What about when the SSD craps out? Then it's back to Apple, (or at least to a third-party shop), for an undoubtedly expensive repair job.
Dunno, what about it? Maybe like the time the hinge on my 1stGen MBA broke – out of warrantee – and Apple's charge to fix it was... wait for it... nothing. Or the time my son's 2008 MBPro graphics card died – also out of warrantee – and Apple's charge to repair that... wait for it... also nothing.
But you know, you've already made up your mind, so hate on.
Faxes and newsletters? What century are these companies living in?
Faxes are still in daily use by government bureaucracies, and businesses that interact with the government, including lawyers and doctors. If a bank it using faxes, it is only because they are required to use faxes by some compliance checklist.
We're talking about video conferencing for a shipping – i.e. cargo container ships – company; and faxes and newsletters for banks, that could use web servers on the corporate intranet for those sorts of things. Those were the examples given, and those were specifically what I was responding to. Oh, BTW, my banks seem perfectly happy to email PDFs around for most things, which can be more secure than any FAX could ever be. Even my doctor sends me plain text files and PDFs by putting them on a secure server that I download from. Unless you have something more specific than a general waving your hands around and saying "stuff that has to be faxed" then your argument seems pretty weak to me. What exactly is this "stuff" that you're referring to?
So there is no way that they could switch to "Workplace" simply because it was more convenient.
Oh, so you agree with me that switching to Workplace is a joke? First you imply that I'm all wet, then you agree with me. Which is it?
"We've been amazed by the breadth of organizations who've embraced Workplace -- from a shipping company that can now connect with their ship crews using Live video, to a bank that now uses Workplace instead of fax machines and newsletters to share updates with its distributed bank branches,"
Which shipping company? Which bank? I want to short their stock. Connect with live video? Srsly? How long have Skype, FaceTime, and Google Hangouts been around? Faxes and newsletters? What century are these companies living in?
I should probably short Facebook too while I'm at it.
Have they thought what this might do to low-income or fixed-income individuals who can't afford a car and suddenly left without transportation?
Banning new ICEs doesn't mean the existing stock of cars with ICEs ceases to exist overnight.
And you seem to be overlooking the fact that Germany has a very extensive and very effective public transit system. I'd wager, if the Germans are anything like my other European colleagues, that many don't even own cars because they don't need to own a car. If you can't afford – or choose not – to own a car in Germany it doesn't mean you're trapped, not like it does here in the U.S.
Being old is a huge issue. Google will learn from this though, they won't even bring in programmers for interviews if they're 40 or older, and if they can't be sure, they won't take the chance.
News to me. I'm over 50 and have had a couple interviews with the googs. But I have a job I like and wasn't terribly interested in the job they were trying to fill, so I wasn't disappointed when the interviews didn't advance to the next round. In fact one of their recruiters just left me a message last week trying to get me to bite....
But maybe I could join the suit anyway – just for shits and giggles – on the basis that they didn't hire me because I'm over 40.
But I have a theory that a lot of these fishing expeditions are just to lure talent away and disrupt other companies. Google, if that's what you're doing, just make an offer. I'm not interested in fucking around with bogus interviews. You can see my work in FOSS going back 25 years. It's all in git, cvs, etc.. If your offer is good enough I might even accept it.
This raises the inevitable question. If we ever could clone a prehistoric species...should we?
Perhaps we could focus on saving the fauna we have now that is on the verge of going extinct from a variety of reasons. E.g. the African megafauna that is being poached and other species whose habitat is disappearing.
The production of Space Patrol Orion predates Star Trek by roughly a year
I guess production is the magic word.
Because we already celebrated Star Trek's 50th this year. And somehow this show – which also aired in 1966 if we're celebrating its 50th now – predates Star Trek.
Wish I had mod points. I never seem to have them when I want to use them.
I'm like you, I want to see pics my friends post and hear about what they're doing. I have a few friends who have never mastered email or sharing pics, but fb works pretty good for them.
And in the mean time I'll wait for a better version of AdBlockPro.
Yes, absorbing light from ultraviolet and infrared part of the spectrum too. That is visible light for some species, and humans with the right hardware.
But how can something be hot and not emit infrared, a.k.a. heat, and somehow make steam from this heat/infrared that it's not emitting?
Uhm... The 'bad' OS X user land is from FreeBSD, so I'm not sure what you're talking about.
IIRC, a few years ago someone analyzed the rcsid strings in the OS X user land and found that at that point in time it was a mix of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
so who uses it? Almost no-one.
Lets see:
Routers/Switches from Juniper Networks... its the base for their OS
NetApp... its the base OS for their filers
F5... its the OS and networking stack for the Big IP load balancers
Apple... as you got so wrong, it is the source for parts of the OS X Userland
Linux... countless items of source used in various Linux improvements (Its goes both ways were possible, not hating on Linux or bragging about FBSD here)
Sony... Guess what powers the Playstation... thats right, FreeBSD, and its very obvious on any development kit for it.
Those are just the ones that I can think of in the span of a minute or so.
You forgot probably the single biggest: Google Android. The Android kernel is Linux, but the user land is BSD. Don't know whose. I'll leave that as an exercise.
I'll probably be retiring in another eleven years, presuming I can remain employed for the duration. Between Social Security and what I've saved so far, I'll need another $2-3M in order to have the same income in retirement that I have now.
It might be argued that I don't, or won't, need to have the same income. Personally, I don't want to test that theory. And I pity those who have saved less than me, or worse, who have saved nothing.
But I agree, I don't believe anyone needs $78B. If he can't figure out how to give it away faster by himself, I'm sure some other people can help out. (When the revolution comes, he'll be one of the first up against the wall. I'm positive of that much.)
okay, so animals are flourishing. But I suspect you're not going to get too many people willing to staff a nuclear power plant 24/7 in the Exclusion Zone, even if it's not in the Black Zone. Or government approval for it.
A solar farm, OTOH, that doesn't need 24/7 supervision, seems like a great idea.
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What about when the SSD craps out? Then it's back to Apple, (or at least to a third-party shop), for an undoubtedly expensive repair job.
Dunno, what about it? Maybe like the time the hinge on my 1stGen MBA broke – out of warrantee – and Apple's charge to fix it was... wait for it... nothing. Or the time my son's 2008 MBPro graphics card died – also out of warrantee – and Apple's charge to repair that... wait for it... also nothing.
But you know, you've already made up your mind, so hate on.
Where are you getting the energy to perform this process?
It needs heat. Geothermal and solar come to mind.
Don't quit your day job.
I can buy solar panels to charge the Tesla I don't have, or charge the Powerwall I don't have, or to power my house and put electricity into the grid.
And I don't have to buy them from Tesla – there are plenty of other sellers out there.
Faxes and newsletters? What century are these companies living in?
Faxes are still in daily use by government bureaucracies, and businesses that interact with the government, including lawyers and doctors. If a bank it using faxes, it is only because they are required to use faxes by some compliance checklist.
We're talking about video conferencing for a shipping – i.e. cargo container ships – company; and faxes and newsletters for banks, that could use web servers on the corporate intranet for those sorts of things. Those were the examples given, and those were specifically what I was responding to. Oh, BTW, my banks seem perfectly happy to email PDFs around for most things, which can be more secure than any FAX could ever be. Even my doctor sends me plain text files and PDFs by putting them on a secure server that I download from. Unless you have something more specific than a general waving your hands around and saying "stuff that has to be faxed" then your argument seems pretty weak to me. What exactly is this "stuff" that you're referring to?
So there is no way that they could switch to "Workplace" simply because it was more convenient.
Oh, so you agree with me that switching to Workplace is a joke? First you imply that I'm all wet, then you agree with me. Which is it?
"We've been amazed by the breadth of organizations who've embraced Workplace -- from a shipping company that can now connect with their ship crews using Live video, to a bank that now uses Workplace instead of fax machines and newsletters to share updates with its distributed bank branches,"
Which shipping company? Which bank? I want to short their stock. Connect with live video? Srsly? How long have Skype, FaceTime, and Google Hangouts been around? Faxes and newsletters? What century are these companies living in?
I should probably short Facebook too while I'm at it.
Have they thought what this might do to low-income or fixed-income individuals who can't afford a car and suddenly left without transportation?
Banning new ICEs doesn't mean the existing stock of cars with ICEs ceases to exist overnight.
And you seem to be overlooking the fact that Germany has a very extensive and very effective public transit system. I'd wager, if the Germans are anything like my other European colleagues, that many don't even own cars because they don't need to own a car. If you can't afford – or choose not – to own a car in Germany it doesn't mean you're trapped, not like it does here in the U.S.
Being white and male isn't an issue, it's a pro.
Being old is a huge issue. Google will learn from this though, they won't even bring in programmers for interviews if they're 40 or older, and if they can't be sure, they won't take the chance.
News to me. I'm over 50 and have had a couple interviews with the googs. But I have a job I like and wasn't terribly interested in the job they were trying to fill, so I wasn't disappointed when the interviews didn't advance to the next round. In fact one of their recruiters just left me a message last week trying to get me to bite....
But maybe I could join the suit anyway – just for shits and giggles – on the basis that they didn't hire me because I'm over 40.
But I have a theory that a lot of these fishing expeditions are just to lure talent away and disrupt other companies. Google, if that's what you're doing, just make an offer. I'm not interested in fucking around with bogus interviews. You can see my work in FOSS going back 25 years. It's all in git, cvs, etc.. If your offer is good enough I might even accept it.
Yeah, thanks. It was a rhetorical question. It was more a poke at what passes for /. editing.
A little earlier we were told that the US is no. 4 on the list of polluters (sic) in the post[1] on reservoirs as a source of greenhouse gases.
So which is it?
[1] https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
Not sure what your point is. Nobody "here" know about Space Patrol Orion until yesterday. By your logic then it's the newer show.
This raises the inevitable question. If we ever could clone a prehistoric species...should we?
Perhaps we could focus on saving the fauna we have now that is on the verge of going extinct from a variety of reasons. E.g. the African megafauna that is being poached and other species whose habitat is disappearing.
What do you think?
The production of Space Patrol Orion predates Star Trek by roughly a year
I guess production is the magic word.
Because we already celebrated Star Trek's 50th this year. And somehow this show – which also aired in 1966 if we're celebrating its 50th now – predates Star Trek.
There was a We The People (Whitehouse.gov) petition back in 2013 to pardon Snowden.
It took the Whitehouse two years to respond; they said no. It seems really unlikely – to me – that Obama will change his mind at this point.
Snowden is lucky that Putin was around and so "accommodating."
The Whitehouse site won't show the petition for some reason, for me anyway; there are several summaries around, e.g. http://time.com/3974713/white-...
Wish I had mod points. I never seem to have them when I want to use them.
I'm like you, I want to see pics my friends post and hear about what they're doing. I have a few friends who have never mastered email or sharing pics, but fb works pretty good for them.
And in the mean time I'll wait for a better version of AdBlockPro.
Yes, absorbing light from ultraviolet and infrared part of the spectrum too. That is visible light for some species, and humans with the right hardware.
But how can something be hot and not emit infrared, a.k.a. heat, and somehow make steam from this heat/infrared that it's not emitting?
"a material that both absorbs the solar portion of the electromagnetic spectrum well and emits little back as infrared heat energy"
The "solar portion of the electromagnetic spectrum" ? Is that trying to say "visible light" ?
And "...emits little back as infrared heat energy ..." ? (This part brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department?)
Isn't the point of the device to emit more infrared?
I dunno, better batteries sounds great, but how about just putting decent batteries that are already available in his overpriced vacuum cleaners?
I mean Jebus, the fscking $300 handheld Dyson I have doesn't even last for 15 minutes. In the mean time my Ryobi tools run for hours on a charge.
Take a dump? Srsly? If not four miles off shore, where exactly would you put them?
Fucking NIMBYs. Fucking billionaire NIMBYs that think they can afford to keep pumping CO2 into the atmosphere.
Because they actually can afford it, and to hell with everyone else.
If it was 150 years ago they'd probably be whining about all the damn ships. With sails. Sailing through their view.
Spreading FUD? Got an agenda? David Koch, is that you?
http://www.aweablog.org/fact-check-about-those-abandoned-turbines/ (Yeah, yeah, it's on the Internet, so it must be true.)
One failed wind farm is hardly a reason why wind farms are necessarily a bad thing.
Or bourdeaux? Or boudoir?
Its not even the BSD used by macs
Uhm ... The 'bad' OS X user land is from FreeBSD, so I'm not sure what you're talking about.
IIRC, a few years ago someone analyzed the rcsid strings in the OS X user land and found that at that point in time it was a mix of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
so who uses it? Almost no-one.
Lets see: Routers/Switches from Juniper Networks ... its the base for their OS
NetApp ... its the base OS for their filers
F5 ... its the OS and networking stack for the Big IP load balancers
Apple ... as you got so wrong, it is the source for parts of the OS X Userland
Linux ... countless items of source used in various Linux improvements (Its goes both ways were possible, not hating on Linux or bragging about FBSD here)
Sony ... Guess what powers the Playstation ... thats right, FreeBSD, and its very obvious on any development kit for it.
Those are just the ones that I can think of in the span of a minute or so.
You forgot probably the single biggest: Google Android. The Android kernel is Linux, but the user land is BSD. Don't know whose. I'll leave that as an exercise.
Then the government can come to me – with a warrant – if they want me to decrypt my data for them.
I don't store my encryption key on the server with the data.
I'll probably be retiring in another eleven years, presuming I can remain employed for the duration. Between Social Security and what I've saved so far, I'll need another $2-3M in order to have the same income in retirement that I have now.
It might be argued that I don't, or won't, need to have the same income. Personally, I don't want to test that theory. And I pity those who have saved less than me, or worse, who have saved nothing.
But I agree, I don't believe anyone needs $78B. If he can't figure out how to give it away faster by himself, I'm sure some other people can help out. (When the revolution comes, he'll be one of the first up against the wall. I'm positive of that much.)
When I use the GPS on my iPhone5 it gets hot. (And it eats the battery.)
The last thing I want is something hot on my wrist unless it's 0C. (Which is hardly ever.)
And will /. ever enter the 21st Century and let me enter a fricken degree sign?
okay, so animals are flourishing. But I suspect you're not going to get too many people willing to staff a nuclear power plant 24/7 in the Exclusion Zone, even if it's not in the Black Zone. Or government approval for it.
A solar farm, OTOH, that doesn't need 24/7 supervision, seems like a great idea.