Why is this "Informative"? "Insightful" I could understand, but given that it purports to be the "full quote" from Legere but blatantly isn't, in no way is it "Informative".
I did actually like this actual quote from TFA:
I’m not sure what they are doing with it – stealing wireless access for their entire business, powering a small cloud service, providing broadband to a small city, mining for bitcoin -- but I really don’t care!
The most salient paragraph from the article pretty much echoes your point, and the author completely misses it...
Maybe the problem was that I had reached beyond my lower-middle-class origins and taken out loans to attend a small private college to begin with. Maybe I should have stayed at a store called The Wild Pair, where I once had a nice stable job selling shoes after dropping out of the state college because I thought I deserved better, and naïvely tried to turn myself into a professional reader and writer on my own, without a college degree. I’d probably be district manager by now.
Emphasis added. Leaving aside the shoe store strawman, the author hits the nail on the head. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go abandon my Chrysler 200 at the side of the road because I believe I deserve a Viper.
We are in the continent of Europe (as is Greenland). We are in the EU. We are not on the European mainland but neither is Iceland or Ireland, also both considered part of Europe (one even uses the Euro), and a few other places.
Greenland is physically part of North America, not Europe. Politically, it is indeed part of Europe as a constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark, but in terms of "which continent is it part of" North America is the right answer.
Iceland, however, is both physically and politically part of Europe.
T-Mobile has some extra apps, most particularly WiFi Calling. Our carriers go to great lengths to differentiate their phone offerings, plus there is some variation as to which carriers offer which protocols on which bands. As it stands, I'm signed up for the JUMP! program which means I can trade my phone in once it's half paid for (coming this spring), and I'm definitely planning on doing that so going off-label for the upgrade wouldn't be in my best interest. Thanks, though!
Are you referring to Nestle? I believe the "K" release of Android was going to be Key Lime Pie, but Google and Nestle actually worked out a licensing agreement for the KitKat name. The company that implied it wouldn't be evil turned the name of its OS release into a paid chocolate commercial.
Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for T-Mobile to release the KitKat update for my Sony Xperia Z1, so I guess I'm part of the statistics that few people really care about but crapflood Slashdot anyway.
General Atomics and the original AT&T were the other parts of InterNIC, but only Network Solutions provided registration services (rs.internic.net). IIRC, AT&T's role was to supply Directory services and General Atomics were to supply some services that they failed miserably at, which got them booted out of the contract.
Wasn't the original head of Tucows (The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software I believe it stood for) a guy named Scott? Is he still there?
I have a friend who actually has a road-worthy Delorean. Unfortunately the flux capacitor went out and is on backorder, but the regular driving works fine.
In the old days, I would have been astonished to get this far down the page without someone suggesting that we just wait for the AC to figure out how to reverse entropy.
SourceForge was open-source in its earliest days, and then they stopped open-sourcing later releases as they added more features that were intended to generate revenue. There was indeed a lot of coverage of SourceForge's failings here, even though both Sourceforge and/. were owned by (I think) VA Software at the time.
As was said below, cable TV is a natural monopoly: in all but a few very densely-populated areas (as in, parts of Manhattan dense) there isn't enough potential profit to make it worth their while to set up a competing cable plant. Forget TW and Comcast for the moment, in how many parts of the country are there ANY localities with competing cable companies where one of them isn't government-owned, even when the franchises are specifically non-exclusive (as they are in my state)? That's not a result of illegal collusion, that's a result of the fact that competing for anything other than the initial franchise agreement is a stupid business decision.
Plus, you appear to have misrepresented what the NYT article said: the sentence "Under conventional antitrust standards, it's pretty much an open-and-shut case" is actually saying that it's an open-and-shut case that the merger would not affect competition, and would be approved. The people raising the "potential competition" issue are the opponents of the merger!
Incidentally, the "guy they got to comment for the story" is a woman named Susan, who is actually a professor of IP law, and in fact a former member of the board of directors of ICANN, so by/. standards doesn't that make her evil?
If the WP article is accurate, Commodore's PET BASIC was a licensed Microsoft product, and as I mentioned so was the version in the TRS-80. So other than Apple's, I would say that the parent's statement that "the BASICs for most early PCs and home computers came from Microsoft", regardless of the fact that any other OS layer may or may not have, is accurate. And as others have pointed out, the first MS BASIC was in 1975 with the Altair, but I never used one of those so I went with "at least" as old as the TRS-80.
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They're pining for Freshmeat.net.
Some people are cancelling their home broadband and tethering the phone to their Wifi router.
Why is this "Informative"? "Insightful" I could understand, but given that it purports to be the "full quote" from Legere but blatantly isn't, in no way is it "Informative".
I did actually like this actual quote from TFA:
They may be using Bugzilla, in which the lack of decent dashboarding is legendary.
It was clear. There was a "clear soda" trend running around that time that didn't even last as long as the "dry beer" craze.
Get the AI's addicted to cardboard crack like MtG, so they will be distracted from killing us. Roko's Basilisk solved!
The most salient paragraph from the article pretty much echoes your point, and the author completely misses it...
Emphasis added. Leaving aside the shoe store strawman, the author hits the nail on the head. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go abandon my Chrysler 200 at the side of the road because I believe I deserve a Viper.
Thanks!
Do you have an English reference for the Baidu comment (I'm not doubting, just want to see the details)?
Greenland is physically part of North America, not Europe. Politically, it is indeed part of Europe as a constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark, but in terms of "which continent is it part of" North America is the right answer.
Iceland, however, is both physically and politically part of Europe.
That doesn't do a whole lot for the bass player if a "solo performer" has the writing credit.
It works better if you know how "The War of the Worlds" ended.
My goddaughter is a bassoonist, you insensitive clod!
Precisely!
T-Mobile has some extra apps, most particularly WiFi Calling. Our carriers go to great lengths to differentiate their phone offerings, plus there is some variation as to which carriers offer which protocols on which bands. As it stands, I'm signed up for the JUMP! program which means I can trade my phone in once it's half paid for (coming this spring), and I'm definitely planning on doing that so going off-label for the upgrade wouldn't be in my best interest. Thanks, though!
Are you referring to Nestle? I believe the "K" release of Android was going to be Key Lime Pie, but Google and Nestle actually worked out a licensing agreement for the KitKat name. The company that implied it wouldn't be evil turned the name of its OS release into a paid chocolate commercial.
Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for T-Mobile to release the KitKat update for my Sony Xperia Z1, so I guess I'm part of the statistics that few people really care about but crapflood Slashdot anyway.
General Atomics and the original AT&T were the other parts of InterNIC, but only Network Solutions provided registration services (rs.internic.net). IIRC, AT&T's role was to supply Directory services and General Atomics were to supply some services that they failed miserably at, which got them booted out of the contract.
Wasn't the original head of Tucows (The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software I believe it stood for) a guy named Scott? Is he still there?
I have a friend who actually has a road-worthy Delorean. Unfortunately the flux capacitor went out and is on backorder, but the regular driving works fine.
In the old days, I would have been astonished to get this far down the page without someone suggesting that we just wait for the AC to figure out how to reverse entropy.
OnDemand is definitely available with Time-Warner DVR's, and I think with their non-DVR boxes as well.
You do realize that "high IQ individuals that have fuck all common sense" used to be Slashdot's key demographic, don't you?
SourceForge was open-source in its earliest days, and then they stopped open-sourcing later releases as they added more features that were intended to generate revenue. There was indeed a lot of coverage of SourceForge's failings here, even though both Sourceforge and /. were owned by (I think) VA Software at the time.
They've confirmed it will be Jason Momoa.
As was said below, cable TV is a natural monopoly: in all but a few very densely-populated areas (as in, parts of Manhattan dense) there isn't enough potential profit to make it worth their while to set up a competing cable plant. Forget TW and Comcast for the moment, in how many parts of the country are there ANY localities with competing cable companies where one of them isn't government-owned, even when the franchises are specifically non-exclusive (as they are in my state)? That's not a result of illegal collusion, that's a result of the fact that competing for anything other than the initial franchise agreement is a stupid business decision.
Plus, you appear to have misrepresented what the NYT article said: the sentence "Under conventional antitrust standards, it's pretty much an open-and-shut case" is actually saying that it's an open-and-shut case that the merger would not affect competition, and would be approved. The people raising the "potential competition" issue are the opponents of the merger!
Incidentally, the "guy they got to comment for the story" is a woman named Susan, who is actually a professor of IP law, and in fact a former member of the board of directors of ICANN, so by /. standards doesn't that make her evil?
If the WP article is accurate, Commodore's PET BASIC was a licensed Microsoft product, and as I mentioned so was the version in the TRS-80. So other than Apple's, I would say that the parent's statement that "the BASICs for most early PCs and home computers came from Microsoft", regardless of the fact that any other OS layer may or may not have, is accurate. And as others have pointed out, the first MS BASIC was in 1975 with the Altair, but I never used one of those so I went with "at least" as old as the TRS-80.