It's a lot easier to hate your neighbors when you live in a "melting pot" society, as opposed to a country where 85% of the population has a common ethnic heritage. I'm not saying it's right to hate each other, just that it makes it easy to hate each other when the guy next door looks, sounds, and acts completely different from you.
Look into the lithium-ion batteries offered by ABSL, a European satellite battery company. They aren't really "commercial" grade as they are designed to be used on spacecraft, but they can survive upwards of 10,000 cycles given appropriate depth of discharge constraints. They are also significantly lighter than nickel-hydrogen packs.
That was the alcohol causing problems, not the accent.
On a related note, I once met a Scottish fella on my travels in New Zealand. I couldn't understand a damn thing he was saying whenever he opened his mouth until he did start drinking. With each beer his speech got one step closer to crystal clear. I take that as evidence that Irish and Scottish folk have actually evolved to rely on alcohol for nominal, daily bodily functions. In the same way that most people need a proper supply of oxygen to the brain to function, I figure the Irish and Scottish need a proper supply of ethanol.
I had an aerothermodynamics teacher that was of Chinese descent (never did find out which part of China). Anyways, he had some serious speech issues, probably even a speech impediment. But one thing that was for sure was that 50% of the time nobody could understand what the hell he was saying. He was a brilliant thermodynamicist, and it was very evident that he had a lot to teach all of those who were willing to put in the effort to learn. But, at the same time, folks were paying a few thousand dollars a quarter to attend school, and being provided a teacher that had a hard time communicating certainly made some folks feel like they were getting ripped off.
Most of us figured out that we could e-mail him questions right after class and get very clear textual responses from him as a bit of a compromise. But the point is, calling a desire for an effective education is disingenuous at best. If someone is paying for that education, it's downright false and stupid to call the desire for an effective education an entitlement.
Yeah because managers have never, ever shown any history of abusing their employees in the entirety of human history. Nope, it's not like businesses have ever, not even once, paid people absolute shit wages for hard, productive work just so they could squeeze a little more profit out of their product.
All of those kids getting $0.05 a week for 12 hour days stitching shoes together 150 years ago weren't producing any more value for their employers than that. Employers always are, and always have been, fair and just in their distribution of wages to their employees.
And yet, despite her seemingly prophetic nature, innocent men have been under the rule of government in one form or another for the entirety of recorded history, and, still, the mass majority of people manage to live their lives out happily, safely, and contently without getting their doors kicked in by the thought-police. Hell, we've even managed to progress our species and society forward a notch or two over the last few millenia under government rule.
Just a curiosity, when were you born year wise? I've noticed a funny trend that folks born just prior to a certain time period often consider that time period to be then "Golden Age" of their society. So, when were you born?
Don't get me wrong, the 50's through 70's did have a lot going for them, true. But there was a lot of fucked up stuff too: Vietnam, Jim Crowe Laws, lots of unhealthy drug abuse (and no, I'm not talking about Mary Jane here), extreme sexual orientation prejudice. Women were still treated very subserviently and poorly quite often. Large portions of rural America did not have clean water or electricity supplied to them. Roads to anywhere except the main cities were often shoddy, windy, bumpy horse trails that added hours to travel time, etc. etc. etc.
Of course, there were cool things going on then too: Elvis, Rock& Roll, the Apollo program, a continual ramping up of investment in infrastructure, etc.
But on the whole, the 50's, 60's, and 70's had their problems just like every other decade in human history.
Luckily, like most things in my life, I don't particularly give a damn about ethics when it comes to what I eat. Have fun trying to convince a woman to sell you her breast milk though.
You're kidding right? Do you really think all the scientists and engineers that brought us things like the space program, the internet, the cell phone, and crash-safe cars were brainwashed by some conspiracy of higher institutions to "enlighten" people? Believe it or not, most schools actually do teach students a thing or two. This perception that there is some kind of conspiracy by those that are edcucated to oppress those that are not has got to be on the same level as the folks that think the moon landing was faked.
Well, to be fair, I think most taxpayers are pissed off that they are paying taxes into the state government and less than what they would like to see of that is going to you. In other words, their tax dollars were getting squandered on a bunch of shit that didn't have tangible benefits like state funded education and, thus, they pissed and moaned about paying taxes in general.
OTOH, the kids could try to be more reasonable about what is really necessary to get them through school. Don't need a new car or a lot of new clothes. My uni's library lends laptops and IPads (for only a few hours, but they are available). And I've always worked while in school. Not full-time, but close to that many hours for some stretches.
All the kids I know that are paying their own way through college, or that are having their parents help pay their way, are driving shitty old rust-buckets, using computers that are 5+ years old that they inherited off Craigslist or as a sibling hand-me-down, and have incredibly modest wardrobes. Hell, my roomate has three pairs of jeans that he patches monthly that are closer to rags than pants at this point because he, "can't afford to spend money on frivolous crap." On top of that, many of them not only work full-time, but about half of them hold two jobs. Those that work that hard, of course, aren't going to have a degree until they're ~30 years old which enforces a rather strict timeline on when they can and cannot start a family and how long they will have to wait to buy their own house.
Hell, my roomate struggles to uphold his half of the grocery bill (which, honestly, I don't even ask that he does) because his tuition is so high. And he is attending what is supposed to be one of the cheaper state schools in California's higher education system (as opposed to a UC, which is about twice as expensive to attend).
I don't know where you get this idea that most kids in collge have new cars and fancy clothes, but so far as I can tell, the only ones who fit that profile are folks whose parent's are loaded that have spoiled them from day one, and folks who have gotten massive scholarships (usually due, primarily, to being a member of a minority group) and, thus, have no need to be fiscally conservative.
Telling college kids to cut back their spending that are already working their way through school today is equivalent to telling them to adopt a homeless man's lifestyle for 6 - 10 years because that Bachelor's degree (which won't even necessarily get you a well-paying job nowadays) will be totally worth the near-decade's worth of poverty you will live through.
Well, Microsoft tends to have a bad history of passive-aggressively fucking people. I am not particularly knowledgeable when it comes to low-level computing stuff like this, but here is what I think a lot of folks are worried about:
1) Microsoft says Windows 8 will need secure boot to boot.
2) Microsoft says OEMs are responsible for allowing the end-user to enable or disable secure boot.
3) Microsoft, behind closed doors, tells numerous OEM vendors, "Yeah, you're welcome to offer hardware that allows the end user to disable secure boot, but if you do that, we aren't going to sell you Windows 8 licenses that you can package with your hardware. Good luck selling computers to people without a copy of the most widely recognized brand of operating system preinstalled on it."
4) In response, OEMs say, "Shit fuck! If we can't offer people new Windows 8 computers, most people are going to see our computers as exotic or out-of-date! We better make it impossible to disable secure boot so that we can continute to package the latest and greatest Windows OS out there!"
5) 95% of computer users now buy computers from trusted OEMs but cannot install or implement Linux when they finally decide, "Fuck this, Microsoft has shit in my oatmeal for the last time, I am going to pick up that weird Linux shit my roomate keeps rambling about."
6) And, thus, Linux adoption gets heavily curtailed because a large segment of would-be Linux users no longer have the option of installing Linux because they didn't know about an obscure-ass issue a year ago when they first bought their computer.
From what I can tell, that still seems like an entirely plausible situation.
...betterunixthanunix's "translation" is just a bunch of hyperbolic nonsense based on the theory that Microsoft will always be more evil than Satan himself...
Are you saying Microsoft isn't more evil than Satan himself? On Slashdot?
Quick! Someone ready the stake and torches! We have a heretic to burn!
P.S. Everyone watch where you step. He may have turned someone into a newt!
For that matter, if it could be scaled down small enough, it could really help isolate spacecraft components from EMI interference by other spacecraft components.
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It's a lot easier to hate your neighbors when you live in a "melting pot" society, as opposed to a country where 85% of the population has a common ethnic heritage. I'm not saying it's right to hate each other, just that it makes it easy to hate each other when the guy next door looks, sounds, and acts completely different from you.
Look into the lithium-ion batteries offered by ABSL, a European satellite battery company. They aren't really "commercial" grade as they are designed to be used on spacecraft, but they can survive upwards of 10,000 cycles given appropriate depth of discharge constraints. They are also significantly lighter than nickel-hydrogen packs.
I'm pretty sure that anyone who is planning to run for office has already shot themselves in the foot by having a /. ID.
We're don't normally post the most socially acceptable chatter on here. >:)
You know, calling your friends "lemmings," is probably one of the major reasons they don't take much of what you say seriously....Just sayin'.
Funny enough I've heard people say the same thing about Slashdot. :D
To each, their own, I suppose.
The absolute hardest was a scottish guy.
That was the alcohol causing problems, not the accent.
On a related note, I once met a Scottish fella on my travels in New Zealand. I couldn't understand a damn thing he was saying whenever he opened his mouth until he did start drinking. With each beer his speech got one step closer to crystal clear. I take that as evidence that Irish and Scottish folk have actually evolved to rely on alcohol for nominal, daily bodily functions. In the same way that most people need a proper supply of oxygen to the brain to function, I figure the Irish and Scottish need a proper supply of ethanol.
I had an aerothermodynamics teacher that was of Chinese descent (never did find out which part of China). Anyways, he had some serious speech issues, probably even a speech impediment. But one thing that was for sure was that 50% of the time nobody could understand what the hell he was saying. He was a brilliant thermodynamicist, and it was very evident that he had a lot to teach all of those who were willing to put in the effort to learn. But, at the same time, folks were paying a few thousand dollars a quarter to attend school, and being provided a teacher that had a hard time communicating certainly made some folks feel like they were getting ripped off.
Most of us figured out that we could e-mail him questions right after class and get very clear textual responses from him as a bit of a compromise. But the point is, calling a desire for an effective education is disingenuous at best. If someone is paying for that education, it's downright false and stupid to call the desire for an effective education an entitlement.
Oh I wish I could give you another funny mod for that. Well done Sir!
Yeah because managers have never, ever shown any history of abusing their employees in the entirety of human history. Nope, it's not like businesses have ever, not even once, paid people absolute shit wages for hard, productive work just so they could squeeze a little more profit out of their product.
All of those kids getting $0.05 a week for 12 hour days stitching shoes together 150 years ago weren't producing any more value for their employers than that. Employers always are, and always have been, fair and just in their distribution of wages to their employees.
You're delusional.
And yet, despite her seemingly prophetic nature, innocent men have been under the rule of government in one form or another for the entirety of recorded history, and, still, the mass majority of people manage to live their lives out happily, safely, and contently without getting their doors kicked in by the thought-police. Hell, we've even managed to progress our species and society forward a notch or two over the last few millenia under government rule.
Go figure.
Just a curiosity, when were you born year wise? I've noticed a funny trend that folks born just prior to a certain time period often consider that time period to be then "Golden Age" of their society. So, when were you born?
Don't get me wrong, the 50's through 70's did have a lot going for them, true. But there was a lot of fucked up stuff too: Vietnam, Jim Crowe Laws, lots of unhealthy drug abuse (and no, I'm not talking about Mary Jane here), extreme sexual orientation prejudice. Women were still treated very subserviently and poorly quite often. Large portions of rural America did not have clean water or electricity supplied to them. Roads to anywhere except the main cities were often shoddy, windy, bumpy horse trails that added hours to travel time, etc. etc. etc.
Of course, there were cool things going on then too: Elvis, Rock& Roll, the Apollo program, a continual ramping up of investment in infrastructure, etc.
But on the whole, the 50's, 60's, and 70's had their problems just like every other decade in human history.
Well your nickname sure reflects the sentiment of your post in this case...
Luckily, like most things in my life, I don't particularly give a damn about ethics when it comes to what I eat. Have fun trying to convince a woman to sell you her breast milk though.
You're kidding right? Do you really think all the scientists and engineers that brought us things like the space program, the internet, the cell phone, and crash-safe cars were brainwashed by some conspiracy of higher institutions to "enlighten" people? Believe it or not, most schools actually do teach students a thing or two. This perception that there is some kind of conspiracy by those that are edcucated to oppress those that are not has got to be on the same level as the folks that think the moon landing was faked.
Well, to be fair, I think most taxpayers are pissed off that they are paying taxes into the state government and less than what they would like to see of that is going to you. In other words, their tax dollars were getting squandered on a bunch of shit that didn't have tangible benefits like state funded education and, thus, they pissed and moaned about paying taxes in general.
Huh. I glanced over that sentence and missed that. What I took away from that last question was, "The president needs to have his ass fired."
Thanks to you and the AC for pointing out the subtlety in that question.
OTOH, the kids could try to be more reasonable about what is really necessary to get them through school. Don't need a new car or a lot of new clothes. My uni's library lends laptops and IPads (for only a few hours, but they are available). And I've always worked while in school. Not full-time, but close to that many hours for some stretches.
All the kids I know that are paying their own way through college, or that are having their parents help pay their way, are driving shitty old rust-buckets, using computers that are 5+ years old that they inherited off Craigslist or as a sibling hand-me-down, and have incredibly modest wardrobes. Hell, my roomate has three pairs of jeans that he patches monthly that are closer to rags than pants at this point because he, "can't afford to spend money on frivolous crap." On top of that, many of them not only work full-time, but about half of them hold two jobs. Those that work that hard, of course, aren't going to have a degree until they're ~30 years old which enforces a rather strict timeline on when they can and cannot start a family and how long they will have to wait to buy their own house.
Hell, my roomate struggles to uphold his half of the grocery bill (which, honestly, I don't even ask that he does) because his tuition is so high. And he is attending what is supposed to be one of the cheaper state schools in California's higher education system (as opposed to a UC, which is about twice as expensive to attend).
I don't know where you get this idea that most kids in collge have new cars and fancy clothes, but so far as I can tell, the only ones who fit that profile are folks whose parent's are loaded that have spoiled them from day one, and folks who have gotten massive scholarships (usually due, primarily, to being a member of a minority group) and, thus, have no need to be fiscally conservative.
Telling college kids to cut back their spending that are already working their way through school today is equivalent to telling them to adopt a homeless man's lifestyle for 6 - 10 years because that Bachelor's degree (which won't even necessarily get you a well-paying job nowadays) will be totally worth the near-decade's worth of poverty you will live through.
Just think. Once perfected this could be used in trials to definitively prove innocence or guilt.
They probably said that about polygraphs and DNA evidence too, and that hasn't worked out so well to be honest.
Well, Microsoft tends to have a bad history of passive-aggressively fucking people. I am not particularly knowledgeable when it comes to low-level computing stuff like this, but here is what I think a lot of folks are worried about:
1) Microsoft says Windows 8 will need secure boot to boot.
2) Microsoft says OEMs are responsible for allowing the end-user to enable or disable secure boot.
3) Microsoft, behind closed doors, tells numerous OEM vendors, "Yeah, you're welcome to offer hardware that allows the end user to disable secure boot, but if you do that, we aren't going to sell you Windows 8 licenses that you can package with your hardware. Good luck selling computers to people without a copy of the most widely recognized brand of operating system preinstalled on it."
4) In response, OEMs say, "Shit fuck! If we can't offer people new Windows 8 computers, most people are going to see our computers as exotic or out-of-date! We better make it impossible to disable secure boot so that we can continute to package the latest and greatest Windows OS out there!"
5) 95% of computer users now buy computers from trusted OEMs but cannot install or implement Linux when they finally decide, "Fuck this, Microsoft has shit in my oatmeal for the last time, I am going to pick up that weird Linux shit my roomate keeps rambling about."
6) And, thus, Linux adoption gets heavily curtailed because a large segment of would-be Linux users no longer have the option of installing Linux because they didn't know about an obscure-ass issue a year ago when they first bought their computer.
From what I can tell, that still seems like an entirely plausible situation.
You mean that's not going to happen?
:*(
...betterunixthanunix's "translation" is just a bunch of hyperbolic nonsense based on the theory that Microsoft will always be more evil than Satan himself...
Are you saying Microsoft isn't more evil than Satan himself? On Slashdot?
Quick! Someone ready the stake and torches! We have a heretic to burn!
P.S. Everyone watch where you step. He may have turned someone into a newt!
One cares about things that matter, the other cares about things that don't.
Just because someone has a different set of values than you do does not make them, "wrong."
Try being a bit mroe open-minded, you might just learn how to talk to girls at parties.
Maybe you should just buy a leather wallet like everyone else?
For that matter, if it could be scaled down small enough, it could really help isolate spacecraft components from EMI interference by other spacecraft components.
Well said, Sir. Very well said indeed.