Heck, why do the television manufacturers believe that I'm willing to spend 2 grand more for it?
I agree with the view of this being nonsense. Last I heard, there was all of one 3D-BluRay movie. Really, how many times does someone want to watch Monsters vs. Aliens? I can't even think of anyone I know who watched that movie in the theater in 3D, so I'm not sure why someone would buy a 3D TV to watch it in 3D at home...
And sure, they are promising that more movies will come out in 3D, yet the movies that do so well in 3D in the theater (Avatar, Clash of the Titans especially) are then released only in 2D on Blu-ray.
The first Command & Conquer game was released in 1995, with full-motion video cutscenes. Those scenes did not destroy any graphics cards that met the system requirements for the game. Why would video scenes start doing this to modern video cards?
There is decreasing amounts of doubt that the world is warming up
May be true in across this planet in general, it is sadly not true in the USA. In the USA there is still a very substantial number of people who deny global warming outright for various reasons (often nothing more than political - just wait for this story to be tagged "manbearpig" on the front page).
(especially in the United States) liberals are ONLY concerned with the man-made "portion" of the effect
It is almost impossible to be concerned "only" with that portion - assuming it to be significant. That would be like being concerned about second hand smoke but not lung cancer in smokers, the two are directly connected matters. Whether global warming is caused by activities of humans doesn't change the fact that global warming is having dramatic affects on all life around the world.
... would be if Bill Clinton came forward and said either that he created it (while getting a BJ from a staffer) or that he doesn't believe in it. Even then, Ronald Reagan would have to rise up from the dead and state his full unwavering support of the matter before everyone on the right would start believing.
Until that point, conservatives who choose to keep their fingers squarely in their ears over any data related to global warming will continue to do so, fueled in part by their undying hatred of all things Clinton.
That is a fine job you just did of stating your position while not saying a damned thing about why you hold that position. If you have data that counters this research, then share it. Making fun of the other side and reaching for a "holier-than-thou" position for yourself does not in any way detract from actual data.
I thought the issue wasn't whether climate change was happening, but whether it was artificial or natural.
Nah, there are plenty of people who deny it outright. To plenty of people, the whole global warming issue is nothing but a grand socialist conspiracy aiming to take away their god-given right to do whatever the hell they want, whenever the hell they want to do it, with no regards whatsoever to any part of the planet that might exist beyond their own nose.
The people who decided some time ago that they dislike global warming for whatever reason will always find a way to rationalize their denial of it. They are not about to let some pesky "facts" from "experts" cloud their judgment.
No, Facebook will render Facebook obsolete. A lot of people are spending less time on their now than they did before. The novelty is wearing off, and eventually people won't care about it at all. It will eventually be replaced not by one single thing but by a variety of better things, including actual human-to-human interaction.
Last I checked I live in a secular state, where I am free to chose which god to worship - or none at all. Why then should I be held to someone else's beliefs of a god when traveling by air?
Facebook have quietly added the ability to delete you account
Did it come at the expense of the ability to grammar check their own news releases? I did not know that good grammar and common sense were mutually exclusive.
And then remove their union contract that states that they can never decrease their workforce, even if they don't need as many workers due to reduced volume.
I don't know where you got that notion from but it simply doesn't match reality as I have seen. Post Offices in small towns have closed recently due to decreased volume and the employees from those offices have been let go. Existing offices are not hiring, even to replace retiring workers.
the artificial monopoly congress created for the USPS making it so they are the only ones that can deliver first-class mail
The post office doesn't actually have such a monopoly. The post office is the only company that can deliver to your mailbox, but you are free to put up a mailbox outside your house for UPS, FedEx, or any other service you want. Other companies can deliver as much mail as they want, they just can't use the USPS mail boxes. Other companies are also free to deliver any amount of mail or packages to your door in any way they want, any time they want.
The post office is again talking about canceling Saturday delivery. To me, that is one of the best things they have going for them. Sure, UPS and FedEx will delivery on Saturdays, but for an additional cost. USPS delivers Saturday for the same cost as any other day of the week. Take no-extra-charge Saturday delivery and better rates for many pertinent deliveries than UPS or FedEx and frankly I'm not sure why more people don't ship through them.
But if they cancel Saturdays then they aren't as advantageous.
I wonder if this would push more people to open source alternatives
Ads will not on their own push people to alternatives. You need two things before Joe User will switch:
They need to know there are alternatives
They need to be able to run their applications on them, in exactly the same way they already run those applications
Until then it doesn't matter. If OS X delivered electric shocks to its users at random intervals, they still wouldn't switch to something else if they didn't know there was a something else, or if they couldn't run their applications on that something else in exactly the same way they run it on OS X (and ditto for Windows).
In other words, in case you didn't get the memo, emulation options are not good enough for most users. As an example, most users would try Wine once (at most) and then never want to use it again because it isn't exactly the same as what they are used to.
... not on the list. I guess it may be for the better that slashdot is no longer large - or influential - enough to be considered for the list at all. This way, slashdot management (and programmers) can continue in their blissful ignorance of the destruction they cause.
Although one would think that the complaints of
frequent changes to user interfaces, and increasing commercialization
Should ring some bells around here... or maybe not.
Ok, what ever was said before, this comment should get you modded straight into hell.
Too late. The original comment was moderated to -1 before I posted that as a response to egg on the humorless and the mod-bombers. They can't mod it any lower (although they can use this a fodder if they so choose).
This is the kind of information that you would probably get through the guy who polishes your Bentley every Wednesday.
Wait, if only the rich people hear these options, why would the person polishing the Bentley know it?
Because you wouldn't trust your Bentley to just anyone for its weekly polish, would you? Of course not; you're going to bring you Bentley to the guy who polishes your Rolls-Royce as well. And he didn't get started with your cars, he was polishing your father's Rolls and your mother's Jaguar as well in the earlier days. And since he knows other rich bastards, he has heard other people tell their stories of how they did videoconferencing and halo3 tournaments from the middle of the ocean, so he knows what companies work and what companies don't through them.
I don't think someone who works under you is going to try and run you through a sales pitch on why you might want internet while on the seas.
There is no need for a sales pitch. The person who posted this to slashdot already wants internet on the seas; they just don't know yet that they cannot afford it.
It is too bad I didn't get the memo that today is an official Slashdot Humorless Monday.
That was actually a joke. Of course a cruise ship is much faster than any sailboat that someone on slashdot could likely afford. But the likelihood of a slashdot reader affording a very fast ship is about the same likelihood as a slashdot reader being able to afford reasonably fast internet access that works from the middle of the ocean.
It appears some readers (and readers with mod points) have a case of the Mondays today...
Clearly a tough crowd today, you probably should have included the tag to make it abundantly clear to the humorless hacks with moderator points today...
Also a quick check in Wikipedia would have shown him that true Indians look quite different, and he would not have mistaken the native Americans for Indians.
Perhaps Columbus had a very-early draft copy of a textbook that would come to be approved by the Texas Board of Education?
Perhaps you could get a really good wifi antenna for your boat and then try to stay "just close enough" to a major cruise ship. The large boats usually have wireless internet available, and hacking (or paying for) their access would likely cost you quite a bit less than a provider who will get you online independently in the middle of the ocean.
Granted, it may be illegal, the cruise line probably won't care for it, it probably isn't very safe or smart, and it means giving up your independence to set your own route. But if internet access in the middle of the ocean is that important to you and your learjet pilot doesn't have a suggestion for you then it might be worth a shot.
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Heck, why do the television manufacturers believe that I'm willing to spend 2 grand more for it?
I agree with the view of this being nonsense. Last I heard, there was all of one 3D-BluRay movie. Really, how many times does someone want to watch Monsters vs. Aliens? I can't even think of anyone I know who watched that movie in the theater in 3D, so I'm not sure why someone would buy a 3D TV to watch it in 3D at home...
And sure, they are promising that more movies will come out in 3D, yet the movies that do so well in 3D in the theater (Avatar, Clash of the Titans especially) are then released only in 2D on Blu-ray.
At least, I'm pretty sure that the movie Avatar was not physically squeezing on the sides of my head and pushing down on my nose.
The first Command & Conquer game was released in 1995, with full-motion video cutscenes. Those scenes did not destroy any graphics cards that met the system requirements for the game. Why would video scenes start doing this to modern video cards?
There is decreasing amounts of doubt that the world is warming up
May be true in across this planet in general, it is sadly not true in the USA. In the USA there is still a very substantial number of people who deny global warming outright for various reasons (often nothing more than political - just wait for this story to be tagged "manbearpig" on the front page).
(especially in the United States) liberals are ONLY concerned with the man-made "portion" of the effect
It is almost impossible to be concerned "only" with that portion - assuming it to be significant. That would be like being concerned about second hand smoke but not lung cancer in smokers, the two are directly connected matters. Whether global warming is caused by activities of humans doesn't change the fact that global warming is having dramatic affects on all life around the world.
... would be if Bill Clinton came forward and said either that he created it (while getting a BJ from a staffer) or that he doesn't believe in it. Even then, Ronald Reagan would have to rise up from the dead and state his full unwavering support of the matter before everyone on the right would start believing.
Until that point, conservatives who choose to keep their fingers squarely in their ears over any data related to global warming will continue to do so, fueled in part by their undying hatred of all things Clinton.
That is a fine job you just did of stating your position while not saying a damned thing about why you hold that position. If you have data that counters this research, then share it. Making fun of the other side and reaching for a "holier-than-thou" position for yourself does not in any way detract from actual data.
I thought the issue wasn't whether climate change was happening, but whether it was artificial or natural.
Nah, there are plenty of people who deny it outright. To plenty of people, the whole global warming issue is nothing but a grand socialist conspiracy aiming to take away their god-given right to do whatever the hell they want, whenever the hell they want to do it, with no regards whatsoever to any part of the planet that might exist beyond their own nose.
The people who decided some time ago that they dislike global warming for whatever reason will always find a way to rationalize their denial of it. They are not about to let some pesky "facts" from "experts" cloud their judgment.
No, Facebook will render Facebook obsolete. A lot of people are spending less time on their now than they did before. The novelty is wearing off, and eventually people won't care about it at all. It will eventually be replaced not by one single thing but by a variety of better things, including actual human-to-human interaction.
... until someone in a country where that doesn't matter launches an identical service and the game starts all over again.
Last I checked I live in a secular state, where I am free to chose which god to worship - or none at all. Why then should I be held to someone else's beliefs of a god when traveling by air?
Just add "Management Incompetence" to the list or add it at least as natural constant.
I don't think there is an airline that doesn't have that one on their list...
Facebook have quietly added the ability to delete you account
Did it come at the expense of the ability to grammar check their own news releases? I did not know that good grammar and common sense were mutually exclusive.
And then remove their union contract that states that they can never decrease their workforce, even if they don't need as many workers due to reduced volume.
I don't know where you got that notion from but it simply doesn't match reality as I have seen. Post Offices in small towns have closed recently due to decreased volume and the employees from those offices have been let go. Existing offices are not hiring, even to replace retiring workers.
the artificial monopoly congress created for the USPS making it so they are the only ones that can deliver first-class mail
The post office doesn't actually have such a monopoly. The post office is the only company that can deliver to your mailbox, but you are free to put up a mailbox outside your house for UPS, FedEx, or any other service you want. Other companies can deliver as much mail as they want, they just can't use the USPS mail boxes. Other companies are also free to deliver any amount of mail or packages to your door in any way they want, any time they want.
The post office is again talking about canceling Saturday delivery. To me, that is one of the best things they have going for them. Sure, UPS and FedEx will delivery on Saturdays, but for an additional cost. USPS delivers Saturday for the same cost as any other day of the week. Take no-extra-charge Saturday delivery and better rates for many pertinent deliveries than UPS or FedEx and frankly I'm not sure why more people don't ship through them.
But if they cancel Saturdays then they aren't as advantageous.
I wonder if this would push more people to open source alternatives
Ads will not on their own push people to alternatives. You need two things before Joe User will switch:
Until then it doesn't matter. If OS X delivered electric shocks to its users at random intervals, they still wouldn't switch to something else if they didn't know there was a something else, or if they couldn't run their applications on that something else in exactly the same way they run it on OS X (and ditto for Windows).
In other words, in case you didn't get the memo, emulation options are not good enough for most users. As an example, most users would try Wine once (at most) and then never want to use it again because it isn't exactly the same as what they are used to.
If that was 200 earth years ago that the comet hit, then Neptune has made less than 1.5 orbits around the sun since then.
Although one would think that the complaints of
frequent changes to user interfaces, and increasing commercialization
Should ring some bells around here... or maybe not.
Ok, what ever was said before, this comment should get you modded straight into hell.
Too late. The original comment was moderated to -1 before I posted that as a response to egg on the humorless and the mod-bombers. They can't mod it any lower (although they can use this a fodder if they so choose).
This is the kind of information that you would probably get through the guy who polishes your Bentley every Wednesday.
Wait, if only the rich people hear these options, why would the person polishing the Bentley know it?
Because you wouldn't trust your Bentley to just anyone for its weekly polish, would you? Of course not; you're going to bring you Bentley to the guy who polishes your Rolls-Royce as well. And he didn't get started with your cars, he was polishing your father's Rolls and your mother's Jaguar as well in the earlier days. And since he knows other rich bastards, he has heard other people tell their stories of how they did videoconferencing and halo3 tournaments from the middle of the ocean, so he knows what companies work and what companies don't through them.
I don't think someone who works under you is going to try and run you through a sales pitch on why you might want internet while on the seas.
There is no need for a sales pitch. The person who posted this to slashdot already wants internet on the seas; they just don't know yet that they cannot afford it.
It is too bad I didn't get the memo that today is an official Slashdot Humorless Monday.
That was actually a joke. Of course a cruise ship is much faster than any sailboat that someone on slashdot could likely afford. But the likelihood of a slashdot reader affording a very fast ship is about the same likelihood as a slashdot reader being able to afford reasonably fast internet access that works from the middle of the ocean.
It appears some readers (and readers with mod points) have a case of the Mondays today...
Clearly a tough crowd today, you probably should have included the tag to make it abundantly clear to the humorless hacks with moderator points today...
Also a quick check in Wikipedia would have shown him that true Indians look quite different, and he would not have mistaken the native Americans for Indians.
Perhaps Columbus had a very-early draft copy of a textbook that would come to be approved by the Texas Board of Education?
Perhaps you could get a really good wifi antenna for your boat and then try to stay "just close enough" to a major cruise ship. The large boats usually have wireless internet available, and hacking (or paying for) their access would likely cost you quite a bit less than a provider who will get you online independently in the middle of the ocean.
Granted, it may be illegal, the cruise line probably won't care for it, it probably isn't very safe or smart, and it means giving up your independence to set your own route. But if internet access in the middle of the ocean is that important to you and your learjet pilot doesn't have a suggestion for you then it might be worth a shot.