If I had a project and someone came up to me and offered an 80% price cut right off the bat, I would brush them aside. And to think you got a Score of 5!
But people that believe that perpetual motion is completely legitimate and is being covered up by big oil companies and governments as some big conspiracy are fucking worthless.
These aren't the people who should bother you. The people who should bother you are the people who don't understand why water boils, the people who think you can take antibiotics for a cold, the people who have no idea why ice floats, the people who don't know why hot air rises, the people who have no idea how an internal combustion engine works.
To scientists, this stuff is like remedial math or basic reading skills. We recognize that this type of knowledge helps you function in the world. To non-scientists, as to the innumerate and illiterate, the value of this knowledge is entirely unappreciated and often viewed with contempt.
Don't use your "reasoning" as an excuse to mistreat animals. I sense a certain animosity in your tone, as if this article somehow causes you to morally reflect on your actions and you don't like it. I hope next you aren't going to say "dog's are conditioned to squeal at stimulus that might cause humans pain, but they don't really feel pain like humans do", or something like that. If your sense of morality is threatened and it causes you angst (like it seems from your post), then you need to take a close look at your actions and attitudes. No one but you can alleviate your own moral suffering.
Maybe you just mean that they don't value your values.
I know you are kidding and can't actually believe that bullshit you spew, but in case you are really that unbelievably stupid, please know that these guys are not "robin hoods". They have other opportunities. For example, they have access to computers with which they could create revenue in honest ways. Plus, for you to assert that they have no opportunity means that you buy into some pretty racist notions about the ability Africans to create opportunity for themselves.
No, thank *you* for helping us all to remedy the world of this evil abbreviation. Because, you know, there is no greater cause for which to spend our time posting on/. You are truly making the world a better place.
Journalism was always supported by Print advertising. Now, it's going to be supported by pay-to-view websites.
They are still going to lose money until they hit a price point for online content that makes sense. Without the need to print, costs are going to be much cheaper, especially because online content is *by comparison* outrageously cheep to produce. I'd subscribe to a news service if I could get it as Blackberry friendly and low bandwidth (i.e. pure text) with NO advertisement. (Assuming I couldn't just screenscrape it and email it to myself.) But I'd value a news service like this at around $4 USD per month, about what I pay to support SOMAFM. But my guess is that the newspaper companies (and probably the WSJ in particular) will still want $12 USD per week and with the privilege to drown you with advertisements or advertisements that pose as news. No thanks.
When it comes to online content, you just can't abuse your customers this way. There are simply too many alternatives--alternatives that are only going to increase in variety. Consider google's dominance over yahoo. Yahoo has fallen behind because they abuse. Take a look at all the crap you have to deal with when you use yahoo mail versus gmail for an example. And here we see Murdoch with another user abusive move. It will work against the WSJ.
The parent comment is dumb...like Trig Palin dumb.
Thanks for pointing that out bro. I had a long day and for the life of me, I thought the title said "Tron" and not robotron. And then they talked about defender and vaguely described this game I remember called "robotron" and I was wondering why they weren't mentioning it specifically. And I swear that I remember a blue background so I didn't really recognize the screen shots. And I hit submit just as I saw that it was the history of "robotron" and now I'm being compared to Trig Palin. Well, at least it's not her retarded sister, Algebra Palin.
I agree, can't we have some happy news about robot kittens or something!!
In other news, caring for kittens has been patented by Monsanto. Petting them has been patented by PetSmart. And taking endless pictures of them with your cell phone has been patented by Motorola. As a prevention, the new coalition Monotoromart is now hunting down and killing any cuddly, lovable, but otherwise adorably indignant animals in an effort to minimize "market confusion".
Firefox's constant bitching about updating and what version I run is WAY more annoying than anything Microsoft or Apple do on my systems.
Yes, the bitching is bad, but I run it because I can count on it to be standards compliant. That in itself beats the hell out of any whiz-bang you get with Safari.
That's right. I am incompetent, and so is my wife. Or does the MacOSX problem fit your bias better than the Windows one, therefore making me an incompetent and Microsoft totally cool, while making Apple incompetent and my wife totally cool?
Dude! Haven't you heard? Apple is the new Microsoft and Microsoft is the new NeXTstep. Get with the program.
My wife's Macbook (MB881LL/A, white, early 2009) updated earlier today
There is your problem.
I'm here to help. Remember, always do the following before you point upgrade:
Do a memory check (hold down "D" when you start up and click the appropriate buttons afterwords).
Always boot with the installer CD first and repair your disk then fix disk permissions before a point upgrade.
Are you listening? Do I have your attention? OK. Never, ever, in a billion years, allow yourself or someone you care about to point upgrade OS X on the day of it's release. Best is to scan the rumor sites for a week or so before you commit.
Now, go facepalm your wife or ask her to facepalm herself for violating rule 3.
Good for you! You can spot powers of two. To bad you can't read. Here is the relevant section:
a nice even binary number
What's binary? Well, the dictionary does not say binary numbers are necessarily powers of 2. From about.com, which agrees with wikipedia, which agrees with the dictionary on my mac: "refers to base two arithmetic using the digits 0 and 1."
So the number 0, as you can see, is a base-2 number. Not all "base-2" numbers are powers of 2. For example: 11. But you can express 11 in binary (the word the OP used): 11. See?
Maybe you will have a better shot at trolling over the word "even". But don't try, because 0 is an even number (0 % 2 = 0).
Hints: (1) read carefully, (2) consult a dictionary, (3) don't be such a troll.
2. response information that indicates when insufficient user contact device information exists to contact the user contact devices;
wherein the administrator initiates distribution of the message using the grouping information, priority information, and the priority order, and wherein the message is transmitted through at least two industry standard gateways simultaneously, wherein the two industry standard gateways are selected from the group consisting of: a SMTP gateway a SIP, an H.323, an ISDN gateway, a PSTN gateway, a softswitch, and combinations thereof, wherein the message is received by the at least one user contact device, and the at least one user contact device transmits a response through the industry standard gateways to the dynamic information database.
Other than this piece of nonsense, which I take to mean "you can use just about any channel for communications", the patent is very similar to a soccer team call-down list.
They have patented a common sense process which has already been implemented on telephones and claimed its novel because you can do it with the internet. It's like patenting turning a screw driver using "forms of industry standard energy including coal based electricity, petroleum fuel based electricity, battery power, or nuclear based electricity or combination thereof where at least one turn of the screw uses these industry standard power sources." It's total bullshit. Understaffed? The guys approving these patents must not be spending more than 5 minutes on them. I'd say they are understaffed.
(Especially the OMG MAH FREEDOMS replies sure to follow this comment, despite the fact I took neither 'side.')
Don't you mean "Especially the OMG DON'T FUCKING BREAK THE LAW THEN CUZ MODIFIED CONSOLES ARE ONLY USED FOR BAD THINGS replies, despite how 'neutral' I'm pretending to be."
Except he wasn't using a hacked and modded console, he was SELLING them, a LOT of them. No matter how you look at it, even if you agree that you hacking a console yourself should be legal, reselling consoles that are basically being designed to pay illegally copied games rather than imports is NOT ok.
No. Now matter how I look at it, I think one needs to actually copy games to do something "NOT ok". Many murders have been committed with baseball bats--but that does not make the distribution of baseball bats "NOT ok". It's how you use the baseball bat that makes it "NOT ok" or "ok". Do you make screwdrivers and soldering irons illegal because they could be used to hack consoles? I'm just trying to figure out how far you think we ought to go in our prevention laws.
first noctilucent clouds mentioned in recorded history were in 1887
1887 was when the term was coined. It is impossible to say whether the phenomenon called "noctilucent clouds" in 1887 is the same phenomenon we see today. For example, Northern lights might qualify as "noctilucent" and may look cloudy to boot. It's important to distinguish the phenomenon from the terminology.
Step 1) Download Firefox using FTP: instructions [boutell.com].
So you need to know of FTP to use anything but Explorer? So basically, anyone that doesn't already know about FTP is forced to use Explorer just because they run Windows. Is it now Microsoft's responsibility to educate the user about FTP? Of course you would say not. Me too.
Microsoft's mode of operation hinges on the strategy that the best way to win and be competitive and capitalist is to keep the customer ignorant of the options, even if those options *might* be superior. That is not winning with a superior product. That is using an *overwhelmingly* dominant market position to suppress competition by limiting (passively or not) marketplace knowledge.
To me, that is not healthy for capitalism, in fact, I don't consider it capitalism at all. It's market manipulation. Microsoft can manipulate the market in this way precisely because they are so dominant. That is why laws that enforce competition exist.
Anything more then "Huh, what an odd error" and you really need to check your reality.
In reality, you have to clear this stuff up super pronto, even if its ridiculous. It's an organization with no sense of reality itself, just autonomous and poorly written subroutines. The more fees you stack up on something like this, the more tape you have to disentwine later. Two hours on hold becomes four then sixteen. Let it go a couple of months without paying your bureaucratic dues and your children just might have to suffer a lifetime of dealing with idiots on the phone.
I think the doubt thrown on the validity of the tests is all over the place anyway. Why not just let the tests out and end the debate there?
They are useful. Here were my answers: butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly. Based on my answers, my analyst, Dr. Lector, said I was a tedious but promising candidate to be a murderous sociopath. He said it was going to take some work, though. I'm now in a cage taking heavy doses of barbiturates "to help me with my progress". I'm still waiting for the next phase of treatment when I get the spinal injections before being forced to listen to Beethoven's Ode to Joy and watching Nazis have sex with prostitutes.
Who would have thought so much treatment could be advised from how one interprets bilaterally symmetric and colorful images that have the same vague appearance as a major phylogeny from the tree of life. I feel better already!
trampling your individual liberties and micromanaging every aspect of your life from what kind of car you're allowed to drive, to how much electricity you're allowed to use, even to how much money you're allowed to make.
Until people like you say "or what you put in your body, or what you do with your unborn child, or what you carry on a plane", then I'll believe your individual liberties bullshit. Until then, it seems like you just regurgitate what you hear and don't even think. You care about liberties as much as the people you decry. You'd just rather bomb people than spend the same money on health care. Get some morals and a consistent ideology or STFU.
He was able to open Firefox, OO, Email, everything he does, quickly without any fuss. Ubuntu is getting very close to getting mom n pop.
My mom and pop use it. They really don't care what OS they run as long as it works. I'd say that Ubuntu *is* mom n pop--probably more so than XP as my dad prefers to work in Ubuntu. Now I could be wrong, but MS, to my best ability to discern, has lately been breaking compatibility with Linux firefox on hotmail, probably to force users back to their platform ("my mail is broken on linux but works with windows, so linux must be broken")--so now I'm getting him switched to gmail as soon as I can.
This new hotmail development really pisses me off. This is akin to a mechanic punching a hole in your CV boots and then telling you that you need a new rack and pinion because it's leaking. This is a shady and low class tactic if MS is using it. I have resisted railing against them, but they lost me with this tactic. They need to go down and people need to look for alternatives to MS products. There really are hidden costs when using Microsoft products.
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If I had a project and someone came up to me and offered an 80% price cut right off the bat, I would brush them aside. And to think you got a Score of 5!
I can bid to give him a score of 1.
But people that believe that perpetual motion is completely legitimate and is being covered up by big oil companies and governments as some big conspiracy are fucking worthless.
These aren't the people who should bother you. The people who should bother you are the people who don't understand why water boils, the people who think you can take antibiotics for a cold, the people who have no idea why ice floats, the people who don't know why hot air rises, the people who have no idea how an internal combustion engine works.
To scientists, this stuff is like remedial math or basic reading skills. We recognize that this type of knowledge helps you function in the world. To non-scientists, as to the innumerate and illiterate, the value of this knowledge is entirely unappreciated and often viewed with contempt.
Don't use your "reasoning" as an excuse to mistreat animals. I sense a certain animosity in your tone, as if this article somehow causes you to morally reflect on your actions and you don't like it. I hope next you aren't going to say "dog's are conditioned to squeal at stimulus that might cause humans pain, but they don't really feel pain like humans do", or something like that. If your sense of morality is threatened and it causes you angst (like it seems from your post), then you need to take a close look at your actions and attitudes. No one but you can alleviate your own moral suffering.
I've suspected this for a while, which is why I get especially worked up over people who get their jollies tormenting and abusing animals.
These are the same people who abuse their children. They just don't make it public like they do with their pets.
Maybe you just mean that they don't value your values.
I know you are kidding and can't actually believe that bullshit you spew, but in case you are really that unbelievably stupid, please know that these guys are not "robin hoods". They have other opportunities. For example, they have access to computers with which they could create revenue in honest ways. Plus, for you to assert that they have no opportunity means that you buy into some pretty racist notions about the ability Africans to create opportunity for themselves.
Thank you for substituting an $ for the S in MS
No, thank *you* for helping us all to remedy the world of this evil abbreviation. Because, you know, there is no greater cause for which to spend our time posting on /. You are truly making the world a better place.
Journalism was always supported by Print advertising. Now, it's going to be supported by pay-to-view websites.
They are still going to lose money until they hit a price point for online content that makes sense. Without the need to print, costs are going to be much cheaper, especially because online content is *by comparison* outrageously cheep to produce. I'd subscribe to a news service if I could get it as Blackberry friendly and low bandwidth (i.e. pure text) with NO advertisement. (Assuming I couldn't just screenscrape it and email it to myself.) But I'd value a news service like this at around $4 USD per month, about what I pay to support SOMAFM. But my guess is that the newspaper companies (and probably the WSJ in particular) will still want $12 USD per week and with the privilege to drown you with advertisements or advertisements that pose as news. No thanks.
When it comes to online content, you just can't abuse your customers this way. There are simply too many alternatives--alternatives that are only going to increase in variety. Consider google's dominance over yahoo. Yahoo has fallen behind because they abuse. Take a look at all the crap you have to deal with when you use yahoo mail versus gmail for an example. And here we see Murdoch with another user abusive move. It will work against the WSJ.
The parent comment is dumb...like Trig Palin dumb.
Thanks for pointing that out bro. I had a long day and for the life of me, I thought the title said "Tron" and not robotron. And then they talked about defender and vaguely described this game I remember called "robotron" and I was wondering why they weren't mentioning it specifically. And I swear that I remember a blue background so I didn't really recognize the screen shots. And I hit submit just as I saw that it was the history of "robotron" and now I'm being compared to Trig Palin. Well, at least it's not her retarded sister, Algebra Palin.
Robotron.
I agree, can't we have some happy news about robot kittens or something!!
In other news, caring for kittens has been patented by Monsanto. Petting them has been patented by PetSmart. And taking endless pictures of them with your cell phone has been patented by Motorola. As a prevention, the new coalition Monotoromart is now hunting down and killing any cuddly, lovable, but otherwise adorably indignant animals in an effort to minimize "market confusion".
Firefox's constant bitching about updating and what version I run is WAY more annoying than anything Microsoft or Apple do on my systems.
Yes, the bitching is bad, but I run it because I can count on it to be standards compliant. That in itself beats the hell out of any whiz-bang you get with Safari.
That's right. I am incompetent, and so is my wife. Or does the MacOSX problem fit your bias better than the Windows one, therefore making me an incompetent and Microsoft totally cool, while making Apple incompetent and my wife totally cool?
Dude! Haven't you heard? Apple is the new Microsoft and Microsoft is the new NeXTstep. Get with the program.
My wife's Macbook (MB881LL/A, white, early 2009) updated earlier today
There is your problem.
I'm here to help. Remember, always do the following before you point upgrade:
I know many people who have used OpenOffice and not one of them thinks it holds its own against MS Office.
Me. Now you know one. Will that stop you from posting trollbait like this?
One of those is (still) not a power of two.
Good for you! You can spot powers of two. To bad you can't read. Here is the relevant section:
a nice even binary number
What's binary? Well, the dictionary does not say binary numbers are necessarily powers of 2. From about.com, which agrees with wikipedia, which agrees with the dictionary on my mac: "refers to base two arithmetic using the digits 0 and 1."
So the number 0, as you can see, is a base-2 number. Not all "base-2" numbers are powers of 2. For example: 11. But you can express 11 in binary (the word the OP used): 11. See?
Maybe you will have a better shot at trolling over the word "even". But don't try, because 0 is an even number (0 % 2 = 0).
Hints: (1) read carefully, (2) consult a dictionary, (3) don't be such a troll.
2. response information that indicates when insufficient user contact device information exists to contact the user contact devices; wherein the administrator initiates distribution of the message using the grouping information, priority information, and the priority order, and wherein the message is transmitted through at least two industry standard gateways simultaneously, wherein the two industry standard gateways are selected from the group consisting of: a SMTP gateway a SIP, an H.323, an ISDN gateway, a PSTN gateway, a softswitch, and combinations thereof, wherein the message is received by the at least one user contact device, and the at least one user contact device transmits a response through the industry standard gateways to the dynamic information database.
Other than this piece of nonsense, which I take to mean "you can use just about any channel for communications", the patent is very similar to a soccer team call-down list.
They have patented a common sense process which has already been implemented on telephones and claimed its novel because you can do it with the internet. It's like patenting turning a screw driver using "forms of industry standard energy including coal based electricity, petroleum fuel based electricity, battery power, or nuclear based electricity or combination thereof where at least one turn of the screw uses these industry standard power sources." It's total bullshit. Understaffed? The guys approving these patents must not be spending more than 5 minutes on them. I'd say they are understaffed.
(Especially the OMG MAH FREEDOMS replies sure to follow this comment, despite the fact I took neither 'side.')
Don't you mean "Especially the OMG DON'T FUCKING BREAK THE LAW THEN CUZ MODIFIED CONSOLES ARE ONLY USED FOR BAD THINGS replies, despite how 'neutral' I'm pretending to be."
Except he wasn't using a hacked and modded console, he was SELLING them, a LOT of them. No matter how you look at it, even if you agree that you hacking a console yourself should be legal, reselling consoles that are basically being designed to pay illegally copied games rather than imports is NOT ok.
No. Now matter how I look at it, I think one needs to actually copy games to do something "NOT ok". Many murders have been committed with baseball bats--but that does not make the distribution of baseball bats "NOT ok". It's how you use the baseball bat that makes it "NOT ok" or "ok". Do you make screwdrivers and soldering irons illegal because they could be used to hack consoles? I'm just trying to figure out how far you think we ought to go in our prevention laws.
first noctilucent clouds mentioned in recorded history were in 1887
1887 was when the term was coined. It is impossible to say whether the phenomenon called "noctilucent clouds" in 1887 is the same phenomenon we see today. For example, Northern lights might qualify as "noctilucent" and may look cloudy to boot. It's important to distinguish the phenomenon from the terminology.
Step 1) Download Firefox using FTP: instructions [boutell.com].
So you need to know of FTP to use anything but Explorer? So basically, anyone that doesn't already know about FTP is forced to use Explorer just because they run Windows. Is it now Microsoft's responsibility to educate the user about FTP? Of course you would say not. Me too.
Microsoft's mode of operation hinges on the strategy that the best way to win and be competitive and capitalist is to keep the customer ignorant of the options, even if those options *might* be superior. That is not winning with a superior product. That is using an *overwhelmingly* dominant market position to suppress competition by limiting (passively or not) marketplace knowledge.
To me, that is not healthy for capitalism, in fact, I don't consider it capitalism at all. It's market manipulation. Microsoft can manipulate the market in this way precisely because they are so dominant. That is why laws that enforce competition exist.
Anything more then "Huh, what an odd error" and you really need to check your reality.
In reality, you have to clear this stuff up super pronto, even if its ridiculous. It's an organization with no sense of reality itself, just autonomous and poorly written subroutines. The more fees you stack up on something like this, the more tape you have to disentwine later. Two hours on hold becomes four then sixteen. Let it go a couple of months without paying your bureaucratic dues and your children just might have to suffer a lifetime of dealing with idiots on the phone.
Nice to see you believe liberty includes the right to murder.
So you'd rather spend money on health care than on war? Please elaborate.
I think the doubt thrown on the validity of the tests is all over the place anyway. Why not just let the tests out and end the debate there?
They are useful. Here were my answers: butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly. Based on my answers, my analyst, Dr. Lector, said I was a tedious but promising candidate to be a murderous sociopath. He said it was going to take some work, though. I'm now in a cage taking heavy doses of barbiturates "to help me with my progress". I'm still waiting for the next phase of treatment when I get the spinal injections before being forced to listen to Beethoven's Ode to Joy and watching Nazis have sex with prostitutes.
Who would have thought so much treatment could be advised from how one interprets bilaterally symmetric and colorful images that have the same vague appearance as a major phylogeny from the tree of life. I feel better already!
trampling your individual liberties and micromanaging every aspect of your life from what kind of car you're allowed to drive, to how much electricity you're allowed to use, even to how much money you're allowed to make.
Until people like you say "or what you put in your body, or what you do with your unborn child, or what you carry on a plane", then I'll believe your individual liberties bullshit. Until then, it seems like you just regurgitate what you hear and don't even think. You care about liberties as much as the people you decry. You'd just rather bomb people than spend the same money on health care. Get some morals and a consistent ideology or STFU.
He was able to open Firefox, OO, Email, everything he does, quickly without any fuss. Ubuntu is getting very close to getting mom n pop.
My mom and pop use it. They really don't care what OS they run as long as it works. I'd say that Ubuntu *is* mom n pop--probably more so than XP as my dad prefers to work in Ubuntu. Now I could be wrong, but MS, to my best ability to discern, has lately been breaking compatibility with Linux firefox on hotmail, probably to force users back to their platform ("my mail is broken on linux but works with windows, so linux must be broken")--so now I'm getting him switched to gmail as soon as I can.
This new hotmail development really pisses me off. This is akin to a mechanic punching a hole in your CV boots and then telling you that you need a new rack and pinion because it's leaking. This is a shady and low class tactic if MS is using it. I have resisted railing against them, but they lost me with this tactic. They need to go down and people need to look for alternatives to MS products. There really are hidden costs when using Microsoft products.