One of the first things that shows up in the Apache video is a "rodent of unusual size" (!). Your webserver was coded by a hamster and your Perl smells of elderberries!
Actually, it is not a big fat target, because you are explicitly allowed to install Linux on it, and then the only thing you don't have access to is the graphic processor (so that you can't use Linux to play games). This destroys the motivation for 95% of hackers.
Opera support more platforms directly It depends on what you call "support". It makes more official builds, but FF runs on more architectures and platforms because you can compile it anywhere if the tools are available. See for example this page which says that Debian maintains a version of Firefox for 12 architectures (I omitted the kfreebsd ports), and that's only for Linux. There are also builds for OpenSolaris and all BSD variants maintained by their respective teams.
Worms 3D sucked bad. Worms Armageddon is the only immortal Worms game. I hope Wine supports it soon enough. (If they released the source it would be even better... but let's be realistic)
Commercial PV cells are not made of doped silicon as you seem to presume. They are made of cadmium telluride. This thing IS noxious: Wikipedia is your friend. Silicon cells are only used in laboratories, because for now they are much more expensive.
Additionally, silicon is abundant on Earth, but it doesn't mean it's cheap. Obtaining semiconductor grade silicon from sand or silicates is not a trivial process, and this is why it's still very expensive despite its broad usage.
Energy from the sun is approximately free, especially when you put your solar panels on top of building and such Cost of solar panels is not zero. They may provide energy return on investment after a few years, but so do all other commercial power sources. I side with GP poster on this one.
I think that while "footfall energy" is very pointless when you want to provide additional power in the subways (it simply won't make any difference, because the trains consume orders of magnitude more energy than the passengers can generate), but it can be extremely useful to power personal mobile appliances like multimedia players and PDAs. A personal generator like this one could even replace wall chargers altogether. I think this is a nontrivial issue, because most people leave them plugged in all the time, silently wasting electricity day and night.
Slashdot is no better at European discrimination. I wanted to post a whiny comment about expensive Lego bricks in Europe, but some dork at/. decided to stay with ISO-8859-1 and this prevents me from using the Euro sign.
it will work only in IE if nobody else implements it. What's wrong with that? It's the same with XUL: nobody else can use that. XUL is predominantly used to write cross-platform browser plugins and the browser GUI itself. There's no website that needs XUL - there are only browser plugins that need XUL. This is very different from client-side scripting, which is sometimes vital to deliver the functionality of your website.
This new "feature", if it gets adopted to any significant extent at all, will only increase the burden on browser developers, as opposed to enabling something that couldn't be done before. Adding a second scripting language to the browser looks a lot like the OOXML bonanza to me.
Under 1000 lines for drag & drop support? This looks like a moderate amount of code, taking into account that you only get raw mouse coordinates from the browser in JS, and that it supports IE.
People dislike Javascript, but in fact it's very powerful. Its Achilles' heel seems to be that no one cares to really learn Javascript like a regular programming language. Rather, people doing Web development look at it as a hacky tool to add bling to their website. They learn small bits of it whenever they want some new effect they saw on the other guy's site, but never stop to learn how to use the vast array of built-in functions effectively, how to create objects, how closures and functional primitives work. Javascript is very much a "real" programming language, but its niche causes most to overlook its powerful and one-of-a-kind features and instead view it through the multitude of browser quirks one has to deal with when using Javascript in Ajax.
China's technology minister, Wan Gang, told Reuters China he would "guarantee as much [access] as possible," defending Web limitations as necessary to protect the country's citizens. PROTECT THEM??? From WHAT??? Persecution by their own government for accessing counter-revolutionary and imperialist websites, of course.
a supreme being who sits high in the sky watching everything you do, who tells you you must follow a set of rules they have set down or else you will be condemned to an eternity of pain and torture yet, who still cares and loves you
religious-minded folks A nice straw man you have there. It should have been "catholic folks". This sort of argument is usually coming from people thinking that "Christianity = catholicism", or even that "belief in God = catholicism". Catholicism is so departed from what Bible says that at the very least you can't equate them. I won't go on about this because there's no point doing it here. While your comment fairly accurately describes the absurdity that catholicism is, it does not describe Christianity in general.
I find it much easier to install Pidgin (formerly GAim) on Windows and Mac compared to Linux. Because you don't know about package managers, or didn't care to check out the "Add/Remove..." option in the apps menu? I don't know how software installation can be easier that it currently is. The only major problem is that it's different, and that Windows' "Add/Remove Software" dialog doesn't actually let you add any software.
Just viewing a web page is "downloading" dozens of files. And when you buy a newspaper, you automatically consent that the newsstand guy can fill your living room with industrial waste. This IS a problem no matter how you spin it.
There are two problems: 1. The exhaust fumes would have to be precooled. Otherwise, any absorbed hydrocarbons would be desorbed right away due to high temperature. 2. Reactive species of nitrogen present in exhaust fumes (NO, NO2, etc.) would oxidize the nanowires, so you would have to have a catalytic converter somewhere before them in the exhaust path to remove them, and the cooling phase would have to occur between the converter and the nanowire absorber (platinum only works in high temperatures).
Since the converter does the same job already (by catalyzing the oxidation of unburnt hydrocarbons in excess oxygen), I think this would be redundant. Additionally, I suppose the nanowires would only remove aerosols and not gaseous hydrocarbons, so the standard platinum converter may actually be more efficient at reducing HC emissions than nanowires.
It can also be burned as fuel when you're done with it. Hair contains about 5% of sulfur. Burning large amounts of hair wouldn't be a very good idea, unless you like inhaling sulfur oxides.
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This happens when somebody not versed enough in obscure American culture attempts a joke at Slashdot...
One of the first things that shows up in the Apache video is a "rodent of unusual size" (!).
Your webserver was coded by a hamster and your Perl smells of elderberries!
Actually, it is not a big fat target, because you are explicitly allowed to install Linux on it, and then the only thing you don't have access to is the graphic processor (so that you can't use Linux to play games). This destroys the motivation for 95% of hackers.
It does. Actually, it didn't work for me when I installed ABP using synaptic, but did when I went to the add-on site.
I suspect that challenging the patent would have been costlier than settling. Additionally, what interest Apple could have in helping Red Hat?
OK, but why numerical entities aren't supported?
Worms 3D sucked bad. Worms Armageddon is the only immortal Worms game. I hope Wine supports it soon enough. (If they released the source it would be even better... but let's be realistic)
Commercial PV cells are not made of doped silicon as you seem to presume. They are made of cadmium telluride. This thing IS noxious: Wikipedia is your friend. Silicon cells are only used in laboratories, because for now they are much more expensive.
Additionally, silicon is abundant on Earth, but it doesn't mean it's cheap. Obtaining semiconductor grade silicon from sand or silicates is not a trivial process, and this is why it's still very expensive despite its broad usage.
I think that while "footfall energy" is very pointless when you want to provide additional power in the subways (it simply won't make any difference, because the trains consume orders of magnitude more energy than the passengers can generate), but it can be extremely useful to power personal mobile appliances like multimedia players and PDAs. A personal generator like this one could even replace wall chargers altogether. I think this is a nontrivial issue, because most people leave them plugged in all the time, silently wasting electricity day and night.
Slashdot is no better at European discrimination. I wanted to post a whiny comment about expensive Lego bricks in Europe, but some dork at /. decided to stay with ISO-8859-1 and this prevents me from using the Euro sign.
Hm, apparently that should have been "Windows browser plugin".
(the Linux stuff is called Moonlight, and isn't functional yet)
This new "feature", if it gets adopted to any significant extent at all, will only increase the burden on browser developers, as opposed to enabling something that couldn't be done before. Adding a second scripting language to the browser looks a lot like the OOXML bonanza to me.
Under 1000 lines for drag & drop support? This looks like a moderate amount of code, taking into account that you only get raw mouse coordinates from the browser in JS, and that it supports IE.
People dislike Javascript, but in fact it's very powerful. Its Achilles' heel seems to be that no one cares to really learn Javascript like a regular programming language. Rather, people doing Web development look at it as a hacky tool to add bling to their website. They learn small bits of it whenever they want some new effect they saw on the other guy's site, but never stop to learn how to use the vast array of built-in functions effectively, how to create objects, how closures and functional primitives work. Javascript is very much a "real" programming language, but its niche causes most to overlook its powerful and one-of-a-kind features and instead view it through the multitude of browser quirks one has to deal with when using Javascript in Ajax.
I recall that "Tiananmen Square" is accessible, but "Tiananmen Square protests of 1989" is not. You might also want to check the second entry.
From WHAT??? Persecution by their own government for accessing counter-revolutionary and imperialist websites, of course.
You're doing something that you would be persecuted for if your government was more like the Chinese one. Think about this.
This sort of argument is usually coming from people thinking that "Christianity = catholicism", or even that "belief in God = catholicism". Catholicism is so departed from what Bible says that at the very least you can't equate them. I won't go on about this because there's no point doing it here.
While your comment fairly accurately describes the absurdity that catholicism is, it does not describe Christianity in general.
I don't know how software installation can be easier that it currently is. The only major problem is that it's different, and that Windows' "Add/Remove Software" dialog doesn't actually let you add any software.
CUDA SDK download
This IS a problem no matter how you spin it.
There are two problems:
1. The exhaust fumes would have to be precooled. Otherwise, any absorbed hydrocarbons would be desorbed right away due to high temperature.
2. Reactive species of nitrogen present in exhaust fumes (NO, NO2, etc.) would oxidize the nanowires, so you would have to have a catalytic converter somewhere before them in the exhaust path to remove them, and the cooling phase would have to occur between the converter and the nanowire absorber (platinum only works in high temperatures).
Since the converter does the same job already (by catalyzing the oxidation of unburnt hydrocarbons in excess oxygen), I think this would be redundant. Additionally, I suppose the nanowires would only remove aerosols and not gaseous hydrocarbons, so the standard platinum converter may actually be more efficient at reducing HC emissions than nanowires.