Presumably your little comment was meant to prop-up OS X as a real OS based on its POSIX compliance.
One need only watch a Mac user work for 5 minutes to recognize that its POSIX compliance means nothing. The OS seems to miraculously turn even previously reasonable savvy computer users into specific-application-using near-luddites. Happened to my best friend. Seriously.
Does the master keystroke list tell you how to jump to the beginning or the end of the line without using the mouse?
I have never seen that done on a Macintosh computer before. For those of us with a real computer, the 'home' and 'end' keys perform this bit of magic quite universally.
That would have to be the most retarded statement I have ever heard. Although it would be fun to see the rest of the world wither away and die w/o US support. How would China's economy ever survive not to mention Taiwan and South Korea, they would no longer exist and Iran would nuke Israel. Mexicans would have nowhere to work, India would lose all US outsourcing and a large portion of the internet would vanish. The rest of the world would NOT be delighted if the US pretended they did not exist...
You are wrong. We would be delighted. All those sacrafices you mention (some of which are utter nonsense) would be WELL WORTH IT!
Am I the only one that finds just about everything written by nielsen to be either blatantly obvious (and already known and understood by anyone with half a brain) or oddly nonsensical?
And, of course, regardless of which one it is... he is always willing to sell anyone 637 reasons that supposedly prove his point and/or elaborate on it. (One does wonder how many of the 637 reasons are directly implied by, or already included in one or more of the other poinst on the same list.)
I really am curious. But he never seemed the least bit insightful to me.
Let me guess...... you did not read the page.... you know nothing about the media in question.
Interesting info on the tapes and all though. Of course most of us do not have the resources to throw full-time restoration teams at our disposal when things go bad.
"DVD-R Broadcast Quality 8x is a high performance disc that provides top performance for a wide range of multimedia applications. The DVD-R Broadcast Quality DVD employs Maxell's new MAXPRO Hardcoat Technology(TM). This new technology provides a hardcoat that is scratch resistant and dust and fingerprint repellent. The DVD-R Broadcast Quality discs have an archival and shelf life that is up to 2 times longer than Standard DVD's and also provide anti-static properties which are 20 times more effective. Maxell's DVD-R Broadcast Quality offers a long archival life, a high rate of compatibility and is backed up by a lifetime warranty."
Okay, now that we have established that we should fine companies for their monopolistic practices, who's next? Airbus? Itunes? Wine & Cheese? And if Microsoft refuses to pay the fine? What could they possibly do? They can't uninstall Windows.
They should have a caption contest for that photo of Bill Gates.
Mine would be: SHUT YOUR PIE HOLE!
Wow... you sure are dumb!
The EU and/or individual EU members could ban Microsoft from its/their markets without anyone having to uninstall windows. Like in China everyone would be able to continue to have their windows-y goodness. Local contractors and companies would still be just as available to provide support... and you can be sure nobody would check for windows' authenticity.
The only one that loses out is some insignificant American company, Microsoft. Because of course the European branches will pretty much have ceased to exist by then--and the microsoft hackers will have all found lucrative jobs with lignux distro makers.
Java leaks like a sieve. Azureus can't run for more than 24 hours without causing noticable slowdown... java is still an unprofessional mess more than a decade after it was supposed to change the world.
WTF?! Did God tell you he wrote the bible or had any role in it whatsoever? Oh wait... you only assume that because you've been told it your whole life.
Regards,
Steve
Stop your babbling, little boy.
I suggested that the poster had no way of knowing whether the writer of the cited biblical verse was referring to humans or not. So you are now countering by accusing me of believing that God had a role in the writing of the bible?!
In other words, if *you* don't care about keeping in sync with astronomical phenomena, why doesn't the world change their present, universally accepted, 100+ year old method of time-keeping?
The BBC reported yesterday that U.S. scientists want to change the current system which keeps clocks in sync with solar time by adding a leap second every 18 months or so. This has rattled a few cages with the scientists and operators involved in GMT-related projects and facilities as it would effectively remove the importance of the meridian from timing.
Pretty dumb summary...
What the US scientists are suggesting is that we ignore the earth's rotation in our time-keeping, and just try to keep roughly in synch by arbitrarily adding leap-seconds (as opposed to adding them based on our actual observation of the slowing of the earth's rotation). i.e.: Noon will be when your shiny digital watch says it is, not when the sun is precisely above the prime meridian (or precisely X.X hours plus or minus from said event, depending on your timezone).
Dumb, dumb summary... the UK is defending the idea that humans (of both the blow-joe and the astronomical sort) base their sense of time on the earth's rotation... and so our method of time-keeping should do so as well.
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Presumably your little comment was meant to prop-up OS X as a real OS based on its POSIX compliance.
One need only watch a Mac user work for 5 minutes to recognize that its POSIX compliance means nothing. The OS seems to miraculously turn even previously reasonable savvy computer users into specific-application-using near-luddites. Happened to my best friend. Seriously.
As for me, I use Linux.
Does the master keystroke list tell you how to jump to the beginning or the end of the line without using the mouse?
I have never seen that done on a Macintosh computer before. For those of us with a real computer, the 'home' and 'end' keys perform this bit of magic quite universally.
> From your point of view, they are. What's the problem? Neither is moving faster than C.
Says who? What if I am on one of the ships.
> The view of someone on either ship is not the same as yours. of course.
This does not seem to make any sense...
> If we attach magnets to each Founding Father, then wrap copper wire around each of them, we should have a potentially unlimited energy source.
I am somewhat disturbed that this was my first thought too upon seeing the grandparent post.
> Also, maybe you wanna tell the parents of the thousands of students that mowed down by tanks, that they were 'not willing to pay the price'?
You are a bloody moron. Exactly 0 students were mowed down by tanks at Tiananmen Square.
Ok... I just imagined two ships flying at each other at 0.99c... ... how are they not moving at 1.98c speed relative to each other?
Why bother answering if you can't be bothered to answer?
I've been curious about this for a while... so someone please explain where I am missing the obvious.
;-)
Would not two photons/beams of light travelling in opposite directions be moving faster than the speed of light *relative* to one another?
I'm sure I'm missing something... so please, rip apart the above over-simplified statement. I hope to learn something by observing the process.
> There's gotta be some sort of *article moderation system* to prevent FUD like this from misleading Slashdot readers.
http://www.reddit.com/
> I have to wonder, how many people in China are actually unaware of what happened there?
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Probably at least as many as there are Americans deluding themselves into thinking they are actually aware of what happened there.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0603/p01s04-woap.ht
It seems to me that introduces it's own quirks...
<h property="title">Welcome to my home page</h>
<div property="title">Second title, what now?</div>
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Same thing as is currently done (when there are two titles specified the traditional way):
the first one is used.
Am I the only one that finds just about everything written by nielsen to be either blatantly obvious (and already known and understood by anyone with half a brain) or oddly nonsensical?
And, of course, regardless of which one it is... he is always willing to sell anyone 637 reasons that supposedly prove his point and/or elaborate on it. (One does wonder how many of the 637 reasons are directly implied by, or already included in one or more of the other poinst on the same list.)
I really am curious. But he never seemed the least bit insightful to me.
Let me guess... ... you did not read the page. ... you know nothing about the media in question.
Interesting info on the tapes and all though. Of course most of us do not have the resources to throw full-time restoration teams at our disposal when things go bad.
These might get you an extra few years:
v dr_bq.html
http://www.maxellcanada.com/press_releases/2005/d
"DVD-R Broadcast Quality 8x is a high performance disc that provides top performance for a wide range of multimedia applications. The DVD-R Broadcast Quality DVD employs Maxell's new MAXPRO Hardcoat Technology(TM). This new technology provides a hardcoat that is scratch resistant and dust and fingerprint repellent. The DVD-R Broadcast Quality discs have an archival and shelf life that is up to 2 times longer than Standard DVD's and also provide anti-static properties which are 20 times more effective. Maxell's DVD-R Broadcast Quality offers a long archival life, a high rate of compatibility and is backed up by a lifetime warranty."
The EU and/or individual EU members could ban Microsoft from its/their markets without anyone having to uninstall windows. Like in China everyone would be able to continue to have their windows-y goodness. Local contractors and companies would still be just as available to provide support... and you can be sure nobody would check for windows' authenticity.
The only one that loses out is some insignificant American company, Microsoft. Because of course the European branches will pretty much have ceased to exist by then--and the microsoft hackers will have all found lucrative jobs with lignux distro makers.
Java leaks like a sieve. Azureus can't run for more than 24 hours without causing noticable slowdown... java is still an unprofessional mess more than a decade after it was supposed to change the world.
I suggested that the poster had no way of knowing whether the writer of the cited biblical verse was referring to humans or not. So you are now countering by accusing me of believing that God had a role in the writing of the bible?!
Go take your meds!
> What is Nessie is a Megafauna, a species of some sort of giant fish or cold-blooded reptile
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I say fish:
http://www.skepticfiles.org/skep2/nessfish.htm
http://images.google.ca/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=
> That was talking about humans =p
WTF?! Did God tell you so?
In other words, if *you* don't care about keeping in sync with astronomical phenomena, why doesn't the world change their present, universally accepted, 100+ year old method of time-keeping?
But thanks for asking.
What the US scientists are suggesting is that we ignore the earth's rotation in our time-keeping, and just try to keep roughly in synch by arbitrarily adding leap-seconds (as opposed to adding them based on our actual observation of the slowing of the earth's rotation). i.e.: Noon will be when your shiny digital watch says it is, not when the sun is precisely above the prime meridian (or precisely X.X hours plus or minus from said event, depending on your timezone).
Dumb, dumb summary... the UK is defending the idea that humans (of both the blow-joe and the astronomical sort) base their sense of time on the earth's rotation... and so our method of time-keeping should do so as well.
God... what a dumb summary...