> The fact that the price of future-dated oil doesn't reflect this suggests that the smart money doesn't believe peak oil is as imminent as the heralds of doom suggest.
The fact of relatively low futures prices can be explained several ways: 1) As you suggest: there is no problem. 2) Investors base their decisions on inaccurate/fixed supply estimates (as per the article) 3) The investment is too long term for the majority of investors. 4) "Smart Money" is an oxymoron....
Not that I favour censorship, but I think the Internet would be a better place *without* Murdochs "newspapers". I would be happy for Google to not return results from his sites:-)
> I mean, how many people really need to use fancy fonts to read a web forum, read a news article, or buy an item from a store?
I agree 100%, except I do not *long for it*: I *recreate it myself*. Using Firefox and Stylish I: redefine the text to use only my single, preferred font, foreground and background colours, bold style etc. I chop out bits of websites I do not like (big sidebars, headers, footers etc) from my favorite websites. Then I add Flashblock and Adblock. The aim is to make the sites look more similar, then I can flip around different sites without having to re-focus my eyes and concentrate on the content ! (But that is the beauty of the open HTML and CSS: we have a choice !)
(FYI I do not consider that using a different font, or some odd background colour to be an expression of individualism: that should be expressing in the content!!)
(Perhaps one day I will get around to packaging the whole thing in to a Firefox extension: perhaps calling ItsAllAboutTheContent:-)
The title ' "Three Strikes" To Go Ahead In Britain ' is, err, a little misleading (what, on/. ? never).
My understanding is that the policy is being proposed form inclusion in a new bill. AFAIK this then has to be bounced between The House of Commons and the Lords and finally signed by HRM before it is law. And this assumes it is not removed and/or amended in this process.
> Few people seem to question the implicit goal that companies seem to hold, that profits must always continue to increase forever.
1) Is it not the nature of the capitalist system ?
2) Many, many have done, and many, many continue to question and/or criticize this system and propose either it's modification or even it's overthrow. The fact that their views are not often aired on 'big media' that so many people rely on is perhaps inevitable !
When I first read the title "Internet Probably Couldn't Handle a Flu Pandemic" I thought yikes, I have heard of viruses crossing from animals to humans, but now they can cross from humans to the Internet ? Does that mean I can catch the flu from my Internet connected work PC running Windows ? (I think I am safe at home: *NIX PCs would be still be virus free and so safe to use:-) And should I disinfect my hands after using that Windows PC ? (although I already do sometimes get that urge anyway:-)
Mod me down for being cynically but: give MS's history, the fact that no release date is given and that presumably they just have to edit/issue an already internally documented format then it just sounds like hot air aimed at naive users and EU legislators.
I replaced my NSLU2 with a fit-pc as a home server: v. low wattage (8W) and Ubuntu pre-installed was a big plus for me, after hacking around with the NSLU2. The Fit-PC just works and has a little more processing headroom.
> Predators and Reapers utilize security features provided by the NSA, Just what we need: security provided by a government department. I feel safer already:-)
> I had never seen a cup holder in a car before I visited the United States. I'm not kidding. It never even occurred to me that someone would want such a thing.
I guess the manufactures say they are for those in-car, rainy day, picnics when you are stationary (probably useful in the UK 'summers':-) In fact I guess the cars' Owners' Manual probably has warnings not to use them whilst driving (to avoid legal consequences) !
> This has been the common thing in many European countries for many years already.
(Speaking as cycle commuter in small town Germany.) Yes the law is there, but enforcement is negligible:-(
Literally every day I see drivers chatting on their (handheld) mobiles whilst *driving* through town, even though my commute is only 3.5 miles of which maybe 1/2 is on roads. I can only guess how many are distracted whilst hands-free. And then I can count the coffee drinking, breakfast eating idiots...
> Actually the most recent studies are showing that holding the phone versus using a hands-free device has virtually zero difference in accident rates.
I am not doubting the research, but I have often observed drivers turning through a junction, whilst changing gear and steering with one hand and a mobile in the other. I have seen them wander around the road, but fortunately I have seen no accidents yet.
> Why does everyone assume fancy cars or superbikes will get you laid. >... > Just because you have a particular possession you won't magically become more attractive to the opposite sex. >...
This would be the advertisers attempted message ! (get them on the Golgafrincham B-Ark I say:-)
> Google is not in the business of providing searches. Google is in the business of selling ads. It just happens that having the best search gives you more eyeballs on your ads.
Depends how you look at it: they started providing search at a loss to them, then provided the best product, saw increased traffic and so sold more ads to break even, then make a profit. At the base level all businesses, in the long run, have to be in the business of making money, everything else subservient to that.
> They leverage that advantage to gain share in other markets.
How have they done that ? As far as I know the only link between Google Search and Google Chrome is the goodwill on the name encourages people to give Chrome a go. Quite different to using you OS to leverage other software or force PC makers to install your product.
I agree with the rest of your post, and add that I think that without Firefox/Chrome MS would probably have done *no* updates to IE in recent years.
> Not anymore than the Internet is P2P anyway. AFAIK most of the traffic on the internet is client/server: web browsing, email, ftp, s/w updates etc
> The whole point of peer-to-peer is that it's millions of peers sharing all sorts of shit. IMHO the key characteristic of P2P is either no server, or a very low bandwidth server.
> What peer-to-peer did was to distribute that already low cost from one server to all the peers, so that people actually operate torrent sites without killing themselves on bandwidth as opposed to the old ftp servers. For legal torrents this is true, but for illegal torrents the main reason for P2P is so that the server does actual *host* the copy-write material, a key point in most countries (but IANAL).
> i for one welcome the menubutton revolution that will force people to get used to menu buttons
I agree wholeheartedly with everything you say except this. My preference is for auto-hiding: you finish with the menu and it disappears, you want the menu and as you mouse up there it automatically appears. The only change that people need to learn is the mouse-up action, and then they are back to what they are used to.
> Stupid, stupid, stupid. The main selling point seems to be that it can run regular Linux apps. Which of course you would not want to do in the first place in devices with such a constrained screen size and different input methods.
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> The fact that the price of future-dated oil doesn't reflect this suggests that the smart money doesn't believe peak oil is as imminent as the heralds of doom suggest.
The fact of relatively low futures prices can be explained several ways: ...
1) As you suggest: there is no problem.
2) Investors base their decisions on inaccurate/fixed supply estimates (as per the article)
3) The investment is too long term for the majority of investors.
4) "Smart Money" is an oxymoron.
Not that I favour censorship, but I think the Internet would be a better place *without* Murdochs "newspapers". :-)
I would be happy for Google to not return results from his sites
> Which piece of bloat would you remove first?
Built in RSS reader.
Also:
- Caching and filtering could easily be done in a separate process
- Themes
> I don't believe it! Miley Cyrus is wooden one dimensional, never mind 2 or 3. This has to be a hoax.
I guess you are unaware of the power of modern CGI tools to fix this :-)
> wallpapers have been changed by a worm to an image of '80s pop icon Rick Astley
I would say that this is a textbook contravention of Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights :-)
> So me and my friend got treated to a good one: "voir les culottes de filles."
And in other news Google Translate gets /.ed !
UK website rates UK mains plug the best in the world (I am shocked, shocked ...)
I would like to mod you up but I have no points :-(
But I agree with your comments 100% !
> Do you really want to be staring at Verdana, Arial, and Times New Roman for the next 100 years?
Yes: if I am alive in 100 years I will be very happy, especially as I am already 45 :-)
> I mean, how many people really need to use fancy fonts to read a web forum, read a news article, or buy an item from a store?
I agree 100%, except I do not *long for it*: I *recreate it myself*. Using Firefox and Stylish I: redefine the text to use only my single, preferred font, foreground and background colours, bold style etc. I chop out bits of websites I do not like (big sidebars, headers, footers etc) from my favorite websites. Then I add Flashblock and Adblock. The aim is to make the sites look more similar, then I can flip around different sites without having to re-focus my eyes and concentrate on the content ! (But that is the beauty of the open HTML and CSS: we have a choice !)
(FYI I do not consider that using a different font, or some odd background colour to be an expression of individualism: that should be expressing in the content!!)
(Perhaps one day I will get around to packaging the whole thing in to a Firefox extension: perhaps calling ItsAllAboutTheContent :-)
The title ' "Three Strikes" To Go Ahead In Britain ' is, err, a little misleading (what, on /. ? never).
My understanding is that the policy is being proposed form inclusion in a new bill. AFAIK this then has to be bounced between The House of Commons and the Lords and finally signed by HRM before it is law. And this assumes it is not removed and/or amended in this process.
> Few people seem to question the implicit goal that companies seem to hold, that profits must always continue to increase forever.
1) Is it not the nature of the capitalist system ?
2) Many, many have done, and many, many continue to question and/or criticize this system and propose either it's modification or even it's overthrow. The fact that their views are not often aired on 'big media' that so many people rely on is perhaps inevitable !
When I first read the title "Internet Probably Couldn't Handle a Flu Pandemic" I thought yikes, I have heard of viruses crossing from animals to humans, but now they can cross from humans to the Internet ? :-) And should I disinfect my hands after using that Windows PC ? (although I already do sometimes get that urge anyway :-)
Does that mean I can catch the flu from my Internet connected work PC running Windows ? (I think I am safe at home: *NIX PCs would be still be virus free and so safe to use
Mod me down for being cynically but: give MS's history, the fact that no release date is given and that presumably they just have to edit/issue an already internally documented format then it just sounds like hot air aimed at naive users and EU legislators.
I replaced my NSLU2 with a fit-pc as a home server: v. low wattage (8W) and Ubuntu pre-installed was a big plus for me, after hacking around with the NSLU2. The Fit-PC just works and has a little more processing headroom.
> Predators and Reapers utilize security features provided by the NSA, :-)
Just what we need: security provided by a government department. I feel safer already
> I had never seen a cup holder in a car before I visited the United States. I'm not kidding. It never even occurred to me that someone would want such a thing.
I guess the manufactures say they are for those in-car, rainy day, picnics when you are stationary (probably useful in the UK 'summers' :-) In fact I guess the cars' Owners' Manual probably has warnings not to use them whilst driving (to avoid legal consequences) !
> This has been the common thing in many European countries for many years already.
(Speaking as cycle commuter in small town Germany.) Yes the law is there, but enforcement is negligible :-(
Literally every day I see drivers chatting on their (handheld) mobiles whilst *driving* through town, even though my commute is only 3.5 miles of which maybe 1/2 is on roads. I can only guess how many are distracted whilst hands-free. And then I can count the coffee drinking, breakfast eating idiots...
> Actually the most recent studies are showing that holding the phone versus using a hands-free device has virtually zero difference in accident rates.
I am not doubting the research, but I have often observed drivers turning through a junction, whilst changing gear and steering with one hand and a mobile in the other. I have seen them wander around the road, but fortunately I have seen no accidents yet.
> Why does everyone assume fancy cars or superbikes will get you laid. ... ...
>
> Just because you have a particular possession you won't magically become more attractive to the opposite sex.
>
This would be the advertisers attempted message ! (get them on the Golgafrincham B-Ark I say :-)
> Google is not in the business of providing searches. Google is in the business of selling ads. It just happens that having the best search gives you more eyeballs on your ads.
Depends how you look at it: they started providing search at a loss to them, then provided the best product, saw increased traffic and so sold more ads to break even, then make a profit. At the base level all businesses, in the long run, have to be in the business of making money, everything else subservient to that.
> They leverage that advantage to gain share in other markets.
How have they done that ? As far as I know the only link between Google Search and Google Chrome is the goodwill on the name encourages people to give Chrome a go. Quite different to using you OS to leverage other software or force PC makers to install your product.
I agree with the rest of your post, and add that I think that without Firefox/Chrome MS would probably have done *no* updates to IE in recent years.
> Not anymore than the Internet is P2P anyway.
AFAIK most of the traffic on the internet is client/server: web browsing, email, ftp, s/w updates etc
> The whole point of peer-to-peer is that it's millions of peers sharing all sorts of shit.
IMHO the key characteristic of P2P is either no server, or a very low bandwidth server.
> What peer-to-peer did was to distribute that already low cost from one server to all the peers, so that people actually operate torrent sites without killing themselves on bandwidth as opposed to the old ftp servers.
For legal torrents this is true, but for illegal torrents the main reason for P2P is so that the server does actual *host* the copy-write material, a key point in most countries (but IANAL).
> i for one welcome the menubutton revolution that will force people to get used to menu buttons
I agree wholeheartedly with everything you say except this. My preference is for auto-hiding: you finish with the menu and it disappears, you want the menu and as you mouse up there it automatically appears. The only change that people need to learn is the mouse-up action, and then they are back to what they are used to.
> I first started using it because it was the easiest way to maximize the amount of screen real estate for the actual web page
Easier then pressing F11 ?
> Stupid, stupid, stupid. The main selling point seems to be that it can run regular Linux apps. Which of course you would not want to do in the first place in devices with such a constrained screen size and different input methods.
But you could use OPIE or GPE for example.