Haha way to exemplify the dude's point. "Creationism" and "Climate change" aren't religious or political issues. They're just anti-evidence ignorance. Politics and religion are about ideas and beliefs, creationism and climate change are about nonsense and anger. But avoiding intellectual achievement for a long enough time has ensured our culture is full of people like you who aren't capable of such critical thoughts.
Nah mate, it is prnounced qwerty in that case. I don't care what they say the pronunciation is, in that case I'm calling that fool qwerty because that name is awesome. I officially know what I'm naming my next pet.
If they could get it working in linux for arm I think people would be more than happy calling that "netflix on linux" because they'd just go buy their rPi's and happy happy joy joy. Furthermore there's a trick with flash to tweak one of the libs in android so it appears as non-android which allows hulu to play as well. These 2 systems for arm worked up for normal linux on ARM would give the rPi and slashdotters everything they want. So I kind of agree that someone should be out there trying to get these binaries out of bluray players to work in open arm systems.
I can't help but think this whole thing sounds eerily reminiscent of Steve Jobs (not in every way but..) in that this guy presided over the release of Windows 7, the best windows we've seen in a long time (I'm withholding judgement on windows 8 unlike many until it's had time in the market to prove one way or another, could be awful iduno), and the personality traits that are attributed to him sound very much in line with Jobs, and now he gets the boot... Will we see him come back in 5 or 10 years just to run MS to a new glory day? Who knows, if so, let's just hope he doesn't DRMurder all the consumers in the future like Jobs did...
And before you call that eugenics, eugenics is where society decides if you get to have kids or not, this is more akin to abortion where individuals get to choose whether they have a kid or not.
Tax credit? I'll have to look into that, though I've read it's unlikely anyone would allow us to adopt based on my wife having a possibly life-shortening disease. To be fair though, "This will be primarily used by those who can not conceive...as those are the people we DON'T want to reproduce" ignores the fact that there is in modern days the ability to actually ensure the kid's don't carry genes you are so concerned about. There's a commonly used technique now where they inseminate an egg and then after only a few cells have developed, they test one cell for the genetic markers of the disease being worried about and only implant in-vitro the eggs which provably were missing the gene. With an artificial womb and this technique people could have their own children without the dangerous gene markers (which grow more submissive per generation anyway).
That said, I first read your statement as "lets tack on 20% extra charge" thus I was a little confused:) Though to be fair, the costs are minimal yes but they're even more minimal if you go over and they then get to reduce the throughput they give you as then there's less throughput to more charged consumers which squeezes more out of their "minimal costs", to be fair, these business types think no costs are "minimal" until the cost is free.
I don't disagree, I just felt someone needs to inject the other-side-of-the-coin on this subject where all of slashdot (as the comments on this article show) will immediately start imagining half-womb creatures running around with mechanical brains guarding us in our cells at the RIAA organ-recquisitioning facility. A totally valid possibility, but not the whole picture:)
Sorry, they are charging you for those conversations, the way they identify the correct length of a given conversation is however proprietary so I may say no on the matter.
They have highly paid lawyers writing their contract (paid in US dollars, not proprietary dollars) so yes, I'm certain the contract does dictate the currency be measurable at fair market value to amount to the sum of the billed value.
A "proprietary" system of measurement just doesn't hold water.
Yes it does, it holds a proprietary amount of water as a matter of fact; see, it's not just holding water but a measurable amount. Perhaps we should accept the proprietary unit as a new universal unit of measure, companies can advertise how they give you more proprietary units for your dollar and bicker back and forth about who gives the most proprietary units..
I wasn't paranoid about A words, but now that you mention apple's chip is called the A6 I am growing seriously concerned... I think 25 letter lphbet wouldn't be tht bd.
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Haha way to exemplify the dude's point. "Creationism" and "Climate change" aren't religious or political issues. They're just anti-evidence ignorance. Politics and religion are about ideas and beliefs, creationism and climate change are about nonsense and anger. But avoiding intellectual achievement for a long enough time has ensured our culture is full of people like you who aren't capable of such critical thoughts.
Nah mate, it is prnounced qwerty in that case. I don't care what they say the pronunciation is, in that case I'm calling that fool qwerty because that name is awesome. I officially know what I'm naming my next pet.
How do you think ninja's disappear? Trust me, you don't want a demonstration though.
This is actually a completely viable means of travel, but returning would be a bit of a dick move.
Seriously? How???
If they could get it working in linux for arm I think people would be more than happy calling that "netflix on linux" because they'd just go buy their rPi's and happy happy joy joy. Furthermore there's a trick with flash to tweak one of the libs in android so it appears as non-android which allows hulu to play as well. These 2 systems for arm worked up for normal linux on ARM would give the rPi and slashdotters everything they want. So I kind of agree that someone should be out there trying to get these binaries out of bluray players to work in open arm systems.
Exactly! That would be spectacular! Though, like Jobs, it wouldn't make this guy any less of a dick.
I can't help but think this whole thing sounds eerily reminiscent of Steve Jobs (not in every way but..) in that this guy presided over the release of Windows 7, the best windows we've seen in a long time (I'm withholding judgement on windows 8 unlike many until it's had time in the market to prove one way or another, could be awful iduno), and the personality traits that are attributed to him sound very much in line with Jobs, and now he gets the boot... Will we see him come back in 5 or 10 years just to run MS to a new glory day? Who knows, if so, let's just hope he doesn't DRMurder all the consumers in the future like Jobs did...
And before you call that eugenics, eugenics is where society decides if you get to have kids or not, this is more akin to abortion where individuals get to choose whether they have a kid or not.
Tax credit? I'll have to look into that, though I've read it's unlikely anyone would allow us to adopt based on my wife having a possibly life-shortening disease. To be fair though, "This will be primarily used by those who can not conceive...as those are the people we DON'T want to reproduce" ignores the fact that there is in modern days the ability to actually ensure the kid's don't carry genes you are so concerned about. There's a commonly used technique now where they inseminate an egg and then after only a few cells have developed, they test one cell for the genetic markers of the disease being worried about and only implant in-vitro the eggs which provably were missing the gene. With an artificial womb and this technique people could have their own children without the dangerous gene markers (which grow more submissive per generation anyway).
That said, I first read your statement as "lets tack on 20% extra charge" thus I was a little confused :) Though to be fair, the costs are minimal yes but they're even more minimal if you go over and they then get to reduce the throughput they give you as then there's less throughput to more charged consumers which squeezes more out of their "minimal costs", to be fair, these business types think no costs are "minimal" until the cost is free.
They charge for overages.
I don't disagree, I just felt someone needs to inject the other-side-of-the-coin on this subject where all of slashdot (as the comments on this article show) will immediately start imagining half-womb creatures running around with mechanical brains guarding us in our cells at the RIAA organ-recquisitioning facility. A totally valid possibility, but not the whole picture :)
...I see somebody wants to bring back eugenics
My kid's to be an only child because my wife can't carry again, there is distinct good for people this science can create.
I hear ya. My first was rough on my wife and she can't safely carry again, all the clone-army jokes aside this is awesome science.
People are gonna watch their entire lives go by sitting and staring at the palm of their hand!
That sounds pretty retarded, hand's get terrible wifi reception.
Vodafone politely asked them to turn that shit off.
...which wasn't hard to do because all vodafone had to do was call anyone in that town and it rang straight to the yacht...
Sorry, they are charging you for those conversations, the way they identify the correct length of a given conversation is however proprietary so I may say no on the matter.
Your math is flawed, but the correct way to calculate this is proprietary.
We better all keep our eyes on it, it's already rogue, you never know if it might get all mavericky on us.
They have highly paid lawyers writing their contract (paid in US dollars, not proprietary dollars) so yes, I'm certain the contract does dictate the currency be measurable at fair market value to amount to the sum of the billed value.
A "proprietary" system of measurement just doesn't hold water.
Yes it does, it holds a proprietary amount of water as a matter of fact; see, it's not just holding water but a measurable amount. Perhaps we should accept the proprietary unit as a new universal unit of measure, companies can advertise how they give you more proprietary units for your dollar and bicker back and forth about who gives the most proprietary units..
"... So boy and girls, how many apples were left?"
a: 7, AT&T stole the rest while you were doing the calculation.
I wasn't paranoid about A words, but now that you mention apple's chip is called the A6 I am growing seriously concerned... I think 25 letter lphbet wouldn't be tht bd.