Although try convincing the UK TV licensing authorities that - it's very common to get repeated threatening letters and people knocking at the door if you don't own a TV license. What if you don't own a TV? Well they don't believe that, they keep sending the threatening letters as long as you don't own the license, because (their reasoning) everybody owns a TV.
The series is set in a futuristic dystopia ruled by an oligarchy of television networks. Even the government functions primarily as a puppet state of the network executives, serving mainly to pass laws — such as banning off switches on televisions — that protect and consolidate the networks' power. Television technology has advanced to the point that viewers' physical movements and thoughts can be monitored through their television sets;...
Linus using your software is double edged sword, especially if Linus doesn't like it — get ready for the harshest, yet the most honest and useful criticism.
You want to know what would happen if you attacked that wealth? Eventually no one would be motivated to do the things that being to earn them such wealth. Progress would stop dead. You wouldn't have any of the cool stuff technologically that you have today. Sure there may be an occasional person who comes up with a brilliant idea that advances some sector of industry or whatever, but what you really end up with is a bunch of people who will only do what is need to just get by because that's as much recognition for their work as they get.
Yes, yes. People would simply lose ALL hope and waste their entire lives just watching TV reality shows. Without the motivation of the remote possibility of getting filthy rich, no one would ever want to think, create, imagine or actually do anything ever again. Yes, sir, Einstein only thought stuff up for the money. No one would ever give to charity, because that would make themselves, you know, less rich. I could go on, but won't because...
Jesus, you're fucking stupid.
P.S.
And your NFL football example... Seriously? It has *nothing* to do with the progress, ideas and technology in your rant.
Obviously, the mice simply took refuge back in their own dimension for safety - duh. Frankie and Benjy asked me to tell you, "Thanks for all the cheese."
I would also like to offer that if one is found dead, even of apparent suicide with only months to live, an autopsy will likely be performed to rule out other causes. Being found with a prescription for a suicide drug, and confirmation from your doctor, will make things much clearer and simpler. It may also help with other legal or insurance issues related to your death. Actually dying in the hospital, or other medical facility, would probably help too.
Of course not. The US government is bald-facedly beholden only to corporations and turned the country into a true oppressive totalitarian state. I have a real opportunity to live and work in Japan, I'm seriously considering taking the offering company up on it and sayng "fuck this".
In this case, I'm not sure it's all about the government being beholden to corporations, as it seems Megaupload is getting screwed too, as well as any other companies that may have legitimate data on those servers. The government's behavior shows that it's more about Government wanting to do whatever they want w/o regard to anyone's (personal or corporate) rights - you know, for the "greater good" - and setting a precedent for such activity.
True, they're pursuing supposed copyright infringement, but we, the people, voted in the unethical, corrupt monkeys that passed the laws being enforced. Perhaps after enough poo has been flung, we'll get up off our lazy asses and do some laundry...
A lithium battery holding three times the capacity is significant. This could mean that the range of a EV could be three times, all else equal, or the battery could provide three times the voltage with the same capacity all else equal, or simply the size and weight of the battery could be 1/3rd the size leaving room for other components.
Thanks, Captain Obvious, for clearly explaining the ramifications of "3x"...:-)
As we know from recent experience, Hydrogen is flammable, and something flammable, even explosive, can NEVER replace Gasoline, which is safe and has never burned anybody.
Surely they realize the futility of their methods, and we can go back to our safe and harmless internal combustion engines?
We just haven't figured out how to build a contraption to make it happen in a controlled way.
Well... We can make it happen in a controlled way, we just can't keep it controlled for very long. Sure, it has limited practical uses and the reset costs are a bit high to be productive, but, you know, baby steps.
But then again, I'm just an ordinary guy, not a programmer or anything.
The word you're looking for is "content consumer" and the iPad, Surface, etc... are probably, to varying degrees, excellent for that. I'm not sure, however, that anything with limited expandability and/or customize-ability - or Windows 8 - will be ideal for programmers, developers or business users - i.e. non-consumers.
in4btroll: Not one Windows Surface or Windows 8 commercial show anyone doing anything productive with their devices, just watching TV, movies and finger painting.
Healthcare would be a hell of a lot cheaper if the government stayed the hell out of it.
Perhaps, but not necessarily better or safer.
Without regulations, companies would only pursue standards, safety and efficacy if it promoted their bottom line - profits. (Remember that public corporations are beholden to their shareholders, not customers or employees.) Before you reply that they would go out of business otherwise without those considerations, consider that companies routinely preform cost vs. risk analysis to determine whether it would be cheaper to make a good, safe, effective product (or fix a broken one), or pay fines and litigation costs. Of course, without any regulations there would no basis for victims, I mean consumers/customers, to complain or sue...
Government and regulations have their place, especially in healthcare. If you can't understand that, then, quite frankly, you're a moron. (No offense.)
Why Microsoft? No go to Service Pack 2 for Windows 7!"
From the TFA:
Service packs are a pain for Microsoft, because they divert engineers’ time and budget from building new versions of Windows. In this case, the anticipation for Windows 7’s SP2 comes around the same time as the launch of Windows 8, out later this week. Also, by ending SPs, Microsoft could be pushing customers towards the completely new Windows 8.
Or you are just too old to get enjoyment in learning something new.
Wanting to learn something new and having to learn something new are quite different, especially when that new thing doesn't really offer any substantial (or any) benefit and interferes with doing actual work. When you get past puberty, you'll understand.
Second, what a three year old is trying to accomplish on a PC might be just slightly different from the purposes of a typical business user.
Yes, though I'm not sure smearing a PB&J sandwich over the monitor, drooling on the keyboard and sucking on the mouse constitutes *using* the computer. (I'm referring to Desrosiers' son, of course, unless you meant business "manager".)
I guess you haven't watched NBC in the last month. If you want crazy, you only need to see what their flappy headed talkshow hosts are going on about.
I watched one show last Tuesday night with some crazy old, rich, straight, white guy that still uses binders, of all things, for something. He was talking about trusting him to fix something or another with *magic* - I'm not sure, 47% of me wasn't really listening to him... Just one of the wacky things you see on TV these days.
Does that mean that a body doesn't need sleep - only the brain? Or have their bodies adapted in some special way that ours hasn't?
I'm 49 and I have stayed up for 36 hours straight, at work (system programmer/admin), several times this year alone. Even after 10 hours of sleep I feel like crap the next day with headache and lethargy, like I'm dehydrated or *really* hung over (though I'm neither). My body has otherwise felt fine.
I thought I read/heard/saw (like on Discovery Channel) that the brain uses chemistry during waking periods that can only be replenished during sleep periods. If so, this would explain a lot, especially people dying from lack of sleep.
Maybe I'm a wide-eyed optimist, but I see a lot of potential in Ubuntu to bring desktop Linux to a whole new level.
Perhaps, but perhaps not a higher level...
...especially with Unity. The whole point of a GUI is so the user can know less about the underpinnings. Unity requires you to know more and do more work to be really functional. Seriously, the Dock is brain-dead. Having to text-search for applications (and know the "right" keywords) is brain-dead.
The OS is becoming no better in this respect. Having the OS enabled to automatically search for, basically, everything assumes and encourages a retarded, undisciplined user (Windows 7... shares this stupidity) - I know where I put my fucking data files and how to search the Net. Assuming the user wants to be "connected" to and their desktop integrated with all the latest ridiculous, unproductive social-media sites and/or shopping sites is retarded. Seriously, is shopping, tweeting, checking Facebook (if you say Facebooking, I will kill you), or whatever, all people do on their *desktop* PC? [ And, no,/. doesn't count, it's more of a hobby.:-) ]
Perhaps sheep spend all day grazing, but I have other things to do...
So the easy solution is to use Norton, Open, or Comodo DNS. They also offer malware and phishing protection as well. do that and your computer wont be sniffed. The IP addresses do not mean anything without a DNS record to correspond.
The easy solution is to not have a smartphone. Seriously, I'm already tired from maintaining my security and privacy on my home/work PCs. Now I have to constantly fuck with my phone too? Not worth it.
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Although try convincing the UK TV licensing authorities that - it's very common to get repeated threatening letters and people knocking at the door if you don't own a TV license. What if you don't own a TV? Well they don't believe that, they keep sending the threatening letters as long as you don't own the license, because (their reasoning) everybody owns a TV.
How very Max Headroom of them:
The series is set in a futuristic dystopia ruled by an oligarchy of television networks. Even the government functions primarily as a puppet state of the network executives, serving mainly to pass laws — such as banning off switches on televisions — that protect and consolidate the networks' power. Television technology has advanced to the point that viewers' physical movements and thoughts can be monitored through their television sets; ...
Linus using your software is double edged sword, especially if Linus doesn't like it — get ready for the harshest, yet the most honest and useful criticism.
Smooch Linus' ass much 'sfcrazy' ?
You want to know what would happen if you attacked that wealth? Eventually no one would be motivated to do the things that being to earn them such wealth. Progress would stop dead. You wouldn't have any of the cool stuff technologically that you have today. Sure there may be an occasional person who comes up with a brilliant idea that advances some sector of industry or whatever, but what you really end up with is a bunch of people who will only do what is need to just get by because that's as much recognition for their work as they get.
Yes, yes. People would simply lose ALL hope and waste their entire lives just watching TV reality shows. Without the motivation of the remote possibility of getting filthy rich, no one would ever want to think, create, imagine or actually do anything ever again. Yes, sir, Einstein only thought stuff up for the money. No one would ever give to charity, because that would make themselves, you know, less rich. I could go on, but won't because ...
Jesus, you're fucking stupid.
P.S.
And your NFL football example... Seriously? It has *nothing* to do with the progress, ideas and technology in your rant.
Obviously, the mice simply took refuge back in their own dimension for safety - duh.
Frankie and Benjy asked me to tell you, "Thanks for all the cheese."
I would also like to offer that if one is found dead, even of apparent suicide with only months to live, an autopsy will likely be performed to rule out other causes. Being found with a prescription for a suicide drug, and confirmation from your doctor, will make things much clearer and simpler. It may also help with other legal or insurance issues related to your death. Actually dying in the hospital, or other medical facility, would probably help too.
Anyone surprised?
Of course not. The US government is bald-facedly beholden only to corporations and turned the country into a true oppressive totalitarian state. I have a real opportunity to live and work in Japan, I'm seriously considering taking the offering company up on it and sayng "fuck this".
In this case, I'm not sure it's all about the government being beholden to corporations, as it seems Megaupload is getting screwed too, as well as any other companies that may have legitimate data on those servers. The government's behavior shows that it's more about Government wanting to do whatever they want w/o regard to anyone's (personal or corporate) rights - you know, for the "greater good" - and setting a precedent for such activity.
True, they're pursuing supposed copyright infringement, but we, the people, voted in the unethical, corrupt monkeys that passed the laws being enforced. Perhaps after enough poo has been flung, we'll get up off our lazy asses and do some laundry...
A lithium battery holding three times the capacity is significant. This could mean that the range of a EV could be three times, all else equal, or the battery could provide three times the voltage with the same capacity all else equal, or simply the size and weight of the battery could be 1/3rd the size leaving room for other components.
Thanks, Captain Obvious, for clearly explaining the ramifications of "3x" ... :-)
As we know from recent experience, Hydrogen is flammable, and something flammable, even explosive, can NEVER replace Gasoline, which is safe and has never burned anybody. Surely they realize the futility of their methods, and we can go back to our safe and harmless internal combustion engines?
FTFY
Give it some time... The Universal Ingredient Label
... I'm filming you reading /. right now.
We just haven't figured out how to build a contraption to make it happen in a controlled way.
Well... We can make it happen in a controlled way, we just can't keep it controlled for very long. Sure, it has limited practical uses and the reset costs are a bit high to be productive, but, you know, baby steps.
But then again, I'm just an ordinary guy, not a programmer or anything.
The word you're looking for is "content consumer" and the iPad, Surface, etc... are probably, to varying degrees, excellent for that. I'm not sure, however, that anything with limited expandability and/or customize-ability - or Windows 8 - will be ideal for programmers, developers or business users - i.e. non-consumers.
in4btroll: Not one Windows Surface or Windows 8 commercial show anyone doing anything productive with their devices, just watching TV, movies and finger painting.
Healthcare would be a hell of a lot cheaper if the government stayed the hell out of it.
Perhaps, but not necessarily better or safer.
Without regulations, companies would only pursue standards, safety and efficacy if it promoted their bottom line - profits. (Remember that public corporations are beholden to their shareholders, not customers or employees.) Before you reply that they would go out of business otherwise without those considerations, consider that companies routinely preform cost vs. risk analysis to determine whether it would be cheaper to make a good, safe, effective product (or fix a broken one), or pay fines and litigation costs. Of course, without any regulations there would no basis for victims, I mean consumers/customers, to complain or sue...
Government and regulations have their place, especially in healthcare. If you can't understand that, then, quite frankly, you're a moron. (No offense.)
I have become cognizant of ... Conversing with my college computer science peers...
Stop using words like "cognizant" and "conversing" when "aware" and "talking" will do.
(Good non-fiction math-reads are also gratefully accepted. What have you got?)
The Romney/Ryan budget plan is a good, scary read, but it's pure fiction. :-)
Why Microsoft? No go to Service Pack 2 for Windows 7!"
From the TFA:
Service packs are a pain for Microsoft, because they divert engineers’ time and budget from building new versions of Windows. In this case, the anticipation for Windows 7’s SP2 comes around the same time as the launch of Windows 8, out later this week. Also, by ending SPs, Microsoft could be pushing customers towards the completely new Windows 8.
So bend over and lube up people. :-)
Or you are just too old to get enjoyment in learning something new.
Wanting to learn something new and having to learn something new are quite different, especially when that new thing doesn't really offer any substantial (or any) benefit and interferes with doing actual work. When you get past puberty, you'll understand.
If your logic made any sense at all, newspaper articles would be replaced with pictures of smiling cartoon animals, ...
You haven't seen the re-designed The USA Today yet, have you...
Second, what a three year old is trying to accomplish on a PC might be just slightly different from the purposes of a typical business user.
Yes, though I'm not sure smearing a PB&J sandwich over the monitor, drooling on the keyboard and sucking on the mouse constitutes *using* the computer. (I'm referring to Desrosiers' son, of course, unless you meant business "manager".)
Uh, say what? I regularly hit 800 MB with just 5-6 tabs, ...
Browse p0rn sites w/thinner girls. It uses less RAM.
...about how the tea party was full of racists.
I'm quite sure that one was a documentary.
You might find this entertaining and informative: The Truth About the Tea Party.
I guess you haven't watched NBC in the last month. If you want crazy, you only need to see what their flappy headed talkshow hosts are going on about.
I watched one show last Tuesday night with some crazy old, rich, straight, white guy that still uses binders, of all things, for something. He was talking about trusting him to fix something or another with *magic* - I'm not sure, 47% of me wasn't really listening to him... Just one of the wacky things you see on TV these days.
Does that mean that a body doesn't need sleep - only the brain? Or have their bodies adapted in some special way that ours hasn't?
I'm 49 and I have stayed up for 36 hours straight, at work (system programmer/admin), several times this year alone. Even after 10 hours of sleep I feel like crap the next day with headache and lethargy, like I'm dehydrated or *really* hung over (though I'm neither). My body has otherwise felt fine.
I thought I read/heard/saw (like on Discovery Channel) that the brain uses chemistry during waking periods that can only be replenished during sleep periods. If so, this would explain a lot, especially people dying from lack of sleep.
... tested a dolphin named Say ...
Steven Wright: I named my dog "Stay". He gets confused whenever I call him: "Come here, Stay."
So. Don't name your pets after verbs - or children: "Stand up, Neal..." (Am I a Noun or a Verb?)
Maybe I'm a wide-eyed optimist, but I see a lot of potential in Ubuntu to bring desktop Linux to a whole new level.
Perhaps, but perhaps not a higher level...
The OS is becoming no better in this respect. Having the OS enabled to automatically search for, basically, everything assumes and encourages a retarded, undisciplined user (Windows 7 ... shares this stupidity) - I know where I put my fucking data files and how to search the Net. Assuming the user wants to be "connected" to and their desktop integrated with all the latest ridiculous, unproductive social-media sites and/or shopping sites is retarded. Seriously, is shopping, tweeting, checking Facebook (if you say Facebooking, I will kill you), or whatever, all people do on their *desktop* PC? [ And, no, /. doesn't count, it's more of a hobby. :-) ]
Perhaps sheep spend all day grazing, but I have other things to do...
So the easy solution is to use Norton, Open, or Comodo DNS. They also offer malware and phishing protection as well. do that and your computer wont be sniffed. The IP addresses do not mean anything without a DNS record to correspond.
The easy solution is to not have a smartphone. Seriously, I'm already tired from maintaining my security and privacy on my home/work PCs. Now I have to constantly fuck with my phone too? Not worth it.