So your argument is that businesses, no matter how great an empire they happen to be, that cannot adapt to the changing of the times will crumble under a superior model employed by lighter and faster moving competitors?
I can follow that argument. The source of my confusion is that you are applying it to the wrong side of the fence.
Sadly, I expect them to get lumped in with the crackpots of the world, whether they're right or not. The corporate news outlets didn't get to be the only players in town by mistake, and they have a huge head-start on sculpting public opinion.
WAAAAAAAAIIIIT! Surely you mean unless you're on a device that is smaller than a laptop, then in that case memory/cpu hogging application with clumsy and inconsistent UI for EVERYTHING! EVEEEERRYTHIIIINNG! After all, those 1Ghz dual-core processors are practically supercomputers, unlike the 3Ghz 32 core monstrosity setting on your desk that can only barely Web!
Less is more, smaller is faster. Everything 2.0! Hurrah!
You don't seriously tax employees for things like catered lunches. Surely. And what about coffee, which most places worth working at have for free, or even if not water usage? Do you tax your employees on sewer for the restrooms? What about the electricity used to power the lights/AC? If anything personal is plugged into the corporate power grid, is the user taxed for that also?
What if I used the corporate-owned card reader on my desk to copy a partition on personal SD cards? I used a corporate napkin the other day to wipe my mouth after lunch. What is the Canadian tax rate on that?
How badly would those ricochet? I'd almost be more concerned with bouncing shrapnel over a bullet hole in the plane's body. By my understanding the bullet hole isn't enough to de-pressurize a plane.
So, the TSA is still going to judge us for potential thoughtcrime, grope us, and detain people for making (albeit stupid) jokes, but they're going to let POCKETKNIVES back onto planes? Really?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not afraid of a pocketknife. I'm just amused (horrified) that they're letting the thing that caused this whole mess back on the plane, but not abolishing the TSA or their fascist policies.
OP was bitching for the sake of bitching. He did not appear concerned for improvements in ASLR (which might not even be that effective according to some papers I've seen), and, as was already stated, if anything, Firefox should use LESS memory than it does, not more.
I'm calling OP an idiot because not for his position, but for his delivery.
I wouldn't say that you're assuming your opinion is the important one, merely just as important as everyone else posting. The moderators determine whether it is the important one.
The question then becomes which is more effective to "teach" Slashdot that we think the article/question is crap, posting directly saying it (which still builds pagecount) or ignoring it altogether. You may be on to something though.
To be fair, if I had a question about getting crumbs and pubes out of my keyboard, I feel like Slashdot would be the perfect place to take it.
I don't know if that means I have bad judgement or if Slashdot expanded the Idle section to be the only thing on the website. Given that I've only melted three keyboards getting aformentioned crumbs and pubes out of the keyboard, I'm guessing it's probably the latter. Yeah, definitely the latter.
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I'm confused, help me out here:
So your argument is that businesses, no matter how great an empire they happen to be, that cannot adapt to the changing of the times will crumble under a superior model employed by lighter and faster moving competitors?
I can follow that argument. The source of my confusion is that you are applying it to the wrong side of the fence.
It's a crappy idea at any rate. I think it's simply offal.
Sadly, I expect them to get lumped in with the crackpots of the world, whether they're right or not. The corporate news outlets didn't get to be the only players in town by mistake, and they have a huge head-start on sculpting public opinion.
That's like saying getting fatally shot in the head is better than getting your balls blown off, because at least then it's over fast.
Absolutely 100% accurate, but that doesn't make the former a good thing.
WAAAAAAAAIIIIT! Surely you mean unless you're on a device that is smaller than a laptop, then in that case memory/cpu hogging application with clumsy and inconsistent UI for EVERYTHING! EVEEEERRYTHIIIINNG! After all, those 1Ghz dual-core processors are practically supercomputers, unlike the 3Ghz 32 core monstrosity setting on your desk that can only barely Web!
Less is more, smaller is faster. Everything 2.0! Hurrah!
Instruction manual? More like manufacturer's opinion.
Fuck Wild Cherry Pepsi.
You don't seriously tax employees for things like catered lunches. Surely. And what about coffee, which most places worth working at have for free, or even if not water usage? Do you tax your employees on sewer for the restrooms? What about the electricity used to power the lights/AC? If anything personal is plugged into the corporate power grid, is the user taxed for that also?
What if I used the corporate-owned card reader on my desk to copy a partition on personal SD cards? I used a corporate napkin the other day to wipe my mouth after lunch. What is the Canadian tax rate on that?
How badly would those ricochet? I'd almost be more concerned with bouncing shrapnel over a bullet hole in the plane's body. By my understanding the bullet hole isn't enough to de-pressurize a plane.
Something to be said for making it public knowledge to potential hijackers that every passenger on board the plane has (at minimum) a knife on them.
The best part is this: http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/hockey-sticks-pocket-knives-and-billiard-cues-among-carry-items-tsa-will-soon-let-onboard-planes
So, the TSA is still going to judge us for potential thoughtcrime, grope us, and detain people for making (albeit stupid) jokes, but they're going to let POCKETKNIVES back onto planes? Really?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not afraid of a pocketknife. I'm just amused (horrified) that they're letting the thing that caused this whole mess back on the plane, but not abolishing the TSA or their fascist policies.
Bored, mostly, I guess?
OP was bitching for the sake of bitching. He did not appear concerned for improvements in ASLR (which might not even be that effective according to some papers I've seen), and, as was already stated, if anything, Firefox should use LESS memory than it does, not more.
I'm calling OP an idiot because not for his position, but for his delivery.
You're wrong! 64 bit is better because the number is bigger! It has more bits! AC learned this when he got his MBA.
Speaking of people with lower ACC activity..
You made me think of Futurama:
"How many atmospheres of pressure is this ship designed to be able to handle, Professor?"
Well, it's a spaceship, so somewhere between 0 and 1.
Not what you were going for, I realize, but it made me chuckle so I thought I would share.
...doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because he is James Cameron.
Shame there's no "-1, closest fascist" option. And yet you claim you think that intellectual property is incoherent.
Let us all be good little citizens. Ein, zwei, drei, vier!
idkfa idkfa idkfa idkfa. Are you still here?
I wouldn't say that you're assuming your opinion is the important one, merely just as important as everyone else posting. The moderators determine whether it is the important one.
The question then becomes which is more effective to "teach" Slashdot that we think the article/question is crap, posting directly saying it (which still builds pagecount) or ignoring it altogether. You may be on to something though.
Really? That's fucked.
Isn't there some sort of purjury thing for filing false DMCA claims?
If you care about something enough to not want to see it turn to crap, you have to exert effort on that thing to let it know when it's being crap.
To be fair, if I had a question about getting crumbs and pubes out of my keyboard, I feel like Slashdot would be the perfect place to take it.
I don't know if that means I have bad judgement or if Slashdot expanded the Idle section to be the only thing on the website. Given that I've only melted three keyboards getting aformentioned crumbs and pubes out of the keyboard, I'm guessing it's probably the latter. Yeah, definitely the latter.
And when those corporate goons lobby to have those dangerous technologies made illegal if not registered and certified by proper authorities?