hahaha! Then I sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, apologise for posting something that makes you look like a dick:) Seriously, that's not cool. Hopefully your post won't be modded into oblivion, and anyone looking at your post will see your sarcastic intentions:)
If they're ignoring blatant evidence and appearing on the TV in a position to educate, then proceed to miseducate the public - of course we should! Charlatans are disgusting, whatever their form.
We only have observations of the weather for 400 years, but we have a record of the climate going back tens of thousands of years. That's why we know about the ice age, for example. If all we had to go on was written notes, we'd not know about that.
So bringing light to the hypocrisy of a poster is trolling? Are the mods out of their minds on this one? Sure, America doesn't come out looking that good, but shit - that's no reason to mod it as trolling. How the fuck are bad things the US does supposed to get discussed on/. if any mention of them is called trolling? Mod, grow up.
How is that trolling? The US didn't invade Iraq? I must have mis-read 3 years of news. Terribly sorry. Unless Iraq directly attacked the US, my point stands. Modding it as "trolling" doesn't change a fucking thing, no matter how uncomfortable questioning your own country's past is. Grow the fuck up.
Oh of course! It must be a troll! Even though the criticism is fair. Just because it's not popular doesn't make it a troll, but then I guess expecting some knee-jerk/. mods to understand that would be asking a lot. The kind of person who thinks the US IS entitled to whatever it wants when the rest of the world can suck its balls would most likely see any criticism of that "divine right" as unjust, hence the Troll modding. Piling that on just adds to my argument. Cheers:)
Yay! Because we're set for money at the moment. Spending it on putting things in space, with possible benefits for the consumer world in about 15 years sounds like a really wise use of time and money. It's not like people are dying everywhere, or millions going without health cover, or schools being run into the ground, etc. Yay space! So worthy! The answer to all our prayers!
America first, dude! A dictator in the whitehouse, military running amok all over the middle east (watch this space), global warming contributions, funamentalist influence. Don't act like the US is some beacon of how a country should be run. To the rest of the west it's quite the opposite. I apologise if this sounds like an anti-US rant, but I guess it technically is, as it's countering an anti-Chinese rant by demonstrating the hypocrisy employed by many people with regard to not acknowledging their own country's short comings, and jumping on another's.
That is a mere triviality of a reason. Just look at recent history regarding the US's foreign policy in action. Iraq hadn't done anything directly to the US, yet they were ripe for invasion. Not doing anything to the US doesn't guarantee a country's freedom from being fucked with by the US. China, just by demonstrating it could take out a US spy satellite - note they don't even have to do it - makes them a massive risk to the US, which means they're "fair game" for a more bitchy one-sided, unfair foreign policy.
The same reason that Iran's nuclear ambitions are deemed provocative. Apparently only the west is allowed anything nuclear or dangerous - everyone else has no right, apparently. And even then the US has a right to everything, and the right to deny whatever it wants to anyone else. "Land of the free" needs to be updated - may I suggest "Land of the free (to dick on everyone else without the burden of a conscience pissing on your parade because the US is always good and right and never does anything bad to everyone else who are just jealous and should be grateful that the US saved everyone's ass in every war ever fought at least that's what's been drilled into everyone's head since being kids)". Pretty catchy, huh?:)
People thought a new ice age was coming, as the pattern of previous ice ages tended to demonstrate that we have been due one for a few thousand years now. It wasn't thought to be caused my man - just that nature does weird shit, and nature was seeming to be late.
But climatologists who say there is no such thing as man-influenced climate change are clearly not being climatologists when they say that. Just like if a Doctor is performing intimate examinations in the pub toilet - chances are he's not being a Doctor when he's doing that, and so should lose his right to practice medicine as a result. It's not censorship, just punishing those who abuse their position through a conflict of interest. Seems pretty fair to me. If we allow experts to pass off their personal views while wearing their "expert" hats, society is fucked.
They are more generalised chips, yes, but that makes their use more specialised:) The two are not mutually exclusive. Just as, say, your pair of glasses is pretty specialised - they fit on your face and hold your lenses - that's all they do. However the Optician has a pair of adjustable specs, which can fit on anyone, and hold any lenses. That pair of specs is far less specialised in ability, but is far more specialised in usage.
If they stayed in Ameeeeerica, they'd get instafucked by the **AA. I imagine they're moving to Canaaada to get around that. Or at least delay it. Or for poutines.
They indexed TPB, so it had all its content, and content from other trackers, so it was considerably better than TPB, from a choice perspective at least. They rule:)
Flash is REALLY useful. I stream my music and video across the net using flash. I know that any machine (Windows/OSX/Linux) that has flash player installed can stream my media. Until there is a decent replacement that is just as light, Flash is here to stay. But nice sour grapes, though. seriously. tasty.
So Apple are the first people since Enron to add new functionality with software? All those BIOS updates, new drivers, etc. that were released by hardware manufacturers (of which many add new functionality) never happened. Brilliant. Apple is not doing anything new. Shit, even on the front page of/. today there is a story of HP's computers getting a new BIOS to enable CPU goodness. That's obviously new functionality (it adds new stuff to the BIOS, allowing the computer to do new stuff itself). But please - tell me how that's different.
What about motherboard providers? They ship new BIOSes all the time, nearly every single time adding support for new hardware or functionality (new frequencies, etc.). Do they have to charge? Apple's update is just software, too, and all that does is add new functionality. Apple seem to be really fucking this up somehow. It's not like Apple is the first company to be in this quandry since Enron instafucked itself.
It's always backwards down there. 7-foot mice, everything's trying to kill you, an island larger than Europe with about 12 people on it:) Fantastic stuff:)
No, if it costs too much to port an application to another platform (development costs > predicted market taking), it isn't ported. The decision has nothing to do with socialism, copyright or DRM - the only factor is the price. If it's too expensive, it doesn't happen. Linux's market share is TINY compared to windows, so if it costs similar amounts of money to develop an application for Windows and Linux, and Windows's market share is 10x that of Linux, Linux gets ignored. I don't know how you can attribute it to anything else, but please enlighten me.
I solved that problem with a 15-metre (50-foot) S-Video cable, which I run from my PC to my tv/projector. You can also get wireless video repeaters for next to nothing, the modern ones having pretty good quality. The set-top boxes being released recently efficiently address this problem - wireless - just attach the video cable and the audio cable, and you're set. It doesn't matter where your PC is in relation to your TV or receiver. These boxes are really coming down in price, too. Netgear's new one looks rather sexy. It supports OSX and linux, too.
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hahaha! Then I sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, apologise for posting something that makes you look like a dick :) Seriously, that's not cool. Hopefully your post won't be modded into oblivion, and anyone looking at your post will see your sarcastic intentions :)
If they're ignoring blatant evidence and appearing on the TV in a position to educate, then proceed to miseducate the public - of course we should! Charlatans are disgusting, whatever their form.
We only have observations of the weather for 400 years, but we have a record of the climate going back tens of thousands of years. That's why we know about the ice age, for example. If all we had to go on was written notes, we'd not know about that.
So bringing light to the hypocrisy of a poster is trolling? Are the mods out of their minds on this one? Sure, America doesn't come out looking that good, but shit - that's no reason to mod it as trolling. How the fuck are bad things the US does supposed to get discussed on /. if any mention of them is called trolling? Mod, grow up.
How is that trolling? The US didn't invade Iraq? I must have mis-read 3 years of news. Terribly sorry. Unless Iraq directly attacked the US, my point stands. Modding it as "trolling" doesn't change a fucking thing, no matter how uncomfortable questioning your own country's past is. Grow the fuck up.
Oh of course! It must be a troll! Even though the criticism is fair. Just because it's not popular doesn't make it a troll, but then I guess expecting some knee-jerk /. mods to understand that would be asking a lot. The kind of person who thinks the US IS entitled to whatever it wants when the rest of the world can suck its balls would most likely see any criticism of that "divine right" as unjust, hence the Troll modding. Piling that on just adds to my argument. Cheers :)
Yay! Because we're set for money at the moment. Spending it on putting things in space, with possible benefits for the consumer world in about 15 years sounds like a really wise use of time and money. It's not like people are dying everywhere, or millions going without health cover, or schools being run into the ground, etc. Yay space! So worthy! The answer to all our prayers!
America first, dude! A dictator in the whitehouse, military running amok all over the middle east (watch this space), global warming contributions, funamentalist influence. Don't act like the US is some beacon of how a country should be run. To the rest of the west it's quite the opposite. I apologise if this sounds like an anti-US rant, but I guess it technically is, as it's countering an anti-Chinese rant by demonstrating the hypocrisy employed by many people with regard to not acknowledging their own country's short comings, and jumping on another's.
That is a mere triviality of a reason. Just look at recent history regarding the US's foreign policy in action. Iraq hadn't done anything directly to the US, yet they were ripe for invasion. Not doing anything to the US doesn't guarantee a country's freedom from being fucked with by the US. China, just by demonstrating it could take out a US spy satellite - note they don't even have to do it - makes them a massive risk to the US, which means they're "fair game" for a more bitchy one-sided, unfair foreign policy.
The same reason that Iran's nuclear ambitions are deemed provocative. Apparently only the west is allowed anything nuclear or dangerous - everyone else has no right, apparently. And even then the US has a right to everything, and the right to deny whatever it wants to anyone else. "Land of the free" needs to be updated - may I suggest "Land of the free (to dick on everyone else without the burden of a conscience pissing on your parade because the US is always good and right and never does anything bad to everyone else who are just jealous and should be grateful that the US saved everyone's ass in every war ever fought at least that's what's been drilled into everyone's head since being kids)". Pretty catchy, huh? :)
You chose to have 'em! You made your bed, now lie in it and get no sleep. :-P
Or just send in the marines. Invade it, problem sorted.
People thought a new ice age was coming, as the pattern of previous ice ages tended to demonstrate that we have been due one for a few thousand years now. It wasn't thought to be caused my man - just that nature does weird shit, and nature was seeming to be late.
But climatologists who say there is no such thing as man-influenced climate change are clearly not being climatologists when they say that. Just like if a Doctor is performing intimate examinations in the pub toilet - chances are he's not being a Doctor when he's doing that, and so should lose his right to practice medicine as a result. It's not censorship, just punishing those who abuse their position through a conflict of interest. Seems pretty fair to me. If we allow experts to pass off their personal views while wearing their "expert" hats, society is fucked.
They are more generalised chips, yes, but that makes their use more specialised :) The two are not mutually exclusive. Just as, say, your pair of glasses is pretty specialised - they fit on your face and hold your lenses - that's all they do. However the Optician has a pair of adjustable specs, which can fit on anyone, and hold any lenses. That pair of specs is far less specialised in ability, but is far more specialised in usage.
If they stayed in Ameeeeerica, they'd get instafucked by the **AA. I imagine they're moving to Canaaada to get around that. Or at least delay it. Or for poutines.
They indexed TPB, so it had all its content, and content from other trackers, so it was considerably better than TPB, from a choice perspective at least. They rule :)
Flash is REALLY useful. I stream my music and video across the net using flash. I know that any machine (Windows/OSX/Linux) that has flash player installed can stream my media. Until there is a decent replacement that is just as light, Flash is here to stay. But nice sour grapes, though. seriously. tasty.
No - "all other times" covers that :)
So Apple are the first people since Enron to add new functionality with software? All those BIOS updates, new drivers, etc. that were released by hardware manufacturers (of which many add new functionality) never happened. Brilliant. Apple is not doing anything new. Shit, even on the front page of /. today there is a story of HP's computers getting a new BIOS to enable CPU goodness. That's obviously new functionality (it adds new stuff to the BIOS, allowing the computer to do new stuff itself). But please - tell me how that's different.
What about motherboard providers? They ship new BIOSes all the time, nearly every single time adding support for new hardware or functionality (new frequencies, etc.). Do they have to charge? Apple's update is just software, too, and all that does is add new functionality. Apple seem to be really fucking this up somehow. It's not like Apple is the first company to be in this quandry since Enron instafucked itself.
When FireFox's market share is the same as IE's, then yes. At all other times, no.
It's always backwards down there. 7-foot mice, everything's trying to kill you, an island larger than Europe with about 12 people on it :) Fantastic stuff :)
No, if it costs too much to port an application to another platform (development costs > predicted market taking), it isn't ported. The decision has nothing to do with socialism, copyright or DRM - the only factor is the price. If it's too expensive, it doesn't happen. Linux's market share is TINY compared to windows, so if it costs similar amounts of money to develop an application for Windows and Linux, and Windows's market share is 10x that of Linux, Linux gets ignored. I don't know how you can attribute it to anything else, but please enlighten me.
I solved that problem with a 15-metre (50-foot) S-Video cable, which I run from my PC to my tv/projector. You can also get wireless video repeaters for next to nothing, the modern ones having pretty good quality. The set-top boxes being released recently efficiently address this problem - wireless - just attach the video cable and the audio cable, and you're set. It doesn't matter where your PC is in relation to your TV or receiver. These boxes are really coming down in price, too. Netgear's new one looks rather sexy. It supports OSX and linux, too.