Man, that's just plain bad conspiracy theory. Don't blame on evil masterminds what's just plain old stupidity. Courts are already extremely powerful and the system's increased complexity and overencumberance benefits directly lawyers, since they can charge more and remain employed in the same case for longer, not legislators. And it's lawyers who are trying to milk the cow dead and making all this mess. The government is only an incompetent institution made of incompetent beings and doesn't know how to deal with it, thinking that everything can be solved by legislating more intead of delegislating. For the mandatory bad metaphor, it's like a plumber that refuses to use anything other than screwdrivers to fix leaks.
Damn! Now I'm flabbergasted too. Of course it's as ugly as the old one, since it's meant to be used even by text-only browsers, but it's still very cool.
It happens. An airline company had to access my banking account and it only worked in IE. I struggled a little to understand what was going on, since all that I got was a "problem connecting to the banking services - please retry", then called support and the bastards politely told me to fuck off like this:
-Hi, I'm trying to pay for my ticket and can't. I've tried using Firefox and Chrome. -You must use IE. -Yeah... I actually don't use Windows. Is there some other way? -Click Start, then IE. -I'm telling you I can't. Are you telling me there isn't any way that I can buy from you guys if I don't also buy a Windows license that costs more than the plane ticket I'm trying to purchase? -Is there anything else I can help you with?
Then people ask how a reasonable, sane person turns into RMS. Dealing with this sort of crap on a daily basis.
It's more like hundreds of people entering a bank and waiting in line. Greatly disturbs the service, but by requesting it more than it can be provided. Now even if done on purpose and each of the protesters was only there to deposit and/or transfer pennies, it wouldn't be illegal. Though I don't think, despite any similarities, that internet behavior translates very well to real life one. In this particular case, people with important accounts have their own managers, so they already found a way to sort the riffraff and don't really care how long they have to wait.
No, I think that's about right. Of course you could do pretty much the same with ethanol. Coincidentally, Brazil gets about 800gal/acre, too, so the same math could apply. Just increase consumption in about 30% because of ethanol's reduced energy density and you'll see that the bacteria shouldn't be big news - we already could fuel the most power hungry country in the world by planting only half a percent of its land with sugar cane, sugar beets or whatever (corn doesn't cut it), and with a higher-quality fuel than gasoline. We just don't do it.
Actually now most are about 20% efficient, if I recall correctly. There are panels that achieve more than 40% efficiency. Probably too costly to mass produce, though, but they exist. Now, given that the sun irradiates one acre with about 5,526,836kW and that the 800 barrels produced every year per acre with that bacteria would amount to 1,360,000kWh, we're looking at even 10% efficient photovoltaic cells producing in less than three hours what the bacteria would in 365 days. How's that for efficiency?
As for storage, I agree that it's a problem. Personally, I think having to carry fuel with you is not a very bright idea, since you'll end up transporting what you're trying to use for transporting something else, meaning a significant increase in weight, especially when it comes to personal transportation. That's why I think that's what we really should be focusing on. Maybe power-conducting asphalt or some shit like that.
Sounds great, but doesn't really address the problem of internal combustion engines having only 30% efficiency. Why jump through all those hoops if we could gather electricity with photovoltaic panels and then use much more efficient electrical engines? Does anyone here know how much energy that'd generate per acre versus the bacteria? I mean as long as we're looking for long-term solutions, why not focus on better plans? We're only short of light, infinitely rechargeable batteries or power lines along the roads by now.
Very good analogy. These toolbars do infiltrate your system when you least expect it, infect other programs you use and are sources of embarassment. You should always be protected.
Veering offtopic, here. Anyway, true, but not the case. TFS said he took "thousands" of pictures. In 16Gb. Probably standard 6mp JPEG. HDR is something else entirely. What I point out is how impractical it is for people to go through their tens of thousands of pictures. It would take way too much time, so no one really does that. We keep way too much crap.
You either take way too many pictures. Are you really going to look at thousands of pictures of ruins? Hardly. However, since that's not the kind of advice you asked for, I'd suggest an external HD. It's cheaper than a similarly sized pen drive (1.5Tb ~$80).
Wouldn't that be fixed by either running Debian stable/Fedora instead of Ubuntu or by warning your customers that Linux is very different and, therefore, ideally they should have some experience with it already? You know... steer them in the right direction for them. I think any/.ter can very easily profile and distinguish potential Linux users from the "I-just-want-Freecell-and-the-internets" crowd.
Well... if "most if not all games hosted by Steam is [sic] available pirated elsewhere" and people are still buying, I think yes, they have beaten piracy, at least to some extent. Think about it: why are people paying? There's no physical media, you still have to download the game. The game is the same, the method of distribution is the same. I can speak for myself only, mateys, but I was going to pirate Portal and saw a great deal on Steam, so I bought it. If the same deal was offered to me for the physical media, I'm not so sure I'd have accepted it. I tend to misplace disks, plus I don't really have a lot of shelf space. I also don't like having to insert a disc everytime I want to play. So it's a superior product. Just like the pirated one.
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No one's trying anything anymore. The current genetically modified crops do not produce seeds that can be replanted.
Wow. That's a moronic name. That lowercase Y is ridiculous in so many levels...
Man, that's just plain bad conspiracy theory. Don't blame on evil masterminds what's just plain old stupidity. Courts are already extremely powerful and the system's increased complexity and overencumberance benefits directly lawyers, since they can charge more and remain employed in the same case for longer, not legislators. And it's lawyers who are trying to milk the cow dead and making all this mess. The government is only an incompetent institution made of incompetent beings and doesn't know how to deal with it, thinking that everything can be solved by legislating more intead of delegislating. For the mandatory bad metaphor, it's like a plumber that refuses to use anything other than screwdrivers to fix leaks.
Damn! Now I'm flabbergasted too. Of course it's as ugly as the old one, since it's meant to be used even by text-only browsers, but it's still very cool.
Like we had to click a link to go to Redtube instead of just switching tabs...
Yeah. "His character".
I guess Microsoft employs obstetricians as their strategists. "Push! Push! Push!"
It happens. An airline company had to access my banking account and it only worked in IE. I struggled a little to understand what was going on, since all that I got was a "problem connecting to the banking services - please retry", then called support and the bastards politely told me to fuck off like this:
-Hi, I'm trying to pay for my ticket and can't. I've tried using Firefox and Chrome.
-You must use IE.
-Yeah... I actually don't use Windows. Is there some other way?
-Click Start, then IE.
-I'm telling you I can't. Are you telling me there isn't any way that I can buy from you guys if I don't also buy a Windows license that costs more than the plane ticket I'm trying to purchase?
-Is there anything else I can help you with?
Then people ask how a reasonable, sane person turns into RMS. Dealing with this sort of crap on a daily basis.
Your opinion may or may not be illegal. I'll prohibit it while I check. How does that make any sense?
And damned be whoever hinders Roger's pursuit of happiness.
It's more like hundreds of people entering a bank and waiting in line. Greatly disturbs the service, but by requesting it more than it can be provided. Now even if done on purpose and each of the protesters was only there to deposit and/or transfer pennies, it wouldn't be illegal. Though I don't think, despite any similarities, that internet behavior translates very well to real life one. In this particular case, people with important accounts have their own managers, so they already found a way to sort the riffraff and don't really care how long they have to wait.
Hey, I actually kind of liked it. The right side is engulfed by the left in Firefox, but it's still nice.
Right. It's hard. Do you want an employee whining that "it's too hard. Eff-it!"
Walter Chrysler did:
“Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.”
And I think his company turned out ok.
Now for more fun: 3 acres of theoretical 100% efficient PV cells could supply those 20680000 barrels/day.
No, I think that's about right. Of course you could do pretty much the same with ethanol. Coincidentally, Brazil gets about 800gal/acre, too, so the same math could apply. Just increase consumption in about 30% because of ethanol's reduced energy density and you'll see that the bacteria shouldn't be big news - we already could fuel the most power hungry country in the world by planting only half a percent of its land with sugar cane, sugar beets or whatever (corn doesn't cut it), and with a higher-quality fuel than gasoline. We just don't do it.
No, they just charge for their services in m of land instead of money. And land is becoming scarcer everyday.
because photovoltaic are only 10% efficient?
Actually now most are about 20% efficient, if I recall correctly. There are panels that achieve more than 40% efficiency. Probably too costly to mass produce, though, but they exist. Now, given that the sun irradiates one acre with about 5,526,836kW and that the 800 barrels produced every year per acre with that bacteria would amount to 1,360,000kWh, we're looking at even 10% efficient photovoltaic cells producing in less than three hours what the bacteria would in 365 days. How's that for efficiency?
As for storage, I agree that it's a problem. Personally, I think having to carry fuel with you is not a very bright idea, since you'll end up transporting what you're trying to use for transporting something else, meaning a significant increase in weight, especially when it comes to personal transportation. That's why I think that's what we really should be focusing on. Maybe power-conducting asphalt or some shit like that.
Sounds great, but doesn't really address the problem of internal combustion engines having only 30% efficiency. Why jump through all those hoops if we could gather electricity with photovoltaic panels and then use much more efficient electrical engines? Does anyone here know how much energy that'd generate per acre versus the bacteria? I mean as long as we're looking for long-term solutions, why not focus on better plans? We're only short of light, infinitely rechargeable batteries or power lines along the roads by now.
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Very good analogy. These toolbars do infiltrate your system when you least expect it, infect other programs you use and are sources of embarassment. You should always be protected.
but I still wouldn't the OS after that.
Not even accidentally?
Veering offtopic, here. Anyway, true, but not the case. TFS said he took "thousands" of pictures. In 16Gb. Probably standard 6mp JPEG. HDR is something else entirely. What I point out is how impractical it is for people to go through their tens of thousands of pictures. It would take way too much time, so no one really does that. We keep way too much crap.
You either take way too many pictures. Are you really going to look at thousands of pictures of ruins? Hardly. However, since that's not the kind of advice you asked for, I'd suggest an external HD. It's cheaper than a similarly sized pen drive (1.5Tb ~$80).
Wouldn't that be fixed by either running Debian stable/Fedora instead of Ubuntu or by warning your customers that Linux is very different and, therefore, ideally they should have some experience with it already? You know... steer them in the right direction for them. I think any /.ter can very easily profile and distinguish potential Linux users from the "I-just-want-Freecell-and-the-internets" crowd.
Well... if "most if not all games hosted by Steam is [sic] available pirated elsewhere" and people are still buying, I think yes, they have beaten piracy, at least to some extent. Think about it: why are people paying? There's no physical media, you still have to download the game. The game is the same, the method of distribution is the same. I can speak for myself only, mateys, but I was going to pirate Portal and saw a great deal on Steam, so I bought it. If the same deal was offered to me for the physical media, I'm not so sure I'd have accepted it. I tend to misplace disks, plus I don't really have a lot of shelf space. I also don't like having to insert a disc everytime I want to play. So it's a superior product. Just like the pirated one.
You've heard of proxies, right?