If I had mod points, I'd mod you up for the Africa reference. IMHO China's activity in Africa has been generally unreported in the West, but it's going to become more obviously significant sooner or later as China exerts its influence (and goes after its interests) beyond the obvious areas in east and southeast Asia.
Slashdot readers never bother reading the article.
Pffftttt.... I didn't even bother reading the summary. Come to think of it, I don't think I looked at the headline either.
Er, but I'm guessing it was something to do with the seventh-generation iPhone. Anyway, whatever it was, I'm sure it'll be great- congratulations Steve, and all the Slashdotters dragging this thread offtopic rambling about astronomical nonsense should be ashamed of themselves.
Given that approximately 40% of the plots, er... numerous life-threatening situations the ST:TNG crew ran into were caused by the holodeck going sentient, that's probably not a good idea.
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That's because it takes time for the errors to propogate that far from civilization;-P
The latest MFM/RLL interface cards were ISA bus (not used anymore), EISA bus (not used either) and there were a very few PS/2 bus as well. I don't recall a single PCI MFM/RLL card.
If he's desparate- and he was bothered enough to make this an "Ask Slashdot"- it's probably not that hard to get an old computer with ISA. My first PC from the late-90s had ISA (and used it too- it came with an ISA soundcard *and* modem) along with the PCI slots.
As for finding the interface cards themselves- I'll concede that might be harder.
Also, the guy was basically saying not to take any unnecessary risks. Serial port may be hideously slow by modern standards, but it's still not going to take *that* much time to transfer 10MB over one.
Indeed. But in particular, how the *fuck* can an IT health system- even one for around 50 million people- cost that much?
In fact, it's estimated that the final cost is more likely to be around £20bn (US $30bn).
Let's think about that again. This isn't some grand engineering project like the tunnel underneath the English Channel (between England and France), which adjusting for inflation, still worked out at around £10bn (US $15bn).
It's a load of IT infrastructure to make it easier for the NHS to share information...
That is expected to cost £20,000 million- significantly more than the projected cost of the 2012 Olympics vanity project- and whose success still hangs in the balance.
...as a UK citizen I'm not paying for this, but my first thought was that for a product (potentially) of that scale, a $1.4bn write-off doesn't sound all *that* much. It's only a small fraction of the $12bn+ wasted on a disastrous IT project by the NHS in England.
I know there are legal implications to certain decisions I might make, but...
But nothing. You're asking a legal question, you need to go to a legal expert. Slashdotters are not legal experts, they just think they are, and their advice is worse than useless.
Slashdotters think that they can logically guess the way the law works and/or that the law works the way it ought (logically) to work despite the fact that the only way to know how the law works is... to actually find out how the law works, and that it isn't always logical or consistent.
The other thing I've come across is that when you point out the law doesn't work in that idealised way, it'll be assumed that you endorse the (arguably) illogical, inconsistent and/or faulty way it *does* work. (*)
Not at all- a lot of the time it might be better if it worked in that way, but it doesn't, and there's no point in denying that's the way things currently are. Regardless of whether or not it upsets you to find out that it doesn't always follow the same path as an over-pedantic geek's thought process.
(*) Actually, this isn't restricted to the law. If someone (e.g.) makes a stupid argument against something, and you point this out, they'll kneejerk assume that you're taking the opposite position in the argument to them, rather than just pointing out that their argument is flawed. (e.g. disagree that it was Hitler's moustache that made him bad and you're endorsing the Nazis, etc...)
Paypal may be able to refuse to do business with whomever they like but so do we. Every time Paypal pulls a stunt like this, we as private individuals have a right to call them on it.
Oh yeah, this pisses me off too. Every time something like this happens, someone will say that they're a private business that has the right to do what it likes- but usually in the context of someone having criticised that company and expressed in a way that seemingly implies that any criticism of their actions runs counter to that principle.
They're entitled to conduct their business how they wish (within reason), and they're entitled to ignore the negative opinions. But they're *not* entitled to expect protection from legitimate criticism, opinion and discussion expressed by others, nor from the effects of such criticism on them if they choose to ignore it.
Same with "you think XXXX product sucks? No-one was putting a gun to your head and making you buy it!" type posts. No- the company is free to sell a products, and people are free to buy it- and others are equally free to express their opinion and advice as they see fit. They don't like that? Tough.
Refusing to give someone money that is rightfully theirs could be considered the equivalent of destroying their property.
Umm... no. (*) The equivalent of wrongfully withholding someone's property, or- at a push- stealing it? Possibly, yeah.
The equivalent of actually destroying it? Not really. Not unless they run off and spend it on hookers and blow and don't have any other cash to pay it back with, otherwise... that's a bit silly.
(*) Well, I guess one has the right to "consider [anything] the equivalent" of anything else, but then you could say that dancing a jig to the music of Milli Vanilli was the "equivalent of destroying their property". It still doesn't bear scrutiny.
Yes, I am a troll because I like Vista more than XP
This had nothing to do with your personal opinion- which you're quite entitled to- and everything to do with the section I was replying to and quite clearly quoted alone:-
The only people who say that XP is better than Vista are people who haven't actually used Vista.
That's a blatantly sweeping, across-the-board generalisation. If you expect people to take something that all-encompassing and unqualified seriously, you're going to have to back it up.
You didn't, and it came across as a borderline-troll, or- at best- unsubstantiated and worthless.
my actual perception is that Vista naysayers simply recite the tired old flaws in Vista that have been fixed for years now.
Your actual perception is just that- perception. It might be right or wrong. It's probably coloured by your personal opinion, and time spent reading Slashdot- whose audience is a tiny and unrepresentative section of the mass home and business IT market as a whole.
Vista was rejected by the mass market, not by the niche of Slashdotters alone.
Oh and your post is proof enough.
My post proves nothing except that anyone making major assertions with nothing to back them up doesn't deserve to be taken seriously.
If you had used Vista SP1 or later with non-ancient drivers, then you would know that Vista is simply a better OS than XP.
Matter of opinion, and an attempt to shift the ground. What you originally said above didn't mention SP1 at all, merely that:-
The only people who say that XP is better than Vista are people who haven't actually used Vista.
It's quite probable that people tried the original release of Vista, disliked it and that's what caused the negativity towards Vista. Whether it improved later doesn't change that- they tried it, the negativity stuck and your stupid generalisation is shown to be bunk.
You just owned yourself there, buddy.
Quite the opposite; your later mention of SP1- which massively alters the nature of your original assertion by excluding *everyone* who used the original release- proves that it was drivel in the first place.
And that's what happens when you pull unsubstantiated generalisations out of your ass, "buddy".
I still think you're being a little too sensitive though.
Probably, yeah.:-)
I still think you're being a little too sensitive though. Despite what you see in Hollywood, most Americans love the various accents used in the UK and are perhaps a bit jealous that they don't speak that way themselves.
Possibly true, but I suspect that the majority of Americans- not just the Anglophiles- see the "upperclass with butler" stereotype as more representative than it actually is, even if they're aware it's slightly stereotypical. Which was why I cynically suggested playing on those preconceptions with my "authentic English house" experience.;-)
I've been to Scotland. Edinburgh at least. I thought it was great there, though a little too cold for my tastes.
I guess if you live in California, Scotland is cold. I don't mind cold so much as rain and overcast weather- and Edinburgh, being on the east coast, doesn't get *quite* as much of that as the west coast.
As for the "America" thing, I kind of agree with you, but it's a generally accepted thing, in English at any rate. In (slight) mitigation, there isn't really a single place- apart from the USA, obviously- called "America" in English. There's North America, and South America (and possibly Central America), and "the Americas"... but no plain "America".
Not really... it's just that no-one here refers to a "British accent" (though they might say an "English accent" or a "Scottish accent" even though there is almost as much variation within those countries). So you know that when the phrase is mentioned, it's by Americans, meaning one of those stupid stereotypical accents used by supposedly-representative upperclass stereotypes of the British/English (*) used to pander to American audiences.
(Then again, there are plenty of British actors who'll whore and Uncle Tom themselves out for the Yanks doing this sort of shit for American TV:-( )
Ditto Hollywood using English accents for the bad guys, or for some sort of snobbish repressed stereotype- even though Americans are arguably more uptight about sex and the like, and socially very conservative as well. (Okay, that's a generalisation, but I didn't claim it wasn't).
I mean, I wonder if I'd get away with organising expensive holiday tours for Americans letting them stay in "authentic English homes" and putting the lot of them up in a run down housing estate. (^_^)
(*) Used interchangably in this situation though English -|-> British; being Scottish myself, I'll happily point that out as often as necessary:-) Damn, I think I defended the English more than I meant to here! And if you come to Scotland, we probably won't do to you what they did to the American tourist in Trainspotting (which definitely *wasn't* pandering to them!)
I assume you're talking about the animated film. He probably had a "British" accent (*) because it projected some appropriate stereotype for the Yank filmmakers or their presumed audience.
(*) I notice that only Americans call them "British" accents, and those usually refer to their stereotyped view of how upper-class English people talk- and of course, all British people are upper-class with butlers and thatched roofs and all that crap.
Go check out an archive from the mid-90s. Under construction sign, with the digging stick figure and roadway blocker. Repeating image on the background. Dancing hamster.
How is that different from the typical myspace page?
The worst thing about 90s backgrounds was the *non-scrolling* repeating image. I always hated them, but I thought they'd died at the turn of the millennium along with their natural home, Geocities.
Odd that you should mention MySpace- the Geocities for the new (er, now past) decade- because I was unpleasantly surprised to see them reappearing there years after I thought they'd sunk without trace, but way too early for an "ironic" 1990s revival. (Yuk.)
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If I had mod points, I'd mod you up for the Africa reference. IMHO China's activity in Africa has been generally unreported in the West, but it's going to become more obviously significant sooner or later as China exerts its influence (and goes after its interests) beyond the obvious areas in east and southeast Asia.
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And groovy apartments!
Slashdot readers never bother reading the article.
Pffftttt.... I didn't even bother reading the summary. Come to think of it, I don't think I looked at the headline either.
Er, but I'm guessing it was something to do with the seventh-generation iPhone. Anyway, whatever it was, I'm sure it'll be great- congratulations Steve, and all the Slashdotters dragging this thread offtopic rambling about astronomical nonsense should be ashamed of themselves.
Given that approximately 40% of the plots, er... numerous life-threatening situations the ST:TNG crew ran into were caused by the holodeck going sentient, that's probably not a good idea.
That's because it takes time for the errors to propogate that far from civilization ;-P
The latest MFM/RLL interface cards were ISA bus (not used anymore), EISA bus (not used either) and there were a very few PS/2 bus as well. I don't recall a single PCI MFM/RLL card.
If he's desparate- and he was bothered enough to make this an "Ask Slashdot"- it's probably not that hard to get an old computer with ISA. My first PC from the late-90s had ISA (and used it too- it came with an ISA soundcard *and* modem) along with the PCI slots.
As for finding the interface cards themselves- I'll concede that might be harder.
..."Worker and Parasite"?
Enough with the scaremongering. I have several computers older than the Altos that still perform, look and behave like new.
One possible explanation?
Also, the guy was basically saying not to take any unnecessary risks. Serial port may be hideously slow by modern standards, but it's still not going to take *that* much time to transfer 10MB over one.
Indeed. But in particular, how the *fuck* can an IT health system- even one for around 50 million people- cost that much?
In fact, it's estimated that the final cost is more likely to be around £20bn (US $30bn).
Let's think about that again. This isn't some grand engineering project like the tunnel underneath the English Channel (between England and France), which adjusting for inflation, still worked out at around £10bn (US $15bn).
It's a load of IT infrastructure to make it easier for the NHS to share information...
That is expected to cost £20,000 million- significantly more than the projected cost of the 2012 Olympics vanity project- and whose success still hangs in the balance.
W. T. F.?!
Sorry, correction- £12bn... that's over US $18bn.
...as a UK citizen I'm not paying for this, but my first thought was that for a product (potentially) of that scale, a $1.4bn write-off doesn't sound all *that* much. It's only a small fraction of the $12bn+ wasted on a disastrous IT project by the NHS in England.
The Commodore VIC-20 was sold by the Shat [..] Final score Commodore- over 9000
Hmm, was William Shatner related to Vegeta by any chance?
Either that or you should donate that yahoo email address of yours to the GP.
I know there are legal implications to certain decisions I might make, but...
But nothing. You're asking a legal question, you need to go to a legal expert. Slashdotters are not legal experts, they just think they are, and their advice is worse than useless.
Slashdotters think that they can logically guess the way the law works and/or that the law works the way it ought (logically) to work despite the fact that the only way to know how the law works is... to actually find out how the law works, and that it isn't always logical or consistent.
The other thing I've come across is that when you point out the law doesn't work in that idealised way, it'll be assumed that you endorse the (arguably) illogical, inconsistent and/or faulty way it *does* work. (*)
Not at all- a lot of the time it might be better if it worked in that way, but it doesn't, and there's no point in denying that's the way things currently are. Regardless of whether or not it upsets you to find out that it doesn't always follow the same path as an over-pedantic geek's thought process.
(*) Actually, this isn't restricted to the law. If someone (e.g.) makes a stupid argument against something, and you point this out, they'll kneejerk assume that you're taking the opposite position in the argument to them, rather than just pointing out that their argument is flawed. (e.g. disagree that it was Hitler's moustache that made him bad and you're endorsing the Nazis, etc...)
Are the band seeking damages?
:-(
I don't really care, but I think it would be a good excuse to say "See EMI Pay"....
Er, sorry
I also have a brother that bought a digital camera from some guy at an Arby's. It's the only digital camera I've seen that takes 35mm film!
Perhaps it really *is* digital and it records the bits on the film. That'd be worth seeing :-)
Paypal may be able to refuse to do business with whomever they like but so do we. Every time Paypal pulls a stunt like this, we as private individuals have a right to call them on it.
Oh yeah, this pisses me off too. Every time something like this happens, someone will say that they're a private business that has the right to do what it likes- but usually in the context of someone having criticised that company and expressed in a way that seemingly implies that any criticism of their actions runs counter to that principle.
They're entitled to conduct their business how they wish (within reason), and they're entitled to ignore the negative opinions. But they're *not* entitled to expect protection from legitimate criticism, opinion and discussion expressed by others, nor from the effects of such criticism on them if they choose to ignore it.
Same with "you think XXXX product sucks? No-one was putting a gun to your head and making you buy it!" type posts. No- the company is free to sell a products, and people are free to buy it- and others are equally free to express their opinion and advice as they see fit. They don't like that? Tough.
Refusing to give someone money that is rightfully theirs could be considered the equivalent of destroying their property.
Umm... no. (*) The equivalent of wrongfully withholding someone's property, or- at a push- stealing it? Possibly, yeah.
The equivalent of actually destroying it? Not really. Not unless they run off and spend it on hookers and blow and don't have any other cash to pay it back with, otherwise... that's a bit silly.
(*) Well, I guess one has the right to "consider [anything] the equivalent" of anything else, but then you could say that dancing a jig to the music of Milli Vanilli was the "equivalent of destroying their property". It still doesn't bear scrutiny.
Just to make sure it's really dead.
I say we nuke the entire Microsoft campus from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
Yes, I am a troll because I like Vista more than XP
This had nothing to do with your personal opinion- which you're quite entitled to- and everything to do with the section I was replying to and quite clearly quoted alone:-
The only people who say that XP is better than Vista are people who haven't actually used Vista.
That's a blatantly sweeping, across-the-board generalisation. If you expect people to take something that all-encompassing and unqualified seriously, you're going to have to back it up.
You didn't, and it came across as a borderline-troll, or- at best- unsubstantiated and worthless.
my actual perception is that Vista naysayers simply recite the tired old flaws in Vista that have been fixed for years now.
Your actual perception is just that- perception. It might be right or wrong. It's probably coloured by your personal opinion, and time spent reading Slashdot- whose audience is a tiny and unrepresentative section of the mass home and business IT market as a whole.
Vista was rejected by the mass market, not by the niche of Slashdotters alone.
Oh and your post is proof enough.
My post proves nothing except that anyone making major assertions with nothing to back them up doesn't deserve to be taken seriously.
If you had used Vista SP1 or later with non-ancient drivers, then you would know that Vista is simply a better OS than XP.
Matter of opinion, and an attempt to shift the ground. What you originally said above didn't mention SP1 at all, merely that:-
The only people who say that XP is better than Vista are people who haven't actually used Vista.
It's quite probable that people tried the original release of Vista, disliked it and that's what caused the negativity towards Vista. Whether it improved later doesn't change that- they tried it, the negativity stuck and your stupid generalisation is shown to be bunk.
You just owned yourself there, buddy.
Quite the opposite; your later mention of SP1- which massively alters the nature of your original assertion by excluding *everyone* who used the original release- proves that it was drivel in the first place.
And that's what happens when you pull unsubstantiated generalisations out of your ass, "buddy".
The only people who say that XP is better than Vista are people who haven't actually used Vista.
Troll, shill or asserted in good faith? Who knows.
What I do know is that what you say is pretty unlikely unless you can back it up.
I still think you're being a little too sensitive though.
Probably, yeah. :-)
I still think you're being a little too sensitive though. Despite what you see in Hollywood, most Americans love the various accents used in the UK and are perhaps a bit jealous that they don't speak that way themselves.
Possibly true, but I suspect that the majority of Americans- not just the Anglophiles- see the "upperclass with butler" stereotype as more representative than it actually is, even if they're aware it's slightly stereotypical. Which was why I cynically suggested playing on those preconceptions with my "authentic English house" experience. ;-)
I've been to Scotland. Edinburgh at least. I thought it was great there, though a little too cold for my tastes.
I guess if you live in California, Scotland is cold. I don't mind cold so much as rain and overcast weather- and Edinburgh, being on the east coast, doesn't get *quite* as much of that as the west coast.
As for the "America" thing, I kind of agree with you, but it's a generally accepted thing, in English at any rate. In (slight) mitigation, there isn't really a single place- apart from the USA, obviously- called "America" in English. There's North America, and South America (and possibly Central America), and "the Americas"... but no plain "America".
Not really... it's just that no-one here refers to a "British accent" (though they might say an "English accent" or a "Scottish accent" even though there is almost as much variation within those countries). So you know that when the phrase is mentioned, it's by Americans, meaning one of those stupid stereotypical accents used by supposedly-representative upperclass stereotypes of the British/English (*) used to pander to American audiences.
:-( )
:-) Damn, I think I defended the English more than I meant to here! And if you come to Scotland, we probably won't do to you what they did to the American tourist in Trainspotting (which definitely *wasn't* pandering to them!)
(Then again, there are plenty of British actors who'll whore and Uncle Tom themselves out for the Yanks doing this sort of shit for American TV
Ditto Hollywood using English accents for the bad guys, or for some sort of snobbish repressed stereotype- even though Americans are arguably more uptight about sex and the like, and socially very conservative as well. (Okay, that's a generalisation, but I didn't claim it wasn't).
I mean, I wonder if I'd get away with organising expensive holiday tours for Americans letting them stay in "authentic English homes" and putting the lot of them up in a run down housing estate. (^_^)
(*) Used interchangably in this situation though English -|-> British; being Scottish myself, I'll happily point that out as often as necessary
Well Chicken Little did have a British accent...
I assume you're talking about the animated film. He probably had a "British" accent (*) because it projected some appropriate stereotype for the Yank filmmakers or their presumed audience.
(*) I notice that only Americans call them "British" accents, and those usually refer to their stereotyped view of how upper-class English people talk- and of course, all British people are upper-class with butlers and thatched roofs and all that crap.
Go check out an archive from the mid-90s. Under construction sign, with the digging stick figure and roadway blocker. Repeating image on the background. Dancing hamster.
How is that different from the typical myspace page?
The worst thing about 90s backgrounds was the *non-scrolling* repeating image. I always hated them, but I thought they'd died at the turn of the millennium along with their natural home, Geocities.
Odd that you should mention MySpace- the Geocities for the new (er, now past) decade- because I was unpleasantly surprised to see them reappearing there years after I thought they'd sunk without trace, but way too early for an "ironic" 1990s revival. (Yuk.)