Is English not your first language? (honest question, sometimes nuances can be lost) "As small as a grain of sand" is just a phrase, used to denote something tiny. Sounds like a word or such just got left out of the phrase - I can assure you they're not trying to use actual sand for fusion. Redmond may have nutjobs living there, but doing that would be beyond even them.
hey now, if everyone were able to identify the actual risks involved with their everyday processes, I'd be out of a consulting job. Don't go trying to encourage people to make sane risk assessments! Not for a couple more years yet, at least - my goal of retiring on a beach in the Caribbean is too close!
Not only does the headline say it was a hoax, the very first line says it was a hoax.
Update! Sad news, friends. It turns out that one piece of the Ukrainian dolphin story is, in fact, a hoax.
The "one piece" is the idea that they were trained to kill, and that they escaped. So other than they not being killer, nor escaped, yes - there are dolphins. Good job, "Unknown Lamer"
last I checked, Kali was some sort of Hindu goddess with 4 arms, that likes to stick her tongue out. That might not be as old as a VPN tunnel though...
(After googling "kali," why did you pick that of all things as prior-name?)
What are you outside of etherspace...a journalist? Marketer? Bridge guard?
Interesting things are discussed quite often. Most the threads are about such. In them, they don't dispute the patents. You know this, but despite there being over 500 patent applications per day, for some reason having a couple per month trashed here makes you angry. "Free country" as the saying goes...but sounds like you could learn a little perspective...it might help you from flying off the handle so much. You're going to give yourself an aneurysm.
Oh, I wasn't aware slashdot discussed every patent filing. I had thought, for some reason, only some statistically completely irrelevant number was discussed. Silly me.
you didn't mention at all that the article says it is warmer than 75% of the last 11,000 - marked since the last ice age. Well yeah, we're warmer than the last ice age. A large part of that chunk of time should be completely eliminated for, well, being ice-age. But maybe I'm just an oil-industry shill; after all, my house is solar powered, and I refuse to own a car...
if losing substantial real estate on my desk just to have a substantially lower quality picture via a device that uses substantially more electricity and which causes problems for my eyes which an LCD wouldn't, for some reason means I should "turn in my geek card" - then fine. The display on my desk is 37" - getting an old CRT that big would mean 200lbs, 2' deep, hot, and tired eyes in minutes if I were anything closer than several feet away (ie - not a desk monitor). The display in my emtertainment room is 65" - I don't even want to think about what CRT might have ever been that large. Tell ya what, keep the geek card, sounds like I don't need it. I'd much rather - as I posted originally - have a 17" for $39.99 than deal with an old "free" CRT." I suppose if I don't ride a horse and carriage to work, I should turn in my geek card for that too?
for what you'd pay in electricity and labor in just a short order, you could make up for by buying higher-quality cheap LCDs...a quick scan at amazon shows there are new and refurbished lcds for $50. There's very little use for a CRT.
odd - I work for a company that makes "integrated operating rooms" - cameras everywhere that feed to secure locations, store for training, etc - where via touch or motion-sensing, those participating in the surgery can change the lighting hue(different colors are known to be better for particular surgeries) or brightness, change what camera feeds are on what screens, change the temperature in the room, change the audio feed for the music they're rockin out to - including integrating with itunes, pandora, etc to select channels...all while not compromising the surgical field. And it's for the military - something they're rolling out to practically every MTF in the US. What's the OR look like in your local hospical?
MS Office may likely still be around, but it likely won't look anything like it does now. If someone can't transition from having learned the generalized concept during grade school, to knowing specific applications during college, then...
So point remains - MS Office provides absolutely nothing that K-12 kids needs, but that google docs doesn't already provide. Further, with google docs they can collaborate easier - something our kids don't learn, even in college. They learn the opposite, really.
ps - I've used google docs professionally for years. LibreOffice has supplemented my use case without fail. This despite the fact that document review and creation is very important in my job.
ITIF is publishing - outright telling you - that they're not honoring the request...this, in contrast to the 99.99% of the sites which also don't honor the request, but who don't bother to tell you about it.
I know I'm just feeding a troll, taking the bait, etc blah...but, seriously? If we're going to be nice to animals, then it logically follows we have to be nice to robots? What huh? So lets assume we're restricting ourselves to "Kantian ethics" - on what planet does Kantian ethics care about how one appears? You have a moral obligation to do the right thing, in Kantian thinking - and for some of us, we're nice to animals not because of how it reflects on our humanity, but because said animals - like humans - have the ability to suffer. To a less degree and whatnot, sure, but that's not the point. And since they suffer, we have a moral duty to minimize that suffering. Now...on what planet does a robot suffer?
FTFA: "At least 3 factoriesâ"TSMD, SEHZ, and SSKMTâ"have been discovered hiring workers under 18 years of age"
Um...so? I was working at the age of 14, and had a normal non-farm job at the age of 16 (worked at a grocery store). Just because we don't expect people to be anything other than helpless children until age 26 or so these days, doesn't mean that less than 26 years ago teens had jobs. And while yes, it wasn't until I was 19 that I worked at a factory, it really didn't kill me. For serious.
my ego? While you're white-knighting someone who doesn't need defending, stating things which aren't correct? Windows started out as a gaming-capable platform. Linux did not. That can't be contested. That doesn't mean Windows was, in any way, better...at anything other than, perhaps, gaming. Further, if a new platform came out 30 seconds ago that was tested to be the best platform to ever exist - already had full support of all devices on the planet, could already run every game written for every platform - then hey, it would be a good thing to use for gaming perhaps. Point is, even if your completely incorrect apples/oranges dates were in fact correct, your argument would be completely irrelevant. Something doesn't need to be around for 10, 12, 15 years to be a successful gaming platform. Case in point - 230 million people (supposedly) have played games on facebook. That is more than the total number of all PS3s, XBox 360s, and Wiis sold - world wide - combined. Facebook is 8 years old. (disclaimer - I'd never play a game on facebook, myself...not that I actually get on fb much anyway, sometimes months go by without nary a glance).
Just because someone disagrees with you, doesn't mean they are the one with the ego problem. If you think your arguments are untouchable even if the facts contained within are incorrect, then...
"If the charge is off, you have no proof, no way of coming back, nothing at all."
You must have really, really horrible credit cards. Get an AMEX. If a charge is off, call them - they'll fix it. I even had a situation where a mechanic shop charged me $1k for/not fixing/ my harley, so after a bit of protesting I walked out the door, called AMEX, and let them handle it. I did have to send in a little form defending my protest of the charge, but only because it was $1k, versus the $10 charge for a $3 coffee that would be much faster. The business is the one who is responsible for creating an audit trail they can not modify - when have you ever used the slip of paper (which fades to unlegible in microseconds anyway) to protest a charge after the fact?
eh, you're right, 1994 (I even still have my infomagic cd box that has mother's day on it). Which, as it so happens, is still before 1997. I myself was using Slackware in 93 anyway, didn't use RH until almost a decade later.
I disagree that you're defending Linux. You're pretending that the date of release matters in a discussion about gaming platforms - it doesn't, not at this point. Linux wasn't intended for mainstream desktop use for many years, so it's largely irrelevant what year it originally came out. That it is used as a primary desktop platform by millions now is the important bit. What year did that start? Meh, dunno. Haven't tended to worry about what others are using for their desktop OS. But it has at least been long enough for it to not be an excuse anymore - XP isn't the same as Win7, after all - and widespread linux desktop use was already starting prior to XP release.
uhh....it was most certainly not his "personal toy" until 1997. RedHat came out in 1993, I was using it for an ISP I owned 93-95, and many many other people were doing lots and lots of things with it. It stopped being his "personal toy" early 1993.
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And how many of the parts that you finished were then subjected to the stresses involved on the cone of a missle?
whoosh?
This makes me want to jump off a building....
Is English not your first language? (honest question, sometimes nuances can be lost) "As small as a grain of sand" is just a phrase, used to denote something tiny. Sounds like a word or such just got left out of the phrase - I can assure you they're not trying to use actual sand for fusion. Redmond may have nutjobs living there, but doing that would be beyond even them.
oh, yeah, shoot - forgot it is 01/04 - aka the day to stay away from /.
hey now, if everyone were able to identify the actual risks involved with their everyday processes, I'd be out of a consulting job. Don't go trying to encourage people to make sane risk assessments! Not for a couple more years yet, at least - my goal of retiring on a beach in the Caribbean is too close!
I'm just funny that way....
The "one piece" is the idea that they were trained to kill, and that they escaped. So other than they not being killer, nor escaped, yes - there are dolphins. Good job, "Unknown Lamer"
(After googling "kali," why did you pick that of all things as prior-name?)
Interesting things are discussed quite often. Most the threads are about such. In them, they don't dispute the patents. You know this, but despite there being over 500 patent applications per day, for some reason having a couple per month trashed here makes you angry. "Free country" as the saying goes...but sounds like you could learn a little perspective...it might help you from flying off the handle so much. You're going to give yourself an aneurysm.
Oh, I wasn't aware slashdot discussed every patent filing. I had thought, for some reason, only some statistically completely irrelevant number was discussed. Silly me.
you didn't mention at all that the article says it is warmer than 75% of the last 11,000 - marked since the last ice age. Well yeah, we're warmer than the last ice age. A large part of that chunk of time should be completely eliminated for, well, being ice-age. But maybe I'm just an oil-industry shill; after all, my house is solar powered, and I refuse to own a car...
(looks up a recent picture) ...wow. I err...yeah. That's sad. How did...man, I should stop drinking...
if losing substantial real estate on my desk just to have a substantially lower quality picture via a device that uses substantially more electricity and which causes problems for my eyes which an LCD wouldn't, for some reason means I should "turn in my geek card" - then fine. The display on my desk is 37" - getting an old CRT that big would mean 200lbs, 2' deep, hot, and tired eyes in minutes if I were anything closer than several feet away (ie - not a desk monitor). The display in my emtertainment room is 65" - I don't even want to think about what CRT might have ever been that large. Tell ya what, keep the geek card, sounds like I don't need it. I'd much rather - as I posted originally - have a 17" for $39.99 than deal with an old "free" CRT." I suppose if I don't ride a horse and carriage to work, I should turn in my geek card for that too?
for what you'd pay in electricity and labor in just a short order, you could make up for by buying higher-quality cheap LCDs...a quick scan at amazon shows there are new and refurbished lcds for $50. There's very little use for a CRT.
odd - I work for a company that makes "integrated operating rooms" - cameras everywhere that feed to secure locations, store for training, etc - where via touch or motion-sensing, those participating in the surgery can change the lighting hue(different colors are known to be better for particular surgeries) or brightness, change what camera feeds are on what screens, change the temperature in the room, change the audio feed for the music they're rockin out to - including integrating with itunes, pandora, etc to select channels...all while not compromising the surgical field. And it's for the military - something they're rolling out to practically every MTF in the US. What's the OR look like in your local hospical?
MS Office may likely still be around, but it likely won't look anything like it does now. If someone can't transition from having learned the generalized concept during grade school, to knowing specific applications during college, then... So point remains - MS Office provides absolutely nothing that K-12 kids needs, but that google docs doesn't already provide. Further, with google docs they can collaborate easier - something our kids don't learn, even in college. They learn the opposite, really. ps - I've used google docs professionally for years. LibreOffice has supplemented my use case without fail. This despite the fact that document review and creation is very important in my job.
ITIF is publishing - outright telling you - that they're not honoring the request...this, in contrast to the 99.99% of the sites which also don't honor the request, but who don't bother to tell you about it.
and here I was just thinking it was one of the reasons I left facebook (again...).
I know I'm just feeding a troll, taking the bait, etc blah...but, seriously? If we're going to be nice to animals, then it logically follows we have to be nice to robots? What huh? So lets assume we're restricting ourselves to "Kantian ethics" - on what planet does Kantian ethics care about how one appears? You have a moral obligation to do the right thing, in Kantian thinking - and for some of us, we're nice to animals not because of how it reflects on our humanity, but because said animals - like humans - have the ability to suffer. To a less degree and whatnot, sure, but that's not the point. And since they suffer, we have a moral duty to minimize that suffering. Now...on what planet does a robot suffer?
Um...so? I was working at the age of 14, and had a normal non-farm job at the age of 16 (worked at a grocery store). Just because we don't expect people to be anything other than helpless children until age 26 or so these days, doesn't mean that less than 26 years ago teens had jobs. And while yes, it wasn't until I was 19 that I worked at a factory, it really didn't kill me. For serious.
Just because someone disagrees with you, doesn't mean they are the one with the ego problem. If you think your arguments are untouchable even if the facts contained within are incorrect, then...
You must have really, really horrible credit cards. Get an AMEX. If a charge is off, call them - they'll fix it. I even had a situation where a mechanic shop charged me $1k for /not fixing/ my harley, so after a bit of protesting I walked out the door, called AMEX, and let them handle it. I did have to send in a little form defending my protest of the charge, but only because it was $1k, versus the $10 charge for a $3 coffee that would be much faster. The business is the one who is responsible for creating an audit trail they can not modify - when have you ever used the slip of paper (which fades to unlegible in microseconds anyway) to protest a charge after the fact?
I disagree that you're defending Linux. You're pretending that the date of release matters in a discussion about gaming platforms - it doesn't, not at this point. Linux wasn't intended for mainstream desktop use for many years, so it's largely irrelevant what year it originally came out. That it is used as a primary desktop platform by millions now is the important bit. What year did that start? Meh, dunno. Haven't tended to worry about what others are using for their desktop OS. But it has at least been long enough for it to not be an excuse anymore - XP isn't the same as Win7, after all - and widespread linux desktop use was already starting prior to XP release.
uhh....it was most certainly not his "personal toy" until 1997. RedHat came out in 1993, I was using it for an ISP I owned 93-95, and many many other people were doing lots and lots of things with it. It stopped being his "personal toy" early 1993.