Yeah, the idea that you should treat people with respect and dignity is just "political correctness". I love that term, it let's you be an asshole, and if anybody tries to call you on it, they're just being PC.
Guys like you should be dressed in a pair of speedos and forced to parade for an hour in a gay bar.Then we'd hear no more nonsense about "political correctness".
Did we read the same article? It wasn't just one incident. Aurora tells how she left one DEFCON after a "barrage" of harassing incidents. The crotch grabbing episode was something she cited as an extreme case.
He did do both, but not at the same time. He only invented the ZIP format after he was forced to agree that he couldn't develop software that used the ARC format.
The irony is that by forcing him to create his own format, SEA made him rich.
If that's what the OP was saying, he's wrong. When Katz lost his lawsuit, he started over with his own format and won the resulting format war. If all the companies that Apple is suing lose, they can't just start over with non-Apple tech, because Apple is claiming ownership of fundamental smartphone features. They'll have to pay Apple royalties, which will make it that much harder for non-iPhones to compete.
"web counter... generally only include websites that have paid to be counted. That pretty much guarantees that Windows will be overcounted. " That's a weird jump in logic. Linux users don't go to web sites that count their users, but Windows users do?
Are you under the impression that SEA lost? They won, and forced Phil Katz to abandon PKARC. Not PKZip, which was what Katz came up with him after he was forbidden to use the SEA file format.
Sorry no. Google has huge cash inputs, and their stock is structured so their shareholders have no actual say in how the company is run. So there are no equity capitalists looking over their shoulder telling them that they're making too little and spending too much. Google is pretty much unique in that respect, which is why the Mitt Romneys of the world are rich and the rest of us aren't.
It isn't google-hating to say that their shit smells. I admire a lot of what Google does, and I particularly admire their desire to innovate bleeding edge tech all over the place. But I also get tired of some of the stupid shit they pull. And although it doesn't affect me, this idea of offering glorified insurance to their employees strikes me as particularly dumb.
I'm into Android, and I am duly grateful that Google has created the only really open phone platform out there. But I'm pessimistic about its success because they keep totally redesigning the whole thing, because the development tools are barely beta quality, and because market fragmentation means you have to code for 2-year-old versions of the platform.
I'm grateful that Google exists, but I do wish they'd grow up already.
What, I'm a hypocrite because I think Palin is an idiot and Obama isn't? What about somebody who insults Obama because they can't think of a proper defense for Palin's many sins? For that matter, what about the hypocrisy of insisting that everybody teach their children sexual values that she hasn't managed to teach her own children? Pots and kettles, dude.
You know, the way the GOP is trying to make this election a referendum on the economy and the deficit is really lame. They spent 8 years fucking it up, starting with huge tax cuts we couldn't afford and didn't need, continued with spending a trillion bucks on a "war on terror" (the centerpiece of which was the invasion of a country that wasn't even a terrorist sponsor) and winding up with being totally asleep at the switch while Wall Street went into slash-and-burn mode.
So, after 8 years of that nonsense, Obama is a "failure" because he hasn't undone the damage in 3?
And I really get tired of weird accusations like "the administration doesn't want to talk about" even mean? It's all just rhetorical hocus pocus. It would piss me off if anybody who didn't already hate Obama (because he's a you, know, one of those, uh, not very nice people, nudge nudge, wink wink) actually bought.it.
But sorry guy, the mainstream voters aren't buying it. Seen the polls lately? And threatening to kill their grannies (ot their favorite programs, which is the same thing) will just make things worse. Think landslide.
Your linked article spins all kind of second-hand, poorly sourced figures to make it look like everybody is using Linux (32% of the netbook market? yeah right) which I lack the patience to debunk point by point. Simple figure: people who track browser hits on leading web sites find that of hits from desktops, less than 1% come from Linux boxes.
Jeez, the last time I worked in an actual office, everybody had their choice of a Mac or Ubuntu desktop. (Windows was forbidden because Operations didn't want to deal with it). I picked Ubuntu because I'm an aging, senile tech writer incapable learning a totally new set of GUI idioms, but all the brilliant young programmers went with Macs. They could do stuff with a couple keystrokes that would take me a dozen mouse clicks on Ubuntu. If I were a bit more mentally flexible, I'd have asked for a Mac, and screw all the half-implemented, poorly-QAed features of Ubuntu.
If the newest generation of geeks isn't using a platform, that platform is beyond fringe.
Not a new idea. That's precisely how the U.S. Presidency was supposed to work: Congress would define policies (by consensus, political parties were considered uncool) and implemented by a chief executive (also chosen by consensus, hence our weird, unwieldy electoral college) who was not seen as a leader. That's why he's called a "president", because in 1789 the word didn't have connotations of leadership — it just meant "presiding officer". No longer true, of course.
Government by consensus isn't going to happen as long as people are contentious and combative in defending their own views and attacking those they disagree with. A good government takes the ongoing nonviolent civil war that is social discourse in a free society (particularly on Slashdot) and uses it to synthesize a laws and policies the governed can mostly live with.
There might be a delegate here and there who's not beholden to the Romney organization and will only vote for him because they're required to. But I'd be very surprised if it's more than a handful, at least among delegates elected in primaries (which is most of them). You have voted in a presidential primary, right? Then recall that you didn't vote for any delegates by name, you just voted for a slate pledged to a candidate.. And the candidate's organization chose the slate! Romney's organization isn't brilliant, but I still think it's safe to assume that all their delegates are actually Romney supporters.
No, but there's some kind of rule online that I call the Palin/Obama Paradigm. Basically, it says that if you say something unkind about Sarah Palin, you have to listen to something nasty about Barack Obama. I don't know why this rule exists, but it definitely does.
Yeah, battleships are expensive to run, but so is an aircraft carrier. There are no more battleships (the WI was one of the last ever built) because long range weaponry advanced, making smaller, more agile vessels a lot more effective for surface warfare. Which I guess fits in with your political metaphor.
Hard to believe that they'd be dumb enough to associate themselves with a movie by that name. Then again, this is the foot-in-mouth brigade.
My favorite movie flub actually comes from the Obama side, though it's one only a nitpicker like me would notice. After BO gave his victory speech in Chicago, they played the theme from "The Patriot," that Mel Gibson movie about blacks and whites fighting together to overcome tyranny.What makes it a flub is that the movie started out as a biopic of Frances "The Swamp Fox" Marion, though it went into "inspired by real events" mode after somebody did some research. IRL, Marion's plantation was burned, not by the British, but by rebellious slaves, who then went off to join the British.
I hadn't realized this "steal the nomination" scenario came from the Paul camp.If I had, I would have just ignored it with the usual rolled eyes that everything they do evokes.
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Yeah, the idea that you should treat people with respect and dignity is just "political correctness". I love that term, it let's you be an asshole, and if anybody tries to call you on it, they're just being PC.
Guys like you should be dressed in a pair of speedos and forced to parade for an hour in a gay bar.Then we'd hear no more nonsense about "political correctness".
I don't think you have to be a "femicommie" to object to being grabbed by the crotch.
Did we read the same article? It wasn't just one incident. Aurora tells how she left one DEFCON after a "barrage" of harassing incidents. The crotch grabbing episode was something she cited as an extreme case.
He did do both, but not at the same time. He only invented the ZIP format after he was forced to agree that he couldn't develop software that used the ARC format.
The irony is that by forcing him to create his own format, SEA made him rich.
If that's what the OP was saying, he's wrong. When Katz lost his lawsuit, he started over with his own format and won the resulting format war. If all the companies that Apple is suing lose, they can't just start over with non-Apple tech, because Apple is claiming ownership of fundamental smartphone features. They'll have to pay Apple royalties, which will make it that much harder for non-iPhones to compete.
Katz did not "change the extension". He changed the entire file format. And once he did that, the legal battle between him and SEA was over.
"web counter ... generally only include websites that have paid to be counted. That pretty much guarantees that Windows will be overcounted. " That's a weird jump in logic. Linux users don't go to web sites that count their users, but Windows users do?
Are you under the impression that SEA lost? They won, and forced Phil Katz to abandon PKARC. Not PKZip, which was what Katz came up with him after he was forbidden to use the SEA file format.
Sorry no. Google has huge cash inputs, and their stock is structured so their shareholders have no actual say in how the company is run. So there are no equity capitalists looking over their shoulder telling them that they're making too little and spending too much. Google is pretty much unique in that respect, which is why the Mitt Romneys of the world are rich and the rest of us aren't.
It isn't google-hating to say that their shit smells. I admire a lot of what Google does, and I particularly admire their desire to innovate bleeding edge tech all over the place. But I also get tired of some of the stupid shit they pull. And although it doesn't affect me, this idea of offering glorified insurance to their employees strikes me as particularly dumb.
I'm into Android, and I am duly grateful that Google has created the only really open phone platform out there. But I'm pessimistic about its success because they keep totally redesigning the whole thing, because the development tools are barely beta quality, and because market fragmentation means you have to code for 2-year-old versions of the platform.
I'm grateful that Google exists, but I do wish they'd grow up already.
Yeah, it must be hard being a genius among idiots. My heart goes out to you!
Different how, sparrow bean?
What, I'm a hypocrite because I think Palin is an idiot and Obama isn't? What about somebody who insults Obama because they can't think of a proper defense for Palin's many sins? For that matter, what about the hypocrisy of insisting that everybody teach their children sexual values that she hasn't managed to teach her own children? Pots and kettles, dude.
Let's see, the Linux kernel uses the GPL. There must be millions of products with Linux embedded in them.
Why is any hack done? Because it can be.
You know, the way the GOP is trying to make this election a referendum on the economy and the deficit is really lame. They spent 8 years fucking it up, starting with huge tax cuts we couldn't afford and didn't need, continued with spending a trillion bucks on a "war on terror" (the centerpiece of which was the invasion of a country that wasn't even a terrorist sponsor) and winding up with being totally asleep at the switch while Wall Street went into slash-and-burn mode.
So, after 8 years of that nonsense, Obama is a "failure" because he hasn't undone the damage in 3?
And I really get tired of weird accusations like "the administration doesn't want to talk about" even mean? It's all just rhetorical hocus pocus. It would piss me off if anybody who didn't already hate Obama (because he's a you, know, one of those, uh, not very nice people, nudge nudge, wink wink) actually bought.it.
But sorry guy, the mainstream voters aren't buying it. Seen the polls lately? And threatening to kill their grannies (ot their favorite programs, which is the same thing) will just make things worse. Think landslide.
I myself didn't read beyond the first few sentences. Formatting issues aside, that was what made linking it in this particular Slashdot post stupid.
Your linked article spins all kind of second-hand, poorly sourced figures to make it look like everybody is using Linux (32% of the netbook market? yeah right) which I lack the patience to debunk point by point. Simple figure: people who track browser hits on leading web sites find that of hits from desktops, less than 1% come from Linux boxes.
Jeez, the last time I worked in an actual office, everybody had their choice of a Mac or Ubuntu desktop. (Windows was forbidden because Operations didn't want to deal with it). I picked Ubuntu because I'm an aging, senile tech writer incapable learning a totally new set of GUI idioms, but all the brilliant young programmers went with Macs. They could do stuff with a couple keystrokes that would take me a dozen mouse clicks on Ubuntu. If I were a bit more mentally flexible, I'd have asked for a Mac, and screw all the half-implemented, poorly-QAed features of Ubuntu.
If the newest generation of geeks isn't using a platform, that platform is beyond fringe.
Leaderless government! Yeah right.
Not a new idea. That's precisely how the U.S. Presidency was supposed to work: Congress would define policies (by consensus, political parties were considered uncool) and implemented by a chief executive (also chosen by consensus, hence our weird, unwieldy electoral college) who was not seen as a leader. That's why he's called a "president", because in 1789 the word didn't have connotations of leadership — it just meant "presiding officer". No longer true, of course.
Government by consensus isn't going to happen as long as people are contentious and combative in defending their own views and attacking those they disagree with. A good government takes the ongoing nonviolent civil war that is social discourse in a free society (particularly on Slashdot) and uses it to synthesize a laws and policies the governed can mostly live with.
There might be a delegate here and there who's not beholden to the Romney organization and will only vote for him because they're required to. But I'd be very surprised if it's more than a handful, at least among delegates elected in primaries (which is most of them). You have voted in a presidential primary, right? Then recall that you didn't vote for any delegates by name, you just voted for a slate pledged to a candidate.. And the candidate's organization chose the slate! Romney's organization isn't brilliant, but I still think it's safe to assume that all their delegates are actually Romney supporters.
In the second sentence he says that the TP was founded by people "of all political stripes". How did I misread that?
No, but there's some kind of rule online that I call the Palin/Obama Paradigm. Basically, it says that if you say something unkind about Sarah Palin, you have to listen to something nasty about Barack Obama. I don't know why this rule exists, but it definitely does.
Yeah, battleships are expensive to run, but so is an aircraft carrier. There are no more battleships (the WI was one of the last ever built) because long range weaponry advanced, making smaller, more agile vessels a lot more effective for surface warfare. Which I guess fits in with your political metaphor.
Hard to believe that they'd be dumb enough to associate themselves with a movie by that name. Then again, this is the foot-in-mouth brigade.
My favorite movie flub actually comes from the Obama side, though it's one only a nitpicker like me would notice. After BO gave his victory speech in Chicago, they played the theme from "The Patriot," that Mel Gibson movie about blacks and whites fighting together to overcome tyranny.What makes it a flub is that the movie started out as a biopic of Frances "The Swamp Fox" Marion, though it went into "inspired by real events" mode after somebody did some research. IRL, Marion's plantation was burned, not by the British, but by rebellious slaves, who then went off to join the British.
I hadn't realized this "steal the nomination" scenario came from the Paul camp.If I had, I would have just ignored it with the usual rolled eyes that everything they do evokes.