With the higher energy consumptions of older drives it's just more economical to recycle.
Older flash drives will be unreliable soon.
So I suggest the obvious: just recycle or find someone locally, who wants the stuff (poor student etc...) But do not send to Africa because I feel it's just shifting the problem and the cost of shipping is not worth it for whoever does it.
Book publishers could do some things to get the dead-tree edition people to buy. Off the top of my head here are some suggestions:
1. Customized paper/covers. A person orders a book and specifies what paper they want or cover they want. They could keep the common formats around, and the truly exotic could be print-on-demand (high quality)
2. Paper/electronic combo. Focal Press (a photography publisher) already does this already. Photos look shit on displays which is why their paper books work.
3. upgradeable book. Mail in your old book for a new edition (perhaps for a slight premium). Useful for technical books.
I'm posting on it right now on a mac. It has some really innovative ideas and has made my day.
However the titlebar now looks cluttered. Also, when you click on the title bar to focus, you might not get the window you were (half-) looking at. This is a bug they should fix.
It was doomed from the start and here is why. Most MS products do not stand on their own. They are either riding on someone's coattails initially or shoved down people's throats (e.g. DOS and office and explorer). This is usually through corporate sales which a bribeable. Zune had to stand on it's own but had no legs.
In the sense that there is little originality, and it seems anything added to linux has to have occurred in another operating system.
Linux/Unix has plenty shortcomings, but its evangelists believe it's so perfect it cannot be improved. Here is my short list of major peeves. 1. Filesystem metadata/permissions. Why do files still have to have rudimentary metadata? Drives are massive and a few bytes would not harm. MacOS has added metadata. An example would be that a file should be able to keep a list of all the dates it was accessed. Why can a file only have one owner/group?
2. Root is God. This must really be fixed. There should be a way for root to irrevocably divest its powers, and root does not need to access users file. A user should explicitly grant root permission to read his files. It will always be a major security issue because all one has to do is become root. Plan9 managed to do that.
3. They lie about everything is a file. Why not extend this to networking resources ('cd http://www.gnu.org/ would be cool ). Plan9 also succeeded there.
I am sure linux evangelists are going to propose (hack-filled) workarounds or reasons it can't work, but I don't buy it. That is why I left linux.
Slashdot Mirror
This is by far the best april fools story posted today. I almost fell for it!
Why do we have to put up with such crappy April Fools stories?
OMGPONIES was way better than this.
For an instant there I thought you said Jewish laptop.
With the higher energy consumptions of older drives it's just more economical to recycle.
Older flash drives will be unreliable soon.
So I suggest the obvious: just recycle or find someone locally, who wants the stuff (poor student etc...) But do not send to Africa because I feel it's just shifting the problem and the cost of shipping is not worth it for whoever does it.
Book publishers could do some things to get the dead-tree edition people to buy. Off the top of my head here are some suggestions:
1. Customized paper/covers. A person orders a book and specifies what paper they want or cover they want. They could keep the common formats around, and the truly exotic could be print-on-demand (high quality)
2. Paper/electronic combo. Focal Press (a photography publisher) already does this already. Photos look shit on displays which is why their paper books work.
3. upgradeable book. Mail in your old book for a new edition (perhaps for a slight premium). Useful for technical books.
I'm posting on it right now on a mac. It has some really innovative ideas and has made my day.
However the titlebar now looks cluttered. Also, when you click on the title bar to focus, you might not get the window you were (half-) looking at. This is a bug they should fix.
small brain eh?
thank you! thank you!
Do people equate people who come here legally with illegals?
It was doomed from the start and here is why. Most MS products do not stand on their own. They are either riding on someone's coattails initially or shoved down people's throats (e.g. DOS and office and explorer). This is usually through corporate sales which a bribeable. Zune had to stand on it's own but had no legs.
they only show the best bits of the game/movie.
What's wrong with you people?
Definitely Ice Cube http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Cube won't like it.
Perhaps time to call in the RIAA and fix this.
Al Gore of course. After all it's his baby.
In the sense that there is little originality, and it seems anything added to linux has to have occurred in another operating system.
Linux/Unix has plenty shortcomings, but its evangelists believe it's so perfect it cannot be improved. Here is my short list of major peeves.
1. Filesystem metadata/permissions. Why do files still have to have rudimentary metadata? Drives are massive and a few bytes would not harm. MacOS has added metadata. An example would be that a file should be able to keep a list of all the dates it was accessed. Why can a file only have one owner/group?
2. Root is God. This must really be fixed. There should be a way for root to irrevocably divest its powers, and root does not need to access users file. A user should explicitly grant root permission to read his files. It will always be a major security issue because all one has to do is become root. Plan9 managed to do that.
3. They lie about everything is a file. Why not extend this to networking resources ('cd http://www.gnu.org/ would be cool ). Plan9 also succeeded there.
I am sure linux evangelists are going to propose (hack-filled) workarounds or reasons it can't work, but I don't buy it. That is why I left linux.
So this means he WILL have to let go of his Blackberry after all. How secure is data passing to a Blackberry, (the server, towers etc..)?
Why do they pick and choose industries to focus on. No-one raises a stink about shortage of female garbage collectors.
And I haven't heard a big push to increase males in areas dominated my women, e.g. elementary education.
So they finally managed to get someone with the wonderful airport security system!
I have a great idea: use Hubble to get a picture of the key to the universe and ask walmart to make it very cheaply.
Why is this marked insightful!! Do you realize how hard it is to get a job at Google??
Your idea fails because there are still humans involved. How do you plan to get them to agree that the problem is humans?
I think you are trying to solve a social problem with technology. It won't work.
my bad! I was in a rush to FP (first post) :-( .
It's amazing how AAPL stock drops after an announcement.
Buy on rumor. sell on fact.
Mod parent up (pretty) please!! (with sugar and a cherry on top).
I did read tfa. His prediction on the iPod does not seem to take apple's innovation history.
I do agree with his discomfort with the iPhone. Apple had the chance to revolutionize the cell phone market in the US and flubbed it.
"We are going to use the data to sell you Zunes?"