Sounds like "peak music power" to me. Anyone fancy bringing their 1400 watt multimedia sub to my place where I have a 1440 watt pro PA amplifier? When the multimedia speaker goes off like a roman candle it wont be the extra 40 watts that does it, but the extra 1400 watts.
The problem is that TFA is a BBC article, and hence fully anti-US anyway. Finding out the truth requires effort: both the effort of research and the effort of controlling your predjudices so they don't interfere with your perception of fact. It's not easy and (I fear) something of a lost art.
1. If you travel outside the US, you will find that no other countries use or have heard of aluminum. (England has something similar called aluminium, which was developed in tandem by Margaret Thatcher's shadow government.)
In fact, UK researchers invented aluminium as a superior method of transmitting heavy electricity (copper turns an unsightly purple colour when you pass heavy elecricity though it).
In fact, aluminium is an insulator of heavy electricity, but aluminium cables have a catalytic effect which causes the beer hoses in traditional British pubs to become contuctive to heavy electicity, thereby facilitating transmission of power.
This is the reason British beer is served at room temperature (and because it tastes nicer that way).
"It shall be a criminal offsense to install non-application software on any computer when the user has not been reasonably notified in advance and/or agreed to have the modifications made. This bill will be reevaluated for its effect in three years."
It should apply to any software, not just "non-application software", since applications could have built-in malware functionality.
The correct model is the "ingredients" box on food (in the UK at least): if food contains cyanide, it must say so in the ingredients box where even a person of moderately below average intelligence can find and understand it. So we're looking at a "what this software will do" box. It should appear on the machine in a GUI-based message box (because that's what most people understand). It should be seperate and distinct from the EULA (which no-one reads). It should indicate the following items and include "confirm"/"cancel" buttons.
- Network connections: one of "Does not communicate with other computers", "Communicates with other computers when requested by the user", "Communicates with other computers automatically"
- Uninstallation: "May be un-installed" or "May not be un-installed"
- Execution: "Runs when requested by the user", "Runs automatically"
These are inspired by the current story; there are probably others. The point is that this makes it easy for even inexperienced users to make the informed choice. Any comany or individual who installs software on someone's machine without this message box, or puts incorrect details in it can easily be made liable in various ways.
Your article confuses correlation for causation. That women used to wear women's clothes when they were being discriminated against is a correlation. No causal factor is implied.
Anyway, women in men's clothes generally look unsexy, which is usually what they're trying to acheive. Men in women's clothes just look silly.
Man pages are fantastic. I love man pages. But reading source is over-rated. The 0.00000000000000000000001% of sources that are well-commented are OK, but mostly you want to be told what the software is supposed to do.
I noticed that most of the example given for why life is so bad there is because people are constanltly, er, scamming each other. So the justification for scamming foreigners is that life is bad due to all the local scamming.
Oh and he didn't stop because he was brave enough to "do the right thing": he stopped because he got scared after his buddy got beaten up.
These people view the victims of fraud coldly, with the eyes of a hunter stalking its prey. Maybe the victims are dumber than you and me, but they are peaceful, generous folk. And because of this they have a happier life than the scammers, who condemn their own society to be scammer-bites-scammer for generation after generation.
Talking of newspeak in software licenses, anyone notice how GPL software is called "free as in freedom not as in beer" and yet GPL software really is free as in beer and certainly doesn't have anything to do with freedom (because it doesn't inter-operate with other licenses and Stallman can change it at will).
It's kind of like a nuclear winter. But without the radiation and the endless recriminations about who started it. And the inevitable turf wars between cockroaches.
Right now it's not funding for funding's sake that's required. We need to debate how space should be used. Why are we going up there? Reseach for ground-based tech? Research into future space tech? Mining space minerals? finding alternative homes for humanity? What?
Reminds me of when I first learned C++. I thought "I can do anything with this given the time! What to do? Errr...". Perhaps I'm getting old and jaded.
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Pro PA amps are never class A. But then, you'd know that - if you knew shit.
Sounds like "peak music power" to me. Anyone fancy bringing their 1400 watt multimedia sub to my place where I have a 1440 watt pro PA amplifier? When the multimedia speaker goes off like a roman candle it wont be the extra 40 watts that does it, but the extra 1400 watts.
CaptainFork@linux:~> woman
and got
woman: command not found
Ahh, how true.
Is this the kind of "Insight" I can expect on Slashdot from now on?
Come to the UK and try some of our lukewarm beer. It's better than a slap round the face with a wet fish!
The problem is that TFA is a BBC article, and hence fully anti-US anyway. Finding out the truth requires effort: both the effort of research and the effort of controlling your predjudices so they don't interfere with your perception of fact. It's not easy and (I fear) something of a lost art.
In fact, UK researchers invented aluminium as a superior method of transmitting heavy electricity (copper turns an unsightly purple colour when you pass heavy elecricity though it).
In fact, aluminium is an insulator of heavy electricity, but aluminium cables have a catalytic effect which causes the beer hoses in traditional British pubs to become contuctive to heavy electicity, thereby facilitating transmission of power.
This is the reason British beer is served at room temperature (and because it tastes nicer that way).
Yes, Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds are much more objective because they have no vested interest at all!
But you would if you could.
It should apply to any software, not just "non-application software", since applications could have built-in malware functionality.
The correct model is the "ingredients" box on food (in the UK at least): if food contains cyanide, it must say so in the ingredients box where even a person of moderately below average intelligence can find and understand it. So we're looking at a "what this software will do" box. It should appear on the machine in a GUI-based message box (because that's what most people understand). It should be seperate and distinct from the EULA (which no-one reads). It should indicate the following items and include "confirm"/"cancel" buttons.
- Network connections: one of "Does not communicate with other computers", "Communicates with other computers when requested by the user", "Communicates with other computers automatically"
- Uninstallation: "May be un-installed" or "May not be un-installed"
- Execution: "Runs when requested by the user", "Runs automatically"
These are inspired by the current story; there are probably others. The point is that this makes it easy for even inexperienced users to make the informed choice. Any comany or individual who installs software on someone's machine without this message box, or puts incorrect details in it can easily be made liable in various ways.
not as cool as roboninjabots or er ninrobojabots
Anyway, women in men's clothes generally look unsexy, which is usually what they're trying to acheive. Men in women's clothes just look silly.
Here's what your comment is really saying:
I went to a sci-fi show and a girl talked to me who wasn't fat and spotty. Now I'm in love.
I think they do more cut-and-paste than typiing, actually
ITYM -32, with 6 bits you can't represent anything smaller (assuming 2's complement)
Man pages are fantastic. I love man pages. But reading source is over-rated. The 0.00000000000000000000001% of sources that are well-commented are OK, but mostly you want to be told what the software is supposed to do.
...and can it milk the Gnu Hurd...?
Oh and he didn't stop because he was brave enough to "do the right thing": he stopped because he got scared after his buddy got beaten up.
These people view the victims of fraud coldly, with the eyes of a hunter stalking its prey. Maybe the victims are dumber than you and me, but they are peaceful, generous folk. And because of this they have a happier life than the scammers, who condemn their own society to be scammer-bites-scammer for generation after generation.
So who are the dumb ones again?
Talking of newspeak in software licenses, anyone notice how GPL software is called "free as in freedom not as in beer" and yet GPL software really is free as in beer and certainly doesn't have anything to do with freedom (because it doesn't inter-operate with other licenses and Stallman can change it at will).
Thompson resorted to mere name-calling when he couldn't win his argument.
Then:
What a fucking moron.
IMO you need to work on your consistency.
It's kind of like a nuclear winter. But without the radiation and the endless recriminations about who started it. And the inevitable turf wars between cockroaches.
Those damnable Euros won't support anything the US does. The b*****ds!
The differences are with the ideologies. But ask yourself this: Do you own your ideology, or does it own you?
An alien visitor to earth would probably say "take me to your leading meme".
You guys small of poop and your eyes are too close together (IMHO).
Reminds me of when I first learned C++. I thought "I can do anything with this given the time! What to do? Errr...". Perhaps I'm getting old and jaded.