I'm pretty sure everyone going bananas for one of two choices for any given office perpetuates the two-party system.
Don't look for it to go anywhere anytime soon. They've perfected the idea of distracting the populace with these sorts of sideshows while they drain the country dry.
Interestingly, you just revealed an astonishing amount of ignorance with your belief that Ruby must somehow be out of Javascript's class. Whoever bothers making these kinds of distinctions on the language level is frankly stupid.
While it's true that many proprietary projects die on the vine, no one is trying to make statements about language popularity by surveying them. In other words, in your rush to defend against an attack that wasn't being made, you totally missed the point.
Durst and Ewing met in Ewing's hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina (Durst was raised in Gastonia, NC), where they became fast friends, sharing the same passion for low-level system programming.
What sort of improvements should be made to handle an extreme peak not likely to happen again? I think it worked out pretty damn well, being that I was two miles from the ceremonies and suffered no outages at all.
Does it really matter how it feels? I'm offended knowing that bits are being wasted - and Microsoft probably doesn't even recycle them. When the global bit shortage caused by this profligate waste means no one can do any more computing, will you still be making excuses?
The basic problem is that the country is too big. 300+ million people will never even come close to agreement on anything, so logically the expansion of power will continue with the expansion of population.
What really makes me laugh is that Europe, with the benefit of history showing them this problem in excruciating detail, willingly is heading down the same path. Tasty pick, boneheads.
In fact, you can't even say that Javascript is an Object Oriented, LISP-like functional language on Slashdot (of all places) without ten or twelve people trying to tell you you're wrong.
That's because Slashdot is full of bigots who believe their own opinion is the one true way. With that mindset, they see no point in learning, and I see no point in giving their opinion any weight.
I'd really like a more complex, personalized moderation system where I could mark off people I've discovered as being closed to new ideas so I could know right away to give their posts less weight. Unfortunately using the current moderation system for that purpose is something of an abuse.
Maybe Slashdotters need to adjust to the idea that not everyone with an opinion that isn't shared by geeks is paid by a corporation to hold that opinion. If that made sense.
Seeing the "shills" accusation in the summary made me want to punch the submitter.
Considering the growth they've experienced selling products you don't seem to believe people want, the amazing arrogance belongs to you, sir. Or madam. I can't tell from here.
Face it, not having MMS is a pretty big loss for the iPhone.
I don't have to face it, actually. For all the phones I've owned that had MMS as a feature, I've used it exactly zero times. I personally don't care about it at all, and that's the only yardstick I'm obligated to use.
While 60 isn't old, it seems like a lot of people his age who "lived too hard" are now suffering the consequences through odd early/uneven aging, hormonal issues, cancer, auto-immune diseases, and other odd things we've not seen before.
As a minor counterpoint, we also couldn't detect these things reliably until relatively recently, so it's hard to say if these "odd things" are something new, or simply something we're just figuring out.
Don't bother bringing truth or reason to Slashdot. There's a large contingent of users on this site who seem to have the same amount of religious fervor as your average born-again evangelical, just for a different set of causes.
I'm not sure if I respect loving Jesus or hate Roland less.
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I'm pretty sure everyone going bananas for one of two choices for any given office perpetuates the two-party system.
Don't look for it to go anywhere anytime soon. They've perfected the idea of distracting the populace with these sorts of sideshows while they drain the country dry.
don't go educating the morons. it'll just frustrate you.
Unsubstantiated opinions that don't even pass a basic logical smell test qualify as insightful?
I see that particular moderation still means "I agree" more than anything else.
Interestingly, you just revealed an astonishing amount of ignorance with your belief that Ruby must somehow be out of Javascript's class. Whoever bothers making these kinds of distinctions on the language level is frankly stupid.
While it's true that many proprietary projects die on the vine, no one is trying to make statements about language popularity by surveying them. In other words, in your rush to defend against an attack that wasn't being made, you totally missed the point.
That made me laugh deeply. Kudos.
Take your protectionist bullshit back to the beginning of the 20th century where it belongs.
He was probably only talking to the 99.9999+% of people who would consider this a reasonable solution.
What sort of improvements should be made to handle an extreme peak not likely to happen again? I think it worked out pretty damn well, being that I was two miles from the ceremonies and suffered no outages at all.
Does it really matter how it feels? I'm offended knowing that bits are being wasted - and Microsoft probably doesn't even recycle them. When the global bit shortage caused by this profligate waste means no one can do any more computing, will you still be making excuses?
What's funny is your indignation. I'm cracking up.
I admit you might consider me a sociopath. I don't believe I owe anybody anything, including basic respect for their right to continue living.
The basic problem is that the country is too big. 300+ million people will never even come close to agreement on anything, so logically the expansion of power will continue with the expansion of population.
What really makes me laugh is that Europe, with the benefit of history showing them this problem in excruciating detail, willingly is heading down the same path. Tasty pick, boneheads.
Bad programming is not a function of the language or platform used, and believing otherwise is indicative of prejudice, not intelligence.
That's because Slashdot is full of bigots who believe their own opinion is the one true way. With that mindset, they see no point in learning, and I see no point in giving their opinion any weight.
I'd really like a more complex, personalized moderation system where I could mark off people I've discovered as being closed to new ideas so I could know right away to give their posts less weight. Unfortunately using the current moderation system for that purpose is something of an abuse.
Maybe Slashdotters need to adjust to the idea that not everyone with an opinion that isn't shared by geeks is paid by a corporation to hold that opinion. If that made sense.
Seeing the "shills" accusation in the summary made me want to punch the submitter.
I should take anger management classes.
it's a silver bullet!
it's awesome!
it's a great way to sell more hardware and app server licenses!
it's fantastic when you're a consultant because you can stretch out the billing time like you wouldn't believe!
Considering the growth they've experienced selling products you don't seem to believe people want, the amazing arrogance belongs to you, sir. Or madam. I can't tell from here.
I don't have to face it, actually. For all the phones I've owned that had MMS as a feature, I've used it exactly zero times. I personally don't care about it at all, and that's the only yardstick I'm obligated to use.
Is your power to predict the future fueled by your arrogance? Cause if so, I'm listening to you from now on.
I really don't want to, but thanks!
As a minor counterpoint, we also couldn't detect these things reliably until relatively recently, so it's hard to say if these "odd things" are something new, or simply something we're just figuring out.
Yes, if they have an email address, which generally has nothing to do with what kind of phone they have.
Any other questions?
Since when is consciousness a prerequisite for life?
If that's your idea of abuse, the waaahmbulance is definitely coming to pick you up.
Don't bother bringing truth or reason to Slashdot. There's a large contingent of users on this site who seem to have the same amount of religious fervor as your average born-again evangelical, just for a different set of causes.
I'm not sure if I respect loving Jesus or hate Roland less.