I wish that were true. If only this could be a world free of Geezer Rock. The motorheads at the local vo-tech don't realize that the music they idolize if a half a century old. It's virtually classical!
It's been amusing over the last couple of decades to watch the computer industry (and Slashdot in particular) "discover" things that everyone else has known about for centuries, react with horror, and then go about trying to reinvent the wheel.
I'm tiring of waiting for $200 price tags for netbooks
You've already missed the boat. I paid $137 for my eeePC 701 (Buy or Overstock, I forget which one). Unforuntately, you really can't get a TRUE netbook anymore, just notebooks with netbook stickers.
Never before have I seen such a perfect example of feature bloat destroying a niche.
You make the assumption that someone working at JPL will always work at JPL. People get transferred to other jobs within thier organizations all the time. And there are parts of NASA that do work for DOD (putting secret satellites into orbit leaps to mind, there are probably many others).
You also make the assumption that JPL never does any research for or fills requests for any other government agency, or that the expertise of its staff are never called on for use in other departments.
It doesn't take a lot of imagination or experience working in a regular office to know that once they've graduated from the cubicle farm, employees are pretty mobile, and knowledge spreads like a virus.
No, it's typical basement-dwelling Slashdotter repeating of something someone else said that isn't true.
Slashdotters also like to keep saying that in the U.S. you are forced to pay for incoming voice calls and text messages. Well, sure, if you did exactly ZERO research into the matter. There are plenty of U.S. networks that don't make you pay for incomings. U.S. Cellular, the #1 carrier in Chicago is one of them.
Just like the average Slashdotter believes that Tokyo's Akihabara district is a haven of exotic electronic wonders. It isn't. It's just 12 blocks of Best Buys and some that have been exploded into flea markets. But they've never been anywhere or seen anything first hand and explored enough to realize that it's not the 80's anymore -- there's nothing in Asia you can't also get in the United States; primarily because everything built in Asia is built for Americans, and secondarily because anything available in Asia can be bought in the United States through an importer. (Ditto for the Yosan electronics district in Seoul. Nothing there you can't get here.)
Slashdotters love to talk about how "advanced" the cell networks are in Japan. But the Japanese pay almost twice as much for cell service as Americans. The expats I know in Japan WISH they could get the same crappy plans they had with Verizon and AT&T. And you know what's the #1 cell phone in Japan? The iPhone. Because it's the most advanced phone available there.
There's "should" and then there's reality. In reality, the world is a messy place with lots of exceptions.
There are all sorts of countries that are completely incapable of defending themselves or their territory. They continue to exist through treaties and the goodwill of others.
But a nation can maintain soverignty over a patch of ocean. Lots of nations do it, including France and the United States. Mostly for military training.
Sacrificing 100k people so 1 billion can live a "better" life is a good trade-off, isn't it?
I can't believe that no one has replied with the "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" quote yet. Slashdot is seriously losing its geek cred.
Also it's worth noting that the Kirabati aren't being killed. Just displaced.
Of course, you can have a nation of people without having a nation. Look at the Jews, or the Roma, or the Assyrians, or any other number of groups that lack land, but consider themselves a nation. I think the word for it is Diaspora, but I'm really far too tired tonight to check.
The Kirabati can become the "Jews of the Sea." Hmm... that doesn't sound so appealing after all.
Do you think ABC would ever get away with broadcasting nudity on a Friday night?
At least ABC can broadcast pretty much whatever non-nudy thing it wants. And it can source that content from any number of providers in countries around the world.
Meanwhile, back in Kanukistan, radio stations can't play whatever they want. They have to have a certain percentage of Canadian-made content, no matter how bad that content is. And as someone who gets the Canadian TV channels on cable, and several Canadian radio stations, it's really quite bad.
At one time, radio stations in Canada couldn't even change formats without permission from the government. I don't know if that is still the case.
You want to talk about freedom in broadcast? How about the fact that until VERY recently in Canada, it was ILLEGAL to play oldies on FM radio stations. Suck on that, maple leaf.
I know someone who did. A week after she got her 3G it was snatched right out of her hands by a thief in Rome. You only get the discount from AT&T once every 18 months, so to replace it she had to fork out around $700. This was before "Find My iPhone" was available.
Conservative vs. (implied) Liberal is the label and black-and-white world in which you've demonstrated you live.
As for the sig, no. I lost my job because of one of Clinton's policies. Now with the failure of the banking system, everyone else can see how well his policies worked, too. That's what happens when your campaign mantra is "Character doesn't matter" and you re-define "millionaire" to mean people who make $200k. Much like Obama has redefined "high-earners" to include people making $40-$50k.
And since I've brought up Obama, no I don't have any particular axe to grind against him. Though I didn't drink the Hope(tm) and Change(tm) Kool-Aide, I did believe he was the person best positioned to do something different. Now that he's president, I just wish he would do something. Anything. He's been a complete disappointment. All I've seen out of him is press conferences where to scolds the American people like we're all ignorant little children and he's the only person in the world who knows anything. He seems to spend most of his time campaigning like he's still running for election. I'd like to see him do some actual work.
It must be blissful to live in such a simple black-and-white world. How do I sign up? Is it enough to slap everyone with labels, or do I have to stop thinking as well?
there is so much weight and force behind the vaccination campaigns and industry that parents are seldom, if ever, informed of the risks
This is false. I have never seen a vaccine administered that didn't come with a form listing risks and side-effects that had to be signed by an adult. If you're getting shots without this form, then it's time to find another doctor. Just because you're too lazy to read the form doesn't mean you haven't been warned.
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And somehow it's yet another Apple thing that the Wintel crowd now copies.
I've never understood why Windows machines are shipped looking like they belong in a NASCAR race.
Myst? Seriously? You consider that old?
When I think of an old online multi-player game, I think of RabbitJack's Casino, which has got to pre-date Myst by a decade or more.
Or some of those relay games we played on ARB, WWIV, and C-Net (no relation to cnet.com) BBSes, circa 1983.
I wish that were true. If only this could be a world free of Geezer Rock. The motorheads at the local vo-tech don't realize that the music they idolize if a half a century old. It's virtually classical!
You may be thinking of Labryinth. Absolutely before the Sinclair.
It's been amusing over the last couple of decades to watch the computer industry (and Slashdot in particular) "discover" things that everyone else has known about for centuries, react with horror, and then go about trying to reinvent the wheel.
Already done. I don't trust outside URL shorteners, and my URL is already short enough, so
http://www.towrs.com/article/96/The-John-Hancock-Center-Chicago
includes a clip-box with the shortened URL
http://towrs.com/Z96
You've already missed the boat. I paid $137 for my eeePC 701 (Buy or Overstock, I forget which one). Unforuntately, you really can't get a TRUE netbook anymore, just notebooks with netbook stickers.
Never before have I seen such a perfect example of feature bloat destroying a niche.
You make the assumption that someone working at JPL will always work at JPL. People get transferred to other jobs within thier organizations all the time. And there are parts of NASA that do work for DOD (putting secret satellites into orbit leaps to mind, there are probably many others).
You also make the assumption that JPL never does any research for or fills requests for any other government agency, or that the expertise of its staff are never called on for use in other departments.
It doesn't take a lot of imagination or experience working in a regular office to know that once they've graduated from the cubicle farm, employees are pretty mobile, and knowledge spreads like a virus.
Not an option with her carrier, and neither third-party nor homeowners' insurance would cover it out of the country.
But, thanks for the insult. It's that sort of helpfulness that makes all geeks look bad.
Retard.
No, it's typical basement-dwelling Slashdotter repeating of something someone else said that isn't true.
Slashdotters also like to keep saying that in the U.S. you are forced to pay for incoming voice calls and text messages. Well, sure, if you did exactly ZERO research into the matter. There are plenty of U.S. networks that don't make you pay for incomings. U.S. Cellular, the #1 carrier in Chicago is one of them.
Just like the average Slashdotter believes that Tokyo's Akihabara district is a haven of exotic electronic wonders. It isn't. It's just 12 blocks of Best Buys and some that have been exploded into flea markets. But they've never been anywhere or seen anything first hand and explored enough to realize that it's not the 80's anymore -- there's nothing in Asia you can't also get in the United States; primarily because everything built in Asia is built for Americans, and secondarily because anything available in Asia can be bought in the United States through an importer. (Ditto for the Yosan electronics district in Seoul. Nothing there you can't get here.)
Slashdotters love to talk about how "advanced" the cell networks are in Japan. But the Japanese pay almost twice as much for cell service as Americans. The expats I know in Japan WISH they could get the same crappy plans they had with Verizon and AT&T. And you know what's the #1 cell phone in Japan? The iPhone. Because it's the most advanced phone available there.
Stereotypes from the 80's die hard.
There's "should" and then there's reality. In reality, the world is a messy place with lots of exceptions.
There are all sorts of countries that are completely incapable of defending themselves or their territory. They continue to exist through treaties and the goodwill of others.
Because the PIIGS already had theirs.
But a nation can maintain soverignty over a patch of ocean. Lots of nations do it, including France and the United States. Mostly for military training.
I can't believe that no one has replied with the "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" quote yet. Slashdot is seriously losing its geek cred.
Also it's worth noting that the Kirabati aren't being killed. Just displaced.
Of course, you can have a nation of people without having a nation. Look at the Jews, or the Roma, or the Assyrians, or any other number of groups that lack land, but consider themselves a nation. I think the word for it is Diaspora, but I'm really far too tired tonight to check.
The Kirabati can become the "Jews of the Sea." Hmm... that doesn't sound so appealing after all.
At least ABC can broadcast pretty much whatever non-nudy thing it wants. And it can source that content from any number of providers in countries around the world.
Meanwhile, back in Kanukistan, radio stations can't play whatever they want. They have to have a certain percentage of Canadian-made content, no matter how bad that content is. And as someone who gets the Canadian TV channels on cable, and several Canadian radio stations, it's really quite bad.
At one time, radio stations in Canada couldn't even change formats without permission from the government. I don't know if that is still the case.
You want to talk about freedom in broadcast? How about the fact that until VERY recently in Canada, it was ILLEGAL to play oldies on FM radio stations. Suck on that, maple leaf.
If you don't like the greed, then get a new carrier. Not every U.S. carrier charges for incoming text messages, or even incoming voice calls.
Not true. A number of carriers give free incoming voice and text. U.S. Cellular (Chicago area) leaps to mind. There are others, though.
I know someone who did. A week after she got her 3G it was snatched right out of her hands by a thief in Rome. You only get the discount from AT&T once every 18 months, so to replace it she had to fork out around $700. This was before "Find My iPhone" was available.
Conservative vs. (implied) Liberal is the label and black-and-white world in which you've demonstrated you live.
As for the sig, no. I lost my job because of one of Clinton's policies. Now with the failure of the banking system, everyone else can see how well his policies worked, too. That's what happens when your campaign mantra is "Character doesn't matter" and you re-define "millionaire" to mean people who make $200k. Much like Obama has redefined "high-earners" to include people making $40-$50k.
And since I've brought up Obama, no I don't have any particular axe to grind against him. Though I didn't drink the Hope(tm) and Change(tm) Kool-Aide, I did believe he was the person best positioned to do something different. Now that he's president, I just wish he would do something. Anything. He's been a complete disappointment. All I've seen out of him is press conferences where to scolds the American people like we're all ignorant little children and he's the only person in the world who knows anything. He seems to spend most of his time campaigning like he's still running for election. I'd like to see him do some actual work.
That's a lovely sentiment, but it's better to work with the realities than exist than your own personal fantasies.
A violation of any number of free trade treaties.
A lovely idea, but unlikely to happen in our lifetime since more often than not Lawmaker===Lawyer.
Tyson Chicken doesn't have close to a million workers, like Foxconn does. And Foxconn didn't have anywhere near 100 jumpers. It was under 10, IIRC.
List, please. I'd like to learn more about this.
It must be blissful to live in such a simple black-and-white world. How do I sign up? Is it enough to slap everyone with labels, or do I have to stop thinking as well?
This is false. I have never seen a vaccine administered that didn't come with a form listing risks and side-effects that had to be signed by an adult. If you're getting shots without this form, then it's time to find another doctor. Just because you're too lazy to read the form doesn't mean you haven't been warned.