Seriously? There has been a long lull in major hurricanes for at least a decade which has directly contradicted the prophecies of the global warming cultist priests made 20 years ago. Yet more proof of a yet another false apocalyptic end of the world cult.
AGW denialists only count the ones hitting the US, and even then, they know hurricanes are caused by gay marriage.
Statistically, the frailties of most americans are their own fault.
You do realize the difference between drinking two big gulps a day and getting 50 percent of your calories from sugar, and refusing to eat anything that isn't fruit, or subsisting on uncooked food, or going on apple juice fasts and daily enemas to see what pops out your ass as a diet that makes you live longer, don't you?
Quit disrspecting weasels, They are cute fuzzy things, and Shkreli is an asshole.
Oh wait, there I went and disrespected assholes.
Are oyu serious Slashdot? Asking perhaps the most deservedly hated man in America to answer questions from some of the most rowdy nerds on the planet? Whatever could go wrong?
"It isn't out of line to notice that in some ways, this BS resembles religion."
Have been in a space-related story lately?
Yeah, there are some for certain. I'd go to mars, (I think that's what you are referring to, not because of belief - other than I believe I'd enjoy it. Well that, and I'd like to try boinking in zero g.
For I am the God of HellFire - and I bring you - FIRE!
That's my favorite Bible verse.
Pity it is not Christian. The Christian God [the New Testament] is Pure Love and Mercy
And he plans on toasting my ass in a few years. Even when a life is sent as a warning to others, My purpose will be to make good christians happy with my alleged punishment.
Meanwhile, God is punishing another southern state for those liberal yankees perfidies like allowing gay marriage and teaching evolution. Vengeance is his, and it is named Matthew, Bringer of death.
p.s., my original "quote" was from an old song done by Arthur Brown, and is the spoken first words of the song. It was a joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Another reason why Gawd is itching to get his hands on me, he has no sense of humor, unless it's giving little kids bone cancer so they can die as painfully as possible.
I thought this was a solved concept. Telomeres shorten based on cellular division and eventually the cells just don't divide anymore. The net effect is that the body stops replenishing itself and voila, old age. Unless you do something about that...
Too many people have a weird concept of humans beating biology, it goes hand in hand with the concept of all your frailites are some how your fault. Perhaps you ate red meat, maybe it was because you didn't run 5 miles every day, or that you ate tomatoes, or didn't limit your caloric intake to the point of starvation. Or that you cook your food. My old barber thought that longevity was achieved by not drinking water. Or that you need to go on a monthly fast and enema program. All have the commonality of they don't work.
It isn't out of line to notice that in some ways, this BS resembles religion.
The main beef many people have is that Apple removed the 3.5 mm jack without supplying an adequate alternative. All options Apple has offered are problematic in some way:
The world also badly needs adventurists, people who strike out towards something new.
Like invading Iraq? Careful what you ask for.
That is most definitely not wanderlust. That's good old fixing earth's problems on earth, except that what is the problem differs by religion/country, so we kill each other for shits and giggles.
Wanderlust is more of an individual's preferences, not a church or country. It's the people who move to some place new, the Lewis and Clark's, the Shackleford's the people who want adventure.
But one thing is for certain is that people who decide they are going to forego any adventure until all of the world's problems are taken care of, and not a moment before tend to find out they've not fixed anything at all.
And you obviously are the entire headphone-using population.
No, he isn't, but he certainly represents the majority. This claim that headphone jacks are terribly unreliable came straight out of the Apple Users Cult, not from your boy Phil Schiller. Those of us outside the reality distortion field know the sole reason for removing the headphone jack was to promote the use of Apple's proprietary, licensed, and costly accessories. A fact that YOU, STILL, CAN'T, ACKNOWLEDGE.
I mush have a time machine, because I knew that the 3.5 mm jacks were unreliable long before the iphone was a gleam in Steve Jobs' urinal. Professionals stay away form them when they can because of that. And quit yelling.
I think you have a more modern version of the old PEBKAC problem.
I have never had a headphone jack fail. Nor do I know anyone who has.
I gotta tell ya, obvious astroturfing shill is obvious.
And you obviously are the entire headphone-using population.
Yeah, and highly useful comments Coward makes. This is like the one person in a room who brags about how he's never had a Windows 10 update break anything - always perfect! While a hundred other people have.
In the end , it means nothing.
So we're gonna have a sitdown folks. Here's the issue.
Contact points. When using a tubular jack, where connections are made along the length of the Jack and connector, the contact is made by a spring metal strip, pressing against the part of the tube that corresponds to the desired connection, and a generalized non pressure contact with the "ground" or common part of the jack at the bottom. So far, its a duh thing.
The amount of pressure that can be brought to bear on the tube is based on the mass of the contact that is used, and the pivot connection that Smaller mass and less length of pivot is always a problem. As well, the torques put on the connector and jack during normal use tend to bend things a little more than might be desired fro m time to time. Does it have to be this way?
Nope - but th alternatives are pricey and larger. Let's say that I was for some reason wanting to make a 3.5 mm plug and jack. Assuming that we want to eep the form of the present plug, the jack would have some serious alterations. Instead of a single flat metal contact point, it would have an annular multiple spring loaded spherical contacts, each grouping resembling a race of ball bearings on all contact points, including the ground or common. Then you would have a reliable connector.
Even the 1/4 inch plugs used in professionalequipment are a common failure point, it can only get worse as the size decreases. But hey, some guy who has had perfect reliability but can't be botherd to post except as a coward must know better.
I'm merely debunking the notion that the headphone jack is immune from problems.
No one was making that claim. He simply said he hasn't had a problem with a headphone jack or know anyone who has, implying that the problem is quite rare, which it is.
Yeah, rare as Windows 10 updates breaking things. I can't produce the proof of all of those I've replaced over the years because I never knew I'd have to justify it to cowards, but the 3.5 mm adapter is a cheap little thing, and prone to failure. Just because you haven't had one, or that all the guys in your DnD club haven't does not mean a thing. Its like a 1/4 inch plug and jack, but more prone because it is smaller, and cannot have the contacts supply enough pressure to be reliable. On my professional audio equipment, its all XLR and 1/4 inch, and there's a reason the 3.5 mm isn't there - it isn't very reliable. Jacks are a major failure mode on everything they are on, and the smaller, the worse. Don't believe me? Don't care. do your own research.
Excellent and insightful post. Should be modded up to 5 now moderators.
Exactly! I rose several levels above "my place". Place was lower middle class blue collar. But it took energy and effort and outlook that many have described as pathological. It can be done, but not everyone is cut out for that. Certainly people who aren't that way should not be punished by poverty. A lot of people just want to have a way to support themselves and their family. I'm too restless for that, but it isn't remotely bad to have lower self expectations. Abject indolence is bad, but inescapable, a small subset of humans.
In fact, it's probably a good thing that everyone isn't aggressively going after wealth.
But it isn't easy. And I really hate it when people raise expectations
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Seriously? There has been a long lull in major hurricanes for at least a decade which has directly contradicted the prophecies of the global warming cultist priests made 20 years ago. Yet more proof of a yet another false apocalyptic end of the world cult.
AGW denialists only count the ones hitting the US, and even then, they know hurricanes are caused by gay marriage.
Statistically, the frailties of most americans are their own fault.
You do realize the difference between drinking two big gulps a day and getting 50 percent of your calories from sugar, and refusing to eat anything that isn't fruit, or subsisting on uncooked food, or going on apple juice fasts and daily enemas to see what pops out your ass as a diet that makes you live longer, don't you?
For I am the God of HellFire - and I bring you - FIRE!
Oh, great! Now I will have the Incredible Arthur Brown in my head all afternoon1
A weird but remarkably timeless song for the 1960's
I sincerely hope no one asks this douche a question. And shame on /. for sinking this low.
Next up, Q and A with Kim Kardashian.
being such a weasel and all...
Quit disrspecting weasels, They are cute fuzzy things, and Shkreli is an asshole.
Oh wait, there I went and disrespected assholes.
Are oyu serious Slashdot? Asking perhaps the most deservedly hated man in America to answer questions from some of the most rowdy nerds on the planet? Whatever could go wrong?
I see it going something like this:
Remember folks, always use a condom
That's how we lost Freddy Mercury
And it's how we got Martin Shkrelli
I prefer Ezekiel 23:20
There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
A hellava thing to clean up after.
"It isn't out of line to notice that in some ways, this BS resembles religion."
Have been in a space-related story lately?
Yeah, there are some for certain. I'd go to mars, (I think that's what you are referring to, not because of belief - other than I believe I'd enjoy it. Well that, and I'd like to try boinking in zero g.
That's my favorite Bible verse.
Yea, verily. And lots of beseeching.
That's my favorite Bible verse.
Pity it is not Christian. The Christian God [the New Testament] is Pure Love and Mercy
And he plans on toasting my ass in a few years. Even when a life is sent as a warning to others, My purpose will be to make good christians happy with my alleged punishment.
Meanwhile, God is punishing another southern state for those liberal yankees perfidies like allowing gay marriage and teaching evolution. Vengeance is his, and it is named Matthew, Bringer of death. p.s., my original "quote" was from an old song done by Arthur Brown, and is the spoken first words of the song. It was a joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Another reason why Gawd is itching to get his hands on me, he has no sense of humor, unless it's giving little kids bone cancer so they can die as painfully as possible.
Theranos To Shut Down Its Blood-Testing Facilities, Shrink Workforce By 40%
So the blood test thing didn't work out, but they've got that revolutionary employee shrinking technology to fall back on!
I understand they are changing their name to Thanatos as well
I thought this was a solved concept. Telomeres shorten based on cellular division and eventually the cells just don't divide anymore. The net effect is that the body stops replenishing itself and voila, old age. Unless you do something about that...
Too many people have a weird concept of humans beating biology, it goes hand in hand with the concept of all your frailites are some how your fault. Perhaps you ate red meat, maybe it was because you didn't run 5 miles every day, or that you ate tomatoes, or didn't limit your caloric intake to the point of starvation. Or that you cook your food. My old barber thought that longevity was achieved by not drinking water. Or that you need to go on a monthly fast and enema program. All have the commonality of they don't work.
It isn't out of line to notice that in some ways, this BS resembles religion.
For I am the God of HellFire - and I bring you - FIRE!
The main beef many people have is that Apple removed the 3.5 mm jack without supplying an adequate alternative. All options Apple has offered are problematic in some way:
Which iPhone do you have?
Like invading Iraq? Careful what you ask for.
That is most definitely not wanderlust. That's good old fixing earth's problems on earth, except that what is the problem differs by religion/country, so we kill each other for shits and giggles.
Wanderlust is more of an individual's preferences, not a church or country. It's the people who move to some place new, the Lewis and Clark's, the Shackleford's the people who want adventure.
But one thing is for certain is that people who decide they are going to forego any adventure until all of the world's problems are taken care of, and not a moment before tend to find out they've not fixed anything at all.
Except that going to space isn't "Wanderlust", it is an escapist fantasy.
All wanderlust is an escapist fantasy.
That's nobody's business but the Turks!
False. The headphone jack is not prone to failure.
A part that isn't prone to failure? they are all prone to it, and the 3.5 mm is worse than many. Good day sir, and thanks for the laugh.
You aren't even old enough to talk about 8 track. Shut the fuck up, kid.
Don't I wish? Sorry, I'm a lot closer to death than birth. Celebrate if you like.
And you obviously are the entire headphone-using population.
No, he isn't, but he certainly represents the majority. This claim that headphone jacks are terribly unreliable came straight out of the Apple Users Cult, not from your boy Phil Schiller. Those of us outside the reality distortion field know the sole reason for removing the headphone jack was to promote the use of Apple's proprietary, licensed, and costly accessories. A fact that YOU, STILL, CAN'T, ACKNOWLEDGE.
I mush have a time machine, because I knew that the 3.5 mm jacks were unreliable long before the iphone was a gleam in Steve Jobs' urinal. Professionals stay away form them when they can because of that. And quit yelling.
Hi Tim!
I think you have a more modern version of the old PEBKAC problem.
I have never had a headphone jack fail. Nor do I know anyone who has.
I gotta tell ya, obvious astroturfing shill is obvious.
And you obviously are the entire headphone-using population.
Yeah, and highly useful comments Coward makes. This is like the one person in a room who brags about how he's never had a Windows 10 update break anything - always perfect! While a hundred other people have.
In the end , it means nothing.
So we're gonna have a sitdown folks. Here's the issue. Contact points. When using a tubular jack, where connections are made along the length of the Jack and connector, the contact is made by a spring metal strip, pressing against the part of the tube that corresponds to the desired connection, and a generalized non pressure contact with the "ground" or common part of the jack at the bottom. So far, its a duh thing.
The amount of pressure that can be brought to bear on the tube is based on the mass of the contact that is used, and the pivot connection that Smaller mass and less length of pivot is always a problem. As well, the torques put on the connector and jack during normal use tend to bend things a little more than might be desired fro m time to time. Does it have to be this way?
Nope - but th alternatives are pricey and larger. Let's say that I was for some reason wanting to make a 3.5 mm plug and jack. Assuming that we want to eep the form of the present plug, the jack would have some serious alterations. Instead of a single flat metal contact point, it would have an annular multiple spring loaded spherical contacts, each grouping resembling a race of ball bearings on all contact points, including the ground or common. Then you would have a reliable connector.
Even the 1/4 inch plugs used in professionalequipment are a common failure point, it can only get worse as the size decreases. But hey, some guy who has had perfect reliability but can't be botherd to post except as a coward must know better.
I'm merely debunking the notion that the headphone jack is immune from problems.
No one was making that claim. He simply said he hasn't had a problem with a headphone jack or know anyone who has, implying that the problem is quite rare, which it is.
Yeah, rare as Windows 10 updates breaking things. I can't produce the proof of all of those I've replaced over the years because I never knew I'd have to justify it to cowards, but the 3.5 mm adapter is a cheap little thing, and prone to failure. Just because you haven't had one, or that all the guys in your DnD club haven't does not mean a thing. Its like a 1/4 inch plug and jack, but more prone because it is smaller, and cannot have the contacts supply enough pressure to be reliable. On my professional audio equipment, its all XLR and 1/4 inch, and there's a reason the 3.5 mm isn't there - it isn't very reliable. Jacks are a major failure mode on everything they are on, and the smaller, the worse. Don't believe me? Don't care. do your own research.
"Newer England: We'll get it right this time"
"The Bride of New England" would also be acceptable.
North Newest England? The best England!
Wouldn't a huge sieve designed to strain out the plastic catch everything else as well? Like, you know, fish and seabirds and other critters?
Yes, but in the garbage patch, they are probably dead already.
Humanity is like a dog that shits on his dinner plate.
Exactly! I rose several levels above "my place". Place was lower middle class blue collar. But it took energy and effort and outlook that many have described as pathological. It can be done, but not everyone is cut out for that. Certainly people who aren't that way should not be punished by poverty. A lot of people just want to have a way to support themselves and their family. I'm too restless for that, but it isn't remotely bad to have lower self expectations. Abject indolence is bad, but inescapable, a small subset of humans.
In fact, it's probably a good thing that everyone isn't aggressively going after wealth.
But it isn't easy. And I really hate it when people raise expectations