> what, you were expecting analog duplicates in a digital environment?
An analog duplicate would, presumably, be something that copied the look and feel of his product based on someone looking at how it behaved on screen and programming something similar themselves, instead of actually coping his code.
UK gallons being bigger than US gallons probably has more to do with that than different test cycles giving different answers (and actual driving conditions varying).
> I thought Slashdotters were supposed to understand math.
You're new here, aren't you? That fact that he doesn't understand the maths and either hasn't read or doesn't understand the linked article is pretty typical. Slashdotters not reading the article is stereotypical, even.
> There is no absolutely accepted terminology to separate that type of hybrid from the kind of hybrid where the engine is coupled to the transmission and helps to drive the vehicle directly.
Oh come on. I happen to like retsina, occasionally, in small quanties in the right circumstances, but how often have the French been reduced to saying "you know what would improve this wine - some pine resin"?
Possibly the French make the worst wine in the world that they can still get away with selling for export. But at the level of very cheap very local wine, lots of people make wine of which the best that can be said for it is that it's cheap and alcoholic.
The article is about sonofusion. The Slashdot submission and headline don't mention sonofusion and say cold fusion. What makes you think any stupidity involved in that confusion has anything to do with anyone outside Slashdot?
No, no. The problem was that not being able to patent it, he had to keep it all a secret. If he'd patented it, then published, a few cynical mathematicians could say "wouldn't it be better to have a power reset where the fast-moving carnivorous dinosaurs _can't_ get at it" from a safe distance on the mainland, there would be no need to have the entire security system relying on one greedy guy with no review system, and no-one would need to get eaten at all.
> > persistence is 75% reliable > we consider stable weather for 10 minutes to be persistent
Making a forecast of "it will be variable" almost 100% reliable, and a forecast of "it will be variable in the same sort of ways as today" about, oh, 75% reliable?
> I had to install a floppy on a computer I was reinstalling XP on the other day so I could use the SATA drive!
Me too. For extra fun, that computer's power supply didn't have a cable for a floppy, so I ended up with the drive running off another computer's power supply for long enough for the install. http://www.flickr.com/photos/armb/284977764/
> All security software needs to be OSS for this reason.
For serious 2-factor authentication, you're looking at security hardware, not just software. Which, for almost everybody, means trusting the manufacturer, supported by any independent certification that has been done, like NIST's Cryptographic Module Validation Program.
In principle you could run uClinux without an MMU. http://www.uclinux.org/ports/ has a dead link to an Atari project, but no mention of the Amiga. Anyone who cares enough about their Amiga to want to run Linux is going to have a processor upgrade anyway, I suspect.
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> While I fully agree that the rules of English are screwed up, you need to put your trailing comma before the closing quote
a tion.html
That's the rule for American English. British English is often more logical.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/quot
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/writing-style.htm
Where by "fact", you really mean "urban legend": http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
> Given that Linden does not allow people to edit or copy scripts without your permission, how did this happen?
And as all Slashdot posters know, all DRM systems designed to stop copying always work properly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CopyBot
http://news.com.com/2100-1043_3-6135699.html
(I have no idea whether CopyBot is involved in this particular case, but it's relevent to the idea that no unauthorised copying could ever happen.)
> what, you were expecting analog duplicates in a digital environment?
An analog duplicate would, presumably, be something that copied the look and feel of his product based on someone looking at how it behaved on screen and programming something similar themselves, instead of actually coping his code.
>> It's the untreated sewage/industrial waste that I object to
> Seem to me if you dumped sewage or industrial waste carefully into the deep ocean
Seems to me that the untreated sewage/industrial waste being dumped at the moment is not being dumped "carefully into the deep ocean".
> 40MPG ... 50MPG in Europe
UK gallons being bigger than US gallons probably has more to do with that than different test cycles giving different answers (and actual driving conditions varying).
A123 claim a 90% recharge in 5 minutes (or 80% in 12 minutes for a higher energy density version):h nology/power/pchart5/
http://www.a123systems.com/newsite/index.php#/tec
> I thought Slashdotters were supposed to understand math.
You're new here, aren't you? That fact that he doesn't understand the maths and either hasn't read or doesn't understand the linked article is pretty typical. Slashdotters not reading the article is stereotypical, even.
> Who are you describing, Microsoft or Theo de Raadt? :)
"But then money runs out again..." sure doesn't sound like Microsoft to me.
There was a side thread about cameras. But LEDs are also less bright than the sun.
> There is no absolutely accepted terminology to separate that type of hybrid from the kind of hybrid where the engine is coupled to the transmission and helps to drive the vehicle directly.
t rains#Types_by_drivetrain_structure
"series hybrid" vs. "parallel hybrid" might not be "absolutely" accepted, but it's widely used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Vehicle_Drive
> Retsina is a greek wine, actually. I don't think they make it in France.
Exactly.
> They also make the worst wine in the world.
Oh come on. I happen to like retsina, occasionally, in small quanties in the right circumstances, but how often have the French been reduced to saying "you know what would improve this wine - some pine resin"?
Possibly the French make the worst wine in the world that they can still get away with selling for export. But at the level of very cheap very local wine, lots of people make wine of which the best that can be said for it is that it's cheap and alcoholic.
> I wish I owned ten ATMs. I'd be able to buy just about anything I wanted...
Sadly it turns out that if you build your own ATM the banks expect you to fill it with money yourself.
The article is about sonofusion. The Slashdot submission and headline don't mention sonofusion and say cold fusion. What makes you think any stupidity involved in that confusion has anything to do with anyone outside Slashdot?
> Don't like your child learning / not learning about sex ed / evolution / intelligent design / Islam / Christianity?
If you are that scared, why not go the whole way and have the kid lobotomised, so there's no chance whatsoever of it learning to disagree with you?
No, no. The problem was that not being able to patent it, he had to keep it all a secret. If he'd patented it, then published, a few cynical mathematicians could say "wouldn't it be better to have a power reset where the fast-moving carnivorous dinosaurs _can't_ get at it" from a safe distance on the mainland, there would be no need to have the entire security system relying on one greedy guy with no review system, and no-one would need to get eaten at all.
> > persistence is 75% reliable
> we consider stable weather for 10 minutes to be persistent
Making a forecast of "it will be variable" almost 100% reliable, and a forecast of "it will be variable in the same sort of ways as today" about, oh, 75% reliable?
> I had to install a floppy on a computer I was reinstalling XP on the other day so I could use the SATA drive!
Me too. For extra fun, that computer's power supply didn't have a cable for a floppy, so I ended up with the drive running off another computer's power supply for long enough for the install.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/armb/284977764/
> All security software needs to be OSS for this reason.
For serious 2-factor authentication, you're looking at security hardware, not just software. Which, for almost everybody, means trusting the manufacturer, supported by any independent certification that has been done, like NIST's Cryptographic Module Validation Program.
> You need a CPU with a MMU though.
In principle you could run uClinux without an MMU. http://www.uclinux.org/ports/ has a dead link to an Atari project, but no mention of the Amiga.
Anyone who cares enough about their Amiga to want to run Linux is going to have a processor upgrade anyway, I suspect.
> In Wikipedia's case, there is no finite resource that needs to be shared.
Because there are an infinite number of contributers, or because they have an infinite amount of time to contribute?
>> Further information: according the the man page the ln command can make hard links to directories, but root privledges are required.
> Not on my Linux workstation here (Ubuntu)...
I can tell you that in 1987 or so SunOS let you create circular hard links if you were root. And that doing so was a mistake....
> Barring that, the Sun will turn into a red giant in about 5 billion years, and that will certainly end things.
No, apparently there's a one in 2 million chance the earth will have been captured by another passing star before then.
> which can be up to 50% of the price of the house
It can be a lot more than that in some places.