Every economic model has rational demand and rational supply, both with equal amounts of information and that everyone acts in his/her own best interests all the time, even over the long term. This is bogus, and has always been bogus.
It's the same reason why pure ideology never works. It's the reason why communism failed and it's the reason why Libertarianism fails. Because asshats.
>For those of us that's seen the Metro UI, which i personally think is gonna bomb HARD as i've shown the screencaps to over 120 customer so far and have YET to get a SINGLE positive comment about Metro.
Wait until they start using it. You ain't heard nuthin' yet.
The time to complain is before the bill is introduced. Once the ball is rolling and it's been introduced and through committee and on the floor, it will be passed by every senate member who has been bought.
I don't miss watching Winsock eat itself in the debug window while connected to the internet.
I don't miss the dumb Program Manager.
I don't miss one crashed program taking down the entire "OS".
You forget how clunky it is. Go install it in a VM.
I also installed NT4 inside a virtual machine recently, out of misplaced nostalgia.
Without stealing DLLs from Windows 2000 and XP, good luck getting any software from the last 10 years to install. It was like pulling teeth just to get Opera installed, and even then, it still complained.
WordPerfect won't even install on 2000. No way, no how.
I used to be a big OS/2 fan. I have Ecomstation in a VM. Yeah, I'm sticking with Linux and not going back to OS/2.
"Overnight" doesn't happen on the Internet. Because it's always daytime somewhere, and John McCarthy mattered to more people than just those between the US East and West coasts.
Also, where in the Register article does it say that they confirmed it with Stanford's Twitter? Control-f and "twitter" shows absolutely nothing.
But not even that, since when do we say a source is bad because of the method of communication? Stanford has an official Twitter feed? Who knew? The fact that it's Twitter doesn't make it any less valid.
I didn't know we were a bunch of luddites that shunned "new" technology and communication methods here.
And yet it was also confirmed on The Register who confirmed it with Stanford last night before going to press at 23:23 GMT with the story, which would have put it at 7:23 Eastern Time, well before the close of business on the West Coast.
Slashdot editors ignored it. This is especially egregious because they went with the Register story about the Register screwing up its email list and not one of the more worthy headlines on El Reg. Like this one.
And what is this BS about "respect" by not reporting a famous person's death when it's been confirmed? Nobody in the press does that. Absolutely nobody. You're not respecting anyone by holding back on reporting a famous person's death.
The fact is that Slashdot has been relying on this Firehose system over the years which only delays news because stories must be voted up before they appear. It's stupid and a waste of time. Instead of actively looking at submissions, eds are just waiting for stuff to "bubble up" whether or not it's newsworthy. We've seen some real stinkers lately that got voted up and this one languished. Nope, not giving Slashdot a pass on this one.
Verizon will do what they will, because the penalties for not complying with regulations are infinitesimal compared to the profits from nickel-and-diming customers.
>I probably should have ranted on some other, more deserving article footer comment
Nah, this one deserves it. The footer is a backhanded slap at WiFi support for Linux when it's greatly improved over the years. When I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on this laptop, which was current when I bought it, everything worked, including the touch panel below the screen and the infrared remote.
Trolling in the summary is bad form, and yes, it did get old a long time ago.
For crissakes, half of the public has an IQ at or below 100 (the other half obviously at and above, by definition).
The "public" is dumb. I guess I should count myself among the public too, because I'm sure not qualified to be a climatologist, except from my armchair.
While I posted on here that geoengineering is "a swallowed fly" as the song goes, I can only express my opinion as to the possible effects. It doesn't make my opinion have any weight, though.
What we do to the climate should not be a popularity contest.
Yeah, because Microsoft Windows NT 3.5 had 3 releases behind it, at least, right?
Oh wait, it didn't? They called the first release 3.5 because it was a larger number than 3.11? Even though it had nothing in common with 3.11 or 95 or anything else but VMS and OS/2?
Wow, those closed source version numbering methods are so superior.
Adding random names is not how/b/ rolls./b/ likes to hunt down people who are stupid enough to expose themselves. In the 5 or so years I've frequented 4chan (I hang in/g/, btw) I have yet to hear of/b/ going after just random people. Because it's not fun. Because it's lame.
It's so much more fun exposing people who have bad data on their computers that have an actual chance of going to jail for it. And when someone does go to jail legitimately, it's especially lulzy. It's hilarious.
This is a DDoS. It's not a lynching. Comparing a DDoS to a lynching devalues and denigrates the memories of those who were actually lynched.
I'm sorry if I can't find some sympathy, but I can't. Nope, not even a smidge. And coming from a background on the internet where we used to take care of our own problems, I don't even see this as abnormal or even slightly unethical. There are those who should suffer the Internet Death Penalty, and child pornographers and their deliberate have always been on that list.
>1) The average user is not an expert. He just wants to use the computer to do his job and does not want (or are unable to) memorize every single existent Unix command (and their options) to do so.
Present the average cmd.exe expert with powershell and he or she will be just as lost. Your argument is bogus.
And there isn't even a man command equivalent in powershell.
>GUI in Linux is worse than the GUI in Windows
I'll stack Dolphin up against Explorer any day. Can you drag and drop files over the equivalent of fish:// transparently in Explorer yet? No? Then it sucks. No qualifiers.
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They never take into account asshats.
Every economic model has rational demand and rational supply, both with equal amounts of information and that everyone acts in his/her own best interests all the time, even over the long term. This is bogus, and has always been bogus.
It's the same reason why pure ideology never works. It's the reason why communism failed and it's the reason why Libertarianism fails. Because asshats.
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>For those of us that's seen the Metro UI, which i personally think is gonna bomb HARD as i've shown the screencaps to over 120 customer so far and have YET to get a SINGLE positive comment about Metro.
Wait until they start using it. You ain't heard nuthin' yet.
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I had 3.11 in DesqView/X in a VM just for yucks.
DV/X expected a serial mouse.
I don't even have a serial port anymore.
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The time to complain is before the bill is introduced. Once the ball is rolling and it's been introduced and through committee and on the floor, it will be passed by every senate member who has been bought.
That is all of them.
Attacking the messenger does nothing.
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>no technical knowledge.
She started as an engineer and rose through the ranks. Promoted from within. A rarity.
Straight off you assume she's another Carly or Meg. I think you should take your stereotypes and shove them squarely up your arse.
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Mod parent funny.
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I don't miss 3.11
I don't miss watching Winsock eat itself in the debug window while connected to the internet.
I don't miss the dumb Program Manager.
I don't miss one crashed program taking down the entire "OS".
You forget how clunky it is. Go install it in a VM.
I also installed NT4 inside a virtual machine recently, out of misplaced nostalgia.
Without stealing DLLs from Windows 2000 and XP, good luck getting any software from the last 10 years to install. It was like pulling teeth just to get Opera installed, and even then, it still complained.
WordPerfect won't even install on 2000. No way, no how.
I used to be a big OS/2 fan. I have Ecomstation in a VM. Yeah, I'm sticking with Linux and not going back to OS/2.
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Kudos for actually stepping up and replying.
I have to say in reply, however:
"Overnight" doesn't happen on the Internet. Because it's always daytime somewhere, and John McCarthy mattered to more people than just those between the US East and West coasts.
Also, where in the Register article does it say that they confirmed it with Stanford's Twitter? Control-f and "twitter" shows absolutely nothing.
But not even that, since when do we say a source is bad because of the method of communication? Stanford has an official Twitter feed? Who knew? The fact that it's Twitter doesn't make it any less valid.
I didn't know we were a bunch of luddites that shunned "new" technology and communication methods here.
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Is it JIT even when it's not?
What /do/ you call a JIT compiler that's late?
JIT for sarcasm?
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And yet it was also confirmed on The Register who confirmed it with Stanford last night before going to press at 23:23 GMT with the story, which would have put it at 7:23 Eastern Time, well before the close of business on the West Coast.
Slashdot editors ignored it. This is especially egregious because they went with the Register story about the Register screwing up its email list and not one of the more worthy headlines on El Reg. Like this one.
And what is this BS about "respect" by not reporting a famous person's death when it's been confirmed? Nobody in the press does that. Absolutely nobody. You're not respecting anyone by holding back on reporting a famous person's death.
The fact is that Slashdot has been relying on this Firehose system over the years which only delays news because stories must be voted up before they appear. It's stupid and a waste of time. Instead of actively looking at submissions, eds are just waiting for stuff to "bubble up" whether or not it's newsworthy. We've seen some real stinkers lately that got voted up and this one languished. Nope, not giving Slashdot a pass on this one.
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This occurred yesterday.
Past tense, so it would be "erupted" instead of "erupts."
Silly Slashdot editors.
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>It took overnight for the news of Ritchie's death to make the front page too.
And that was just as wrong, too.
>Rumors
When TechCrunch posted it 16 hours ago, it's not fucking rumor.
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It should not have taken this long to make it to the front page.
This is inexcusable.
Stop using the firehose as an excuse to be lazy.
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"It's just a fucking piece of paper"
Verizon will do what they will, because the penalties for not complying with regulations are infinitesimal compared to the profits from nickel-and-diming customers.
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>I probably should have ranted on some other, more deserving article footer comment
Nah, this one deserves it. The footer is a backhanded slap at WiFi support for Linux when it's greatly improved over the years. When I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on this laptop, which was current when I bought it, everything worked, including the touch panel below the screen and the infrared remote.
Trolling in the summary is bad form, and yes, it did get old a long time ago.
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For crissakes, half of the public has an IQ at or below 100 (the other half obviously at and above, by definition).
The "public" is dumb. I guess I should count myself among the public too, because I'm sure not qualified to be a climatologist, except from my armchair.
While I posted on here that geoengineering is "a swallowed fly" as the song goes, I can only express my opinion as to the possible effects. It doesn't make my opinion have any weight, though.
What we do to the climate should not be a popularity contest.
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Yeah, because Microsoft Windows NT 3.5 had 3 releases behind it, at least, right?
Oh wait, it didn't? They called the first release 3.5 because it was a larger number than 3.11? Even though it had nothing in common with 3.11 or 95 or anything else but VMS and OS/2?
Wow, those closed source version numbering methods are so superior.
Yeah.
Moron.
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Adding random names is not how /b/ rolls. /b/ likes to hunt down people who are stupid enough to expose themselves. In the 5 or so years I've frequented 4chan (I hang in /g/, btw) I have yet to hear of /b/ going after just random people. Because it's not fun. Because it's lame.
It's so much more fun exposing people who have bad data on their computers that have an actual chance of going to jail for it. And when someone does go to jail legitimately, it's especially lulzy. It's hilarious.
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If you frequent a child porn site and use your real name, you get what you deserve.
That's just bloody stupid and it's a law of the universe that if you are that stupid, shit happens to you.
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I accidentally a word there.
Insert "enablers" after "deliberate"
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This is a DDoS. It's not a lynching. Comparing a DDoS to a lynching devalues and denigrates the memories of those who were actually lynched.
I'm sorry if I can't find some sympathy, but I can't. Nope, not even a smidge. And coming from a background on the internet where we used to take care of our own problems, I don't even see this as abnormal or even slightly unethical. There are those who should suffer the Internet Death Penalty, and child pornographers and their deliberate have always been on that list.
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But in this case, the target is correctly identified.
Excuse me if I don't shed a tear.
>but vigilantes are far more likely to target the innocent.
Citation needed, as they say on Wikipedia.
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It's snarkier than Cleverbot.
http://shitthatsirisays.tumblr.com/
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Whatever you say, shill.
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>1) The average user is not an expert. He just wants to use the computer to do his job and does not want (or are unable to) memorize every single existent Unix command (and their options) to do so.
Present the average cmd.exe expert with powershell and he or she will be just as lost. Your argument is bogus.
And there isn't even a man command equivalent in powershell.
>GUI in Linux is worse than the GUI in Windows
I'll stack Dolphin up against Explorer any day. Can you drag and drop files over the equivalent of fish:// transparently in Explorer yet? No? Then it sucks. No qualifiers.
http://ompldr.org/vYXg1cA
See the pane on the right? That's my laptop. See the one on the left? That's a machine across town. And the connection is encrypted end-to-end.
Do that with Explorer without a third party tool. You can't.
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