With all the bashing and anti-fanboi talk against Apple - to which I agree to a certain extent, although I've been a happy Apple customer for the last 7-8 years - it kind of annoys me that other projects - Open Source in particular - keep copying a great deal of what comes out of Cupertino.
- KDE 4, IMHO lifts off quite some - Android, well... not much to say here, but basically an iOS ripoff - and now Gnome 3... these "iAds" that are just like the cupertinian, with a nerdy checkers shirt twist.
Come on guys, I hope Gnome 3 itself is not like: an OSX with a nerdy not-quite-mainstream UI design.
Oh, this is not a troll, BTW... just a gentle nudge;) thanks for the effort folkz!
It may sound hypocritical but - while I've never been a militant environmentalist - I do frown on planned obsolescence and piss poor cheap gadgets with infinitesimal commercial value (landfill fodder, basically).
Pet peeve No. 1: If everyone runs an AC unit to stay cool/warm we should revise building codes to make homes more energy efficient. Build them with brick &mortar and air insulated walls instead of wooden planks and drywall. How many nuke plants are running just to cool off glorified tree houses? How efficiency is a modern skyscraper? Can we increase that?
Pet peeve No. 2: How energy efficient is spawl+commute? Why do we need to disperse to the countryside only to return to cities for work and trade; coercing ourselves into long queues of semi-idle fossil fuel combustion engines in the process.
Pet peeve No. 3: Why are our gadgets designed to loose practically all their value shortly after warranty? Why isn't the market including the hidden cost of anticipated disposal? Why is it cheaper for people to throw away and buy new items rather than repair them? CRTs used to last 10 years and now we're changing LCDs like die-hard gamers upgrade their rig!
I think developed countries have gone way too far in resource usage - particularly as far as efficiency is concerned. It would be very responsible and convenient to help developing economies not to literally follow our own footsteps. It's not a matter of selfishness either: they can develop to be as materially satisfied as we currently are, without all the waste.
Besides, Nuclear isn't enough to satisfy demand and it will only outlast fossil by a couple decades anyway...
My side is not "winning": I have no side, I really wish nuclear energy really was more economical to setup, maintain and decommission than other current sources. Unfortunately it doesn't seem so: it's an expensive, dangerous technology with 2 major problems:
1. there's no long term solution for waste disposal 2. it is never safe enough to operate because when it starts to fail it's extremely difficult - if not impossible - to adequately intervene and prevent further damage.
I'm an engineer... a techie nerd myself; but I'd rather optimize energy conservation than keep lighting matches we still don't know how to put out.
Well the TEPCO managers that lied and put all of us in this dangerous position are not there serving on the first line are they? And I doubt they're not japanese... I also have my doubts they're not serving jail sentences or flipping burgers to pay for fines and damages...
Hei folks, ever since this whole clusterfuck broke out I'm having a really hard time getting around the attitude of most online techie communities.
Since the very first hours YC, Ars, TheReg and/. have started patting themselves on the back about this being a "job well done", bashing "media hysteria" and calling names against "tree huggers" and "anti-nukes activists". It's wrong, it's biased, it's annoying as hell. Besides, the amount of manipulation and spin is frankly unacceptable from these sources that one would hope they knew better.
Listen all : it's mission accomplished when the crew back on deck - Apollo 13 style - not when the PR wish it was - Iraq invasion style. Let's not loose our cool, scientific, matter-of-fact and "it ain't finished yet" attitude; have we turned ourselves in our own version of FOX?!...
I read somewhere that in China there's a law to throw you in jail for anything you could possibly do. None are enforced and repression systematically turns a blind eye on all; while conveniently taking note - just in case they need to nail you sometime later.
This works well because it lets those in power give an impression of freedom, sometimes even showing off to westerners how all this chatter about human rights violations in China is just opposition propaganda.
Then, you cross them... and you're fucked. Big time.:D
Yah, post doesn't make sense doesn't it? well, hasty editing...
Point is: this looks like Chernobyl to me.
Do you think the core vessel has blown apart exposing all it's fuel and radioactive material?
Folks, I undersand it's not the same kind or reactor design but...... I saw the footage of the explosion: fireball, shockwave, debris & plume.
Having heard that the core pressure was 2.5 times over design limits, to me it looks the core tore itself apart:(
beeb footage
... when GPGPU was in its infancy and I was lusting to play with that stuff; that's about 5 yrs ago, at most.
Alas, our semiconductor department was so content with its orthodoxy and cluster running Fortran WTF hairballs...:`( Ah well, no point crying over that spilt milk... it just takes patience and pig headedness...:>
Having shelled out 500€ on a phone only to see it deliberately crippled by the vendor after less than 2 years is annoying.
I don't care about their business strategy on platform fragmentation: Apple should either put iOS 3 on maintenance mode for a reasonable amount of time or tune iOS 4 to run unimpaired on an iPhone 3G.
No really... you're pissed off about paying for healthcare for your fellow citizens?! WTF!!! You're pissed off about not tearing apart the world your children are supposed to breed their children?! You're pissed off for being educated that no, Coca Cola & Ronald Mc Donald snacks may be cheap but it isn't really healthy for your kids to eat?!
Forgetting to close an attack vulnerability on all but the software encryption implementation is a much more dramatic and questionable error. Anyone that has taken the trouble to add hardware acceleration to their encryption stands a good chance to have something to protect from undesired access.
But, by doing so they have exposed themselves to the vulnerability itself. Brilliant!
... they will hold on to the TM corpse just in case, won't they!
In the meantime I'm left without a bookmarking service... f#$%wits...
I'm starting to get the feeling that unless you spill some 20 $/m for a host like in the old days, all this TB,TW,GM,yadda yadda is just low cost MTV entertainment, designed to hold you down while marketers shake the pennies out of the crowd's pockets.
... this way the frontier police will have a good time patting down all these pinko communists flying to the US from all over the world. It'll be like a lottery draw and the winner gets "invited for questioning" by Agent Smith wearing a blood stained butcher apron...
You know... you're right, besides you normally don't get any interest on the deposit anyway.
BUT: you're being pedantic and acting righteously... Ok, so you pay your bills in advance and accidents such as this wouldn't affect you? Fine, good for you... want a pat on the back?;)
... have they somewhat improved the miserable performance of these devices on iOS 4.x? I hate being continuously reminded that I'm not complying to the upgrade treadmill by using a not-yet-2-years-old-paid-500EUR-for-the-privilege phone...:/
... back in uni - gwbasic I think - was a Mandelbrot set renderer. We were just starting with Mathematical Analysis and the first real struggles with imaginary numbers, sequences, series and limits. I guess messing around with it cost me an exam session, but it was way much more fun than rote theorems (later Profs were good, not that first class though;( )
20$/GB is not that much IMHO... is that net capacity, does it include geographical replication? Depending on the answer, the real news could be that SSD storage is so much more competitive that one may have thought...:D
This thing about bacteria using viruses to transport and exchange genetic material makes me wonder if sexual reproduction could have evolved from here. Are there any theories about this...
... if - after having tried to compromise - perhaps hoping to slowly leak some freedom, perhaps naïvely and hoping, after all, to make a buck out of it as well - Google really does go all the way and walks out of this open-air experiment of Corporate Fascism that is the PRC...... I will - for once - open my wallet and buy shares.
I've donated to RIAA Radar, and that was only for silly tunes and jingles. This is about Freedom of Speech, Human Rights!
I will, I promise. If they do walk away, it would be such a precedent... such a clear, outstanding, unique, resounding, revolutionary, provocative event
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Nope, you're uninformed: 2 worker bodies were found inside the wreckage (probably killed in the Tsunami).
and please stop tagging anyone that is not rabidly pro-nuclear as a total tool and idiot; or a pinko communist for that matter...
With all the bashing and anti-fanboi talk against Apple - to which I agree to a certain extent, although I've been a happy Apple customer for the last 7-8 years - it kind of annoys me that other projects - Open Source in particular - keep copying a great deal of what comes out of Cupertino.
;) thanks for the effort folkz!
- KDE 4, IMHO lifts off quite some
- Android, well... not much to say here, but basically an iOS ripoff
- and now Gnome 3... these "iAds" that are just like the cupertinian, with a nerdy checkers shirt twist.
Come on guys, I hope Gnome 3 itself is not like: an OSX with a nerdy not-quite-mainstream UI design.
Oh, this is not a troll, BTW... just a gentle nudge
... on TPB business goes on as usual.
Har, har, har
It may sound hypocritical but - while I've never been a militant environmentalist - I do frown on planned obsolescence and piss poor cheap gadgets with infinitesimal commercial value (landfill fodder, basically).
Pet peeve No. 1: If everyone runs an AC unit to stay cool/warm we should revise building codes to make homes more energy efficient. Build them with brick &mortar and air insulated walls instead of wooden planks and drywall. How many nuke plants are running just to cool off glorified tree houses? How efficiency is a modern skyscraper? Can we increase that?
Pet peeve No. 2: How energy efficient is spawl+commute? Why do we need to disperse to the countryside only to return to cities for work and trade; coercing ourselves into long queues of semi-idle fossil fuel combustion engines in the process.
Pet peeve No. 3: Why are our gadgets designed to loose practically all their value shortly after warranty? Why isn't the market including the hidden cost of anticipated disposal? Why is it cheaper for people to throw away and buy new items rather than repair them? CRTs used to last 10 years and now we're changing LCDs like die-hard gamers upgrade their rig!
I think developed countries have gone way too far in resource usage - particularly as far as efficiency is concerned. It would be very responsible and convenient to help developing economies not to literally follow our own footsteps. It's not a matter of selfishness either: they can develop to be as materially satisfied as we currently are, without all the waste.
Besides, Nuclear isn't enough to satisfy demand and it will only outlast fossil by a couple decades anyway...
I sense a troll bait but I'll bite...
My side is not "winning": I have no side, I really wish nuclear energy really was more economical to setup, maintain and decommission than other current sources. Unfortunately it doesn't seem so: it's an expensive, dangerous technology with 2 major problems:
1. there's no long term solution for waste disposal
2. it is never safe enough to operate because when it starts to fail it's extremely difficult - if not impossible - to adequately intervene and prevent further damage.
I'm an engineer... a techie nerd myself; but I'd rather optimize energy conservation than keep lighting matches we still don't know how to put out.
Well the TEPCO managers that lied and put all of us in this dangerous position are not there serving on the first line are they? And I doubt they're not japanese... I also have my doubts they're not serving jail sentences or flipping burgers to pay for fines and damages...
Hei folks, ever since this whole clusterfuck broke out I'm having a really hard time getting around the attitude of most online techie communities.
/. have started patting themselves on the back about this being a "job well done", bashing "media hysteria" and calling names against "tree huggers" and "anti-nukes activists". It's wrong, it's biased, it's annoying as hell. Besides, the amount of manipulation and spin is frankly unacceptable from these sources that one would hope they knew better.
...
Since the very first hours YC, Ars, TheReg and
Listen all : it's mission accomplished when the crew back on deck - Apollo 13 style - not when the PR wish it was - Iraq invasion style.
Let's not loose our cool, scientific, matter-of-fact and "it ain't finished yet" attitude; have we turned ourselves in our own version of FOX?!
Well, but chinese stile repression yes though...
:D
I read somewhere that in China there's a law to throw you in jail for anything you could possibly do. None are enforced and repression systematically turns a blind eye on all; while conveniently taking note - just in case they need to nail you sometime later.
This works well because it lets those in power give an impression of freedom, sometimes even showing off to westerners how all this chatter about human rights violations in China is just opposition propaganda.
Then, you cross them... and you're fucked. Big time.
Yah, post doesn't make sense doesn't it? well, hasty editing... Point is: this looks like Chernobyl to me. Do you think the core vessel has blown apart exposing all it's fuel and radioactive material?
Folks, I undersand it's not the same kind or reactor design but... ... I saw the footage of the explosion: fireball, shockwave, debris & plume.
Having heard that the core pressure was 2.5 times over design limits, to me it looks the core tore itself apart :(
beeb footage
... when GPGPU was in its infancy and I was lusting to play with that stuff; that's about 5 yrs ago, at most.
Alas, our semiconductor department was so content with its orthodoxy and cluster running Fortran WTF hairballs... :`( :>
Ah well, no point crying over that spilt milk... it just takes patience and pig headedness...
Bzzzt, fail! No tech terms please, too complicated! What's "tar.bz2" anyway?
That's true but it should have been either "has overaken" or "overtook"... "has overtook" is wrong
Like me, for example.
Having shelled out 500€ on a phone only to see it deliberately crippled by the vendor after less than 2 years is annoying.
I don't care about their business strategy on platform fragmentation: Apple should either put iOS 3 on maintenance mode for a reasonable amount of time or tune iOS 4 to run unimpaired on an iPhone 3G.
This behavior is unacceptable.
You're joking aren't you... ... I hope...
No really... you're pissed off about paying for healthcare for your fellow citizens?! WTF!!! You're pissed off about not tearing apart the world your children are supposed to breed their children?! You're pissed off for being educated that no, Coca Cola & Ronald Mc Donald snacks may be cheap but it isn't really healthy for your kids to eat?!
Dude, I hope you're a hoax, a troll...
Backdoors, who needs backdoors?
Forgetting to close an attack vulnerability on all but the software encryption implementation is a much more dramatic and questionable error. Anyone that has taken the trouble to add hardware acceleration to their encryption stands a good chance to have something to protect from undesired access.
But, by doing so they have exposed themselves to the vulnerability itself. Brilliant!
... they will hold on to the TM corpse just in case, won't they!
In the meantime I'm left without a bookmarking service... f#$%wits...
I'm starting to get the feeling that unless you spill some 20 $/m for a host like in the old days, all this TB,TW,GM,yadda yadda is just low cost MTV entertainment, designed to hold you down while marketers shake the pennies out of the crowd's pockets.
swooosh...
... this way the frontier police will have a good time patting down all these pinko communists flying to the US from all over the world.
It'll be like a lottery draw and the winner gets "invited for questioning" by Agent Smith wearing a blood stained butcher apron...
I don't feel like adding a smiley here...
You know... you're right, besides you normally don't get any interest on the deposit anyway.
BUT: you're being pedantic and acting righteously... Ok, so you pay your bills in advance and accidents such as this wouldn't affect you? Fine, good for you... want a pat on the back? ;)
... have they somewhat improved the miserable performance of these devices on iOS 4.x? I hate being continuously reminded that I'm not complying to the upgrade treadmill by using a not-yet-2-years-old-paid-500EUR-for-the-privilege phone... :/
... back in uni - gwbasic I think - was a Mandelbrot set renderer. We were just starting with Mathematical Analysis and the first real struggles with imaginary numbers, sequences, series and limits. I guess messing around with it cost me an exam session, but it was way much more fun than rote theorems (later Profs were good, not that first class though ;( )
RIP
Hei folks,
20$/GB is not that much IMHO... is that net capacity, does it include geographical replication? Depending on the answer, the real news could be that SSD storage is so much more competitive that one may have thought... :D
This thing about bacteria using viruses to transport and exchange genetic material makes me wonder if sexual reproduction could have evolved from here. Are there any theories about this...
???
... if - after having tried to compromise - perhaps hoping to slowly leak some freedom, perhaps naïvely and hoping, after all, to make a buck out of it as well - Google really does go all the way and walks out of this open-air experiment of Corporate Fascism that is the PRC... ... I will - for once - open my wallet and buy shares.
I've donated to RIAA Radar, and that was only for silly tunes and jingles. This is about Freedom of Speech, Human Rights!
I will, I promise. If they do walk away, it would be such a precedent... such a clear, outstanding, unique, resounding, revolutionary, provocative event
Edo