I don't deny global warming, but what is being done about it is crazy.
Personally I think it's what's not being done about it that's crazy.
Back on topic: I agree that a rethink of personal transportation is required. I think it is more important to rethink the things that cause us to need or want cars. Living in a different town from one's workplace is rarely if ever required. The centralisation of services that widespread car ownership has permitted (think malls or retail parks) is amongst the myriad of reasons we feel we need cars. Research like this is useful and worth while, but as others have pointed out what's really needed is a more fundamental rethink. I'd like to see us reordering our societies and lives in such a way that we don't need cars.
I'm not a Trekkie, although I am a bit of a sci-fi buff. The Klingon homeworld is called Qo'noS. This is Slashdot, if we can't get this stuff right here then something is very wrong.
In Daggerfall I used to enjoy finding routes around town that minimised the time I spent on the ground. Why simply walk down the street when you can run along hedges or leap from rooftop to rooftop? Using magic would have been cheating of course.
I find Gnome's UI very difficult. I know this is personal preference but I'd hate for KDE to become more like Gnome, I'm only just getting used to KDE 4.2.
ie. Why is belly button fluff predominantly blue? I believe that the anatomical feature known as a 'navel' or 'belly button' is in actual fact a previously unrecognised organ that serves a vital role in the human body.
As we all know, blood is red. Indeed the red colour of blood is integral to the role it plays in the body. I propose that the belly button is actually a chromatic lung which is capable of absorbing redness from the environment into the blood and similarly expelling excess blueness in order to maintain a healthy balance. This may be the reason that environments containing excess blueness cause people to feel cold: the blood looses redness, in turn diminishing it's oxygen carrying capacity leading to an overall reduction in the metabolism that actually serves to lower body temperature.
Interestingly, there are reports that the navel fluff of aristocrats has a reddish hue, leading to speculation that they are in fact a distinct species. This has yet to be demonstrated under laboratory conditions and remains a controversial area of research.
Funnily enough I was going to mention Forth in favour of using a single language. It's very easy to write domain specific sub-languages in Forth, and you can easily switch between them or even use more than one at once. In this way it's possible to have the best of both worlds. It's a shame that in the real world things are a bit more complicated and Forth probably isn't the best choice in many instances.
Why not? You dismiss this out-of-hand, but you don't explain the reason for dismissing it.
I was expressing my opinion, perhaps I should have qualified my statement with 'It seems to me' or 'I think'. I am not a scientist, but google can point you to the same idea being promoted by people who are. Me, I'm just drawing on my own personal experience which can be dismissed as anecdotal.
While it's looking more and more like autism isn't caused by the MMR vaccine it does seem that something that is integral to our modern way of life does cause it. Before I saw Rain Man I had never heard of Autism, now I have an autistic son, my ex has another autistic son, one of my best childhood friends has an autistic son, my GF has a son with asperger's, and there are others I am aware of within my community. This can't be explained by increased diagnosis and I didn't meet any of these people as a result of the condition. There is something that has entered our environment within the past half century or so that is causing an alarming rise in the incidence of autistic spectrum disorders. I don't know what it is, perhaps it's the foam padding in our furniture, or household cleaners, or chlorinated water supplies, or TV, or microwaves, or food additives. Perhaps it is vaccines and the pharmaceutical corporations are covering it up. I simply don't know.
No, I'm making the assumption that the/. editors are capable of spotting "glaring grammatical errors" in user submissions. I see your fail and raise you a RTFC;)
"If I can take this to the next step, I think think it is going to be good for our country," Pederson said.
Quite apart from the fact the country isn't explicitly mentioned in TFA (I assume it's the USA), why would someone say this? Not good for humanity, or for the communications or IT industries, but good for a specific country? Strange.
There's more going on here than a simple drop in sales due to the current economic climate. The last desktop PC I bought (just over a year ago) was the last PC I will buy. There was a time when a computer was a thing that filled a room, then it filled a single rack, then a desktop box. We are (over)due for the next paradigm shift which will be to small mobile devices. My next computing device will be a Pandora, coupled with a head mounted display. Finally we will be free of the Wintel stranglehold that has been dominant for the past couple of decades.
I'll never buy anything from Apple again after the hassle I had getting my daughter's ipod working with linux. Compatibility problems I can understand, but paying good money for something with compatibility problems intentionally engineered in angers me. It's s**t like this that made me abandon Windows a decade ago, I'd much rather use something that's designed to work than something that's designed not to work if [insert limitation on freedom here].
[blockquote]Seriously, what kind of ASSHOLE CHAUVINISTIC PIG would say that the person alleged of sexual assault should it not be true would be WORSE off than the victim were it true?[/blockquote]
I knew someone who took his own life after being falsely accused of rape. He didn't seem to be to be particularly mentally fragile but he lived in a small community which turned against him and after a year or so he couldn't take any more. I think this is a rare example of what you are saying isn't true, and I don't consider myself an asshole, chauvinistic or a pig for saying it.
I am a native of the UK and am sickened by the idiotic apathy that is allowing our rulers to impose a police state on us. There was a time when the government's legitimacy was derived from the people, now the reverse is true.
The simple truth is that the majority of people have no interest in politics or Freedom, and they will support whatever the TV news tells them is a Good Thing. IMHO it's similar to the reason that Microsoft still has a monopoly on desktop operating systems, the majority just don't know any better. This is the single biggest failing of democracy, or at least of universal suffrage: our leaders are chosen on the basis of who is best at manipulating public perceptions. Western democracies can only operate in a benign way if the majority of the electorate is educated in political matters. Amongst people who are capable of independent political thought there is overwhelming opposition to the Orwellian state we now live in, but that only makes up a small proportion of the population. Please don't think I'm accusing the majority of stupidity, I can understand that many find politics boring and are much more interested in other things (soccer, celebrity gossip, stamp collecting, astronomy). This fact is being encouraged and exploited by those with a lust for money and power. All the major political parties in the UK have broadly similar ideas, anyone who takes a position outwith this orthodoxy is ridiculed and vilified as a dangerous extremist.
It's also worth noting that the UK has always has a totalitarian streak as my father discovered to his cost. When he was at university back in the 50s he was a member of the debating team. They were having a debate on politics and no one would speak for the communist point of view. My father although not a communist offered to play devil's advocate and speak for communism. A couple of decades later he applied for a (not particularly sensitive, he was a librarian) government job and despite being the best qualified candidate was unsuccessful. He was a personal friend of one of the interview panel members and asked why his application failed, he was told a security check had shown that he was a communist. Even back then there was a database tracking us all, it was just smaller and less well known.
I've a habit of making posts like this on/. and elsewhere, I'm a self-confessed anarcho-communist, as a result I'm probably flagged as some kind of radical malcontent on at least one database. The day isn't far off when I will have to stop making posts like this for the sake of my children's well being, I should probably have stopped years ago.
I agree, but that's assuming the argument will be a logical one. Perhaps the reason isn't the database, perhaps it's something else entirely. I can picture some talking head explaining to us as if we are children: "Say you have a basket of apples, it's easier to keep track of them if they are all in the one place. If I put one apple on the table, and one in my pocket, and one in the fruit bowl it's harder to keep track of them all. We take the responsibility of caring for your apples very seriously, and that's why we need to build a bigger basket." Propaganda and the manipulation of public perceptions have a logic all their own. Please note that I'm not claiming this is some kind of conspiracy, only that it looks suspicious to me.
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Personally I think it's what's not being done about it that's crazy.
Back on topic: I agree that a rethink of personal transportation is required. I think it is more important to rethink the things that cause us to need or want cars. Living in a different town from one's workplace is rarely if ever required. The centralisation of services that widespread car ownership has permitted (think malls or retail parks) is amongst the myriad of reasons we feel we need cars. Research like this is useful and worth while, but as others have pointed out what's really needed is a more fundamental rethink. I'd like to see us reordering our societies and lives in such a way that we don't need cars.
Agreed. In a dog-eat-dog world you eventually end up with one very fat dog.
http://www.tartanhen.co.uk/ebooks/ygg/title.htm
...For correcting my correction. I knew I should have paid more attention in Klingon class.
I'm not a Trekkie, although I am a bit of a sci-fi buff. The Klingon homeworld is called Qo'noS. This is Slashdot, if we can't get this stuff right here then something is very wrong.
It's more like spacequake. I've played both and TBH I much prefer Vendetta. Even is too much point-and-click for me. YMMV.
In Daggerfall I used to enjoy finding routes around town that minimised the time I spent on the ground. Why simply walk down the street when you can run along hedges or leap from rooftop to rooftop? Using magic would have been cheating of course.
Laser range finder, preferably in the visible spectrum. Not that I would buy it, I'm not a fan of Apple.
I find Gnome's UI very difficult. I know this is personal preference but I'd hate for KDE to become more like Gnome, I'm only just getting used to KDE 4.2.
ie. Why is belly button fluff predominantly blue? I believe that the anatomical feature known as a 'navel' or 'belly button' is in actual fact a previously unrecognised organ that serves a vital role in the human body.
As we all know, blood is red. Indeed the red colour of blood is integral to the role it plays in the body. I propose that the belly button is actually a chromatic lung which is capable of absorbing redness from the environment into the blood and similarly expelling excess blueness in order to maintain a healthy balance. This may be the reason that environments containing excess blueness cause people to feel cold: the blood looses redness, in turn diminishing it's oxygen carrying capacity leading to an overall reduction in the metabolism that actually serves to lower body temperature.
Interestingly, there are reports that the navel fluff of aristocrats has a reddish hue, leading to speculation that they are in fact a distinct species. This has yet to be demonstrated under laboratory conditions and remains a controversial area of research.
Funnily enough I was going to mention Forth in favour of using a single language. It's very easy to write domain specific sub-languages in Forth, and you can easily switch between them or even use more than one at once. In this way it's possible to have the best of both worlds. It's a shame that in the real world things are a bit more complicated and Forth probably isn't the best choice in many instances.
ePub? Is that like an internet cafe?
I was expressing my opinion, perhaps I should have qualified my statement with 'It seems to me' or 'I think'. I am not a scientist, but google can point you to the same idea being promoted by people who are. Me, I'm just drawing on my own personal experience which can be dismissed as anecdotal.
Phew, I was beginning to think it was me.
While it's looking more and more like autism isn't caused by the MMR vaccine it does seem that something that is integral to our modern way of life does cause it. Before I saw Rain Man I had never heard of Autism, now I have an autistic son, my ex has another autistic son, one of my best childhood friends has an autistic son, my GF has a son with asperger's, and there are others I am aware of within my community. This can't be explained by increased diagnosis and I didn't meet any of these people as a result of the condition. There is something that has entered our environment within the past half century or so that is causing an alarming rise in the incidence of autistic spectrum disorders. I don't know what it is, perhaps it's the foam padding in our furniture, or household cleaners, or chlorinated water supplies, or TV, or microwaves, or food additives. Perhaps it is vaccines and the pharmaceutical corporations are covering it up. I simply don't know.
No, I'm making the assumption that the /. editors are capable of spotting "glaring grammatical errors" in user submissions. I see your fail and raise you a RTFC ;)
Please edit submissions that contain glaring grammatical errors.
From TFA:
Quite apart from the fact the country isn't explicitly mentioned in TFA (I assume it's the USA), why would someone say this? Not good for humanity, or for the communications or IT industries, but good for a specific country? Strange.
Just look at the guy doing their IT. "Sometimes I just switch it off and on again, heh heh." Sounds like Windows to me.
There's more going on here than a simple drop in sales due to the current economic climate. The last desktop PC I bought (just over a year ago) was the last PC I will buy. There was a time when a computer was a thing that filled a room, then it filled a single rack, then a desktop box. We are (over)due for the next paradigm shift which will be to small mobile devices. My next computing device will be a Pandora, coupled with a head mounted display. Finally we will be free of the Wintel stranglehold that has been dominant for the past couple of decades.
School is as much about teaching our kids to obey and conform as it is about teaching our kids how to read and write.
Not in this case. The song database on recent ipods is encrypted to prevent 3rd party apps from interfacing with them.
I'll never buy anything from Apple again after the hassle I had getting my daughter's ipod working with linux. Compatibility problems I can understand, but paying good money for something with compatibility problems intentionally engineered in angers me. It's s**t like this that made me abandon Windows a decade ago, I'd much rather use something that's designed to work than something that's designed not to work if [insert limitation on freedom here].
[blockquote]Seriously, what kind of ASSHOLE CHAUVINISTIC PIG would say that the person alleged of sexual assault should it not be true would be WORSE off than the victim were it true?[/blockquote] I knew someone who took his own life after being falsely accused of rape. He didn't seem to be to be particularly mentally fragile but he lived in a small community which turned against him and after a year or so he couldn't take any more. I think this is a rare example of what you are saying isn't true, and I don't consider myself an asshole, chauvinistic or a pig for saying it.
I am a native of the UK and am sickened by the idiotic apathy that is allowing our rulers to impose a police state on us. There was a time when the government's legitimacy was derived from the people, now the reverse is true.
The simple truth is that the majority of people have no interest in politics or Freedom, and they will support whatever the TV news tells them is a Good Thing. IMHO it's similar to the reason that Microsoft still has a monopoly on desktop operating systems, the majority just don't know any better. This is the single biggest failing of democracy, or at least of universal suffrage: our leaders are chosen on the basis of who is best at manipulating public perceptions. Western democracies can only operate in a benign way if the majority of the electorate is educated in political matters. Amongst people who are capable of independent political thought there is overwhelming opposition to the Orwellian state we now live in, but that only makes up a small proportion of the population. Please don't think I'm accusing the majority of stupidity, I can understand that many find politics boring and are much more interested in other things (soccer, celebrity gossip, stamp collecting, astronomy). This fact is being encouraged and exploited by those with a lust for money and power. All the major political parties in the UK have broadly similar ideas, anyone who takes a position outwith this orthodoxy is ridiculed and vilified as a dangerous extremist.
It's also worth noting that the UK has always has a totalitarian streak as my father discovered to his cost. When he was at university back in the 50s he was a member of the debating team. They were having a debate on politics and no one would speak for the communist point of view. My father although not a communist offered to play devil's advocate and speak for communism. A couple of decades later he applied for a (not particularly sensitive, he was a librarian) government job and despite being the best qualified candidate was unsuccessful. He was a personal friend of one of the interview panel members and asked why his application failed, he was told a security check had shown that he was a communist. Even back then there was a database tracking us all, it was just smaller and less well known.
I've a habit of making posts like this on /. and elsewhere, I'm a self-confessed anarcho-communist, as a result I'm probably flagged as some kind of radical malcontent on at least one database. The day isn't far off when I will have to stop making posts like this for the sake of my children's well being, I should probably have stopped years ago.
I agree, but that's assuming the argument will be a logical one. Perhaps the reason isn't the database, perhaps it's something else entirely. I can picture some talking head explaining to us as if we are children: "Say you have a basket of apples, it's easier to keep track of them if they are all in the one place. If I put one apple on the table, and one in my pocket, and one in the fruit bowl it's harder to keep track of them all. We take the responsibility of caring for your apples very seriously, and that's why we need to build a bigger basket." Propaganda and the manipulation of public perceptions have a logic all their own. Please note that I'm not claiming this is some kind of conspiracy, only that it looks suspicious to me.