Ever think that maybe people on slashdot are just tired of hearing those poor arguments, not only on slashdot, but from the vast majority of the non-technical population? Holding a discredited view isn't something to be proud of, and people not kowtowing to you for it isn't a flaw.
The problem is it's all the discredited views that are modded up: ------------ Global warming is caused by man and is a problem, and taxing carbon emissions and creating an entire carbon industry whose sole product is regulation and fucking over economies will fix it
PCs are dying, tablets and phones with shitty touch screens and gestures are somehow more usable.
Linux is a good OS for more than 0.1% of end users.
WiMAX actually exists and does stuff.
Open source results in better, more secure code.
Android is open source.
Slashdot is not just shitty idle, reddit clones, and dupes.
Google tries to not be evil.
Apple makes quality products that are worth the higher price.
The European Union was a good idea.
Democrats are good, Republicans are bad.
Atheists are better than religious people and aren't even more annoying or obnoxious.
Libertarians are actually racist anarchists and saying "lol libertopians" is just as good as actually learning what libertarian principles are.
Whenever something new or interesting happens, it's best to look up a vaguely-similar thing from decades ago and say "already done", "prior art", or "old".
Democracy is inherently good.
Software patents need to be thrown out entirely instead of thinking for 5 minutes and overhauling the system.
Piracy is not theft because I made a copy instead - the original is still there, despite the fact that to the creators, the value of the original is its sales potential, which has been diminished by your piracy.
It doesn't matter because I wasn't going to buy it anyway, despite the fact that I greedily consume more media than the rest of my block, 99% of which is pirated, and I actively distribute it among my friends.
Net Neutrality is a good idea so it's best to mindlessly trumpet it and ignore the fact that the actual legislation that passed specifically enables the horse shit net neutrality is supposed to prevent.
Posting an XKCD comic vaguely related to the subject at hand is obligatory.
XKCD is not almost always shit and factually wrong. ------------
Indeed, about the only valid groupthink opinion Slashdot has left is the fearing/despising/tinfoiling with regards to anything related to the government.
We're talking Fifth Amendment, not Fourth. Still, a search incident to arrest has been determined to be reasonable by the courts.
No, we're talking about rights. And the entire issue is that courts have been deciding shit to be reasonable when it obviously isn't - case in point, cops searching your phone for no reason.
If you managed to create a database with every real number between 1 and n, for any value of n, (not just a program that can generate arbitrarily precise real numbers from that range) you would deserve a lot more than a copyright.
If it's a black box, you'd have no way of knowing.
No one called me on it (because no one RTFA), but I left the word "not" out by mistake and obviously can't edit it to fix it. They did not wipe the hard drive, they did a dirty install and it worked.
(But it's still unsuitable for using as a base image because of the extra junk. Their goal is to get it working when wiping the hard drive first, but the problem is their multi-installer dvd doesn't contain the drivers needed for the target machine to see the RAID array. The donor egg machine is a newer Dell, and the install disk is RTM.)
They turned an egg, a cell with only half the DNA of a regular cell, into a survivable cell line!
That's like turning Linux into Windows 7 using only BASIC. Or something. I just thought I'd toss out an analogy for those of you who understand computers but not biology to point out how fricking insane that is.
It's more like turning a broken installation of Windows 7 32-bit Home Premium into whatever installation of Windows 7 you want by wiping the hard drive and then using one of those multi-installer DVDs that have a custom config page that lets you select between versions.
I would like this on the windshield of my car to power a little fan to stop it from getting so hot when I park in the sun.
You could just crack the window, and skip all material, production, shipping, installation, and environmental costs.
It's like those fucking shitty commercials about how Toyota (I think it was Toyota) is making morons feel better because they put in a solar powered moon roof that did this, despite the fact that it would never, ever, in a thousand years offset its own cost. Or how they put in fucking smart vents in shitty relief tents in 3rd world countries.
Over engineering shit for no reason when there either isn't a problem to begin with, or the existing solution is infinitely superior.
Krustylu Studios (right across from the box factory) has an ample supply of 10-foot clown poles. They're also standard issue at Krusty's Klown Kollege.
A bad plugin can be killed by ending the process plugin-container.exe.
No, a bad plugin can be killed by methodically ending each instance of plugin-container.exe until you happen upon the correct one. Hope those other instances weren't doing anything important.
1: Don't click yes to every single UAC prompt. 2: Install Firefox and NoScript. 3: There's no step 3. I'm Jeff Goldblum and I'm going to act incredulously exasperated at the fact that there's no step 3, to the point of repeating it. There's no step 3!
Not only is actually MSE available for businesses with 10 PCs or less, there is Forefront (which is MSE + management), and the license for the MSE that I downloaded and continue to use and update does NOT preclude its use in business/education environments.
It's bullshit, but it's farm from nonsense. The Supreme Court has been majoritied by straight fucking trolls for the past 2 decades. Please don't talk about shit you don't understand.
Peregrine falcons can reach over 200 MPH in a dive. They get their own fuel. They are self replicating and have amazing eyesight. They can be trained. While they're not naturally distance fliers, then can convert their insane dive speed to distance.
Why spend millions developing fragile, limited, little planes? Spend tens of thousands training a bunch of birds, and strap a camera to them. They last for years, are undetectable by radar, and are unremarkable when actually detected.
Or at least take a clue from birds - why spend lots of energy flying non stop? Build an ultralight with the ability to perch and take off from a perched stance. Give it solar panels so it can recharge while perched. Hell - give it some probes so it can siphon juice from power lines.
If the goal is automation and size, we need to stop with the fixed wing bullshit. If the goal is speed and flight duration, we've got larger, high-altitude craft that already fit the bill.
If the goal is all four, then until there's a major materials-related breakthrough, training birds is probably the best bet.
Clearly spoken by someone who's never had an employment contract before. Yea, if you're at will you can be fired at any time, but you can also quit at any time and you can also renegotiate at any time. Not to mention the other nasty things in employment contracts like noncompetes. If you're just another replaceable cog in the machine, then yes, at will employment sucks for you. If you're worth as much to your company as your company is worth to you, at will employment is a great thing. And if you're just a cog, well, why do you deserve any sort of guarantee of continued employment?
Noncompete clauses, at least in California, are currently considered illegal and invalid.
Of course, given the recent shit the supreme court took on consumer rights with regards to restriction of class action suits, you can bet that noncompetes will be deemed valid nationwide as soon as it get challenged all the way up the chain.
Except the government is not allowed to discriminate, while you are, and for good reasons. Google sued because it affected them, obviously, but it also affects the citizens since they're the ones paying.
Let's get it straight - Google threatened to sue, did a lot of bitching and moaning, and ultimately went home because they knew they had no case.
No way for anyone (Amazon, little Timmy's principal, some hax0rz, etc.) to peep at your shit, and you'll be able to use it in court and other sensitive areas.
The "2 finger multi touch" is a feature as well - gestures are shit for simple minded morons who have some base need to paw at things. This device needs some form of it to allow for zooming (since it has only 1 physical button - power), but it's good to see that all the developers (sorry, I meant "devs") will be unable to blindly port tons of gimmicky shit from the iPhone/iPad, or to make new gimmicky applications (sorry, I meant "apps"). The lack of a gyroscope also helps this.
We're getting deep into ecological debt as it is. Do you really want us to live as a bunch of locusts until the planet is bare and we all die?
Seems pretty self correcting to me. Locusts exist and do what they do, and after the big swarm dies off the planet is actually better off in terms of biomass and biodiversity. New (or regrown) plants take the place of the eaten plants, while the biomass the locusts ate is then eaten by predators (who are in turn eaten by larger predators, etc.). The plant biomass that was eaten by the locusts effectively moves up the food chain, and new plant biomass is created as plants grow back in the now-empty space.
As long as more biomass moves up the food chain than down (due to starvation due to the lack of crops), then complex life forms receive a net benefit, and thus life gets an extra boost in its fight against entropy.
Oh, so that's what happened. I noticed that the inhaler I got about that time didn't seem to be doing anything. At least not during inhalation. I remember back during the 80s that it was a lot more obvious that I was getting medicine than it is these days.
I also noticed that the inhalers don't seem to last as long as they used to. Not sure if that's at all related, but I find lately that invariably when I need an inhaler it's gone bad because I haven't used it in a few months. Which was never a case when I was a kid.
I haven't noticed any change in the spray, but they sure as fuck self deplete faster, which sucks because I get a 6 month supply to SAVE money, only to have them all be dead, new out of the box, in 3 months.
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Ever think that maybe people on slashdot are just tired of hearing those poor arguments, not only on slashdot, but from the vast majority of the non-technical population? Holding a discredited view isn't something to be proud of, and people not kowtowing to you for it isn't a flaw.
The problem is it's all the discredited views that are modded up:
------------
Global warming is caused by man and is a problem, and taxing carbon emissions and creating an entire carbon industry whose sole product is regulation and fucking over economies will fix it
PCs are dying, tablets and phones with shitty touch screens and gestures are somehow more usable.
Linux is a good OS for more than 0.1% of end users.
WiMAX actually exists and does stuff.
Open source results in better, more secure code.
Android is open source.
Slashdot is not just shitty idle, reddit clones, and dupes.
Google tries to not be evil.
Apple makes quality products that are worth the higher price.
The European Union was a good idea.
Democrats are good, Republicans are bad.
Atheists are better than religious people and aren't even more annoying or obnoxious.
Libertarians are actually racist anarchists and saying "lol libertopians" is just as good as actually learning what libertarian principles are.
Whenever something new or interesting happens, it's best to look up a vaguely-similar thing from decades ago and say "already done", "prior art", or "old".
Democracy is inherently good.
Software patents need to be thrown out entirely instead of thinking for 5 minutes and overhauling the system.
Piracy is not theft because I made a copy instead - the original is still there, despite the fact that to the creators, the value of the original is its sales potential, which has been diminished by your piracy.
It doesn't matter because I wasn't going to buy it anyway, despite the fact that I greedily consume more media than the rest of my block, 99% of which is pirated, and I actively distribute it among my friends.
Net Neutrality is a good idea so it's best to mindlessly trumpet it and ignore the fact that the actual legislation that passed specifically enables the horse shit net neutrality is supposed to prevent.
Posting an XKCD comic vaguely related to the subject at hand is obligatory.
XKCD is not almost always shit and factually wrong.
------------
Indeed, about the only valid groupthink opinion Slashdot has left is the fearing/despising/tinfoiling with regards to anything related to the government.
We're talking Fifth Amendment, not Fourth. Still, a search incident to arrest has been determined to be reasonable by the courts.
No, we're talking about rights.
And the entire issue is that courts have been deciding shit to be reasonable when it obviously isn't - case in point, cops searching your phone for no reason.
Please do it!
If you managed to create a database with every real number between 1 and n, for any value of n, (not just a program that can generate arbitrarily precise real numbers from that range) you would deserve a lot more than a copyright.
If it's a black box, you'd have no way of knowing.
Seems to be I have an inalienable right to be secure, in person and papers, from unreasonable or unwarranted searches.
Adobe Reader. Proper.
LOL
No one called me on it (because no one RTFA), but I left the word "not" out by mistake and obviously can't edit it to fix it.
They did not wipe the hard drive, they did a dirty install and it worked.
(But it's still unsuitable for using as a base image because of the extra junk. Their goal is to get it working when wiping the hard drive first, but the problem is their multi-installer dvd doesn't contain the drivers needed for the target machine to see the RAID array. The donor egg machine is a newer Dell, and the install disk is RTM.)
They turned an egg, a cell with only half the DNA of a regular cell, into a survivable cell line!
That's like turning Linux into Windows 7 using only BASIC. Or something. I just thought I'd toss out an analogy for those of you who understand computers but not biology to point out how fricking insane that is.
It's more like turning a broken installation of Windows 7 32-bit Home Premium into whatever installation of Windows 7 you want by wiping the hard drive and then using one of those multi-installer DVDs that have a custom config page that lets you select between versions.
If you have less than one months cash in savings, you're financially on your deathbed anyway.
Thank you, Suzie Orman. Now someone please call a medic!
I had gone about 2 years without hearing or seeing that woman.
I had completely forgot she existed.
And you reminded me.
Fuck you.
We are in agreeance that, irregarless of what they say, this is suspicious.
Suspicuous.
I would like this on the windshield of my car to power a little fan to stop it from getting so hot when I park in the sun.
You could just crack the window, and skip all material, production, shipping, installation, and environmental costs.
It's like those fucking shitty commercials about how Toyota (I think it was Toyota) is making morons feel better because they put in a solar powered moon roof that did this, despite the fact that it would never, ever, in a thousand years offset its own cost.
Or how they put in fucking smart vents in shitty relief tents in 3rd world countries.
Over engineering shit for no reason when there either isn't a problem to begin with, or the existing solution is infinitely superior.
Not when it's the new Adobe PDF plugin that crashes 60% of the time you open the file save dialog (within the plugin).
No activity.
It. Just. Hangs.
Krustylu Studios (right across from the box factory) has an ample supply of 10-foot clown poles.
They're also standard issue at Krusty's Klown Kollege.
A bad plugin can be killed by ending the process plugin-container.exe.
No, a bad plugin can be killed by methodically ending each instance of plugin-container.exe until you happen upon the correct one.
Hope those other instances weren't doing anything important.
1: Don't click yes to every single UAC prompt.
2: Install Firefox and NoScript.
3: There's no step 3. I'm Jeff Goldblum and I'm going to act incredulously exasperated at the fact that there's no step 3, to the point of repeating it. There's no step 3!
Not only is actually MSE available for businesses with 10 PCs or less, there is Forefront (which is MSE + management), and the license for the MSE that I downloaded and continue to use and update does NOT preclude its use in business/education environments.
It's bullshit, but it's farm from nonsense. The Supreme Court has been majoritied by straight fucking trolls for the past 2 decades.
Please don't talk about shit you don't understand.
Peregrine falcons can reach over 200 MPH in a dive.
They get their own fuel.
They are self replicating and have amazing eyesight.
They can be trained.
While they're not naturally distance fliers, then can convert their insane dive speed to distance.
Why spend millions developing fragile, limited, little planes?
Spend tens of thousands training a bunch of birds, and strap a camera to them.
They last for years, are undetectable by radar, and are unremarkable when actually detected.
Or at least take a clue from birds - why spend lots of energy flying non stop? Build an ultralight with the ability to perch and take off from a perched stance. Give it solar panels so it can recharge while perched. Hell - give it some probes so it can siphon juice from power lines.
If the goal is automation and size, we need to stop with the fixed wing bullshit.
If the goal is speed and flight duration, we've got larger, high-altitude craft that already fit the bill.
If the goal is all four, then until there's a major materials-related breakthrough, training birds is probably the best bet.
Clearly spoken by someone who's never had an employment contract before. Yea, if you're at will you can be fired at any time, but you can also quit at any time and you can also renegotiate at any time. Not to mention the other nasty things in employment contracts like noncompetes. If you're just another replaceable cog in the machine, then yes, at will employment sucks for you. If you're worth as much to your company as your company is worth to you, at will employment is a great thing. And if you're just a cog, well, why do you deserve any sort of guarantee of continued employment?
Noncompete clauses, at least in California, are currently considered illegal and invalid.
Of course, given the recent shit the supreme court took on consumer rights with regards to restriction of class action suits, you can bet that noncompetes will be deemed valid nationwide as soon as it get challenged all the way up the chain.
it's called "the brown rocket"...
I'd love to receive one of these. Instant huge cash settlement.
Except the government is not allowed to discriminate, while you are, and for good reasons. Google sued because it affected them, obviously, but it also affects the citizens since they're the ones paying.
Let's get it straight - Google threatened to sue, did a lot of bitching and moaning, and ultimately went home because they knew they had no case.
Really, it's a feature.
No way for anyone (Amazon, little Timmy's principal, some hax0rz, etc.) to peep at your shit, and you'll be able to use it in court and other sensitive areas.
The "2 finger multi touch" is a feature as well - gestures are shit for simple minded morons who have some base need to paw at things. This device needs some form of it to allow for zooming (since it has only 1 physical button - power), but it's good to see that all the developers (sorry, I meant "devs") will be unable to blindly port tons of gimmicky shit from the iPhone/iPad, or to make new gimmicky applications (sorry, I meant "apps"). The lack of a gyroscope also helps this.
Here's a simpler example:
while(1)
{
int x = rand() % 10;
if (x==666) printf("Yes, everything!\n");
}
That code will neither terminate nor print anything.
And that's the way I like it.
dont use facebook
Don't use Facebook, AND disable third-party cookies.
We're getting deep into ecological debt as it is. Do you really want us to live as a bunch of locusts until the planet is bare and we all die?
Seems pretty self correcting to me.
Locusts exist and do what they do, and after the big swarm dies off the planet is actually better off in terms of biomass and biodiversity.
New (or regrown) plants take the place of the eaten plants, while the biomass the locusts ate is then eaten by predators (who are in turn eaten by larger predators, etc.). The plant biomass that was eaten by the locusts effectively moves up the food chain, and new plant biomass is created as plants grow back in the now-empty space.
As long as more biomass moves up the food chain than down (due to starvation due to the lack of crops), then complex life forms receive a net benefit, and thus life gets an extra boost in its fight against entropy.
Oh, so that's what happened. I noticed that the inhaler I got about that time didn't seem to be doing anything. At least not during inhalation. I remember back during the 80s that it was a lot more obvious that I was getting medicine than it is these days.
I also noticed that the inhalers don't seem to last as long as they used to. Not sure if that's at all related, but I find lately that invariably when I need an inhaler it's gone bad because I haven't used it in a few months. Which was never a case when I was a kid.
I haven't noticed any change in the spray, but they sure as fuck self deplete faster, which sucks because I get a 6 month supply to SAVE money, only to have them all be dead, new out of the box, in 3 months.