True, but it rather ceased to be relevant a few centuries ago. I know Slashdotters like to bear grudges but this is ridiculous. I also think it's cute that you think Slashdot of all places "believes in the Vatican".
Mouthbreathing Neanderthal scum. If it wasn't for the cataclysmic sacrifice of nearly all of my brave anaerobic ancestors during World War O your caustic remarks wouldn't even be possible.
The word you are looking for is API. An implementation is on the side of the thing that exposes the API. The OS uses the API, it does not implement the standard. Implement would mean providing the API. Not making use of an API doesn't mean you're not standards compliant. Eg. None of my OSs make use of (U)EFI (because coreboot is amazing). My OSs are following the boot standards, They just aren't using the API that was implemented for (U)EFI.
You "execute" TRIM through the API of its implementation. Calling it on delete is an optional part of the protocol. Not calling it on deletes is not deviation from the standard.
You can actually be put in front of a Windows 8 PC and have absolutely no idea what to do and no cognitive ability to even begin to work out what you might have to do?
Yes, because shit like draging from / to regions of the screen with no visual cue that such an option is present is a prevalent design clusterfuck. Hell sometimes it's just a corner or edge. WTF? It's an uninformative back-asswards abortion of a user interface.
On the contrary! It's the shadyness that creates ideal circumstance for corporate buildings to spring up. A sentient puddle would be silly to think its pot hole was made to be is just the right size for its pot.
Folding@Home Since our IT Managers demanded all systems stay up during the night for maintenance, updates, etc. and they draw their transformers draw the same power regardless of load anyway, I installed this on all the workstations as screensavers before I left their employ. I'm told he was mad at first, but everyone loves it -- somehow raised morale slightly.
There are other distributed computing projects. I'm just too lazy to look them up in the Internet Yellow Pages for you. If only there were some way I could just convey thought directly into text via finger movements and use some sort of index to retrieve matching addresses... Hmm, perhaps we should invent a naming hierarchy first. Oop! 24:00 rolls over in a few minutes -- Got to get my Tradewars on, L8r.
Although it helps, you don't have to stop running to lose your position in a race; The others can simply speed up. When both factors are at work the rate of decline accelerates.
You can trace much of the change in position of USA and others via the amount of essential economies and state resources are privatized, and thus funding promised to them and thus the private interest in influencing politics (deregulation) increased. For instance: Solid Rocket Booster designs have had funding lobbied for based on the merit of bringing and keeping jobs in certain congressman's local economy instead of on the pros / cons of the various designs themselves. The same sort of thing ran amok in Chile in the 70's.
When progress is averse to profit you get stagnation in a private industry -- Like ISPs in the USA: Instead of spending on infrastructure to provide a better service they can simply charge more for less (oversell bandwidth) to make more money. Bits have never been cheaper to distribute and yet their cost doesn't reflect this.
The sun sets not upon one country, but around the world at different times. If we're not careful our country could be next.
As long as a higher court is willing to hear the case it'll keep getting appealed until the SCOTUS lets the ruling stand or hears the case.
Herein lies the issue. Especially if the lower courts won't hear your case at all. Before the laws were penned they did not exist. With the demise of the Federalist Party also went the concept of "spirit of the law". Now we have only the Democratic-Republican Party's belief in (re)interpreting and expanding the letter of the law. For shame.
The real question is 'where did life originate in the universe?'
The conservative answer would be: On the inside. A liberal answer would be: Anywhere shit has happened. Like any discovery, information, or idea: Life could have more than one independent origin. Ergo: All of our patents infringe extraterrestrial prior art.
Question: If the government regulates, controls, monitors, tracks, and taxes bitcoin, what is the benefit of bitcoin, anymore?
Answer: 'Controls' is the operative word there. Right now they control the dollar -- Well, actually a non-federal owned Federal Reserve does. Would you rather be paid in IOUS redeemable at the company store, or have a real currency? The dollar is the IOU, they can print as much as they want. The same isn't true of bitcoin. The other benefit is decentralized digital transacitons without the high price-fixed cost of wire transfers. True cash exists. However, I can't throw it half way around the planet, nor can I send cash by mail.
Comment: For the price of Bitcoin to really mean anything, you have to be able to exchange it for local currency
Ignorance: Blissfully believing that the price of stock or the dollar really mean anything; It's the exchange rate for GOODS AND SERVICES you fool. These can be transacted with bitcoin or dollars. Except with bitcoin I can exchange them for stuff not in the company store.
The Yucatan isn't exactly a haven of extremophiles
Whom were ancestors of the extremophiles? Only other extremophiles, or have they sprang forth from more nominal relatives? When I consider that getting trapped under a glacier has caused live to live with little or no oxygen (blood falls), I often wonder just how hard it is to become an extremeophile? Perhaps the extremophiles really aren't so extreme after all? Perhaps every environment can be seen as extreme depending on your point of view.
I mean, here on earth we have life using a sulfate catalyst to respirate via ferric ions -- A metabolism never before seen anywhere else. One season the ice forms above a pool of water, and just never recedes -- Surely, one would assume certain death of all life therein... and be very wrong, indeed. I can't bring myself to form strong opinions of the conditions under which life can not survive...
Unfortunately the best places to find organisms with a chance of surviving in this kind of environment are at the bottom of the ocean
Interestingly, we used to think that NOTHING could survive at those depths, yet they are teeming with life. This is a "problematic" situation, indeed. Forgive me, if I'm skeptical of pessimism: My arrogance and chauvinism has been worn down over the years by nature proving my brain not special, and its thinking wrong time and time again.
At what point is Ubuntu going to transition into a community driven OS?
I'd say it already is transitioning to a community-driven setup, called "Mint". One of the key things that makes the open-source world different from the commercial world is that when an organization starts getting stupid and greedy, someone forks the project, and if they do a better job the user-base just switches to the new project and loses nothing of any great value.
Interestingly, this is a plot element of Corey Doctorow's post-singularity / post-scarcity sci-fi story "Down and out in the Magic Kingdom". Except, when applied to real world's finite assets -- instead of infinitely reproducible information -- the user-base can lose things; The above story explores who should be responsible for selecting what the people choose to gain or lose. In the case of Ubuntu users, they risk their unfractured community at minimum. In Doctorow's story the people would avoid this type of breakage by "hostile" takeover of Canonical by more community focused developers instead of forking the mindshare of Ubuntu.
Fun fact: While touring the snowcapped mountains of Asia, Ghengis Khan sprang forth fully formed from Chuck Norris's midriff; He was indeed born the abdominal snowman.
And yet their defences proved futile to the surprise kamikaze attack... How did they know it wasn't hacked and controlled by terrorists from Atlantis? Or Pacifica for that matter?
Proving once again, nothing is safe to fly without TSA agents screening all those on board.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, that's strange "HOME" seems to be right in the middle of that convoy... Oh well, just following my orders, sir!
True, but it rather ceased to be relevant a few centuries ago. I know Slashdotters like to bear grudges but this is ridiculous. I also think it's cute that you think Slashdot of all places "believes in the Vatican".
Mouthbreathing Neanderthal scum. If it wasn't for the cataclysmic sacrifice of nearly all of my brave anaerobic ancestors during World War O your caustic remarks wouldn't even be possible.
The word you are looking for is API. An implementation is on the side of the thing that exposes the API. The OS uses the API, it does not implement the standard. Implement would mean providing the API. Not making use of an API doesn't mean you're not standards compliant. Eg. None of my OSs make use of (U)EFI (because coreboot is amazing). My OSs are following the boot standards, They just aren't using the API that was implemented for (U)EFI.
You "execute" TRIM through the API of its implementation. Calling it on delete is an optional part of the protocol. Not calling it on deletes is not deviation from the standard.
Nope. Public Intoxication is illegal too.
My wiener did. So, we're good, right?
Bestiality is illegal, mkay?
You can actually be put in front of a Windows 8 PC and have absolutely no idea what to do and no cognitive ability to even begin to work out what you might have to do?
Yes, because shit like draging from / to regions of the screen with no visual cue that such an option is present is a prevalent design clusterfuck. Hell sometimes it's just a corner or edge. WTF? It's an uninformative back-asswards abortion of a user interface.
On the contrary! It's the shadyness that creates ideal circumstance for corporate buildings to spring up. A sentient puddle would be silly to think its pot hole was made to be is just the right size for its pot.
Folding@Home
Since our IT Managers demanded all systems stay up during the night for maintenance, updates, etc. and they draw their transformers draw the same power regardless of load anyway, I installed this on all the workstations as screensavers before I left their employ. I'm told he was mad at first, but everyone loves it -- somehow raised morale slightly.
There are other distributed computing projects. I'm just too lazy to look them up in the Internet Yellow Pages for you. If only there were some way I could just convey thought directly into text via finger movements and use some sort of index to retrieve matching addresses... Hmm, perhaps we should invent a naming hierarchy first. Oop! 24:00 rolls over in a few minutes -- Got to get my Tradewars on, L8r.
I didn't know what you were talking about until I disabled ad-block for the page. Yeesh. Most of those "headlines" are ads.
Although it helps, you don't have to stop running to lose your position in a race; The others can simply speed up. When both factors are at work the rate of decline accelerates.
You can trace much of the change in position of USA and others via the amount of essential economies and state resources are privatized, and thus funding promised to them and thus the private interest in influencing politics (deregulation) increased. For instance: Solid Rocket Booster designs have had funding lobbied for based on the merit of bringing and keeping jobs in certain congressman's local economy instead of on the pros / cons of the various designs themselves. The same sort of thing ran amok in Chile in the 70's.
When progress is averse to profit you get stagnation in a private industry -- Like ISPs in the USA: Instead of spending on infrastructure to provide a better service they can simply charge more for less (oversell bandwidth) to make more money. Bits have never been cheaper to distribute and yet their cost doesn't reflect this.
The sun sets not upon one country, but around the world at different times. If we're not careful our country could be next.
The lower courts can also refuse to hear the case outright. You can't appeal a decision that hasn't been made.
You want manure forks, not spading forks.
Some states, like Texas, may entertain more of a FLOSS style fork.
As long as a higher court is willing to hear the case it'll keep getting appealed until the SCOTUS lets the ruling stand or hears the case.
Herein lies the issue. Especially if the lower courts won't hear your case at all. Before the laws were penned they did not exist. With the demise of the Federalist Party also went the concept of "spirit of the law". Now we have only the Democratic-Republican Party's belief in (re)interpreting and expanding the letter of the law. For shame.
Scientists at Ioan Space Agency are laughing at earth for lobbing back a few rocks with primitive life forms in them back it Io.
Thus, lo and beheld was the veracity of loan sharks.
The real question is 'where did life originate in the universe?'
The conservative answer would be: On the inside.
A liberal answer would be: Anywhere shit has happened.
Like any discovery, information, or idea: Life could have more than one independent origin.
Ergo: All of our patents infringe extraterrestrial prior art.
Question: If the government regulates, controls, monitors, tracks, and taxes bitcoin, what is the benefit of bitcoin, anymore?
Answer: 'Controls' is the operative word there. Right now they control the dollar -- Well, actually a non-federal owned Federal Reserve does. Would you rather be paid in IOUS redeemable at the company store, or have a real currency? The dollar is the IOU, they can print as much as they want. The same isn't true of bitcoin. The other benefit is decentralized digital transacitons without the high price-fixed cost of wire transfers. True cash exists. However, I can't throw it half way around the planet, nor can I send cash by mail.
Comment: For the price of Bitcoin to really mean anything, you have to be able to exchange it for local currency
Ignorance: Blissfully believing that the price of stock or the dollar really mean anything; It's the exchange rate for GOODS AND SERVICES you fool. These can be transacted with bitcoin or dollars. Except with bitcoin I can exchange them for stuff not in the company store.
The Yucatan isn't exactly a haven of extremophiles
Whom were ancestors of the extremophiles? Only other extremophiles, or have they sprang forth from more nominal relatives? When I consider that getting trapped under a glacier has caused live to live with little or no oxygen (blood falls), I often wonder just how hard it is to become an extremeophile? Perhaps the extremophiles really aren't so extreme after all? Perhaps every environment can be seen as extreme depending on your point of view.
I mean, here on earth we have life using a sulfate catalyst to respirate via ferric ions -- A metabolism never before seen anywhere else. One season the ice forms above a pool of water, and just never recedes -- Surely, one would assume certain death of all life therein... and be very wrong, indeed. I can't bring myself to form strong opinions of the conditions under which life can not survive...
Unfortunately the best places to find organisms with a chance of surviving in this kind of environment are at the bottom of the ocean
Interestingly, we used to think that NOTHING could survive at those depths, yet they are teeming with life. This is a "problematic" situation, indeed. Forgive me, if I'm skeptical of pessimism: My arrogance and chauvinism has been worn down over the years by nature proving my brain not special, and its thinking wrong time and time again.
At what point is Ubuntu going to transition into a community driven OS?
I'd say it already is transitioning to a community-driven setup, called "Mint". One of the key things that makes the open-source world different from the commercial world is that when an organization starts getting stupid and greedy, someone forks the project, and if they do a better job the user-base just switches to the new project and loses nothing of any great value.
Interestingly, this is a plot element of Corey Doctorow's post-singularity / post-scarcity sci-fi story "Down and out in the Magic Kingdom". Except, when applied to real world's finite assets -- instead of infinitely reproducible information -- the user-base can lose things; The above story explores who should be responsible for selecting what the people choose to gain or lose. In the case of Ubuntu users, they risk their unfractured community at minimum. In Doctorow's story the people would avoid this type of breakage by "hostile" takeover of Canonical by more community focused developers instead of forking the mindshare of Ubuntu.
Calm down, it's just your average yellow journalism.
Fun fact: While touring the snowcapped mountains of Asia, Ghengis Khan sprang forth fully formed from Chuck Norris's midriff; He was indeed born the abdominal snowman.
I'm not saying it was aliens... ...but it was totally aliens.
Damnit Spielberg, This isn't the History Channel!
I used to be a Darwinian champion like you,
Then I took an arrow in the knee.
-- Chinnggis Qa'an
Everyone on board the drone could have been killed.
s/dones/Cylons/gi
And yet their defences proved futile to the surprise kamikaze attack... How did they know it wasn't hacked and controlled by terrorists from Atlantis? Or Pacifica for that matter?
Proving once again, nothing is safe to fly without TSA agents screening all those on board.