.
You must be new h
*looks at uid*
... never mind.
Which is why they are doomed. New technology must put more artificial obstacles in the way of full and effective use. Just look at the history of Microsoft operating systems, the iPhone and HTC Dream bluetooth support, etc etc.
It is done to create frustration and a strong determination to find ways of making our lives work with this new technology so that we don't notice that we don't actually need it.
Can't find the remote? Maybe you need a spare smart phone.
You're quite right. It's probably overstated by a factor of 200. Especially if, and I'm trying to bring this back on topic slightly, you consider the changes to IP laws that keep extending the life of copyright, etc.
These laws, tied with how they are pushed on other countries such as New Zealand (wow got it on topic again!!!) and the over valued greenback make for a massive overestimation of US GDP.
This has been working for the US for a long time, and probably providing stability to economies around the world, but now the benefits aren't so clear. US dollar, and the US economy for that matter, is what is it is because the rest of the world believes in it and supports it. The rest of the world doesn't have to.
It would be nice if the US included this understanding in foreign policy, but that is not the American way, so I think it's a good time to switch teams. We're all going through bad economic times, but I see the EU as less of a problem than the US because, even with new members in Eastern Europe, they are less of a liability than the US and less inclined to shove their agenda down the throats of other sovereign nations. They stopped doing that half a cenury ago. Perhaps if everyone switched, the EU would become a monster and in 50-100 years we would be in a similar crisis with US would look attractive, or China, or New Zealand. I'm talking about now.
I'm in Australia, and our economy was doing fine, and would still be doing fine, if it wasn't for the sub prime collapse. With freinds like that, who needs enemies?
Only because everyone is still using the greenback. It's all artificial. The US is already broke. This AC post puts it nicely. Very insightful.
Intesting isn't it? I reckon if a whole lot of countries stopped pursuing free trade agreements with the US and instead pursued China and pegged their currencies to the Euro, the US would be jumping through hoops to woo back countries like New Zealand and Australia. It would be the end of draconian copyright laws and a whole bunch of other ills.
I just don't get why everyone is still dealing in the greenback given the financial crisis. Sure it used to be dangerous to switch to euros (think 1st gulf war dangerous) but these days, who cares? Especially if China and Europe benefit from a switch, it may even force the US to finally pull it's head in.
But it'll never happen....
Get your cat to walk on the mouse.
First off, lets just start by saying that the whole left/right thing doesn't wash with me. It's an old fashioned concept that doesn't quite reconcile with modern politics as far as I can see.
Your using right and left as if they are concrete political groups, as if people are either one or the other, which makes all your arguments hard to fathom for someone who finds that whole world view quaint and primitive. Your also firmly for one side of this false duality and against the other, as if they are footy teams, as if anyone who identifies as being on the opposite team is an enemy and anyone who disagrees or argues with you must be on the opposite team. This is shown in your "idealist" comment. It really is quite odd.
So none of your arguments mean very much to me except has a fascinating museum piece. I therefore will not attempt to take them apart, because you really do have to take on board certain premises to understand an argument and I couldn't be bothered. It's all about context.
By the way, which part of my post was idiotic idealism? Perhaps you should read the post again. I thought I simply pointed out bigotry and inflexible thought on your part. I didn't really put forward much except to say that you won't understand others unless you at least attempt to see things from their perspective. I also showed that you really didn't offer any valid argument, just name calling and finger pointing.
Bigots who identify with any of the old left/right paradigm shit me to tears.
Your post starts with the assumption that simply because they are economists they are not worth listening to before suggesting critical thinking as a positive thing that most of the slashdot readership do not engage in. This is either an example of an American not understanding irony or a brilliant piece of irony.
You then use the term 'reds', an old propagandist word, as if 'reds' are inherently bad before highlighting "China's lack of respect for IP" as if IP has real meaning beyond your own mindset, as if it is a part of reality that exists outside of you political environment. In doing this you demonstrate that you are not flexible enough to think within the bounds defined in the fine article which has clearly stated that intellectual property is a modern propagandist word.
Even if you disagree with that premise, it is important to take that concept on, suspend disbelief if you will, in order to understand the whole point of what they are saying. You are unable to do this, apparantly incapable of critical thought, so you can only miss the point.
Oh, and the 1950's called. They'd like their bigotry back.
Newsflash: Almost nobody who visits /. is qualified to know what most users of any system want or don't want. Yourself included.
Windows users are the majority of PC users. That's a wide and varied group with a whole load of different ways of looking at the world. I just helped a "Windows User" set up an xfce install because his aging celeron system was taking 5+ minutes to boot XP and he just wanted to surf the web, play his music collection and not have to deal with the regular clean-up-after-malware crap that most non geeks don't do right anyway. So there's windows user that does care about painful boot times - enough to ditch windows - and there are plenty more out there.
Oh, and he's not a geek so his priority is not upgrading the hardware at all costs, rather get the most out of what he has. He only heard of Linux because he saw my laptop.
I beg to differ. Windows consistently has to be told what driver to use for a piece of hardware. Linux, if there is a driver available, just figures it out - at least with all the current distros. All my non geek friends and relatives how use Linux talk about how much easier it is to install new hardware.
Also, I haven't used XandrOS for a few years, but last I did, it came with Crossover pre-installed and configured. So that ran most windows apps out of the box better than free wine.
I don't know if this is the case with this Presto thing, but seeing as it looks like this is for the "quick I need a browser on my aging machine" market anyway, so who cares?
Unless you die in private and decompose in a run down apartment somewhere, say from an easily treatable condition. It's pretty poor government to allow that to happen.
See, that's the wierd thing, and I also see this as a paradox, you will pay to prevent "an over litigious government entity bankrupting you with legal fees" and you think that's a better thing for government to do than healthcare.
You pay to defend someone's right to their money and their freedom from imprisonment, but not to save their life.
It really is odd.
Soooo, she couldn't afford treatment, so she was used as a guinea pig? Okay.
That's why I'm glad we have public health here. If you want to volunteer for experimental treatments, you can, but you aren't obliged to because you can't afford the conventional treatment.
This is not news. It's been known about for ages. This is just a story about how some dork figured out how to get funding to research something that's already solved.
Stupid university, sutid.
Hello David.
There has been more fuel than this built up before, but never fires this intense. Why is that? It can't have something to do with record temeratures for several days leading to an unusually strong wind change, could it?
No we didn't. We had similar destruction caused by fire, but then we weren't using skycranes in those fires. We didn't have a week of 40 plus degree days leading up to fires, combined with such a strong wind change. Yes, that cool change was what set off the fire storm.
That's the thing about global temperature rising, some areas get hotter, some areas get colder and there's a crapload more turbulence between. Thus the devestating wind change that nearly blew me off my feet that Saturday.
Oh, now you're just being stupid. Trees in this part of the world are actually well adapted to high temperatures an arid conditions. It will take a bit more to kill them all. In fact there is some research that in the short term, higher CO2 levels encourage growth, so climate change potentially leads to more fuel.
Check your facts before posting shit like this. read TFA.
This is true. Climate change does have everything to do with the extreme weather conditions that lead to the fire. You haven't provided a single argument to counter this, and you have in fact made yourself look incredibly ignorant on the subject.
There's no reason not to use some existing FOSS solution and then modify it to your needs. OTRS, Mantis, etc, etc have a lot of features that a helpdesk will want. If you want to add answers to FAQs, you can, you can build in whatever you want. You have the source.
My point is that I think the best approach is to figure out exactly what you want, find a FOSS tool in a language/toolset you can support that is a close as possible to requirements, then modify and close any gaps. If you're feeling generous and your work is generally useful you can give something back.
I think you're more likely to get a bonus for that than wasting a heap of time re-inventing the wheel.
Which is why I never trust any research out of Isreal.
Sorry, my bad... You said slightly violent.
I think you might be on the wrong site.
So you like poultry and I like boning livestock.
Seriously, I always wanted to work in an abattoir. Is that so wrong?