Am I wrong to consider energy efficiency problem with light bulbs largely solved? LED bulb are affordable and efficient. Is there anything else left to do?
My goal is to spend less time in my email client, not more.
Seems like their goal with this is to have you spend less time (per-message) clicking around the browser altogether?
Their goal is to allow them to track you more. As AMP pages are served from Google AMP servers, this seems like it will help them a lot, regardless of the browser you use...
... yet email has largely stayed the same with static messages that eventually go out of date or are merely a springboard to accomplishing a more complex task.
Ya. Emails are messages. I get them, process them, and delete them.
This means you'll be able to RSVP to an event right from the message, fill out a questionnaire, browse through a store's inventory or respond to a comment -- all without leaving your web-based email client.
My goal is to spend less time in my email client, not more. I see how this might be good for Google, with people using their web interface, but it's a solution in search of a problem (or opportunity -- for Google).
Thankfully, I POP all my mail using Thunderbird and display all my mail as plain text (which is safer). Unfortunately, there are still some email messages that can only be displayed as HTML -- grrr.... Hopefully, I can avoid this AMP crap for a while.
The earliest documented instances of piracy are the exploits of the Sea Peoples who threatened the ships sailing in the Aegean and Mediterranean waters in the 14th century BC.
According to Star Wars: The Essential Atlas and the Solo novels, the road to Kessel involved navigating a cluster of black holes known as 'the Maw'. This would typically take 18 parsecs -- to avoid falling into the Maw's gravity wells -- but with a sturdy ship like the Millennium Falcon and a daring captain like Han, a smuggler could skirt close to the edges of the Maw and cut the distance down to 12 parsecs.
Should the Washington Post be considered a terrorist recruiting site?
Should Fox "News" or InfoWars be considered a terrorist recruiting sites? Seems more people have been incited to violence watching them. For example: Cesar Sayoc (mail bomber from FL), Edgar Welch (Pizzagate shooter from NC)...
In March, conservative radio host and Infowars website operator Alex Jones apologized for promoting the Pizzagate conspiracy. Jones posted a six-minute video on his website in which he read a prepared statement saying that neither the restaurant nor its owner, James Alefantis, had anything to do with human trafficking. The statement came after Alefantis’s attorneys had requested a retraction.
I wouldn't expect less from Stallman. His motive is pure, but lots of ours is more of a realistic one...
In reality, only the very rich or very poor can afford to live their lives with motives 100% pure as they can either lose a lot without consequence or have nothing to lose. The more one can, or is willing to, give up or do without, the more one can live by their convictions and still live. Whether they become a burden on the rest of us is another matter.
The devil would offer to install nonfree drivers in the user's machine to make more parts of the computer function, explaining to the user that the cost of this is using a nonfree (unjust) program... Those users that get nonfree drivers would see what their moral cost is, and that there are people in the community who refuse to pay that cost.
Implying that it's unjust and/or immoral for one's work to have tangible value and for one to make money from it. I know that's not what he means by "freedom", but, unfortunately, our society doesn't function on the Honor System.
However, if the install fest installs nonfree distros and nonfree software which make machines entirely function, it will fail to teach users to say no for freedom's sake. They may learn to like GNU/Linux, but they won't learn what the free software movement stands for.... In effect, the install fest makes the deal with the devil, on the user's behalf, behind a curtain so the user doesn't recognize that it is one.
Perhaps, it can demonstrate that compromise and practicality are sometimes necessary in a functioning society and not just a "deal with the devil". Rigidity to an ideology can often be more destructive and counter-productive over the long run. Progress comes from change not stasis.
Stallman adds that the Free Software Foundation itself would never let a devil near its events.
The devil is often in the details; I'm sure some will always be nearby.
Captain Kirk: Everything Harry tells you is a lie. Remember that. Everything Harry tells you is a lie. Harry Mudd: Now listen to this carefully, Norman. I am... lying.
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Setting bold goals and staying on schedule.
So I guess, they sacrifice safety.
Reminds me of a recent Boeing story...
Or the Space Shuttle Challenge and its o-rings.
(Speaking of sacrificing safety for schedule.)
I prefer it when people actually post what's happening in the headline instead of trying to use stupid puns.
Ya, but they used the words "Trump" and "Dim" in the same sentence, so ... :-)
Am I wrong to consider energy efficiency problem with light bulbs largely solved? LED bulb are affordable and efficient. Is there anything else left to do?
Maybe it's just me, or the bulb(s) I've tried, but the light from LED bulbs seems more harsh -- for lack of a better word -- than from CFL or incandescent bulbs. Perhaps it's because of something like this: The scientific reason you don’t like LED bulbs — and the simple way to fix them.
My goal is to spend less time in my email client, not more.
Seems like their goal with this is to have you spend less time (per-message) clicking around the browser altogether?
Their goal is to allow them to track you more. As AMP pages are served from Google AMP servers, this seems like it will help them a lot, regardless of the browser you use...
I second this. #DoNotWant
Ya. Emails are messages. I get them, process them, and delete them.
This means you'll be able to RSVP to an event right from the message, fill out a questionnaire, browse through a store's inventory or respond to a comment -- all without leaving your web-based email client.
My goal is to spend less time in my email client, not more. I see how this might be good for Google, with people using their web interface, but it's a solution in search of a problem (or opportunity -- for Google).
Thankfully, I POP all my mail using Thunderbird and display all my mail as plain text (which is safer). Unfortunately, there are still some email messages that can only be displayed as HTML -- grrr.... Hopefully, I can avoid this AMP crap for a while.
If the music industry is suing because people download crappy music, can we upload really crappy music and then sue the music industry?
Piracy has been going on since dial up modem times.
Well... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The earliest documented instances of piracy are the exploits of the Sea Peoples who threatened the ships sailing in the Aegean and Mediterranean waters in the 14th century BC.
[ Perhaps they had *really* long landlines ... ]
I've never believed your stated Kessel Run times anyway, Han.
Of course you mean, "Kessel Run distances". (In this case, "run" means "route".)
From: 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' Solves The Kessel Run Problem
According to Star Wars: The Essential Atlas and the Solo novels, the road to Kessel involved navigating a cluster of black holes known as 'the Maw'. This would typically take 18 parsecs -- to avoid falling into the Maw's gravity wells -- but with a sturdy ship like the Millennium Falcon and a daring captain like Han, a smuggler could skirt close to the edges of the Maw and cut the distance down to 12 parsecs.
Watch 20 minutes of ads for the privilege of watching 20 minutes of ads.
Pass.
You forgot the 2 hours of product placements in the movie ...
Using CNN the most biased, fake news organization in existence, why would you link that to /. ?
Um, because Fox "News" hadn't posted it yet --- duh. I mean, if you're wanting the most biased, fake news organization.
[ Just sayin' ]
The real question is why did our president just have a Twitter fight with a dead man?
Because it's only now that they're intellectual equals?
Anyone who (a) has been married or (b) has kids already knows this.
Should the Washington Post be considered a terrorist recruiting site?
Should Fox "News" or InfoWars be considered a terrorist recruiting sites? Seems more people have been incited to violence watching them. For example: Cesar Sayoc (mail bomber from FL), Edgar Welch (Pizzagate shooter from NC) ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
In March, conservative radio host and Infowars website operator Alex Jones apologized for promoting the Pizzagate conspiracy. Jones posted a six-minute video on his website in which he read a prepared statement saying that neither the restaurant nor its owner, James Alefantis, had anything to do with human trafficking. The statement came after Alefantis’s attorneys had requested a retraction.
The real question is: Should the Washington Post be considered Jeff Bezos Blog?
Should Fox "News" be considered Rupert Murdoch's, Donald Trump's or the Republican Party's Vlog?
[ It's pretty clear that my rhetorical question is more likely than yours. ]
I wouldn't expect less from Stallman. His motive is pure, but lots of ours is more of a realistic one...
In reality, only the very rich or very poor can afford to live their lives with motives 100% pure as they can either lose a lot without consequence or have nothing to lose. The more one can, or is willing to, give up or do without, the more one can live by their convictions and still live. Whether they become a burden on the rest of us is another matter.
The devil would offer to install nonfree drivers in the user's machine to make more parts of the computer function, explaining to the user that the cost of this is using a nonfree (unjust) program... Those users that get nonfree drivers would see what their moral cost is, and that there are people in the community who refuse to pay that cost.
Implying that it's unjust and/or immoral for one's work to have tangible value and for one to make money from it. I know that's not what he means by "freedom", but, unfortunately, our society doesn't function on the Honor System.
However, if the install fest installs nonfree distros and nonfree software which make machines entirely function, it will fail to teach users to say no for freedom's sake. They may learn to like GNU/Linux, but they won't learn what the free software movement stands for.... In effect, the install fest makes the deal with the devil, on the user's behalf, behind a curtain so the user doesn't recognize that it is one.
Perhaps, it can demonstrate that compromise and practicality are sometimes necessary in a functioning society and not just a "deal with the devil". Rigidity to an ideology can often be more destructive and counter-productive over the long run. Progress comes from change not stasis.
Stallman adds that the Free Software Foundation itself would never let a devil near its events.
The devil is often in the details; I'm sure some will always be nearby.
Brennan, 25 years old, expressed regret that the site had consumed so much of his life.
You're 25 ding-dong. You (probably) have many, many more years ahead ...
Evolution is a myth. :-)
Captain Kirk: Everything Harry tells you is a lie. Remember that. Everything Harry tells you is a lie.
Harry Mudd: Now listen to this carefully, Norman. I am... lying.
Zodiac Killer to revamp his reputation by dropping Killer from his moniker.
Probably better than his real name. :-)
Nathan Summers will be dropping "Cable" from his name and will now be known as "".
Fuck Comcast.
That's an extra $10/month.
... the call was to ask if he was happy with his long-distance phone carrier.
Figures. Yet another platform tracking user behavior. Is there a "Do Not Track" privacy setting, like in browsers? :-)