The Moto G is selling like hot cakes, and rightly so.
Just maybe not in the US, but India and friends are a bigger market, at the G's lower price. With the self-inflicted implosion of Nokia a big gap in the market opened up over there. And it's a new market not an already saturated one.
Google got the patent portfolio, which was what they were really after. Hardware isn't their core business so of course they'd move that part of the operation on at the first opportunity.
It is so tiny it leaks out of and through everything, seeps into metals messing up the properties of their alloys, and is generally a pain in the ass. Ammonia is nasty stuff, but at least you can contain it.
They already admitted to targeting specific people for additional scrutiny and persecution.
Not really, and there really hasn't been any meaningful persecution.
Remember that liberal PAC groups were equally tied up in this and that 501c3 tax exempt groups are explicitly denied the ability to make political endorsements. So the Tea Party PACs do not qualify anyway. Also remember that many FOSS applications were also caught up in the exact same tightening of the evaluations since they could be mistaken for pro-industry trade groups. Anecdote vs. evidence, but my GPL project was endlessly delayed in the same IRS round for the same reasons as the Tea Party's ones.
Call it for what it is, like Benghazi, of no substantive significance to the American people and a huge political misdirection away from the real issues: the 1% robbing the general population of two or more years of their working life by pushing back the retirement age.
If you are going to be mad as hell and not going to take it any more, be mad about that, since you are not the 1% and they are stealing years of your life from you!
Go back and study your scientific method. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
You can claim to be able to prove a negative, and know the unknown, and attack anyone who disagrees with you with ad hominems, but your words are only empty bluster.
This is entirely different than the CO2 problem, which has been known, understood, and measured for a long time. Ask again in 150 years when you have a physical model built from fundamental principals and it might be as well understood as CO2 v. the greenhouse effect.
The stakes, in so far as an unintentional disruption of the food supply would lead to the ruin of civilization as we know it, are however just as dire.
And so the precautionary principal must prevail. This is all people ask for in both cases. And you call them unreasonable zealots who should be derided and held in contempt for doing so? Fuck you, the security of the food supply is too important and there is no shame in suggesting that it should be defended.
a bit off-topic, but it's worth noting that Senator Franken has a long history as leader on the forefront of new communications and broadcast technology.
some of his reports from his earlier journalism days are very informative, one might even say daring:
But everybody could look at OpenSSL source for years and see the potential for Heartbleed and it never got caught until [...]
... until two of those many eyes eventually spotted the problem and reported it to the authors.
you were saying?
It is also worth mentioning that "Linus's Law" was not coined by RMS, and that RMS's defintion of "bad code" is probably much different, and more nuanced, than yours or mine. That's taking into account that he's likely several orders of magnitude the code-programmer than most here will ever hope to be.
What would be interesting would be to bring the spirit of these old systems into the modern age rather than just replicate them wholesale. Boot into a system which allows you immediate programming (preferably with a modern OO syntax) and access to video, sound and peripherals. If there's anything that has suffered over the past three decades, it's easy access to I/O.
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nonetheless and ignoring possible character flaws, does his calculation hold water? that's the only thing I'm interested in.
another UTF8 related tragedy
> How much did the politicians receive from the OPEC to
> abandon fusion research?
I imagine depressingly little.
And call a Koch a Koch, it probably wasn't the local OPEC proxies.
compare and contrast, the US's war in Iraq, 1 ea. at $2.29 trillion, up to $6T if you act now.
http://www.reuters.com/article...
pick your technological investment, rinse and repeat and hope to have something to show for it at the end of the day.
Something to think about on the 4th.
secondary profits are probably in the trillions of dollars in the wider economy. just sayin'.
The Moto G is selling like hot cakes, and rightly so.
Just maybe not in the US, but India and friends are a bigger market, at the G's lower price. With the self-inflicted implosion of Nokia a big gap in the market opened up over there. And it's a new market not an already saturated one.
Google got the patent portfolio, which was what they were really after. Hardware isn't their core business so of course they'd move that part of the operation on at the first opportunity.
> Storage wastes energy too -- pumped hydro, the cheapest form
> of bulk energy storage has an input-to-output efficiency of
> about 65 percent.
yeah, but that excess production was free, so even if you lose some
of it in the efficiency losses it's still a net gain, just less so.
which is still good.
Because hydrogen is a major bitch to store.
It is so tiny it leaks out of and through everything, seeps into
metals messing up the properties of their alloys, and is generally
a pain in the ass. Ammonia is nasty stuff, but at least you can
contain it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement
> i honestly don't understand what's the actual scandal here.
hell, at least they haven't called it foogate yet.
there's no scandal, only active misdirection from the real issues.
Not really, and there really hasn't been any meaningful persecution.
Remember that liberal PAC groups were equally tied up in this and
that 501c3 tax exempt groups are explicitly denied the ability
to make political endorsements. So the Tea Party PACs do not qualify
anyway. Also remember that many FOSS applications were also caught up
in the exact same tightening of the evaluations since they could be
mistaken for pro-industry trade groups. Anecdote vs. evidence, but
my GPL project was endlessly delayed in the same IRS round for the
same reasons as the Tea Party's ones.
Call it for what it is, like Benghazi, of no substantive significance
to the American people and a huge political misdirection away from the
real issues: the 1% robbing the general population of two or more years
of their working life by pushing back the retirement age.
If you are going to be mad as hell and not going to take it any more, be
mad about that, since you are not the 1% and they are stealing years of
your life from you!
Especially if they have been introduced to the teachings of Bender.
Bullshit, Mr. A.C. Complete bullshit.
Go back and study your scientific method. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
You can claim to be able to prove a negative, and know the unknown, and attack anyone who disagrees with you with ad hominems, but your words are only empty bluster.
You fall into a classic logical trap:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance
This is entirely different than the CO2 problem, which has been known, understood, and measured for a long time. Ask again in 150 years when you have a physical model built from fundamental principals and it might be as well understood as CO2 v. the greenhouse effect.
The stakes, in so far as an unintentional disruption of the food supply would lead to the ruin of civilization as we know it, are however just as dire.
And so the precautionary principal must prevail. This is all people ask for in both cases. And you call them unreasonable zealots who should be derided and held in contempt for doing so? Fuck you, the security of the food supply is too important and there is no shame in suggesting that it should be defended.
In other news, Linus makes a point release!
some parts of the US *never have* gotten out of third world nation conditions.
http://www.economist.com/news/...
this is /., who actually reads the title?
And since we're talking about dead whales, oblig. explosives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
And beaching, bro,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
impressive, since the first thing we do is compare to ourselves as some sort of We're #1! thing.
I always found this story of a 100 year old harpoon being found in the back of a modern whale to be a pretty wild reality check:
http://www.nature.com/news/200...
"If you put a frog in boiling water, it won't jump out. It will die."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
The story from 1869 only worked because he removed the frogs' brains.
now you know! and a bit of a sad commentary about where we are.
um, the arctic ice cap is almost gone. that's one pretty fucking obvious thing with huge global albedo budget implications.
https://sites.google.com/site/...
Here's him doing it on the campaign trail in '88:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
a bit off-topic, but it's worth noting that Senator Franken has a long history as leader on the forefront of new communications and broadcast technology.
some of his reports from his earlier journalism days are very informative, one might even say daring:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Al+Franken%27s+Mobile+Uplink+Unit+
The GPL's failure mode is BSD, which still makes the world a better place, just less so.
There are worse things in life and this is not much of a criticism against the GPL. You could justifiably call it a strength.
you were saying?
It is also worth mentioning that "Linus's Law" was not coined by RMS, and that RMS's defintion of "bad code" is probably much different, and more nuanced, than yours or mine. That's taking into account that he's likely several orders of magnitude the code-programmer than most here will ever hope to be.
This link pretty much wraps it up:
http://elinux.org/RPi_Low-leve...
hmmm, if only there was something like that already under our noses.