Founders leave their companies all the time. Is the company under some "moral obligation" to keep a reference to the founder for all perpetuity??
It's just a reminder that Notch is a liar. He promised that he would open source Minecraft when he was done with it. Instead, he sold it to Microsoft. I, for one, bought Minecraft while that promise was still on its webpages.
Your lack of belief doesn't make what I said any less true.
You did that all on your own. What you said was false. Old growth sequesters more carbon than new growth. If only you knew what you were talking about, you might have something to add to this conversation, but you don't, so why not STFU?
Pump? Are you still using 20th century hydraulic technology for your power steering? My cars have had electric power steering since 2003.
My car is from 1982, and depends on zero computers to function. The closest thing it needs to function, and even then only to start, is the glow plug timer - which could reasonably be replaced by a manual switch.
People started asking why they should drop 4 or 5 digits on SCO licenses when there was that awesome free software over there that did exactly the same thing, only better because the GUI didn't suck (IIRC SCO was some variant of CDE or something that looked like it,
SCO had a non-CDE Motif desktop in the Unix product they called SCO Open Desktop. It still used the same Motif libraries as CDE, though. Motif has been open source all along, in fact Motif for Linux was delivered as source code. I'm pretty sure Caldera threw away SCO ODT and replaced it with a new and highly similar Motif-based desktop when they released Caldera Network Desktop, which was an early version of redhat bundled with Motif.
and the early gnome/kde/enlightenment projects all put it to shame.)
It's important to remember that at the time, the state of desktop environments for Linux was not very good. There were no complete desktop enviroments when Caldera Network Desktop came out in 1996. Open Desktop 2.0, which I believe was the first recognizable SCO Motif desktop, dates from 1992. There were no complete desktop environments on Linux even in 1996 — 1996 is when KDE was founded, and GNOME didn't come out until 1999. Back in those days, Enlightenment was only a window manager, not a desktop environment. It didn't have any file manager, and AFAIK it still doesn't have a good one. Actually, even CDE wasn't released until 1993, and when it came out it was the only non-proprietary desktop for Unix.
It's easy to laugh at SCO Unix from a modern vantage point, but at the time it was the most complete Unix commercially available for the PC. Before SCO Unix, it was SCO Xenix, and before SCO Xenix it was Microsoft Xenix.
The only difference I can see is that Google gave it a weird name while MSFT called it MS Java so by this logic MSFT would have been perfectly fine to rip off Sun if they would have called their version something like flexfair or some other BS name.
That's correct. M$ actually got dinged for violating their trademark and deliberately creating confusion in the marketplace by calling their non-conforming implementation "Java". You are entirely correct that if they had not called it Java, they would have been fine. But they did, and the court ruled that they did it deliberately.
I'm fairly sure you can tell all of us how to fix the power steering in your car and what you have to pay attention to when welding a leak in your gas line, right?
LOL, welding a leak in your gas line. Who does this? You replace the piece of pipe. If it's the municipal gas connection, the gas company is responsible for welding that up. But the 3/4" pipe into my house? Why would I weld that? It would cost more than replacing it.
As for the power steering, do you want to know about replacing parts, or rebuilding them? Rebuilding the rack is usually a stupid idea, but the pump can often be rebuilt trivially enough.
There is nothing "elitist" about cell phones. 95% of American adults have a cell phone.
But only somewhere from 30-50% of younger Americans do (not counting single-digit children.) A system which required cellphones would be prejudiced against the young. They make purchases, too.
For the few people that don't have a phone or email, they can still ask for a paper receipt.
I wish there was a way for the retailer to send me a PDF of the receipt in such a way that the retailer wouldn't know my e-mail address
There is. It's called a throwaway address. Your provider (or your personal email system) could generate a new one for literally every purchase. That way you'd know precisely who the spammers were, and they'd have no idea what your actual address was. Several (or even several hundred) could be generated every time you had network access, so you wouldn't run out.
How does a tiny till receipt compare to all the paper in newspapers which millions of people buy every day?
Newspapers are waning on their own, but retailers keep finding new shit to print out on receipts — which are printed on paper with a high plastic content, for durability. Newspaper has no plastic content, and precious little non-wood fiber.
This is due to the new BPA-free paper, which protects infants whose parents have them snack on receipt paper.
It actually protects people who eat fast food, because the surest way to transfer BPA from one of those receipts is by contaminating it with hot grease. Then it transfers to your fingers, and since fast food is messy, from there to your mouth.
Somehow that doesnâ(TM)t make me feel a whole lot better about this fix.
You must be sane. It's totally bananas to build an airliner which isn't neutral and stable by its basic design. While not cross-checking the two sensors they actually had in place should probably be considered criminal negligence, the real root cause is building this plane with these engines at all. They should have built a new airframe, but they couldn't do that in a timely fashion, so they glued big engines onto a small plane — and people died.
They're regularly inspected, which is about the best you can do.
The best you (they) could do is to have implemented sensor cross-checking in the first place, not after people died. Our 2006 Sprinter has two pots on the accelerator pedal, and cross-checks them. WTF was Boeing thinking by not using both sensors? On what basis is that not criminal negligence? At very best, it's gross incompetence.
You own a Burger Joint. Taxes today for a $5 burger is 10% Customer pays $5.50 for that burger. Taxes tomorrow for a $5 burger is 15% Customer now pays $5.75 for that burger.
Right. The Customer now pays $5.75. The person walking by on the street doesn't pay anything. So it's the people who use the resource who pay the taxes. That's fair, and efficient. Just look at how many people pay required sales taxes if not assessed at purchase time, it's basically nobody. So you tax the business, not the customer, and the customer pays for it — the business makes sure they do, because otherwise they've got a problem.
This is why we need to increase taxes on commercial trucking. Heavy trucks do virtually all the damage to the road surface that's not done by weather itself. Light cars do basically none. RVs do more damage than cars per mile, but they don't move around much, so they don't do much damage overall. Without GPS tracking, the fairest way possible to account for road damage is to charge more fees for commercial trucks, probably those over 26k GVWR (because of the way the current fees are structured, and 26k is a magic number in the eyes of the current law.) The cost of the additional taxes will be rolled into the cost of goods, and then the people who buy those goods will wind up paying them. Those who buy things sourced from shorter distances will wind up paying less of the tax, so that will encourage buying local.
I didn't buy cars easily capable of going well over 100mph, to not occasionally 'air them out' when conditions around were safe to do so. I don't need the govt. limiting me.
It's not about you, or at least, not necessarily about you.
If you want to get on it, you can go to a track.
Going quickly on public roads is a hazard to others, even if nobody is around. You could go off the road and into a tree and cause a fire, or off the road and into a river and dump your crankcase lube into an ecosystem.
I like driving quickly too, but the reality is that the vast majority of public roads aren't designed for speeds like those, and the vast majority of other drivers don't behave well enough for it to be safe to travel at those speeds even if they were. There's no corner workers, nobody is checking those roads to make sure there's no debris, nobody is doing a safety inspection before your run to make sure your vehicle is still in condition for the situation, and there's no gravel pits. Or at least, precious few.
Looks like it's time to start buying cars in the US to import and sell in Europe. I'm guessing that you could get a nice premium for an unlocked american car as long as it meets all the other EU standards, such as stop/tail light colors.
They'll just make it illegal to import such vehicles until they're 25+ years old, if they haven't already. That's how it works in the USA. Some nations are right dicks about it, too, like Australia. You can't import a vehicle with asbestos gaskets into Oz, let alone brake pads.
And if not, why not, they are the ones who _constantly_ and _noisily_ ride way above the speed limit.
IME, the Motorcycles are rarely the fastest thing on the road, except when traffic is substantially slowed — and that only because California permits lane splitting, and that's where I live.
I care about the biker going 60 in a 20mph zone, or 120 on a mountain road.
I care more about the biker going 45 in a 55 on a mountain road because he's afraid to lean over, in case there's a bunch of crap on the road and he loses traction, since there's oncoming traffic and no gravel pit. Motorcycles are stupid on public roads. I'm forever getting held up behind them, even in ungainly vehicles like a cargo Sprinter.
We could have a lot less vehicles on roads, and the vehicles which are on roads could all be required to be self-driving. And those vehicles will be cautious, and slow down when a human driver typically won't, so that if they do get into an accident it won't be fatal. It's very possible that non-automated vehicles will be banned from freeways completely. There are multiple reasons for a government to desire such a state of affairs, only one of which is safety.
3. If you press down hard on the accelerator it overrides the speed limiter temporarily.
Mercedes will never go for that. It would interfere with their control scheme. Since the seventies or so, Mercedes has had a perceptible kick-down switch. Back then (certainly in my 1982 300SD) it was a physical momentary switch located literally under the accelerator pedal. These days, it's integrated into the accelerator pedal assembly, since it's all throttle-by-wire and there's no benefit to breaking it out into a separate unit. MBZ would favor a console switch.
2. The car gets a black box that can be accessed after an accident.
It's already got one. OBD-II vehicles store at least a minute of logging data, 30 seconds before and 30 seconds after a critical event occurs. That includes emissions failures, engine faults, or airbag deployment. It records the state of all sensors. It knows the throttle position and the state of the brake light switch, and in modern vehicles it also knows the position of the steering wheel.
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Founders leave their companies all the time. Is the company under some "moral obligation" to keep a reference to the founder for all perpetuity??
It's just a reminder that Notch is a liar. He promised that he would open source Minecraft when he was done with it. Instead, he sold it to Microsoft. I, for one, bought Minecraft while that promise was still on its webpages.
Your lack of belief doesn't make what I said any less true.
You did that all on your own. What you said was false. Old growth sequesters more carbon than new growth. If only you knew what you were talking about, you might have something to add to this conversation, but you don't, so why not STFU?
Pump? Are you still using 20th century hydraulic technology for your power steering? My cars have had electric power steering since 2003.
My car is from 1982, and depends on zero computers to function. The closest thing it needs to function, and even then only to start, is the glow plug timer - which could reasonably be replaced by a manual switch.
People started asking why they should drop 4 or 5 digits on SCO licenses when there was that awesome free software over there that did exactly the same thing, only better because the GUI didn't suck (IIRC SCO was some variant of CDE or something that looked like it,
SCO had a non-CDE Motif desktop in the Unix product they called SCO Open Desktop. It still used the same Motif libraries as CDE, though. Motif has been open source all along, in fact Motif for Linux was delivered as source code. I'm pretty sure Caldera threw away SCO ODT and replaced it with a new and highly similar Motif-based desktop when they released Caldera Network Desktop, which was an early version of redhat bundled with Motif.
and the early gnome/kde/enlightenment projects all put it to shame.)
It's important to remember that at the time, the state of desktop environments for Linux was not very good. There were no complete desktop enviroments when Caldera Network Desktop came out in 1996. Open Desktop 2.0, which I believe was the first recognizable SCO Motif desktop, dates from 1992. There were no complete desktop environments on Linux even in 1996 — 1996 is when KDE was founded, and GNOME didn't come out until 1999. Back in those days, Enlightenment was only a window manager, not a desktop environment. It didn't have any file manager, and AFAIK it still doesn't have a good one. Actually, even CDE wasn't released until 1993, and when it came out it was the only non-proprietary desktop for Unix.
It's easy to laugh at SCO Unix from a modern vantage point, but at the time it was the most complete Unix commercially available for the PC. Before SCO Unix, it was SCO Xenix, and before SCO Xenix it was Microsoft Xenix.
The only difference I can see is that Google gave it a weird name while MSFT called it MS Java so by this logic MSFT would have been perfectly fine to rip off Sun if they would have called their version something like flexfair or some other BS name.
That's correct. M$ actually got dinged for violating their trademark and deliberately creating confusion in the marketplace by calling their non-conforming implementation "Java". You are entirely correct that if they had not called it Java, they would have been fine. But they did, and the court ruled that they did it deliberately.
As someone who owns a managed forest,
Do you really?
I must point out that a) wood is a renewable resource
So what are you doing to maintain the soil?
and b) growing saplings fix a lot more CO2 from the atmosphere than mature trees do.
What? No, it most certainly does not. Old trees store carbon more rapidly than young trees. (And while we're here, they don't absorb more CO2 as atmospheric CO2 concentration rises, either.
I don't think you're managing a goddamned thing. You certainly don't know what you're talking about.
So it's devolved to the level where Oracle is little more than a gigantic patent troll so Larry can have a bigger sailboat.
They're a lot more than that. They also have a bunch of lawyers just for suing their customers.
I'm fairly sure you can tell all of us how to fix the power steering in your car and what you have to pay attention to when welding a leak in your gas line, right?
LOL, welding a leak in your gas line. Who does this? You replace the piece of pipe. If it's the municipal gas connection, the gas company is responsible for welding that up. But the 3/4" pipe into my house? Why would I weld that? It would cost more than replacing it.
As for the power steering, do you want to know about replacing parts, or rebuilding them? Rebuilding the rack is usually a stupid idea, but the pump can often be rebuilt trivially enough.
Start printing out highly-polluting plastic receipts! That'll teach those idiots in legislature what for!
You can't start doing what you're already doing. Thermal receipt paper is plastic-coated.
There is nothing "elitist" about cell phones.
95% of American adults have a cell phone.
But only somewhere from 30-50% of younger Americans do (not counting single-digit children.) A system which required cellphones would be prejudiced against the young. They make purchases, too.
For the few people that don't have a phone or email, they can still ask for a paper receipt.
For now...
I wish there was a way for the retailer to send me a PDF of the receipt in such a way that the retailer wouldn't know my e-mail address
There is. It's called a throwaway address. Your provider (or your personal email system) could generate a new one for literally every purchase. That way you'd know precisely who the spammers were, and they'd have no idea what your actual address was. Several (or even several hundred) could be generated every time you had network access, so you wouldn't run out.
How does a tiny till receipt compare to all the paper in newspapers which millions of people buy every day?
Newspapers are waning on their own, but retailers keep finding new shit to print out on receipts — which are printed on paper with a high plastic content, for durability. Newspaper has no plastic content, and precious little non-wood fiber.
This is due to the new BPA-free paper, which protects infants whose parents have them snack on receipt paper.
It actually protects people who eat fast food, because the surest way to transfer BPA from one of those receipts is by contaminating it with hot grease. Then it transfers to your fingers, and since fast food is messy, from there to your mouth.
Somehow that doesnâ(TM)t make me feel a whole lot better about this fix.
You must be sane. It's totally bananas to build an airliner which isn't neutral and stable by its basic design. While not cross-checking the two sensors they actually had in place should probably be considered criminal negligence, the real root cause is building this plane with these engines at all. They should have built a new airframe, but they couldn't do that in a timely fashion, so they glued big engines onto a small plane — and people died.
They're regularly inspected, which is about the best you can do.
The best you (they) could do is to have implemented sensor cross-checking in the first place, not after people died. Our 2006 Sprinter has two pots on the accelerator pedal, and cross-checks them. WTF was Boeing thinking by not using both sensors? On what basis is that not criminal negligence? At very best, it's gross incompetence.
I'd try to come up with a funny expansion of MCAS.
May Cause Air Sickness
May Cure Air Sickness. It's hard to have air sickness when you're smeared across the runway as a chunky paste.
It is risk taking behavior, that has gotten the modern world to the advanced state it is in today.
You mean the state in which climate change threatens all civilizations on the planet? Don't worry, we'll fix it in post
You own a Burger Joint.
Taxes today for a $5 burger is 10%
Customer pays $5.50 for that burger.
Taxes tomorrow for a $5 burger is 15%
Customer now pays $5.75 for that burger.
Right. The Customer now pays $5.75. The person walking by on the street doesn't pay anything. So it's the people who use the resource who pay the taxes. That's fair, and efficient. Just look at how many people pay required sales taxes if not assessed at purchase time, it's basically nobody. So you tax the business, not the customer, and the customer pays for it — the business makes sure they do, because otherwise they've got a problem.
This is why we need to increase taxes on commercial trucking. Heavy trucks do virtually all the damage to the road surface that's not done by weather itself. Light cars do basically none. RVs do more damage than cars per mile, but they don't move around much, so they don't do much damage overall. Without GPS tracking, the fairest way possible to account for road damage is to charge more fees for commercial trucks, probably those over 26k GVWR (because of the way the current fees are structured, and 26k is a magic number in the eyes of the current law.) The cost of the additional taxes will be rolled into the cost of goods, and then the people who buy those goods will wind up paying them. Those who buy things sourced from shorter distances will wind up paying less of the tax, so that will encourage buying local.
I didn't buy cars easily capable of going well over 100mph, to not occasionally 'air them out' when conditions around were safe to do so.
I don't need the govt. limiting me.
It's not about you, or at least, not necessarily about you.
If you want to get on it, you can go to a track.
Going quickly on public roads is a hazard to others, even if nobody is around. You could go off the road and into a tree and cause a fire, or off the road and into a river and dump your crankcase lube into an ecosystem.
I like driving quickly too, but the reality is that the vast majority of public roads aren't designed for speeds like those, and the vast majority of other drivers don't behave well enough for it to be safe to travel at those speeds even if they were. There's no corner workers, nobody is checking those roads to make sure there's no debris, nobody is doing a safety inspection before your run to make sure your vehicle is still in condition for the situation, and there's no gravel pits. Or at least, precious few.
Looks like it's time to start buying cars in the US to import and sell in Europe. I'm guessing that you could get a nice premium for an unlocked american car as long as it meets all the other EU standards, such as stop/tail light colors.
They'll just make it illegal to import such vehicles until they're 25+ years old, if they haven't already. That's how it works in the USA. Some nations are right dicks about it, too, like Australia. You can't import a vehicle with asbestos gaskets into Oz, let alone brake pads.
And if not, why not, they are the ones who _constantly_ and _noisily_ ride way above the speed limit.
IME, the Motorcycles are rarely the fastest thing on the road, except when traffic is substantially slowed — and that only because California permits lane splitting, and that's where I live.
I care about the biker going 60 in a 20mph zone, or 120 on a mountain road.
I care more about the biker going 45 in a 55 on a mountain road because he's afraid to lean over, in case there's a bunch of crap on the road and he loses traction, since there's oncoming traffic and no gravel pit. Motorcycles are stupid on public roads. I'm forever getting held up behind them, even in ungainly vehicles like a cargo Sprinter.
Unless we won't have roads anymore...
We could have a lot less vehicles on roads, and the vehicles which are on roads could all be required to be self-driving. And those vehicles will be cautious, and slow down when a human driver typically won't, so that if they do get into an accident it won't be fatal. It's very possible that non-automated vehicles will be banned from freeways completely. There are multiple reasons for a government to desire such a state of affairs, only one of which is safety.
3. If you press down hard on the accelerator it overrides the speed limiter temporarily.
Mercedes will never go for that. It would interfere with their control scheme. Since the seventies or so, Mercedes has had a perceptible kick-down switch. Back then (certainly in my 1982 300SD) it was a physical momentary switch located literally under the accelerator pedal. These days, it's integrated into the accelerator pedal assembly, since it's all throttle-by-wire and there's no benefit to breaking it out into a separate unit. MBZ would favor a console switch.
2. The car gets a black box that can be accessed after an accident.
It's already got one. OBD-II vehicles store at least a minute of logging data, 30 seconds before and 30 seconds after a critical event occurs. That includes emissions failures, engine faults, or airbag deployment. It records the state of all sensors. It knows the throttle position and the state of the brake light switch, and in modern vehicles it also knows the position of the steering wheel.
"He keeps meeting with Putin."
You mean "doing his job by maintaining diplomatic ties with another nation's leader?"
We don't know whether he's doing his job or committing treason, because we don't get any transcripts or recordings.
"Not letting us know what was said."
You've been told everything you have the security clearance to know.
You might be satisfied with that, since you celebrate ignorance. I am not.
"Destroys evidence regularly"
Sorry? I think you mean Hillary Clinton.
Trump destroys emails too, but more relevantly, he's been spotted destroying his notes on more than one occasion.
"If he's so innocent, why is he so against there being any evidence to back up his good intentions."
You DO realize you just asked the man to prove a negative right?
No, that's not what I did at all. I want some evidence of good faith, of which there has been none.