The intake of doctors into med school is tightly controlled. They are not going to start raising their intake, oh, just because the market wants it. How else could they command the high salaries that they do?
The only oppressive regimes that get overthrown are the ones that allow themselves to be overthrown, because the time has come.
Seriously, look at all the oppressive regimes today. They're nowhere near in danger of being overthrown -- you try anything, you'll get crushed and massacred and executed by firing squad.
Without firearms, you are completely powerless against oppressive regimes.
There's nothing stopping you using the music you bought off iTunes music store with your Pre, or any other music player, since the files have no DRM.
Palm did this because their executives are juvenile asshats, and they clearly don't give a rat's arse about their own customers. If they really cared about their customers, they would've made their own kick-arse sync product which interfaced with iTunes the way everybody else does.
Your entire case rests on a patently wrong assumption. You can use music downloaded off iTunes on your Pre or any other music device, since the files don't have any DRM. You don't need an iPod to make use of the iTunes music store.
I don't know what crackheads modded you +5 insightful.
Agreed. It's ridiculous that people rag on this, when Palm could've chosen to go the standard route and interfaced with iTunes in the proper way, instead of this stupid hack which was bound to break sooner or later.
You don't see other manufacturers passing off their devices as Microsoft Zunes.
If you're a Palm user, you should be complaining to Palm, not Apple. Apple never promised you they would support Palm. You can blame the asshat executives at Palm for pissing off Apple instead of working with them to support the Pre.
It can hardly be called a laptop, or a "desktop replacement". Look at the weight, those things are absolute monsters! It's a bit like carrying around a mid-size tower PC to a LAN party.
Agreed. The ignorance of some of the +5 modded webdev posts on Slashdot is absolutely astounding. That such incompetent people could be doing web development is horrifying.
And a move back to using tables for layout? I call bullshit. I've seen no such thing. The only people still using tables for layouts (aside from HTML emails) are ignorant and incompetent dolts.
I really liked Dave Grossman's book "On Killing" years ago when it first came out, but he seems to have gone off the rails since then. Computer games are murder simulators and all that.
I think he's got the psychology and conditioning aspects right, but I'm not convinced that videogames translates to murder training tools. I think it's a complex issue and you have to see it in context with everything else that happens in people's lives. If someone is mentally unstable and surrounds themselves with violent films, music and video games, obviously we need to pay attention. But I don't think healthy, normal kids or people are really very vulnerable to violent video games or indeed any kind of violent media.
Our forms get spammed a dozen times a day (government cultural organisation). It's basically pretty much the same as getting spam via email.
It's tricky because we're hesitant to implement CAPTCHAs, as our websites have to remain 100% accessible. We're currently investigating the new breed of "accessible CAPTCHAs" to see if they do actually work for people who use screen-reader browsers.
It's just like in web development. We're constantly having to clean up other people's god awful mess. It's not hard to learn how to write proper semantic HTML and CSS, but that escapes about 95% of "professional" developers out there. It's not just ignorance, it's pure laziness. You can see the mindset here in Slashdot every time there is a story related to webdev -- you get a mass of +5 modded people saying web standards are useless, and that you should use tables for layout.
The world really is a sea of mediocrity -- by being competent, you're already outshining the vast majority of them.
Is Information Science anything like Information Systems? In that case, they're more likely to be business people... you know, business analysts and the like. They're nothing like code monkeys. Though they should still be able to string together simple-to-intermediate database queries.
Opportunist criminals, like most human beings, are pussies. You just have to keep an eye out for when they call their homies for backup.
I think you'd be surprised at how many "ordinary and everyday" people can be opportunist criminals. If you man up and confront them, they'll often give you your gear back after swiping it a few seconds earlier.
And of course, we're assuming common sense here. If you're outnumbered and you sense danger then you'd obviously back off.
You've basically summed up most of the reasons people have given as to why the Nintendo DS was bound to fail. And yet it's succeeded beyond people's wildest expectations.
I think it just goes to show how little imagination most people have. Apple and Nintendo are companies with similar lines of thinking. They release products that narrow minded people claim are overhyped, horrible pieces of garbage, and they continue to succeed beyond some people's wildest expectations. They understand the market, and people's desires and needs, and that's why they succeed.
Agreed. The iPhone and iPod touch are much like the Nintendo DS, or the Wii. They're aimed at the "casual gamers" -- everyday people. And they make a lot of money, because the market for casual gamers is huge. They get dismissed by "hardcore gamers", but those aren't the target market anyway.
I don't think Facebook even uploads the original high-res -- the Java applet downsizes the images and uploads the downsized versions. Otherwise it would take forever to upload those 15 megapixel JPEGs...
I don't think he was trying to be a smart ass at all. In fact, he's probably on to something. However much I want to deny it, Macs have become status symbols of a kind. Not blingy useless crap that hangs around your neck like a gold chan does, but status symbols all the same. Look at all the Mac product placement in movies and TV shows for example. Macs have entered the public consciousness.
I think Macs have become status symbols in spite of themselves, which is rather surprising. After all, no-one (despite what the Mac haters claim) buys a computer just so they can look good. Computers have to work, first and foremost, and Macs do that very well. They combine form and function better than anybody else.
I find it very amusing that people keep claiming Macs are so much more expensive. When I bought my first Mac, an iBook G3 in 2003, it was the best value notebook for my needs. It was actually cheap in comparison to most PC notebooks, which really surprised me. The Mac notebook line has always been good value.
The haters like to promote this image of rich wankers using Macs, but I've never come across anybody who fits that stereotype. Most of the Mac users I know are middle class or even low-to-middle class.
CF is being phased out. Most of the new DSLRs coming out are using SDHC. As usual, Apple is dropping support for old formats, which inevitably ticks some people off.
There are also heaps of working-class jobs in factories which are dominated by women. For example, toy making, textiles, electronics and electrical goods -- basically industries with lots of monotonous assembly-line type work. Just look at your typical TIME magazine photos in articles about industries in China, and almost all the workers are female. I find it quite curious actually since I can't see any particular reason why so many more women than men are working in these fields, but there you go.
Here in Australia, my mother works on an assembly line putting together meals and cutlery for airlines, and most of her colleagues are female. Of course, there are also lots of men at the company, but they tend to work in other areas such as driving forklifts or delivery trucks.
I agree that men dominate the dangerous and physically challenging working-class professions, and I guess that's a natural consequence of an innate difference between men and women.
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The intake of doctors into med school is tightly controlled. They are not going to start raising their intake, oh, just because the market wants it. How else could they command the high salaries that they do?
Exactly right. When you're holding a hammer, everything looks like a goddamn nail.
The only oppressive regimes that get overthrown are the ones that allow themselves to be overthrown, because the time has come.
Seriously, look at all the oppressive regimes today. They're nowhere near in danger of being overthrown -- you try anything, you'll get crushed and massacred and executed by firing squad.
Without firearms, you are completely powerless against oppressive regimes.
Well said, db32. The amount of irrational anti-Apple zealotry these days is ridiculous.
There's nothing stopping you using the music you bought off iTunes music store with your Pre, or any other music player, since the files have no DRM.
Palm did this because their executives are juvenile asshats, and they clearly don't give a rat's arse about their own customers. If they really cared about their customers, they would've made their own kick-arse sync product which interfaced with iTunes the way everybody else does.
Your entire case rests on a patently wrong assumption. You can use music downloaded off iTunes on your Pre or any other music device, since the files don't have any DRM. You don't need an iPod to make use of the iTunes music store.
I don't know what crackheads modded you +5 insightful.
Well said. The depths of Apple bashing are reaching ridiculous heights.
Agreed. It's ridiculous that people rag on this, when Palm could've chosen to go the standard route and interfaced with iTunes in the proper way, instead of this stupid hack which was bound to break sooner or later.
You don't see other manufacturers passing off their devices as Microsoft Zunes.
If you're a Palm user, you should be complaining to Palm, not Apple. Apple never promised you they would support Palm. You can blame the asshat executives at Palm for pissing off Apple instead of working with them to support the Pre.
Well said, good sir.
Agreed. I was a heavy BBS user in the 90s, and what we have now is utterly amazing. I definitely wouldn't go back.
It can hardly be called a laptop, or a "desktop replacement". Look at the weight, those things are absolute monsters! It's a bit like carrying around a mid-size tower PC to a LAN party.
Agreed. The ignorance of some of the +5 modded webdev posts on Slashdot is absolutely astounding. That such incompetent people could be doing web development is horrifying.
And a move back to using tables for layout? I call bullshit. I've seen no such thing. The only people still using tables for layouts (aside from HTML emails) are ignorant and incompetent dolts.
I really liked Dave Grossman's book "On Killing" years ago when it first came out, but he seems to have gone off the rails since then. Computer games are murder simulators and all that.
I think he's got the psychology and conditioning aspects right, but I'm not convinced that videogames translates to murder training tools. I think it's a complex issue and you have to see it in context with everything else that happens in people's lives. If someone is mentally unstable and surrounds themselves with violent films, music and video games, obviously we need to pay attention. But I don't think healthy, normal kids or people are really very vulnerable to violent video games or indeed any kind of violent media.
Our forms get spammed a dozen times a day (government cultural organisation). It's basically pretty much the same as getting spam via email.
It's tricky because we're hesitant to implement CAPTCHAs, as our websites have to remain 100% accessible. We're currently investigating the new breed of "accessible CAPTCHAs" to see if they do actually work for people who use screen-reader browsers.
You're nothing but a troll. The Methodist Hospital's own press release states that he had no unfair advantage over anyone else, and everything was in line with official policies:
http://www.methodisthealth.org/static/methodist/doc/Jobs-media-statement.pdf
And the MSNBC article you linked to is an opinion piece, not fact. They clearly do not have all the facts, and are merely speculating.
It's just like in web development. We're constantly having to clean up other people's god awful mess. It's not hard to learn how to write proper semantic HTML and CSS, but that escapes about 95% of "professional" developers out there. It's not just ignorance, it's pure laziness. You can see the mindset here in Slashdot every time there is a story related to webdev -- you get a mass of +5 modded people saying web standards are useless, and that you should use tables for layout.
The world really is a sea of mediocrity -- by being competent, you're already outshining the vast majority of them.
Is Information Science anything like Information Systems? In that case, they're more likely to be business people... you know, business analysts and the like. They're nothing like code monkeys. Though they should still be able to string together simple-to-intermediate database queries.
Opportunist criminals, like most human beings, are pussies. You just have to keep an eye out for when they call their homies for backup.
I think you'd be surprised at how many "ordinary and everyday" people can be opportunist criminals. If you man up and confront them, they'll often give you your gear back after swiping it a few seconds earlier.
And of course, we're assuming common sense here. If you're outnumbered and you sense danger then you'd obviously back off.
That Morris C8 video plays back like a broken slideshow. All I see is buffering... some movement... buffering etc. It's horrible.
You've basically summed up most of the reasons people have given as to why the Nintendo DS was bound to fail. And yet it's succeeded beyond people's wildest expectations.
I think it just goes to show how little imagination most people have. Apple and Nintendo are companies with similar lines of thinking. They release products that narrow minded people claim are overhyped, horrible pieces of garbage, and they continue to succeed beyond some people's wildest expectations. They understand the market, and people's desires and needs, and that's why they succeed.
Agreed. The iPhone and iPod touch are much like the Nintendo DS, or the Wii. They're aimed at the "casual gamers" -- everyday people. And they make a lot of money, because the market for casual gamers is huge. They get dismissed by "hardcore gamers", but those aren't the target market anyway.
I don't think Facebook even uploads the original high-res -- the Java applet downsizes the images and uploads the downsized versions. Otherwise it would take forever to upload those 15 megapixel JPEGs...
I don't think he was trying to be a smart ass at all. In fact, he's probably on to something. However much I want to deny it, Macs have become status symbols of a kind. Not blingy useless crap that hangs around your neck like a gold chan does, but status symbols all the same. Look at all the Mac product placement in movies and TV shows for example. Macs have entered the public consciousness.
I think Macs have become status symbols in spite of themselves, which is rather surprising. After all, no-one (despite what the Mac haters claim) buys a computer just so they can look good. Computers have to work, first and foremost, and Macs do that very well. They combine form and function better than anybody else.
I find it very amusing that people keep claiming Macs are so much more expensive. When I bought my first Mac, an iBook G3 in 2003, it was the best value notebook for my needs. It was actually cheap in comparison to most PC notebooks, which really surprised me. The Mac notebook line has always been good value.
The haters like to promote this image of rich wankers using Macs, but I've never come across anybody who fits that stereotype. Most of the Mac users I know are middle class or even low-to-middle class.
CF is being phased out. Most of the new DSLRs coming out are using SDHC. As usual, Apple is dropping support for old formats, which inevitably ticks some people off.
There are also heaps of working-class jobs in factories which are dominated by women. For example, toy making, textiles, electronics and electrical goods -- basically industries with lots of monotonous assembly-line type work. Just look at your typical TIME magazine photos in articles about industries in China, and almost all the workers are female. I find it quite curious actually since I can't see any particular reason why so many more women than men are working in these fields, but there you go.
Here in Australia, my mother works on an assembly line putting together meals and cutlery for airlines, and most of her colleagues are female. Of course, there are also lots of men at the company, but they tend to work in other areas such as driving forklifts or delivery trucks.
I agree that men dominate the dangerous and physically challenging working-class professions, and I guess that's a natural consequence of an innate difference between men and women.