Get laid, loser, then correct my grammar. I'm sure once you've had sex, you'll find there's more important things to worry about.
Dude, you're posting on slashdot. I don't think you are in a position to be making fun of someone else's sex life.
Even funnier, however, is your defense of improperly using the phrase "begging the question", which was, "everyone is doing it". The irony is delicions, considering that this thread started from your post pointing out that just because everyone is doing something, doesn't mean it is the right thing to do.
In your defense (sorta), you were wrong when you tried to somehow turn the price/performance ratio into a disadvantage due to it's popularity. All that proves, however, is that popularity should be irrelevant to most decisions. This holds for both technology and grammar. You should buy processors on the price/performance ratio, and you should chose phrases on whether they mean what you are trying to say. Using popularity or lack-thereof as an arguement gets you nowhere.
Me, I am waiting for a personal phone call from Steve Jobs before I believe any of this anti-mac hype. Steve would never sell me a product that was not as asbolutely perfect as he is.
This might be the stupidest pro-Kyoto post I have ever seen. It is both wrong and retarted. Kyoto did not exempt India, China, and Eastern Europe. It simply created global standards. India, China, and Eastern Europe are much less developed than the US, so they still have more leeway in terms of developing industry.
There is a legitimate argument that this is unfair to the US, especially since we are much cleaner per-capita than those other countries, but Kyoto was defiently not Lets-Stick-It-To-Those-Americans treaty. We really do pollute much more per person than any other country, and we do have the technology to fix it. There was a reason we were expected to do more than third-world countries.
On top of that, the #1 reason that Kyoto was not ratified was that it would hurt the US economy. This was not some sort of hidden adgenda, it was the main reason that the Senate was not willing to ratify it. To assert that Your comments were pure socialist rhetoric is just name calling (like when I called you retarted - remember that? yea, that was hilarious). Nearly every member of the Senate said that they would not ratify Kyoto because it would cause a loss of jobs, but when the Grandparent said it, you call him a socialist.
His whole point was that most average users can not handle any sort of computer problems, be they windows or gnu/linux.
So the typical user doesnt know where to type emerge. Someone has to show them the first time. The typical user also doesn't know how to install software on windows the first time either. They don't know where to put the CD, they don't know what to click on, they don't know what to answer to "Where do you want to install?", they don't know if they want to add shortcuts, they don't know if they want to read the readme.txt, they don't know if they wan't to start the program. And if the install requires anything more than that, they are totally lost.
The point is that everyone considers windows usable for noobs, but considers gnu/linux impossible to use. I would have to say that the two are nearly equal nowdays in terms of usability.
Here is just one antecedote: Installing a TCP/IP printer in WinXP. Don't try and add a network printer, it will never work. You actually have to add a local printer, and use port:TCP/IP. That is user-friendly?
You run KDE, and then complain that there are too many options and choices? That's like buying a Ferrari and then complaining that its a pain because you can't drive your kids to school and you can't fit your groceries in the trunk.
If you are looking for a desktop environment that is simple and clean, use GNOME. If you are looking for a desktop environment that has every feature you could imagine available, and has some features multiple times, than use KDE.
You complain about choice, but in this case, choice is your friend. Take advantage of the fact that there are different desktop environments that are geared for different types of users. This is what makes linux wonderful.
Real Men don't need a Soldering Iron - only noobs do. Real Men just hold the lead in a cup over a fire to melt it. It might seem hard at first, but trust me, it is much more powerful than a soldering iron.
The only question would be, how often would these cars crash if they had Windows running on them?
If you want to get modded up, you are going to have to try harder than that. Perhaps this:
The only question would be, if Darl McBride was driving Steve Jobs to Starbucks in one of these cars, and it was running windows, would Steve Jobs' reality distortion field be strong enough to protect them both from injury when Windows crashed?
I should have phrased that "the cost ratio would be similar". Obviously, they are not selling 3000 dollar simputers in India. But if they can build relatively cheap portables, they should be able to build cheap desktops for even less.
If they can build a handheld for under 400, they should be able to build a desktop for under 150 or so. That was my point. Rather than focusing on building a cheap portable, they should focus on building a cheap desktop, because it is nearly a rule of computers that desktops are cheaper than portables.
Why is this the right type of computer for India? What is wrong with desktop PC's? We all know that a laptop costs way more then a desktop, and a tablet PC costs way more than that. This simputer sounds alot more like a tablet PC than a desktop, so I would guess it's cost would be similar.
Shouldn't the overriding factor for underdeveloped countries be the cost? Not portability and gee-whiz features like zooming by acceleratometers?
Let the political class and those who like politics play their game. All I ask is that you don't screw up the economy for the rest of us so we can enjoy our family and community. The pols just don't seem to get that little fact.
There is a lot more to the world than just the US economy. Read Nicholas Kristofs NYTimes column today, where he describes the genocide currently taking place in Sudan. Read about the ethnic cleansing and state sponsered rape that is taking place. Then tell me again that the most important thing is that the US economy is strong so that you can own a two story house and drive a Buick and eat a Red Robbin and wear Dockers.
Here in the US, a politician is judged on whether we are able to buy a Chevorlet or a Cadilliac. In other parts of the world, people are worried about whether their villiage will be wiped out.
Perhaps if people started to take a more active role in politics, politicians would not be able to lie. We would not be confronted with the choice of one candidate who bends the facts to fit a preconceived notion of how the world works, and one candidate who refuses to take a firm stance on anything, so that he can never be accused of lying. Then perhaps the media would have to do more than play the soundbyte game. They would actually have to analyze the policies of the candidates and explain what the differences are instead of just telling us that we have the choice between a Dumb candidate and a candidate who Flip-Flops.
As far as I can tell, all "centrino" is is a lower speed CPU notebook with a built in 802.11 board built in.
Thats not all - it is also a marketing campaign intended to make people believe that it is in their advantage to pay more in order to buy a lower speed CPU with built in 802.11.
I just don't see the synnergy between the two brands
Please never use the word synnergy on slashdot again. I like having a place completely free from business-speak. If you start using words like that, next thing you know, people will be trying to leverage the community driven production model to increase shareholder value and facilitate equity investment. Actually, people are probably trying to do that already, but at least I don't have to hear about it.
ATI could give away free video cards, open source all their drivers, and hire a bunch of strippers to come to your house and make you birthday cake... and the Slashdot crowd would still piss and moan.
Dem's are all about freedom of speech until it comes to something like campaign finance reform, which is a blatant violation of freedom of speech
We have always accepted that the right to free speech is not an absolute right; hence the overused, but still true "yelling fire in a crowded theater" example. When it comes to campaign finaince reform, a small amount of free speech is being sacrificed in order to ensure that our elections are democratic and not influenced by money. Whether that is a good tradeoff or not is argueable, but the idea that campaign finance reform is strictly unconstutional because it is a violation of the right to free speech is just silly.
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Get laid, loser, then correct my grammar. I'm sure once you've had sex, you'll find there's more important things to worry about.
Dude, you're posting on slashdot. I don't think you are in a position to be making fun of someone else's sex life.
Even funnier, however, is your defense of improperly using the phrase "begging the question", which was, "everyone is doing it". The irony is delicions, considering that this thread started from your post pointing out that just because everyone is doing something, doesn't mean it is the right thing to do.
In your defense (sorta), you were wrong when you tried to somehow turn the price/performance ratio into a disadvantage due to it's popularity. All that proves, however, is that popularity should be irrelevant to most decisions. This holds for both technology and grammar. You should buy processors on the price/performance ratio, and you should chose phrases on whether they mean what you are trying to say. Using popularity or lack-thereof as an arguement gets you nowhere.
Me, I am waiting for a personal phone call from Steve Jobs before I believe any of this anti-mac hype. Steve would never sell me a product that was not as asbolutely perfect as he is.
Red Alastor, I would like to buy your magic rock.
This might be the stupidest pro-Kyoto post I have ever seen. It is both wrong and retarted. Kyoto did not exempt India, China, and Eastern Europe. It simply created global standards. India, China, and Eastern Europe are much less developed than the US, so they still have more leeway in terms of developing industry.
There is a legitimate argument that this is unfair to the US, especially since we are much cleaner per-capita than those other countries, but Kyoto was defiently not Lets-Stick-It-To-Those-Americans treaty. We really do pollute much more per person than any other country, and we do have the technology to fix it. There was a reason we were expected to do more than third-world countries.
On top of that, the #1 reason that Kyoto was not ratified was that it would hurt the US economy. This was not some sort of hidden adgenda, it was the main reason that the Senate was not willing to ratify it. To assert that Your comments were pure socialist rhetoric is just name calling (like when I called you retarted - remember that? yea, that was hilarious). Nearly every member of the Senate said that they would not ratify Kyoto because it would cause a loss of jobs, but when the Grandparent said it, you call him a socialist.
No, the desktop is not "cluttered."
and
a few demos I've seen show two Notepad apps slowly rotating in circles and working correctly as Windows Media Player played a file flawlessly
Riiiiiiiiight
His whole point was that most average users can not handle any sort of computer problems, be they windows or gnu/linux.
So the typical user doesnt know where to type emerge. Someone has to show them the first time. The typical user also doesn't know how to install software on windows the first time either. They don't know where to put the CD, they don't know what to click on, they don't know what to answer to "Where do you want to install?", they don't know if they want to add shortcuts, they don't know if they want to read the readme.txt, they don't know if they wan't to start the program. And if the install requires anything more than that, they are totally lost.
The point is that everyone considers windows usable for noobs, but considers gnu/linux impossible to use. I would have to say that the two are nearly equal nowdays in terms of usability.
Here is just one antecedote: Installing a TCP/IP printer in WinXP. Don't try and add a network printer, it will never work. You actually have to add a local printer, and use port:TCP/IP. That is user-friendly?
Kick back and watch 6 hours of Dilbert without the need of a DVD changer
Maybe there is some technology the world is not ready for yet.
You run KDE, and then complain that there are too many options and choices? That's like buying a Ferrari and then complaining that its a pain because you can't drive your kids to school and you can't fit your groceries in the trunk.
If you are looking for a desktop environment that is simple and clean, use GNOME. If you are looking for a desktop environment that has every feature you could imagine available, and has some features multiple times, than use KDE.
You complain about choice, but in this case, choice is your friend. Take advantage of the fact that there are different desktop environments that are geared for different types of users. This is what makes linux wonderful.
Real Men don't need a Soldering Iron - only noobs do. Real Men just hold the lead in a cup over a fire to melt it. It might seem hard at first, but trust me, it is much more powerful than a soldering iron.
The only question would be, how often would these cars crash if they had Windows running on them?
If you want to get modded up, you are going to have to try harder than that. Perhaps this:
The only question would be, if Darl McBride was driving Steve Jobs to Starbucks in one of these cars, and it was running windows, would Steve Jobs' reality distortion field be strong enough to protect them both from injury when Windows crashed?
Police and fire officials said yesterday that they had no reports of injuries during the 911 failure
Shocking - there were no reported injuries during the time when nobody was able to report injuries.
After reviewing their records, the police also realized that before the 911 system was implemented, there were no calls to 911.
I should have phrased that "the cost ratio would be similar". Obviously, they are not selling 3000 dollar simputers in India. But if they can build relatively cheap portables, they should be able to build cheap desktops for even less.
If they can build a handheld for under 400, they should be able to build a desktop for under 150 or so. That was my point. Rather than focusing on building a cheap portable, they should focus on building a cheap desktop, because it is nearly a rule of computers that desktops are cheaper than portables.
Why is this the right type of computer for India? What is wrong with desktop PC's? We all know that a laptop costs way more then a desktop, and a tablet PC costs way more than that. This simputer sounds alot more like a tablet PC than a desktop, so I would guess it's cost would be similar.
Shouldn't the overriding factor for underdeveloped countries be the cost? Not portability and gee-whiz features like zooming by acceleratometers?
Let the political class and those who like politics play their game. All I ask is that you don't screw up the economy for the rest of us so we can enjoy our family and community. The pols just don't seem to get that little fact.
There is a lot more to the world than just the US economy. Read Nicholas Kristofs NYTimes column today, where he describes the genocide currently taking place in Sudan. Read about the ethnic cleansing and state sponsered rape that is taking place. Then tell me again that the most important thing is that the US economy is strong so that you can own a two story house and drive a Buick and eat a Red Robbin and wear Dockers.
Here in the US, a politician is judged on whether we are able to buy a Chevorlet or a Cadilliac. In other parts of the world, people are worried about whether their villiage will be wiped out.
Perhaps if people started to take a more active role in politics, politicians would not be able to lie. We would not be confronted with the choice of one candidate who bends the facts to fit a preconceived notion of how the world works, and one candidate who refuses to take a firm stance on anything, so that he can never be accused of lying. Then perhaps the media would have to do more than play the soundbyte game. They would actually have to analyze the policies of the candidates and explain what the differences are instead of just telling us that we have the choice between a Dumb candidate and a candidate who Flip-Flops.
As far as I can tell, all "centrino" is is a lower speed CPU notebook with a built in 802.11 board built in.
Thats not all - it is also a marketing campaign intended to make people believe that it is in their advantage to pay more in order to buy a lower speed CPU with built in 802.11.
Mark Maughan is a baby.
There, now he has someone else to sue.
Hell, do you have to know stochastic partial differential equations to karma-whore now??
Only Markov processes. Commander Taco will forget what happened previously, and repost this article, making Slashdot itself a Markov process.
Somebody needs to write a Linux driver for that shit! That would be so badass.
no diggity
Now i feel old AND stupid. Thanks a lot you insensitive clod!
If you are posting to slashdot, you can add dorky too. Luckily, today is a weekend, so you don't have to add lazy.
You have the Free State Campaign in your sig, and yet you are advocating a PBS of the internet?
Okay, I guess I finished the internet. I have seen everthing.
I just don't see the synnergy between the two brands
Please never use the word synnergy on slashdot again. I like having a place completely free from business-speak. If you start using words like that, next thing you know, people will be trying to leverage the community driven production model to increase shareholder value and facilitate equity investment. Actually, people are probably trying to do that already, but at least I don't have to hear about it.
ATI could give away free video cards, open source all their drivers, and hire a bunch of strippers to come to your house and make you birthday cake... and the Slashdot crowd would still piss and moan.
That depends - are they open-source strippers?
Dem's are all about freedom of speech until it comes to something like campaign finance reform, which is a blatant violation of freedom of speech
We have always accepted that the right to free speech is not an absolute right; hence the overused, but still true "yelling fire in a crowded theater" example. When it comes to campaign finaince reform, a small amount of free speech is being sacrificed in order to ensure that our elections are democratic and not influenced by money. Whether that is a good tradeoff or not is argueable, but the idea that campaign finance reform is strictly unconstutional because it is a violation of the right to free speech is just silly.
Did you even read what I wrote? The reason I asked the question, that you quote, is to point out how stupid the grandpartents arguement was.
Obviously, the way you quote me is bogus - that is the point.