You're simply grandstanding, because you favor Apple over Google, and consider there as being a battle between the two. Be at least honest enough to acknowledge that is really your motivation in taking such a strong stand. We've all seen your posting history.
People who mark up content with HTML are not 'developers.'
Generally, if they think of themselves as 'developers,' they're just people who slow down delivery of the content that matters. Which is text, images, sometimes audio and video.
You can't cite Jon Stewart as an example of journalism. He is the 'left' equivalent of Rush Limbaugh. When backed into a corner, either man will claim they are 'only an entertainer.'
never ever claim that around EE graduates. We despise things like this being called "building"...... solder everything by hand to make prototypes,
Never claim that around technicians. They don't teach soldering or good fabrication skills in College. You'll mess it all up. Give someone the prints and the BOM and go off to do something else.
redo the flawed parts,...
Well, we warned you. Better order more parts quick from Digi-Key and find a technician to fix it for you.
Obama is not an Administrator. That isn't where his skill set lies. He is a campaigner and an organizer. It makes him so out of place in the role we've elected him to that it makes one want to scream sometimes.
It's scary, because he has a political machine behind him doing stuff less visibly, while he stands in front and issues platitudes.
If you toss around bullshit and FUD to support action on global warming you're becoming the enemy to beat the enemy, while simultaneously feeding into their conspiracy theories and jokes.
Bingo. Perhaps it isn't one emperor or the other who has no new clothes on. Perhaps everybody in the room is simply buck naked.
Possibly, even, there's no immediate solution to the 'problem,' just a lot of people trying to harness their cart in front of the horse. Maybe wielding Government Power to 'fix' things is simply a fallacy, something various interests just want to promote.
Trade tariffs don't prevent McDonalds from shipping finished hamburgers over here that were cooked in China.
However, if trade tariffs protect the workers in an Assembly Plant in Kentucky, they'll have jobs and sometimes take their lunch break at a local McDonalds. (Hopefully not every day. They can bring their lunch in from home in American made steel lunch pails part of the time, too.)
Why, then, did Dell and others outsource? Flexibility. It's about being able to send a new PCB layout to a factory and receive the first batch of 100,000 circuit boards inside of a week rather than months.
And what reduces the flexibility of companies in the U.S.?
Regulatory Overhead from Government and Union Bosses who obstruct and oppose any changes.
Thank goodness we (the people) are breaking the backs of the Unions with Right-to-work laws. The upcoming Sequestration might break the back of a few meddling bureaucracies in the government. We can hope. Hope for Change, and all that.
All this device needs now is for it to be impossible to shut it off, and for the audio volume to be possible to reduce slightly, but never fully silenced,
I know I will be looking for that corner of the room that the lens can't see.
I can make a more informed decision if I want to buy this device to hack, or to just run on it's own.
I think that was part of the point of the originator of this sub-thread. For you, the way you've worded it it's an either/or proposition. You can decide after you buy it whether you want to 'hack' it or just run it as is; the forgone conclusion is that it was on Slashdot, and you're gonna buy it.
Being a geek-wannabe is so easy these days. Just flash the plastic.
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You're simply grandstanding, because you favor Apple over Google, and consider there as being a battle between the two. Be at least honest enough to acknowledge that is really your motivation in taking such a strong stand. We've all seen your posting history.
People who mark up content with HTML are not 'developers.'
Generally, if they think of themselves as 'developers,' they're just people who slow down delivery of the content that matters. Which is text, images, sometimes audio and video.
You can't cite Jon Stewart as an example of journalism. He is the 'left' equivalent of Rush Limbaugh. When backed into a corner, either man will claim they are 'only an entertainer.'
except perhaps not reading Slashdot anymore.
whoa! Anonymous Coward is going to stop reading Slashdot!
never ever claim that around EE graduates. We despise things like this being called "building"...... solder everything by hand to make prototypes,
Never claim that around technicians. They don't teach soldering or good fabrication skills in College. You'll mess it all up. Give someone the prints and the BOM and go off to do something else.
redo the flawed parts, ...
Well, we warned you. Better order more parts quick from Digi-Key and find a technician to fix it for you.
Obama is not an Administrator. That isn't where his skill set lies. He is a campaigner and an organizer. It makes him so out of place in the role we've elected him to that it makes one want to scream sometimes.
It's scary, because he has a political machine behind him doing stuff less visibly, while he stands in front and issues platitudes.
If you toss around bullshit and FUD to support action on global warming you're becoming the enemy to beat the enemy, while simultaneously feeding into their conspiracy theories and jokes.
Bingo. Perhaps it isn't one emperor or the other who has no new clothes on. Perhaps everybody in the room is simply buck naked.
Possibly, even, there's no immediate solution to the 'problem,' just a lot of people trying to harness their cart in front of the horse. Maybe wielding Government Power to 'fix' things is simply a fallacy, something various interests just want to promote.
Trade tariffs don't prevent McDonalds from shipping finished hamburgers over here that were cooked in China.
However, if trade tariffs protect the workers in an Assembly Plant in Kentucky, they'll have jobs and sometimes take their lunch break at a local McDonalds. (Hopefully not every day. They can bring their lunch in from home in American made steel lunch pails part of the time, too.)
Why, then, did Dell and others outsource? Flexibility. It's about being able to send a new PCB layout to a factory and receive the first batch of 100,000 circuit boards inside of a week rather than months.
And what reduces the flexibility of companies in the U.S.?
Regulatory Overhead from Government and Union Bosses who obstruct and oppose any changes.
Thank goodness we (the people) are breaking the backs of the Unions with Right-to-work laws. The upcoming Sequestration might break the back of a few meddling bureaucracies in the government. We can hope. Hope for Change, and all that.
We should allow them to emigrate to Mexico or China.
China and Mexico won't allow it? Hmmm...
Oops, I switched to a different 'hot box' issue there.
Politicians shouldn't suggest 'grand plans' for any country.
That's what a Monarch does. Politicians in a democratic republic should realize they have no fucking business proclaiming anything.
All this device needs now is for it to be impossible to shut it off, and for the audio volume to be possible to reduce slightly, but never fully silenced,
I know I will be looking for that corner of the room that the lens can't see.
No. MLK was an African-American. And he was a descendent of actual ex-slaves. He also lived his childhood in the United States.
The people with 'Geek cards' aren't geeks.
Seriously. Do you even own a soldering iron?
It's not a fashion statement.
That sounds like NetBSD on my Mac SE/30.
People with a slight exposure to Linux only know how to compare it to Windows. It's their only frame of reference.
I can make a more informed decision if I want to buy this device to hack, or to just run on it's own.
I think that was part of the point of the originator of this sub-thread. For you, the way you've worded it it's an either/or proposition. You can decide after you buy it whether you want to 'hack' it or just run it as is; the forgone conclusion is that it was on Slashdot, and you're gonna buy it.
Being a geek-wannabe is so easy these days. Just flash the plastic.
And for the special-interest audience, tampon dispensers with a built-in webcam.
The heck with that 10Base5.
'backward locals'
'backward hicks'
I think we have a prejudiced motherfucker here, folks.
Calm the fuck down, dude.
Scruples? No, if you're opposed to ebooks it's a good way of fighting back.
Destroy the market for ebooks and publishers will give it up.
A DVD-R holds a hell of a lot of books that you can hand around to friends and strangers.
What you're describing is short-attention-span quick gratification. Books for the twitch-twitch market.
Not really. Vista isn't really a 'generation' just like ME wasn't a 'generation.' Simply put, it's a stillborn.
I bought a laptop from Radio Shack recently.
It was sort of an impulse buy. But it was priced right, believe it or not.
They should study the staggering success (not) of Diablo 3 when it comes to 'always on required.'