Google services, including Gmail, have been blocked for years, in China. Sure, a lot of Chinese use them with VPN, but Gmail being blocked in China is old news! For some "strange" reason, Bing and Hotmail aren't blocked, though.
Unfortunately, I had to accept that Slashdot editors and submitters are not, typically, capable to distinguish between power (watt, W) and energy (watt hour, W h), but this is a... new low? Hell, I don't even know if it's new, with how things have been going, it is quite possible that there was a similarly disgraceful submission already.
I have been wishing for ODF support in Google Docs since forever. This one feature is what makes it now really feasible for me to start using the Google office tools - becauses I can then open the documents with a myriad other suites that work with ODF!
It's more related to the time period in which those neighborhoods were built, and how they were built. Grid street patterns were normal before WWII, along with smaller houses (Victorians, Craftsman bungalows, etc.). "Subdivisions" didn't become common until the postwar era, when sprawling ranch houses with two-car garages and big yards were popular.
Not coincidentally, those postwar subdivisions were also getting built at the same time as the civil rights movement: at the time, black people were "blockbusting" in those grid-street neighborhoods, while the white people were moving out to the curved/cul-de-sac subdivisons to get away from them. In fact, the restricted number of subdivision entrances/exits, along with the higher housing prices (enforced in the zoning code by minimum lot sizes, which forced lower-density development) were, in part, tools to keep out those perceived to be undesirable.
Very nice post, and very true.
I recommend watching an interesting, newly released documentary: Spanish Lake. It explains blockbusting very well, as well as the dynamic of white middle class families staying vs. moving out of neighborhoods.
My impression of most of the US (I visited three times, three different states) is that you're discouraged from walking - no walkways, no way to cross roads unless you're willing to walk half a mile to get to a crossing, etc. In Texas I felt like walking was practically a felony, and if you don't have a car you're subhuman.
Needless to say, when I left Texas and returned to my beloved Finland, I breathed a sigh of relief.
There is a great interview with Elon Musk on youtube here. He is remarkably transparent about his reasoning. One key to his success is that he works very hard to understand motive and purpose when making decisions.
Musk makes that point that it costs about as much to fuel a rocket as it does to fuel a 747. Space launches are mostly so expensive because the vehicle is sacrificed with each launch, not because of the energy requirements for a space launch. The other big component of the expense is that rocket manufacturers charge a lot. According to Musk the value of the raw materials from which they are formed is reasonably inexpensive. Those were two hugely important realizations because they meant that space launches were not inherently expensive and therefore there is enormous potential for reducing launch costs.
By being Space X instead of Boeing the cost of launch is reduced to about 25% of conventional launches because Space X can assemble a rocket from raw materials for that much less. A re-usable vehicle, Musk predicts, would reduce launch costs by an order of magnitude.
So those are the motives and reasoning underlying the X-wing grid fins and re-entry discussed in the Slashdot summary.
Very well said.
BTW, I wish every CEO were like Musk - it would make for a saner company, for researchers and engineers.
It's a 4:3 monitor with a fantastic colour and contrast. It's also been serving me faithfully for 6 or 7 years without causing any problems. So needless to say, I am both a fan of Eizo monitors and lesser-than-HD aspect ratios. I am intrigued by this 1:1 aspect ratio Eizo monitor, but 26" is too big for my home. It is, however, almost ideal at work, where I do research: reading scientific articles and doing MEMS design would benefit a lot from this very monitor.
They are advocating against fossil fuels, not against heating. Maybe you missed that detail in your zeal to impose fascist policies. Your post was not far removed from the Italian fascists feeding castor oil to political opponents.
This, a million times. The freight business is getting an enormous de-facto subsidy by not paying it's fair share of road consumption. If that makes it un-competitive compared to rail transportation, then let it die and as you said, invest more in the rail infrastructure.
Wait a second: GP listed reasons why Microsoft was and still is a sociopathic entity, and your one and only counterargument is "I have long ago concluded that on Slashdot success = evil"? Looks like you arrived to the end of your brain, and it was a very short journey indeed.
Broadly speaking, I agree, but you're overthinking it: all those companies failed or were significantly crippled because of a simple issue: corporate psychopaty. People in top positions including and especially CxOs, looking after their own interest at the expense of everybody else's. In previous years you had executives that tried to manage their companies for a long-term success. Nowadays, most executives (of large publicly traded companies) are just parasites. But even parasites don't try to kill their host. Corporate psychopaths don't give a shit - they just jump ship using their vast network of connections/golf buddies to land a new executive job at another company.
I don't know the current stage of professional development of this pianist, but there are two main possibilities: either he's not improved since the review, or he has.
I have last heard him in 2013. At least up until that point, he has not improved. If anything, he's crystallized into that interesting, virtuoso but ultimately empty style that the review very well described. His recitals showcase his incredible control of the instrument, but leave the audience completely unfulfilled, with no real musical experience to speak of.
I've heard Lazic's recitals, and I must say, this review perfectly describes them. All of them. The man is talented, certainly, but fails to produce even the slightest musical effect on the listener. His play is a waste of great pianistic control - all that control and virtuosism bring about nothing of substantial value.
Over at Sciencemadness we had several members telling their stories of law enforcement encounters. Not all were completely unpleasant, actually.
In another post you mentioned that you were in Europe. Not every European country (not even every EU country) has the same rules regarding chemical purchase. Portugal is rather relaxes, and here in Finland at least sulfuric acid ("battery acid") and H2O2 are relatively easy to purchase.
FUTILITY!!!! I've tried to upvote countless topics related to the suckiness of Slashdot's new UI. Or even topics that were just trying to discuss the issue (no bias in the title). NONE of these gets picked. Not one.
Fuck Slashdot Beta even more, because the admins are gaming the system to protect the beta UI from criticism.
I went to see what's ArsTechnica been up to lately, and holy cow has that site grown in the last couple of years! They have all the topics I'm interested in, and apparently, not days late. Also, they don't have contempt for their members.
So, I'm going to type in a random password for my Slashdot account and log out.
IS the joke, right? It's funny to the people doing it, and yes does reveal the contempt that just about anyone has for most other people.
While I agree that the "stories" are lame and unfunny, there are several levels of joke here.
While your reply may contain a kernel of truth, let me qualify my statement: the only person I've ever seen "joking" like this - repeating essentially the same unfunny joke over and over and over - was one with IQ of about 65. And yes, he was laughing his retarded ass off, for sure.
Slashdot Mirror
Google services, including Gmail, have been blocked for years, in China. Sure, a lot of Chinese use them with VPN, but Gmail being blocked in China is old news!
For some "strange" reason, Bing and Hotmail aren't blocked, though.
Why though? At least now Sony is doing the right thing. Or are you angry that they're releasing it only in very few theaters?
I had the impression your post had an agenda, and then I read, at the end, you confirmed it:
When FreeBSD changes to a modern init-system (they will probably clone systemd)
Unfortunately, I had to accept that Slashdot editors and submitters are not, typically, capable to distinguish between power (watt, W) and energy (watt hour, W h), but this is a... new low? Hell, I don't even know if it's new, with how things have been going, it is quite possible that there was a similarly disgraceful submission already.
Mentally insert image of double facepalm here.
I have been wishing for ODF support in Google Docs since forever. This one feature is what makes it now really feasible for me to start using the Google office tools - becauses I can then open the documents with a myriad other suites that work with ODF!
Yes and no.
It's more related to the time period in which those neighborhoods were built, and how they were built. Grid street patterns were normal before WWII, along with smaller houses (Victorians, Craftsman bungalows, etc.). "Subdivisions" didn't become common until the postwar era, when sprawling ranch houses with two-car garages and big yards were popular.
Not coincidentally, those postwar subdivisions were also getting built at the same time as the civil rights movement: at the time, black people were "blockbusting" in those grid-street neighborhoods, while the white people were moving out to the curved/cul-de-sac subdivisons to get away from them. In fact, the restricted number of subdivision entrances/exits, along with the higher housing prices (enforced in the zoning code by minimum lot sizes, which forced lower-density development) were, in part, tools to keep out those perceived to be undesirable.
Very nice post, and very true.
I recommend watching an interesting, newly released documentary: Spanish Lake. It explains blockbusting very well, as well as the dynamic of white middle class families staying vs. moving out of neighborhoods.
My impression of most of the US (I visited three times, three different states) is that you're discouraged from walking - no walkways, no way to cross roads unless you're willing to walk half a mile to get to a crossing, etc. In Texas I felt like walking was practically a felony, and if you don't have a car you're subhuman.
Needless to say, when I left Texas and returned to my beloved Finland, I breathed a sigh of relief.
I was going to ask the same exact thing. I'd be happy to download them via torrent, if I knew what to look for exactly.
If you find something, please kindly post the result of your search by answering. I'll do likewise.
Sadly, the trend with SSDs is the same: higher density without any regards to MTBF.
There is a great interview with Elon Musk on youtube here. He is remarkably transparent about his reasoning. One key to his success is that he works very hard to understand motive and purpose when making decisions.
Musk makes that point that it costs about as much to fuel a rocket as it does to fuel a 747. Space launches are mostly so expensive because the vehicle is sacrificed with each launch, not because of the energy requirements for a space launch. The other big component of the expense is that rocket manufacturers charge a lot. According to Musk the value of the raw materials from which they are formed is reasonably inexpensive. Those were two hugely important realizations because they meant that space launches were not inherently expensive and therefore there is enormous potential for reducing launch costs.
By being Space X instead of Boeing the cost of launch is reduced to about 25% of conventional launches because Space X can assemble a rocket from raw materials for that much less. A re-usable vehicle, Musk predicts, would reduce launch costs by an order of magnitude.
So those are the motives and reasoning underlying the X-wing grid fins and re-entry discussed in the Slashdot summary.
Very well said.
BTW, I wish every CEO were like Musk - it would make for a saner company, for researchers and engineers.
In this context, "problem" was meant as in "mathematical problem", not environmental.
It's a 4:3 monitor with a fantastic colour and contrast. It's also been serving me faithfully for 6 or 7 years without causing any problems.
So needless to say, I am both a fan of Eizo monitors and lesser-than-HD aspect ratios. I am intrigued by this 1:1 aspect ratio Eizo monitor, but 26" is too big for my home. It is, however, almost ideal at work, where I do research: reading scientific articles and doing MEMS design would benefit a lot from this very monitor.
They are advocating against fossil fuels, not against heating. Maybe you missed that detail in your zeal to impose fascist policies. Your post was not far removed from the Italian fascists feeding castor oil to political opponents.
This, a million times. The freight business is getting an enormous de-facto subsidy by not paying it's fair share of road consumption. If that makes it un-competitive compared to rail transportation, then let it die and as you said, invest more in the rail infrastructure.
Wait a second: GP listed reasons why Microsoft was and still is a sociopathic entity, and your one and only counterargument is "I have long ago concluded that on Slashdot success = evil"? Looks like you arrived to the end of your brain, and it was a very short journey indeed.
Broadly speaking, I agree, but you're overthinking it: all those companies failed or were significantly crippled because of a simple issue: corporate psychopaty. People in top positions including and especially CxOs, looking after their own interest at the expense of everybody else's. In previous years you had executives that tried to manage their companies for a long-term success. Nowadays, most executives (of large publicly traded companies) are just parasites. But even parasites don't try to kill their host. Corporate psychopaths don't give a shit - they just jump ship using their vast network of connections/golf buddies to land a new executive job at another company.
Uh... I don't know what did I write that you cold misunderstand as suggesting breaking the law.
I don't know the current stage of professional development of this pianist, but there are two main possibilities: either he's not improved since the review, or he has.
I have last heard him in 2013. At least up until that point, he has not improved. If anything, he's crystallized into that interesting, virtuoso but ultimately empty style that the review very well described. His recitals showcase his incredible control of the instrument, but leave the audience completely unfulfilled, with no real musical experience to speak of.
I've heard Lazic's recitals, and I must say, this review perfectly describes them. All of them. The man is talented, certainly, but fails to produce even the slightest musical effect on the listener. His play is a waste of great pianistic control - all that control and virtuosism bring about nothing of substantial value.
Over at Sciencemadness we had several members telling their stories of law enforcement encounters. Not all were completely unpleasant, actually.
In another post you mentioned that you were in Europe. Not every European country (not even every EU country) has the same rules regarding chemical purchase. Portugal is rather relaxes, and here in Finland at least sulfuric acid ("battery acid") and H2O2 are relatively easy to purchase.
FUTILITY!!!! I've tried to upvote countless topics related to the suckiness of Slashdot's new UI. Or even topics that were just trying to discuss the issue (no bias in the title). NONE of these gets picked. Not one.
Fuck Slashdot Beta even more, because the admins are gaming the system to protect the beta UI from criticism.
I went to see what's ArsTechnica been up to lately, and holy cow has that site grown in the last couple of years! They have all the topics I'm interested in, and apparently, not days late. Also, they don't have contempt for their members.
So, I'm going to type in a random password for my Slashdot account and log out.
G'bye Slashdot editors, go fuck yirselves!
You do realize that getting a rise out of you,
IS the joke, right? It's funny to the people doing it, and yes does reveal the contempt that just about anyone has for most other people.
While I agree that the "stories" are lame and unfunny, there are several levels of joke here.
While your reply may contain a kernel of truth, let me qualify my statement: the only person I've ever seen "joking" like this - repeating essentially the same unfunny joke over and over and over - was one with IQ of about 65. And yes, he was laughing his retarded ass off, for sure.
Just one day out of the year can't you relax and read some jokes?
If you think these are "jokes", your IQ is the same as Slashdot editors' - about 65.
Some sub-sections of Reddit (like /science/) are awesome and WAY above the Slashdot story quality.