You got it exactly right. Thousands of jackasses from churches all over the country are "riding to the rescue" of hurricane victims. 95% of them will be useless and in the way, but you can't tell them that or you'll be made out to be an uncaring monster.
Why should the average person understand how their cell phone works?
So they are informed enough to choose between GSM,CDMA and PCS, so they can understand why their reception is terrible in an elevator, so they can decide if they need a model that supports an external antenna, so they don't screwed over by some high school dropout at the cell phone booth in the local mall, that's why.
Metamoderating is a joke. I did it about twenty times. It has no effect whatsoever on anything. I think, nowadays/. is run by a small group of control freaks. I didn't mind it when you had to wait 4 or 5 minutes between posts but now it's so long that I lose interest in the discussions.
As long as you're talking about puking, I am really sick of the US bashing that goes on on Slashdot. You are so damn stupid that words don't exist to describe just how stupid you are. Why the hell don't you get out of the US and go live somewhere else. If you really believe all of the shit you are spewing then it is unethical and hypocritical of you to continue to live in this evil country. You need to stop supporting this horrible country by refusing to participate any longer. I will be happy to give you a lift to the airport or buy you a bus ticket since you prefer public transportation. Don't let the door hit you in the ass.
We are. We're compensating for the entire rest of the world who can't get their shit together and advance the state of technology. Damn near every usefull technological advance in the last 100 years has come from the US.
Also, I'd point out that raising the application fees doesn't stop big companies from filing as many patents as they do today. It just hurts small inventors. Make the fee a percentage of last years revenue, so it costs MS a lot more to file a patent then Joe's Pizza, but it's equally painfull for both of them.
How do you know what a "once in a decade" hurricane is? How many decades of data do you have? How do you know we haven't just been through a two hundred year period of way below average hurricane activity? Your time window is apparently so small that you don't remember Hurricane Camille in 1969 which was a Category 5 and hurricane and much stronger than this one.
Just because it grows out of the ground doesn't make it not bad for you.
Exactly. And just because something doesn't grow out of the ground doesn't make it not good for you. Molecules are molecules whether they come from a tomato or a vitamin pill. But, for some reason, a lot of people and most/.ers (hippies:)) have a naive view that the world was a paradise before we had all this evil technology. It's easy to knock pesticides when you have record crop production. It's easy to think wetlands (swamps) are great when you don't know what a malaria outbreak is. It's easy to think pharmacutical companies are evil and "herbal remedies" are the answer when you've had all of your innoculations. It's easy to say growing coffee damages the land when your livelyhood doesn't depend on it as your only cash crop. It's easy to think people should stop developing land when you live in a three bedroom house. It's easy to think we need to re-introduce predators to the countryside when you live in the city. It's easy to want "natural" beaches when you're spending two weeks a year at a beachfront casino. This list could go on forever.
I also disagree with spending millions on these asinine surveillance systems. The problem is I can't tolerate asshats like you who run down my country. You sound like you're off your medication and that turns people off big time, so they don't hear anything you have to say and they go on supporting the politicians who promote these pork barrel "security" systems. You need to get some perspective.
And really its only the last 4 hours before a deadline that the work gets done - regardless of how many all-nighters were pulled.
So while getting read of sleep deprivation effects might be nice, I really just need a drug that'll push me into the last-mile mindset and get me to actually do the amazing work that gets done under pressure.
This should be +5 Insightful. Mod this up, you know this is how you work too.
The only part you got right was that you DON'T understand. Socialism hurts people more than it helps them. People have to be able to take care of themselves. It hurts everyone when you create a dependant class. It is just another form of slavery. And, you don't get a pass just because you say something isn't "meant as flamebait..".
By the way, this isn't meant as flamebait or anything, but I was just wondering why you would marry such an ugly woman.
Seriously, the "I need to be able to modifiy the OS" argument is lame. There are many good reasons to use Linux but that one is a red herring. It's a rare person who has the skills (or time) to go mucking about in the OS code. 99.9% of companies aren't bleeding edge tech companies like Google and they don't want to pay you to tinker with the OS or get "locked into" a one-off custom build.
You should save them as pdf files (or whatever) and store them in a database with some metadata. That way you can build a searchable archive of everything you ever post. It would be pretty straight forward to build a dynamic page that builds itself from the database. That way you never edit the page source, you only make changes to the database when you want the page content to change.
* Samsung has a real Linux installer and Linux support for pretty much all of their printers (though, in my case I did not use it, see below). Most people don't use Linux and don't care.
* The 550N came with a built in ethernet card Most people use USB and don't care.
* It speaks PS level 3 (this is why I did not need their installer, as it speeks native PS). Most people don't know what that is and don't care. They just click print
and don't care how it gets from the screen to the paper. That's how it should
be.
* It has a builtin duplexer Most people don't care.
* the CPU is 266 MHz and it has 128 MB of RAM Again. Who cares as long as it prints I don't care if it's driven by
Chipmunks.
* It is exceptionally quiet
Good point. So is my Canon inkjet.
* Setting it up with CUPS took about 15 seconds. Much easier that when my father visited and needed to print something from Windows (Windows wanted the install CD for drivers, which he had not brought with him, so we had to hunt down drivers on the net). You have to install the Windows drivers to use it from Windows? Well that
sucks.
I'm glad you're happy with your printer. Nothing you listed makes it better
than an inkjet for the vast majority of people, and it's much more expensive for
the low volume printing that most people do.
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The TR-1 cost $49.95 in 1954.
After inflation, what cost $49.95 in 1954 would cost $344.89 in 2005.
What makes you think people are any more intelligent now then they where 5,000 or 10,000 years ago? Knowledge is not intelligence.
You got it exactly right. Thousands of jackasses from churches all over the country are "riding to the rescue" of hurricane victims. 95% of them will be useless and in the way, but you can't tell them that or you'll be made out to be an uncaring monster.
Why should the average person understand how their cell phone works?
So they are informed enough to choose between GSM,CDMA and PCS, so they can understand why their reception is terrible in an elevator, so they can decide if they need a model that supports an external antenna, so they don't screwed over by some high school dropout at the cell phone booth in the local mall, that's why.
Metamoderating is a joke. I did it about twenty times. It has no effect whatsoever on anything. I think, nowadays /. is run by a small group of control freaks. I didn't mind it when you had to wait 4 or 5 minutes between posts but now it's so long that I lose interest in the discussions.
As long as you're talking about puking, I am really sick of the US bashing that goes on on Slashdot. You are so damn stupid that words don't exist to describe just how stupid you are. Why the hell don't you get out of the US and go live somewhere else. If you really believe all of the shit you are spewing then it is unethical and hypocritical of you to continue to live in this evil country. You need to stop supporting this horrible country by refusing to participate any longer. I will be happy to give you a lift to the airport or buy you a bus ticket since you prefer public transportation. Don't let the door hit you in the ass.
A 64kbps wma file sounds as good as or better than a 128kbps mp3. Sometimes the truth hurts.
We are. We're compensating for the entire rest of the world who can't get their shit together and advance the state of technology. Damn near every usefull technological advance in the last 100 years has come from the US.
A completely ignorant and off topic remark so of course it gets modded +5 insightfull. That's /.
Also, I'd point out that raising the application fees doesn't stop big companies from filing as many patents as they do today. It just hurts small inventors.
Make the fee a percentage of last years revenue, so it costs MS a lot more to file a patent then Joe's Pizza, but it's equally painfull for both of them.
From the EPA site you linked to:
Over the next century, sea level is most likely to rise 55-60 cm along most of the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.
Where the hell did you get 30 feet from?
How do you know what a "once in a decade" hurricane is? How many decades of data do you have? How do you know we haven't just been through a two hundred year period of way below average hurricane activity? Your time window is apparently so small that you don't remember Hurricane Camille in 1969 which was a Category 5 and hurricane and much stronger than this one.
Just because it grows out of the ground doesn't make it not bad for you.
/.ers (hippies:)) have a naive view that the world was a paradise before we had all this evil technology. It's easy to knock pesticides when you have record crop production. It's easy to think wetlands (swamps) are great when you don't know what a malaria outbreak is. It's easy to think pharmacutical companies are evil and "herbal remedies" are the answer when you've had all of your innoculations. It's easy to say growing coffee damages the land when your livelyhood doesn't depend on it as your only cash crop. It's easy to think people should stop developing land when you live in a three bedroom house. It's easy to think we need to re-introduce predators to the countryside when you live in the city. It's easy to want "natural" beaches when you're spending two weeks a year at a beachfront casino. This list could go on forever.
Exactly. And just because something doesn't grow out of the ground doesn't make it not good for you. Molecules are molecules whether they come from a tomato or a vitamin pill. But, for some reason, a lot of people and most
I also disagree with spending millions on these asinine surveillance systems. The problem is I can't tolerate asshats like you who run down my country. You sound like you're off your medication and that turns people off big time, so they don't hear anything you have to say and they go on supporting the politicians who promote these pork barrel "security" systems. You need to get some perspective.
And really its only the last 4 hours before a deadline that the work gets done - regardless of how many all-nighters were pulled. So while getting read of sleep deprivation effects might be nice, I really just need a drug that'll push me into the last-mile mindset and get me to actually do the amazing work that gets done under pressure.
This should be +5 Insightful. Mod this up, you know this is how you work too.
The only part you got right was that you DON'T understand. Socialism hurts people more than it helps them. People have to be able to take care of themselves. It hurts everyone when you create a dependant class. It is just another form of slavery. And, you don't get a pass just because you say something isn't "meant as flamebait..".
By the way, this isn't meant as flamebait or anything, but I was just wondering why you would marry such an ugly woman.
Here you go.
http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/98-611.pdf
Exactly what is there that you can't do on a non windows box?
AutoCAD. Any major financial, accounting or CRM software. Managed code.
Damn straight. The only predator species we need is already here.
Seriously, the "I need to be able to modifiy the OS" argument is lame. There are many good reasons to use Linux but that one is a red herring. It's a rare person who has the skills (or time) to go mucking about in the OS code. 99.9% of companies aren't bleeding edge tech companies like Google and they don't want to pay you to tinker with the OS or get "locked into" a one-off custom build.
You should save them as pdf files (or whatever) and store them in a database with some metadata. That way you can build a searchable archive of everything you ever post. It would be pretty straight forward to build a dynamic page that builds itself from the database. That way you never edit the page source, you only make changes to the database when you want the page content to change.
Absolute bulk stupidity
Well yeah, but blocking Windows Update at the firewall isn't exactly brilliant either.
Sorry pal, you were probably in diapers when I graduated from college.
* Samsung has a real Linux installer and Linux support for pretty much all of their printers (though, in my case I did not use it, see below).
Most people don't use Linux and don't care.
* The 550N came with a built in ethernet card
Most people use USB and don't care.
* It speaks PS level 3 (this is why I did not need their installer, as it speeks native PS).
Most people don't know what that is and don't care. They just click print and don't care how it gets from the screen to the paper. That's how it should be.
* It has a builtin duplexer
Most people don't care.
* the CPU is 266 MHz and it has 128 MB of RAM
Again. Who cares as long as it prints I don't care if it's driven by Chipmunks.
* It is exceptionally quiet
Good point. So is my Canon inkjet.
* Setting it up with CUPS took about 15 seconds. Much easier that when my father visited and needed to print something from Windows (Windows wanted the install CD for drivers, which he had not brought with him, so we had to hunt down drivers on the net).
You have to install the Windows drivers to use it from Windows? Well that sucks.
I'm glad you're happy with your printer. Nothing you listed makes it better than an inkjet for the vast majority of people, and it's much more expensive for the low volume printing that most people do.
Of course the parent post is a troll. Lots of people want to print an occasional photograph at home and inkjet is the only affordable way to do it.