"Now I'm sure that no Slashdot reader will intentionally watch any "sport" that has judges determine the winner, but their wives/girlfriends might seize control of the remote because they want to know who is the best at that ribbon twirling thing"
Olympic boxing and wrestling have judges who award points based on specific moves.....most people would consider those sports
"If it is simply that you're afraid of people in the US being paid pennies an hour, don't be. If the minimum wage were removed, people in the US who suddenly make pennies an hour still need food/shelter to survive, and the producers of that food and shelter will want their business, and so will lower costs to get that business - luckily for them they are able to lower those costs, because now they don't have to pay their labor minimum wage. So the people wanting food/shelter and the people producing food/shelter are both making less money. As for the unemployed - suddenly there are a lot more job opportunities. More work is done in the US, and the benefits of that work stay in the US."
If you really think this is true, then you are very naive.
funny how you're calling him out claiming he needs to provide evidence when you never provided any evidence that minmum wage causes outsourcing. You just stated your opinion on the matter.
I honestly didn't know the feature existed until today when I read the news that they were getting rid of profiles. It's always just been me on my Netflix account so I never had a need for profiles, but for couples and families I can see how this would be a great feature. I'm sure most of the commenters I've seen so far are right: NF is betting that most people will open a 2nd account and therefore give them more money. It's pretty shady of NF to do this. If I actually used the feature I would definitely cancel my account.
that's what I'm hoping, that people will be smart enough to say "no thanks, I'll go with your competitor (if there is one in that area, but I'm betting there's not....probably why they chose them for the trial)
why do you care if the government is tapping into it. Are you doing something illegal? do you have something to hide? if you don't, then it really shouldn't matter if they are snooping. The government can snoop on my internet all they want, all they'll see is online gaming and pr0n surfing!
The only problem with that method, is once you leave school, it's really, really hard to go back. I've been trying to get myself to go back to school for about 8 years and it hasn't happened so far. I always come up with excuses not to...I'm too busy at work, I can't afford it right now, classes will interfere with WoW raiding, etc, etc, etc....
This is how I look at the situation: The people whining and complaining about being "spied" on by the US government are the ones with something to hide, so maybe we should be looking at them. As far as I'm concerned, the government can spy on me all they want, because I'm not doing anything wrong and I've got nothing to hide.
That's one of the major problems with this country.....everyone always adopts the attitude of "I could do this, but I'm just one person and it won't make a difference anyway, so I won't bother" I admit, I'm as guilty of it as the next person.
It's funny how they can get 50+ million people to vote for American Idol and probably less than half of those will vote in the presidential elections (of the ones who are old enough to vote, that is)
It would be nice if the douchebags that come here to flame someone would have the balls to log in and post with their slashdot username. I guess the "anonymous coward" thing fits, eh?
You are forgetting one thing....he's the one that brought it up first. He said he would stop making movies if enough people wanted it to, it was at *THAT* point they mentioned there was a petition out there already, and then he made the comment about it would take a million signatures, that 18,000 was not enough. BTW, that number has jumped to over 65,000 as of a few minutes ago.
It's not that his movies are the worst ever made (although some might be close) it's that he insists on taking video game franchises that are well loved by their fans, and he makes absolute craptastic film adaptations, most of which barely have anything to do with the game it's based on. Granted, most video game -> film adaptations are pretty bad (Tomb Raider, anyone?) but his are exceptionally bad, like he's doing it on purpose. That being said, I have actually heard some good things about his latest, Postal. I've heard it's pretty funny and not nearly as bad as his previous efforts. Even if he does get the million signatures (doubtful) I'm betting he won't quit making movies for the simple fact that he gets huge sums of subsidy money from the German government to make movies. I wouldn't quit if I was him either.
"How attractive will $150 for 50 Mbps be compared to Verizon's FiOS offerings?"
You really can't compare the instance in this story to FiOS or talk of how this is going to affect Verizon and their business, because Verizon does not offer service in Minnesota so there most likely won't ever be FiOS there, so for now this doesn't matter to Verizon. Once a company in a FiOS serviced area upgrades to DOCSIS 3.0, then it will be interesting.
My experience is the exact opposite of this study. Most people I know that are having major issues with Vista have ATI cards, and myself and others that have had no issues at all with Vista all have nVidia cards.
Slashdot Mirror
For those who are using Vista (and Windows 7), that doesn't apply anymore. Windows Update is now a control panel item.
that's the US way to write the date. In Europe the date will be written as 10-9-8, probably why they chose that day, i'd imagine.
"Now I'm sure that no Slashdot reader will intentionally watch any "sport" that has judges determine the winner, but their wives/girlfriends might seize control of the remote because they want to know who is the best at that ribbon twirling thing" Olympic boxing and wrestling have judges who award points based on specific moves.....most people would consider those sports
they'll have to recall, what, all 5 that they sold?
it's on a news for nerds site because it's freaking cool! I'm a self-professed nerd and I approve of this article.
someone needs to reprogram one to sing that song to anyone that walks by....be like a RL rickrolling!
"If it is simply that you're afraid of people in the US being paid pennies an hour, don't be. If the minimum wage were removed, people in the US who suddenly make pennies an hour still need food/shelter to survive, and the producers of that food and shelter will want their business, and so will lower costs to get that business - luckily for them they are able to lower those costs, because now they don't have to pay their labor minimum wage. So the people wanting food/shelter and the people producing food/shelter are both making less money. As for the unemployed - suddenly there are a lot more job opportunities. More work is done in the US, and the benefits of that work stay in the US." If you really think this is true, then you are very naive.
that should be "minimum"
funny how you're calling him out claiming he needs to provide evidence when you never provided any evidence that minmum wage causes outsourcing. You just stated your opinion on the matter.
I honestly didn't know the feature existed until today when I read the news that they were getting rid of profiles. It's always just been me on my Netflix account so I never had a need for profiles, but for couples and families I can see how this would be a great feature. I'm sure most of the commenters I've seen so far are right: NF is betting that most people will open a 2nd account and therefore give them more money. It's pretty shady of NF to do this. If I actually used the feature I would definitely cancel my account.
no increased internal capacity = epic fail.
that's what I'm hoping, that people will be smart enough to say "no thanks, I'll go with your competitor (if there is one in that area, but I'm betting there's not....probably why they chose them for the trial)
Jack Thompson is the biggest douchebag on the face of this great planet.
why do you care if the government is tapping into it. Are you doing something illegal? do you have something to hide? if you don't, then it really shouldn't matter if they are snooping. The government can snoop on my internet all they want, all they'll see is online gaming and pr0n surfing!
I see what you did there
The only problem with that method, is once you leave school, it's really, really hard to go back. I've been trying to get myself to go back to school for about 8 years and it hasn't happened so far. I always come up with excuses not to...I'm too busy at work, I can't afford it right now, classes will interfere with WoW raiding, etc, etc, etc....
This is how I look at the situation: The people whining and complaining about being "spied" on by the US government are the ones with something to hide, so maybe we should be looking at them. As far as I'm concerned, the government can spy on me all they want, because I'm not doing anything wrong and I've got nothing to hide.
That's one of the major problems with this country.....everyone always adopts the attitude of "I could do this, but I'm just one person and it won't make a difference anyway, so I won't bother" I admit, I'm as guilty of it as the next person.
It's funny how they can get 50+ million people to vote for American Idol and probably less than half of those will vote in the presidential elections (of the ones who are old enough to vote, that is)
It would be nice if the douchebags that come here to flame someone would have the balls to log in and post with their slashdot username. I guess the "anonymous coward" thing fits, eh?
You are forgetting one thing....he's the one that brought it up first. He said he would stop making movies if enough people wanted it to, it was at *THAT* point they mentioned there was a petition out there already, and then he made the comment about it would take a million signatures, that 18,000 was not enough. BTW, that number has jumped to over 65,000 as of a few minutes ago. It's not that his movies are the worst ever made (although some might be close) it's that he insists on taking video game franchises that are well loved by their fans, and he makes absolute craptastic film adaptations, most of which barely have anything to do with the game it's based on. Granted, most video game -> film adaptations are pretty bad (Tomb Raider, anyone?) but his are exceptionally bad, like he's doing it on purpose. That being said, I have actually heard some good things about his latest, Postal. I've heard it's pretty funny and not nearly as bad as his previous efforts. Even if he does get the million signatures (doubtful) I'm betting he won't quit making movies for the simple fact that he gets huge sums of subsidy money from the German government to make movies. I wouldn't quit if I was him either.
"How attractive will $150 for 50 Mbps be compared to Verizon's FiOS offerings?" You really can't compare the instance in this story to FiOS or talk of how this is going to affect Verizon and their business, because Verizon does not offer service in Minnesota so there most likely won't ever be FiOS there, so for now this doesn't matter to Verizon. Once a company in a FiOS serviced area upgrades to DOCSIS 3.0, then it will be interesting.
My experience is the exact opposite of this study. Most people I know that are having major issues with Vista have ATI cards, and myself and others that have had no issues at all with Vista all have nVidia cards.
congratulations! You are today's "Douchebag of the day!"
not true, you can get MS Office for Mac OS (or used to be able to, not sure if it's still being made for Mac anymore)