After all, any fool knows that a catagory 4 hurricane, broken levee's, 10 feet of flood water, and the breakdown of social order shouldn't require any pesky government meddling to deal with. Just gutsy individuals with a can-do attitude!
I was referring to the dependence on government aid to rebuild. That's what insurance is for, but as you will soon see, that insurance is going to be paid for by me and every other tax payer in America.
And I was referring to the morons that stayed behind when they could have ridden free buses out of those areas before the hurricanes hit. Then laid blame on everyone but themselves when they were stranded.
Those dang people should quit whinging and get over their "victim" mentality.
I agree, except I'm not being facetious. It's truly a sad day in America when so many come to rely on the teat of government instead of themselves and their neighbors.
In conservative America, racists blame the victims.
What does racism have to do with it? I wasn't looking at the color of any one's skin, you were. Now who's the racist?
I was only considering their ignorance and idiocy at their decision to stay in a flood plain for a massive hurricane, when free busing was available to get them to higher ground.
There's people that were victims (lost their homes), and people that were stupid (lost their lives by staying in their homes).
And still I donated to the Red Cross immediately after the hurricane, and immediately before I was called an uncaring racist by most of the victims.
I believe this is the second problem to arise from the support for IDN. I checked my setting, and I already had it disabled from the last one (where you could essentially spoof a domain name by using unicode characters that look exactly the same as ascii characters, but are in fact, different).
Someone give me one good reason why I should EVER enable IDN?
If he was that well known, apparantly he wouldn't have received the "job offer."
Here is a comment someone made on his site about this:
"This is a simple mistake. The recruiter's email address starts with a "v-", which stands for "vendor", i.e., they are not microsoft employees. I know this because I work there. The recruiter obviously didn't do any research and has sent a standard (templated) email to the applicant. There is no where in the email any indication of "offer of employment" as ESR claims in his reply. Recruiter has tactfully said that he wants to do a preliminary telephone screen. Thats about it."
What are you talking about? Audiobooks are probably the worst example for why we need gapless playback.
The reason we need gapless playback is so that musicals, operas, classical works, and live concerts play as intended. Audiobooks sound the same either way, unless you're listening to a strange audiobook.
I had a chance to try this nifty gadget out, and in the end it's the kind of thing only the fanboys will rush out and buy. It's basically an ipod with a fraction of the disk space and the battery life of the shuffle.
This is why you sit around and post anonymously on slashdot, and Steve Jobs runs a company that produces the most popular digital music player in the world.
FYI, the iPod mini was the best selling of all iPods, so what he did was just replace it with something that is better in every regard.
Think it might sell even better than the mini? I'd say it's a safe bet...
It offers nothing new in way of innovation or features.
Uh huh... just the smallest form factor for a player with that amount of space and a color screen. Not to mention the killer interface.
You're entitled to your opinion, it just happens to be different than the market's.
Yeah, it's what I've always dreamed of: I can watch (according to Apple) 25 000 "semester photos" on a display as big as my thumb nail.
Jupp, that's great news! No problems to see what you're looking at. Not at all...
This device is not intended to offer all the features of the iPods with video out. They have photo support just because they can. People do like to use ipods to temporarily store pictures for whatever reason. I think the primary reason for the color screen on this is because it looks better than black and white. Plus showing the album art is helpful.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of why things cost what they do. Things aren't priced based on "fairness," they are priced naturally on market demand.
This thing replaces the ipod mini, no doubt, but really it's more the size/weight of a shuffle... very sweet. It's THINNER than the shuffle fer chrissakes!
Size comparison:
Shuffle: 3.3 x 0.98 x 0.33 Nano: 3.5 x 1.6 x 0.27 iPod: 4.1 x 2.4 x 0.63
What? You mean like the credit reporting houses? Yeah, that oughta work. They do such a wonderful job of keeping track of my credit. Consistently and fairly with no hassle at all if they make a mistake. I'm sure that would work just great for patents.
Apples != Oranges
1. The credit bureaus don't work for you, they work for businesses that want to know how good or bad your credit record is. Patent companies would work for you, and compete for your patent business.
2. Credit bureaus all cover the (supposedly) same credit information about you. They are duplicates of each other, essentially. The competing patent offices would compete for your business, and you would choose one to hold your patent. Therefore there is an incentive for them to provide you with good service.
Pointing out that some government money is not wasted, does not mean that I believe no government money is ever wasted? Why do so many people fail to grasp this simple idea?
Look who's talking. You latched onto the fact that someone was upset at the government waste (in general), and then tried to counter that by giving exactly two instances where it is probably not being wasted, and asking, "What, you think that's a waste???" As if those two things make up for the wasteful spending in many other areas.
And if you seriously believe that money spent rescuing people in New Orleans is wasted, this conversation is over. I don't to people who value money over human life.
Umm, whatever. I donated to the red cross. I stated in my very first fucking sentence that they are doing the right thing by trying to help the people that decided to ignore the evacuation orders. On the flipside, you have people who do not listen to reason, who live in a flood plain, are ordered to evacuate to avoid a CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE, and stay anyway.
So you would hail to the mighty capitalistic system to bail out the ailing US education system?
Yes, absolutely. I already have, I'm saving for my kids' private education.
Maybe by privatizing it you would end up with something as transparent, safe and clean as the US meat industry? Something as efficient as the US auto industry?
What is your point exactly? Do you want to trade reports of where corporations have screwed up and where government has screwed up? I bet I have more examples.
Yes, there is a very good constraint! It's called "if you're evil, you will lose business and eventually go bankrupt."
They are chartered to put shareholder value above all other concerns,
No, they're not chartered to do that. This is a myth that anti-capitalists like to put out there. And even if in spirit this is what they're goal is, the fact is it is better for their business if they are "not evil." Witness Anheuser-Busch's water bottling operation. Logic says they are hurting shareholders by churning out less beer. But the reality is the goodwill earned from this will end up earning them more customers.
the lack of accountability
What lack of accountability?
They are subject to laws, as are the employees of a company. They are subject to the marketplace, boycotts, unions, shareholders, the SEC (if publicly traded), etc.
greater power that corporations enjoy
Thanks to politicians...
make them more apt to do evil (and do greater evil) than Joe Citizen.
This is the biggest bunch of unprovable horseshit I've ever read. Just for starters, companies ARE people. Some companies may hire some evil fucks, and in the end, they'll get theirs. (Look at the white collar guys getting life sentences, and more on the way.)
Typical anti-capitalist B.S. with nothing to back it up but paranoid ranting and total misunderstanding of what companies are.
I should have suspected this based on your other replies, why do I even bother with Slashdot any more. It's filled with naive socialists.
Slashdot Mirror
After all, any fool knows that a catagory 4 hurricane, broken levee's, 10 feet of flood water, and the breakdown of social order shouldn't require any pesky government meddling to deal with. Just gutsy individuals with a can-do attitude!
I was referring to the dependence on government aid to rebuild. That's what insurance is for, but as you will soon see, that insurance is going to be paid for by me and every other tax payer in America.
And I was referring to the morons that stayed behind when they could have ridden free buses out of those areas before the hurricanes hit. Then laid blame on everyone but themselves when they were stranded.
Those dang people should quit whinging and get over their "victim" mentality.
I agree, except I'm not being facetious. It's truly a sad day in America when so many come to rely on the teat of government instead of themselves and their neighbors.
In conservative America, racists blame the victims.
What does racism have to do with it? I wasn't looking at the color of any one's skin, you were. Now who's the racist?
I was only considering their ignorance and idiocy at their decision to stay in a flood plain for a massive hurricane, when free busing was available to get them to higher ground.
There's people that were victims (lost their homes), and people that were stupid (lost their lives by staying in their homes).
And still I donated to the Red Cross immediately after the hurricane, and immediately before I was called an uncaring racist by most of the victims.
Here's another perspective.
No Bonus for CEO ->
No CEO ->
No Company ->
No Jobs Available
Now replace CEO with "small business owner."
Some people actually rely on the government instead of thinking and acting for themselves.
Soviet America, indeed.
And reading an anonymous coward's post is now considered "checking validity?" Wow. Just. Wow.
Well, not as valid as checking a post by Breakfast PAnts, true.
I believe this is the second problem to arise from the support for IDN. I checked my setting, and I already had it disabled from the last one (where you could essentially spoof a domain name by using unicode characters that look exactly the same as ascii characters, but are in fact, different).
Someone give me one good reason why I should EVER enable IDN?
Actually, the pacific ocean is about 20 cm higher than the atlantic.See http://www.pol.ac.uk/psmsl/puscience/#3 or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_canal for more in-depth information.
Nice one
It's a job offer when you are well know.
If he was that well known, apparantly he wouldn't have received the "job offer."
Here is a comment someone made on his site about this:
"This is a simple mistake. The recruiter's email address starts with a "v-", which stands for "vendor", i.e., they are not microsoft employees. I know this because I work there. The recruiter obviously didn't do any research and has sent a standard (templated) email to the applicant. There is no where in the email any indication of "offer of employment" as ESR claims in his reply. Recruiter has tactfully said that he wants to do a preliminary telephone screen. Thats about it."
My subscription just ran out, and I won't be renewing it until some editorial changes are made.
lame.
Is there any reason to believe that Apple will dropping the prices on any of the older iPod models in the near future?
No, you're confused. The iPods are getting smaller, not the price tags.
And AFAIK, the iPod Mini has lousy sound quality. The Shuffle, surprisingly, has the best sound quality of all Apple's digital players.
Too bad the shuffle lacks an equalizer. Sometimes "flat" is not good enough.
For very small values of "News". It's really a Tech Trivia site.
So then I'm trying to figure out why you thought a tech trivia site should be covering Iraq/Katrina news...
What are you talking about? Audiobooks are probably the worst example for why we need gapless playback.
The reason we need gapless playback is so that musicals, operas, classical works, and live concerts play as intended. Audiobooks sound the same either way, unless you're listening to a strange audiobook.
I had a chance to try this nifty gadget out, and in the end it's the kind of thing only the fanboys will rush out and buy. It's basically an ipod with a fraction of the disk space and the battery life of the shuffle.
This is why you sit around and post anonymously on slashdot, and Steve Jobs runs a company that produces the most popular digital music player in the world.
FYI, the iPod mini was the best selling of all iPods, so what he did was just replace it with something that is better in every regard.
Think it might sell even better than the mini? I'd say it's a safe bet...
It offers nothing new in way of innovation or features.
Uh huh... just the smallest form factor for a player with that amount of space and a color screen. Not to mention the killer interface.
You're entitled to your opinion, it just happens to be different than the market's.
Come on, guys. ALL my music is in Vorbis. Help me out here.
No problem!
Yeah, it's what I've always dreamed of: I can watch (according to Apple) 25 000 "semester photos" on a display as big as my thumb nail.
Jupp, that's great news! No problems to see what you're looking at. Not at all...
This device is not intended to offer all the features of the iPods with video out. They have photo support just because they can. People do like to use ipods to temporarily store pictures for whatever reason. I think the primary reason for the color screen on this is because it looks better than black and white. Plus showing the album art is helpful.
Which is why they should be less money.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of why things cost what they do. Things aren't priced based on "fairness," they are priced naturally on market demand.
So far, the market thinks they are priced nicely.
The names RAZR and ROKR are most likely nods to the text-messaging practice of SHRTNING WRDS 2 TXT QUIKR.
This thing replaces the ipod mini, no doubt, but really it's more the size/weight of a shuffle... very sweet. It's THINNER than the shuffle fer chrissakes!
.78 ounce
Size comparison:
Shuffle: 3.3 x 0.98 x 0.33
Nano: 3.5 x 1.6 x 0.27
iPod: 4.1 x 2.4 x 0.63
Weight comparison:
Shuffle:
Nano: 1.5 ounces
iPod: 5.9 ounces
What? You mean like the credit reporting houses? Yeah, that oughta work. They do such a wonderful job of keeping track of my credit. Consistently and fairly with no hassle at all if they make a mistake. I'm sure that would work just great for patents.
Apples != Oranges
1. The credit bureaus don't work for you, they work for businesses that want to know how good or bad your credit record is. Patent companies would work for you, and compete for your patent business.
2. Credit bureaus all cover the (supposedly) same credit information about you. They are duplicates of each other, essentially. The competing patent offices would compete for your business, and you would choose one to hold your patent. Therefore there is an incentive for them to provide you with good service.
Pointing out that some government money is not wasted, does not mean that I believe no government money is ever wasted? Why do so many people fail to grasp this simple idea?
Look who's talking. You latched onto the fact that someone was upset at the government waste (in general), and then tried to counter that by giving exactly two instances where it is probably not being wasted, and asking, "What, you think that's a waste???" As if those two things make up for the wasteful spending in many other areas.
And if you seriously believe that money spent rescuing people in New Orleans is wasted, this conversation is over. I don't to people who value money over human life.
Umm, whatever. I donated to the red cross. I stated in my very first fucking sentence that they are doing the right thing by trying to help the people that decided to ignore the evacuation orders. On the flipside, you have people who do not listen to reason, who live in a flood plain, are ordered to evacuate to avoid a CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE, and stay anyway.
So you would hail to the mighty capitalistic system to bail out the ailing US education system?
Yes, absolutely. I already have, I'm saving for my kids' private education.
Maybe by privatizing it you would end up with something as transparent, safe and clean as the US meat industry? Something as efficient as the US auto industry?
What is your point exactly? Do you want to trade reports of where corporations have screwed up and where government has screwed up? I bet I have more examples.
I guess you are like the person who wrote the caption on the following photo... because these people are white, they "found" this food in a store:
0 50830071810_shxwaoma_photo1
8 0/ladm10708301649
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/photos_ts_afp/
Yet this black guy didn't find stuff, he looted it:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050830/4
Uh huh.
there is no constraint on them to do good
Yes, there is a very good constraint! It's called "if you're evil, you will lose business and eventually go bankrupt."
They are chartered to put shareholder value above all other concerns,
No, they're not chartered to do that. This is a myth that anti-capitalists like to put out there.
And even if in spirit this is what they're goal is, the fact is it is better for their business if they are "not evil." Witness Anheuser-Busch's water bottling operation. Logic says they are hurting shareholders by churning out less beer. But the reality is the goodwill earned from this will end up earning them more customers.
the lack of accountability
What lack of accountability?
They are subject to laws, as are the employees of a company. They are subject to the marketplace, boycotts, unions, shareholders, the SEC (if publicly traded), etc.
greater power that corporations enjoy
Thanks to politicians...
make them more apt to do evil (and do greater evil) than Joe Citizen.
This is the biggest bunch of unprovable horseshit I've ever read. Just for starters, companies ARE people. Some companies may hire some evil fucks, and in the end, they'll get theirs. (Look at the white collar guys getting life sentences, and more on the way.)
Typical anti-capitalist B.S. with nothing to back it up but paranoid ranting and total misunderstanding of what companies are.
I should have suspected this based on your other replies, why do I even bother with Slashdot any more. It's filled with naive socialists.