Oh my goodness, because I live in Australia I have to wait a week before seeing a TV show? How do I manage?
And why are you in such anticipation of this show? Because its creators and distributors promote it so that you will crave your next viewing, as they should.
Then they release it early in the town down the road, and expect you not drive over there and watch it on a friends TV.
The difference here is that old people eventuall did end up using email (especially in Korea). I still know plenty of people, old and young, who don't and ill never use Facebook.
Do you mean you were a technician in the marines, or you were a marine, marine? Aren't armies supposed to have technical staff to do all the technical things?
YOU, as the plaintiff, have to show that YOU have actual standing by showing that YOU have sustained damages from the direct action or inaction of whomever you are suing.
Wow. Then if these kids had decided to sue over the national debt and its future burden on them, they'd have blown the Government out of the water entirely.
Man, I think there are a lot of Slashdotters with degrees shaking their heads right about now. Turns out, you don't even need one to rise all the way to the top of a major multinational corporation.
Sure, you might get caught eventually, but think of all the millions you'd have raked in in bonuses, whether or not you trashing the company.
But I was especially struck by the umpteen media executive being brought in to run the company instead. So we have a man at the helm of an internet company with no CS degree, being replaced by more men with no CS degrees. It's pretty clear that CS will never, ever get you as far as advanced skills in professional bullshitting. Sometimes, the world saddens me.
Ken Langone, Chairman and CEO of Geeknet, stated, "After much discussion, our management team and Board of Directors have decided to begin a formal review of our media business to realize the full potential of these valuable assets and maximize shareholder value.
Translation: We need bigger bonuses---right now!
With more than 46 million total unique visitors last month, our media properties have a large community of engaged users and we are committed to creating the best online experience for them.
Translation: Squeeze Taco's little lemmings for all the coin they're worth.
And lo, thus did Slashdot die, to a stampede of pop-up advertisements.
I said it was racist to stereotype Irish people as stupid, which it is. And if that's not patently obvious, there really is something wrong with you.
But what are we supposed to do when the stereotype starts ringing true? Pretend there's no basis to it? Or that anyone pointing out flaws in the Irish is always wrong, or racist, or should be ignored?
You need to ask yourself the question: What if the Irish really _are_ a race of feckless, stupid, drunks, and the present state of the country is the proof of it? Should we ignore the possibility, or should we actually try to examine our issues and deal with our sick culture of governance?
You said people still thought it was the 1950s, when the country really was a utter basket case. My view is that not much has changed in the last 50 years. Ireland hasn't earned any new stereotypes.
The country was bankrupted by a lying scumbag (Ahern) and an incompetent Finance Minister (Lenihan). Cowen was just a puppet.
That suggestion was quickly met with a fiery and typically bolshie response from Brian Cowen -- the man on whose watch as finance minister most of the worst crimes were committed. "We're not fucking nationalising Anglo," he shouted as he slammed the table.
I must have missed the great fornication debate that seems to be taking up 100% of the time of 100% of the politicians in the country. Oh wait, no I didn't, because it was one back country TD making one ridiculous comment.
....women who were forced to travel abroad for medical terminations when they found the babies they were carrying were missing vital organs, like brains, and were completely unviable outside the womb.
More news you appear to have missed, the landlords of some twenty plus houses were forcibly evicted from their own palatial residence recently, there are plenty of unemployed solicitors, and even bankers have joined the dole queues. I know a few of them personally.
Perhaps the time has come for you to take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself who is looking back, because its not someone with a firm grasp on reality.
The time has come for you to go back to reading the Irish Times and pretending that there's nothing wrong with the country. Why don't you spend today reading their latest barrage of pro Fiscal Treaty propaganda. And while you're at it, ask yourself where a newspaper in the middle of a recession got the money to pay for all those columnists and shiny new supplements.
That's even if you are in Ireland, because nobody here refers to solicitors as "lawyers".
It's a collective term for barristers, laywers, and crooks. I suspect you're friends with quite a few yourself.
I guess for some people the world just never moved on from the 1950s.
Well I'm Irish, living in Ireland, and as far as I can tell from watching the country fall apart around me; no, things don't seem to have moved on very much at all.
The country was bankrupted by a drunken Taoiseach, and is now being pauperised by religious one. People are emigrating in droves and TDs respond by complain about the problems of "fornication". Landlords, lawyers, and bankers are living high on an ascendancy hoc while everyone else is being squeezed dry, and the country is once again a pawn in the games of European great powers.
Frankly, things here don't seem to have moved on very much from the 1850s.
Personally, I found the joke amusing. I'm faced with enough incompetence to know that it's probably half true anyway.
HTML5 is a remarkable protocol. It has some problems but they all did. It takes decades to work out all the bugs.
Is HTML5 meaningless because the web it was designed for doesn't exist. Not really. It's silly to think we don't need to redefine web page syntax simply because of the introduction of css. Don't try to fight the last war. That's over. We need tools for the NEXT war which might well include more technologically inept web developers.
That said, I think the real problem with HTML5 is that it isn't an iPhone app. Generally, the future of all web based software especially on the client-side should be towards portable devices. Not only are they more expendable, they're cheaper. And pesky issues like no keyboard go away since there's no content. Think of them like downloadable shareware apps. You deploy a few if you think there is a chance that people might take passing interest and they intercept anyone that wants to play. Or if you want people to actually use it on a daily basis... same thing...
I'm not saying we can replace rich client and user in PC seats YET. But a tabet... possibly one of the next screenless iPhones, a hundred meters from the iPhone might have a small control software suite that can enhance such apps remotely.
I don't know... HTML5 is amazing. Truly amazing protocol. But it requires content, and that might be a problem.
It's been proven time and time again that filtering isn't effective,
Nonsense. Filtering has been proven effective in many countries, including China and Iran. I daresay it's been proven cost effective in such countries as well. In fact, you will find that all this software was originally developed, tested, improved and optimised in such regimes, by western companies, and is now being sold back to the home country.
and often it's abused by people with access and the power to affect what is and is not filtered!
You are assuming that this is a side effect, and not the entire purpose of the system from the start. Filtering is designed to block things which those in power dislike.
In this regard, there is no difference between porn, the pirate bay, islamist websites, or even the likes of zerohedge.com when it comes to the running of a successful filtering system. Once the system is in place, those in charge will block what they please.
There will be no oversight or appeal to the courts, as a successful censorship/filtering system requires these options to be removed. This is the single biggest problem with such filters: they are above the rule of law.
London is an expensive place to set up an internet business. Microsoft might want to go some-place cheaper. My Geography of the UK isn't great, so I just picked somewhere in the North.
This is a pretty obscure outcome of the recent Quantitative Easing of the Fed and the Bank of England, and a little confusing as Microsoft is a US company.
You have to remember that Microsoft's main European headquarters is in Dublin in Ireland, and hence operates in Euros. The quantitative easing of the pound means that the UK goods become cheaper to export, and that conversely, it becomes more expensive for UK-ians to import good from abroad. In this case, it has become 33% more expensive for them to import MS software from Ireland.
Which raises the question: Why should Microsoft continue to choose Dublin as their main European base of operations if this is the kind of price hikes they will be forced to impose on perhaps their single largest European market? Low corporation tax rates? Not if that treaty gets passed sunshine.
This is less a problem for Microsoft--who can move around--than it is for Ireland, which is rapidly becoming unattractive to high tech industries who, due to the falling US and UK currencies, are seeing their costs soar in Dublin. (By the way, this is occurring in the midst of a period of debt induced stagflation in Ireland as well.) The problem is only going to get worse the longer the ECB and Bundesbank keep putting their banking system before the citizens of the continent.
Microsoft aren't stupid, and as long as they can have a low cost, english speaking centre, with a currency pegged or floating steadily alongside Sterling, they will stay in Dublin. If they can only get an expensive, high tax centre pegged to the Deutschmark, they'll just move to London, or York, or whatever. The same goes for all the other high tech industries in Ireland. Vint Cerf's words this week explain that Ireland still has potential, despite government indifference towards the IT sector; but I don't think it has any under the euro.
This is just yet another economic case study which convinces me that Ireland needs to vote No on the 31st of this month, get the hell out of the Euro as fast as possible, and balance its budget in one fell swoop THIS YEAR. No more excuses.
Please stop. Just stop. To re-purpose what I've written before: Stop turning my computer programs into children's toys.
Stop taking away all my menu bars, tables, text boxes, whites spaces, status bars. Stop replacing them giant coloured icons and disappearing peelback tabs and menus. Am I expected to just intuitively "feel" where all the controls and options are now? I don't understand why you are doing this.
This has to stop, as it's happening across the program spectrum. I blame the influence of smartphones and similar touch oriented devices.Speaking as someone who has never owed a smart phone I have always found them restrictive and confusing. Using one is like navigating a theme park without a map. Eventually you'll want to just find a place to sit down but you'll only get more lost among the theme rides and hot dog stands.
The encroaching presence of fatuous smartphone UIs onto my desktop annoys and increasingly frustrates me, and has to stop. I never liked Macs, and Ubuntu's unity is driving me off the distro. I don't want this and I have trouble believing that most FF users do, or will ever. Stop shoving this down the throats of your misfortune users.
Stop. Firefox does not need this. Its UI does not need to be "refreshed" or "toned down" or "streamlined" or even "supercharged". It is a good UI. Title bars and menubars are a desired and productive element of its interface. It's OK to have little icons, buttons, and text around the screen; I use a keyboard and mouse instead of fat fingers and caressing gestures. Stop assuming a smart-phone has been my primary computing device for the last five years.
Please stop this. Just stop. Someone, please tell them to stop.
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Someone's never eaten the ham slices at the bottom of the big tub.
And why are you in such anticipation of this show? Because its creators and distributors promote it so that you will crave your next viewing, as they should.
Then they release it early in the town down the road, and expect you not drive over there and watch it on a friends TV.
"Our Words are Backed with NUCLEAR WEAPONS!!"
The difference here is that old people eventuall did end up using email (especially in Korea). I still know plenty of people, old and young, who don't and ill never use Facebook.
WE need scientific evidence, and the people flooding the water table with cocktails of industrial grade chemicals don't?
Do you mean you were a technician in the marines, or you were a marine, marine? Aren't armies supposed to have technical staff to do all the technical things?
Wow. Then if these kids had decided to sue over the national debt and its future burden on them, they'd have blown the Government out of the water entirely.
Man, I think there are a lot of Slashdotters with degrees shaking their heads right about now. Turns out, you don't even need one to rise all the way to the top of a major multinational corporation.
Sure, you might get caught eventually, but think of all the millions you'd have raked in in bonuses, whether or not you trashing the company.
But I was especially struck by the umpteen media executive being brought in to run the company instead. So we have a man at the helm of an internet company with no CS degree, being replaced by more men with no CS degrees. It's pretty clear that CS will never, ever get you as far as advanced skills in professional bullshitting. Sometimes, the world saddens me.
Do not slight the almighty hand of the market fairy, looter, or you will know the wrath of Rand when the the day of Galt is upon us!
What makes you think such a quality is needed or desired in a writer for most newspaper editors?
To make sure the computer made millionaires keep getting paid all their computer made money.
Translation: We need bigger bonuses---right now!
Translation: Squeeze Taco's little lemmings for all the coin they're worth.
And lo, thus did Slashdot die, to a stampede of pop-up advertisements.
So, it has come to this.
The pedantry of your post burns bright enough to be seen from distant galaxies.
But what are we supposed to do when the stereotype starts ringing true? Pretend there's no basis to it? Or that anyone pointing out flaws in the Irish is always wrong, or racist, or should be ignored?
You need to ask yourself the question: What if the Irish really _are_ a race of feckless, stupid, drunks, and the present state of the country is the proof of it? Should we ignore the possibility, or should we actually try to examine our issues and deal with our sick culture of governance?
You said people still thought it was the 1950s, when the country really was a utter basket case. My view is that not much has changed in the last 50 years. Ireland hasn't earned any new stereotypes.
That suggestion was quickly met with a fiery and typically bolshie response from Brian Cowen -- the man on whose watch as finance minister most of the worst crimes were committed. "We're not fucking nationalising Anglo," he shouted as he slammed the table.
Context is everything. The comments were made in the middle of a debate about
I'll just refer you and all your friends who have run off to London and transferred assets to their wives and children to this article on the grand delusions of property "victims".
The time has come for you to go back to reading the Irish Times and pretending that there's nothing wrong with the country. Why don't you spend today reading their latest barrage of pro Fiscal Treaty propaganda. And while you're at it, ask yourself where a newspaper in the middle of a recession got the money to pay for all those columnists and shiny new supplements.
It's a collective term for barristers, laywers, and crooks. I suspect you're friends with quite a few yourself.
Oh no; we're a competition.
Well I'm Irish, living in Ireland, and as far as I can tell from watching the country fall apart around me; no, things don't seem to have moved on very much at all.
The country was bankrupted by a drunken Taoiseach, and is now being pauperised by religious one. People are emigrating in droves and TDs respond by complain about the problems of "fornication". Landlords, lawyers, and bankers are living high on an ascendancy hoc while everyone else is being squeezed dry, and the country is once again a pawn in the games of European great powers.
Frankly, things here don't seem to have moved on very much from the 1850s.
Personally, I found the joke amusing. I'm faced with enough incompetence to know that it's probably half true anyway.
HTML5 is a remarkable protocol. It has some problems but they all did. It takes decades to work out all the bugs.
Is HTML5 meaningless because the web it was designed for doesn't exist. Not really. It's silly to think we don't need to redefine web page syntax simply because of the introduction of css. Don't try to fight the last war. That's over. We need tools for the NEXT war which might well include more technologically inept web developers.
That said, I think the real problem with HTML5 is that it isn't an iPhone app. Generally, the future of all web based software especially on the client-side should be towards portable devices. Not only are they more expendable, they're cheaper. And pesky issues like no keyboard go away since there's no content. Think of them like downloadable shareware apps. You deploy a few if you think there is a chance that people might take passing interest and they intercept anyone that wants to play. Or if you want people to actually use it on a daily basis... same thing...
I'm not saying we can replace rich client and user in PC seats YET. But a tabet... possibly one of the next screenless iPhones, a hundred meters from the iPhone might have a small control software suite that can enhance such apps remotely.
I don't know... HTML5 is amazing. Truly amazing protocol. But it requires content, and that might be a problem.
Nonsense. Filtering has been proven effective in many countries, including China and Iran. I daresay it's been proven cost effective in such countries as well. In fact, you will find that all this software was originally developed, tested, improved and optimised in such regimes, by western companies, and is now being sold back to the home country.
You are assuming that this is a side effect, and not the entire purpose of the system from the start. Filtering is designed to block things which those in power dislike.
In this regard, there is no difference between porn, the pirate bay, islamist websites, or even the likes of zerohedge.com when it comes to the running of a successful filtering system. Once the system is in place, those in charge will block what they please.
There will be no oversight or appeal to the courts, as a successful censorship/filtering system requires these options to be removed. This is the single biggest problem with such filters: they are above the rule of law.
Its a government department. It would be easier to eliminate Al Qaeda that to get rid of the TSA.
London is an expensive place to set up an internet business. Microsoft might want to go some-place cheaper. My Geography of the UK isn't great, so I just picked somewhere in the North.
This is a pretty obscure outcome of the recent Quantitative Easing of the Fed and the Bank of England, and a little confusing as Microsoft is a US company.
You have to remember that Microsoft's main European headquarters is in Dublin in Ireland, and hence operates in Euros. The quantitative easing of the pound means that the UK goods become cheaper to export, and that conversely, it becomes more expensive for UK-ians to import good from abroad. In this case, it has become 33% more expensive for them to import MS software from Ireland.
Which raises the question: Why should Microsoft continue to choose Dublin as their main European base of operations if this is the kind of price hikes they will be forced to impose on perhaps their single largest European market? Low corporation tax rates? Not if that treaty gets passed sunshine.
This is less a problem for Microsoft--who can move around--than it is for Ireland, which is rapidly becoming unattractive to high tech industries who, due to the falling US and UK currencies, are seeing their costs soar in Dublin. (By the way, this is occurring in the midst of a period of debt induced stagflation in Ireland as well.) The problem is only going to get worse the longer the ECB and Bundesbank keep putting their banking system before the citizens of the continent.
Microsoft aren't stupid, and as long as they can have a low cost, english speaking centre, with a currency pegged or floating steadily alongside Sterling, they will stay in Dublin. If they can only get an expensive, high tax centre pegged to the Deutschmark, they'll just move to London, or York, or whatever. The same goes for all the other high tech industries in Ireland. Vint Cerf's words this week explain that Ireland still has potential, despite government indifference towards the IT sector; but I don't think it has any under the euro.
This is just yet another economic case study which convinces me that Ireland needs to vote No on the 31st of this month, get the hell out of the Euro as fast as possible, and balance its budget in one fell swoop THIS YEAR. No more excuses.
(P.S. I believe in the EU, not the Euro.)
Please stop. Just stop. To re-purpose what I've written before: Stop turning my computer programs into children's toys.
Stop taking away all my menu bars, tables, text boxes, whites spaces, status bars. Stop replacing them giant coloured icons and disappearing peelback tabs and menus. Am I expected to just intuitively "feel" where all the controls and options are now? I don't understand why you are doing this.
This has to stop, as it's happening across the program spectrum. I blame the influence of smartphones and similar touch oriented devices.Speaking as someone who has never owed a smart phone I have always found them restrictive and confusing. Using one is like navigating a theme park without a map. Eventually you'll want to just find a place to sit down but you'll only get more lost among the theme rides and hot dog stands.
The encroaching presence of fatuous smartphone UIs onto my desktop annoys and increasingly frustrates me, and has to stop. I never liked Macs, and Ubuntu's unity is driving me off the distro. I don't want this and I have trouble believing that most FF users do, or will ever. Stop shoving this down the throats of your misfortune users.
Stop. Firefox does not need this. Its UI does not need to be "refreshed" or "toned down" or "streamlined" or even "supercharged". It is a good UI. Title bars and menubars are a desired and productive element of its interface. It's OK to have little icons, buttons, and text around the screen; I use a keyboard and mouse instead of fat fingers and caressing gestures. Stop assuming a smart-phone has been my primary computing device for the last five years.
Please stop this. Just stop. Someone, please tell them to stop.