So the United States was serving a smaller group when women got the vote? When minorities got the vote? And when poll taxes were eliminated?
Yes, actually, for several reasons:
Making the system more "democratic" pleases the proles, both from the warm fuzzies they get by feeling as if they have a voice, and by enabling to vote themselves bread and circuses.
It leads the proles to disregard the elite's authoritarian schemes (E.g., "How can they be power-hungry autocrats when they just gave us sufferage?"). What the proles don't realize is that voting doesn't matter when the elite chooses who gets on the ballot. Voting is an illusion of choice.
It dumbs down the political process so that leaders can maintain power via emotional appeal instead of rational debate. That's good for the elite because it means they don't have to defend themselves against outsiders with good ideas.
Of course, the issue (at least in the case of the U.S) isn't that simple. You also have to consider the effects of the gradual failing of federalism, etc.
Why are you guys getting so worked up about something that you don't care about enough to protect?
The funny thing is, they did care enough about it to protect it -- hence the first court case that they already won. Too bad Skype's apparently too stupid to figure that out...
Yes it would be wonderful if every tiny detail could be documented meticulously, but before we document it we have to design and test our ideas, and that means developing and releasing the reference implementation.
Conversely, does that mean that when the reference implementation is done you'll document the protocols? If so, that's great! (And it would be an excellent idea to mention that in a FAQ somewhere, I think.)
So in other words, once you hit 1.0 (or whatever version) this policy is likely to change and you'll start writing good documentation and encouraging other implementations?
Of course it was legally invalid; that's why we had to win a damn war to enforce it anyway! It became legally valid with the signing of the 1783 Treaty of Paris.
The more people you can eliminate near the beginning of the bidding process, the fewer are left to complain about the (perceived or actual) lack of fairness in the rest of it.
I take it back, it's not just marketing you don't understand, it's the whole idea of running a business to make money.
Tell you what: how about you just fuck off. Seriously. You're apparently too stupid to figure out that there's a difference between not understanding something and not liking it, and it's not my job to spoon-feed shit to you!
Why should Linksys keep selling Linux routers when they need more flash memory and thus cost more to produce when most people don't care if the router runs Linux or vxWorks?
Maybe they shouldn't! I never said that what they did wasn't a good business decision for them; I just said I didn't like it! What, am I not allowed to have a fucking opinion?!
And calling me an arsehole (note spelling) won't help you.
I'm not fucking British, and I'm going to spell the damn word however the Hell I want, thankyouverymuch! And I was calling you that in an attempt to help you realize you're being a condescending prick!
Pony up the extra $20 for the Linux based router if you want it so bad.
If you go to the store and buy your game on CD, it is reasonable to assume that you've got a CD-ROM drive somewhere on your computer...how else are you going to install it?
I have a Thinkpad X60. I install disc-based software on it by taking the CD-ROM drive out of my girlfriend's desktop, attaching it to the IDE->USB adapter from an external hard drive case, and then reversing the whole process when I'm done. There's no way in Hell I'd do this every time I wanted to merely play a game; I've even been putting off getting rid of Vista because it's so onerous to do!
Never neglect risk. Calculate the expected costs and expected benefits and decide if it acceptable.
If I were really designing a wind farm, rather than just talking about it on Slashdot, I would have done that.
Are there even any recorded instances of commercially installed towers failing? I imagine that it simply doesn't happen.
Exactly: I called it "negligible" because you'd have to multiply that 1% by the probability of one falling over (specifically falling over; not failing in some other way) in the first place, which makes it really small.
You start reading things like that and think the reports don't really matter much and start ignoring them. This is especially true if you have ever worked in a restaurant.
Actually, I have worked in restaurants. I remember one incident where the inspector happened to come while we were getting a delivery, and docked points for not having our fridge cold enough. Well no shit, Sherlock -- we had the damn door propped open to load stuff into it!
However, that was the only major incidence of bullshit that I recall. Otherwise, we always had almost perfect scores, which aren't hard to accomplish. Besides, for every bullshit issue that the inspector does catch, there's probably several sanitation issues that restaurants get away with, on average. Also, even that sort of thing only results in a score in the 80s or 90s; to get down to 20 there have to be real, serious problems.
So you're claiming that Linksys took a loss on the WRT54G versions 1 through 4? And moreover, that they took that loss for years before hoping to recoup their investment after the market was already mostly saturated? I'm sorry, because I usually try to be polite here on Slashdot, but that's just flat-out stupid.
This is because the speed of the turbines is measured at the tip of the blades. The blades are so huge now that they move slowly at the tip, but get to within a few feet of the centre and they blades move much faster than the older turbines.
You've got that backwards. The angular velocity is the same at the tip and the center. The linear velocity is greatest at the tip, not the center.
I'm not a civil engineer either, but I am training to become one. I think you're worrying way too much here. Yes, you need a reasonable foundation for the thing, but then you can put soil for farming on top of that.
But even that is overthinking the issue; just look at this picture. See the space each turbine tower takes up? Now see the space between towers? Is the former significant compared to the latter? No. Are they, in fact, growing some kind of crops between the towers? Yes. If this weren't true, the picture wouldn't exist!
Even still you couldn't put them denser than the falling distance from one to another or a slight engineering snafu turns your billion dollar windfarm into the worlds most expensive set of dominos.
You don't want to put them close together anyway, because
the turbine needs to rotate (in the X-Y plane) so that it's always facing the wind and you don't want blades of adjacent turbines to hit each other, and
if they're too close behind each other, the wake turbulence from the turbine in front reduces the efficiency of the turbine behind.
Oh, and by the way: assuming you arrange the turbines in a square grid, they would have to fall in one of the four cardinal directions to risk creating "the world's most expensive set of dominos." If we assume that the zone where this would happen takes up 1 degree of arc for each direction, there's a (4/360) ~= 1% chance of that happening, assuming a tower fell over in the first place. I'd call that negligible risk.
Outside a few small mountainous countries with heaps of hydro such as New Zealand, we are all dependent on fossil fuel or nuclear at least part of the time.
(Some of) the source code is, but the protocols and technologies it uses aren't, and those are what really matter. An OS X box plays just as nicely on the network as a Linux or BSD box, as a client or as a server.
Pretty clear-cut business case. In their case, they went out of their way to provide the original model again, pretty much just for hackers. They could've just dropped the old version, y'know.
For every hacker they retained by keeping the GL, they pissed off two others (like me) who resented being asked to pay $20 more than we had been for the same hardware (or the same price for inferior hardware). Prices on technology are supposed to go down, not up, as the product gets older!
Because of that bullshit, I'm specifically avoiding Linksys for my future router purchases.
How did Linksys cripple the 54G? IIRC, they came out with the 54GL variant to keep the hacker crowd happy.
No, they renamed the original G to GL, jacked the price up $20, then came out with a new, shitty router that they named G for the same price that the better hardware had been before. And all this while hardware costs should have been going down anyway (as is the general trend in technology).
(Have you got a hint abut why people are pissed off yet?)
I didn't say that Hillary (or you) was responsible for the adultery, I said that Hillary was responsible for her reaction to it. Since you refer to your ex-wife, I assume you divorced her because of the adultery. That's what makes you different from Hillary (who instead flushed whatever shred of dignity she might have had in her lust for power).
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Yes, actually, for several reasons:
Of course, the issue (at least in the case of the U.S) isn't that simple. You also have to consider the effects of the gradual failing of federalism, etc.
No, you're thinking of the LGPL. The regular GPL doesn't allow what you suggest.
The funny thing is, they did care enough about it to protect it -- hence the first court case that they already won. Too bad Skype's apparently too stupid to figure that out...
If that's the case, then how do you decide where to draw the line?
Conversely, does that mean that when the reference implementation is done you'll document the protocols? If so, that's great! (And it would be an excellent idea to mention that in a FAQ somewhere, I think.)
So in other words, once you hit 1.0 (or whatever version) this policy is likely to change and you'll start writing good documentation and encouraging other implementations?
Oh, okay. I don't think it would be deafening, though; the volume isn't necessarily additive.
Of course it was legally invalid; that's why we had to win a damn war to enforce it anyway! It became legally valid with the signing of the 1783 Treaty of Paris.
Uh, no noise at all since the XO laptops don't have fans?
The more people you can eliminate near the beginning of the bidding process, the fewer are left to complain about the (perceived or actual) lack of fairness in the rest of it.
Tell you what: how about you just fuck off. Seriously. You're apparently too stupid to figure out that there's a difference between not understanding something and not liking it, and it's not my job to spoon-feed shit to you!
Maybe they shouldn't! I never said that what they did wasn't a good business decision for them; I just said I didn't like it! What, am I not allowed to have a fucking opinion?!
I'm not fucking British, and I'm going to spell the damn word however the Hell I want, thankyouverymuch! And I was calling you that in an attempt to help you realize you're being a condescending prick!
Oh, I will -- from a company other than Linksys!
I have a Thinkpad X60. I install disc-based software on it by taking the CD-ROM drive out of my girlfriend's desktop, attaching it to the IDE->USB adapter from an external hard drive case, and then reversing the whole process when I'm done. There's no way in Hell I'd do this every time I wanted to merely play a game; I've even been putting off getting rid of Vista because it's so onerous to do!
Yeah, right. If it's not explicitly specified in the EULA, it's worthless. And even if it is in the EULA, it's still worthless!
If I were really designing a wind farm, rather than just talking about it on Slashdot, I would have done that.
Exactly: I called it "negligible" because you'd have to multiply that 1% by the probability of one falling over (specifically falling over; not failing in some other way) in the first place, which makes it really small.
Actually, I have worked in restaurants. I remember one incident where the inspector happened to come while we were getting a delivery, and docked points for not having our fridge cold enough. Well no shit, Sherlock -- we had the damn door propped open to load stuff into it!
However, that was the only major incidence of bullshit that I recall. Otherwise, we always had almost perfect scores, which aren't hard to accomplish. Besides, for every bullshit issue that the inspector does catch, there's probably several sanitation issues that restaurants get away with, on average. Also, even that sort of thing only results in a score in the 80s or 90s; to get down to 20 there have to be real, serious problems.
Do you see me going around and telling you what you do and do not understand, asshole? I damn well do understand marketing; I just don't like it!
So you're claiming that Linksys took a loss on the WRT54G versions 1 through 4? And moreover, that they took that loss for years before hoping to recoup their investment after the market was already mostly saturated? I'm sorry, because I usually try to be polite here on Slashdot, but that's just flat-out stupid.
You've got that backwards. The angular velocity is the same at the tip and the center. The linear velocity is greatest at the tip, not the center.
I'm not a civil engineer either, but I am training to become one. I think you're worrying way too much here. Yes, you need a reasonable foundation for the thing, but then you can put soil for farming on top of that.
But even that is overthinking the issue; just look at this picture. See the space each turbine tower takes up? Now see the space between towers? Is the former significant compared to the latter? No. Are they, in fact, growing some kind of crops between the towers? Yes. If this weren't true, the picture wouldn't exist!
You don't want to put them close together anyway, because
- the turbine needs to rotate (in the X-Y plane) so that it's always facing the wind and you don't want blades of adjacent turbines to hit each other, and
- if they're too close behind each other, the wake turbulence from the turbine in front reduces the efficiency of the turbine behind.
Oh, and by the way: assuming you arrange the turbines in a square grid, they would have to fall in one of the four cardinal directions to risk creating "the world's most expensive set of dominos." If we assume that the zone where this would happen takes up 1 degree of arc for each direction, there's a (4/360) ~= 1% chance of that happening, assuming a tower fell over in the first place. I'd call that negligible risk.We could use New Orleans; it's already got the pumps, and it's been demonstrated that it's good at holding water...
(Burn, karma, burn!)
Isn't Iceland almost entirely geothermal?
(Some of) the source code is, but the protocols and technologies it uses aren't, and those are what really matter. An OS X box plays just as nicely on the network as a Linux or BSD box, as a client or as a server.
For every hacker they retained by keeping the GL, they pissed off two others (like me) who resented being asked to pay $20 more than we had been for the same hardware (or the same price for inferior hardware). Prices on technology are supposed to go down, not up, as the product gets older!
Because of that bullshit, I'm specifically avoiding Linksys for my future router purchases.
No, they renamed the original G to GL, jacked the price up $20, then came out with a new, shitty router that they named G for the same price that the better hardware had been before. And all this while hardware costs should have been going down anyway (as is the general trend in technology).
(Have you got a hint abut why people are pissed off yet?)
I didn't say that Hillary (or you) was responsible for the adultery, I said that Hillary was responsible for her reaction to it. Since you refer to your ex-wife, I assume you divorced her because of the adultery. That's what makes you different from Hillary (who instead flushed whatever shred of dignity she might have had in her lust for power).