Maybe you lived in the boondocks? That's where the area codes had time-consuming "0"s.
Nice theory, but the area code for Washington DC is 202, and has been since the 1940s. Additional counterexamples are easy to find by those who wish to do so.
Area codes - required for long distance all had a 0 in the middle.
Huh? My area code was 513. This was in the 1960s.
Direct dialling of long-distance calls required leading off with a "1". I still remember the TV commercials when this was introduced, letting people know they could now dial these calls without operator assistance by using 1.
I have a GTX 660. I have it because the folks who built my system for me included it as part of a package that had everything else I wanted. I was a bit leery of it at first, but went with it after finding that it was listed as supported by Nouveau, and that Nvidia provided its own Linux drivers as well. Nouveau sucked: it did not support a number of features that it claimed to, and was flaky as hell. Got tired of of my desktop vanishing without a trace, so I decided to try the Nvidia drivers, which worked a treat. Sometime later, after a number of successful driver updates, I hit one that didn't go so well. Filed a bug with Nvidia, and found their tech support folks to be extremely polite, knowledgeable, and helpful--and they actually took the time to explain a few things to me.
I prefer to use FOSS software. But I also prefer to use a computer that works.
Slashdot has always supported at least Latin-1, which includes umlauts. Although there was a brief period of time when you had to write them as HTML entities.
Slashdot supported Unicode for a while, but support for anything beyond Latin-1 was later disabled due to the antics of page-widening trolls and such. Why reach for a newspaper to swat that fly when you can grab a sledgehammer instead?
Perhaps a combination of solar/wind/hydro/tidal/geothermal could blunt the excessive influence currently enjoyed by the sheikdoms just as effectively, *and* spare us the nuclear-nutter circle-jerk.
Why should a critical activity such as power generation be concentrated in the hands of *any* elite?
...you're an idiot with poor self-control. Intelligent people drink sparingly and don't waste a lot of time with it.
Right?
Now let me explain a little something to you: Humans, unlike you, are imperfect beings.
A common human imperfection is to be prone to obsessive/compulsive/addictive behaviours of various sorts.
Intelligent humans can perceive this in themselves and be honest enough with themselves to realise that it might be best for them to avoid situations or environments which exacerbate these tendencies in counterproductive ways.
So one would think, but people in various countries persist in using their old one-nation-only charsets. Americans still use US-ASCII. Russians still use KOI-8r. Chinese still use Big5. And Slashdotters are still obliged to use EBCDIC.
How I compensate for my highly imperfect vision is *my* decision, and is based on *many* factors that I'm not going to bother enumerating for a complete idiot such as yourself.
But I will tell you that "Making a fashion statement" is *not* among them.
Karl Marx... took Alexander Stephens, the vice president of the Confederacy, at his word when Stephens proclaimed what Southern secession was really all about. Wrote Marx:
The question of the principle of the American Civil War is answered by the battle slogan with which the South broke the peace. Stephens... declared in the secession Congress, that what essentially distinguished the Constitution hatched at Montgomery from the Constitution of the Washingtons and Jeffersons was that for now for the first time slavery was recognized as institution for good in itself, and as the foundation of the whole state edifice, whereas the revolutionary fathers, men steeped in the prejudices of the eighteenth century, had treated slavery as an evil imported from England and to be eliminated in the course of time.
Marx continued:
The cultivation of the Southern export articles, cotton, tobacco, sugar, etc., carried on by slaves, is only renumerative as long as it is conducted with large gangs of slaves, on a mass scale and on wide expanses of a naturally fertile soil, which requires only simple labor. Intensive cultivation, which depends less on fertility of the soil than on investment of capital, intelligence and energy of labor, is contrary to the nature of slavery.
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I think he's referring to the fact that Americans increasingly seem to treat "feel" and "think" as synonyms.
*sigh*
Maybe you lived in the boondocks? That's where the area codes had time-consuming "0"s.
Nice theory, but the area code for Washington DC is 202, and has been since the 1940s. Additional counterexamples are easy to find by those who wish to do so.
Area codes - required for long distance all had a 0 in the middle.
Huh? My area code was 513. This was in the 1960s.
Direct dialling of long-distance calls required leading off with a "1". I still remember the TV commercials when this was introduced, letting people know they could now dial these calls without operator assistance by using 1.
I have a GTX 660. I have it because the folks who built my system for me included it as part of a package that had everything else I wanted. I was a bit leery of it at first, but went with it after finding that it was listed as supported by Nouveau, and that Nvidia provided its own Linux drivers as well. Nouveau sucked: it did not support a number of features that it claimed to, and was flaky as hell. Got tired of of my desktop vanishing without a trace, so I decided to try the Nvidia drivers, which worked a treat. Sometime later, after a number of successful driver updates, I hit one that didn't go so well. Filed a bug with Nvidia, and found their tech support folks to be extremely polite, knowledgeable, and helpful--and they actually took the time to explain a few things to me.
I prefer to use FOSS software. But I also prefer to use a computer that works.
It's emulators all the way down?
Apples and oranges.
Slashdot has always supported at least Latin-1, which includes umlauts. Although there was a brief period of time when you had to write them as HTML entities.
Slashdot supported Unicode for a while, but support for anything beyond Latin-1 was later disabled due to the antics of page-widening trolls and such. Why reach for a newspaper to swat that fly when you can grab a sledgehammer instead?
Perhaps a combination of solar/wind/hydro/tidal/geothermal could blunt the excessive influence currently enjoyed by the sheikdoms just as effectively, *and* spare us the nuclear-nutter circle-jerk.
Why should a critical activity such as power generation be concentrated in the hands of *any* elite?
Nothing can be done with perfect safety.
I think you tried to move the goalposts. FAIL.
Facilitating transportation is not a basic service?
For the sake of argument, let's agree they're a fad.
So... What do you propose take the place of combustion-driven vehicles?
False.
(India is 168th, Best Korea is 196th.)
I guess the EBCDIC reference sailed right past you and the mods, then.
Sometimes, when people need to make a clean break, they need to make a clean break.
So I'm guessing that you'd tell an alcoholic,
...you're an idiot with poor self-control. Intelligent people drink sparingly and don't waste a lot of time with it.
Right?
Now let me explain a little something to you: Humans, unlike you, are imperfect beings.
A common human imperfection is to be prone to obsessive/compulsive/addictive behaviours of various sorts.
Intelligent humans can perceive this in themselves and be honest enough with themselves to realise that it might be best for them to avoid situations or environments which exacerbate these tendencies in counterproductive ways.
This the the first dupe I've seen since the sale to BizX. Feel free to point out any that I've missed, though.
Surely you meant, "Slashdot, like Twitter, is a write-only medium".
Um.... Humour and stuff, like, y'know.
So one would think, but people in various countries persist in using their old one-nation-only charsets. Americans still use US-ASCII. Russians still use KOI-8r. Chinese still use Big5. And Slashdotters are still obliged to use EBCDIC.
How I compensate for my highly imperfect vision is *my* decision, and is based on *many* factors that I'm not going to bother enumerating for a complete idiot such as yourself.
But I will tell you that "Making a fashion statement" is *not* among them.
He must live in Sweden, too--almost nobody here wears wristwatches.
I--like a lot of people, I suspect--quit wearing one 10+ years when I started carrying around a mobile phone.
My glasses are Ray-Bans. That being said, I don't wear them to make a fashion statement. I wear them so I can see.
Please don't project your OCD or your desire to make a fashion statement on me. Thanks.
...Karl Marx himself wrote approvingly of the yankee aggression in Horace Greeley's newspaper.
It appears that the AC is correct:
Karl Marx ... took Alexander Stephens, the vice president of the Confederacy, at his word when Stephens proclaimed what Southern secession was really all about. Wrote Marx:
The question of the principle of the American Civil War is answered by the battle slogan with which the South broke the peace. Stephens ... declared in the secession Congress, that what essentially distinguished the Constitution hatched at Montgomery from the Constitution of the Washingtons and Jeffersons was that for now for the first time slavery was recognized as institution for good in itself, and as the foundation of the whole state edifice, whereas the revolutionary fathers, men steeped in the prejudices of the eighteenth century, had treated slavery as an evil imported from England and to be eliminated in the course of time.
Marx continued:
The cultivation of the Southern export articles, cotton, tobacco, sugar, etc., carried on by slaves, is only renumerative as long as it is conducted with large gangs of slaves, on a mass scale and on wide expanses of a naturally fertile soil, which requires only simple labor. Intensive cultivation, which depends less on fertility of the soil than on investment of capital, intelligence and energy of labor, is contrary to the nature of slavery.
Please mod the AC's post Informative. Thanks.