I haven't been on alt-ri in a very long time, myself. I ragequit after some not-so-nice comments by certain individuals about muslims (and blacks, and mexicans, and you know, non-whites).
I am bubo sibiricus on g+, facebook, and twitter. Mostly facebook, though. I don't check the other two very often. Friend me.
As for usenet, there is always eternal-september.org. It's free.
To use a sort of car analogy how many people look under the hood of their car?
Wait, what? I thought this is a rite of passage for anyone buying his first car and showing it off to his buddies - pop the hood and everyone stands around looking at the engine. Beer in hand.
Not that half the people looking know what they're looking at, but that's besides the point.
Now I bet the guys that heavily modify their cars have higher intelligence than the average stiff.
It's got nothing to do with intelligence, and everything to do with looking at machines (a computer is just a machine after all) as what they really are - just things, not magic boxes. People who see a magic box instead of a machine become afraid of it. Afraid to use and modify. The rest of us don't have that fear.
Abdelli-Beruh also wants to compare the prevalence of vocal fry on radio stations. For example, she says that the popular-music station on her teenage son's dial features creaky announcers, but she does not hear vocal fry on National Public Radio, which targets an older audience
I'm willing to read the quickstart pamphlet of a computer program or piece of hardware I buy.
I'm willing to read an owner's manual of an automobile and bring it in for scheduled maintenance if I don't do it myself.
Most people can't be arsed to even do this. This is why we have whole new coolant and oil formulations, because people can't be arsed to change them frequently enough to prevent engine fouling or worse. Because they didn't pay attention to the owner's manual. And then they blame the manufacturer. Sound familiar?
Mechanics make money hand-over-fist because of this. And yes, if you can't be bothered to read an owner's manual and do the smart thing like bring your car in for oil, spark plug, transmission oil, and coolant changes, you are stupid. Full stop.
>even if it'll distance the paranoid control-freaks.
I use Linux. Been using it for well on 13 years now. I guess you could call me one of those control freaks - I don't like being second-guessed by the OS.
I'm not Microsoft's market. Most of Slashdot is not Microsoft's market. Microsoft's market are the teeming masses that, for all the tea in China, stillcan't wrap their heads around the desktop metaphor (hence Metro).
>they just don't want the problems historically associated with computers.
See, that's the thing. General purpose computers are powerful, complex machines. The "problems" associated with general purpose computers are tied to their function and freedom of operation. The only way to remove those "problems" is to turn them into appliances, which is what people actually want.
>What should have happened is computers that are maintenance free by default, but can accept various levels of unsupported software with very explicit user intervention all the way up to full manual
These goals are mutually exclusive. You want a maintenance-free hotrod. Not happening.
NAME
dog - better than cat DESCRIPTION
dog writes the contents of each given file, URL, or the standard input if none are
given or when a file named '-' is given, to the standard output. It currently sup-
ports the file, http, and raw URL types. It is designed as a compatible, but
enhanced, replacement of cat(1).
What the hell is wrong with our IT industry and its hostility towards their users?
Because users are completely, utterly, stupid. At least the vast majority of them. 90 percent of people (I'm sure the statistic is higher) don't want computers. They think they want computers. What they really want are magic boxes that do magic things and don't want to worry about any kind of maintenance. Steve Jobs knew this. Microsoft is merely catching up.
And Slashdot is not representative of the "computing" public. What you want, dear Lotana, doesn't count.
>But what if addition to storing old email, he ever actually needs to go back and search or read old email?
So? What of it? Show me a modern computer system that cannot handle 500MB of email. Show me a/smartphone/ that cannot handle 500MB of email.
>You're the one saying his time is worthless by only looking at the cost of hard drive space.
Am I right in saying that you think he's going to/manually/ go through his email to find stuff? Why? Isn't that why we have computers and search algorithms?
See there's this thing called Google Desktop Search. I click in it and I mention someone's email address and the topic and I get results showing me individual emails that I have stored. It takes milliseconds. That is one tool of many that I can use. The size of my mbox does not matter.
If someone asks you for an old email and you are going through your mail by hand, you are doing it wrong.
"Carbon fibre is made by a high-temperature treatment. Our fibres are made just by spinning a water-based solution â" it is quite green and quite easy," says Gao.
Easy means cheap. And that's what's really ground-breaking about this.
This is the only way to do it... if your time is entirely worthless.
If we measure time in minimum wage, the OP spent more time composing this question and submitting it than if the OP had just spent 7 cents worth of disk space and archived it away.
This is a troll "ask slashdot"
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P.S. Where i get my 7 cents from: Go to Newegg. List internal 1TB drives by price. Pick lowest. 140 bux divided by 1000 = 14 cents per Salesman GB. He's using half. 7 cents.
Even at today's outrageous price-fixed (you know it's true) hard drive prices, you're talking 14 cents a GB. For your situation, we're talking 7 cents.
You're complaining about 7 cents worth of storage space. And to cut down on this you want to mangle the archive?
You're tight on space? Buy another drive, burn to CD/DVD.
For those of us who grew up with a Corvus shoebox hard disk costing thousands on the Apple ][ network, this is a ridiculous "ask slashdot" question.
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I haven't been on alt-ri in a very long time, myself. I ragequit after some not-so-nice comments by certain individuals about muslims (and blacks, and mexicans, and you know, non-whites).
I am bubo sibiricus on g+, facebook, and twitter. Mostly facebook, though. I don't check the other two very often. Friend me.
As for usenet, there is always eternal-september.org. It's free.
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BMO
To use a sort of car analogy how many people look under the hood of their car?
Wait, what? I thought this is a rite of passage for anyone buying his first car and showing it off to his buddies - pop the hood and everyone stands around looking at the engine. Beer in hand.
Not that half the people looking know what they're looking at, but that's besides the point.
Now I bet the guys that heavily modify their cars have higher intelligence than the average stiff.
It's got nothing to do with intelligence, and everything to do with looking at machines (a computer is just a machine after all) as what they really are - just things, not magic boxes. People who see a magic box instead of a machine become afraid of it. Afraid to use and modify. The rest of us don't have that fear.
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BMO
Oh shit, it's pla.
I didn't even see the name I replied to earlier.
Hi.
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Dan
Abdelli-Beruh also wants to compare the prevalence of vocal fry on radio stations. For example, she says that the popular-music station on her teenage son's dial features creaky announcers, but she does not hear vocal fry on National Public Radio, which targets an older audience
Obviously she never listens to Car Talk.
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BMO
>or at the very least, easily deferrable to any convenient time within the next year or so once notified.
There was one time I was called for jury duty and was in school at the time and finals were coming up and it was going to be a hardship.
I made a phone call. That's all it took to re-schedule. It's far easier than people think it is.
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BMO
See my reply to nedlohs.
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BMO
I'm willing to read the quickstart pamphlet of a computer program or piece of hardware I buy.
I'm willing to read an owner's manual of an automobile and bring it in for scheduled maintenance if I don't do it myself.
Most people can't be arsed to even do this. This is why we have whole new coolant and oil formulations, because people can't be arsed to change them frequently enough to prevent engine fouling or worse. Because they didn't pay attention to the owner's manual. And then they blame the manufacturer. Sound familiar?
Mechanics make money hand-over-fist because of this. And yes, if you can't be bothered to read an owner's manual and do the smart thing like bring your car in for oil, spark plug, transmission oil, and coolant changes, you are stupid. Full stop.
--
BMO
>even if it'll distance the paranoid control-freaks.
I use Linux. Been using it for well on 13 years now. I guess you could call me one of those control freaks - I don't like being second-guessed by the OS.
I'm not Microsoft's market. Most of Slashdot is not Microsoft's market. Microsoft's market are the teeming masses that, for all the tea in China, still can't wrap their heads around the desktop metaphor (hence Metro).
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BMO
>they just don't want the problems historically associated with computers.
See, that's the thing. General purpose computers are powerful, complex machines. The "problems" associated with general purpose computers are tied to their function and freedom of operation. The only way to remove those "problems" is to turn them into appliances, which is what people actually want.
>What should have happened is computers that are maintenance free by default, but can accept various levels of unsupported software with very explicit user intervention all the way up to full manual
These goals are mutually exclusive. You want a maintenance-free hotrod. Not happening.
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BMO
Why use cat when you can use dog?
NAME
dog - better than cat
DESCRIPTION
dog writes the contents of each given file, URL, or the standard input if none are
given or when a file named '-' is given, to the standard output. It currently sup-
ports the file, http, and raw URL types. It is designed as a compatible, but
enhanced, replacement of cat(1).
Congratulations on being entirely unable to follow context.
You win the award for today's stupidest post on Slashdot.
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BMO
I suggest you speak to an actual mechanic some time.
Car owners are completely, utterly, stupid.
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BMO
What the hell is wrong with our IT industry and its hostility towards their users?
Because users are completely, utterly, stupid. At least the vast majority of them. 90 percent of people (I'm sure the statistic is higher) don't want computers. They think they want computers. What they really want are magic boxes that do magic things and don't want to worry about any kind of maintenance. Steve Jobs knew this. Microsoft is merely catching up.
And Slashdot is not representative of the "computing" public. What you want, dear Lotana, doesn't count.
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BMO
Looking at "gonewild" on Reddit while at work means you're goofing off. No qualifiers whatsoever.
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BMO
>But what if addition to storing old email, he ever actually needs to go back and search or read old email?
So? What of it? Show me a modern computer system that cannot handle 500MB of email. Show me a /smartphone/ that cannot handle 500MB of email.
>You're the one saying his time is worthless by only looking at the cost of hard drive space.
Am I right in saying that you think he's going to /manually/ go through his email to find stuff? Why? Isn't that why we have computers and search algorithms?
See there's this thing called Google Desktop Search. I click in it and I mention someone's email address and the topic and I get results showing me individual emails that I have stored. It takes milliseconds. That is one tool of many that I can use. The size of my mbox does not matter.
If someone asks you for an old email and you are going through your mail by hand, you are doing it wrong.
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BMO
>High cost
FTFA
"Carbon fibre is made by a high-temperature treatment. Our fibres are made just by spinning a water-based solution â" it is quite green and quite easy," says Gao.
Easy means cheap. And that's what's really ground-breaking about this.
--
BMO
This is the only way to do it... if your time is entirely worthless.
If we measure time in minimum wage, the OP spent more time composing this question and submitting it than if the OP had just spent 7 cents worth of disk space and archived it away.
This is a troll "ask slashdot"
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BMO
P.S. Where i get my 7 cents from: Go to Newegg. List internal 1TB drives by price. Pick lowest. 140 bux divided by 1000 = 14 cents per Salesman GB. He's using half. 7 cents.
Why delete when disk space even today is 14 cents in "Salesman Gigabytes"?
Someone back there said he has 16 GB of mail going back over a decade. That's what Two Bucks And A Quarter.
It's less than a cup of coffee at Starbucks or even a Large at Dunkin' Donuts. It is fully irrational to worry about this.
Anyone worrying about personal mbox size has OCD issues. Full stop.
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BMO
We're worrying about 500MB?
Even at today's outrageous price-fixed (you know it's true) hard drive prices, you're talking 14 cents a GB. For your situation, we're talking 7 cents.
You're complaining about 7 cents worth of storage space. And to cut down on this you want to mangle the archive?
You're tight on space? Buy another drive, burn to CD/DVD.
For those of us who grew up with a Corvus shoebox hard disk costing thousands on the Apple ][ network, this is a ridiculous "ask slashdot" question.
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BMO
I took it as probably the way you meant it...
Making fun of the people who would agree with it.
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BMO
This is what's called "mods with no sense of humor at all. Nope."
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BMO
>do they make ceiling fans or something?
They do make fans. And per ROK specifications, they come with timers.
Because, you know, fan death is a leading killer of Koreans.
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BMO
>rant about the evils of "teh interbutt"
You're here...
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BMO
What is your major malfunction?
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BMO
The fascists rely on the Just World fallacy to back up their arguments.
The world is just. Shit happens to you because you did something wrong.
It's a load of horse-shit.
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BMO