1)With free speech comes the right to _not_ listen to the speaker. Change the channel, walk away. With spam, no matter how many filters I put in or how many times I "unsubscribe", I keep getting spam.
2)Free speech has no inherent cost to it. Just start yammering away, or post to/. I can hear you for free. Spam, however, costs me (or my ISP, who passes it on to me) money.
There are probably other reasons, but these are the 2 biggest problems with spam.
If we can't get to this (and I like it), at least decouple line access providers and service providers. Your line company could just charge for access and maintenance, and you would be free to pick from any service provider. Just have to make sure that the access provider doesn't make any sweetheart deals with 1 of the service providers.
OS X runs on certain hardware. So does Solaris, yet I never hear anyone here complaining about overpriced Sparc hardware. Yes, I know that there is a big difference between their markets and performance factors, but in both cases you buy the hardware to get the OS, or you want the hardware to do something with it. If you want OS X, you have to get PPC. If you want Solaris, you get Sparc (well there is x86 Solaris, but that's just silly).
What's really shocking is that someone took the time to record and upload eps of WWF Smackdown and Voyager.
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"Heck, the people here on/. never fail to slam Jon Katz, even though he clearly has superior writing skills compared to the other editors"
Please die. Katz only has superior writing skills to a fungus, if that. Please die again. I never thought in my life I would see the words "Katz" and "superior" in the same sentence, and now I have to live the rest of my life tainted because of you. This does not please me.
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"With the exception, of course, of FOX and Rush Limbaugh, which push a right-leaning, technophobic police state with slightly differently oppressive taxation to pay for government handouts to major corporations and tobacco farmers."
WTF? Yes FoxNews and Rush are Conservatives, but I wouldn't call them mainstream as NBC, ABC, or CBS beats them out in ratings. Yes, Rush has a large radio audience, but it's pretty much accepted that TV is the medium of choice now. "slightly differently oppressive taxation"? Does this even mean anything? Does this mean I will go tax toads, or something? A little clearer, please.
"And remember, one side wants access to abortion facilities, the other side wants access to firearms. "
How in the hell can you compare these 2 issues? 1 is in the Bill of Rights, the other was declared legal by the Supreme Court. And you make it seem like the issues are mutually exclusive, when they have nothing to do with each other.
"I like politics, but man, I start to see the hypocritical crap both "sides" are throwing around, and it gets me grumpy."
As oppposed to your crap, which makes no sense, has no connection to what you are trying to complain about, and in the end you are grumpy why? Because you don't even understand what they are talking about? Just go and re-read you paragraph about "1 side wants abortion and 1 side wants guns" and think about it for a while- I have never heard a dumber comparison of ideas.
Of course every news story has bias. It was written, produced, maybe read by a human, and each person that touches the story slants it someway no matter how hard they try not to.
Even how you hear (or interpret) a story is biased by yourself, usually.
The best you can do is to try and know your own biases and the biases of the news media you are reading/listening/watching. Which is quite interesting if you put a side by side comparison of the same story reported by Rush Limbaugh and Tom Brokaw, for example.
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and that makes him/the site/whatever cool/fun/interesting?
Follow the cheerleader link in the article, then go read some of his other pieces. Here's a summary-
"I want to go make fun of . I go interview , asking stupid, insipid, and obnoxious questions. Then I call them lots of names. The end"
What a fucking POS. I don't like cheerleaders (except for looking at), but even that cheerleading article made me feel uneasy. Somehow this twit has made name calling and mocking into a regular column. For some reason the word "fucktard" keeps popping into my head.
Anyway, for the real topic, disinfo makes for many entertaining reads. YMMV depending on how paranoid or conspiracy oriented you are, but they have a nice variety of sections with a bunch of reads. First time I stumbled across it I spent 3 day's spare time browsing for fun.
Er... 27GBx2x2= 108GB. Not quite 18GBx10 (which is still kinda rare), but pretty close. Plus is has the familiarity (sp?) factor- "oh, same disc, more space!" or something like that. What feature(s) are going to make the millions or installed users of DVD going to switch to FMD? Remember, these are Joe 6Packs, not the average/.er who will hack the machines to make their 10's or 100's of DVDs work on a new machine. (Now I may be missing a bunch about FMD, I know little about it, so all my arguments may be moot. If so, forgive me- only so many hours/day.)
A lot of wacked out foreign films (Brava, Argento, even Jackson's Bad Taste) are not available. No big deal, except I got excited when I heard "huge rental selection". Yes, better than Blockbuster, but not enough to get me to subscribe.
This is the first fucking thing that made sense in this entire thread.
What the hell is this guy's problem? Technology is not a right, and what is so special about voting from home? What, save an hour once a year, if that? Woopee.
I honestly believe that this is the first time I've heard someone criticized for working hard. This guy/gal wants to provide for his family and you're fragging him/her? Pretty harsh.
I'm also interested in how you think things should be (as you say above, we shouldn't have to work for anything), and how we are going to achieve that. Magic? Star Trek Monetary Compensators? Nice try, please come back when you make sense.
Let's see, Win2K was said to have about 60k bugs, right?
So if they work every day of Feb, they need to fix roughly 2150 bugs per day. Assuming 3 rotating shifts (24 hour coverage), this comes down to 90 bugs per hour. Say they throw 90 programmers at this per shift, then each programmer needs to solve 1 bug every hour for their shift.
I'm not a programmer, so assuming this bizarre scheme was used, is it reasonable for someone to solve 8 bugs per shift for 28 straight days? I'd think not, due to inter-relationships of code, fixing 1 bug causing a new bug, coder's block, and maybe burnout.
Any thoughts?
PS- The 7 years is just an arbitrary start date of Win95.
"Warning! As this design uses a transformerless power supply, the whole circuit is at mains potential. Disconnect before making any adjustments etc.
If you need to use an oscilloscope for debugging, the circuit MUST be operated through an isolating transformer."
As cool as this looks (yet still too much for me to tinker with), just this warning would put me off. One small error at 340V could be an, ahh, inconvience! And I didn't see any mention of what type of currents are running. Crispy!
But seriously, having the rough equivalent of neon tubes for "UK£10/US$15 (excluding nixies)" would be neat. But considering that my lab group for EE201 blew out every circuit/component we tried to build in lab, I wouldn't trust myself with a soldering iron on anything more dangerous than an unplugged PCB board.
And most of it would burn up in the atmosphere. You may have some hundreds of depleted material hitting the ocean, but nothing like you are talking about.
Ah, but we launch maybe 3 dozen (at the most) large payloads per year? With something like the elevator we could launch maybe 1 per hour? That's nearly 9000 per year, over 5 years you have about a 44000x difference. At the proposed cost of $40 billion, then figure double it to $80 million, it comes down to about $2000 per launch. A bit better than $10,000 per pound we have now!
Right, a "flawless diamond" 100km (60miles), would be so easy to do. AND cost less than $60billion, all by itself?
Yeah, it would be great to build such a thing, but the logistics are only JUST a little easier, if easier at all!
As for collapsing and "strangling the planet"(?- didn't know the earth had a neck), a 300km long ramp falling from 100km would be pretty freaking destructive! Probably a whole lot less than a (comparatively) thin wire wrapping itself around the equater (mostly ocean).
Yes, cheap access out of the gravity well is the current grail for space travel. But most of the scifi ideas to defeat the well are still mostly scifi. Carbon nanotubes, "flawless diamond" skyways, laser propelled rockets, skyhooks, and anti-grav. In time, science and engineering will probably solve these problems, but not quite yet.
Thought exercise- imagine this trend continuing for an unspecified amount of time, though longish in span. What happens when ads are 3 seconds? 1/3 of a second? How does society change, and will it be possible for me to kill all of them slowly because they can't pay attention long enough!:p
Dumb businesses look at the quick and short-time costs, relegating longer-term costs to secondary status. Most semi-smart people know that longer-term (and usually recurring) costs tend to dominate over the long term. Even though there are many studies showing Macs having higher ROI, WinTel gets the vote. Just look at arguments here on Slashdot- "I can get (whatever) much more for the price Apple charges!" But it is proven that Macs need less maintainence and less configuration stuff.
With Linux, it's less clear because you can run it on even cheaper hardware, and the OS and most apps are also free. But it takes more human time to get it working right, for the most part, depending on what you want to do. Standard install, no prob. Something special, now you start running into human costs, which are way higher than equipment costs. Put it this way, it would be cheaper for a company to buy a brand new computer than to hire me for 1 day to fix it (minus data loss of course; but they should've backed up anyway!)
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2 differences:
/. I can hear you for free. Spam, however, costs me (or my ISP, who passes it on to me) money.
1)With free speech comes the right to _not_ listen to the speaker. Change the channel, walk away. With spam, no matter how many filters I put in or how many times I "unsubscribe", I keep getting spam.
2)Free speech has no inherent cost to it. Just start yammering away, or post to
There are probably other reasons, but these are the 2 biggest problems with spam.
If we can't get to this (and I like it), at least decouple line access providers and service providers. Your line company could just charge for access and maintenance, and you would be free to pick from any service provider. Just have to make sure that the access provider doesn't make any sweetheart deals with 1 of the service providers.
OS X runs on certain hardware. So does Solaris, yet I never hear anyone here complaining about overpriced Sparc hardware. Yes, I know that there is a big difference between their markets and performance factors, but in both cases you buy the hardware to get the OS, or you want the hardware to do something with it. If you want OS X, you have to get PPC. If you want Solaris, you get Sparc (well there is x86 Solaris, but that's just silly).
What's really shocking is that someone took the time to record and upload eps of WWF Smackdown and Voyager.
"Heck, the people here on /. never fail to slam Jon Katz, even though he clearly has superior writing skills compared to the other editors"
Please die. Katz only has superior writing skills to a fungus, if that. Please die again. I never thought in my life I would see the words "Katz" and "superior" in the same sentence, and now I have to live the rest of my life tainted because of you. This does not please me.
"With the exception, of course, of FOX and Rush Limbaugh, which push a right-leaning, technophobic police state with slightly differently oppressive taxation to pay for government handouts to major corporations and tobacco farmers."
WTF? Yes FoxNews and Rush are Conservatives, but I wouldn't call them mainstream as NBC, ABC, or CBS beats them out in ratings. Yes, Rush has a large radio audience, but it's pretty much accepted that TV is the medium of choice now. "slightly differently oppressive taxation"? Does this even mean anything? Does this mean I will go tax toads, or something? A little clearer, please.
"And remember, one side wants access to abortion facilities, the other side wants access to firearms. "
How in the hell can you compare these 2 issues? 1 is in the Bill of Rights, the other was declared legal by the Supreme Court. And you make it seem like the issues are mutually exclusive, when they have nothing to do with each other.
"I like politics, but man, I start to see the hypocritical crap both "sides" are throwing around, and it gets me grumpy."
As oppposed to your crap, which makes no sense, has no connection to what you are trying to complain about, and in the end you are grumpy why? Because you don't even understand what they are talking about? Just go and re-read you paragraph about "1 side wants abortion and 1 side wants guns" and think about it for a while- I have never heard a dumber comparison of ideas.
Of course every news story has bias. It was written, produced, maybe read by a human, and each person that touches the story slants it someway no matter how hard they try not to.
Even how you hear (or interpret) a story is biased by yourself, usually.
The best you can do is to try and know your own biases and the biases of the news media you are reading/listening/watching. Which is quite interesting if you put a side by side comparison of the same story reported by Rush Limbaugh and Tom Brokaw, for example.
and that makes him/the site/whatever cool/fun/interesting?
Follow the cheerleader link in the article, then go read some of his other pieces. Here's a summary-
"I want to go make fun of . I go interview , asking stupid, insipid, and obnoxious questions. Then I call them lots of names. The end"
What a fucking POS. I don't like cheerleaders (except for looking at), but even that cheerleading article made me feel uneasy. Somehow this twit has made name calling and mocking into a regular column. For some reason the word "fucktard" keeps popping into my head.
Anyway, for the real topic, disinfo makes for many entertaining reads. YMMV depending on how paranoid or conspiracy oriented you are, but they have a nice variety of sections with a bunch of reads. First time I stumbled across it I spent 3 day's spare time browsing for fun.
Woof
Er... 27GBx2x2= 108GB. Not quite 18GBx10 (which is still kinda rare), but pretty close. Plus is has the familiarity (sp?) factor- "oh, same disc, more space!" or something like that. What feature(s) are going to make the millions or installed users of DVD going to switch to FMD? Remember, these are Joe 6Packs, not the average /.er who will hack the machines to make their 10's or 100's of DVDs work on a new machine. (Now I may be missing a bunch about FMD, I know little about it, so all my arguments may be moot. If so, forgive me- only so many hours/day.)
I will pay you $0.05 for each time you do this.
(Not really, but I like your idea and want to promote it.)
Also, so much for that whole MHz/GHz race.
What is this "4 registers" you speak about? I am interested and would like to subscribe to your newsletter!
My 8 hamsters-on-wheels-pushing-buttons seem to be VERY interested in this "register" technology.
I wonder why....
PS- Yes, that was a Simpson's quote.
Especially B movies.
A lot of wacked out foreign films (Brava, Argento, even Jackson's Bad Taste) are not available. No big deal, except I got excited when I heard "huge rental selection". Yes, better than Blockbuster, but not enough to get me to subscribe.
This is a good point, one which I did not catch.
:)
But I'm still stealing your fish!
"...for those on the flip side of unfairness..."
Fuck 'em. If they can't pull themselves up, too bad. Don't bother telling me that I don't understand- I've been places you can't imagine.
This is the first fucking thing that made sense in this entire thread.
What the hell is this guy's problem? Technology is not a right, and what is so special about voting from home? What, save an hour once a year, if that? Woopee.
I honestly believe that this is the first time I've heard someone criticized for working hard. This guy/gal wants to provide for his family and you're fragging him/her? Pretty harsh.
I'm also interested in how you think things should be (as you say above, we shouldn't have to work for anything), and how we are going to achieve that. Magic? Star Trek Monetary Compensators? Nice try, please come back when you make sense.
Let's see, Win2K was said to have about 60k bugs, right?
So if they work every day of Feb, they need to fix roughly 2150 bugs per day. Assuming 3 rotating shifts (24 hour coverage), this comes down to 90 bugs per hour. Say they throw 90 programmers at this per shift, then each programmer needs to solve 1 bug every hour for their shift.
I'm not a programmer, so assuming this bizarre scheme was used, is it reasonable for someone to solve 8 bugs per shift for 28 straight days? I'd think not, due to inter-relationships of code, fixing 1 bug causing a new bug, coder's block, and maybe burnout.
Any thoughts?
PS- The 7 years is just an arbitrary start date of Win95.
"Warning! As this design uses a transformerless power supply, the whole circuit is at mains potential. Disconnect before making any adjustments etc.
If you need to use an oscilloscope for debugging, the circuit MUST be operated through an isolating transformer."
As cool as this looks (yet still too much for me to tinker with), just this warning would put me off. One small error at 340V could be an, ahh, inconvience! And I didn't see any mention of what type of currents are running. Crispy!
But seriously, having the rough equivalent of neon tubes for "UK£10/US$15 (excluding nixies)" would be neat. But considering that my lab group for EE201 blew out every circuit/component we tried to build in lab, I wouldn't trust myself with a soldering iron on anything more dangerous than an unplugged PCB board.
And most of it would burn up in the atmosphere. You may have some hundreds of depleted material hitting the ocean, but nothing like you are talking about.
Ah, but we launch maybe 3 dozen (at the most) large payloads per year? With something like the elevator we could launch maybe 1 per hour? That's nearly 9000 per year, over 5 years you have about a 44000x difference. At the proposed cost of $40 billion, then figure double it to $80 million, it comes down to about $2000 per launch. A bit better than $10,000 per pound we have now!
Right, a "flawless diamond" 100km (60miles), would be so easy to do. AND cost less than $60billion, all by itself?
Yeah, it would be great to build such a thing, but the logistics are only JUST a little easier, if easier at all!
As for collapsing and "strangling the planet"(?- didn't know the earth had a neck), a 300km long ramp falling from 100km would be pretty freaking destructive! Probably a whole lot less than a (comparatively) thin wire wrapping itself around the equater (mostly ocean).
Yes, cheap access out of the gravity well is the current grail for space travel. But most of the scifi ideas to defeat the well are still mostly scifi. Carbon nanotubes, "flawless diamond" skyways, laser propelled rockets, skyhooks, and anti-grav. In time, science and engineering will probably solve these problems, but not quite yet.
Sorry, I didn't specify that I was talking about Macs vs. WinTel, not Macs vs. *nix. I don't know of any studies of Macs vs. *nix.
No, no- maintenance costs of Macs vs. WinTel. I know of no Mac vs. *nix studies. Sorry I didn't make that clear.
15 second ads? I sneeze longer than that!
:p
Thought exercise- imagine this trend continuing for an unspecified amount of time, though longish in span. What happens when ads are 3 seconds? 1/3 of a second? How does society change, and will it be possible for me to kill all of them slowly because they can't pay attention long enough!
Really, though, 'tis frightening.
Sigh. This is why WinTel continues to dominate.
Dumb businesses look at the quick and short-time costs, relegating longer-term costs to secondary status. Most semi-smart people know that longer-term (and usually recurring) costs tend to dominate over the long term. Even though there are many studies showing Macs having higher ROI, WinTel gets the vote. Just look at arguments here on Slashdot- "I can get (whatever) much more for the price Apple charges!" But it is proven that Macs need less maintainence and less configuration stuff.
With Linux, it's less clear because you can run it on even cheaper hardware, and the OS and most apps are also free. But it takes more human time to get it working right, for the most part, depending on what you want to do. Standard install, no prob. Something special, now you start running into human costs, which are way higher than equipment costs. Put it this way, it would be cheaper for a company to buy a brand new computer than to hire me for 1 day to fix it (minus data loss of course; but they should've backed up anyway!)
Meh.