In the words of the old chestnut, "If you're calm and confident when everyone around you is running around in blind panic, you clearly don't understand the situation."
But isn't that the quality we say we look for in our leaders?
Great, I haven't even built my new AMD 64 system and now I have dangled in front of me the latest and greatest to come. It will not only require a new CPU, but a new motherboard and new RAM (DDR2 vs DDR).
They've added the memory controller and now they are adding the pci-e controller. If they keep adding things to the chip soon it will be so big that they'll just put the expansion slots directly onto the cpu. It WILL be the motherboard.
You just made me realize that reading the article description got me as excited as looking at nekked pics of Paris Hilton. The big difference is that AMD CPUs are much more interesting than her and are more talented. They are both about as flat and prickley though.
So are you suggesting that we not critizise the space program when it deserves it? What is the alternative, watching it make the same massively expensive (and sometimes deadly) mistakes over and over again?
This would probably one of the few Florida-based start-ups that didn't involve spam or real estate fraud. Maybe it is a breakthough in spam transmission!
The pictures are interesting. They look like they were taken from a camera set on auto-repeat from a moving car. Most of the pictures are obscured or there is no identifier on the buildings. I can't imagine what they are using them for but I hope it isn't for anything where image quality counts.
Even Mossad knows that torture is a dead end (no pun intended). Torturing someone will just give you what you want to hear. Competent interrogators use psychology and are far subtler.
Ahhh...this is beyond slant, it is a blatant lie. I don't care for the usual hysteria they promote the rest of the time either. Unlike you I'm not keeping score.
I saw the article in the Boston Globe referring to this vote and I thought I was reading about a different bill. This Slashdot article heading is so slanted and deceptive that it would make the New York Post blush. Slashdot has really crossed a line here and the people in charge need to explain themselves. The reason why the Democrats joined to vote against it (as noted above) has NOTHING to do with the heading of the article. Someone clearly has an axe to grind and is willing to deceive to do it.
Slashdot, stick to technology news and stay out of the yellow press business.
They could give it a classic sounding name, something regal, like...say..."Britain". Then make it Latin sounding, "Britannica". Voilá! "Encyclopedia Britannica"
Seriously, why bother with a print version of ANYTHING that is heavily cross indexed? One of the greatest things about digitized docs is the ability to do fast, complex, searches across the entire document. Having it in print reduces you to slogging through the very limited index. Plus there is the issue of having an entire shelf taken up with books vs using a few DVDs.
Every time I find out that the server running Oracle is Windows instead or a "nix" box I have to stifle my groan. It is just far easier to admin Oracle on a nix box and a hell of a lot more stable.
My main reason for getting an LCD monitor for my home computer system is the size & weight issue. I want a 19" screen and a CRT equivalent would take up most of my desk including requiring the screen to be right up to the edge to make room for the back of the tube. The weight of a large CRT would damage my desk not to mention my back when moving it.
"Are we as a society willing to accept this in the name of free services?"
This isn't even necessarily part of receiving a free service. Just look at the examples you cited, did you pay to go to the movies? So why do you have to pay to see ads? I truly doubt that the cost is being held down for you by the ads, more likely it is just extra profit for the theaters at your expense.
On the other hand the "victims" should have known better. If you don't know about email scams by now then you are incredibly naive. Most of the victims of these scams got trapped due to their greed.
This doesn't let the criminals off the hook but please, the victims deserve a mighty big dope slap.
One of the first things you must do to hurt strangers is to dehumanize them, war propaganda is a classic example of this. Anti-abortionists portray pro-choice folks as "baby murderers", Muslim extremists portray all Westerners as "immoral perverted satanists", Iraqi insurgents are all "freedom hating terrorists", etc. Serial killers are notorious for referring to their victims as "things".
These conmen in Nigeria can work without bothering their consciences by just dismissing Americans as gullible and rich fools who deserve to be ripped off. Maybe if they saw how real the damage was that they inflicted on the desperate some of them might think twice. The ones without consciences, lock 'em up.
Spiderweb Software is an example of how a good game and storyline can beat flashy graphics. I thoroughly enjoyed their Exile series and I think the simpler graphics actually added to the game play. The only thing I missed was a larger variety of monsters and items to increase replayability. Blades of Avernum is along the same lines and it looks like it has a nice, flexible, scenario builder (only played the demo).
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But isn't that the quality we say we look for in our leaders?
Great, I haven't even built my new AMD 64 system and now I have dangled in front of me the latest and greatest to come. It will not only require a new CPU, but a new motherboard and new RAM (DDR2 vs DDR).
Must...not...chase...bleeding...edge!
They've added the memory controller and now they are adding the pci-e controller. If they keep adding things to the chip soon it will be so big that they'll just put the expansion slots directly onto the cpu. It WILL be the motherboard.
You just made me realize that reading the article description got me as excited as looking at nekked pics of Paris Hilton. The big difference is that AMD CPUs are much more interesting than her and are more talented. They are both about as flat and prickley though.
So are you suggesting that we not critizise the space program when it deserves it? What is the alternative, watching it make the same massively expensive (and sometimes deadly) mistakes over and over again?
This would probably one of the few Florida-based start-ups that didn't involve spam or real estate fraud. Maybe it is a breakthough in spam transmission!
The pictures are interesting. They look like they were taken from a camera set on auto-repeat from a moving car. Most of the pictures are obscured or there is no identifier on the buildings. I can't imagine what they are using them for but I hope it isn't for anything where image quality counts.
Funny, the average response time for someone to describe a porn picture is about 2 minutes, about the same time it takes to...eeewww
"You are now qualified to respond to tentacle hentai!"
"most image programs use temporary files"
Another good reason for RAM drives
Even Mossad knows that torture is a dead end (no pun intended). Torturing someone will just give you what you want to hear. Competent interrogators use psychology and are far subtler.
Ahhh...this is beyond slant, it is a blatant lie. I don't care for the usual hysteria they promote the rest of the time either. Unlike you I'm not keeping score.
I saw the article in the Boston Globe referring to this vote and I thought I was reading about a different bill. This Slashdot article heading is so slanted and deceptive that it would make the New York Post blush. Slashdot has really crossed a line here and the people in charge need to explain themselves. The reason why the Democrats joined to vote against it (as noted above) has NOTHING to do with the heading of the article. Someone clearly has an axe to grind and is willing to deceive to do it.
Slashdot, stick to technology news and stay out of the yellow press business.
I'd call my Congressman to protest but he's busy meeting a lobbyist.
They could give it a classic sounding name, something regal, like...say..."Britain". Then make it Latin sounding, "Britannica". Voilá! "Encyclopedia Britannica"
Seriously, why bother with a print version of ANYTHING that is heavily cross indexed? One of the greatest things about digitized docs is the ability to do fast, complex, searches across the entire document. Having it in print reduces you to slogging through the very limited index. Plus there is the issue of having an entire shelf taken up with books vs using a few DVDs.
Every time I find out that the server running Oracle is Windows instead or a "nix" box I have to stifle my groan. It is just far easier to admin Oracle on a nix box and a hell of a lot more stable.
"but, oddly, I've never seen the ending."
That sort of activity does make you sleepy.
You didn't miss much though, Debbie blows it in the end.
There is also the possibility that he was just being sarcastic.
Only on Slashdot would someone choose Nethack over fast cars, good music and free sex.
My main reason for getting an LCD monitor for my home computer system is the size & weight issue. I want a 19" screen and a CRT equivalent would take up most of my desk including requiring the screen to be right up to the edge to make room for the back of the tube. The weight of a large CRT would damage my desk not to mention my back when moving it.
"Are we as a society willing to accept this in the name of free services?"
This isn't even necessarily part of receiving a free service. Just look at the examples you cited, did you pay to go to the movies? So why do you have to pay to see ads? I truly doubt that the cost is being held down for you by the ads, more likely it is just extra profit for the theaters at your expense.
On the other hand the "victims" should have known better. If you don't know about email scams by now then you are incredibly naive. Most of the victims of these scams got trapped due to their greed.
This doesn't let the criminals off the hook but please, the victims deserve a mighty big dope slap.
One of the first things you must do to hurt strangers is to dehumanize them, war propaganda is a classic example of this. Anti-abortionists portray pro-choice folks as "baby murderers", Muslim extremists portray all Westerners as "immoral perverted satanists", Iraqi insurgents are all "freedom hating terrorists", etc. Serial killers are notorious for referring to their victims as "things".
These conmen in Nigeria can work without bothering their consciences by just dismissing Americans as gullible and rich fools who deserve to be ripped off. Maybe if they saw how real the damage was that they inflicted on the desperate some of them might think twice. The ones without consciences, lock 'em up.
Spiderweb Software is an example of how a good game and storyline can beat flashy graphics. I thoroughly enjoyed their Exile series and I think the simpler graphics actually added to the game play. The only thing I missed was a larger variety of monsters and items to increase replayability. Blades of Avernum is along the same lines and it looks like it has a nice, flexible, scenario builder (only played the demo).
IG Farben
Ford
US Arms Sales to Iraq
Oil Companies in Nigeria
US/UK Subversion of Democratic Iran for Oil Companies
I don't recall anyone asking for the public's opinion on these business practices.
2. or smoke pot and listen to music or play games on the computer all day
You mean I had a 2nd choice? Damn!