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  1. Re: Not as dead as ... on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Java? (jaxenter.com) · · Score: 1

    So what else was meant by "It's interpreted, dullard" as a response to it being a programming language?

  2. Re:Not dead on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Java? (jaxenter.com) · · Score: 1

    What does Drupal have to do with Java? That's a PHP-based system.

  3. Re: Not as dead as ... on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Java? (jaxenter.com) · · Score: 1

    That makes it no less of a language. You might as well say C isn't a language, because you can certainly write an interpreter for it instead of compiling it. For that matter, most browsers uses a JIT compiler for JavaScript making it a compiled language at execution anyway.

  4. Re:Nickeling and Diming on Nintendo Reportedly Plans Smaller and Cheaper Switch For This Year (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Cars are a bad example. They usually offer a stripped down base model. Cup holders are not the thing, but a high end radio is an expense that you have the option to take away and pay less.

  5. Re: Not Americans on Americans Are Lining Up To Work For Amazon For $15 an Hour (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    They said getting a job, not doing the job

  6. The country's grid is one giant 0-day. Best not to pics details or even identities until it is mitigated.

  7. Re:Nickeling and Diming on Nintendo Reportedly Plans Smaller and Cheaper Switch For This Year (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Because a touch screen and battery are not an insignificant part of the cost. The tablet/dock combo is too fragile and a console unit would be sturdier. Those are two really good reasons. That I don't usually buy a console in the $300+ range is another, but considering how underpowered it is, the first reason is probably a big part of the price tag.

  8. Re:I'm OUTRAGED at the OUTRAGE! on Ubisoft Apologizes for The Division 2 Email Promising a 'Real Government Shutdown' (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    The promise of back pay is what they were indentured under. It's not even technically wrong.

  9. Re:Nickeling and Diming on Nintendo Reportedly Plans Smaller and Cheaper Switch For This Year (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    In the real world, I haven't bought a switch, because I don't want to pay for a built-in screen that I won't use. I'm not alone.

  10. Re:Impossible! on A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won't Be 'Assembled in USA' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I really don't think screws need to count. Especially if you're ready to cancel the whole plan because of it

  11. Re:Impossible! on A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won't Be 'Assembled in USA' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let's not stop there on the excuse train. They could still import the screws and manufacture in the US.

  12. Re:Could be worse on The Apple Mac Turns 35 Years Old (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Different driver model that hardware manufacturers could not follow correctly. Lots of crashy things came out of it.

  13. Re:Fuck MS on Microsoft Office Lands on the Mac App Store (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They still sell perpetual licenses. You just did something wrong.

  14. If it says apply liberally it can mean apply as much OR AS LITTLE as *YOU* WANT.

    That's factually wrong.

    i speak a neolatin language where to liberate means to free someone/something

    You're right, that's what liberate means. It's not what liberal means. At all. Nor does liberal mean to widen something (except your perspective). It's near the exact opposite of conservative (not insular, not fear-driven).

  15. Re:The rest of the story on Google Urged the US To Limit Protection for Activist Workers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They can ask, but their faces are already on the Internet for anyone who knows how Google Image search works:
    https://ocdn.eu/images/pulscms...

  16. I support a company's right to be able to regulate the internal use of their software and tools that they provide and pay for.

    They already brewed themselves a shitstorm by inviting their employees to discuss and debate controversial political topics on internal forums

    Well Google can't have it both ways, can they?

  17. Re:Trump Fails It on Google Urged the US To Limit Protection for Activist Workers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It appears to me that Trump has offered to negotiate.

    He's made it a one-issue debate and refuses to negotiate on that. That's not an offer, it's a stonewall.

  18. Re:Ah, the royal 'we' on Google Urged the US To Limit Protection for Activist Workers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, that old "It's against the law but someone said it probably shouldn't be" defense.

  19. But with nobody to lobby to except themselves and every last one of them will disagree with each other. Not a bad start, assuming they ever get consensus on something it will definitely be good for everyone.

  20. Re:Bad for me, but not for thee on Why Free Software Evangelist Richard Stallman is Haunted by Stalin's Dream (factordaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok. And do you think people live within a safe space bubble full time or that it's a specific, separate sometimes need? Clearly you haven't given much thought other than to repeat talking points you've heard elsewhere. In what way does that mean a person is guaranteed not to be exposed to criticism, except in one very specific context?

    And no, I did not say that all of the deep South was ignorant. Just that it's a location that has a very specific brand of ignorance within it, and it matched what it sounded like you were describing.

  21. Re:When is reg. YT going to open the whole world? on YouTube TV Opens To the Whole US (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    They didn't even invest in YouTube! Unless you mean Capitol.

  22. Re:Bad for me, but not for thee on Why Free Software Evangelist Richard Stallman is Haunted by Stalin's Dream (factordaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Freedom with responsibility really just means ensuring that the freedom is for everyone. What else would you be responsible for?

  23. Re:When is reg. YT going to open the whole world? on YouTube TV Opens To the Whole US (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's use an extremely simple example. CBS wants to post a video of Big Bang Theory on YouTube to promote it. They are not the content creator - Warmer Brothers is. They also don't have worldwide distribution rights. Sure, they could ask Warner Bros to post it, but they'd really rather the video be on their own account and link people to other CBS shows.

  24. Re:When is reg. YT going to open the whole world? on YouTube TV Opens To the Whole US (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the owner of the video putting those restrictions on, while YouTube only provides the tools. Quite often, the company/network posting the video only has distribution rights for a country or a few, and are not the ultimate owners. How else do you allow them to post at all without breaking their contacts?

  25. Re:Bad for me, but not for thee on Why Free Software Evangelist Richard Stallman is Haunted by Stalin's Dream (factordaily.com) · · Score: 1

    What straw man thing is it that you think a safe space is? I guarantee you're probably wrong.

    Also, are you using the word classic as shorthand for ignorant deep-South?