I wasn't blaming so much as pointing out that like many blogs, slashdot can be an echo chamber. The same opinions are repeated over and over and treated as if they are held by the majority of people. I was younger then and still thought slashdot had a finger on the pulse of technology. It doesn't.
Oh come on, you're full of ****. I've already placed my order for Duke Nukem Forever on the Phantom, and I'm expecting it in 3 months!
I'm getting a Nokia 5800 from Dell for $230 after $50 mail-in rebate and no contract. Roughly same up-front price, yet I get to stay month-to-month and use T-Mobile (which is ~$10 cheaper than AT&T for unlimited data. Combined with a $30/mo voice plan, and I'm "saving" over $20/mo because I'm not with AT&T. Additionally, I have a 15% off discount which discounts my plan by another $5-6/mo. Also, I don't have to worry about voiding my warranty for the phone when I choose to switch carriers.
After one year, my touch-screen smartphone will cost me ~$200-250 less than having an iPhone. In otherwords, I'm better off buying the Nokia than getting an iPhone for free.
We've spent hundreds of billions on banks that are worth less than nothing. Let's build some hardware!
I'm so sick of hearing people saying this crap. The money the government "gave" to the banks is a loan, with an interest rate. It's an investment by the government, which the government expects to earn money on. Hell, 9 of the banks that the government lent money are willing to pay the money back now so that they don't have to pay additional interest.
The vast majority of the institutions which got TARP money are NOT AIG.
A dedicated player has another problem, even when I'm at home: My younger kids tend to destroy optical disks. A video server has been a great solution for DVDs, and until it will work for Blu-Ray, I have no interest in buying Blu-Ray movies for them.
Then just don't let them handle the discs. Tell them they are off-limits, and that if they want to watch a movie, they should come to you.
Back when vinyl was the storage media for music, it was the exact same thing- except that vinyl is much more fragile than a strong plastic disc.
How is this a surprise? There's still 2 months left for Bush to pardon him. And Alaskans want someone who can get them more federal tax dollars while claiming to hate government spending in general.
Sorry, but that's implying that you're a knot-ist, and that one type of knot may not hold hands with another type of knot. Here in Fake America, where we are totally supportive of inter-knot touching, the real anwer is 42*42==1764
Oh, for mod points. Most people (well, most men anyway) are competitive, and we like to beat our "high scores". Tachometers show us speed, clocks show us time, but neither of those contributes to efficiency. Adding a fuel economy display gives a better goal to beat.
This is why I log my mileage and how many gallons of fuel I refill every time I go to the gas station. Sure, it's not instant, but it does tell me my average for when all I do with my car is drive to work and back. Depending on whether I'm being aggressive or not, my car gets between 29-32 overall (although that's mostly freeway driving.) Lately I've been staying in the right lane and doing an average of 60mph whilst nearly everyone else is going 70+
Only a lot more efficient. An average tree will use roughly 22kg of CO2 per year. These things are estimated to remove 20 tonnes per year per square metre, so it's in excess of 1000 times more effective. Even after you factor in the CO2 produced to provide the power needed for these things, you're still likely coming out way ahead.
Only if you plant one tree, and don't use the tree for anything else.
What about planting many more orange and apple trees? What about rubber trees?
The President will have power to appoint new SCOTUS justices if the need arises, and an Obama court would be very likely to overturn or confine Heller.
FYI Obama supports a total handgun ban, 500% increase on firearms and ammunition taxes....
You know, Obama's not the only person who favors a heavy tax on ammunition:
Some would contend (and I have difficulty disagreeing) that, in 2000, 269 votes still wouldn't have given us President Gore - it would have just given us 269 more rejected ballots...
Coming from a not RTFA background, I think the 269 comes from the idea of 269 people switching votes from the Republican candidate to the Democratic candidate. If all republican votes remain the same, it would have required 537 or 538 votes for the Democratic candidate to overcome the former
And that's just it. Ideally, any election would be run by an impartial third party, which is effectively impossible in the highly charged and partisan atmosphere encouraged by our system.
I know plenty of Americans who are completely a-political and don't give a rat's ass who wins which election. Put them in charge.
By the time Windows 2000 came around, there was nothing in the OS that I could not configure using the GUI.
I'm sorry, but most of us don't consider "regedit.exe" a GUI, at least not anymore than "gedit/etc/httpd.conf" is. And without considering the registry, then yes, there's plenty of stuff in Windows that you can't configure from within the GUI.
To be fair, though, there are plenty of things which you can not configure in Gnome without opening up its own equivalent of regedit.
One example that comes to mind is enabling the different shuffle modes for Rhythmbox. I really dis-like its standard shuffle, but I really like it when the shuffle mode weights the probability of playing a song I haven't heard in a while more than a song I heard last week
Don't sweat it too much until after the transition, the channels are all going to switch around (and I think go to higher power). TV Fool can give you some idea of the pre and post signal levels:
Something doesn't feel fright from tvfool. According to their site, all of the TV signals will remain the same strength that they're being broadcasted at now, except one (NBC) which will be reduced from 1000kW to 6kW, resulting in the gain changing from -32.7 to -44.2. Color me sceptical
But the school (assuming it is public), is an agent of the government. So the school punishing the minor for being lewd is government censorship. So if free speech is about freedom from government censorship, then it is/should be a right for minors to be lewd. As far as the government is concerned, at any rate. Kid's mom ought to smack him around for that filth, but that's entirely different.
Slander is slander and libel is libel.
People are free to express their opinions- this is an example of someone falsifiying and making up facts to damage another person, not a mere "I don't like this person, he is mean!"
Seriously, if you want a game where too much time is spent on side-missions, just try collecting all of the secrets in GTA3, Vice City, or San Andreas (or GTA4) without any guides to point you to where *insert objects* are. Hell, finding all of the oysters was pointless as hell in GTA:SA, yet plenty of people still did it
Now if you want a less-properly done example: Madden Cards in Madden 2002 (Sorry, I think that was the last Madden game I bought, maybe it was 2003). That was just frustrating.
Yea thats what MS need more sales pressure at best buy...
Funny- whenever I go to Best Buy and have a question (e.g. Where is X?) the employees are too busy talking to each other to bother to pause even as I'm standing next to them for over a minute.
Google files for Chapter 7 (Say, via The Onion,) said pseudo story gets aggregated by Google's news reader, other news agencies grab on to said pseudo story, all I have to do is wait for Google's stock to drop to $3 (Fine, maybe $50...) Then I can ride the upswing?
Step 1: Write pseudo story for The Onion Step 2: Wait for story to be repeated by reputable news channels Step 3: Profit!
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I wasn't blaming so much as pointing out that like many blogs, slashdot can be an echo chamber. The same opinions are repeated over and over and treated as if they are held by the majority of people. I was younger then and still thought slashdot had a finger on the pulse of technology. It doesn't.
Oh come on, you're full of ****. I've already placed my order for Duke Nukem Forever on the Phantom, and I'm expecting it in 3 months!
I'm getting a Nokia 5800 from Dell for $230 after $50 mail-in rebate and no contract. Roughly same up-front price, yet I get to stay month-to-month and use T-Mobile (which is ~$10 cheaper than AT&T for unlimited data. Combined with a $30/mo voice plan, and I'm "saving" over $20/mo because I'm not with AT&T. Additionally, I have a 15% off discount which discounts my plan by another $5-6/mo. Also, I don't have to worry about voiding my warranty for the phone when I choose to switch carriers.
After one year, my touch-screen smartphone will cost me ~$200-250 less than having an iPhone. In otherwords, I'm better off buying the Nokia than getting an iPhone for free.
I'm not going to belabor the topic of paranoia, but I feel that there is a much more probable situation happening which I didn't see discussed:
What are the odds for the following:
Child loses GPS tracking system (most likely a phone):Child gets lost to the point that the police are called
We've spent hundreds of billions on banks that are worth less than nothing. Let's build some hardware!
I'm so sick of hearing people saying this crap. The money the government "gave" to the banks is a loan, with an interest rate. It's an investment by the government, which the government expects to earn money on. Hell, 9 of the banks that the government lent money are willing to pay the money back now so that they don't have to pay additional interest.
The vast majority of the institutions which got TARP money are NOT AIG.
A dedicated player has another problem, even when I'm at home: My younger kids tend to destroy optical disks. A video server has been a great solution for DVDs, and until it will work for Blu-Ray, I have no interest in buying Blu-Ray movies for them.
Then just don't let them handle the discs. Tell them they are off-limits, and that if they want to watch a movie, they should come to you.
Back when vinyl was the storage media for music, it was the exact same thing- except that vinyl is much more fragile than a strong plastic disc.
Ever tried expressing a liking for two supposedly opposing products in a room full of geeks, or here?
As someone who uses both emacs and vi on a daily basis, that's a solid yuppers! :D
In fact, I don't bother with OpenOffice or Google Apps, because I already have both emacs and vim! :)
echo "And I have echo, what's your point?" >> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/11/1624213
How is this a surprise? There's still 2 months left for Bush to pardon him. And Alaskans want someone who can get them more federal tax dollars while claiming to hate government spending in general.
Sorry, but that's implying that you're a knot-ist, and that one type of knot may not hold hands with another type of knot. Here in Fake America, where we are totally supportive of inter-knot touching, the real anwer is 42*42==1764
Oh, for mod points. Most people (well, most men anyway) are competitive, and we like to beat our "high scores". Tachometers show us speed, clocks show us time, but neither of those contributes to efficiency. Adding a fuel economy display gives a better goal to beat.
This is why I log my mileage and how many gallons of fuel I refill every time I go to the gas station. Sure, it's not instant, but it does tell me my average for when all I do with my car is drive to work and back. Depending on whether I'm being aggressive or not, my car gets between 29-32 overall (although that's mostly freeway driving.) Lately I've been staying in the right lane and doing an average of 60mph whilst nearly everyone else is going 70+
You have to be joking. I would *kill* for a C6, if I wasn't the next closest thing to a pacifist. That thing beats the 750 hands-down
Only a lot more efficient. An average tree will use roughly 22kg of CO2 per year. These things are estimated to remove 20 tonnes per year per square metre, so it's in excess of 1000 times more effective. Even after you factor in the CO2 produced to provide the power needed for these things, you're still likely coming out way ahead.
Only if you plant one tree, and don't use the tree for anything else.
What about planting many more orange and apple trees? What about rubber trees?
We can use trees for more than scrubbing carbon.
The President will have power to appoint new SCOTUS justices if the need arises, and an Obama court would be very likely to overturn or confine Heller.
FYI Obama supports a total handgun ban, 500% increase on firearms and ammunition taxes....
You know, Obama's not the only person who favors a heavy tax on ammunition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJGcrUk2eE
Some would contend (and I have difficulty disagreeing) that, in 2000, 269 votes still wouldn't have given us President Gore - it would have just given us 269 more rejected ballots...
Coming from a not RTFA background, I think the 269 comes from the idea of 269 people switching votes from the Republican candidate to the Democratic candidate. If all republican votes remain the same, it would have required 537 or 538 votes for the Democratic candidate to overcome the former
And that's just it. Ideally, any election would be run by an impartial third party, which is effectively impossible in the highly charged and partisan atmosphere encouraged by our system.
I know plenty of Americans who are completely a-political and don't give a rat's ass who wins which election. Put them in charge.
By the time Windows 2000 came around, there was nothing in the OS that I could not configure using the GUI.
I'm sorry, but most of us don't consider "regedit.exe" a GUI, at least not anymore than "gedit /etc/httpd.conf" is. And without considering the registry, then yes, there's plenty of stuff in Windows that you can't configure from within the GUI.
To be fair, though, there are plenty of things which you can not configure in Gnome without opening up its own equivalent of regedit.
One example that comes to mind is enabling the different shuffle modes for Rhythmbox. I really dis-like its standard shuffle, but I really like it when the shuffle mode weights the probability of playing a song I haven't heard in a while more than a song I heard last week
Don't sweat it too much until after the transition, the channels are all going to switch around (and I think go to higher power). TV Fool can give you some idea of the pre and post signal levels:
http://www.tvfool.com/
Something doesn't feel fright from tvfool. According to their site, all of the TV signals will remain the same strength that they're being broadcasted at now, except one (NBC) which will be reduced from 1000kW to 6kW, resulting in the gain changing from -32.7 to -44.2. Color me sceptical
Well, if it's Vista minus the bloatware, DRM and huge resource requirements... it might be actually a decent operating system.
Like XP?
You see a stranger wearing a suit and black sunglasses walking up to you:
Stranger: Excuse me, you look really familiar- Class of _____ from _____?
You: Yeah, I'm ________
*Stranger hands you an envelope*
Stranger: Served
But the school (assuming it is public), is an agent of the government. So the school punishing the minor for being lewd is government censorship. So if free speech is about freedom from government censorship, then it is/should be a right for minors to be lewd. As far as the government is concerned, at any rate. Kid's mom ought to smack him around for that filth, but that's entirely different.
Slander is slander and libel is libel.
People are free to express their opinions- this is an example of someone falsifiying and making up facts to damage another person, not a mere "I don't like this person, he is mean!"
To anyone who doesn't get op's statement: Eternal September
And yes, it's funny.
What's even better is that somebody had the gall to cite this /. page when they updated the Eternal September article today.
Seriously, if you want a game where too much time is spent on side-missions, just try collecting all of the secrets in GTA3, Vice City, or San Andreas (or GTA4) without any guides to point you to where *insert objects* are. Hell, finding all of the oysters was pointless as hell in GTA:SA, yet plenty of people still did it
Now if you want a less-properly done example: Madden Cards in Madden 2002 (Sorry, I think that was the last Madden game I bought, maybe it was 2003). That was just frustrating.
Yea thats what MS need more sales pressure at best buy...
Funny- whenever I go to Best Buy and have a question (e.g. Where is X?) the employees are too busy talking to each other to bother to pause even as I'm standing next to them for over a minute.
Google files for Chapter 7 (Say, via The Onion,) said pseudo story gets aggregated by Google's news reader, other news agencies grab on to said pseudo story, all I have to do is wait for Google's stock to drop to $3 (Fine, maybe $50...) Then I can ride the upswing?
Step 1: Write pseudo story for The Onion
Step 2: Wait for story to be repeated by reputable news channels
Step 3: Profit!
Why does this check say "Cingular" on it?
Damn, maybe they shouldn't have FedEx'ed the thing- haven't they seen the movie Cast Away?
You don't need to be out of town or anything to get an absentee ballot. All you have to do is request one ahead of time.
Come on, people; is this so difficult?