at least 3/4 of the so-called LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack are under vigorous attack by many, myself included. Why?
Notice the guy says 3/4 here. Notice how he then goes on to criticise only MySQL and PHP. So what was the third item he was going to criticise, Apache or Linux (either would seem strange)? Seems to me he hasn't even finished his own rant.
This is another case (like Pascal) of the cascading lossage that happens when a language deliberately designed as an educational toy gets taken too seriously.
Well, I'm a great fan of Delphi-style object-pascal, maybe using it has brain-damaged me, or maybe it doesn't bear too much resemblance to original pascal, I don't know. Then again, my first exposure to any sort of programming was BASIC on the ZX81, so maybe I'm a lost cause:(.
What I'm really waiting for, is our new-found CSS capabilities used to allow user-selectable stylesheets. It can't be too hard; after all, they hacked the stylesheet for April 1 (when it went all pink).
You already can, just install the Stylish Firefox extension (assuming you use Firefox of course).
Unfortunately I don't think there are any compatible slashdot styles on userstyles.org yet (the ones there now are designed for the old slashdot code), but they'll come soon enough. I'm working on one myself.
Battlefield Earth is quality...compared to Gigli. Unfortunately what we need for these movies is selective memory erasure, incinerating the discs can't make you unwatch the abominations.
You're picking one of several definitions, namely 2.b from the dictionary definition below. However that doesn't stop, for example 2.d, from also being correct. In any case, my point was that the term "album" is equally correct for vinyl "albums" as for CD "albums", I don't really care about the semantic roots of the word. You seem to be arguing that the term shouldn't have been used for vinyl "albums", but it's a few decades to late for that discussion.
album (l'bm) pronunciation n.
1. A book with blank pages for the insertion and preservation of collections, as of stamps or photographs.
2.
a. A phonograph record, especially a long-playing record stored in a slipcase.
b. A set of musical recordings stored together in jackets under one binding.
c. The bound set of jackets for such a set.
d. A recording of different musical pieces.
3. A printed collection of musical compositions, pictures, or literary selections.
4. A tall, handsomely printed book, popular especially in the 19th century, often having profuse illustrations and short, sentimental texts.
[Latin, blank tablet, from neuter of albus, white.]
... tracks from the latest Shakira album (you can tell I'm from the vinyl age, still calling them "albums").
They are still called albums in the UK, and should be so elsewhere. An album is a collection of songs released together, regardless of media. After all, what are you going to call a download-only album, you can't call that a CD can you?
You act like users don't have problems with these issues in windows.
Absolutely right. although I'm not sure Windows should really be the ultimate standard Linux distros are aiming for. "Oh, it's only as bad as Windows" doesn't seem to me to be the kind of motto FOSS people want to live by.
Well, maybe not. But I have to wonder, why not just store the water, instead of separating it and storing liquid oxygen and hydrogen? You've got plenty of energy available up there from sunlight, so you should be able to split the stuff when it's needed, thus avoiding the problems of storing the liquid gases long term.
So my winning design is a huge ice bucket attached to a big set of solar panels, some electrodes, and some cryo-pumps (ok don't actually know what cryo-pumps are, but they sound like the cool). Can I have $5m please.
To all those that didn't read the article BTW, the assumption for the design is that the water comes from the moon, whether that pans out or not isn't the problem of people submitting designs.
Our lifespans are longer than they have ever been in the first world, thanks largely to modern science-based medicine. For most of those "thousands of years" you talk about, people had lifespans of around thirty years. So I think you should show some respect for science, there is no reason to think science can't improve on food, indeed there's every reason to believe it can. And there's definitely no reason to thing that the status quo of the last few millenia is so good that it shouldn't be changed.
As a Brit, I vote no to that. We've stuck by the united states through thick and thin. For stupid decision after stupid decision, we've had your back. As a result, the rest of Europe hates us. If the united states were removed from the UN and NATO, well, you might as well just hand our asses to the french and germans on a plate.
So instead of cutting out on us, why don't you just elect a president that doesn't suck next time, 'kay?
I'd have thought that'd be pretty high on any such list, no? Flawed design from the control rods to the containment vessel, leading to the worlds biggest nuclear accident?
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whoops i'm a total farking tard. disregard completely, utterly and totally.
No way pal, that one's coming back to haunt you. You shall henceforth be known as "the flammable nitrogen guy":D.
In terms of volume, it is around a litre and weighs about as much as the same measure of water.
I actually thought they were a lot closer than this. From the photo, it actually looks larger than a litre, I'd say closer to 1.4. In any case, fucking huge, and nowhere near practical. They need to shrink it by more than an order of magnitude to be workable.
Big sites like TPB are too much of a target for the <local MPAA/RIAA equivalent%gt;. However one already sees masses of small private trackers with only a few hundred users. The disadvantages of lots of limited access private trackers are obvious, but good luck to the authorities trying to shut them all down.
Yeah, it's interesting that he's not even making particularly optimistic claims for the process. Goldsworthy says it "may halve enrichment costs", not cut the cost by a factor of ten or anything. Sounds to me like in all probability it will not actually be any cheaper than current methods once the reality-checking has been done and all costs associated with carrying out the process are factored in, especially after reading your description of what's likely involved.
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But what got me most was this
Coupled with Sony's desire to not only push their own content on HD discs, but to control that medium with their proprietary Blu-ray format.
If the PS3 gets reasonable marketshare then this could be considered its master stroke in 2 years time. While the XBox 360 will need a revision to support HD discs, the PS3 won't.
What percentage of people actually use their consoles as a primary movie player? Electronics manufacturers are always dreaming of using convergence as a way to take over the world, but the reality is people are used to spending ~$200 or less on a DVD player, it won't take long for HD players to reach that sort of price range, and the ability of a console to play HD disks will be irrelevant to most people. Can't really see it being seen as a "masterstroke".
But what irritates me most is the phrase "their proprietary Blu-ray format". I must have missed the bit where the MS Supported HD-DVD was an open standard with no strings attached. So Sony created an HD disc standard, just like they worked with Phillips on CDs and have created several other professional and consumer format standards, some which flew, some which didn't.
Doesn't change the fact that the format war does nothing for the consumer whatsoever, hence the pointed tone about proprietary format. The same tone would be taken with HD-DVD, the point is the consumer gets f@#ked again.
I think we have a language barrier issue. Here in the UK, a publican is a person who runs a pub, serving beer to the thirsty masses. Firing large numbers of publicans at any point in the economic cycle would be an inadvisable course of action for any politicians to contemplate.
if they arent going to decided on these important issues then why the hell are they there in the first place?
To suck up your tax dollars and prepare for their forthcoming lucrative careers as directors/lobbyists/consultants of course. What, you thought they were working for you?
My fiancee and I were afraid to go outside in our own home town for fear of recognition and reprisal.
I'm scared of many things, but raging hordes of Nano fanboys fanatics? I think not.
Seriously though, this guy played it all wrong. It sounds like if he pulls out, the case is sunk, so he should've been like "What's my cut?". If the case is won, those lawyers would made a stack, I'm pretty certain a deal could have been struck.
I also wondered if it could be changing. But if it is, I very much doubt anything inside the solar system has any measurable effect on it other than the sun.
Having taken time to read the "The New Media Journal" objectionable stories linked in the summary, I have to say the answer is clear, Google are being responsible. The line has to be drawn somewhere, and of course some will complain that Google have't drawn it in exactly the right place, but IMHO it's perfectly reasonable to take the position that those stories are out-and-out anti-Islamic hate material, with not a shred of responsible journalism.
I was wondering the same thing. Like did "catch a basketball" mean a basketball thrown from across the room with the patient standing up, or dropped into his arms from a couple of inches with him sitting down. It's the usual frustrating lack of detail we get with mainstream media reporting of science issues. I understand they want to keep it simple, but make it too simple, and the report becomes almost meaningless.
Considering the war on terror is well on course to cost $1 trillion, I guess it's no expense spared to make America safe. After all, it's not real money anyway, just extra 0's on the end of the deficit.
$0.045 is 4.5 cents, not "less than half a cent", it even uses that figure directly later in the article you linked to. Other than that, I agree with you;).
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at least 3/4 of the so-called LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack are under vigorous attack by many, myself included. Why?
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Notice the guy says 3/4 here. Notice how he then goes on to criticise only MySQL and PHP. So what was the third item he was going to criticise, Apache or Linux (either would seem strange)? Seems to me he hasn't even finished his own rant.
This is another case (like Pascal) of the cascading lossage that happens when a language deliberately designed as an educational toy gets taken too seriously.
Well, I'm a great fan of Delphi-style object-pascal, maybe using it has brain-damaged me, or maybe it doesn't bear too much resemblance to original pascal, I don't know. Then again, my first exposure to any sort of programming was BASIC on the ZX81, so maybe I'm a lost cause
What I'm really waiting for, is our new-found CSS capabilities used to allow user-selectable stylesheets. It can't be too hard; after all, they hacked the stylesheet for April 1 (when it went all pink).
You already can, just install the Stylish Firefox extension (assuming you use Firefox of course).
Unfortunately I don't think there are any compatible slashdot styles on userstyles.org yet (the ones there now are designed for the old slashdot code), but they'll come soon enough. I'm working on one myself.
Battlefield Earth is quality...compared to Gigli. Unfortunately what we need for these movies is selective memory erasure, incinerating the discs can't make you unwatch the abominations.
You're picking one of several definitions, namely 2.b from the dictionary definition below. However that doesn't stop, for example 2.d, from also being correct. In any case, my point was that the term "album" is equally correct for vinyl "albums" as for CD "albums", I don't really care about the semantic roots of the word. You seem to be arguing that the term shouldn't have been used for vinyl "albums", but it's a few decades to late for that discussion.
No, but you can call it an HD.
Que? See above.
... tracks from the latest Shakira album (you can tell I'm from the vinyl age, still calling them "albums").
They are still called albums in the UK, and should be so elsewhere. An album is a collection of songs released together, regardless of media. After all, what are you going to call a download-only album, you can't call that a CD can you?
You act like users don't have problems with these issues in windows.
Absolutely right. although I'm not sure Windows should really be the ultimate standard Linux distros are aiming for. "Oh, it's only as bad as Windows" doesn't seem to me to be the kind of motto FOSS people want to live by.
Well, maybe not. But I have to wonder, why not just store the water, instead of separating it and storing liquid oxygen and hydrogen? You've got plenty of energy available up there from sunlight, so you should be able to split the stuff when it's needed, thus avoiding the problems of storing the liquid gases long term.
So my winning design is a huge ice bucket attached to a big set of solar panels, some electrodes, and some cryo-pumps (ok don't actually know what cryo-pumps are, but they sound like the cool). Can I have $5m please.
To all those that didn't read the article BTW, the assumption for the design is that the water comes from the moon, whether that pans out or not isn't the problem of people submitting designs.
Our lifespans are longer than they have ever been in the first world, thanks largely to modern science-based medicine. For most of those "thousands of years" you talk about, people had lifespans of around thirty years. So I think you should show some respect for science, there is no reason to think science can't improve on food, indeed there's every reason to believe it can. And there's definitely no reason to thing that the status quo of the last few millenia is so good that it shouldn't be changed.
As a Brit, I vote no to that. We've stuck by the united states through thick and thin. For stupid decision after stupid decision, we've had your back. As a result, the rest of Europe hates us. If the united states were removed from the UN and NATO, well, you might as well just hand our asses to the french and germans on a plate.
So instead of cutting out on us, why don't you just elect a president that doesn't suck next time, 'kay?
I'd have thought that'd be pretty high on any such list, no? Flawed design from the control rods to the containment vessel, leading to the worlds biggest nuclear accident?
whoops i'm a total farking tard. disregard completely, utterly and totally.
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No way pal, that one's coming back to haunt you. You shall henceforth be known as "the flammable nitrogen guy"
In terms of volume, it is around a litre and weighs about as much as the same measure of water.
I actually thought they were a lot closer than this. From the photo, it actually looks larger than a litre, I'd say closer to 1.4. In any case, fucking huge, and nowhere near practical. They need to shrink it by more than an order of magnitude to be workable.
Big sites like TPB are too much of a target for the <local MPAA/RIAA equivalent%gt;. However one already sees masses of small private trackers with only a few hundred users. The disadvantages of lots of limited access private trackers are obvious, but good luck to the authorities trying to shut them all down.
At first I thought he was trolling, but after reading the article...interesting, but sleep inducing.
Yeah, it's interesting that he's not even making particularly optimistic claims for the process. Goldsworthy says it "may halve enrichment costs", not cut the cost by a factor of ten or anything. Sounds to me like in all probability it will not actually be any cheaper than current methods once the reality-checking has been done and all costs associated with carrying out the process are factored in, especially after reading your description of what's likely involved.
What percentage of people actually use their consoles as a primary movie player? Electronics manufacturers are always dreaming of using convergence as a way to take over the world, but the reality is people are used to spending ~$200 or less on a DVD player, it won't take long for HD players to reach that sort of price range, and the ability of a console to play HD disks will be irrelevant to most people. Can't really see it being seen as a "masterstroke".
Doesn't change the fact that the format war does nothing for the consumer whatsoever, hence the pointed tone about proprietary format. The same tone would be taken with HD-DVD, the point is the consumer gets f@#ked again.
I think we have a language barrier issue. Here in the UK, a publican is a person who runs a pub, serving beer to the thirsty masses. Firing large numbers of publicans at any point in the economic cycle would be an inadvisable course of action for any politicians to contemplate.
if they arent going to decided on these important issues then why the hell are they there in the first place?
To suck up your tax dollars and prepare for their forthcoming lucrative careers as directors/lobbyists/consultants of course. What, you thought they were working for you?
My fiancee and I were afraid to go outside in our own home town for fear of recognition and reprisal.
I'm scared of many things, but raging hordes of Nano fanboys fanatics? I think not.
Seriously though, this guy played it all wrong. It sounds like if he pulls out, the case is sunk, so he should've been like "What's my cut?". If the case is won, those lawyers would made a stack, I'm pretty certain a deal could have been struck.
I also wondered if it could be changing. But if it is, I very much doubt anything inside the solar system has any measurable effect on it other than the sun.
Having taken time to read the "The New Media Journal" objectionable stories linked in the summary, I have to say the answer is clear, Google are being responsible. The line has to be drawn somewhere, and of course some will complain that Google have't drawn it in exactly the right place, but IMHO it's perfectly reasonable to take the position that those stories are out-and-out anti-Islamic hate material, with not a shred of responsible journalism.
I was wondering the same thing. Like did "catch a basketball" mean a basketball thrown from across the room with the patient standing up, or dropped into his arms from a couple of inches with him sitting down. It's the usual frustrating lack of detail we get with mainstream media reporting of science issues. I understand they want to keep it simple, but make it too simple, and the report becomes almost meaningless.
Considering the war on terror is well on course to cost $1 trillion, I guess it's no expense spared to make America safe. After all, it's not real money anyway, just extra 0's on the end of the deficit.
$0.045 is 4.5 cents, not "less than half a cent", it even uses that figure directly later in the article you linked to. Other than that, I agree with you ;).
even when the source is attributed.
Its not plagiarism then is it?
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