I was right there with you until: 'just because you buy the hardware, you think you have the privilege to install what you want'.
what!!! What has happened to this world?! I bought it. If I want to install DOS 6.2 on it, that is nobody's business but mine. I cant believe the corporations have managed to convince people like you otherwise.
"whether or not we should reduce the work week's duration and increase paid vacation time"
That is such a ridiculous statement. Oh yes, my work week will be shortened; along with my paycheck.
What fantasy land do you live in where corporations value the happiness of their employees? Or to be more blunt, openly willing to spend more on paid vacation time? It took unions to get fair pay for workers and look what is happening to them. Do you honestly think a company will waste profits on its employees without being forced to?
I love seeing images like these. I wish some clever astronomer or graphics guru would make a 'flip book' type of image (think those old layered plastic anatomy pictures in encyclopedias) where each layer contains the galaxies at a certain distance.
That way you could see the evolution, or a qasi-3d image of what hubble is seeing.
I am sure there will be many posts about 'big brother' and the evils of the government, but I have to say....cool.
I have always been interested in robotics. This is just amazing to me. We have moved so fast (in regards to computing), I can only imagine what will be common place in the next decade.
p.s. It would be awesome if they posted the algorithms they used for this. I won't hold my breath.
Byte your tongue. Double Dragon is one of the greatest games of all time. (Extremely hard, but what game up to then allowed you to level up your fighting moves....and pick up weapons the enemy dropped!)
Well said. I was in the same boat. My friends and I would go over every page, digesting and absorbing every photo and every screen shot. The world seems so much cooler when you are a kid.
I think that is part of why we 30-somethings feel a small bit of sadness to see Nintendo Power go. It's not because we loved the magazine (who still has a subscription, really). We feel a tinge of sadness because it is a cold reminder that our childhood is forever gone.
Thats why you will only have 1.9 children instead of 2.1. You and your wife wait longer, wait until you're 'financially ready'.....and apparently many other couples as well.
What archaic hardware are you trying to run it on? I am so old that I remember the hours(!) it took to get my sound card working on FreeBSD in the 90's.
I recently installed Mint on this old Dell desktop with no problems at all; including a newish ATI graphics card. No headaches, no compiling of utilities or messing with X.
I don't give any credence to your argument. I have been in the trenches with *nix for almost two decades. Mint won me over from Suse, who I thought was the most user friendly.
From the article: "probably the most destructive attack that the private sector has seen to date"... and then "Saudi oil operations were unaffected by the computer outage". Wow, that is truly destructive.
Then there is this nugget "American consumers could suffer because of an incident involving an oil company that they know little about and is located thousands of miles away".... so hasn't that been the case for the last, what, 30 years?
> They will never stop until they get either everyone dead, what they want
Are you normally this psychotic, or just on thursdays? Why would "they" want everyone dead? "They" want you alive and paying rent...for everything. "They" have a need to try to achieve perpetual and infinite growth.
As any virus will tell you,... you don't survive by killing your host.
> the patent can be invalidated (through courts or through the patent office)
Sooo, with the first to file system, it is not only first-to-file, but first-to-file-with-the-most-money to tie you up in years of litigation before you give up. Sounds great.
I work in the aviation industry. I hate to break it to you but I have talked to pilots who admit to playing games on their laptops while flying. It gets boring sitting up there for hour on hours every day.
Are you seriously complaining that teaches ONLY work 53 hours a week? Are you sick in the head?
You seem to making the argument that working 50-100 hours per week should be the goal of every Citizen. Screw that. I want to enjoy life with my family. You can work your 100hrs/week. Enjoy that heart attack at age 45 and leave teachers alone.
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I was right there with you until: 'just because you buy the hardware, you think you have the privilege to install what you want'.
what!!! What has happened to this world?! I bought it. If I want to install DOS 6.2 on it, that is nobody's business but mine. I cant believe the corporations have managed to convince people like you otherwise.
"whether or not we should reduce the work week's duration and increase paid vacation time"
That is such a ridiculous statement. Oh yes, my work week will be shortened; along with my paycheck.
What fantasy land do you live in where corporations value the happiness of their employees? Or to be more blunt, openly willing to spend more on paid vacation time? It took unions to get fair pay for workers and look what is happening to them. Do you honestly think a company will waste profits on its employees without being forced to?
I love seeing images like these. I wish some clever astronomer or graphics guru would make a 'flip book' type of image (think those old layered plastic anatomy pictures in encyclopedias) where each layer contains the galaxies at a certain distance.
That way you could see the evolution, or a qasi-3d image of what hubble is seeing.
I am sure there will be many posts about 'big brother' and the evils of the government, but I have to say....cool.
I have always been interested in robotics. This is just amazing to me. We have moved so fast (in regards to computing), I can only imagine what will be common place in the next decade.
p.s. It would be awesome if they posted the algorithms they used for this. I won't hold my breath.
Byte your tongue. Double Dragon is one of the greatest games of all time. (Extremely hard, but what game up to then allowed you to level up your fighting moves....and pick up weapons the enemy dropped!)
Well said. I was in the same boat. My friends and I would go over every page, digesting and absorbing every photo and every screen shot. The world seems so much cooler when you are a kid.
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I think that is part of why we 30-somethings feel a small bit of sadness to see Nintendo Power go. It's not because we loved the magazine (who still has a subscription, really). We feel a tinge of sadness because it is a cold reminder that our childhood is forever gone.
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Thats why you will only have 1.9 children instead of 2.1. You and your wife wait longer, wait until you're 'financially ready'. ....and apparently many other couples as well.
"Anyone with half a brain I know of didn't vote. I didn't vote"
Then shut the fuck up.
I have been using my TI-85 for some online classes recently. I suddenly realize how much I love a backlit screen!
What archaic hardware are you trying to run it on? I am so old that I remember the hours(!) it took to get my sound card working on FreeBSD in the 90's.
I recently installed Mint on this old Dell desktop with no problems at all; including a newish ATI graphics card. No headaches, no compiling of utilities or messing with X.
I don't give any credence to your argument. I have been in the trenches with *nix for almost two decades. Mint won me over from Suse, who I thought was the most user friendly.
From the article: "probably the most destructive attack that the private sector has seen to date" ... and then "Saudi oil operations were unaffected by the computer outage". Wow, that is truly destructive.
Then there is this nugget "American consumers could suffer because of an incident involving an oil company that they know little about and is located thousands of miles away".... so hasn't that been the case for the last, what, 30 years?
Is the 'ask slashdot' barrel really this low? "My ink pen has problems" Seriously?
> They will never stop until they get either everyone dead, what they want
... you don't survive by killing your host.
Are you normally this psychotic, or just on thursdays? Why would "they" want everyone dead? "They" want you alive and paying rent...for everything. "They" have a need to try to achieve perpetual and infinite growth.
As any virus will tell you,
Is there going to be a donotwant button too? (reserved for slashdot members)
> the patent can be invalidated (through courts or through the patent office)
Sooo, with the first to file system, it is not only first-to-file, but first-to-file-with-the-most-money to tie you up in years of litigation before you give up. Sounds great.
Says the man with a fucking ad in his sig.
1.2 baseball fields = 1 football field or if you prefer
one desk = the surface area of a 30pack of Budweiser
I work in the aviation industry. I hate to break it to you but I have talked to pilots who admit to playing games on their laptops while flying. It gets boring sitting up there for hour on hours every day.
In related news Andriod devices are not allowed in the cockpit becuase Apple has a patent on "using handheld electronic devices in a cockpit".
I have mod points, where is the option +1 Fucking gross comment.
The conditions have to be JUST right. Lighting a cigarette around gasoline vapors will ignite, but a lit cigarette needs very specific circumstances.
http://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae1.cfm
Clinton has said recently that not finishing the super collider was one of his biggest regrets from his entire presidency. ..and it wasn't even his fault. Congress controls the purse.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/31/us/stating-regret-clinton-signs-bill-that-kills-supercollider.html
Are you seriously complaining that teaches ONLY work 53 hours a week? Are you sick in the head?
You seem to making the argument that working 50-100 hours per week should be the goal of every Citizen. Screw that. I want to enjoy life with my family. You can work your 100hrs/week. Enjoy that heart attack at age 45 and leave teachers alone.
In related news, the cat population on the battlefield has mysteriously skyrocketed. Military officials are baffled as to the reason.
Sounds like a great way to punish someone/business that you don't like. Just connect to their wi-fi and start posting.