It was suggested that salmon-power might be an alternative to hydroelectric dams. The theory went that the salmon would be deposited in a large circular tank of water with something akin to waterwheels and dynamos attached at equidistant points around the side. As the salmon swam around the tank, this would generate a circular current in the water which would turn the waterwheels and hence generate electricity via the dynamos. This theory was never fully expounded, because at that point, the bar closed (thanks Terry).
I never worked out the mentality of Windows "forcing you to upgrade" ?
Mac has made an entire business model out of doing just that... every single Mac owner has been forced to use OSX.
Unix of course is a different story... there owners are gently pleaded with... "please, please, use our OS, it's now not quite as buggy as before, and does 'almost' everything correctly".
Now I'll don my flameproof undies, as I expect the temperature to rise shortly.
You forgot to mention the HP Memristor (tm) driver software, which despite being about 335 bytes in size, will come bundled in an installed package that is 37MB, just so HP software can show pointless splash screens and randomly create services and daemons that appear to serve no purpose whatsoever, while STILL not being able to cancel the printing of a document without cycling the power.
Better a 4 year old joke than a reference to a 23 year old sitcom, that wasn't particularly funny apart from a pouting black shortass with one catchphrase.
Yes, great idea... lets arbitrarily lock out 255 IP address, probably belonging to Internet Cafes or innocent internet users, just to make you feel like you've achieved a landmark for your principles.
It has to be said that both UAC and sudo have pros and cons... but what pisses me off is the *nixers who constantly spout "ours is great, yours sucks".
Bear in mind that when you sudo, you are implicitly giving somethign permission to run as root. Great... and what if, while running as root, that package you *thought* was simply Minesweeper actually drops a backdoor on your system ? Hell, he's root, he can do what he likes right ?
Whereas UAC in the same situation is probably going to spring 2 or 3 warnings about trying to install certain files in certain "dodgy" locations, about trying to adjust your startup sequence etc.
Sudo assumes already that you have put your trust in the supplier of the software, and therefore can feel safe about allowing it to be installed under root. UAC assumes that you have no idea what you are doing, and warns you about potential insecure actions... the fact the user clicks yes,yes,yes is beside the point.
Sudo just lets you click "yes" once at the start in fact, but that doesn't mean the software is any less trustworthy, and can be just as detrimental to your system. It's the old story about nix having limited software and only coming from "trusted" repositories. Security by obscurity is no real defense, and if 2009/10/11 etc really IS the year of the Linux, then more software repositories will spring up and more attack vectors will be exploited.
So while neither are perfect, both serve a purpose to different types of users.
"with at least the potential for 8 hours of battery life"
Every laptop I ever owned clamied similar, and usually turned itself off after around the 2 hours 45 minutes mark.
But what amazes me, is that the battery is non-removable, so if it shorts or has some other problem, back to the approved iMac store for Joe Fanboi, and another whopping bill for service.
Doesn't the fact that Apple even lock you in on the battery tell you anything ?
My first comment was intended as a bit tongue-in-cheek... but of course, we mustn't make any comparisons otherwise some smartass accuses you of Godwinning the thread.
But in my view, the situation boils down to this.
Why is it a rocket fired into Israel is a "terrorist act", while a rocket fired into Palestine is "self defense" ?
Has the Middle East been reduced to a game of "you started it first, no you started it first" ?
While I have NO sympathy for either side right now, as they are both firing rockets, you cannot say one side is doing maliciously and the other side is doing it in the "name of peace" (sic). War is war ffs.
Just bear in mind that the all powerful Israel decided to cut the water supply to a trickle, the fuel supply to a trickle, and actively prevented UN aid convoys from entering Gaza long before the 6 month ceasefire ended and the rockets started. All this to a country and people who are something like 90% dependent on foreign aid to even survive. Not to mention the humiliation of the border checks etc.
Now tell me that the Israelies aren't behaving exactly the same way as they were treated themselves 1939-1945. You'd think of ALL the peoples of the world they would be the LAST to inflict this kind of suffering on their neighbour.
But with the US playing hear no see no speak no, and the impotent UN making resolutions that no one will listen to anyway, they have carte blanche to do what they like.
I'm not a fan of war, or of terrorism... but I see injustices that Israel has committed and when the Palestinians fight back with whatever they have, they are labelled as terrorists.
BOTH sides are terrorists, it's just the ways they use physical / mental terror that differs. (Oh and the fact Israel has the backing of the US, the biggest terrorists of them all).
[Tweek's house that night, Tweek's room. Tweek is on the floor and the others are on his bed]
Kyle: So what are we gonna say?
Cartman: Why can't we just read the paper we wrote last time?
Stan: 'Cause then they'll know we didn't write it, dummy! We have to be original!
Kyle: Does anybody know anything about corporations?
[the gnomes return, and Tweek gasps. The door opens and the gnomes enter, singing their theme: "Time to go to work, work all night Search for underpants, hey!"]
Tweek: ["We won't stop"] Waah!
Cartman: ["until we have underpants"] I think my mom is a corporation.
Stan: ["Yum tum yummy tum day!"] Yeah, that makes sense.
Tweek: You guys! Sshhhh! ["Time to go to work"]
Kyle: Well, how about we just say, "corporates should be stopped"?
["work all night Search for underpants, hey!"]
Stan: How do we stretch that into five minutes?
Tweek: They're taking my underpants!
["We won't stop until we have underpants Yum tum yummy tum day!"]
Kyle: [looking down] Will you stop with the underpants gnomes, Tweek?! We have to here!
["Time to go to work"]
Tweek: [points at the gnomes] Aaaaaa!
["work all night Search for underpants, hey!" They open the bottom drawer and go for the underpants]
Stan: What the hell? ["We won't stop"]
Cartman: ["until we have underpants"] Well, I'll be damned.
Tweek: ["Yum tum yummy tum day!"] That's my last pair of underpants!
["Time to go to work, work all night Search for underpants, hey!" The gnomes go for the door, and the boys hop off the bed to follow. One gnome stops and faces the boys]
Kyle: Sshh, don't scare him.
Stan: Hey there, little guy.
Cartman: Bad! [whacks the gnome with a stick]
Kyle: Cartman!
Cartman: What?!
Kyle: Why do you always have to hit stuff with a stick?!
Cartman: Well, look at him. He's all, you know, uh luh look at him. [whacks him again]
Gnome: Is that all you've got, pussy?!
Cartman: What?! [advances]
Stan: Hey, he talks!
Cartman: Yeah, he called me a pussy! I'm not a pussy, you're a pussy!
Gnome: You're a pussy, pussy!
Cartman: Ey!
Stan: Dude, why are you taking Tweek's underpants?
Kyle: Yeah, look what you're doing to this poor kid.
Tweek: Waaaah.
Gnome: Stealing underpants biiig business.
Stan: Business? Wait, do you know anything about business?
Gnome: Sure, that's what gnomes do.
Kyle: Show us.
Gnome: O-kay. Follow me. [goes for the door]
Cartman: Little pussy gnome. Don't call me a pussy, pussy gnome.
Every weekend I go to National Bookstore at the shopping mall, and browse through the new releases... before I buy any book, I'll want to read at least the prologue, introduction OR cover...
Are you telling me I'm infringing on someones patent if I do the exact same thing online ?
Isn't Singapore the place where you have to smile at tourists under penalty of a fine for frowning, and to avoid chewing gum stuck on the sidewalks, they made chewing gum illegal ?
I don't think you've got that much freedom to start with ?
Yes, I'm sure that will bring immense comfort to any person who has lost a son or daughter to a terminal illness, and had to reconcile that loss against "God's great plan" ?
And to all the millions of people that have died in religeous upheavals, holy wars, the Inquisition and every other means of killing that is done "in God's name".
It never, EVER, dawned on you that even if there IS a God, perhaps he doesn't have a plan for us, above "let them work it out for themselves, I've done my bit already" ?
What makes me laugh is that you say "God has promised to burn this planet and make a new one" ? Which chapter of the bible is that taken from, I seem to have missed that one during my 13 years of Catholic education ? Thankfully I have freed my mind of that trivial dogma along time ago, and now choose to live MY life for today...
Because think about this... if I'm right, I will have lived the most productive full life I could and enjoyed every second of it, even if there is nothing afterwards. You on the other hand choose to suffer every day in the hope of eternal salvation... and if you're wrong, your life will have been wasted.
Please bear in mind that the first word of "blind faith" is blind... and it really is better to keep your eyes open than shut in most situations.
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It was suggested that salmon-power might be an alternative to hydroelectric dams. The theory went that the salmon would be deposited in a large circular tank of water with something akin to waterwheels and dynamos attached at equidistant points around the side. As the salmon swam around the tank, this would generate a circular current in the water which would turn the waterwheels and hence generate electricity via the dynamos. This theory was never fully expounded, because at that point, the bar closed (thanks Terry).
Note to Parent ...
Mythbusters AND/OR Penn and Teller are NOT accurate sources of information.
the efficiency is well over 100%
So when does the rest of the world get to benefit from this perpertual motion device ?
Nothing can be over 100% efficient, ever, unless you want to start violating the conservation of energy and thermodynamics laws.
I never worked out the mentality of Windows "forcing you to upgrade" ?
Mac has made an entire business model out of doing just that ... every single Mac owner has been forced to use OSX.
Unix of course is a different story ... there owners are gently pleaded with ... "please, please, use our OS, it's now not quite as buggy as before, and does 'almost' everything correctly".
Now I'll don my flameproof undies, as I expect the temperature to rise shortly.
You forgot to mention the HP Memristor (tm) driver software, which despite being about 335 bytes in size, will come bundled in an installed package that is 37MB, just so HP software can show pointless splash screens and randomly create services and daemons that appear to serve no purpose whatsoever, while STILL not being able to cancel the printing of a document without cycling the power.
One Potato
Many Potatoes
Slashdot, where even the grammar nazis are illiterate !!
Better a 4 year old joke than a reference to a 23 year old sitcom, that wasn't particularly funny apart from a pouting black shortass with one catchphrase.
1 - Is is shiny ?
2 - Will it blend ?
"Why do you think that ppl can no longer eat sushi everyday?"
Your girlfriend left you AGAIN ?
Yes, great idea ... lets arbitrarily lock out 255 IP address, probably belonging to Internet Cafes or innocent internet users, just to make you feel like you've achieved a landmark for your principles.
Douchebag
later or later still that will change as OSX/Linux/FreeBSD catch up with features/games/killer apps that were exclusive to Windows ...
There, fixed that for you ;-)
Whereas a bunch of obviously biased nix-nerds with an agenda posting on Slashdot DOES indicate popularity ?
It has to be said that both UAC and sudo have pros and cons ... but what pisses me off is the *nixers who constantly spout "ours is great, yours sucks".
Bear in mind that when you sudo, you are implicitly giving somethign permission to run as root. Great ... and what if, while running as root, that package you *thought* was simply Minesweeper actually drops a backdoor on your system ? Hell, he's root, he can do what he likes right ?
Whereas UAC in the same situation is probably going to spring 2 or 3 warnings about trying to install certain files in certain "dodgy" locations, about trying to adjust your startup sequence etc.
Sudo assumes already that you have put your trust in the supplier of the software, and therefore can feel safe about allowing it to be installed under root. UAC assumes that you have no idea what you are doing, and warns you about potential insecure actions ... the fact the user clicks yes,yes,yes is beside the point.
Sudo just lets you click "yes" once at the start in fact, but that doesn't mean the software is any less trustworthy, and can be just as detrimental to your system. It's the old story about nix having limited software and only coming from "trusted" repositories. Security by obscurity is no real defense, and if 2009/10/11 etc really IS the year of the Linux, then more software repositories will spring up and more attack vectors will be exploited.
So while neither are perfect, both serve a purpose to different types of users.
Archimedes Plutonium has found a new stomping ground I think. Update on his shares portfolio at 11.
"with at least the potential for 8 hours of battery life"
Every laptop I ever owned clamied similar, and usually turned itself off after around the 2 hours 45 minutes mark.
But what amazes me, is that the battery is non-removable, so if it shorts or has some other problem, back to the approved iMac store for Joe Fanboi, and another whopping bill for service.
Doesn't the fact that Apple even lock you in on the battery tell you anything ?
My first comment was intended as a bit tongue-in-cheek ... but of course, we mustn't make any comparisons otherwise some smartass accuses you of Godwinning the thread.
But in my view, the situation boils down to this.
Why is it a rocket fired into Israel is a "terrorist act", while a rocket fired into Palestine is "self defense" ?
Has the Middle East been reduced to a game of "you started it first, no you started it first" ?
While I have NO sympathy for either side right now, as they are both firing rockets, you cannot say one side is doing maliciously and the other side is doing it in the "name of peace" (sic). War is war ffs.
Just bear in mind that the all powerful Israel decided to cut the water supply to a trickle, the fuel supply to a trickle, and actively prevented UN aid convoys from entering Gaza long before the 6 month ceasefire ended and the rockets started. All this to a country and people who are something like 90% dependent on foreign aid to even survive. Not to mention the humiliation of the border checks etc.
Now tell me that the Israelies aren't behaving exactly the same way as they were treated themselves 1939-1945. You'd think of ALL the peoples of the world they would be the LAST to inflict this kind of suffering on their neighbour.
But with the US playing hear no see no speak no, and the impotent UN making resolutions that no one will listen to anyway, they have carte blanche to do what they like.
I'm not a fan of war, or of terrorism ... but I see injustices that Israel has committed and when the Palestinians fight back with whatever they have, they are labelled as terrorists.
BOTH sides are terrorists, it's just the ways they use physical / mental terror that differs. (Oh and the fact Israel has the backing of the US, the biggest terrorists of them all).
It's been outsourced to Israel
[Tweek's house that night, Tweek's room. Tweek is on the floor and the others are on his bed]
Kyle: So what are we gonna say?
Cartman: Why can't we just read the paper we wrote last time?
Stan: 'Cause then they'll know we didn't write it, dummy! We have to be original!
Kyle: Does anybody know anything about corporations?
[the gnomes return, and Tweek gasps. The door opens and the gnomes enter, singing their theme:
"Time to go to work, work all night Search for underpants, hey!"]
Tweek: ["We won't stop"] Waah!
Cartman: ["until we have underpants"] I think my mom is a corporation.
Stan: ["Yum tum yummy tum day!"] Yeah, that makes sense.
Tweek: You guys! Sshhhh! ["Time to go to work"]
Kyle: Well, how about we just say, "corporates should be stopped"?
["work all night Search for underpants, hey!"]
Stan: How do we stretch that into five minutes?
Tweek: They're taking my underpants!
["We won't stop until we have underpants Yum tum yummy tum day!"]
Kyle: [looking down] Will you stop with the underpants gnomes, Tweek?! We have to here!
["Time to go to work"]
Tweek: [points at the gnomes] Aaaaaa!
["work all night Search for underpants, hey!" They open the bottom drawer and go for the underpants]
Stan: What the hell? ["We won't stop"]
Cartman: ["until we have underpants"] Well, I'll be damned.
Tweek: ["Yum tum yummy tum day!"] That's my last pair of underpants!
["Time to go to work, work all night Search for underpants, hey!" The gnomes go for the door, and the boys hop off the bed to follow. One gnome stops and faces the boys]
Kyle: Sshh, don't scare him.
Stan: Hey there, little guy.
Cartman: Bad! [whacks the gnome with a stick]
Kyle: Cartman!
Cartman: What?!
Kyle: Why do you always have to hit stuff with a stick?!
Cartman: Well, look at him. He's all, you know, uh luh look at him. [whacks him again]
Gnome: Is that all you've got, pussy?!
Cartman: What?! [advances]
Stan: Hey, he talks!
Cartman: Yeah, he called me a pussy! I'm not a pussy, you're a pussy!
Gnome: You're a pussy, pussy!
Cartman: Ey!
Stan: Dude, why are you taking Tweek's underpants?
Kyle: Yeah, look what you're doing to this poor kid.
Tweek: Waaaah.
Gnome: Stealing underpants biiig business.
Stan: Business? Wait, do you know anything about business?
Gnome: Sure, that's what gnomes do.
Kyle: Show us.
Gnome: O-kay. Follow me. [goes for the door]
Cartman: Little pussy gnome. Don't call me a pussy, pussy gnome.
oops ...
4. ???
5. Profit !!!
We'd already BE replaced, if they could design a computer to :-
1. Order a round of drinks
2. Unblock the sink
3. Catch mice and rats
Slow news Day ?
This is friggen bullshit !!!
Every weekend I go to National Bookstore at the shopping mall, and browse through the new releases ... before I buy any book, I'll want to read at least the prologue, introduction OR cover ...
Are you telling me I'm infringing on someones patent if I do the exact same thing online ?
How do these patents get allowed ?
Maybe we could just, you know, perhaps educate our children NOT to stab people in the first place ?
Radical I know, but taking away the tools to do the job just means the kids have to improvise with something else to use as a weapon.
Damn, even a rolled up and folded newspaper can make an efficient cosh ... do we ban the Daily Mail now ?
(Although I can think of plenty of OTHER good reasons to ban that rag, it's the principle that counts).
Turning the country into a nanny state doesn't change the mentality of the people ... thankfully I got out 12 years ago, and never looked back.
Isn't Singapore the place where you have to smile at tourists under penalty of a fine for frowning, and to avoid chewing gum stuck on the sidewalks, they made chewing gum illegal ?
I don't think you've got that much freedom to start with ?
Yes, I'm sure that will bring immense comfort to any person who has lost a son or daughter to a terminal illness, and had to reconcile that loss against "God's great plan" ?
And to all the millions of people that have died in religeous upheavals, holy wars, the Inquisition and every other means of killing that is done "in God's name".
It never, EVER, dawned on you that even if there IS a God, perhaps he doesn't have a plan for us, above "let them work it out for themselves, I've done my bit already" ?
What makes me laugh is that you say "God has promised to burn this planet and make a new one" ? Which chapter of the bible is that taken from, I seem to have missed that one during my 13 years of Catholic education ? Thankfully I have freed my mind of that trivial dogma along time ago, and now choose to live MY life for today ...
Because think about this ... if I'm right, I will have lived the most productive full life I could and enjoyed every second of it, even if there is nothing afterwards. You on the other hand choose to suffer every day in the hope of eternal salvation ... and if you're wrong, your life will have been wasted.
Please bear in mind that the first word of "blind faith" is blind ... and it really is better to keep your eyes open than shut in most situations.