first point, the time standard for slashdot is eastern, learn to adapt your local time is not the center of the fucking world
second point, quota's dont mean shit when its 24 hours before the end of said quota, which I know are only slightly enforced on slashdot in the first place, these guys are not primarily employed by slashdot, most of them pop in for a couple hours after real work to listen to asshats bitch and whine about ad free news tailored as best as they can to some random mouth breathers interests
your dealing with news for nerds by nerds, and as per personal experience you can bust your ass for 300 bucks a month while douches expect you to be Pulitzer winners
SIlly things like an internet curfew? how silly is that, let little betsy stay up till 2AM every single day fucking off on facebook then OMG how did she ever fail school and send off all those naked mirror pics to her boyfriend who dumped her when she got pregnant at age 15
I start rolling my eyes when I start fidgeting in the cheap ass chair cause my ass is going to sleep and I am tired of holding a bag of popcorn. Sure its a three hour movie, but you get there a little early cause of lines and you dont want to be that douche that walks in during the opening scene bumping everyone cause they want the middle seats for them and their 4 buddies, then you sit there for 20 min worth of previews.
So that 3 hour movie usually turns into 3:45, and you all know that most of that extra hour is just because they feel the need to drag along on less important stuff as if it were the main focus.
By 2014 this bullshit of connecting your toaster to the cloud will be a fad, and not many people will actually care to sign in to see how many farts they tweeted
"Is the Berne Convention obsolete and in need of breaking to actually preserve cultural history?"
Just cause you cant download it for free, use its images, sounds or any other part any way you see fit does not mean its disappeared to the ages. Also a lot of people, even in this thread seem to think they only made one copy of this shit, and some evil villain is sitting on it in a scrooge mcduck vault. Well its not, there's thousands if not millions of copies, for you to consume.
we typically are the younger adults... I entered my 20's with a war against the wrong country, the dot com crash, a decade of being told the system would not be there for me, and rapid devaluation
that's my happy America, never even had a chance at the dream. keeping my head above water is the best I can hope for
"After the usual hemming and hawing, horse-trading and partisan hysterics, Congress and the White House have seemingly agreed to a deal to get the country passed the so-called “fiscal cliff.” (Worth noting: The deal has yet to pass the Senate or House — meaning that it is not totally done just yet. But, it does appear to be as close to a done deal as possible.)"
in all fairness, we have one of those original EeePC's at work, and that SSD is stupid small. Anything but a bare bones linux eats up so much of the spacious 4GB that the machine becomes useless without a SD card jammed in it
some of these thngs cost as much as a decent laptop and what do you get?
A sickly cpu that struggles with desktop applications A small often bad screen A small keyboard thats very easy to fat finger and not all that impressive battery life (average yes, impressive no)
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first point, the time standard for slashdot is eastern, learn to adapt your local time is not the center of the fucking world
second point, quota's dont mean shit when its 24 hours before the end of said quota, which I know are only slightly enforced on slashdot in the first place, these guys are not primarily employed by slashdot, most of them pop in for a couple hours after real work to listen to asshats bitch and whine about ad free news tailored as best as they can to some random mouth breathers interests
your dealing with news for nerds by nerds, and as per personal experience you can bust your ass for 300 bucks a month while douches expect you to be Pulitzer winners
"Posted by timothy on Saturday January 05, @12:24AM"
posted a whole 24 min after the day started, tell me ... are you a natural fucktard, or a trained dipshit?
fuckin fine by me
so it will go from 0 to 1 and exit?
leet 8 bit basic skills there hehe
forgive me I am in the middle of writing an apple II basic game for a compo and have not so crazy stuff like
9045 SH = FT: GOSUB 9015: HCOLOR = 0: XDRAW 100 AT 220,97
9046 FOR I = 1 TO LEN(BO$(PA)): XDRAW ASC(MID$(BO$(PA),I,1)) - 31
9047 XDRAW 99: NEXT: RETURN
SIlly things like an internet curfew? how silly is that, let little betsy stay up till 2AM every single day fucking off on facebook then OMG how did she ever fail school and send off all those naked mirror pics to her boyfriend who dumped her when she got pregnant at age 15
stupid god damned parents!
I start rolling my eyes when I start fidgeting in the cheap ass chair cause my ass is going to sleep and I am tired of holding a bag of popcorn. Sure its a three hour movie, but you get there a little early cause of lines and you dont want to be that douche that walks in during the opening scene bumping everyone cause they want the middle seats for them and their 4 buddies, then you sit there for 20 min worth of previews.
So that 3 hour movie usually turns into 3:45, and you all know that most of that extra hour is just because they feel the need to drag along on less important stuff as if it were the main focus.
a cheap agilent multimeter is accurate to 7 decimals, measuring something in that form of accuracy is not something that is just tossed together
By 2014 this bullshit of connecting your toaster to the cloud will be a fad, and not many people will actually care to sign in to see how many farts they tweeted
you obviously dont know how much talent it takes to make even a mediocre chunk of lab equipment
to play the other side, lets look at GM's history with raises, benefits and a fuckton of small groups doing their own thing
When I looked it was not good, and included things like bankruptcy and begging for money
I have not shut down my computer in 6 months
"Is the Berne Convention obsolete and in need of breaking to actually preserve cultural history?"
Just cause you cant download it for free, use its images, sounds or any other part any way you see fit does not mean its disappeared to the ages. Also a lot of people, even in this thread seem to think they only made one copy of this shit, and some evil villain is sitting on it in a scrooge mcduck vault. Well its not, there's thousands if not millions of copies, for you to consume.
Just pay for your fucking elvis
same here, some us felt this shit 8 years sooner
we typically are the younger adults ... I entered my 20's with a war against the wrong country, the dot com crash, a decade of being told the system would not be there for me, and rapid devaluation
that's my happy America, never even had a chance at the dream. keeping my head above water is the best I can hope for
most of the tea party could not identify Greece on a map
yea thats what I want, windows where I have to constantly fuck with it like linux
its like stacking shit ontop of vomit
how does this differ than any other CEO that was given the position out of charity or pity?
why would they buy a windows 8 pc, they just bought the exact same thing with windows 7 installed a few months ago
This is the most asinine garbage I have ever heard from a tinfoil hat
"After the usual hemming and hawing, horse-trading and partisan hysterics, Congress and the White House have seemingly agreed to a deal to get the country passed the so-called “fiscal cliff.” (Worth noting: The deal has yet to pass the Senate or House — meaning that it is not totally done just yet. But, it does appear to be as close to a done deal as possible.)"
too late slashdot
I get a moderately priced bottle of Scotch and avoid the internet
in all fairness, we have one of those original EeePC's at work, and that SSD is stupid small. Anything but a bare bones linux eats up so much of the spacious 4GB that the machine becomes useless without a SD card jammed in it
but geez price much?
some of these thngs cost as much as a decent laptop and what do you get?
A sickly cpu that struggles with desktop applications
A small often bad screen
A small keyboard thats very easy to fat finger
and not all that impressive battery life (average yes, impressive no)
where opening a browser to shop the entire world from our toilet is just too much?
we already have those, they are called hands, and they work great once you learn how to use them
or for 500 you can get any other laptop
I dont personally mind having a thicker heavier ... laptop as long as my wallet is also thicker and heavier