Practically nothing Apple did before OS X was interesting to/. Unfortunately, OS X's geek cred led to a deluge of Apple fanboys who made sure all technical discussion was drowned in a quagmire of 'yes but what's the point if grandma can't use it' and fawning over glowing icons.
Sorry, but this is Slashdot. If you dare suggest people aren't entitled to get all the entertainment they want for free, you're automatically considered a troll.
Wrong, Slashdot's moderation system is utter shit, and it only encourages groupthink. It's also not unpopular opinions as such that get modded down, but any opinion that goes counter to the most childish ones, fanboyism and libertarianism. There are several that are better.
Encoding language into DNA has been used in several art projects, for instance this one by mad professor of literature Christian Bök (work still in progress, I believe). DARPA imitates art?
Right. As if 'scrolls' wasn't already used heavily in the fantasy fiction all RPG games are derived from, long before Bethesda came up with their own derivative fantasy world.
And just why the hell would people want to do that? Where's the demand? All I see is a bunch of media hype and not much demand from anyone but gadget freaks.
The tablet hype, hell, the Apple hype is about making it easier for the industry to make more money off people. "Yeah, I could get an iPad to make everything a little more expensive for myself. That's a great idea!"
If you were able to read, you'd see that I actually referred to what Microsoft have done in the past, compared it to what the OP claimed they and their OEMs would do in the future and found him to be full of shit. Microsoft's claims are circumstantial.
But why am I even replying to this illiterate fool.
I'm well aware of how to buy computers, thank you very much. I'm just pointing out that forcing people to pay for Windows isn't new, and has fuck all to do with control. betterunixthanunix's "translation" is just a bunch of hyperbolic nonsense based on the theory that Microsoft will always be more evil than Satan himself, despite whatever the people at Microsoft claim themselves.
Of course, since this is Slashdot, facts are flamebait and paranoid fantasies are insightful.
Is that so? Practically all OEMs force a Windows license on you, and have done so since forever (1995), as that's more profitable for them. None of them cares whether you actually use it, and I see no reason why they should start now.
No, this is something completely different. This is an even slower mode, set to watch only the headers of incoming packets sort of like a Slashdot system, in which people read the first couple of words of an article, then wakes up to comment on said article at full speed to get first post, just with the tiny tweak that it actually reads the rest of the message before replying.
OK, so basically you have no fucking clue what's going on but like to post long, paranoid ramblings about Nokia infesting the LGPL Qt library with proprietary binary code while paying lip service to the FOSS community. It's called FUD, and you're a cunt.
Are the Tegras really all that fast? I keep seeing complaints from people using the dual core 1 GHz plus versions that they can't decode 1080p h.264 video unless it's of some specific format that hardly anyone uses. I think AMD's Brazos platform can do that.
Yes, for some reason the law recognises that expression can do actual harm. Autists on Slashdot like cheekyjohnson may believe that hey, taunting someone over a suicide is simply a matter of difference in opinion, whereas normal human beings are able to see that it's simply harassment and expresses fuck all except contempt. Libel is actually closer to what freedom of speech is supposed to protect, as it's what the philosophers label a 'constative' expression, which you may or may not agree with and which therefore is possible to debate.
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Mod parent up. It's more relevant to this site than the story.
Practically nothing Apple did before OS X was interesting to /. Unfortunately, OS X's geek cred led to a deluge of Apple fanboys who made sure all technical discussion was drowned in a quagmire of 'yes but what's the point if grandma can't use it' and fawning over glowing icons.
Sorry, but this is Slashdot. If you dare suggest people aren't entitled to get all the entertainment they want for free, you're automatically considered a troll.
Apart from last year's budget models, all Sony Ericsson Android phones run Gingerbread. Their upgrades were very slow initially, but not anymore.
Wrong, Slashdot's moderation system is utter shit, and it only encourages groupthink. It's also not unpopular opinions as such that get modded down, but any opinion that goes counter to the most childish ones, fanboyism and libertarianism. There are several that are better.
User: Careful, robotic arm, don't strangle me! ...
Robotic Arm: SYNTAX ERROR ON WORD 4: UNESCAPED APOSTROPHE FOUND. PROCEEDING EXECUTING COMMAND!
User: I said DON'T strangle me, don [carrier lost]
Robotic Arm: SYNTAX ERROR ON WORD 3:
Remember with open source: release early, release often.
To make it sound cool?
Encoding language into DNA has been used in several art projects, for instance this one by mad professor of literature Christian Bök (work still in progress, I believe). DARPA imitates art?
Right. As if 'scrolls' wasn't already used heavily in the fantasy fiction all RPG games are derived from, long before Bethesda came up with their own derivative fantasy world.
It's been years and years since viruses was a huge problem on the Windows platform, and people didn't care even then.
And just why the hell would people want to do that? Where's the demand? All I see is a bunch of media hype and not much demand from anyone but gadget freaks.
The tablet hype, hell, the Apple hype is about making it easier for the industry to make more money off people. "Yeah, I could get an iPad to make everything a little more expensive for myself. That's a great idea!"
It doesn't need a standards organisation behind it to be a standard. For instance, ed, the standard editor, is standard because it's ed!
If you were able to read, you'd see that I actually referred to what Microsoft have done in the past, compared it to what the OP claimed they and their OEMs would do in the future and found him to be full of shit. Microsoft's claims are circumstantial.
But why am I even replying to this illiterate fool.
I'm well aware of how to buy computers, thank you very much. I'm just pointing out that forcing people to pay for Windows isn't new, and has fuck all to do with control. betterunixthanunix's "translation" is just a bunch of hyperbolic nonsense based on the theory that Microsoft will always be more evil than Satan himself, despite whatever the people at Microsoft claim themselves.
Of course, since this is Slashdot, facts are flamebait and paranoid fantasies are insightful.
Is that so? Practically all OEMs force a Windows license on you, and have done so since forever (1995), as that's more profitable for them. None of them cares whether you actually use it, and I see no reason why they should start now.
I say you're a shit translator.
No, this is something completely different. This is an even slower mode, set to watch only the headers of incoming packets sort of like a Slashdot system, in which people read the first couple of words of an article, then wakes up to comment on said article at full speed to get first post, just with the tiny tweak that it actually reads the rest of the message before replying.
Yes, it almost sounds vaguely plausible.
Ah, right. BDS is "collective punishment" hence equivalent of Israel keeping the entire Gaza on the brink of collapse. How very perceptive of you.
OK, so basically you have no fucking clue what's going on but like to post long, paranoid ramblings about Nokia infesting the LGPL Qt library with proprietary binary code while paying lip service to the FOSS community. It's called FUD, and you're a cunt.
That would make sense if Nokia actually coded significant features or enhancements to Qt as proprietary binaries, which AFAIK is not the case.
It wouldn't seem so bad if you just understood sarcasm.
Are the Tegras really all that fast? I keep seeing complaints from people using the dual core 1 GHz plus versions that they can't decode 1080p h.264 video unless it's of some specific format that hardly anyone uses. I think AMD's Brazos platform can do that.
Yes, for some reason the law recognises that expression can do actual harm. Autists on Slashdot like cheekyjohnson may believe that hey, taunting someone over a suicide is simply a matter of difference in opinion, whereas normal human beings are able to see that it's simply harassment and expresses fuck all except contempt. Libel is actually closer to what freedom of speech is supposed to protect, as it's what the philosophers label a 'constative' expression, which you may or may not agree with and which therefore is possible to debate.
True, that would be terrible. They should fight speech with speech, and put up posters all over his neighbourhood accusing him of being a pedophile.
Yeah, if you get too excited during the 'hands-on time', you'll end up losing your willy.