And I hate it when over-educated folk get condencending and pompous. Try us, some of that expensive learnin' may rub off on us and make us better people, i.e more like you. Of course you may be just too lazy to write anything more than a couple of sentances.
First, I would agree if it were all done in error. My question would simply be - In how many instances did they know they were vioalting the law? If >0 then it's not acceptable. Unfortunately, we will likely always hear "I'm sorry I didn't realize". The funny thing is that Joe Public is always told that ignorance is not a legal defense.
Second, it was an internal audit. Where are they publishing the instrument used to randomly pull 10% of the investigations? If we don't get to see the instrument we need to assume a bias on behalf of the investigators, which sullies the results.
I would never call a Golden Delicious or a Cameo or a Granny Smith a MacIntosh, becuase while they're Apples they're not a MacIntosh, but a MacIntosh is so far beyond being called an Apple, so sweet and crunchy. My favorite Apple is a Mac. The other Apples, they're just Apples, but a Mac is a Mac.
I completely agree, especially when I read quotes such as "These images must contain hundreds of important discoveries about Mars. We just need time to realize what they are.'".
But I am sure the police will like it (something about obscenity laws).
You know that brings up an interesting thought. What if someone hangs a 2A0 goatse picture on their wall, or is sitting in the living room jacking off to girls gone wild (thinking about the co-ed discussion further back). Google comes along and shoots it in the street view. So now we can zoom in and see this. Where does this fall?
1) Invasion of privacy
2) Distribution of pr0n by google
3) Public obscenity by the person who's house it is?
(/. caveat:- If you don't like the examples please insert your own, my point is about the various ways of looking at the implications of the situation)
Are they not hated enough already? Talking about making a persons job even more thankless...I wonder if they just go home at the end of the night and cry? Are they afraid of becoming the the very first Cybermen?
The spiffy graphic presentation tells me that the LiqN2 goes in the middle, but I'm not seeing an explanation of how they get the N2 in the cable and what happens to it as it warms up, or do they not have to replenish it? I did notice in the presentation that the super cable is cold-blue and old power cables are danger-red and that a jaggy white line can hit the cold-blue cable 3 times without doing anything, but it kills the danger-red cable in one strike. I wonder how much they spent on that presentation?
I agree about the stable living environment and the fact that laptops and phones fall down the priority list. However, I worry when people bring out such statements that broadly reduce the importance of technology to obtain a stable living environment. The "teach a man to fish..." analogy only applies if you supply the tools (technology) to do the teaching and for the fishing to occur. The term technology is relative, and to disregard it's importance, through a generalist statement, to drive home a point about distributing phones is at the least ignorant, if not down right irresponsible. This is why we have uneducated fanatics running around developing their global opinions by clutching to political sound-bites.
"If you really want to help 3rd world countries, stop thinking tech. Start thinking about simple things like how to get food, water, and medicine into these places"
But don't you think that 'tech' helps/allows the 'simple things' to happen?
What do you think the percentage would be if the ad had said "Is your Mac virus free?"? Again another incorrectly posed statistics question. How many MAC users think of their personal computer when confronted with the term PC? Even thought they are using a PC they commonly think of it as a MAC and PC's are those which use windows or Linux. Therefore, the any results broken down by linux/windows/mac users are already biased and meaningless before the question is asked. Now if we want to look at how the general surfing population can be directed by a flashing banner ad. Then they're onto something.
"you'd realize that the Comcast software is, without reservations, worse in every way that the Microsoft software"
Oh my freakin' God, you're kidding me right! I'm a user of the Microsoft/Comcast thing now and it's horrible. Now you're telling me that we going to be subjected to worse?
Give me 3 spacesuits and a truck. I'll go by Home Depot on the way home and pick-up an excellent set of moon-dirt digging machinery. All for less than $20/hour - for the 3 items. NASA can figure out the getting to the moon bit.
"...have deduced the star's age based on the amounts of radioactive elements it contains compared to certain other "anchor" elements, specifically europium, osmium and iridium."
Of course, who's to say that their method of dating stars isn't wrong.
I still stand by everything I said yesterday. As much as I love the show, I really wish they had just closed it a good conclusive season and moved on to the next project.
"They've had a definite climax planned for the story, and if they can reach it in one season, and not have as much filler as in season 2.5 and 3.5, I'm all for it
I agree. I grew up in the UK with shows that ran for only a season or a few seasons (one season a year and no repeats) - from what I understand that's changed(ing). It allowed the writers to present a good tight story in a concluding arc. Even if the show sucked there was a sense of closure and anticipation to what type of show would replace it. While I hated Enterprise, they had the sense to allow for a written conclusion rather than cliff-hanger ending, which made it a little more tolerable (what can I say, I have a need to watch most SciFi even if I hate it - I even watched Blade: The series *shudder*). The whole nature of Babylon 5 was good. You go back and watch the series again from the beginning and it just comes together so nicely (in the fourth series of course). X-files was a disaster. It started so well, but then they gave up too much plot while intending to push the show further along and ended up with a show that was a joke (the native american season was when it fell apart for me). So when I started watching BSG (and Heroes btw) I really hoped that they would conclude the series after 3 or 4 seasons. Let them find Earth, let them figure out that there are a second unknown set/race/breed of cylons (my personal theory), let it end with dignity and less filler.
There is an 'average slashdotter', even if we are all unique you can still determine an average. It just may be that it doesn't reflect what anyone of us is thinking. However, with such a high slashdot membership and likely a preponderance that those members have one or two similar concepts (else why would we sign up for slashdot?) statistically there has to be a bias in thinking. This then suggests that the average is weighted with a certain opinion given a certain topic (think opinions about Microsoft).
As for not liking generalizations, I suppose we can assume that in 'general' slashdotters hate to be generalized.
Slashdot Mirror
They'd probably just find a piece with "Made in China" stamped on it.
I can CALL a McIntosh a MacIntosh a MakIntosh a MackIntosh etc, I just may not want to spell it that way...sorry just being pedantic because you were
And I hate it when over-educated folk get condencending and pompous. Try us, some of that expensive learnin' may rub off on us and make us better people, i.e more like you. Of course you may be just too lazy to write anything more than a couple of sentances.
Second, it was an internal audit. Where are they publishing the instrument used to randomly pull 10% of the investigations? If we don't get to see the instrument we need to assume a bias on behalf of the investigators, which sullies the results.
I would never call a Golden Delicious or a Cameo or a Granny Smith a MacIntosh, becuase while they're Apples they're not a MacIntosh, but a MacIntosh is so far beyond being called an Apple, so sweet and crunchy. My favorite Apple is a Mac. The other Apples, they're just Apples, but a Mac is a Mac.
Officially, it equals a fraction of a Rod-Hull
I completely agree, especially when I read quotes such as "These images must contain hundreds of important discoveries about Mars. We just need time to realize what they are.'".
You know that brings up an interesting thought. What if someone hangs a 2A0 goatse picture on their wall, or is sitting in the living room jacking off to girls gone wild (thinking about the co-ed discussion further back). Google comes along and shoots it in the street view. So now we can zoom in and see this. Where does this fall?
1) Invasion of privacy
2) Distribution of pr0n by google
3) Public obscenity by the person who's house it is?
(/. caveat:- If you don't like the examples please insert your own, my point is about the various ways of looking at the implications of the situation)
Are they not hated enough already? Talking about making a persons job even more thankless...I wonder if they just go home at the end of the night and cry? Are they afraid of becoming the the very first Cybermen?
The shark just ate the stork...nothing to see here
...but M$ are probably behind this!
The spiffy graphic presentation tells me that the LiqN2 goes in the middle, but I'm not seeing an explanation of how they get the N2 in the cable and what happens to it as it warms up, or do they not have to replenish it? I did notice in the presentation that the super cable is cold-blue and old power cables are danger-red and that a jaggy white line can hit the cold-blue cable 3 times without doing anything, but it kills the danger-red cable in one strike. I wonder how much they spent on that presentation?
I agree about the stable living environment and the fact that laptops and phones fall down the priority list. However, I worry when people bring out such statements that broadly reduce the importance of technology to obtain a stable living environment. The "teach a man to fish..." analogy only applies if you supply the tools (technology) to do the teaching and for the fishing to occur. The term technology is relative, and to disregard it's importance, through a generalist statement, to drive home a point about distributing phones is at the least ignorant, if not down right irresponsible. This is why we have uneducated fanatics running around developing their global opinions by clutching to political sound-bites.
But don't you think that 'tech' helps/allows the 'simple things' to happen?
Too true, the explanation was way more funny. **sigh**
Yep, you got me there, that humor went straight over my head. Perhaps you can explain the frolicky fashion that I'm missing
What do you think the percentage would be if the ad had said "Is your Mac virus free?"? Again another incorrectly posed statistics question. How many MAC users think of their personal computer when confronted with the term PC? Even thought they are using a PC they commonly think of it as a MAC and PC's are those which use windows or Linux. Therefore, the any results broken down by linux/windows/mac users are already biased and meaningless before the question is asked. Now if we want to look at how the general surfing population can be directed by a flashing banner ad. Then they're onto something.
They've = they have
There've = there have
So they've updated coil memory would read:
they have updated coil memory or
there have updated coil memory
You know I hate people who correct spelling and grammar on /., but even worse are those who get the correction wrong.
Oh my freakin' God, you're kidding me right! I'm a user of the Microsoft/Comcast thing now and it's horrible. Now you're telling me that we going to be subjected to worse?
Give me 3 spacesuits and a truck. I'll go by Home Depot on the way home and pick-up an excellent set of moon-dirt digging machinery. All for less than $20/hour - for the 3 items. NASA can figure out the getting to the moon bit.
Of course, who's to say that their method of dating stars isn't wrong.
I still stand by everything I said yesterday. As much as I love the show, I really wish they had just closed it a good conclusive season and moved on to the next project.
I agree. I grew up in the UK with shows that ran for only a season or a few seasons (one season a year and no repeats) - from what I understand that's changed(ing). It allowed the writers to present a good tight story in a concluding arc. Even if the show sucked there was a sense of closure and anticipation to what type of show would replace it. While I hated Enterprise, they had the sense to allow for a written conclusion rather than cliff-hanger ending, which made it a little more tolerable (what can I say, I have a need to watch most SciFi even if I hate it - I even watched Blade: The series *shudder*). The whole nature of Babylon 5 was good. You go back and watch the series again from the beginning and it just comes together so nicely (in the fourth series of course). X-files was a disaster. It started so well, but then they gave up too much plot while intending to push the show further along and ended up with a show that was a joke (the native american season was when it fell apart for me). So when I started watching BSG (and Heroes btw) I really hoped that they would conclude the series after 3 or 4 seasons. Let them find Earth, let them figure out that there are a second unknown set/race/breed of cylons (my personal theory), let it end with dignity and less filler.
What if the gas is on and you're getting frost-bite? On average your body is not doing okay
As for not liking generalizations, I suppose we can assume that in 'general' slashdotters hate to be generalized.