> These corporate folks are putting greed ahead of public responsibility.
That's their job.
Bullshit bullshit bullshit.
Sorry for swearing, but i see this so much here. It's not their job to rape and pillage the world for profit. Being a corporation does not give you a free pass to put money ahead of morals. That is not their job. Their job is to offer a product to a market.
It's the government's job to watch out for the public and slap down such reckless and exploitative practices. Don't blame Monsanto, blame the legislators and bureaucrats who have so shamelessly violated the public trust.
No, blame Monsanto. Blame the government too. They are both doing the wrong thing.
Judging by their web page, all design jobs are dead too. We should all just write web pages to serve ads, because C is dead.
This article is trash, even if it does have some technologies that are irrelevant. It has very little value to the reader. I'd rather read a 10 top list for reasons Paris Hilton should be locked up for life.
If corn prices doubled, then more farmers will plant corn, and it will cause the price of corn to drop. I'm sure at some point there will be a crisis where too much corn is produced, which will cause a plummet of corn prices and another "corn crisis", and less farmers will plant corn, cycle repeats, etc. It will all work itself out.
First, capitalism needs to come into play. Right now, farmers grow as much corn as physically possible knowing that the government will buy it at a set rate, regardless of what the commodity price is.
The government needs to remove it's hand from this one and let the real market forces go to work.
So why do we need centralized production? Wouldn't it be more efficient to have lots of small, independent biofuel producers that each serve a small geographic area, instead of a few large producers that have to transport their stuff over thousands of miles?
Yeah, but you're thinking like a sane person. The companies though... they think "The more you have the less that I can take for myself." If they lose control of the oil they lose money.
Not to mention if we're producing fuel, that becomes a target for terrorism. So the government will give energy contracts or defense contracts to the big companies as a security precaution, thinking the small companies are more susceptible.
meh. corn smells a lot like foreign oil. it's just a different cartell controling it.
Releasing carbon that was absorbed from the atmosphere the previous year to grow the corn to make the fuel that we burn isn't bad, because then we have a self-sustaining cycle
Except that the current model of corn farming is not a self sustaining cycle. First off, marketing has pushed genetically modified corn onto farmers hoping to increase yeild in a cheap commodity corn market. The genetically modified corn does not result in corn that you can simply replant and get the same benefits from the GM'd corn. You have to buy new corn from the owner of that GM corn each year.
Ingoring GM corn, farms no longer have a diversification of crops and animals. Corn farmers no longer have livestock that eat grass or crop waste, in turn creating natural fertilizer (maneur). They rely on chemical fertilizer. That fertilizer is created using fossil fuels. Farms may rotate between corn and soy beans every few years but that's about it. Legumes helping to fix some nitrogen.
Farms are too much of a monoculture, and the have mass produced, overproduced corn to a point where companies are trying to think of any possible way to change the cheap commodity corn into expensive processed products like corn syrup and ethanol.
And the farmers will still be selling corn for less than it costs to grow it. The big business agriculture companies, always staying out of actually growing corn, will make the money as the middle men.
It doesn't entirely take OPEC out of the equation. One problem is that the production of corn is tied to the production of petroleum and other fossil fuels. Fertilizer comes from nitrogen and the energy to create the nitrogen comes from petroleum.
This is because the farm is no longer a nice little circle of self perpetuation. There are no livestock eating the vegetation waste, producing manure to fertilize the crops. The livestock has been shipped to a feedlot (where it's manure is basically toxic and unusable for selling to farms), the fertilizer for the farm comes in checmicals.
The Omnivore's Dilema should be required reading for everyone.
It looks like Linus has been reading Slashdot the past couple of days.
What else would he be doing, Free Software is Dead. Even he has a job. Which he should be doing, instead of reading slashdot. Wait, doesn't that imply that Free Software is not dead if he's reading slashdot?/confused
Unlike Fox News, CNN, and the rest of the mainstream media reporters, researchers in science fields often do investigation into their findings.
The research was published in March. I think most of the time however was spent deciding a title, "Nonstationarity and reformation of high-Mach-number quasiperpendicular shocks: Cluster observations"
Ardour is great (from the screenshots and reviews I've seen, at least - never been able to actually INSTALL the sucker, because of the dep. hell)
My experience was different. Is this a case where you shouldn't be blaming Ardour but be blaming your Linux distribution or the way you've installed libaries? Having installed the Ardour release candidate about a month ago, I had no problems getting the dependencies installed. The installation page describes exactly what dependencies are needed http://ardour.org/building
For Ubuntu, it was very easy to install the needed -dev libaries, then compile Ardour as described.
I have had Vista running on a machine for about a month and I haven't run into a single issue yet. I hear horror stories (mostly on Slashdot), and I can't claim that they're false, but it does make me wonder what other people are doing that I am not (or what I am doing that OTHERS are not). Maybe the user is unstable, or perhaps there are driver issues.
You know, I think the same thing about WinME.
Now, don't go modding me funny just yet. I bought a Sony Vaio laptop that came with WinME preinstalled. I never had it crash (same with Win98 really, but on a different computer). I was dual booting with Linux, so maybe the mere presence of a real OS triggered it to behave better. But overall, I never had any of the problems with WinME that other people had.
The Sony Vaio on the otherhand... never again. It leached battery power like nothing I've ever seen before. Linux or WinME.
But in any event, I run no MS OS on my PC's anymore.
God forbid anyone should have to expend effort in an attempt to learn something new these days," is not going to win you converts. You have just insulted your potential users, and implied that your concerns are more important than theirs.
Reading this just reminded me of why techies aren't in marketing. At some point in most of our lives, we were probably ridiculed by someone who knew more than us about something we are interested in, or watched someone be ridiculed about something that could have also been aimed at us. We take that as a challenge, and go on to learn that thing. That's why we are nerds.
"They" aren't.
I don't go out of my way to try to convert people to linux. I tell people I use it, even my girlfriend is like "he's a PC user" in that "I'm a Mac user"-derogatory tone. I always reply with, "Yeah, but Linux not Windows".
Well, most of us who use linux use our computer as a computer. Not a t.v., playstation, or whatever.
Good reasons to use linux, just off the top of my head and in no particular order: 1. Able to run on old hardware
- Fewer hardware upgrades cost you less money 2. Freely downloadable, freely upgradeable. 3. No phone calls to MS to prove you bought the old software you are trying to install on new hardware. 4. Proper user accounts (everyone can have their own account, so they don't mess with your stuff)
- A virus/trojan/worm/"oops what happened" won't destroy your basic installation. 5. You won't have to reinstall linux because you connected to the internet for 30 seconds without antivirus software. 6. Free trial as Live CD's.
Well to some degree it is. The whole idea that a service contract can be modified by one party at any time, without consent of the other party, is a little rediculous sounding (to myself, who has no idea about contract law really).
I do agree with you in that the author's tone was a little melodramatic.
Then someone speaking to you could open up an exploit in the RFID chip allowing them access to your entire memory. The governments proposed fix would be to cut off your ears.
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The pseudo-free market we have is even worse. Regulate with Special Interest is what it should be called at the moment.
> These corporate folks are putting greed ahead of public responsibility.
That's their job.
Bullshit bullshit bullshit.
Sorry for swearing, but i see this so much here. It's not their job to rape and pillage the world for profit. Being a corporation does not give you a free pass to put money ahead of morals. That is not their job. Their job is to offer a product to a market.
It's the government's job to watch out for the public and slap down such reckless and exploitative practices.
Don't blame Monsanto, blame the legislators and bureaucrats who have so shamelessly violated the public trust.
No, blame Monsanto. Blame the government too. They are both doing the wrong thing.
Judging by their web page, all design jobs are dead too. We should all just write web pages to serve ads, because C is dead.
This article is trash, even if it does have some technologies that are irrelevant. It has very little value to the reader. I'd rather read a 10 top list for reasons Paris Hilton should be locked up for life.
If corn prices doubled, then more farmers will plant corn, and it will cause the price of corn to drop. I'm sure at some point there will be a crisis where too much corn is produced, which will cause a plummet of corn prices and another "corn crisis", and less farmers will plant corn, cycle repeats, etc. It will all work itself out.
First, capitalism needs to come into play. Right now, farmers grow as much corn as physically possible knowing that the government will buy it at a set rate, regardless of what the commodity price is.
The government needs to remove it's hand from this one and let the real market forces go to work.
So why do we need centralized production? Wouldn't it be more efficient to have lots of small, independent biofuel producers that each serve a small geographic area, instead of a few large producers that have to transport their stuff over thousands of miles?
Yeah, but you're thinking like a sane person. The companies though... they think "The more you have the less that I can take for myself." If they lose control of the oil they lose money.
Not to mention if we're producing fuel, that becomes a target for terrorism. So the government will give energy contracts or defense contracts to the big companies as a security precaution, thinking the small companies are more susceptible.
meh. corn smells a lot like foreign oil. it's just a different cartell controling it.
Releasing carbon that was absorbed from the atmosphere the previous year to grow the corn to make the fuel that we burn isn't bad, because then we have a self-sustaining cycle
Except that the current model of corn farming is not a self sustaining cycle. First off, marketing has pushed genetically modified corn onto farmers hoping to increase yeild in a cheap commodity corn market. The genetically modified corn does not result in corn that you can simply replant and get the same benefits from the GM'd corn. You have to buy new corn from the owner of that GM corn each year.
Ingoring GM corn, farms no longer have a diversification of crops and animals. Corn farmers no longer have livestock that eat grass or crop waste, in turn creating natural fertilizer (maneur). They rely on chemical fertilizer. That fertilizer is created using fossil fuels. Farms may rotate between corn and soy beans every few years but that's about it. Legumes helping to fix some nitrogen.
Farms are too much of a monoculture, and the have mass produced, overproduced corn to a point where companies are trying to think of any possible way to change the cheap commodity corn into expensive processed products like corn syrup and ethanol.
And the farmers will still be selling corn for less than it costs to grow it. The big business agriculture companies, always staying out of actually growing corn, will make the money as the middle men.
It doesn't entirely take OPEC out of the equation. One problem is that the production of corn is tied to the production of petroleum and other fossil fuels. Fertilizer comes from nitrogen and the energy to create the nitrogen comes from petroleum.
This is because the farm is no longer a nice little circle of self perpetuation. There are no livestock eating the vegetation waste, producing manure to fertilize the crops. The livestock has been shipped to a feedlot (where it's manure is basically toxic and unusable for selling to farms), the fertilizer for the farm comes in checmicals.
The Omnivore's Dilema should be required reading for everyone.
It looks like Linus has been reading Slashdot the past couple of days.
/confused
What else would he be doing, Free Software is Dead. Even he has a job. Which he should be doing, instead of reading slashdot. Wait, doesn't that imply that Free Software is not dead if he's reading slashdot?
No; however, I did have to look up bow shock, which frankly I think probably should have been linked in the summary.
The article explained it.
Unlike Fox News, CNN, and the rest of the mainstream media reporters, researchers in science fields often do investigation into their findings.
The research was published in March. I think most of the time however was spent deciding a title, "Nonstationarity and reformation of high-Mach-number quasiperpendicular shocks: Cluster observations"
He's sadly correct that successfull deployment of DRM is only a good marketting campaign away.
Ardour is great (from the screenshots and reviews I've seen, at least - never been able to actually INSTALL the sucker, because of the dep. hell)
My experience was different. Is this a case where you shouldn't be blaming Ardour but be blaming your Linux distribution or the way you've installed libaries? Having installed the Ardour release candidate about a month ago, I had no problems getting the dependencies installed. The installation page describes exactly what dependencies are needed http://ardour.org/building
For Ubuntu, it was very easy to install the needed -dev libaries, then compile Ardour as described.
Let's just hope it runs on Vista so we can tell it to shut itself off
there are editor tools that will do that and more for you, and not just for LISP
Shh, we need these Lisp jokes every once in a while to keep the Java people in Java, and the Ruby people in Ruby.
And yes, it's "Lisp" these days not "LISP". Go lurk at comp.lang.lisp if you don't believe me.
The album is already available. RIAA be damned.
Art is Resistance
I hate to be the wet blanket here, but what's the deal with this trend toward "versioning" things that don't need to be versioned
...What's that? JetBlue doesn't take Slashdot Karma as currency?
I think you are just upset that you missed the bandwagon.
See you missed it again, watch how my "Score" goes up and up. Tahiti here I come!
I have had Vista running on a machine for about a month and I haven't run into a single issue yet. I hear horror stories (mostly on Slashdot), and I can't claim that they're false, but it does make me wonder what other people are doing that I am not (or what I am doing that OTHERS are not). Maybe the user is unstable, or perhaps there are driver issues.
You know, I think the same thing about WinME.
Now, don't go modding me funny just yet. I bought a Sony Vaio laptop that came with WinME preinstalled. I never had it crash (same with Win98 really, but on a different computer). I was dual booting with Linux, so maybe the mere presence of a real OS triggered it to behave better. But overall, I never had any of the problems with WinME that other people had.
The Sony Vaio on the otherhand... never again. It leached battery power like nothing I've ever seen before. Linux or WinME.
But in any event, I run no MS OS on my PC's anymore.
That depends. How long will it take forum posters to realize that "/" is often used as abbreviation for "and" and "or"?
I've been wondering the same thing here on AndDot for some time now. Or is that OrDot?
Who was clueless enough to let that slip through? Love RMS or hate him, that should clearly be "selling free software".
Oh sure... confuse everyone with "selling free software".
I kid, I kid.
And Vista has beat XP's numbers for the first month. What's the significance? Not much.
God forbid anyone should have to expend effort in an attempt to learn something new these days," is not going to win you converts. You have just insulted your potential users, and implied that your concerns are more important than theirs.
Reading this just reminded me of why techies aren't in marketing. At some point in most of our lives, we were probably ridiculed by someone who knew more than us about something we are interested in, or watched someone be ridiculed about something that could have also been aimed at us. We take that as a challenge, and go on to learn that thing. That's why we are nerds.
"They" aren't.
I don't go out of my way to try to convert people to linux. I tell people I use it, even my girlfriend is like "he's a PC user" in that "I'm a Mac user"-derogatory tone. I always reply with, "Yeah, but Linux not Windows".
Well, most of us who use linux use our computer as a computer. Not a t.v., playstation, or whatever.
Good reasons to use linux, just off the top of my head and in no particular order:
1. Able to run on old hardware
- Fewer hardware upgrades cost you less money
2. Freely downloadable, freely upgradeable.
3. No phone calls to MS to prove you bought the old software you are trying to install on new hardware.
4. Proper user accounts (everyone can have their own account, so they don't mess with your stuff)
- A virus/trojan/worm/"oops what happened" won't destroy your basic installation.
5. You won't have to reinstall linux because you connected to the internet for 30 seconds without antivirus software.
6. Free trial as Live CD's.
Well to some degree it is. The whole idea that a service contract can be modified by one party at any time, without consent of the other party, is a little rediculous sounding (to myself, who has no idea about contract law really).
I do agree with you in that the author's tone was a little melodramatic.
So we have to pay for their failed DRM R&D costs? Bahaha.
Then someone speaking to you could open up an exploit in the RFID chip allowing them access to your entire memory. The governments proposed fix would be to cut off your ears.