And that sums up the average Linux zealot mindset. "If it's not something I would personally do then it's not important and therefore the fact that I can't do it on Linux is equally unimportant."
Because the people that develop Linux are the ones that think this way, the multitude of apps and ease of use that the average Windows user demands will be a long time coming to Linux.
Yes you are wrong. You don't know jack about Wal-Mart obviously. Get a clue and come back when you aren't so ignorant.
There is no question about their hiring practices. They hire people at the going rate and provide benefits to anyone that is willing to cost share with the company.
I don't want to subsidize Mom and Pop stores if they are not competitive. If you do, then go there and pay more money for a smaller selection of goods. That has nothing to do with the Wal-Mart business model of providing good quality products at the lowest prices.
Wal-Mart already knows if their prices are too high or too low you moron. They go shopping everyday at their competitors stores so they can ALWAYS have the lowest price. If they are going to squeeze anyone it will be their suppliers. Of course they then pass the savings on to the consumer so that the consumer will buy more, thus the company makes a larger profit.
We should pay farmers not to farm. We should pay businesses that are not profitable to stay in business. We should buy insurance for people that don't think they need it and refuse to buy it for themselves.
Liberal imbecile. Take your political agenda elsewhere, like to Europe.
Next thing you'll be saying is that oil companies aren't trying to make as much possible money as they can for their shareholders. Brush up on why America has been such a succesful nation and then take your drivel elsewhere.
Wal-Mart is as American as it gets.
[..] " Net Neutrality is certainly something that is required for the Internet to operate. If [..]
Well thought out. However, who's to say taht the Internet will even survive? or should it for that matter?
What will evolve will be what joe six-pack is willing to pay for and gives him the best value. If he can't get somewhere on the net then he will go somewhere else. He will buy the service that suits his needs. The Internet was nice. Maybe it's time to move to "tiered targeted data delivery services" if that's what consumers want.
The chances of "someone outside the US" sending a bogus email about everyone is so small as to be ridiculous. After the forum members nit pick the semantics of the policy, and then go through every ridiculous iteration or probability, there will be one logical conclusion.
Here is the apparent fact. The university is tired of the escalating number of complaints about users using their resources to steal content. The obvious conclusion will be, either don't steal music or plan on taking it like a man if you caught doing so.
Of course it would not be able to destroy enemy armor. It would do quite well against a North Korean spec ops soldier in the DMZ. They tend to travel very light and it is doubtful that the average infantry soldier would be armed to decisively defeat the robot.
Your land mines would not control terrain as effectively as half a dozen of these robots on high ground defending a 500 yard choke point. I would venture to say they would definitely ruin the day of a light infantry squad. At the very least this weapon will slow someone WAY down, thus giving time to employ other weapon systems on the target. Why couldn't this unit be modified to call in artillery if the attacking force appeared to be overwhelming? It could upload the fire mission to guns that can also fire with a minimum of manual intervention. It's all about not exposing your soldiers to enemy fire.
Like it or not this is just the beginning of these type of systems. It sure beats laying prone in the rock hard frozen dirt at 0200 in the DMZ in January, listening to North Korean loud speakers trying to put you to sleep playing shitty classical music.
How would a graduate mathemtician communicate with a chemist, via let's say a professional journal, if she didn't know how to write in standard English? I can see it now, the cover article ofr the January 2025 Scientific American will start with, "got kewl idea 4 u 2 scope."
As an example, Perl (I will not use.NET as an example since this is Slashdot) depends on proper spelling and grammar used in unnatural constructs. Learning how to do things "properly" used to be a given, and something that the majority strived for. Now, "perfecting the details" (learning how to write in standard English for example) is an unnecessary a bother that cuts into time that is better used for watching MTV and such. We live in the land of "close enough." The problem is that in many cases close enough isn't good enough.
The difference, as I see it, is that road sensor data is not personally identifiable. The position of your cell phone is.
There are plenty of privacy issues attached. Where you drive on a daily basis could be calculated and cataloged. An alert could be set for when ANYONE leaves their "sandbox." The alert would not have to be immediately attended to by a person. It could simply be a matter of assigning more computing resources until a higher threshold of suspicion was reached. Finally a human could have a real time video, of whatever container your cell phone was in at the time, pop up his screen with trend data and probability analysis of your most likely destinations and intentions.
If the storage and computing power isn't there yet, which I have a hunch it already is, then it is just a matter of time before this is technically feasible. That is just one example. An imaginative person (or government) could think of many more.
If negative or positive publicity can be timed it will. What is the big surprise? Now for the real shocker, it's okay if they did. It's called politics.
The revelations about Ted Haggart appear to be timed to the elections as well. Again, not a surprise, business as usual.
Very few people need convincing that "all Democrats are soft on terror" or "all Republicans care about are big business." I think the impact of this is negligible.
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And that sums up the average Linux zealot mindset. "If it's not something I would personally do then it's not important and therefore the fact that I can't do it on Linux is equally unimportant."
Because the people that develop Linux are the ones that think this way, the multitude of apps and ease of use that the average Windows user demands will be a long time coming to Linux.
Yes you are wrong. You don't know jack about Wal-Mart obviously. Get a clue and come back when you aren't so ignorant. There is no question about their hiring practices. They hire people at the going rate and provide benefits to anyone that is willing to cost share with the company. I don't want to subsidize Mom and Pop stores if they are not competitive. If you do, then go there and pay more money for a smaller selection of goods. That has nothing to do with the Wal-Mart business model of providing good quality products at the lowest prices. Wal-Mart already knows if their prices are too high or too low you moron. They go shopping everyday at their competitors stores so they can ALWAYS have the lowest price. If they are going to squeeze anyone it will be their suppliers. Of course they then pass the savings on to the consumer so that the consumer will buy more, thus the company makes a larger profit. We should pay farmers not to farm. We should pay businesses that are not profitable to stay in business. We should buy insurance for people that don't think they need it and refuse to buy it for themselves. Liberal imbecile. Take your political agenda elsewhere, like to Europe. Next thing you'll be saying is that oil companies aren't trying to make as much possible money as they can for their shareholders. Brush up on why America has been such a succesful nation and then take your drivel elsewhere. Wal-Mart is as American as it gets.
[..] " Net Neutrality is certainly something that is required for the Internet to operate. If [..] Well thought out. However, who's to say taht the Internet will even survive? or should it for that matter? What will evolve will be what joe six-pack is willing to pay for and gives him the best value. If he can't get somewhere on the net then he will go somewhere else. He will buy the service that suits his needs. The Internet was nice. Maybe it's time to move to "tiered targeted data delivery services" if that's what consumers want.
The chances of "someone outside the US" sending a bogus email about everyone is so small as to be ridiculous. After the forum members nit pick the semantics of the policy, and then go through every ridiculous iteration or probability, there will be one logical conclusion.
Here is the apparent fact. The university is tired of the escalating number of complaints about users using their resources to steal content. The obvious conclusion will be, either don't steal music or plan on taking it like a man if you caught doing so.
Nah, just put it up on TorrentSpy, I will grab it with Azeureus.
Never is a long time.
Of course it would not be able to destroy enemy armor. It would do quite well against a North Korean spec ops soldier in the DMZ. They tend to travel very light and it is doubtful that the average infantry soldier would be armed to decisively defeat the robot.
Your land mines would not control terrain as effectively as half a dozen of these robots on high ground defending a 500 yard choke point. I would venture to say they would definitely ruin the day of a light infantry squad. At the very least this weapon will slow someone WAY down, thus giving time to employ other weapon systems on the target. Why couldn't this unit be modified to call in artillery if the attacking force appeared to be overwhelming? It could upload the fire mission to guns that can also fire with a minimum of manual intervention. It's all about not exposing your soldiers to enemy fire.
Like it or not this is just the beginning of these type of systems. It sure beats laying prone in the rock hard frozen dirt at 0200 in the DMZ in January, listening to North Korean loud speakers trying to put you to sleep playing shitty classical music.
The definition of the word 'steal' per the Princeton University website is:
to take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"
How would a graduate mathemtician communicate with a chemist, via let's say a professional journal, if she didn't know how to write in standard English? I can see it now, the cover article ofr the January 2025 Scientific American will start with, "got kewl idea 4 u 2 scope."
As an example, Perl (I will not use .NET as an example since this is Slashdot) depends on proper spelling and grammar used in unnatural constructs. Learning how to do things "properly" used to be a given, and something that the majority strived for. Now, "perfecting the details" (learning how to write in standard English for example) is an unnecessary a bother that cuts into time that is better used for watching MTV and such. We live in the land of "close enough." The problem is that in many cases close enough isn't good enough.
The difference, as I see it, is that road sensor data is not personally identifiable. The position of your cell phone is.
There are plenty of privacy issues attached. Where you drive on a daily basis could be calculated and cataloged. An alert could be set for when ANYONE leaves their "sandbox." The alert would not have to be immediately attended to by a person. It could simply be a matter of assigning more computing resources until a higher threshold of suspicion was reached. Finally a human could have a real time video, of whatever container your cell phone was in at the time, pop up his screen with trend data and probability analysis of your most likely destinations and intentions.
If the storage and computing power isn't there yet, which I have a hunch it already is, then it is just a matter of time before this is technically feasible. That is just one example. An imaginative person (or government) could think of many more.
Mike
If negative or positive publicity can be timed it will. What is the big surprise? Now for the real shocker, it's okay if they did. It's called politics.
The revelations about Ted Haggart appear to be timed to the elections as well. Again, not a surprise, business as usual.
Very few people need convincing that "all Democrats are soft on terror" or "all Republicans care about are big business." I think the impact of this is negligible.
Mike