As I read this I tried to analyze my feelings about this news. I have found that I am completely indifferent. Did someone get to take a look at unpublished, in-progress kickstarter ideas? May be. Does it matter? Not really.
I suppose that means I should expect the buzz around kickstarter to fade away until it settles into its niche. Sorta like eBay.
I'm sure one of those 7000 will flip out and try to sue somebody, but it would be meaningless.
You really value your vision, don't you? In your mind, your eyes aren't even worth a once-a-year trained-professional review. If I were religious, I'd pray for your eyes, *someone* has to watch out for them since you clearly won't
You totally miss my point. I check my vision every day by opening my eyelids and going to work. When they hurt, get discolored, or get blurry, I'll go to a doctor about it. I don't need someone holding my prescription hostage based on a yearly timetable.
1) Eye doctor determines your prescription 2) New appointment necessary with someone else for "contact lens fitting" 3) Order your contacts anywhere you like for 1 year 4) The doctors force you to pay for a new set of appointments, no matter how happy you are with your current prescription
This is obvious protectionism. I don't need a "fitting" every year. My contact lens size has never changed. I don't need a new prescription until I determine that I'm not seeing well enough anymore. I'll come in for a new apointment when my eyes are bothering me. Otherwise, leave me alone, dammit!
Actually, I think deliberations over the color of a bike shed is the epitome of bikeshedding.
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Eventually Slashdot will be nothing but a brand; a collection of minimally-viewed tech blogs that are finally sold to a media company and rolled into their large collection of robotic advertising delivery channels.
The point of organic farming is to grow safe food. Prices are higher because farming is a business, but it isn't the primary motivation. Obviously industrial farming has higher margins, which is why almost all "normal" food is grown that way.
They have other jobs in addition to finding bombs and guns. They're on the lookout for all contraband, including drugs. They seriously freak out if you bring unauthorized produce into the country.
I wouldn't say explosives are the same as cocaine. There are chemical detectors that can detect that kind of thing... as a colleague of mine discovered when he tried to go through security in Tel Aviv a day after placing his laptop bag on an engine part filled with jet fuel.
Because the TSA isn't about security, it is about making people feel secure.
Close, but not quite. It's about the government making it look like they are doing something about security....And spending lots of money like you said.
I don't think they give a flying fart about how people feel. If they did, they wouldn't have groped that little girl from a few stories back.
They don't sell your data to customers, that would be illegal. They look at your data and use it to build a description of your personality and then they sell the fact that they know your personality to advertisers.
Doesn't explain why they need rights to distribute and create derivative works.
I have lived in various apartments. Two, during the time that I was still buying CFLs. One was built in the 90's, one in the 30's. The 30's house definitely has bad wiring, but it doesn't seem to bother the incandescents.
I posted about CFLs a few posts down from here. I find that they have a very high rate of failure. Can you honestly claim that they last as long as they are advertised to last?
I don't understand why everyone is/was so excited about CFLs. When they broke into the mainstream a few years ago, they were more expensive but were long lasting and energy efficient -- at least, that's what we were told. I have owned many, and ALL of them have died prematurely. Sometimes an entire package will be dead within a few weeks of purchase. Who in their right mind pays for such garbage? The carbon footprint of making and then throwing them away must be far larger than the savings in electricity. Also they are slower to light up than the good old fashioned bulbs. Why does nobody admit that?
So, do these new light bulbs come with a 20 year replacement warranty? If not, there's NO FRICKIN' WAY I would buy it. Also, I'm not convinced that these new bulbs actually make the same light. I'll wait until I've seen it in person.
I dislike Comcast because of this kind of behavior. Unfortunately, they are by far the fastest and most stable connection I can get for the money in my area. They are also right on top of the IPv6 thing. So conflicted...
Libreoffice's community is definitely better than OpenOffice, but I'm not so sure that it is better. It is still a young project, and I have had terrible trouble installing and upgrading the software. It is also very slow and contains plenty of bugs still.
Also... There was also a lot of talk about how difficult it is to stabilize the hot plasma. Apparently, they spend years studying how to reduce "disruptions" in the trapped plasma caused by changes in currents and pressures.
Emphasis on the fact the ITER should prove that we can get more energy out of the hot plasma than it takes to keep it hot. After that, it's another 20 years to build a demonstration reactor, that will generate power from steam.
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As I read this I tried to analyze my feelings about this news. I have found that I am completely indifferent. Did someone get to take a look at unpublished, in-progress kickstarter ideas? May be. Does it matter? Not really.
I suppose that means I should expect the buzz around kickstarter to fade away until it settles into its niche. Sorta like eBay.
I'm sure one of those 7000 will flip out and try to sue somebody, but it would be meaningless.
Exchanging services is barter, which is subject to taxes. Did you pay your taxes?
Only idiots would do that.
You really value your vision, don't you? In your mind, your eyes aren't even worth a once-a-year trained-professional review. If I were religious, I'd pray for your eyes, *someone* has to watch out for them since you clearly won't
You totally miss my point. I check my vision every day by opening my eyelids and going to work. When they hurt, get discolored, or get blurry, I'll go to a doctor about it. I don't need someone holding my prescription hostage based on a yearly timetable.
Taking an hour - an hour! - to make sure you can effing SEE is that much of a bother to you?
I know that I can see. I don't need someone to tell me that I can see.
Reminds me of the contact lens industry.
1) Eye doctor determines your prescription
2) New appointment necessary with someone else for "contact lens fitting"
3) Order your contacts anywhere you like for 1 year
4) The doctors force you to pay for a new set of appointments, no matter how happy you are with your current prescription
This is obvious protectionism. I don't need a "fitting" every year. My contact lens size has never changed. I don't need a new prescription until I determine that I'm not seeing well enough anymore. I'll come in for a new apointment when my eyes are bothering me. Otherwise, leave me alone, dammit!
Actually, I think deliberations over the color of a bike shed is the epitome of bikeshedding.
Eventually Slashdot will be nothing but a brand; a collection of minimally-viewed tech blogs that are finally sold to a media company and rolled into their large collection of robotic advertising delivery channels.
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If you mean logic eliminates God then that is wrong for if you acknowledge you own existence God must exist for God is the essence of the existence.
*My brain explodes*
Yes, it's sad that children in economically depressed regions are starving so please avoid predicating an argument from that premise alone.
That isn't enough?
The point of organic farming is to grow safe food. Prices are higher because farming is a business, but it isn't the primary motivation. Obviously industrial farming has higher margins, which is why almost all "normal" food is grown that way.
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They have other jobs in addition to finding bombs and guns. They're on the lookout for all contraband, including drugs. They seriously freak out if you bring unauthorized produce into the country.
I wouldn't say explosives are the same as cocaine. There are chemical detectors that can detect that kind of thing... as a colleague of mine discovered when he tried to go through security in Tel Aviv a day after placing his laptop bag on an engine part filled with jet fuel.
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Because the TSA isn't about security, it is about making people feel secure.
Close, but not quite. It's about the government making it look like they are doing something about security. ...And spending lots of money like you said.
I don't think they give a flying fart about how people feel. If they did, they wouldn't have groped that little girl from a few stories back.
They don't sell your data to customers, that would be illegal. They look at your data and use it to build a description of your personality and then they sell the fact that they know your personality to advertisers.
Doesn't explain why they need rights to distribute and create derivative works.
+1 of my nonexistent mod points.
Who said anything about root access? If Firefox is running with root privs, you are doing something wrong. Also, the silent updater is optional.
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I have lived in various apartments. Two, during the time that I was still buying CFLs. One was built in the 90's, one in the 30's. The 30's house definitely has bad wiring, but it doesn't seem to bother the incandescents.
That pack that was dead within weeks? It was GE bulbs from Home Depot.
I posted about CFLs a few posts down from here. I find that they have a very high rate of failure. Can you honestly claim that they last as long as they are advertised to last?
Then they can keep it.
I don't understand why everyone is/was so excited about CFLs. When they broke into the mainstream a few years ago, they were more expensive but were long lasting and energy efficient -- at least, that's what we were told. I have owned many, and ALL of them have died prematurely. Sometimes an entire package will be dead within a few weeks of purchase. Who in their right mind pays for such garbage? The carbon footprint of making and then throwing them away must be far larger than the savings in electricity. Also they are slower to light up than the good old fashioned bulbs. Why does nobody admit that?
So, do these new light bulbs come with a 20 year replacement warranty? If not, there's NO FRICKIN' WAY I would buy it. Also, I'm not convinced that these new bulbs actually make the same light. I'll wait until I've seen it in person.
-d
I dislike Comcast because of this kind of behavior. Unfortunately, they are by far the fastest and most stable connection I can get for the money in my area. They are also right on top of the IPv6 thing. So conflicted...
Libreoffice's community is definitely better than OpenOffice, but I'm not so sure that it is better. It is still a young project, and I have had terrible trouble installing and upgrading the software. It is also very slow and contains plenty of bugs still.
What a bunch of backwards hillbillies.
See first post.
Also...
There was also a lot of talk about how difficult it is to stabilize the hot plasma. Apparently, they spend years studying how to reduce "disruptions" in the trapped plasma caused by changes in currents and pressures.
Emphasis on the fact the ITER should prove that we can get more energy out of the hot plasma than it takes to keep it hot. After that, it's another 20 years to build a demonstration reactor, that will generate power from steam.
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