I understand the "papers please" argument, and reject it because we simply do not have the manpower to set up checkpoints and run around asking everyone for "papers, please".
Straw man. The whole point of a national ID card coupled to its attendant DB means you don't have to set up roadblocks etc., you just need a couple of PNGs sitting in a windowless room somewhere directing much more efficient and targeted "stops".
Damn, that actually makes me respect Kos a little. Really, who the fuck cries for mercenaries? Kinda the point of the job, really.
I mean, no one wants to be a mercenary and have people mount vigils when they're captured or speak tearful eulogies when they die, otherwise you lose the whole mystique of the profession.
Why is this modded troll? As a first gen ipod touch user, I was thinking the same thing - some sort of 2.2.2 firmware update for the bugs only in a few weeks from now.
Well said. Kinda hard to feel bad for Media conglomerates when most of them own ISPs who are quite happy to advertise their wares in terms of "fast access to media".
Somebody's making money, and it's not the pirates.
Nah, Bose doesn't suck so much as you can get similar quality gear for a better price. It's swanky audio gear for people who don't know anything about audio gear.
What, you mean I gotta drag a laptop (already kinda too big) plus wacom tablet into bed? For six times the price? Screw that.
dramatically superior input device
Possibly. But that's not the main concern, which is comfort. even if the touchscreen is less than stellar, it'll still be good enough to do at least the bulk of the work.
Doesn't matter anyway. This is just the beginning. I'm aware that we're still at least 2 years away from what I'm looking for.
Wrong. You can get a 13" MacBook/Wacom tablet combo
I should have specified. I like to work on my graphics projects as the last, relaxing thing of the day. I don't as much of it anymore because it keeps me stuck in the office (home). Much better if I could relax in bed doing this while wifey watches tv/reads.
Forget Debian. The only other thing this is better for than anything else besides being a webtablet is PS and Gimp. As soon as one or both are possible, I'm there.
Yeah, once again, you can't be bothered to read what I write, you pompous blowhard. I'll be able to retire by the time I'm 40. I'd love to know how that make me self-limiting.
successful people
Ah, I see where the problem is. Money=success. Gotcha.
Some of us think there's a little more to life. Shame you're so limited.
It's very frightening how you use the derogitory term "them"
Did you even read what I wrote? I specified that it's mostly on them (I also specifically used the term generally to denote to the rush readers that I was aware of the generalizations and its concomitant exceptions). I can imagine quite easily having lots of shiny toys and rarely hearing the word "no". Whereas, if one of them even manages to remember you exist, you can expect a lively conversation centered around one of the following: Yachts, Mansions, or whichever twit du jour is trying to 'steal' their money. Yeah, that's some wicked synergy!
Obivously you despite rich people
Nope, I certainly don't despite [sic] them, I just consider them alien, for reasons I already described. Maybe I'm a little too human, but it's a little hard to relate to someone not only fundamentally different from you, but who isn't willing to put as much effort into understanding you as you are into understanding them.
I might as well say you despise people with criminal records just because you won't hire them, for god's sake.
But people with money are simply people like any other, some good and some bad. People are people and money doesn't change that, it accentuates it.
Maybe. But just stop and consider for a second growing up, never lacking for anything. Again, I'm not saying it's intrinsically good or bad, but it is a gulf of difference from how the majority of the world lives. That's the whole point. In real terms, they might as well be Martians.
and perhaps achieve some measure of success.
Way ahead of you. In fact, I'm at that point already where things are changing. Sorry I'm not stuck in my mom's basement.
I'm sorry you must live a life of hate, but perhaps some day you'll grow out of it.
And I hope one day you pull your head out of your ass and actually read before jumping with your half-baked theories. Speaking of which, when does your mom get on shift? I'm dying for her to gobble my nuts.
I just don't see how we go forward in a society when we refuse to listen to someone you don't agree with.
We don't, at least not as fast as we would like. "Primitive fuckheads" have always been around to hold us back through fear, superstition and parsing. Eventually, they wither away and become extinct, and we move on to the next thing.
The only difference now is that we have the interwebs. Crazies get to have a bigger voice than they've ever had before, and a mechanism to easily hook up with others who think like them. Their importance is distorted, and, IMO, we're only just starting to come to grips with that concept.
How can you presume to know what experiences even someone who grew up around money had?
I can. I grew up around them, as that's who my dad worked for. In general, the most horrific bunch of hideous, unhinged zombies I'll ever have the pleasure to meet. No skills, no manners, no intelligence (no need, really, in this world, it's all about connections), and zero idea of how 99.99% of their fellow humans live.
Not that it should be a requirement for rich people to be cognizant of how everybody else gets along, but insularity breeds contempt, so it's on them.
In short, rich white people* are fucking clueless, and I've certainly don't want some freak oligarchy being the one that calls the shots, especially when they're so woefully unprepared.
*Plenty of non-white rich assholes too. Though, to be fair, there's a certain curiosity still present in most cultures that the anglo ones I've experienced just don't have as much.
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I understand the "papers please" argument, and reject it because we simply do not have the manpower to set up checkpoints and run around asking everyone for "papers, please".
Straw man. The whole point of a national ID card coupled to its attendant DB means you don't have to set up roadblocks etc., you just need a couple of PNGs sitting in a windowless room somewhere directing much more efficient and targeted "stops".
That's the UK for you. When I moved back in '90, the pound was roughly twice the dollar, yet all goods bore the same sticker as their US counterparts.
They're about your rights, and you're reading it online.
Fucking parsers...
newegg.com, where any serious builder does his shopping.
But there's no hard guarantee.
Sure there is. Go read up on Peak Oil.
Then go read what anybody's doing about it. (Hint: Apart from mostly singular projects like the one in TFA, mostly jack shit.)
Electricity prices will go up.
There is so much crap on the internet that it undermines all the information that is out there.
You can't state that as an absolute, that sentence just cries out for a YMMV.
Just because you haven't figured out how to filter noise is your problem, not a universal one.
Damn, that actually makes me respect Kos a little. Really, who the fuck cries for mercenaries? Kinda the point of the job, really.
I mean, no one wants to be a mercenary and have people mount vigils when they're captured or speak tearful eulogies when they die, otherwise you lose the whole mystique of the profession.
But who would eat there?
Feature, not a bug.
Why is this modded troll? As a first gen ipod touch user, I was thinking the same thing - some sort of 2.2.2 firmware update for the bugs only in a few weeks from now.
Paying for an update is ridiculous
If you feel that strongly about it, go torrent the firmware. Not that hard to do.
I sure hope apple does the right thing.
You must be new here.
Yep.
Pays to RTFA, eh?
Well said. Kinda hard to feel bad for Media conglomerates when most of them own ISPs who are quite happy to advertise their wares in terms of "fast access to media".
Somebody's making money, and it's not the pirates.
I want it to be called swine flu again. That way bacon will be super cheap again.
That's genius! I live in a small town, so the supermarket's always out of the bacon I like.
*Logs in to facbeook, and starts spamming about swine flu to local friends and family in a gloomy tone*
Yeah, they're back on the bleeding edge!
So the Internet is like ...the Terminator of electronic communication tools?
"It cannot be reasoned with" - yeah, sounds about right.
Nah, Bose doesn't suck so much as you can get similar quality gear for a better price. It's swanky audio gear for people who don't know anything about audio gear.
Some of your best cows are also my "friends".
Man-Cow love is a beautiful thing.
What, you mean I gotta drag a laptop (already kinda too big) plus wacom tablet into bed? For six times the price? Screw that.
dramatically superior input device
Possibly. But that's not the main concern, which is comfort. even if the touchscreen is less than stellar, it'll still be good enough to do at least the bulk of the work.
Doesn't matter anyway. This is just the beginning. I'm aware that we're still at least 2 years away from what I'm looking for.
Wrong. You can get a 13" MacBook/Wacom tablet combo
I should have specified. I like to work on my graphics projects as the last, relaxing thing of the day. I don't as much of it anymore because it keeps me stuck in the office (home). Much better if I could relax in bed doing this while wifey watches tv/reads.
I wonder if I could get that to run debian?
Forget Debian. The only other thing this is better for than anything else besides being a webtablet is PS and Gimp. As soon as one or both are possible, I'm there.
Another vote for Spinrite here, although I'd call it more of a HD necromancer than a data recovery tool.
limiting you
Yeah, once again, you can't be bothered to read what I write, you pompous blowhard. I'll be able to retire by the time I'm 40. I'd love to know how that make me self-limiting.
successful people
Ah, I see where the problem is. Money=success. Gotcha.
Some of us think there's a little more to life. Shame you're so limited.
It's very frightening how you use the derogitory term "them"
Did you even read what I wrote? I specified that it's mostly on them (I also specifically used the term generally to denote to the rush readers that I was aware of the generalizations and its concomitant exceptions). I can imagine quite easily having lots of shiny toys and rarely hearing the word "no". Whereas, if one of them even manages to remember you exist, you can expect a lively conversation centered around one of the following: Yachts, Mansions, or whichever twit du jour is trying to 'steal' their money. Yeah, that's some wicked synergy!
Obivously you despite rich people
Nope, I certainly don't despite [sic] them, I just consider them alien, for reasons I already described. Maybe I'm a little too human, but it's a little hard to relate to someone not only fundamentally different from you, but who isn't willing to put as much effort into understanding you as you are into understanding them.
I might as well say you despise people with criminal records just because you won't hire them, for god's sake.
But people with money are simply people like any other, some good and some bad. People are people and money doesn't change that, it accentuates it.
Maybe. But just stop and consider for a second growing up, never lacking for anything. Again, I'm not saying it's intrinsically good or bad, but it is a gulf of difference from how the majority of the world lives. That's the whole point. In real terms, they might as well be Martians.
and perhaps achieve some measure of success.
Way ahead of you. In fact, I'm at that point already where things are changing. Sorry I'm not stuck in my mom's basement.
I'm sorry you must live a life of hate, but perhaps some day you'll grow out of it.
And I hope one day you pull your head out of your ass and actually read before jumping with your half-baked theories. Speaking of which, when does your mom get on shift? I'm dying for her to gobble my nuts.
That's hate, dumbass.
I just don't see how we go forward in a society when we refuse to listen to someone you don't agree with.
We don't, at least not as fast as we would like. "Primitive fuckheads" have always been around to hold us back through fear, superstition and parsing. Eventually, they wither away and become extinct, and we move on to the next thing.
The only difference now is that we have the interwebs. Crazies get to have a bigger voice than they've ever had before, and a mechanism to easily hook up with others who think like them. Their importance is distorted, and, IMO, we're only just starting to come to grips with that concept.
How can you presume to know what experiences even someone who grew up around money had?
I can. I grew up around them, as that's who my dad worked for. In general, the most horrific bunch of hideous, unhinged zombies I'll ever have the pleasure to meet. No skills, no manners, no intelligence (no need, really, in this world, it's all about connections), and zero idea of how 99.99% of their fellow humans live.
Not that it should be a requirement for rich people to be cognizant of how everybody else gets along, but insularity breeds contempt, so it's on them.
In short, rich white people* are fucking clueless, and I've certainly don't want some freak oligarchy being the one that calls the shots, especially when they're so woefully unprepared.
*Plenty of non-white rich assholes too. Though, to be fair, there's a certain curiosity still present in most cultures that the anglo ones I've experienced just don't have as much.