Not to put too fine a point on it, but - according to SCIENCE - you're wrong. Information, much like energy, cannot be destroyed. Look it up, wikipedia has numerous great articles on information theory.
Saying nothing gives the impression that you don't consider what you did impolite. A simple 'excuse me' acknowledges the fact that it was, and implies that you actually had a reason for doing so other than just being inconsiderate, thus mitigating the offense. No way to say anything to the guy in the other car, so the default assumption of rudeness stands.
Don't get me wrong, I'm entirely against extremism in any form, I just have a problem with the specific rhetoric used by the gp. "They did it first" is simply not a valid reason for anything, ever. Extremists come in many guises, and the fact that one of those guises might resemble yours does not make things done by the others any more justified. Note that none of this means that I support anything the USA does, and in fact I think they should get the hell out of the Middle East.
While I'm no fan of christianity, I feel I should point out that past misdeeds by someone else do not excuse similar behavior in the present, regardless of who was involved. Stop with the 'christians did it first' bullshit already. It's true, but also completely irrelevant.
Conservation of energy applies to everything, what you're talking about is the simplification that the total energy in a closed system always remains constant. The generalized principle is that energy is never created or destroyed. What this actually *means* is that all energy has to come from somewhere. You could, for instance, have a car that uses solar power to crack water into hydrogen and burns it, altho there wouldn't be much point. You can *not*, however, have a car that uses no energy to generate some energy, which is what this thing is claiming to do. Energy can *not* be created, it can merely be changed from one form to another. Also, you don't understand what a fucking catalyst is.
Also in Finland. Caused somewhat of a stir when a site listing banned addresses got banned itself, for linking to kiddie porn. Exactly how can a list like that be held to any standard of accountability rather than sliding into full-blown censorship if you can't even keep a list of *what* gets banned?
You haven't found an answer because we don't have one. We simply don't have the knowledge to make that prediction, specifically because we only have one earth, and seemingly insignificant changes in just about anything can have major effects on the biosphere as a whole. That is, the earth is a chaotic system, at least to our current level of understanding. Which is precisely why pumping all that CO2 into the atmosphere is probably a Bad Idea, not because it'll do any one specific thing, but because it'll almost certainly do *something*, and we simply don't know for sure what that something might be (altho global warming seems the most likely scenario) or how substantial an effect it might have on the human species or the planet as a whole.
Playing somewhat of the devil's advocate here, but it's been pointed out several times that increases in vehicle weight are directly caused by extra safety features. I'd say this is a prime example of correlation not equaling causation. What you're looking at is lighter vehicles that are lighter due to being older and lacking safety features, thus being less safe. Higher death rates aren't a function of weight, but a function of safety features (that is, the lack thereof). It simply happens that those safety features make a vehicle heavier, hence the correlation of lighter = less safe.
That doesn't mean that lack of weight is fundamentally unsafe, just that we need to reduce the weight of all those safety features (and the rest of the car, while we're at it) without compromising, uh, safety. Probably a tall order tho.
But this article is light on the details. How does it work, what will it cost, when will it be available, is it even viable for mass production? 3D displays have been "any day now" for years, gonna need convincing to believe that this one's anything other than just another one of the numerous attempts that are hyped all over the place but never actually amount to anything.
Hell, I'd be happy with head tracking, I mean come on, it's been demonstrated by some guy using a bloody wii remote, why can't we even get a proper working implementation of that for games and 3d modeling software and whatnot?
Gamers do. I'm sure it does depend on country, and I can personally only vouch for Finland, but I'd put money on most gamers understanding English far better than the general population.
How do you know it's not? Until we see some actual analysis of this, there's no way to know if XP is at fault or if it's just shitty routers doing what they do. The latter seems far more likely to me, considering how absolutely shit most of the routers out there are, especially with stock firmware.
Experience proves that this simply isn't true. ISPs in Finland (where I live), and several other countries that I have no personal experience with, provide ridiculously fast unlimited connections for very reasonable prices already and keep making a profit. I have a 100Mbit connection for 43e a month, and similar connections are getting more and more prevalent. You could also get an unlimited 3G data plan for 10e a month. Finns have a long history of heavy p2p usage as well, yet the ISPs aren't even complaining, stay in business just fine and my connection at least isn't throttled at all, *true* unlimited bandwidth. They do use QOS, but no artificial bandwidth caps or whatever, just prioritization for low-latency use. Just because your anti-competitive "free market" (we have actual competition thanks to some government regulation of the market, tell me again how your system is so much better) can't do it right doesn't mean it can't be done.
Just grab one of your old unused computers (surely every slashdotter must have at least one), stick in an extra nic and install a firewall distro (or a regular one plus an iptables front-end, or just iptables if you're one of those types) on it. I use pfsense, and it works great.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but - according to SCIENCE - you're wrong. Information, much like energy, cannot be destroyed. Look it up, wikipedia has numerous great articles on information theory.
Sure there are. Namely, the ones who didn't cash in.
Saying nothing gives the impression that you don't consider what you did impolite. A simple 'excuse me' acknowledges the fact that it was, and implies that you actually had a reason for doing so other than just being inconsiderate, thus mitigating the offense. No way to say anything to the guy in the other car, so the default assumption of rudeness stands.
Don't get me wrong, I'm entirely against extremism in any form, I just have a problem with the specific rhetoric used by the gp. "They did it first" is simply not a valid reason for anything, ever. Extremists come in many guises, and the fact that one of those guises might resemble yours does not make things done by the others any more justified. Note that none of this means that I support anything the USA does, and in fact I think they should get the hell out of the Middle East.
Thanks, I stole it from a +5, Funny by some dude.
The ones plugged into a charger powered by a very large external battery.
While I'm no fan of christianity, I feel I should point out that past misdeeds by someone else do not excuse similar behavior in the present, regardless of who was involved. Stop with the 'christians did it first' bullshit already. It's true, but also completely irrelevant.
Drinking water is a solvable problem. Not a trivial one, mind you, but still solvable.
Right to roam wins. How it's mostly a nordic concept and not a universal one boggles me.
Just because you're eloquent doesn't mean you aren't a fucking crackpot.
Conservation of energy applies to everything, what you're talking about is the simplification that the total energy in a closed system always remains constant. The generalized principle is that energy is never created or destroyed. What this actually *means* is that all energy has to come from somewhere. You could, for instance, have a car that uses solar power to crack water into hydrogen and burns it, altho there wouldn't be much point. You can *not*, however, have a car that uses no energy to generate some energy, which is what this thing is claiming to do. Energy can *not* be created, it can merely be changed from one form to another. Also, you don't understand what a fucking catalyst is.
Also in Finland. Caused somewhat of a stir when a site listing banned addresses got banned itself, for linking to kiddie porn. Exactly how can a list like that be held to any standard of accountability rather than sliding into full-blown censorship if you can't even keep a list of *what* gets banned?
Just because it *might* not stave off the end of the world as we know it doesn't mean it has no benefit.
You haven't found an answer because we don't have one. We simply don't have the knowledge to make that prediction, specifically because we only have one earth, and seemingly insignificant changes in just about anything can have major effects on the biosphere as a whole. That is, the earth is a chaotic system, at least to our current level of understanding. Which is precisely why pumping all that CO2 into the atmosphere is probably a Bad Idea, not because it'll do any one specific thing, but because it'll almost certainly do *something*, and we simply don't know for sure what that something might be (altho global warming seems the most likely scenario) or how substantial an effect it might have on the human species or the planet as a whole.
Playing somewhat of the devil's advocate here, but it's been pointed out several times that increases in vehicle weight are directly caused by extra safety features. I'd say this is a prime example of correlation not equaling causation. What you're looking at is lighter vehicles that are lighter due to being older and lacking safety features, thus being less safe. Higher death rates aren't a function of weight, but a function of safety features (that is, the lack thereof). It simply happens that those safety features make a vehicle heavier, hence the correlation of lighter = less safe.
That doesn't mean that lack of weight is fundamentally unsafe, just that we need to reduce the weight of all those safety features (and the rest of the car, while we're at it) without compromising, uh, safety. Probably a tall order tho.
But this article is light on the details. How does it work, what will it cost, when will it be available, is it even viable for mass production? 3D displays have been "any day now" for years, gonna need convincing to believe that this one's anything other than just another one of the numerous attempts that are hyped all over the place but never actually amount to anything.
Hell, I'd be happy with head tracking, I mean come on, it's been demonstrated by some guy using a bloody wii remote, why can't we even get a proper working implementation of that for games and 3d modeling software and whatnot?
Sorry for the pedantry, but he's actually talking about Twitter. You're partly right in that SMS is the reason for the 140 byte limit tho.
Clearly what we need is catalytic converters for people. Now to get that image out of my head.
Gamers do. I'm sure it does depend on country, and I can personally only vouch for Finland, but I'd put money on most gamers understanding English far better than the general population.
How do you know it's not? Until we see some actual analysis of this, there's no way to know if XP is at fault or if it's just shitty routers doing what they do. The latter seems far more likely to me, considering how absolutely shit most of the routers out there are, especially with stock firmware.
Experience proves that this simply isn't true. ISPs in Finland (where I live), and several other countries that I have no personal experience with, provide ridiculously fast unlimited connections for very reasonable prices already and keep making a profit. I have a 100Mbit connection for 43e a month, and similar connections are getting more and more prevalent. You could also get an unlimited 3G data plan for 10e a month. Finns have a long history of heavy p2p usage as well, yet the ISPs aren't even complaining, stay in business just fine and my connection at least isn't throttled at all, *true* unlimited bandwidth. They do use QOS, but no artificial bandwidth caps or whatever, just prioritization for low-latency use. Just because your anti-competitive "free market" (we have actual competition thanks to some government regulation of the market, tell me again how your system is so much better) can't do it right doesn't mean it can't be done.
Only because lazors went out of style when the masses started to realize they don't actually work anything like that.
What I find most puzzling is that he seems to think 'pro gay, humanist, liberal' is an insult.
Just grab one of your old unused computers (surely every slashdotter must have at least one), stick in an extra nic and install a firewall distro (or a regular one plus an iptables front-end, or just iptables if you're one of those types) on it. I use pfsense, and it works great.
He meant 'twenties'.