I'm willing to accept there's a global warming problem. I'm willing to debate whether or not humans are the cause of it. Regardless of what is causing it I want to know, how bad will it be and what can we do to correct it? These are the topics that scientists never appear to talk about. What is the problem and what is the solution? If the problem is just that sea level will rise or that we'll have hotter winters, why cares? Yeah, it's gunna displace a lot of people, but the species will still survive. If the issue is that climate change will make the planet unfit to live on, what solutions are there? And no, stopping industry civilisation and going back to hunting elk for food is not a solution.
Fuck Science. It's this unhealthy obsession with "science" that is dragging the space program down. The goal for going into space should be commercial. We should be mining the moon for rare (on earth) metals. Astronauts should be fixing billion dollar satellites, not pressing buttons on automated space experiments.
I'm sure the people who fund them don't give a shit about the Windows port and that's why it sux. If you want to fund them to work on the windows port, go ahead. OSS users are the only people on the planet who complain about stuff they get for nothing. I have this vision of hobos standing in line for a handout complaining that the soup isn't hot enough or the bread isn't gluten free. Take what you are given and shut the hell up, or go make your own god damn software.
I don't know what you are talking about. You don't have to be a programmer to take responsibility for your own needs. If you want apache to work well on windows, hire a freakin' programmer to make it work well on windows. The apache group make and give away software FOR FREE. If you don't like their GIFT, don't use it.
Well your suggestion was to blame the developers of Apache instead of the developers of Windows. As such, you're guilty of the same crime. The Apache developers have no responsibility to get their software working on Windows. If people want it working on Windows they have to do it themselves.
All in all, this is a very american conversation. Instead of just fixing the god damn problem you gotta hunt down a scape goat. Fix the problem, not the blame.
There's nothing to be wrong about here. It's simply a question of focus. It took a long time to get to the point we are with genomics, now we can look at proteins and transcription control via RNA and actually discover what is going on.
I think if you study music enough to actually appreciate it you come to understand that automating the process of creating music would just cheapen it - especially if your motivation is commercial.
like the terrorist's you're feebly attempting to defend
Typical war attitude, you're either with us or you're against us. Remember when W. said that for the very first time and the world recoiled in horror? Now it's considered the norm.
That's all the religious extremists need to hear about this story. You can't sensibly talk about evolution if you believe the earth is only 5000 years old.
I think it's more the invading and bombing their homes that did it. If terrorists were logical they'd look at comments like yours and discover that as far as public education goes, terrorism really doesn't get their message across too effectively. But the "send a message to the world" justification for terrorism is just a pretext, it's really about revenge and retribution. Probably the most heinous part of human nature.
ThisClown: Hmm.. what stupid question can I post to Slashdot to get me on the front page.
[Light bulb goes on over his head]
ThisClown: Aha! I can't ask how to make an email system to support a large number of users! Yes!
[Posts to Slashdot]
Editor: Shit, I've gotta do 15 minutes of work or my fellow "editors" will know I've been slacking off all week. What's in the queue? Hmm... slightly technical question about email systems. Well, I'm not too familiar with this whole "email" thing, but what the hell, seems like it would be good for some page hits.
As long as you continue to think of it as such you have to keep fighting which rules out any chance of fixing the social problems that cause the phenomona in the first place.
Slack off. This is Australia man. We can't get fired (not until Howard gets them new laws through). Even if you get a layoff you'll get a massive lump sum that will easily keep you afloat until you get a new job.
Ok economics boy, as I understand it the purpose of an efficient market is to drive the cost of goods down. As my labour is the product we happen to be discussing, why would I want to co-operate in creating an efficient market?
Alternatively if you tell your co-workers how much you earn and they go demand a raise they may get fired or quit in disgust which means you'll have to take on their workload. If everyone goes and demands a raise you might end up invoking a round of layoffs resulting in a few overpaid programmers being left in the office who have to handle the entire workload. Them Against Us rarely sums up the relationship between employer and employee.
Really does sound like a no brainer doesn't it? WoW charges $50 + $15/month. You wanna complete with WoW? Offer a free download and $10/month for a game that is as good. Can't do that? Go home.
And yet you don't recommend any alternatives or even give any good reasons why PayPal is no good. I hope your "urging" of other people is typically done more effectively.
In the mean time, there's plenty of people who are happy with PayPal's service.
Sigh. They don't intend to make a product at all. They intend to sell these screens as components to companies that are making products. So what they are doing is offering to let someone else take the risk with their technology so they can make a profit selling components. Doing that with something like this is braindead. A "new kind of ram" is something that slots into an existing market. There are already products that use ram and your "new" ram could presumably be used in those products. The only risk is that someone might buy some of your ram and discover it isn't compatible and they've lost the purchase price. On the other hand, this display is something for which entirely new products must be designed for which there currently is no market. If this company wants to sell their displays they will need to either 1) demonstrate this is a market for products using these displays or 2) develop their displays so they can be used in existing products. I don't believe they can do 1 without making a product and actually offering it for sale. And I don't think they can do 2 without spending way too much on development such that it isn't profitable when they finally can sell the components.
the Readius was created in order to demonstrate the viability of the rollable-display concept in mobile applications and to gain customer feedback at the IFA 2005.
I did read the article thank you very much. And I am capable of translating this from marketing speak into "we're not taking any risk so this technology is doomed". If you wanna prove your technology is viable, you make a product. If you don't make a product no-one is going to outlay the enormous cost of being the first customer to prove the technology for you.
Yes, but the difference is that producers of four greyscale monitors actually sold units which gave them money to do development to produce more capable monitors. These guys, on the other hand, are likely going to not bother trying to get sales until they have a 256 greyscale display and then they'll charge too much for it to try to make up their development costs and the technology will fade into obscurity.
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I'm willing to accept there's a global warming problem. I'm willing to debate whether or not humans are the cause of it. Regardless of what is causing it I want to know, how bad will it be and what can we do to correct it? These are the topics that scientists never appear to talk about. What is the problem and what is the solution? If the problem is just that sea level will rise or that we'll have hotter winters, why cares? Yeah, it's gunna displace a lot of people, but the species will still survive. If the issue is that climate change will make the planet unfit to live on, what solutions are there? And no, stopping industry civilisation and going back to hunting elk for food is not a solution.
Fuck Science. It's this unhealthy obsession with "science" that is dragging the space program down. The goal for going into space should be commercial. We should be mining the moon for rare (on earth) metals. Astronauts should be fixing billion dollar satellites, not pressing buttons on automated space experiments.
I'm sure the people who fund them don't give a shit about the Windows port and that's why it sux. If you want to fund them to work on the windows port, go ahead. OSS users are the only people on the planet who complain about stuff they get for nothing. I have this vision of hobos standing in line for a handout complaining that the soup isn't hot enough or the bread isn't gluten free. Take what you are given and shut the hell up, or go make your own god damn software.
I don't know what you are talking about. You don't have to be a programmer to take responsibility for your own needs. If you want apache to work well on windows, hire a freakin' programmer to make it work well on windows. The apache group make and give away software FOR FREE. If you don't like their GIFT, don't use it.
Well your suggestion was to blame the developers of Apache instead of the developers of Windows. As such, you're guilty of the same crime. The Apache developers have no responsibility to get their software working on Windows. If people want it working on Windows they have to do it themselves.
All in all, this is a very american conversation. Instead of just fixing the god damn problem you gotta hunt down a scape goat. Fix the problem, not the blame.
There's nothing to be wrong about here. It's simply a question of focus. It took a long time to get to the point we are with genomics, now we can look at proteins and transcription control via RNA and actually discover what is going on.
It's open source, if you don't like it, fix it.
I think if you study music enough to actually appreciate it you come to understand that automating the process of creating music would just cheapen it - especially if your motivation is commercial.
Yeah, but there hasn't ever been a statesman who has used it seriously in refering to a war on an emotion.
Typical war attitude, you're either with us or you're against us. Remember when W. said that for the very first time and the world recoiled in horror? Now it's considered the norm.
That's all the religious extremists need to hear about this story. You can't sensibly talk about evolution if you believe the earth is only 5000 years old.
I think it's more the invading and bombing their homes that did it. If terrorists were logical they'd look at comments like yours and discover that as far as public education goes, terrorism really doesn't get their message across too effectively. But the "send a message to the world" justification for terrorism is just a pretext, it's really about revenge and retribution. Probably the most heinous part of human nature.
I'd shorten the conversation this:
ThisClown: Hmm.. what stupid question can I post to Slashdot to get me on the front page.
[Light bulb goes on over his head]
ThisClown: Aha! I can't ask how to make an email system to support a large number of users! Yes!
[Posts to Slashdot]
Editor: Shit, I've gotta do 15 minutes of work or my fellow "editors" will know I've been slacking off all week. What's in the queue? Hmm... slightly technical question about email systems. Well, I'm not too familiar with this whole "email" thing, but what the hell, seems like it would be good for some page hits.
[Posts to Front Page]
As long as you continue to think of it as such you have to keep fighting which rules out any chance of fixing the social problems that cause the phenomona in the first place.
Slack off. This is Australia man. We can't get fired (not until Howard gets them new laws through). Even if you get a layoff you'll get a massive lump sum that will easily keep you afloat until you get a new job.
Ok economics boy, as I understand it the purpose of an efficient market is to drive the cost of goods down. As my labour is the product we happen to be discussing, why would I want to co-operate in creating an efficient market?
Ok, here's another one for you:
You're only worth as much as you're willing to walk away from.
If you're not willing to quit your job if they refuse to give you a raise then you won't get the raise.
Alternatively if you tell your co-workers how much you earn and they go demand a raise they may get fired or quit in disgust which means you'll have to take on their workload. If everyone goes and demands a raise you might end up invoking a round of layoffs resulting in a few overpaid programmers being left in the office who have to handle the entire workload. Them Against Us rarely sums up the relationship between employer and employee.
Really does sound like a no brainer doesn't it? WoW charges $50 + $15/month. You wanna complete with WoW? Offer a free download and $10/month for a game that is as good. Can't do that? Go home.
And yet you don't recommend any alternatives or even give any good reasons why PayPal is no good. I hope your "urging" of other people is typically done more effectively.
In the mean time, there's plenty of people who are happy with PayPal's service.
Sigh. They don't intend to make a product at all. They intend to sell these screens as components to companies that are making products. So what they are doing is offering to let someone else take the risk with their technology so they can make a profit selling components. Doing that with something like this is braindead. A "new kind of ram" is something that slots into an existing market. There are already products that use ram and your "new" ram could presumably be used in those products. The only risk is that someone might buy some of your ram and discover it isn't compatible and they've lost the purchase price. On the other hand, this display is something for which entirely new products must be designed for which there currently is no market. If this company wants to sell their displays they will need to either 1) demonstrate this is a market for products using these displays or 2) develop their displays so they can be used in existing products. I don't believe they can do 1 without making a product and actually offering it for sale. And I don't think they can do 2 without spending way too much on development such that it isn't profitable when they finally can sell the components.
I did read the article thank you very much. And I am capable of translating this from marketing speak into "we're not taking any risk so this technology is doomed". If you wanna prove your technology is viable, you make a product. If you don't make a product no-one is going to outlay the enormous cost of being the first customer to prove the technology for you.
Yes, but the difference is that producers of four greyscale monitors actually sold units which gave them money to do development to produce more capable monitors. These guys, on the other hand, are likely going to not bother trying to get sales until they have a 256 greyscale display and then they'll charge too much for it to try to make up their development costs and the technology will fade into obscurity.
I said fossil fuels not everything that uses oil.
biodiesel doesn't solve environmental problems. It's still a hydrocarbon that you burn to produce co2.