When you consider the use of a cow vs. the use of a small animal (like a hamster) you start having to understand how we turn physical motion into electricity. Whoa there...
We're talking about using motion of small animals into electricity?
I thought we were just shoving bits of copper and steel into them./morbid
I run Win 2008 RC0 for development and it's great. As an aside, I dunno what was wrong with their setup to cause a "sluggish" UI. Maybe it was left over from the upgrade from RC-1?
Yes, this YouTube video describes part of that, and this one describes how the "reformed" curriculum is keeping our kids from understanding math. Both are from the "Where's the Math?" campaign in Washington State.
I'd expect it was also the topic of a/. article at some point, too.
I read that story on the wire this morning, and noticed how it implies that "Linux" is just a "competitor" to Microsoft, as if it were just some other company providing the same type of product, but with slightly different features.
At no point does the article discuss the nature of Linux, nor the inherent advantages (and disadvantages, since it's "objective" news) of open-source.
While techies are at least familiar with the concepts of FLOSS, there's still a long way to go to get the mainstream to understand it. This article is a reminder of that.
This is really just a semantic thing, but I'm a stickler for sending clear, consistent messages.
When I think of "backups", I tend to think "this will help me recover my files if my computer dies, is stolen, or is unexpectedly repossessed by nature".
The Time Machine feature is more of an archive than a backup.
This could cause confusion and complacency among Joe Users who make "regular backups", only to find their data irrecoverable when their hard drive terminates.
"But I was making regular backups, just like the nice people on Slashdot told me to!"
... before the Bear Tax. If you let the Bears win... Unfortunately, Michigan has stopped letting Toronto dump its trash there, so the Bear Tax might have to be repealed.
What is there that you can do with folders but not with labels? Other than the very insightful post by the AC above suggesting subfolders, I would propose that folders allow for messages to be compartmentalized, whereas with labels, everything is necessarily in the same location.
That's not a big problem when all your messages are being stored on Google's servers, but when they're local and you're trying to move the messages around (say, you changed roles and you want to give someone a disc with all the messages for your old role), all you have to do is copy the folder with the relevant e-mails in it.
How can any company with a shred of ethics or morality excuse the sale of their filtering product? Well duh, the paragraph you cited said that Burma is blacked out. So there's no traffic to unethically filter!
Let the market deal with it One day, people will realise that this sentence belongs in the same league of: I thought it already was, hence Stephen Colbert saying it so often.
I was discussing this with an engineer friend. Let's say we wanted to get back into the race? Is this the only problem you could find for your solution?
Exactly. While different people competing to achieve the same goal will cause waste in the form of duplication, attempts at teamwork will cause death by bureaucracy.
Just compare the Apollo missions to the ISS: the country was willing to spend as much as necessary to beat the Russians to the moon, but when it came time to work with them, the whole project just sort of atrophied into a minimalist version of itself.
Competition creates an artificial sense of urgency, and (especially when governments and bureaucracies are concerned) it's damn hard to get anything done unless there's a sense of urgency (cf. War in Iraq --> 9/11 & WMD).
Yeh, Comcast charges the government which then pays with our tax money? I fail to see how that is in our best interest. Well, in *theory*, when the budget for this type of thing goes up, there will be greater incentive to cut this activity from the budget.
But given the US government's current trend of going insanely into debt to fight "terrorism" with barely any objection, this theory probably isn't going to play out anytime soon.
I thought we were meant to be the good guys Every leader tells his people they're "the good guys".
You think bin Laden starts his pep talks with "Look fellas, we're the bad guys here fighting these righteous American heroes..."?
There is always temptation for corruption, cooption, conniving, and concealment whenever someone is given power. The people who give authority to that power must keep a constant vigilance.
If you assume there is no corruption--if you assume your leaders are always doing good--you will be forever blind to evidence to the contrary.
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At least it was interest-free!
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We're talking about using motion of small animals into electricity?
I thought we were just shoving bits of copper and steel into them.
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Put the cow in a bubble to avoid the clogging.
I mean, these OCPC kids are going to need to carry their cows around with them anyway, right?
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Yes, this YouTube video describes part of that, and this one describes how the "reformed" curriculum is keeping our kids from understanding math. Both are from the "Where's the Math?" campaign in Washington State.
/. article at some point, too.
I'd expect it was also the topic of a
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I read that story on the wire this morning, and noticed how it implies that "Linux" is just a "competitor" to Microsoft, as if it were just some other company providing the same type of product, but with slightly different features.
At no point does the article discuss the nature of Linux, nor the inherent advantages (and disadvantages, since it's "objective" news) of open-source.
While techies are at least familiar with the concepts of FLOSS, there's still a long way to go to get the mainstream to understand it. This article is a reminder of that.
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This is really just a semantic thing, but I'm a stickler for sending clear, consistent messages.
When I think of "backups", I tend to think "this will help me recover my files if my computer dies, is stolen, or is unexpectedly repossessed by nature".
The Time Machine feature is more of an archive than a backup.
This could cause confusion and complacency among Joe Users who make "regular backups", only to find their data irrecoverable when their hard drive terminates.
"But I was making regular backups, just like the nice people on Slashdot told me to!"
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... before the Bear Tax. If you let the Bears win... Unfortunately, Michigan has stopped letting Toronto dump its trash there, so the Bear Tax might have to be repealed.- RG>
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Step 3: ??? ??? indeed.
Making people optimistic isn't going to make them any more productive, creative, or thoughtful.
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That's not a big problem when all your messages are being stored on Google's servers, but when they're local and you're trying to move the messages around (say, you changed roles and you want to give someone a disc with all the messages for your old role), all you have to do is copy the folder with the relevant e-mails in it.
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Both are bad; neither should be allowed, even if they are not both illegal.
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See, perfectly ethical!
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FYI, re: your signature: ("Visit: heych-tee-tee-pee-coe-lon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-org-slash")
The letter h is spelled "aitch". Saw it on a televised spelling bee once; freaked the hell out of the contestant.
"Your word is: h"
"Can I have the definition?"
"H is the eighth letter of the alphabet."
"Umm... H?"
"No. The correct spelling is a-i-t-c-h."
True story!
Oh, and "colon" is spelled "colon".
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Exactly. While different people competing to achieve the same goal will cause waste in the form of duplication, attempts at teamwork will cause death by bureaucracy.
Just compare the Apollo missions to the ISS: the country was willing to spend as much as necessary to beat the Russians to the moon, but when it came time to work with them, the whole project just sort of atrophied into a minimalist version of itself.
Competition creates an artificial sense of urgency, and (especially when governments and bureaucracies are concerned) it's damn hard to get anything done unless there's a sense of urgency (cf. War in Iraq --> 9/11 & WMD).
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So, does this, like, inoculate MySQL from Microsoft or something?
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But given the US government's current trend of going insanely into debt to fight "terrorism" with barely any objection, this theory probably isn't going to play out anytime soon.
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Do you work in the Agricultural district of downtown?
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You think bin Laden starts his pep talks with "Look fellas, we're the bad guys here fighting these righteous American heroes..."?
There is always temptation for corruption, cooption, conniving, and concealment whenever someone is given power. The people who give authority to that power must keep a constant vigilance.
If you assume there is no corruption--if you assume your leaders are always doing good--you will be forever blind to evidence to the contrary.
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