The late 1960s/early 1970s was probably the high point for the "far left", so it's unlikely they would have been worrying about jumping on the environmental bandwagon at that stage, even given your insane rightwing assumption that it's happening now.
But thanks for adding to the evidence that people who deny the existence of climate change are both paranoid and stupid.
If you're sitting on a couch with your feet on a table, you're not doing any serious work, so why wouldn't you just use an iPad anyway while you're fapping to furry porn?
Just because it's called a laptop doesn't mean it's best to use it on your lap.
I think it's unfair to mod this as a troll: I think it's genuine stupidity.
He reminds me of those crackpots who whizz through the Theory of Special Relativity, do a "divide by zero" somewhere and proudnly announce that they've shown Einstein was a clown.
but in 200 years it might allow us to calculate the control points necessary to create an anti-matter damper for protonium neon flux casings in hyperdimensional warp transferrence beam generators.
So might the curvature of my arse, that doesn't mean it's worth anyone spending time investigating it.
In the DotCom era it seemed like the IPO was the goal.
That's because most internet entrepreneurs (then and now) have no real interest in actually running a company in the long term. They want to get highly paid for their clever idea and go off and create something else shiny. There is no real connection between having one or two good business ideas and being interested in spending the next forty years going to strategy meetings and playing the PR game with your investors.
. . . some will mock people trying to model something 10 years out ..
I will mock people trying to model something 5 years out, and often even for fewer years than that. I've done it myself (usually for present value on various building system choices), and read reports by others doing it. I note that forecasts rely on all sorts of assumptions that are far from knowable, and parameters can often be manipulated to get the result someone wants.
It's hardly a shock to acknowledge that forecasts are not 100% reliable. That doesn't mean that they're worthless.
There could be a meteor that destroys the Cupertino (or the Earth) next year; NK might nuke Apple's factories in China; Steve Jobs might rise from the grave and release a handheld Faster Than Light personal transporter. Many things might make Apple stock suddenly more or more valuable. That doesn't mean you say "well, our forecast can only be 99.9999999999997% accurate so we won't bother and just make up a number by sticking our finger in the air".
If companies had to pay out all their profits as dividends, that would also stop them from growing, unless they got their working capital from bank or other loans.
If you made them pay out a certain percentage as dividends, you're just fiddling around for no reason, the various asset ratios would simply be adjusted by analysts.
If you forced investors to keep shares for a certain period of time, you might as well abandon the idea of a stock market altogether, which may be a good idea, but is not what you appear to be thinking of.
They had their own direction before, now their executives have been taken over by a parasitic CEO from.....Microsoft!
Self determination is far more profitable than guided obsolescence.
Nokia's direction was a steepening nosedive into irrelevance and bankruptcy. Whatever you may think about Mirosoft, they stopped them from going bust and disappearing entirely. It's hardly MS's fault if they haven''t instantly propelled them back into the "World No. 1" position which their previous management threw away.
Last time I looked, Apple's iOS had about 20% of the market for mobile phones. Since only Apple make phones running iOS, I suppose they have 20% of the market by manufacturer as well. If this is more than any other single manufacturer fair enough, but they're hardly unassailable.
They shouldn't have fixed it. anyone using Windows XP should have upgraded years ago. Perhaps this would be encouragement to move to Windows 7....or Linux:D
Anyone who wanted to move to Linux has been perfectly free to do so for years.
Windows 7 requires a higher spec to run than XP, so a lot of people who are perfectly happy running an old 600 MHz Pentium 3 laptop with 128mb memory on XP probably aren't going to be able to upgrade to Windows 7.
Okay, on reflection maybe I should not have used the adverb 'physically'. But I did have to remove the Kaspersky folder from the Program Files. Otherwise the install program would crash while reinstalling the software.
You should have stuck with the ever-popular "literally"
Yes I'm sure all of the businesses running XP on old machines because it still works, not to mention the millions of home users with crappy old computers, are just dying to start messing around with virtual machines.
The way Linux (Unix actually) is designed from the ground up is secure; a "virus" could only run if it was explicitly run by something, e.g. the user, an automated script
Yes, it's lucky there are no careless/stupid uses of Linux who will just click "yes" to "do you want to install the free NakedGirls screensaver" and supply the root password when asked, isn't it?
It's been said many times before, but the main reason Windows is so insecure is because so many people with no understanding of computers use it.
Why would the exact same logic not apply to cash accounts?
Banks are not fungible in the same way that data backups or power supplies are. If you had enough money that you needed to split into deposit-protected sized amounts, sooner or later you'd run out of good credit risk banks, and end up with Big Dave's loansharking operation with minus 50 per cent vig and your legs broken if you don't ask for it back nicely.
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But thanks for adding to the evidence that people who deny the existence of climate change are both paranoid and stupid.
Old joke:
Q: How can you tell when a Blackpool girl has an orgasm?
A: She drops her chips.
My god, I just used "it's" instead of "its". Slashdot is indeed making me dumber, just as I had suspect.
Suspected.
And it's main selling point it the fact that it's two inferior devices in one.
No, it's main selling point is that it isn't made by Apple. At this stage, I'd buy a fucking Etch-a-Sketch [*] instead of an iPad.
[*] RIP Andre Cassagnes.
Of course, you could just be sarcastic and I missed it...
No shit, Sherlock.
Just because it's called a laptop doesn't mean it's best to use it on your lap.
2^6 - 1 = 63. Correct me if I'm wrong, but 63 isn't prime.
It might as well be if you've only done your times tables up to 6, which apparently a lot of people here have.
He reminds me of those crackpots who whizz through the Theory of Special Relativity, do a "divide by zero" somewhere and proudnly announce that they've shown Einstein was a clown.
Lucky you posted AC to avoid people knowing who you really are. Oh, wait...
but in 200 years it might allow us to calculate the control points necessary to create an anti-matter damper for protonium neon flux casings in hyperdimensional warp transferrence beam generators.
So might the curvature of my arse, that doesn't mean it's worth anyone spending time investigating it.
In the DotCom era it seemed like the IPO was the goal.
That's because most internet entrepreneurs (then and now) have no real interest in actually running a company in the long term. They want to get highly paid for their clever idea and go off and create something else shiny. There is no real connection between having one or two good business ideas and being interested in spending the next forty years going to strategy meetings and playing the PR game with your investors.
I will mock people trying to model something 5 years out, and often even for fewer years than that. I've done it myself (usually for present value on various building system choices), and read reports by others doing it. I note that forecasts rely on all sorts of assumptions that are far from knowable, and parameters can often be manipulated to get the result someone wants.
It's hardly a shock to acknowledge that forecasts are not 100% reliable. That doesn't mean that they're worthless.
There could be a meteor that destroys the Cupertino (or the Earth) next year; NK might nuke Apple's factories in China; Steve Jobs might rise from the grave and release a handheld Faster Than Light personal transporter. Many things might make Apple stock suddenly more or more valuable. That doesn't mean you say "well, our forecast can only be 99.9999999999997% accurate so we won't bother and just make up a number by sticking our finger in the air".
If you made them pay out a certain percentage as dividends, you're just fiddling around for no reason, the various asset ratios would simply be adjusted by analysts.
If you forced investors to keep shares for a certain period of time, you might as well abandon the idea of a stock market altogether, which may be a good idea, but is not what you appear to be thinking of.
They had their own direction before, now their executives have been taken over by a parasitic CEO from.....Microsoft!
Self determination is far more profitable than guided obsolescence.
Nokia's direction was a steepening nosedive into irrelevance and bankruptcy. Whatever you may think about Mirosoft, they stopped them from going bust and disappearing entirely. It's hardly MS's fault if they haven''t instantly propelled them back into the "World No. 1" position which their previous management threw away.
Last time I looked, Apple's iOS had about 20% of the market for mobile phones. Since only Apple make phones running iOS, I suppose they have 20% of the market by manufacturer as well. If this is more than any other single manufacturer fair enough, but they're hardly unassailable.
They shouldn't have fixed it. anyone using Windows XP should have upgraded years ago. Perhaps this would be encouragement to move to Windows 7....or Linux :D
Anyone who wanted to move to Linux has been perfectly free to do so for years.
Windows 7 requires a higher spec to run than XP, so a lot of people who are perfectly happy running an old 600 MHz Pentium 3 laptop with 128mb memory on XP probably aren't going to be able to upgrade to Windows 7.
Okay, on reflection maybe I should not have used the adverb 'physically'. But I did have to remove the Kaspersky folder from the Program Files. Otherwise the install program would crash while reinstalling the software.
You should have stuck with the ever-popular "literally"
I had to physically remove its folder from the Program Files area...
I just got this mental picture of someone opening up their hard drive and scraping a section off one of the platters.... :)
Oh, you're not supposed to do that when you delete something? No wonder I get through so many hard drives.
Cutting off internet access is one of the very best methods for Windows XP security. What's the problem?
Reality. That is always the problem, and I know a lot of people here have difficulties with it.
Yes I'm sure all of the businesses running XP on old machines because it still works, not to mention the millions of home users with crappy old computers, are just dying to start messing around with virtual machines.
judging from the comments in the various fora
Further proof that slashdot needs a "-1 wanker" moderation option.
The way Linux (Unix actually) is designed from the ground up is secure; a "virus" could only run if it was explicitly run by something, e.g. the user, an automated script
Yes, it's lucky there are no careless/stupid uses of Linux who will just click "yes" to "do you want to install the free NakedGirls screensaver" and supply the root password when asked, isn't it?
It's been said many times before, but the main reason Windows is so insecure is because so many people with no understanding of computers use it.
If Apple failed - you'd have maybe half a million people out of work
But half a billion wannabe hipsters' hearts would be broken.
Why would the exact same logic not apply to cash accounts?
Banks are not fungible in the same way that data backups or power supplies are. If you had enough money that you needed to split into deposit-protected sized amounts, sooner or later you'd run out of good credit risk banks, and end up with Big Dave's loansharking operation with minus 50 per cent vig and your legs broken if you don't ask for it back nicely.
bank deposits are guaranteed by the government
Which is just as much the government interfering with "the free market" as anything else, if you're libertarianly-inclined.