"DivorceOnline" sampled 5000 divorced couples. Were they users of DivorceOnline? Were these 5000 folks chosen from a particularly tech-friendly subset of the overall divorced population?
This just in! Slashdot poll reveals 50% of adult males still live with their parents.
("Whether Apple Inc. uses the glass in its iPod is a much-discussed mystery since 'not all our customers allow us to say,' said [the] general manager of Corning's specialty materials division.")
Does Apple use the glass? I can't tell you. Because when they started using it they told us we couldn't tell anyone.
muahahah
"My iPad has no 3G, therefore it has no GPS."
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> My iPad has no 3G, therefore it has no GPS.
Can someone explain this to me? I know there are hokey ways to triangulate location using the cell network but I thought true "GPS" enabled systems had an actual receiver for actual, honest to goodness GPS satellites. So I don't understand why no-3G implies no GPS.
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"Nintendo" and "Wii" in all the headlines....
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... But you have to read the article to see "Smith and Wesson". Unreal.
I can see where the conversation gets muddy when someone commits a violent act after playing violent video games. Not saying anything about that beyond that its at least an interesting topic. But when a TODDLER finds a LOADED GUN ON A COFFEE TABLE and SHOOTS HERSELF WITH IT are we really going to try to blame it on VIDEO GAMES?!?!?!
1. If you RTFA you'd see that Greenpeace lawyers had to go to great lengths and fight a mess of court battles to get at the data that shows this problem. 2. This corn is out in the food supply, and its not impossible that cross-pollination/etc is causing it to spread to other food sources. 3. I have no way of determining in the supermarket if either of these 3 varieties, or varieties which include these proteins, are present in the package of corn I'm about to buy.
You GM fanboys are fighting a straw-man. Folks like me don't hate the idea. I'd like to end world hunger. I'd like my car to run off sugar made from some superplant. What I don't want is some corporation like Monsanto to have no oversight, conflicts of interest all around (HELLO? They _fought_ the release of this information. They'd rather you die from liver disease than see a negative impact on their profits. Why the hell are you coming to their defense?) poisoning our food supply because they didn't want to spend the money or the effort to do it RIGHT.
Doesn't it bug you that all those left wing GM-hating nutjobs were RIGHT? This is _exactly_ what we feared would happen. Its not the idea of GM we hate. Its Monsanto. And You. And all the other idiots who don't take a second to think about what MIGHT happen if poor oversight is mixed with singleminded financial motivation.
According to the many press reports, she's believed to shave, is flat chested, has a very masculine physique, previously preferred playing physical games with boys, and shunned traditional female activities and clothing... Its your sister!
When was that game made? It seems like it was probably VERY clever. I didn't completely understand it, but it seemed like you talked to the people in the various places and "spoke" to them about various objects, and they'd respond by "speaking" about other objects, which were a clue that would lead you ultimately to the egg.
Now that I just described it, i'm realizing no matter what time frame it was written in, its probably a play-once-and-never-again kinda game. Hmm. But I'm still impressed with it, if its as old as its big ole pixels make it look.
Showing footage of a car crash that happened on the turnpike and was, therefore, property of the turnpike.
No. They don't claim they own the footage because it happened on the turnpike, they claim it is their footage because it was an NJTA camera that recorded it. The summary's incorrect statement leads people to believe that the NJTA claims everything recorded by anyone on the turnpike is their property. Reading the first paragraph of the actual article dispelled that.
Why do people submit stories and summaries before even understanding the target article?
Remember in grade school arithmetic when the teacher would tell you to "check your work" to make sure answers werent preposterous?
3 dollars to move a _car_ and _passengers_ that distance? Then I ought to use this same technology to build a generator. Instead of taking the kids to soccer practice, lets make electricity and put the power companies out of business.
Its not that cheap, they are fudging the numbers, etc, etc, etc.
Not that I don't like alternative energy study, and news about it. I just don't like it when crap like this gives us greenies a bad reputation. Its fodder for Fox News and George Bush to feed their mindless droves and keep them thinking "oil.. oil.. oil..."
Except that the entire world runs on this 9 to 5 schedule, and if you'd pause your pendantic rant for a minute, you'd realize that relative to this schedule (this schedule that most folks are locked into) they now have "more daylight".
Nobody thinks that DST makes days longer. Your straw man argument has been nullified. go home. (And work on your garden. Its light out. BEYOTCH!)
What about the zillions of other patents just like this one that they apply for every day? Is the burden really on ME to make sure that Microsoft hasn't been attempting to patent stuff I've clearly got "prior art" for?
This is terrible. Stop acting like "The system works". This is one example where a prior-art holder had the means to notice someone's faulty patent claim.
I'm not even sure where the burden of proof should lie. When you hire a patent attorney to do a "prior art search", they just give you a pile of existing patents that matched some keywords. How do you do a _real_ prior art search, beyond just what has already been patented? Its not even possible. The system is so hosed that every patent that resulted from it should probably just be thrown out.
I can't believe people are buying this "It was a mistake" B.S.
Stay with our cruddy platform!!! Don't switch, because in the coming years, when "Vienna" is released, you'll be glad you stuck with us!
Lets hop in our time machine:
You'll be glad you stayed with Windows 3.1 and didn't switch to any of the mmu-capable operating systems out there, because "Chicago" is going to be great!...So with decades of programming and billions of dollars, you still need to be using Vaporware to sell your current product offering. Way to go.
Are regular people capable of memorizing a sequence like that?
I can't even remember what kind of pie i had for dessert last weekend. Da Dum, DING! I can't even remember why the hell I started reading this stupid Slashdot rag. haha!
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You are seriously going to mention "energy prices" in your reply? Energy prices? Running my gamecube all day uses about as much energy as I use in STARTING my car.
Thats a mild exaggeration, but seriously, I will say that energy efficient game consoles would have a completely insignificant effect on our energy consumption.
And if you are about to give me some pedantic "every bit counts" argument, save it. This is a total absurdity and you should be embarassed with yourself. I'd be willing to bet that switching all the nintendo engineers to Hybrid cars would have a greater effect on world energy consumption than making energy efficient nintendo's would. Remember in the 4th grade when your math teacher would tell you to "ballpark, to make sure your answer isn't crazy". You should do that.
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OK they keep talking about how "We ARE using state of the art technology, but we are applying it to POWER CONSUMPTION instead of SPEED."
Ok, I understand the desire to get out of the more-and-more-and-more-quote-realistic-unquote-gra phics race. I completely do. Suspension of disbelief occurs for me in a game of atari pitfall.
But why am I supposed to care about power consumption of my game console? The only explaination they give for this is that now its possible to leave the Wii on 24/7, opening exciting new possibilities. Whatever on the vague explanation, and double whatever on the 24/7 bit because my gamecube is on right now, and has been since a game of mario tennis friday night.
Um, a "straw man" argument is when you start plopping in opinions that no one has brought up yet, and then attack them. Which is exactly what I did up there.
"Shoehorning" is stuffing something in somewhere when it doesn't quite fit. Like Microsoft technology in a school. [Thats a HUGE generalization about microsoft technology, and isn't entirely accurate, but I'm sure you get the point.]
I'm surprised someone with such an unbelievable intellect, disgusted by slang and CAPITAL LETTERS, would have such trouble understanding something so incredibly simple. You must be a hit at all the parties.
I don't know where you got that quote because I can't find it in either of the linked articles. People's lives depend on a cure/vaccine/treatment for HIV/AIDS. People's lives do not depend on the development of software--especially Microsoft software, thank god. They are two very different development efforts with very different ethical connotations.
I love this argument.
"Gates deserves his billions, he's had such a HUGELY IMPORTANT impact on the world! Computers have become life-saving technology, our quality of life has improved dramatically, and we've enabled positive growth across the world! Thanks to people like him, we'll become so efficient that hunger will be a thing of the past......Oh, and also...
Its OK if Microsoft stifles competition and growth in the field of IT, because its just a bunch of stupid computers that don't really matter."
Pick a frigging side! I know you didn't say the gates-is-great stuff, so its kind of a straw man I'm building here, but for the record, heres my side: You're wrong, computers are WICKED important, and he has had a NEGATIVE impact on the field of computing by shoehorning shitty technology into places it shouldn't be [by WACK marketing practices, some of which were outright illegal, others were simply _completely_ against the spirit of the competition-fueling-growth model]. He has sold people crappy tools that made them take longer to learn stuff, thus slowing the development of lifesaving computing technology. So THERE.
Yeah, they have plans for EVERYTHING. Like "what to do in Iraq once we got topple it"! Or "What to do with all those bomblets we littered all over Laos that didn't go off when we dropped cluster bombs." Or "What to do when our nuke testing in the marshall islands causes a 25 fold increase in birth defects for the natives"
Yeah, the US military are the kings of planning ahead.
I just don't understand people like you who think the US goes around cleaning up other people's messes. We leave such messes everywhere its pathetic.
If you look at "top" closely, you'll see even if only half of your ram is stuffed with porn and chat programs, the kernel is still making use of that remaining RAM. It would be moronic to just leave RAM sitting unoccupied. A lot of it is used for IO buffering, including your hard drive. So why not just use this mechanism? Why is it, from an IO-buffering-OS-user's perspectiive, any different having that info sitting in flash on the hard drive, instead of in your ram?
OK I guess I can think of a few reasons...
The flash wont need refresh cycles to keep its data intact, so that gives you a power reduction... The flash can still retain its state even when you shut down, so "wakeups" should be faster.. The hard drive is in charge of the caching, taking some thinky think load off of the CPU.
but from a performance perspective, it seems that Linux would do better with 256MB of faster, closer, shinier RAM instead of a wad of flash.. Plus your caching mechanism can be improved without having to buy a new hard drive.
Developers get sick of maintaining other developers code and focus on making new features (asked for or un-asked for) because it gives them pride to make something new. The Linux kernel hits the same pitfalls as the Windows kernel.
Thankfully, the people who actually do this development couldn't care less about your little opinion here. Its the "I'm gonna do THIS because its FUN for me" spirit is the LIFEBLOOD of F/OSS. It is what gives us nine-to-fiver's the spirit to keep coding even after putting in a whole day for The Man. Its the source of CREATIVITY that makes a GNU/linux stuff feel so much more... fun, and inspired.
And if you think that development model will result in Linux falling in "the same pitfalls as Win95/98", you've _completely_ missed the important points of the FOSS movement.
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"DivorceOnline" sampled 5000 divorced couples. Were they users of DivorceOnline? Were these 5000 folks chosen from a particularly tech-friendly subset of the overall divorced population?
This just in! Slashdot poll reveals 50% of adult males still live with their parents.
("Whether Apple Inc. uses the glass in its iPod is a much-discussed mystery since 'not all our customers allow us to say,' said [the] general manager of Corning's specialty materials division.")
Does Apple use the glass? I can't tell you. Because when they started using it they told us we couldn't tell anyone.
muahahah
> My iPad has no 3G, therefore it has no GPS.
Can someone explain this to me? I know there are hokey ways to triangulate location using the cell network but I thought true "GPS" enabled systems had an actual receiver for actual, honest to goodness GPS satellites. So I don't understand why no-3G implies no GPS.
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... But you have to read the article to see "Smith and Wesson". Unreal.
I can see where the conversation gets muddy when someone commits a violent act after playing violent video games. Not saying anything about that beyond that its at least an interesting topic. But when a TODDLER finds a LOADED GUN ON A COFFEE TABLE and SHOOTS HERSELF WITH IT are we really going to try to blame it on VIDEO GAMES?!?!?!
> studied 74 vets with PTSD and 250 civilians without
Is this really a PTSD detector? Or a vet detector?
Perhaps it smells the blood on their hands. :)
So "The System Worked", uhh, how?
1. If you RTFA you'd see that Greenpeace lawyers had to go to great lengths and fight a mess of court battles to get at the data that shows this problem.
2. This corn is out in the food supply, and its not impossible that cross-pollination/etc is causing it to spread to other food sources.
3. I have no way of determining in the supermarket if either of these 3 varieties, or varieties which include these proteins, are present in the package of corn I'm about to buy.
You GM fanboys are fighting a straw-man. Folks like me don't hate the idea. I'd like to end world hunger. I'd like my car to run off sugar made from some superplant. What I don't want is some corporation like Monsanto to have no oversight, conflicts of interest all around (HELLO? They _fought_ the release of this information. They'd rather you die from liver disease than see a negative impact on their profits. Why the hell are you coming to their defense?) poisoning our food supply because they didn't want to spend the money or the effort to do it RIGHT.
Doesn't it bug you that all those left wing GM-hating nutjobs were RIGHT? This is _exactly_ what we feared would happen. Its not the idea of GM we hate. Its Monsanto. And You. And all the other idiots who don't take a second to think about what MIGHT happen if poor oversight is mixed with singleminded financial motivation.
According to the many press reports, she's believed to shave, is flat chested, has a very masculine physique, previously preferred playing physical games with boys, and shunned traditional female activities and clothing ...
Its your sister!
what is a "department head", exactly, in this context?
I completely disagree.
When was that game made? It seems like it was probably VERY clever. I didn't completely understand it, but it seemed like you talked to the people in the various places and "spoke" to them about various objects, and they'd respond by "speaking" about other objects, which were a clue that would lead you ultimately to the egg.
Now that I just described it, i'm realizing no matter what time frame it was written in, its probably a play-once-and-never-again kinda game. Hmm. But I'm still impressed with it, if its as old as its big ole pixels make it look.
From the summary:
Showing footage of a car crash that happened on the turnpike and was, therefore, property of the turnpike.
No. They don't claim they own the footage because it happened on the turnpike, they claim it is their footage because it was an NJTA camera that recorded it. The summary's incorrect statement leads people to believe that the NJTA claims everything recorded by anyone on the turnpike is their property. Reading the first paragraph of the actual article dispelled that.
Why do people submit stories and summaries before even understanding the target article?
Remember in grade school arithmetic when the teacher would tell you to "check your work" to make sure answers werent preposterous?
3 dollars to move a _car_ and _passengers_ that distance? Then I ought to use this same technology to build a generator. Instead of taking the kids to soccer practice, lets make electricity and put the power companies out of business.
Its not that cheap, they are fudging the numbers, etc, etc, etc.
Not that I don't like alternative energy study, and news about it. I just don't like it when crap like this gives us greenies a bad reputation. Its fodder for Fox News and George Bush to feed their mindless droves and keep them thinking "oil.. oil.. oil..."
I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.
Hmmm. A random collection of people doing their own thing has saved me from ever having to run your ugly, bloated operating system!
Except that the entire world runs on this 9 to 5 schedule, and if you'd pause your pendantic rant for a minute, you'd realize that relative to this schedule (this schedule that most folks are locked into) they now have "more daylight".
Nobody thinks that DST makes days longer. Your straw man argument has been nullified. go home.
(And work on your garden. Its light out. BEYOTCH!)
Move along... It was "just a mistake".
What about the zillions of other patents just like this one that they apply for every day? Is the burden really on ME to make sure that Microsoft hasn't been attempting to patent stuff I've clearly got "prior art" for?
This is terrible. Stop acting like "The system works". This is one example where a prior-art holder had the means to notice someone's faulty patent claim.
I'm not even sure where the burden of proof should lie. When you hire a patent attorney to do a "prior art search", they just give you a pile of existing patents that matched some keywords. How do you do a _real_ prior art search, beyond just what has already been patented? Its not even possible. The system is so hosed that every patent that resulted from it should probably just be thrown out.
I can't believe people are buying this "It was a mistake" B.S.
Stay with our cruddy platform!!! Don't switch, because in the coming years, when "Vienna" is released, you'll be glad you stuck with us!
...So with decades of programming and billions of dollars, you still need to be using Vaporware to sell your current product offering. Way to go.
Lets hop in our time machine:
You'll be glad you stayed with Windows 3.1 and didn't switch to any of the mmu-capable operating systems out there, because "Chicago" is going to be great!
Anyone have any idea how this is possible?
Are regular people capable of memorizing a sequence like that?
I can't even remember what kind of pie i had for dessert last weekend. Da Dum, DING! I can't even remember why the hell I started reading this stupid Slashdot rag. haha!
You are seriously going to mention "energy prices" in your reply? Energy prices? Running my gamecube all day uses about as much energy as I use in STARTING my car.
Thats a mild exaggeration, but seriously, I will say that energy efficient game consoles would have a completely insignificant effect on our energy consumption.
And if you are about to give me some pedantic "every bit counts" argument, save it. This is a total absurdity and you should be embarassed with yourself. I'd be willing to bet that switching all the nintendo engineers to Hybrid cars would have a greater effect on world energy consumption than making energy efficient nintendo's would. Remember in the 4th grade when your math teacher would tell you to "ballpark, to make sure your answer isn't crazy". You should do that.
OK they keep talking about how "We ARE using state of the art technology, but we are applying it to POWER CONSUMPTION instead of SPEED."
a phics race. I completely do. Suspension of disbelief occurs for me in a game of atari pitfall.
Ok, I understand the desire to get out of the more-and-more-and-more-quote-realistic-unquote-gr
But why am I supposed to care about power consumption of my game console? The only explaination they give for this is that now its possible to leave the Wii on 24/7, opening exciting new possibilities. Whatever on the vague explanation, and double whatever on the 24/7 bit because my gamecube is on right now, and has been since a game of mario tennis friday night.
wouldn't that have been a more appropriate/identifiable analogy than an Outboard Motor? Most people don't live on the water, you insensitive clod.
Um, a "straw man" argument is when you start plopping in opinions that no one has brought up yet, and then attack them. Which is exactly what I did up there.
"Shoehorning" is stuffing something in somewhere when it doesn't quite fit. Like Microsoft technology in a school. [Thats a HUGE generalization about microsoft technology, and isn't entirely accurate, but I'm sure you get the point.]
I'm surprised someone with such an unbelievable intellect, disgusted by slang and CAPITAL LETTERS, would have such trouble understanding something so incredibly simple. You must be a hit at all the parties.
I don't know where you got that quote because I can't find it in either of the linked articles. People's lives depend on a cure/vaccine/treatment for HIV/AIDS. People's lives do not depend on the development of software--especially Microsoft software, thank god. They are two very different development efforts with very different ethical connotations.
...Oh, and also...
I love this argument.
"Gates deserves his billions, he's had such a HUGELY IMPORTANT impact on the world! Computers have become life-saving technology, our quality of life has improved dramatically, and we've enabled positive growth across the world! Thanks to people like him, we'll become so efficient that hunger will be a thing of the past...
Its OK if Microsoft stifles competition and growth in the field of IT, because its just a bunch of stupid computers that don't really matter."
Pick a frigging side! I know you didn't say the gates-is-great stuff, so its kind of a straw man I'm building here, but for the record, heres my side: You're wrong, computers are WICKED important, and he has had a NEGATIVE impact on the field of computing by shoehorning shitty technology into places it shouldn't be [by WACK marketing practices, some of which were outright illegal, others were simply _completely_ against the spirit of the competition-fueling-growth model]. He has sold people crappy tools that made them take longer to learn stuff, thus slowing the development of lifesaving computing technology. So THERE.
Yeah, they have plans for EVERYTHING. Like "what to do in Iraq once we got topple it"! Or "What to do with all those bomblets we littered all over Laos that didn't go off when we dropped cluster bombs." Or "What to do when our nuke testing in the marshall islands causes a 25 fold increase in birth defects for the natives"
Yeah, the US military are the kings of planning ahead.
I just don't understand people like you who think the US goes around cleaning up other people's messes. We leave such messes everywhere its pathetic.
I hope you step on a land mine. I really do.
If you look at "top" closely, you'll see even if only half of your ram is stuffed with porn and chat programs, the kernel is still making use of that remaining RAM. It would be moronic to just leave RAM sitting unoccupied. A lot of it is used for IO buffering, including your hard drive. So why not just use this mechanism? Why is it, from an IO-buffering-OS-user's perspectiive, any different having that info sitting in flash on the hard drive, instead of in your ram?
OK I guess I can think of a few reasons...
The flash wont need refresh cycles to keep its data intact, so that gives you a power reduction...
The flash can still retain its state even when you shut down, so "wakeups" should be faster..
The hard drive is in charge of the caching, taking some thinky think load off of the CPU.
but from a performance perspective, it seems that Linux would do better with 256MB of faster, closer, shinier RAM instead of a wad of flash.. Plus your caching mechanism can be improved without having to buy a new hard drive.
Developers get sick of maintaining other developers code and focus on making new features (asked for or un-asked for) because it gives them pride to make something new. The Linux kernel hits the same pitfalls as the Windows kernel.
Thankfully, the people who actually do this development couldn't care less about your little opinion here. Its the "I'm gonna do THIS because its FUN for me" spirit is the LIFEBLOOD of F/OSS. It is what gives us nine-to-fiver's the spirit to keep coding even after putting in a whole day for The Man. Its the source of CREATIVITY that makes a GNU/linux stuff feel so much more... fun, and inspired.
And if you think that development model will result in Linux falling in "the same pitfalls as Win95/98", you've _completely_ missed the important points of the FOSS movement.
a ***500 meter wide*** /crushed/ knuckle bone