..or the timeless "Almighty God, in his infinite mercy, will painfully smite your ass for eternity if you so much even LOOK at a pair of breasts, you horrific sinner
The teens showing early s&m tendencies are sat there thinking "awesome:D"
He took a company that had a decent product that was rapidly becoming irrelevant and decided the 'winning business solution' was to sue everyone and hope to win the lawsuit lottery.
Wait, is this thread about the RIAA? I'm confused.
*sigh*. Whilst it's true that the first detectable occurrence of an error is the typo, higher up the parse tree you'll find the intended error, the whole phrase; to correct someone's typo with a typo of one's own.
drunkenness leads to lame 'jokes' followed by confusion => beer is bad:(
So the only people who bought Vista were forced to buy it or are uneducated idiots?
Well, I wouldn't know but you seem to have the facts at your fingertips.
However, what I'm saying is that those 'sales' of Vista by virtue of it being forcibly bundled with the laptop, even if someone wants the laptop to install l00nix:) shouldn't count as sales because no explicit choice was made; partly, it plays on consumers' inertia.
Note: this is almost identical to the idea that the browser-popularity figures are artificially skewed to appear as though IE is the majority 'choice' when we all know that it only appears so because windows falls out of the box running IE and a large majority either aren't aware that alternatives exist or of what they're missing by not choosing an alternative; in these cases, they can't be said to have made such a choice.
Teaching children to use Windows is like teaching them to smoke tobaccoâ"in a world where only one company sells tobacco. Like any addictive drug, it inculcates a harmful dependency. No wonder Microsoft offers the first dose to children at a low price. Microsoft aims to teach poor children this dependency so they can smoke Windows for their whole lives. I donâ(TM)t think governments or schools should support that aim.
Well, he's got a point, hasn't he? A well-known tactic shared by the 'food'-dispensing company with stupid yellow plastic arch as logo.
man you f/oss lunatics really need some medical assistance
fwiw, I'm a windows zealot; thanks for the advice though:)
How about addressing the increasingly long list of features people actually want
The role of an operating system isn't to give consumers what they want but to convince them to pay for the infrastructure over which you may push your business partners' products.
An office environment is not distracting? Have you ever heard of e-mail, youtube or slashdot?
No. Certainly not the last one; it sounds like somewhere freaks would live.
University of Michigan psychology research in the December issue of Psychological Science explored the cognitive benefits of interacting with nature and found that walking in a park in any season, or even viewing pictures of nature, can help improve memory and attention.
Because the test subjects' brains were so bored during the *walk in the park* they jump for joy when given something to do. Ever see a hamster given a wheel for the first time?
Feel free to try to name a better form of good wholesome family entertainment than ripping a small furry creature apart with a pack full of baying hounds (with horse-support).
..they differentiate themselves largely by their position on the foxhunting ban
Our system of democracy - *pauses for protracted bout of hysterical laughter* - really is screwed. The political animals only care about distinguishing themselves, not about the issues.
How are we to encourage the kind of statesmanship and genuine care for people which is so sadly lacking throughout governments around the world today?
Bizarre as it sounds, I suspect that only a world-changing event on the order of an alien-invasion would be sufficient to knock them off their stride long enough for some good to be done.
So, I welcome our new philosopher-ruler alien overlords..
They use quite a lot of tricks to censor films. For example, they will sometimes pass the film back to distributor with notes explaining why they cannot pass the film at the requested certificate. The best bit? The distributor makes the changes as specifies and then resubmits the film which is then passed. The BBFC then report that they didn't have to make any cuts.,
I'm sure you'll be surprised to learn that, according to the film 'This Film Is Not Yet Rated', that's exactly the way it works in the US, too.
Slashdot Mirror
Page five.
Hint: Move your eyes across the words and all will be revealed :P
The teens showing early s&m tendencies are sat there thinking "awesome :D"
As soon as whoever has paid them to spout-off has profited from the societal behaviour-change they desire?
Yep; he's just venting because Taco rejected his advances :P
Sorry, what?
j/k :D
Wait, is this thread about the RIAA? I'm confused.
*sigh*. Whilst it's true that the first detectable occurrence of an error is the typo, higher up the parse tree you'll find the intended error, the whole phrase; to correct someone's typo with a typo of one's own.
drunkenness leads to lame 'jokes' followed by confusion => beer is bad :(
Well, I wouldn't know but you seem to have the facts at your fingertips.
However, what I'm saying is that those 'sales' of Vista by virtue of it being forcibly bundled with the laptop, even if someone wants the laptop to install l00nix :) shouldn't count as sales because no explicit choice was made; partly, it plays on consumers' inertia.
Note: this is almost identical to the idea that the browser-popularity figures are artificially skewed to appear as though IE is the majority 'choice' when we all know that it only appears so because windows falls out of the box running IE and a large majority either aren't aware that alternatives exist or of what they're missing by not choosing an alternative; in these cases, they can't be said to have made such a choice.
Well, he's got a point, hasn't he? A well-known tactic shared by the 'food'-dispensing company with stupid yellow plastic arch as logo.
fwiw, I'm a windows zealot; thanks for the advice though :)
*blink*
/callvote drop an IRC-UI over slashdot and log comments to the site..
Of course to get those 'sales' they had to force vendors to force consumers to 'buy' vista with any new laptop.
And besides, using "well, n n00bs who don't know jack about anything bought our product" as an indicator of success is somewhat flawed.
*bows down to emphasize unworthiness* :)
/callvote electric shock's for those who don't know why I typed '(sic)' :P
The role of an operating system isn't to give consumers what they want but to convince them to pay for the infrastructure over which you may push your business partners' products.
*cough* DRM, DRM and more DRM
/callvote electric shock's for ppl who spell 'loser' as 'looser' (sic)
That'll teach you to buy netgear :)
IMO, one downloads something from elsewhere. One uploads something from one's own location *to* elsewhere.
No. Certainly not the last one; it sounds like somewhere freaks would live.
Because the test subjects' brains were so bored during the *walk in the park* they jump for joy when given something to do. Ever see a hamster given a wheel for the first time?
or badgers..
What's new is all the advertising revenue generated by the army of slashdotters reading this 'article' at a few short paragraphs per five ads.
Seriously, what's the deal with slashdot these days. How the hell did this make it to the front page. Even Idle would have been too good for it.
-1 neanderthal
I'm more impressed by your ability to wear multiple hats.. Zaphod, is that you?
kinda redundant. you know this is slashdot, right?
Feel free to try to name a better form of good wholesome family entertainment than ripping a small furry creature apart with a pack full of baying hounds (with horse-support).
Our system of democracy - *pauses for protracted bout of hysterical laughter* - really is screwed. The political animals only care about distinguishing themselves, not about the issues.
How are we to encourage the kind of statesmanship and genuine care for people which is so sadly lacking throughout governments around the world today?
Bizarre as it sounds, I suspect that only a world-changing event on the order of an alien-invasion would be sufficient to knock them off their stride long enough for some good to be done.
So, I welcome our new philosopher-ruler alien overlords..
I'm sure you'll be surprised to learn that, according to the film 'This Film Is Not Yet Rated', that's exactly the way it works in the US, too.