Slashdot editors are Americans. The people who are supposed to edit stories speak the American dialect. So what is your point exactly? That because there are people in the world for who English is not the first language it is okay for a person for who it is, to suck at it?
By that logic, a doctor doesn't have to know medicine since lots of people don't know medicine.
Beet sugar and cane sugar is just as cheap. It is just US subsidies (cost the US taxpayer money) and import duties (cost the consumer because they can't buy cheaper foreign stuff) make it more expensive.
And of course, the US could grow regular sugar itself.
But hey, the market will sort this out! That is what the liberaterians and republicans claim.
That 0.01% you pulled out of your ass like all good statistics, comes on TOP of the regular crashes.
So a Toyota driver has a change of a regular accident + a stuck pedal. On the whole, people tend not want to add to their odds of having an accident.
Although personally, I think the whole case smells. I find it a bit convenient that while their have been real problems in this area with several car makers, only Toyota (the car company that has been slaughtering US car makers) is constantly reported on. In the US...
But their are problems with x-by-wire systems. The Airbus that thought it was landing during a airshow in France is just one clear cut case. The problem isn't so much with the systems itself, it is that we tend to rely to much on it to the point that the systems become magic. A russian aircraft crashed because its auto-pilot was partially dis-engaged by a child in the cockpit. The pilots never got it, because the system was too automatic. Old russian systems simply made a sound when the auto-pilot was interrupted, the modern airbus did not. And people died.
Another case, airplane follows a radio beacon down to the runway. Turns out they got the wrong chart and the beacon has been moved. Airplane is landed on hilly terrain rather then tarmac.
Systems are only as good as the people that designed them and they don't know everything. If they did, the Mars rovers would have been fully autonomous.
With a recent train accident in Belgium it has now been suggested that the signal that should have told the driver to stop was disabled, by the magnetic field of another train. This is known to happen on the new Dutch highspeed railnetwork. A fortune invested, countless delays, endless safety checks and they only find out when it is finished that electric trains cause a magnetic field...
Take a look while you are driving. How many cars drive with broken parts? In this new system, will those parts also be broken? Someone driving with a missing collision detection laser? That won't work.
No, these systems can be made to work, but you need to be extremely critical during each step.
So if the Chinese don't care about the environment, why do they invest so much in solar panels?
And it is a bit rich coming from an American who consume far more then anyone else on this planet, to complain about another country. Americans complaining another country polutes. That is like the pot made of dark matter and boiling sulfu complaining the shiny new, mirror finished sun powered kettle is black.
China pollutes to be sure, but America does NOT have the moral upper hand here. It is like a rapist complaining that I didn't hold open the door for a woman.
The US banks are very efficient. They can have their cake and eat it too. Huge bonuses when they speculate wildly with the funds of customers. Then huge bonuses when they efficiently get a huge bail out.
From the banks point of view, this is efficiency.
It is very efficient that crocodiles get a healthy meal twice a year during the migration. Problem is that you are the buffalo being dragged to a watery death. Efficiency sucks when it happens to you.
I doubt you will be getting 8.99 per sessions if it lasts for 10 seconds and leave the paying customer humiliated. You will have to loose and complement him on his excellent skills.
Really, if being a whore was about getting great sex while being paid, more women would do it.
Netbook, 300 euro's new. Broke the screen. Official repair costs, 300 euro's. Did it myself by getting a screen from ebay for 30, 15 minutes labor. So that would be what 50 euro and you have kept a netbook alive for a 1-2 more years at least.
But I don't think just cutting taxes is going to do it. The whole repair sector is far to expensive. You would need laws that allow repair centers to operate near cost, not at "lets charge them so much that nobody is going to repair".
I know what 4chan is, and having seen its like many times before over the years have no intrest in visiting/b/
I didn't feel the need to behave like a 12yr old when I was 12, and still don't decades later. That you do is your problem. Don't try to make everyone else the same as you. That is another 12yr old boy thing. Everything must be exactly the same. Difference is evil. No thanks. No nerds visit/b/, they can't stand the rigid conformity of its visitors.
The scraping is true and happens in all species where the female has no concept of fidelity. You can also judge the fidelity of the female by the relative size of the male balls. The bigger, the more sperm he produces. NOT to fertilize the egg, but to flood out his rivals sperm and create a protective covering against further attempts.
There is no mandate to implement an emergency stop in a table saw. Maybe there should be, but there isn't. So it ain't the same.
Could you sue car-makers that did NOT introduce safety belts as soon as they became available?
Mind you, I am in two minds about this. A working safety feature exists, so why is it not implemented? This story has come up before, and while the guy who has the patent wants money I find it hard to sympathize with the poor power-tool companies who of course do NOT expect to be paid for the patents they own.
I think much like the seatbelt thing, this is a case of greed and not wanting devices to appear to be unsafe. Because maybe if you put on the box "can cut your finger off" people would just hire someone to do their DIY for them. Could ruin the entire industry.
Cut all the bull out and he wants to go back to homepages. Oh okay, so this homepage is in your home behind the router to your ISP and not on a server at your ISP, but that is what he is talking about.
And how would you index that? You can't. So you have freenet, the darknet version. A crypto nerds wetdream and unusable.
The problem is simple. How do I join a network from which I don't know anyone? How do I join your circle of friends, if I don't know any in the circle?
Darknet has that problem. Yes, you can exchange files but only with people you know from some other means. And then you exchange files only between that small number of nodes and no way is the secret world government that controls everything unable to just listen in on your connection that goes through your ISP who knows you address and see where the packets go. And that is not a problem even, because they can't look inside the package and that works in places like North-Korea and even China were the secret police is just going to give up if they can't read the package they don't want you to send unless they can open them and not just hit you until you confess.
Crypto nerds, they are like real nerds, but with the practical usage.
This idea of homepage servers, won't work. Facebook works because it allows you to find people that you lost contact with and even new friends.
And if he really wants to test it, go ahead. Try "Opera Unite". No need for a silly plug, your own site, right in your own browser.
Since Opera is the only commercial browser from the alternatives, it has the most to gain/lose by this battle.
Apple doesn't give a shit about Safari downloads and Google just wants people to use a modern browser, any browser as long as it isn't IE. And firefox, in europe which is the area we are talking about, is already pretty big. If FF doubled their downloads, there would be no more IE.
Okay, let me give you the reality of web development. You build it on firefox because it is simply the fucking best development browser. Then you give a brief test to Chrome/Opera, both of which have high quality dev environments as well (but firebug is just in a class of its own) and are typically fairly easy to debug. If you followed standards, then I rarely run into problems. Then, if you got a Mac, you test Safari. No problem there either usually.
And then, having spend 1% of you project time so far, you go to IE. IE6, IE7, IE8. All three are different.
And where real human beings upgrade their real browsers, the degenerates that use IE never ever upgrade but expect everything to work perfectly on decade old software.
Oh and guess which browser is the least likely to work EVEN if you follow its own "standards"? And then there are the version differences...
So no. Opera doesn't add any significant amount of testing. All of the 4 big other browsers (Firefox/Chrome/Safari/Opera) put together don't take a fraction of the time to debug that IE does.
Why do you think web developers celebrated when Google recently decided that IE6 was no longer going to be directly supported?
If Google were to put IE on a complete ban, then they could officially for ever change their motto to "do good".
How has private industry done so far with american healthcare? Cost more, gets less. Yup, that is a sign of success.
Oh and how has private industry been managing the economy?
It kinda amazes me that people with a healthcare system that is useless in the middle of a global recession all under the management of private industry, then dare to ask whether government can run things.
Imagine a discussion in North Korea: "Can private industry be expected to handle food production?"
Answer: "Who knows, but the question is silly when the current system is such an obvious mess".
Sometimes you got to take a chance. Do anything because when you are nose deep in shit, chances are anything is an improvement.
Can the government do a better job? It would be hard to imagine how they can screw it up even more.
How can China import high-tech goods if they are all produced in their own country? iPod's are NOT an import product for the Chinese. They are an import product from America.
"De spits" has a weekly column "typish amerikaans" which is dutch for "americans are silly and fat". (Oh okay, it means "typically american", but you know silly is implied and fat is just a given)
Today it was about the government of Hawaii getting sick of the constant requests for the birth certificate of Obama by nutters (aka republicans) who want to prove he wasn't born in the US and therefor can't be president. I say that since he seems to have half a brain and a waist, that already proves he is not a true American, but apparently they need more.
Would the denial of such a request be counted? So how many of these requests are legit to begin with?
A request for the documents about torture of foreign nationals is a bit different then wanting the files on the UFO's being kept at area 51.
Not that I think Obama is all that different from the previous guys. Governments all over the world are having a real problem with the increased demands of openness by its citizens. But I also know that figures like this can be very easily manipulated.
This can only lead to Futurama being canceled again. I swear they are just playing with our emotions!
I wonder how many episodes we will get now about the evils of file-sharing and even worse, free news sources from the lovely Fox network and its dark overlord.
On the whole, if you are trying to pursuade people that privacy is important, don't use examples like: "If you force me to have a license place on my car, then when I kill your child while I drunk drive for the 100th time, I can be caught and that would be a bad thing".
People might not be all that sympatethic.
Oh here is another one "I parked my car in front of a fire-hydrant and the firemen had to run around it, delaying them so you burned to death but they scrathed the paint, they should pay me for emotional trauma".
Learn to pick your cause. A guy who killed a child is NOT a cause for YRO. If you keep doing stuff like this, you only make yourself an easy target for ridicule.
Don't believe me? See how easily the deniers latched on to the "global warming" aspect of "global climate change" and then leap on any cold day as proof it is all a hoax.
Samething can happen to people who care about privacy "Oh look, another privacy nutter, who wants criminals to have free reign."
Show the voter why he should care about a dog DNA base. Frankly I doubt you can.
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Slashdot editors are Americans. The people who are supposed to edit stories speak the American dialect. So what is your point exactly? That because there are people in the world for who English is not the first language it is okay for a person for who it is, to suck at it?
By that logic, a doctor doesn't have to know medicine since lots of people don't know medicine.
Beet sugar and cane sugar is just as cheap. It is just US subsidies (cost the US taxpayer money) and import duties (cost the consumer because they can't buy cheaper foreign stuff) make it more expensive.
And of course, the US could grow regular sugar itself.
But hey, the market will sort this out! That is what the liberaterians and republicans claim.
That 0.01% you pulled out of your ass like all good statistics, comes on TOP of the regular crashes.
So a Toyota driver has a change of a regular accident + a stuck pedal. On the whole, people tend not want to add to their odds of having an accident.
Although personally, I think the whole case smells. I find it a bit convenient that while their have been real problems in this area with several car makers, only Toyota (the car company that has been slaughtering US car makers) is constantly reported on. In the US...
But their are problems with x-by-wire systems. The Airbus that thought it was landing during a airshow in France is just one clear cut case. The problem isn't so much with the systems itself, it is that we tend to rely to much on it to the point that the systems become magic. A russian aircraft crashed because its auto-pilot was partially dis-engaged by a child in the cockpit. The pilots never got it, because the system was too automatic. Old russian systems simply made a sound when the auto-pilot was interrupted, the modern airbus did not. And people died.
Another case, airplane follows a radio beacon down to the runway. Turns out they got the wrong chart and the beacon has been moved. Airplane is landed on hilly terrain rather then tarmac.
Systems are only as good as the people that designed them and they don't know everything. If they did, the Mars rovers would have been fully autonomous.
With a recent train accident in Belgium it has now been suggested that the signal that should have told the driver to stop was disabled, by the magnetic field of another train. This is known to happen on the new Dutch highspeed railnetwork. A fortune invested, countless delays, endless safety checks and they only find out when it is finished that electric trains cause a magnetic field...
Take a look while you are driving. How many cars drive with broken parts? In this new system, will those parts also be broken? Someone driving with a missing collision detection laser? That won't work.
No, these systems can be made to work, but you need to be extremely critical during each step.
The downside? No travel expenses.
So if the Chinese don't care about the environment, why do they invest so much in solar panels?
And it is a bit rich coming from an American who consume far more then anyone else on this planet, to complain about another country. Americans complaining another country polutes. That is like the pot made of dark matter and boiling sulfu complaining the shiny new, mirror finished sun powered kettle is black.
China pollutes to be sure, but America does NOT have the moral upper hand here. It is like a rapist complaining that I didn't hold open the door for a woman.
The US banks are very efficient. They can have their cake and eat it too. Huge bonuses when they speculate wildly with the funds of customers. Then huge bonuses when they efficiently get a huge bail out.
From the banks point of view, this is efficiency.
It is very efficient that crocodiles get a healthy meal twice a year during the migration. Problem is that you are the buffalo being dragged to a watery death. Efficiency sucks when it happens to you.
I doubt you will be getting 8.99 per sessions if it lasts for 10 seconds and leave the paying customer humiliated. You will have to loose and complement him on his excellent skills.
Really, if being a whore was about getting great sex while being paid, more women would do it.
Netbook, 300 euro's new. Broke the screen. Official repair costs, 300 euro's. Did it myself by getting a screen from ebay for 30, 15 minutes labor. So that would be what 50 euro and you have kept a netbook alive for a 1-2 more years at least.
But I don't think just cutting taxes is going to do it. The whole repair sector is far to expensive. You would need laws that allow repair centers to operate near cost, not at "lets charge them so much that nobody is going to repair".
Don't worry, EA has already thought this out.
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The ad for the demo of the demo. Just $1.99!
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Post fan posts discussing a potential new teaser for the ad for the demo of the demo. Just $0.10 a post!
You know you want it.
Yes sir, all relevant information to be published online.
With regards to "Yes Minister".
Not ones that go faster then the speed of sound. It ain't all that hard, it is in the bloody title.
But don't worry. The US still leads in idiots I see.
You can actually inherit paper books.
eBooks, over my dead body... what do you mean "okay"?
I know what 4chan is, and having seen its like many times before over the years have no intrest in visiting /b/
I didn't feel the need to behave like a 12yr old when I was 12, and still don't decades later. That you do is your problem. Don't try to make everyone else the same as you. That is another 12yr old boy thing. Everything must be exactly the same. Difference is evil. No thanks. No nerds visit /b/, they can't stand the rigid conformity of its visitors.
The scraping is true and happens in all species where the female has no concept of fidelity. You can also judge the fidelity of the female by the relative size of the male balls. The bigger, the more sperm he produces. NOT to fertilize the egg, but to flood out his rivals sperm and create a protective covering against further attempts.
Biology, messing with your preconceptions.
There is no mandate to implement an emergency stop in a table saw. Maybe there should be, but there isn't. So it ain't the same.
Could you sue car-makers that did NOT introduce safety belts as soon as they became available?
Mind you, I am in two minds about this. A working safety feature exists, so why is it not implemented? This story has come up before, and while the guy who has the patent wants money I find it hard to sympathize with the poor power-tool companies who of course do NOT expect to be paid for the patents they own.
I think much like the seatbelt thing, this is a case of greed and not wanting devices to appear to be unsafe. Because maybe if you put on the box "can cut your finger off" people would just hire someone to do their DIY for them. Could ruin the entire industry.
Cut all the bull out and he wants to go back to homepages. Oh okay, so this homepage is in your home behind the router to your ISP and not on a server at your ISP, but that is what he is talking about.
And how would you index that? You can't. So you have freenet, the darknet version. A crypto nerds wetdream and unusable.
The problem is simple. How do I join a network from which I don't know anyone? How do I join your circle of friends, if I don't know any in the circle?
Darknet has that problem. Yes, you can exchange files but only with people you know from some other means. And then you exchange files only between that small number of nodes and no way is the secret world government that controls everything unable to just listen in on your connection that goes through your ISP who knows you address and see where the packets go. And that is not a problem even, because they can't look inside the package and that works in places like North-Korea and even China were the secret police is just going to give up if they can't read the package they don't want you to send unless they can open them and not just hit you until you confess.
Crypto nerds, they are like real nerds, but with the practical usage.
This idea of homepage servers, won't work. Facebook works because it allows you to find people that you lost contact with and even new friends.
And if he really wants to test it, go ahead. Try "Opera Unite". No need for a silly plug, your own site, right in your own browser.
Since Opera is the only commercial browser from the alternatives, it has the most to gain/lose by this battle.
Apple doesn't give a shit about Safari downloads and Google just wants people to use a modern browser, any browser as long as it isn't IE. And firefox, in europe which is the area we are talking about, is already pretty big. If FF doubled their downloads, there would be no more IE.
Aaah... that is a nice thought.
Okay, let me give you the reality of web development. You build it on firefox because it is simply the fucking best development browser. Then you give a brief test to Chrome/Opera, both of which have high quality dev environments as well (but firebug is just in a class of its own) and are typically fairly easy to debug. If you followed standards, then I rarely run into problems. Then, if you got a Mac, you test Safari. No problem there either usually.
And then, having spend 1% of you project time so far, you go to IE. IE6, IE7, IE8. All three are different.
And where real human beings upgrade their real browsers, the degenerates that use IE never ever upgrade but expect everything to work perfectly on decade old software.
Oh and guess which browser is the least likely to work EVEN if you follow its own "standards"? And then there are the version differences...
So no. Opera doesn't add any significant amount of testing. All of the 4 big other browsers (Firefox/Chrome/Safari/Opera) put together don't take a fraction of the time to debug that IE does.
Why do you think web developers celebrated when Google recently decided that IE6 was no longer going to be directly supported?
If Google were to put IE on a complete ban, then they could officially for ever change their motto to "do good".
How has private industry done so far with american healthcare? Cost more, gets less. Yup, that is a sign of success.
Oh and how has private industry been managing the economy?
It kinda amazes me that people with a healthcare system that is useless in the middle of a global recession all under the management of private industry, then dare to ask whether government can run things.
Imagine a discussion in North Korea: "Can private industry be expected to handle food production?"
Answer: "Who knows, but the question is silly when the current system is such an obvious mess".
Sometimes you got to take a chance. Do anything because when you are nose deep in shit, chances are anything is an improvement.
Can the government do a better job? It would be hard to imagine how they can screw it up even more.
How can China import high-tech goods if they are all produced in their own country? iPod's are NOT an import product for the Chinese. They are an import product from America.
"De spits" has a weekly column "typish amerikaans" which is dutch for "americans are silly and fat". (Oh okay, it means "typically american", but you know silly is implied and fat is just a given)
Today it was about the government of Hawaii getting sick of the constant requests for the birth certificate of Obama by nutters (aka republicans) who want to prove he wasn't born in the US and therefor can't be president. I say that since he seems to have half a brain and a waist, that already proves he is not a true American, but apparently they need more.
Would the denial of such a request be counted? So how many of these requests are legit to begin with?
A request for the documents about torture of foreign nationals is a bit different then wanting the files on the UFO's being kept at area 51.
Not that I think Obama is all that different from the previous guys. Governments all over the world are having a real problem with the increased demands of openness by its citizens. But I also know that figures like this can be very easily manipulated.
This can only lead to Futurama being canceled again. I swear they are just playing with our emotions!
I wonder how many episodes we will get now about the evils of file-sharing and even worse, free news sources from the lovely Fox network and its dark overlord.
Note the nick.
On the whole, if you are trying to pursuade people that privacy is important, don't use examples like: "If you force me to have a license place on my car, then when I kill your child while I drunk drive for the 100th time, I can be caught and that would be a bad thing".
People might not be all that sympatethic.
Oh here is another one "I parked my car in front of a fire-hydrant and the firemen had to run around it, delaying them so you burned to death but they scrathed the paint, they should pay me for emotional trauma".
Learn to pick your cause. A guy who killed a child is NOT a cause for YRO. If you keep doing stuff like this, you only make yourself an easy target for ridicule.
Don't believe me? See how easily the deniers latched on to the "global warming" aspect of "global climate change" and then leap on any cold day as proof it is all a hoax.
Samething can happen to people who care about privacy "Oh look, another privacy nutter, who wants criminals to have free reign."
Show the voter why he should care about a dog DNA base. Frankly I doubt you can.
Now it can AND cannot has cheezburger at the same time!