Do you think the Uk that is leaving the EU will do any different? You fucktards are nothing more than heralds of the new world order that will screw any kind of freedom that has been achieved by consensus politics. Do you think that the right will grant you any more freedom than the bureaucrats who run the EU? I hope you all die as a result of your "free market" stupidity. Especially you Architech, you deserve to be killed by your masters for your stupidity.
Agreed, video screen formats have contributed more to the decline of the Western world than Trump, ISIS and Kim Jong Un put together. Though they do at least leave plenty of room for taskbars on the left or right of the screen. Fashion, marketing and screwing the customer between them have a lot to answer for.
Here in Europe we ban the ass of anyone who looks like a Nazi and we don't have cry baby far right trash complaining about it. The Nazi's nearly destroyed Europe and killed millions and we do not want them back and will stop them. We will stop you too pal if you persist in pretending that it is ok to support Nazi ideology even if we have to invade America and kill you all. Go cry somewhere else you nasty piece of crap. Free speech does not include shouting fire in a crowded theater and shilling for Nazi ideology is similarly verboten.
I have yet to hear of any mobile app that was not a service that was free on the web at some point. Marketing is probably the greatest reason for the decline of the western world. Economic growth is not achieved by inventing charges for free stuff, these people are parasites.
It is just about possible that we could send a probe that would take 80 years to get there. And then of course we would have to wait another 11 years for it to send back the photograph. Human AI may get to the stars but we are never going there.
Given the fun everybody is having shouting at each other about how leftist SJW are going to die and the alt-right are ignorant swine it is refreshing to find the most significant comment buried down here in the noise. Of course the purpose is to prevent any research into potential government methods in identifying opponents. The government is often accused of being stupid and ignorant of the function and behavior of the internet and its inhabitants. Nothing could be further from the truth, they understand it entirely too well. They just don't care what internet "experts" think, they take their council from tabloid newspapers because that is how they get elected.
Businesses don't worry about dropping cookies on you these days because they can identify you without them. The government can do the same and research into this and similar methods has been made a criminal offense so you will not be able to take mitigating actions. The government is not entirely evil, it believes that this will protect the children and catch terrorists. Meanwhile Facebook owns your soul whether you use it or not. A bit of a dilemma really.
It does not matter if I agree with the guy who was sacked, we live in a world where the corporation is within its rights to do almost whatever it likes with its workers. I note that it is a "leftist" concern to protect workers rights. Capitalism makes money, it does not make society, we give that to the politicians to arbitrate.
I agree that the separation of luminous gas from gravitational lensing in for example the Bullet Cluster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster) is strong evidence that dark matter is something other than ordinary matter, be it in black holes or not.
Actually sucker this is the pinnacle of capitalism. This guy made trouble in the workplace and they sacked him for not having the right attitude. If you build a multi-billion dollar corporation you too can exterminate lowlife employees for having their own ideas. Instead of which you are lowlife who supports right wing propaganda about freedom - which is the freedom of big dogs to eat little dogs, just like happened to this guy.
The thirteen year olds in marketing departments who run the world have decided that the only way to shift more product is to do away with text on the web. This will lead to the entire world repurchasing all of their computing devices and the depreciation of all the old shit like newspapers and textbooks. However this is a bigger ask than replacing drop-down menus with ribbon bars and I predict said thirteen year olds are about to be encouraged to shuffle off this mortal coil by "the resistance".
On the other hand a rural semi literate farmer who wants to buy fertilizer on the net will be entirely happy with a voice driven app, as will the Unicorn Company that produces the app and earns 10% off of the sale (A charge that the literate farmer can avoid by navigating to a web site and buying direct). I also note that YouTube university level science lectures are a bit of a hit round here due to the fact that they are probably being given by a Nobel prize winner in a room that it costs $150,000 to enter and I get to learn for free, not even buying a textbook. So as ever YMMV, I think there are new net users who will take up voice driven interfaces but in the main they are not the existing ones.
Oh for goodness sake, right-wing snowflakes need to grow a backbone. Do you think the dissidents in the Soviet Union were forever moaning like you lot. Bunch of pussies, anyone would think that your ideas were failing in the court of public debate. It is a good thing that the left makes allowances for crybaby "oppressed" minorities, we can see from their moaning just how intolerant the right would be if they were in the ascendant. What you snowflakes need to do is come up with some compelling ideas instead of complaining about being such losers.
As a Brit I endorse this analysis completely. The gubermint in the UK are doing increasingly shouty announcements about various draconian policies that are unworkable and impossible to implement given their non-existent majority in the votes that would be needed to achieve them. These announcements are virtue signaling to the red-neck portion of the population whom they believe are too stupid to understand the policies but whom they will be relying on at the next election. I imagine that they will be announcing bringing back the death penalty - but only for "foreigners" shortly as that would be extremely popular among their base. This form of emotional appeal is no worse when it comes down to it than the left promising to tax the rich and give the people back the fruits of efficiency gains in the economy that have been systematically stolen from from them since the 1970's. Both sets of policies are seen as insane by the other side but both are perfectly rational. Take your pick.
Like most generalizations it applies "in general" to lowest common denominator users. So yes maybe a walled garden appliance works very competently. If that is what you need, then it is indeed the best. If you want a choice of applications to use with your camera then it definitely is not the best. The guy is just spouting marketing speak, or half truths as most critical thinkers will concur.
It works the other way round too Twitter is a good example of what is wrong with the Trumpster. The Trumpster being on Twitter more or less proves that his head is full of a mish mosh of bad jokes, stupid internet memes, shameless self promotion, and political ranting. No wonder he tweets in his lunch break to ban LBGT from the military without a single thought about what to do with the 2500 who are already in it. The man sadly is a moronic cretin who barely has the intellect to function as the president. I would not be surprised if the Republican party engineer his departure once they have achieved whatever they find necessary to blame on him once they have buried him. The guy is certainly more of an inept entertainer than a Machiavellian plotter.
As another EU citizen I have to agree. The Germans have quite a history of the evils of populism and how it can be hijacked by the use of hate speech. It is no wonder that they remain a bastion against that particular evil. It is not at all notable that they are also cracking down on illegal material either, the rest of the world is in the process of doing it; we just differ on how that should be done. There is an issue over social conformity but society has always demanded conformity as the American city ordinances against growing vegetables in your yard attest. It is not always easy to find agreement on what that conformity should be.
It is not correct to lump hate speech, illegal activities and enforcing social conformity all in under the banner of "State Oppression". They can be and are all separate issues and hate speech and illegal activities are not directly to do with political free speech.
Brexit was a case in point, the argument for political independence from Europe was a completely fair question. The argument that Brexit would deport all "filthy foreigners" back to their "homelands" was not fair, being both a lie and populist hate speech. Unfortunately due to the weak control of hate speech in the UK it was arguably the latter and not the former that won the Brexit vote. If that had not been so the country would not be divided as it is now.
I know this might be regarded as antediluvian but I use gPodder and do not participate in the Apple iTunes walled garden. If I cannot get a RSS feed then I am not going to listen. In the same way that we regard open source software with respect I also think that "open podcasting" should be respected.
Seconded. I can always be guaranteed a good debate on Slashdot compared to most other media. It is the very fact that people with completely opposing views battle it out here that makes it worth the visit.
Actually most Lib Dems voted Labour for this election because it was more important to stop the right wing conservatives "hard brexit" and austerity. Also the current Lib Dem leader is not very appealing as a person being a bit of a religious fanatic in a party that does not believe religion should be in politics. The tuition fees thing is something they had no choice about as the cost of what they were able to achieve as part of the last coalition.
It was a great era for computing and anyone who used it knew it was going places, so yes it was a special time. You could already see where it was going to go from things like Douglas Adams 'Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy' and its talking book. And so it has come to pass, the mobile phone gives everybody on the planet access to all knowledge. Sadly a lot of them only use it to get sports scores and slag each other off on social media, people are funny like that. But it is still true that all of the amazing possibilities of computing are available for peanuts to most people now, so the promise was largely realised. Whilst you might not feel that computing itself is quite as exciting today as it was before we had today's hardware you can still get a lot more out of it.
If you really want to get a buzz out of technology these days then you should probably be working in genetics or personalized medicine which to repeat an old joke "could be a cure for cancer". More importantly we can already see that gene therapy, the microbiome and genetically modified plants are going to be as important to humanity in thirty years as computing has become. All these worlds are there ready, waiting to be explored.
I remember playing this with a group of friends on a teletypewriter overnight in the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology Cardiff in 1981. We played the whole thing through from start to end in one session. I did the typing because I could touch type. I think we finished at about 5am. No computer game has really interested me since. Once you have played ADVENT you have played them all. I still have the printout somewhere, it weighs about five pounds.
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Do you think the Uk that is leaving the EU will do any different? You fucktards are nothing more than heralds of the new world order that will screw any kind of freedom that has been achieved by consensus politics. Do you think that the right will grant you any more freedom than the bureaucrats who run the EU? I hope you all die as a result of your "free market" stupidity. Especially you Architech, you deserve to be killed by your masters for your stupidity.
Agreed, video screen formats have contributed more to the decline of the Western world than Trump, ISIS and Kim Jong Un put together. Though they do at least leave plenty of room for taskbars on the left or right of the screen. Fashion, marketing and screwing the customer between them have a lot to answer for.
You guys and girls are so fucked, the older you get the less the capitalists want you and it has been going on all my life. You are welcome.
Here in Europe we ban the ass of anyone who looks like a Nazi and we don't have cry baby far right trash complaining about it. The Nazi's nearly destroyed Europe and killed millions and we do not want them back and will stop them. We will stop you too pal if you persist in pretending that it is ok to support Nazi ideology even if we have to invade America and kill you all. Go cry somewhere else you nasty piece of crap. Free speech does not include shouting fire in a crowded theater and shilling for Nazi ideology is similarly verboten.
Paying more is a goal of marketing tech. Only an ignorant person does it. So much for free markets lol.
I have yet to hear of any mobile app that was not a service that was free on the web at some point. Marketing is probably the greatest reason for the decline of the western world. Economic growth is not achieved by inventing charges for free stuff, these people are parasites.
It is just about possible that we could send a probe that would take 80 years to get there. And then of course we would have to wait another 11 years for it to send back the photograph. Human AI may get to the stars but we are never going there.
Given the fun everybody is having shouting at each other about how leftist SJW are going to die and the alt-right are ignorant swine it is refreshing to find the most significant comment buried down here in the noise. Of course the purpose is to prevent any research into potential government methods in identifying opponents. The government is often accused of being stupid and ignorant of the function and behavior of the internet and its inhabitants. Nothing could be further from the truth, they understand it entirely too well. They just don't care what internet "experts" think, they take their council from tabloid newspapers because that is how they get elected.
Businesses don't worry about dropping cookies on you these days because they can identify you without them. The government can do the same and research into this and similar methods has been made a criminal offense so you will not be able to take mitigating actions. The government is not entirely evil, it believes that this will protect the children and catch terrorists. Meanwhile Facebook owns your soul whether you use it or not. A bit of a dilemma really.
It does not matter if I agree with the guy who was sacked, we live in a world where the corporation is within its rights to do almost whatever it likes with its workers. I note that it is a "leftist" concern to protect workers rights. Capitalism makes money, it does not make society, we give that to the politicians to arbitrate.
I agree that the separation of luminous gas from gravitational lensing in for example the Bullet Cluster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster) is strong evidence that dark matter is something other than ordinary matter, be it in black holes or not.
Actually sucker this is the pinnacle of capitalism. This guy made trouble in the workplace and they sacked him for not having the right attitude. If you build a multi-billion dollar corporation you too can exterminate lowlife employees for having their own ideas. Instead of which you are lowlife who supports right wing propaganda about freedom - which is the freedom of big dogs to eat little dogs, just like happened to this guy.
The thirteen year olds in marketing departments who run the world have decided that the only way to shift more product is to do away with text on the web. This will lead to the entire world repurchasing all of their computing devices and the depreciation of all the old shit like newspapers and textbooks. However this is a bigger ask than replacing drop-down menus with ribbon bars and I predict said thirteen year olds are about to be encouraged to shuffle off this mortal coil by "the resistance".
On the other hand a rural semi literate farmer who wants to buy fertilizer on the net will be entirely happy with a voice driven app, as will the Unicorn Company that produces the app and earns 10% off of the sale (A charge that the literate farmer can avoid by navigating to a web site and buying direct). I also note that YouTube university level science lectures are a bit of a hit round here due to the fact that they are probably being given by a Nobel prize winner in a room that it costs $150,000 to enter and I get to learn for free, not even buying a textbook. So as ever YMMV, I think there are new net users who will take up voice driven interfaces but in the main they are not the existing ones.
Oh for goodness sake, right-wing snowflakes need to grow a backbone. Do you think the dissidents in the Soviet Union were forever moaning like you lot. Bunch of pussies, anyone would think that your ideas were failing in the court of public debate. It is a good thing that the left makes allowances for crybaby "oppressed" minorities, we can see from their moaning just how intolerant the right would be if they were in the ascendant. What you snowflakes need to do is come up with some compelling ideas instead of complaining about being such losers.
As a Brit I endorse this analysis completely. The gubermint in the UK are doing increasingly shouty announcements about various draconian policies that are unworkable and impossible to implement given their non-existent majority in the votes that would be needed to achieve them. These announcements are virtue signaling to the red-neck portion of the population whom they believe are too stupid to understand the policies but whom they will be relying on at the next election. I imagine that they will be announcing bringing back the death penalty - but only for "foreigners" shortly as that would be extremely popular among their base. This form of emotional appeal is no worse when it comes down to it than the left promising to tax the rich and give the people back the fruits of efficiency gains in the economy that have been systematically stolen from from them since the 1970's. Both sets of policies are seen as insane by the other side but both are perfectly rational. Take your pick.
Like most generalizations it applies "in general" to lowest common denominator users. So yes maybe a walled garden appliance works very competently. If that is what you need, then it is indeed the best. If you want a choice of applications to use with your camera then it definitely is not the best. The guy is just spouting marketing speak, or half truths as most critical thinkers will concur.
It works the other way round too Twitter is a good example of what is wrong with the Trumpster. The Trumpster being on Twitter more or less proves that his head is full of a mish mosh of bad jokes, stupid internet memes, shameless self promotion, and political ranting. No wonder he tweets in his lunch break to ban LBGT from the military without a single thought about what to do with the 2500 who are already in it. The man sadly is a moronic cretin who barely has the intellect to function as the president. I would not be surprised if the Republican party engineer his departure once they have achieved whatever they find necessary to blame on him once they have buried him. The guy is certainly more of an inept entertainer than a Machiavellian plotter.
It is perfectly legal in the UK. But I am not allowed to tell you about it...
Which is why shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater is not free speech. Your understandable enthusiasm for free speech has clouded your judgement.
As another EU citizen I have to agree. The Germans have quite a history of the evils of populism and how it can be hijacked by the use of hate speech. It is no wonder that they remain a bastion against that particular evil. It is not at all notable that they are also cracking down on illegal material either, the rest of the world is in the process of doing it; we just differ on how that should be done. There is an issue over social conformity but society has always demanded conformity as the American city ordinances against growing vegetables in your yard attest. It is not always easy to find agreement on what that conformity should be.
It is not correct to lump hate speech, illegal activities and enforcing social conformity all in under the banner of "State Oppression". They can be and are all separate issues and hate speech and illegal activities are not directly to do with political free speech.
Brexit was a case in point, the argument for political independence from Europe was a completely fair question. The argument that Brexit would deport all "filthy foreigners" back to their "homelands" was not fair, being both a lie and populist hate speech. Unfortunately due to the weak control of hate speech in the UK it was arguably the latter and not the former that won the Brexit vote. If that had not been so the country would not be divided as it is now.
In the UK Private Eye is not just entertaining but it holds to account our masters.
I know this might be regarded as antediluvian but I use gPodder and do not participate in the Apple iTunes walled garden. If I cannot get a RSS feed then I am not going to listen. In the same way that we regard open source software with respect I also think that "open podcasting" should be respected.
Seconded. I can always be guaranteed a good debate on Slashdot compared to most other media. It is the very fact that people with completely opposing views battle it out here that makes it worth the visit.
Actually most Lib Dems voted Labour for this election because it was more important to stop the right wing conservatives "hard brexit" and austerity. Also the current Lib Dem leader is not very appealing as a person being a bit of a religious fanatic in a party that does not believe religion should be in politics. The tuition fees thing is something they had no choice about as the cost of what they were able to achieve as part of the last coalition.
It was a great era for computing and anyone who used it knew it was going places, so yes it was a special time. You could already see where it was going to go from things like Douglas Adams 'Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy' and its talking book. And so it has come to pass, the mobile phone gives everybody on the planet access to all knowledge. Sadly a lot of them only use it to get sports scores and slag each other off on social media, people are funny like that. But it is still true that all of the amazing possibilities of computing are available for peanuts to most people now, so the promise was largely realised. Whilst you might not feel that computing itself is quite as exciting today as it was before we had today's hardware you can still get a lot more out of it.
If you really want to get a buzz out of technology these days then you should probably be working in genetics or personalized medicine which to repeat an old joke "could be a cure for cancer". More importantly we can already see that gene therapy, the microbiome and genetically modified plants are going to be as important to humanity in thirty years as computing has become. All these worlds are there ready, waiting to be explored.
I remember playing this with a group of friends on a teletypewriter overnight in the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology Cardiff in 1981. We played the whole thing through from start to end in one session. I did the typing because I could touch type. I think we finished at about 5am. No computer game has really interested me since. Once you have played ADVENT you have played them all. I still have the printout somewhere, it weighs about five pounds.