Spoken like someone either divorced, or since this is slashdot, more likely still living in his parent's basement watching Dr. Who and dreaming of life in a TARDIS.
Are the mods sleeping today? Why does a response to a troll get modded a troll? Can someone at least take enough time to select the appropriate message to mod?
Perhaps Mr. Bezos should spend more time working for Amazon.com. They used to be the best, but now they are a barely maintained database of discontinued products with bad specs and irrelevant search results.
Care to provide evidence of this before you're modded down by someone else into the depths of troll hell?
The reason I don't buy DVDs is that when I want to watch a film, I want to watch a film and not commercials etc. 99 hours of "bonus content" generally does not add any value for anyone except hard core fans. I don't really care how they made the trees in LOTR.
I'm assuming if you're on slashdot, you know how to work a DVD player (I know, dangerous assumption...). Anyways, I'm not sure if you've tried playing a DVD lately, but other than the annoying anti-pirate shit, you can skip the previews on most DVDs (if they're even there), and go right to the film in a relatively quick manner. The price of a DVD these days is generally no higher for the extra content, unless they come out with some special edition, and even then there is often a choice of dvd editions. I'm not sure what your actual argument with DVDs is...
However I need to ask the question, What is going to keep X-Box and PS3 from stealing the Wii thunder?
Sony has already made a half assed attempt to do this with their new stock controller, but all reports point to it as a tacked on mess versus the Wii Remote and Nunchuck.
If history is a guide, console developers are very unwilling to design gameplay around optional controllers. It is a lot of extra work to come up with gameplay that works well on the Wii remote and really takes advantage of the controller. It's also what makes the console stand out.
I doubt you will ever see near the same level of integration on other consoles even if something similar comes out as an optional addon.
BTW, it's worth noting that the Wii does have a few non-minigame games.
Including Madden...which I've rented and is IMO a great version. It really uses the Wii Remote and Nunchuck in ways that often approximate actual football motions.
The graphics and commentary are pretty good, and the gameplay itself seems fresh and fun versus more of the same from EA.
mini ITX form factor Mobos cost 2x what they should. Their cabinets cost 3x what they should. I want a mini ITX computer, with as small a fan as possible to be a NAS. But the whole project is absurdly expensive compared to what it would cost for a big ugly mATX.
A more likely reason that the mini ITX form factor is expensive is that the end user market is much smaller than the one for full size ATX motherboards. If volumes are lower, prices are going to be higher.
If all you're looking for is a NAS, why not consider an older Shuttle system that is not going to break the bank (or just buy a cheap stand alone NAS, they're not that expensive these days).
"Activated by heat or the nudge of a scanning tunneling microscope tip, DTA will pull up one foot, put down the other, and thus walk in a straight line across a flat surface. The planted foot not only supplies support but also keeps the body of the molecule from veering or stumbling off course."
"He argues that extremely high expectations can only lead to disappointment for consumers and investors."
In that case they shouldn't ever announce any cool products ever again. Seriously, what kind of logic is that? Apple makes cool things so people put unrealistic expectations on them. People do the same thing with Google, but Google still releases new services. The new stuff might not match the hype but Google and Apple can't change how much people obsess about them.
Apple is a public corporation and as such is supposed to put their shareholders first. Jobs announced an actual penetration target for the iPhone that some Wall Street analysts and investors are likely to take as gospel. The stock now has a lot of expectations baked into it. If Apple doesn't succeed wildly with the iPhone, the stock is likely to be punished severely as a result. The target is very aggressive based on pricepoint, lack of features, and Cingulair only distribution.
That's why it's not a good idea to set up such an aggressive target. In terms of Wall Street, they're better off under promising, and over delivering. Time will tell, but I think the article makes a lot of interesting, well thought out, and potentially valid points.
...to send some tube steak to my (female) friends (with benefits) when I'm not there in person!
Hmmmm... A poster on slashdot with access to a friend with benefits...Somehow I doubt it, unless the benefits you're referring to are access to a Segway and a D&D partner...
I find it interesting that this parent gets modded insightful...when there is little of actual substance in it...
these countries started everything of their own from very scratch and after a course of 60 years, India and China both are doing exceptionally well and will continue to do to in future as well.
Um, no...while they may be doing exceptionally well, they did not develop everything from scratch. Technology does not exist in a vacuum. India in particular has the British to thank for much of their infrastructure despite all of the horrible negatives of their colonization. Both of them built on an existing knowledge base to develop themselves, just like every other country does. In the case of the Chinese at least, they also routinely stole tons of classified information from the US.
Can you remember what USA were doing after their 60 years?!! They were searching gold in California and killing each-other on the issue of racism and slavery. India and China are in much better position.
This is the most ignorant statement of the post, and the main reason it should be modded down. Are you kidding with this specious argument? In case you forgot, the US was founded in 1776, when none of this technology had been invented yet (a great deal of which would be invented in the West btw). Luckily, India still has no problems with race...cough...caste system...cough... Also, history says who used first nuclear bomb....it's USA killing thousands of innocent people in Japan. You should be ashamed of suggesting others on nuclear things.
I don't know if using a nuke was the right decision, but the fire bombing campaigns in WWII did much more damage than both nukes combined. As far as barbarism went, you may want to look into what the Japanese were doing to the Koreans and Chinese (and American POWs) during WW II. In any case, it is unfortunate that WWII had to happen, but the US had little choice to become engaged in it. They did what they thought was necessary at the time, just like every other combatant. Others are not going to be as arrogant and barbarous as USA were.
You haven't studied human nature lately, have you?
Personally, I've given up on wifi on my Linux machines. I'd rather just get a few thousand feet of Ethernet cable and a cordless drill and start boring holes, because at least that's a tractable problem. (Although it's been pointed out elsewhere that future Ethernet drivers may have the same issues as current wifi cards, because they're all ditching EEPROMs and Flash for driver-loaded, non-distributable firmware.)
If you really want to run wireless, there is another option for Linux that I am using at home as a workaround (although it's really due to the fact that I didn't have a spare wireless card to try, but judging from your comments, it would have been a nightmare anyways).
I have a wireless access point / print server I got on the cheap. It will accept up to 4 wired 100M Ethernet connections, and pass the packets across the wireless network to the router its configured for. It works great and lets me avoid running a ton of cable since I put the WAP near my linux boxes.
While this approach may be a promising avenue to investigate, it's pretty early in the game to get very excited over it. According to the article, this approach has not been tested in vivo AT ALL at this point. Treating cancer cells in a cell culture is a VERY large step away from even testing them in animals, which is yet another step removed from humans.
As an admittedly non-initiate in linux (I run osx), this seems very much what linux is
good for, rather than for a desktop os, where difficulty of setup would be a severe
handicap.
You should really try looking at a modern linux distro before making a blanket statement about the difficulty of setup for a desktop machine. I've installed Ubuntu and OpenSUSE at home recently, and as long as the hardware matches up ok (which it often times does, at least on desktops), there is little manual configuration to contend with.
The support community for Ubuntu is excellent, friendly, and helpful for times when things don't go smoothly.
Linux isn't perfect on the desktop, but with a little elbow grease (much less than my previous experiences with older versions of distros years ago) it comes together pretty nicely.
OK, I was with you until this comment. You're kidding, right? I love my PS2 as much of next gamer, and have almost beat FF XII so I'm obviously still devoting a lot of free time to gaming on it, but that game has arguably the pinnacle of PS2 graphics, and they are not even close to what the PS3 or Xbox360 (or even the Wii) is capable of. Not that I would expect them to be, the PS2 is ancient in technology terms.
That said, everything Sony did right with the PS2, they've done wrong with the PS3...I was hoping that they would learn from the mistakes they made on the PS2 versus compounding them..Alas, this is Sony...
Personally, I hate references to the old woman who spilled coffee on herself as a stupid lawsuit. If you actually look in deeper, you will find that the coffee was so hot, it scalded and caused horrible burns. I don't care how stupid she was, if you get coffee spilled on you you should only have to worry about having wet clothes, not burns that require hospitalization. So please, stop using that reference. She was injured because McDonalds kept their coffee at an unsafe temperature.
How could this parent be modded insightful, especially coming from a line of reasoning that is as retarded and irresponsible as the original lawsuit. The coffee wasn't too hot, it was served at a normal brewing temperature. For all of you out there who are a bit slow, coffee is served HOT. WFT, if you drink coffee, you'd realize it tastes like ass served lukewarm.
The woman shouldn't have been stupid enough to be putting freshly brewed coffee in her crotch, just like these idiots throwing wiimotes through tv screens should know enough to hold on to the damn thing when they're using it.
I mean, those numbers are bad, sure. Really bad. In my experience, FF 2 is better than FF 1.5, which is better than FF 1.0 in terms of memory usage. But a full gigabyte? You MUST be running some shady/buggy extensions or have severely edited the chrome into submission or have some RAM-eating applet on the page you are hanging out on or something.
I love how you can assume I MUST be doing something to excuse a buggy piece of software. I am NOT running any additional extensions under 2.0, and have not touched the configuration, and am not surfing any out of the ordinary sites.
It gets old very quickly hearing about how FF's memory leak issues MUST be related to user error. Sorry to burst your bubble, but the application is at fault here.
I wish they would just focus on fixing the memory leaks first. FF2 is much worse than FF1.5 (default installs without extensions), after about 2-3 days of running FF2 it will be using 1GB of RAM -- this is a complete joke.
This parent should be modded up, way up. I, along with others, have harped on the memory leak issue before with FF. Sadly, I'm typing this in IE7 right now, because I like to leave my browser open on my XP box, and the horrific memory leak issues in FF (including 2.0 with NO extensions) hose my box within a few days of leaving it open.
Even though I have 2 gigs of RAM, FF routinely escalates to over 1 GB of usage (I have a lot of tabs open, but c'mon), and hogs so many resources that the system slows to a crawl that requires a reboot.
IMO, this issue should have been the #1 priority in the move from 1.5 to 2.0. I am losing hope it will be fixed in the next release either (which is a shame, since I would prefer to run FF). IE7 and Opera9 simply do not have this problem to the extent FF does.
With the possible exception of AK and HI, not much oil is burned for electricity generation in the US.
Ummm...maybe I'm misreading the statistics, but according to the DOE over 211 million barrels of oil were used for power generation in the US in 2005 alone. I'm not sure how you don't consider that much oil.
However, it isn't "well known, and documented" because no one can point out a single one of these "horrendous memory leaks". I have to conclude those people still talking about them just don't have a clue what they're referring to.
Yeah, we're all imagining that with multiple tabs open, leaving FF running for days results in growing amount of RAM usage, eventually bogging down the entire system, even with 2 gigs of RAM under XP.
Maybe your type of attitude is the reason FF still has the problem...I guess anyone who experiences it doesn't have a clue because you don't want it to exist.
All I know is it happens, and the only offending application on my system at the time is FF. Maybe you should get a clue...
Then why don't you point out one of these Firefox memory leaks?
Because frankly, I'm not very adept at serious programming, and don't know where in the code they're occuring. All I know is that when I have FF open with a lot of tabs, and leave it running, it consumes more and more ram as the day(s) go by, even without extensions. I don't see this behavior in Opera, or on my machine on IE 7.
FF 2.0 seems to be an improvement over 1.5 in this area, but it is still a serious issue.
I'm not the only one who has experienced this behavior, and I'm sure many others have pointed out the memory leaks.
I still use FF, and am a big supporter of open source software. That doesn't mean that I shouldn't feel able to point out a serious issue that needs to be addressed in later updates, and that is well known, and documented.
As has been discussed on Slashdot before, I'm sure you know that any large and complex project will suffer memory leaks and security holes until they're all plugged. (That's not to say this is good, though.:-P ) If you try to abstract away all the possible causes of such annoyances so that they cannot happen, you just end up with bloated and slow code, which nobody wants. I would agree that the messier parts of Gecko's codebase may contribute more to memory leaks and security holes, but they're also (coincidentally) the bits which are the oldest, and therefore have had the most time to be hacked into shape.
I think this is a cop out on the memory leak issue. The simple fact of the matter is that IE 6 & 7, and Opera 9 do not suffer from memory leaks anywhere near as badly as Firefox. I can't speak to the bloat, but Opera renders very quickly, and IE7 seems pretty fast also. Fixing sloppy memory leaks should be a top priority IMO.
Perhaps this man was so convinced of Putin's evil that he poisoned himself and insisted very loudly that Moscow/Putin was responsible in order to put pressure on Putin.
Perhaps I am an idiot.
Perhaps you are...I don't think anyone would willing choose to die of something as horrifically painful as radiation sickness.
Now that old Uncle Milty Friedman, the free-market radical, has finally bit the turnip, maybe his execrable idea that the world is a zero-sum game and "wealth will trickle down" will hopefully get buried with him. What a surprise that a poor immigrant economist gets all sorts of accolades for telling the rich and powerful that it's actually morally good to be, well, rich and powerful, and that somehow greedy people at the top will translate to another potato on the table for the poorest families.
Spoken like an ignoramus who has never actually read or thought about a single idea that Friedman published. It's too bad intelligence and empathy for the recently departed doesn't trickle down, because you could use some under that rock you crawled out from under.
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Spoken like someone either divorced, or since this is slashdot, more likely still living in his parent's basement watching Dr. Who and dreaming of life in a TARDIS.
Are the mods sleeping today? Why does a response to a troll get modded a troll? Can someone at least take enough time to select the appropriate message to mod?
Perhaps Mr. Bezos should spend more time working for Amazon.com. They used to be the best, but now they are a barely maintained database of discontinued products with bad specs and irrelevant search results.
Care to provide evidence of this before you're modded down by someone else into the depths of troll hell?
The reason I don't buy DVDs is that when I want to watch a film, I want to watch a film and not commercials etc. 99 hours of "bonus content" generally does not add any value for anyone except hard core fans. I don't really care how they made the trees in LOTR.
I'm assuming if you're on slashdot, you know how to work a DVD player (I know, dangerous assumption...). Anyways, I'm not sure if you've tried playing a DVD lately, but other than the annoying anti-pirate shit, you can skip the previews on most DVDs (if they're even there), and go right to the film in a relatively quick manner. The price of a DVD these days is generally no higher for the extra content, unless they come out with some special edition, and even then there is often a choice of dvd editions. I'm not sure what your actual argument with DVDs is...
However I need to ask the question, What is going to keep X-Box and PS3 from stealing the Wii thunder?
Sony has already made a half assed attempt to do this with their new stock controller, but all reports point to it as a tacked on mess versus the Wii Remote and Nunchuck.
If history is a guide, console developers are very unwilling to design gameplay around optional controllers. It is a lot of extra work to come up with gameplay that works well on the Wii remote and really takes advantage of the controller. It's also what makes the console stand out.
I doubt you will ever see near the same level of integration on other consoles even if something similar comes out as an optional addon.
BTW, it's worth noting that the Wii does have a few non-minigame games.
Including Madden...which I've rented and is IMO a great version. It really uses the Wii Remote and Nunchuck in ways that often approximate actual football motions.
The graphics and commentary are pretty good, and the gameplay itself seems fresh and fun versus more of the same from EA.
mini ITX form factor Mobos cost 2x what they should. Their cabinets cost 3x what they should. I want a mini ITX computer, with as small a fan as possible to be a NAS. But the whole project is absurdly expensive compared to what it would cost for a big ugly mATX.
A more likely reason that the mini ITX form factor is expensive is that the end user market is much smaller than the one for full size ATX motherboards. If volumes are lower, prices are going to be higher.
If all you're looking for is a NAS, why not consider an older Shuttle system that is not going to break the bank (or just buy a cheap stand alone NAS, they're not that expensive these days).
What powers this thing?
From a previous article on the walker:
"Activated by heat or the nudge of a scanning tunneling microscope tip, DTA will pull up one foot, put down the other, and thus walk in a straight line across a flat surface. The planted foot not only supplies support but also keeps the body of the molecule from veering or stumbling off course."
"He argues that extremely high expectations can only lead to disappointment for consumers and investors." In that case they shouldn't ever announce any cool products ever again. Seriously, what kind of logic is that? Apple makes cool things so people put unrealistic expectations on them. People do the same thing with Google, but Google still releases new services. The new stuff might not match the hype but Google and Apple can't change how much people obsess about them.
Apple is a public corporation and as such is supposed to put their shareholders first. Jobs announced an actual penetration target for the iPhone that some Wall Street analysts and investors are likely to take as gospel. The stock now has a lot of expectations baked into it. If Apple doesn't succeed wildly with the iPhone, the stock is likely to be punished severely as a result. The target is very aggressive based on pricepoint, lack of features, and Cingulair only distribution.
That's why it's not a good idea to set up such an aggressive target. In terms of Wall Street, they're better off under promising, and over delivering. Time will tell, but I think the article makes a lot of interesting, well thought out, and potentially valid points.
...to send some tube steak to my (female) friends (with benefits) when I'm not there in person!
Hmmmm... A poster on slashdot with access to a friend with benefits...Somehow I doubt it, unless the benefits you're referring to are access to a Segway and a D&D partner...
I find it interesting that this parent gets modded insightful...when there is little of actual substance in it...
these countries started everything of their own from very scratch and after a course of 60 years, India and China both are doing exceptionally well and will continue to do to in future as well.
Um, no...while they may be doing exceptionally well, they did not develop everything from scratch. Technology does not exist in a vacuum. India in particular has the British to thank for much of their infrastructure despite all of the horrible negatives of their colonization. Both of them built on an existing knowledge base to develop themselves, just like every other country does. In the case of the Chinese at least, they also routinely stole tons of classified information from the US.
Can you remember what USA were doing after their 60 years?!! They were searching gold in California and killing each-other on the issue of racism and slavery. India and China are in much better position.
This is the most ignorant statement of the post, and the main reason it should be modded down. Are you kidding with this specious argument? In case you forgot, the US was founded in 1776, when none of this technology had been invented yet (a great deal of which would be invented in the West btw). Luckily, India still has no problems with race...cough...caste system...cough...
Also, history says who used first nuclear bomb....it's USA killing thousands of innocent people in Japan. You should be ashamed of suggesting others on nuclear things.
I don't know if using a nuke was the right decision, but the fire bombing campaigns in WWII did much more damage than both nukes combined. As far as barbarism went, you may want to look into what the Japanese were doing to the Koreans and Chinese (and American POWs) during WW II. In any case, it is unfortunate that WWII had to happen, but the US had little choice to become engaged in it. They did what they thought was necessary at the time, just like every other combatant.
Others are not going to be as arrogant and barbarous as USA were.
You haven't studied human nature lately, have you?
Personally, I've given up on wifi on my Linux machines. I'd rather just get a few thousand feet of Ethernet cable and a cordless drill and start boring holes, because at least that's a tractable problem. (Although it's been pointed out elsewhere that future Ethernet drivers may have the same issues as current wifi cards, because they're all ditching EEPROMs and Flash for driver-loaded, non-distributable firmware.)
If you really want to run wireless, there is another option for Linux that I am using at home as a workaround (although it's really due to the fact that I didn't have a spare wireless card to try, but judging from your comments, it would have been a nightmare anyways).
I have a wireless access point / print server I got on the cheap. It will accept up to 4 wired 100M Ethernet connections, and pass the packets across the wireless network to the router its configured for. It works great and lets me avoid running a ton of cable since I put the WAP near my linux boxes.
Two words... p0rn and piracy...
While this approach may be a promising avenue to investigate, it's pretty early in the game to get very excited over it. According to the article, this approach has not been tested in vivo AT ALL at this point. Treating cancer cells in a cell culture is a VERY large step away from even testing them in animals, which is yet another step removed from humans.
As an admittedly non-initiate in linux (I run osx), this seems very much what linux is good for, rather than for a desktop os, where difficulty of setup would be a severe handicap.
You should really try looking at a modern linux distro before making a blanket statement about the difficulty of setup for a desktop machine. I've installed Ubuntu and OpenSUSE at home recently, and as long as the hardware matches up ok (which it often times does, at least on desktops), there is little manual configuration to contend with.
The support community for Ubuntu is excellent, friendly, and helpful for times when things don't go smoothly.
Linux isn't perfect on the desktop, but with a little elbow grease (much less than my previous experiences with older versions of distros years ago) it comes together pretty nicely.
Games look almost as good as on the PS3.
OK, I was with you until this comment. You're kidding, right? I love my PS2 as much of next gamer, and have almost beat FF XII so I'm obviously still devoting a lot of free time to gaming on it, but that game has arguably the pinnacle of PS2 graphics, and they are not even close to what the PS3 or Xbox360 (or even the Wii) is capable of. Not that I would expect them to be, the PS2 is ancient in technology terms.
That said, everything Sony did right with the PS2, they've done wrong with the PS3...I was hoping that they would learn from the mistakes they made on the PS2 versus compounding them..Alas, this is Sony...
Personally, I hate references to the old woman who spilled coffee on herself as a stupid lawsuit. If you actually look in deeper, you will find that the coffee was so hot, it scalded and caused horrible burns. I don't care how stupid she was, if you get coffee spilled on you you should only have to worry about having wet clothes, not burns that require hospitalization. So please, stop using that reference. She was injured because McDonalds kept their coffee at an unsafe temperature.
How could this parent be modded insightful, especially coming from a line of reasoning that is as retarded and irresponsible as the original lawsuit. The coffee wasn't too hot, it was served at a normal brewing temperature. For all of you out there who are a bit slow, coffee is served HOT. WFT, if you drink coffee, you'd realize it tastes like ass served lukewarm.
The woman shouldn't have been stupid enough to be putting freshly brewed coffee in her crotch, just like these idiots throwing wiimotes through tv screens should know enough to hold on to the damn thing when they're using it.
I mean, those numbers are bad, sure. Really bad. In my experience, FF 2 is better than FF 1.5, which is better than FF 1.0 in terms of memory usage. But a full gigabyte? You MUST be running some shady/buggy extensions or have severely edited the chrome into submission or have some RAM-eating applet on the page you are hanging out on or something.
I love how you can assume I MUST be doing something to excuse a buggy piece of software. I am NOT running any additional extensions under 2.0, and have not touched the configuration, and am not surfing any out of the ordinary sites.
It gets old very quickly hearing about how FF's memory leak issues MUST be related to user error. Sorry to burst your bubble, but the application is at fault here.
I wish they would just focus on fixing the memory leaks first. FF2 is much worse than FF1.5 (default installs without extensions), after about 2-3 days of running FF2 it will be using 1GB of RAM -- this is a complete joke.
This parent should be modded up, way up. I, along with others, have harped on the memory leak issue before with FF. Sadly, I'm typing this in IE7 right now, because I like to leave my browser open on my XP box, and the horrific memory leak issues in FF (including 2.0 with NO extensions) hose my box within a few days of leaving it open.
Even though I have 2 gigs of RAM, FF routinely escalates to over 1 GB of usage (I have a lot of tabs open, but c'mon), and hogs so many resources that the system slows to a crawl that requires a reboot.
IMO, this issue should have been the #1 priority in the move from 1.5 to 2.0. I am losing hope it will be fixed in the next release either (which is a shame, since I would prefer to run FF). IE7 and Opera9 simply do not have this problem to the extent FF does.
With the possible exception of AK and HI, not much oil is burned for electricity generation in the US.
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Ummm...maybe I'm misreading the statistics, but according to the DOE over 211 million barrels of oil were used for power generation in the US in 2005 alone. I'm not sure how you don't consider that much oil.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/epat
Yeah, we're all imagining that with multiple tabs open, leaving FF running for days results in growing amount of RAM usage, eventually bogging down the entire system, even with 2 gigs of RAM under XP.
Maybe your type of attitude is the reason FF still has the problem...I guess anyone who experiences it doesn't have a clue because you don't want it to exist.
All I know is it happens, and the only offending application on my system at the time is FF. Maybe you should get a clue...
Because frankly, I'm not very adept at serious programming, and don't know where in the code they're occuring. All I know is that when I have FF open with a lot of tabs, and leave it running, it consumes more and more ram as the day(s) go by, even without extensions. I don't see this behavior in Opera, or on my machine on IE 7.
FF 2.0 seems to be an improvement over 1.5 in this area, but it is still a serious issue.
I'm not the only one who has experienced this behavior, and I'm sure many others have pointed out the memory leaks.
I still use FF, and am a big supporter of open source software. That doesn't mean that I shouldn't feel able to point out a serious issue that needs to be addressed in later updates, and that is well known, and documented.
I think this is a cop out on the memory leak issue. The simple fact of the matter is that IE 6 & 7, and Opera 9 do not suffer from memory leaks anywhere near as badly as Firefox. I can't speak to the bloat, but Opera renders very quickly, and IE7 seems pretty fast also. Fixing sloppy memory leaks should be a top priority IMO.
Perhaps you are...I don't think anyone would willing choose to die of something as horrifically painful as radiation sickness.
Spoken like an ignoramus who has never actually read or thought about a single idea that Friedman published. It's too bad intelligence and empathy for the recently departed doesn't trickle down, because you could use some under that rock you crawled out from under.