His grandmother then refused to let him use the internet at all, and the computer for games only when someone else was in the office to supervise.
Yep - the kid was definitly tought a lesson: - Next time something like this happens (online or offline) don't tell anybody or else you're the one that will get punished.
Slashdot never ceases to amaze me - On one side there's all the rage about DCMA and media business hurting the consumer. - On the other side there's the "oh look at this nice toy from Sony [also a media business], it's sooooo cool - i must have one of these" sort of articles.
With all the current battle between content-producers and consumers, and since Sony is also a content-producer, i've completly stoped buying Sony products.
Also Sony products usually include lotsa "features" whose only purpose is to "protect (Sony's) intelectual property" in the process hurting the consumers or at the very least causing needless problems (macrovision anyone).
I'm a big Jewel fan, and her album came out in the US last year, so I ordered it from Amazon.com and paid about £15 in all, including delivery. Amazon.co.uk wanted £20!
That's an Amazon.co.uk and a British problem not an european problem. (a consumer association research i saw some years ago showed that prices in GB were 1.2 times the european average - and this was before the strong pound and weak euro)
Just recently i changed from ordering my books with Amazon.co.uk into ordering them from a mainland online store (Proxis.nl) and it's about 2/3 of the price - the books are cheaper (english language books too), the sending costs are cheaper (as in zero) and i get the books as soon as each becomes available as oposed to have to wait for the whole package.
On the other hand it helps to know some mainland europe language.
gratuitious karma whoring (Score:2) by Wakkow on Saturday May 04, @09:39AM (#3461996) (User #52585 Info | http://trigeek.net/) What is ground effect, you ask? Karma Whore to the rescue!
I've spent the last 10 minutes trying to convert Wakkow to Karma Whore but just couldn't do it - i've even tried a couple of other languages ("Puta de Karma", "Putain De Karma", "Karma Dirne") but to no avail.
Yeah, I think it is much different to be blown up by a misguided Israeli tank shell or missile or bomb that wasn't meant to strike me and some lunatic nut suicide bombing terrorist who INTENTIONALLY tries to kill dozens, hundreds or thousands of civilians.
1) You are making an assumption that the tank-shells/airplane-bombs were misguided.
2) If the Israelis WOULDN'T go around firing shells or droping bombs, none would hit any civilians. (Please don't forget they were doing it in territory they invaded in 1964)
3) There is no proven relation between Osama bin Laden and the Palestinians. I would suspect that the situation in Palestine and the American support to Israel are part of the "reasoning" behind the Sep. 11 attack. Then again, so is the fact that there are American bases in Saudi Arabia (holy land and all that) - are the Saudi's also to be blamed?
I also remember Palestinians jumping up and down celebrating when the World Trade Center fell. The Palestinians, like the rest of the Arab world, don't want peace with Israel and never have.
1) Never say never - if you say never then it's bound to be false.
2) I'm sure there were some Americans cheering up when the Oaklahoma bombing happened - does that make all Americans bad???
WHen did I say that all the destruction in Ramallah or anywhere else in the West Bank was brought about by a misguided bomb? Nice of you to draw conclusions that are devoid of logic.
Well, it seems i concluded wrongly that your only explanation for the death of Palestinian civilians was "misguided" bombs. This was the core argument in your explanation that Palestinians are not victims.
How can you then equate the destruction in Ramalah and other places (like Jenin) which was brought about by bombs which according to you are not necessarily misguided with the fact that (also according to you) Palestinians are not victims.
Please keep in mind that destroying a person's home and all his/her thing is a for of victimization and that under all that destruction there were a lot of dead bodies.
Here's a tip for the Palestinians:
If you don't want tanks and bulldozers rolling through your villages, try not blowing up people in other countries.
I agree.
I can understand the desperation of a people living in an occupied land (yes, Palestina is an occupied land since 1964 - even the UN accepts this) fighting against an army which has all of the latest tanks, planes, helicopters and other weaponry - this surely lead to those desperate measures.
Yet, i still agree that the suicided-bombings are not the solution, they are part of the problem.
The Palestinians are victims, victims of being pawns of the other Arab states and their repugnant leadership.
Remove "other Arab" from the phrase and i'll agree with you: - The Palestinians are victims, victims of being pawns of the states and their repugnant leadership.
With "the states" meaning country leaderships all over including Palestinian, Israeli, USA, other Arab states, Europe, etc...
What i find most extraordinary is that - On one side Microsoft tells companies "TCO on Unix is very high because you need to contract expensive Unix specialists - to avoid that you should use Windows" - On the other side they're convincing governments that training their citizens in Windows is the best path for a country to be successful in IT.
Basically Mexico is choosing to create a country full of cheap Windows specialists instead of high-paid Unix specialists
If competition has already driven the "price" of Windows specialists down (compared to Unix), investing in training more Windows specialists is like spending money to place more product into an already/going-to saturate(d) market.
--------------
At the same time it's patently obvious that in a couple of years a lot of that software will need to be upgraded, and by that time Microsoft will charge big bucks for the Licenses on a country which by then will have a huge (and unrecoverable) time and money investment on Windows.
Then the Andromedans will mix his genome with Andromedan genome and create a being that looks like an Andromedan fashion model but is actually an horrible monster inside
I was aware of that sort of problem in Africa, but i hadn't the slightest idea it occured in Poland also - one learns new things everyday.
Against that sort of problems i sugest fibre-optics instead of copper cables. Being totally worthless for anything else is one of the great values of fibre over copper cables - a thief can sell the copper in the copper cables, but not the glass in fibre (glass is way too cheap to be worth the trouble).
It is exactly this same FLAWED logic that people use to portray the Palestinians as victims. Civilians being killed by a bomb from a plane that misses its target and people flying planes into a pair of 110 story skyscrapers are not even REMOTELY equivocal.
What twist of mind took you from the parent's post talk about American intervention to saying that the Palestinians are not victims?
It's even more amazing that you believe that all the destruction in Ramalah was caused by a bomb from a plane that misses it's target. Maybe the tanks that ocupy some Palestenian cities are there purely by chance?
In the Middle East conflict both the Israelis and the Palestinians are victims - or to you believe that being blown-up by an Israeli tank or war-plane is different from being blow-up by a Palestinian suicide-bomber
PS: I love the ever present reference to the September 11 attack - always done in a very visual way so as to go directly to the emotions of the reader (and bypass the part of the brain that thinks) - Interestingly enough, this kind of references mostly comes in posts whose logic is weak or non-existant.
The reality of it is there are too many dare I say legacy applications out there that will be disabled and create a support nightmare. Aditionally, think of the support problems. Your new girlfriend (or boyfriend) calls and wants some help with his or her computer. Which version do they have? Does it have IE built in or not? Defrag built in or not? Media player, HyperTerminal, or any list of other things.
In what way having to figure out if a program is there or not (and deal with it) is more complex than (the current situation of) having to figure out which version is installed (and deal with it)???
1) CNN definitly shows a North American view of the world. I get CNN Europe and it's still mostly USA, USA, USA. After September 11 (even months after it) by comparison to European news networks it was extraordinary visible how much CNN concentrated on the "War on Terror" and "Live State Department Press Conferences" and "Brave American Soldiers in Afganistan" while all that time the situation in the West-Bank degraded into extreme violence (one side with Tanks, Attack-Helicopters and Fighter-Bombers the other side with Human-Bombs).
2) In order to even start to really understand a Country and it's People one has to live there. Television, magazines, radio and newspapers will NEVER give you enough of a background and people-feeling to allow you to really understand the issues. Going there on vacations doesn't work either - you will always get the "Special Turist Treatment" and the fact that you dress different, behave different and even worse - don't know the local language - will always guarantee that people (even unconsciously) will act differently towards you.
Overzealous law enforcement agent's point of view:
- I'm sure that some of the demonstrators in Seatle must be part of a terrorist organization. At the very least they are unpatriotic. They must be investigated under the USA PATRIOT Act.
- Also the NGOs - after all, if they're Non-Governmental Organizations then they're not with us ('cause we're the government). If they're not with us they must be against us - beter wiretap them.
- We should also wiretap religious organizations - they might be spreading religious extremism and creating terrorists.
Pr0n is always there whenever a new way of feeding your senses is invented: - Painting -> Paintings of naked women frolicking with elves or something - Telephone -> Phone-sex - Cinema -> Porno movies - Television -> Porno movies - Internet -> Pr0n sites ...
"The State" is just another form of "The Company".
(and "free elections" do not produce a State which defends the consumer - if it was so, we wouldn't be posting in this thread, now would we?)
How do you expect The State, which in practice is just like a company (only bigger and with a monopoly on whatever it wants) to behave beter than other companies do?
As i see it, the current situation with music distributions an copying is a result of each agent (read person) acting to maximize it's own personal good: - Some people consider the investment in time and risk (arguably, little risk) is outweighted by the beneficts of copying music. - Other people consider that it's best to invest money to get music. - Managers in music companies prefer to stick around with the know model of music distribution and pricing so that their stock options are worth more in the short term. - (hopefully) other managers in music companies take a long term view and prefer to develop new pricing and/or distribution models
I do agree with you about the amount of energy required to convert the CaCO3 back to CaO, I wonder if that will be from renewable sources that do not produce CO2?
They can just setup a couple of Gas-Fired Powerplants upwind from the CO2 remotion plant.
(Actually, this started as a joke, but it might even work if the ammount of energy generated in the Powerplants for each CO2 molecule produced is lesser than the energy spent removing each molecule from the air. It mostly depends on: - The energy gained when generating CO2 from gas + O2 - The efficiency of the gas-fired powerplant - The energy that spent converting CaCO3 to CO2 - The efficiency of the CaCO3->CO2 conversion )
In any case, perhaps all offices should institute a staggered mandatory 15 minute inactivity period every couple of hours for each active computer.
This is actually law in some countries (for example Holland). In practice, especially for IT workers, it's not followed - mostly is a question of work culture and ignorance. Still, around here nobody (much less your manager) will comment if you do a pause once in awhile.
Slashdot Mirror
There was a market for lighting places at night - several implementations were competing for it, one of which was the lightbulb.
Also note that not only house but also street lighting was part of that market.
Ooops ... beter start hiding my identity when i'm buying porn^H^H^H^Hnature documentaries videotapes.
What?
No going in and squezing the vegetables?
No trying to put boxes of condoms in old ladies troleys?
No sneeking a peek at the cashiers boobs?
What's the fun of that???
His grandmother then refused to let him use the internet at all, and the computer for games only when someone else was in the office to supervise.
Yep - the kid was definitly tought a lesson:
- Next time something like this happens (online or offline) don't tell anybody or else you're the one that will get punished.
Then again IANAP (I Am Not A Parent).
A whole new class of excuses for bad driving is born:
- You Honor, i didn't willingly pass the red-light, a stranglet hit my car and pushed it through. I'm sure the microscopic size hole can be found.
It is left as an exercise to the reader to do the same calculations using metric units.
It's not prostitution if your karma is 50.
It's called a freebie.
I thought photons were particles!
Actually they're both wave and particle.
Same thing for electrons.
Actually all mater is both wave and particle.
Trust me on this one!
I hope this clears up all doubts you had.
Slashdot never ceases to amaze me
- On one side there's all the rage about DCMA and media business hurting the consumer.
- On the other side there's the "oh look at this nice toy from Sony [also a media business], it's sooooo cool - i must have one of these" sort of articles.
With all the current battle between content-producers and consumers, and since Sony is also a content-producer, i've completly stoped buying Sony products.
Also Sony products usually include lotsa "features" whose only purpose is to "protect (Sony's) intelectual property" in the process hurting the consumers or at the very least causing needless problems (macrovision anyone).
I'm a big Jewel fan, and her album came out in the US last year, so I ordered it from Amazon.com and paid about £15 in all, including delivery. Amazon.co.uk wanted £20!
That's an Amazon.co.uk and a British problem not an european problem. (a consumer association research i saw some years ago showed that prices in GB were 1.2 times the european average - and this was before the strong pound and weak euro)
Just recently i changed from ordering my books with Amazon.co.uk into ordering them from a mainland online store (Proxis.nl) and it's about 2/3 of the price - the books are cheaper (english language books too), the sending costs are cheaper (as in zero) and i get the books as soon as each becomes available as oposed to have to wait for the whole package.
On the other hand it helps to know some mainland europe language.
That would be Votolom
gratuitious karma whoring (Score:2)
by Wakkow on Saturday May 04, @09:39AM (#3461996)
(User #52585 Info | http://trigeek.net/)
What is ground effect, you ask? Karma Whore to the rescue!
I've spent the last 10 minutes trying to convert Wakkow to Karma Whore but just couldn't do it - i've even tried a couple of other languages ("Puta de Karma", "Putain De Karma", "Karma Dirne") but to no avail.
So
Yeah, I think it is much different to be blown up by a misguided Israeli tank shell or missile or bomb that wasn't meant to strike me and some lunatic nut suicide bombing terrorist who INTENTIONALLY tries to kill dozens, hundreds or thousands of civilians.
/airplane-bombs were misguided.
...
1) You are making an assumption that the tank-shells
2) If the Israelis WOULDN'T go around firing shells or droping bombs, none would hit any civilians. (Please don't forget they were doing it in territory they invaded in 1964)
3) There is no proven relation between Osama bin Laden and the Palestinians. I would suspect that the situation in Palestine and the American support to Israel are part of the "reasoning" behind the Sep. 11 attack. Then again, so is the fact that there are American bases in Saudi Arabia (holy land and all that) - are the Saudi's also to be blamed?
I also remember Palestinians jumping up and down celebrating when the World Trade Center fell. The Palestinians, like the rest of the Arab world, don't want peace with Israel and never have.
1) Never say never - if you say never then it's bound to be false.
2) I'm sure there were some Americans cheering up when the Oaklahoma bombing happened - does that make all Americans bad???
WHen did I say that all the destruction in Ramallah or anywhere else in the West Bank was brought about by a misguided bomb? Nice of you to draw conclusions that are devoid of logic.
Well, it seems i concluded wrongly that your only explanation for the death of Palestinian civilians was "misguided" bombs. This was the core argument in your explanation that Palestinians are not victims.
How can you then equate the destruction in Ramalah and other places (like Jenin) which was brought about by bombs which according to you are not necessarily misguided with the fact that (also according to you) Palestinians are not victims.
Please keep in mind that destroying a person's home and all his/her thing is a for of victimization and that under all that destruction there were a lot of dead bodies.
Here's a tip for the Palestinians:
If you don't want tanks and bulldozers rolling through your villages, try not blowing up people in other countries.
I agree.
I can understand the desperation of a people living in an occupied land (yes, Palestina is an occupied land since 1964 - even the UN accepts this) fighting against an army which has all of the latest tanks, planes, helicopters and other weaponry - this surely lead to those desperate measures.
Yet, i still agree that the suicided-bombings are not the solution, they are part of the problem.
The Palestinians are victims, victims of being pawns of the other Arab states and their repugnant leadership.
Remove "other Arab" from the phrase and i'll agree with you:
- The Palestinians are victims, victims of being pawns of the states and their repugnant leadership.
With "the states" meaning country leaderships all over including Palestinian, Israeli, USA, other Arab states, Europe, etc
What i find most extraordinary is that
- On one side Microsoft tells companies "TCO on Unix is very high because you need to contract expensive Unix specialists - to avoid that you should use Windows"
- On the other side they're convincing governments that training their citizens in Windows is the best path for a country to be successful in IT.
Basically Mexico is choosing to create a country full of cheap Windows specialists instead of high-paid Unix specialists
If competition has already driven the "price" of Windows specialists down (compared to Unix), investing in training more Windows specialists is like spending money to place more product into an already/going-to saturate(d) market.
--------------
At the same time it's patently obvious that in a couple of years a lot of that software will need to be upgraded, and by that time Microsoft will charge big bucks for the Licenses on a country which by then will have a huge (and unrecoverable) time and money investment on Windows.
We can just bean Venter's genome to Andromeda.
Then the Andromedans will mix his genome with Andromedan genome and create a being that looks like an Andromedan fashion model but is actually an horrible monster inside
I was aware of that sort of problem in Africa, but i hadn't the slightest idea it occured in Poland also - one learns new things everyday.
Against that sort of problems i sugest fibre-optics instead of copper cables. Being totally worthless for anything else is one of the great values of fibre over copper cables - a thief can sell the copper in the copper cables, but not the glass in fibre (glass is way too cheap to be worth the trouble).
It is exactly this same FLAWED logic that people use to portray the Palestinians as victims. Civilians being killed by a bomb from a plane that misses its target and people flying planes into a pair of 110 story skyscrapers are not even REMOTELY equivocal.
What twist of mind took you from the parent's post talk about American intervention to saying that the Palestinians are not victims?
It's even more amazing that you believe that all the destruction in Ramalah was caused by a bomb from a plane that misses it's target. Maybe the tanks that ocupy some Palestenian cities are there purely by chance?
In the Middle East conflict both the Israelis and the Palestinians are victims - or to you believe that being blown-up by an Israeli tank or war-plane is different from being blow-up by a Palestinian suicide-bomber
PS: I love the ever present reference to the September 11 attack - always done in a very visual way so as to go directly to the emotions of the reader (and bypass the part of the brain that thinks) - Interestingly enough, this kind of references mostly comes in posts whose logic is weak or non-existant.
The reality of it is there are too many dare I say legacy applications out there that will be disabled and create a support nightmare. Aditionally, think of the support problems. Your new girlfriend (or boyfriend) calls and wants some help with his or her computer. Which version do they have? Does it have IE built in or not? Defrag built in or not? Media player, HyperTerminal, or any list of other things.
In what way having to figure out if a program is there or not (and deal with it) is more complex than (the current situation of) having to figure out which version is installed (and deal with it)???
1) CNN definitly shows a North American view of the world. I get CNN Europe and it's still mostly USA, USA, USA.
After September 11 (even months after it) by comparison to European news networks it was extraordinary visible how much CNN concentrated on the "War on Terror" and "Live State Department Press Conferences" and "Brave American Soldiers in Afganistan" while all that time the situation in the West-Bank degraded into extreme violence (one side with Tanks, Attack-Helicopters and Fighter-Bombers the other side with Human-Bombs).
2) In order to even start to really understand a Country and it's People one has to live there. Television, magazines, radio and newspapers will NEVER give you enough of a background and people-feeling to allow you to really understand the issues. Going there on vacations doesn't work either - you will always get the "Special Turist Treatment" and the fact that you dress different, behave different and even worse - don't know the local language - will always guarantee that people (even unconsciously) will act differently towards you.
Iuhuu Karma come to me baby - i'll give you one real cheap.
Overzealous law enforcement agent's point of view:
- I'm sure that some of the demonstrators in Seatle must be part of a terrorist organization. At the very least they are unpatriotic. They must be investigated under the USA PATRIOT Act.
- Also the NGOs - after all, if they're Non-Governmental Organizations then they're not with us ('cause we're the government). If they're not with us they must be against us - beter wiretap them.
- We should also wiretap religious organizations - they might be spreading religious extremism and creating terrorists.
Pr0n is always there whenever a new way of feeding your senses is invented:
- Painting -> Paintings of naked women frolicking with elves or something
- Telephone -> Phone-sex
- Cinema -> Porno movies
- Television -> Porno movies
- Internet -> Pr0n sites
...
Need i say more???
"The State" is just another form of "The Company".
(and "free elections" do not produce a State which defends the consumer - if it was so, we wouldn't be posting in this thread, now would we?)
How do you expect The State, which in practice is just like a company (only bigger and with a monopoly on whatever it wants) to behave beter than other companies do?
As i see it, the current situation with music distributions an copying is a result of each agent (read person) acting to maximize it's own personal good:
- Some people consider the investment in time and risk (arguably, little risk) is outweighted by the beneficts of copying music.
- Other people consider that it's best to invest money to get music.
- Managers in music companies prefer to stick around with the know model of music distribution and pricing so that their stock options are worth more in the short term.
- (hopefully) other managers in music companies take a long term view and prefer to develop new pricing and/or distribution models
I do agree with you about the amount of energy required to convert the CaCO3 back to CaO, I wonder if that will be from renewable sources that do not produce CO2?
They can just setup a couple of Gas-Fired Powerplants upwind from the CO2 remotion plant.
(Actually, this started as a joke, but it might even work if the ammount of energy generated in the Powerplants for each CO2 molecule produced is lesser than the energy spent removing each molecule from the air.
It mostly depends on:
- The energy gained when generating CO2 from gas + O2
- The efficiency of the gas-fired powerplant
- The energy that spent converting CaCO3 to CO2
- The efficiency of the CaCO3->CO2 conversion
)
In any case, perhaps all offices should institute a staggered mandatory 15 minute inactivity period every couple of hours for each active computer.
This is actually law in some countries (for example Holland). In practice, especially for IT workers, it's not followed - mostly is a question of work culture and ignorance. Still, around here nobody (much less your manager) will comment if you do a pause once in awhile.