Bloggers, most of the time, just ramble on about nothing.
Most novels are crap as well. The good ones are worth reading, just as the good blogs are worth reading.
Bloggers find the hot topic of the day andor week, and post a rant or opinion on it.
Many blogs are like that. Some aren't. Some blogs which are high-quality (and which have a lot of work put into them) make money. Again, why is this hard to understand?
In particular, why do blogs offend you so much? Do you believe that there are no blogs anywhere ever which are the product of hard work?
I can stay home and write stupid shit that nobody cares about, so where's my six figure salary?
I think the money comes when one writes stupid shit that people do care about.
I am not sure why this is hard to understand. Your comment could also apply to novelists, and in fact the ratio of six figure salary earners to everybody else is probably much the same in that profession.
Is there an option on Slashdot that will stop the display of comments submitted within, say, five minutes of the time the article was posted?
Because the parent is a classic example of the speed-posting malaise that infects Slashdot. It was posted very quickly after the article (I'm guessing by somebody who is intimately familiar with F5), and makes some vague, content-free statement about something that really has little to do with the original artcle, hoping that moderators will mistake imprecision for insight.
Karma isn't real, ladies and gentlemen. Let it go.
Early Star Wars RTS from 1995 or so... go go gadget google search... Star Wars: Rebellion. Part of the game was attempting to win over planets using, for example, the Emperor to suck up to the planetary leaders. If that failed (he succeeded if he rolled a 20, 19 if he hitched his robe up), he would say "Fuck you, loser" or something like that.
Maybe I'm oversensitive, but it really turned me off...
Looking at the facts, it seems that only one shuttle mission has ever landed manually, the rest have been computer controlled. The pilot just launches the landing gear.
OK, let's look at the facts, which you clearly didn't do, or did you just forget to put your references in? This is from the landing 101 page at NASA's web site.
Landing-5 minutes The orbiter's velocity eases below the speed of sound about 25 statute miles from the runway. As the orbiter nears the Shuttle Landing Facility, the commander takes manual control, piloting the vehicle to touchdown on one of two ends of the SLF.
Which facts were you referring to?
The fact is, shuttle pilots train for years and do hundreds of landing approach practice runs, and it's pretty sad when slashdotters, who have no idea and who think that cynicism is the same thing as sophistication, post bullshit like you just did.
Perhaps it makes you feel better to imagine that, but for a random twist of fate, it could have been you pressing that landing gear button. Well, it wasn't and you couldn't. Accept it, and move on.
8:07 a.m. - Discovery's wings leveling as it approaches the landing site. Now that the orbiter has gone subsonic, Commander Eileen Collins has assumed control. She'll fly Discovery on a 194-degree right overhead turn to align with runway 22.
This is slashdot, where the immediate response to just about anything is to whine.
In an attempt to be more constructive, I hacked it a bit so that mature As now occasionally produce a B offspring, which seems to give a more stable ecology, although Ms always starve to death, and I feel sad about that because they look so noble.
I shouldn't anthropomorphise letters, but hey, I used to play Rogue...
IE is part of the OS primarily because it is an API that is relied on by other parts of the OS
And don't you wish it wasn't? For example, I have the Services configurator open, and I click on the "stop service" link. I go away and do something else because this action takes so goddamn long. When I alt-tab back to services, it looks normal, so I click on something else and get a message box saying there was an error on the page, and would I like to disable scripting in future?
The real problem is that Services has put up a dialog because of an error condition in the service I was stopping, but that's hidden behind a bunch of other applications, and doesn't come to the front with the Services application.
This is not a job for a browser. I'm not given to conspiracies, but the only reason I can think of to ever use a browser for such an application would be to create the false impression that it's an indispensable part of the OS.
I finally got to see the infamous wolves ad, but the message I got from it was "a vote for John Kerry is a vote for cute doggies!" And I think that's a fine quality in a president.
However, on my system this works with ISO-images too. In fact, then it's even easier, just right click on the ISO and select "Burn image to CD" or something like that.
This shows what a moron I am. I didn't even think of trying that, probably because it was too obvious.
No, you can install k3b on redhat fedora core and burn away, but knowing that k3b is as easy to use as Nero, or even EXISTS is harder on Linux than Windows if for no other reason than the fact that you can't just go to the store and see all the cd burning software available, and buy what you need.
I'm not sure when this feature was introduced into Fedora (I'm on core 2 at the moment), but when I stick a writeable CD into my drive, an explorer-like window comes up. I drag files into it, then select "burn cd" from the file menu. I haven't installed any extra software to do this.
I think this is much easier than what Windows offers right now (although it's missing a "burn ISO image" feature).
Universal health care sure doesn't come out of right field.
Conservatives have to sell a platform that's inherently anti-poor. The rich don't require a safety net, nor public health care, and these are things that Conservatives think the Government shouldn't deal with. But the rich do required a national defence, and by a staggering coincidence there's no question that this has to be government funded.
You can't possibly sell this directly. What you can sell is the idea that Government involvement is bad (in anything that the rich don't need), and you can go on about how everyone will benefit from the supposed extra efficiency.
But it's crap. It's a justification invented after the fact for an elitist ideology. I've no doubt that there are people who believe in it, but it's hard to get past the extreme convenience of their views.
Ha! Fair enough, the depth of the failure that this movie present was pretty surprising. I enjoyed the opening, but after that most of the jokes seemed to revolve around Mike Myers mugging for the camera.
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could care less about Social Security, schools, infrastructure, etc.
In my 2.5 years as an H1B in the US, I paid over $45,000 into social security, the benefits of which I will never see. Can I have it back now?
Bloggers, most of the time, just ramble on about nothing.
Most novels are crap as well. The good ones are worth reading, just as the good blogs are worth reading.
Bloggers find the hot topic of the day andor week, and post a rant or opinion on it.
Many blogs are like that. Some aren't. Some blogs which are high-quality (and which have a lot of work put into them) make money. Again, why is this hard to understand?
In particular, why do blogs offend you so much? Do you believe that there are no blogs anywhere ever which are the product of hard work?
I can stay home and write stupid shit that nobody cares about, so where's my six figure salary?
I think the money comes when one writes stupid shit that people do care about.
I am not sure why this is hard to understand. Your comment could also apply to novelists, and in fact the ratio of six figure salary earners to everybody else is probably much the same in that profession.
Is there an option on Slashdot that will stop the display of comments submitted within, say, five minutes of the time the article was posted?
Because the parent is a classic example of the speed-posting malaise that infects Slashdot. It was posted very quickly after the article (I'm guessing by somebody who is intimately familiar with F5), and makes some vague, content-free statement about something that really has little to do with the original artcle, hoping that moderators will mistake imprecision for insight.
Karma isn't real, ladies and gentlemen. Let it go.
Did you really just call somebody you disagree with a communist? That's so last century, man. You have to call them terrorists now.
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... go go gadget google search ... Star Wars: Rebellion. Part of the game was attempting to win over planets using, for example, the Emperor to suck up to the planetary leaders. If that failed (he succeeded if he rolled a 20, 19 if he hitched his robe up), he would say "Fuck you, loser" or something like that.
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Never encountered this, myself.
Early Star Wars RTS from 1995 or so
Maybe I'm oversensitive, but it really turned me off
The parent was talking about watching a movie at home.
OK, let's look at the facts, which you clearly didn't do, or did you just forget to put your references in? This is from the landing 101 page at NASA's web site.
Which facts were you referring to?
The fact is, shuttle pilots train for years and do hundreds of landing approach practice runs, and it's pretty sad when slashdotters, who have no idea and who think that cynicism is the same thing as sophistication, post bullshit like you just did.
Perhaps it makes you feel better to imagine that, but for a random twist of fate, it could have been you pressing that landing gear button. Well, it wasn't and you couldn't. Accept it, and move on.
From the NASA coverage:
8:07 a.m. - Discovery's wings leveling as it approaches the landing site. Now that the orbiter has gone subsonic, Commander Eileen Collins has assumed control. She'll fly Discovery on a 194-degree right overhead turn to align with runway 22.
Sure sounds like she's landing it to me.
This is slashdot, where the immediate response to just about anything is to whine.
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In an attempt to be more constructive, I hacked it a bit so that mature As now occasionally produce a B offspring, which seems to give a more stable ecology, although Ms always starve to death, and I feel sad about that because they look so noble.
I shouldn't anthropomorphise letters, but hey, I used to play Rogue
Pretty diversion!
Run Neverwinter Nights on Linux. You don't need the CD, you don't need to be root, and you can install wherever you like.
OK, you miss the movies. I hear that's not such a huge loss.
IE is part of the OS primarily because it is an API that is relied on by other parts of the OS
And don't you wish it wasn't? For example, I have the Services configurator open, and I click on the "stop service" link. I go away and do something else because this action takes so goddamn long. When I alt-tab back to services, it looks normal, so I click on something else and get a message box saying there was an error on the page, and would I like to disable scripting in future?
The real problem is that Services has put up a dialog because of an error condition in the service I was stopping, but that's hidden behind a bunch of other applications, and doesn't come to the front with the Services application.
This is not a job for a browser. I'm not given to conspiracies, but the only reason I can think of to ever use a browser for such an application would be to create the false impression that it's an indispensable part of the OS.
By such an analysis, Ada code has two-thirds less bugs, while Haskell code has none at all!
This fits quite well with my experience of both languages by the way.
I finally got to see the infamous wolves ad, but the message I got from it was "a vote for John Kerry is a vote for cute doggies!" And I think that's a fine quality in a president.
However, on my system this works with ISO-images too. In fact, then it's even easier, just right click on the ISO and select "Burn image to CD" or something like that.
This shows what a moron I am. I didn't even think of trying that, probably because it was too obvious.
Ah, well.
No, you can install k3b on redhat fedora core and burn away, but knowing that k3b is as easy to use as Nero, or even EXISTS is harder on Linux than Windows if for no other reason than the fact that you can't just go to the store and see all the cd burning software available, and buy what you need.
I'm not sure when this feature was introduced into Fedora (I'm on core 2 at the moment), but when I stick a writeable CD into my drive, an explorer-like window comes up. I drag files into it, then select "burn cd" from the file menu. I haven't installed any extra software to do this.
I think this is much easier than what Windows offers right now (although it's missing a "burn ISO image" feature).
Oh, I bet you're a hit at parties.
Copyrights should be good for the lifetime of the artist who creates the work
Expect assassinations of artists by thrifty entertainment corporations to increase.
What concerns me though is: if we do away with patents what will replace them?
Quicksort, simulated annealing, B*-trees, ReiserFS, the Banker's algorithm, quad trees, top down parsing, binary search, programming languages, PGP, PNG, bongo drums.
These are things which were never protected by patents, and yet were still created. What should replace software patents? Nothing, that's what.
Universal health care sure doesn't come out of right field.
Conservatives have to sell a platform that's inherently anti-poor. The rich don't require a safety net, nor public health care, and these are things that Conservatives think the Government shouldn't deal with. But the rich do required a national defence, and by a staggering coincidence there's no question that this has to be government funded.
You can't possibly sell this directly. What you can sell is the idea that Government involvement is bad (in anything that the rich don't need), and you can go on about how everyone will benefit from the supposed extra efficiency.
But it's crap. It's a justification invented after the fact for an elitist ideology. I've no doubt that there are people who believe in it, but it's hard to get past the extreme convenience of their views.
Of course I'm over-simplifying. It's Slashdot.
I find your faith ... disturbing.
Ha! Fair enough, the depth of the failure that this movie present was pretty surprising. I enjoyed the opening, but after that most of the jokes seemed to revolve around Mike Myers mugging for the camera.
[Conservatives] argue that government programs are hurting instead of helping and that private efforts might be more effective.
They argue this not because they believe it, but because saying "Fuck the poor" won't get them elected.
In fact, it reads like a 1960s prediction of what people in 2004 will be predicting for 2014.
Didn't Austin Powers 2 give you a big hint that it might be crap?
I hated the second one, which led me to not see the third, until somebody whose taste is normally spot on said "No, no, it's good." Whoops.