Not any more, Torvalds lives in the US now. It is an interesting point, though... I wonder if the reverse Finland flag was deliberate on MS's part?
It doesn't really matter, I doubt I'll be saddled with W8 (as the hilarious but unmodded AC said earlier). I still have W7 on my notebook, but probably not for long. W10 will probably be out before I buy a new one, and if/when I get a tablet it will be Android (or better yet, pure Linux). I just don't like "the Microsoft way."
War is a broken window fallacy... except to the glazier, it's no fallacy. He makes his living replacing windows. The US economy got back in track because Europe's infrastructure was in shambles during and after the war, and ours wasn't.
Self expression and artistic merit are just a means to an end
Absolutely wrong. If its only purpose is money, prestige, etc. it isn't art. Creative people can no more not create than heroin addicts can stop shooting up. Why else do I write sci-fi and post it to slashdot with no thought of renumeration whatever? Yeah, maybe they'll be printed some time and may sell, but I'm not holding my breath. Why do I play guitar, and never with an audience? Why did Van Gogh continue painting even though he couldn't sell any of his paintings?
Indeed. Believe it or not, there are children who dread Christmas, because they get most of their nutrition at school and don't get Christmas presents.
Yes, from the way they came from the inside of the spool to be read and wrap around the other side it did look like it could have been, but notice that the tape has one shiny side and one dull side. The dull side has the oxide, and always faces the head. Putting oxide on both sides and making a mobius wouldn't work, the bleedthrough would be horrible.
There were six on my ballot. The Constitution Party probably wasn't on yours, but they were on enough to win. It would be nice to know ahead of time who was on enough ballots, but afaik you can only see the last election, not the next.
A business owner doesn't have to be a 'collective', especially in private companies there is always somebody specific on top, somebody who owns the business.
I think you'll find very few unionized privately owned companies. In the 1980s the CEO of a then nonunion airline said "any business that gets a union deserves one." Treat your workforce fairly and they won't need to organize. Any sole owner of a business who treats his employees badly probably won't stay in business long enough for his workers to organize.
He is then put into a position of looking at one single representative from the entire labour force
What's so unfair about bargaining one on one?
Also you are part of the barrier to entry that is put in front of the people who are not in the union
There are no barriers to entry except qualification for the job. The union doesn't have anything whatever to do with hiring. The company does the hiring.
you are a cog in the union machine
I'm a cog in the company machine, and together with other cogs I have more power than without them.
You don't know a thing about actual history and actual economics, that's on purpose.
So you're saying that universities lie to their students about history? If so, where did you learn your "truths?" You're saying the text I linked was wrong? Where are your citations for the bullshit in the comment you linked?
You sound like John up at the bar, who's convinced space aliens walk among us.
Well, well... maybe I am a prophet? Even if it took longer than I predicted.
I'll say something nice about Best Buy too- it's not crowded any more.
My wife Becky decided (after we got a big tax refund this year) that she needed a laptop PC for school. Actually, I suspect that now that she needs a computer she doesn't want to go down to the cold basement to use it like I and the kids do. But any way, we went shoppping for a laptop. I hit a few web sites (not eBay), and we decided to look locally ( JDR seems to only carry Toshiba and I don't like Japanese design). First stop was Best Buy. It had been a while since i had been in there. Well, actually we went in for some compressed air but since we were shopping for a laptop... she fell in love with a Hewlett Packard model, really nice one with a big hard drive, nice big clear screen, lots of memory, DVD CD burner, modem, network card... and most importantly to her, pretty blue lights above the keyboard.
Best Buy staff were puttering around doing... actually I'm clueless, they didn't look to me like they were doing more than trying to look busy and avoid customers. We grabbed a salesman, who told us he'd be right back... this happened three times. We finally got some pimple faced kid who informed us that he had a Gateway and it was crap. "Just a minute and I'll get this ready"... this a half hour after deciding on what to buy.
They were offering free internet access through MSN. Now, if I didn't already have an ISP (and likely DSL) would I be buying a computer with a LAN card and modem? They were also offering zero percent financing, which I also didn't want; I had cash in the bank.
Never mind that I didn't want it, it "will take about five minutes to set up the computer, he can do it while we're filling out paperwork." WTF, was I buying a house, or an antiaircraft missle? Paperwork???
We stood there in line a full half hour before the girl was ready to check us out. As we waited, Becky whipped out her phone and called the bank to make sure we had enough cash to pay for all the crap, over $2000.00 worth. The computer sat there, unopened and un-checked out.
Best Buy wouldn't take our check. After a two and a half hour ordeal of mostly waiting, we walked away from over two thousand dollars in merchandise and won't be back. The sales girl tried to blame some other company!
H&R Block tried to blame a different company, too. I guess business are all taking lessons from Microsoft. Here's a clue for all of them- you can't stay in business like that without a monopoly.
My guess is Best Buy treats everybody like this. If so, I'll give them two more years, maybe with Enron accounting they can survive three or four. I'll give H&R Block five to ten (and they should be glad I'm not a judge!)
Becky bought her HP laptop the next day at Circut City, where they had pleasant salespeople (unlike Best Buy), it took fifteen minutes to buy, and they gratefully took her check without any bullshit.
Do you have stock in H&R Block, Best Buy, or the companies that own them? If so and if I were you, I'd sell it before they go the way of Kmart/Enron.
In the last Presidential election there were 5 parties on enough ballots to have a mathematical chance of winning. The problem is that the media are all owned by the 1%, and so are the two major parties. The media have convinced almost everyone that a vote for a loser is wasted (so I guess you wasted your vote if you voted for McCain). He who controls information rules.
What is a VERY long time. Unless tape has improved in the last 20 years, it has has an archival life of a decade or two.
I don't know where you heard or saw that, but it's wrong. I started making and collecting cassette tapes way back in the sixties, and have lost far more of them that have stopped working. Hell, I'd bet if I could find an old TS-1000 it would read the data on those cassettes from 1982.
BPA leaching isn't giving women larger breasts, it's causing girls to enter puberty at an earlier age. It's the plastic boobies (well, a plastic bag filled with saline solution) making breasts larger. That and the gain in weight; when a woman gains weight, her breasts get larger.
The AC is correct, you had at most two hours of kid programming on weekdays, Saturday mornings was all kid fare, and iirc nothing on Sundays. And we only had three channels in the St Louis area, and no DVDs or VCRs.
Believe it or not, we were usually outside playing baseball or football or riding our bikes or exploring the woods (lots more woods back then too).
AND WE LIKED IT THAT WAY... because we didn't know any better.
This sorry piece of crap is proof positive of American stupidity. The cassette - the (now obsolete) four track, two-spindle, 1/8th inch, 1/78 IPS shirt pocket sized tape cassette was produced before the 8-track. The four track cassette was originally made as a dictation device, but advances in tape manufacture and head design soon gave them a frequency response that came close to human hearing's limit, signal to noise ratio low enough that you had to turn it up very loud to hear the hiss, and inaudible harmonic distortion which made them ideal for music.
Nevertheless, the 8-track was born anyway. With its transport speed at twice the 4-track cassette's speed, it should have been audibly superior. However, the "powers that be" decided that 8-tracks were going to be for automobiles, which at the time were not as well insulated from outside sounds and wind as today's cars, and with the auto's horrible acoustics, it was OK for a car's music to sound like effluent.
But the deliberately bad sound wasn't bad enough. The eight track tape had a single spindle, a very clever design where the tape fed from the center of the spindle, around a capstain roller inside the housing and back to the outside of the roll of tape. This made for an expensive setup, and one that was prone to wow and flutter, as well as having the tape get "eaten" by the tape player. And unlike a cassette, if your 8-track got ate, you might as well throw it in the trash.
But wait, there's more! This thing was deemed to be for the car, while cassettes were going to be (by about 1970 or so) for the home.
This made no sense whatever, since the "portable" eight track took up as much space as four cassettes, without being able to play any longer than a cassette. In fact, you could buy a longer playing cassette than 8-track.
But the one thing more than anything else that made 8-tracks suck like a Hoover was the fact that it had to change tracks four times during an album. This usually necessitated at least one song and usually more being interrupted in the middle!
Folks finally, after about ten years, started figuring this stuff out for themselves and replaced their 8-track cartriges with 4 track cassettes. Me? I never had an 8-track, although all my friends did. I, the geek, used the far more logical cassettes since about 1966 or 7. Hah! The geek gets the last laugh again!
They made cassette decks that you didn't have to flip, in fact I still have one in my '02 car (has cassette and a 4 CD changer). I had one way back in 1972, about the time 8-tracks were becoming popular.
True, bluetooth as well. I bought a bluetooth dongle to make it easy to move pictures from my phone, and it came with a mini install CD. I was annoyed that it had installers for Windows and Mac but not Linux. I resigned myself to moving the pictures to the notebook, then moving them over the network to the Linux box, but there was no need -- the dongle worked in kubuntu as soon as I plugged it into the USB. What's more, it worked better than it did in Windows. Installing it in Linux was simply plugging it in.
My previous notebook (same make and model, stolen in a burglary last year) I had set up dual boot, and wifi was easier and more reliable on the Linux side, too. Maybe I got lucky and bought the "right" brand of notebook? Or maybe the Windows shills are full of shit?
You're confusing the US with Europe, who actually DOES help people. The only ones in the US that the government gives any largess to is the richest among us. That includes food stamps, without which WalMart and McDonalds would have to pay their workers a decent wage.
Take the "bridge to nowhere", who did that help? Rich people. Farm subsidies? Rich people. Oil company subsidies? Rich people. War? Rich people. Highway construction? Everyone, but it benefits trucking companies (rich people) and their customers (rich people) more than anybody.
Where do you kids come up with this stuff? Government isn't telling smokers how to run their lives, governments are telling smokers they can't pollute the indoor air that others have to breathe. I just wish they'd extend the "no smoking in the workplace" laws to popcorn, I don't mind cigarette smoke but burning popcorn gags me. I especially wish they'd outlaw fingernail polish remover in the workplace, that shit's more carcinogenic than cigarette smoke, and highly flammable as well.
Your study put the cart before the horse. Marijuana was outlawed in the 1930s, the monkey "study" was done because pot was starting to be popular enough that folks began to realize the government had been lying to them for decades. Pot wasn't outlawed because of that "study", the "study" was done long after pot was illegal to rationalize the continued illegality.
Fuckin-A right. Just like how all of a sudden everyone had fucking ADHD in the 90's, now everyone has Autism
I'm pretty sure I had ADHD when I was a kid, but back in the '50s and '60s nobody knew it was a disorder. Back then it was "goddamnit boy, can't you pay attention???"
Autistic kids back then were simply labeled as "mentally retarded" and treated as such.
How the hell you got modded insightful is a mystery to me. The comment is not just uninsightful, it's downright ignorant and shows no knowlege of science, medicine, or progress whatever. I'll bet you and the people who modded you up are all from Texas.
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Not any more, Torvalds lives in the US now. It is an interesting point, though... I wonder if the reverse Finland flag was deliberate on MS's part?
It doesn't really matter, I doubt I'll be saddled with W8 (as the hilarious but unmodded AC said earlier). I still have W7 on my notebook, but probably not for long. W10 will probably be out before I buy a new one, and if/when I get a tablet it will be Android (or better yet, pure Linux). I just don't like "the Microsoft way."
War is a broken window fallacy... except to the glazier, it's no fallacy. He makes his living replacing windows. The US economy got back in track because Europe's infrastructure was in shambles during and after the war, and ours wasn't.
Credit goes to Robert Heinlein. I forgot which short story it was from.
Self expression and artistic merit are just a means to an end
Absolutely wrong. If its only purpose is money, prestige, etc. it isn't art. Creative people can no more not create than heroin addicts can stop shooting up. Why else do I write sci-fi and post it to slashdot with no thought of renumeration whatever? Yeah, maybe they'll be printed some time and may sell, but I'm not holding my breath. Why do I play guitar, and never with an audience? Why did Van Gogh continue painting even though he couldn't sell any of his paintings?
Indeed. Believe it or not, there are children who dread Christmas, because they get most of their nutrition at school and don't get Christmas presents.
Yes, I noted that at the beginning of the linked journal. Only a part was pasted into the comment.
Yes, from the way they came from the inside of the spool to be read and wrap around the other side it did look like it could have been, but notice that the tape has one shiny side and one dull side. The dull side has the oxide, and always faces the head. Putting oxide on both sides and making a mobius wouldn't work, the bleedthrough would be horrible.
They would have lost money. But economic advice from an FPS gaming website probably shouldn't be taken too seriously.
The only stock I ever held was Disney stock, back when I worked there in the early '80s.
There were six on my ballot. The Constitution Party probably wasn't on yours, but they were on enough to win. It would be nice to know ahead of time who was on enough ballots, but afaik you can only see the last election, not the next.
A business owner doesn't have to be a 'collective', especially in private companies there is always somebody specific on top, somebody who owns the business.
I think you'll find very few unionized privately owned companies. In the 1980s the CEO of a then nonunion airline said "any business that gets a union deserves one." Treat your workforce fairly and they won't need to organize. Any sole owner of a business who treats his employees badly probably won't stay in business long enough for his workers to organize.
He is then put into a position of looking at one single representative from the entire labour force
What's so unfair about bargaining one on one?
Also you are part of the barrier to entry that is put in front of the people who are not in the union
There are no barriers to entry except qualification for the job. The union doesn't have anything whatever to do with hiring. The company does the hiring.
you are a cog in the union machine
I'm a cog in the company machine, and together with other cogs I have more power than without them.
You don't know a thing about actual history and actual economics, that's on purpose.
So you're saying that universities lie to their students about history? If so, where did you learn your "truths?" You're saying the text I linked was wrong? Where are your citations for the bullshit in the comment you linked?
You sound like John up at the bar, who's convinced space aliens walk among us.
See that little black flag? Click it, it alerts /. staff. I clicked the flag on a spam post earlier this afternoon and it was gone in five minutes.
The spammer's not going to see your reply, he probably doesn't even have an account.
Well, well... maybe I am a prophet? Even if it took longer than I predicted.
In the last Presidential election there were 5 parties on enough ballots to have a mathematical chance of winning. The problem is that the media are all owned by the 1%, and so are the two major parties. The media have convinced almost everyone that a vote for a loser is wasted (so I guess you wasted your vote if you voted for McCain). He who controls information rules.
What is a VERY long time. Unless tape has improved in the last 20 years, it has has an archival life of a decade or two.
I don't know where you heard or saw that, but it's wrong. I started making and collecting cassette tapes way back in the sixties, and have lost far more of them that have stopped working. Hell, I'd bet if I could find an old TS-1000 it would read the data on those cassettes from 1982.
BPA leaching isn't giving women larger breasts, it's causing girls to enter puberty at an earlier age. It's the plastic boobies (well, a plastic bag filled with saline solution) making breasts larger. That and the gain in weight; when a woman gains weight, her breasts get larger.
The AC is correct, you had at most two hours of kid programming on weekdays, Saturday mornings was all kid fare, and iirc nothing on Sundays. And we only had three channels in the St Louis area, and no DVDs or VCRs.
Believe it or not, we were usually outside playing baseball or football or riding our bikes or exploring the woods (lots more woods back then too).
AND WE LIKED IT THAT WAY... because we didn't know any better.
Dude, I have to quote myself here. From Good Riddance to Bad Tech:
They made cassette decks that you didn't have to flip, in fact I still have one in my '02 car (has cassette and a 4 CD changer). I had one way back in 1972, about the time 8-tracks were becoming popular.
True, bluetooth as well. I bought a bluetooth dongle to make it easy to move pictures from my phone, and it came with a mini install CD. I was annoyed that it had installers for Windows and Mac but not Linux. I resigned myself to moving the pictures to the notebook, then moving them over the network to the Linux box, but there was no need -- the dongle worked in kubuntu as soon as I plugged it into the USB. What's more, it worked better than it did in Windows. Installing it in Linux was simply plugging it in.
My previous notebook (same make and model, stolen in a burglary last year) I had set up dual boot, and wifi was easier and more reliable on the Linux side, too. Maybe I got lucky and bought the "right" brand of notebook? Or maybe the Windows shills are full of shit?
You're confusing the US with Europe, who actually DOES help people. The only ones in the US that the government gives any largess to is the richest among us. That includes food stamps, without which WalMart and McDonalds would have to pay their workers a decent wage.
Take the "bridge to nowhere", who did that help? Rich people. Farm subsidies? Rich people. Oil company subsidies? Rich people. War? Rich people. Highway construction? Everyone, but it benefits trucking companies (rich people) and their customers (rich people) more than anybody.
What brand of computer? I'd like to stay away from it if your experience was that bad. I had no trouble at all installing kubuntu on my Acer.
8-tracks weren't mobius, all eight tracks were on one side of the tape.
No, he and Zaphod had a couple of gargleblasters before they stole Hotblack's ship. Stuff will fuck you up real good!
Where do you kids come up with this stuff? Government isn't telling smokers how to run their lives, governments are telling smokers they can't pollute the indoor air that others have to breathe. I just wish they'd extend the "no smoking in the workplace" laws to popcorn, I don't mind cigarette smoke but burning popcorn gags me. I especially wish they'd outlaw fingernail polish remover in the workplace, that shit's more carcinogenic than cigarette smoke, and highly flammable as well.
Your study put the cart before the horse. Marijuana was outlawed in the 1930s, the monkey "study" was done because pot was starting to be popular enough that folks began to realize the government had been lying to them for decades. Pot wasn't outlawed because of that "study", the "study" was done long after pot was illegal to rationalize the continued illegality.
Wikipedia can help you out it you're interested.
Fuckin-A right. Just like how all of a sudden everyone had fucking ADHD in the 90's, now everyone has Autism
I'm pretty sure I had ADHD when I was a kid, but back in the '50s and '60s nobody knew it was a disorder. Back then it was "goddamnit boy, can't you pay attention???"
Autistic kids back then were simply labeled as "mentally retarded" and treated as such.
How the hell you got modded insightful is a mystery to me. The comment is not just uninsightful, it's downright ignorant and shows no knowlege of science, medicine, or progress whatever. I'll bet you and the people who modded you up are all from Texas.