I do agree that in a slower speed collision, an airbag may do more harm than good. Although, people can be killed in accidents as slow as 15 MPH. I also know people who have been in some pretty serious accidents and were very glad to have hit an airbag as opposed to the steering wheel. Also, newer airbags are much better than the older ones in terms of force.
Off topic, but I would argue that shifting gears is a feature as I have intentionally never bought a car with an automatic transmission. Back to the point. The whole issue we were discussing in the first place, going back to TFA, is that complicated user interfaces are a deterrent to using FOSS. Again, read my post about the controls on the model T. Features (YES FEATURES) have been added to the car over the years and the UI has become less complex. People wouldn't buy a car today that had all of the controls of the Model T. Just like some people aren't going to use certain software because of an overly complex UI.
Maybe YOU shoud read what you are responding to. I gave you a list of new features in cars. There have been thousands of features added to cars for safety, performance etc. in the last hundred years. And if you'll read the quote below from http://vintagecars.about.com/od/historygreatmoment s/ss/modelt_visit_4.htm. You'll see that the user interface has gotten much simpler. There is NOT a direct correlation between feature set and UI complexity.
Henry Ford had his own ideas about where the controls should be. There are three pedals on the floor, two on the steering column, a floor lever to the left. The floor lever is neutral in the upright position, second gear when moved forward and an emergency brake when all the way back. The left pedal is first gear when depressed, second if the floor lever is forward. The middle pedal is reverse and the right pedal is the brake. One lever on the steering column is throttle, the other lever is spark advance.
And if you can figure that out, you'll not only appreciate the car that put the world on wheels, you're eligible to drive one. Nothing on four wheels is more loveable than a Model T.
You say that you can either have a simple interface or a full feature set, but then as a counter example you use a car. A car is actually a perfect example of a very complicated device with a very simple user interface. Let's not forget that cars use computers for tasks such as fuel management, active stability, traction control etc. Cars have actually gotten much more complicated over the years while the user interface (as you yourself pointed out) has gotten simpler.
Also, certain solvents (Diethyl Ether is one) can melt contact lenses and fuse them to your eyeball. This is just from the fumes, not direct contact. I used to work in a university chemistry department. This happened almost once a year. All students are warned about it, but they never believe it until they are at the hospital having a doctor scrape the lens off of their eye.
Redirecting to advertisements is certainly much worse than what D-Link did. I also own a DI-524, which I've seen people complain about on various forums, but I have not had a single problem with mine in over a year. I absolutely don't care what server it uses for NTP. This is a problem between D-Link and the server owner. To boycott D-Link over it would be petty, in my opinion.
By the way, there are companies that I refuse to do business with, but they are ones which have caused me personal problems. Topping this list is the Ford Motor Company. I made the mistake of buying a 2000 Ford Focus when they first came out. That car broke down every three months on average and had 11 recalls in 2 years. Ford is followed closely by Circuit City. Circuit City is just a giant pain in the ass to shop in. The last time I gave them a shot was when I ordered a DVD player from the internet and picked it up at the store. It took them over an hour to find my order and get the DVD player from stock. It would have been quicker to just buy it at the store in the first place.
Anyway, my point is that there are companies that deserve to be boycotted. I just don't think that this is a good enough reason.
I've done the calculations. In five years the geek community will have to manufacture everything they use themselves from raw materials that they dug up themselves, because every manufacturer will blacklisted for some petty reason or another.
Punishment for copyright infringement = $3750 fine
Punishment for murder = Life in Prison/Death Penalty
I do agree that the fines given for downloading music are too high. It really shouldn't be any more than the cost to buy all of the music you downloaded. Say $1.00/song like iTunes. Of course this should not include any songs which you already owned on CD, cassette, Vinyl etc. and downloaded rather than ripping yourself.
It actually is a shame that asbestos has gotten such a bad name. It really is a great product. We know now that it must be used is such a way that people are not exposed to asbestos dust and we could do that. The problem is that when people hear the word asbestos they freak out. More importantly, when lawyers hear the word asbestos it sounds like cha-ching!!!
Their motto is "Do no evil", not "Don't do what random Slashdot poster considers evil". If that were there motto, there wouldn't be much they could do. I don't think I've seen anything come up in Slashdot that at least one person didn't consider evil. Take energy production for example. People on Slashdot hate hydrocarbon fuels, too much pollution. Okay how about wind farms. Ugly, kill birds. Okay Nuclear. OMG TEH RADIOACTIVE WASTE!!! Okay, geothermal. You'll freeze the earth, didn't you see The Core! Hydroelectric. Displaced people, changed river flow patterns. Solar. Production of sloar panels creates pollution. I think you get the idea. Google can do whatever they want. Don't like it? Don't use it.
Actually the Eagles: Their Greatest Hits is thenumber one selling album of all time, followed by Michael Jackson's thriller. Dark Side of the Moon is 19th.
I actually downloaded one of these algorithm generated podcasts. They say it is made up of various sound bites and some noise and randomization. Well, it ended up sounding like noise and randomization. I don't know what I expected, but it sounded like someone constantly turning the dial on an FM radio. Great technology!!!
I always found students with laptops to be a distraction. The clicky typing noises and shuffling between the computer and a notebook or text book. I also paid for my classes and would rather not have people doing things that are distracting while I am trying to learn. Paying for a class does not give you the right to do whatever you want when you get there. As far as I am concerned the professor runs the class and can absolutely dictate what goes on.
Yeah, I mean you wouldn't want the following email message to get out into the public
to: MOM
from: TripMasterMonkey
Subject: Second Post:(
Mom, I only got second post on the slashdot story about Gmail. Well, at least I got +5 interesting for mentioning 1984. If you need me, I'll be in the basement. A new story is coming out in 5 minutes and I have to do some serious copying and pasting and then mention privacy concerns. See you upstairs later tonight for dinner.
OK, I did say that baseball wasn't the best example. I did some research though. Bonds had his best year in 2001, the year before they went to the world series (which they lost). Bonds actually had a better hitting year (in terms of number of extra base hits) in 1993 than he did in 2002. And he really only had that one great year in terms of home runs. Since he (allegedly) began taking steroids, his home run numbers are up, but not doubles and triples, he has been plagued by injuries and hasn't won a world series. Sammy Sosa is another supposed steroid user and he has a hard time getting a team to sign him. The trend in baseball seems to be that steroids might get you a couple of good years of power hitting and not much else.
Again, my main point is that had Barry Bonds been bought off due to gambling, he could have definitively changed the outcome of a game or season. It is still very debatable whether the steroids had that kind of effect.
Not exactly. I think that steroids may help an individual reach a higher level of play than he may have been capable of without them. So, it may help them personally achieve more, but in a team sport such as football or (to a lesser extent) baseball, I don't think it necessarily helps the team to win. If Barry Bonds did take steroids (and personally I think he did), I don't think it helped his teams success. The team would have found a power hitter somewhere else. The steroids just helped Barry become that player.
Baseball is probably not the best example, since it is heavily dependent on individual skills and raw strength will help you hit the ball further. One (or several) juiced up individual(s) (ie Bill Romanowski) on a football team, will not necessarily make a difference. There are too many skills outside of raw strength involved.
Steroids may affect the integrity of the game, but I doubt that the outcome of a football or baseball game has been decided by whether or not a player is juiced. "Overblown" contracts have no impact whatsoever on the outcome of a game. As an aside, what does it matter to you how much athletes get paid? Sports gambling, on the other hand, can (and has) had an effect on the outcome of a game. That is what is meant by the integrity of the sport. Fans want to know that their team won or lost because of talent, not because somebody tanked on purpose to pay off a gambling debt.
Slashdot Mirror
Go for it.
I do agree that in a slower speed collision, an airbag may do more harm than good. Although, people can be killed in accidents as slow as 15 MPH. I also know people who have been in some pretty serious accidents and were very glad to have hit an airbag as opposed to the steering wheel. Also, newer airbags are much better than the older ones in terms of force.
i hate airbags if you couldnt tell
Further proving my theory that there is nothing in the world that somebody on Slashdot won't be against.
E85 != Biodiesel.
... well... biologically produced diesel fuel.
E85 is ethanol.
Biodiesel is
Off topic, but I would argue that shifting gears is a feature as I have intentionally never bought a car with an automatic transmission. Back to the point. The whole issue we were discussing in the first place, going back to TFA, is that complicated user interfaces are a deterrent to using FOSS. Again, read my post about the controls on the model T. Features (YES FEATURES) have been added to the car over the years and the UI has become less complex. People wouldn't buy a car today that had all of the controls of the Model T. Just like some people aren't going to use certain software because of an overly complex UI.
I mod you -1 wrong
You say that you can either have a simple interface or a full feature set, but then as a counter example you use a car. A car is actually a perfect example of a very complicated device with a very simple user interface. Let's not forget that cars use computers for tasks such as fuel management, active stability, traction control etc. Cars have actually gotten much more complicated over the years while the user interface (as you yourself pointed out) has gotten simpler.
Here is there?... then where is there?
Here?
What happened to there?
Who's on first?
How exactly is this moderated informative? And more importantly... What?
Incredible!
I am going to assume/hope he meant an SA or DBO password as opposed to a limited user-account password.
Also, certain solvents (Diethyl Ether is one) can melt contact lenses and fuse them to your eyeball. This is just from the fumes, not direct contact. I used to work in a university chemistry department. This happened almost once a year. All students are warned about it, but they never believe it until they are at the hospital having a doctor scrape the lens off of their eye.
Might have something to do with the fact that the US also accounts for roughly 1/4 of the worlds economic output. It's a global economy son.
Redirecting to advertisements is certainly much worse than what D-Link did. I also own a DI-524, which I've seen people complain about on various forums, but I have not had a single problem with mine in over a year. I absolutely don't care what server it uses for NTP. This is a problem between D-Link and the server owner. To boycott D-Link over it would be petty, in my opinion.
By the way, there are companies that I refuse to do business with, but they are ones which have caused me personal problems. Topping this list is the Ford Motor Company. I made the mistake of buying a 2000 Ford Focus when they first came out. That car broke down every three months on average and had 11 recalls in 2 years. Ford is followed closely by Circuit City. Circuit City is just a giant pain in the ass to shop in. The last time I gave them a shot was when I ordered a DVD player from the internet and picked it up at the store. It took them over an hour to find my order and get the DVD player from stock. It would have been quicker to just buy it at the store in the first place.
Anyway, my point is that there are companies that deserve to be boycotted. I just don't think that this is a good enough reason.
I've done the calculations. In five years the geek community will have to manufacture everything they use themselves from raw materials that they dug up themselves, because every manufacturer will blacklisted for some petty reason or another.
Punishment for copyright infringement = $3750 fine
Punishment for murder = Life in Prison/Death Penalty
I do agree that the fines given for downloading music are too high. It really shouldn't be any more than the cost to buy all of the music you downloaded. Say $1.00/song like iTunes. Of course this should not include any songs which you already owned on CD, cassette, Vinyl etc. and downloaded rather than ripping yourself.
It actually is a shame that asbestos has gotten such a bad name. It really is a great product. We know now that it must be used is such a way that people are not exposed to asbestos dust and we could do that. The problem is that when people hear the word asbestos they freak out. More importantly, when lawyers hear the word asbestos it sounds like cha-ching!!!
Their motto is "Do no evil", not "Don't do what random Slashdot poster considers evil". If that were there motto, there wouldn't be much they could do. I don't think I've seen anything come up in Slashdot that at least one person didn't consider evil. Take energy production for example. People on Slashdot hate hydrocarbon fuels, too much pollution. Okay how about wind farms. Ugly, kill birds. Okay Nuclear. OMG TEH RADIOACTIVE WASTE!!! Okay, geothermal. You'll freeze the earth, didn't you see The Core! Hydroelectric. Displaced people, changed river flow patterns. Solar. Production of sloar panels creates pollution. I think you get the idea. Google can do whatever they want. Don't like it? Don't use it.
Actually the Eagles: Their Greatest Hits is thenumber one selling album of all time, followed by Michael Jackson's thriller. Dark Side of the Moon is 19th.
I actually downloaded one of these algorithm generated podcasts. They say it is made up of various sound bites and some noise and randomization. Well, it ended up sounding like noise and randomization. I don't know what I expected, but it sounded like someone constantly turning the dial on an FM radio. Great technology!!!
I always found students with laptops to be a distraction. The clicky typing noises and shuffling between the computer and a notebook or text book. I also paid for my classes and would rather not have people doing things that are distracting while I am trying to learn. Paying for a class does not give you the right to do whatever you want when you get there. As far as I am concerned the professor runs the class and can absolutely dictate what goes on.
Yeah, I mean you wouldn't want the following email message to get out into the public
to: MOMfrom: TripMasterMonkey
Subject: Second Post
Mom, I only got second post on the slashdot story about Gmail. Well, at least I got +5 interesting for mentioning 1984. If you need me, I'll be in the basement. A new story is coming out in 5 minutes and I have to do some serious copying and pasting and then mention privacy concerns. See you upstairs later tonight for dinner.
Love, Your son TMM ^_^
OK, I did say that baseball wasn't the best example. I did some research though. Bonds had his best year in 2001, the year before they went to the world series (which they lost). Bonds actually had a better hitting year (in terms of number of extra base hits) in 1993 than he did in 2002. And he really only had that one great year in terms of home runs. Since he (allegedly) began taking steroids, his home run numbers are up, but not doubles and triples, he has been plagued by injuries and hasn't won a world series. Sammy Sosa is another supposed steroid user and he has a hard time getting a team to sign him. The trend in baseball seems to be that steroids might get you a couple of good years of power hitting and not much else.
Again, my main point is that had Barry Bonds been bought off due to gambling, he could have definitively changed the outcome of a game or season. It is still very debatable whether the steroids had that kind of effect.
Not exactly. I think that steroids may help an individual reach a higher level of play than he may have been capable of without them. So, it may help them personally achieve more, but in a team sport such as football or (to a lesser extent) baseball, I don't think it necessarily helps the team to win. If Barry Bonds did take steroids (and personally I think he did), I don't think it helped his teams success. The team would have found a power hitter somewhere else. The steroids just helped Barry become that player.
Baseball is probably not the best example, since it is heavily dependent on individual skills and raw strength will help you hit the ball further. One (or several) juiced up individual(s) (ie Bill Romanowski) on a football team, will not necessarily make a difference. There are too many skills outside of raw strength involved.
Steroids may affect the integrity of the game, but I doubt that the outcome of a football or baseball game has been decided by whether or not a player is juiced. "Overblown" contracts have no impact whatsoever on the outcome of a game. As an aside, what does it matter to you how much athletes get paid? Sports gambling, on the other hand, can (and has) had an effect on the outcome of a game. That is what is meant by the integrity of the sport. Fans want to know that their team won or lost because of talent, not because somebody tanked on purpose to pay off a gambling debt.