"...so if just one user downloads a free ebook for every nine paid ebook purchases — then Amazon is already delivering more digital ebooks than they are print editions."
That one user must be downloading a huge number of free ebooks.
Awesome. I came to this thread and immediately searched for 'Amiga' because I was hoping someone had that footage archived. I haven't seen it since 1990 or so. Specifically, I saw the sports demo (basketball & hockey, IIRC) with the "pulldown" menus, etc. Very cool stuff.
Amazing. I got about 1/2-way through your comment and had to scroll back up because I assumed I was only seeing it due to my +6 troll/flamebait filters and was wondering which it was (although more vindictive moderators will toss in the occasional offtopic). Sometimes I forget that/. is first, and foremost, a FOSS-at-all-costs site. Perhaps that's slowly changing.
Anyway, excellent rant. I liked it, even if it didn't get rated troll. If only I could have sent this to you privately since it actually is incredibly offtopic.
I was about ask you to name something that didn't work with a USB floppy, and then I noticed you had switched the topic from Macs to PCs. That might be the reason that PCs held onto them for so long. MacOS was able to take advantage of the fact that a floppy was treated similarly to a flash drive or any other virtual drive -- just another storage medium, rather than requiring special handling.
I suppose I should have said that flash drives and other virtual drives (images, for example) were treated the same as a floppy, but the point remains the same. The MacOS file system is handled significantly differently from the CP/M style used by Microsoft.
Android currently suffers from too much product fracture. Too many different customer experiences based on vendor customization, [etc]
That seems to be the biggest issue for Android. Saying it's an Android phone doesn't really tell you what you're getting. My wife just got an Android phone (Moto+Verizon) which was $100 or something (I think there was mail-in rebate that theoretically makes it free -- assuming the rebate center pays out). I was incredibly unimpressed with the interface. The button-capture was finicky, the scrolling was haphazard, and it didn't have indicators for edge-of-screen while scrolling. I have no idea if this is typical of Android, or if it's what Moto and/or Verizon did with it.
Setup was a hassle for her too, in that she was asking me about the setup for the various email accounts she has, etc. My response was "I don't know. I plugged my iPhone into the computer and it took care of all of that for me." Essentially, I made her go look it all up on her computer and type it in by hand. Perhaps there's some better way, but I didn't have any interest in doing the legwork for her.
Spending an extra $10k to $20k on a car that saves you $1,800* a year in fuel costs doesn't seem terribly economically motivated.
If you're sitting in traffic constantly and/or you drive an enormous number of miles each year, I can see the case for a hybrid (in the case of large miles, turbo diesels can also be a reasonable option). I realize that there are some people that are faced with that dilemma. Elsewhere, it looks more like an emotional choice.
Now, if there were no hybrid premium involved, or even if it were incredibly negligible, then that point goes away. For now, they're primarily a nice but expensive fashion accessory, depending upon your fashion sense and the point you're attempting to make. I don't see how that's any different from a giant pickup used exclusively for commuting with extra money added on for the rally stripes and rims.
*Assuming 12k miles/per year, $3/gal gas, $10k for a low-end 35mpg car, and 55mpg for a hybrid of one sort or another.
Not so. The boyfriend is apparently her boss or something, because he needed to be there before she got there. That's why he had to race her to work. He doesn't state whether or not he won the race.
I recently had the AGW hypothesis force fed to me by a scientist. The major piece of evidence was the CO2 measurements taken from ice core samples along with a few decades of recent air measurements tacked onto the end. Guess what? The recent air measurement data made the graph look very dramatic. What a shock.
getting rid of gas guzzlers is not about destroying "fun" or even the environment. it's about prudent planning for the future...
If that were true, we wouldn't have false, feel-good labels like "gas guzzler" for a vehicle that we personally frown upon and "fuel sipper" for a vehicle we personally approve of. If I were to sip beer like a Prius sips gasoline, I'd be puking within the first 30 minutes -- long before I even had a chance to get drunk.
Hybrids, like most vehicle purchases, are primarily about making people feel good about themselves.
I saw Tron in the theater when it came out. I was really looking forward to it. It had a gotten a lot of tech coverage, including a fairly detailed account (in Byte, IIRC) about the mainframe rendering in New York with data streams being fed back to LA. At the time, it was an enormous amount of data to be moving around.
Anyway, I wasn't disappointed by the rendering, but the storyline was stupid. I went with a friend, and we laughed through large portions of it because it was so incredibly ridiculous. I was in High School at the time. I have the 20th anniversary edition of Tron on DVD and have watched it once or twice, and I still think the storyline is ridiculous.
To me, the best thing that came out of Tron was the arcade game franchise. I shoveled a fair number of quarters into both the original game, as well as Discs of Tron (which was a really fun game).
I'm sure it had absolutely nothing to do with your frothing tirade and delusions of superiority. Yes. They all fear you. They're jealous of you because you're just so much smarter than all of them. In fact, IQ tests can't even begin to cope with your towering intellect. Your powers of logic score off the charts. Et cetera.
So, are you and Pinky planning on taking over the world tonight?
What the hell is insightful about being a grammar Nazi? I don't have objections to pointing out the problem, but modding it insightful? Gosh. The towering intellect and insight required to make this stunning observation is just overwhelming to mere mortals.
Thank you! I searched the page for "quietly" first, because had it not been here, I would going to do a "Slashdot Quietly Rolls Out Web 2.0 Interface" or something similar.
Oh geez. I should have known. Fucking k-moron-dawson. I really need to find a way to block this idiot's stories from my slashboxes. Just removing him from the front page isn't enough.
I should have added: You're right -- I did miss part of your point in that I thought you were implying that he wasn't elected at all. Sorry for the wrong inference.
Except that Bush WAS elected by the Electoral College. The only thing SCOTUS did was to rule that the selective recount process in Florida, as well as the post-election modification of Florida election laws, was unconstitutional. Therefore, the electoral votes of Florida were awarded based upon the results certified according to Florida law.
Congress certified the electoral votes on January 6, 2001. Objections that were filed at that time by House members (22 of them) were overruled by Al Gore as being out of order.
As opposed to Obama being elected in 2008 by the Electoral College? Or Clinton in 1996, and 1992? Or Bush Sr. in 1988? Or... (etc., etc., etc.).
But yeah, I'm all for selective and discrimanatory recounting of votes in order to game margins of error (along with changing the election rules after the fact) in order to get the guy in that didn't win.
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It's probably the "blind" part...
Correction:
GOP: 210/26 (y/n) -> 89%
DEM: 67/122 (y-n) -> 32%
"...so if just one user downloads a free ebook for every nine paid ebook purchases — then Amazon is already delivering more digital ebooks than they are print editions."
That one user must be downloading a huge number of free ebooks.
Awesome. I came to this thread and immediately searched for 'Amiga' because I was hoping someone had that footage archived. I haven't seen it since 1990 or so. Specifically, I saw the sports demo (basketball & hockey, IIRC) with the "pulldown" menus, etc. Very cool stuff.
Amazing. I got about 1/2-way through your comment and had to scroll back up because I assumed I was only seeing it due to my +6 troll/flamebait filters and was wondering which it was (although more vindictive moderators will toss in the occasional offtopic). Sometimes I forget that /. is first, and foremost, a FOSS-at-all-costs site. Perhaps that's slowly changing.
Anyway, excellent rant. I liked it, even if it didn't get rated troll. If only I could have sent this to you privately since it actually is incredibly offtopic.
Not only that but, being true visionaries, Oracle even put a SUN logo on their JavaStations.
I was about ask you to name something that didn't work with a USB floppy, and then I noticed you had switched the topic from Macs to PCs. That might be the reason that PCs held onto them for so long. MacOS was able to take advantage of the fact that a floppy was treated similarly to a flash drive or any other virtual drive -- just another storage medium, rather than requiring special handling.
I suppose I should have said that flash drives and other virtual drives (images, for example) were treated the same as a floppy, but the point remains the same. The MacOS file system is handled significantly differently from the CP/M style used by Microsoft.
Android currently suffers from too much product fracture. Too many different customer experiences based on vendor customization, [etc]
That seems to be the biggest issue for Android. Saying it's an Android phone doesn't really tell you what you're getting. My wife just got an Android phone (Moto+Verizon) which was $100 or something (I think there was mail-in rebate that theoretically makes it free -- assuming the rebate center pays out). I was incredibly unimpressed with the interface. The button-capture was finicky, the scrolling was haphazard, and it didn't have indicators for edge-of-screen while scrolling. I have no idea if this is typical of Android, or if it's what Moto and/or Verizon did with it.
Setup was a hassle for her too, in that she was asking me about the setup for the various email accounts she has, etc. My response was "I don't know. I plugged my iPhone into the computer and it took care of all of that for me." Essentially, I made her go look it all up on her computer and type it in by hand. Perhaps there's some better way, but I didn't have any interest in doing the legwork for her.
Spending an extra $10k to $20k on a car that saves you $1,800* a year in fuel costs doesn't seem terribly economically motivated.
If you're sitting in traffic constantly and/or you drive an enormous number of miles each year, I can see the case for a hybrid (in the case of large miles, turbo diesels can also be a reasonable option). I realize that there are some people that are faced with that dilemma. Elsewhere, it looks more like an emotional choice.
Now, if there were no hybrid premium involved, or even if it were incredibly negligible, then that point goes away. For now, they're primarily a nice but expensive fashion accessory, depending upon your fashion sense and the point you're attempting to make. I don't see how that's any different from a giant pickup used exclusively for commuting with extra money added on for the rally stripes and rims.
*Assuming 12k miles/per year, $3/gal gas, $10k for a low-end 35mpg car, and 55mpg for a hybrid of one sort or another.
Not so. The boyfriend is apparently her boss or something, because he needed to be there before she got there. That's why he had to race her to work. He doesn't state whether or not he won the race.
Do you have some kind of factual or logical basis to throw out the air measurements? Or aren't you really just a witch.
Yes. I do. The graph of all data taken only from ice core samples doesn't have the enormous spike at the end of it.
Unfortunately, facts and logic work against witch hunters.
Burn the non-believer!
I recently had the AGW hypothesis force fed to me by a scientist. The major piece of evidence was the CO2 measurements taken from ice core samples along with a few decades of recent air measurements tacked onto the end. Guess what? The recent air measurement data made the graph look very dramatic. What a shock.
getting rid of gas guzzlers is not about destroying "fun" or even the environment. it's about prudent planning for the future ...
If that were true, we wouldn't have false, feel-good labels like "gas guzzler" for a vehicle that we personally frown upon and "fuel sipper" for a vehicle we personally approve of. If I were to sip beer like a Prius sips gasoline, I'd be puking within the first 30 minutes -- long before I even had a chance to get drunk.
Hybrids, like most vehicle purchases, are primarily about making people feel good about themselves.
I saw Tron in the theater when it came out. I was really looking forward to it. It had a gotten a lot of tech coverage, including a fairly detailed account (in Byte, IIRC) about the mainframe rendering in New York with data streams being fed back to LA. At the time, it was an enormous amount of data to be moving around.
Anyway, I wasn't disappointed by the rendering, but the storyline was stupid. I went with a friend, and we laughed through large portions of it because it was so incredibly ridiculous. I was in High School at the time. I have the 20th anniversary edition of Tron on DVD and have watched it once or twice, and I still think the storyline is ridiculous.
To me, the best thing that came out of Tron was the arcade game franchise. I shoveled a fair number of quarters into both the original game, as well as Discs of Tron (which was a really fun game).
I'm sure it had absolutely nothing to do with your frothing tirade and delusions of superiority. Yes. They all fear you. They're jealous of you because you're just so much smarter than all of them. In fact, IQ tests can't even begin to cope with your towering intellect. Your powers of logic score off the charts. Et cetera.
So, are you and Pinky planning on taking over the world tonight?
Did you say... ex Google app?
What the hell is insightful about being a grammar Nazi? I don't have objections to pointing out the problem, but modding it insightful? Gosh. The towering intellect and insight required to make this stunning observation is just overwhelming to mere mortals.
You could have saved yourself a lot of analysis by rating the merits of the article from the first sentence. ;)
Thank you! I searched the page for "quietly" first, because had it not been here, I would going to do a "Slashdot Quietly Rolls Out Web 2.0 Interface" or something similar.
Oh geez. I should have known. Fucking k-moron-dawson. I really need to find a way to block this idiot's stories from my slashboxes. Just removing him from the front page isn't enough.
I thought we were an autonomous collective.
Do even the editors read anymore?
Timmy!
I should have added: You're right -- I did miss part of your point in that I thought you were implying that he wasn't elected at all. Sorry for the wrong inference.
Except that Bush WAS elected by the Electoral College. The only thing SCOTUS did was to rule that the selective recount process in Florida, as well as the post-election modification of Florida election laws, was unconstitutional. Therefore, the electoral votes of Florida were awarded based upon the results certified according to Florida law.
Congress certified the electoral votes on January 6, 2001. Objections that were filed at that time by House members (22 of them) were overruled by Al Gore as being out of order.
As opposed to Obama being elected in 2008 by the Electoral College? Or Clinton in 1996, and 1992? Or Bush Sr. in 1988? Or... (etc., etc., etc.).
But yeah, I'm all for selective and discrimanatory recounting of votes in order to game margins of error (along with changing the election rules after the fact) in order to get the guy in that didn't win.
The next major release will include an accurate counter.