When is ones time not their own? If your job is to stuff N widgets into boxes per hour, and it takes you 45 minutes, what business is it of anyone to tell you to stop using that 15 minutes figuring out to get it to 30?
Oh, let me guess, you're one of those jackasses under the delusion that employment is some sort of master / slave relationship. Here's a little reality check for the aspiring Lumbergh: The master is whoever costs more to replace.
Besides, the point of money is to fuck the hottest chicks, eat the best food, and die with the most toys, so this whining is counterproductive. If the employee and the CEO aren't on the same page about getting more money, you've got bigger problems than IT costs.
Right, because ignoring the whiny Senator will make him go away. The money spent drafting more ridiculous game rating and censoring legislation and then challenging its Constitutionality will be money well spent.
This isn't Jack Thompson. Don't pretend the grief he can cause won't be permanent.
And why not? The nanny-staters' next question will be how do we rein in this violent, smut-loving private organization accountable to no one. If the ratings are mere opinion, then Yee's opinion on the game is equally valid.
One of the signs that an individual's ideology has become a pathology is when that individual ceases arguing with a real opponent and begins simply ridiculing a parody opponent
Perhaps, but these days a parody opponent is the only means to be challenged.
Security theater is evidence of strength. Coddling the whiny and hypersensitive is evidence of fear. You wing-nuts are so brave to state the forbidden truths.
Wait... you must be a troll, because otherwise you'd be in church right now.
Common practice for AT&T, Verizon, and Apple is not common practice for the industry. The part that made it interesting is the fact that the source cites the iPhone as the reason for the reduction in GPS functionality.
Know who else put six million people in a permanent free speech zone?
The But But! corollary: In any discussion of traditional political malfeasance, someone will find a similar but much less egregious offense by someone slightly less conservative and claim equivalence, and therefore, that no offense has taken place at all.
Feel free to add "Democrats" to a gun-grab or MPAA pandering, but the Republicans own this kind of shit, and that ain't ever going to change.
LOLZ! Is it irrelevant because it is common practice for AT&T and Verizon (and Apple), or because you don't like people taking sides on anything, as the defense of technology for its own sake strikes you as "fanboyism"?
Are you going to suggest that there is some component of intelligence or perception that requires supernatural origins? Because that's about the only position that allows you to come out of this argument without looking like a doofus.
Questions are the recognition of gaps in knowledge. Computers not only retrieve knowledge, they generate it. Therefore, computers are responsible for more questions than Pablo and his contemporaries could ever possibly conceive.
The supposed superiority of traditional encyclopedias is the proven expertise of the authors. It is not the lack of "groupthink". In many subjects, academia, industry, government, etc. exhibit far greater "groupthink" than whatever bogeyman of the masses you seem to be afraid of.
And you also seem to disbelieve in the ability of the scientific method and rational debate to arrive at truth. If everything has a bias, and all biases are more or less valid, what is the basis for your whining, anyway? Is it a consensus you disagree with that is so distasteful?
It doesn't have to take off. In fact, it will probably be a commercial failure. But we should all be glad it exists as symbol of the ultimate good to contrast against Apple's ultimate evil. The mobile computing revolution is just beginning to take off, and Apple stands to cut if off at the knees if they can manage to produce their devices cheaply enough to convince the masses that an almost-smartphone is a better replacement to the feature phone than a real smartphone.
Sure, it might give you the "real internet", but so does AOL. It's all about lock-in and captive eyeballs and DRM. It's a content delivery channel, not a general purpose computer.
At best, only thousands out of billions will ever get off this planet, and I have no interest in helping if I'm not one of them. If I die in a global cataclysm, we all die, motherfucker.
Bingo. In every example of chauvinism I've witnessed (more in school than professionally), the chauvinist was vastly inferior to his target - in intellect, in talent, in appearance and in personal hygiene. It's essentially a form of bullying, much like racism, where the biggest losers latch on to some external hierarchy as a crutch for their self esteem, and god help the woman who proves herself superior (which, given the cultural bias they've already overcome, is pretty much always the case).
You're kind of missing the point of what makes it a paradox. Big is relative, and muted by time. There has been time for the colonization of the entire galaxy several times over, even at tiny fractions of c. So if we aren't the first, then odds are, the galaxy should already be teaming with life (though not necessarily life we would recognize as such).
It doesn't have to take off. In fact, it will probably be a commercial failure. But we should all be glad it exists as symbol of the ultimate good to contrast against Apple's ultimate evil. The mobile computing revolution is just beginning to take off, and Apple stands to cut if off at the knees if they can manage to produce their devices cheaply enough to convince the masses that an almost-smartphone is a better replacement to the feature phone than a real smartphone.
Sure, it might give you the "real internet", but so does AOL. It's all about lock-in and captive eyeballs and DRM. It's a content delivery channel, not a general purpose computer.
We've done a good job teaching women that dumb, submissive and inferior is no way to go through life, but people forgot that the lesson applies to men as well. Now you people are whining that girls are getting special treatment, when the real reason is eroding standards for mental discipline (not to be confused with behavioral discipline) and the use of medication as a crutch.
The market doesn't care about your thinking style or attention span, the market cares about results. Most of us had no problem excelling in the female-dominated public education system, despite all the stereotypical geek traits. Don't expect anything to change for failing boys - they've already had thousands of years of special treatment. They'd better just get used to saying "yes ma'am".
Slashdot Mirror
Can I touch you?
I once stood in line behind CmdrTaco and Hemos to play BattleTech.
(The pods filled up though, and I had to settle for griefing timothy.)
When is ones time not their own? If your job is to stuff N widgets into boxes per hour, and it takes you 45 minutes, what business is it of anyone to tell you to stop using that 15 minutes figuring out to get it to 30?
Oh, let me guess, you're one of those jackasses under the delusion that employment is some sort of master / slave relationship. Here's a little reality check for the aspiring Lumbergh: The master is whoever costs more to replace.
Besides, the point of money is to fuck the hottest chicks, eat the best food, and die with the most toys, so this whining is counterproductive. If the employee and the CEO aren't on the same page about getting more money, you've got bigger problems than IT costs.
Right, because ignoring the whiny Senator will make him go away. The money spent drafting more ridiculous game rating and censoring legislation and then challenging its Constitutionality will be money well spent.
This isn't Jack Thompson. Don't pretend the grief he can cause won't be permanent.
That's a road we don't need to go down.
And why not? The nanny-staters' next question will be how do we rein in this violent, smut-loving private organization accountable to no one. If the ratings are mere opinion, then Yee's opinion on the game is equally valid.
Not only do they have a secret spying program, they seem to have secret Slashdot accounts for modding down ungoodthink.
There is not a human alive who uses the built-in MacBook Pro LCD for "serious" graphical work.
One of the signs that an individual's ideology has become a pathology is when that individual ceases arguing with a real opponent and begins simply ridiculing a parody opponent
Perhaps, but these days a parody opponent is the only means to be challenged.
Security theater is evidence of strength. Coddling the whiny and hypersensitive is evidence of fear. You wing-nuts are so brave to state the forbidden truths.
Wait... you must be a troll, because otherwise you'd be in church right now.
Common practice for AT&T, Verizon, and Apple is not common practice for the industry. The part that made it interesting is the fact that the source cites the iPhone as the reason for the reduction in GPS functionality.
Know who else put six million people in a permanent free speech zone?
The But But! corollary: In any discussion of traditional political malfeasance, someone will find a similar but much less egregious offense by someone slightly less conservative and claim equivalence, and therefore, that no offense has taken place at all.
Feel free to add "Democrats" to a gun-grab or MPAA pandering, but the Republicans own this kind of shit, and that ain't ever going to change.
LOLZ! Is it irrelevant because it is common practice for AT&T and Verizon (and Apple), or because you don't like people taking sides on anything, as the defense of technology for its own sake strikes you as "fanboyism"?
Reminds me of this Benford story. Call it the Bullet!
Are you going to suggest that there is some component of intelligence or perception that requires supernatural origins? Because that's about the only position that allows you to come out of this argument without looking like a doofus.
Typical "humanities" craptrap.
Questions are the recognition of gaps in knowledge. Computers not only retrieve knowledge, they generate it. Therefore, computers are responsible for more questions than Pablo and his contemporaries could ever possibly conceive.
The supposed superiority of traditional encyclopedias is the proven expertise of the authors. It is not the lack of "groupthink". In many subjects, academia, industry, government, etc. exhibit far greater "groupthink" than whatever bogeyman of the masses you seem to be afraid of.
And you also seem to disbelieve in the ability of the scientific method and rational debate to arrive at truth. If everything has a bias, and all biases are more or less valid, what is the basis for your whining, anyway? Is it a consensus you disagree with that is so distasteful?
It doesn't have to take off. In fact, it will probably be a commercial failure. But we should all be glad it exists as symbol of the ultimate good to contrast against Apple's ultimate evil. The mobile computing revolution is just beginning to take off, and Apple stands to cut if off at the knees if they can manage to produce their devices cheaply enough to convince the masses that an almost-smartphone is a better replacement to the feature phone than a real smartphone.
Sure, it might give you the "real internet", but so does AOL. It's all about lock-in and captive eyeballs and DRM. It's a content delivery channel, not a general purpose computer.
THIS is slashdot?
This is MADNESS!
At best, only thousands out of billions will ever get off this planet, and I have no interest in helping if I'm not one of them. If I die in a global cataclysm, we all die, motherfucker.
Besides, the future belongs to machines.
Bingo. In every example of chauvinism I've witnessed (more in school than professionally), the chauvinist was vastly inferior to his target - in intellect, in talent, in appearance and in personal hygiene. It's essentially a form of bullying, much like racism, where the biggest losers latch on to some external hierarchy as a crutch for their self esteem, and god help the woman who proves herself superior (which, given the cultural bias they've already overcome, is pretty much always the case).
Leeloo Dallas Multipass, is that you?
Your pacifism is a brilliant survival strategy. The most successful animals on earth are the ones we farm as livestock.
You're kind of missing the point of what makes it a paradox. Big is relative, and muted by time. There has been time for the colonization of the entire galaxy several times over, even at tiny fractions of c. So if we aren't the first, then odds are, the galaxy should already be teaming with life (though not necessarily life we would recognize as such).
It doesn't have to take off. In fact, it will probably be a commercial failure. But we should all be glad it exists as symbol of the ultimate good to contrast against Apple's ultimate evil. The mobile computing revolution is just beginning to take off, and Apple stands to cut if off at the knees if they can manage to produce their devices cheaply enough to convince the masses that an almost-smartphone is a better replacement to the feature phone than a real smartphone.
Sure, it might give you the "real internet", but so does AOL. It's all about lock-in and captive eyeballs and DRM. It's a content delivery channel, not a general purpose computer.
We've done a good job teaching women that dumb, submissive and inferior is no way to go through life, but people forgot that the lesson applies to men as well. Now you people are whining that girls are getting special treatment, when the real reason is eroding standards for mental discipline (not to be confused with behavioral discipline) and the use of medication as a crutch.
The market doesn't care about your thinking style or attention span, the market cares about results. Most of us had no problem excelling in the female-dominated public education system, despite all the stereotypical geek traits. Don't expect anything to change for failing boys - they've already had thousands of years of special treatment. They'd better just get used to saying "yes ma'am".
The only man I have ever seen criticised for his appearance the way a woman is is Michael Moore.
And Ann Coulter.
This raises an important question
Don't you mean, begs the question?
You bought pets.com stock, and you're calling Dvorak an idiot? Are you claiming there wasn't a CD-ROM bubble?