I can't believe some of you. I have a non-functioning thyroid. I eat 1000 calories a day and walk 2 miles each day, yet I'm ~200lbs. There is absolutely nothing I can do about it, and yes I'm on a LOT of drugs for that and other health conditions. I couldn't help it that my thyroid cut out at 14 years old.
I believe you would fit into the 5% combined with the 95% to create the 100%. The outrage is directed at the 95% that does not include you. There is a basic reason for the outrage. Most of us are to a greater or lesser extent technically minded. Each of us recognizes a fundamental truth. That truth being that if there is an imbalance between fuel input and fuel expenditure then there will be a deficit or a surplus of fuel. Surplus fuel in the human body translates directly into surplus storage of that fuel in the form of fat.
Most people (even skinny people) have not a clue what their true caloric intake is. If asked almost without exception you will either receive a very low ball answer or an outright "I don't know." To further complicate things most people have not a clue how food works in the human body. Almost without exclusion people believe that if you are "hungry" you need food which of course cannot be further from the truth. People that consistently eat meals large enough cause a feeling of fullness end up stretching out their stomachs thus requiring yet more food to fill it up. Also, many assume that it the whole process can be summed up into a neat and tidy total calories for the day type deal rather than the slightly more complex reality. In reality, as caloric energy is made available for use in the body a decision is made. If there's no present need for that energy, the body elects to store it as fat. People that consume highly digestible foods (read low fiber/protein, reduced sugar, etc.) flood their body with large amounts of energy spread over very short time periods well in excess of what they require. As an added side effect since the food is highly digestible there stomach voids itself faster presenting them with a perceived need for additional food. Rinse, repeat...
Isn't it fun to take an off-center position and push it out to the extreme?
Would you folks please get a grip on yourselves. For those who think anarchy is really the best policy I would suggest you head over to Somalia for a spell where personal responsibility is in full force. There's not a government in sight and plenty of strongmen exploiting this to full advantage.
In a functional, civil society there is good reason for structure and boundaries within which its citizens are contained. It is highly unreasonable to expect every citizen to place the interests of others ahead of their own self-interest. Even if one was able to expect each person to consistently, and unambiguously behave in accordance with what each considered to be right in their own eyes you will still find that every individual has a distinct idea of what form that would take.
Civil societies are organized according to collective ideals with very good reason. I would very much encourage you to give consideration to this matter beyond the tip of your own nose. The nature of the self-serving individual mandates a collectivist approach. It is not only the responsibility of the members of that society to draw boundaries in when needed but also to push them out necessary. It is the later responsibility that ensures liberties are not unreasonably abridged.
It's infuriating. I already have a computer the size of a cell phone. It's called a "cell phone". Damn it, why can't I plug it into a TV or monitor, and plug a mouse and keyboard into it and use the damned thing like a computer?
With a $25/month subscription to our "MyComputer Integration" service you can. Please be advised that if you wish to connect the peripherals you stated the following services are required: "MyKeyboard" for $10/month, "MyMouse" for $5/month, and "MyMonitor" for $15/month. Would you care to also connect an external hard drive for only $30/month using our "MyStorage" service?
One thing Tesla could do in this market is to ally it self with one of the big US car makers, one of the ones that has no kind of experience in making 4-6 seat passenger cars that weigh in at below 5 metric tons and pack less than a 250 hp engine.
Why on earth would a company who's never seen a billion dollars in their life want to chain themselves to a failing, cash strapped auto maker who must spend a billion dollars just to develop a new vehicle line? That's like trying to use the Titanic to buoy up your dingy which happens to have a leak. The used to be, big three have terrible manufacturing expenses, inflexible manufacturing plants, and couldn't innovate their way out of a wet paper bag. This is the exact opposite of what Tesla needs. "Please Mr. Exxon would you develop a solar panel for us..."
... until somebody solders a crapload of diodes to their motherboard to drop each ram output line voltage by.7v.
I know you meant it as a joke and maybe it's just my sleep deprived mind but... Would that actually work? Could a RAM mfg. actually leverage that property of diodes to resolve this? Or is there more to the voltage issue than simply the output lines?
With all due respect just because you think all vehicles should be rectangular boxes with wheels poking out at the bottom doesn't mean that every shares that opinion.
I happen to be member of a rather sizable group that happen to think these vehicles are cute and/or just plain really cool. It's time to stop thinking that all vehicles need to look like scaled (or not so scaled) down versions of bread vans and semi tractors.
Electric Cars are coming from everywhere, in different sizes and shapes, with different concepts. Some will append the electric motor to a a ignition engine generator (making it a hybrid). Some are tricycles using solar back-up power. Others are super-sport cars. It is all very interesting.
And they will all go straight to Europe, Asia, and even South America. But I tell you not a bloody one of them will ever see large deployments here in the US. The market has been brainwashed against them, the laws and regulations are stacked against them, and the US has a failing Ford, GM, and Chrystler. The best the US will get is a 10-20% fuel economy increase on its passenger vehicles. In fact the US has already received an installment on that very thing with the 2008/09 model years.
Even in the high efficiency gas/diesel market I do not believe the US won't see anything in the near term. For example Ford came up with a really nice 65 MPG Fiesta for the 2009 model year. Trouble is, it burns diesel. In the US diesel is taxed heavily under the assumption that the primary market for diesel is the trucking industry, the major contributors to wear and tear on the highways. Recognizing this Ford didn't even plan for a US deployment and set up shop in Great Britain. Factoring the higher labor costs as well as importation expeses and you have a sure guarentee that this car will never see the US shores.
This strikes me as one of those quotes that people are going to laugh at 30 years from now, like the oft-repeated quotes on how someday computers will be 'only a few tons' and 'take up only one room'. At least, I hope so.
I regret that for the common man (sub $20K/flight) would require a fundamentally different technology for getting to orbit. Even if all the other costs were stripped out of the equation, there's just too bloody much fuel required to boost anything to orbit by means of chemical rocket.
I think it's something about announcing launches, with detailed transcripts of conversations, before they happen.
If I am remembering correctly a news outlet in China published "accidentally," the story with a conversation transcript. While it is possible that that was exactly what was going to be published following the launch/spacewalk it could well have been a "template" for the real story to be published after the launch. China likes to script and practice things with meticulous detail prior to the actual "public" event. They're trying to prove to the world and themselves that they are worthy of attention as a global powerhouse and it starts for them by putting their best foot forward. They don't want mistakes and/or embarassments and this is their way of mitigating it.
These folks have done in 10 years what has taken over 100 in the US in terms of industrialization and economics. Cut them a bit of slack... I'm grateful to the Chinese for their pursuit of space exploration. It provides healthy competition that has been lacking since the fall of the USSR. It may well be what is needed to get the money flowing back into NASA and instead of the likes of Blackwater and DoD more generally. Even if there's a bit of exageration--which may or may not be the case--it isn't as if we weren't doing the same thing to the Russians with our own space program.
MBTA never contracted them to figure this stuff out neither did DHS provide them a waiver to violate the law. This is no different than any other hacker delivering a list of discovered security flaws to a corporation or government entity. There might be a large crowd of people here on/. (myself included) that believe we have a moral obligation to report vulnerabilities to security. However, the powers that be have deemed that looking is equivalent to exploiting, and/or being accessory to exploiting. This particular incident shouldn't come as a surprise to you.
You obviously don't remember the days of Xterms running over 10baseT from a Sun server. Fully graphical workstations playing xtank and so on remotely on less bandwidth than high speed wireless.
You obviously must be living in the third world because here in the US we really don't have anything resembling the slow speed of a 10baseT.
Of course if you're one of those poor fools who fell for a service "advertising" such slow speeds you'll often find them doing fun things like randomly dropping or delaying packets on you.
Rural American service though is by far the most exceptional. In fact if you're a part of rural America you have two really nice options. A dial-up modem over high quality copper cables capable of letting you zip along at 24.4Kbps (note the small 'b') or a snazzy 1Mbps down 200Kbps up (give or take) satellite rig with ultra-low 700ms - 1500ms latency.
This new OS from Microsoft is definitely ready to take center stage! I can hardly wait to wait.
Can you point to just one example of someone telling women they're "not supposed to be interested" in IT?
As president of my local ACM student chapter, I have made it policy that our members must make all possible attempts to proselytize girls into geekdom any chance they get. One of our highest priorities for the coming year is to develop a relationship and alliance with the Asian American Student Association on campus which just so happens to consist primarily of girls. Do we get double bonus points?
MoBo Manufacturer Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux
...and I will fail to buy Foxconn.
HP, Nvidia, AMD, ASUS and kind have taken impressive steps to support the Linux community and I will continue to support them. Heck, I'm even starting to look differently at Dell. If Foxconn doesn't need (want) my business, I won't give it to them.
You can split the difference between Greek and the Teletubbies version by going with the Old King James. Using a Strong's Concordance you can match word for word to the original Greek new testament and the Aramaic/Hebrew old.
I seriously don't know how this one found its way past the hose...
In any event what you make obvious from your summary is that you are an atheist with a chip on your shoulder. Did mommy take away your freedom, regularly stuff you in formal attire and force you to be abused by a legalistic preacher?
The Codex Sinaiticus is from around 350CE your date's off by a few years. Further, the book as I understand it has pages scattered all over the world with so many missing you can't help but get a swiss cheese version of the Bible.
Mark is also not the only mention of Jesus' resurrection. There's not a book of the new testament that doesn't either allude to or outright proclaim it. The old testament has all manner of prophecy speaking of it as well. I really don't understand the point you were trying to make.
Perhaps you should step off your prejudices for a bit and take a fresh look at the subject before you spray any more ignorant non-sense.
It is my personal opinion that the patent office is a group of underfunded, no talent, ass clowns. That said they're also grossly understaffed. Each patent application is a ream of paper in and of itself. What self respecting person would read every page and make a rational, logical judgment in the face of 50 more where that came from before the week is done?
They're not where we should be pointing fingers. It's the short sighted, greasy fingered rejects on capitol hill whom we, in our own stupidity allowed into office. They're the ones that made it possible for anything and everything to be claimed as "property." They're they ones responsible for creating a system where innovation requires a team of patent lawyers and untold millions to pay off the half dozen trolls out there hoping to make a buck on any and every idea ranging from obvious to obscure. They're the ones that require businesses to create "lawsuit funds" or purchase "lawsuit insurance." The trolls themselves are despicable, but expected, and should have been accounted for when these laws were written up.
How is this news? In the US at least ISPs have been sending people off to http://wwwwh.found-not-help.com/ type places with DNS spoofing magic for years.
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I still favor a geek colony on Mars.
Is this Germany's idea of an apology for past transgressions?
Sure it might "help" VB but just think of the possibilities with PHP...
$numberClueless = "0";
if(empty($numberClueless)) print("Yay for PHP");
I can't believe some of you. I have a non-functioning thyroid. I eat 1000 calories a day and walk 2 miles each day, yet I'm ~200lbs. There is absolutely nothing I can do about it, and yes I'm on a LOT of drugs for that and other health conditions. I couldn't help it that my thyroid cut out at 14 years old.
I believe you would fit into the 5% combined with the 95% to create the 100%. The outrage is directed at the 95% that does not include you. There is a basic reason for the outrage. Most of us are to a greater or lesser extent technically minded. Each of us recognizes a fundamental truth. That truth being that if there is an imbalance between fuel input and fuel expenditure then there will be a deficit or a surplus of fuel. Surplus fuel in the human body translates directly into surplus storage of that fuel in the form of fat.
Most people (even skinny people) have not a clue what their true caloric intake is. If asked almost without exception you will either receive a very low ball answer or an outright "I don't know." To further complicate things most people have not a clue how food works in the human body. Almost without exclusion people believe that if you are "hungry" you need food which of course cannot be further from the truth. People that consistently eat meals large enough cause a feeling of fullness end up stretching out their stomachs thus requiring yet more food to fill it up. Also, many assume that it the whole process can be summed up into a neat and tidy total calories for the day type deal rather than the slightly more complex reality. In reality, as caloric energy is made available for use in the body a decision is made. If there's no present need for that energy, the body elects to store it as fat. People that consume highly digestible foods (read low fiber/protein, reduced sugar, etc.) flood their body with large amounts of energy spread over very short time periods well in excess of what they require. As an added side effect since the food is highly digestible there stomach voids itself faster presenting them with a perceived need for additional food. Rinse, repeat...
Isn't it fun to take an off-center position and push it out to the extreme?
Would you folks please get a grip on yourselves. For those who think anarchy is really the best policy I would suggest you head over to Somalia for a spell where personal responsibility is in full force. There's not a government in sight and plenty of strongmen exploiting this to full advantage.
In a functional, civil society there is good reason for structure and boundaries within which its citizens are contained. It is highly unreasonable to expect every citizen to place the interests of others ahead of their own self-interest. Even if one was able to expect each person to consistently, and unambiguously behave in accordance with what each considered to be right in their own eyes you will still find that every individual has a distinct idea of what form that would take.
Civil societies are organized according to collective ideals with very good reason. I would very much encourage you to give consideration to this matter beyond the tip of your own nose. The nature of the self-serving individual mandates a collectivist approach. It is not only the responsibility of the members of that society to draw boundaries in when needed but also to push them out necessary. It is the later responsibility that ensures liberties are not unreasonably abridged.
We must have very different notions of close. I personally cannot begin to imagine how one could consider 190 million AU to be close.
So now it takes an entire global cluster of computers to run their OS?
It's infuriating. I already have a computer the size of a cell phone. It's called a "cell phone". Damn it, why can't I plug it into a TV or monitor, and plug a mouse and keyboard into it and use the damned thing like a computer?
With a $25/month subscription to our "MyComputer Integration" service you can. Please be advised that if you wish to connect the peripherals you stated the following services are required: "MyKeyboard" for $10/month, "MyMouse" for $5/month, and "MyMonitor" for $15/month. Would you care to also connect an external hard drive for only $30/month using our "MyStorage" service?
One thing Tesla could do in this market is to ally it self with one of the big US car makers, one of the ones that has no kind of experience in making 4-6 seat passenger cars that weigh in at below 5 metric tons and pack less than a 250 hp engine.
Why on earth would a company who's never seen a billion dollars in their life want to chain themselves to a failing, cash strapped auto maker who must spend a billion dollars just to develop a new vehicle line? That's like trying to use the Titanic to buoy up your dingy which happens to have a leak. The used to be, big three have terrible manufacturing expenses, inflexible manufacturing plants, and couldn't innovate their way out of a wet paper bag. This is the exact opposite of what Tesla needs. "Please Mr. Exxon would you develop a solar panel for us..."
... until somebody solders a crapload of diodes to their motherboard to drop each ram output line voltage by .7v.
I know you meant it as a joke and maybe it's just my sleep deprived mind but... Would that actually work? Could a RAM mfg. actually leverage that property of diodes to resolve this? Or is there more to the voltage issue than simply the output lines?
With all due respect just because you think all vehicles should be rectangular boxes with wheels poking out at the bottom doesn't mean that every shares that opinion.
I happen to be member of a rather sizable group that happen to think these vehicles are cute and/or just plain really cool. It's time to stop thinking that all vehicles need to look like scaled (or not so scaled) down versions of bread vans and semi tractors.
You show me yours and I'll show you mine...
Electric Cars are coming from everywhere, in different sizes and shapes, with different concepts. Some will append the electric motor to a a ignition engine generator (making it a hybrid). Some are tricycles using solar back-up power. Others are super-sport cars. It is all very interesting.
And they will all go straight to Europe, Asia, and even South America. But I tell you not a bloody one of them will ever see large deployments here in the US. The market has been brainwashed against them, the laws and regulations are stacked against them, and the US has a failing Ford, GM, and Chrystler. The best the US will get is a 10-20% fuel economy increase on its passenger vehicles. In fact the US has already received an installment on that very thing with the 2008/09 model years.
Even in the high efficiency gas/diesel market I do not believe the US won't see anything in the near term. For example Ford came up with a really nice 65 MPG Fiesta for the 2009 model year. Trouble is, it burns diesel. In the US diesel is taxed heavily under the assumption that the primary market for diesel is the trucking industry, the major contributors to wear and tear on the highways. Recognizing this Ford didn't even plan for a US deployment and set up shop in Great Britain. Factoring the higher labor costs as well as importation expeses and you have a sure guarentee that this car will never see the US shores.
I run Gentoo on my notebook.
This strikes me as one of those quotes that people are going to laugh at 30 years from now, like the oft-repeated quotes on how someday computers will be 'only a few tons' and 'take up only one room'. At least, I hope so.
I regret that for the common man (sub $20K/flight) would require a fundamentally different technology for getting to orbit. Even if all the other costs were stripped out of the equation, there's just too bloody much fuel required to boost anything to orbit by means of chemical rocket.
I think it's something about announcing launches, with detailed transcripts of conversations, before they happen.
If I am remembering correctly a news outlet in China published "accidentally," the story with a conversation transcript. While it is possible that that was exactly what was going to be published following the launch/spacewalk it could well have been a "template" for the real story to be published after the launch. China likes to script and practice things with meticulous detail prior to the actual "public" event. They're trying to prove to the world and themselves that they are worthy of attention as a global powerhouse and it starts for them by putting their best foot forward. They don't want mistakes and/or embarassments and this is their way of mitigating it.
These folks have done in 10 years what has taken over 100 in the US in terms of industrialization and economics. Cut them a bit of slack... I'm grateful to the Chinese for their pursuit of space exploration. It provides healthy competition that has been lacking since the fall of the USSR. It may well be what is needed to get the money flowing back into NASA and instead of the likes of Blackwater and DoD more generally. Even if there's a bit of exageration--which may or may not be the case--it isn't as if we weren't doing the same thing to the Russians with our own space program.
MBTA never contracted them to figure this stuff out neither did DHS provide them a waiver to violate the law. This is no different than any other hacker delivering a list of discovered security flaws to a corporation or government entity. There might be a large crowd of people here on /. (myself included) that believe we have a moral obligation to report vulnerabilities to security. However, the powers that be have deemed that looking is equivalent to exploiting, and/or being accessory to exploiting. This particular incident shouldn't come as a surprise to you.
You obviously don't remember the days of Xterms running over 10baseT from a Sun server. Fully graphical workstations playing xtank and so on remotely on less bandwidth than high speed wireless.
You obviously must be living in the third world because here in the US we really don't have anything resembling the slow speed of a 10baseT.
Of course if you're one of those poor fools who fell for a service "advertising" such slow speeds you'll often find them doing fun things like randomly dropping or delaying packets on you.
Rural American service though is by far the most exceptional. In fact if you're a part of rural America you have two really nice options. A dial-up modem over high quality copper cables capable of letting you zip along at 24.4Kbps (note the small 'b') or a snazzy 1Mbps down 200Kbps up (give or take) satellite rig with ultra-low 700ms - 1500ms latency.
This new OS from Microsoft is definitely ready to take center stage! I can hardly wait to wait.
Can you point to just one example of someone telling women they're "not supposed to be interested" in IT?
As president of my local ACM student chapter, I have made it policy that our members must make all possible attempts to proselytize girls into geekdom any chance they get. One of our highest priorities for the coming year is to develop a relationship and alliance with the Asian American Student Association on campus which just so happens to consist primarily of girls. Do we get double bonus points?
MoBo Manufacturer Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux
...and I will fail to buy Foxconn.
HP, Nvidia, AMD, ASUS and kind have taken impressive steps to support the Linux community and I will continue to support them. Heck, I'm even starting to look differently at Dell. If Foxconn doesn't need (want) my business, I won't give it to them.
You can split the difference between Greek and the Teletubbies version by going with the Old King James. Using a Strong's Concordance you can match word for word to the original Greek new testament and the Aramaic/Hebrew old.
I seriously don't know how this one found its way past the hose...
In any event what you make obvious from your summary is that you are an atheist with a chip on your shoulder. Did mommy take away your freedom, regularly stuff you in formal attire and force you to be abused by a legalistic preacher?
The Codex Sinaiticus is from around 350CE your date's off by a few years. Further, the book as I understand it has pages scattered all over the world with so many missing you can't help but get a swiss cheese version of the Bible.
Mark is also not the only mention of Jesus' resurrection. There's not a book of the new testament that doesn't either allude to or outright proclaim it. The old testament has all manner of prophecy speaking of it as well. I really don't understand the point you were trying to make.
Perhaps you should step off your prejudices for a bit and take a fresh look at the subject before you spray any more ignorant non-sense.
It is my personal opinion that the patent office is a group of underfunded, no talent, ass clowns. That said they're also grossly understaffed. Each patent application is a ream of paper in and of itself. What self respecting person would read every page and make a rational, logical judgment in the face of 50 more where that came from before the week is done?
They're not where we should be pointing fingers. It's the short sighted, greasy fingered rejects on capitol hill whom we, in our own stupidity allowed into office. They're the ones that made it possible for anything and everything to be claimed as "property." They're they ones responsible for creating a system where innovation requires a team of patent lawyers and untold millions to pay off the half dozen trolls out there hoping to make a buck on any and every idea ranging from obvious to obscure. They're the ones that require businesses to create "lawsuit funds" or purchase "lawsuit insurance." The trolls themselves are despicable, but expected, and should have been accounted for when these laws were written up.
How is this news? In the US at least ISPs have been sending people off to http://wwwwh.found-not-help.com/ type places with DNS spoofing magic for years.
They were playing "Global Thermonuclear War" back in the early 80's on much less than Pentiums...