If your car is powered by the annihilation of elementary particles and anti-particles, kudos to you. For myself, I'm not sure to what extent these objects deserve to be called ``stars''. Its an interesting idea actually. Dark cars?
Whats ridiculous is the way Greenpeace is claiming in a big hoohaa they have affected Apple's policies, whereas reading TFA and Jobs' note explains that the policies were already in place. In reality Greenpeace were ignoramus' who did no actual investigation of the issue, made a big fuss out of nothing and then claimed to have changed everything for the better.
I'm a huge supporter of the environmental movement but in my eyes Greenpeace is the same as it always has been - a self-aggrandizing political movement that achieves nothing of actual worth and then claims it has made a difference.
Slashdot has retained much or all of its independence; it survived the surge of popularity only to be bought up by a - as far as I can tell - benign corporate overlord
I for one welcome our.... oh nevermind, you know the rest.
So what you're saying is, you prefer to be kept in the dark about truth of our own complexity, whether it is actually complex or not?
You like to be coddled and told you are unique? Ignorance is bliss? The blue pill or the red pill?
If your fly is undone, you would prefer to walk down the street with it open and unaware and blissfully happy (with the wind blowing in your crotch) than to experience the slight humiliation of being told, so that you can do it up?
Bingo. Dense rainforest canopies block a very significant amount of light. IIRC about 5% makes it through to the lower levels where people would reside. Jungles are quite dark, something that doesn't come through in pictures and movies due to compensating with exposure time and aperture size. This also applies to the Australia vs. Malaysia scenario. Malaysia and similar countries are traditionally dense jungle much like the Amazon (especially in Sabah and Borneo). 40,000 years of Aborinal evolution in the Australian outback involved sun, sun and more sun.
The equatorial argument is not quite accurate, but the sun exposure argument is obvious?
I am sure that is what the Europeans who arrived on Australia and other pacific islands thought... right before they inadvertently introduced smallpox and decimated the populations.
Or lets not forget the cats on ships whose kittens became the feral creatures that decimate local wildlife.
Even the smallest outside influence can affect the function of a balanced system. Humans are a stupid people and we have a history of doing stupid things.
The idea of introducing ANYTHING to another planet's ecosystem just strikes me as, to put it bluntly, utter stupidity and idiocy.
As if it wasn't enough for us to pollute our own planet with tiny particles and change its entire ecosystem, now we want to cover other planets in our technological waste and effect their ecosystems? Regardless of if there is life on these planets or not, the introduction of the pollutant will effect the ecology and function of the planet, eg. the weather system.
Haven't we learned from our own history?? As an Australian who knows our own history of having our ecosystem decimated by introduced influences, this has to be the worst (ecologically) thought out idea I have ever read.
We need some kind of "prime directive" quarantine, to reduce the influence of abject human stupidity on other planets.
All too true. Our entire company (Australian) was unable to support our largest customer (in the UK) due to faulty ISP routing (basically we were getting modem-equivalent connection speeds to the UK).
After 3 days of being ignored entirely, and a direct call from our CEO, finally an escalation got the problem resolved.
We were actually told to next time inform them we were a corporate customer and things would proceed a lot quicker. Basically official policy for customer service is, if you're a corporate customer you won't get treated like trash. All other customers are complete dirtbags and will be treated accordingly.:P
When first reading the title of the article, I thought it was asking if John Dvorak had gained popularity amongst coders. I was wondering what the world was coming to.
Actually, you send the good stuff too. Australian wine has become very good, and frequently ends up being much better than a lot of the wine coming out of California, for a LOT less. I just say Kudos, and keep it up:-) Although it pains me to think that 1 good bottle exported is 1 less bottle to drink;), its good to see that the good stuff makes it overseas. It gets me a bit riled up to see bottles you could buy here for A$8 sold overseas for £30 or US$45. That kind of mass marketing of cheap swill threatens to drag down Aussie wine's reputation.
Furthermore if he could use some kind of waveform calculations (IANAPhysicist) in some way detect distance and direction (both horizontally and vertically) to the remote control, would avoid the tedium of having to inform the machine of distance and direction... if it could land the beer at the exact spot that the remote control was pressed... that would be impressive.
or would you expect Sony to continue treating them as they were no matter what the blog posted about them? Exactly... To be honest I think this is just the blog community pulling its usual drama queen routine, something it is notorious for.
Kotaku is free to blog whatever rumours they want as long as they indicate it is rumour (which they did). And Sony is free to provide information and interviews to whoever they choose.
To me its just a case of both sides exercising freedom of choice (something slashdotters are very sensitive to). No need to get your knickers in a twist over it. Get over it.
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TBH this looks like a publicity attempt to reap what digg sowed... so I clicked "Bury" on the digg website. ;)
Uh.. wasn't that the point he was making?
You have to wonder why a "universally loved king" has need of tough laws to prevent people from insulting him.
Whats ridiculous is the way Greenpeace is claiming in a big hoohaa they have affected Apple's policies, whereas reading TFA and Jobs' note explains that the policies were already in place. In reality Greenpeace were ignoramus' who did no actual investigation of the issue, made a big fuss out of nothing and then claimed to have changed everything for the better.
I'm a huge supporter of the environmental movement but in my eyes Greenpeace is the same as it always has been - a self-aggrandizing political movement that achieves nothing of actual worth and then claims it has made a difference.
I for one welcome our.... oh nevermind, you know the rest.
So what you're saying is, you prefer to be kept in the dark about truth of our own complexity, whether it is actually complex or not?
You like to be coddled and told you are unique? Ignorance is bliss? The blue pill or the red pill?
If your fly is undone, you would prefer to walk down the street with it open and unaware and blissfully happy (with the wind blowing in your crotch) than to experience the slight humiliation of being told, so that you can do it up?
The equatorial argument is not quite accurate, but the sun exposure argument is obvious?
Or try Quicktime Alternative? Won't help itunes but at least you might get some .mov viewing out of it.
(someone linked Real Alternative below but thats no use in this situation)
I am sure that is what the Europeans who arrived on Australia and other pacific islands thought... right before they inadvertently introduced smallpox and decimated the populations. Or lets not forget the cats on ships whose kittens became the feral creatures that decimate local wildlife. Even the smallest outside influence can affect the function of a balanced system. Humans are a stupid people and we have a history of doing stupid things.
The idea of introducing ANYTHING to another planet's ecosystem just strikes me as, to put it bluntly, utter stupidity and idiocy.
As if it wasn't enough for us to pollute our own planet with tiny particles and change its entire ecosystem, now we want to cover other planets in our technological waste and effect their ecosystems? Regardless of if there is life on these planets or not, the introduction of the pollutant will effect the ecology and function of the planet, eg. the weather system.
Haven't we learned from our own history?? As an Australian who knows our own history of having our ecosystem decimated by introduced influences, this has to be the worst (ecologically) thought out idea I have ever read.
We need some kind of "prime directive" quarantine, to reduce the influence of abject human stupidity on other planets.
All too true. Our entire company (Australian) was unable to support our largest customer (in the UK) due to faulty ISP routing (basically we were getting modem-equivalent connection speeds to the UK).
:P
After 3 days of being ignored entirely, and a direct call from our CEO, finally an escalation got the problem resolved.
We were actually told to next time inform them we were a corporate customer and things would proceed a lot quicker. Basically official policy for customer service is, if you're a corporate customer you won't get treated like trash. All other customers are complete dirtbags and will be treated accordingly.
When first reading the title of the article, I thought it was asking if John Dvorak had gained popularity amongst coders. I was wondering what the world was coming to.
Thank god someone finally said this.
Actually I have one word where they have earned the suffix -sphere.
"snobosphere"
Lets all campaign to make it a widely used term...
Maybe I missed some sarcasm here, but the Millenium Falcon WAS a transport freighter...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YT_series
Thus the earlier cynicism...
Other than send the cheap swill overseas and charge exorbitant prices for it, of course. We already do that...
Well, there has been a wine glut in Australia over the last few years. For the sake of our livers we have to find more uses for it all. :)
In prehistoric Australiakistan, bandwidth limits you.
Furthermore if he could use some kind of waveform calculations (IANAPhysicist) in some way detect distance and direction (both horizontally and vertically) to the remote control, would avoid the tedium of having to inform the machine of distance and direction... if it could land the beer at the exact spot that the remote control was pressed... that would be impressive.
Vote Jobs for jobs!
Or just buggy?
http://kotaku.com/gaming/sony/sony-and-kotaku-mak
I don't see the problem, its a free world.
Kotaku is free to blog whatever rumours they want as long as they indicate it is rumour (which they did). And Sony is free to provide information and interviews to whoever they choose.
To me its just a case of both sides exercising freedom of choice (something slashdotters are very sensitive to). No need to get your knickers in a twist over it. Get over it.
Nothing to see here, move along.