I'm a moderate and almost all of them look biased from where I sit. Not that I mind, as long as they're reasonably open about it. It's the ones who pretend to be fair and impartial while only presenting one side of the story and refusing to admit that the other POV even exists that I don't like, and here on the Left Coast, most of those are Very Liberal in their politics.
Not so. I know people who dislike Fox News because they're liberal and it isn't. Some of them ignore the bias in the stations they listen to, others don't. Several of them freely admit that their favorite stations are just as biased as Fox and that they listen to them because what they hear fits their politics. I have, however, noticed that very few people who openly hate Fox are willing to admit that they're biased because it doesn't fit their views.
I have an old laptop, maxed out at 96meg of RAM, and a screen that can't go past 800X600. For about the same type of usage as you list, I find Puppy Linux and JWM (Joe's Window Manager) works just fine. From the time I hit Enter at the Grub menu to the time I have a full, wor4king desktop is just over 90 seconds, about three times as fast as Win98Se booted, assuming that nothing hung. I don't need no steenking iCandy on my laptop; if that's what I'm looking for, I've got all the gosh-wow enhancements I need on my desktop, and more than any version of Windows has ever had, with Compiz-Fusion and the Desktop Effects enabled.
To bring this slightly back on topic, I don't really see why any laptop needs to have all those flash-and-trash iCandy effects that Visa is so "famous" for, but then, if you take those out, what do you have left that's worth having?
The thing with the new/. ui is that it's so confusing and awkward.
So turn it off, like I did. I'd love to see a Slashdot poll about what people think of the new design. I bet that "I hate it" would win by a landslide, which is why we'll never see it.
Why tell me this? I thought I'd made it clear that I'd turned them off, along with all the other crud. I'm using Slashdot classic, so I don't see all those stupid ideas.
You mean it's supposed to have some sort of functionality? I thought it was just intended to uglify the page like the rest of the "improvements" and turned them off as quickly as I could.
I can't remember how often I had been told that Obama was going to change things for the better...
BO didn't promise "change for the better," he promised change, pure and simple. And change is what you have: BO is in the White House and Dubya isn't. What more do you expect?
As long as we practice one-man-one-vote the system will swing to a two-party system.
Are you sure? France, Italy, Israel and Australia, all have one-man-one-vote systems just like we do, and they have so many active political parties that it's almost impossible to form a government that isn't a coalition. Of course, they also have proportional representation to a greater or lesser extent, and that means that the tiny parties, with just a few votes, have a disproportionate amount of power because if they don't get their way, they pick up their marbles and go home, killing the government's majority.
And you still ignore that at least for the next few decades, it'll be cheaper to build on Earth than to build a somewhat simpler design in space.
No, I'm not ignoring it, I'm thinking long-term. I'm also thinking of space-probe construction as one of the things we can do once we have a permanent manned presence in orbit rather than as the main motive for us getting that permanent presence.
It doesn't help that a lot of applications can't get rid of the requirements either for nontrivial deployment processes
You missed the point completely: you build the probe already deployed, so that the motors, gears and levers needed to deploy it can be left out. This means fewer moving parts, less points of failure and a simpler design. It also gives us practice in building things in space that can be used if/when we want to construct interplanetary space ships up there. Remember, LEO is half-way to anyplace in the Solar System.
Once we have the ability to build things like this, we can, among other things, build space probes in orbit. This simplifies things because they don't have to have the ability to deploy. It also cuts the mass because all of the equipment used to deploy is used exactly once, but is carried for the rest of the mission. It also means that the probe itself doesn't have to be sturdy enough to withstand launch forces, and that the various components can be reinspected and, if needed, have any launch damage corrected before it sets out.
This is Treason, violating knowingly the US Supreme Court Ruling on the 1st Amendment
No it isn't, and all your ignorant ranting won't make it so. Treason is explicitly and narrowly defined in the Constitution, partially to keep it from being abused by people like you.
Again, threatening to sue because someone doesn't pay you money is obviously legal (another example would be 'I'll sue if you don't pay for the iPods I delivered to your store').
That's only true if they're asking for money they're actually owed. In this case, they're asking for money in advance, so that if a student downloads some of their music without permission they won't sue. Note that there's nothing mentioned about refunding the money if there are no copyright violations. In effect, this is trying to get the University to pay copyright-violation fines in advance, with no proof offered that anybody there is actually going to violate the copyrights in question. To me, at least, that's extortion in the classic Protection Racket form.
That was the first thing I thought of, as soon as I read the part about "a covenant not to sue." At this point, I'm finding it hard to understand why the various music companies aren't already up on RICO charges, because they're acting exactly like the type of racketeer that RICO is designed to put away.
By measuring the difference in gravity affecting two test masses 50 cm apart, it can measure how strong gravity is at that point.
If the two masses are separated by 50 cm, as you say, gravity will pull on the nearer one very, very slightly stronger than it does on the farther one. If the masses were free to move, they'd be in separate orbits, with the outer one moving away from the inner one. As they are (I presume) tethered, there will be a force acting on that tether. This is, in fact, the same thing that causes tides, and that means that what GOCE is doing is measuring the variation in the tidal force generated by the two mass's difference in altitude. Interesting.
So maybe it's the judge's fault for not realizing what mouth-breathers people can be, and explicitly forbidding tweeting, blogging, etc? I dunno.
The judge doesn't ever say whatever he or she wants during the instructions to the jury. All of them are standardized, and the judge just reads them out. In fact, during the case, the lawyers will be making requests to the judge that certain specified instructions be read, and unless the request's unreasonable or inappropriate, it will almost always be granted because judges hate leaving grounds for an appeal based on their error. I know this because I worked, once, for a software startup run by a practicing lawyer and learned about this in passing.
"And how far into the the trial did you decide that the defendant needed to fry?"
The only proper answer to that is, "Once I was in the jury room, deliberating." The jury is not supposed to make up their mind completely until the trial is over, no matter how damning the evidence appears, because you never know what's going to be revealed, or what arguments are going to be made during closing.
I think there are regulations for when / if you are allowed to journal / take notes.
There are. You're given a notebook (and extras, if you need them) to take all the notes you want/need. Every juror sits in the same seat, every day, and those notebooks never leave the courtroom until the jury goes to deliberate, at which time the jury takes their notes with them. Those are the only notes you're supposed to take.
Right on! I use Fedora, and the name for Fedora 11 is going to be Rawhide. Yuck! How dull. Now, if it were up to me, the next three releases would be Ocean's, Dirty and Lucky in that order, but of course, the people in charge never listen to the users.
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if Tabasco doesn't give your taste buds enough of a tingle, try Sriracha Sauce; even people who don't thing Tabasco hot have respect for it.
I'm a moderate and almost all of them look biased from where I sit. Not that I mind, as long as they're reasonably open about it. It's the ones who pretend to be fair and impartial while only presenting one side of the story and refusing to admit that the other POV even exists that I don't like, and here on the Left Coast, most of those are Very Liberal in their politics.
Not so. I know people who dislike Fox News because they're liberal and it isn't. Some of them ignore the bias in the stations they listen to, others don't. Several of them freely admit that their favorite stations are just as biased as Fox and that they listen to them because what they hear fits their politics. I have, however, noticed that very few people who openly hate Fox are willing to admit that they're biased because it doesn't fit their views.
Well, they would say that even if it's just an April Fools gag, wouldn't they? Just be patient, because we'll all know for sure tomorrow.
To bring this slightly back on topic, I don't really see why any laptop needs to have all those flash-and-trash iCandy effects that Visa is so "famous" for, but then, if you take those out, what do you have left that's worth having?
It may be that Wakko Warner said it best: "It's a Great Big Universe" and we're a tiny little speck about the size of Mickey Rooney.
So turn it off, like I did. I'd love to see a Slashdot poll about what people think of the new design. I bet that "I hate it" would win by a landslide, which is why we'll never see it.
Why tell me this? I thought I'd made it clear that I'd turned them off, along with all the other crud. I'm using Slashdot classic, so I don't see all those stupid ideas.
You mean it's supposed to have some sort of functionality? I thought it was just intended to uglify the page like the rest of the "improvements" and turned them off as quickly as I could.
BO didn't promise "change for the better," he promised change, pure and simple. And change is what you have: BO is in the White House and Dubya isn't. What more do you expect?
Are you sure? France, Italy, Israel and Australia, all have one-man-one-vote systems just like we do, and they have so many active political parties that it's almost impossible to form a government that isn't a coalition. Of course, they also have proportional representation to a greater or lesser extent, and that means that the tiny parties, with just a few votes, have a disproportionate amount of power because if they don't get their way, they pick up their marbles and go home, killing the government's majority.
No, I'm not ignoring it, I'm thinking long-term. I'm also thinking of space-probe construction as one of the things we can do once we have a permanent manned presence in orbit rather than as the main motive for us getting that permanent presence.
You missed the point completely: you build the probe already deployed, so that the motors, gears and levers needed to deploy it can be left out. This means fewer moving parts, less points of failure and a simpler design. It also gives us practice in building things in space that can be used if/when we want to construct interplanetary space ships up there. Remember, LEO is half-way to anyplace in the Solar System.
Once we have the ability to build things like this, we can, among other things, build space probes in orbit. This simplifies things because they don't have to have the ability to deploy. It also cuts the mass because all of the equipment used to deploy is used exactly once, but is carried for the rest of the mission. It also means that the probe itself doesn't have to be sturdy enough to withstand launch forces, and that the various components can be reinspected and, if needed, have any launch damage corrected before it sets out.
That's not a problem. Once this is built, other projects will present themselves.
No it isn't, and all your ignorant ranting won't make it so. Treason is explicitly and narrowly defined in the Constitution, partially to keep it from being abused by people like you.
That's only true if they're asking for money they're actually owed. In this case, they're asking for money in advance, so that if a student downloads some of their music without permission they won't sue. Note that there's nothing mentioned about refunding the money if there are no copyright violations. In effect, this is trying to get the University to pay copyright-violation fines in advance, with no proof offered that anybody there is actually going to violate the copyrights in question. To me, at least, that's extortion in the classic Protection Racket form.
That was the first thing I thought of, as soon as I read the part about "a covenant not to sue." At this point, I'm finding it hard to understand why the various music companies aren't already up on RICO charges, because they're acting exactly like the type of racketeer that RICO is designed to put away.
If the two masses are separated by 50 cm, as you say, gravity will pull on the nearer one very, very slightly stronger than it does on the farther one. If the masses were free to move, they'd be in separate orbits, with the outer one moving away from the inner one. As they are (I presume) tethered, there will be a force acting on that tether. This is, in fact, the same thing that causes tides, and that means that what GOCE is doing is measuring the variation in the tidal force generated by the two mass's difference in altitude. Interesting.
The judge doesn't ever say whatever he or she wants during the instructions to the jury. All of them are standardized, and the judge just reads them out. In fact, during the case, the lawyers will be making requests to the judge that certain specified instructions be read, and unless the request's unreasonable or inappropriate, it will almost always be granted because judges hate leaving grounds for an appeal based on their error. I know this because I worked, once, for a software startup run by a practicing lawyer and learned about this in passing.
The only proper answer to that is, "Once I was in the jury room, deliberating." The jury is not supposed to make up their mind completely until the trial is over, no matter how damning the evidence appears, because you never know what's going to be revealed, or what arguments are going to be made during closing.
There are. You're given a notebook (and extras, if you need them) to take all the notes you want/need. Every juror sits in the same seat, every day, and those notebooks never leave the courtroom until the jury goes to deliberate, at which time the jury takes their notes with them. Those are the only notes you're supposed to take.
IANAL, but I have been a juror.
I believe that the target market here is best described as the "audiophule."
Even better, come up with names related to ponies. OMG!!! PONIES!!!!!111!! LOTS AND LOTS OF PINK PONIES!!!
Right on! I use Fedora, and the name for Fedora 11 is going to be Rawhide. Yuck! How dull. Now, if it were up to me, the next three releases would be Ocean's, Dirty and Lucky in that order, but of course, the people in charge never listen to the users.