In keeping with the Slashdot culture of pointing out when things have been done before I'll note that there are scads of similar stoves all over Africa, and scads of relief organizations who have done what you describe. Why Pop Sci picked out these particular ones I have no idea.
I've seen a lot of Hedon stoves. Someone developed something they call the Ugandan Rocket. Both of those came about from some effort to design a more effective stove. Any town close to an abandoned mine or oil facility will have communal stoves made from 55 gallon drums, and smaller jinkos made from cut down drums that are great to carry into the bush.
Since everything gets recycled in Africa they are quite skilled at fabrication.
While you've failed to convince me of the assertions in your first sentence I would rather know what web site you refer to and how its stats can reliably model the market for desktop computers.
But this is what you get from someone in a position like Ballmer's. Somewhere way down deep in the org chart someone was tasked with finding data that supports the assertion that Vista is the greatest OS ever. After looking through hundreds of charts and tables and graphs, and throwing them all out (issues per install....can't use that one) they probably discovered that the total number of issues, across all 50 or so copies they've sold so far, was lower if you weighted by the total lines of code in Vista.
That is what you get from the Ballmers of the world. One line of marketing. Never any raw data.
I'm sure that would so totally work. Because they would be willing to file suit against themselves. Also because, for sure, their wireless range extends beyond the fences around their homes inside their gated communities.
But yeah, it would so totally work. You drive, I'll scan. Do you know what an Australian Peel is, in case we get jumped by their bodyguards?
It does to people who rely on stereotypes. There are plenty of posts in this discussion about how 'audiophiles' are just snobs throwing money in random directions. While it is true that there is a subset of audiophiles who do that painting them all with the same brush is a bit juvenile.
All this wonderful sound stuff is lost on me because I don't have ears for it. Probably too much unprotected exposure to gunfire. But I do understand it. People compile wonderful technical comparisons of digital cameras and film cameras in a misguided attempt to 'prove' which is better.
But I can look at a good platinum paper or egg albumen paper print and tell you that it has no digital equivalent. I can see the shading and tone that is missing from the digital version. Others look at it and see the moon coming up over a pond and wonder how many megapixels and why is it not sharp enough and did they use archival ink.
But then, you don't die of poisoning from wacky chemicals with digital, so it has that advantage.
Leaders like Saddam who routinely kill their own people en masse should not be allowed And yet here we are, trying to figure out how a guy in the US might possibly buy a laptop without funding the Chinese government.
Yeah, but it isn't thankless giving back to any communities to even things out, it is photo ops and newspaper articles. An executive ladling out soup in a soup kitchen. Charitable Donations.
This kind of thing comes up a lot at Slashdot, this expectation that corporations are obligated to act equitably. As annoying as Jon Katz was most of the time, he wrote one of the better editorials ever posted here. (this was back when we actually had editorials rather than the occasional rant against toolbars that rate Slashdot poorly).
At the very least he explained the way corporations view things in what I thought were geek-understandable terms. Maybe everyone missed it, I don't know, but he pretty well conveyed the total absence of any moral or ethical deliberations prior to doing any given thing. The guy went into an interview expecting to argue his case from an "is this the right thing to do?" standpoint and got "if we don't do it, somebody else will.".
An absolute lack of even the desire to consider, at all, in any way, his question.
Anyway, same thing here. An accountant looked at a cell in an (Excel) speadsheet labeled "Code our own OS". It had %1,000,000 in it. The next cell "Use Linux" has $0 in it. They could legally use it without giving anything back so they legally used it without giving anything back.
No one is going to motivate them with stories about how Linux was created through the selfless work of volunteers. Their spreadsheets have assigned $0 to that as well. Show them that the market is worth something and maybe they'll pay attention.
What's so hard about giving back to the community a tiny little something. It isn't that it is hard, it's just that there is no money in it. They call them for-profit corporations for a reason.
Also, didn't London, the worlds first true nanny city just figure out that crime is the same or worse where the cameras are the densest? Effectiveness is not a requirement for passing more laws. All you need is to be able to pitch them in a way that makes them sound like a good idea.
The 1994 Crime Bill passed in the US is a good example. Some firearms related restrictions were implemented, they had no impact on crime, then they were allowed to expire, and that had no impact on crime. This does not prevent similar restrictions from being pitched as effective ways to combat crime on a local or state level.
I don't claim to watch no TV at all but I do see very little relative to most people I know. There aren't any shows on at present that I specifically take the time to watch and I only flip the thing on when I'm bored, which isn't often.
This keeps me from bringing up the subject of TV very often, and in the few cases where other people do I tend to just nod and agree. Once in a while people will want to know if I saw a particular episode of a particular show: "Did you see the Seinfeld where the guy couldn't find his pants?". When I tell them I haven't they'll ask about the week before, and before that, and when they are met with negative responses to all of those they assume I'm some kind of pretentious ass who thinks I'm better than them because I don't watch much TV.
That is hilarious. A sheeple tag gets added based on suggestion.
"The tags on the article were actually chaning based on what the first post recommended.", said one editor, "it was amazing how much he was able to influence the tagging." Or the like.
I'm not much of a gamer by Slashdot standard but the original Thief is one of the few games I found interesting all the way through.
Every once in a while, usually several Windows reinstalls apart, I'll get the urge to play it up to the cutscene where the main character hands over the eye. I've yet to be as impressed with the impact of a cutscene as I am by that one.
I'd say that contacting the government about your grievance is protected speech And I would agree, just like the right to refuse to show your driver's license to a law enforcement officer in Ohio. But, from having read the article, in order to make your idea work all of those involved would have to be willing to spend $10,000 or thereabouts to individually prove that out in court.
It seems as if every defendant in these cases has to be painted as a victim not only of the RIAA, but life itself. It may seem that way, in the same sense that it seems, from watching CSI, that cops solve every case that comes in front of them. But you are just reading about the cases where there are circumstances such as these, where the defendant has solid claims to refute guilt and / or some circumstance that endears them to the public.
There are plenty of other RIAA lawsuits going on that don't fit that and you don't read about those.
The last line of the submission isn't likely to have an impact on a judge's decision but it is still a fact, and the more of those the better. It is news, intended to keep you abreast of the goings on.
Anyone who carries anything into an airport that they wouldn't want to be spread out on a table in view of passersby either doesn't understand how airport security operates or is rolling the dice and taking their chances.
Of course, in the event a banned book is found, I think it is policy to never imply ownership. Always "the book", never "your book".
I had mine sampled and added to a database when I joined the Marines. Refusal meant I'd have faced a court-martial. I believe all branches do add to the same database. Voluntary service, obviously, but I wonder if that practice would be held to if the draft were ever reinstituted.
Fingerprints are required to obtain a license to carry a handgun in the relatively free state of Indiana. I imagine they are in just about every other, and in the states where a license is required for any sort of firearm ownership (Illinois' FOID, for instance).
One could consider this an infringement of rights protected by the Second Amendment, but that is one of the least favorite of many of those who make the rules.
He was asked to leave and refused, which is why he was arrested. As has probably been pointed out elsewhere, the First Amendment does not require anyone to be given any specific forum for voicing their opinion.
This sort of thing is often used as a way to circuitously stifle free speech, but I don't see a realistic way around it. According to the signs I can't go into a Target store armed, and I could claim that this is a violation of my Second Amendment rights, but I'd rather have property owners free to set the terms of use for their places.
And that's a good thing? Where did I write that is was?
My point is that ff this same kid acted a fool when a senator wasn't around, or if he was just some broke guy who didn't want to get up off the park bench he was sleeping on, no one here would ever know he ended up tased and arrested. It happens every day and the whole of Slashdot doesn't start faoming at the mouth about it. We're on to more important things like the human rights violations committed by toolbars that rate web sites.
Fine by me, though, actually. This is a geek news site and I'm here for computer stuff. But once the subject of police force is put up on the front page I think we should be consistent. Some guy died in Cincinatti last week after the cops tasered him when they showed up for a domestic dispute. I expect a headline "Man Murder Tased by Police for Talking with his Wife". (the one on this story was "...Student Tasered after Asking John Kerry a Question" before it went out)
As for the actions of the cops, they probably fit department policy. It is more difficult to subdue a person than you think, even 4 on 1. All things considered less harm probably comes to the people who get tased than not, since once the police decide to arrest you you are going to be arrested, one way or the other. I'm not making the case that they are right, and I'll readily admit that the line between police and military has been blurred.
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In keeping with the Slashdot culture of pointing out when things have been done before I'll note that there are scads of similar stoves all over Africa, and scads of relief organizations who have done what you describe. Why Pop Sci picked out these particular ones I have no idea.
I've seen a lot of Hedon stoves. Someone developed something they call the Ugandan Rocket. Both of those came about from some effort to design a more effective stove. Any town close to an abandoned mine or oil facility will have communal stoves made from 55 gallon drums, and smaller jinkos made from cut down drums that are great to carry into the bush.
Since everything gets recycled in Africa they are quite skilled at fabrication.
While you've failed to convince me of the assertions in your first sentence I would rather know what web site you refer to and how its stats can reliably model the market for desktop computers.
Again with the raw data thing.
It is probably true.
But this is what you get from someone in a position like Ballmer's. Somewhere way down deep in the org chart someone was tasked with finding data that supports the assertion that Vista is the greatest OS ever. After looking through hundreds of charts and tables and graphs, and throwing them all out (issues per install....can't use that one) they probably discovered that the total number of issues, across all 50 or so copies they've sold so far, was lower if you weighted by the total lines of code in Vista.
That is what you get from the Ballmers of the world. One line of marketing. Never any raw data.
I have been playing around with ZFS on FreeBSD since the middle of this year or so.
I wonder if I should be concerned that FreeBSD is moving toward Solaris and away from FreeBSD.
I'm sure that would so totally work. Because they would be willing to file suit against themselves. Also because, for sure, their wireless range extends beyond the fences around their homes inside their gated communities.
But yeah, it would so totally work. You drive, I'll scan. Do you know what an Australian Peel is, in case we get jumped by their bodyguards?
It does to people who rely on stereotypes. There are plenty of posts in this discussion about how 'audiophiles' are just snobs throwing money in random directions. While it is true that there is a subset of audiophiles who do that painting them all with the same brush is a bit juvenile.
All this wonderful sound stuff is lost on me because I don't have ears for it. Probably too much unprotected exposure to gunfire. But I do understand it. People compile wonderful technical comparisons of digital cameras and film cameras in a misguided attempt to 'prove' which is better.
But I can look at a good platinum paper or egg albumen paper print and tell you that it has no digital equivalent. I can see the shading and tone that is missing from the digital version. Others look at it and see the moon coming up over a pond and wonder how many megapixels and why is it not sharp enough and did they use archival ink.
But then, you don't die of poisoning from wacky chemicals with digital, so it has that advantage.
I put up with them because RSLogix 5000 doesn't run on OSX (or BSD, or Linux, etc etc).
I imagine there are plenty of other bits of software that put people in the same position.
Yeah, but it isn't thankless giving back to any communities to even things out, it is photo ops and newspaper articles. An executive ladling out soup in a soup kitchen. Charitable Donations.
This kind of thing comes up a lot at Slashdot, this expectation that corporations are obligated to act equitably. As annoying as Jon Katz was most of the time, he wrote one of the better editorials ever posted here. (this was back when we actually had editorials rather than the occasional rant against toolbars that rate Slashdot poorly).
At the very least he explained the way corporations view things in what I thought were geek-understandable terms. Maybe everyone missed it, I don't know, but he pretty well conveyed the total absence of any moral or ethical deliberations prior to doing any given thing. The guy went into an interview expecting to argue his case from an "is this the right thing to do?" standpoint and got "if we don't do it, somebody else will.".
An absolute lack of even the desire to consider, at all, in any way, his question.
Anyway, same thing here. An accountant looked at a cell in an (Excel) speadsheet labeled "Code our own OS". It had %1,000,000 in it. The next cell "Use Linux" has $0 in it. They could legally use it without giving anything back so they legally used it without giving anything back.
No one is going to motivate them with stories about how Linux was created through the selfless work of volunteers. Their spreadsheets have assigned $0 to that as well. Show them that the market is worth something and maybe they'll pay attention.
The 1994 Crime Bill passed in the US is a good example. Some firearms related restrictions were implemented, they had no impact on crime, then they were allowed to expire, and that had no impact on crime. This does not prevent similar restrictions from being pitched as effective ways to combat crime on a local or state level.
If you mean BPL, it has been rolled out in a few rural areas of the US. I know Cinergy has a lot of BPL customers around Cincinatti.
I hoping it come to southern Indiana soon. Fast up and down.
Actually, the reverse is true for me.
I don't claim to watch no TV at all but I do see very little relative to most people I know. There aren't any shows on at present that I specifically take the time to watch and I only flip the thing on when I'm bored, which isn't often.
This keeps me from bringing up the subject of TV very often, and in the few cases where other people do I tend to just nod and agree. Once in a while people will want to know if I saw a particular episode of a particular show: "Did you see the Seinfeld where the guy couldn't find his pants?". When I tell them I haven't they'll ask about the week before, and before that, and when they are met with negative responses to all of those they assume I'm some kind of pretentious ass who thinks I'm better than them because I don't watch much TV.
You people are the ones who bring it up.
That is hilarious. A sheeple tag gets added based on suggestion.
"The tags on the article were actually chaning based on what the first post recommended.", said one editor, "it was amazing how much he was able to influence the tagging." Or the like.
I assume by 'nearly shot' the police discharged a weapon but missed her?
I hope she wasn't nearly pregnant when they did so.
I'm not much of a gamer by Slashdot standard but the original Thief is one of the few games I found interesting all the way through.
Every once in a while, usually several Windows reinstalls apart, I'll get the urge to play it up to the cutscene where the main character hands over the eye. I've yet to be as impressed with the impact of a cutscene as I am by that one.
Beautiful, beautiful post.
There are plenty of other RIAA lawsuits going on that don't fit that and you don't read about those.
The last line of the submission isn't likely to have an impact on a judge's decision but it is still a fact, and the more of those the better. It is news, intended to keep you abreast of the goings on.
Anyone who carries anything into an airport that they wouldn't want to be spread out on a table in view of passersby either doesn't understand how airport security operates or is rolling the dice and taking their chances.
Of course, in the event a banned book is found, I think it is policy to never imply ownership. Always "the book", never "your book".
I had mine sampled and added to a database when I joined the Marines. Refusal meant I'd have faced a court-martial. I believe all branches do add to the same database. Voluntary service, obviously, but I wonder if that practice would be held to if the draft were ever reinstituted.
Fingerprints are required to obtain a license to carry a handgun in the relatively free state of Indiana. I imagine they are in just about every other, and in the states where a license is required for any sort of firearm ownership (Illinois' FOID, for instance).
One could consider this an infringement of rights protected by the Second Amendment, but that is one of the least favorite of many of those who make the rules.
He was asked to leave and refused, which is why he was arrested. As has probably been pointed out elsewhere, the First Amendment does not require anyone to be given any specific forum for voicing their opinion.
This sort of thing is often used as a way to circuitously stifle free speech, but I don't see a realistic way around it. According to the signs I can't go into a Target store armed, and I could claim that this is a violation of my Second Amendment rights, but I'd rather have property owners free to set the terms of use for their places.
My point is that ff this same kid acted a fool when a senator wasn't around, or if he was just some broke guy who didn't want to get up off the park bench he was sleeping on, no one here would ever know he ended up tased and arrested. It happens every day and the whole of Slashdot doesn't start faoming at the mouth about it. We're on to more important things like the human rights violations committed by toolbars that rate web sites.
Fine by me, though, actually. This is a geek news site and I'm here for computer stuff. But once the subject of police force is put up on the front page I think we should be consistent. Some guy died in Cincinatti last week after the cops tasered him when they showed up for a domestic dispute. I expect a headline "Man Murder Tased by Police for Talking with his Wife". (the one on this story was "...Student Tasered after Asking John Kerry a Question" before it went out)
As for the actions of the cops, they probably fit department policy. It is more difficult to subdue a person than you think, even 4 on 1. All things considered less harm probably comes to the people who get tased than not, since once the police decide to arrest you you are going to be arrested, one way or the other. I'm not making the case that they are right, and I'll readily admit that the line between police and military has been blurred.