Wake up - the reason the oil companies installed temp sensors in Canada was because otherwise, Canadians would get over 10% MORE energy (because the gas is much denser at lower temps) than in the summer.
Why not do like Canadians do - while its sold by the "litre", its really sold by weight. That's what temp. compensation is all about. You get the same weight of fuel at -40C as you do at +40C.
So why do some states outlaw this? Because they get more tax revenues, since people are buying by volumn, not by weight. Do you really like the idea of paying more taxes than you should be?
Gasoline expands a LOT quicker than water when warmed up. Try it some time.
You're getting ripped off big time. Same as with ethanol - fewer BTUs per gallon. I won't buy ethanol blends because my mileage drops by over 5 mpg (actually closer to 10mpg).
Finally, the station sells gas by the gallon not by the BTU. you are still getting a gallon.
So you'd be happy to pay the same price for a "gallon" of gas heated to 200 degrees?
Man: I just lost my wallet with $1,000.00 and my credit cards in it. I'll give whoever finds it $100.00.
Voice from back of room: $I'll give $200.00
If its a real vulnerability, you can sell it over and over again. None of the buyers is going to leak it - they'd lose their investment, and chance to make $$$.
So, sell it once for $X, or sell it 20 times for $X/2?
This is just someone else with a lame attempt to insert themselves into a market.
There are too many lawyers. The first step to fixing the bad rep is to fix the system so that there are fewer instances where a lawyer is needed. Make all divorces a simple civil procedure, no more complicated than the marriage was. Ditto for custody, alimony, and child support. Use the small-claims process for all cases below, say, $100,000.00. Get rid of stupid laws that criminalize a lot of activity that is really a social problem.
There - now you've gotten rid of 90% of the demand... that should get rid of 90% of the problem.
And before you say this is impractical, lawyers said the same thing about small-claims courts when they were first instituted, and about no-fault divorce, and administrative decisions for child support (as opposed to judgments).
"How about burying real politicians instead of Capt. America."
How about burying lawyers instead of Capt. America.
Fixed it for you.
A busload full of lawyers crashed outsided of town. When the emergency crews arrived on the scene, they found that the local townfolk had already buried all the lawyers. Surveying the wreckage, one EMT said "the crash doesn't look that bad. Didn't any of them survive?" "Well, some of them SAID they were still alive, but you know how them lawyer fellas like to lie."
"That's something that always pissed me off about Star Trek (even as a fan): everyone was a super-genius, unless you dedicated yourself to raising grapes in France or you were a junior member of an away team.;-)"
Knowing the pr0n industry, and guys in general - 5 years, tops.
Then we'll be reading stories about people who die of starvation because they were so caught up in their cybersex world, that they forgot to eat, sleep, etc., and just died.
And there will be clinics for cybersextoy addicts.
And law suits.
The big question for slashdotters, of course, is "Will it run linux?" This will be the first time they prefer Windows, because it can be depended to "go down on them" on a regular basis.
And no, I don't want to imagine a Boewulf Cluster of them - it would be a REAL cluster-f*ck!
"that this article will be relevant in 100 billion years."
Nah, it'll have experienced the "dupe death" as its reposted countless times, each time increasing its entrophy, losing a few letters here, having a few more arranged there..
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The cosmic microwave background, which has provided our most detailed understanding of the Big Bang, will also be gone. Its wavelength will have been shifted to a full meter, and its intensity will drop by 12 orders of magnitude. Even before then, however, the frequency will reach that of the interstellar plasma and be buried in the noise--the stuff of the universe itself will mask the evidence of its origin. Other evidence for the Big Bang comes from the amount of deuterium and helium isotopes in the universe.'"
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detailed understanding will also be gone.
a full meter,
the frequency will reach that of the interstellar plasma and be buried in
the noise--the stuff of the universe itself
evidence for the Big Bang comes from the isotopes in the universe.'"
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The cosmic microwave background, which has provided our most detailed understanding of the Big Bang, will also be gone. Its wavelength will have been shifted to a full meter, and its intensity will drop by 12 orders of magnitude. Even before then, however, the frequency will reach that of the interstellar plasma and be buried in the noise--the stuff of the universe itself will mask the evidence of its origin. Other evidence for the Big Bang comes from the amount of deuterium and helium isotopes in the universe.'"
Because we all know, what goes around, comes around.
We could be talking a bout REAL viral marketing... but back to TFA:
"Open Source sharing will be extended from the exchange of software to the exchange of genes. "
Doctors have been fixing the open sores from the exchange of genetic material for decades with a dose of penicillin.
Of course, its a different story if you caught "Hong Kong Dong."
On a business trip to the Orient, Joe decided to spend his last night having wild sex with a Geisha Girl.
Three weeks later, he noticed a very weird green, festering sore growing on his penis.
He went to the doctor, Dr. Jones, who, after hearing of his Orient trip and extracurricular activities, told him he had Hong Kong Dong and the only cure was complete amputation.
Joe was horrified, and decided to get a second opinion. Joe contacted Dr. Smith and showed him the green growth. Dr. Smith said, "I am sorry but Dr. Jones is correct. We must amputate right away".
Joe could not accept this. His friend suggested that he visit an oriental doctor. They must deal with this all the time.
He went to Dr. Chu Wong. Dr. Wong agreed with the diagnosis of Hong Kong Dong, but said
"These Amadican Doctors - so quick to Chop Chop chop. Amputation not necesally."
Joe was relieved.
Dr. Wong said "You wait three weeks and it fall off on its own."
Seriously, most "sharing of genes" in nature has always been under a BSD, not GPL, license, in the sense that the recipient is free to use the genetic material any way they wish, without any obligation of giving a copy of the modified genetic material (the offspring) to any contributor.
"Nice Try. But Dell's not just selling you Ubuntu, its also selling you the computer on which you're running it. And they *can* place additional restrictions on the hardware."
No they can't. It has nothing to do with the gpl, and everything to do with consumer protection laws (even business purchases are covered in many jurisdictions by the implied warranty of fitness for use). Unless the hardware comes with a per-seat or per-user license, which is not the case here, they cannot tell you how to use it. All they can do is refuse warranty support if its been abused. That is their SOLE option/recourse.
Buy the damn thing and get a refund on the Windows license. The instructions have been posted on the net, including here on slashdot, often enough... (and tag another $100 onto your claim, for wasted time, since they refused to sell you one without a Windows license, and take them to small claims court for the extra $100).
Its interesting that you mention Harley-Davidson in the context of Americana, because they nearly went belly-up, and it took a real emphasis on quality and design to get back on track. They face the same competition as the former "Big three" automakers - the Japanese - and they've been successful in turning things around.
They produce a product that is perceived to be of high quality and meets its market's demand. The same can't be said for GM and Ford, who seem bent on trying to milk every last cent out of the "truck as urban transporter" market, rather than produce cars that combine high quality, good looks, and cheap to run (both on fuel and maintenance). While they might score high in initial quality, they still deteriorate much faster than their japanese counterparts.
If you're referring to the Wright Bros', their "airplane" didn't really fly - it was glide, albeit with a motor on the nose, but still, it never did achieve self-powered flight. It was "launched by over a half-dozen people running beside it to get it up to speed, etc. A lucky gust of wind gave it some additionall height, and then it resumed its normal 4 degree downward glide.
Why do people keep looking to the ancient greeks, when the original poster said someone from a specific year - 1907 - 100 years ago?
The dawn of the new technological age, where people were getting used to seeing marvels, instead of explaining it all away as "magick"... and yet this person would be freaked out. Of have you figured out how to explain the goat guy to him (it would probably be easier to explain to the ancient greeks:-).
"Now Microsoft has even more excuses for making more of a pain in the ass for legitimate users to get updates."
... and how is this a problem? The harder it gets, the more people switch to other, better operating systems, the fewer zombies on the net. I'd like to see them charge a buck a meg for each patch. They're up to what... 400 megs of patches on XP?
And throw in their "We want to rent you the OS" for, say, $20 a month... to start, over and above an "administrative fee" of, say, $199.00. And LiveCare for another $5.00 a month.
And make it so much per bogoMIP, so that people running faster machines pay more (like the RIAA cd-burner "math"). Running twin cores? Double the fees. Running 3 gigahertz? Triple.
Got more than 1 gig of RAM? A "random access fee". Dual monitors? An "expanded desktop real estate tax". Don't use Microsoft's search? An "interoperability fee" for Yahoo or Google. Don't use Microsoft keyboard, mouse, or nic? A "driver compatability bridge" rental.
And copy ISPs by capping "unlimited usage" of Windows at, say, 60 hours a month, after which you get "Windows Premium Access" at $5/hour extra.
And a $50 per annum fee for "disk quota" for every 100 gigs of disk space accessable.
More than one account on the machine? A "per-user" license. Burn a lot of DVDs? A "data restricted media transformation (DRMt)" fee. Play games? A "directx 10 lease." The games aren't dirextx10? A "compatibility layer lease".
C'mon Bill, do it! TO TEH MOON!
Heck, you can differentiate yourself even further by CHARGING for an office suite, a compiler, and servers. Oops... you already do that...
"I guess they are saying your computer is as up to date as they are going to make it without WGA.
In essence, they terminated your support for updates and you renewed it by doing the WGA thing. And no, I am not saying it is right. But even if you purchase the full version, you only get so much free support. the rest is basically MS acting as if they are doing you a favor. I don't remember anything in the license or on the box about updates being provided.
They really don't have a choice - either FIX the defective OS via patches or face a class-action suit for selling a grolssly defective product. Don't kid yourself - the only person who benefits from Microsoft's actions is Microsoft. Limited warranties don't add to your rights, they take away from them. Most jurisdictions have laws that state that a purchase has to be useful for its intended purpose for a reasonable amount of time. 20 seconds between connecting to the net and getting p0wned is not "reasonable" - especially when there are free OS available that don't have these defects.
"agree with a lot of what you said, I just have to chip in that for someone working a minimum wage job (or even, in my case, a job that's significantly above minimum wage but still depressingly low), $129 *IS* a lot of money.... at the federal minimum wage, after tax, that could end up being almost a weeks pay, which is pretty painful for someone on a budget:("
In which case they have more pressing needs than an update to an iMac... and they're better off with older, free hardware and a copy of linux or BSD.
"If you took an educated man from 1907 and brought him to 2007, he'd be able to understand just about everything we have except for our computational devices. They even understood a bit about nuclear energy.
"
He'd freak out. Too much social change along with technological change.
Flat-screen TVs. Gay, lesbian and transsexual rights. Cell phones (with mp3 and video), even for kids. A speed limit of over 30 mph!!! Airplanes that can fly faster than the speed of sound, faster than a speeding bullet. Permanent press fabrics. Microwave cooking. Fast food. Tofu. Sushi. Light beer.
Genetic screening. Debit cards. Credit cards. Routine heart transplants. Smoking banned in most places. Abortion on demand. "God is dead." Televangelists. No-fault divorce. Divorce on demand. Mickey Rooney and Liz Taylor (8 marriages each). Britney Spears and pop-tarts in general.
Photocopiers. Samizdat. Color printers. Glossy advertising printed so cheaply that it is literally thrown out. Remote controls of all sorts. VCR. DVD. USB fobs with the space for 1000 copies of The Bible. The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, David Bowie.
Playboy centerfolds. Hustler. Downloadable porn. AIDS. China being the biggest exporter of consumer goods. "Average" houses worth 250,000 to 1 million. Tanning booths.
No spitting on the sidewalk. Poop and scoop. Deodorants. Ballpoint pens. Nylons. Artificial fabrics of all types. Polyester (okay - NOBODY understands polyester). Rap music. Parking restrictions. Jaywalking being illegal. State lotteries.
T Shirts. Jeans, capri pants and slacks for women. "Casual business attire." Disposable watches, calculators. The near-death of pencils and erasors. Surgery as fashion statement. Michael Jackson. Boy George. Madonna.
"You can't hit your wife." "You can't hit your kid." "You can't beat your animals." "You can't threaten someone." You CAN burn the flag. You CAN call the President an idiot to an audience - and you'll even get laughs.
Black and latino movie stars being the big box office draws, and a black woman - Oprah - being the #1 entertainer. "The Joy of Sex" This guy. Try explaining him to anyone in 2007...
He'd think either the world went crazy, or he did.
Its not like TV - you have a hi-res monitor capable of displaying plenty of text. Just include a text link, or embed the video in a page with text, displaying the dialog.
"is that they put the gasoline in there because they thought the world would be so advanced in the 21st century that we would've moved way beyond that.:P"
We HAVE moved far away from 50's-grade gasoline. No lead, and no more needing to change your fuel filter every 6,000-10,000 miles because there are way fewer contaminants.
You wouldn't want to stick that old gunk in todays cars, even if it did have a higher octane rating. You *might* go fast, but you won't go far.
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Wake up - the reason the oil companies installed temp sensors in Canada was because otherwise, Canadians would get over 10% MORE energy (because the gas is much denser at lower temps) than in the summer.
Why not do like Canadians do - while its sold by the "litre", its really sold by weight. That's what temp. compensation is all about. You get the same weight of fuel at -40C as you do at +40C.
So why do some states outlaw this? Because they get more tax revenues, since people are buying by volumn, not by weight. Do you really like the idea of paying more taxes than you should be?
Gasoline expands a LOT quicker than water when warmed up. Try it some time.
You're getting ripped off big time. Same as with ethanol - fewer BTUs per gallon. I won't buy ethanol blends because my mileage drops by over 5 mpg (actually closer to 10mpg).
So you'd be happy to pay the same price for a "gallon" of gas heated to 200 degrees?It reminds me of the joke:
If its a real vulnerability, you can sell it over and over again. None of the buyers is going to leak it - they'd lose their investment, and chance to make $$$.
So, sell it once for $X, or sell it 20 times for $X/2?
This is just someone else with a lame attempt to insert themselves into a market.
There are too many lawyers. The first step to fixing the bad rep is to fix the system so that there are fewer instances where a lawyer is needed. Make all divorces a simple civil procedure, no more complicated than the marriage was. Ditto for custody, alimony, and child support. Use the small-claims process for all cases below, say, $100,000.00. Get rid of stupid laws that criminalize a lot of activity that is really a social problem.
There - now you've gotten rid of 90% of the demand ... that should get rid of 90% of the problem.
And before you say this is impractical, lawyers said the same thing about small-claims courts when they were first instituted, and about no-fault divorce, and administrative decisions for child support (as opposed to judgments).
Stand on Zanzibar has GOT to be an all-time classic!
"How about burying real politicians instead of Capt. America."
How about burying lawyers instead of Capt. America.
Fixed it for you.
A busload full of lawyers crashed outsided of town. When the emergency crews arrived on the scene, they found that the local townfolk had already buried all the lawyers. Surveying the wreckage, one EMT said "the crash doesn't look that bad. Didn't any of them survive?" "Well, some of them SAID they were still alive, but you know how them lawyer fellas like to lie."
"In America, all 3D objects are solid enough to grasp.
Darn, I'd hate to be flying in your fog!
BTW, how's breathing that 2D air thing going?
"That's something that always pissed me off about Star Trek (even as a fan): everyone was a super-genius, unless you dedicated yourself to raising grapes in France or you were a junior member of an away team. ;-)"
Darn it Jim, that WAS our eugenics program!
Knowing the pr0n industry, and guys in general - 5 years, tops.
Then we'll be reading stories about people who die of starvation because they were so caught up in their cybersex world, that they forgot to eat, sleep, etc., and just died.
And there will be clinics for cybersextoy addicts.
And law suits.
The big question for slashdotters, of course, is "Will it run linux?" This will be the first time they prefer Windows, because it can be depended to "go down on them" on a regular basis.
And no, I don't want to imagine a Boewulf Cluster of them - it would be a REAL cluster-f*ck!
"that this article will be relevant in 100 billion years."
Nah, it'll have experienced the "dupe death" as its reposted countless times, each time increasing its entrophy, losing a few letters here, having a few more arranged there ..
Today:
Today + n dupes:Today + n * x dupes:
Time zero
Time zero +1
Time zero + z
Because we all know, what goes around, comes around.
"Open Source sharing will be extended from the exchange of software to the exchange of genes. "
Doctors have been fixing the open sores from the exchange of genetic material for decades with a dose of penicillin.
Of course, its a different story if you caught "Hong Kong Dong."
Seriously, most "sharing of genes" in nature has always been under a BSD, not GPL, license, in the sense that the recipient is free to use the genetic material any way they wish, without any obligation of giving a copy of the modified genetic material (the offspring) to any contributor.
"Don't forget alright! It's ALL RIGHT."
How about "I axed you not to do that!" instead of "asked" ...
I see your "Grammar Nazi" and raise you a "Creative Interpretation" :-)
Then again, while its probably people, it might be a script ... or a dog ... after all, on the internet, nobody knows if ...
I mean really! The list sounds like they're stuck in the early '80s.
"Nice Try. But Dell's not just selling you Ubuntu, its also selling you the computer on which you're running it. And they *can* place additional restrictions on the hardware."
No they can't. It has nothing to do with the gpl, and everything to do with consumer protection laws (even business purchases are covered in many jurisdictions by the implied warranty of fitness for use). Unless the hardware comes with a per-seat or per-user license, which is not the case here, they cannot tell you how to use it. All they can do is refuse warranty support if its been abused. That is their SOLE option/recourse.
Buy the damn thing and get a refund on the Windows license. The instructions have been posted on the net, including here on slashdot, often enough ... (and tag another $100 onto your claim, for wasted time, since they refused to sell you one without a Windows license, and take them to small claims court for the extra $100).
Its interesting that you mention Harley-Davidson in the context of Americana, because they nearly went belly-up, and it took a real emphasis on quality and design to get back on track. They face the same competition as the former "Big three" automakers - the Japanese - and they've been successful in turning things around.
They produce a product that is perceived to be of high quality and meets its market's demand. The same can't be said for GM and Ford, who seem bent on trying to milk every last cent out of the "truck as urban transporter" market, rather than produce cars that combine high quality, good looks, and cheap to run (both on fuel and maintenance). While they might score high in initial quality, they still deteriorate much faster than their japanese counterparts.
If you're referring to the Wright Bros', their "airplane" didn't really fly - it was glide, albeit with a motor on the nose, but still, it never did achieve self-powered flight. It was "launched by over a half-dozen people running beside it to get it up to speed, etc. A lucky gust of wind gave it some additionall height, and then it resumed its normal 4 degree downward glide.
Why do people keep looking to the ancient greeks, when the original poster said someone from a specific year - 1907 - 100 years ago?
The dawn of the new technological age, where people were getting used to seeing marvels, instead of explaining it all away as "magick" ... and yet this person would be freaked out. Of have you figured out how to explain the goat guy to him (it would probably be easier to explain to the ancient greeks :-).
Try autopatcher.com.
"Now Microsoft has even more excuses for making more of a pain in the ass for legitimate users to get updates."
And throw in their "We want to rent you the OS" for, say, $20 a month ... to start, over and above an "administrative fee" of, say, $199.00. And LiveCare for another $5.00 a month.
And make it so much per bogoMIP, so that people running faster machines pay more (like the RIAA cd-burner "math"). Running twin cores? Double the fees. Running 3 gigahertz? Triple.
Got more than 1 gig of RAM? A "random access fee". Dual monitors? An "expanded desktop real estate tax". Don't use Microsoft's search? An "interoperability fee" for Yahoo or Google. Don't use Microsoft keyboard, mouse, or nic? A "driver compatability bridge" rental.
And copy ISPs by capping "unlimited usage" of Windows at, say, 60 hours a month, after which you get "Windows Premium Access" at $5/hour extra.
And a $50 per annum fee for "disk quota" for every 100 gigs of disk space accessable.
More than one account on the machine? A "per-user" license. Burn a lot of DVDs? A "data restricted media transformation (DRMt)" fee. Play games? A "directx 10 lease." The games aren't dirextx10? A "compatibility layer lease".
C'mon Bill, do it! TO TEH MOON!
Heck, you can differentiate yourself even further by CHARGING for an office suite, a compiler, and servers. Oops ... you already do that ...
"I guess they are saying your computer is as up to date as they are going to make it without WGA.
In essence, they terminated your support for updates and you renewed it by doing the WGA thing. And no, I am not saying it is right. But even if you purchase the full version, you only get so much free support. the rest is basically MS acting as if they are doing you a favor. I don't remember anything in the license or on the box about updates being provided.
They really don't have a choice - either FIX the defective OS via patches or face a class-action suit for selling a grolssly defective product. Don't kid yourself - the only person who benefits from Microsoft's actions is Microsoft. Limited warranties don't add to your rights, they take away from them. Most jurisdictions have laws that state that a purchase has to be useful for its intended purpose for a reasonable amount of time. 20 seconds between connecting to the net and getting p0wned is not "reasonable" - especially when there are free OS available that don't have these defects.
"agree with a lot of what you said, I just have to chip in that for someone working a minimum wage job (or even, in my case, a job that's significantly above minimum wage but still depressingly low), $129 *IS* a lot of money.... at the federal minimum wage, after tax, that could end up being almost a weeks pay, which is pretty painful for someone on a budget :("
In which case they have more pressing needs than an update to an iMac ... and they're better off with older, free hardware and a copy of linux or BSD.
"If you took an educated man from 1907 and brought him to 2007, he'd be able to understand just about everything we have except for our computational devices. They even understood a bit about nuclear energy. "
He'd freak out. Too much social change along with technological change.
Flat-screen TVs. Gay, lesbian and transsexual rights. Cell phones (with mp3 and video), even for kids. A speed limit of over 30 mph!!! Airplanes that can fly faster than the speed of sound, faster than a speeding bullet. Permanent press fabrics. Microwave cooking. Fast food. Tofu. Sushi. Light beer.
Genetic screening. Debit cards. Credit cards. Routine heart transplants. Smoking banned in most places. Abortion on demand. "God is dead." Televangelists. No-fault divorce. Divorce on demand. Mickey Rooney and Liz Taylor (8 marriages each). Britney Spears and pop-tarts in general.
Photocopiers. Samizdat. Color printers. Glossy advertising printed so cheaply that it is literally thrown out. Remote controls of all sorts. VCR. DVD. USB fobs with the space for 1000 copies of The Bible. The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, David Bowie.
Playboy centerfolds. Hustler. Downloadable porn. AIDS. China being the biggest exporter of consumer goods. "Average" houses worth 250,000 to 1 million. Tanning booths.
No spitting on the sidewalk. Poop and scoop. Deodorants. Ballpoint pens. Nylons. Artificial fabrics of all types. Polyester (okay - NOBODY understands polyester). Rap music. Parking restrictions. Jaywalking being illegal. State lotteries.
T Shirts. Jeans, capri pants and slacks for women. "Casual business attire." Disposable watches, calculators. The near-death of pencils and erasors. Surgery as fashion statement. Michael Jackson. Boy George. Madonna.
"You can't hit your wife." "You can't hit your kid." "You can't beat your animals." "You can't threaten someone." You CAN burn the flag. You CAN call the President an idiot to an audience - and you'll even get laughs.
Black and latino movie stars being the big box office draws, and a black woman - Oprah - being the #1 entertainer. "The Joy of Sex" This guy. Try explaining him to anyone in 2007 ...
He'd think either the world went crazy, or he did.
Its not like TV - you have a hi-res monitor capable of displaying plenty of text. Just include a text link, or embed the video in a page with text, displaying the dialog.
Now there's a thought - a REAL dialog box :-)
"is that they put the gasoline in there because they thought the world would be so advanced in the 21st century that we would've moved way beyond that. :P"
We HAVE moved far away from 50's-grade gasoline. No lead, and no more needing to change your fuel filter every 6,000-10,000 miles because there are way fewer contaminants.
You wouldn't want to stick that old gunk in todays cars, even if it did have a higher octane rating. You *might* go fast, but you won't go far.
The AMC Pacer. otherwise known as a "turtle" or a "goldfish bowl" because thats what they looked like.