A few more years of this and I fear a singularity might rip open.
Yes! It's all part of The Great Leader's plans! After gathering hoards of supernatural followers in the afterlife, the foolish Slashdot audience will reshape The Great Leader's image into one of unspeakable evil. Then, as it was written on the first case of the Macintosh, "The evil days will arrive," as the fabric of reality itself is torn asunder, and "He Whose Name Must Not Be Spoken" himself, leading his band of demons (outfitted in very stylish jeans and black turtlenecks) from the gates of hell into the world, will achieve world domination and his million year reign of machines that look like they make cappuccino, instead of computing. Be afraid! Be very afraid!!!
I don't think you have the ages right - I'm 56 and I use online references whenever possible. Then, if they are interesting and it's necessary, I'll print them out, otherwise, they go onto my hard drive or onto my Kindle for later perusal. Of course, this may vary from field-to-field. I'm pretty used to computers, having used them from my college days. People in fields who have had little exposure to computers or the internet during their training (medicine, social sciences, etc.), may not be so comfortable with the electronic format and may still want paper journals. Still, it seems to be quite the waste of trees...
And that's why what we're looking for is a water-borne algee that can be converted into fuel.
No! Convert it directly to food. But you'd need to come up with a catchy name to market it... How about "Soylent Green"? Has a nice ring to it, don't you think?
I'd rather have this model. It would be a bonus if it also shaved it's legs, didn't have two inch gauges in its ears, nor a nose ring, unlike most of their current "baristas".
As someone who has pretty used my local library at least once a week since I've been able to walk to the library, I'll tell you that I'm pretty fed up with libraries wasting money on eBooks, which expire after (a relatively low) N of loans vs. buying physical copies of a book that (with rebinding - remember that process?) can be lent to readers dozens of times. This is, of course, after the institutions spend most of the money on CD's and DVD's, which also have a much shorter lifespan than books.
I love libraries. I've never voted against a library levy and I believe that they are a vital part of any functioning community. It's just that books are a much more cost-effective purchase than other things bought by libraries and it irks me to watch every year as physical books seem to be downgraded to optional purchases and money is spent on alternate media forms that will degrade much more quickly.
You don't like them because they are evil looking and BLACK.
So, if that's the only reason, wouldn't the manufacturers be better served by painting them a nice pink and giving them a different form factor? Then there wouldn't be any objection at all.
Somehow I believe that the reason they look evil and (as you put it) BLACK is so that they will look intimidating. Now why you want or need something that looks intimidating is between you and your warped psyche, but at least a pink one would not have the issue that you seem to think is the crux of the matter. And given that no one is fixing that (while not reducing the lethality of the weapon) would seem to indicate that the color and form factor are not the issues you make them out to be. I, for one, think that the issue might just be the greater lethality of these weapons and their improved ability to kill large numbers of people in a short period of time, especially when outfitted with outsized clips. But no, it must be because they're BLACK and scary.
I'm sorry but, based on the above, the original author of the piece really should see a mental health professional about his narcissism, paranoia, and anxiety. They are a pretty toxic mix and could be potentially dangerous to those around him, especially if he's armed.
How did freedom ever become so meaningless and unwanted that it is not even included as a single point in arguments fundamentally about freedom?
Because freedom is not (and, since the advent of people living together, has never been) an absolute. That we have freedoms to do certain things (such as own a firearm) is not in dispute. What the limits on those freedoms are is what is being decided. Are you purposely being obtuse?
Adam Lanza could have been blocked from guns, in which case he'd likely have used gasoline or an automobile. (I know of a few cases of mentally ill people committing arson. Trust me, the kids murdered by arson are just as dead as those killed by guns.)
And, if so, the arson would have probably occurred at night (most are, as to avoid detection by the authorities) and, as such, would have had fewer innocent victims. Same with the car scenario, which would probably have been damaged too badly to be driven (by driving over curbs onto sidewalks, into barriers, etc.) before killing 28 people. And, at that, you do have a greater chance to jump out of the way of a speeding car going 20 m/s than to jump out of the way of a bullet going at ~600-700 m/s.
In short, stop trying to prove a false equivalency between firearms and other lethal devices. Yes, dead is dead, but without guns, multiple killings take longer, giving authorities more time to intervene before the body count gets as high and are performed using weapons giving a better chance of survival.
He talks about the shortcomings of Google Docs' word processor from a viewpoint of using it as a "publishing" platform. The problem is that most of us aren't publishers, authors, or anything more than someone whipping out a quick page or two of shoddy documentation or a memo. If we were authors, we'd probably be using LaTeX, or Pagemaker, or something other than Microsoft Word (which, from what my friends who are actual writers say, is a pretty crappy platform for that purpose). And he misses the point completely about collaboration for things like spreadsheets, where it's all about the shared copy and only marginally about the concurrent editing features.
He is right about one thing, though - Zoho is a buggy piece of crap that never should have seen the light of day...
And, if you actually took time to read the article (or the summary) before starting your anit-Krugman diatribe, that was what he said... not that you were smart enough to notice. You aren't fit to comment on his economic abilities, given your inability to read.
At the end of the article, Krugman makes a joke about Skynet taking over and destroying humanity. Whether or not you agree with him, economically or politically, the guy is a true nerd, having written papers on economics of interstellar travel and being drawn into economics after reading Asimov's Foundation trilogy.
I'd much rather they nicked my spur-of-the-moment snaps than used me to defraud lonely and desperate people.
With you being a Slashdot denizen, I doubt your visage would be able to defraud your grandmother, let alone these supposed "lonely and desperate people". Ba-zingggg!!!
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Are we really going to whine about how oppressed people in the top 3% of earners are?
Why not? This is America... Even those in the top 1% whine about how "oppressed" they are, having to support the 47% of "takers" out there.
A few more years of this and I fear a singularity might rip open.
Yes! It's all part of The Great Leader's plans! After gathering hoards of supernatural followers in the afterlife, the foolish Slashdot audience will reshape The Great Leader's image into one of unspeakable evil. Then, as it was written on the first case of the Macintosh, "The evil days will arrive," as the fabric of reality itself is torn asunder, and "He Whose Name Must Not Be Spoken" himself, leading his band of demons (outfitted in very stylish jeans and black turtlenecks) from the gates of hell into the world, will achieve world domination and his million year reign of machines that look like they make cappuccino, instead of computing. Be afraid! Be very afraid!!!
I don't think you have the ages right - I'm 56 and I use online references whenever possible. Then, if they are interesting and it's necessary, I'll print them out, otherwise, they go onto my hard drive or onto my Kindle for later perusal. Of course, this may vary from field-to-field. I'm pretty used to computers, having used them from my college days. People in fields who have had little exposure to computers or the internet during their training (medicine, social sciences, etc.), may not be so comfortable with the electronic format and may still want paper journals. Still, it seems to be quite the waste of trees...
And that's why what we're looking for is a water-borne algee that can be converted into fuel.
No! Convert it directly to food. But you'd need to come up with a catchy name to market it... How about "Soylent Green"? Has a nice ring to it, don't you think?
I'd rather have this model. It would be a bonus if it also shaved it's legs, didn't have two inch gauges in its ears, nor a nose ring, unlike most of their current "baristas".
Actually, the end result is Utopian. It's the getting there part that may seem Dystopian for those involved...
...this is probably a situation a forward thinker might want to avoid.
Forward thinker? Business? I think you have a non sequitor here.
Uhhh... Because that's what Slashdot does?
And good thing, too. Have you actually seen the (thankfully small amount of) Slashdot-generated content posted here?
As someone who has pretty used my local library at least once a week since I've been able to walk to the library, I'll tell you that I'm pretty fed up with libraries wasting money on eBooks, which expire after (a relatively low) N of loans vs. buying physical copies of a book that (with rebinding - remember that process?) can be lent to readers dozens of times. This is, of course, after the institutions spend most of the money on CD's and DVD's, which also have a much shorter lifespan than books.
I love libraries. I've never voted against a library levy and I believe that they are a vital part of any functioning community. It's just that books are a much more cost-effective purchase than other things bought by libraries and it irks me to watch every year as physical books seem to be downgraded to optional purchases and money is spent on alternate media forms that will degrade much more quickly.
You don't like them because they are evil looking and BLACK.
So, if that's the only reason, wouldn't the manufacturers be better served by painting them a nice pink and giving them a different form factor? Then there wouldn't be any objection at all.
Somehow I believe that the reason they look evil and (as you put it) BLACK is so that they will look intimidating. Now why you want or need something that looks intimidating is between you and your warped psyche, but at least a pink one would not have the issue that you seem to think is the crux of the matter. And given that no one is fixing that (while not reducing the lethality of the weapon) would seem to indicate that the color and form factor are not the issues you make them out to be. I, for one, think that the issue might just be the greater lethality of these weapons and their improved ability to kill large numbers of people in a short period of time, especially when outfitted with outsized clips. But no, it must be because they're BLACK and scary.
I'm sorry but, based on the above, the original author of the piece really should see a mental health professional about his narcissism, paranoia, and anxiety. They are a pretty toxic mix and could be potentially dangerous to those around him, especially if he's armed.
How did freedom ever become so meaningless and unwanted that it is not even included as a single point in arguments fundamentally about freedom?
Because freedom is not (and, since the advent of people living together, has never been) an absolute. That we have freedoms to do certain things (such as own a firearm) is not in dispute. What the limits on those freedoms are is what is being decided. Are you purposely being obtuse?
Adam Lanza could have been blocked from guns, in which case he'd likely have used gasoline or an automobile. (I know of a few cases of mentally ill people committing arson. Trust me, the kids murdered by arson are just as dead as those killed by guns.)
And, if so, the arson would have probably occurred at night (most are, as to avoid detection by the authorities) and, as such, would have had fewer innocent victims. Same with the car scenario, which would probably have been damaged too badly to be driven (by driving over curbs onto sidewalks, into barriers, etc.) before killing 28 people. And, at that, you do have a greater chance to jump out of the way of a speeding car going 20 m/s than to jump out of the way of a bullet going at ~600-700 m/s.
In short, stop trying to prove a false equivalency between firearms and other lethal devices. Yes, dead is dead, but without guns, multiple killings take longer, giving authorities more time to intervene before the body count gets as high and are performed using weapons giving a better chance of survival.
I'd start stealing phones. How would Sprint know the difference?
... if you run a company that can monetize it's users, a drove IS a trove.
Only if they're heading towards you and not away from you...
It does have the obvious disadvantage of being true, if your graduate program was anything like mine.
He talks about the shortcomings of Google Docs' word processor from a viewpoint of using it as a "publishing" platform. The problem is that most of us aren't publishers, authors, or anything more than someone whipping out a quick page or two of shoddy documentation or a memo. If we were authors, we'd probably be using LaTeX, or Pagemaker, or something other than Microsoft Word (which, from what my friends who are actual writers say, is a pretty crappy platform for that purpose). And he misses the point completely about collaboration for things like spreadsheets, where it's all about the shared copy and only marginally about the concurrent editing features.
He is right about one thing, though - Zoho is a buggy piece of crap that never should have seen the light of day...
Computing has a good ways to go...
And, if you actually took time to read the article (or the summary) before starting your anit-Krugman diatribe, that was what he said... not that you were smart enough to notice. You aren't fit to comment on his economic abilities, given your inability to read.
At the end of the article, Krugman makes a joke about Skynet taking over and destroying humanity. Whether or not you agree with him, economically or politically, the guy is a true nerd, having written papers on economics of interstellar travel and being drawn into economics after reading Asimov's Foundation trilogy.
It's in the charms bar under settings. Press win+i to get you there.
Why win+i? Because "i" is such an intuitive character to get to "Settings". It's in the word and everything.
Do you use win+u to quit something? U's in that word.
... it's your IT department that's supposed to train you on how to use your work-required technology, not MIcrosoft.
If you really think this is the case in most companies for all but the most drone-like workers, you are a complete idiot.
Oh really? Is it free, even if I plan to eventually eat them? I hear cats taste like chicken.
Slashdot Karma is not an indicator of intelligence, but of something else - probably sexiness, because my Karma is Excellent.
Curse you Chrome Spell check!
Chrome is more astute than you think...
I'd much rather they nicked my spur-of-the-moment snaps than used me to defraud lonely and desperate people.
With you being a Slashdot denizen, I doubt your visage would be able to defraud your grandmother, let alone these supposed "lonely and desperate people". Ba-zingggg!!!