We have this thing called planning and project management, where we just finish the stuff in the time allotted to the work, and people get to spend the rest of their time with their families or however they please.
This is not about all of China, it's about (part of) Shaanxi province. 37 million people live in this province, and it's about the past 3 months. Chances are still pretty slim that you will die of this of course.
What makes it not enough? In any case, at least you can land a person on mars now, and grow plants inside some kind of protected environment. Venus would take ages to even get it suitable to get anything on the planet that won't melt.
Of course, for now it looks like neither will even start happening in any of our lifetimes.
I don't think many moderators really actively mod a post down just for disagreeing, even when it looks like it. The comments on Slashdot can be slanted, but nearly any thread will show multiple opinions.
For any piece of writing you must know your audience. Any audience has things they like and dislike more, on average, and Slashdot is no different.
Think about a thread about teaching creationism in school. You can not just come here on Slashdot and blurt out that everyone here will go to hell because they do not support god in this topic. However, if you give a well-written, polite comment in disagreeing with the overal opinion, you will get modded up. Hell, starting out your post with 'I know this is an unpopular opinion around here' is bound to get you modded up.
Also, keep in mind why people disagree with something and then mod it down. Often they just really think the other side has an illogical and stupid opinion (we all have those sometimes), so the modding down in such cases is not really about disagreeing, it's about feeling the post is illogical or such.
And how exactly do you know that all governments do this? That the British are in the same boat as the Americans has long been suspected. I don't see the Belgians mass monitoring Verizon calls in the US, do you?
Aside from a couple of things (not sure how 30 bit monitor support would work here), it sounds like he's describing KDE.
Of course, in the real world, KDE is awesome for more advanced tasks like creative designs, but the limited support for the most used quality creative software keeps it down a lot...
Ok, so I live in Netherlands. The US is wiretapping most of the worlds traffic, and the excuse is that all governments do this? No they are not. I really don't think Dutch intelligence services are spying on IBM to get better deals for companies. There are a handful of countries that do this shit at a bigger scale, and all of them should stop. This is no way to treat the citizens of other countries, especially if there is no national security issue.
Frankly, the only thing I've heard about this that is more insulting is the 'oh, it's not a problem because we only do this to foreigners' excuse.
They write 'The FCO advise against all travel to parts of the country.' a bit clumsily.
'parts of the country' == the exclusion zone.
Please take health insurance though, it's a real PITA if something happens and you don't have it. Even if you can't get it in the UK, you could always get it online from companies based elsewhere.
obviously you have never driven in Netherlands. It's not that laid back and you'd be surprised by the population (and car) density. Try super high enforcement of traffic law, very strict driving exams, high quality roads, strict safety regulations for cars and separate lanes for bikes.
The guy isn't exactly wanting to go into drugs or some such. Nothing good will come from trying to interfere with him. If he never starts at the game industry he will always keep some romantic vision of how it would be.
Going into game dev can be a tough choice, but if that's what he wants to do there isn't much you can do about it.
Let him work it out himself if it is for him, he will find out the reality soon enough after starting there. Also, if he can get 70k offers now, I'm sure he will be okay after a year at a gamestudio finding a new job too.
I have no intrinsic problems with what they say, but a lot of this prioritizing is reactionary guesswork based on past experience.
Where that can give problems is that they don't look at it from a logical perspective, rather they try to package it as a simple calculation, with statistics and all. The fact is that these stats could be off by orders of magnitude, they are based on real data, but you have no idea how this data really applies to you. It may just as well prepare you for the previous war, instead of the one you are about to face.
This is what you commonly get in many risk assessments. A common determination of risk is 'risk = chance of occurance * potential damage'. Both of these figures are usually guesswork at best, complete BS usually, multiplying them just makes that worse. You end up with nearly random top lists of dangers.
This is the reason why companies like Diginotar passed audits by large accountancies, They made their paper models based on having rules and calculations about everything, but nobody bothered to apply some common sense and see if their vulnerability really wasn't that bad.
The proposal here is more of the same, lets apply some artificial rules so we can pretend it is a science, and never have to apply common sense to see if something is a problem. This is a recipe for disaster.
You seem to think nobody knows that CA's don't have the private key. This is really basic knowledge, and nobody here is challenging you on that. We are not missing your point, it's just not any new information,
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We have this thing called planning and project management, where we just finish the stuff in the time allotted to the work, and people get to spend the rest of their time with their families or however they please.
Whatever floats your boat though.
This is not about all of China, it's about (part of) Shaanxi province. 37 million people live in this province, and it's about the past 3 months. Chances are still pretty slim that you will die of this of course.
Still, there is a atmosphere right now, what makes you say it can't possibly be enough? Did you do the math?
What makes it not enough? In any case, at least you can land a person on mars now, and grow plants inside some kind of protected environment. Venus would take ages to even get it suitable to get anything on the planet that won't melt.
Of course, for now it looks like neither will even start happening in any of our lifetimes.
I don't think many moderators really actively mod a post down just for disagreeing, even when it looks like it. The comments on Slashdot can be slanted, but nearly any thread will show multiple opinions.
For any piece of writing you must know your audience. Any audience has things they like and dislike more, on average, and Slashdot is no different.
Think about a thread about teaching creationism in school. You can not just come here on Slashdot and blurt out that everyone here will go to hell because they do not support god in this topic. However, if you give a well-written, polite comment in disagreeing with the overal opinion, you will get modded up. Hell, starting out your post with 'I know this is an unpopular opinion around here' is bound to get you modded up.
Also, keep in mind why people disagree with something and then mod it down. Often they just really think the other side has an illogical and stupid opinion (we all have those sometimes), so the modding down in such cases is not really about disagreeing, it's about feeling the post is illogical or such.
And how exactly do you know that all governments do this? That the British are in the same boat as the Americans has long been suspected. I don't see the Belgians mass monitoring Verizon calls in the US, do you?
What are you doing on Slashdot? We don't read articles here. I find the fact that you are asking this very disturbing.
They quit in 2008, and restarted recently.
KDE is really second to none for scripting support in nearly any language throughout the interface and system.
So, no, I didn't miss it, you missed it.
As for your comment on 'automator'. I would say I like automator (I use Mac OS about 90% of the time), but I like Sikuli better.
I wouldn't claim it is perfect, but what image support are you missing exactly if you take the KDE suite as a whole?
Of course, KDE isn't an operating system.
Aside from a couple of things (not sure how 30 bit monitor support would work here), it sounds like he's describing KDE.
Of course, in the real world, KDE is awesome for more advanced tasks like creative designs, but the limited support for the most used quality creative software keeps it down a lot...
Ok, so I live in Netherlands. The US is wiretapping most of the worlds traffic, and the excuse is that all governments do this? No they are not. I really don't think Dutch intelligence services are spying on IBM to get better deals for companies. There are a handful of countries that do this shit at a bigger scale, and all of them should stop. This is no way to treat the citizens of other countries, especially if there is no national security issue.
Frankly, the only thing I've heard about this that is more insulting is the 'oh, it's not a problem because we only do this to foreigners' excuse.
So from your link, you can switch between a desktop and a netbook mode? That's it?
Care to explain what this is? Googled for it and didn't get any wiser. You mean like virtual desktops? KDE Activities? Something else?
As bad as the situation for gay people is in Russia, this is blatantly false, and just makes you look uninformed.
You don't need to go for lies to talk bad about Russia, there are plenty of legitimate points.
It has made EA into Activision?
No they don't, unless you visit Fukushima.
They write 'The FCO advise against all travel to parts of the country.' a bit clumsily.
'parts of the country' == the exclusion zone.
Please take health insurance though, it's a real PITA if something happens and you don't have it. Even if you can't get it in the UK, you could always get it online from companies based elsewhere.
Good luck discovering if your radiator lost a couple of ml of water.
These amounts may sound like a lot, but for individual leaks, they may be tiny compared to the amount of water they have.
Well, judging from your UID that was probably in the 1950's, so probably you were right ;-).
Subjective things aside, population density is a bit higher here than in Iceland though...
obviously you have never driven in Netherlands. It's not that laid back and you'd be surprised by the population (and car) density. Try super high enforcement of traffic law, very strict driving exams, high quality roads, strict safety regulations for cars and separate lanes for bikes.
The guy isn't exactly wanting to go into drugs or some such. Nothing good will come from trying to interfere with him. If he never starts at the game industry he will always keep some romantic vision of how it would be.
Going into game dev can be a tough choice, but if that's what he wants to do there isn't much you can do about it.
Let him work it out himself if it is for him, he will find out the reality soon enough after starting there. Also, if he can get 70k offers now, I'm sure he will be okay after a year at a gamestudio finding a new job too.
Oh he came up with it? Was that before or after Francisco Tarrega wrote in in 1902?
So that's one crash every 333 miles? Something tells me your numbers are a bit off too ^^.
I have no intrinsic problems with what they say, but a lot of this prioritizing is reactionary guesswork based on past experience.
Where that can give problems is that they don't look at it from a logical perspective, rather they try to package it as a simple calculation, with statistics and all. The fact is that these stats could be off by orders of magnitude, they are based on real data, but you have no idea how this data really applies to you. It may just as well prepare you for the previous war, instead of the one you are about to face.
This is what you commonly get in many risk assessments. A common determination of risk is 'risk = chance of occurance * potential damage'. Both of these figures are usually guesswork at best, complete BS usually, multiplying them just makes that worse. You end up with nearly random top lists of dangers.
This is the reason why companies like Diginotar passed audits by large accountancies, They made their paper models based on having rules and calculations about everything, but nobody bothered to apply some common sense and see if their vulnerability really wasn't that bad.
The proposal here is more of the same, lets apply some artificial rules so we can pretend it is a science, and never have to apply common sense to see if something is a problem. This is a recipe for disaster.
You seem to think nobody knows that CA's don't have the private key. This is really basic knowledge, and nobody here is challenging you on that. We are not missing your point, it's just not any new information,