Ideally, net neutrality should be something that is passed into law by congress. Too bad that doesn't have a snowball's chance against a cash-fueled, industry sponsored flame thrower in hell.
Nice how so many of these old consoles work just fine with just a little TLC. Even with the NES you can buy a new 72-pin connector and make it work like new.
A calculator older than me which I inherited. Many calculators have come and gone but this thing has survived much time and abuse. I always liked it's glowing LED numbers, even if it takes two AA batteries to power it.
This would be hard to take seriously even if it wasn't peppered with so many canned marketing buzzwords. Even if another automaker manages to outdo Tesla (highly unlikely at the rate they are going), it will only be because Tesla blazed the trail that terrifies the existing automakers so much that they wouldn't venture it even when GM had a perfectly good all-electric vehicle over two freaking decades ago. I hope Tesla buries all of them, and Mercedes would be a good start.
I never implied his opinion has changed. So the guy doesn't believe in gay marriage. He wasn't picketing funerals with "God hates fags" signs. He practiced his democratic rights and in the end he lost. Proposition 8 was overturned. His $1000 donation was a waste. Isn't that enough? Should we also castigate any CEO who voted for Bush? Where are the angry mobs calling for the resignation of CEOs who spent millions lobbying to take away our rights online with SOPA, or collaborated with the NSA?
So he supported Proposition 8 six years ago. How much insight does that really give us into the scope of his character? How many CEOs have done much, much more despicable things in their personal and professional lives and faced little to no public criticism for it? You could write a novel on all of the rotten things that Steve Jobs did, but instead he gets praised by the media as the computing messiah, because none of his antics were hot-button political issues. The gay rights community is turning into the very thing they despise. Flame me all you want. This was NOT justice.
Unfortunately, it looks like they crammed the start menu full of those blasted tiles instead of the useful things users will be expecting. I have used this interface on Windows 8 and Server 2012 and I have tried to give it a chance, I really have; but at the end of the day it is just a nuisance that squirrels away the things I need to get to into the most awkward places. Hopefully by Windows 9 they will finally stop forcing fisher price tablet bullcrap on desktop users altogether. I would be happy if they just got rid of that worthless "charms bar".
People's attitudes on this are extremely hypocritical. We rail against hatred and discrimination, and yet here we are with a "BURN THE HEATHENS!" mob mentality the second we find out about someone donating a relatively measly $1000 to Prop8. With the way some people are acting, you would think we just discovered that the guy was a raging pedophile. Did he really give out anywhere near the amount of damage that he and Mozilla are now receiving? Is this how we win the battle against discrimination? By replacing one form of irrational hatred and bias with another?
We may view it as poetic justice, but it's hypocrisy; plain and simple. People love to hate. The only thing that ever changes is who the current easy target is. Plenty of CEOs are vile, unscrupulous pigs who cheat on their wives and sexually harass female employees, but you won't see this sort of backlash against them because it isn't the current political hot topic.
I can't help but wonder if the game development gravity that is developing around Linux had at least some part in motivating Microsoft to stop screwing around and get serious about releasing version 12.
Once this crap hits the fan, Dell may well be singing a different tune when it becomes apparent it isn't worth the publicity. I may be wrong, and you can give me all the reasons why, but consider this: It bothered enough people to make Slashdot's front page. Flame on.
But he spread his fire much too wide, and seems to make a lot of assumptions himself. I wonder if, in the part about bread processing, he could have confused organic bread with gluten free bread. Mere crumbs of regular bread can indeed make people with Celiac disease sick. I have a few friends and relatives that shop at health food stores specifically for gluten-free products; and the last time I checked, autoimmune disorders are very real and not just cooked up by a bunch of hippies.
How about a Dennis Ritchie stamp? Or Douglas Engelbart? John E. Karlin maybe? They all recently died as well. Anyone? No? Nobody knows who they are because they spent their time actually inventing instead of whoring for attention and taking all the credit to satisfy their nacissism? Damn.
I like it, assuming that their funding and capabilities get scaled way back. Splitting it into separate arms of the FBI and military could assign actual reasons and purpose to their operations; as opposed to one independent data-addicted behemoth whose sole mission is to hork down all the information it can get it's paws on, regardless of cost or actual usefulness to security. Too bad this is extremely unlikely to happen.
AT&T and other ISPs have been greasing those wheels with flatbeds of lobbying(bribing) money for far too long. Net neutrality was the single largest issue that made me turn from the Republican party in disgust. They crap all over the free market in the name if the free market and endanger free speech in the name of free speech. It's pure madness.
Considering that Steam is also getting into software distribution in general and not just games, could it be that SteamOS has the potential to eventually compete with Windows as a consumer desktop OS? Obviously Valve has made no indication of such intentions, but they are Valve, after all. To quote their own TF2 character: "One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that mask." Honestly I'm partly fantasizing, but at the very least they intend to take the PC gamer crowd, and that would be a critical blow to the Windows consumer space if they succeed.
He already has the corrupt government of one superpower after his head, I don't think we should ask him to go for two. Maybe a Russian whistleblower will leak loads of damning details about Putin's government surveillance and be granted asylum in the US. That would be hilariously awkward.
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Ideally, net neutrality should be something that is passed into law by congress. Too bad that doesn't have a snowball's chance against a cash-fueled, industry sponsored flame thrower in hell.
Nice how so many of these old consoles work just fine with just a little TLC. Even with the NES you can buy a new 72-pin connector and make it work like new.
A calculator older than me which I inherited. Many calculators have come and gone but this thing has survived much time and abuse. I always liked it's glowing LED numbers, even if it takes two AA batteries to power it.
This would be hard to take seriously even if it wasn't peppered with so many canned marketing buzzwords. Even if another automaker manages to outdo Tesla (highly unlikely at the rate they are going), it will only be because Tesla blazed the trail that terrifies the existing automakers so much that they wouldn't venture it even when GM had a perfectly good all-electric vehicle over two freaking decades ago. I hope Tesla buries all of them, and Mercedes would be a good start.
Said no one ever.
I always did say that even the darkest, bloodiest, goriest games have nothing on Mario Kart.
I never implied his opinion has changed. So the guy doesn't believe in gay marriage. He wasn't picketing funerals with "God hates fags" signs. He practiced his democratic rights and in the end he lost. Proposition 8 was overturned. His $1000 donation was a waste. Isn't that enough? Should we also castigate any CEO who voted for Bush? Where are the angry mobs calling for the resignation of CEOs who spent millions lobbying to take away our rights online with SOPA, or collaborated with the NSA?
So he supported Proposition 8 six years ago. How much insight does that really give us into the scope of his character? How many CEOs have done much, much more despicable things in their personal and professional lives and faced little to no public criticism for it? You could write a novel on all of the rotten things that Steve Jobs did, but instead he gets praised by the media as the computing messiah, because none of his antics were hot-button political issues. The gay rights community is turning into the very thing they despise. Flame me all you want. This was NOT justice.
Unfortunately, it looks like they crammed the start menu full of those blasted tiles instead of the useful things users will be expecting. I have used this interface on Windows 8 and Server 2012 and I have tried to give it a chance, I really have; but at the end of the day it is just a nuisance that squirrels away the things I need to get to into the most awkward places. Hopefully by Windows 9 they will finally stop forcing fisher price tablet bullcrap on desktop users altogether. I would be happy if they just got rid of that worthless "charms bar".
People's attitudes on this are extremely hypocritical. We rail against hatred and discrimination, and yet here we are with a "BURN THE HEATHENS!" mob mentality the second we find out about someone donating a relatively measly $1000 to Prop8. With the way some people are acting, you would think we just discovered that the guy was a raging pedophile. Did he really give out anywhere near the amount of damage that he and Mozilla are now receiving? Is this how we win the battle against discrimination? By replacing one form of irrational hatred and bias with another? We may view it as poetic justice, but it's hypocrisy; plain and simple. People love to hate. The only thing that ever changes is who the current easy target is. Plenty of CEOs are vile, unscrupulous pigs who cheat on their wives and sexually harass female employees, but you won't see this sort of backlash against them because it isn't the current political hot topic.
I can't help but wonder if the game development gravity that is developing around Linux had at least some part in motivating Microsoft to stop screwing around and get serious about releasing version 12.
Keep up your valiant defense of the free market. :S
It is indeed interesting -- because it is controversial. Is there a more interesting part outside of the controversy that I am missing?
Once this crap hits the fan, Dell may well be singing a different tune when it becomes apparent it isn't worth the publicity. I may be wrong, and you can give me all the reasons why, but consider this: It bothered enough people to make Slashdot's front page. Flame on.
But he spread his fire much too wide, and seems to make a lot of assumptions himself. I wonder if, in the part about bread processing, he could have confused organic bread with gluten free bread. Mere crumbs of regular bread can indeed make people with Celiac disease sick. I have a few friends and relatives that shop at health food stores specifically for gluten-free products; and the last time I checked, autoimmune disorders are very real and not just cooked up by a bunch of hippies.
When people are up in arms about something, they always go after the easy targets; even when said targets are far from the biggest threat.
How about a Dennis Ritchie stamp? Or Douglas Engelbart? John E. Karlin maybe? They all recently died as well. Anyone? No? Nobody knows who they are because they spent their time actually inventing instead of whoring for attention and taking all the credit to satisfy their nacissism? Damn.
I like it, assuming that their funding and capabilities get scaled way back. Splitting it into separate arms of the FBI and military could assign actual reasons and purpose to their operations; as opposed to one independent data-addicted behemoth whose sole mission is to hork down all the information it can get it's paws on, regardless of cost or actual usefulness to security. Too bad this is extremely unlikely to happen.
Always a heretic in the church of Apple. That's why we love him.
Agreed. The only difference between republicans and democrats is who they sell out to.
AT&T and other ISPs have been greasing those wheels with flatbeds of lobbying(bribing) money for far too long. Net neutrality was the single largest issue that made me turn from the Republican party in disgust. They crap all over the free market in the name if the free market and endanger free speech in the name of free speech. It's pure madness.
Considering that Steam is also getting into software distribution in general and not just games, could it be that SteamOS has the potential to eventually compete with Windows as a consumer desktop OS? Obviously Valve has made no indication of such intentions, but they are Valve, after all. To quote their own TF2 character: "One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that mask." Honestly I'm partly fantasizing, but at the very least they intend to take the PC gamer crowd, and that would be a critical blow to the Windows consumer space if they succeed.
Windows 8 SP1 passes Windows Vista in market share.
I had honestly seriously forgotten that Opera existed before I saw this headline.
He already has the corrupt government of one superpower after his head, I don't think we should ask him to go for two. Maybe a Russian whistleblower will leak loads of damning details about Putin's government surveillance and be granted asylum in the US. That would be hilariously awkward.