I don't think I'd classify Bruce Lee in with anyone who focus(ed) on "ridged adherence to the traditional forms". If anything he's the reason we have MMA and UFC. He did everything he could to strip away what he deemed unnecessary. I don't know what Chuck Norris and Jackie Chan are doing these days, but they both learned a lot from Bruce Lee when he was alive.
Agreed regarding the moves that you typically see in movies. They are rarely something that you would see being used off screen. I know that they all have to slow down for movies. I've heard that Bruce Lee had to slow down due to the limitations of the film at the time. I'm sure it also had to do with his movies being shot on low budget equipment too. But if you ever saw any of his demonstrations you'd understand the guy was scary quick.
Maybe, maybe not. It also depends on how stupid he acts toward the judge.
I used to apprehend shoplifters for a department store and was in court to testify several times a week. You wouldn't believe how stupid some of those people could be. I had a a guy that the judge sentenced to 6 months start don't jumping jacks when the judge sentenced him. He stated, "Shit judge, I can do 6 months standing on my head" So the judge gave him another 6 months and told him he could use the extra time to get back on his feet.
"Security pros and government officials warn of a possible cyber 9/11 involving banks, utilities, other companies, or the Internet,"
Cyber anything involving the internet? Now that's original. Somebody should get a patent on that. Just who are these "security pros"? Mall rent-a-cops? I'm guessing that the government officials are from the FDA or some other unrelated agency.
'A cyber war has been brewing for at least the past year,'
Escalating, not brewing. Or was the original link from 1999? Oh wait, maybe it's because it's brewing that the FDA got involved. It all makes sense now.
So a 20% smaller screen uses ~60% more energy and you say energy use is 'similar'?
Did you pay for that education?
Not only that, but those numbers represent 5 hours of usage per day at 11 cents per kWh. If these are in use at a company I would assume that they are on at least 8 hours per day, if not 24. The average cost / kWh in the US is 13.5 cents. In NYC it's around 20 cents per kWh.
You know those funny little Citroen (dear/. janitors, please fix your bloody character encodings) 2CVs? With the little two-cylinder engines?
Yes, the little two-cylinder engine that produced around 60bhp/litre in its final form in the late 1970s. The little two-cylinder engine with alloy heads, pistons and crank-case (the prototypes were magnesium but that was too expensive) and drop-forged crank, borrowing heavily from fighter aircraft engines of the day. And then that engine, fitted into a body designed to protect the occupants in an accident - it was the first car designed so that the engine would break off its mountings and slide under the floor in a front impact, rather than back through the bulkhead and into the front seat occupant's legs.
Back in the 70s they could do well over 60mpg at safe motorway speeds.
Citroen has made some pretty nice cars over they years. I didn't know that the 2CV was still being made in the 1970's. The DS was ahead of it's time. I know a lot of people in the US made fun of them, but I always liked them. The CX was an interesting little care too. The SM was probably my favorite car made by Citroen. It too was ahead of its time.
The French *can* make cars, and they make them better than Americans.
Here's a hint, America - no-one wants to buy your heavy, slow, ugly gutless V8s. They suck.
My all aluminum LS1 and 4.0 Aurora engines say otherwise.
Copyright was meant to feed the auhors, not their heirs. Copyright of any work should expire once its auhor passes away.
On one hand I agree with you. But it would be pretty scary to be a popular author who refuses to sell out to a corporation that is interested in your work. I would imagine in some cases it may be more financially practical to arrange an "accident" for an author than to actually pay them.
Except pandas are mammals, haven't defied the laws of physics, done things that are bio-mechanically impossible, and certainly don't kill enough people on a regular basis.
Plus I didn't see anything about LL Cool J cooking eggs in TFS.
BTW notice how you never see "wish lists" from iPad users..
Nope. I work at a very MAC centric company. I'd guess that 80% of us use MAC hardware. Everyone has numerous complaints about all their hardware, including iPads.
"Wish lists" are only for those with flawed devices.
Or people who are smart enough to know what they want/need. Or higher expectations than just having an Apple logo on their device.
And, does anyone actually use Android tablets? All the web usage stats show iOS devices leading by a massive margin.
What exactly are Android tablets used for? Doorstops?
They really are useless junk. Just get rid of them, replace them with iPads, so you don't have to waste everyone's bandwidth trying to fix them through more useless "wish lists"..
Apple, Linux & Microsoft based products all have advantages and disadvantages. It all depends on what you are trying to do that decides which is the best tool. I'm sure I'm wasting my time as it's obvious you are either trolling and I fell for it, or you worship everything Apple because you are too fucking stupid to think for yourself.
WRONG. I have an OEM alarm system on my Honda and if I use the key to unlock the doors instead of the remote, it sets off the alarm. Of course there's a hidden button below the dash that I can push will disable the alarm.
Where do you live? [picking up lockout tool on the way out the door]
You let your kid watch 4hrs of porn a day, and I'll let mine play halflife. Lets see who ends up in prison first.
I'm not even sure what the fuck you are trying to argue with that statement. My guess would be that most kids would get pretty grossed out by porn, or bored with it until they hit puberty. Are you actually arguing that being a horny teenager increases the chances of going to prison? Seriously?
I think not talking to your kids and/or not educating them about sex is significantly more dangerous than them viewing porn. Even so, how in the hell is that going to increase their chances of going to prison?
How much of the current "growth" is from new births? How much from immigration? Or immigrant births?
I really don't know, but I'd be curious to know the actual numbers.
The US Census bureau has them if you're curious. However, there was a news report not long ago that said births in the US are declining, and the population growth is all from immigration.
Thanks, but I'm not curious enough to try to navigate their website. But my guess was that most of the pop. growth was from immigration. It's kind of scary if all of it is now though.
patentwars.slashdot.org
or
idiotic-patents.slashdot.org
or
thermonuclear.slashdot.org
or
something else; too many articles these days about patents and such. Maybe Armageddon is at hand?
I've been thinking the same thing for several months now. There seem to be more stories about tech companies suing each other than anything else on/. anymore.
Does anyone else remember when/. reported tech news and was not a tech patent lawsuit site?
With robots/automation taking over much of the menial labor (and economic development), then what's wrong with reducing the population of the USA from 300 million to 30 million over the next 50 - 60 years?
That sounds like a fantastic idea. But I don't think it'll ever work that way. I'm pretty sure that we have been dreaming of this life free of menial work with all our needs taken care of since long before I was born. Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. The people that would own the robots will simply go to China, or where ever the cheaper labor is before they are going to agree to support the population like this. Unless there is no place for them to go for cheap labor, this will never work. If that comes to pass, then they will move their operation to whatever country is willing to take a little less.in taxes. Until all countries and people on the planet are willing to work together as one, this will never happen. And as great as Gene Roddenberry's vision was, people are just never going to behave that way.
If population grown continues as it is, the population of the USA will double over the next 50 years - does your town have room to house twice as many people as it does now?
How much of the current "growth" is from new births? How much from immigration? Or immigrant births?
I really don't know, but I'd be curious to know the actual numbers.
Ethanol from corn and other plants is carbon neutral. An ethanol-burning vehicle consumes more fuel, but less fossil fuel, and therefore increases net atmospheric CO2 less than a petroleum-burning vehicle.
That all depends on where the power comes from to refine it. It takes a lot of energy to farm corn, move it around, and distill it into ethanol. You may not emit as much CO2 from the tail pipe of each automobile, but it's probably producing just as much net CO2 as a whole if you factor in the entire process. If ethanol is such a viable option, why don't we legislate all new cars to burn 100% ethanol?
the patent (which has a priority date from 1995, but was issued in 2002) contained technology that 'was obvious to experts in the field at the time.
What does "priority date from 1995" mean? Granted, there are thousands of patents like this that should be invalidated. But does that mean they filed for this patent in 1995? If so, it's wasn't all that obvious then. Did it take seven years for it to be granted? And is the judge referring to the 1995 or 2002 date when he mentions the "expert in the field at that time?"
is by gluing it to some defence authorisation bill, where it will be "vote for this bill or you're WITH THE TERRISTS!!!" and every lily livered suck up meat bag on Capitol Hill will fall in line and vote against the terrists and in the process destroy online file trading systems, for ever. That's how it works.
Pathetic, I know...
Perhaps, but my guess is that in the wake of the shooting in Connecticut it would be more likely to be a bill to "save the children". Then they can lump it in with internet predator and cyber bullying laws. No one is going to have the balls to vote against that.
if by promising you mean has no market penetration in over 20 years then yes, yes you are right
its promising, but does nothing to fulfill that... at all, it just exists
It probably would have helped if they hadn't kept scrapping it and starting over continually. That was the frustrating part. Nothing got fixed and the huge wait times for a new release because everything had to be re-written. In the late 90's when you could change the color of a window menu bar from gray to some other boring color in most window managers; Enlightenment allowed you to add ivy vines wrapped around a reflective chrome looking bar with a translucent window. At the time, that was pretty damn cool. I'm not sure anything has that level of customization even today. But I don't have the free time to look into such things these days.
Am I the only one who interpreted "out" as meaning "abandoned" or "given up on?"
No. Enlightenment was a really promising window manager. I used it from the late 90's until the early 2000's. It was pretty nice even with all of the warts. They kept scrapping it and starting over so many times that I kinda gave up on it. Honestly, I thought it was dead years ago. I figured they finally officially threw in the towel.
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I don't think I'd classify Bruce Lee in with anyone who focus(ed) on "ridged adherence to the traditional forms". If anything he's the reason we have MMA and UFC. He did everything he could to strip away what he deemed unnecessary. I don't know what Chuck Norris and Jackie Chan are doing these days, but they both learned a lot from Bruce Lee when he was alive.
Agreed regarding the moves that you typically see in movies. They are rarely something that you would see being used off screen. I know that they all have to slow down for movies. I've heard that Bruce Lee had to slow down due to the limitations of the film at the time. I'm sure it also had to do with his movies being shot on low budget equipment too. But if you ever saw any of his demonstrations you'd understand the guy was scary quick.
True he will never get the max.
Maybe, maybe not. It also depends on how stupid he acts toward the judge.
I used to apprehend shoplifters for a department store and was in court to testify several times a week. You wouldn't believe how stupid some of those people could be. I had a a guy that the judge sentenced to 6 months start don't jumping jacks when the judge sentenced him. He stated, "Shit judge, I can do 6 months standing on my head" So the judge gave him another 6 months and told him he could use the extra time to get back on his feet.
"computer intrusion" certainly sounds like a sex crime, from a computer's point of view...
You're thinking of "penetration testing".
"Security pros and government officials warn of a possible cyber 9/11 involving banks, utilities, other companies, or the Internet,"
Cyber anything involving the internet? Now that's original. Somebody should get a patent on that. Just who are these "security pros"? Mall rent-a-cops? I'm guessing that the government officials are from the FDA or some other unrelated agency.
'A cyber war has been brewing for at least the past year,'
Escalating, not brewing. Or was the original link from 1999? Oh wait, maybe it's because it's brewing that the FDA got involved. It all makes sense now.
My decade old plasma has a anti burnin feature to prevent this. It's basically set all pixels on (so bright white) for a few minutes a month.
I've seen some other ones that would shift the image a few pixels every so often if the image was persistent for too long.
So a 20% smaller screen uses ~60% more energy and you say energy use is 'similar'?
Did you pay for that education?
Not only that, but those numbers represent 5 hours of usage per day at 11 cents per kWh. If these are in use at a company I would assume that they are on at least 8 hours per day, if not 24. The average cost / kWh in the US is 13.5 cents. In NYC it's around 20 cents per kWh.
You know those funny little Citroen (dear /. janitors, please fix your bloody character encodings) 2CVs? With the little two-cylinder engines?
Yes, the little two-cylinder engine that produced around 60bhp/litre in its final form in the late 1970s. The little two-cylinder engine with alloy heads, pistons and crank-case (the prototypes were magnesium but that was too expensive) and drop-forged crank, borrowing heavily from fighter aircraft engines of the day. And then that engine, fitted into a body designed to protect the occupants in an accident - it was the first car designed so that the engine would break off its mountings and slide under the floor in a front impact, rather than back through the bulkhead and into the front seat occupant's legs.
Back in the 70s they could do well over 60mpg at safe motorway speeds.
Citroen has made some pretty nice cars over they years. I didn't know that the 2CV was still being made in the 1970's. The DS was ahead of it's time. I know a lot of people in the US made fun of them, but I always liked them. The CX was an interesting little care too. The SM was probably my favorite car made by Citroen. It too was ahead of its time.
The French *can* make cars, and they make them better than Americans.
Here's a hint, America - no-one wants to buy your heavy, slow, ugly gutless V8s. They suck.
My all aluminum LS1 and 4.0 Aurora engines say otherwise.
It's the start of space refueling
Why is Exxon-Mobil not involved ??
Two words: Exxon Valdez
This is Slashdot we are talking about. Nobody is even kissing frogs here.
Licking toads then?
Copyright was meant to feed the auhors, not their heirs. Copyright of any work should expire once its auhor passes away.
On one hand I agree with you. But it would be pretty scary to be a popular author who refuses to sell out to a corporation that is interested in your work. I would imagine in some cases it may be more financially practical to arrange an "accident" for an author than to actually pay them.
which time zone? past Midnight here, but still 2012 in half of the world.
Fifteen to 20+ years ago, it would have been as many of them as possible. With as many women as possible.
Now I'm married with a 9 yro kid. So we'll be watching the Simpsons or movies or something. Damn I hate getting old and responsible (sometimes).
sounds like that deep blue sea movie
Except pandas are mammals, haven't defied the laws of physics, done things that are bio-mechanically impossible, and certainly don't kill enough people on a regular basis.
Plus I didn't see anything about LL Cool J cooking eggs in TFS.
But other than that it's just like it.
BTW notice how you never see "wish lists" from iPad users..
Nope. I work at a very MAC centric company. I'd guess that 80% of us use MAC hardware. Everyone has numerous complaints about all their hardware, including iPads.
"Wish lists" are only for those with flawed devices.
Or people who are smart enough to know what they want/need. Or higher expectations than just having an Apple logo on their device.
And, does anyone actually use Android tablets? All the web usage stats show iOS devices leading by a massive margin.
What exactly are Android tablets used for? Doorstops?
They really are useless junk. Just get rid of them, replace them with iPads, so you don't have to waste everyone's bandwidth trying to fix them through more useless "wish lists"..
Apple, Linux & Microsoft based products all have advantages and disadvantages. It all depends on what you are trying to do that decides which is the best tool. I'm sure I'm wasting my time as it's obvious you are either trolling and I fell for it, or you worship everything Apple because you are too fucking stupid to think for yourself.
But thank you for continuing to prove Maddox correct.
WRONG. I have an OEM alarm system on my Honda and if I use the key to unlock the doors instead of the remote, it sets off the alarm. Of course there's a hidden button below the dash that I can push will disable the alarm.
Where do you live? [picking up lockout tool on the way out the door]
You let your kid watch 4hrs of porn a day, and I'll let mine play halflife. Lets see who ends up in prison first.
I'm not even sure what the fuck you are trying to argue with that statement. My guess would be that most kids would get pretty grossed out by porn, or bored with it until they hit puberty. Are you actually arguing that being a horny teenager increases the chances of going to prison? Seriously?
I think not talking to your kids and/or not educating them about sex is significantly more dangerous than them viewing porn. Even so, how in the hell is that going to increase their chances of going to prison?
How much of the current "growth" is from new births? How much from immigration? Or immigrant births?
I really don't know, but I'd be curious to know the actual numbers.
The US Census bureau has them if you're curious. However, there was a news report not long ago that said births in the US are declining, and the population growth is all from immigration.
Thanks, but I'm not curious enough to try to navigate their website. But my guess was that most of the pop. growth was from immigration. It's kind of scary if all of it is now though.
patentwars.slashdot.org or idiotic-patents.slashdot.org or thermonuclear.slashdot.org or something else; too many articles these days about patents and such. Maybe Armageddon is at hand?
I've been thinking the same thing for several months now. There seem to be more stories about tech companies suing each other than anything else on /. anymore.
Does anyone else remember when /. reported tech news and was not a tech patent lawsuit site?
With robots/automation taking over much of the menial labor (and economic development), then what's wrong with reducing the population of the USA from 300 million to 30 million over the next 50 - 60 years?
That sounds like a fantastic idea. But I don't think it'll ever work that way. I'm pretty sure that we have been dreaming of this life free of menial work with all our needs taken care of since long before I was born. Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. The people that would own the robots will simply go to China, or where ever the cheaper labor is before they are going to agree to support the population like this. Unless there is no place for them to go for cheap labor, this will never work. If that comes to pass, then they will move their operation to whatever country is willing to take a little less.in taxes. Until all countries and people on the planet are willing to work together as one, this will never happen. And as great as Gene Roddenberry's vision was, people are just never going to behave that way.
If population grown continues as it is, the population of the USA will double over the next 50 years - does your town have room to house twice as many people as it does now?
How much of the current "growth" is from new births? How much from immigration? Or immigrant births?
I really don't know, but I'd be curious to know the actual numbers.
Ethanol from corn and other plants is carbon neutral. An ethanol-burning vehicle consumes more fuel, but less fossil fuel, and therefore increases net atmospheric CO2 less than a petroleum-burning vehicle.
That all depends on where the power comes from to refine it. It takes a lot of energy to farm corn, move it around, and distill it into ethanol. You may not emit as much CO2 from the tail pipe of each automobile, but it's probably producing just as much net CO2 as a whole if you factor in the entire process. If ethanol is such a viable option, why don't we legislate all new cars to burn 100% ethanol?
the patent (which has a priority date from 1995, but was issued in 2002) contained technology that 'was obvious to experts in the field at the time.
What does "priority date from 1995" mean? Granted, there are thousands of patents like this that should be invalidated. But does that mean they filed for this patent in 1995? If so, it's wasn't all that obvious then. Did it take seven years for it to be granted? And is the judge referring to the 1995 or 2002 date when he mentions the "expert in the field at that time?"
is by gluing it to some defence authorisation bill, where it will be "vote for this bill or you're WITH THE TERRISTS!!!" and every lily livered suck up meat bag on Capitol Hill will fall in line and vote against the terrists and in the process destroy online file trading systems, for ever. That's how it works.
Pathetic, I know...
Perhaps, but my guess is that in the wake of the shooting in Connecticut it would be more likely to be a bill to "save the children". Then they can lump it in with internet predator and cyber bullying laws. No one is going to have the balls to vote against that.
t is hoped that the project will increase our understanding of asteroids.
Nice editing, found two mistakes on a quick read.
Agreed. "T" should be capitalized and be preceded by Mr.
Yes, but who locks up the lockers?
Students? Generally combination locks on lockers, though pad locks work well too.
if by promising you mean has no market penetration in over 20 years then yes, yes you are right
its promising, but does nothing to fulfill that ... at all, it just exists
It probably would have helped if they hadn't kept scrapping it and starting over continually. That was the frustrating part. Nothing got fixed and the huge wait times for a new release because everything had to be re-written. In the late 90's when you could change the color of a window menu bar from gray to some other boring color in most window managers; Enlightenment allowed you to add ivy vines wrapped around a reflective chrome looking bar with a translucent window. At the time, that was pretty damn cool. I'm not sure anything has that level of customization even today. But I don't have the free time to look into such things these days.
Am I the only one who interpreted "out" as meaning "abandoned" or "given up on?"
No. Enlightenment was a really promising window manager. I used it from the late 90's until the early 2000's. It was pretty nice even with all of the warts. They kept scrapping it and starting over so many times that I kinda gave up on it. Honestly, I thought it was dead years ago. I figured they finally officially threw in the towel.