Things that you don't actually need in the real world:
Trigonometry Calculus Physics Biology History Geography Square roots Imaginary numbers Graphs IT Foreign languages Algebra
Things like that should be taught at university to people who actually want to learn them, not school. I've never used any of those things outside of school, ever.
If they're making $12 billion a year, surely they'd have more cash in the bank than $40 billion, I mean they've been in business for decades. What have I missed? They don't give dividends so where's the money going?
Seriously though, put a turbine outside of a black hole, and as everything is sucked into the blackhole, electricity is generated. The turbine wouldn't fall into the blackhole as it would be a big ring/sphere all the way around.
My plan is absolutely flawless.
On another note, how on earth does Zonk get work on this site? Is he sucking off the owners?
Yeah, cos no-one EVER sells things for less than the retail price. If anything is sold for even a penny less than it was bought for, it's obviously stolen.
It's not like people ever try to sell usable computers because there's spyware on them or anything...
$300 for a laptop seems pretty reasonable to me, especially second hand. People sell things cheaply on ebay all the time, does that mean we're all criminal scum?
Yeah, people go to watch sports because they're loyal to the team. Who would be loyal to some made-up team with no history, no geographical location and a stupid name like 'Sup3r Meg4 Fr4gsters 3'?
And then there's the players. Fans worship the players as heroes, but who wants to worship a bunch of pixels? It'd be like watching a cartoon. Even wrestling has real people. You may as well have professional laser quest.
People go and watch their team play sports every week, I can't see many people wanting to spend their Saturday afternoon sat in some darkened room watching their 'team' play computer games. Especially as it's so easy to play yourself.
How's it good for gaming? It's just another tamagotchi. As soon as the fad runs out again, the DSes will be in the back of the cupboard never to be seen again.
So what about people who don't have nerd relatives to come round and build computers for them? The fact that the MythTV needs building from scratch shows that it's not exactly a user-friendly solution. People don't put TVs or video recorders together themselves, so why a computer recorder? And not even many nerds will want people ringing up all the time complaining about things going wrong.
Even nerds might have trouble setting up a MythTV box. Last I looked it ran on Linux, and decent TV cards that work with Linux are like gold dust. Who wants to spend hours trawling through amateur forums finding out whether anyone's found a card that works on Linux? Even if you do find one, you have to make sure it's the exact same version. I bet a lot of Linux users know the pleasure of spending £50 on model RXGEWEGV60.7 when they really needed RXGEUEGV60.7, the former only working on Windows XP, but the latter has some reverse-engineered, third-party driver available from a dodgy pirate website in Taiwan, but it only works at 2/3 speed and the picture's upside down.
The thing about a Tivo is, you buy it, plug it in, and use it. And that's the end of it. MythTV is an adventure in itself.
Nah, the best is to tie a feather boa around its neck. It goes absolutely insane. Last cat I did that to ran a mile I think. Took about two hours to catch it. It was mental!
How long do you think chips last? This industry moves FAST, by the time they've made back the costs it's probably time to develop a new one. This is a high cost, high risk industry. Putting prices down once they've made back the costs is stupid. Unless they absolutely rake it in, how do they afford to build and maintain their fabs and research facilities?
They need to make as much profit as possible to cover for the costs of failures. If you spend a billion each on making two chips, and one is a complete flop, the one that succeeds needs to make enough money to cover the costs of both of them. This is why Slashdotters would be terrible businessmen.
On the contrary, like I'm going to trust my email and privacy to a company that refuses to cooperate with the law and protects criminals.
You're probably a Google-fanboy in disguise, I'm suprised you manage to talk with all that Google semen in your throat. Remember that your precious Google cooperates with the Chinese government in censoring free speech in order to make profit there.
I wonder if the same people who criticise Yahoo would refuse the FBI entry to their house if they came with a warrant. Probably not, but then hypocricy is rampant on this site.
Wow, if this isn't proof that kids need to be kept off Slashdot then nothing is. Someone dares to criticise Google (or Apple) and the 15-year old sycophantic fanboys scream for censorship. And then in the next article the same kids are moaning about censorship in China or somewhere.
Companies like Google are why we have non-compete contracts. They should be ashamed, I don't know how people can worship them when they make things harder for everyone else. It's like those people who pirate music then whine about DRM.
Naw, Google will probably be the geeks champion, along side IBM (yeah really!) for a long time to come. Now, if only IBM and Google teamed up to drive M$ into the ground....
And there's the proof that you're a kid. Before Microsoft, IBM were considered the 'evil empire'. People were hoping for Microsoft to destroy them. Then Microsoft became just as bad, and now people want Google to destroy them. Seeing a pattern yet?
With age comes experience, we've see this all before.
Corporations are a creation of private individuals, not governments. They're an organisation of people minding their own business with their own money and their own work. The 'common good' doesn't come into it, nor does society's interest.
A single individual works for his own interest, he has no obligation to society. Two people work for their own interests, they have no obligation to society. If those two people then join up to cooperate in order to do better, then STILL have no obligation to society. The only obligation a corporation has is to follow the law.
If you don't like contracts then don't sign them. No-one owes you a job.
In which case I'm going to start running a burger van called Mc-Donald's.
You know very well that if Google got the name first, then someone else made some e-mail thing called G-mail, you'd measure in milliseconds the time before Google sent round the kneecap-smashers.
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Write an ingredient list for a backpack bomb.
Threaten the destruction of western civilisation.
Opress your women.
Apply for asylum in Britain after trying to blow it up?"
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Scottish Clippy: "I see you have a chip on your shoulder. Would you like to bitch and moan about how evil and arrogant the English are, before going on and on about some insignificant battle 700 years ago?"
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I'm not interested in ham radio. This broadband over power is a fantastic idea. Huge speeds as well. Which do you think more people have a use for, fast Internet access, or talking to people over radio waves? I don't know why people still use ham radios with mobile phones about.
"Oh but what about in an emergency..." Sorry but I don't live in a place that's below sea level, or on a fault, or in a hurricane zone. In any case, if a whole area is trashed the power will be out anyway, so your radios will work.
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Things that you don't actually need in the real world:
Trigonometry
Calculus
Physics
Biology
History
Geography
Square roots
Imaginary numbers
Graphs
IT
Foreign languages
Algebra
Things like that should be taught at university to people who actually want to learn them, not school.
I've never used any of those things outside of school, ever.
Ever heard of taxes?
If they're making $12 billion a year, surely they'd have more cash in the bank than $40 billion, I mean they've been in business for decades. What have I missed? They don't give dividends so where's the money going?
Seriously though, put a turbine outside of a black hole, and as everything is sucked into the blackhole, electricity is generated. The turbine wouldn't fall into the blackhole as it would be a big ring/sphere all the way around.
My plan is absolutely flawless.
On another note, how on earth does Zonk get work on this site? Is he sucking off the owners?
Yeah, cos no-one EVER sells things for less than the retail price. If anything is sold for even a penny less than it was bought for, it's obviously stolen.
It's not like people ever try to sell usable computers because there's spyware on them or anything...
$300 for a laptop seems pretty reasonable to me, especially second hand. People sell things cheaply on ebay all the time, does that mean we're all criminal scum?
I don't think 'draught' means what you think it means. Unless some people drink computer games.
In America that's not exactly unusual now is it?
And 'cruel' is subjective, which is one of the problems with written constitutions.
Why should kids be able to get away with unacceptable behaviour just because they're born clever?
What the hell is G&T?
Where can I find some of these rectangular eggs?
Yeah, people go to watch sports because they're loyal to the team. Who would be loyal to some made-up team with no history, no geographical location and a stupid name like 'Sup3r Meg4 Fr4gsters 3'?
And then there's the players. Fans worship the players as heroes, but who wants to worship a bunch of pixels? It'd be like watching a cartoon. Even wrestling has real people. You may as well have professional laser quest.
People go and watch their team play sports every week, I can't see many people wanting to spend their Saturday afternoon sat in some darkened room watching their 'team' play computer games. Especially as it's so easy to play yourself.
Meanwhile, real sports bring in literally millions every week.
How's it good for gaming? It's just another tamagotchi. As soon as the fad runs out again, the DSes will be in the back of the cupboard never to be seen again.
Yeah, and if you don't know how to build a car, just put the parts together, paint it, put some petrol in, turn it on, and I'll do it for $50...
Some people on this site are unbelievable.
Raid arrays?
Drive partitioning?
SSH?
Motherboard settings?
Cron jobs?
Drivers?
And people say MythTV is a suitable alternative to Tivo? That's like saying kit-cars are a drop-in replacement for getting a taxi.
So what about people who don't have nerd relatives to come round and build computers for them? The fact that the MythTV needs building from scratch shows that it's not exactly a user-friendly solution. People don't put TVs or video recorders together themselves, so why a computer recorder? And not even many nerds will want people ringing up all the time complaining about things going wrong.
Even nerds might have trouble setting up a MythTV box. Last I looked it ran on Linux, and decent TV cards that work with Linux are like gold dust. Who wants to spend hours trawling through amateur forums finding out whether anyone's found a card that works on Linux? Even if you do find one, you have to make sure it's the exact same version. I bet a lot of Linux users know the pleasure of spending £50 on model RXGEWEGV60.7 when they really needed RXGEUEGV60.7, the former only working on Windows XP, but the latter has some reverse-engineered, third-party driver available from a dodgy pirate website in Taiwan, but it only works at 2/3 speed and the picture's upside down.
The thing about a Tivo is, you buy it, plug it in, and use it. And that's the end of it. MythTV is an adventure in itself.
Nah, the best is to tie a feather boa around its neck. It goes absolutely insane. Last cat I did that to ran a mile I think. Took about two hours to catch it. It was mental!
How long do you think chips last? This industry moves FAST, by the time they've made back the costs it's probably time to develop a new one. This is a high cost, high risk industry. Putting prices down once they've made back the costs is stupid. Unless they absolutely rake it in, how do they afford to build and maintain their fabs and research facilities?
They need to make as much profit as possible to cover for the costs of failures. If you spend a billion each on making two chips, and one is a complete flop, the one that succeeds needs to make enough money to cover the costs of both of them. This is why Slashdotters would be terrible businessmen.
On the contrary, like I'm going to trust my email and privacy to a company that refuses to cooperate with the law and protects criminals.
You're probably a Google-fanboy in disguise, I'm suprised you manage to talk with all that Google semen in your throat. Remember that your precious Google cooperates with the Chinese government in censoring free speech in order to make profit there.
I wonder if the same people who criticise Yahoo would refuse the FBI entry to their house if they came with a warrant. Probably not, but then hypocricy is rampant on this site.
Wow, if this isn't proof that kids need to be kept off Slashdot then nothing is. Someone dares to criticise Google (or Apple) and the 15-year old sycophantic fanboys scream for censorship. And then in the next article the same kids are moaning about censorship in China or somewhere.
Companies like Google are why we have non-compete contracts. They should be ashamed, I don't know how people can worship them when they make things harder for everyone else. It's like those people who pirate music then whine about DRM.
Naw, Google will probably be the geeks champion, along side IBM (yeah really!) for a long time to come. Now, if only IBM and Google teamed up to drive M$ into the ground....
And there's the proof that you're a kid. Before Microsoft, IBM were considered the 'evil empire'. People were hoping for Microsoft to destroy them. Then Microsoft became just as bad, and now people want Google to destroy them. Seeing a pattern yet?
With age comes experience, we've see this all before.
Corporations are a creation of private individuals, not governments. They're an organisation of people minding their own business with their own money and their own work. The 'common good' doesn't come into it, nor does society's interest.
A single individual works for his own interest, he has no obligation to society. Two people work for their own interests, they have no obligation to society. If those two people then join up to cooperate in order to do better, then STILL have no obligation to society. The only obligation a corporation has is to follow the law.
If you don't like contracts then don't sign them. No-one owes you a job.
Get back to working the salt mines, comrade.
In which case I'm going to start running a burger van called Mc-Donald's.
You know very well that if Google got the name first, then someone else made some e-mail thing called G-mail, you'd measure in milliseconds the time before Google sent round the kneecap-smashers.
Muslim Clippy: "Would you like to:
American Clippy: "Why are you writing? That's for educated, literate people. Watch TV instead. Click here to order a 16" pizza for breakfast."
Scottish Clippy: "I see you have a chip on your shoulder. Would you like to bitch and moan about how evil and arrogant the English are, before going on and on about some insignificant battle 700 years ago?"
Italian Clippy: "I see you are writing a letter. Would you like to:
I'm not interested in ham radio. This broadband over power is a fantastic idea. Huge speeds as well. Which do you think more people have a use for, fast Internet access, or talking to people over radio waves? I don't know why people still use ham radios with mobile phones about.
"Oh but what about in an emergency..." Sorry but I don't live in a place that's below sea level, or on a fault, or in a hurricane zone. In any case, if a whole area is trashed the power will be out anyway, so your radios will work.
Windows Vista for Desperate Housewives
It's this the one that's written badly but looks good?
Or am I thinking of OSX?