One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered fat nerds talking about Linux community when IDC confirmed that Slashdot's market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all message boards that normal people don't care about.
You're thinking like a businessman, not a nerd. When slashdot started, the internet was tiny compared to today, and most of the people on the net were nerds. Now everyone is on it. And slashdot is NOT a message board for normal people, it's a messageboard for NERDS. It isn't that there are fewer nerds on slashdot now, it's that the net has grown exponentianally, and most people are decidedly NOT nerds. Normal people don't talk about George Smoot, they talk about Paris Hilton. We, on the other hand, don't give two shits about celebrities and sports but do care about science and scientists. Normal people don't care about copyrights and computers, they care about Disney's latest movie and Facebook.
Not everyone on the internet, but I would think that on a nerd site, 150 would be quite low; that's barely enough to get into MENSA. Look at the difference between most/. comments and, say, Yahoo news. This is where I come to read folks who are smarter than me.
I've built silkscreens. No, you don't need real silk, a nylon scarf will do. If you're going from a photo you can cut the photo to lay out your pattern. Wikipedia probably has enough info for anyone to be able to make one; they're easy. It's not like building an Atlas rocket or anything, silkscreening is ancient and low-tech.
Interesting that a negative opinion of Dawkins is modded flamebait. Mod me down some more, that's my honest opinion and I backed it up with logic and reason.
Antitheists are even worst than the fundamentalists.
They're already getting started leveraging that 90% stake on the desktop that everyone and their grandmother is used to
No they're not. Everybody and their grandma is used to W95-W7, and W8 is not anything like previous Windows from a UI standpoint. A Linux computer running KDE would be more like what Granny is used to than W8.
BTW, which division of Microsoft do you work for? If it's marketing, they're paying you too much, although "i'm pretty indifferent to the systems (I have an android phone, ipad, and windows 7 pc)" was a nice touch.
Are you a 58 year old woman? because you sound like my little sister. Ten years ago they bought a fifty two inch LCD TV. She asked me "do you think it's too big?"
I said "there's no such thing as a TV that's too big."
She said "That's what David said." David's her then 25 year old son.
"Waste of wall space", sheesh. I guess the giant paintings on my walls are a "waste of wall space" as well.
Try holding your arms out in front of you without resting your hands on anything for 5-10 minutes
Sorry, son, but you're a pussie. I have friends in the construction industry, they hold their arms in front of them all damned day long driving nails with fairly heavy powered hammers. And you're whining about a fucking touch screen?
How about the FEMALE cashiers? Same thing only without the hammers.
my mother swore Ozzy and metal was a passing fad. and all the crap i used to listen to as a kid is now considered art
Your mom was proven wrong, as was my dad, whose opinion was that the music he listened to in the '40s was the best... but nobody was listening to it any more when he said that. OTOH, today's young people are listening to the same music that was popular when I was young, and I'm 60. It had more lasting power than any music produced since the invention of the radio and phonograph.
But lets look at Democrats - they have decades of failed social engineering programs under their belt.
The last Democrat failed social program was Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, which was remedied during Clinton's administration with PWORA. I know of no more recent such "social engineering" by the dems, but Bush II had his failed "no child left behind".
They're beholden to corrupt corporations.
Both parties are beholden to corrupt corporations.
They engage in pointless wars.
The last Democrat war was in Vietnam, and it can be argued that that was a Republican war, since we had advisors in Vietnam under Eisenhower. Since that war ended in 1975, we had Reagan's invasion of Panama to get some dope dealer that was running the country; Bush 1's Iraq war, no war under Clinton, Bush 2 had both Afghanistan and yet another Iraq war. Under Obama Iraq 2 is over and Bush's other war is winding down.
Yadda yadda.
Yada yada indeed, fool. You're full of shit and an idiot as well.
would argue that the mountain of choices we have available to us now compared to 100 years ago would account for some the gains in abstract reasoning measurements. 100 year ago: Rabbit A or Rabbit B didn't matter much. The store only had a few brands of any particular product, if they were even branded at all.
You've been watching too many westerns. First, 100 years ago was 1912. Look at one product, beer. There were almost all the brands of American beer there are today, except Busch and "lite" beers which were more modern (I'm two years older than Busch). A-B had both Budweiser and Michelob, there was Miller, there was Coors. Look at the choice of beers they had in Europe -- the same brands you have today.
Toothpaste? You had Ponds, Three Star, Darkie, Life Savers. Back then you not only had toothpaste, but tooth powder as well.
We have to choose what we think will suit us best, weight one choice against another hundreds of times per day.
You buy hundreds of things every day???
We have to weigh the inputs - advertising, peer pressure, style, function, preferences.
You think those things didn't exist in 1912? And not only that, there were products that you no longer have a choice of.
Look, AC, the dude obviously is an aliterate* as evidenced by "their all beholden to their political sponsors" so it doesn't do much good to try to educate him.
* No, that was not a misspelling. I did not mean "illiterate".
Most TV's are placed 8-12 feet away from the viewer
This particular TV is seven feet diagonal.
Also people don't watch TV as intensely as they do a movie.
I watch mostly movies on my TV, as do many others. Your idea of "normal" TV watching doesn't match everyone's idea of "normal" TV watching, and I'd posit that there's no such thing as "normal" TV watching.
For example a kid born from parents with IQ's below 90 is adopted and raised by smart parents(say 140+) He's almost certainly going to be smarter than his biological parents.
Mental retardation is seldom genetic. Most are caused by outside influences, such as being born with your umbilical cord tied around your neck like my oldest daughter, or fetal alcohol syndrome like some kids that grew up around the block from me.
My IQ is 150, my youngest daughter's is 130, my oldest daughter's is 75. If my oldest has a child, it will most likely have an IQ close to her younger sister's unless it suffers some form of brain damage.
To the churches. Some of it does trickle down to humanitarian programs
I can only speak of my own church, but we sent $90,000 to Africa last year, much more around the US and other countries. We completely remodeled the public elementary school in the poorest neighborhood in town, and gave two weeks worth of groceries to every family with a child in that school over Christmas break, because school breakfasts and lunches are the only meals some of these kids get, and they go hungry at Christmas time.
I didn't ask for names of secular charities, I asked for names of athiest charities. None of your list fits that bill.
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That's normal in a hurricane. If you want to know what's scarier, a hurricane or a tornado, the above link is a first-hand account of both.
Don't panic, it's HHGTG, not South Park.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered fat nerds talking about Linux community when IDC confirmed that Slashdot's market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all message boards that normal people don't care about.
You're thinking like a businessman, not a nerd. When slashdot started, the internet was tiny compared to today, and most of the people on the net were nerds. Now everyone is on it. And slashdot is NOT a message board for normal people, it's a messageboard for NERDS. It isn't that there are fewer nerds on slashdot now, it's that the net has grown exponentianally, and most people are decidedly NOT nerds. Normal people don't talk about George Smoot, they talk about Paris Hilton. We, on the other hand, don't give two shits about celebrities and sports but do care about science and scientists. Normal people don't care about copyrights and computers, they care about Disney's latest movie and Facebook.
Not everyone on the internet, but I would think that on a nerd site, 150 would be quite low; that's barely enough to get into MENSA. Look at the difference between most /. comments and, say, Yahoo news. This is where I come to read folks who are smarter than me.
Asimov wrote a short fictional story about this in 1951. It' about a kid who finds an old-fashioned paper book in the attic. In the story, there are no classrooms, kids all learn from computer terminals.
Where did you hear that? The cause of a third to half of all mental deficiencies is unknown.
Yes, but these people had never seen an elephant, and getting to Africa wasn't just anyone could do.
I've built silkscreens. No, you don't need real silk, a nylon scarf will do. If you're going from a photo you can cut the photo to lay out your pattern. Wikipedia probably has enough info for anyone to be able to make one; they're easy. It's not like building an Atlas rocket or anything, silkscreening is ancient and low-tech.
Interesting that a negative opinion of Dawkins is modded flamebait. Mod me down some more, that's my honest opinion and I backed it up with logic and reason.
Antitheists are even worst than the fundamentalists.
They're already getting started leveraging that 90% stake on the desktop that everyone and their grandmother is used to
No they're not. Everybody and their grandma is used to W95-W7, and W8 is not anything like previous Windows from a UI standpoint. A Linux computer running KDE would be more like what Granny is used to than W8.
BTW, which division of Microsoft do you work for? If it's marketing, they're paying you too much, although "i'm pretty indifferent to the systems (I have an android phone, ipad, and windows 7 pc)" was a nice touch.
Are you a 58 year old woman? because you sound like my little sister. Ten years ago they bought a fifty two inch LCD TV. She asked me "do you think it's too big?"
I said "there's no such thing as a TV that's too big."
She said "That's what David said." David's her then 25 year old son.
"Waste of wall space", sheesh. I guess the giant paintings on my walls are a "waste of wall space" as well.
Because it costs much less to retrain staff than to replace an entire deep infrastructure of enterprise applications.
If you replace all of your applications you're going to have to retrain all your staff anyway.
If you liked that you'll love a quote from a 1970ish Pogo cartoon when Walk Kelly was still alive.
You have a choice between Twettledum and Twettledumer.
In 1912 a lot of rural kids -- and most people lived in the country -- went to one-room schoolhouses.
And even later. My late Uncle was born in 1920 and attended school in a one room schoolhouse.
Good luck getting them to print it
So print it yourself! A silkscreen is easy to construct. Anybody can print their own shirts.
Try holding your arms out in front of you without resting your hands on anything for 5-10 minutes
Sorry, son, but you're a pussie. I have friends in the construction industry, they hold their arms in front of them all damned day long driving nails with fairly heavy powered hammers. And you're whining about a fucking touch screen?
How about the FEMALE cashiers? Same thing only without the hammers.
You're a wimp.
Don't forget, 90% of everything is crap.
my mother swore Ozzy and metal was a passing fad. and all the crap i used to listen to as a kid is now considered art
Your mom was proven wrong, as was my dad, whose opinion was that the music he listened to in the '40s was the best... but nobody was listening to it any more when he said that. OTOH, today's young people are listening to the same music that was popular when I was young, and I'm 60. It had more lasting power than any music produced since the invention of the radio and phonograph.
Thats seven feet diagonal. Do you live in a closet or something?
WTF? I think you're confusing the two parties.
But lets look at Democrats - they have decades of failed social engineering programs under their belt.
The last Democrat failed social program was Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, which was remedied during Clinton's administration with PWORA. I know of no more recent such "social engineering" by the dems, but Bush II had his failed "no child left behind".
They're beholden to corrupt corporations.
Both parties are beholden to corrupt corporations.
They engage in pointless wars.
The last Democrat war was in Vietnam, and it can be argued that that was a Republican war, since we had advisors in Vietnam under Eisenhower. Since that war ended in 1975, we had Reagan's invasion of Panama to get some dope dealer that was running the country; Bush 1's Iraq war, no war under Clinton, Bush 2 had both Afghanistan and yet another Iraq war. Under Obama Iraq 2 is over and Bush's other war is winding down.
Yadda yadda.
Yada yada indeed, fool. You're full of shit and an idiot as well.
would argue that the mountain of choices we have available to us now compared to 100 years ago would account for some the gains in abstract reasoning measurements. 100 year ago: Rabbit A or Rabbit B didn't matter much. The store only had a few brands of any particular product, if they were even branded at all.
You've been watching too many westerns. First, 100 years ago was 1912. Look at one product, beer. There were almost all the brands of American beer there are today, except Busch and "lite" beers which were more modern (I'm two years older than Busch). A-B had both Budweiser and Michelob, there was Miller, there was Coors. Look at the choice of beers they had in Europe -- the same brands you have today.
Toothpaste? You had Ponds, Three Star, Darkie, Life Savers. Back then you not only had toothpaste, but tooth powder as well.
We have to choose what we think will suit us best, weight one choice against another hundreds of times per day.
You buy hundreds of things every day???
We have to weigh the inputs - advertising, peer pressure, style, function, preferences.
You think those things didn't exist in 1912? And not only that, there were products that you no longer have a choice of.
Look, AC, the dude obviously is an aliterate* as evidenced by "their all beholden to their political sponsors" so it doesn't do much good to try to educate him.
* No, that was not a misspelling. I did not mean "illiterate".
There are a couple of things you didn't consider.
Most TV's are placed 8-12 feet away from the viewer
This particular TV is seven feet diagonal.
Also people don't watch TV as intensely as they do a movie.
I watch mostly movies on my TV, as do many others. Your idea of "normal" TV watching doesn't match everyone's idea of "normal" TV watching, and I'd posit that there's no such thing as "normal" TV watching.
entirely plausible that the brightest of today may not be any more intelligent then the brightest from centuries ago
Seems to me people are getting dumber.
For example a kid born from parents with IQ's below 90 is adopted and raised by smart parents(say 140+) He's almost certainly going to be smarter than his biological parents.
Mental retardation is seldom genetic. Most are caused by outside influences, such as being born with your umbilical cord tied around your neck like my oldest daughter, or fetal alcohol syndrome like some kids that grew up around the block from me.
My IQ is 150, my youngest daughter's is 130, my oldest daughter's is 75. If my oldest has a child, it will most likely have an IQ close to her younger sister's unless it suffers some form of brain damage.
To the churches. Some of it does trickle down to humanitarian programs
I can only speak of my own church, but we sent $90,000 to Africa last year, much more around the US and other countries. We completely remodeled the public elementary school in the poorest neighborhood in town, and gave two weeks worth of groceries to every family with a child in that school over Christmas break, because school breakfasts and lunches are the only meals some of these kids get, and they go hungry at Christmas time.
I didn't ask for names of secular charities, I asked for names of athiest charities. None of your list fits that bill.