When I have children, they'll only have access to a C64 with a Retro Replay or possibly a Chameleon Cart. That way, they will learn how a computer actually works, unlike kids (those under the age of 30) today
First impression? I want an OS that feels right out of the box. Not very rational, I know - but I'm probably not alone. And since Debian, Unity and Mint are more or less the same under the hood, the (default) GUI is important. Nevermind that I can change it, or that I do all my important work in the shell.
> Presumably, if you see a post saying something like
> "the Americans have the death penalty", you'll produce
> a similar response?
Yes? That would be just as silly, since the USA consists of several very diffent states. Some civilized, some controlled by the Taliban. Most people know this, those who don't should be mocked.
> Yes, the context of the OP was very clearly the
> Chinese government
No it wasn't. That's the point. But I know what you're saying, [perhaps] from your perspective perhaps the PRC is the Origin of All Evil, and then it would be natural to assume that the OP was talking about the PRC government, and not the Chinese. However, not everybody thinks that the PRC are responsible for everything that's bad in the world (just a significant percentage of it).
> the Iris[h] are drunk all the time
They are. I lived in Dublin for 3 very long years, I know.
I've heard that the Dutch wear clogs, the French eat snails, the Iris are drunk all the time, Swedish girls sleep with everyone, the Japanese likes schoolgirls and the Americans are very fat. Does anyone know anything about this?
(sorry, your question is kind of interesting, I just couldn't resist. "The Chinese" are not the same as some individuals or some organisation based in China who might or might not have done something at some point.)
Seconded. There was a time, perhaps around -94 or -95, when I would type in an url that described what I was looking for. Then webcrawler (the first decent searchengine) came along and made that whole "SLD having any relation to the content" thing useless.
Right. Snapdeal.com didn't have any friendly lobbyists "suggesting" anything. No way.
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> Modern books aren't designed to last hundreds of years.
Really? That's an interesting statement. Of course they're not "designed" to last for hundreds of years, but all new books I've bought the last 20 years or so seems to be of higher quality than the still-very-readable books I have from the 19th and 20th century, and I would expect my new books to last at least a few hundred years.
Both I guess. There are religious politicians in the US and the EU too, but companies run by normal people wanting to make money still operate in the real world.
It's not a UK court, it's an English court - which means that newspapers in Scotland are free to publish his name. Media in the US should be able to do the same.
Exactly which top Nazis were engineers? Not Hitler, GÃring, GÃbbels, Himmler, Bormann, Hess or even DÃnitz.
Instead of trying to find simplistic explanations, you might want to read Modernity and the Holocaust.
Footnote: I see slashdot still can't handle UTF8. DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT, SLASHDOT! Rent some indian to fix it in 15 minutes if you don't have any inhouse coders.
What's wrong with the first Amiga mouse or the 1351? Sure, they're not as good as today's mice, but they're not failures. Also, the Commodore joystick might look a bit sad, but it's actually quite decent and durable.
> I don't know about other parts of the world, but up here
> in Canada we generally only have one choice of power provider.
Uhm, any reason for this? Shouldn't be any technical problem in the developed world, and I don't understand why politicians would prevent it.
I live in sweden and can currently choose between about 80 different providers. Some get their electricity from hyrdo dams, some from wind turbines and some from Belorussian coal plants operated by child laborers (or whatever it is that lets them offer the lowest price). AFAIK it's been like this for at least 15 years, since I got my first apartment.
Well, the rest of us (Star Trek-fans) probably already have all Star Trek:* episodes on the HD, downloaded from tpb or the thing on port 443/563 that should not be named, so it's not a big deal. Still, yes, annoying. But don't blame slashdot, blame netlfix and the copyright holder who still believe in national boundaries. In the year 2011:-)
This is not a Commodore 64, it's not in any way related to a C64, it has nothing to do with Commodore (don't care if they "own" the name) and we've seen it "featured" on slashdot before.
The only positive thing to say about this is that fake-Commodore has a very good marketing department, congratulations on another free slashvertisement.
Oldbar has never worked for me, think I read somewhere that it conflicts with some other addon I use.
> enjoy having the ability to pull up a page even if the URL > doesn't begin in www
Sorry, what? What does the www subdomain have to do with anything? I never type it in unless there's some site with no content on the sld. My problem is that if I for example type "forum", then I expect to get forum.paradoxplaza.com as first suggestion, since that site is the forum*-site I usually visit. Instead I get all kinds of other blahblaforumblah.com-suggestions, even for sites I haven't visited in several years.
And there's nothing wrong with my memory, I don't forget the URL of the sites I frequent (but I can understand that it might be useful for people suffering from dementia or something).
Firefox 3 came with the totally worthless "awesomebar" that suggests all kinds of things that are not the least relevant to the url you start to type. Has this been fixed in FF4, or have they perhaps ruined more things?
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> Programmers have lost the ability to optimize.
(which is very sad, I agree)
When I have children, they'll only have access to a C64 with a Retro Replay or possibly a Chameleon Cart. That way, they will learn how a computer actually works, unlike kids (those under the age of 30) today
> There are always going to be 'haves' and 'have nots' in this world...that's the way of nature.
I think you're confusing nature with modern society.
First impression? I want an OS that feels right out of the box. Not very rational, I know - but I'm probably not alone. And since Debian, Unity and Mint are more or less the same under the hood, the (default) GUI is important. Nevermind that I can change it, or that I do all my important work in the shell.
> Presumably, if you see a post saying something like
> "the Americans have the death penalty", you'll produce
> a similar response?
Yes? That would be just as silly, since the USA consists of several very diffent states. Some civilized, some controlled by the Taliban. Most people know this, those who don't should be mocked.
> Yes, the context of the OP was very clearly the
> Chinese government
No it wasn't. That's the point. But I know what you're saying, [perhaps] from your perspective perhaps the PRC is the Origin of All Evil, and then it would be natural to assume that the OP was talking about the PRC government, and not the Chinese. However, not everybody thinks that the PRC are responsible for everything that's bad in the world (just a significant percentage of it).
> the Iris[h] are drunk all the time
They are. I lived in Dublin for 3 very long years, I know.
I've heard that the Dutch wear clogs, the French eat snails, the Iris are drunk all the time, Swedish girls sleep with everyone, the Japanese likes schoolgirls and the Americans are very fat. Does anyone know anything about this?
(sorry, your question is kind of interesting, I just couldn't resist. "The Chinese" are not the same as some individuals or some organisation based in China who might or might not have done something at some point.)
> I am a gravitational theorist.
I don't even understand what that title means, but it sounds very cool.
Seconded. There was a time, perhaps around -94 or -95, when I would type in an url that described what I was looking for. Then webcrawler (the first decent searchengine) came along and made that whole "SLD having any relation to the content" thing useless.
If those games are oldschool, what do you call Delta, Who Dares Wins, Defender of the Crown, Armalyte, Monkey Island, Beach Head, IK+ etc?
Or are you writing from the distant future?
Haha, SAP.... :-/
(mod me +5 insightful, I used SAP for years and promise that I deserve it based on the short but very insightful comment/review above)
Right. Snapdeal.com didn't have any friendly lobbyists "suggesting" anything. No way.
> Modern books aren't designed to last hundreds of years.
Really? That's an interesting statement. Of course they're not "designed" to last for hundreds of years, but all new books I've bought the last 20 years or so seems to be of higher quality than the still-very-readable books I have from the 19th and 20th century, and I would expect my new books to last at least a few hundred years.
The Netherlands is truly a developed country. Too bad it's so overcrowded.
Both I guess. There are religious politicians in the US and the EU too, but companies run by normal people wanting to make money still operate in the real world.
It's not a UK court, it's an English court - which means that newspapers in Scotland are free to publish his name. Media in the US should be able to do the same.
Helmond is in North Brabant, not Holland. Both are provinces in The Netherlands.
Most likely not. And why do you have Muslims in you?
Exactly which top Nazis were engineers? Not Hitler, GÃring, GÃbbels, Himmler, Bormann, Hess or even DÃnitz.
Instead of trying to find simplistic explanations, you might want to read Modernity and the Holocaust.
Footnote: I see slashdot still can't handle UTF8. DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT, SLASHDOT! Rent some indian to fix it in 15 minutes if you don't have any inhouse coders.
What's wrong with the first Amiga mouse or the 1351? Sure, they're not as good as today's mice, but they're not failures. Also, the Commodore joystick might look a bit sad, but it's actually quite decent and durable.
> I don't know about other parts of the world, but up here
> in Canada we generally only have one choice of power provider.
Uhm, any reason for this? Shouldn't be any technical problem in the developed world, and I don't understand why politicians would prevent it.
I live in sweden and can currently choose between about 80 different providers. Some get their electricity from hyrdo dams, some from wind turbines and some from Belorussian coal plants operated by child laborers (or whatever it is that lets them offer the lowest price). AFAIK it's been like this for at least 15 years, since I got my first apartment.
Well, the rest of us (Star Trek-fans) probably already have all Star Trek:* episodes on the HD, downloaded from tpb or the thing on port 443/563 that should not be named, so it's not a big deal. Still, yes, annoying. But don't blame slashdot, blame netlfix and the copyright holder who still believe in national boundaries. In the year 2011 :-)
Morons.
> here you need to be 12+ to be left home alone
Just out of curiosity, where is that? Not being able to be home alone until the age of 12 sounds like mental torture to me.
This is not a Commodore 64, it's not in any way related to a C64, it has nothing to do with Commodore (don't care if they "own" the name) and we've seen it "featured" on slashdot before.
The only positive thing to say about this is that fake-Commodore has a very good marketing department, congratulations on another free slashvertisement.
"third-party vendor Kroger uses to manage its customer "... why the hell are they using a third-party anything to manage THEIR customer data?
Oh, oh, I know! Because they don't care about their customers data, and want the option to sue + put the blame on someone if something goes wrong.
Oldbar has never worked for me, think I read somewhere that it conflicts with some other addon I use.
> enjoy having the ability to pull up a page even if the URL > doesn't begin in www
Sorry, what? What does the www subdomain have to do with anything? I never type it in unless there's some site with no content on the sld. My problem is that if I for example type "forum", then I expect to get forum.paradoxplaza.com as first suggestion, since that site is the forum*-site I usually visit. Instead I get all kinds of other blahblaforumblah.com-suggestions, even for sites I haven't visited in several years.
And there's nothing wrong with my memory, I don't forget the URL of the sites I frequent (but I can understand that it might be useful for people suffering from dementia or something).
Firefox 3 came with the totally worthless "awesomebar" that suggests all kinds of things that are not the least relevant to the url you start to type. Has this been fixed in FF4, or have they perhaps ruined more things?