Ummm, hate to pick an oozy nit with the OP, but peripherals were never classified as "ISA" or "not ISA": nothing accurately defined as a "peripheral" would ever connect directly to the ISA bus. Only interface cards/adapters/HBAs were "ISA" (or not).
Nah, I have a buddy who owns an auto junkyard, so I get 'em half finished and then throw 'em in the car crusher. They come out small enough to fit under the bed.
Charles Babbage has been both a hero and anti-hero of mine for almost three decades now, ever since I researched and wrote a paper about him in high school. I immediately saw both his best and worst traits in my own behavior, and on the worst side it led to me referring to myself as "pulling a Babbage" whenever I let those traits get the better of me. I now have a string of unfinished projects to my name that certainly eclipses what Babbage did.
This is for CmdrTaco and anyone else who wants to read it.
Dude, it's the paradigm that sucks, not Alexa per se. Consider Nielsen ratings: would you or any self-respecting Slashdotter actually be so foolish as to agree to be a "Nielsen family"? I doubt it. It's the same dynamic at play. I blogged about the relative stupidity of Nielsen families in particular a while back; those people are ruining my ability to enjoy quality programming like Firefly, Space: Above and Beyond, Keen Eddie, and countless others because of their mindless plebeian tastes.
These are also the same people who often cause unreasonable pricing for consumer items, because they're too stupid to know when to vote with their dollars and just say "no". "$70 for a set of warmed-over LucasFilm Star Wars films that already turned a profit three times over? No problem, I simply *must* have them!"
As a result, manufacturers set prices based on this same mindless demographic; those of us who are "smart" consumers, who could wrangle a better fairer price, are dragged along for the ride kicking and screaming.
That's kinda what has happened here: you (CmdrTaco) are being dragged along kicking - and screaming - by all the Alexoids, and you don't like that any more than I like having Firefly yanked off the air.
I'm quietly of the suspicion that national and especially online advertising is only a fraction as profitable as corporations think it is. I suspect if someone could do a truly objective cost-benefit analysis of mass advertising, like car commercials on TV, we'd find that it's actually costing money that is never rewarded in equivalent sales, and for which we're all ultimately footing the bill in the form of higher prices to pay down all that pointless advertising.
Solving the "Alexa dilemma" just might require eugenics or some other speciation event.
Given that Firefox already has issues with ignoring user input at various times, I guess Pyro will also bring that ability to ignore the user to the Linux desktop, as it has existed in Windows since the beginning?
I can do it because it's modding the parent of the post to which I did comment, IOW the parent's parent. That's not "illegal". If I'd commented on the original first post, that would be a different matter.
What kind of hypocritical Slashdot shit is this, that the first post is maliciously modded-down as Troll, but then a reply that acknowledges and builds upon this "troll's" comment is then mindlessly modded-up as Funny? I'm modding it back up, and I would encourage others to do the same in the interest of evenhandedness.
... using simple HTML and Notepad on a Web page inside my generous 10MB of personal Web space alloted with my dial-up Netcom account. It definitely qualified as a blog, it was linear and every entry was dated. Things like dynamic HTML and CM systems were still foreign terms, and those personal webpages allowed no scripting, so it was pretty crude stuff, but still a blog! I still have that old site archived... should hang it up for fun one of these days.
Since last week it was reported that nicotine derivatives targeting acetylcholine receptors in the brain was the latest pharmaceutical fad, perhaps they can kill two birdies with the same stone?
... either up her own ass or somewhere else. The real biological imperative is instant gratification: it's been repeatedly shown that people will sacrifice privacy for as little as a piece of chocolate. Now, you might feebly argue that they're willing to do that because they don't understand what they're sacrificing, but then there can't be much of an instinctive imperative if they have to sit through a class in order to grasp the concept of privacy, now can there?
People make the dumbest most contrived arguments to support a desired delusion sometimes....
I know, I know! Didja read the other replies beforehand? I already stood corrected at least twice. Trust me, I won't forget, no need to beat the stiff horse.
There's one, and only one, reason why Microsoft is hyping this: it's the next big push to acclimate the world to software as a subscription service. They're salivating over the prospect of being able to collect from you every month, just like Comcast does, and to the same degree of excess and (even more) obscene profit. They want to reeducate you to think of software as "content".
If you think Microsoft has made a lot of money selling one-time software licenses, just wait until they've got people accustomed to paying them every month. You ain't seen nuthin' yet.
This is one of those turnkey moments in history, folks. Either we plant our feet solidly and draw a line, or lose the whole farm as Microsoft convinces all the neighbors to sell out.
Emily Lawrimore, a White House spokeswoman, said the surgeon general "is the leading voice for the health of all Americans."
I'm sure that's true, but the question at issue here is who the ventriloquists were telling the "dummy" what to say.
One also has to wonder why it takes the "dummy" this long to come forward; was dummy more concerned about keeping said cushy job than doing the right thing? Instead he waits until he's an ex-SG and after the crime is no longer in progress before coming forward.
With self-centered enablers like this, is it any wonder we can't manage to impeach the bastard(s)?
Haselton answered the question he asked in the first sentence with the the last sentence in the same paragraph! If Microsoft's misdeeds with Hotmail filtering are a validation of GoodMail's critics, then the obvious answer to his question is:
"No, we're not being too hard on GoodMail. We're not being hard enough on Microsoft and Hotmail."
I don't even need to read the unquoted part of TFA, do I?
Yes, but capsaicin is not a toxin. It stimulates nerve pain receptors specifically, causing a false pain reaction. There is no actual tissue damage occurring. The reason so many people become addicted to hot peppers is because even that false pain signal induces production of endorphins in the brain, so those pepper-popping fools are actually getting a high from doing it. But it's not a toxin like nicotine is. Further, the applications which they're proposing for nicotine in TFA have little resemblance to any folk remedies that might have been based upon it. Your argument might have some generalized truth to it, but not in this instance.
You should consider yourself pretty lucky that you have those blobs called kidneys, then; without those even the minute prescribed doses of these wonder drugs would kill you.
Since when was nicotine bad for you? How about since the first plant synthesized it as a biological poison, to be used as a defense against insects and competing plants?
Nicotine is a biological poison. Tobacco and other plants produce it as a chemical defense against both insects and other competing plants (it leaches into surrounding soil through roots and decomposing leaves). In spite of that, you think it "isn't really that bad"?
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Ummm, hate to pick an oozy nit with the OP, but peripherals were never classified as "ISA" or "not ISA": nothing accurately defined as a "peripheral" would ever connect directly to the ISA bus. Only interface cards/adapters/HBAs were "ISA" (or not).
Nah, I have a buddy who owns an auto junkyard, so I get 'em half finished and then throw 'em in the car crusher. They come out small enough to fit under the bed.
Charles Babbage has been both a hero and anti-hero of mine for almost three decades now, ever since I researched and wrote a paper about him in high school. I immediately saw both his best and worst traits in my own behavior, and on the worst side it led to me referring to myself as "pulling a Babbage" whenever I let those traits get the better of me. I now have a string of unfinished projects to my name that certainly eclipses what Babbage did.
No matter the collateral damage? Protecting freedom by restricting rights again, are we?
Really? You have to go to that much trouble?
Don't even have to cancel what you never had.
This is for CmdrTaco and anyone else who wants to read it.
Dude, it's the paradigm that sucks, not Alexa per se. Consider Nielsen ratings: would you or any self-respecting Slashdotter actually be so foolish as to agree to be a "Nielsen family"? I doubt it. It's the same dynamic at play. I blogged about the relative stupidity of Nielsen families in particular a while back; those people are ruining my ability to enjoy quality programming like Firefly, Space: Above and Beyond, Keen Eddie, and countless others because of their mindless plebeian tastes.
These are also the same people who often cause unreasonable pricing for consumer items, because they're too stupid to know when to vote with their dollars and just say "no". "$70 for a set of warmed-over LucasFilm Star Wars films that already turned a profit three times over? No problem, I simply *must* have them!"
As a result, manufacturers set prices based on this same mindless demographic; those of us who are "smart" consumers, who could wrangle a better fairer price, are dragged along for the ride kicking and screaming.
That's kinda what has happened here: you (CmdrTaco) are being dragged along kicking - and screaming - by all the Alexoids, and you don't like that any more than I like having Firefly yanked off the air.
I'm quietly of the suspicion that national and especially online advertising is only a fraction as profitable as corporations think it is. I suspect if someone could do a truly objective cost-benefit analysis of mass advertising, like car commercials on TV, we'd find that it's actually costing money that is never rewarded in equivalent sales, and for which we're all ultimately footing the bill in the form of higher prices to pay down all that pointless advertising.
Solving the "Alexa dilemma" just might require eugenics or some other speciation event.
Given that Firefox already has issues with ignoring user input at various times, I guess Pyro will also bring that ability to ignore the user to the Linux desktop, as it has existed in Windows since the beginning?
No, you're right and I was wrong. The pharmacist meddled with my LSD dosage yesterday and didn't tell me.
I can do it because it's modding the parent of the post to which I did comment, IOW the parent's parent. That's not "illegal". If I'd commented on the original first post, that would be a different matter.
What kind of hypocritical Slashdot shit is this, that the first post is maliciously modded-down as Troll, but then a reply that acknowledges and builds upon this "troll's" comment is then mindlessly modded-up as Funny? I'm modding it back up, and I would encourage others to do the same in the interest of evenhandedness.
Somebody's been playing a bit too much Nuclear War. I don't think I have that card in my decks....
... using simple HTML and Notepad on a Web page inside my generous 10MB of personal Web space alloted with my dial-up Netcom account. It definitely qualified as a blog, it was linear and every entry was dated. Things like dynamic HTML and CM systems were still foreign terms, and those personal webpages allowed no scripting, so it was pretty crude stuff, but still a blog! I still have that old site archived... should hang it up for fun one of these days.
Since last week it was reported that nicotine derivatives targeting acetylcholine receptors in the brain was the latest pharmaceutical fad, perhaps they can kill two birdies with the same stone?
(Yes, I'm being sarcastic and dismissive.)
... either up her own ass or somewhere else. The real biological imperative is instant gratification: it's been repeatedly shown that people will sacrifice privacy for as little as a piece of chocolate. Now, you might feebly argue that they're willing to do that because they don't understand what they're sacrificing, but then there can't be much of an instinctive imperative if they have to sit through a class in order to grasp the concept of privacy, now can there?
People make the dumbest most contrived arguments to support a desired delusion sometimes....
I know, I know! Didja read the other replies beforehand? I already stood corrected at least twice. Trust me, I won't forget, no need to beat the stiff horse.
Whoops, sorry guys, I'm just a stupid geo-centric American.
I saw a rip of Sicko in a torrent that was in Canadian PAL format. Do Americans rip in PAL?
There's one, and only one, reason why Microsoft is hyping this: it's the next big push to acclimate the world to software as a subscription service. They're salivating over the prospect of being able to collect from you every month, just like Comcast does, and to the same degree of excess and (even more) obscene profit. They want to reeducate you to think of software as "content".
If you think Microsoft has made a lot of money selling one-time software licenses, just wait until they've got people accustomed to paying them every month. You ain't seen nuthin' yet.
This is one of those turnkey moments in history, folks. Either we plant our feet solidly and draw a line, or lose the whole farm as Microsoft convinces all the neighbors to sell out.
With a trusting outlook like that, I hope your kidneys work a helluva lot better than mine. You're gonna need 'em.
I'm sure that's true, but the question at issue here is who the ventriloquists were telling the "dummy" what to say.
One also has to wonder why it takes the "dummy" this long to come forward; was dummy more concerned about keeping said cushy job than doing the right thing? Instead he waits until he's an ex-SG and after the crime is no longer in progress before coming forward.
With self-centered enablers like this, is it any wonder we can't manage to impeach the bastard(s)?
Haselton answered the question he asked in the first sentence with the the last sentence in the same paragraph! If Microsoft's misdeeds with Hotmail filtering are a validation of GoodMail's critics, then the obvious answer to his question is:
"No, we're not being too hard on GoodMail. We're not being hard enough on Microsoft and Hotmail."
I don't even need to read the unquoted part of TFA, do I?
Yes, but capsaicin is not a toxin. It stimulates nerve pain receptors specifically, causing a false pain reaction. There is no actual tissue damage occurring. The reason so many people become addicted to hot peppers is because even that false pain signal induces production of endorphins in the brain, so those pepper-popping fools are actually getting a high from doing it. But it's not a toxin like nicotine is. Further, the applications which they're proposing for nicotine in TFA have little resemblance to any folk remedies that might have been based upon it. Your argument might have some generalized truth to it, but not in this instance.
You should consider yourself pretty lucky that you have those blobs called kidneys, then; without those even the minute prescribed doses of these wonder drugs would kill you.
Since when was nicotine bad for you? How about since the first plant synthesized it as a biological poison, to be used as a defense against insects and competing plants?
Nicotine is a biological poison. Tobacco and other plants produce it as a chemical defense against both insects and other competing plants (it leaches into surrounding soil through roots and decomposing leaves). In spite of that, you think it "isn't really that bad"?