Yeah, well it's too late. Slashdot once again decided to spread FUD with the opening sentence:
Well, AT&T has decided that anyone using their broadband network is their customer
I'm not trying to beat up on slash or michael here. I don't expect this place to be completely impartial (hell, not even close). I would just like people to try to state the facts as facts, and the opinion as opinion.
Well what the hell would you know about flaming?!? Obviously NOTHING!
Heh, sorry;)
I've never like the idea of enforced netiquette, because I think the analogy is wrong. When you are posting something to a news group (or web log) you are NOT having a conversation with another individual, you are publicly speaking to a huge audience.
Public speach is held to a higher standard than personal conversations, and as such it is open to more criticism. When a politician or any other public figure spells "potatoe", mispronounces something, accidentally insults a group of people, etc., they are roasted for it. Not because they made a silly mistake, but because they did it publicly, to an audience of thousands.
Why should the net be considered any different? When you post to, say, slashdot, you are doing much the same thing: Speaking to thousands. If you get something wrong you deserve to be flamed, just like other public figures.
Go to your local MegaHollyBuster and rent one of these Time Warner disks. Bring it back and bitch up a storm about it not playing; play dumb; demand a free rental. Grab another T/W disk. Come back in screaming bloody murder about their shitty disks until you get an answer that you "understand". Yell and rant some more, almost to the point of being kicked out of the store.
I guarantee it won't take very many of these episodes before they dump this dumb idea.
That "A vote for X is a vote for Y" is one of the best headfuck games the politicians have ever laid on people. I am continually amazed at how many people spout it off and think it means something.
A vote for a 3rd party candadite is a VOTE AGAINST A 2 PARTY SYSTEM, and as such it is very meaningful.
It's just typical law enforcement blather. You gotta remember, these people think very differently from us, and if we didn't act to reign them in we would probably be living in a totalitarian police state by now.
It scares me that some people can get so involved in their one field that they end up with blinders to the rest of the world. I don't think these people are being intentionally evil, they are just too involved with their one niche. Tunnel vision is dangerous.
No, it's not a stupid question. You have to visit metamod.pl logged in before you are allowed to M2. This is not documented anywhere that I know of. Sort of a 'hidden feature' of/.
Where I more cynical I might suggest that this was done so that newbies can't metamod, but I think they've taken away the ability of accounts < 6 months old to M2 recently anyway, so I really don't understand why it's hidden.
First and foremost is market acceptance. Everybody knows about Intel, and most know about AMD. The PowerPC architecture has never really become well known, mainly because at the time it was released Apple was in a tailspin. Unfortunately, because it is most associated with Apple, it got tainted by Apple's situation. It was never considered a contender, so people forgot about it.
I keep mentioning it in past tense, because that's the general opinion of the news media that reports on these things. This whole implied media image has resulted in many people just not giving much consideration to PowerPC chips, despite IBM's best efforts to change that.
Another reason is a relative lack of economies of scale. The small percentage of use due to the above hasn't created enough incentive for board manufacturers to look at it seriously. Especially now with several very popular chipsets for Intel & AMD, all of them selling far more than any PowerPC-based boards. This pushes the price of the few components available much higher than comparable x86 ones.
What it all really boils down to is profits. Abit, Asus, etc., don't give a damn about variety or what's best. Board manufacturers are not innovators, they just respond to market demands. Until a company with more market pull (like Dell or Compaq) starts selling boat loads of PowerPC based systems, availability will be scarce and prices will be high.
Hey, do you and {} have older accounts here? If so, will you tell us what the user names are? If not, did you two find slash recently and then decide to try hacking it?
I'm assuming you are the real you because... well, becuase I can't think of a compelling reason to think otherwise.
Shutting down slash would not be a good idea from a PR point of view. It would make them appear scared. This is the equivalent of, "Move along. Nothing to see here." A good idea, I think.
Even if they could somehow prove their ludicrous claim, then what? Every time I author a page I send them money for each link? Or better yet, every time I click a link I owe them? Imagine having to pay for each visit to the above. there's a distasteful thought (although having to pay for creating a goatse.cx link would certainly improve slashdot).
I guess, in light of how unworkable either of my above examples are, we would just have to shut down this whole web thing and appologize. I'm sure that would go through pretty quickly without any snags or complaints </sarcasm>
I guess you also download your music off the net without paying, because it's really not good enough to pay for?
No, I don't. The only mp3's I pull are:
a) Previewing something new to see if I want to buy it
b) Things that I can't find to buy bcause they are out of print, rare imports, etc.
if it's so bad, why even watch/listen to it?
Like I said above, it is how I, and millions of others, relax for an hour or so at the end of the day. Everyone does it, I'm just one of the few who will admit it's not worth paying for.
I read that one of the proposals under consideration is to have a ".kids" TLD, which is, of course, censored for the kiddies. It would seem to me that this solves a LOT of problems. Rather than sending adults, who make up the vast majority of web viewers, around all sorts of hurdles to prove their adulthood, parents can simply only allow junior to access things from.kids. Does anyone see any major problems with this idea? Yeah, there's some inforcement work to do, but other than that I can't think of why this would be a bad thing.
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Yeah, well it's too late. Slashdot once again decided to spread FUD with the opening sentence:
Well, AT&T has decided that anyone using their broadband network is their customer
I'm not trying to beat up on slash or michael here. I don't expect this place to be completely impartial (hell, not even close). I would just like people to try to state the facts as facts, and the opinion as opinion.
Well what the hell would you know about flaming?!? Obviously NOTHING!
Heh, sorry ;)
I've never like the idea of enforced netiquette, because I think the analogy is wrong. When you are posting something to a news group (or web log) you are NOT having a conversation with another individual, you are publicly speaking to a huge audience.
Public speach is held to a higher standard than personal conversations, and as such it is open to more criticism. When a politician or any other public figure spells "potatoe", mispronounces something, accidentally insults a group of people, etc., they are roasted for it. Not because they made a silly mistake, but because they did it publicly, to an audience of thousands.
Why should the net be considered any different? When you post to, say, slashdot, you are doing much the same thing: Speaking to thousands. If you get something wrong you deserve to be flamed, just like other public figures.
You want to use Yahoo's maps to get around?!? Good luck. Hope you don't mind being late.
Baron Harkonnen like locust crusing around on floating disks...
Disks? What disks? Not in the movie OR the book (and the movie got it wrong anyway).
A variation on your idea:
Go to your local MegaHollyBuster and rent one of these Time Warner disks. Bring it back and bitch up a storm about it not playing; play dumb; demand a free rental. Grab another T/W disk. Come back in screaming bloody murder about their shitty disks until you get an answer that you "understand". Yell and rant some more, almost to the point of being kicked out of the store.
I guarantee it won't take very many of these episodes before they dump this dumb idea.
That is never a good sign. Enough hype, already! Let's see some 3rd party benchmarks, Transmeta!
Apparently living on light is a whole lot like munching lots of LSD.
A vote for a 3rd party candadite is a VOTE AGAINST A 2 PARTY SYSTEM, and as such it is very meaningful.
It scares me that some people can get so involved in their one field that they end up with blinders to the rest of the world. I don't think these people are being intentionally evil, they are just too involved with their one niche. Tunnel vision is dangerous.
There used to be some Choose Your Own Adventure stuff on the hidden sids of
The location of metamod.pl isn't IN the faq page! You have to either be told about it or make a lucky guess.
Where I more cynical I might suggest that this was done so that newbies can't metamod, but I think they've taken away the ability of accounts < 6 months old to M2 recently anyway, so I really don't understand why it's hidden.
This really is getting silly. What's this, 3 times in as many days?
Does that mean what I think it means?
michael, you dirty little devil...
I see a $3,000 Cube. Gotta have it. <click> Oh, shit, wait... I can't afford that! Damn.
"Hello, Visa? I need a credit extension, quick!"
Way to go, Jobs. I'm sure this is exactly what Ghandi would have done, too.
I keep mentioning it in past tense, because that's the general opinion of the news media that reports on these things. This whole implied media image has resulted in many people just not giving much consideration to PowerPC chips, despite IBM's best efforts to change that.
Another reason is a relative lack of economies of scale. The small percentage of use due to the above hasn't created enough incentive for board manufacturers to look at it seriously. Especially now with several very popular chipsets for Intel & AMD, all of them selling far more than any PowerPC-based boards. This pushes the price of the few components available much higher than comparable x86 ones.
What it all really boils down to is profits. Abit, Asus, etc., don't give a damn about variety or what's best. Board manufacturers are not innovators, they just respond to market demands. Until a company with more market pull (like Dell or Compaq) starts selling boat loads of PowerPC based systems, availability will be scarce and prices will be high.
Either way, is Intel now a Lion?
Not too much, I am just curious as to whether or not you guys are active posters. Be damn funny if you were a Bruce Perens imposter ;)
I'm assuming you are the real you because... well, becuase I can't think of a compelling reason to think otherwise.
Shutting down slash would not be a good idea from a PR point of view. It would make them appear scared. This is the equivalent of, "Move along. Nothing to see here." A good idea, I think.
Not necessarily. Please post the number and expiration date here, and we'll check to see if it was one of the ones stolen.
I guess, in light of how unworkable either of my above examples are, we would just have to shut down this whole web thing and appologize. I'm sure that would go through pretty quickly without any snags or complaints </sarcasm>
No, I don't. The only mp3's I pull are:
a) Previewing something new to see if I want to buy it
b) Things that I can't find to buy bcause they are out of print, rare imports, etc.
if it's so bad, why even watch/listen to it?
Like I said above, it is how I, and millions of others, relax for an hour or so at the end of the day. Everyone does it, I'm just one of the few who will admit it's not worth paying for.
I read that one of the proposals under consideration is to have a ".kids" TLD, which is, of course, censored for the kiddies. It would seem to me that this solves a LOT of problems. Rather than sending adults, who make up the vast majority of web viewers, around all sorts of hurdles to prove their adulthood, parents can simply only allow junior to access things from .kids. Does anyone see any major problems with this idea? Yeah, there's some inforcement work to do, but other than that I can't think of why this would be a bad thing.