Of course, it would make MORE sense to use an embedded OS where the banks/ATM manufacturers have full access to the source.
OS/2 had its heyday in the early 90s, ATMs used it way into the 2000s. XPe had its heyday in the early 00s, ATMs are using it way into the 2010s. Embedded Linux has its heyday now in the early 10s, draw your own conclusions.
ATM vendors are extremely conservative, they tend to use platforms others already think are obsolete. They'll come along eventually, it's not like the cell phone market where you can flip the market upside down in 2-3 years.
Looking at the list of most popular websites, I think only facebook & youtube would have more influence on video-standards settings.
People don't visit Wikipedia for the videos any more than they read Playboy for the articles. That you even put it in the same class as YouTube only makes you sound delusional, they are 99.99% video and Wikipedia is 99.99% not. When Google that owns the VP8 codec, owns YouTube and makes Android and Chrome don't want to eat their own dog food and push their own codec on their own site to their own devices and browser it'll never be more than an obscure alternative for ideological circlejerks, like art critics patting each other on the back for recognizing true art while the rest of the world watches Hollywood blockbusters.
Even Firefox has surrendered on this one and said they'd use the binary blob Cisco provides, if Wikimedia wants to be the Japanese soldiers hiding in the forest 10 years after the war is over and keep denying it's over and that they lost it's their problem. And by forest I mean/. where Ogg Vorbis never dies even though it totally* failed to catch any mainstream use. * Cue the counterexamples, the way Munich shows that Linux is totally going to take over the desktop. But to use an old proverb, one swallow does not a summer make.
That was because the FSF was spreading FUD about Trolltech. Trolltech was free software friendly and was never going to make Qt non-free.
Qt was free on a free platform (Linux), if you wanted a Windows/Mac license then for a long time you had to pay for that priviledge. They were trying to balance being open source and making money and RMS isn't exactly known for ideological compromise. Eventually they went GPL on all platforms and later LGPL, but it also killed off most of the income Trolltech used to have. That wouldn't have been so bad if Nokia had been their sugar daddy using it as their "Android", but I really wonder if Digia can surivie as being the non-native alternative all around. After all Android uses Dalvik/Javaish, iOS and OS X uses ObjectiveC/XCode, Microsoft uses C#/.NET and Qt is essentially trying to be what Java tried to be on the desktop. And I guess we all know how many Java desktop apps we use, right? Good product, not sure it hits a market.
No-one cares when Microsoft started selling XP. They care about when Microsoft STOPPED selling XP, which was only a few years ago. There are a ton of XP machines only three or four years old that work fine and are deliberately being made obsolete just so Microsoft can make money.
Well, if they stopped selling XP back in 2007 and told everyone to STFU and switch to Vista we'd be screaming bloody murder about that so damned if you do and damned if you don't. All their support lifecycle clocks start running from when they release the N+1 product (and N+2 for extended support), now that Windows 8 is out the countdown towards Windows 7 EOL is ticking even though they still allow you to buy a Windows 7 machine. Mainstream support ends January 13, 2015 and extended support January 14, 2020. It's not like this is a bloody secret, the policy has been published and the dates set long ago. In short, if you bought XP after April 14, 2009 you know (or should have known anyway) that you were buying an OS already in the extended support phase. Why is ignorance an excuse in the tech world?
I wonder at which point smartphones will become fast enough so that people will stick the same phone for at least five years or so.
Actually smartphones have probably brought the average lifetime down, my longest living phone was the Nokia 3210. It did little more than calls and texts, but for many years that's all I cared to have in a phone and with the cheap replacable plastic cover and tiny screen it was almost indestructible too. Using a cheap third party battery replacement it stayed in service for many, many years and when I got a new one my dad used it still a while longer. Now there's actual new features worth having on new phones, my current phone is slightly over three years and I'm thinking about replacing it with the next year or so. It's not that I couldn't do without, but the nice-to-have compared to time spent using it makes it worth it. Because it's the device that's always around, it doesn't need to be more than that I'm already in my good chair or couch or bed and don't want to get up.
For anyone that holds the book of genesis as a literal telling of events, it has to. I forget which day it was, but the bible pretty clearly stipulated that on day X, God created light.
Well yes, but some dispute the meaning of the word "day". But it also contains an ancestry from Adam and Eve via Noah and Abraham down to Jesus - either you have a world only a few thousands of years old, or you have one where people lived to be many millions of years old. Here's the first part to Abraham:
1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; 2 male and female created he them; Mt. 19.4 Â Mk. 10.6 and blessed them, Gen. 1.27, 28 and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. 3 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: 4 and the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: 5 and all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. 6 And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begat Enos: 7 and Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters: 8 and all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died. 9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Ca-i'nan: 10 and Enos lived after he begat Ca-i'nan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters: 11 and all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died. 12 And Ca-i'nan lived seventy years, and begat Mahal'aleel: 13 and Ca-i'nan lived after he begat Mahal'aleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters: 14 and all the days of Ca-i'nan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died. 15 And Mahal'aleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared: 16 and Mahal'aleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters: 17 and all the days of Mahal'aleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died. 18 And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch: 19 and Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 20 and all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died. 21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methu'selah: 22 and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methu'selah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 23 and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: 24 and Enoch Heb. 11.5 walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. 25 And Methu'selah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: 26 and Methu'selah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: 27 and all the days of Methu'selah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. 28 And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: 29 and he called his name Noah, 6 saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed. 30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: 31 and all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died. 32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arphax'ad two years after the flood: 11 and Shem lived after he begat Arphax'ad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 12 And Arphax'ad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: 13 And Arphax'ad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. 14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: 15 and Salah lived after he
If you're trying to find a balanced diet using many ingredients and take one of those away, the rest of the diet might change totally. For example, let's assume the removed ingredient was a very good source of protein. Now you're scrambling to replace it with other protein sources, introducing foods you didn't need before. And now you're high on carbs, so your high-carb food goes out and is replaced by something else, so now you lack vitamin D so we add another new food and so on. It's a set ordering not a factor ordering because if you've eaten beef all week you'd rather eat pork, even if you prefer beef.
Even if you're not very materialistic, few people like being significantly underpaid for their services particularly at a large, for-profit company. It smells of being taken advantage of and played for a sucker, even if you don't need it for your lifestyle. And the whole story adds up, the most difficult employee to keep is one that doesn't care much about the money but see a lot of "interesting problems" to work on at a competitor. Still even the selfless tend to like money they can spend on their charities and what they care about, if you're talking sums like that.
So if you remove all the "freeloaders", most of the purpose of the software is gone. In the official GPL rationale, the whole purpose of the GPL is to make sure that the "freeloaders" cannot only use the software, but are free to modify it - without contributing anything. (Not that I agree with the rationale, because the percentage of end users who can actually take advantage of these rights is minuscule).
Most people aren't auto mechanics either, but using third party repair shops and aftermarket parts is common. Everybody who's used a patched/forked version that the "main" project didn't like - anyone using x.org instead of xfree86 for example - has had benefit of the distribution right, which wouldn't exist without the modification right. I agree that without the distribution right your personal right to dig into the software and patch it is almost meaningless, but so is the distribution right without the ability to modify it - it'll just be mirrors. If you don't look at those two in context, you're missing the whole point.
Come on, this guy isn't exactly average in the US either. An equally extreme situation here in Europe would probably involve a guy pulling a knife and stabbing the other to death. Knives vs guns don't matter much if you're the first victim and in close proximity, but it's much harder to get accidentally stabbed than shot and it's much harder to run from a bullet than a knife. In fact you have to far more aggressively assault someone than just shooting them from a distance, which might not stop your crazy ex but the average burglar would rather flee. They live to steal another day, I live to get better security and hopefully the police will catch him, beats a coin flip for who shoots first. But if someone goes mental on you, a knife is just as deadly.
You're surrised that one HR person in a huge company is horribly incompetent and stupid? Even if he's let go they'll probably do no more that confirm his dates of employment and he'll soon work for another company. Most companies just want to get rid of the lemon quietly without causing a lawsuit.
What's crazy about patents is that they're supposed to be for an implementation, like if I ask you to transport some goods one might invent a backpack, one a trolley, one a cart, one a bicycle, one a zip line and so on. Instead we have software patents that just describe a result and just says "However you implement this, it's patented". Often you don't even need to do the hard part, you just need to wait for someone else to figure out how then sue them. However for all the talk of patent trolls, most big enterprises like their own patents because big players use them to squeeze small players. The rest is just a cost of doing business.
To me caffeine feels like the brain running on overclock, sure it's faster and better at almost anything but afterwards you're dog tired and overall you get less done in total. Still good for the times when performance right now is what matters, for example we used to have these marathon exams of up to 6 hours. Three hours in and head is getting heavy, take a Red Bull and you're good for another three hours. It'd always be a short evening but totally worth it. Same if the party is now, stay awake here and now and catch up on sleep tomorrow.
But ideally I want to buy electricity at 0.50 euros/MWh, store it and ignore high prices while I continue to use my appliances at arbitrary times, buy additional electricity when the price falls again, and then laugh at anyone who paid 35 euros/MWh
If you could do it then they could do it and they'd save the power themselves rather than sell it for next to nothing or even negative amounts. So the moment such a storage device existed, the huge fluctuations would go away.
You would be surprised how few callories even the most serious sport/excerise takes.
I think everyone who's ever tried to lose weight via exercise is aware how hard it is. You get endurance and strength but burning surplus calories is really slow. Roughly 2000 kcal and you're keeping your weight, add 1000 kcal and it'll take me two hours of exercise to get rid of it. And if you have the food, we can consume a lot of calories. Here's an example of 72oz steak eaten in less than 3 minutes. Extreme endurance athletes often consume 10.000 calories a day.
If anything we didnt go far enough with it, we dont hold the heads of the companies responsible for what the companies do like we would a parent to a child.
Not sure how it is in the US system but here in Norway it's more like the corporate system than not. Parents can with certain limitations be found liable for their children's actions and be made to pay restitution, but we'd never put a parent in prison over something their child did.
If we were to try going after individuals criminally, why start at the top? Shouldn't it be the people who actually did something illegal? And the nearest manager who ordered it? Making the CEO the catch-all of every crook in the entire company will do very little to discourage others from resorting to illegal means, unless the illegal activity goes all the way to the top. The head of a business division can do lots without telling the CEO.
Except you'd really not like that, because you know how it is when your boss is ordering you around. If you say "I refuse to do X, it's not secure and I might end up getting fucked over for it" you're probably heading straight for the unemployment line. The SOX requirements do as I understand it make the CFO criminally responsible for the books being correct and everyone I've talked to says it created a massive reporting burden throughout the companies.
Going after the owners is even more hopeless, they're as often the victims as the victors. Should all the Enron investors go joins their bosses in jail because they share guilt? And what happens when you own 0.01% of a company, I'm just one person who is either 100% in jail or not. Do I get called in to serve a day in prison for the company's 100 year sentence? And good luck getting all foreign investors extradited.
Besides if you follow that logic then guilt should just flow through the investors of investors of investors to the actual people, like say your pension funds. Wouldn't it be great if you're the one being put in jail because your pension funds decided to invest in BP which was found guilty of a criminal oil spill screw-up? As opposed to the actual people inside BP who was responsble for the safety systems?
You only need to go back 200 years before we had anything like modern refrigeration and the food had to be very fresh and very local. Most people were subsistance farmers, meaning they primarily ate what they produced. If you had game, you ate game and if you didn't, you didn't. If you had a river or lake nearby with fish you ate fish, if not you didn't. If barley grew better than wheat, you ate barley. Your diet was defined by your surroundings.
I'd wonder if this is a Sokol-type troll, but I don't see anything obviously wrong in it -- there's just a bunch of stuff there that looks like explanations, but apparently isn't. Or maybe I'm just having a bad night.
Don't worry, science is ridiculously poor at describing singular events. The creation of the universe is - as we know it - a singular event. That life - and indeed moderately intelligent life - exists on this planet is yet another singular event. It can't be reproduced and so far we've got no evidence that life exists anywhere outside Eartn. Until proven otherwise we might still be the only living thing in all of Creation, though I wouldn't put my money on that.
Meh, if we really wanted to we could. Here in Norway (that's +47 for anything international) we have 11 digit unique personal ids. So +47-[ddmmyy.zzzzz]@name.com where ddmmyy is your birth date and zzzzz your personal id (it encodes certain things like sex, century of birth and a checksum digit) would be truly unique. That number sort of lives in a double existance though, it's at the same time secret but at the same time known to a lot of people.
Making it into a public address would be disaster, it'd be full of spam but due to the government's use you couldn't ignore it. You couldn't - maybe there's an exception for witness programs and such - change it, you're stuck with it. I've had my unique ID all my life and I expect I'll have it the rest of my life, but with all due respect I don't want an email address first.middle.last@name.com were someone expects me to read it.
It's more of a "there and back again" story really. Ten years ago RMS published his Java Trap and the open source community was rather weary of making anything depending on a JRE blob. In 2006 Sun announced they'd open source Java and all hearts rejoiced. Except it took a really long time, here's an article on how it might finish in 2008.
Perhaps of biggest imporance is that Java ME never got freed, Sun and later Oracle always wanted a fee if you wanted to put it on your mobile phone. Then Sun got bought by Oracle in 2009, and where Sun had been admicable about the existance of Android Oracle instead chose to sue Google in 2010, claiming patent violations and copyright to the APIs. Particularly the latter is anathema in the open source community.
Due to Android being a runaway success driving Java ME out of the market and Oracle fighting it all the way in court they got branded with "stopped innovating, started suing" and the divide between Oracle with OpenOffice and the open source community with LibreOffice didn't help either. Whatever Sun and Java might have been, a friend bought out by your enemy is now your enemy.
Not that this is what's bothered the rest of the world though. For them it's all the constant critical security exploits which has turned Java into the security bad boy. It used to be ActiveX, it used to be Flash but these days the #1 security advice seems to be "disable Java". They should have just pulled support for applets because it's tar and feathering the whole brand, even for software that doesn't suffer from remote exploits.
The key to selling cheaper cars is more charging stations, due to some extremely strong tax incentives here in Norway last year electric cars had a 5.5% market share, 1.3% of that is Tesla though they only delivered from September to December but the really big winner around here is Nissan Leaf. They're half the price of the base model Tesla and a third of the top model, they have much shorter range but because there's so many and so many chargers they can do commutes and the occasional longer trips even though it's awkward. People seem to prefer that to getting a rental for the exceptions.
I'm actually eyeing a Tesla myself, the current tax breaks are almost too good to be true. Not very relevant to the people in the US I guess, but here it's a high end luxury/sports car sold at middle class prices - it competes with models that cost ~$40k in the US, not ~$80k which puts it in reach of more ordinary people. A lot of people have figured this is their "now or never" moment to have a 300+ hp car which otherwise costs an arm and a leg here. I'm holding out a little longer though until all the version 1.0 bugs have been worked out.
Custom built PCs are a niche market. I highly doubt they would have anything near a 10% impact on the entire PC market.
Not anymore. Asus mentioned they have sold millions of high end/gaming motherboards as gamers no longer buy Dells and replace the GPU like they did in the old days.
What's millions of 315 million? Oh, less than 10%. The desktop is only 40% of the total PC market and no, not one in four desktops is a custom. They're somewhat important because they buy expensive machines, but the volume is not in gaming.
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Of course, it would make MORE sense to use an embedded OS where the banks/ATM manufacturers have full access to the source.
OS/2 had its heyday in the early 90s, ATMs used it way into the 2000s.
XPe had its heyday in the early 00s, ATMs are using it way into the 2010s.
Embedded Linux has its heyday now in the early 10s, draw your own conclusions.
ATM vendors are extremely conservative, they tend to use platforms others already think are obsolete. They'll come along eventually, it's not like the cell phone market where you can flip the market upside down in 2-3 years.
Looking at the list of most popular websites, I think only facebook & youtube would have more influence on video-standards settings.
People don't visit Wikipedia for the videos any more than they read Playboy for the articles. That you even put it in the same class as YouTube only makes you sound delusional, they are 99.99% video and Wikipedia is 99.99% not. When Google that owns the VP8 codec, owns YouTube and makes Android and Chrome don't want to eat their own dog food and push their own codec on their own site to their own devices and browser it'll never be more than an obscure alternative for ideological circlejerks, like art critics patting each other on the back for recognizing true art while the rest of the world watches Hollywood blockbusters.
Even Firefox has surrendered on this one and said they'd use the binary blob Cisco provides, if Wikimedia wants to be the Japanese soldiers hiding in the forest 10 years after the war is over and keep denying it's over and that they lost it's their problem. And by forest I mean /. where Ogg Vorbis never dies even though it totally* failed to catch any mainstream use. * Cue the counterexamples, the way Munich shows that Linux is totally going to take over the desktop. But to use an old proverb, one swallow does not a summer make.
That was because the FSF was spreading FUD about Trolltech. Trolltech was free software friendly and was never going to make Qt non-free.
Qt was free on a free platform (Linux), if you wanted a Windows/Mac license then for a long time you had to pay for that priviledge. They were trying to balance being open source and making money and RMS isn't exactly known for ideological compromise. Eventually they went GPL on all platforms and later LGPL, but it also killed off most of the income Trolltech used to have. That wouldn't have been so bad if Nokia had been their sugar daddy using it as their "Android", but I really wonder if Digia can surivie as being the non-native alternative all around. After all Android uses Dalvik/Javaish, iOS and OS X uses ObjectiveC/XCode, Microsoft uses C#/.NET and Qt is essentially trying to be what Java tried to be on the desktop. And I guess we all know how many Java desktop apps we use, right? Good product, not sure it hits a market.
No-one cares when Microsoft started selling XP. They care about when Microsoft STOPPED selling XP, which was only a few years ago. There are a ton of XP machines only three or four years old that work fine and are deliberately being made obsolete just so Microsoft can make money.
Well, if they stopped selling XP back in 2007 and told everyone to STFU and switch to Vista we'd be screaming bloody murder about that so damned if you do and damned if you don't. All their support lifecycle clocks start running from when they release the N+1 product (and N+2 for extended support), now that Windows 8 is out the countdown towards Windows 7 EOL is ticking even though they still allow you to buy a Windows 7 machine. Mainstream support ends January 13, 2015 and extended support January 14, 2020. It's not like this is a bloody secret, the policy has been published and the dates set long ago. In short, if you bought XP after April 14, 2009 you know (or should have known anyway) that you were buying an OS already in the extended support phase. Why is ignorance an excuse in the tech world?
I wonder at which point smartphones will become fast enough so that people will stick the same phone for at least five years or so.
Actually smartphones have probably brought the average lifetime down, my longest living phone was the Nokia 3210. It did little more than calls and texts, but for many years that's all I cared to have in a phone and with the cheap replacable plastic cover and tiny screen it was almost indestructible too. Using a cheap third party battery replacement it stayed in service for many, many years and when I got a new one my dad used it still a while longer. Now there's actual new features worth having on new phones, my current phone is slightly over three years and I'm thinking about replacing it with the next year or so. It's not that I couldn't do without, but the nice-to-have compared to time spent using it makes it worth it. Because it's the device that's always around, it doesn't need to be more than that I'm already in my good chair or couch or bed and don't want to get up.
That was ages ago and it's still in beta? They should just rename the project Google Wings...
For anyone that holds the book of genesis as a literal telling of events, it has to. I forget which day it was, but the bible pretty clearly stipulated that on day X, God created light.
Well yes, but some dispute the meaning of the word "day". But it also contains an ancestry from Adam and Eve via Noah and Abraham down to Jesus - either you have a world only a few thousands of years old, or you have one where people lived to be many millions of years old. Here's the first part to Abraham:
1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
2 male and female created he them; Mt. 19.4 Â Mk. 10.6 and blessed them, Gen. 1.27, 28 and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
3 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
4 and the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
5 and all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
6 And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
7 and Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
8 and all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Ca-i'nan:
10 and Enos lived after he begat Ca-i'nan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
11 and all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
12 And Ca-i'nan lived seventy years, and begat Mahal'aleel:
13 and Ca-i'nan lived after he begat Mahal'aleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
14 and all the days of Ca-i'nan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
15 And Mahal'aleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
16 and Mahal'aleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
17 and all the days of Mahal'aleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
18 And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
19 and Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
20 and all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methu'selah:
22 and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methu'selah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
23 and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
24 and Enoch Heb. 11.5 walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
25 And Methu'selah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
26 and Methu'selah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
27 and all the days of Methu'selah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
28 And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
29 and he called his name Noah, 6 saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
31 and all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arphax'ad two years after the flood:
11 and Shem lived after he begat Arphax'ad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
12 And Arphax'ad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
13 And Arphax'ad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
15 and Salah lived after he
If you're trying to find a balanced diet using many ingredients and take one of those away, the rest of the diet might change totally. For example, let's assume the removed ingredient was a very good source of protein. Now you're scrambling to replace it with other protein sources, introducing foods you didn't need before. And now you're high on carbs, so your high-carb food goes out and is replaced by something else, so now you lack vitamin D so we add another new food and so on. It's a set ordering not a factor ordering because if you've eaten beef all week you'd rather eat pork, even if you prefer beef.
Even if you're not very materialistic, few people like being significantly underpaid for their services particularly at a large, for-profit company. It smells of being taken advantage of and played for a sucker, even if you don't need it for your lifestyle. And the whole story adds up, the most difficult employee to keep is one that doesn't care much about the money but see a lot of "interesting problems" to work on at a competitor. Still even the selfless tend to like money they can spend on their charities and what they care about, if you're talking sums like that.
So if you remove all the "freeloaders", most of the purpose of the software is gone. In the official GPL rationale, the whole purpose of the GPL is to make sure that the "freeloaders" cannot only use the software, but are free to modify it - without contributing anything. (Not that I agree with the rationale, because the percentage of end users who can actually take advantage of these rights is minuscule).
Most people aren't auto mechanics either, but using third party repair shops and aftermarket parts is common. Everybody who's used a patched/forked version that the "main" project didn't like - anyone using x.org instead of xfree86 for example - has had benefit of the distribution right, which wouldn't exist without the modification right. I agree that without the distribution right your personal right to dig into the software and patch it is almost meaningless, but so is the distribution right without the ability to modify it - it'll just be mirrors. If you don't look at those two in context, you're missing the whole point.
Come on, this guy isn't exactly average in the US either. An equally extreme situation here in Europe would probably involve a guy pulling a knife and stabbing the other to death. Knives vs guns don't matter much if you're the first victim and in close proximity, but it's much harder to get accidentally stabbed than shot and it's much harder to run from a bullet than a knife. In fact you have to far more aggressively assault someone than just shooting them from a distance, which might not stop your crazy ex but the average burglar would rather flee. They live to steal another day, I live to get better security and hopefully the police will catch him, beats a coin flip for who shoots first. But if someone goes mental on you, a knife is just as deadly.
You're surrised that one HR person in a huge company is horribly incompetent and stupid? Even if he's let go they'll probably do no more that confirm his dates of employment and he'll soon work for another company. Most companies just want to get rid of the lemon quietly without causing a lawsuit.
What's crazy about patents is that they're supposed to be for an implementation, like if I ask you to transport some goods one might invent a backpack, one a trolley, one a cart, one a bicycle, one a zip line and so on. Instead we have software patents that just describe a result and just says "However you implement this, it's patented". Often you don't even need to do the hard part, you just need to wait for someone else to figure out how then sue them. However for all the talk of patent trolls, most big enterprises like their own patents because big players use them to squeeze small players. The rest is just a cost of doing business.
Licensed from George Lucas in the form of Jar Jar Binks!
To me caffeine feels like the brain running on overclock, sure it's faster and better at almost anything but afterwards you're dog tired and overall you get less done in total. Still good for the times when performance right now is what matters, for example we used to have these marathon exams of up to 6 hours. Three hours in and head is getting heavy, take a Red Bull and you're good for another three hours. It'd always be a short evening but totally worth it. Same if the party is now, stay awake here and now and catch up on sleep tomorrow.
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"If a stage has three big climbs, we'd expect riders to burn off anything between 8,000 to 10,000 calories per day," said Child.
But hey, he's only a nutritionist actually working on the tour.
But ideally I want to buy electricity at 0.50 euros/MWh, store it and ignore high prices while I continue to use my appliances at arbitrary times, buy additional electricity when the price falls again, and then laugh at anyone who paid 35 euros/MWh
If you could do it then they could do it and they'd save the power themselves rather than sell it for next to nothing or even negative amounts. So the moment such a storage device existed, the huge fluctuations would go away.
You would be surprised how few callories even the most serious sport/excerise takes.
I think everyone who's ever tried to lose weight via exercise is aware how hard it is. You get endurance and strength but burning surplus calories is really slow. Roughly 2000 kcal and you're keeping your weight, add 1000 kcal and it'll take me two hours of exercise to get rid of it. And if you have the food, we can consume a lot of calories. Here's an example of 72oz steak eaten in less than 3 minutes. Extreme endurance athletes often consume 10.000 calories a day.
If anything we didnt go far enough with it, we dont hold the heads of the companies responsible for what the companies do like we would a parent to a child.
Not sure how it is in the US system but here in Norway it's more like the corporate system than not. Parents can with certain limitations be found liable for their children's actions and be made to pay restitution, but we'd never put a parent in prison over something their child did.
If we were to try going after individuals criminally, why start at the top? Shouldn't it be the people who actually did something illegal? And the nearest manager who ordered it? Making the CEO the catch-all of every crook in the entire company will do very little to discourage others from resorting to illegal means, unless the illegal activity goes all the way to the top. The head of a business division can do lots without telling the CEO.
Except you'd really not like that, because you know how it is when your boss is ordering you around. If you say "I refuse to do X, it's not secure and I might end up getting fucked over for it" you're probably heading straight for the unemployment line. The SOX requirements do as I understand it make the CFO criminally responsible for the books being correct and everyone I've talked to says it created a massive reporting burden throughout the companies.
Going after the owners is even more hopeless, they're as often the victims as the victors. Should all the Enron investors go joins their bosses in jail because they share guilt? And what happens when you own 0.01% of a company, I'm just one person who is either 100% in jail or not. Do I get called in to serve a day in prison for the company's 100 year sentence? And good luck getting all foreign investors extradited.
Besides if you follow that logic then guilt should just flow through the investors of investors of investors to the actual people, like say your pension funds. Wouldn't it be great if you're the one being put in jail because your pension funds decided to invest in BP which was found guilty of a criminal oil spill screw-up? As opposed to the actual people inside BP who was responsble for the safety systems?
You only need to go back 200 years before we had anything like modern refrigeration and the food had to be very fresh and very local. Most people were subsistance farmers, meaning they primarily ate what they produced. If you had game, you ate game and if you didn't, you didn't. If you had a river or lake nearby with fish you ate fish, if not you didn't. If barley grew better than wheat, you ate barley. Your diet was defined by your surroundings.
I'd wonder if this is a Sokol-type troll, but I don't see anything obviously wrong in it -- there's just a bunch of stuff there that looks like explanations, but apparently isn't. Or maybe I'm just having a bad night.
Don't worry, science is ridiculously poor at describing singular events. The creation of the universe is - as we know it - a singular event. That life - and indeed moderately intelligent life - exists on this planet is yet another singular event. It can't be reproduced and so far we've got no evidence that life exists anywhere outside Eartn. Until proven otherwise we might still be the only living thing in all of Creation, though I wouldn't put my money on that.
Meh, if we really wanted to we could. Here in Norway (that's +47 for anything international) we have 11 digit unique personal ids. So +47-[ddmmyy.zzzzz]@name.com where ddmmyy is your birth date and zzzzz your personal id (it encodes certain things like sex, century of birth and a checksum digit) would be truly unique. That number sort of lives in a double existance though, it's at the same time secret but at the same time known to a lot of people.
Making it into a public address would be disaster, it'd be full of spam but due to the government's use you couldn't ignore it. You couldn't - maybe there's an exception for witness programs and such - change it, you're stuck with it. I've had my unique ID all my life and I expect I'll have it the rest of my life, but with all due respect I don't want an email address first.middle.last@name.com were someone expects me to read it.
It's more of a "there and back again" story really. Ten years ago RMS published his Java Trap and the open source community was rather weary of making anything depending on a JRE blob. In 2006 Sun announced they'd open source Java and all hearts rejoiced. Except it took a really long time, here's an article on how it might finish in 2008.
Perhaps of biggest imporance is that Java ME never got freed, Sun and later Oracle always wanted a fee if you wanted to put it on your mobile phone. Then Sun got bought by Oracle in 2009, and where Sun had been admicable about the existance of Android Oracle instead chose to sue Google in 2010, claiming patent violations and copyright to the APIs. Particularly the latter is anathema in the open source community.
Due to Android being a runaway success driving Java ME out of the market and Oracle fighting it all the way in court they got branded with "stopped innovating, started suing" and the divide between Oracle with OpenOffice and the open source community with LibreOffice didn't help either. Whatever Sun and Java might have been, a friend bought out by your enemy is now your enemy.
Not that this is what's bothered the rest of the world though. For them it's all the constant critical security exploits which has turned Java into the security bad boy. It used to be ActiveX, it used to be Flash but these days the #1 security advice seems to be "disable Java". They should have just pulled support for applets because it's tar and feathering the whole brand, even for software that doesn't suffer from remote exploits.
The key to selling cheaper cars is more charging stations, due to some extremely strong tax incentives here in Norway last year electric cars had a 5.5% market share, 1.3% of that is Tesla though they only delivered from September to December but the really big winner around here is Nissan Leaf. They're half the price of the base model Tesla and a third of the top model, they have much shorter range but because there's so many and so many chargers they can do commutes and the occasional longer trips even though it's awkward. People seem to prefer that to getting a rental for the exceptions.
I'm actually eyeing a Tesla myself, the current tax breaks are almost too good to be true. Not very relevant to the people in the US I guess, but here it's a high end luxury/sports car sold at middle class prices - it competes with models that cost ~$40k in the US, not ~$80k which puts it in reach of more ordinary people. A lot of people have figured this is their "now or never" moment to have a 300+ hp car which otherwise costs an arm and a leg here. I'm holding out a little longer though until all the version 1.0 bugs have been worked out.
Custom built PCs are a niche market. I highly doubt they would have anything near a 10% impact on the entire PC market.
Not anymore. Asus mentioned they have sold millions of high end/gaming motherboards as gamers no longer buy Dells and replace the GPU like they did in the old days.
What's millions of 315 million? Oh, less than 10%. The desktop is only 40% of the total PC market and no, not one in four desktops is a custom. They're somewhat important because they buy expensive machines, but the volume is not in gaming.