You don't get it. You are not being penalized. Or the other way to look at is that right now, you are ALWAYS being penalized. The difference is that in future, if you care to pay by cash, you can avoid the penalty.
You are already being penalized for credit card purchases. It's an expense that is currently spread over all customers. This would just allow those people who want to pay cash to not pay the credit card cost. No one would be forcing you to carry cash, and if most people pay by CC where you shop, the prices would barely change.
No, "want" is something that you apply to creatures that have some inherent desire to do something. My dog "wants" is a chow hound and wants to be fed, and will carry out various actions including pleading looks and trash can inspection to gain food. Bits on hard disks don't spontaneously try to distribute themselves. Let's lose the "information wants to be free" line. The line should be "I don't want to pay for information".
You do understand that the "flower" is about a tenth of an inch wide, right? So if someone was on Mars the only way they would be finding it would be to take hi-res pictures of rocks and look at them. Pretty much the same thing Curiosity is doing.
I have a deeply entrenched belief that people are people, and that people who gravitate to power and wealth often do so by unethical means, and that the people in the Occupy movement would be just as bad if they came into power. If someone has some amazing way to ensure justice and decent treatment for all of us, I'm all for it, but in the absence of that, the current system is as good as it gets.
it was HIS decision. He may not have seen it as "the only way out" but in the end, he made that choice. He wasn't forced into it, and if the people who knew him best had gotten him some counseling, perhaps he'd still be with us.
No, information can't be 'free as beer'. There are costs associated with gathering, analyzing, disseminating information. Somehow those costs are absorbed or paid. If you think information is "free", then why is it necessary to hack thru paywalls? Why doesn't the information just magically appear in front of you?
Don't be an idiot. If "they" wanted a front man you'd be talking about President Romney. You may not like how quickly Obama moves, but at least he's headed in the right direction.
At one point during the "digital transition" my TV connection stopped working for month. Eventually it got fixed but I realized I didn't really miss it. Now I pay $24/mo instead of $70 and I can watch the occasional sports program, which is pretty much all I care for. Still not ready to cut it off completely but the cost is now pretty minimal.
No, if you bother to read the rest of the thread, the guy had a good and valid reason that makes sense. He agrees that the actual patch was incorrect, but the issue that Linus brings up about maintaining consistent error codes is exactly the issue that the kernel maintainer was addressing.
The problem with harsh words is that they piss people off, and then the discussion tends to get off-track. Much better to focus on the problem at hand rather than generating a lot of back & forth anger. The kernel dev in this case actually seems to have done a really good job at remaining calm.
No, it's not more embarrassing. The USA makes an effort to provide a decent standard of living for everyone. Doesn't succeed, but makes an effort. North Korea treats its "citizens" as slave labor.
I was in college when Space 1999 came out and even at that time, I thought it was awful... horrible acting, bad stories, and a premise that was utterly absurd. I'll have to try to dig up an episode to see if it's as bad as I remember, but I'm really surprised so many people are so nostalgic for it.
The posting is NOT a "scathing rant", it's a pretty clear, calm and well-reasoned explanation as to issues that the author sees with GNU and GNU software development. There's no flamebait, no ranting, no name-calling.
Yikes, Oracle... had a bad flashback to installing the Oracle client. Cold chills go up my spine whenever I think about it. How could installing that damn client be that painful?????
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You don't get it. You are not being penalized. Or the other way to look at is that right now, you are ALWAYS being penalized. The difference is that in future, if you care to pay by cash, you can avoid the penalty.
You are already being penalized for credit card purchases. It's an expense that is currently spread over all customers. This would just allow those people who want to pay cash to not pay the credit card cost. No one would be forcing you to carry cash, and if most people pay by CC where you shop, the prices would barely change.
That's what passing on the cost would do: bake the cost of processing a credit card into the price for the people WHO CREATE THE COST.
sigh... yes the 2nd sentence should be
"My dog IS a chow hound and wants ..."
No, "want" is something that you apply to creatures that have some inherent desire to do something. My dog "wants" is a chow hound and wants to be fed, and will carry out various actions including pleading looks and trash can inspection to gain food. Bits on hard disks don't spontaneously try to distribute themselves. Let's lose the "information wants to be free" line. The line should be "I don't want to pay for information".
You do understand that the "flower" is about a tenth of an inch wide, right? So if someone was on Mars the only way they would be finding it would be to take hi-res pictures of rocks and look at them. Pretty much the same thing Curiosity is doing.
Did you actually bother to read what I wrote?
I have a deeply entrenched belief that people are people, and that people who gravitate to power and wealth often do so by unethical means, and that the people in the Occupy movement would be just as bad if they came into power. If someone has some amazing way to ensure justice and decent treatment for all of us, I'm all for it, but in the absence of that, the current system is as good as it gets.
it was HIS decision. He may not have seen it as "the only way out" but in the end, he made that choice. He wasn't forced into it, and if the people who knew him best had gotten him some counseling, perhaps he'd still be with us.
No, information can't be 'free as beer'. There are costs associated with gathering, analyzing, disseminating information. Somehow those costs are absorbed or paid. If you think information is "free", then why is it necessary to hack thru paywalls? Why doesn't the information just magically appear in front of you?
Don't be an idiot. If "they" wanted a front man you'd be talking about President Romney. You may not like how quickly Obama moves, but at least he's headed in the right direction.
It's marked troll because it's a troll.
Good lord... parent got modded "insightful"? What's the average age of Slashdot readers now, 13???
I mean, really, having security at major sporting events, is that really the equivalent of murdering millions and millions of people? Really?
Sure... of all the new media on the planet, Al Jazeera is the only one that isn't biased.
I think you are showing your bias.
At one point during the "digital transition" my TV connection stopped working for month. Eventually it got fixed but I realized I didn't really miss it. Now I pay $24/mo instead of $70 and I can watch the occasional sports program, which is pretty much all I care for. Still not ready to cut it off completely but the cost is now pretty minimal.
Having a bad flashback to a previous job where the head of engineering thought that being an asshole was a job requirement.
No, if you bother to read the rest of the thread, the guy had a good and valid reason that makes sense. He agrees that the actual patch was incorrect, but the issue that Linus brings up about maintaining consistent error codes is exactly the issue that the kernel maintainer was addressing.
The problem with harsh words is that they piss people off, and then the discussion tends to get off-track. Much better to focus on the problem at hand rather than generating a lot of back & forth anger. The kernel dev in this case actually seems to have done a really good job at remaining calm.
No, it's not more embarrassing. The USA makes an effort to provide a decent standard of living for everyone. Doesn't succeed, but makes an effort. North Korea treats its "citizens" as slave labor.
I was in college when Space 1999 came out and even at that time, I thought it was awful... horrible acting, bad stories, and a premise that was utterly absurd. I'll have to try to dig up an episode to see if it's as bad as I remember, but I'm really surprised so many people are so nostalgic for it.
I can still hear a bit of the song in my head. Fireball was a fun show.
The posting is NOT a "scathing rant", it's a pretty clear, calm and well-reasoned explanation as to issues that the author sees with GNU and GNU software development. There's no flamebait, no ranting, no name-calling.
Yikes, Oracle... had a bad flashback to installing the Oracle client. Cold chills go up my spine whenever I think about it. How could installing that damn client be that painful?????
Wow, micro$oft and STFU in one post... well done.
So your IT department deployed a new O/S on you and didn't give you any information on how to use it?