And where do you propose humanity should expand its habitat to? The other planets in our solar system don't seem particularly habitable, and we're a long way from being able to go farther away.
Why is trying to get away from fossil fuels guaranteed to fail? Noone is saying we should continue to use mainly fossil fuels and just use less of them - of course that would only extend the time to eventual demise a little.
We are constantly getting about 1.7e17 W from the sun. At the same time, according to Wikipedia, we're using about 1.5e13 W, 80-90% of which is from fossil fuels. Let's just tap a little bit more of what the sun gives us right now, rather than what we got millions of years ago, okay?
That works nicely if the businesses which treat their employees well can actually afford to hire people. To be able to do that, they have to sell their goods. If the competition is significantly cheaper, they won't sell much.
One way to be cheaper is to treat your employees worse. The cheaper business undercuts everyone else and gets all the sales. It's a race to the bottom. People don't want to work for them, but since the nicer employers can't pay, they have no choice.
It's really, really important to read the EULA. It's not that people can put anything they want into it, but it's fairly close. Short of signing over constitutionally protected rights, anything goes.
We're even more screwed than you think. EULAs will never stop most people from doing anything, so they're silently accepted and ignored. Yet, when you upset the publisher enough, they can now go after you for any crap they put in an EULA nobody ever reads.
Yes, politicians are corrupt. That problem exists everywhere, obviously more so in countries where they cannot be easily removed from power. (But it's by no means exclusive to them.)
However, that doesn't change the fact that businesses in China can do whatever they damn well please. The difference between "you need political connections and have to bribe some officials to do it" and "everybody can do it" is a quantitative one, not a qualitative one.
Of course they take shitty jobs over no jobs at all. That's the reason the system works. You're confusing how it works with why things are the way the are.
You forgot:
5. They now compete on equal terms with the rest of the world
6. Manufacturing will be distributed more evenly across the world, and, by necessity, other sectors too
7. People everywhere get a fairer share of the world's produce
8. PROFIT! (this time for everybody, not just a few)
See, no '???'. The world's economy doesn't have to be based on exploitation.
Which part of my comment makes you think I'm advocating Maoism, or Stalinism, or anything of that sort? For the record, I'm not. That would be illogical, why would I want to replace corporations treating workers badly with a state doing the same?
Really? Suppose he does start to treat his workers decently. He raises wages, cuts work hours, introduces paid vacation, sick leave, etc. All this costs money, so he'll either have to raise prices or lower his profits.
If he raises his prices, his customers are eventually going to find a new manufacturer who doesn't treat his workers as well and is therefore cheaper. He goes out of business.
If he instead lowers his profits, then his shareholders are going to say "wtf, we want a new CEO". Even if he somehow manages to convince them that not being evil is a good thing and will benefit them in the long run, lowering profits means that at some point, he won't be able to invest in new technology to make his workforce more productive. Meanwhile, everyone else is using this new technology, and therefore able to undercut him. Again, he goes out of business.
"a harsh environment is a good thing"
"hungry people have especially clear minds"
This man is a sadist. The sad part is that (mostly) unregulated capitalism, as it exists now in China, essentially forces him to either be an asshole or go out of business.
TFA says that any organic compounds which might have been found would have been destroyed by heating perchlorate to 200-500C. I remember reading something similar to this a while back here on/. (but I don't have a link handy).
Next up, pre-register now for the new murder pass, for the low low introductory price of only $149.90! Bulk discounts available.
Seriously, if increasing the speed limit to 90 mph has negligible effects on safety, then allow it for everybody if you want to. But paying the state to be exempt from the law just stinks of corruption.
Someone needs to teach HP some basic eBay skills. A bidding war doesn't make sense if you're going to snipe anyway. The point of sniping is not letting anybody know beforehand that you're interested in the item!
Never check your input, no matter where it comes from
Make sure to make your algorithms as complex as possible so you don't run out race conditions and other non-trivial bugs, preferably in security critical areas
Embed your security flaws in specifications you'll have to honor forever to maintain backwards compatibility
Most importantly: When (not if) somebody finds a bug and reports it to you, don't fix it at once. Only when an exploit is out in the wild you can even start thinking about how to fix the bug.
Yes. That was more than 15 years ago. Somehow, intruding on everybody's privacy and spending millions in the process for catching something that might happen maybe once every ten years doesn't seem like a great deal to me.
It is a great US myth that corporations fund the government. The actual facts are that the people pay more.
The people fund government spending, but the corporations fund the politicians. Guess who they work for. Is it any wonder the people end up getting shafted all the time?
Also, that's not a US-only thing. It's the same everywhere.
Now that they can make pixels so small that they can only be singled out from distances closer than my eyes can focus, they can finally put some effort into making.. i got nothing, i don't see the point of this.
How about sharp and non-jagged fonts? It removes the need for anti-aliasing, since your vision acts as the low-pass filter now.
Slashdot Mirror
So, where's the torrent?
Pentagon, meet the Streisand effect.
And where do you propose humanity should expand its habitat to? The other planets in our solar system don't seem particularly habitable, and we're a long way from being able to go farther away.
Why is trying to get away from fossil fuels guaranteed to fail? Noone is saying we should continue to use mainly fossil fuels and just use less of them - of course that would only extend the time to eventual demise a little.
We are constantly getting about 1.7e17 W from the sun. At the same time, according to Wikipedia, we're using about 1.5e13 W, 80-90% of which is from fossil fuels. Let's just tap a little bit more of what the sun gives us right now, rather than what we got millions of years ago, okay?
not just that, but Google TV is based on... Android. I guess all TVs will have to come with cameras and GPS too :)
They're called telescreens then...
That works nicely if the businesses which treat their employees well can actually afford to hire people. To be able to do that, they have to sell their goods. If the competition is significantly cheaper, they won't sell much.
One way to be cheaper is to treat your employees worse. The cheaper business undercuts everyone else and gets all the sales. It's a race to the bottom. People don't want to work for them, but since the nicer employers can't pay, they have no choice.
It's really, really important to read the EULA. It's not that people can put anything they want into it, but it's fairly close. Short of signing over constitutionally protected rights, anything goes.
Didn't we just conclude in that other discussion that private entities could in fact do this?
We're even more screwed than you think. EULAs will never stop most people from doing anything, so they're silently accepted and ignored. Yet, when you upset the publisher enough, they can now go after you for any crap they put in an EULA nobody ever reads.
This world is a fucked-up place.
Yes, politicians are corrupt. That problem exists everywhere, obviously more so in countries where they cannot be easily removed from power. (But it's by no means exclusive to them.)
However, that doesn't change the fact that businesses in China can do whatever they damn well please. The difference between "you need political connections and have to bribe some officials to do it" and "everybody can do it" is a quantitative one, not a qualitative one.
Of course they take shitty jobs over no jobs at all. That's the reason the system works. You're confusing how it works with why things are the way the are.
You forgot:
5. They now compete on equal terms with the rest of the world
6. Manufacturing will be distributed more evenly across the world, and, by necessity, other sectors too
7. People everywhere get a fairer share of the world's produce
8. PROFIT! (this time for everybody, not just a few)
See, no '???'. The world's economy doesn't have to be based on exploitation.
China is your example of 'unregulated capitalism'?
Really???
Fascism much?
With regard to what companies can and cannot do, yes. It's been a long time since China was communist in anything but name.
Also, please don't put the first half of your comment in the title. It makes the comment text itself hard to make sense of.
Get back to work chairman, right Mao
Which part of my comment makes you think I'm advocating Maoism, or Stalinism, or anything of that sort? For the record, I'm not. That would be illogical, why would I want to replace corporations treating workers badly with a state doing the same?
I keep my people hungry for more -- "hungry people have especially clear minds" - -
Where does the first part come from? It's not in any of the two FAs. Do you know the book TFA is quoting from?
Really? Suppose he does start to treat his workers decently. He raises wages, cuts work hours, introduces paid vacation, sick leave, etc. All this costs money, so he'll either have to raise prices or lower his profits.
If he raises his prices, his customers are eventually going to find a new manufacturer who doesn't treat his workers as well and is therefore cheaper. He goes out of business.
If he instead lowers his profits, then his shareholders are going to say "wtf, we want a new CEO". Even if he somehow manages to convince them that not being evil is a good thing and will benefit them in the long run, lowering profits means that at some point, he won't be able to invest in new technology to make his workforce more productive. Meanwhile, everyone else is using this new technology, and therefore able to undercut him. Again, he goes out of business.
Tidbits from TFA:
"a harsh environment is a good thing"
"hungry people have especially clear minds"
This man is a sadist. The sad part is that (mostly) unregulated capitalism, as it exists now in China, essentially forces him to either be an asshole or go out of business.
No, the one I meant was a lot longer ago, at least a few months. Can't find it right now though.
TFA says that any organic compounds which might have been found would have been destroyed by heating perchlorate to 200-500C. I remember reading something similar to this a while back here on /. (but I don't have a link handy).
Can you build a map by supplying a fleet of cars with random control inputs and then observing accident statistics?
Next up, pre-register now for the new murder pass, for the low low introductory price of only $149.90! Bulk discounts available.
Seriously, if increasing the speed limit to 90 mph has negligible effects on safety, then allow it for everybody if you want to. But paying the state to be exempt from the law just stinks of corruption.
They replaced it with Gmail?
No, from what I heard /usr/bin/evulution is now a symlink to /usr/bin/mutt.
So HP bought the company for $40.95? What a deal!
Someone needs to teach HP some basic eBay skills. A bidding war doesn't make sense if you're going to snipe anyway. The point of sniping is not letting anybody know beforehand that you're interested in the item!
Yes. That was more than 15 years ago. Somehow, intruding on everybody's privacy and spending millions in the process for catching something that might happen maybe once every ten years doesn't seem like a great deal to me.
Car bombs? Seriously? I can't remember the last time anyone blew up a car in a socially stable society.
Did they hold a contest for the lamest excuse? Or is it April Fool's Day already?
It is a great US myth that corporations fund the government. The actual facts are that the people pay more.
The people fund government spending, but the corporations fund the politicians. Guess who they work for. Is it any wonder the people end up getting shafted all the time?
Also, that's not a US-only thing. It's the same everywhere.
No amount of malware can ever drain as much performance as Norton Antivirus.
That's the point - install Norton Antivirus and malware will instantly stop bothering you!
Now that they can make pixels so small that they can only be singled out from distances closer than my eyes can focus, they can finally put some effort into making.. i got nothing, i don't see the point of this.
How about sharp and non-jagged fonts? It removes the need for anti-aliasing, since your vision acts as the low-pass filter now.