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"...they seemed to be saying that JFS was just one example of infringement among many. They seemed to be saying that IBM should know all the places [that] they have infringed without being told because it was so obvious."
That's called FUD. SCO are just implying that their fantasies are true, hoping to gain support and investors from the not-so-critically-minded. It essentially amounts to subtle lying, because they've obviously engineered these press releases to be as vague and foreboding as possible.
SCO need to do a lot of things, but they can't because they have no case. While you might be able to sweettalk reporters and investors, you can't lie in court.
Your hearing is specially tuned to pick up sounds within the range of the human voice, so you are naturally more sensitive to voices. Plus, you are not only hearing their voices but you are understanding what they are saying as well. That makes it even more distracting. The steady hum of a computer is far easier to filter out because it doesn't change.
But hey, I think there is beauty in silent operation. Wouldn't you like a solid-state computer with/no/ moving parts? It's not so much "people whining about sound" as it is a cool engineering project.
After all... would a rose, by any other name, smell as sweet?
Er... though I doubt that metaphor applies to Hemos in particular...
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Exactly. You make your own life, and you're no slave. This idea that people are somehow enslaved to the Evil Corporations are rather ignorant. Some people may like that corporate environment. Others may choose otherwise.
And calling this half-brained "Take Back Your Time Day" a 'movement' by any measure is just plain inaccurate.
Because you're a slave to The Man?
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Who says that work can't be non-material? What if you really do enjoy your job, as I'm sure a lot of the techies you know do? Sure, perhaps you may enjoy it less because you get paid for it, but that will depend on the work environment.
Obviously this 'movement' (such an over-used term) has some good intentions--neglecting family and self are problems when you're overworked--but the mindset that employment = slavery is getting hackneyed. I thought we grew out of that idea of "despise The Man" after high school.
This article made me realize something... this fancy new powdered blood (akin to Tang, I think) is called Hemospan. So why the hell does Hemos call himself Hemos? Is he trying to make a fashion statement about blood, using some stylish shortening of the word 'hemoglobin'? I guess blood-red is really in these days.
Exactly. I don't see how you can call 'not finding anything similar' discredition. Discrediting something like that would happen if they DID find something similar, and someow deduced that it DIDN'T originate from intelligent life.
But not finding something is no proof of its nonexistence. It still happened, and we still don't know what it was.
Oh, and the article says the "Wow" signal spanned 72 seconds, not 37 seconds.
I guess it's best not to even read the writeups anymore.
Don't be so pedantic. It means just what he means it to mean.
He didn't use it as a noun (which isn't even a very common usage, and is usually even pronouced differently) so look at definition 2 for its transitive verb form:
To make use of selfishly or unethically:
a country that exploited peasant labor.
It fits perfectly well, and is even more suitable than the alternate you quoted.
So I guess that means someone collected a whole bunch of these crickets, froze them at various temperatures, and dissected those that died to determine how much of them had to be frozen in order to kill them.
The 6 pages of the article, summarized in three lines:
Hard drive manufacturers measure capacity in multiples of 1,000,000,000 (10^9) Bytes.
Operating systems measure capacity in multiples of 1,073,741,824 (2^30) Bytes. Some people get confused because they both call it a gigabyte.
I really don't think this is such a big deal. OSes are started to specify the proper GiB instead of GB, so there shouldn't be a problem anymore.
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"...they seemed to be saying that JFS was just one example of infringement among many. They seemed to be saying that IBM should know all the places [that] they have infringed without being told because it was so obvious."
That's called FUD. SCO are just implying that their fantasies are true, hoping to gain support and investors from the not-so-critically-minded. It essentially amounts to subtle lying, because they've obviously engineered these press releases to be as vague and foreboding as possible.
SCO need to do a lot of things, but they can't because they have no case. While you might be able to sweettalk reporters and investors, you can't lie in court.
Your hearing is specially tuned to pick up sounds within the range of the human voice, so you are naturally more sensitive to voices. Plus, you are not only hearing their voices but you are understanding what they are saying as well. That makes it even more distracting. The steady hum of a computer is far easier to filter out because it doesn't change.
/no/ moving parts? It's not so much "people whining about sound" as it is a cool engineering project.
But hey, I think there is beauty in silent operation. Wouldn't you like a solid-state computer with
uh huh. looks like parent is trying to avoid reality by keeping it unrecorded.
Probably a HELL of a lot more.
slippery slope fallacy
Worked 60+ hours a week, claimed it took her 40 hours a week to read her email.
Yeesh... someone needs to learn how to use her Outlook filters.
Hmm. Well, I guess a name's a name.
After all... would a rose, by any other name, smell as sweet?
Er... though I doubt that metaphor applies to Hemos in particular...
Exactly. You make your own life, and you're no slave. This idea that people are somehow enslaved to the Evil Corporations are rather ignorant. Some people may like that corporate environment. Others may choose otherwise.
And calling this half-brained "Take Back Your Time Day" a 'movement' by any measure is just plain inaccurate.
Who says that work can't be non-material? What if you really do enjoy your job, as I'm sure a lot of the techies you know do? Sure, perhaps you may enjoy it less because you get paid for it, but that will depend on the work environment.
Obviously this 'movement' (such an over-used term) has some good intentions--neglecting family and self are problems when you're overworked--but the mindset that employment = slavery is getting hackneyed. I thought we grew out of that idea of "despise The Man" after high school.
Oh, but wait, this is Slashdot.
This article made me realize something... this fancy new powdered blood (akin to Tang, I think) is called Hemospan. So why the hell does Hemos call himself Hemos? Is he trying to make a fashion statement about blood, using some stylish shortening of the word 'hemoglobin'? I guess blood-red is really in these days.
popup blockers and tabbed browsing are not appealing to non-techies? what?!?
are you saying that normal people enjoy getting assaulted with popups?
It's just what humans do. I like how Frank Herbert describes it, in Dune, as the Atreides leave Caladan for Arrakis:Online worlds and adventure games in general simulate that, which is what makes them fun.
Mmmm... spam and crackers...
Exactly.
I don't see how you can call 'not finding anything similar' discredition.
Discrediting something like that would happen if they DID find something similar, and someow deduced that it DIDN'T originate from intelligent life.
But not finding something is no proof of its nonexistence. It still happened, and we still don't know what it was.
Oh, and the article says the "Wow" signal spanned 72 seconds, not 37 seconds.
I guess it's best not to even read the writeups anymore.
We all know that the best characters were the disposable one. Just think! Doom without monsters? Lemmings without... well, lemmings?
well they're not exactly intelligent enough for that... yet.
four words: bundled with the OS.
Oh, well in that case, it was obviously aliens.
46 MB? I'd hardly call that a shitload.
He didn't use it as a noun (which isn't even a very common usage, and is usually even pronouced differently) so look at definition 2 for its transitive verb form:It fits perfectly well, and is even more suitable than the alternate you quoted.
...what does that have to do with anything?
This article is comparing Edison's business tactics regarding motion picture patents to the RIAA's current tactics with music copyrights.
I didn't see Tesla in there anywhere.
Up to 80%?
So I guess that means someone collected a whole bunch of these crickets, froze them at various temperatures, and dissected those that died to determine how much of them had to be frozen in order to kill them.
What a cool job.
R-Type, eh?
I think my vacuum uses those.