I find it rather odd that slashdot fails to mention that originally a russian biologist named Maria Gontsjarova blogged about this propaganda stunt. What she said was "somewhat" different from the so-called facts slashdot mentions here.
Her first report stated that several cranes were injured during transportation in cages while at least one died when putin steered his planes propellor into it. Somehow these reports were "corrected" to the "official" version shortly after. I suppose you can imagine the mechanisms Putin has in place for "correcting" information on the blog of a student. Glad to see slashdot supporting the Russian propaganda machine! Keep up the good work!
Linux on the desktop works fine. There's nothing wrong with it; I can use it, anybody can use it. As long as you don't have craphardware, that is. However, there's one thing you can be 100% certain about. Within a year, an upgrade will come around that will totally fuck shit up. All your settings will be gone, your desktop environment probably won't even start and compiz will start behaving horrible. All your gnome panel applets will behave oddly and right-clicking on the gnome panel won't work anymore. I cannot explain this kind of bullshit to end-users.
If it weren't for this kind of crap, it'd be totally awesome. I'd have the total noobs that I help with their PC migrated to Linux a long time ago. It'd be so much better without the virusscanner crap, without all kinds of odd applications nagging about updates and running crap in the background etc. But I can't. Because I can be 100 percent sure they'll all call me right after the first update because it fucked them in the ass.
All optical or mechanical image stabilization solutions I've worked with (Canon, Sony, Pentax) are just plain _AWESOME_. There's no reason to assume Nokia's solution isn't. Apart from this stupid commericial, that is.
Now that the trial has ended and everybody has had the chance to inform themselves what it was about, tech-savvy potential Apple customers looking to buy a high tech tablet flee to Samsung since they no longer want to be associated with the unethical behavior exhibited by Apple?
Climate deniers? This has nothing to do with them. No unusual warming is predicted for Antarctica for now. Global warming is expected to make the ocean currents that surround Antarctica stronger, thereby isolating it from warming factors and preventing it from heating up significantly for some time to come. It's a pity Al Gore's Unconvenient Truth has incorrectly linked the breaking up of the Ross ice shelf to global warming, leading many to believe something unusual is going on on Antarctica while it is not. Yet.
I remember those pictures had a much stronger orange-pink colour to the sky because of the atmospheric gas composition.
While sometimes they turn a bit reddish/yellow/orange due to dust clouds, the skies on Mars are about as blue as those on earth, albeit a bit darker since the sun is less intense. In general, it would be pretty difficult to distinguish a picture taken on Mars during good weather from one taken in a rocky desert on earth.
3200? That's nothing! http://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd has 9935 technical lectures from all seven Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
"Many pieces of software" were started because programmers just started writing them. They proved their worth and got help. I see no code here. Why would anybody capable of writing such software join a bunch of people that have basically nothing to offer but their dream? And, especially, why would these people make slashdot headlines? I'd rather see some more attention to projects that actually have code than projects that are nothing more but an idea.
Why the hell does this make slashdot?! So we have people with a dream and they are calling for others to help them... Why would anybody do that if they could just as easily help the guys behind great stuff like Ardour, LMMS, Rosegarden, Miep, Hydrogen and the many other applications that aim to do somewhat exactly what these people dream of?!
Why don't these dreamy people join any of the existing projects?
Ignoring them? We very successfully mitigated the acid rain problem, water pollution problems and dioxine pollution problems of the 70s and 80s. In my youth, forests were full of dead trees and swimming in large rivers was a big no-no. Nowadays forests are back to being green and nearly all surface water is ok to swim in again.
In the mean time China is rather successfully countering the growth of its population, Germany recently ran a full day on 50% solar power, other countries are producing their energy by durable means with an ever increasing pace, water desalination is slowly replacing natural sources, cars are getting more efficient every day, recycling is quickly becoming a profitable industry and in some countries forested area is actually increasing.
We're slowly but steadily steering to towards the right path, partially because it is economically sound, partially by not ignoring scientific predictions of apocalyptic scenarios. If we successfully counteract the massive deforestation going on in rainforests, there's actually a chance of humanity getting on a sustainable track before it really is too late.
I never buy DVDs. However, the wife does buy some second hand crap for the kids to watch every now and then. I typically put them on when I get out of bed and want some peace and quiet to sip my coffee. Waiting for a minute for this crap and having to sit it out because I still have to click the play button once its done with 2 impatient kids on the couch has made me destroy almost all those DVDs in frustration. The kids now hate DVDs and the wife doesn't buy any new ones. Problem solved. Fuckers.
Powering 10 old harddrives for some time is going to be much more expensive than just getting a new one. A modern drive uses about 5W on average. these oldies probably use much more. 10 drives using 10 watts at $0.10 per kwh will set you back $87 per year. You do the math.
It would not make it impossible. It merely would make it about as risky as attempting to cross an ocean in the 1600s. A risk that was acceptable back then and should be acceptable to any people that actually want to get somewhere today.
Brain teasers are not good hiring criteria. However, when you encounter them in a job interview, that does not mean they (or your answer) are meant as such criteria. Good simple criteria for hiring people simply do not exist; people aren't themselves during job interview, they have probably prepared it and thereby skew the outcome.
Therefore everything that's said and done during a job interview, whether it is a discussion about your previous projects, some brain teasers or talking through some code the applicant wrote (or did not write:)), is irrelevant. It's all just bullshit to get the conversation going. Once this conversation has taken long enough for the potential employer to get a good gut-feeling about the applicant, the interview is done.
While some facts may be checked beforehand (references, education etc.), there's really not much more to go on for the employer than that gut-feeling. When brain teasers help to develop that gut-feeling, they can be a great tool for judging applicants.
However, when hiring people, I never use brain teasers. What I do is let them discuss a piece of code. I don't care whether they wrote it or not (or whether it is crap code I wrote myself:-)), I don't even care if it is good code or not and I don't care in what language it is. What I do care about is what the applicant has to tell about it. What would they change, what do they like or dislike, why did they choose this piece of code, which decisions do they _not_ understand etc. etc.
While hiring new people is always a gamble, simply discussing a piece of code engineer to engineer is probably the closest you can get to objectively judging an applicant.
All we have is the IPCC claiming "if these things, about which we are certain enough, happen, the climate will change about this fast." However, this does not include the vast amount of things they were not certain enough about to take into account in their official reports. IPCC gives us the lower bound based on things everybody agrees about. We should expect the climate to change much faster than this very safe lower bound and that's exactly what is happening with this glacier, with the arctic ice cover and with methane leaking out of permafrost.
Catholics? Really? Damn. Not too long ago, those hypocrites said the pagan christmas tree should not be in a christian home. The vatican has not put up a christmas tree until 1982. And now they are using it as a "weapon" and half the world considers the christmas tree to be a christian symbol. It Is Not!:P
That's what I'd say if I'd led the world to believe I brought back lots of rocks from the moon while they were in fact little moonturtles that simply escaped from my lab.
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I find it rather odd that slashdot fails to mention that originally a russian biologist named Maria Gontsjarova blogged about this propaganda stunt. What she said was "somewhat" different from the so-called facts slashdot mentions here.
Her first report stated that several cranes were injured during transportation in cages while at least one died when putin steered his planes propellor into it. Somehow these reports were "corrected" to the "official" version shortly after. I suppose you can imagine the mechanisms Putin has in place for "correcting" information on the blog of a student. Glad to see slashdot supporting the Russian propaganda machine! Keep up the good work!
http://www.rferl.org/content/claims-rare-cranes-died-during-putin-stunt/24701513.html
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/national_world&id=8801623
Linux on the desktop works fine. There's nothing wrong with it; I can use it, anybody can use it. As long as you don't have craphardware, that is. However, there's one thing you can be 100% certain about. Within a year, an upgrade will come around that will totally fuck shit up. All your settings will be gone, your desktop environment probably won't even start and compiz will start behaving horrible. All your gnome panel applets will behave oddly and right-clicking on the gnome panel won't work anymore. I cannot explain this kind of bullshit to end-users.
If it weren't for this kind of crap, it'd be totally awesome. I'd have the total noobs that I help with their PC migrated to Linux a long time ago. It'd be so much better without the virusscanner crap, without all kinds of odd applications nagging about updates and running crap in the background etc. But I can't. Because I can be 100 percent sure they'll all call me right after the first update because it fucked them in the ass.
All optical or mechanical image stabilization solutions I've worked with (Canon, Sony, Pentax) are just plain _AWESOME_. There's no reason to assume Nokia's solution isn't. Apart from this stupid commericial, that is.
Now that the trial has ended and everybody has had the chance to inform themselves what it was about, tech-savvy potential Apple customers looking to buy a high tech tablet flee to Samsung since they no longer want to be associated with the unethical behavior exhibited by Apple?
Climate deniers? This has nothing to do with them. No unusual warming is predicted for Antarctica for now. Global warming is expected to make the ocean currents that surround Antarctica stronger, thereby isolating it from warming factors and preventing it from heating up significantly for some time to come. It's a pity Al Gore's Unconvenient Truth has incorrectly linked the breaking up of the Ross ice shelf to global warming, leading many to believe something unusual is going on on Antarctica while it is not. Yet.
This is a good read about the colors of Mars:
http://www.donaldedavis.com/PARTS/MARSCLRS.html
So is this one:
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/43ancients/02files/Mars_Blue_Bird_Color_01.html
I remember those pictures had a much stronger orange-pink colour to the sky because of the atmospheric gas composition.
While sometimes they turn a bit reddish/yellow/orange due to dust clouds, the skies on Mars are about as blue as those on earth, albeit a bit darker since the sun is less intense. In general, it would be pretty difficult to distinguish a picture taken on Mars during good weather from one taken in a rocky desert on earth.
3200? That's nothing! http://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd has 9935 technical lectures from all seven Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
"Many pieces of software" were started because programmers just started writing them. They proved their worth and got help. I see no code here. Why would anybody capable of writing such software join a bunch of people that have basically nothing to offer but their dream? And, especially, why would these people make slashdot headlines? I'd rather see some more attention to projects that actually have code than projects that are nothing more but an idea.
Why the hell does this make slashdot?! So we have people with a dream and they are calling for others to help them... Why would anybody do that if they could just as easily help the guys behind great stuff like Ardour, LMMS, Rosegarden, Miep, Hydrogen and the many other applications that aim to do somewhat exactly what these people dream of?!
Why don't these dreamy people join any of the existing projects?
Nature does not give a flying shit about how we treat eachother. Therefore, yes, great example indeed.
Ignoring them? We very successfully mitigated the acid rain problem, water pollution problems and dioxine pollution problems of the 70s and 80s. In my youth, forests were full of dead trees and swimming in large rivers was a big no-no. Nowadays forests are back to being green and nearly all surface water is ok to swim in again.
In the mean time China is rather successfully countering the growth of its population, Germany recently ran a full day on 50% solar power, other countries are producing their energy by durable means with an ever increasing pace, water desalination is slowly replacing natural sources, cars are getting more efficient every day, recycling is quickly becoming a profitable industry and in some countries forested area is actually increasing.
We're slowly but steadily steering to towards the right path, partially because it is economically sound, partially by not ignoring scientific predictions of apocalyptic scenarios. If we successfully counteract the massive deforestation going on in rainforests, there's actually a chance of humanity getting on a sustainable track before it really is too late.
Good to see they focused their research on the sun that's currently in use and not on one of those old disposed ones!
The problem here is that I'm still sleeping in the "well before" phase while the kids are yelling they want to watch Sesame Street :p
I never buy DVDs. However, the wife does buy some second hand crap for the kids to watch every now and then. I typically put them on when I get out of bed and want some peace and quiet to sip my coffee. Waiting for a minute for this crap and having to sit it out because I still have to click the play button once its done with 2 impatient kids on the couch has made me destroy almost all those DVDs in frustration. The kids now hate DVDs and the wife doesn't buy any new ones. Problem solved. Fuckers.
Powering 10 old harddrives for some time is going to be much more expensive than just getting a new one. A modern drive uses about 5W on average. these oldies probably use much more. 10 drives using 10 watts at $0.10 per kwh will set you back $87 per year. You do the math.
... MSFT and Apple can royally fuck Google, and that is content.
They question is: how are they going to get my attention for their content when I'm watching Youtube or stalking people on Facebook?
And that, Mr. A.C., is the difference between waking up and being woken up.
It would not make it impossible. It merely would make it about as risky as attempting to cross an ocean in the 1600s. A risk that was acceptable back then and should be acceptable to any people that actually want to get somewhere today.
Brain teasers are not good hiring criteria. However, when you encounter them in a job interview, that does not mean they (or your answer) are meant as such criteria. Good simple criteria for hiring people simply do not exist; people aren't themselves during job interview, they have probably prepared it and thereby skew the outcome.
Therefore everything that's said and done during a job interview, whether it is a discussion about your previous projects, some brain teasers or talking through some code the applicant wrote (or did not write:)), is irrelevant. It's all just bullshit to get the conversation going. Once this conversation has taken long enough for the potential employer to get a good gut-feeling about the applicant, the interview is done.
While some facts may be checked beforehand (references, education etc.), there's really not much more to go on for the employer than that gut-feeling. When brain teasers help to develop that gut-feeling, they can be a great tool for judging applicants.
However, when hiring people, I never use brain teasers. What I do is let them discuss a piece of code. I don't care whether they wrote it or not (or whether it is crap code I wrote myself:-)), I don't even care if it is good code or not and I don't care in what language it is. What I do care about is what the applicant has to tell about it. What would they change, what do they like or dislike, why did they choose this piece of code, which decisions do they _not_ understand etc. etc.
While hiring new people is always a gamble, simply discussing a piece of code engineer to engineer is probably the closest you can get to objectively judging an applicant.
Bullshit. Europe has the exact opposite: a law that makes laws that make SIM locks illegal illegal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_lock#Belgium
What projections?
All we have is the IPCC claiming "if these things, about which we are certain enough, happen, the climate will change about this fast." However, this does not include the vast amount of things they were not certain enough about to take into account in their official reports. IPCC gives us the lower bound based on things everybody agrees about. We should expect the climate to change much faster than this very safe lower bound and that's exactly what is happening with this glacier, with the arctic ice cover and with methane leaking out of permafrost.
I read only books by Michel Houellebecq. I think his view on the world matches that of the average /. reader perfectly.
What is the wavelength of this laser? And were do I buy glasses? Thanks.
Catholics? Really? Damn. Not too long ago, those hypocrites said the pagan christmas tree should not be in a christian home. The vatican has not put up a christmas tree until 1982. And now they are using it as a "weapon" and half the world considers the christmas tree to be a christian symbol. It Is Not! :P
That's what I'd say if I'd led the world to believe I brought back lots of rocks from the moon while they were in fact little moonturtles that simply escaped from my lab.