Given the heavily opinionated nature of your post, the large number of patently untrue things in it, and the pishposh of grammatical errors, I'm really having a hard time deciding which of George Carlin's two categories to put you in: "idiot" or "full o' shit".
This would deter customers since UNIX has a sorta connotation of difficulty to it for newbies (who have just kinda heard of it from users who just touched it and saw commands like egrep, col, ls, and wc;-)
Most people's only exposure to UNIX is that scene in Jurassic Park where the little girl says "This is a UNIX system. I know this", and proceeds to use the mouse to fly over a 3D virtual-reality file system.
The Chinese government has jumped on this opportunity to impose greater restrictions on Internet access, and you've bought the propaganda.
Since 90% of Beijing's Internet cafes have been operating illegally anyway, there is nothing to be gained by ordering all of them to shut down. The government is just using this incident to say "Look, the evil Internet is killing our children".
The government also took the opportunity to encourage citizens to turn in any Internet cafes they are aware of, in the name of public safety. These tactics are reminiscent of the "turn in your brother in the name of the people" tactics used by most authoritarian states over the years.
This is nothing but a thinly-veiled move to further restrict the Internet in China. It's a terrible shame that those students died, but they died because of a government that forces them to do their free speaking behind locked doors. Rest assured that the cafes, both legitimate and otherwise, will have a much harder time starting back up once the government completes their (lengthy) "fire inspections".
Let's face it: most people who use Mozilla are using it on a non-Windows operating system. I tried Mozilla 1.0 on Windows, and quickly went back to IE when I realized that IE is still both faster (inital load and page rendering) and more stable.
Mozilla may be the best thing available on Linux or other systems, but nothing can yet touch IE on Windows.
Also, don't expect IE to come to a Linux box near you anytime soon without a court order. Not supporting Linux is a key part of their rule-the-desktop strategy. When Joe Avg. finds out Linux can't run his two favorite programs, IE and Word, he'll think twice about installing it.
Microsoft has won the Windows browser war. Any browser war now is inextricably tied to the OS "war".
Dear Slashdot,
I don't know how to do my job. If I don't do my job right, I fear I'll get canned like the old sysadmin did several weeks ago when everything went to hell. Can you tell me how to do my job? I've heard you're a bunch of computer gurus.
Thanks,
Lux Interior
One of the lead researchers says that if Einstein's theory is not right, it will only need minor adjustments to account for changes in space-time, due to its deadly accurate precision.
This just in, from a 1903 Einstein press release:
One of Einstein's lead researchers says that if Newton's theory is not right, it will only need minor adjustments to account for changes in space and possibly time, due to our upcoming theory's deadly accurate precision.
This is a bad analogy. No, it doesn't matter what kind of paper a book is printed on. Yes, it matters, A LOT, what kind of environment a film is viewed in. Compare a modern film in a quality, well-air-conditioned, DTS-certified theatre against the same film on a 10" B&W TV. It's a completely different experience.
And "Blair Witch Project" was shot on low-quality equipment, so no, of course it wouldn't matter. But that film is an exception.
Content may suck, but presentation does matter, a huge amount. Good content with good presentation is quite a lot better than good content with poor presentation. Nothing will save bad content.
Several of those were good books but bad films. The Lawnmower Man was trash, licensing debacle notwithstanding. I did notice Metropolis was missing when I read the list, though.
The original slashdot article about reconstructing info based on LED's does NOT mean you can spy on someone...
Um, wrong. The original article involved researchers demonstrating that certain modem/network devices allow you to read the actual data stream based on the blinkenlights. Spying is theoretically possible (though unlikely) with this.
TV ads are a terrible bargain for the user, paying us about $1.20 per hour of our attention...
This is just silly:
The viewer isn't getting paid; the network is.
The advertisers aren't just paying for the viewers' eyes; they're paying for the whole infrastructure of the network too (which ain't cheap).
The viewer isn't going to be giving full attention to every (any?) commercial.
The viewer isn't doing any "work" as such, so there goes your "minimum wage" argument.
That $1.20 also goes to subsidize viewers like you that don't watch any commercials.
Expecting to get paid a "wage" on par with what you make at work is completely ludicrous. If "something has to change", then that something will be the viewer writing a check to the network for television instead of receiving the signal for free. Somebody has to pay for the programming, and right now it ain't you.
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Wha-wha? I was under the impression that proofs are rock-solid demonstrations of a particular fact given a set of well-defined mathematical laws . . .
In case something goes wrong, are you planning to take with you a large ten-gallon cowboy hat to wave around on reentry?
So whatever happened to Linux?
and skip the rest of the article. Like our editors.
Thank you for pointing that out for the 18 billionth fucking time on Slashdot.
Given the heavily opinionated nature of your post, the large number of patently untrue things in it, and the pishposh of grammatical errors, I'm really having a hard time deciding which of George Carlin's two categories to put you in: "idiot" or "full o' shit".
Um, you mean 1 to 1.5. And those American 1s are gonna be worth more than your 5s at the rate things are going . . .
So did you miss the joke, or are you just an annoying-ass bee-otch?
um, OK . . . I'll do it based on the BIG FUCKING NUMBERS in the corners.
Man, you're stupid.
Never. And I use $20 bills pretty much every day.
isn't a row of dots very close together a line?
Most people's only exposure to UNIX is that scene in Jurassic Park where the little girl says "This is a UNIX system. I know this", and proceeds to use the mouse to fly over a 3D virtual-reality file system.
In all of your examples, competition is not an issue. Timex is not interested in competing with the finest tiny Swiss watch shops.
Basically, high complexity combined with heavy competition leads to flaws in both design and implementation.
Since 90% of Beijing's Internet cafes have been operating illegally anyway, there is nothing to be gained by ordering all of them to shut down. The government is just using this incident to say "Look, the evil Internet is killing our children".
The government also took the opportunity to encourage citizens to turn in any Internet cafes they are aware of, in the name of public safety. These tactics are reminiscent of the "turn in your brother in the name of the people" tactics used by most authoritarian states over the years.
This is nothing but a thinly-veiled move to further restrict the Internet in China. It's a terrible shame that those students died, but they died because of a government that forces them to do their free speaking behind locked doors. Rest assured that the cafes, both legitimate and otherwise, will have a much harder time starting back up once the government completes their (lengthy) "fire inspections".
Mozilla may be the best thing available on Linux or other systems, but nothing can yet touch IE on Windows.
Also, don't expect IE to come to a Linux box near you anytime soon without a court order. Not supporting Linux is a key part of their rule-the-desktop strategy. When Joe Avg. finds out Linux can't run his two favorite programs, IE and Word, he'll think twice about installing it.
Microsoft has won the Windows browser war. Any browser war now is inextricably tied to the OS "war".
No, but it is a guarantee that you can sue for damages when it doesn't.
Oh, I have . . . I just don't do it on so-called "news" sites. And I search Google first.
Dear Slashdot, I don't know how to do my job. If I don't do my job right, I fear I'll get canned like the old sysadmin did several weeks ago when everything went to hell. Can you tell me how to do my job? I've heard you're a bunch of computer gurus. Thanks, Lux Interior
This just in, from a 1903 Einstein press release:
One of Einstein's lead researchers says that if Newton's theory is not right, it will only need minor adjustments to account for changes in space and possibly time, due to our upcoming theory's deadly accurate precision.
And "Blair Witch Project" was shot on low-quality equipment, so no, of course it wouldn't matter. But that film is an exception.
Content may suck, but presentation does matter, a huge amount. Good content with good presentation is quite a lot better than good content with poor presentation. Nothing will save bad content.
Several of those were good books but bad films. The Lawnmower Man was trash, licensing debacle notwithstanding. I did notice Metropolis was missing when I read the list, though.
Um, wrong. The original article involved researchers demonstrating that certain modem/network devices allow you to read the actual data stream based on the blinkenlights. Spying is theoretically possible (though unlikely) with this.
Now you can reconstruct Slashdot from the reflected glow of old stories!
Now they've got you right where they want you. Six months from now as you buy that Ford Escort, you'll vaguely wonder why . . .
This is just silly:
- The viewer isn't getting paid; the network is.
- The advertisers aren't just paying for the viewers' eyes; they're paying for the whole infrastructure of the network too (which ain't cheap).
- The viewer isn't going to be giving full attention to every (any?) commercial.
- The viewer isn't doing any "work" as such, so there goes your "minimum wage" argument.
- That $1.20 also goes to subsidize viewers like you that don't watch any commercials.
Expecting to get paid a "wage" on par with what you make at work is completely ludicrous. If "something has to change", then that something will be the viewer writing a check to the network for television instead of receiving the signal for free. Somebody has to pay for the programming, and right now it ain't you.-atrowe: Card-carrying Mensa member. I have no toleranse for stupidity.
"tolerance"? . . . oh, the irony.