Tip: A large number of stories on Slashdot are product placement. It has been this way since, to my recollection, the series of stories on They Might be Giants. It was probably going on before that and I just didn't recognize. Those seemed like the first slashvertisements that made no real effort to disguise themselves.
Slashdot is good for its user submitted content. There are still some really good, really informative discussions going on involving people who really know the subjects, that can't be found anywhere else. If slashvertising like this is necessary to subsidize those discussions I think it is worth the trouble.
This citation needed parroting of wikipedia has to fucking stop.
We aren't here writing research papers or even encyclopedias. This is a little niche web forum and most everything we write here is forgotten within 24 hours and will be viewed thereafter only by robots, or in some search engine's cache.
You, for instance, failed to include any citations for any of the assertions you made. I, for instance, rightly recognize, just as I did in the OP, that you are just some guy with some opinions you are stating based on your personal experience and beliefs and I would be capable of proceeding with the argument on those grounds, were I so inclined, without engaging in tangential games of demanding excessive investments of your time flitting through search results.
Also, you wrote a point by point rebuttal. Which is classic. HAND.
If you deposit $100,000, your bank will suddenly become your best friend. If it is a check rather than cash they will call the issuing bank to verify so the money becomes immediately available to you (and them).
Well, what is it about weather simulation that requires so much work?
The enormous number of variables, mostly. Weather, nuclear bombs, ocean currents, cryptography, even things as seemingly simple as modeling air flow around an object. If you are looking to develop a model of a process that involves a few thousand variables and you need to know the interaction of those variables several levels deep....you need to make a lot of calculations.
It hasn't been all that long that computers have had the computational power to dominate humans in games as 'simple' as chess.
I'm in southern Indiana now, and we have a few months of cold. Last winter we had snow on the ground for about a month straight. I stand it fine if I'm active. People around here hunt deer in the winter by sitting still for long periods of time, which I admit I do not enjoy at all.
When I was young we had no AC, and this was in rural southern Africa, so it was usually very warm during the day.
I live in an old farm house in the US now and though it has central AC I very seldom use it. Usually when I have guests because if I don't they immediately comment on how hot it is and how can I stand it and that they are sweating just standing still. They threaten to swoon. They forecast their own death. They google map the closest hotel.
I built a cabin on the other end of the property and it is similar to what you describe. (it is a Kundig design, which tend to be pretty green) People who visit still complain when the AC is not on, but only when it is particularly hot and humid outside.
Anyway, I think it is a combination of dwelling design and the fact that people in the US are so used to conditioned indoor air. Even at 90F there is little real physical risk to anyone other than the elderly, but I have met plenty of people who simply can't tolerate it mentally.
People buy electric clothes dryers out of convenience in the first place. A clothesline offers a significant reduction in both up front and ongoing costs, but far less convenience.
Put this monitor in someone's house and pop up a message that it will cost an extra dollar to dry clothes now versus waiting 6 hours, I think most people will spend the dollar.
If what you write is true, why, during the most difficult worldwide economic climate in the past 50 years, did more individuals and companies not move to open source?
If your answer is some variation on a grand conspiracy by Microsoft and the like, I don't really want to read that. But if anyone has any actual, verifiable ideas, I've been wondering. The people I know who work for big companies have told me about the seemingly ridiculous lengths they've gone to to cut costs. It seems like if their IT department pitched a project that would save 90% of their software costs it would have been promoted ahead of cutting bottled water and having people drink from the tap.
As far as bang for your buck, if your buck is tied to traffic and traffic can be represented by replies to stories, it looks like both Apple and Microsoft are both reliable topics.
I was always told, by marketing people working at large retailers, that large retailers bought traffic lights because they cause more people to stop in. Whether that is out of enter/exit convenience or that there is something to making people pause in front of your store I don't know, but do you know of any Wal-Marts that don't have a red light?
That there is economy in running a helicopter to enforce speed limits is testament to US law enforcement's preference for bringing in revenue rather than acting as a deterrent.
The people you speak of are harder than any non-military US resident I've met. Many of the people organizing the insurgency have been through more fighting than anyone else on the planet. They regularly demonstrate a willingness to die for their cause, and to send people they love to do the same. Many of them have almost nothing in the way of material possessions or what we in the West consider a 'life', so they have little to lose by choosing the life of an insurgent.
You don't just flip a switch and go from worrying about how green your lawn is to ignoring the mosquitoes sucking blood out of your forehead, lest you give away your position. There will be no clear signal for everyone to walk away from their big screen TVs so they can join the revolution. I've seen some classes go through Rifles Only, and even the people who try to train up are way behind.
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Blaming the lack of a physical keyboard would've made +5 Informative a certainty.
Tip: A large number of stories on Slashdot are product placement. It has been this way since, to my recollection, the series of stories on They Might be Giants. It was probably going on before that and I just didn't recognize. Those seemed like the first slashvertisements that made no real effort to disguise themselves.
Slashdot is good for its user submitted content. There are still some really good, really informative discussions going on involving people who really know the subjects, that can't be found anywhere else. If slashvertising like this is necessary to subsidize those discussions I think it is worth the trouble.
How would an employee keep the same health care if his employer did not?
You can answer generally if you must.
This citation needed parroting of wikipedia has to fucking stop.
We aren't here writing research papers or even encyclopedias. This is a little niche web forum and most everything we write here is forgotten within 24 hours and will be viewed thereafter only by robots, or in some search engine's cache.
You, for instance, failed to include any citations for any of the assertions you made. I, for instance, rightly recognize, just as I did in the OP, that you are just some guy with some opinions you are stating based on your personal experience and beliefs and I would be capable of proceeding with the argument on those grounds, were I so inclined, without engaging in tangential games of demanding excessive investments of your time flitting through search results.
Also, you wrote a point by point rebuttal. Which is classic. HAND.
You can't give offense, only take it.
But I don't want to spend a lot of money.
If you deposit $100,000, your bank will suddenly become your best friend. If it is a check rather than cash they will call the issuing bank to verify so the money becomes immediately available to you (and them).
Well, what is it about weather simulation that requires so much work?
The enormous number of variables, mostly. Weather, nuclear bombs, ocean currents, cryptography, even things as seemingly simple as modeling air flow around an object. If you are looking to develop a model of a process that involves a few thousand variables and you need to know the interaction of those variables several levels deep....you need to make a lot of calculations.
It hasn't been all that long that computers have had the computational power to dominate humans in games as 'simple' as chess.
Because they choose not to?
I'm in southern Indiana now, and we have a few months of cold. Last winter we had snow on the ground for about a month straight. I stand it fine if I'm active. People around here hunt deer in the winter by sitting still for long periods of time, which I admit I do not enjoy at all.
You are describing the Kano satisfaction model.
When I was young we had no AC, and this was in rural southern Africa, so it was usually very warm during the day.
I live in an old farm house in the US now and though it has central AC I very seldom use it. Usually when I have guests because if I don't they immediately comment on how hot it is and how can I stand it and that they are sweating just standing still. They threaten to swoon. They forecast their own death. They google map the closest hotel.
I built a cabin on the other end of the property and it is similar to what you describe. (it is a Kundig design, which tend to be pretty green) People who visit still complain when the AC is not on, but only when it is particularly hot and humid outside.
Anyway, I think it is a combination of dwelling design and the fact that people in the US are so used to conditioned indoor air. Even at 90F there is little real physical risk to anyone other than the elderly, but I have met plenty of people who simply can't tolerate it mentally.
Right.
People buy electric clothes dryers out of convenience in the first place. A clothesline offers a significant reduction in both up front and ongoing costs, but far less convenience.
Put this monitor in someone's house and pop up a message that it will cost an extra dollar to dry clothes now versus waiting 6 hours, I think most people will spend the dollar.
Congratulations, your performance is within the acceptable range of tolerance.
You'll receive your masters in 8-10 business days.
It doesn't threaten anyone, or shouldn't, but it is brandishing, which is an offense and should be.
If what you write is true, why, during the most difficult worldwide economic climate in the past 50 years, did more individuals and companies not move to open source?
If your answer is some variation on a grand conspiracy by Microsoft and the like, I don't really want to read that. But if anyone has any actual, verifiable ideas, I've been wondering. The people I know who work for big companies have told me about the seemingly ridiculous lengths they've gone to to cut costs. It seems like if their IT department pitched a project that would save 90% of their software costs it would have been promoted ahead of cutting bottled water and having people drink from the tap.
Who cares.
As far as bang for your buck, if your buck is tied to traffic and traffic can be represented by replies to stories, it looks like both Apple and Microsoft are both reliable topics.
I'd argue that they better understand how to focus on content than most anyone else.
They lack decent search but I can't think of much else that would make Craigslist better rather than just whizzier.
You forgot that it also takes the willpower of a human.
Fucking google street view, passively shooting holes in my arguments.
But this isn't first time I've been lied to my a marketing person.
And UPS
I was always told, by marketing people working at large retailers, that large retailers bought traffic lights because they cause more people to stop in. Whether that is out of enter/exit convenience or that there is something to making people pause in front of your store I don't know, but do you know of any Wal-Marts that don't have a red light?
That there is economy in running a helicopter to enforce speed limits is testament to US law enforcement's preference for bringing in revenue rather than acting as a deterrent.
The people you speak of are harder than any non-military US resident I've met. Many of the people organizing the insurgency have been through more fighting than anyone else on the planet. They regularly demonstrate a willingness to die for their cause, and to send people they love to do the same. Many of them have almost nothing in the way of material possessions or what we in the West consider a 'life', so they have little to lose by choosing the life of an insurgent.
You don't just flip a switch and go from worrying about how green your lawn is to ignoring the mosquitoes sucking blood out of your forehead, lest you give away your position. There will be no clear signal for everyone to walk away from their big screen TVs so they can join the revolution. I've seen some classes go through Rifles Only, and even the people who try to train up are way behind.
Or, more appropriately for this story, we just had the 40th anniversary of the Jackson State shootings as well.