i actually wanted to vent on the BBC Future article but there was nowhere to comment... the journalists writing these things are living in a fairytale world, painting the future the same old preposterous way they always have. Look at the predictions in the 50's and you see that it is all written in the name of telling a fanciful story, never mind whether it is realistic or not. You want a realistic view of future transport, we'll probably all be on bikes thanks to declining resources and increasing population, if we are really lucky they will be electric - and that is if we are lucky! I don't put it past human beings to start a fight over who gets to be the last people to drive Hummers back and forth to school...
I used to think slashdot was supposed to spare you from the usual pointless waffle that fills tech mags because the journalists were scraping the bottom of the barrel for something to write about. Unfortunately...
First of all, the Linux userbase is really small to begin with. Within that small userbase, you have two relatively large groups:
1. The ideologues, who really believe in RMS's idea that proprietary software is unethical. 2. The cheapskates, who aren't going to pay for software.
Who's left to sell to?
Meh, this is catchy but dishonest. Number 1 does not strictly eliminate the possiblilty of people willing to pay. I am very happy to give money for software that is open. I equate closed binary only software to macdonalds, and open software to mincemeat I buy and add my own ingredients and spices to to make burgers that shit all over macdonalds:)
I also read slashdot because I have this image in my head that it is enlightened.... but I am starting to wonder...
I see where you are coming from, id has made efforts to support linux. But it was also a company with such influence that it could have basically said on the box of its games 'also on linux!' and people would have devotedly followed it, because wolfenstein, doom and quake were all bolts from the blue that are still pretty much the foundation of any first person shooter game today.
The migration to linux would have had a flaky start, just as it would today, but microsoft would not have known what hit it, because it isnt linux or windows that is the platform for pc games: it is the damn pc itself. No one really cares what operating system is making it go! The pc game market revolves(ed?) around the principle that it is sophisticated, pioneering and not afraid to be different. It is not supposed to be a slave to any particular company. It does not care what version of office you run, or whether you are able to change from one accounting package to another slightly different one. It has nothing to do with which poxy fucking file manager you prefer. It is supposed to be a fertile playground for the ideas of game designers, without the bullshit baggage and rules that come with the traditional console market. Such a long way we have come, eh?
In case you have not already been informed, jews were the last thing that you and your ilk blamed all of your problems on. As there are many fewer jews now and you evidently still have the same amount of problems, I would have to therefore assume that your problems are unrelated to jews or any other religious sect, and therefore self made, rather than caused by another party. I would further like to say that I would not use the same words as you to describe the motivations of even a savage crocodile, much less another human being.
In order to charitably appeal to your intellect, I will say perhaps the traits you are so desperate to ascribe to jews are in fact traits of all mankind, that it so dearly would like to hide, and that perhaps simply mankind itself is its own worst enemy, in the absence of any other. Only the likes of you could believe that everything would be completely fine if it werent for those 'pesky kids.'
In summary, go and choke on a dick you shit stirring pseudo intellectual prick, the words that spew from your mouth are a waste of fresh air that none alive wish to hear aside from your own pathetic self.
Much as I love wikipedia, a study of the _innaccuracy_ of it would be more enlightening, rather than a study of its accuracy! No one must forget, the fact that the majority of people contribute truthfully to it just makes the minority of people that dont respect it that much more believable... paradoxically, the more faith you have in wikipedia, the more likely that it is to be co-opted... get your head around that!:)
(that means, I love wikipedia, and I hate lying scumbags, in case you happen to be a lying scumbag and also reading this...)
People don't change the game they play, that much I have gathered. I have always been more concerned about the games I wont be able to play anymore than the games that are about to come out net week. So to me, windows has always been an unstable platform that barely looks after its own. In my mind, if someone finally bursts their bubble, at least they wont be able to fuck anything else up by forever changing the rules of the game in the name of selling new versions. Did we ever need direct X? Any reason why direct X couldnt be an open standard? Were they too self centred to just work on opengl? No, of course like any other company, microsoft is the best at anything ever, the only way...
I have never ever given a flying fuck about the difference between opengl and directx apart from one thing: one was open, and one was not. In the process of cynically trying to control the game market, microsoft have forgotten that it needs to also be preserved for posterity... but fuck all that, as long as we have angry birds, who cares about all that other shit...//end drunken rant. more beer needed.
You are looking at it the wrong way. The problem is that we take power so much for granted that we judge any alternative power by whether or not it is capable of running all our 100w bulbs, or letting us boil water at 2 AM, rather than use the power when it is available. Why dont we try thinking outside the box and store the hot water instead? Who's houses lighting requirements couldn't be fulfilled by a single charged lead acid battery these days? Why do you need so much power after dark anyway, can't you live without your iron?
You are a muppet, it is a method to generate electricity from mirrors, water and salt. All of which predate all sorts of power sources! They could have used this in the dark ages without it being out of place, but they didn't happen to have any ipod's they needed to charge...
Silly, nobody hates Apple products... just smugness! Its like a pheremone where even the slightest hint of it set people off into a rage. I will demonstrate - because I understand this better than you obviously.
I would say people should write with their intended audience in mind, but then somewhere along the line someone invented legalese and ruined everything for everybody, because the intended audience of that is no living thing.
What irks me though, is people that fish for as many big words as they can to try to sound clever, even when talking about things that should be simple. If you can't keep it straightforward, then you are just talking for your own benefit and nobody elses...
In summary, use jargon if you have to, but if you use it where you don't need to, I KILL YOU
Actually, that sounds like a genius idea. Who wants to do and be known for one thing their whole life? Who could stand the monotony and repetitiveness, and the inevitable loss of inspiration as you becomed trapped in an isolated niche as old age looms over your head. No with this new idea, I could do anything at all for 5 years, apparently master it, and then move on to something fresh and exciting. Sort of like... a... Bob of all Skills...? no thats not catchy enough... but Thankyou!
Wha? How can you defend the government, for any reason, are you some sort of alien lifeform?
These clipboard wielding morons are the reason that nobody has any initiative left to do anything. They get handed absolute power over you, dont wield it with any respect, and when you point out how unreasonable it is you get told its for your own good, which is utter bullshit. They are only overzealous because telling you what is for your own good is for their own good if they want their job to be secure. The faults above may well be worth noting, but they hardly sound like they represented immediate danger. He could very easily have just turned off the breaker and there is no longer a hazard.
Public property is something else altogether, but do you think it is common sense to be able to deny someone their own roof because of minor oversights that can be left for later? Would you go to a campsite if there was some jobsworth employed to make sure every zipper was working? Should I bother do do anything at all if an entire system is in place specifically to hinder me, on the assumption that I might possibly be a moron? Is a world even worth living in if there are people in it that actually pull a salary out of making sure I do not hurt myself, while I must suffer the torment of only being able to do work that is actually useful to other human beings?
Because that is all it boils down to, people would rather just do nothing at all than to actually entertain the thought of tolerating the prescence of what is essentially a glorified nanny for grown ups. One can only simply act as if they dont exist but then must pray that they are not one day obscenely punished for daring to operate without the express permission of their minders, who might lash out only because someone ran over their cat, or ran off with their wife, or ran off with their cat after running over their wife on the very same day, or any other of the classic tragedies that may befall a man.
That is where the real death of the handyman happened, the death of the soul... home depot isn't wielding the knife, it is just rifling through the jacket pockets before the police arrive on scene... t'is nothing left, but for a piece of lint
Haha, hillarious, just as much a waste of time as cave paintings, ancient stone carvings, historical sculptures, skin drums, modern musical instruments, written stories, paintings, plays, symphonies, operas, movies, television series.... yes its all a waste of time, why people, why the hell did you bother to make all of this stuff, since the beginning of recorded history, what purpose does it serve?
[fun game! : spot the question that answers itself]
Slashdot Mirror
Oh stop that society, youre ruining your sunday trousers!
B..b.bu... my language must be perfectly preserved with all of its inherited quirks, or else my whole society will collapse!
http://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C4%93afods%C4%ABde
i actually wanted to vent on the BBC Future article but there was nowhere to comment... the journalists writing these things are living in a fairytale world, painting the future the same old preposterous way they always have. Look at the predictions in the 50's and you see that it is all written in the name of telling a fanciful story, never mind whether it is realistic or not. You want a realistic view of future transport, we'll probably all be on bikes thanks to declining resources and increasing population, if we are really lucky they will be electric - and that is if we are lucky! I don't put it past human beings to start a fight over who gets to be the last people to drive Hummers back and forth to school...
Thankyou... for the voice of reason
I used to think slashdot was supposed to spare you from the usual pointless waffle that fills tech mags because the journalists were scraping the bottom of the barrel for something to write about. Unfortunately...
First of all, the Linux userbase is really small to begin with. Within that small userbase, you have two relatively large groups:
1. The ideologues, who really believe in RMS's idea that proprietary software is unethical.
2. The cheapskates, who aren't going to pay for software.
Who's left to sell to?
Meh, this is catchy but dishonest. Number 1 does not strictly eliminate the possiblilty of people willing to pay. I am very happy to give money for software that is open. I equate closed binary only software to macdonalds, and open software to mincemeat I buy and add my own ingredients and spices to to make burgers that shit all over macdonalds :)
I also read slashdot because I have this image in my head that it is enlightened.... but I am starting to wonder...
I see where you are coming from, id has made efforts to support linux. But it was also a company with such influence that it could have basically said on the box of its games 'also on linux!' and people would have devotedly followed it, because wolfenstein, doom and quake were all bolts from the blue that are still pretty much the foundation of any first person shooter game today.
The migration to linux would have had a flaky start, just as it would today, but microsoft would not have known what hit it, because it isnt linux or windows that is the platform for pc games: it is the damn pc itself. No one really cares what operating system is making it go! The pc game market revolves(ed?) around the principle that it is sophisticated, pioneering and not afraid to be different. It is not supposed to be a slave to any particular company. It does not care what version of office you run, or whether you are able to change from one accounting package to another slightly different one. It has nothing to do with which poxy fucking file manager you prefer. It is supposed to be a fertile playground for the ideas of game designers, without the bullshit baggage and rules that come with the traditional console market. Such a long way we have come, eh?
the intent of your action tends to play a large role here, you see.
Good god... saunas _and_ fair play. How soon can I emigrate?
Dear sir, are you fucking serious?
In case you have not already been informed, jews were the last thing that you and your ilk blamed all of your problems on. As there are many fewer jews now and you evidently still have the same amount of problems, I would have to therefore assume that your problems are unrelated to jews or any other religious sect, and therefore self made, rather than caused by another party. I would further like to say that I would not use the same words as you to describe the motivations of even a savage crocodile, much less another human being.
In order to charitably appeal to your intellect, I will say perhaps the traits you are so desperate to ascribe to jews are in fact traits of all mankind, that it so dearly would like to hide, and that perhaps simply mankind itself is its own worst enemy, in the absence of any other. Only the likes of you could believe that everything would be completely fine if it werent for those 'pesky kids.'
In summary, go and choke on a dick you shit stirring pseudo intellectual prick, the words that spew from your mouth are a waste of fresh air that none alive wish to hear aside from your own pathetic self.
Much as I love wikipedia, a study of the _innaccuracy_ of it would be more enlightening, rather than a study of its accuracy! No one must forget, the fact that the majority of people contribute truthfully to it just makes the minority of people that dont respect it that much more believable... paradoxically, the more faith you have in wikipedia, the more likely that it is to be co-opted... get your head around that! :)
(that means, I love wikipedia, and I hate lying scumbags, in case you happen to be a lying scumbag and also reading this...)
People don't change the game they play, that much I have gathered. I have always been more concerned about the games I wont be able to play anymore than the games that are about to come out net week. So to me, windows has always been an unstable platform that barely looks after its own. In my mind, if someone finally bursts their bubble, at least they wont be able to fuck anything else up by forever changing the rules of the game in the name of selling new versions. Did we ever need direct X? Any reason why direct X couldnt be an open standard? Were they too self centred to just work on opengl? No, of course like any other company, microsoft is the best at anything ever, the only way...
I have never ever given a flying fuck about the difference between opengl and directx apart from one thing: one was open, and one was not. In the process of cynically trying to control the game market, microsoft have forgotten that it needs to also be preserved for posterity... but fuck all that, as long as we have angry birds, who cares about all that other shit... //end drunken rant. more beer needed.
You are looking at it the wrong way. The problem is that we take power so much for granted that we judge any alternative power by whether or not it is capable of running all our 100w bulbs, or letting us boil water at 2 AM, rather than use the power when it is available. Why dont we try thinking outside the box and store the hot water instead? Who's houses lighting requirements couldn't be fulfilled by a single charged lead acid battery these days? Why do you need so much power after dark anyway, can't you live without your iron?
You are a muppet, it is a method to generate electricity from mirrors, water and salt. All of which predate all sorts of power sources! They could have used this in the dark ages without it being out of place, but they didn't happen to have any ipod's they needed to charge...
Silly, nobody hates Apple products... just smugness! Its like a pheremone where even the slightest hint of it set people off into a rage. I will demonstrate - because I understand this better than you obviously.
I would say people should write with their intended audience in mind, but then somewhere along the line someone invented legalese and ruined everything for everybody, because the intended audience of that is no living thing.
What irks me though, is people that fish for as many big words as they can to try to sound clever, even when talking about things that should be simple. If you can't keep it straightforward, then you are just talking for your own benefit and nobody elses...
In summary, use jargon if you have to, but if you use it where you don't need to, I KILL YOU
Why the hell is having a battery swap system so complicated? You pull up at the station, drop your batteries off, load in some fresh charged ones.
But then again, why is everyone obsessed with cars when 90% of the time they are making the same shitty journey back and forth to work...
Actually, that sounds like a genius idea. Who wants to do and be known for one thing their whole life? Who could stand the monotony and repetitiveness, and the inevitable loss of inspiration as you becomed trapped in an isolated niche as old age looms over your head. No with this new idea, I could do anything at all for 5 years, apparently master it, and then move on to something fresh and exciting. Sort of like... a ... Bob of all Skills...? no thats not catchy enough... but Thankyou!
No kidding :) for a start, a handyman can not look fondly on any car without a large amount of cargo space as standard..
Wha? How can you defend the government, for any reason, are you some sort of alien lifeform?
These clipboard wielding morons are the reason that nobody has any initiative left to do anything. They get handed absolute power over you, dont wield it with any respect, and when you point out how unreasonable it is you get told its for your own good, which is utter bullshit. They are only overzealous because telling you what is for your own good is for their own good if they want their job to be secure. The faults above may well be worth noting, but they hardly sound like they represented immediate danger. He could very easily have just turned off the breaker and there is no longer a hazard.
Public property is something else altogether, but do you think it is common sense to be able to deny someone their own roof because of minor oversights that can be left for later? Would you go to a campsite if there was some jobsworth employed to make sure every zipper was working? Should I bother do do anything at all if an entire system is in place specifically to hinder me, on the assumption that I might possibly be a moron? Is a world even worth living in if there are people in it that actually pull a salary out of making sure I do not hurt myself, while I must suffer the torment of only being able to do work that is actually useful to other human beings?
Because that is all it boils down to, people would rather just do nothing at all than to actually entertain the thought of tolerating the prescence of what is essentially a glorified nanny for grown ups. One can only simply act as if they dont exist but then must pray that they are not one day obscenely punished for daring to operate without the express permission of their minders, who might lash out only because someone ran over their cat, or ran off with their wife, or ran off with their cat after running over their wife on the very same day, or any other of the classic tragedies that may befall a man.
That is where the real death of the handyman happened, the death of the soul... home depot isn't wielding the knife, it is just rifling through the jacket pockets before the police arrive on scene... t'is nothing left, but for a piece of lint
Haha, hillarious, just as much a waste of time as cave paintings, ancient stone carvings, historical sculptures, skin drums, modern musical instruments, written stories, paintings, plays, symphonies, operas, movies, television series.... yes its all a waste of time, why people, why the hell did you bother to make all of this stuff, since the beginning of recorded history, what purpose does it serve?
[fun game! : spot the question that answers itself]
Hah, please describe in detail her reaction for our collective enjoyment
Ah ok, so they're not an alligator, just a harmless wickle cwokodile
Yeah Yeah, Mario is the Greatest, there is only one Street Fighter, Quake pisses all over Unreal etc. Get over it.
real man no respect grammar. real man make OWN grammar. then watch puny weakling adhere to reformed language and literary orthography. NAAAARG!
Go out side. They have sunshine and trees there.
-E. Y .3-
*honk*