I LOOOVE when a company ends its services with a nice bonus. They could simply close all the servers thus saving money, instead they decide to pay the bills for an another month just for the sake of a nice ending.
spamming 1000 people may get him 1 extra sale, but it will piss off the other 999 One of my friends started a software company a couple of years ago. He "met" one of his best clients by spamming the world.
The problem is that not all people know how to set up their router; most of them don't even know that others can connect to their network. Most people know nothing about their computer, their connection, they just want to click the mouse and see youtube on the screen. They might even not know that they have a router, or the router has wifi. Or, probably, "what the heck is wifi"??
It seems that the plane carrying the laser has to be always in air, ready for a shoot. This means that a huge C130 burning one zillion gallons of kerosene every minute flies at the Iraqi border, one near the Iran border, one near the Russian border... right? This means a lot of pollution, lot of carbon dioxide, lot of global warming.
Yep; also there is one thing the guy mentions: building a runway for 2 million bucks. I'd think he could practice landing above water, then the risk of getting injured is much lower, and the runway doesn't cost a thing either.
Goddamn, our so-called "state-of-the-art" is NOTHING compared to this. Desktop software development is fucking 20 years behind what these guys are doing.
Maybe this is not a "full force running, mid air.. " blah blah, but still, take a look at it. FYI, 4-legged robot being really kicked - I'm not sure I'd keep my balance after such a kick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_2-n3t4rJE&feature=related
Also note that these robots do not know that a kick is gonna come - it's like you getting kicked when your eyes are closed.
I feel very strongly that if my neighbor sets up an open access point called "netgear" and broadcasting it into my house, they're telling me that they don't care if I use it. I agree, but if you leave your car in the parking lot with doors open, does it mean you're telling others that they can use it? Let's say gas is expensive, so not starting it, just sitting inside for an hour while it's raining damn hard?
Well, a hundred years ago earthmen did not even imagine that by the end of the century you'd be able to fly from Europe to the US... why shouldn't we believe that in a hundred years ahead we will be fly to the supermarket?
Lubing the 2.5 mile hole, then pushing the drill down to the bottom of it and taking it out, repeating many times - now THAT is going to cause a HUGE quake!
Muhahahahaaaa (I guess I'm going to be modded down)
In most European countries the employee can resign without any reason (well 2 weeks after noticing the employer), but the employer must have a very good reason for firing someone. In most cases it takes companies months to fire someone, in some cases they can't even do it.
In some countries (Sweden, as far as I know) if you hire someone who has just graduated from university and this is his first workplace, you CAN NOT fire him for 18 months.
Just as a note, employees get 20 to 30 paid holiday days per year, depending on the country. Plus national holidays.
It seems that besides being a good engineer you have to be "culturally fit".
I kinda agree: a pessimistic or unsociable person could endanger the spirit and the enthusiasm of others. I would not like to work with a highly intelligent but depressive person, if his depression would affect my everyday mood. Not to mention if the guy is the PM.
On the other hand, I would be fucking upset for being fired because of not fitting into the company's social standards.
By the way, what reasons are accepted for firing someone? In the European Union firing an employee is very hard because of the EU's strong social laws. But we know the US is a capitalist country, so how about the US?
Yup, that's another issue. On today's computers rendering a regular web page or processing everyday javascript operations does not take any observable amount of time, so it does not matter.
However, a few years ago I had a 3-megs MySql doc and it took almost half a minute for my browser to open it, and I bet there are a series of web sites where performance really counts.
Anyway, I don't think too many people will switch to Opera because of this; instead, being the fastest browser in the world is very good ads for them. I could easily imagine some of my friends thinking "if someone writes faster (=better) programs than Firefox has, they surely are good guys, so they surely have damn good products. Let's try Opera".
Ok, but where do you need the speed of the browser? Rendering regular web pages does not take any considerable amount of time(*), so where does the regular user see the speed improvement?
(*) except of a few very rare cases - but then transferring the html data takes more time than rendering; and let's not take into account huge local html docs.
It's the ratio what matters. While rendering a random page, opening a huge html, processing arbitrary js code, or whatever: Opera is 2x faster than the others.
Of course, next year, it won't be so super. But there will be a new one that's really super. Then name it simply Computer-On-a-Chip: COC. For easy pronounciation, make it COCK.
...two geeks are chatting in year 2020. "How big is your cock?" "Quarter inch."
Well, burning biofuels releases no more than the amount of CO2 what the plant accumulated while growing. Switching to electric is a good solution, but it takes time to implement - while biofuels can be very quickly and seamlessly integrated into our economy, firstly by replacing diesel with biodiesel.
Europe already started this: by 2009, 4% of the all diesel fuel sold must be coming from bio-sources.
Also, we have to note that people's inertia can be high. Citizens adopt only well-proven technology. They are concerned about recharging, battery life, and so. You can't convince the crowd with logical, technically correct arguments - they would buy electric cars only if the highways would be already full of electric cars.
Electric cars seem to be the ultimate solution, but we need a temporary, quick solution which can be implemented asap: and biofuels look like the promised land.
You're partially right (phukken aggressive, but nevermind) - saying "everyone's asshole here" is just like saying "MS is fucked up" or "Linux rules": no arguments given.
Look, just like all of you, I like the Linux world much better than MS (note that I don't use the words love or hate). I agree that this shit what they did in Norway sucks. The one thing what annoys me is that every time a MS against Linux issue comes up, everyone repeats the same damn phrases, without giving any arguments, or any new arguments. Now, reading the same phrases every month is called wasting time - and is not even worth opening the lid.
Fortunately, the estimated 10% intelligent comments are worth both opening the lid and reading the remaining 90%.
This is one of the stories when I decide not to read Slashdot ever again. Everybody hates MS regardless what they do - and everybody praises Linux and co, regardless what they do. There are a few original ideas in the comments, but very few...
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I LOOOVE when a company ends its services with a nice bonus. They could simply close all the servers thus saving money, instead they decide to pay the bills for an another month just for the sake of a nice ending.
But, hey, can you make it squirt oil by rubbing the skin on it?
The problem is that not all people know how to set up their router; most of them don't even know that others can connect to their network. Most people know nothing about their computer, their connection, they just want to click the mouse and see youtube on the screen. They might even not know that they have a router, or the router has wifi. Or, probably, "what the heck is wifi"??
It seems that the plane carrying the laser has to be always in air, ready for a shoot. This means that a huge C130 burning one zillion gallons of kerosene every minute flies at the Iraqi border, one near the Iran border, one near the Russian border... right? This means a lot of pollution, lot of carbon dioxide, lot of global warming.
Fuck war.
Yep; also there is one thing the guy mentions: building a runway for 2 million bucks. I'd think he could practice landing above water, then the risk of getting injured is much lower, and the runway doesn't cost a thing either.
Did Jesus use the same technology?
Goddamn, our so-called "state-of-the-art" is NOTHING compared to this. Desktop software development is fucking 20 years behind what these guys are doing.
Maybe I should just quit.
Maybe this is not a "full force running, mid air.. " blah blah, but still, take a look at it. FYI, 4-legged robot being really kicked - I'm not sure I'd keep my balance after such a kick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_2-n3t4rJE&feature=related
Also note that these robots do not know that a kick is gonna come - it's like you getting kicked when your eyes are closed.
wow... "imagine a Beowulf cluster of those"...
I bet you won't be able to light a campfire with your e-paper.
Well, a hundred years ago earthmen did not even imagine that by the end of the century you'd be able to fly from Europe to the US... why shouldn't we believe that in a hundred years ahead we will be fly to the supermarket?
Lubing the 2.5 mile hole, then pushing the drill down to the bottom of it and taking it out, repeating many times - now THAT is going to cause a HUGE quake!
Muhahahahaaaa (I guess I'm going to be modded down)
In most European countries the employee can resign without any reason (well 2 weeks after noticing the employer), but the employer must have a very good reason for firing someone. In most cases it takes companies months to fire someone, in some cases they can't even do it.
In some countries (Sweden, as far as I know) if you hire someone who has just graduated from university and this is his first workplace, you CAN NOT fire him for 18 months.
Just as a note, employees get 20 to 30 paid holiday days per year, depending on the country. Plus national holidays.
It seems that besides being a good engineer you have to be "culturally fit".
I kinda agree: a pessimistic or unsociable person could endanger the spirit and the enthusiasm of others. I would not like to work with a highly intelligent but depressive person, if his depression would affect my everyday mood. Not to mention if the guy is the PM.
On the other hand, I would be fucking upset for being fired because of not fitting into the company's social standards.
By the way, what reasons are accepted for firing someone? In the European Union firing an employee is very hard because of the EU's strong social laws. But we know the US is a capitalist country, so how about the US?
You forgot K-Y jelly.
Yup, that's another issue. On today's computers rendering a regular web page or processing everyday javascript operations does not take any observable amount of time, so it does not matter.
However, a few years ago I had a 3-megs MySql doc and it took almost half a minute for my browser to open it, and I bet there are a series of web sites where performance really counts.
Anyway, I don't think too many people will switch to Opera because of this; instead, being the fastest browser in the world is very good ads for them. I could easily imagine some of my friends thinking "if someone writes faster (=better) programs than Firefox has, they surely are good guys, so they surely have damn good products. Let's try Opera".
Ok, but where do you need the speed of the browser? Rendering regular web pages does not take any considerable amount of time(*), so where does the regular user see the speed improvement? (*) except of a few very rare cases - but then transferring the html data takes more time than rendering; and let's not take into account huge local html docs.
It's the ratio what matters. While rendering a random page, opening a huge html, processing arbitrary js code, or whatever: Opera is 2x faster than the others.
Forget the units, use the ratio.
Well, burning biofuels releases no more than the amount of CO2 what the plant accumulated while growing. Switching to electric is a good solution, but it takes time to implement - while biofuels can be very quickly and seamlessly integrated into our economy, firstly by replacing diesel with biodiesel.
Europe already started this: by 2009, 4% of the all diesel fuel sold must be coming from bio-sources.
Also, we have to note that people's inertia can be high. Citizens adopt only well-proven technology. They are concerned about recharging, battery life, and so. You can't convince the crowd with logical, technically correct arguments - they would buy electric cars only if the highways would be already full of electric cars.
Electric cars seem to be the ultimate solution, but we need a temporary, quick solution which can be implemented asap: and biofuels look like the promised land.
You're partially right (phukken aggressive, but nevermind) - saying "everyone's asshole here" is just like saying "MS is fucked up" or "Linux rules": no arguments given.
Look, just like all of you, I like the Linux world much better than MS (note that I don't use the words love or hate). I agree that this shit what they did in Norway sucks. The one thing what annoys me is that every time a MS against Linux issue comes up, everyone repeats the same damn phrases, without giving any arguments, or any new arguments. Now, reading the same phrases every month is called wasting time - and is not even worth opening the lid.
Fortunately, the estimated 10% intelligent comments are worth both opening the lid and reading the remaining 90%.
This is one of the stories when I decide not to read Slashdot ever again. Everybody hates MS regardless what they do - and everybody praises Linux and co, regardless what they do. There are a few original ideas in the comments, but very few...