The average computer uses as much as seventeen swimming pools worth of coal to run on any given day.
So now we have a new SlashMeasurement of energy - a swimming pool worth of coal. How many of those will it take to illuminate a Library of Congress worth of data?
And it's creative vision and foresight like this that made the British automobile industry (BMC was once the third largest manufacturer of cars in the world) into the juggernaut it is today.
I can tell you right now that if your stupid little brat is too weak and clusmy to protect his laptop from an accident allegedly caused by my child you can go and screw yourself. Whadda ya gonna do about it? Huh?
Hmmm... let's see. Take you to small claims court to be compensated for the damage caused by your ignorant lout^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hprecious angel of a child? Perhaps if enough of the parents of children who are assaulted^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hinvolved in accidents with your child follow suit, there'll be enough of a drain on your resources (even if you lose in court, your boss may not take kindly to you taking time off to go to court every week or so) that you'll teach your little thug^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpride and joy the rules of civilized behavior. Maybe you'll have to learn them yourself as well.
Hmmm... I wonder how hard it'll be to get GPE and OPIE running on it?"
Well, if it's the same horrible job that Open Zaurus has done getting them done working on the Zaurus, why bother?
Seriously. When OZ posts packages that "just need a little work" in order to run on their latest version, what chance is there of having ANY interest from the greater public, i.e. those people whose use is going to be necessary to move OZ from an interesting toy to something with mass acceptance?
And no, this isn't a flame or a troll. It's a statement of fact. However, when I posted much the same thoughts on the OZ mailing list, I was attacked with such vitriol you'd have thought I was buggering the pope. And I've been using Linux in exhibits for a lot of years. OZ is simply not ready for prime time. And neither, sadly, I think, will be any port to this device.
Corporations have the same legal rights as individuals, right?
It's time to impose the same responsibilities as well. A company that engages in such practices, and can be found guilty of same in a court of law, should be shut down and all of its assets seized and sold off to benefit those individuals that it has harmed.
Extreme? Not at all. No more extreme than putting to death an individual that has killed someone. And maybe, just maybe, stockholders and boards of directors will take an active interest in what their investments are doing if they know they have a serious chance of losing everything.
... we also correspondingly lower the age of consent to, say, 12 or so. I think it's interesting that most of the people who scream about wanting to impose harsh penalties up to and including the death penalty on juveniles are also the first in line to want to murder pedophiles because "they're just kids, they can't give informed consent."
You can't have it both ways. Either they're considered responsible and mature at a younger age and granted all the rights, responsibilities, and privileges of adults, or they're immature kids and are treated accordingly.
The head of Holick's department, Dr. Barbara Gilchrest, called his book an embarrassment and stripped him of his dermatology professorship, although he kept his other posts.
In other words, challenge the currently accepted hypothesis, and be prepared for extreme backlash from those who have spent their careers supporting it, no matter how well thought out or researched your work is.
Charles Fort was right. The high priesthood of science is exactly that. Blaspheme at your own peril.
However, the device seems to have a Linux-friendly design, and is likely to run Linux soon, whether supplied by PalmOne's sister company PalmSource, or by Linux hobbyists.
Oh, goody.
You mean like Open Zaurus? Which after HOW many years of development is still worthless as a PDA and somewhat less useless, but still extremely marginal as a Linux system? This isn't a flame, but a statement from someone who tried to get several revisions crufted into a working system on a SL-5500, and eventually gave up and went back to a Palm in frustration.
If Palm actually comes out with a reasonably debugged, usable version of Linux running their existing UI, I'm all over it. Clean, simple, and elegant. If I have to wait for what passes for the Linux PDA community to come up with something usable, I might as well get a paper notebook and pencil.
YOUR kink, whatever it may be, is just fine and good. MY kink, however, is sick and twisted and disgusting.
I would point out to you that the age of consent in much of the world is 14, not 18, as you seem to believe. With some places as low as 12. So "underage" is a mere matter of location, at best. http://www.ageofconsent.com/
I find this entire concept of "age of consent" somewhat tenuous, at best. It seems to imply that there is an age at which one magically is able to make intelligent, rational decisions about their own body and their sexuality, and below that they're just too stupid and/or immature to make any such decision. If that were actually the concern, I know plenty of 30 year olds who aren't able to make said intelligent, rational decisions... and plenty of 12 year olds who are. People mature at different ages. Get over it.
And this post is courtesy of a 49-year-old married man with kids of my own, but, unlike you, with a rational view of human sexuality. So much for your idea that anyone who thinks such things are OK must have problems with adult relationships. As a libertarian, I believe it's no business of the State to get involved with anything two people do consentually in private.
For anyone else who's completely clueless, the BSA is a BUSINESS ORGANIZATION. They have no legal standing whatsoever to show up at anyone's door and demand a fucking thing. Quite frankly, until they show up with the sheriff, and a warrant describing exactly what they are looking for signed by a judge (who, BTW, still has to be convinced of the merits of their arguments, and will tend to frown upon fishing expeditions), they should be shown the door and waved goodbye to.
For a good laugh, go to the main page and click on the link "What Our Readers Say". OOPS!!! Page not found!! Perhaps they didn't want to take the heat for one of the editors that they're "Glad to have on their side"?
The problem with OSNews is that it seems to attract the "bottom feeder" users who have little real experience and tend to bitch and whine like children rather than to respond with well thought out arguments and present facts.
So, I would assume then that you're including Eugenia in that estimation?
I just found it an odd statement, and perhaps someone could clarify.
There's really nothing odd about it. He's another MS shill who has to insist that no matter what any other OS may have at the moment, MS will have it in a much improved form Real Soon Now(tm).
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Europe runs on 50HZ, you insensitive clod!!!!
So now we have a new SlashMeasurement of energy - a swimming pool worth of coal. How many of those will it take to illuminate a Library of Congress worth of data?
I want to see how to mod a REAL mechanical typewriter. With open CRT. as in Brazil(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/)
That would be Chutzpah.
Wait a second... Yiddish spelling Nazi?!?!?!
And it's creative vision and foresight like this that made the British automobile industry (BMC was once the third largest manufacturer of cars in the world) into the juggernaut it is today.
Hmmm... let's see. Take you to small claims court to be compensated for the damage caused by your ignorant lout^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hprecious angel of a child? Perhaps if enough of the parents of children who are assaulted^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hinvolved in accidents with your child follow suit, there'll be enough of a drain on your resources (even if you lose in court, your boss may not take kindly to you taking time off to go to court every week or so) that you'll teach your little thug^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpride and joy the rules of civilized behavior. Maybe you'll have to learn them yourself as well.
If anyone can give actual provable examples of the US government abridging Constitutionally protected free speech, I'd love to hear it.
Four dead at Kent State.
Three dead at Jackson State.
It doesn't get more "abridged" than that.
I guess some of us have longer memories than others.
Well, if it's the same horrible job that Open Zaurus has done getting them done working on the Zaurus, why bother?
Seriously. When OZ posts packages that "just need a little work" in order to run on their latest version, what chance is there of having ANY interest from the greater public, i.e. those people whose use is going to be necessary to move OZ from an interesting toy to something with mass acceptance?
And no, this isn't a flame or a troll. It's a statement of fact. However, when I posted much the same thoughts on the OZ mailing list, I was attacked with such vitriol you'd have thought I was buggering the pope. And I've been using Linux in exhibits for a lot of years. OZ is simply not ready for prime time. And neither, sadly, I think, will be any port to this device.
Corporations have the same legal rights as individuals, right?
It's time to impose the same responsibilities as well. A company that engages in such practices, and can be found guilty of same in a court of law, should be shut down and all of its assets seized and sold off to benefit those individuals that it has harmed.
Extreme? Not at all. No more extreme than putting to death an individual that has killed someone. And maybe, just maybe, stockholders and boards of directors will take an active interest in what their investments are doing if they know they have a serious chance of losing everything.
1: Can you attach a USB hub to it and daisy-chain devices?
2: If so, can you attach a printer and use it as a print server as well as a file?
...compare the conditions in a typical US jail to those in a typical Nigerian jail and see which sentence seems hardest.
For that matter, demonstrate to me that humans do have souls. And no, I don't consider any religious book to be a valid reference.
Then we'll talk.
You can't have it both ways. Either they're considered responsible and mature at a younger age and granted all the rights, responsibilities, and privileges of adults, or they're immature kids and are treated accordingly.
In other words, challenge the currently accepted hypothesis, and be prepared for extreme backlash from those who have spent their careers supporting it, no matter how well thought out or researched your work is. Charles Fort was right. The high priesthood of science is exactly that. Blaspheme at your own peril.
...that geeks have little or no sense of humor, and take crap like the Indiana Jones movies WAY too seriously. Ever consider it might be a joke?
You've been listening to WAY too much Don and Mike...
Now, Dave Chappelle, on the other hand...
I'm Indiana Jones, bitch!!
...Union Carbide (Bhopal)
Exxon
Enron
Haliburton
and on and on...
Oh yes, you can certainly reroute that misplaced trust in the govenrment to corporations. They're SO much more trustworthy.
However, the device seems to have a Linux-friendly design, and is likely to run Linux soon, whether supplied by PalmOne's sister company PalmSource, or by Linux hobbyists.
Oh, goody.
You mean like Open Zaurus? Which after HOW many years of development is still worthless as a PDA and somewhat less useless, but still extremely marginal as a Linux system? This isn't a flame, but a statement from someone who tried to get several revisions crufted into a working system on a SL-5500, and eventually gave up and went back to a Palm in frustration.
If Palm actually comes out with a reasonably debugged, usable version of Linux running their existing UI, I'm all over it. Clean, simple, and elegant. If I have to wait for what passes for the Linux PDA community to come up with something usable, I might as well get a paper notebook and pencil.
Yes, yes, of course...
YOUR kink, whatever it may be, is just fine and good. MY kink, however, is sick and twisted and disgusting.
I would point out to you that the age of consent in much of the world is 14, not 18, as you seem to believe. With some places as low as 12. So "underage" is a mere matter of location, at best.
http://www.ageofconsent.com/
I find this entire concept of "age of consent" somewhat tenuous, at best. It seems to imply that there is an age at which one magically is able to make intelligent, rational decisions about their own body and their sexuality, and below that they're just too stupid and/or immature to make any such decision. If that were actually the concern, I know plenty of 30 year olds who aren't able to make said intelligent, rational decisions... and plenty of 12 year olds who are. People mature at different ages. Get over it.
And this post is courtesy of a 49-year-old married man with kids of my own, but, unlike you, with a rational view of human sexuality. So much for your idea that anyone who thinks such things are OK must have problems with adult relationships. As a libertarian, I believe it's no business of the State to get involved with anything two people do consentually in private.
...did they let the BSA in in the first place?
For anyone else who's completely clueless, the BSA is a BUSINESS ORGANIZATION. They have no legal standing whatsoever to show up at anyone's door and demand a fucking thing. Quite frankly, until they show up with the sheriff, and a warrant describing exactly what they are looking for signed by a judge (who, BTW, still has to be convinced of the merits of their arguments, and will tend to frown upon fishing expeditions), they should be shown the door and waved goodbye to.
Preferably, one finger at a time...
For a good laugh, go to the main page and click on the link "What Our Readers Say". OOPS!!! Page not found!! Perhaps they didn't want to take the heat for one of the editors that they're "Glad to have on their side"?
So, I would assume then that you're including Eugenia in that estimation?
There's really nothing odd about it. He's another MS shill who has to insist that no matter what any other OS may have at the moment, MS will have it in a much improved form Real Soon Now(tm).
It's called "damning with faint praise."
While this may not work (and I emphasize may, isn't it just a wee bit early to pronounce it impossible, implausible, or impractical?