The "new" Commodore company is selling PCs under both the Amiga and Commodore badges, but they are functionally interchangeable. They are based on the same hardware, and run the same software. They just fit in different form factors, and carry slightly different price points, as far as I can tell.
It seems like they resurrected the Amiga brand name just to see who they could see who they could sell it to with a fancier badge. Very reminiscent of the Lexus ES / Toyota Avalon / Toyota Camry situation where people think they're getting a better car just because it has a luxury badge even though its all the same parts.
The journal article that is being linked to is open-access. There is no paywall, regardless of where you are accessing it from. You can download it and print as many copies as you want, you can even download it and repost it in its entirety on your own website if you feel like it. You can do the same with every article in the PLoS journals as well.
The ONLY reason I clicked on this link and went to see the story is that I thought it was a real race car printed on a 3d printer with a laser. I didn't even care to see the shark that the laser was attached to./. tricked me at looking into TFA and I find it abhorrent, absolutely unacceptable behaviour on the part of/. - tricking people to click on TFA link.
Oh, it's not a real car, did I mention that?
Nano car. Crap.
Though you more likely meant:
This product is not yet being sold to raise money for ron paul, therefore it is evil and abhorrent. I must hate it even though it has done nothing bad to me. All hail lord ron paul.
Perhaps you accidentally swallowed a small nano model of something when you were trying to drink more kool-aid? That might explain why you forgot to pledge eternal unquestioning allegiance to your lord and savior in your post.
Canada has used the metric system for decades (switching back around the time the US said they would switch as well). Why would they charge per pound for electronic waste?
I think it's just for the liberal-leaning readership to rage against (the editors either intentionally troll us from time to time, or don't notice the trolling).
That wouldn't explain why the right-wing comments in the right-wing articles get heavily moderated up, while centrist and left-wing comments in the same are moderated into oblivion as "troll" "flamebait" and "overrated". If the slashdot editors are aiming to troll the 7 liberals left on this site, they missed their mark by a long shot.
Slashdot's readership has always been mainly liberals and libertarians, liberals being more common.
That is also challenged by the same argument above. The libertarians here are easily louder than the liberals, and most certainly outnumber them as well.
Slashdot used to lean libertarian, but has been pretty much just liberal since, I don't know, at least 2004.
I am not familiar with this strange new definition of "liberal" you are using. Every week the front page of slashdot has as least one story that caters openly to the conservatives and plainly supports their worldview. I cannot recall the last time a story was on the front page that pandered to the liberals instead.
Dude, whatever the dosage is, cut it in half. It's seriously warping your perceptions and making you act like an ass in public.
I'm on a "drug" called reality. Anyone who is familiar with it is well aware that indeed slashdot caters to the conservatives. At least once a week we have a highly biased story on the front page that panders heavily to the right and the far right. Almost never do we see an opinionated piece on the slashdot front page that caters to anyone else.
So a newspaper known for liberal leanings in its editorial staff has hired the guy who started a tech site that has obvious conservative leanings in its front page? This should be interesting...
And similar to having a drunk person on the road, the consequences often end up ruining the lives of people who were not making the horrendously bad decision. The problem, of course, is proving it when something bad hasn't happened. This is why so many people get away with sending text messages while driving, because they don't get caught doing it. Unfortunately it gives them the false belief that they can do that safely.
Being as the vast majority of video delivered over the web seems to be via flash, it seems like this will itself be flash-dependent. Which would, of course, exclude people who cannot or will not use flash for their browser.
Of course, it may be that this will be deployed on sites where that demographic is not important...
Remember how your college profs often seemed to be pushing the textbooks that they wrote - or at least co-authored? When the person teaching the course is also the person who wrote the text, you have accountability right in front of your for the quality of the text.
Now, obviously not every elementary, middle, or high school math teacher could or should write a math textbook. But if the books were actually written by teachers who are actively involved in teaching math, you could end up with a better product. It also improves subsequent versions as feedback from students on the text would be going to the author of the same.
Instead our current system favors a company that has little actual investment in the learning process writing the textbook, primarily competing only on cost with other companies who are trying for the same market. Houghton-Mifflin and others don't actually care that much about what the students actually learn, they just want to make money. And anyone who enters education only to make money isn't doing anyone a favor.
In the two threads I've followed you, you haven't been right yet. It's hard to tell whether you're actually a hard-headed idiot, or a remarkably advanced troll.
I assure can assure you that you are not the only person on slashdot who has wondered that about him. It is not hard to look at his posting record as being just as likely intended to make the slashdot paullowers look ridiculous as it is to actually be in support of the same. Of course, any time you try to have an actual discussion on issues with him, he just ignores you if you dare to question his claims. Which argument is supported by that behavior is... well, open for debate.
DUI is a big problem in the US in no small part due to the fact that our punishments for it are a total fucking joke.
The only joke I see is the idea of "just make the laws tougher" and that will solve all our problems. Sorry, laws don't solve social problems, and throwing people in prison is not going to solve anything. The United States, one country with 3% of the world population, already holds 25% of the entire world's prisoners. What makes you believe imprisoning more people is going to help a goddamn thing?
I'm not advocating for new crimes to be recognized as worthy of jail sentence. Rather I am pointing out that there is a crime that is not punished nearly enough. Being as the rest of the fucking industrialized world recognizes DUI as a mandatory felony (and has a lower per-capita DUI rate than the US), it is perfectly reasonable to increase the penalty for DUI. Considering how many people are running around with over a half-dozen DUIs on their record, it is clear that we are not doing what we need to do in order to prevent repeat offenders. Increasing the penalty will both keep the drunks off the road and also increase the stigma of DUI.
How can it be said that it affects others more than themselves?
I'd bet even money that line came from or is supported someone who is on the drug legalization bandwagon here. I further expect that someone from the same camp will respond by moderating my post down or calling me a fascist.
DUI is a big problem in the US in no small part due to the fact that our punishments for it are a total fucking joke. The US is the only industrialized country where the first DUI is a misdemeanor. If we joined the rest of the industrialized world and made the first DUI a mandatory felony, people would start taking it seriously.
Sure, the French drink a lot of wine, nobody would argue against that. But they are also responsible with their driving to a greater degree than Americans.
I'm on my second used blackberry now, and they've been great for me. I'm on a GSM network, so I was able to make it my phone just by putting my SIM card into it. Being as I made the switch without going to the carrier's store, they couldn't force me into a new contract either.
As a bonus I bought a used blackberry with built-in wifi, so anytime I have wifi access I have internet access on my phone without having to pay the carrier for it. Granted, this may be slightly more difficult to do on a non-GSM network, and you didn't specify who your carrier is.
You are ignoring the vast amount of OTHER articles that lean left.
If there are so many of them, it should be trivially easy for you to point one out. Even just one example, if they are so vast in numbers, should not be difficult. I have asked you multiple times to give an example and you have so far failed to do so.
If you fail again, I will take that as your admission that your allegation of slashdot being "left-leaning" is indeed bullshit.
Choosing a minority of facts to prove your point while ignoring the vast majority that counter it is cherry-picking.
It would be, if there indeed was a vast majority countering my claim. That vast majority you keep talking about clearly doesn't exist.
You can stop trying to deny and defend it, because it is out for all to see.
I would love to know what it is you think you have proven.
You want support for my claim. Simple, look at every single anti-corporate article posted in the last 2 years.
So are you saying that any anti-microsoft or anti-apple article could come only from an "extreme leftist"? No conservative has ever been unhappy with a product from either?
In other words, you don't have a clue what you are talking about.
Look at every single article about the government from 2000 to 2008.
That is a load of crap too. There was plenty of pro-conservative propaganda on slashdot in 2008 and earlier; including but not limited to plenty of pro-Ron-Paul crap on the front page. Being as slsahdot was flooded with conservative advertising in 2008, I was not the only person who noticed.
Slashdot Mirror
Two competing and incompatible standards of the same form factor? We've seen this act before...
The "new" Commodore company is selling PCs under both the Amiga and Commodore badges, but they are functionally interchangeable. They are based on the same hardware, and run the same software. They just fit in different form factors, and carry slightly different price points, as far as I can tell.
It seems like they resurrected the Amiga brand name just to see who they could see who they could sell it to with a fancier badge. Very reminiscent of the Lexus ES / Toyota Avalon / Toyota Camry situation where people think they're getting a better car just because it has a luxury badge even though its all the same parts.
We already had facebook the movie. Why do we need facebook the TV show?
Indeed, in the US anyone who wants to invest in public transit is run out of town as a communist.
I posted this for submission yesterday and it was declined. Its already old news by now.
And yes, I know this comment will be subsequently down moderated for saying this. So be it.
The journal article that is being linked to is open-access. There is no paywall, regardless of where you are accessing it from. You can download it and print as many copies as you want, you can even download it and repost it in its entirety on your own website if you feel like it. You can do the same with every article in the PLoS journals as well.
The ONLY reason I clicked on this link and went to see the story is that I thought it was a real race car printed on a 3d printer with a laser. I didn't even care to see the shark that the laser was attached to. /. tricked me at looking into TFA and I find it abhorrent, absolutely unacceptable behaviour on the part of /. - tricking people to click on TFA link.
Oh, it's not a real car, did I mention that?
Nano car. Crap.
Though you more likely meant:
This product is not yet being sold to raise money for ron paul, therefore it is evil and abhorrent. I must hate it even though it has done nothing bad to me. All hail lord ron paul.
Perhaps you accidentally swallowed a small nano model of something when you were trying to drink more kool-aid? That might explain why you forgot to pledge eternal unquestioning allegiance to your lord and savior in your post.
Canada's $0.25 per pound e-waste charge
Canada has used the metric system for decades (switching back around the time the US said they would switch as well). Why would they charge per pound for electronic waste?
Didn't CRTs have to use leaded glass to prevent the users from being bathed in X-Rays?
RTFA
The shadow mask stopped some electrons, converting their energy to X rays. To filter these, old TV screens were made of thick leaded glass
Aren't most parts for US Navy vessels custom made regardless? I don't recall seeing a section at WalMart for warship parts.
I think it's just for the liberal-leaning readership to rage against (the editors either intentionally troll us from time to time, or don't notice the trolling).
That wouldn't explain why the right-wing comments in the right-wing articles get heavily moderated up, while centrist and left-wing comments in the same are moderated into oblivion as "troll" "flamebait" and "overrated". If the slashdot editors are aiming to troll the 7 liberals left on this site, they missed their mark by a long shot.
Slashdot's readership has always been mainly liberals and libertarians, liberals being more common.
That is also challenged by the same argument above. The libertarians here are easily louder than the liberals, and most certainly outnumber them as well.
Slashdot used to lean libertarian, but has been pretty much just liberal since, I don't know, at least 2004.
I am not familiar with this strange new definition of "liberal" you are using. Every week the front page of slashdot has as least one story that caters openly to the conservatives and plainly supports their worldview. I cannot recall the last time a story was on the front page that pandered to the liberals instead.
Dude, whatever the dosage is, cut it in half. It's seriously warping your perceptions and making you act like an ass in public.
I'm on a "drug" called reality. Anyone who is familiar with it is well aware that indeed slashdot caters to the conservatives. At least once a week we have a highly biased story on the front page that panders heavily to the right and the far right. Almost never do we see an opinionated piece on the slashdot front page that caters to anyone else.
So a newspaper known for liberal leanings in its editorial staff has hired the guy who started a tech site that has obvious conservative leanings in its front page? This should be interesting...
And similar to having a drunk person on the road, the consequences often end up ruining the lives of people who were not making the horrendously bad decision. The problem, of course, is proving it when something bad hasn't happened. This is why so many people get away with sending text messages while driving, because they don't get caught doing it. Unfortunately it gives them the false belief that they can do that safely.
Being as the vast majority of video delivered over the web seems to be via flash, it seems like this will itself be flash-dependent. Which would, of course, exclude people who cannot or will not use flash for their browser.
Of course, it may be that this will be deployed on sites where that demographic is not important...
Remember how your college profs often seemed to be pushing the textbooks that they wrote - or at least co-authored? When the person teaching the course is also the person who wrote the text, you have accountability right in front of your for the quality of the text.
Now, obviously not every elementary, middle, or high school math teacher could or should write a math textbook. But if the books were actually written by teachers who are actively involved in teaching math, you could end up with a better product. It also improves subsequent versions as feedback from students on the text would be going to the author of the same.
Instead our current system favors a company that has little actual investment in the learning process writing the textbook, primarily competing only on cost with other companies who are trying for the same market. Houghton-Mifflin and others don't actually care that much about what the students actually learn, they just want to make money. And anyone who enters education only to make money isn't doing anyone a favor.
I recall the initial launch of the Volt had it only available for sale in a short list of select states.
In the two threads I've followed you, you haven't been right yet. It's hard to tell whether you're actually a hard-headed idiot, or a remarkably advanced troll.
I assure can assure you that you are not the only person on slashdot who has wondered that about him. It is not hard to look at his posting record as being just as likely intended to make the slashdot paullowers look ridiculous as it is to actually be in support of the same. Of course, any time you try to have an actual discussion on issues with him, he just ignores you if you dare to question his claims. Which argument is supported by that behavior is ... well, open for debate.
DUI is a big problem in the US in no small part due to the fact that our punishments for it are a total fucking joke.
The only joke I see is the idea of "just make the laws tougher" and that will solve all our problems. Sorry, laws don't solve social problems, and throwing people in prison is not going to solve anything. The United States, one country with 3% of the world population, already holds 25% of the entire world's prisoners. What makes you believe imprisoning more people is going to help a goddamn thing?
I'm not advocating for new crimes to be recognized as worthy of jail sentence. Rather I am pointing out that there is a crime that is not punished nearly enough. Being as the rest of the fucking industrialized world recognizes DUI as a mandatory felony (and has a lower per-capita DUI rate than the US), it is perfectly reasonable to increase the penalty for DUI. Considering how many people are running around with over a half-dozen DUIs on their record, it is clear that we are not doing what we need to do in order to prevent repeat offenders. Increasing the penalty will both keep the drunks off the road and also increase the stigma of DUI.
How can it be said that it affects others more than themselves?
I'd bet even money that line came from or is supported someone who is on the drug legalization bandwagon here. I further expect that someone from the same camp will respond by moderating my post down or calling me a fascist.
DUI is a big problem in the US in no small part due to the fact that our punishments for it are a total fucking joke. The US is the only industrialized country where the first DUI is a misdemeanor. If we joined the rest of the industrialized world and made the first DUI a mandatory felony, people would start taking it seriously.
Sure, the French drink a lot of wine, nobody would argue against that. But they are also responsible with their driving to a greater degree than Americans.
Clearly, dropping everything we currently think of as money and switching to the gold standard would solve this, right?
I'm on my second used blackberry now, and they've been great for me. I'm on a GSM network, so I was able to make it my phone just by putting my SIM card into it. Being as I made the switch without going to the carrier's store, they couldn't force me into a new contract either.
As a bonus I bought a used blackberry with built-in wifi, so anytime I have wifi access I have internet access on my phone without having to pay the carrier for it. Granted, this may be slightly more difficult to do on a non-GSM network, and you didn't specify who your carrier is.
You are ignoring the vast amount of OTHER articles that lean left.
If there are so many of them, it should be trivially easy for you to point one out. Even just one example, if they are so vast in numbers, should not be difficult. I have asked you multiple times to give an example and you have so far failed to do so.
If you fail again, I will take that as your admission that your allegation of slashdot being "left-leaning" is indeed bullshit.
Choosing a minority of facts to prove your point while ignoring the vast majority that counter it is cherry-picking.
It would be, if there indeed was a vast majority countering my claim. That vast majority you keep talking about clearly doesn't exist.
You can stop trying to deny and defend it, because it is out for all to see.
I would love to know what it is you think you have proven.
You want support for my claim. Simple, look at every single anti-corporate article posted in the last 2 years.
So are you saying that any anti-microsoft or anti-apple article could come only from an "extreme leftist"? No conservative has ever been unhappy with a product from either?
In other words, you don't have a clue what you are talking about.
Look at every single article about the government from 2000 to 2008.
That is a load of crap too. There was plenty of pro-conservative propaganda on slashdot in 2008 and earlier; including but not limited to plenty of pro-Ron-Paul crap on the front page. Being as slsahdot was flooded with conservative advertising in 2008, I was not the only person who noticed.