I for one am tired of Apple's Monopolistic business practices on their Mac range.
Isn't that like saying you're tired of Slashdot's monopolistic business practices on its Slashdot brand? By default, every company has a monopoly on its own products.
I have a 20/20 fiber connection available to me for cheaper than what I'm currently paying for 1/0.25... how lame is that?
You have a far faster connection available to you but you continue to pay higher prices for vastly inferior bandwidth? That is incredibly lame -- switch already!
I think they're drafting up Loony Letter #37 for you:
"Thank you for your letter. While we too are concerned that there are many countries which don't yet have the same freedoms we enjoy, we view the Olympic games as the best way to reach a large audience and, through our participation, to help effect change.
I hope that we can count on you to work with us to bring about the better world you speak of. I would like to remind you of the many charitable organizations that we've been proud to contribute to. Your continued consumption of our products ensures that those slobs^H^H^H^H^Hdestitute individuals continue to get the care they need.
off topic, perhaps, but how is the first xkcd refference in the thread redundant?
Because the subject is "Make me a sandwich" with a "sudo" reference in the body. Moofie replied to this and explained the joke, thus it's redundant. It was already an XKCD reference and didn't need the dead horse flogged again.
They could be fake agents, who know an awful lot of information BECAUSE they are the criminals. This way without a court order, they can simply clean up after themselves. Nice.
So the fake agents should just present a fake court order next time?
Correct me if I'm wrong... but aren't contracts breakable without termination charges if the service provider changes the contract?
The problem is that people are agreeing to contracts which say they agree the provider can change the terms of the contract. Read the Slashdot (SourceForge) terms of service... they essentially say that SourceForge can change the terms, it's up to you to monitor them for changes, and 14 days later if you keep using the site it means you agree. They could change it and say that your full name and email address will be made public on every post unless you cancel your account. The only difference here is that with these providers you're bound to a contract and you've agreed in advance to whatever changes are arbitrarily made.
That highway is quite spectacular, with some interesting vista's along the way. Unfortunately, some of those vista's were poorly designed. The foundation of this particular one was unstable from the beginning, and looks to have crashed Mozilla. Personally, I think they should do away with the vista's and focus on stability and long term viability.
You forgot the apostrophe in "look's".
Remember folk's: every plural word require's an apostrophe.
75 baud? You had it lucky. We only dreamed of 75 baud. Why, when I was a lad we had to sacrifice a family member every day for the privilege of whistling into the phone line to send while someone else jotted down the notes he heard to receive. And every night our Dad would thrash us to sleep every time we got a NO CARRIER.
They need to start using Erlang more. It's designed specifically for building highly-distributed, concurrent systems that must scale to millions of transactions per minute. So it's a natural fit between Erlang and what Amazon is trying to offer with their S3 service.
I think Erlang's cool and all, but it's not the magical bullet that will solve this. It's still possible to have information corrupted during message passing between processes in Erlang (say, as the result of an intermittently failing network switch) as it is in any language.
Speaking of your sig, it's LEGO, not legos. You can have a LEGO set or box, a single LEGO brick, or just a whole mess of LEGO. The capitalization ultimately doesn't matter and you can call it Lego or lego if you like. However, calling it "legos" is just wrong. That's about as ridiculous as "I love reading slashdots".
It's like an amateur version of Speed Racer. It looks like something somebody put together with Blender.
As a driving game, it looks like fun. As a movie, probably not.
Had you seen a 2 minute clip of the lightcycle race from the original Tron, you would have thought the same thing because you have absolutely no context around what the movie is about. If you saw the entire Tron movie and still held that opinion then either you didn't get it at all, or you can get the hell off my lawn you whippersnapper.
Wow, from the results the 2nd and 3rd place finishers were 2 hours apart, but Michigan in 1st place was a full 10 hours ahead of the 2nd place finisher. Very impressive! Now where can I purchase one of these?:)
Luxury. Well when I were a lad, our dad used to make 160 of us live in a shoebox in the middle of deep space. Millikelvins?? We *dreamed* of millikelvins....
Paradise. Why, when I was growin' up, we were all huddled together inside a higgs boson in the middle of a black hole. Every morning, we'd lick the black hole clean with our tongues, then huddle around the event horizon rubbing our hands together until it went *above* absolute zero.
United Statians, not Americans. Americans as in Ecuadorians, Colombians, Venezuelans, Brazilians, etc have the freedom to visit Cuba.
So if a person from Brazil went to Europe and someone over there asked "Are you an American?" they would answer "Yes"? Maybe I've seen too many movies, but in my experience the term "American" has a very specific meaning of being a citizen of the United States.
There's a bit of wisdom that's been passed around, all over Latin America, for the last thirty years: Visit Cuba before the North Americans can get back in...
Americans, not North Americans. Canadians and Mexicans have the freedom to visit Cuba.
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The Middle East isn't the only area that's hot. Soon the Mexicans will use it to keep Americans out. :)
... a mass uprising of averge, everyday white Americans is "Al-Qaida in America".
Some things will be just too big to spin.
Now I, too, watched the movie "Super Size Me" but calling the average American too big to spin is just over the top! :)
Will they offer a stoolbar with an integrated poopup blocker?
I for one am tired of Apple's Monopolistic business practices on their Mac range.
Isn't that like saying you're tired of Slashdot's monopolistic business practices on its Slashdot brand? By default, every company has a monopoly on its own products.
I have a 20/20 fiber connection available to me for cheaper than what I'm currently paying for 1/0.25 ... how lame is that?
You have a far faster connection available to you but you continue to pay higher prices for vastly inferior bandwidth? That is incredibly lame -- switch already!
Or worse, we end up with the iCar. Every car will have the same numberplate "STEVE", and will only drive to places on Apple's white list.
To be fair, the grandparent did specify "Betamacs".
I think they're drafting up Loony Letter #37 for you:
"Thank you for your letter. While we too are concerned that there are many countries which don't yet have the same freedoms we enjoy, we view the Olympic games as the best way to reach a large audience and, through our participation, to help effect change.
I hope that we can count on you to work with us to bring about the better world you speak of. I would like to remind you of the many charitable organizations that we've been proud to contribute to. Your continued consumption of our products ensures that those slobs^H^H^H^H^Hdestitute individuals continue to get the care they need.
Sincerely,
Lester Nessman
Director of Public Relations"
off topic, perhaps, but how is the first xkcd refference in the thread redundant?
Because the subject is "Make me a sandwich" with a "sudo" reference in the body. Moofie replied to this and explained the joke, thus it's redundant. It was already an XKCD reference and didn't need the dead horse flogged again.
They could be fake agents, who know an awful lot of information BECAUSE they are the criminals.
This way without a court order, they can simply clean up after themselves.
Nice.
So the fake agents should just present a fake court order next time?
Correct me if I'm wrong... but aren't contracts breakable without termination charges if the service provider changes the contract?
The problem is that people are agreeing to contracts which say they agree the provider can change the terms of the contract. Read the Slashdot (SourceForge) terms of service... they essentially say that SourceForge can change the terms, it's up to you to monitor them for changes, and 14 days later if you keep using the site it means you agree. They could change it and say that your full name and email address will be made public on every post unless you cancel your account. The only difference here is that with these providers you're bound to a contract and you've agreed in advance to whatever changes are arbitrarily made.
That highway is quite spectacular, with some interesting vista's along the way. Unfortunately, some of those vista's were poorly designed. The foundation of this particular one was unstable from the beginning, and looks to have crashed Mozilla. Personally, I think they should do away with the vista's and focus on stability and long term viability.
You forgot the apostrophe in "look's".
Remember folk's: every plural word require's an apostrophe.
What's a troll?
It's a moderation that's impossible to get when your resulting moderated score is higher than the default score.
I will hereby sacrifice tons of karma for the mods to try in vain to moderate this to +5, Troll. Sadly, it'll never get there.
Am I naive or doesn't that violate some kind of consumer rights?
The consumer's right is that they can shop elsewhere.
75 baud? You had it lucky. We only dreamed of 75 baud. Why, when I was a lad we had to sacrifice a family member every day for the privilege of whistling into the phone line to send while someone else jotted down the notes he heard to receive. And every night our Dad would thrash us to sleep every time we got a NO CARRIER.
This is just what 3D Realms has been waiting for... it's almost powerful enough to run Duke Nukem Forever!
They need to start using Erlang more. It's designed specifically for building highly-distributed, concurrent systems that must scale to millions of transactions per minute. So it's a natural fit between Erlang and what Amazon is trying to offer with their S3 service.
I think Erlang's cool and all, but it's not the magical bullet that will solve this. It's still possible to have information corrupted during message passing between processes in Erlang (say, as the result of an intermittently failing network switch) as it is in any language.
Speaking of your sig, it's LEGO, not legos. You can have a LEGO set or box, a single LEGO brick, or just a whole mess of LEGO. The capitalization ultimately doesn't matter and you can call it Lego or lego if you like. However, calling it "legos" is just wrong. That's about as ridiculous as "I love reading slashdots".
It's like an amateur version of Speed Racer. It looks like something somebody put together with Blender.
As a driving game, it looks like fun. As a movie, probably not.
Had you seen a 2 minute clip of the lightcycle race from the original Tron, you would have thought the same thing because you have absolutely no context around what the movie is about. If you saw the entire Tron movie and still held that opinion then either you didn't get it at all, or you can get the hell off my lawn you whippersnapper.
Wow, from the results the 2nd and 3rd place finishers were 2 hours apart, but Michigan in 1st place was a full 10 hours ahead of the 2nd place finisher. Very impressive! Now where can I purchase one of these? :)
Luxury. Well when I were a lad, our dad used to make 160 of us live in a shoebox in the middle of deep space. Millikelvins?? We *dreamed* of millikelvins....
Paradise. Why, when I was growin' up, we were all huddled together inside a higgs boson in the middle of a black hole. Every morning, we'd lick the black hole clean with our tongues, then huddle around the event horizon rubbing our hands together until it went *above* absolute zero.
Would he have reported the loss of his virginity?
You can find a prototype of the display at this link. It's also handy for identifying makes of motorcycles and correct sizes of biker clothing.
United Statians, not Americans. Americans as in Ecuadorians, Colombians, Venezuelans, Brazilians, etc have the freedom to visit Cuba.
So if a person from Brazil went to Europe and someone over there asked "Are you an American?" they would answer "Yes"? Maybe I've seen too many movies, but in my experience the term "American" has a very specific meaning of being a citizen of the United States.
You forgot bugs. They're the hands-down winner, not just in terms of bio-mass but in human diet, too. Man eating bugs!
What about man eating man-eating bugs? It's like a klein buffet!
There's a bit of wisdom that's been passed around, all over Latin America, for the last thirty years: Visit Cuba before the North Americans can get back in...
Americans, not North Americans. Canadians and Mexicans have the freedom to visit Cuba.