To those of you who wonder why linux on the desktop has not taken off, here's your answer. Different developers, same itch, same not-built-here syndrome, same wheel.
Do the editors/submitters ever RTFA before posting? It is not even remotely like a Segway. It has 4 wheels and uses conventional "twist the handlebars" steering. Rather than classifying this as an "underpriced segway" it should have been classified as an "overpriced scooter".
Selective antisemitism doesn't suit your claimed principled stance very well. Israel has been defending itself for years, which Slashdot and many slashdotters have decried as "oppression" Now that they've rejected Microsoft, they're the good guys ?
Way to go. Keep your hypocracy-dar off. It's easier that way.
Why do businesses sell underclocked hardware when they know some geek somewhere is going to try loading the higher software in and seeing what happens?
Because they also know that 99% of their customers don't read slashdot and don't care.
Cost savings by using the same architecture in several products: $ LOTS
Revenue loss from slashdotters who value their time much less than their money: $ NOT MUCH
Net Profit: Only a very small amount less than $ LOTS
1. Google fucks with their ranking algorithms, relevancy goes through the floor.
2. Yahoo announces plans to drop Google as a search provider.
3. SCO begins to extort money from Google.
4. Google plans an IPO to be priced at $4B at 33% float.
5. In the long term, *nobody* stays #1.
What does this mean?
If Google comes out on the market with a $12B market capitalization, and we assume the hype that they generate net income of $200M per year, this gives them a P/E ratio of 60 !
The only way a P/E ratio of 60 is even remotely sustainable is if there is an expectation of earnings growth that is THREE TIMES in excess of normal market returns.
With their recently-shitty results and the loss of major partners and extortion demands needing to be met, I would expect any sane person to short sell this IPO right out of the gate. No matter how much lipstick you put on this pig, it's still a pig.
That is one of the coolest-looking datacenters I've ever seen.
Our DC has regular fluorescent lights, and the NOC gets really uppity about it when we turn off all the lights, lay down some soft blue floorlighting, and turn on some Wagnerian New Age inspirational music in the background. Some shit about OSHA or something.
With the wages they get paid in Bangalore, a computer professional there can't afford a house, either.
Allow me to clear up a misunderstanding about housing costs in Silicon Valley. You generally would learn this in Econ 101, but most people slept through it anyway, so here's a refresher:
When environmental and subsidized housing zealots push through ridiculous development restrictions legislation, scarcity ensues, and scarcity causes prices to rise, expecially in a place where demand is very high.
Bangalore doesn't have rich white liberals demanding that the spotted california shit-eating sucker fish be "protected" by cordoning off hundreds of thousands of acres of perfectly good land. Bangalore doesn't have rich white liberals demanding that all tenants have a "right" to a giant lawn. Bangalore doesn't have rich white liberals screaming for price controls for the poor.
...who published the book "Ten Things you Can't Say In America".
To summarize his points:
* Blacks are More Racist than Whites
* White Condescension is as Real as Black Racism
* The Media Bias: It's Real, It's Widespread, It's Destructive
* The Glass Ceiling: Full of Holes
* America's Greatest Problem: Illegitimacy
* The Big Lie: Our Health Care Crisis
* The Welfare State: Helping Us to Death
* Republican v. Democrat: Maybe a Dime's worth of Difference, One's for Big Government, One's for Bigger
* Vietnam II: The War on Drugs, and We're Losing that One Too
* Gun Control Advocates: Good Guys with Blood on Their Hands
How much of the worlds misery ISN'T because of greedy capitalists and corporations?
My guess would be the vast majority:
Utter Misery:
Somalia. ( Lack of Property Rights )
Ethiopia. ( Lack of Property Rights )
Zaire. ( Lack of Property Rights )
Haiti. ( Lack of Property Rights )
Cuba. ( Lack of Property Rights )
2 Slash song prices charge 29 cents per download. You''ll make it up in volume.
No you won't. The labels take 70 cents from all of the "legitimate" services. At 29 cents, you want as little volume as possible because you'll lose money on every download.
Could someone please explain to me the British fetish for its Monarchy ? The government is now a constitutional democracy, so why is there so much homage paid to the archaic traditions and figureheads of the past?
A great example of this is the insane media land-grab over Princess Diana's death. Hundreds of thousands of people die in traffic accidents each year - why was hers so deserving of three whole months of media coverage, weeping, wailing, and moaning?
Wind turbines are good. <Environmentalist> Protecting wildlife is good. <Reality> Hey, wind turbines are making KFC out of birds. <Environmentalist> wtf? stfu. *Environmentalist begins having a seizure* *Environmentalist is shaking violently* *Environmentalist has left irc ( Connection reset by cognitive dissonance )*
Surrender already. You should have learned something after your prized Socialist product "Arianne" exploded.
You people have such a history fetish with your hundred-year-old crumbling structures that it's really puzzling to see you even attempt spaceflight, let alone mars probes.
Just go back to life as whining, inconsequential, obsolete, snobbish, insolent, boorish idiots whose idea of a good time is to decry capitalism on little more evidence that what people "feel".
Is it any wonder that Europe has consistently failed in its futile attempts to best the US ?
They really ought to simply give in to their built-in instinct to surrender and get back to sipping wine, eating cheese, andcomplaining about how unfair market economies are.
Who is John Gall?
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I am a geek and I am not familiar with this scream. In fact I don't even really like Star Wars any more than any other well-made movie.
I think Slashdot has become too over-30-centric in its outlook and assumptions. Not all of us grew up in the 70s. There are much better movies being made today. Let your nostalgia go.
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go to your local bookstore once in a while, your community depends on it
Stop using outdated, inefficient methods of retail transaction, the future growth of productivity and economnic gains depend on it.
META: Please someone explain to me . . .
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. . why slashdot( and particularly michael )has been posting SO many stories regarding these voting machines within the last year.
Yes, it's technology, so in that sense it may be of interest to nerds, but why front page stories about every single minor event that occurs WRT e-voting several times per week ?
Sounds like someone needs to stop spending so much time tweaking the Doom3 Engine and get on the stick. Sundays and Tuesdays aren't going to be enough to beat a fulltime effort.
Posted by michael on Tuesday December 16, @01:29PM
The bill preempts existing state laws which are tougher (states' rights anyone?),
Holy shit. This is the editor who believes it is the Federal Government's place to force single-payer healthcare on every state, who believes it is right and proper for the Federal Government to agree to the Kyoto Protocol, effectively decimating every manufacturing state's economy, believes that it is the Federal Government's proper role to provide cradle-to-grave entitlement programs for every citizen, and NOW has the audacity to scream "states' rights" when he doesn't agree with a particular piece of legislation?
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. . . Yet ANOTHER *nix multimedia library.
To those of you who wonder why linux on the desktop has not taken off, here's your answer. Different developers, same itch, same not-built-here syndrome, same wheel.
Wow, I never thought I'd be taken in by a goatse troll, but you got me.
This is truly one of the finest trolls I've ever seen.
*tear*
Do the editors/submitters ever RTFA before posting? It is not even remotely like a Segway. It has 4 wheels and uses conventional "twist the handlebars" steering. Rather than classifying this as an "underpriced segway" it should have been classified as an "overpriced scooter".
In any western world government expenditure is between 20%-30% of GDP
France is 53%
Most of Western Europe is not too far behind. If by "western world" you mean only North America, you're closer.
Are you pro-Israel or anti-Israel ?
You can't seem to make up your minds.
Selective antisemitism doesn't suit your claimed principled stance very well. Israel has been defending itself for years, which Slashdot and many slashdotters have decried as "oppression" Now that they've rejected Microsoft, they're the good guys ?
Way to go. Keep your hypocracy-dar off. It's easier that way.
Why do businesses sell underclocked hardware when they know some geek somewhere is going to try loading the higher software in and seeing what happens?
Because they also know that 99% of their customers don't read slashdot and don't care.
Cost savings by using the same architecture in several products: $ LOTS
Revenue loss from slashdotters who value their time much less than their money: $ NOT MUCH
Net Profit: Only a very small amount less than $ LOTS
Dean: Lie and make shit up.
Dean Ultra: Lie, make shit up, and then lie about making shit up.
. . . Welcome our new Steve Mann Cyborg overlords.
1. Google fucks with their ranking algorithms, relevancy goes through the floor.
2. Yahoo announces plans to drop Google as a search provider.
3. SCO begins to extort money from Google.
4. Google plans an IPO to be priced at $4B at 33% float.
5. In the long term, *nobody* stays #1.
What does this mean?
If Google comes out on the market with a $12B market capitalization, and we assume the hype that they generate net income of $200M per year, this gives them a P/E ratio of 60 !
The only way a P/E ratio of 60 is even remotely sustainable is if there is an expectation of earnings growth that is THREE TIMES in excess of normal market returns.
With their recently-shitty results and the loss of major partners and extortion demands needing to be met, I would expect any sane person to short sell this IPO right out of the gate. No matter how much lipstick you put on this pig, it's still a pig.
That is one of the coolest-looking datacenters I've ever seen.
Our DC has regular fluorescent lights, and the NOC gets really uppity about it when we turn off all the lights, lay down some soft blue floorlighting, and turn on some Wagnerian New Age inspirational music in the background. Some shit about OSHA or something.
Well screw them, I'm moving my boxes to VA Tech !
With the wages they get paid in Bangalore, a computer professional there can't afford a house, either.
Allow me to clear up a misunderstanding about housing costs in Silicon Valley. You generally would learn this in Econ 101, but most people slept through it anyway, so here's a refresher:
When environmental and subsidized housing zealots push through ridiculous development restrictions legislation, scarcity ensues, and scarcity causes prices to rise, expecially in a place where demand is very high.
Bangalore doesn't have rich white liberals demanding that the spotted california shit-eating sucker fish be "protected" by cordoning off hundreds of thousands of acres of perfectly good land. Bangalore doesn't have rich white liberals demanding that all tenants have a "right" to a giant lawn. Bangalore doesn't have rich white liberals screaming for price controls for the poor.
...who published the book "Ten Things you Can't Say In America".
To summarize his points:
* Blacks are More Racist than Whites
* White Condescension is as Real as Black Racism
* The Media Bias: It's Real, It's Widespread, It's Destructive
* The Glass Ceiling: Full of Holes
* America's Greatest Problem: Illegitimacy
* The Big Lie: Our Health Care Crisis
* The Welfare State: Helping Us to Death
* Republican v. Democrat: Maybe a Dime's worth of Difference, One's for Big Government, One's for Bigger
* Vietnam II: The War on Drugs, and We're Losing that One Too
* Gun Control Advocates: Good Guys with Blood on Their Hands
. . . and his incessant fetish for third-world countries?
Why is failure to produce so attractive to him ?
No other editor posts so many stories dealing with technology X being introduced on a very small scale to shithole country Y.
How much of the worlds misery ISN'T because of greedy capitalists and corporations?
My guess would be the vast majority:
Utter Misery:
Somalia. ( Lack of Property Rights )
Ethiopia. ( Lack of Property Rights )
Zaire. ( Lack of Property Rights )
Haiti. ( Lack of Property Rights )
Cuba. ( Lack of Property Rights )
Starvation:
USSR, 1917-1987, 63 Million+ ( Communism )
China, 1923-1987, 38 Million+ ( Communism )
Genocide:
Germany, 1933-1945, 21 Million+ ( National Socialism )
2 Slash song prices charge 29 cents per download. You''ll make it up in volume.
No you won't. The labels take 70 cents from all of the "legitimate" services. At 29 cents, you want as little volume as possible because you'll lose money on every download.
Preface: not a troll
Could someone please explain to me the British fetish for its Monarchy ? The government is now a constitutional democracy, so why is there so much homage paid to the archaic traditions and figureheads of the past?
A great example of this is the insane media land-grab over Princess Diana's death. Hundreds of thousands of people die in traffic accidents each year - why was hers so deserving of three whole months of media coverage, weeping, wailing, and moaning?
Wind turbines are good.
<Environmentalist> Protecting wildlife is good.
<Reality> Hey, wind turbines are making KFC out of birds.
<Environmentalist> wtf? stfu.
*Environmentalist begins having a seizure*
*Environmentalist is shaking violently*
*Environmentalist has left irc ( Connection reset by cognitive dissonance )*
Surrender already. You should have learned something after your prized Socialist product "Arianne" exploded.
You people have such a history fetish with your hundred-year-old crumbling structures that it's really puzzling to see you even attempt spaceflight, let alone mars probes.
Just go back to life as whining, inconsequential, obsolete, snobbish, insolent, boorish idiots whose idea of a good time is to decry capitalism on little more evidence that what people "feel".
Is it any wonder that Europe has consistently failed in its futile attempts to best the US ?
They really ought to simply give in to their built-in instinct to surrender and get back to sipping wine, eating cheese, andcomplaining about how unfair market economies are.
Ahahaha, I kill me!
No doubt all geeks are familiar with this scream
I am a geek and I am not familiar with this scream. In fact I don't even really like Star Wars any more than any other well-made movie.
I think Slashdot has become too over-30-centric in its outlook and assumptions. Not all of us grew up in the 70s. There are much better movies being made today. Let your nostalgia go.
go to your local bookstore once in a while, your community depends on it
Stop using outdated, inefficient methods of retail transaction, the future growth of productivity and economnic gains depend on it.
. . why slashdot( and particularly michael )has been posting SO many stories regarding these voting machines within the last year.
Yes, it's technology, so in that sense it may be of interest to nerds, but why front page stories about every single minor event that occurs WRT e-voting several times per week ?
Sounds like someone needs to stop spending so much time tweaking the Doom3 Engine and get on the stick. Sundays and Tuesdays aren't going to be enough to beat a fulltime effort.
Posted by michael on Tuesday December 16, @01:29PM
The bill preempts existing state laws which are tougher (states' rights anyone?),
Holy shit. This is the editor who believes it is the Federal Government's place to force single-payer healthcare on every state, who believes it is right and proper for the Federal Government to agree to the Kyoto Protocol, effectively decimating every manufacturing state's economy, believes that it is the Federal Government's proper role to provide cradle-to-grave entitlement programs for every citizen, and NOW has the audacity to scream "states' rights" when he doesn't agree with a particular piece of legislation?
Incredible. Simply incredible.