Boo fucking hoo, seriously. So the worst that could happen is someone could decide to make a buck or two, and people stop using it. Quick, sound the Internet alarms. Geeks, to your keyboards! We'll need your full power of ineffectual whining to stop this threat before it crosses from wild imagination to reality.
No, not really. And fuck you nanny staters who want me to be. The emotional state of another human being is only my responsibility if I want it to be. Someone else's lack of stability is their problem. If they might be tipped over the edge by me, then they should be removed from society, plain and simple. We don't adjust the whole to the one, we adjust the one to the whole.
I'm pretty sure that you don't have too much of an idea of how to debate. I could be wrong, and you could be laying in the weeds, but somehow I think I've hit the nail already.
He doesn't have a "problem" in the way you seem to define it. He just recognizes that making music for a living is dead in the water, and that we've gone from a sort of golden age where we have more music available than we know what to do with, to a period where aspiring artists will settle back and never really take the steps necessary to produce the culture we all love to hate to pay for. Gene is already covered in this regard. He's more or less expressing his frustration at the coming world without a good rock band in it.
Laptops range in power from quite low with very long battery life to so-called desktop replacements that essentially use the battery as a built in UPS. Better efficiency certainly has been used to improve battery life. It has also been used to increase power. There's no one size fits all solution. What you want isn't necessarily what I'm after.
Do you really need to be reminded that Slashdot is ad revenue for SourceForge Incorporated? And that the main purpose this community seems to have for this site is reinforcing their own opinions? Don't get too caught up in the mottos and the ideals. They're just there to keep the people here from feeling too much like idiot slaves.
Ahhh, brilliant Slashdot. Simply brilliant. This article takes place in the UK. But no worries, continue on your path of merry stupidity under cover of fighting the man. It amuses me so.
Out in the real world, people like features in their software. Nice things, like human readable names and options they can see at a glance, not unholy acronyms and cryptic arguments that require a check to the man page every time you want to do something. Useful things, like being able to search through the email, and chat with their contacts without having to figure out how to make 6 small programs all talk to each other. Pretty things, like graphical indicators when something is happening.
Sure, you'll always have your bitter.02% looking to bring the computing experience back to the 70s for everybody, but you're a slim, slim minority.
You may have a hard time understanding this, but a lot of people in the world have what is known as "friends." These friends often like to keep in touch with each other by sharing thoughts, events, and other minutia. The Internet facilitates this through these mechanisms you hate so.
Also, congratulations. The 15 seconds you save on email is much better spent in bitter contemplation of your lonely life.
Boy, I know I'd sure love to be subject to what you think is good programming. The last thing I want is to be able to decide what I like for myself from a wide variety.
I've never shopped at Walmart. When I did live near one, I couldn't stand the idea of supporting a store that practiced such disgusting labor practices. Now I live in a county that won't allow them to build. More power to us.
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Boo fucking hoo, seriously. So the worst that could happen is someone could decide to make a buck or two, and people stop using it. Quick, sound the Internet alarms. Geeks, to your keyboards! We'll need your full power of ineffectual whining to stop this threat before it crosses from wild imagination to reality.
Reading is for nerds.
No, not really. And fuck you nanny staters who want me to be. The emotional state of another human being is only my responsibility if I want it to be. Someone else's lack of stability is their problem. If they might be tipped over the edge by me, then they should be removed from society, plain and simple. We don't adjust the whole to the one, we adjust the one to the whole.
Good luck getting the rest of the world to change.
Personally, I understand the drive to make people conform to my unreasonable demands. I just try not to do it.
Same can be said about anyone who believes their opinion to have some influence on reality. Which is about 95-97% of the users here.
Why crack a secured access point anyway? Would you walk into someone's house to grab something to eat?
I'm pretty sure that you don't have too much of an idea of how to debate. I could be wrong, and you could be laying in the weeds, but somehow I think I've hit the nail already.
He doesn't have a "problem" in the way you seem to define it. He just recognizes that making music for a living is dead in the water, and that we've gone from a sort of golden age where we have more music available than we know what to do with, to a period where aspiring artists will settle back and never really take the steps necessary to produce the culture we all love to hate to pay for. Gene is already covered in this regard. He's more or less expressing his frustration at the coming world without a good rock band in it.
Laptops range in power from quite low with very long battery life to so-called desktop replacements that essentially use the battery as a built in UPS. Better efficiency certainly has been used to improve battery life. It has also been used to increase power. There's no one size fits all solution. What you want isn't necessarily what I'm after.
Do you really need to be reminded that Slashdot is ad revenue for SourceForge Incorporated? And that the main purpose this community seems to have for this site is reinforcing their own opinions? Don't get too caught up in the mottos and the ideals. They're just there to keep the people here from feeling too much like idiot slaves.
Seriously, who does this woman think she is? All she did was all the hard work in creating something. Who is she to profit from it?
Here's a snapshot of the tags at the time of this comment:
encryption, thoughtpolice, bush, republicans, !democracy
Ahhh, brilliant Slashdot. Simply brilliant. This article takes place in the UK. But no worries, continue on your path of merry stupidity under cover of fighting the man. It amuses me so.
Please, explain further this wondrous idea of yours. My imagination has not yet figured it out.
Name one time government did any good.
Highways. What do I win?
Out in the real world, people like features in their software. Nice things, like human readable names and options they can see at a glance, not unholy acronyms and cryptic arguments that require a check to the man page every time you want to do something. Useful things, like being able to search through the email, and chat with their contacts without having to figure out how to make 6 small programs all talk to each other. Pretty things, like graphical indicators when something is happening.
.02% looking to bring the computing experience back to the 70s for everybody, but you're a slim, slim minority.
Sure, you'll always have your bitter
Capitalism relies on scarcity to keep everyone obedient.
Hahaha that's so cute. Do me a favor and work in the word sheeple next time. It'll lend the air of sophistication you currently lack.
You may have a hard time understanding this, but a lot of people in the world have what is known as "friends." These friends often like to keep in touch with each other by sharing thoughts, events, and other minutia. The Internet facilitates this through these mechanisms you hate so.
Also, congratulations. The 15 seconds you save on email is much better spent in bitter contemplation of your lonely life.
The funny thing is that Leopard adds almost nothing beyond flashy new graphics. Well worth the money.
Boy, I know I'd sure love to be subject to what you think is good programming. The last thing I want is to be able to decide what I like for myself from a wide variety.
I've never shopped at Walmart. When I did live near one, I couldn't stand the idea of supporting a store that practiced such disgusting labor practices. Now I live in a county that won't allow them to build. More power to us.
You're wrong, stupid.
Congratulations. You've successfully put your hand in the man's face.
So there's a right to privacy inherent in sending unencrypted bits through someone else's network lines? How so, exactly?
And I'm pretty sure the upmod was for the funny. You may want to loosen your sense of moral outrage a little.
Just because they're out to get someone doesn't mean that someone is you.
I wish you were logged in so I could friend you.