yeah, also a non-story, but at least a bit better than the one linked to here. You forgot that they mentioned "Unbox", about which an older story is given as well.
And I was also wondering about these Ultra-mobile PCs. After the end of MS's promotional campaign, any mentioning about it seems to have stopped. What happened? Are they not built yet? Is there anyone here who bought one? Is there anyone here who knows someone who bought one? Is anyone ever going to think about buying one?
You simply stopped watching Sesame Street eventually. You didn't say that Sesame Street wouldn't "grow up".
Actually I stopped using Sesame Street as a main source of information after it repeatedly failed to inform me on which cellphone contract choose, as well as leaving me uninformed on the risks of kissing someone with herpes. Damn you, Bert!
Now you can finally see the machine-halting flash popup banners everywhere! Even on slashdot:( The worst are the flash banners that overlap over a huge part of the screen, and miss the 'close' button when watching with a linux flash version:(
Related question therefore: Does anyone know how to disable flash temporarily in Opera?
Yes, and I am actually surprised they tried to pull the 'it's against the terrorists' trick again, I thought it had lost all its believability already. Couldn't they just have said that it was for 'catching pedophiles'? That one works always!
It's news like this that makes me appreciate the movie V for Vendetta. How many of you now read this news and not think 'What a load of bullshit!'.
So far the US is the only country in history to have that high of an account deficit and not have a currency collapse.
do people understand that the dollar can't make it as a global reserve currency for more than a few more years and likely can't make it as a currency at all within the next decade?
That's one thing I didn't realize before I read about it in the newspaper about 2 years ago. A side-effect of the introduction of the euro, is that a relatively stable currency was introduced, which attracted people to use it as a currency for international trade, already since a few years it is used for drug transactions!
That was not the original goal of the euro, but you can see it as a side effect. The big problem for the US will come when countries will look for a harder currency than the dollar, and thereby stop borrowing money to the US (or wanting their borrowed money back). Did I get this somewhat right? I'm not an economist, but just think it's pretty interesting stuff:) Did the US do anything to get back on track?
Put I pray to god, if there is one, that any user-made video will not consist of screencaps of someone's favorite anime movie, dammit there are too many of those around!:)
Hey thanx! Now I can laugh about it! Furthermore, I guess the God I believe in is probably close to a psychopathic prankster anyway, so at least I'm prepared.
Did anyone find out where the air connection to the outer world is? Since it has to cool, it has to emit heat at some point, or does it use it's frame as a giant heatsink?
Well, if you're connecting your iPod for the first time to your mac, and some official looking popup would ask you for user interaction (e.g. "iTunes Update required, do you want to continue?"), enough people might do that, I guess. Look, it's just a hypothetical case, so calm down! All I wanted to point out is to say that Apple's claim that windows is not virus-proof enough is still not an excuse to not check if malicious software is present on Apple's products.
I did some research into secret governmental documents and found out that this study was actually supported by the Norwegian wooden tooth-pick industry.
I think it makes sense. They produce such high bulks of devices at pretty low prices that it might be more economical to skip time-intensive testing steps and just trade-in defective devices after sales.
That said, their reaction is pretty meager. OS X viruses and linux viruses exist as well, so what would they say if it would be loaded with one of those? An iPod is an official apple product that is mostly bought directly from apple, whatever crap is on it is their responsibility only.
Funny indeed that the same government that does not object to the ideas of creationism, is at the same time supporting space exploration.
Or maybe stopping the support for the hubble is in line with this, as all this research about billions-year old galaxies is of course blasphemous, while the our own solar system is of course only 6000 years old.
It's all so funny, I wish I could laugh about it:(
Happy gaming! I didn't found out if the save function works (was there any), so every time you have to play from level 1, which is a bit tiresome with its 80 levels or so:D
It's still the best game around, easy to play, you have to puzzle a bit at each new level, great great fun.
Interesting classic read (1977) on Ford lobbyists that wanted to proof that cars need not be checked on safety issues:
Their job was to implant the official industry ideology in the minds of the new officials regulating auto safety. Briefly summarized, that ideology states that auto accidents are caused not by cars, but by 1) people and 2) highway conditions.
The difference between design flaw or human error is just a matter of perception and cost/benefit analysis. It's interesting to find out that it was this case that actually introduced the 'cost' of a human life for corporate convenience (about $300k by the end of the 70's). I wonder if it was the inspiration to the famous Fight Club quote.
The moment you invent something idiot-proof, God creates a bigger idiot.
I'm not a nuclear-reactor-building engineer, but if I remember it well enough, the same stream of water needed to cool the machine of was the stream used to run the turbine, and in the end all this evaporated due to pure heat, and the stream got interrupted, with the disastrous consequences. I'm probably oversimplifying here, but it seems like a design flaw. That said, the test they wanted to perform with all control devices off (!?) was a case of immense human stupidity as well.
Other example: the recent case of the transrapid accident, I wonder where the difference between design flaw and human failure really is. For those who don't know, it's a test track for a magnetic train, standing on poles, somewhere in the middle of nowhere in Germany. Since it's a closed track, and on poles, you can imagine they can keep track of every thing that is on the track and where. Now someone in the control room forgot about a maintenance car, that was still on the track but not registered by the main control system (it's just a car on wheels, doesn't use magnetic power). Furthermore, a group of people was taking a test drive in some 'manual' mode, where the people in the control room would clear a piece of track piece by piece. Since the maintenance car was NOT on the control screen, they opened that piece of track for it, and it rammed the car with 400 km/h and it's tons and tons of steel, a very tragic crash. First claim of the authorities: human error of the guy in the control room, who was of course conveniently alive and in reach to put the blaim on. Much easier to do that than to think about why they didn't electronically register every device on the whole track, not as if there are no devices present to do these checks, even on normal traintracks this should be possible. In any case it seems like a big human failure of the designteam to overlook such a trivial feature for the control system, where they expecting people to write down notes of which piece of equipment is where on the track? But I guess anticipating disasters is a whole science on it's own, and a difficult one on that.
As a side note:
I'm normally not much of a RP-basher, it's a difficult task to try and make science generally understandable, and it's good that some people take the effort. Every now and then I would even knowingly click through to his blog and read a bit.
But what he did here makes me rethink if he shouldn't join the scientific department of The Sun or any other tabloid instead of trying to do serious work. First of all he copies some old news (with corrected price tag this time). Then he just makes a blurb of it connecting his first knee-jerk reaction. Nuclear, Russia? Must be Chernobyl! What is the next subject, you pityful excuse of a science journalist? As soon as Ford developes a new car, you go around yelling explosive explosive LOLLOL ROFLMAO. Or the next time germans engineer a new mass transportation system you'll scream OMG OMG it'll go BOOM!:P:P;).
But you know what? I won't really block the RP articles here on slashdot, just so I can follow his articles slowly digress into complete crapinessness.
I just looked at the original post and started wondering if this trial and spamhaus' position in it doesn't show us something else than just the juridicial part: what if spamhaus would cease to exist due to some other reasons? (no funds, power outage, dDOS, boss gets convicted because he killed his wife, whatever). Isn't it a bit dangerous for all of us if such a huge amount of spam filtering only depends on one single organization alone? To parent: doesn't your e-mail department have a backup plan for the case spamhaus would cease to function for any reason?
Ok, maybe that's not completely fair, even if you had a backup filtering plan, the increase of initial load of mail coming in would be out of your control anyway. But still there might be room for spamhaus alternatives, or are there already? If so, why is everyone(?) using spamhaus then?
IBM doesn't have these problems now? SUN didn't have these problems in the nineties? As I see it, they had the same approach for all these times, some have the right marketing strategy to pull it through, and some apparently don't (SGI).
1. Don't try to sell a futuristic product that doesn't quite work yet; instead, talk about it while selling as existing product that can compete in the current market.
2. Don't attempt to fire conceptual ideas at an imagined market; instead, craft finished products that solve real problems and can support a sustainable market.
3. Ship a functional product and then constantly refine it; Real world use and years of ongoing refinement create enormous value for a product.
Now, according to their lessons, google with all their betas must be a rightout disaster, shouldn't it?
Ah, so Michael Phelps must hate swimming, Schumacher must have hated driving F1 cars, etc. etc. Ok, exaggerating here, but really, I don't see your point! As if you don't like programming in Perl anymore, just because you get paid for it! (hmm, wrong example)
Well, good luck finding the facts, as under the Patriot Act you cannot disclose facts about your library records being checked, since:
Section 215 also provides: No person shall disclose to any other person (other than those persons necessary to produce the tangible things under this section) that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has sought or obtained tangible things under this section. This gag order would prevent a library, for example, from ever notifying its patrons that the government has requested information from it under Section 215.
Hope you woke up from your sweet dreams. You may now remod GP 5 - Interesting.
True that. Furthermore GP made clear that since it will play on your PC, the only people that will be f*cked up by this are the people who just bought an (expensive) DVD player that will end up not playing this incompatible "DVD non-standard".
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And I was also wondering about these Ultra-mobile PCs. After the end of MS's promotional campaign, any mentioning about it seems to have stopped. What happened? Are they not built yet? Is there anyone here who bought one? Is there anyone here who knows someone who bought one? Is anyone ever going to think about buying one?
Actually I stopped using Sesame Street as a main source of information after it repeatedly failed to inform me on which cellphone contract choose, as well as leaving me uninformed on the risks of kissing someone with herpes. Damn you, Bert!
And I also wonder, was this education existing 10 years ago as well? I tought it was introduced only recently.
worked! many thanks!
Related question therefore: Does anyone know how to disable flash temporarily in Opera?
no, what a piece of crap! No-one managed to include octopuses, anyway.
It's news like this that makes me appreciate the movie V for Vendetta. How many of you now read this news and not think 'What a load of bullshit!'.
do people understand that the dollar can't make it as a global reserve currency for more than a few more years and likely can't make it as a currency at all within the next decade?
That's one thing I didn't realize before I read about it in the newspaper about 2 years ago. A side-effect of the introduction of the euro, is that a relatively stable currency was introduced, which attracted people to use it as a currency for international trade, already since a few years it is used for drug transactions!
That was not the original goal of the euro, but you can see it as a side effect. The big problem for the US will come when countries will look for a harder currency than the dollar, and thereby stop borrowing money to the US (or wanting their borrowed money back). Did I get this somewhat right? I'm not an economist, but just think it's pretty interesting stuff :) Did the US do anything to get back on track?
link on the matter
Put I pray to god, if there is one, that any user-made video will not consist of screencaps of someone's favorite anime movie, dammit there are too many of those around! :)
Hey thanx! Now I can laugh about it! Furthermore, I guess the God I believe in is probably close to a psychopathic prankster anyway, so at least I'm prepared.
Did anyone find out where the air connection to the outer world is? Since it has to cool, it has to emit heat at some point, or does it use it's frame as a giant heatsink?
Well, if you're connecting your iPod for the first time to your mac, and some official looking popup would ask you for user interaction (e.g. "iTunes Update required, do you want to continue?"), enough people might do that, I guess. Look, it's just a hypothetical case, so calm down! All I wanted to point out is to say that Apple's claim that windows is not virus-proof enough is still not an excuse to not check if malicious software is present on Apple's products.
I did some research into secret governmental documents and found out that this study was actually supported by the Norwegian wooden tooth-pick industry.
That said, their reaction is pretty meager. OS X viruses and linux viruses exist as well, so what would they say if it would be loaded with one of those? An iPod is an official apple product that is mostly bought directly from apple, whatever crap is on it is their responsibility only.
Or maybe stopping the support for the hubble is in line with this, as all this research about billions-year old galaxies is of course blasphemous, while the our own solar system is of course only 6000 years old.
It's all so funny, I wish I could laugh about it :(
References: full version, and a shorter compilation.
Happy gaming! I didn't found out if the save function works (was there any), so every time you have to play from level 1, which is a bit tiresome with its 80 levels or so :D
It's still the best game around, easy to play, you have to puzzle a bit at each new level, great great fun.
Their job was to implant the official industry ideology in the minds of the new officials regulating auto safety. Briefly summarized, that ideology states that auto accidents are caused not by cars, but by 1) people and 2) highway conditions.
The difference between design flaw or human error is just a matter of perception and cost/benefit analysis. It's interesting to find out that it was this case that actually introduced the 'cost' of a human life for corporate convenience (about $300k by the end of the 70's). I wonder if it was the inspiration to the famous Fight Club quote.
I'm not a nuclear-reactor-building engineer, but if I remember it well enough, the same stream of water needed to cool the machine of was the stream used to run the turbine, and in the end all this evaporated due to pure heat, and the stream got interrupted, with the disastrous consequences. I'm probably oversimplifying here, but it seems like a design flaw. That said, the test they wanted to perform with all control devices off (!?) was a case of immense human stupidity as well.
Other example: the recent case of the transrapid accident, I wonder where the difference between design flaw and human failure really is. For those who don't know, it's a test track for a magnetic train, standing on poles, somewhere in the middle of nowhere in Germany. Since it's a closed track, and on poles, you can imagine they can keep track of every thing that is on the track and where. Now someone in the control room forgot about a maintenance car, that was still on the track but not registered by the main control system (it's just a car on wheels, doesn't use magnetic power). Furthermore, a group of people was taking a test drive in some 'manual' mode, where the people in the control room would clear a piece of track piece by piece. Since the maintenance car was NOT on the control screen, they opened that piece of track for it, and it rammed the car with 400 km/h and it's tons and tons of steel, a very tragic crash. First claim of the authorities: human error of the guy in the control room, who was of course conveniently alive and in reach to put the blaim on. Much easier to do that than to think about why they didn't electronically register every device on the whole track, not as if there are no devices present to do these checks, even on normal traintracks this should be possible. In any case it seems like a big human failure of the designteam to overlook such a trivial feature for the control system, where they expecting people to write down notes of which piece of equipment is where on the track? But I guess anticipating disasters is a whole science on it's own, and a difficult one on that.
As a side note: :P :P ;).
I'm normally not much of a RP-basher, it's a difficult task to try and make science generally understandable, and it's good that some people take the effort. Every now and then I would even knowingly click through to his blog and read a bit. But what he did here makes me rethink if he shouldn't join the scientific department of The Sun or any other tabloid instead of trying to do serious work. First of all he copies some old news (with corrected price tag this time). Then he just makes a blurb of it connecting his first knee-jerk reaction. Nuclear, Russia? Must be Chernobyl! What is the next subject, you pityful excuse of a science journalist? As soon as Ford developes a new car, you go around yelling explosive explosive LOLLOL ROFLMAO. Or the next time germans engineer a new mass transportation system you'll scream OMG OMG it'll go BOOM!
But you know what? I won't really block the RP articles here on slashdot, just so I can follow his articles slowly digress into complete crapinessness.
Ok, maybe that's not completely fair, even if you had a backup filtering plan, the increase of initial load of mail coming in would be out of your control anyway. But still there might be room for spamhaus alternatives, or are there already? If so, why is everyone(?) using spamhaus then?
IBM doesn't have these problems now? SUN didn't have these problems in the nineties? As I see it, they had the same approach for all these times, some have the right marketing strategy to pull it through, and some apparently don't (SGI).
1. Don't try to sell a futuristic product that doesn't quite work yet; instead, talk about it while selling as existing product that can compete in the current market.
2. Don't attempt to fire conceptual ideas at an imagined market; instead, craft finished products that solve real problems and can support a sustainable market.
3. Ship a functional product and then constantly refine it; Real world use and years of ongoing refinement create enormous value for a product.
Now, according to their lessons, google with all their betas must be a rightout disaster, shouldn't it?
Ah, so Michael Phelps must hate swimming, Schumacher must have hated driving F1 cars, etc. etc. Ok, exaggerating here, but really, I don't see your point! As if you don't like programming in Perl anymore, just because you get paid for it! (hmm, wrong example)
Section 215 also provides: No person shall disclose to any other person (other than those persons necessary to produce the tangible things under this section) that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has sought or obtained tangible things under this section. This gag order would prevent a library, for example, from ever notifying its patrons that the government has requested information from it under Section 215.
Hope you woke up from your sweet dreams. You may now remod GP 5 - Interesting.
True that. Furthermore GP made clear that since it will play on your PC, the only people that will be f*cked up by this are the people who just bought an (expensive) DVD player that will end up not playing this incompatible "DVD non-standard".