What is quite a lot more amusing is to watch someone claim a feature that is significantly less useful for the user is in any way a mark of "superiority". Just because it has a nicer technical design does not make it superior if the end result to the user is inferior.
That's the thing that technical minded people on Slashdot continue to find elusive, this notion that technology exists to serve people and not the other way round.
Significantly less useful? Lower prices and earlier availability seem pretty useful to me.
Besides, he wasn't saying that people should choose CDMA phones. He just said that the protocol itself was superior to GSM because it supported data without additional hardware. That has nothing to do with implementations of that protocol or whether Verizon > AT&T. Perhaps people should refer to carriers instead of protocols when they want to make comparisons like the one that started this thread.
Not that I don't agree that some companies make change management more than it needs to be (mine does it OKAY), but I bet the guy I knew years ago who changed a drive on a RAID-5 array had thought about testing and rollback. You see, he received the replacement drive late in the day, ran into the data center, popped out a drive, popped in the new drive, and went home. Sadly, he had pulled the wrong drive.
That made me feel a little ill. Like that feeling you get when you dream about being in a car accident.
P.S. If you haven't watched "Firefly" / "Serenity" yet, you're missing the best show that was ever on Sci-Fi. Srsly. It's so good that fans bought advertising at their own expense.
Is such a thing possible anywhere?? Most of the time news=opinions and vice-versa. As long as humans are covering the news, there will always be a bias.
I'm sure we can establish a standard for unbiased news. We just need an objective definition of "objective".
If I could, I'd live in a dry county. It drives away the people who need to have intoxicants to survive.
Yeah... when the US made alcohol illegal in the 1920s all the drinkers just moved to Canada. It certianly didn't suddenly make a large percentage of the population criminals, divert tons of resources and money to enforce it, and of course it didn't make the mob rich.
I think you need to move out of your neighborhood into a nice gated community that doesn't allow those pesky lower class people in.
For the record, I don't drink.
Amen.
If you don't like the way some people live, don't associate with them. It's nobody's job to make sure you're only surrounded by like-minded people. You don't have a fundamental right to not be offended by the words or actions of others.
And what's stopping you from living in a dry county? I'm sure there are communities of people out there who abstain from drinking. If it's that important to you, find a way to make it happen.
I can't help but have mixed feelings about that. While I don't condone copyright violations or ever recommend the service to others, the pirate bay has been very influential in terms of stirring up some major debates about digital content, which I think is a good thing.
Where is the accountability for this kind of thing? Is it a matter of the information not being readily available, or is it just that people don't bother to do the research and find out just who is lining their leaders' pockets?
When a presidential candidate simply speaking about not taking money from lobbyists is considered a "bold move" by many in the media, it becomes terribly difficult to have faith in any of our political leaders, at least for me.
With every candidate there's a trade-off. It seems to always come down to a "lesser of two evils".
Or are you letting the perfect be the enemy of the good? I'd like to think so. There just seems to be lack of consensus regarding the definition of "perfect" and "good":-)
On tech issues, he's entirely wrong?
Obama is getting money in torrents from IP people from Hollywood to Silicon Valley precisely because he is a strong proponent of doing everything with intellectual property that many slashdotters would virulently oppose. Ultimately, this issue trumps, economically, every issue that influences humanity more than even the war in Iraq or even global warming. Then, to top it all off, he wants to chop NASA's budget. Do the people on slashdot who support him actually read his "Issues" section on his web site, or do they just stop at "Yes we can." With every candidate there's a trade-off. It seems to always come down to a "lesser of two evils". I don't accept it, or believe that it always will be that way, but when only given two viable choices (which is what it has come down to in this election, unfortunately), the candidate who is less like the previous president is the one who is going to get my vote.
I also am not sure if intellectual property issues actually trump every other issue, with respect to their influence on humanity. Certainly we could do better, but as I said, we don't have as many viable options at this point with respect to the presidential election.
McCain's key demographic just isn't as densely populated with young, tech-savvy individuals like Obama's (or other candidates)
Besides, how does McCain expect his supporters to use a machine that he admittedly can't operate?
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What is quite a lot more amusing is to watch someone claim a feature that is significantly less useful for the user is in any way a mark of "superiority". Just because it has a nicer technical design does not make it superior if the end result to the user is inferior.
That's the thing that technical minded people on Slashdot continue to find elusive, this notion that technology exists to serve people and not the other way round.
Significantly less useful? Lower prices and earlier availability seem pretty useful to me. Besides, he wasn't saying that people should choose CDMA phones. He just said that the protocol itself was superior to GSM because it supported data without additional hardware. That has nothing to do with implementations of that protocol or whether Verizon > AT&T. Perhaps people should refer to carriers instead of protocols when they want to make comparisons like the one that started this thread.
Not that I don't agree that some companies make change management more than it needs to be (mine does it OKAY), but I bet the guy I knew years ago who changed a drive on a RAID-5 array had thought about testing and rollback. You see, he received the replacement drive late in the day, ran into the data center, popped out a drive, popped in the new drive, and went home. Sadly, he had pulled the wrong drive.
That made me feel a little ill. Like that feeling you get when you dream about being in a car accident.
Design for functionality first, and if your design is highly functional it will have a cool all it's own.
So, in other words... form follows function?
I would be interested to see before/after pictures of the recipient.
That explains why these 12 and 13 year-old kids keep pwning me in Halo. Damn hackers.
P.S. If you haven't watched "Firefly" / "Serenity" yet, you're missing the best show that was ever on Sci-Fi. Srsly. It's so good that fans bought advertising at their own expense.
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Is such a thing possible anywhere?? Most of the time news=opinions and vice-versa. As long as humans are covering the news, there will always be a bias.
I'm sure we can establish a standard for unbiased news. We just need an objective definition of "objective".
If I could, I'd live in a dry county. It drives away the people who need to have intoxicants to survive.
Yeah... when the US made alcohol illegal in the 1920s all the drinkers just moved to Canada. It certianly didn't suddenly make a large percentage of the population criminals, divert tons of resources and money to enforce it, and of course it didn't make the mob rich.
I think you need to move out of your neighborhood into a nice gated community that doesn't allow those pesky lower class people in.
For the record, I don't drink.
Amen.
If you don't like the way some people live, don't associate with them. It's nobody's job to make sure you're only surrounded by like-minded people. You don't have a fundamental right to not be offended by the words or actions of others.
And what's stopping you from living in a dry county? I'm sure there are communities of people out there who abstain from drinking. If it's that important to you, find a way to make it happen.
So every phone from your cell provider has a USB or mini-USB connector for charging? Must be nice.
I think the GP meant to suggest that usb and mini-usb might be a good candidate for a standard charging interface.
I can't help but have mixed feelings about that. While I don't condone copyright violations or ever recommend the service to others, the pirate bay has been very influential in terms of stirring up some major debates about digital content, which I think is a good thing.
Where is the accountability for this kind of thing? Is it a matter of the information not being readily available, or is it just that people don't bother to do the research and find out just who is lining their leaders' pockets?
When a presidential candidate simply speaking about not taking money from lobbyists is considered a "bold move" by many in the media, it becomes terribly difficult to have faith in any of our political leaders, at least for me.
I also am not sure if intellectual property issues actually trump every other issue, with respect to their influence on humanity. Certainly we could do better, but as I said, we don't have as many viable options at this point with respect to the presidential election.
McCain's key demographic just isn't as densely populated with young, tech-savvy individuals like Obama's (or other candidates) Besides, how does McCain expect his supporters to use a machine that he admittedly can't operate?