You'd eat a lot less McDonalds if you KNEW where their meat came from, especially if it came from bugs.
You'd eat a lot less McD if you knew where their meat comes from and how it is processed, handled and cooked. No need for bugs in that particular equation...
With the meat being so far outside what's usually considered food...so far outside of what YOU consider food. There are plenty of people around the world who enjoy insects.
Tastes are entirely cultural: the French enjoy snails, Swedes enjoy rotten fish meat... You may or may not like insects, but they're perfectly valid sources of food.
Behavioral Learning for Adaptive Electronic Warfare (BLADE). Acronym fail?
No, it's a case of bending the name or the way the acronym is made up, to make an acronym sound clever. So it's "Behavioral Learning for ADaptative Electronic warfare".
Uncyclopedia calls it a case of TTHTMAFPCW. The US government has been trying really to TTHTMAFPCW lately ("USA PATRIOT Act" for instance)...
Yeah, walk up to your boss and tell him you know more than he does. Great career move...
Have you heard of diplomacy? You may know more than he does, but he doesn't want to hear it. Instead, you should convince him that what *you* want to do is *his* idea.
WHY do you have to prove software testing saves money? Even a cheap and nasty electrical appliance from China is tested despite there being a lot of motivation to cut corners and not do so. Why should software be any different?
Rest assured that Chinese companies test their products precisely *because* it saves money. If it didn't, they wouldn't; they don't have a commitment to good quality for its own sake.
An untested product leads to high rates of return (lost money), customer dissatisfaction and brand name damage (HUGE loss of money in the medium to long term). Nobody puts up with bad products anymore. Software is one of the last kind of products where it's still somewhat accepted but people are quickly becoming intolerant to bugs nowadays.
Still, what is true of physical products (that extensive testing on top of proper design and good manufacturing practices) may not be true of software. I.e. the question is: is laborious and careful design and implementation with minimal testing more or less expensive than quicker, laxer design and coding and a strong test/correction feedback process? I'm not sure the answer is clear-cut. As a (former) programmer, I can see argument for both approaches.
these re-badgers would absolutely flip out at the idea of incurring substantial risk of copyright infringement risk.
You need money to sue someone. FOSS idealists have none, and big companies with vested interest in FOSS software that could afford the legal costs know better than to hurt their own kind. That's why everybody and their dogs trample on the GPL with zero fear of legal actions.
tell him to throw himself off a bridge or something. I know he means well, but lawyers are a major part of the problem this litigious society has. Whichever side they're on, in the end they're usually not helping anybody but their own greedy profiteering selves.
I've been attempting to boycott Amazon for stuff like this but I simply can't help myself over how convenient it's become not to have to spend several hours a week shopping.
I would seriously like to have input into their decisions
I'm sure they'd be falling over themselves to provide you with a properly argumented explanation of their corporate decisions as fast as they possibly could if you asked them.
As much as I hate Amazon for a variety of reasons (the price of their ebooks and the DRM they come encumbered with, their pulling books you've bought out of your Kindle without asking permission, or the bland stupid political correctness they're apparently trying to enforce), there's something important to remember here: they are a private enterprise, and they have the right to chose what they sell. They are not a private library with a duty to provide for the widest possible audience.
Also, they are not engaging in censorship, inasmuch as they don't have a complete monopoly over the book distribution industry. You (still) can vote with your wallet and buy from somebody else, although at the rate they're growing, how long you'll be able to do that is a matter of serious debate.
Will the next version of Firefox (whatever version it may be) be slower? Because quite frankly, FF has become a giant turd in that respect, so much so that, although I love it, I'm considering alternatives on my lower-end machines...
"The gridlock we face now is going to get worse," Seeley stated, citing research into congestion on the world's roads. "This is a form of insanity... We need to travel in 3D."
Hmm let's see: some form of transportation to link neighborhoods, that works in 3D, to relieve gridlocks? Remove the insane flying-vehicle thing, make it cheap and practical, and you've got yourself a metro.
Instead of dreaming up shit like this, policymakers should bring back light-rail, which can work under or over streets, carries a great deal of people quickly, silently and without local air pollution, and doesn't cost a lot.
Why upload data into the cloud if you don't need to share it or have access to it on the move?
1) so you can look hip and tell your friends you work "in the cloud" 2) because you generously want to share all your data with Google, so they can turn around and sell it for beaucoup bucks to marketers and get rich on your back
Whatever the heck ChromeOS is (never heard of it), I can tell you one thing for sure: this guy Paul Buchheit might be right, but he sounds more like he has an axe to grind with the ChromeOS team than anything else.
So this guy has a process that takes plastic and turns it into oil to power cars. Great...
Well guess what: the new trend is electric, or hybrid-electric cars. Their main fuel is electricity, and there's already a very efficient way to turn waste plastic into electricity, by burning it to fuel a power plant (with the proper filters at the smokestacks to avoid polluting and all). Even accounting for the loses in transportation, battery storage and reuse in electric motors, I bet the plastic-powered electric car is way more efficient than the plastic-gasoline powered ICE car.
So yes, the market for plastic diesel is huge today, but it'll only go down over the years, as oil prices rise and people buy more electric vehicles. In short, I'm not investing.
Bookstores shouldn't censor content based on some stupid conservative "morals", only follow what is absolutely required by law.
Why should they do that? Bookstores, virtual or not, are private enterprises and carry whatever book they want, leaving out what they think isn't appropriate. That's why Christian bookstores usually don't offer Justine. In fact, any company has the right to sell you only a subset of anything they like: if I own a hardware store and my religion dictates that Phillips screws are evil, you'll only find flat-head screwdrivers in my shop, and that's perfectly legal
The difference with Amazon is, if I sell you a Phillips screwdriver by mistake, I have no right to quietly break into your house at night and take it back from you, even if I leave the amount you paid for it on your table. Amazon, on the other hand, is allowed to do that (if they leave any money on the table at all). I hope they get hit with a class-action lawsuit for that one someday.
why I use open file formats (clear-text ascii, epub, pdf files) for my ebooks, non-networked ebook readers even if they are more expensive than their Amazon- or B&N-sponsored brethren, and ebook management software that I'm fairly sure doesn't call home to "manage" my digital rights.
But, you might say, what if you want books that aren't in the public domain? You're right, it's almost impossible to legally find DRM-free recent ebooks from mainstream authors. As a result, I either scan/OCR someone's dead-tree version for myself, or download the DRM-free version, then I send the money directly to the author (usually the price listed at Amazon). That way:
(1) I have files that I'm sure I'll always be able to read, and aren't tied to some vendor's idea of what I can or can't do with them, and what device I need to use to read them, (2) my favorite authors get the full amount of my payment and the greedy publishers none, and (3) the author's heirs get none of my money because I don't pay when the author is dead, which is how I think things should go in the copyright world.
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Well quite, for one thing they claim their OS is alive, which Netcraft confirms, isn't true...
You'd eat a lot less McDonalds if you KNEW where their meat came from, especially if it came from bugs.
You'd eat a lot less McD if you knew where their meat comes from and how it is processed, handled and cooked. No need for bugs in that particular equation...
With the meat being so far outside what's usually considered food ...so far outside of what YOU consider food. There are plenty of people around the world who enjoy insects.
Tastes are entirely cultural: the French enjoy snails, Swedes enjoy rotten fish meat... You may or may not like insects, but they're perfectly valid sources of food.
Company X makes deal with company Y, determined to bring easily accessible Z to market. News at 11...
Behavioral Learning for Adaptive Electronic Warfare (BLADE). Acronym fail?
No, it's a case of bending the name or the way the acronym is made up, to make an acronym sound clever. So it's "Behavioral Learning for ADaptative Electronic warfare".
Uncyclopedia calls it a case of TTHTMAFPCW. The US government has been trying really to TTHTMAFPCW lately ("USA PATRIOT Act" for instance)...
Yeah, walk up to your boss and tell him you know more than he does. Great career move...
Have you heard of diplomacy? You may know more than he does, but he doesn't want to hear it. Instead, you should convince him that what *you* want to do is *his* idea.
WHY do you have to prove software testing saves money? Even a cheap and nasty electrical appliance from China is tested despite there being a lot of motivation to cut corners and not do so. Why should software be any different?
Rest assured that Chinese companies test their products precisely *because* it saves money. If it didn't, they wouldn't; they don't have a commitment to good quality for its own sake.
An untested product leads to high rates of return (lost money), customer dissatisfaction and brand name damage (HUGE loss of money in the medium to long term). Nobody puts up with bad products anymore. Software is one of the last kind of products where it's still somewhat accepted but people are quickly becoming intolerant to bugs nowadays.
Still, what is true of physical products (that extensive testing on top of proper design and good manufacturing practices) may not be true of software. I.e. the question is: is laborious and careful design and implementation with minimal testing more or less expensive than quicker, laxer design and coding and a strong test/correction feedback process? I'm not sure the answer is clear-cut. As a (former) programmer, I can see argument for both approaches.
The same way EPROMs were: a standard opaque package with a quartz window.
these re-badgers would absolutely flip out at the idea of incurring substantial risk of copyright infringement risk.
You need money to sue someone. FOSS idealists have none, and big companies with vested interest in FOSS software that could afford the legal costs know better than to hurt their own kind. That's why everybody and their dogs trample on the GPL with zero fear of legal actions.
tell him to throw himself off a bridge or something. I know he means well, but lawyers are a major part of the problem this litigious society has. Whichever side they're on, in the end they're usually not helping anybody but their own greedy profiteering selves.
I assume you're american. I'll try to put this as clearly as possible. It's not just the government that can engage in censorship.
I assume you're not an american, otherwise you'd know this: the US government and corporations are in cahoots.
Are we to also assume that all self-help books that help rape victims * will be pulled because it has the word "rape" in the title?
Maybe the title scoring script assigns -1 for "rape" and +1 for "help" and for "victim", making the title's score positive, and thus okay.
I wonder if the title "help rape- rape- rape- rape victims stop stammering" would be pulled out...
I've been attempting to boycott Amazon for stuff like this but I simply can't help myself over how convenient it's become not to have to spend several hours a week shopping.
Randy, is that you?
I would seriously like to have input into their decisions
I'm sure they'd be falling over themselves to provide you with a properly argumented explanation of their corporate decisions as fast as they possibly could if you asked them.
As much as I hate Amazon for a variety of reasons (the price of their ebooks and the DRM they come encumbered with, their pulling books you've bought out of your Kindle without asking permission, or the bland stupid political correctness they're apparently trying to enforce), there's something important to remember here: they are a private enterprise, and they have the right to chose what they sell. They are not a private library with a duty to provide for the widest possible audience.
Also, they are not engaging in censorship, inasmuch as they don't have a complete monopoly over the book distribution industry. You (still) can vote with your wallet and buy from somebody else, although at the rate they're growing, how long you'll be able to do that is a matter of serious debate.
I bet it's lawyers who love to hate piracy more than anybody else.
Lawyers love anybody who has a crusade and deep pockets. They're the only winners in any legal dispute.
Will the next version of Firefox (whatever version it may be) be slower? Because quite frankly, FF has become a giant turd in that respect, so much so that, although I love it, I'm considering alternatives on my lower-end machines...
Time to call Superman...
"The gridlock we face now is going to get worse," Seeley stated, citing research into congestion on the world's roads. "This is a form of insanity... We need to travel in 3D."
Hmm let's see: some form of transportation to link neighborhoods, that works in 3D, to relieve gridlocks? Remove the insane flying-vehicle thing, make it cheap and practical, and you've got yourself a metro.
Instead of dreaming up shit like this, policymakers should bring back light-rail, which can work under or over streets, carries a great deal of people quickly, silently and without local air pollution, and doesn't cost a lot.
who the group might /b/...
Why upload data into the cloud if you don't need to share it or have access to it on the move?
1) so you can look hip and tell your friends you work "in the cloud"
2) because you generously want to share all your data with Google, so they can turn around and sell it for beaucoup bucks to marketers and get rich on your back
No ssh in and make my project using gcc? What is up? Or am I clueless...
Yeah no kidding, I can't even use Visual C++ on this OS. What a turd...
Whatever the heck ChromeOS is (never heard of it), I can tell you one thing for sure: this guy Paul Buchheit might be right, but he sounds more like he has an axe to grind with the ChromeOS team than anything else.
So this guy has a process that takes plastic and turns it into oil to power cars. Great...
Well guess what: the new trend is electric, or hybrid-electric cars. Their main fuel is electricity, and there's already a very efficient way to turn waste plastic into electricity, by burning it to fuel a power plant (with the proper filters at the smokestacks to avoid polluting and all). Even accounting for the loses in transportation, battery storage and reuse in electric motors, I bet the plastic-powered electric car is way more efficient than the plastic-gasoline powered ICE car.
So yes, the market for plastic diesel is huge today, but it'll only go down over the years, as oil prices rise and people buy more electric vehicles. In short, I'm not investing.
Bookstores shouldn't censor content based on some stupid conservative "morals", only follow what is absolutely required by law.
Why should they do that? Bookstores, virtual or not, are private enterprises and carry whatever book they want, leaving out what they think isn't appropriate. That's why Christian bookstores usually don't offer Justine. In fact, any company has the right to sell you only a subset of anything they like: if I own a hardware store and my religion dictates that Phillips screws are evil, you'll only find flat-head screwdrivers in my shop, and that's perfectly legal
The difference with Amazon is, if I sell you a Phillips screwdriver by mistake, I have no right to quietly break into your house at night and take it back from you, even if I leave the amount you paid for it on your table. Amazon, on the other hand, is allowed to do that (if they leave any money on the table at all). I hope they get hit with a class-action lawsuit for that one someday.
why I use open file formats (clear-text ascii, epub, pdf files) for my ebooks, non-networked ebook readers even if they are more expensive than their Amazon- or B&N-sponsored brethren, and ebook management software that I'm fairly sure doesn't call home to "manage" my digital rights.
But, you might say, what if you want books that aren't in the public domain? You're right, it's almost impossible to legally find DRM-free recent ebooks from mainstream authors. As a result, I either scan/OCR someone's dead-tree version for myself, or download the DRM-free version, then I send the money directly to the author (usually the price listed at Amazon). That way:
(1) I have files that I'm sure I'll always be able to read, and aren't tied to some vendor's idea of what I can or can't do with them, and what device I need to use to read them,
(2) my favorite authors get the full amount of my payment and the greedy publishers none, and
(3) the author's heirs get none of my money because I don't pay when the author is dead, which is how I think things should go in the copyright world.