Shakrai never said s/he was a Trump supporter, and neither did I. Which I'm not.
I'm commenting on your reaction to this post, where they answered your (presumably rhetorical) question reasonably, then you spazzed out and started calling them names and questioning their sanity.
I wonder if you and the AC are both having trouble with this Slashdot formatting thing where after a certain depth of comment it just gives up and puts them all on the same level, which can be rather misleading about who is being replied to. If you repeatedly click the "Parent" links it will trace it up the stack for you.
Still waiting on any statistics that show it's actually safer.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rice Cook
There's this thing called a rearview mirror so there was already a mirror that a camera replaced.
Yeah, that's my point--adding a safety feature where none existed before is obviously going to help. Replacing an existing safety feature with a more expensive, less reliable one is more dubiously beneficial.
it isn't the hindrance that side view mirrors are.
As is prudent. PAjamian seemed to be saying that everybody drives like they did in their driver's test every day. Lots of people are totally ignorant of their blind spots. And e.g. if you drive a manual transmission car you actually *can't* keep two hands on the wheel all the time.
The best way to keep from getting in accidents, in my experience, is to assume that every other driver on the road is purposely trying to hit you. Depending on where you live it's probably not far from the truth:P
People can shout "Luddite!!" all they want, but it's like how they don't let you just use a calculator for everything in math class: You should know how to do it all yourself first (well, for restricted definitions of "all". nobody expects you to know circuit wiring to use a computer or how to build a combustion engine to drive a car).
The more you use technology that does it all for you, the more you become reliant on it. That uncontrolled acceleration thing a few years back--I bet most people who regularly drive manual's first thought when they heard about it was probably, "Why didn't they just pop it out of gear?" But automatics do all that for you so it doesn't cross your mind.
Hey, it's not my fault the one example you picked sucked. If you wanted us to think about Heartbleed and Shellshock you should have just mentioned them in the first place.
Nobody is saying Linux is completely immune to malware. Stop tilting at that strawman. What we *are* saying is that the malware that *does* exist for Linux is much fewer in number and generally less dangerous.
I'm sorry, I didn't know that there was an "allowed amount of money" they can have, and no more...
Well, since I want to pay them one lump sum of money and you want to pay them all your money forever...you tell me who's being more reasonable. Me saying "they're not making enough money" makes no claim whatsoever about what number "enough" is, either.
Windows costs more to develop today than it did 20 years ago, yet the price hasn't changed.
Yeah, it's expensive to ram all these touchscreen features we don't want down the throats of users!
No, I imagine they'll still sell Windows, but now they can lower the price and offer 3 years of updates.
Just a couple paragraphs ago you were saying they aren't making enough money, now you think they're going to make Windows cheaper? Listen to yourself. You don't use a monopoly to make less money.
Another thing they could do is include some OneDrive space, Skype minutes, and even a Windows store credit with that. Perhaps $10 of Windows Store credit per year of renewal.
Hey, wow, all kinds of other shit I don't use or want. Maybe they could include a couple copies of Norton Antivirus and a coupon for a free anal probe, too?
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Shakrai never said s/he was a Trump supporter, and neither did I. Which I'm not.
I'm commenting on your reaction to this post, where they answered your (presumably rhetorical) question reasonably, then you spazzed out and started calling them names and questioning their sanity.
I wonder if you and the AC are both having trouble with this Slashdot formatting thing where after a certain depth of comment it just gives up and puts them all on the same level, which can be rather misleading about who is being replied to. If you repeatedly click the "Parent" links it will trace it up the stack for you.
Multiple links that answer questions I'm not asking. Good job, sparky.
You wouldn't consider calling someone out of touch with the real world and selectively filtering lies to fit their opinions "dumb"?
Would you prefer "malicious"?
"Voluntarily" resigned. Because there's so much of a practical difference for anybody except his finances.
And how will you get at your data when the network goes down, Mr. Anderson?
Sneakernet is the last backup you always count on. Unless you enjoy living dangerously.
So since it's nonbinding, why do you care so much about us not expressing our right to petition?
It would probably also help if you actually pointed out what was wrong with their worldview instead of just calling them dumb.
Still waiting on any statistics that show it's actually safer.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
- Rice Cook
There's this thing called a rearview mirror so there was already a mirror that a camera replaced.
Yeah, that's my point--adding a safety feature where none existed before is obviously going to help. Replacing an existing safety feature with a more expensive, less reliable one is more dubiously beneficial.
it isn't the hindrance that side view mirrors are.
How are sideview mirrors a hindrance?
No, adding a camera where there is currently neither a camera nor a mirror apparently saves lives.
Replacing an existing mirror with a camera saving lives is what I'm looking for evidence of.
No, citation that replacing mirrors with cameras saves lives, numbnuts.
[citation needed]
As is prudent. PAjamian seemed to be saying that everybody drives like they did in their driver's test every day. Lots of people are totally ignorant of their blind spots. And e.g. if you drive a manual transmission car you actually *can't* keep two hands on the wheel all the time.
The best way to keep from getting in accidents, in my experience, is to assume that every other driver on the road is purposely trying to hit you. Depending on where you live it's probably not far from the truth :P
People can shout "Luddite!!" all they want, but it's like how they don't let you just use a calculator for everything in math class: You should know how to do it all yourself first (well, for restricted definitions of "all". nobody expects you to know circuit wiring to use a computer or how to build a combustion engine to drive a car).
The more you use technology that does it all for you, the more you become reliant on it. That uncontrolled acceleration thing a few years back--I bet most people who regularly drive manual's first thought when they heard about it was probably, "Why didn't they just pop it out of gear?" But automatics do all that for you so it doesn't cross your mind.
You can't fix shit on a car for under 100 bucks.
Then make it optional. Why does all this stuff have to be mandated 5 years down the road?
That would be extremely bad driving habits
Welcome to life.
if you don't check your blindspots when changing lanes during the drivers test
I challenge you to find a single person on Earth who drives as carefully as they did during their driving test, a few years later.
You're kind of proving my point. How would you feel about the following phrases:
white bastard
Asian bastard
Hispanic bastard
It's the "bastard" part that's offensive, not the phrase as a whole.
It's called an adjective. Not every adjective is an insult.
"It's a shitty blue car." -- is the word "blue" an epithet?
Probably because nobody discriminates based on hair color? Is this really a thing? WTF?
Hey, it's not my fault the one example you picked sucked. If you wanted us to think about Heartbleed and Shellshock you should have just mentioned them in the first place.
Nobody is saying Linux is completely immune to malware. Stop tilting at that strawman. What we *are* saying is that the malware that *does* exist for Linux is much fewer in number and generally less dangerous.
Imminent means "about to happen." (to make matters worse there's also an "immanent," or "existing or operating within; inherent")
You want Eminent Domain.
I'm sorry, I didn't know that there was an "allowed amount of money" they can have, and no more...
Well, since I want to pay them one lump sum of money and you want to pay them all your money forever...you tell me who's being more reasonable. Me saying "they're not making enough money" makes no claim whatsoever about what number "enough" is, either.
Windows costs more to develop today than it did 20 years ago, yet the price hasn't changed.
Yeah, it's expensive to ram all these touchscreen features we don't want down the throats of users!
No, I imagine they'll still sell Windows, but now they can lower the price and offer 3 years of updates.
Just a couple paragraphs ago you were saying they aren't making enough money, now you think they're going to make Windows cheaper? Listen to yourself. You don't use a monopoly to make less money.
Another thing they could do is include some OneDrive space, Skype minutes, and even a Windows store credit with that. Perhaps $10 of Windows Store credit per year of renewal.
Hey, wow, all kinds of other shit I don't use or want. Maybe they could include a couple copies of Norton Antivirus and a coupon for a free anal probe, too?
Except it turns out human hardware doesn't support soulflaying so it fails and you end up as a zombie.
The Sun engineers who mostly quit en masse during the acquisition?
Unlike the "I want everything for free" crowd, I'm ok to pay for things that I use.
Pay for it every year, forever? Why would you want to do that when you can pay for it once?