Why, in my day, we sprinkled asbestos and leaded gasoline right on our breakfast cereal. It made a man out of you, and was good medicine for your family!
Can't we just agree that different things will appeal to different individuals, and that we're better to have more selection to choose from?
No, they can't. The endless rattling off of tech specs is a fetish to a lot of these people. I have a MINI Cooper S Countryman on order. You can imagine the "but... but... but... you could get a Juke for less!" comments I get. I tell them "Yeah, but then I wouldn't have the MINI, and I *want* the MINI." They just stare at me like Patrick from Spongebob Squarepants and you can hear the crickets in their heads. Some folks just can get past the X/$Y ratios.
Ah, Slashdot... where the world is divided into 10 groups.
Group 01: Apple fanbois who, crossdressed as Ellen Feis, fellate effigies of Steve Jobs in their dedicated shrine rooms while a $1000 fraking machine takes them anally with an iPhone in a studded leather case.
Group 10: Hypergeeks, who cannot get aroused unless they are furry cosplaying as Tux, who hate Apple so much that it causes them physical pain to use the letters a, p, l and e, and have considered forking off a variant of Klingonese in order to develop a language free of those STUPID, STUPID letters!
1. Launch craft to Mars 2. Land on Mars 3. Assemble pre-fab transfer gate 4. Activate transfer gates on Earth and Mars 5. Walk back to Earth 6. Start selling access to gateway
NASA could single handedly pay off the US debt this way
Might want to budget a bit extra for the whole "develop gateway technology" portion of the schedule prior to launch
Time slot changes are a big reason a good DVR is awesome. They record based on the show's name. With my Tivo, I'm only vaguely aware when a show is even on. I just know new eps of this show appear on the list on Tuesdays and that show on Fridays, and so on.
The most fun place for that is wish lists for the next Elder Scrolls game. If you put them all together, you *might* be able to run the game on a 1000 processor computing cluster.
It's only tiresome to you if you take it so seriously. If they are doing it intentionally, and it works, who gives a damn? What bothers you so much about an American company doing well in this economy? I know a guy who just got hired to a high paying engineering position at Apple. OMG! That's HORRIBLE! (eyeroll)
Wow. A company getting tech into the hands of folks who might not have otherwise taken the plunge. Getting people to learn that the big bad intertoobed tech world is actually nothing to fear, despite what Hollywood and the news media incessantly preaches. HOLY SHIT! WE CAN'T HAVE THAT!!!!
Ah, parenting articles on Slashdot! Pass the popcorn.
I love the false dichotomy that always emerges- monitor your kids and they become helpless bunnies in adulthood who will fall victim to every scam artists from here to Ulan Bator, or let them live free to make mistakes and they'll be lucky to even reach adulthood.
What? How *dare* you argue with the Good Parenting Brain Trust of Slashdot! They are all perfect parents who know what is best for every single situation out there! Humph!
It's just more of the "products are worth what their individual parts cost" thinking that infests the tech world these days. It's why there's always an article that breaks down a new product, tallies up the part cost, and then wonders why the product costs more than that. It's like shipping, development, advertising, support, profit and labor are, at best, ephemeral myths to some folks. The same people then go pay $1.29 for a cup of ice and soda and don't think twice about it.
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Eh, the EPA... bunch of ninny worrywarts. ;-)
Why, in my day, we sprinkled asbestos and leaded gasoline right on our breakfast cereal. It made a man out of you, and was good medicine for your family!
Can't we just agree that different things will appeal to different individuals, and that we're better to have more selection to choose from?
No, they can't. The endless rattling off of tech specs is a fetish to a lot of these people. I have a MINI Cooper S Countryman on order. You can imagine the "but... but... but... you could get a Juke for less!" comments I get. I tell them "Yeah, but then I wouldn't have the MINI, and I *want* the MINI." They just stare at me like Patrick from Spongebob Squarepants and you can hear the crickets in their heads. Some folks just can get past the X/$Y ratios.
Ah, Slashdot... where the world is divided into 10 groups.
Group 01: Apple fanbois who, crossdressed as Ellen Feis, fellate effigies of Steve Jobs in their dedicated shrine rooms while a $1000 fraking machine takes them anally with an iPhone in a studded leather case.
Group 10: Hypergeeks, who cannot get aroused unless they are furry cosplaying as Tux, who hate Apple so much that it causes them physical pain to use the letters a, p, l and e, and have considered forking off a variant of Klingonese in order to develop a language free of those STUPID, STUPID letters!
1. Launch craft to Mars
2. Land on Mars
3. Assemble pre-fab transfer gate
4. Activate transfer gates on Earth and Mars
5. Walk back to Earth
6. Start selling access to gateway
NASA could single handedly pay off the US debt this way
Might want to budget a bit extra for the whole "develop gateway technology" portion of the schedule prior to launch
No way. Newton's Cannon reference FTW,
The world community must send a sternly worded letter at once!
Time slot changes are a big reason a good DVR is awesome. They record based on the show's name. With my Tivo, I'm only vaguely aware when a show is even on. I just know new eps of this show appear on the list on Tuesdays and that show on Fridays, and so on.
many contain mercury which can be harmful even in the smallest amounts
Wow, so a single atom of mercury can harm me, huh? That's the official smallest amount.
Well, if it's philosopher's mercury I guess it could start a cascade of phlogiston releases in my precious boldly pneuma.
I get an $800 Trek bike for $300 from a guy who had to move quickly out of state for a new job. I think he rode the thing once for about a 1/2 mile.
Out of how many millions of ads?
This is why many of us lament the death of math and science in this country. No sense of proportions or priorities.
Wouldn't that be Tympanic Sound?
The most fun place for that is wish lists for the next Elder Scrolls game. If you put them all together, you *might* be able to run the game on a 1000 processor computing cluster.
It's only tiresome to you if you take it so seriously. If they are doing it intentionally, and it works, who gives a damn? What bothers you so much about an American company doing well in this economy? I know a guy who just got hired to a high paying engineering position at Apple. OMG! That's HORRIBLE! (eyeroll)
Wow. A company getting tech into the hands of folks who might not have otherwise taken the plunge. Getting people to learn that the big bad intertoobed tech world is actually nothing to fear, despite what Hollywood and the news media incessantly preaches. HOLY SHIT! WE CAN'T HAVE THAT!!!!
Or fundamentalist democracies- for example, where only Muslim males can vote much like only propertied citizen males could vote in ancient Athens.
Ah, parenting articles on Slashdot! Pass the popcorn.
I love the false dichotomy that always emerges- monitor your kids and they become helpless bunnies in adulthood who will fall victim to every scam artists from here to Ulan Bator, or let them live free to make mistakes and they'll be lucky to even reach adulthood.
What? How *dare* you argue with the Good Parenting Brain Trust of Slashdot! They are all perfect parents who know what is best for every single situation out there! Humph!
I agree, but I'm totally not getting the lawn reference. o_O
I may well quote you:)
With my blessing. Spread the gospel!
Heretic! The desire to endlessly tinker with a computer is the One Truth Path of intelligence! How dare you!!!!!
Now you will stay after class and write "I will not buy toys in a walled garden, and every single iPad owner in the world is stupid." 1000 times!
It's just more of the "products are worth what their individual parts cost" thinking that infests the tech world these days. It's why there's always an article that breaks down a new product, tallies up the part cost, and then wonders why the product costs more than that. It's like shipping, development, advertising, support, profit and labor are, at best, ephemeral myths to some folks. The same people then go pay $1.29 for a cup of ice and soda and don't think twice about it.
Broadband is the speed at which porn can be downloaded at an erotically acceptable pace to maintain en erection.
I've given up on "better". :-(
There are rules for sarcasm, but the first rule is that we don't talk about the rules for sarcasm.
How about they make a movie with a totally *new* idea as we already have seen the Bioshock story! Huh? Huh? Maybe? Huh?
Florida is drifting away as we speak.
Emotions are mixed on the issue.