Deadlocking a supreme court for an entire year just to make a point seems a bit silly though.
This is approximately the same congress that derailed the US's credit rating and shut down the government. You really think they wouldn't deadlock the Supreme Court?
The one that just died was famous for digging through the historical records to try to determine what the authors of the Constitution might have thought instead of going by whichever way today's wind is blowing. What exactly do you have in mind when you want 'apolitical'?
When it suited his beliefs, yes. Scalia used historical records like a drunk uses a lamppost -- for support, rather than illumination.
Obama's already picked two moderates? Right... try another joke. Or maybe you're not joking, and you're just a fucking idiot.
Conservative, moderate, and liberal are relative terms, and their perception depends largely on where the observer stands. Apparently, you stand off on the far-right fringes of batshitonia.
How is selling ads "abusing" them? The whole damn point of the enterprise is to make some jingle. You want free content? Go watch cat videos on youtube. You want something edited, well, someone's got to pay the writers and editors.
Wired ads are among the most abusive and intrusive I have encountered at a mainstream site on the internet. I like their content, and I'd happily accept ads to read their content. I will not, however, accept that I have to be repeatedly assaulted with slowly-unfolding video popups, excessive DOM manipulation, extensive tracking, and other acts of advertising abuse.
I will go so far as to say that it was Wired that made me finally install an ad blocker to begin with. They are that bad.
I'm not sure why you think this would be on the radar of every single reader of Slashdot.
You've failed to integrate into the hive-mind, then. Honestly, if every single thing had to be explained at the lowest common denominator, slashdot would be a horrible place. Well, more horrible than it already is, anyway.
I have never used Docker, and had only the vaguest idea what it was about. I googled it and read about it. God forbid you should have to do the same.
With the exception of the last presidential election a LOT of people have been voting Republican, from the Federal level on down. Republicans have gained seats in the Senate, and the house, have more governorships than we've seen in modern history, and made gains in state legislators nation wide almost without exception. Maybe everybody is nuts, but it seems that there are a LOT of people doing the crazy thing here.
I think you are ignoring (perhaps willfully) that much of that gain in the R column is the result of changing the rules, not necessarily an increase in voters. The Republican side is pretty notorious for outrageous acts of gerrymandering, for a start. Continuing on from there, Citizens United has benefitted Republicans *much* more than Democrats. And if you really want to wade into the muck, we have heretofore unseen levels of voter disenfranchisement, primarily at the hands of (you guessed it) the Republicans.
So are there more Republican voters? Maybe. Maybe not. But by most estimations, that's not what has increased their grip on the government. And that is, by my reckoning, circumventing what little democracy we had left in this country.
Old data is just that...old data. Apple needs to become much more price competitive if it is going to succeed in today's marketplace.
You're not the first person to suggest that, and you certainly won't be the last. But you'll be just as wrong as everyone else who has said that for literally decades. Apple does not generally engage in the "race to the bottom" that so many weaker hands have succumbed to. HP, Dell, Compaq, Gateway, and even IBM took turns largely destroying each others PC business more than a decade ago. A whole new crop of phone makers, failing to take any lessons from history, have done the same thing recently. And yet, there's still no shortage of armchair quarterbacks insisting to their dying breath that Apple needs to lower their prices. Why? What is it about a race to the bottom that is so hard to understand? And why would any company willingly engage in that game when the outcome is -- at this point -- as clear as day?
The duty cycle on rooftops is a lot better, plus there are no trucks driving over them there.
There are a lot of naysayers here worked up about the potential for cars to block the sunlight. To which I say So What? It's an experiment. Someone is trying a different approach to solar, and that's actually a good thing. While I can think of potential drawbacks to this approach, I can also think of quite a few potential advantages. The exact ratio of disadvantages to advantages is the important part here. Pointing out the obvious -- that cars will occasionally block some of the light -- doesn't serve any useful function.
Again, it's an experiment. Accept that you might not actually know everything.
I've been using and working with computers since before you were born
Unlikely at best and laughable at worst. I have been programming longer than most people whose names aren't Kernighan or Ritchie.
and have never had a single one get infected with a virus or malware of any kind.
The plural of anecdote is not data. Your one experience means less than nothing. The simple fact is that people continue to be infected by malware of all types on all platforms. This is not a debatable point.
It boggles the mind how anyone could have that happen unless they went out of their way to make it happen and/or they are a complete moron.
A government that's absolutely trusted to confiscate everyone's guns but can't be trusted with information.
The only ones talking about seizing guns are the pro-gun lobby and all of their unwitting minions. The rest of us just wish for more common-sense measures, like universal background checks.
Your summary of the situation is your own. It's also unnecessarily defeatist, and more than a bit reductionist. Perhaps you'd be willing to engage in an actual intelligent conversation on the topic, rather than just stupid rhetoric?
TFS says "explore". Importantly, it also says "other". Rather than hysterical shrieking designed to encourage doing nothing, maybe you could suggest alternative approaches.
The problem is that Apple devices seem to be something that some people wrap their ego in. They feel a need to have the newest device to be "cool" or some such and thus get mad when a newer device comes out that they cannot or do not wish to purchase since they feel it somehow lessens what they do have.
I think you're suffering from cognitive dissonance. The hint is that you're suggesting a rather absurd explanation -- that people buy new phones just to be cool -- and ignoring the much more obvious explanation: that the additional features are compelling enough for them to upgrade. It seems likely that you yourself do not feel that the additional features and improvements are sufficient to warrant an upgrade -- and that's okay. But to project your sensibilities onto the entire rest of the world and then to suggest they are behaving in a rather irrational manner is itself as irrational as it gets.
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Deadlocking a supreme court for an entire year just to make a point seems a bit silly though.
This is approximately the same congress that derailed the US's credit rating and shut down the government. You really think they wouldn't deadlock the Supreme Court?
Really?
Clever. I wonder how many in this audience will catch that.
As much as I like to slag the general slashdot population, I do think you're not giving the audience nearly enough credit on this one.
The one that just died was famous for digging through the historical records to try to determine what the authors of the Constitution might have thought instead of going by whichever way today's wind is blowing. What exactly do you have in mind when you want 'apolitical'?
When it suited his beliefs, yes. Scalia used historical records like a drunk uses a lamppost -- for support, rather than illumination.
Obama's already picked two moderates? Right... try another joke. Or maybe you're not joking, and you're just a fucking idiot.
Conservative, moderate, and liberal are relative terms, and their perception depends largely on where the observer stands. Apparently, you stand off on the far-right fringes of batshitonia.
You must have missed the part where YouTube started requiring a subscription or forces you to watch ads. Comment fail.
Nope. YouTube isn't nearly as bad as Wired.
How is selling ads "abusing" them? The whole damn point of the enterprise is to make some jingle. You want free content? Go watch cat videos on youtube. You want something edited, well, someone's got to pay the writers and editors.
Wired ads are among the most abusive and intrusive I have encountered at a mainstream site on the internet. I like their content, and I'd happily accept ads to read their content. I will not, however, accept that I have to be repeatedly assaulted with slowly-unfolding video popups, excessive DOM manipulation, extensive tracking, and other acts of advertising abuse.
I will go so far as to say that it was Wired that made me finally install an ad blocker to begin with. They are that bad.
I'm not sure why you think this would be on the radar of every single reader of Slashdot.
You've failed to integrate into the hive-mind, then. Honestly, if every single thing had to be explained at the lowest common denominator, slashdot would be a horrible place. Well, more horrible than it already is, anyway.
I have never used Docker, and had only the vaguest idea what it was about. I googled it and read about it. God forbid you should have to do the same.
With the exception of the last presidential election a LOT of people have been voting Republican, from the Federal level on down. Republicans have gained seats in the Senate, and the house, have more governorships than we've seen in modern history, and made gains in state legislators nation wide almost without exception. Maybe everybody is nuts, but it seems that there are a LOT of people doing the crazy thing here.
I think you are ignoring (perhaps willfully) that much of that gain in the R column is the result of changing the rules, not necessarily an increase in voters. The Republican side is pretty notorious for outrageous acts of gerrymandering, for a start. Continuing on from there, Citizens United has benefitted Republicans *much* more than Democrats. And if you really want to wade into the muck, we have heretofore unseen levels of voter disenfranchisement, primarily at the hands of (you guessed it) the Republicans.
So are there more Republican voters? Maybe. Maybe not. But by most estimations, that's not what has increased their grip on the government. And that is, by my reckoning, circumventing what little democracy we had left in this country.
Old data is just that...old data. Apple needs to become much more price competitive if it is going to succeed in today's marketplace.
You're not the first person to suggest that, and you certainly won't be the last. But you'll be just as wrong as everyone else who has said that for literally decades. Apple does not generally engage in the "race to the bottom" that so many weaker hands have succumbed to. HP, Dell, Compaq, Gateway, and even IBM took turns largely destroying each others PC business more than a decade ago. A whole new crop of phone makers, failing to take any lessons from history, have done the same thing recently. And yet, there's still no shortage of armchair quarterbacks insisting to their dying breath that Apple needs to lower their prices. Why? What is it about a race to the bottom that is so hard to understand? And why would any company willingly engage in that game when the outcome is -- at this point -- as clear as day?
The duty cycle on rooftops is a lot better, plus there are no trucks driving over them there.
There are a lot of naysayers here worked up about the potential for cars to block the sunlight. To which I say So What? It's an experiment. Someone is trying a different approach to solar, and that's actually a good thing. While I can think of potential drawbacks to this approach, I can also think of quite a few potential advantages. The exact ratio of disadvantages to advantages is the important part here. Pointing out the obvious -- that cars will occasionally block some of the light -- doesn't serve any useful function.
Again, it's an experiment. Accept that you might not actually know everything.
I've been using and working with computers since before you were born
Unlikely at best and laughable at worst. I have been programming longer than most people whose names aren't Kernighan or Ritchie.
and have never had a single one get infected with a virus or malware of any kind.
The plural of anecdote is not data. Your one experience means less than nothing. The simple fact is that people continue to be infected by malware of all types on all platforms. This is not a debatable point.
It boggles the mind how anyone could have that happen unless they went out of their way to make it happen and/or they are a complete moron.
Right. Now you're just being stupid.
For the people who download and install random shady shit? Seriously, malware only affects idiots. This shit would never get anywhere near my gear.
Hahahahahaha!
Good one!
An incandescent when you dim it, it runs cooler and as a result it goes to more of a red color instead of the yellow white color it normally runs at.
A shift toward red is warmer, not cooler.
Most people generally find this shift towards red rather pleasing when dimming a light bulb.
Citation needed. Actually, no, don't bother. That's just bullshit.
It's not a "feature" of the dimmer, but a function of the physics of an incandescent bulb.
It's not a feature of anything. That's a bug.
A government that's absolutely trusted to confiscate everyone's guns but can't be trusted with information.
The only ones talking about seizing guns are the pro-gun lobby and all of their unwitting minions. The rest of us just wish for more common-sense measures, like universal background checks.
So if his action was (as you seem to indicate) a no-op, then you've got nothing to complain about. Right?
Right?
Sarcasm duly noted. So I take it you would be in favor of doing nothing, rather than something, on the grounds that you think nothing will work?
How defeatist.
Your summary of the situation is your own. It's also unnecessarily defeatist, and more than a bit reductionist. Perhaps you'd be willing to engage in an actual intelligent conversation on the topic, rather than just stupid rhetoric?
TFS says "explore". Importantly, it also says "other". Rather than hysterical shrieking designed to encourage doing nothing, maybe you could suggest alternative approaches.
Because "nothing" is no longer an option.
Medicine already has competition: churches, faith healers, supplement companies, homeopathy. And the competition is doing very well.
The competition may be doing well, but it's not doing very much good.
Americans. You call a liquid "gas" and now you call another liquid "coke".
Can't be any worse than referring to a flashlight as a torch.
What other country in history has "poor" who can afford to be FAT?
Well, off the top of my head, Brazil.
Exactly.
The problem is that Apple devices seem to be something that some people wrap their ego in. They feel a need to have the newest device to be "cool" or some such and thus get mad when a newer device comes out that they cannot or do not wish to purchase since they feel it somehow lessens what they do have.
I think you're suffering from cognitive dissonance. The hint is that you're suggesting a rather absurd explanation -- that people buy new phones just to be cool -- and ignoring the much more obvious explanation: that the additional features are compelling enough for them to upgrade. It seems likely that you yourself do not feel that the additional features and improvements are sufficient to warrant an upgrade -- and that's okay. But to project your sensibilities onto the entire rest of the world and then to suggest they are behaving in a rather irrational manner is itself as irrational as it gets.
Horseshit. Find me a single customer who cared about the emissions output.
Please don't project your Libertarian values on everyone else. That kind of selfish ME-ME-ME crap isn't actually a universally-held belief.
That is entirely false and without merit.