While I appreciate that many people like the look and feel of Thinkpads, I admit that I find it to be very.....retro looking. It looks like something out of the 90's. Monotone with faded colour highlights, sharp hard angular edges, and a low resolution screen ( 900 vertical pixels? for a high-end laptop? really? )
Did they remember to attach a shark to it? It can't possibly function without one!
This is very disturbing. Not your comment, but the fact that enough people wasted their modpoints to get your post to +5 Funny.
Now sit back and take a long hard look at this.... after a while the only thought left is... "why?"
It doesnt even come close to barely scratching the broad definition of "Funny". It *may* have been funny many years ago when the Austin Powers movies were in cinemas, but it ceased to be funny soon afterwards.
Are there actually people out there who genuinely find that comment funny? If so we should be concerned, deeply disturbed and frankly, quite scared.
What is wrong with us? Does humanity have no real hope left?
What's the difference between hiring enough people to write down the license plates as people drive by? This should be the same question in almost all technology privacy questions. With enough people, could you perform the same level of tracking/facial recognition/technology boogeyman?
There is no difference in the end, the same privacy issues would arise, I dont see your point. Human or computer, it is still just as creepy and concerning.
But computers/cameras can do it way better, faster, more accurately, cheaper, require less maintenance, are smaller, less obvious, require less effort to create the system, can provide tracking data in real-time, analyse and store tracking data forever.....dude, you got all day? I could go on and on and on...
Why would I bother enabling this hardware and wasting battery. I used my $10 free from Google Wallet to buy a 6-pack and then disabled NFC. I'll re-enable it when/if Google restocks my account with free money.
Well, 'you' wouldnt bother, so end of story.
On the other hand, the rest of us aren't cynical freeloaders, and will continue to use it where possible.
It makes me wonder, what if we lived in a world where Apple won and had its own way...
The only smartphone in existence would be the iPhone, and they would hold so many patents that nobody but Apple could make smart devices that are usable. With a 100% market monopoly, the vast majority of cellphone owners would have dumb phones because they couldnt afford an iPhone. The iPhone would be one of the most visible separators of the rich vs the poor.
Any person caught without an iPhone would be ostracised and teased as "that person who is so poor they cant even afford an iPhone, what a loser...etc etc".
Innovation would drop to essentially zero in the mobile market, as any attempt at competition vs Apple would result in Apple Legal utterly destroying the offending company.
In all, it would be the equivalent of the Smartphone Apocalypse, a veritable wasteland where only the well-to-do are allowed to enjoy the fruits of mobile technology, and the rest of us shamble along, dejected, left out and downtrodden.
There are bad students out there, we do not live in a perfect happy smiley little world where every human has limitless potential and can do *anything* if only they tried and had good teachers. That nonsense view comes out of what political correctness has done to modern western society.
There are students who truly are unwilling to learn, dont want to be there, and are only in class because they have to.
There are actually students out there who will never be able to pass certain exams, no matter how good the teachers are and no matter how much they try. Some things are just beyond some people.
The *real world* is not perfect, humans are not perfect.
If you think that is a cynical view, well then that is utterly irrelevant to my point. Facts are facts, no matter how much we dont or do like that fact.
If 8 million humans were slaughtered, we would call it a Holocaust. If 8 million chickens were slaughtered, we would call it......well nothing, we wouldn't even blink an eyelid at the thought.
Its amazing and disturbing how totally blasé we are at killing mammals.
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eyelashes? nipples? fingernails?
While I appreciate that many people like the look and feel of Thinkpads, I admit that I find it to be very.....retro looking. It looks like something out of the 90's. Monotone with faded colour highlights, sharp hard angular edges, and a low resolution screen ( 900 vertical pixels? for a high-end laptop? really? )
Not to mention that nipple pointer thingy. meh.
Did they remember to attach a shark to it? It can't possibly function without one!
This is very disturbing. Not your comment, but the fact that enough people wasted their modpoints to get your post to +5 Funny.
Now sit back and take a long hard look at this.... after a while the only thought left is... "why?"
It doesnt even come close to barely scratching the broad definition of "Funny". It *may* have been funny many years ago when the Austin Powers movies were in cinemas, but it ceased to be funny soon afterwards.
Are there actually people out there who genuinely find that comment funny? If so we should be concerned, deeply disturbed and frankly, quite scared.
What is wrong with us? Does humanity have no real hope left?
Key word here...AFAIK.
Luckily the world is not limited by what *you* know.
Oh dude, you should totally check out this thing known as a "figure of speech".
Its a real hoot, you don't actually *have* to take it literally. Novel idea huh?
You are wasting your time if you are trying to convince the wilfully ignorant by educating them with the facts and using logical deductive reasoning.
You will have more luck convincing the Pope that indeed, god does not actually exist.
So what's wrong with racists?
They are racist lowlife scum.
These days they're the only honest people left.
So racists admit to being racist lowlife scum....your point being.....?
Had me baffled too. WTF is "Arrested Development"?
Web comic? TV show? computer game? industrial robot? space themed software?
And who on earth is Lucille Bluth, never heard of her.
Dont you love it how Slashdot assumes that only Americans are reading it, and that the rest of the world is just this thing they hear about on tv?
What's the difference between hiring enough people to write down the license plates as people drive by?
This should be the same question in almost all technology privacy questions. With enough people, could you perform the same level of tracking/facial recognition/technology boogeyman?
There is no difference in the end, the same privacy issues would arise, I dont see your point. Human or computer, it is still just as creepy and concerning.
But computers/cameras can do it way better, faster, more accurately, cheaper, require less maintenance, are smaller, less obvious, require less effort to create the system, can provide tracking data in real-time, analyse and store tracking data forever.....dude, you got all day? I could go on and on and on...
Lol, you should check out this TV series called Mythbusters. They would laugh at your foolish lies. And then prove you utterly wrong.
The citizens (in theory, at least) control the government, and they should be able to stop them from trying this nonsense.
Key word here; 'theory'.
In theory that's how a democratic government works....In practice....lol, as if. Wouldn't we be so lucky!
I'm going to start a Kickstarter to BUY this, then bulldozer it over, and build the Edison museum.
The Edison Museum: Because the oatmeal sucks. Seriously, fuck that guy.
Thomas? is that you?
The problem is how do you convince someone to install a punching device when the only point of said device is to punch the owner of the device?
Easy. Pay them money. LOTS of money.
In America, almost half the population has guns. And youre flying in a blimp, as tempting a target as you could think of.
Not a good mix.
I beg to differ.
Permission granted. You may now differ.
Moral of the story?
Dont say bad things against the government in a blog.
Why would I bother enabling this hardware and wasting battery. I used my $10 free from Google Wallet to buy a 6-pack and then disabled NFC. I'll re-enable it when/if Google restocks my account with free money.
Well, 'you' wouldnt bother, so end of story.
On the other hand, the rest of us aren't cynical freeloaders, and will continue to use it where possible.
QR codes over? First ive heard of it.
Has Netcraft confirmed it yet? Id like to know if it is official.
Rectennas? really?
What is the first thought that goes into ones head at first seeing the word 'rectennas'?
Exactly.....this is a poor choice of word that will only cause derision and child-level jokes at every mention of the word.
And on another note, can any Americans here please explain what a 'penny' is? 1c? 5c? 10c? 20c? 50c? a dollar?
It makes me wonder, what if we lived in a world where Apple won and had its own way...
The only smartphone in existence would be the iPhone, and they would hold so many patents that nobody but Apple could make smart devices that are usable. With a 100% market monopoly, the vast majority of cellphone owners would have dumb phones because they couldnt afford an iPhone. The iPhone would be one of the most visible separators of the rich vs the poor.
Any person caught without an iPhone would be ostracised and teased as "that person who is so poor they cant even afford an iPhone, what a loser...etc etc".
Innovation would drop to essentially zero in the mobile market, as any attempt at competition vs Apple would result in Apple Legal utterly destroying the offending company.
In all, it would be the equivalent of the Smartphone Apocalypse, a veritable wasteland where only the well-to-do are allowed to enjoy the fruits of mobile technology, and the rest of us shamble along, dejected, left out and downtrodden.
What an awful world that would be.
Fuck you Apple, you narcissistic greedy bastards.
No, *you* get to dictate the licence of your software. It is *you* who chooses to use a GPL library in your code.
The Author of the GPL code did not put a gun to your head and forced you to choose their code.
No, you are quite wrong indeed.
There are bad students out there, we do not live in a perfect happy smiley little world where every human has limitless potential and can do *anything* if only they tried and had good teachers. That nonsense view comes out of what political correctness has done to modern western society.
There are students who truly are unwilling to learn, dont want to be there, and are only in class because they have to.
There are actually students out there who will never be able to pass certain exams, no matter how good the teachers are and no matter how much they try. Some things are just beyond some people.
The *real world* is not perfect, humans are not perfect.
If you think that is a cynical view, well then that is utterly irrelevant to my point. Facts are facts, no matter how much we dont or do like that fact.
Doesn't anyone proofread anymore?
No, Slashdot editors do not proof read the submissions. This has been known for many years.
This is not unique to Slashdot though, it is prevalent throughout the entire online journalism and news industry.
Are you really telling me that in the US, you can just go and buy a real assault rifle online and it will just get shipped to your door?
WTF is *wrong* with you people!?
If 8 million humans were slaughtered, we would call it a Holocaust.
If 8 million chickens were slaughtered, we would call it......well nothing, we wouldn't even blink an eyelid at the thought.
Its amazing and disturbing how totally blasé we are at killing mammals.
They are only chickens, amiright?