I always find this comment somewhat amusing from Slashdot posters.
Bundling is a pain in the rear, but pretty much everyone on this site with cable television benefits from it. Do you really think that most of the channels we watch would exist without bundling? I'd hazard a guess that with the possible exception of the food channel, any channel remotely educational or special interest would be gone without bundling, because almost no one would sign up for them.
I call bullshit on losing Discovery and History channel. As for the others; why do you find it necessary to artificially prop up specialty channels?! If the user base isn't there to support it, it should go, plain and simple. Either pass on the true cost to the customer or axe it.
Furthermore, what percentage of channels show their own in-house content and how much comes from shows that were shopped around? AMC's flagship series Breaking Bad -- made by Sony. If AMC the channel didn't exist, the show could still be shopped around to another channel. Maybe eliminating channels would clean up the ratio of quality shows on the channels that do exist?
Failure doesn't stem only from bad design. What happens if there's a slight clog in the 3D printer's extruder that creates a bubble or weak spot hidden within a part? A larger company engineers the manufacturing, not only the part, to be reliable, and does quality-control checks along the way as well. The equipment for such checks isn't practical for a consumer doing a one-off.
I'm no expert but I have watched several episodes of "Pawn Stars";).
Early muskets were stamped by the maker and the tester. The tester simply loaded the muzzle with 4x the normal amount of black powder. If it didn't explode, it passed for repeated use at 1x. Simple and apparently stood the test of time.
Bubble, no bubble... in the end a user could use a similar test method.
And it totally makes sense that to drive a hundred grand luxury car that you'd have to take only the direct routes, not the ones you may actually want to take. This is a gigantic failure of useability.
The main downsides to electric cars are: - Range - Refueling time (charging) - Cost/Maintenance of the batteries
These limitations aren't new. If they severely impact you then an electric car is not suitable at the moment; end of story.
Also, a semi has great towing capacity but the city mpg is terrible.
Slashdot needs revenue to continue and advertising is how they generate it. So what's your problem?
It's like Prada selling knock-offs... it cheapens their brand. Slashdot advertising low paying / high work hour EMC jobs doesn't do anything for their brand.
I would say advertise jobs for worthwhile companies... but then again worthwhile companies probably have no problems finding employees.
We threw one off the loading dock a few months back after replacing it with a M4000.
Domains on the M4000 are a pain in the ass... the second domain can't access internal disk. You're forced to Jumpstart and SAN boot. They should only sell the M5000 and up.
No they shouldn't. The producers determine the price for Austrailia if they sell there at all.
This is similar to the philosophy in China. Everyone watches the latest Hollywood movies and uses the latest software. If the price is low enough they may decide to actually buy the legitimate copy instead of the bootleg. It sure is great when the government doesn't get involved... gotta love the free market system:).
When you print money to pay off debts the currency devalues and it is a no brainer. THe exchange rates are going downhill as the house wants to debate whether to default or not eveyr 3 months.
Therefore, the Bank of Australia wants a higher percentage to avoid the risk as the dollar is the worlds worst currency right now with the highest risk.... Well Japan might be tieing the US in this area if the government improves more printing of money.
So MS responds with the 30% premium to convert dollars to Australias currency by passing it on to the consumer.
IT also explains why healthcare costs are skyrocketing up with insurnace, food, housing and student loans while incomes decline. All this free money given to rich by low interest rates inflates the money supply.
Holy shit. It's a real life application of the Chewbacca Defense. This is amazing...:)
I already know the answer. It's the same reason Canadians pay far more for the same items in the US even though our dollar has been at parity for years now.
There was one scandal where Bombardier, a Canadian company receiving government money, was charging Canadians more for ATVs made in Canada than they charged in the US. So effectively the Canadian government was subsidizing a company to rip-off it's own citizens.
Really? So we're going to see buildings destroyed, thousands murdered? The hyperbole is way out of hand on this one.
It's all about strategically timed loss of service to exacerbate tensions:
- Disable electricity during a heat wave in Atlanta = Riot - Disable communications right after a white police officer is acquitted of beating a black suspect in LA = Riot & Looting - Disable banking/credit card during Black Friday = Riot, people already riot and trample each other in Walmart without a loss of service.
Basically the US is a powder keg... all it takes is a spark:)
This weird criminal somehow has 50 GB * 1,000,000 = 47.6 petabytes of enterprise storage? Without getting one dollar? How is this paid for? Not to mention all the data traffic back and forth which will be even more expensive?
It is accomplished as follows and in this order:
- Thin provisioning - Data dedupe - Data compression
It was just a shot in the dark, but if you personally identify with an uneducated backwoods hick, I'm not really shocked.
...you can walk your offensive, snooty ass down to the liquor store and buy a 750ml bottle of booze to help you cope with what must be the horrible pain of living among such inferior people.
I'll take you up on that offer. I think you hit the nail on the head for once...
Let's say the average person has an IQ of 100. A retard is legally 75 or below, so only 25 points below average. It would only take an IQ of 125 to feel like you're dealing with retards ALL day. Thank you for acknowledging my pain.
Yes, the people signing the petition are US citizens, but they're a minority. Argue 'till you're blue in the face, we won't switch, for the same reason we keep using dollar bills when dollar coins would be "better". Thats the way we like it. I realize the reason isn't good enough for people who want to impose their will on us. Tough.
Really Cletus? Minority? People/Industries that matter are already moving ahead. Clearly you and your opinion don't matter.
Military - The U.S. military uses metric measurements extensively to ensure interoperability with allied forces, particularly NATO STANAGs, "standardization agreements". Ground forces measure distances in "klicks", slang for kilometers. Most military firearms are measured in metric units, beginning with the M-14 which was introduced in 1957.
Science and medicine - In science, metric use is essentially universal, consistent with worldwide use, although additional specialized units are often utilized for specific purposes in various disciplines (such as the light-year in astronomy).
Sports - U.S. citizens are frequently exposed to metric units through coverage of international sporting events, particularly the Olympic Games. -- Have fun at the 100 yard dash!
Financial services - The United States was one of the first nations to adopt decimal currency. Until 2001, U.S. stocks were traded in fractions of dollars (½, ¼, ) based on the old Spanish pieces of eight, but the Securities and Exchange Commission ordered stocks to move to dollars and cents to better integrate with global markets.
Electricity and energy - There are no U.S. customary units for electric current, potential difference, or charge since these concepts were developed after the international adoption of metric in science.
The meter is based on the speed of light. Actually, the inch is based on the meter, so imperial lengths are also based on the speed of light.
"The meter was defined in 1790 as one ten-millionth (10 to the -7th power) of the Earth's quadrant passing through Paris. It was redifined - because the earth is not a sphere, after all, but an oblate spheroid." -- Which is one of the few arbitrary units... there is only 1 for length!
Now, let me apply your logic:
A retard is incapable of logical thinking. Jonbryce thinks the meter was based on the speed of light; which is illogical. Jonbryce is illogical, therefore Jonbryce could be a retard.
The system is better; you obviously didn't read the post you responded to. It isn't just about the unit conversion.
And according to the article the people who wish to impose this new system are its citizens. Unless of course the White House accepts signatures from foreign nationals.
The only superior system would be one based on universal constants. If you want to feel superior, why don't you push for a system based on Planck's constant or the speed of light? Just don't do something equally stupid like mixing them, having multple units for length etc.
Metric is every bit as arbitrary as imperial, it's just a bit easier to do unit conversions with them.
The metric system is not arbitrary. There is only one unit each of length, mass, volumes, etc. It is also coherent.
Coherence"
"Each variant of the metric system has a degree of coherence – the various derived units being directly related to the base units without the need of intermediate conversion factors. For example, in a coherent system the units of force, energy and power are chosen so that the equations
force = mass × acceleration
energy = force × distance
power = energy / time
hold without the introduction of constant factors. Once a set of coherent units have been defined, other relationships in physics that use those units will automatically be true - Einstein's mass-energy equation, E = mc2, does not require extraneous constants when expressed in coherent units.[18]
The cgs system had two units of energy, the erg that was related to mechanics and the calorie that was related to thermal energy so only one of them (the erg) could bear a coherent relationship to the base units. Coherence was a design aim of SI resulting in only one unit of energy being defined - the joule.[19]
In SI, which is a coherent system, the unit of power is the "watt" which is defined as "one joule per second".[20] In the US customary system of measurement, which is non-coherent, the unit of power is the "horsepower" which is defined as "550 foot-pounds per second" (the pound in this context being the pound-force), similarly the gallon is not equal to a cubic yard (nor is it the cube of any length unit).
The concept of coherence was only introduced into the metric system in the third quarter of the nineteenth century; in its original form the metric system was non-coherent - in particular the litre was 0.001 m3 and the are (from which we get the hectare) was 100 m2. A precursor to the concept of coherence was however present in that the units of mass and length were related to each other through the physical properties of water, the gram having been designed as being the mass of one cubic centimetre of water at its freezing point."
I'm not so sure that is a good idea, either. I was told, albeit a while back, that not including any past jobs and/or education is lying. It might be a lie of omission, but the job apps I've seen, asked for all past positions and education. I'd suggest speaking to a an expert in the field before excluding things.
Hmmm.. I really think it depends on the situation. Let's take a look:
Omitting that you working as a part time drug dealer in college... hiding something Omitting that you have a respectable Ph.D... your choice Omitting that you helped manage the importation of underage prostitutes from southeast asia... very specific and also hiding something Omitting your religion, marital status, sexual preference... your choice Omitting that your Ph.D. actually came from a sketchy online university... hiding something
It appears omitting something out that could be potentially damaging is wrong. But omitting an achievement or otherwise acceptable detail that isn't the employers business is just fine.
I found a similar story on another obscure website:
"An anonymous reader points out the case of Saeed Malekpour, an Iranian-born permanent resident of Canada who worked as a web developer. In 2008, during a visit to Iran, Malekpour was arrested and detained by Iranian authorities on charges that he designed and moderated "adult content websites." In 2009, he was sentenced to death for "acting against the national security, insulting and desecrating the principles of Islam, and agitating the public mind." Malekpour wrote photo-uploading software, and in a letter he sent from prison, he said it was used by porn sites without his knowledge."
Maybe you are the new-fangled type that prefers to watch media on their home entertainment system?
I've found that certain movies are enjoyable on the big screen, and less so on the small.
'White man make big fire... sit far away. Indian make small fire... sit close.'
Sorry, I actually agree regarding the theater experience. But honestly, how often do you get to use the above quote in the actual context it was intended?:)
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And it's my right to film young MILF's breast feeding in public. ;)
And it's my right to point out that the plural of MILF is MILFs (and not "MILF's").
Nice try. You're confusing breastfeeding with a breast that is feeding.
I bet you feel more than a little embarrassed now.
P.S. How else do you think breasts get so big. You have to feed them.
I always find this comment somewhat amusing from Slashdot posters.
Bundling is a pain in the rear, but pretty much everyone on this site with cable television benefits from it. Do you really think that most of the channels we watch would exist without bundling? I'd hazard a guess that with the possible exception of the food channel, any channel remotely educational or special interest would be gone without bundling, because almost no one would sign up for them.
I call bullshit on losing Discovery and History channel. As for the others; why do you find it necessary to artificially prop up specialty channels?!
If the user base isn't there to support it, it should go, plain and simple. Either pass on the true cost to the customer or axe it.
Furthermore, what percentage of channels show their own in-house content and how much comes from shows that were shopped around? AMC's flagship series Breaking Bad -- made by Sony. If AMC the channel didn't exist, the show could still be shopped around to another channel. Maybe eliminating channels would clean up the ratio of quality shows on the channels that do exist?
Failure doesn't stem only from bad design. What happens if there's a slight clog in the 3D printer's extruder that creates a bubble or weak spot hidden within a part? A larger company engineers the manufacturing, not only the part, to be reliable, and does quality-control checks along the way as well. The equipment for such checks isn't practical for a consumer doing a one-off.
I'm no expert but I have watched several episodes of "Pawn Stars" ;).
Early muskets were stamped by the maker and the tester. The tester simply loaded the muzzle with 4x the normal amount of black powder. If it didn't explode, it passed for repeated use at 1x. Simple and apparently stood the test of time.
Bubble, no bubble... in the end a user could use a similar test method.
They're taking a page from the 9/11 playbook.
At least with cyber-terrorism they aren't killing their own citizens to rally support.
we're a LONG ways away from having machines do absolutely everything for us.
Yeah, what happened to those Japanese sex-bots I keep hearing about?
the popular assumption with regenerative braking is that it's actually better because you'll regenerate more power as you brake.
You're fired. Pack up your shit and get out.
And it totally makes sense that to drive a hundred grand luxury car that you'd have to take only the direct routes, not the ones you may actually want to take. This is a gigantic failure of useability.
The main downsides to electric cars are:
- Range
- Refueling time (charging)
- Cost/Maintenance of the batteries
These limitations aren't new. If they severely impact you then an electric car is not suitable at the moment; end of story.
Also, a semi has great towing capacity but the city mpg is terrible.
Slashdot needs revenue to continue and advertising is how they generate it. So what's your problem?
It's like Prada selling knock-offs... it cheapens their brand.
Slashdot advertising low paying / high work hour EMC jobs doesn't do anything for their brand.
I would say advertise jobs for worthwhile companies... but then again worthwhile companies probably have no problems finding employees.
We threw one off the loading dock a few months back after replacing it with a M4000.
Domains on the M4000 are a pain in the ass... the second domain can't access internal disk. You're forced to Jumpstart and SAN boot. They should only sell the M5000 and up.
No they shouldn't. The producers determine the price for Austrailia if they sell there at all.
This is similar to the philosophy in China. Everyone watches the latest Hollywood movies and uses the latest software. If the price is low enough they may decide to actually buy the legitimate copy instead of the bootleg. It sure is great when the government doesn't get involved... gotta love the free market system :).
When you print money to pay off debts the currency devalues and it is a no brainer. THe exchange rates are going downhill as the house wants to debate whether to default or not eveyr 3 months.
Therefore, the Bank of Australia wants a higher percentage to avoid the risk as the dollar is the worlds worst currency right now with the highest risk. ... Well Japan might be tieing the US in this area if the government improves more printing of money.
So MS responds with the 30% premium to convert dollars to Australias currency by passing it on to the consumer.
IT also explains why healthcare costs are skyrocketing up with insurnace, food, housing and student loans while incomes decline. All this free money given to rich by low interest rates inflates the money supply.
Holy shit. It's a real life application of the Chewbacca Defense. This is amazing... :)
Please mod +5 informative. This is the actual answer.
And now here's something I hope you'll really enjoy (some dudes rant on the topic):
http://www.snowandmud.com/just-about-anything-goes-76/canadian-dollar-ski-doo-rip-off-5380.html
I already know the answer. It's the same reason Canadians pay far more for the same items in the US even though our dollar has been at parity for years now.
There was one scandal where Bombardier, a Canadian company receiving government money, was charging Canadians more for ATVs made in Canada than they charged in the US. So effectively the Canadian government was subsidizing a company to rip-off it's own citizens.
Really? So we're going to see buildings destroyed, thousands murdered? The hyperbole is way out of hand on this one.
It's all about strategically timed loss of service to exacerbate tensions:
- Disable electricity during a heat wave in Atlanta = Riot
- Disable communications right after a white police officer is acquitted of beating a black suspect in LA = Riot & Looting
- Disable banking/credit card during Black Friday = Riot, people already riot and trample each other in Walmart without a loss of service.
Basically the US is a powder keg... all it takes is a spark :)
This weird criminal somehow has 50 GB * 1,000,000 = 47.6 petabytes of enterprise storage? Without getting one dollar? How is this paid for? Not to mention all the data traffic back and forth which will be even more expensive?
It is accomplished as follows and in this order:
- Thin provisioning
- Data dedupe
- Data compression
Links in the summary... NONE of them to the actual service. Brilliant!
Here is the actual site: https://mega.co.nz/
Wow, personal attack in the first sentence
It was just a shot in the dark, but if you personally identify with an uneducated backwoods hick, I'm not really shocked.
...you can walk your offensive, snooty ass down to the liquor store and buy a 750ml bottle of booze to help you cope with what must be the horrible pain of living among such inferior people.
I'll take you up on that offer. I think you hit the nail on the head for once...
Let's say the average person has an IQ of 100. A retard is legally 75 or below, so only 25 points below average. It would only take an IQ of 125 to feel like you're dealing with retards ALL day. Thank you for acknowledging my pain.
Yes, the people signing the petition are US citizens, but they're a minority. Argue 'till you're blue in the face, we won't switch, for the same reason we keep using dollar bills when dollar coins would be "better". Thats the way we like it. I realize the reason isn't good enough for people who want to impose their will on us. Tough.
Really Cletus? Minority? People/Industries that matter are already moving ahead. Clearly you and your opinion don't matter.
Military - The U.S. military uses metric measurements extensively to ensure interoperability with allied forces, particularly NATO STANAGs, "standardization agreements". Ground forces measure distances in "klicks", slang for kilometers. Most military firearms are measured in metric units, beginning with the M-14 which was introduced in 1957.
Science and medicine - In science, metric use is essentially universal, consistent with worldwide use, although additional specialized units are often utilized for specific purposes in various disciplines (such as the light-year in astronomy).
Sports - U.S. citizens are frequently exposed to metric units through coverage of international sporting events, particularly the Olympic Games. -- Have fun at the 100 yard dash!
Financial services - The United States was one of the first nations to adopt decimal currency. Until 2001, U.S. stocks were traded in fractions of dollars (½, ¼, ) based on the old Spanish pieces of eight, but the Securities and Exchange Commission ordered stocks to move to dollars and cents to better integrate with global markets.
Electricity and energy - There are no U.S. customary units for electric current, potential difference, or charge since these concepts were developed after the international adoption of metric in science.
The meter is based on the speed of light. Actually, the inch is based on the meter, so imperial lengths are also based on the speed of light.
"The meter was defined in 1790 as one ten-millionth (10 to the -7th power) of the Earth's quadrant passing through Paris. It was redifined - because the earth is not a sphere, after all, but an oblate spheroid." -- Which is one of the few arbitrary units... there is only 1 for length!
Now, let me apply your logic:
A retard is incapable of logical thinking. Jonbryce thinks the meter was based on the speed of light; which is illogical. Jonbryce is illogical, therefore Jonbryce could be a retard.
The system is better; you obviously didn't read the post you responded to. It isn't just about the unit conversion.
And according to the article the people who wish to impose this new system are its citizens. Unless of course the White House accepts signatures from foreign nationals.
The only superior system would be one based on universal constants. If you want to feel superior, why don't you push for a system based on Planck's constant or the speed of light? Just don't do something equally stupid like mixing them, having multple units for length etc.
Metric is every bit as arbitrary as imperial, it's just a bit easier to do unit conversions with them.
The metric system is not arbitrary. There is only one unit each of length, mass, volumes, etc. It is also coherent.
Coherence"
"Each variant of the metric system has a degree of coherence – the various derived units being directly related to the base units without the need of intermediate conversion factors. For example, in a coherent system the units of force, energy and power are chosen so that the equations
force = mass × acceleration
energy = force × distance
power = energy / time
hold without the introduction of constant factors. Once a set of coherent units have been defined, other relationships in physics that use those units will automatically be true - Einstein's mass-energy equation, E = mc2, does not require extraneous constants when expressed in coherent units.[18]
The cgs system had two units of energy, the erg that was related to mechanics and the calorie that was related to thermal energy so only one of them (the erg) could bear a coherent relationship to the base units. Coherence was a design aim of SI resulting in only one unit of energy being defined - the joule.[19]
In SI, which is a coherent system, the unit of power is the "watt" which is defined as "one joule per second".[20] In the US customary system of measurement, which is non-coherent, the unit of power is the "horsepower" which is defined as "550 foot-pounds per second" (the pound in this context being the pound-force), similarly the gallon is not equal to a cubic yard (nor is it the cube of any length unit).
The concept of coherence was only introduced into the metric system in the third quarter of the nineteenth century; in its original form the metric system was non-coherent - in particular the litre was 0.001 m3 and the are (from which we get the hectare) was 100 m2. A precursor to the concept of coherence was however present in that the units of mass and length were related to each other through the physical properties of water, the gram having been designed as being the mass of one cubic centimetre of water at its freezing point."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system
I'm not so sure that is a good idea, either. I was told, albeit a while back, that not including any past jobs and/or education is lying. It might be a lie of omission, but the job apps I've seen, asked for all past positions and education. I'd suggest speaking to a an expert in the field before excluding things.
Hmmm.. I really think it depends on the situation. Let's take a look:
Omitting that you working as a part time drug dealer in college... hiding something
Omitting that you have a respectable Ph.D... your choice
Omitting that you helped manage the importation of underage prostitutes from southeast asia... very specific and also hiding something
Omitting your religion, marital status, sexual preference... your choice
Omitting that your Ph.D. actually came from a sketchy online university... hiding something
It appears omitting something out that could be potentially damaging is wrong. But omitting an achievement or otherwise acceptable detail that isn't the employers business is just fine.
I found a similar story on another obscure website:
"An anonymous reader points out the case of Saeed Malekpour, an Iranian-born permanent resident of Canada who worked as a web developer. In 2008, during a visit to Iran, Malekpour was arrested and detained by Iranian authorities on charges that he designed and moderated "adult content websites." In 2009, he was sentenced to death for "acting against the national security, insulting and desecrating the principles of Islam, and agitating the public mind." Malekpour wrote photo-uploading software, and in a letter he sent from prison, he said it was used by porn sites without his knowledge."
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/22/0354253/web-developer-sentenced-to-death-in-iran
Maybe you are the new-fangled type that prefers to watch media on their home entertainment system?
I've found that certain movies are enjoyable on the big screen, and less so on the small.
'White man make big fire... sit far away. Indian make small fire... sit close.'
Sorry, I actually agree regarding the theater experience. But honestly, how often do you get to use the above quote in the actual context it was intended? :)