If the majority of computer buyers - not you or me - are in fact using those computers significantly to watch YouTube videos and Hulu and TV via some USB dongle, then we aren't likely to ever get those vertical pixels back. What we see now is the so-called Free Market responding to what focus groups tell it the majority desires.
I was only kidding about giving it away, of course. I know I'll have to use it and go through the messy upgrade eventually, because if nothing else GPT ain't going away. The only thing that might actually allow me to get rid of it is migrating to Linux (since all distros support GPT), but software limitations are likely to prevent that for me. Supreme Commander and the like don't play so well in Wine, for instance....
Which "linux" did you try? Not every distro is identical. Ubuntu completely failed to install on a Toshiba laptop I had, but PCLinuxOS installed without complaint. If you tried Ubuntu and that didn't work, try openSUSE or PCLinuxOS or MEPIS. At least one is very likely to work. Frankly I thought openSUSE was a bit more polished than Ubuntu the last time I had a look at both.
I actually have a copy of Windows 7 sitting here, intended to upgrade this machine, but have been dragging my feet doing it. There was only ONE single reason for the upgrade (GPT compatibility), that reason stopped being critical, and the "upgrade" will be a time-consuming sift-through-bits-and-pieces process that I despise. Windows XP works well enough.
For that matter, I only upgraded to Windows XP a couple years ago, again for ONE reason: Supreme Commander. A friend was desperate that we try it, and it would not run in Windows 2000 because of some weird dependency. 99.9% of all other Win32 software ran just as well in 2000 as XP. Windows 2000 worked well enough, too.
Remember the old cliche, "the victors write the history books"?
It's incomplete. The victors - both military AND economic - also draft the laws.
Most of our legislative burden, that portion not derived directly from common law, is all about serving primarily the interests of our "captains of industry" and "pillars of society", preserving and increasing the control and material resources acquired at the expense of everyone else. Any beneficial fallout for the rest of We The People is purely accidental and not really intended.
Ummm, there's no Leo Laporte connection here, unless you think it's a "connection" that he's old enough to have potentially tried and reviewed most of these.
I was one such victim, but for me the hijacking occurred about two months ago. Lucky for me it wasn't used to send millions of malware-laden spam messages; only several dozen messages were sent (all in Chinese), and it didn't look like any attempt was made to filch information from my archives. Google did warn me at the time, and there have been no obvious consequences since I regained control of the account.
Had you actually clicked on the URL in his comment, you'd have recognized my point (it leads to a placeholder page because of the spurious trailing SLASH-with-no-dot).
... is that a few ex-soldiers are unhappy with their pensions and figure to supplement them with kickbacks from a whackjob book author? I think the mercenary life would have been a better supplement....
The point of online shopping - at least for me - is that I'm more likely to get exactly what I (think I) want. Since "online" is also where I happen to do 99% of my product research, it's a natural segue. "Green" was never a factor when choosing to buy online. I save my greenness for local shopping when I either take my bike with trailer/baskets attached or drive and take my own cart and skip the bags entirely, etc.
Nearly invisible airplanes... now what could possibly go wrong with that? Pilots don't really need to see things out the cockpit these days anyway, right?
... at which time the alien ignores the odd tweetings emanating from an orifice of the creature and takes a large bite, abruptly ending the annoying distraction.
If that's all you think it is, "aggressive marketing", I don't think you fully understand just how ethically corrupt some of these corporations are. It's not just marketing; their goal is nothing short of short-circuiting the critical thinking skills of children. They want an unrestricted back door into the reward centers of children. They want the same of every adult as well, of course, but at least adults have arguably had a chance to develop some mental defenses. To target children knowing that they are naive and critically vulnerable is exactly what sexual pedophiles do.
You need to break the word down into its etymological parts and look at the definitions of the root parts; "phile" and "philia" do not strictly demand a sexual intent. If that were true then an "audiophile" would be something quite different than how we define it, wouldn't it? The problem is the common perversion of the true definitions. I didn't misuse the word.
... is still pedophilia. Is attempting to exploit children (and their parents) economically not also deserving of the label "pedophilia"? Clearly certain corporate evildoers are in fact sufficiently obsessed with children to go to a lot of trouble to deceive said children (and their parents) about their true intentions in publishing Web sites for "fun" and offering all sorts of things to break down what little skepticism and critical thinking the children may have developed. That sounds very much like pedophilia to me, even if the goal isn't to rape them physically.
Any gardener knows that compost heaps must be turned regularly. Without access to oxygen, bacteria cannot break down plant material. The principle can be harnessed for carbon capture: All that is necessary is to pile the plants high enough, and the carbon at the bottom will stay put indefinitely. After all, this is how all that coal and oil formed in the first place.
TFA's author is not as much an expert or authority on the matter as he imagines: he's unaware of the fact that there are anaerobic decomp processes that do not require atmospheric oxygen (only what is chemically locked in the biomass).
It's a third-party opinion from an untrusted source who is not an expert on the chosen subject. Being submitted to Slashdot doesn't make it any more authoritative.
...and now we'll be having hardware subscriptions, too? Lovely.
We've done a pretty good job so far of putting the kibosh on software subscriptions (short of so-called Web apps, subscriptions in disguise); are we going to be as lucky with this one, with Intel's monopolistic weight behind it?
EMOTIONAL detachment is part of the key. Emotions are a dangerous input to allow in the decision-making process. Sadly as a species we are wired to allow exactly that, excepting those blessed with specific neural damage or mutations.
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If the majority of computer buyers - not you or me - are in fact using those computers significantly to watch YouTube videos and Hulu and TV via some USB dongle, then we aren't likely to ever get those vertical pixels back. What we see now is the so-called Free Market responding to what focus groups tell it the majority desires.
It sucks if you're not in that majority.
I was only kidding about giving it away, of course. I know I'll have to use it and go through the messy upgrade eventually, because if nothing else GPT ain't going away. The only thing that might actually allow me to get rid of it is migrating to Linux (since all distros support GPT), but software limitations are likely to prevent that for me. Supreme Commander and the like don't play so well in Wine, for instance....
Which "linux" did you try? Not every distro is identical. Ubuntu completely failed to install on a Toshiba laptop I had, but PCLinuxOS installed without complaint. If you tried Ubuntu and that didn't work, try openSUSE or PCLinuxOS or MEPIS. At least one is very likely to work. Frankly I thought openSUSE was a bit more polished than Ubuntu the last time I had a look at both.
I actually have a copy of Windows 7 sitting here, intended to upgrade this machine, but have been dragging my feet doing it. There was only ONE single reason for the upgrade (GPT compatibility), that reason stopped being critical, and the "upgrade" will be a time-consuming sift-through-bits-and-pieces process that I despise. Windows XP works well enough.
For that matter, I only upgraded to Windows XP a couple years ago, again for ONE reason: Supreme Commander. A friend was desperate that we try it, and it would not run in Windows 2000 because of some weird dependency. 99.9% of all other Win32 software ran just as well in 2000 as XP. Windows 2000 worked well enough, too.
I don't know that I've ever seen or heard his productions (lucky me?), but I saw a photo of him and he even looks like a goofy tool.
Remember the old cliche, "the victors write the history books"?
It's incomplete. The victors - both military AND economic - also draft the laws.
Most of our legislative burden, that portion not derived directly from common law, is all about serving primarily the interests of our "captains of industry" and "pillars of society", preserving and increasing the control and material resources acquired at the expense of everyone else. Any beneficial fallout for the rest of We The People is purely accidental and not really intended.
Ummm, there's no Leo Laporte connection here, unless you think it's a "connection" that he's old enough to have potentially tried and reviewed most of these.
There hasn't been a cascade of breaches in other online accounts, that's how I "know".
I was one such victim, but for me the hijacking occurred about two months ago. Lucky for me it wasn't used to send millions of malware-laden spam messages; only several dozen messages were sent (all in Chinese), and it didn't look like any attempt was made to filch information from my archives. Google did warn me at the time, and there have been no obvious consequences since I regained control of the account.
There, qualified and fixed that for you. He's definitely useful to some persons, or he wouldn't be employed and overpaid.
Had you actually clicked on the URL in his comment, you'd have recognized my point (it leads to a placeholder page because of the spurious trailing SLASH-with-no-dot).
You do realize that scrunching "en.wikipedia.org/" in front of some random term doesn't make a useful page of that name magically appear on Wikipedia?
... is that a few ex-soldiers are unhappy with their pensions and figure to supplement them with kickbacks from a whackjob book author? I think the mercenary life would have been a better supplement....
I was channeling what you were thinking.
The point of online shopping - at least for me - is that I'm more likely to get exactly what I (think I) want. Since "online" is also where I happen to do 99% of my product research, it's a natural segue. "Green" was never a factor when choosing to buy online. I save my greenness for local shopping when I either take my bike with trailer/baskets attached or drive and take my own cart and skip the bags entirely, etc.
Nearly invisible airplanes... now what could possibly go wrong with that? Pilots don't really need to see things out the cockpit these days anyway, right?
Obama's transparency this ain't.
... at which time the alien ignores the odd tweetings emanating from an orifice of the creature and takes a large bite, abruptly ending the annoying distraction.
... is that the alien would like to know how the Pope's astronomer tastes with a little alfredo sauce.
If that's all you think it is, "aggressive marketing", I don't think you fully understand just how ethically corrupt some of these corporations are. It's not just marketing; their goal is nothing short of short-circuiting the critical thinking skills of children. They want an unrestricted back door into the reward centers of children. They want the same of every adult as well, of course, but at least adults have arguably had a chance to develop some mental defenses. To target children knowing that they are naive and critically vulnerable is exactly what sexual pedophiles do.
You need to break the word down into its etymological parts and look at the definitions of the root parts; "phile" and "philia" do not strictly demand a sexual intent. If that were true then an "audiophile" would be something quite different than how we define it, wouldn't it? The problem is the common perversion of the true definitions. I didn't misuse the word.
... is still pedophilia. Is attempting to exploit children (and their parents) economically not also deserving of the label "pedophilia"? Clearly certain corporate evildoers are in fact sufficiently obsessed with children to go to a lot of trouble to deceive said children (and their parents) about their true intentions in publishing Web sites for "fun" and offering all sorts of things to break down what little skepticism and critical thinking the children may have developed. That sounds very much like pedophilia to me, even if the goal isn't to rape them physically.
You should read this:
Emotions Can Negatively Impact Investment Decisions. One of the study's authors was the same person, Antoine Bechara, who authored the other paper you mention.
One study does not equate with proof or dis-proof.
TFA's author is not as much an expert or authority on the matter as he imagines: he's unaware of the fact that there are anaerobic decomp processes that do not require atmospheric oxygen (only what is chemically locked in the biomass).
It's a third-party opinion from an untrusted source who is not an expert on the chosen subject. Being submitted to Slashdot doesn't make it any more authoritative.
...and now we'll be having hardware subscriptions, too? Lovely.
We've done a pretty good job so far of putting the kibosh on software subscriptions (short of so-called Web apps, subscriptions in disguise); are we going to be as lucky with this one, with Intel's monopolistic weight behind it?
EMOTIONAL detachment is part of the key. Emotions are a dangerous input to allow in the decision-making process. Sadly as a species we are wired to allow exactly that, excepting those blessed with specific neural damage or mutations.