30 bananas every hour is 1 banana every 2 minutes. That's a lot of banana's. While the accumulated radiation from those bananas would probably be pretty benign, I think you'd still be dead pretty quickly:)
The Knight Rider remake (only saw the pilot) was just full of fail. After they get hit by a rocket and are on fire, they drive around for ages. (Granted, it's not the worst because his love interest has to strip down since they're cooking.) Then there's a car chase, and he just sits there while the car drives around for him; that's the worst car chase I've ever seen.
The worst part wasn't how dumb the writers were about technology, it was how the technology killed off any possible suspense.
these days i just tell people to make sure they get a dual core or quad core, and to look at battery life on laptops. dual and better core gets rid of the busy or runaway process locking up the UI and that is what most people associate with a "slow" computer
I've found paging is the worst problem, and laptops never take enough ram.
Generally, programmers are not asked to program for free by relatives. With mechanics, people know they need pay, they generally don't ask for free services unless you are immediate family, or an old friend who owes them. Accountants never do anyone's taxes for free, and you wouldn't ask a teacher to tutor your kids for free. Do you see the difference?
You really underestimate how many cheap bastards there are. All mechanics get bugged by people for free advice if not to look at their cars. Pretty sure you can't tell someone you're a lawyer or a doctor without someone trying to get a free consult. And I know a few people who have done free tutoring for friends; they're not teachers, but still.
That said, a lot of people do stuff for each other for free to help out. Moving is the biggest one, since it's pretty universal, and it's a good way to help someone out. My problem isn't that people want me to do computer stuff for them; I'd be happy to do barter. The problem is that I'm not a sysadmin, so it's better for them to hire someone who's set up to do it. Hell, I don't know how many times people asked me what brand was better, and they're always surprised when I say computer specs are completely boring to me.
My brother, who isn't averse to saying "you can fix my computer", is a truck driver. Next time he comes to visit me while on vacation I'm going to get him to haul some furniture for me. I wonder if that will be enough to make him get the point.
He'll probably let you borrow his truck, so long as you fill the tank up. Doesn't everyone do that?
No. Almost all universities in Australia are public and the cost of tuition is heavily government subsidised and is uniform between universities all over the country.
So, it's adding to tuition costs that happen to be born by the taxpayer. TANSTAAFL.
That's right Americans, we're clearly a bunch of education and sun loving socialists!
I'm sure you love attending a school run by a government that is notorious for its prudish censorship. Do they make your anatomy textbooks cover up all the naughty bits?
Erm, the War on Poverty was from President Lyndon B. Johnson, not Woodrow Wilson.
Yeah, I was thinking of FDR's "freedom from want". Or something like that. Brain fart.
And it's sorta silly to pretend it's just the left that uses 'war' now. Nixon invented 'War on Drugs'. Also 'War on Cancer' for some reason. (This was back when we thought all cancer might be caused by a single virus, instead of the dozens of things that cause it.)
The War on (some) Drugs and War on Terror are the only militarized 'Wars'...the War on Poverty was just the idea we should put as many resources towards ending poverty as we do a real war.
The GWOT is legit; asymmetric warfare has a long and hoary history, but it really is war.
Nixon had broad bipartisan support in the war on drugs, just as when he created the EPA. He wasn't an ideological purist so much as intensely partisan and paranoid. The other problem with the war on dugs is that present support for it is coming from left, right and center.
The progressive movement was, though, infatuated with the notion of organizing society around the military model, and the modern left still is. Emanuel's plan for universal civilian service is more openly militaristic, but AmeriCorps, PeaceCorps and others are organized around notions of service and duty that are modeled from military service.
Is spam really an epidemic? We have simple means to block almost all spam, so that the average person probably sees maybe a dozen spam messages per year. If everyone is inoculated against something, so nobody is thereby being infected with said virus, is it really still an "epidemic"?
Part of living in the States is that we don't know what _real_ epidemics are, just like we don't know what _real_ poverty is like.
A better analogy would be water quality, which may not be an epidemic, but is pretty damned close. If you go to a third world country, your body will build up a tolerance to the local water, after several rounds of diarrhea. But it's not real immunity, it's just your system constantly pouring on resources to fight the infection. You basically just get used to being sick.
We've all built up this tolerance for spam to where we don't notice it, but all that stuff is still there, the water is still filthy, and it's still affecting you. I don't check my spam folders; there are thousands of spams, so I just hope that I don't get a critical false positive. I don't bother trying to set up my own mail server, it will either get black listed if I screw up, or I'll have to wrestle with configuring SpamAssassin or something like that.
If the income tax were abolished and the IRS was disbanded, all the folks working there, not to mention the legions of people working in the tax preparation business, would make an immense contribution to society, instead of sifting through records and trying to satisfy the incoherent rulings of Congress.
The spamming attorney is doing it because he's got nothing of real value that anyone wants.
It's for the "fuck the government" segment of Slashdot readers.... like claiming the major political parties are the same, that Americans are no better off than North Koreans
That's more the anti-war / anti-corporation left. Being anti-drug war doesn't require hating the government at all, just wanting to end one huge misguided effort.
Meth dealer? I'm sure he was just a misunderstood amateur chemist.
Morally, how is he any different from someone with a still? Keep in mind, that was completely illegal at one point, and moonshine was the "hard" stuff at the time.
And, again, he only has to deal with criminals because it's been criminalized. He's only "laundering" the money, which is a melodramatic way of saying exchanging it, because the government says that it's "bad" money.
I totally agree with that. The war should not be "on drugs", but on the reasons why people chose taking them.
Or maybe it shouldn't be called a war at all? I don't think it's unreasonable to say we should reserve war for our mortal enemies.
This tendency of declaring war on arbitrary things goes back to progressives, such as Woodrow Wilson, who saw the military as a means of organizing and unifying society. That's why, for example, he declared a "war on poverty." You still see it with modern liberals, like Rahm Emanuel, who proposed "basic training, civil defense preparation, and community service" for everyone aged 18-25 in his book (not sure how to direct link, just search it for "universal citizen service", the chapter starts at page 58).
It was a terrible idea then, and it's a terrible idea now: we don't need to unify society around grand visions by aping the military. It is just a way of stomping all over the basic freedom of millions of people to do what the hell they want with their life, not what some politician thinks would make him look good in a history book.
Sorry to nit pick as your figures are a bit off, but you are correct batteries are still a long way from the energy densities of hydrocarbons.
a gasoline engine is around 20% efficient (40% for diesel), so a gasoline provides 9.28 MJ/kg of usable energy. An electric engine is roughly 85% efficient giving 0.119 MJ/kg usable energy for a Lead Acid Battery. A good lithium ion battery has 0.72 MJ/kg, or 0.612 MJ/kg usable energy in an electric engine.
For cars the typically petrol engine/gearbox etc is heavier than an electric drive, which will partially offset the greater mass of the batteries.
your efficiencies may vary.
And then winter comes and the numbers get even worse.
Shooting this down without having a discussion about it is terribly short sighted. We keep complaining that the RIAA and co need to think of better business models. Maybe this is it.
It's a model, alright, and it's certainly a common one, but it sure as hell isn't a business model.
Patronage of the arts is a civic duty, and it only works when patrons undertake it voluntarily.
Keep in mind that 90% of the world IS NOT on Facebook. Sure, it might seem like "EVERYBODY" is on Facebook, but it's only 10 percent of the world. Facebook will get replaced by the next "new thing" before too long.
Given that router manufacturers shipped buggy products... And given that the solution is a firmware update... And given that the companies best equipped to handle this are ISPs... And given that the products are implicitly warranted for fitness of merchantabilty...
I propose that rather than a product recall or class action lawsuit, the manufacturers jointly agree that they will pay a fee to the ISPs for each firmware upgrade performed by their techs for the residential and home office markets. The techs can simply take note of the product ID and serial number of each affected router, and each quarter the ISPs can send a bill to the manufacturers.
The serials will do a pretty good job of preventing cheating, and while the techs are there they can also advise people on setting up their home networks.
There are some problems with the implementation in OS X, but the interface, conceptually, is pretty good. The concept of going "back in time" is easy to explain, and it's fairly conducive to how the brain naturally recalls things.
It basically works like using --link-dest with rsync, but doesn't have to scan the whole drive and they overrode the restriction on hard linking to directories. It's even nice from a command line: you get what looks like a perfect history of your drive, with all the redundant stuff hard linked.
The graphical interface is delegated to applications. The Finder, obviously, does it, but so do a few others, like Mail and Address Book. What you can do is pick a backup date to go back to, and you'll see your folder as it was then, or you can use the search bars to find the most recent copy of a file or contact or email. Wikipedia has a screenshot.
It ought to be feasible for most apps to support: if you've got a typical productivity app, it should be able (and I believe iWorks does this) to render a document as if it were launched on a particular date.
There's room for more than one successful company in the world, and one being successful doesn't mean no others will be.
If it weren't for the belief that the amount of wealth is fixed and you can only benefit at the expense of others, there wouldn't be a political left-wing. In spite of the fact that it's the economic equivalent of believing in a flat earth, it is a fundamental tenet of modern liberalism.
There are bubbles... and they do stuff... in the cloud?!
Mundie thinks the computer needs to go from being a "tool" to a "helper." I guess he figures that after 20 or so attempts at this, from Bob to Clippy to whatnot, it's got to eventually work.
Maybe. What is conspicuously absent in the video, though, is anyone getting any work done.
if you are using PHP and want purity with the ease of scripting language, you seriously need to jump ship.
If someone is using PHP and is open to jumping ship, they're going to jump to another server-side web programming language. But they're idiots, so odds are it will be another steaming pile, probably ASP.net and VB.
And there's nothing "pure" about anything related to Java; only managers think all that enterprisey crap is "pure." Java is fundamentally object-oriented, and that means it has no foundation in mathematics. Groovy just takes Java's original terrible idea and doubles down on it.
And let's not even talk about the "ease of a scripting language," because that just sounds like a steaming pile of weakness.
A pure solution to web development would be Yesod which guarantees type safety throughout your entire system using Haskell's extended Hindley-Milner type system.
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1015 microsieverts - that is apparently a year's worth of radiation exposure each hour
Or 30 bananas...
30 bananas every hour is 1 banana every 2 minutes. That's a lot of banana's. While the accumulated radiation from those bananas would probably be pretty benign, I think you'd still be dead pretty quickly :)
Or at least pretty thoroughly gummed up.
The Knight Rider remake (only saw the pilot) was just full of fail. After they get hit by a rocket and are on fire, they drive around for ages. (Granted, it's not the worst because his love interest has to strip down since they're cooking.) Then there's a car chase, and he just sits there while the car drives around for him; that's the worst car chase I've ever seen.
The worst part wasn't how dumb the writers were about technology, it was how the technology killed off any possible suspense.
It's a Unix system, I know this!
these days i just tell people to make sure they get a dual core or quad core, and to look at battery life on laptops. dual and better core gets rid of the busy or runaway process locking up the UI and that is what most people associate with a "slow" computer
I've found paging is the worst problem, and laptops never take enough ram.
Generally, programmers are not asked to program for free by relatives. With mechanics, people know they need pay, they generally don't ask for free services unless you are immediate family, or an old friend who owes them. Accountants never do anyone's taxes for free, and you wouldn't ask a teacher to tutor your kids for free. Do you see the difference?
You really underestimate how many cheap bastards there are. All mechanics get bugged by people for free advice if not to look at their cars. Pretty sure you can't tell someone you're a lawyer or a doctor without someone trying to get a free consult. And I know a few people who have done free tutoring for friends; they're not teachers, but still.
That said, a lot of people do stuff for each other for free to help out. Moving is the biggest one, since it's pretty universal, and it's a good way to help someone out. My problem isn't that people want me to do computer stuff for them; I'd be happy to do barter. The problem is that I'm not a sysadmin, so it's better for them to hire someone who's set up to do it. Hell, I don't know how many times people asked me what brand was better, and they're always surprised when I say computer specs are completely boring to me.
My brother, who isn't averse to saying "you can fix my computer", is a truck driver. Next time he comes to visit me while on vacation I'm going to get him to haul some furniture for me. I wonder if that will be enough to make him get the point.
He'll probably let you borrow his truck, so long as you fill the tank up. Doesn't everyone do that?
Don't you mean "Adding to tuition costs"?
No. Almost all universities in Australia are public and the cost of tuition is heavily government subsidised and is uniform between universities all over the country.
So, it's adding to tuition costs that happen to be born by the taxpayer. TANSTAAFL.
That's right Americans, we're clearly a bunch of education and sun loving socialists!
I'm sure you love attending a school run by a government that is notorious for its prudish censorship. Do they make your anatomy textbooks cover up all the naughty bits?
Erm, the War on Poverty was from President Lyndon B. Johnson, not Woodrow Wilson.
Yeah, I was thinking of FDR's "freedom from want". Or something like that. Brain fart.
And it's sorta silly to pretend it's just the left that uses 'war' now. Nixon invented 'War on Drugs'. Also 'War on Cancer' for some reason. (This was back when we thought all cancer might be caused by a single virus, instead of the dozens of things that cause it.)
The War on (some) Drugs and War on Terror are the only militarized 'Wars'...the War on Poverty was just the idea we should put as many resources towards ending poverty as we do a real war.
The GWOT is legit; asymmetric warfare has a long and hoary history, but it really is war.
Nixon had broad bipartisan support in the war on drugs, just as when he created the EPA. He wasn't an ideological purist so much as intensely partisan and paranoid. The other problem with the war on dugs is that present support for it is coming from left, right and center.
The progressive movement was, though, infatuated with the notion of organizing society around the military model, and the modern left still is. Emanuel's plan for universal civilian service is more openly militaristic, but AmeriCorps, PeaceCorps and others are organized around notions of service and duty that are modeled from military service.
Is spam really an epidemic? We have simple means to block almost all spam, so that the average person probably sees maybe a dozen spam messages per year. If everyone is inoculated against something, so nobody is thereby being infected with said virus, is it really still an "epidemic"?
Part of living in the States is that we don't know what _real_ epidemics are, just like we don't know what _real_ poverty is like.
A better analogy would be water quality, which may not be an epidemic, but is pretty damned close. If you go to a third world country, your body will build up a tolerance to the local water, after several rounds of diarrhea. But it's not real immunity, it's just your system constantly pouring on resources to fight the infection. You basically just get used to being sick.
We've all built up this tolerance for spam to where we don't notice it, but all that stuff is still there, the water is still filthy, and it's still affecting you. I don't check my spam folders; there are thousands of spams, so I just hope that I don't get a critical false positive. I don't bother trying to set up my own mail server, it will either get black listed if I screw up, or I'll have to wrestle with configuring SpamAssassin or something like that.
I am conflicted.
If the income tax were abolished and the IRS was disbanded, all the folks working there, not to mention the legions of people working in the tax preparation business, would make an immense contribution to society, instead of sifting through records and trying to satisfy the incoherent rulings of Congress.
The spamming attorney is doing it because he's got nothing of real value that anyone wants.
It's for the "fuck the government" segment of Slashdot readers. ... like claiming the major political parties are the same, that Americans are no better off than North Koreans
That's more the anti-war / anti-corporation left. Being anti-drug war doesn't require hating the government at all, just wanting to end one huge misguided effort.
Meth dealer? I'm sure he was just a misunderstood amateur chemist.
Morally, how is he any different from someone with a still? Keep in mind, that was completely illegal at one point, and moonshine was the "hard" stuff at the time.
And, again, he only has to deal with criminals because it's been criminalized. He's only "laundering" the money, which is a melodramatic way of saying exchanging it, because the government says that it's "bad" money.
I totally agree with that. The war should not be "on drugs", but on the reasons why people chose taking them.
Or maybe it shouldn't be called a war at all? I don't think it's unreasonable to say we should reserve war for our mortal enemies.
This tendency of declaring war on arbitrary things goes back to progressives, such as Woodrow Wilson, who saw the military as a means of organizing and unifying society. That's why, for example, he declared a "war on poverty." You still see it with modern liberals, like Rahm Emanuel, who proposed "basic training, civil defense preparation, and community service" for everyone aged 18-25 in his book (not sure how to direct link, just search it for "universal citizen service", the chapter starts at page 58).
It was a terrible idea then, and it's a terrible idea now: we don't need to unify society around grand visions by aping the military. It is just a way of stomping all over the basic freedom of millions of people to do what the hell they want with their life, not what some politician thinks would make him look good in a history book.
Sorry to nit pick as your figures are a bit off, but you are correct batteries are still a long way from the energy densities of hydrocarbons.
a gasoline engine is around 20% efficient (40% for diesel), so a gasoline provides 9.28 MJ/kg of usable energy. An electric engine is roughly 85% efficient giving 0.119 MJ/kg usable energy for a Lead Acid Battery. A good lithium ion battery has 0.72 MJ/kg, or 0.612 MJ/kg usable energy in an electric engine.
For cars the typically petrol engine/gearbox etc is heavier than an electric drive, which will partially offset the greater mass of the batteries.
your efficiencies may vary.
And then winter comes and the numbers get even worse.
Pulling out the semantics and modifiers, the sentence is:
Dependent clause, substance contains things which each one is number thinner than stuff.
That's just not English. It's close, though:
Dependent clause, substance contains things, each of which is number times thinner than stuff.
How the hell is this even a case? Oh, wait, gotta protect their own. Gotcha.
Maybe they went by what the law says, and not a dictionary? Just a thought.
It's not abuse, it's almost certain to be the natural extension of the law.
Very true, "contempt of cop" certainly is an extension of the law, and it has no artificial colors or flavors.
Shooting this down without having a discussion about it is terribly short sighted. We keep complaining that the RIAA and co need to think of better business models. Maybe this is it.
It's a model, alright, and it's certainly a common one, but it sure as hell isn't a business model.
Patronage of the arts is a civic duty, and it only works when patrons undertake it voluntarily.
Keep in mind that 90% of the world IS NOT on Facebook. Sure, it might seem like "EVERYBODY" is on Facebook, but it's only 10 percent of the world. Facebook will get replaced by the next "new thing" before too long.
Ugh, will the next new thing be as irritating?
It's pretty amazing how they've stretched the limits of technology!
Given that router manufacturers shipped buggy products...
And given that the solution is a firmware update...
And given that the companies best equipped to handle this are ISPs...
And given that the products are implicitly warranted for fitness of merchantabilty...
I propose that rather than a product recall or class action lawsuit, the manufacturers jointly agree that they will pay a fee to the ISPs for each firmware upgrade performed by their techs for the residential and home office markets. The techs can simply take note of the product ID and serial number of each affected router, and each quarter the ISPs can send a bill to the manufacturers.
The serials will do a pretty good job of preventing cheating, and while the techs are there they can also advise people on setting up their home networks.
There are some problems with the implementation in OS X, but the interface, conceptually, is pretty good. The concept of going "back in time" is easy to explain, and it's fairly conducive to how the brain naturally recalls things.
It basically works like using --link-dest with rsync, but doesn't have to scan the whole drive and they overrode the restriction on hard linking to directories. It's even nice from a command line: you get what looks like a perfect history of your drive, with all the redundant stuff hard linked.
The graphical interface is delegated to applications. The Finder, obviously, does it, but so do a few others, like Mail and Address Book. What you can do is pick a backup date to go back to, and you'll see your folder as it was then, or you can use the search bars to find the most recent copy of a file or contact or email. Wikipedia has a screenshot.
It ought to be feasible for most apps to support: if you've got a typical productivity app, it should be able (and I believe iWorks does this) to render a document as if it were launched on a particular date.
There's room for more than one successful company in the world, and one being successful doesn't mean no others will be.
If it weren't for the belief that the amount of wealth is fixed and you can only benefit at the expense of others, there wouldn't be a political left-wing. In spite of the fact that it's the economic equivalent of believing in a flat earth, it is a fundamental tenet of modern liberalism.
There are bubbles... and they do stuff... in the cloud?!
Mundie thinks the computer needs to go from being a "tool" to a "helper." I guess he figures that after 20 or so attempts at this, from Bob to Clippy to whatnot, it's got to eventually work.
Maybe. What is conspicuously absent in the video, though, is anyone getting any work done.
if you are using PHP and want purity with the ease of scripting language, you seriously need to jump ship.
If someone is using PHP and is open to jumping ship, they're going to jump to another server-side web programming language. But they're idiots, so odds are it will be another steaming pile, probably ASP.net and VB.
And there's nothing "pure" about anything related to Java; only managers think all that enterprisey crap is "pure." Java is fundamentally object-oriented, and that means it has no foundation in mathematics. Groovy just takes Java's original terrible idea and doubles down on it.
And let's not even talk about the "ease of a scripting language," because that just sounds like a steaming pile of weakness.
A pure solution to web development would be Yesod which guarantees type safety throughout your entire system using Haskell's extended Hindley-Milner type system.
Their explanation makes sense. Not everything has to be a conspiracy.
Think of how much ad revenue Slashdot would lose if this philosophy were widely adopted.
Not much. I suspect people who are conspiracy minded probably tend to block ads.