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Comment Re:FOE is in favor: Yeah, right! (Score 3, Funny) 197

How difficult can it actually be to filter out the fish from the inrushing water?

Pretty difficult, I imagine. In no time at all, your filter will be completely clogged with all kinds of marine life and junk.

The obvious solution is to just install a filter over it, to keep the first filter from getting clogged.

Comment Re:seriously (Score 1) 247

Why are there so many studies about a non-existent problem ? If you want to model a disease, why not a deadly flu ?

People don't pay attention to scenarios involving plain old flu. Zombies are essentially a placeholder for all types of disasters. Responses to zombie outbreaks include quarantine, crowd control, logistics, evacuations, communication with media and the population, areas blocked off due to a natural disaster(flood, earthquake, etc) modeled as "infected area", etc. For people, a zombie "bug out bag" containing water/food/medicine is good to use if you lose power or have to evacuate to a shelter during storms/disasters, and planning routes to avoid heavily trafficked areas are helpful if given an order to evacuate as well. Zombies are just a generic disaster that cover pretty much every facet of any kind of disaster response.

Comment Re:How about using a whiteboard? (Score 1) 164

Compatibility issues is not something I've seen. The whiteboards we use (Hitachi Starboards at our end, some Sharp at one of the other locations, and I'm not sure about the rest of the company) are input devices, windows treats them as a tablet device nothing more. They are glorified projectors with pen input.

Any collaboration software which will allow shared drawing on a single canvas works on these boards. Sure you get extra features if you use a specific manufacturer's own software like quick changing colours by tapping the side of the board, but ultimately that's minor and you may even get better features by not using their software.

Ultimately though the compatibility issue shouldn't really come into play at all since we are talking about one company with distributed teams. I would be very surprised if they don't standardize on a common vendor anyway.

Comment Re:Biggest Problem (Score 1) 516

Yes because the problem of the interface changing in Gnome 3 is made all the more better by completely changing to a different desktop environment.

Sorry but in the context of this thread, choice is not a forte of Linux. Especially when we're talking about dumb users, double especially since those dumb users will take whatever default options they are given, and triple especially since the most popular of the user friendly distributions doesn't give you an easy way of switching to another DE which sparked a whole bloody fork of that distribution (Mint) and even that fork has 4 different downloads for whichever DE you want and the "normal" way of changing the DE is to install a whole different OS.

No, in terms of the end user the Windows experience has been far more consistent than Linux will ever be BECAUSE of choice.

Comment Re:Last straw? (Score 1) 533

Oh, wait, did you mean the airstrikes were IMPROVING our safety? ROFL WAFL!

It has allowed the Kurds to take back some territory. Without it, ISIS would have continued to expand their territory, and become a greater threat.

I firmly believe that the Kurds are the only ones with the willpower to stand up to and defeat ISIS. The problem is that the US cannot supply arms to the Kurds because they also want an independent Kurdish state which would essentially destroy the friendly government we have in Iraq.

Comment Re:Research Suggests (Score 1) 208

Actually I think it may be the opposite. Saunas are not really places for relaxation. Your heart rate is high and when you do it like the Finns you will shock your body quite severely with long warm up periods, sudden humidity spike then a sudden temperature drop outside in a cold shower, or rolling naked in the snow.

Comment Re:Relaxing = Live longer? (Score 0) 208

BAH, humbug.

it's quite the contrary, we (finns) throw water to stove, which boils immediately forming steam (löyly) which fills the 'sauna room' (löylyhuoneen).

You Finns throw water on the stove.... at the very end. GP is right, even in Finnland. If you go to any spa or professionally run sauna you'll have a humidity between 10-40%. The Finnish sauna involves heating the room, then circulating the air out of it (critical on the second sitting to get the humidity down), then reheating to around 90C. You then sit in this room for about 10 min with a low humidity. After the 10min is over you throw water on the stove which instantly brings the humidity to around 90%. That burning sensation is humid heat which the body would not be able to stand for very long. Then someone will usually aerate the room with their towel. The high humidity, temperature and moving air will make most people think like they are dying though in reality at this point the temperature will have dropped by well over 10degC.

GP is right. At 80% humidity at 90C you wouldn't last very long.

Comment Re:Not so wonderful. (Score 1) 187

In prior times, there was always a go-to industry that replaced the old. In current times, no such area exists long enough to be viable.

I wasn't saying go to another industry, I was saying increase industry output. Computers can't think. People think. Sometimes the best people to run automated production lines are those who used to do it manually. I've seen this first hand at several food plants (a cannery and two baked goods manufacturer) which were automated to reduce costs. Turned out costs stayed the same, the number of people employed stayed the same, and output doubled.

There's more manufacturing, but the quality has declined.

Nonesense. Quality depends on what you pay for it. I want to see any manual worker on a Ford model T production line produce the same kind of consistent and quality components that a modern CNC line cranks out. For that matter I would like to see some of those labourers attempt to even build some of the components we now effortlessly spit out from the end of a machine.

You want quality? Pay for it, but don't pretend that it comes from old gurus hands instead of robotic assisted manufacture.

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