Mmm. trust your driving instructor ("crashing cars slow down very quickly, if you brake you will still be in their middle") or a slashdotter. Difficult call.
Here's a deal: you brake, I speed up. That way we'll be out of eachothers way for sure.
You're driving in the middle lane, maximum alowed speed. A lunatic driver comes up over the speed limit from behind, tries to overtake but looses control, hits the guard rail and bounces back onto the road towards you. You put the board to the floor and get out of the situation.
Or, less drastically: A car decides to overtake the car in front of it, but doesn't look and doesn't see you in the lane next to it. You end up with 3 cars on 2 lanes. You speed up and the situation normalises.
Braking in both cases is certainly not a garantee to get you out of danger. Speeding up is. The first situation is possible but fictional, the second is from personal recollection.
On the one hand you have the spelling nazi. On the other hand the true-blooded slashdotter with their own logic in spelling. Lately, it seems there is a reaction to the spelling nazi, in which the slashdotter "corrects" some rather OK english into slashdot style spelling.
This particular GGGGP post got a lot of replies stating "you actually mean...". This provokes those with their own particular sense of humor.
There, a joke explained. Please don't complain it is not even remotely funny. A joke explained tends not to be.
>There are 11 types of people in the world, those who know binaries and those who don't. And you're the other kind? The one who knows source code instead?
Indeed. You shouldn't even record music. The microphone limits te posbilityto turn your head and modify the sound that way. You just go to the performance. Also, other sounds should be eliminated. Also at performances. Get rid of the other people, breathing, shuffeling their feet etc.
The problem remains the same: Convenience. The better you want your quality, the more you'll have to sacrifice te achieve it.
I don't care for lossless when I play an MP3 in the train, for startes because the train makes more noise than could ever be on my MP3.
Very true. I was only chalenging the statement that Skype was free just because there is no direct monetary cost. I do want to know if I have to pay and take some harsh action if someone tries to make me pay something I don't owe them (ask KPN Telecom, slimy bastards, they finally agreed to refund me my calls to their co-called customer service, which I had to make because they can't keep track of the contracts they enter into with their customers).
Sounds perfectly reasonable, as long as you can standardise what is trivial for the whole population.
Of course you are right. There is a dutch saying "For nothing, the sun will rise", implying that nothing else will happen without any cost. I believe it is the decision of everybody for themselfs to see wether the material and immaterial cost of any product, free or not, are worth the use/purchase of the item. Of course, to be able to choose, you have to be informed. That is what this FA is about: not being able to judge wether somting is "afree" or wether the cost is actually more than tiny trivial.
so it is free but still requires something from me. To me, that is the difference between free and not free. Hence, skype seems not to be free, but to be paid for with information.
It all depends of the definition of "produced", I think. If that is the total caloric output of the waste, it is 1,9. If it is the energy left after production, the total is 2,9.
sunlight is abundant. The traditional materials for solar cells aren't, and neither is the lifetime of the cells. so, solar energy has some severe restrictions. Question is therefore also: how hard is it to find the materials to build this thing, how bulky is it (not so bulky it is a deterrent for an army apparently) and what other factors that would inhibit wide spread adoption are there?
Slashdot Mirror
Mmm. trust your driving instructor ("crashing cars slow down very quickly, if you brake you will still be in their middle") or a slashdotter. Difficult call.
Here's a deal: you brake, I speed up. That way we'll be out of eachothers way for sure.
I know cars don't do anything but their drivers do, but anyhow...
You're driving in the middle lane, maximum alowed speed. A lunatic driver comes up over the speed limit from behind, tries to overtake but looses control, hits the guard rail and bounces back onto the road towards you. You put the board to the floor and get out of the situation.
Or, less drastically:
A car decides to overtake the car in front of it, but doesn't look and doesn't see you in the lane next to it. You end up with 3 cars on 2 lanes. You speed up and the situation normalises.
Braking in both cases is certainly not a garantee to get you out of danger. Speeding up is. The first situation is possible but fictional, the second is from personal recollection.
Examples that aren't don't involve bad driving in the first place?
Not always bad driving by the person using the power te escape though. There are other people on the road as well
ah, yes,
On the one hand you have the spelling nazi. On the other hand the true-blooded slashdotter with their own logic in spelling. Lately, it seems there is a reaction to the spelling nazi, in which the slashdotter "corrects" some rather OK english into slashdot style spelling.
This particular GGGGP post got a lot of replies stating "you actually mean...". This provokes those with their own particular sense of humor.
There, a joke explained. Please don't complain it is not even remotely funny. A joke explained tends not to be.
I suppose interest would be paid to you while using a debit card, so your rates may be lowered on collecting tiockets.
and even worse, people who forget to turn on their/there/the're/hun SlashSense-o-humor before posting to /.
I do believe, Sir, it was meant in a frolicky fashion, Slashdot Style... I can understand the misconception, Sir.
I think you mean "Audio like..."
What a nice game, this "guess what he means". I wonder how many more replies there (their/they're/there're) will be.
I don't expect it to wipe very comfortably. You don't want e-papercuts down there.
so,,,
How do you remember which sentence you used for a certain site?
but can a site get slashdotted if nobody visits it?
I didn't think so.
Wouldn't that be II?
>There are 11 types of people in the world, those who know binaries and those who don't.
And you're the other kind? The one who knows source code instead?
Oh, 10 types of people... Binary...
Indeed. You shouldn't even record music. The microphone limits te posbilityto turn your head and modify the sound that way. You just go to the performance. Also, other sounds should be eliminated. Also at performances. Get rid of the other people, breathing, shuffeling their feet etc.
The problem remains the same: Convenience. The better you want your quality, the more you'll have to sacrifice te achieve it.
I don't care for lossless when I play an MP3 in the train, for startes because the train makes more noise than could ever be on my MP3.
Indeed. It is generally wiser to shoot the third (or even second) person, but not yourself.
First person shooters are just morons. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot...
sleep with their sister
Can we? What does she look like (then again, this is slashdot, who cares)
Curriculum Vitae, in proper latin
Who? and will he be paying me too?
Very true. I was only chalenging the statement that Skype was free just because there is no direct monetary cost. I do want to know if I have to pay and take some harsh action if someone tries to make me pay something I don't owe them (ask KPN Telecom, slimy bastards, they finally agreed to refund me my calls to their co-called customer service, which I had to make because they can't keep track of the contracts they enter into with their customers).
OMG! They misspelled SkypeNet in al those Terminator movies!
Sounds perfectly reasonable, as long as you can standardise what is trivial for the whole population.
Of course you are right. There is a dutch saying "For nothing, the sun will rise", implying that nothing else will happen without any cost. I believe it is the decision of everybody for themselfs to see wether the material and immaterial cost of any product, free or not, are worth the use/purchase of the item. Of course, to be able to choose, you have to be informed. That is what this FA is about: not being able to judge wether somting is "afree" or wether the cost is actually more than tiny trivial.
so it is free but still requires something from me. To me, that is the difference between free and not free. Hence, skype seems not to be free, but to be paid for with information.
It all depends of the definition of "produced", I think. If that is the total caloric output of the waste, it is 1,9. If it is the energy left after production, the total is 2,9.
sunlight is abundant. The traditional materials for solar cells aren't, and neither is the lifetime of the cells. so, solar energy has some severe restrictions. Question is therefore also: how hard is it to find the materials to build this thing, how bulky is it (not so bulky it is a deterrent for an army apparently) and what other factors that would inhibit wide spread adoption are there?
No, it shouldn't. total is 90% more than used. total = u+0.9u = 1.9u QED