Whenever I search for something on Amazon, it stalks me all around the web. I searched for the word "tarp" once (someone asked me how much they usually cost) and for several weeks afterwards, every web site on the planet was showing me ads for tarps- from Amazon and from other shady tarp-sellers. It's just creepy. What if you're at work and your laptop keeps displaying ads for stuff like this? I don't really like firing up IE just to find crap on Amazon. That's just too high of a price to pay.
Web browsers have come the modern equivalent of the telescreens in Orwell's 1984- but Orwell never realized how popular telescreens would be. ("Big Brother gave me this new telescreen and it's huge, 2 mm thinner, comes with a front side camera, and I get an exercise instructor to monitor my fitness!")
Apple has too many managers who suck at product design. They're also spooked that iTunes for Windows is the only Apple program that gets installed on PCs, so they try to cram as much crap as possible into it.
Don't these people ever go home and realize that everyone in their family is bewildered by iTunes? "Hey, I just updated my iTunes and the UI is all different- how do I play music now?" "I don' know, I'll ask so-and-so on Monday."
But when new software (non-crippleware) fixes a problem, then how can you say it was hardware fault?
With software, a prior version may have put load on the CPU that was optimized away by a better algorithm. I'd try a benchmark with the same code on both 2 and 3, computing pi or something, and see what happens with the power. (They will both throttle the CPU if if it gets too hot, so use a heat sink.)
This seems like neither a bug nor a DRM conspiracy, just a typical iTunes misfeature. Some dumb manager at Apple had a little scrum with four other guys who hadn't slept in a week.
"We paid a lot of cash for these streaming licenses and we're barely using them! Why should our customers have their hard drives clogged with music files they can just stream from here? It just makes them run out of disk space trying to install the next version of iTunes, which means we get complaints from our product support team! Now fix it, and if it's not done by sunrise I'll cut your balls off."
So does that mean I get a school voucher to use that money to send my kids to private school?
Or do I just get a refund on my taxes for that?
No, because people would keep thir kids unvaccinated just to get the money.
Do you really want to give up universal education?
Why would we need to give up universal education? It's free for everyone who wants it. If you won't accept it for some insane reason, you're free to use your own money to send your kid wherever private school you want.
And what about when the kids grow up? Are they not allowed to have a job? Start a business?
LOL- WTF are you talking about? If you won't let your kids get an education, and then they have problems getting a job, that's your fault. The rest of the world wasn't out to get you.
People like you need to be beaten by ISIS until you understand that your viewpoints are evil...
Man- how do you manage to keep dragging ISIS into a thread about Canadian anti-vaxxers?
My view as well. As I say above, children are wards of their parents, they are not slaves of their parents, and in other cases where parents refuse to provide the basic necessities or where they try to block necessary treatments (like blood transfusions or chemo) courts do step in to insure that the child's life is protected, whatever religious or pseudo-scientific crapola the parents may believe.
The above assumes that you are the arbiter of all things in the world.
"All things in the world" is a strange way to describe child abuse. No, it's not legal to starve your kids to death, no matter how religiously it's done. The "arbiter of all things in the world" in this case would be the government that usually outlaws shit like that, not the guy you replied to.
That is the sort of thing ISIS would do.
Trying to prevent child abuse is akin to ISIS (or FLDS) raping 12 year old girls? Or is ISIS dragging kids from your house to get vaccinated or something? Something's not quite right with your logic.
Yes, I went there, because you don't get it. You don't understand how completely dangerous your viewpoint really is.
Religion is not an excuse to kill kids. Yeah, that's right, I'm dangerous.
People are entitled to their religious beliefs, even if they disagree with yours.
But they're chopping off heads! I can't even waterboard my kids over here but they get to chop heads!
If you want to take away people's rights, prepare for a war... because plenty of people are happy to kill you
I've met plenty of religious people, so I can believe that.
You wouldn't believe what's ben happening with British computers. They have come a long way in the past 30 years. My last British computer was a ZX81 (pronounced "zed-ex-eighty-one"), and now this Raspberry Pi literally has a million times as much RAM. (OK, only 65536 times as much, because I had the 16K cartridge.) You don't need the tape cassette recorder as persistent storage anymore; it uses a microSD card. And yeah, it comes with a wastebasket. With the ZX81 you needed to provide your own wastebasket.
British computers are great for teaching kids to program. The Raspberry Pi pushes Python for development, but the ZX81 taught you BASIC. Then it taught you that you can actually read a BASIC program faster than a ZX81 can run it. As a result, the third thing you learned was Z80 assembly.
Both computers came with huge, detailed manuals. The British are really good at manuals- they're written in perfect English.
You either live on a different planet or you never watch any "News" at all. News is filled to the brim with _opinion_, all the time and everywhere.
Then it isn't news, and you should keep that in mind when you watch that crap. Actual news was once much easier to find. During the seventies I was living on this planet, so I should know.
The real world and news is not purely black or purely white, and your claim that it can always be true/false is simply ludicrous.
You may not believe this, but there is such a thing as an actual fact. There are such things as true and false. Once you lose sight of that and mindlessly equivocate between truth and falsehood as if both sides are *always* making equally valid claims, you'll lose your grip on reality.
That said, when I looked at your post history I started to smell a sockpuppet.
...says the guy who didn't notice that my Slashdot ID is less than one third of his.
Do you always do opposition research on anyone who disagrees with you on a message board? (I actually agree with most of your posts, but I also get the impression that I'd want to stay the fuck away from you if I met you in person.)
I love how the party that got rid of the Fairness Doctrine for Fox News is now up in arms that a *website* might be reluctant to immediately publish stories from sources known for spreading fevered hallucinations and debunked rumors that inevitably need retractions or corrections. It is not incumbent on FB to "fix" this; it can be easily fixed if your news outlet stops producing stores that repeatedly turn out to be bullshit.
Unlike the world I grew up in, It seems that simple editorial discretion is now forbidden for anyone not printing newspapers or broadcasting on public airwaves. But FB has a right to free speech, and neither Infowars nor Stormfront has a free speech right to have its stories published on FB.
If you told me 5 years ago that I'd be defending Facebook for being reasonable, I would have said you were nuts! Sad!
Actually lactose is a molecule that's probably simple enough to be found in all galaxies. For example, North Korea is in the Miliky Way, and Un eats a lot of Swiss cheese. (As for gluten... I don't think they have that in NK.)
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Whenever I search for something on Amazon, it stalks me all around the web. I searched for the word "tarp" once (someone asked me how much they usually cost) and for several weeks afterwards, every web site on the planet was showing me ads for tarps- from Amazon and from other shady tarp-sellers. It's just creepy. What if you're at work and your laptop keeps displaying ads for stuff like this? I don't really like firing up IE just to find crap on Amazon. That's just too high of a price to pay.
Web browsers have come the modern equivalent of the telescreens in Orwell's 1984- but Orwell never realized how popular telescreens would be. ("Big Brother gave me this new telescreen and it's huge, 2 mm thinner, comes with a front side camera, and I get an exercise instructor to monitor my fitness!")
Apple has too many managers who suck at product design. They're also spooked that iTunes for Windows is the only Apple program that gets installed on PCs, so they try to cram as much crap as possible into it.
Don't these people ever go home and realize that everyone in their family is bewildered by iTunes? "Hey, I just updated my iTunes and the UI is all different- how do I play music now?" "I don' know, I'll ask so-and-so on Monday."
But when new software (non-crippleware) fixes a problem, then how can you say it was hardware fault?
With software, a prior version may have put load on the CPU that was optimized away by a better algorithm. I'd try a benchmark with the same code on both 2 and 3, computing pi or something, and see what happens with the power. (They will both throttle the CPU if if it gets too hot, so use a heat sink.)
This seems like neither a bug nor a DRM conspiracy, just a typical iTunes misfeature. Some dumb manager at Apple had a little scrum with four other guys who hadn't slept in a week.
"We paid a lot of cash for these streaming licenses and we're barely using them! Why should our customers have their hard drives clogged with music files they can just stream from here? It just makes them run out of disk space trying to install the next version of iTunes, which means we get complaints from our product support team! Now fix it, and if it's not done by sunrise I'll cut your balls off."
So does that mean I get a school voucher to use that money to send my kids to private school? Or do I just get a refund on my taxes for that?
No, because people would keep thir kids unvaccinated just to get the money.
Do you really want to give up universal education?
Why would we need to give up universal education? It's free for everyone who wants it. If you won't accept it for some insane reason, you're free to use your own money to send your kid wherever private school you want.
And what about when the kids grow up? Are they not allowed to have a job? Start a business?
LOL- WTF are you talking about? If you won't let your kids get an education, and then they have problems getting a job, that's your fault. The rest of the world wasn't out to get you.
People like you need to be beaten by ISIS until you understand that your viewpoints are evil...
Man- how do you manage to keep dragging ISIS into a thread about Canadian anti-vaxxers?
My view as well. As I say above, children are wards of their parents, they are not slaves of their parents, and in other cases where parents refuse to provide the basic necessities or where they try to block necessary treatments (like blood transfusions or chemo) courts do step in to insure that the child's life is protected, whatever religious or pseudo-scientific crapola the parents may believe.
The above assumes that you are the arbiter of all things in the world.
"All things in the world" is a strange way to describe child abuse. No, it's not legal to starve your kids to death, no matter how religiously it's done. The "arbiter of all things in the world" in this case would be the government that usually outlaws shit like that, not the guy you replied to.
That is the sort of thing ISIS would do.
Trying to prevent child abuse is akin to ISIS (or FLDS) raping 12 year old girls? Or is ISIS dragging kids from your house to get vaccinated or something? Something's not quite right with your logic.
Yes, I went there, because you don't get it. You don't understand how completely dangerous your viewpoint really is.
Religion is not an excuse to kill kids. Yeah, that's right, I'm dangerous.
People are entitled to their religious beliefs, even if they disagree with yours.
But they're chopping off heads! I can't even waterboard my kids over here but they get to chop heads!
If you want to take away people's rights, prepare for a war... because plenty of people are happy to kill you
I've met plenty of religious people, so I can believe that.
Swimming pools are avoidable in ways that viruses are not.
You mean ISIS would be angry if they found out you kept your kids chained up in a basement? If they come knocking just say the kids are Yazidis.
If you're using the same power supply, make sure it can supply 2.5 amps. The 3 uses more power than the 2.
It sounds like it would make a good bomb part. Blowing Gus Fring's face off would be a fun way to learn Python programming.
You wouldn't believe what's ben happening with British computers. They have come a long way in the past 30 years. My last British computer was a ZX81 (pronounced "zed-ex-eighty-one"), and now this Raspberry Pi literally has a million times as much RAM. (OK, only 65536 times as much, because I had the 16K cartridge.) You don't need the tape cassette recorder as persistent storage anymore; it uses a microSD card. And yeah, it comes with a wastebasket. With the ZX81 you needed to provide your own wastebasket.
British computers are great for teaching kids to program. The Raspberry Pi pushes Python for development, but the ZX81 taught you BASIC. Then it taught you that you can actually read a BASIC program faster than a ZX81 can run it. As a result, the third thing you learned was Z80 assembly.
Both computers came with huge, detailed manuals. The British are really good at manuals- they're written in perfect English.
The whole shtick with the Pi Zero is that it costs $5. But so few were made that they can only be found for $20, which defeats the purpose.
So, for example, you know that you are not discussing actual facts when you talk about the so-called "Fairness Doctrine," right?
Because *you* never heard of it? Whatever.
You either live on a different planet or you never watch any "News" at all. News is filled to the brim with _opinion_, all the time and everywhere.
Then it isn't news, and you should keep that in mind when you watch that crap. Actual news was once much easier to find. During the seventies I was living on this planet, so I should know.
News looks like this:
Notice how these can be classified into true or false statements. There is such a thing as reality.
The real world and news is not purely black or purely white, and your claim that it can always be true/false is simply ludicrous.
You may not believe this, but there is such a thing as an actual fact. There are such things as true and false. Once you lose sight of that and mindlessly equivocate between truth and falsehood as if both sides are *always* making equally valid claims, you'll lose your grip on reality.
That said, when I looked at your post history I started to smell a sockpuppet.
...says the guy who didn't notice that my Slashdot ID is less than one third of his.
Do you always do opposition research on anyone who disagrees with you on a message board? (I actually agree with most of your posts, but I also get the impression that I'd want to stay the fuck away from you if I met you in person.)
I love how the party that got rid of the Fairness Doctrine for Fox News is now up in arms that a *website* might be reluctant to immediately publish stories from sources known for spreading fevered hallucinations and debunked rumors that inevitably need retractions or corrections. It is not incumbent on FB to "fix" this; it can be easily fixed if your news outlet stops producing stores that repeatedly turn out to be bullshit.
Unlike the world I grew up in, It seems that simple editorial discretion is now forbidden for anyone not printing newspapers or broadcasting on public airwaves. But FB has a right to free speech, and neither Infowars nor Stormfront has a free speech right to have its stories published on FB.
If you told me 5 years ago that I'd be defending Facebook for being reasonable, I would have said you were nuts! Sad!
If you think FB is unfairly biased, just buy myspace and turn it into Fox News.
You realize that Trump is a democrat right?
Trump's policy ideas are determined by whatever makes his current audience clap.
If I were that guy I would have divided her by zero.
"There's this guy in the seat next to me... he's writing some message with Arabic numbers in it."
How is this news for nerds, stuff that matters?
Whenever a Slashdot story is marked with an American flag icon, a bunch of nitwits start whining "How is this news for nerds?" -1, Redundant.
It must suck to be the North Korean guy whose job it is to monitor this thread!
Actually lactose is a molecule that's probably simple enough to be found in all galaxies. For example, North Korea is in the Miliky Way, and Un eats a lot of Swiss cheese.
(As for gluten... I don't think they have that in NK.)
Only if Ted Cruz wins the presidency.