I went to their website and read their description of how things work, but they didn't answer the most important question: where is the money coming from to pay their hosting and bandwidth charges? Even if they get a large number of people signing up right away (and that's not very likely) they don't seem to have any form of long-term income. Unless one of the founders has very deep pockets and is willing to pay the bills as a public service, they're going to run out of money, probably within the year.
I'm sorry if this sounds like a plug for Xfce, it's not.
Don't be sorry; Xfce is a wonderful DE. Back when I was migrating to Linux, I checked out both Gnome and KDE. I found the KDE website had nothing but advocacy; "Try KDE! You'll love it!" but no reasons. I emailed them asking for more information and got back more advocacy, but no actual information. I walked away from KDE and never looked back.
Then came Gnome 3. I was so horrified by the changes and the lack of built-in configuration (Yes, there are third-party plugins to "fix" this, but the Gnome devs warn you that they don't care if they break them.) that I started looking for a way out. I quickly settled on Xfce and never looked back. Unity was never an option for two reasons: I don't run Ubuntu and even if I did, Unity does too much of what I don't like about Gnome 3. I know, because my sister uses it. Unlike both Gnome 3 and Unity, Xfce doesn't assume that everybody wants to do things the way the devs do. And, as far as KDE goes, I've seen it a few times and it just leaves me cold. No major objections, just a matter of taste.
No, he made a simplification that illistrated the wrong point. Yes, the horse does have a higher Ke whien it hits, but that's not because of its higher mass it's because of its higher velocity. And, it's not hard to explain, either. Read my original post to see how easy it is.
I take it, then, that you don't understand the cube/square law. If you did, you'd understand why a mouse offers more wind resistance and has a lower terminal velocity than a horse. It's not really about physics, it has to do with the way the ratio of volume to area changes as an object scales up.
Yes, that would be better, although as I replied to him in a different comment, I'd rather that he'd gotten the explanation straight in the first place.
I am aware of that, but I didn't want to complicate things, in case the reader was not a physicist.
I'm not a physicist; I don't even play one on TV. And yet, I spotted your error. I wouldn't have commented if you had, as an example, assumed a spherical horse (and mouse) of uniform density because that would just have emiminated some messy complications. Instead, you made an asumption that you knew was wrong and that led you directly to a wrong explanation.
If we assume that both of them have the same velocity when touching the floor
AIUI, you assume wrong. The horse's terminal velocity is considerably higer (and considerably more terminal) than that of the mouse. It's one of the many consequences of the cube/square law: proportionally, the mouse has more surface area than the horse, giving it more air resistance, so it ends up with a softer landing.
There seems to be an unspoken command that news agencies never use the term "Windows Virus", "Windows Trojan", "Windows Malware", etc.
That's because to the people writing those stories, using a PC equates running Windows. Yes, some of them have heard of Linux, but they usually don't know what it is and even if they do, they're going to assume that their audience doesn't.
I am by no means young, I'm 31, but am part of a more tech savvy generation.
I'm twice your age and I've been working/playing with computers for over forty years. In general, I've divided all sites that require passwords into three sets: those that store data that I care about (banks and so on), those that don't (comic strip sites, Slashdot and so on) and those that don't but require "strong" passwords.
The first set gets strong, unique passwords. For those that Firefox can't store, I have a place on-line to stash them; if you can find and access it, I've got more things to worry about than my passwords. For the second, all of them use the same password, simply to make things easy. After all, there's no way that the software running a blog (let's say) is going to know that you're using the same password for it as you are to sign on to a shopping site. And, the password's obscure enough that nobody who doesn't know me very, very well is ever going to come up with by guessing, and it's at least as safe from a dictionary attack as any random, unpronouncable word can be. For the third, I have several variations on my standard password to fit various restrictions. Thus, things I don't care about very much are safe from anything except a very determined attack, and those I do are even better protected. Frankly, I'm more concerned about the possibility of my password being picked up by a cracker stealing a password database than by having it guessed.
Kids. Back when I was a munchkin, back in the '50s, we only had one dial for tuning because there wasn't any such thing as UHF. Channels 2 through 13 were all there were and and the only colors you got were black and white.
Thank you for that quote. I'll point out only that both of his docotrates (Political Science and Psychology) were earned, meaning that there's a good reason to think that he knows what he's writing about. Just to be fair, I'd like to ask you what courses in this subject you've taken?
Also, the fact that you can find lots of sites on the Internet saying what you're objecting to proves nothing except that every wacko out there is able to put up a website to push their agenda.
Actually, it isn't. If it were, there'd be two nations here, the United States of America and the Confederate States of America. And, I can assure you that not all (or even most) conservatives think that the USofA isn't a democracy. I have a friend who's (among other things) a conservative and a political commentator, and I'm sure that he'd laugh at anybody who made that claim. Of course, one of his doctorates is in Poli Sci, meaning that he's not exactly uneducated on the subject. I suspect that what you're seeing is more the result of poor education than anything else.
So what you're saying is, you're objecting to the OP's definition of the term "republic," and throwing in an irrelevant ad hominim attack on conservatives just because you don't like them.
TFS says, in part, "It mixes colloid into the solution..." This is Just Plain Wrong because there is no such thing as "colloid." A colloid is a substance microscopically dispersed evenly throughout another substance. I haven't RTFA (This is Slashdot, after all!) but I'd be willing to bet that TFA says that they add something to the solution to make it into a colloid and that the submitter (and editor) didn't bother to make sure they got it right.
This guy patented the free trial/shareware/try and buy concept that required a unique unlock code to activate its software. In 1993, this concept may have been novel...
It wasn't. I can remember trying shareware back in the mid '80s that had limited functionality until you paid for it and entered the code. Sometimes, instead of that, the code unlocked addtional features that the authors hoped were worth the cost.
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I see them now too, that hook up with bluetooth to ones cell phone...
Not just your cell phone, either. Mine are ajustable, and changing the volume on either changes it on both, keeping the sound balanced.
I went to their website and read their description of how things work, but they didn't answer the most important question: where is the money coming from to pay their hosting and bandwidth charges? Even if they get a large number of people signing up right away (and that's not very likely) they don't seem to have any form of long-term income. Unless one of the founders has very deep pockets and is willing to pay the bills as a public service, they're going to run out of money, probably within the year.
I'm sorry if this sounds like a plug for Xfce, it's not.
Don't be sorry; Xfce is a wonderful DE. Back when I was migrating to Linux, I checked out both Gnome and KDE. I found the KDE website had nothing but advocacy; "Try KDE! You'll love it!" but no reasons. I emailed them asking for more information and got back more advocacy, but no actual information. I walked away from KDE and never looked back.
Then came Gnome 3. I was so horrified by the changes and the lack of built-in configuration (Yes, there are third-party plugins to "fix" this, but the Gnome devs warn you that they don't care if they break them.) that I started looking for a way out. I quickly settled on Xfce and never looked back. Unity was never an option for two reasons: I don't run Ubuntu and even if I did, Unity does too much of what I don't like about Gnome 3. I know, because my sister uses it. Unlike both Gnome 3 and Unity, Xfce doesn't assume that everybody wants to do things the way the devs do. And, as far as KDE goes, I've seen it a few times and it just leaves me cold. No major objections, just a matter of taste.
...for example if Windows 8 tanks.
You know, Mr. AC, that's a rather non-standard way of spelling the word "when."
The horse has a higher kinetic energy when it hits because of BOTH it's higher mass AND it's higher velocity.
Well, yes, but the impact speed adds vastly more than the mass because the formula is half the mass times the square of the velocity.
Ah, so in other words, it's about physics.
You can call it that if it makes you happy, but it's really a matter of geometry, which is, of course, math.
No, he made a simplification that illistrated the wrong point. Yes, the horse does have a higher Ke whien it hits, but that's not because of its higher mass it's because of its higher velocity. And, it's not hard to explain, either. Read my original post to see how easy it is.
I take it, then, that you don't understand the cube/square law. If you did, you'd understand why a mouse offers more wind resistance and has a lower terminal velocity than a horse. It's not really about physics, it has to do with the way the ratio of volume to area changes as an object scales up.
Maybe he should have said "even if you assume..."
Yes, that would be better, although as I replied to him in a different comment, I'd rather that he'd gotten the explanation straight in the first place.
I am aware of that, but I didn't want to complicate things, in case the reader was not a physicist.
I'm not a physicist; I don't even play one on TV. And yet, I spotted your error. I wouldn't have commented if you had, as an example, assumed a spherical horse (and mouse) of uniform density because that would just have emiminated some messy complications. Instead, you made an asumption that you knew was wrong and that led you directly to a wrong explanation.
If we assume that both of them have the same velocity when touching the floor
AIUI, you assume wrong. The horse's terminal velocity is considerably higer (and considerably more terminal) than that of the mouse. It's one of the many consequences of the cube/square law: proportionally, the mouse has more surface area than the horse, giving it more air resistance, so it ends up with a softer landing.
As long as you're invoking Zawinski's Law, where's the email client?
There seems to be an unspoken command that news agencies never use the term "Windows Virus", "Windows Trojan", "Windows Malware", etc.
That's because to the people writing those stories, using a PC equates running Windows. Yes, some of them have heard of Linux, but they usually don't know what it is and even if they do, they're going to assume that their audience doesn't.
I am by no means young, I'm 31, but am part of a more tech savvy generation.
I'm twice your age and I've been working/playing with computers for over forty years. In general, I've divided all sites that require passwords into three sets: those that store data that I care about (banks and so on), those that don't (comic strip sites, Slashdot and so on) and those that don't but require "strong" passwords.
The first set gets strong, unique passwords. For those that Firefox can't store, I have a place on-line to stash them; if you can find and access it, I've got more things to worry about than my passwords. For the second, all of them use the same password, simply to make things easy. After all, there's no way that the software running a blog (let's say) is going to know that you're using the same password for it as you are to sign on to a shopping site. And, the password's obscure enough that nobody who doesn't know me very, very well is ever going to come up with by guessing, and it's at least as safe from a dictionary attack as any random, unpronouncable word can be. For the third, I have several variations on my standard password to fit various restrictions. Thus, things I don't care about very much are safe from anything except a very determined attack, and those I do are even better protected. Frankly, I'm more concerned about the possibility of my password being picked up by a cracker stealing a password database than by having it guessed.
For example, I've heard it said there was once a "1950s".
Oh, there was, I assure you. I remember them very well, TYVM. NOW GET OF MY LAWN, YOU YOUNG WHIPPERSNAPPER!
Kids. Back when I was a munchkin, back in the '50s, we only had one dial for tuning because there wasn't any such thing as UHF. Channels 2 through 13 were all there were and and the only colors you got were black and white.
Rest assured that Dr. Pournelle's penis remains larger than any mere mortal.
In other words, none. And we're all supposed to think that you know more than he does, why?
Thank you for that quote. I'll point out only that both of his docotrates (Political Science and Psychology) were earned, meaning that there's a good reason to think that he knows what he's writing about. Just to be fair, I'd like to ask you what courses in this subject you've taken?
Also, the fact that you can find lots of sites on the Internet saying what you're objecting to proves nothing except that every wacko out there is able to put up a website to push their agenda.
It is a regional union of independent states.
Actually, it isn't. If it were, there'd be two nations here, the United States of America and the Confederate States of America. And, I can assure you that not all (or even most) conservatives think that the USofA isn't a democracy. I have a friend who's (among other things) a conservative and a political commentator, and I'm sure that he'd laugh at anybody who made that claim. Of course, one of his doctorates is in Poli Sci, meaning that he's not exactly uneducated on the subject. I suspect that what you're seeing is more the result of poor education than anything else.
So what you're saying is, you're objecting to the OP's definition of the term "republic," and throwing in an irrelevant ad hominim attack on conservatives just because you don't like them.
This is a stupid Republican-created meme that needs to die.
Wrong. "And to the republic for which it stands..."
Especially when, as I pointed out already, TFA doesn't refer to "a colloid," but simply colloid as though it were a specific substance.
TFS says, in part, "It mixes colloid into the solution..." This is Just Plain Wrong because there is no such thing as "colloid." A colloid is a substance microscopically dispersed evenly throughout another substance. I haven't RTFA (This is Slashdot, after all!) but I'd be willing to bet that TFA says that they add something to the solution to make it into a colloid and that the submitter (and editor) didn't bother to make sure they got it right.
No. Most shareware just asked you to pay for it if you liked it.
This guy patented the free trial/shareware/try and buy concept that required a unique unlock code to activate its software. In 1993, this concept may have been novel...
It wasn't. I can remember trying shareware back in the mid '80s that had limited functionality until you paid for it and entered the code. Sometimes, instead of that, the code unlocked addtional features that the authors hoped were worth the cost.