Now that's something worth passing! A lot of geeks smoke cannabis, I'm sure this news item would be interesting to a lot of geeks, but Slashdot passed on the news:
This is news for nerds.
Dork: Social reject Nerd: Socially inept Geek: Obsessed with crap
Take it do Digg. Or, if you can write a snappy headline, Fark.
Yes, if I hadn't seen it on Slashdot, I wouldn't have believed it - this may be the only place that neither the person who submits the story nor the "editor" who approves it actually read it. OK, maybe Digg, too, but that place became a cesspool of irrelevancy a long time ago. At least Slashdot is hanging on by its fingernails.
The only thing I've learned is that the price of oil has NOTHING to do with the actual supply or sustainability as a natural resource and is artificially set by non-sequitur geo-political issues. Unless you assume that there has been less oil pumped over the past year than previous years, or that we consume more oil than can be pumped (hint: both of these assumptions are false).
It's hard to say that anything is cheaper than it should be unless it's being artificially subsidized. In the case of gas, it's really more expensive than it should be because of various taxes. Gas is expensive in Europe because it's more heavily taxed. It's dirt cheap in Venezuela because it's heavily subsidized.
If, as you suggest, more oil has been pumped over the past year than previously and we are not consuming more oil than can be pumped, maybe we're paying too much!
Regardless, I'm pretty sure that no oil company is taking a loss on a barrel of oil and no refinery is taking a loss on a gallon of gasoline. As long as taxes (or subsidies) are not used as a means of regulating demand, gas prices are pretty much what they should be.
I read The Big U when I was in college, so I guess that it was a little more situationally applicable (or whatever other multisyllabic terminology applies).
Snow Crash and The Diamond Age are also favorites of mine. But something bizarre happened after that. It's as if Stephenson began a torrid, years-long relationship with an unabridged thesaurus. Either that, or his publisher started paying by the word.
Crap, an anonymous coward. And a good thing, I guess, because you're mostly wrong.
"Jury-rigged" has been around for a few hundred years. Just ask any sailor (in the classic, wind-powered sense). A jury rig is a makeshift mast and sail arrangement that's put together when the main gear is damaged or destroyed. I can't quote definitively, but I'm pretty sure that "jerry-rigged" is a corruption of jury-rigged....aha! Google is my friend. And it will be yours, too. Look up the term. I'm right.
I can't believe that I'm replying to this. Here's a lesson in two dimensional spatial relationships.
Your picture:
----------- Your head Big empty space ----------- My comment
Where is "Your head"? It is above the big empty space. Where is "My comment"? Below the big empty space.
Now let's look at my picture.
----------- My comment Big empty space ----------- Your head
Where is "My comment"? Over the big empty space. Where is "Your head"? Under the big empty space. The implication? My comment went right over your head.
So your reply to the parent went *under* his head?
I've not heard that expression before 'I was being so funny that you didn't notice.... Woosh, It went right under your head.'
You are suggesting that my comment went right under his head. That concludes today's lesson.
Moot, I think, because the "precedent" was no precedent at all, but just an application of existing copyright law. No new ground was broken. And the whole district court vs. appellate court thing, too, of course.
I was speaking of hardware a little more generally than that. A competitive system can be built, using Intel hardware, without requiring that OS/X be used, right? That was not the case in the Data General case. A competitive system could be built, but there was no operating system that was competitive with RDOS at the time.
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"Slaves"...and I thought that Apple had the hyperbole experts!
Wow, I see that the /. gullibility meter is pegged this week!
The magic carburetor. You guys are wound a little too tight.
BTW, my name is not Mr. TROLL, it's Mr. SARCASM. But you can call me "Hardcase".
True...and how about that guy who invented the carburetor that could get a hundred miles to the gallon? The oil industry "took care" of the problem!
Not exactly...just life imitating /. It's a dupe.
Now that's something worth passing! A lot of geeks smoke cannabis, I'm sure this news item would be interesting to a lot of geeks, but Slashdot passed on the news:
This is news for nerds.
Dork: Social reject
Nerd: Socially inept
Geek: Obsessed with crap
Take it do Digg. Or, if you can write a snappy headline, Fark.
Well, just wait until the 9th Circuit gets this case! By god, they'll overtu...oh. Huh. Didn't expect that.
Just don't make the error of thinking they're realistic for everyone.
That's where the "there's no solution that will work for everyone" part of my comment comes in.
Yes, if I hadn't seen it on Slashdot, I wouldn't have believed it - this may be the only place that neither the person who submits the story nor the "editor" who approves it actually read it. OK, maybe Digg, too, but that place became a cesspool of irrelevancy a long time ago. At least Slashdot is hanging on by its fingernails.
Take the bus? Subway? Train? Bicycle? Hey, there's no solution that's going to work for everyone.
You didn't know oil was a traded commodity?
Sure he does, he just defined it as a commodity.
The only thing I've learned is that the price of oil has NOTHING to do with the actual supply or sustainability as a natural resource and is artificially set by non-sequitur geo-political issues. Unless you assume that there has been less oil pumped over the past year than previous years, or that we consume more oil than can be pumped (hint: both of these assumptions are false).
It's hard to say that anything is cheaper than it should be unless it's being artificially subsidized. In the case of gas, it's really more expensive than it should be because of various taxes. Gas is expensive in Europe because it's more heavily taxed. It's dirt cheap in Venezuela because it's heavily subsidized.
If, as you suggest, more oil has been pumped over the past year than previously and we are not consuming more oil than can be pumped, maybe we're paying too much!
Regardless, I'm pretty sure that no oil company is taking a loss on a barrel of oil and no refinery is taking a loss on a gallon of gasoline. As long as taxes (or subsidies) are not used as a means of regulating demand, gas prices are pretty much what they should be.
I didn't mean it literally. Let's just say that he went from the KISS style of prose in his first books to something a little more, well, florid.
I read the Thomas Covenant books when they were first published. Maybe that's the third option - he's channeling Donaldson.
I read The Big U when I was in college, so I guess that it was a little more situationally applicable (or whatever other multisyllabic terminology applies).
Snow Crash and The Diamond Age are also favorites of mine. But something bizarre happened after that. It's as if Stephenson began a torrid, years-long relationship with an unabridged thesaurus. Either that, or his publisher started paying by the word.
Crap, an anonymous coward. And a good thing, I guess, because you're mostly wrong.
"Jury-rigged" has been around for a few hundred years. Just ask any sailor (in the classic, wind-powered sense). A jury rig is a makeshift mast and sail arrangement that's put together when the main gear is damaged or destroyed. I can't quote definitively, but I'm pretty sure that "jerry-rigged" is a corruption of jury-rigged. ...aha! Google is my friend. And it will be yours, too. Look up the term. I'm right.
I can't believe that I'm replying to this. Here's a lesson in two dimensional spatial relationships.
Your picture:
----------- Your head
Big empty space
----------- My comment
Where is "Your head"? It is above the big empty space. Where is "My comment"? Below the big empty space.
Now let's look at my picture.
----------- My comment
Big empty space
----------- Your head
Where is "My comment"? Over the big empty space. Where is "Your head"? Under the big empty space. The implication? My comment went right over your head.
So your reply to the parent went *under* his head?
I've not heard that expression before 'I was being so funny that you didn't notice.... Woosh, It went right under your head.'
You are suggesting that my comment went right under his head. That concludes today's lesson.
Now listen, if you've waited this long to complain about Taco's reading comprehension skills, you're way too late to get into the game.
Shouldn't that be
----------- Your head
Big empty space
----------- My comment
?
No.
;-) Even mooter!
----------- My comment
Big empty space
----------- Your head
Moot, I think, because the "precedent" was no precedent at all, but just an application of existing copyright law. No new ground was broken. And the whole district court vs. appellate court thing, too, of course.
Oh crap. Here come the tortured car analogies. We were doing so well up until this point!
I don't think Apple could whether a storm...
"Weather". I know, I could of left it alone, but I'm sure that its bothering alot of people.
Many people have used woks etc as Wifi dishes. Now turn the tables. Use the dish as a huge wok and go for the stir fry world record.
Wait a second...if you used a wok as a Wifi dish, would it be an...eWok? Oh man, sometimes I kill myself. Many people wish I was better at it, too.
I was speaking of hardware a little more generally than that. A competitive system can be built, using Intel hardware, without requiring that OS/X be used, right? That was not the case in the Data General case. A competitive system could be built, but there was no operating system that was competitive with RDOS at the time.