I know of no other business that expects the customer to keep them financially afloat that thinks they can treat their customers with disdain and they will not suffer in the end for it.
Petroleum Companies, Governments, and Churches come immediately to mind.
Stick a flash drive in and watch a movie? You mean like "Ghostbusters?"
My thought exactly.... One of the more amusing things about slashdot is reading a comment speculating on the future of technology today that was rendered moot by a story that, as often as not, todays braniac actually commented on (and Supported!) yesterday.
The Earth has a center, because it is a sphere. But no one lives outside a small band +/- 400m from the surface, so "the world" is a shell that has no center.
No one except the Mole Men, and they've got their own Internet. Which is really more an "Infranet", but that's their problem.
There are large population centers more than 400m above sealevel (more than twice that, actually). Plus there are people in the dead sea which is 420 meters below sea level.
And that's before we start counting the people living on the ISS, the people living in the salt mine city, Atlantians (Deeper or Higher than 400m depending on who you talk to) or the mole men.....
You are right, the Bible is the perfect open source text book. The science section is a little outdated, but it works great whenever I need to calculate how many sheckles a cubit of grains cost.
Considering that the source text was and is controlled by one of the largest businesses in the world, I think calling the Bible an Open Source project is a little off base.
The interface is pretty straightforward. It just doesn't work like Photoshop.
Well, I half agree with you - It doesn't work like photoshop. you just didn't go far enough - It doesn't work like anything else, except GIMP. that means it's not straightforward, because you don't have a point of reference to compare to and the interface doesn't give you enough visual clues to make things intuitive, which makes it a poorly designed one.
There is no point in these conversations with MS Office "Power Users" (and I use the term very, very loosely) the primary difference is that Open Office does it better because it's not a collection of swiss army knives, it's a collection of specialized tools. The idea that Word isn't a spreadsheet and it just might be better to let the Spreadsheet do ALL the Spreadsheet stuff; Excel isn't a database and it just might be better to let the Database do the database stuff is just too terribly chaotic to wrap their heads around.
FOSS projects that compete with established, and expensive Closed source software inevitably encounters this problem. People are conservative, and tend to continue to justify the old way because it's easier to spend money than brain power. People want extra stuff even if they never use, and never will use it; GIMP is a great example - always compared to PhotoShop, what disingenuous garbage. If you are actually getting your moneys worth out of PS, then GIMP isn't going to work for you. If GIMP will work for you, you have no business buying Photoshop - you're throwing money away.
"...although 'pure' chlorine is more of an irritant..." Yes, having your eyes and lungs dissolved by chlorine gas can be very irritating.
[sarcasm]Yeah, there's a fundamentally good reason that the authorities at hand only evacuate people with lung and Cardio problems when a chlorine leak occurs.[/sarcasm]
Also, note that each step requires energy generation itself, therefore forming a recursive chain (i.e. it takes energy to produce energy). Since many of these don't terminate at renewable energy, at least for now, you'll have to factor in the contribution of the appropriate fossil fuel, nuclear, & natural gas energy production chains.
I have always wondered that engineers design systems that expend energy to heat and then to cool things during the manufacturing process.
Why? I mean I was discussing water purification the other day with someone and they mentioned the restrictively high energy cost of using the distillation process as a means of purifying / desalinating water.
Why is that? I mean once you have high temp water and you need it to be low temp water, and you have more water that needs to be high temp water why not transfer the energy from the now distilled water to the needs to be distilled water. Energy requirements in that case are equal to energy lost to transfer efficiency constraints.
This is just one example, and one that is easy to demonstrate, but examples of these kind of energy losses exist everywhere, and I've never quite understood why. Why don't we capture all that heat energy and put it back into the system, with energy costs being what they are, it has to be cost effective to do this.
I use the micro mesh sanding pads that I also use for finish work on the Lathe - you can get them online from Rockler or from your local Woodcraft store (I'm sure there are plenty of other sources.)
they range in grit from 1100 to 12000, after the 12000 grit pad the surface is near perfect.
I then copy and duplicate the disc, some scratches are deep enough that you take a significant amount of plastic away. But for me the point is to make it readable, not a permanent repair (though I do get that on occasion)
I'd like to modify it to get a little closer to the sun. I'm tired of these cold Quebec winters.
[J]
I'd like to modify the orbit the other way - make global warming go away...
Hey, I just had a thought, if we parked Michael Moore just behind the earth, after crashing Al Gore into the earth, just like the "Deep Impact" mission......
I'm a lot more concerned about the substance of the release than what number they throw on it.
For instance, MacOS has only had point releases for going on a decade now. In this case, the release is a huge improvement over the point-oh-no.
Yes, but if you drop off the "10." of the version number then Apple is conforming to the same Standard as most of the rest of the world.
I'm using OS X 5.4 right now, after upgrading this G5 from OS X 4.11. for some reason Apple likes being redundant (OS (Roman Numeral 10) 10 point version number....
Maybe it's the mathematical part of the Jobs reality distortion field....
Isn't that what alpha and beta releases are for? If the developers behind KDE really intended 4.0 to be fore developers, then I'd say that they aren't very smart and intended to turn users away from their software.
Yes, but the RC (Release Candidate) isn't slated until v4.3 - and this IS news for some of us.... Even those of us who decided after the 4.0 release that Gnome was the path of enlightenment...
(Okay, so the last line was intended to be punny....)
And don't be so judgmental, the world isn't an either / or place in most cases; the possibilites you cite are not mutually exclusive; My joke might be bad AND I might be an idiot....
You need to change your opinions to allow for real world possibilities.
Slashdot Mirror
or give their IP addresses and plant some hidden webcam in their rooms, that should make things really fun to watch :)
Ewww........ That wasn't a visual I needed before my 10th cup of coffee.
I know of no other business that expects the customer to keep them financially afloat that thinks they can treat their customers with disdain and they will not suffer in the end for it.
Petroleum Companies, Governments, and Churches come immediately to mind.
Stick a flash drive in and watch a movie? You mean like "Ghostbusters?"
My thought exactly.... One of the more amusing things about slashdot is reading a comment speculating on the future of technology today that was rendered moot by a story that, as often as not, todays braniac actually commented on (and Supported!) yesterday.
The Earth has a center, because it is a sphere. But no one lives outside a small band +/- 400m from the surface, so "the world" is a shell that has no center.
No one except the Mole Men, and they've got their own Internet. Which is really more an "Infranet", but that's their problem.
There are large population centers more than 400m above sealevel (more than twice that, actually). Plus there are people in the dead sea which is 420 meters below sea level.
And that's before we start counting the people living on the ISS, the people living in the salt mine city, Atlantians (Deeper or Higher than 400m depending on who you talk to) or the mole men.....
Would the time scale be universal instead? : p
No, it'd be Zulu or Greenwich.
You can do that!? ... but how do you attach the ethernet cable to the tentacles?
You Don't - they connect by WiFi.
You are right, the Bible is the perfect open source text book. The science section is a little outdated, but it works great whenever I need to calculate how many sheckles a cubit of grains cost.
Considering that the source text was and is controlled by one of the largest businesses in the world, I think calling the Bible an Open Source project is a little off base.
The interface is pretty straightforward. It just doesn't work like Photoshop.
Well, I half agree with you - It doesn't work like photoshop. you just didn't go far enough - It doesn't work like anything else, except GIMP. that means it's not straightforward, because you don't have a point of reference to compare to and the interface doesn't give you enough visual clues to make things intuitive, which makes it a poorly designed one.
Wait, can't Calc hook up to Base?
Yeah, So?
There is no point in these conversations with MS Office "Power Users" (and I use the term very, very loosely) the primary difference is that Open Office does it better because it's not a collection of swiss army knives, it's a collection of specialized tools. The idea that Word isn't a spreadsheet and it just might be better to let the Spreadsheet do ALL the Spreadsheet stuff; Excel isn't a database and it just might be better to let the Database do the database stuff is just too terribly chaotic to wrap their heads around.
FOSS projects that compete with established, and expensive Closed source software inevitably encounters this problem. People are conservative, and tend to continue to justify the old way because it's easier to spend money than brain power. People want extra stuff even if they never use, and never will use it; GIMP is a great example - always compared to PhotoShop, what disingenuous garbage. If you are actually getting your moneys worth out of PS, then GIMP isn't going to work for you. If GIMP will work for you, you have no business buying Photoshop - you're throwing money away.
It's certainly not perfect, but it's pretty good considering any fool can edit it.
..... and most do. LOL
Slashdot is the ultimate source of entropy. Nothing can come close the the random BS emitted around here.
You should spend a day at dig for comparison - slashdot BS has very low levels of randomness.
"...although 'pure' chlorine is more of an irritant..."
Yes, having your eyes and lungs dissolved by chlorine gas can be very irritating.
[sarcasm]Yeah, there's a fundamentally good reason that the authorities at hand only evacuate people with lung and Cardio problems when a chlorine leak occurs.[/sarcasm]
10 Overclock PC
20 Add Electromagnetic Cooling
30 Overclock PC
40 Overclock Electromagnetic Cooler
50 Goto 30
Pretty BASIC idea for Slashdot, isn't it?
Also, note that each step requires energy generation itself, therefore forming a recursive chain (i.e. it takes energy to produce energy). Since many of these don't terminate at renewable energy, at least for now, you'll have to factor in the contribution of the appropriate fossil fuel, nuclear, & natural gas energy production chains.
I have always wondered that engineers design systems that expend energy to heat and then to cool things during the manufacturing process.
Why? I mean I was discussing water purification the other day with someone and they mentioned the restrictively high energy cost of using the distillation process as a means of purifying / desalinating water.
Why is that? I mean once you have high temp water and you need it to be low temp water, and you have more water that needs to be high temp water why not transfer the energy from the now distilled water to the needs to be distilled water. Energy requirements in that case are equal to energy lost to transfer efficiency constraints.
This is just one example, and one that is easy to demonstrate, but examples of these kind of energy losses exist everywhere, and I've never quite understood why. Why don't we capture all that heat energy and put it back into the system, with energy costs being what they are, it has to be cost effective to do this.
Yes.
No, but it can rent it buy the hour!
I use the micro mesh sanding pads that I also use for finish work on the Lathe - you can get them online from Rockler or from your local Woodcraft store (I'm sure there are plenty of other sources.)
they range in grit from 1100 to 12000, after the 12000 grit pad the surface is near perfect.
I then copy and duplicate the disc, some scratches are deep enough that you take a significant amount of plastic away. But for me the point is to make it readable, not a permanent repair (though I do get that on occasion)
For starters, why would you want to change the earth's orbit?
On top of that, if you change the earth's orbit then you change the impact risks of other asteroids.
About once a day on /. I want a mod -1 "Whoosh" - Thank you for not crossing the streams.
I'd like to modify it to get a little closer to the sun. I'm tired of these cold Quebec winters.
[J]
I'd like to modify the orbit the other way - make global warming go away...
Hey, I just had a thought, if we parked Michael Moore just behind the earth, after crashing Al Gore into the earth, just like the "Deep Impact" mission......
The Knights Templar, as parent and GP mentioned, are very unlikely to be making any material claims.
Ouch! It almost sounds like there are no consequences for perpetrating a successful genocide.
Well Duh!
I'm reminded of a quote from the mini-series " Shogun":
Toronaga asked Pilot to name any excuse that justified making war on your Lord, the Pilot responded "Winning"
I'm a lot more concerned about the substance of the release than what number they throw on it.
For instance, MacOS has only had point releases for going on a decade now. In this case, the release is a huge improvement over the point-oh-no.
Yes, but if you drop off the "10." of the version number then Apple is conforming to the same Standard as most of the rest of the world.
I'm using OS X 5.4 right now, after upgrading this G5 from OS X 4.11. for some reason Apple likes being redundant (OS (Roman Numeral 10) 10 point version number....
Maybe it's the mathematical part of the Jobs reality distortion field....
Isn't that what alpha and beta releases are for? If the developers behind KDE really intended 4.0 to be fore developers, then I'd say that they aren't very smart and intended to turn users away from their software.
Yes, but the RC (Release Candidate) isn't slated until v4.3 - and this IS news for some of us.... Even those of us who decided after the 4.0 release that Gnome was the path of enlightenment...
(Okay, so the last line was intended to be punny....)
Do we really need notification of a (dot)1 release?
Of course we do, we always cover shiny new Beta Software Releases when they are common to most Distro's.
Math is an abbreviation of Mathematics, a discipline which includes as a subset, Algebra
Thus Algebra is math,
but it isn't Arithmetic, which is perhaps the word you were seeking and would protect you from the grammar nazis
No, I was referring to Mathematics, and as another pointed out, either I'm an idiot, or the joke wasn't funny.
I have no problem judging. He was a degenerate scumbag and I'm glad he's fucking dead.
Since this remark was modded troll, I had this weird visual of an 8' tall regenerating green monster blowing smoke off of a hand buzzer....
I-need-lots-more-coffee.....
*bad as in not funny
*bad as in you didn't think it was funny, anyway.
And don't be so judgmental, the world isn't an either / or place in most cases; the possibilites you cite are not mutually exclusive; My joke might be bad AND I might be an idiot....
You need to change your opinions to allow for real world possibilities.