Does Wikipedia -lose- anything if it accepts an article that is a word coined by xkcd? Of course not.
Wikipedia doesn't. But some douche bag who doesn't like it does lose. He doesn't get his way. I know this one very well. I'm one of those douche bags rather often so I understand it.
I'm trying to work out that particular personality flaw, but I have a lot of them so its going to take a while.
There are 2, the other one is smaller. If you have less than half of the amount specified total out of the larger of the two halves it doesn't take much thought to realize you can not possibly meet the total.
if we take the author of this tripe and put him on the bottom of the ocean then let him continue to blow the hot air out of his ass as he's doing here.
Seriously... the whole gulf of mexico is going to explode into an oil gusher?
And people are believing it?
Seriously, when the hell did everyone turn off their freaking common sense?
The freaking math doesn't even add up in this story. Its claiming a million gallons a day gushing, but at 4 barrels per second, you don't get to a million in one day. You don't even get to the 500k that BP would be so happy about, you get 345.6k/day. So you need a good 6BPS from everything else to start hitting a million gallons a day. Not the case. Of course he contridicts himself in his own article with at one point saying 500k and at another saying 1m.
He refers to chemicals added to the well head the speed up the fracturing process... to bad BP isn't pumping those chemicals into the head anymore so thats just complete bullshit.
He compares the oil slick to his back yard pond... except it doesn't work that way. The oil spreads out rapidly to cover as much surface area as it can, thats what happens when you have a lighter liquid on top of a heavier liquid, it spreads out to get as close to the top as it possibly can. It doesn't stay in one little column. Thats why buoys can be left on the surface to contain it, cause its ON THE SURFACE ONLY.
So the current hole is spewing at 70k psi he claims ( I won't argue it, I'm too lazy to look for facts, just like him ) but when the entire thing 'releases' in his extinction event, its going to jump to 150k psi... Someone doesn't understand hydrolics very well. The pressure doesn't get greater when you apply it to a larger area, it gets lower as the same force is spread out over a larger area. You have to increase the energy in the system to actually get more out, all you can do otherwise is exchange speed for pressure and vice versa
Imagine how much alternative energy work that would have produced.
A hell of a lot less than the oil would of, fractions of whats contained in the oil. He has no concept of how much energy is contained in oil and how efficient of a storage mechanism that it is.
I could go on, but whats the point. This is a retarded story written by an idiot rambling about stuff he doesn't know anything about. Is it an environmental disaster? Yes. Is the gulf coast going to suffer for a while and have a large loss of life? Certainly. Will I notice anything more than a higher gas price at the pump? No. Will it recover? Yes, in a few short years at most. Its bad that this happened, its bad that its still spewing oil, but any moron who buys into this article needs to lock themselves in a bomb shelter and wait for 2012 to kill as all cause thats just as logical and likely to happen.
Finally, I'm really lazy I admit, but can someone tell me if theres a way to ignore timothy and kdawson stories? Since they obviously are going to keep letting idiots qualify as editors I'd hope that CmdrTaco has given us an opt out method at least.
This is what happens when you let a bunch of random self absorbed schmucks think what they are doing is actually important to the world.
While I'll use wikipedia as a starting reference point but lets face it, if you use Wikipedia as any sort of authoritative reference, you're an idiot. I say this because every person I know that uses wikipedia as a reference is in fact an idiot.
Just for your future reference, while technically you can call what you did 'programming'.
By any acceptable definition of the word what you did was show how to use the Delphi gui, not teach programming, and that is a BIG distinction. You haven't taught anything but how to point and click.
Its only good for learning ONE type of hardware model.
C more or less sucks ass on Harvard architecture CPUs, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_architecture ) that is ones that have separate IO and memory addressing. Yes it can be made to work, but it was designed for von Neumann ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture ). Using it elsewhere generally costs you a good bit of performance unless you actually understand the hardware you're working on and what not to do in the typical C style.
Here again, if you 'just' know one of those languages, you aren't a programmer.
If you can't write code in C, you aren't a programmer.
You can think you are all day long, you can tell people you are, but thats roughly like me saying I'm an accountant because I took an economics class in 6th grade. Sure, I can say it, but its such a retarded statement that I'd be laughed out of the room if I said it in front of an actual accountant.
Nor would anyone call him a mechanic, they'd call him a JiffyLube employee.
A lack of understanding of how computers work makes you a person who writes code, not a programmer.
My 88 year old father can write code to do some minor things, that doesn't make him a programmer, that makes him a guy who speaks a minor amount of VB but in general has no clue what he's saying.
My guess would be you're a guy who writes code, not a programmer.
Eventually Gimp will work well enough to replace Photoshop, Flash will be dead, an open source WYSIWYG will replace InDesign/Dreamweaver, and this trend will continue with all their products.
Hahahah, is this before or after pigs sprout wings and replace carrier pigeons?
Look at what OpenOffice, Firefox, Chrome, and Google Docs are doing.
You should have kept it just at chrome. Firefox is just dieing slowly, and OO.org and Docs are in no way an acceptable substitute to Office, even if microsoft is screwing with office to no end, both docs and oo.org are still years behind in functionality and polish and show no signs of catching up anytime this decade.
Do you know how many times I've head 'software as a service' is the future? Just because people keep saying it, doesn't make it actually true. There are only so many monthly bills that people can afford to pay and there will always be people like myself who will refuse to use them and write our own if need be.
IBM doesn't sell software as a service, it sells consulting and propritary products on top of the OSS they use to rope you in. OSS to IBM is simply the gateway drug to get their foot in the door and once you realize its not going to do the job you need, they sell you the software that does, and make consulting time off you.
Googles main income is ads, the rest isn;'t a drop in the bucket. Apps for your domain may sell, but not enough to be noticeable.
Sun tried years ago, and failed. They weren't the first. The only people who don't recognize this trend are the ones who don't remember how computing was when it first started being deployed heavily in the business world.
Sorry, no company that is going to remain in business is every going to meet the standard definition of open used here on slashdot, which is essentially 'give everything away for free!'
In case you haven't noticed, they've done a pretty effective job of just that.
You can still buy CS for mac, but its a big pile of crap. They've bulked for years on 64 bit support. CS5 still doesn't support case sensitive file systems, the list goes on but its been so long since I've used their shit that I don't remember all the reasons they now utterly and completely suck on a Mac.
I've replaced pretty much the entire creative suite with apps from other devs for about 1/10th the price. Interestingly enough, I still have about 9/10ths of the features I used before hand.
If Flash were completely open, why isn't there a 100% compliant open-source player out there? Gnash is the closest but it has serious problems with later versions of the spec (probably due to underdocumentation).
Because as a general rule OSS developers are lazy sods who only write the bits they care about and ignore everything they don't. This isn't exactly unique to flash, it pretty much applies to every non-corporate funded OSS project on the planet, and even some that are corporate funded. You can ignore it if you want to but that doesn't change the fact that OSS hardly leads anything, it follows, lagging way behind in all but a few very rare exceptions.
make sure they get paid for every app their stupid devices can run.
Explain the fact that Apple will be happy to host and serve your free app on their store and how it fits into your logic bomb here.
The fact that you can't CHOOSE to install Flash and you can't CHOOSE to use another, more powerful browser, on the other hand - that I care about. THAT'S an asshole, anti-competitive move. Apple deserves to be smacked down for that.
You can choose. It takes effort but they can't and won't stop you from jailbreaking and installing any app you want. They will stop supporting you however, which is perfectly acceptable.
Imagine if, along with bundling Internet Explorer with Windows, Microsoft FORBID anyone from running any other browser on their OS at all, and required EVERY app to be approved by Microsoft before it could be allowed to run. Apple's doing EXACTLY THAT.
Wow, I guess you don't know enough about windows to realize its been going that direction for a while now eh? Load an unsigned driver in Windows Vista/2008/7 without switching to test mode...
It's a fucking computer. I should be able to use whatever language I want and whatever libraries I want to target it. As long as something can create code that the computer can run, who the fuck is Apple to say whether or not I'm allowed to write software using it?!
So is my wrist watch and my old dumb nokia phone, but I can't install random apps on either of them. Fuck nokia and casio too!
What you want, is the world to fit your whim, and thats simply never going to happen regardless of how loud you scream, what temper tantrums you throw or what lame arguments you make in an attempt to get your way.
You don't always get your way, get the hell over it. Don't buy the product if it doesn't satisfy you, its that simple. Welcome to the free market. Don't like it? Tough shit, the rest of us are perfectly fine with it and the majority wins.
I'm sorry, how is writing code in C... which EVERY OS that matters has a compiler for... locking them in? You can compile objective c on pretty much any OS as well, thanks to Apples contributions to GCC...
I'm sorry, thats the biggest pile of crap excuse I've seen in ages.
Rockstar would of course countersue them as soon as they came out and claimed it, but I fail to see why the pirates don't get the same protections as everyone else.
Here, it just means you made some attempt to secure it.
Leaving it open is basically an invitation to use it.
Simply putting a password of any kind on it means the unauthorized person had to do something to get onto your network and that it wasn't joined automatically.
The password can be anything, it just requires that the person 'stealing' your access had to actively do something or run something to get on your network.
I.E. if windows/osx/linux won't join it automatically because its open then you're safe. If its open and anyone can autojoin, then you're responsible for what happens on it.
Your laws are probably different. It was done here so minors couldn't sneak around and use others wifi for porn browsing essentially.
I worked around the problem by creating a disk image with an insensitive file system. Steam will now start, but running games appears to be out of the question at least until I hack together more symlinks.
So I bought Torchlight to give it a whirl since it was only $10. It crashes on start.
The crash report makes it clear the problem is simply crappy code on Valves part.
It creates its directory structure using mixed case file names, then access them via an all lowercase path.
They've intentionally screwed with the case in some parts of their code. The best part is, the parts they've screwed with are internal paths that users never see, for instance my copy of torchlight is in:/Volumes/Steam/myname/Content/Common/Torchlight/TorchlightMac.app/Contents/MacOS/TorchlightMac
Steam launches the app as ( according to the crash report )/volumes/steam/myname/content/common/torchlight/TorchlightMac.app/Contents/MacOS/TorchlightMac
The problem is... half the files were copied to/Volumes and the other half to/volumes/steam that it created.
This is a clear indication of absolutely shitty programming practices at Valve. They had to actively do something to the path to break it. There is no logical reason to do this except bad programming.
Dear Valve,
Learn to use some defines guys and stop converting your paths to lowercase internally or at least fucking do it consistently, if you're doing it for sorting, you are doing it wrong, fix your sorting algorithm, if you need me too I'll write you an implementation that doesn't suck seems you seem to be unable to.
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Wikipedia doesn't. But some douche bag who doesn't like it does lose. He doesn't get his way. I know this one very well. I'm one of those douche bags rather often so I understand it.
I'm trying to work out that particular personality flaw, but I have a lot of them so its going to take a while.
If you eat lobsters and crab from the gulf, you deserve what you get, even without the spill :)
There are 2, the other one is smaller. If you have less than half of the amount specified total out of the larger of the two halves it doesn't take much thought to realize you can not possibly meet the total.
if we take the author of this tripe and put him on the bottom of the ocean then let him continue to blow the hot air out of his ass as he's doing here.
Seriously ... the whole gulf of mexico is going to explode into an oil gusher?
And people are believing it?
Seriously, when the hell did everyone turn off their freaking common sense?
The freaking math doesn't even add up in this story. Its claiming a million gallons a day gushing, but at 4 barrels per second, you don't get to a million in one day. You don't even get to the 500k that BP would be so happy about, you get 345.6k/day. So you need a good 6BPS from everything else to start hitting a million gallons a day. Not the case. Of course he contridicts himself in his own article with at one point saying 500k and at another saying 1m.
He refers to chemicals added to the well head the speed up the fracturing process ... to bad BP isn't pumping those chemicals into the head anymore so thats just complete bullshit.
He compares the oil slick to his back yard pond ... except it doesn't work that way. The oil spreads out rapidly to cover as much surface area as it can, thats what happens when you have a lighter liquid on top of a heavier liquid, it spreads out to get as close to the top as it possibly can. It doesn't stay in one little column. Thats why buoys can be left on the surface to contain it, cause its ON THE SURFACE ONLY.
So the current hole is spewing at 70k psi he claims ( I won't argue it, I'm too lazy to look for facts, just like him ) but when the entire thing 'releases' in his extinction event, its going to jump to 150k psi ... Someone doesn't understand hydrolics very well. The pressure doesn't get greater when you apply it to a larger area, it gets lower as the same force is spread out over a larger area. You have to increase the energy in the system to actually get more out, all you can do otherwise is exchange speed for pressure and vice versa
A hell of a lot less than the oil would of, fractions of whats contained in the oil. He has no concept of how much energy is contained in oil and how efficient of a storage mechanism that it is.
I could go on, but whats the point. This is a retarded story written by an idiot rambling about stuff he doesn't know anything about. Is it an environmental disaster? Yes. Is the gulf coast going to suffer for a while and have a large loss of life? Certainly. Will I notice anything more than a higher gas price at the pump? No. Will it recover? Yes, in a few short years at most. Its bad that this happened, its bad that its still spewing oil, but any moron who buys into this article needs to lock themselves in a bomb shelter and wait for 2012 to kill as all cause thats just as logical and likely to happen.
Finally, I'm really lazy I admit, but can someone tell me if theres a way to ignore timothy and kdawson stories? Since they obviously are going to keep letting idiots qualify as editors I'd hope that CmdrTaco has given us an opt out method at least.
This is what happens when you let a bunch of random self absorbed schmucks think what they are doing is actually important to the world.
While I'll use wikipedia as a starting reference point but lets face it, if you use Wikipedia as any sort of authoritative reference, you're an idiot. I say this because every person I know that uses wikipedia as a reference is in fact an idiot.
wow ... aren't you witty and trendy.
Anyone using XP 64bit has pretty much been doing that since the day they installed the OS anyway.
Just for your future reference, while technically you can call what you did 'programming'.
By any acceptable definition of the word what you did was show how to use the Delphi gui, not teach programming, and that is a BIG distinction. You haven't taught anything but how to point and click.
Its only good for learning ONE type of hardware model.
C more or less sucks ass on Harvard architecture CPUs, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_architecture ) that is ones that have separate IO and memory addressing. Yes it can be made to work, but it was designed for von Neumann ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture ). Using it elsewhere generally costs you a good bit of performance unless you actually understand the hardware you're working on and what not to do in the typical C style.
Here again, if you 'just' know one of those languages, you aren't a programmer.
If you can't write code in C, you aren't a programmer.
You can think you are all day long, you can tell people you are, but thats roughly like me saying I'm an accountant because I took an economics class in 6th grade. Sure, I can say it, but its such a retarded statement that I'd be laughed out of the room if I said it in front of an actual accountant.
Nor would anyone call him a mechanic, they'd call him a JiffyLube employee.
A lack of understanding of how computers work makes you a person who writes code, not a programmer.
My 88 year old father can write code to do some minor things, that doesn't make him a programmer, that makes him a guy who speaks a minor amount of VB but in general has no clue what he's saying.
My guess would be you're a guy who writes code, not a programmer.
Hahahah, is this before or after pigs sprout wings and replace carrier pigeons?
You should have kept it just at chrome. Firefox is just dieing slowly, and OO.org and Docs are in no way an acceptable substitute to Office, even if microsoft is screwing with office to no end, both docs and oo.org are still years behind in functionality and polish and show no signs of catching up anytime this decade.
Do you know how many times I've head 'software as a service' is the future? Just because people keep saying it, doesn't make it actually true. There are only so many monthly bills that people can afford to pay and there will always be people like myself who will refuse to use them and write our own if need be.
IBM doesn't sell software as a service, it sells consulting and propritary products on top of the OSS they use to rope you in. OSS to IBM is simply the gateway drug to get their foot in the door and once you realize its not going to do the job you need, they sell you the software that does, and make consulting time off you.
Googles main income is ads, the rest isn;'t a drop in the bucket. Apps for your domain may sell, but not enough to be noticeable.
Sun tried years ago, and failed. They weren't the first. The only people who don't recognize this trend are the ones who don't remember how computing was when it first started being deployed heavily in the business world.
Sorry, no company that is going to remain in business is every going to meet the standard definition of open used here on slashdot, which is essentially 'give everything away for free!'
In case you haven't noticed, they've done a pretty effective job of just that.
You can still buy CS for mac, but its a big pile of crap. They've bulked for years on 64 bit support. CS5 still doesn't support case sensitive file systems, the list goes on but its been so long since I've used their shit that I don't remember all the reasons they now utterly and completely suck on a Mac.
I've replaced pretty much the entire creative suite with apps from other devs for about 1/10th the price. Interestingly enough, I still have about 9/10ths of the features I used before hand.
Because as a general rule OSS developers are lazy sods who only write the bits they care about and ignore everything they don't. This isn't exactly unique to flash, it pretty much applies to every non-corporate funded OSS project on the planet, and even some that are corporate funded. You can ignore it if you want to but that doesn't change the fact that OSS hardly leads anything, it follows, lagging way behind in all but a few very rare exceptions.
Explain the fact that Apple will be happy to host and serve your free app on their store and how it fits into your logic bomb here.
You can choose. It takes effort but they can't and won't stop you from jailbreaking and installing any app you want. They will stop supporting you however, which is perfectly acceptable.
Wow, I guess you don't know enough about windows to realize its been going that direction for a while now eh? Load an unsigned driver in Windows Vista/2008/7 without switching to test mode ...
So is my wrist watch and my old dumb nokia phone, but I can't install random apps on either of them. Fuck nokia and casio too!
What you want, is the world to fit your whim, and thats simply never going to happen regardless of how loud you scream, what temper tantrums you throw or what lame arguments you make in an attempt to get your way.
You don't always get your way, get the hell over it. Don't buy the product if it doesn't satisfy you, its that simple. Welcome to the free market. Don't like it? Tough shit, the rest of us are perfectly fine with it and the majority wins.
I'm sorry, how is writing code in C ... which EVERY OS that matters has a compiler for ... locking them in? You can compile objective c on pretty much any OS as well, thanks to Apples contributions to GCC ...
I'm sorry, thats the biggest pile of crap excuse I've seen in ages.
Forget the security argument, it isn't needed here.
If the moron put his/her content behind a flash wall the content can't be that impressive to begin with.
Actaully, it probably would work.
Rockstar would of course countersue them as soon as they came out and claimed it, but I fail to see why the pirates don't get the same protections as everyone else.
And all of those open networks are probably monitored, logged, and have some sort of basic protection against using them for illegal activities.
Here, it just means you made some attempt to secure it.
Leaving it open is basically an invitation to use it.
Simply putting a password of any kind on it means the unauthorized person had to do something to get onto your network and that it wasn't joined automatically.
The password can be anything, it just requires that the person 'stealing' your access had to actively do something or run something to get on your network.
I.E. if windows/osx/linux won't join it automatically because its open then you're safe. If its open and anyone can autojoin, then you're responsible for what happens on it.
Your laws are probably different. It was done here so minors couldn't sneak around and use others wifi for porn browsing essentially.
Uhm,the same thing that they always use to spot black holes, xray emmissions are though of as 'SOP' for black holes.
Its also important to note that most of our daily lives now is provided by products that came wholly or in part by NASAs work.
Those two seem to be one and the same at the moment, hence the lack of trust in both.
I worked around the problem by creating a disk image with an insensitive file system. Steam will now start, but running games appears to be out of the question at least until I hack together more symlinks.
So I bought Torchlight to give it a whirl since it was only $10. It crashes on start.
The crash report makes it clear the problem is simply crappy code on Valves part.
It creates its directory structure using mixed case file names, then access them via an all lowercase path.
They've intentionally screwed with the case in some parts of their code. The best part is, the parts they've screwed with are internal paths that users never see, for instance my copy of torchlight is in: /Volumes/Steam/myname/Content/Common/Torchlight/TorchlightMac.app/Contents/MacOS/TorchlightMac
Steam launches the app as ( according to the crash report ) /volumes/steam/myname/content/common/torchlight/TorchlightMac.app/Contents/MacOS/TorchlightMac
The problem is ... half the files were copied to /Volumes and the other half to /volumes/steam that it created.
This is a clear indication of absolutely shitty programming practices at Valve. They had to actively do something to the path to break it. There is no logical reason to do this except bad programming.
Dear Valve,
Learn to use some defines guys and stop converting your paths to lowercase internally or at least fucking do it consistently, if you're doing it for sorting, you are doing it wrong, fix your sorting algorithm, if you need me too I'll write you an implementation that doesn't suck seems you seem to be unable to.