If we wait for all the joes in the street to learn system thinking before we act, we'll join the dinosaurs.
I admit that some initiatives are not very useful ( although I do support banning incandescents if it can be done right ) but, waiting for folks to change?
That's the least likely solution of all.
After reading through the discussion between Ben, some other Google people and various Linux users, it's apparent to me that Ben is whining too much.
One one hand, there all the bitching about the weakness of GTK and the fractured APIs of Linux but when it's suggested that they use QT instead,
the answer is that they don't want to choose one toolkit over another and potentially alienate some of the userbase (!).
No technical reason is given for not using QT and, from the various comments, it's clear that what they needed on Windows wasn't all baked into Win32 - they had
to make some of it from scratch.
Some advice for Ben - if you want to get the Linux port out, use QT, ship it and write a note saying that you choose the best tool you had available and if anyone
wants to port it to GTK+, well good luck to them and here are a list of stumbling blocks they'll encounter.
There was really no need to start a flame war and I imagine the opensource community should be relieved that he's not the lead dev for Chrome.
Corn for food? Everything I've read shows that most corn grown worldwide is for animal feed, and those critters would probably be better off eating grass.
Why, thank you! The next time you decide to sip from the milk carton of human kindess, my dear ANONYMOUS COWARD, check the expiry date first.
Have a nice day.
How this this get modded up to 5+ Insightful?
The poster didn't open the first link nor did a Google search. True, the article post didn't spell
out what RTMPE is but it did clearly state that Adobe issued a DMCA.
Since Slashdot has seen fit to give considerably more mod points, perhaps it could also raise the bar on posts. Too many posts get modded up to 5 far too quickly and the meta-moderation doesn't happen fast enough
How did an insulting and unsupported
AC post get modded to 4 while a post (below) from a registered user
with a supporting link only gets a 3.
It seems Slashdot isn't as Linux-fanboi-ish as some
would lead us to believe.
Please mod AmaDaden's post up, thanks
I'd heard of a US bill getting pork added to it
AFTER it had been voted on - sometime within the last year.
I haven't been able to find the story again and would hope that this isn't a common occurrence.
Why isn't this illegal - adding unrelated legislation to a ? Is there anywhere in the world why this practice is not permitted, or better yet, prosecuted?
Either your syntax is wrong or you're exceeding Google's limits - it seems that it's much lower for
hex, octal and binary compared to decimail.
I typed 1011011110111 in hex into Google's search
and got back 1 011 011 110 111 = 0xEB64F544DF but
if I added a couple more binary digits, it wouldn't work.
In comparison, 1010101010011111011011101011010101 in decimal returned 1 010 101 010 011 111 011 011 101 011 010 101 = 1.01010101 Ã-- 1033 in the wink of an eye.
Bad analogy. A better one would be if you abandoned your house, didn't secure it and then found someone using it as a storage facility.
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· Score: 2, Informative
"Eclipse" is when the Sun is blocked/hidden/occulted
I think you mean occluded. "occulted" is when you wave a dead chicken at it at midnight.
That usage of "occult" is unusual but not incorrect.
Both occult and occlude are derived from the same Latin root.
See here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/occult
Entries 4 and 9-11 cover the usage regarding something being hidden
Not least of his accomplishments, notable because of his physical limitations, is that he's been married twice and has 3 biological children with his first wife.
Also, it's likely that his second wife physically abused him, to point of breaking his arm. If that's true, it's unimaginable to me what sort of person could do such a thing and how terrifying it must be for a man who cannot defend himself and whose body is more fragile than a child's to endure such abuse.
Fact check time - if they are efficiently recycling
their spent fuel then why do they need this:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12837958
I've read about nuclear reactor designs that use up 75-99% of their fuel versus the ~25% of the most common ones in use now but I don't hear of these new designs being built, new reactors are very expensive and I think retrofitting an old one must also cost a bundle.
Wind, wave and solar first, everything else follow behind, coal bring up the rear
You and all the others who think we'll be selling
clean coal to China are fooling yourselves.
By the time they are forced to consider such an alternative, they'll steal the technology if the price is too high.
And, up to now, their idea of too high coincides nicely with ours of too low. If China is going to remain the manufacturing capital of the planet, they won't want their costs to rise too much and that means keeping energy costs down.
Not that I'm disagreeing with you but aren't you guilty of the same they-are-all-alike categorization
that you accused plopez of?
He tarred MBAs and you are smearing Business BAs.
Lucky you. Windows is a lot more stable than it used to be, which, depending on your previous experience, may not be saying much.
But, a decade without a crash? How often are you changing machines?
XP SP3 actually made things less stable for us at work. When we rolled out a new build of our corporate template, everything seemed to be fine - until someone plugged a USB flash drive into one of our HP Pentium 4s.
Can you say rollback, boys and girls?
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If we wait for all the joes in the street to learn system thinking before we act, we'll join the dinosaurs. I admit that some initiatives are not very useful ( although I do support banning incandescents if it can be done right ) but, waiting for folks to change? That's the least likely solution of all.
If only i had modpoints to give! I feel your pain
After reading through the discussion between Ben, some other Google people and various Linux users, it's apparent to me that Ben is whining too much. One one hand, there all the bitching about the weakness of GTK and the fractured APIs of Linux but when it's suggested that they use QT instead, the answer is that they don't want to choose one toolkit over another and potentially alienate some of the userbase (!). No technical reason is given for not using QT and, from the various comments, it's clear that what they needed on Windows wasn't all baked into Win32 - they had to make some of it from scratch. Some advice for Ben - if you want to get the Linux port out, use QT, ship it and write a note saying that you choose the best tool you had available and if anyone wants to port it to GTK+, well good luck to them and here are a list of stumbling blocks they'll encounter. There was really no need to start a flame war and I imagine the opensource community should be relieved that he's not the lead dev for Chrome.
but you can still ask for more money
Corn for food? Everything I've read shows that most corn grown worldwide is for animal feed, and those critters would probably be better off eating grass.
Dude, you clearly have never lived in Canada.
Why, thank you! The next time you decide to sip from the milk carton of human kindess, my dear ANONYMOUS COWARD, check the expiry date first. Have a nice day.
Many officers of the law behave like dicks from the get-go. Can we use that to justify our own behavior towards them?
How this this get modded up to 5+ Insightful? The poster didn't open the first link nor did a Google search. True, the article post didn't spell out what RTMPE is but it did clearly state that Adobe issued a DMCA. Since Slashdot has seen fit to give considerably more mod points, perhaps it could also raise the bar on posts. Too many posts get modded up to 5 far too quickly and the meta-moderation doesn't happen fast enough
Oracle bought Borland,too?
How did an insulting and unsupported AC post get modded to 4 while a post (below) from a registered user with a supporting link only gets a 3. It seems Slashdot isn't as Linux-fanboi-ish as some would lead us to believe. Please mod AmaDaden's post up, thanks
I'd heard of a US bill getting pork added to it AFTER it had been voted on - sometime within the last year. I haven't been able to find the story again and would hope that this isn't a common occurrence.
Why isn't this illegal - adding unrelated legislation to a ? Is there anywhere in the world why this practice is not permitted, or better yet, prosecuted?
Why does Benford get credit for this but not Simon Newcomb?
If the cop stops to ask why are you following, just say that you're not from the area and are looking for a doughnut shop.
Site here: http://hypertable.org/ GPLv2 license
Either your syntax is wrong or you're exceeding Google's limits - it seems that it's much lower for hex, octal and binary compared to decimail. I typed 1011011110111 in hex into Google's search and got back 1 011 011 110 111 = 0xEB64F544DF but if I added a couple more binary digits, it wouldn't work. In comparison, 1010101010011111011011101011010101 in decimal returned 1 010 101 010 011 111 011 011 101 011 010 101 = 1.01010101 Ã-- 1033 in the wink of an eye.
Bad analogy. A better one would be if you abandoned your house, didn't secure it and then found someone using it as a storage facility.
"Eclipse" is when the Sun is blocked/hidden/occulted
I think you mean occluded. "occulted" is when you wave a dead chicken at it at midnight.
That usage of "occult" is unusual but not incorrect. Both occult and occlude are derived from the same Latin root. See here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/occult Entries 4 and 9-11 cover the usage regarding something being hidden
Not least of his accomplishments, notable because of his physical limitations, is that he's been married twice and has 3 biological children with his first wife. Also, it's likely that his second wife physically abused him, to point of breaking his arm. If that's true, it's unimaginable to me what sort of person could do such a thing and how terrifying it must be for a man who cannot defend himself and whose body is more fragile than a child's to endure such abuse.
Fact check time - if they are efficiently recycling their spent fuel then why do they need this: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12837958 I've read about nuclear reactor designs that use up 75-99% of their fuel versus the ~25% of the most common ones in use now but I don't hear of these new designs being built, new reactors are very expensive and I think retrofitting an old one must also cost a bundle. Wind, wave and solar first, everything else follow behind, coal bring up the rear
H20 is as much the linchpin ( not lynch-pin) of Earth's life but you can still drown in it.
You and all the others who think we'll be selling clean coal to China are fooling yourselves. By the time they are forced to consider such an alternative, they'll steal the technology if the price is too high. And, up to now, their idea of too high coincides nicely with ours of too low. If China is going to remain the manufacturing capital of the planet, they won't want their costs to rise too much and that means keeping energy costs down.
Not that I'm disagreeing with you but aren't you guilty of the same they-are-all-alike categorization that you accused plopez of? He tarred MBAs and you are smearing Business BAs.
Lucky you. Windows is a lot more stable than it used to be, which, depending on your previous experience, may not be saying much. But, a decade without a crash? How often are you changing machines? XP SP3 actually made things less stable for us at work. When we rolled out a new build of our corporate template, everything seemed to be fine - until someone plugged a USB flash drive into one of our HP Pentium 4s. Can you say rollback, boys and girls?