Bad management and investment decisions are just that. Taking over a company by proxy without investing a single cent is something Finnish "SEC" should look at closely, if their govt officials weren't all bought and paid for.
GP proposed that in some situations CGS system is superior to SI. I am sorry, but CGS is 100% compatible with SI, as centimetre = 1E-2 m, while gram = 1E-3 kg, etc. This completely misses the point that foot is derived from a foot, which does not facilitate ANY computations because you don't convert feet to megafeet and F=mg does not hold because 1 horsepower != one pound times one foot per second squared.
The biggest problem I see with imperial (besides space probes crashing on Mars) is the HUGE barrier to trade it creates. The only things that can be imported into US have to be manufactured specifically for US. Same can be said for exports. This increases our cost of living and decreases wealth all around just because we are too entrenched to change, while the rest of the world somehow pulled it off.
false, that's your opinion
I used metric for half of my life, and switched to imperial later on, so my opinion should count for something.
should not eat the fluffy white powder on the ground when it has yellow tint
It is also essential to set the water temperature below 0 degrees C before adding it to your margarita. So you see, Celsius is more convenient even if you live in exotic countries like Florida!
However this argument is meaningless in daily life.
The water freezes at 0 degrees C. Yes, the point when you car starts skating on the highway. You could argue that Kelvin scale is more useful in some applications, but what's the point of Fahrenheit?
My relative got W7 phone as her first smartphone. During contact export from SIM card some phone numbers got reattached to wrong contacts. This is exactly what I told her: it is new, raw and un-patched, you bought it at your own risk.
We need a law that paid advertisements should be marked as such. I think such a law exists and currently it is applicable to a radio broadcast. How did the above BS get modded +5? I guess MS (paid and free) turfers to be all over this blog:(
Overall the Linux desktop experience is a shitty experience
Works fine for me. You are not using it right...
The complete lack of quality control, inconsistencies, stuff not working properly and so on.
Each distribution has a bug reporting/tracking system. If you need a prompt resolution you can buy support from RedHat or hire your own programmers to fix things. This is as opposed to MS where you CANNOT fix things yourself, and need to wait for a "handout". As for " inconsistencies, stuff not working properly",
which software product does not suffer from the above? Please exclude "hello, world" when listing suspects.
It simply looks and feels like what it is: A product cobbled together by thousands of people with little or no agreement on any consistency.
Hello, product of any company with 1000+ programmers (Microsoft?)!
Wanna improve things? Get together and define one distribution independed packaging format.
And what should I do if I come up with a better packaging format? If you want one format, stick to one distribution -- poof! problem solved!
And while at it, make it flexible so that it doesn't require root rights to install software
Android does not. As for the rest of them - thank you but that was one of the reasons I switched from Windows -- I don't like botnets controlling my hardware.
make it easy to share software with it,
sudo apt-get install "software". What's the MS "superior" way of sharing software? Ah, I don't think there is any.
If you can predict the stock market 51% of the time you will become a billionaire. So your statement "makes you no more or less reliable a source of prediction unless your predictions are 100% correct all the time" is baloney.
People at some point "predicted" every law of physics known to man (and followed by "testing their predictions"). Many science fiction predictions came to life, and in large part because some of the "predictions" were actually inventions when the technology was not there to support it.
This is awesome because it means you could transmit a shared encryption key, and detect if anyone snooped it, and either send a new one if it was, or use the shared key if it wasn't.
Please pardon my ignorance, but this is my train of thought:
So you send me an encryption key. I put it in my quantum container for safekeeping, board a giant rocket-ship and fly to Omicron Persei 8. 2000 years after launch I am supposed to report if there is sentient life on Omicron Persei 8. So If I meet Omicronians, I will "snoop" on your encryption key, and if not then I will not. Can you instantly "detect" it? How is this not an FTL communication?
No need to defend Apple, I never meant to attack it. All I did was try to explain the difference between "open source" licenses. Thank you for reinforcing my point that the original developers got shafted because of the kind of license they used. As for Mac OS X being "open and available" -- it is common knowledge that it is not. Unless you have some insider knowledge about modules taken from BSD being open, and Apple's modifications to them "closed", and even then a statement like that is a "reality distortion field".
Supplier also becomes a beneficiary of GPL when he merges back all the bug fixes that the customer applied. Let's say the GPL is the freedom of CODE, and eveyone can benefit from it, not just the customer.
I would say that GPL guarantees freedom of code, not user's or developer's.
Example: look at BSD. It was developed at Berkeley, then Steve Jobs took it and closed-sourced it for free. The developers of Berkeley are the one's who developed it, received no compensation from Steve, but the code got closed from THEM, not just the users.
Gema claimed that its members were losing money every time their music was being displayed on YouTube.
This is priceless.
I lose money every time you look at this comment. $250,000 EVERY SINGLE TIME. Please close your eyes when scrolling past the comments section.
Given Motorola's apparently willingness to extort companies on F/RAND patents, I don't have much pity for them.
Does it say the lawsuit is against Microsoft? The same Microsoft that gets paid $5 for every Android device sold in the world while they had 0 participation in making it? They also made no claims that Android uses any of Microsoft IP. What they said was: pay us or we use our vast patent portfolio and a small army of layers to make you pay. That's called extortion. I say good luck Motorola, go after them in every jurisdiction! Microsoft's lawyers need to be kept busy or they get out of hand and start raping and pillaging.
"All the President's Heads" finds Professor Farnsworth sprucing up his family tree, eager to show anyone willing to listen - and plenty who aren't - all the amazing people he's descended from...
I have lost count of the number of times when I recover a forgotten password and the website emails my exact password "reminder". At one point I was "reminded" by a rep over the phone. And even these are a small percentage of total, because not revealing my password to me does not guarantee that it is not stored in plain text anyway.
I wish all of them were fined $250K. We need a new "cyber-security" agency, with agents nosing password stores and issuing "cyber-tickets" for infractions.
Their reaction seems out of proportion, but then think of the TSA situation too! Like a worshiper who prays day and night for the second coming of Messiah, TSA gropes people and suitcases day and night with no hope in sight. Finally, after years of grouping, someone (not them) finds a thing with wires! This is a Miracle, ladies and gentlemen, a dream come true! The one and only proper response can be summarized with a quote from Spaceballs:
...Fasten all seat-belts, seal all entrances and exits, close all shops in the mall, cancel the three ring circus, secure all animals in the zoo!
While I don't believe that Slashdot readers make up a significant portion of video game shoppers, the hope is that interesting ideas will network their way out to the rest of them. And that is the logic behind why it is better to speak out rather than quietly "boycott" the wrongdoers all by yourself.
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Bad management and investment decisions are just that. Taking over a company by proxy without investing a single cent is something Finnish "SEC" should look at closely, if their govt officials weren't all bought and paid for.
The biggest problem I see with imperial (besides space probes crashing on Mars) is the HUGE barrier to trade it creates. The only things that can be imported into US have to be manufactured specifically for US. Same can be said for exports. This increases our cost of living and decreases wealth all around just because we are too entrenched to change, while the rest of the world somehow pulled it off.
false, that's your opinion
I used metric for half of my life, and switched to imperial later on, so my opinion should count for something.
-60 degrees: keep the dogs inside the igloo
-30 degrees: get your valenki, shuba and treuh
0 degrees: water freezes
20 degrees: room temperature
37 degrees: the temperature inside your body
100 degrees: water boils
115 degrees: a typical summer day in NYC. And this is when I get all confused...
Why would humans care whether water is freezing?
When the water is frozen, you
It is also essential to set the water temperature below 0 degrees C before adding it to your margarita. So you see, Celsius is more convenient even if you live in exotic countries like Florida!
Secondly SI isn't always the best unit of measurement for performing calculations.
While Imperial units are always the worst.
However this argument is meaningless in daily life.
The water freezes at 0 degrees C. Yes, the point when you car starts skating on the highway. You could argue that Kelvin scale is more useful in some applications, but what's the point of Fahrenheit?
Wait, where is my free cavity check?
My relative got W7 phone as her first smartphone. During contact export from SIM card some phone numbers got reattached to wrong contacts. This is exactly what I told her: it is new, raw and un-patched, you bought it at your own risk.
Overall the Linux desktop experience is a shitty experience
Works fine for me. You are not using it right...
The complete lack of quality control, inconsistencies, stuff not working properly and so on.
Each distribution has a bug reporting/tracking system. If you need a prompt resolution you can buy support from RedHat or hire your own programmers to fix things. This is as opposed to MS where you CANNOT fix things yourself, and need to wait for a "handout". As for " inconsistencies, stuff not working properly", which software product does not suffer from the above? Please exclude "hello, world" when listing suspects.
It simply looks and feels like what it is: A product cobbled together by thousands of people with little or no agreement on any consistency.
Hello, product of any company with 1000+ programmers (Microsoft?)!
Wanna improve things? Get together and define one distribution independed packaging format.
And what should I do if I come up with a better packaging format? If you want one format, stick to one distribution -- poof! problem solved!
And while at it, make it flexible so that it doesn't require root rights to install software
Android does not. As for the rest of them - thank you but that was one of the reasons I switched from Windows -- I don't like botnets controlling my hardware.
make it easy to share software with it,
sudo apt-get install "software". What's the MS "superior" way of sharing software? Ah, I don't think there is any.
People at some point "predicted" every law of physics known to man (and followed by "testing their predictions"). Many science fiction predictions came to life, and in large part because some of the "predictions" were actually inventions when the technology was not there to support it.
Except it occurred to him while he "was engaged in doctoral research in biochemistry " It's just that "shit" made up by PHD in Physics has a somewhat higher probability of becoming real someday.
This is awesome because it means you could transmit a shared encryption key, and detect if anyone snooped it, and either send a new one if it was, or use the shared key if it wasn't.
Please pardon my ignorance, but this is my train of thought:
So you send me an encryption key. I put it in my quantum container for safekeeping, board a giant rocket-ship and fly to Omicron Persei 8. 2000 years after launch I am supposed to report if there is sentient life on Omicron Persei 8. So If I meet Omicronians, I will "snoop" on your encryption key, and if not then I will not. Can you instantly "detect" it? How is this not an FTL communication?
No need to defend Apple, I never meant to attack it. All I did was try to explain the difference between "open source" licenses. Thank you for reinforcing my point that the original developers got shafted because of the kind of license they used. As for Mac OS X being "open and available" -- it is common knowledge that it is not. Unless you have some insider knowledge about modules taken from BSD being open, and Apple's modifications to them "closed", and even then a statement like that is a "reality distortion field".
Supplier also becomes a beneficiary of GPL when he merges back all the bug fixes that the customer applied. Let's say the GPL is the freedom of CODE, and eveyone can benefit from it, not just the customer.
Example: look at BSD. It was developed at Berkeley, then Steve Jobs took it and closed-sourced it for free. The developers of Berkeley are the one's who developed it, received no compensation from Steve, but the code got closed from THEM, not just the users.
Gema claimed that its members were losing money every time their music was being displayed on YouTube.
This is priceless. I lose money every time you look at this comment. $250,000 EVERY SINGLE TIME. Please close your eyes when scrolling past the comments section.
Given Motorola's apparently willingness to extort companies on F/RAND patents, I don't have much pity for them.
Does it say the lawsuit is against Microsoft? The same Microsoft that gets paid $5 for every Android device sold in the world while they had 0 participation in making it? They also made no claims that Android uses any of Microsoft IP. What they said was: pay us or we use our vast patent portfolio and a small army of layers to make you pay. That's called extortion. I say good luck Motorola, go after them in every jurisdiction! Microsoft's lawyers need to be kept busy or they get out of hand and start raping and pillaging.
And the average age of those deceased of disease? Is it above 80? I call that "died of old age".
"All the President's Heads" finds Professor Farnsworth sprucing up his family tree, eager to show anyone willing to listen - and plenty who aren't - all the amazing people he's descended from...
I have lost count of the number of times when I recover a forgotten password and the website emails my exact password "reminder". At one point I was "reminded" by a rep over the phone. And even these are a small percentage of total, because not revealing my password to me does not guarantee that it is not stored in plain text anyway.
I wish all of them were fined $250K. We need a new "cyber-security" agency, with agents nosing password stores and issuing "cyber-tickets" for infractions.
This was implanted in Cartman (SouthPark) and it administered electroshock for every profanity. Did not stop him from using them, though.
Time Warner, Cablevision -- will they protect their customers from "fishing expeditions"? Will they conduct expeditions of their own?
While I don't believe that Slashdot readers make up a significant portion of video game shoppers, the hope is that interesting ideas will network their way out to the rest of them. And that is the logic behind why it is better to speak out rather than quietly "boycott" the wrongdoers all by yourself.
Typo: ... says bye-bye and you go to buy-buy yourself another game.