Slashdot loves angle brackets. Just eats 'em up with ice cream. Yum yum yum.
Since the default posting mode is "HTML Formatted", Slashdot reserves angle brackets for itself. For markup. It's being generous to call it "HTML", since it's a ridiculous subset, but there it is.
If you want the angle brackets precious for yourself, you'll have to use the HTML character entities* for them: < for < and > for >. That's how you save the preciouses from the tricksy Slashdotses.
*Not all of the HTML entities listed on this site work here. In fact, I think I'd characterize it as a ridiculous subset again. Which ones work here and which ones don't is left as an exercise for the reader.
Are you in favor of everyone being able to eat cake? Sure.
Are you in favor of everyone having to pay for cake? [this depends on whether you're already buying cake or just mooching cake off the general cake table]...
The long-term problem with the clueless hordes of newbie sheep wasn't merely that they bleat incessantly, stick their clunky hooves into everything, and crap on the carpets... it's the fact that unshepherded sheep attract predators by the pack. So that's what we have now... an internet of sheep, lured and corralled by wolves with good herding skills.
Or, if you insist on your metaphors unmixed, the range was wide open before they came. And now there are barbed wire fences and loud flashy towns and con men and lawmen all over the place.
And thoughtful, balanced, well-reasoned, and realistic thinking like that will get you out of a jury pool faster than yelling "Hang 'em all and play pinata with their heads!"
The prosecution doesn't want anyone in a juror's chair that can believe the defense's technical assertions of reasonable doubt, let alone come up with them independently of the defense case. Prosecution science is precise, accurate, and "CSI" conclusive. Defense science is somewhere between black Satanic magic and flat-Earth Time Cube quackery.
I always thought an offshore data haven should be someplace tropical with nice data beaches. Not a decrepit wave-lashed gun platform in the North Atlantic.
That was Sealand's failing, I think: no data beaches.
Oh, it wasn't the Internet (particularly). The portmanteau bastardized blechery in the summary and title here aren't in TFA at all.
It was just world-famous Slashdot editorial practice at work. They can't rein in dupes, create an unbiased and non-sensationalist headline, or fix actual errors in copy from submitter (or themselves)... but the sure as hell can coin pointless and cringe-inducing neologisms.
As practiced by the Legislative Branch of the U.S., incompetence is so intentional and willful that it rises past the level of mere picayune lying and to the heights of wholesale reality-denial. A malignant and cynical form of wishful thinking, if you will.
The words put into the mouths of the entities in that imaginary scenario are actually quite viable. The only problem is that HTML (especially the broken subset supported by Slashdot) doesn't have the appropriate markup for things like "sly wink" and "nudge nudge" that are the critical subtext to the under-the-table bargaining that almost-certainly actually happened.
In other words, the bare words look implausibly innocent. The fix was put in with body language and intonation.
Diversity IS redundancy, if you're one of the many who believes that robustness is for suckers.
If diversity reduces productivity or increases operating costs, it'll be squeezed out for the sake of the cost-saving bonus the responsible PHB will get. And things will go along hunky-dory until your one and only basket breaks, reducing your world-wide enterprise to one huge messy sidewalk omelet.
But again, no one wants to spend money (even just opportunity cost) to prevent or mitigate something bad happening that may never ever happen.
Robustness, security, insurance... all forms of "spending money to prevent something that I can just assume will never happen." And therefore things that get spent on only begrudgingly.
Giving money to the most corrupt politicians is worse than doing nothing.
I think you're right. The real problem with buying a corrupt politician is that they don't stay bought. You never really buy a politician; you "rent" them or "license" them, and if you don't pay the ongoing license fee, someone else will. And even if you do, you may be outbid.
Another swimming example of the genius of the free market.
Well, consider the resale value of the product: how much does a degree from Alfred's College of Computers (Est'd 2011) is worth on the job market?
Yeah. I'd say that the unalterable value of prestige, certification, and reputation is a HUGE barrier to entry and guarantees that education supply can't expand by the best standard capitalist method: expansion of competition. So the only viable way is to expand facilities and staffing in current institutions (a process of years and decades) or simply overserve using current facilities (and drive down utility value of that education... although the sheepskin will still be as prestigious, even for having multiple years of "industrial agriculture" style processing behind it.)
As long as you can trust Wikipedia editorial cabal-mongering, the Wiki search yields the precise page, and no coupon spam (unless the vandals have been at it again).
Yeah. What we need is a Linux kernel module that traps userland segmentation faults and throws a kernel panic. XD
I love all my Amigas; I fought on the epic frontlines of the Amiga versus Atari BBS flamewars before most of you were an ache in your daddys' groins. I carried the Boing Ball flag into harm's way too many times to count. But the true Amiga experience, as depicted by connoisseurs, requires abandonment of such niceties as memory protection and process isolation.
The hardcore nostalgics forget that the Amiga didn't have memory protection first because the hardware wasn't routinely available, and more importantly because the seamless memory map allowed all of RAM to be a huge playground for the CPU and custom co-processors to accomplish amazing things at less than 8 Mhz. Also, the kernel was blazing fast because there was no meaningful context transition from userland to kernel; everything was memory-pointer based, and all memory was directly mapped and non-virtual.
Therefore, it was also fragile. But that was an acceptable cost for blazing speed and jaw-dropping media performance at a time that MS-DOS machines were single-tasking, playing beeps and boops through a 2" speaker in the system case. and displaying EGA-level graphics.
So, let's not wax too nostalgic. True nostalgists wouldn't want this any more than an intelligent car collector will settle for a kit car body, even if it's on a more powerful and capable chassis than the original 1950s Ferrari (for instance).
Amiga enthusiasts who are curious or interested in one evolutionary path of the old OS might want to see this.
Other than that, I can't imagine this being a very popular product.
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Yeah. Not to mention the exciting "whoosh" sound you make during re-entry.
All the engineers left when HP split into 2 companies a few years ago. They're still going strong at Agilent
So, the corporation known as HP is the "B" Ark, except the Golgafrinchans actually sent the "A" Ark instead?
This explains a great deal about HP in the last decade-plus.
Slashdot loves angle brackets. Just eats 'em up with ice cream. Yum yum yum.
Since the default posting mode is "HTML Formatted", Slashdot reserves angle brackets for itself. For markup. It's being generous to call it "HTML", since it's a ridiculous subset, but there it is.
If you want the angle brackets precious for yourself, you'll have to use the HTML character entities* for them: < for < and > for >. That's how you save the preciouses from the tricksy Slashdotses.
*Not all of the HTML entities listed on this site work here. In fact, I think I'd characterize it as a ridiculous subset again. Which ones work here and which ones don't is left as an exercise for the reader.
Are you in favor of everyone being able to eat cake?
Sure.
Are you in favor of everyone having to pay for cake?
[this depends on whether you're already buying cake or just mooching cake off the general cake table]...
Damn September.
The long-term problem with the clueless hordes of newbie sheep wasn't merely that they bleat incessantly, stick their clunky hooves into everything, and crap on the carpets... it's the fact that unshepherded sheep attract predators by the pack. So that's what we have now... an internet of sheep, lured and corralled by wolves with good herding skills.
Or, if you insist on your metaphors unmixed, the range was wide open before they came. And now there are barbed wire fences and loud flashy towns and con men and lawmen all over the place.
I miss being an Internet Cowboy.
Apple design patent infringement injunction in 5... 4...
And thoughtful, balanced, well-reasoned, and realistic thinking like that will get you out of a jury pool faster than yelling "Hang 'em all and play pinata with their heads!"
The prosecution doesn't want anyone in a juror's chair that can believe the defense's technical assertions of reasonable doubt, let alone come up with them independently of the defense case. Prosecution science is precise, accurate, and "CSI" conclusive. Defense science is somewhere between black Satanic magic and flat-Earth Time Cube quackery.
I always thought an offshore data haven should be someplace tropical with nice data beaches. Not a decrepit wave-lashed gun platform in the North Atlantic.
That was Sealand's failing, I think: no data beaches.
Oh, it wasn't the Internet (particularly). The portmanteau bastardized blechery in the summary and title here aren't in TFA at all.
It was just world-famous Slashdot editorial practice at work. They can't rein in dupes, create an unbiased and non-sensationalist headline, or fix actual errors in copy from submitter (or themselves)... but the sure as hell can coin pointless and cringe-inducing neologisms.
Slashdot editing at its shining best.
When you're a liar, you're projecting a false self as a problem solving tool. This forces you to keep multiple versions of reality in your head.
The less nuanced but catchier way I've heard this expressed is "There are many lies but only one truth."
As practiced by the Legislative Branch of the U.S., incompetence is so intentional and willful that it rises past the level of mere picayune lying and to the heights of wholesale reality-denial. A malignant and cynical form of wishful thinking, if you will.
The words put into the mouths of the entities in that imaginary scenario are actually quite viable. The only problem is that HTML (especially the broken subset supported by Slashdot) doesn't have the appropriate markup for things like "sly wink" and "nudge nudge" that are the critical subtext to the under-the-table bargaining that almost-certainly actually happened.
In other words, the bare words look implausibly innocent. The fix was put in with body language and intonation.
Non-verbal communication. Isn't it great?
Well, to be honest, Cheney's firearms skills factor in too. You wouldn't want to have a hunting accident, would you?
It's really only useful for controlling 'vaporators and binary loadlifters.
"Prime Minister of (nominally) independent and sovereign nation" gets more action than "governor of newest state". If you know what I mean.
Besides, Liz woulda pitched a fit.
Diversity IS redundancy, if you're one of the many who believes that robustness is for suckers.
If diversity reduces productivity or increases operating costs, it'll be squeezed out for the sake of the cost-saving bonus the responsible PHB will get. And things will go along hunky-dory until your one and only basket breaks, reducing your world-wide enterprise to one huge messy sidewalk omelet.
But again, no one wants to spend money (even just opportunity cost) to prevent or mitigate something bad happening that may never ever happen.
Robustness, security, insurance... all forms of "spending money to prevent something that I can just assume will never happen." And therefore things that get spent on only begrudgingly.
and made from ultra-virgin oxygen-free 14-twist transparent copper.
all of which is like if Ford sold cars with the hoods welded shut...
Thank you. You're the only one who's gotten any of this right.
If it's not a car analogy, it's CRAP!"
For systems based on one popular architecture, about 6 months ago.
For other architectures, as soon as they think they can get away with it.
Protip: "You're better off without her" do not qualify as words of comfort.
Proxying plus script injection could accomplish this effect without Google's complicity or any type of site spoofing.
Giving money to the most corrupt politicians is worse than doing nothing.
I think you're right. The real problem with buying a corrupt politician is that they don't stay bought. You never really buy a politician; you "rent" them or "license" them, and if you don't pay the ongoing license fee, someone else will. And even if you do, you may be outbid.
Another swimming example of the genius of the free market.
Well, consider the resale value of the product: how much does a degree from Alfred's College of Computers (Est'd 2011) is worth on the job market?
Yeah. I'd say that the unalterable value of prestige, certification, and reputation is a HUGE barrier to entry and guarantees that education supply can't expand by the best standard capitalist method: expansion of competition. So the only viable way is to expand facilities and staffing in current institutions (a process of years and decades) or simply overserve using current facilities (and drive down utility value of that education... although the sheepskin will still be as prestigious, even for having multiple years of "industrial agriculture" style processing behind it.)
As long as you can trust Wikipedia editorial cabal-mongering, the Wiki search yields the precise page, and no coupon spam (unless the vandals have been at it again).
Yeah. What we need is a Linux kernel module that traps userland segmentation faults and throws a kernel panic. XD
I love all my Amigas; I fought on the epic frontlines of the Amiga versus Atari BBS flamewars before most of you were an ache in your daddys' groins. I carried the Boing Ball flag into harm's way too many times to count. But the true Amiga experience, as depicted by connoisseurs, requires abandonment of such niceties as memory protection and process isolation.
The hardcore nostalgics forget that the Amiga didn't have memory protection first because the hardware wasn't routinely available, and more importantly because the seamless memory map allowed all of RAM to be a huge playground for the CPU and custom co-processors to accomplish amazing things at less than 8 Mhz. Also, the kernel was blazing fast because there was no meaningful context transition from userland to kernel; everything was memory-pointer based, and all memory was directly mapped and non-virtual.
Therefore, it was also fragile. But that was an acceptable cost for blazing speed and jaw-dropping media performance at a time that MS-DOS machines were single-tasking, playing beeps and boops through a 2" speaker in the system case. and displaying EGA-level graphics.
So, let's not wax too nostalgic. True nostalgists wouldn't want this any more than an intelligent car collector will settle for a kit car body, even if it's on a more powerful and capable chassis than the original 1950s Ferrari (for instance).
Amiga enthusiasts who are curious or interested in one evolutionary path of the old OS might want to see this.
Other than that, I can't imagine this being a very popular product.