Bullshit, regulating medical devices isn't being nanny-state, outlawing marijuana is. I, for one am damned glad that the FDA had to approve the device they inserted surgically into my eyeball. I'm damned glad that drugs are regulated, so I won't underdose or overdose on a needed medicine because a supplier is incompetent or dishonest.
Do you scream "nanny state" when the cops go after armed robbers? Did you scream Nanny State when they jailed Madoff?
Sorry, kid, but your comment is just brain-dead stupid. Read a little history, look up "patent medicine" and "snake oil". Read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (public domain, it's at gutenberg).
First post is a chillingly difficult thing to obtain, and a position not given up willingly by the contenders.
Bullshit, it's not hard at all. I try to avoid FPs because some folks will mod a comment down without even reading it just because it's first, no matter how on topic and insightful it is. Why take the trouble of commenting if nobody's going to read it?
You want not only first post but a first post that gets modded to +5? Now, THAT'S rare, but I've done it (had one last week). First, buy a subscription! I don't know what one costs because some anonymous person bought one for me. Subscribers see the stories before they're posted, and the time stamp is there so you'll know WHEN it's posted. So you have a half hour or so to RTFA, think about it, and say something interesting, insightful, informative, whatever (never go for funny on a FP, nobody will see your comment. Funny FP==troll in many minds). Do it in a text editor and copy it, when the story is posted you can post your three paragraph explanation of what the submission was fumblingly trying to say.
Another reason I try to not get FP is because the next day message notification says there are thirty responses to your comment.
PS: leave the hurps and durps at reddit and 4chan where the idiot children live, they're not wanted here at an adult nerd site. They're annoyingly stupid, not cute.
Also part of the test that hurt the new iPhones score is the 'slide' test which is totally irrelevant as almost everyone has these phones in cases which reduce sliding to almost nothing. I have owned every iPhone, put every one in a case and never broke them even after 5 foot falls onto concrete.
I went a long time without buying a smartphone because all the ones I saw looked huge. I decided to buy the one I have when I saw that my daughter's iPhone (with a cracked screen) fit easily in my pocket, and the Android I bought was the same size. I finally realized that smartphones are so big because you guys pay over $500 for them and NEED that case. If I break mine? Meh, I only paid $125 for it, no contract or subsidy. If I had an iPhone or one of the expensive Blingdroids (Samsung) I wouldn't want it to leave the house!
People buy $800 phones for the same reason they buy $50,000 cars -- they think they can impress people. Well, they actually do impress fools...
I have a lifetime ban on moderating, because I up-voted "The First Slashdot Troll Post Investigation"!
What, did slashdot notify you that you had a lifetime ban and why? I went years without a mod point, then I got fifteen every day for six month, a year without any, and more months of seemingly unlimited points. Are you sure it isn't just random chance?
The +1 bonus doesn't really do much to separate from the noise when just about everyone gets to use it. It would be nice if karma could be used promote top posters even higher. Something like a +2 or +3 bonus if you've had three 5's (possibly excluding +5 funny) in the past month.
Not needed. "Top posters" get modded up. Hell, I usually get more than three 5s every week, often in a single day.
What an ass hat. Bunch of people harming no one stopped at a light and he screws up their day.
I applaud him, you're the asshat. I pull up behind you at red lights all the time. I'm sitting there getting zero MPG as you always do when stopped. The light turns green, and you just sit there, oblivious to everything. I finally honk at you, the light turns yellow and you go through, flipping me the bird. So I sit through another light at zero mpg. You inconvinced me, cost me gas money, and then flipped me off when I hopnk at you to get the fuck out of my way.
Leave that god damned phone in your pocket when you're behind the wheel, asshole. That damned text will wait. If if can't, then park the fucking car you selfish bastard.
Selfish, thoughtless assholes like you really piss me off.
I'm not reading a 58 page pdf and the linked blog story is no longer than this summary. To save others the work
Reading is work? I take it you're a tl;dr, aka "aliterate"?
"The man who does not read has no advantage over a man who cannot read." -- Mark Twain
I have no idea why your OP got modded up (although the comment I'm responding to did deserve an upmod). Probably another aliterate (there are a lot of them here, they're easy to spot: "There car's are over they're")
I never did like Gnome (I use KDE) but I can't remember the last time I saw a three button mouse. All the newer ones have scroll wheels. Hell, the ten year old Logitech cordless I have has a scroll wheel. It does have more than two buttons, but there's no buttons between the two main ones.
It was pretty obvious to me that he was poking fun at mestar's inability to grasp that if you're 22nd out of the top 25, you're 22nd out of the top 100. And most likely mestar knew that full well but was trying to joke. Poorly; there are way too many barely literate and barely numerate people who think being a nerd means you buy shiny stuff from Apple and Microsoft.
What comes to Flash, my experience is not similar: these days I don't see it crash almost ever, and this applies to both Windows and Linux.
It's probably what one uses it for. Most radio stations stream with Flash, and after several hours I'll get Adobe's sad Lego face. It doesn't matter what computer is running it. However, the TuneIn app on my phone crashes some too, although not as badly as on the computers.
You know, I have the feeling that you are a bit butthurt and rigorously want to defend Linux for some reason(s).
Folks keep talking about Windows being easy to use and feature-rich when it just isn't so.
You capitalized "Without," you didn't misspell any words, you didn't mistake loose for lose or there for their... grammar fail big time, dude. All you did was use grocer's apostrophes. You didn't even use an apostropheless "aint".
You're not even trying! Real retarded aliterates do a lot better.
I only paid $125 for my Kyocera (full price, no contract or subsidy). The manual says it will withstand 30 minutes in 3 feet (that's a meter, folks) of water. iPhone won't do that! In fact, I doubt there's anything an $800 phone will do that mine won't... except give you a heart attack when it breaks.
I ruined my old Razr by dropping it in the water. I ruined my old LG by getting caught in a rain storm. Meanwhile, the screen on my daughter's $600 iPhone is cracked, she's thinking of moving to my carrier and getting a Kyocera.
Face it, people buy iPhones for the same reason they buy those ugly Escalades: it's s stupid status symbol.
Impart wisdom or an understanding of human nature...? Religion does no such thing.
Says the man who has never read the bible and is probably way too young to have gathered much of his own wisdom. Here's a taste, son.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Pete Seeger put that to music, the Byrds made it popular. And that's just a snippet. I suppose you disagree with this?
45Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also. 46And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. 47Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Mock what you don't understand and you prove yourself a fool.
Wrong. The goal is to spread intelligence beyond this rock. I don't care if that intelligence is human, cyborg, android, or a sentient starship, so long as it is intelligent enough not to want the total extinction of other species.
You read too much science fiction and not enough science, and even ignore some science in science fiction. "Space is big. Really big. You think it's a long way to the chemist..." Voyager has been travelling for 36 years and is only now leaving the solar system. It's.001 light year away, the nearest star is 4 light years away. There's nowhere to go until we break that pesky lightspeed barrier.
As to androids, cyborgs, and sentient starships, there may be cyborgs in space right now -- a cyborg is a human (or other animal) with non-himan machinery taking the place of natural functions. I'm a cyborg, but I can't live on any planet in our solar system except this one. As to "intelligent computers" that's just stupid. Sentience is chemical, what's more we know nothing about how it comes about or what it even is. Good luck building a radio if you have no idea how one operates.
Sorry, but we're stuck here for the forseeable future. Star Trek fantasies are no more real than Terry Pratchett or JRR Tolkien fantasies. And yes, I'm a science fiction fan (I even write SF, check my journal: right now it's space whores). Remember, the operative word in science fiction is fiction.
From quality assurance perspective, Ubuntu has a long way to go to even touch Windows or Mac.
This means: 1) high performance 2) applications which do not crash 3) features which are fully functional 4) consistent and stable APIs
I have a kubuntu tower, an XP tower, a Win 7 notebook and an android phone. 1. The notebook is a lot newer than the kubuntu tower and has more memory and a faster processor, but the tower is faster. High performance? You realize that the ten fastest computers in the world run Linux?
2. Crashy apps have nothing to do with the OS they're running on, shitty progremmers write crashy apps. The only thing I've seen crash on any of the computers in years is Adobe Flash, and it crashes regularly no matter what OS it's running on. Adobe just writes shitty programs.
3. Are you kidding? Windows doesn't have a single feature that KDE lacks, but lacks many features KDE sports.
4. Again, are you kidding? A modern Linux distro will run an old Linux program just fine, try running Microsoft FoxPro 6 on anything newer than Win 98 (It wouldn't even open in XP).
And if police officers were investigating police officers for a crime that had been committed without a civilian SIU
I went to college at SIU. So WTF are you talking about? Southern Illinois University is the only SIU I've ever heard of, and googling your acronym brought up nothing but my alma matter. So what is your SIU? We're nerds, not cops.
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Nanny State to the rescue!
Bullshit, regulating medical devices isn't being nanny-state, outlawing marijuana is. I, for one am damned glad that the FDA had to approve the device they inserted surgically into my eyeball. I'm damned glad that drugs are regulated, so I won't underdose or overdose on a needed medicine because a supplier is incompetent or dishonest.
Do you scream "nanny state" when the cops go after armed robbers? Did you scream Nanny State when they jailed Madoff?
Sorry, kid, but your comment is just brain-dead stupid. Read a little history, look up "patent medicine" and "snake oil". Read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (public domain, it's at gutenberg).
First post is a chillingly difficult thing to obtain, and a position not given up willingly by the contenders.
Bullshit, it's not hard at all. I try to avoid FPs because some folks will mod a comment down without even reading it just because it's first, no matter how on topic and insightful it is. Why take the trouble of commenting if nobody's going to read it?
You want not only first post but a first post that gets modded to +5? Now, THAT'S rare, but I've done it (had one last week). First, buy a subscription! I don't know what one costs because some anonymous person bought one for me. Subscribers see the stories before they're posted, and the time stamp is there so you'll know WHEN it's posted. So you have a half hour or so to RTFA, think about it, and say something interesting, insightful, informative, whatever (never go for funny on a FP, nobody will see your comment. Funny FP==troll in many minds). Do it in a text editor and copy it, when the story is posted you can post your three paragraph explanation of what the submission was fumblingly trying to say.
Another reason I try to not get FP is because the next day message notification says there are thirty responses to your comment.
PS: leave the hurps and durps at reddit and 4chan where the idiot children live, they're not wanted here at an adult nerd site. They're annoyingly stupid, not cute.
Also part of the test that hurt the new iPhones score is the 'slide' test which is totally irrelevant as almost everyone has these phones in cases which reduce sliding to almost nothing. I have owned every iPhone, put every one in a case and never broke them even after 5 foot falls onto concrete.
I went a long time without buying a smartphone because all the ones I saw looked huge. I decided to buy the one I have when I saw that my daughter's iPhone (with a cracked screen) fit easily in my pocket, and the Android I bought was the same size. I finally realized that smartphones are so big because you guys pay over $500 for them and NEED that case. If I break mine? Meh, I only paid $125 for it, no contract or subsidy. If I had an iPhone or one of the expensive Blingdroids (Samsung) I wouldn't want it to leave the house!
People buy $800 phones for the same reason they buy $50,000 cars -- they think they can impress people. Well, they actually do impress fools...
I have a lifetime ban on moderating, because I up-voted "The First Slashdot Troll Post Investigation"!
What, did slashdot notify you that you had a lifetime ban and why? I went years without a mod point, then I got fifteen every day for six month, a year without any, and more months of seemingly unlimited points. Are you sure it isn't just random chance?
The +1 bonus doesn't really do much to separate from the noise when just about everyone gets to use it. It would be nice if karma could be used promote top posters even higher. Something like a +2 or +3 bonus if you've had three 5's (possibly excluding +5 funny) in the past month.
Not needed. "Top posters" get modded up. Hell, I usually get more than three 5s every week, often in a single day.
What an ass hat. Bunch of people harming no one stopped at a light and he screws up their day.
I applaud him, you're the asshat. I pull up behind you at red lights all the time. I'm sitting there getting zero MPG as you always do when stopped. The light turns green, and you just sit there, oblivious to everything. I finally honk at you, the light turns yellow and you go through, flipping me the bird. So I sit through another light at zero mpg. You inconvinced me, cost me gas money, and then flipped me off when I hopnk at you to get the fuck out of my way.
Leave that god damned phone in your pocket when you're behind the wheel, asshole. That damned text will wait. If if can't, then park the fucking car you selfish bastard.
Selfish, thoughtless assholes like you really piss me off.
Only if you're a woman; I ain't gay.
I'm not reading a 58 page pdf and the linked blog story is no longer than this summary. To save others the work
Reading is work? I take it you're a tl;dr, aka "aliterate"?
"The man who does not read has no advantage over a man who cannot read." -- Mark Twain
I have no idea why your OP got modded up (although the comment I'm responding to did deserve an upmod). Probably another aliterate (there are a lot of them here, they're easy to spot: "There car's are over they're")
I never did like Gnome (I use KDE) but I can't remember the last time I saw a three button mouse. All the newer ones have scroll wheels. Hell, the ten year old Logitech cordless I have has a scroll wheel. It does have more than two buttons, but there's no buttons between the two main ones.
Does anybody still make a three button mouse?
Moderators, plural, all three of whom correctly tagged it as "funny".
It was pretty obvious to me that he was poking fun at mestar's inability to grasp that if you're 22nd out of the top 25, you're 22nd out of the top 100. And most likely mestar knew that full well but was trying to joke. Poorly; there are way too many barely literate and barely numerate people who think being a nerd means you buy shiny stuff from Apple and Microsoft.
Good catch, I missed that.
What comes to Flash, my experience is not similar: these days I don't see it crash almost ever, and this applies to both Windows and Linux.
It's probably what one uses it for. Most radio stations stream with Flash, and after several hours I'll get Adobe's sad Lego face. It doesn't matter what computer is running it. However, the TuneIn app on my phone crashes some too, although not as badly as on the computers.
You know, I have the feeling that you are a bit butthurt and rigorously want to defend Linux for some reason(s).
Folks keep talking about Windows being easy to use and feature-rich when it just isn't so.
I don't remember which one it was, but one of the ancient Greeks expressed almost identical sentiments about the youth of his time.
Ah, but there's the evil metamoderation. I've had my own comments come up when metamoderating!
Muahahahaha!!!
You capitalized "Without," you didn't misspell any words, you didn't mistake loose for lose or there for their... grammar fail big time, dude. All you did was use grocer's apostrophes. You didn't even use an apostropheless "aint".
You're not even trying! Real retarded aliterates do a lot better.
I only paid $125 for my Kyocera (full price, no contract or subsidy). The manual says it will withstand 30 minutes in 3 feet (that's a meter, folks) of water. iPhone won't do that! In fact, I doubt there's anything an $800 phone will do that mine won't... except give you a heart attack when it breaks.
I ruined my old Razr by dropping it in the water. I ruined my old LG by getting caught in a rain storm. Meanwhile, the screen on my daughter's $600 iPhone is cracked, she's thinking of moving to my carrier and getting a Kyocera.
Face it, people buy iPhones for the same reason they buy those ugly Escalades: it's s stupid status symbol.
Impart wisdom or an understanding of human nature...? Religion does no such thing.
Says the man who has never read the bible and is probably way too young to have gathered much of his own wisdom. Here's a taste, son.
Pete Seeger put that to music, the Byrds made it popular. And that's just a snippet. I suppose you disagree with this?
Mock what you don't understand and you prove yourself a fool.
Wrong. The goal is to spread intelligence beyond this rock. I don't care if that intelligence is human, cyborg, android, or a sentient starship, so long as it is intelligent enough not to want the total extinction of other species.
You read too much science fiction and not enough science, and even ignore some science in science fiction. "Space is big. Really big. You think it's a long way to the chemist..." Voyager has been travelling for 36 years and is only now leaving the solar system. It's .001 light year away, the nearest star is 4 light years away. There's nowhere to go until we break that pesky lightspeed barrier.
As to androids, cyborgs, and sentient starships, there may be cyborgs in space right now -- a cyborg is a human (or other animal) with non-himan machinery taking the place of natural functions. I'm a cyborg, but I can't live on any planet in our solar system except this one. As to "intelligent computers" that's just stupid. Sentience is chemical, what's more we know nothing about how it comes about or what it even is. Good luck building a radio if you have no idea how one operates.
Sorry, but we're stuck here for the forseeable future. Star Trek fantasies are no more real than Terry Pratchett or JRR Tolkien fantasies. And yes, I'm a science fiction fan (I even write SF, check my journal: right now it's space whores). Remember, the operative word in science fiction is fiction.
From quality assurance perspective, Ubuntu has a long way to go to even touch Windows or Mac.
This means:
1) high performance
2) applications which do not crash
3) features which are fully functional
4) consistent and stable APIs
I have a kubuntu tower, an XP tower, a Win 7 notebook and an android phone.
1. The notebook is a lot newer than the kubuntu tower and has more memory and a faster processor, but the tower is faster. High performance? You realize that the ten fastest computers in the world run Linux?
2. Crashy apps have nothing to do with the OS they're running on, shitty progremmers write crashy apps. The only thing I've seen crash on any of the computers in years is Adobe Flash, and it crashes regularly no matter what OS it's running on. Adobe just writes shitty programs.
3. Are you kidding? Windows doesn't have a single feature that KDE lacks, but lacks many features KDE sports.
4. Again, are you kidding? A modern Linux distro will run an old Linux program just fine, try running Microsoft FoxPro 6 on anything newer than Win 98 (It wouldn't even open in XP).
Did Stallman scare you as a child?
And if police officers were investigating police officers for a crime that had been committed without a civilian SIU
I went to college at SIU. So WTF are you talking about? Southern Illinois University is the only SIU I've ever heard of, and googling your acronym brought up nothing but my alma matter. So what is your SIU? We're nerds, not cops.
Thanks. I've been doing mostly fiction in my /. JEs.
Yea, I agree with the policy' smoking around fuels is stupid.
Testing, smeshting, light the damned thing up. What is this, science or somethin'?
Pedantically! My hat's off to you, sir.