If there's one thing worse than letting users design software it's letting programmers do it. Whilst users may not always know what they want, they have a damn sight better idea than code monkeys, many of whom seem to have a pathological hatred of those who might actually use and consequently criticise their product.
Look at this way: you wouldn't ask a bricklayer or a plumber to design your house, would you?
Judging by the selection of 'celebrities' in the story, perhaps it's female celebrities who should be prevented from talking about scientific matters.
My favourite piece of witless scientific investigation was on BBC1 a couple of years ago. Low-IQ pratt Richard Hammond did a half-hour programme on the supposed problems of the combined MMR vaccine. After spending 28 minutes finding not a shred of evidence that the MMR vaccine was in any way dangerous his equally-witless wife then piped up to say 'well you can never be sure can you'? Thus rendering the entire programme a cretinous waste of time and scaring another generation of Epsilon women into not getting their children immunised.
Here's a link to a story on bbc.co.uk about a Burberry factory in South Wales which is threatened with closure:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/620776 5.stm
What the article doesn't make clear is that the £30 voucher (around $55) can only be spent in a Burberry store and the nearest store is in London, a mere 170 miles away.
It is utterly bewildering that 'Fifth Element' could end up looking so poor. I have the Superbits version on DVD and through an average CRT telly and Toshiba DVD player this looks absolutely fantastic. But then this happened with a lot of early DVDs. The early transfer of 'Blade Runner' is truly shocking, looking little better than those bootleg made by people in cinemas with camcorders. I can't wait for the remastered version, even at SD.
I am surprised that the US still uses bills for $1 and $5. Equivalent value denominations in Europe are generally (and I am talking about pound sterling and Euros) coins.
As an occasional visitor I have noticed that US bills have the least variety across the range I have every come across. It's probably time for a redesign.
I am delighted that AllOfMP3 are finally being shut down. I don't give a toss about the RIAA and their ill-intentioned campaign against downloaders but I fully support any organization which seeks to defend the rights of musicians to hold and maintain copyright in their intellectual property.
The fact of the matter is that a lot of you are bleating because an illegal cheap source of music is being closed off to you. Quite why you want to give your money to Russian pirates is beyond me, unless it is some misguided protest against the RIAA.
btw, if any of you want to buy music unencumbered by DRM I have some information for you. In many high streets and shopping malls and in online stores you can buy things called 'Compact Discs' which contain digitally encoded music, usually in a non-DRM format. You get a backup disc and case, information about the recording and the recording artists, and best of all, the musicians get paid for their work.
But IIRC the judgement withheld 75% of the award because the plaintiff was a fuckwit. A bit like you, only you seem to have an anger management problem too.
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If there's one thing worse than letting users design software it's letting programmers do it. Whilst users may not always know what they want, they have a damn sight better idea than code monkeys, many of whom seem to have a pathological hatred of those who might actually use and consequently criticise their product. Look at this way: you wouldn't ask a bricklayer or a plumber to design your house, would you?
There are going to be some tears when that baby goes tits up.
Don't forget that paedophiles can abuse your children over the internet by wearing special gloves.
Judging by the selection of 'celebrities' in the story, perhaps it's female celebrities who should be prevented from talking about scientific matters. My favourite piece of witless scientific investigation was on BBC1 a couple of years ago. Low-IQ pratt Richard Hammond did a half-hour programme on the supposed problems of the combined MMR vaccine. After spending 28 minutes finding not a shred of evidence that the MMR vaccine was in any way dangerous his equally-witless wife then piped up to say 'well you can never be sure can you'? Thus rendering the entire programme a cretinous waste of time and scaring another generation of Epsilon women into not getting their children immunised.
POTD!!!!
Dishonest and stupid?
Do you mean "voila"?
Here's a link to a story on bbc.co.uk about a Burberry factory in South Wales which is threatened with closure: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/620776 5.stm
What the article doesn't make clear is that the £30 voucher (around $55) can only be spent in a Burberry store and the nearest store is in London, a mere 170 miles away.
It is utterly bewildering that 'Fifth Element' could end up looking so poor. I have the Superbits version on DVD and through an average CRT telly and Toshiba DVD player this looks absolutely fantastic. But then this happened with a lot of early DVDs. The early transfer of 'Blade Runner' is truly shocking, looking little better than those bootleg made by people in cinemas with camcorders. I can't wait for the remastered version, even at SD.
Camfield knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
Natural selection doesn't seem to have worked in your case.
You can buy a song from iTunes with a dollar so make it smell of apple.
I hate the US Treasury and everything it stands for. I buy my dollars from a perfectly legal Russian website for 10c on the dollar.
I am surprised that the US still uses bills for $1 and $5. Equivalent value denominations in Europe are generally (and I am talking about pound sterling and Euros) coins. As an occasional visitor I have noticed that US bills have the least variety across the range I have every come across. It's probably time for a redesign.
I don't get to say this very often on /. but that was quite funny.
I am delighted that AllOfMP3 are finally being shut down. I don't give a toss about the RIAA and their ill-intentioned campaign against downloaders but I fully support any organization which seeks to defend the rights of musicians to hold and maintain copyright in their intellectual property. The fact of the matter is that a lot of you are bleating because an illegal cheap source of music is being closed off to you. Quite why you want to give your money to Russian pirates is beyond me, unless it is some misguided protest against the RIAA. btw, if any of you want to buy music unencumbered by DRM I have some information for you. In many high streets and shopping malls and in online stores you can buy things called 'Compact Discs' which contain digitally encoded music, usually in a non-DRM format. You get a backup disc and case, information about the recording and the recording artists, and best of all, the musicians get paid for their work.
That's funny. I printed out your post, scanned it in and got a picture of a turd.
Didn't Tom Waits write a song about this guy?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/23/vodafone_p hone_phobe/
Vodafone have had a couple of no-frills phones available for the past eighteen months.
I thought that love was the fifth element. Did Luc Besson get that wrong?
The only thing VR glasses will usher in is the era of the Pukeverse.
But IIRC the judgement withheld 75% of the award because the plaintiff was a fuckwit. A bit like you, only you seem to have an anger management problem too.
Slashdot will be doomed if it continues to permit the posting of bollocks like this.
Living in Sweden is punishment enough.
My dick is already pink in awareness.