He already appears to be clueless; that doesn't matter to his supporters, who are mostly uneducated themselves.
Uneducated, and thus in desperate straits. So what do they got to lose? Their chains?
What have they got to lose? How about: everything? Yes, vote for the candidate who shows by far the least compassion towards the power and the most friendship with those who are interested in fucking them over. If we're talking purely about rational self-interest, Donald Trump is the last person a poor person should vote for.
I think that is why they took the "News for Nerds" out of the logo. They just want to be an article aggregator. God knows why. There are already 100s of those sites.
The articles have always been secondary. They're not the point of Slashdot, they're not why one would come to Slashdot. Sure, there are hundreds of other article aggregators, but I have yet to see one with as good of a discussion system than Slashdot has. Reddit sure as hell doesn't have a great discussion system, Soylent and other pretenders don't have the readership.
Slashdot is for discussions, not article reading or news-finding. Discussions.
Probably the same genius that decided to sell CFLs in a globe shape so they would look like an incandescent light.
I always preferred the globe shape, since the globe is a more pleasing profile. The curly CFL just looks ugly.
It wasn't until I got one of those from Phillips instead of the normal loopy nameless brand things that I understood where all the bitching about slow startup times for CFLs came from.
I never liked the CFLs. They only worked in certain limited areas like a desk light or standalone lamp. No recessed or enclosed lighting of any type, like most ceiling lights are, that greatly greatly reduced the bulb life to around that of an incandescent. I think the LED bulb is a much better option over the incandescent than the CFL was.
I never understood how in the US, you can create a legally binding (apparently, as everybody is doing it) contract by writing that the other party agrees to something, without even asking him whether he does agree or not.
In any civilized country, that would be called "lying in a contract", a sub category of fraud.
It doesn't sound like lying to me. The consumer has simply come to see a contract as nothing more than something you quickly sign without reading so they can get access to something.
I'll admit, dealing with the Real Estate folks was like stepping 20 years back in time. That's a sector that could use a bit more modernization (except when you're dealing with grandma, who wants hard copies of everything).
Dave it's a fucking light bulb lol. It's not like we are installing software from sourceforge. It's a light bulb. It should screw in and work.
It's a smart bulb. It's meant to be controlled from software where you control not only the brightness, but the exact hue at any point of time. Generally it's not meant to go into every place you might want a light bulb. It's meant for special-purpose installs where you need remote control of brightness and color.
Pointing out that scientists are selfish, fallible human beings (something Midgley illustrates well) has nothing to do with whether "science is right/wrong". Sorry if such subtle distinctions are lost on you.
But that was the poster's original point: This scientist was fallible and corrupt -> The generalization that all scientists are fallible (and the implication of corruption too) -> you can't trust climate research that scientists as a whole agree on because Migley shows that scientists just have their own interests at heart.
I very seldom hear someone speak in favor of the programs and services.
Nah, you hear it fairly often -- they can play games, but it also lets them stream from Netflix or play Pandora without requiring a different device for every service. It's why the Roku became so popular; it's basically everything you got with consoles and a few services more... except the ability to play games.
Yup, the PS3 was a loss leader -- they expected to make up the difference through licensing PS3 games and Blu-Ray movies. In a way, it worked. Even if SCEA was in the red, Sony won out when its format became the defacto standard for HD movies.
OtherOS on the PS3 was little more than a novelty toy unless you clustered it for research purposes, and still then, there was a very short window when that was price-competitive with PCs. The hypervisor on the PS3, which still ran when OtherOS was booted, locked any non-Sony-PS3 OS out of many system resources, including graphics resources. Sony was so scared that people would be able to use OtherOS to play pirated games and emulators that they intentionally crippled it. Many a PS3 owner like myself was quite disappointed when we installed Yellowdog only to find out just how little you could actually do with it. It took real, true jailbreaking to make the system resources available.
Because of that, Sony's decision to remove OtherOS offended more people than it affected. It was a mostly-useless feature, but people hated the idea that a launch feature was being removed and that they didn't even have the option anymore.
Notice that the corporations can afford to pay lawyers and lobbyists to bend the regulations their way. And add your name to a "no fly" list is simple.
Note that none of that would be possible if you had a transparent government on your side instead of being on their side.
I'm not sure that transparency really helps. We know who gets corporate money, and from whom our politicians receive it. It doesn't seem to make much difference in who people vote for.
But this is an aberration ( the first Republican government in over 100 years) and it will not last long.
Wisconsin thought the same thing, look how those bastards are destroying us.
Clever move, Wisconsinites, trying to get rid of Scott Walker by encouraging him to run for President! Unfortunately for them it didn't work for Texans either.
It will be generations before North Carolina lives down their Interstate 95 welcoming poster put up by the Ku Klux Klan.
You know, it's been a few generations already. That was over 40 years ago now. If they really were sponsoring a part of the interstate, as a black man I might have been tickled by the thought of throwing trash out the window knowing the white KKK dudes would have to clean it up, but if anyone caught me, the repercussions might have been dire.
Learn anything about how many black people your grandfather helped lynch? Think that might have added to inner city violence we see today at all? Ignorance is bliss eh?
Nope. Doesn't have much to do with it anymore. It makes for a wonderful scapegoating though, a fantastic way for blaming someone else for the choices you made.
Recent comments from Cruz seem to indicate he might be hoping to be Trump's running mate. I can't see that lasting, I have to imagine Cruz would quickly come to despise Trump.
According to the book, a narcissist - in the clinical sense - is incapable of admitting he's wrong. So, whenever that gets pointed out by someone, it must be the fault of an external party. In this case, he can blame the media for misreporting the "facts" or whatever.
He gave himself another out -- he's blaming a reporter for the report of thousands celebrating, saying that the reporter didn't retract his story for 14 years until Donald mentioned it. So he's quite willing to blame Kovaleski and Kunkle, even if their article didn't support what he said at all.
The estimate of the number of users of Yahoo stuff is 1 billion. That's not all that far off the estimated 1.5bn for Facebook
I think the difference is that those Facebook users actually go to Facebook and use Facebook services.
I suppose I would consider myself a "Yahoo user" even though that interaction was limited to Yahoo being the default start page on the web browser that came with my mobile phone. It's the default search engine for Firefox as well.
X-Box is a great investment. Minecraft at $2.5 BILLION (yes, with a B), not so much. They bought a good studio that made an excellent game long after that game was released -- clearly they're investing in the future there in the hopes that the studio's next game is just as successful.
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He already appears to be clueless; that doesn't matter to his supporters, who are mostly uneducated themselves.
Uneducated, and thus in desperate straits. So what do they got to lose? Their chains?
What have they got to lose? How about: everything? Yes, vote for the candidate who shows by far the least compassion towards the power and the most friendship with those who are interested in fucking them over. If we're talking purely about rational self-interest, Donald Trump is the last person a poor person should vote for.
There's just one thing, dude. Do you have to use so many cuss words?
I think that is why they took the "News for Nerds" out of the logo. They just want to be an article aggregator. God knows why. There are already 100s of those sites.
The articles have always been secondary. They're not the point of Slashdot, they're not why one would come to Slashdot. Sure, there are hundreds of other article aggregators, but I have yet to see one with as good of a discussion system than Slashdot has. Reddit sure as hell doesn't have a great discussion system, Soylent and other pretenders don't have the readership.
Slashdot is for discussions, not article reading or news-finding. Discussions.
Probably the same genius that decided to sell CFLs in a globe shape so they would look like an incandescent light.
I always preferred the globe shape, since the globe is a more pleasing profile. The curly CFL just looks ugly.
It wasn't until I got one of those from Phillips instead of the normal loopy nameless brand things that I understood where all the bitching about slow startup times for CFLs came from.
I never liked the CFLs. They only worked in certain limited areas like a desk light or standalone lamp. No recessed or enclosed lighting of any type, like most ceiling lights are, that greatly greatly reduced the bulb life to around that of an incandescent. I think the LED bulb is a much better option over the incandescent than the CFL was.
I never understood how in the US, you can create a legally binding (apparently, as everybody is doing it) contract by writing that the other party agrees to something, without even asking him whether he does agree or not.
In any civilized country, that would be called "lying in a contract", a sub category of fraud.
It doesn't sound like lying to me. The consumer has simply come to see a contract as nothing more than something you quickly sign without reading so they can get access to something.
Oh, you mean "SUN by Philips(tm)?" Yeah, they rebranded that as well.
I'll admit, dealing with the Real Estate folks was like stepping 20 years back in time. That's a sector that could use a bit more modernization (except when you're dealing with grandma, who wants hard copies of everything).
They also lost the video game market with the flop of the Philips CD-i.
Dave it's a fucking light bulb lol. It's not like we are installing software from sourceforge. It's a light bulb. It should screw in and work.
It's a smart bulb. It's meant to be controlled from software where you control not only the brightness, but the exact hue at any point of time. Generally it's not meant to go into every place you might want a light bulb. It's meant for special-purpose installs where you need remote control of brightness and color.
Pointing out that scientists are selfish, fallible human beings (something Midgley illustrates well) has nothing to do with whether "science is right/wrong". Sorry if such subtle distinctions are lost on you.
But that was the poster's original point: This scientist was fallible and corrupt -> The generalization that all scientists are fallible (and the implication of corruption too) -> you can't trust climate research that scientists as a whole agree on because Migley shows that scientists just have their own interests at heart.
I very seldom hear someone speak in favor of the programs and services.
Nah, you hear it fairly often -- they can play games, but it also lets them stream from Netflix or play Pandora without requiring a different device for every service. It's why the Roku became so popular; it's basically everything you got with consoles and a few services more... except the ability to play games.
Not having remote holes is nice, but Sony's trying to secure a computer against its own user, a much thornier problem.
Yup, the PS3 was a loss leader -- they expected to make up the difference through licensing PS3 games and Blu-Ray movies. In a way, it worked. Even if SCEA was in the red, Sony won out when its format became the defacto standard for HD movies.
OtherOS on the PS3 was little more than a novelty toy unless you clustered it for research purposes, and still then, there was a very short window when that was price-competitive with PCs. The hypervisor on the PS3, which still ran when OtherOS was booted, locked any non-Sony-PS3 OS out of many system resources, including graphics resources. Sony was so scared that people would be able to use OtherOS to play pirated games and emulators that they intentionally crippled it. Many a PS3 owner like myself was quite disappointed when we installed Yellowdog only to find out just how little you could actually do with it. It took real, true jailbreaking to make the system resources available.
Because of that, Sony's decision to remove OtherOS offended more people than it affected. It was a mostly-useless feature, but people hated the idea that a launch feature was being removed and that they didn't even have the option anymore.
Notice that the corporations can afford to pay lawyers and lobbyists to bend the regulations their way. And add your name to a "no fly" list is simple.
Note that none of that would be possible if you had a transparent government on your side instead of being on their side.
I'm not sure that transparency really helps. We know who gets corporate money, and from whom our politicians receive it. It doesn't seem to make much difference in who people vote for.
But this is an aberration ( the first Republican government in over 100 years) and it will not last long.
Wisconsin thought the same thing, look how those bastards are destroying us.
Clever move, Wisconsinites, trying to get rid of Scott Walker by encouraging him to run for President! Unfortunately for them it didn't work for Texans either.
It will be generations before North Carolina lives down their Interstate 95 welcoming poster put up by the Ku Klux Klan.
You know, it's been a few generations already. That was over 40 years ago now. If they really were sponsoring a part of the interstate, as a black man I might have been tickled by the thought of throwing trash out the window knowing the white KKK dudes would have to clean it up, but if anyone caught me, the repercussions might have been dire.
Don't you mean Cupertino, CA?
I think the people who work at Apple are probably ok. Probably better than the hipster douches that double as Apple evangelicals.
Learn anything about how many black people your grandfather helped lynch? Think that might have added to inner city violence we see today at all?
Ignorance is bliss eh?
Nope. Doesn't have much to do with it anymore. It makes for a wonderful scapegoating though, a fantastic way for blaming someone else for the choices you made.
Recent comments from Cruz seem to indicate he might be hoping to be Trump's running mate. I can't see that lasting, I have to imagine Cruz would quickly come to despise Trump.
and why should we pretend that the bottom of the barrel trailer park trash that support him are anything to be listened to.
Because their vote counts just as much as yours or mine does. Ignore them at your own peril.
Maybe, but there aren't that many of them.
Maybe they're enough to swing a divided Republican vote towards Trump.
In no way are they close to being enough to give Trump the presidency.
According to the book, a narcissist - in the clinical sense - is incapable of admitting he's wrong. So, whenever that gets pointed out by someone, it must be the fault of an external party. In this case, he can blame the media for misreporting the "facts" or whatever.
He gave himself another out -- he's blaming a reporter for the report of thousands celebrating, saying that the reporter didn't retract his story for 14 years until Donald mentioned it. So he's quite willing to blame Kovaleski and Kunkle, even if their article didn't support what he said at all.
The estimate of the number of users of Yahoo stuff is 1 billion. That's not all that far off the estimated 1.5bn for Facebook
I think the difference is that those Facebook users actually go to Facebook and use Facebook services.
I suppose I would consider myself a "Yahoo user" even though that interaction was limited to Yahoo being the default start page on the web browser that came with my mobile phone. It's the default search engine for Firefox as well.
How many Yahoo users actually sought out yahoo?
But she got rid of all those unproductive work-at-home employees! Surely that would have turned them around!
A pretty good move -- more companies should follow that example.
X-Box is a great investment.
Minecraft at $2.5 BILLION (yes, with a B), not so much. They bought a good studio that made an excellent game long after that game was released -- clearly they're investing in the future there in the hopes that the studio's next game is just as successful.