Well you're sadly mistaken: those comments are representative of the pulse of a large part of the nation. That's why the country needs to break apart into separate republics, so that those of us in more progressive regions can be free of the people of that ilk who live in the more backwards regions.
Well, we could solve a lot of the 'backwards folk' problem by going 50 kinds of scorched earth on NY and LA.
In all seriousness, I believe you've made the mistake of believing such nonsense is geography-centric.
Or, someone bought 30 iPhones and hoped to sell them for a premium once Apple ran out.
I'm not denying that Apple made money, merely pointing out that "9 million units sold" does not mean 9 million people got one.
Unless you intend to apply that rule to the other smartphone manufacturers (ahem, Samsung) - oh yeah, those manufacturers don't even tell you what the sell through is, because they don't know (or want us to know).
Sure, and if the article we're commenting on was about one of the other smartphone manufacturers, I would have said something about them. But it's not - it's about Apple, so that's who the comment is about.
It's not a personal vendetta, or that "we have to invent newer, more rigorous criteria for determining success" as some fanboys may say as a response to perceived criticism; the fact is this is an article about Apple stuff, so the conversation is about Apple stuff, not Samsung or any other device maker.
I fucking pray that Yahoo comments are not "where the real America is," because if they are, we are sooooooooooooooooooo fucked.
Nothing but a bunch of idiotic, xenophobic racists over there, man, I swear. Hell, I'll go to Yahoo and stick a comment or two of pure factual information, with references, just to balance out the stupid... comments which then get modded into oblivion because I don't follow their groupthink of "Muslims bad, liberty bad, police state and genocide good."
To reiterate, I really, really fucking hope Yahoo comments are not representative of the pulse of the nation.
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Seriously, can we do something about these kids? Like, send Tonya Harding over to break their shins? I hear she could use the money.
You can prevent people from using them as a weapon in discussions they themselves have posted in.
Bah, no competent Slashtroll has less than 4 accounts to cycle. One to post, two to upmod, a fourth to badly argue against the initial post, and two anonymous comments mocking everyone.
I've thought about setting up a second, sock-puppet account with which to argue with myself, but haven't yet, either due to laziness or a general lack of self-interest; not sure which, and really don't care enough to bother with it.
PS yes, that sounded as insane in my head as it does on the screen. Fuck it, it's Monday - posting anyway:)
Tesla was a mysticist quack by the end of his life, endlessly promising inventions that he didn't have designs for and must seem impossible. He was a great scientist and experimenter in his early career, sure. He was a quack by the end.
OK... the interview quoted, if you bothered to check the link, was given in 1911, long before his so-called slide into madness.
For the record, one of the things Tesla spoke about that gave people back then cause to question his sanity was his theories about a method of sending video and audio signals through the air - technologies that we take for granted today.
So, probably less 'quack' and more 'a solid generation before his time.' But by all means, don't let that diminish your sense of mental superiority over the man who invented more stuff you use every day than I could list in a Slashdot post.
Yo dawg, I heard you like comments, so I made a comment on your story about commenting on comments, so you can comment on commentswhile you comment on comments.
I think this is the basis upon which Nikola Tesla based the engines for his never-completed flying machine:
“When I found that I had been anticipated as to the flying machine, by men working in a different field, I began to study the problem from other angles, to regard it as a mechanical rather than an electrical problem. I felt certain there must be some means of obtaining power that was better than any now in use. And by vigorous use of my gray matter for a number of years, I grasped the possibilities of the principle of the viscosity and adhesion of fluids and conceived the mechanism of my engine. Now that I have it, my next step will be the perfect flying machine."
"An aeroplane driven by your engine?" I asked.
"Not at all," said Dr. Tesla. "The aeroplane is fatally defective. It is merely a toy — a sporting play-thing. It can never become commercially practical. It has fatal defects. One is the fact that when it encounters a downward current of air it is helpless. The "hole in the air" of which aviators speak is simply a downward current, and unless the aeroplane is high enough above the earth to move laterally it can do nothing but fall."
"There is no way of detecting these downward currents, no way of avoiding them, and therefore the aeroplane must always be subject to chance and its operator to the risk of fatal accident. Sportsmen will always take these chances, but as a business proposition the risk is too great."
"The flying machine of the future—my flying machine—will be heavier than air, but it will not be an aeroplane. It will have no wings. It will be substantial, solid, stable. You cannot have a stable airplane. The gyroscope can never be successfully applied to the airplane, for it would give a stability that would result in the machine being torn to pieces by the wind, just as the unprotected aeroplane on the ground is torn to pieces by a high wind."
"My flying machine will have neither wings nor propellers. You might see it on the ground and you would never guess that it was a flying machine. Yet it will be able to move at will through the air in any direction with perfect safety, higher speeds than have yet been reached, regardless of weather and oblivious of “holes in the air? or downward currents. It will ascend in such currents if desired. It can remain absolutely stationary in the air, even in a wind, for great length of time. Its lifting power will not depend upon any such delicate devices as the bird has to employ, but upon positive mechanical action."
“You will get stability through gyroscopes?" I asked.
“Through gyroscopic action of my engine, assisted by some devices I am not yet prepared to talk about," he replied.
Hell, I'd pay for a ROM that let me turn my old 'Droid devices into useful musical instruments. SPC is about the only Android music-creation app I've found (thus far) that doesn't completely suck.
“resource curse”—the phenomenon wherein poor counties with the greatest natural resources end up with the most corrupt and repressive governments.
My ass - that shit is engineered by the people and groups who stand to profit from preventing those people from taking ownership of their national resources.
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...Just imagine a Beowulf cluster of them!
I'm sorry, but you must die.
Oh come on. It was funny.
No one ever said it wasn't; now stick your head in this loop of rope, Funnyman.
Actually Linux is not Ready for the Desktop.
Hey now! I'm a regular Linux desktop user and... and... and you're completely right.
No operating system will enjoy mainstream adoption these days if mucking about in a CLI is ever a necessity. Sad but true.
Well you're sadly mistaken: those comments are representative of the pulse of a large part of the nation. That's why the country needs to break apart into separate republics, so that those of us in more progressive regions can be free of the people of that ilk who live in the more backwards regions.
Well, we could solve a lot of the 'backwards folk' problem by going 50 kinds of scorched earth on NY and LA.
In all seriousness, I believe you've made the mistake of believing such nonsense is geography-centric.
I've thought about setting up a second, sock-puppet account with which to argue with myself...
So, sort of like an Aron Sorkin screenplay?
Judging from my post history, I'd wager it would be more akin to eavesdropping in the schizophrenia ward of the local sanitarium.
Or, someone bought 30 iPhones and hoped to sell them for a premium once Apple ran out.
I'm not denying that Apple made money, merely pointing out that "9 million units sold" does not mean 9 million people got one.
Unless you intend to apply that rule to the other smartphone manufacturers (ahem, Samsung) - oh yeah, those manufacturers don't even tell you what the sell through is, because they don't know (or want us to know).
Sure, and if the article we're commenting on was about one of the other smartphone manufacturers, I would have said something about them. But it's not - it's about Apple, so that's who the comment is about.
It's not a personal vendetta, or that "we have to invent newer, more rigorous criteria for determining success" as some fanboys may say as a response to perceived criticism; the fact is this is an article about Apple stuff, so the conversation is about Apple stuff, not Samsung or any other device maker.
Sheesh.
I fucking pray that Yahoo comments are not "where the real America is," because if they are, we are sooooooooooooooooooo fucked.
Nothing but a bunch of idiotic, xenophobic racists over there, man, I swear. Hell, I'll go to Yahoo and stick a comment or two of pure factual information, with references, just to balance out the stupid... comments which then get modded into oblivion because I don't follow their groupthink of "Muslims bad, liberty bad, police state and genocide good."
To reiterate, I really, really fucking hope Yahoo comments are not representative of the pulse of the nation.
This:
MartinJrMakesPoopVideos: hi everybody i just started my onw chanel, its really awsome even tho their arn't any videos on it, click on my name and check it out cuz as a looser i base my personal validation on how many people look at my channel! I only subscribned to this sooper popular chanel so i could solicit my own garbace in the commnts
Seriously, can we do something about these kids? Like, send Tonya Harding over to break their shins? I hear she could use the money.
You have some kind of mental issues.
FWIW, I'm thoroughly convinced that statement applies to the human race in general.
Not that I'm defending anyone's comments, it's just... well, we're all mad here.
You can prevent people from using them as a weapon in discussions they themselves have posted in.
Bah, no competent Slashtroll has less than 4 accounts to cycle. One to post, two to upmod, a fourth to badly argue against the initial post, and two anonymous comments mocking everyone.
I've thought about setting up a second, sock-puppet account with which to argue with myself, but haven't yet, either due to laziness or a general lack of self-interest; not sure which, and really don't care enough to bother with it.
PS yes, that sounded as insane in my head as it does on the screen. Fuck it, it's Monday - posting anyway :)
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Well, no, but 9M customers did.
And yes, one person can be represented as 100 customers... counter-intuitive but that's how it works.
I suppose the lack of a reptilian brain is preventing me from understanding the marketing-speak here...
Like Microsoft Surface RT? :)
EXACTLY!
Tesla was a mysticist quack by the end of his life, endlessly promising inventions that he didn't have designs for and must seem impossible. He was a great scientist and experimenter in his early career, sure. He was a quack by the end.
OK... the interview quoted, if you bothered to check the link, was given in 1911, long before his so-called slide into madness.
For the record, one of the things Tesla spoke about that gave people back then cause to question his sanity was his theories about a method of sending video and audio signals through the air - technologies that we take for granted today.
So, probably less 'quack' and more 'a solid generation before his time.' But by all means, don't let that diminish your sense of mental superiority over the man who invented more stuff you use every day than I could list in a Slashdot post.
Yo dawg, I heard you like comments, so I made a comment on your story about commenting on comments, so you can comment on comments while you comment on comments.
FTFY... or I just gave Xhibit a stroke.
Meh, either way...
I think this is the basis upon which Nikola Tesla based the engines for his never-completed flying machine:
you'd need a lens, the cost would be immense
Not for billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne.
You might as well complain that dropping an anvil on sombody's head will not result in a bump but will crush their freaking skull and kill them.
Yea, WTF is up with that???
Or, someone bought 30 iPhones and hoped to sell them for a premium once Apple ran out.
I'm not denying that Apple made money, merely pointing out that "9 million units sold" does not mean 9 million people got one.
Selling none, because your company is just too fucking hip for all those lame-ass customers out there.
> Android gizmos do pretty much the same thing
Can Android do real-time audio processing yet?
Hell, I'd pay for a ROM that let me turn my old 'Droid devices into useful musical instruments. SPC is about the only Android music-creation app I've found (thus far) that doesn't completely suck.
Besides the 9M people mentioned above? ...
"9M units sold" != 9M people buying one.
There were already a shit-ton of these things on Ebay by Saturday afternoon.
Morality: software engineer must learn to say "Ha ha ha ha ha!
Oh, wait, you were serious?
BWAAAAAA Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!"
FTFY.
Life's more fun when you openly deride stupid, unreasonable assholes.
“resource curse”—the phenomenon wherein poor counties with the greatest natural resources end up with the most corrupt and repressive governments.
My ass - that shit is engineered by the people and groups who stand to profit from preventing those people from taking ownership of their national resources.
The De Beers artificial diamond shortages being a prime example.
49% fucked
.. would make an awesome band name!
If we're lucky we can buy a few seconds by invoking The Shadow Proclamation...