Re:Imitiation is the sincerest form of flattery
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Because you won't buy NEC stuff a second time if it turned out to be crap. Now say, for a 2 dollar versace shirt you can be sure that it is fake, but I can imagine that they were selling the burnable DVDs for "expectable" prize-ranges.
The people doing this apparently have the skills to set up a whole production and distribution network, they should stop buggering other companies and start their own! Who knows, they might get somewhere with it, samsung was only a B-brand in electronics not too long ago and look where they are now! (Ok, maybe bad example since samsung is a pretty old company, but still there are plenty of possibilities to grow'
Well, you could of course sign up for 2 DSL contracts at the same time! This way, there's profit for everyone*! I think you really made the final goal of all this clear, man:)
actually that the shell is shipped separately is not very odd, you can install csh,bash,zsh,ksh,tcsh, or whatever, seperately on your linux OS:) I'm contemplating if you could also install linux without a shell, but I guess there's not much left to interact with then;)
This guy should subscribe to the "useless use of grep" user group, if it existed:)
But ok, let's be fair, there is the advantage that you won't get funny output for example, for the first row where columns contain text instead of numbers. You won't get errors and everything will be executed neatly, for the shown examples that works well. But even then, I have the impression that you loose a lot of flexibility! What if you want to output stuff to a file, with a certain string around it? What if you want to call a program does not belong to the standard set of predefined macros? And what if you want to add options to the call that program?
In holland there is a lot less tax for buying these cars, so you end up spending more or less the same for the hybrid car as for other, similar-sized, non-hydbrid cars. Furthermore, since europe still adheres to the kyoto account (whereas even Canado now turned away, blame canada!) they're ALSO cutting pollution at other sides.
It might all seem pretty useless, because a less polluting country still is in contact with the same atmosphere as the more polluting country, while having considerable higher production costs. But I still think this will be good for the competitive position of the countries that adhere to kyoto in the long run. Just look at Bush's recent statement that the US people should use less gas, to decrease their dependency on the "rogue countries" where the gas comes from. If the US car industry would have been innovating towards the low-consumption cars that japan (and not so much europe) has been going to already for some time, they'd be there already.
I'll respond to your post and not to the GP, because I have the impression that GP is trolling here, against common sense and taking the effort of checking his statements. That is, Toyota really looked into the total lifecycle (manufacturing, usage, waste treatment) of their product (this is, or should be, common practice) and found that the break-even point of emission is at 20.000km. There is a toyota pdf folder on this, but I can't read it due to some japanese character set missing. I'll therefore quote the text from the other review here:
According to Toyota - and the company is commendably frank about its car's environmental equations
- Prius doesn't even begin to break even on greenhouse gas emissions until it's been driven around 20,000km. This is because extracting and manufacturing the raw materials to make a Prius consumes more energy than a conventional car. The extra energy required means more carbon dioxide is emitted to make a Prius than a conventional technology car.
So no, hybrid cars don't grow on trees, but they do win in the end on total emission. Toyota cars are known for their reliability (the main German automobile organization have found toyota to be the top reliable car for years in a row already), so expect them to overcome this 20.000 km barrier many, many times over. (estimated battery life seems to be about 160.000km at minimum).
not only shipped separately, but bundled with the Exchange mail server only! I guess it comes in handy to move mail databases around, but then again, maybe you need heavier stuff for that. It just doesn't make too much sense.
Furthermore, what I do with shell is, for example: call a program, catch the output, read in the 3rd column, print that combined some command to the shell again. This is easy when you work with text and you don't have to worry about the variable type of the 3rd column (be it a number, a filename, a date, an executable command). I think you will get in big trouble if all this data has to fit into a.NET datatype, you'll need a lot of coding around (string to filename, integer to filename, etc etc) to get it working, which is not what shell scripting is about!!! I will write a real program if I want to do something tidy like that, my shell script is there to solve a problem quick 'n dirty, thank you very much!
As you say, it "was" great. The picture of the mindmap itself contains some text, which explains why it isn't there:
"This mind map does not go into the historical perspective of Linux but tries to showcase the relationships between current linux distributions".
Although there might be critizism to this mind map, I still find it pretty useful, because I really lost track of what which distributions are based on.
Maybe you see more than me here, but as I type this most of the comments are not bashing china at all. I do see posts containing self-critical comments about the chance of similar stuff happening elsewhere as well. I guess the only one bashing people here is you.
Shouldn't they have used the same chipsets as the 3G pcmcia cards one can get? (I really wouldn't know, but it sounds a reasonable thing to do). If so, you can probably get it working in linux.
What wonders me more is why they did this. Are these 3G cards already so ubiquitous that fujitsi-siemens thinks the costs of adding it as a standard will be a selling point for a lot of users? Maybe they have a good view on the future but on the moment I'd say most people would rather add a pcmcia card to their laptop-of-choice than limit themselves just to this model only because it has the built-in 3G option.
Ditto here, I thought it would at least a bit informational about how to keep in contact with people (for either good or bad purposes) while in jail, but the actual subject is just the usual "social network" commercial crap. And you know what, these things already exist, for example www.sms.ac . You can hook up, contact with people from anywhere, just via messages on your mobile phone (it'll cost you about 50 cent per message, complete waste of money). They also offer 3 free sms messages per day. And guess what, even the non-tech savy (I have some friends that did this) will subscribe to it, ignore all social network crap, and just use the free sms message function to contact the real friends they have.
As someone said before, "social networking" is out, if it ever was in. At various places on the internet, people will hook up with people they don't know but share certain interests with. This happened since the internet exists, and will always happen. Just that companies looking for big bucks found a name for it and try to squeeze money out of it buy trying to direct this doesn't mean that we actually need these services. I'm all ok with people innovating services mobile communication can offer, but please people, think of something that will actually add something to life!!! Let's say, services to elderly so that they can easily stay in contact with their relatives and friends, to check if everything's ok.
Yup, I saw a no-name 2 GB flash mp3 player at the big electronic store nearby already, for 100 euro. Since these no-name devices dont limit me to use itunes for up-and-downloading, Id be more inclined to buy one of those than an ipod.
Thats the only correct answer to this, what are these apple people, stupid evil morons?
Concerning the difference between an online and a paper-press journalist, you get the question, what is a journalist? The one who gets paid for it? Do you have to register somewhere? Freedom of speech should count for everyone equally anyway.
From a practical point of view: Maybe bloggers that get troubles like this should subscribe to the journalist unions (or collective), just to have increased protection from the group.
Good post. I think the main point is that fear is a bigger/the biggest threat to freedom than a terrorist or any other "harmful" person or group. (homework: look at first hit in google for "threat", find the connection with fear and limited freedom)
Re:Why do they have so much power in the first pla
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Personally I am glad they did the levy. Makes me happy as I can download to my heart's content. Now if I was someone who used CDs or DVDs for pure backup purposes then yeah I could see how that sucks.
I understand, but there is something wrong with the levy system.
Even though there is a levy, these corporations still sue people's asses off. So right now, you're paying a levy to pay for the to pay their lawyers to sue people for downloading music, for which these people paid indirectly anyway. Can you still follow me?:) Furthermore, there were plans for putting a levy on harddisks, which would be just so immensly wrong and a technological setback, because it would decrease the amount of hard drive space beople can buy, effectively erasing the advancements to make cheaper and bigger harddrives.
The most important part, however, is that there is often no real control on the institutions that collect the levy, what happens with the money? I think I read that in holland, only a third of this money went to artists, and not per se to all, the administration was a huge mess.
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How old are you?
Late twenties, still naive, damned me!:)
Were you trying for the word "disillusioned"
Yeah, I guess that is the one! But I like my creation as well;)
I helped my flatmate with her translation of a ancient german dialect last week, just because I know dutch as well as german, and the dialect is actually a mix of this. Although I don't know much about history at that time, or ancient german dialects, it was actually pretty easy and, more important, fun to do, because I could imagine the spirit in which the guy wrote this text
Being a slashdot computer geek and all, I sometimes help friends to get their pcs cleaned from spyware and all that shit, but actually I hate doing that, it's a waste of time and you don't learn any new things from it. I also don't like trying to install various versions of linux and spending hours googling for configure files. I do like trying to learn python or something like that, when it's a kind of language that I don't know and has functions that seem pretty useful and well thought of. I am currently not into sports that much, but who knows, maybe at some point someone will get me interested in the fine rules of cricket, I don't see anything against that. Well, maybe cricket if a bit too far fetched;)
Really, it's not about being a universal expert, or wanting to read up on every possible thing in the world. But just be _open_ to new stuff every now and then and you might actually grow a bit all your life! As long as you're having fun with it, why not? If you don't have fun learning about some of the new things that come by your life every now and then, fine with me, but it's sad that you're missing out on so much in life. To be fair: there are also lots of things I don't like learning about, and due to the cruel faith of life, most of these things happen to be the ones I get examined about;)
Yeah, but what if now all of slashdot would make an account at your website and your traffic (+ traffic bill) would boom up a tenfold. At some point you'll be losing considerable money on that and I for myself wouldn't consider paying huge amounts for a service I give to other people not philantropic, but just plain stupid.
It's cool not to be a money-grabbing bastard, but there's nothing against a realistic business plan.
If putting a clause that certain members should view ads is realistic is a different story, though:) I mean, they can easily check if the ads are downloaded, but how are they going to check if the readers actually see them. Maybe they perform a grep on their entries, if the users are not whining about the ads and finding appropriate emo music that so-much describes their anger on this, then something most be wrong;)
Why do they have so much power in the first place?
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Ok, it might be a bit naive, but for god's sake, this is an association of record labels. How come they have the right to decide about having a levy on cd's or not? Something went horribly wrong here...
Now of course lobbying groups with lots of money get lots of stuff organized for themselves, but here it seems like all legislation concerning music-copyright is more or less directly taken over from the record companies. That's like taking all environmental legislation over from either greenpeace or chemical industry.
I think the biggest mistakes are from the government of giving so much one-sided power to industry instead of being a representative of the people as they were actually chosen to be. Yeah, I know, reality is different, but it just still amazes me, maybe I'll get more desillusionized (reality-numbed) as I grow older.
Yeah, there was this popular idea in the 80's that technology should be used to make the lifes of consumers easier. I wonder what happened with it, maybe it infrigned a patent.
I guess you don't own a touareg or phaeton V12 then. Volkswagen is currently trying to get into the upper class segment pretty hard nowadays, which is a bit stupid decision, because they form competition with their other brand, audi. Anyway, any volkswagen is as expensive as hell compared to similar-sized cars of other brands.
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The people doing this apparently have the skills to set up a whole production and distribution network, they should stop buggering other companies and start their own! Who knows, they might get somewhere with it, samsung was only a B-brand in electronics not too long ago and look where they are now! (Ok, maybe bad example since samsung is a pretty old company, but still there are plenty of possibilities to grow'
* you excluded
VW tested and found the diesel to be better than a hybrid version: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2004/09/vw_tests_h ybrid.html
But then again, who says there can't be a diesel hybrid? It'll be pretty cool, as it will have amazing torque :)
actually that the shell is shipped separately is not very odd, you can install csh,bash,zsh,ksh,tcsh, or whatever, seperately on your linux OS :) I'm contemplating if you could also install linux without a shell, but I guess there's not much left to interact with then ;)
But ok, let's be fair, there is the advantage that you won't get funny output for example, for the first row where columns contain text instead of numbers. You won't get errors and everything will be executed neatly, for the shown examples that works well. But even then, I have the impression that you loose a lot of flexibility! What if you want to output stuff to a file, with a certain string around it? What if you want to call a program does not belong to the standard set of predefined macros? And what if you want to add options to the call that program?
It might all seem pretty useless, because a less polluting country still is in contact with the same atmosphere as the more polluting country, while having considerable higher production costs. But I still think this will be good for the competitive position of the countries that adhere to kyoto in the long run. Just look at Bush's recent statement that the US people should use less gas, to decrease their dependency on the "rogue countries" where the gas comes from. If the US car industry would have been innovating towards the low-consumption cars that japan (and not so much europe) has been going to already for some time, they'd be there already.
According to Toyota - and the company is commendably frank about its car's environmental equations - Prius doesn't even begin to break even on greenhouse gas emissions until it's been driven around 20,000km. This is because extracting and manufacturing the raw materials to make a Prius consumes more energy than a conventional car. The extra energy required means more carbon dioxide is emitted to make a Prius than a conventional technology car.
So no, hybrid cars don't grow on trees, but they do win in the end on total emission. Toyota cars are known for their reliability (the main German automobile organization have found toyota to be the top reliable car for years in a row already), so expect them to overcome this 20.000 km barrier many, many times over. (estimated battery life seems to be about 160.000km at minimum).
Furthermore, what I do with shell is, for example: call a program, catch the output, read in the 3rd column, print that combined some command to the shell again. This is easy when you work with text and you don't have to worry about the variable type of the 3rd column (be it a number, a filename, a date, an executable command). I think you will get in big trouble if all this data has to fit into a .NET datatype, you'll need a lot of coding around (string to filename, integer to filename, etc etc) to get it working, which is not what shell scripting is about!!! I will write a real program if I want to do something tidy like that, my shell script is there to solve a problem quick 'n dirty, thank you very much!
"This mind map does not go into the historical perspective of Linux but tries to showcase the relationships between current linux distributions".
Although there might be critizism to this mind map, I still find it pretty useful, because I really lost track of what which distributions are based on.
Maybe you see more than me here, but as I type this most of the comments are not bashing china at all. I do see posts containing self-critical comments about the chance of similar stuff happening elsewhere as well. I guess the only one bashing people here is you.
What wonders me more is why they did this. Are these 3G cards already so ubiquitous that fujitsi-siemens thinks the costs of adding it as a standard will be a selling point for a lot of users? Maybe they have a good view on the future but on the moment I'd say most people would rather add a pcmcia card to their laptop-of-choice than limit themselves just to this model only because it has the built-in 3G option.
As someone said before, "social networking" is out, if it ever was in. At various places on the internet, people will hook up with people they don't know but share certain interests with. This happened since the internet exists, and will always happen. Just that companies looking for big bucks found a name for it and try to squeeze money out of it buy trying to direct this doesn't mean that we actually need these services. I'm all ok with people innovating services mobile communication can offer, but please people, think of something that will actually add something to life!!! Let's say, services to elderly so that they can easily stay in contact with their relatives and friends, to check if everything's ok.
Yup, I saw a no-name 2 GB flash mp3 player at the big electronic store nearby already, for 100 euro. Since these no-name devices dont limit me to use itunes for up-and-downloading, Id be more inclined to buy one of those than an ipod.
Just tried some for myself: "chair", ebay was first, "windmill", ebay was second, "frog", ebay was the only one who had an advertised link here.
For the correct order youd have to ID them by rows
Concerning the difference between an online and a paper-press journalist, you get the question, what is a journalist? The one who gets paid for it? Do you have to register somewhere? Freedom of speech should count for everyone equally anyway.
From a practical point of view: Maybe bloggers that get troubles like this should subscribe to the journalist unions (or collective), just to have increased protection from the group.
Good post. I think the main point is that fear is a bigger/the biggest threat to freedom than a terrorist or any other "harmful" person or group. (homework: look at first hit in google for "threat", find the connection with fear and limited freedom)
I understand, but there is something wrong with the levy system.
Even though there is a levy, these corporations still sue people's asses off. So right now, you're paying a levy to pay for the to pay their lawyers to sue people for downloading music, for which these people paid indirectly anyway. Can you still follow me? :) Furthermore, there were plans for putting a levy on harddisks, which would be just so immensly wrong and a technological setback, because it would decrease the amount of hard drive space beople can buy, effectively erasing the advancements to make cheaper and bigger harddrives.
The most important part, however, is that there is often no real control on the institutions that collect the levy, what happens with the money? I think I read that in holland, only a third of this money went to artists, and not per se to all, the administration was a huge mess.
Late twenties, still naive, damned me! :)
Were you trying for the word "disillusioned"
Yeah, I guess that is the one! But I like my creation as well ;)
I helped my flatmate with her translation of a ancient german dialect last week, just because I know dutch as well as german, and the dialect is actually a mix of this. Although I don't know much about history at that time, or ancient german dialects, it was actually pretty easy and, more important, fun to do, because I could imagine the spirit in which the guy wrote this text
Being a slashdot computer geek and all, I sometimes help friends to get their pcs cleaned from spyware and all that shit, but actually I hate doing that, it's a waste of time and you don't learn any new things from it. I also don't like trying to install various versions of linux and spending hours googling for configure files. I do like trying to learn python or something like that, when it's a kind of language that I don't know and has functions that seem pretty useful and well thought of. I am currently not into sports that much, but who knows, maybe at some point someone will get me interested in the fine rules of cricket, I don't see anything against that. Well, maybe cricket if a bit too far fetched ;)
Really, it's not about being a universal expert, or wanting to read up on every possible thing in the world. But just be _open_ to new stuff every now and then and you might actually grow a bit all your life! As long as you're having fun with it, why not? If you don't have fun learning about some of the new things that come by your life every now and then, fine with me, but it's sad that you're missing out on so much in life. To be fair: there are also lots of things I don't like learning about, and due to the cruel faith of life, most of these things happen to be the ones I get examined about ;)
It's cool not to be a money-grabbing bastard, but there's nothing against a realistic business plan.
If putting a clause that certain members should view ads is realistic is a different story, though :) I mean, they can easily check if the ads are downloaded, but how are they going to check if the readers actually see them. Maybe they perform a grep on their entries, if the users are not whining about the ads and finding appropriate emo music that so-much describes their anger on this, then something most be wrong ;)
Now of course lobbying groups with lots of money get lots of stuff organized for themselves, but here it seems like all legislation concerning music-copyright is more or less directly taken over from the record companies. That's like taking all environmental legislation over from either greenpeace or chemical industry.
I think the biggest mistakes are from the government of giving so much one-sided power to industry instead of being a representative of the people as they were actually chosen to be. Yeah, I know, reality is different, but it just still amazes me, maybe I'll get more desillusionized (reality-numbed) as I grow older.
Yeah, there was this popular idea in the 80's that technology should be used to make the lifes of consumers easier. I wonder what happened with it, maybe it infrigned a patent.
I guess you don't own a touareg or phaeton V12 then. Volkswagen is currently trying to get into the upper class segment pretty hard nowadays, which is a bit stupid decision, because they form competition with their other brand, audi. Anyway, any volkswagen is as expensive as hell compared to similar-sized cars of other brands.
someone should pimp up a commodore 64 to put parked domains on, just for the heck of it! [:)]