I would hope that we'll work to improve/augment our own intelligence rather than create separate entities to make us obsolete. Then again I'll be dead if not close to it by the time this is relevant.
I think the bitching here is due to the popular choice usually being technologically inferior in some set of (rarely relevant to most users) specifications or benchmarks. Remember "No Wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."?
The point is not to use the legal system to enforce patents. The point is to use the *threat* of a drawn out legal case to extort a settlement, even if there's a chance that the claim isn't 100% applicable.
Actually, Canonical is trying to court some hardware makers to get Ubuntu/Unity included on their devices. I don't know how far that'll go, but they are trying, so obviously they think that with this dumbed-down new UI, they might achieve sales of HW that includes their SW, which would earn them revenue.
...People who want dumbed-down UIs don't download OSes from the internet and install them themselves.
You're right and you're right. But even more generally,
People... don't download OSes from the internet and install them themselves.
OSs downloaded from the internet are never going to be mainstream. I'm running OSX, iOS, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, Android, Ubuntu, and Windows 7 somewhere or another on my personal/family machines, but I'm not even going to pretend that "The 99%" are going to ever go out of their way to install an OS. Most actively reject all but the most forced or hidden automatic updating. Computing devices are disposable, so if Canonical wants market share, they absolutely need to court hardware vendors who obviously can't put [i]OS[X] on it and don't want to pay for Windows 8. They're really competing with Android, and their choices reflect this.
The suits were right on reality shows, though - they may be trash, but they are popular trash that makes lots of money. Once a channel gets a taste of that sweet reality profit margin, they never come back. See also History Channel and its new slogan, "History: make it every day!" as well as "The Learning Channel" --> "TLC" and of course the MTVs, which don't even try to mask it.
Leap seconds, in contrast, are completely pointless. They exist because the SI day is slightly shorter than the solar day, by a tiny fraction of a second. This means that, after a few years, the sun will not quite be at its apex precisely at midday. How much is the variation? We've had 24 leap seconds since they were introduced in 1972, but a lot of these were to slowly correct the already-wrong time. In the last decade, we've had two. At that rate, it will take 300 years for the sun to be a minute off. It will take 18,000 years for it to be an hour off. These numbers are slightly wrong. The solar day becomes a bit under 2ms longer every hundred years, so we'd need leap seconds more often later.
Well in that case it's probably easier for Oracle to just buy the Sun.
I agree, that much of it made sense to me. Biases aside (gp calling it ObamaCare was a dead giveaway, maybe they were just trying to be clever) I think a better implementation would be:
(A) SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES.—Section 1819(d)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395i–3(d)(1)) is amended to read as follows:
With ample use of strikeouts of course. A lot of the nonsense above is because all of these parts are dependent on other regulation, and you don't have handy href= tags or database lookups to make them human readable. The wiki implementation mentioned by a commenter above would be useful for this reason as well.
Something or other is keeping them from allowing sparse roots, I imagine this has something to do with the new packaging system. As I recall, someone has gotten the inherit-pkg-dir properties to be allowed, and the resulting zone worked fine. I became curious when they didn't mention upgrade-ability, but then I became distracted and/or hungry and thought nothing more on the subject. This bug supports the pkg root cause though: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=2550
It's even worse than that. 200MB/s would take a 2.0Gb connection because of the SATA signaling structure. You're getting one byte per 10 bits over the cable. So when you realize that SATA 1.5Gb/s is limiting you to MAX ideal world 150MB/s transfer... Let's just say that SATA 6Gb/s (effective 600MB/s) and performance3 oriented PCI-express SSDs can't come soon enough.
I dunno, but I did hear about one case where people simply stopped caring enough to go on living, while a select few had a negative reaction and turned into Reapers.
It seems like another case of that annoying "You are now leaving our site. It's a big scary internet world out there where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs! Are you sure you want to do that? We take no responsibility for the rest of the internet, but you seem like the kind of idiot that would sue us for a link one of our users provided. Here, we'll give you a life line back to our site, and since you have 15 toolbars installed, you probably don't have any screen space left to see the other site anyway."
I've had a Sprint exclusive phone for years and I'm pretty sure I can do anything you mentioned there with my handy dandy data cable or a MicroSD card reader.
No kidding, I remember being outraged that some game (Monster Truck Madness possibly? Maybe not?) wanted 100MB of my HDD space. 100 smegging megs! What do you even DO with all that space?
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However I'm told it is also illegal (at least here in Maryland, heard via a radio public service announcement) to leave the keys in the ignition.
I would hope that we'll work to improve/augment our own intelligence rather than create separate entities to make us obsolete. Then again I'll be dead if not close to it by the time this is relevant.
I think the bitching here is due to the popular choice usually being technologically inferior in some set of (rarely relevant to most users) specifications or benchmarks. Remember "No Wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."?
Micrograms are a unit of measure more conducive to LSD smuggling.
Sounds good to me. In that case, I'll be waiting at Terrapin Station.
I'm guessing that hooking it up to a big flywheel diminishes some of the miniaturization novelty
The point is not to use the legal system to enforce patents. The point is to use the *threat* of a drawn out legal case to extort a settlement, even if there's a chance that the claim isn't 100% applicable.
Actually, Canonical is trying to court some hardware makers to get Ubuntu/Unity included on their devices. I don't know how far that'll go, but they are trying, so obviously they think that with this dumbed-down new UI, they might achieve sales of HW that includes their SW, which would earn them revenue.
...People who want dumbed-down UIs don't download OSes from the internet and install them themselves.
You're right and you're right. But even more generally,
People ... don't download OSes from the internet and install them themselves.
OSs downloaded from the internet are never going to be mainstream. I'm running OSX, iOS, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, Android, Ubuntu, and Windows 7 somewhere or another on my personal/family machines, but I'm not even going to pretend that "The 99%" are going to ever go out of their way to install an OS. Most actively reject all but the most forced or hidden automatic updating. Computing devices are disposable, so if Canonical wants market share, they absolutely need to court hardware vendors who obviously can't put [i]OS[X] on it and don't want to pay for Windows 8. They're really competing with Android, and their choices reflect this.
The suits were right on reality shows, though - they may be trash, but they are popular trash that makes lots of money. Once a channel gets a taste of that sweet reality profit margin, they never come back. See also History Channel and its new slogan, "History: make it every day!" as well as "The Learning Channel" --> "TLC" and of course the MTVs, which don't even try to mask it.
Just remove "idle." from the url, and it loads the page like any other slashdot comment section.
I agree - RELEASE THE KAGAN!
Leap seconds, in contrast, are completely pointless. They exist because the SI day is slightly shorter than the solar day, by a tiny fraction of a second. This means that, after a few years, the sun will not quite be at its apex precisely at midday. How much is the variation? We've had 24 leap seconds since they were introduced in 1972, but a lot of these were to slowly correct the already-wrong time. In the last decade, we've had two. At that rate, it will take 300 years for the sun to be a minute off. It will take 18,000 years for it to be an hour off. These numbers are slightly wrong. The solar day becomes a bit under 2ms longer every hundred years, so we'd need leap seconds more often later.
Well in that case it's probably easier for Oracle to just buy the Sun.
having the most wealthy pay their fair share
I'm sorry, but since when is more a fair share?
Since "fair" was the word used and not "equal"
With ample use of strikeouts of course. A lot of the nonsense above is because all of these parts are dependent on other regulation, and you don't have handy href= tags or database lookups to make them human readable. The wiki implementation mentioned by a commenter above would be useful for this reason as well.
Something or other is keeping them from allowing sparse roots, I imagine this has something to do with the new packaging system. As I recall, someone has gotten the inherit-pkg-dir properties to be allowed, and the resulting zone worked fine. I became curious when they didn't mention upgrade-ability, but then I became distracted and/or hungry and thought nothing more on the subject. This bug supports the pkg root cause though: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=2550
OK tan
Yay, skin cancer!
Yay not having to take Vitamin D supplements or eat Vitamin D fortified foods and drinks!
Uh, I'll take the supplements, you can keep your skin cancer, thanks.
;-)
I realize that you probably meant just a moderate, healthy level of exposure, but at the same time, did you forget which website you were on?
It's even worse than that. 200MB/s would take a 2.0Gb connection because of the SATA signaling structure. You're getting one byte per 10 bits over the cable. So when you realize that SATA 1.5Gb/s is limiting you to MAX ideal world 150MB/s transfer... Let's just say that SATA 6Gb/s (effective 600MB/s) and performance3 oriented PCI-express SSDs can't come soon enough.
That's what you think, Copper Top.
Ah well that's what I get when I don't refresh the page for 20 minutes.
I dunno, but I did hear about one case where people simply stopped caring enough to go on living, while a select few had a negative reaction and turned into Reapers.
It seems like another case of that annoying "You are now leaving our site. It's a big scary internet world out there where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs! Are you sure you want to do that? We take no responsibility for the rest of the internet, but you seem like the kind of idiot that would sue us for a link one of our users provided. Here, we'll give you a life line back to our site, and since you have 15 toolbars installed, you probably don't have any screen space left to see the other site anyway."
I've had a Sprint exclusive phone for years and I'm pretty sure I can do anything you mentioned there with my handy dandy data cable or a MicroSD card reader.
No kidding, I remember being outraged that some game (Monster Truck Madness possibly? Maybe not?) wanted 100MB of my HDD space. 100 smegging megs! What do you even DO with all that space?
Why not? Governments are "For the people, by the people" aren't they?
Slashdot is always good for a laugh.
Wait, how do you pay for Photoshop? I don't remember seeing a PayPal donation button on the keygen.
PSP Game Library: You know it's bad when your console has rampant piracy... but only of other manufacturers' games!