Really? You're arguing that an increase in cracked windshields is more important than a large reduction in the over 30,000 people who die in auto accidents every year?
I'm quite certain the Native Americans would love to have their country back and see all the descendants of those assholes who slaughtered their people and took their land deported. I wouldn't hold my breath on that readmission line moving too fast, though.
And of course, the question must be asked: do we even want the 'AAA' games to stick around?"
No, we don't have to ask that question. We already have the answer. GTA V sold over eleven million copies in the first day of sales. It's grossed over a billion dollars. Only a complete fucking idiot would doubt that there's a market for good, high-quality AAA games.
And of course Slashdot seems determined to put those complete fucking idiots' thoughts on the front page.
No. This is what DRM gets you. Ebooks are not all DRM encumbered and the only people who think they are should really keep their mouths shut since they don't know what they're talking about.
The first ebook that I'm aware of was made available in 1971. 42 years later, it's still available and cannot be automatically removed, redacted, corrected or censored from any device it's stored on because it is not encumbered by DRM.
How many new prints of novels from 1971 are still being sold today? Virtually none because publishers aren't too interested in reprinting their back catalogs. That's what relying on paper books gets you; buy it as soon as it comes or desperately search for a used copy and god help you if you're looking for something that wasn't popular and sold in large numbers.
There are people who genuinely can't take certain vaccines due to allergic reactions. If everyone around them has been vaccinated, they're protected by the fact that they won't get exposed to what they aren't vaccinated against.
When idiots with no sense of social responsibility refuse to be vaccinated, it increases the chance that those who can't be vaccinated will be exposed to a serious disease.
In short, it fucking well is society's right to have a say in the matter of whether someone is allowed to endanger other members of that society.
Except that it can handle up to 1080p over hdmi with this adapt
Then why does the top comment on the page say this?
I was disappointed with the 720p resolution I got from mirroring the "Retina" display and THEN read the Apple Web site. Check Apple Web site first! Do not miss the IPad (4th gen) tech spec;) " . . . Video mirroring and video out support: Up to 720p through Lightning Digital AV Adapter . .."
Embedding a proprietary security chip in the cable so that the device can refuse to work with third party cables is helpful to third party manufacturers?
That's one weird-ass definition of helpful you've got there.
Nobody gives a shit about the Volt, though. Lots of people will click a headline if it mentions the Tesla Model S, though, so that's what it gets compared to.
1) RTFA. The Cadillac in the article is a hybrid with a gasoline engine, not all electric, so your rant is irrelevant.
2) There's nothing ass-backwards about an electric car if it fits the needs of the person buying it. Just because it doesn't fit your needs doesn't mean it shouldn't be sold.
1) A nicer interior 2) A nicer exterior (tesla is bland, this is one of the nicest looking cars ever)
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... and you need to get your eyes checked. This so far from one of the "nicest looking cars ever" that it makes me wonder if you've ever seen any other car in your life.
3) A car you can drive anywhere without charging
Of course, not charging it will eliminate most of the benefits of lugging that 400 lb battery around everywhere and will make your fuel economy go down significantly, but hey... you can still point at it and claim you're environmentally conscious, right?
5) Support from a company that wont be out of business in 10 years
Let's just ignore the fact that GM filed chapter 11 bankruptcy just four years ago and had to be rescued by the government. That's completely irrelevant to whether the company will be around in 10 years.
6) A lot more technology features (the tesla has a rear view camera but not much else)
"Cadillac is touting the ELRâ(TM)s 8-inch touchscreen powered by its CUE infotainment system â" which two years in is still a buggy mess"
Technology that is badly designed and doesn't work properly isn't a selling point.
Sure, there will be imbalances, but over multiple occasions (in normally reasonable and congenial company) they should pretty much average out.
ROFLMAO
You've clearly never gone out to lunch with groups of co-workers on a regular basis. There's almost always one douche who orders the most expensive thing on the menu because he knows the check will be split evenly and others will wind up paying most of it. It doesn't average out. Everyone just gets sick of that guy and stops inviting him.
"Each participant were faced with 320 decisions: for example, choosing between gaining $5 and the chance to win $20 in a lottery."
After a few dozen questions like that, I'd be so bored that I'd start choosing randomly without thinking about it just to get it over with. There's no way in hell I would seriously think about each and every question out of a list of 320.
and think that the purpose of Society is to make their life better
To be fair, that is the purpose of society; to make the members' lives better.
The difference is that the Tea Party members seem to think that they should get all the benefits of society without paying any of the costs or taking on any of the responsibilities, which makes it all that much more funnier when they start whining about other people being leeches on society.
That's what they want you to think. What you've actually seen the last 19 years have been a series of clones. Unfortunately, the DNA replication errors finally got so bad that they started melting down within hours of being decanted, so they had to stage a death from more normal causes to explain the disappearance.
The casino wasn't cheating. Casinos have cameras that can see everyones hands during a game and record everything, but those camera feeds aren't available to the croupier. If someone has a winning streak, they'll go back and review the recordings to see if the player was doing anything suspicious.
To be fair, the road you're talking about was actually closed in the past and detouring around it was the right thing to do, so the maps were right at the time and just hadn't been updated.
Driving across an airport's runways to get to the other side of the airport has never been the right thing to do. Apple's maps were never right in the first place.
Slashdot Mirror
Really? You're arguing that an increase in cracked windshields is more important than a large reduction in the over 30,000 people who die in auto accidents every year?
Don't forget nutraloaf
You don't realize it, but we're making the same point.
The idea of sending "foreigners" away is idiotic. We're all foreigners.
Which is kinda my point. The idea of sending all "foreigners" away is bullshit no matter how you present it.
Great idea!
I'm quite certain the Native Americans would love to have their country back and see all the descendants of those assholes who slaughtered their people and took their land deported. I wouldn't hold my breath on that readmission line moving too fast, though.
And of course, the question must be asked: do we even want the 'AAA' games to stick around?"
No, we don't have to ask that question. We already have the answer. GTA V sold over eleven million copies in the first day of sales. It's grossed over a billion dollars. Only a complete fucking idiot would doubt that there's a market for good, high-quality AAA games.
And of course Slashdot seems determined to put those complete fucking idiots' thoughts on the front page.
No. This is what DRM gets you. Ebooks are not all DRM encumbered and the only people who think they are should really keep their mouths shut since they don't know what they're talking about.
The first ebook that I'm aware of was made available in 1971. 42 years later, it's still available and cannot be automatically removed, redacted, corrected or censored from any device it's stored on because it is not encumbered by DRM.
How many new prints of novels from 1971 are still being sold today? Virtually none because publishers aren't too interested in reprinting their back catalogs. That's what relying on paper books gets you; buy it as soon as it comes or desperately search for a used copy and god help you if you're looking for something that wasn't popular and sold in large numbers.
Whatevs. Ur just jelly @ my paper getting mad grants while urs just got LOLs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
There are people who genuinely can't take certain vaccines due to allergic reactions. If everyone around them has been vaccinated, they're protected by the fact that they won't get exposed to what they aren't vaccinated against.
When idiots with no sense of social responsibility refuse to be vaccinated, it increases the chance that those who can't be vaccinated will be exposed to a serious disease.
In short, it fucking well is society's right to have a say in the matter of whether someone is allowed to endanger other members of that society.
Except that it can handle up to 1080p over hdmi with this adapt
Then why does the top comment on the page say this?
I was disappointed with the 720p resolution I got from mirroring the "Retina" display and THEN read the Apple Web site. Check Apple Web site first! Do not miss the IPad (4th gen) tech spec ;) " . . . Video mirroring and video out support: Up to 720p through Lightning Digital AV Adapter . . ."
Embedding a proprietary security chip in the cable so that the device can refuse to work with third party cables is helpful to third party manufacturers?
That's one weird-ass definition of helpful you've got there.
Nobody gives a shit about the Volt, though. Lots of people will click a headline if it mentions the Tesla Model S, though, so that's what it gets compared to.
1) RTFA. The Cadillac in the article is a hybrid with a gasoline engine, not all electric, so your rant is irrelevant.
2) There's nothing ass-backwards about an electric car if it fits the needs of the person buying it. Just because it doesn't fit your needs doesn't mean it shouldn't be sold.
1) A nicer interior
2) A nicer exterior (tesla is bland, this is one of the nicest looking cars ever)
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... and you need to get your eyes checked. This so far from one of the "nicest looking cars ever" that it makes me wonder if you've ever seen any other car in your life.
3) A car you can drive anywhere without charging
Of course, not charging it will eliminate most of the benefits of lugging that 400 lb battery around everywhere and will make your fuel economy go down significantly, but hey... you can still point at it and claim you're environmentally conscious, right?
5) Support from a company that wont be out of business in 10 years
Let's just ignore the fact that GM filed chapter 11 bankruptcy just four years ago and had to be rescued by the government. That's completely irrelevant to whether the company will be around in 10 years.
6) A lot more technology features (the tesla has a rear view camera but not much else)
"Cadillac is touting the ELRâ(TM)s 8-inch touchscreen powered by its CUE infotainment system â" which two years in is still a buggy mess"
Technology that is badly designed and doesn't work properly isn't a selling point.
Look how well it's worked for Windows 8
*sigh*
The United States may have put an inexperienced African-American in office ahead of a vastly more qualified female
I wasn't aware that John McCain was a woman.
Sure, there will be imbalances, but over multiple occasions (in normally reasonable and congenial company) they should pretty much average out.
ROFLMAO
You've clearly never gone out to lunch with groups of co-workers on a regular basis. There's almost always one douche who orders the most expensive thing on the menu because he knows the check will be split evenly and others will wind up paying most of it. It doesn't average out. Everyone just gets sick of that guy and stops inviting him.
"Each participant were faced with 320 decisions: for example, choosing between gaining $5 and the chance to win $20 in a lottery."
After a few dozen questions like that, I'd be so bored that I'd start choosing randomly without thinking about it just to get it over with. There's no way in hell I would seriously think about each and every question out of a list of 320.
and think that the purpose of Society is to make their life better
To be fair, that is the purpose of society; to make the members' lives better.
The difference is that the Tea Party members seem to think that they should get all the benefits of society without paying any of the costs or taking on any of the responsibilities, which makes it all that much more funnier when they start whining about other people being leeches on society.
That's what they want you to think. What you've actually seen the last 19 years have been a series of clones. Unfortunately, the DNA replication errors finally got so bad that they started melting down within hours of being decanted, so they had to stage a death from more normal causes to explain the disappearance.
The casino wasn't cheating. Casinos have cameras that can see everyones hands during a game and record everything, but those camera feeds aren't available to the croupier. If someone has a winning streak, they'll go back and review the recordings to see if the player was doing anything suspicious.
To be fair, the road you're talking about was actually closed in the past and detouring around it was the right thing to do, so the maps were right at the time and just hadn't been updated.
Driving across an airport's runways to get to the other side of the airport has never been the right thing to do. Apple's maps were never right in the first place.
$TRIVIAL_EVENT that occurred 4,000 miles from where I reside 99.999% of my life
Welcome to the internet. Knowing about some doofus claiming he's found alien life in the upper atmosphere isn't any more unlikely than knowing that a cat named in Japan (6500 miles from where I am) loves to sit in cardboard boxes.
I like how this post went nearly an hour after the webcast started.