Unfourtunately that is what happens when you aren't open minded. The summary, not written by a slashdot employee mind you, shows that the reader just skimmed the article and didn't really read it. The server success was lauded, the lack of desktop penetration was the focus of the story.
If you had some readhing comprehenion
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...you'd realize they were talking about it's lack of success on the desktop entirely. There were several quotes giving it high praise in the server arena.
Your GPA alone is meaningless unless the class average of each course is known. So you got a A in cs4xxx hey, well look at this the average grade was a B+. Kind of takes the luster off the A doesn't it?
Capitalism is by far the best system, unfourtunately it requires a fully informed consumer. The majority of the human population just wants to survive and not put much thought into the decisions affecting how they live. Microsoft would not have the monopoly it does if everybody informed themselves of the choices available to them.
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It's based on the known properties of the compound in it's gaseous state. Take fresman level physics and chemistry.
We do know that CO2 causes a greenhouse effect. So should we just keep things as they are till we know or should we modify our behavior on the outside chance that we are affecting things? Continue as normal and 30 years down the road and go "oh shit we are affecting it". Capitalism will find a way to make money off of limiting greenhouse gas emissions, of course this might mean a power shift from the oil and gas companies to whatever emerges and this is who is in power and who keeps this from being explored.
Where I live, Colorado, there is a nice little drought taking place. In the last month we've had a few hard rains which led to me hearing, "What drought?" several times. The wildfires and half empty lakes apparently don't count apparently. How long till the masses realize climate is long term?
LOL, capitalism only works if you have a fully informed consumer. Now take your "money ethic" and take a hike. I won't dare call you conservative as I am a conservative, just not one that ignores truths. Detroit started making more fuel efficient cars because the government told them too. SUV's don't fall under the same classification as your typical family sedan and as you can see, capitalism is failing as they use more resources and are quite popular. So much for Mensa heh?
It's funny that this thread has started. Today I transferred 240 megs from one partition to another on a 7200 UDMA/66 drive, took approximately 15 seconds.
Calculus was developed around the same time by two seperate individuals, one being Sir Issac Newton who was a very bitter man and sought to discredit the other researcher, and it worked well. Can you name him? The victors always write the history books.
He had obvious mental problems and if his family is so close that they want to sue over this they should've been much more involved in what was happening in his life. This lawsuit has no merit, a product that is fine in the hands of a "normal" person is obviously not a problem. It was his own problems that led to this, not the game.
Re:CmdrTaco, you idiot, you're missing the point!
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Sounds like the trolls on usenet, "I really knew that wasn't true, I just wanted to see your replies." So they wasted a whole day of slashdot wanting people to post negative comments about their stories? I don't think so, that's assinine.
It's obvious that people do get the joke
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I wonder what kind of commercials appeal to somebody with enough time to sit with a stopwatch and refresh a page every 30 seconds and figure out what the rate of change on it is?
He said this in the context of speaking with your wallet and it's valid in any context where a consumer would want something but instead settles for less than that.
Interesting theory but I don't buy it. I think the stats of Linux web browsers support Loki closing. Linux has become the low end Unix of choice and with time will probably take the high end too. I don't think that the average person understands the Windows mindshare among people that view a computer as an appliance. Look at you, you run Windows to play games because you don't want to wait? Why should consumers wait for Linux to catch up to Windows on the desktop when they already have Windows, after all you won't. Think about it.
You support people the don't provide meaningful facts? Here I'll use his logic and say that the US sucks because many states refused to abolish slavery and went to war over their right to keep it. Should we make a scale about how modern a society is based on the date they gave up slavery? The US wouldn't be leading the pack if we did that. He provides an argument that has no logical basis but just random facts and erroneous claims. I'll take you one step further and say I don't even support countries that ever made slavery legal, how's that? If your implication is that I group people like he did then you have yet to provide support for your claim, just some innuendo. I believe we should better China as the more affluent a society is the less problems you have with it. Ever notice a correlation between a nations wealth and the problems that aris from it? Give China a taste of capitalism/free market and they'll take care of their Government.
Yep, even provided the definition. Like I said, look up laws being passed during the Wilson administration that outlawed speech that wasn't in support of the war or the government. Like I said in another post, there are no pure social/economic systems, almost all governments/economies borrow from several to form their own system.
They happen in fascist environments which even the US has been. Look up the removal of civil liberties during Woodrow Wilson's second term and some of the laws that were passed after we declared war on Germany during the first world war. Were we communists then?
China and it's policies are being discussed and somebody called them fascist and somebody had an objection to that so I provided the exact definition. This is off-topic? Maybe those moderations are coming from behind the great wall???;-)
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Unfourtunately that is what happens when you aren't open minded. The summary, not written by a slashdot employee mind you, shows that the reader just skimmed the article and didn't really read it. The server success was lauded, the lack of desktop penetration was the focus of the story.
...you'd realize they were talking about it's lack of success on the desktop entirely. There were several quotes giving it high praise in the server arena.
If you need Linux support and they are dropping it. I'm sure they are doing it based on what they feel the make from what they pay to support it.
Your GPA alone is meaningless unless the class average of each course is known. So you got a A in cs4xxx hey, well look at this the average grade was a B+. Kind of takes the luster off the A doesn't it?
Capitalism is by far the best system, unfourtunately it requires a fully informed consumer. The majority of the human population just wants to survive and not put much thought into the decisions affecting how they live. Microsoft would not have the monopoly it does if everybody informed themselves of the choices available to them.
It's based on the known properties of the compound in it's gaseous state. Take fresman level physics and chemistry.
We do know that CO2 causes a greenhouse effect. So should we just keep things as they are till we know or should we modify our behavior on the outside chance that we are affecting things? Continue as normal and 30 years down the road and go "oh shit we are affecting it". Capitalism will find a way to make money off of limiting greenhouse gas emissions, of course this might mean a power shift from the oil and gas companies to whatever emerges and this is who is in power and who keeps this from being explored.
Where I live, Colorado, there is a nice little drought taking place. In the last month we've had a few hard rains which led to me hearing, "What drought?" several times. The wildfires and half empty lakes apparently don't count apparently. How long till the masses realize climate is long term?
LOL, capitalism only works if you have a fully informed consumer. Now take your "money ethic" and take a hike. I won't dare call you conservative as I am a conservative, just not one that ignores truths. Detroit started making more fuel efficient cars because the government told them too. SUV's don't fall under the same classification as your typical family sedan and as you can see, capitalism is failing as they use more resources and are quite popular. So much for Mensa heh?
It's funny that this thread has started. Today I transferred 240 megs from one partition to another on a 7200 UDMA/66 drive, took approximately 15 seconds.
Many more people are eligible for the upgrade for Windows2k or XP. If IBM wanted to attract customers they'd have a competitive upgrade.
Calculus was developed around the same time by two seperate individuals, one being Sir Issac Newton who was a very bitter man and sought to discredit the other researcher, and it worked well. Can you name him? The victors always write the history books.
He had obvious mental problems and if his family is so close that they want to sue over this they should've been much more involved in what was happening in his life. This lawsuit has no merit, a product that is fine in the hands of a "normal" person is obviously not a problem. It was his own problems that led to this, not the game.
Sounds like the trolls on usenet, "I really knew that wasn't true, I just wanted to see your replies." So they wasted a whole day of slashdot wanting people to post negative comments about their stories? I don't think so, that's assinine.
It's the joke that slashdot has become.
Both cigarettes and guns are enablers, both can help achieve an end.
I wonder what kind of commercials appeal to somebody with enough time to sit with a stopwatch and refresh a page every 30 seconds and figure out what the rate of change on it is?
Bwahahahaha..... I guess it didn't carry itself heh? Think about your statement and you will see exactly why Fox is cancelling it.
He said this in the context of speaking with your wallet and it's valid in any context where a consumer would want something but instead settles for less than that.
Interesting theory but I don't buy it. I think the stats of Linux web browsers support Loki closing. Linux has become the low end Unix of choice and with time will probably take the high end too. I don't think that the average person understands the Windows mindshare among people that view a computer as an appliance. Look at you, you run Windows to play games because you don't want to wait? Why should consumers wait for Linux to catch up to Windows on the desktop when they already have Windows, after all you won't. Think about it.
You support people the don't provide meaningful facts? Here I'll use his logic and say that the US sucks because many states refused to abolish slavery and went to war over their right to keep it. Should we make a scale about how modern a society is based on the date they gave up slavery? The US wouldn't be leading the pack if we did that. He provides an argument that has no logical basis but just random facts and erroneous claims. I'll take you one step further and say I don't even support countries that ever made slavery legal, how's that? If your implication is that I group people like he did then you have yet to provide support for your claim, just some innuendo. I believe we should better China as the more affluent a society is the less problems you have with it. Ever notice a correlation between a nations wealth and the problems that aris from it? Give China a taste of capitalism/free market and they'll take care of their Government.
Yep, even provided the definition. Like I said, look up laws being passed during the Wilson administration that outlawed speech that wasn't in support of the war or the government. Like I said in another post, there are no pure social/economic systems, almost all governments/economies borrow from several to form their own system.
They happen in fascist environments which even the US has been. Look up the removal of civil liberties during Woodrow Wilson's second term and some of the laws that were passed after we declared war on Germany during the first world war. Were we communists then?
China and it's policies are being discussed and somebody called them fascist and somebody had an objection to that so I provided the exact definition. This is off-topic? Maybe those moderations are coming from behind the great wall??? ;-)
They aren't mutally exclusive, I don't think there is a any "pure" economic or political system in place.