And why is this news? Oh, right, because all of our energy needs will be met by a fully-functional Hydrogen Economy(TM) within 10 years, so this is obviously a potential road-block on the path to Enhyrdogenment. Silly me.
The Gizmag oubscription nag is somewhat annoying, but even without NoScript you can simply click somewhere outside the pop-in window and it goes away. No big deal.
... Any company who sues a non-commercial fan project is idiotic at best, and doesn't like receiving money from their customers.
Years ago someone here on Slashdot (props, whoever you are, I don't remember) explained the seemingly psychotic behavior of television executives choking the life out of or outright canceling wildly popular TV shows:
It's all about power and control - money is, at best, a secondary concern.
Once you realize that this applies to most entertainment companies, it all makes sense, like a kind of nightmare logic.
How did this get to +4 insightful? Your derisive comments about "Christianity" and "sin" fail to meet even high school-level anthropology and sociology qualifications. Go pick up almost any book on some "godless" culture and you'll find that they've got their own historical/ingrained issues with nudity, chastity, etc. Shocking as it may be, many of these issues overlap with "Christianity" (whatever that is anymore).
Valid or not, you've polluted your own cries of "knee-jerk reaction" with your own knee-jerk reaction.
You sir, have said almost word-for-word what I was thinking. I seriously doubt that Adblock and it's kin would have such wide-spread usage if the ads had not become so burdensome. Nevermind the visual distraction (which almost makes me want to punch the monitor), I'm using an old computer and any page that loads flash causes it to _freeze_ for several seconds - per flash item. And we're supposed to "honor" these crippling intrusions... why?
Adblock plus Noscript - not just a good idea, they unbreak my (online) legs.
I love a good mystery (and polls). So, is it the PTO saying:
a) "Cap'n she can't take much more!" (Approaching total functional failure) b) "Go ahead, make my day." (I ain't takin' no more sh*t from you) c) "Do you want to live forever?" (What the hell, got nothing to lose at this point.) d) "ZOMG! pwnies!" (This acid trip is soooo righteous, man!)
The scariest part about it is, as a government office/function/bureau, the most likely answer is:
e) All of the above (Hi, my name is Sybil.)
That was exactly my first thought when I saw this: "How the heck are they gonna get around ionic leaching?" Gold, maybe?
Mind you, I don't doubt they can make this viable, it is just a bit like listening to the engineers saying "A new suspension bridge here will carry much more traffic," while boggling at the depth and width of the canyon in front of you.
1) Google is attempting to compete with Microsoft Live's 3D map function: Virtual Earth embedded in a browser.
2) This is a pre-cursor to having a version available for multiple platforms.
Google's stands a much better competitive chance when their products run in (almost) any browser, so I would -like- to think that this is where they are headed. What makes me cringe is, how do they plan to get there on non-MS-Windows (non-Direct-X) platforms?
I think many of us here have experienced the horror, however briefly, of software-only OpenGL 3D.
You're dead-on about using BMI as a comprehensive metric. A lot of people get caught up in using a metric as the last word in just how badly out of shape someone else is. When I was in the Air Force, about 12 years ago there was a huge push to come up with a better fitness standard. The old broken standard consisted of measuring the neck, chest, and waist/stomach area, then cross-referencing this with some chart.
The problem with that was there were some guys (not many, this -is- the Air Force) that could bench-press a Buick and run a marathon, maybe at the same time. They always had to fight for waivers because their neck and chest measurements completely blew the chart figures and showed them as "fat".
It never ceased to amaze and anger me how callous/indifferent the senior staff were about the reality versus the chart numbers: "You don't fit the chart, so you're fat, so you're on probation."
You must be new around here; painting (tarring) with a broad brush almost seems to be a Rule of Conduct on Slashdot, especially in matters such as these.
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And why is this news? Oh, right, because all of our energy needs will be met by a fully-functional Hydrogen Economy(TM) within 10 years, so this is obviously a potential road-block on the path to Enhyrdogenment. Silly me.
Stuff Burns! News at 11!
The Gizmag oubscription nag is somewhat annoying, but even without NoScript you can simply click somewhere outside the pop-in window and it goes away. No big deal.
... Any company who sues a non-commercial fan project is idiotic at best, and doesn't like receiving money from their customers.
Years ago someone here on Slashdot (props, whoever you are, I don't remember) explained the seemingly psychotic behavior of television executives choking the life out of or outright canceling wildly popular TV shows:
It's all about power and control - money is, at best, a secondary concern.
Once you realize that this applies to most entertainment companies, it all makes sense, like a kind of nightmare logic.
I mean, Aquaman is enough of a badass already, isn't he?
How did this get to +4 insightful? Your derisive comments about "Christianity" and "sin" fail to meet even high school-level anthropology and sociology qualifications. Go pick up almost any book on some "godless" culture and you'll find that they've got their own historical/ingrained issues with nudity, chastity, etc. Shocking as it may be, many of these issues overlap with "Christianity" (whatever that is anymore).
Valid or not, you've polluted your own cries of "knee-jerk reaction" with your own knee-jerk reaction.
You sir, have said almost word-for-word what I was thinking. I seriously doubt that Adblock and it's kin would have such wide-spread usage if the ads had not become so burdensome. Nevermind the visual distraction (which almost makes me want to punch the monitor), I'm using an old computer and any page that loads flash causes it to _freeze_ for several seconds - per flash item. And we're supposed to "honor" these crippling intrusions... why?
Adblock plus Noscript - not just a good idea, they unbreak my (online) legs.
I love a good mystery (and polls). So, is it the PTO saying:
a) "Cap'n she can't take much more!" (Approaching total functional failure)
b) "Go ahead, make my day." (I ain't takin' no more sh*t from you)
c) "Do you want to live forever?" (What the hell, got nothing to lose at this point.)
d) "ZOMG! pwnies!" (This acid trip is soooo righteous, man!)
The scariest part about it is, as a government office/function/bureau, the most likely answer is:
e) All of the above (Hi, my name is Sybil.)
That was exactly my first thought when I saw this: "How the heck are they gonna get around ionic leaching?" Gold, maybe?
Mind you, I don't doubt they can make this viable, it is just a bit like listening to the engineers saying "A new suspension bridge here will carry much more traffic," while boggling at the depth and width of the canyon in front of you.
There are two possibilities I see:
1) Google is attempting to compete with Microsoft Live's 3D map function: Virtual Earth embedded in a browser.
2) This is a pre-cursor to having a version available for multiple platforms.
Google's stands a much better competitive chance when their products run in (almost) any browser, so I would -like- to think that this is where they are headed. What makes me cringe is, how do they plan to get there on non-MS-Windows (non-Direct-X) platforms?
I think many of us here have experienced the horror, however briefly, of software-only OpenGL 3D.
You're dead-on about using BMI as a comprehensive metric. A lot of people get caught up in using a metric as the last word in just how badly out of shape someone else is. When I was in the Air Force, about 12 years ago there was a huge push to come up with a better fitness standard. The old broken standard consisted of measuring the neck, chest, and waist/stomach area, then cross-referencing this with some chart.
The problem with that was there were some guys (not many, this -is- the Air Force) that could bench-press a Buick and run a marathon, maybe at the same time. They always had to fight for waivers because their neck and chest measurements completely blew the chart figures and showed them as "fat".
It never ceased to amaze and anger me how callous/indifferent the senior staff were about the reality versus the chart numbers: "You don't fit the chart, so you're fat, so you're on probation."
You must be new around here; painting (tarring) with a broad brush almost seems to be a Rule of Conduct on Slashdot, especially in matters such as these.