Murdoch may be a complete asshole but he's hardly stupid:
You're falling into the trap of thinking that success in high places must mean competence. The world isn't nearly that sane. So long as the guy hires smart people and is smart enough not to put too many obstacles in their way, that's smart enough.
Being an asshole however does seem to be a pre-requisit to great wealth. If you're fair to everyone and share your wealth, you simply never get rich enough for people to know your name. (You may make enough to live comfortably and have a good life, but you won't get rich and people will try to take advantage of you).
There's also the illusion that if you're bad tempered and mean you're getting ahead because you "don't put up with crap" and "don't suffer fools" and "don't get emotional when it comes to the tough decisions". In reality you're just a lucky arsehole whose only talent is in exploiting people.
My digital distribution channel list for work has 10 names on it and Steam isn't even #1. While it may dominate in the US it's by no means the largest channel internationally.
100% agree....and if it was on the "cloud" you wouldn't have access everywhere. Only where the net access wasn't filtered to disallow it.
Plus forget about companies closing down, you'd be at the mercy of the company that now owns your data anyway. If they decided to hike up their rates before you could remove it all, you'd have two choices. Pay up, or lose your data.
Get a 3rd drive though and store a copy of your data off site, updating periodically (maybe once every month or two, or if something you really can't afford to lose comes up).
Cloud is just bad data outsourcing mixed in with thin client. Usually people who go on about how fantastic it is have a cloud to sell ya (and the Golden Gate bridge too, if you're gullible enough).
Yeah that'll work. When's the last time you or your company did business via fucking avatar. Video conference MAYBE. Even then if money's involved it'll be in person, with signatures and handshakes. If you're wearing a fucking avatar you're not in business dress period...let alone when it's a slut in a toob top or a shirtless hippy guy.
And here I though that was the MOST interesting thing to do, and one of the most geeky. Guess I've been wasting all my free time! I should find a hobby that's actually interesting.
Yeah actually you should. Plenty of good hobbies involve tinkering and are better than wasting your time on machines and operating systems that will be dead in 10 years anyway. Now if you're writing device drivers, improving Linux kernels etc. it's a different story. In that case carry on. But if you're one of these tragics that installs hack after hack but never actually does anything practical with the hacked hardware, find a new hobby. Remote control planes are good if you've got the money and live near a field. Plus it gets you into a slightly more social setting and out in the fresh air. Sailing's good if you're near the water, but again requires money.
I guess by that logic McGuyver was one of most boring shows on the fucking planet, and Mr. T from A-Team was the lest interesting man on television. I pity the foo.
Knowing things about common household chemicals was very interesting, but when MacGyver started saving whales and diffusing nuclear weapons with duct tape I must admit I stopped watching. (Years later my wife and I, who both watched the show as kids, bought the episodes on DVD. For her its' more about remembering time spent watching with her grandmother though).
As for the A-Team it was interesting, but lets face it, the show was more about the wronged underdog rising up and beating the stuffing out of his oppressors. As such it was more about action than tinkering. The tinkering montage was just a theatrical device.
Seriously, you're trying to use a proverbial hammer to saw a tree. An XBox 360 is the wrong tool for anything but gaming, which is what it was built for. Therefore trying to run Linux on it or do other cool stuff is a waste of the machine UNLESS you're into that cool stuff to start with and THAT is the game. Given that you're still wondering how to use it, the answer is simple. Use it for gaming. Or sell it and let someone use it for gaming. Or give it away and let someone use it for gaming. As a media center, there are better options - if you sell it put the money towards buying one. As a linux PC, an XBox isn't the best solution. Sell it and buy a nice Intel or AMD based machine.
The world's full of interesting geeky stuff to do. One of the least interesting things you can do is to waste time forcing a machine to do something it's not designed for. Especially since you'll be using it not writing the software to do it in the first place. Life's too short.
How about 1 in 250,000? And "two football fields" doesn't tell us much about the thing's actual size.
You're translating from Jock to Geek. The Jock's understand a million as "a really big number" and 4 as a really small one. 250 is compleltely beyond them, let alone 250 times 1000! Football fields is a much more natural unit to them than a meter. Never mind that they're different sizes - they can all relate to being exhausted running the length of a football field. The concept of a meter just hurts their poor roid ridden brains.
You put them out in the wilderness with no food and water. If they make it home alive, you take them both. If one eats the other to survive it's an epic fail;-)
What's the bet this is an all male class, and joining it is tantamount to social and sexual suicide. Poor bastards are Darwining themselves. What belongs is the stereotype be banished.
Yeah well maybe, just maybe it has to do with the fact that Apple consistently finds new and newsworthy ways to behave badly. It's not just about the fashion of the day. Apple makes itself a target by behaving so abysmally.
If you get modded down, it has nothing to do with fanbois: It has to do with your attitude and total lack of information in your post. You've said practically nothing of value to the average Slashdot reader, so why expect positive feedback?
You, sir are a complete idiot and a loser. I have been geting positive feedback. It's just counterbalanced by losers like yourself who think if someone criticises their favourite company it immediately constitutes "a total lack of information" and "practically nothing of value". You've mastered the art of sticking your head in the sand better than many an ostrich.
If you don't like Apple, their products, or anything associated with them... fine. But if you're getting consistently modded down, it's probably your approach that's the issue.
Ah yes because slashdot modderators are known throughout the land for being so fair and even handed. It has nothing to do with the approach. I can be nice or I can be full of bile. My posts still get modded up, then a day later magically start to get modded down as fanboi losers revisit their bookmarks.
If you'll put forth why, what, and how Apple is good/evil, you might even find a few comrades/enemies ready to welcome/argue your (un)justified criticism.
Wow, Godwined already. Only at Slashdot can an article about a computer manufacturer and a supermarket chain get godwined so quickly.
Oh my god did I Godwin myself? Boohoo. Godwin's Law is a crappy rule for losers. Comparisons to Hitler and the Nazis often make a point succinctly. It's overuse can get tedious for sure but there's no need to declare a conversation over because the Nazis are mentioned.
Yeah. Come on. Quote the rest of the fucking post which had plenty of detail about what I was objecting to which was actually pretty insightful. Thanks for proving that Apple fanbois like to target posters who dare to criticise their precious petal of a company. LOSER.
And yet the Woolworths apple logo looks absolutely nothing like the Apple Computer logo. Nice.
In other news Apple files against every company on the planet for daring to use a logo.
Seriously every time I turn around Apple is doing something nasty and trying to shit on EVERYONE from their own customers to a supermarket chain. I mean Woolworths sucks for other reasons but they don't deserve this. What the fuck exactly is it going to take to see that Apple has lost the plot and does not deserve our support? I mean seriously, do they have to invade Poland? Start WWIII? What exactly?
What's the bet this gets modded up then gradually gets modded down as Apple fanboi losers come back days later when no one is reading it and mod down. Has happened without fail to any post where I've criticised Apple lately.
In Australia when plaintiff makes a false claim against another person they are legally permitted to sue the plaintiff under our woeful deformation laws.
I really really hope you mean defamation otherwise as an Australian let me say I'm very very scared right now.
Given that no practical, useful scientific knowledge has emerged from the ISS yet, giving it over to the commercial interests suits me just fine. Explain, exactly, why scientists should be entitled to taxpayer support for essentially nothing but to indulge their own curiosity?
How fucking practical do you think playing with magnets and electricity looked before there was wide spread use of either? What about pressure boilers before the steam engine. The fucking computer you're using right now is provided courtesy of people who did "essentially nothing but to indulge their own curiousity". You prefer fun parks and casinos. Fine. Leave the scientific community out of it.
Let them pay for their own circle-jerk.
Translation: I'd rather the rich go into space than any real science get done.
The real circle jerk is building a space station for billions and then using it as a fun park for the rich with an entry fee of a few million.
Dude, no-one is talking about sending a scientist up there
Dude, that's the problem. Perhaps if you stop smoking weed DUDE and start actually researching what you're talking about...
There's no choice of: * three ivy league trained professors
Dude, Google NASA astronaut PHD
Guess what we're not living in the fucking 1960s. Lots of NASA astronauts have degrees. DUDE.
For the foreseeable future, especially since the shuttle is being retired, science in space remains a "pack it tight and make your handling instructions simple, and you might get it back in one piece if the parachutes open".
Yeah because science is something you can train a monkey to do, right? Experiments that require thought are too boring. We need fun parks and casinos in space.
Your attitude is a big part of what's wrong with space exploration.
What part of this are you not understanding? The ISS does the science right? They need humans up there to follow instructions
What the fuck part are you not understanding, you condescending prat? If you bring in commercial interests they become more important and the same science doesn't get done.
The hand picked military man? Or the guy who shows up and says "I'll pay you $30 million if you teach me how to do it". Kinda a no brainer.. you send the guy who is offering to pay you rather than the guy who is demanding a pay check. Duh.
Yes, if your concern is money and not science, you send the barely trained fucker who has leverage because they can pull out their $30 million, and you do the science HE'S interested in. Not the paid professional scientist (military or otherwise) who has dedicated their life to it. Believe it or not there is science to be done that requires more than a couple of months of training. Believe it or not science is complex and a paid professional is going to do a better job than an interested fucking tourist.
FUCK! Slashdot gives me the shits lately. Full of nothing but trolls and modding based on popularity rather than truth or common sense.
The spaceflight participants are trained to do the same job as the cosmonauts do. Why do you care if the trained monkey is a Russian government employee or a person who has paid for his own seat? Energia is a private corporation who provide human launch services to the Russian government (and soon the US government), if they want to sell the extra soyuz seat to the highest bidder, what concern of yours is it?
The trouble with mixing private enterprise and public science is that private enterprise will push for only immediately "profitable" experiments to be done, and will use up the public funds securing their own profit. Meanwhile any long term hard core science without a payoff in the next quarter or two doesn't happen because the public funds have dried up and private corporations don't do anything that won't produce profit.
Just don't buy it in the first place. They want to make their product of limited use, let 'em. Someone else will fill the void. Hell they may even change their minds. But only if we don't buy their crap.
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Murdoch may be a complete asshole but he's hardly stupid:
You're falling into the trap of thinking that success in high places must mean competence. The world isn't nearly that sane. So long as the guy hires smart people and is smart enough not to put too many obstacles in their way, that's smart enough.
Being an asshole however does seem to be a pre-requisit to great wealth. If you're fair to everyone and share your wealth, you simply never get rich enough for people to know your name. (You may make enough to live comfortably and have a good life, but you won't get rich and people will try to take advantage of you).
There's also the illusion that if you're bad tempered and mean you're getting ahead because you "don't put up with crap" and "don't suffer fools" and "don't get emotional when it comes to the tough decisions". In reality you're just a lucky arsehole whose only talent is in exploiting people.
My digital distribution channel list for work has 10 names on it and Steam isn't even #1. While it may dominate in the US it's by no means the largest channel internationally.
In Europe and Asia I hear #1 is The Pirate Bay ;-)
Anyone who doesn't like it is welcome to start up their own, competing service.
Like the pirate bay? ;-)
100% agree. ...and if it was on the "cloud" you wouldn't have access everywhere. Only where the net access wasn't filtered to disallow it.
Plus forget about companies closing down, you'd be at the mercy of the company that now owns your data anyway. If they decided to hike up their rates before you could remove it all, you'd have two choices. Pay up, or lose your data.
Get a 3rd drive though and store a copy of your data off site, updating periodically (maybe once every month or two, or if something you really can't afford to lose comes up).
Cloud is just bad data outsourcing mixed in with thin client. Usually people who go on about how fantastic it is have a cloud to sell ya (and the Golden Gate bridge too, if you're gullible enough).
Yeah that'll work. When's the last time you or your company did business via fucking avatar. Video conference MAYBE. Even then if money's involved it'll be in person, with signatures and handshakes. If you're wearing a fucking avatar you're not in business dress period...let alone when it's a slut in a toob top or a shirtless hippy guy.
If Candy's violent, ban the bitch. Hell put her in jail if you have to. Just leave my sweets alone you motherfuckers.
And here I though that was the MOST interesting thing to do, and one of the most geeky. Guess I've been wasting all my free time! I should find a hobby that's actually interesting.
Yeah actually you should. Plenty of good hobbies involve tinkering and are better than wasting your time on machines and operating systems that will be dead in 10 years anyway. Now if you're writing device drivers, improving Linux kernels etc. it's a different story. In that case carry on. But if you're one of these tragics that installs hack after hack but never actually does anything practical with the hacked hardware, find a new hobby. Remote control planes are good if you've got the money and live near a field. Plus it gets you into a slightly more social setting and out in the fresh air. Sailing's good if you're near the water, but again requires money.
I guess by that logic McGuyver was one of most boring shows on the fucking planet, and Mr. T from A-Team was the lest interesting man on television. I pity the foo.
Knowing things about common household chemicals was very interesting, but when MacGyver started saving whales and diffusing nuclear weapons with duct tape I must admit I stopped watching. (Years later my wife and I, who both watched the show as kids, bought the episodes on DVD. For her its' more about remembering time spent watching with her grandmother though).
As for the A-Team it was interesting, but lets face it, the show was more about the wronged underdog rising up and beating the stuffing out of his oppressors. As such it was more about action than tinkering. The tinkering montage was just a theatrical device.
Seriously, you're trying to use a proverbial hammer to saw a tree. An XBox 360 is the wrong tool for anything but gaming, which is what it was built for. Therefore trying to run Linux on it or do other cool stuff is a waste of the machine UNLESS you're into that cool stuff to start with and THAT is the game. Given that you're still wondering how to use it, the answer is simple. Use it for gaming. Or sell it and let someone use it for gaming. Or give it away and let someone use it for gaming. As a media center, there are better options - if you sell it put the money towards buying one. As a linux PC, an XBox isn't the best solution. Sell it and buy a nice Intel or AMD based machine.
The world's full of interesting geeky stuff to do. One of the least interesting things you can do is to waste time forcing a machine to do something it's not designed for. Especially since you'll be using it not writing the software to do it in the first place. Life's too short.
How about 1 in 250,000? And "two football fields" doesn't tell us much about the thing's actual size.
You're translating from Jock to Geek. The Jock's understand a million as "a really big number" and 4 as a really small one. 250 is compleltely beyond them, let alone 250 times 1000! Football fields is a much more natural unit to them than a meter. Never mind that they're different sizes - they can all relate to being exhausted running the length of a football field. The concept of a meter just hurts their poor roid ridden brains.
It takes even more to visit other planets. Should Mars become the patented intellectual property of the people running the Mars rover program?
Don't give the greedy fuckers any ideas!
You put them out in the wilderness with no food and water. If they make it home alive, you take them both. If one eats the other to survive it's an epic fail ;-)
Do you get extra points if your essay begins with the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night."?
That's nothing. You should see the entrance essays to get into Westpoint. They have to begin "I am the very model of a modern major general"
What's the bet this is an all male class, and joining it is tantamount to social and sexual suicide. Poor bastards are Darwining themselves. What belongs is the stereotype be banished.
Yeah well maybe, just maybe it has to do with the fact that Apple consistently finds new and newsworthy ways to behave badly. It's not just about the fashion of the day. Apple makes itself a target by behaving so abysmally.
If you get modded down, it has nothing to do with fanbois: It has to do with your attitude and total lack of information in your post. You've said practically nothing of value to the average Slashdot reader, so why expect positive feedback?
You, sir are a complete idiot and a loser. I have been geting positive feedback. It's just counterbalanced by losers like yourself who think if someone criticises their favourite company it immediately constitutes "a total lack of information" and "practically nothing of value". You've mastered the art of sticking your head in the sand better than many an ostrich.
If you don't like Apple, their products, or anything associated with them... fine. But if you're getting consistently modded down, it's probably your approach that's the issue.
Ah yes because slashdot modderators are known throughout the land for being so fair and even handed. It has nothing to do with the approach. I can be nice or I can be full of bile. My posts still get modded up, then a day later magically start to get modded down as fanboi losers revisit their bookmarks.
If you'll put forth why, what, and how Apple is good/evil, you might even find a few comrades/enemies ready to welcome/argue your (un)justified criticism.
Horse shit.
Wow, Godwined already. Only at Slashdot can an article about a computer manufacturer and a supermarket chain get godwined so quickly.
Oh my god did I Godwin myself? Boohoo. Godwin's Law is a crappy rule for losers. Comparisons to Hitler and the Nazis often make a point succinctly. It's overuse can get tedious for sure but there's no need to declare a conversation over because the Nazis are mentioned.
Btw. I don't like apple either, but come on...
Yeah. Come on. Quote the rest of the fucking post which had plenty of detail about what I was objecting to which was actually pretty insightful. Thanks for proving that Apple fanbois like to target posters who dare to criticise their precious petal of a company. LOSER.
And yet the Woolworths apple logo looks absolutely nothing like the Apple Computer logo. Nice.
In other news Apple files against every company on the planet for daring to use a logo.
Seriously every time I turn around Apple is doing something nasty and trying to shit on EVERYONE from their own customers to a supermarket chain. I mean Woolworths sucks for other reasons but they don't deserve this. What the fuck exactly is it going to take to see that Apple has lost the plot and does not deserve our support? I mean seriously, do they have to invade Poland? Start WWIII? What exactly?
What's the bet this gets modded up then gradually gets modded down as Apple fanboi losers come back days later when no one is reading it and mod down. Has happened without fail to any post where I've criticised Apple lately.
In Australia when plaintiff makes a false claim against another person they are legally permitted to sue the plaintiff under our woeful deformation laws.
I really really hope you mean defamation otherwise as an Australian let me say I'm very very scared right now.
Given that no practical, useful scientific knowledge has emerged from the ISS yet, giving it over to the commercial interests suits me just fine. Explain, exactly, why scientists should be entitled to taxpayer support for essentially nothing but to indulge their own curiosity?
How fucking practical do you think playing with magnets and electricity looked before there was wide spread use of either? What about pressure boilers before the steam engine. The fucking computer you're using right now is provided courtesy of people who did "essentially nothing but to indulge their own curiousity". You prefer fun parks and casinos. Fine. Leave the scientific community out of it.
Let them pay for their own circle-jerk.
Translation: I'd rather the rich go into space than any real science get done.
The real circle jerk is building a space station for billions and then using it as a fun park for the rich with an entry fee of a few million.
Dude, no-one is talking about sending a scientist up there
Dude, that's the problem. Perhaps if you stop smoking weed DUDE and start actually researching what you're talking about...
There's no choice of:
* three ivy league trained professors
Dude, Google NASA astronaut PHD
Guess what we're not living in the fucking 1960s. Lots of NASA astronauts have degrees. DUDE.
For the foreseeable future, especially since the shuttle is being retired, science in space remains a "pack it tight and make your handling instructions simple, and you might get it back in one piece if the parachutes open".
Yeah because science is something you can train a monkey to do, right? Experiments that require thought are too boring. We need fun parks and casinos in space.
Your attitude is a big part of what's wrong with space exploration.
What part of this are you not understanding? The ISS does the science right? They need humans up there to follow instructions
What the fuck part are you not understanding, you condescending prat? If you bring in commercial interests they become more important and the same science doesn't get done.
The hand picked military man? Or the guy who shows up and says "I'll pay you $30 million if you teach me how to do it". Kinda a no brainer.. you send the guy who is offering to pay you rather than the guy who is demanding a pay check. Duh.
Yes, if your concern is money and not science, you send the barely trained fucker who has leverage because they can pull out their $30 million, and you do the science HE'S interested in. Not the paid professional scientist (military or otherwise) who has dedicated their life to it. Believe it or not there is science to be done that requires more than a couple of months of training. Believe it or not science is complex and a paid professional is going to do a better job than an interested fucking tourist.
FUCK! Slashdot gives me the shits lately. Full of nothing but trolls and modding based on popularity rather than truth or common sense.
The spaceflight participants are trained to do the same job as the cosmonauts do. Why do you care if the trained monkey is a Russian government employee or a person who has paid for his own seat? Energia is a private corporation who provide human launch services to the Russian government (and soon the US government), if they want to sell the extra soyuz seat to the highest bidder, what concern of yours is it?
The trouble with mixing private enterprise and public science is that private enterprise will push for only immediately "profitable" experiments to be done, and will use up the public funds securing their own profit. Meanwhile any long term hard core science without a payoff in the next quarter or two doesn't happen because the public funds have dried up and private corporations don't do anything that won't produce profit.
Just don't buy it in the first place. They want to make their product of limited use, let 'em. Someone else will fill the void. Hell they may even change their minds. But only if we don't buy their crap.