Their GNOME-like "reasoning" was that "professional" users wanted to save in XCF, and that amateurs should just use something else. It rang pretty hollow when the gold-standard Photoshop didn't behave the same way.
And that few if any professionals have heard of XCF. Really, making something that is "eXperimental" in the name part of the default workflow?
>> I've taken a look at Slashdot's homepage with no adblock or anything
Who would want to surf the net without adblock ?
Well, people at work who aren't allowed to install add-ons or alternative browsers, for one.
...and people who find installing and keeping such ad block software up to date as tiresome as the ads themselves as they must not go to the same annoying ad infested websites as most people (probably porn).
I would like to think that these efforts eventually catch up with the perpetrators in life.
I suspect these catch up to the perpetrators in the college years. I can see such cheating working in large undergraduate classes, but have a hard time seeing it working later on once they get to upper division courses. By then, class sizes are smaller, teachers get to know their graduating class members and have the same students in several classes across multiple semesters. Unless there is some complacency going on such as the school wanting the football player to pass and putting pressure on the teachers, I have a hard time seeing it being a reliable method for getting a degree.
Of course, if you get a high score because you spent hours studying the SAT in order to get a high score then that also measures something. Maybe not intelligence, but "ambition" and "self-discipline".
Authoritarianism. Following orders. Lack of creativity. Willing to accept the system even when it's wrong.
In other words, ability to succeed in the real world working at a job.
Something else to passively aggressively show that the US is thinking about separating from Russia and having a possible three way space race, or even giving China some aid.
ISS is worthless. Proponents of the status quo (democrats) want a program that looks down at our warming, miserable planet. George W. Bush wanted a program to explore space, the Moon, asteroids, Mars. Today's democrats are a far cry from Kennedy. They choose to do things because they are easy.
Bush wanted a plan to explore space, the Moon, asteroids, and Mars when it was a nice speaking point on his state of the Union addresses, but he never even allocated any money to NASA to begin such programs. Year after year, he said we were going to Mars but had nothing but words to back that up. Their budget had a hard time keeping up with inflation. Additionally, if we were really going to Mars, not only would we need the ISS, we'd probably have to build another one to do all additional research needed for a Mars mission that couldn't get done there. Normally, I wouldn't reply to an AC troll who doesn't know what they're talking about, but the above was always a sore point with me.
China asked to join in on the ISS and we vetoed it. China said that they would launch their own space station. This is scheduled for 2020. We have already started a space race and are quite simply, waiting for the Chinese to catch up. They just got to a person into space in 2003 and landed something on the moon in 2007. Their proposed time table has them returning moon rock to earth in 2017, launching a space station in 2020, and a moon walk in 2024. So arguably, in a little less than ten years from now, they will have caught up with where the US was around almost two decades ago. Still, China proposes lots of things and fails to come through on them. If they actually get a space station launched and the ISS is retired with no replacement in the works, then I expect that the US will pay attention and start running again rather than walking.
Personally, I expect Musk to have his own space station up sooner.
* Not that I consider the French to be cheese eating surrender monkeys. I am just pandering to the Americans who seem to have totally forgotten why there is a 93m copper woman sitting in New Jersey**
We haven't forgotten. We're just still upset about De Gaulle dropping out of NATO, saying the Soviets would win the Cold War, and then going about being an asshole to US and Britain in an attempt to prove that France is still a super power. That is when all the surrender stuff began. In the end and after WW2, it is true that the US troops identified more with the German people and culture, but I have found no claims of the French being "surrender *anythings*" even in literature bitching about the French from that time period. It's always just been a cheap and easy shot used due to geo-political leanings. This is true with the "Freedom Fries" thing also. France was against the invasion of Iraq (along with Germany), but then again, guess which countries oil company (again, along with Germany) was dealing with Saddam to pump and ship their oil? Rather than explaining these reasons to the American people (who really probably don't care for the most part), they just rename "French Fries". "Freedom Fries".
True about the amount of energy needed that can't be cheated. It puts thing like this into perspective. I admit, I used a timeline of a decade to get them into the inner solar system, and probably should have used a timeline more along the lines of a century. Space is big.
Interesting idea, but perhaps relatively practical. Once I did the math for moving Haley Comet sized objects from the near Oort cloud to Mars to form an atmosphere (after taking into account atmosphere and ice already present on Mars) and the needed energy to do so on a scale of decades was measured in total daily energy output of the sun (~3 IIRC) and that was using assumptions that made it easier to do so. I'll have to sit down and do the math for moving it from closer sources some day and see how it compares.
But, honestly... if people wanted the Microsoft stuff, they'd have bought a Microsoft phone.
I find myself thinking... why the hell would I want Microsoft anything on an Android or iOS device?
Is there a market of people tripping over themselves for this? Unless it was a corporate device and I had no choice, I see zero value in this for anybody who didn't buy a Microsoft product to begin with.
I think you are looking at this wrong. they are not doing this because the consumers are demanding it. They are trying to make developing on the Windows platform more desirable to programmers. Ideally, write once, run everywhere. Then they let the programmers worry about making stuff that the consumers want.
That was the only stuff I ever really liked at Hot Topic, I bought a Gir plush, later gave it to my son. That show rocked.
At least there's some overlap in their motif and Thinkgeek's inventory, but I'm waiting to see if emo-nerd-goth-geek becomes the new thing.
I still have a collection of bowling shirts that I wear to work that were originally bought at Hot Topic. I don't even want to think about how long ago it was that rockabilly bowling shirts were in with kids (I'm probably working with some of them now.)
So what's the state of their pension scheme and healthcare package?
For Al-queda? I'm not sure. For Hamas and the PLO attacking Isreal, it was probably more money than they would every be able to save in their lifetime donated to their families. Used to be paid for by Iraq, but now Iran has stepped in to pay the price last I read. I can only imagine that Al-queda had a similar deal if nothing else.
I always wondered where the Cobra employees came from. Now I know.
Actually, this was answered in the GI Joe comic (written by the guy that had the idea for the new GI Joe IIRC). Cobra employees typically came form the slums of the world. They would find gang members, poor, the dispossessed. Move them to Cobra facilities where they are inducted into a new gang, clothed, fed, socialized into a new family, given education and training, entertainment, healthcare, and even plans to send some of their salary back to their families and help elevate them out of poverty. The typical Cobra base is 2/3rds dorms and recreation space. The rest is doing things that are probably nicer than what they did on the street and no worse than what the governments they used to live under are doing. Then one day, GI Joe attacks them, destroyed their lives, and shatter their dreams.
That is probably a good allegory for both sides of the argument. After all, while technically true, how many people do you see carrying emergency parachutes onto their commercial airline flights, and how much good do you think it will do them if something does go pear shaped?
Put it another way... how many people do you see skydiving WITHOUT taking along an emergency parachute?
And that is apparently the point of TFA, risk assessment. Is the Earth being ridden by humanity more like a small plane, skydive jump plane, or commercial airliner? TFA says that our risk is more like that of a commercial airliner and we'd save more lives making sure there is proper medical equipment and people with training to deal with issues, than stocking it with emergency parachutes in case of imminent crash.
Having a plan to deal with an asteroid/comet strike is more like having an emergency parachute. It's FAR better to have one and not need it, than need one and not have it.
That is probably a good allegory for both sides of the argument. After all, while technically true, how many people do you see carrying emergency parachutes onto their commercial airline flights, and how much good do you think it will do them if something does go pear shaped?
If you're using those as your benchmark for pizza, you're doing it wrong. Just like if you're using McDonald's as a benchmark for what a good burger should be.
Might be the only place that delivered in their area. Even in the middle of a large city, I have found myself in that situation.
That’s why many schools now do the “In-School Suspension”. Sit in the principals’ office and work all day on the mounds of homework the teachers send down. Not quite as much fun as the vacation format.
I happened to get in school suspension when I was in school 30 years ago. Sat in a classroom with all the other trouble makers and was handed a sheet where all my teachers had written my work load on it. Only then did I realize how little I was actually doing in high school. Each day, only half the classes had anything of substance written for them, including homework, and I was done with that by 10 AM. I spent the rest of the day reading books for English "extra credit" or drawing for art "extra credit" as written on the sheet by my teachers. Since I was an honor student in a class of actual trouble makers, the I got to watch them act up and get into more trouble and never got into any myself, which was all quite entertaining. The only real drag was lunch where we ate in the half hour between everybody else's lunch and couldn't speak a word. If I could have had my normal lunch with friends, I would have seriously contemplated getting into more trouble on purpose so I could get more in school suspension.
I can see how one could say that Phobos and Deimos, like our Moon, have extremely regular orbital distances, but given that the science that has stated that our Moon was caused by an impactor is still itself being both refined and challenged, I wonder if it's a little premature to conclude that based on orbital characteristics alone the two Martian moons derived from the same sort of event as our Moon. After all, many of the planets have orbits that are very near circular, but we do not interpret their existence in a similar fashion.
The impactor theory for the origin of the moon is being refined, but AFAIK, it really hasn't been challenged seriously since the early 90's. Before that there were many competing theories for the origin of the moon from forming at the same time as the earth, captured by there earth, formed from impact, and a few others. Meanwhile there are various criteria such scenarios must meet dealing with angular velocity of the moon, composition, etc. In the early 90's computer modeling got to the point that they could do such for impactor theory and resulted with a model of an impact of another body of similar composition that would collide with the proto-Earth, split off a glob that would become the moon while leaving it's own iron core to explain the Earth's relative large one. At that point, while not perfect, the impactor theory was basically doing better over all in the criteria than the other options. I remember seeing the presentation and video of the computer simulation while an undergrad in physics in the early 90's. I've been keeping up with the subject when I see it, and it has been modified, mainly that two moons were formed and then they recombined in a rather low energy collision to form the moon. I have not heard any serious competition by the other theories since then.
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"CANADA IS NOT A STATE!!!" Of course it isn't. Canada is a province of the US.
Better to think of Canada as a collection of US provinces currently tied to a future independent French speaking state.
Their GNOME-like "reasoning" was that "professional" users wanted to save in XCF, and that amateurs should just use something else. It rang pretty hollow when the gold-standard Photoshop didn't behave the same way.
And that few if any professionals have heard of XCF. Really, making something that is "eXperimental" in the name part of the default workflow?
>> I've taken a look at Slashdot's homepage with no adblock or anything
Who would want to surf the net without adblock ?
Well, people at work who aren't allowed to install add-ons or alternative browsers, for one.
...and people who find installing and keeping such ad block software up to date as tiresome as the ads themselves as they must not go to the same annoying ad infested websites as most people (probably porn).
You didn't even bother with that much fact checking about what you 'know', though, did you. Your entire post is a demonstration of idiocy in action.
Of course they didn't. It's an AC and pure trolling.
I would like to think that these efforts eventually catch up with the perpetrators in life.
I suspect these catch up to the perpetrators in the college years. I can see such cheating working in large undergraduate classes, but have a hard time seeing it working later on once they get to upper division courses. By then, class sizes are smaller, teachers get to know their graduating class members and have the same students in several classes across multiple semesters. Unless there is some complacency going on such as the school wanting the football player to pass and putting pressure on the teachers, I have a hard time seeing it being a reliable method for getting a degree.
Of course, if you get a high score because you spent hours studying the SAT in order to get a high score then that also measures something. Maybe not intelligence, but "ambition" and "self-discipline".
Authoritarianism. Following orders. Lack of creativity. Willing to accept the system even when it's wrong.
In other words, ability to succeed in the real world working at a job.
Something else to passively aggressively show that the US is thinking about separating from Russia and having a possible three way space race, or even giving China some aid.
ISS is worthless. Proponents of the status quo (democrats) want a program that looks down at our warming, miserable planet. George W. Bush wanted a program to explore space, the Moon, asteroids, Mars. Today's democrats are a far cry from Kennedy. They choose to do things because they are easy.
Bush wanted a plan to explore space, the Moon, asteroids, and Mars when it was a nice speaking point on his state of the Union addresses, but he never even allocated any money to NASA to begin such programs. Year after year, he said we were going to Mars but had nothing but words to back that up. Their budget had a hard time keeping up with inflation. Additionally, if we were really going to Mars, not only would we need the ISS, we'd probably have to build another one to do all additional research needed for a Mars mission that couldn't get done there. Normally, I wouldn't reply to an AC troll who doesn't know what they're talking about, but the above was always a sore point with me.
China asked to join in on the ISS and we vetoed it. China said that they would launch their own space station. This is scheduled for 2020. We have already started a space race and are quite simply, waiting for the Chinese to catch up. They just got to a person into space in 2003 and landed something on the moon in 2007. Their proposed time table has them returning moon rock to earth in 2017, launching a space station in 2020, and a moon walk in 2024. So arguably, in a little less than ten years from now, they will have caught up with where the US was around almost two decades ago. Still, China proposes lots of things and fails to come through on them. If they actually get a space station launched and the ISS is retired with no replacement in the works, then I expect that the US will pay attention and start running again rather than walking.
Personally, I expect Musk to have his own space station up sooner.
* Not that I consider the French to be cheese eating surrender monkeys. I am just pandering to the Americans who seem to have totally forgotten why there is a 93m copper woman sitting in New Jersey**
We haven't forgotten. We're just still upset about De Gaulle dropping out of NATO, saying the Soviets would win the Cold War, and then going about being an asshole to US and Britain in an attempt to prove that France is still a super power. That is when all the surrender stuff began. In the end and after WW2, it is true that the US troops identified more with the German people and culture, but I have found no claims of the French being "surrender *anythings*" even in literature bitching about the French from that time period. It's always just been a cheap and easy shot used due to geo-political leanings. This is true with the "Freedom Fries" thing also. France was against the invasion of Iraq (along with Germany), but then again, guess which countries oil company (again, along with Germany) was dealing with Saddam to pump and ship their oil? Rather than explaining these reasons to the American people (who really probably don't care for the most part), they just rename "French Fries". "Freedom Fries".
True about the amount of energy needed that can't be cheated. It puts thing like this into perspective. I admit, I used a timeline of a decade to get them into the inner solar system, and probably should have used a timeline more along the lines of a century. Space is big.
Cool idea, but I suspect it's not practical.
Interesting idea, but perhaps relatively practical. Once I did the math for moving Haley Comet sized objects from the near Oort cloud to Mars to form an atmosphere (after taking into account atmosphere and ice already present on Mars) and the needed energy to do so on a scale of decades was measured in total daily energy output of the sun (~3 IIRC) and that was using assumptions that made it easier to do so. I'll have to sit down and do the math for moving it from closer sources some day and see how it compares.
But, honestly ... if people wanted the Microsoft stuff, they'd have bought a Microsoft phone.
I find myself thinking ... why the hell would I want Microsoft anything on an Android or iOS device?
Is there a market of people tripping over themselves for this? Unless it was a corporate device and I had no choice, I see zero value in this for anybody who didn't buy a Microsoft product to begin with.
I think you are looking at this wrong. they are not doing this because the consumers are demanding it. They are trying to make developing on the Windows platform more desirable to programmers. Ideally, write once, run everywhere. Then they let the programmers worry about making stuff that the consumers want.
Isn't Hot Topic the store in the mall where all the teens go to buy stuff that makes them unique, just like all the other teens?
It's the place where teens go to buy stuff in an attempt to make them not their parents, but they are doomed to failure.
That was the only stuff I ever really liked at Hot Topic, I bought a Gir plush, later gave it to my son. That show rocked. At least there's some overlap in their motif and Thinkgeek's inventory, but I'm waiting to see if emo-nerd-goth-geek becomes the new thing .
I still have a collection of bowling shirts that I wear to work that were originally bought at Hot Topic. I don't even want to think about how long ago it was that rockabilly bowling shirts were in with kids (I'm probably working with some of them now.)
Ah, yes, back in the day before Dice ruined slashdot, those were fine times, weren't they...
You think Dice ruined slashdot and yet you are still here. Curious...
Slashdot is the worst of possible web sites, except for all the other web sites I've been to.
(Appologies to Winston Churchill.)
"Do you wish to execute a suicide operation?"
So what's the state of their pension scheme and healthcare package?
For Al-queda? I'm not sure. For Hamas and the PLO attacking Isreal, it was probably more money than they would every be able to save in their lifetime donated to their families. Used to be paid for by Iraq, but now Iran has stepped in to pay the price last I read. I can only imagine that Al-queda had a similar deal if nothing else.
I always wondered where the Cobra employees came from. Now I know.
Actually, this was answered in the GI Joe comic (written by the guy that had the idea for the new GI Joe IIRC). Cobra employees typically came form the slums of the world. They would find gang members, poor, the dispossessed. Move them to Cobra facilities where they are inducted into a new gang, clothed, fed, socialized into a new family, given education and training, entertainment, healthcare, and even plans to send some of their salary back to their families and help elevate them out of poverty. The typical Cobra base is 2/3rds dorms and recreation space. The rest is doing things that are probably nicer than what they did on the street and no worse than what the governments they used to live under are doing. Then one day, GI Joe attacks them, destroyed their lives, and shatter their dreams.
That is probably a good allegory for both sides of the argument. After all, while technically true, how many people do you see carrying emergency parachutes onto their commercial airline flights, and how much good do you think it will do them if something does go pear shaped?
Put it another way... how many people do you see skydiving WITHOUT taking along an emergency parachute?
And that is apparently the point of TFA, risk assessment. Is the Earth being ridden by humanity more like a small plane, skydive jump plane, or commercial airliner? TFA says that our risk is more like that of a commercial airliner and we'd save more lives making sure there is proper medical equipment and people with training to deal with issues, than stocking it with emergency parachutes in case of imminent crash.
Having a plan to deal with an asteroid/comet strike is more like having an emergency parachute. It's FAR better to have one and not need it, than need one and not have it.
That is probably a good allegory for both sides of the argument. After all, while technically true, how many people do you see carrying emergency parachutes onto their commercial airline flights, and how much good do you think it will do them if something does go pear shaped?
It's not the country, It's the drooling morons that we have running the country.
It's entrenched powers that stand to loss a great deal of money as well as feed their opponents money, if they admit something needs to be done.
If you're using those as your benchmark for pizza, you're doing it wrong. Just like if you're using McDonald's as a benchmark for what a good burger should be.
Might be the only place that delivered in their area. Even in the middle of a large city, I have found myself in that situation.
That’s why many schools now do the “In-School Suspension”. Sit in the principals’ office and work all day on the mounds of homework the teachers send down. Not quite as much fun as the vacation format.
I happened to get in school suspension when I was in school 30 years ago. Sat in a classroom with all the other trouble makers and was handed a sheet where all my teachers had written my work load on it. Only then did I realize how little I was actually doing in high school. Each day, only half the classes had anything of substance written for them, including homework, and I was done with that by 10 AM. I spent the rest of the day reading books for English "extra credit" or drawing for art "extra credit" as written on the sheet by my teachers. Since I was an honor student in a class of actual trouble makers, the I got to watch them act up and get into more trouble and never got into any myself, which was all quite entertaining. The only real drag was lunch where we ate in the half hour between everybody else's lunch and couldn't speak a word. If I could have had my normal lunch with friends, I would have seriously contemplated getting into more trouble on purpose so I could get more in school suspension.
More detailed info:
https://www.psi.edu/epo/moon/moon.html
I can see how one could say that Phobos and Deimos, like our Moon, have extremely regular orbital distances, but given that the science that has stated that our Moon was caused by an impactor is still itself being both refined and challenged, I wonder if it's a little premature to conclude that based on orbital characteristics alone the two Martian moons derived from the same sort of event as our Moon. After all, many of the planets have orbits that are very near circular, but we do not interpret their existence in a similar fashion.
The impactor theory for the origin of the moon is being refined, but AFAIK, it really hasn't been challenged seriously since the early 90's. Before that there were many competing theories for the origin of the moon from forming at the same time as the earth, captured by there earth, formed from impact, and a few others. Meanwhile there are various criteria such scenarios must meet dealing with angular velocity of the moon, composition, etc. In the early 90's computer modeling got to the point that they could do such for impactor theory and resulted with a model of an impact of another body of similar composition that would collide with the proto-Earth, split off a glob that would become the moon while leaving it's own iron core to explain the Earth's relative large one. At that point, while not perfect, the impactor theory was basically doing better over all in the criteria than the other options. I remember seeing the presentation and video of the computer simulation while an undergrad in physics in the early 90's. I've been keeping up with the subject when I see it, and it has been modified, mainly that two moons were formed and then they recombined in a rather low energy collision to form the moon. I have not heard any serious competition by the other theories since then.