little people were reading the pro-Microsoft 'drivel' that Gartner (and others) put out, we were getting reports from them that basically said, "Drop Microsoft garbage and run like hell! Not ready for the enterprise."
oooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh.
That clears up 15 years of disbelief.
So, the service is not only that you'll get IT advice from them, but that they'll fool your competition into following bad advice. Now it completely makes sense.
NSFNet made up much of the Internet backbone for a while. Its AUP prohibited advertising. These were the days of the Internet Yellow Pages and David and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web on akebono. This ended on April 30, 1995, and at that point everything exploded - the Internet you see today has been built on advertising revenues.
This has all been true since it came onto the scene
I gave up on Google Plus before most of my friends had even heard of it (true, not trying to be all hipster here). The average Washington Post reader has only heard of Google Plus in passing, perhaps just a few times.
So, it may be a good article for the audience, though it's a fair question: "why does this belong on Slashdot?" Lord knows I haven't seen any posts on what CowboyNeal is working on.
This would make a fine layer on OSM. I had a friend who had to dig for this sort of information back when he was starting an ISP. AT&T: "you want to buy service off our fiber where? Do people actually live there? You have money? Well, OK then."
That fiber ran along the train tracks. Local geeks just happen to walk tracks and read pull-box labels.
somehow together, they'll master the situation due to "synergy" or some other vague buzzword
It's not hard to imagine social recommendations and an 'add to my Wal*Mart' button where it gets put in a bin for you at your closest Wal*Mart (your Facebook phone having reported its location and used with NFC for instant checkout). You can even leave it in your pocket - the camera in the register can verify its you based on facial recognition from all the photos you've posted.
It's not even clear that such a service is undesirable.
oooh, if you'd used the phrase "if I were a terrorist" you would have been fine, but now all the alarms at Ft. Meade have gone off and the Slashdot IP logs will be subpoenaed.
Would it be sexist of me to suggest that women should get a free pass on cold-cocking any idiot who say something like that? I mean, right in the cubicle, drooling on the keyboard, out cold.
'Cause a small concussion is less offensive, in my opinion.
Seriously - whoever made this deal for aQuantive is a certified genius. That was about 1000x their earnings. People say Amazon investors are absolutely batshit crazy for buying at 187x earnings, and they're not a third-rung company.
Hemp can grow like a weed. That's the thing it can do better.
Right, which means it can grow in lots of places for very little cost. That means that it's a cheaper material. Rarely does a material need to be idea, it needs to be good enough and as cheap as possible.
Honestly, hemp's stats aren't that impressive compared to a lot of its competitors.
I have a lot of land with relatively poor soils in New Hampshire. What would you suggest would be a better cash crop than hemp, at similar production costs?
I would like to grow hemp to ramp up the organic matter and then move on to grains, which currently won't grow. I've tried soybeans and vetches to little success. Alfalfa grows, but not very much.
I've seen pictures of nearby hemp fields growing over 7' tall on similar soils.
Malarkey. The US Military had programs to encourage farmers to grow hemp for the last big war because it was very valuable for many uses (especially ropes for big ships). It grows on soils that are otherwise poor for crops, opening up farming of cash crops for many more farmers/much more land. It's a decent feedstock for cellulosic ethanol. The seeds are quite nutritious. Many people prefer hemp paper over wood paper. It's a quick way to sequester carbon. etc.
And the side benefit of free weed isn't seen as particularly usrful either
The blunt you'd need to roll from hemp to get enough THC to do anything would be about 4' long and 9" across. You'd die of smoke inhalation before you got a high.
There is no rationale for forbidding cannabis based on its merits. There are rationales for forbidding it based on the externalities caused by forbidding it, for the people who derive benefits from the prohibition.
The benefits don't have to be immediate. "You will not be participating in open source projects" is a message many MIC folks would love to send to agencies.
except insomuch as legalization would help bring them down.
Yeah, I think that was his point. "Bring them down rapidly" would be more accurate. We tried this in the US with Prohibition - the booze gangs all evaporated (or started racing NASCAR). Legalization works.
The problem is not one of immorality, the problem is the diversity of the electorate.
The diversity of the electorate is a strength. The problem is forcing one-size-fits-all solutions on a diverse electorate. Which is all the current system knows how to do.
OK, so they got 3C better than the paste in the demo. Was it the cheap stuff you'll get from a no-name OEM or did they run it against something higher quality, e.g. Arctic Silver. Because I usually get more than 3C just by switching paste types.
Don't get me wrong, this may very well be better for Sony for their PS4's or TV's or whatever, and if it's better than cheap paste and easier to handle, great. But outside of factory customers, this probably isn't very interesting.
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little people were reading the pro-Microsoft 'drivel' that Gartner (and others) put out, we were getting reports from them that basically said, "Drop Microsoft garbage and run like hell! Not ready for the enterprise."
oooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh.
That clears up 15 years of disbelief.
So, the service is not only that you'll get IT advice from them, but that they'll fool your competition into following bad advice. Now it completely makes sense.
NSFNet made up much of the Internet backbone for a while. Its AUP prohibited advertising. These were the days of the Internet Yellow Pages and David and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web on akebono. This ended on April 30, 1995, and at that point everything exploded - the Internet you see today has been built on advertising revenues.
This has all been true since it came onto the scene
I gave up on Google Plus before most of my friends had even heard of it (true, not trying to be all hipster here). The average Washington Post reader has only heard of Google Plus in passing, perhaps just a few times.
So, it may be a good article for the audience, though it's a fair question: "why does this belong on Slashdot?" Lord knows I haven't seen any posts on what CowboyNeal is working on.
Oh, and if you work in advertising: kill yourself.
How's NSFNet working out for you then?
This would make a fine layer on OSM. I had a friend who had to dig for this sort of information back when he was starting an ISP. AT&T: "you want to buy service off our fiber where? Do people actually live there? You have money? Well, OK then."
That fiber ran along the train tracks. Local geeks just happen to walk tracks and read pull-box labels.
somehow together, they'll master the situation due to "synergy" or some other vague buzzword
It's not hard to imagine social recommendations and an 'add to my Wal*Mart' button where it gets put in a bin for you at your closest Wal*Mart (your Facebook phone having reported its location and used with NFC for instant checkout). You can even leave it in your pocket - the camera in the register can verify its you based on facial recognition from all the photos you've posted.
It's not even clear that such a service is undesirable.
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oh, and prior art, bitches.
If I wanted to carry a tablet around I'd buy a frickin tablet.
Fortunately, back when I had a Newton Messagepad, cargo pants were in fashion.
I want my,
I want my,
I want my li-brar-y.
If I was a terrorist
oooh, if you'd used the phrase "if I were a terrorist" you would have been fine, but now all the alarms at Ft. Meade have gone off and the Slashdot IP logs will be subpoenaed.
Of course, that's just my subjunctive opinion.
He takes a stand against the TSA and he has most of the liberals,
He has them already.
some of the republicans who see through the security theater
perhaps a few, for whom it's their top issue. All the rest - "Obamacare".
and a bunch of the libertarians.
The ones who aren't more upset about all the wars he's started. OK, perhaps there are a dozen, somewhere in the US.
The petitions on whitehouse.gov have absolutely no value.
Also, getting people concerned with privacy to sign up to be in the Whitehouse database, to sign a worthless petition...
the incredibly fucking horrifying
Would it be sexist of me to suggest that women should get a free pass on cold-cocking any idiot who say something like that? I mean, right in the cubicle, drooling on the keyboard, out cold.
'Cause a small concussion is less offensive, in my opinion.
We should all just start stripping buck naked in the airport then Fuck it.
"I just got in from the airport, and boy is my johnson tired."
a $6.3 billion purchase of aQuantive
Seriously - whoever made this deal for aQuantive is a certified genius. That was about 1000x their earnings. People say Amazon investors are absolutely batshit crazy for buying at 187x earnings, and they're not a third-rung company.
You mean the NAT allows traffic from the outside interface to the inside interface so the upstream router(s) are effectively the access control?
Remember the whole point is to create one-size-fits all laws and policies. That whittling down is the point.
Yeah. :) It works as well with governments as it does with hats.
Hemp can grow like a weed. That's the thing it can do better.
Right, which means it can grow in lots of places for very little cost. That means that it's a cheaper material. Rarely does a material need to be idea, it needs to be good enough and as cheap as possible.
Honestly, hemp's stats aren't that impressive compared to a lot of its competitors.
I have a lot of land with relatively poor soils in New Hampshire. What would you suggest would be a better cash crop than hemp, at similar production costs?
I would like to grow hemp to ramp up the organic matter and then move on to grains, which currently won't grow. I've tried soybeans and vetches to little success. Alfalfa grows, but not very much.
I've seen pictures of nearby hemp fields growing over 7' tall on similar soils.
it just isn't very good at anything.
Malarkey. The US Military had programs to encourage farmers to grow hemp for the last big war because it was very valuable for many uses (especially ropes for big ships). It grows on soils that are otherwise poor for crops, opening up farming of cash crops for many more farmers/much more land. It's a decent feedstock for cellulosic ethanol. The seeds are quite nutritious. Many people prefer hemp paper over wood paper. It's a quick way to sequester carbon. etc.
And the side benefit of free weed isn't seen as particularly usrful either
The blunt you'd need to roll from hemp to get enough THC to do anything would be about 4' long and 9" across. You'd die of smoke inhalation before you got a high.
There is no rationale for forbidding cannabis based on its merits. There are rationales for forbidding it based on the externalities caused by forbidding it, for the people who derive benefits from the prohibition.
severe storms
1.2 gigawatts, delivered directly!
It's an intriguing mystery. Any ideas?
The benefits don't have to be immediate. "You will not be participating in open source projects" is a message many MIC folks would love to send to agencies.
except insomuch as legalization would help bring them down.
Yeah, I think that was his point. "Bring them down rapidly" would be more accurate. We tried this in the US with Prohibition - the booze gangs all evaporated (or started racing NASCAR). Legalization works.
Drug trafficking would never have become a problem if governments hadn't created the giant void in the market
New results in from Portugal confirm what people who can do math have been saying all along.
The problem is not one of immorality, the problem is the diversity of the electorate.
The diversity of the electorate is a strength. The problem is forcing one-size-fits-all solutions on a diverse electorate. Which is all the current system knows how to do.
OK, so they got 3C better than the paste in the demo. Was it the cheap stuff you'll get from a no-name OEM or did they run it against something higher quality, e.g. Arctic Silver. Because I usually get more than 3C just by switching paste types.
Don't get me wrong, this may very well be better for Sony for their PS4's or TV's or whatever, and if it's better than cheap paste and easier to handle, great. But outside of factory customers, this probably isn't very interesting.