$3500 for a monitor with a resolution higher than content? No, 1080p will do, especially since most TV is still 720p. I've seen 80 inch 1080p TVs for $800.
Agreed, that's one reason people ditch Windows. Windows users are use to that sort of bullshit, open source folks won't stand for it.
SourceForge, this shit needs to stop. Advertising is fine, but damn it, leave the trickery to the corporate... oh, oh... Dice owns SourceForge now, doesn't it?
I'm thinking of the scene in the western where the Sheriff is telling the writer what he got wrong in his story. "And BLAM! It blows his hand off, which was a failing common to that model."
I can see making one just to see it work, but in a vice with a string on its trigger. You'd be a fool to shoot a gun with a plastic barrel while holding it. Even steel breaks sometimes.
The average citizen unknowingly commits three felonies a day you say?
Normally I'd say [citation needed] but I did once when someone (probably the same goober) made that assertion and he pointed to a web page of people who were arrested for such things as importing stuff without paying duties, importing illegal shit like ivory, etc. NOT anything the average American could be charged with, and all of them laws that make sense (like ivory).
So instead I'll just say, what three felonies could I have committed today? Jaywalking and spitting on the sidewalk don't count, they're not even misdemeanors, let alone felonies.
William Shatner is Canadian, but James T. Kirk is from Iowa. Sheesh, you never watched any Star Trek movies? Besides, Captain James Kirk is now captain of the USS Zumwalt, a navy destroyer that has a cloaking device! TFA: "When its begins missions, the Zumwalt will be the largest stealth ship in the Navy."
You can't scatter one beam of light with another one!
No, but you can cancel light out with more light. And this does make an object invisible, if tuned to the wavelength you want it to be invisible in.
The trouble is, you could tune it to work in visible light but only if that light were coherent (as in, comes out of a laser). You can't get incoherent light out of phase with itself because it's a wide range of frequencies and all completely incoherent, like snow on an analog TV.
Kudos for not selling out to Facebook! That took a lot of balls to walk away, leaving all that money on the table.
Balls? More like stupidity. It isn't like he refused because he realized his gizmo was evil, he refused because more money than anyone could ever spend in a lifetime thinking he could get even more. I hope he goes broke, the greedy little fuckwit.
Indeed, three BILLION dollars and he turned it down?? How fucking greedy can a human (and I use that term loosely) get? Jesus, I'd have taken the three billion, sent 2/3rds to help those poor fuckers in the Philippines and still had enough cash for me and everyone I know to live in luxury the rest of our lives.
It's important to that chapter, and I'm still waiting to break even on the one I just published. 24 words? I won't publish. TPB has it if anyone wants to read it.
First link: three years old. Accelerated or not, my ten year old tower loads a page faster than my three year old Win 7 notebook.
Second link: Linux != Ubuntu even though Ubuntu == Linux.
Third link: SEVEN years old. Your info is REALLY out of date. It's like you're arguing against Win8 using an article about Vista.
At the end of the day if EVERY SINGLE RETAILER ON THE PLANET avoids your product like an STD even though it would allegedly save them piles of money?
But it doesn't save them piles of money. The pittance they pay for Windows (compared to what you pay) is overcome by being paid to install Windows crapware like toolbars and weatherbugs. And it isn't RETAILERS, it's OEMs.
How about over 200 current show stopping bugs with all major hardware from realtek to Nvidia?
Narod.ru?? Nice citation there... lets see...
I want to make one thing crystal clear - Windows, in some regards, is even worse than Linux and it's definitely not ready for the desktop either. Off the top of my head I want to name the following quite devastating issues with Windows: Windows rot, no enforced file system and registry hierarchy (I have yet to find a single serious application which can uninstall itself cleanly and fully), no true safe mode, no clean state, the user as a system administrator (thus viruses/malware - most users don't and won't understand UAC warnings), no good packaging mechanism (MSI is a fragile abomination), no system wide update mechanism (which includes third party software), Windows is very difficult to debug, in too many cases when Windows stops booting no normal user will be able to solve this problem, Windows is hardware dependent (especially when running from UEFI), in most cases you cannot safely upgrade your system (there will be thousands of leftovers), etc.
What a stunning endorsement of Windows you posted.
I'm guessing you thought I wouldn't follow your links. The last one?
"Windows is indeed slower than other operating systems in many scenarios, and the gap is worsening." That's one way to start an insider explanation of why Windows' performance isn't up to snuff. Written by someone who actually contributes code to the Windows NT kernel, the comment on Hacker News, later deleted but reposted with permission on Marc Bevand's blog, paints a very dreary picture of the state of Windows development. The root issue? Think of how Linux is developed, and you'll know the answer.
Yeah, what a ringing endorsement of Windows.
Now, WTF is this "harryfeet challenge" you speak of?
You bring back memories of slashdot's badanalogyguy.
I mean, by the same logic you could say that anti-drug laws didn't work, so let's abolish them.
That would only be a good analogy if antivirus actually caused more infections than they stopped. The societal ills blamed on drugs are actually caused by the laws against them.
Dumb terminals evolved into "smart" PCs as networking evolved from mainframe computing to powerfull clients.
No they didn't, that's utter bullshit, young man. PCs started out as hobbyist affairs, with the Altair, which was an IC version of the early tube computers. Like mainframes, they were improved on and by the late 1970s there were stand-alone "microcomputers" like Osbourne and Apple and Commodore. VisiCalc brought these hobbyist machines into the office. IBM brought out its toy (their term), the IBM-PC. It would be two more decades before these small machines would be networked, and meanwhile the dumb terminals connected to mainframes were in the office, side by side with the Wang word processing dumb minicomputer terminals and IBM/Sun/etc. mainframe terminals.
Don't try to teach history to your elders, we've lived through it and didn't have to read it in a book or, like you, simply guess at how it must have been.
That's all well and good, but Nexus is not a Latin word, even though nexus is. Nexus is a made up brand name that has nothing to do with Latin, any more than Mars candy bars have anything to do with the planet Mars.
Twenty years ago I'd have not had a clue what you were trying to say, but slashdot helps me. I hope English is a second language for you. If so, know that "your" is a possessive; "your house is our house" so you can see why "your our" is confusing to someone literate in English. You're looking for "you're", a contraction for "you are".
In the US poor people will eat garbage fast food daily in their comfy sofa in front of a big screen TV and complain that they are fat because they are poor.
I see you don't know any poor people. In the US, poor people can't afford fast food, comfy chairs, or big screen TVs. They eat the overpriced food available from convinience stores because they have no transportation to get to a real grocery, buy that food with LINK (no good at McDonalds, you need real money there), sit in a ratty twenty year old chair from Goodwill and watch a twenty five inch CRT with a free government digital tuner attached. And their only internet access is the library and their Obamaphone.
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$3500 for a monitor with a resolution higher than content? No, 1080p will do, especially since most TV is still 720p. I've seen 80 inch 1080p TVs for $800.
You jest, but wikipedia says it will boot in five seconds on a 90 mHz Pentium FROM A FLOPPY. Is that fast enough for you, javaboy?
ENIAC was introduced in 1946. What handheld computer smartphone existed in 1996?
Agreed, that's one reason people ditch Windows. Windows users are use to that sort of bullshit, open source folks won't stand for it.
SourceForge, this shit needs to stop. Advertising is fine, but damn it, leave the trickery to the corporate... oh, oh... Dice owns SourceForge now, doesn't it?
SourceForge is SO screwed...
I'm thinking of the scene in the western where the Sheriff is telling the writer what he got wrong in his story. "And BLAM! It blows his hand off, which was a failing common to that model."
I can see making one just to see it work, but in a vice with a string on its trigger. You'd be a fool to shoot a gun with a plastic barrel while holding it. Even steel breaks sometimes.
I have no interest in a "3D" TV, and until I saw this I didn't have any interest in a new TV, since the old one works fine.
That said, maybe I will, since I can get a 60 inch set $200 cheaper than the 42 inch 720p I bought in 2002... even though it still works fine.
But then again, maybe they'll go down more? Electronics have been getting cheaper all my life. In 1976 I paid $600 for a 25 inch set.
Nah, I'll wait until this one breaks.
The average citizen unknowingly commits three felonies a day you say?
Normally I'd say [citation needed] but I did once when someone (probably the same goober) made that assertion and he pointed to a web page of people who were arrested for such things as importing stuff without paying duties, importing illegal shit like ivory, etc. NOT anything the average American could be charged with, and all of them laws that make sense (like ivory).
So instead I'll just say, what three felonies could I have committed today? Jaywalking and spitting on the sidewalk don't count, they're not even misdemeanors, let alone felonies.
William Shatner is Canadian, but James T. Kirk is from Iowa. Sheesh, you never watched any Star Trek movies? Besides, Captain James Kirk is now captain of the USS Zumwalt, a navy destroyer that has a cloaking device! TFA: "When its begins missions, the Zumwalt will be the largest stealth ship in the Navy."
Two words, Philadelphia Experiment.
The story is thought to be a hoax.[1][2][3] The U.S. Navy maintains that no such experiment was ever conducted, and details of the story contradict well-established facts about the Eldridge itself, as well as commonly accepted physics.[4]
You can't scatter one beam of light with another one!
No, but you can cancel light out with more light. And this does make an object invisible, if tuned to the wavelength you want it to be invisible in.
The trouble is, you could tune it to work in visible light but only if that light were coherent (as in, comes out of a laser). You can't get incoherent light out of phase with itself because it's a wide range of frequencies and all completely incoherent, like snow on an analog TV.
Kudos for not selling out to Facebook! That took a lot of balls to walk away, leaving all that money on the table.
Balls? More like stupidity. It isn't like he refused because he realized his gizmo was evil, he refused because more money than anyone could ever spend in a lifetime thinking he could get even more. I hope he goes broke, the greedy little fuckwit.
Im thinking the death toll has more to do with the quality of healthcare in Saudi Arabia than to the severity of the disese.
The Saudis have single-payer health care and are a rich country, so I seriously doubt that's the case.
Indeed, three BILLION dollars and he turned it down?? How fucking greedy can a human (and I use that term loosely) get? Jesus, I'd have taken the three billion, sent 2/3rds to help those poor fuckers in the Philippines and still had enough cash for me and everyone I know to live in luxury the rest of our lives.
I hope the stupid kid goes broke.
It's important to that chapter, and I'm still waiting to break even on the one I just published. 24 words? I won't publish. TPB has it if anyone wants to read it.
Ah, I hadn't noticed that he'd tried to make a Latin plural. My bad.
24 words out of 50,000 is worth 5%? You suck at math.
First link: three years old. Accelerated or not, my ten year old tower loads a page faster than my three year old Win 7 notebook.
Second link: Linux != Ubuntu even though Ubuntu == Linux.
Third link: SEVEN years old. Your info is REALLY out of date. It's like you're arguing against Win8 using an article about Vista.
At the end of the day if EVERY SINGLE RETAILER ON THE PLANET avoids your product like an STD even though it would allegedly save them piles of money?
But it doesn't save them piles of money. The pittance they pay for Windows (compared to what you pay) is overcome by being paid to install Windows crapware like toolbars and weatherbugs. And it isn't RETAILERS, it's OEMs.
How about over 200 current show stopping bugs with all major hardware from realtek to Nvidia?
Narod.ru?? Nice citation there... lets see...
What a stunning endorsement of Windows you posted.
Oh, and what's this?
I'm guessing you thought I wouldn't follow your links. The last one?
Yeah, what a ringing endorsement of Windows.
Now, WTF is this "harryfeet challenge" you speak of?
Yes, Guinness can be filling. That's what I have when I eat at D'Arcy's and wind up taking half the meal home.
Well, it isn't just the Guinness, their portions are American sized. But yeah, two or three pints and who needs dinner?
You bring back memories of slashdot's badanalogyguy.
I mean, by the same logic you could say that anti-drug laws didn't work, so let's abolish them.
That would only be a good analogy if antivirus actually caused more infections than they stopped. The societal ills blamed on drugs are actually caused by the laws against them.
That said, the rest of your argument is logical.
Dumb terminals evolved into "smart" PCs as networking evolved from mainframe computing to powerfull clients.
No they didn't, that's utter bullshit, young man. PCs started out as hobbyist affairs, with the Altair, which was an IC version of the early tube computers. Like mainframes, they were improved on and by the late 1970s there were stand-alone "microcomputers" like Osbourne and Apple and Commodore. VisiCalc brought these hobbyist machines into the office. IBM brought out its toy (their term), the IBM-PC. It would be two more decades before these small machines would be networked, and meanwhile the dumb terminals connected to mainframes were in the office, side by side with the Wang word processing dumb minicomputer terminals and IBM/Sun/etc. mainframe terminals.
Don't try to teach history to your elders, we've lived through it and didn't have to read it in a book or, like you, simply guess at how it must have been.
That's all well and good, but Nexus is not a Latin word, even though nexus is. Nexus is a made up brand name that has nothing to do with Latin, any more than Mars candy bars have anything to do with the planet Mars.
they would say, your our IT you fix it.
Twenty years ago I'd have not had a clue what you were trying to say, but slashdot helps me. I hope English is a second language for you. If so, know that "your" is a possessive; "your house is our house" so you can see why "your our" is confusing to someone literate in English. You're looking for "you're", a contraction for "you are".
If English is your first language, get your GED.
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In the US poor people will eat garbage fast food daily in their comfy sofa in front of a big screen TV and complain that they are fat because they are poor.
I see you don't know any poor people. In the US, poor people can't afford fast food, comfy chairs, or big screen TVs. They eat the overpriced food available from convinience stores because they have no transportation to get to a real grocery, buy that food with LINK (no good at McDonalds, you need real money there), sit in a ratty twenty year old chair from Goodwill and watch a twenty five inch CRT with a free government digital tuner attached. And their only internet access is the library and their Obamaphone.
You would NOT want to be poor.
I'm not sure I'd right off the USPS.
Please tell me your native language is Russian or Japanese or something!
Followed shortly thereafter by the USPS, unless Amazon just outright buys them.
Dream on, teaboy. Have a look at the US Constitution. "To establish post offices and post roads;"
Getting rid of the USPS is unconstitutional.