My very computer literate son was telling my about his computer lab at college, and how it took him several minutes to figure out how to print from Word 2007. He ended up doing the Ctrl-P, which worked, but it was just a guess. A UI shouldn't make you guess like that. I don't understand, with all the UI testing MS does, why they didn't notice people fumbling around when asked to perform such a basic and fundamental task.
I've seen that claimed, but every instance I've been given has turned out not to actually be in violation of the Geneva Conventions. Do you have specific examples?
Oh, I agree about the quality. I'll use CFLs in many places, but where humans are going to spend significant amounts of time, I'll use incandescent; or, at least, use CFLs with at least one incandescent to fill out the troughs of the spectrum. I imagine I'm going to buy at least a gross of the highest quality incandescents I can get my hands on whenever it looks like our overlords decide to criminalize them.
Forbidding them from protesting in certain circumstances maximizes overall freedom. Speech is not the only right. The simple principle is that my property rights outweigh your free speech rights, when you attempt to speak on MY PROPERTY. Similarly, I couldn't stop you from speaking your mind on somebody else's property. Generalize the principles, yadda yadda, there are reasonable restrictions that free societies SHOULD have on the right to assemble.
My son's attending college. I've instructed him to be on the lookout for starving young artists; I'm willing to pay them a small pittance to create game art for my pet project. Plus, it's an in for him to talk to potentially cute artsy chicks.
Although local farmers using chemical fertilizers and pesticides will still be more efficient than the organic growers. Just because they're local doesn't mean they can't use modern tech.
I'm a bit peeved at organic farming, because it is deliberately under-utilizing land and being purposely inefficient at creating one of the most precious resources on Earth: food. Organic crops are just luxuries for the rich. (By rich, I an including the majority of Americans.) If the world switched to growing most crops organically, we would kill hundreds of millions of people, if not billions.
My quick math check (4 mg per bulb, x 270 million bulbs) gives me a result of just over 1 ton of mercury, so ten times higher than that EPA estimate. Couple that with the fact that they are probably pushing for an increase of 1000% or more to replace incandescents, and that becomes a sizable percentage of the national mercury waste. I'm still not concerned in the slightest, though, so I'm not arguing your main point. There's probably a dozen more dangerous chemicals then mercury in most kitchens.
Forget soy-based ink. A HUGELY less polluting alternative would be for them to simply sell refill ink in bulk. That's not going to happen, though; the only reason Soy is being given as an alternative is for revenue enhancement.
Do you remember the scene in Terminator 2, where young John Connor is speaking with his cyborg protector in Mexico, and they look over to see two kids playing a shoot-em-up game with guns? John says, after a flash of pessimistic insight, "We're not going to make it, are we? Humanity, I mean?" (I'm paraphrasing from memory).
This slashdot posting really evoked similar feelings in me. Pressure from managers to switch to soy-based toners, in an attempt to be greener. There is no world in which this is reasonable. If we are headed for ecological destruction, this obviously will do nothing to ameliorate the result; it's meaningless feel good tripe. If the ecological Armageddon isn't coming, this sort of in-efficiency for the sake of PR and... well, feel good tripe will ruin the economy, and is a good example of the tortuous lack of sense that will haunt us until our death. We, humanity as a whole, seem incapable of approaching any significant rationally. Like John Connor, suddenly fear we aren't going to make it.
Another mark of someone who uses a written communication channel poorly is when very few people understand the point the writer is making. Especially when it is (claimed to be) a simple point that could have been clearly made by changing a few inflammatory words.
My son got it on his laptop a few weeks ago. (Son, where have you been going online?)
Worst virus I've ever seen. Completely unrepairable. Had to wipe his system twice. Nobody has a cleaner or disinfectant utility. The saving grace, I guess, is that it's so virulent it destroys the system before it can spread much.
True, it's not theft. Don't let that distract you from what he said, though. You can obviously substitution "copyright infringement" into his argument in place of "theft", and his point still stands. So while it's a valid correction, it doesn't in any way refute what he said.
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My very computer literate son was telling my about his computer lab at college, and how it took him several minutes to figure out how to print from Word 2007. He ended up doing the Ctrl-P, which worked, but it was just a guess. A UI shouldn't make you guess like that. I don't understand, with all the UI testing MS does, why they didn't notice people fumbling around when asked to perform such a basic and fundamental task.
I've seen that claimed, but every instance I've been given has turned out not to actually be in violation of the Geneva Conventions. Do you have specific examples?
Oh wait, it's torture if you do it to a white guy, right? You make me sick.
Your kneejerk unreasoning accusation of racism is far more despicable and repulsive than anything the parent post said.
US is freedom of speech, but restricted by religion.
How so? All religion is wrong, all believers are mistaken, no gods exist. I'm in the US, and not in jail.
It's hard to think of a more ideal match.
Apple is very close to the point of self-parody.
Oh, I agree about the quality. I'll use CFLs in many places, but where humans are going to spend significant amounts of time, I'll use incandescent; or, at least, use CFLs with at least one incandescent to fill out the troughs of the spectrum. I imagine I'm going to buy at least a gross of the highest quality incandescents I can get my hands on whenever it looks like our overlords decide to criminalize them.
Is software speech? It can be copyrighted.
If the answer is yes, even a maybe yes, licensing should be absolutely off the table.
Forbidding them from protesting in certain circumstances maximizes overall freedom. Speech is not the only right. The simple principle is that my property rights outweigh your free speech rights, when you attempt to speak on MY PROPERTY. Similarly, I couldn't stop you from speaking your mind on somebody else's property. Generalize the principles, yadda yadda, there are reasonable restrictions that free societies SHOULD have on the right to assemble.
My son's attending college. I've instructed him to be on the lookout for starving young artists; I'm willing to pay them a small pittance to create game art for my pet project. Plus, it's an in for him to talk to potentially cute artsy chicks.
Although local farmers using chemical fertilizers and pesticides will still be more efficient than the organic growers. Just because they're local doesn't mean they can't use modern tech.
I'm a bit peeved at organic farming, because it is deliberately under-utilizing land and being purposely inefficient at creating one of the most precious resources on Earth: food. Organic crops are just luxuries for the rich. (By rich, I an including the majority of Americans.) If the world switched to growing most crops organically, we would kill hundreds of millions of people, if not billions.
My quick math check (4 mg per bulb, x 270 million bulbs) gives me a result of just over 1 ton of mercury, so ten times higher than that EPA estimate. Couple that with the fact that they are probably pushing for an increase of 1000% or more to replace incandescents, and that becomes a sizable percentage of the national mercury waste. I'm still not concerned in the slightest, though, so I'm not arguing your main point. There's probably a dozen more dangerous chemicals then mercury in most kitchens.
Forget soy-based ink. A HUGELY less polluting alternative would be for them to simply sell refill ink in bulk. That's not going to happen, though; the only reason Soy is being given as an alternative is for revenue enhancement.
Uncross your legs, and remove your right hand from your chin.
Do you remember the scene in Terminator 2, where young John Connor is speaking with his cyborg protector in Mexico, and they look over to see two kids playing a shoot-em-up game with guns? John says, after a flash of pessimistic insight, "We're not going to make it, are we? Humanity, I mean?" (I'm paraphrasing from memory).
This slashdot posting really evoked similar feelings in me. Pressure from managers to switch to soy-based toners, in an attempt to be greener. There is no world in which this is reasonable. If we are headed for ecological destruction, this obviously will do nothing to ameliorate the result; it's meaningless feel good tripe. If the ecological Armageddon isn't coming, this sort of in-efficiency for the sake of PR and... well, feel good tripe will ruin the economy, and is a good example of the tortuous lack of sense that will haunt us until our death. We, humanity as a whole, seem incapable of approaching any significant rationally. Like John Connor, suddenly fear we aren't going to make it.
Another mark of someone who uses a written communication channel poorly is when very few people understand the point the writer is making. Especially when it is (claimed to be) a simple point that could have been clearly made by changing a few inflammatory words.
The "by force" was your implied threat. In fact, your statement is meaningless without that threat.
I don't think you understand what several of the mentioned politicians actually did. They weren't honest mistakes.
Landslide? Look up the figures.
Ok, added you to my friends list. It's depressingly rare that I see a Slashdotter that understands even the most basic concepts of capitalism.
There is also a distinction between "comic books" and "graphic novels" too.
The pretentiousness of the owner?
Ah, Japanese women like assholes. I'm begin to think this is a universal feminine trait.
It's "Viruses". Just for future reference. I know, I'm being pedantic.
My son got it on his laptop a few weeks ago. (Son, where have you been going online?)
Worst virus I've ever seen. Completely unrepairable. Had to wipe his system twice. Nobody has a cleaner or disinfectant utility. The saving grace, I guess, is that it's so virulent it destroys the system before it can spread much.
??? Uh... right, because there's nothing Republicans love more than adult content, or hate more than church going people.
I generally vote Republican, and certainly love adult content and hate churches. I think I'm the only one, though.
True, it's not theft. Don't let that distract you from what he said, though. You can obviously substitution "copyright infringement" into his argument in place of "theft", and his point still stands. So while it's a valid correction, it doesn't in any way refute what he said.