And according to my 16 year old; 'Facebook is for old women"... (his mother facebooks every day:-)
As for me, I guess I am just plain anti-social (don't myspace/facebook/instagram/snap-whats-twitt).
Seems like Slashdot is nothin but a bunch of good-fer-nuthin whiny snotty-nosed geeky-wannabees.
Complain when Apple don't want to carry a particular product in their App Store; Get a clue people! - it's their friggen store! Does a Ford dealership have to sell GM cars? Get over it.
Complain when Apple sell a locked down appliance ; (check: iPod, iPhone, iPad) - if you don't like it, don't buy it! (Duh!)
Compare Apple to Microsoft in a bad way: Now you are really showing what a whiny clueless bunch of snots you really are;
Microsoft was/is a monopoly => Apple is not (there are other places to get your Computer/Phone/MusicPlayer/Music/TV Shows/etc).
Microsoft acted illegally in it's position as an effective monopoly... and not just in the BS browser fiasco (probably MS worked the DOJ into following that lame line);
what was worse than the Browser 'war' was MS using their power to Stop ALL major OEMs from even offering an Alternative OS (even a boot time alternative), effectively killing any OS competitor before they started:
Anyone here old enough to remember BeOS (Multi-user, Multi-tasking, Multi-threaded OS that booted in 20 seconds on mid-90's hardware?) - They could not even GIVE it away because of MS's threat to the OEMs.
Anyone remember more recently on MS's ballot stuffing shenanigans with the ISO (resulting in an ISO standard, breaking all of the committees own rules, and producing a standard to which there exists even now - not a single implementation!)... and the nasty still continues (head on over to Groklaw for more nasty MS behaviour)...
You can't have a civil discussion with a religious zealot. Religious zealots like to think of themselves as rational, but if you observe their behavior you'll find they are anything but. They are full of anger and bitterness, and react with frightful outrage whenever they encounter someone with different views from their own. Even people who think that religion is a reasonable philosophy must admit that most Religious Zealots did not arrive at their point of view through
anything resembling a rational process. Rather, they are poorly socialized individuals who are lashing out angrily at anything which they perceive to be valued by "mainstream" society. You really shouldn't take it personally. It is the result of an angry and profoundly unhappy psychological condition on their part, not due to you or your rational beliefs.
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I'm not a religious man myself but I wonder how successful this will be.
I mean, i thought that meeting up in church wasn't just about the worship
but was about the social interaction with others - the feeling of unity with
your peers.
Sounds exactly what happens here at slashtot. All together now: All hail the mighty Penguin...
For us geeks down under, we DO have to worry about about 'brutal levels of ultraviolet radiation'. It's not so bad now in winter (see here), but mid summer will see extream UV between 10:00 and 15:00, which will easily toast us pastey geeks on our way to the local store for the latest CPU/GPU/RAM/HDD/etc.
Now the question remains: how much coffee do I need to drink so that I start sweating caffeine?
...and will smearing oneself with Vegemite work as effectively?
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And according to my 16 year old; 'Facebook is for old women"... (his mother facebooks every day :-)
As for me, I guess I am just plain anti-social (don't myspace/facebook/instagram/snap-whats-twitt).
Seems like Slashdot is nothin but a bunch of good-fer-nuthin whiny snotty-nosed geeky-wannabees.
Complain when Apple don't want to carry a particular product in their App Store; Get a clue people! - it's their friggen store! Does a Ford dealership have to sell GM cars? Get over it.
Complain when Apple sell a locked down appliance ; (check: iPod, iPhone, iPad) - if you don't like it, don't buy it! (Duh!)
Compare Apple to Microsoft in a bad way: Now you are really showing what a whiny clueless bunch of snots you really are;
what was worse than the Browser 'war' was MS using their power to Stop ALL major OEMs from even offering an Alternative OS (even a boot time alternative), effectively killing any OS competitor before they started:
Anyone here old enough to remember BeOS (Multi-user, Multi-tasking, Multi-threaded OS that booted in 20 seconds on mid-90's hardware?) - They could not even GIVE it away because of MS's threat to the OEMs.
Anyone remember more recently on MS's ballot stuffing shenanigans with the ISO (resulting in an ISO standard, breaking all of the committees own rules, and producing a standard to which there exists even now - not a single implementation!)... and the nasty still continues (head on over to Groklaw for more nasty MS behaviour)...
Now get the fsck off my lawn!
You can't have a civil discussion with a religious zealot. Religious zealots like to think of themselves as rational, but if you observe their behavior you'll find they are anything but. They are full of anger and bitterness, and react with frightful outrage whenever they encounter someone with different views from their own. Even people who think that religion is a reasonable philosophy must admit that most Religious Zealots did not arrive at their point of view through anything resembling a rational process. Rather, they are poorly socialized individuals who are lashing out angrily at anything which they perceive to be valued by "mainstream" society. You really shouldn't take it personally. It is the result of an angry and profoundly unhappy psychological condition on their part, not due to you or your rational beliefs.
I'm not a religious man myself but I wonder how successful this will be. I mean, i thought that meeting up in church wasn't just about the worship but was about the social interaction with others - the feeling of unity with your peers.
Sounds exactly what happens here at slashtot.
All together now: All hail the mighty Penguin...
For us geeks down under, we DO have to worry about about 'brutal levels of ultraviolet radiation'. It's not so bad now in winter (see here), but mid summer will see extream UV between 10:00 and 15:00, which will easily toast us pastey geeks on our way to the local store for the latest CPU/GPU/RAM/HDD/etc.
...and will smearing oneself with Vegemite work as effectively?
Now the question remains: how much coffee do I need to drink so that I start sweating caffeine?