Let's start with the meaning of Natty. Here in the States, Natty is short for Anheuser-Busch's bottom-shelf line of “Natural” beers. If you were ever a struggling student, there's a good chance you subsisted at one point on ramen and Natty Ice. Consequently, it has also come to mean cheap, trashy, or sub-par. How's that for a rough start?
And for that matter, what is a narwhal? I mean, look at that thing.
Apparently, Canonical's name for this release gets worse. The word narwhal dates back to Norse seafarers who explored the Arctic waters where this horned beast lives. Narwhal quite literally means “corpse whale” because its skin resembles a water-logged corpse. Oof. Ubuntu 11.04: Cheap, Drunk, Dead, and Bloated.
The technique of associating a product with negative images is an old one - it's called Poisoning the Well.
Apple may have been working on this functionality for iOS 5, when Hughes released his version, but that doesn't excuse the arrogant behavior. At the very least, they could have brought him in as a consultant or paid him for his efforts.
Even if you were correct, that age is the most important factor, then why is that the fault of nuclear power in general, and not the governments for a fire-and-forget attitude?
It's easier to dump nuclear power than get rid of corrupt and lazy regulators, arrogant and secretive companies and a huge cloud of deluded online denialists.
Can you backup this statement with any facts showing where US citizens have lost their freedoms
"The United States of America has an incarceration rate of 743 per 100,000 of national population (as of 2009), the highest in the world.[2] In comparison, Russia has the second highest 577 per 100,000"
Most of the malware now is either socially engineered
Standard Microsoft reputation management response to malware discussions.
The day Microsoft stops trying to deflect blame with this tired old furphy, and starts taking Human Factors science seriously, is the day Windows starts becoming secure.
The automated checkin system has been in place in Perth for a while and works smoothly enough for experienced travelers. The baggage scanner/conveyor kiosks do seem a bit temperamental, but if one doesn't work, I just move to the next.
Normally, if the RFID part fails, the barcode scanner in the top can pick up the code on the back of the tag, so I'd say the guys in the video might have had a better experience if they'd just put an "Out of Service" tag on the broken kiosk and moved to the next one.
The biggest problem I've seen is that there's not enough information telling people new to the system what to do. Qantas put a number of staff around the kiosks to help, but better signs and directions would have been much smarter.
Just because MS got a hold of it means its down the tubes just yet.
"Despite its promises that Skype would continue to be offered for other platform, including free ones like Linux and Android, it looks like Microsoft is starting to erect some walls after its purchase of the company.
The communications company Digium, which develops Skype for Asterisk, a software implementation of a PBX, has announced that it will be ceasing this development"
In a product notification message, Digium said it had developed Skype for Asterisk in co-operation with Skype.
"It includes proprietary software from Skype that allows Asterisk to join the Skype network as a native client. Skype has decided not to renew the agreement that permits us to package this proprietary software. Therefore Skype for Asterisk sales and activations will cease on July 26, 2011," the message said.
Online, shaping and throttling are something network companies do to customers. In meatspace, throttling is what customers want to to to network company executives.
'Engineers from the Tokyo Electric Power company (Tepco) entered the No.1 reactor at the end of last week for the first time and saw the top five feet or so of the core’s 13ft-long fuel rods had been exposed to the air and melted down.
Previously, Tepco believed that the core of the reactor was submerged in enough water to keep it stable and that only 55 per cent of the core had been damaged.
Now the company is worried that the molten pool of radioactive fuel may have burned a hole through the bottom of the containment vessel, causing water to leak.
“We will have to revise our plans,” said Junichi Matsumoto, a spokesman for Tepco. “We cannot deny the possibility that a hole in the pressure vessel caused water to leak”.'
AFAIK, all the "leaking radioactive material" stories are about the spent fuel pond(s) not the reactor cores.
Leaking?
"United States government engineers sent to help with the crisis in Japan are warning that the troubled nuclear plant there is facing a wide array of fresh threats that could persist indefinitely, and that in some cases are expected to increase as a result of the very measures being taken to keep the plant stable, according to a confidential assessment prepared by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission."
"The document also suggests that fragments or particles of nuclear fuel from spent fuel pools above the reactors were blown “up to one mile from the units,” and that pieces of highly radioactive material fell between two units and had to be “bulldozed over,” presumably to protect workers at the site. The ejection of nuclear material, which may have occurred during one of the earlier hydrogen explosions, may indicate more extensive damage to the extremely radioactive pools than previously disclosed." http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/asia/06nuclear.html?_r=2&hp
Shouldn't we wait for an actual report/finding before stating that?
This slow release of news is just salamitaktik to reduce public outcry. Tepco have known from the start that the reactors melted down and breached containment.
Of course, as usual with reputation engineering, it's only made things much worse. This was an international incident from the beginning, and resources from around the world should have been used to mitigate the damage.
Slashdot Mirror
ts a wise man who offers a solution.
C2H5OH in H2O is the solution.
What was the problem again?
Overall the article is objectively balanced
This is how it starts:
Let's start with the meaning of Natty. Here in the States, Natty is short for Anheuser-Busch's bottom-shelf line of “Natural” beers. If you were ever a struggling student, there's a good chance you subsisted at one point on ramen and Natty Ice. Consequently, it has also come to mean cheap, trashy, or sub-par. How's that for a rough start?
And for that matter, what is a narwhal? I mean, look at that thing.
Apparently, Canonical's name for this release gets worse. The word narwhal dates back to Norse seafarers who explored the Arctic waters where this horned beast lives. Narwhal quite literally means “corpse whale” because its skin resembles a water-logged corpse. Oof. Ubuntu 11.04: Cheap, Drunk, Dead, and Bloated.
The technique of associating a product with negative images is an old one - it's called Poisoning the Well.
This review is anything BUT balanced.
http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Health/20110610/23074734/Japanese-green-tea-contaminated-with-radioactive-cesium.htm
Just get out, have fun and make friends. That'll get you into their pants a lot more surely than trying to get in through their heads.
The state claims it impractical to release the original electronic versions of the e-mails
That's pretty good evidence of malfeasance all of it's own.
At least the journos now know there'll be a reason to collect and analyse all of those US Letter pages...
Apple may have been working on this functionality for iOS 5, when Hughes released his version, but that doesn't excuse the arrogant behavior. At the very least, they could have brought him in as a consultant or paid him for his efforts.
There are more Bing users than Silverlight developers!
Huh?
There are more WinPhone 7 users than Bing users!
Are you absolutely certain that a prerequisite of that humor isn't hatred of Apple or love of Microsoft?
It's more likely to be commercially motivated.
Though hanging the MS flag upside down was probably a Freudian slip...
duh
[Citation needed]
It's been that way for decades.
Even if you were correct, that age is the most important factor, then why is that the fault of nuclear power in general, and not the governments for a fire-and-forget attitude?
It's easier to dump nuclear power than get rid of corrupt and lazy regulators, arrogant and secretive companies and a huge cloud of deluded online denialists.
Nothing! Absolutely nothing!
Given the arrogant and secretive corporate culture of current nuclear power companies, nothing we'll ever hear about anyway.
Slashdot fanboys will still love them though.
Can you backup this statement with any facts showing where US citizens have lost their freedoms
"The United States of America has an incarceration rate of 743 per 100,000 of national population (as of 2009), the highest in the world.[2] In comparison, Russia has the second highest 577 per 100,000"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate
Most of that incarceration rate has resulted from citizens choosing to use a commonly available and relatively harmless herb for their own enjoyment.
Windows is as secure as any system out there.
Bullshit. Try infecting my Live Linux distro.
There's plenty more Microsoft should be doing. All you apologists are achieving is delaying the inevitable.
Most of the malware now is either socially engineered
Standard Microsoft reputation management response to malware discussions.
The day Microsoft stops trying to deflect blame with this tired old furphy, and starts taking Human Factors science seriously, is the day Windows starts becoming secure.
Normally, if the RFID part fails, the barcode scanner in the top can pick up the code on the back of the tag, so I'd say the guys in the video might have had a better experience if they'd just put an "Out of Service" tag on the broken kiosk and moved to the next one.
The biggest problem I've seen is that there's not enough information telling people new to the system what to do. Qantas put a number of staff around the kiosks to help, but better signs and directions would have been much smarter.
Just because MS got a hold of it means its down the tubes just yet.
"Despite its promises that Skype would continue to be offered for other platform, including free ones like Linux and Android, it looks like Microsoft is starting to erect some walls after its purchase of the company.
The communications company Digium, which develops Skype for Asterisk, a software implementation of a PBX, has announced that it will be ceasing this development"
In a product notification message, Digium said it had developed Skype for Asterisk in co-operation with Skype.
"It includes proprietary software from Skype that allows Asterisk to join the Skype network as a native client. Skype has decided not to renew the agreement that permits us to package this proprietary software. Therefore Skype for Asterisk sales and activations will cease on July 26, 2011," the message said.
http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/47366-development-of-skype-for-asterisk-to-cease
Is shaping the same as throttling?
Sort of.
Online, shaping and throttling are something network companies do to customers. In meatspace, throttling is what customers want to to to network company executives.
HTH.
That's for you to find out as soon as you have invented/created Adamantium.
You'll need to invent pretty quickly too.
How else will we be able to open all those graphene chip packets?
Your comment shows why programmers are forever doomed to be under appreciated,
Actually, it shows why software development shouldn't be called engineering (yet).
what do you mean "Windows"?
"Windows" is a computer operating system used by many people, most often without the owner's permission.
FTFY
I'd rather have a phone that has a software-swappable identifier that handshakes with the tower
I don't even want the tower...
http://www.servalproject.org/how-it-works
[reactors...] breached containment. [citation needed]
'Engineers from the Tokyo Electric Power company (Tepco) entered the No.1 reactor at the end of last week for the first time and saw the top five feet or so of the core’s 13ft-long fuel rods had been exposed to the air and melted down.
Previously, Tepco believed that the core of the reactor was submerged in enough water to keep it stable and that only 55 per cent of the core had been damaged.
Now the company is worried that the molten pool of radioactive fuel may have burned a hole through the bottom of the containment vessel, causing water to leak.
“We will have to revise our plans,” said Junichi Matsumoto, a spokesman for Tepco. “We cannot deny the possibility that a hole in the pressure vessel caused water to leak”.'
AFAIK, all the "leaking radioactive material" stories are about the spent fuel pond(s) not the reactor cores.
Leaking?
"United States government engineers sent to help with the crisis in Japan are warning that the troubled nuclear plant there is facing a wide array of fresh threats that could persist indefinitely, and that in some cases are expected to increase as a result of the very measures being taken to keep the plant stable, according to a confidential assessment prepared by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission."
"The document also suggests that fragments or particles of nuclear fuel from spent fuel pools above the reactors were blown “up to one mile from the units,” and that pieces of highly radioactive material fell between two units and had to be “bulldozed over,” presumably to protect workers at the site. The ejection of nuclear material, which may have occurred during one of the earlier hydrogen explosions, may indicate more extensive damage to the extremely radioactive pools than previously disclosed."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/asia/06nuclear.html?_r=2&hp
Shouldn't we wait for an actual report/finding before stating that?
This slow release of news is just salamitaktik to reduce public outcry. Tepco have known from the start that the reactors melted down and breached containment.
Of course, as usual with reputation engineering, it's only made things much worse. This was an international incident from the beginning, and resources from around the world should have been used to mitigate the damage.