It makes no difference when your dead if your organs are in a jar, cremated, or rotting in the earth.
Maybe it makes no difference to you when you are dead, but a whole lot of people in this world have quite strong feelings about the right way to treat a persons body once they are deceased, and rational or not, those feelings are very real and should be respected.
To take what you said to the ridiculous, if one of your kids died and the doctor cut them into pieces, removed the contents of their head, and used it like a puppet, would you be upset? I would be, and upset is putting it very lightly.
FWIW, if I hadn't posted I would have spent one of my 15 mod points modding your posting interesting, even though i disagreed with it.
What I disagreed with was you complaining about people modding an ancient meme up to +5, which is where my 'backseat moderator' comment came from. There is already a system in place to keep the moderation in check and complaining that people didn't use their mod points the way you would have liked them to just isn't getting it.
My post got Informative, Insightful, and Flamebait, which is kind of what I was going for:)
I think that a day doesn't go by when someone sees a "Soviet Russia", "sharks with lasers", etc meme for the first time. I discovered the joy of "all your base" many years after everyone else. And all three of those, when done well, still give me a smile.
You speak of the 'Slashdot crowd' like we all joined at the same time and we're all the same age and of the same background but it's simply not true. It's not even a valid generalisation.
And the fact that someone modded something funny means that they enjoyed reading it enough to give it a mod point. And that's how this thing works. Don't be a back seat moderator. You use your mod points on whatever the hell you want and let everyone else do the same.
Now i'm not judging anyone here, but you're all idiots:p
There is also the fact that frequently chewing gives you crooked teeth.
No it doesn't. In fact research has shown that chewing gum actually straightens your teeth, correctly aligns your jaw, assists in building upper body muscle strength, improves learning and memory function in the brain, and can increase the size of your penis and duration of your erections by up to 58%.
(you didn't provide a source for your 'fact' so I don't see why I should)
safe at home, remote controlling robotic drones -- toothpaste only yards away.
a job that they'll then outsource to a country where they don't have to pay their 'soldiers' so much. In order to keep productivity up, some real soldiers will be required to stand guard with great big whips. Those soldiers will need gum - no time to brush your teeth when there's whipping to be done!
has HP become less than reputable, Sun's continued existence become questionable, Oracle's motives become dubious, all while Linux continues to gain market share.
more DRM and punishments straight out of the middle ages
There should be a reasonableness test for some of the punishments they hand out. Nobody on earth (aside from lawyers and RIAA execs) would think that a million dollar fine for a single mum distributing movies only with no profit for herself is reasonable, regardless of what the copyright 'per incident' fines might be.
The article misses an important detail - the Yanks actually dieing earlier than Brits, it's just that all the extra preservatives they consume keep them in a state of animated death for a few extra years.
The problem with that is that it's now part of the system not just an outside observer. Announcing to one party that there are indications that the other party is about to dump them is going to change the system. That's not necessarily a bad thing though, my observations are that guys (and probably more so the sort of guys which would read slashdot:) are less likely to aware that their lady is feeling a bit unloved and might need some more affection.
Either way, I think you're on to a money maker here. You don't even have to write anything - just secure a patent ASAP and wait until someone else implements it then sue them (for some reason you don't seem to need an implementation to get a patent anymore).
Yes I think the OP is lumping congenital blindness with acquired blindness, where I assume the latter is much more closely related to injuries or diseases to the eye.
Where does it say South Korea? Maybe it was the way the faces were drawn or the uniforms, or maybe the Simpsons are animated using labour in South Korea (not something i'm aware of) or some other clue that I missed but it just looked like a generic Asian sweatshop to me. Having kicked up a fuss, the whole world is going to know it was South Korea now, even if that wasn't the intent.
It's very easy to get a corporation to change what they're doing if there's a coordinated effort by consumers to choose not to buy from a certain manufacturer until practices are changed.
It's not so easy to get consumers to not buy from certain manufacturers though. People buy the cheapest goods they can find that will do the job without giving a thought to the fact that they are robbing from themselves.
that is more than range than my Mazda 3 gets out of a tank
If you drive this car the way you'd need to drive a Mazda 3 to get less that 375 miles on a tank then i'm sure that this car won't get 375 miles either.
I can get double that range (~1200KM) in my car if I take it easy, and typically get over 600 miles without trying.
This is, however, trading reliance on oil as a fuel source for reliance on lithium as a storage medium. Admittedly that's more conducive to recycling, but while I'm no expert on batteries, I'm pretty sure it's not trivial to turn a dead, degraded cell into a shiny new one.
It's a shame we haven't managed to get particularly far with hydrogen as a storage medium - it can be produced straight from fossil fuels to ease the transition, and then produced directly from water once we get the power generation infrastructure up to scratch. No reliance on a non-renewable power source or storage medium.
Doesn't have to be batteries. Flywheel storage would be a perfect solution to this problem - replace the underground fuel tanks with a flywheel storage bunker and spin it up when there is energy to spare.
"This means Alzheimer's patients may be less of a burden to caregivers and loved ones." Jesus, might as well just euthanize them if that's your attitude.
I don't think so. The end game is the same - your brain rots and you die - at about the same time in either case. In the more mentally stimulated case though the curve is flat with a steep decline at the end vs the idle brain where the decline is more steady.
Which would you prefer for the patient and the caregiver?
We just rolled one of these out last week - a HP thin client of some sort. The installation went like this: 1. Unit arrived. It crashes (screen goes black, mouse goes dark, etc) anywhere from during post to 2 hours later 2. Replacement unit arrived. Completely different model with 1/4 the RAM and 1/2 the flash, and different case. 3. 2nd replacement unit arrived. Doesn't even turn on. 4. 3rd replacement unit arrived. Seems to work okay. Installed on site 5. Call this morning - user reports that it completes POST but then the screen goes black.
Now we've got dozens of these things out in the field and none of them have ever given any problems so I know we're just unlucky in this case, but seriously, 4 units that are basically DOA???
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It makes no difference when your dead if your organs are in a jar, cremated, or rotting in the earth.
Maybe it makes no difference to you when you are dead, but a whole lot of people in this world have quite strong feelings about the right way to treat a persons body once they are deceased, and rational or not, those feelings are very real and should be respected.
To take what you said to the ridiculous, if one of your kids died and the doctor cut them into pieces, removed the contents of their head, and used it like a puppet, would you be upset? I would be, and upset is putting it very lightly.
A robot wouldn't make the idiotic mistakes that the current human
Unless of course it was programmed to deceive the audience into believing that it was a human...
FWIW, if I hadn't posted I would have spent one of my 15 mod points modding your posting interesting, even though i disagreed with it.
What I disagreed with was you complaining about people modding an ancient meme up to +5, which is where my 'backseat moderator' comment came from. There is already a system in place to keep the moderation in check and complaining that people didn't use their mod points the way you would have liked them to just isn't getting it.
My post got Informative, Insightful, and Flamebait, which is kind of what I was going for :)
I think that a day doesn't go by when someone sees a "Soviet Russia", "sharks with lasers", etc meme for the first time. I discovered the joy of "all your base" many years after everyone else. And all three of those, when done well, still give me a smile.
You speak of the 'Slashdot crowd' like we all joined at the same time and we're all the same age and of the same background but it's simply not true. It's not even a valid generalisation.
And the fact that someone modded something funny means that they enjoyed reading it enough to give it a mod point. And that's how this thing works. Don't be a back seat moderator. You use your mod points on whatever the hell you want and let everyone else do the same.
Now i'm not judging anyone here, but you're all idiots :p
One of the best things about the windows operating systems is the kernel debugger! It can do all of that and more.
There is also the fact that frequently chewing gives you crooked teeth.
No it doesn't. In fact research has shown that chewing gum actually straightens your teeth, correctly aligns your jaw, assists in building upper body muscle strength, improves learning and memory function in the brain, and can increase the size of your penis and duration of your erections by up to 58%.
(you didn't provide a source for your 'fact' so I don't see why I should)
safe at home, remote controlling robotic drones -- toothpaste only yards away.
a job that they'll then outsource to a country where they don't have to pay their 'soldiers' so much. In order to keep productivity up, some real soldiers will be required to stand guard with great big whips. Those soldiers will need gum - no time to brush your teeth when there's whipping to be done!
And in peacetime, "We came to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and we're all out of ass".
has HP become less than reputable, Sun's continued existence become questionable, Oracle's motives become dubious, all while Linux continues to gain market share.
My next computer will be a Linux!
more DRM and punishments straight out of the middle ages
There should be a reasonableness test for some of the punishments they hand out. Nobody on earth (aside from lawyers and RIAA execs) would think that a million dollar fine for a single mum distributing movies only with no profit for herself is reasonable, regardless of what the copyright 'per incident' fines might be.
The article misses an important detail - the Yanks actually dieing earlier than Brits, it's just that all the extra preservatives they consume keep them in a state of animated death for a few extra years.
The problem with that is that it's now part of the system not just an outside observer. Announcing to one party that there are indications that the other party is about to dump them is going to change the system. That's not necessarily a bad thing though, my observations are that guys (and probably more so the sort of guys which would read slashdot :) are less likely to aware that their lady is feeling a bit unloved and might need some more affection.
Either way, I think you're on to a money maker here. You don't even have to write anything - just secure a patent ASAP and wait until someone else implements it then sue them (for some reason you don't seem to need an implementation to get a patent anymore).
How to know? That's the tricky bit.
Same way you'd approach tightening up a bolt. Tighten it up until it breaks then back it off 1/4 of a turn.
Yes I think the OP is lumping congenital blindness with acquired blindness, where I assume the latter is much more closely related to injuries or diseases to the eye.
I thought that referred to Jesus being born without sin rather than to Mary being a virgin.
Which is quite ironic given the part the snake plays in the garden of eden...
Where does it say South Korea? Maybe it was the way the faces were drawn or the uniforms, or maybe the Simpsons are animated using labour in South Korea (not something i'm aware of) or some other clue that I missed but it just looked like a generic Asian sweatshop to me. Having kicked up a fuss, the whole world is going to know it was South Korea now, even if that wasn't the intent.
It's very easy to get a corporation to change what they're doing if there's a coordinated effort by consumers to choose not to buy from a certain manufacturer until practices are changed.
It's not so easy to get consumers to not buy from certain manufacturers though. People buy the cheapest goods they can find that will do the job without giving a thought to the fact that they are robbing from themselves.
that is more than range than my Mazda 3 gets out of a tank
If you drive this car the way you'd need to drive a Mazda 3 to get less that 375 miles on a tank then i'm sure that this car won't get 375 miles either.
I can get double that range (~1200KM) in my car if I take it easy, and typically get over 600 miles without trying.
It's wonderful to see these new claimed technologies, I just wish they'd actually make some of them available to the public sometimes.
I wonder how much of the delay is development time and how much is reducing any associated safety risks to an acceptable level...
This is, however, trading reliance on oil as a fuel source for reliance on lithium as a storage medium. Admittedly that's more conducive to recycling, but while I'm no expert on batteries, I'm pretty sure it's not trivial to turn a dead, degraded cell into a shiny new one.
It's a shame we haven't managed to get particularly far with hydrogen as a storage medium - it can be produced straight from fossil fuels to ease the transition, and then produced directly from water once we get the power generation infrastructure up to scratch. No reliance on a non-renewable power source or storage medium.
Doesn't have to be batteries. Flywheel storage would be a perfect solution to this problem - replace the underground fuel tanks with a flywheel storage bunker and spin it up when there is energy to spare.
"This means Alzheimer's patients may be less of a burden to caregivers and loved ones."
Jesus, might as well just euthanize them if that's your attitude.
I don't think so. The end game is the same - your brain rots and you die - at about the same time in either case. In the more mentally stimulated case though the curve is flat with a steep decline at the end vs the idle brain where the decline is more steady.
Which would you prefer for the patient and the caregiver?
If you hadn't posted the above, I would never have noticed the original troll and the moderation system would have worked. Please don't feed them.
We just rolled one of these out last week - a HP thin client of some sort. The installation went like this:
1. Unit arrived. It crashes (screen goes black, mouse goes dark, etc) anywhere from during post to 2 hours later
2. Replacement unit arrived. Completely different model with 1/4 the RAM and 1/2 the flash, and different case.
3. 2nd replacement unit arrived. Doesn't even turn on.
4. 3rd replacement unit arrived. Seems to work okay. Installed on site
5. Call this morning - user reports that it completes POST but then the screen goes black.
Now we've got dozens of these things out in the field and none of them have ever given any problems so I know we're just unlucky in this case, but seriously, 4 units that are basically DOA???
Careful. Chiropractors don't like being discredited.
They've just started playing the Goodies again here in Australia. I'm hanging out for the Dodo episode :)