and whatever way you look at it it's orders of magnitude more important to the Chinese economy than 22 fake Apple Stores.
That's really the bottom line. For next to nothing, they can create good will. Now if these stores were generating a few billion, likely China would have told Apple to get bent.
Not even nuclear can provide the unsustainable energy needs and lifestyle for everybody on the planet.
Nice troll. By definition, of course what you said is true - after all, its "unsustainable." But hey, if we simply remove that misleading word, suddenly your statement is factually wrong. But hey, we shouldn't let things like facts stop you from willfully misleading people.
The FACT of the matter is, we have available enough resources for THOUSANDS of years of nuclear power, even after accounting for growth and corresponding increases in energy demands. And with enough research, likely we have enough fuel for millions of years. But hey, don't let facts stop you from spewing political bullshit.
Has nothing to do with Google and everything to do with the low quality of/.ers these days. Its painfully obvious the average IQ has horribly fallen and largely those here these days are used to media outlets like Fox News whereby if any opinion differs from your own, its bad and wrong; even ignoring when their own opinion is factually invalid and widely known to be so. As such, rather than moderate anything based on its merit (or facts), the low IQ population now actively seeks out anything which might offend or to which they disagree and seek to censor. Censorship is highly prized by the average/.er these days.
Hell, I literally just had someone walk through my history and troll moderate every post they could. Am I surprised? Nope. Unintelligent trolls, typically with factually wrong and half-assed opinions represent the lion share of posters these days.
If you are at all interested in comments no/. dot, you literally have one choice - browse at -1 else many good comments will be missed because of the massive level of idiotic troll moderation which takes place these days.
Let me guess, you buy a new car and house every year? Do you throw your kids out every year too? Just because a new release is available doesn't mean you need to upgrade. Just because you screwed your wife nine months ago doesn't mean you need to throw your one year old out.
The fact this post isn't at -1 after a day wonderfully proves just how completely broken the moderation system is on slashdot. And by moderation system, I mean those who use it.
Wrong. Turbines in cars were test a long, long time ago. The research was not continued because turbines are extremely inefficient at low altitudes in the environment cars are expected to run (mostly idle or off idle; whereby diesel turbines are best wide open throttle with little throttle changes).
Now a steam turbine (which doesn't have to sustain combustion) on the other hand, whereby its job is solely to produce electricity, is easily doable and likely in a package smaller than traditional ICE+transmission+gas tank+battery+radiator.
Why do so many/.ers insist on posting things where history has already invalidated what they're saying before they've ever posted?
Nevertheless, due to the GIL only one thread can run at once.
Factually wrong. Period.
I encourage you to learn more about python threading and the GIL limitations because you seem to know only half of the picture - the worst half.
Only native python calls need block the GIL. This is why I/O almost never holds the GIL. Which means, I/O threads literally do run concurrently.
Seriously, it sounds like you have no idea what the hell you're talking about and only know tidbits here and there. The fact you're providing a video of what I already addressed is downright sad.
So what was Bush told - that's the point. This is why your post is full of shit - because they are full of illogical bias. Furthermore, I was using this as an example. Constantly I read morons who want to ignorantly point the finger at one politician while ignorantly forgiving their own bias simply because not doing so would require looking in the mirror.
The fact my post was troll moderated is a wonderful example of just how stupid the general voting population is. Pointing out hypocrisy and stupidity in the masses makes people want to hate the messenger rather than admit THEY are the fucking problem.
So ask yourself, do you want to continue to be the problem or actually be a solution? Here's a hint, if you mindlessly blame the candidate you oppose and mindlessly forgive your own bias, you absolutely are the problem. Period.
The real problem is people always assume perfect information. Realistically, it almost never exists. So do you have a smoking gun of what Bush was told? You don't do you. Which basically means, you're doing exactly what I said.
And to be clear, I using this as an example, and notice the stupidity of response - troll moderation and the exact same bias to which spurred the original contention.
Yelling FIRE in a crowded theater is still against the law.
Actually, its not. Its perfectly legal to do exactly that. You can not be arrested or punished for doing so. You can, however, be held accountable for possible damages and and injury inflicted on the general public as they reacted to hearing such a proclamation. There is a difference.
Having said that, you are absolutely right in that we have NEVER had the freedom to say anything we want. Contrary to a massive ignorance, the first amendment was never intended to allow people to say anything and everything on their mind. Along these lines, verbally threatening someone has never been deemed protected speech. Neither is publicly lying about someone.
The intent of the first amendment is to protect the pen from the state and to allow for revolution, rather than john q to incite general riots or defame someone's character and/or business.
This exact same marketing strategy is the exact reason why women fawn all of diamonds today. Contrary to popular myth, outside of heavy industry people largely didn't give a crap about diamonds (they used to be considered almost worthless - as they actually are). The same thing is done for cool night clubs and country clubs.
Never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. That moto has worked extremely well for Fox News and most politicians.
Normally these types of tests actually do have drivers in the driver's seat in case they need to take control. Lots of Google's tests have done as such. Just because there is a driver at the ready doesn't mean the vehicle was driven by a human. Being robotic and driver-less in no way needs to require increased danger to the public.
So what's the difference between bush being told they are necessary for data retention and funding vs obama completing construction and continuing funding?
Let me guess...you want someone to irrationally blame and it just so happens you like one and don't like the other. To hell with rational thought!
The fact is, the buck stops there - in that chair. It is impossible to hate on bush and not obama, without being a total hypocritical prick.
But that's the state of politics in this country. One idiot wants to blame another idiot and they care so much about irrational, polarizing hatred, intelligence, rational thought, and solutions go right out the window. But hey, at least people get to irrationally express their outrage - almost always at the wrong person.
First of all, wake from your wet dream. Second of all, its tethered.
Realistically, you're not going to do that for more than fifteen minutes or so - double if you're an extra ordinary athlete. Whereas with this, you can literally do a full day's work doing nothing else.
You see the difference? In your example, its literally a delusion. That's a big difference.
Its been widely covered. There has actually been several cities in the US who have had less reliable power than most third world countries. Ya, that's bad. Furthermore, rolling backouts and brownouts are common place all across the US - especially during Summer months. Within the last two weeks, Texas even had rolling, regional blackouts.
Is it really that hard to Google it? I mean there has even been entire documentaries on the subject surrounding the fact that US power grid reliability has been at a steady decline for decades now and that the utilities have been pocketing the money while not actually performing the upgrades. They then went to Congress complaining that the upgrades they didn't do the first time but were paid to do would cost hundreds of billions of dollars and that our infrastructure would fall apart if Congress didn't make special payments. Congress did so and the repairs/upgrades have still not been done.
Seriously, this has been fairly widely reported for the last half decade or so.
Your link doesn't do anything other than support what both of us are saying. Furthermore, you can easily find accounts supporting exactly what I'm saying. So at the end of the day, you didn't really contribute anything to the discussion. Not to mention, China has already placed their order for aircraft. Now you may want to debate if they'll actually accept their order, but I've read in multiple places the order was already placed following the evaluation of several Russian aircraft.
In a nut shell, everything I said, to which you respond, is correct according to widely available information. Hell, after your post I quickly double checked and even found supporting information on Wikipedia.
Depending on application design, python can support a surprisingly high level of concurrency. The main problem with the GIL is with multithreading but that doesn't mean python can't effectively leverage multiple CPUs. Furthermore, even with multithreading, if your application is heavily I/O bound, python frequently performs rather well. Its only in CPU bound multithreaded tasks and/or mixed loads whereby the GIL becomes a serious hindrance.
Why shouldn't essentially everything be encrypted? That sounds like the sane default to me.
Because news organizations frequently are given radios. As a rule of thumb, only discussions which are intended for public consumption are done on unencrypted channels. Furthermore, encryption prevents cross departmental communication. So imagine 9/11. Now imagine none of the various agencies being able to communicate because none have the same keys.
Honestly, there doesn't exist a legitimate reason for everything to be encrypted.
I completely agree with you. I rarely get mod points these days. The trolls are alive and well. Sadly, its seems like the posts are largely 80% noise and 20% signal, whereby the troll moderations go a long way or further burying the remaining 20%.
If you're not modding up posts to which you might disagree (so long as they are not factually invalid), you're doing it wrong. I strongly suspect 95% of the moderating population is doing it wrong. But hey, mediocrity and less is what I've come to expect from/. these days.
Actually, it's pretty old. I doubt you'd find too many people here on Slashdot that haven't run into some hostility from open source developers or their groupies in their early years.
The same can be said for just about anything software related. That doesn't make it true, or even well grounded.
And frankly, the ONLY complaints I've ever heard have been about specific applications - never Linux as a whole. And even those are typically driven by some dumb user saying such-n-such application must have feature x and developers saying something like, "great, but we don't have y and z, which are requirements for x - would you contribute x?" Followed by the user getting all pissed about how only he has vision and the developers are pooh-pooh heads.
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and whatever way you look at it it's orders of magnitude more important to the Chinese economy than 22 fake Apple Stores.
That's really the bottom line. For next to nothing, they can create good will. Now if these stores were generating a few billion, likely China would have told Apple to get bent.
If the UI simple calls out and invokes the other code, it can very much be in compliance with their source obligation.
Not even nuclear can provide the unsustainable energy needs and lifestyle for everybody on the planet.
Nice troll. By definition, of course what you said is true - after all, its "unsustainable." But hey, if we simply remove that misleading word, suddenly your statement is factually wrong. But hey, we shouldn't let things like facts stop you from willfully misleading people.
The FACT of the matter is, we have available enough resources for THOUSANDS of years of nuclear power, even after accounting for growth and corresponding increases in energy demands. And with enough research, likely we have enough fuel for millions of years. But hey, don't let facts stop you from spewing political bullshit.
Has nothing to do with Google and everything to do with the low quality of /.ers these days. Its painfully obvious the average IQ has horribly fallen and largely those here these days are used to media outlets like Fox News whereby if any opinion differs from your own, its bad and wrong; even ignoring when their own opinion is factually invalid and widely known to be so. As such, rather than moderate anything based on its merit (or facts), the low IQ population now actively seeks out anything which might offend or to which they disagree and seek to censor. Censorship is highly prized by the average /.er these days.
Hell, I literally just had someone walk through my history and troll moderate every post they could. Am I surprised? Nope. Unintelligent trolls, typically with factually wrong and half-assed opinions represent the lion share of posters these days.
If you are at all interested in comments no /. dot, you literally have one choice - browse at -1 else many good comments will be missed because of the massive level of idiotic troll moderation which takes place these days.
Holy shit /. has fallen.
That's pretty weak.
Let me guess, you buy a new car and house every year? Do you throw your kids out every year too? Just because a new release is available doesn't mean you need to upgrade. Just because you screwed your wife nine months ago doesn't mean you need to throw your one year old out.
The fact this post isn't at -1 after a day wonderfully proves just how completely broken the moderation system is on slashdot. And by moderation system, I mean those who use it.
which is why many professional occupations don't pay overtime anymore.
Thanks W. Bush!
Wrong. Turbines in cars were test a long, long time ago. The research was not continued because turbines are extremely inefficient at low altitudes in the environment cars are expected to run (mostly idle or off idle; whereby diesel turbines are best wide open throttle with little throttle changes).
Now a steam turbine (which doesn't have to sustain combustion) on the other hand, whereby its job is solely to produce electricity, is easily doable and likely in a package smaller than traditional ICE+transmission+gas tank+battery+radiator.
Why do so many /.ers insist on posting things where history has already invalidated what they're saying before they've ever posted?
Slashdot has fallen.
Nevertheless, due to the GIL only one thread can run at once.
Factually wrong. Period.
I encourage you to learn more about python threading and the GIL limitations because you seem to know only half of the picture - the worst half.
Only native python calls need block the GIL. This is why I/O almost never holds the GIL. Which means, I/O threads literally do run concurrently.
Seriously, it sounds like you have no idea what the hell you're talking about and only know tidbits here and there. The fact you're providing a video of what I already addressed is downright sad.
You do realize you just invalidate your entire line of reasoning and validated mine and everyone else's who disagreed with you.
Gatta love slashdot...
Whooosh!
So what was Bush told - that's the point. This is why your post is full of shit - because they are full of illogical bias. Furthermore, I was using this as an example. Constantly I read morons who want to ignorantly point the finger at one politician while ignorantly forgiving their own bias simply because not doing so would require looking in the mirror.
The fact my post was troll moderated is a wonderful example of just how stupid the general voting population is. Pointing out hypocrisy and stupidity in the masses makes people want to hate the messenger rather than admit THEY are the fucking problem.
So ask yourself, do you want to continue to be the problem or actually be a solution? Here's a hint, if you mindlessly blame the candidate you oppose and mindlessly forgive your own bias, you absolutely are the problem. Period.
The real problem is people always assume perfect information. Realistically, it almost never exists. So do you have a smoking gun of what Bush was told? You don't do you. Which basically means, you're doing exactly what I said.
And to be clear, I using this as an example, and notice the stupidity of response - troll moderation and the exact same bias to which spurred the original contention.
Yelling FIRE in a crowded theater is still against the law.
Actually, its not. Its perfectly legal to do exactly that. You can not be arrested or punished for doing so. You can, however, be held accountable for possible damages and and injury inflicted on the general public as they reacted to hearing such a proclamation. There is a difference.
Having said that, you are absolutely right in that we have NEVER had the freedom to say anything we want. Contrary to a massive ignorance, the first amendment was never intended to allow people to say anything and everything on their mind. Along these lines, verbally threatening someone has never been deemed protected speech. Neither is publicly lying about someone.
The intent of the first amendment is to protect the pen from the state and to allow for revolution, rather than john q to incite general riots or defame someone's character and/or business.
Because doing so stresses the artificial scarcity of a Google+ account which makes the majority of the population's desire for an account ever more strong.
This exact same marketing strategy is the exact reason why women fawn all of diamonds today. Contrary to popular myth, outside of heavy industry people largely didn't give a crap about diamonds (they used to be considered almost worthless - as they actually are). The same thing is done for cool night clubs and country clubs.
Never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. That moto has worked extremely well for Fox News and most politicians.
Normally these types of tests actually do have drivers in the driver's seat in case they need to take control. Lots of Google's tests have done as such. Just because there is a driver at the ready doesn't mean the vehicle was driven by a human. Being robotic and driver-less in no way needs to require increased danger to the public.
So what's the difference between bush being told they are necessary for data retention and funding vs obama completing construction and continuing funding?
Let me guess...you want someone to irrationally blame and it just so happens you like one and don't like the other. To hell with rational thought!
The fact is, the buck stops there - in that chair. It is impossible to hate on bush and not obama, without being a total hypocritical prick.
But that's the state of politics in this country. One idiot wants to blame another idiot and they care so much about irrational, polarizing hatred, intelligence, rational thought, and solutions go right out the window. But hey, at least people get to irrationally express their outrage - almost always at the wrong person.
First of all, wake from your wet dream. Second of all, its tethered.
Realistically, you're not going to do that for more than fifteen minutes or so - double if you're an extra ordinary athlete. Whereas with this, you can literally do a full day's work doing nothing else.
You see the difference? In your example, its literally a delusion. That's a big difference.
Its been widely covered. There has actually been several cities in the US who have had less reliable power than most third world countries. Ya, that's bad. Furthermore, rolling backouts and brownouts are common place all across the US - especially during Summer months. Within the last two weeks, Texas even had rolling, regional blackouts.
Is it really that hard to Google it? I mean there has even been entire documentaries on the subject surrounding the fact that US power grid reliability has been at a steady decline for decades now and that the utilities have been pocketing the money while not actually performing the upgrades. They then went to Congress complaining that the upgrades they didn't do the first time but were paid to do would cost hundreds of billions of dollars and that our infrastructure would fall apart if Congress didn't make special payments. Congress did so and the repairs/upgrades have still not been done.
Seriously, this has been fairly widely reported for the last half decade or so.
Your link doesn't do anything other than support what both of us are saying. Furthermore, you can easily find accounts supporting exactly what I'm saying. So at the end of the day, you didn't really contribute anything to the discussion. Not to mention, China has already placed their order for aircraft. Now you may want to debate if they'll actually accept their order, but I've read in multiple places the order was already placed following the evaluation of several Russian aircraft.
In a nut shell, everything I said, to which you respond, is correct according to widely available information. Hell, after your post I quickly double checked and even found supporting information on Wikipedia.
Welcome to slashdot. Its the original home of, "the retarded kid has a stick and he's not afraid to use it."
Depending on application design, python can support a surprisingly high level of concurrency. The main problem with the GIL is with multithreading but that doesn't mean python can't effectively leverage multiple CPUs. Furthermore, even with multithreading, if your application is heavily I/O bound, python frequently performs rather well. Its only in CPU bound multithreaded tasks and/or mixed loads whereby the GIL becomes a serious hindrance.
Why shouldn't essentially everything be encrypted? That sounds like the sane default to me.
Because news organizations frequently are given radios. As a rule of thumb, only discussions which are intended for public consumption are done on unencrypted channels. Furthermore, encryption prevents cross departmental communication. So imagine 9/11. Now imagine none of the various agencies being able to communicate because none have the same keys.
Honestly, there doesn't exist a legitimate reason for everything to be encrypted.
I was disappointed TurboGears wasn't there.
I completely agree with you. I rarely get mod points these days. The trolls are alive and well. Sadly, its seems like the posts are largely 80% noise and 20% signal, whereby the troll moderations go a long way or further burying the remaining 20%.
If you're not modding up posts to which you might disagree (so long as they are not factually invalid), you're doing it wrong. I strongly suspect 95% of the moderating population is doing it wrong. But hey, mediocrity and less is what I've come to expect from /. these days.
Actually, it's pretty old. I doubt you'd find too many people here on Slashdot that haven't run into some hostility from open source developers or their groupies in their early years.
The same can be said for just about anything software related. That doesn't make it true, or even well grounded.
And frankly, the ONLY complaints I've ever heard have been about specific applications - never Linux as a whole. And even those are typically driven by some dumb user saying such-n-such application must have feature x and developers saying something like, "great, but we don't have y and z, which are requirements for x - would you contribute x?" Followed by the user getting all pissed about how only he has vision and the developers are pooh-pooh heads.
Why was a factually accurate, polite, non-adversarial post troll moderated?