3) This is, though, a good opportunity to ridicule "21" for completely botching the Monty Hall problem, along with pretty much everything else relating to math, gambling and Boston-area geography.
You paid good money to watch that crap? What's wrong with you? Even Helen Keller could've figured it was going to blow chunks.
While I am not sure why I got a Flamebate mod on my post
You probably pissed off somebody with mod points and they're taking it out on you, regardless of the post's contents. It happens. Maybe I'll catch it in M2.
Is it really a slashvertisement when we're talking about something that's barely past the concept stage? Granted, this is good coverage for Asus (who, IMO deserve it), but I also thought news like this was exactly what Slashdot was for.
Eh, I'm not worried about them too much, their time is coming, and fast. Between heightened awareness of Blood diamonds, the true "scarcity" of diamonds and the up and coming synthetic diamond industry, we should see the back of these dinosaurs within my lifetime.
That sure is some good crack you're smoking. I would have accepted some, but many? Many is the amount of people who won't even notice when MS buys out Yahoo.
And that's why corporate users pay several times the amount that home users pay for their lines.
Exactly. I pay more for my work connection than my home one, despite the fact that it's at best a quarter of the speed, and the reliability is the same.
Whenever I'm offered an un-needed plastic bag, I get stared at like some mutant. Doesn't stop me doing it, but it would be nice if more people had a clue.
Honestly, I don't think the Chinese know shit because that's what their leaders feed them. I think they're too busy making money to worry about improving their constituents' lives.
No, it's just fashionable to sneer at blogs here on/.
It think it's the same group who claims they don't watch TV either. We can sneer right back at them for being elitist snobs, but we don't really care about that, we just wish they'd shut the fuck up. We heard 'em the first time.
Correction: The divisive split between "Right" and "Far Right" is one of the things that most cripples democracy in the USA, today.
Well said. I'll take the left wing loons over the right wing ones any day of the week and twice on sundays. I appreciate their firm stance on their "principles", but coexisting with hundreds of millions of people in a first world country requires a lot more compromise than fundies are even willing to think about, let alone actually do.
Well, he might not be Shakespeare, but try reading, say, Dan Brown or Tom Clancy, and then tell me he's mediocre. When you're better than 90% of the tripe out there, sci-fi included, you've wandered away a little bit from "mediocre".
As for Disch and Delany, never read 'em, unless they were in one of the many millions of sf short stories I devoured as a kid. All you need is Bradbury and Heinlein to get by anyway. Everything else is icing on the cake.
Oh, and don't let anyone go and call you elitist. You just don't have the common touch. We can't all be perfect.
Mod parent up. Browser zealotry is just stupid. I might not like it, but once in a blue moon, I have to run IE (or the IE Tab extension). It's not a big deal.
That, I suspect, will change as online gaming becomes ever more popular.
Change back to PCs, you mean? Doubt it. Even Sony's managed to finally figure out the online angle, and both the Xbox and the Wii already rock in that department. If anything, decent online compatibility on the consoles will swing things completely the other way.
you'll see consoles becoming targets as well.
Even if it does get to be the problem it is on PCs (very doubtful), it won't matter. It's a trivial task to reset a console to factory defaults and get up and gaming again. Your worst case scenario will probably be loss of saved games, and if you're that anal about it, you've already bought a memory card for safety anyway.
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3) This is, though, a good opportunity to ridicule "21" for completely botching the Monty Hall problem, along with pretty much everything else relating to math, gambling and Boston-area geography.
You paid good money to watch that crap? What's wrong with you? Even Helen Keller could've figured it was going to blow chunks.
While I am not sure why I got a Flamebate mod on my post
You probably pissed off somebody with mod points and they're taking it out on you, regardless of the post's contents. It happens. Maybe I'll catch it in M2.
I mean, *somebody's* got to be spending it faster than the real grown-ups make it
ROTFLMAO!!!! Man, Slashdot's been good to me today!
Clueless twat.
Is it really a slashvertisement when we're talking about something that's barely past the concept stage? Granted, this is good coverage for Asus (who, IMO deserve it), but I also thought news like this was exactly what Slashdot was for.
But I think we are getting to a point again where the details they can produce is beyond what is needed.
Which is probably why we're getting a lot more chatter on the raytracing issue. I believe that'll be the next big step.
Eh, I'm not worried about them too much, their time is coming, and fast. Between heightened awareness of Blood diamonds, the true "scarcity" of diamonds and the up and coming synthetic diamond industry, we should see the back of these dinosaurs within my lifetime.
Yeah, I have to say it's nice to see somebody treating MS like the convicted monopolists they are (hint hint wink wink nudge nudge).
Many people will live on principle alone.
That sure is some good crack you're smoking. I would have accepted some, but many? Many is the amount of people who won't even notice when MS buys out Yahoo.
Where do you want to Yahoo today?
Are you Serious?
Wow, someone on Slashdot who actually understands what lawyers are for. Mod +1 Incredibly Rare.
And that's why corporate users pay several times the amount that home users pay for their lines.
Exactly. I pay more for my work connection than my home one, despite the fact that it's at best a quarter of the speed, and the reliability is the same.
Whenever I'm offered an un-needed plastic bag, I get stared at like some mutant. Doesn't stop me doing it, but it would be nice if more people had a clue.
incessant posturing, loud voices, and stomping around
And, in Hitler's case, carpet chewing.
Honestly, I don't think the Chinese know shit because that's what their leaders feed them. I think they're too busy making money to worry about improving their constituents' lives.
Fixed that for you.
when socialism was attempted
Dude, In most of the countries you stated, socialism was never even 'attempted' in the first place. It's just cover for the proles.
Socialism inevitably leads to corruption.
Just because you say it, doesn't mean it's true.
Yeah, I do the same thing, just stay as far away as possible. Bonus: Not having to put up with other people's children!
So it's a win-win for me, really.
Oh great, let's all move into gated communities, and do balkanization from the ground up!
Dude, Snow Crash was a novel, not a manual.
All feudal states or oligarchies, not socialist.
Thanks for playing.
socialism which history has demonstrated to be a failure.
Yeah, shame you don't have any real world examples.
But then we'd run into pirating like crazy
;)
How silly. TFS said the users got to manage their own PCs, not the routers or switches
I hope I'm not having a whoosh moment here.
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No, it's just fashionable to sneer at blogs here on
It think it's the same group who claims they don't watch TV either. We can sneer right back at them for being elitist snobs, but we don't really care about that, we just wish they'd shut the fuck up. We heard 'em the first time.
Correction: The divisive split between "Right" and "Far Right" is one of the things that most cripples democracy in the USA, today.
Well said. I'll take the left wing loons over the right wing ones any day of the week and twice on sundays. I appreciate their firm stance on their "principles", but coexisting with hundreds of millions of people in a first world country requires a lot more compromise than fundies are even willing to think about, let alone actually do.
generally mediocre work
Well, he might not be Shakespeare, but try reading, say, Dan Brown or Tom Clancy, and then tell me he's mediocre. When you're better than 90% of the tripe out there, sci-fi included, you've wandered away a little bit from "mediocre".
As for Disch and Delany, never read 'em, unless they were in one of the many millions of sf short stories I devoured as a kid. All you need is Bradbury and Heinlein to get by anyway. Everything else is icing on the cake.
Oh, and don't let anyone go and call you elitist. You just don't have the common touch. We can't all be perfect.
Mod parent up. Browser zealotry is just stupid. I might not like it, but once in a blue moon, I have to run IE (or the IE Tab extension). It's not a big deal.
That, I suspect, will change as online gaming becomes ever more popular.
Change back to PCs, you mean? Doubt it. Even Sony's managed to finally figure out the online angle, and both the Xbox and the Wii already rock in that department. If anything, decent online compatibility on the consoles will swing things completely the other way.
you'll see consoles becoming targets as well.
Even if it does get to be the problem it is on PCs (very doubtful), it won't matter. It's a trivial task to reset a console to factory defaults and get up and gaming again. Your worst case scenario will probably be loss of saved games, and if you're that anal about it, you've already bought a memory card for safety anyway.