I did read the story and still maintain that this is not an Apple story. It's a story about AT&T's poor treatment of a customer who complained about the service he's getting. The fact that the customer happened to be using equipment manufactured by Apple on the AT&T wireless network is tangental at best.
My opinion remains that only reason for Slashdot to bring Apple into the topic at all is to increase page hits.
It goes like this: Although the story has nothing at all to do with Apple, one of the Slashdot editors decided it would get more page views from both Apple fanboys and haters if it was posted as if it did.
It's all about page hits, my friend, all about page hits.
.. of Slashdot's humor stories. I'm dying from laughter, in all seriousness.
You may be posting that sarcastically but I voted this story up as "Funny" in Firehose.
It's completely absurd, of course. "Montana" had nothing at all to do with computers, it was about growing pot. In any case, Zappa would have used whatever tool would have made his job easier for him. My guess would be Pro Tools on a Mac, like most other musicians these days, but that's worth about as much as anyone else's guess--exactly nothing.
"No First Use" = We have enough conventional weaponry to send anyone back to the stone age [...]
Especially when you consider North Korea, which isn't all that far advanced beyond the stone age to begin with--at least not once you look past their military capabilities, anyhow.
Yea, verily. And this is an abomination in the eyes of the LORD!
Okay, maybe not, but it's sure a hell an abomination in the eyes of Gyrogeerloose. If I needed anything to stoke the furnace of my dislike of Microsoft, this would be it.
it is way beyond the point at which I give a flying fuck because it doesn't effect me one whit. However, it may be really upsetting to Zaphod Beeblebrox
Orion my be bothered by it as well. It is his right shoulder, after all.
Back when I was in elementary school, all you did was pull a card out of the pocket in the front of the book, write your name and room number on it and drop it in a box. There was no "system" because computers were hugely expensive, not to mention being the size of a pickup truck back then. The librarian knew us all by name and if a book wasn't returned on time, she'd come looking for us in class.
Generally speaking, light rail transit in the United States uses an overhead catenary similar to that in Europe. Heavy rail, such as the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system in the San Francisco area and the New York City subway uses a third rail.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
That's the first part of the first sentence of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Note especially the part after the comma--that's what's known as the Exercise Clause. It very clearly states Congress shall make no law [...]
Your argument is specious because it refers to the application of existing laws, not the creation of a new one.
It's not belief in God and magic that's the problem.
It's religion, which, when you come right down to it, has less to do with God and Magic than it does with power and control.
And you should know, Your Holiness...
Seriously, though, you've got it absolutely right, and that's where this thing about blocking the Internet really comes from. A country with any level of theocracy in government is going to be concerned if it's citizens (or, perhaps more accurately, it's subjects) have access to opposing opinions and viewpoints. It's much harder to control an informed populace.
Sic (=thus, so), invariably bracketed and usually set in italics, is used to indicate that a preceding word or phrase in a quoted passage is reproduced as it appeared in the original passage. Sic at its best is intended to aid readers who might be confused about whether the quoter or the quoted writer is responsible for the spelling or grammatical anomaly.
You should therefore position [sic] straight after the error to which it refers: if a misspelling, after the word concerned; otherwise after the phrase.
I'm not sure his usage exactly conforms to that but, in any case, it's not really horrible.
That depends on how you define "better", and for my personal definition, it depends on exactly how glorious a blaze it is.:)
Really. Don't all of us Slashdotters love a good explosion? Sure, we mostly prefer them to be scheduled explosions but, still, an explosion is an explosion.
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Citation needed.
He said humans are able to make decisions from reasonable thought. That's not the same as saying that one of them ever has.
You're probably just going for the cheap methane is farts
"Hey--pull my pseudopod!"
That huge gaping hole that swallowed your neighbor? That's not a geological bug, it's a 'feature'.
Yeah, I figured there was a way to get a Microsoft joke out of this thing if we worked on it hard enough.
I did read the story and still maintain that this is not an Apple story. It's a story about AT&T's poor treatment of a customer who complained about the service he's getting. The fact that the customer happened to be using equipment manufactured by Apple on the AT&T wireless network is tangental at best.
My opinion remains that only reason for Slashdot to bring Apple into the topic at all is to increase page hits.
Why is this filed under Apple?
It goes like this: Although the story has nothing at all to do with Apple, one of the Slashdot editors decided it would get more page views from both Apple fanboys and haters if it was posted as if it did.
It's all about page hits, my friend, all about page hits.
I was born in 1971. Which means if I were a computer I would be obsolete and replaced by a faster, younger model with prettier looks.
By those criteria, if I were a computer, I'd be running on vacuum tubes and large enough to fill a good-sized room.
Uh, come to think of it...
.. of Slashdot's humor stories. I'm dying from laughter, in all seriousness.
You may be posting that sarcastically but I voted this story up as "Funny" in Firehose.
It's completely absurd, of course. "Montana" had nothing at all to do with computers, it was about growing pot. In any case, Zappa would have used whatever tool would have made his job easier for him. My guess would be Pro Tools on a Mac, like most other musicians these days, but that's worth about as much as anyone else's guess--exactly nothing.
"No First Use" = We have enough conventional weaponry to send anyone back to the stone age [...]
Especially when you consider North Korea, which isn't all that far advanced beyond the stone age to begin with--at least not once you look past their military capabilities, anyhow.
HEY!
tag gone WILD!
Yea, verily. And this is an abomination in the eyes of the LORD!
Okay, maybe not, but it's sure a hell an abomination in the eyes of Gyrogeerloose. If I needed anything to stoke the furnace of my dislike of Microsoft, this would be it.
Sure... just as soon as Hogwarts becomes a real-life tourist attraction and I can step through a stargate to go on holiday.
Well, Hogwarts will be available in about two weeks. With a little luck, the stargate will follow soon afterwards.
it is way beyond the point at which I give a flying fuck because it doesn't effect me one whit. However, it may be really upsetting to Zaphod Beeblebrox
Orion my be bothered by it as well. It is his right shoulder, after all.
Nice to know that people are just considered to be obstacles in this system's scope :P
I think you're parsing that wrong. Think of it this way: it's a system for breaching anti-personnel obstacles such as mines, IEDs, razor wire etc.
You can call it unholy if you want, but there was magic in the air that night. Who are you to judge true love?
"The love that dare not speak it's name." Or, more like it, "The love that cannot speak it's name."
I really don't see a problem with using a thumbprint for this, and I'm usually fairly privacy minded.
Assuming that the thumbprint is really hashed the way that it's claimed to be, I agree. Simple and elegant, really.
Back when I was in elementary school, all you did was pull a card out of the pocket in the front of the book, write your name and room number on it and drop it in a box. There was no "system" because computers were hugely expensive, not to mention being the size of a pickup truck back then. The librarian knew us all by name and if a book wasn't returned on time, she'd come looking for us in class.
Now, get off my lawn--it's time for Matlock.
Generally speaking, light rail transit in the United States uses an overhead catenary similar to that in Europe. Heavy rail, such as the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system in the San Francisco area and the New York City subway uses a third rail.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
That's the first part of the first sentence of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Note especially the part after the comma--that's what's known as the Exercise Clause. It very clearly states Congress shall make no law [...]
Your argument is specious because it refers to the application of existing laws, not the creation of a new one.
It's not belief in God and magic that's the problem.
It's religion, which, when you come right down to it, has less to do with God and Magic than it does with power and control.
And you should know, Your Holiness...
Seriously, though, you've got it absolutely right, and that's where this thing about blocking the Internet really comes from. A country with any level of theocracy in government is going to be concerned if it's citizens (or, perhaps more accurately, it's subjects) have access to opposing opinions and viewpoints. It's much harder to control an informed populace.
With all the mistakes I've made, I could be a superman by now.
Brought to you by the US Congress.
The rat bastards...
"I love the smell of blue in the morning..."
How many Libraries of Congress is that?
Part of my job is to get IE6 share down to zero as soon as possible
We love you already, man!
Indeed. Godspeed, Ryan Gavin, godspeed.
From A Dictionary of Modern American Usage:
I'm not sure his usage exactly conforms to that but, in any case, it's not really horrible.
That depends on how you define "better", and for my personal definition, it depends on exactly how glorious a blaze it is. :)
Really. Don't all of us Slashdotters love a good explosion? Sure, we mostly prefer them to be scheduled explosions but, still, an explosion is an explosion.