You are one of those "Why can't I buy just a phone" parrots, and you bought a Windows Mobile phone???? You DESERVE your frustration. Most phones DO NOT run a PDA OS, so why in the hell would a "one device / one function" freak like yourself go out and buy this? It's like saying, "why can't I buy a plain 4-cylinder econobox car" then going out and buying a Humvee...
Ok, so are you going to finance the design and manufacture of LCDs and DVDs that last more than 20 years? That could cost billions of dollars, and I think it's out of the realm of this project.
Many problems have multiple solutions. Problems with multiple solutions many times have an obvious optimal solution. When this obvious optimal solution is patented, you call choosing another obvious but less optimal solution "innovation"???
They give a valid reason for not caching all the links. Your UID is low enough that I expect you know about the FAQ. Did you know that they address this?
From the FAQ: I could try asking permission, but do you want to wait 6 hours for a cool breaking story while we wait for permission to link someone?
Honestly, how often does Slashdot ever break a story? NEVER. Even if they did, how often would it the story point to a small site? Many small sites are hobbiest sites and have been around awhile. Seriously, Slashdot very frequently has stories that broke 2 years ago and posts them as news. Lets just say that the editors somehow do have a cool breaking story that they are gonna scoop. OK, DON'T CACHE THAT ONE. But ask for every other story and then cache their site goddammit!
There's an open invitation to solutions. As it is, though, a lot of "dupes" are really followups, or revists to old subjects from years past.
This is just a ruse. If they really cared about their site and had interest in the stories they posted, they would remember them. This is a relatively new problem. They didn't have dupes a few years back, yet they had the same amount of stories flowing through. Also, what planet are you living on? While there are a few followups, there are TONS of other dupes as well.
They have a copy editor. At the very least, that's "basic."
What is he, a trained-chimp? He's COMPLETELY ineffective. I could call myself a nuclear physicist and have the same career batting average.
Slashdot is a meta-news site; They don't originate much content. However, they do (usually?) follow links before posting a story, weighing it against what they know. At the very least, that's "basic."
They don't originate much content, but they do select from a virtually infinite variety of available content, and DO originate the front page story itself. And the fact that they ONLY have to write a blip for the front page should make fact checking a lot EASIER.
Besides, I've seen worse out of "respectable" news media.
Ok, and Stalin was worst than Hitler, I guess Hitler is excused. Ok, seriously though, I hate the "comparitive" excuse. Standards should be objective.
Obviously you don't really care, or you wouldn't have posted.
Once again what planet are you on? The only reason these types of posts are getting through now is because the dyke has too many holes, and Taco and crew don't have enough fingers for the holes anymore.
Personally, I think you're taking it too seriously. Slashdot was bought because of what it was: A popular tech community with a huge potential audience for tech ads. Changing the community risks alienating the audience, regardless of whether you think the changes are for good or ill.
Ok, you're right about that one. You've been here for a while yourself. Why are you such a sycophant?
But to my understanding (and I may be wrong), we put out a lot less pollution than China or India.
Hmm, perhaps you knew you were wrong in the first place, but besided to say it anyway? Well, yes you are wrong. The US is by far the worst polluter (OVERALL, not Per Capita) in the world. The difference is that they don't pollute into the heart of their urban areas, so it's not visible to the average citizen. Some statistics to back this up:
The central argument of your whole post is destroyed when you discover that your basic premise is wrong. Everyone in the world agrees that there is man-made global warming. Only in the US has the propaganda been strong enough to still sustain a debate, no matter how senseless. EVEN BUSH finally admitted that humans are causing global warming. Perhaps you need to admit to yourself that it's possible you could be wrong, and that the attachment to your lifestyle and your nationalism is what makes you so apprehensive of seeing the truth.
Come on now, I don't think that they would use surgery to remove these tendons. We're not living in prehistoric times anymore - we have machine harvesters, factories, refineries, whatnot. I was just wondering why some process wasn't invented where you could dump a bunch of grasshoppers in a vat, and out of the otherside of some set of devices comes this substance, perhaps through some chemical or steam or whatever form of separation. Jeez people
"unnecessities"? Isn't a mobile phone itself an unnecessity? People got along fine before them. They planned ahead in advance, instead of "playing it by ear" so to speak. Ok, so it makes life easier. Wouldn't a 3D GPS-coordinated map also make life easier? Yes.
I don't know if it's safe than drugs and booze... to yourself at least. I've had a lot of good times with drugs and booze, and I don't feel any the less for it. As long as you aren't driving, more power to you. Same goes for being online all day, more power to you, but there was a point in my life when I couldn't stand straight, my neck was always cricked, I got fat, my sleeping schedule was completely fucked, and I didn't have a social life at all. I really do believe it hurt me a lot more than booze and alcohol ever did.
Everyone seems to have technical or logistical reasons for blocking ads. These are the reasons I block them:
* Ads are often completely dishonest or just distortions of the truth. Advertisers are spinsters at best, and con artists at worst. Would you let a con artist into your home if they knocked on the door? Probably not, so why let thousands of their words enter your mind every day?
* They present a certain reality that I don't wish to participate in - that of the consumer. I am not a consumer, and by this I mean someone who buys compulsively. I know what I want and need, and I don't need anyone to tell me what I want and need. You may be different.
* Ads are frequently devoid of artistic merit. They are made ugly on purpose simply to catch your attention. This is analogous to nauseatingly cheesy ads on the radio, or the lack of audio volume normalization with TV ads. You know what they say - garbage in, garbage out, and I don't want this garbage in my brain.
As an earlier poster said, this might be a joke, and probably is considering who's mouth it came out of. There are serious issues with this. First, what is considered information? You could consider the approximate location of every molecule in the universe a piece of information. Perhaps just text could be considered - that would narrow down the field of information into the finite. But Google does mapping, so they already have broken out of just text. Then you have the fact that the amount of information (whatever that means) supposedly grows at a geometric or exponential rate (I don't remember which), and I'm sure a google spider won't be there waiting for every new bit of information to be generated. Giving an answer to how long it will take to index all information is almost like saying "How much does purple weigh?"
The Colores concept featured by Nokia provides a fully packed communication device that lets you handle your digital life ubiquitously, allowing you to access and share information seamlessly on the go.
What a load of crap! This is so 1998? Let's break this down.
* fully packed - what does this phone have that others don't? I don't see a hard drive. a GPU? An altimeter? * communication device - um, we say phone around these them parts * digital life - Until I get a jack in the back of my neck, this is nothing but market-speak * ubiquitously - ummmm whatEVER * access and share information - I f'n hope so! What phone can't do that these days? * seamlessly - What, is this phone made of a tube of spandex? * on the go - Great, I don't have to set up a tripod to use the phone? Awesome!
And what's with the head/robot thing? Haven't enough engineers heard of Microsoft's Bob to figure out that they need to PLEASE STOP trying to make a gadget that resembles "my friend"??!?!? Look people, until you have software that can pass the turing test, stop wasting your time making compromising the UI by trying to make it "my friend". There's a reason most gadgets are not anthropomorphic, and you prematurely ejaculating engineers need to wait until these machines can ACTUALLY be my friend before introducing me to them:)
Ok, I have no idea where to begin with this one. Man oh man. Let's just make a list and knock them down:
1. I said I was in China. I never said I had any sympathy or support for what they do here. You make stupid assumptions. 2. I have no idea whether Prager is a jew, and it doesn't matter. And I don't think you believe that Bush and Cheney are jews, do you? I'm having a hard time not being insulting here, because I don't understand how anyone could confuse this fact. Were they wearing yarmulkas in some photo shoot? 3. If it weren't for the hysterics of people like me pushing back against the current administration and it's ilk, martial law, censorship, and prison camps would be a regular features of American society. 4. Posting anonymously is cowardly
And by the way, I do have ideas on happiness. Let's start with a few simple ones: 1. The Golden Rule - treat others how you wish to be treated. Don't try to censor them, tell them how they should have sex or who they can have sex with, force them to pray to a god they don't believe in, bomb them, steal their money in corrupt corporate scandals, etc. This is my number one beef with modern "conservatives" 2. Be kind to others - don't bomb them 3. Don't be obsessed with material objects - don't bomb people so you can filter money to weapons manufacturers and take over oil fields.
Look, it boils down to this. I do believe that I am relatively open minded. But I know people like Prager, and I know that his thought processes are not isolated to various aspects of his life. I used to follow down every path for the sake of open-mindedness, but after a while, I started to make inductive conclusions because my life is short, considering there are INFINITE paths to follow. There are millions of pages of "argument & evidence", but I don't have time to read them all. I think I'll look for cues on happiness from people who don't support murdering and subjigating thousands of people in other parts of the world based on lies and fears about weapons and terror. It's not as if there's a small selection of people who have ideas on Happiness. I could read books, listen to shows, and talk to people every second of my life and not finish everything available, so why waste my time with a prick like Prager?
Also, did you ever consider that I or others might not be in the US? I'm in China right now, so listening to the radio or streams is not such an easy proposition. It's this kind of narrowmindedness that is what gets me upset about neo-cons.
Well, Mr. "Anonymous" (it's not to hard to guess who you really are, jeezus), I think that people lying to themselves and broadcasting these lies and distortions to the public, and having disregard for other humans will likely have issues with happiness, so NO I don't think politics should be separated from happiness in this case. Also, I never claimed to have a solution for happiness, so I don't know exactly what program you not putting stock into.
I might have checked this out, but first there are no excerpts to base a judgement on, and second this guy is a neo-con tool. These guys are responsible for making the world UNHAPPY in a lot of ways, so why would I trust his advice? Check out this column. He proceeds to write off all kinds of valid points by labeling them "hysteria", ignoring the fact that the whole war was based on neo-con hysteria. He lists some clearly fucked up statistics on the Patriot Act, and then through some magic hand-waving somehow spins this as a positive thing! I have no reason to trust this guy's judgement. And what's up with the silly fucking pipe he uses to show off his wedding ring?
"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember."--Oscar Levant
But sometimes you become fully self-aware, and your memory center is completely in synch with your seat of consciousness, at which point a wonderful thing occurs...
It's bastards like you (oncehour and mrjb) that keep Slashdot alive. I'm always wondering why I return to this shit hole every day and drink my share of the trough, and then I'll see not one, but two extremely reasonable heads chat in the shit storm as if it were a light sprinkle, after which I then unconsciously decide not to write off Slashdot once again. Damn you!
Isn't there anything more interesting going on?? When did simple toolbar software become big news? If we're going to be talking about toolbars, why not something on one of the other 1000 toolbars out there that do more interesting shit? I think Slashdot has a serious case of celebrity obsession (or greased palms). This reminds of the fucking 5th masturbation in an hour when only air comes out...
Did you even bother reading the Slashdot STORY, let alone the article??? I don't understand how you got moderated up. The idea is that you would pair up the phone with a stationary device with a keyboard and monitor once you got home (or wherever). Even if this was not made explicit by the story, a tiny bit of logical reasoning would allow you to deduce that no one in their right mind (especially an MIT prof) would suggest that everyone carry around a full sized keyboard and monitor. Or did I just eat troll bait?
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You are one of those "Why can't I buy just a phone" parrots, and you bought a Windows Mobile phone???? You DESERVE your frustration. Most phones DO NOT run a PDA OS, so why in the hell would a "one device / one function" freak like yourself go out and buy this? It's like saying, "why can't I buy a plain 4-cylinder econobox car" then going out and buying a Humvee...
Ok, so are you going to finance the design and manufacture of LCDs and DVDs that last more than 20 years? That could cost billions of dollars, and I think it's out of the realm of this project.
LS
Many problems have multiple solutions. Problems with multiple solutions many times have an obvious optimal solution. When this obvious optimal solution is patented, you call choosing another obvious but less optimal solution "innovation"???
LS
They give a valid reason for not caching all the links. Your UID is low enough that I expect you know about the FAQ. Did you know that they address this?
From the FAQ: I could try asking permission, but do you want to wait 6 hours for a cool breaking story while we wait for permission to link someone?
Honestly, how often does Slashdot ever break a story? NEVER. Even if they did, how often would it the story point to a small site? Many small sites are hobbiest sites and have been around awhile. Seriously, Slashdot very frequently has stories that broke 2 years ago and posts them as news. Lets just say that the editors somehow do have a cool breaking story that they are gonna scoop. OK, DON'T CACHE THAT ONE. But ask for every other story and then cache their site goddammit!
There's an open invitation to solutions. As it is, though, a lot of "dupes" are really followups, or revists to old subjects from years past.
This is just a ruse. If they really cared about their site and had interest in the stories they posted, they would remember them. This is a relatively new problem. They didn't have dupes a few years back, yet they had the same amount of stories flowing through. Also, what planet are you living on? While there are a few followups, there are TONS of other dupes as well.
They have a copy editor. At the very least, that's "basic."
What is he, a trained-chimp? He's COMPLETELY ineffective. I could call myself a nuclear physicist and have the same career batting average.
Slashdot is a meta-news site; They don't originate much content. However, they do (usually?) follow links before posting a story, weighing it against what they know. At the very least, that's "basic."
They don't originate much content, but they do select from a virtually infinite variety of available content, and DO originate the front page story itself. And the fact that they ONLY have to write a blip for the front page should make fact checking a lot EASIER.
Besides, I've seen worse out of "respectable" news media.
Ok, and Stalin was worst than Hitler, I guess Hitler is excused. Ok, seriously though, I hate the "comparitive" excuse. Standards should be objective.
Obviously you don't really care, or you wouldn't have posted.
Once again what planet are you on? The only reason these types of posts are getting through now is because the dyke has too many holes, and Taco and crew don't have enough fingers for the holes anymore.
Personally, I think you're taking it too seriously. Slashdot was bought because of what it was: A popular tech community with a huge potential audience for tech ads. Changing the community risks alienating the audience, regardless of whether you think the changes are for good or ill.
Ok, you're right about that one. You've been here for a while yourself. Why are you such a sycophant?
LS
But to my understanding (and I may be wrong), we put out a lot less pollution than China or India.
Hmm, perhaps you knew you were wrong in the first place, but besided to say it anyway? Well, yes you are wrong. The US is by far the worst polluter (OVERALL, not Per Capita) in the world. The difference is that they don't pollute into the heart of their urban areas, so it's not visible to the average citizen. Some statistics to back this up:
Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Energy consumption
The central argument of your whole post is destroyed when you discover that your basic premise is wrong. Everyone in the world agrees that there is man-made global warming. Only in the US has the propaganda been strong enough to still sustain a debate, no matter how senseless. EVEN BUSH finally admitted that humans are causing global warming. Perhaps you need to admit to yourself that it's possible you could be wrong, and that the attachment to your lifestyle and your nationalism is what makes you so apprehensive of seeing the truth.
Come on now, I don't think that they would use surgery to remove these tendons. We're not living in prehistoric times anymore - we have machine harvesters, factories, refineries, whatnot. I was just wondering why some process wasn't invented where you could dump a bunch of grasshoppers in a vat, and out of the otherside of some set of devices comes this substance, perhaps through some chemical or steam or whatever form of separation. Jeez people
If this stuff is so valuable, why couldn't it have been harvested from insects before synthesis was posssible?
LS
"unnecessities"? Isn't a mobile phone itself an unnecessity? People got along fine before them. They planned ahead in advance, instead of "playing it by ear" so to speak. Ok, so it makes life easier. Wouldn't a 3D GPS-coordinated map also make life easier? Yes.
LS
I don't know if it's safe than drugs and booze... to yourself at least. I've had a lot of good times with drugs and booze, and I don't feel any the less for it. As long as you aren't driving, more power to you. Same goes for being online all day, more power to you, but there was a point in my life when I couldn't stand straight, my neck was always cricked, I got fat, my sleeping schedule was completely fucked, and I didn't have a social life at all. I really do believe it hurt me a lot more than booze and alcohol ever did.
LS
Having someone not get the supposed "Grammar nazi"'s joke
Everyone seems to have technical or logistical reasons for blocking ads. These are the reasons I block them:
* Ads are often completely dishonest or just distortions of the truth. Advertisers are spinsters at best, and con artists at worst. Would you let a con artist into your home if they knocked on the door? Probably not, so why let thousands of their words enter your mind every day?
* They present a certain reality that I don't wish to participate in - that of the consumer. I am not a consumer, and by this I mean someone who buys compulsively. I know what I want and need, and I don't need anyone to tell me what I want and need. You may be different.
* Ads are frequently devoid of artistic merit. They are made ugly on purpose simply to catch your attention. This is analogous to nauseatingly cheesy ads on the radio, or the lack of audio volume normalization with TV ads. You know what they say - garbage in, garbage out, and I don't want this garbage in my brain.
LS
As an earlier poster said, this might be a joke, and probably is considering who's mouth it came out of. There are serious issues with this. First, what is considered information? You could consider the approximate location of every molecule in the universe a piece of information. Perhaps just text could be considered - that would narrow down the field of information into the finite. But Google does mapping, so they already have broken out of just text. Then you have the fact that the amount of information (whatever that means) supposedly grows at a geometric or exponential rate (I don't remember which), and I'm sure a google spider won't be there waiting for every new bit of information to be generated. Giving an answer to how long it will take to index all information is almost like saying "How much does purple weigh?"
LS
The Colores concept featured by Nokia provides a fully packed communication device that lets you handle your digital life ubiquitously, allowing you to access and share information seamlessly on the go.
:)
What a load of crap! This is so 1998? Let's break this down.
* fully packed - what does this phone have that others don't? I don't see a hard drive. a GPU? An altimeter?
* communication device - um, we say phone around these them parts
* digital life - Until I get a jack in the back of my neck, this is nothing but market-speak
* ubiquitously - ummmm whatEVER
* access and share information - I f'n hope so! What phone can't do that these days?
* seamlessly - What, is this phone made of a tube of spandex?
* on the go - Great, I don't have to set up a tripod to use the phone? Awesome!
And what's with the head/robot thing? Haven't enough engineers heard of Microsoft's Bob to figure out that they need to PLEASE STOP trying to make a gadget that resembles "my friend"??!?!? Look people, until you have software that can pass the turing test, stop wasting your time making compromising the UI by trying to make it "my friend". There's a reason most gadgets are not anthropomorphic, and you prematurely ejaculating engineers need to wait until these machines can ACTUALLY be my friend before introducing me to them
LS
Ok, I understand what you mean. But is that the meaning of "unique innovation" that the story author intended?
Can I just ask a question? Is there such a thing as a non-unique innovation? Is this story title a bit redundant?
LS
Ok, I have no idea where to begin with this one. Man oh man. Let's just make a list and knock them down:
1. I said I was in China. I never said I had any sympathy or support for what they do here. You make stupid assumptions.
2. I have no idea whether Prager is a jew, and it doesn't matter. And I don't think you believe that Bush and Cheney are jews, do you? I'm having a hard time not being insulting here, because I don't understand how anyone could confuse this fact. Were they wearing yarmulkas in some photo shoot?
3. If it weren't for the hysterics of people like me pushing back against the current administration and it's ilk, martial law, censorship, and prison camps would be a regular features of American society.
4. Posting anonymously is cowardly
And by the way, I do have ideas on happiness. Let's start with a few simple ones:
1. The Golden Rule - treat others how you wish to be treated. Don't try to censor them, tell them how they should have sex or who they can have sex with, force them to pray to a god they don't believe in, bomb them, steal their money in corrupt corporate scandals, etc. This is my number one beef with modern "conservatives"
2. Be kind to others - don't bomb them
3. Don't be obsessed with material objects - don't bomb people so you can filter money to weapons manufacturers and take over oil fields.
Look, it boils down to this. I do believe that I am relatively open minded. But I know people like Prager, and I know that his thought processes are not isolated to various aspects of his life. I used to follow down every path for the sake of open-mindedness, but after a while, I started to make inductive conclusions because my life is short, considering there are INFINITE paths to follow. There are millions of pages of "argument & evidence", but I don't have time to read them all. I think I'll look for cues on happiness from people who don't support murdering and subjigating thousands of people in other parts of the world based on lies and fears about weapons and terror. It's not as if there's a small selection of people who have ideas on Happiness. I could read books, listen to shows, and talk to people every second of my life and not finish everything available, so why waste my time with a prick like Prager?
LS
Also, did you ever consider that I or others might not be in the US? I'm in China right now, so listening to the radio or streams is not such an easy proposition. It's this kind of narrowmindedness that is what gets me upset about neo-cons.
LS
Well, Mr. "Anonymous" (it's not to hard to guess who you really are, jeezus), I think that people lying to themselves and broadcasting these lies and distortions to the public, and having disregard for other humans will likely have issues with happiness, so NO I don't think politics should be separated from happiness in this case. Also, I never claimed to have a solution for happiness, so I don't know exactly what program you not putting stock into.
LS
I might have checked this out, but first there are no excerpts to base a judgement on, and second this guy is a neo-con tool. These guys are responsible for making the world UNHAPPY in a lot of ways, so why would I trust his advice? Check out this column. He proceeds to write off all kinds of valid points by labeling them "hysteria", ignoring the fact that the whole war was based on neo-con hysteria. He lists some clearly fucked up statistics on the Patriot Act, and then through some magic hand-waving somehow spins this as a positive thing! I have no reason to trust this guy's judgement. And what's up with the silly fucking pipe he uses to show off his wedding ring?
LS
"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember."--Oscar Levant
But sometimes you become fully self-aware, and your memory center is completely in synch with your seat of consciousness, at which point a wonderful thing occurs...
god damn that was funny, I haven't laughed out loud reading slashdot in months!
It's bastards like you (oncehour and mrjb) that keep Slashdot alive. I'm always wondering why I return to this shit hole every day and drink my share of the trough, and then I'll see not one, but two extremely reasonable heads chat in the shit storm as if it were a light sprinkle, after which I then unconsciously decide not to write off Slashdot once again. Damn you!
LS
how did the US know Saddam had those WMDs?
They have the receipt
By the way, you can thank the late comedian Bill Hicks for that joke.
LS
Isn't there anything more interesting going on?? When did simple toolbar software become big news? If we're going to be talking about toolbars, why not something on one of the other 1000 toolbars out there that do more interesting shit? I think Slashdot has a serious case of celebrity obsession (or greased palms). This reminds of the fucking 5th masturbation in an hour when only air comes out...
Did you even bother reading the Slashdot STORY, let alone the article??? I don't understand how you got moderated up. The idea is that you would pair up the phone with a stationary device with a keyboard and monitor once you got home (or wherever). Even if this was not made explicit by the story, a tiny bit of logical reasoning would allow you to deduce that no one in their right mind (especially an MIT prof) would suggest that everyone carry around a full sized keyboard and monitor. Or did I just eat troll bait?
LS