Actually, honestly...in the long run, Katrina was one of the best things that happened to New Orleans. There was 1-2 year struggle after but since then, the city is MUCH better overall.
Hell of a price to pay for improvements - I was there the year after and things were still a mess.
Yep, come for a visit....we're a much better city at the 10 year Katrina anniversary.
I'll be back again in a couple of months - I visit Texas twice a year (work) and always make a point of visiting friends in New Iberia (which was fortunately unaffected). A trip with them to the sleazey (I mean that affectionately) is always a high-point.
That woosh you hear is the wind whistling through your head.
[...] how lazy are you?
Very. I spend hours saving several minutes. Maybe you should watch the video I referenced and take yourself a little less seriously (everyone else does)?
That's why whatever tech journalist who fed you the line about your mythical industry default is incorrect.
I don't know where you got the idea I read it - it's my first-hand experience. (did you think my tech creds are playing video games?)
Not hard to test your assumptions - try googling for SSD VPS and then looking at what you get from various companies. The most common default in the sub-$20 pm range is no swap.
I came to grips with the idea of never being an astronaut when I was about 7. I'd read that there was a height limit of 6 feet for astronauts, which even in the early 70s might have been out of date information. but since my father was taller than that, I figured I would be also.
Ouch! I'm only 5'10" and had never considered that anyone might want to be shorter. But then I never desired to be an astronaut - that I recall.
Um, Google's search engine and the infrastructure around it (above the OS level) is all closed source.
Is their no limit to your bullshit? Go back to writing 9/11 and Illuminati conspiracies - there is little secret about what Google uses for their search engine and infrastructure ('cause they Open Source it and publicise it regularly), only the implementation is considered company property. You rely on the lazy who won't check your claims - and the stupid who'll believe that because you offer no proof it must be a conspiracy is a sure sign of bullshit. Most/. readers won't fall for that tired cireulus in probando. "Google relies on proprietary software - but they'll sic their lawyers on anyone who reviews it" - as there's no proof that your bullshit is true - the gullible might believe you. Telling that your desired audience needs to be gullible.
It's a tiny audience that'll believe that warm feeling is not you pissing in their pocket - the rest either work for Google, have worked for Google, use Google source code for themselves - or know someone who does. Presuming that everyone who reads/. is as ignorant as you ain't a good start to your career as a shill/troll.
Actually, I think both your examples prove his point.
Which prove only that you don't get the point. IBM wasn't making money from software - but they relied on software to make money on hardware. By using Open Source they greatly reduced costs. Don't let that stop you from building strawmen from the straws you're grasping at - 'cause you know so much more that one of less than half a dozen companies on the planet that has been in continuous profit for over a century.
Google doesn't even have a product that it sells. It makes more than 90% of its revenue by giving away mediocre content for free and then attaching advertising to it.
Bullshit - where do you think they get their income from - the fucking internet fairies? Their product is targeted advertising. They use Open Source to build their systems - and Open Source to create the mediums that allow them to target their ads. Again, you either fail to grasp the point, or are being wilfully obtuse and deceitful. Given the way you are so quick to deploy straw man and (brain-damaged) ad crumenam arguments the latter is most likely. The desperate attempt to rescue an unsupportable position by deploying argumentum ad crumenam is particularly telling. Those that actually know business will be quick to tell you that profit is result of margins and reducing cost is a key element. Your use of mediocre is also telling. In that you need to resort to sophistic argument in the hope of enlisting the unwary. (your logic is false, but the unwary may take mediocre as proven and fail to recognise what follows is dependant upon it being true). If the "product" (you paint with such a broad brush) is so mediocre why all the whining from those that complain they depended on it - when it's withdrawn? Is Android another failure? Would Google hold their current market position if they based their company on proprietary products?
So I guess we should say "thank you" for providing two excellent examples of how companies only give away software when it is not a source of revenue for them.
Reality check. Your delusion is not shared. It's the bottom-line that counts when calculating whether the use of and/or support of Open Source is a business failure - and by all counts you are patently and demonstrably wrong.
tl;dr? If you do this for free - get a life. If you're a paid shill - you work for idiots that make bad investments.
If so just subscribe to some mailing lists (I could name some but you give very little useful information when you say "software developer") - those sort of jobs come up all the time (weekly). Generally you're dealing with the people you'll be working with - not there HR department or some agency so the usual channels won't get you many leads.
Recently there have been a few jobs in the EU every week, which has been a consistent pattern for the last twenty years (UNIX and Linux).
Yeah...I'm familiar with them, I live in New Orleans, and here in southern LA, we go through TONs of them boiled each year during the season which ended about a month or so ago.
Yeah! You guys (and gals) know how to do food right! I really enjoy my trips there - never thought it'd be the same after the floods, but you can't keep good things down (unless they're food).
OK, Understood (now, thanks for the expansion). I haven't tried Pocket. Hadn't even heard of it until this story. Since then I've asked someone to explore Wallabag (for various reason).
I agree with the outside area we have covered walks around the outside and a koi pond in the centre courtyard. I try to take a short walk once a day.
Hours at the keyboard v.s. productivity at the keyboard is a tricky decision matrix to weight. Ideally I prefer people, myself included to average a ten minute break every hour and a half. It's a very short walk to outdoors - though this time of year it's fucking cold. If you walk out the nearest door you'll likely only see the person opposite you, if they go outside - which gives you the chance to keep track of what you were pondering on when you walked out. But you can walk around the dividing trellises and mingle if you want. Or not.
The no drinking or eating? Okay with the no eating but no drinking is not cool. I like my cup of Mate handy while I work.
Go outside and have a sip of your drink, and a think. That's the point - not so much concerned about keyboard spillages as being productive. RSI, eye-strain (hence the outside - look at the mountains and Parliament House in the distance over the paddocks) are side-benefits not primary goals.
Yes a walk can be a big help.
Health wise - no arguments (guessed - not the result of rigorous studies). Productivity is the main thing. NOTE: most of my staff are contractors - long and weird hours are pointless if unproductive. You want to nap - I don't care, as long as you meet the SLAs and deadlines you undertake (generally on a daily basic). You're free to swap stuff out of your ticket-queue to others.
Most of my staff are contractors (and friends) - you make a set rate based on the jobs and I get a percentage (8 - 10%) after costs to manage the jobs, the ticketing system, process payments,and provide equipment. If you want to work from home you can do that - as long as you spend one day a week based in the office, provide your own home equipment (https to the ticket-system) - I take 8% off the net.
These are not big ventures - the largest has 14 contractors, most of whom are part-time. Very informal, and if people don't work they just don't get work. So don't apply the same standards to wherever you work. Most of my competitors have a markup of 20-50% (and much more) and much higher margins. So they really couldn't give a fuck about productivity or health. For me, customer relationships are everything so I try and be flexible to keep good staff on. So sorry - no drinking at your desk - take a walk and think about it. Don't stress - you'll still get paid.
Colloquial name for any freshwater crayfish. We have several varieties (and species) in Australia (dunno where you're from, but you probably have an equivalent). In our case we cultivate a variant of Cherax destructor. The destructor comes from their habit of burrowing into dam and creek walls to shelter during the cold season (now, currently sub-zero which is cold for Australia). We sell the yabbies live to local (small for bait, large for premium restaurants) and (small amounts i.e. 5 - 10K Kg) international markets (shipped in chilled water) but are also exploring the market for the meat, and believe it or not - the shells for use as material (chittlin or chitlin?) for use in bandages for a company the provides medical supplies to the US Marines.
Tasty - they provide good nutrients for hydroponically grown basil, parsley, and coriander - and food for Murray cod (very simple, even a flat dweller can do it - Murray Cod are a bit more demanding, I've two girls that are 40+Kg - don't skinny-dip in their pool!). The yabbies eat earthworms, straw, and small amounts of vegetable scraps.
Premium international market is Finland when the have their annual Kemah festival (Does Linus eat yabbies? Texas and other US states also have a Kemah festival, and I've found most American, at least in the Southern states love our yabbies as much as their own freshwater crayfish).
I like them - don't know how they appeal to US tastes, but they taste the same as US freshwater crustaceans to me (nice freshly boiled and dipped in sauce accompanied by good beer). We've bred a distinctive bright blue variant (which tastes the same as the green and brown coloured variants).
I also breed small amounts of the local Murray crayfish and would very much like to try breeding the giant Tasmanian yabbie. (the worlds largest freshwater crustacean)
I hope that answers all your questions - thanks for a civil, intelligent post.
Either put up of shut the fuck up - but no you slink away leaving a slime trail...
Take it up with the OP, if you aren't just here to stalk me. If you have a brain, it should be obvious why - I'm sure as hell are not going to explain, after I futilely tried to explain something quite obvious to you just a few hours ago.
Does not parse. What the fuck are you trying to say. You make the claim that artificially lit crops can't be certified then you blame it on someone else (cowardly - um, it was the big kid wot done it, and used my login!) Then you claim you're being stalked (delusional++). Then you claim you can't explain what you said. An appeal to sympathy for what? Were you born retarded? Had some sort of traumatic head injury that still enables you to spew stupid on/.? But when challenged you mewl "if I need to explain" - like we all are so dumb as to forget you made an unsubstantiated claim? Pathetic and text book guilty:- 'Excuse me, sir. What are you doing with that diamond necklace hanging out of your pocket?' 'I say, isn't that a purebred German shepherd dog you have with you" (Even if the policeman is put off the scent, the dog won't be.) That ain't a diamond necklace hanging out of your pocket...
Futile would be the most fitting epitaph for you (and likely all that'll fit on your gravestone).
Now if they would bring back the features we've had in the extension (be it as extension or not, I don't care how they implement it) then they might be on to something.
Organic fertilizer is made out of chemicals you know right?
No shit?
And how much space does it take to make that fertilizer.
Do tell? References or it didn't happen.
Yes they use fertilizer just as they use pesticide and herbicides.
They? The Illuminati? The Jewish Conspiracy? The shape shifting lizard people? (did it make sense when you thunk it?)
Its "organic" but don't breath in when they are spraying......
The same could be said for your words - and, likely, your breath. I have no idea what you mean in relation to aquaculture (we don't spray anything).
Or hope it has rained a lot before harvest....
I hope it rains a lot any time. You don't get out of your basement much do you? Hint: farming is not like living in your parent's house. We have droughts - can't just turn the tap on.
Back to the subject: I don't like the label "organic" it dilutes the, IMO, original meaning of the word (carbon-based). "Natural" is problematic too (I've given the matter a lot of thought over the last few decades). I also note that what you propose is based on flawed logic and sophism (no doubt you argue simply to argue, and need for attention while you wait for puberty to arrive).
My original motivation for "organic" farming was lower energy usage while producing food for our consumption - not necessarily healthier. The commercial side is/was just to offset costs.
If asked what is better - to buy "organic", or "non-organic" - I'd hesitate to give an answer because it's not simple. Much of what is marketed as "organic" is bullshit (and I don't mean the "organic" kind). The price difference the market command leads to fraud.
If I have to generalise I'd suggest "buy what is in season from the location closest to the purchase". The tradeoff between the environmental harm of producing and shipping manufactured fertilizers, and their theoretical health problems - v.s. the loss of vitamins and beneficial phytochemicals due to time to market are the main factors.
The other major factor would be that regardless of the method of cultivation ("organic" or "manufactured fertilizer" - I'm leaving out pest control for the purposes of avoiding writing an multi-page post) - is that by buying local you have more chance of keeping the producer honest. The "organic" certification schemes are expensive (which is why the product cost more - production is actually cheaper), and thorough, but do little to stop producers from swapping in non-"organic" products. Buying local reduces that risk (it's also good for your local economy - a less debatable benefit). Regardless of the method of production - buying out-of-season produce - or produce from overseas is very likely "less healthy".
NOTES: there are no "super" foods. Biodynamics (like homeopathic medicine) is pure woo. Produce that has suffered insect attack is quite probably better for you. You can get "organic" certification for Monsanto crops. Simple is a synonym for dumb.
It could have been news - if you told us what novel exploit it used, who benefited, and how. That would have been news - and interesting. But no - you had to put lipstick on a pig and try and flog the wedding night videos.
Malware has been doing the same thing for a long time - closing the weaknesses it used for access. The only thing that sounds new is the "reporting" slant. Politely. WTF - does it say "excuse me"? [sigh]
Samzenpuss - stop posting this shit please. (see that's polite).
jfruh - stop submitting this click-bait slanted crap, please. e.g. "Japanese And U.S. Piloted Robots To Brawl For National Pride". All you had to do was say "fighting robots" and more people would have read the story - no need for the Fox News histrionics. Stop acting like a whipped dog trying to get your "stories" published. You just embarrass yourself.
I think the "electrolysis" project for per-tab processes is such a feature to be excited about. Of course Chrome already has this, so maybe the excitement is not all that great. But I think that the unconditional Firefox bashing that is so cool these days is totally counter-productive. Just like me, most Firefox-bashers don't want a Chrome monoculture. Be careful, or you'll manage to kill it and then good night.
Agreed, choice is good. I prefer Firefox (Iceweasel actually) - but it's competition that keeps them honest.
Thanks Mozilla for making Pocket removable. Special thanks for supporting srcset - especially for not jumping the gun on it when it was uncertain that it would become a defacto standard.
Could Mozilla produce as good a browser if they were entirely unfunded - maybe. But I very much doubt they'd be able to make such positive contributions to W3C, internet privacy campaigns - and especially, making M$ pickup their browser game. I rarely a week goes by that I don't make extensive use of the their developer documentation for web design.
Note: to be fair, the developers of all the major browser have all worked hard, together, to make the intertubes a better place. Kudos to the employees - nice to see employer loyalties don't stop them communicating and sharing.
I'm a farmer. Our aquaculture production is herbs, yabbies and Murray cod - we're ACOS and NASAA certified as organic, which allows us to export to both the US and EU organic markets. Pisses me off no end when dickheads like you appoint yourselves "organic certification" authorities.
Put it in print with your name in it and we'll let the courts decide whose right. Until then it's your unqualified private opinion and you should clearly label it as such.
So the sun doesn't emit ionizing radiation? Hint: even without the massive holes in the ozone layer - it does. But go lay in the sun all day. Please. (arseclown).
Do you have something reliable to back up that statement?
I've been using the ganglia monitoring suite on clusters for a bit over a decade and on several hundred occasions I have noted that eventually cached stuff ends up in swap even if there's still some free memory. It's part of what it is for, getting stuff out of the way so you've plenty of memory to use.
how the fuck will a swap file/partition get written to... if there's no power
WTF?
turning the machine off before it has cached much
You made the stupid claim - I just pointed out the obvious.
The default setup for modern Linux servers running on SSD (of which there are millions in production use) is no swap files or partitions.
It has always been an option and not bad for desktops but the default on servers - no that's just stupid since swap is often the difference between eventually getting something done or a complete crash leading to possibly hours of downtime.
I'll grant you that it's your opinion (which you are no doubt deserved of holding) - but it still doesn't change the reality that many million of enterprise grade VPS do not have swap. Doesn't mean your wrong. Likewise the bloke who lives on orange juice alone. In your case you trade performance for a few dollars saved on RAM - without knowing your use case I wouldn't call it stupid, but equally I'm wary of saying it's clever.
I've only seen a couple of Apple TV ads over the years,
Apple invest heavily in product placement advertising - so you've seen lots of Apple advertising in movies, entertainment news, slashdot stories, and music videos.
Ohh, so how many product placed Apple TVs did you see?
Apple make TVs?
Wow, for an Apple Hater you sure know little about Apple.
Apple hater? Wow! You sure know very little about me. But clearly that doesn't get in the way of your blinkered, slavish fanboi, bifurcated "view" on things.
the observation that someone has something nicer than you isn't license to revolt against the system.
I didn't say, or mean, they had a license. Most people just want - enlightened self interest is rare.
That's why preaching austerity is a fail - you might as well say "don't steal from those that have more", or don't migrate to somewhere the opportunities are better". It's just pissing into the wind and trying to stay dry.
That woosh you hear is the wind whistling through your head.
This is the idea I came up with a few weeks ago on another Uber thread that would fix everything: registered destinations. A driver registers a destination for their trip, and only then are they shown potential "customers/fares/ridesharers/etc"-who have also registered a destination-along their route within a slight variance depending on trip length (driving across a city it might be a block or 2, across state several miles). They can only pick up a new passenger once they have reached their original destination and registered a new one or, if they had a passenger get off during their previous trip, a new passenger registers with an applicable destination.
This kind of system would ensure that you are in fact ridesharing, ie. picking up passengers who are going to the same general area you are or a place you will pass along the way as opposed to working as an unlicensed taxi. Throw in a "fare" based on mileage/depreciation/a little extra for your time as opposed to Uber's surge pricing and you get rid of the issue of people taking this on as a job because it suddenly is not worth the effort. You still get compensated enough to offset the gas and depreciation of your car that you would be doing anyway, and at the end of the week you might have enough money to go out for a good dinner or maybe even enough for a trip for 2 to the movies.
It sounds like a great idea.
If Google do something similar they might be able to profit off providing the software because it'd be another forum for their advertising (business gets better value for their advertising). That'd be a win-win(-win-win?)
Passengers get cheaper transport, drivers get to defray driving costs and maybe qualify for faster routes (depending on transport lane rules and tolls, and both parties have more money to spend on other things), governments pay less in road costs (reduction in vehicles), everyone pays tax (remember roads are not paid for by registration - and the costs are borne by multiple generations of taxpayers), business pays less (reduced need for parking areas changes commercial space costs), everybody breathes less fumes (reduced health costs).
The losers will be the road construction industry, toll road operators, car park operators, car manufacturers and the associated industries, and taxi drivers - which is probably a mostly good thing. It's not like they won't/can't get jobs elsewhere. Maybe then the car-park operators will have less money to lobby government to cut back on public transport.
This has a solid business model. It can not be a popular success without being a business success.
Of course it can.
Start a business selling luxury cars at less than what you paid for them - you'll be a popular success and a business failure. Two for the price of one.
Listen to the whiners complaining about Google Reader - according to them it was a popular success (dunno why - I just use RSS feeds in my email client). According to Google it was a business failure.
Fact of life - no matter how good the business plan, like most theory it tends to crap out in the face of reality.
Either you adjust the plan to match reality - or if that's not feasible you scrap the venture and cut your losses. That's just good business.
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Actually, honestly...in the long run, Katrina was one of the best things that happened to New Orleans. There was 1-2 year struggle after but since then, the city is MUCH better overall.
Hell of a price to pay for improvements - I was there the year after and things were still a mess.
Yep, come for a visit....we're a much better city at the 10 year Katrina anniversary.
I'll be back again in a couple of months - I visit Texas twice a year (work) and always make a point of visiting friends in New Iberia (which was fortunately unaffected). A trip with them to the sleazey (I mean that affectionately) is always a high-point.
That woosh you hear is the wind whistling through your head.
[...] how lazy are you?
Very. I spend hours saving several minutes. Maybe you should watch the video I referenced and take yourself a little less seriously (everyone else does)?
That's why whatever tech journalist who fed you the line about your mythical industry default is incorrect.
I don't know where you got the idea I read it - it's my first-hand experience. (did you think my tech creds are playing video games?)
Not hard to test your assumptions - try googling for SSD VPS and then looking at what you get from various companies. The most common default in the sub-$20 pm range is no swap.
I came to grips with the idea of never being an astronaut when I was about 7. I'd read that there was a height limit of 6 feet for astronauts, which even in the early 70s might have been out of date information. but since my father was taller than that, I figured I would be also.
Ouch! I'm only 5'10" and had never considered that anyone might want to be shorter. But then I never desired to be an astronaut - that I recall.
The problem here is that neither of us has a fucking clue what you are babbling about, Care for some coherence?
Neither of us? Speak for yourself. You might want to seek professional help - especially about that stalking delusion.
Dear coward
Um, Google's search engine and the infrastructure around it (above the OS level) is all closed source.
Is their no limit to your bullshit? Go back to writing 9/11 and Illuminati conspiracies - there is little secret about what Google uses for their search engine and infrastructure ('cause they Open Source it and publicise it regularly), only the implementation is considered company property. You rely on the lazy who won't check your claims - and the stupid who'll believe that because you offer no proof it must be a conspiracy is a sure sign of bullshit. /. readers won't fall for that tired cireulus in probando. "Google relies on proprietary software - but they'll sic their lawyers on anyone who reviews it" - as there's no proof that your bullshit is true - the gullible might believe you. Telling that your desired audience needs to be gullible.
Most
It's a tiny audience that'll believe that warm feeling is not you pissing in their pocket - the rest either work for Google, have worked for Google, use Google source code for themselves - or know someone who does. Presuming that everyone who reads /. is as ignorant as you ain't a good start to your career as a shill/troll.
Dear coward
Actually, I think both your examples prove his point.
Which prove only that you don't get the point. IBM wasn't making money from software - but they relied on software to make money on hardware. By using Open Source they greatly reduced costs. Don't let that stop you from building strawmen from the straws you're grasping at - 'cause you know so much more that one of less than half a dozen companies on the planet that has been in continuous profit for over a century.
Google doesn't even have a product that it sells. It makes more than 90% of its revenue by giving away mediocre content for free and then attaching advertising to it.
Bullshit - where do you think they get their income from - the fucking internet fairies? Their product is targeted advertising. They use Open Source to build their systems - and Open Source to create the mediums that allow them to target their ads.
Again, you either fail to grasp the point, or are being wilfully obtuse and deceitful. Given the way you are so quick to deploy straw man and (brain-damaged) ad crumenam arguments the latter is most likely.
The desperate attempt to rescue an unsupportable position by deploying argumentum ad crumenam is particularly telling. Those that actually know business will be quick to tell you that profit is result of margins and reducing cost is a key element.
Your use of mediocre is also telling. In that you need to resort to sophistic argument in the hope of enlisting the unwary. (your logic is false, but the unwary may take mediocre as proven and fail to recognise what follows is dependant upon it being true).
If the "product" (you paint with such a broad brush) is so mediocre why all the whining from those that complain they depended on it - when it's withdrawn? Is Android another failure? Would Google hold their current market position if they based their company on proprietary products?
So I guess we should say "thank you" for providing two excellent examples of how companies only give away software when it is not a source of revenue for them.
Reality check. Your delusion is not shared. It's the bottom-line that counts when calculating whether the use of and/or support of Open Source is a business failure - and by all counts you are patently and demonstrably wrong.
tl;dr? If you do this for free - get a life. If you're a paid shill - you work for idiots that make bad investments.
If so just subscribe to some mailing lists (I could name some but you give very little useful information when you say "software developer") - those sort of jobs come up all the time (weekly). Generally you're dealing with the people you'll be working with - not there HR department or some agency so the usual channels won't get you many leads.
Recently there have been a few jobs in the EU every week, which has been a consistent pattern for the last twenty years (UNIX and Linux).
Ok...crawfish.
Yeah...I'm familiar with them, I live in New Orleans, and here in southern LA, we go through TONs of them boiled each year during the season which ended about a month or so ago.
Yeah! You guys (and gals) know how to do food right! I really enjoy my trips there - never thought it'd be the same after the floods, but you can't keep good things down (unless they're food).
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OK, Understood (now, thanks for the expansion). I haven't tried Pocket. Hadn't even heard of it until this story. Since then I've asked someone to explore Wallabag (for various reason).
I agree with the outside area we have covered walks around the outside and a koi pond in the centre courtyard. I try to take a short walk once a day.
Hours at the keyboard v.s. productivity at the keyboard is a tricky decision matrix to weight. Ideally I prefer people, myself included to average a ten minute break every hour and a half. It's a very short walk to outdoors - though this time of year it's fucking cold. If you walk out the nearest door you'll likely only see the person opposite you, if they go outside - which gives you the chance to keep track of what you were pondering on when you walked out. But you can walk around the dividing trellises and mingle if you want. Or not.
The no drinking or eating? Okay with the no eating but no drinking is not cool. I like my cup of Mate handy while I work.
Go outside and have a sip of your drink, and a think. That's the point - not so much concerned about keyboard spillages as being productive. RSI, eye-strain (hence the outside - look at the mountains and Parliament House in the distance over the paddocks) are side-benefits not primary goals.
Yes a walk can be a big help.
Health wise - no arguments (guessed - not the result of rigorous studies). Productivity is the main thing. NOTE: most of my staff are contractors - long and weird hours are pointless if unproductive. You want to nap - I don't care, as long as you meet the SLAs and deadlines you undertake (generally on a daily basic). You're free to swap stuff out of your ticket-queue to others.
Most of my staff are contractors (and friends) - you make a set rate based on the jobs and I get a percentage (8 - 10%) after costs to manage the jobs, the ticketing system, process payments,and provide equipment. If you want to work from home you can do that - as long as you spend one day a week based in the office, provide your own home equipment (https to the ticket-system) - I take 8% off the net.
These are not big ventures - the largest has 14 contractors, most of whom are part-time. Very informal, and if people don't work they just don't get work. So don't apply the same standards to wherever you work. Most of my competitors have a markup of 20-50% (and much more) and much higher margins. So they really couldn't give a fuck about productivity or health. For me, customer relationships are everything so I try and be flexible to keep good staff on. So sorry - no drinking at your desk - take a walk and think about it. Don't stress - you'll still get paid.
What are "yabbies"?
Colloquial name for any freshwater crayfish. We have several varieties (and species) in Australia (dunno where you're from, but you probably have an equivalent). In our case we cultivate a variant of Cherax destructor . The destructor comes from their habit of burrowing into dam and creek walls to shelter during the cold season (now, currently sub-zero which is cold for Australia). We sell the yabbies live to local (small for bait, large for premium restaurants) and (small amounts i.e. 5 - 10K Kg) international markets (shipped in chilled water) but are also exploring the market for the meat, and believe it or not - the shells for use as material (chittlin or chitlin?) for use in bandages for a company the provides medical supplies to the US Marines.
Tasty - they provide good nutrients for hydroponically grown basil, parsley, and coriander - and food for Murray cod (very simple, even a flat dweller can do it - Murray Cod are a bit more demanding, I've two girls that are 40+Kg - don't skinny-dip in their pool!). The yabbies eat earthworms, straw, and small amounts of vegetable scraps.
Premium international market is Finland when the have their annual Kemah festival (Does Linus eat yabbies? Texas and other US states also have a Kemah festival, and I've found most American, at least in the Southern states love our yabbies as much as their own freshwater crayfish).
I like them - don't know how they appeal to US tastes, but they taste the same as US freshwater crustaceans to me (nice freshly boiled and dipped in sauce accompanied by good beer). We've bred a distinctive bright blue variant (which tastes the same as the green and brown coloured variants).
I also breed small amounts of the local Murray crayfish and would very much like to try breeding the giant Tasmanian yabbie. (the worlds largest freshwater crustacean)
I hope that answers all your questions - thanks for a civil, intelligent post.
I worked on "organic" farms. I grew up on a farm. And i really won't bother with you after that eloquent start to the conversation.
OK. All farms are the same, I'm a prisoner of your opinion.
What was your point? Do you even have a point? (aside from the growth on your neck where other people have heads).
Thanks for your opinion. Whatever it was meant to be. (I'm guessing purposely obscure, or maybe you just had a hard time working).
Either put up of shut the fuck up - but no you slink away leaving a slime trail...
Take it up with the OP, if you aren't just here to stalk me. If you have a brain, it should be obvious why - I'm sure as hell are not going to explain, after I futilely tried to explain something quite obvious to you just a few hours ago.
Does not parse. What the fuck are you trying to say. You make the claim that artificially lit crops can't be certified then you blame it on someone else (cowardly - um, it was the big kid wot done it, and used my login!) /.? But when challenged you mewl "if I need to explain" - like we all are so dumb as to forget you made an unsubstantiated claim? Pathetic and text book guilty:-
Then you claim you're being stalked (delusional++).
Then you claim you can't explain what you said. An appeal to sympathy for what? Were you born retarded? Had some sort of traumatic head injury that still enables you to spew stupid on
'Excuse me, sir. What are you doing with that diamond necklace hanging out of your pocket?'
'I say, isn't that a purebred German shepherd dog you have with you"
(Even if the policeman is put off the scent, the dog won't be.)
That ain't a diamond necklace hanging out of your pocket...
Futile would be the most fitting epitaph for you (and likely all that'll fit on your gravestone).
Now if they would bring back the features we've had in the extension (be it as extension or not, I don't care how they implement it) then they might be on to something.
What extension do you mean?
Organic fertilizer is made out of chemicals you know right?
No shit?
And how much space does it take to make that fertilizer.
Do tell? References or it didn't happen.
Yes they use fertilizer just as they use pesticide and herbicides.
They? The Illuminati? The Jewish Conspiracy? The shape shifting lizard people? (did it make sense when you thunk it?)
Its "organic" but don't breath in when they are spraying......
The same could be said for your words - and, likely, your breath. I have no idea what you mean in relation to aquaculture (we don't spray anything).
Or hope it has rained a lot before harvest....
I hope it rains a lot any time. You don't get out of your basement much do you? Hint: farming is not like living in your parent's house. We have droughts - can't just turn the tap on.
Back to the subject: I don't like the label "organic" it dilutes the, IMO, original meaning of the word (carbon-based). "Natural" is problematic too (I've given the matter a lot of thought over the last few decades). I also note that what you propose is based on flawed logic and sophism (no doubt you argue simply to argue, and need for attention while you wait for puberty to arrive).
My original motivation for "organic" farming was lower energy usage while producing food for our consumption - not necessarily healthier. The commercial side is/was just to offset costs.
If asked what is better - to buy "organic", or "non-organic" - I'd hesitate to give an answer because it's not simple. Much of what is marketed as "organic" is bullshit (and I don't mean the "organic" kind). The price difference the market command leads to fraud.
If I have to generalise I'd suggest "buy what is in season from the location closest to the purchase". The tradeoff between the environmental harm of producing and shipping manufactured fertilizers, and their theoretical health problems - v.s. the loss of vitamins and beneficial phytochemicals due to time to market are the main factors.
The other major factor would be that regardless of the method of cultivation ("organic" or "manufactured fertilizer" - I'm leaving out pest control for the purposes of avoiding writing an multi-page post) - is that by buying local you have more chance of keeping the producer honest. The "organic" certification schemes are expensive (which is why the product cost more - production is actually cheaper), and thorough, but do little to stop producers from swapping in non-"organic" products. Buying local reduces that risk (it's also good for your local economy - a less debatable benefit). Regardless of the method of production - buying out-of-season produce - or produce from overseas is very likely "less healthy".
NOTES: there are no "super" foods. Biodynamics (like homeopathic medicine) is pure woo. Produce that has suffered insect attack is quite probably better for you. You can get "organic" certification for Monsanto crops. Simple is a synonym for dumb.
It could have been news - if you told us what novel exploit it used, who benefited, and how. That would have been news - and interesting.
But no - you had to put lipstick on a pig and try and flog the wedding night videos.
Malware has been doing the same thing for a long time - closing the weaknesses it used for access. The only thing that sounds new is the "reporting" slant. Politely. WTF - does it say "excuse me"? [sigh]
Samzenpuss - stop posting this shit please. (see that's polite).
jfruh - stop submitting this click-bait slanted crap, please. e.g. "Japanese And U.S. Piloted Robots To Brawl For National Pride". All you had to do was say "fighting robots" and more people would have read the story - no need for the Fox News histrionics. Stop acting like a whipped dog trying to get your "stories" published. You just embarrass yourself.
Thanks for lowering the standard.
I think the "electrolysis" project for per-tab processes is such a feature to be excited about. Of course Chrome already has this, so maybe the excitement is not all that great. But I think that the unconditional Firefox bashing that is so cool these days is totally counter-productive. Just like me, most Firefox-bashers don't want a Chrome monoculture. Be careful, or you'll manage to kill it and then good night.
Agreed, choice is good. I prefer Firefox (Iceweasel actually) - but it's competition that keeps them honest.
Thanks Mozilla for making Pocket removable. Special thanks for supporting srcset - especially for not jumping the gun on it when it was uncertain that it would become a defacto standard.
Could Mozilla produce as good a browser if they were entirely unfunded - maybe. But I very much doubt they'd be able to make such positive contributions to W3C, internet privacy campaigns - and especially, making M$ pickup their browser game. I rarely a week goes by that I don't make extensive use of the their developer documentation for web design.
Note: to be fair, the developers of all the major browser have all worked hard, together, to make the intertubes a better place. Kudos to the employees - nice to see employer loyalties don't stop them communicating and sharing.
Both the design and potential torque are astonishing.
Thanks /.
Depends on the daylength - not the method of illumination.
"Currently I'd bet yes, this meets the necessary requirements for Organic"
No, Organic certification forbids the usage of artificial irradiation.
Indoor lighting != natural radiation.
Indoor lighting == non-ionizing radiation. Irradiation == ionizing radiation (usually, and most certainly here).
Bullshit! Unlike what you pluck out of your arse I provide sources.
"Light: Use of artificial light is acceptable, although not in excess of the Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) of a summer day and should not exceed 12 hours of daylight including the artificial light."The Expert Group for Technical Advice on Organic Production (EGTOP) was set up three years ago in order to provide technical advice to the European Commission.
FarmedHere in Chicago is artificially lit, and certified organic by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
National Association for Sustainable Agriculture Australia Limited - no rule on artificial light for agriculture (aquaculture is limited to 16 hours a day and no sudden changes in photoperiod).
No restrictions on artificial light.
I'm a farmer. Our aquaculture production is herbs, yabbies and Murray cod - we're ACOS and NASAA certified as organic, which allows us to export to both the US and EU organic markets. Pisses me off no end when dickheads like you appoint yourselves "organic certification" authorities.
Put it in print with your name in it and we'll let the courts decide whose right. Until then it's your unqualified private opinion and you should clearly label it as such.
So the sun doesn't emit ionizing radiation? Hint: even without the massive holes in the ozone layer - it does. But go lay in the sun all day. Please. (arseclown).
I've been using the ganglia monitoring suite on clusters for a bit over a decade and on several hundred occasions I have noted that eventually cached stuff ends up in swap even if there's still some free memory. It's part of what it is for, getting stuff out of the way so you've plenty of memory to use.
WTF?
turning the machine off before it has cached much
You made the stupid claim - I just pointed out the obvious.
The default setup for modern Linux servers running on SSD (of which there are millions in production use) is no swap files or partitions.
It has always been an option and not bad for desktops but the default on servers - no that's just stupid since swap is often the difference between eventually getting something done or a complete crash leading to possibly hours of downtime.
I'll grant you that it's your opinion (which you are no doubt deserved of holding) - but it still doesn't change the reality that many million of enterprise grade VPS do not have swap. Doesn't mean your wrong. Likewise the bloke who lives on orange juice alone. In your case you trade performance for a few dollars saved on RAM - without knowing your use case I wouldn't call it stupid, but equally I'm wary of saying it's clever.
I've only seen a couple of Apple TV ads over the years,
Apple invest heavily in product placement advertising - so you've seen lots of Apple advertising in movies, entertainment news, slashdot stories, and music videos.
Ohh, so how many product placed Apple TVs did you see?
Apple make TVs?
Wow, for an Apple Hater you sure know little about Apple.
Apple hater? Wow! You sure know very little about me. But clearly that doesn't get in the way of your blinkered, slavish fanboi, bifurcated "view" on things.
OTOH that probably helps.
the observation that someone has something nicer than you isn't license to revolt against the system.
I didn't say, or mean, they had a license. Most people just want - enlightened self interest is rare.
That's why preaching austerity is a fail - you might as well say "don't steal from those that have more", or don't migrate to somewhere the opportunities are better". It's just pissing into the wind and trying to stay dry.
That woosh you hear is the wind whistling through your head.
This is the idea I came up with a few weeks ago on another Uber thread that would fix everything: registered destinations. A driver registers a destination for their trip, and only then are they shown potential "customers/fares/ridesharers/etc"-who have also registered a destination-along their route within a slight variance depending on trip length (driving across a city it might be a block or 2, across state several miles). They can only pick up a new passenger once they have reached their original destination and registered a new one or, if they had a passenger get off during their previous trip, a new passenger registers with an applicable destination.
This kind of system would ensure that you are in fact ridesharing, ie. picking up passengers who are going to the same general area you are or a place you will pass along the way as opposed to working as an unlicensed taxi. Throw in a "fare" based on mileage/depreciation/a little extra for your time as opposed to Uber's surge pricing and you get rid of the issue of people taking this on as a job because it suddenly is not worth the effort. You still get compensated enough to offset the gas and depreciation of your car that you would be doing anyway, and at the end of the week you might have enough money to go out for a good dinner or maybe even enough for a trip for 2 to the movies.
It sounds like a great idea.
If Google do something similar they might be able to profit off providing the software because it'd be another forum for their advertising (business gets better value for their advertising). That'd be a win-win(-win-win?)
Passengers get cheaper transport, drivers get to defray driving costs and maybe qualify for faster routes (depending on transport lane rules and tolls, and both parties have more money to spend on other things), governments pay less in road costs (reduction in vehicles), everyone pays tax (remember roads are not paid for by registration - and the costs are borne by multiple generations of taxpayers), business pays less (reduced need for parking areas changes commercial space costs), everybody breathes less fumes (reduced health costs).
The losers will be the road construction industry, toll road operators, car park operators, car manufacturers and the associated industries, and taxi drivers - which is probably a mostly good thing. It's not like they won't/can't get jobs elsewhere. Maybe then the car-park operators will have less money to lobby government to cut back on public transport.
This has a solid business model. It can not be a popular success without being a business success.
Of course it can.
Start a business selling luxury cars at less than what you paid for them - you'll be a popular success and a business failure. Two for the price of one. Listen to the whiners complaining about Google Reader - according to them it was a popular success (dunno why - I just use RSS feeds in my email client). According to Google it was a business failure.
Fact of life - no matter how good the business plan, like most theory it tends to crap out in the face of reality.
Either you adjust the plan to match reality - or if that's not feasible you scrap the venture and cut your losses. That's just good business.