It's kind of interesting, how the Slashdot crowd has really nothing meaningful to comment on this
I see you're doing your part...oh, sorry, I almost missed that absurdly alarmist unreferenced implication that it's "overdue"... Southern California has been (according to some scientists) "overdue" for "The Big One" since before I was born. The bottom line is that the geological sciences (esp. seismology, vulcanology) are notoriously inept at accurate useful-time-frame predictions. They may be kinda consistent/accurate when it comes to a couple minutes/hours before an event, but our understanding is too incomplete for anything consistent beyond that.
Yes!! ManBearPig is real!! He's just in a different underground system than previously thought!! If we could just divert a large enough water source...hmmm...yes...I think 3,942,333,059,383 gallons just might do it...
Aaaarrgh! The geek in me is both laughing at the general concept of the joke, and aghast that another geek (especially one with an "elvish" sounding name) just referenced a "cauldron" in Mt. Doom!!
Where's the part where you sacrifice a chicken, your friend's iPod, and an Ubuntu CD?! I have been working off of the assumption that this is SOP for the MS Resurrection Ritual...it's not?! Oh...those poor Ubuntu CDs...
Animal hides?! That I should have been so lucky! When I was young, everyone in the neighborhood fashioned their instruments from my hide! And you had termites to infest your wood for you?! Luxury!! Why, when I was young, after they had flayed me for my skin they would extract my stomach acid to use to make holes in the wood they found! Oh, but I was happier in those simpler times...
And for further clarification on my original post, I was opposing "explicit" to "innate/implicit-in-virtue-of-being-a-person". Perhaps "recognized" would have worked better.
Do you realize that the constitution is a document describing the rights of the federal government...
Well, goshdarnitall! Silly me, I was getting caught up in the actual text of the document:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The will of the people is nothing if their will is malice, bigotry, ignorance, or even plain stupidity.
And, of course, it should be you who determines what is malice, bigotry etc? Or would you say something even more idiotic, like, such malice, bigotry etc will be obvious to anyone who can think clearly? Now that we've established that you believe that everyone should submit to your personal moral compass, all you need to do now is get a large enough army of followers and you can go about imposing your will (thus "fixing" all instances of malice, bigotry, etc that you can find).
Or maybe you haven't really given much thought into the complexities and difficulties of creating the "best possible" societal/governmental structure. I recommend for your future perusal (if you really care) Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract, John Locke's Second Treatise, and Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto. These are, of course, just a sample primer for the not-so-simple world of political philosophy. If instead of spending ~$30 and hours of enjoyable and interesting reading, you'd rather just rant and rave about how stupid people are, with the overt implication that you could "fix" things if you were in power, go right on ahead, and I apologize for the distraction I've caused.
One of the craziest related fads I've heard of is "integrating" these "transceivers". As if anyone would want something as bleeding edge as "built-in" bluetooth capability... psshhhaw! STOP
I think those crazy radio-wave-transceiver early-adopters will find themselves only the object of more ridicule once this little fad burns out.
STOP
> Wiping out lets you keep all items and XP you've earned, but costs you 50% of your money.
Take out the word "items" and it sounds like my divorce...;)
Perhaps the cause of the divorce might be found here as well...from what I've heard most wives wouldn't like it if their husbands considered making love to them as "leveling up".
I've also heard they don't like to hear "For The Win!!" during the most intimate moments.
There are these things called radio waves. They're used to transmit and receive data without the need for wires. You should try 'em, I've heard they're all the rage! I've even heard they can make the receivers/transmitters really small. Personally, I'm pretty sure this a just a fad. STOP I'll stick with my telegraph, thank you very much. STOP
Have you thought of the potential saved cubicle space!? Slap a "pico" desktop box into a head mounted display, give the wage-slave a keyboard, and convert half your current cubicle space into those honeycomb sleep spaces (have 'em get in feet first so you can periodically come by and knock them on the head to make sure they're not dozing off)!! The other half of the cubicle space can be used by management to treat themselves for saving so much on power usage and reducing inefficient office banter. I'm thinking a putting green, or maybe a sauna/spa. Something essential to increasing executive/management productivity, anyways.
You should be glad! That I could have been so lucky!! Back in my day our "number pads" (if that's what you want to call a toggle switch) only had a "1" and a "0", and we had to input each number in binary!
But, they need to have a car that can drive across the country for some reason.
I have a 20 mile round trip work commute, so it would seem like short range electric would be perfect for me, and it would, except for:
1) Visiting my brother and his family 2-3 times a year (they live about 95 miles away)
2) Visiting my good friend in Monterey once or twice a year (about 250 miles away)
3) Weekend trip to Vegas once or twice a year (about 250 miles away)
4) Annual day trip to the mountains for snowboarding/skiing/sledding (about 60 miles each way with no reasonable way to charge while up there)
5) Memorial Day weekend camping trip at the river/lake (at least 75 mile drive)
6) Random weekend road trips for the sheer joy of breaking routine and seeing new places and people
7) Beach trips (variable distance depending on the beach, between 50 miles and 100 miles for the round trip)
So...if all your family and friends live within the comfortable range of your electric vehicle, and you make sure to keep yourself locked in your room/basement until you've totally suffocated your sense of "adventure" and any desire to "experience the beauty of nature", it sure does seem like it'd be silly not to go electric!
As for me, I'll wait until they get the supercaps in 'em, along with fast-charge "filling" stations. But that's only because I hate the environment so much...
Just because Apple missed the boat doesn't mean OS X fans are left out in the cold. Just gotta be willing to get your hands dirty and deal with non-Apple-approved hardware.
...If they end up paying less, then the users benefit and the suppliers lose money. If they pay more, then the suppliers make more money but the users lose money.
There are plenty of other problems with this model, but certainly it won't benefit both suppliers and users.
Ummm...from your own exposition of the matter, it is very possible, and likely that users and suppliers will benefit, just not simultaneously for the same product/service. This is standard marketing spin: If some X will benefit, then you can say "X will benefit". Usually, when all X will benefit, the marketing department makes damn sure to mention that.
To be honest, though, I can see how this model can benefit both user and supplier simultaneously for a given product/service. It goes something like this:
Bill would be $5/hr more productive on a certain project/contract by using "Software ABC", but normally ABC sells for $600, while he would only be needing it for 20 hours on this project. So, he doesn't buy it. If however, ABC Supplier offered ABC at $3/hr pay-to-use, both Bill and ABC Supplier would benefit, one by increased productivity, and one by making a "sale" where it couldn't have before.
This is the same "magical" business model used by ALL rental industries. From movie rentals, to concert venues, to leasing vehicles, even renting a home, and of course, the afore-mentioned hotel rooms and prostitution (AKA renting a vagina). And it seems to me that for the most part, renting is pretty darn good thing to have around as an option.
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It's kind of interesting, how the Slashdot crowd has really nothing meaningful to comment on this
I see you're doing your part...oh, sorry, I almost missed that absurdly alarmist unreferenced implication that it's "overdue"... Southern California has been (according to some scientists) "overdue" for "The Big One" since before I was born. The bottom line is that the geological sciences (esp. seismology, vulcanology) are notoriously inept at accurate useful-time-frame predictions. They may be kinda consistent/accurate when it comes to a couple minutes/hours before an event, but our understanding is too incomplete for anything consistent beyond that.
Yes!! ManBearPig is real!! He's just in a different underground system than previously thought!! If we could just divert a large enough water source...hmmm...yes...I think 3,942,333,059,383 gallons just might do it...
So that's what UID numbers are up to as of today...
Logic is a major cornerstone of the geekyness expressed on this site.
Either you're reading totally different /. discussions than me, or I seem to have found a flaw in your logic... :-)
Bibitty-Bobitty-Boo
Aaaarrgh! The geek in me is both laughing at the general concept of the joke, and aghast that another geek (especially one with an "elvish" sounding name) just referenced a "cauldron" in Mt. Doom!!
Where's the part where you sacrifice a chicken, your friend's iPod, and an Ubuntu CD?! I have been working off of the assumption that this is SOP for the MS Resurrection Ritual...it's not?! Oh...those poor Ubuntu CDs...
No mod points...curses!!
Animal hides?! That I should have been so lucky! When I was young, everyone in the neighborhood fashioned their instruments from my hide! And you had termites to infest your wood for you?! Luxury!! Why, when I was young, after they had flayed me for my skin they would extract my stomach acid to use to make holes in the wood they found! Oh, but I was happier in those simpler times...
And for further clarification on my original post, I was opposing "explicit" to "innate/implicit-in-virtue-of-being-a-person". Perhaps "recognized" would have worked better.
Do you realize that the constitution is a document describing the rights of the federal government...
Well, goshdarnitall! Silly me, I was getting caught up in the actual text of the document:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The will of the people is nothing if their will is malice, bigotry, ignorance, or even plain stupidity.
And, of course, it should be you who determines what is malice, bigotry etc? Or would you say something even more idiotic, like, such malice, bigotry etc will be obvious to anyone who can think clearly? Now that we've established that you believe that everyone should submit to your personal moral compass, all you need to do now is get a large enough army of followers and you can go about imposing your will (thus "fixing" all instances of malice, bigotry, etc that you can find).
Or maybe you haven't really given much thought into the complexities and difficulties of creating the "best possible" societal/governmental structure. I recommend for your future perusal (if you really care) Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan , Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract , John Locke's Second Treatise , and Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto . These are, of course, just a sample primer for the not-so-simple world of political philosophy. If instead of spending ~$30 and hours of enjoyable and interesting reading, you'd rather just rant and rave about how stupid people are, with the overt implication that you could "fix" things if you were in power, go right on ahead, and I apologize for the distraction I've caused.
Please turn in your geek card before you leave. Thank you for visiting! Enjoy your Harry Potter!!
Besides, you know, the Constitution has been amended a large number of times too.
Please, just stop worshipping the Constitution blindly. I guess it comes from the American education. Don't they teach critical thinking there at all?
Do you realize that the foundation for the explicit right to privacy is actually an amendment, itself? Specifically, the 4th.
One of the craziest related fads I've heard of is "integrating" these "transceivers". As if anyone would want something as bleeding edge as "built-in" bluetooth capability... psshhhaw!
STOP
I think those crazy radio-wave-transceiver early-adopters will find themselves only the object of more ridicule once this little fad burns out.
STOP
> Wiping out lets you keep all items and XP you've earned, but costs you 50% of your money. Take out the word "items" and it sounds like my divorce ... ;)
Perhaps the cause of the divorce might be found here as well...from what I've heard most wives wouldn't like it if their husbands considered making love to them as "leveling up".
I've also heard they don't like to hear "For The Win!!" during the most intimate moments.
There are these things called radio waves. They're used to transmit and receive data without the need for wires. You should try 'em, I've heard they're all the rage! I've even heard they can make the receivers/transmitters really small. Personally, I'm pretty sure this a just a fad.
STOP
I'll stick with my telegraph, thank you very much.
STOP
Have you thought of the potential saved cubicle space!? Slap a "pico" desktop box into a head mounted display, give the wage-slave a keyboard, and convert half your current cubicle space into those honeycomb sleep spaces (have 'em get in feet first so you can periodically come by and knock them on the head to make sure they're not dozing off)!! The other half of the cubicle space can be used by management to treat themselves for saving so much on power usage and reducing inefficient office banter. I'm thinking a putting green, or maybe a sauna/spa. Something essential to increasing executive/management productivity, anyways.
Xerox invents everything first.
...
-This idea was invented by Shampoo
...which caused/causes/is causing/will have caused an infinite causal regression...loop...thing...
You should be glad! That I could have been so lucky!! Back in my day our "number pads" (if that's what you want to call a toggle switch) only had a "1" and a "0", and we had to input each number in binary!
9.000
But, they need to have a car that can drive across the country for some reason.
I have a 20 mile round trip work commute, so it would seem like short range electric would be perfect for me, and it would, except for:
1) Visiting my brother and his family 2-3 times a year (they live about 95 miles away)
2) Visiting my good friend in Monterey once or twice a year (about 250 miles away)
3) Weekend trip to Vegas once or twice a year (about 250 miles away)
4) Annual day trip to the mountains for snowboarding/skiing/sledding (about 60 miles each way with no reasonable way to charge while up there)
5) Memorial Day weekend camping trip at the river/lake (at least 75 mile drive)
6) Random weekend road trips for the sheer joy of breaking routine and seeing new places and people
7) Beach trips (variable distance depending on the beach, between 50 miles and 100 miles for the round trip)
So...if all your family and friends live within the comfortable range of your electric vehicle, and you make sure to keep yourself locked in your room/basement until you've totally suffocated your sense of "adventure" and any desire to "experience the beauty of nature", it sure does seem like it'd be silly not to go electric!
As for me, I'll wait until they get the supercaps in 'em, along with fast-charge "filling" stations. But that's only because I hate the environment so much...
Yet, the diehards would convince themselves (and try to convince everyone else) that all they ever really needed was one button, anyways.
There is precedent...
Just because Apple missed the boat doesn't mean OS X fans are left out in the cold. Just gotta be willing to get your hands dirty and deal with non-Apple-approved hardware.
...If they end up paying less, then the users benefit and the suppliers lose money. If they pay more, then the suppliers make more money but the users lose money.
There are plenty of other problems with this model, but certainly it won't benefit both suppliers and users.
Ummm...from your own exposition of the matter, it is very possible, and likely that users and suppliers will benefit, just not simultaneously for the same product/service. This is standard marketing spin: If some X will benefit, then you can say "X will benefit". Usually, when all X will benefit, the marketing department makes damn sure to mention that.
To be honest, though, I can see how this model can benefit both user and supplier simultaneously for a given product/service. It goes something like this:
Bill would be $5/hr more productive on a certain project/contract by using "Software ABC", but normally ABC sells for $600, while he would only be needing it for 20 hours on this project. So, he doesn't buy it. If however, ABC Supplier offered ABC at $3/hr pay-to-use, both Bill and ABC Supplier would benefit, one by increased productivity, and one by making a "sale" where it couldn't have before.
This is the same "magical" business model used by ALL rental industries. From movie rentals, to concert venues, to leasing vehicles, even renting a home, and of course, the afore-mentioned hotel rooms and prostitution (AKA renting a vagina). And it seems to me that for the most part, renting is pretty darn good thing to have around as an option.