I like to think of Slashdot as a sort of pop-culture twitter feed now. Granted, tweets can have up to 140 characters of original content in them, which is where the analogy falls down.
It's a scam in the same way that all heavyweight electric vehicles are in the real world. Half a billion dollars of Federal "loans" has produced resource intensive toys with poorer than advertised range and performance, that catch fire, the batteries brick themselves, and even even if everything worked, the majority of the electricity used to charge them is still coming from fossil sources and will continue to do so until well after the extant Teslas are being shoved into landfills.
If they worked, and if we had enough grid capacity to charge them and if a lot (a lot) more electricity came from renewable sources and if those renewable sources weren't themselves a financially and fossil-energy subsidised techno-welfare scam... then they'd be just dandy.
At least that's how it should work, but the problem seems to be that the USPS is spending more even while doing less. Yes, the pension thing, but that's $5B out of $16B - where's the rest of it going?
I agree. By the time people retire, they're generally old, sick and weak, and therefore worthless. We should also get rid of postal votes and put all polling stations up three flights of stairs - that would keep out the genetically inferior as well.
Fuck it, let's just send everyone to Carousel when they hit 30, and be done with it.
Yes, yes, the sky is falling, it always has been, and it always will be.
We coped with far wilder climate change when we had nothing better than smelly furs, sharpened sticks and "Fire bad, tree pretty" to work with. I'm pretty sure that many of us will muddle through somehow.
It's a a kiddie toy franchise, always has been - Disney does quite well with those. The writer can write. It's finally free of the Benevolent Dictatorship of Lucas. Reasons to be cheerful, 1, 2, 3.
Was the child carrying an iPad on his way to a TSA grope-check so that his parents could fly back to Wisconsin and vote for Obama who once made a statement that science was all like, awesome and stuff?
Did you read the "some users" link before cracking wise? That's exactly what they are saying: don't use it the way you see us using it in the adverts and you'll be fine.
Jesus wept, the cognitive dissonance in there makes Apple fanbois look like balanced professional reviewers. After one victim reported getting a replacement which itself split within 24 hours (holding it wrong...) the response was "it is a problem with the accessory not the tablet". Well, I guess that makes it all right then.
Good news for Microsoft though, it looks like they'll get to report "shipping" lots of covers.
"Competent"? Petraeus was the first politician to go into the military, rather than t'other way around. His spent his fast track air conditioned career stapling reports for combat officers, collecting medals like fridge magnets, teaching about situations that he'd never experienced, and giving empty, faux-profound sound bites to embedded journalists (or biographers as he doubtless viewed them).
His major achievement was pacifying Mosul and re-building the civil and law enforcement infrastructure. Of course, the situation collapsed the moment his 101st Airborne was withdrawn, which tells you everything you need to know about how successful he actually was. Never mind though, because by then Petraeus had moved on to his real career - promoting himself through WaPo articles and lobbying Congress for the 'surge' that resulted in (literally) uncounted billions being funnelled to Uncle Cheney's coffers.
The man is a puffed up little reptile whose only qualification is that he was very slightly less incompetent than the rest of the military brass.
The earliest fossil hunters were all about blowing stuff up then marketing the remains as attractions. Well, what goes around comes around.
This lot have dug up one partial skull fragment, and some grant-hungry mouthwhore is now spouting off "ZOMFG bigger than T-Rex! Look, here it is eating Spinosaurs which we all know from Jurassic Park ate T-Rexes! Totes true, bro! Plus, it's called... uh... ChuckNorrorsaurus. Or whatever the kids are into these days. Really, we don't give a damn."
Pretty sad and pathetic, when it comes down to it, that science has to prostitute itself like that.
Would you please choose whether you're going to claim that Jobs was the hippie hacker, or the marketing fuckhead, so that we can have a proper argument about it, kthnxbye.
Urgh. The point is that "we" should be "they". Earth is primo real estate, and it's in "the galaxy". Colonising powers don't care about the filthy savages infesting their new territory, they just move in and wipe them out.
Even crawling along at tiny fractions of lightspeed, it would only take about a billion years for Bug Eyed Monsters to colonise the Milky Way, to get their eggs - or whatever slimy freak-organs they use for their unholy seething procreation - out of one planetary basket and become one life, eternal, everywhere.
The issue is that no BEMs appears to have done that, ever, in 14 billion years or so (give or take). We're talking about needing one expansionist technological organism on one planet anywhere in the Milky Way, ever.
We're very nearly there ourselves - we aspire to galactic colonisation, we're probably capable of it technologically, and have already done some pretty Quixotic dabbling in space travel. Imagine BEMs like us, with just 5% more of the Right Stuff (plus oozing tentacles lusting for our human women), getting a mere billion year head start.
Given the number of stars and planets out there, given the complex organic chemicals that we can now see floating around in space waiting to seed any remotely life sustaining environment, and it's almost incomprehensibly implausible that this hasn't happened. The BEMs should have been throbbing and pulsing over at Alpha Centuari and planted their hideous, rapacious flag on on the earth the moment (in geological terms) that it had a habitat that could support them.
The question of why "we" have even been allowed to come into existence to ask this question really is baffling. Are we truly alone, and if not, where's the party at?
Why should college necessarily be a "fond personal experience"?
No reason. It's illogical. One should study at maximum efficiency for 20 hours a day, meditate for the other 4, graduate, find a productive career, a suitable mate with complimentary qualities, and endure the Pon Farr every seven years.
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I like to think of Slashdot as a sort of pop-culture twitter feed now. Granted, tweets can have up to 140 characters of original content in them, which is where the analogy falls down.
Running it in a VM still means that you're "stuck" on Windows. Don't kid yourself.
It's a scam in the same way that all heavyweight electric vehicles are in the real world. Half a billion dollars of Federal "loans" has produced resource intensive toys with poorer than advertised range and performance, that catch fire, the batteries brick themselves, and even even if everything worked, the majority of the electricity used to charge them is still coming from fossil sources and will continue to do so until well after the extant Teslas are being shoved into landfills.
If they worked, and if we had enough grid capacity to charge them and if a lot (a lot) more electricity came from renewable sources and if those renewable sources weren't themselves a financially and fossil-energy subsidised techno-welfare scam... then they'd be just dandy.
Read again: Yankee Doodle wants to bestow his many dollah on Johnny Foreigner. Pub gigs aren't the answer to that question.
Fewer stamps = fewer letters = less cost.
At least that's how it should work, but the problem seems to be that the USPS is spending more even while doing less. Yes, the pension thing, but that's $5B out of $16B - where's the rest of it going?
I agree. By the time people retire, they're generally old, sick and weak, and therefore worthless. We should also get rid of postal votes and put all polling stations up three flights of stairs - that would keep out the genetically inferior as well.
Fuck it, let's just send everyone to Carousel when they hit 30, and be done with it.
Yes, yes, the sky is falling, it always has been, and it always will be.
We coped with far wilder climate change when we had nothing better than smelly furs, sharpened sticks and "Fire bad, tree pretty" to work with. I'm pretty sure that many of us will muddle through somehow.
Ain't democracy great, as long as everyone agrees with you?
They can go ahead and sue for copyright infringement. If their license is being broken, they might even win.
That's it. That's all the the GPL gives you. This is not hard to understand.
Captain Kirk.
No, wait, that's the answer to any question of "Who would win in a fight between Captain Kirk and X".
And tweet whatever the frak you want. The concept of "journalists" as distinct from "everyone" is just ludicrous now.
Funny, I can't think of a better definition of science. You're applying (literal) psychobabble to physics - now that's Bad Science.
Went from "honoured guest" to "undesirable individual" in one bounced check.
Maybe we'll cry for the right reasons next time.
It's a a kiddie toy franchise, always has been - Disney does quite well with those. The writer can write. It's finally free of the Benevolent Dictatorship of Lucas. Reasons to be cheerful, 1, 2, 3.
Oh noes, we have to reactively install antivirus on 30,000 machines, we might as well just set fire to them.
It's meta. Wait for the two dupes, one of which claims that Lord McAlpine has resigned.
Was the child carrying an iPad on his way to a TSA grope-check so that his parents could fly back to Wisconsin and vote for Obama who once made a statement that science was all like, awesome and stuff?
Good point. Tell you what, how about you buy one and let us know how that works out for you?
Did you read the "some users" link before cracking wise? That's exactly what they are saying: don't use it the way you see us using it in the adverts and you'll be fine.
Jesus wept, the cognitive dissonance in there makes Apple fanbois look like balanced professional reviewers. After one victim reported getting a replacement which itself split within 24 hours (holding it wrong...) the response was "it is a problem with the accessory not the tablet". Well, I guess that makes it all right then.
Good news for Microsoft though, it looks like they'll get to report "shipping" lots of covers.
"Competent"? Petraeus was the first politician to go into the military, rather than t'other way around. His spent his fast track air conditioned career stapling reports for combat officers, collecting medals like fridge magnets, teaching about situations that he'd never experienced, and giving empty, faux-profound sound bites to embedded journalists (or biographers as he doubtless viewed them).
His major achievement was pacifying Mosul and re-building the civil and law enforcement infrastructure. Of course, the situation collapsed the moment his 101st Airborne was withdrawn, which tells you everything you need to know about how successful he actually was. Never mind though, because by then Petraeus had moved on to his real career - promoting himself through WaPo articles and lobbying Congress for the 'surge' that resulted in (literally) uncounted billions being funnelled to Uncle Cheney's coffers.
The man is a puffed up little reptile whose only qualification is that he was very slightly less incompetent than the rest of the military brass.
Indeed, any targeted retributions against the leaker should worry him or her less than the next round of random brightsizing. The tighter your grip...
The earliest fossil hunters were all about blowing stuff up then marketing the remains as attractions. Well, what goes around comes around.
This lot have dug up one partial skull fragment, and some grant-hungry mouthwhore is now spouting off "ZOMFG bigger than T-Rex! Look, here it is eating Spinosaurs which we all know from Jurassic Park ate T-Rexes! Totes true, bro! Plus, it's called... uh... ChuckNorrorsaurus. Or whatever the kids are into these days. Really, we don't give a damn."
Pretty sad and pathetic, when it comes down to it, that science has to prostitute itself like that.
Would you please choose whether you're going to claim that Jobs was the hippie hacker, or the marketing fuckhead, so that we can have a proper argument about it, kthnxbye.
Urgh. The point is that "we" should be "they". Earth is primo real estate, and it's in "the galaxy". Colonising powers don't care about the filthy savages infesting their new territory, they just move in and wipe them out.
Even crawling along at tiny fractions of lightspeed, it would only take about a billion years for Bug Eyed Monsters to colonise the Milky Way, to get their eggs - or whatever slimy freak-organs they use for their unholy seething procreation - out of one planetary basket and become one life, eternal, everywhere.
The issue is that no BEMs appears to have done that, ever, in 14 billion years or so (give or take). We're talking about needing one expansionist technological organism on one planet anywhere in the Milky Way, ever.
We're very nearly there ourselves - we aspire to galactic colonisation, we're probably capable of it technologically, and have already done some pretty Quixotic dabbling in space travel. Imagine BEMs like us, with just 5% more of the Right Stuff (plus oozing tentacles lusting for our human women), getting a mere billion year head start.
Given the number of stars and planets out there, given the complex organic chemicals that we can now see floating around in space waiting to seed any remotely life sustaining environment, and it's almost incomprehensibly implausible that this hasn't happened. The BEMs should have been throbbing and pulsing over at Alpha Centuari and planted their hideous, rapacious flag on on the earth the moment (in geological terms) that it had a habitat that could support them.
The question of why "we" have even been allowed to come into existence to ask this question really is baffling. Are we truly alone, and if not, where's the party at?
No reason. It's illogical. One should study at maximum efficiency for 20 hours a day, meditate for the other 4, graduate, find a productive career, a suitable mate with complimentary qualities, and endure the Pon Farr every seven years.