If you don't have any money to lose anyway then being sued is nothing to worry about.
That's not true. You'll have to file for bankruptcy, and that will make your life difficult down the road (for example, it will severely hurt your credit and can make it harder to get certain jobs).
Why is this insightful? The OP said we are going to hear racist jokes that involve outsourcing. mphase says the jokes we hear aren't going to be racist. Are the mods illiterate, or does mphase have psychic that the mods know about and I don't? If he hasn't heard the jokes yet, how can he know that they aren't going to be racist?
You may think that someone is going to post an impolite response to this, but I actually can insightfully tell you that the response won't be impolite.
My point really was that everything that's entertaining and social should be done in moderation
I didn't disagree with that. My contention was that there are lots of things that aren't entertaining and social. As a nitpick, the fact that watching fistfights is entertaining and social doesn't work as proof that getting in fistfights is entertaining and social.
And if you are trolling slashdot, isn't moderation your enemy?
How so? The desciption was of something that in moderation is "an excellent source of entertainment and socialization". I don't think most activities fit that description, at least for me. I don't characterize mowing a lawn, or getting in a fistfight, or huffing gas, or waiting in line at the supermarket that way. You may quibble with some of those (e.g., you think there is "excellent socialization" on line at the supermarket), but the point is that tons of activities don't fit that description.
I don't want to bash google. I don't think anything in my post indicated that I do. I want to bash google-watch-watch. Their criticisms of google-watch are ridiculous. You try to point out factual reasons why google-watch is bogus. That's fine. But that's not what google-watch-watch does. Just because google-watch is wrong (and I'm not saying that is necessarily true), doesn't mean that anyone who tries to criticize them must be right. So I can turn this back at you: *ahem* Exactly which of google-watch-watch's criticisms are valid?
Please. That site is created by a guy who unabashedly "loves google" and can't stand to see them criticized. He spends most of the page his in an ad hominem rant in which he tries to convince me that I should ignore what google-watch says because the guy who founded it did so because he was unhappy with google. Um, no kidding? Why else would I think that someone would have started a page crticial of the company? And how is this supposed to invalidate his criticisms? Google-watch-watch is just one fanboy whining because he doesn't want to see anyone critcize the "shining star" that is google.
I believe that the registrar for a domain can set the rules. If the company in charge of the new TLD wants to give first crack to whoever owns the equivalent.com, they are free to do so. If they want to make it first-come-first-serve, they can do that as well.
How comfortable would it be to write on your cell phone's screen?
Uncomfortable, but still more comfortable than trying to fit another item in my pockets along with my my glasses, keys, wallet and phone. I would rather carry around one device with a subideal "form factor" than seven that are each individually well-designed.
The kicker is after those four years, if EA chooses not to keep their agreement "exclusive", any other football game (ESPN NFL Football, etc.) will be four years behind, at a minimum. I would guess that the more likely scenario would be that the project teams would be dissolved
You vastly underestimate the popularity and importance of college football.
The PS1 is probably the longest lasting piece of video game hardware in terms of how long games have been made for it officially after its successor came to market.
I'd be surprised if it has beat the original gameboy. It was ages after it came out until the gameboy color was released, and I think a while after that until there stopped being new non-color games. Anyone have numbers/ years available on this?
Perhaps a group of dedicated OSS developers needs to form some kind of committee to produce non-biased articles
Wow. I've never actually said "you must be new here" to someone on slashdot and have always hoped that it would never be necessary. But your claim that "dedicated OSS developers" know how to be "non-biased" is making it rather difficult.
I don't follow. Why do you think that tools like find and grep are "acceptable" on linux, but windows users need something better? I find those kinds of tools equally useful on both platforms, so I don't see why you're making a distinction.
I thought it was interesting that people yelled him for not realizing that the volume was at zero because even in the case where they are right (and I understand that they weren't), there would be a problem. He said that he had called the distro's tech support and they couldn't help. So even if he the volume level were the problem, that would merely shift the problem from "this distro's hardware support is bad" to "this distro's tech support staff is bad", not make it go away.
Also, a volume of zero seems like a terrible default.
We're all aware of it, and we don't care. If my soundcard doesn't work, I can't listen to sound. I don't care if that's the fault of the hardware manufacturer, of microsoft, of the company shipping my linux distribution or of santa claus. It doesn't change the fact that with windows I have sound and with linux I don't. For 95% of the world an operating system isn't a political statement or a philosophy, it's a tool. If one tool suits my needs and another doesn't, I'll use the one that does regardless of why the latter doesn't.
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That's not true. You'll have to file for bankruptcy, and that will make your life difficult down the road (for example, it will severely hurt your credit and can make it harder to get certain jobs).
Only for the initial boot. Win 95 and 98 use DOS to boot and then take control of the system once it is booted.
Why is this insightful? The OP said we are going to hear racist jokes that involve outsourcing. mphase says the jokes we hear aren't going to be racist. Are the mods illiterate, or does mphase have psychic that the mods know about and I don't? If he hasn't heard the jokes yet, how can he know that they aren't going to be racist?
You may think that someone is going to post an impolite response to this, but I actually can insightfully tell you that the response won't be impolite.
See, that's what makes it a joke.
Would you care to cite any evidence for this? It seems much more likely that the networks want to advertise themselves to all their viewers.
How so? When you finance your car, you do so at a certain fixed rate. They can't raise your interest rate after you've started finanacing it.
I didn't disagree with that. My contention was that there are lots of things that aren't entertaining and social. As a nitpick, the fact that watching fistfights is entertaining and social doesn't work as proof that getting in fistfights is entertaining and social.
And if you are trolling slashdot, isn't moderation your enemy?
How so? The desciption was of something that in moderation is "an excellent source of entertainment and socialization". I don't think most activities fit that description, at least for me. I don't characterize mowing a lawn, or getting in a fistfight, or huffing gas, or waiting in line at the supermarket that way. You may quibble with some of those (e.g., you think there is "excellent socialization" on line at the supermarket), but the point is that tons of activities don't fit that description.
I don't want to bash google. I don't think anything in my post indicated that I do. I want to bash google-watch-watch. Their criticisms of google-watch are ridiculous. You try to point out factual reasons why google-watch is bogus. That's fine. But that's not what google-watch-watch does. Just because google-watch is wrong (and I'm not saying that is necessarily true), doesn't mean that anyone who tries to criticize them must be right. So I can turn this back at you:
*ahem* Exactly which of google-watch-watch's criticisms are valid?
Please. That site is created by a guy who unabashedly "loves google" and can't stand to see them criticized. He spends most of the page his in an ad hominem rant in which he tries to convince me that I should ignore what google-watch says because the guy who founded it did so because he was unhappy with google. Um, no kidding? Why else would I think that someone would have started a page crticial of the company? And how is this supposed to invalidate his criticisms? Google-watch-watch is just one fanboy whining because he doesn't want to see anyone critcize the "shining star" that is google.
It's also online, not on paper. But I suppose you could print on paper. Of course, if you did the paper might be white.
I believe that the registrar for a domain can set the rules. If the company in charge of the new TLD wants to give first crack to whoever owns the equivalent .com, they are free to do so. If they want to make it first-come-first-serve, they can do that as well.
Uncomfortable, but still more comfortable than trying to fit another item in my pockets along with my my glasses, keys, wallet and phone. I would rather carry around one device with a subideal "form factor" than seven that are each individually well-designed.
You vastly underestimate the popularity and importance of college football.
Funny, since that's a pretty accurate description of a lot of drugs that have been banned for similar reason.
I'd be surprised if it has beat the original gameboy. It was ages after it came out until the gameboy color was released, and I think a while after that until there stopped being new non-color games. Anyone have numbers/ years available on this?
Actually, the failure rate of the absolute worst hardware is 100%. As is the failure rate of the best. It's just a question of time.
You're a truck
When did I do that?
Wow. I've never actually said "you must be new here" to someone on slashdot and have always hoped that it would never be necessary. But your claim that "dedicated OSS developers" know how to be "non-biased" is making it rather difficult.
Please don't feed the trolls.
I don't follow. Why do you think that tools like find and grep are "acceptable" on linux, but windows users need something better? I find those kinds of tools equally useful on both platforms, so I don't see why you're making a distinction.
If true, it shows that his distro's tech support is terrible. Were the support people also unfamiliar with the *nix world?
I thought it was interesting that people yelled him for not realizing that the volume was at zero because even in the case where they are right (and I understand that they weren't), there would be a problem. He said that he had called the distro's tech support and they couldn't help. So even if he the volume level were the problem, that would merely shift the problem from "this distro's hardware support is bad" to "this distro's tech support staff is bad", not make it go away.
Also, a volume of zero seems like a terrible default.
We're all aware of it, and we don't care. If my soundcard doesn't work, I can't listen to sound. I don't care if that's the fault of the hardware manufacturer, of microsoft, of the company shipping my linux distribution or of santa claus. It doesn't change the fact that with windows I have sound and with linux I don't. For 95% of the world an operating system isn't a political statement or a philosophy, it's a tool. If one tool suits my needs and another doesn't, I'll use the one that does regardless of why the latter doesn't.