Slashdot, look at yourself. These comments are a horrible example of blaming the victim. Step back and look at the history of the area. Don't just focus on the chemistry of the problem.
According to the article "future birds" populated western West Gondwana and didn't spread until the dinosaurs died out. In other words they would not have moved in 30 million years and then suddenly they spread wildly when the dinosaurs vanished.
Since birds are dinosaurs, then dinosaurs did not "vanish."
You mean consumers aren't willing to keep paying more for an increasingly ad-laden pool of mostly forgettable reality programming?
Actually, they are willing. They love that stuff. Don't fall into the "people on slashdot represent the average US citizen" fallacy. Most Americans are content with the nanny state. Even the so called troublemakers are so passive, they hardly exist. Anonymous? Give me a break. Back in the 60's and 70's people BLED for what they believed in, and were willing to go against the government, and the status quo populous. Until you are willing to throw flaming gasoline bottles at police cars while be teargassed, then ain't nothing going to change.
This is America. If I want to include the words radical terrorism nuclear bomb the white house kill the president in every one of my messages, then I will. As should everyone.
There are names for sizes of ships. There is no such thing a super-sized destroyer. It's called a light cruiser. I guess Congress funded a destroyer, but they get a cruiser instead.
As often is the case, you just have to follow the money trail. Someone paid off someone else to push their expensive license plate scanners and services. The police may not even have wanted to do this, but someone up the chain of command got a free vacation home in the Bahamas for implementing the program. It'll all get swept under the rug soon, after enough uproar.
Seriously, if a girl wants to sell her body, why shouldn't she?
Agreed. Call girls and escorts can make a good relatively safe living, with well to do clients. These are not them. These are drug addicts with pimps who beat them if they don't hustle enough. It's a tough, dangerous, and diseased lifestyle that is illegal in many ways besides the selling of their bodies.
You'd think Master Lock with all their cash would come up with clever ideas like this lock's mechanism.
To come up with a new mechanism would imply that the old mechanisms aren't all that good, and they will never admit that. It could lead to a major class action suite. In the US, the only option for any corporation is to just pretend that there's no issue, and continue to sell the same old shit. Until someone comes along and forces the issue, like this guy.
Any hope of reviving Firefly ended when its follow-up movie barely broke $10 million on its opening weekend. Having a few *very vocal* fans is just no substitute for having a large *number* of fans.
Firefly is still owned by some mega corporation which will not sell Joss the rights to the name, hence "Serenity." Joss moved on to new projects, as did most of the cast. They've done pretty well for themselves post Firefly. You see, it was a great show, but lives move on. It's pretty likely that Joss will get the folks together again some time for another Firefly project, but right now he's too buys making billion dollar blockbuster movies. Though I wouldn't hold my breath. He's still sitting on Doctor Horrible II.
Yeah, I hate to say it, but I don't particularly relish the idea of an aging Joel or Mike besmirching the memory of the original by attempting to reclaim the old magic.
It won't be either. They're not ruling out the old characters making cameos or something, but they're getting a new, younger host (some comedian) and a couple other new people to play the bots. Joel's mostly just running the show.
Yeesh. How hard is to to post some actual information: Jonah Ray is the new "Joel." Hampton Yount and Baron Vaughn are the new Crow and Servo. Felicia Day and Patton Oswald are the new Mad Scientists.
I got a better idea. Create a program that can read the DVD or Blu-Ray (or other video source) and overlay the content on the screen. They don't have to license the content, because they aren't distributing the content. Just distribute the stuff that gets played over top of the original video. I'm not sure how that would really work with respect to copyright laws, but it might be a way around the entire problem.
Is this some kind of sarcasm, or do you seriously not know about RiffTrax?
Congrats. You now have a group of people seeing your ads that wanted to not see them so bad they bought an app. I'm sure this business model will work out for you in the long run.
Doesn't matter to him. He knows it's all BS, but companies are willing to pay him hard cash for eyes on their ads. Doesn't matter if those eyes actually purchase anything.
"I think if you're looking at a PC, why would you buy a PC anymore? No really, why would you buy one?"
To run ProTools with all the plugins?
Am I the only one who remembers when Apple made machines for creative people? An iPad Pro is useless for them, except for being able to write an email to your parents asking for more money.
How's that? The iPad Pro is a great new tool for artists. With a stylus you have a Wacom with touch sensitivity and a computer all rolled up into one. The resolution alone is amazing for any graphics manipulation. Quick sketch on paper that you did on the bus, take a photo, grab your stylus, and photoshop that up to finished artwork without having to power up your computer. That is powerful.
Regardless of whomever any MST3K fan was the funnier guy onscreen, nobody can argue that Mike Nelson was a key writer that drove the show - and that he carried the show on his shoulders alone for the last three seasons after Trace B. (the original voice of Crow T. Robot) left. Without Mike, it just won't have the same charm.
"Nobody can argue..." What's the name of that type of fallacy? Have you seen Cinematic Titanic? No Mike Nelson, and a hundred times better than those last seasons of MST3K. The key writers were always Joel and Trace. "Head writer" does NOT mean "the guy that writes the jokes." It's more "the guy who keeps all the joke writers from killing each other." Well, as long as there's no Kevin Murphy I'll be happy. He was always the weakest asset. Cinematic Titanic proved that Joel, Trace, and Josh have the most "charm," to use your term.
However, I think it will be unlikely that the NSA will comply with the order, and that no one will be able to determine if NSA complied with the order, and if it was found NSA did not comply with the order no one would be punished.
Judges no longer have any authority. The law of the land is only so much confetti. Benjamin Franklin's experiment is in its death throws.
Still weirds me out how many people want to make a flipper bot and go the electric route, when clearly a pneumatic flipper is far superior - admittedly far less controllable, but it will actually flip or throw robots. Like, look at this season of BattleBots, there are several flipper bots - but most are electrical flippers, so those bots tend to get into wrestling matches where they sort of lift another robot and push them around, then you have something like Bronco that basically just drives at the other robots, tackles them to the wall and fires the pneumatic flipper, sending the other bots out over the edge - I know which one I prefer. Kinetic spinners are as effective and fun to watch as ever, even though the BattleBots guys kinda sucked at designing them, the disc design pioneered by HypnoDisc is obviously superior to the "two hammers" design showed in this season on BattleBots, as it is less likely to get slammed to a halt, burning out the engine or basically break itself at the joints.
This is reality TV. The producers are manipulating everything behind the scenes. They want robots that are "good TV," not best at fighting. And the competitors know that these idiotic but flashy features will get them on the show. The old show had plenty of those. Remember the upside-down kiddy pool bot? Remember that the Myth Busters were asked to leave the competition because they produced a bot that won in just a few seconds. Not good TV.
To get to low earth orbit, a vehicle needs to be travelling at 17,400 MPH (7.7 km/s). If it travels just bit faster, 25,000 MPH, you can head off wherever you want to go in space. Orbit is 2/3rds of the way to anywhere.
Nice numbers, except that's not the way it works. Higher orbits are SLOWER than low ones. And then there's oblique verses circular, which comes from the way you are pointed when you are accelerating. Seriously, Orbital math is hard.
Systemd is a Swiss Army knife - it tries to pack everything and the kitchen sink into one multi-purpose thing. That's not inherently good or bad, it -is- Microsoft-like, not Unix-like.
At this point Lennart points out that systemd contains multiple binaries. Yeah, and a Swiss Army knife contains multiple blades.
Enough systemd fud. Your analogy makes no sense. Systemd is a wrapper to make sure that all the little applications work together correctly, more like a tool box. All your little tools collected in one place, where it's easy to get at them. Now it may not be a good toolbox; I'm not arguing that. But inherently it's a feature that Linux needs to provide functionality that any enterprise requires. Linux has moved beyond being a one person system.
That sort of thing really benefits from the trivial and immediate server replacement you have from the cloud providers. (Something's wrong with Server-447? Just drop it and provision a new one, 5 minutes max.) But for simpler services that advantage is lost in the noise of manual software deployment/config/etc to stand up a new box.
That works really well for a simple web server, but in the real world of corporate applications, nothing could be further from the truth. First, apps must ships files between databases and themselves. In a private datacenter, that's over ethernet. In the cloud, it is often over disparate VPN connection, and worse of all, over your internet connection. How many companies willing to get a 10Gb ethernet pipe? Not many. So they get dedicated leased lines to AWS et al, otherwise their transaction times are atrocious. Then there's the hilarity of trying to print a file back in the office. Oops. Cloud is a one way solution. Those apps cannot see your printers. Or any of your internal applications. So you end up completely rewriting your processes and data flows. Now if you are using any shared storage, all bets are off. Each cloud server is its own little walled off environment, which means that using shared storage is right out. Now all those files have to be scp'ed back and forth.
Really, it's all just smoke a mirrors. The cloud is nothing but a big scam. Any CTO who pushes the cloud is just drinking the cool aid. The costs of those WAN connections, future price increases (everything costs rock bottom right now, that's not going to last), plus cloud provider lock in (just try getting your database out of AWS and see what hidden costs there really are). Ain't no one saving money moving to the cloud, but there are a lot of "cloud consultants" getting rich.
Then again, I thought it couldn't get any worse than Voyager, so I could be wrong.
I suspect the majority of folks here really like TNG, since that is what they saw as kids. As someone who grew up with Star Trek (I refuse to use TOS), I found TNG lacking in just about every way. They took the superficial aspects of the series, and lost the real content. Enterprise may have lost their way, but the basis of the show was sound. So for me, Star Trek > Enterprise > Voyager > TNG. And DS9? I don't see how that was even a Star Trek series.
If you thing that games are art, then you are using a different definition of art than the art community. Unless you have taken art and design classes, then you probably do not understand what they mean when they say art. You can trivialize it all you want, and use the lame "any word means what I think it means." But in reality, words mean things. Very specific things. Sometimes they are hard to understand unless you have the correct background. And in that context, no, games are not art.
The constant problem I see here are people who think that their tiny little tech community represents society. Let me hit a few with the clue bat, but the major whining comes from YOU, not your imaginary feminists or social warriors. The world is large, with people who have lives, feelings, social ties, community, family, careers, etc. that do not match your idea of how things should be. The real problem is looking down on other peoples' viewpoints without even talking with them to discover their mindset. "Stupid bitch" leads to lots of pats on the back, so it just continues.
Learn to communicate. Try to understand others that are not white male middle class techies. Yes, "bro" is offensive, and I say that as a white male middle class techie. Maybe we should name it.pdg for "pencil dicked geek." Because one is just as offensive as the other.
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Slashdot, look at yourself. These comments are a horrible example of blaming the victim. Step back and look at the history of the area. Don't just focus on the chemistry of the problem.
According to the article "future birds" populated western West Gondwana and didn't spread until the dinosaurs died out. In other words they would not have moved in 30 million years and then suddenly they spread wildly when the dinosaurs vanished.
Since birds are dinosaurs, then dinosaurs did not "vanish."
You mean consumers aren't willing to keep paying more for an increasingly ad-laden pool of mostly forgettable reality programming?
Actually, they are willing. They love that stuff. Don't fall into the "people on slashdot represent the average US citizen" fallacy. Most Americans are content with the nanny state. Even the so called troublemakers are so passive, they hardly exist. Anonymous? Give me a break. Back in the 60's and 70's people BLED for what they believed in, and were willing to go against the government, and the status quo populous. Until you are willing to throw flaming gasoline bottles at police cars while be teargassed, then ain't nothing going to change.
This is America. If I want to include the words radical terrorism nuclear bomb the white house kill the president in every one of my messages, then I will. As should everyone.
There are names for sizes of ships. There is no such thing a super-sized destroyer. It's called a light cruiser. I guess Congress funded a destroyer, but they get a cruiser instead.
As often is the case, you just have to follow the money trail. Someone paid off someone else to push their expensive license plate scanners and services. The police may not even have wanted to do this, but someone up the chain of command got a free vacation home in the Bahamas for implementing the program. It'll all get swept under the rug soon, after enough uproar.
Seriously, if a girl wants to sell her body, why shouldn't she?
Agreed. Call girls and escorts can make a good relatively safe living, with well to do clients. These are not them. These are drug addicts with pimps who beat them if they don't hustle enough. It's a tough, dangerous, and diseased lifestyle that is illegal in many ways besides the selling of their bodies.
This a new lock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's on kickstarter now:
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
You'd think Master Lock with all their cash would come up with clever ideas like this lock's mechanism.
To come up with a new mechanism would imply that the old mechanisms aren't all that good, and they will never admit that. It could lead to a major class action suite. In the US, the only option for any corporation is to just pretend that there's no issue, and continue to sell the same old shit. Until someone comes along and forces the issue, like this guy.
Any hope of reviving Firefly ended when its follow-up movie barely broke $10 million on its opening weekend. Having a few *very vocal* fans is just no substitute for having a large *number* of fans.
Firefly is still owned by some mega corporation which will not sell Joss the rights to the name, hence "Serenity." Joss moved on to new projects, as did most of the cast. They've done pretty well for themselves post Firefly. You see, it was a great show, but lives move on. It's pretty likely that Joss will get the folks together again some time for another Firefly project, but right now he's too buys making billion dollar blockbuster movies. Though I wouldn't hold my breath. He's still sitting on Doctor Horrible II.
Yeah, I hate to say it, but I don't particularly relish the idea of an aging Joel or Mike besmirching the memory of the original by attempting to reclaim the old magic.
It won't be either. They're not ruling out the old characters making cameos or something, but they're getting a new, younger host (some comedian) and a couple other new people to play the bots. Joel's mostly just running the show.
Yeesh. How hard is to to post some actual information:
Jonah Ray is the new "Joel."
Hampton Yount and Baron Vaughn are the new Crow and Servo.
Felicia Day and Patton Oswald are the new Mad Scientists.
I got a better idea. Create a program that can read the DVD or Blu-Ray (or other video source) and overlay the content on the screen. They don't have to license the content, because they aren't distributing the content. Just distribute the stuff that gets played over top of the original video. I'm not sure how that would really work with respect to copyright laws, but it might be a way around the entire problem.
Is this some kind of sarcasm, or do you seriously not know about RiffTrax?
Congrats. You now have a group of people seeing your ads that wanted to not see them so bad they bought an app. I'm sure this business model will work out for you in the long run.
Doesn't matter to him. He knows it's all BS, but companies are willing to pay him hard cash for eyes on their ads. Doesn't matter if those eyes actually purchase anything.
To run ProTools with all the plugins?
Am I the only one who remembers when Apple made machines for creative people? An iPad Pro is useless for them, except for being able to write an email to your parents asking for more money.
How's that? The iPad Pro is a great new tool for artists. With a stylus you have a Wacom with touch sensitivity and a computer all rolled up into one. The resolution alone is amazing for any graphics manipulation. Quick sketch on paper that you did on the bus, take a photo, grab your stylus, and photoshop that up to finished artwork without having to power up your computer. That is powerful.
That was a quick $100.
Regardless of whomever any MST3K fan was the funnier guy onscreen, nobody can argue that Mike Nelson was a key writer that drove the show - and that he carried the show on his shoulders alone for the last three seasons after Trace B. (the original voice of Crow T. Robot) left. Without Mike, it just won't have the same charm.
"Nobody can argue..." What's the name of that type of fallacy? Have you seen Cinematic Titanic? No Mike Nelson, and a hundred times better than those last seasons of MST3K. The key writers were always Joel and Trace. "Head writer" does NOT mean "the guy that writes the jokes." It's more "the guy who keeps all the joke writers from killing each other." Well, as long as there's no Kevin Murphy I'll be happy. He was always the weakest asset. Cinematic Titanic proved that Joel, Trace, and Josh have the most "charm," to use your term.
However, I think it will be unlikely that the NSA will comply with the order, and that no one will be able to determine if NSA complied with the order, and if it was found NSA did not comply with the order no one would be punished.
Judges no longer have any authority. The law of the land is only so much confetti. Benjamin Franklin's experiment is in its death throws.
Still weirds me out how many people want to make a flipper bot and go the electric route, when clearly a pneumatic flipper is far superior - admittedly far less controllable, but it will actually flip or throw robots. Like, look at this season of BattleBots, there are several flipper bots - but most are electrical flippers, so those bots tend to get into wrestling matches where they sort of lift another robot and push them around, then you have something like Bronco that basically just drives at the other robots, tackles them to the wall and fires the pneumatic flipper, sending the other bots out over the edge - I know which one I prefer.
Kinetic spinners are as effective and fun to watch as ever, even though the BattleBots guys kinda sucked at designing them, the disc design pioneered by HypnoDisc is obviously superior to the "two hammers" design showed in this season on BattleBots, as it is less likely to get slammed to a halt, burning out the engine or basically break itself at the joints.
This is reality TV. The producers are manipulating everything behind the scenes. They want robots that are "good TV," not best at fighting. And the competitors know that these idiotic but flashy features will get them on the show. The old show had plenty of those. Remember the upside-down kiddy pool bot? Remember that the Myth Busters were asked to leave the competition because they produced a bot that won in just a few seconds. Not good TV.
To get to low earth orbit, a vehicle needs to be travelling at 17,400 MPH (7.7 km/s). If it travels just bit faster, 25,000 MPH, you can head off wherever you want to go in space. Orbit is 2/3rds of the way to anywhere.
Nice numbers, except that's not the way it works. Higher orbits are SLOWER than low ones. And then there's oblique verses circular, which comes from the way you are pointed when you are accelerating. Seriously, Orbital math is hard.
Systemd is a Swiss Army knife - it tries to pack everything and the kitchen sink into one multi-purpose thing. That's not inherently good or bad, it -is- Microsoft-like, not Unix-like.
At this point Lennart points out that systemd contains multiple binaries. Yeah, and a Swiss Army knife contains multiple blades.
Enough systemd fud. Your analogy makes no sense. Systemd is a wrapper to make sure that all the little applications work together correctly, more like a tool box. All your little tools collected in one place, where it's easy to get at them. Now it may not be a good toolbox; I'm not arguing that. But inherently it's a feature that Linux needs to provide functionality that any enterprise requires. Linux has moved beyond being a one person system.
That sort of thing really benefits from the trivial and immediate server replacement you have from the cloud providers. (Something's wrong with Server-447? Just drop it and provision a new one, 5 minutes max.) But for simpler services that advantage is lost in the noise of manual software deployment/config/etc to stand up a new box.
That works really well for a simple web server, but in the real world of corporate applications, nothing could be further from the truth. First, apps must ships files between databases and themselves. In a private datacenter, that's over ethernet. In the cloud, it is often over disparate VPN connection, and worse of all, over your internet connection. How many companies willing to get a 10Gb ethernet pipe? Not many. So they get dedicated leased lines to AWS et al, otherwise their transaction times are atrocious. Then there's the hilarity of trying to print a file back in the office. Oops. Cloud is a one way solution. Those apps cannot see your printers. Or any of your internal applications. So you end up completely rewriting your processes and data flows. Now if you are using any shared storage, all bets are off. Each cloud server is its own little walled off environment, which means that using shared storage is right out. Now all those files have to be scp'ed back and forth.
Really, it's all just smoke a mirrors. The cloud is nothing but a big scam. Any CTO who pushes the cloud is just drinking the cool aid. The costs of those WAN connections, future price increases (everything costs rock bottom right now, that's not going to last), plus cloud provider lock in (just try getting your database out of AWS and see what hidden costs there really are). Ain't no one saving money moving to the cloud, but there are a lot of "cloud consultants" getting rich.
Does it require the owner to click through loading the app? If so, then big deal. If it installs silently in the background, then "oh shit."
It can't get any worse than Enterprise.
Then again, I thought it couldn't get any worse than Voyager, so I could be wrong.
I suspect the majority of folks here really like TNG, since that is what they saw as kids. As someone who grew up with Star Trek (I refuse to use TOS), I found TNG lacking in just about every way. They took the superficial aspects of the series, and lost the real content. Enterprise may have lost their way, but the basis of the show was sound. So for me, Star Trek > Enterprise > Voyager > TNG. And DS9? I don't see how that was even a Star Trek series.
If you thing that games are art, then you are using a different definition of art than the art community. Unless you have taken art and design classes, then you probably do not understand what they mean when they say art. You can trivialize it all you want, and use the lame "any word means what I think it means." But in reality, words mean things. Very specific things. Sometimes they are hard to understand unless you have the correct background. And in that context, no, games are not art.
The constant problem I see here are people who think that their tiny little tech community represents society. Let me hit a few with the clue bat, but the major whining comes from YOU, not your imaginary feminists or social warriors. The world is large, with people who have lives, feelings, social ties, community, family, careers, etc. that do not match your idea of how things should be. The real problem is looking down on other peoples' viewpoints without even talking with them to discover their mindset. "Stupid bitch" leads to lots of pats on the back, so it just continues.
Learn to communicate. Try to understand others that are not white male middle class techies. Yes, "bro" is offensive, and I say that as a white male middle class techie. Maybe we should name it .pdg for "pencil dicked geek." Because one is just as offensive as the other.
"I just created this site. It works so well on my local PC. Just throw it up on any old server."