With every service you've ever churned in your life, be it your bank, insurance company, cellphone service, why did you churn that service? This guy is using 'churn' in the most bizarre places. Is this some weird Canadian thing or what?
I'll admit I only skimmed the article so maybe it's explained earlier that he's had some kind of stroke that's messed with the speech centre of his brain resulting in this problem. Or maybe he's just an idiot.
OK, you got me. My entire presence here is to spread anti-American hate-speech to raise support for an International Jihadist army to bring the USA to it's knees with snarky comments and metric measurements. Invasion is imminent! Tremble in fear, puny Yank!
Hey, I don't care if you attack the American Way of Life. It's the "everybody should go metric because we're too dumbfuck stupid to do a simple conversion" approach that could use a re-think. Cos nothing makes things change faster than acting completely helpless. "Us Celsius people can't work with a fahrenheit number! Waa!" Real cool. Again, you're failing to understand anything I've said - even things that you're quoting. I never said everybody should go metric, all I did was provide the metric value to make things simpler for those that use it, and in doing so suggest that the value should have been given in the original summary.
It's nothing to do with being unable to make the conversion, it's got everything to do with convenience as I've explained several times already. The only person who's getting worked about about anything here is you. You're reading some kind of attack on your precious Farenheit in something that was nothing more than a prompt for submitters/editors to additionally consider that 90%+ of the World that uses metric. It was an absolutely innocuous comment, and this perceived sleight against your country (I assume) and it's temperature measurements is entirely in your head. I don't know what that's about, but it's your problem buddy, not mine.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be insensitive. Those of us that go outside from time to time have observed that when trees enter a season where the temperature drops to close to freezing (of water, I mean...), the leaves fall off. We've also observed that when the leaves on trees seem to thrive the most, the temperature hasn't risen to fairy-close-to-the-boiling-point-of-water.
Simple deduction. Simple common sense. No need to raise a fuss.
I think you've misunderstood everything I've said regarding this article. My entire point was that presenting the information in only Fahrenheit was unhelpful to the vast majority of the World which deals in Celsius, especially the younger generations which have been taught solely the metric system. Nothing I've said has been anything to do with faux confusion about the lack of a specified unit (although several others have clearly taken issue with it). In other words, you're replying to the wrong guy.
As far as making a fuss, I was perfectly happy making one post which gave the temperature in the more useful unit for the convenience of others. I can't be held responsible for a few other people who have taken what I said (or what they thought I said) and machinated it into some kind of attack on the American Way of Life.
Where does common sense come into it? Or deduction for that matter? And what's arrogant about presenting the pertinent information in the system used by 90%+ of the world's population?
Arrogance is being in the tiny minority and expecting everyone to work around you.
... wait for the next phase! YAY! They're going to extend the format! Microsoft and Open Source working together for a change, maybe this is the turning point for the world! I can't wait, I just have to skip ahead and know happens after that!
I'd say you missed the point. What you're saying is true technically, but as always we humans have the wonderful gift of understanding context and so in practice there wasn't a single person who didn't know instantly from the summary that it meant 70F. Conversely, there are a great many people, myself included, who just plain don't know Fahrenheit because we grew up in one of the 200+ countries where the metric system was adopted in the mid-to-latter 20th Century.
In other circumstances where the values involved were more ambiguous you would have a point, but in this case the greatest issue I have with the summary is the lack of due consideration given for some large percentage of readers by not also noting the temperature in the more widely understood measurement - especially considering the article originally specified the value in Celsius. Not that it was a huge inconvenience or anything to look it up, but it's the thought that counts - and the thought wasn't there.
It's got nothing to do with getting upset. It's about sheer convenience. In large swathes of the World the metric system has been the only system taught for decades and this is an internationally read website which has (I suspect) a demographic bias towards younger people. Providing temperatures in a system that large portions of its readers may not know off the top of their head seems silly and unncessary when all that was needed was a "70F (21C)" to save potentially some x thousand readers have to go Google it or, God forbid, read the article.
The top500 list [top500.org] clearly show that roadrunner is #1. What's this one then? I'll let TFA answer this one:
IBM's Blue Gene/P, known as 'Intrepid', is located at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and is also ranked third fastest overall. In other words I don't really know why this is news. I don't think anything has changed about its position recently (other than Roadrunner becoming #1 a few weeks back).
Child pornography has also been found on 3,000 of the 100,000,000 sites that form the Worldwide Web. Verizon will be shutting down access to this service immediately.
Child pornography has also been found being shared by approximately 0.5% of users on peer-to-peer networks. Verizon will be shutting down access to this service immediately.
Ahh, nothing like feeling protected. Pretty soon you'll find you can receive the same level of service and "protection" AS Verizon provides by cancelling your internet service entirely and save yourself $40/month in the process.
The case is about alleged obscenity in pornographic movies supposedly simulating bestiality. The judge's computer contains pornographic images which do, in their own way, simulate bestiality (albeit in probably a more firmly legal manner). That strikes me as a pretty solid reason for the judge to have his own bias in this case or to appear hypocritical if he were to rule in favour of the prosecution.
I suppose I shouldn't have said "surely he'll have to", more like "surely he should" recuse himself.
Intellipedia has been expanded since it was first launched so that now it boasts its own YouTube-like channel for video In unrelated news Rick Astley was arrested last night on suspicion of masterminding terrorist attacks against a number of US intelligence agencies.
It's a google translation, so it's a bit hard to read, but it seems to be a recurring story these last few months. They tried to Google-translate Canadian into English? You fools, It cannot be done!
I've said it before and I'll no doubt say it again: Editors really need to learn how to use the and tags. It would make things so much more convenient.
How well does delta copying work on lossy-coded files such as many 700 MB movie files? Well enough I'd expect. Lossy content usually has key-frames every few seconds which contain the full frame data (to allow for seeking, streamed data loss, etc.) so if you only edited one frame you'd have maybe 10 seconds of data that's actually changed.
Of course editing lossy content is a bad idea in general anyway...
100MB/sec? Assuming that the capital "B" is the intent, that means it would take close to 3 hours to write a full 1TB disk. Is that fast enough for most backup applications? I mean, obviously it would be fine for archival purposes, but it doesn't seem practical for daily backups. Well you wouldn't have 1TB of data to back up every day in 99% of cases.
this may come as a suprise... but sometimes other people besides the questioner read the answers.
Shocking I know.
And he _did_ say "donate" and not "donate money". Right. So this answer was just in case there were Slashdot readers currently unaware of the concept of Open Source and how it works? I dunno, maybe I'm just cranky from a poor night of sleep but to not answer the question even a little (still didn't give any help as to where the donation should go), instead opting to spout some tired FOSS cliché strikes me as particularly useless.
and give them some of your time and effort by reporting bugs, making some code (if you can), helping with documentation, helping newbies on their support lists, etc.
sometimes our time is as good as some cash. And sometimes cash is better than time, so now we're back at square one having wasted 20 seconds. What was the point of that? If the guy had asked how should I donate then yes, your comment would be applicable but clearly the guy has some money to spend and is asking where to put it. Maybe he doesn't have free time, maybe he just doesn't want to spend it on open source. Even if by some freak occurrence all links in the BSD chain find themselves fully funded there's always more that money can do. Money can buy other people's time if that's really the only thing needed. In any case, I don't see how suggesting that this guy's offered money is less valuable than his time is really useful to anyone. I'm sure there are plenty of cash-starved projects that would much prefer the money to help allow the core developers to focus on the project than have one extra guy adding a line of code here or there.
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I'll admit I only skimmed the article so maybe it's explained earlier that he's had some kind of stroke that's messed with the speech centre of his brain resulting in this problem. Or maybe he's just an idiot.
OK, you got me. My entire presence here is to spread anti-American hate-speech to raise support for an International Jihadist army to bring the USA to it's knees with snarky comments and metric measurements. Invasion is imminent! Tremble in fear, puny Yank!
Oh, and also, you're fucking crazy.
It's nothing to do with being unable to make the conversion, it's got everything to do with convenience as I've explained several times already. The only person who's getting worked about about anything here is you. You're reading some kind of attack on your precious Farenheit in something that was nothing more than a prompt for submitters/editors to additionally consider that 90%+ of the World that uses metric. It was an absolutely innocuous comment, and this perceived sleight against your country (I assume) and it's temperature measurements is entirely in your head. I don't know what that's about, but it's your problem buddy, not mine.
Simple deduction. Simple common sense. No need to raise a fuss.
I think you've misunderstood everything I've said regarding this article. My entire point was that presenting the information in only Fahrenheit was unhelpful to the vast majority of the World which deals in Celsius, especially the younger generations which have been taught solely the metric system. Nothing I've said has been anything to do with faux confusion about the lack of a specified unit (although several others have clearly taken issue with it). In other words, you're replying to the wrong guy.As far as making a fuss, I was perfectly happy making one post which gave the temperature in the more useful unit for the convenience of others. I can't be held responsible for a few other people who have taken what I said (or what they thought I said) and machinated it into some kind of attack on the American Way of Life.
Where does common sense come into it? Or deduction for that matter? And what's arrogant about presenting the pertinent information in the system used by 90%+ of the world's population?
Arrogance is being in the tiny minority and expecting everyone to work around you.
... wait for the next phase! YAY! They're going to extend the format! Microsoft and Open Source working together for a change, maybe this is the turning point for the world! I can't wait, I just have to skip ahead and know happens after that!*cry*
I'd say you missed the point. What you're saying is true technically, but as always we humans have the wonderful gift of understanding context and so in practice there wasn't a single person who didn't know instantly from the summary that it meant 70F. Conversely, there are a great many people, myself included, who just plain don't know Fahrenheit because we grew up in one of the 200+ countries where the metric system was adopted in the mid-to-latter 20th Century.
In other circumstances where the values involved were more ambiguous you would have a point, but in this case the greatest issue I have with the summary is the lack of due consideration given for some large percentage of readers by not also noting the temperature in the more widely understood measurement - especially considering the article originally specified the value in Celsius. Not that it was a huge inconvenience or anything to look it up, but it's the thought that counts - and the thought wasn't there.
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It's got nothing to do with getting upset. It's about sheer convenience. In large swathes of the World the metric system has been the only system taught for decades and this is an internationally read website which has (I suspect) a demographic bias towards younger people. Providing temperatures in a system that large portions of its readers may not know off the top of their head seems silly and unncessary when all that was needed was a "70F (21C)" to save potentially some x thousand readers have to go Google it or, God forbid, read the article.
That's 21C for anyone living in the 21st century.
There, spelled like here (ere), indicates location.
Their, Possessive.
The're, contraction of they are.
GET IT RIGHT! They're, contraction of 'they are'.
The're, not a word.
GET IT RIGHT!
Child pornography has also been found on 3,000 of the 100,000,000 sites that form the Worldwide Web. Verizon will be shutting down access to this service immediately.
Child pornography has also been found being shared by approximately 0.5% of users on peer-to-peer networks. Verizon will be shutting down access to this service immediately.
Ahh, nothing like feeling protected. Pretty soon you'll find you can receive the same level of service and "protection" AS Verizon provides by cancelling your internet service entirely and save yourself $40/month in the process.
The case is about alleged obscenity in pornographic movies supposedly simulating bestiality. The judge's computer contains pornographic images which do, in their own way, simulate bestiality (albeit in probably a more firmly legal manner). That strikes me as a pretty solid reason for the judge to have his own bias in this case or to appear hypocritical if he were to rule in favour of the prosecution.
I suppose I shouldn't have said "surely he'll have to", more like "surely he should" recuse himself.
Surely he'll have to recuse himself from hearing the case.
It's not a typo, the 'r' is merely encrypted in seemingly redundant information in the rest of the summary. Or is it? Plausible deniability, suckers!
OK, OK I didn't RTFA. My way's better.
Just what we need, more bullshit for buzzword fetishists.
I've said it before and I'll no doubt say it again: Editors really need to learn how to use the and tags. It would make things so much more convenient.
It's about a killer robot driving instructor, who travels back in time for some reason.
Did I mention his best friend's a talking pie?
Of course editing lossy content is a bad idea in general anyway...
Shocking I know.
And he _did_ say "donate" and not "donate money". Right. So this answer was just in case there were Slashdot readers currently unaware of the concept of Open Source and how it works? I dunno, maybe I'm just cranky from a poor night of sleep but to not answer the question even a little (still didn't give any help as to where the donation should go), instead opting to spout some tired FOSS cliché strikes me as particularly useless.
And the quesioner said "donating money".
sometimes our time is as good as some cash. And sometimes cash is better than time, so now we're back at square one having wasted 20 seconds. What was the point of that? If the guy had asked how should I donate then yes, your comment would be applicable but clearly the guy has some money to spend and is asking where to put it. Maybe he doesn't have free time, maybe he just doesn't want to spend it on open source. Even if by some freak occurrence all links in the BSD chain find themselves fully funded there's always more that money can do. Money can buy other people's time if that's really the only thing needed. In any case, I don't see how suggesting that this guy's offered money is less valuable than his time is really useful to anyone. I'm sure there are plenty of cash-starved projects that would much prefer the money to help allow the core developers to focus on the project than have one extra guy adding a line of code here or there.