It's a renaming of the word "internet" so that tech writers can have a new buzzword now that "Web 2.0" and "blogs" have gone stale. Do you use internet mail such as Gmail? Do you play with an open source project hosted on Sourceforge? Apparently, using services in the same old client-server paradigm we always have is now "cloud computing," even though such a phrase implies parallel processing, multiple servers, and redundant storage.
Apparently, I was "cloud computing" in the 90s when I was using Hotmail.
Sorry, lefties. Your crazed desire to give the government as much power as humanly possible to regulate everybody's thought and living patterns to match your own is failing.
Behold crazy statements like this:
"Hateful words do have an effect. ⦠The Internet cannot and should not be a wild frontier where anything goes."
Regulate those hateful ideas off the internet! Let the government decide what is hateful and what should be allowed! Nothing could possibly go wrong!
Copyrights? You mean like the GPL copyright license that, according to the FSF website, "assures the copyright of the software?" Are we for or against copyrights today?
They're not really "exploding" as you probably imagine. The screens are cracked. When Apple said "external forces," they weren't referring to God as the always-biased Inquirer stated. They were talking about things like physical pressure exerted on the screen.
I have a UNIX prompt. You Windows users don't. Mac users, on average, are higher educated and more professionally successful than you guys, so this myth that Mac users are dumb isn't true (and has never been true). If anyone is dumb, it's the rednecks and grandmas that make up the trailer park Windows userbase.
Does running a Google operating system that only runs a Google browser and ties into Google web services by default really count as "platform-neutral?"
In high school, our computer science class was sending teams of students out of town to a computer fair to show off our programming projects. Our group, the lazy Quake players, did a project on neural networks, and I threw together a C++ program that did nothing else but accept a value, do busy-looking math operations, and output the result. Nobody noticed.
Someone in the article made an interesting point. If this is legitimate, why would Apple include an "Open" button if it actually detected malware in the disk image? I would expect them to at least do something extra, like only enabling the button if the Option key was pressed.
I don't dismiss the possibility of Snow Leopard including virus protection, but I'm skeptical.
That's the point of a user-edited encyclopedia. You take the good with the bad, and the good is supposed to rise to the top due to community efforts. Wikipedia was the risky information source anyone could contribute to, and now it's trying to be a legitimate encyclopedia, which is goofy.
Remember in the story earlier where you guys were wondering why John Carmack wasn't making an Linux version of Rage? Well, why should he cater to your community which clearly sides with pro-piracy rings like Pirate Bay that directly impact what he does for a living?
Now you know why Carmack no longer gives a shit about Linux.
DotA is terrible, and the DotA community is even worse. It's weird and creepy how people bought an RTS game just to obsessively play a wannabe Diablo mod that only lets you control one unit at a time while screaming in all caps at "nubs" who did something to unleash the wrath of their spergy nerd rage.
That's hardly the "only feature that looks at all interesting." Exchange support, OpenCL, easier multithreading, 64-bit implementations of the included apps, new Dock and Expose features...it's worth a $30 upgrade.
If you weren't alone, id Software would be releasing a Linux version of Rage, wouldn't they?
Why should he cater to this community, anyway? A community that cheers on Pirate Bay and other piracy that directly impacts what John Carmack does for a living?
I'm sorry, but this reminds me of all the bitching and moaning that went on when they started letting people buy epic PvP gear with battleground honor....all the 1337 arena dudes were angry that their mighty e-peen wasn't guaranteed to be at least twice the size of everybody else's any more. For a couple of months it seemed like every time I set foot in a battleground, there was some wanker going on and on about "welfare epics" and how lame those of us were that were wearing them.
Those people were right. Arena gear purchasable with honor caused a huge wave of AFKers sitting out in battlegrounds for free gear, and it affected PvE because people would just skip dungeons and get the easy PvP gear instead. Classic battlegrounds like AV became a mindless 10-minute match as Blizzard further streamlined it by removing various NPCs.
Perhaps you should consider that if the Bush administration had issued a call for citizens to report negative opinions to a special White House email address, they would have been roundly criticized by the media, assorted liberal groups, and more. The double standard is remarkable.
The government is supposed to accept getting criticized by citizens of all opinions, from thoughtful critiques to protesters belonging to a political group to crazed lunatics believing in every conspiracy under the sun. If the government doesn't like it because it affects some policy it's trying to push through, TOUGH SHIT. It's their burden to convince the public--all of the public, or as much of it as they can, in the face of all criticisms. If they can't withstand all the criticisms, they don't belong there. Based on Obama's dropping poll numbers, I'm beginning to think he doesn't belong there.
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It's a renaming of the word "internet" so that tech writers can have a new buzzword now that "Web 2.0" and "blogs" have gone stale. Do you use internet mail such as Gmail? Do you play with an open source project hosted on Sourceforge? Apparently, using services in the same old client-server paradigm we always have is now "cloud computing," even though such a phrase implies parallel processing, multiple servers, and redundant storage.
Apparently, I was "cloud computing" in the 90s when I was using Hotmail.
Sorry, lefties. Your crazed desire to give the government as much power as humanly possible to regulate everybody's thought and living patterns to match your own is failing.
Behold crazy statements like this:
Regulate those hateful ideas off the internet! Let the government decide what is hateful and what should be allowed! Nothing could possibly go wrong!
Copyrights? You mean like the GPL copyright license that, according to the FSF website, "assures the copyright of the software?" Are we for or against copyrights today?
No. Excellent research skills you have there.
It wasn't submitted to the store yet at the time of the contest.
Microsoft sponsored the event, and it took place on the Microsoft campus. What was incorrect about the wording of the summary?
Apple has confirmed that you can install the $30 upgrade version on top of Tiger.
They're not really "exploding" as you probably imagine. The screens are cracked. When Apple said "external forces," they weren't referring to God as the always-biased Inquirer stated. They were talking about things like physical pressure exerted on the screen.
Same could be said for Linux! Right? Right? Being open source makes it invulnerable?
I have a UNIX prompt. You Windows users don't. Mac users, on average, are higher educated and more professionally successful than you guys, so this myth that Mac users are dumb isn't true (and has never been true). If anyone is dumb, it's the rednecks and grandmas that make up the trailer park Windows userbase.
God, Slashdotters are so biased and in love with Google. Take off your blinders.
Does running a Google operating system that only runs a Google browser and ties into Google web services by default really count as "platform-neutral?"
Why do I get the feeling you were one of the folks bashing the Patriot Act under Bush, but now you're defending government power?
In high school, our computer science class was sending teams of students out of town to a computer fair to show off our programming projects. Our group, the lazy Quake players, did a project on neural networks, and I threw together a C++ program that did nothing else but accept a value, do busy-looking math operations, and output the result. Nobody noticed.
Someone in the article made an interesting point. If this is legitimate, why would Apple include an "Open" button if it actually detected malware in the disk image? I would expect them to at least do something extra, like only enabling the button if the Option key was pressed.
I don't dismiss the possibility of Snow Leopard including virus protection, but I'm skeptical.
That's the point of a user-edited encyclopedia. You take the good with the bad, and the good is supposed to rise to the top due to community efforts. Wikipedia was the risky information source anyone could contribute to, and now it's trying to be a legitimate encyclopedia, which is goofy.
Remember in the story earlier where you guys were wondering why John Carmack wasn't making an Linux version of Rage? Well, why should he cater to your community which clearly sides with pro-piracy rings like Pirate Bay that directly impact what he does for a living?
Now you know why Carmack no longer gives a shit about Linux.
DotA is terrible, and the DotA community is even worse. It's weird and creepy how people bought an RTS game just to obsessively play a wannabe Diablo mod that only lets you control one unit at a time while screaming in all caps at "nubs" who did something to unleash the wrath of their spergy nerd rage.
That's hardly the "only feature that looks at all interesting." Exchange support, OpenCL, easier multithreading, 64-bit implementations of the included apps, new Dock and Expose features...it's worth a $30 upgrade.
I like how you make all these crazy claims without citing any sources.
If you weren't alone, id Software would be releasing a Linux version of Rage, wouldn't they?
Why should he cater to this community, anyway? A community that cheers on Pirate Bay and other piracy that directly impacts what John Carmack does for a living?
And Britney Spears albums sell more per year than Mozart concerts. So what?
Those people were right. Arena gear purchasable with honor caused a huge wave of AFKers sitting out in battlegrounds for free gear, and it affected PvE because people would just skip dungeons and get the easy PvP gear instead. Classic battlegrounds like AV became a mindless 10-minute match as Blizzard further streamlined it by removing various NPCs.
Nope--there are no new spells for the classes.
Perhaps you should consider that if the Bush administration had issued a call for citizens to report negative opinions to a special White House email address, they would have been roundly criticized by the media, assorted liberal groups, and more. The double standard is remarkable.
The government is supposed to accept getting criticized by citizens of all opinions, from thoughtful critiques to protesters belonging to a political group to crazed lunatics believing in every conspiracy under the sun. If the government doesn't like it because it affects some policy it's trying to push through, TOUGH SHIT. It's their burden to convince the public--all of the public, or as much of it as they can, in the face of all criticisms. If they can't withstand all the criticisms, they don't belong there. Based on Obama's dropping poll numbers, I'm beginning to think he doesn't belong there.