There had better be a small amount of time that the vehicle can be driven before the test but after you start the car. Otherwise, that 30 seconds is going to be a major pain. Not only that, but what if you are fleeing from an attacker? I guess our own personal safety isn't as important as those on the road who might be killed if I end up behind the wheel drunk (which, statistically, the majority of people do not do.)
I agree with you for the most part... except this. I think an overwhelmingly larger number of people drive drunk than have to flee for their lives from an attacker. Or maybe I'm just luckily to live in a part ofthe country where we don't get attacked that much,
> The rest of the computing world doesn't care about the community's "idea of Freedom." They care about results.
So that when linux becomes a dominant computing platform, somoeone who own the copyright on some critical piece can change the license and yank the rug from beneath everyone's feet?
Thats all? Thats about 4,000,000 rupsees. You'll never get a flat in Bombay for that much.... maybe one of the distant suburbs or some of the smaller cities.
> make 40,000 a year You might just manage to make that much a year *AFTER* you've been working a while and have established a reputation. Otherwise expect an order of magnitude lower.
> Since some surgeons in the US can pay over 100,000/yr in insurance Ah ha!!! Thats it. I doubt most doctors would bother getting liability insurance in India, since its extraordinarily unlikely that you'll get sued unless you do something grossly incompetent.
So its really LAWYERS who are screwing us over here (in the US). If find it shocking that a lawyer often gets paid thrice as much an hour as a doctor. To me, a lawyer is essentially cruft---an artifact of a legal system that is too complicated for a lay person to understand, to be dispensed off in an ideal situation.
Once factor you neglect to consider is the relative cost of people. For a 40-hour week's worth of pay at minimum wage in the US you can buy a Windows XP license retail (i.e. no bulk discounts or site licensing). The same amount of money will buy you an entry-level computer engineer for a month in India. So in India if its going to take two weeks of work to adapt.... sure, Linux is the clear winner. The same does not apply to the US.
That said, other factors may yet push things in Linux's favour even in the US... forced upgrades, viruses, downtime. The bottomline is, TCO for Linux may the clearly lower in your/b> case, but the issue is not as simple as you make it out to be.
If anything Rename deserves its own spot in the Edit menu. Gee... guess what? It does! DuH
although a slight modification of that same keyboard shortcut will capture to the clipboard, Seconds ago you argued that right-clicking an item is too complicated.... now all of a sudden you're talking of reassigning keys?
This is no way to browse fonts, looking at just an upper and lower-case A, in a 32x32 (or whatever) size. OS X has this one hands-down. Double-click a font and you get the whole repertoire,
Interesting. So you'd rather see a whole directory full of "TTF" or whatever icons than a quick preview of the font? And yes, you can double-click it to see a full preview (although, you admittedly can't install it from there)
No offense, but you don't even seem remotely familiar with Gnome. You REALLY ought to try it before you criticize it.
1. All the Slashdotters complaining about "crippled printers" or "having their images reduced to crap"... not one of you noticed this before. I challenge you to find one non-currency image that is printed out broken...
2. The US Government: Adding a bit of Peach to the new $20, eh? How about this... a thin VISIBLE foil strip... or some silver or other metallic print? Lets see anyone try print THAT with a CMYK printer. Every non-US currency note I've seen has that.
Fluoroscent markings, watermarks, chemically sensitive paper and security threads and all are fine... except that most of us don't carry around UV lights or hold every bill we receive to the light.
Counterfeiters aren't going to take a wad of freshly printed bills and go deposit them in the bank! They're going to go to your local McDonalds, supermarket or whatever. All you need to do is go buy a few dollars worth of stuff, hand over a $20 and pocket the nice legit currency you get in return.
Good to see them responding to bad press. Now maybe someday their player will not put links in the quicklaunch, desktop, system tray, TOP of start menu. You downloaded their software, yet you still use your computer for other things? Gee. Imagine that.
A few thousand people out of a billion don't make any difference and may just as well be dismissed.
Linux users are a minority EVERYWHERE. I have no reason to believe there are more or less users here than anywhere else. (BTW, I grew up in Bombay, but go to Grad school at Stony Brook, so I know a bit about both countries)
I buy CDs. Luckily I don't spend much money on them, I wasn't talking about YOU. I was talking about an average person who has gigabytes upon gigabytes of MP3s, and maybe 10 CDs if that.
Nobody uses Linux there anyway. Oh gee really? And who told you that? I ought to tell all my friends, and the hundreds of members of the LUG that they're all nobody.
if Indians have the money to buy their PCs, why don't they have money to buy legal software? If Americans have money to buy PCs, MP3 players etc. why don't they have money to buy CDs? Why do they download illegal MP3s?
MS seems to be very definitely losing market share at least here in India. Most computer manufacturers including Dell and Acer are selling PCs and Laptops with Linux and Openoffice pre-installed. One of the indian manufacturers... HCL is advertising a modestly configured PC (1.7GHz, 128MB RAM, 40GB hdd, 15" CRT) for the equivalent of $250 with Linux and Openoffice installed.
Many people may replace it with Windows, but at least you're free from the Microsoft Tax if you choose to use Linux. And I'm sure many people will at least try it and be shocked by the staggering loss in performance when they install, say, WinXP on these machines.
This device works outside of the skin, and only transfers ambient heat.
I suggest you immerse your hand in liquid nitrogen for a while. The liquid nitrogen only works outside your skin and would thus be incapable of harming you.
Technical information may be more useful to YOU but is that true of everyone? Maybe what Google really needs is a mind-reading module. More likely, the problem lies between the keyboard and the chair. If you want reviews, search for "sony minisisc MZE10 review". Gee. Thats hard. You actually need to TELL google what you'm looking for? Shouldn't you just click the search button and it magically finds it?
Not to nit pick, but a search for "water cooler" brings up FOUR "Product Search" links at the top:
I was talking about the highlighted ad boxes. The product search links are just one friggin line of text. The SEVEN sponsored links to the right are irrelevant to this discussion because we are discussing "endless annoying paid links at the top of listings"
The seemingly endless paid listings at the top of Google are useless AND annoying,
What are you talking about? Google never shows more than TWO ads at the top of the results, and they are pure text... not even large fonts or flashy colors and are very explicitly marked as paid listings.
If that strikes you as "seemingly endless" or "annoying", you have issues.
When you received an e-mail that seems absolutely outrageous to you, its going to be hard to go spend hundreds of dollars on a lawyer. Very easy to say that you should have got a lawyer in retrospect.
Mysterious Rock Movements January 12, 2003 Lake Superior, Minnesota
Scientists and local authorities are struggling to explain the sudden rise in the level of lake Superior. After long investigation the rise was attributed to a big pile of mostly flat rocks that somehow made their way into a pile a few meters from the shore. There was also a smaller pile of not-so-flat rocks much closer to the shore.
Invstigators attempting to trace the people behind this strange event have only a few puzzling clues to guide them. The whole beach appears to bave been trampled by hundreds of thousands of people. The only clues to their presence is all those strange conical pieces of tin-foil with the base roughly the size of a human head. There were also a number of RIAA jackets nailed to tree stumps and impaled with darts.
Darl McBride, strangely showed up and shoved the following quote down our throats: "I'm not sure who is behind this, but I'm certain we own the intellectual property. We can't tell you quite what the property is or how it was violated, but please send us $699"
This is an obvious troll, but how is it a non-issue if one in 5 prople gets hundreds of spam messages a day and have to wade through all that to find their legitimate mail?
/. groupthink You mean the slashdot mindless sheep? This is not about "taking control away from pilots". The system responds only if they pilot fails to respond to the warnings. And why do half the sheep assume that "respond" has to involve flying out straight out of the no fly zone? It could simply be *any* input on the stick to acknowledge that if they're flying into the NFZ its on purpose (safety or whatever)
I think this is more analogous to the dead man's handle on locomotives, except that you can't stop an airplane midair, so you need to fly away from danger.
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There had better be a small amount of time that the vehicle can be driven before the test but after you start the car. Otherwise, that 30 seconds is going to be a major pain. Not only that, but what if you are fleeing from an attacker? I guess our own personal safety isn't as important as those on the road who might be killed if I end up behind the wheel drunk (which, statistically, the majority of people do not do.)
I agree with you for the most part... except this. I think an overwhelmingly larger number of people drive drunk than have to flee for their lives from an attacker. Or maybe I'm just luckily to live in a part ofthe country where we don't get attacked that much,
Ah so the US must be doing REALLY great then! The federal government owes $7 TRILLION in debt!
> The rest of the computing world doesn't care about the community's "idea of Freedom." They care about results.
So that when linux becomes a dominant computing platform, somoeone who own the copyright on some critical piece can change the license and yank the rug from beneath everyone's feet?
Damn... What company were you insured with?! Are they licensed in New York?
> I got a ticket but I ended up with no opints and $145 USD in fines
Maybe you're from one of the 11 or so no-fault states? The law is designed to prevent lengthy court trials to deside who's at blame for the accident
> My car was totally covered so I just got a new one and went on my merry way.
And how much higher is your insurance? Or how much higher will it be when your policy is up for renewal?
> condo about $82,000, you do the math
Thats all? Thats about 4,000,000 rupsees. You'll never get a flat in Bombay for that much.... maybe one of the distant suburbs or some of the smaller cities.
> make 40,000 a year
You might just manage to make that much a year *AFTER* you've been working a while and have established a reputation. Otherwise expect an order of magnitude lower.
> Since some surgeons in the US can pay over 100,000/yr in insurance
Ah ha!!! Thats it. I doubt most doctors would bother getting liability insurance in India, since its extraordinarily unlikely that you'll get sued unless you do something grossly incompetent.
So its really LAWYERS who are screwing us over here (in the US). If find it shocking that a lawyer often gets paid thrice as much an hour as a doctor. To me, a lawyer is essentially cruft---an artifact of a legal system that is too complicated for a lay person to understand, to be dispensed off in an ideal situation.
Once factor you neglect to consider is the relative cost of people. For a 40-hour week's worth of pay at minimum wage in the US you can buy a Windows XP license retail (i.e. no bulk discounts or site licensing). The same amount of money will buy you an entry-level computer engineer for a month in India. So in India if its going to take two weeks of work to adapt.... sure, Linux is the clear winner. The same does not apply to the US.
That said, other factors may yet push things in Linux's favour even in the US... forced upgrades, viruses, downtime. The bottomline is, TCO for Linux may the clearly lower in your/b> case, but the issue is not as simple as you make it out to be.
PS: I'm a Linux zealot too, and of Indian origin
OpenOffice can never get a foothold in academea while its chart-making is so poor, for example.
MS Office can never get a foothold in academia while ITS chart-making is so poor.
Seriously... try to do something *MARGINALLY* non-standard and it barfs. I don't really think there is a real alternative to GNUPlot here.
What he meant was go read the car's manual... that way you'll see there's no sonic device
If anything Rename deserves its own spot in the Edit menu.
Gee... guess what? It does! DuH
although a slight modification of that same keyboard shortcut will capture to the clipboard,
Seconds ago you argued that right-clicking an item is too complicated.... now all of a sudden you're talking of reassigning keys?
This is no way to browse fonts, looking at just an upper and lower-case A, in a 32x32 (or whatever) size. OS X has this one hands-down. Double-click a font and you get the whole repertoire,
Interesting. So you'd rather see a whole directory full of "TTF" or whatever icons than a quick preview of the font? And yes, you can double-click it to see a full preview (although, you admittedly can't install it from there)
No offense, but you don't even seem remotely familiar with Gnome. You REALLY ought to try it before you criticize it.
1. All the Slashdotters complaining about "crippled printers" or "having their images reduced to crap"... not one of you noticed this before. I challenge you to find one non-currency image that is printed out broken...
2. The US Government: Adding a bit of Peach to the new $20, eh? How about this... a thin VISIBLE foil strip... or some silver or other metallic print? Lets see anyone try print THAT with a CMYK printer. Every non-US currency note I've seen has that.
Fluoroscent markings, watermarks, chemically sensitive paper and security threads and all are fine... except that most of us don't carry around UV lights or hold every bill we receive to the light.
Counterfeiters aren't going to take a wad of freshly printed bills and go deposit them in the bank! They're going to go to your local McDonalds, supermarket or whatever. All you need to do is go buy a few dollars worth of stuff, hand over a $20 and pocket the nice legit currency you get in return.
Maybe its because that has changed recently?
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Good to see them responding to bad press. Now maybe someday their player will not put links in the quicklaunch, desktop, system tray, TOP of start menu. You downloaded their software, yet you still use your computer for other things? Gee. Imagine that.
Not the brightest fella, is he? Or did his date also ask for 6 points of ID?
A few thousand people out of a billion don't make any difference and may just as well be dismissed.
Linux users are a minority EVERYWHERE. I have no reason to believe there are more or less users here than anywhere else. (BTW, I grew up in Bombay, but go to Grad school at Stony Brook, so I know a bit about both countries)
I buy CDs. Luckily I don't spend much money on them,
I wasn't talking about YOU. I was talking about an average person who has gigabytes upon gigabytes of MP3s, and maybe 10 CDs if that.
Nobody uses Linux there anyway.
Oh gee really? And who told you that? I ought to tell all my friends, and the hundreds of members of the LUG that they're all nobody.
if Indians have the money to buy their PCs, why don't they have money to buy legal software?
If Americans have money to buy PCs, MP3 players etc. why don't they have money to buy CDs? Why do they download illegal MP3s?
MS seems to be very definitely losing market share at least here in India. Most computer manufacturers including Dell and Acer are selling PCs and Laptops with Linux and Openoffice pre-installed. One of the indian manufacturers... HCL is advertising a modestly configured PC (1.7GHz, 128MB RAM, 40GB hdd, 15" CRT) for the equivalent of $250 with Linux and Openoffice installed.
Many people may replace it with Windows, but at least you're free from the Microsoft Tax if you choose to use Linux. And I'm sure many people will at least try it and be shocked by the staggering loss in performance when they install, say, WinXP on these machines.
This device works outside of the skin, and only transfers ambient heat.
I suggest you immerse your hand in liquid nitrogen for a while. The liquid nitrogen only works outside your skin and would thus be incapable of harming you.
Technical information may be more useful to YOU but is that true of everyone? Maybe what Google really needs is a mind-reading module. More likely, the problem lies between the keyboard and the chair. If you want reviews, search for "sony minisisc MZE10 review". Gee. Thats hard. You actually need to TELL google what you'm looking for? Shouldn't you just click the search button and it magically finds it?
Not to nit pick, but a search for "water cooler" brings up FOUR "Product Search" links at the top:
I was talking about the highlighted ad boxes. The product search links are just one friggin line of text. The SEVEN sponsored links to the right are irrelevant to this discussion because we are discussing "endless annoying paid links at the top of listings"
The seemingly endless paid listings at the top of Google are useless AND annoying,
What are you talking about? Google never shows more than TWO ads at the top of the results, and they are pure text... not even large fonts or flashy colors and are very explicitly marked as paid listings.
If that strikes you as "seemingly endless" or "annoying", you have issues.
When you received an e-mail that seems absolutely outrageous to you, its going to be hard to go spend hundreds of dollars on a lawyer. Very easy to say that you should have got a lawyer in retrospect.
Mysterious Rock Movements
January 12, 2003
Lake Superior, Minnesota
Scientists and local authorities are struggling to explain the sudden rise in the level of lake Superior. After long investigation the rise was attributed to a big pile of mostly flat rocks that somehow made their way into a pile a few meters from the shore. There was also a smaller pile of not-so-flat rocks much closer to the shore.
Invstigators attempting to trace the people behind this strange event have only a few puzzling clues to guide them. The whole beach appears to bave been trampled by hundreds of thousands of people. The only clues to their presence is all those strange conical pieces of tin-foil with the base roughly the size of a human head. There were also a number of RIAA jackets nailed to tree stumps and impaled with darts.
Darl McBride, strangely showed up and shoved the following quote down our throats: "I'm not sure who is behind this, but I'm certain we own the intellectual property. We can't tell you quite what the property is or how it was violated, but please send us $699"
As much as I hate to admit it, thats a kinda clever trick. I've changed my preferences to show the "signature dash"
Its amazing how much effort these loser trolls will go through just to have their message out there for a short time before it gets modded down the -1
And oh... 20% on one extreme, 50-60% on the other extreme leaves 20-30% in the middle. Not really "hardly anyone" is it?
This is an obvious troll, but how is it a non-issue if one in 5 prople gets hundreds of spam messages a day and have to wade through all that to find their legitimate mail?
/. groupthink
You mean the slashdot mindless sheep? This is not about "taking control away from pilots". The system responds only if they pilot fails to respond to the warnings. And why do half the sheep assume that "respond" has to involve flying out straight out of the no fly zone? It could simply be *any* input on the stick to acknowledge that if they're flying into the NFZ its on purpose (safety or whatever)
I think this is more analogous to the dead man's handle on locomotives, except that you can't stop an airplane midair, so you need to fly away from danger.