What not to like: The possibility that some advances in technology would make it feasible to clean up said billions of tons of contamination... prevented from being used to clean it up by new infrastructure built on top of the contamination.
Yes, it's OBVIOUSLY better to pave over some pristine wilderness for the power plants and leave the polluted waste dumps accessible, in case at some future time the technology and multi billions of dollars are found to clean them up, so they can replace the pristine wilderness we paved over.
Over the years I've used a II, a III, a 4ML, a 4M and currently a 5MP.
Sadly while repairing them may be simple for an expert, when they start jamming it's much cheaper to pick up another used one than take it in for servicing. The parts can cost twice as much as the machine cost, labour double that, and there aren't many people around here who do it at all.
The only one I got new was the 4ML (at my job); it was still going at over 40,000 pages after 6 years when I left. Currently the 5MP is holding up, held together with bits of wire as the plastic case and clips get brittle and snap off. Had it for 3 years, cost me $5. Cheap refill toner and perfect 600 dpi output. Scavenged some RAM chips to push it up to 10 MB. Just picked up an old router with a parallel port so I can network it and use it from a laptop via wifi.
If that dies I'll probably go for a 2200 or similar. I strained my back enough with the boat anchor models, but don't want the flimsy lightweight ones.
Every single 1xxx series printer currently for sale at HP.com has host-based listed under the language section in specs, so it's hardly wrong. In the past they may have offered 1xxx series that weren't host-based but as of this writing ALL of them are host-based.
It appears the 1xxx series is being phased out. HP's site only lists the 1005, 1006, 1505 and 1505n as current. The first 3 are host based. The 1505n has PCL. So you're strictly incorrect even if you limit it to current models. (Or were you trying to slide that by saying all "have" host-based? Good try, but no.)
However, you were talking about "1xxx series", and many of those are not host based in any form of words. You can still buy new 1320s, for instance, not to mention used.
No they don't. You could increase the number of days and shorten the hours of day and end up spending less time in school. All the Asian countries referred to below do that.
As for the "shorter school days" in Asian countries, in many they also do a shitload of homework. Starting in kindergarten, an hour or more a day in primary school, and several hours every evening in high school. On top of that many parents feel obliged to send their kids to cram schools for extra tuition. I live in Hong Kong and I was shocked at how much work they expect schoolkids to do here.
Yes, that's the message I got. But it certainly wasn't the headline or the impact of the story. Slashdot editors slavishly followed the "They're all surfing porn all day!" line, and didn't even mention that it was ONLY TEN STAFF OUT OF 1200. I'm sure that's how it will be reported in most media, as was the intent of the senator who was apparently the source.
And odd how no examination of just whay it was bad for them to be doing so. Morality? Time wasting? If the former, how much of their private lives is germane to the work. If the latter, why no hysteria about playing Solitaire, social phone calls, coffee breaks, long lunches?
"The Washington Times reports, 'The problems at the National Science Foundation (NSF) were so pervasive they swamped the agency's inspector general and forced the internal watchdog to cut back on its primary mission of investigating grant fraud
and on page 2 it says "foundation's inspector general closed 10 employee misconduct investigations last year, up from just three in 2006. "
Ten staff were caught, out of a total of 1200. That's "all pervasive"? It's less than 1%. That "swamped" the investigators?
Investigate how productive these investigators are, that sounds more like the story.
And what the hell does that phrase "senior executive who spent at least 331 days looking at pornography" mean? He spent 8 hours a day for a almost a year looking at porn? Or does it actually mean he looked at porn at least once on 331 days? Some people take a smoke break, others take a coffee break, maybe he took porn breaks. How much time did he actually waste, and is that the issue or is it "PORN"? He's an adult, everyone in the office is an adult, and if anyone had been disturbed by his habit, I'm sure we would have heard all about it.
And on page three: The report caught the attention of Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee... Right, this story was sourced from the "ranking Republican" on the committee. So we can be sure he has no agenda to embarrass the government by turning this trivial misconduct of a dozen staff into a "scandal".
feed it real Shakespeare and watch it grade him an imbecile with poor grammar.
Which would be correct, if you responded to a question asking you to analyse some particular topic by writing a play or a sonnet. Shakespeare's grammar is obviously not the currently accepted style. His spelling was rather random, as no one cared much about consistent spelling at that time.
e pretty much confirmed every bad stereotype there was about US customs employees.
And how do you know he was really a fed, and not just someone acting out the stereotype? And just be careful; not every 12-year-old girl looking for a sugar daddy online is really 12 years old or a girl.
Most of those things are due to applications, not Ubuntu Linux itself. And all those problems could be solved in a minute with Google; there is no shortage of online resources for making Linux -- especially Ubuntu -- work.
And now I will be labeled "troll" because I'm a customer who speaks the truth
Yes, you are very likely a troll. I don't believe you actually used Ubuntu for a month as you claim.
What about the Recording Industry Association of Argentina and the Recording Industry Association of Jamaica?
The first does not exist. The "Recording Industry Association of Jamaica Limited" uses the acronym "RIAJam" according to their website. Hope that clarifies things for you.
There you will find that the Argentines has "CAPIF - Cámara Argentina de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas". And before you get excited, neither Australia nor Austria's groups are "RIAA" either.
Microsoft calls 'high-end hardware'.... on mid-end hardware....the same test with low-end hardware
Now; you can have the "high end", and the "low end". And in the middle, you have -- "mid-range". The middle is not an "end". If you mean "speed" or "quality" or "power" when you write "end", use those words.
If you are translating into English, you use an English word your readers will understand. Slashdot readers understand what the RIAA is even if they live in England and answer to the MCPA. Most slashdot readers won't understand what some Japanese acronym is, or even recognise MCPA.
A word that means the same thing, fine. A NAME, whether of a person, place or organisation, no fucking way. That is just idiotic.
In any case, you should spell out an acronym on the first use in an article, and I think "Recording Industry Association of Japan" is pretty damn obvious.
That said, if GG wasn't the low-hanging-fruit, I'm sure some other provider would be victimized by the spammers.
Anyone can set up a news server, but if they spew spam, they are quickly blacklisted by other providers, so their posts are dropped and the damage is limited. Sadly few have the guts to block Google.
It is on a widely respected and not usually blocked third party service.
No one who is s "serious" user of Usenet respects Google Groups' interface.
They at least provide a useful search function, but even that has been rather fucked up for several months. But they are justly maligned for allowing spammers to use them to spam millions of messages into just about every newsgroup. They do nothing to screen their messages. They certainly have excellent spam detection in GMail, so dark conspiracy theories abound of how Google is swamping Usenet with spam to make their own groups a "safe haven". But I think it's just they can't monetise it so they don't give a fuck either way. Meanwhile mabny users do killfile messages sent from Google Groups, and some news hosts do as well at a server level.
The headline writer did think that, and by failing to correct that(probably obvious) misconception these researchers are effectively claiming just that.
This might sound unfair, but it's really very simple. If a reporter comes to ask you about your research, and comes away printing something totally inaccurate or just completely wrong then that is your fault.
Yes, it is unfair. The "headline writer" is almost never "the reporter" who spoke to the researchers. The headline and lead para are written much later, by someone trying to make the article attractive to readers, often without any input from the reporter, let alone the researchers. Researchers, like any interviewee, rarely get to see or approve what is finally published.
And the Slashdot summary is fucked up by first the submitter, and then the "editor" who may add an even more misleading headline and intro without bothering to RTFA.
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It was in the summary when I posted. Slashdot editors sometimes react when you hold them up to derision.
Since it wasn't in the original submission or TFA, the credit belongs to kdawson. An editor is supposed to correct mistakes, not add their own.
Amazing that Slashdot still can't master the technology of the "spellcheck", which I had in WordStar in 1987.
Yes, it's OBVIOUSLY better to pave over some pristine wilderness for the power plants and leave the polluted waste dumps accessible, in case at some future time the technology and multi billions of dollars are found to clean them up, so they can replace the pristine wilderness we paved over.
If I'd called him an illiterate moron, that might be justified. But I tried to make the point with a lighter note.
If you don't care about spelling (not "grammar"), that's fine, but it's not debatable, it's just 100% wrong.
Peak: top of a mountain.
And the daily Slashdot malapropism award goes to samzenpus.
Plural of medium is "media" (unless you're talking about seances).
Sadly while repairing them may be simple for an expert, when they start jamming it's much cheaper to pick up another used one than take it in for servicing. The parts can cost twice as much as the machine cost, labour double that, and there aren't many people around here who do it at all.
The only one I got new was the 4ML (at my job); it was still going at over 40,000 pages after 6 years when I left. Currently the 5MP is holding up, held together with bits of wire as the plastic case and clips get brittle and snap off. Had it for 3 years, cost me $5. Cheap refill toner and perfect 600 dpi output. Scavenged some RAM chips to push it up to 10 MB. Just picked up an old router with a parallel port so I can network it and use it from a laptop via wifi.
If that dies I'll probably go for a 2200 or similar. I strained my back enough with the boat anchor models, but don't want the flimsy lightweight ones.
It appears the 1xxx series is being phased out. HP's site only lists the 1005, 1006, 1505 and 1505n as current. The first 3 are host based. The 1505n has PCL. So you're strictly incorrect even if you limit it to current models. (Or were you trying to slide that by saying all "have" host-based? Good try, but no.)
However, you were talking about "1xxx series", and many of those are not host based in any form of words. You can still buy new 1320s, for instance, not to mention used.
No they're not. The 1200, the 1300, the 1320, are all PS + PCL.
How does totally wrong "information" get modded "Informative"?
As for the "shorter school days" in Asian countries, in many they also do a shitload of homework. Starting in kindergarten, an hour or more a day in primary school, and several hours every evening in high school. On top of that many parents feel obliged to send their kids to cram schools for extra tuition. I live in Hong Kong and I was shocked at how much work they expect schoolkids to do here.
And odd how no examination of just whay it was bad for them to be doing so. Morality? Time wasting? If the former, how much of their private lives is germane to the work. If the latter, why no hysteria about playing Solitaire, social phone calls, coffee breaks, long lunches?
It's "proven"?
Get back to me when you actually cite proof.
and on page 2 it says "foundation's inspector general closed 10 employee misconduct investigations last year, up from just three in 2006. "
Ten staff were caught, out of a total of 1200. That's "all pervasive"? It's less than 1%. That "swamped" the investigators?
Investigate how productive these investigators are, that sounds more like the story.
And what the hell does that phrase "senior executive who spent at least 331 days looking at pornography" mean? He spent 8 hours a day for a almost a year looking at porn? Or does it actually mean he looked at porn at least once on 331 days? Some people take a smoke break, others take a coffee break, maybe he took porn breaks. How much time did he actually waste, and is that the issue or is it "PORN"? He's an adult, everyone in the office is an adult, and if anyone had been disturbed by his habit, I'm sure we would have heard all about it.
And on page three: The report caught the attention of Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee... Right, this story was sourced from the "ranking Republican" on the committee. So we can be sure he has no agenda to embarrass the government by turning this trivial misconduct of a dozen staff into a "scandal".
WTF?
Which would be correct, if you responded to a question asking you to analyse some particular topic by writing a play or a sonnet. Shakespeare's grammar is obviously not the currently accepted style. His spelling was rather random, as no one cared much about consistent spelling at that time.
And how do you know he was really a fed, and not just someone acting out the stereotype? And just be careful; not every 12-year-old girl looking for a sugar daddy online is really 12 years old or a girl.
So do I. It's called a "Blu-ray disc".
Anyway, when did "full-length Blu-ray movie" become a unit of data? What happed to the traditonal "Library of Congress" measure?
Most of those things are due to applications, not Ubuntu Linux itself. And all those problems could be solved in a minute with Google; there is no shortage of online resources for making Linux -- especially Ubuntu -- work.
And now I will be labeled "troll" because I'm a customer who speaks the truth
Yes, you are very likely a troll. I don't believe you actually used Ubuntu for a month as you claim.
The first does not exist. The "Recording Industry Association of Jamaica Limited" uses the acronym "RIAJam" according to their website. Hope that clarifies things for you.
To save time see http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_links/national_associations.html
There you will find that the Argentines has "CAPIF - Cámara Argentina de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas". And before you get excited, neither Australia nor Austria's groups are "RIAA" either.
Now; you can have the "high end", and the "low end". And in the middle, you have -- "mid-range". The middle is not an "end". If you mean "speed" or "quality" or "power" when you write "end", use those words.
That's what the Japanese government calls it:
Official site of the Prime Minister of Japan and his Cabinet.
There are many prime ministers in the world. There are many "recording industry associations". The is only one "RIAA", and only one "RIAJ".
A word that means the same thing, fine. A NAME, whether of a person, place or organisation, no fucking way. That is just idiotic.
In any case, you should spell out an acronym on the first use in an article, and I think "Recording Industry Association of Japan" is pretty damn obvious.
Anyone can set up a news server, but if they spew spam, they are quickly blacklisted by other providers, so their posts are dropped and the damage is limited. Sadly few have the guts to block Google.
No one who is s "serious" user of Usenet respects Google Groups' interface.
They at least provide a useful search function, but even that has been rather fucked up for several months. But they are justly maligned for allowing spammers to use them to spam millions of messages into just about every newsgroup. They do nothing to screen their messages. They certainly have excellent spam detection in GMail, so dark conspiracy theories abound of how Google is swamping Usenet with spam to make their own groups a "safe haven". But I think it's just they can't monetise it so they don't give a fuck either way. Meanwhile mabny users do killfile messages sent from Google Groups, and some news hosts do as well at a server level.
Yes, it is unfair. The "headline writer" is almost never "the reporter" who spoke to the researchers. The headline and lead para are written much later, by someone trying to make the article attractive to readers, often without any input from the reporter, let alone the researchers. Researchers, like any interviewee, rarely get to see or approve what is finally published.
And the Slashdot summary is fucked up by first the submitter, and then the "editor" who may add an even more misleading headline and intro without bothering to RTFA.