I can only be happy when humans are replaced by machines to do repetitive, menial and hazardous tasks. In the future, nobody will have to do things like that. People will enjoy a comfortable life with lots of leisure and plenty of time to do things that make them fulfilled, instead of slaving for 16 hours a day.
In an equitable world, yes, that would be the outcome. In a world where artificial scarcity is created, one where you "must work in order to earn a living", there will be a huge unemployed and poor minority, or even majority. I do hope that the former scenario folds out. But looking at the american society, where people would rather be poor than not have someone even poorer to look down on, where they would rather everybody pays onerous student loans for most of their productive lives, because "I had it tough, so it's only fair that everybody else, in perpetuity, has it", where they'll "move to Canada" because of Obama's healthcare reform... well, it doesn't induce much hope.
I can top that: F-secure anti-virus. That thing is the most toxic piece of software ever created; it really, quite literally slows your computer to a crawl.
First of all, the verb "trounce" is never used with the preposition "on". But I'm a Finn, so what do I know?
That said: Android allows side-loading. Just put the emulator on Torrent (where you can find a shit-ton of other Android apps) and Sony can do fuckall about it.
Who wants to be locked into a frozen clone of GNOME 2 forever?
That's the whole point of MATE - it's a fork and it is being developed as part of the project. You seem like you understand the meaning of the word "fork", but have a blind spot when talking about MATE.
For two reasons, I thin HTC won't be commissioned by Google to make a Nexus device: 1. HTC is on its last legs, more or less. They are ready to make deals with any and all, and their willingness to have prominent Windows phones is a sign of that (I know Samsung also makes Windows phones, but in case of Samsung, they are just symbolic gestures). That makes HTC a liability, to the Android ecosystem.
2. The deal with Apple likely includes a poison pill, and Google may not want to touch HTC anymore.
Would it have killed The Telegraph, Hugh Pickens, or Timothy to do us this small courtesy? As it is, the Telegraph sensationalizes the abstract, Slashdot sensationalizes the inaccurate Telegraph article, and 1000 idiots then argue about completely irrelevant points suggested by free-association from the title, because they couldn't be arsed to read the summary.
And that is exactly what is going on. Some of the up-modded comments are true groaners.
At first I thought it was creative editing on the part of the submitter, so I did the unthinkable, and RTFA - and it's fucking there, right smack at the beginning:
Matthias Clasen on the behalf of the GNOME Release Team has announced that they have decided to eliminate GNOME's "fallback mode" with the upcoming 3.8 release
Ya know? KDE is looking better every day, thanks to the Gnome developers.
That is the only thing that should be taken into consideration. As long as it was between consenting adults, an affair is between him, the 'afairee' and his family. As long as it doesn't effect one's job performance its really nobody's business.
This is true for almost any other profession, but the head of the CIA, a CIA operative or any other person working with classified information. The reason being, the affair could be used as a leverage for blackmailing and obtaining such classified information.
I apologize for posting misleading info - I don't even have any good excuse, apart from "a motorbike hit me while I was cycling and I must be suffering from the shock, still".
(which actually really happened. I probably cracked my left arm - I have a weak point near the elbow)
Because the iPhone 4S is (was, actually) the current best selling phone by total (cumulative) numbers.In that sense, it's 100% fair to compare the two phones that sold the most units in the history of smartphones.
Maybe the iPhone will outsell the Galaxy S III, time will tell.
...there are better phones, IMHO. For instance, the Samsung Galaxy Note II - gorgeous 5" super-AMOLED display, powerful hardware (CPU+RAM) and stylus input - perfection. There's even a docking station to connect it to keyboard, mouse and monitor. It's just the kind of phone that keeps a nerd happy.
And in Nordic countries. This is one of the things that make me feel proud of being Finn: even the poorest bastard has the opportunity to graduate at any University, if they apply themselves.
The other thing that makes me proud of my country is excellent socialized healthcare.
That being said, I paid my blood and my first born, thank you very much, and I don't support the next generation getting the free ride, particularly for students who are the most likely to have no trouble paying their loans back! This is silly popularism striking again.
In other words "I had it bad, so by golly, all future generations should have it just as bad."
In most EU countries, higher education is either free or cheap. That makes it available to practically everyone, which makes the EU countries the true lands of equal opportunity.
As somebody who was once an H1B (or the way I like to think of myself: a human being making his living), I noticed how recently there is a lot of anti-immigration sentiment on Slashdot. Referring to somebody by their immigration status is just not nice. It seems H1B is the new buzzword here spoken with attitude described for "Okies" in The Grapes of Wrath.
College educated people who come to USA to work really don't deserve that kind of attitude. They go there either because they like America enough or because they can't make decent living elsewhere and both causes are respectable.
I respect that you may think immigrant engineers are lowering your hourly rate and robbing you of the job you were entitled to, but please keep in mind that it's a sign of proper upbringing to value all people equally regardless of where they were born.
You just had your elections and neither one of two major presidential candidates talked in support of labor rights and collective bargaining. If these issues are not important enough for Americans, then it would be nice to refrain from bashing "H1Bs" whenever they get a chance.
It's not about political correctness, it's about politeness and respect of other human beings who want the same thing as you do: to work and be respected for who they are, regardless of where they were born. I wish all slashdotters to never be in a situation where they have to choose between their work being valued appropriately (i.e. working in a foreign country) or not being referred to by their visa code.
P.S. I apologize for using your post for this rant.
I read carefully your post. Do you realize that none of your statements negates the OP's point in any way? Yes, you have a lot of rant on your heart to air, but the OP's point still stands - unless you have an argument that denies it.
The rules for apostrophes aren't as easy as a lot of Grammer Nazi's like to think it is. There are a bunch of rules, often contradictory where you have to learn which takes priority and it's compounded by vague "if it could confuse the reader" rules.
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This statement is either false, or "analysts" are even dumber than I expected.
I can only be happy when humans are replaced by machines to do repetitive, menial and hazardous tasks. In the future, nobody will have to do things like that. People will enjoy a comfortable life with lots of leisure and plenty of time to do things that make them fulfilled, instead of slaving for 16 hours a day.
In an equitable world, yes, that would be the outcome. In a world where artificial scarcity is created, one where you "must work in order to earn a living", there will be a huge unemployed and poor minority, or even majority. I do hope that the former scenario folds out. But looking at the american society, where people would rather be poor than not have someone even poorer to look down on, where they would rather everybody pays onerous student loans for most of their productive lives, because "I had it tough, so it's only fair that everybody else, in perpetuity, has it", where they'll "move to Canada" because of Obama's healthcare reform... well, it doesn't induce much hope.
What is bad is America had no left wing candidate at all.
That's not true at all - the Green Party fielded a genuinely left-leaning candidate - Jill Stein
I quite like her.
I sent my $100 to Buddy Roemer
You sent your 100 bucks to a banker? Splendid plan, whatever could be wrong with that.
I can top that: F-secure anti-virus. That thing is the most toxic piece of software ever created; it really, quite literally slows your computer to a crawl.
First of all, the verb "trounce" is never used with the preposition "on". But I'm a Finn, so what do I know?
That said: Android allows side-loading. Just put the emulator on Torrent (where you can find a shit-ton of other Android apps) and Sony can do fuckall about it.
Who wants to be locked into a frozen clone of GNOME 2 forever?
That's the whole point of MATE - it's a fork and it is being developed as part of the project. You seem like you understand the meaning of the word "fork", but have a blind spot when talking about MATE.
I can't find info on the screen resolution, but it seems HP has done nothing to improve it. Since you have it, how does the screen look like?
For two reasons, I thin HTC won't be commissioned by Google to make a Nexus device:
1. HTC is on its last legs, more or less. They are ready to make deals with any and all, and their willingness to have prominent Windows phones is a sign of that (I know Samsung also makes Windows phones, but in case of Samsung, they are just symbolic gestures). That makes HTC a liability, to the Android ecosystem.
2. The deal with Apple likely includes a poison pill, and Google may not want to touch HTC anymore.
Would it have killed The Telegraph, Hugh Pickens, or Timothy to do us this small courtesy? As it is, the Telegraph sensationalizes the abstract, Slashdot sensationalizes the inaccurate Telegraph article, and 1000 idiots then argue about completely irrelevant points suggested by free-association from the title, because they couldn't be arsed to read the summary.
And that is exactly what is going on. Some of the up-modded comments are true groaners.
At first I thought it was creative editing on the part of the submitter, so I did the unthinkable, and RTFA - and it's fucking there, right smack at the beginning:
Matthias Clasen on the behalf of the GNOME Release Team has announced that they have decided to eliminate GNOME's "fallback mode" with the upcoming 3.8 release
Ya know? KDE is looking better every day, thanks to the Gnome developers.
That is the only thing that should be taken into consideration. As long as it was between consenting adults, an affair is between him, the 'afairee' and his family. As long as it doesn't effect one's job performance its really nobody's business.
This is true for almost any other profession, but the head of the CIA, a CIA operative or any other person working with classified information. The reason being, the affair could be used as a leverage for blackmailing and obtaining such classified information.
People don't wait around to be promoted - instead, they hop from job to job, earning small title and salary increases each time.
Sounds exactly like western executives, except they do it for a large salary+bonus increase.
You are right, and I was wrong.
I apologize for posting misleading info - I don't even have any good excuse, apart from "a motorbike hit me while I was cycling and I must be suffering from the shock, still".
(which actually really happened. I probably cracked my left arm - I have a weak point near the elbow)
Galaxy S II: 28 Million
Galaxy S3: 18 million
iPhone 4GS: 16.2 million
iPhone 5: 6 million
Expanded TFY. Because, you know, we want to have fair comparisons, right?
Source.
Because the iPhone 4S is (was, actually) the current best selling phone by total (cumulative) numbers.In that sense, it's 100% fair to compare the two phones that sold the most units in the history of smartphones.
Maybe the iPhone will outsell the Galaxy S III, time will tell.
The Note II sold 3.000.000 phones already, even though not all US carriers introduced it, yet. It's more successful than you seem to believe.
...there are better phones, IMHO. For instance, the Samsung Galaxy Note II - gorgeous 5" super-AMOLED display, powerful hardware (CPU+RAM) and stylus input - perfection.
There's even a docking station to connect it to keyboard, mouse and monitor. It's just the kind of phone that keeps a nerd happy.
Yes, it's good to see a patent pest get what's coming to 'em, but consider... the plaintiff was nothing more than a patent troll.
Sorry man, but I just don't have it in me not to be happy about this turn of events.
This is, indeed, poetic justice. We should hope for more it.
Tuition should be zero. It works in Germany.
And in Nordic countries. This is one of the things that make me feel proud of being Finn: even the poorest bastard has the opportunity to graduate at any University, if they apply themselves.
The other thing that makes me proud of my country is excellent socialized healthcare.
That being said, I paid my blood and my first born, thank you very much, and I don't support the next generation getting the free ride, particularly for students who are the most likely to have no trouble paying their loans back! This is silly popularism striking again.
In other words "I had it bad, so by golly, all future generations should have it just as bad."
In most EU countries, higher education is either free or cheap. That makes it available to practically everyone, which makes the EU countries the true lands of equal opportunity.
As somebody who was once an H1B (or the way I like to think of myself: a human being making his living), I noticed how recently there is a lot of anti-immigration sentiment on Slashdot. Referring to somebody by their immigration status is just not nice. It seems H1B is the new buzzword here spoken with attitude described for "Okies" in The Grapes of Wrath.
College educated people who come to USA to work really don't deserve that kind of attitude. They go there either because they like America enough or because they can't make decent living elsewhere and both causes are respectable.
I respect that you may think immigrant engineers are lowering your hourly rate and robbing you of the job you were entitled to, but please keep in mind that it's a sign of proper upbringing to value all people equally regardless of where they were born.
You just had your elections and neither one of two major presidential candidates talked in support of labor rights and collective bargaining. If these issues are not important enough for Americans, then it would be nice to refrain from bashing "H1Bs" whenever they get a chance.
It's not about political correctness, it's about politeness and respect of other human beings who want the same thing as you do: to work and be respected for who they are, regardless of where they were born. I wish all slashdotters to never be in a situation where they have to choose between their work being valued appropriately (i.e. working in a foreign country) or not being referred to by their visa code.
P.S. I apologize for using your post for this rant.
I read carefully your post. Do you realize that none of your statements negates the OP's point in any way? Yes, you have a lot of rant on your heart to air, but the OP's point still stands - unless you have an argument that denies it.
Why do have so many people problems accepting there are non-native English speakers? It's not difficult.
Do you know what a straw man argument is?
The rules for apostrophes aren't as easy as a lot of Grammer Nazi's like to think it is. There are a bunch of rules, often contradictory where you have to learn which takes priority and it's compounded by vague "if it could confuse the reader" rules.
You're too funny.
I see your BTAF's guide to the apostrophe and raise you one Oatmeal guide to using the apostrophe.