Are we planning to produce extremely high speed objects in the future? Think anyone else might be able to produce extremely high speed objects? Think they can aim an extremely high speed object at a distant planet?
Mmm, Heinlein. How about boxcars full of rocks lobbed from the Moon?
Me, I'd start with something big out in the Oort Cloud, aim it to slingshot past Saturn toward Jupiter then Mars (if possible). It ought to be moving at a pretty good clip by then.
... proving some/.ers are thirteen year old brats and are only here 'cause their Mom won't let 'em hang out with their bratty friends anymore, 'cause they're grounded.
Someone might come up with a way of diverting certain death some day.
True, but it certainly won't be me. Way outside my area of expertise.
Hell, man, try anyway. Did a nuclear physicist or rocket scientist invent the wheel, the bow and arrow, or the mousetrap? You may not know how to implement the idea, but that's where others come in. Teamwork.
Brilliant insights that never occured to the masters came out of the peanut gallery lots of times down through history. See my.sig:-)
Blocking error prevents conversations from drifting into wrongness.
I'm fine with that. But Frosty Piss didn't do that - he just made what seems like a pedantic remark. A useful correction would make at least a small effort to state why the correction was important.
I think a useful reaction would be for the corrected one to notice they didn't understand the distinction between patents and trademarks, and to then hit a search engine for enlightenment. Instead, they shoot the messenger.
Anyone who's spent any time around here ought to know the difference between the two by now. FP handed him a clue, and was derided for it. Thanks a lot. Not.
The database in question is just a list of what everybody around the world would type in.
... mixed in with a whole bunch of local politics. In Canada, Newfoundland is half an hour off the next time zone. Saskatchewan doesn't do DST. Etc., etc. Check into Brazil's troubles the last time DST was defined. It was a mess.
Don't mean to be impolite...but, you could start...paying for things
Actually, you often can't. The content industry has pushed for region coding, meaning that you can't import US DVDs and watch them in Australia.
Really? I get DVDs sent to me from friends in Europe all the time as gifts. I've no trouble playing them. On my Linux box, of course. They, of course, won't play in my DVD player box, but Linux/FLOSS doesn't give a rat's ass about Region Encoding garbage.
Don't use a Broken By Design operating system on your computer, and you can too. We Linux fanbois have been screaming this at you for close to two decades!
technically, what you are doing is just as illegal as torrenting the movie.
Then the law's an ass, and I can't help with that. The DVDs were legally purchased. I'm not pirating. The person who sent them to me didn't pirate them. I'm just finding a way to play stuff that was sent to me as gifts. If that's infringing or illegal, that's insane.
The producers are stupidly asserting rights they've no moral or ethical right to assert. Why should anyone give a flying !@#$ about them and their insane rules if that's the way they think it ought to work? They're clearly attempting to rewrite reality for some bizarre reason known only to themselves. They need to evolve and learn how the 21st Century works, not insist we stay within their obsolete world view.
Damn, this sounds like the Vatican vs. Galileo problem, all over again. Sick.
Just think, what, forty years ago he designed a programming language in order to port an operating system that would eventually run on everything from PDP-11's through cell phones, so they could play a computer game on (then) new hardware.
It's not just that C is the second most common programming language: Most of the other languages are actually written in C. That includes Perl, Python, and PHP.
Not only that, but realistically you have to count embedded systems, not just personal computing devices. By that measure, C is still by far the most popular programming language on the planet.
Add SCADA. That controls the most powerful systems our civilization depends on.
'Tis better to be thought a fool and remain silent, than to open one's mouth and confirm it to all the world. That ass spoke volumes about himself, and anyone like him.
What I'd like to know is, why are we *still* producing people like him?!? When was MLK assassinated again? Did the blacks ask to be kidnapped into slavery? Who's really at fault here?
The Spartans were right. Toss the defective ones off a cliff to put 'em out of their misery. We'd be doing them a favour.
... that's been plenty good enough to unleash the full force and effect of the US court system on their targets.
Pull out a map of North America, then locate Vancouver. See that 49th parallel below it? Do you feel that clue starting to tickle and rattle around in your head yet? Take your time. No hurry.
It's like they're creating a big holiday for a guy who happened to build a bunch of [buildings] because they were really nice while at the same time ignoring the death of the guy who invented the concrete that is the basis for the construction that everybody uses, including that first guy.(Go ahead everybody, come up with your own analogy, it's fun.)
Huh. I saw pretty much the same analogy posted in comments on ArsTechnica the other day. Paraphrasing, "Steve was like a gifted architect who oversaw the creation of buildings that many appreciated. dmr invented glass, concrete, and steel."
I love that analogy. It gives them both their due in equivalent proportions. Apple hardware and software is pretty, robust, and sells ridiculously well. dmr's stuff just fscking works, elegantly and quietly, as he intended.
Just think, what, forty years ago he designed a programming language in order to port an operating system that would eventually run on everything from PDP-11's through cell phones, so they could play a computer game on (then) new hardware.
Who but dmr comes up with !@#$ like that? That was a class act.
I still haven't seen any mention of his passing in my newspaper. He's like a ghost in the machine, just as he always intended. Awesome.
Considering Earth's history, we ought to be taking Extinction Level Events more seriously. This ought to be humanity's main priority
No way. Complete human extinction events are so incredibly unlikely that we should not be spending insane amounts of resources to prevent that.
Earth's already gone through, what, five of them, and now we're capable of producing our own via the numerous nuclear arsenals out there, not to mention people fiddling with bio-weaponry. Considering how smart people and politicians are, do you really want to leave this to the last? The downside is way bigger than the cost.
I'm not a gamer at all, but thanks for steering me away from bioshock anyway. 'Sounds abysmal.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, Son. This shit isn't going to fly. I won't read anything else you say until you take that back.
Sorry pal. My computer game is *nix; way the f*** more interesting to me. You're welcome to gaming, but I won't go there. I classify it as fritterware; it lets you to fritter your life away. I do like "Go", though. [That reminds me, "apt-get install cgoban".:-)]
Besides, I'm still in mourning for dmr, so get off my case, er, lawn.
But if we are going to do that, we are better [off] staying out of a gravity well.
Agree. We ought to be mining the asteroid belt, building vast tin cans filled with habitable environments, spinning to provide gravity.
I'm sure that'd be a lot simpler than terraforming, though there'd still be a lot of things to work out, such as shielding from cosmic rays, holding in enough atmosphere at Earth air pressure (it'd be a bomb out there, after all), and any number of "what if"s that the engineers/planners fail to anticipate. "What, there's no calcium to be found in the Asteroid Belt?!?"
Still better than holding all our eggs in one bucket (Earth) as we are now. Considering Earth's history, we ought to be taking Extinction Level Events more seriously. This ought to be humanity's main priority.
That would be the Randtard antagonist in the game Bioshock, of whom you sound like you are quoting.
That's kind of funny, considering I am a bit of a Randroid. I'm not a gamer at all, but thanks for steering me away from bioshock anyway. 'Sounds abysmal.
Still, you are putting words in my mouth. My argument could just as easily be interpreted as advocating a boycott, given that I did not mention piracy at all, only that buying from them was rewarding their extortionistic use of the legal system. You could have understood that perhaps, if you were less confrontational and rude.
I could have interpreted it to be a Caeser salad, but it might have been simpler for us both for you say what you meant instead of hoping I'd just muddle through and get it inspite of that.
I do advocate boycotting them, though I know it'll make little difference, and I agree with your "extortionate use of the legal system" bit. The *AAs are the real pirates, using our democracies' politicians and legal systems against us in order to line their pockets while refusing to accept changing market conditions, all the while blaming their failures on others.
I don't think I was at all rude. If you do, maybe you should complain to Webster's Dictionary, which is what I quoted ("dict sponge" on a Linux box). On the other hand, "Randtard" sounds pretty rude, and not a little childish.
Kill someone.... Make them fear for their lives and the lives of their families, 24/7, and you will make a difference. If you're not prepared to kill in order to preserve internet freedom, then you do not deserve it.
You first. Holy hyperbole, Batman! Premeditated murder to protect your right to be a leech? That's your answer?!?
[WRT your.sig: I'd consider it an honour to be given the chance to beat the crap out of the likes of you.]
Don't mean to be impolite...but, you could start...paying for things
Actually, you often can't. The content industry has pushed for region coding, meaning that you can't import US DVDs and watch them in Australia.
Really? I get DVDs sent to me from friends in Europe all the time as gifts. I've no trouble playing them. On my Linux box, of course. They, of course, won't play in my DVD player box, but Linux/FLOSS doesn't give a rat's ass about Region Encoding garbage.
Don't use a Broken By Design operating system on your computer, and you can too. We Linux fanbois have been screaming this at you for close to two decades!
[Methinks you really ought to change your.sig now too.]
I'm Australian. The two things that make the news at the moment are this new Carbon Tax and illegal immigration by sea.
As much as I'd like to see this make the news, it won't.
Consider writing some emails? Newspapers, radio & tv stations, your elected reps, the loyal opposition, the local uni student's union, EFF Australia (if it exists?), & etc?
Slashdot Mirror
It happened ...
Please, learn to quote. I had to page up five times just to find out what you were referring to. <quote>blah blah blah</quote>
Thanks. Much appreciated.
You've never used a full-sized Blackberry (Bold, Tour), have you?
So, it was the fault of them not using full-sized keyboard BBs that was the problem? And you now feel safe texting while driving?
Are we planning to produce extremely high speed objects in the future? Think anyone else might be able to produce extremely high speed objects? Think they can aim an extremely high speed object at a distant planet?
Mmm, Heinlein. How about boxcars full of rocks lobbed from the Moon?
Me, I'd start with something big out in the Oort Cloud, aim it to slingshot past Saturn toward Jupiter then Mars (if possible). It ought to be moving at a pretty good clip by then.
Bryan with a y is gay ...
... proving some /.ers are thirteen year old brats and are only here 'cause their Mom won't let 'em hang out with their bratty friends anymore, 'cause they're grounded.
Someone might come up with a way of diverting certain death some day.
True, but it certainly won't be me. Way outside my area of expertise.
Hell, man, try anyway. Did a nuclear physicist or rocket scientist invent the wheel, the bow and arrow, or the mousetrap? You may not know how to implement the idea, but that's where others come in. Teamwork.
Brilliant insights that never occured to the masters came out of the peanut gallery lots of times down through history. See my .sig :-)
Blocking error prevents conversations from drifting into wrongness.
I'm fine with that. But Frosty Piss didn't do that - he just made what seems like a pedantic remark. A useful correction would make at least a small effort to state why the correction was important.
I think a useful reaction would be for the corrected one to notice they didn't understand the distinction between patents and trademarks, and to then hit a search engine for enlightenment. Instead, they shoot the messenger.
Anyone who's spent any time around here ought to know the difference between the two by now. FP handed him a clue, and was derided for it. Thanks a lot. Not.
The database in question is just a list of what everybody around the world would type in.
... mixed in with a whole bunch of local politics. In Canada, Newfoundland is half an hour off the next time zone. Saskatchewan doesn't do DST. Etc., etc. Check into Brazil's troubles the last time DST was defined. It was a mess.
oh lord the semantics police are on their way as we speak, red and blue lights whirling around like confused birds.
Well, excuse us for wanting to be correct. Do you enjoy it there in your misty, clouded, can't really see anything, "HOLY SHIT A BUS!" universe?
You work with tech? Do you program? What's your compiler say when you're lazy like this? It's people like you that keep helldesks [sic] busy.
Don't mean to be impolite...but, you could start...paying for things
Actually, you often can't. The content industry has pushed for region coding, meaning that you can't import US DVDs and watch them in Australia.
Really? I get DVDs sent to me from friends in Europe all the time as gifts. I've no trouble playing them. On my Linux box, of course. They, of course, won't play in my DVD player box, but Linux/FLOSS doesn't give a rat's ass about Region Encoding garbage.
Don't use a Broken By Design operating system on your computer, and you can too. We Linux fanbois have been screaming this at you for close to two decades!
technically, what you are doing is just as illegal as torrenting the movie.
Then the law's an ass, and I can't help with that. The DVDs were legally purchased. I'm not pirating. The person who sent them to me didn't pirate them. I'm just finding a way to play stuff that was sent to me as gifts. If that's infringing or illegal, that's insane.
The producers are stupidly asserting rights they've no moral or ethical right to assert. Why should anyone give a flying !@#$ about them and their insane rules if that's the way they think it ought to work? They're clearly attempting to rewrite reality for some bizarre reason known only to themselves. They need to evolve and learn how the 21st Century works, not insist we stay within their obsolete world view.
Damn, this sounds like the Vatican vs. Galileo problem, all over again. Sick.
Just think, what, forty years ago he designed a programming language in order to port an operating system that would eventually run on everything from PDP-11's through cell phones, so they could play a computer game on (then) new hardware.
It's not just that C is the second most common programming language: Most of the other languages are actually written in C. That includes Perl, Python, and PHP.
Not only that, but realistically you have to count embedded systems, not just personal computing devices. By that measure, C is still by far the most popular programming language on the planet.
Add SCADA. That controls the most powerful systems our civilization depends on.
'Tis better to be thought a fool and remain silent, than to open one's mouth and confirm it to all the world. That ass spoke volumes about himself, and anyone like him.
What I'd like to know is, why are we *still* producing people like him?!? When was MLK assassinated again? Did the blacks ask to be kidnapped into slavery? Who's really at fault here?
The Spartans were right. Toss the defective ones off a cliff to put 'em out of their misery. We'd be doing them a favour.
... that's been plenty good enough to unleash the full force and effect of the US court system on their targets.
Pull out a map of North America, then locate Vancouver. See that 49th parallel below it? Do you feel that clue starting to tickle and rattle around in your head yet? Take your time. No hurry.
I have no doubt that there would be much less chatter about Dennis Ritchie's death were Steve Jobs still alive.
If you'd grown up with him (dmr) like some of us did, you wouldn't be spouting BS like that.
It's like they're creating a big holiday for a guy who happened to build a bunch of [buildings] because they were really nice while at the same time ignoring the death of the guy who invented the concrete that is the basis for the construction that everybody uses, including that first guy.(Go ahead everybody, come up with your own analogy, it's fun.)
Huh. I saw pretty much the same analogy posted in comments on ArsTechnica the other day. Paraphrasing, "Steve was like a gifted architect who oversaw the creation of buildings that many appreciated. dmr invented glass, concrete, and steel."
I love that analogy. It gives them both their due in equivalent proportions. Apple hardware and software is pretty, robust, and sells ridiculously well. dmr's stuff just fscking works, elegantly and quietly, as he intended.
He didn't look nor act like a magician ...
That was the best part of his act.
Just think, what, forty years ago he designed a programming language in order to port an operating system that would eventually run on everything from PDP-11's through cell phones, so they could play a computer game on (then) new hardware.
Who but dmr comes up with !@#$ like that? That was a class act.
I still haven't seen any mention of his passing in my newspaper. He's like a ghost in the machine, just as he always intended. Awesome.
Considering Earth's history, we ought to be taking Extinction Level Events more seriously. This ought to be humanity's main priority
No way. Complete human extinction events are so incredibly unlikely that we should not be spending insane amounts of resources to prevent that.
Earth's already gone through, what, five of them, and now we're capable of producing our own via the numerous nuclear arsenals out there, not to mention people fiddling with bio-weaponry. Considering how smart people and politicians are, do you really want to leave this to the last? The downside is way bigger than the cost.
I'm not a gamer at all, but thanks for steering me away from bioshock anyway. 'Sounds abysmal.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, Son. This shit isn't going to fly. I won't read anything else you say until you take that back.
Sorry pal. My computer game is *nix; way the f*** more interesting to me. You're welcome to gaming, but I won't go there. I classify it as fritterware; it lets you to fritter your life away. I do like "Go", though. [That reminds me, "apt-get install cgoban". :-)]
Besides, I'm still in mourning for dmr, so get off my case, er, lawn.
But if we are going to do that, we are better [off] staying out of a gravity well.
Agree. We ought to be mining the asteroid belt, building vast tin cans filled with habitable environments, spinning to provide gravity.
I'm sure that'd be a lot simpler than terraforming, though there'd still be a lot of things to work out, such as shielding from cosmic rays, holding in enough atmosphere at Earth air pressure (it'd be a bomb out there, after all), and any number of "what if"s that the engineers/planners fail to anticipate. "What, there's no calcium to be found in the Asteroid Belt?!?"
Still better than holding all our eggs in one bucket (Earth) as we are now. Considering Earth's history, we ought to be taking Extinction Level Events more seriously. This ought to be humanity's main priority.
That would be the Randtard antagonist in the game Bioshock, of whom you sound like you are quoting.
That's kind of funny, considering I am a bit of a Randroid. I'm not a gamer at all, but thanks for steering me away from bioshock anyway. 'Sounds abysmal.
Still, you are putting words in my mouth. My argument could just as easily be interpreted as advocating a boycott, given that I did not mention piracy at all, only that buying from them was rewarding their extortionistic use of the legal system. You could have understood that perhaps, if you were less confrontational and rude.
I could have interpreted it to be a Caeser salad, but it might have been simpler for us both for you say what you meant instead of hoping I'd just muddle through and get it inspite of that.
I do advocate boycotting them, though I know it'll make little difference, and I agree with your "extortionate use of the legal system" bit. The *AAs are the real pirates, using our democracies' politicians and legal systems against us in order to line their pockets while refusing to accept changing market conditions, all the while blaming their failures on others.
I don't think I was at all rude. If you do, maybe you should complain to Webster's Dictionary, which is what I quoted ("dict sponge" on a Linux box). On the other hand, "Randtard" sounds pretty rude, and not a little childish.
Kill someone. ... Make them fear for their lives and the lives of their families, 24/7, and you will make a difference. If you're not prepared to kill in order to preserve internet freedom, then you do not deserve it.
You first. Holy hyperbole, Batman! Premeditated murder to protect your right to be a leech? That's your answer?!?
[WRT your .sig: I'd consider it an honour to be given the chance to beat the crap out of the likes of you.]
Don't mean to be impolite...but, you could start...paying for things
Actually, you often can't. The content industry has pushed for region coding, meaning that you can't import US DVDs and watch them in Australia.
Really? I get DVDs sent to me from friends in Europe all the time as gifts. I've no trouble playing them. On my Linux box, of course. They, of course, won't play in my DVD player box, but Linux/FLOSS doesn't give a rat's ass about Region Encoding garbage.
Don't use a Broken By Design operating system on your computer, and you can too. We Linux fanbois have been screaming this at you for close to two decades!
[Methinks you really ought to change your .sig now too.]
I'm Australian. The two things that make the news at the moment are this new Carbon Tax and illegal immigration by sea.
As much as I'd like to see this make the news, it won't.
Consider writing some emails? Newspapers, radio & tv stations, your elected reps, the loyal opposition, the local uni student's union, EFF Australia (if it exists?), & etc?
They used to be cool, but now it's like [they've] been annexed by the fucking Nazis again.
Jeebus. Cf. Anschluss and Australia
Do you always get that drunk this early, or is it only on Saturdays?
My grandfather survived Aufsbourne.
Did you mean Anschluss?
It appears that Austria is going back to it's roots.
I was unaware that Austria had ever been a prison colony. Thx.