What's this trend in attacking 'negativity' as though doing so is a legit argument against what was said?
It's astroturfing. You can be pretty sure that almost all those comments are from someone who works for MS, holds stock in MS, or...
Is this some kind of peer pressure to conform to the head-in-ground masses of ostriches who can't handle reality because they're too weak willed to not take everything personally?
Indeed, that's exactly what the shills are attempting.
FFS the only people I've heard winging are people who only ever try any version of Windows for 1/2 an hour so they could say they tried it and didn't like it.
Well DUH. "Hey, George, check out this new computer I just bought with w8. Try it out!"
Half an hour later, George replies "Jesus but I absolutely fucking HATED that! It was worse than listening to my ex-wife. Let me try it a few weeks and see if I hate it any less."
Yeah, that's going to happen.
Also if its so crap why is the linux community starting to emulate it?
You have that backwards, Metro is MS's attempt to emulate Unity (which was out long before w8 and also sucks donkey balls).
The last time I was out of work it took almost two years to find a job. It was hell. I'm glad I retire in a little over a year and don't have to go through the nightmare of looking for work again.
I have no problem with drugs, but drugs are a luxury item that is probably not helping job prospects
Yeah, tell that to someone who has been prescribed antibiotics or antidepressants. You want to take my coffee away because it's a luxury??? Fuck you and the Republican horse you rode in on.
Most people are perfectly capable of building up a 6 month emergency fund
Is that you, Mr. Trump?? Jesus but you're out of touch with the real world of people who produce wealth, you being in the world of people who control and aggregate wealth.
and any financial planner will tell you
jesus but you fucking rich people are STUPID. Most of us can't afford a fucking financial planner, dumbass.
that option will be disincentivised while still keeping you from being the hobo who stabs me for my wallet.
If hobo stabs you it will be because of your condescensing attitude toward the 99%, not your wallet. You, sir, are what's wrong with the world, you self-centered, arrogant, ignorant dickweed. Fuck you and all your wall street pals, asshole. You disgust me.
From free market point of view I do not understand this at all. If a company X can get overqualified person for the announced salary, isn't that good for the company?
I would have thought so, too, until the last time I was unemployed a quarter century ago (I retire in a little over a year). There were no jobs in my field, and I went almost two years doing little more than looking for work, every day. Every job I went after I was "too qualified." The thing is, employers don't like turnover and if you're qualified for a job that pays twice the job you're applying for, they know that as soon as something in your field comes up, you're out the door.
So the rule does in fact make sense, any physicists looking for work as a mechanic are wasting everyone's time.
Shitty link, bud. How about a link with a little more authority?
Hell, wikipedia would have been better, was the 1st in google's list, webster's was second. I've found the "free online dictionary" often has wildly inaccurate definitions that don't match any other source. It's therefore worthless as an authority.
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The real question is how you make something like that self aware.
That depends on what you mean by "self-aware". If you mean self-aware like higher order animals, it won't happen in an electronic device, although you'll be able to make it fool people into thinking it's self-aware. Computers are nothing like brains. Computers are nothing more than glorified abacuses.
Now, when we start making Blade Runner replicants, then we'll build something self-aware. Sentience is a chemical reaction.
f there are gains in safety, efficiency, utility, and comfort, the added expense can be justified.
And indeed there have been and they're worth the price. But the complication of guns necessary to add these new features will make them less useable, unlike the complications of cars.
If Lanza's mother had a key fob or implanted chip, Lanza would not have been able to use the guns without it.
If she's kept the guns in a gin safe with a combination lock that he didn't know the combination to it wouldn't have happened, either.
But seriously, my main observation here is that so many people are spending lots of energy on inventing reasons for why nothing can be done.
I agree with you there. Guns should never be in the home of someone with a dangerous mental condition -- bipolar disorder comes to mind. I'd never have a gun in the house with someone like that there (not that I have one, I don't).
there is another part of ourselves, other than the brain. It's the heart. How do we measure the ability of the heart? One who has equal ability with both brains, and the heart is the true genius. You measure another person's brain, with your brain. You measure another person's heart with your heart.
Oh, for God's sake... the heart does nothing except pump blood. The "from the heart" is where the puts the feelings for these "from the heart" thoughts.
Betterige's law is as easy to break as the 55 mph speed limit was. Betterige himself broke his own law. In short, this "law" is nothing but a joke. Anybody seeming to take it seriously should be modded "funny".
In this case, however, betterige aside, yes, the answer is no.
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I'm probably considered one myself and I am very much interested in old technology, but I can't stand people using these terms.
It's probably like gays now calling themselves "queer". What bothers me is the nerd wannabes that show up at slashdot who think Apple is the epitome of coolness and geekery, the folks who never tore a piece of electronics apart, let alone pu it back together with added functionality, never wrote a line of code, wouldn't know what a soldering iron is for if you handed them a hot one barrel end first, the ones who think puting money into space science is foolish... those are the ones who annoy me.
Our grandkids will still have shitty household robotics.
You mean like the shitty $250 computers that blow the $4000 ones we had thirty years ago away?
They will have long ago given up on 3-D printers, since it will still only good for producing cheap plastic crap.
Do you see anything in the stores that isn't cheap plastic crap? When was the last time you saw a TV in a wooden cabinet?
And their mobile access will be better and faster, but not really any more useful.
Like our cable and DSL are better and faster than 56k, but not really any more useful than the internet was 20 years ago?
You have no imagination whatever. Today's youngsters will see scientific and technological wonders we can't even dream of today, any more than I could have dreamed of not needing corrective lenses some day, any more than I thought I'd have a phone, camera, sound recorder, sound movie camera, calculator, adress book, and more in a tiny pocket sized device that everyone has.
Looking at the advances that have happened in my own life, well, I'm stunned and amazed. The youngsters will see even more. I envy them.
Vaccuum tubes never went away for guitarists, because overdriven transistors distort differently than overdriven tubes. Many guitar players will have a small tube amp with a microphone in front of it feeding a solid state amp -- the tube amp is for distortion, the solod state amp for amplification.
If you look at it on an oscilloscope, when driven to distortion levels ("clipping") the transistors will produce square waves that are actually square, while the tube amp's waves are rounded at the corners and flat on the top.
As to using tubes for your stereo, well, sure, if you're going to turn it up to 11...
Why would we want to prevent the removal of fatally stupid people from the human gene pool?
Because fatal stupidity is usually not inheritable. Most mental deficiencies are environmentally caused.
Too bad she had already procreated at least once.
Which is where your "darwin award" falls flat on its face. I'ts been my experience that the dumbest people have the most kids, and most of them survive. Meaning that the stupid people are winning the darwin game.
Intelligence isn't the survival trait most think it is.
It don't work like that, kid. I'm sixty, most sixty year old women are as repulsive to me as they are to you. To me, women in their forties are HOT, women in their twenties look like children. So add the plans for a sixty or seventy year old woman.
1. There's no such thing as an unloaded gun. 2. Never point a gun at anything you don't mind shooting. 3. Never shoot anything you don't mind killing. 4. Eat what you kill.
That used to be true, but check the FAQ -- they changed it. However, "funny" is still a little dangerous to karma, because one man's joke is another man's troll.
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we don't just lay 20 eggs and let them fight amongst themselves.
Unfortunately, many men do just that.
I thought learning Linux, period, was the hard way!
Well, yes, if your IQ is 20.
TFA itself says that most clones have terrible genetic diseases.
What's this trend in attacking 'negativity' as though doing so is a legit argument against what was said?
It's astroturfing. You can be pretty sure that almost all those comments are from someone who works for MS, holds stock in MS, or...
Is this some kind of peer pressure to conform to the head-in-ground masses of ostriches who can't handle reality because they're too weak willed to not take everything personally?
Indeed, that's exactly what the shills are attempting.
The first link isn't America-only, Mr. Kowalski, and the second ranks is 17th out of fity, which is hardly what I'd call "uneducated."
FFS the only people I've heard winging are people who only ever try any version of Windows for 1/2 an hour so they could say they tried it and didn't like it.
Well DUH. "Hey, George, check out this new computer I just bought with w8. Try it out!"
Half an hour later, George replies "Jesus but I absolutely fucking HATED that! It was worse than listening to my ex-wife. Let me try it a few weeks and see if I hate it any less."
Yeah, that's going to happen.
Also if its so crap why is the linux community starting to emulate it?
You have that backwards, Metro is MS's attempt to emulate Unity (which was out long before w8 and also sucks donkey balls).
Also, Salvadore Dali. Nutt as a fruitcake (hung from an airplane by his moustache... sheesh!)
The last time I was out of work it took almost two years to find a job. It was hell. I'm glad I retire in a little over a year and don't have to go through the nightmare of looking for work again.
I have no problem with drugs, but drugs are a luxury item that is probably not helping job prospects
Yeah, tell that to someone who has been prescribed antibiotics or antidepressants. You want to take my coffee away because it's a luxury??? Fuck you and the Republican horse you rode in on.
Most people are perfectly capable of building up a 6 month emergency fund
Is that you, Mr. Trump?? Jesus but you're out of touch with the real world of people who produce wealth, you being in the world of people who control and aggregate wealth.
and any financial planner will tell you
jesus but you fucking rich people are STUPID. Most of us can't afford a fucking financial planner, dumbass.
that option will be disincentivised while still keeping you from being the hobo who stabs me for my wallet.
If hobo stabs you it will be because of your condescensing attitude toward the 99%, not your wallet. You, sir, are what's wrong with the world, you self-centered, arrogant, ignorant dickweed. Fuck you and all your wall street pals, asshole. You disgust me.
From free market point of view I do not understand this at all. If a company X can get overqualified person for the announced salary, isn't that good for the company?
I would have thought so, too, until the last time I was unemployed a quarter century ago (I retire in a little over a year). There were no jobs in my field, and I went almost two years doing little more than looking for work, every day. Every job I went after I was "too qualified." The thing is, employers don't like turnover and if you're qualified for a job that pays twice the job you're applying for, they know that as soon as something in your field comes up, you're out the door.
So the rule does in fact make sense, any physicists looking for work as a mechanic are wasting everyone's time.
Wow, that's a really humane attitude. I hope you don't consider yourself a Christian.
Shitty link, bud. How about a link with a little more authority?
Hell, wikipedia would have been better, was the 1st in google's list, webster's was second. I've found the "free online dictionary" often has wildly inaccurate definitions that don't match any other source. It's therefore worthless as an authority.
The real question is how you make something like that self aware.
That depends on what you mean by "self-aware". If you mean self-aware like higher order animals, it won't happen in an electronic device, although you'll be able to make it fool people into thinking it's self-aware. Computers are nothing like brains. Computers are nothing more than glorified abacuses.
Now, when we start making Blade Runner replicants, then we'll build something self-aware. Sentience is a chemical reaction.
Check the site's masthead.
f there are gains in safety, efficiency, utility, and comfort, the added expense can be justified.
And indeed there have been and they're worth the price. But the complication of guns necessary to add these new features will make them less useable, unlike the complications of cars.
If Lanza's mother had a key fob or implanted chip, Lanza would not have been able to use the guns without it.
If she's kept the guns in a gin safe with a combination lock that he didn't know the combination to it wouldn't have happened, either.
But seriously, my main observation here is that so many people are spending lots of energy on inventing reasons for why nothing can be done.
I agree with you there. Guns should never be in the home of someone with a dangerous mental condition -- bipolar disorder comes to mind. I'd never have a gun in the house with someone like that there (not that I have one, I don't).
If you have an IQ of 150, how did your slashdot karma get so low that posting anonymously is faster than when logged in?
there is another part of ourselves, other than the brain. It's the heart. How do we measure the ability of the heart? One who has equal ability with both brains, and the heart is the true genius. You measure another person's brain, with your brain. You measure another person's heart with your heart.
Oh, for God's sake... the heart does nothing except pump blood. The "from the heart" is where the puts the feelings for these "from the heart" thoughts.
Not heart, Amygdala.
If you're just trolling us, I apologize for biting.
Betterige's law is as easy to break as the 55 mph speed limit was. Betterige himself broke his own law. In short, this "law" is nothing but a joke. Anybody seeming to take it seriously should be modded "funny".
In this case, however, betterige aside, yes, the answer is no.
I'm probably considered one myself and I am very much interested in old technology, but I can't stand people using these terms.
It's probably like gays now calling themselves "queer". What bothers me is the nerd wannabes that show up at slashdot who think Apple is the epitome of coolness and geekery, the folks who never tore a piece of electronics apart, let alone pu it back together with added functionality, never wrote a line of code, wouldn't know what a soldering iron is for if you handed them a hot one barrel end first, the ones who think puting money into space science is foolish... those are the ones who annoy me.
Our grandkids will still have shitty household robotics.
You mean like the shitty $250 computers that blow the $4000 ones we had thirty years ago away?
They will have long ago given up on 3-D printers, since it will still only good for producing cheap plastic crap.
Do you see anything in the stores that isn't cheap plastic crap? When was the last time you saw a TV in a wooden cabinet?
And their mobile access will be better and faster, but not really any more useful.
Like our cable and DSL are better and faster than 56k, but not really any more useful than the internet was 20 years ago?
You have no imagination whatever. Today's youngsters will see scientific and technological wonders we can't even dream of today, any more than I could have dreamed of not needing corrective lenses some day, any more than I thought I'd have a phone, camera, sound recorder, sound movie camera, calculator, adress book, and more in a tiny pocket sized device that everyone has.
Looking at the advances that have happened in my own life, well, I'm stunned and amazed. The youngsters will see even more. I envy them.
Vaccuum tubes never went away for guitarists, because overdriven transistors distort differently than overdriven tubes. Many guitar players will have a small tube amp with a microphone in front of it feeding a solid state amp -- the tube amp is for distortion, the solod state amp for amplification.
If you look at it on an oscilloscope, when driven to distortion levels ("clipping") the transistors will produce square waves that are actually square, while the tube amp's waves are rounded at the corners and flat on the top.
As to using tubes for your stereo, well, sure, if you're going to turn it up to 11...
Why would we want to prevent the removal of fatally stupid people from the human gene pool?
Because fatal stupidity is usually not inheritable. Most mental deficiencies are environmentally caused.
Too bad she had already procreated at least once.
Which is where your "darwin award" falls flat on its face. I'ts been my experience that the dumbest people have the most kids, and most of them survive. Meaning that the stupid people are winning the darwin game.
Intelligence isn't the survival trait most think it is.
It don't work like that, kid. I'm sixty, most sixty year old women are as repulsive to me as they are to you. To me, women in their forties are HOT, women in their twenties look like children. So add the plans for a sixty or seventy year old woman.
1. There's no such thing as an unloaded gun.
2. Never point a gun at anything you don't mind shooting.
3. Never shoot anything you don't mind killing.
4. Eat what you kill.
Give them to some poor kids. No point in letting them waste your space.
Funny doesn't do a thing with Slashdot Karma
That used to be true, but check the FAQ -- they changed it. However, "funny" is still a little dangerous to karma, because one man's joke is another man's troll.