please never express that opinion again. i'm a linux user, and i honestly want it to be easy for me to use continue using linux. if it ever becomes too much of a headache, then for personal purposes (as opposed to research, etc.) i might switch to another OS. fortunately, things are moving in the opposite direction currently, but people like you can potentially harm that trend.
Same here at Duke. We have entire computer labs running Linux, and every student has some space on a networked FS running on linux servers. Although, in one aspect Linux "support" is lacking: we have a printing system, where students print to no printer in particular from their laptops, but rather to their account. then, from any printer they can swipe their card and print what they need. The client for this service is only for Win and Mac, and while it's possible to use it from Linux machines, it is a gigantic pain, and can require too much knowledge of detail for most people.
that's nothing. i once found myself trapped in an increasingly dense cloud of gas, and had to wait 12 billion years for the sun and the planets to form, so i could hitch a ride on an asteroid to Tunguska and walk over the Alaska-Siberia ice bridge to get home.
Aliens are an other race and react different to medications. meds that are effectieve to alien races and and the mysterious race called "women" are more difficult to create.
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
ditto. you people are doing the equivalent of editing Wikipedia articles with comments about your/other people's sexuality!!! well, not quite, but almost.
hey, i'm already annoyed (almost offended!) by the sometimes overly detailed tampon ads on TV, but you don't see me suing anyone. targeted advertising isn't anything new - an advertiser already knows everything about the demographic of a certain, say, town, before showing TV ads on a local channel in that area. it's just that now the ads can be even more targeted. i don't see anything radically new here.
have you seen giant porn ads in, say, a mall? i haven't (unfortunately). i actually think this is a good thing. say the number of products/services to be advertised in an area in constant. until now, there have been 3 alternatives:
1) show 'em all simultaneously. problem? information overload - nobody pays attention to anything in particular, but everyone is annoyed. bad for advertiser, bad for consumer.
2) show 'em all one after the other (on a TV). consumers aren't as annoyed, but the chances of anyone seeing anything they're interested in are tiny. bad for advertiser => bad for the world (yes, [successful] advertising is crucial to the business world as we know it).
3) some combination of 1 and 2. but how do you decide which ads go together on which screen? messy.
I think technology like this can significantly benefit advertisers, while also making ads more interesting/relevant for consumers (or rather because of it). The content of the ads isn't going to be anything different from what you see today, so don't worry about a kid hiding behind a tree seeing naked boobies simply because a slashdotter happened to walk by the ad.
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yeah, that's what I heard. Fortunately there's a printer in my building that i can just directly send stuff to, so i don't even need to do that much.
are you a student at duke?
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/please
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/force (scroll down to verb)
please never express that opinion again. i'm a linux user, and i honestly want it to be easy for me to use continue using linux. if it ever becomes too much of a headache, then for personal purposes (as opposed to research, etc.) i might switch to another OS. fortunately, things are moving in the opposite direction currently, but people like you can potentially harm that trend.
Same here at Duke. We have entire computer labs running Linux, and every student has some space on a networked FS running on linux servers. Although, in one aspect Linux "support" is lacking: we have a printing system, where students print to no printer in particular from their laptops, but rather to their account. then, from any printer they can swipe their card and print what they need. The client for this service is only for Win and Mac, and while it's possible to use it from Linux machines, it is a gigantic pain, and can require too much knowledge of detail for most people.
that's nothing. i once found myself trapped in an increasingly dense cloud of gas, and had to wait 12 billion years for the sun and the planets to form, so i could hitch a ride on an asteroid to Tunguska and walk over the Alaska-Siberia ice bridge to get home.
fuck. yeah.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/
any questions? yeah, i thought so...
no, you trolling jackass idiot!!!!!!!!!
since when is pizza manufactured? i don't recall my laptop ever being deep-fried. well, except for that one time...
Aliens are an other race and react different to medications. meds that are effectieve to alien races and and the mysterious race called "women" are more difficult to create.
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
a less sarcastic way to say that would be that confidence in modern medicine is increasing.
ditto. you people are doing the equivalent of editing Wikipedia articles with comments about your/other people's sexuality!!! well, not quite, but almost.
ok, now that was insightful...
again, what's up with the funny mods? insightful? maybe. interesting? i'd say so. but how is it possible to find something funny in this post?
why the fuck is this post Funny? do slashdotters smoke that much weed?
maby not
ditto. targeted advertisements are less annoying, not more (at least ideally), because they're supposed to be interesting for you.
hey, i'm already annoyed (almost offended!) by the sometimes overly detailed tampon ads on TV, but you don't see me suing anyone. targeted advertising isn't anything new - an advertiser already knows everything about the demographic of a certain, say, town, before showing TV ads on a local channel in that area. it's just that now the ads can be even more targeted. i don't see anything radically new here.
have you seen giant porn ads in, say, a mall? i haven't (unfortunately). i actually think this is a good thing. say the number of products/services to be advertised in an area in constant. until now, there have been 3 alternatives:
1) show 'em all simultaneously. problem? information overload - nobody pays attention to anything in particular, but everyone is annoyed. bad for advertiser, bad for consumer.
2) show 'em all one after the other (on a TV). consumers aren't as annoyed, but the chances of anyone seeing anything they're interested in are tiny. bad for advertiser => bad for the world (yes, [successful] advertising is crucial to the business world as we know it).
3) some combination of 1 and 2. but how do you decide which ads go together on which screen? messy.
I think technology like this can significantly benefit advertisers, while also making ads more interesting/relevant for consumers (or rather because of it). The content of the ads isn't going to be anything different from what you see today, so don't worry about a kid hiding behind a tree seeing naked boobies simply because a slashdotter happened to walk by the ad.
welcome to the collective. you have been fully assimilated into your social network. resistance is futile.
you ask this now, years after they've started filtering results due to DMCA crap?
yep. unless 21 has more than 2 factors, of course.
both, but only if you're a quantum computer.
GNU Porn?
Maybe in a few years someone will factor 21. I wonder what its factors are.
I think a few years ago someone proved that 21's factors are between 1 and 20... Can't find the article, though.