So, you reword something in the article summary, add a couple of meaningless sentences, and get +5 insightful. Four extra karma points without actually saying anything, or even having an opinion, or telling us anything. Is karma-whoring really that easy?
1. A camera works by opening a shutter and allowing lens onto some film. Whilst the shutter is open, the plane is moving,
2. Have you ever been near an airport? It's not fucking quiet. Wear earplugs? Must be great having to wear earplugs 24/7. Do you realise those things hurt your ears?
3. Yeah, because terrorists are all dark-skinned and wear turbans and have names like Al-Sharaqa Jazeirain. You can see them a mile off. You can probably recognise them from a distance because they're the ones firing the machine guns into the air and yodelling.
THEY'RE NOT BEING FIRED. Being fired is when someone is kicked out of a job because the employer doesn't want them in it. Being laid off is when the position disappears, i.e. there's no job for them anymore. It's not political correctness, no more than it's politically incorrect to call an apple a banana.
You know this whole issue has come about because people watch too much TV where characters get 'fired' all the time, so they think that being fired means any instance of someone not being in a job anymore. TV isn't a good place to learn about the world, especially if you start mistaking it for reality. If they were firing 13,000 employees, it would mean they would be taking applications for 13,000 people to replace them.
Also if you get fired you don't get dole. And you could sue for unfair dismissal.
Old? No, my processor is very current. In fact, I'm using it as we speak. It's here in my computer. Unless you live in some magic world where AMD send you upgraded processors every 6 months. For most people, processors last for years. It's no good to say that you're latest and greatest is really good, when everyone's already bought older, worse ones.
£40/night, at £2 a pint, that's 20 pints. No-one drinks 20 pints a night. Say if you only have 10 pints, at £20. Someone with a well-paid job can surely afford that?
Throughout history, people have worked 18 hour days, 7 days a week in fields and mills. People have worked under threat of death, they've worked in the freezing cold whilst half-starving. They're worked knowing that if they make a single mistake their family would become homeless. They've worked with dangerous chemicals, whilst being shot at, whilst being bombed, they've worked in situations where the average life expectancy is measured in weeks.
And all you have to do is sit in a comfortable, heated, safe office 40 hours a week, on a nice comfortable chair, typing at a computer, doing something stimulating and intellectually challenging. And you're complaining about STRESS? Fucking grow up. You don't know what the word means.
1. Don't be ridiculous. When you take a picture of a very fast moving object, you get a blurred picture. Unless the plane was hovering in mid-air, that photograph is impossible.
2. Have you ever been under a plane? It's very very loud. A 'holy grail', where you're deafened every 10 minutes, I don't think so. Also plane-spotters are worse than train-spotters. They all look the same anyway.
3. If I wanted to cause a terrorist atrocity, that's the beach I'd go to. A simple rocket-launcher, in combination with one of those new 500+ passenger Airbus things, and you've got a disaster. Anyone could hit the target at that range, you could fill the beach with terrorists and could shoot down planes for hours before you're stopped. The planes would HAVE to attempt to land, they wouldn't have enough fuel to go anywhere else.
Yeah, google innovates all the time. I mean, a search engine, what a great idea. No longer do I have to guess website addresses like I had to pre-Google.
And webmail, what another great idea. If Google hadn't invented this, we'd be stuck in the Pop3/imap dark ages.
Because as we all know, AMD chips run extra cool... I for one need a jet-engine style engine to cool mine. I don't know why they can't make quiet computers.
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Not to mention, Netscape was ugly. The interface was clunky, when it rendered pages they just looked awful, whereas on IE they looked aesthetically pleasing.
This discussion is irrelevent anyway. For all its flaws, Firefox has won the browser war. As far as I'm concerned anyway.
So say there's no copyright law, and some film company spends £100million on making a film. Then they release it, and everyone downloads it for free, or copies it. The film company goes bust, and no new films are made.
Secondly, who are you to tell an industry how to do business? If you don't like the terms of their copyright, then don't use their material. Make your own, and release it under your own terms. You use your copyright, they'll use theirs, and you can all agree not to infringe each others' copyright.
I've yet to hear an argument against copyright laws other than 'I want stuff for free.'
1) The episode where Kirk meets an alien who was the god Apollo in Greek times -- Apollo wants people to worship him but Kirk says "Humanity doesn't need gods -- we find the one sufficient" -- implying that some sort of monotheism is still there in the Trek universe
I think it might help not to read too much into one-off, throwaway lines. I doubt the scriptwriters went through every single sentence making sure that it fitted in with the official Star Trek 'canon'.
Then why doesn't it prompt you to restart the services? Why would my word processor need to reboot because of an IP address? Why don't Microsoft spend some time and money on making a decent, functional OS from the ground up rather than....whatever they spend their time and money on now.
And perhaps they should concentrate on getting their own house in order before going after 'pirates' and trying to cripple their software to make people buy more expensive versions.
And they could cut down on the fucking bloat. If years ago you could send an e-mail on 16MB of RAM, why the hell does it seem to take 60000GB these days? All this memory and processing doesn't seem to be on features, nor on security, there seems to be some memory black-hole in modern software.
Is the law not right in this case? Should it be legal to copy copyrighted material? Do you realise this would mean the end of the entire entertainment industry?
You know, a law isn't wrong just because it means you can't get stuff for free.
switching to X.org from XFree86 means retesting every single application that uses X.
In that case, Debian must have the worst testers in the world. Seriously, has anyone found any applications that are broken by X.org? The problem with Debian's philosophy of hanging onto old software, is that often this old software is obsolete and doesn't get patches or fixes anymore, so you're running insecure software.
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Yeah, but back then XP was the latest thing, most of this sarge is ALREADY very very dated. Also Debian don't actually make any of the software themselves, they just put together a distribution. Microsoft had to actually write XP themselves.
Compared to other Linux distros, Debian is very slow. Other distros release much faster and with much more up to date software.
The problem with paying for news, is that the newspaper has to choose popularist stories to get people to buy it, and has to dumb it down so more people can understand it. Why else do you think the mainstream media is in such a mess?
I just get my news from news.bbc.co.uk. Local papers you say? Local papers are awful. The problem with local papers is that nothing really happens locally. The main stories are often completely and utterly inconsequential. "Woman to sue council for tripping over pavement" is the sort of thing you're likely to find on the front page.
$50 a year? That's a hell of a lot for intangible access to a website, especially when there are free alternatives. Even google has a news site which links to other news sites so there's no sense in paying at all.
Also I think this NYT thing is just for the archives, so you're not actually getting news at all.
Don't expect unbiased moderation on Slashdot. Notice how the original poster complained about shills moderating down anti-Microsoft posts. Now we see Linux shills moderating down anti-zealot posts. The worst part is that I'm not surprised by this at all.
I'm sure that more than once, a potential online-shopper has selected a list of items, only to find out that they only deliver during the week, 9-5, when they're at work. Great business strategy, deliver when people aren't there to receive it.
I've got a better idea: deliver at weekends and evenings. It's not rocket science.
Hahaha you're so funny. "the windows go blue". Did you think of that one yourself? You must be a comedy genius. No, seriously. Like, Windows has the 'blue screen of death', and you said 'the windows will go blue', like a blue windscreen of death! That's really funny. Really, you are the first person to ever make that joke comparing Windows crashing and cars crashing. Working in the 'blue screen' thing is really fucking witty. Honestly.
If the forum of a popular IT website can't fund itself through advertising then there is something definitely wrong.
How do you expect them to fund themselves via adverts when most people who come here filter out the adverts? Paid stories? You all bitch and moan about those. What exactly do you expect them to do? You don't want adverts, you don't want paid-stories, you don't want to pay a subscription, perhaps you have some new magic fund-raising idea up your sleeve. Well, let's hear it.
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So, you reword something in the article summary, add a couple of meaningless sentences, and get +5 insightful. Four extra karma points without actually saying anything, or even having an opinion, or telling us anything. Is karma-whoring really that easy?
1. A camera works by opening a shutter and allowing lens onto some film. Whilst the shutter is open, the plane is moving,
2. Have you ever been near an airport? It's not fucking quiet. Wear earplugs? Must be great having to wear earplugs 24/7. Do you realise those things hurt your ears?
3. Yeah, because terrorists are all dark-skinned and wear turbans and have names like Al-Sharaqa Jazeirain. You can see them a mile off. You can probably recognise them from a distance because they're the ones firing the machine guns into the air and yodelling.
THEY'RE NOT BEING FIRED. Being fired is when someone is kicked out of a job because the employer doesn't want them in it. Being laid off is when the position disappears, i.e. there's no job for them anymore. It's not political correctness, no more than it's politically incorrect to call an apple a banana.
You know this whole issue has come about because people watch too much TV where characters get 'fired' all the time, so they think that being fired means any instance of someone not being in a job anymore. TV isn't a good place to learn about the world, especially if you start mistaking it for reality. If they were firing 13,000 employees, it would mean they would be taking applications for 13,000 people to replace them.
Also if you get fired you don't get dole. And you could sue for unfair dismissal.
Old? No, my processor is very current. In fact, I'm using it as we speak. It's here in my computer. Unless you live in some magic world where AMD send you upgraded processors every 6 months. For most people, processors last for years. It's no good to say that you're latest and greatest is really good, when everyone's already bought older, worse ones.
£40/night, at £2 a pint, that's 20 pints. No-one drinks 20 pints a night. Say if you only have 10 pints, at £20. Someone with a well-paid job can surely afford that?
Throughout history, people have worked 18 hour days, 7 days a week in fields and mills. People have worked under threat of death, they've worked in the freezing cold whilst half-starving. They're worked knowing that if they make a single mistake their family would become homeless. They've worked with dangerous chemicals, whilst being shot at, whilst being bombed, they've worked in situations where the average life expectancy is measured in weeks.
And all you have to do is sit in a comfortable, heated, safe office 40 hours a week, on a nice comfortable chair, typing at a computer, doing something stimulating and intellectually challenging. And you're complaining about STRESS? Fucking grow up. You don't know what the word means.
1. Don't be ridiculous. When you take a picture of a very fast moving object, you get a blurred picture. Unless the plane was hovering in mid-air, that photograph is impossible.
2. Have you ever been under a plane? It's very very loud. A 'holy grail', where you're deafened every 10 minutes, I don't think so. Also plane-spotters are worse than train-spotters. They all look the same anyway.
3. If I wanted to cause a terrorist atrocity, that's the beach I'd go to. A simple rocket-launcher, in combination with one of those new 500+ passenger Airbus things, and you've got a disaster. Anyone could hit the target at that range, you could fill the beach with terrorists and could shoot down planes for hours before you're stopped. The planes would HAVE to attempt to land, they wouldn't have enough fuel to go anywhere else.
Actually, they're not firing them, they're laying them off. Please stop learning vocabulary from the TV.
Yeah, google innovates all the time. I mean, a search engine, what a great idea. No longer do I have to guess website addresses like I had to pre-Google.
And webmail, what another great idea. If Google hadn't invented this, we'd be stuck in the Pop3/imap dark ages.
Newsgroup on the web? Unheard of before Google.
Because as we all know, AMD chips run extra cool... I for one need a jet-engine style engine to cool mine. I don't know why they can't make quiet computers.
Not to mention, Netscape was ugly. The interface was clunky, when it rendered pages they just looked awful, whereas on IE they looked aesthetically pleasing.
This discussion is irrelevent anyway. For all its flaws, Firefox has won the browser war. As far as I'm concerned anyway.
So say there's no copyright law, and some film company spends £100million on making a film. Then they release it, and everyone downloads it for free, or copies it. The film company goes bust, and no new films are made.
Secondly, who are you to tell an industry how to do business? If you don't like the terms of their copyright, then don't use their material. Make your own, and release it under your own terms. You use your copyright, they'll use theirs, and you can all agree not to infringe each others' copyright.
I've yet to hear an argument against copyright laws other than 'I want stuff for free.'
1) The episode where Kirk meets an alien who was the god Apollo in Greek times -- Apollo wants people to worship him but Kirk says "Humanity doesn't need gods -- we find the one sufficient" -- implying that some sort of monotheism is still there in the Trek universe
I think it might help not to read too much into one-off, throwaway lines. I doubt the scriptwriters went through every single sentence making sure that it fitted in with the official Star Trek 'canon'.
Then why doesn't it prompt you to restart the services? Why would my word processor need to reboot because of an IP address? Why don't Microsoft spend some time and money on making a decent, functional OS from the ground up rather than....whatever they spend their time and money on now.
And perhaps they should concentrate on getting their own house in order before going after 'pirates' and trying to cripple their software to make people buy more expensive versions.
And they could cut down on the fucking bloat. If years ago you could send an e-mail on 16MB of RAM, why the hell does it seem to take 60000GB these days? All this memory and processing doesn't seem to be on features, nor on security, there seems to be some memory black-hole in modern software.
Is the law not right in this case? Should it be legal to copy copyrighted material? Do you realise this would mean the end of the entire entertainment industry?
You know, a law isn't wrong just because it means you can't get stuff for free.
The current music industry is a buggywhip plant asking the federal courts to pass laws making it illegal for Ford to sell Mustangs without buggywhips.
No, more like the 'buggywhip' plant clamping down on people infringing their copyrights.
switching to X.org from XFree86 means retesting every single application that uses X.
In that case, Debian must have the worst testers in the world. Seriously, has anyone found any applications that are broken by X.org? The problem with Debian's philosophy of hanging onto old software, is that often this old software is obsolete and doesn't get patches or fixes anymore, so you're running insecure software.
Yeah, but back then XP was the latest thing, most of this sarge is ALREADY very very dated. Also Debian don't actually make any of the software themselves, they just put together a distribution. Microsoft had to actually write XP themselves.
Compared to other Linux distros, Debian is very slow. Other distros release much faster and with much more up to date software.
The problem with paying for news, is that the newspaper has to choose popularist stories to get people to buy it, and has to dumb it down so more people can understand it. Why else do you think the mainstream media is in such a mess?
I just get my news from news.bbc.co.uk. Local papers you say? Local papers are awful. The problem with local papers is that nothing really happens locally. The main stories are often completely and utterly inconsequential. "Woman to sue council for tripping over pavement" is the sort of thing you're likely to find on the front page.
$50 a year? That's a hell of a lot for intangible access to a website, especially when there are free alternatives. Even google has a news site which links to other news sites so there's no sense in paying at all.
Also I think this NYT thing is just for the archives, so you're not actually getting news at all.
What does this have to do with adverts on Slashdot? Have you never heard of Microsoft before?
Don't expect unbiased moderation on Slashdot. Notice how the original poster complained about shills moderating down anti-Microsoft posts. Now we see Linux shills moderating down anti-zealot posts. The worst part is that I'm not surprised by this at all.
Don't forget delivery.
I'm sure that more than once, a potential online-shopper has selected a list of items, only to find out that they only deliver during the week, 9-5, when they're at work. Great business strategy, deliver when people aren't there to receive it.
I've got a better idea: deliver at weekends and evenings. It's not rocket science.
Hahaha you're so funny. "the windows go blue". Did you think of that one yourself? You must be a comedy genius. No, seriously. Like, Windows has the 'blue screen of death', and you said 'the windows will go blue', like a blue windscreen of death! That's really funny. Really, you are the first person to ever make that joke comparing Windows crashing and cars crashing. Working in the 'blue screen' thing is really fucking witty. Honestly.
You know, not everyone knows how to build a computer. Some people just want to buy it pre-made.
If the forum of a popular IT website can't fund itself through advertising then there is something definitely wrong.
How do you expect them to fund themselves via adverts when most people who come here filter out the adverts? Paid stories? You all bitch and moan about those. What exactly do you expect them to do? You don't want adverts, you don't want paid-stories, you don't want to pay a subscription, perhaps you have some new magic fund-raising idea up your sleeve. Well, let's hear it.