I've never quite got my head around a tech site like Slashdot, where the demographic is almost certainly interested in new technology having such a negative response to technological advances in what our phones can do. You rarely [never?] hear this with other technology on this site:
The moderation system is largely responsible for this sort of noise. Lots of people raise popular-beat-to-death issues or post contrarian views just to get that +5 Insightful next to their name.
If the TSA did nothing, they would not be any less effective.
He succeeded in bringing explosives aboard and proved to the world it was possible. If the TSA does nothing they will be blamed if the next guy is successful.
Human nature. When something bad happens, we try to prevent it from happening again.
It's easy to harshly judge these guys, but if they did nothing and another attempt was successful I would not want to be in their shoes. Not that I want to be in their shoes anyway. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
Translation: the only button is a power button, it has a battery-sucking colour screen as opposed to an e-ink display, it requires itunes on a mac or PC to use, the only Apple-approved way to run programs is via an app store, it has a non-user-replaceable battery, and it will cost upwards of $1000.
The scary part? Despite all that, it'll probably still embarrass all of the other companies that have tablet products.
Does Santa Hate Linux? beernutmark writes "Well, it looks like Santa or at least Norad/Google hates Linux. This year, for the first time since its inception, Norad is not making a simple.kml file available for download to track Santa. You must connect to their website with a Windows/Mac browser and use the browser plugin. No full-screen Google Earth to look at the beautiful areas around Santa's path. (Anyone have any open source source kml files for tracking Santa or any idea how we can go about making one for 2010?)"
Gee, I wonder which line of this summary got this story posted. I wonder if those complaining about Apple rumor stories will catch this.
Right on, bruddah! You can't browse facebook with less than 10mbps. Any slower and it'll take forever for the four videos, two slideshows, background music, and flash animation to load. What were they thinking?!?
They're thinking: "How come we'z gettin so many emails calling us idiots for confusing MySpace and Facebook?"
I have a boss that goes out of his way to avoid needing saturday work. When it comes up, he asks for volunteers. (As opposed to the Office Space approach I've seen before...) Then he comes in, brings in food, and he sits queitly in his office while we work, as opposed to circling like a buzzard. I realize this is similar to what's already been posted, but I have to say, it is really nice to have the guy that approves the shots there to look at what you did and say "fix this and this and you're done!" as opposed to waiting until Monday for him to see it and ask for rush changes. Okay, that's not programming, but I can imagine just about any worker could find themselves in a position where it'd be really helpful to know if the unexpected decision they made was the right one.
It is very easy for me to imagine that at some point in your life you've laughed at somebody getting their pants yanked down or maybe at embarrassing photos of people.
This is not true. All SPAM needs to get published is somebody to spend a few bucks to get their message out there. That's it. SPAM rates are not goverened by success of the ad. SPAM is, however, dirt cheap (I think I read something like $100 for 50,000 messages...) and a number of people use that stupid "if I only get 1% of those...." logic.
Advertising in general works like that. We still have pop-up ads because some dumb-shits out there are ordering them.
Well, I suppose you do have a point. I hadn't considered the possibility that you enjoy celebrating your own fanboyism by having a go at other fanboys and then crying about it when their news gets all the attention.
Living 150 years or more is needed to endure the process of creating an iPhone app, and then going through all of Apple's artificial hurdles just to get it released to the public.
"Apple fans are really obnoxious!" "There's too much Apple blathering on Slashdot!" "I'm going to take a poke at Apple in an entirely unrelated thread!"
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I've never quite got my head around a tech site like Slashdot, where the demographic is almost certainly interested in new technology having such a negative response to technological advances in what our phones can do. You rarely [never?] hear this with other technology on this site:
The moderation system is largely responsible for this sort of noise. Lots of people raise popular-beat-to-death issues or post contrarian views just to get that +5 Insightful next to their name.
I know this because I'm guilty of it.
If the TSA did nothing, they would not be any less effective.
He succeeded in bringing explosives aboard and proved to the world it was possible. If the TSA does nothing they will be blamed if the next guy is successful.
So what's the point of the new rules?
Human nature. When something bad happens, we try to prevent it from happening again.
It's easy to harshly judge these guys, but if they did nothing and another attempt was successful I would not want to be in their shoes. Not that I want to be in their shoes anyway. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
Airliners dropping from the sky isn't much of an improvement.
Yeah it's only somewhere between a 10:1 and 300:1 difference in the loss in life.
Translation: the only button is a power button, it has a battery-sucking colour screen as opposed to an e-ink display, it requires itunes on a mac or PC to use, the only Apple-approved way to run programs is via an app store, it has a non-user-replaceable battery, and it will cost upwards of $1000.
The scary part? Despite all that, it'll probably still embarrass all of the other companies that have tablet products.
Swsp 2 and 3. Didn't ya catch the 'Does Santa hate Linux' story?
Does Santa Hate Linux? .kml file available for download to track Santa. You must connect to their website with a Windows/Mac browser and use the browser plugin. No full-screen Google Earth to look at the beautiful areas around Santa's path. (Anyone have any open source source kml files for tracking Santa or any idea how we can go about making one for 2010?)"
beernutmark writes "Well, it looks like Santa or at least Norad/Google hates Linux. This year, for the first time since its inception, Norad is not making a simple
Gee, I wonder which line of this summary got this story posted. I wonder if those complaining about Apple rumor stories will catch this.
Right on, bruddah! You can't browse facebook with less than 10mbps. Any slower and it'll take forever for the four videos, two slideshows, background music, and flash animation to load. What were they thinking?!?
They're thinking: "How come we'z gettin so many emails calling us idiots for confusing MySpace and Facebook?"
Actually, lag injection doesn't sound that far-fetched given the quality of most ISPs.
It also doesn't sound far-fetched that Microsoft heats their campus by burning the bodies of orphans. Doesn't mean it's happening.
I have a boss that goes out of his way to avoid needing saturday work. When it comes up, he asks for volunteers. (As opposed to the Office Space approach I've seen before...) Then he comes in, brings in food, and he sits queitly in his office while we work, as opposed to circling like a buzzard. I realize this is similar to what's already been posted, but I have to say, it is really nice to have the guy that approves the shots there to look at what you did and say "fix this and this and you're done!" as opposed to waiting until Monday for him to see it and ask for rush changes. Okay, that's not programming, but I can imagine just about any worker could find themselves in a position where it'd be really helpful to know if the unexpected decision they made was the right one.
An invasion of privacy is hilarious?
It is very easy for me to imagine that at some point in your life you've laughed at somebody getting their pants yanked down or maybe at embarrassing photos of people.
Where did those extra 2.2 pounds come from?
Wedding cake is very fattening...
A big, really nice plane. Will wonders never cease? Oh yeah, FP.
Cynical Slashdot nerd is not impressed, set faces on stun.
Maybe now with a billion samples, we can start training people how to recognize it.
Do you actually know anybody who's ever purchased something from SPAM?
You can't fix stupid.
Ignorance != stupidity.
in short... yes
This is not true. All SPAM needs to get published is somebody to spend a few bucks to get their message out there. That's it. SPAM rates are not goverened by success of the ad. SPAM is, however, dirt cheap (I think I read something like $100 for 50,000 messages...) and a number of people use that stupid "if I only get 1% of those...." logic.
Advertising in general works like that. We still have pop-up ads because some dumb-shits out there are ordering them.
...to body language, the problem is humans using such an ambiguous form of communication when they could make the effort to be explicit with words.
I don't understand what you mean. Could you turn on your webcam?
Though if it is so bad you aren't willing to give a summary that is worth squat, then why even put it on the front page?
Because Slashdot served an ad when you clicked 'reply'.
Not by anyone intelligent.
There are a lot of people on this site you just smacked with this comment. Heh.
Now a user only needs to sort through 99,000 cheap knockoffs.
In sharp contrast to every other OS with apps made for it out there.
Eh I think I gave you some crap for something somebody else did. Sorry man.
Well, I suppose you do have a point. I hadn't considered the possibility that you enjoy celebrating your own fanboyism by having a go at other fanboys and then crying about it when their news gets all the attention.
Being able to see them side by side is how I do my work.
Tabs don't prevent this.
Tabbed browsing assuming that the person can only do one thing at a time and everything is mutually exclusive.
Anything is 'bad' if taken to exclusive extremes. Seriously, I could easily give you the opposite example and how that's broken for that context.
You'd probably enjoy Opera. Great mix of both options.
I can already tab between my various programs
Ah, so you don't use tabs in FireFox then?
Living 150 years or more is needed to endure the process of creating an iPhone app, and then going through all of Apple's artificial hurdles just to get it released to the public.
"Apple fans are really obnoxious!" "There's too much Apple blathering on Slashdot!" "I'm going to take a poke at Apple in an entirely unrelated thread!"
Which one of these doesn't belong? Mmmm??