Microsoft is just being different for the sake of getting attention, because they know they are quickly becoming irrelevant.
You know, people keep saying that like it has some kind of power, as if their saying it alone will make it true if they are self-assured enough. If it makes you feel good to think Microsoft is becoming "irrelevant", keep saying it just like people have been for the last decade. Maybe you'll have some kind of external placebo effect.
Exactly. And the right solution is to butch up and make dirty power more expensive. If we didn't have such a bunch of retards in this country, of all stripes from enviro-douches to conservative dipshits we could have started building out nuclear power 20 years ago and we'd be set today. Instead you have pipe dreams of infinite oil from the right, and ridiculous ideas about broad use of solar or wind hippie power from the left.
Bullshit, they don't need to set standards like that. They need to set pollution standards, and if power plants don't meet them they pay additional taxes and fines. The cost of power goes up, and people have a reason to make _real_ changes, not this feel good nonsense.
Idiocy. In fact, to spite you I'm going to go buy a space heater, plug it in in a room I never use, and just fucking leave it on. Oh noes, better call the cops!
I agree global warming is real. Banning lightbulbs isn't going to fix it. Charging more for power that generates a lot of pollution is the better path, as is producing a technology that's better than incandescents and that people want to buy.
I'm not worried, nobody's giving up their old lightbulbs in 2014. The law will be repealed, or extended to the point where it's meaningless. Worst case, I'll always have my space heater to spite the assholes.
You're a retard if you think people will let this ban stand when 2014 rolls around. It's an idiotic solution, it actually hurts my brain, the stupidity. If you want to reduce greenhouse gases, make dirty power more expensive. This will give people a reason to use CFLs, because they will save money.
Doesn't work for shit? Wow, you mean you, Internet Random Douche, have discovered that our semi-free market system doesn't work?! Please, write a whitepaper, preferably long and rambling - I need something to wipe my ass with when they ban toilet paper.
This is preposterous. If they want people to use less power (and hence reduce greenhouse gases), they should make polluting power more expensive via taxes or mandates. This gives me an incentive to use CFL's where I can, but use normal bulbs where I need to.
Talking to some neo-cons, I was under the impression "ClimateGate" had once and for all proved how global warming was nonsense created by "progressives" to ruin the American way of life. I'll have to let them know about this, I'm sure they'll be glad to see and will stop pretending ClimateGate somehow refutes the huge body of AGW science.
I'm sure you're raising yours in a much more open and healthy environment. Oh, wait.. you clearly don't have any fucking kids and are just talking out your asshole.
Yeah, if you're coming to Slashdot for any kind of parenting advice you're retarded, possibly dangerously so. These dweebs don't have kids and have a quasi-libertarian (but not in the fiscal aspect)/quasi-EuroSocialist outlook on life that bears no semblance to reality. I'm going to keep an iron fist of control on my kid's internet access until she's 16 or 17.
Heart's in the right place and all, but I don't know that dramatic pronouncements from Anonymous nerds on the internet is going to scare a bunch of hillbilly douchebags like WBC. "vicious retaliatory arm".. seriously? I think they can narrow down Anonymous a bit as either being 12, or having the mentality of a 12 year old.
I know exactly what I'm talking about, I'm just not a crybaby like you. Does that approach of baseless superiority usually work out well for you, or do people tend to just laugh and ignore you?
I don't see anything about the ISPs being legally common carriers. Do you have a source?
Yes, I really do want to wait until they do what they said they want to do. Again, I'm not some "privatize the rooooaaadssss!" Libertarian, but I do think our government has proved itself inept in a multitude of ways and don't think they need to get involved until there's really a problem. And a fake picture depicting a tiered internet being passed around by nerds is not a real problem (I assume you've seen that picture, right?).
Let Corporation A and Corporation B fight it out. If it becomes a real problem then have the FCC step in.
I hate Apple in general, but this is monopoly crybabyism brought to a whole new level. They don't have close to a monopoly in anything, and the iPad is only a few years old ffs.
If you don't like Apple's policies, don't sell your software for their shitty products. Instead of whining about Apple, I just ignore them.
What are we preventing, exactly? That some big ISP might charge some big media company extra money? That is hypothetically a horrible thing for that hypothetical big media company, it hypothetically brings tears to my eyes!
I'm not a big-L Libertarian, whom 90% of Slashdot hates but 90% thinks are the majority here. I've got libertarian leanings but I'm all for government in the public interest when there's a compelling reason. Something that may happen, or even some money changing hands is not a compelling reason to involve our inept government in the Internet. We spent the 90's trying to keep their hands off, now people are crying that they're not charging in headlong - but I'm sure _this time_ they'll only do a little beneficial regulation, amirite?
Slashdot's bevy of dweebs can mod me down all they like, it doesn't strengthen their position and it doesn't make anyone against NN some Republican in the back pocket of the ISPs any more than being pro NN makes someone a pathetic shill for Google/YouTube or Netflix.
I'd consider labeling someone "unfathomably evil" a by-law of Godwin's. Nazism (and other genociders, atrocity commiters) are about the only evil I can't really even fathom.
You misunderstand me. I'm a huge nerd. I have no problem with technology or people who are good at it - it's how I make my living as an enterprise developer. My problem is with the dweeb personality. Technology is a job and a hobby for me, it's not the center of my life. I'm not crying sad tears of sadness and beating my chest because the government won't go in and fix some issue that doesn't really exist (yet), and comparing Republicans to nazis over it.
Meego is too much like "Linux running on a cell phone". Android is a cell phone OS (and environment) based on Linux. There is a huge difference, and it's critical in the cell phone market. You need a consistent look and feel and a fairly structured (possibly even narrow) development environment or you end up with all kinds of shitty looking apps, broken conventions, poor look and feel consistency, etc...
iPhone takes this to too far an extreme, WP7 seems like it may suffer some of the same issues. Android IMO is a good balance, while Meego is way, way too loose and will never take off except for hard core nerds.
Windows is very open in every meaningful way. You can develop any software you want in any of a plethora of ways. That's why Windows won, they catered to developers (developers) and (developers).
Yeah, you do that. Making risky stock investments based on your personal hatred of a partner company is _totally_ a good way to make investments! Your emotions know more about these things than the current investors who have set the Nokia stock at whatever price it is!
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Wow, people are still complaining about the registry? Why?
Microsoft is just being different for the sake of getting attention, because they know they are quickly becoming irrelevant.
You know, people keep saying that like it has some kind of power, as if their saying it alone will make it true if they are self-assured enough. If it makes you feel good to think Microsoft is becoming "irrelevant", keep saying it just like people have been for the last decade. Maybe you'll have some kind of external placebo effect.
Exactly. And the right solution is to butch up and make dirty power more expensive. If we didn't have such a bunch of retards in this country, of all stripes from enviro-douches to conservative dipshits we could have started building out nuclear power 20 years ago and we'd be set today. Instead you have pipe dreams of infinite oil from the right, and ridiculous ideas about broad use of solar or wind hippie power from the left.
Bullshit, they don't need to set standards like that. They need to set pollution standards, and if power plants don't meet them they pay additional taxes and fines. The cost of power goes up, and people have a reason to make _real_ changes, not this feel good nonsense.
Idiocy. In fact, to spite you I'm going to go buy a space heater, plug it in in a room I never use, and just fucking leave it on. Oh noes, better call the cops!
I agree global warming is real. Banning lightbulbs isn't going to fix it. Charging more for power that generates a lot of pollution is the better path, as is producing a technology that's better than incandescents and that people want to buy.
I'm not worried, nobody's giving up their old lightbulbs in 2014. The law will be repealed, or extended to the point where it's meaningless. Worst case, I'll always have my space heater to spite the assholes.
You're a retard if you think people will let this ban stand when 2014 rolls around. It's an idiotic solution, it actually hurts my brain, the stupidity. If you want to reduce greenhouse gases, make dirty power more expensive. This will give people a reason to use CFLs, because they will save money.
Doesn't work for shit? Wow, you mean you, Internet Random Douche, have discovered that our semi-free market system doesn't work?! Please, write a whitepaper, preferably long and rambling - I need something to wipe my ass with when they ban toilet paper.
Wow, I was unaware light bulbs were dangerous!
This is preposterous. If they want people to use less power (and hence reduce greenhouse gases), they should make polluting power more expensive via taxes or mandates. This gives me an incentive to use CFL's where I can, but use normal bulbs where I need to.
Talking to some neo-cons, I was under the impression "ClimateGate" had once and for all proved how global warming was nonsense created by "progressives" to ruin the American way of life. I'll have to let them know about this, I'm sure they'll be glad to see and will stop pretending ClimateGate somehow refutes the huge body of AGW science.
Now instead of gratuitous trips through security at the local airport I'll have to pay a hooker to do it.
I'm sure you're raising yours in a much more open and healthy environment. Oh, wait.. you clearly don't have any fucking kids and are just talking out your asshole.
Yeah, if you're coming to Slashdot for any kind of parenting advice you're retarded, possibly dangerously so. These dweebs don't have kids and have a quasi-libertarian (but not in the fiscal aspect)/quasi-EuroSocialist outlook on life that bears no semblance to reality. I'm going to keep an iron fist of control on my kid's internet access until she's 16 or 17.
Heart's in the right place and all, but I don't know that dramatic pronouncements from Anonymous nerds on the internet is going to scare a bunch of hillbilly douchebags like WBC. "vicious retaliatory arm".. seriously? I think they can narrow down Anonymous a bit as either being 12, or having the mentality of a 12 year old.
Wow, some guy on the internet posting some shit! That is solid evidence if ever _I've_ seen it.
I found lots of people claiming the same shit, most of them came back and said "oh, nevermind" later.
Sometimes my netflix slows down, sometimes my Xbox, sometimes my web browsing. Oh teh noes, they're throtttttllllinnnnnggg!
AM radio? Yeah, it's a real burden...
I know exactly what I'm talking about, I'm just not a crybaby like you. Does that approach of baseless superiority usually work out well for you, or do people tend to just laugh and ignore you?
Bull. Why are you spreading disinformation? Comcast is not throttling Netflix.
I don't see anything about the ISPs being legally common carriers. Do you have a source?
Yes, I really do want to wait until they do what they said they want to do. Again, I'm not some "privatize the rooooaaadssss!" Libertarian, but I do think our government has proved itself inept in a multitude of ways and don't think they need to get involved until there's really a problem. And a fake picture depicting a tiered internet being passed around by nerds is not a real problem (I assume you've seen that picture, right?).
Let Corporation A and Corporation B fight it out. If it becomes a real problem then have the FCC step in.
I hate Apple in general, but this is monopoly crybabyism brought to a whole new level. They don't have close to a monopoly in anything, and the iPad is only a few years old ffs.
If you don't like Apple's policies, don't sell your software for their shitty products. Instead of whining about Apple, I just ignore them.
What are we preventing, exactly? That some big ISP might charge some big media company extra money? That is hypothetically a horrible thing for that hypothetical big media company, it hypothetically brings tears to my eyes!
I'm not a big-L Libertarian, whom 90% of Slashdot hates but 90% thinks are the majority here. I've got libertarian leanings but I'm all for government in the public interest when there's a compelling reason. Something that may happen, or even some money changing hands is not a compelling reason to involve our inept government in the Internet. We spent the 90's trying to keep their hands off, now people are crying that they're not charging in headlong - but I'm sure _this time_ they'll only do a little beneficial regulation, amirite?
Slashdot's bevy of dweebs can mod me down all they like, it doesn't strengthen their position and it doesn't make anyone against NN some Republican in the back pocket of the ISPs any more than being pro NN makes someone a pathetic shill for Google/YouTube or Netflix.
I'd consider labeling someone "unfathomably evil" a by-law of Godwin's. Nazism (and other genociders, atrocity commiters) are about the only evil I can't really even fathom.
You misunderstand me. I'm a huge nerd. I have no problem with technology or people who are good at it - it's how I make my living as an enterprise developer. My problem is with the dweeb personality. Technology is a job and a hobby for me, it's not the center of my life. I'm not crying sad tears of sadness and beating my chest because the government won't go in and fix some issue that doesn't really exist (yet), and comparing Republicans to nazis over it.
If Israelis and Palestinians both decided to give the other side exactly what they want, we could have peace in the middle east!
And if every US citizen gave every penny to the government, we could be debt free
What other news do they have from the "sure, if the impossible happened we could do something highly difficult" department?"
Meego is too much like "Linux running on a cell phone". Android is a cell phone OS (and environment) based on Linux. There is a huge difference, and it's critical in the cell phone market. You need a consistent look and feel and a fairly structured (possibly even narrow) development environment or you end up with all kinds of shitty looking apps, broken conventions, poor look and feel consistency, etc...
iPhone takes this to too far an extreme, WP7 seems like it may suffer some of the same issues. Android IMO is a good balance, while Meego is way, way too loose and will never take off except for hard core nerds.
Windows is very open in every meaningful way. You can develop any software you want in any of a plethora of ways. That's why Windows won, they catered to developers (developers) and (developers).
Yeah, you do that. Making risky stock investments based on your personal hatred of a partner company is _totally_ a good way to make investments! Your emotions know more about these things than the current investors who have set the Nokia stock at whatever price it is!