It's awfully (in)convenient that Jesus never seem to clearly spell out what the fuck he means or tries to accomplish, in the New Testament. So fucking ambiguous the whole thing, no wonder it's the source of so many wars and strife.
People have replaced perfectly working video connectors/standards (VGA and DVI) with DRM-laden, controlled up the wazoo stuff like HDMI and DisplayPort.
You do realize that HDCP over DVI has been a thing since forever. It's HDMI without the audio/networking links.
Donofadiddley, you're right! I was wrong about DVI, it's no better than DisplayPort in that regard.
People have replaced perfectly working video connectors/standards (VGA and DVI) with DRM-laden, controlled up the wazoo stuff like HDMI and DisplayPort. People have replaced perfectly working, and safe, boot firmware - BIOS - with shit that is controlled not by the user but by a third party, and it is not safe, and it can be altered from userland (UEFI). People are in the process of replacing a decent if closed-source OS (Windows 7) with an ad-laden, telemetry-laden OS that reboots when uncle Microsoft says so - Windows 10.
It is amazing that people are OK with taking all this crap up the ass and after a while, actually feel happy about it. I am glad there are exceptions, but we are a tiny, insignificant minority.
The W3C should just deprecate the ability to open new windows programmatically. 95% of its use on the Internet is for shady advertising. The other 5% are apps that provide bad UX. In other words, it has no legitimate use.
Sometimes it feels like 100% of the use is for scam ads.
My best article has only one citation. I have no idea why this is the case, except maybe because it's a very multidisciplinary work and all the disciplines tackle a complex scientific problem. It's an article difficult to read for one versed only in his/her narrow field of interest.
If these people stopped watching porn, and instead increased their social interaction, and maybe even went on a date using a gasoline powered car, the environmental consequences would be far, far worse.
Not to mention the far more devastating environmental costs of procreating.
Think I'll skip the outrage on this one, especially considering the vast benefit that pro brings humanity. You wonder why there's not been a WWIII? Internet porn.
That would explain ISIS.
Actually, as i tried making the joke, the htought of all the depraved things ISIS did to yazidi and other non-Sunni Muslim women, including young girls, made my stomach turn. ISIS are the scum of the world.
Apple has the most recalcitrant approach to repairs, and their response to customers' inquires on repairability is a thinly veiled "Fuck you kindly". Apple can get away with this because it has a captive audience, plus it offers them something they care about, such as a seamless experience and stuff - I don't know very well as i am not an Apple product user but I am not so stupid that I'd deprecate all of Apple's advantages. However, it is infuriating that the entire computer industry is now following them in the footsteps making non-repairable products, never releasing schematics, and never making spare parts available. This is a shit trend that starts with Apple and Apple is the master in forced obsolescence + unfixability.
It kind of makes me even more angry thinking of the independent repair shops jumping through hoops to source spare parts by cannibalizing broken Apple motherboards. That's just kind of humiliating. F you, Apple.
One thing psychopaths are great at, is simulating emotions. The rest of us get nervous and stumble under certain pressures. Not psychopaths. They will have an even greater advantage if such software is utilized for recruiting.
You don't really think Boeing is serious about flying to Mars, do you? When it comes to ambitious space areonautics, Boeing can't find their collective ass with both hands. They just aren't tuned or biased towards that. Boeing produces money with the least investment/expenses (in R&D or otherwise) possible. Milking the US govt. seems to have worked wonders in that sense.
The single best thing you can do to help prevent climate change (that doesn't involve murder / suicide) is to not have children.
That's an often mentioned point, but it's tragically wrong: the only people not having children are the smart people, but the idiots are reproducing like rabbits. If the smart people don't reproduce, the future will be even more bleak. Talk about Idiocracy (the movie) - we're going full retard-o-cracy.
Not even German trains are as punctual as Japanese trains.
German trains stopped being punctual AT LEAST 25 years ago. I remember the stories about my punctuality when I was a boy. Then I met my german wife, and both had great laughs at that notion as we traveled through her country.
I am FAR more productive with a ThinkPad X220 or T420 than I am with more modern laptops, because I can touch-type without ever looking at the keyboard. This is achieved by having various key sizes and spacings, which tell me exactly where on the "map" I am at any given moment. Lenovo shit the bed by switching to the 6-row keyboard with equally-spaced function keys and non-discoverable special characters, but they may be now going back to the old-and-awesome 7 row classic keyboard. The T25 is a fist step, here's hoping all their new models will have it.
Of course, if you're a donk that needs looking at his keyboard every 5-10 seconds, then you won't understand what's all the fuss about. I notice that those same donks need shit like backlit keys, because without them they are utterly lost while typing in the dark. And spend lots of time looking dimwitted.
There is absolutely no need to rape the English language like this. A simple "Jeff Bezos Just Sold..." would have been correct. If you want to use the past participle to underline the immediacy of what happened, just write out "has" in full, as in "Jeff Bezos's Has Just Sold...". The "Bezos's" contraction is technically not incorrect - it's just stylistically obtuse.
I am not a native speaker, but even to my "ears" this headline sounded atrocious.
I'm not being facetious - there were a lot of products (TVs, VCRs, Computers, Microwaves, non-mobile/cell phones) were this was a reasonable option. Right now, not so much.
This is 100% pure bullshit. Watch the YouTube channels of independent electronics repair shops, like the Louis Rossman channel, or the iPad Rehab channel. In their videos they show exactly how they repair all sorts of electronics, even those that Apple makes purposely difficult to repair (with glued-in components).
Please don't spread misinformation. Especially don't spread misinformation with so much misplaced self-confidence.
In this video Louis Rossman explains some of the ways Apple uses to make their products hard to repair for NO good reason apart from their own profit. He tells of his colleagues (independent repair shops) having their posts deleted when all they were saying is that such and such CAN be in fact repaired. Apple will not repair most damages even if it involves the user losing his/her data, and even if they are perfectly repairable. Moreover, Rossman explains how Apple uses dirty tricks to terminate the warranty even when the user did nothing unauthorized.
Just watch it and be angry. Be very fucking angry.
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Get off your moral high horse. It's not that they don't have empathy,
Actually, I read several research papers, a few years ago, which found that richer people are indeed less empathetic than poor ones.
It's awfully (in)convenient that Jesus never seem to clearly spell out what the fuck he means or tries to accomplish, in the New Testament. So fucking ambiguous the whole thing, no wonder it's the source of so many wars and strife.
Not to mention, none of it really happened.
You forgot the bio-informatic nanotubes.
You do realize that HDCP over DVI has been a thing since forever. It's HDMI without the audio/networking links.
Donofadiddley, you're right! I was wrong about DVI, it's no better than DisplayPort in that regard.
People have replaced perfectly working video connectors/standards (VGA and DVI) with DRM-laden, controlled up the wazoo stuff like HDMI and DisplayPort. People have replaced perfectly working, and safe, boot firmware - BIOS - with shit that is controlled not by the user but by a third party, and it is not safe, and it can be altered from userland (UEFI). People are in the process of replacing a decent if closed-source OS (Windows 7) with an ad-laden, telemetry-laden OS that reboots when uncle Microsoft says so - Windows 10.
It is amazing that people are OK with taking all this crap up the ass and after a while, actually feel happy about it. I am glad there are exceptions, but we are a tiny, insignificant minority.
The W3C should just deprecate the ability to open new windows programmatically. 95% of its use on the Internet is for shady advertising. The other 5% are apps that provide bad UX. In other words, it has no legitimate use.
Sometimes it feels like 100% of the use is for scam ads.
My best article has only one citation. I have no idea why this is the case, except maybe because it's a very multidisciplinary work and all the disciplines tackle a complex scientific problem. It's an article difficult to read for one versed only in his/her narrow field of interest.
ICQ is still kicking around?
If these people stopped watching porn, and instead increased their social interaction, and maybe even went on a date using a gasoline powered car, the environmental consequences would be far, far worse.
Not to mention the far more devastating environmental costs of procreating.
Think I'll skip the outrage on this one, especially considering the vast benefit that pro brings humanity. You wonder why there's not been a WWIII? Internet porn.
That would explain ISIS.
Actually, as i tried making the joke, the htought of all the depraved things ISIS did to yazidi and other non-Sunni Muslim women, including young girls, made my stomach turn. ISIS are the scum of the world.
Apple has the most recalcitrant approach to repairs, and their response to customers' inquires on repairability is a thinly veiled "Fuck you kindly". Apple can get away with this because it has a captive audience, plus it offers them something they care about, such as a seamless experience and stuff - I don't know very well as i am not an Apple product user but I am not so stupid that I'd deprecate all of Apple's advantages. However, it is infuriating that the entire computer industry is now following them in the footsteps making non-repairable products, never releasing schematics, and never making spare parts available. This is a shit trend that starts with Apple and Apple is the master in forced obsolescence + unfixability.
It kind of makes me even more angry thinking of the independent repair shops jumping through hoops to source spare parts by cannibalizing broken Apple motherboards. That's just kind of humiliating. F you, Apple.
One thing psychopaths are great at, is simulating emotions. The rest of us get nervous and stumble under certain pressures. Not psychopaths. They will have an even greater advantage if such software is utilized for recruiting.
You don't really think Boeing is serious about flying to Mars, do you? When it comes to ambitious space areonautics, Boeing can't find their collective ass with both hands. They just aren't tuned or biased towards that. Boeing produces money with the least investment/expenses (in R&D or otherwise) possible. Milking the US govt. seems to have worked wonders in that sense.
This is just bluster, nothing more.
It's surprisingly competent and literate, especially for Slashdot.
So much so, that as soon as I discover that an app uses the lock screen ads, I remove it immediately and make a mental note of that app.
So, I find this move by Google to be unreservedly positive.
The single best thing you can do to help prevent climate change (that doesn't involve murder / suicide) is to not have children.
That's an often mentioned point, but it's tragically wrong: the only people not having children are the smart people, but the idiots are reproducing like rabbits. If the smart people don't reproduce, the future will be even more bleak. Talk about Idiocracy (the movie) - we're going full retard-o-cracy.
Not even German trains are as punctual as Japanese trains.
German trains stopped being punctual AT LEAST 25 years ago. I remember the stories about my punctuality when I was a boy. Then I met my german wife, and both had great laughs at that notion as we traveled through her country.
I am FAR more productive with a ThinkPad X220 or T420 than I am with more modern laptops, because I can touch-type without ever looking at the keyboard. This is achieved by having various key sizes and spacings, which tell me exactly where on the "map" I am at any given moment. Lenovo shit the bed by switching to the 6-row keyboard with equally-spaced function keys and non-discoverable special characters, but they may be now going back to the old-and-awesome 7 row classic keyboard. The T25 is a fist step, here's hoping all their new models will have it.
Of course, if you're a donk that needs looking at his keyboard every 5-10 seconds, then you won't understand what's all the fuss about. I notice that those same donks need shit like backlit keys, because without them they are utterly lost while typing in the dark. And spend lots of time looking dimwitted.
A DUI, if you drive, will end your life as you know it. You'll spend years in prison. Fighting with a Japanese citizen will result in the same.
While not as strict as Singapore, the Japanese penal system isn't something with which you want to be acquainted.
That's actually quite awesome.
It wasn't rape, it was more like harassment.
Micro-aggression's
You had to go there, haven't you.
There is absolutely no need to rape the English language like this. A simple "Jeff Bezos Just Sold..." would have been correct. If you want to use the past participle to underline the immediacy of what happened, just write out "has" in full, as in "Jeff Bezos's Has Just Sold...". The "Bezos's" contraction is technically not incorrect - it's just stylistically obtuse.
I am not a native speaker, but even to my "ears" this headline sounded atrocious.
So the Equifax board, composed of people who play golf with and has hired these execs, has cleared the execs of wrongdoing? What a fucking surprise.
In a better world, both the execs, the board, and the committee they appointed, would be chilling in the slammer right now.
I'm not being facetious - there were a lot of products (TVs, VCRs, Computers, Microwaves, non-mobile/cell phones) were this was a reasonable option. Right now, not so much.
This is 100% pure bullshit. Watch the YouTube channels of independent electronics repair shops, like the Louis Rossman channel, or the iPad Rehab channel. In their videos they show exactly how they repair all sorts of electronics, even those that Apple makes purposely difficult to repair (with glued-in components).
Please don't spread misinformation. Especially don't spread misinformation with so much misplaced self-confidence.
In this video Louis Rossman explains some of the ways Apple uses to make their products hard to repair for NO good reason apart from their own profit. He tells of his colleagues (independent repair shops) having their posts deleted when all they were saying is that such and such CAN be in fact repaired. Apple will not repair most damages even if it involves the user losing his/her data, and even if they are perfectly repairable.
Moreover, Rossman explains how Apple uses dirty tricks to terminate the warranty even when the user did nothing unauthorized.
Just watch it and be angry. Be very fucking angry.
Thank you - your post made me happy.