You're pretty much correct in this logic. Even more annoying is whena person cuts off people to get to the right lane, causing a bunch of ripple brakeage just so they can get to the "fast" lane, but they merge into it so slowly that everyone has to stop, and we repeat the cycle.
While I don't think you're flamebait, you are misrepresenting the facts a bit. Obama wants to eliminate nukes throughout the world, not just the US. You also fail to mention that George bush is dismantling weapons at a rate which will put "the total number of American nuclear weapons would be at the lowest levels since" IKE's days.
The sky might be lower, but it certainly isn't falling.
Why do you care that you were moderated flamebait?
This is the problem with slashdot, you can't stand the fact that your opinion was refuted by someone. Oh heaven's no! someone disagrees with what I said? How dare they take offense when I use broad stereotypes and overreaching generalizations! Here is a hint, if someone thinks you're flamebait, then you're flamebait to them. I don't think anyone goes around randomly using their mod points- I may be mistaken on that though.
You have a +2 insightful as it currently stands, and I see more insightful thought in the "Microsoft sucks" bullshit that gets posted around here all the time. It's one thing to point out that mods missed a joke or something, but another to complain that someone took your polarizing comments the wrong way. THEY ARE POLARIZING, what the hell did you expect?
The point is, why read slashdot comments if everyone thinks like you? I'd hate to have opposing viewpoints here! I mean, it's discussion of why you're so right, not about the facts and merits of the article that no one reads. I post once and a while, and sometimes people like what I say, sometimes they don't, and sometimes people just don't give a rip (I've got a lot of 1 point posts with no replies). Do you think I'm constantly hitting refresh or checking my profile to see if someone replied? You must have more smugness than a prius forum* to write a comment, and then wait for the +1 funny/insightful modifiers to roll in that you actually took offense to someone disagreeing with you.
I'm not posting anonymously, because I could care less about the -1 I'll be getting in about 10 minutes.
*heard this from someone else, didn't want to take credit for it.
I'm sorry, I thought your original post said "banner ad" not "pop-over" ad.
As for the other issues discussed below, I understand the ads CAN be the bottle neck, but as mentioned by another user, they are on very fast servers and hardly are the limiting factor with a website. More often than not it's the image server that i constantly see waiting for a response from the server. In my experience that is the slowest thing to load.
If a banner ad is indeed bogging down "an entire website" I propose to you that it is your browser/computer that is being bogged down, and needs to be replaced. go ahead and click on that Dell ad.
I agree with you for the most part, but I personally feel that teachers are also becoming the babysitters and only authority figures some kids meet and deal with. That's not fair to the teachers as they have to spend as much time corralling the class as they do teaching it. I think programs like Teach for America are great programs getting great minds into the most under served classrooms- but every TFA'er I've met has been jaded by all the shit they have to deal with in a classroom.
interestingly enough, this is what I was thinking. Why not pick a game that, you know, more people play? I didn't read TFA but i'd like to see more/better games. maybe Call of Duty, Halo, etc, because they employ the similar disassociation upon death that the summary mentions.
I'll flip this for you, what if you were treated with a medication that, for some reason, is starting to show signs of dangering its users. With the information in one area, everyone who is using that drug can be notified. What if you can insert some automatic checking into the database to ensure there are no sever drug interactions between the medications you are using?
What if we can find trends that we've never been able to see before because all of the data is in one place? What if you can be reminded that your ill grandmother's medication needs a refill, and you know she can't do it?
I'm not one to throw my privacy away, but we are such bitter/pessimistic culture on slashdot (for good reason) that we can't see some of the bigger picture here.
You are really wondering about this? I mean, I'd imagine they meet them, since, you know, they aren't a stupid corporation, just a corporation that does stupid things from time to time.
Like all corporations.
Honestly, do you think they will just ignore it all? I feel that proving who you are to this system will be more annoying and frustrating than signing up for or logging into gmail.
Now I'm not naive enough to think facebook is doing a great job about privacy, but you're contributing to the problem when you excuse people for putting "sensitive information" on the website, expecting some moral code from facebook.
While i agree with you in theory, the fact is, facebook is a business, and it's exchanging a service (omg frinds) for a fee, it's just not a monetary fee. If privacy was such a giant concern, we'd see people shelling out 5 bucks a month to use facebook without all the ads, evil sharing of data, etc.
Note, I'm not saying privacy shouldn't be a giant concern, but we need to deal with it in a proactive way, much like violence on TV or the idiots who open emails with viral attachments: through education (and parenting)- not clamping down on the providers.
As the above notes, perhaps it is you who is ignorant of what it means:
In recent decades, the term has also been used to mean raising the question [7]
I'm not going to assume, but I'll imagine you as either some fresh out of college prick, younger than 30 who is holding on to some abuse his father gave him because he used a contraction in his letter to santa- holding onto ideals that will never exist, or some philosopher want-to-be that feels some urge to demonstrate that his 120K education was not worthless as he sits in front of slash dot, loathing the world for his own inadequacies.
I really hope you appreciate that fucking run on sentence.
Before the sea of "vista sucks" comments, I'm going to ask this question:
When vista inevitably goes first, who is going to want it? I assume it must be a good enough computer to actually run vista, so lets all take guesses at the OS loaded onto it after it's "pwnd".
What happens to all those people once the fiber is installed?
Just because you want fiber does not make it a better 'stimulus plan.' Besides, the bill has yet to pass Senate, so we could save a ton more... so optimistic, this one.
MOSS, to me, is what Kaiser Soze was in the Usual Suspects. A boogey man the mob used to tell their children. Rat on your pops, and kaiser soze will get'ya.
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You're pretty much correct in this logic. Even more annoying is whena person cuts off people to get to the right lane, causing a bunch of ripple brakeage just so they can get to the "fast" lane, but they merge into it so slowly that everyone has to stop, and we repeat the cycle.
Fuck i hate driving.
While I don't think you're flamebait, you are misrepresenting the facts a bit. Obama wants to eliminate nukes throughout the world, not just the US. You also fail to mention that George bush is dismantling weapons at a rate which will put "the total number of American nuclear weapons would be at the lowest levels since" IKE's days.
The sky might be lower, but it certainly isn't falling.
Why do you care that you were moderated flamebait?
This is the problem with slashdot, you can't stand the fact that your opinion was refuted by someone. Oh heaven's no! someone disagrees with what I said? How dare they take offense when I use broad stereotypes and overreaching generalizations! Here is a hint, if someone thinks you're flamebait, then you're flamebait to them. I don't think anyone goes around randomly using their mod points- I may be mistaken on that though.
You have a +2 insightful as it currently stands, and I see more insightful thought in the "Microsoft sucks" bullshit that gets posted around here all the time. It's one thing to point out that mods missed a joke or something, but another to complain that someone took your polarizing comments the wrong way. THEY ARE POLARIZING, what the hell did you expect?
The point is, why read slashdot comments if everyone thinks like you? I'd hate to have opposing viewpoints here! I mean, it's discussion of why you're so right, not about the facts and merits of the article that no one reads. I post once and a while, and sometimes people like what I say, sometimes they don't, and sometimes people just don't give a rip (I've got a lot of 1 point posts with no replies). Do you think I'm constantly hitting refresh or checking my profile to see if someone replied? You must have more smugness than a prius forum* to write a comment, and then wait for the +1 funny/insightful modifiers to roll in that you actually took offense to someone disagreeing with you.
I'm not posting anonymously, because I could care less about the -1 I'll be getting in about 10 minutes.
*heard this from someone else, didn't want to take credit for it.
I'm sorry, I thought your original post said "banner ad" not "pop-over" ad.
As for the other issues discussed below, I understand the ads CAN be the bottle neck, but as mentioned by another user, they are on very fast servers and hardly are the limiting factor with a website. More often than not it's the image server that i constantly see waiting for a response from the server. In my experience that is the slowest thing to load.
If a banner ad is indeed bogging down "an entire website" I propose to you that it is your browser/computer that is being bogged down, and needs to be replaced. go ahead and click on that Dell ad.
Honestly, one add is killing the website?
I agree with you for the most part, but I personally feel that teachers are also becoming the babysitters and only authority figures some kids meet and deal with. That's not fair to the teachers as they have to spend as much time corralling the class as they do teaching it. I think programs like Teach for America are great programs getting great minds into the most under served classrooms- but every TFA'er I've met has been jaded by all the shit they have to deal with in a classroom.
Every TFA'er.
Along with Tubes.
interestingly enough, this is what I was thinking. Why not pick a game that, you know, more people play? I didn't read TFA but i'd like to see more/better games. maybe Call of Duty, Halo, etc, because they employ the similar disassociation upon death that the summary mentions.
I'll flip this for you, what if you were treated with a medication that, for some reason, is starting to show signs of dangering its users. With the information in one area, everyone who is using that drug can be notified. What if you can insert some automatic checking into the database to ensure there are no sever drug interactions between the medications you are using?
What if we can find trends that we've never been able to see before because all of the data is in one place? What if you can be reminded that your ill grandmother's medication needs a refill, and you know she can't do it?
I'm not one to throw my privacy away, but we are such bitter/pessimistic culture on slashdot (for good reason) that we can't see some of the bigger picture here.
You are really wondering about this? I mean, I'd imagine they meet them, since, you know, they aren't a stupid corporation, just a corporation that does stupid things from time to time.
Like all corporations.
Honestly, do you think they will just ignore it all? I feel that proving who you are to this system will be more annoying and frustrating than signing up for or logging into gmail.
yeah, that begs the question ;)
I thought they were using butterflies...
Yeah, all retired people must be idiots.
While i understand your point, you can't interchangeably use the law and a law- or are you saying most people think it's ok to kill a little bit?
That's like, your opinion, man.
But seriously they aren't going to get rid of American Gladiators, are they?
that...
is sexy.
Now I'm not naive enough to think facebook is doing a great job about privacy, but you're contributing to the problem when you excuse people for putting "sensitive information" on the website, expecting some moral code from facebook.
While i agree with you in theory, the fact is, facebook is a business, and it's exchanging a service (omg frinds) for a fee, it's just not a monetary fee. If privacy was such a giant concern, we'd see people shelling out 5 bucks a month to use facebook without all the ads, evil sharing of data, etc.
Note, I'm not saying privacy shouldn't be a giant concern, but we need to deal with it in a proactive way, much like violence on TV or the idiots who open emails with viral attachments: through education (and parenting)- not clamping down on the providers.
As the above notes, perhaps it is you who is ignorant of what it means:
In recent decades, the term has also been used to mean raising the question [7]I'm not going to assume, but I'll imagine you as either some fresh out of college prick, younger than 30 who is holding on to some abuse his father gave him because he used a contraction in his letter to santa- holding onto ideals that will never exist, or some philosopher want-to-be that feels some urge to demonstrate that his 120K education was not worthless as he sits in front of slash dot, loathing the world for his own inadequacies.
I really hope you appreciate that fucking run on sentence.
Before the sea of "vista sucks" comments, I'm going to ask this question:
When vista inevitably goes first, who is going to want it? I assume it must be a good enough computer to actually run vista, so lets all take guesses at the OS loaded onto it after it's "pwnd".
This really changes the idea of "Big Game Hunting" doesn't it.
What happens to all those people once the fiber is installed?
Just because you want fiber does not make it a better 'stimulus plan.' Besides, the bill has yet to pass Senate, so we could save a ton more... so optimistic, this one.
I think "You keep using that word -- I do not think it means what you think it means." would be more appropriate. INCONCEIVABLE!
I think you mean big, popular files faster.
MOSS, to me, is what Kaiser Soze was in the Usual Suspects. A boogey man the mob used to tell their children. Rat on your pops, and kaiser soze will get'ya.
Scared the shit out of me, and still does.