Ancient libraries were very often (nearly always?) private. They would either serve a particular institution, such as a government body, or some were only open to members who paid the high membership fees (compare a country club).
Gee, even way back when, those in power knew that they needed to control access to information to keep the masses under their yolks.
To be frank, anyone who had stock in Facebook should have sold in and then shorted a bunch more the day after his Congressional testimony.
I didn't know that Zuckerberg had any Facebook anymore. I thought he told us a while back that he gave it all away to charity, while his Karma was still great, and he was considering to run for President of the US.
. . . or maybe that was just some fake news that Russians posted on Facebook . . .
If EU is not a friend anymore according to Trump, why does the EU allow USA software in their administration?
Snarky answer:
. . . probably because the EU is thinking long term, and that in six years, Trump won't be POTUS anymore.
And then everyone will pretend to be friends again.
Realistic answer:
. . . probably for the same reason that the US government is using software from SAP, produced in Germany, an enemy state of the US in the current government's eyes.
Do you give that to Tesla* drivers too? Because no matter how many tests have been done on any safety critical equipment in the end there will always be a "life or death" test.
The most dangerous part of a Tesla is the loose nut behind the steering wheel.
(* selected for impact, replace with whatever brand of car you want.
mall rats can be detected easily:)
i like that because they (mall rats) are annoying
The system is part of the mall's directories. Mall rats don't use mall directories, since they have a sixth sense enabling them to navigate the mall like a maze to take them to places where they can be most annoying.
The system identifies the age and gender of the user. This system is of great use in these Internet days, since nobody seems to be quite sure of their age or gender.
You will face extreme layoffs, budget reductions, no raises, and just a general feeling of incompetence and wonder for a company with so much money.
In an acquisition like this one, the purchaser is not buying the company for the employees . . . it is buying the company for its existing customer base.
Despite what they may say publicly, the existing employees are excess baggage and costs that need to be cut, to finance the costs of the purchase.
a year have to seek medical attention after a dog bite so replacing those animals with things that won't attack us will really help with safety and medical costs.
Nasty folks take pleasant tempered dogs, and train them to become vicious killing beasts. For shits & giggles.
I'm guessing that your average drug dealer, pimp or NFL star will do the same with their robot dogs.
Plus, the less dog poop on sidewalks and in parks would be nice. I live in Seattle, and the amount of dog poop here is just terrible.
Shame on you, 1%er! For calling the homeless dog poop!
Just another portless wonderbook with the reliability of a sheet of wet cardboard.
Standard issue for my company's employees is Lenovo SchtinkPads. I was up for a replacement, but there was no budget for new ones.
However, there WAS a special budget for SchmackBookSchmoes. So I'm using one of those now.
With a SchtinkPad, you can use it to hammer in railroad spikes all day, and the thing will still run perfectly. My SchmackBookSchoe fell off my sofa . . . and the display was broken.
So I bought a fancy, expensive protective shell for it. Not that it will help any, if I drop it again . . . but the shell constantly reminds me that the thing is fragile, and I need to be extra careful with it.
Call me when Apple makes a real computer, not a prop for hipsters who want to look good.
So why is my company giving us MacBooks . . . ?
I guess they want us to LOOK like hipsters . . . go figure . . .
Stuff underground gets wet already, just in case you didn't know about "rain" and such.
We should just get the Dutch to build the Internet infrastructure. Their whole country is more or less under water, and their Internet stills runs . . . along with everything else.
I think they have invented some kind of anti-gravity water control technology, and just are keeping it as a secret to themselves.
China has an unofficial holiday named "Singles' Day", which has morphed into one of the biggest shopping days in China. Alibaba makes a killing on this day.
So Amazon is trying to create such a day, hoping for massive "Black Friday" sales.
Except, in China, folks can say, "Hey, are you single? I'm single! Let's buy some expensive useless crap online to give to each other!"
In the US, saying, "Hey, are you Prime? I'm Prime!" . . . well, that just doesn't quite cut it.
Gallons wasn't counter-intuitive enough, so we're now measuring space in donuts?
Glazed, of course.
74.4 gallons of coffee or 530 donuts is breakfast for people the size of Wales.
Lockheed, are you an engineering factory or a chocolate factory? Do you have skunkworks or Oompa Loompa?
Stanley Kubrick just recently revealed in a postmortem interview that he personally met Oompa Loompas at Area 51 while he was there filming the Moon Landings and O.J. Simpson's Murder on Mars.
A baby Oompa Loompa starred at the end of "2001" . . .
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There are Model-T Fords more than a century old, but you never see 100 year old Teslas.
. . . I'm sure Rei has one, and will prove you wrong . . .
Nice to see some people in this country aren't so dependent on high technology that they can still operate without it.
Maybe some of the folks there discovered that they didn't need their PCs any more?
All the computing power they needed was in their cell phones.
Let's ban citizens from preparing meals in their households as well.
In the 70's, vinyl record sleeves had the message: "Home cassette taping is killing the music industry!"
The rebuttal joke was: Home fucking is killing the prostitution industry!"
I am confident that Franciscans will take appropriate action.
Yokes. Unless there's a yolk/yoke joke I am missing?
The yolk's and the yoke's on me . . .
... probably had to be taken away due to copyright claims of some imperial Roman mega-corporations.
Yeah . . . "In intellectualis proprietas legis veritas" . . . now I need John Cleese to correct that for me.
But for a lot of folks today, it's "In Facebookus veritas".
Ancient libraries were very often (nearly always?) private. They would either serve a particular institution, such as a government body, or some were only open to members who paid the high membership fees (compare a country club).
Gee, even way back when, those in power knew that they needed to control access to information to keep the masses under their yolks.
"Scientia sit potentia", indeed.
'Our' trip to the moon? What, are all of Slashdot going to schlep up to the lunar surface? Have we been selected by some secret process?
Only the passengers on Ark A and Ark C have been notified. As as telephone sanitizer, you'll be on Ark B, and will be notified shortly.
Don't get me wrong, if you are offering a ticket, I'd be happy to squeeze it in to my busy schedule.
Well, please find time in your busy schedule to start packing . . . your Ark B will be leaving first!
Your skills are desperately need so resolve some diversity issues related to the invention of fire.
To be frank, anyone who had stock in Facebook should have sold in and then shorted a bunch more the day after his Congressional testimony.
I didn't know that Zuckerberg had any Facebook anymore. I thought he told us a while back that he gave it all away to charity, while his Karma was still great, and he was considering to run for President of the US.
. . . or maybe that was just some fake news that Russians posted on Facebook . . .
Build a second dam.
It's dams . . .
. . . all the way down.
If EU is not a friend anymore according to Trump, why does the EU allow USA software in their administration?
Snarky answer:
. . . probably because the EU is thinking long term, and that in six years, Trump won't be POTUS anymore.
And then everyone will pretend to be friends again.
Realistic answer:
. . . probably for the same reason that the US government is using software from SAP, produced in Germany, an enemy state of the US in the current government's eyes.
Do you give that to Tesla* drivers too? Because no matter how many tests have been done on any safety critical equipment in the end there will always be a "life or death" test.
The most dangerous part of a Tesla is the loose nut behind the steering wheel.
(* selected for impact, replace with whatever brand of car you want.
ditto.
mall rats can be detected easily :)
i like that because they (mall rats) are annoying
The system is part of the mall's directories. Mall rats don't use mall directories, since they have a sixth sense enabling them to navigate the mall like a maze to take them to places where they can be most annoying.
The system identifies the age and gender of the user. This system is of great use in these Internet days, since nobody seems to be quite sure of their age or gender.
Good luck resurrecting an auroch or a Bali tiger. These worms were merely hibernating.
They should try resurrecting the Jurassic Blue parrot . . . it's just resting . . .
Seriously, people, how are we going to get around that?
New makeup requirements for everyone:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The benefit of libraries is that its curated. You can ask a librarian questions that Amazon's search service can't comprehend.
. . . and . . . when you ask librarians for something, they won't deluge you with ads for useless crap that you don't want anyway.
"So you are looking for something about Friedrich Nietzsche . . . would you also be interested in the works of Dr. Seuss . . . ?"
Fahrenheit Forbes-Five-One, indeed.
"Q#" is not a sensible name. "Q Sharp" is not a sensible name. When someone hears the name for the 1st time, will they think it is "Cue Sharp"?
. . . and here I read it as "Q hash" . . . as in, "Don't Bogart the bong, Captain Picard!"
Can you do Q# on Linux . . . ? Or do you need a Windows Phone for it . . . ?
At some point, our playing God is going to catch up to us.
Well all know here on Slashdot that monopolies are bad . . . why should God have a monopoly on creating life . . . ?
He must have paid off some politicians to get the monopoly.
I'll bet those meddling Russian kids put Him into power . . .
God really shouldn't be playing God either, when you think about it.
You will face extreme layoffs, budget reductions, no raises, and just a general feeling of incompetence and wonder for a company with so much money.
In an acquisition like this one, the purchaser is not buying the company for the employees . . . it is buying the company for its existing customer base.
Despite what they may say publicly, the existing employees are excess baggage and costs that need to be cut, to finance the costs of the purchase.
a year have to seek medical attention after a dog bite so replacing those animals with things that won't attack us will really help with safety and medical costs.
Nasty folks take pleasant tempered dogs, and train them to become vicious killing beasts. For shits & giggles.
I'm guessing that your average drug dealer, pimp or NFL star will do the same with their robot dogs.
Plus, the less dog poop on sidewalks and in parks would be nice. I live in Seattle, and the amount of dog poop here is just terrible.
Shame on you, 1%er! For calling the homeless dog poop!
The best crime is to steal the whole country.
. . . even better would be . . . stealing someone else's country . . .
Whether that can be done is still open for debate.
Just another portless wonderbook with the reliability of a sheet of wet cardboard.
Standard issue for my company's employees is Lenovo SchtinkPads. I was up for a replacement, but there was no budget for new ones.
However, there WAS a special budget for SchmackBookSchmoes. So I'm using one of those now.
With a SchtinkPad, you can use it to hammer in railroad spikes all day, and the thing will still run perfectly. My SchmackBookSchoe fell off my sofa . . . and the display was broken.
So I bought a fancy, expensive protective shell for it. Not that it will help any, if I drop it again . . . but the shell constantly reminds me that the thing is fragile, and I need to be extra careful with it.
Call me when Apple makes a real computer, not a prop for hipsters who want to look good.
So why is my company giving us MacBooks . . . ?
I guess they want us to LOOK like hipsters . . . go figure . . .
Stuff underground gets wet already, just in case you didn't know about "rain" and such.
We should just get the Dutch to build the Internet infrastructure. Their whole country is more or less under water, and their Internet stills runs . . . along with everything else.
I think they have invented some kind of anti-gravity water control technology, and just are keeping it as a secret to themselves.
is it good or is it whack?
China has an unofficial holiday named "Singles' Day", which has morphed into one of the biggest shopping days in China. Alibaba makes a killing on this day.
So Amazon is trying to create such a day, hoping for massive "Black Friday" sales.
Except, in China, folks can say, "Hey, are you single? I'm single! Let's buy some expensive useless crap online to give to each other!"
In the US, saying, "Hey, are you Prime? I'm Prime!" . . . well, that just doesn't quite cut it.
I wonder if he was Mirandized properly?
Miranda has been deprecated.
It's in the Release Notes.
The use of Miranda is strongly discouraged.
Gallons wasn't counter-intuitive enough, so we're now measuring space in donuts?
Glazed, of course.
74.4 gallons of coffee or 530 donuts is breakfast for people the size of Wales.
Lockheed, are you an engineering factory or a chocolate factory? Do you have skunkworks or Oompa Loompa?
Stanley Kubrick just recently revealed in a postmortem interview that he personally met Oompa Loompas at Area 51 while he was there filming the Moon Landings and O.J. Simpson's Murder on Mars.
A baby Oompa Loompa starred at the end of "2001" . . .