Some questions have such obviously false answers that to pose them is to engage in the same inflammatory BS that the corporate news is into these days... namely the practice of asking questions instead of making statements ("Is Hillary Clinton gay?") on the basis that asking makes the asker seem thoughtful and open minded, whereas making statements ("Hillary Clinton is gay!") requires some degree of confidence about the assertion.
As lampooned on The Daily Show (clip now seems gone from youtube). Memorable line: "I'm not SAYING that your mother is a whore. I'm merely wondering out loud IF she is a whore! Reasonable people who have paid your mother for boning them are free to disagree!"
I've found statements to the contrary, though I admit I've been accepting them on an unchallenged basis. Your experiments have gotten my curiosity up... I'm now motivated to do some similar experimentation.
Driving the speed limit and driving defensively save gas.... not accelerating as hard and trying to avoid accelerating up hills.
Note that "driving the speed limit" is different from "not accelerating as hard", and I suspect it's the latter from which your anecdotal savings are coming. Driving at the speed limit and not accelerating hard may be somewhat related where there are frequent stops, but they're unrelated for longer distance driving. Driving interstates at 55 does *not* save gas. And driving 25 in a residential zone probably doesn't either.
An HBO executive has figured out the problem with DRM acceptance -- it's the name. HBO's chief technology officer Bob Zitter now wants to refer to the technology as Digital Consumer Enablement. Because, you see, DRM actually helps consumers by getting more content into their hands.
I'm going to ignore whatever thoughtful debate might be had on this, and simply quip: I've decided that we really should change the term for "PR". As it stands now, "PR" is a term people associate with messages coming from corporate executives which are carefully crafted spin statements intended to maximize corporate profit, often by misleading people and/or de-emphasizing the actual costs of a given initiative. Instead, we should use the term "thinking out loud"... MUCH friendlier.
doubts about the current open source model in which developers create free intellectual property only to have others scoop it up and generate huge amounts of revenue. Green said, 'I think in the long term that this is a worrisome scenario [and] not sustainable
Worrisome? To whom, Sun?
Not sustainable? I don't see why not, and Green gives zero reasons why it wouldn't be... he just gives a general robin hood analogy and hopes that gives Sun some "thoughtful guy" PR.
Open source dev has been going on officially since the early eighties (Stallman), and Linux itself for fifteen years now with no sign of slowing down, not to mention the ballooning collection of OSS apps.
That, lame jokes, and endless learning by metaphor is really what drives the site.
What's the problem, I never metaphor I didn't like! (nyuck nyuck.) But seriously, a community site without metaphors is a train wreck waiting to happen.
Xerox full color lasers are almost $200.00 with a full set of toner carts.
Cheapest Xerox color printer I saw on their site costs $350 (I don't regard "rebate" prices as real; and if I did, I'd compare their "$250" price to something below the expected street value of the kodaks). Doesn't look like free toner cartridges are mentioned either....
Now, if there is intelligent life on other planets and if that life sinned also
Let me just remove one of those "if"s. If there is intelligent life on other planets, christianity's position is that that life has most definitely sinned. Bigtime.
I'm a lot more worried about the Yellowstone Supervolcanoe going than the stars. The thing blows, on average, every 600,000 years. Want to know the last time it erupted? 640,000 years ago. When it goes, it'll take most of Northern America with it.
Don't worry. When it gets close to going, we'll just do what they did in that documentary Armageddon, namely send a rocket into it armed with Bruce Willis and a ragtag bunch of rough loveable go-getters, who will proceed to blow it up and return safely to Earth.
(And on that extra 'e' on the end of "volcanoe", I'm with you... thanks to Dan Quaiyle, I can't remember my own name anymore.)
Ummm... you did not just say Anchor Steam. If I were trying to convince someone that American Breweries can compete with Europe, Anchor Steam and Anchor Liberty would be my last choices. As in I wouldn't bother. Sierra Nevada, while not nearly as bad, is another "micro-brew" that is all rep and no delivery. Unfortunately, most American breweries try to solve the "lack of flavor" problem by saying, "Hey, lets just throw a bunch more hops in it!". Which makes everything taste like a poorly brewed IPA.
Ahh, beer. So many choices. And it makes so little difference.
You do know you're in the site's server logs anyway, right?
Sure... but when google analytics tracks you, EVERY site you visit finds its way into a unified database (google's). The unified data is much more interesting.
Quick back of envelope calculation: I joined slashdot in late 1999 and got #316896. I think membership is now up to 1.1 million. Assuming (perhaps wrongly) a linear rate of member accrual, I think that puts your number of 566938 at about five years ago... which would mean you started reading slashdot when you were 11. That rocks!:)
Does NoScript make Firefox safer? Sure. Is it worth the hassle? No. For some reason, paranoia seems to be cool among Web geeks, but for the most part, it is totally unwarranted unless you're sending and receiving sensitive data.
This is a pretty broad set of statements to make, and I doubt the article's author has anything but his own opinion to back it up with. Example: Google Analytics javascripts are everywhere, directly allowing google to track an individual user's journey to any pages that include them. The author apparently doesn't think that visits to such pages are "private information". Or maybe the author doesn't realize how such information is tracked and might be used.
All software from Adobe is an attempt to create lock-in. Anyone still shocked by that should be sent to the short bus.
Can't tell if you're agreeing with the GP or hounding him for making what you consider an obvious point. The assertion that most people aren't shocked by Adobe's attempts to create lock-in is a strawman... i.e. true, but only for the trivial reason that most people are oblivious. Trying to educate oblivious folks is a reasonable response.
So now they'll need to rewrite Frankenstein. Instead of coming to life on a slab during a huge lightning storm, he'll need to be placed in front of the speakers at a Van Halen concert.
This has been going on for awhile, and really isn't news.
Just wanted to point out that "going on for a while" doesn't determine whether something is news... "news" is determined by whether people were aware of something on a widespread basis. Example: if a previously-unknown World War II death camp is discovered in Germany, it's news.
Doesn't mean that every generation isn't correct in its assessment. For example, if three generations in a row profess that we're dangerously closer to nuclear war than we were twenty years prior, have we now proven that we needn't worry about nuclear war, since "it just keeps happening every generation"?
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Some questions have such obviously false answers that to pose them is to engage in the same inflammatory BS that the corporate news is into these days... namely the practice of asking questions instead of making statements ("Is Hillary Clinton gay?") on the basis that asking makes the asker seem thoughtful and open minded, whereas making statements ("Hillary Clinton is gay!") requires some degree of confidence about the assertion.
As lampooned on The Daily Show (clip now seems gone from youtube). Memorable line: "I'm not SAYING that your mother is a whore. I'm merely wondering out loud IF she is a whore! Reasonable people who have paid your mother for boning them are free to disagree!"Sshhh!!
Hey, I hate both parties too. But they're not "equally evil", if that's your point.
I've found statements to the contrary, though I admit I've been accepting them on an unchallenged basis. Your experiments have gotten my curiosity up... I'm now motivated to do some similar experimentation.
Note that "driving the speed limit" is different from "not accelerating as hard", and I suspect it's the latter from which your anecdotal savings are coming. Driving at the speed limit and not accelerating hard may be somewhat related where there are frequent stops, but they're unrelated for longer distance driving. Driving interstates at 55 does *not* save gas. And driving 25 in a residential zone probably doesn't either.
I'm going to ignore whatever thoughtful debate might be had on this, and simply quip: I've decided that we really should change the term for "PR". As it stands now, "PR" is a term people associate with messages coming from corporate executives which are carefully crafted spin statements intended to maximize corporate profit, often by misleading people and/or de-emphasizing the actual costs of a given initiative. Instead, we should use the term "thinking out loud"... MUCH friendlier.
Worrisome? To whom, Sun?
Not sustainable? I don't see why not, and Green gives zero reasons why it wouldn't be... he just gives a general robin hood analogy and hopes that gives Sun some "thoughtful guy" PR.
Open source dev has been going on officially since the early eighties (Stallman), and Linux itself for fifteen years now with no sign of slowing down, not to mention the ballooning collection of OSS apps.
What's the problem, I never metaphor I didn't like! (nyuck nyuck.) But seriously, a community site without metaphors is a train wreck waiting to happen.
Cheapest Xerox color printer I saw on their site costs $350 (I don't regard "rebate" prices as real; and if I did, I'd compare their "$250" price to something below the expected street value of the kodaks). Doesn't look like free toner cartridges are mentioned either....
Caught this article just a few weeks back, it goes into some detail on Kodak's inkjet technology.
Let me just remove one of those "if"s. If there is intelligent life on other planets, christianity's position is that that life has most definitely sinned. Bigtime.
Don't worry. When it gets close to going, we'll just do what they did in that documentary Armageddon, namely send a rocket into it armed with Bruce Willis and a ragtag bunch of rough loveable go-getters, who will proceed to blow it up and return safely to Earth.
(And on that extra 'e' on the end of "volcanoe", I'm with you... thanks to Dan Quaiyle, I can't remember my own name anymore.)
Ahh, beer. So many choices. And it makes so little difference.
They have a name for the medical operation of changing a woman into a man... it's called an "addedictomy".
Or perhaps we could have the new rating +1 Inspiring : Parent Poster has a girlfriend
Sure... but when google analytics tracks you, EVERY site you visit finds its way into a unified database (google's). The unified data is much more interesting.
I am 16 years old...
Quick back of envelope calculation: I joined slashdot in late 1999 and got #316896. I think membership is now up to 1.1 million. Assuming (perhaps wrongly) a linear rate of member accrual, I think that puts your number of 566938 at about five years ago... which would mean you started reading slashdot when you were 11. That rocks! :)
This is a pretty broad set of statements to make, and I doubt the article's author has anything but his own opinion to back it up with. Example: Google Analytics javascripts are everywhere, directly allowing google to track an individual user's journey to any pages that include them. The author apparently doesn't think that visits to such pages are "private information". Or maybe the author doesn't realize how such information is tracked and might be used.
Can't tell if you're agreeing with the GP or hounding him for making what you consider an obvious point. The assertion that most people aren't shocked by Adobe's attempts to create lock-in is a strawman... i.e. true, but only for the trivial reason that most people are oblivious. Trying to educate oblivious folks is a reasonable response.
So now they'll need to rewrite Frankenstein. Instead of coming to life on a slab during a huge lightning storm, he'll need to be placed in front of the speakers at a Van Halen concert.
Just wanted to point out that "going on for a while" doesn't determine whether something is news... "news" is determined by whether people were aware of something on a widespread basis. Example: if a previously-unknown World War II death camp is discovered in Germany, it's news.
Doesn't mean that every generation isn't correct in its assessment. For example, if three generations in a row profess that we're dangerously closer to nuclear war than we were twenty years prior, have we now proven that we needn't worry about nuclear war, since "it just keeps happening every generation"?
Now just a minuet, don't be hasty.
If it's a Schrödinger box then the cat's included all right... the open issue is that you may or may not be having burgers for lunch.