The people I know who often point out typos and grammatical errors are high-functioning autists or suffer from Asperger's syndrome.
The geek plays the autism-Asperger's card so often that I would to see how his estimates of the numbers compare to those of actual, documented, clinical diagnoses.
It's a sham, it's a joke, it's a complete fabrication, it's utter bullshit, and it means NOTHING.
It means plenty when you look at the adoption rates for OSX and Linux as a client OS.
Valve is as big and Linux-friendly a presence in the PC gaming market as you will find on the planet. But 96% of Steam gamers run Windows. 34% have upgraded to 64 bit Windows 10. Only 1% run any flavor of Linux. 0.4% Ubuntu. 0.1% Mint. Steam Hardware & Software Survey: February 2016
Street crime in Florida dropped precipitously immediately following that state's concealed carry law allowing non-criminals to be armed. It wasn't because all the criminals suddenly went back to school and got really caught up in their French Literature studies.
Florida's cities don't have the best track record when it comes to crime. Last year, we got a lot of attention when we had 11 cities on NeighborhoodScout's list of the 100 most dangerous, more than any other state. This year, we have 11 cities on the list again.
It's an old joke, and not unique to the South. But the surest way to end street crime would be lock up every unmarried male between the ages of 18 and 25.
Which is pretty much the expected outcome when looking down the barrel of a Police Special, no matter which side of the law is holding the gun.
The tricked-up one or two-shot pocket pistol has been around forever. You are down to Custard's Last Stand, your back to the wall, you'll be damn lucky to get a clean shot off and the story ends just as you would expect.
...have some fucking clue about how the internet works.
Tech is not magic.
The Internet is not a machine that drives itself. Untouched by political forces, laws, treaties, contracts, and so on.
If the will can be found to change the rules that define how the Internet works, the Internet will change. The geek will have a voice in these decisions, but he will not have the final say. It wouldn't be the first time the technocrat saw power slip through his fingers.
The low end model has a crappy i5, and the high end only gets you an i7, and the video resolutions are barely adequate for displays half (or a quarter) their size. You can get a 4k monitor (aka a TV) for a tenth the price, and better computers for half the price
You can buy a Vizio UHD at Walmart for $600.
You can also pay $16,000 for a 31" field-use rated studio production monitor from Panasonic.
Which is what you need when your second-unit director has 120 people waiting to hear whether he made the shot.
An illegal and secret cartel of Firestone, Standard Oil and Ford bought many street car systems and shut them down.
Short and sweet, most streetcar lines in the states were all but bankrupt before World War 1.
It cost about a penny a mile to keep a Model T Ford on the road. Portal to portal with wife, kids, dog and cargo, at a time when a streetcar ticket cost 5 cents.
The move to the suburbs began to look a lot more practical. The streetcar in heavy traffic or bad weather not safe or easy to board, particularly for a woman, dressed as most were in those days. The electric starter put a lot of women behind the wheel.
You can route a bus over anything that vaguely resembles a road. You don't have to build tracks or overheads.
"We know electric vehicles cost much and many people are poor, but we will pass laws to make them be rich"
The people's car doesn't have to be a Tesla --- it only has to be affordable.
Henry Ford didn't begin with a luxury car, he began with basic transportation and branched out from there. It is a strategy that works even when your up-market competitors have deep pockets and technical sophistication.
Which widely available, free or low-cost photo editors, will support these plug-ins with a minimum of hassle? I am thinking of programs like Paint.NET, Paint Shop Pro.
May be I'm just getting old but I cannot wrap my head around these kinds of deals. Paying 100M for bullshit like that, when I can enumerate dozens of startups with amazing technology and real innovations in cloud, back-end services, automation, platform, security, etc, that can barely get a couple of millions to continue their development.
Snapchat gets about 6 billion video views a day.
I am sure your back-room tech is interesting, but numbers like this are a real attention-grabber.
I mean, no-one has ever faked ID. Or paid a kid $20 to go buy a couple of phones.
That still gets you to the Point of Sale. Time and date of purchase. It may get you video of the buyer, copies of the fake ID, and so on. Do you still want to be the kid who fronts for the buyer of a burner phone? I can't say I like the odds.
One of the core tasks of a K-12 education is teaching kids how to communicate effectively --- through the spoken word, written word, gestures and so on. That is why some schools do care about things like art, music, dance and theater.
Emoji may seem alien to the geek, but if he truly believes the world is flat, he has little cause for complaint when outside influences begin creeping in and see adoption by the masses. ASCII art and the emoticon was his thing, the emoji belong to everyone else.
Which means that issues of race, sex, politics, culture and religion can no longer be swept under the rug.
The etiquette of using the telephone was taught by grade schools for generations. The telephone gave you the immediacy of verbal communication without the visual clues that you were headed in the wrong direction.
Establishing a public radio station" (or even a "public newspaper") is not an enumerated power of the federal government under the constitution. Neither NPR nor any other medium or art should be subsidized at the taxpayer expense.
Any sensible reading of the Constitution makes it perfectly clear that it is primarily about the structure of the government. Checks and Balances. You can, of course, list the "enumerated powers" of the federal government in a grade school primer sort of way. But there is hell of lot of room for interpretation and always has been.
The geek will whine on endlessly about the corporate domination of popular culture, for which he has an insatiable appetite, but you need more than a copy of Blender to be taken seriously as a counterweight to Disney. That is why other countries make serious, sustained, commitments to public funding for the arts.
They were ultimately forced to break it up into Chevron etc. but you ought to know about that since its ancient history right?
Well, yes and no.
Standard Oil was replaced by its regional operating companies.
But Rockefeller retained ownership of 25% of the shares in the regionals --- which prospered mightily. The small independents faded from view and while the Standards had to share a slice of the pie with Texas Oil and others, Big Oil was well on its way to becoming even Bigger Oil.
Consideringit was Standard Oil who equipped the Nazi war machine with their ability to turn coal into oil... yeah.
The geek takes hold of a meme and can't let it go.
Direct conversion of coal to synthetic fuel was originally developed in Germany. The Bergius process was developed by Friedrich Bergius, yielding a patent in 1913. After World War I several plants were built in Germany; these plants were extensively used during World War II to supply Germany with fuel and lubricants.
Indirect coal conversion (where coal is gasified and then converted to synthetic fuels) was developed in Germany by Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch in 1923.
During World War II, Germany used synthetic oil manufacturing to produce substitute (Ersatz) oil products by using the Bergius process (from coal), the Fischer --- Tropsch process (water gas), and other methods.
The US Bureau of Mines first studied the extraction of oil from oil shale between 1925 and 1928.
Between 1928 and 1944, the Bureau experimented with coal liquefaction by hydrogenation using the Bergius process. A small-scale test unit constructed in 1937 had a 100-pound per day continuous coal feed.
Between 1945 and 1948, new laboratories were constructed near Pittsburgh. A synthetic ammonia plant Louisiana, Missouri (Missouri Ordnance Works) was transferred from the Army to the program in 1945. The plant was converted into a coal hydrogenation test facility. By 1949 the plant could produce 200 barrels (32 m3) of oil a day using the Bergius process.
Part of the personnel were German scientists, who had been extracted from Germany by Operation Paperclip.
John D. Rockefeller would probably make ExxonMobil look like a Green Party front organization if he was still alive.
They called it Standard Oil because its products were safe and predictable in use and sold in honest weights and measures --- at a time when it was not at all unusual to be widowed by the explosion of a kerosene lantern. Look at pictures of a Standard Oil refinery and what you see is a recognizably modern chemical plant and a vast improvement over what came before.
The reformer may have blasted the old man night and day for his ruthless consolidation of the industry, but when it came time to tank up he went to the Standard dealer like everyone else.
My understanding is that Red Hat is strong enough that the company was able to force systemd on the Linux community, and did that because the unfinished, poorly documented systemd brings in more money for Red Hat support.
Then systemd should also be bringing in more money for those supporting Debian, SUSE, Ubuntu, etc., etc. The saner argument for REHLs success is that support costs are lower, not higher.
Meanwhile "the poor backwards Angolans" have said "what, you think we're idiots? Screw you, we want movies, porn, music, and picture's of Nicki Minaj's ass (apparently), just like everyone else on the interwebs."
I see this as flipping the bird to the patronizing attempts to give them a tiny bit of the internet and expect them to be all "thank you boss" about it. I think this is hilarious, and I applaud them for doing it.
Will the geek still be applauding when Wikimedia pulls out because it can't afford to provide Angola with a free porn fix? No encyclopedia? No free textbooks or other educational resources that might actually make a difference?
Some hardware upgrades are easy and affordable, others not so much. My desktop, as Steam's VR performance test put it so charitably, is "GPU bound." Which also means "PSU bound," problems not so easily solved with this board and case.
---- and there are four billion video views on YouTube a day. 130 Amazing YouTube Statistics The stakes for both the rights holders and Google are high and there is no getting around that.
The music you posted may be based on public domain sources but the arrangement you used was not. The arrangement you used may have been in the public domain but the performance was not. The point being that the worst that can happen is that your post will be taken down.
You aren't looking at the expense or legal exposure in hosting the video on your own site.
The geek isn't realistic about the amount of personalized service he can expect from a site the size of YouTube.
Yes, it's always going to be easier for the big boys like Disney --- who can deliver page views in the hundreds of millions --- and some of whom have been around since the heyday of the nickelodeon, the player piano and the Edison wax cylinder. Experience counts when you are dealing with something as treacherous as performance rights.
Using paper money, backed by nothing, certainly requires a financial system.
The gold bar at Fort Knox weighs about thirty pounds. Even in more manageable form, coin or bullion isn't practical for anything but the simplest of transactions. You need vaults, you need guards and armored couriers. You need standards of weight and measure.
You need stability --- which means at the very least that someone has to regulate the amount of gold in circulation.
The 1869 Black Friday financial panic in the United States was caused by the efforts of Jay Gould and James Fisk to corner the gold market on the New York Gold Exchange. It was one of several scandals that rocked the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. When the government gold hit the market, the premium plummeted within minutes and many investors were ruined. Fisk and Gould escaped significant financial harm.
Payroll robberies" were a thriving industry when I started my working life in the 70's, electronic transfers have eliminated that risk and reduced insurance premiums, so good luck finding an employer who pays your wage in cash rather than direct deposit into your bank account.
James Cagney's "White Heat" begins with a train robbery of all things and ends in a botched payroll robbery. Even in 1949, Cody Jarrett was an anachronism, a dead man walking.
Slashdot Mirror
The people I know who often point out typos and grammatical errors are high-functioning autists or suffer from Asperger's syndrome.
The geek plays the autism-Asperger's card so often that I would to see how his estimates of the numbers compare to those of actual, documented, clinical diagnoses.
It's a sham, it's a joke, it's a complete fabrication, it's utter bullshit, and it means NOTHING.
It means plenty when you look at the adoption rates for OSX and Linux as a client OS.
Valve is as big and Linux-friendly a presence in the PC gaming market as you will find on the planet. But 96% of Steam gamers run Windows. 34% have upgraded to 64 bit Windows 10. Only 1% run any flavor of Linux. 0.4% Ubuntu. 0.1% Mint. Steam Hardware & Software Survey: February 2016
Street crime in Florida dropped precipitously immediately following that state's concealed carry law allowing non-criminals to be armed. It wasn't because all the criminals suddenly went back to school and got really caught up in their French Literature studies.
Florida's cities don't have the best track record when it comes to crime. Last year, we got a lot of attention when we had 11 cities on NeighborhoodScout's list of the 100 most dangerous, more than any other state. This year, we have 11 cities on the list again.
Here Are The 10 Most Dangerous Towns In Florida To Live In [August 07, 2015]
It's an old joke, and not unique to the South. But the surest way to end street crime would be lock up every unmarried male between the ages of 18 and 25.
So if I reach for my cellphone, I'm dead.
Which is pretty much the expected outcome when looking down the barrel of a Police Special, no matter which side of the law is holding the gun.
The tricked-up one or two-shot pocket pistol has been around forever. You are down to Custard's Last Stand, your back to the wall, you'll be damn lucky to get a clean shot off and the story ends just as you would expect.
...have some fucking clue about how the internet works.
Tech is not magic.
The Internet is not a machine that drives itself. Untouched by political forces, laws, treaties, contracts, and so on.
If the will can be found to change the rules that define how the Internet works, the Internet will change. The geek will have a voice in these decisions, but he will not have the final say. It wouldn't be the first time the technocrat saw power slip through his fingers.
The low end model has a crappy i5, and the high end only gets you an i7, and the video resolutions are barely adequate for displays half (or a quarter) their size. You can get a 4k monitor (aka a TV) for a tenth the price, and better computers for half the price
You can buy a Vizio UHD at Walmart for $600.
You can also pay $16,000 for a 31" field-use rated studio production monitor from Panasonic.
Which is what you need when your second-unit director has 120 people waiting to hear whether he made the shot.
An illegal and secret cartel of Firestone, Standard Oil and Ford bought many street car systems and shut them down.
Short and sweet, most streetcar lines in the states were all but bankrupt before World War 1.
It cost about a penny a mile to keep a Model T Ford on the road. Portal to portal with wife, kids, dog and cargo, at a time when a streetcar ticket cost 5 cents.
The move to the suburbs began to look a lot more practical. The streetcar in heavy traffic or bad weather not safe or easy to board, particularly for a woman, dressed as most were in those days. The electric starter put a lot of women behind the wheel.
You can route a bus over anything that vaguely resembles a road. You don't have to build tracks or overheads.
I thought this was supposed to be a tech news site....
It's "news for nerds," kid. That means the site is open to any story that a poster thinks might be interesting to its readers.
Cry me a river.
Steam is as Linux-friendly a distributor you'll find anywhere. But this is the reality of PC gaming on Steam:
96% of Steam gamers run Windows. 34% 64 Bit Win 10. 3% OSX. 1% Linux. 0.4% Ubuntu. 0.1% Mint. Steam Hardware & Software Survey: February 2016
"We know electric vehicles cost much and many people are poor, but we will pass laws to make them be rich"
The people's car doesn't have to be a Tesla --- it only has to be affordable.
Henry Ford didn't begin with a luxury car, he began with basic transportation and branched out from there. It is a strategy that works even when your up-market competitors have deep pockets and technical sophistication.
Which widely available, free or low-cost photo editors, will support these plug-ins with a minimum of hassle? I am thinking of programs like Paint.NET, Paint Shop Pro.
May be I'm just getting old but I cannot wrap my head around these kinds of deals. Paying 100M for bullshit like that, when I can enumerate dozens of startups with amazing technology and real innovations in cloud, back-end services, automation, platform, security, etc, that can barely get a couple of millions to continue their development.
Snapchat gets about 6 billion video views a day.
I am sure your back-room tech is interesting, but numbers like this are a real attention-grabber.
I mean, no-one has ever faked ID. Or paid a kid $20 to go buy a couple of phones.
That still gets you to the Point of Sale. Time and date of purchase. It may get you video of the buyer, copies of the fake ID, and so on. Do you still want to be the kid who fronts for the buyer of a burner phone? I can't say I like the odds.
One of the core tasks of a K-12 education is teaching kids how to communicate effectively --- through the spoken word, written word, gestures and so on. That is why some schools do care about things like art, music, dance and theater.
Emoji may seem alien to the geek, but if he truly believes the world is flat, he has little cause for complaint when outside influences begin creeping in and see adoption by the masses. ASCII art and the emoticon was his thing, the emoji belong to everyone else.
Which means that issues of race, sex, politics, culture and religion can no longer be swept under the rug.
The etiquette of using the telephone was taught by grade schools for generations. The telephone gave you the immediacy of verbal communication without the visual clues that you were headed in the wrong direction.
Establishing a public radio station" (or even a "public newspaper") is not an enumerated power of the federal government under the constitution. Neither NPR nor any other medium or art should be subsidized at the taxpayer expense.
Any sensible reading of the Constitution makes it perfectly clear that it is primarily about the structure of the government. Checks and Balances. You can, of course, list the "enumerated powers" of the federal government in a grade school primer sort of way. But there is hell of lot of room for interpretation and always has been.
The geek will whine on endlessly about the corporate domination of popular culture, for which he has an insatiable appetite, but you need more than a copy of Blender to be taken seriously as a counterweight to Disney. That is why other countries make serious, sustained, commitments to public funding for the arts.
They were ultimately forced to break it up into Chevron etc. but you ought to know about that since its ancient history right?
Well, yes and no.
Standard Oil was replaced by its regional operating companies.
But Rockefeller retained ownership of 25% of the shares in the regionals --- which prospered mightily. The small independents faded from view and while the Standards had to share a slice of the pie with Texas Oil and others, Big Oil was well on its way to becoming even Bigger Oil.
Consideringit was Standard Oil who equipped the Nazi war machine with their ability to turn coal into oil... yeah.
The geek takes hold of a meme and can't let it go.
Direct conversion of coal to synthetic fuel was originally developed in Germany. The Bergius process was developed by Friedrich Bergius, yielding a patent in 1913. After World War I several plants were built in Germany; these plants were extensively used during World War II to supply Germany with fuel and lubricants.
Indirect coal conversion (where coal is gasified and then converted to synthetic fuels) was developed in Germany by Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch in 1923.
During World War II, Germany used synthetic oil manufacturing to produce substitute (Ersatz) oil products by using the Bergius process (from coal), the Fischer --- Tropsch process (water gas), and other methods.
Synthetic fuel
The US Bureau of Mines first studied the extraction of oil from oil shale between 1925 and 1928.
Between 1928 and 1944, the Bureau experimented with coal liquefaction by hydrogenation using the Bergius process. A small-scale test unit constructed in 1937 had a 100-pound per day continuous coal feed.
Between 1945 and 1948, new laboratories were constructed near Pittsburgh. A synthetic ammonia plant Louisiana, Missouri (Missouri Ordnance Works) was transferred from the Army to the program in 1945. The plant was converted into a coal hydrogenation test facility. By 1949 the plant could produce 200 barrels (32 m3) of oil a day using the Bergius process.
Part of the personnel were German scientists, who had been extracted from Germany by Operation Paperclip.
Synthetic Liquid Fuels Program
John D. Rockefeller would probably make ExxonMobil look like a Green Party front organization if he was still alive.
They called it Standard Oil because its products were safe and predictable in use and sold in honest weights and measures --- at a time when it was not at all unusual to be widowed by the explosion of a kerosene lantern. Look at pictures of a Standard Oil refinery and what you see is a recognizably modern chemical plant and a vast improvement over what came before.
The reformer may have blasted the old man night and day for his ruthless consolidation of the industry, but when it came time to tank up he went to the Standard dealer like everyone else.
My understanding is that Red Hat is strong enough that the company was able to force systemd on the Linux community, and did that because the unfinished, poorly documented systemd brings in more money for Red Hat support.
Then systemd should also be bringing in more money for those supporting Debian, SUSE, Ubuntu, etc., etc. The saner argument for REHLs success is that support costs are lower, not higher.
The geek tends to think that everyone's life revolves around the keyboard or tablet That isn't necessarily so, perhaps particularly for the elderly.
Meanwhile "the poor backwards Angolans" have said "what, you think we're idiots? Screw you, we want movies, porn, music, and picture's of Nicki Minaj's ass (apparently), just like everyone else on the interwebs."
I see this as flipping the bird to the patronizing attempts to give them a tiny bit of the internet and expect them to be all "thank you boss" about it.
I think this is hilarious, and I applaud them for doing it.
Will the geek still be applauding when Wikimedia pulls out because it can't afford to provide Angola with a free porn fix? No encyclopedia? No free textbooks or other educational resources that might actually make a difference?
Some hardware upgrades are easy and affordable, others not so much. My desktop, as Steam's VR performance test put it so charitably, is "GPU bound." Which also means "PSU bound," problems not so easily solved with this board and case.
---- and there are four billion video views on YouTube a day. 130 Amazing YouTube Statistics The stakes for both the rights holders and Google are high and there is no getting around that.
The music you posted may be based on public domain sources but the arrangement you used was not. The arrangement you used may have been in the public domain but the performance was not. The point being that the worst that can happen is that your post will be taken down.
You aren't looking at the expense or legal exposure in hosting the video on your own site.
The geek isn't realistic about the amount of personalized service he can expect from a site the size of YouTube.
Yes, it's always going to be easier for the big boys like Disney --- who can deliver page views in the hundreds of millions --- and some of whom have been around since the heyday of the nickelodeon, the player piano and the Edison wax cylinder. Experience counts when you are dealing with something as treacherous as performance rights.
Using paper money, backed by nothing, certainly requires a financial system.
The gold bar at Fort Knox weighs about thirty pounds. Even in more manageable form, coin or bullion isn't practical for anything but the simplest of transactions. You need vaults, you need guards and armored couriers. You need standards of weight and measure.
You need stability --- which means at the very least that someone has to regulate the amount of gold in circulation.
The 1869 Black Friday financial panic in the United States was caused by the efforts of Jay Gould and James Fisk to corner the gold market on the New York Gold Exchange. It was one of several scandals that rocked the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. When the government gold hit the market, the premium plummeted within minutes and many investors were ruined. Fisk and Gould escaped significant financial harm.
Cornering The Market
Payroll robberies" were a thriving industry when I started my working life in the 70's, electronic transfers have eliminated that risk and reduced insurance premiums, so good luck finding an employer who pays your wage in cash rather than direct deposit into your bank account.
James Cagney's "White Heat" begins with a train robbery of all things and ends in a botched payroll robbery. Even in 1949, Cody Jarrett was an anachronism, a dead man walking.