I don't get it. Sure, I realize that it would take a HUGE number of floppies to accomplish this, but I'm a bit lost as to why that's "funny" as in the "smiley face" emoticon. Can you explain?
How do you know they were dragging their feet on this? I bet that the google + app is more than twice as complicated as the average app on the iPhone, especially when you consider all the total bullshit fart apps that probably take minutes to approve or deny...
But what then would I complain about? I mean, come on! Steve Jobs is worse than Gates, right?
Books will become antiques and collectors items. If one looks at the 21 century information society, books have no place in it. Once all current books are scanned and fully digitized, any human on the planet with an internet connection will be able to access them.
How about those without Internet connections? Either those that just don't want them, or those in places that don't have them?
Not everyone (not even the majority) are connected 24/7 like many Big City Dwellers.
Some people just don't feel the need to be tethered.
And - believe it or not - *MANY* people *like* books.
Facebook hasn't even reached the peak of its success yet,
I think this is very debatable.
The useful and unique features of FB have already been established, and much of the new "features" amount to things that are only useful to Facebook's customers to commercially leverage the personal information of the Facebook Sheeple for commercial financial gain.
For a significant percentage of Facebook users, it's only purpose is to play mindless inane "games". Certainly Facebook as a social networking tool is clearly in a precipitous decline.
Why should students in the NCAA be any more monitored than regular students? (As in, why at all?). As is, the NCAA athletes often bring in major revenue to schools (for football programs at least) and are not allowed to benefit from it at all, does the NCAA consider them their slaves?
Because there is some myth that star college athletes are not in it for the money, but the pure joy of clean, gentlemanly competition and the excitement of the game.
It's the same myth that has made the idea that pro athletes don't / should not use enhancing drugs and therapies.
It's the myth that competition isn't about winning.
"We may refuse ads at any time for any reason, including our determination that they promote competing products or services or negatively affect our business or relationship with our users."
Which seems overly-broad and anti-competitive. What exactly constitutes an ad? Can I express my interest in something only if facebook isn't developing a competing product?
I haven't read the FB ToS, for all I know, they define "ad" someplace else. It wouldn't surprise me.
However, your pedantic issue does not apply here. Read The Fucking Article, and you will see a screen-shot of... what is clearly an ad.
So, regardless of some vague definition of ad that may or may not exist, the content at discussion here is CLEARLY... an ad.
In my opinion, FaceBook has evolved into uselessness for me. I am neither a "farmer" nor a member of the "mafia".
But, it's just common sense that a company should not be required to advertise their competition (and please, the monopoly argument simply does not apply here).
I'm not sure how you can say this so vehemently about a service that is still very much "beta".
As for me, since I am neither a "farmer" nor a member of the "mafia", the part of Facebook that Google+ does "a lot less of" is not the part of Facebook I ever used.
Unfortunately, it will take several years before this becomes clear to the masses - even MySpace is still limping along, there are some people who still use it... Sure, Facebook is the new MySpace, but the death-spiral is a multi year event.
The company just keeps track of the minutes, and one never got a list of local calls. this was true at least in the 1970s when I had measured service in CA. With unlimited local they don't report either.
Yes and no.
No, the company does *in fact* keep tack of every number you call.
And yes, normally you don't get a bill which itemizes local calls.
But none of this is the point.
This lady had a "customer service issue" where in she was disputing a charge. Verizon should be obligated to detail to any customer, on request, the nature of a charge. It's just that simple.
Now, Verizon has an "Itemized Bill Service" for which they charge, and it probably does cost them marginally more in computing and paper, but it's all there in their computers...
If I want ITEMIZED LOCAL CALLS on every bill, I might reasonable expect to pay a small fee.
But if I have a BILLING ISSUE, I expect them to pony up the data as a matter of doing business with me.
I think my point was that by being forced to make your own lunch you tend towards healthier food as well.
I agree...
And these days, it is neither hard nor time consuming to make a decent sandwich and pack a salad...
Deli sliced meat, cheese, stone-ground mustard, lettuce of your choice, on deli rye / whole wheat (or if you must, Wonderbread), pre-chopped lettuce and a bottle of vinaigrette... Can of soda or juice
Total prep time, 10 minutes.
As well, there is little excuse not exercise if you want, even if it means just a swift walk around the warehouse / building / parking lot. Buy some dumb-bells or clime the stairs. Many employee locker rooms even have showers.
If you lead a sedentary life that involves unhealthy diet and a lack of exercise, sorry, you really can not blame it on your work schedule.
Denny's? Seriously, there is a Denny's in Bum Fuck Monroe, Washington. Most cities larger than 10,000 (and many of those as well) have all-night diners. And most cities have 24-hour big-name groceries such as (here on the West Coast) Safeway and Winco... They sell real food at these places as well as "ready made" real food... Really they do.
But really, what's to stop you from making a nice deli sandwich and a salad for your "brown bag" lunch? Nothing but apathy and laziness, in which case perhaps you were meant to be a fat masturbater.
I used to be a Database admin for Interpoint, in Redmond. Before that, I worked in porn for IEG in Seattle - code monkey work.
I now work for the Air Force at McChord Field, I make slightly less but I'm 7 to 4, Mon - Fri, I can go to the gym 3 hours a week *ON THE CLOCK* in addition to my one hour lunch, and I'm a member of a union.
I've never looked back except to wonder how people put up with the bullshit they do.
When I worked the Graveyard, I made sure that for my "lunch" I actually *left* the facility, often for a quick trip to the 24hr gym, and just as often went to a 24hr cafe. I made sure I had healthy snacks (I'm a serious snacker). I mean, you HAVE to take the initiative and think about how to create a healthy environment for yourself regardless of the time of day. In most cities, this is perfectly possible, you don't HAVE to spend your breaks sitting on your ass smoking and eating junk food.
Does the fact that I have been paid a decent hourly wage for years, at a job where I use the GIMP every day, have any impact on the (Adobe astroturf driven) belief that the GIMP "is not suitable for professional use"?
Posting as an "AC"? No, your comment has no impact at all, especially since you don't say what you do.
And, sorry if it offends your âoegroup-thinkâ, but preferring Photoshop over GIMP does not necessarily constitute âoeAstroturfâ unless youâ(TM)re a typical Slashdot sheeple.
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... Mowing the lawn with scissors. ...
Did that in USAF Basic Training.
Put it all on 5 1/4" floppies :)
I don't get it. Sure, I realize that it would take a HUGE number of floppies to accomplish this, but I'm a bit lost as to why that's "funny" as in the "smiley face" emoticon. Can you explain?
How do you know they were dragging their feet on this? I bet that the google + app is more than twice as complicated as the average app on the iPhone, especially when you consider all the total bullshit fart apps that probably take minutes to approve or deny...
But what then would I complain about? I mean, come on! Steve Jobs is worse than Gates, right?
Books will become antiques and collectors items. If one looks at the 21 century information society, books have no place in it. Once all current books are scanned and fully digitized, any human on the planet with an internet connection will be able to access them.
How about those without Internet connections? Either those that just don't want them, or those in places that don't have them?
Not everyone (not even the majority) are connected 24/7 like many Big City Dwellers.
Some people just don't feel the need to be tethered.
And - believe it or not - *MANY* people *like* books.
Oops, I meant "its" not "it's".
As one of these guys wh really HATES people who do not grasp it's/its, there/their/they're, and so on, I should be more careful...
Facebook hasn't even reached the peak of its success yet,
I think this is very debatable.
The useful and unique features of FB have already been established, and much of the new "features" amount to things that are only useful to Facebook's customers to commercially leverage the personal information of the Facebook Sheeple for commercial financial gain.
For a significant percentage of Facebook users, it's only purpose is to play mindless inane "games". Certainly Facebook as a social networking tool is clearly in a precipitous decline.
Why should students in the NCAA be any more monitored than regular students? (As in, why at all?). As is, the NCAA athletes often bring in major revenue to schools (for football programs at least) and are not allowed to benefit from it at all, does the NCAA consider them their slaves?
Because there is some myth that star college athletes are not in it for the money, but the pure joy of clean, gentlemanly competition and the excitement of the game.
It's the same myth that has made the idea that pro athletes don't / should not use enhancing drugs and therapies.
It's the myth that competition isn't about winning.
"We may refuse ads at any time for any reason, including our determination that they promote competing products or services or negatively affect our business or relationship with our users."
Which seems overly-broad and anti-competitive. What exactly constitutes an ad? Can I express my interest in something only if facebook isn't developing a competing product?
I haven't read the FB ToS, for all I know, they define "ad" someplace else. It wouldn't surprise me.
However, your pedantic issue does not apply here. Read The Fucking Article, and you will see a screen-shot of... what is clearly an ad.
So, regardless of some vague definition of ad that may or may not exist, the content at discussion here is CLEARLY... an ad.
In my opinion, FaceBook has evolved into uselessness for me. I am neither a "farmer" nor a member of the "mafia".
But, it's just common sense that a company should not be required to advertise their competition (and please, the monopoly argument simply does not apply here).
If Facebook doesn't IPO soon, the multi-year death-spiral will hit their investors first.
I think they missed the IPO boat. Investors are already nervous about FB.
I'm not sure how you can say this so vehemently about a service that is still very much "beta".
As for me, since I am neither a "farmer" nor a member of the "mafia", the part of Facebook that Google+ does "a lot less of" is not the part of Facebook I ever used.
Facebook is dying
Unfortunately, it will take several years before this becomes clear to the masses - even MySpace is still limping along, there are some people who still use it... Sure, Facebook is the new MySpace, but the death-spiral is a multi year event.
361 new buffer overflow possibilities, regressions and invalid assumptions.
Or perhaps submarine patent issues?
The company just keeps track of the minutes, and one never got a list of local calls. this was true at least in the 1970s when I had measured service in CA. With unlimited local they don't report either.
Yes and no.
No, the company does *in fact* keep tack of every number you call.
And yes, normally you don't get a bill which itemizes local calls.
But none of this is the point.
This lady had a "customer service issue" where in she was disputing a charge. Verizon should be obligated to detail to any customer, on request, the nature of a charge. It's just that simple.
Now, Verizon has an "Itemized Bill Service" for which they charge, and it probably does cost them marginally more in computing and paper, but it's all there in their computers...
If I want ITEMIZED LOCAL CALLS on every bill, I might reasonable expect to pay a small fee.
But if I have a BILLING ISSUE, I expect them to pony up the data as a matter of doing business with me.
Fuck Verizon.
I think my point was that by being forced to make your own lunch you tend towards healthier food as well.
I agree...
And these days, it is neither hard nor time consuming to make a decent sandwich and pack a salad...
Deli sliced meat, cheese, stone-ground mustard, lettuce of your choice, on deli rye / whole wheat (or if you must, Wonderbread), pre-chopped lettuce and a bottle of vinaigrette... Can of soda or juice
Total prep time, 10 minutes.
As well, there is little excuse not exercise if you want, even if it means just a swift walk around the warehouse / building / parking lot. Buy some dumb-bells or clime the stairs. Many employee locker rooms even have showers.
If you lead a sedentary life that involves unhealthy diet and a lack of exercise, sorry, you really can not blame it on your work schedule.
Denny's? Seriously, there is a Denny's in Bum Fuck Monroe, Washington. Most cities larger than 10,000 (and many of those as well) have all-night diners. And most cities have 24-hour big-name groceries such as (here on the West Coast) Safeway and Winco... They sell real food at these places as well as "ready made" real food... Really they do.
But really, what's to stop you from making a nice deli sandwich and a salad for your "brown bag" lunch? Nothing but apathy and laziness, in which case perhaps you were meant to be a fat masturbater.
I used to be a Database admin for Interpoint, in Redmond. Before that, I worked in porn for IEG in Seattle - code monkey work.
I now work for the Air Force at McChord Field, I make slightly less but I'm 7 to 4, Mon - Fri, I can go to the gym 3 hours a week *ON THE CLOCK* in addition to my one hour lunch, and I'm a member of a union.
I've never looked back except to wonder how people put up with the bullshit they do.
When I worked the Graveyard, I made sure that for my "lunch" I actually *left* the facility, often for a quick trip to the 24hr gym, and just as often went to a 24hr cafe. I made sure I had healthy snacks (I'm a serious snacker). I mean, you HAVE to take the initiative and think about how to create a healthy environment for yourself regardless of the time of day. In most cities, this is perfectly possible, you don't HAVE to spend your breaks sitting on your ass smoking and eating junk food.
Somehow, I don't think that any of this is compatible with the classical conception of a representative, parliamentary republic.
Perfect! Coming to a TSA checkpoint near you!
Does the fact that I have been paid a decent hourly wage for years, at a job where I use the GIMP every day, have any impact on the (Adobe astroturf driven) belief that the GIMP "is not suitable for professional use"?
Posting as an "AC"? No, your comment has no impact at all, especially since you don't say what you do.
Knocking out throwaway wed graphics? Pre-print production? High-end photo retouching? . Pink ponies?
And, sorry if it offends your âoegroup-thinkâ, but preferring Photoshop over GIMP does not necessarily constitute âoeAstroturfâ unless youâ(TM)re a typical Slashdot sheeple.
...appreciate Adobe treating Linux well...
Because they released Flash? How about Photoshop and ImageReady for Linux?
That's the only reason I keep an XP machine...
GIMP is, well, GIMP, and not suitable for professional use.
heh a guy going by frosty piss is telling me the value of my thought, ok pissface how about you prove me wrong rather than troll me
The "quality" of your posts speak for themselves.
YEAH THE REG ALREADY DID THIS !!
Did you know that Slashdot is a "digest" of reader submitted "tips" about stories on... wait for it... get this: other web sites and sources?
Pretty much like flying coach on an airline...
Your comment is factually incorrect, and thus completely fails to have any value at all.
Glad to see they're not wasting their time on silly things like the budget.
Congress has to handle more than one issue at a time...
Running this nation is a very complex issue, and our representatives in Washington are working dozens and hundreds of issues at any one time.
If they were to drop everything and deal with only one important issue at a time, there would be stasis, and the nation would descend into Anarchy.