Liberals, Conservatives.. we're all descendants of cowards who made it back to the cave and banged their cavechicks. Natural selection favors the cautious.
There is no pride in knowing that your ancestors didn't have the balls to charge a pack of lions like the other guys.
Did you read the article or just hurried in to mash the reply button in order to say something ridiculous and unrelated to the topic?
iPhone does not come pre-loaded with crapware from third parties. It's completely blank when you receive it. No non-Apple applications. Contrast that with your standard Best Buy PC and there are (on average) 30 different shareware/trialware/shovelware/demo apps already installed that are either a) completely useless or b) need your credit card to continue functioning after a time limit.
I fail to see how AT&T (a carrier) is in any way similar to a company that annoys the fuck out of PC customers with Awesome_Pebble_Game_PRO_(demo).exe
Obama was born in Hawaii and spent time in Indonesia as a child. What kind of a foreign policy experience do you think they teach to pre-school level children in Indonesia? This claim that Obama has substantial experience is bogus.
Obama is less qualified than Palin, to be honest. She has executive experience, whereas Obama has been a participant-observer in legislatures for few years - combined. And don't get started with the community organizer stuff. Every person who is not a hopeless shut-in is a community organizer. That's not experience, that's a bullet point on a resume for a social service bureau job.
Forget all that. What the submitter needs is a scientific method to screen the attendees to find out whether they're trustworthy. It can be a brief multiple choice survey.
Question: You down with OPP?
A: Yeah you know me. B: What's OPP? C: Prefer not to answer.
Yeah, it's too fast and there aren't enough dark corners to set up a camp. I enjoy games where you can outfox your enemies by picking really random places from which you can hit them, especially enemy bases in CTF.
As a sidenote, I don't really like Q3 because the graphics are so childish and dated. The guns look like toys and the characters aren't fleshed out with detail. Unreal Tournament 3 is so much easier on the eyes and the level detail is gorgeous.
The damage to the standard has been done. There has been so much negative press swirling around OOXML that ISO approval at this point is largely symbolic and meaningless.
Microsoft shot itself in the foot by trying to bribe national ISO members instead of keeping it on the downlow and improving OOXML to appease those obsessive standard-freaks. But then again, this is Microsoft we're talking about.
I'm not a luddite and would gladly try new things (including Microsoft things), but my perception of OOXML is so low based on all the news stories I've read that I'd rather switch to papyrus than save a document in.docx
Have you ever seen Ive? It's a shy introvert who does his magic behind closed doors. He doesn't have the charisma or the drive like Jobs to stomp on people's nuts and act like a total douchebag. (I say this as one of the biggest SJ fans)
I have read in an interview once how Ive wasn't really into computers up until joining with Apple. He described himself as a computer illiterate well into 90's. He's a hardware guy. Jobs shares Ive's aesthetic, but he is more focused on software.
I think Ive is an amazing designer, but he's just not CEO material. This wishful thinking about Ive's eventual coronation as Apple's CEO is a classic case of peter principle.
The staff is shifted based on the load, so the point is moot.
Besides, if you take up slots for support others aren't getting help they legitimately need. Either way it affects anyone who has support requests.
If the target here had been Samsung, or Nokia, would you have acted the same way?
If I depended on Samsung/Nokia support and they jammed the support lines, you bet.
Of course, the situation is a bit different here because Apple has a unique retail presence and those two companies do not. Plus, Apple is vertically integrated - they not only sell/service iPhones but bunch of other things like macs, DAPs, services, etc. By jamming the lines at the Genius Bar you're also punishing people who have fuckall to do with iPhones.
I'll never donate money to FSF again. This is one of the worst things they can possibly do.
I'm primarily a mac user but at the same time I'm a staunch advocate of F/OSS. I try to promote Firefox, Ubuntu, OOo, and other such projects whenever I see an opportunity. This action makes me reconsider my efforts. Why should I help an entity when in return they try to punish users like myself? FSF's rage against Apple is misplaced and idiotic.
How about producing a mobile device that blows the iPhone out of the water? Maybe something which can be monetized to keep both the developers and users happy?
This is similar to Jesse Jackson threatening to cut off Obama's nuts. His days of race-baiting and division are coming to a close so he attacks someone who actually produces results instead of whining all the time. FSF is getting desperate now that Apple has managed to produce a closed ecosystem absent of Microsoft's ineptitude. It was easy to riff on Microsoft for all these years because the blame was merited. It's not so easy now because informed users are choosing a platform because it works for their needs despite its closed nature.
Richard Stallman is a petty dictator who is afraid of competition.
Since when is 25 old? I just turned 25 and have yet to tell kids to "Get off my lawn", "Turn down that music" or say "Back in my day..."
It's the industry we're in. IT people measure their life in internet years and 25 is middle-age. (just like in porn)
I'm 30 and I am growing less receptive of new things. "Get off my lawn" has been supplanted by "Enough with the Twitter bullshit" and "take your microblog and shove it up your ass"
Yes, cellphone-cancer link could prove to be junk science when we have conclusive proof in 20+ years, but people are signing up as skeptics without even considering the possibilities. I'd rather trust bunch of doctors than AT&T and mobile phone industry.
I resent the implication that any idea challenging the industry on this matter is some kind of a conspiracy babble. It's one way to shut down any rational discourse on the matter by charging the other side as bunch crazy bearded guys in cabins.
Argument to moderation is one way to push dangerous ideas into mainstream by ill-informed people who take everything for face value. Guess what? The truth is not in the middle. There are either risks or there aren't. I'd rather take the word of scientists with no dog in the fight over corporations who are ostensibly looking out for our best, long term interests.
Even those who evangelize nanotech as the next hope for the mankind are readily admitting that they have no clue what the potential risks are because they hardly themselves understand the mechanics of cell interactions with nanoparticles. I'd rather be overly cautious and alive than brave and dead.
Your argument is ridiculous. Nanotechnology isn't the only game in town. You can still enjoy a modern lifestyle without it. I'm not sure why you think that the choice comes down to nanotech-fueled products vs raw twigs.
The problem is that beta products should eventually *leave* beta.
That's what my parents told me in slightly different wording when I moved back with them after college. I tried to explain to them that forking the codebase would be a waste of resources but my developers wouldn't have any of it.
Now that Bill Gates is retired from Microsoft, the editors should get with the times and lose that dated, painfully unfunny logo they use for Microsoft.
And I think you miss something fundamental about "Free as in Speech." I'd go as far as to say you are supporting the suppression of free speech with your comment.
I'm not so sure about that. What about the freedom of those developers who are being shut out of Chinese markets because someone decided to poison the waters?
SF should show some leadership and yank this project from the servers so we can have unfettered access to users and contributors on the mainland. Let him take his rants elsewhere and not drag thousands of projects down for the sake of feeding own ego.
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Liberals, Conservatives.. we're all descendants of cowards who made it back to the cave and banged their cavechicks. Natural selection favors the cautious.
There is no pride in knowing that your ancestors didn't have the balls to charge a pack of lions like the other guys.
Did you read the article or just hurried in to mash the reply button in order to say something ridiculous and unrelated to the topic?
iPhone does not come pre-loaded with crapware from third parties. It's completely blank when you receive it. No non-Apple applications. Contrast that with your standard Best Buy PC and there are (on average) 30 different shareware/trialware/shovelware/demo apps already installed that are either a) completely useless or b) need your credit card to continue functioning after a time limit.
I fail to see how AT&T (a carrier) is in any way similar to a company that annoys the fuck out of PC customers with Awesome_Pebble_Game_PRO_(demo).exe
Obama was born in Hawaii and spent time in Indonesia as a child. What kind of a foreign policy experience do you think they teach to pre-school level children in Indonesia? This claim that Obama has substantial experience is bogus.
Obama is less qualified than Palin, to be honest. She has executive experience, whereas Obama has been a participant-observer in legislatures for few years - combined. And don't get started with the community organizer stuff. Every person who is not a hopeless shut-in is a community organizer. That's not experience, that's a bullet point on a resume for a social service bureau job.
You mean someone like Obama?
I'd like to propose BDSM: Black Desktop Shame Monitor
Get rid of idle.
Forget all that. What the submitter needs is a scientific method to screen the attendees to find out whether they're trustworthy. It can be a brief multiple choice survey.
Yeah, it's too fast and there aren't enough dark corners to set up a camp. I enjoy games where you can outfox your enemies by picking really random places from which you can hit them, especially enemy bases in CTF.
As a sidenote, I don't really like Q3 because the graphics are so childish and dated. The guns look like toys and the characters aren't fleshed out with detail. Unreal Tournament 3 is so much easier on the eyes and the level detail is gorgeous.
The damage to the standard has been done. There has been so much negative press swirling around OOXML that ISO approval at this point is largely symbolic and meaningless.
Microsoft shot itself in the foot by trying to bribe national ISO members instead of keeping it on the downlow and improving OOXML to appease those obsessive standard-freaks. But then again, this is Microsoft we're talking about.
I'm not a luddite and would gladly try new things (including Microsoft things), but my perception of OOXML is so low based on all the news stories I've read that I'd rather switch to papyrus than save a document in .docx
Took me a while but I think I decoded the message. It says:
This copy of Windows XP is not Genuine. To use all Microsoft Windows Features your copy must be validated. Go online and resolve now.
Have you ever seen Ive? It's a shy introvert who does his magic behind closed doors. He doesn't have the charisma or the drive like Jobs to stomp on people's nuts and act like a total douchebag. (I say this as one of the biggest SJ fans)
I have read in an interview once how Ive wasn't really into computers up until joining with Apple. He described himself as a computer illiterate well into 90's. He's a hardware guy. Jobs shares Ive's aesthetic, but he is more focused on software.
I think Ive is an amazing designer, but he's just not CEO material. This wishful thinking about Ive's eventual coronation as Apple's CEO is a classic case of peter principle.
The staff is shifted based on the load, so the point is moot. Besides, if you take up slots for support others aren't getting help they legitimately need. Either way it affects anyone who has support requests.
If I depended on Samsung/Nokia support and they jammed the support lines, you bet.
Of course, the situation is a bit different here because Apple has a unique retail presence and those two companies do not. Plus, Apple is vertically integrated - they not only sell/service iPhones but bunch of other things like macs, DAPs, services, etc. By jamming the lines at the Genius Bar you're also punishing people who have fuckall to do with iPhones.
I'll never donate money to FSF again. This is one of the worst things they can possibly do.
I'm primarily a mac user but at the same time I'm a staunch advocate of F/OSS. I try to promote Firefox, Ubuntu, OOo, and other such projects whenever I see an opportunity. This action makes me reconsider my efforts. Why should I help an entity when in return they try to punish users like myself? FSF's rage against Apple is misplaced and idiotic.
How about producing a mobile device that blows the iPhone out of the water? Maybe something which can be monetized to keep both the developers and users happy?
This is similar to Jesse Jackson threatening to cut off Obama's nuts. His days of race-baiting and division are coming to a close so he attacks someone who actually produces results instead of whining all the time. FSF is getting desperate now that Apple has managed to produce a closed ecosystem absent of Microsoft's ineptitude. It was easy to riff on Microsoft for all these years because the blame was merited. It's not so easy now because informed users are choosing a platform because it works for their needs despite its closed nature.
Richard Stallman is a petty dictator who is afraid of competition.
It's the industry we're in. IT people measure their life in internet years and 25 is middle-age. (just like in porn)
I'm 30 and I am growing less receptive of new things. "Get off my lawn" has been supplanted by "Enough with the Twitter bullshit" and "take your microblog and shove it up your ass"
Yes, cellphone-cancer link could prove to be junk science when we have conclusive proof in 20+ years, but people are signing up as skeptics without even considering the possibilities. I'd rather trust bunch of doctors than AT&T and mobile phone industry.
I resent the implication that any idea challenging the industry on this matter is some kind of a conspiracy babble. It's one way to shut down any rational discourse on the matter by charging the other side as bunch crazy bearded guys in cabins.
hey, at least Slashdot supports OpenID oh wait...
Ubisoft should show respect for the game and release it on Macs as well. The platform which popularized the game should get in on the PoP 2008 action.
Argument to moderation is one way to push dangerous ideas into mainstream by ill-informed people who take everything for face value. Guess what? The truth is not in the middle. There are either risks or there aren't. I'd rather take the word of scientists with no dog in the fight over corporations who are ostensibly looking out for our best, long term interests.
Even those who evangelize nanotech as the next hope for the mankind are readily admitting that they have no clue what the potential risks are because they hardly themselves understand the mechanics of cell interactions with nanoparticles. I'd rather be overly cautious and alive than brave and dead.
Your argument is ridiculous. Nanotechnology isn't the only game in town. You can still enjoy a modern lifestyle without it. I'm not sure why you think that the choice comes down to nanotech-fueled products vs raw twigs.
"Close the damn curtains! Battlestar Galactica marathon starts tonight."
For $10 donation I'd expect to give the star a proper name of my choosing, instead of arcane stellar classifications like LBV 1807-21.
That's what my parents told me in slightly different wording when I moved back with them after college. I tried to explain to them that forking the codebase would be a waste of resources but my developers wouldn't have any of it.
That icon is there for legacy purposes.
I'm not so sure about that. What about the freedom of those developers who are being shut out of Chinese markets because someone decided to poison the waters?
SF should show some leadership and yank this project from the servers so we can have unfettered access to users and contributors on the mainland. Let him take his rants elsewhere and not drag thousands of projects down for the sake of feeding own ego.