> I see no reason to not vaccinate myself and my children... However, I want > the choice to be able to vaccinate as there could be a case where I don't > feel a particular vaccine is safe.
And your opinion on when a vaccine is safe or not is different from all the other anti-vaxxers because....? I mean, it may the the case that you're right in any particular case, but that's what we're talking about here -- people who agree that X is true in general but in THIS case they KNOW they're right about Y.
"I slept at work again last night; two and a half hours curled up in a quilt underneath my desk, from 11am to 1:30pm or so. That was when I woke up with a start, realizing that I was late for a meeting we were scheduled to have to argue about colormaps and dithering, and how we should deal with all the nefarious 8-bit color management issues. But it was no big deal, we just had the meeting later. It's hard for someone to hold it against you when you miss a meeting because you've been at work so long that you've passed out from exhaustion."
> What expense? I throw it out in my trashcan like everything else > I have that is waste, and the city picks it up for me for free
In my city, you're not supposed to throw away large electronic waste. I guess little things like toasters and clock radios are OK, but for big stuff, like microwaves and TVs, they have special pickups. For CRTs, you have to pay a few dollars per.
I also live in a working class neighborhood and a lot of stuff will get scavenged if it's out, which is fine with me. I usually put out things, along with a note describing the condition if needed, and see if it gets picked up, before I dispose of it any other way.
> Did you miss the part where Stingray devices involve massive privacy breaches > on the general population, so using one for a trivial robbery is massive overreach.
Next time they'll just nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.*
> We have set up a system where there is a game, and good players > are going to game the system. So fix the system or fix the game.
Any time you establish rules, people will figure out how to use those rules to their advantage. Money is a self-feeding machine -- the more money you make, the more you can spend on accountants and lawyers to help you figure out how to make and keep more money. (And no sense mentioning that once you have enough money, you can start buying the laws you want anyway.)
Tax based on profits? OK, we'll figure out a way to keep our books to show no profit. Tax based on sales? OK, we don't sell things, we lease or rent them. Tax based on cash hoard? OK, we'll figure out a way to spend every penny we make. Number of employees? Sorry, we only have contractors. Executive pay? Our executives make $1/year, and then we give them stock and benefits. Etc etc etc.
Every rule, by definition, will give SOMEONE an advantage. Any entity with money *will* figure out a way to make sure that "someone" is always THEM.
I'd put "refrigeration" above "computer". Being able to keep food and medicine cool and safe has had a HUGE impact on health and life expectancy.
And if you're going to include "wheel", you may as well include lever, inclined plane, and the rest.
Just as we have wonders of the ancient and modern worlds, I'd say gadgets should be broken into groups. And yes, I heard Comic Book Guy's voice in my head as I typed that. Ugh.
File -> Save As -> article.html, then read the local copy. Everything works -- styles, images, etc. -- but you won't get the ad-blocking-blocking overlay.
Now finish reading TFA and post your full findings here.:D
That is still their preferred way of working, but they have to say SOMETHING to the slack-jawed moron investors who are somehow surprised that a company can't just grow forever. "What do you *mean* +10%/year is not sustainable forever?!?!?!!!!1111"
> Remember back in the Pentium days when > RAM was cheaper than hard-disc space?
No I don't... because that has never happened. Disk has ALWAYS been cheaper than RAM, usually by an order of magnitude or so.
I had this exact laptop. (And a couple other Compaqs of similar vintage.) The 80 MB RAM (no idea why it's in quotes in the original) was 16 MB built-in and two 32s, I think. The disk would have been in the 1.2 GB neighborhood. MAYBE a low-spec model might have had a 540 or 250 or so.
Caldera Linux 2.2 ad 2.3 ran PERFECTLY on it. (That was the one where the installer would ask all its questions and then you could play Tetris while files copied in the background.) And by "perfectly" I mean it drove the screen properly out-of-the-box. IIRC mine had a 12" screen at 1024x768 when many other computers of the day were 800x600. And it was pretty thin for the time. And compact -- very thin bezel around the screen as well.
> My employer insists on giving me an iPhone, but > prohibits iTunes on my company-issue laptop > because it's such shit.
Well, the main problem is your employer is a fucking idiot. Like it or not, devices need support sometimes, and if you're going to issue a device that occasionally requires an app or an online service but not allow access to either, that's just plain dumb.
Yeah. The way they wrote that really sucks. Here's what you ACTUALLY get for $499: "Entry-level models will likely* have lesser specs: the laptop can be configured with a 1920 x 1080 pixel display, 4GB or 8GB of RAM, and processor options including Pentium 4405Y, Core M3, and Core M5 processor." So $499 gets you a 1080p screen and 4 GB and whichever processor is worst on that list. In other words, it gets you a $499 laptop.
* and who the fuck put "likely" in there? How about "absolutely definitely"!?:-/
They are all competing for a (more or less) fixed amount of time from a (more or less) fixed number of audience members. More competition == less for each competitor.
Sorry, I meant to say THIS ONE AMAZING FACT WILL EXPLAIN WHY YOUR BUSINESS IS NOT SUSTAINABLE!
> it's likely that they want to at some point force you > go through the "Windows Store" to buy programs, > just like Apple does on their "App Store"
Score: -1, Factually Incorrect. Apple does NOT "force" you to buy apps in their store. They encourage you to use the store, sure, and they'll pop up a warning the first time you try to run an app from somewhere else, but it's literally one click in System Preferences to say "run software from anywhere."
Remember when an editor joined -- bah, I can't remember which -- and he used the Enlightenment logo for his first few stories about the concept of "enlightenment" and everyone was briefly excited that there was news about Enlightenment?
Anyway, yeah, ditch this logo -- it's inaccurate, horrible squished, and WTF isn't "digital" these days?
Do you REALLY need houses close to each other with matching house numbers IN THE THOUSANDS and similar street names? Fuck that.
I live in a small subdivision at 2004 WOO******** and less than 1/4 mile away is ANOTHER house at 2004 WOO********, and less than 1/4 mile away in the other direction is another 2004. We get each other's mail ALL THE FUCKING TIME. What kind of FUCKING RETARDED DIPSHIT thinks that's a good way to lay out streets and house numbers? It's bad enough losing my mail because of that; I'd want to kill someone if I lost my HOUSE because of that shit. There are hundreds of houses with numbers in the thousands. There is NO REASON that any two houses in the ENTIRE SUBDIVISION should have the same numbers.
Also, what is the fetish with large numbers? There is a court next to me with 7 houses and the house numbers are in the 11,000's. Why?!? I grew up in house #105. Friend at 21 on another street, girlfriend at 56, and another friend at 189. Elementary school was 44. What's the point of large numbers if you're not going to at least take advantage of the benefits they give, i.e. uniqueness?
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Maybe he programs gas pump displays?
> I see no reason to not vaccinate myself and my children... However, I want
> the choice to be able to vaccinate as there could be a case where I don't
> feel a particular vaccine is safe.
And your opinion on when a vaccine is safe or not is different from all the other anti-vaxxers because....? I mean, it may the the case that you're right in any particular case, but that's what we're talking about here -- people who agree that X is true in general but in THIS case they KNOW they're right about Y.
"I slept at work again last night; two and a half hours curled up in a quilt underneath my desk, from 11am to 1:30pm or so. That was when I woke up with a start, realizing that I was late for a meeting we were scheduled to have to argue about colormaps and dithering, and how we should deal with all the nefarious 8-bit color management issues. But it was no big deal, we just had the meeting later. It's hard for someone to hold it against you when you miss a meeting because you've been at work so long that you've passed out from exhaustion."
- Jamie Zawinski, 1994
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> What expense? I throw it out in my trashcan like everything else
> I have that is waste, and the city picks it up for me for free
In my city, you're not supposed to throw away large electronic waste. I guess little things like toasters and clock radios are OK, but for big stuff, like microwaves and TVs, they have special pickups. For CRTs, you have to pay a few dollars per.
I also live in a working class neighborhood and a lot of stuff will get scavenged if it's out, which is fine with me. I usually put out things, along with a note describing the condition if needed, and see if it gets picked up, before I dispose of it any other way.
I wanted to find out more about the bug bounty program, so I went to pornhub.com but then I, uh, got distracted. That was 6 hours ago.
I see a blue link and I want it painted black...
> Did you miss the part where Stingray devices involve massive privacy breaches
> on the general population, so using one for a trivial robbery is massive overreach.
Next time they'll just nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.*
* Unless they guy left the area.
> We have set up a system where there is a game, and good players
> are going to game the system. So fix the system or fix the game.
Any time you establish rules, people will figure out how to use those rules to their advantage. Money is a self-feeding machine -- the more money you make, the more you can spend on accountants and lawyers to help you figure out how to make and keep more money. (And no sense mentioning that once you have enough money, you can start buying the laws you want anyway.)
Tax based on profits? OK, we'll figure out a way to keep our books to show no profit. Tax based on sales? OK, we don't sell things, we lease or rent them. Tax based on cash hoard? OK, we'll figure out a way to spend every penny we make. Number of employees? Sorry, we only have contractors. Executive pay? Our executives make $1/year, and then we give them stock and benefits. Etc etc etc.
Every rule, by definition, will give SOMEONE an advantage. Any entity with money *will* figure out a way to make sure that "someone" is always THEM.
I'd put "refrigeration" above "computer". Being able to keep food and medicine cool and safe has had a HUGE impact on health and life expectancy.
And if you're going to include "wheel", you may as well include lever, inclined plane, and the rest.
Just as we have wonders of the ancient and modern worlds, I'd say gadgets should be broken into groups. And yes, I heard Comic Book Guy's voice in my head as I typed that. Ugh.
File -> Save As -> article.html, then read the local copy. Everything works -- styles, images, etc. -- but you won't get the ad-blocking-blocking overlay.
Now finish reading TFA and post your full findings here. :D
> iPad Pro - it's a cheaper version of the Surface Pro
> with a mobile OS instead of a laptop OS. A misstep
Yeah, it's such a huge misstep that Apple only sold 25% more iPad Pros than MS sold Surfaces in the last quarter. Doooooooomed!
http://www.geekwire.com/2016/n...
That is still their preferred way of working, but they have to say SOMETHING to the slack-jawed moron investors who are somehow surprised that a company can't just grow forever. "What do you *mean* +10%/year is not sustainable forever?!?!?!!!!1111"
> Remember back in the Pentium days when
> RAM was cheaper than hard-disc space?
No I don't... because that has never happened. Disk has ALWAYS been cheaper than RAM, usually by an order of magnitude or so.
I had this exact laptop. (And a couple other Compaqs of similar vintage.) The 80 MB RAM (no idea why it's in quotes in the original) was 16 MB built-in and two 32s, I think. The disk would have been in the 1.2 GB neighborhood. MAYBE a low-spec model might have had a 540 or 250 or so.
Caldera Linux 2.2 ad 2.3 ran PERFECTLY on it. (That was the one where the installer would ask all its questions and then you could play Tetris while files copied in the background.) And by "perfectly" I mean it drove the screen properly out-of-the-box. IIRC mine had a 12" screen at 1024x768 when many other computers of the day were 800x600. And it was pretty thin for the time. And compact -- very thin bezel around the screen as well.
> Firefox could clean up its UI act
Oh, but they've done that. Several times!
> My employer insists on giving me an iPhone, but
> prohibits iTunes on my company-issue laptop
> because it's such shit.
Well, the main problem is your employer is a fucking idiot. Like it or not, devices need support sometimes, and if you're going to issue a device that occasionally requires an app or an online service but not allow access to either, that's just plain dumb.
Yeah. The way they wrote that really sucks. Here's what you ACTUALLY get for $499: "Entry-level models will likely* have lesser specs: the laptop can be configured with a 1920 x 1080 pixel display, 4GB or 8GB of RAM, and processor options including Pentium 4405Y, Core M3, and Core M5 processor." So $499 gets you a 1080p screen and 4 GB and whichever processor is worst on that list. In other words, it gets you a $499 laptop.
* and who the fuck put "likely" in there? How about "absolutely definitely"!? :-/
I want ED-209s patrolling the streets. This thing looks like an ATM on wheels.
They are all competing for a (more or less) fixed amount of time from a (more or less) fixed number of audience members. More competition == less for each competitor.
Sorry, I meant to say THIS ONE AMAZING FACT WILL EXPLAIN WHY YOUR BUSINESS IS NOT SUSTAINABLE!
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> it's likely that they want to at some point force you
> go through the "Windows Store" to buy programs,
> just like Apple does on their "App Store"
Score: -1, Factually Incorrect. Apple does NOT "force" you to buy apps in their store. They encourage you to use the store, sure, and they'll pop up a warning the first time you try to run an app from somewhere else, but it's literally one click in System Preferences to say "run software from anywhere."
http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-con...
Remember when an editor joined -- bah, I can't remember which -- and he used the Enlightenment logo for his first few stories about the concept of "enlightenment" and everyone was briefly excited that there was news about Enlightenment?
Anyway, yeah, ditch this logo -- it's inaccurate, horrible squished, and WTF isn't "digital" these days?
"A recent poll found that the vast majority of people want a ban on the dark net."
Genius. You know what else? We should ban crime, too. Just make being a criminal illegal and *poof*, crime goes away.
Good to see Slashdot doing proper geeky funny things for 1 April rather than posting links to one unfunny fake story after another.
Is this for real? If so: congratulations, Google, you won Internet Jackass Day.
Fuck the town planners, too.
Do you REALLY need houses close to each other with matching house numbers IN THE THOUSANDS and similar street names? Fuck that.
I live in a small subdivision at 2004 WOO******** and less than 1/4 mile away is ANOTHER house at 2004 WOO********, and less than 1/4 mile away in the other direction is another 2004. We get each other's mail ALL THE FUCKING TIME. What kind of FUCKING RETARDED DIPSHIT thinks that's a good way to lay out streets and house numbers? It's bad enough losing my mail because of that; I'd want to kill someone if I lost my HOUSE because of that shit. There are hundreds of houses with numbers in the thousands. There is NO REASON that any two houses in the ENTIRE SUBDIVISION should have the same numbers.
Also, what is the fetish with large numbers? There is a court next to me with 7 houses and the house numbers are in the 11,000's. Why?!? I grew up in house #105. Friend at 21 on another street, girlfriend at 56, and another friend at 189. Elementary school was 44. What's the point of large numbers if you're not going to at least take advantage of the benefits they give, i.e. uniqueness?
Yeah. I love iPhones, but... fuck. Flatline for 6 years and counting.
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