> Singles these days get so much repeated airplay > for so many weeks on the radio
The very idea of singles for radio play is broken. Last time I recall listening to music on a regular radio station, I remember the so-called "dj" announcing the "new" single for some bands "latest album". Said "latest album" had been released almost two years prior and that particular song was basically filler, yet this station had never played that particular song because there was no available single. Single gets released, and presumably the payola system puts it into heavy rotation.
So yeah, anyhow, I find I'd rather listen to my tires than a regular radio station these days...
> Managers are not at all going to be interested in moving > over to tablets and then have everything slow to a crawl > as people's typing speed (among other things) goes through > the floor.
It's really too bad there doesn't exist any kind of device that one could plug into a tablet and enable a person to type at a normal speed.
Seriously?
If the overall performance of tablets is enough to run office software, then there's no particular reason someone can't hook external peripherals up and use it as a small laptop. Or, for that matter, hook up external displays and use it as a desktop substitute. Like people do now, with laptops, or could do with netbooks (if Microsoft hadn't artificially limited their top specs in return for XP licenses).
I'd ask the slashdot editors to screen TFA content, too. If those are the industries "Biggest Failed Schemes", I'd say they're doing pretty well. Nothing like an "Enron" in that bunch...
> I'm completely disgusted by this whole industry and their > price gouging. What's worse, there is no competition really. > I can't even tell xplornet to shove it and go elsewhere.
xplornet has always had a fair access policy based around the idea that if you sustain max download speeds for long enough, you'll be throttled back; you really can only get max speed in bursts. This has been the case for as long as I've known about their services (>5 years). That they're (maybe) adjusting the details and clarifying the rules probably comes out of the CRTC recommendations about ISPs publishing throttling practices. As a customer, I knew about this when I signed up and I was actually happy not to see hard limits and overage charges and other similar nonsense and happy to see that this was a well entrenched practice.
The thing about the xplornet wireless and satellite service is that they really do have limited bandwidth, and increasing it is not easy or cheap.
In the case of satellite, they have to go through a freaking satellite. Not exactly a lot of dark satellite bandwidth out there, unlike fiber, and xplornet satellite is massively oversubscribed.
In the case of wireless, they don't have a big fiber pipe going to each tower. It's a bit more like a mesh network where the towers bounce the signals via other towers back to a small number of points with high speed connections. So the overall bandwidth of a grouping of towers is limited by the interconnections, and adding repeater towers (grain silos are handy for this) doesn't really increase overall bandwidth... Again, they can't exactly start turning on dark fiber. And it doesn't help that the interconnects tend to be at the edges of tower groupings (at least in my area).
The cable proves to the people of Zimbabwe that Tsvangirai is doing what they voted him in for... getting rid of Mugabe. I can't imagine why they wouldn't have thought he was doing that... I guess it's like how some people don't realize the run-down house next door with shifty folks making short visits at all hours is a drug house until there's a police raid?
To suddenly discover that your ally (or the closest thing you have to one) is secretly wishing for your downfall is probably a real shock.
People who run entire countries, even a third-world disaster like North Korea, don't get to that point by believing crazy shit like "China has my back". They'll feign shock if it's convenient, but anyone in NK dumb enough to actually believe it would have long been weeded out by the old "yeah, you should vote against Dear Leader, he thinks unanimous votes look too fake" prank.
Using existing technology and not requiring that everyone post new signs, you could have signs in Google Street View automagically OCRed and post translations as map data. Then your GPS/phone could just tell you what the nearest sign says.
> What news media outlet exists for a frustrated rational > progressive with strong constitutional tendencies > completely dissatisfied with every party?
Hello! Your entire first grade class had the same teacher. Your friends know the name of your pets and the street you lived on. Your cousins sure as hell know the rest of the questions like mother's maiden name etc.
Well, crap... if you can't trust your friends, family, casual acquaintances, creepy stalkers and Zuke himself not to hack your Facebook account, then who can you trust?
> I'm sorry, how is this possibly a "preview" > when there is not one screen shot?
I'm still fuzzy on how you can call it a preview when it's been in a standard distro for a good month or so. I've been using it daily for a while, and aside from the lack of auto-hide I'm not seeing much to complain about...
> Some of these animals are no longer adoptable. When outside > the cage they freak out because they've been confined for so > long. People take them home then in a day or two bring them right back.
They are adoptable, just not to the kind of person that's going to give up on a dog after one or two days. That's more of a education (the new owners, not the dog) and a screening problem, and unfortunately shelters don't really have the time, people, or expertise to match dogs to the right people. It takes an average dog weeks to settle in after even a short shelter experience. For long term inmates, or abuse cases... months, and they'll probably never be completely normal.
> By euthanizing the animals, they are acting as if they own them.
. This thread is called "We all know PETA is crazy". By accepting animals into the shelter, they're explicitly taking ownership of them, as property. That's the simplest legal way they can adopt or kill. For PETA to follow their principles for animal rights, they'd have to not operate an animal shelter/slaughterhouse.
I don't really know why they bother. I can only assume it's some sort of PR thing, which they can point at and say "see, we save animals".
> I think the point is that if you skip the > "right to life", no other rights really matter*.
Nature doesn't recognize any "right to life". For the vast majority of creatures, it's more like "a right to live a short, nasty life constantly running and hiding in fear, only to die starving and/or screaming".
Animal rights see the "right to not be property" as implying a kind of "right to life". That is, if you stop treating them as property, then you can't just go around killing them on a whim. I guess that's a convenient way to around the whole debate about "but then doesn't the bunny have a right not to get eaten by the lion?" dilemma.
Personally, I like my critters way too much to condemn then to either a natural "life" or euthanasia. I'm evil that way...
> PETA can't rightfully preach about animal rights while > euthanizing tens of thousands of unwanted pets every > year. Hypocrisy at its finest.
Not at all. Animal rights groups are strongly against the ownership of animals. Euthanizing instead of running an effective adoption program is actually seen as the lesser evil. They obviously don't connect those dots in their public fund raising materials...
>> It would be like forcing car manufacturers to >> take responsibility for bad drivers.
> No. It would be like forcing toll road operators to > refuse access to cars that are actively spraying oil > all over the road surface that have been causing accidents.
No, it would be like forcing Slashdot editors to make sure all Slashdot car analogies, even user posted, make sense.
> if it is true, and flying is already safer than > road travel, then why do we need all the security?
Quite simply, because politicians and bureaucrats (a) aren't subject to the same security measures, and (b) don't worry about losing their jobs when entire families die in flaming car wrecks or train derailments.
Of course, (b) ignores the fact than in reality, very, very few politicians and bureaucrats have ever been significantly punished for massive failures to protect people. But people are stupid that way.
> The trees don't just glow...they glow because a UV light is shining on it
The article (and TFS) I read talks about "natural street lights that don't need electricity to power them", not "trees that glow because someone shines a UV light on it". Perhaps you've been reading a different article?
> Performance differences can only be due to changes in > the kernel.... or to the VM having better support for certain features used in that particular kernel version, or that particular VM being configured in such a way that some kernel run better than others, or the host kernel somehow having better support for some features of the VM and benchmarked kernel, or...
Which is perfectly fine as long as it's made very clear that the benchmarks are subject to all of those conditions. Personally, I think the use of a VM for the benchmarking throws in enough noise that I wouldn't rely on the results for anything more than garnering/. page hits.
Once I've reached the content and determined whether or not it's worth bothering with, I might break out the keyboard. But before then? It's all about the pointer.
This is going to become even more of an issue with things like tablets/pads/whatchamacallits where keyboards are even less convenient.
My general rule is that if I have to take my hand off the mouse to view your content, I'm going elsewhere. I'll even put up with short interstitials, but I don't do quizzes.
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> Singles these days get so much repeated airplay
> for so many weeks on the radio
The very idea of singles for radio play is broken. Last time I recall listening to music on a regular radio station, I remember the so-called "dj" announcing the "new" single for some bands "latest album". Said "latest album" had been released almost two years prior and that particular song was basically filler, yet this station had never played that particular song because there was no available single. Single gets released, and presumably the payola system puts it into heavy rotation.
So yeah, anyhow, I find I'd rather listen to my tires than a regular radio station these days...
> Managers are not at all going to be interested in moving
> over to tablets and then have everything slow to a crawl
> as people's typing speed (among other things) goes through
> the floor.
It's really too bad there doesn't exist any kind of device that one could plug into a tablet and enable a person to type at a normal speed.
Seriously?
If the overall performance of tablets is enough to run office software, then there's no particular reason someone can't hook external peripherals up and use it as a small laptop. Or, for that matter, hook up external displays and use it as a desktop substitute. Like people do now, with laptops, or could do with netbooks (if Microsoft hadn't artificially limited their top specs in return for XP licenses).
Ah, thank you. I thought it was a pretty weak list of some dipshits and their non-existing devices and/or business plans.
I'd ask the slashdot editors to screen TFA content, too. If those are the industries "Biggest Failed Schemes", I'd say they're doing pretty well. Nothing like an "Enron" in that bunch...
> I'm completely disgusted by this whole industry and their
> price gouging. What's worse, there is no competition really.
> I can't even tell xplornet to shove it and go elsewhere.
xplornet has always had a fair access policy based around the idea that if you sustain max download speeds for long enough, you'll be throttled back; you really can only get max speed in bursts. This has been the case for as long as I've known about their services (>5 years). That they're (maybe) adjusting the details and clarifying the rules probably comes out of the CRTC recommendations about ISPs publishing throttling practices. As a customer, I knew about this when I signed up and I was actually happy not to see hard limits and overage charges and other similar nonsense and happy to see that this was a well entrenched practice.
The thing about the xplornet wireless and satellite service is that they really do have limited bandwidth, and increasing it is not easy or cheap.
In the case of satellite, they have to go through a freaking satellite. Not exactly a lot of dark satellite bandwidth out there, unlike fiber, and xplornet satellite is massively oversubscribed.
In the case of wireless, they don't have a big fiber pipe going to each tower. It's a bit more like a mesh network where the towers bounce the signals via other towers back to a small number of points with high speed connections. So the overall bandwidth of a grouping of towers is limited by the interconnections, and adding repeater towers (grain silos are handy for this) doesn't really increase overall bandwidth... Again, they can't exactly start turning on dark fiber. And it doesn't help that the interconnects tend to be at the edges of tower groupings (at least in my area).
> Posting from my rooted nook color.
The great thing about having choices is you don't have to give your money to companies who sell devices which have to be rooted.
Aw, shit. That means the XBox 360 gains a lot of marketshare...
The cable proves to the people of Zimbabwe that Tsvangirai is doing what they voted him in for... getting rid of Mugabe. I can't imagine why they wouldn't have thought he was doing that... I guess it's like how some people don't realize the run-down house next door with shifty folks making short visits at all hours is a drug house until there's a police raid?
People who run entire countries, even a third-world disaster like North Korea, don't get to that point by believing crazy shit like "China has my back". They'll feign shock if it's convenient, but anyone in NK dumb enough to actually believe it would have long been weeded out by the old "yeah, you should vote against Dear Leader, he thinks unanimous votes look too fake" prank.
Using existing technology and not requiring that everyone post new signs, you could have signs in Google Street View automagically OCRed and post translations as map data. Then your GPS/phone could just tell you what the nearest sign says.
> What news media outlet exists for a frustrated rational
> progressive with strong constitutional tendencies
> completely dissatisfied with every party?
Have you tried one of the sports networks?
Well, crap... if you can't trust your friends, family, casual acquaintances, creepy stalkers and Zuke himself not to hack your Facebook account, then who can you trust?
> I'm sorry, how is this possibly a "preview"
> when there is not one screen shot?
I'm still fuzzy on how you can call it a preview when it's been in a standard distro for a good month or so. I've been using it daily for a while, and aside from the lack of auto-hide I'm not seeing much to complain about...
> Some of these animals are no longer adoptable. When outside
> the cage they freak out because they've been confined for so
> long. People take them home then in a day or two bring them right back.
They are adoptable, just not to the kind of person that's going to give up on a dog after one or two days. That's more of a education (the new owners, not the dog) and a screening problem, and unfortunately shelters don't really have the time, people, or expertise to match dogs to the right people. It takes an average dog weeks to settle in after even a short shelter experience. For long term inmates, or abuse cases... months, and they'll probably never be completely normal.
> By euthanizing the animals, they are acting as if they own them.
. This thread is called "We all know PETA is crazy". By accepting animals into the shelter, they're explicitly taking ownership of them, as property. That's the simplest legal way they can adopt or kill. For PETA to follow their principles for animal rights, they'd have to not operate an animal shelter/slaughterhouse.
I don't really know why they bother. I can only assume it's some sort of PR thing, which they can point at and say "see, we save animals".
> I think the point is that if you skip the
> "right to life", no other rights really matter*.
Nature doesn't recognize any "right to life". For the vast majority of creatures, it's more like "a right to live a short, nasty life constantly running and hiding in fear, only to die starving and/or screaming".
Animal rights see the "right to not be property" as implying a kind of "right to life". That is, if you stop treating them as property, then you can't just go around killing them on a whim. I guess that's a convenient way to around the whole debate about "but then doesn't the bunny have a right not to get eaten by the lion?" dilemma.
Personally, I like my critters way too much to condemn then to either a natural "life" or euthanasia. I'm evil that way...
> PETA can't rightfully preach about animal rights while
> euthanizing tens of thousands of unwanted pets every
> year. Hypocrisy at its finest.
Not at all. Animal rights groups are strongly against the ownership of animals. Euthanizing instead of running an effective adoption program is actually seen as the lesser evil. They obviously don't connect those dots in their public fund raising materials...
>> It would be like forcing car manufacturers to
>> take responsibility for bad drivers.
> No. It would be like forcing toll road operators to
> refuse access to cars that are actively spraying oil
> all over the road surface that have been causing accidents.
No, it would be like forcing Slashdot editors to make sure all Slashdot car analogies, even user posted, make sense.
> I really can't scroll down on your site without javascript enabled?
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> if it is true, and flying is already safer than
> road travel, then why do we need all the security?
Quite simply, because politicians and bureaucrats (a) aren't subject to the same security measures, and (b) don't worry about losing their jobs when entire families die in flaming car wrecks or train derailments.
Of course, (b) ignores the fact than in reality, very, very few politicians and bureaucrats have ever been significantly punished for massive failures to protect people. But people are stupid that way.
> Read the article.
I did.
> The trees don't just glow...they glow because a UV light is shining on it
The article (and TFS) I read talks about "natural street lights that don't need electricity to power them", not "trees that glow because someone shines a UV light on it". Perhaps you've been reading a different article?
> but it could also greatly reduce light pollution in major cities.
By replacing street lights with a different kind of street light? One without an apparent "off" switch?
It would seem to make more sense to just reduce the number of lights, or make them smart enough to be on-demand.
> Performance differences can only be due to changes in ... or to the VM having better support for certain features used in that particular kernel version, or that particular VM being configured in such a way that some kernel run better than others, or the host kernel somehow having better support for some features of the VM and benchmarked kernel, or...
> the kernel.
Which is perfectly fine as long as it's made very clear that the benchmarks are subject to all of those conditions. Personally, I think the use of a VM for the benchmarking throws in enough noise that I wouldn't rely on the results for anything more than garnering /. page hits.
Once I've reached the content and determined whether or not it's worth bothering with, I might break out the keyboard. But before then? It's all about the pointer.
This is going to become even more of an issue with things like tablets/pads/whatchamacallits where keyboards are even less convenient.
My general rule is that if I have to take my hand off the mouse to view your content, I'm going elsewhere. I'll even put up with short interstitials, but I don't do quizzes.