I assume you've never seen a disney movie before? Someones daughter (Han and Leia?) is now a disney princess, and being a young woman her only purpose in life in the movie is finding herself a man, about 8 musical numbers, dancing ewoks and dancing jar jar, the new happy couple sails into the sunset on a landcruiser with mr tall dark and handsome and they live happily ever after, finally licensed pink backpacks with the princess's face marketed to my daughter. Great stuff.
You can BS passengers into paying much more because you have comfier seats or serve cookies or have non-stop / non-transfer flights to their home town or some goofy "air miles" deal. None of which cost much but people will pay thru the nose for... nearly pure profit.
Cargo doesn't care. You've got a $1M/month mortgage to pay on that $100M plane and the ONLY thing that matters is making as many trips as possible to haul cargo to make that payment. You go quick you make tons of profit and pay your mortgage. You glide around like drunken seagull and make one revenue generating glide per week, the plane gets repo'd.
Even worse, its always going to cost more to fly than swim in a boat or drive a truck. Some cargo is time sensitive enough that they'll pay 50 times as much to go 5 times as fast as a semi trailer. But there's no way in hell they'll pay 50 times as much to go slower than the alternatives.
Nobody on/. got the correct answer although a couple got close. It all boils down to cost of capital.
There is no reason a solar-glider airfleet, or a solar powered fleet of blimps or whatever could not exist other than the existence of jetfuel powered competitors.
Your competitor rents $100M from the bank and keeps his planes in the air 20 hours out of every 24 hour day and during that 20 hours makes lets say 5 revenue generating flights. So five butts in seats per day or more importantly they sold at least 5 tickets per seat per day (probably a hair more).
You rent $100M from the bank and your planes sit on the ground on average 12 hours per day and you're lucky at the slower speeds involved to get maybe 1 revenue generating flight per day. So you sold one ticket per seat per day. Whoops.
Your competitors gross 5 times the cash you do to pay the bank loan... who cares if 30% of your expenses are fuel or fuel related (engine maint, whatever), leaving you with a mere 70% of previous expense, if you only get to keep 20% of your previous revenue... That's going to ruin your profit margin, in fact you'll be unable to pay the bank back unless or until your competitors go out of business.
The "world" could run on giant solar gliders, or solar powered helium blimps, or whatever, if and only if the cost of capital dropped way more than a factor of 5 and/or ticket prices floated up about 5 times what they are today. Frankly we will inevitably end up there sooner or later, maybe in 20 or 30 years. But its not going to work today.
The phone would be smart enough to not just be a computer but it could be my computer.
As trends continue it will not be "my computer" it'll remain my service provider's computer which they graciously let me use a small fraction of its capabilities for a monthly fee.
No offense taken, just turns out to be more relevant to the original topic upon reflection than at first glance
I'm having trouble understanding why an atheist would actively dislike someone solely for being theist.
What happens religiously inside church on sunday is not my thing personally, but I'm OK with it as long as consenting adults, etc etc. What happens inside govt buildings religiously is not so cool. Religious legislation seems to bring out the claws.
TLDR is its a "pot luck" fusion reactor and its a hell of a lot of coordination work to make sure they don't end up with 25 bags of doritos and nothing else, and theres always some cheap bastard who wants to eat at the buffet but doesn't bring anything, and half the attendants have conflicting food allergies and religious food prohibitions.
they had mechanical problems and were dead in the water waiting for a tow
Ouch, its almost impossible to sink a ship that at least has steerage, but out of control you're in deep trouble if you get broadside to the waves or a big wave over the stern and you're done. Boats, even antique replicas, can survive almost anything headon other than hitting a lighthouse but from the side or back they're toast.
Safer for the ship. The dead crew would have been safer in their beds on land.
Nah, their beds would be underwater due to the surge and they'd be drowned. If you gotta evac one way or another, you should do what you do best, and what sailors do best is sail, so...
The latest news I find says 14 of 16 crew rescued, one drowned, and the Captain still missing.
The captain is missing... perhaps somebody mutinied?
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. The problem was Kirk self destructed the enterprise while the klingon boarding crew was aboard. The captain is in the volcano. Yes, if you look close as a joke the starfleet crew did rename the BoP "The Bounty". By far the strangest part of the movie plot was how starfleet kind of abandoned them on Vulcan. Sure you stole/borrowed and then destroyed a ship, then almost started a war, then hung around an exploding planet, then stole a klingon ship, then resurrected a dead starfleet officer, but aside from all that ya' all just take your shore leave on vulcan and head on home when ya see fit to come home. WTF?
I don't understand why they didn't set sail sooner, even with a tow to speed it up.
This is what sunk them. Safest place to be when a hurricane smashes into your home port, is 500 miles away on a sunny beach sipping a margarita. Even just 150 miles off to the side in a really bad rainstorm is better than right in the path of the hurricane.
I've personally done this on a much smaller scale with thunderstorms on a sailboat. Both the distances and warning times are shorter by about the same fraction.
Ships (usually) move a lot faster than houses, so you simply sail out of the way... unless you have an equipment failure during the escape. Then you sink/die of course, because suddenly you're stationary. Its almost impossible to sink a boat that's underway in the modern radio era, even if its an ancient replica. Safest place to be when a hurricane is on the way is on a ship, because in about 12 to 24 hours you'll be somewhere sunny and pleasant instead of in a hurricane, and if you get a couple days warning that is not too difficult to get 12 hours away... I used to get endless shit from landlubbers when I was serious contemplating doing the liveaboard sailboat thing about hurricanes "What'll you do when a hurricane hits your harbor" "Probably drinking a margarita sitting on a sunny beach 300 miles away, what are you going to be doing when a hurricane hits your home city?" "Grr..."
I was a real small time sailboat sailor but even I know their "killer" (literally) mistake was not traveling in a convoy. So the mainmast snaps off or you spring a hopeless leak, who cares, everyone move from boat #4 to boat #27 and we'll continue along the way. Its more fun to sail in a group of friends anyway. Probably they were too scared of low visibility to escape in a group, if the odds of collision are 2% in heavy seas and dense fog, and the odds of sinking are 0.001% then you go it alone. In slashdot IT terms this is a Redundant Array of Inexpensive (LOL) Sailboats, but if its foggy you'll get massive filesystem corruption.
In all honesty quite a few "killed by hurricane" stories are REALLY "killed during hurricane" stories that have nothing to do with the weather, they'd be just as dead without the storm. Very few sailors are killed by hurricanes compared to landlubbers I'd feel much safer on a boat than on land.
Until they come out with a formal report we won't know what happened, but I'm guessing they were doing a hell of a lot better than the landlubbers until something very critical failed in an unanticipated manner.
I'll put it right next to the flying car and the fusion generator.
Your wireless charging pad will be easier to find than that.. it'll be under the sleeping cat. If X% of the power gets turned into heat, and cats have a magic ability to find horizontal sources of heat and then sleep on them, simply locate the sleeping cat to find the wireless charger underneath the cat. As for the phone? Oh that's on the floor with a broken screen, fluffy knocked it off the charger.
I think the semi-realistic fear is that most "standards" are pushing for 5 watt devices now and 100 watts in the future, the problem is not merely 90% efficient at 5 watts, but when they roll out a 500 watt standard and people simply stop using power cords anymore for all but major appliances. Its convenient if your kitchen stand mixer or waffle iron or deep oil fryer don't need to be plugged in, maybe even a bit safer WRT to tripping on power cords, but it begins to get pretty expensive in terms of loss.
The killer isn't even my waffle iron which only gets a couple hours use per year, but something like TVs which might be on a large fraction of the day. Sounds convenient to have wireless power and wireless internet streaming meaning no cables, at all, to hang a TV on the wall, but the energy costs do add up over time.
Or imagine the waste of cordless desk lamps for room illumination. Looks nice, and being an expensive waste of money they'll be the new coolness, but kind of a waste.
How is it an open standard, when I need to join their organization to see the specs?
I am mostly uninterested in transnational megacorp products but I REALLY want cheap gadgetry from the usual hardware hacker sources that's compatible with the overall wireless power system.
Although I don't use arduinos, I'd like an arduino power shield, and I'd like a module about the size of a 9-volt battery to replace the battery inside my multi-meter, and and I'd like something the shape of some AA batteries with a really big capacitor to replace my remote control battery, and I'd like to retrofit my ham radio HTs and my scanner to charge wirelessly. I'd like a desktop robot kit for foolin around that doesn't need onboard batteries. I'd like to retrofit my radio controlled car and TX to slow charge merely my being placed on the shelf next to the charger. Heck why can't my soldering iron have a wireless power RX, if it can output 20 watts or so peak?
All the transnational megacorps want to do with this tech is sell me a trendy stylish new cellphone exactly like my old phone but now with a wireless charger. Bleh. I want to do more, really use the tech, not just as a cruddy cellphone dongle.
Yes I know there are Qi dev boards from digikey and last time I checked a TX/RX dev board set was only $300. Just the litz wire coils alone were like $10 each (Litz wire, in 2012? Will that tech ever die?) I'm talking about demanding something more like $5 a piece.
But, how much energy does it take to move that amount of...
It can't be worse than coal because it doesn't take any energy to break it loose from the earth and crush it, and the labor at the small scale is "free" you don't have to pay people to put trash in a trash can (but at higher levels a truck of coal costs about as much to drive as a truck of garbage) Admittedly the energy content per Kg is probably a bit lower so its not going to be as much of a win over coal as you'd guess. But it certainly won't be worse.
The real killer energy cost / green issue is exhaust emissions scrubbing. Not selling electronic devices with lead based solder doesn't mean all durable goods made with lead solder instantly disappeared. Plenty of things in the trash that you wouldn't want to breathe after burning. You'd like to think special bins for plastic and electronics magically means the "food refuse" bin is pristine pure 100% lead and plastic and paint free, but its not, and the required scrubbing just in case is expensive.
I think it may be that atheists don't understand faith, while those they argue with don't understand science.
Coincidentally this apparently unrelated issue was posted in response to my "hospitality/politeness/gentleman-liness" post
Maybe the resolution would be..
Well OK but try this somewhat more pragmatic idea on. Unfortunately the problem might be an active dislike, not merely a lack of understanding. And thats OK, as long as we try not to aggressively convert each other, especially by negative means but also by sorta-positive means, I think we'll get along all politely with great hospitality on all sides. The alternative is not so pleasant.
The fundamental assertion you're making is that there exist people who are incapable of reevaluating their views. It casts off some people as literally inferior to others.
Whats wrong with the first statement? Why does it lead to the second statement?
Surely the wisest philosopher could pull it off. Surely my cactus houseplant can not pull it off. Someone with severe mental disabilities is going to be unable to "think really hard" or might not have any views at all.
I'd estimate that first statement is correct for about 90% of humanity, mostly as a carefully learned and socially indoctrinated helplessness, although probably at least 5% to 10% are physically incapable of it as per the second statement even if they were in a free society.
The game itself evolves over time.. or does it? If you have video footage of the 3rd and 7th inning, I deny the innings between exist until you provide proof. And if you find someone's cellphone cam of the 5th inning, I'll merely switch my tactic to complaining there's supernatural intervention evidence because the game now jumped from the 3rd to the 5th inning and from the 5th to the 7th... until you find proof of the 4rd and 6th innings... been there seen that.
So without being particularly deliberately offensive or insulting, just tell it like it is.
I happen to agree with him completely WRT to beliefs and logic, however, WRT to offense/insult I would theorize that most of the disagreement is caused by a confusion of one side believing they're operating under the politeness/hospitality rule where it all boils down to a gentleman does whatever makes his guests feel comfortable, including letting them blabber foolishly if they really want, but the other side thinks they're at the debate table brainstorming solutions where anything goes. Sometimes there's more than a little passive aggressiveness taking advantage of that confusion.
WRT his public school indoctrination story, teachers spend years yelling at kids to behave around adult classroom visitors giving a presentation... sneaking a cult in creates a confusion where a cult should be laughed at, yet they're in a gentlemanly polite hospitality suite of visiting a classroom. Not so much confusing the visitor with a substitute teacher but confusion the visitor with someone you need to be polite to.
I've defused innumerable in-person "disagreements" with something along the lines of "there's about 10000 distinct and completely incompatible current and dead religions, our religious views are almost identical in that you DISbelieve in 9999 of them, I merely DISbelieve in one more than you". The reaction from believers to this line of reasoning is completely unpredictable other than I haven't been accused of offensiveness or insult... so far.
glimpse into a possible future where consumer electronics are no longer crippled by the artificial barriers of manufacturer or operating system.
Does it deal with rooted phones intelligently by assuming the device is malicious or does it deal with rooted phones stupidly by assuming the device is perfectly trustworthy?
I don't have a xbox 360 so it doesn't matter for me, but if I did I'd probably have the sniffer up and sniffin already. Unless it uses bluetooth somehow instead of wifi. of course there are sniffers for BT but it takes some specialized hardware.
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I, and I imagine most slashdotters, look at my feet when interacting with other people. Especially women.
Why are your keyboard and monitor by your feet? I'm not flexible enough to type that way anymore.
I assume you've never seen a disney movie before? Someones daughter (Han and Leia?) is now a disney princess, and being a young woman her only purpose in life in the movie is finding herself a man, about 8 musical numbers, dancing ewoks and dancing jar jar, the new happy couple sails into the sunset on a landcruiser with mr tall dark and handsome and they live happily ever after, finally licensed pink backpacks with the princess's face marketed to my daughter. Great stuff.
*checks date* ...Still October..
Its the traditional "october surprise" we have toward the end of a presidential election cycle.
I'm not sure who is supposed to benefit by this one. Easily the weirdest one in history.
And cargo rarely needs to go as quickly as people
Bzzzzt
You can BS passengers into paying much more because you have comfier seats or serve cookies or have non-stop / non-transfer flights to their home town or some goofy "air miles" deal. None of which cost much but people will pay thru the nose for... nearly pure profit.
Cargo doesn't care. You've got a $1M/month mortgage to pay on that $100M plane and the ONLY thing that matters is making as many trips as possible to haul cargo to make that payment. You go quick you make tons of profit and pay your mortgage. You glide around like drunken seagull and make one revenue generating glide per week, the plane gets repo'd.
Even worse, its always going to cost more to fly than swim in a boat or drive a truck. Some cargo is time sensitive enough that they'll pay 50 times as much to go 5 times as fast as a semi trailer. But there's no way in hell they'll pay 50 times as much to go slower than the alternatives.
Nobody on /. got the correct answer although a couple got close. It all boils down to cost of capital.
There is no reason a solar-glider airfleet, or a solar powered fleet of blimps or whatever could not exist other than the existence of jetfuel powered competitors.
Your competitor rents $100M from the bank and keeps his planes in the air 20 hours out of every 24 hour day and during that 20 hours makes lets say 5 revenue generating flights. So five butts in seats per day or more importantly they sold at least 5 tickets per seat per day (probably a hair more).
You rent $100M from the bank and your planes sit on the ground on average 12 hours per day and you're lucky at the slower speeds involved to get maybe 1 revenue generating flight per day. So you sold one ticket per seat per day. Whoops.
Your competitors gross 5 times the cash you do to pay the bank loan... who cares if 30% of your expenses are fuel or fuel related (engine maint, whatever), leaving you with a mere 70% of previous expense, if you only get to keep 20% of your previous revenue... That's going to ruin your profit margin, in fact you'll be unable to pay the bank back unless or until your competitors go out of business.
The "world" could run on giant solar gliders, or solar powered helium blimps, or whatever, if and only if the cost of capital dropped way more than a factor of 5 and/or ticket prices floated up about 5 times what they are today. Frankly we will inevitably end up there sooner or later, maybe in 20 or 30 years. But its not going to work today.
The phone would be smart enough to not just be a computer but it could be my computer.
As trends continue it will not be "my computer" it'll remain my service provider's computer which they graciously let me use a small fraction of its capabilities for a monthly fee.
I did not intend it as an insult
No offense taken, just turns out to be more relevant to the original topic upon reflection than at first glance
I'm having trouble understanding why an atheist would actively dislike someone solely for being theist.
What happens religiously inside church on sunday is not my thing personally, but I'm OK with it as long as consenting adults, etc etc.
What happens inside govt buildings religiously is not so cool. Religious legislation seems to bring out the claws.
TLDR is its a "pot luck" fusion reactor and its a hell of a lot of coordination work to make sure they don't end up with 25 bags of doritos and nothing else, and theres always some cheap bastard who wants to eat at the buffet but doesn't bring anything, and half the attendants have conflicting food allergies and religious food prohibitions.
they had mechanical problems and were dead in the water waiting for a tow
Ouch, its almost impossible to sink a ship that at least has steerage, but out of control you're in deep trouble if you get broadside to the waves or a big wave over the stern and you're done. Boats, even antique replicas, can survive almost anything headon other than hitting a lighthouse but from the side or back they're toast.
Safer for the ship. The dead crew would have been safer in their beds on land.
Nah, their beds would be underwater due to the surge and they'd be drowned. If you gotta evac one way or another, you should do what you do best, and what sailors do best is sail, so...
The latest news I find says 14 of 16 crew rescued, one drowned, and the Captain still missing.
The captain is missing ... perhaps somebody mutinied?
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. The problem was Kirk self destructed the enterprise while the klingon boarding crew was aboard. The captain is in the volcano. Yes, if you look close as a joke the starfleet crew did rename the BoP "The Bounty". By far the strangest part of the movie plot was how starfleet kind of abandoned them on Vulcan. Sure you stole/borrowed and then destroyed a ship, then almost started a war, then hung around an exploding planet, then stole a klingon ship, then resurrected a dead starfleet officer, but aside from all that ya' all just take your shore leave on vulcan and head on home when ya see fit to come home. WTF?
I don't understand why they didn't set sail sooner, even with a tow to speed it up.
This is what sunk them. Safest place to be when a hurricane smashes into your home port, is 500 miles away on a sunny beach sipping a margarita. Even just 150 miles off to the side in a really bad rainstorm is better than right in the path of the hurricane.
I've personally done this on a much smaller scale with thunderstorms on a sailboat. Both the distances and warning times are shorter by about the same fraction.
WTF were they even at sea for?
Ships (usually) move a lot faster than houses, so you simply sail out of the way... unless you have an equipment failure during the escape. Then you sink/die of course, because suddenly you're stationary. Its almost impossible to sink a boat that's underway in the modern radio era, even if its an ancient replica. Safest place to be when a hurricane is on the way is on a ship, because in about 12 to 24 hours you'll be somewhere sunny and pleasant instead of in a hurricane, and if you get a couple days warning that is not too difficult to get 12 hours away... I used to get endless shit from landlubbers when I was serious contemplating doing the liveaboard sailboat thing about hurricanes "What'll you do when a hurricane hits your harbor" "Probably drinking a margarita sitting on a sunny beach 300 miles away, what are you going to be doing when a hurricane hits your home city?" "Grr..."
I was a real small time sailboat sailor but even I know their "killer" (literally) mistake was not traveling in a convoy. So the mainmast snaps off or you spring a hopeless leak, who cares, everyone move from boat #4 to boat #27 and we'll continue along the way. Its more fun to sail in a group of friends anyway. Probably they were too scared of low visibility to escape in a group, if the odds of collision are 2% in heavy seas and dense fog, and the odds of sinking are 0.001% then you go it alone. In slashdot IT terms this is a Redundant Array of Inexpensive (LOL) Sailboats, but if its foggy you'll get massive filesystem corruption.
In all honesty quite a few "killed by hurricane" stories are REALLY "killed during hurricane" stories that have nothing to do with the weather, they'd be just as dead without the storm. Very few sailors are killed by hurricanes compared to landlubbers I'd feel much safer on a boat than on land.
Until they come out with a formal report we won't know what happened, but I'm guessing they were doing a hell of a lot better than the landlubbers until something very critical failed in an unanticipated manner.
I'll put it right next to the flying car and the fusion generator.
Your wireless charging pad will be easier to find than that.. it'll be under the sleeping cat. If X% of the power gets turned into heat, and cats have a magic ability to find horizontal sources of heat and then sleep on them, simply locate the sleeping cat to find the wireless charger underneath the cat. As for the phone? Oh that's on the floor with a broken screen, fluffy knocked it off the charger.
I think the semi-realistic fear is that most "standards" are pushing for 5 watt devices now and 100 watts in the future, the problem is not merely 90% efficient at 5 watts, but when they roll out a 500 watt standard and people simply stop using power cords anymore for all but major appliances. Its convenient if your kitchen stand mixer or waffle iron or deep oil fryer don't need to be plugged in, maybe even a bit safer WRT to tripping on power cords, but it begins to get pretty expensive in terms of loss.
The killer isn't even my waffle iron which only gets a couple hours use per year, but something like TVs which might be on a large fraction of the day. Sounds convenient to have wireless power and wireless internet streaming meaning no cables, at all, to hang a TV on the wall, but the energy costs do add up over time.
Or imagine the waste of cordless desk lamps for room illumination. Looks nice, and being an expensive waste of money they'll be the new coolness, but kind of a waste.
How is it an open standard, when I need to join their organization to see the specs?
I am mostly uninterested in transnational megacorp products but I REALLY want cheap gadgetry from the usual hardware hacker sources that's compatible with the overall wireless power system.
Although I don't use arduinos, I'd like an arduino power shield, and I'd like a module about the size of a 9-volt battery to replace the battery inside my multi-meter, and and I'd like something the shape of some AA batteries with a really big capacitor to replace my remote control battery, and I'd like to retrofit my ham radio HTs and my scanner to charge wirelessly. I'd like a desktop robot kit for foolin around that doesn't need onboard batteries. I'd like to retrofit my radio controlled car and TX to slow charge merely my being placed on the shelf next to the charger. Heck why can't my soldering iron have a wireless power RX, if it can output 20 watts or so peak?
All the transnational megacorps want to do with this tech is sell me a trendy stylish new cellphone exactly like my old phone but now with a wireless charger. Bleh. I want to do more, really use the tech, not just as a cruddy cellphone dongle.
Yes I know there are Qi dev boards from digikey and last time I checked a TX/RX dev board set was only $300. Just the litz wire coils alone were like $10 each (Litz wire, in 2012? Will that tech ever die?) I'm talking about demanding something more like $5 a piece.
But, how much energy does it take to move that amount of ...
It can't be worse than coal because it doesn't take any energy to break it loose from the earth and crush it, and the labor at the small scale is "free" you don't have to pay people to put trash in a trash can (but at higher levels a truck of coal costs about as much to drive as a truck of garbage) Admittedly the energy content per Kg is probably a bit lower so its not going to be as much of a win over coal as you'd guess. But it certainly won't be worse.
The real killer energy cost / green issue is exhaust emissions scrubbing. Not selling electronic devices with lead based solder doesn't mean all durable goods made with lead solder instantly disappeared. Plenty of things in the trash that you wouldn't want to breathe after burning. You'd like to think special bins for plastic and electronics magically means the "food refuse" bin is pristine pure 100% lead and plastic and paint free, but its not, and the required scrubbing just in case is expensive.
I'm a theist
Pleased to meet you
I think it may be that atheists don't understand faith, while those they argue with don't understand science.
Coincidentally this apparently unrelated issue was posted in response to my "hospitality/politeness/gentleman-liness" post
Maybe the resolution would be ..
Well OK but try this somewhat more pragmatic idea on. Unfortunately the problem might be an active dislike, not merely a lack of understanding. And thats OK, as long as we try not to aggressively convert each other, especially by negative means but also by sorta-positive means, I think we'll get along all politely with great hospitality on all sides. The alternative is not so pleasant.
The fundamental assertion you're making is that there exist people who are incapable of reevaluating their views. It casts off some people as literally inferior to others.
Whats wrong with the first statement? Why does it lead to the second statement?
Surely the wisest philosopher could pull it off. Surely my cactus houseplant can not pull it off. Someone with severe mental disabilities is going to be unable to "think really hard" or might not have any views at all.
I'd estimate that first statement is correct for about 90% of humanity, mostly as a carefully learned and socially indoctrinated helplessness, although probably at least 5% to 10% are physically incapable of it as per the second statement even if they were in a free society.
the rules have evolved over time.
The game itself evolves over time.. or does it? If you have video footage of the 3rd and 7th inning, I deny the innings between exist until you provide proof. And if you find someone's cellphone cam of the 5th inning, I'll merely switch my tactic to complaining there's supernatural intervention evidence because the game now jumped from the 3rd to the 5th inning and from the 5th to the 7th... until you find proof of the 4rd and 6th innings... been there seen that.
So without being particularly deliberately offensive or insulting, just tell it like it is.
I happen to agree with him completely WRT to beliefs and logic, however, WRT to offense/insult I would theorize that most of the disagreement is caused by a confusion of one side believing they're operating under the politeness/hospitality rule where it all boils down to a gentleman does whatever makes his guests feel comfortable, including letting them blabber foolishly if they really want, but the other side thinks they're at the debate table brainstorming solutions where anything goes. Sometimes there's more than a little passive aggressiveness taking advantage of that confusion.
WRT his public school indoctrination story, teachers spend years yelling at kids to behave around adult classroom visitors giving a presentation... sneaking a cult in creates a confusion where a cult should be laughed at, yet they're in a gentlemanly polite hospitality suite of visiting a classroom. Not so much confusing the visitor with a substitute teacher but confusion the visitor with someone you need to be polite to.
I've defused innumerable in-person "disagreements" with something along the lines of "there's about 10000 distinct and completely incompatible current and dead religions, our religious views are almost identical in that you DISbelieve in 9999 of them, I merely DISbelieve in one more than you". The reaction from believers to this line of reasoning is completely unpredictable other than I haven't been accused of offensiveness or insult... so far.
The difference being, if you're ignorant of baseball you don't deny its existence and insist that divine intervention causes the game to play itself.
The movie "Field of Dreams"... a thinly veiled dotcom/web2.0 business plan documentary, or a thinly veiled religious documentary?
I heard the engine room is welded shut, you know, to make it thinner, so if the starting battery needs replacement you have to buy a whole new boat.
glimpse into a possible future where consumer electronics are no longer crippled by the artificial barriers of manufacturer or operating system.
Does it deal with rooted phones intelligently by assuming the device is malicious or does it deal with rooted phones stupidly by assuming the device is perfectly trustworthy?
I don't have a xbox 360 so it doesn't matter for me, but if I did I'd probably have the sniffer up and sniffin already. Unless it uses bluetooth somehow instead of wifi. of course there are sniffers for BT but it takes some specialized hardware.
Under the action plan, the US Department of Homeland Security and Public Safety Canada will cooperate to
send lots of money in no bid contracts to major campaign donors
improve the response to cyber incidents
fill viagra prescriptions for pennies on the dollar in Canada?