"Of course if it was the other way around, conservatives flagging a liberal satire of Bush, it would be in the NY Times, LA Times, Boston Globe, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, and someone would likely get sued for it."
I don't think that's true, or were you being satirical?
I saw the hyper-idiot Michelle Malkin whining last week that YouTube was allowing "Islamofacists" to post hate videos, but YouTube had "gone Dhimmi" [I had to look it up too] and was blocking her innocent happy bunny fun videos telling people to run for the hills and shoot first if the Muslims are coming. YouTube is quite welcome to flag her group as unsuitable for children.
" The card is also overclocked to 695MHz for added performance."
I remember when chip stability was a feature of production equipment. I suppose some people like to use more power and get more from their chip, but when the company does it for you, is it really "over" clocked? I presume it doesn't invalidate the warranty. If it doesn't, then its simply a marketing buzzword gimick, giving you underpowered chips, and eeking out more than they are best suited for.
I bet the reason the Bush admin's estimates for civilian casualties is so low, is due to the numbers being translated from Arabic numbers into whatever number system we use.
What? Oh damn, never mind.
Translation through a computer in life or death situations makes me sad inside.
I know you're probably joking, but on the chance you're not, Canadians are actually quite concerned about climate change. Our government may not act like it though because it's currently run by either Ontario-industry Liberals, or Alberta-oil patch Conservatives who feel any change to the pollution-economy will damage their province. Our economy depends on the weather, so when the weather changes, odds are everything will crash.
"why such a blatantly pointed statement is considered "news for nerds""
As a nerd/geek, let me tell you that I object to having my digital, or real life rights trampled on so that I can be legally tortured. Heard of Maher Arar? If not, you may want to look that name up and see what the American government did to him based on faulty intelligence shared with them after he was pulled off a plane in New York.
In a move all to familiar to environmentalists in Canada [see Conservatives "green approach"], a national government has canceled a scientifically motivated project [Hubble] for which they have no replacement yet. When will governments realize that redundant-capable science projects [Internet] work better than canceling a project and leaving us blind for a measure of years?
I suppose worldly wastes just get a higher priority than figuring out how the Universe is put together, and thus learning to better manage and predict it...
In a world where the EPA let firefighters clean up toxic carcinogenic nano-particle riddled debris after the WTC towers left smashed asbestos dust on all surfaces, I really don't trust the FDA with my life. Government will do what is expedient, not what is in the best interest of health based on scientific or even logical reasoning.
"Linux is a kernel -- Windows is a Kernel and OS."
You're touching on more of the problem. Linux doesn't have a brand name that people can latch on to. They don't care if it's called Linux, Ubuntu, Gnome, KDE, whatever. To them it's Mac vs. Windows, not Mac vs. Windows vs. Linux + Your OS of choice be it Gnome.... blah blah blah. These competing brand names are confusing average consumers that want one easy to say and spell word to describe their "Better" alternative-to-Windows computer.
It took such a long time to load the Slashdot graphic for this story, that I thought maybe China had censored it. Thank you for the technical explanation. Does this mean for faster Internet service, we should look at detonating more nukes, possibly in North Dakota where vast spaces of farmland create Internet tube blockages?
The court system is publicly funded. And I think judges would do better to spend their time keeping innocent people out of jail, than looking at litigation from hyper lawyers with grudges against a computer industry.
Interestingly enough, when you post in a thread it does undo your moderations in that thread. So your appeal to undo, was in fact, ironically, redundant.
You're right, that's the one I've heard before. Unless I've also heard the "sue" version before... But I know I've heard the teach joke. It some respects it's true for all teachers, but it doesn't mean they couldn't ever "do" previous to their teaching career.
Female? Do you mean my URL? It's the website of a friend, I thought I'd send her some traffic. I'm sure she'd be flattered by your proposition though, leave a comment at her site to find out.
It would be nice if more women posted on Slashdot, but I think the statistics show that women posting on Slashdot turn out to be men in 98% of cases.
Hmm, doing a gender breakdown for browsers would be interesting. I wonder if women prefer Firefox, or at least prefer a man who surfs with Firefox. That could be a humdinger of a marketing campaign...
You presume too much. I promote Linux as best I can, and routinely install different distributions on my computers to try them out. I ask questions on the respective help forums to give feedback, and attempt to convince developers of things I think are crucial to the uptake of Linux. I've seen good progress lately from Ubuntu - installing from a LiveCD GUI, so you can websurf and IM while you install Ubuntu! I didn't even think of that as a possibility. And now you don't have to mount an NTFS drive by hand, the icon shows up on the desktop [unfortunately only Read Only though]. When they make MP3 and VLC+codecs installed by default for anyone who picks not-USA as the install country, then they'll start gaining users by leaps and bounds.
If it weren't for anecdotes like mine, then Slashdot would be a rather dull place, wouldn't it? And comedians predicting the kind of comments to come would have nothing to joke about if the anecdoters stayed away.
No single one of us can give a complete picture of the browser situation, but it is interesting to see what kind of blogs and websites attract what kind of browser users. When I get a few hundred hits from Slashdot, not surprisingly Firefox is the majority browser for users from this site.
Firefox 2 probably won't make an exponential gain in Firefox converts, not until extensions are updated to work with it. When that problem is out of the way, I expect only linear gains, unless a more clever marketing strategy than they have now is started.
I find that my site gets about 45% Firefox or Mozilla hits, not counting my own of course. At about 130 unique visitors a day, that's not a big enough sample to mean the numbers of 12% are wrong, but definitely demographics play a large role in browser type. As Taco has pointed out, nearly all Slashdot readers use a Mozilla/Firefox browser. Sorry Mac fans, Safari isn't that big yet.
Oh you can take a DVD onto a plane, and use it as a throwing/cutting device. And you can take a lithium battery powered player with you. However, there will be hell to pay if you try to smuggle some Maple Syrup on board.
"Everyone freeze! He's got a sticky bottle of sugar!"
Whatever the effort, something has to eventually unify the desktop environments for Linux to overtake or compete on a widescale in the United States or Canada. I can't understand what the point of diversity is, when average users complain that even one interface different from Windows confuses them and discourages them from taking up Linux. What's the point of muddying the option waters further? If it's all about shiny buttons and bells being in different places, at least make it so that the applications work in either environment.
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"Of course if it was the other way around, conservatives flagging a liberal satire of Bush, it would be in the NY Times, LA Times, Boston Globe, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, and someone would likely get sued for it."
I don't think that's true, or were you being satirical?
"a post suggesting that astrophysics research basically stops without the Hubble."
Ah, but an aspect of it does for potentially a measure of years. It's not in effect anyway. No space bourne telescope. Ooops.
I saw the hyper-idiot Michelle Malkin whining last week that YouTube was allowing "Islamofacists" to post hate videos, but YouTube had "gone Dhimmi" [I had to look it up too] and was blocking her innocent happy bunny fun videos telling people to run for the hills and shoot first if the Muslims are coming. YouTube is quite welcome to flag her group as unsuitable for children.
" The card is also overclocked to 695MHz for added performance."
I remember when chip stability was a feature of production equipment. I suppose some people like to use more power and get more from their chip, but when the company does it for you, is it really "over" clocked? I presume it doesn't invalidate the warranty. If it doesn't, then its simply a marketing buzzword gimick, giving you underpowered chips, and eeking out more than they are best suited for.
I bet the reason the Bush admin's estimates for civilian casualties is so low, is due to the numbers being translated from Arabic numbers into whatever number system we use.
What? Oh damn, never mind.
Translation through a computer in life or death situations makes me sad inside.
I know you're probably joking, but on the chance you're not, Canadians are actually quite concerned about climate change. Our government may not act like it though because it's currently run by either Ontario-industry Liberals, or Alberta-oil patch Conservatives who feel any change to the pollution-economy will damage their province. Our economy depends on the weather, so when the weather changes, odds are everything will crash.
"why such a blatantly pointed statement is considered "news for nerds""
As a nerd/geek, let me tell you that I object to having my digital, or real life rights trampled on so that I can be legally tortured. Heard of Maher Arar? If not, you may want to look that name up and see what the American government did to him based on faulty intelligence shared with them after he was pulled off a plane in New York.
In fairness, I've increased the sample to include results from Altavista which of course the judge should have done.p am&kgs=1&kls=0
http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=s
2 of the top 3 results that weren't paid advertisments were for the meat. Seems the judge opened a can of worms, err spam.
Yes I know my sample is silly, that's the point.
In a move all to familiar to environmentalists in Canada [see Conservatives "green approach"], a national government has canceled a scientifically motivated project [Hubble] for which they have no replacement yet. When will governments realize that redundant-capable science projects [Internet] work better than canceling a project and leaving us blind for a measure of years?
I suppose worldly wastes just get a higher priority than figuring out how the Universe is put together, and thus learning to better manage and predict it...
With rising obesity rates, even World Sit Down At The Same Time Day poses a serious risk to Hammy the Hampster.
"Major League Gaming doesn't have to worry about sex party scandals"
Are you kidding? All they have to do is install the Hot Coffee Mod, and lawyers like Jack T. will be on them like the FBI on a criminal driven tank.
In a world where the EPA let firefighters clean up toxic carcinogenic nano-particle riddled debris after the WTC towers left smashed asbestos dust on all surfaces, I really don't trust the FDA with my life. Government will do what is expedient, not what is in the best interest of health based on scientific or even logical reasoning.
"Linux is a kernel -- Windows is a Kernel and OS."
You're touching on more of the problem. Linux doesn't have a brand name that people can latch on to. They don't care if it's called Linux, Ubuntu, Gnome, KDE, whatever. To them it's Mac vs. Windows, not Mac vs. Windows vs. Linux + Your OS of choice be it Gnome.... blah blah blah. These competing brand names are confusing average consumers that want one easy to say and spell word to describe their "Better" alternative-to-Windows computer.
It took such a long time to load the Slashdot graphic for this story, that I thought maybe China had censored it. Thank you for the technical explanation. Does this mean for faster Internet service, we should look at detonating more nukes, possibly in North Dakota where vast spaces of farmland create Internet tube blockages?
The court system is publicly funded. And I think judges would do better to spend their time keeping innocent people out of jail, than looking at litigation from hyper lawyers with grudges against a computer industry.
Interestingly enough, when you post in a thread it does undo your moderations in that thread. So your appeal to undo, was in fact, ironically, redundant.
You're right, that's the one I've heard before. Unless I've also heard the "sue" version before... But I know I've heard the teach joke. It some respects it's true for all teachers, but it doesn't mean they couldn't ever "do" previous to their teaching career.
It's too clever a saying for me to have been the first to have thought of it, so I probably just heard it before.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.
Female? Do you mean my URL?
It's the website of a friend, I thought I'd send her some traffic. I'm sure she'd be flattered by your proposition though, leave a comment at her site to find out.
It would be nice if more women posted on Slashdot, but I think the statistics show that women posting on Slashdot turn out to be men in 98% of cases.
Hmm, doing a gender breakdown for browsers would be interesting. I wonder if women prefer Firefox, or at least prefer a man who surfs with Firefox. That could be a humdinger of a marketing campaign...
You presume too much. I promote Linux as best I can, and routinely install different distributions on my computers to try them out. I ask questions on the respective help forums to give feedback, and attempt to convince developers of things I think are crucial to the uptake of Linux. I've seen good progress lately from Ubuntu - installing from a LiveCD GUI, so you can websurf and IM while you install Ubuntu! I didn't even think of that as a possibility. And now you don't have to mount an NTFS drive by hand, the icon shows up on the desktop [unfortunately only Read Only though]. When they make MP3 and VLC+codecs installed by default for anyone who picks not-USA as the install country, then they'll start gaining users by leaps and bounds.
If it weren't for anecdotes like mine, then Slashdot would be a rather dull place, wouldn't it? And comedians predicting the kind of comments to come would have nothing to joke about if the anecdoters stayed away.
No single one of us can give a complete picture of the browser situation, but it is interesting to see what kind of blogs and websites attract what kind of browser users. When I get a few hundred hits from Slashdot, not surprisingly Firefox is the majority browser for users from this site.
Firefox 2 probably won't make an exponential gain in Firefox converts, not until extensions are updated to work with it. When that problem is out of the way, I expect only linear gains, unless a more clever marketing strategy than they have now is started.
I find that my site gets about 45% Firefox or Mozilla hits, not counting my own of course. At about 130 unique visitors a day, that's not a big enough sample to mean the numbers of 12% are wrong, but definitely demographics play a large role in browser type. As Taco has pointed out, nearly all Slashdot readers use a Mozilla/Firefox browser. Sorry Mac fans, Safari isn't that big yet.
Oh you can take a DVD onto a plane, and use it as a throwing/cutting device. And you can take a lithium battery powered player with you. However, there will be hell to pay if you try to smuggle some Maple Syrup on board.
"Everyone freeze! He's got a sticky bottle of sugar!"
"-Police Cables allow bacon to move at speed of light"
If you can find a copper or optical cable that will move chocolate from one end of a cable to the next, we can implement Willy Wonka's dream.
Whatever the effort, something has to eventually unify the desktop environments for Linux to overtake or compete on a widescale in the United States or Canada. I can't understand what the point of diversity is, when average users complain that even one interface different from Windows confuses them and discourages them from taking up Linux. What's the point of muddying the option waters further? If it's all about shiny buttons and bells being in different places, at least make it so that the applications work in either environment.