What happened to you slashdot? First funny comments were getting modded insightful for karma. Now insightful posts are getting modded funny. Has the whole world goNE CRAZY?
"The Andromeda galaxy is headed directly, directly in collision course with our own. Measurably. It's filling the sky - can be seen with the naked eye. In 5 billion years, which is to say fucking soon ladies and gentleman it's on us and if it hasn't happened before then our sun goes into a red giant or a red dwarf, we go to a crisp." - Christopher Hitchens
Actually you aren't far off. When keyboards were first being developed they operated like serial modems. There were two wide keys, one for "mark" and the other "space". The "mark" bar has since been replaced by dozens of the smaller keys for letters, numbers, and punctuation. The "space" bar lives on to this day.
..increase in the number of sites providing access to copyright files...
Well that's no surprise since the web keeps growing, and every goddamned website on the internet provides access to copyrighted files.
Of course the article means access to files without permission of the copyright holder. Call it pedantic if you will, but these turns of phrase affect public opinion. Remember Animal Farm? "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." That's right *their* copyright is worth more.
Re:Does anyone REALLY take Dvorak seriously?
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I like Dvorak. He's an outlier and a contrarian. A thousand guys can write essentially the same article, but Dvorak is different. And we only get new and interesting things in this world with people who think differently than the crowd. Sure the contrarian view will often be wrong and therefore unremarkable. But when a contrarian is right, it's a brilliant leap. And Dvorak isn't just a contrarian for its own sake, he presents a logical argument *why* he takes a contrarian position. Yes, I like Dvorak.
Calicanis on the other hand is an arrogant douche and I don't even download TWIT when he's on anymore.
Specious argument. MS has extended the [for pay] support period of 2000 and XP thus far as damage control rather than for benevolence. FLOSS distros are developed and released continuously for free, dissolving the line between support and upgrade. You are comparing overpriced apples with an extra coat of preservative, and water.
It's true that slashdot has had some amateurish editorial standards. But unlike FOX NEWS, slashdot is more about comments rather than the stories themselves. And from from nearly two million users, with a distributed moderation system, anonymous commenting, and no editorial censorship. It's not perfect, but it's probably a reasonable first-approximation of the zeitgeist.
Comparing FOX NEWS to slashdot is like comparing some kind of car to another completely different kind of car.
Slashdot Mirror
True dat.
One assumes this was printed on the Model-KI teletype, aka the KITTY.
And depending on the fuel, nasty hot gasses.
What happened to you slashdot? First funny comments were getting modded insightful for karma. Now insightful posts are getting modded funny. Has the whole world goNE CRAZY?
And after not seeing the gf for a month, with the commensurate "heightened genital state", there is even reason to be proud at the full-body scanner.
"The Andromeda galaxy is headed directly, directly in collision course with our own. Measurably. It's filling the sky - can be seen with the naked eye. In 5 billion years, which is to say fucking soon ladies and gentleman it's on us and if it hasn't happened before then our sun goes into a red giant or a red dwarf, we go to a crisp." - Christopher Hitchens
Who knew his good samaritan ways ran so deep and pure? Looks like The Ballad of Jayne Cobb deserves a new verse.
Actually you aren't far off. When keyboards were first being developed they operated like serial modems. There were two wide keys, one for "mark" and the other "space". The "mark" bar has since been replaced by dozens of the smaller keys for letters, numbers, and punctuation. The "space" bar lives on to this day.
Sad that individual patent holders don't even rate a mention. Corporations already have too much power, the patent arsenal makes that even worse.
Why, oh why does everyone at Intel think that people just want to 'surf the web' with whatever they happen to invent?
Because apparently doing stuff like floating-point division is out of the question?
$ cat hello.go
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
fmt.Printf("hello, world\n")
}
Size of resulting binary: 581054 bytes on x86 Linux.
Well that's no surprise since the web keeps growing, and every goddamned website on the internet provides access to copyrighted files.
Of course the article means access to files without permission of the copyright holder. Call it pedantic if you will, but these turns of phrase affect public opinion. Remember Animal Farm? "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." That's right *their* copyright is worth more.
I like Dvorak. He's an outlier and a contrarian. A thousand guys can write essentially the same article, but Dvorak is different. And we only get new and interesting things in this world with people who think differently than the crowd. Sure the contrarian view will often be wrong and therefore unremarkable. But when a contrarian is right, it's a brilliant leap. And Dvorak isn't just a contrarian for its own sake, he presents a logical argument *why* he takes a contrarian position. Yes, I like Dvorak.
Calicanis on the other hand is an arrogant douche and I don't even download TWIT when he's on anymore.
I assume that was a typo and their ages are actually 0x10 and 0x12.
... when he has to register as a Childs offender.
... I'll be impressed when I Toyota agrees to put Chrome in the Prius.
Specious argument. MS has extended the [for pay] support period of 2000 and XP thus far as damage control rather than for benevolence. FLOSS distros are developed and released continuously for free, dissolving the line between support and upgrade. You are comparing overpriced apples with an extra coat of preservative, and water.
True: the population of Iceland about the same number as the student enrolment at the University of Buenos Aires.
It's true that slashdot has had some amateurish editorial standards. But unlike FOX NEWS, slashdot is more about comments rather than the stories themselves. And from from nearly two million users, with a distributed moderation system, anonymous commenting, and no editorial censorship. It's not perfect, but it's probably a reasonable first-approximation of the zeitgeist. Comparing FOX NEWS to slashdot is like comparing some kind of car to another completely different kind of car.
I think we've just explained Jupiter's black spot.
Pro bono for the defense. Sonny Bono for the plaintiff.
How do you think ASSpirin got it's name?
"Instead of building newer and larger weapons of mass destruction, I think mankind should try to get more use out of the ones we have" - Jack Handy
"Blessed are the cheese makers..."
Apparently one of those songs is actually "Never Gonna Give You Up" By Rick Astley. You never know which one though.