Because then it would be trivial for you to also read books that you *didn't* get from Amazon. And we can't have that, now can we?
No, not for a $50 device that they are probably taking a loss on. It sounds like you think you are either entitled to take advantage of them, or else are smarter than them. You want a general use device? Pay for it. You have 100GB of books? Unless you are a public library, the odds are that they are pirated. I'm not defending the current corporate owned cultural system that we have gotten ourselves into, but yeah. They locked out the card. Go buy an iPad.
San Francisco has a bizarre attitude about treating its homeless drunks and drug addicts like tourist attractions. You have to see it to believe it. If a homeless person is sitting in the middle of the street, the police will not move them. They are given blankets and clothes regularly, so of course more and more make their way into the city. I'm not saying some compassion is not required to help these people, but SF's treatment of them is absurd and only compounds the problem.
Yep, it's an awesome improvised hack. I'm a WW2 history aficionado, so of course I'd heard about this before.
For all the unbelievably thorough preparations made for the allied invasion, historians and laypersons alike have always found it fascinating or puzzling that apparently no thought was given to the potential tactical disadvantages the bocage (hedgerows) would have on the allied advance, or how the allies might try to cope with it.
That's because they weren't supposed to go through the hedgerow terrain. When Montgomery failed to take Caan on the first or second day, the entire operation had to be modified, and the breakout was changed to the boccaged west instead of the east, which was excellent flat tank terrain.
So which corporation will now fork over the board positions and stock bonuses that they've been promising? It's called cashing in. Politicians are doing it younger these days so that they have more time to enjoy their ill gotten wealth.
Are they seriously thinking about a scheme in which your device is like needing to have virtual memory? And your device has to "page out" parts of it?
So basically they're morons who think everybody has unlimited data and they can keep re-downloading the same shit all the time?
What a stupid damned feature.
Please reread the feature. I do not think you are understanding what they are trying to do, which actually does make some sense. Although it is a pretty lame excuse to keep selling a phone with 16GB.
Someone should have leaked this a looong time ago. Perhaps some dev, why not.
Hell it would have saved VW a lot of money! Think about recalling 1mln cars instead of 11mln!
The long term "health" of a company doesn't matter to upper management any more. The people who pulled this off may have cashed in and moved on already. Why would they care if VW disintegrates now? They made their bank.
You get fired now, or you implement something dubious - what do you choose?
You get fired. Then you sue for wrongful termination.
And how exactly are you paying the rent, not to mention the lawyers? It's pretty hard to get hired anywhere when you are in the midst of suing your old employer.
I see them as no different than if the ads played before movies started showing up on the side walls of the theater while the movie is playing, and sometimes in the middle of the screen while the movie is still playing.
Seriously? Are people so complacent that they don't even recognize product placement in movies when they see it any more? Go watch Repoman, and you'll see what a shock it is to NOT have product placement.
At one time the open software community was proud of porting their software to every hardware platform. Now people don't even know or care that there are alternatives to x86/x64 architecture. Nor do they know about the days when hardware shipped crippled, unless you paid the upgrade cost to remove a jumper. I fear that those days are returning.
Not because I don't want them to learn about evolution
Not because I think Jeebuz thinks the road to hell is paved with Global warming or that that allow gay kids in school.
It would be because School administrators are stupid reactionary fuckwads who can't tell the difference between a circuit board and an IED, because little children get arrested for sexual assault for kissing another child, because now that police are patrolling the schools, causing little kids getting arrested for resisting arrest and assault felonies and a million other stupid things.
The solution is homeschooling? I thought it was work with your community to improve your schools so that EVERYONE benefits. We've become a society of not only "me first," but "only I matter."
What's hilarious is that we automatically assume that we are an example of an advanced civilization. Maybe we are on the "barely-hatched" end of the scale, and the rest of the universe moved past us aeons ago. What we are trying to find are "similar" civilizations, that are in the same 100-1000 years of the technological scale that we are. I don't find it hard to believe that such civilizations are rare, since its such a tiny timeframe, universally speaking.
--Jake Orlowitz, The Wikipedia Library (jorlowitz@wikimedia.org, @WikiLibrary)
So Jake, one question. Who was paid off? Who is it that is cashing in on million of hours of other people's effort? I suspect whoever it is will be quitting next year and getting a VP position at Elsevier.
MySpace was the 800# Gorilla, then came Facebook. Yahoo lost to Google. Microsoft is going down hard. Wikipedia needs some serious competition. If they believe that any closed content is acceptable, then someone needs to bury them.
One only has to look at the TV to see that serious democracy no longer exists, that we have moved from a covert to an overt surveillance state and that you are asking for a way out of the new world order.
And worse, people seems to have forgotten, or else too young to understand, that things were VERY different for 200 years. I put the beginning of the end with the administration of Reagan. W just finalized the work started in the age of the "moral majority" and the "war on drugs." Of course others may put it further back with McCarthy and the Red Scare.
As a tech employer, I would not hire a liberal arts major for a technical position, nor would their degree count for anything more than a HS diploma when hiring for a non-tech position. Liberal arts majors have not been trained to think logically and solve problems. They have also screwed up the one major life decision they have made so far: Their college major.
Also, I have no interest whatsoever in hiring "well-rounded" employees. They may be better people, and engage in interesting conversation at the water cooler, but they are not better employees, and are not going to add as much to the bottom line as a workaholic nerd with no social life.
Where to even begin. There is NO correlation between one's major, and one's social life. English Majors are just as likely to be closeted freaks as Math or CS majors. There is a correlation between the work produced by those that can think creatively and those that are just code monkeys. If you run a sweat shop, that's your business. But for most industries, having soft skills are critical to being able to do your job well. Most of the best coders I've ever worked with were not CS majors, although a few were. One was even a Philosophy PhD. Gasp. Also, judging people positively because they chose college to be job training instead of as a time to expand one's education is onerous, to say the least.
I've explained this on Slashdot before: Even if such plants reach "break even", creating more available energy than they use to run, they can't possibly scale to production use because the tests that are even _slightly_ successful use tritium as a critical fuel component. And the only viable source of tritium is ordinary nuclear fission reactors: there is no scalable natural source for it.
There is _no_ fusion technology ever tested, nor realistically proposed that does not rely on tritium. And every source of tritium itself, either earth-bound fission or potentially solar sail collectors for solar tritium, is _itself_ far more efficiently used as a straight power supply by itself. Sustainable fusion is interesting as a technological accomplishment, but it's not a viable power source unless the need for tritum is eliminated.
Several of the designs have additional tritium as a byproduct of the process, thereby being self sustaining.
Which just means that people will eat even more, not getting as fat but filling their arteries with cholesterol and other harmful substances. Just like Americans smoke more, and drink more if it is available, they will keep eating to excess.
When people admit the connection between depression and eating fatty foods yielding a drug like high, they may start to fight the American obesity epidemic.
This current round of antagonism goes back to WWII and Russia getting the crap beat out of it by Germany before the US and the UK opened a second front.
And you complain about THEM believing the propaganda? We may have helped the war in Eastern Europe end sooner, but after summer 1943, the eventual victor was never in doubt.
Seriously, it's a sad and transparent attempt to shame the voices of truth into silence.
Truth is easy to claim when you are in a place of power. It is easy to accuse anyone who tries to change the existing system. And no revolution is successful without getting dirty. There is no other choice. Peaceful argument has failed over and over again, since the status quo refuses to listen. Until those in power (mostly middle class white men in this case) can ever admit that there is a major issue that needs to be corrected, then expect the attacks to get nastier. If you don't want that, then start changing the bullshit that controls the IT community. You are the one in power.
If you have that much money, you are not doing your own wiring. There are audiophile "contractors" who will come in and install the most expensive setup possible. Since most expensive is better, right? These are the things install to justify the cost.
That works if you are bouncing off a brick wall, not smashing a small object into a larger one. Force is change in momentum with respect to time, not momentum squared.
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Because then it would be trivial for you to also read books that you *didn't* get from Amazon. And we can't have that, now can we?
No, not for a $50 device that they are probably taking a loss on. It sounds like you think you are either entitled to take advantage of them, or else are smarter than them. You want a general use device? Pay for it. You have 100GB of books? Unless you are a public library, the odds are that they are pirated. I'm not defending the current corporate owned cultural system that we have gotten ourselves into, but yeah. They locked out the card. Go buy an iPad.
San Francisco has a bizarre attitude about treating its homeless drunks and drug addicts like tourist attractions. You have to see it to believe it. If a homeless person is sitting in the middle of the street, the police will not move them. They are given blankets and clothes regularly, so of course more and more make their way into the city. I'm not saying some compassion is not required to help these people, but SF's treatment of them is absurd and only compounds the problem.
Yep, it's an awesome improvised hack. I'm a WW2 history aficionado, so of course I'd heard about this before.
For all the unbelievably thorough preparations made for the allied invasion, historians and laypersons alike have always found it fascinating or puzzling that apparently no thought was given to the potential tactical disadvantages the bocage (hedgerows) would have on the allied advance, or how the allies might try to cope with it.
That's because they weren't supposed to go through the hedgerow terrain. When Montgomery failed to take Caan on the first or second day, the entire operation had to be modified, and the breakout was changed to the boccaged west instead of the east, which was excellent flat tank terrain.
So which corporation will now fork over the board positions and stock bonuses that they've been promising? It's called cashing in. Politicians are doing it younger these days so that they have more time to enjoy their ill gotten wealth.
Are they seriously thinking about a scheme in which your device is like needing to have virtual memory? And your device has to "page out" parts of it?
So basically they're morons who think everybody has unlimited data and they can keep re-downloading the same shit all the time?
What a stupid damned feature.
Please reread the feature. I do not think you are understanding what they are trying to do, which actually does make some sense. Although it is a pretty lame excuse to keep selling a phone with 16GB.
Someone should have leaked this a looong time ago. Perhaps some dev, why not.
Hell it would have saved VW a lot of money! Think about recalling 1mln cars instead of 11mln!
The long term "health" of a company doesn't matter to upper management any more. The people who pulled this off may have cashed in and moved on already. Why would they care if VW disintegrates now? They made their bank.
You get fired now, or you implement something dubious - what do you choose?
You get fired. Then you sue for wrongful termination.
And how exactly are you paying the rent, not to mention the lawyers? It's pretty hard to get hired anywhere when you are in the midst of suing your old employer.
I see them as no different than if the ads played before movies started showing up on the side walls of the theater while the movie is playing, and sometimes in the middle of the screen while the movie is still playing.
Seriously? Are people so complacent that they don't even recognize product placement in movies when they see it any more? Go watch Repoman, and you'll see what a shock it is to NOT have product placement.
At one time the open software community was proud of porting their software to every hardware platform. Now people don't even know or care that there are alternatives to x86/x64 architecture. Nor do they know about the days when hardware shipped crippled, unless you paid the upgrade cost to remove a jumper. I fear that those days are returning.
I would home school him or her.
Not because I don't want them to learn about evolution
Not because I think Jeebuz thinks the road to hell is paved with Global warming or that that allow gay kids in school.
It would be because School administrators are stupid reactionary fuckwads who can't tell the difference between a circuit board and an IED, because little children get arrested for sexual assault for kissing another child, because now that police are patrolling the schools, causing little kids getting arrested for resisting arrest and assault felonies and a million other stupid things.
The solution is homeschooling? I thought it was work with your community to improve your schools so that EVERYONE benefits. We've become a society of not only "me first," but "only I matter."
What's hilarious is that we automatically assume that we are an example of an advanced civilization. Maybe we are on the "barely-hatched" end of the scale, and the rest of the universe moved past us aeons ago. What we are trying to find are "similar" civilizations, that are in the same 100-1000 years of the technological scale that we are. I don't find it hard to believe that such civilizations are rare, since its such a tiny timeframe, universally speaking.
--Jake Orlowitz, The Wikipedia Library (jorlowitz@wikimedia.org, @WikiLibrary)
So Jake, one question. Who was paid off? Who is it that is cashing in on million of hours of other people's effort? I suspect whoever it is will be quitting next year and getting a VP position at Elsevier.
MySpace was the 800# Gorilla, then came Facebook. Yahoo lost to Google. Microsoft is going down hard. Wikipedia needs some serious competition. If they believe that any closed content is acceptable, then someone needs to bury them.
One only has to look at the TV to see that serious democracy no longer exists, that we have moved from a covert to an overt surveillance state and that you are asking for a way out of the new world order.
And worse, people seems to have forgotten, or else too young to understand, that things were VERY different for 200 years. I put the beginning of the end with the administration of Reagan. W just finalized the work started in the age of the "moral majority" and the "war on drugs." Of course others may put it further back with McCarthy and the Red Scare.
I've never seen a serious, credible libertarian advocate ...
Exactly.
As a tech employer, I would not hire a liberal arts major for a technical position, nor would their degree count for anything more than a HS diploma when hiring for a non-tech position. Liberal arts majors have not been trained to think logically and solve problems. They have also screwed up the one major life decision they have made so far: Their college major.
Also, I have no interest whatsoever in hiring "well-rounded" employees. They may be better people, and engage in interesting conversation at the water cooler, but they are not better employees, and are not going to add as much to the bottom line as a workaholic nerd with no social life.
Where to even begin. There is NO correlation between one's major, and one's social life. English Majors are just as likely to be closeted freaks as Math or CS majors. There is a correlation between the work produced by those that can think creatively and those that are just code monkeys. If you run a sweat shop, that's your business. But for most industries, having soft skills are critical to being able to do your job well. Most of the best coders I've ever worked with were not CS majors, although a few were. One was even a Philosophy PhD. Gasp. Also, judging people positively because they chose college to be job training instead of as a time to expand one's education is onerous, to say the least.
I've explained this on Slashdot before: Even if such plants reach "break even", creating more available energy than they use to run, they can't possibly scale to production use because the tests that are even _slightly_ successful use tritium as a critical fuel component. And the only viable source of tritium is ordinary nuclear fission reactors: there is no scalable natural source for it.
There is _no_ fusion technology ever tested, nor realistically proposed that does not rely on tritium. And every source of tritium itself, either earth-bound fission or potentially solar sail collectors for solar tritium, is _itself_ far more efficiently used as a straight power supply by itself. Sustainable fusion is interesting as a technological accomplishment, but it's not a viable power source unless the need for tritum is eliminated.
Several of the designs have additional tritium as a byproduct of the process, thereby being self sustaining.
But a realist would have to ask uncomfortable questions like why such men were lonely and unhappy in the first place.
So realists are big on blaming the victim?
Which just means that people will eat even more, not getting as fat but filling their arteries with cholesterol and other harmful substances. Just like Americans smoke more, and drink more if it is available, they will keep eating to excess.
When people admit the connection between depression and eating fatty foods yielding a drug like high, they may start to fight the American obesity epidemic.
The headline in a couple of months: Video file owner and lawyer gets a nice payoff to drop charges against big corporations.
Nothing changes.
This current round of antagonism goes back to WWII and Russia getting the crap beat out of it by Germany before the US and the UK opened a second front.
And you complain about THEM believing the propaganda? We may have helped the war in Eastern Europe end sooner, but after summer 1943, the eventual victor was never in doubt.
Seriously, it's a sad and transparent attempt to shame the voices of truth into silence.
Truth is easy to claim when you are in a place of power. It is easy to accuse anyone who tries to change the existing system. And no revolution is successful without getting dirty. There is no other choice. Peaceful argument has failed over and over again, since the status quo refuses to listen. Until those in power (mostly middle class white men in this case) can ever admit that there is a major issue that needs to be corrected, then expect the attacks to get nastier. If you don't want that, then start changing the bullshit that controls the IT community. You are the one in power.
If you have that much money, you are not doing your own wiring. There are audiophile "contractors" who will come in and install the most expensive setup possible. Since most expensive is better, right? These are the things install to justify the cost.
Yay. The right to be as big an ass as you want before you turn 18, because there's no repercussion.
Remember double the speed, quadruple the force.
That works if you are bouncing off a brick wall, not smashing a small object into a larger one. Force is change in momentum with respect to time, not momentum squared.