The power that comes from your electrical outlet isn't magical. It is coming from some other source through the power-grid, so the gas (or worse, it could be coal where they are) is still being burned up and released into the atmosphere and you're probably being even more wasteful than you would if you just put oil in the car because of power leakages at a distance.
I dislike the oil industry quite a lot, but this sort of thing isn't a solution to our problems at all. Thanks for nothing, fellas!
Considering the ridiculous frequency of stupid-unfunny joke links being published, today is to the day AIDS is cured as getting frist post is to getting laid. If you can't do it on that day, forget it, you never will!
Man, you never have moderator points when you really need 'em.
Mod parent up +10 Funny.
Of course, the fact that every single April 1st day joke I've seen on the net this year has been totally stupid & not at all funny might be altering my standards of funny today.
This happens every year. At least every year I've logged into Slashdot on this day.
Since it is, after all, a link site, the fact that there are so many "jokes" on this day makes sense. But, of course, the abundance of them just ruins them all. So if you must Slashdot on April 1st, just spend the day trolling or something....
What Novell really needs to do is merge unique features from Netware into Linux, and license much of Apple's proprietary code at any price.
Wow, sounds like a good idea. I'm sure Steve Jobs and Apple would jump at the chance to undercut their own market by allowing Novell to make a low cost Mac alternative!
The longer Debian goes without a real release, the less and less people are going to care about it.
I'm not necessarily saying they should release more, and there is certainly a benefit to stability over many releases in a lot of computing enviornments, but we're hardwired to be attracted/interested in the newest, flashiest and best things (advertisers don't spend billions of dollars a year because they have too much money). So it stands to reason that no releases means declining interest.
PDF is a great format, but I've never had anything but trouble with Acrobat Reader after version 5. It used to be a pretty decent piece of software, but now I dread the times I accidentally click a PDF link in my web browser and then have to wait 20-30 seconds on my super high speed computer for the Acrobat Reader to stop maxing my CPU and locking up all my browser windows.
Unfortunately enough people use newer features in PDF files that I can't stick with the lower version....
Imminent death of PC reported. News at 11!
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If I had a dollar for every time some company or news organization predicted everyone was going to go out and replace their PCs with Network Computers or JavaStations or XTerminals I'd be richer than Bill Gates.
Various folks have predicted this since the early 1980s and it still hasn't happened and won't happen. This isn't to say that there aren't enviornments that are best served with such setups, but in the general case, the PC is still king and will be for the foreseeable future.
Seriously, the whole "cyber-terrorism" boogeyman is one of the worst things to be exploited after 9/11, and that's saying something considering how much exploiting people have been doing. Honestly, terrorists are NOT interested in cracking databases and DDOSing the Internet. They just aren't. That doesn't spread FEAR or TERROR, just annoyance.
I'm not doubting that this report is accurate in so far as systems are insecure, but the real danger is from script kiddies and other such people, NOT TERRORISTS. Using the word so far out of context to drum up interest (and thus funding) is despicable.
If I were Daimaou, I'd shut up about the whole situation and the last thing I'd do is put a post on Slashdot about it. Not because the company should be violating the GPL (they shouldn't), but because having the company violate the GPL quietly would be better for me than the alternative, which is almost surely having them fire me (and possibly sue me for breach of contract or worse) because I was stupid enough to put GPL code into the company's proprietary code without full, express, WRITTEN permission to do so.
Ah well, lucky thing I'm not Daimaou. Good luck, fella.
I suspect Creative Commons licensed work will just be assigned to shit that nobody wants anyway, just as "Free Software" licences are assigned to crappy software nobody wants to buy (eg, Linux).
"Check with the Patent Office beforehand" should definitely be in there.
The problem with that is that if you're inventing something anywhere near the bleeding edge, any patent applications on the process are likely to be filed but not yet granted (since this process takes years) and as such you'll never know they exist until it is too late.
If people who bent the rules like this were allowed into a prestigious business school, they could possibly tarnish the outstanding reputation of America's CEOs in the future.
MRIs are also pretty useless. They cost about a hundred thousand times as much as just poking around with a finger looking for lumps.
Not a good analogy. My original comment wasn't based on price alone, but usefulness vs price.
An MRI offers obvious and recordable benefits of detection over 'finger poking'. This RollerMouse thing offers no such obvious benefits, and the review even suggests (and it is easy to believe when looking at the thing) that it is actually noticably LESS useful than a mouse. So you're paying 20 times more for something that is less effective.
Looks like yet another high priced gadget to replace something that doesn't need replacing. Given people's various abilities (RSI, paralysis, whatever) I suppose there is a chance there is some population of users who might do better with this than a mouse, but just by looking at the thing and reading the review, I'll be damned if I see the usefulness to the vast majority of users. Especially given that it costs about 3 times as much as a really good mouse and 20 times more than the el cheapo ones.
Moore's law will have to be fulfilled in new, unique ways.
Moore's Law was never about speed in gigahertz, but rather about transistor counts, so it'll continue on as it always has, since more cores means more transistors.
Prediction: In 10 years, if there is no fundamental fix for these sorts of spoofs, or if the underlying model of the web is not changed, web-based commerce will be all but dead.
Are you on crack? People don't hesitate to hand their credit cards over to be carbon copied by pimply faced 17 year olds to make purchases at The Gap, why would they worry about SSL not being perfectly secure?
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The power that comes from your electrical outlet isn't magical. It is coming from some other source through the power-grid, so the gas (or worse, it could be coal where they are) is still being burned up and released into the atmosphere and you're probably being even more wasteful than you would if you just put oil in the car because of power leakages at a distance.
I dislike the oil industry quite a lot, but this sort of thing isn't a solution to our problems at all. Thanks for nothing, fellas!
Curses, foiled again....
Now I'll never get laid.
Considering the ridiculous frequency of stupid-unfunny joke links being published, today is to the day AIDS is cured
as getting frist post is to getting laid. If you can't do it on that day, forget it, you never will!
PS. Frist Post!
... I was hoping to see a link to a story about how Slashdot is still relevant.
Man, you never have moderator points when you really need 'em.
Mod parent up +10 Funny.
Of course, the fact that every single April 1st day joke I've seen on the net this year has been totally stupid & not at all funny might be altering my standards of funny today.
This happens every year. At least every year I've logged into Slashdot on this day.
Since it is, after all, a link site, the fact that there are so many "jokes" on this day makes sense. But, of course, the abundance of them just ruins them all. So if you must Slashdot on April 1st, just spend the day trolling or something....
What Novell really needs to do is merge unique features from Netware into Linux, and license much of Apple's proprietary code at any price.
Wow, sounds like a good idea. I'm sure Steve Jobs and Apple would jump at the chance to undercut their own market by allowing Novell to make a low cost Mac alternative!
The longer Debian goes without a real release, the less and less people are going to care about it.
I'm not necessarily saying they should release more, and there is certainly a benefit to stability over many releases in a lot of computing enviornments, but we're hardwired to be attracted/interested in the newest, flashiest and best things (advertisers don't spend billions of dollars a year because they have too much money). So it stands to reason that no releases means declining interest.
How much money would you like me to give you?
10 dollars, 20 dollars or 100 dollars?
Nothing screams objective like this article displaying the Google logo.
Oh SNAP! The game industry just GOT SERVED. Now it's ON!
If you've got to explain the joke before anyone even asks what you meant, chances are you're better off not making it to begin with.
Unfortunately enough people use newer features in PDF files that I can't stick with the lower version....
Various folks have predicted this since the early 1980s and it still hasn't happened and won't happen. This isn't to say that there aren't enviornments that are best served with such setups, but in the general case, the PC is still king and will be for the foreseeable future.
"YYYY called and it wants it's _____ back!"
Your formula is going to fail when year 10000 rolls around. And won't you feel stupid for your shortsightedness then?
I'm not doubting that this report is accurate in so far as systems are insecure, but the real danger is from script kiddies and other such people, NOT TERRORISTS. Using the word so far out of context to drum up interest (and thus funding) is despicable.
If I were Daimaou, I'd shut up about the whole situation and the last thing I'd do is put a post on Slashdot about it. Not because the company should be violating the GPL (they shouldn't), but because having the company violate the GPL quietly would be better for me than the alternative, which is almost surely having them fire me (and possibly sue me for breach of contract or worse) because I was stupid enough to put GPL code into the company's proprietary code without full, express, WRITTEN permission to do so.
Ah well, lucky thing I'm not Daimaou. Good luck, fella.
I suspect Creative Commons licensed work will just be assigned to shit that nobody wants anyway, just as "Free Software" licences are assigned to crappy software nobody wants to buy (eg, Linux).
"Check with the Patent Office beforehand" should definitely be in there.
The problem with that is that if you're inventing something anywhere near the bleeding edge, any patent applications on the process are likely to be filed but not yet granted (since this process takes years) and as such you'll never know they exist until it is too late.
If people who bent the rules like this were allowed into a prestigious business school, they could possibly tarnish the outstanding reputation of America's CEOs in the future.
And then where would we be?
I soldered it up it did not work no matter what I did.
King Of The Nerds title: revoked!
MRIs are also pretty useless. They cost about a hundred thousand times as much as just poking around with a finger looking for lumps.
Not a good analogy. My original comment wasn't based on price alone, but usefulness vs price.
An MRI offers obvious and recordable benefits of detection over 'finger poking'. This RollerMouse thing offers no such obvious benefits, and the review even suggests (and it is easy to believe when looking at the thing) that it is actually noticably LESS useful than a mouse. So you're paying 20 times more for something that is less effective.
Understand now?
Looks like yet another high priced gadget to replace something that doesn't need replacing. Given people's various abilities (RSI, paralysis, whatever) I suppose there is a chance there is some population of users who might do better with this than a mouse, but just by looking at the thing and reading the review, I'll be damned if I see the usefulness to the vast majority of users. Especially given that it costs about 3 times as much as a really good mouse and 20 times more than the el cheapo ones.
Moore's law will have to be fulfilled in new, unique ways.
Moore's Law was never about speed in gigahertz, but rather about transistor counts, so it'll continue on as it always has, since more cores means more transistors.
Prediction: In 10 years, if there is no fundamental fix for these sorts of spoofs, or if the underlying model of the web is not changed, web-based commerce will be all but dead.
Are you on crack? People don't hesitate to hand their credit cards over to be carbon copied by pimply faced 17 year olds to make purchases at The Gap, why would they worry about SSL not being perfectly secure?