I haven't been to Yahoo in a very long time, so I decided to check out the new sports page. What a piece of shit. When you concentrate on appearance rather than content, you have failed.
But, what do you expect from a company run by a stupid cunt.
Ten things I learned about the future at the Wired NextFest
This past Saturday, I attended the Wired NextFest at Chicago's Navy Pier. The event promised visitors that they could "experience the future," and I just couldn't pass up that opportunity. I wish I had, though, because after spending a few hours at the NextFest I'm sad to report that the future isn't what it used to be. Maybe I was expecting to relive my first visit to Epcot Center as a child, or maybe I'm just jaded in my old age. Whatever the cause, my trip to the future was not very inspirational.
Here are the things I learned about the future, in no particular order.
1. The people of the future are a scantily clad people. They delight in showing off their naked, tattooed flesh.
2. In the future, an airport security checkpoint will work exactly the same as it does now, except that the scanning technology will be different. For instance, at the GE-manufactured checkpoint that I saw, the machine supposedly sniffs you for bomb residue.
Interestingly enough, there was a long line of people waiting to go through that checkpoint and be checked for bomb residue, which is something that just baffled me. I mean, don't people dread going through the checkpoint at airport security? Why voluntarily stand in line in order to pass through a security scanner if you don't have to? It's not like the machine did anything other than flash a little green light saying you were free of bomb residue. Truly, the long line of people who just couldn't wait to go through that security checkpoint was probably the most bizarre thing that I saw at the entire event.
3. The elderly Japanese people of the future will be so desperately lonely for companionship that they'll purchase creepy android replicas of the sci-fi author Phillip K. Dick. Why the Japanese, and why Phillip K. Dick? It's a long story, and I'm not sure I fully understood it all when the android's makers explained it to me.
I think the PKD robot would've been a lot cooler and significantly less creepy if they'd have glued his hair on, instead of leaving the wires in the top of his head exposed. But hey, PKD was an odd guy, and maybe he would've wanted it that way.
4. The senior citizens of the future won't roll around in wheelchairs - not even cool robotic wheelchairs like those invented by Dean Kamen. Instead, they'll have robotic exoskeletons that will make them much stronger and faster than the non-elderly. So in addition to being the largest voting block in future elections, they'll also have superhuman strength and speed.
5. In the future, most robots will look pretty much like robots have looked since the 1970's. About the only difference is that robot antennaein the 70's were spiral shaped and had a tiny ball on the tip. The current thinking is that future robots will have straight antennae with no ball, and maybe a plastic coating instead of just bare wire.
6. Apple's market share doesn't change much in the future. Out of all the computers I saw at the NextFest, only one was a Mac. Sorry Steve, but the people of the future are still using Windows. At least you can gloat that they're all still running Windows 2000. From what I saw, Windows XP never really catches on in the future, and Longhorn is nowhere to be seen at all. I did see a flying car though, so maybe it was running the embedded version of Longhorn.
7. On the weekends, the people of the future will take to the water in dolphin-shaped craft that don't look nearly as much fun to drive as a Seadoo of today. Hey, the future isn't always better than the present - sometimes we have to settle for less. The good news is that the robotic dolphin is too small to accommodate a human who's equipped with an exoskeleton, which means that if you're being pursued by a senior citizen then you can use the dolphin to escape.
8. Dolphin watercraft aren't the only form of future transportation that's a bit cramped. The electrically powered cars of the future will
No they didn't lie. You can set things up that way-simply set up your servers in multiple data centers(AWS availability zones) and load balance between them. It's foolish to just throw things up in the cloud and think magically I won't ever have to worry about downtime ever again. It's foolish-but a lot of companies act this way.
But that's the problem. *THEY* (i.e., AWS or whoever) are supposed to take care of all that stuff. They're supposed to worry about "uptime" and fixing things when they break and having redundant systems that kick in when something breaks so that there's no loss of service. That's the whole point of putting stuff in the "cloud".
If * I * have to worry about that stuff then I might as well just do it myself and not give my money to Amazon.
One of the features of AWS was supposed to be the ability to reroute everything to a different datacenter if one goes down. I know I read that somewhere back when AWS was first starting up. You don't think they lied, do you?
And what makes the boards who are so happy to pinch every penny on other employment contracts and jump through so many hoops to renege on pensions and other benefits after the fact for the rank and file so willing to sign Santa Claus contracts with CEOs who have already washed out of their first (several) CEO positions?
Look up the board of directors for any company. In most cases it is made up almost entirely of people who are CEOs or retired CEOs of other companies. They are all members of the same club, aka, " I'll sit on your board and pay you millions while you sit on my board and pay me millions."
A long time ago, I don't remember where it was, maybe LKM, Linux Torvalds said there would never, ever be a version 3 of the Linux Colonel. I thought that was a strange thing to say, even for him. I thought to myself "things are really gomna get weird when they get to 2.99.99.99.99.99".
So now, he's changed his mind and the version numbers are zipping along. Not as fast as the absurd version number inflation of Firefox and Chrome, but still a lot faster than it used to be.
In General, I don't have any Major problems with the Linux Colonel. But I don't think it's unreasonable to say "Whoa, what's your hurry? Maybe you should slow down a little bit."
Think WYSIWYG web editors that have been around forever. You're still building a website, it's just showing the computer what you want and letting it generate the actual code.
Of course, like the WYSIWYG web editors, the code will almost certainly be sloppy and inefficient compared to coding it yourself, but it opens up the market for basic apps to people that otherwise couldn't/wouldn't make them.
Yes, because we really need to "open up the market" for more stupid, sloppy, poor designed, pointless, shitty apps.
I grew up in the days when drive-ins were much more popular than they are today, and I always thought that watching a movie in your car was stupid and pointless, not mention uncomfortable.
The only thing a drive-in was ever good for was allowing you to pretend that you're going to a movie when you really just want to get a handjob from your girlfriend.
in many cases don't fully appropriate the fact that the game developers know what they are doing much more so than the fans do.
Maybe one of the stupidest things ever said on the Internet.
There will always be assholes who complain about anything and everything. But they are the exception. If users are telling developers that they fucked up their favorite game, then the users are right and the developers are wrong.
I've always wondered how something can be racist if it is true.
Because complaints of "racism" is now how you stop people from telling the truth.
13% of the U.S. population is black but they commit 50% of all murders and 55% of all robberies. But that's just the national average. In some areas it's much worse. In Chicago for example, blacks and hispanics combined are responsible for 96% of all murders. In St. Paul, Minnesota the population is 13% black but they are responsible for 70% of all crimes.
And so on, and so on . . . . . . .
When minorities stop committing a disproportionate amount of crime the police will leave them alone.
Instead of shutting these services down...why not move them outside of US control...you know...a different country.
Name a country that won't turn over whatever information the U.S. government asks for and you'll most likely name a country where the government is worse than the U.S.
Or he's trying to drag other very wealthy people out of their comfort zone.
He doesn't have to do any of this, you know.
Bill Gates is not the philanthropist he pretends to be.
The Gates Foundation has an endowment of $30 Billion making it the largest philanthropic organization in the world. But one third of that money is invested in companies whose practices run counter to the foundation’s supposed charitable goals and social mission.
In Niger, the Foundation has invested more than $400 million dollars in oil companies including Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil Corp, and Chevron. These firms have been responsible for much of the pollution causing respiratory problems and other afflictions among the local population.
The Gates Foundation also has investments in sixty-nine of the worst polluting companies in the US and Canada, including Dow Chemical.
It holds investments in pharmaceutical companies whose drugs cost far beyond what most patients around the world can afford and the Foundation often lobbies on behalf of those companies for "Intellectual Property" protections that make obtaining low cost medicines more difficult.
Other companies in the Foundation’s portfolio have been accused of forcing thousands of people to lose their homes, supporting child labor and defrauding and neglecting patients in need of medical care.
In the mean time, Bill Gates' net worth has gone from $50 Billion to $70 Billion over the last 3 years.
This means that those "new" pirates had the capacity to pirate all along, but chose not to.
People are quite willing to pay for services such as television, but given the absence of legal means to do so, they will turn to illegal means.
Increase the legal avenues to access media and piracy will decrease accordingly.
Give me television shows that I can download, without restriction, and that have no commercials and no shit plastered all over the screen (network logos, ads for other upcoming shows, etc) and I might actually be interested in paying for that. Otherwise, fuck you.
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Who the fuck uses Yahoo!?
Nobody.
I haven't been to Yahoo in a very long time, so I decided to check out the new sports page. What a piece of shit. When you concentrate on appearance rather than content, you have failed.
But, what do you expect from a company run by a stupid cunt.
June 26, 2005
Ten things I learned about the future at the Wired NextFest
This past Saturday, I attended the Wired NextFest at Chicago's Navy Pier. The event promised visitors that they could "experience the future," and I just couldn't pass up that opportunity. I wish I had, though, because after spending a few hours at the NextFest I'm sad to report that the future isn't what it used to be. Maybe I was expecting to relive my first visit to Epcot Center as a child, or maybe I'm just jaded in my old age. Whatever the cause, my trip to the future was not very inspirational.
Here are the things I learned about the future, in no particular order.
1. The people of the future are a scantily clad people. They delight in showing off their naked, tattooed flesh.
2. In the future, an airport security checkpoint will work exactly the same as it does now, except that the scanning technology will be different. For instance, at the GE-manufactured checkpoint that I saw, the machine supposedly sniffs you for bomb residue.
Interestingly enough, there was a long line of people waiting to go through that checkpoint and be checked for bomb residue, which is something that just baffled me. I mean, don't people dread going through the checkpoint at airport security? Why voluntarily stand in line in order to pass through a security scanner if you don't have to? It's not like the machine did anything other than flash a little green light saying you were free of bomb residue. Truly, the long line of people who just couldn't wait to go through that security checkpoint was probably the most bizarre thing that I saw at the entire event.
3. The elderly Japanese people of the future will be so desperately lonely for companionship that they'll purchase creepy android replicas of the sci-fi author Phillip K. Dick. Why the Japanese, and why Phillip K. Dick? It's a long story, and I'm not sure I fully understood it all when the android's makers explained it to me.
I think the PKD robot would've been a lot cooler and significantly less creepy if they'd have glued his hair on, instead of leaving the wires in the top of his head exposed. But hey, PKD was an odd guy, and maybe he would've wanted it that way.
4. The senior citizens of the future won't roll around in wheelchairs - not even cool robotic wheelchairs like those invented by Dean Kamen. Instead, they'll have robotic exoskeletons that will make them much stronger and faster than the non-elderly. So in addition to being the largest voting block in future elections, they'll also have superhuman strength and speed.
5. In the future, most robots will look pretty much like robots have looked since the 1970's. About the only difference is that robot antennaein the 70's were spiral shaped and had a tiny ball on the tip. The current thinking is that future robots will have straight antennae with no ball, and maybe a plastic coating instead of just bare wire.
6. Apple's market share doesn't change much in the future. Out of all the computers I saw at the NextFest, only one was a Mac. Sorry Steve, but the people of the future are still using Windows. At least you can gloat that they're all still running Windows 2000. From what I saw, Windows XP never really catches on in the future, and Longhorn is nowhere to be seen at all. I did see a flying car though, so maybe it was running the embedded version of Longhorn.
7. On the weekends, the people of the future will take to the water in dolphin-shaped craft that don't look nearly as much fun to drive as a Seadoo of today. Hey, the future isn't always better than the present - sometimes we have to settle for less. The good news is that the robotic dolphin is too small to accommodate a human who's equipped with an exoskeleton, which means that if you're being pursued by a senior citizen then you can use the dolphin to escape.
8. Dolphin watercraft aren't the only form of future transportation that's a bit cramped. The electrically powered cars of the future will
Startup company plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars. What could possibly go wrong. Right, Webvan?
Maybe Google will make a little money selling some cars before Uber goes bankrupt.
No they didn't lie. You can set things up that way-simply set up your servers in multiple data centers(AWS availability zones) and load balance between them. It's foolish to just throw things up in the cloud and think magically I won't ever have to worry about downtime ever again. It's foolish-but a lot of companies act this way.
But that's the problem. *THEY* (i.e., AWS or whoever) are supposed to take care of all that stuff. They're supposed to worry about "uptime" and fixing things when they break and having redundant systems that kick in when something breaks so that there's no loss of service. That's the whole point of putting stuff in the "cloud".
If * I * have to worry about that stuff then I might as well just do it myself and not give my money to Amazon.
One of the features of AWS was supposed to be the ability to reroute everything to a different datacenter if one goes down. I know I read that somewhere back when AWS was first starting up. You don't think they lied, do you?
And what makes the boards who are so happy to pinch every penny on other employment contracts and jump through so many hoops to renege on pensions and other benefits after the fact for the rank and file so willing to sign Santa Claus contracts with CEOs who have already washed out of their first (several) CEO positions?
Look up the board of directors for any company. In most cases it is made up almost entirely of people who are CEOs or retired CEOs of other companies. They are all members of the same club, aka, " I'll sit on your board and pay you millions while you sit on my board and pay me millions."
This has "SUCK" written all over it.
It's been nearly 50 years. Time to give it a rest
"Are they moving too fast?""
Compared to what, Windows, IOS, OSX, What?
A long time ago, I don't remember where it was, maybe LKM, Linux Torvalds said there would never, ever be a version 3 of the Linux Colonel. I thought that was a strange thing to say, even for him. I thought to myself "things are really gomna get weird when they get to 2.99.99.99.99.99".
So now, he's changed his mind and the version numbers are zipping along. Not as fast as the absurd version number inflation of Firefox and Chrome, but still a lot faster than it used to be.
In General, I don't have any Major problems with the Linux Colonel. But I don't think it's unreasonable to say "Whoa, what's your hurry? Maybe you should slow down a little bit."
Apple called. They want their Hypercard back.
Think WYSIWYG web editors that have been around forever. You're still building a website, it's just showing the computer what you want and letting it generate the actual code.
Of course, like the WYSIWYG web editors, the code will almost certainly be sloppy and inefficient compared to coding it yourself, but it opens up the market for basic apps to people that otherwise couldn't/wouldn't make them.
Yes, because we really need to "open up the market" for more stupid, sloppy, poor designed, pointless, shitty apps.
If a tablet must have a keyboard, due to a lousy operating system interface; why not build a proper 10" netbook with all accesories for $400?
If you want to use an "Office" type application (either the free one or the proprietary one) you need a real computer. At least a decent laptop.
If you are trying to do it on a tablet, you're doing it wrong.
She brought hers out to our writer's group last night with the intention of getting sued to it.
Best unintentional humor of the day.
$179 for a keyboard?
WTF?
But Macs DON'T GET VIRUSES.
Except when they do.
Fixed that for you.
I grew up in the days when drive-ins were much more popular than they are today, and I always thought that watching a movie in your car was stupid and pointless, not mention uncomfortable.
The only thing a drive-in was ever good for was allowing you to pretend that you're going to a movie when you really just want to get a handjob from your girlfriend.
in many cases don't fully appropriate the fact that the game developers know what they are doing much more so than the fans do.
Maybe one of the stupidest things ever said on the Internet.
There will always be assholes who complain about anything and everything. But they are the exception. If users are telling developers that they fucked up their favorite game, then the users are right and the developers are wrong.
I've always wondered how something can be racist if it is true.
Because complaints of "racism" is now how you stop people from telling the truth.
13% of the U.S. population is black but they commit 50% of all murders and 55% of all robberies. But that's just the national average. In some areas it's much worse. In Chicago for example, blacks and hispanics combined are responsible for 96% of all murders. In St. Paul, Minnesota the population is 13% black but they are responsible for 70% of all crimes.
And so on, and so on . . . . . . .
When minorities stop committing a disproportionate amount of crime the police will leave them alone.
Instead of shutting these services down...why not move them outside of US control...you know...a different country.
Name a country that won't turn over whatever information the U.S. government asks for and you'll most likely name a country where the government is worse than the U.S.
WILL be used against you.
So maybe it would be a good idea to not post every detail about your life on the Internet.
Maybe it would be any even better idea to not post ANY info about your personal life.
Given that TFA says nothing even remotely along those lines - why are you making up such a ridiculous story?
You must be new here.
The TOR Project has had the bundle for a while.
So all they have done is take the "Tor Bundle" which is nothing more than a specially configured version of Firefox, and call it "The Pirate Browser".
Slashdot would be more like:
I like my slashdot like I like my cat. Hairy.
I like my slashdot like I like my cat. Hairy.
I like my slashdot like I like my cat. Hairy.
[dup...]
With the occasional interspersed 3 page rant about HOSTS files
fixed that for you
Or he's trying to drag other very wealthy people out of their comfort zone.
He doesn't have to do any of this, you know.
Bill Gates is not the philanthropist he pretends to be.
The Gates Foundation has an endowment of $30 Billion making it the largest philanthropic organization in the world. But one third of that money is invested in companies whose practices run counter to the foundation’s supposed charitable goals and social mission.
In Niger, the Foundation has invested more than $400 million dollars in oil companies including Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil Corp, and Chevron. These firms have been responsible for much of the pollution causing respiratory problems and other afflictions among the local population.
The Gates Foundation also has investments in sixty-nine of the worst polluting companies in the US and Canada, including Dow Chemical.
It holds investments in pharmaceutical companies whose drugs cost far beyond what most patients around the world can afford and the Foundation often lobbies on behalf of those companies for "Intellectual Property" protections that make obtaining low cost medicines more difficult.
Other companies in the Foundation’s portfolio have been accused of forcing thousands of people to lose their homes, supporting child labor and defrauding and neglecting patients in need of medical care.
In the mean time, Bill Gates' net worth has gone from $50 Billion to $70 Billion over the last 3 years.
Maybe he could . . . you know . . . hire somebody to build it for him rather than doing it himself.
and nice 404 link.
This means that those "new" pirates had the capacity to pirate all along, but chose not to.
People are quite willing to pay for services such as television, but given the absence of legal means to do so, they will turn to illegal means.
Increase the legal avenues to access media and piracy will decrease accordingly.
Give me television shows that I can download, without restriction, and that have no commercials and no shit plastered all over the screen (network logos, ads for other upcoming shows, etc) and I might actually be interested in paying for that. Otherwise, fuck you.