The only way to sustain any interest in space exploration is what you call "stunts".
We have, for the past 30 years, embroiled ourselves in space exploration which has led us to the current state of apathy. NASA is at the ends of its life if we continue to follow a step-by-step progression towards the future. There is no hope in a slow progression towards the stars.
We need to take bold actions to ignite interest, because in America only bold actions and strong interest drive anything forward. Lukewarm actions toward a goal are not in our nature, so stop trying to sell us on it, man.
I'm not talking about saving gas over the long term. I'm much more interested in the immediate savings gained by changing automobiles right now.
If you're down to your last gulp of water while lost in the American northwest, it makes much more sense to swallow it and give your body what it craves so you can continue before ultimately meeting your doom. It isn't the average consumption that matters.
You go for the laughs, but you aren't really making any serious point. For the uninitiated
Who is losing in this case? What is the waste? The old car that is destroying the environment, tearing up the roads, sucking up valuable oil resources? Good riddance, I say.
Don't worry about being an ass. That's a legitimate claim.
I don't see why the American government couldn't prevent this type of skirting of our laws. Ross Perot mentioned the "giant sucking sound", and while that might be applicable to Detroit, he really meant the migration of American jobs to lower-wage Mexican factories.
If we care about Americans, it behooves us to think about exactly the kind of anti-American job migration that you mention. If you're an ass, then, brother, we're both motherfucking asses.
If you think that the only one who benefits when someone buys a car, you're sadly mistaken.
Everyone who buys a car in the United States puts money in the hands of the car dealership, the salesperson who sold the car, the manager of the dealership, the automobile company's American division, the autoworkers who built the car, the companies who make parts for the car, the employees of *those* companies, and so on ad infinitum.
Buying a car is one of the most patriotic things you can do outside of buying a home. It puts money in so many pockets that there really ought to be incentives to buy automobiles. This program should continue to be supported and funded because it is exactly the kind of fiscally conservative action that puts the money the government takes in taxes back in the pockets of the American public.
So yeah, buy a used car if you want to save money, but please realize that you aren't helping anyone except the oil companies in that case.
Q: Can anyone recommend a Linux-friendly label printer?
Typical Slashdot answer: You can get a label printer from X company. If you install the software and loop the output back into a terminal you can hack the control codes and design your own printer driver.
Buzzword answer: Using a cloud service, you could upload your printing needs via a lightweight AJAX interface and have the results mailed to you.
Sane answer: Get a cheap Windows PC and choose from the many supported label printers.
Of course, the sane answer gets modded to -1 Troll.
The problem of cars "clumping" is due to the "rule abiding" drivers following each other too closely. This is in fact not rule abiding.
A reasonable space must be left between each car to provide enough extra slack to handle unexpected events like braking and slowing. When people follow too closely, this slack is all but eliminated thus causing each unexpected event's effect to become magnified. A quick tap of the brakes causes a chain reaction resulting in a traffic jam. Leaving enough space to handle an unexpected event provides each driver extra time to react.
In addition, since the additional slack allows for longer reaction times, a faster average speed can be achieved. Bob Dobbs would be so proud.
First, the small font used for the non-mainpage stories makes me read the story title as "Lesbian decides to adopt time-based release freezes".
Second, limiting an OSS project to a time-based release cycle puts an artificial constraint on the development process. While it might be useful to encourage faster development in some cases, it is just as likely to force a new feature to be dropped at the last minute if it can't make it through the door in time.
I'd rather they stick with feature-based releases which focus on the quality of features rather than trying to force feature development into a specific duration.
Start fucking respect the sovereign of other countries. Most of them know better than you, and it's your practices and customs that are weird to the rest of the world.
The Pirate Bay trial was a joint criminal and civil prosecution in Sweden of four individuals charged for promoting the copyright infringement of others with the torrent tracking website The Pirate Bay.
And for the results...
Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström were all found guilty and sentenced to serve one year in prison and pay a fine of 30 million SEK (app. 2.7 million or USD 3.5 million).
You'd think that they'd have learned their lesson from the last trial to just keep their mouths shut.
But like has been their style since the days they began getting legal threats, these people just can't seem to shut up for their own good. http://thepiratebay.org/legal
There's no debtors' prison anymore, so at least they have that going for them.
On the one hand, texting while driving is about as dangerous as drinking and driving. It takes eyes and concentration off the road and puts everyone else at risk. It is an activity that ought to be illegal.
But first of all, do we want the federal government having that kind of control over the states? The actions taken by the federal government ought to be carefully weighed with the impact it will have on all states. National defense, public educational standards, immigration and border controls, healthcare. These are the things that Washington ought to be concerned about. Not some 16 year old field hockey player driving her mom's Durango with her boyfriend's hands between her knees and her eyes on her iPhone.
Secondly, what are we actually defining as texting? Technology changes so rapidly that a measure like this can only be relevant for a short time.
Leave the texting laws to the states. Don't let the federal government bully the states into making the laws.
There is a theory that the expansion of a galaxy "tears" spacetime and creates an energy differential. The energy differential then, as special relativity predicts, transmutes to matter thus creating the matter to form stars.
Given that it is the expansion of the galaxy that causes the creation of matter, it makes sense that smaller, more active galaxies would be able to create new stars.
I've always been baffled by Microsoft marketing's insistence that ActiveX is pronouced "active" with the "X" silent. I've never met anyone who didn't pronounce the technology "Active-X".
I also didn't like how ActiveX morphed from a special browser-only technology into a synonym for COM and then into a replacement for OLE. At least now we've got.NET which promises to rid us of C++ once and for all.
Whoever thought making C/C++ an implementation language for anything as complicated as an OS ought to be shot. The number of possible vulnerabilities is through the roof, as this latest patch shows.
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The only way to sustain any interest in space exploration is what you call "stunts".
We have, for the past 30 years, embroiled ourselves in space exploration which has led us to the current state of apathy. NASA is at the ends of its life if we continue to follow a step-by-step progression towards the future. There is no hope in a slow progression towards the stars.
We need to take bold actions to ignite interest, because in America only bold actions and strong interest drive anything forward. Lukewarm actions toward a goal are not in our nature, so stop trying to sell us on it, man.
I'm not talking about saving gas over the long term. I'm much more interested in the immediate savings gained by changing automobiles right now.
If you're down to your last gulp of water while lost in the American northwest, it makes much more sense to swallow it and give your body what it craves so you can continue before ultimately meeting your doom. It isn't the average consumption that matters.
You go for the laughs, but you aren't really making any serious point.
For the uninitiated
Who is losing in this case? What is the waste? The old car that is destroying the environment, tearing up the roads, sucking up valuable oil resources? Good riddance, I say.
Don't worry about being an ass. That's a legitimate claim.
I don't see why the American government couldn't prevent this type of skirting of our laws. Ross Perot mentioned the "giant sucking sound", and while that might be applicable to Detroit, he really meant the migration of American jobs to lower-wage Mexican factories.
If we care about Americans, it behooves us to think about exactly the kind of anti-American job migration that you mention. If you're an ass, then, brother, we're both motherfucking asses.
If you think that the only one who benefits when someone buys a car, you're sadly mistaken.
Everyone who buys a car in the United States puts money in the hands of the car dealership, the salesperson who sold the car, the manager of the dealership, the automobile company's American division, the autoworkers who built the car, the companies who make parts for the car, the employees of *those* companies, and so on ad infinitum.
Buying a car is one of the most patriotic things you can do outside of buying a home. It puts money in so many pockets that there really ought to be incentives to buy automobiles. This program should continue to be supported and funded because it is exactly the kind of fiscally conservative action that puts the money the government takes in taxes back in the pockets of the American public.
So yeah, buy a used car if you want to save money, but please realize that you aren't helping anyone except the oil companies in that case.
That's not a valid comparison at all.
Installing a driver isn't a problem. If it exists.
If you went to the doctor because of chronic headaches, you might be satisfied with a prescription for pain killers.
But it doesn't really cure anything but the symptoms.
Presumably, the person asking the question is looking for a solution, not a way to waste time.
Q: Can anyone recommend a Linux-friendly label printer?
Typical Slashdot answer: You can get a label printer from X company. If you install the software and loop the output back into a terminal you can hack the control codes and design your own printer driver.
Buzzword answer: Using a cloud service, you could upload your printing needs via a lightweight AJAX interface and have the results mailed to you.
Sane answer: Get a cheap Windows PC and choose from the many supported label printers.
Of course, the sane answer gets modded to -1 Troll.
When you decide to use a non-mainstream OS, there are many risks.
Lack of hardware support is one of them. I'm afraid that unless someone else in your office has a Windows PC, you're SOL until you buy one.
MI5 allows websurfing on critical computers.
Seriously. How else would you get hit by CSS?
All my numbers are halved if you follow the 6 second rule.
You shouldn't be eating while driving, and you really shouldn't be picking stuff up off the floor if you're driving.
Definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery
Example: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/31864
No, I was merely responding to the claim that copyright is an American practice and custom that is "weird to the rest of the world".
The PB trial was held in Sweden, decided by a Swedish court. The defendants were found guilty in their home country of Sweden.
Perhaps it is true that some countries find our copyright practices and customs weird. But Sweden isn't one of them.
Working article link (from Google)
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=752
Now all I need is a molecular bonded shell and a Super Pursuit mode, and I'd be ready to go.
If they're "following too close", then they aren't "rule abiding." You can't have it both ways.
That's why I "use" quotation "marks" to emphasize the incongruity of "the" words I'm quoting.
The problem of cars "clumping" is due to the "rule abiding" drivers following each other too closely. This is in fact not rule abiding.
A reasonable space must be left between each car to provide enough extra slack to handle unexpected events like braking and slowing. When people follow too closely, this slack is all but eliminated thus causing each unexpected event's effect to become magnified. A quick tap of the brakes causes a chain reaction resulting in a traffic jam. Leaving enough space to handle an unexpected event provides each driver extra time to react.
In addition, since the additional slack allows for longer reaction times, a faster average speed can be achieved. Bob Dobbs would be so proud.
Two things to note.
First, the small font used for the non-mainpage stories makes me read the story title as "Lesbian decides to adopt time-based release freezes".
Second, limiting an OSS project to a time-based release cycle puts an artificial constraint on the development process. While it might be useful to encourage faster development in some cases, it is just as likely to force a new feature to be dropped at the last minute if it can't make it through the door in time.
I'd rather they stick with feature-based releases which focus on the quality of features rather than trying to force feature development into a specific duration.
It's called schadenfreude.
You ever watch The Green Mile?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120689/
Compare and contrast the deaths of Delacroix and Wharton.
I'd say at least 2 out of those 5 could stand a good shooting. Let me express it in C:
double GuysToShootRatio = 2 / 5;
Dammit!
Start fucking respect the sovereign of other countries. Most of them know better than you, and it's your practices and customs that are weird to the rest of the world.
I suppose you're being sarcastic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial
And for the results...
You'd think that they'd have learned their lesson from the last trial to just keep their mouths shut.
But like has been their style since the days they began getting legal threats, these people just can't seem to shut up for their own good.
http://thepiratebay.org/legal
There's no debtors' prison anymore, so at least they have that going for them.
On the one hand, texting while driving is about as dangerous as drinking and driving. It takes eyes and concentration off the road and puts everyone else at risk. It is an activity that ought to be illegal.
But first of all, do we want the federal government having that kind of control over the states? The actions taken by the federal government ought to be carefully weighed with the impact it will have on all states. National defense, public educational standards, immigration and border controls, healthcare. These are the things that Washington ought to be concerned about. Not some 16 year old field hockey player driving her mom's Durango with her boyfriend's hands between her knees and her eyes on her iPhone.
Secondly, what are we actually defining as texting? Technology changes so rapidly that a measure like this can only be relevant for a short time.
Leave the texting laws to the states. Don't let the federal government bully the states into making the laws.
There is a theory that the expansion of a galaxy "tears" spacetime and creates an energy differential. The energy differential then, as special relativity predicts, transmutes to matter thus creating the matter to form stars.
Given that it is the expansion of the galaxy that causes the creation of matter, it makes sense that smaller, more active galaxies would be able to create new stars.
I've always been baffled by Microsoft marketing's insistence that ActiveX is pronouced "active" with the "X" silent. I've never met anyone who didn't pronounce the technology "Active-X".
I also didn't like how ActiveX morphed from a special browser-only technology into a synonym for COM and then into a replacement for OLE. At least now we've got .NET which promises to rid us of C++ once and for all.
Whoever thought making C/C++ an implementation language for anything as complicated as an OS ought to be shot. The number of possible vulnerabilities is through the roof, as this latest patch shows.