Whatever you like to think, people in general are still lazy, apathetic, and just plain don't care.
No amount of information overload or internet connectivity will change basic human nature. Simply giving everyone net access (or whatever) won't turn them into caring, conscious, active, wonderful citizens.
I love how the interview changes from first to third person consistently.
Instead of feeling like a third party acting as a laison (which it is), it feels like Bruce is speaking and just referring to himself in third person;)
Yup, I'm a caver and I use a carbide lamp. Water + calcium carbide = acetylene. The lamp produces acetylene which it shoots out of the tip..light it and you have a nice underground light source.
My particular lamp was made in 1926.
I buy large (60 lb)n barrels of carbide for about $100 including shipping and Hazmat fees.
The lamps are known for having pretty spectacular explosions, and the 'used' carbide gets carried out of the cave in a backpack...I've seen quite a few backpacks spontaneously explode from acetylene buildup..
Hmm..isn't it the case that one editor can reject a story, and it's just gone? Whereas many people may have submitted this, yours could have gotten read by an editor that didn't think it was/. worthy. LightHouseJ's (or whoever it was) happened to get read by an editor who thought it was.
so in the end this might just be proprietary software piracy. (Yawn)
So if someone steals GPL code, it's a horrendous crime worthy of getting everyone involved and posting to slashdot...but if it's proprietary code that's stolen, no one cares?
If you knew what you were talking about, you..well, wouldn't talk. There is lbm (pounds mass) and lbf (pounds force). So, if the scale were calibrated with a known mass (whether a kilo or a lbm) *at* its location of use, the scale would correctly report mass. In pounds.
So, the force of gravity doesn't matter if the scale is correctly calibrated.
Picture the surface of a balloon. The galaxies are dots on the balloon.
Now inflate the balloon. Any galaxy will see all the others moving away, speed proportional to distance.
You'll notice that since the surface of the balloon has no boundaries, you can go forever in any direction (assume the balloon is expanding so that the circumference is growing at a rate faster than the speed of light, so you can never get back to where you started).
There's our 2-d curved space. We live in a 3-d one. It may not be curved that way, and galaxies change the local curvature (think the dots sinking the surface of the balloon)..but you get the idea. We don't need infinite matter for a boundless universe.
Hrm. Nice try, but we know the universe is expanding because of red shift.
How far we see into the universe is limited to our ability to resolve the tiny amount of light from distant objects. Currently the farthest we can see relates about 6 billion years or some such. When we get a better telescope in orbit, we'll be able to see farther.
You can have whatever creationist theories you like, but you can't contradict what we *know*.
I still think it's amazing that when you look at the stars in the sky that you are looking billions of years into the past. Those stars you see where there before dinosaurs were here, and they might not even be up there anymore.
That's a very humbling thought. Not enough of humanity gets put in their place by the sight of millions of stars anymore. Gives me hope.
Re:Good for the average joe
on
Netscape 6.2
·
· Score: 1
Ok, but what if you're like me and you like to just download a program and not have to worry about downloading a totally new version every week? What if I want a browser that just *works* fine how it is *right now*?
Mozilla just isn't that yet. Opera is pretty much it, unless I want to go to Windows.
Re:I still wouldnt get an Athlon or any AMD chip.
on
AMD And THG update
·
· Score: 2
I love how your bottom line is stability and how well tested the platform is...
but you overclock your PIV's to 200MHz above spec.
Re:test with fan failure, not heatsink falloff
on
AMD And THG update
·
· Score: 1
My BIOS shuts the computer down if my fan stops turning. I like that feature;)
Um...the current attacks are mostly clearing out air defenses for future bombings, as well as dropping tons and tons of food and medicine onto the citizens of Afghanistan. The Joint Chief claims he hopes to start that tomorrow.
Biometrics at the jetway is fine. The airlines already have most of your personal information when you buy a ticket...
I want them to know exactly who is on the plane with me. IT is a completely different beast for the government to have access to this kind of info and track people.
This is true. No amount of security we enforce would have prevented this attack. I'd like to see a loosening of snooping by the government - let it trust its own people. The people who want to do this will do it whether or not we're looking for them. Armed marshalls on planes is fine with me. _THAT_ could have prevented this. Just make sure there are oneor two people on each flight armed much better than anything a terrorist can take on (getting guns on planes appears damn near impossible, which is good), and it's all generally good.
Now..for suitcase nukes and anthrax in NYC's water supply....
You're a PARTY to it. It is a license that (supposedly) you and the publisher agreed to. If you resell it, you can't transfer that license. They need to make their own agreement with the publisher.
Why would this stop the pirates? There are already copies of XP floating around that require no activation at all. Put in the product code during the install and that's it. A bit harder to share legally purchased cd's, but no harder to download and burn.
Slashdot Mirror
Whatever you like to think, people in general are still lazy, apathetic, and just plain don't care.
No amount of information overload or internet connectivity will change basic human nature. Simply giving everyone net access (or whatever) won't turn them into caring, conscious, active, wonderful citizens.
Docking station for a PDA?!
I love how the interview changes from first to third person consistently.
;)
Instead of feeling like a third party acting as a laison (which it is), it feels like Bruce is speaking and just referring to himself in third person
I make my own acetylene for fun on the weekends.
;)
Yup, I'm a caver and I use a carbide lamp. Water + calcium carbide = acetylene. The lamp produces acetylene which it shoots out of the tip..light it and you have a nice underground light source.
My particular lamp was made in 1926.
I buy large (60 lb)n barrels of carbide for about $100 including shipping and Hazmat fees.
The lamps are known for having pretty spectacular explosions, and the 'used' carbide gets carried out of the cave in a backpack...I've seen quite a few backpacks spontaneously explode from acetylene buildup..
Acetylene is definitely fun stuff
Hmm..isn't it the case that one editor can reject a story, and it's just gone? Whereas many people may have submitted this, yours could have gotten read by an editor that didn't think it was /. worthy. LightHouseJ's (or whoever it was) happened to get read by an editor who thought it was.
It's Slashdot, get the fuck over it.
same thing in new jersey ;)
How does that work?
Sorry, try again.
Check out the terminal services in XP. It's most certainly *not* what you think it is, and it rocks.
Guess what the common English unit for mass is.
Pounds!
If you knew what you were talking about, you..well, wouldn't talk. There is lbm (pounds mass) and lbf (pounds force). So, if the scale were calibrated with a known mass (whether a kilo or a lbm) *at* its location of use, the scale would correctly report mass. In pounds.
So, the force of gravity doesn't matter if the scale is correctly calibrated.
What was the last thing OSS 'innovated'? Where is this record of innovation in the Linux community that is going to overtake MS?
Well then couldn't the value of C be erased by the add command? You need extra instructions to retain the values of C and A.
Look up the word moot in the dictionary.
It doesn't mean what you think it does.
There is no outside of the balloon. The universe we perceive is the *surface* of the balloon.
Picture the surface of a balloon. The galaxies are dots on the balloon.
Now inflate the balloon. Any galaxy will see all the others moving away, speed proportional to distance.
You'll notice that since the surface of the balloon has no boundaries, you can go forever in any direction (assume the balloon is expanding so that the circumference is growing at a rate faster than the speed of light, so you can never get back to where you started).
There's our 2-d curved space. We live in a 3-d one. It may not be curved that way, and galaxies change the local curvature (think the dots sinking the surface of the balloon)..but you get the idea. We don't need infinite matter for a boundless universe.
You can have whatever creationist theories you like, but you can't contradict what we *know*.
That's a very humbling thought. Not enough of humanity gets put in their place by the sight of millions of stars anymore. Gives me hope.
Ok, but what if you're like me and you like to just download a program and not have to worry about downloading a totally new version every week? What if I want a browser that just *works* fine how it is *right now*?
Mozilla just isn't that yet. Opera is pretty much it, unless I want to go to Windows.
I love how your bottom line is stability and how well tested the platform is...
but you overclock your PIV's to 200MHz above spec.
My BIOS shuts the computer down if my fan stops turning. I like that feature ;)
How is NAT *not* a security solution for a home user not running a server?
-J
For that comic.
- 10 -23
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2000
:)
Um...the current attacks are mostly clearing out air defenses for future bombings, as well as dropping tons and tons of food and medicine onto the citizens of Afghanistan. The Joint Chief claims he hopes to start that tomorrow.
Well, the women aren't really allowed outside, so they won't come cut up the remains.
Biometrics at the jetway is fine. The airlines already have most of your personal information when you buy a ticket... I want them to know exactly who is on the plane with me. IT is a completely different beast for the government to have access to this kind of info and track people.
This is true. No amount of security we enforce would have prevented this attack. I'd like to see a loosening of snooping by the government - let it trust its own people. The people who want to do this will do it whether or not we're looking for them. Armed marshalls on planes is fine with me. _THAT_ could have prevented this. Just make sure there are oneor two people on each flight armed much better than anything a terrorist can take on (getting guns on planes appears damn near impossible, which is good), and it's all generally good.
Now..for suitcase nukes and anthrax in NYC's water supply....
You're a PARTY to it. It is a license that (supposedly) you and the publisher agreed to. If you resell it, you can't transfer that license. They need to make their own agreement with the publisher.
Why would this stop the pirates? There are already copies of XP floating around that require no activation at all. Put in the product code during the install and that's it. A bit harder to share legally purchased cd's, but no harder to download and burn.