Why does a slashdot story need to pertain to all of YOUR things. If slashdot wanted to run a story about your wife, they would run a story on breast implants. If they wanted to write a story about your car, it wouls be an ask slashdot "I have lots of money, but no taste". Oh, and fsck YOU and YOUR BMW. YOUR xenon headlights blind MY eyes. So just wait untill you blind me and I crash my Ford Taurus into your sorry ass.
IF you believe in such a capatalistic world, you would either A. Buy the product becuase you like it and are willing to give him money, or B. Ignore it and move on
I think you are confusing Capitalism with Yuppy Assholism
Replying to the bottom paragraph on of your comment:
The moon IS moving slowly away from us, but its slowing down. It will eventually reach the apex of its curve, stop, and start coming back. It will start falling back to earth. It will move very slwoly, and take a hell of a long time to get back, but once it gets close enough, rochea's (sp?) limit will be hit and the gravity of the earth and moon will rip the smaller (in this case the moon) apart. It will also cuase CONSIDERABLE damage to the surface and outer type part of the earth, not to mention the fact that the tides would have been increasing all this time and would suddenly go away. Then the earth will have rings =).
The moon could have a dramtic effect on the evolution of our planet, first making the tides less, then greater, then much greater, then destroy a good deal of the earth's crust, and then have no tides at all. Good point about the moon, I had forgotten about that.
Uhhh, my dad frequently buys DVD movies that are either old or not the big blockbusters at 10$ a pop. The companies do do that. A few of em are even 5$... thats already been done.
And those people forget how easy it is to inform kids of how much guns 'hurt' rather than banning everything under the sun that could possibly give them the idea that it isnt that way. Now go back to the hole from whence you came you Lord-of-The-Rings-hating-ninny!
Uh, no, your wrong. There is NO proof that violent games contribute to violent behavior. Its just people saying they do. They say the same things over and over and over again hoping that it will make them true. Go watch Bowling For Columbine. Maybe it will give you a clearer idea of whats going on rather then just saying vioent games do that. What ever happened to letting out your agressions in a safe way? If I get pissed, I have 3 basic options. I can go cry about it (doesent solve anything), I can get sweet glorious revenge (only creates MORE bad), or I can take out my anger in a safe, controlled way. Video games provide a safe, efficient, great way of doing that. There have been a few incidents where I have been really pissed off, so I go and play some Half-Life, or BattleField 1942, and after a while, Im totally relaxed, and I dont feel like killing anyone anymore.
And in any case, there was violence before there were video games... so how can you blame them? Its not like its had a DRAMATIC increase! Get a life! And stop using my pass time as your scape goat!!!
Im 16, and i have been playing violent games since I was 8. I have also watched violent movies (dad intro'd me to Alien/Predator/Die Hard) since I was 7. I have NEVER gotten into a fight at school. People challenge me to fights all the time (Im small but with a big mouth), but I never fight with them. If violent video games are the reason kids are shooting up schools and getting into fights, I would be locked up tighter then the insane guy in Con Air.
Oh yeah, and Im in the US... and I know where to get guns.
WTF are you complaining about? Why wasnt this message modded as offtopic so I could have skipped it?? IN this 'article' they talked about mice, fans, and a video card... WTF are you whining about???
Isnt 1 or 0 being a prime number unimportant? Perhaps my math isnt high enough yet (Math Analysis (Trig) in High school currently). Isnt it being a prime number just a label? Whats the significance? Its an interesting argument anyway. I like this kind of stuff, Im just wondering if it changes anything or is an argument for the sake of knowing.
How much money are they saving really? By adopting linux they are also opening thier own tech support centers. Training and hiring those people costs money. They still have to develop (costs money) or buy software (Gee jolly gosh, this costs money too). Supporting linux might actually be a more expensive proposition then sticking with microsoft. I think they did it becuase they feel it is a better operating system. Save money in not needing new hardware maybe? I dont think money was a big factor in thier decision making.
Wireless networks are easily hackable, and even if you cant right away, you can just decrypt the packets later and see what juicy contents are inside. I think a sort of dual network thing probably would have been the best solution. Wireless for regular stuff, and physical cable for the other stuff maybe? Is that what would have been considered more thorough?
Developing technology takes money. In order to make money, you have to sell the technology you develop (at least with Hardware). If someone is going to show you something new in technology, someone is going to be selling it. So ANY story about a technology product would probably include a link to the manufacturer or retailer. Do you not want Slashdot to do any technology/hardware stories? This isnt a commercial... this is a new product. So new that only the developer page probably has anything on it. Think before you go with your knee jerk reaction of "They are trying to sell me things against my will! EVIL EVIL slashdot! They trixt us! Evil! FALSE slashdot!!!"
I dont think they are trying to get rid of the package idea.. I think that the 'a la carte' is an additional option. Buisness has always given discounts to people willing to order 'packages' of thier products. Im sure this new adition wont hurt your precious. (Lucky %^&!ard with your damn 100$ a month to blow on cable while I beg for an upgrade to basic)
It isnt some grand scheme like you think it is... Its really simple in fact. Shows are all aired on the same schedule right (in half hour intervals). Yes, maybe one show takes half an hour, and one may take an hour, but they all start on the hour or half an hour. Shows dont start at 7:13 or 8:46 for the most part. Numerous studies have been done on exactly how much advertising during what kind of show can be displayed. They also know how much time a show needs to be shown to hook the watcher before a commercial can be shown. Now, if all the shows all know the same amount of time between content and commercial, and they all start at the same time... it can reasonably inferred that the commercials would be shown at roughly the same time. Ta-da! Simple solution without the paranoia!
My cellphone has gotten me out of many tough spots before, and it also frees me up to do more things. Im only 16, so it makes communicating with my parents really easy when im not at home. Went to the dance, and now I want to go out and have dinner with my friends? No problem! I just call them and tell them. Its amazing that you posted on a geek website with anti-electronic sentiments. Id like to see you survive without your car... or ac/heat in your house... or without your TV... or without lighting... or indoor plumbing.
In any case, you will never have to survive withtout those things, the same way people will never have to survive without thier cellphones and PDAs. Oh yeah, and you can have my PDA when you pry it from my cold, dead hands (or buy me and upgrade:) ).
Your absolutely right. I wish you could convince my dad about this. I continually show him the more expensive, but better working, longer lasting device, and he always goes for the cheap one. When buying things for myself, I always go the quality (expensive) route. All my stuff works great and feels good, all his stuff is braking and has never done exactly what he wanted it to. (Which basically leads to me fixing it all the time!)
Uhhh, Ive been studying things like this in Physics... based on my knowledge of air and gravity, I would say that rain would fall more slowly, and there would be less of it. With less gravity, rain falls at the speed it does becuase of air resistance. Im not sure how far it falls before the pull of the earth and friction of the air are at equilibrium, but im sure that happens relativly quickly. The air on a planet with a smaller amount of gravity would be thinner (less gravity to hold it down) and thus the rain would fall faster... but I dont think it would matter too much (if the atmosphere is thick enough to support cloud formation, it should be fairly thick near the surface of the planet). Oh yeah, and there would be less of it (rain) since the atmosphere would not be as thick, so there would be less cloud formation.
Hope thats helpful =)
This seriously scares me. I can easily see me lazy, ignorant school banning all sites except.kids.us! Now personally, I would just VNC into my own computer and surf as normal, but most of the kids arent that knowledgable... I would hope that there would also be laws on places that cannot ban this site... maybe even as far as all public places except Kindergarten and elementary. Kids at school need to be able to do research on things. Plus yahoo games are fun =) Seriously though, my district firewall even blocked google once...
Just becuase it isnt there doesent mean he didnt name it, Microsoft might be keeping that name open for others to use so that the entire market calls them tablet PCs. I think they want name recognition and you dont get that by only calling one or two of the models a tablet PC.
I guess it would be cheating, but I think it would be much easier to build the Hobbit hole on a flat piece of land. You could start by building an ugly, yet very strong, steel and concrete structure that is basically a whole bunch of rectangles. Then on the inside you build your fancy shmancy wooden interior framework. Then you rent a dumptruck and pour a whole ton of dirt on the damn thing, landscape the top, and make sure only the pretty wood parts stick out. Ta da! You have yourself a beautiful, safe, and most of all ceiling-friendly house! It could even be two stories.
In any case, it would be much easier and much prettier then digging yourself a small sewer to live in. (and gasp, it might even have a front door)
And just to nitpick... how does your car fit in that garage? Espicially if you have an SUV (oh well, we just wont worry about those idiots).
Silly shlashdotter, sigs are for wimps.
I guess I am that minority you speak of...
I am typing this from a 2.8 gigahertz, with a Radeon 9700, and 512 RAM (which I sorely want upgraded). I bought this for gaming. I love it. I can now run Half Life at 1600 x 1200 with 6x Anti Aliasing and 16x Aniscoptric Filtering at a steady 100 Frames Per Second. However, sitting right next to it is my 'do other stuff' machine. It is a 450, with a dual boot of Windows 2000 server advanced and Red Hat. It does all the stuff my other computer does, except gaming. I really wish consoles were as good as my computer, but the sad truth is they are not and unless they build an adequate FPS User Interface, they never will be. It is a sad day that computers will become such a commercialized product. I want my goddam niche market back!
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IF you believe in such a capatalistic world, you would either A. Buy the product becuase you like it and are willing to give him money, or B. Ignore it and move on
I think you are confusing Capitalism with Yuppy Assholism
The moon IS moving slowly away from us, but its slowing down. It will eventually reach the apex of its curve, stop, and start coming back. It will start falling back to earth. It will move very slwoly, and take a hell of a long time to get back, but once it gets close enough, rochea's (sp?) limit will be hit and the gravity of the earth and moon will rip the smaller (in this case the moon) apart. It will also cuase CONSIDERABLE damage to the surface and outer type part of the earth, not to mention the fact that the tides would have been increasing all this time and would suddenly go away. Then the earth will have rings =).
The moon could have a dramtic effect on the evolution of our planet, first making the tides less, then greater, then much greater, then destroy a good deal of the earth's crust, and then have no tides at all. Good point about the moon, I had forgotten about that.
Uhhh, my dad frequently buys DVD movies that are either old or not the big blockbusters at 10$ a pop. The companies do do that. A few of em are even 5$... thats already been done.
Ahhh, the irony.
And those people forget how easy it is to inform kids of how much guns 'hurt' rather than banning everything under the sun that could possibly give them the idea that it isnt that way. Now go back to the hole from whence you came you Lord-of-The-Rings-hating-ninny!
And in any case, there was violence before there were video games... so how can you blame them? Its not like its had a DRAMATIC increase! Get a life! And stop using my pass time as your scape goat!!!
Oh yeah, and Im in the US... and I know where to get guns.
WTF are you complaining about? Why wasnt this message modded as offtopic so I could have skipped it?? IN this 'article' they talked about mice, fans, and a video card... WTF are you whining about???
Just a guess, but I think hes talking about the whole internet start up "OMG we are millionaires over night and now we cant afford to eat" thing.
Isnt 1 or 0 being a prime number unimportant? Perhaps my math isnt high enough yet (Math Analysis (Trig) in High school currently). Isnt it being a prime number just a label? Whats the significance? Its an interesting argument anyway. I like this kind of stuff, Im just wondering if it changes anything or is an argument for the sake of knowing.
offtopic: I say we all go back to the old ICQ =/
How much money are they saving really? By adopting linux they are also opening thier own tech support centers. Training and hiring those people costs money. They still have to develop (costs money) or buy software (Gee jolly gosh, this costs money too). Supporting linux might actually be a more expensive proposition then sticking with microsoft. I think they did it becuase they feel it is a better operating system. Save money in not needing new hardware maybe? I dont think money was a big factor in thier decision making.
Wireless networks are easily hackable, and even if you cant right away, you can just decrypt the packets later and see what juicy contents are inside. I think a sort of dual network thing probably would have been the best solution. Wireless for regular stuff, and physical cable for the other stuff maybe? Is that what would have been considered more thorough?
Developing technology takes money. In order to make money, you have to sell the technology you develop (at least with Hardware). If someone is going to show you something new in technology, someone is going to be selling it. So ANY story about a technology product would probably include a link to the manufacturer or retailer. Do you not want Slashdot to do any technology/hardware stories? This isnt a commercial... this is a new product. So new that only the developer page probably has anything on it. Think before you go with your knee jerk reaction of "They are trying to sell me things against my will! EVIL EVIL slashdot! They trixt us! Evil! FALSE slashdot!!!"
I dont think they are trying to get rid of the package idea.. I think that the 'a la carte' is an additional option. Buisness has always given discounts to people willing to order 'packages' of thier products. Im sure this new adition wont hurt your precious. (Lucky %^&!ard with your damn 100$ a month to blow on cable while I beg for an upgrade to basic)
It isnt some grand scheme like you think it is... Its really simple in fact. Shows are all aired on the same schedule right (in half hour intervals). Yes, maybe one show takes half an hour, and one may take an hour, but they all start on the hour or half an hour. Shows dont start at 7:13 or 8:46 for the most part. Numerous studies have been done on exactly how much advertising during what kind of show can be displayed. They also know how much time a show needs to be shown to hook the watcher before a commercial can be shown. Now, if all the shows all know the same amount of time between content and commercial, and they all start at the same time... it can reasonably inferred that the commercials would be shown at roughly the same time. Ta-da! Simple solution without the paranoia!
I went to Boston once... almost ended up living there we got lost so much. Maybe this technology could trace me a route out of boston...
My cellphone has gotten me out of many tough spots before, and it also frees me up to do more things. Im only 16, so it makes communicating with my parents really easy when im not at home. Went to the dance, and now I want to go out and have dinner with my friends? No problem! I just call them and tell them. Its amazing that you posted on a geek website with anti-electronic sentiments. Id like to see you survive without your car... or ac/heat in your house... or without your TV... or without lighting... or indoor plumbing. In any case, you will never have to survive withtout those things, the same way people will never have to survive without thier cellphones and PDAs. Oh yeah, and you can have my PDA when you pry it from my cold, dead hands (or buy me and upgrade :) ).
Your absolutely right. I wish you could convince my dad about this. I continually show him the more expensive, but better working, longer lasting device, and he always goes for the cheap one. When buying things for myself, I always go the quality (expensive) route. All my stuff works great and feels good, all his stuff is braking and has never done exactly what he wanted it to. (Which basically leads to me fixing it all the time!)
Uhhh, Ive been studying things like this in Physics... based on my knowledge of air and gravity, I would say that rain would fall more slowly, and there would be less of it. With less gravity, rain falls at the speed it does becuase of air resistance. Im not sure how far it falls before the pull of the earth and friction of the air are at equilibrium, but im sure that happens relativly quickly. The air on a planet with a smaller amount of gravity would be thinner (less gravity to hold it down) and thus the rain would fall faster... but I dont think it would matter too much (if the atmosphere is thick enough to support cloud formation, it should be fairly thick near the surface of the planet). Oh yeah, and there would be less of it (rain) since the atmosphere would not be as thick, so there would be less cloud formation. Hope thats helpful =)
This seriously scares me. I can easily see me lazy, ignorant school banning all sites except .kids.us! Now personally, I would just VNC into my own computer and surf as normal, but most of the kids arent that knowledgable... I would hope that there would also be laws on places that cannot ban this site... maybe even as far as all public places except Kindergarten and elementary. Kids at school need to be able to do research on things. Plus yahoo games are fun =) Seriously though, my district firewall even blocked google once...
Just becuase it isnt there doesent mean he didnt name it, Microsoft might be keeping that name open for others to use so that the entire market calls them tablet PCs. I think they want name recognition and you dont get that by only calling one or two of the models a tablet PC.
I guess it would be cheating, but I think it would be much easier to build the Hobbit hole on a flat piece of land. You could start by building an ugly, yet very strong, steel and concrete structure that is basically a whole bunch of rectangles. Then on the inside you build your fancy shmancy wooden interior framework. Then you rent a dumptruck and pour a whole ton of dirt on the damn thing, landscape the top, and make sure only the pretty wood parts stick out. Ta da! You have yourself a beautiful, safe, and most of all ceiling-friendly house! It could even be two stories. In any case, it would be much easier and much prettier then digging yourself a small sewer to live in. (and gasp, it might even have a front door) And just to nitpick... how does your car fit in that garage? Espicially if you have an SUV (oh well, we just wont worry about those idiots). Silly shlashdotter, sigs are for wimps.
I guess I am that minority you speak of... I am typing this from a 2.8 gigahertz, with a Radeon 9700, and 512 RAM (which I sorely want upgraded). I bought this for gaming. I love it. I can now run Half Life at 1600 x 1200 with 6x Anti Aliasing and 16x Aniscoptric Filtering at a steady 100 Frames Per Second. However, sitting right next to it is my 'do other stuff' machine. It is a 450, with a dual boot of Windows 2000 server advanced and Red Hat. It does all the stuff my other computer does, except gaming. I really wish consoles were as good as my computer, but the sad truth is they are not and unless they build an adequate FPS User Interface, they never will be. It is a sad day that computers will become such a commercialized product. I want my goddam niche market back!
Music based on the mathematics of dice? Sounds like music to play D&D by.