Of course, british healthcare is not 'free' at all. It is free at point of usage, but all salaries have 'national insurance' deducted to pay for it - so it is effectively a
government mandated health insurance scheme).
Gosh, thanks for pointing that out, everyone here in the UK thought the NHS was funded by unicorns sprinkling fairy dust over ponies.
places like Paypal and visa skim (charge others) for being mere middlemen in financial transactions. The idea that they are providing 'a service' is nonsense. The reality is electronic exchange of money should be a public utility so we can get credit card companies and parasites like paypal off the economy.
Look, I'm a socialist and all in favour of nationalising financial institutions but I bet you're not, at least if you're from the US.
PayPal is a shady corporation that definitely falls on the "evil" side of internet companies. Sadly, that precludes my ever being a fan of his, regardless of his other accomplishments.
What is it with the slashdot hatred of PayPal? I use it to buy stuff off eBay, and if I ever sell anything I give PayPal a cut. So fucking what? No one's forcing me to use either eBay or PayPal if I don't want to.
I always suspect the problems people have with PayPal/eBay are when they try to use them for business purposes while pretending just to be a private seller. Well, if you want to be a business, do it properly.
huh. I mostly remember him for once being married to Talulah Riley. How he managed to catch but not hold on to such a hottie will forever taint the guy as a loser in my eyes regardless of how successful he is in other areas of life.
However rich, attractive, clever or amusing you are, it takes two to make a relationship work. Unless you are a close friend you cannot possibly comment on the reasons either for their marriage or divorce.
This is irrespective of the ridiculously sexist idea that a woman is some sort of prize that you win for being good at something.
There is a difference between 100 mph which is overkill for most driving and 200 mph which is overkill for any road driving.
Same with acceleration. There is simply no need ever to be able to do a standing quarter mile in less than 10 seconds on the road.
The question of your right to drive a pointlessly fast car is something in which I have little interest, other than to say that the proper place for a racing vehicle is on a racetrack.
That, and the fact that when you floor a gas/diesel engine (especially with a highly tuned 4 banger, 6, V8, or higher)...you hear the primal roar of your engine coming out from the exhaust. You feel connected to the car. Then you have the ----- quietness ----- of a speeding electric supercar. Which pulls harder on your driving heart?
A lot of high quality expensive cars pride themselves on their quietness and comfort (Rolls Royce or whatever). Driving is not just about creating road-going racing cars.
Actually the "send us to Mars" part is a possibility.
Who the fuck wants to go to Mars?
I don't mean we shouldn't have a manned expedition to Mars, that would be cool and everything. But no one in their right mind would want to go on a 1-2 year long round trip holiday cooped up in a tin can, broken only by a chance to see some red dust and rocks when you actually get to Mars.
If somebody compared me to that slimebag Rockefeller, I'd shoot them.
I know, what a horrible guy. Especially the way he donated over half a billion dollars (about 8 billion in today's money) to different colleges, universities, and medical institutions. I forget, how much his own personal wealth did Steve Jobs donate toward philanthropic efforts? Not 8 billion, that's for sure...
If the US had had a proper tax system it would have got more than that out of him in taxes which could have been spent according to need rather than his own personal wishes.
The ones who make the world go around are the entrepreneurs who run the small businesses that comprise the bulk of the economy.
That's true, those people do make the world go around. But people like Jobs, Musk, Gates, etc are the people who make the world move forward.
Wow, you've certainly swallowed the capitalist kool aid good and proper.
If Jobs was that much of a fucking genius he'd have single-handedly invented the iPhone and mobile internet in the 1960s wouldn't he? What's that? He had to depend on incremental progress in many fields by countless different people, organisations and companies? Oh no, that doesn't fit with the "solitary genius writing history" storyline that the rest of us abandoned in the Nineteenthy Century.
Nonononono - it needs WAY more CamelCase and much more CloudAjax.
I propose they should be called:
TiledInterfaceCloudAjaxCamelCaseDesktopAppsPod
because it really gets to the substance of why these are truly beyond the 'tipping point' of being a disruptive game changer in the big data cloud revolution
Tsk tsk you didn't use the phrase "paradigm shift".
Do you know how boring a realistic film about spies would be? It would be about as thrilling as a documentary on insurance salesmen. Almost all the work is either reading stuff on computers, or setting up meetings with people in cafes for a cup of coffee and a quick chat.
I believe that piracy is a form of civil disobedience.
For it to be civil disobedience in the classic sense, you would need to pirate the movie, inform your ISP/the movie company that you had done so, get sued and by refusing to pay the fine end up in jail.
Otherwise, you're just getting stuff for free and no one changes anything, unless enough people do it and somehow put the movie companies out of business.
I've never bought (shock) a DVD that had non-skippable ads in. Is it a US thing? Are all the DVDs I've ever bought from Asda for my kids actually pirate copies stripped of DRM?
It was very boring for a Bond movie. I fell asleep twice trying to watch it. No one liked bond because he simply completed his mission. They like bond because he did it using innovative technology and gadgets. The same reason Batman movies work, take away his gadgets and he is just a rich 1%'er with mental issues and some anger.
Wow, how old are you? The tech and gadgets are just shiny stuff for ten year olds. What makes them work is good writing, acting and directing.
Millions of people think transformers is a good movie.
No, they think it is escapist fun.
Millions of people think jersey shore is a great tv show.
Again, no they just think it's entertaining.
Millions of people think nickleback is a awesome band.
No, they really really really don't. There are clearly a few, but surely not millions.
Millions of people think the secret is the best book ever.
Never heard of it.
Millions think tom cruise is a good actor.
He's not that bad for a Hollywood star, and has been in some good films.
Millions think mcdonalds has good food.
They most certainly do not, they think it's convenient food.
why in the hell would I agree with some critics who get paid indirectly by the movie studios who make movies they review?
That is pure and utter bullshit, or else you'd never see a bad movie review. Maybe it's different here in the UK, but there are many good independent-minded critics who will tell you exactly how good or bad a film is.
And generally favourable just means most critics didnt think it was total shit, but that doesnt mean they thought it was awesome.
You're a fucking idot. There is a whole spectrum of opinions between total shit and awesome, and most films lie somewhere on it.
First they name a building, or recognise a day in your honor.
This is the inevitable prelude to destroying everything you'd ever done or stood for.
They should just have commsiioned a statue of a great big fucking pile of money, which is what Jobs made. All the rest of the design and creative work was done by somebody else. Maybe they could have a little plaque each.
I don't think a realistic space travel game will be much success. Travelling from Earth to Mars: Put your space ship on course, and then wait half a year, maybe making a small course correction every now and then...
Sounds like most realistic flight simulators. Christ they're dull.
Ten minutes of fun taxiing and taking off, a ten hour flight over the featureless Atlantic and five minutes of terror landing. The only good thing is that with autopilot you can sleep during the middle bit, much like real pilots.
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It's free for far too fucking many people.
I do support having a NHS, but I also support people contributing. Right now too many don't.
Yes, that will be because they don't have jobs and/or aren't earning enough from their fifteen hours a week at McDonald's to pay National Insurance.
That's sort of one of the problems when the economy isn't doing too well. Other tax receipts tend to go down too.
Of course, british healthcare is not 'free' at all. It is free at point of usage, but all salaries have 'national insurance' deducted to pay for it - so it is effectively a government mandated health insurance scheme).
Gosh, thanks for pointing that out, everyone here in the UK thought the NHS was funded by unicorns sprinkling fairy dust over ponies.
Accountants. At least, if it's like any other large conversion I have been through.
Whereas you being the expert would, of course, spend an unlimited amount of money because all data is so precious?
Only someone with no understanding of the free market, and therefore human nature would write what you wrote.
The free market is a small and unimportant part of human nature, unless you're a capitalist.
places like Paypal and visa skim (charge others) for being mere middlemen in financial transactions. The idea that they are providing 'a service' is nonsense. The reality is electronic exchange of money should be a public utility so we can get credit card companies and parasites like paypal off the economy.
Look, I'm a socialist and all in favour of nationalising financial institutions but I bet you're not, at least if you're from the US.
PayPal is a shady corporation that definitely falls on the "evil" side of internet companies. Sadly, that precludes my ever being a fan of his, regardless of his other accomplishments.
What is it with the slashdot hatred of PayPal? I use it to buy stuff off eBay, and if I ever sell anything I give PayPal a cut. So fucking what? No one's forcing me to use either eBay or PayPal if I don't want to.
I always suspect the problems people have with PayPal/eBay are when they try to use them for business purposes while pretending just to be a private seller. Well, if you want to be a business, do it properly.
huh. I mostly remember him for once being married to Talulah Riley. How he managed to catch but not hold on to such a hottie will forever taint the guy as a loser in my eyes regardless of how successful he is in other areas of life.
However rich, attractive, clever or amusing you are, it takes two to make a relationship work. Unless you are a close friend you cannot possibly comment on the reasons either for their marriage or divorce.
This is irrespective of the ridiculously sexist idea that a woman is some sort of prize that you win for being good at something.
There is a difference between 100 mph which is overkill for most driving and 200 mph which is overkill for any road driving.
Same with acceleration. There is simply no need ever to be able to do a standing quarter mile in less than 10 seconds on the road.
The question of your right to drive a pointlessly fast car is something in which I have little interest, other than to say that the proper place for a racing vehicle is on a racetrack.
That, and the fact that when you floor a gas/diesel engine (especially with a highly tuned 4 banger, 6, V8, or higher)...you hear the primal roar of your engine coming out from the exhaust. You feel connected to the car. Then you have the ----- quietness ----- of a speeding electric supercar. Which pulls harder on your driving heart?
A lot of high quality expensive cars pride themselves on their quietness and comfort (Rolls Royce or whatever). Driving is not just about creating road-going racing cars.
Actually the "send us to Mars" part is a possibility.
Who the fuck wants to go to Mars?
I don't mean we shouldn't have a manned expedition to Mars, that would be cool and everything. But no one in their right mind would want to go on a 1-2 year long round trip holiday cooped up in a tin can, broken only by a chance to see some red dust and rocks when you actually get to Mars.
If somebody compared me to that slimebag Rockefeller, I'd shoot them.
I know, what a horrible guy. Especially the way he donated over half a billion dollars (about 8 billion in today's money) to different colleges, universities, and medical institutions. I forget, how much his own personal wealth did Steve Jobs donate toward philanthropic efforts? Not 8 billion, that's for sure...
If the US had had a proper tax system it would have got more than that out of him in taxes which could have been spent according to need rather than his own personal wishes.
The ones who make the world go around are the entrepreneurs who run the small businesses that comprise the bulk of the economy.
That's true, those people do make the world go around. But people like Jobs, Musk, Gates, etc are the people who make the world move forward.
Wow, you've certainly swallowed the capitalist kool aid good and proper.
If Jobs was that much of a fucking genius he'd have single-handedly invented the iPhone and mobile internet in the 1960s wouldn't he? What's that? He had to depend on incremental progress in many fields by countless different people, organisations and companies? Oh no, that doesn't fit with the "solitary genius writing history" storyline that the rest of us abandoned in the Nineteenthy Century.
I don't know out of Elon Musk and the submitter who's the biggest twat.
Nonononono - it needs WAY more CamelCase and much more CloudAjax.
I propose they should be called:
TiledInterfaceCloudAjaxCamelCaseDesktopAppsPod
because it really gets to the substance of why these are truly beyond the 'tipping point' of being a disruptive game changer in the big data cloud revolution
Tsk tsk you didn't use the phrase "paradigm shift".
This time I watched Avatar it was over the course of 4 evenings (about an hour per night with one break) and I enjoyed it that way.
Avatar is not a four hour long film. It just feels like it.
and I enjoyed it that way. The plot is preachy, sure.
Your "preachy" is my "tackling real world issues from a non-corporatist perspective", but hey ho.
Do you know how boring a realistic film about spies would be? It would be about as thrilling as a documentary on insurance salesmen. Almost all the work is either reading stuff on computers, or setting up meetings with people in cafes for a cup of coffee and a quick chat.
So he wrote a single algorithm, 30 years ago, and did some code review, 20 years ago, and this makes him a computer genius? No.
No, but it makes him more technically literate than the entire general population of non-computer scientists.
I believe that piracy is a form of civil disobedience.
For it to be civil disobedience in the classic sense, you would need to pirate the movie, inform your ISP/the movie company that you had done so, get sued and by refusing to pay the fine end up in jail.
Otherwise, you're just getting stuff for free and no one changes anything, unless enough people do it and somehow put the movie companies out of business.
I've never bought (shock) a DVD that had non-skippable ads in. Is it a US thing? Are all the DVDs I've ever bought from Asda for my kids actually pirate copies stripped of DRM?
It was very boring for a Bond movie. I fell asleep twice trying to watch it. No one liked bond because he simply completed his mission. They like bond because he did it using innovative technology and gadgets. The same reason Batman movies work, take away his gadgets and he is just a rich 1%'er with mental issues and some anger.
Wow, how old are you? The tech and gadgets are just shiny stuff for ten year olds. What makes them work is good writing, acting and directing.
Millions of people think transformers is a good movie.
No, they think it is escapist fun.
Millions of people think jersey shore is a great tv show.
Again, no they just think it's entertaining.
Millions of people think nickleback is a awesome band.
No, they really really really don't. There are clearly a few, but surely not millions.
Millions of people think the secret is the best book ever.
Never heard of it.
Millions think tom cruise is a good actor.
He's not that bad for a Hollywood star, and has been in some good films.
Millions think mcdonalds has good food.
They most certainly do not, they think it's convenient food.
why in the hell would I agree with some critics who get paid indirectly by the movie studios who make movies they review?
That is pure and utter bullshit, or else you'd never see a bad movie review. Maybe it's different here in the UK, but there are many good independent-minded critics who will tell you exactly how good or bad a film is.
And generally favourable just means most critics didnt think it was total shit, but that doesnt mean they thought it was awesome.
You're a fucking idot. There is a whole spectrum of opinions between total shit and awesome, and most films lie somewhere on it.
They should just have renamed one of the disabled parking spaces in his honour.
First they name a building, or recognise a day in your honor.
This is the inevitable prelude to destroying everything you'd ever done or stood for.
They should just have commsiioned a statue of a great big fucking pile of money, which is what Jobs made. All the rest of the design and creative work was done by somebody else. Maybe they could have a little plaque each.
I don't think a realistic space travel game will be much success. Travelling from Earth to Mars: Put your space ship on course, and then wait half a year, maybe making a small course correction every now and then ...
Sounds like most realistic flight simulators. Christ they're dull.
Ten minutes of fun taxiing and taking off, a ten hour flight over the featureless Atlantic and five minutes of terror landing. The only good thing is that with autopilot you can sleep during the middle bit, much like real pilots. .
I'm not going to disagree with anyone whose user name is Dr. Manhattan.