NASA was created to yank aeronautics and space research out of the hands of the military. It is (or rather, should be) an agency dedicated to research, not hauling cargo in orbit. Things like that are done better by the Russians, the ESA and just about any country with spare headless transcontinental missiles.
I think you'll find that the world's #1 country for censorship is NK. The place is a true information black hole, there isn't so much as a peep from the population that comes out of it.
If you know that someone is doing something mean, nasty and evil.... you let someone know. Plain and simple.
I assume you have plenty of money to fight frivolous lawsuits filed against you when you heroically denounce evil deeds, right? For the rest of us, when the law muzzles us, we tend to shut up because otherwise we'd go broke. Sad but that's how it is, and I suspect you'd probably do the same despite all your Slashdot bravado.
I built my last PC, piece by piece, with no so called "MS tax" involved. Interesting that on a site where most people would build their own boxes, you ignore such a possibility.
Will you build me a laptop? cuz I certainly can't...
You and every other person in this world is FREE to choose against Microsoft.
So you missed the whole point didn't you?
When I buy a PC, any PC, I have Windows preinstalled. That means that, even if Microsoft licensed Windows to the PC manufacturer only 50 cents, I have to pay 50 cents to Microsoft when I buy the PC.
I don't want to give any money to Microsoft, but when I buy a new PC, I have to anyway. That's the point: you're free to choose to *install* something other than Windows, but you must pay for Windows regardless.
I know you're a troll and you don't really deserve an answer, but...
Actually it's not Microsoft users who love getting raped, it's early adopters. And a damn good thing too: without early adopters, we patient and reasonable consumers wouldn't get good products with all the design kinks worked out.
Call it oppression if you like but, you must acknowledge the fact that it makes for a more peaceful society.
Oh yeah, like that's gonna work. What happens when you suppress freedom of speech regarding religion, racism, nazism or whatever, is that racists and nazis and religious nuts all get to brew their little hatreds quietly to avoid the law, and one day it explodes without anybody seeing it coming.
Just look at France: a big majority of the (white) population is racist, as demonstrated by the last presidential election that gave 15% to the extreme right. Similarly, many arabs there are anti-french. Yet nobody openly speaks openly about these issues. The result is an extremely cloudy racial situation. In contrast, America lets its KKKs and White Powers talk freely, letting everybody witness what a stupid redneck is, and how stupid his ideas are, which actually helps prevent these ideas entering young or weak minds.
So it is illegal for Christians to flame Muslims and it is illegal for Muslims to flame Christian or Jews.
The problem is that one group of religious nutjobs takes flaming the others quite literally.
Also, I don't see why any of them should be spared criticism. I'm an atheist, and I'm always on the receiving end of some well-meaning advices to get me into religion, but for some reason we religion-less folks aren't allowed to criticize those who believe in fairy tales that involve some god or another...
the drive has crashed. I will no longer buy WD; crappy quality.
You know what's funny (well, sad): I've had my first encounter with a WD drive in 1994, and it died on me after slowly messing up all my files. I've dealt with other WD disks since (both consumer and enterprise), and they always turned out to be troublesome.
1994, that's almost 12 years. Sheesh, I wonder how a company can spew out shite products for 12 years and still be alive...
Microsoft is a software company at the core trying to sell hardware. They never seem able to make any money at that, which brings to mind the phrase 'stick with your core competency'
Isn't the point of USB keys to make it easy to exchange files with other people? unless you're in a real hurry (like, say, you want to give photos to a friend, he's not home, you break in anyway, proceed to the computer, but your friend's rottweiler saw you and is coming at you) who really cares if it takes one more minute to transfer those files?
The only things important to me are data integrity (a non-issue with 99% of the drives, even the cheapest ones), and a housing solid enough to make the thing survive the odd collection of objects it live with in my bag. Most other people who use these drives don't want anything else from them either.
which is called dumping, which is normally illegal, but it seems nobody gives a fuck anymore about monopolies and illegal economic practices in this country...
It's not an Ask Slashdot, it's a Whine Slashdot. The question is really a rant that can be summed up like this: "shit, some exec nicked my office and I was put in a cubicle instead"
Go on - someone make a joke about porn pop-ups, please!
I'd pay for those!
Okay:
One day Lil porn popup says to his father: I want to get married. Father: Oh yeah, do you have someone in mind? Porn popup: Yeah, grandma Father: Well, there is a problem, you want to marry my mother. Porn popup: so what? you married mine...
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Level playing field. Any bets on that?
That's right, it's hard to keep anything level in zero-G.
If this happens, what purpose would Nasa serve?
NASA was created to yank aeronautics and space research out of the hands of the military. It is (or rather, should be) an agency dedicated to research, not hauling cargo in orbit. Things like that are done better by the Russians, the ESA and just about any country with spare headless transcontinental missiles.
I must admit 9 out of 10 times I regretted having looked up the lyrics
I was really disappointed when I looked up this song's lyrics...
But China is as well the worlds #1 for censorship
I think you'll find that the world's #1 country for censorship is NK. The place is a true information black hole, there isn't so much as a peep from the population that comes out of it.
The more power we give the government to invade our lives, the more they'll use it.
What do you mean "will use it"? Ever been to the US since september 11, 2001?
If you know that someone is doing something mean, nasty and evil.... you let someone know. Plain and simple.
I assume you have plenty of money to fight frivolous lawsuits filed against you when you heroically denounce evil deeds, right? For the rest of us, when the law muzzles us, we tend to shut up because otherwise we'd go broke. Sad but that's how it is, and I suspect you'd probably do the same despite all your Slashdot bravado.
I built my last PC, piece by piece, with no so called "MS tax" involved. Interesting that on a site where most people would build their own boxes, you ignore such a possibility.
Will you build me a laptop? cuz I certainly can't...
You and every other person in this world is FREE to choose against Microsoft.
So you missed the whole point didn't you?
When I buy a PC, any PC, I have Windows preinstalled. That means that, even if Microsoft licensed Windows to the PC manufacturer only 50 cents, I have to pay 50 cents to Microsoft when I buy the PC.
I don't want to give any money to Microsoft, but when I buy a new PC, I have to anyway. That's the point: you're free to choose to *install* something other than Windows, but you must pay for Windows regardless.
Goddamn you Micro$oft users love getting raped!
I know you're a troll and you don't really deserve an answer, but...
Actually it's not Microsoft users who love getting raped, it's early adopters. And a damn good thing too: without early adopters, we patient and reasonable consumers wouldn't get good products with all the design kinks worked out.
Call it oppression if you like but, you must acknowledge the fact that it makes for a more peaceful society.
Oh yeah, like that's gonna work. What happens when you suppress freedom of speech regarding religion, racism, nazism or whatever, is that racists and nazis and religious nuts all get to brew their little hatreds quietly to avoid the law, and one day it explodes without anybody seeing it coming.
Just look at France: a big majority of the (white) population is racist, as demonstrated by the last presidential election that gave 15% to the extreme right. Similarly, many arabs there are anti-french. Yet nobody openly speaks openly about these issues. The result is an extremely cloudy racial situation. In contrast, America lets its KKKs and White Powers talk freely, letting everybody witness what a stupid redneck is, and how stupid his ideas are, which actually helps prevent these ideas entering young or weak minds.
So it is illegal for Christians to flame Muslims and it is illegal for Muslims to flame Christian or Jews.
The problem is that one group of religious nutjobs takes flaming the others quite literally.
Also, I don't see why any of them should be spared criticism. I'm an atheist, and I'm always on the receiving end of some well-meaning advices to get me into religion, but for some reason we religion-less folks aren't allowed to criticize those who believe in fairy tales that involve some god or another...
the drive has crashed. I will no longer buy WD; crappy quality.
You know what's funny (well, sad): I've had my first encounter with a WD drive in 1994, and it died on me after slowly messing up all my files. I've dealt with other WD disks since (both consumer and enterprise), and they always turned out to be troublesome.
1994, that's almost 12 years. Sheesh, I wonder how a company can spew out shite products for 12 years and still be alive...
Compare a video card from today to one two years ago, and do the same thing with hard drives.
I'm trying, but really the VGA plug won't fit the IDE connector. I'm so confused...
Microsoft is a software company at the core trying to sell hardware. They never seem able to make any money at that, which brings to mind the phrase 'stick with your core competency'
Apparently that's what they're doing.
Anyone out there who could shed some insight into why aluminum is preferred over well-designed plastic?
To lull stupid reviewers into writing good reviews?
Isn't the point of USB keys to make it easy to exchange files with other people? unless you're in a real hurry (like, say, you want to give photos to a friend, he's not home, you break in anyway, proceed to the computer, but your friend's rottweiler saw you and is coming at you) who really cares if it takes one more minute to transfer those files?
The only things important to me are data integrity (a non-issue with 99% of the drives, even the cheapest ones), and a housing solid enough to make the thing survive the odd collection of objects it live with in my bag. Most other people who use these drives don't want anything else from them either.
But he does have a fish called Wanda...
Doubleplusungood brother...
having one every quarter of a mile on motorways quite clearly means they'll be used to enforce speed limits as well,
Does this mean drag-racers can practise on the highway and get away with it?
the nation's highest civil award." Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn -- for their design of "the software code used to transmit data over the Internet"
Shouldn't it have been Al Gore?
Microsoft literally gave the Xbox away.
which is called dumping, which is normally illegal, but it seems nobody gives a fuck anymore about monopolies and illegal economic practices in this country...
Dumbest Ask Slashdot EVER.
It's not an Ask Slashdot, it's a Whine Slashdot. The question is really a rant that can be summed up like this: "shit, some exec nicked my office and I was put in a cubicle instead"
By "seize his BMW" I hope they mean "seize his head and put it on a pike in the Internet town square between Google and MSN."
In other news: a decapitated head found on Internet town square strangely smells of rotten fish...
Go on - someone make a joke about porn pop-ups, please!
I'd pay for those!
Okay:
One day Lil porn popup says to his father: I want to get married.
Father: Oh yeah, do you have someone in mind?
Porn popup: Yeah, grandma
Father: Well, there is a problem, you want to marry my mother.
Porn popup: so what? you married mine...
Can I get the cash now?
Get in 400.000 machines only to earn $60,000
You know, he just *might* have automated the process of getting into each machine...