You're very naive. The goal of a profit producing website is to get people to come and click things. Posting dupes causes just that. People come, then post comments about the dupe, as opposed to discussion about the story. It's basically free content.
Think of it this way. The editors can take more time and trim out dupes, replacing them with more interesting new content. Or, they can just take less time, accidentally post the occasional dupe, and produce at least the same amount of site traffic.
In other words, why should they bother? Less work, free content, and some people see stories they may have otherwise missed.
After Microsoft back ports everything from Longhorn to XP, will the $499 upgrade from XP to Longhorn be like 95 to 98? Just some bug fixes and a free browser?
Brilliant isn't it? Firefox becomes a research and development team for Microsoft. And since the open source community won't patent their stuff, MS is free to steal the ideas that worked.
When it arrives, IE7 will be praised by the press as a step into the future.
Don't take it personally. Macromedia has been producing some amazing technology lately. A friend showed me some of the features in the new ColdFusion and I was blown away.
The whole anti-Flash thing here is not real. It's mostly all talk from a bunch of low self-esteem geeks trying to be cool for once.
Flash sucks until the new Strongbad email comes out. MPAA sucks until the next LoTR comes out. Windows and Blizzard suck until the next Warcraft comes out. Big business sucks until it allows for open source use of a few throw away patents Lucas sucks, but guess who will be first in line the May?
There is very little legitimate discussion here. It's mostly just cliche posts and bitching for the sake of bitching.
Oh joy, an Episode III thread!!! If I make a comment about the dialog I'm sure to get some karma!!
Ok, ok, here I go.... I'm sure that Episode III will have plenty of action, but what about the dialog? We all know that the dialog in I and II left much to be desired.
Linux is the future. And it always will be.
Understand these misleading stats: Linux server sales revenues grew 36% over the previous year. But the grand total is still only 9% of the total server market.
Hmmm, I see an opinion and some facts. The opinion is that Linux is good, so I don't think that caused the troll mod. I guess the facts caused the troll mod. Now I hope we can all see the difference between an open discussion forum and a propaganda/spin driven discussion forum
The US hasn't fought a major war in Sub-Saharan Africa yet. We haven't killed the evil doers and brought liberty to the people. Of course they're still mentally handicapped. Duh!
It's about awareness - a trickle down approach of feeding information.
Well where do you propose that people get this information from? The whole point of this exercise is to give students access to more information.
Also, some magic government isn't going to show up and try to fix everything (ummm unless the US invades them). That reform has to come from the people. That one kid in the class with the handhelds read everything he could. He grew up and went to the America for higher education, then returned to his country to promote change.
So you propose solving all the big problems first? Solve world hunger before you teach little Jimmy to read?
You're sterotyping the region. Kenya is not Congo or the Sudan. All of Africa is not covered with warmongering natives eating each other's hearts. Do they have the infrastructure of the US? No. But you're argument is like saying that a school in rural Idaho cannot get computers because there are poor people in Mexico. Only fat kids in Western nations can use computers? Or are you just afraid of more outsourcing as yet another part of the world becomes tech savvy?
As the first Slashdotter to predict the eminent demise of the subject of the thread, you win one free bullet for use when you decide to blow your brains out because you can't deal with everyone else being so stupid.
As an added bonus, you receive and extra 'just in case I fuck it up' bullet because you, sir, also posted the ever enlightening 'I'm too good for you' post in which you describe how you are better than everyone else and will no longer associate yourself with the subject of the thread. Consider yourself in the good company of those who no longer watch TV, but feel the need to tell everyone.
Kudos to you sir and thank you for helping to keep Slashdot discussions packed full of meaningless, cynical, cliche posts. You hard work does not go unnoticed.
When EA becomes a monopoly what choice will you have? You don't see the social benefit of supporting a small employee-owned studio over a big-business studio who outsources work to China and pays its employees dirt and peanuts while the execs rake in billions?
Those are emotional arguments. Close your eyes and move your hand until it hits something. Chances are the thing you hit was made in either Taiwan or China. Now go to Hell you unAmerican evil communist!!
There are small companies who outsource just as there are large ones who outsource. There are small companies in the US run by immigrants who ship a bunch of their money back to relatives in their native country. You're making small companies out to be good guys, while the big ones are bad guys. Small companies are just companies which aren't big yet. That's the difference. There is no Small Business Justice League of America.
Also, this monopoly thing. There is this standard argument that company XYZ will end up ruling the world and you will have no choice. Again, an emotional argument. It's also like saying that if I lost a pound since yesterday, in a few months, I will weigh 0 pounds. Stuff just don't work like that. People speak of the Microsoft monopoly, but there are a hell of alot of choices out there. Again with games, there are tons of game companies. Sure, there are the big boys, but there are little ones popping up all the time.
In true Capitalism, there is no one preventing monopolies. Bill Gates would own countries in that world. The US system is decent in that the government wacks monopolies when they get too big. Yes, there is some bribing and crap, but its the best system that's actually been implemented so far. You do realise the EA was one of those start-ups you romanticize about. Those startups either died or grew up and ate each other. That's the way of things. Businesses scratch and claw their way to your pocket, and the government kicks them in the ass when they go too far. I know it's cool and stuff to talk of dark brooding corporate towers where the affairs of the world are secretly controlled, but seriously, you're not some freedom fighter, just some middle class Joe who's cushy life shields you from reality.
And please, there are no EA employees living in dire poverty. That comment shows how even the middle class in America is ignorant of what real poverty is. The disadvantaged I'm talking about are those who aren't equipped to play in our society. The uneducated ultra poor, both native and immigrant. Again, one of the flaws of the US is the education of the poor. It's much better than in the rest of the world, but still needs improvement. You want to fall on your sword for the rights of someone making 50k a year.
This is why its more important than ever to support smaller independent studios.
Why? Support the studios that make the best games. If everyone supports a small studio, they become a big studio, then the same people will hate them for it. People start businesses to make money. If you turn capitalism into a social cause, you're just making person A rich as opposed to making person B richer. If you want to fight a fight and feel good about yourself, go volunteer your time to disadvantaged youths or something.
Ohh tripe AND rubbish!! You're in classic prissy nerd form today my friend.
If you're not sure who really cares, just wait a few months and see yet another Star Wars movie bring in a few hundred million dollars. Then you can go sit on your corner and wonder why everyone is so stupid.
Might be a good time for help desk personal to pencil in a week (or two) of vacation.
Give it up people. I run at least a half dozen of the applications on those lists on a few XP machines with SP2, and have had exactly 0 problems. When will the "bashing Microsoft makes me feel good" trend end?
There is one fundamental thing you and most of the people in your thread are missing. Mathematics is something created by people as a way to understand the world. Math is a model of the real world, not the world itself. I think the savant is working with his own model of the world. He's not using math as the rest of it understand it. In turn, we cannot attempt to understand him by trying to fit him into our model. We have to think "outside the box". We have to accept that there are things that we just may not be able to comprehend, like seeing numbers as shapes. We must believe him when he says how he views the world, even if we cannot figure it out. He sees relationships between things in the world that we cannot relate because our model does not allow it.
Slashdot Mirror
is this one of those empowerment articles they occasionally post to make Slashdot readers feel all smart and stuff?
"Oh noes! People say that we're just a Linux hype machine!"
"Quick, do a Google search on 'science' and post the first thing you see!"
You're very naive. The goal of a profit producing website is to get people to come and click things. Posting dupes causes just that. People come, then post comments about the dupe, as opposed to discussion about the story. It's basically free content.
Think of it this way. The editors can take more time and trim out dupes, replacing them with more interesting new content. Or, they can just take less time, accidentally post the occasional dupe, and produce at least the same amount of site traffic.
In other words, why should they bother? Less work, free content, and some people see stories they may have otherwise missed.
That's 'Advanced System Building'? What's basic system building then? I do 5 of those 7 with out of the box Dells.
After Microsoft back ports everything from Longhorn to XP, will the $499 upgrade from XP to Longhorn be like 95 to 98? Just some bug fixes and a free browser?
Yes, and millions of people will still buy it.
Brilliant isn't it?
Firefox becomes a research and development team for Microsoft. And since the open source community won't patent their stuff, MS is free to steal the ideas that worked.
When it arrives, IE7 will be praised by the press as a step into the future.
Yeah, but what if I'm reading other people's mail?
Don't take it personally.
//Troll me up, Scotty
Macromedia has been producing some amazing technology lately. A friend showed me some of the features in the new ColdFusion and I was blown away.
The whole anti-Flash thing here is not real. It's mostly all talk from a bunch of low self-esteem geeks trying to be cool for once.
Flash sucks until the new Strongbad email comes out.
MPAA sucks until the next LoTR comes out.
Windows and Blizzard suck until the next Warcraft comes out.
Big business sucks until it allows for open source use of a few throw away patents
Lucas sucks, but guess who will be first in line the May?
There is very little legitimate discussion here. It's mostly just cliche posts and bitching for the sake of bitching.
Oh joy, an Episode III thread!!! If I make a comment about the dialog I'm sure to get some karma!!
Ok, ok, here I go.... I'm sure that Episode III will have plenty of action, but what about the dialog? We all know that the dialog in I and II left much to be desired.
Woot!!! Mod me up baby!!
Linux is the future. And it always will be. Understand these misleading stats: Linux server sales revenues grew 36% over the previous year. But the grand total is still only 9% of the total server market.
Hmmm, I see an opinion and some facts. The opinion is that Linux is good, so I don't think that caused the troll mod. I guess the facts caused the troll mod. Now I hope we can all see the difference between an open discussion forum and a propaganda/spin driven discussion forum
The US hasn't fought a major war in Sub-Saharan Africa yet. We haven't killed the evil doers and brought liberty to the people. Of course they're still mentally handicapped. Duh!
It's about awareness - a trickle down approach of feeding information.
Well where do you propose that people get this information from? The whole point of this exercise is to give students access to more information.
Also, some magic government isn't going to show up and try to fix everything (ummm unless the US invades them). That reform has to come from the people. That one kid in the class with the handhelds read everything he could. He grew up and went to the America for higher education, then returned to his country to promote change.
So you propose solving all the big problems first? Solve world hunger before you teach little Jimmy to read?
You're sterotyping the region. Kenya is not Congo or the Sudan. All of Africa is not covered with warmongering natives eating each other's hearts. Do they have the infrastructure of the US? No. But you're argument is like saying that a school in rural Idaho cannot get computers because there are poor people in Mexico. Only fat kids in Western nations can use computers? Or are you just afraid of more outsourcing as yet another part of the world becomes tech savvy?
You win!!!
First Death Post!!!
As the first Slashdotter to predict the eminent demise of the subject of the thread, you win one free bullet for use when you decide to blow your brains out because you can't deal with everyone else being so stupid.
As an added bonus, you receive and extra 'just in case I fuck it up' bullet because you, sir, also posted the ever enlightening 'I'm too good for you' post in which you describe how you are better than everyone else and will no longer associate yourself with the subject of the thread. Consider yourself in the good company of those who no longer watch TV, but feel the need to tell everyone.
Kudos to you sir and thank you for helping to keep Slashdot discussions packed full of meaningless, cynical, cliche posts. You hard work does not go unnoticed.
When EA becomes a monopoly what choice will you have? You don't see the social benefit of supporting a small employee-owned studio over a big-business studio who outsources work to China and pays its employees dirt and peanuts while the execs rake in billions?
Those are emotional arguments. Close your eyes and move your hand until it hits something. Chances are the thing you hit was made in either Taiwan or China. Now go to Hell you unAmerican evil communist!!
There are small companies who outsource just as there are large ones who outsource. There are small companies in the US run by immigrants who ship a bunch of their money back to relatives in their native country. You're making small companies out to be good guys, while the big ones are bad guys. Small companies are just companies which aren't big yet. That's the difference. There is no Small Business Justice League of America.
Also, this monopoly thing. There is this standard argument that company XYZ will end up ruling the world and you will have no choice. Again, an emotional argument. It's also like saying that if I lost a pound since yesterday, in a few months, I will weigh 0 pounds. Stuff just don't work like that. People speak of the Microsoft monopoly, but there are a hell of alot of choices out there. Again with games, there are tons of game companies. Sure, there are the big boys, but there are little ones popping up all the time.
Please get a clue.
In true Capitalism, there is no one preventing monopolies. Bill Gates would own countries in that world. The US system is decent in that the government wacks monopolies when they get too big. Yes, there is some bribing and crap, but its the best system that's actually been implemented so far. You do realise the EA was one of those start-ups you romanticize about. Those startups either died or grew up and ate each other. That's the way of things. Businesses scratch and claw their way to your pocket, and the government kicks them in the ass when they go too far. I know it's cool and stuff to talk of dark brooding corporate towers where the affairs of the world are secretly controlled, but seriously, you're not some freedom fighter, just some middle class Joe who's cushy life shields you from reality.
And please, there are no EA employees living in dire poverty. That comment shows how even the middle class in America is ignorant of what real poverty is. The disadvantaged I'm talking about are those who aren't equipped to play in our society. The uneducated ultra poor, both native and immigrant. Again, one of the flaws of the US is the education of the poor. It's much better than in the rest of the world, but still needs improvement. You want to fall on your sword for the rights of someone making 50k a year.
This is why its more important than ever to support smaller independent studios.
Why? Support the studios that make the best games.
If everyone supports a small studio, they become a big studio, then the same people will hate them for it. People start businesses to make money. If you turn capitalism into a social cause, you're just making person A rich as opposed to making person B richer. If you want to fight a fight and feel good about yourself, go volunteer your time to disadvantaged youths or something.
Ohh tripe AND rubbish!! You're in classic prissy nerd form today my friend.
If you're not sure who really cares, just wait a few months and see yet another Star Wars movie bring in a few hundred million dollars. Then you can go sit on your corner and wonder why everyone is so stupid.
France is still bitter about English being tagged over French as the international business language.
This is just backlash. Expect more.
but come on now, how frelling hard is it to spell "spamming"?
And the same people complain about bugs in millions of lines of code.
The article doesn't mention a damn thing about the next generation consoles...
Yeah, but they still got you to read the article and post a comment. Mission accomplished.
Might be a good time for help desk personal to pencil in a week (or two) of vacation.
Give it up people. I run at least a half dozen of the applications on those lists on a few XP machines with SP2, and have had exactly 0 problems.
When will the "bashing Microsoft makes me feel good" trend end?
There is one fundamental thing you and most of the people in your thread are missing. Mathematics is something created by people as a way to understand the world. Math is a model of the real world, not the world itself. I think the savant is working with his own model of the world. He's not using math as the rest of it understand it. In turn, we cannot attempt to understand him by trying to fit him into our model. We have to think "outside the box". We have to accept that there are things that we just may not be able to comprehend, like seeing numbers as shapes.
We must believe him when he says how he views the world, even if we cannot figure it out. He sees relationships between things in the world that we cannot relate because our model does not allow it.