If there's already a provider in KC that provides the same public service as Google, then why exactly is Google needed there?
Bubwaaaaah? "We already have McDonalds, why do we need this Burger King/KFC?" "We already have Windows, why do we need any other OS?". "We already have Volkswagen, why do we need any other car manufacturer?". Do I really have to say to a fellow Slashdotter that competition is good for the consumer?
Here in Seattle we have tons of fiber available for use and internet speeds max out at like 12mbps
That's copper speeds, not worth having fiber for..
How are you supporting the cause by not using Wikipedia? It's not the usage statistics that count, the whole thing is just to raise awareness. It doesn't matter if an already aware person continues to make use of it.
Besides, it seems to be working for me, maybe thanks to adblock..?
I didn't actually see the comments myself. My threshold is zero apparently. I used to enjoy -1, but I'm getting fed up of all the astroturfing and such now.
From what I've read over the years, I get the impression that it would still be the same Windows underneath, just without the Explorer shell running by default. In fact that's kind of what they're doing with the Metro interface on desktops as well I suppose, getting away from Explorer being the default.
I'm just waiting to see the reactions from guys who are always saying how Windows is better than Linux because everything is GUI based. This is pretty hilarious..
Ballmer is still there, and as soon as their antitrust oversight was over, there were articles of MS using scummy tactics again. Let's wait and see what happens to Nokia.
Because you constantly switch your main account, and you probably use AC too.
I don't care about the browser coming with the OS thing, I care about the stuff that I bothered to post a month or two ago but can't be arsed repeating to you. The management culture in MS in the 90s was demonstrated as completely rotten, and Ballmer is still in charge. Nothing has changed apart from they have to watch their step more. Both MS and Intel have used their monopoly positions to try to scare their clients into not dealing with competitors.
The vast majority of malware isn't that clever or "serious" in the sense that it's written to specifically target you or a company you work for - so you could check running tasks and a few places in the registry for any dubious executables. You could check if the machine has any unexplained network activity. You might not be able to completely remove the malware just by looking in those places, but you have a good chance of detecting symptoms.
I don't think your sarcasm was particularly warranted in this situation.
You're a fucking moron DCTech/NorthKorea/CmdrPony/whoever-else-you-are.
Yeah. [insert thing here] isn't bad - for proof, just look at all those people raping and killing people!
When you actually look at MS business practices, you see them being the sleaze of the earth. "you have to smile when you pull the trigger", etc. Assholes. Assholes that you admire, obviously.
Some kids might love it, but not know until they try. Their parents may just sit them in front of a games console or send them outside and not give them any access to the 'net or books for them to find stuff that they enjoy.
I'd say have at least one "compulsory" programming session, maybe a few since you can't do much in one class. There are all sorts of classes in school to get kids to try vocational-type things that they may hate. Art, music, mathematics, science.. they all take a certain type of person to do well, but you need to try it before you really know.
Surely the same applies to shop class and carpenters? I've had very limited experience of metalwork and woodwork outside of school, so I enjoyed getting to try them out - though I wouldn't do them for a living. Then again I'm sure some people really loved the classes and went further with it, then went on to be mechanics, welders, carpenters, or whatever.
Programmers don't think that marketing isn't necessary, they just wish that people weren't dumb enough to fall for it, and put a little effort into finding and judging products on their own merits. All it takes these days is a quick Google.
Nobody is saying marketing doesn't take work either. From what I can see, it often takes up so much of your life that you don't have a life left. It seems like a stressful and boring life to me.
Heh, you're damn right. I think font choice should be up to the reader. I like the swishy turning pages in Google's ereader, but they don't have the easy-on-the-eyes sepia colour scheme of Kindle, so I've stuck with Kindle. The font, kerning and illustrations and all that are great. I much prefer it to reading a dead-tree book. Especially when I can just touch a new word and get the dictionary definition immediately. Last time I read a real book I went to touch the page in a slight facepalm moment..
It's just when poor OCR messes up the words or original style choices - lack of bold or monospaced fonts for function names and code listings in a programming textbook for example - that I get pissed off.
I think similar things every time I see people raving about the latest programming language or framework. Some of these things are good, but I tend to wait to see how things stand the test of time before wasting time on them myself.
With project management and development practices you can read and learn a lot of interesting things, but often they don't really click until you've experienced them for yourself. And even if you know something to be true, good luck trying to convince your clients or management how things should actually be done.
I don't see why programmers should be "designing" eBooks. The eBooks should be automatically converted from whatever format the book was stored in, so that things are shown identically in the eBook format. A "programmer" could add in a few hyperlinks, but that's it.
Even with older or more complex books everything should be done automatically as much as possible. In cases where things can't be done automatically, a human should try to copy the way the book did things, and not "design" anything themselves.
It's not just Google doing OCR, in the last Kindle book I read, the word "the" was scanned as "die" a few times. The book had no German in it (some Portugese and Norwegian, but no German). Damn annoying when you're trying to figure out wtf is happening in a sentence before you figure out that a word was scanned wrong.
Don't forget the culture of just sitting in front of the TV/computer, slowly vegetating as you watch the latest reality TV or people miming along to music on YouTube, etc
And if you suggest that they redirect a couple of billion out of the defence budget to solve relatively cheap issues like this, you get put on a special list.
It's not a "standard" if they don't let anyone else license the connector.. I've never heard of any non-Apple devices that work with iPod docks. There are plenty of phones that do video out through their proprietary connectors, or sometimes mini HDMI, etc.
It might also be that there are specialist words being used on Wikipedia that aren't in the dictionary.. unless this test is explicitly looking for common misspellings..
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Most people are usually more worried about chopping off their fingers, falling down the stairs, and being able to watch TV.
If there's already a provider in KC that provides the same public service as Google, then why exactly is Google needed there?
Bubwaaaaah? "We already have McDonalds, why do we need this Burger King/KFC?" "We already have Windows, why do we need any other OS?". "We already have Volkswagen, why do we need any other car manufacturer?". Do I really have to say to a fellow Slashdotter that competition is good for the consumer?
Here in Seattle we have tons of fiber available for use and internet speeds max out at like 12mbps
That's copper speeds, not worth having fiber for..
Oh sure, who's the senator and representative for Scotland then? :P
How are you supporting the cause by not using Wikipedia? It's not the usage statistics that count, the whole thing is just to raise awareness. It doesn't matter if an already aware person continues to make use of it.
Besides, it seems to be working for me, maybe thanks to adblock..?
I mentioned to someone that I was planning to visit him and her first reaction was, "Aren't you afraid that you'll die from radiation poisoning?".
Either she's a complete dumbass, or she was making an awesome Godzilla joke.
Which I guess means that only shills and others with an axe to grind bother to meta-moderate..
s/illicit/elicit/
I didn't actually see the comments myself. My threshold is zero apparently. I used to enjoy -1, but I'm getting fed up of all the astroturfing and such now.
From what I've read over the years, I get the impression that it would still be the same Windows underneath, just without the Explorer shell running by default. In fact that's kind of what they're doing with the Metro interface on desktops as well I suppose, getting away from Explorer being the default.
Not trolling. Well okay, maybe a little.
Either this guy has some really weird ideas about what a server is, or he just phrases things really, really poorly.
Any sane person recognises that both have their benefits and drawbacks.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
I'm just waiting to see the reactions from guys who are always saying how Windows is better than Linux because everything is GUI based. This is pretty hilarious..
Ballmer is still there, and as soon as their antitrust oversight was over, there were articles of MS using scummy tactics again. Let's wait and see what happens to Nokia.
Because you constantly switch your main account, and you probably use AC too.
I don't care about the browser coming with the OS thing, I care about the stuff that I bothered to post a month or two ago but can't be arsed repeating to you. The management culture in MS in the 90s was demonstrated as completely rotten, and Ballmer is still in charge. Nothing has changed apart from they have to watch their step more. Both MS and Intel have used their monopoly positions to try to scare their clients into not dealing with competitors.
The vast majority of malware isn't that clever or "serious" in the sense that it's written to specifically target you or a company you work for - so you could check running tasks and a few places in the registry for any dubious executables. You could check if the machine has any unexplained network activity. You might not be able to completely remove the malware just by looking in those places, but you have a good chance of detecting symptoms.
I don't think your sarcasm was particularly warranted in this situation.
You're a fucking moron DCTech/NorthKorea/CmdrPony/whoever-else-you-are.
Yeah. [insert thing here] isn't bad - for proof, just look at all those people raping and killing people!
When you actually look at MS business practices, you see them being the sleaze of the earth. "you have to smile when you pull the trigger", etc. Assholes. Assholes that you admire, obviously.
tl;dr You're a fucking moron.
Some kids might love it, but not know until they try. Their parents may just sit them in front of a games console or send them outside and not give them any access to the 'net or books for them to find stuff that they enjoy.
I'd say have at least one "compulsory" programming session, maybe a few since you can't do much in one class. There are all sorts of classes in school to get kids to try vocational-type things that they may hate. Art, music, mathematics, science.. they all take a certain type of person to do well, but you need to try it before you really know.
Surely the same applies to shop class and carpenters? I've had very limited experience of metalwork and woodwork outside of school, so I enjoyed getting to try them out - though I wouldn't do them for a living. Then again I'm sure some people really loved the classes and went further with it, then went on to be mechanics, welders, carpenters, or whatever.
Programmers don't think that marketing isn't necessary, they just wish that people weren't dumb enough to fall for it, and put a little effort into finding and judging products on their own merits. All it takes these days is a quick Google.
Nobody is saying marketing doesn't take work either. From what I can see, it often takes up so much of your life that you don't have a life left. It seems like a stressful and boring life to me.
Heh, you're damn right. I think font choice should be up to the reader. I like the swishy turning pages in Google's ereader, but they don't have the easy-on-the-eyes sepia colour scheme of Kindle, so I've stuck with Kindle. The font, kerning and illustrations and all that are great. I much prefer it to reading a dead-tree book. Especially when I can just touch a new word and get the dictionary definition immediately. Last time I read a real book I went to touch the page in a slight facepalm moment..
It's just when poor OCR messes up the words or original style choices - lack of bold or monospaced fonts for function names and code listings in a programming textbook for example - that I get pissed off.
I think similar things every time I see people raving about the latest programming language or framework. Some of these things are good, but I tend to wait to see how things stand the test of time before wasting time on them myself.
With project management and development practices you can read and learn a lot of interesting things, but often they don't really click until you've experienced them for yourself. And even if you know something to be true, good luck trying to convince your clients or management how things should actually be done.
I don't see why programmers should be "designing" eBooks. The eBooks should be automatically converted from whatever format the book was stored in, so that things are shown identically in the eBook format. A "programmer" could add in a few hyperlinks, but that's it.
Even with older or more complex books everything should be done automatically as much as possible. In cases where things can't be done automatically, a human should try to copy the way the book did things, and not "design" anything themselves.
It's not just Google doing OCR, in the last Kindle book I read, the word "the" was scanned as "die" a few times. The book had no German in it (some Portugese and Norwegian, but no German). Damn annoying when you're trying to figure out wtf is happening in a sentence before you figure out that a word was scanned wrong.
You talk as if no other nation in the world has biochemists and pharmaceutical companies...
Don't forget the culture of just sitting in front of the TV/computer, slowly vegetating as you watch the latest reality TV or people miming along to music on YouTube, etc
And if you suggest that they redirect a couple of billion out of the defence budget to solve relatively cheap issues like this, you get put on a special list.
It's not a "standard" if they don't let anyone else license the connector.. I've never heard of any non-Apple devices that work with iPod docks. There are plenty of phones that do video out through their proprietary connectors, or sometimes mini HDMI, etc.
It might also be that there are specialist words being used on Wikipedia that aren't in the dictionary.. unless this test is explicitly looking for common misspellings..