Err, that's not what TFA says. "[A] Minotaur IV rocket... delivers the Falcon to a starting point high in the atmosphere where its engine ignites and if all goes well it will blast through the air for about a half hour." Sounds powered to me.
Wikipedia is compromised by DESIGN. It is a spectacularly noble effort and it is a miracle that it hasn't been rendered a shambles just by punk minded users doing what users are SUPPOSED to do - write content.
Yep. And the other 2/3 of the world get their news from the in-the-bag willing accomplices in the press of the corruptocracies, plutocracies, and power-mad overlords.
Replacing X is just part of a widespread movement to dumb down linux. Look at Gnome3, Ubuntu Unity, and to some extent KDE4 for more examples. We are at a crossroads here, with some trying to build the kind of logically extrapolated architecture you envision, with true power, and others who only see computers as toys.
No, that is plainly not what the poster said at all. Wayland is an attempt to change the whole display paradigm, rendering X obsolete as it is envisioned that no one will program to X's interface any more. X would still be supported as a stepchild, but if there are a diminishing number of programs that support it, it would before long become essentially useless.
All right, let me try to explain it, because it's a good idea to understand it.
It's not contempt for users; it's contempt for TRYING TO MAKE USERS STUPID. Trying to make users stupid is very condescending and insulting. From what I have seen, users as a whole are a lot smarter than these elitist egotistical morons who are trying to dumb down the desktop, the windowing system, and ultimately the operating system. The average six year old whom I sit in front of a Gnome2 or KDE3 linux desktop feels right at home practically immediately. They find it intuitive and efficient
The change that is being resisted is all change FOR THE WORSE. It is STUPID change. Just stop trying to RUIN perfectly working stuff.
I'm not completely convinced one way or the other yet whether Wayland is an example of the product of these morons. I do know that the Gnome3, Ubuntu Unity, (and to a certain very real extent KDE4) disasters are a result of this idiocy.
You didn't read the article, did you? Author was contracted, not employed; the work in question was done on his own time. Your condemnation is out of line.
I don't happen to find any other post that mentions the elementary fact that unless you signed an agreement somewhere that gives the BSA the right to make an audit, you can just tell them to STFU and GTFO. If you bought everything at retail, for example, Best Buy, Provantage, PC Connection, etc, no such agreement would apply. It's when you buy site licenses or have to sign an agreement to make the purchase that you get roped in.
If there's something in the shrink wrap somewhere, then it gets murky. That's where they can claim that you "agreed" to something you never did, just by opening the package.
So step one is to ask them for their explicit basis of authority in your case.
You did the right thing under the circumstances, legally, morally, and ethically. No one can make a case of substance otherwise. Fat cat corporate guttersnipes do this kind of thing all the time. They calculate that the penalty is not likely to be a criminal one; they will probably not be found guilty of fraud and sent where they belong; they are only accountable to the business owners or shareholders; so they brazenly continue to defy, at an absolute minimum, business ethics and morals in a calculating manner.
Your advice is also excellent.
I say this, much as I despise BSA in general. This case was cut and dried.
Any other respondents who are condemnatory in an insulting way can rot in hell.
And the 2.5" form factor once again pulls into approximately equal volumetric parity with the 3.5" (when you count the actual space consumed by the drive and mounting arrangement for 2-3 2.5" drives compared to 1 3.5" drive). And roughly equal power consumption per GB as well.
This regulation is complete BULLSHIT. The chance of meeting this arbitrary requirement, based on pure hash smoking and Kumbaya singing, are precisely ZERO. It would require completely stamping out production of serious pickups and vans and full family SUVs. If pickups and vans and full family SUVs have a bullshit exclusion, then the figure is absolutely meaningless because 60% of buyers will just opt for the excluded vehicles.
And no, I'm not saying this because I am gluttonous selfish bastard. I've been averaging 46 mpg over the last 11 years. It's just realism.
Yes, it is impossible to do justice to the stupidity of U.S. policy. Less than 1% of the 227,000 km of rail line in the U.S. is electrified. But this does include some important high-traffic routes in the Northeast; it is hardly limited to subways and light rail.
This is not due to impracticality of electrification, as implied by both your posts. The distances involved in the U.S. are no kind of unique bar to electrification. As a matter of fact, there was far more electrified line in existence in the U.S. 70 years ago, which thoroughly disproves that theory. And Russia and China, with their own enormous expanse, were not deterred from electrifying their rail lines. By the end of 2004, 18,900 of 74,200 km of rail line in China had been electrified, an order of magnitude more length of electrified track than in the U.S. In Russia, the entire trans-Siberian line, and the route to Murmansk have been electrified.
In the real world, electric rail use is not limited to passenger by any means. It is just as suitable for freight. By 1990, 60% of Soviet railway freight was being hauled electrically. Today, 85% of railroad traffic ton-miles in Russia are hauled electrically.
You don't know what you are talking about. Around the world, there are many, many trains powered solely by electricity, from overhead wires or third rails. Just about all subways and light rail are electric. 17,000 of 24,000 km of rail line in Japan is electrified. The Japanese bullet trains are electric. The French TGV are electric. Eurostar London/Paris trains are electric. Maglev is of course electric.
One fourth of track around the world (240,000 km) is electrified, and 50% of all rail transport is electric. That includes the US, which is sadly behind serious modern countries.
I see a flood of patronizing posts and many of them xenophobic. Look, I'm not crazy about the Chinese regime/economic system (or the US regime/economic system), but train accidents occur all the time and even in the most "superior" societies. Here are some derailments in the last decade involving injuries.
Hatfield, UK, 2000, 4 dead, 70+ injured - exposed sloppiness in privatized infrastructure and poor oversight. Potters Bar, UK, 2002, 7 dead, 76 injured - poor maintenance. Waterfall, Australia, 2003, 7 dead, 40 injured - driver heart attacked, train failed to automatically stop, deadman's pedal insufficient and may have been defeated, guard failed to take action, training shortcomings found. Grayrigg, UK, 2007, 1 dead, 88 injured - points mis-set. Jiao-Ji, China, 2008, 70+ killed, 400+ injured - excessive speed, collision Larissa, Greece, 2008, 29 injured - possible human error or points failure. Orissa, India, 2009, 9 dead, 150 injured - cause unknown.
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Oh yeah, "Competition is good, but too much can hurt things." I think you might want to go back to the drawing board on that thought.
Author truly IS an idiot. Go ahead, troll me too, asshole moderators.
Err, that's not what TFA says. "[A] Minotaur IV rocket ... delivers the Falcon to a starting point high in the atmosphere where its engine ignites and if all goes well it will blast through the air for about a half hour." Sounds powered to me.
Are you serious? 13,000 mph is not 13 km/s. 13,000 mph is 20,920 km/h, which is 5.8 km/s.
Nominate for stupidest "whoosh" yet.
Wikipedia is compromised by DESIGN. It is a spectacularly noble effort and it is a miracle that it hasn't been rendered a shambles just by punk minded users doing what users are SUPPOSED to do - write content.
Who will watchlist the watchlists?
Yep. And the other 2/3 of the world get their news from the in-the-bag willing accomplices in the press of the corruptocracies, plutocracies, and power-mad overlords.
Decry. I do not think that word means what you think it means. Or would you care to rephrase that first sentence?
Replacing X is just part of a widespread movement to dumb down linux. Look at Gnome3, Ubuntu Unity, and to some extent KDE4 for more examples. We are at a crossroads here, with some trying to build the kind of logically extrapolated architecture you envision, with true power, and others who only see computers as toys.
No, that is plainly not what the poster said at all. Wayland is an attempt to change the whole display paradigm, rendering X obsolete as it is envisioned that no one will program to X's interface any more. X would still be supported as a stepchild, but if there are a diminishing number of programs that support it, it would before long become essentially useless.
All right, let me try to explain it, because it's a good idea to understand it.
It's not contempt for users; it's contempt for TRYING TO MAKE USERS STUPID. Trying to make users stupid is very condescending and insulting. From what I have seen, users as a whole are a lot smarter than these elitist egotistical morons who are trying to dumb down the desktop, the windowing system, and ultimately the operating system. The average six year old whom I sit in front of a Gnome2 or KDE3 linux desktop feels right at home practically immediately. They find it intuitive and efficient
The change that is being resisted is all change FOR THE WORSE. It is STUPID change. Just stop trying to RUIN perfectly working stuff.
I'm not completely convinced one way or the other yet whether Wayland is an example of the product of these morons. I do know that the Gnome3, Ubuntu Unity, (and to a certain very real extent KDE4) disasters are a result of this idiocy.
It's a temporrary thing. Usually after another e^n years they figure out what exponential growth means.
Well, that might make our living rooms a little toasty, but since we will have made the earth nice and cool we can move outside.
That damned plaster-and-lathe construction. Would that be wood lathes embedded in the plaster, or is it metal lathes?
Oh, the Chernobyl reactor didn't explode? I'll alert the media. They've been wrong all these years. Why didn't you tell them?
You didn't read the article, did you? Author was contracted, not employed; the work in question was done on his own time. Your condemnation is out of line.
I don't happen to find any other post that mentions the elementary fact that unless you signed an agreement somewhere that gives the BSA the right to make an audit, you can just tell them to STFU and GTFO. If you bought everything at retail, for example, Best Buy, Provantage, PC Connection, etc, no such agreement would apply. It's when you buy site licenses or have to sign an agreement to make the purchase that you get roped in.
If there's something in the shrink wrap somewhere, then it gets murky. That's where they can claim that you "agreed" to something you never did, just by opening the package.
So step one is to ask them for their explicit basis of authority in your case.
You did the right thing under the circumstances, legally, morally, and ethically. No one can make a case of substance otherwise. Fat cat corporate guttersnipes do this kind of thing all the time. They calculate that the penalty is not likely to be a criminal one; they will probably not be found guilty of fraud and sent where they belong; they are only accountable to the business owners or shareholders; so they brazenly continue to defy, at an absolute minimum, business ethics and morals in a calculating manner.
Your advice is also excellent.
I say this, much as I despise BSA in general. This case was cut and dried.
Any other respondents who are condemnatory in an insulting way can rot in hell.
And the 2.5" form factor once again pulls into approximately equal volumetric parity with the 3.5" (when you count the actual space consumed by the drive and mounting arrangement for 2-3 2.5" drives compared to 1 3.5" drive). And roughly equal power consumption per GB as well.
This regulation is complete BULLSHIT. The chance of meeting this arbitrary requirement, based on pure hash smoking and Kumbaya singing, are precisely ZERO. It would require completely stamping out production of serious pickups and vans and full family SUVs. If pickups and vans and full family SUVs have a bullshit exclusion, then the figure is absolutely meaningless because 60% of buyers will just opt for the excluded vehicles.
And no, I'm not saying this because I am gluttonous selfish bastard. I've been averaging 46 mpg over the last 11 years. It's just realism.
We can't have that, now, can we.
Yes, it is impossible to do justice to the stupidity of U.S. policy. Less than 1% of the 227,000 km of rail line in the U.S. is electrified. But this does include some important high-traffic routes in the Northeast; it is hardly limited to subways and light rail.
This is not due to impracticality of electrification, as implied by both your posts. The distances involved in the U.S. are no kind of unique bar to electrification. As a matter of fact, there was far more electrified line in existence in the U.S. 70 years ago, which thoroughly disproves that theory. And Russia and China, with their own enormous expanse, were not deterred from electrifying their rail lines. By the end of 2004, 18,900 of 74,200 km of rail line in China had been electrified, an order of magnitude more length of electrified track than in the U.S. In Russia, the entire trans-Siberian line, and the route to Murmansk have been electrified.
In the real world, electric rail use is not limited to passenger by any means. It is just as suitable for freight. By 1990, 60% of Soviet railway freight was being hauled electrically. Today, 85% of railroad traffic ton-miles in Russia are hauled electrically.
You don't know what you are talking about. Around the world, there are many, many trains powered solely by electricity, from overhead wires or third rails. Just about all subways and light rail are electric. 17,000 of 24,000 km of rail line in Japan is electrified. The Japanese bullet trains are electric. The French TGV are electric. Eurostar London/Paris trains are electric. Maglev is of course electric.
One fourth of track around the world (240,000 km) is electrified, and 50% of all rail transport is electric. That includes the US, which is sadly behind serious modern countries.
I see a flood of patronizing posts and many of them xenophobic. Look, I'm not crazy about the Chinese regime/economic system (or the US regime/economic system), but train accidents occur all the time and even in the most "superior" societies. Here are some derailments in the last decade involving injuries.
Hatfield, UK, 2000, 4 dead, 70+ injured - exposed sloppiness in privatized infrastructure and poor oversight.
Potters Bar, UK, 2002, 7 dead, 76 injured - poor maintenance.
Waterfall, Australia, 2003, 7 dead, 40 injured - driver heart attacked, train failed to automatically stop, deadman's pedal insufficient and may have been defeated, guard failed to take action, training shortcomings found.
Grayrigg, UK, 2007, 1 dead, 88 injured - points mis-set.
Jiao-Ji, China, 2008, 70+ killed, 400+ injured - excessive speed, collision
Larissa, Greece, 2008, 29 injured - possible human error or points failure.
Orissa, India, 2009, 9 dead, 150 injured - cause unknown.