If a "man" (which can refer to either a male or female when used to refer to the species collectively) goes to space, or the moon, or Uranus, it's not fair until we get a woman up there too.
I'm not arguing your main point here; sometimes for the individual it does make economic sense, but only because everyone else is paying for it. If you could get the taxpayers to fund my mortgage, buying a much bigger house than I have would make economic sense too.
In this case, the government has decided that they needed to step in to solve the chicken and egg problem. Solar panels are too expensive because they aren't mass produced. They can't be mass produced because nobody is buying them because they're too expensive. Right. Allocate X million dollars to the problem and subsidize them so that mass production ramps up and, over time, the subsidies drop to zero.
No battle: "I could care less (if I tried, but not willing to expend the effort)", and "I couldn't care less (even if I tried, and I'm not willing to expend the effort)". The key to both is the futility, which, I agree, you expressed very well.:)
I could care more expresses the same sentiment. "I could care more (if I tried, but I'm not willing to expend the effort)". Thus, we come to the reductio ad absurdum conclusion that "I could care less" and "I could care more" are identical statements.
I am curious, not trying to bust your chops or anything but how can you justify the cost on something that will never pay a return? I cannot see it ever being a good investment at todays prices at least.
Depending on where you live (ie: depends on how much sun you get and the cost of electricity) as well as what government subsidies for solar installations are offered, it is possible to get a loan for solar equipment today and have the savings on your electric bill completely cover the cost of the loan with savings to spare. So you're not actually spending money out of pocket... it pays for itself and then some.
The downside to this approach is that in a few years, solar panels will be even cheaper and more efficient and the resulting loan payment will be even less and you'll be stuck saving less than you could have saved had you waited. In other words, do you want a net savings of $30/month starting today for 20 years, or wait 3 years and have a net savings of $50/month for 20 years?
Also, what's with all the retards of the world insisting on "answering" questions by linking lmgtfy? Are you afraid to admit that you also don't know the answer to the question but still want to feel "superior"?
You order pizza instead of cooking it yourself for EXACTLY the same reason. Cooking pizza is extremely easy. So is installing the PS3's updates.
Pizza requires raw ingredients, time to prepare those ingredients, and time to clean up from the preparation. This situation is more like you have a frozen pizza ready to go in your freezer. Would you take your frozen pizza to a store and pay $30 for someone to put it in the microwave for 5 minutes for you? That's about the level of effort required here.
By suing, everyone will know it's him, regardless of how tiny he is in the picture, thus giving him grounds to sue. So if he doesn't sue, he has no grounds to sue, therefore he must sue!
And what we can't see in the photo is that under the space suit, it's really Chewbacca. Which makes no sense.
HTTP 1.1 supports keepalive natively, so yes -- it was made for this.
Wasn't something like that used by the Netscape fishcam way the hell back when? I seem to recall it kept the connection open and updated the image on the fly that way.
Well that's annoying, because when I posted (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1810648&cid=33809274) that it's not surprising that W3C says not to use HTML5, I got a +5 response to my comment saying we should use it anyways. So which is it?
The three people who modded up that comment first ran a poll of the entire Slashdot population, verified that 95% of users agree with it, and only then proceeded to mod up that comment. This way we can be sure that those three moderators and the opinions expressed in that comment fully represent all Slashdot users (except the remaining 5%, who are pussies).
OK, then perhaps you can explain why they could sue limewire but not torrent? Honest question?
Why don't you research it? Two minutes of Googling got this:
The court ruling listed 5 factors that, taken together, establish that LimeWire "intended to encourage " infringement: 1) LW’s awareness of substantial infringement by users, 2) their efforts to attract infringing users, 3) their efforts to enable and assist users to commit infringement, 4) LW’s dependence on infringing use for the success of its business; and 5) a failure to mitigate infringing activities.
Everybody likes to make gun manufacturer analogies, but Limewire and sites like Mininova, Pirate Bay, and so on are like gun clubs that list places to go to kill people. If Smith & Wesson offered software to trade gun information and 95% of the information exchanged contained content like "Where to kill Caucasians", "Where to kill Blacks", "Where to kill Asians", "How to rob a bank using your Smith & Wesson", and so on it's rather difficult to argue that the manufacturer is not liable because a gun is simply a tool that can be used legally or illegally.
Using the above five factors, Smith & Wesson's hypothetical court case might find that 1) S&W was aware of substantial use of their firearms for illegal purposes, 2) S&W actively marketed to attract customers who would use their firearms illegally, 3) they enabled and assisted customers to kill people using their firearms, 4) S&W depended on revenues from illegal uses of its firearms for the success of its business, and 5) S&W failed to respond to or mitigate any illegal activites.
I've been on computers for over two decades and I can't ever say that I've had a proper setup. Everything from a hard wooden kitchen chair with a plywood tabletop with foldout metal legs that I screwed on myself to a half-decent computer desk with a cheapo leather chair. So far (knock on wood) I have yet to have any issues.
What does it take to have a setup so bad that you get RSI? A couple of bricks in front of the keyboard as wrist rests?
The only people who should install Norton is computer experts
Anyone who would install Norton is no "expert".
Noob. An expert would have read the second half of the sentence: "... and the only reason they would want to is so they can figure out how to uninstall it." Because, as you now know, uninstalling it makes this wonderful 'whoosh' sound.
I don't know about you. But as soon as I realize it is a call from an autodialer, I hangup.
One trick if you don't recognize the caller ID is to pick up the phone and just listen. If it's complete silence on the other end, it's an autodialer and it will hang up after five seconds or so. Bonus points if you play the "number not in service" tone -- download that from here and play the "ss-noservice" file.
If you've been around Slashdot long enough, you'll have seen many stories about Anonymous. Those who don't know can Google for it and the first link does the trick. I suppose we could assume that everyone doesn't know every proper noun. Then we could have summaries like this:
"Google, a corporation based primarily in the city of Mountain View, California in the country knows as the United States of America and offering search, email, maps, and other services announced today a deal with Apple, a corporation based out of the city of Cupertino, California in the United States of America that manufactures computer hardware including the iPod (a popular brand of MP3 (a compressed music format designed by Fraunhofer-Gesselshaft (a company located in the country of Germany)) player), iPad (a portable tablet-based computer running OS X (a computer operating system that provides the core services needed for a device to run)), software such as Quicktime (audio and video playback software), iTunes (an application to organize, playback, and purchase music, videos, applications, and to download podcasts (recordings delivered to subscribers via RSS (Really Simple Syndication, a format containing data and metadata about that which is being subscribed to))), as well as operating systems such as OS X. The deal involved the use of Google's map services on Apple's iPhone (a compact mobile device running a functionally reduced version of OS X) and available over WiFi (a wireless transmission protocol designed to allow for information interchange between a device and a wireless base station) and over 3G (a mobile transmission protocol via the cellular networks also allowing for information interchange). Microsoft, a corporation based primary in the city of Redmond, Washington in the United States of America which manufacturers both hardware, including peripherals for computers as well as standalone devices such as the Zune (a portable MP3 player), and software, including its Office suite (a software package including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and other applications) and Windows (a computer operating system designed mostly to run on Intel (a corporation based primarily..."
Yeah, you get the picture. Sometimes we get decent summaries that explain it all, and sometimes you have to Google for a few things. Big deal.
Slashdot Mirror
I'd prefer super-balls. Then they could learn some real physics.
There's definitely some interesting physics behind the humble tea bag.
If a "man" (which can refer to either a male or female when used to refer to the species collectively) goes to space, or the moon, or Uranus, it's not fair until we get a woman up there too.
Must... resist... Uranus... joke...
How is this insightful?
The only possible explanation is that the mods are on crack. Again.
I'm not arguing your main point here; sometimes for the individual it does make economic sense, but only because everyone else is paying for it. If you could get the taxpayers to fund my mortgage, buying a much bigger house than I have would make economic sense too.
In this case, the government has decided that they needed to step in to solve the chicken and egg problem. Solar panels are too expensive because they aren't mass produced. They can't be mass produced because nobody is buying them because they're too expensive. Right. Allocate X million dollars to the problem and subsidize them so that mass production ramps up and, over time, the subsidies drop to zero.
Microwaved pizza taste worst then frozen cheap pizza.
I'm with you on that one. Cooking a pizza in the microwave is about as appetizing as cooking a steak in the microwave.
No battle: "I could care less (if I tried, but not willing to expend the effort)", and "I couldn't care less (even if I tried, and I'm not willing to expend the effort)". The key to both is the futility, which, I agree, you expressed very well. :)
I could care more expresses the same sentiment. "I could care more (if I tried, but I'm not willing to expend the effort)". Thus, we come to the reductio ad absurdum conclusion that "I could care less" and "I could care more" are identical statements.
But they were also kind of dicks about that whole independence thing. So it all evens out.
Dicks? Well, I guess that explains why a Mr. Cocks invented pubic encryption, something used by nerds ever since.
I am curious, not trying to bust your chops or anything but how can you justify the cost on something that will never pay a return? I cannot see it ever being a good investment at todays prices at least.
Depending on where you live (ie: depends on how much sun you get and the cost of electricity) as well as what government subsidies for solar installations are offered, it is possible to get a loan for solar equipment today and have the savings on your electric bill completely cover the cost of the loan with savings to spare. So you're not actually spending money out of pocket... it pays for itself and then some.
The downside to this approach is that in a few years, solar panels will be even cheaper and more efficient and the resulting loan payment will be even less and you'll be stuck saving less than you could have saved had you waited. In other words, do you want a net savings of $30/month starting today for 20 years, or wait 3 years and have a net savings of $50/month for 20 years?
Yes there is a extremely good reason we could care less about solar and especially solar electrical power.
I could care more.
Also, what's with all the retards of the world insisting on "answering" questions by linking lmgtfy? Are you afraid to admit that you also don't know the answer to the question but still want to feel "superior"?
It's about people being lazy and asking stupid questions. I've commented on this before.
Why did Reagan remove them?
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=reagan+solar+panels
You order pizza instead of cooking it yourself for EXACTLY the same reason. Cooking pizza is extremely easy. So is installing the PS3's updates.
Pizza requires raw ingredients, time to prepare those ingredients, and time to clean up from the preparation. This situation is more like you have a frozen pizza ready to go in your freezer. Would you take your frozen pizza to a store and pay $30 for someone to put it in the microwave for 5 minutes for you? That's about the level of effort required here.
By suing, everyone will know it's him, regardless of how tiny he is in the picture, thus giving him grounds to sue. So if he doesn't sue, he has no grounds to sue, therefore he must sue!
And what we can't see in the photo is that under the space suit, it's really Chewbacca. Which makes no sense.
HTTP 1.1 supports keepalive natively, so yes -- it was made for this.
Wasn't something like that used by the Netscape fishcam way the hell back when? I seem to recall it kept the connection open and updated the image on the fly that way.
Well that's annoying, because when I posted (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1810648&cid=33809274) that it's not surprising that W3C says not to use HTML5, I got a +5 response to my comment saying we should use it anyways. So which is it?
The three people who modded up that comment first ran a poll of the entire Slashdot population, verified that 95% of users agree with it, and only then proceeded to mod up that comment. This way we can be sure that those three moderators and the opinions expressed in that comment fully represent all Slashdot users (except the remaining 5%, who are pussies).
OK, then perhaps you can explain why they could sue limewire but not torrent? Honest question?
Why don't you research it? Two minutes of Googling got this:
The court ruling listed 5 factors that, taken together, establish that LimeWire "intended to encourage " infringement: 1) LW’s awareness of substantial infringement by users, 2) their efforts to attract infringing users, 3) their efforts to enable and assist users to commit infringement, 4) LW’s dependence on infringing use for the success of its business; and 5) a failure to mitigate infringing activities.
Everybody likes to make gun manufacturer analogies, but Limewire and sites like Mininova, Pirate Bay, and so on are like gun clubs that list places to go to kill people. If Smith & Wesson offered software to trade gun information and 95% of the information exchanged contained content like "Where to kill Caucasians", "Where to kill Blacks", "Where to kill Asians", "How to rob a bank using your Smith & Wesson", and so on it's rather difficult to argue that the manufacturer is not liable because a gun is simply a tool that can be used legally or illegally.
Using the above five factors, Smith & Wesson's hypothetical court case might find that 1) S&W was aware of substantial use of their firearms for illegal purposes, 2) S&W actively marketed to attract customers who would use their firearms illegally, 3) they enabled and assisted customers to kill people using their firearms, 4) S&W depended on revenues from illegal uses of its firearms for the success of its business, and 5) S&W failed to respond to or mitigate any illegal activites.
Support for XP has stopped, it's an old OS.
Windows XP is supported until 2014 if you keep up with service packs.
You've also been exposed to the sun for decades, but [presumably] don't have skin cancer.
http://skepticwiki.org/index.php/Argument_from_Incredulity
More like "hasty generalization" than incredulity if you're really itching to apply a fallacy.
Learn to use ctrl+backspace instead of hitting backspace repeatedly when you make an error.
Wow, how come I've never discovered this shortcut? Thank you, AC!
I've been on computers for over two decades and I can't ever say that I've had a proper setup. Everything from a hard wooden kitchen chair with a plywood tabletop with foldout metal legs that I screwed on myself to a half-decent computer desk with a cheapo leather chair. So far (knock on wood) I have yet to have any issues.
What does it take to have a setup so bad that you get RSI? A couple of bricks in front of the keyboard as wrist rests?
The only people who should install Norton is computer experts
Anyone who would install Norton is no "expert".
Noob. An expert would have read the second half of the sentence: "... and the only reason they would want to is so they can figure out how to uninstall it." Because, as you now know, uninstalling it makes this wonderful 'whoosh' sound.
I don't know about you. But as soon as I realize it is a call from an autodialer, I hangup.
One trick if you don't recognize the caller ID is to pick up the phone and just listen. If it's complete silence on the other end, it's an autodialer and it will hang up after five seconds or so. Bonus points if you play the "number not in service" tone -- download that from here and play the "ss-noservice" file.
Why the long face?
Because Ziggy melted.
If you've been around Slashdot long enough, you'll have seen many stories about Anonymous. Those who don't know can Google for it and the first link does the trick. I suppose we could assume that everyone doesn't know every proper noun. Then we could have summaries like this:
"Google, a corporation based primarily in the city of Mountain View, California in the country knows as the United States of America and offering search, email, maps, and other services announced today a deal with Apple, a corporation based out of the city of Cupertino, California in the United States of America that manufactures computer hardware including the iPod (a popular brand of MP3 (a compressed music format designed by Fraunhofer-Gesselshaft (a company located in the country of Germany)) player), iPad (a portable tablet-based computer running OS X (a computer operating system that provides the core services needed for a device to run)), software such as Quicktime (audio and video playback software), iTunes (an application to organize, playback, and purchase music, videos, applications, and to download podcasts (recordings delivered to subscribers via RSS (Really Simple Syndication, a format containing data and metadata about that which is being subscribed to))), as well as operating systems such as OS X. The deal involved the use of Google's map services on Apple's iPhone (a compact mobile device running a functionally reduced version of OS X) and available over WiFi (a wireless transmission protocol designed to allow for information interchange between a device and a wireless base station) and over 3G (a mobile transmission protocol via the cellular networks also allowing for information interchange). Microsoft, a corporation based primary in the city of Redmond, Washington in the United States of America which manufacturers both hardware, including peripherals for computers as well as standalone devices such as the Zune (a portable MP3 player), and software, including its Office suite (a software package including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and other applications) and Windows (a computer operating system designed mostly to run on Intel (a corporation based primarily..."
Yeah, you get the picture. Sometimes we get decent summaries that explain it all, and sometimes you have to Google for a few things. Big deal.
I had to read the summary 3 times before I actually understood what transpired. It would be nice if:
a)You explained what Anonymous was(is it a group? an unknown attacker? A kind of bug spray?)
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=anonymous
b)You explained what the Ministry of Sound is.
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=ministry+of+sound