Since I'm too lazy to RTFA, does this elevator use a counterweight? I could see magnetic lifts coupled with current technologies so that when the power does go out you wouldn't have to worry about falling to your death plus it wouldn't take much power to lift with a counterweight.
I can't see a magnetic-only lift being very efficient, safe, or worth replacing current systems.
> Ensure that the EULA accurately discloses the nature and function of the software in plain English
This pisses me off. How about disclosing the nature and function of the software in plain English ON THE BOX so that people will know what is at risk BEFORE BUYING THE CD?
I still think that by the time this technology is cheap enough to mass produce (if ever), we will be using things like usb sticks and other digital media to watch movies. I can see the movie industry going the way of the music industry. We are seeing people more and more abandon buying physical CDs and just buying the music on iTunes and then hauling it around on iPods or USB sticks. I can see the same thing happening with movies (hey, we already have the video iPod) within the next 10-20 years. And considering the amount of time that it will take blu-ray to get out of the starting gate, not to mention the lack of acceptance by consumers who feel that dvd is good enough or can't afford newer technology, I can't see blu-ray working.
DVDs and CDs are like floppy disks. They are really starting to become things of the past now that we can transfer our media on digital devices like usb sticks or simply transfer our content from one peripheral to another via wireless or broadband wire connections.
But still, what does a geek like Torvalds know about what the average user wants on their PC? Last time I checked most people want their computer to "just work" and don't really give a crap about how. Gnome is marketing to this audience more and more by making sure that new features work properly without excessive options and implementing them in a way that DOESN'T CONFUSE THE USER.
Pretty much, this article is just a hunk of bull, posted by a KDE fan, in hopes that his choice of desktop environment being in-line with the almighty Linus Torvalds will cause his dick to grow an inch.
I know we all hate bad analogies but I see the TV advertising market like I see advertisements on the web. Crappy advertisements that you don't want to see, but are thrown at you regardless, will get ignored, edited out, or just wind up pissing off the consumer. But if cable TV can figure out a way to show people ads that appeal to them in a way that is subtle, like Google adsense does, the consumer will be much more willing to tolerate them and may even find them useful.
I don't think that TV will ever die; it will just continue to change as it has done since it began and the advertising schemes will have to keep changing as well.
Ooooh, I second this. With google's reputation for simple and elegant interfaces this would be a big hit. Especially if it had alarms and reminders etc. And even better...alerts being sent to you sell phone via text message. The possibilities are endless.
When I worked at circuit city we had quite a few idiotic employees. While the sales employees (I was not a sales employee) could not manually enter a price for products, circuit city did have a thing called "price match." If a customer brought in an advertisement from another company with a lower price, the employee could key in the advertised price and the system would discount it to the other companies price minus something like 10% of the difference. Some douchebag eventually got caught pricematching TV's down to 99 cents for his friends.
Then there was a couple of guys who, for weeks, just hauled xboxs, playstations, and other goods right out the back door (through the car installation area) in big brown paper sacks. Needless to say, these exceptionally bright, young individuals got caught.:)
That sounds a lot like minidiscs. I was big on minidisc technology years ago. I had a portable player and tons and tons of albums recorded. The discs were about 2.5x2.5 if not smaller and were inside of a hard case. I ran one over with a car tire just as an experiment and it still played. It's too bad sony had to go and ruin that technology too.
What we need to do is find a way to stop our brain from sending motor signals to our body (like when we sleep) but grab those signals and interpret them.
What I was originally trying to do was adapt an old windows webpage on the harddrive to work in linux by changing all \'s to/'s. I couldn't get it to work with perl or sed even with escape characters. If it's possible please enlighten me.:)
When I needed to do a similar task and couldn't find a utility to do it for me I made my own python script. While I didn't take the time to make it use command line arguments it wouldn't take much.
#!/usr/bin/python
import os
#The extensions of the files in which you want to replace text use_types = [ ".html", ".htm" ]
#The folder to recursively replace text in files rfolder = "/home/blaksaga/replaceme"
#The text to replace replace = "cat"
#The text to replace with replacewith = "dog"
#Should the script replace in directories recursively? recursive = 1
def DOreplace ( rfolder, use_types, replace, replacewith, recursive ) :
for f in os.listdir ( rfolder ) :
if ( os.path.splitext ( f ) [ 1 ] in use_types ) :
print "Replacing in " + f
outfile = open ( rfolder + os.sep + f + ".bak", "w" )
for text in open ( rfolder + os.sep + f , "r" ) :
outfile.write ( text.replace ( replace, replacewith ) [ : -1 ] )
os.system ( "mv " + rfolder + os.sep + f + ".bak " + rfolder + os.sep + f )
elif ( os.path.isdir ( rfolder + os.sep + f ) ) :
print f + " IS FOLDER"
if ( recursive ) :
DOreplace ( rfolder + os.sep + f, use_types, replace, replacewith, recursive )
Going through there test I seem to have just as hard of a time seeing the picture after the fire-hydrant as I do seeing the picture after the bloody hand. By the time my brain actually recognizes the picture and realizes, "Hey, that's the picture. I need to remember the picture after this one," it's too late and the next picture has already flown by.
But perhaps why it's even harder yet to see the picture of the bloody hand after all the scenic images is because 1) that image is something that you don't see everyday so it takes a second to realize what exactly you're looking at and 2) that image doesn't belong next to all of those pictures of scenery.
I don't think this has as much to do with blindness from obscene pictures as it does the time it takes for your brain to actually figure out what it is you're looking at. Things that you see everyday (like porn to slashdot readers) your brain is accustomed to seeing and is quicker at realizing what it is.
The American Coalition for Ethanol states that gasoline has an energy balance of only 85%. In other words, it takes more energy to produce gasoline than it contains. Proponents of ethanol production say that if we can use a harmful fossil fuel at a net energy loss, we can certainly use a renewable source of liquid fuel that is less harmful to the environment and better for the domestic economy.
I still have a portable cd player instead of an ipod. I still have a computer that I built four years ago. I still have a stereo receiver that is 15 years old. Why should we upgrade when what we have works just fine?
So who defines "adequate compensation?" If I bought land, built a home with my own two hands, and watched my kids grow up playing in my back yard it would be worth much more than market value to me.
> They use ONE engine. Internal combustion engines only use gasoline. Batterys power one or more MOTORS -- the electrical side.
Last time I checked an electric motor _is_ an engine.
dictionary.com:
1. A machine that converts energy into mechanical force or motion.
2. Such a machine distinguished from an electric, spring-driven, or hydraulic motor by its use of a fuel.
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Since I'm too lazy to RTFA, does this elevator use a counterweight? I could see magnetic lifts coupled with current technologies so that when the power does go out you wouldn't have to worry about falling to your death plus it wouldn't take much power to lift with a counterweight.
I can't see a magnetic-only lift being very efficient, safe, or worth replacing current systems.
> Ensure that the EULA accurately discloses the nature and function of the software in plain English
This pisses me off. How about disclosing the nature and function of the software in plain English ON THE BOX so that people will know what is at risk BEFORE BUYING THE CD?
I still think that by the time this technology is cheap enough to mass produce (if ever), we will be using things like usb sticks and other digital media to watch movies. I can see the movie industry going the way of the music industry. We are seeing people more and more abandon buying physical CDs and just buying the music on iTunes and then hauling it around on iPods or USB sticks. I can see the same thing happening with movies (hey, we already have the video iPod) within the next 10-20 years. And considering the amount of time that it will take blu-ray to get out of the starting gate, not to mention the lack of acceptance by consumers who feel that dvd is good enough or can't afford newer technology, I can't see blu-ray working.
DVDs and CDs are like floppy disks. They are really starting to become things of the past now that we can transfer our media on digital devices like usb sticks or simply transfer our content from one peripheral to another via wireless or broadband wire connections.
But still, what does a geek like Torvalds know about what the average user wants on their PC? Last time I checked most people want their computer to "just work" and don't really give a crap about how. Gnome is marketing to this audience more and more by making sure that new features work properly without excessive options and implementing them in a way that DOESN'T CONFUSE THE USER.
Pretty much, this article is just a hunk of bull, posted by a KDE fan, in hopes that his choice of desktop environment being in-line with the almighty Linus Torvalds will cause his dick to grow an inch.
Fuck Linus; use what you like.
-1, flamebait!
The solution: Targeted advertising.
I know we all hate bad analogies but I see the TV advertising market like I see advertisements on the web. Crappy advertisements that you don't want to see, but are thrown at you regardless, will get ignored, edited out, or just wind up pissing off the consumer. But if cable TV can figure out a way to show people ads that appeal to them in a way that is subtle, like Google adsense does, the consumer will be much more willing to tolerate them and may even find them useful.
I don't think that TV will ever die; it will just continue to change as it has done since it began and the advertising schemes will have to keep changing as well.
Ooooh, I second this. With google's reputation for simple and elegant interfaces this would be a big hit. Especially if it had alarms and reminders etc. And even better...alerts being sent to you sell phone via text message. The possibilities are endless.
When I worked at circuit city we had quite a few idiotic employees. While the sales employees (I was not a sales employee) could not manually enter a price for products, circuit city did have a thing called "price match." If a customer brought in an advertisement from another company with a lower price, the employee could key in the advertised price and the system would discount it to the other companies price minus something like 10% of the difference. Some douchebag eventually got caught pricematching TV's down to 99 cents for his friends.
:)
Then there was a couple of guys who, for weeks, just hauled xboxs, playstations, and other goods right out the back door (through the car installation area) in big brown paper sacks. Needless to say, these exceptionally bright, young individuals got caught.
Nothing brightens my day more than the failure of others!
Popups from flash embedded objects are not blocked. There is a preference in mozilla's firefox extension, however, that allows you to block them.
http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/
That sounds a lot like minidiscs. I was big on minidisc technology years ago. I had a portable player and tons and tons of albums recorded. The discs were about 2.5x2.5 if not smaller and were inside of a hard case. I ran one over with a car tire just as an experiment and it still played. It's too bad sony had to go and ruin that technology too.
What we need to do is find a way to stop our brain from sending motor signals to our body (like when we sleep) but grab those signals and interpret them.
Fuck! Now I actually have to _talk_ to people during a transaction?
That's so 1990's.
And minimum wage will still be $5/hour. :)
What I was originally trying to do was adapt an old windows webpage on the harddrive to work in linux by changing all \'s to /'s. I couldn't get it to work with perl or sed even with escape characters. If it's possible please enlighten me. :)
When I needed to do a similar task and couldn't find a utility to do it for me I made my own python script. While I didn't take the time to make it use command line arguments it wouldn't take much.
#!/usr/bin/python
import os
#The extensions of the files in which you want to replace text
use_types = [ ".html", ".htm" ]
#The folder to recursively replace text in files
rfolder = "/home/blaksaga/replaceme"
#The text to replace
replace = "cat"
#The text to replace with
replacewith = "dog"
#Should the script replace in directories recursively?
recursive = 1
def DOreplace ( rfolder, use_types, replace, replacewith, recursive ) :
for f in os.listdir ( rfolder ) :
if ( os.path.splitext ( f ) [ 1 ] in use_types ) :
print "Replacing in " + f
outfile = open ( rfolder + os.sep + f + ".bak", "w" )
for text in open ( rfolder + os.sep + f , "r" ) :
outfile.write ( text.replace ( replace, replacewith ) [ : -1 ] )
os.system ( "mv " + rfolder + os.sep + f + ".bak " + rfolder + os.sep + f )
elif ( os.path.isdir ( rfolder + os.sep + f ) ) :
print f + " IS FOLDER"
if ( recursive ) :
DOreplace ( rfolder + os.sep + f, use_types, replace, replacewith, recursive )
DOreplace ( rfolder, use_types, replace, replacewith, recursive )
I for one welcome our psychopathic employment overlords.
Going through there test I seem to have just as hard of a time seeing the picture after the fire-hydrant as I do seeing the picture after the bloody hand. By the time my brain actually recognizes the picture and realizes, "Hey, that's the picture. I need to remember the picture after this one," it's too late and the next picture has already flown by.
But perhaps why it's even harder yet to see the picture of the bloody hand after all the scenic images is because 1) that image is something that you don't see everyday so it takes a second to realize what exactly you're looking at and 2) that image doesn't belong next to all of those pictures of scenery.
I don't think this has as much to do with blindness from obscene pictures as it does the time it takes for your brain to actually figure out what it is you're looking at. Things that you see everyday (like porn to slashdot readers) your brain is accustomed to seeing and is quicker at realizing what it is.
Can I just ask one question? WHY? Is tracking wireless really necessary?
The American Coalition for Ethanol states that gasoline has an energy balance of only 85%. In other words, it takes more energy to produce gasoline than it contains. Proponents of ethanol production say that if we can use a harmful fossil fuel at a net energy loss, we can certainly use a renewable source of liquid fuel that is less harmful to the environment and better for the domestic economy.
I still have a portable cd player instead of an ipod. I still have a computer that I built four years ago. I still have a stereo receiver that is 15 years old. Why should we upgrade when what we have works just fine?
So who defines "adequate compensation?" If I bought land, built a home with my own two hands, and watched my kids grow up playing in my back yard it would be worth much more than market value to me.
I'm much more stupider having read that article.
If only we would have put weapons in space earlier maybe we could have prevented Michael Jackson from coming to this planet.
> They use ONE engine. Internal combustion engines only use gasoline. Batterys power one or more MOTORS -- the electrical side. Last time I checked an electric motor _is_ an engine. dictionary.com: 1. A machine that converts energy into mechanical force or motion. 2. Such a machine distinguished from an electric, spring-driven, or hydraulic motor by its use of a fuel.
>Hybrid cars don't use energy from the "electric engine" to slow the car.
You are wrong.
Hybrid Electric Vehicles
An electric motor provides torque to the drive wheels for acceleration as well as for braking.