I haven't logged in for months, and seeing this blatant of an advertisement is sadly the first thing I've been pissed off about enough to comment. This is ridiculous. Crappy articles, ok, whatever. What makes Slashdot worth coming to is the comments. Put up enough crappy advertising and the people who make those comments will go elsewhere.
Wow. Sounds like someone who is out of touch with the modern university experience. There are filler classes, and the closer you get to state school, the more there are, less so at more expensive schools. Usually in the US, they're there to meet state mandated education requirements / accreditation requirements. Basic grammar, any subject you may have encountered in high school, etc - these are 'filler'. Find me a course catalog and I will find you filler.
A private company does what they want with their store. You don't like it and demand that they change. Your demands matter *why*? Any argument demonstrating why Apple should care about your demands would be an incredibly fascinating one to hear.
It lists synonyms, but where's a decent online thesaurus when you need one? I've tried a few and most of them are useless, or hopelessly ad-cluttered or both:/
if it was a fun, well-made game... Tons of people would buy it. The news might make a fuss, but then even more people would buy it. In fact, if someone made a snuff film simulator... Er.. Wait, they already did.
Not to belittle the achievement, but how hard can it be to make something that won't crumple? Does every bit of equipment need to be at 1 atmosphere for it to function? Are there no solid-state components?
Large format film is ridiculously expensive in terms of processing costs, though if you're loaded like some hobbyist photographers, you *could* shoot everything in 8x10 and blow portions of it up as needed.
All these things you want to do are quite possible with digital cameras, though you'll have to get a digital SLR.
Some compacts do have exposure compensation settings, and high shutter speeds, for silhouettes and stopping waterfalls. For making them blurry, well, even digital photographers still use ND filters.
Film or digital, it's the person behind the camera that makes the difference, not the technology.
A short list is worth what you get out of it. If it is indistinguishable from empty promises that every other employer makes to the second place candidate for a position, why should *anyone* do as you request? Basically, you are under the impression that you're holding a large carrot while the rest of the world sees you holding absolutely nothing on the end of that string, and your requests are given weight accordingly.
What can't you do with a P&S or "prosumer" camera?
That you should even ask such a question highlights the depths of your ignorance. Slashdot requiring analogies, you're asking why someone would want a desktop running linux instead of a simple calculator. I mean, what can't you do with a simple calculator? That sudden flood of answers that comes to your mind? Very akin to flood of answers that come to mind given your question about P&S cameras.
LED tail lights definitely have a noticeable effect, and the first word I'd use to describe it is 'strobing'. While driving, looking straight on, I might not notice that a car has LED tail lights vs. regular bulbs, but when I turn my head, the LED tail lights stick out in the sea of red generated by other cars because they seem to flicker very rapidly. It's most definitely not psychosomatic, and certainly reproducible in blind tests. What *causes* the apparent strobing is up for grabs, sure, but the fact that it exists is not.
Having used computers for a little more than two decades, it's given me a bit of perspective.
One. Users generally aren't stupid, but they're often ignorant. There's a big difference between the two, and it would be wise for the average geek to understand this.
Two. The 'usefulness:frustration' ratio for your average human being is very lopsided.
If the competing product is less frustrating than your favored product, no matter how much better your product is on paper, in reality, it's the functional equivalent of having the better gadget that happens to only work while inside steaming pile of excrement.
I see people rail on and on as to how linux is perfect, so the high return rate must just be due to users 'not getting it' or 'being stupid'.
It's a very 'not seeing the forest for the trees' problem.
How smart can you be if you fail to understand why people don't find linux to be a better choice than windows?
Ready for the desktop? HA! Ready for the hobbyist desktop, maybe. The desktop of a standard human being? Not even close.
And 'close' is the functional equivalent 'complete fail' in this situation.
I went to the Austin GDC, and when I saw Sterling's name on the program, I made a point of being there for the keynote. I'd enjoyed some of his sci-fi stuff and figured he'd be more of the same in person, which would be really cool.
Unfortunately, the guy who showed up had a somewhat boring speech that was mildly funny in that 'well, actually, that's not funny at all' sort of way that sucks worse than something that actually isn't funny at all, if that makes any sense.
The ideas he presented about future computers seemed a bit lame - cloud computing conquers all? Maybe, but not a very interesting aspect of the future. Maybe it was disappointment that the person who wrote his speech wasn't the same person that wrote those books.
You read those books and you expect some cutting edge speech about the future of computing, not a lame attempt at humor (know your strengths maybe?) and a bland vision of the future.
It was kind of funny to hear his voice, as he sounded like a hippie who'd smoked a bit too much weed a few decades back, but you can't blame people for how they sound. What they say, on the other hand...
Yeah, sigh. I'm not going to shell out for a Xbox 360 just to play this game. But as always, the PC players will get the shaft and we'll not see it released for our platform for another eight months to a year (if previous releases are anything to go by).
Why not add sections on as they are put into orbit instead of discarding them to burn up? Enlarging the International Space Station would be better, right?
Well, if he was omniscient, as they claim, he might have done things that appear to be funny but have far reaching consequences. If *I* could start a religion that'd last for 2,000 years just by getting nailed to a tree, I'd think about it (well, not for long, but it's still an impressive feat).
Well, I think it's more to emphasize the level of sacrifice involved - for most humans, the death of a child is the most they could sacrifice, so this has the greatest level of emotional appeal. Someone should tell them that tired rhetoric doesn't grab anyone's attention though.
"However, knowing others (even complete strangers!) sympathize and wish you the best *does* help a lot."
No, not really. If a complete stranger or someone I barely knew pretended (or even genuinely offered) sympathy at the death of my grandmother, I'd tell them to fuck off. They didn't know the person in question and anything beyond a 'oh, sorry to hear' is offensive display of empathy for someone they didn't know.
Respect and empathy for the dead are two different things. While going to a funeral and laughing or spitting on the headstone are clearly offensive behaviors, the honest opinions of slashdot readers reflected in the tags are not.
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I haven't logged in for months, and seeing this blatant of an advertisement is sadly the first thing I've been pissed off about enough to comment. This is ridiculous. Crappy articles, ok, whatever. What makes Slashdot worth coming to is the comments. Put up enough crappy advertising and the people who make those comments will go elsewhere.
Wow. Sounds like someone who is out of touch with the modern university experience. There are filler classes, and the closer you get to state school, the more there are, less so at more expensive schools. Usually in the US, they're there to meet state mandated education requirements / accreditation requirements. Basic grammar, any subject you may have encountered in high school, etc - these are 'filler'. Find me a course catalog and I will find you filler.
Just started using f.lux two weeks ago, love it. I no longer feel like I'm staring into a flashlight!
A private company does what they want with their store. You don't like it and demand that they change. Your demands matter *why*? Any argument demonstrating why Apple should care about your demands would be an incredibly fascinating one to hear.
It lists synonyms, but where's a decent online thesaurus when you need one? I've tried a few and most of them are useless, or hopelessly ad-cluttered or both :/
if it was a fun, well-made game... Tons of people would buy it. The news might make a fuss, but then even more people would buy it. In fact, if someone made a snuff film simulator... Er.. Wait, they already did.
Not to belittle the achievement, but how hard can it be to make something that won't crumple? Does every bit of equipment need to be at 1 atmosphere for it to function? Are there no solid-state components?
Innovation at the cost of a sane healthcare system is worth less than nothing.
Large format film is ridiculously expensive in terms of processing costs, though if you're loaded like some hobbyist photographers, you *could* shoot everything in 8x10 and blow portions of it up as needed.
Or get a Hasselblad H3D.
All these things you want to do are quite possible with digital cameras, though you'll have to get a digital SLR.
Some compacts do have exposure compensation settings, and high shutter speeds, for silhouettes and stopping waterfalls. For making them blurry, well, even digital photographers still use ND filters.
Film or digital, it's the person behind the camera that makes the difference, not the technology.
A short list is worth what you get out of it. If it is indistinguishable from empty promises that every other employer makes to the second place candidate for a position, why should *anyone* do as you request? Basically, you are under the impression that you're holding a large carrot while the rest of the world sees you holding absolutely nothing on the end of that string, and your requests are given weight accordingly.
What can't you do with a P&S or "prosumer" camera?
That you should even ask such a question highlights the depths of your ignorance. Slashdot requiring analogies, you're asking why someone would want a desktop running linux instead of a simple calculator. I mean, what can't you do with a simple calculator? That sudden flood of answers that comes to your mind? Very akin to flood of answers that come to mind given your question about P&S cameras.
LED tail lights definitely have a noticeable effect, and the first word I'd use to describe it is 'strobing'. While driving, looking straight on, I might not notice that a car has LED tail lights vs. regular bulbs, but when I turn my head, the LED tail lights stick out in the sea of red generated by other cars because they seem to flicker very rapidly. It's most definitely not psychosomatic, and certainly reproducible in blind tests. What *causes* the apparent strobing is up for grabs, sure, but the fact that it exists is not.
Having used computers for a little more than two decades, it's given me a bit of perspective.
One. Users generally aren't stupid, but they're often ignorant. There's a big difference between the two, and it would be wise for the average geek to understand this.
Two. The 'usefulness:frustration' ratio for your average human being is very lopsided.
If the competing product is less frustrating than your favored product, no matter how much better your product is on paper, in reality, it's the functional equivalent of having the better gadget that happens to only work while inside steaming pile of excrement.
I see people rail on and on as to how linux is perfect, so the high return rate must just be due to users 'not getting it' or 'being stupid'.
It's a very 'not seeing the forest for the trees' problem.
How smart can you be if you fail to understand why people don't find linux to be a better choice than windows?
Ready for the desktop? HA! Ready for the hobbyist desktop, maybe. The desktop of a standard human being? Not even close.
And 'close' is the functional equivalent 'complete fail' in this situation.
I went to the Austin GDC, and when I saw Sterling's name on the program, I made a point of being there for the keynote. I'd enjoyed some of his sci-fi stuff and figured he'd be more of the same in person, which would be really cool.
Unfortunately, the guy who showed up had a somewhat boring speech that was mildly funny in that 'well, actually, that's not funny at all' sort of way that sucks worse than something that actually isn't funny at all, if that makes any sense.
The ideas he presented about future computers seemed a bit lame - cloud computing conquers all? Maybe, but not a very interesting aspect of the future. Maybe it was disappointment that the person who wrote his speech wasn't the same person that wrote those books.
You read those books and you expect some cutting edge speech about the future of computing, not a lame attempt at humor (know your strengths maybe?) and a bland vision of the future.
It was kind of funny to hear his voice, as he sounded like a hippie who'd smoked a bit too much weed a few decades back, but you can't blame people for how they sound. What they say, on the other hand...
Being a Quakecon attendee, I got in as a beta tester for Quake Live, and it's a plugin for firefox. It's basically Q3A running inside a browser.
I haven't played it much though, as it crashes my computer halfway through most matches.
Yeah, sigh. I'm not going to shell out for a Xbox 360 just to play this game. But as always, the PC players will get the shaft and we'll not see it released for our platform for another eight months to a year (if previous releases are anything to go by).
You can have LAN play on the PC for San Andreas, check out http://www.sa-mp.com/
I tried it for a bit, it was interesting.
Why not add sections on as they are put into orbit instead of discarding them to burn up? Enlarging the International Space Station would be better, right?
What do you know? Mine too. And my current version of firefox gets an amazing 54%.
wow, it's like seeing some ancestor of the robots from Metal Gear Solid 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f07ZpXe8TU
Well, if he was omniscient, as they claim, he might have done things that appear to be funny but have far reaching consequences. If *I* could start a religion that'd last for 2,000 years just by getting nailed to a tree, I'd think about it (well, not for long, but it's still an impressive feat).
Well, I think it's more to emphasize the level of sacrifice involved - for most humans, the death of a child is the most they could sacrifice, so this has the greatest level of emotional appeal. Someone should tell them that tired rhetoric doesn't grab anyone's attention though.
Well, sure, if they imply you should be choked up over the death of someone you didn't know personally.
"However, knowing others (even complete strangers!) sympathize and wish you the best *does* help a lot."
No, not really. If a complete stranger or someone I barely knew pretended (or even genuinely offered) sympathy at the death of my grandmother, I'd tell them to fuck off. They didn't know the person in question and anything beyond a 'oh, sorry to hear' is offensive display of empathy for someone they didn't know.
Respect and empathy for the dead are two different things. While going to a funeral and laughing or spitting on the headstone are clearly offensive behaviors, the honest opinions of slashdot readers reflected in the tags are not.