There is nothing conspiratorial about it, my friend. In fact it's a pretty reasonable thing to expect from an @$$hole as yourself, acting out of his own obnoxiousness, even if it's not a rational thing to do (but that is an YP, not an MP). And frankly, I have absolutely no fears that you are out to get me... --
What a creative way to troll, Rombuu. First you do an anonymous post that is such an obvious troll as to be spotted by even the most naive of Slashdot newbies. Then, as yourself, you pretend you 'fell' for the trolling. Genious indeed! But it would never occur to you to show the proper respect for someone who has done something with his life, even as that life was compromised by such a terrible disease as muscular dystrophy. What a pathetic fool you are. I'm ready to take the karma hit, if I must, but I sure hope someone give you (and your AC alias) the mod points you deserve. --
1. An all-pro NFL lineman on either side of the ball these days is usually over 275 pounds and fast as hell. (Every year, there are a few more guys that enter the league with 300 pounds of ropey, horse-like muscle.)
Fair enough, I'm not that enthusiastic about a game where the main attraction is male physique. To each his own, I guess. Just remember to give steroids credit where credit is due, and make sure there are no kids in the room while you're watching your ball game...
2. 2. The pads and head-to-head crashes actually make it a much more brutal game than rugby. Rugby players do not have nearly as many serious injuries as American Football players. One player from the Detroit Lions is still barely able to walk from a collision with a teammate two years ago. (He is lucky to be alive).
There are many cases of players dying in the pitch during rugby and football (soccer) games. I was once ina rugby match where a guy (very large guy, for that matter) went senseless to hospital with a gaping brow. Nothing serious, for sure, but it could have been.
3. 3. You will notice that rugby players have not had a lot of success at American football. The Euro-NFL tends to rely a lot on American players. This will probably change a little as more Europeans learn how to play the game, but obviously it is not as easy as they would have guessed.
Rugby lesson of the day: in Rugby everybody attacks and everybody defends. Thus, rugby players cannot be as portly (to put it bluntly) as American football defenders. Also, your contention that American football well eventually catch in Europe as Europeans learn the game is a little bit preposterous. Have you considered that people (as often happens) don't care about it? If anything, I think footbal (pronounced soccer) will eventually gain ground in the US, as it has in Japan and China. Its already starting to happen with younger generations.
The comment about soccer not requiring opposable thumbs was just a friendly joke, but it is pretty much true. On those few occations when the ball is picked up it is usually with two hands, so thumbs are optional for the entire team.:)
Yeah, I got that. Although many players need it to grab their opponent by the jersey and stop him:-) Just the same, tennis also can be played without opposing thumbs if you tie the rackets to the player's hands. And don't forget: apes also have opposing thumbs, that's why you find so many of them on Super Bowl playoffs. --
You're either claiming that defenders (which are not "titans", but simply overweight or full of steroid) are able to sprint like Carl Lewis (unlikely); or that liners are 300 pounds (even more unlikely);
Second: if you're so keen on calling it football, why do you make such a fuss of real football not using the hands (opposing thumbs (which apes also have, BTW) yada-yada)?
American football would be a lot more manly if those titans clashed at each other while wearing a plain jersey like in rugby or Aussie football, not using that heavily padded body armour.
A comittee is a large panel composed of various representatives from the industry, not James Gosling and a bunch of other nerds at Sun. Take your anti-Java spin doctoring for a ride elsewhere! --
No, that'd be Aussie football. Not that I care about it, though. Amercian is for overweight people to have a chance to be called "athletes" and wussies to watch.
Tell me you can look at that thing that Gnome puts on the bottom of your screen and tell me it doesn't remind you of an M$ start bar.
My GNOME configuration has no thing at the bottom of the screen that resembles in any way the dreaded Micros~1 "Start" button (or is it "Stop", I'm confused). You know, there's this little thing called configuration.
You're right about most everything you said, 'cept: Before Unix was even invented, there were LispStations Actually, Lisp Machines (like MIT's, Symbolics' and TI's) date from the mid-70s, when UNIX was still not widespread. The fact that they lost the market war to UNIX is just one of those facts of real life winning over happy hackland. --
Excuse me Mr. Coward, but you seem to imply that the fact that a MUA is "text based" guarantees it is more secure. Inquiring minds want to know why is that so? Does "MUA is text-based" imply "MUA cannot execute attached content"? --
IMHO, Star Office isn't even close to snuff -- a well-written program should not be a memory monster. A lot of work will be required, if it is even possible, to put Star Office on a diet!
A well written program should not be a "memory monster, but inevitably it may have to turn that if its goals are monstruous. Star Office is a graphically rich program that allows you to do WYSIWYG formatting of documents, advanced spreadsheet functions, presentantion graphics, email, web browsing and publishing, the works, to sum it up. You cannot compress all that in a binary as slender as/bin/ed.
It seems the article on Heise states as much, I mean, they're going on with the GPL. My German is a little bit rostig and limited, so I didn't bother reading in full. I'm curious though, why would the Autistic License be more likely for a mega corp to accept? For reasons of pride, to top it? Because prophet Larry said so? --
Where have you been? Jon Katz, interviews and numerous editorial pieces have appeared here over the years. That may not be the bulk of the stories, but still...
While I acknowledge that Slashdot creates some of its contents (and its not most of it, in your own words) it never gathers news per se, that is, it never collects and reports info on current events, it just merely echoes them. There's a subtle difference in there. Of course, that can be said of most printed media which are increasingly becoming a relay of filtered info gathered by Reuters, Associated Press et alii.
Uhm, no - that would be kuro5hin. With 200,000+ user accounts and hundreds of submissions in the bin at a time, I would hardly say that Joe reader has much influence. The editors filter the new items they think are worthy.
To be quite honest, I've been to kuro5hin a few times and I wasn't impressed. The looks are better than Slashdot's (but so are Barrapunto's) but its mostly "essays" (or rants, if one was feeling cynical) not news. And the name really sucks, but that's just MHO. The fact that the submissions are moderated by the audience is not that great, either: it's just Slashdot with a much larger staff (and a much more diminute audience). But the principle is still the same: echo news that may be relevant to nerds (and that is a filter in itself, which was my point), let nerds appraise them and then publish'em.
I don't agree with the original poster that/. will become a Microsoft lap-dog, but you can't discount the possibility of them being bought out by a bigger news source. It has already happened - twice - and the/. editors have no say on whom they get sold to any more.
Perhaps, but they have the proverbial right to vote with their feet, and any possible buyer would have to take into account the fact that Slashdot without the Slashdot crowd would most likely lose a lot of its appeal. Yes, that probably includes Katz too:-)
Slashdot is not in any way a news source, big or small (it's audience with put it in the medium-sized category, I guess). Slashdot is just this big echoing chamber where news (or gossip) is spread from several, distributed sources that get it from elsewhere.
Slashdot has no field reporters to gather (or fabricate) the news: it just relies on its immense pool of submitting contributors, who generally do no journalistic effort of their own, they just stumble upon interesting news from other sources.
Now that is precisely what makes Slashdot interesting (despite what a vocal minority may think): the contributors filter the news that they think are worthy when submitting them, and since they're also part of Slashdot's audience, the chances of those news actually being of interest to the audience at large are much higher than with traditional media. That (together with the ensuing mass of comments) is the reason Slashdot remains popular and just keeps bulking up.
Someone mentioned methanol pumps in Brazil. Sorry, they use Ethanol there as a highly gov't subsidized alternative fuel made from sugar crops there. Ethanol has been shown to use more energy in its creation than you can get back from it, so it's not a large-scale viable fuel for environmental reasons.
Two corrections: ethanol production is not as heavily subsidized today as it was in the peak of ethanol usage in the mid-80s. Ethanol is actually mixed (20% vol) in the gasoline sold at fuel pumps in Brazil, so you would have a major problem filling up the tank of an unmodified American can there.
Second correction: I don't know where you get the notion that alcohol production consumes more energy than what is yielded by its burning. It's not like thermoelectric plants fueled by alcohol are used to power the distilleries, you know. Ethanol also has a nice side effect in that is a lot less pollutant than gasoline or any petroleum derivative.
Na verdade, pelo que eu saiba, a maior parte do álcool produzido vem das lavouras de cana do norte de SP e PR, e não do PE ou outro estado canvieiro no NE (RN?).
Is that methanol they're burning in Brazil coming from the rainforests?
The original poster got it all wrong, its ethanol that is used as commercial fuel alongside with gasoline (as well as mixed in it). The ethanol used comes from sugar cane, of which Brazil is plentiful, no rain forest logging necessary.
'Rain forest myth of the day' debunked: trees in the rain forest are not logged for fuel!
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There is nothing conspiratorial about it, my friend. In fact it's a pretty reasonable thing to expect from an @$$hole as yourself, acting out of his own obnoxiousness, even if it's not a rational thing to do (but that is an YP, not an MP).
And frankly, I have absolutely no fears that you are out to get me...
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What a creative way to troll, Rombuu. First you do an anonymous post that is such an obvious troll as to be spotted by even the most naive of Slashdot newbies. Then, as yourself, you pretend you 'fell' for the trolling. Genious indeed!
But it would never occur to you to show the proper respect for someone who has done something with his life, even as that life was compromised by such a terrible disease as muscular dystrophy.
What a pathetic fool you are. I'm ready to take the karma hit, if I must, but I sure hope someone give you (and your AC alias) the mod points you deserve.
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Why go for a complex, contrived explanation when the assumption that he was just trolling y'all suffices pretty well?
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I wonder what their conterpart to Grafitti is, and if there's any chance of it being released as free software...
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An all-pro NFL lineman on either side of the ball these days is usually over 275 pounds and fast as hell. (Every year, there are a few more guys that enter the league with 300 pounds of ropey, horse-like muscle.)
Fair enough, I'm not that enthusiastic about a game where the main attraction is male physique. To each his own, I guess. Just remember to give steroids credit where credit is due, and make sure there are no kids in the room while you're watching your ball game...
2.2. The pads and head-to-head crashes actually make it a much more brutal game than rugby. Rugby players do not have nearly as many serious injuries as American Football players. One player from the Detroit Lions is still barely able to walk from a collision with a teammate two years ago. (He is lucky to be alive).
There are many cases of players dying in the pitch during rugby and football (soccer) games. I was once ina rugby match where a guy (very large guy, for that matter) went senseless to hospital with a gaping brow. Nothing serious, for sure, but it could have been.
3.3. You will notice that rugby players have not had a lot of success at American football. The Euro-NFL tends to rely a lot on American players. This will probably change a little as more Europeans learn how to play the game, but obviously it is not as easy as they would have guessed.
Rugby lesson of the day: in Rugby everybody attacks and everybody defends. Thus, rugby players cannot be as portly (to put it bluntly) as American football defenders. Also, your contention that American football well eventually catch in Europe as Europeans learn the game is a little bit preposterous. Have you considered that people (as often happens) don't care about it? If anything, I think footbal (pronounced soccer) will eventually gain ground in the US, as it has in Japan and China. Its already starting to happen with younger generations.
The comment about soccer not requiring opposable thumbs was just a friendly joke, but it is pretty much true. On those few occations when the ball is picked up it is usually with two hands, so thumbs are optional for the entire team. :)
Yeah, I got that. Although many players need it to grab their opponent by the jersey and stop him :-) Just the same, tennis also can be played without opposing thumbs if you tie the rackets to the player's hands. And don't forget: apes also have opposing thumbs, that's why you find so many of them on Super Bowl playoffs.
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I am not that French grammar nazi, but I can attest on his behalf that your spelling still sucks too!
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You're either claiming that defenders (which are not "titans", but simply overweight or full of steroid) are able to sprint like Carl Lewis (unlikely); or that liners are 300 pounds (even more unlikely);
Second: if you're so keen on calling it football, why do you make such a fuss of real football not using the hands (opposing thumbs (which apes also have, BTW) yada-yada)?
American football would be a lot more manly if those titans clashed at each other while wearing a plain jersey like in rugby or Aussie football, not using that heavily padded body armour.
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A comittee is a large panel composed of various representatives from the industry, not James Gosling and a bunch of other nerds at Sun. Take your anti-Java spin doctoring for a ride elsewhere!
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Quanta hipocrisia, seu André...
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No, that'd be Aussie football. Not that I care about it, though. Amercian is for overweight people to have a chance to be called "athletes" and wussies to watch.
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Ah, sinto o cheiro de um são-paulino frustrado aqui ;-)
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My GNOME configuration has no thing at the bottom of the screen that resembles in any way the dreaded Micros~1 "Start" button (or is it "Stop", I'm confused). You know, there's this little thing called configuration.
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You're right about most everything you said, 'cept:
Before Unix was even invented, there were LispStations
Actually, Lisp Machines (like MIT's, Symbolics' and TI's) date from the mid-70s, when UNIX was still not widespread. The fact that they lost the market war to UNIX is just one of those facts of real life winning over happy hackland.
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const int foo = 0;
Is valid ISO (ANSI, if you will) C, and we all know everybody uses ANSI C, right--
Excuse me Mr. Coward, but you seem to imply that the fact that a MUA is "text based" guarantees it is more secure. Inquiring minds want to know why is that so? Does "MUA is text-based" imply "MUA cannot execute attached content"?
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What do generalization and wit have to do with ignorance and siliness?
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A well written program should not be a "memory monster, but inevitably it may have to turn that if its goals are monstruous. Star Office is a graphically rich program that allows you to do WYSIWYG formatting of documents, advanced spreadsheet functions, presentantion graphics, email, web browsing and publishing, the works, to sum it up. You cannot compress all that in a binary as slender as /bin/ed.
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It seems the article on Heise states as much, I mean, they're going on with the GPL. My German is a little bit rostig and limited, so I didn't bother reading in full. I'm curious though, why would the Autistic License be more likely for a mega corp to accept? For reasons of pride, to top it? Because prophet Larry said so?
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Where have you been? Jon Katz, interviews and numerous editorial pieces have appeared here over the years. That may not be the bulk of the stories, but still...
While I acknowledge that Slashdot creates some of its contents (and its not most of it, in your own words) it never gathers news per se, that is, it never collects and reports info on current events, it just merely echoes them. There's a subtle difference in there. Of course, that can be said of most printed media which are increasingly becoming a relay of filtered info gathered by Reuters, Associated Press et alii.
Uhm, no - that would be kuro5hin. With 200,000+ user accounts and hundreds of submissions in the bin at a time, I would hardly say that Joe reader has much influence. The editors filter the new items they think are worthy.
To be quite honest, I've been to kuro5hin a few times and I wasn't impressed. The looks are better than Slashdot's (but so are Barrapunto's) but its mostly "essays" (or rants, if one was feeling cynical) not news. And the name really sucks, but that's just MHO. The fact that the submissions are moderated by the audience is not that great, either: it's just Slashdot with a much larger staff (and a much more diminute audience). But the principle is still the same: echo news that may be relevant to nerds (and that is a filter in itself, which was my point), let nerds appraise them and then publish'em.
I don't agree with the original poster that /. will become a Microsoft lap-dog, but you can't discount the possibility of them being bought out by a bigger news source. It has already happened - twice - and the /. editors have no say on whom they get sold to any more.
Perhaps, but they have the proverbial right to vote with their feet, and any possible buyer would have to take into account the fact that Slashdot without the Slashdot crowd would most likely lose a lot of its appeal. Yes, that probably includes Katz too :-)
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Slashdot has no field reporters to gather (or fabricate) the news: it just relies on its immense pool of submitting contributors, who generally do no journalistic effort of their own, they just stumble upon interesting news from other sources.
Now that is precisely what makes Slashdot interesting (despite what a vocal minority may think): the contributors filter the news that they think are worthy when submitting them, and since they're also part of Slashdot's audience, the chances of those news actually being of interest to the audience at large are much higher than with traditional media. That (together with the ensuing mass of comments) is the reason Slashdot remains popular and just keeps bulking up.
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No it's not, it's vinegar, and it's great with salad.
Two corrections: ethanol production is not as heavily subsidized today as it was in the peak of ethanol usage in the mid-80s. Ethanol is actually mixed (20% vol) in the gasoline sold at fuel pumps in Brazil, so you would have a major problem filling up the tank of an unmodified American can there.
Second correction: I don't know where you get the notion that alcohol production consumes more energy than what is yielded by its burning. It's not like thermoelectric plants fueled by alcohol are used to power the distilleries, you know. Ethanol also has a nice side effect in that is a lot less pollutant than gasoline or any petroleum derivative.
Na verdade, pelo que eu saiba, a maior parte do álcool produzido vem das lavouras de cana do norte de SP e PR, e não do PE ou outro estado canvieiro no NE (RN?).
The original poster got it all wrong, its ethanol that is used as commercial fuel alongside with gasoline (as well as mixed in it). The ethanol used comes from sugar cane, of which Brazil is plentiful, no rain forest logging necessary.
'Rain forest myth of the day' debunked: trees in the rain forest are not logged for fuel!
Good thing that you never bothered to check your assumptions, because they can be easily dispelled.