In most people's book power production occurs when mechanical energy (such as flowing water) is converted by into electrical energy.
Maybe Commander Taco has a miniature hamptser running inside his power supply but for the rest of us that conversion takes place far away at a power plant.
The topic of silent power production has been an important one to the computer community recently.
Yes, the topic of silent power production has been an important one to the computer community recently. Right alongside in-home cold fusion and perpetual motion machines. Oh wait, did you mean silent power conversion?
Prove it. Show some numbers that show what the amount of money would have been had nothing been released early. Oh... you can't. So we really don't know how much of a financial loss it really was.
I think you missed the point (again). Star Wars Episode I was also released online before its release in theaters. One can therefore conclude that whatever financial damage the early release of Episode I inflicted would be equal to that inflicted upon Episode III. The problem here however is that the studios are blaming early release pirates for Episode III's poor showing in comparison to that of Episode I!
There are obviously a few logical flaws here given that both releases indeed suffered from the same piracy issues. More likely the poor results of Episode III are due to the bad taste left on many a film-goers mouth after the first two movies. Of course that would involve admitting fault, and we all know Hollywood doesn't do that.
I think you missed the point. Piracy was in reality responsible for almost no financial loss for the makers of Episode III. They are just trying to foist the "relatively poor" results on piracy when in fact it was due to the bad reputation which episodes I and II gave the Star Wars name. Afterall, it's not as if people suddenly started pirating movies for the first time ever with the release of Episode III - It had been going on a long time before then.
In fact if I remember correctly Episode I was leaked online before it's official release in theaters.
Now why do special effects people make explosions make noise in a vacuum in sci-fi movies, shows, etc.
We KNOW better than that, well most of us anyway.
Because people like explosions - why not experience them in full sensory detail?
On another note I've heard rumours that there's an entire industry now based around the films where men have sex with women. There's one big catch though - the men depicted in these movies do this without buying the women extravagant gifts or even taking them to a fancy resteraunt!
We KNOW better than that, well those of us who have contact with women do anyway.
Yes, Microsoft has already beaten Apple and IBM at Operating Systems. Beaten Borland at Development Tools. Beaten WordPerfect at word-processing. Beaten Lotus at SpreadSheet Dominance. Totally eradicate them with MS-Office. Beaten Novell at Network OS. Currently dissolving Netscape and melting away Unix vendors. And on a war path to destroy Java. Planning to destroy the Database companies. Has plans to take over the Entertainment industry. The list goes on... the ultimate is of course... Gates will become Evil Emperor of the entire galaxy... oops... UNIVERSE. And Lord Ballmer will be appointed his lieutenant.
You're right. People don't realise this but IBM has more time and money in Java at this point than ANYONE - including Sun. They also have the most to win/lose on it. Just look at how many different IBM environments Java ships on now.
All of a sudden they see a common platform where there used to be competing systems. When some customer comes in and says "I need an e-business solution for problem X." The next question is no longer what legacy hardware they have, or which they want to buy into. Now the question is if they just want the parts to make their own solution or us to build one with our middleware products, the choice of AS/400 vs S/390 vs Netfinity vs RS/6000 will be made latter, at the time of deployment (where it belongs). Previously that would have foreshadowed the entire development, and bound it to one platform.
KDE gets in my way in all the same ways Windows does. This is a Bad Thing. This has nothing to do with what theme or wm I'm using in KDE, KDE just seems to be overly grandious about providing a freaking desktop environment. The KDE menu is also organized very bizarrely (for someone coming from straight-out AfterStep).
I've been using computers since I was 8, and I started on a VAX where my father was the sysadmin. I, of all people, should not be overwhelmed by KDE. Simplify it, folks! KDE is so baroque, it wouldn't surprise me if it pisses off Windows users, and you've seen what kind of interfacial abuse they subject themselves to.
There is very little I can't change in gnome in more than five mouse clicks.
However, one thing that tweaks me about both DEs, still, is that they go out and clone xterm. Uuh, why? And why make it as ugly and only slightly more useful than Windows Telnet? I realise that DE's are supposed to be most helpful for newbies, but *jeeze*, I have to wonder if anybody stopped for a moment and thought that maybe unleashing something as garish and stubborn as Windows Telnet on the Linux community isn't the right thing to do.
It's too bad that this new release of KDE won't address any of these problems.
I've never thought about any of those problems. I always thought being tall would just be nice (with the exception of buying cars in which case it would expensive!).
Now I'm a bit more satisfied with my height. I am surprised though that your equipment isn't any larger, you think that would scale up with the rest of your body?? Have you measured it to be sure. If you're just comparing it with the size of your leg that might be the problem. You need a proper control group.
You tell 'em short guy! Put those tall egomaniacs in their place.
Seriously though. You complain about other people giving meaningless anecdotes about short people being agressive. Then you go on to provide some isolated example of arrogant fools who just so happen to be tall. That doesn't prove any correlation.
Give it up, you can't have your cake and eat it to.
Linux united and on the desktop? Why? Why should I, a basic user with a home network, 2 children, 4 systems switch to Linux?
I have just upgraded 2 of the 4 systems with Dell 2400 systems which are nice systems for $299.99, include a printer, Windows XP and basic necessities and as soon as you uninstall Symantec Internet Security and replace with antivir/spybot/sygate, all FREE, becomes quite a very nice system.
So now tell me why I should move to Linux?
Openoffice?
I can get that FREE for Windows. Thanks but no thanks, and evidently I am not alone because let's face it, MSOffice cost a lot of money and one would think a free alternative would be extremely popular. The problem is Openoffice is NOT AN ALTERNATIVE. It is a wannabe that is slow, bloated (even more than MSOffice) and riddled with bugs and that is why it has not put MSOffice on the back burner.
Gimp?
I can get that FREE for Windows.
Thanks but no thanks because Adobe Photoshop that came with my scanner is much better due to an interface that is easy to use.
How about using my digital camera, a Polaroid. Sure it is recognized by Linux, AS A STORAGE DEVICE, which means everything I want to do takes 4 different programs and 10 steps rather than one simple "plug it in" which is all I do with Windows. My photo editor opens, my albums are right there, I can easily download and erase photos from the camera and so forth and it syncs perfectly.
Speaking of syncing, how does one sync my Motorola E815 phone with Outlook, Bitpim and other tools that allow mp3/video/pda/graphics uploads and downloads with Linux? Can't be done. Can't be done with LG phones either.
What about CD burning?
I work for a company that does video presentations and we must send out demos and one offs to our clients. We use Plextor drives because they include Plextools which allows us to graphically query the drives to see error counts, media problems and so forth BEFORE they end up un our clients hands.
Sorry, but this does not work with Linux.
Linux is a mess. It's great if you like figuring things out and marching backwards when everyone else is going forwards. It's great if you enjoy trying to unite fifty different projects all lead by egomaniacs who refuse to sacrifice any glory or control for the sake of everyone else.
So Sorry. No Linux for me, and it appears I am in the majority.
The real solution would be having our friendly CmdrTaco verify every packet as it's sent out. He could mark it using a really large abacus - that would be impossible to cheat.
Then when he's finished increase the dosage for his meds and shuffle him back into bed. This would of course have the dual benefit of avoiding most double posts, misleading headlines and spelling errors!
Actually scientists know exactly what's going on. More carbon dioxide is being released by decaying plant matter than is being taken up by growning plant matter because mankind has killed all of it!
I'll admit that scientists might not know everything, but at least they've proved beyond a doubt that sceptics like you are total bafoons.
Do you realize that United States consumers also suffer from increased lumber prices caused by those tariffs?
Instead of buying high quality cheap lumber it must be imported from Brazil and Africa which costs an arm and a leg. So Kanuck softwood clear cutters might be losing 5 billion - but American consumers are probably losing 10 through imported prices.
In other words: YOU should be paying US 5 billion you damn greedy Canadian.
BTW: Please smash your computer with a hockey puck so we don't have to deal with your retarded postings anymore.
For a bunch of beaurocrats to decide they want to overrule the (much needed) astronomy which underlies our calendar is absurd. Especially when they say things like Sailors "don't navigate with the stars any longer" because we have GPS. Sailors still know how to navigate by the stars, because if all else fails, that's a tried and true method.
Don't you get it? That's already what the beurocrats are doing you fucknut. Changing it to one hour every six hundred years would just make the interpolation a little less accurate.
It's not like we're even pretending to synch it perfectly anyway, otherwise we would be adding on a few nanoseconds every hour.
Get over your hatred of the government and start using your brain.
Sanctity =
1. Holiness of life or disposition; saintliness.
2. The quality or condition of being considered sacred; inviolability.
3. Something considered sacred.
MS product is neither Holy nor Sacred. It is capable of much Violation, Destruction and Harm, ergo your statement, while very child-like in nature ( probably some poor unconstituted 12yo inacapable of popping the own zits off his face, gets his momma to help him. Or some severely clouded homophobe that actually wants to get in the hindquarter so hard he can taste it) , is also severely "skewed" shall we say.
You're the perfect example of a Linux user, always taking the easy route and sitting on the sidelines being naysaying pundit while everyone else does the real work.
Bill Gates on the other hand has donated billions of dollars to curing third world hunger and AIDs through the Bill and Malinda Gates foundaton. In this sense he is continueing the work that *saints* such as Mother Thersa performed. Bill Gates, Microsoft and Windows form what could be considered a contemporary "Holy Trinity".
Windows therefore stands for all that is good while Linux stands against all of Humanity and American values. I'll admit that Windows has virus and stability problems, but we loyal Windows users need only hold out until Longhorn is released and all of these problems will be fixed.
I think all of you Slashdot numbnuts need to face facts: Linux is a dead end. All of these posthumous attempts at raising it from the dead by uniting everyone will fail... it doesn't matter how many dead corpses you pile together, they're still dead.
The future of Operating Environments will be Windows Longhorn. Microsoft will fix the remaining security problems and instability and Linux will have no selling point - we loyal Windows users just need to hold out until then.
Hey fucknut, not all of us are such spastic retards that we throw our discs left and right while foaming at the mouth like some fucking parkinson's patient.
I say give competent adults the best discs available and let dimwits like you have these kindergarten training diaper discs. Why reduce everyone to the lowest common denominator?
Oh shit what am I saying, an asshat like you probably still wears diapers.
WOW! You actually thought before posting, that's unusual for a Slashdot reader.
Yup, this system won't work because ADs are totally fucking ineffective at getting people to buy shit. For 1,000 viewers a company will pay $47 in the TV world - What would that mean for PC based spam payments?
$47 / 1,000 =.0047 Dollars per ad viewed 120 Ads per hour *.0047 = $.56
So our time is worth fifty six cents per hour to advertisers. Who the fuck is going to waste their time for that pittance?
These uneducated asshats need to learn some basic fucking math.
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In most people's book power production occurs when mechanical energy (such as flowing water) is converted by into electrical energy.
Maybe Commander Taco has a miniature hamptser running inside his power supply but for the rest of us that conversion takes place far away at a power plant.
The topic of silent power production has been an important one to the computer community recently.
Yes, the topic of silent power production has been an important one to the computer community recently. Right alongside in-home cold fusion and perpetual motion machines. Oh wait, did you mean silent power conversion?
I think you might be onto something.
Prove it. Show some numbers that show what the amount of money would have been had nothing been released early. Oh... you can't. So we really don't know how much of a financial loss it really was.
I think you missed the point (again). Star Wars Episode I was also released online before its release in theaters. One can therefore conclude that whatever financial damage the early release of Episode I inflicted would be equal to that inflicted upon Episode III. The problem here however is that the studios are blaming early release pirates for Episode III's poor showing in comparison to that of Episode I!
There are obviously a few logical flaws here given that both releases indeed suffered from the same piracy issues. More likely the poor results of Episode III are due to the bad taste left on many a film-goers mouth after the first two movies. Of course that would involve admitting fault, and we all know Hollywood doesn't do that.
In fact if I remember correctly Episode I was leaked online before it's official release in theaters.
We KNOW better than that, well most of us anyway.
Because people like explosions - why not experience them in full sensory detail?
On another note I've heard rumours that there's an entire industry now based around the films where men have sex with women. There's one big catch though - the men depicted in these movies do this without buying the women extravagant gifts or even taking them to a fancy resteraunt!
We KNOW better than that, well those of us who have contact with women do anyway.
... Most Slashdot readers don't need to venture further than their local female to reach space which they have "yet to explore."
I thought I already told you Kanuks to stop posting here...
... As long as Natalie Portman is the one obtaining the "sample." :-) :-)
Yes, Microsoft has already beaten Apple and IBM at Operating Systems.
Beaten Borland at Development Tools.
Beaten WordPerfect at word-processing.
Beaten Lotus at SpreadSheet Dominance.
Totally eradicate them with MS-Office.
Beaten Novell at Network OS.
Currently dissolving Netscape and melting away Unix vendors.
And on a war path to destroy Java.
Planning to destroy the Database companies.
Has plans to take over the Entertainment industry.
The list goes on... the ultimate is of course... Gates will become
Evil Emperor of the entire galaxy... oops... UNIVERSE.
And Lord Ballmer will be appointed his lieutenant.
You're right. People don't realise this but IBM has more time and money in Java at this point than ANYONE - including Sun. They also have the most to win/lose on it. Just look at how many different IBM environments Java ships on now.
All of a sudden they see a common platform where there used to be competing systems. When some customer comes in and says "I need an e-business solution for problem X." The next question is no longer what legacy hardware they have, or which they want to buy into. Now the question is if they just want the parts to make their own solution or us to build one with our middleware products, the choice of AS/400 vs S/390 vs Netfinity vs RS/6000 will be made latter, at the time of deployment (where it belongs). Previously that would have foreshadowed the entire development, and bound it to one platform.
Long live Java.
KDE gets in my way in all the same ways Windows does. This is a Bad
Thing. This has nothing to do with what theme or wm I'm using in KDE,
KDE just seems to be overly grandious about providing a freaking
desktop environment. The KDE menu is also organized very bizarrely
(for someone coming from straight-out AfterStep).
I've been using computers since I was 8, and I started on a VAX where
my father was the sysadmin. I, of all people, should not be
overwhelmed by KDE. Simplify it, folks! KDE is so baroque, it
wouldn't surprise me if it pisses off Windows users, and you've seen
what kind of interfacial abuse they subject themselves to.
There is very little I can't change in gnome in more than five
mouse clicks.
However, one thing that tweaks me about both DEs, still, is that they
go out and clone xterm. Uuh, why? And why make it as ugly and only
slightly more useful than Windows Telnet? I realise that DE's are
supposed to be most helpful for newbies, but *jeeze*, I have to wonder
if anybody stopped for a moment and thought that maybe unleashing
something as garish and stubborn as Windows Telnet on the Linux
community isn't the right thing to do.
It's too bad that this new release of KDE won't address any of these
problems.
I've never thought about any of those problems. I always thought being tall would just be nice (with the exception of buying cars in which case it would expensive!).
Now I'm a bit more satisfied with my height. I am surprised though that your equipment isn't any larger, you think that would scale up with the rest of your body?? Have you measured it to be sure. If you're just comparing it with the size of your leg that might be the problem. You need a proper control group.
You tell 'em short guy! Put those tall egomaniacs in their place.
Seriously though. You complain about other people giving meaningless anecdotes about short people being agressive. Then you go on to provide some isolated example of arrogant fools who just so happen to be tall. That doesn't prove any correlation.
Give it up, you can't have your cake and eat it to.
Linux united and on the desktop?
Why?
Why should I, a basic user with a home network, 2 children, 4 systems switch to Linux?
I have just upgraded 2 of the 4 systems with Dell 2400 systems which are nice systems for $299.99, include a printer, Windows XP and basic necessities and as soon as you uninstall Symantec Internet Security and replace with antivir/spybot/sygate, all FREE, becomes quite a very nice system.
So now tell me why I should move to Linux?
Openoffice?
I can get that FREE for Windows.
Thanks but no thanks, and evidently I am not alone because let's face it, MSOffice cost a lot of money and one would think a free alternative would be extremely popular. The problem is Openoffice is NOT AN ALTERNATIVE. It is a wannabe that is slow, bloated (even more than MSOffice) and riddled with bugs and that is why it has not put MSOffice on the back burner.
Gimp?
I can get that FREE for Windows.
Thanks but no thanks because Adobe Photoshop that came with my scanner is much better due to an interface that is easy to use.
How about using my digital camera, a Polaroid.
Sure it is recognized by Linux, AS A STORAGE DEVICE, which means everything I want to do takes 4 different programs and 10 steps rather
than one simple "plug it in" which is all I do with Windows. My photo editor opens, my albums are right there, I can easily download and erase photos from the camera and so forth and it syncs perfectly.
Speaking of syncing, how does one sync my Motorola E815 phone with Outlook, Bitpim and other tools that allow mp3/video/pda/graphics uploads and downloads with Linux?
Can't be done.
Can't be done with LG phones either.
What about CD burning?
I work for a company that does video presentations and we must send out demos and one offs to our clients. We use Plextor drives because they include Plextools which allows us to graphically query the drives to see error counts, media problems and so forth BEFORE they end up un our clients hands.
Sorry, but this does not work with Linux.
Linux is a mess.
It's great if you like figuring things out and marching backwards when everyone else is going forwards. It's great if you enjoy trying to unite fifty different projects all lead by egomaniacs who refuse to sacrifice any glory or control for the sake of everyone else.
So Sorry.
No Linux for me, and it appears I am in the majority.
The real solution would be having our friendly CmdrTaco verify every packet as it's sent out. He could mark it using a really large abacus - that would be impossible to cheat.
Then when he's finished increase the dosage for his meds and shuffle him back into bed. This would of course have the dual benefit of avoiding most double posts, misleading headlines and spelling errors!
Actually scientists know exactly what's going on. More carbon dioxide is being released by decaying plant matter than is being taken up by growning plant matter because mankind has killed all of it!
I'll admit that scientists might not know everything, but at least they've proved beyond a doubt that sceptics like you are total bafoons.
RETARDED CANADIAN ALERT - MAKE WAY!
Do you realize that United States consumers also suffer from increased lumber prices caused by those tariffs?
Instead of buying high quality cheap lumber it must be imported from Brazil and Africa which costs an arm and a leg. So Kanuck softwood clear cutters might be losing 5 billion - but American consumers are probably losing 10 through imported prices.
In other words: YOU should be paying US 5 billion you damn greedy Canadian.
BTW: Please smash your computer with a hockey puck so we don't have to deal with your retarded postings anymore.
For a bunch of beaurocrats to decide they want to overrule the (much needed) astronomy which underlies our calendar is absurd. Especially when they say things like Sailors "don't navigate with the stars any longer" because we have GPS. Sailors still know how to navigate by the stars, because if all else fails, that's a tried and true method.
Don't you get it? That's already what the beurocrats are doing you fucknut. Changing it to one hour every six hundred years would just make the interpolation a little less accurate.
It's not like we're even pretending to synch it perfectly anyway, otherwise we would be adding on a few nanoseconds every hour.
Get over your hatred of the government and start using your brain.
MS product is neither Holy nor Sacred. It is capable of much Violation, Destruction and Harm, ergo your statement, while very child-like in nature ( probably some poor unconstituted 12yo inacapable of popping the own zits off his face, gets his momma to help him. Or some severely clouded homophobe that actually wants to get in the hindquarter so hard he can taste it) , is also severely "skewed" shall we say.
You're the perfect example of a Linux user, always taking the easy route and sitting on the sidelines being naysaying pundit while everyone else does the real work.
Bill Gates on the other hand has donated billions of dollars to curing third world hunger and AIDs through the Bill and Malinda Gates foundaton. In this sense he is continueing the work that *saints* such as Mother Thersa performed. Bill Gates, Microsoft and Windows form what could be considered a contemporary "Holy Trinity".
Windows therefore stands for all that is good while Linux stands against all of Humanity and American values. I'll admit that Windows has virus and stability problems, but we loyal Windows users need only hold out until Longhorn is released and all of these problems will be fixed.
I think all of you Slashdot numbnuts need to face facts: Linux is a dead end. All of these posthumous attempts at raising it from the dead by uniting everyone will fail... it doesn't matter how many dead corpses you pile together, they're still dead.
The future of Operating Environments will be Windows Longhorn. Microsoft will fix the remaining security problems and instability and Linux will have no selling point - we loyal Windows users just need to hold out until then.
Hey fucknut, not all of us are such spastic retards that we throw our discs left and right while foaming at the mouth like some fucking parkinson's patient.
I say give competent adults the best discs available and let dimwits like you have these kindergarten training diaper discs. Why reduce everyone to the lowest common denominator?
Oh shit what am I saying, an asshat like you probably still wears diapers.
At least they don't have a sad, sad, little dick like you... oh wait, Bill Gates does. :D
nm, you've got a huge dick in comparison with that asshat.
ah, you're from Australia eh?
I'm surprised you managed to take your dick out of a Kangaroo's ass long enough to post on Slashdot.
I'll bet you've some Kangaroo DNA in you given the fact that you don't understand frivilous patents hurt us all you aboriginal asshat.
WOW! You actually thought before posting, that's unusual for a Slashdot reader.
.0047 Dollars per ad viewed .0047 = $.56
Yup, this system won't work because ADs are totally fucking ineffective at getting people to buy shit. For 1,000 viewers a company will pay $47 in the TV world - What would that mean for PC based spam payments?
$47 / 1,000 =
120 Ads per hour *
So our time is worth fifty six cents per hour to advertisers. Who the fuck is going to waste their time for that pittance?
These uneducated asshats need to learn some basic fucking math.