you know, part of the problem with the world today is how people refuse to listen to their critics. maybe if OSS advoctes listened to the failings others see and addressed them, people like me wouldn't have so much ammo to troll your ass with?
on paper open source hardware should be awesome, however it pretty much universally sucks. they always focus on the open sourceness of it, and forget it's a product meant to fill a need. they also can't use any patented technology, meaning they usally have to go for tech with the sophistication of gadgets built in soviet russia during the cold war.
notice how they talk about revenue but not profit? you can have 1 million in revnue and still be losing money hand over fist. not only that 1 million is fuck all money, buying the hardware and employing a few workers will easily come to 1 mil.
if this is meant to be some measure of success...... FAIL.
even better, it actually provides you with proof you didn't pirate anything, after all if you are to be found guilty on a positive checksum match, surely a checksum that's not positive is proof of innocence?!
this was my first thought as well, you could just create an app to change a single pixel on each frame to a slightly different shade. hell even just re encoding it will change it.
plus can you imagine the processing power that would be needed to check each frame in every movie being bit torrented? yes yes, i can see now this will definately stop those pirates.....
There really is a population of people who won't ever acknowledge that OSS isn't always the best tool for the job, and a big slice of that population seems to hang out on slashdot.
We are talking about long term ability to read document formats, not the availbility of MS office on linux. Two completely separate issues. nice try though.
The problem decision makers are faced with that i don't think your fully grasping is that they are under immense pressure to do something when faced with a threat like 9/11.
They know if they do nothing and just tell people it's all ok, no one will believe them and someone ELSE will do something about it once they are voted out for inaction. And you don't get to pick your enemies, so there's not much the USA can do about an enemy which is ok with using kids as walking bombs.
A lot of people foam at the mouth about the USA's presence in iraq and afghanistan, but I'd put money on none of them having a better solution then troops. after all, america's enemies in these regions can't be bought with money and they hate freedom and democracy, so there's really no carrot we have that will get them to like us.
at first i was interested in google's random purchases, but they've been doing this for years and they haven't really done anything new. their still just a search engine company.
what rubbish. you changed the name because temperatures are in fact dropping. they peaked in 1998 due to el nino, and have had a downward trend since 2006.
http://algorelied.com/?p=2429
but 40% by 2020 is what's being asked for, atleast here in australia anyway. our current government ran it as part of their last election, though they've back flipped on it now.
the greens party is still asking for it.
if 10% over 10 years was all that was being asked and it was implemented in a smart way that would actually encouraged business investment which gave a return, you wouldn't have the mass of resistance that exists now. I'm all for reducing our impact on the planet, fundamentally everyone is. I'm just not convinced (and a lot of other people aren't either) that global warming is the immediate threat it's made out to be.
lets tackle things like deforestation and water management first?
currently the most popular reduction scheme out there is to tax carbon. if this goes ahead it'll mean a rather large slice out of industry, if we go with the demands of environmental lobbies and aim for a reduction of 40% in 10 years, you'll basicly wipe out the coal and oil industries. you simply can't acheive a reduction of that size and keep coal and oil online inside 10 years. there's certainly nothing we could do to replace coal and oil in that kind of time frame.
without these sources of energy societies technology won't advance at it's current rate, meaning other polluting industries won't get cleaner, or they might even go backwards. the net result of this is you'll actually pollute more, if we go through all this turmoil to find AGW isn't real, you've just set back the advancement of human civilisation and polluted the earth more then if you just did nothing.
you see bullshit like claiming it'll be 10c warmer in 100 years is WHY we don't believe you! I'm not sorry or going to apologise for holding climate change claims to fucking high standard of proof when your asking the world to spend TRILLIONS on solving the supposed problem.
I want you to sit down and just play devils advocate for a minute and run through the consequences of you being wrong about global warming.
face it, the denier tag is a blatant attempt at tarring anyone not convinced of AGW with the same brush as holocaust deniers. holocaust deniers are definately in denial - there's 1000's of witnesses and video evidence.
AGW on the other hand is nothing more then a hypothesis which has somehow jumped skipped the whole science part and gone straight to being declared a fact. it took darwin decades to come up with the theory of evolution, and decades more to defend it to the point of being accepted. Yet somehow AGW is expected to be accepted as fact in the space of 10 - 15 years? serious research alone takes longer then that for less complex issues.
The problem is that most of what is being fed to the population about climate change is just rubbish.
your flat out finding anyone who understands how our climate even works on a basic level. case in point if you ask people what causes warming of the planet, 90% will parrot "omgz CO2", and miss the fact it's actually the sun and water vapour, with CO2 only providing a tiny amount.
stupid stunts like open letters only lose AGW credibility, look at all the emotive language in the post as an example "climate deniers"?? just call anyone who's not convinced a fucking heretic already. open letters only serve to futher politicise the issue instead of focusing on solid science and making your case in terms of facts not emotion.
bottom line is if you want to insist on childish crap like name calling and stamping your feet via "open letters", your only going to create more and more of your "deniers"
donation paying is really the ultimate free market. I think if more things were priced by how much people valued them rather then prices regulated by government and corporate monopolys we'd all be a lot better off.
umm no. the idea is that when he see's he can't out with your tv, he leaves the same way he got in, he'll still take what he can carry though.
and lots of older places and even new doors have glass in them so you can see if someone is at the door, making a deadlock a requirement to prevent easy access via breaking the glass.
you should also have locks on your windows. most break ins happen through the front door, but the 2nd most common point of entry is via a window. if the window has a lock on it, it means they can't just break it and reach in to open the window, they have to spend time and make much more noise smashing all the glass out of the frame. typically when you break a window most of the glass stays in the frame, so a hole big enough to get through isn't immediately available.
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you know, part of the problem with the world today is how people refuse to listen to their critics. maybe if OSS advoctes listened to the failings others see and addressed them, people like me wouldn't have so much ammo to troll your ass with?
haha, learn to read.
on paper open source hardware should be awesome, however it pretty much universally sucks. they always focus on the open sourceness of it, and forget it's a product meant to fill a need. they also can't use any patented technology, meaning they usally have to go for tech with the sophistication of gadgets built in soviet russia during the cold war.
if this is meant to be some measure of success...... FAIL.
even better, it actually provides you with proof you didn't pirate anything, after all if you are to be found guilty on a positive checksum match, surely a checksum that's not positive is proof of innocence?!
plus can you imagine the processing power that would be needed to check each frame in every movie being bit torrented? yes yes, i can see now this will definately stop those pirates.....
There really is a population of people who won't ever acknowledge that OSS isn't always the best tool for the job, and a big slice of that population seems to hang out on slashdot.
if the government gets to "fix" the internet, i may just have to give up slashdot.
it's hard to work out if your joking, ignorant or stupid
We are talking about long term ability to read document formats, not the availbility of MS office on linux. Two completely separate issues. nice try though.
it's just the same old bullshit on here as always.
They know if they do nothing and just tell people it's all ok, no one will believe them and someone ELSE will do something about it once they are voted out for inaction. And you don't get to pick your enemies, so there's not much the USA can do about an enemy which is ok with using kids as walking bombs.
A lot of people foam at the mouth about the USA's presence in iraq and afghanistan, but I'd put money on none of them having a better solution then troops. after all, america's enemies in these regions can't be bought with money and they hate freedom and democracy, so there's really no carrot we have that will get them to like us.
at first i was interested in google's random purchases, but they've been doing this for years and they haven't really done anything new. their still just a search engine company.
no... epic fail....
you do realise BP is the biggest producer of solar panels in the world, the prize fighter of the we don't need oil or coal crowd, right?
what rubbish. you changed the name because temperatures are in fact dropping. they peaked in 1998 due to el nino, and have had a downward trend since 2006. http://algorelied.com/?p=2429
the greens party is still asking for it.
if 10% over 10 years was all that was being asked and it was implemented in a smart way that would actually encouraged business investment which gave a return, you wouldn't have the mass of resistance that exists now. I'm all for reducing our impact on the planet, fundamentally everyone is. I'm just not convinced (and a lot of other people aren't either) that global warming is the immediate threat it's made out to be.
lets tackle things like deforestation and water management first?
currently the most popular reduction scheme out there is to tax carbon. if this goes ahead it'll mean a rather large slice out of industry, if we go with the demands of environmental lobbies and aim for a reduction of 40% in 10 years, you'll basicly wipe out the coal and oil industries. you simply can't acheive a reduction of that size and keep coal and oil online inside 10 years. there's certainly nothing we could do to replace coal and oil in that kind of time frame.
without these sources of energy societies technology won't advance at it's current rate, meaning other polluting industries won't get cleaner, or they might even go backwards. the net result of this is you'll actually pollute more, if we go through all this turmoil to find AGW isn't real, you've just set back the advancement of human civilisation and polluted the earth more then if you just did nothing.
you see bullshit like claiming it'll be 10c warmer in 100 years is WHY we don't believe you! I'm not sorry or going to apologise for holding climate change claims to fucking high standard of proof when your asking the world to spend TRILLIONS on solving the supposed problem.
I want you to sit down and just play devils advocate for a minute and run through the consequences of you being wrong about global warming.
AGW on the other hand is nothing more then a hypothesis which has somehow jumped skipped the whole science part and gone straight to being declared a fact. it took darwin decades to come up with the theory of evolution, and decades more to defend it to the point of being accepted. Yet somehow AGW is expected to be accepted as fact in the space of 10 - 15 years? serious research alone takes longer then that for less complex issues.
your flat out finding anyone who understands how our climate even works on a basic level. case in point if you ask people what causes warming of the planet, 90% will parrot "omgz CO2", and miss the fact it's actually the sun and water vapour, with CO2 only providing a tiny amount.
stupid stunts like open letters only lose AGW credibility, look at all the emotive language in the post as an example "climate deniers"?? just call anyone who's not convinced a fucking heretic already. open letters only serve to futher politicise the issue instead of focusing on solid science and making your case in terms of facts not emotion.
bottom line is if you want to insist on childish crap like name calling and stamping your feet via "open letters", your only going to create more and more of your "deniers"
donation paying is really the ultimate free market. I think if more things were priced by how much people valued them rather then prices regulated by government and corporate monopolys we'd all be a lot better off.
gratz scribd, you'll have no more impact on my life then you did before html5.
and lots of older places and even new doors have glass in them so you can see if someone is at the door, making a deadlock a requirement to prevent easy access via breaking the glass.
you should also have locks on your windows. most break ins happen through the front door, but the 2nd most common point of entry is via a window. if the window has a lock on it, it means they can't just break it and reach in to open the window, they have to spend time and make much more noise smashing all the glass out of the frame. typically when you break a window most of the glass stays in the frame, so a hole big enough to get through isn't immediately available.
they want their internet plans back.