Sure, I had a low view of Mr Wales, but I gained a lot of respect when he played such a major role in the SOPA blackout. If it weren't for him, and the bold step of blacking out Wikipedia, I'm not sure the blackout would have even been an event.
DMOZ is dead and irrelevant because its editors have made sure its crap, not because of the arrival of Google. Try get a legitimate site on there, in a legitimate category, through the submissions process. Try it. I defy you to do it.
Yeah, that burger one is excellent. This anti-skeuo "movement" is just a childish and cultish form of elitism. I'd love to see that burger one done in a Win8 Metro style - garish green background with a few large squares - it would be ugly as hell.
Maybe we should go further, and get rid of the concept of computers - after all, computers are not a concept people without computers are familiar with.
There are many things people do in real life that are purposely throw-away, including builders. It is a terrible and retarded idea to think that everything must be saved instantly. All people have a mental concept like "scratch space" or "throwaway work". Even builders will try certain new things, e.g. techniques in a test 'throwaway' or practice environment before doing them on a real project. If it were true that everything should be saved instantly, why do we even bother having a pre-submit stage while entering forum comments? Hey, let's just show our forum comments live, continually even as we are typing them. This 'continually save instantly' meme is terrible - what is worse is that now we will have an environment where some software users get used to not saving their work, and then lose work in other software. But then maybe that's the idea - that users will subtly get angry at other non-Apple software for 'losing their work' - a sly psychological manipulation.
The new Windows 8 UI is also fugly. It's fugly. This seems to be an elephant in the room nobody wants to mention because we're all supposed to be adoring the supposedly forward-thinking and trendy "minimalism". Reality check, it's a piece of ugly ass I don't want to be looking at every day.
That said, Apple also needs to be blasted for some of its UI design problems, but not for "skeuomorphism" - but for, what the fuck Apple, it took you until 2012 to have visual feedback for a window resize sash? Seriously? Another elephant in the room, while we're all also worshipping Apple, is that some aspects of their US design has been stuck in the 1980's.
"Because the administration wants proven techniques, and not to be a testbed for new technologies."
They won't be forced to upgrade to IPv6. These addresses are unused (it's right there, in the summary), so they already have other IPv4 addresses that they're using that aren't unused, and thus they shouldn't need to upgrade squat to offload these, as they can just keep using the used addresses (remember, these are unused addresses we're talking about). You only need to upgrade if you're selling off a used block (duh, fucking duh).
"80% of my last posts, via 10 months, got modded down by a group of rogue mods. Since 2012-09-07 my karma is down to good"
Maybe you got modded down because you're a troll? All pollution regulations work that way, even in Europe, because literally getting 0% of something like that in your water is basically impossible.
That message brought to you by, I presume, a German (.de in your email address), which is literally famous for the death of vast amounts of Black Forest from acid rain caused by pollutants.
Hmm, on holiday in Malaysia once I tried seaweed snacks - delicious, I often wish I could find them locally. They sell them there just like you'd see Lays or Pringles on the shelf.
Whitehead said he found nothing alarming in Raub's social media commentaries. "The posts I read that supposedly were of concern were libertarian-type posts I see all the time," he said.
I must say, this is bullshit. I'll admit I'm one of those people who spend a lot of time hanging around libertarian groups online, and I have never seen one person even remotely start saying things like this.. in fact the vast majority libertarians are against initiating violence (which is why they're libertarian). Occasionally a small minority might talk vaguely about "revolution" but I've never seen it in terms of specific threats.
Just because you use hysterical phrases like "free-for-all abuse", doesn't mean that remotely describes reality... if you have an irrational phobia of unregulated people then you should deal with that at a psychologist.
In principle, exposing the murder and cover-up of innocent people actually helps save the lives of innocent people in future, as it discourages such behavior.
The guy here isn't arguing that life-saving care be mandated though, he is saying it should mandatory to genetically engineer everyone to be "better people".
The "angst" surrounding Win95? You obviously remember it differently to me; as I recall, most of the major talking about points around Win95 were positive (e.g. one of the biggest was that Microsoft finally managed to support filenames longer than 8 characters - Apple even had a famous ad campaign poking fun at them with something like a "CGRTLTNS.W95" message), and that they finally ditched "cooperative multitasking" (where one hung app would kill the OS) for a more robust pre-emptive multi-tasking model. The main negative talking points were that it was relatively resource-hungry for computers of the time, but that faded quickly as computers were quickly getting faster.
Yours, for starts, where you said, and I quote again: I hope this helps you understand why "we turn any slashdot topic into an anti-rich diatribe"
Now you're just trying to throw nonsense out there hoping people don't see what you wrote.
The simple reality is that you have been unable to meaningfully articulate the subject of your venom. It started with the "rich", then it more correctly morphed into "those who abuse power". That's fine - that's progress in the development of your moral understanding.
I'm not the one who is anti-technology, so I'm not sure why you appear to be "rebutting" me... I think it will be a good thing when the average member of the public is able to increase the IQ of their offspring with cheap and widely available technologies. What I'm against is people being forced to do it, which is what the topic is about - i.e. an "ethics expert" is claiming that the public will have a "moral obligation" to genetically engineer their offspring - i.e. that when the technology becomes widely available then it should be mandated by law.
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Sure, I had a low view of Mr Wales, but I gained a lot of respect when he played such a major role in the SOPA blackout. If it weren't for him, and the bold step of blacking out Wikipedia, I'm not sure the blackout would have even been an event.
DMOZ is dead and irrelevant because its editors have made sure its crap, not because of the arrival of Google. Try get a legitimate site on there, in a legitimate category, through the submissions process. Try it. I defy you to do it.
Yeah, that burger one is excellent. This anti-skeuo "movement" is just a childish and cultish form of elitism. I'd love to see that burger one done in a Win8 Metro style - garish green background with a few large squares - it would be ugly as hell.
Maybe we should go further, and get rid of the concept of computers - after all, computers are not a concept people without computers are familiar with.
There are many things people do in real life that are purposely throw-away, including builders. It is a terrible and retarded idea to think that everything must be saved instantly. All people have a mental concept like "scratch space" or "throwaway work". Even builders will try certain new things, e.g. techniques in a test 'throwaway' or practice environment before doing them on a real project. If it were true that everything should be saved instantly, why do we even bother having a pre-submit stage while entering forum comments? Hey, let's just show our forum comments live, continually even as we are typing them. This 'continually save instantly' meme is terrible - what is worse is that now we will have an environment where some software users get used to not saving their work, and then lose work in other software. But then maybe that's the idea - that users will subtly get angry at other non-Apple software for 'losing their work' - a sly psychological manipulation.
The new Windows 8 UI is also fugly. It's fugly. This seems to be an elephant in the room nobody wants to mention because we're all supposed to be adoring the supposedly forward-thinking and trendy "minimalism". Reality check, it's a piece of ugly ass I don't want to be looking at every day.
That said, Apple also needs to be blasted for some of its UI design problems, but not for "skeuomorphism" - but for, what the fuck Apple, it took you until 2012 to have visual feedback for a window resize sash? Seriously? Another elephant in the room, while we're all also worshipping Apple, is that some aspects of their US design has been stuck in the 1980's.
"Because the administration wants proven techniques, and not to be a testbed for new technologies."
They won't be forced to upgrade to IPv6. These addresses are unused (it's right there, in the summary), so they already have other IPv4 addresses that they're using that aren't unused, and thus they shouldn't need to upgrade squat to offload these, as they can just keep using the used addresses (remember, these are unused addresses we're talking about). You only need to upgrade if you're selling off a used block (duh, fucking duh).
"80% of my last posts, via 10 months, got modded down by a group of rogue mods. Since 2012-09-07 my karma is down to good"
Maybe you got modded down because you're a troll? All pollution regulations work that way, even in Europe, because literally getting 0% of something like that in your water is basically impossible.
That message brought to you by, I presume, a German (.de in your email address), which is literally famous for the death of vast amounts of Black Forest from acid rain caused by pollutants.
Woah, a little tense there pal ... did you know that supplements like Natrol (R) 5-HTP can help keep your moods calm?
Hmm, on holiday in Malaysia once I tried seaweed snacks - delicious, I often wish I could find them locally. They sell them there just like you'd see Lays or Pringles on the shelf.
Whitehead said he found nothing alarming in Raub's social media commentaries. "The posts I read that supposedly were of concern were libertarian-type posts I see all the time," he said.
I must say, this is bullshit. I'll admit I'm one of those people who spend a lot of time hanging around libertarian groups online, and I have never seen one person even remotely start saying things like this .. in fact the vast majority libertarians are against initiating violence (which is why they're libertarian). Occasionally a small minority might talk vaguely about "revolution" but I've never seen it in terms of specific threats.
Just because you use hysterical phrases like "free-for-all abuse", doesn't mean that remotely describes reality ... if you have an irrational phobia of unregulated people then you should deal with that at a psychologist.
Yes, they absolutely should; for the consumer, to prevent abominations like this
But fraud is already illegal. We need to regulate everyone just in case someone does something that's already illegal?
In principle, exposing the murder and cover-up of innocent people actually helps save the lives of innocent people in future, as it discourages such behavior.
The guy here isn't arguing that life-saving care be mandated though, he is saying it should mandatory to genetically engineer everyone to be "better people".
I had the CP working in VirtualBox seemingly fine.
The "angst" surrounding Win95? You obviously remember it differently to me; as I recall, most of the major talking about points around Win95 were positive (e.g. one of the biggest was that Microsoft finally managed to support filenames longer than 8 characters - Apple even had a famous ad campaign poking fun at them with something like a "CGRTLTNS.W95" message), and that they finally ditched "cooperative multitasking" (where one hung app would kill the OS) for a more robust pre-emptive multi-tasking model. The main negative talking points were that it was relatively resource-hungry for computers of the time, but that faded quickly as computers were quickly getting faster.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/03/tech/mobile/apple-wins-ban-android-time/index.html "Apple wins ban on two Android devices"
An offensive attack? Are you joking, or just ignorant, or is your Google Search broken?
(To be clear, I am not a Randian, but I am a Stick-to-facts-please-ian.)
can't wait for the Randians to read that one
Um, why would Randians be bothered by that? Rand was not an anarchist, and rejected anarchism.
Could you answer the question also please about what great powers Jim Carrey and Justin Bieber have?
I'd be inclined to suggest that this is one of those 'just because you have a problem doesn't mean there is a solution' situation
I also suspect that might be the case, though admittedly I haven't spent much time contemplating their potential business model(s).
Yours, for starts, where you said, and I quote again: I hope this helps you understand why "we turn any slashdot topic into an anti-rich diatribe"
Now you're just trying to throw nonsense out there hoping people don't see what you wrote.
The simple reality is that you have been unable to meaningfully articulate the subject of your venom. It started with the "rich", then it more correctly morphed into "those who abuse power". That's fine - that's progress in the development of your moral understanding.
I presume you replied to the wrong post? As this makes no sense otherwise; I never claimed to be 'new here' either.
I'm not the one who is anti-technology, so I'm not sure why you appear to be "rebutting" me ... I think it will be a good thing when the average member of the public is able to increase the IQ of their offspring with cheap and widely available technologies. What I'm against is people being forced to do it, which is what the topic is about - i.e. an "ethics expert" is claiming that the public will have a "moral obligation" to genetically engineer their offspring - i.e. that when the technology becomes widely available then it should be mandated by law.