Sometimes I see comments like this and I'm just stunned. I just want to cry, like that indian in that commercial looking at the litter on the side of the road.
You ain't used to trolls on/.? Oh, its tongue in cheek - don't be soft.
BTW, I don't get your analogy. The entire sub-continent is strewn with garbage,and it doesn't seem to bother most of them. The untouchables will sweep it up eventually.
I'm a good civil servant so I hit 'reply all' explaining to everyone that the message was bogus.
That's the only way to stop those stupid chainletters (reply to all, embarrass them).
But you could have done it anonymously, avoiding her wrath, and saving others from future junk-mail. I bet she still sends them, just with your name off the list.
Calm down! He only proposes removing the shiny button, not the feature. Its only idiots and newbies who use the buttons anyway. Experienced users are already using the keyboard. And the menu would remain too.
It emulates a dial-up modem. You dial something like *99#. The PPP link is from your PC to the phone, unlike an old dialup modem where the PPP protocol connects to a remote server.
No special drivers needed. The nokia phone just looks like a standard USB or bluetooth serial port.
BT can be a bit fiddly, but USB is easy. Isn't it the same with all brands? I'm surprised to find that blackberry is a problem.
Worse than that: Apple _actively_ works to stop you using an iPod with Linux. Older models have been reverse-engineered but the iPod-Touch and iPhone have DRM to stop you touching the music library without iTunes.
This is the sort of evil monopolistic behaviour that caused the FSF to boycott Apple. Time to revive it? If only there was still some sort of government agency to combat such abuse...
Basically, once they had to pay their laborers, they couldn't turn a profit.
Wasn't that due laregly to competition for labor from new sources?
If the Confederates had banned slavery without being invaded by the US, and maintained emigration controls, their economy might have reformed a lot more smoothly.
Slave labor is always inefficient. Slavery was less about reduced wages than bringing in labor that didn't previously exist. Plantations in Africa didn't need to buy slaves as they could hire the existing locals.
Cheddar, a class of cheese we all know, is in reality a particular type of cheese,
No it isn't - Cheddar is a place. That would be like the city of Hamburg trying to own the word "hamburger".
The French got away with stopping other people using the term "champagne" not put making a valid argument, but by using their power in the EC to blackmail other producers with trade restrictions.
We seem to forget the actual purpose of trademark laws - which is to stop a good being passed off as somebody else's, and protect a makers reputation. Do they really think people are buying netbooks thinking they are from Psion?
This is just as stupid as Palm-Pilot vs Pilot pens.
Technology has also vastly increased the Earth's ability to support human life
Unfortunately, it's much worse than that. First, so long as countries have a high birth rate, any technological advance only delays (and magnifies) the coming Malthusian disaster.
Secondly, many of the technological advances are temporary, especially in 3rd world countries, as they depend on cheap oil for mechanisation, fertiliser and pesticides.
The current economic situation has given oil a small reprieve, but the shit will hit the fan some time. It might start with some "unexpected" coincidence of multiple factors: a drought here, a war there, a crop disease somewhere else.
N.America, Australia, Brazil etc suffer a little with reduced exports. China bids high for what remains. Africa starves first, with places like Indonesia and even India not so far behind.
And guess what? There is nothing we can do to stop it, short of mass involuntary sterilisation. Even if all the Americans go vegetarian, banning grain-fed beef and ethanol fuel, it only delays the problem a short time.
Birth rates are the time bomb, and China is the only third world county to be doing anything about it. Mass-starvation (millions of deaths!) is _very_ fresh in their minds.
You can argue over all the variables of crop yields, oil reserves, etc, and it only changes when, not if, mass global food shortages will come.
Bravo! You have observed that there is no hard line between a single cell, and a walking-talking human being. The law requires a line, birth is an obvious option. This legal distinction of when a human life commences is important for many reasons, even when abortion is not legal. e.g. inheritance laws, census, taxation.
Yeah, you got it wrong. The reactor underneath is no longer active, just passively decaying. But don't get too cocky - the fusion reactor overhead is _definitely_ going to explode one day.
Everyone programming for Linux should start with machine code! Then after that, they should learn assembly.
Thats all very well, but only after they have a thorough grounding in writing microcode. How can you appreciate and optimise machine code, without knowing how it is implemented?
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Sometimes I see comments like this and I'm just stunned. I just want to cry, like that indian in that commercial looking at the litter on the side of the road.
You ain't used to trolls on /.? Oh, its tongue in cheek - don't be soft.
BTW, I don't get your analogy. The entire sub-continent is strewn with garbage,and it doesn't seem to bother most of them. The untouchables will sweep it up eventually.
I'm a good civil servant so I hit 'reply all' explaining to everyone that the message was bogus.
That's the only way to stop those stupid chainletters (reply to all, embarrass them).
But you could have done it anonymously, avoiding her wrath, and saving others from future junk-mail. I bet she still sends them, just with your name off the list.
What the fuck? Don't do that.
Calm down! He only proposes removing the shiny button, not the feature. Its only idiots and newbies who use the buttons anyway. Experienced users are already using the keyboard. And the menu would remain too.
Hmmm... If I want 120Hz, I think I'll dig my old faithful Trinitron CRT out of the shed (if I can still lift it).
It emulates a dial-up modem. You dial something like *99#. The PPP link is from your PC to the phone, unlike an old dialup modem where the PPP protocol connects to a remote server.
No special drivers needed. The nokia phone just looks like a standard USB or bluetooth serial port. BT can be a bit fiddly, but USB is easy. Isn't it the same with all brands? I'm surprised to find that blackberry is a problem.
No, docks are so you don't HAVE to waste time plugging and unplugging your monitor, keyboard, mouse, external speakers, USB/Firewire devices, Etc.
Yes, your argument made perfect sense before we had USB hubs. Who needs a dock when it's just USB-hub and monitor now?
Even easier: just remote-desktop over wifi from your desktop. Zero plugs!
This is the sort of evil monopolistic behaviour that caused the FSF to boycott Apple. Time to revive it? If only there was still some sort of government agency to combat such abuse ...
He did say _sudden_ exposure. Mountain climbers take many days to acclimatise. But then that stuff about blood boiling in seconds is total crap.
Why are you drawing attention to it? Just let the moderation system do its job. It only takes one mod to drop an AC into -1 oblivion.
Basically, once they had to pay their laborers, they couldn't turn a profit.
Wasn't that due laregly to competition for labor from new sources?
If the Confederates had banned slavery without being invaded by the US, and maintained emigration controls, their economy might have reformed a lot more smoothly.
Slave labor is always inefficient. Slavery was less about reduced wages than bringing in labor that didn't previously exist. Plantations in Africa didn't need to buy slaves as they could hire the existing locals.
Cheddar, a class of cheese we all know, is in reality a particular type of cheese,
No it isn't - Cheddar is a place. That would be like the city of Hamburg trying to own the word "hamburger".
The French got away with stopping other people using the term "champagne" not put making a valid argument, but by using their power in the EC to blackmail other producers with trade restrictions.
We seem to forget the actual purpose of trademark laws - which is to stop a good being passed off as somebody else's, and protect a makers reputation. Do they really think people are buying netbooks thinking they are from Psion?
This is just as stupid as Palm-Pilot vs Pilot pens.
Inside the box is a 52,000 kwh electric charge. Huge difference there. The correct unit for magnetic field strength is Telsa btw.
Pot. Kettle. Try 52kWhr of energy. The correct unit for charge is the coulomb.
Technology has also vastly increased the Earth's ability to support human life
Unfortunately, it's much worse than that. First, so long as countries have a high birth rate, any technological advance only delays (and magnifies) the coming Malthusian disaster.
Secondly, many of the technological advances are temporary, especially in 3rd world countries, as they depend on cheap oil for mechanisation, fertiliser and pesticides.
The current economic situation has given oil a small reprieve, but the shit will hit the fan some time. It might start with some "unexpected" coincidence of multiple factors: a drought here, a war there, a crop disease somewhere else.
N.America, Australia, Brazil etc suffer a little with reduced exports. China bids high for what remains. Africa starves first, with places like Indonesia and even India not so far behind.
And guess what? There is nothing we can do to stop it, short of mass involuntary sterilisation. Even if all the Americans go vegetarian, banning grain-fed beef and ethanol fuel, it only delays the problem a short time.
Birth rates are the time bomb, and China is the only third world county to be doing anything about it. Mass-starvation (millions of deaths!) is _very_ fresh in their minds.
You can argue over all the variables of crop yields, oil reserves, etc, and it only changes when, not if, mass global food shortages will come.
That's all they did in GATTACA too.
Yes, and apparently you need to WTFM.
Again? It wasn't that good. Will check IMDB instead: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/plotsummary :
Vincent is one of the last "natural" babies born into a sterile, genetically-enhanced world.
In "the not-too-distant" future, where genetic engineering of humans is common ...
However many other genes involved in breast cancer may still be present.
And most breast cancers are not due to hereditary causes.
by knocking out BRCA that other, unintended consequences will result...
They are not knocking it out. They are selecting an embryo which has inherited the good (not known bad) copy of the BRCA gene.
Familial breast cancer does affect men, but still a lower risk than for women with the same gene.
That's all they did in GATTACA too.
We need a new acronym: WTFM (or RTFB?)
You know, pencils make pretty good r/w memory
You can prototype this new technology at home. All you need is a 4000H pencil, a laboratory-grade pencil sharpener, a microscope, and a steady hand.
Its a little-know fact that most sky-diving fatalities occur within metres of the finish.
Bravo! You have observed that there is no hard line between a single cell, and a walking-talking human being. The law requires a line, birth is an obvious option. This legal distinction of when a human life commences is important for many reasons, even when abortion is not legal. e.g. inheritance laws, census, taxation.
Yeah, you got it wrong. The reactor underneath is no longer active, just passively decaying. But don't get too cocky - the fusion reactor overhead is _definitely_ going to explode one day.
considering that this site is not really very international at all,
Yes, as an Australian I'm disappointed that there are never any stories about this big brown land.
Everyone programming for Linux should start with machine code! Then after that, they should learn assembly.
Thats all very well, but only after they have a thorough grounding in writing microcode. How can you appreciate and optimise machine code, without knowing how it is implemented?
Anything below microcode is a hardware problem.