there are about 800 distros which already meet his needs and which don't require him to do anything
...other than to try and then discard the other 799 candidates.
You say that like it's a good thing for most (let's say 799 out of 800) users. The ever increasing plethora of FooWM/X/GNU/Linux installs is a real problem even for those of us with technical savvy.
OK, seriously now. Seriously. Why is kdawson still "working" here?
He does this over and over again. He needs a special section: "Dupes, shills and scams". The guy clearly doesn't even read the site that he "edits". That would be like me submitting patches without ever checking out the code that I'm modifying.
I thought it would be cool if a game could have true creative interaction of objects -- a sort of emergence of events, not just a list or pre-planned events.
This is Slashdot. We only consider Asia in the context of giant robots. The idea that several billion people have bypassed the concept of the personal computer altogether and gone for the shared terminal + personal high end cellphone solution scares us. How do those craaaaazy foreigners even tar zip their lunix squid over ssh?
Now, for a bonus point, while you're losing money during a recession do you:
A) Make an effort to generate good publicity and attract and retain loyal customers?
B) Employ petty Bonapartes who generate bad publicity and piss off your existing customers by making farcically overblown threats way beyond their pay grade?
Did you get the part about the long tail theory being wrong, at least as far as its 20/80 split goes?
As the numbers come in, it turns out that even consumers (I use the word carefully here) on all-you-can-eat subscriptions never touch over 90% of the content on offer, and when they do touch the other 10%, it's very rarely. The long tail is there, but it's very, very thin indeed, and has little monetary value beyond marketing the total size of the content offering.
How hard would it be to add an option "spoil vote".
Presumably a crowbar, or the contents of can of spray paint or a tub of ice cream could be made coterminous with the voting machine in order to air that view.
You say that like it's some divine decree. Everyone in a nation should have their votes counted? Criminals too? The certified insane? Resident non-nations? Transient non-nations just passing through? Where's your personal line on vital citizens versus insignificant supernumeraries?
Even if we accept universal suffrage, retards are given the opportunity to vote, they just tend to fuck it up. Are you as passionate about people who are too lazy to show up having their opinions polled? How about if they're just too drunk to press the button?
Mmm, perhaps, but the rights owners still enjoy the right to sic The Man on you if too many other people overhear the content. The actual rights that you enjoy regarding that content are very slim indeed.
And they could hold on to their precious, precious virginity until they're married, stay off those evil reefers and goofballs, turn their darn hippity-hop music down, and get off your lawn.
None of the above will happen in the few remaining years of your lifetime, nor even in theirs.
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I prefer RFC 2541. The Mark 1 Air Gap is still the gold standard of security.
To be fair "physically inaccessible" shows that they sort of get it, but they wrap it up in so many buzzwords that it'll never get implemented.
You say that like it's a good thing for most (let's say 799 out of 800) users. The ever increasing plethora of FooWM/X/GNU/Linux installs is a real problem even for those of us with technical savvy.
OK, seriously now. Seriously. Why is kdawson still "working" here?
He does this over and over again. He needs a special section: "Dupes, shills and scams". The guy clearly doesn't even read the site that he "edits". That would be like me submitting patches without ever checking out the code that I'm modifying.
What part of open source is confusing you?
This is Slashdot. We only consider Asia in the context of giant robots. The idea that several billion people have bypassed the concept of the personal computer altogether and gone for the shared terminal + personal high end cellphone solution scares us. How do those craaaaazy foreigners even tar zip their lunix squid over ssh?
Well done! Good boy! Very clever!
Now, for a bonus point, while you're losing money during a recession do you:
A) Make an effort to generate good publicity and attract and retain loyal customers?
B) Employ petty Bonapartes who generate bad publicity and piss off your existing customers by making farcically overblown threats way beyond their pay grade?
Did you get the part about the long tail theory being wrong, at least as far as its 20/80 split goes?
As the numbers come in, it turns out that even consumers (I use the word carefully here) on all-you-can-eat subscriptions never touch over 90% of the content on offer, and when they do touch the other 10%, it's very rarely. The long tail is there, but it's very, very thin indeed, and has little monetary value beyond marketing the total size of the content offering.
Sure, if you want completely to misinterpret timmarhy's point, that's a great reply.
Reeeal slowly, look around you. Don't make any sudden moves.
Presumably a crowbar, or the contents of can of spray paint or a tub of ice cream could be made coterminous with the voting machine in order to air that view.
Middle of the road crap is all that's profitable. The long tail theory didn't survive contact with Joe Downloader.
You say that like it's some divine decree. Everyone in a nation should have their votes counted? Criminals too? The certified insane? Resident non-nations? Transient non-nations just passing through? Where's your personal line on vital citizens versus insignificant supernumeraries?
Even if we accept universal suffrage, retards are given the opportunity to vote, they just tend to fuck it up. Are you as passionate about people who are too lazy to show up having their opinions polled? How about if they're just too drunk to press the button?
Democracy is a fine thing, in moderation.
As opposed to launching it, which is cheap as chips?
Slashdot needs to oblige posters to pass a quiz every time they type "GPL".
What part of anyone who possesses the object code is confusing you?
And I can outsprint a marathon runner over fifty yards. What's your point?
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Oh, I see. I'm guessing that you don't play MMOs.
Mmm, perhaps, but the rights owners still enjoy the right to sic The Man on you if too many other people overhear the content. The actual rights that you enjoy regarding that content are very slim indeed.
[Your implicitly suggested alternative] is an utter piece of crap, it would be advisable to get rid of it now.
Citation required.
Fine, let's just _surrender_ to the fossils, shall we?
Since presumably you're not dumb, perhaps you'd like to share with us the secret of how they'd do that?
No, but you get to make peoples' lives a misery, and in the end, isn't that what really matters?
And they could hold on to their precious, precious virginity until they're married, stay off those evil reefers and goofballs, turn their darn hippity-hop music down, and get off your lawn.
None of the above will happen in the few remaining years of your lifetime, nor even in theirs.
When your £20 PAYG mobile disappears, would you bother reporting it? Seriously?