It's because of the rediculous names these things.
An advice to any scientist who can decide the name of a new unit.
If you include measures of time in the unit, it damn well have something to do with time.
A lightyear is retarded because it is a measure of distance. Sure, scientists might say that it's called that way because it is the distance that light will travel in a year but it will only confuse people.
Same for watthour. Sure, it has to something with the watts drawn per hour but why should it be so damn confusing?
1 Watt is 1 Joule/second leaving out any indication of time while watthour is an indication of the number of Jouls(and not time) and that DOES use an indication of time.
Can't somebody rename these things to more logical equivalents.
"Myth No. 5: My PC users will not tolerate any downtime for power management.
The Forrester report does acknowledge that end-users have very little patience for downtime. However, it suggests that "potential user complaints can be mitigated by communicating the positive financial and environmental benefits of PC power management.""
I love this kind of response. It's pretty much ignoring the problem. PC users will not tolerate any downtime for power management even if you "educate" them. This is trying to wave the problems away and it won't work.
The blogosphere has disagreed with the use of web2.0 in the cloud. Sure, we all know that data is king and that's why we use software as a service nowadays with the web as a platform using AJAX and RSS extensively. This has helped to solve the challenge of findability since lightweight companies helps to connect user needs. The fact is that the long tail is part of the paradigm of user as co-developers in server wiki-like sites. Unfortunately this brings up the problem of ownership of user generated content. But I think that perpetual betas help the architecture of participation to stimulate web2.0. Interaction does make the experience good.
It's pretty ironic that a site calling itself "news for nerds" is still in the digital stone age. It wouldn't surprise me if the/. servers are still running Linux Kernel 2.2.x
Is there a man or a taco that can give me some info about this and plans for upgrades regarding ipv6, unicode and other improvements?
"Your problem is that freedom and personal responsibility scares you."
And your problem is that you think that everybody is able to handle freedom and personal responsibility.
Driving is fun. Drinking is fun. Combine the two of them and you could end the fun of another person permanently. And that happens far more than I'd like to see.
Yet, letting her go free without any punishment whatsoever is an injustice I cannot understand. My sense of justice says that she should be imprisoned for the things she has done and a lot of people probably feel that way.
Roger Clinton, Jr. - brother of Bill Clinton. After serving a year in federal prison for cocaine possession. Dan Rostenkowski - United States Representative Democratic Party. Susan McDougal - partners with Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton in the failed Whitewater deal. Henry Cisneros - Clinton's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count for lying to the FBI, and was fined $10,000. Mel Reynolds - Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives.
True, but most of the open-source programs begin this way. Hackish and just working as the developers want it. After that you get feature enchancements and discussions about implementation of functionality. I expect that the lib picture problem is full resolved in a month or 3.
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Milk through the nose. Thanks
It's because of the rediculous names these things.
An advice to any scientist who can decide the name of a new unit.
If you include measures of time in the unit, it damn well have something to do with time.
A lightyear is retarded because it is a measure of distance. Sure, scientists might say that it's called that way because it is the distance that light will travel in a year but it will only confuse people.
Same for watthour. Sure, it has to something with the watts drawn per hour but why should it be so damn confusing?
1 Watt is 1 Joule/second leaving out any indication of time
while watthour is an indication of the number of Jouls(and not time) and that DOES use an indication of time.
Can't somebody rename these things to more logical equivalents.
"Myth No. 5: My PC users will not tolerate any downtime for power management.
The Forrester report does acknowledge that end-users have very little patience for downtime. However, it suggests that "potential user complaints can be mitigated by communicating the positive financial and environmental benefits of PC power management.""
I love this kind of response. It's pretty much ignoring the problem. PC users will not tolerate any downtime for power management even if you "educate" them. This is trying to wave the problems away and it won't work.
"Profit???"
I think you mean
step n-1) ?????
step n) Profit
"oddly, this post is informative, but should be moderated as sadly informative."
Want to play it that way?
This post is
30% Funny
10% Insightful
20% Overrated
and should be modded as such.
I got jailtime in Germany for trying that. I would not advice it personally.
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The blogosphere has disagreed with the use of web2.0 in the cloud. Sure, we all know that data is king and that's why we use software as a service nowadays with the web as a platform using AJAX and RSS extensively. This has helped to solve the challenge of findability since lightweight companies helps to connect user needs. The fact is that the long tail is part of the paradigm of user as co-developers in server wiki-like sites. Unfortunately this brings up the problem of ownership of user generated content. But I think that perpetual betas help the architecture of participation to stimulate web2.0. Interaction does make the experience good.
Soon we will have the "quatro helix DNA" and then 5 helixes and so on.
It's pretty ironic that a site calling itself "news for nerds" is still in the digital stone age. It wouldn't surprise me if the /. servers are still running Linux Kernel 2.2.x
Is there a man or a taco that can give me some info about this and plans for upgrades regarding ipv6, unicode and other improvements?
"Induction can take it from here."
I'm pretty lazy but if /. supported LateX input I might be bothered to prove your thesis by induction.
Unfortunately, /. only accepts ASCII. We live the year 2008, is Unicode support too much to ask?
"giving them permission to shoot back at you (or even preemptively)"
yeah, I call this the small-Bush doctrine. Shoot preemptively, search for a reason later.
"butter file system"
I love butter file system and I run it together with a hacked up version of "toast file system (tofsys)"
Wikipedia says otherwise:
the right to be tried by fellow peers in the Lord High Steward's Court and in the House of Lords, abolished 1948;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peerage
Use at your own risk
"Your problem is that freedom and personal responsibility scares you."
And your problem is that you think that everybody is able to handle freedom and personal responsibility.
Driving is fun. Drinking is fun. Combine the two of them and you could end the fun of another person permanently. And that happens far more than I'd like to see.
Yet, letting her go free without any punishment whatsoever is an injustice I cannot understand. My sense of justice says that she should be imprisoned for the things she has done and a lot of people probably feel that way.
What are laws, when justice is not spoken?
GIMP is an utterly stupid name.
There, I said it.
Contamination. This way if Idle is a failure, they can still spam all the other sections with Idle crap. Everbody loses that way but /. doesn't care.
"Wu, who lives near Beijing, sees all the robots as his sons, "
and later on in the article
"Wu says he has to sell off some of his robot collection after plunging his family into debt "
Yes, they redistribute valuables from a big ship to a small port. What's wrong with redistributing the contents of a big ship?
Back to the Clintons.
Who did he save?
Roger Clinton, Jr. - brother of Bill Clinton. After serving a year in federal prison for cocaine possession.
Dan Rostenkowski - United States Representative Democratic Party.
Susan McDougal - partners with Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton in the failed Whitewater deal.
Henry Cisneros - Clinton's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count for lying to the FBI, and was fined $10,000.
Mel Reynolds - Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives.
Bill was corrupt.
Real Slashdotters use Lynx and despise checkboxes.
"This [letmegoogl...foryou.com] page will make it crash every single time on this machine, for example."
Using 3.1b1 and nothing strange happens. Add-ons: Adblock plus, Noscript(off), fasterfox
Well they tried, but unfortunately the people were killed by an atomic bomb.
True, but most of the open-source programs begin this way. Hackish and just working as the developers want it. After that you get feature enchancements and discussions about implementation of functionality. I expect that the lib picture problem is full resolved in a month or 3.