If you look over the past 500 billion years, the geological record shows that there is a mass extinction event roughly every 62 million years. Even though there is some give and take, on that timescale it's almost like clockwork. Since this discovery, scientists of many disciplines have been trying to figure out what could be causing it. While I admit that it could be a cosmic coincidence, if not, then somewhere a culprit is lurking. There are also lesser extinction events every 26 - 35 million years.
Sounds like a good old fashioned grudge to me. I have worked with him. While I will admit to helping him get started on his ToriOS project, I take no credit for that website. He's not a bad guy, he's a my way or the highway kinda guy. Which is too bad because his grasp of technology really is limited. While I, along with others, left that project out of differences (gee, did I help kill it?), he really is too nice a guy to get mad at. Unless you're Mr. Grudge up there ( I can guess who that is). Best of luck to him.
I wonder how long before we accept that we will have to wear batteries to power the MRI that reads out brainwaves and turns them into text. It will happen.
I realize it's not the same as Gimp, however...
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I realize this is not a replacement or even a competitor to the GIMP. The audience and goals of the two projects are completely different. However, I did notice that it supports importing GIMP native file format. If I can import GIMP files, then export in another file format and use CMYK, which it appears to support, then this is getting added to my workflow. Time to download and find out!
I am not a bit coin fan boy by any stretch. I have no vested interest in it whatsoever. From a cultural perspective I find the phenomenon fascinating and I follow it closely along those lines. The government has been kicked from behind enough that I would not put it past them to come up with multiple projections for how the bitcoin situation could play out over a long time period. The US Government has been short sighted in the past, I think they have learned and if just one projection is negative, they will say fuck it lets bring it down now just in case. In case you have been sleeping under a rock, the United States government is beyond out of control and it's only getting more extreme.
You misunderstood much of where I was coming from. In reference to protocols, adapters and storm clouds, I am saying I do not know enough about how the networking technology works. In specific reference to flying at a high elevation, when I expressed doubt about WiFi(which may be wrong) I was suggesting that a limited run on special adapters for a possibly proprietary protocol would likely be overly expensive of emerging countries. Also, in the United States we have the money to by WiFi or whatever else adapters and when they cause us trouble we are in a better position to call support. I am not at all saying the system won't work, I'm saying it might not serve a worthwhile purpose depending on where you put it. And no, I would not want this for myself because with rare travel exceptions I do not need or I would't be posting this now, I want it to enhance my country. If that offends you, I have nothing to say.
Is it one person or hacking group behind this? In the United States government, there are some who have expressed indifference to bitcoin, and some who see it as illegal and a threat. I suspect the indifference crowd is lying would also like to see it gone. If it is the United States government robbing all these exchanges blind, it would be too new a program to be in the Snowden files. Seriously, at this point is there a single one among us who not put these actions past the American government?
Are there enough people in the areas to be served with computers to connect in the first place? Also, since these internet drones would have to fly above storm clouds. I did not see in the article (admittedly scanned it) any mention of wireless protocol. I don't think WiFi would be terribly effective. Unless this is exclusively for business, who is going to pay for the adapters and who is going to support them when the do not install correctly or flake out in some other way. As a last hurdle, would the governments of the emerging countries be willing to let an American company deploy such a thing in the wake of the NSA revelations? I wouldn't.
Overwhelming, I would like to see these drones deployed en mass to the endless under served rural areas of America, and if they are doing WiFi, across the expansive cell phone dead space areas so I can at least have an internet connection on my phone while driving for hours across the half of Kansas that isn't populated and other similar areas. Entertain for a moment that Zuckerburg really does want to do this out of goodness of heart (unlikely, I know). I would much rather see him act out of patriotism and work towards creating a seamless blanket of internet connectivity that covers the absolute entirety of the United States of America that lacks connectivity (which is a lot). This goes for Project Loon too.
I could have been more clear. It's usually a situation where a person or entity does not immediately notice the excessive charges, then a bill comes along with obvious problems, prompting them to more closely look over past bills and say, "OMG!" Also, I was using surcharges in an analogous manner, I can't even begin to imagine what bills from Sprint to the government look like. In my comment, the person in question relayed stories where someone in that precise situation would call in after realizing they had been over billed sometimes for a year or more.
As I currently battle my own Sprint bill, none of this surprises me. I'll bet the government didn't notice the enormous surcharges on their bill. I know someone who worked in their billing\customer service department. They said the level of billing abnormalities they saw was astonishing. This person had to give money to most people calling in about their bill while correcting things and promising it wouldn't happen again. When this person considered the millions who never looked at their bills and who were probably being sometimes overcharged, this person quit out of moral dilemma.
The way they do billing is understandably complicated for many. If the government had just called in for a $21 million credit, they might have received it after an escalation or two.
I know I am lending a lot to the ethics and morals of Walmart as a company when is say this, but if they are not going to be entering the truck building and selling business, they should patent-unencumber every last inch of their design, and publish every last schematic - Open Source it. It doesn't sound like they have anything to lose by doing so, and those few extra miles per gallon could add up to a sizable impact on air pollution if this and designs that followed from it became commonplace.
I think you might be underestimating how much freight travels by train, as well as not considering a logistical issue. I live in Kansas City, which is about dead center in the middle of the united states. As a consequence, a whole hell of a lot passes through here. We are a main artery for cargo carrying trains and I can't even begin to imagine how much passes through here everyday by train. You must also consider that due to the enormous amount of cargo a single train can carry, they are carrying goods and other cargo for many companies. The train cannot deliver specific goods to any given company directly, as a consequence, they must be unloaded in general areas and then loaded onto trucks for the last mile, which could easily be a hundred or more miles anyway.
In weather jargon, "watch" means that the event has been actually been seen and reported somewhere. A "warning" means that conditions are right for an event to happen, but it hasn't yet been actually reported.
The irony is, you have it completely backwards. From AccuWeather (and any other source):
"Watches, like severe thunderstorm watches and tornado watches, which are two of the most common types, are issued when weather conditions are conducive for the event to occur,"
"Warnings are different. A warning is issued when the weather event is happening now," Pigott said. "In terms of flooding, for instance, a flood warning means a river has spilled over or flash flooding is occurring."
"Basically, a watch means atmospheric conditions are right for it to happen. Warnings mean it's actually happening," Pigott said.
I'm running Bohdi Linux (E17), a few favorite built apps and functionality:
Terminology
Enlightenment File Manager
eDeb
Configure secondary monitor workspaces as tiling (awesome - could not live without - and one of the primary reasons I run Enlightenment) primary tiling workspace dedicated to Chrome, Terminology, and Gedit
Of course it's Enlightenment so I spend the next two-days configuring all of the fine details.
Nope, I got all the money I need from developing weapons for the military.
Im much too moral to further the dumbing down of the world by financing Apple.
Wow. A bit of an oxymoron situation there. You're happy to increase the killing efficiency of the war machine - which only becomes more efficient at killing people in general, not just the enemy while creating further unrest in the world and more killing, but you find a computer immoral? Have you ever even used a Mac? It's a full blown BSD system, it even comes with X windows, and is a great platform for running Open Source software even if most but not all of the OS is closed source. It is a great companion for a Linux and FreeBSD junking like myself. But if you are an average computer user, you never have to see that and can use it as an average computer and everything in between. That is power and flexibility. So, dumbing down compared to what and on what grounds? Windows? Chrome? Whatever it is, it dumbed you down a long time ago. While I am an Android user, if you want to direct this at iOS, I could circle back around and start all over - but I don't think your ignorance is worth any more of my time than it has already received.
When you burn it, everything you don't want goes up in smoke leaving behind everything you do want. In the United States, copper theft is very high. This almost always means burning what you stole to get at the copper - otherwise no one will buy it. I live not 10-minutes away from a scrapyard that buys the most obviously stolen copper. If you bring in 80 pounds of heavy-duty copper wiring with the plastic still on it, they won't purchase it because they can't accurately weigh it. Also, they can't legally burn it and aren't going to go through the trouble of stripping it. So it gets burned, weighed, and sold in its raw form.
Funny thing about that. Google fiber is being installed not far from where I live. As a consequence, there have been incidents where a whole lot of fiber gets left out overnight. The next day its been magically relocated to a ditch somewhere - charred, burned, and melted. No one ever said that copper thieves are all that bright.
Actually Timothy, that was one of the first Slashdot videos I have really enjoyed and watched the whole way through. I really do mean that as a compliment, but I see how you could take it either way ; )
Keep up the good work and I'm sure it will only get better.
I am one of those annoying socially progressive types that calls people and business out when I see them assigning genders roles to kids. The difference in male and female toy isles is a big pet peeve of mine. But that's not what I am here to comment on, I just want people to know where I am coming from regarding the following statements:
So we know that roughly half of all gamers are women yet nearly none attend these events. First, I would like to see a breakdown of game genre's between men and women. There are differences in the way we approach the world, and therefor the worlds these games provide. Of course this cannot be exclusive, my GF prefers Grand Theft Auto over Portal, so let's assume there is little difference in the games being played.
When Street Fighter x Tekken player Aris Bakhtanians made a string of uncomfortable sexual comments toward female teammate Miranda “SuperYan” Pakozdi while broadcasting live on a major event’s stream, the incident made international headlines far beyond the gaming press. Bakhtanians guessed at Pakozdi’s bra size and asked to watch her in the bathroom, among other comments.
Here's the problem: marketing. These events are being marketed to people with the mindset in my above quote from the article, because the marketers have a stereotypical, gender role assigning mindset and approach.
By contrast, nearly half of all video game players today are women and 46 percent of the Super Bowl viewing audience is female.
The NFL got things right. They took an event the was stereotypicaly assigned to men, realized they were missing half the potential viewership, and marketed successfully to both men and women.
WellPlayed, an esports production company, conducted the survey over the course of one year at the CLG Premiere Series (League of Legends, Feb. 2013), the Spring Promotion Tournament (League of Legends, Dec. 2013), and the Ender’s Game on Blu-Ray Tournament (StarCraft 2, Feb. 2014). Of the 2,040 respondents, 69 were female; 33 listed themselves as “other.”
The fact that an esports Production company is conducting this survey tells me that someone in their marketing department got a clue and realized they were only marketing to half their potential revenue stream. So in defense of the sexism, it's a brand new industry trying to figure itself and it's market out. To apply my own stereotype, I would be willing to venture that this entire business model originated from immature young males. If the survey is an indication that they are considering an environment friendly to both sides, marketing and advertising are powerful things and honestly I don't think it would take a whole lot to turn this mess around.
Your post being offtopic aside, if you really mean what you are saying and aren't just engaging in elaborate trolling, send everything you posted to: feedback@slashdot.org with Beta Feedback in the subject line. They really do take such emails seriously. I've been on Slashdot since 1997 - hell, I even remember Chips n' Dip. And I will admit that the beta site is starting to grow on me. I sent them an email a few days ago about what I like and don't like and Timothy (I think it was Timothy) emailed me back the very same day. So the bottom line is, this is not the place to be communicating the content of your post. Copy and paste it into an email and click send.
Home grown Linux distro maybe. It looks more like they slightly altered elementary OS or Pear OS, applied an OS X theme and replaced the standard dock with cairo-dock. I would be surprised if they had the resources to write an entire OS from scratch.
Google is an American company with offices in Ireland, but they are not based in Ireland. In case you haven't been keeping track the last few years, Ireland has become one the tech capitals of the world. All major American technology companies have offices there. It's called the Silicon Valley of Ireland, sometimes referred to as the Silicon Valley of Europe.
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Or roughly 130 over the last half-trillion years. Consider yourself educated. At least that's what's happens when physics meet geology.
If you look over the past 500 billion years, the geological record shows that there is a mass extinction event roughly every 62 million years. Even though there is some give and take, on that timescale it's almost like clockwork. Since this discovery, scientists of many disciplines have been trying to figure out what could be causing it. While I admit that it could be a cosmic coincidence, if not, then somewhere a culprit is lurking. There are also lesser extinction events every 26 - 35 million years.
For more on the 62 million year problem
More on mass extinction events in general
Sounds like a good old fashioned grudge to me. I have worked with him. While I will admit to helping him get started on his ToriOS project, I take no credit for that website. He's not a bad guy, he's a my way or the highway kinda guy. Which is too bad because his grasp of technology really is limited. While I, along with others, left that project out of differences (gee, did I help kill it?), he really is too nice a guy to get mad at. Unless you're Mr. Grudge up there ( I can guess who that is). Best of luck to him.
I wonder how long before we accept that we will have to wear batteries to power the MRI that reads out brainwaves and turns them into text. It will happen.
What about Ravel Bolero?
I realize this is not a replacement or even a competitor to the GIMP. The audience and goals of the two projects are completely different. However, I did notice that it supports importing GIMP native file format. If I can import GIMP files, then export in another file format and use CMYK, which it appears to support, then this is getting added to my workflow. Time to download and find out!
I am not a bit coin fan boy by any stretch. I have no vested interest in it whatsoever. From a cultural perspective I find the phenomenon fascinating and I follow it closely along those lines. The government has been kicked from behind enough that I would not put it past them to come up with multiple projections for how the bitcoin situation could play out over a long time period. The US Government has been short sighted in the past, I think they have learned and if just one projection is negative, they will say fuck it lets bring it down now just in case. In case you have been sleeping under a rock, the United States government is beyond out of control and it's only getting more extreme.
This lawmaker wants it banned
Seems here that the government is over all apprehensive about it
Further Googling reveals we are seeing an about face from this article.
At least we may see some form of sensible regulation. even if not 100% official
You misunderstood much of where I was coming from. In reference to protocols, adapters and storm clouds, I am saying I do not know enough about how the networking technology works. In specific reference to flying at a high elevation, when I expressed doubt about WiFi(which may be wrong) I was suggesting that a limited run on special adapters for a possibly proprietary protocol would likely be overly expensive of emerging countries. Also, in the United States we have the money to by WiFi or whatever else adapters and when they cause us trouble we are in a better position to call support. I am not at all saying the system won't work, I'm saying it might not serve a worthwhile purpose depending on where you put it. And no, I would not want this for myself because with rare travel exceptions I do not need or I would't be posting this now, I want it to enhance my country. If that offends you, I have nothing to say.
Is it one person or hacking group behind this? In the United States government, there are some who have expressed indifference to bitcoin, and some who see it as illegal and a threat. I suspect the indifference crowd is lying would also like to see it gone. If it is the United States government robbing all these exchanges blind, it would be too new a program to be in the Snowden files. Seriously, at this point is there a single one among us who not put these actions past the American government?
Are there enough people in the areas to be served with computers to connect in the first place? Also, since these internet drones would have to fly above storm clouds. I did not see in the article (admittedly scanned it) any mention of wireless protocol. I don't think WiFi would be terribly effective. Unless this is exclusively for business, who is going to pay for the adapters and who is going to support them when the do not install correctly or flake out in some other way. As a last hurdle, would the governments of the emerging countries be willing to let an American company deploy such a thing in the wake of the NSA revelations? I wouldn't.
Overwhelming, I would like to see these drones deployed en mass to the endless under served rural areas of America, and if they are doing WiFi, across the expansive cell phone dead space areas so I can at least have an internet connection on my phone while driving for hours across the half of Kansas that isn't populated and other similar areas. Entertain for a moment that Zuckerburg really does want to do this out of goodness of heart (unlikely, I know). I would much rather see him act out of patriotism and work towards creating a seamless blanket of internet connectivity that covers the absolute entirety of the United States of America that lacks connectivity (which is a lot). This goes for Project Loon too.
I could have been more clear. It's usually a situation where a person or entity does not immediately notice the excessive charges, then a bill comes along with obvious problems, prompting them to more closely look over past bills and say, "OMG!" Also, I was using surcharges in an analogous manner, I can't even begin to imagine what bills from Sprint to the government look like. In my comment, the person in question relayed stories where someone in that precise situation would call in after realizing they had been over billed sometimes for a year or more.
Then they should make trucks rather than sitting on it.
As I currently battle my own Sprint bill, none of this surprises me. I'll bet the government didn't notice the enormous surcharges on their bill. I know someone who worked in their billing\customer service department. They said the level of billing abnormalities they saw was astonishing. This person had to give money to most people calling in about their bill while correcting things and promising it wouldn't happen again. When this person considered the millions who never looked at their bills and who were probably being sometimes overcharged, this person quit out of moral dilemma.
The way they do billing is understandably complicated for many. If the government had just called in for a $21 million credit, they might have received it after an escalation or two.
I know I am lending a lot to the ethics and morals of Walmart as a company when is say this, but if they are not going to be entering the truck building and selling business, they should patent-unencumber every last inch of their design, and publish every last schematic - Open Source it. It doesn't sound like they have anything to lose by doing so, and those few extra miles per gallon could add up to a sizable impact on air pollution if this and designs that followed from it became commonplace.
I think you might be underestimating how much freight travels by train, as well as not considering a logistical issue. I live in Kansas City, which is about dead center in the middle of the united states. As a consequence, a whole hell of a lot passes through here. We are a main artery for cargo carrying trains and I can't even begin to imagine how much passes through here everyday by train. You must also consider that due to the enormous amount of cargo a single train can carry, they are carrying goods and other cargo for many companies. The train cannot deliver specific goods to any given company directly, as a consequence, they must be unloaded in general areas and then loaded onto trucks for the last mile, which could easily be a hundred or more miles anyway.
The irony is, you have it completely backwards. From AccuWeather (and any other source):
"Watches, like severe thunderstorm watches and tornado watches, which are two of the most common types, are issued when weather conditions are conducive for the event to occur,"
"Warnings are different. A warning is issued when the weather event is happening now," Pigott said. "In terms of flooding, for instance, a flood warning means a river has spilled over or flash flooding is occurring."
"Basically, a watch means atmospheric conditions are right for it to happen. Warnings mean it's actually happening," Pigott said.
Gedit
Scratch
Synapse
Xpad
Geany
Qt 4 Designer
Python
Gimp
Inkscape
Shotwell
Filezilla
Chrome
Thunderbird
Brasero
Clementine
VLC
LibreOffice
gnome-system-monitor
I'm running Bohdi Linux (E17), a few favorite built apps and functionality:
Terminology
Enlightenment File Manager
eDeb
Configure secondary monitor workspaces as tiling (awesome - could not live without - and one of the primary reasons I run Enlightenment) primary tiling workspace dedicated to Chrome, Terminology, and Gedit
Of course it's Enlightenment so I spend the next two-days configuring all of the fine details.
Wow. A bit of an oxymoron situation there. You're happy to increase the killing efficiency of the war machine - which only becomes more efficient at killing people in general, not just the enemy while creating further unrest in the world and more killing, but you find a computer immoral? Have you ever even used a Mac? It's a full blown BSD system, it even comes with X windows, and is a great platform for running Open Source software even if most but not all of the OS is closed source. It is a great companion for a Linux and FreeBSD junking like myself. But if you are an average computer user, you never have to see that and can use it as an average computer and everything in between. That is power and flexibility. So, dumbing down compared to what and on what grounds? Windows? Chrome? Whatever it is, it dumbed you down a long time ago. While I am an Android user, if you want to direct this at iOS, I could circle back around and start all over - but I don't think your ignorance is worth any more of my time than it has already received.
Hydrogen bonds causes water to behave very different in micro and zero gravity. What you propose may make sense under Earth gravity, but not in orbit.
Article and video on Live Science
Fun youtube video
If you find that at all interesting you should look up how fire behaves in space.
When you burn it, everything you don't want goes up in smoke leaving behind everything you do want. In the United States, copper theft is very high. This almost always means burning what you stole to get at the copper - otherwise no one will buy it. I live not 10-minutes away from a scrapyard that buys the most obviously stolen copper. If you bring in 80 pounds of heavy-duty copper wiring with the plastic still on it, they won't purchase it because they can't accurately weigh it. Also, they can't legally burn it and aren't going to go through the trouble of stripping it. So it gets burned, weighed, and sold in its raw form.
Funny thing about that. Google fiber is being installed not far from where I live. As a consequence, there have been incidents where a whole lot of fiber gets left out overnight. The next day its been magically relocated to a ditch somewhere - charred, burned, and melted. No one ever said that copper thieves are all that bright.
Actually Timothy, that was one of the first Slashdot videos I have really enjoyed and watched the whole way through. I really do mean that as a compliment, but I see how you could take it either way ; )
Keep up the good work and I'm sure it will only get better.
So we know that roughly half of all gamers are women yet nearly none attend these events. First, I would like to see a breakdown of game genre's between men and women. There are differences in the way we approach the world, and therefor the worlds these games provide. Of course this cannot be exclusive, my GF prefers Grand Theft Auto over Portal, so let's assume there is little difference in the games being played.
Here's the problem: marketing. These events are being marketed to people with the mindset in my above quote from the article, because the marketers have a stereotypical, gender role assigning mindset and approach.
The NFL got things right. They took an event the was stereotypicaly assigned to men, realized they were missing half the potential viewership, and marketed successfully to both men and women.
The fact that an esports Production company is conducting this survey tells me that someone in their marketing department got a clue and realized they were only marketing to half their potential revenue stream. So in defense of the sexism, it's a brand new industry trying to figure itself and it's market out. To apply my own stereotype, I would be willing to venture that this entire business model originated from immature young males. If the survey is an indication that they are considering an environment friendly to both sides, marketing and advertising are powerful things and honestly I don't think it would take a whole lot to turn this mess around.
Your post being offtopic aside, if you really mean what you are saying and aren't just engaging in elaborate trolling, send everything you posted to: feedback@slashdot.org with Beta Feedback in the subject line. They really do take such emails seriously. I've been on Slashdot since 1997 - hell, I even remember Chips n' Dip. And I will admit that the beta site is starting to grow on me. I sent them an email a few days ago about what I like and don't like and Timothy (I think it was Timothy) emailed me back the very same day. So the bottom line is, this is not the place to be communicating the content of your post. Copy and paste it into an email and click send.
Home grown Linux distro maybe. It looks more like they slightly altered elementary OS or Pear OS, applied an OS X theme and replaced the standard dock with cairo-dock. I would be surprised if they had the resources to write an entire OS from scratch.
Google is an American company with offices in Ireland, but they are not based in Ireland. In case you haven't been keeping track the last few years, Ireland has become one the tech capitals of the world. All major American technology companies have offices there. It's called the Silicon Valley of Ireland, sometimes referred to as the Silicon Valley of Europe.