That is right! Did you know that those ignorant suckers are not aware that light is radiation! Every second they spend outside they get bombarded with it! Fools! Sane people like us stay in basements and only come out at night.
Hmmm, it seems they really are turning me to the dark side.... heeellllllppppp!!!!
Oracle is a database company with massive resources. Thus database is what they are good at. Price is the biggest downside that I can see.
So if you can afford it (ie. You work for a VERY profitable/large company) and you need the features that are not available (Or not good enough) in other offerings, then join Larry and don't look back. Evil may not be good, but it sure has a nice database engine!
It is very enlightening to hear such a different point of view. Could you please tell us more about things you do to fill up the free time. I would find it hard to believe that it is just Internet. What other hobbies you persue that can be fulfilled without leaving your home?
Which is so damn sad. As a kid I used to love Discovery channel. Now it is just a shadow of its former self.
I believe public television has been ruined by advertisers. Advertising was always part of the business, but it just became too much. Even the web is not immune.
Kids will log on with their Xboxes, and fly over American cities, targetting those evil North Koreans, terrorists, or whatever, and get given 4 missiles to try and rack up the highest kill count possible.
Yeah, I have seen the movie Toys as well. And the movie sucked.
I love my CRT monitor. Bright, sharp, 4/3 and handles different resolutions of old games flawlessly. Sure it is heavy, consumes more power, takes up space and makes faint noise, but I love it all the same.
One day it will die and I won't be able to replace it. Shame...
Uninformed users would be encouraged not to EVER do that since they don't know enough to really have a valid opinion.
The user will do anything and everything to get what they want. They will accept any kind of warnings you through at them, no matter how scary language you use. If you completely take away their ability to control this (ie. Walled garden like Apple), you end up with much more restricted experience.
There is a cute term for this situation: Dancing Pigs. It is a very well known problem.
If you have found an exploit, that means that the software it is attacking is faulty.
In reality is it impossible to have perfect non-trivial application. Software's first and foremost purpose is to carry out the task it was designed for. Second priority is to have it made as quickly and as cheaply as possible. To achieve that, quality must be sacrificed.
It is prohibitively expensive to keep patching software every singly time something is discovered. Not to mention that a lot of software is legacy that is no longer under active maintenance.Even if you had all the money and time, it is still impossible given the number of variables are involved. The sheer complexity of large applications is overwhelming for any one developer to fully grasp.
Much more helpful to present links to readers in click-able form: National Geographic News . That will ensure that more people will read it and they will be more grateful to you for saving them the effort of copy-paste.
I honestly don't want to sound like an asshole, but I strongly suggest anyone posting online to be familiar with basic link creation syntax. This W3C page is very good. W3CSchools is a very good learning resource in general.
Let us be honest about ourselves: We are just as disturbed as the 4chan/reddit/something awful communities and don't have a higher ground to judge the bronies fandom.
Get one of us to talk to a psychologist and he/she will have enough material to keep writing papers for the rest of the career.:-)
It was in a way a triumph for Slashdot, but also the start of the downfall.
Ever since 9/11 coverage Slashdot irreversibly changed. It gained a different demographic and turned distinctly more political. That in my opinion is when the tech content became more and more rare, with Your Rights Online section becoming most common types of stories posted.
When I asked that question before, Tranzistors gave me a very good response. Here is a link to that sub-thread: link.
I am not sure if I agree that the issue warrants such a life-or-death exaggerated attitude towards this system, but apparently some portion of the community is quite passionate about rejecting it.
Slashdot Mirror
Sadly, cases like that happened:
Man Holds Up Bank For $1
Oh come on! It is a refreshing change from the tiresome Obama bashing. Variety is a spice of life.
I am curious: Why HIV in particular? Aren't all viruses work by chaning genetic structure of a cell?
The good news is that we got everything out and you will be fine.
The bad news is that we confused you with another patient and amputated your legs.
That is right! Did you know that those ignorant suckers are not aware that light is radiation! Every second they spend outside they get bombarded with it! Fools! Sane people like us stay in basements and only come out at night.
Hmmm, it seems they really are turning me to the dark side.... heeellllllppppp!!!!
Oracle is a database company with massive resources. Thus database is what they are good at. Price is the biggest downside that I can see.
So if you can afford it (ie. You work for a VERY profitable/large company) and you need the features that are not available (Or not good enough) in other offerings, then join Larry and don't look back. Evil may not be good, but it sure has a nice database engine!
It is very enlightening to hear such a different point of view. Could you please tell us more about things you do to fill up the free time. I would find it hard to believe that it is just Internet. What other hobbies you persue that can be fulfilled without leaving your home?
Which is so damn sad. As a kid I used to love Discovery channel. Now it is just a shadow of its former self.
I believe public television has been ruined by advertisers. Advertising was always part of the business, but it just became too much. Even the web is not immune.
Kids will log on with their Xboxes, and fly over American cities, targetting those evil North Koreans, terrorists, or whatever, and get given 4 missiles to try and rack up the highest kill count possible.
Yeah, I have seen the movie Toys as well. And the movie sucked.
We all suspected something like this was coming eventually. Only question is, what could of been done to prevent this? Where did we all go wrong?
I love my CRT monitor. Bright, sharp, 4/3 and handles different resolutions of old games flawlessly. Sure it is heavy, consumes more power, takes up space and makes faint noise, but I love it all the same.
One day it will die and I won't be able to replace it. Shame...
Following inspiration from video games, quad rotors have been programmed to attack vandals with their rotor blades.
In other unrelated news, crowbars have experience a large surge in sales.
Won't be so funny when it is your lover's.
There, fixed the GP's post. :-)
A kind of "survival of the sickest" competition. I'm trying to sell the pilot, filmed via a microscope camera, as a reality show.
... That is brilliant! Beats all the crap that is on TV these days.
What are the fees to subscribe to your newsletter?
Uninformed users would be encouraged not to EVER do that since they don't know enough to really have a valid opinion.
The user will do anything and everything to get what they want. They will accept any kind of warnings you through at them, no matter how scary language you use. If you completely take away their ability to control this (ie. Walled garden like Apple), you end up with much more restricted experience.
There is a cute term for this situation: Dancing Pigs. It is a very well known problem.
I see. If you believe that AV products are useless, what would be your suggestion of a solution to preventing and detecting malware?
If you have found an exploit, that means that the software it is attacking is faulty.
In reality is it impossible to have perfect non-trivial application. Software's first and foremost purpose is to carry out the task it was designed for. Second priority is to have it made as quickly and as cheaply as possible. To achieve that, quality must be sacrificed.
It is prohibitively expensive to keep patching software every singly time something is discovered. Not to mention that a lot of software is legacy that is no longer under active maintenance.Even if you had all the money and time, it is still impossible given the number of variables are involved. The sheer complexity of large applications is overwhelming for any one developer to fully grasp.
All good guys, he is gone. We can go back to our regular insightful, interesting and funny posts again.
Much more helpful to present links to readers in click-able form: National Geographic News . That will ensure that more people will read it and they will be more grateful to you for saving them the effort of copy-paste.
I honestly don't want to sound like an asshole, but I strongly suggest anyone posting online to be familiar with basic link creation syntax. This W3C page is very good. W3CSchools is a very good learning resource in general.
Let us be honest about ourselves: We are just as disturbed as the 4chan/reddit/something awful communities and don't have a higher ground to judge the bronies fandom.
Get one of us to talk to a psychologist and he/she will have enough material to keep writing papers for the rest of the career. :-)
The third movie in the series was terrible. Thankfully they stopped there.
Maybe...
It was in a way a triumph for Slashdot, but also the start of the downfall.
Ever since 9/11 coverage Slashdot irreversibly changed. It gained a different demographic and turned distinctly more political. That in my opinion is when the tech content became more and more rare, with Your Rights Online section becoming most common types of stories posted.
Pity.
Please mod parent up. Very insightful, appropriate and scary example.
What would be your suggestion on moving away from the current situation?
When I asked that question before, Tranzistors gave me a very good response. Here is a link to that sub-thread: link.
I am not sure if I agree that the issue warrants such a life-or-death exaggerated attitude towards this system, but apparently some portion of the community is quite passionate about rejecting it.