Fiber reinforced materials have been around for years. Carbon and glass fiber reinforced polymers are used in many everyday applications without harm. The problem with asbestos was its crystal structure and cleavage planes, which enabled it to break down into very small (micrometer scale) fibers that were easily inhaled.
The above comment is about as insightful as saying "Cotton fiber? That seems eerily reminiscent of asbestos, better not wear clothes!" or "AIDS medicine? Wasn't thalidomide also orally available in pill form? Better not give it to pregnant women..."
I used to be afraid of what Palladium could do for the computing industry. Many tried to convince me that there was nothing to fear because there was no way in heck Microsoft could ever get anything done right and on time. It appears they were correct. Now it's being partially dropped from Longhorn, which is itself being pushed back to oblivion. Now I'm left wondering why I used to be worried.
Heck, Microsoft cannot even secure its own "proprietary" gaming console, why did we ever fear that they'd lock down all of our computers?!
Perhaps Microsorft have finally realised that such an invasive DRM system will cause a mass exodus of people from windows to Lenix. Microsoft seems determined to play into Lonis Torvaldez's hands with issues like these and I can't say that I'm ungrateful. Now if only WINE could play more games I'd switch straight away as the rest of my pirated material already works perfectly under linix.
It sickens me how fanboy-ism seems to have invaded this once rational community. Every second story is some thinly disguised advertisement for the latest AppleCo product or Linus operating system, and when somebody points this out they are drowned out by a hundred shrieking shills.
I thought nerds were supposed to pride themselves on objectivity and logical thought? This kind of blind support for a company or website seems to be the direct opposite of what we should be promoting. It's a pity the editors don't seem to care -- they just keep adding inconsequential stories to the ever crappier frontpage, while IP banning anyone who speaks out against it.
I thin kthe main thing is that all these works will be preserved digitally, open for people to read whenever they want to. Anybody saying that this is a bad thing is just a hopeless google fanboi.
I hope nothing under the GPL is being used, as Brazil has a pretty sketchy record of recognising intellectual property rights.
I'll probably get modded down for saying this, but I would rather open sauce stays out of Brazil until they clear up these little problems. I realise the slashdot groupthink says it's ok to disrespect intellectual property as long as it's not the GPL being broken -- but how much of the code they intend to use is under the GPL, and how long will it be before it ends up in unauthorised programs?
I have been trying to institute a ban on D&D in my hometown for many years now, but the nerds just wouldn't listen. I guess one of them finally snapped and went on a murderous rage fuelled by satan and cheetos.
IIRC, the database software that tracks the food inventories on board the space station and the space shuttle on longer flights runs on proprietary code. Perhaps if the software were revamped, and open source software used instead the community could help out a little? Many eyes make for few bugs -- and when the bugs are as easy to spot as the "food" entry reading zero I see no reason to put up with badly written, unfree software.
Hell, with the savings made they could probably upgrade the menus a bit, instead of eating paste three times a day they could afford to buy the astronauts some hot grits or something equally tasty once in a while.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Valve fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Linux box (a PIII 800 w/512 Megs of RAM) for about 35 minutes now while it attempts to Install Half-Life 2. 35 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Linux box, installing Doom 3 took about 15 minutes.
In addition, during this install, Mozilla will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Emacs Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while installing Valve products, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Valve product that has run faster than its ID counterpart, despite the Valve products faster optimised code. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram installs windows faster than this 800 mhz machine can do Half-Life at times. From an ease of installation standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Valve is a "superior" company.
Valve addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Valve product over other faster, cheaper, more stable games.
Maybe you should go and take a thermodynamics course then come back and look at your comment. Google for "coefficient of performance" "heat pump" and the results will amaze you.
With a topic as delicate as this one (child pornography) I think it is hard to argue reasonably either way -- one side you seem to be enabling the child pornographists through inaction, on the other you go against this mythical "free speech" business you USoAians have.
My personal stance on the issue is manage it on a regional basis, if your country/state/city feels strongly enough about the issue they can ban the internet completely if it is voted on, and people not in the area are unaffected. As long as no legitimate content (eg "speech") is censored or blocked, there should be no problem with it. Hell, put a switch on every new PC saying "child pornography - ON/OFF" and let the consumers decide for themselves, instead of legislating it to high heaven.
Let's face it, these child pornogrophers are always going to be releasing their stuff, it is up to the people weather they want to watch it or something made by more mature people. Simple as that.
famous austrians include Ludwig van Beethoven, Gustav Mahler, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Strauss, Adolf Hitler, Sigmund Freud, Kurt Godel, Erwin Schrodinger and Marie Antionette, so you have plenty to be proud of!
'This record speed of 6.63Gbps is equivalent to transferring a full-length DVD movie in four seconds.'
Explaining it like that is likely to draw the wrong sort of attention - How long until Jack Valenti and his crew of RIAA/MPAA thugs descend on this new menace to their livelihoods?
Incidentally, for some reason gmail has decided to give me 12 invites - they will go to the first 12 logged in posters telling a funny joke involving ESR or RMS, bonus points for use of ASCII.
Imagine this situation: Your teenage daughter is going out to the library to study with some friends. On the way back a drunken homeless man driving at 200 km/h hits her head on, killing her instantly. He survives, and drives away. They find him and his car 3 days later. You want to know whether you can charge him with murder or just manslaughter, and the CSI team are unable to determine how fast he was going - enter the black box. Would you deny the comfort of putting criminals like that away to grieving parents the world over?
These devices are nothing more than recorders after all, nobody could remotely get the information off them. I also doubt they would be used for convicting people for speeding offences, just look at the issues people already have with unreliable speed cameras! I say we go ahead with this technology, not just in cars but other vehicles. Imagine what use this could be in aeroplanes - the data gathered before crashes could be lifesaving in the future!
What kind of blind OSS zealotry is this? If somebody said something similar of IE there would be a unanimous uproar of upbraids from the slashdot community against whoever said it.
Is it somehow tolerable for OS software to have faults, even serious ones? Security through obscurity is no security at all, as I'm sure many Firefox users will learn one day. Personally, I believe statements like that, and the people that make them are what is holding OSS back from becoming a serious contender to the juggernauts of mocrosoft. If we continue to sit on laurels gained only through lucky ineptitude we will get precicely nowhere.
PS seems like google has started another round of gmail invites, I just got six. Logged in users tell me your funniest joke involving tux the linux penguin and the six funniest will recieve an invite (use a throwaway account, I'm sure this post will be followed by cowardly un-obfuscating trolls).
What will Americans throw money away on next? Robotic sugar dispensers? Laser guided mayo-appliers for burgers? With so many people in the world today facing starvation and mass death from lack of nutrition, it literally sickens me to the stomach to see things like this.
How many Kosovan orphans could be fed for the price of one of these cans? What percentage of relief efforts in Sudan could be paid for for the cost of the whole campaign? I think America needs to sort out its priorities if it is to regain a positive image in the rest of the world.
Parent is plagiarised from another slashdot user, go to anti-slash, click on "tools", then "use the database tool". Search for "Joss Whedon" and it comes up verbatim on the second page.
something to hold against a company or person? I thought America was the land of capitalism, where those who rise to the top of their fields (be they individuals or corporations) are lauded for their achievements, not sniped at from the sidelines for being more successful than someone else. I come from a country where "tall poppy syndrome" (the cutting down of those above you) is endemic, and it is not a pleasant environment to operate a business in. If America wishes to stay on top of the world's technology ladder, it would be beneficial to eradicate this attitude towards success.
I see this kind of ting far too often on slashdot, a post about some great achievement followed by a snarky comment from an editor about its inefficiency or some other nit, to be followed up by hundreds of posts proclaiming how they would have done it better. I say applaud those innovating and succeeding, don't discourage them.
PS, I have 8 gmail invites to give away (I can't get rid of them fast enough lol), so if you want one please post your obfuscated email addresses below (logged in members only, preference given to subscribers).
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Fiber reinforced materials have been around for years. Carbon and glass fiber reinforced polymers are used in many everyday applications without harm. The problem with asbestos was its crystal structure and cleavage planes, which enabled it to break down into very small (micrometer scale) fibers that were easily inhaled.
The above comment is about as insightful as saying "Cotton fiber? That seems eerily reminiscent of asbestos, better not wear clothes!" or "AIDS medicine? Wasn't thalidomide also orally available in pill form? Better not give it to pregnant women..."
Heck, Microsoft cannot even secure its own "proprietary" gaming console, why did we ever fear that they'd lock down all of our computers?!
Perhaps Microsorft have finally realised that such an invasive DRM system will cause a mass exodus of people from windows to Lenix. Microsoft seems determined to play into Lonis Torvaldez's hands with issues like these and I can't say that I'm ungrateful. Now if only WINE could play more games I'd switch straight away as the rest of my pirated material already works perfectly under linix.
I thought nerds were supposed to pride themselves on objectivity and logical thought? This kind of blind support for a company or website seems to be the direct opposite of what we should be promoting. It's a pity the editors don't seem to care -- they just keep adding inconsequential stories to the ever crappier frontpage, while IP banning anyone who speaks out against it.
I thin kthe main thing is that all these works will be preserved digitally, open for people to read whenever they want to. Anybody saying that this is a bad thing is just a hopeless google fanboi.
I hope nothing under the GPL is being used, as Brazil has a pretty sketchy record of recognising intellectual property rights.
I'll probably get modded down for saying this, but I would rather open sauce stays out of Brazil until they clear up these little problems. I realise the slashdot groupthink says it's ok to disrespect intellectual property as long as it's not the GPL being broken -- but how much of the code they intend to use is under the GPL, and how long will it be before it ends up in unauthorised programs?
I have been trying to institute a ban on D&D in my hometown for many years now, but the nerds just wouldn't listen. I guess one of them finally snapped and went on a murderous rage fuelled by satan and cheetos.
i am drun k and its 2 am and i get frirst psot?
Hell, with the savings made they could probably upgrade the menus a bit, instead of eating paste three times a day they could afford to buy the astronauts some hot grits or something equally tasty once in a while.
Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment ... like the body or the subject!)
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while installing Valve products, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Valve product that has run faster than its ID counterpart, despite the Valve products faster optimised code. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram installs windows faster than this 800 mhz machine can do Half-Life at times. From an ease of installation standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Valve is a "superior" company.
Valve addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Valve product over other faster, cheaper, more stable games.
just the Australians.
Maybe you should go and take a thermodynamics course then come back and look at your comment. Google for "coefficient of performance" "heat pump" and the results will amaze you.
My personal stance on the issue is manage it on a regional basis, if your country/state/city feels strongly enough about the issue they can ban the internet completely if it is voted on, and people not in the area are unaffected. As long as no legitimate content (eg "speech") is censored or blocked, there should be no problem with it. Hell, put a switch on every new PC saying "child pornography - ON/OFF" and let the consumers decide for themselves, instead of legislating it to high heaven.
Let's face it, these child pornogrophers are always going to be releasing their stuff, it is up to the people weather they want to watch it or something made by more mature people. Simple as that.
famous austrians include Ludwig van Beethoven, Gustav Mahler, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Strauss, Adolf Hitler, Sigmund Freud, Kurt Godel, Erwin Schrodinger and Marie Antionette, so you have plenty to be proud of!
Explaining it like that is likely to draw the wrong sort of attention - How long until Jack Valenti and his crew of RIAA/MPAA thugs descend on this new menace to their livelihoods?
Incidentally, for some reason gmail has decided to give me 12 invites - they will go to the first 12 logged in posters telling a funny joke involving ESR or RMS, bonus points for use of ASCII.
btw i am a nigger and i love this joke
These devices are nothing more than recorders after all, nobody could remotely get the information off them. I also doubt they would be used for convicting people for speeding offences, just look at the issues people already have with unreliable speed cameras! I say we go ahead with this technology, not just in cars but other vehicles. Imagine what use this could be in aeroplanes - the data gathered before crashes could be lifesaving in the future!
I think I'm being spoofed, only a colourblind script-kiddie from Norway could have chosen a background colour this vomit-inducing.
What kind of blind OSS zealotry is this? If somebody said something similar of IE there would be a unanimous uproar of upbraids from the slashdot community against whoever said it.
Is it somehow tolerable for OS software to have faults, even serious ones? Security through obscurity is no security at all, as I'm sure many Firefox users will learn one day. Personally, I believe statements like that, and the people that make them are what is holding OSS back from becoming a serious contender to the juggernauts of mocrosoft. If we continue to sit on laurels gained only through lucky ineptitude we will get precicely nowhere.
PS seems like google has started another round of gmail invites, I just got six. Logged in users tell me your funniest joke involving tux the linux penguin and the six funniest will recieve an invite (use a throwaway account, I'm sure this post will be followed by cowardly un-obfuscating trolls).
How many Kosovan orphans could be fed for the price of one of these cans? What percentage of relief efforts in Sudan could be paid for for the cost of the whole campaign? I think America needs to sort out its priorities if it is to regain a positive image in the rest of the world.
Parent is plagiarised from another slashdot user, go to anti-slash, click on "tools", then "use the database tool". Search for "Joss Whedon" and it comes up verbatim on the second page.
but what we really want to know is if they will be taking their new iPoos with them?
Come on, that's just not cricket. Will somebody with mod points mod this down before the spambots get to it?
I see this kind of ting far too often on slashdot, a post about some great achievement followed by a snarky comment from an editor about its inefficiency or some other nit, to be followed up by hundreds of posts proclaiming how they would have done it better. I say applaud those innovating and succeeding, don't discourage them.
PS, I have 8 gmail invites to give away (I can't get rid of them fast enough lol), so if you want one please post your obfuscated email addresses below (logged in members only, preference given to subscribers).
I can't wait to get one of these and put goatse on it!