Where do people get these stupid ideas? There are two reasons for low AVERAGE life expenctancies.
1) Serfs are worked to death. This has nothing to do with our "design" life expectancy and everything to to with human exploitation in early agricultural societies.
2) Hunter gatherers have high infant mortality rates. Read Lee's ethologies on the !Kung. However, if you make it past 6, you can expect to live to 70.
"Unions always end up more corrupted than the problem(s) they were put in place to fix."
This claim is prima facae bullshit. In order to prove it, you will have to demonstrate that wages, working hours and working conditions were actually worsened by unions. Again, much like your typical slashnerd, you have no historical perspective. We're living in a hundred year long bubble of relatively universal prosperity, driven in large part by the labor movement. You think your business is independent of that? What happens to your business when wages are driven back into the ground, the middle class dries up, and nobody can afford your services any more?
I'll bet you think we always had 40 hour weeks, weekends off, and liveable wages. Either that, or you'd actually like to haul bricks 14 hours a day six days a week for 50 cents an hour so you can starve in a coal cellar with 4 other families.
Go read Dickens, or Engels, or any historical account of working conditions in the pre-Union Industrial Revolution.
and you do the best you can. Being a software developer, this is the tool of my trade. I couldn't support my family without it. That said, I can still make choices to limit my impact. Not buying a PS3 is one of them. Squeezing 5 years out of a computer is another (and after reading that article, believe me, I'm going to be even more miserly). Riding my bike to work instead of driving is yet another.
Besides, I wouldn't call the device that allowed me to read about Congolese slave mines and research the Congo Wars entirely frivolous. More and more, it's a necessity for an informed citizen. You definitely can't say that about a Playstation.
Dude, read the article. It's the most horrendous real thing I've read in a long time.
Slaves are worked to death in the Congo to extract Coltan used to manufacture Playstations and other frivolous products. Four million Congolese have been murdered in the past 5 years in an unending war to control those resources so that you can kill imaginary aliens in the comfort of your living room.
No one else bothered to make a commercial OS that can be installed on any x86 computer and we want to punish the one person that did.
DR-DOS. GEOS. DesqviewX. OS/2. All superior products to Redmond's offering at the time. All crushed by leveraging market share.
Go back under your bridge.
1. The ports were already in the hands of a foreign company (Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company).
Yes - a British company. We don't have any kind of "special" relationship with the UK, do we? Of course not. Nevertheless, our ports shouldn't be in foreign hands, period.
2. Dubai and the UAE are US allies. The fact that a few criminals came from there does not change that.
Oh really? That would explain why they didn't release financial records when the money trail for 9/11 traced back to within their borders. That would explain why they still recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.
have your Fox^W objective reporters explained why our ports should be in the hands of a foreign government? Not a foreign company - a foreign government.
Oh come down. Every "episode" except "4" was backfill. Star Wars was a one-shot deal, and when it raked in far more than anyone expected, Lucas had to milk more out of an already threadbare Saturday Matinee premise. Intentional? The only thing intentional was an appeal to the demographics needed to pack movie theaters.
The reason Yoda and Obi-Wan didn't teach Jedi culture to Luke was because Lucas hadn't made it up yet.
When the grandparent poster asked you about extensions, maybe you should have told him that you were able to reproduce a bug using a clean installation. I'm not a member of the Mozilla development team. Your implication that I'm trying to "divert" you - with standard debugging practice, no less - is unwarranted. But then this is Slashdot, so what should I expect.
You want bad bug handling? Check out this one that I submitted to OpenOffice.org. The bug triager WORKSFORME'd it three times on me before he realized he was out of his depth. It's a DATALOSS bug, it's probably trivial to fix, and it's still in the latest version. http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=57 274
Adblock is a known memory hog. Wladimir's rewrite (the new Adblock Plus, not to be confused with the old Adblock Plus) is supposed to improve memory management.
In fact, strip Firefox of all extensions and run your tests again.
No. The problem is lazy-ass parents, one way or the other. Too lazy to apply appropriate discipline consistently, relentlessly, inevitably. You state the bad behavior, you state the consequences, and you apply the consequences. You also explain good behavior, point it out and reward it. But that's hard work. It's so much easier a) let the little terrors run wild, or b) smack them about.
Spanking, the rod, and the belt are tools of dickweeds who don't care enough about parenting to learn how to do it right. And the proof, as they say, is in the pudding. My six year old's grammar, spelling and punctuation is better than yours. So are his manners.
It's OASIS OpenDocument. OpenOffice.org is an office suite. OASIS OpenDocument is an open document format. One is not the other, unless you're a Microsoft shill.
The parent poster "gets" the whole purpose of the experiment - create a primitive life form, such as might have been found over 3 billion years ago on this planet, but using different chemistry. If this can be done, the door is suddenly wide open for the possibility of life in radically different environments from Earth's.
DISCLAIMER: I did not RTFA - I heard about this experiment on last week's NOVA.
My phone, an LG VX3100, is a phone. It isn't a pda. It doesn't play games. No camera, no web browser. It never hangs, it simply works. Best of all, Verizon paid me to take it!
So why did you spend money getting what you didn't want when you could have made money taking what you did want?
It didn't occur to me that since it was a wiki, any of the socially stunted creatures skulking under the Slashdot bridge could have done this. In fact it was tediously predictable, to the point of being inevitable.
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Where do people get these stupid ideas? There are two reasons for low AVERAGE life expenctancies.
1) Serfs are worked to death. This has nothing to do with our "design" life expectancy and everything to to with human exploitation in early agricultural societies.
2) Hunter gatherers have high infant mortality rates. Read Lee's ethologies on the !Kung. However, if you make it past 6, you can expect to live to 70.
"Unions always end up more corrupted than the problem(s) they were put in place to fix."
This claim is prima facae bullshit. In order to prove it, you will have to demonstrate that wages, working hours and working conditions were actually worsened by unions. Again, much like your typical slashnerd, you have no historical perspective. We're living in a hundred year long bubble of relatively universal prosperity, driven in large part by the labor movement. You think your business is independent of that? What happens to your business when wages are driven back into the ground, the middle class dries up, and nobody can afford your services any more?
You really don't have a clue, do you?
I'll bet you think we always had 40 hour weeks, weekends off, and liveable wages. Either that, or you'd actually like to haul bricks 14 hours a day six days a week for 50 cents an hour so you can starve in a coal cellar with 4 other families.
Go read Dickens, or Engels, or any historical account of working conditions in the pre-Union Industrial Revolution.
and you do the best you can. Being a software developer, this is the tool of my trade. I couldn't support my family without it. That said, I can still make choices to limit my impact. Not buying a PS3 is one of them. Squeezing 5 years out of a computer is another (and after reading that article, believe me, I'm going to be even more miserly). Riding my bike to work instead of driving is yet another.
Besides, I wouldn't call the device that allowed me to read about Congolese slave mines and research the Congo Wars entirely frivolous. More and more, it's a necessity for an informed citizen. You definitely can't say that about a Playstation.
Dude, read the article. It's the most horrendous real thing I've read in a long time.
http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=8 63/
DR-DOS. GEOS. DesqviewX. OS/2. All superior products to Redmond's offering at the time. All crushed by leveraging market share. Go back under your bridge.
Does Microsoft own Internet Explorer? Furthermore, is Google a convicted monopolist? We're not talking apples vs. apples here.
The Second War to End All Wars will be fought with armored dirigibles and giant marching robots. Also, we will have a permanent Moon base by 1975.
Why is this even a story? The author couldn't make a point out of a drawerful of knives. Oh wait - this is Slashdot. Never mind.
how much the Slashdot userbase is aging. Now where are my glasses? I can't find my Viagra without them.
Yes - a British company. We don't have any kind of "special" relationship with the UK, do we? Of course not. Nevertheless, our ports shouldn't be in foreign hands, period.
2. Dubai and the UAE are US allies. The fact that a few criminals came from there does not change that.
Oh really? That would explain why they didn't release financial records when the money trail for 9/11 traced back to within their borders. That would explain why they still recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.
have your Fox^W objective reporters explained why our ports should be in the hands of a foreign government? Not a foreign company - a foreign government.
The reason Yoda and Obi-Wan didn't teach Jedi culture to Luke was because Lucas hadn't made it up yet.
When the grandparent poster asked you about extensions, maybe you should have told him that you were able to reproduce a bug using a clean installation. I'm not a member of the Mozilla development team. Your implication that I'm trying to "divert" you - with standard debugging practice, no less - is unwarranted. But then this is Slashdot, so what should I expect.
7 274
You want bad bug handling? Check out this one that I submitted to OpenOffice.org. The bug triager WORKSFORME'd it three times on me before he realized he was out of his depth. It's a DATALOSS bug, it's probably trivial to fix, and it's still in the latest version.
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5
Adblock is a known memory hog. Wladimir's rewrite (the new Adblock Plus, not to be confused with the old Adblock Plus) is supposed to improve memory management.
In fact, strip Firefox of all extensions and run your tests again.
There is an exposed method in the .dll that has gone unnoticed for years:
ExploitCodeRunningLose()
It has been confounded with a private method,
ExploitCodeRunningLoose()
Lesson: coders should lern2spel.
They could have bought it for 20% less if they'd shopped around.
No. The problem is lazy-ass parents, one way or the other. Too lazy to apply appropriate discipline consistently, relentlessly, inevitably. You state the bad behavior, you state the consequences, and you apply the consequences. You also explain good behavior, point it out and reward it. But that's hard work. It's so much easier a) let the little terrors run wild, or b) smack them about.
Spanking, the rod, and the belt are tools of dickweeds who don't care enough about parenting to learn how to do it right. And the proof, as they say, is in the pudding. My six year old's grammar, spelling and punctuation is better than yours. So are his manners.
If you use the fuel cell with a non-Sony device, it explodes.
Excuse me whilst I wipe the tears from my eyes.
Wait - those aren't tears! That's not my eye!
It's OASIS OpenDocument. OpenOffice.org is an office suite. OASIS OpenDocument is an open document format. One is not the other, unless you're a Microsoft shill.
Yes, and our sinews limit us to only create machines weaker than us if we were to do it from scratch.
The parent poster "gets" the whole purpose of the experiment - create a primitive life form, such as might have been found over 3 billion years ago on this planet, but using different chemistry. If this can be done, the door is suddenly wide open for the possibility of life in radically different environments from Earth's.
DISCLAIMER: I did not RTFA - I heard about this experiment on last week's NOVA.
My phone, an LG VX3100, is a phone. It isn't a pda. It doesn't play games. No camera, no web browser. It never hangs, it simply works. Best of all, Verizon paid me to take it!
So why did you spend money getting what you didn't want when you could have made money taking what you did want?
Read your link. Greek fire was invented in 673 AD.
Any excuse, you know.
It didn't occur to me that since it was a wiki, any of the socially stunted creatures skulking under the Slashdot bridge could have done this. In fact it was tediously predictable, to the point of being inevitable.