Good thing they didn't make Christopher Columbus sit through science classes explaining how flat the earth was before they let him sail on his voyage of discovery. If they made him sit through 'science' classes explaining what all the smart people of the day thought they knew, it's possible that we'd all still be in Europe.
Actually no one thought the earth was flat for thousands of years before columbus, the ancient Greeks figured it out (along with the approximate circumference of the earth)t back in the BC's. The flat earth non-since was a 19th century revisionism.
My unscientific survey has concluded that people would rather complain about burnt toast instead of adjusting the setting. In other words, you will hear crying about no unicode, instead of the editors correcting the type. Your political elections operate under the same rules. It's all complaints and denials.
Attn: Slashdot We don't need no stinking unicode! Don't let the crybabies ruin this place.
I have to post AC due to the karma damage my opinion suffers for speaking out.
how about letting us us the degree symbol or the cents sign or umlaut or ae ligature. we can still ban emojis and I would be quite content.
It is fun to sit in your mom's basement and explain why you are so much smarter than those stoopid billionaire VCs,
The VCs are smart, but in an indirect way. To me, dropbox has no value. It exists only because transferring files between windows computers seems "difficult". But file transfer is not hard for those who know how - so Dropbox seems like a solution to a non-existing problem to us. Also, Microsoft could bundle ssh/scp in their next release - or make their own similar third-party service. Dropbox would be gone in a year.
But a VC doesn't care that dropbox isn't "a necessary service". They see that they fill a niche right now: file transfers for the stupids. They can monetize that, even though those in the know has better methods. (Better in that files are transferred directly from machine to machine, no waste of time going via a central third party - also no risk of that third party getting hacked thus breaking confidentiality.)
they have its called OneDrive, formerly skydive, and it has yet to displace dropbox.
Not everyone wants to compute like they were a member of the "bearded computer priesthood" at the MIT AI lab in 1972.
Stallmans axes...well his philosophies actually take choices AWAY from the users in favor of supposed freedoms they can really only take advantage of IF they are also members of "the bearded priesthood"
And I say that as someone who DOES use Linux.
GNU/Linux
:^)
I what if I run a plan9 userland you insensitive clod.
If those that dislike Hillary and Trump voted for a single 3rd party candidate, they'd probably win. I'm a Bernie supporter that has decided to vote 3rd party. I've heard "you're wasting your vote" every time I've mentioned it. I don't care at this point. It's the only way we'll ever buck the current two party system.
I am probably voting Libertarian this next election because I would like to have a clean conscience and can't in good conscience vote for either psychopath the big two put forward.
So their great new innovation in the pipeline is.. a new iPhone.
Stick a fork in them.
Yeah, how can they survive against the next Galaxy S8 - that screams innovation.
Frankly at this point in time an iphone doesn't even have the number of features I have on my old samsung galaxy s3.
Well, still no SD card slot - and since that is nothing but a half-assed pain in the butt, you can keep it. You won in features that sound great until you actually use them.
I have an SD card on my devices (tablet and phone) and their great. Storage is to limited otherwise.
When I thought of this at first, I thought that the idea with a mountain is to chill the air, and there may be easier ways. Then, I thought desalination is going to be cheaper to make water than refrigerating the air, are they afraid they'll run out of sea water? But, sea levels rise with global warming, and my first impression of UAE was that it's pretty flat, so I thought, maybe they also want some artificial high ground to which they can retreat. Before commenting on that, though, I asked Google, what is the highest point in UAE? It turns out that Jabal Al Jais (over on the Eastern point, by Oman) is 1910 meters tall, and the satellite view shows that it doesn't have a wet side. Hawaii is closer to the equator, and mountains that are less tall have a wet side. This leads me to strongly think that the air may not be the best available resource for getting potable water. I'd try desalination of the stuff in which the artificial islands are built.
build the mountain out of salt blocks from the water desalination process.
If you vote Clinton it's a certainty that she'll end up doing the exact same things as Bush and Obama. Trump is a wild card I agree, but at least he can do something different.
Benghazi! As far has here private email server she'll get indicted when Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice get indicted for doing similar things with their email.
except the law was changed in between and it was illegal during her tenure in office but not theirs.
is being hyped up to try to make people think this is a good thing (because it protects those poor hapless ciswomens from the scary dangerous perverted transwomen they would have to share bathrooms with).
Sadly on the last thread about this there were a bunch of people who were terrified of dangerous perverted transwomen. It is unfortunately impossible to reason with someone whose brain is taken over with fear.
Most fears I have heard have not been about actual transsexuals but about ass-hole pervs claiming to be so they can go into the other to harrass women.
THIS is why we should all be scared. Somewhere along the line, Americans stopped fearing the devastation that the LEFT is historically responsible for.
Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and the list goes on. Given enough leeway, the radical LEFT kills millions.
You're afraid of Trump? Don't be. Be afraid of the LEFT.
Who is silencing free speech on campus? Who is rioting and demanding rallies be canceled? Who is getting professors fired from their jobs? Who's calling for "muscle" to get pesky journalists removed?
I don't care if you're a Democrat. Democrats are fine. But the rise of the radical LEFT is 100% not fine. Be afraid. This shit is not something we want to mess with, and it's rising fast. And the Democrats aren't doing nearly enough to silence the rabble in their ranks.
Historically speaking, this ends with lots of bloodshed. And historically speaking the LEFT will be to blame.
And the radical right had Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco. Beware of extremists of either wing they won't tolerate opposing views and will attack their groups rivals. The problem is the two party system coupled with a primary system pushes a polarizing on the politics. The primaries cause each party to push the most extreme candidate to get nominated for the election instead of a person that the majority of the country will actually like.
and if it does hit someone I guess it explodes inside them instead
<sarcasm> No that that would a violation of the rules of war this is a safety feature. really honest. The military would never try to get around those.</sarcasm>
You're completely ignoring the cost of cash. For a small store, it typically takes at least half an hour per to balance the register at the end of the day if most people have used cash. That's three hours of employee time per register that you have to pay (or do yourself, if you don't want minimum-ways employees to be in a position where they can easily defraud you). You don't have to pay to deposit the cash, but you do have to pay for someone's time to transport the cash to the bank, stand in the queue, and get the receipt, and for the fuel that they consume doing so. If they're carrying large amounts of cash, you also have to pay for the security and you have to pay elevated insurance premiums for having a lot of cash on the premises.
Cash is better for small shops, but only for very small shops. Most moderately successful small shops would find it cheaper if everyone used credit cards.
No it doesn't take a half hour. as some one that is currently working one part time as suplimental income it takes 5 to 7 minutes to balance a till less time yet for the back office as they use a machine to count bills and change.
tl;dr, this media in TFA may be high density... but it really needs a standard filesystem, so that years to centuries from now, the data can be recovered. The only format I know which this can be done is old fashioned tar... but even with that, there are blocksize issues, and there are also compression items as well (gzip, bzip2, xz, etc.) Something like a PDF/A standard... but for filesystems and data.
Slashdot Mirror
Good thing they didn't make Christopher Columbus sit through science classes explaining how flat the earth was before they let him sail on his voyage of discovery. If they made him sit through 'science' classes explaining what all the smart people of the day thought they knew, it's possible that we'd all still be in Europe.
Actually no one thought the earth was flat for thousands of years before columbus, the ancient Greeks figured it out (along with the approximate circumference of the earth)t back in the BC's. The flat earth non-since was a 19th century revisionism.
My unscientific survey has concluded that people would rather complain about burnt toast instead of adjusting the setting. In other words, you will hear crying about no unicode, instead of the editors correcting the type. Your political elections operate under the same rules. It's all complaints and denials.
Attn: Slashdot
We don't need no stinking unicode! Don't let the crybabies ruin this place.
I have to post AC due to the karma damage my opinion suffers for speaking out.
how about letting us us the degree symbol or the cents sign or umlaut or ae ligature. we can still ban emojis and I would be quite content.
Au contraire, they are connoisseurs of the art of eroticism
tomayto, tomahto
It is fun to sit in your mom's basement and explain why you are so much smarter than those stoopid billionaire VCs,
The VCs are smart, but in an indirect way. To me, dropbox has no value. It exists only because transferring files between windows computers seems "difficult". But file transfer is not hard for those who know how - so Dropbox seems like a solution to a non-existing problem to us. Also, Microsoft could bundle ssh/scp in their next release - or make their own similar third-party service. Dropbox would be gone in a year.
But a VC doesn't care that dropbox isn't "a necessary service". They see that they fill a niche right now: file transfers for the stupids. They can monetize that, even though those in the know has better methods. (Better in that files are transferred directly from machine to machine, no waste of time going via a central third party - also no risk of that third party getting hacked thus breaking confidentiality.)
they have its called OneDrive, formerly skydive, and it has yet to displace dropbox.
Uninstall or disable LibreJs then.
Not everyone wants to compute like they were a member of the "bearded computer priesthood" at the MIT AI lab in 1972.
Stallmans axes...well his philosophies actually take choices AWAY from the users in favor of supposed freedoms they can really only take advantage of IF they are also members of "the bearded priesthood"
And I say that as someone who DOES use Linux.
GNU/Linux
I what if I run a plan9 userland you insensitive clod.
Yeah yeah go back to Wesnoth.
more like borderlands (2 because presequal is a shittier game on any system) civilization, bioshock, witcher, minecraft
If those that dislike Hillary and Trump voted for a single 3rd party candidate, they'd probably win. I'm a Bernie supporter that has decided to vote 3rd party. I've heard "you're wasting your vote" every time I've mentioned it. I don't care at this point. It's the only way we'll ever buck the current two party system.
I am probably voting Libertarian this next election because I would like to have a clean conscience and can't in good conscience vote for either psychopath the big two put forward.
Are you talking about Linux or Darwin
So their great new innovation in the pipeline is.. a new iPhone.
Stick a fork in them.
Yeah, how can they survive against the next Galaxy S8 - that screams innovation.
Frankly at this point in time an iphone doesn't even have the number of features I have on my old samsung galaxy s3.
Well, still no SD card slot - and since that is nothing but a half-assed pain in the butt, you can keep it. You won in features that sound great until you actually use them.
I have an SD card on my devices (tablet and phone) and their great. Storage is to limited otherwise.
When I thought of this at first, I thought that the idea with a mountain is to chill the air, and there may be easier ways. Then, I thought desalination is going to be cheaper to make water than refrigerating the air, are they afraid they'll run out of sea water? But, sea levels rise with global warming, and my first impression of UAE was that it's pretty flat, so I thought, maybe they also want some artificial high ground to which they can retreat. Before commenting on that, though, I asked Google, what is the highest point in UAE? It turns out that Jabal Al Jais (over on the Eastern point, by Oman) is 1910 meters tall, and the satellite view shows that it doesn't have a wet side. Hawaii is closer to the equator, and mountains that are less tall have a wet side. This leads me to strongly think that the air may not be the best available resource for getting potable water. I'd try desalination of the stuff in which the artificial islands are built.
build the mountain out of salt blocks from the water desalination process.
If you vote Clinton it's a certainty that she'll end up doing the exact same things as Bush and Obama. Trump is a wild card I agree, but at least he can do something different.
different != better
vote for Voldemort for all I care.
he said he didn't want to vote for trump
Benghazi! As far has here private email server she'll get indicted when Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice get indicted for doing similar things with their email.
except the law was changed in between and it was illegal during her tenure in office but not theirs.
and that FTL neutrino wasn't actually a calculation error on CERN's part it was typo in that was fixed shortly after.
posting to undo accidental moderation (sorry)
And this is why we have the patent system
is being hyped up to try to make people think this is a good thing (because it protects those poor hapless ciswomens from the scary dangerous perverted transwomen they would have to share bathrooms with).
Sadly on the last thread about this there were a bunch of people who were terrified of dangerous perverted transwomen. It is unfortunately impossible to reason with someone whose brain is taken over with fear.
Most fears I have heard have not been about actual transsexuals but about ass-hole pervs claiming to be so they can go into the other to harrass women.
And Hulu will charge you to watch shows with ads no thank you.
until you tunnel your netflix through ssh to get around firewall rules.
THIS is why we should all be scared. Somewhere along the line, Americans stopped fearing the devastation that the LEFT is historically responsible for.
Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and the list goes on. Given enough leeway, the radical LEFT kills millions.
You're afraid of Trump? Don't be. Be afraid of the LEFT.
Who is silencing free speech on campus? Who is rioting and demanding rallies be canceled? Who is getting professors fired from their jobs? Who's calling for "muscle" to get pesky journalists removed?
I don't care if you're a Democrat. Democrats are fine. But the rise of the radical LEFT is 100% not fine. Be afraid. This shit is not something we want to mess with, and it's rising fast. And the Democrats aren't doing nearly enough to silence the rabble in their ranks.
Historically speaking, this ends with lots of bloodshed. And historically speaking the LEFT will be to blame.
And the radical right had Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco. Beware of extremists of either wing they won't tolerate opposing views and will attack their groups rivals.
The problem is the two party system coupled with a primary system pushes a polarizing on the politics. The primaries cause each party to push the most extreme candidate to get nominated for the election instead of a person that the majority of the country will actually like.
and if it does hit someone I guess it explodes inside them instead
<sarcasm> No that that would a violation of the rules of war this is a safety feature. really honest. The military would never try to get around those.</sarcasm>
You're completely ignoring the cost of cash. For a small store, it typically takes at least half an hour per to balance the register at the end of the day if most people have used cash. That's three hours of employee time per register that you have to pay (or do yourself, if you don't want minimum-ways employees to be in a position where they can easily defraud you). You don't have to pay to deposit the cash, but you do have to pay for someone's time to transport the cash to the bank, stand in the queue, and get the receipt, and for the fuel that they consume doing so. If they're carrying large amounts of cash, you also have to pay for the security and you have to pay elevated insurance premiums for having a lot of cash on the premises.
Cash is better for small shops, but only for very small shops. Most moderately successful small shops would find it cheaper if everyone used credit cards.
No it doesn't take a half hour. as some one that is currently working one part time as suplimental income it takes 5 to 7 minutes to balance a till less time yet for the back office as they use a machine to count bills and change.
Try reading some data files created 20 or 30 years ago.
Okay here is the source code for the Multic operating system published in 1970's over 40 years ago.
http://web.mit.edu/multics-his...
tl;dr, this media in TFA may be high density... but it really needs a standard filesystem, so that years to centuries from now, the data can be recovered. The only format I know which this can be done is old fashioned tar... but even with that, there are blocksize issues, and there are also compression items as well (gzip, bzip2, xz, etc.) Something like a PDF/A standard... but for filesystems and data.
If only we had a Universal Disk Format
Then does nothing exist because there are no pockets, or does everything exist because there are no pockets?
yes