The problem is that the reason for global warming denial was very rarely, if ever, healthy scientific skepticism (which no sane person has an issue with); but rather political and religious dogma trying to pass as skepticism.
Oh, they will definitely catch on eventually. Google are the ones making the most noise about it, and they don't seem to mind showing off unfinished, shit vapourware; but every tech company worth its salt is prototyping glasses and other wearables, and eventually someone will come up with a model that doesn't make you look like an unspeakable neckbeard. Can't fight the future.
Well, if that person isn't completely stupid, they would know that everybody can pull up enough info to pretend they know them, and that trick won't work any more. Society will adapt, mostly because it won't have a choice.
Well, since that ship already sailed, or will sail over the next few years, you can retaliate by recording them back. To paraphrase David Brin, the next best thing to privacy is two-way surveillance.
While I agree with you in principle, for the last ten years everything that has been done by every company in the consumer electronics industry has been either imitating Apple, trying to distance themselves from Apple, as a reaction to Apple, or trying to pre-empt Apple. They are a pretty large elephant-in-the-room in every discussion.
Not sure if we're reading the same Slashdot. What I see here is that, when Apple started making non-repairable devices, they were evil, but now that Microsoft is doing it also, it's just common sense.
He does have a point, though, in the sense that strapping large firecrackers to our rear ends isn't going to get us to colonise the Solar System, and that more advanced propulsion is sorely needed.
The desktop doesn't matter any more. It's not "dead", it's not going away entirely, and they aren't going to come around to your house to pry it from your cold, dead fingers; but it just doesn't matter. It's not where interesting developments are happening. It's not where the puck *is*, let alone where it's going to be.
Do you have a documented, non-tinfoil example of this actually happening? Legitimately the same invention, and not a "OMG Apple patented the rectangle" kind of thing?
If some department is teaching that "man is just a more evolved animal" they have no idea how evolution works, have no business teaching it, and are barely a step up from the howling lunatics teaching creationism.
We're not arguing dates; the only reason Amazon was selling DRM-free music and Apple wasn't is that the labels allowed them to, trying to build Amazon into an iTunes competitor.
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I can only buy a 911 from Porsche. Obviously, they are a monopoly that needs breaking up.
Basically, nobody cares about the guts, and those who do are capable of finding out by themselves.
No need to sound so apologetic. I also like my games to have some production values.
Not as long as trite, tired Luddite bullshit like this gets published, at least.
The problem is that the reason for global warming denial was very rarely, if ever, healthy scientific skepticism (which no sane person has an issue with); but rather political and religious dogma trying to pass as skepticism.
Sounds about right. What's the problem?
Oh, they will definitely catch on eventually. Google are the ones making the most noise about it, and they don't seem to mind showing off unfinished, shit vapourware; but every tech company worth its salt is prototyping glasses and other wearables, and eventually someone will come up with a model that doesn't make you look like an unspeakable neckbeard. Can't fight the future.
It's also possible that the author is mistaking anecdote for data, and that's just how his brain works.
Well, if that person isn't completely stupid, they would know that everybody can pull up enough info to pretend they know them, and that trick won't work any more. Society will adapt, mostly because it won't have a choice.
Well, since that ship already sailed, or will sail over the next few years, you can retaliate by recording them back. To paraphrase David Brin, the next best thing to privacy is two-way surveillance.
Quite the turnaround, to pin our hopes for the future on China and Russia.
"Fear all that is new" and "hate all that is different" are the two commandments of conservatism, so it sounds about right.
While I agree with you in principle, for the last ten years everything that has been done by every company in the consumer electronics industry has been either imitating Apple, trying to distance themselves from Apple, as a reaction to Apple, or trying to pre-empt Apple. They are a pretty large elephant-in-the-room in every discussion.
And to clarify, as long as you know what you're getting, I'm fully in the "common sense" camp.
Not sure if we're reading the same Slashdot. What I see here is that, when Apple started making non-repairable devices, they were evil, but now that Microsoft is doing it also, it's just common sense.
This is a waste of space and weight on a device you aren't supposed to take apart or upgrade.
*shrug* Religion is the art of cherry-picking.
He does have a point, though, in the sense that strapping large firecrackers to our rear ends isn't going to get us to colonise the Solar System, and that more advanced propulsion is sorely needed.
The desktop doesn't matter any more. It's not "dead", it's not going away entirely, and they aren't going to come around to your house to pry it from your cold, dead fingers; but it just doesn't matter. It's not where interesting developments are happening. It's not where the puck *is*, let alone where it's going to be.
Do you have a documented, non-tinfoil example of this actually happening? Legitimately the same invention, and not a "OMG Apple patented the rectangle" kind of thing?
If some department is teaching that "man is just a more evolved animal" they have no idea how evolution works, have no business teaching it, and are barely a step up from the howling lunatics teaching creationism.
*Nine* years. /pedant
But insufficiently good at "not being killed" thinking--that was the guy's point.
Interbreeding and genocide aren't mutually exclusive. It probably took centuries, if not millennia, to drive the Neanderthals to extinction.
We're not arguing dates; the only reason Amazon was selling DRM-free music and Apple wasn't is that the labels allowed them to, trying to build Amazon into an iTunes competitor.