... they're not making it to get prophit (theoretically) they're doing it to produce quality television for the UK public. As soon as they start having to try and pander to prophit...
Sounds like some biblical sci-fi, aliens gave the prophets their powers or something. Hopefully they'll be able to make a profit from such a show!
Why do people shell out $50 for a bottle of wine that they consume over the course of a couple of hours and then it's gone forever?
And somebody shells out $50 for the next version of Unreal Tournament because they enjoy the added features (like vehicles in Onslaught) which they get to enjoy for countless hours over the course of years, and some fool on the internet with an opinion takes offence? Why, oh why won't somebody think of the children!
Noice-cancelling headphones, whether resting over the ears of completely encompassing the ears work in exactly the same way. For every sound it detects outside, it plays the inverse of that sound through the speakers. So both are "piping opposite waves into your ear".
You're probably thinking of the kind of hearing protection used on construction sites, which have enough soundproof material that the sound which would damage your hearing just never gets through in the first place. Batteries not required, of course. If your intent is to just block out sound and you don't want to listen to your music at the same time, this would be the safest way to go.
Also, I'd venture to say that most astronomers know the difference between Gb and GB and use them daily, but when was the last time most slashdotters were even exposed to the sun?
Samsung will start producing 16 gigabit Nand Flash chips this year...
Gartner estimates that 16GB Flash drives will cost from about $90...
Where's the conflict? Flash chip != flash drive. Flash drives can often comprise multiple chips. Let's say we stack 8 of those 16Gb chips into one drive. How big is the flash drive going to be?
Normally, glutamate is a neurotransmitter which allows for communication according to TFA. I'm speculating here that less glutamate means less communication (hence slower thinking) and that more glutamate means more communication (better thinking). Just like caffeine enhances mental focus and physical performance, but too much will kill you. As long as you don't have too much glutamate and cross the threshold to where your nerves suffer damage, wouldn't increased amounts lead to better mental performance? I'm certainly no neurologist so maybe it is wild speculation.
But do you really want it as a preventative measure? FTFA:
"At normal concentrations, glutamate acts as a neurotransmitter that nerves use to communicate. However, at excessive levels glutamate is toxic, resulting in over stimulation of nerve cells, known as excitotoxicity, and causing excessive stress on the nerve cells eventually ending in cell death."
So if you counteract this, your nerves communicate less. Sounds like a tradeoff between higher mental capacity resulting in increased likelihood of nerve damage -vs- lower mental capacity but you get to use your brain longer. I know my brain works in rather strange ways at times -- I believe it's my quirks that give rise to periods of intense creativity -- and I wouldn't trade that for having a "normal" brain if that means also being more stupid and losing the benefits I experience.
More than what's "interesting" about your post, that's for sure. The GP mentioned a situation where nominations for movies are determined based upon the opinions of random, third parties. If the assumption is made that the reviewers are chosen for their experience and critical eye, then it kinda negates the point, don't you think? Of course, not that it's all that surprising...
If nofollow is good enough for comment text, it should be good enough for home page links, too.
Unless I've missed it, I don't see nofollow tags added to links within comments. In fact, when checking this I did come across a bug. In the link showing up within your comment text on the reply page, the URL comes out as:
What is wrong with counterfeit electronics? Do they have different functionality, are they shabbily built, or do they just take profits away from the rightful owners of the product?
Generally, yes, yes, and yes. Also, it's not so much about taking profits away from the rightful owners but a matter of trademark and copyright infringement. If it's a Lexan USB drive with a Memorex label on it, I don't think you're getting ripped off regarding quality and functionality. But generally, it's inferior products which are being marketed under a different name so that the stores can buy on the cheap and sell at brand-name prices. Sometimes it really doesn't matter whether you get name brand or not (eg: CD/DVD plastic cases).
But what happens when a component in your supposedly Thinkpad laptop dies? You take it to IBM and they say it's counterfeit and won't fix it. Who's willing to back it up with a warranty? Offering warranties costs a lot of money. You need to run a call/contact center to field customer questions, walk them through the standard "try this" scripts, and then if there's still a problem you dispatch field service technicians who have the equipment to diagnose and hopefully do an on-site repair or provide you with a replacement if it can't be fixed on-site. Not cheap! All that cost gives companies incentive to make the product better to begin with so they can minimize the amount of support they'll need to provide. Counterfeiters realize none of those expenses, thus the cheaper prices and inferior products.
The document format. Somehow text files work great, and we've had useful standards in publishing like Postscript for a long time. The.DOC format makes Microsoft Word practically useless.
You just put down an entire office suite, which includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, etc. And all you can come up with is that the.DOC format sucks? Funny that I don't hear many Office users complaining about the format their files are stored in.
that's not even getting into how laughably horrible it is to use. Open Office isn't the only alternative to Word, you know. Why does it matter if some "open Office" software tries to copy Microsoft, when other companies have been making superior publishing and word processing tools to Word for years? And how can anyone not see the mediocrity in other software in Office like Powerpoint?
Nice handwaving arguments but that's not going to cut it. I asked you to name the software suite which is so great that you can factually state that Microsoft Office is mediocre in comparison. Can you actually name one, or is the open source flag stuck in a little too deep?
... spending money on widely used, if mediocre, office software...
What's mediocre about Microsoft Office? Strange how OpenOffice.org tries very hard to duplicate this mediocrity down to every last feature. What's the standard against which you compare that you can say facturally that it's mediocre?
Nobody has ever compelled you to spend even one cent of your money on Microsoft products.
How about the computer manufacturer who was strong-armed into charging a "Microsoft tax" on every system sold even if they shipped their system with OS/2? Granted, you could likely find a place which didn't factor in this cost, but how would you have known that back then?
Not that I agree with the person you replied to, but at least on that point there is some merit.
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Rather than teaming with Larry Elliscum, a better move for Sun would be to open Java up to the ECMA/ISO for standardization.
:p
I'm sure that's on ISO's to-do list, but they're waiting to receive the standards documentation for PHP.
... they're not making it to get prophit (theoretically) they're doing it to produce quality television for the UK public. As soon as they start having to try and pander to prophit...
Sounds like some biblical sci-fi, aliens gave the prophets their powers or something. Hopefully they'll be able to make a profit from such a show!
Why do people shell out $50 for a bottle of wine that they consume over the course of a couple of hours and then it's gone forever?
And somebody shells out $50 for the next version of Unreal Tournament because they enjoy the added features (like vehicles in Onslaught) which they get to enjoy for countless hours over the course of years, and some fool on the internet with an opinion takes offence? Why, oh why won't somebody think of the children!
Perhaps the server had to be taken down for a quarter of a day (2 hours) and the company has 200 employees? That's 50 man days lost right there.
Are you suggesting that IBM charged Aventis the amount that Aventis lost in productivity?
There ought to be a hall of fame for posts like this.
Noice-cancelling headphones, whether resting over the ears of completely encompassing the ears work in exactly the same way. For every sound it detects outside, it plays the inverse of that sound through the speakers. So both are "piping opposite waves into your ear".
You're probably thinking of the kind of hearing protection used on construction sites, which have enough soundproof material that the sound which would damage your hearing just never gets through in the first place. Batteries not required, of course. If your intent is to just block out sound and you don't want to listen to your music at the same time, this would be the safest way to go.
(j/k about the corn farm part... it was a potatoe field)
Dan Quayle, is that you?
You have the rhyming part down pat, but your rhythm needs work. Number of syllables, man!
Also, I'd venture to say that most astronomers know the difference between Gb and GB and use them daily, but when was the last time most slashdotters were even exposed to the sun?
Samsung will start producing 16 gigabit Nand Flash chips this year...
Gartner estimates that 16GB Flash drives will cost from about $90...
Where's the conflict? Flash chip != flash drive. Flash drives can often comprise multiple chips. Let's say we stack 8 of those 16Gb chips into one drive. How big is the flash drive going to be?
While the extra communication may lead to better thinking, the extra stress and eventual cell death lead to worse thinking.
:)
The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long?
Ah well, it was an interesting thought while it lasted. Thanks for the explanation.
Normally, glutamate is a neurotransmitter which allows for communication according to TFA. I'm speculating here that less glutamate means less communication (hence slower thinking) and that more glutamate means more communication (better thinking). Just like caffeine enhances mental focus and physical performance, but too much will kill you. As long as you don't have too much glutamate and cross the threshold to where your nerves suffer damage, wouldn't increased amounts lead to better mental performance? I'm certainly no neurologist so maybe it is wild speculation.
But do you really want it as a preventative measure? FTFA:
"At normal concentrations, glutamate acts as a neurotransmitter that nerves use to communicate. However, at excessive levels glutamate is toxic, resulting in over stimulation of nerve cells, known as excitotoxicity, and causing excessive stress on the nerve cells eventually ending in cell death."
So if you counteract this, your nerves communicate less. Sounds like a tradeoff between higher mental capacity resulting in increased likelihood of nerve damage -vs- lower mental capacity but you get to use your brain longer. I know my brain works in rather strange ways at times -- I believe it's my quirks that give rise to periods of intense creativity -- and I wouldn't trade that for having a "normal" brain if that means also being more stupid and losing the benefits I experience.
Cool, thanks for the explanation.
WTF is "interesting" about this?
More than what's "interesting" about your post, that's for sure. The GP mentioned a situation where nominations for movies are determined based upon the opinions of random, third parties. If the assumption is made that the reviewers are chosen for their experience and critical eye, then it kinda negates the point, don't you think? Of course, not that it's all that surprising...
Still, in principle the black hole could lose all of its mass to Hawking radiation, and shrink to
nothing in the process.
If the black hole loses enough mass, wouldn't it get to a point where it no longer has critical mass so it expands again?
It's kinda like a right of passage up here.
So you skipped the "proper spelling" rite of passage I take it?
He's talking about the stories being paid placements. Yes, they do have banner ads, etc. unless you use AdBlock or some privacy tool to remove them.
I think you want a byzantine filter. Or just shorten it to bozo filter.
If nofollow is good enough for comment text, it should be good enough for home page links, too.
r /38299</a ourmedia.org>
Unless I've missed it, I don't see nofollow tags added to links within comments. In fact, when checking this I did come across a bug. In the link showing up within your comment text on the reply page, the URL comes out as:
<a href="http://www.ourmedia.org/user/38299" title="ourmedia.org">ht_tp://www.ourmedia.org/use
(Underscore within ht_tp added so slashdot won't auto-link.) You'll notice that the closing anchor tag is b0rked.
What is wrong with counterfeit electronics? Do they have different functionality, are they shabbily built, or do they just take profits away from the rightful owners of the product?
Generally, yes, yes, and yes. Also, it's not so much about taking profits away from the rightful owners but a matter of trademark and copyright infringement. If it's a Lexan USB drive with a Memorex label on it, I don't think you're getting ripped off regarding quality and functionality. But generally, it's inferior products which are being marketed under a different name so that the stores can buy on the cheap and sell at brand-name prices. Sometimes it really doesn't matter whether you get name brand or not (eg: CD/DVD plastic cases).
But what happens when a component in your supposedly Thinkpad laptop dies? You take it to IBM and they say it's counterfeit and won't fix it. Who's willing to back it up with a warranty? Offering warranties costs a lot of money. You need to run a call/contact center to field customer questions, walk them through the standard "try this" scripts, and then if there's still a problem you dispatch field service technicians who have the equipment to diagnose and hopefully do an on-site repair or provide you with a replacement if it can't be fixed on-site. Not cheap! All that cost gives companies incentive to make the product better to begin with so they can minimize the amount of support they'll need to provide. Counterfeiters realize none of those expenses, thus the cheaper prices and inferior products.
The document format. Somehow text files work great, and we've had useful standards in publishing like Postscript for a long time. The .DOC format makes Microsoft Word practically useless.
.DOC format sucks? Funny that I don't hear many Office users complaining about the format their files are stored in.
You just put down an entire office suite, which includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, etc. And all you can come up with is that the
that's not even getting into how laughably horrible it is to use. Open Office isn't the only alternative to Word, you know. Why does it matter if some "open Office" software tries to copy Microsoft, when other companies have been making superior publishing and word processing tools to Word for years? And how can anyone not see the mediocrity in other software in Office like Powerpoint?
Nice handwaving arguments but that's not going to cut it. I asked you to name the software suite which is so great that you can factually state that Microsoft Office is mediocre in comparison. Can you actually name one, or is the open source flag stuck in a little too deep?
... spending money on widely used, if mediocre, office software...
What's mediocre about Microsoft Office? Strange how OpenOffice.org tries very hard to duplicate this mediocrity down to every last feature. What's the standard against which you compare that you can say facturally that it's mediocre?
Nobody has ever compelled you to spend even one cent of your money on Microsoft products.
How about the computer manufacturer who was strong-armed into charging a "Microsoft tax" on every system sold even if they shipped their system with OS/2? Granted, you could likely find a place which didn't factor in this cost, but how would you have known that back then?
Not that I agree with the person you replied to, but at least on that point there is some merit.
i do use capitals and apostrophes when truely warranted.
Is spelling also frivolous? The word is "truly".