Pundits hate it, check. Teenagers hate it, check. (What don't they hate?) Baby Boomers...
ahhh, how do you over 60s feel about this promotion? Maybe it is actually a good thing to encourage you old folks to get together and learn "the new technology". Do you relate to it?
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Cosmos is continually being removed from Youtube and re-added.
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It is perhaps unquestionably true that there is nothing more pathetic than the inheritors of the estate of great personages who choose to enrich their own endowments than carry on the work from which it came.
It's just unproductive to stand on the street and yell at police with a megaphone. If you actually want to do something about protecting your constitutional right to assemble, take it to the courts. The police have declared the assembly unlawful.. if your argument is that no peaceful assembly can be unlawful then take it up with the appropriate court. That's how the world works.
They should shoot them all so people will only protest when they're willing to risk their lives.. it would make the rest of us once again take notice when protests happen, as opposed to right now, where a protest could be happening outside my front door and I wouldn't care.
Woohoo.. I love doing stuff that is bad for me, it's the best kind of stuff.
Why is copyright bad in pro-piracy articles and good in free software articles?
Uhhh.. because its being used for different purposes? Why are automatic weapons a good thing in armed resistance to tyranny but a bad thing in shopping mall shootings? Are you so seriously retarded that you can't tell the difference between a goal and the tools used to achieve that goal?
It's such a shame that responses like yours are likely to be the result of this announcement. "We found evidence that water is widespread on the Moon" in no way invalidates "We found evidence that there is *abundant* water in the permanently shadowed craters at the poles of the Moon".. in fact, it's exactly the opposite. That's where water will be mined on the Moon.
Almost identical to a ground launch. Getting 100 km up is the easy part (note: they didn't, they got less than 33 km up), getting over 7 km/s of horizontal velocity is the hard part. It's so hard that most boosters start accelerating as soon as they leave the ground.. that makes them supersonic in the low atmosphere, which means they need a fancy aeroshell or they'll burn up.
Are blog drooling morons not aware that patents take YEARS to go from filing to accept to grant? You can't tell anything about a company's strategic direction from their patent portfolio. Engineers get bribes for filing, and lawyers get paychecks, and that's about all the motivation needed to file a patent - any old shit will do.
- Adjusted the screen size to 640x480, and when I tried to go back to normal 1280x1024 mode, discovered the desktop properties window did not fit the screen. Normally that'd be no big deal except the "OK" button was inaccessible so my laptop is now permanently stuck in 640x480. (Or at least it was until I wiped the c: drive with a fresh XP install.)
Ya.. I run Ubuntu on my eeePC and this annoys the shit out of me. Prettimuch all the windows have been designed to run on a bigger resolution display, and they disable the resize for many of them.. which is just crazy because GNOME is 100% scalable graphics.. but even for the ones that they don't disable resize, why not do that automatically?
I don't understand why so many geeks on Slashdot have no concept how the patent system "works".
I can patent a method of using IRC to arrange the delivery of baked goods and that would be a valid patent (actually, it's probably already patented). The patent would include a vague description of IRC. Geeks would read the patent and say "that's just IRC!!" and get all huffy about it. Well, duh, that's not the point, the point is I figured out a way to use IRC to get you baked goods.
Henry Ford called, he wants his Scientific Management textbook back.
A happy employee is a productive employee. Modern management is about making employees feel valued and trusted. They do their job because they get satisfaction out of it, not because someone is behind them cracking the whip.
Banning social networking sites is the exact opposite of what you need to do. You should be encouraging your employees to have fun at work while showering praise on their work. Yes, saying "thank you for doing your job" is exactly what people want to hear, even if they say they don't.
Camouflage works by dressing those trying to hide in similar colors to their surroundings. You unevolved people with your "normal" color vision are a monoculture that are easily fooled by such tricks. Us mutants have an evolutionary advantage;)
They wouldn't let me join the army because I am "color blind". No-one mentioned this to me when I was in Cadets, and it's not like the topic didn't come up. I remember one day we all lined up in front of a field:
Instructor: Right. Everyone, listen up. Today we are doing a sweep search exercise. Hidden in this field are 6 soldiers, all highly trained in the skill of camouflage. You will form a single line, one arm length seperation, and walk this field. Be attentive, they may be right in front of them and you won't see them.
[I raise my hand]
Instructor: Yes cadet, what is it?
Me: Do you mean [pointing] that guy, that guy, that guy, that guy, that guy, and that lady?
Instructor: [Sigh]. Ok smart-ass, you're dismissed. Everyone else, turn around while we reconfigure.
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wait until you try the OS.
Pundits hate it, check.
Teenagers hate it, check. (What don't they hate?)
Baby Boomers...
ahhh, how do you over 60s feel about this promotion? Maybe it is actually a good thing to encourage you old folks to get together and learn "the new technology". Do you relate to it?
Cosmos is continually being removed from Youtube and re-added.
It is perhaps unquestionably true that there is nothing more pathetic than the inheritors of the estate of great personages who choose to enrich their own endowments than carry on the work from which it came.
You already have protested, and had the police do what you think is illegal, otherwise you wouldn't be able to go to court about it.
It's just unproductive to stand on the street and yell at police with a megaphone. If you actually want to do something about protecting your constitutional right to assemble, take it to the courts. The police have declared the assembly unlawful.. if your argument is that no peaceful assembly can be unlawful then take it up with the appropriate court. That's how the world works.
They should shoot them all so people will only protest when they're willing to risk their lives.. it would make the rest of us once again take notice when protests happen, as opposed to right now, where a protest could be happening outside my front door and I wouldn't care.
Wow, you almost said something pointed there.
As a matter of fact, "having computer promotes piracy" is kinda right. I'll clean it up for you though:
having easy and regular access to copying machines makes copyright law seem evil and wrong, and ignoring it seems just.
There ya go.
Also Nc3, thanks.
Woohoo.. I love doing stuff that is bad for me, it's the best kind of stuff.
Why is copyright bad in pro-piracy articles and good in free software articles?
Uhhh.. because its being used for different purposes? Why are automatic weapons a good thing in armed resistance to tyranny but a bad thing in shopping mall shootings? Are you so seriously retarded that you can't tell the difference between a goal and the tools used to achieve that goal?
It's such a shame that responses like yours are likely to be the result of this announcement. "We found evidence that water is widespread on the Moon" in no way invalidates "We found evidence that there is *abundant* water in the permanently shadowed craters at the poles of the Moon".. in fact, it's exactly the opposite. That's where water will be mined on the Moon.
A balloon that could lift a 100t rocket.. yeah, that's likely to be cheaper than just making the rocket a little bigger.
Almost identical to a ground launch. Getting 100 km up is the easy part (note: they didn't, they got less than 33 km up), getting over 7 km/s of horizontal velocity is the hard part. It's so hard that most boosters start accelerating as soon as they leave the ground.. that makes them supersonic in the low atmosphere, which means they need a fancy aeroshell or they'll burn up.
Are blog drooling morons not aware that patents take YEARS to go from filing to accept to grant? You can't tell anything about a company's strategic direction from their patent portfolio. Engineers get bribes for filing, and lawyers get paychecks, and that's about all the motivation needed to file a patent - any old shit will do.
- Adjusted the screen size to 640x480, and when I tried to go back to normal 1280x1024 mode, discovered the desktop properties window did not fit the screen. Normally that'd be no big deal except the "OK" button was inaccessible so my laptop is now permanently stuck in 640x480. (Or at least it was until I wiped the c: drive with a fresh XP install.)
Ya.. I run Ubuntu on my eeePC and this annoys the shit out of me. Prettimuch all the windows have been designed to run on a bigger resolution display, and they disable the resize for many of them.. which is just crazy because GNOME is 100% scalable graphics.. but even for the ones that they don't disable resize, why not do that automatically?
Yep, because 12 out of my last 12 torrents all being tracked by The Pirate Bay tracker really indicates that too.
I don't understand why so many geeks on Slashdot have no concept how the patent system "works".
I can patent a method of using IRC to arrange the delivery of baked goods and that would be a valid patent (actually, it's probably already patented). The patent would include a vague description of IRC. Geeks would read the patent and say "that's just IRC!!" and get all huffy about it. Well, duh, that's not the point, the point is I figured out a way to use IRC to get you baked goods.
Hope you got that mandate in writing.
Most all of them can be configured to reject anything they can't verify as "safe". Whitelist, don't blacklist, it's the first rule of security.
In a hospital no less.
What happened to the geek who setup the transparent web proxy that allowed that?
Henry Ford called, he wants his Scientific Management textbook back.
A happy employee is a productive employee. Modern management is about making employees feel valued and trusted. They do their job because they get satisfaction out of it, not because someone is behind them cracking the whip.
Banning social networking sites is the exact opposite of what you need to do. You should be encouraging your employees to have fun at work while showering praise on their work. Yes, saying "thank you for doing your job" is exactly what people want to hear, even if they say they don't.
Camouflage works by dressing those trying to hide in similar colors to their surroundings. You unevolved people with your "normal" color vision are a monoculture that are easily fooled by such tricks. Us mutants have an evolutionary advantage ;)
Sure, this is the best article on the subject I've seen:
http://critiquewall.com/2007/12/10/blindness
Enjoy.
They wouldn't let me join the army because I am "color blind". No-one mentioned this to me when I was in Cadets, and it's not like the topic didn't come up. I remember one day we all lined up in front of a field:
Instructor: Right. Everyone, listen up. Today we are doing a sweep search exercise. Hidden in this field are 6 soldiers, all highly trained in the skill of camouflage. You will form a single line, one arm length seperation, and walk this field. Be attentive, they may be right in front of them and you won't see them.
[I raise my hand]
Instructor: Yes cadet, what is it?
Me: Do you mean [pointing] that guy, that guy, that guy, that guy, that guy, and that lady?
Instructor: [Sigh]. Ok smart-ass, you're dismissed. Everyone else, turn around while we reconfigure.
But hey, at least they won't draft me.
"hmmmmmm" implies thinking.. something I wish more Slashdotters would try.