No one is obligated to respect anyone or anything. That's point one.
Point two: the GP was respectful, just incredulous. That's a fairly common reaction when one sees just how extreme RMS is in his views.
If you want a parallel, then consider me calling for you to respect the views of the people who bombed abortion clinics. Morally, it's the same idea (and I am not equating open source with killing people. Please don't draw that conclusion) because it's just people taking their ethics to the logical conclusion.
I guess there's that, too. Enlightenment is basically the SciFi bailiwick, I suppose.
What'll happen is the show will run it's course, then I'll watch it in it's entirety over a feverish weekend (plus whatever time is required), and only then will I change my mind and proclaim it wonderful entertainment for the new millenium.
So when you defend the lies as 'everybody does it', it's going to be rated flamebait.
That is not at all implied in the GP's original post. The Slashdot kneejerk tendency to assume anything not rabidly anti-corporate is evil really jumps out here and demonstrates severe bias.
I am not terribly surprised. I've been modded down for all manner of truth. I expect to catch some in this case, if anybody reads this thread deep enough.
Hell, what's even funny in this case is that the GP said that this demonstrates the greed inherent in capitalism. You'd think that would float just fine with the crowd here. Apparently y'all are fickle.
There's a lot more than 10 amendments, although I assume you mant the Bill of Rights. I happen to like quite a few of the amendments that came afterwards, like the one that ended Prohibition.
Also, while the terms 'liberal' and 'conservative' are, generally speaking, the accepted nomenclature, I think by this point in time we can all acknowledge they don't apply to the dominant US political parties at all. It's just Democrats and Republicans now.
After all, what's so conservative about eliminating privacy?
Good answer. So your offtopic rant was for nothing at all? And the insult was nice and original as well. Maybe next time, if I am actually crying, it'll work better.
I don't really care how many nerds consider me a dick. Regular people like me just fine, and that's good enough for me.
Useless? Some people like it, some people don't: seems like a good reason to make it an option to me.
It is an option, using the system called 'Extensions.' Not as convenient as a tickmark on a panel, I admit, but available for people who want it.
Opera is cluttered? Really? Then why is it a smaller download with more core features (and better implemented ones at that) than Firefox?
Ehhh... better implemented features is an opinion, so I'll sort of dismiss it (particularly since I disagree). As for the rest: different implementation technique. Opera forms the basis of Opera. Firefox is built on the root of an application foundation that forms the basis of a number of products, not all of which are browsers.
Boy, it was a simple question. You go on an off-topic rant about schoolhouse rock, lay blame for some unknown offense at the GOP, all wrapped around a terrible text rendition of a song I too remember fondly from childhood, and you don't like that I asked what you meant by it, so you make me a foe? That's just freakin bizarre, man. Maybe you'll answer the question if I phrase it in a fashion delicate enough for your sensibilities:
What are you getting at, exactly? Is there a point to what you posted?
Christ, you people get really fucking annoying after a while. Can't you keep your inferiority complex off the internet? Sit in your coffee shops and discuss how much smarter you are than Americans there, please.
If by smack around, you mean ineffectually make some small sissy slaps at some corporate wrist, no, I don't. I won't stop the rest of you from doing it. Hell, I'll even sacrifice some precious karma to pick on you for it. Go to town.
I marked you as a foe quite some time ago, due to the fact that I disagree with your opinions quite frequently. Don't worry, it's just to draw attention to your posts. I don't use it to descore you or anything - and I read at -1 in any case.
I didn't really evidence any preconceptions of China in my post. I've been working with, and friends with, a number of Chinese citizens and former Chinese citizens for many years. I live and work in Washington DC, one of the most international cities on the planet. There's no rational way to describe me as a bigot.
This particular sentence is what prompted my response: Frankly, I think you have a better chance of being spied on by the government today in America than you would in China. I was simply interested in what you had to say regarding this, and the rest of your post. I come off flamishly because frankly, this is Slashdot, and I don't care what anyone here thinks of me. I'm much nicer in person.
I didn't say it would be a huge market, but there are definitely a number of people interested in higher resolution monitors that would function as traditional televisions. It would be a lucrative market because it would be high end equipment. I'd be amongst the first in line for a 50 inch or bigger television capable of displaying extremely high resolutions.
So far as people not being able to tell the difference between HD and SD, the link you pointed to didn't say that at all. It says people don't set up their HDTVs correctly. I know this is only anecdotal, but I've never seen anyone not amazed by the increase in clarity once they were configured the right way. Even my mother, who is one of those people that's proud of her hatred of TV, loves how clear the picture is on the new set my father bought.
If you write it then the restaurant have the right to ask you what did you dislike.
And the reviewer has the right to ignore the restaurant. Or to say 'Fuck off.' Or to lie about the reasoning. Or to explain themselves. But (and this is the important part) the reviewer is under no obligation whatsoever to do anything at all.
I can almost see the twisted smile on the face of the person modding these terrible jokes up, satisfied in the knowledge that they've stabbed Redmondward for the day.
Since NTSC TVs have been the standard for 75 years now, I don't see any reason to believe that HDTV/ATSC will be upgraded any time soon.
I agree with most of what you said, but I'm not too sure about this one. I don't have anything backing up my feeling aside from intuition, but display technology is advancing rapidly, and there's no reason to assume that there won't be regular resolution upgrade.
I will make this distinction - the broadcast standard probably won't change for some time. That's a much more expensive proposition. But I think the monitors themselves will probably start increasing in resolution as PCs become more prevalent as living room devices.
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No one is obligated to respect anyone or anything. That's point one.
Point two: the GP was respectful, just incredulous. That's a fairly common reaction when one sees just how extreme RMS is in his views.
If you want a parallel, then consider me calling for you to respect the views of the people who bombed abortion clinics. Morally, it's the same idea (and I am not equating open source with killing people. Please don't draw that conclusion) because it's just people taking their ethics to the logical conclusion.
I guess there's that, too. Enlightenment is basically the SciFi bailiwick, I suppose.
What'll happen is the show will run it's course, then I'll watch it in it's entirety over a feverish weekend (plus whatever time is required), and only then will I change my mind and proclaim it wonderful entertainment for the new millenium.
You've basically summed up why I don't like the show. I watch TV to be entertained, not to look into some twisted mirror populated by so-so actors.
Your positivity is overwhelming.
I'm sorry, Winslows? That's just awful. I hope it was a typo. Of course, Winblows is only marginally more clever, but whatever.
So when you defend the lies as 'everybody does it', it's going to be rated flamebait.
That is not at all implied in the GP's original post. The Slashdot kneejerk tendency to assume anything not rabidly anti-corporate is evil really jumps out here and demonstrates severe bias.
I am not terribly surprised. I've been modded down for all manner of truth. I expect to catch some in this case, if anybody reads this thread deep enough.
Hell, what's even funny in this case is that the GP said that this demonstrates the greed inherent in capitalism. You'd think that would float just fine with the crowd here. Apparently y'all are fickle.
Sounds like a pretty vanilla workstation. That might be exactly WTF the OP was talking about.
There's a lot more than 10 amendments, although I assume you mant the Bill of Rights. I happen to like quite a few of the amendments that came afterwards, like the one that ended Prohibition.
Also, while the terms 'liberal' and 'conservative' are, generally speaking, the accepted nomenclature, I think by this point in time we can all acknowledge they don't apply to the dominant US political parties at all. It's just Democrats and Republicans now.
After all, what's so conservative about eliminating privacy?
Good answer. So your offtopic rant was for nothing at all? And the insult was nice and original as well. Maybe next time, if I am actually crying, it'll work better.
I don't really care how many nerds consider me a dick. Regular people like me just fine, and that's good enough for me.
Yeah, I don't get these game programmers, always writing shitty bloated code any old Slashbot could best.
Useless? Some people like it, some people don't: seems like a good reason to make it an option to me.
It is an option, using the system called 'Extensions.' Not as convenient as a tickmark on a panel, I admit, but available for people who want it.
Opera is cluttered? Really? Then why is it a smaller download with more core features (and better implemented ones at that) than Firefox?
Ehhh... better implemented features is an opinion, so I'll sort of dismiss it (particularly since I disagree). As for the rest: different implementation technique. Opera forms the basis of Opera. Firefox is built on the root of an application foundation that forms the basis of a number of products, not all of which are browsers.
Boy, it was a simple question. You go on an off-topic rant about schoolhouse rock, lay blame for some unknown offense at the GOP, all wrapped around a terrible text rendition of a song I too remember fondly from childhood, and you don't like that I asked what you meant by it, so you make me a foe? That's just freakin bizarre, man. Maybe you'll answer the question if I phrase it in a fashion delicate enough for your sensibilities:
What are you getting at, exactly? Is there a point to what you posted?
That's lovely. What does it have to do with the topic at hand?
Christ, you people get really fucking annoying after a while. Can't you keep your inferiority complex off the internet? Sit in your coffee shops and discuss how much smarter you are than Americans there, please.
If by smack around, you mean ineffectually make some small sissy slaps at some corporate wrist, no, I don't. I won't stop the rest of you from doing it. Hell, I'll even sacrifice some precious karma to pick on you for it. Go to town.
I marked you as a foe quite some time ago, due to the fact that I disagree with your opinions quite frequently. Don't worry, it's just to draw attention to your posts. I don't use it to descore you or anything - and I read at -1 in any case.
I didn't really evidence any preconceptions of China in my post. I've been working with, and friends with, a number of Chinese citizens and former Chinese citizens for many years. I live and work in Washington DC, one of the most international cities on the planet. There's no rational way to describe me as a bigot.
This particular sentence is what prompted my response: Frankly, I think you have a better chance of being spied on by the government today in America than you would in China. I was simply interested in what you had to say regarding this, and the rest of your post. I come off flamishly because frankly, this is Slashdot, and I don't care what anyone here thinks of me. I'm much nicer in person.
I didn't say it would be a huge market, but there are definitely a number of people interested in higher resolution monitors that would function as traditional televisions. It would be a lucrative market because it would be high end equipment. I'd be amongst the first in line for a 50 inch or bigger television capable of displaying extremely high resolutions.
So far as people not being able to tell the difference between HD and SD, the link you pointed to didn't say that at all. It says people don't set up their HDTVs correctly. I know this is only anecdotal, but I've never seen anyone not amazed by the increase in clarity once they were configured the right way. Even my mother, who is one of those people that's proud of her hatred of TV, loves how clear the picture is on the new set my father bought.
Any citations on those cases? I'm curious to see the situations.
If you write it then the restaurant have the right to ask you what did you dislike.
And the reviewer has the right to ignore the restaurant. Or to say 'Fuck off.' Or to lie about the reasoning. Or to explain themselves. But (and this is the important part) the reviewer is under no obligation whatsoever to do anything at all.
I can almost see the twisted smile on the face of the person modding these terrible jokes up, satisfied in the knowledge that they've stabbed Redmondward for the day.
What makes you think port 8080 automatically points to a home machine? That's a fairly common port for various server software to bind.
Also, the 'Preview' button would have been a huge friend to you that time around.
One last thing - encouraging an ad-hoc DDOS is a dick move. Do you really want to be a dick?
Seems like an unreasonable request. Why should he do that?
Yeah, go on believing that. I get that a lot on the internet. Fortunately, people defer to me in the real world, where results actually count.
every exponential trend
is sure to meet a sticky end
sorry for being a poemfag
Since NTSC TVs have been the standard for 75 years now, I don't see any reason to believe that HDTV/ATSC will be upgraded any time soon.
I agree with most of what you said, but I'm not too sure about this one. I don't have anything backing up my feeling aside from intuition, but display technology is advancing rapidly, and there's no reason to assume that there won't be regular resolution upgrade.
I will make this distinction - the broadcast standard probably won't change for some time. That's a much more expensive proposition. But I think the monitors themselves will probably start increasing in resolution as PCs become more prevalent as living room devices.