The Adams family's lawyers are sending the takedown notice now... also, reading a slashdot story is now a felony, since the content is cryptographically protected by slashdot's patented Rot-13 DRM technology.
Like everything the fuels industry touches, it will make water more expensive than it already is.
Water expensive? Maybe in a desert, but everywhere else, distilled water falls from the sky. Most of the Earth's surface is good old dihydrogen monoxide. How is the fuels industry making water expensive?
It looks like I'm a bit more ignorant than I thought. Hello, wikipedia?
Electrolysis
Currently, the majority of hydrogen (â¼95%) is produced from fossil fuels by steam reforming or partial oxidation of methane and coal gasification with only a small quantity by other routes such as biomass gasification or electrolysis of water.[14] There are three main types of cells, solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOEC's), polymer electrolyte membrane cells (PEM) and alkaline electrolysis cells (AEC's). SOEC's operate at high temperatures, typically around 800ÂC. At these high temperatures a significant amount of the energy required can be provided as thermal energy (heat). This energy can be provided from a number of different sources, including waste industrial heat, nuclear power stations or concentrated solar thermal plants. This has the potential to reduce the overall cost of the hydrogen produced by reducing the amount of electrical energy required for electrolysis.[14][15][16][17] PEM electrolysis cells typically operate below 100ÂC and are becoming increasingly available commercially.[14] These cells have the advantage of being comparatively simple and can be designed to accept widely varying voltage inputs which makes them ideal for use with renewable sources of energy such as solar PV.[18] AEC's optimally operate at high concentrations electrolyte (KOH or potassium carbonate) and at high temperatures, often near 200 ÂC.
Nope, I'm still ignorant. I thought all it took was a DC current and saltwater, with oxygen bubbling from one lead and hydrogen from the other?
Can one of you guys enlighten me? I hate being ignorant.
Don't quit your day job. Sheesh... can I have a toke of that? Mybe it would be funny if I were stoned enough. Howecer, that lame "Hahahhaha funny" would spoil it no matter how much I'd smoked.
I still remember watching the first episode of Star Trek: TNG and thinking that it stunk and I completely gave up on the show at that point. I then rejoined the party in season 2 and ended up loving the series, for the most part.
What's funny is I watched that first episode (part 1) and thought, meh... they did Q before. I was hooked by the second episode (part 2).
TNG had a few stinkers but overall, I think it's better than TOS -- and I saw TOS in 1966.
As to the Matrix, if it were two normal length movies rather than three with two of those being pretty long, the sequel (sequels with most of both movies excised) it would have been pretty good.
But, most likely I fear we'll get Matrix2&3 in fifteen hour long episodes...
You obviously have a job, so you can afford a Windows HTPC where XBMC can launch Netflix.
You don't think the computers we Linux users use came with Linux preinstalled? WTF do you think we got rid of Windows for, anyway? Any "remedy" that requires Windows is no remedy at all for a Linux user.
We're on Linux because Windows simply pissed us off too much. Once you've used a real OS it's really hard to go back to Microsoft's toy OS, and nobody's going to jump through hoops to pay Netflix when it will be on TPB. Let me run it on the OS I use without having to buy more shit and I'll pay, but fuck 'em if they're going to be stupid.
I'll pay for Guinness even if Old Milwaukee is free, but I'm not paying for Old Milwaukee when Guinness is free. In fact, if all I can choose is Old Milwaukee I'll stay sober. Microsoft is the Old Milwaukee of software (except it isn't cheap).
In the meantime, Android is Linux-based and Netflix runs on it. It should be relatively easy to make the Netflix addon for XBMC kick it off.
Indeed, they flip me the bird yet still want my money? Fuck that.
1. I'm running kubuntu, and the instructions are for (ugh) Unity 2. I already have Flash installed and they want me to use the Microsoft flash (silverlight) that's only used on Netflix and maybe 3 other sites on the entire internet? All the TV networks use Flash, why do Netflix have to be such dicks? 3. Are they going to give me a free copy of Wine? It isn't like NetFlix is free! 4. Fuck 'em, if I have to jump through hoops and pay more than a Windows user to watch it I'm not going to bother, this will be on TPB. I'll watch it the same way Europeans will have to. 5. When did slashdot bork the <ol> tag?
What you get that way is an OR clause between the two security paradigms of knowing and having something
No, it's still knowing something. If you lose the paper, it's nothing but a random string of characters to anyone finding it. It could even be disguised as something else, like a street address or a shopping list. I will agree that writing down "work email login LSD486 pw $ed7VXr7&f" would be stupid.
So its not like you have to search the entire hard drive.
No, but it has to load and process each picture on the drive, and unless you have a lot of pictures you wouldn't get much use out of this.
More RAM than the users know what to do with. Hell I've been selling 4GB as standard for a good 5 plus years now and while I still run into plenty of 2GB systems you could split off 25% of that RAM and the user would never notice.
True, but it seems that since it would be so computationally intensive, the app would probably eat all four gigs and completely overwhelm a twot gig machine.
I'm sorry but Linux has gone off the rails the past couple of years. KDE 4, Gnomeshell and Pulse all suck balls, not as good as what they had before and sucks more resources for less features and stability.
I've always hated Gmome and haven't used Pulse, but I've read it's crap. As to KDE, it runs rings around Windows in terms of speed, features, and useability. I don't know of a single feature Windows has that KDE lacks, could you enlighten me? I'm running W7 on this laptop right now, and my KDE box with less ram and a slower HD (old computer) boots faster, shuts down faster, displays things faster, has features Windows lacks and hasn't had a hiccup, but if I leave the notebook running too long it gets flaky without a reboot.
And don't get me started on the wireless sitch, that is a fucking mess.
I've never had that problem, it just works. I had kubuntu on the last laptop (it got stolen in a burglary) and its wifi was flawless. I got bluetooth dongles for the Linux tower and the notebook, and honestly doubted it would work on the Linux box because there was an install CD for Mac and Windows, but not Linux. Surprisingly, no installation was necessary except plugging in the dongle.
The problem with Linux is its too damned divided
I see choice as a benefit, not a detriment. If I had to use Gnome I wouldn't even use Linux, there are Gnome users who think the same about KDE.
and none of them seem to give a shit about what the users want.
Why should they? They write the programs they want and give them to the community. Plus, I don't see Microsoft giving users what they want, either -- W8, anyone? What they did to FoxPro after they bought it was a damned shame. They completely ruined a damned good DBMS, now Access has me SO looking forward to retirement!
Considering how tightly this would have to interact with all the various subsystems and the kernel?
Easier on Linux than Windows. As to the development cost, I agree. If anyone did it, it would be Apple.
No, they left binaries on the devices and took data. That's more analogous to someone going into your unlocked house and trading your copy of LOTR with a candy bar wrapper left on the floor. Much more than simple trespass, it's trespassing, littering, vandalism, and theft.
Take it to the race track where you can use those 400 horses. You realize that it's not horsepower that puts you back in your seat, but torque? There's no way to use 400 horses on a public highway.
I think you are wrong and here is why: As a retailer I've found the VAST majority of PCs? Spend most of their lives in idle.
That sounds accurate, but you're talking about searching hard drives, which are pretty slow. A database of pictures would speed it up and in fact be necessary, not just for speed but for a referent. Anything the program couldn't recognize, like your relatives' and friends' names, would have to be entered manually. Maybe PCs are up to snuff, but the user first setting up the system would have a lot of work and if he had a lot of pictures it would be pretty time-intensive because of the hard drive bottleneck. And look at how much antivirus slows a system down.
As far as who could pull it off? as much as I hate them as a company Apple would be the only ones i could see pulling this off
I agree, but for different reasons. The Linux systems would handle it easily; my Linux box is pretty old but it runs circles around my Windows 7 box. But I'm pretty sure it would need a large, coordinated team of people with differing skills so I'm not sure FOSS could pull it off. Not Windows for sure, their software makes me think they've gotten too dysfunctional to pull it off. Your guess as to what it would cost seems pretty accurate.
I think we'll see it sooner or later, but I'd bet on later.
The news is that maybe this will be disseminated to people who don't read slashdot. Too bad it's just a G+ post, normal (non nerds) people need to learn about this stuff. And the only ones who can teach them is us.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a bigger push towards e-books. That is a way around the "problem" for the publishers.
That would be fine with me. I have The Paxil Diaries in ebook form and you can have a copy for free. I plan on putting it in dead tree form and if I make any money it will be from sale of a physical object; I see ebooks and MP3s as a way to get it in front of a wider audience and hey, the more people read it and like it, the more the word will spread. I put it on TPB (or made the attempt, even registered so I could upload the.tor file). Give away as many copies as you like, that means more real physical books will get sold.
I'm working on a second right now. It's only partly finished and what's done is a very rough draft, but you can read what's done right here at slashdot. It's unfinished (I'll post a new chapter tonight or tomorrow), rough, has inconsistencies and typos that I need to fix, but you can read it for free and when it's finished and fixed and polished the e-version will be free as well. Like Doctorow, I say if you like it and want to contribute and don't have room for real books, buy a copy and donate it to a library or someone.
I've already sold a copy and its first draft isn't finished! Free sells, if what you're giving away is something people want.
I think it will be a long time before bookshelves are obsolete. If the major publishers go for DRM ebooks and stop selling real books, that's a great opportunity for people like me. I hope they do!
Mormons think drinking is a sin, which I though made it hilarious when people say Obama is a Muslim. I've seen Obama on TV drinking a beer, which made Romney more of a Muslim than Obama; Muslims don't drink, either.
My ex-wife became a Mormon after our divorce, and married the guy she was fucking when she was married to me in a Mormon church. My kids weren't allowed to attend, since they're not Mormon.
"John the baptist comes neither eating or drinking and you say he has a devil. The son of man comes eating and drinking and you say he is a glutton and a winebibber".
Stupid Mormons' bibles obviously don't match mine.
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Don't panic. You don't have to do anything at all
The Adams family's lawyers are sending the takedown notice now... also, reading a slashdot story is now a felony, since the content is cryptographically protected by slashdot's patented Rot-13 DRM technology.
Gotta love them lawyers!
Like everything the fuels industry touches, it will make water more expensive than it already is.
Water expensive? Maybe in a desert, but everywhere else, distilled water falls from the sky. Most of the Earth's surface is good old dihydrogen monoxide. How is the fuels industry making water expensive?
It looks like I'm a bit more ignorant than I thought. Hello, wikipedia?
Nope, I'm still ignorant. I thought all it took was a DC current and saltwater, with oxygen bubbling from one lead and hydrogen from the other?
Can one of you guys enlighten me? I hate being ignorant.
To those of us to understand the pun it's just too obvious to be funny.
Hahahhaha funny.
Don't quit your day job. Sheesh... can I have a toke of that? Mybe it would be funny if I were stoned enough. Howecer, that lame "Hahahhaha funny" would spoil it no matter how much I'd smoked.
-1, vastly overrated.
If you're throwing "facts" around, saying "it's documented" is pretty damned lame without a citation.
I still remember watching the first episode of Star Trek: TNG and thinking that it stunk and I completely gave up on the show at that point. I then rejoined the party in season 2 and ended up loving the series, for the most part.
What's funny is I watched that first episode (part 1) and thought, meh... they did Q before. I was hooked by the second episode (part 2).
TNG had a few stinkers but overall, I think it's better than TOS -- and I saw TOS in 1966.
As to the Matrix, if it were two normal length movies rather than three with two of those being pretty long, the sequel (sequels with most of both movies excised) it would have been pretty good.
But, most likely I fear we'll get Matrix2&3 in fifteen hour long episodes...
You obviously have a job, so you can afford a Windows HTPC where XBMC can launch Netflix.
You don't think the computers we Linux users use came with Linux preinstalled? WTF do you think we got rid of Windows for, anyway? Any "remedy" that requires Windows is no remedy at all for a Linux user.
We're on Linux because Windows simply pissed us off too much. Once you've used a real OS it's really hard to go back to Microsoft's toy OS, and nobody's going to jump through hoops to pay Netflix when it will be on TPB. Let me run it on the OS I use without having to buy more shit and I'll pay, but fuck 'em if they're going to be stupid.
I'll pay for Guinness even if Old Milwaukee is free, but I'm not paying for Old Milwaukee when Guinness is free. In fact, if all I can choose is Old Milwaukee I'll stay sober. Microsoft is the Old Milwaukee of software (except it isn't cheap).
In the meantime, Android is Linux-based and Netflix runs on it. It should be relatively easy to make the Netflix addon for XBMC kick it off.
Indeed, they flip me the bird yet still want my money? Fuck that.
1. I'm running kubuntu, and the instructions are for (ugh) Unity
2. I already have Flash installed and they want me to use the Microsoft flash (silverlight) that's only used on Netflix and maybe 3 other sites on the entire internet? All the TV networks use Flash, why do Netflix have to be such dicks?
3. Are they going to give me a free copy of Wine? It isn't like NetFlix is free!
4. Fuck 'em, if I have to jump through hoops and pay more than a Windows user to watch it I'm not going to bother, this will be on TPB. I'll watch it the same way Europeans will have to.
5. When did slashdot bork the <ol> tag?
What you get that way is an OR clause between the two security paradigms of knowing and having something
No, it's still knowing something. If you lose the paper, it's nothing but a random string of characters to anyone finding it. It could even be disguised as something else, like a street address or a shopping list. I will agree that writing down "work email login LSD486 pw $ed7VXr7&f" would be stupid.
Key cards for every machine and every employee could get expensive, but pencil and paper are practically free.
So its not like you have to search the entire hard drive.
No, but it has to load and process each picture on the drive, and unless you have a lot of pictures you wouldn't get much use out of this.
More RAM than the users know what to do with. Hell I've been selling 4GB as standard for a good 5 plus years now and while I still run into plenty of 2GB systems you could split off 25% of that RAM and the user would never notice.
True, but it seems that since it would be so computationally intensive, the app would probably eat all four gigs and completely overwhelm a twot gig machine.
I'm sorry but Linux has gone off the rails the past couple of years. KDE 4, Gnomeshell and Pulse all suck balls, not as good as what they had before and sucks more resources for less features and stability.
I've always hated Gmome and haven't used Pulse, but I've read it's crap. As to KDE, it runs rings around Windows in terms of speed, features, and useability. I don't know of a single feature Windows has that KDE lacks, could you enlighten me? I'm running W7 on this laptop right now, and my KDE box with less ram and a slower HD (old computer) boots faster, shuts down faster, displays things faster, has features Windows lacks and hasn't had a hiccup, but if I leave the notebook running too long it gets flaky without a reboot.
And don't get me started on the wireless sitch, that is a fucking mess.
I've never had that problem, it just works. I had kubuntu on the last laptop (it got stolen in a burglary) and its wifi was flawless. I got bluetooth dongles for the Linux tower and the notebook, and honestly doubted it would work on the Linux box because there was an install CD for Mac and Windows, but not Linux. Surprisingly, no installation was necessary except plugging in the dongle.
The problem with Linux is its too damned divided
I see choice as a benefit, not a detriment. If I had to use Gnome I wouldn't even use Linux, there are Gnome users who think the same about KDE.
and none of them seem to give a shit about what the users want.
Why should they? They write the programs they want and give them to the community. Plus, I don't see Microsoft giving users what they want, either -- W8, anyone? What they did to FoxPro after they bought it was a damned shame. They completely ruined a damned good DBMS, now Access has me SO looking forward to retirement!
Considering how tightly this would have to interact with all the various subsystems and the kernel?
Easier on Linux than Windows. As to the development cost, I agree. If anyone did it, it would be Apple.
No, they left binaries on the devices and took data. That's more analogous to someone going into your unlocked house and trading your copy of LOTR with a candy bar wrapper left on the floor. Much more than simple trespass, it's trespassing, littering, vandalism, and theft.
The Who? Pink Floyd? Disaster Area????
The PC using a TV as a monitor is running kubuntu right now. Guess I'll have to RTFAs to see what system requirements are...
Take it to the race track where you can use those 400 horses. You realize that it's not horsepower that puts you back in your seat, but torque? There's no way to use 400 horses on a public highway.
Oh, users should be told "not to write down passwords".
I disagree, they should pick a strong password, write it down, and keep it somewhere secure, like their wallet.
What's so fun about driving? That's like saying a Roomba takes the fun out of sweeping the floor.
I think you are wrong and here is why: As a retailer I've found the VAST majority of PCs? Spend most of their lives in idle.
That sounds accurate, but you're talking about searching hard drives, which are pretty slow. A database of pictures would speed it up and in fact be necessary, not just for speed but for a referent. Anything the program couldn't recognize, like your relatives' and friends' names, would have to be entered manually. Maybe PCs are up to snuff, but the user first setting up the system would have a lot of work and if he had a lot of pictures it would be pretty time-intensive because of the hard drive bottleneck. And look at how much antivirus slows a system down.
As far as who could pull it off? as much as I hate them as a company Apple would be the only ones i could see pulling this off
I agree, but for different reasons. The Linux systems would handle it easily; my Linux box is pretty old but it runs circles around my Windows 7 box. But I'm pretty sure it would need a large, coordinated team of people with differing skills so I'm not sure FOSS could pull it off. Not Windows for sure, their software makes me think they've gotten too dysfunctional to pull it off. Your guess as to what it would cost seems pretty accurate.
I think we'll see it sooner or later, but I'd bet on later.
The news is that maybe this will be disseminated to people who don't read slashdot. Too bad it's just a G+ post, normal (non nerds) people need to learn about this stuff. And the only ones who can teach them is us.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a bigger push towards e-books. That is a way around the "problem" for the publishers.
That would be fine with me. I have The Paxil Diaries in ebook form and you can have a copy for free. I plan on putting it in dead tree form and if I make any money it will be from sale of a physical object; I see ebooks and MP3s as a way to get it in front of a wider audience and hey, the more people read it and like it, the more the word will spread. I put it on TPB (or made the attempt, even registered so I could upload the .tor file). Give away as many copies as you like, that means more real physical books will get sold.
I'm working on a second right now. It's only partly finished and what's done is a very rough draft, but you can read what's done right here at slashdot. It's unfinished (I'll post a new chapter tonight or tomorrow), rough, has inconsistencies and typos that I need to fix, but you can read it for free and when it's finished and fixed and polished the e-version will be free as well. Like Doctorow, I say if you like it and want to contribute and don't have room for real books, buy a copy and donate it to a library or someone.
I've already sold a copy and its first draft isn't finished! Free sells, if what you're giving away is something people want.
I think it will be a long time before bookshelves are obsolete. If the major publishers go for DRM ebooks and stop selling real books, that's a great opportunity for people like me. I hope they do!
You remind me of something I wrote back in 2004. You may find it amusing.
A spell checker won't help as it was still a correctly spelt word.
That was the whole point. It still stands that he's an aliterate (which FireFox pegs as a misspelling).
Dew knot truss you're spill checker!
Mormons think drinking is a sin, which I though made it hilarious when people say Obama is a Muslim. I've seen Obama on TV drinking a beer, which made Romney more of a Muslim than Obama; Muslims don't drink, either.
My ex-wife became a Mormon after our divorce, and married the guy she was fucking when she was married to me in a Mormon church. My kids weren't allowed to attend, since they're not Mormon.
"John the baptist comes neither eating or drinking and you say he has a devil. The son of man comes eating and drinking and you say he is a glutton and a winebibber".
Stupid Mormons' bibles obviously don't match mine.
Damn, I misspelled that (thanks, Mozilla). It should have been aliterate, FireFox tagged it as a misspelling so I went with the spell check. DOH!
Definition of ALITERACY
: the quality or state of being able to read but uninterested in doing so
â" aliterate adjective or noun