The story's about the possible rise of the Chinese language in a place currently dominated by English, so you suggest everybody learn Esperanto? You're like that guy who tells the PC or Mac guys to switch to Amiga... or worse, that guy that chimes in on an iOS thread and says 'Nokia N900!'
Normally I wouldn't mind, but you've written a frickin novel, here.
GO to ebay, search Tablet PC. Pick one. Download Ubuntu 10.10 Install Ubuntu 10.10 on the tablet.
Magical poof happens with a bright brown genie appearing and angels singing.... you have a ubuntu tablet! Something that nobody ever though of....
Granted, Tablet PC's have been around for decades, and running Linux on them has been happening for decades.... Ignore that.
Fujitsu stylistic works great, plus I can use a stylus so I can use it as a writing tablet. Too bad there is not a OS replacement for MSFT One Note.
The 'tablet' you describe is a notebook with a wacom tablet built in. It's not a tablet in the iPad sense.
I realize that sounds like typical Slashdot pedantry , but the points about 'not having to wait for it to boot' and the 'apps are actually designed to use it' are critical to making a 'tablet PC' take off. Microsoft missed the mark. I used to have a Tablet PC. The fact that it had XP's less-than-spectacular suspend mode is what kept it from being little more than a laptop to me.
That was thoughtful of your parents, but they didn't give you that trust, you earned it. Most don't manage that. I had a similar experience with my parents, but most of the kids I knew growing up were too boneheaded for that to work.
The banner ad is your index for browsing them. Instead of going page by page, have just one page showing a bunch of banners. THEN you decide whether or not the product is worth taking a closer look at.
You're right. Instead of showing a concise list of small graphical banner ads already designed to inform you enough to grab your interest, the far less efficient method that was suggested is so much more sensible that Im stupid for challenging it. Thanks to you I am deservedy humbled.
If someone says having $10 is better than having $1,000, and you think they are masochistic, you are being judgemental of them until the moment you ask them 'why'. 'Equally viable' is not a part of it for reasons way too obvious to list.
I hate to say it, but I've actually wished in the past I could save an ad for later. But then I realized I could just click the ad and use the "bookmark this page" in my browser. Derp.
So you keep clicking the bookmark until the ad cycles around again.
This has no bearing on me, as I have no desire to own an iPad, and even less desire to read a single word penned in Murdoch's cesspool.
So you click on the slashdot article about a service you would not want on a device you don't have? Then leave a comments letting us know you don't care about it?
Of course. We're all trying to win that word 'Insightful' next to our posts.
And this is why we have teen pregnancies. Because people are so scared of their bodies and their natural functions they won't talk about it with their spouse, much less their progeny.
Oh, please. We have teen pregnancy because our bodies scream "WE WANNA FUCK!"
Instead of taking the path of least resistance, instead of preaching abstinence...
Nobody's talking about abstinence. Nobody wants their kids to see sexually explicit material, not just people with a particular view on it.
Seriously, do you also insist that "its the path of least resistance" to not discuss under age drinking and driving while drunk so we should just shut up and not talk about it?
I didn't say anything about people needing to shut up and not talk about it and that they'd rather put it off. If you don't mind me saying, you already know this because you've already been a teenager and you've already talked about sex with your parents, and you know damned well how uncomfortable it was for both sides to even mention it. You know that you 'knew it all anyway' and your parents hoped you wouldn't want to get involved with anybody until you were out on your own. You also know that if you had a kid you wouldn't let him into your porn stash.
Seriously, quit mugging for an Insightful mod. Faking a problem with reading comprehension is obnoxious.
Short of some kind of console hack, I'd guess Microsoft could make it nearly impossible for customers to run the game. I'm not a lawyer, but I'd think they have every right to do this.
I don't know about modern consoles but the way it worked in ye olden days was that a cartridge wouldn't run unless it displayed the company's logo. By displaying the logo it became a copyright issue. If you don't have permission, you can't legally sell the game.
how is a sex game totally inappropriate for their "family platform"?
If you're not one already, pretend you are a parent with a son in high school. Which do you think is more likely to happen: 1. That he's going to hatchet people 2. He's going to get a girl pregnant.
Don't bother hitting reply just yet, We both know that the answer is number 2. Every parent knows what sort of things they got up to before they became a mommy or a daddy. Most, if not all, parents really don't want to worry about the threat of teen pregnancy. So what would most of them like to do? Buy themselves some time. "They're not old enough for the sex talk. We should keep everything away from them that will cause the talk to happen while I'm still uncomfortable with it!"
It doesn't really matter if keeping the topic of sex away from kids is the right way to go or not because, frankly, the path of least resistance is avoiding the topic at all. Until kids start running around maiming each other and we stop seeing a bunch of pregnant 16 year olds in school, it's always going to be the one topic everybody wants to avoid. I'm not saying it's wise, but it does make sense.
The message? Graphic violence is OK and normal and natural. Sex is obscene, uncommon, not a part of normal adult life, and must not be shown for any reason.
Anybody else think maybe we have this backwards?
Teen pregnancy is a much much bigger problem than teen murder.
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The story's about the possible rise of the Chinese language in a place currently dominated by English, so you suggest everybody learn Esperanto? You're like that guy who tells the PC or Mac guys to switch to Amiga... or worse, that guy that chimes in on an iOS thread and says 'Nokia N900!'
Normally I wouldn't mind, but you've written a frickin novel, here.
Yeah, or you could just use a book and help your kid read instead of letting a computer do your job as a parent...
Or you could do both and give your kid practical experience in the modern age of technology.
GO to ebay, search Tablet PC. Pick one.
Download Ubuntu 10.10
Install Ubuntu 10.10 on the tablet.
Magical poof happens with a bright brown genie appearing and angels singing.... you have a ubuntu tablet! Something that nobody ever though of....
Granted, Tablet PC's have been around for decades, and running Linux on them has been happening for decades.... Ignore that.
Fujitsu stylistic works great, plus I can use a stylus so I can use it as a writing tablet. Too bad there is not a OS replacement for MSFT One Note.
The 'tablet' you describe is a notebook with a wacom tablet built in. It's not a tablet in the iPad sense.
I realize that sounds like typical Slashdot pedantry , but the points about 'not having to wait for it to boot' and the 'apps are actually designed to use it' are critical to making a 'tablet PC' take off. Microsoft missed the mark. I used to have a Tablet PC. The fact that it had XP's less-than-spectacular suspend mode is what kept it from being little more than a laptop to me.
So when you used both the phrases 'obligatory' and 'sorry, it had to be done', you chose to ignore two big clues that it wasn't going to be funny?
That was thoughtful of your parents, but they didn't give you that trust, you earned it. Most don't manage that. I had a similar experience with my parents, but most of the kids I knew growing up were too boneheaded for that to work.
The banner ad is your index for browsing them. Instead of going page by page, have just one page showing a bunch of banners. THEN you decide whether or not the product is worth taking a closer look at.
You're right. Instead of showing a concise list of small graphical banner ads already designed to inform you enough to grab your interest, the far less efficient method that was suggested is so much more sensible that Im stupid for challenging it. Thanks to you I am deservedy humbled.
Except the term they use the entite time is 'banner-ads", which makes sense coinsidering that approach doesn't give the false impression of ad-clicks.
If someone says having $10 is better than having $1,000, and you think they are masochistic, you are being judgemental of them until the moment you ask them 'why'. 'Equally viable' is not a part of it for reasons way too obvious to list.
No, it's not. You're trying to save face.
That's not the ad you're bookmarking.
Being that you are likely a fan of scifi, why are you being judgemental of what other people enjoy?
I hate to say it, but I've actually wished in the past I could save an ad for later. But then I realized I could just click the ad and use the "bookmark this page" in my browser. Derp.
So you keep clicking the bookmark until the ad cycles around again.
This story is about as far from Slashdot's slogan as you can get.
True. Facebook requires friends.
I could be the first person ever to be modded up for saying "Best Buy FTW!!!"
Well I don't like these ridiculous patent claims, but seeing Microsoft as a victim makes it worthwhile
No, it doesn't.
This has no bearing on me, as I have no desire to own an iPad, and even less desire to read a single word penned in Murdoch's cesspool.
So you click on the slashdot article about a service you would not want on a device you don't have? Then leave a comments letting us know you don't care about it?
Of course. We're all trying to win that word 'Insightful' next to our posts.
So.... you're just talking about the block you live on, then?
Because some bozo starts whining about fragmentation whenever Android is mentioned?
"Your honor, I object. It's devastating to my case!"
And this is why we have teen pregnancies. Because people are so scared of their bodies and their natural functions they won't talk about it with their spouse, much less their progeny.
Oh, please. We have teen pregnancy because our bodies scream "WE WANNA FUCK!"
Instead of taking the path of least resistance, instead of preaching abstinence...
Nobody's talking about abstinence. Nobody wants their kids to see sexually explicit material, not just people with a particular view on it.
Seriously, do you also insist that "its the path of least resistance" to not discuss under age drinking and driving while drunk so we should just shut up and not talk about it?
I didn't say anything about people needing to shut up and not talk about it and that they'd rather put it off. If you don't mind me saying, you already know this because you've already been a teenager and you've already talked about sex with your parents, and you know damned well how uncomfortable it was for both sides to even mention it. You know that you 'knew it all anyway' and your parents hoped you wouldn't want to get involved with anybody until you were out on your own. You also know that if you had a kid you wouldn't let him into your porn stash.
Seriously, quit mugging for an Insightful mod. Faking a problem with reading comprehension is obnoxious.
You place a nerdy looking dude on the street corner, and a G on the other street corner, I guarantee you the G will be getting a lot more respect.
There was never a point where that wasn't true.
As for crime rates going down, you must live someplace i don't.
Look it up.
Keeping kids from sexually explicit imagery isn't something that only people believe in abstinence do.
Short of some kind of console hack, I'd guess Microsoft could make it nearly impossible for customers to run the game. I'm not a lawyer, but I'd think they have every right to do this.
I don't know about modern consoles but the way it worked in ye olden days was that a cartridge wouldn't run unless it displayed the company's logo. By displaying the logo it became a copyright issue. If you don't have permission, you can't legally sell the game.
how is a sex game totally inappropriate for their "family platform"?
If you're not one already, pretend you are a parent with a son in high school. Which do you think is more likely to happen: 1. That he's going to hatchet people 2. He's going to get a girl pregnant.
Don't bother hitting reply just yet, We both know that the answer is number 2. Every parent knows what sort of things they got up to before they became a mommy or a daddy. Most, if not all, parents really don't want to worry about the threat of teen pregnancy. So what would most of them like to do? Buy themselves some time. "They're not old enough for the sex talk. We should keep everything away from them that will cause the talk to happen while I'm still uncomfortable with it!"
It doesn't really matter if keeping the topic of sex away from kids is the right way to go or not because, frankly, the path of least resistance is avoiding the topic at all. Until kids start running around maiming each other and we stop seeing a bunch of pregnant 16 year olds in school, it's always going to be the one topic everybody wants to avoid. I'm not saying it's wise, but it does make sense.
The message? Graphic violence is OK and normal and natural. Sex is obscene, uncommon, not a part of normal adult life, and must not be shown for any reason.
Anybody else think maybe we have this backwards?
Teen pregnancy is a much much bigger problem than teen murder.
Google should have deleted the data before they even publicly announced that they had accidentally collected it.
Oh give them a break, they probably just hit 'archive' without even really thinking about it.