This is what Disney has been doing all along... from Snow White to The LIttle Mermaid, pretty much everything Disney has ever had success with has been bought, borrowed or stolen.
Philip Pullman's Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version retold fifty of these old tales economically and effectively in a lesss than 450 pages. Fireside reads running a bare ten to fifteen minutes each. The fairy tale is not the ballet, the musical comedy, or feature film. Pulllman was careful to remind his readers that the Grimms favored a select few sources who had already hammered the stories which had caught their attention into publishable form.
If you take people today, vet them very carefully for being rational and non-religious, and make them start a colony, for what reason would religion appear?
The key word here is "make."
What you are describing is a forced draft, slave labor.
Historically, that is an environment in which religion flourishes.
What the public wants is well represented by Android, iOS, Windows, and the like. The public already has this. Please, let us technical people have one last bastion that doesn't suck for the technically literate.
The thing is that, in the real world, the function of the tech guy is to facilitate communication among those do not share his particular skill set. He isn't being paid the big bucks to retreat into his bunker, never again to see the light of day.
What part of copyright does the geek find so hard to understand?
You can say with a wink that your downloads are intended for non-commercial --- non-profit ---use only.
But the files were never yours to share and you have no control over how they will be used..
You've become a unlicensed --- self-appointed --- wholesale distributer. In the US that has been a crime since the passage of the NET Act (No Electronic Theft) in 1998.
Sounds like they're aiming to screw themselves out of the market entirely. Strip it all out of your house and send it back for a refund...
Sears, Roebuck was selling gas light fixtures as late as 1910.
Why?
Because lighting affects your choice of color, patterns and textures in flooring, wall coverings, window dressings, furniture and upholstery. It is an expensive business transitioning from one form of natural or artificial lighting to another --- and once you make the commitment, there is no turning back.
Keurig tried this crap and it didn't work out well for them.
Philips is the largest manufacturer of lighting in the world, with revenues of about 21 billion Euro a year. It is a potent incentive for potential competitors to make their products Hue-compatible.
Hardware DOES NOT EQUAL software. Saying you want one does not automatically imply the other.
There are times when the geek loses touch with reality.
People buy a PS4 console because ---- like about 30 million others--- they like the games, programs and services that Sony and its partners have to offer. T
The lesson to be learned here: lock out Linux hackers and you're gonna get pwn3d.
Sony didn't give a damn about the hacker so long as he wasn't taking the PS3 out of retail distribution channels and buying it in wholesale lots to build his cheap-ass HPC.
R-12 is a refrigerant that revolutionized the cold storage of vaccines
That barely scratches the surface of the thing.
Charles Kettering, vice president of General Motors Research Corporation, was seeking a refrigerant replacement that would be colorless, odorless, tasteless, nontoxic, and nonflammable.
The refrigerant of choice for the 19th century ice machine was ammonia, which has the drawbacks of being highly toxic, corrosive, and difficult to compress. The net result is that the ice machines were massive (as big as a typical kitchen), steam powered (the best source of energy in the 19th century for large equipment. needing constant boiler attendance), required a lot of maintenance and were the source of industrial accidents.
Sulfur dioxide is compressed readily and has a good latent heat of 25 kJ/mol. Chemists and physicists were able to put a kitchen sized version of the refrigerator on the market after World War One. Unfortunately, sulfur dioxide isn't the most pleasant refrigerant: Early refrigerators leaked and if they didn't, sulfur dioxide is corrosive, so they soon would.
The first refrigerator to see widespread use was the General Electric "Monitor-Top" refrigerator introduced in 1927, so-called because of its resemblance to the gun turret on the ironclad warship USS Monitor of the 1860s.
As the refrigerating medium, these refrigerators used either sulfur dioxide, which is corrosive to the eyes and may cause loss of vision, painful skin burns and lesions, or methyl formate, which is highly flammable, harmful to the eyes, and toxic if inhaled or ingested.
"Refrigerator Day is the Dinosaurs analogue to Christmas and the titular celebration...Refrigerator Day, or Fridge Day for short, celebrates the development of the greatest boon to modern dinosaur, the refrigerator. Thanks to the development of this magical cold box, dinosaurs could store food and no longer had to continually roam, and thus were able to settle down and start families. Fridge Day is traditionally marked with gift-giving, a pageant recalling the first Refrigerator Day, festive decorations, a Fridge Day bonus, and jolly Refrigerator Day carols. Muppet Wiki - Refrigerator Day
Henson was on to something here.
I don't think the geek has any clear picture of what life was like before modern refrigeration and air conditioning.
The ideal refrigerant would have favorable thermodynamic properties, be noncorrosive to mechanical components, and be safe, including free from toxicity and flammability. It would not cause ozone depletion or climate change.
What about my 18 pound Remote control airplane that goes about 50 mile an hour? I'm far faster and far more deadly than any "drone" which is uneducated speak for quadcopter.
Flying your RC model plane inside the stadium during a high school football game? In the exclusion zones surrounding midtown Manhattan, an airport or a forest fire?
Didn't think so.
The hobby --- which demands both a high level of skill and a very significant financial investment ---- has a long and successful tradition of self-regulation.
No offense, but your views on the matter don't seem to be very representative as there's a ton of decent actors who'd do just as good an acting job as the stars and cheaper too, but we seem to prefer the same known faces we've seen in other movies.
The presence and impact of an actor is cumulative. Try to imagine casting any one of these classic westerns without John Wayne in the lead role: Stagecoach, Fort Apache, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, Rio Bravo, The Searchers. Each builds on what came before.
Most of the time, if you have been drinking, it's actually in your best interest to leave if you can. Go home, go to the nearest bar, go the local store buy and drink, a lot, and make sure you either have witnesses you where drinking AFTER the accident or make sure they don't catch you for a couple of hours by going home. But leave the scene and go drinking.
The flaw in this scheme is that you are already too drunk to think it through and carry it out. The geek should never turn his thoughts toward crime because he doesn't have the head for it. "Logical but not reasonable" is the way Asimov would have put it.
Unless we live in a cave inside a dense jungle somewhere, we no longer have the luxury to live *OUR OWN* lives.
It's been a least a century since you had the right to live your "own life" on the public roads. You're expected to drive responsibly, obey the traffic laws, maintain your vehicle in a safe condition, and so on.
I hope it's not running Windows... like the last time
USS Yorktown (CG-48) was a Ticonderoga-class cruiser launched in 1984 and in 1996 a test-bed for the Navy's COTS Smart Ship program. The ship remained in active service until her retirement in 2004. It's telling that the geek never cites a reference to the Yorktown and Win NT published later than 1998 ---- and ignores the integration of W2K into next-generation ships like the Nimitiz-class carrier USS George HW Bush (CVN 77).
Larry Niven's book World Out of Time has a "hyperloop" system in it. And I can't help but think other SF writers may have come up with something similar before that.
The sci-fi writer isn't obliged to demonstrate that his system is technically feasible or economically viable.
In film and video "instant" transportation by tunnel or teleportation makes for fast transitions between scenes and is dirt cheap to animate.
Nuclear energy's effective demise was not of its own making.
When you look back at the nuclear plants which proved most costly and trouble prone and what you see are companies that were building beyond their financial resources and technical competence. Nuclear energy's demise was caused by a loss of confidence in the management of nuclear power --- and for that there is no easy technical fix.
The MS-DOS and Windows PC entered the market as an affordable office workhorse, with strong software support from every major vendor.
The OEM Windows system install became the gold standard for retail sales and support. The modular design of the PC meant that hardware advanced quickly --- and with Plug and Play configuration becoming the norm --- quite painlessly.
Windows evolved into a capable operating system designed for users who share almost none of the geek's paranoia or obsessions with the internals of the system.
... in a tacit admission that it is time to stop feeding the trolls.
Like that would ever happen.
I would argue that telemetry is the only way to get objective, meaningful, data about how well an operating system succeeds or fails in meeting the needs of hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of non-technical end-users.
Yes there is. Your pipe has a max speed. The theoretical maximum amount of data you could use by saturating your pipe 24x7 should be considered unlimited. Nothing less.
Your "pipe" is mostly likely shared with others.
Unless, of course, you are willing to pay for business/instiutional grade service.
You know, until recently I never considered using Linux as a general purpose desktop OS and I didn't like Steam. That was until Microsoft released the malware and adware ridden Windows 10 and tried to cram it down everyone's throat.
---- while only 0.95% of Steam users run any flavor of the Linux OS.
The western world has enjoyed adding a bit of color and play to simple text messaging by mixing words and pictures for centuries. Rebus
The geek of course has his emoticons with their roots in the IRC chat and telegraphy. How to Type Emoticons ASCII art is as old as the typewriter.
The geek's distaste for emoji is irrational. The use of pictographs to supplement and enrich terse messages sent over low bandwidth connections makes perfect sense, as does building a strong visual as well as verbal vocabulary.
we want to communicate with government officials by offering anecdotes and stories of how we help their constituents
Then take the time to get to know these people. If they hold a town meeting, be there. If they have an office in your district, don't be a stranger. Invite them to meet with those you have helped. Let them tell the story.
If a lightening bolt strikes an ethernet connected device in the trees, the ethernet cable just melts/burns away.
Is there a rule which says that the geek has to forget everything the ham radio operator has learned about lightning, antennas and feed lines since 1906?
2) Hand everything over. Warn the bad guys that if they try to use your USB stick, it'll fry their computer. 3) When they fry their computer, ask if they have learned their lesson about taking you on your word. 4) Be cooperative. You already won the battle of wits, be a gracious winner.
How the story ends in the cinematic world.
[Anonymous basement interrogation room]
Wake up! I need you to be focused! You either give me what I need or this switch will stay on until they turn the power off for lack of payment on the bill.
Slashdot Mirror
This is what Disney has been doing all along... from Snow White to The LIttle Mermaid, pretty much everything Disney has ever had success with has been bought, borrowed or stolen.
Philip Pullman's Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version retold fifty of these old tales economically and effectively in a lesss than 450 pages. Fireside reads running a bare ten to fifteen minutes each. The fairy tale is not the ballet, the musical comedy, or feature film. Pulllman was careful to remind his readers that the Grimms favored a select few sources who had already hammered the stories which had caught their attention into publishable form.
If you take people today, vet them very carefully for being rational and non-religious, and make them start a colony, for what reason would religion appear?
The key word here is "make."
What you are describing is a forced draft, slave labor.
Historically, that is an environment in which religion flourishes.
What the public wants is well represented by Android, iOS, Windows, and the like. The public already has this. Please, let us technical people have one last bastion that doesn't suck for the technically literate.
The thing is that, in the real world, the function of the tech guy is to facilitate communication among those do not share his particular skill set. He isn't being paid the big bucks to retreat into his bunker, never again to see the light of day.
What part of copyright does the geek find so hard to understand?
You can say with a wink that your downloads are intended for non-commercial --- non-profit ---use only.
But the files were never yours to share and you have no control over how they will be used..
You've become a unlicensed --- self-appointed --- wholesale distributer. In the US that has been a crime since the passage of the NET Act (No Electronic Theft) in 1998.
Sounds like they're aiming to screw themselves out of the market entirely. Strip it all out of your house and send it back for a refund...
Sears, Roebuck was selling gas light fixtures as late as 1910.
Why?
Because lighting affects your choice of color, patterns and textures in flooring, wall coverings, window dressings, furniture and upholstery. It is an expensive business transitioning from one form of natural or artificial lighting to another --- and once you make the commitment, there is no turning back.
Keurig tried this crap and it didn't work out well for them.
Philips is the largest manufacturer of lighting in the world, with revenues of about 21 billion Euro a year. It is a potent incentive for potential competitors to make their products Hue-compatible.
Hardware DOES NOT EQUAL software. Saying you want one does not automatically imply the other.
There are times when the geek loses touch with reality.
People buy a PS4 console because ---- like about 30 million others--- they like the games, programs and services that Sony and its partners have to offer. T
The lesson to be learned here: lock out Linux hackers and you're gonna get pwn3d.
Sony didn't give a damn about the hacker so long as he wasn't taking the PS3 out of retail distribution channels and buying it in wholesale lots to build his cheap-ass HPC.
R-12 is a refrigerant that revolutionized the cold storage of vaccines
That barely scratches the surface of the thing.
Charles Kettering, vice president of General Motors Research Corporation, was seeking a refrigerant replacement that would be colorless, odorless, tasteless, nontoxic, and nonflammable.
Dichlorodifluoromethane
The refrigerant of choice for the 19th century ice machine was ammonia, which has the drawbacks of being highly toxic, corrosive, and difficult to compress. The net result is that the ice machines were massive (as big as a typical kitchen), steam powered (the best source of energy in the 19th century for large equipment. needing constant boiler attendance), required a lot of maintenance and were the source of industrial accidents.
Sulfur dioxide is compressed readily and has a good latent heat of 25 kJ/mol. Chemists and physicists were able to put a kitchen sized version of the refrigerator on the market after World War One. Unfortunately, sulfur dioxide isn't the most pleasant refrigerant: Early refrigerators leaked and if they didn't, sulfur dioxide is corrosive, so they soon would.
Dichlorodifluoromethane
The first refrigerator to see widespread use was the General Electric "Monitor-Top" refrigerator introduced in 1927, so-called because of its resemblance to the gun turret on the ironclad warship USS Monitor of the 1860s.
As the refrigerating medium, these refrigerators used either sulfur dioxide, which is corrosive to the eyes and may cause loss of vision, painful skin burns and lesions, or methyl formate, which is highly flammable, harmful to the eyes, and toxic if inhaled or ingested.
Refrigerator
"Refrigerator Day is the Dinosaurs analogue to Christmas and the titular celebration...Refrigerator Day, or Fridge Day for short, celebrates the development of the greatest boon to modern dinosaur, the refrigerator. Thanks to the development of this magical cold box, dinosaurs could store food and no longer had to continually roam, and thus were able to settle down and start families. Fridge Day is traditionally marked with gift-giving, a pageant recalling the first Refrigerator Day, festive decorations, a Fridge Day bonus, and jolly Refrigerator Day carols. Muppet Wiki - Refrigerator Day
Henson was on to something here.
I don't think the geek has any clear picture of what life was like before modern refrigeration and air conditioning.
The ideal refrigerant would have favorable thermodynamic properties, be noncorrosive to mechanical components, and be safe, including free from toxicity and flammability. It would not cause ozone depletion or climate change.
Refrigerant
That ideal refrigerant doesn't exist in 2015 ---
but if you look honestly at the problem from the point of view of someone living in 1935, Freon comes pretty damn close.
What about my 18 pound Remote control airplane that goes about 50 mile an hour? I'm far faster and far more deadly than any "drone" which is uneducated speak for quadcopter.
Flying your RC model plane inside the stadium during a high school football game? In the exclusion zones surrounding midtown Manhattan, an airport or a forest fire?
Didn't think so.
The hobby --- which demands both a high level of skill and a very significant financial investment ---- has a long and successful tradition of self-regulation.
AMA Safety Code - Academy of Model Aeronautics
No offense, but your views on the matter don't seem to be very representative as there's a ton of decent actors who'd do just as good an acting job as the stars and cheaper too, but we seem to prefer the same known faces we've seen in other movies.
The presence and impact of an actor is cumulative. Try to imagine casting any one of these classic westerns without John Wayne in the lead role: Stagecoach, Fort Apache, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, Rio Bravo, The Searchers. Each builds on what came before.
Most of the time, if you have been drinking, it's actually in your best interest to leave if you can. Go home, go to the nearest bar, go the local store buy and drink, a lot, and make sure you either have witnesses you where drinking AFTER the accident or make sure they don't catch you for a couple of hours by going home. But leave the scene and go drinking.
The flaw in this scheme is that you are already too drunk to think it through and carry it out. The geek should never turn his thoughts toward crime because he doesn't have the head for it. "Logical but not reasonable" is the way Asimov would have put it.
Unless we live in a cave inside a dense jungle somewhere, we no longer have the luxury to live *OUR OWN* lives.
It's been a least a century since you had the right to live your "own life" on the public roads. You're expected to drive responsibly, obey the traffic laws, maintain your vehicle in a safe condition, and so on.
I hope it's not running Windows... like the last time
USS Yorktown (CG-48) was a Ticonderoga-class cruiser launched in 1984 and in 1996 a test-bed for the Navy's COTS Smart Ship program. The ship remained in active service until her retirement in 2004. It's telling that the geek never cites a reference to the Yorktown and Win NT published later than 1998 ---- and ignores the integration of W2K into next-generation ships like the Nimitiz-class carrier USS George HW Bush (CVN 77).
Larry Niven's book World Out of Time has a "hyperloop" system in it. And I can't help but think other SF writers may have come up with something similar before that.
The sci-fi writer isn't obliged to demonstrate that his system is technically feasible or economically viable.
In film and video "instant" transportation by tunnel or teleportation makes for fast transitions between scenes and is dirt cheap to animate.
Nuclear energy's effective demise was not of its own making.
When you look back at the nuclear plants which proved most costly and trouble prone and what you see are companies that were building beyond their financial resources and technical competence. Nuclear energy's demise was caused by a loss of confidence in the management of nuclear power --- and for that there is no easy technical fix.
The MS-DOS and Windows PC entered the market as an affordable office workhorse, with strong software support from every major vendor.
The OEM Windows system install became the gold standard for retail sales and support. The modular design of the PC meant that hardware advanced quickly --- and with Plug and Play configuration becoming the norm --- quite painlessly.
Windows evolved into a capable operating system designed for users who share almost none of the geek's paranoia or obsessions with the internals of the system.
... in a tacit admission that it is time to stop feeding the trolls.
Like that would ever happen.
I would argue that telemetry is the only way to get objective, meaningful, data about how well an operating system succeeds or fails in meeting the needs of hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of non-technical end-users.
Yes there is. Your pipe has a max speed. The theoretical maximum amount of data you could use by saturating your pipe 24x7 should be considered unlimited. Nothing less.
Your "pipe" is mostly likely shared with others.
Unless, of course, you are willing to pay for business/instiutional grade service.
You know, until recently I never considered using Linux as a general purpose desktop OS and I didn't like Steam. That was until Microsoft released the malware and adware ridden Windows 10 and tried to cram it down everyone's throat.
---- while only 0.95% of Steam users run any flavor of the Linux OS.
Three years and 1600 Linux games hasn't budged the needle in a way that you could see even with a magnifying glass. Steam Hardware and Software Survey: October 2015
Before breaking out the champagne, it might be wise to look at the numbers:
OS Version
Windows 95%
Windows 7 64 Bit 26%
Windows 10 64 bit 26%
Windows 8.1 64 Bit 17%
OSX 3%
Mac OS 10.10.5 64 Bit 1%
Mac OS 10.11.0 64 Bit 1%
Linux 1% [0.95%]
Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS 64 Bit 0.23%
Ubuntu 15.04 64 Bit 0.17%
Linux Mint Rafaela 64 Bit 0.11%
What you see is a very small and very fragmented Linux market. Steam Hardware & Software Survey: October 2015
The western world has enjoyed adding a bit of color and play to simple text messaging by mixing words and pictures for centuries. Rebus
The geek of course has his emoticons with their roots in the IRC chat and telegraphy. How to Type Emoticons ASCII art is as old as the typewriter.
The geek's distaste for emoji is irrational. The use of pictographs to supplement and enrich terse messages sent over low bandwidth connections makes perfect sense, as does building a strong visual as well as verbal vocabulary.
we want to communicate with government officials by offering anecdotes and stories of how we help their constituents
Then take the time to get to know these people. If they hold a town meeting, be there. If they have an office in your district, don't be a stranger. Invite them to meet with those you have helped. Let them tell the story.
If a lightening bolt strikes an ethernet connected device in the trees, the ethernet cable just melts/burns away.
Is there a rule which says that the geek has to forget everything the ham radio operator has learned about lightning, antennas and feed lines since 1906?
Survival 101.
Pissing off the border guard.
How the story ends if you "Ask Slashdot."
2) Hand everything over. Warn the bad guys that if they try to use your USB stick, it'll fry their computer.
3) When they fry their computer, ask if they have learned their lesson about taking you on your word.
4) Be cooperative. You already won the battle of wits, be a gracious winner.
How the story ends in the cinematic world.
[Anonymous basement interrogation room]
Wake up! I need you to be focused!
You either give me what I need or this switch will stay on until they turn the power off for lack of payment on the bill.
Which do you think cuts closer to the truth?