So is that the only thing the Nazis should be chided for? Are you claiming that the Nazis were normal people except the part about rounding up Jewish people???
I own a Civic Hybrid, and I've found that the way I drive severely affects the gas mileage, as others have already mentioned. A couple of things I'd like to add are:
* If you are driving uphill, never go above 55. The mileage up hills is much more related to speed than on flats.
* I drive to work every day 85 mph on the freeway, and through city traffic. Ok, so I get 42 MPG, which is not the advertise MPG, but so what - find any other car that gets 42 MPG under those conditions.
10 PRINT "What do programmers who's jobs have been outsourced do during the day?" 20 LINE INPUT A$ 30 PRINT "Wrong, they write basic programs and post them to slashdot" 40 END
I see that you admit at least there is a global warming phenomena. Most scientists finally agree with that. But you question two things:
1. Whether humans are causing global warming 2. Whether global warming is a bad thing
Let's address these two issues:
1. Do humans cause global warming?
1600 scientists, include over 100 NOBEL LAUREATES, agree that human activity is causing global warming. I trust them FAR MORE than you:
http://dieoff.org/page123.htm
It's obvious that climate has changed on Earth with or without humans, but it's also a known fact that human activity is accelerating climate change in a way different from natural causes
2. Is global warming a bad thing?
Here's where the troll part comes in. Do you actually believe the only consequence of global warming is rolling up our pants and walking inland a couple feet? The economy falls apart when the prices go up on oil. What do you think will happen when we are asked to MOVE LOS ANGELES AND NEW YORK INLAND??? What happens when the phytoplankton are no longer able to survive in the ocean water with low salinity? Well, let me tell you that phytoplankton produce most of the oxygen you breath...
LS
LS
Is anyone else as freaked out about this as I?
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Open Voting at OSCON
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Any American who truly believes that democracy is highly important to this country should be worried about the trend in voting systems. The ballot box is where the rubber hits the road in a democracy. It should almost be sacred in a democracy. It should be easy to understand it's operation, and it should be implemented completely without involvement from special interests.
I think it's almost ABSURD that a closed-source partisan company is building the ballot boxes. Even if there is no malicious intent, the system is totally open to malicious intent in the future.
This is not a technical issue, it's an idealogical one.
Moderators, yes, you should mod this guy down. It has no relevance to the story.
How long did you have to scrape around to find these quotes. Sure, there are scientific and logical fallicies made by the environmental community, as well as all groups. But I bet you could come up with a list literally 10,000 times as long of SCIENTIFICALLY validated evidence of environmental damage done by irresponsible or ignorant humans.
Despite all the FUD and propaganda espoused by both Linux and Windows advocates, I believe that hardware support IS MOST DEFINITELY the biggest issue with Linux. I'm a software engineer of 8 years with a CS&E degree, and I still had to spend a few days getting my hardware working in Mandrake 9.2. For instance, my Sound Blaster Audigy worked with the default installation, but I had to build Alsa from scratch if I wanted it to actually output 5.1 channels. I had to extract firmware out of the windows driver for my Midiman Oxygen 8 controller to get it work with Hotplug. I had to edit XF86Config to get my mouse to work properly. I had to guess at a compatible older printer to get my HP Photosmart 7960 to work.
Anyway, thi will ALWAYS be an issue until there is a critical mass of users that makes it economically viable for hardware manufacturers to create and test linux drivers. When individuals (kindly) reverse engineer and write drivers on their own, they are of widely varying quality, easy of use, and completeness, as opposed to the Windows world, which has a certification standard that at least helps with some level of easy of use and quality.
Anyway, I think this critical mass of Linux users will arrive.
software (especially free software) isn't in the same vein as a book or a movie. It isn't physical, and it isn't a single item that needs to be shared by a number of people. Also, it changes regularly, so anything the library stocks will be soon out of date.
A better idea: provide a way for those users without reasonable net access at home to burn a copy at the library. They could buy a blank CD for 25 cents from the library, then sit at a terminal and burn the software they want.
The interface to this would be important. The system could be a wizard-based searchable index of software, categorized by platform, distribution, and software type. The index would have simple descriptions that a typical user could understand. They could select the software they want, or pick a predefined "packs", like "graphics software" or "office software", and then click "go". The system would then download any software that isn't cached, create an autostart index file with instructions on installation and getting started with the chosen software, then burn to CD, and maybe print out the instructions as well.
As for installing free/open OSes on the PCs - I would be wary of this. People are familar with the Windows interface, and there are too many Linux desktops to choose from - a standard linux desktop hasn't arrived yet. Also, people will be upset with the 10% (plus or minus) of the documents that don't format properly in Open Office. Perhaps using something like CoLinux to run Linux apps on a Windows machine would be an appropriate compromise.
Am I hearing you correctly? Are you trying to analogize Mike Tyson to a couple million nerds sitting in front of computers late at night coding for fun?
Moderators, please mod the parent down. What does this have to do with testing the GPL? I thought SCO was suing for copyright infringment. Even if the GPL had been tested dozens of courts, if an open source project has privately copyrighted code, it is open to lawsuits. I'm not claiming that Linux has SCO code, only that this is not a test of the GPL.
This really isn't that impressive at all. It only draws spheres, so its use is pretty limited. Also, the ZIP FILE is 2k, not the source. It expands quite a bit. Lastly, I did nearly the exact same thing for my LEVEL 1 graphics course in college. Raytracing spheres, even with shadows and reflection, is novice level stuff.
Sorry, but is Ethereal a complex enough program to inspire a book? Sendmail, yes, but Ethereal? I figured it out within 5 minutes. Can someone enlighten me here on what I'm missing?
Moderators, please reconsider the parent's insulting post.
Your logic is evidence that your are less civilized. The reason Americans run yellows is because the light stays red for perpendicular traffic until the yellow changes to red. The meanings of the lights is almost hardwired into people after using them for years, so if there were yellow lights at reds, then yes, Americans would probably run them. But if they were like this from the beginning, they would know what it means, and not run the yellow at red. I'm sure that if the light patterns changed in Europe, then they would be making mistakes as well.
You are claiming that the airwaves are public, so people can transmit if they want. Well, what if I feel like transmitting "no service" signals? Also, this is a bad analogy, as a person's mouth is not public.
Anyway, I don't think the cell-phone specific airwaves are public anyway - this portion of the frequency spectrum is sold by the government to private entities.
LS
Contact Minnesota Public Radio
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Real Problems
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· Score: 4, Informative
Please call or e-mail Minnesota Public Radio, and let them know why you think an open format should be used for streaming content. Here's some reasons I can think of:
* It's pulbic radio, it's funded by taxpayers and supporters, so it's a public resource. All the content should be freely available using open standards
* Open standards like MP3 are supported by the most applications
* Open standards like MP3 are best supported across platforms
* Free software can be used to implement streaming
* They will support the good will of the technically astute in their audience, who are also a source of funding
* Any other good ideas? Here's the contact info, from their web site:
EMAIL mail@mpr.org
TELEPHONE General Inquiries: 651-290-1212 or 800-228-7123 An MPR Member/Listener Services associate will answer your call between 8:30 am and 5 pm CT Monday-Friday. Beyond those hours, you may leave a message and your call will be returned within two business days.
MPR Newsroom line: 651-290-1424 News releases may be faxed to the newsroom at 651-290-1295. News tips may be e-mailed to newsroom@mpr.org. E-mail addresses for individual reporters may be found on the newsroom look-up page.
Midmorning or Midday call-in shows: 651-227-6000 or 800-242-2828 We are not able to include emails to shows in progress. If you would like to leave comments for Midmorning, call 651-290-1171.
MAIL MPR Member/Listener Services 45 East Seventh Street Saint Paul, MN USA 55101
MEDIA INQUIRIES Andrea Matthews, 651-290-1303 or amatthews@mpr.org Suzanne Perry, 651-290-1276 or sperry@mpr.org
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Re:I don't see a problem.
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Real Problems
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There are problems with your implied statement that getting the real player is not so difficult:
1. You are a slashdot reader, not a typical user. 2. You know that there is a free version of the player, and were specfically looking for it.
All I know is that my 73 year old dad almost whipped out his credit card to watch a video someone sent him. Thankfully he called me first about it. Fuck Real.
I have a question regarding moderation. The people who run slashdot keep tight control on discussion topics and policy criticism, so there is no general message board for asking this sort of question, which is why I ask here. In fact, I will probably get modded down because we are not supposed to question Slashdot's perfection. But I will ask anyway:
I had a post that had a starting score of 2, and got moderating to 5, with 70% Insightful and 30% Interesting. My karma is excellent. It was a post that could be read as damaging to Apple's marketing. All of a sudden, it went to a starting score of 1, 50% insightful, 20% Interesting, and 20% Overrated. I have a few questions. 1.) How does the starting score go down??? 2.) How can the percentage of moderation not add up to 100%? 3.) Is there some super-moderator censorship used by Slashdot when they don't like the content of the post?
[tin-foil hat] Could Apple have complained when they saw my post, considering that Slashdot is probably the biggest Apple hype-machine on the planet (besides Apple themselves), and might even get kickbacks?[/tin-foil hat]
I have a question regarding moderation. The people who run slashdot keep tight control on discussion topics and policy criticism, so there is no general message board for asking this sort of question, which is why I ask here. In fact, I will probably get modded down because we are not supposed to question Slashdot's perfection. But I will ask anyway:
I had a post that had a starting score of 2, and got moderating to 5, with 70% Insightful and 30% Interesting. My karma is excellent. It was a post that could be read as damaging to Apple's marketing. All of a sudden, it went to a starting score of 1, 50% insightful, 20% Interesting, and 20% Overrated. I have a few questions. 1.) How does the starting score go down??? 2.) How can the percentage of moderation not add up to 100%? 3.) Is there some super-moderator censorship used by Slashdot when they don't like the content of the post?
[tin-foil hat] Could Apple have complained when they saw my post, considering that Slashdot is probably the biggest Apple hype-machine on the planet (besides Apple themselves), and might even get kickbacks?[/tin-foil hat]
I never take the iPod out because I feel like an asshole for wearing the white headphones. I feel like I'm advertising for apple and showing off my expensive nerd toy. I've been planning to get new headphones, and this is another good reason to get a pair.
Hmm, I think the line drawn between presentation and content is a fuzzy one, or at least drawn in the wrong place. If the "presentation" helps organize the "content" in a more understandable fashion, then perhaps the presentation actually contains content. I mean, are paragraphs, table of contents, indents and other things presentation or content? You could argue that they are presentation, but they're usually contained within the content.
Anyway, disregarding the previous paragraph, any graphic designer you speak to would disagree on the implied lowliness everyone here is attaching to presentation. All you nerdlingers know is 0s and 1s, but the whole world is much more than that. It's actually mostly presentation... Next time you're in bed with a chick, instead of fucking her, why don't you just say "insertpenis()", "while (time 30 seconds) { move penis in and out }", "ejaculate". It is about the content, and not the whole experience, right?
Slashdot Mirror
So is that the only thing the Nazis should be chided for? Are you claiming that the Nazis were normal people except the part about rounding up Jewish people???
LS
I own a Civic Hybrid, and I've found that the way I drive severely affects the gas mileage, as others have already mentioned. A couple of things I'd like to add are:
* If you are driving uphill, never go above 55. The mileage up hills is much more related to speed than on flats.
* I drive to work every day 85 mph on the freeway, and through city traffic. Ok, so I get 42 MPG, which is not the advertise MPG, but so what - find any other car that gets 42 MPG under those conditions.
LS
10 PRINT "What do programmers who's jobs have been outsourced do during the day?"
20 LINE INPUT A$
30 PRINT "Wrong, they write basic programs and post them to slashdot"
40 END
I smell a troll.
I see that you admit at least there is a global warming phenomena. Most scientists finally agree with that. But you question two things:
1. Whether humans are causing global warming
2. Whether global warming is a bad thing
Let's address these two issues:
1. Do humans cause global warming?
1600 scientists, include over 100 NOBEL LAUREATES, agree that human activity is causing global warming. I trust them FAR MORE than you:
http://dieoff.org/page123.htm
It's obvious that climate has changed on Earth with or without humans, but it's also a known fact that human activity is accelerating climate change in a way different from natural causes
2. Is global warming a bad thing?
Here's where the troll part comes in. Do you actually believe the only consequence of global warming is rolling up our pants and walking inland a couple feet? The economy falls apart when the prices go up on oil. What do you think will happen when we are asked to MOVE LOS ANGELES AND NEW YORK INLAND??? What happens when the phytoplankton are no longer able to survive in the ocean water with low salinity? Well, let me tell you that phytoplankton produce most of the oxygen you breath...
LS
LS
Any American who truly believes that democracy is highly important to this country should be worried about the trend in voting systems. The ballot box is where the rubber hits the road in a democracy. It should almost be sacred in a democracy. It should be easy to understand it's operation, and it should be implemented completely without involvement from special interests.
I think it's almost ABSURD that a closed-source partisan company is building the ballot boxes. Even if there is no malicious intent, the system is totally open to malicious intent in the future.
This is not a technical issue, it's an idealogical one.
LS
Moderators, yes, you should mod this guy down. It has no relevance to the story.
How long did you have to scrape around to find these quotes. Sure, there are scientific and logical fallicies made by the environmental community, as well as all groups. But I bet you could come up with a list literally 10,000 times as long of SCIENTIFICALLY validated evidence of environmental damage done by irresponsible or ignorant humans.
LS
Well, there is one BIG ASS barrier that we have no idea how to knock down yet that will be an issue soon: the speed of light.
LS
Despite all the FUD and propaganda espoused by both Linux and Windows advocates, I believe that hardware support IS MOST DEFINITELY the biggest issue with Linux. I'm a software engineer of 8 years with a CS&E degree, and I still had to spend a few days getting my hardware working in Mandrake 9.2. For instance, my Sound Blaster Audigy worked with the default installation, but I had to build Alsa from scratch if I wanted it to actually output 5.1 channels. I had to extract firmware out of the windows driver for my Midiman Oxygen 8 controller to get it work with Hotplug. I had to edit XF86Config to get my mouse to work properly. I had to guess at a compatible older printer to get my HP Photosmart 7960 to work.
Anyway, thi will ALWAYS be an issue until there is a critical mass of users that makes it economically viable for hardware manufacturers to create and test linux drivers. When individuals (kindly) reverse engineer and write drivers on their own, they are of widely varying quality, easy of use, and completeness, as opposed to the Windows world, which has a certification standard that at least helps with some level of easy of use and quality.
Anyway, I think this critical mass of Linux users will arrive.
LS
software (especially free software) isn't in the same vein as a book or a movie. It isn't physical, and it isn't a single item that needs to be shared by a number of people. Also, it changes regularly, so anything the library stocks will be soon out of date.
A better idea: provide a way for those users without reasonable net access at home to burn a copy at the library. They could buy a blank CD for 25 cents from the library, then sit at a terminal and burn the software they want.
The interface to this would be important. The system could be a wizard-based searchable index of software, categorized by platform, distribution, and software type. The index would have simple descriptions that a typical user could understand. They could select the software they want, or pick a predefined "packs", like "graphics software" or "office software", and then click "go". The system would then download any software that isn't cached, create an autostart index file with instructions on installation and getting started with the chosen software, then burn to CD, and maybe print out the instructions as well.
As for installing free/open OSes on the PCs - I would be wary of this. People are familar with the Windows interface, and there are too many Linux desktops to choose from - a standard linux desktop hasn't arrived yet. Also, people will be upset with the 10% (plus or minus) of the documents that don't format properly in Open Office. Perhaps using something like CoLinux to run Linux apps on a Windows machine would be an appropriate compromise.
LS
Am I hearing you correctly? Are you trying to analogize Mike Tyson to a couple million nerds sitting in front of computers late at night coding for fun?
LS
Moderators, please mod the parent down. What does this have to do with testing the GPL? I thought SCO was suing for copyright infringment. Even if the GPL had been tested dozens of courts, if an open source project has privately copyrighted code, it is open to lawsuits. I'm not claiming that Linux has SCO code, only that this is not a test of the GPL.
LS
This really isn't that impressive at all. It only draws spheres, so its use is pretty limited. Also, the ZIP FILE is 2k, not the source. It expands quite a bit. Lastly, I did nearly the exact same thing for my LEVEL 1 graphics course in college. Raytracing spheres, even with shadows and reflection, is novice level stuff.
LS
Sorry, but is Ethereal a complex enough program to inspire a book? Sendmail, yes, but Ethereal? I figured it out within 5 minutes. Can someone enlighten me here on what I'm missing?
LS
Moderators, please reconsider the parent's insulting post.
Your logic is evidence that your are less civilized. The reason Americans run yellows is because the light stays red for perpendicular traffic until the yellow changes to red. The meanings of the lights is almost hardwired into people after using them for years, so if there were yellow lights at reds, then yes, Americans would probably run them. But if they were like this from the beginning, they would know what it means, and not run the yellow at red. I'm sure that if the light patterns changed in Europe, then they would be making mistakes as well.
LS
Use you're fricken noodle. Their heads aren't in the sand. They are in John.. eh, I mean, Bill Gate's crotch.
Moderators, please mark the parent as overrated.
You are claiming that the airwaves are public, so people can transmit if they want. Well, what if I feel like transmitting "no service" signals? Also, this is a bad analogy, as a person's mouth is not public.
Anyway, I don't think the cell-phone specific airwaves are public anyway - this portion of the frequency spectrum is sold by the government to private entities.
LS
Please call or e-mail Minnesota Public Radio, and let them know why you think an open format should be used for streaming content. Here's some reasons I can think of:
* It's pulbic radio, it's funded by taxpayers and supporters, so it's a public resource. All the content should be freely available using open standards
* Open standards like MP3 are supported by the most applications
* Open standards like MP3 are best supported across platforms
* Free software can be used to implement streaming
* They will support the good will of the technically astute in their audience, who are also a source of funding
* Any other good ideas? Here's the contact info, from their web site:
EMAIL
mail@mpr.org
TELEPHONE
General Inquiries: 651-290-1212 or 800-228-7123
An MPR Member/Listener Services associate will answer your call between 8:30 am and 5 pm CT Monday-Friday. Beyond those hours, you may leave a message and your call will be returned within two business days.
MPR Newsroom line: 651-290-1424
News releases may be faxed to the newsroom at 651-290-1295. News tips may be e-mailed to newsroom@mpr.org. E-mail addresses for individual reporters may be found on the newsroom look-up page.
Midmorning or Midday call-in shows: 651-227-6000 or 800-242-2828
We are not able to include emails to shows in progress. If you would like to leave comments for Midmorning, call 651-290-1171.
MAIL
MPR Member/Listener Services
45 East Seventh Street
Saint Paul, MN USA 55101
MEDIA INQUIRIES
Andrea Matthews, 651-290-1303 or amatthews@mpr.org
Suzanne Perry, 651-290-1276 or sperry@mpr.org
LS
There are problems with your implied statement that getting the real player is not so difficult:
1. You are a slashdot reader, not a typical user.
2. You know that there is a free version of the player, and were specfically looking for it.
All I know is that my 73 year old dad almost whipped out his credit card to watch a video someone sent him. Thankfully he called me first about it. Fuck Real.
LS
is Lesbian
Slashdot Moderation Anomalies
I have a question regarding moderation. The people who run slashdot keep tight control on discussion topics and policy criticism, so there is no general message board for asking this sort of question, which is why I ask here. In fact, I will probably get modded down because we are not supposed to question Slashdot's perfection. But I will ask anyway:
I had a post that had a starting score of 2, and got moderating to 5, with 70% Insightful and 30% Interesting. My karma is excellent. It was a post that could be read as damaging to Apple's marketing. All of a sudden, it went to a starting score of 1, 50% insightful, 20% Interesting, and 20% Overrated. I have a few questions. 1.) How does the starting score go down??? 2.) How can the percentage of moderation not add up to 100%? 3.) Is there some super-moderator censorship used by Slashdot when they don't like the content of the post?
[tin-foil hat] Could Apple have complained when they saw my post, considering that Slashdot is probably the biggest Apple hype-machine on the planet (besides Apple themselves), and might even get kickbacks?[/tin-foil hat]
Anyway, how could such anomalies occur?
LS
Hello All,
I have a question regarding moderation. The people who run slashdot keep tight control on discussion topics and policy criticism, so there is no general message board for asking this sort of question, which is why I ask here. In fact, I will probably get modded down because we are not supposed to question Slashdot's perfection. But I will ask anyway:
I had a post that had a starting score of 2, and got moderating to 5, with 70% Insightful and 30% Interesting. My karma is excellent. It was a post that could be read as damaging to Apple's marketing. All of a sudden, it went to a starting score of 1, 50% insightful, 20% Interesting, and 20% Overrated. I have a few questions. 1.) How does the starting score go down??? 2.) How can the percentage of moderation not add up to 100%? 3.) Is there some super-moderator censorship used by Slashdot when they don't like the content of the post?
[tin-foil hat] Could Apple have complained when they saw my post, considering that Slashdot is probably the biggest Apple hype-machine on the planet (besides Apple themselves), and might even get kickbacks?[/tin-foil hat]
Anyway, how could such anomalies occur?
LS
I never take the iPod out because I feel like an asshole for wearing the white headphones. I feel like I'm advertising for apple and showing off my expensive nerd toy. I've been planning to get new headphones, and this is another good reason to get a pair.
LS
Hmm, I think the line drawn between presentation and content is a fuzzy one, or at least drawn in the wrong place. If the "presentation" helps organize the "content" in a more understandable fashion, then perhaps the presentation actually contains content. I mean, are paragraphs, table of contents, indents and other things presentation or content? You could argue that they are presentation, but they're usually contained within the content.
Anyway, disregarding the previous paragraph, any graphic designer you speak to would disagree on the implied lowliness everyone here is attaching to presentation. All you nerdlingers know is 0s and 1s, but the whole world is much more than that. It's actually mostly presentation... Next time you're in bed with a chick, instead of fucking her, why don't you just say "insertpenis()", "while (time 30 seconds) { move penis in and out }", "ejaculate". It is about the content, and not the whole experience, right?
"This is a classic example of a writer who had an agenda first"
Whenever you make statements like this, please see how your assessment matches up with your own words.
"Thank God for Microsoft"