The explanation is that if you can hint at time travel or faster than light travel in an article, it generates interest, and therefore pageviews, and therefore advertising revenue.
I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease." - Linus Torvalds
Color me infected. Microsoft are a bunch of thieving backstabbing pricks. They deserve contempt and hatred.
They are indeed, but so are all other large tech (or non-tech) corporations. Google and Apple might have better PR with the geek crowd, but they're all the same deep down.
The irrationality in hating Microsoft is in singling them out as something egregious.
if runaway government spending gets you a nobel prize in economics, i shudder to think what kind of experiment is required to win the physics category
I thought the trendy economists were all deranged fruitbat rightwing extreme free-marketeers at the moment? Or is Keynesianism coming back into fashion now that so-called austerity measures have been seen through by most normal people?
In any event, the idea that economics is some sort of objective science outside politics is total crap. Whether you're left or right wing.
In my experience in the UK, most "corner shops" don't do much in the fruit and veg line, it's generally booze and snack food (along with the child prostitution, extreme right wing politics and drug operations that are associated with such places).
Some stores offer delivery after you pay at the register
Worst of both worlds, energy-wise: you burn gas driving to the store and back, and then the store's truck burns gas to deliver to you. This isn't having your cake and eating it too: this is having your cake and then throwing it away and getting another cake.
Someone mod this down, please. Self evidently you wouldn't drive to a supermarket then get them to deliver for you, you'd walk there. Here in the UK this services is very popular with old people in cities who don't have a car, but who still like to go out shopping rather than do it online.
If you go there by foot or by bike, it means you cannot buy much.
Therefore you need to go much more often and that you'll rarely buy any heavy goods.
So what if you walk/cycle to the shops every day? You're not burning any more fossil fuels to do it.
As for heavy goods, no, you're probably not going to lug home a diesel generator behind your bike, but how often do you get really heavy things at the supermarket anyway?
I'd expect the store would pick according to its own best interest, which would be rotating all oldest food out first.
I've tried home delivery shopping here in the UK (out of sheer laziness rather than wanting to be green), and unfortunately that certainly appears to be the case.
It's fine for stocking up on things like cases of beer or boxes of baked beans and cat food, not so great for fresh meat, vegetable and dairy products. I often ended up with things like milk that had the delivery day as the sell by date, and was therefore halfway to cottage cheese by the day after.
With linux you have to upgrade more often but at least you don't have to pay through the nose to do it.
But for a lot of businesses I know that would be an ADVANTAGE in having Windows. Non-tech businesses do not like things like frequent/continuous software upgrades. The $ cost is really not all that important in comparison with the potential interruption to the smooth running of the business.
I'm not saying they're right, just that the geek love of "release early, release often" does not translate to business users.
If you distribute someone else's work, you are bound by their license. It's not your work you are distributing.
It's called copyright. Remind me again why it's OK for software but not movies or music? I thought it was all just digital information which can be freely copied?
Here's how I explain it to people: "Free software" comes with the blueprints so that you can hire anyone you want to make improvements.
True, but for most business people, the philosophical difference between paying someone to customise open source software and paying someont to customise proprietary software is a meaningless one.
Having software blueprints is only really relevant if my business is selling software or software services such as support. If I'm a widget manufacturer, I probably don't care as long as the software is supported somehow.
You are floating above the Earth like Helios riding a chariot of fire across the sky. The greeks would have believed you a god atop Olympus. The blue earth turns below you, so captivating in its beauty that generations have marveled at the blue marble. The night sky is so full of stars it is dizzying in its beauty. You are participating in mankind's first steps to becoming immortal among them.
Then the drugs wear off and you're a maintenance man on a rusty old tin can floating pointlessly in space.
Drinking from a pouch is going to taste like crap regardless if it has no way for the aroma to escape. And there's something about holding a nice warm mug that makes it the morning comfort beverage.
Now if only someone can figure out a method that allows astronauts to sip the coffee from an oversized mug, as God intended, they will really have accomplished something.
Most astronauts aren't little girls trying to look cute.
I'll drink coffee however the fuck I want to. Humans discovered a long time ago that combining different ingredients makes things taste different.. and taste is subjective. Some people just don't like it black, some do.
Some people never develop beyond childish tastes, you are absolutely right. Just keep out of the grownups' room if you can't handle black coffee, cigars and whisky, junior.
Let me guess. First of all, you don't know the legal definition of spam. Because if you were getting spam from LinkedIn, they'd be in deep shit. Secondly, all this non-spam spam you claim to get: ever heard of opting out? Adjusting your marketing preferences? It's all right there, ONE CLICK AWAY.
So? They shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
I suppose you're happy with the tons of garbage you get from facebook if you're ever stupid enough to sign up for it?
Sorry but while you can bitch about the copyright issues those shareware discs helped a LOT of people back in the day. I know I wouldn't have gotten to play any of those levels at all if it weren't for Head Games putting them on CD, in a way I look at them no differently than those sites that sold Linux ISOs in the mail for those who were like me stuck on dialup at the time.
I would accept that as an argument if Head Games sold the CDs at cost. If there was any profit made, it is simply illogical for them to earn it at the expense of the creators, however convenient it may have been for you.
There's no concept of copyright registration in the UK.
Just because this is a story about the UK doesn't mean that slashdot's US readers are going to start applying some foreign vlaue system to their posts, especially not when the country is still ruled by King George III.
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But geeks think because they could get an advantage by having a super duper PC , that somehow it's legitimate.
The explanation is that if you can hint at time travel or faster than light travel in an article, it generates interest, and therefore pageviews, and therefore advertising revenue.
From your .sig:
I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease." - Linus Torvalds
Color me infected. Microsoft are a bunch of thieving backstabbing pricks. They deserve contempt and hatred.
They are indeed, but so are all other large tech (or non-tech) corporations. Google and Apple might have better PR with the geek crowd, but they're all the same deep down.
The irrationality in hating Microsoft is in singling them out as something egregious.
if runaway government spending gets you a nobel prize in economics, i shudder to think what kind of experiment is required to win the physics category
I thought the trendy economists were all deranged fruitbat rightwing extreme free-marketeers at the moment? Or is Keynesianism coming back into fashion now that so-called austerity measures have been seen through by most normal people?
In any event, the idea that economics is some sort of objective science outside politics is total crap. Whether you're left or right wing.
Joking, I'm joking.
Some stores offer delivery after you pay at the register
Worst of both worlds, energy-wise: you burn gas driving to the store and back, and then the store's truck burns gas to deliver to you. This isn't having your cake and eating it too: this is having your cake and then throwing it away and getting another cake.
Someone mod this down, please. Self evidently you wouldn't drive to a supermarket then get them to deliver for you, you'd walk there. Here in the UK this services is very popular with old people in cities who don't have a car, but who still like to go out shopping rather than do it online.
If you go there by foot or by bike, it means you cannot buy much. Therefore you need to go much more often and that you'll rarely buy any heavy goods.
So what if you walk/cycle to the shops every day? You're not burning any more fossil fuels to do it.
As for heavy goods, no, you're probably not going to lug home a diesel generator behind your bike, but how often do you get really heavy things at the supermarket anyway?
I'd expect the store would pick according to its own best interest, which would be rotating all oldest food out first.
I've tried home delivery shopping here in the UK (out of sheer laziness rather than wanting to be green), and unfortunately that certainly appears to be the case.
It's fine for stocking up on things like cases of beer or boxes of baked beans and cat food, not so great for fresh meat, vegetable and dairy products. I often ended up with things like milk that had the delivery day as the sell by date, and was therefore halfway to cottage cheese by the day after.
With linux you have to upgrade more often but at least you don't have to pay through the nose to do it.
But for a lot of businesses I know that would be an ADVANTAGE in having Windows. Non-tech businesses do not like things like frequent/continuous software upgrades. The $ cost is really not all that important in comparison with the potential interruption to the smooth running of the business.
I'm not saying they're right, just that the geek love of "release early, release often" does not translate to business users.
actually I'm refering to being dyslexic, as such not being able to spell dyslexia. google does not have all the answers, but good try...
I don't want to be flippant, but how come you managed to spell dyslexic and dyslexia correctly here?
If you distribute someone else's work, you are bound by their license. It's not your work you are distributing.
It's called copyright. Remind me again why it's OK for software but not movies or music? I thought it was all just digital information which can be freely copied?
A user needs no source code afterall.
Here's how I explain it to people: "Free software" comes with the blueprints so that you can hire anyone you want to make improvements.
True, but for most business people, the philosophical difference between paying someone to customise open source software and paying someont to customise proprietary software is a meaningless one.
Having software blueprints is only really relevant if my business is selling software or software services such as support. If I'm a widget manufacturer, I probably don't care as long as the software is supported somehow.
You are floating above the Earth like Helios riding a chariot of fire across the sky. The greeks would have believed you a god atop Olympus. The blue earth turns below you, so captivating in its beauty that generations have marveled at the blue marble. The night sky is so full of stars it is dizzying in its beauty. You are participating in mankind's first steps to becoming immortal among them.
Then the drugs wear off and you're a maintenance man on a rusty old tin can floating pointlessly in space.
Just give preference to people who drink plain black coffee.
Then I would have a better chance of qualifying for space travel.
Yes, I'm sure that being able to drink black coffee will make all the difference.
Drinking from a pouch is going to taste like crap regardless if it has no way for the aroma to escape. And there's something about holding a nice warm mug that makes it the morning comfort beverage.
I prefer a pair of boobs, but each to his own.
Whisky. Brandy
That's it.
Now if only someone can figure out a method that allows astronauts to sip the coffee from an oversized mug, as God intended, they will really have accomplished something.
Most astronauts aren't little girls trying to look cute.
Sugar and cream are bad for you and ruin the taste of coffee. I don't know what to say about lemon juice since it sounds terrible in coffee.
Dude, coffee is bad for you too.
And as someone says above, you often get a twist of lemon with an espresso. .
I'll drink coffee however the fuck I want to. Humans discovered a long time ago that combining different ingredients makes things taste different.. and taste is subjective. Some people just don't like it black, some do.
Some people never develop beyond childish tastes, you are absolutely right. Just keep out of the grownups' room if you can't handle black coffee, cigars and whisky, junior.
You're assuming space travel will never be commercialized.
That's because he's not a rabidly insane optimist/delusionist.
Anyone who spends time "networking" is in any case a loathsome human being, almost certainly a paedophile, and beyond a peradventure a crashing bore.
Let me guess. First of all, you don't know the legal definition of spam. Because if you were getting spam from LinkedIn, they'd be in deep shit. Secondly, all this non-spam spam you claim to get: ever heard of opting out? Adjusting your marketing preferences? It's all right there, ONE CLICK AWAY.
So? They shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
I suppose you're happy with the tons of garbage you get from facebook if you're ever stupid enough to sign up for it?
Sorry but while you can bitch about the copyright issues those shareware discs helped a LOT of people back in the day. I know I wouldn't have gotten to play any of those levels at all if it weren't for Head Games putting them on CD, in a way I look at them no differently than those sites that sold Linux ISOs in the mail for those who were like me stuck on dialup at the time.
I would accept that as an argument if Head Games sold the CDs at cost. If there was any profit made, it is simply illogical for them to earn it at the expense of the creators, however convenient it may have been for you.
don't post shit you want kept to yourself online
Also, don't be a photographer or a musician or filmmaker and put any of this on the internet.
It's OK, you can still make money by doing live shows and giving your digital productions away for free.
Or something.
There's no concept of copyright registration in the UK.
Just because this is a story about the UK doesn't mean that slashdot's US readers are going to start applying some foreign vlaue system to their posts, especially not when the country is still ruled by King George III.