is it me or did the class get it wrong, it was never about destroying an asteroid, it was about splitting it up in pieces or nudging it out of the earth direction
Can't remember where I read it, but the result of splitting up a comet by detonation could be even more catastrophic to the inhabitants on Planet Earth
The reason they say was that many of the split-up fragments, hundreds (or even thousands) of them, raining down on Earth, would create even more damage to our planet, than one single M-F hit
As I am not a planetary scientist, I dunno if TFA that I read made any sense or not
The atrocities were just too many to be documented
Accounts such as
Rape
Women being gang raped M-16 muzzle stuck into her private part then trigger was squeezed
Cannibalism
G.I. cutting out hearts and livers of dead vietcon fighters forced local food vendors to cook those organs enjoyed cuisine made of cooked vietcon liver/heart
were very very common back then
As for the Western journalists who were stationed in Vietnam?
Even those who were anti-war - they got so horrified by what they saw they often "forgot" to report anything
Vietnam is opening up to foreign investors, and the United States is increasingly in competition against the Chinese in the influence game in South East Asia
While the Vietnamese communist government may want to get on the side of the US to counter the red China, most people of Vietnam just do not trust Uncle Sam
What took place in the village of My Lai and the Gulf of Tonkin incident have burned into the brains of many Vietnamese
BTW, the clean up of Agent Orange should not only be done in Vietnam, but also in Laos and Cambodia
Too many deaths, sufferings, and deformations had resulted from the Agent Orange - and Uncle Sam must be man enough to acknowledge what they had done, and to amend the damages that they had caused
The Bible doesn't say "Thou shalt not judge". In Matthew 7:1-2, Jesus says, "âoeDo not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
There is one sentence that summarize all the above...
While the open-source movement itself has been under constant attack from patent trolls, copyright trolls, trolls of all sizes and from all sides, now we have this....
PLEASE, GIVE ME A BREAK !!!
STOP BEING SO MOTHER-FUCKING CHILDISH !!!
I sincerely hope that there are still some adults left in the OSI and it's time for the adults to lead the movement
WE ARE TIRED OF ALL THE COPYRIGHT / LOGO / PATENT DISPUTES !!!
It is sad that the Linux distributions are bending over so easily, together they might have been a force to be reckoned with... they better f-well not say "we could not have known..." in a few years time, seriously.
What the linux distro distributors have failed to do, the Linux Kernel folks should pick up the slack
Do not forget, there exists a spokeperson for Linux - Linus Torvalds
It's up to Mr. Torvalds to decide which direction Linux should proceed on this UEFI issue
I hope I can be as calm and as cool as you after being put through hell by those trolls
How many years of setback that we have to endure, with all that SCO (with the backing from Microsoft) hullabaloo ?
And Microsoft's scare-n-blackmail racket is still making untold millions for hinting that Linux infringes on their "patents" that they refuse to disclose
One day we do not fight back, one day they will find more ways to make our lives miserable
All we want is to create, to innovate, to push the envelope just a little bit further, but no, they just have to get in and mess everything up
I do not know about you, Mr. Perens, but I am tired of being pushed around
Good idea, but BeOS is lacking the massive software repository that Debian Linux (the current platform for the Pi) is offering, minus the huge development community. The same problem that prevents it from spreading on other platforms as well. Anyway it would be a great alternative. Especially for educational purposes as it is a very clean and efficiently structured OS.
""I have implement[ed] the functions to be the same as the equivalent Arduino commands, so anyone who as programmed the arduino or tut available for the arduino, will be easy to convert."
As you can see, if it can take just one person to do what that guy did, I simply do not understand what's stopping Haiku-os.org from porting Haiku to Ras Pi
We should not leave him scot free after what he had done to thousands and thousands of us
If we let Ralph Yarro go we only send a clear signal to the world - come and troll us, hurt us, impair our ability to renovate, and at the end, we will let you go scot free
I am not calling for a violent vengeance or a jihad or anything like that, what I am saying is we should not let that motherfucker go scot free, just like that
I have a feeling that the current crop of PARC researchers are not as bright as their peers 20 or 30 years ago
They do not give us any new insight on what's beyond the horizon, nor demonstrate to us what their visions are leading to, unlike their peers 20, 30 or 40 years ago had done
Nowadays, illicit drugs are being manufactured in quantity
Some of them rent vacant factories in 3rd world countries, set up all the required machineries and produce those drugs in tonnage
Many of the raw materials needed to produce those drugs - especially those in the "designer" category, - can be easily acquired in the open market, come in 200kg drums (if they are in liquid form) and in skip bins or in jumbo bags (if they are powder / solid)
Sorry, can't find the link now but I read somewhere - just last week, that the IT-related fields in US had a persistent unemployment rate of over 4.2% for the past 3 years
While that's half of the overall 8% unemployment figure, methinks the IT field shouldn't be rejoicing
No matter it's Acer or ASUS or Dell or HP, their "PC" and "Laptop" business hadn't had any significant upheaval since the 1980's.
The original IBM PC, and IBM's decision to (sort of) "open-source" the hardware design was the one thing that gave birth to all these companies (except for HP).
And ever since that happened, in the 1980's, these companies had been doing the-same-old-thing and for once, I'm glad that Microsoft decides to manufacture and market their own "Surface" - for no other reason than to shake up the entire "PC business".
We, the users, deserve much better devices.
For almost 40 years we are stuck with the same-old-thing (tablets and smartphones only enter the field not that long ago) and I hope that this shakeup will bring us more diversed devices, to make our lives more productive, more enjoying
There is a genre known as "fantasy" which somehow is mixed-up with some element from "scifi" and then marketed as "scifi"
I find those being the most dull - If I want to read scifi I do not need to read a story about "Ghengis Khan" or "Middle Age Worlds" with horse riding knights and all, with spaceships
It's dull, it's uninteresting, it's stupid, and totally un-entertaining
TFA at extremetech isn't that feature rich, nor embarking on a brand new frontier that none of us had ever been
TFA could have been made into ONE PAGE, but no, extremetech ain't gonna let us, the readers, enjoy it in one shot - we had to click through all the 5 pages
Please, Slashdot !
Next time you give us a link to a single TFA with multiple pages, please indicate it right upfront
Look how his administration has awarded the Muslim Brotherhood 3 countries, - Libya, Egypt and Tunisia - and Obama is siding with Saudi Arabia (the world HQ of Muslim Brotherhood) in the Syrian conflict
On the other hand, his administration is not exactly in friendly terms with Cuba, Russia, China, nor North Korea. In conclusion, we can safely say that the commies are not his sponsors
That just gave him even more incentive to not let his 20% goes down the drain !!
Plan works like this - He goes in and buys up the entire company, with other-people's-money
Then he "restructures" the company, selling off "non-core-subsidiaries", acquires some other companies and merges them into his now "core-operation", and in the process a lot of employees will see themselves being "made redundant" (ie, fired), before the guy turn around and sell off the whole thing (including his initial 20% stake) to some "investment trust", or something like that
He will end up laughing all the way to the bank, and many employees will end up jobless
That's the way it is, and that's the way it will be.
We are living in a different world now.
"Fairness", "Justice" and "Equality" no longer mean anything
So, if you want to succeed, you must think and act like those in the 0.1 percentile
Slashdot Mirror
At least he is consistent
He is both anti-gun and pro Big Brother
... I won't be surprised if 12 students, in the whole India, ended up getting the free device
But of course, they will be photographed and will appear on the front page news tomorrow
is it me or did the class get it wrong, it was never about destroying an asteroid, it was about splitting it up in pieces or nudging it out of the earth direction
Can't remember where I read it, but the result of splitting up a comet by detonation could be even more catastrophic to the inhabitants on Planet Earth
The reason they say was that many of the split-up fragments, hundreds (or even thousands) of them, raining down on Earth, would create even more damage to our planet, than one single M-F hit
As I am not a planetary scientist, I dunno if TFA that I read made any sense or not
The students found it would take a bomb about a billion times stronger than the biggest bomb ever detonated on Earth."
We have those!
On Slashdot ?
o_0 You sure?
The atrocities were just too many to be documented
Accounts such as
Rape
Women being gang raped
M-16 muzzle stuck into her private part
then trigger was squeezed
Cannibalism
G.I. cutting out hearts and livers of dead vietcon fighters
forced local food vendors to cook those organs
enjoyed cuisine made of cooked vietcon liver/heart
were very very common back then
As for the Western journalists who were stationed in Vietnam?
Even those who were anti-war - they got so horrified by what they saw they often "forgot" to report anything
Vietnam is opening up to foreign investors, and the United States is increasingly in competition against the Chinese in the influence game in South East Asia
While the Vietnamese communist government may want to get on the side of the US to counter the red China, most people of Vietnam just do not trust Uncle Sam
What took place in the village of My Lai and the Gulf of Tonkin incident have burned into the brains of many Vietnamese
BTW, the clean up of Agent Orange should not only be done in Vietnam, but also in Laos and Cambodia
Too many deaths, sufferings, and deformations had resulted from the Agent Orange - and Uncle Sam must be man enough to acknowledge what they had done, and to amend the damages that they had caused
The Bible doesn't say "Thou shalt not judge". In Matthew 7:1-2, Jesus says, "âoeDo not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
There is one sentence that summarize all the above
Judge Not, Lest Thou Be Judged
They not only banned you
The message you posted also got deleted !
I have just lost all respect to those so-called "authors"
While the open-source movement itself has been under constant attack from patent trolls, copyright trolls, trolls of all sizes and from all sides, now we have this ....
PLEASE, GIVE ME A BREAK !!!
STOP BEING SO MOTHER-FUCKING CHILDISH !!!
I sincerely hope that there are still some adults left in the OSI and it's time for the adults to lead the movement
WE ARE TIRED OF ALL THE COPYRIGHT / LOGO / PATENT DISPUTES !!!
It is sad that the Linux distributions are bending over so easily, together they might have been a force to be reckoned with... they better f-well not say "we could not have known..." in a few years time, seriously.
What the linux distro distributors have failed to do, the Linux Kernel folks should pick up the slack
Do not forget, there exists a spokeperson for Linux - Linus Torvalds
It's up to Mr. Torvalds to decide which direction Linux should proceed on this UEFI issue
Dear Mr. Perens,
Long time no talk !
I hope I can be as calm and as cool as you after being put through hell by those trolls
How many years of setback that we have to endure, with all that SCO (with the backing from Microsoft) hullabaloo ?
And Microsoft's scare-n-blackmail racket is still making untold millions for hinting that Linux infringes on their "patents" that they refuse to disclose
One day we do not fight back, one day they will find more ways to make our lives miserable
All we want is to create, to innovate, to push the envelope just a little bit further, but no, they just have to get in and mess everything up
I do not know about you, Mr. Perens, but I am tired of being pushed around
Good idea, but BeOS is lacking the massive software repository that Debian Linux (the current platform for the Pi) is offering, minus the huge development community. The same problem that prevents it from spreading on other platforms as well. Anyway it would be a great alternative. Especially for educational purposes as it is a very clean and efficiently structured OS.
I think you're missing the point
Let me show you an example:
http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=14044&start=49
This guy has ported his own OS to Ras Pi. He has no "huge development community" nor "massive software repository"
Inspite of not having any of the facility that you mentioned, he has successfully done what he had done, and
http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=14044&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=63
""I have implement[ed] the functions to be the same as the equivalent Arduino commands, so anyone who as programmed the arduino or tut available for the arduino, will be easy to convert."
As you can see, if it can take just one person to do what that guy did, I simply do not understand what's stopping Haiku-os.org from porting Haiku to Ras Pi
Unless of course, they do-not-want-to
Ralph Yarro enriched himself tremendously. While SCO the company might be bankrupt, a lot of the money ended up with him.
Robert Penrose and Val Kriedel (Noorda) both committed suicide over their involvement.
There was a veil attempt to clear the name of Val Kriedel after her suicide - http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20050407113517663 - but anyhoo, what do we do with Ralph Yarro ?
We should not leave him scot free after what he had done to thousands and thousands of us
If we let Ralph Yarro go we only send a clear signal to the world - come and troll us, hurt us, impair our ability to renovate, and at the end, we will let you go scot free
I am not calling for a violent vengeance or a jihad or anything like that, what I am saying is we should not let that motherfucker go scot free, just like that
I have a feeling that the current crop of PARC researchers are not as bright as their peers 20 or 30 years ago
They do not give us any new insight on what's beyond the horizon, nor demonstrate to us what their visions are leading to, unlike their peers 20, 30 or 40 years ago had done
Nowadays, illicit drugs are being manufactured in quantity
Some of them rent vacant factories in 3rd world countries, set up all the required machineries and produce those drugs in tonnage
Many of the raw materials needed to produce those drugs - especially those in the "designer" category, - can be easily acquired in the open market, come in 200kg drums (if they are in liquid form) and in skip bins or in jumbo bags (if they are powder / solid)
Sorry, can't find the link now but I read somewhere - just last week, that the IT-related fields in US had a persistent unemployment rate of over 4.2% for the past 3 years
While that's half of the overall 8% unemployment figure, methinks the IT field shouldn't be rejoicing
Not yet !!
DavidSell
ByOhTek
antitithenai
Bonch
TechGuys
Overly Critical Guy
CmdrPony
InsightIn140Bytes
InterestingFella
HairyFeet
SharkLaser
jo_ham
DCTech
smithz
HankMoody
I strongly suspect there are more than those listed above !!
No matter it's Acer or ASUS or Dell or HP, their "PC" and "Laptop" business hadn't had any significant upheaval since the 1980's.
The original IBM PC, and IBM's decision to (sort of) "open-source" the hardware design was the one thing that gave birth to all these companies (except for HP).
And ever since that happened, in the 1980's, these companies had been doing the-same-old-thing and for once, I'm glad that Microsoft decides to manufacture and market their own "Surface" - for no other reason than to shake up the entire "PC business".
We, the users, deserve much better devices.
For almost 40 years we are stuck with the same-old-thing (tablets and smartphones only enter the field not that long ago) and I hope that this shakeup will bring us more diversed devices, to make our lives more productive, more enjoying
Ralph Yarro and other SCO shareholders had caused the Linux communities a lot of headaches for the past decade or so
We all know that they had no case, (with encouragement from M$), they filed baseless lawsuits suing almost every business entity in the Linux sphere
Is there a way for us to sue those fuckers, including Ralph Yarro, back?
They've made our lives hell, and it's only justice that we made their lives fucking hell in return
There is a genre known as "fantasy" which somehow is mixed-up with some element from "scifi" and then marketed as "scifi"
I find those being the most dull - If I want to read scifi I do not need to read a story about "Ghengis Khan" or "Middle Age Worlds" with horse riding knights and all, with spaceships
It's dull, it's uninteresting, it's stupid, and totally un-entertaining
TFA at extremetech isn't that feature rich, nor embarking on a brand new frontier that none of us had ever been
TFA could have been made into ONE PAGE, but no, extremetech ain't gonna let us, the readers, enjoy it in one shot - we had to click through all the 5 pages
Please, Slashdot !
Next time you give us a link to a single TFA with multiple pages, please indicate it right upfront
Thank you !
It is actually 44.7 and 152 ppt (parts per trillion), or 0.0000447 and 0.000152 ppm.
These days you can detect absurdly small traces of things, so you can find anything in anything.
I really wonder how accurate is the result - ppm and ppb I can accept, but ppt ?
How in the world can you calibrate the tool in the first place?
If the title is true, that the Pacific Ocean is polluted with coffee, why don't the Pacific Ocean smell like a super giant pot of coffee ?
Remember, Caffeine doesn't only come from Coffee, tea - oh yes, TEA has caffeine, as well as Jolt Cola
Muslim Brotherhood... or the Communist Party
Most likely the Muslim Brotherhood
Look how his administration has awarded the Muslim Brotherhood 3 countries, - Libya, Egypt and Tunisia - and Obama is siding with Saudi Arabia (the world HQ of Muslim Brotherhood) in the Syrian conflict
On the other hand, his administration is not exactly in friendly terms with Cuba, Russia, China, nor North Korea. In conclusion, we can safely say that the commies are not his sponsors
The guy already owns 20% of the company
That just gave him even more incentive to not let his 20% goes down the drain !!
Plan works like this - He goes in and buys up the entire company, with other-people's-money
Then he "restructures" the company, selling off "non-core-subsidiaries", acquires some other companies and merges them into his now "core-operation", and in the process a lot of employees will see themselves being "made redundant" (ie, fired), before the guy turn around and sell off the whole thing (including his initial 20% stake) to some "investment trust", or something like that
He will end up laughing all the way to the bank, and many employees will end up jobless
That's the way it is, and that's the way it will be.
We are living in a different world now.
"Fairness", "Justice" and "Equality" no longer mean anything
So, if you want to succeed, you must think and act like those in the 0.1 percentile