Greenism is spouting off "proof" that the planet is dying and then lecturing to us we all have to change, without offering a shred or an idea on how to do it other than trite platitudes like "lets all recycle and buy hybrids".
Greenism is cool and trendy, greenists are just people that want to join the fight to alleviate their guilt but don't do anything real to save the planet as well so they are no more informed or proactive than a denialist.
Lol, I find it hilarious when marketing supersedes common sense and logic.
Only for Linux is 3.10 > 3.9
Why are open source development projects afraid of whole number changes? Are they afraid to commit to a major version? What miracle needs to be performed to get to LInux 4.0 within 10 years?
You mean like The Learning Channel? I'd like to start a petition to have this channel renamed because they haven't shown anything worth learning in over a decade.
Of course when PBS's top show is "The Antique Roadshow", PBS may not be the best place for reforming education either.
I think with Windows 8 Microsoft felt the need to be innovative and groundbreaking and so introduced Metro to work as a common bridge between the emerging Tablet market and the existing Desktop/Laptop market.
Had this been an optional interface I think the reaction would have been far more favourable. Had people not been forced to use Metro on the desktop, but instead allowed it as an optional "new" interface, people's reactions might have thought it cool and overtime more and more people might have adopted it favourably. But forcing it on everyone upfront was a huge mistake and it will ensure that desktop users will never like "metro".
Its going to be hard for Microsoft to recover from this, but they should make it optional sooner rather than later, at least turn it off by default on non-touch products because the new Metro overlay was simply not designed efficiently for use with a mouse.
First, burning garbage is not the epitome of clean green energy. While it might be greener than coal or even natural gas its a trite solution implemented as a cheap alternative instead of finding a real clean source of energy. Also burning garbage is not a global solution to power, its only about alleviating the municipal headache of maintaining and finding new landfills.
Second, places like this are probably so consumed by an incessant need to recycle and compost that they have depleted their own source of "garbage" energy.
This is another reason why green society is just inherently Stupid (with a capital S), because its always about myopic applications of solutions without looking at the bigger picture. You can't remove all recyclables from municipal waste and then try to also power your city off of garbage, its one or the other.
I didn't RTFA because its from the BBC but I am pretty sure they are blaming extreme weather on other planets in the solar system on our excessive high levels of carbon dioxides. The article was only written to make us feel guilty and inhumane for turning on a light to read by at night for all the hell it generates across our solar system.
Having to tap several times to get to the key you want is a nuisance. This will be the one thing that ruins any new smart watch device, assuming you must type text on the screen using a keyboard to interact with it.
At some point you have to accept that just because it has a screen and processor in it along with wireless communications does not mean it has to become a social platform or even one that requires text input.
If app designers for new smartwatch devices are thinking about solutions for how to solve on-screen typing they have already failed. There is a reason why phones are moving to larger and larger screens because people find text input on smaller screens a horrendous experience. A small 2" watch screen is not going to have any adequate method for text input, so don't bother with the functionality.
I don't see why we need smart watches, but we need them even less as a social/texting platform.
Chances are the patent application was so full of ambiguous legal gobbledygook that it would take someone on crack, or some strong mind-altering drug, to even begin to try and make sense of it.
But I think the problem is that the patent office has been slammed with just accepting everyone's bullshit that now they are probably rejecting everything out of spite.
Talking about GMO in general, no current crop today existed in nature, even supposed organic non-GMO crops. Its just like a poodle was never an actual wild animal. Humans have been screwing around with plants for 10,000 years. Just because scientists can splice a gene here and there is no different than trying to achieve the same result through multi-generational cross pollination or plant grafts. Nothing you eat today is "real" from an evolutionary natural result.
Microsoft has dropped the ball big time by offering not compelling enterprise device on the Windows 8 platform, phone, tablet, or otherwise.
Apple is dropping the ball with the iPhone, failing to invest any effort into innovating the platform which has become stagnant after 5 years.
So there is room for growth with the new Blackberries.
Realize that a lot of iPhone users were once Blackberry addicts, the Q10 might provide the right kind of nostalgia to bring back some of those customers who start to remember how nice it was to use a real physical keyboard rather than the sado-masochistic on screen keyboard experience that Apple offers.
As long as Blackberry does not have delusions of grandeur they should be fine. If they operate under the premise they can gain a solid and respectable 3rd place in the smartphone market and not assume they could actually overtake Apple or Android then they should continue to enjoy success with their new product line. The moment they decide to go after Apple or Android is what will kill them off quickly.
You would think, however Nexus 4 was an epic fail in delivery leaving a lot of frustration from consumers. Also why Google branded an LG/Samsung phone for Nexus and has not yet branded a Motorola phone for Nexus is beyond me, there isn't even a rumor that its in the works.
I don't think Google knows what to do with Motorola.
Google acquires Motorola, and then proceeds to have one of the worst product rollouts in recorded history with the Nexus 4 phone. I mean why Google could not leverage at least one person from Motorola on how to actually release a phone, involving an eCommerce website that would actually work and about how to create a supply chain that could actually provide phones and its accessories.
I mean what was the point of getting Motorola if not to apply it to their own phones, at least the experience of a company that has had some past success selling phones.
I think this is clearly an example where Google got too big too fast, the Nexus part of Google is not even aware that another part of Google owns a phone company.
It's actually quite stupid when you think about the idea of any two alien species making contact in our universe.
I do believe wholeheartedly there is life out there. It comes down to basic chemistry and statistic probability. Amino acids formed in some ocean on another planet that eventually lead to life. I even believe there are aliens that have figured out how to leave their planet and travel in space.
But space is too big and it is far too difficult to travel across it. Think of the massive amount of technological hurdles needed to overcome even sending humans to Mars, let alone sending humans to another solar system, even one a few light years away.
I don't accept that aliens are out there that have solved all these problems easily and can freely come and go at will. I actually think its also stupid to assume aliens are smarter than us or have figure out how to defy fundamental physics. It could very well be that all other life in our whole galaxy is nothing more than slime and single cell organisms, maybe the real miracle of our planet is that we evolved into something that could think and ponder about the universe, not just that life began on it.
And finally I agree, what motivation would there to spend the trillions upon trillions of dollars required to build a spaceship capable of travelling to another solar system, even if we know it contains life, even sentient life? Yes I am sure a lot of people would like to go and investigate, but the logistics are simply insurmountable. Even if an alien race forgoes capitalism and money and profit and all that rot and solely pursues space travel for esoteric reasons, it comes down to a basic resource issue, you have to find enough fuel/energy and material to build a spaceship able to keep a crew alive for many years.
It's senseless to believe we will ever venture out of our own solar system, and it is ridiculous to assume another alien species has as well.
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The only thing easier than denialism is greenism.
Greenism is spouting off "proof" that the planet is dying and then lecturing to us we all have to change, without offering a shred or an idea on how to do it other than trite platitudes like "lets all recycle and buy hybrids".
Greenism is cool and trendy, greenists are just people that want to join the fight to alleviate their guilt but don't do anything real to save the planet as well so they are no more informed or proactive than a denialist.
Lol, I find it hilarious when marketing supersedes common sense and logic.
Only for Linux is 3.10 > 3.9
Why are open source development projects afraid of whole number changes? Are they afraid to commit to a major version? What miracle needs to be performed to get to LInux 4.0 within 10 years?
Attach this to every Californian's forehead:
"This user is too stupid to act responsibly to protect self, do not sell product to this user".
Kill with a printed gun = mandatory death sentence.
There ends the problem with printing weapons.
Maybe your karma is broken. It should be for bitching in an unrelated post as AC.
Here is where you express issues with the website:
feedback@slashdot.org
You mean like The Learning Channel? I'd like to start a petition to have this channel renamed because they haven't shown anything worth learning in over a decade.
Of course when PBS's top show is "The Antique Roadshow", PBS may not be the best place for reforming education either.
I think with Windows 8 Microsoft felt the need to be innovative and groundbreaking and so introduced Metro to work as a common bridge between the emerging Tablet market and the existing Desktop/Laptop market.
Had this been an optional interface I think the reaction would have been far more favourable. Had people not been forced to use Metro on the desktop, but instead allowed it as an optional "new" interface, people's reactions might have thought it cool and overtime more and more people might have adopted it favourably. But forcing it on everyone upfront was a huge mistake and it will ensure that desktop users will never like "metro".
Its going to be hard for Microsoft to recover from this, but they should make it optional sooner rather than later, at least turn it off by default on non-touch products because the new Metro overlay was simply not designed efficiently for use with a mouse.
Tentative LOL, I think you are being sarcastic....
Yes and bring the Nook back to a crippled Android device state again.
If the cold is getting out cooling the air on the surface of a container, then the heat is obviously getting in. Someone failed thermodynamics.
Hey World!, how about we cure cancer or figure out cheap clean unlimited energy first.
If only the world could run on pipe-dreams, what a brave brave new world it would be...
First, burning garbage is not the epitome of clean green energy. While it might be greener than coal or even natural gas its a trite solution implemented as a cheap alternative instead of finding a real clean source of energy. Also burning garbage is not a global solution to power, its only about alleviating the municipal headache of maintaining and finding new landfills.
Second, places like this are probably so consumed by an incessant need to recycle and compost that they have depleted their own source of "garbage" energy.
This is another reason why green society is just inherently Stupid (with a capital S), because its always about myopic applications of solutions without looking at the bigger picture. You can't remove all recyclables from municipal waste and then try to also power your city off of garbage, its one or the other.
I didn't RTFA because its from the BBC but I am pretty sure they are blaming extreme weather on other planets in the solar system on our excessive high levels of carbon dioxides. The article was only written to make us feel guilty and inhumane for turning on a light to read by at night for all the hell it generates across our solar system.
On screen keyboards suck, period.
Having to tap several times to get to the key you want is a nuisance. This will be the one thing that ruins any new smart watch device, assuming you must type text on the screen using a keyboard to interact with it.
At some point you have to accept that just because it has a screen and processor in it along with wireless communications does not mean it has to become a social platform or even one that requires text input.
If app designers for new smartwatch devices are thinking about solutions for how to solve on-screen typing they have already failed. There is a reason why phones are moving to larger and larger screens because people find text input on smaller screens a horrendous experience. A small 2" watch screen is not going to have any adequate method for text input, so don't bother with the functionality.
I don't see why we need smart watches, but we need them even less as a social/texting platform.
So, obviously you have not ventured out of your cave for the last 10 years...
of in this case, "almost 4000".
A smarter society would be a much better solution.
Chances are the patent application was so full of ambiguous legal gobbledygook that it would take someone on crack, or some strong mind-altering drug, to even begin to try and make sense of it.
But I think the problem is that the patent office has been slammed with just accepting everyone's bullshit that now they are probably rejecting everything out of spite.
Talking about GMO in general, no current crop today existed in nature, even supposed organic non-GMO crops. Its just like a poodle was never an actual wild animal. Humans have been screwing around with plants for 10,000 years. Just because scientists can splice a gene here and there is no different than trying to achieve the same result through multi-generational cross pollination or plant grafts. Nothing you eat today is "real" from an evolutionary natural result.
Another crowdsource fail if anybody thinks this will result in a viable product.
Microsoft has dropped the ball big time by offering not compelling enterprise device on the Windows 8 platform, phone, tablet, or otherwise.
Apple is dropping the ball with the iPhone, failing to invest any effort into innovating the platform which has become stagnant after 5 years.
So there is room for growth with the new Blackberries.
Realize that a lot of iPhone users were once Blackberry addicts, the Q10 might provide the right kind of nostalgia to bring back some of those customers who start to remember how nice it was to use a real physical keyboard rather than the sado-masochistic on screen keyboard experience that Apple offers.
As long as Blackberry does not have delusions of grandeur they should be fine. If they operate under the premise they can gain a solid and respectable 3rd place in the smartphone market and not assume they could actually overtake Apple or Android then they should continue to enjoy success with their new product line. The moment they decide to go after Apple or Android is what will kill them off quickly.
You would think, however Nexus 4 was an epic fail in delivery leaving a lot of frustration from consumers. Also why Google branded an LG/Samsung phone for Nexus and has not yet branded a Motorola phone for Nexus is beyond me, there isn't even a rumor that its in the works.
I don't think Google knows what to do with Motorola.
Google acquires Motorola, and then proceeds to have one of the worst product rollouts in recorded history with the Nexus 4 phone. I mean why Google could not leverage at least one person from Motorola on how to actually release a phone, involving an eCommerce website that would actually work and about how to create a supply chain that could actually provide phones and its accessories.
I mean what was the point of getting Motorola if not to apply it to their own phones, at least the experience of a company that has had some past success selling phones.
I think this is clearly an example where Google got too big too fast, the Nexus part of Google is not even aware that another part of Google owns a phone company.
It's actually quite stupid when you think about the idea of any two alien species making contact in our universe.
I do believe wholeheartedly there is life out there. It comes down to basic chemistry and statistic probability. Amino acids formed in some ocean on another planet that eventually lead to life. I even believe there are aliens that have figured out how to leave their planet and travel in space.
But space is too big and it is far too difficult to travel across it. Think of the massive amount of technological hurdles needed to overcome even sending humans to Mars, let alone sending humans to another solar system, even one a few light years away.
I don't accept that aliens are out there that have solved all these problems easily and can freely come and go at will. I actually think its also stupid to assume aliens are smarter than us or have figure out how to defy fundamental physics. It could very well be that all other life in our whole galaxy is nothing more than slime and single cell organisms, maybe the real miracle of our planet is that we evolved into something that could think and ponder about the universe, not just that life began on it.
And finally I agree, what motivation would there to spend the trillions upon trillions of dollars required to build a spaceship capable of travelling to another solar system, even if we know it contains life, even sentient life? Yes I am sure a lot of people would like to go and investigate, but the logistics are simply insurmountable. Even if an alien race forgoes capitalism and money and profit and all that rot and solely pursues space travel for esoteric reasons, it comes down to a basic resource issue, you have to find enough fuel/energy and material to build a spaceship able to keep a crew alive for many years.
It's senseless to believe we will ever venture out of our own solar system, and it is ridiculous to assume another alien species has as well.
I don't see how a camera removes my freedom. It only removes my freedom to commit crime.