It isn't. It's civilly mandated. Lacking empathy, there is no civility.
Certainly, but even the misanthropes of the world have the perfect right to do as they will (within the bounds of not harming others, anyway). If we cannot respect and empathize with that viewpoint, then empathy itself is meaningless.
...so getting whatever vindication you can scrape from hunting the guy down and beating the crap out of him is going to help solve your hypothetical problem... how? (assuming that you don't screw up and accidentally go after the wrong person, or that the target of your rage doesn't defend himself with deadly force, or...?)
Not that either side rests among the angels here, but I will give the victim some credit - at least he's taking the non-violent road.
I'm kind of surprised that TFA involves a lawsuit, and not a news story containing the phrase: "...the recovered body was finally identified today as that of Jason Fortuny..."
I don't condone adultery (it is a violation of marital fidelity and trust, after all), but dude...
There's a pretty big diff there between what is essentially considered a moral failing (the adultery), and the actual crime of active pedophilia.
Also, consider: there is a TV show out there called "Cheaters", that actively humiliates folks who decide to take their bedroom activities outside of the relationship (even when not married). But, even in the case of that show, IIRC the "cheater" has the perfectly legal right to have his face and name obscured (else the show's producers end up eating a lawsuit... pretty much like the one we're discussing).
I'd suggest the more descriptive terms of "trepidation", "abashment", "surprise", "caution", and other factors that can serve as descriptions for the entire FOSS community looking in Microsoft's direction and thinking "WTF!?"
I hate to barge in on the fun here, but after years of calling them "Micro$haft" and "Windoze" and lame outdated jokes about Bob and Clippy, not to mention the massive FUD campaign against Vista, do you really wonder why they'd trust you at all?
Please show us direct and credible quotes from Linus Torvalds, or ANY CEO of ANY Linux-centric corporation who has made ANY such statements. Meanwhile, we have the CEO of the Microsoft Corporation making blatantly false/misleading statements, often doing so in a childish manner.
This is why your argument fails before it even gets out of the gate.
Something like keeping people alive in space for years rather than months is the REAL issue.
You mean like this, this, or perhaps this (to count just a few among literally thousands of projects dedicated to accomplishing exactly that)?
Incidentally, the Russians have a HUGE volume of data on long-duration spaceflight, for periods that could conceivably cover an exploratory trip to Mars.
...and if you induce gravity for the majority of the trip (e.g. w/ centripetal motion), you actually discard the majority of the problems. The rest involves shielding from gamma/cosmic rays, taking along enough supplies (but water in sufficient quantities there would alleviate the majority of the burden - air, fuel, and water would take up the vast majority of the load anyway if you had to bring it all along).
...now we find a way to launch approximately 40bn gallons of fine single-malt whisky to Mars.
Oh, okay, - it really means that now we don't have to drag as much stuff with us when we finally do get sufficient testicular fortitude to get people out to Mars for exploration, perhaps settlement, etc etc.
Now to answer your question specifically? We need to know how much H2O are we talking here, and in what concentrations and distributions.
* "exclusive use", while not perfect, is far preferable to "left to rot", which is pretty much what would've happened if there wasn't at least some entity willing to preserve what would otherwise be disposed of by various invading armies, hordes, etc).
* Throughout Europe (save for Spain during the Islamic occupations), Latin was the common metric of literacy and fluency among anyone who had even the most rudimentary of noble titles. For most of the early portions of the Dark Ages, IIRC it was pretty much the only language of inter-kingdom commerce (which meant that import-export type merchants either knew it, or they got ripped off a lot).
* Err, The Bible wasn't printed in any non-Latin language until the 1450's CE, during the Italian Renaissance, which began quite a bit earlier (13th century), with the arrival of Islamic mathematics and philosophies that came back with returning crusaders... and not by Latin-to-Vulgar biblical translations. You were close, though - in that one invention during the same time period made knowledge easier to access... though not for the reasons you state.
Don't think "Bible", think "Printing Press". Scribe-time before the press was invented was hella expensive for anyone not in the Church wanting copies of something (said church was otherwise busy trying to keep copies of not only internal liturgical and dogmatic script, but to maintain legible copies of everything they could scrounge from the by-now-dead Roman and Greek empires).
* OSX' core (Darwin) is actually open source. The NT core (last I checked) is not.
* There's a huge diff between (basically) racking up phone time w/ script-drones to register valid complaints from folks who were more often than not actual consumers of MSFT's products -- and crap-flooding real tech-support folks' time (as opposed to simple script-drones) by people who more often than not don't own a Mac.
* Since when was Apple ever convicted (or even credibly accused) of abusive monopolistic practices?
While it would be hella nice if Apple got around to open-sourcing Aqua and all, at least they've open-sourced the core of OSX, they publish all of their API's (and go way out of their way to help you through 'em if you get lost in there), and have actually been instrumental in helping to break the whole media DRM bullshit in the first place (as in, if Jobs' hadn't pushed for and got DRM-free music and video concessions from the RI/MPAA cartels, when do you all think that would've have actually had any hope of occurring?)
And yeah, it sucks that they go out and sue the occasional company who installs OSX on a non-Apple box... yet they don't ever bother the hobbyists who do it in far larger numbers.
I'm not trying to paint Apple as being in league with angels or anything, but on the relative evilness scale, they're pretty damned low compared to their competitors, y'know?
I'm not so sure... IIS serves as a tie-in to quite a few different (and damned profitable) Microsoft products... starting with Exchange (for OWA), and branching out a couple thousand different directions from there.
Microsoft's income depends way too heavily on products having exclusive interoperability (e.g. IIS, Exchange, Active Directory...)
Start breaking that up, and enterprises would be more easily liable to start choosing solutions that don't have acronyms like "CAL" anywhere in the invoice.
While yes, IIS is pretty much a money hole for MSFT in a direct sense, they have way too many enterprise products that rely on its existence, and it in turn requires Windows, and only Windows.
True enough (and no, I'm not the AC/GP), but on a macro scale...
* how much CO2 will get released by transporting the stuff from mine, to mfr. plant, to ocean drop-off points? Simply dumping it at the beach from the end of a really long conveyor belt won't do much good, and would actually do more harm (by turning that locality into a giant caustic soup).
* how much CO2-sequestering plant life has to be cleared away to get at the sheer amount of raw materials needed (e.g. strip-mining)?
Vista's checking of line voltages to make sure no one has clipped on an analog recording device should tell you where all of this is going.
Bullshit. Here's why:
Anyone with even a yard-sale-quality stereo amplifier could defeat any such thing - the voltage (and amperage, resistance/impedance, wattage, etc) from the computer audio line-out to the amp's line-in jack would remain within exactly the same expected range during runtime, no matter how much recording equipment you daisy-chained onto the amp's AUX-out line.
IOW: Once it goes analog, it's all mine... and unless someone, somewhere dreams up a "digital" speaker rig-up that could stand a hope in Hell of competing with the cone-and-coil construction found in 99% of all speakers built in this world, there ain't jack shit that Microsoft Vista (or anyone else) can do about that - it's a matter of simple physics.
Given that even Microsoft is smart enough to know this, why would they even bother to try once the signal hit the outbound wires?
...at least in this context. Now OTOH, 3D/CG render engines that have OpenGL-rendering can do a whole hell of a lot with a beefy GPU and 2GB of RAM.
Normally, compared to software (CPU) raytracing, OGL rendering is pretty crappy on vidcards with low resources (shadows are jaggy, etc)... but with enough RAM and a high-end GPU, quality and speed could approach (if not surpass) the old-school "click 'render' then go have lunch" routine that most CG artists deal with nowadays.
Don't think that to be possible... mostly because I doubt that it would fit all to well with CL's local feeling.
I can however see someone like Google (as sibling mentioned) or one of the until-now-unknown competition sites growing a pair and doing something that captures enough attention to draw away eBay's customer base.
Question is, where is that money coming from? Is it growth in PayPal, income from the Buy.com deal, income from external investments, stock issues... what?
It also doesn't augur for eBay's future growth.
Not saying that it's going to die tomorrow, but eBay (as in, the auction site) isn't quite the hot buzz-worthy item it used to be...
Anecdotal, I know, but even in the past few months, some of the not-so-mainstream stuff on auction (e.g. computer parts) have seemed to dry up.
My missus used to be able to buy (and occasionally sell) a lot of antique and classic toys on eBay as a hobby. There were literally dozens of pages of auctions for the stuff at any one time for her to pick and choose from. Nowadays, there's only a handful of pages in motion at best, and little is selling (not just on her part, but in most of the auctions concerning antique and classic toys).
Poking around, I see similar patterns for other, similar things.
I don't think it's just recent policies, either (though they certainly don't help) - eBay is (just IMHO) getting one hell of a reputation as a giant fence for stolen goods, a hotbed of scams, and a place where you can't quite get the deals that you used to get.
Recently, they've tried to boost things by having $1 listing fees for certain items, and I'm sure they've been doing some offline marketing (but again, not like they used to).
I dunno... these are just personal observations, but I strongly suspect that they are indicative of a larger shift away from eBay... and the Buy.com deal kinda shows me that the company is getting a bit nervous about its long-term prospects.
It's not quite offtopic, folks... Roe v. Wade is pretty tenuous in it's basis on the Fourth Amendment (regardless on your stance on the issue, any argument that relies on terms such as "penumbras" and "emanations" to support it is pretty unstable).
Now I doubt that they stab abortion (or any other 4th Amendment issue) right off the bat if a FISA case were to come to court. But, The US Supreme Court has yet to really, truly define a Right to Privacy, because the Fourth Amendment doesn't specifically name it (it concerns security of one's homes, papers, possessions, etc... of which "privacy" is assumed to be among them, but not named or defined). Any definition (or re-definition) can shake up a LOT of cases that rely even partially on that Amendment.
Incidentally, the "F" in FISA will be a sticky obstacle... non-citizens do not share in US rights by default.
IIRC, there's a lot of legal precedent for FISA anyway... The Roosevelt administration's actions during World War II are loaded to the gunwales with examples and precedent - and that man fought with the USSC almost constantly.
Even MSFT gave up on trying to use the thing as a standard (for now)... but at least ISO's actions show us just how worthless and suspect (and probably corrupt) an ISO standard can get nowadays.
Guess I should've seen it coming back in the 1990's, when companies were plastering "ISO (insert number) Certified!1!1!!11!" across every marketing material surface that would hold ink.
Mostly - fuel/air vapor is compressed, then detonated. The expansion of that detonation pushes the piston. Heat causes the majority of that expansion force.
The trick is that their fuel is either: cold as Hell to start with (e.g. like putting dry ice in a bottle of water and sealing the bottle - there's still heat involved in making the detonation, but it's still way colder than pretty much anything immediately surrounding it), or dissipating the heat before the exhaust can get out of the tailpipe.
The problem is that this alleged wunderfuel is still a hydrocarbon, which means that you still have carbon atoms to dispose of (lots of 'em), and the nature of a car's combustion process still involves compression and ignition of the fuel, which will still generate a lot of heat.
Now some fuels do burn cooler than others, esp. in a short test run like the CEO was describing (for example, alcohol burns far cooler than gasoline), and a short test run with a cooler fuel will likely not give you as much heat in the exhaust (then again, on a really cool/cold day, a gasoline engine would only produce "some warm air" at your tailpipe if the engine has only ran for "a couple of minutes").
As for what's in the stuff? *shrug* - I dunno. I'm not holding my breath until/unless I see some show up in marketable quantities, though.
So where would there be time to do this? A typical school runs 6-8 hours per day, 5 days a week. A typical Sunday School lasts what, an hour a week, maybe two (depending on sect)?
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It isn't. It's civilly mandated. Lacking empathy, there is no civility.
Certainly, but even the misanthropes of the world have the perfect right to do as they will (within the bounds of not harming others, anyway). If we cannot respect and empathize with that viewpoint, then empathy itself is meaningless.
A question: Since when is empathy government-mandated?
...so getting whatever vindication you can scrape from hunting the guy down and beating the crap out of him is going to help solve your hypothetical problem... how? (assuming that you don't screw up and accidentally go after the wrong person, or that the target of your rage doesn't defend himself with deadly force, or...?)
Not that either side rests among the angels here, but I will give the victim some credit - at least he's taking the non-violent road.
I'm kind of surprised that TFA involves a lawsuit, and not a news story containing the phrase: "...the recovered body was finally identified today as that of Jason Fortuny..."
I don't condone adultery (it is a violation of marital fidelity and trust, after all), but dude...
There's a pretty big diff there between what is essentially considered a moral failing (the adultery), and the actual crime of active pedophilia.
Also, consider: there is a TV show out there called "Cheaters", that actively humiliates folks who decide to take their bedroom activities outside of the relationship (even when not married). But, even in the case of that show, IIRC the "cheater" has the perfectly legal right to have his face and name obscured (else the show's producers end up eating a lawsuit... pretty much like the one we're discussing).
Not sure if the word "excitement" applies here.
I'd suggest the more descriptive terms of "trepidation", "abashment", "surprise", "caution", and other factors that can serve as descriptions for the entire FOSS community looking in Microsoft's direction and thinking "WTF!?"
I hate to barge in on the fun here, but after years of calling them "Micro$haft" and "Windoze" and lame outdated jokes about Bob and Clippy, not to mention the massive FUD campaign against Vista, do you really wonder why they'd trust you at all?
Please show us direct and credible quotes from Linus Torvalds, or ANY CEO of ANY Linux-centric corporation who has made ANY such statements. Meanwhile, we have the CEO of the Microsoft Corporation making blatantly false/misleading statements, often doing so in a childish manner.
This is why your argument fails before it even gets out of the gate.
Something like keeping people alive in space for years rather than months is the REAL issue.
You mean like this, this, or perhaps this (to count just a few among literally thousands of projects dedicated to accomplishing exactly that)?
Incidentally, the Russians have a HUGE volume of data on long-duration spaceflight, for periods that could conceivably cover an exploratory trip to Mars.
True, but that's one gawdawful pipeline you gotta build to get at it, dontcha think?
(...and I don't even want to know how what's gonna happen once the Sierra Club crowd finds out...)
(yes, I'm being facetious).
...now we find a way to launch approximately 40bn gallons of fine single-malt whisky to Mars.
Oh, okay, - it really means that now we don't have to drag as much stuff with us when we finally do get sufficient testicular fortitude to get people out to Mars for exploration, perhaps settlement, etc etc.
Now to answer your question specifically? We need to know how much H2O are we talking here, and in what concentrations and distributions.
Points of order:
* "exclusive use", while not perfect, is far preferable to "left to rot", which is pretty much what would've happened if there wasn't at least some entity willing to preserve what would otherwise be disposed of by various invading armies, hordes, etc).
* Throughout Europe (save for Spain during the Islamic occupations), Latin was the common metric of literacy and fluency among anyone who had even the most rudimentary of noble titles. For most of the early portions of the Dark Ages, IIRC it was pretty much the only language of inter-kingdom commerce (which meant that import-export type merchants either knew it, or they got ripped off a lot).
* Err, The Bible wasn't printed in any non-Latin language until the 1450's CE, during the Italian Renaissance, which began quite a bit earlier (13th century), with the arrival of Islamic mathematics and philosophies that came back with returning crusaders... and not by Latin-to-Vulgar biblical translations. You were close, though - in that one invention during the same time period made knowledge easier to access... though not for the reasons you state.
Don't think "Bible", think "Printing Press". Scribe-time before the press was invented was hella expensive for anyone not in the Church wanting copies of something (said church was otherwise busy trying to keep copies of not only internal liturgical and dogmatic script, but to maintain legible copies of everything they could scrounge from the by-now-dead Roman and Greek empires).
HTH a little,
Well, let's see...
* OSX' core (Darwin) is actually open source. The NT core (last I checked) is not.
* There's a huge diff between (basically) racking up phone time w/ script-drones to register valid complaints from folks who were more often than not actual consumers of MSFT's products -- and crap-flooding real tech-support folks' time (as opposed to simple script-drones) by people who more often than not don't own a Mac.
* Since when was Apple ever convicted (or even credibly accused) of abusive monopolistic practices?
While it would be hella nice if Apple got around to open-sourcing Aqua and all, at least they've open-sourced the core of OSX, they publish all of their API's (and go way out of their way to help you through 'em if you get lost in there), and have actually been instrumental in helping to break the whole media DRM bullshit in the first place (as in, if Jobs' hadn't pushed for and got DRM-free music and video concessions from the RI/MPAA cartels, when do you all think that would've have actually had any hope of occurring?)
And yeah, it sucks that they go out and sue the occasional company who installs OSX on a non-Apple box... yet they don't ever bother the hobbyists who do it in far larger numbers.
I'm not trying to paint Apple as being in league with angels or anything, but on the relative evilness scale, they're pretty damned low compared to their competitors, y'know?
So, err, where do I download this mystical .rpm or .deb file that puts a Windows GUI on Linux?
Is it in one of the unsupported repos, perhaps? Not that I have a use for it, but it'd be fun to play with, I guess...
I'm not so sure... IIS serves as a tie-in to quite a few different (and damned profitable) Microsoft products... starting with Exchange (for OWA), and branching out a couple thousand different directions from there.
Microsoft's income depends way too heavily on products having exclusive interoperability (e.g. IIS, Exchange, Active Directory...)
Start breaking that up, and enterprises would be more easily liable to start choosing solutions that don't have acronyms like "CAL" anywhere in the invoice.
While yes, IIS is pretty much a money hole for MSFT in a direct sense, they have way too many enterprise products that rely on its existence, and it in turn requires Windows, and only Windows.
True enough (and no, I'm not the AC/GP), but on a macro scale...
* how much CO2 will get released by transporting the stuff from mine, to mfr. plant, to ocean drop-off points? Simply dumping it at the beach from the end of a really long conveyor belt won't do much good, and would actually do more harm (by turning that locality into a giant caustic soup).
* how much CO2-sequestering plant life has to be cleared away to get at the sheer amount of raw materials needed (e.g. strip-mining)?
Seems that someone found a semi-reliable decryption mechanism that can not only stand up to that, but can reverse an even stronger algorithm known as "volcano".
Didn't mean to dash your dreams, but you know how the security game goes...
Vista's checking of line voltages to make sure no one has clipped on an analog recording device should tell you where all of this is going.
Bullshit. Here's why:
Anyone with even a yard-sale-quality stereo amplifier could defeat any such thing - the voltage (and amperage, resistance/impedance, wattage, etc) from the computer audio line-out to the amp's line-in jack would remain within exactly the same expected range during runtime, no matter how much recording equipment you daisy-chained onto the amp's AUX-out line.
IOW: Once it goes analog, it's all mine... and unless someone, somewhere dreams up a "digital" speaker rig-up that could stand a hope in Hell of competing with the cone-and-coil construction found in 99% of all speakers built in this world, there ain't jack shit that Microsoft Vista (or anyone else) can do about that - it's a matter of simple physics.
Given that even Microsoft is smart enough to know this, why would they even bother to try once the signal hit the outbound wires?
...at least in this context. Now OTOH, 3D/CG render engines that have OpenGL-rendering can do a whole hell of a lot with a beefy GPU and 2GB of RAM.
Normally, compared to software (CPU) raytracing, OGL rendering is pretty crappy on vidcards with low resources (shadows are jaggy, etc)... but with enough RAM and a high-end GPU, quality and speed could approach (if not surpass) the old-school "click 'render' then go have lunch" routine that most CG artists deal with nowadays.
"This seller currently has no items for sale." - the last toy he sold was nealy three months ago.
I'm honestly not poking fun at you (or him), just that your link helps to illustrate my point exactly.
Don't think that to be possible... mostly because I doubt that it would fit all to well with CL's local feeling.
I can however see someone like Google (as sibling mentioned) or one of the until-now-unknown competition sites growing a pair and doing something that captures enough attention to draw away eBay's customer base.
Question is, where is that money coming from? Is it growth in PayPal, income from the Buy.com deal, income from external investments, stock issues... what?
It also doesn't augur for eBay's future growth.
Not saying that it's going to die tomorrow, but eBay (as in, the auction site) isn't quite the hot buzz-worthy item it used to be...
Anecdotal, I know, but even in the past few months, some of the not-so-mainstream stuff on auction (e.g. computer parts) have seemed to dry up.
My missus used to be able to buy (and occasionally sell) a lot of antique and classic toys on eBay as a hobby. There were literally dozens of pages of auctions for the stuff at any one time for her to pick and choose from. Nowadays, there's only a handful of pages in motion at best, and little is selling (not just on her part, but in most of the auctions concerning antique and classic toys).
Poking around, I see similar patterns for other, similar things.
I don't think it's just recent policies, either (though they certainly don't help) - eBay is (just IMHO) getting one hell of a reputation as a giant fence for stolen goods, a hotbed of scams, and a place where you can't quite get the deals that you used to get.
Recently, they've tried to boost things by having $1 listing fees for certain items, and I'm sure they've been doing some offline marketing (but again, not like they used to).
I dunno... these are just personal observations, but I strongly suspect that they are indicative of a larger shift away from eBay... and the Buy.com deal kinda shows me that the company is getting a bit nervous about its long-term prospects.
It's not quite offtopic, folks... Roe v. Wade is pretty tenuous in it's basis on the Fourth Amendment (regardless on your stance on the issue, any argument that relies on terms such as "penumbras" and "emanations" to support it is pretty unstable).
Now I doubt that they stab abortion (or any other 4th Amendment issue) right off the bat if a FISA case were to come to court. But, The US Supreme Court has yet to really, truly define a Right to Privacy, because the Fourth Amendment doesn't specifically name it (it concerns security of one's homes, papers, possessions, etc... of which "privacy" is assumed to be among them, but not named or defined). Any definition (or re-definition) can shake up a LOT of cases that rely even partially on that Amendment.
Incidentally, the "F" in FISA will be a sticky obstacle... non-citizens do not share in US rights by default.
IIRC, there's a lot of legal precedent for FISA anyway... The Roosevelt administration's actions during World War II are loaded to the gunwales with examples and precedent - and that man fought with the USSC almost constantly.
Even MSFT gave up on trying to use the thing as a standard (for now)... but at least ISO's actions show us just how worthless and suspect (and probably corrupt) an ISO standard can get nowadays.
Guess I should've seen it coming back in the 1990's, when companies were plastering "ISO (insert number) Certified!1!1!!11!" across every marketing material surface that would hold ink.
Ah well... back to the good ol' RFC's, methinks.
Mostly - fuel/air vapor is compressed, then detonated. The expansion of that detonation pushes the piston. Heat causes the majority of that expansion force.
The trick is that their fuel is either: cold as Hell to start with (e.g. like putting dry ice in a bottle of water and sealing the bottle - there's still heat involved in making the detonation, but it's still way colder than pretty much anything immediately surrounding it), or dissipating the heat before the exhaust can get out of the tailpipe.
The problem is that this alleged wunderfuel is still a hydrocarbon, which means that you still have carbon atoms to dispose of (lots of 'em), and the nature of a car's combustion process still involves compression and ignition of the fuel, which will still generate a lot of heat.
Now some fuels do burn cooler than others, esp. in a short test run like the CEO was describing (for example, alcohol burns far cooler than gasoline), and a short test run with a cooler fuel will likely not give you as much heat in the exhaust (then again, on a really cool/cold day, a gasoline engine would only produce "some warm air" at your tailpipe if the engine has only ran for "a couple of minutes").
As for what's in the stuff? *shrug* - I dunno. I'm not holding my breath until/unless I see some show up in marketable quantities, though.
So where would there be time to do this? A typical school runs 6-8 hours per day, 5 days a week. A typical Sunday School lasts what, an hour a week, maybe two (depending on sect)?