That is why I suggested just to delete the body of the message. I left out the replace with place holder text but I thought that was pretty much an given.
I guess you failed to notice that my "rude" email used the words please and I thought was actually pretty polite. Yep they can do what every they want and I do agree. That is why my rude email wasn't that rude.
How about, please stop putting this on the front page. By definition nothing under idol should make it to the font page. You know "Slashdot, News for Nerds. Stuff that counts." Idiots on the Internet isn't news and none of this counts. BTW why can't you delete all the posts made by somebody? If they didn't post as an AC then a simple query should bring up their posts and then you could delete them or at least the body of the message. Of course it wouldn't take out replies or quoted text. Yes I do know the difference between possible and practical but this does seem possible but I should wouldn't want to have to do it.
You realize that you are making a case for regulation. You are stating things where better when it was regulated. And example with the Airlines is prices feel but so did service. When prices are fixed the only way to get people to choose you is with better service. I am not saying that I am all for regulation just that any blanket statment will probably be wrong. Like "Don't let the government get involved in anything."
Nope I said for "Base load" Without good storage systems large scale solar and wind are useless. Nuclear can replace coal, oil, and natural gas base load plants. You would still want to use natural gas or hydrogen for peak plants. Gas turbines are the best solution for rapid production we have. Use solar and wind to produce the hydrogen and methane or NH4 for those plants. Yes you can burn NH4.
When I first went to the download page it looked terrible. I thought they had written an IE only page! Then I fired up Opera and it looked fine. Did a refresh on Firefox and it was fine! I hate it when Microsoft doesn't give me a reason to crab about them! Wait I just went to grab silverlight! Cool they don't support FF3 those bastards!!!! Anyway it is worth trying out just to see how well it works.
Actually the airlines where deregulated. Currently the FAA tends to be mostly involved in safety. The Airlines used to be much more regulated right up to 1978. Banking I will give you. But I never said that was good at everything. Just that saying that they always mess things up is a really bad statment.
Actually all energy on the planet is solar in nature except nuclear and Geothermal. Oil and coal are just solar energy stored by life. Same with Wood.
But right now the best alternative is the one you probably can not stomach. Nuclear.
The storage of waste would be a none problem if we recycle nuclear fuel like Japan and France. There are a number of Breeder reactor designs that will stretch our fuel supply to hundreds of years. Not to mention thorium cycle reactors. Don't bother mentioning Chernobyl Western nations would have never let that design be built. The failure and results are impossible even with the current reactors that we have in the US and those are all over 20 years old. Imagine what we can do now or better yet research it. By the time we run out of fissionable fuel we should have fusion working if not something past that. The people that protested nuclear power plants have contributed more to greenhouse production than all the SUV drivers. Flat out they have done massive damage to the environment and where wrong.and the nuclear engineers where right.
Things that the Federal government does well. 1 The National Weather Service. 2. The US Coast Guard. 3. The FAA. Yes for all it's faults the FAA does really well. I am not talking just about the Air Traffic control system which works a lot better than most people think but things like nav aids and regulation. 4 The CDC. And I am sure a lot more that I can not think off the top of my head. Should they take over managing the Grid? I don't know but blanket statements like the one you made are just not helpful.
Funny I have been saying this for about nine months. I wondered how much wind and solar the grid could take before it would run into stability problems. There are a lot of potental storage systems but they are all are pretty much in development. You can pump water up hill. If you have the land and water. There is the option of compressed air stored in old mines. Again if you have the right conditions.
My favorite is use it to crack water for Hydrogen and then take that and make methane out of it. methane is easy to store and it is a fully mature tech. Or you could use it with coal to produce oil but that would not be carbon neutral.
As I have always said the problem with wind and solar is that you can throttle them. The only practical replacement for baseload plants is nuclear.
So how would you present an online 3d game without java or flash?
I tend to agree with you that flash and java shouldn't be used to present a lot of content that it is used for. But things like video or even providing an application online are valid uses of Java and Flash.
Flash and Java have been horribly abused but there are some useful sites that use them. You can do things with Java that are currently impossible with other tools like ajax. Java really had the potental to bring some applications to the web. All too often it was used for buttons and other crap. Same for flash.
I think that Flash navigation should be a criminal offense. Flash applications and video can be a good thing.
And Java can also be a good thing. The applet vnc Viewer is way cool.
The logistics are frankly a royal pain for any small company to deal with. If it was just buy state then it would be okay but a pain. But noooo... Sales tax can very buy county and city. Then you have the fuzzy problem of what rate do you use. If you are a store you collect for that location. Which makes life simple. Online do collect for the location of our servers, the location of our offices, the location of the customer, or in this case the location of your "partners"? But this "problem" has been around since catalogs.
For small companies the problem is huge. If they are going to demand that companies collect sales taxes then they need to make it. 1. By state 2. They publish the rate four months before they go into effect. 3. All the states new rates start on the same day of the year. That way mom and pop web stores have a chance to follow the rules without having to farm out to a mega corp online store. But of course that is just my opinion.
"Mainstream? of all the Linux users I've met (of which there are many), I've yet to see someone using Compiz, or any other 3D-accelerated desktop for that matter." Are they running servers? Then I will agree. They should have no desktop software. But Since Ubuntu installs it by default now I would say that you need to get out and meet more people. My wife and I both use it. Works just fine with our Nvidia cards. And yes our next systems will have ATI.
I have read their faq. I love how they get bent over the fact that Debian even has none "free" software in their repository! Well so much for choice. This has next to nothing to do with "freedom" talk about wrapping yourself in the flag.
If you want to use this then fine but I will state it again. Contribute means ADD. If all they did was strip out stuff from the distro then they didn't contribute they made a political statment. But I will state it again. ATI is contributing a lot as is IBM, SUSE, RedHat, and any number of other companies and groups. Even Intel is contributing a lot but not as much as their PR would lead you to believe.
Exposing the Bluetooth API is. The phone supports things like bluetooth headsets. You can still have an IM with this phone. What they did was take out an IM API! The idea was that other applications could use GTalk as a communication channel. If you read the blog you will see they have some pretty good privacy reasons to pull that API I am sorry to say. Nothing would stop you form writing a jabber client for the phone.
You should read the post link first. "The 1.0 version of Android and the first devices will include support for Bluetooth; for instance, Android will support Bluetooth headsets." So headset and I hope A2DP will be supported. I will also bet that some other other functionality like file transfers will be supported.
What will not be supported is direct access to the Bluetooth API to applications. So it will probably be impossible to write things like a bluetooth remote control for it:(. At least in the first release. The thing is with APIs is if you don't get them right the first time you are left with supporting broken code forever OR you break a lot of apps. See Windows for an example.
"Keyword: 3D. Besides compiz and blender, I can't think of any use for 3D that's not gaming-related, so it's a relatively small niche." 1. Cad/CAM Pro-E offers a good CAD/CAM package for Linux. 2. Compwiz which is about as main stream or soon to be as you can get. Hardware 3D UIs are the way of the future. Totally useless if you are going to run server but pretty nice if you are using a Desktop. 3. What you want to run VESA?
"And so are the gNewSense guys. Your point?" How? You could just use Debian. As an end user you could just install Ubuntu and not install blobs. Any user advanced enough to care about a blob free system can do a custom install to get a blob free system. Or Use Debian and do a blob free install. What are they adding? Is there one extra line of code or did they just strip out the Ubuntu branding and take out the packages that offend them? Did they write any new drivers to replace the blob drivers? What did they add? If you don't add you don't contribute. And why not just use Debian?
I think you missed my point. Someone made that comment about violence in the middle east. I was pointing out that terrorist attacks can happen just about anywhere like Tokyo and Oklahoma.
It is less of a symbolic target, Probably a lot lower population density so less total deaths. But with out a doubt also a great target I never said it wouldn't be.
Um get over Pierce he even contradicted himself. He fails the documented criteria. Just look up the Wikipedia entry. It wasn't just wing warping it was combining roll "wing warping" and yaw "rudder" to make a turn. Oh and wing twisting may be making a come back. It does have a some advantages over ailerons. NASA has been testing an F-18 that using wing warping! If Pierce had document his flight then maybe he would have gotten some credit but he didn't.
Rolls Royce really wasn't used by many airliners until they went to jets. But take a look at the how many none US airliners used Wright, P&W or P&W derived engines. The Fokker Trimotor line, JU-52, JU-86 "BMW bought the rights to make P&W engines", And on and on. But yes the Wright engine legacy if you include P&W which I think is fair gives them a HUGE place in the history of aviation.
Be fair. It could happen any place. Toyko, Oklahoma, or the Middle East. One of the sad rules of the Universe is that it is a lot easier to destroy than to create. It only takes a few evil nut jobs willing to die to create a lot of misery.
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That is why I suggested just to delete the body of the message. I left out the replace with place holder text but I thought that was pretty much an given.
I guess you failed to notice that my "rude" email used the words please and I thought was actually pretty polite. Yep they can do what every they want and I do agree. That is why my rude email wasn't that rude.
How about, please stop putting this on the front page. By definition nothing under idol should make it to the font page.
You know "Slashdot, News for Nerds. Stuff that counts."
Idiots on the Internet isn't news and none of this counts.
BTW why can't you delete all the posts made by somebody?
If they didn't post as an AC then a simple query should bring up their posts and then you could delete them or at least the body of the message.
Of course it wouldn't take out replies or quoted text.
Yes I do know the difference between possible and practical but this does seem possible but I should wouldn't want to have to do it.
You realize that you are making a case for regulation.
You are stating things where better when it was regulated.
And example with the Airlines is prices feel but so did service. When prices are fixed the only way to get people to choose you is with better service.
I am not saying that I am all for regulation just that any blanket statment will probably be wrong. Like "Don't let the government get involved in anything."
Nope I said for "Base load"
Without good storage systems large scale solar and wind are useless. Nuclear can replace coal, oil, and natural gas base load plants. You would still want to use natural gas or hydrogen for peak plants. Gas turbines are the best solution for rapid production we have.
Use solar and wind to produce the hydrogen and methane or NH4 for those plants. Yes you can burn NH4.
When I first went to the download page it looked terrible. I thought they had written an IE only page! Then I fired up Opera and it looked fine.
Did a refresh on Firefox and it was fine!
I hate it when Microsoft doesn't give me a reason to crab about them!
Wait I just went to grab silverlight! Cool they don't support FF3 those bastards!!!!
Anyway it is worth trying out just to see how well it works.
Actually the airlines where deregulated. Currently the FAA tends to be mostly involved in safety. The Airlines used to be much more regulated right up to 1978.
Banking I will give you. But I never said that was good at everything. Just that saying that they always mess things up is a really bad statment.
Actually all energy on the planet is solar in nature except nuclear and Geothermal.
Oil and coal are just solar energy stored by life. Same with Wood.
But right now the best alternative is the one you probably can not stomach. Nuclear.
The storage of waste would be a none problem if we recycle nuclear fuel like Japan and France.
There are a number of Breeder reactor designs that will stretch our fuel supply to hundreds of years. Not to mention thorium cycle reactors.
Don't bother mentioning Chernobyl Western nations would have never let that design be built. The failure and results are impossible even with the current reactors that we have in the US and those are all over 20 years old. Imagine what we can do now or better yet research it.
By the time we run out of fissionable fuel we should have fusion working if not something past that.
The people that protested nuclear power plants have contributed more to greenhouse production than all the SUV drivers.
Flat out they have done massive damage to the environment and where wrong.and the nuclear engineers where right.
Things that the Federal government does well.
1 The National Weather Service.
2. The US Coast Guard.
3. The FAA. Yes for all it's faults the FAA does really well. I am not talking just about the Air Traffic control system which works a lot better than most people think but things like nav aids and regulation.
4 The CDC.
And I am sure a lot more that I can not think off the top of my head.
Should they take over managing the Grid? I don't know but blanket statements like the one you made are just not helpful.
Funny I have been saying this for about nine months. I wondered how much wind and solar the grid could take before it would run into stability problems.
There are a lot of potental storage systems but they are all are pretty much in development.
You can pump water up hill. If you have the land and water. There is the option of compressed air stored in old mines. Again if you have the right conditions.
My favorite is use it to crack water for Hydrogen and then take that and make methane out of it.
methane is easy to store and it is a fully mature tech. Or you could use it with coal to produce oil but that would not be carbon neutral.
As I have always said the problem with wind and solar is that you can throttle them.
The only practical replacement for baseload plants is nuclear.
Well he works for Google for one thing.
And you know that whole Mac thing is a pretty big stuff.
So how would you present an online 3d game without java or flash?
I tend to agree with you that flash and java shouldn't be used to present a lot of content that it is used for. But things like video or even providing an application online are valid uses of Java and Flash.
I say no to abuse but not no to proper use.
Flash and Java have been horribly abused but there are some useful sites that use them.
You can do things with Java that are currently impossible with other tools like ajax. Java really had the potental to bring some applications to the web. All too often it was used for buttons and other crap.
Same for flash.
I think that Flash navigation should be a criminal offense. Flash applications and video can be a good thing.
And Java can also be a good thing. The applet vnc Viewer is way cool.
Exactly. It is a lot easier to go into the mobile space than X86.
The logistics are frankly a royal pain for any small company to deal with.
If it was just buy state then it would be okay but a pain. But noooo... Sales tax can very buy county and city. Then you have the fuzzy problem of what rate do you use. If you are a store you collect for that location. Which makes life simple. Online do collect for the location of our servers, the location of our offices, the location of the customer, or in this case the location of your "partners"?
But this "problem" has been around since catalogs.
For small companies the problem is huge. If they are going to demand that companies collect sales taxes then they need to make it.
1. By state
2. They publish the rate four months before they go into effect.
3. All the states new rates start on the same day of the year.
That way mom and pop web stores have a chance to follow the rules without having to farm out to a mega corp online store.
But of course that is just my opinion.
"Mainstream? of all the Linux users I've met (of which there are many), I've yet to see someone using Compiz, or any other 3D-accelerated desktop for that matter."
Are they running servers? Then I will agree. They should have no desktop software.
But Since Ubuntu installs it by default now I would say that you need to get out and meet more people.
My wife and I both use it. Works just fine with our Nvidia cards. And yes our next systems will have ATI.
I have read their faq. I love how they get bent over the fact that Debian even has none "free" software in their repository! Well so much for choice.
This has next to nothing to do with "freedom" talk about wrapping yourself in the flag.
If you want to use this then fine but I will state it again.
Contribute means ADD. If all they did was strip out stuff from the distro then they didn't contribute they made a political statment.
But I will state it again. ATI is contributing a lot as is IBM, SUSE, RedHat, and any number of other companies and groups. Even Intel is contributing a lot but not as much as their PR would lead you to believe.
Exposing the Bluetooth API is. The phone supports things like bluetooth headsets.
You can still have an IM with this phone. What they did was take out an IM API! The idea was that other applications could use GTalk as a communication channel. If you read the blog you will see they have some pretty good privacy reasons to pull that API I am sorry to say.
Nothing would stop you form writing a jabber client for the phone.
You should read the post link first.
"The 1.0 version of Android and the first devices will include support for Bluetooth; for instance, Android will support Bluetooth headsets."
So headset and I hope A2DP will be supported. I will also bet that some other other functionality like file transfers will be supported.
What will not be supported is direct access to the Bluetooth API to applications. So it will probably be impossible to write things like a bluetooth remote control for it :(. At least in the first release.
The thing is with APIs is if you don't get them right the first time you are left with supporting broken code forever OR you break a lot of apps.
See Windows for an example.
"Keyword: 3D. Besides compiz and blender, I can't think of any use for 3D that's not gaming-related, so it's a relatively small niche."
1. Cad/CAM Pro-E offers a good CAD/CAM package for Linux.
2. Compwiz which is about as main stream or soon to be as you can get. Hardware 3D UIs are the way of the future. Totally useless if you are going to run server but pretty nice if you are using a Desktop.
3. What you want to run VESA?
"And so are the gNewSense guys. Your point?"
How? You could just use Debian. As an end user you could just install Ubuntu and not install blobs. Any user advanced enough to care about a blob free system can do a custom install to get a blob free system. Or Use Debian and do a blob free install.
What are they adding? Is there one extra line of code or did they just strip out the Ubuntu branding and take out the packages that offend them? Did they write any new drivers to replace the blob drivers?
What did they add? If you don't add you don't contribute.
And why not just use Debian?
Yes it is but I was commenting on the more human side of the equation.
I think you missed my point.
Someone made that comment about violence in the middle east. I was pointing out that terrorist attacks can happen just about anywhere like Tokyo and Oklahoma.
It is less of a symbolic target, Probably a lot lower population density so less total deaths.
But with out a doubt also a great target I never said it wouldn't be.
Um get over Pierce he even contradicted himself. He fails the documented criteria. Just look up the Wikipedia entry.
It wasn't just wing warping it was combining roll "wing warping" and yaw "rudder" to make a turn.
Oh and wing twisting may be making a come back. It does have a some advantages over ailerons. NASA has been testing an F-18 that using wing warping! If Pierce had document his flight then maybe he would have gotten some credit but he didn't.
Rolls Royce really wasn't used by many airliners until they went to jets.
But take a look at the how many none US airliners used Wright, P&W or P&W derived engines.
The Fokker Trimotor line, JU-52, JU-86 "BMW bought the rights to make P&W engines", And on and on.
But yes the Wright engine legacy if you include P&W which I think is fair gives them a HUGE place in the history of aviation.
Be fair. It could happen any place.
Toyko, Oklahoma, or the Middle East.
One of the sad rules of the Universe is that it is a lot easier to destroy than to create. It only takes a few evil nut jobs willing to die to create a lot of misery.