What the hell? There are a hell of a lot of vegetarians that don't eat meat for ethical reasons! There are also a lot of meat-eaters, like me, who have a sense of unease about eating animals but can stop because they are so delicious.
Okay, but seriously, you should be backed up - relying on warning from your HDD is appalling stupid if you've got stuff you really need to keep. Weekly disk image? What is this, 2002? Seriously, good hourly incremental backups are really easy now, there's no excuse for this kind of cobbled together dodgy shit.
So Stalin just sat there and let this go on? I mean, apart from the fact that it was stupid, cruel and absurd, it also must have been pretty boring. The more you read about him, however, the more you realise he enjoyed the absurdity of the whole thing. He really was quite terrifying.
People of all ages watch all sorts of shows, and indeed Downton Abbey is so popular that people of all ages must be watching it. No, I was responding to the comment "young enough that I feel peer pressure to watch Downton Abbey", which suggested that Downton Abbey's audience was skewed younger, whereas I think in the UK it would be skewed older. And just to answer your specific point, let's call 40 the midpoint.
You said that you are "young enough that I feel peer pressure to watch Downton Abbey" - which I found odd, given that although it's a very popular show in the UK, being young would not increase the peer pressure to watch it.
This is hilarious, Downton Abbey was clearly aimed at the older demographic in the UK, and is, in fact, largely watched by them. As most period dramas are. Are you guys saying that it's a young person's show in the US?
I agree with this, sites set their subscriptions way too high. I think something like Flattr, attached to something everyone already had money in (Paypal? iTunes? Google something? Amazon? Facebook credits?) might work on an okay scale.
I think this is also the reason it's pretty cheap - it's easy to see exactly how much money campaigns directly generate, which is very small amounts per impression. These metrics don't take in to account brand-recognition, so I suspect online advertising is an undervalued business.
You again. So you oppose the creation of a system that would allow people you want to pay for content do that, while keeping it freely available for those who don't? You're loopy.
Why are you so angry at what would be a voluntary system that might be beneficial for both parties? It's very strange. Since it wouldn't affect you in any way, what the fuck is your problem?
You obviously haven't heard - nobody uses desktops any more, we're all using our phones, tablets, smartwatches and cyborg glasses now. 90% of nothin' is nothin'.
Yes, I'll happily download a film that falls apart after one watch. I'm not a kid any more, I very, very rarely watch a film more than once. If rental is cheaper, I'm happy to buy into that system.
Have you read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions? Because it seems like you haven't, because you don't contradict it even though you seem to be under the impression that you do. Also, as has been pointed out, this is where the phrase comes from, and you should understand what it means in this context to be entitled to "hate" it.
But surely DNA was a confirmation of the sort of thing people must have thought was going on (i.e. chemicals structures passing on information)? I don't mean to denigrate these sorts of practical advances in understanding, but Kuhn's paradigm shifts are more about the complete re-interpretation of evidence changing the very structure of what we think is going on in a field. We still get them, but in smaller and smaller domains.
UI. Look at this mess from one of the official screenshots, no less! Those non-native menus on OS X completely kill it on Macs. Also, to very visual people (i.e. the sorts of people that would use it professionally), a lot of those widgets look like what misspelled words would to a writer. Okay, maybe you can still read it, but it hurts you inside. Looking at those all day would make me very unhappy.
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Or, you know, a typo. If you want to rail against 'could care less'ers, why not go find an actual example?
What the hell? There are a hell of a lot of vegetarians that don't eat meat for ethical reasons! There are also a lot of meat-eaters, like me, who have a sense of unease about eating animals but can stop because they are so delicious.
Wow, that's some ugly syntax for a modern programming language.
Okay, but seriously, you should be backed up - relying on warning from your HDD is appalling stupid if you've got stuff you really need to keep. Weekly disk image? What is this, 2002? Seriously, good hourly incremental backups are really easy now, there's no excuse for this kind of cobbled together dodgy shit.
You've missed the edict, Google is the enemy now. Larry Page is Satan.
So Stalin just sat there and let this go on? I mean, apart from the fact that it was stupid, cruel and absurd, it also must have been pretty boring. The more you read about him, however, the more you realise he enjoyed the absurdity of the whole thing. He really was quite terrifying.
People of all ages watch all sorts of shows, and indeed Downton Abbey is so popular that people of all ages must be watching it. No, I was responding to the comment "young enough that I feel peer pressure to watch Downton Abbey", which suggested that Downton Abbey's audience was skewed younger, whereas I think in the UK it would be skewed older. And just to answer your specific point, let's call 40 the midpoint.
You said that you are "young enough that I feel peer pressure to watch Downton Abbey" - which I found odd, given that although it's a very popular show in the UK, being young would not increase the peer pressure to watch it.
This is hilarious, Downton Abbey was clearly aimed at the older demographic in the UK, and is, in fact, largely watched by them. As most period dramas are. Are you guys saying that it's a young person's show in the US?
I agree with this, sites set their subscriptions way too high. I think something like Flattr, attached to something everyone already had money in (Paypal? iTunes? Google something? Amazon? Facebook credits?) might work on an okay scale.
Mod parent up!
I think this is also the reason it's pretty cheap - it's easy to see exactly how much money campaigns directly generate, which is very small amounts per impression. These metrics don't take in to account brand-recognition, so I suspect online advertising is an undervalued business.
You again. So you oppose the creation of a system that would allow people you want to pay for content do that, while keeping it freely available for those who don't? You're loopy.
Why are you so angry at what would be a voluntary system that might be beneficial for both parties? It's very strange. Since it wouldn't affect you in any way, what the fuck is your problem?
You obviously haven't heard - nobody uses desktops any more, we're all using our phones, tablets, smartwatches and cyborg glasses now. 90% of nothin' is nothin'.
Yes, I'll happily download a film that falls apart after one watch. I'm not a kid any more, I very, very rarely watch a film more than once. If rental is cheaper, I'm happy to buy into that system.
However, IE is only an option if you run Windows.
Or Mac OS 7-10.3
You're wrong, nearly all animal species engage in homosexual behaviour. Dinosaurs would not have been an exception.
Lazy Googling on my part -- I just pasted the first link to the thing I found. I think I originally can across this in a podcast.
All touch devices have lag, including iOS, and it's significant. Anyone that's tried to draw using these devices knows this. Check this out: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/10/microsoft-cuts-touchscreen-lag-to-1ms/
What the hell? That's got to be one of the lamest responses I've ever had on Slashdot!
But even so, why would the GIMP's interface attract more astroturfing (!?) than just about any other piece of software?
And yet, look who's coming up with the goods.
Funny that.
Have you read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions? Because it seems like you haven't, because you don't contradict it even though you seem to be under the impression that you do. Also, as has been pointed out, this is where the phrase comes from, and you should understand what it means in this context to be entitled to "hate" it.
But surely DNA was a confirmation of the sort of thing people must have thought was going on (i.e. chemicals structures passing on information)? I don't mean to denigrate these sorts of practical advances in understanding, but Kuhn's paradigm shifts are more about the complete re-interpretation of evidence changing the very structure of what we think is going on in a field. We still get them, but in smaller and smaller domains.
UI. Look at this mess from one of the official screenshots, no less! Those non-native menus on OS X completely kill it on Macs. Also, to very visual people (i.e. the sorts of people that would use it professionally), a lot of those widgets look like what misspelled words would to a writer. Okay, maybe you can still read it, but it hurts you inside. Looking at those all day would make me very unhappy.
Yeah, take that people with a different skill set!