I have a silly question that'll no doubt expose my ignorance on the matter. With this sort of power, is there a lot of electricity wasted? In other words, would my electric bill go up for the same amount of charging?
I just wanted to chime in and say that Dell offers VERY nice screens for laptops. They were one of the first to offer 1600 by 1200 on a laptop, and the viewing angles and black points are suprisingly good. Other laptop manufacturers out there have interesting hardware that not everybody else sells. (I recall that Saeger had laptops with two optical drives.. that's kinda neat, at least for some people.) For some people, it's just not as simple as "go find another retailer". They all cut corners in different places to keep the costs down. Some of those corners are very important to people.
"As for porn, I cannot BELIEVE that people on/. are advocating restricting porn to people you would allow violent video games too."
The reason for this incongruity is that teen pregnancy happens far more often than teen murder. In other words: Parents remember how they spent their youth and don't want their kids making stupid mistakes. They think that by being bombarded with porn they'll run out and try to 'score', ignoring the risk of tying up the next 18 years of their lives.
Whether they're right about that or not is a seperate discussion. I'm just pointing out why sex is far more taboo than violence.
"invading mobs of Muslim youths" and airplanes crashing into skyscrapers simply are not high on the list of things likely to kill you."
Oh what short memories we have. 9-11 comes, tanks the economy, raises unemployment rates, scares the shit out of the country, and today all people can remember is the number 3,000.
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"It is busy enough up there already isn't it, without aliens hogging the airways?"
"This isn't a tech issue or anything, who cares about Starbucks public relations operations or their corporate policies? So they and Oxfam are having a pissing match, big whoop."
a.) Lots of nerds care about what happens to Starbucks. b.) They used YouTube.
Slashdot isn't always going to have news you're interested in. Sorry.
"Good luck sending.exes in zipfiles via GMail... unless you rename them to something other than.exe. GMail is a monstrous pain in the ass in this respect. It will not let.exes through even in a.zip or.rar file."
This used to be true, but it has been a while. I just sent myself both a.ZIP and.RAR file and they came through successfully. I imagine Google got sick of complaints aobut it. I've been sending ZIP file backups to myself for several months now.
This just in! The new island has suddenly lurched into the air and is now headed skywards. There are unconfirmed reports that a man with a cape was seen at the bottom of this former island. It was assumed to be Superman but since the island was made of kryptonite, this is actively being debated on the internet.
"I presume you're confusing all variants of the GNU/Linux operating system with the Linux kernel, in detriment of all the good folks work, in favor of a select few kernel developers."
So are the people he's talking about.
"As long as you continue to confuse a kernel with a full operating system, then you don't even hold a credible opinion either on the matter of the adoption of Free Software: you don't even know what you're talking about!"
Considering how common it is to use Linux as an umbrella term to describe various distributions ("Microsoft's evil! Everybody should swith to Linux!") then a lot of the noisy people don't have a credible opinion, either. You've supported his point. It's hard to believe people who have dedicated so much of their energy to fighting an entity that they blindly prescribe a different OS without any objectivity that would give them pause for thought.
Microsoft may be out to get you, but you shouldn't perjure yourself to get people to move away from them. All it would take to sour somebody's opinion of Linux (excuse me, I mean Ubuntu) is for them to have a few 'dammit' moments when they try to get their games or wireless drivers to work. Who knows how long it'd be before they gave it another shot after that.
"Here I thought 'upgrades' were supposed to improve performance..."
They do that by improving productivity, usually at the cost of requiring more cycles. OS's get slower with each release, not faster. The 'speed' you often get comes from taking advantage of new whiz-bang hardware.
Microsoft may be the poster child for bloat, but it is not something they have a monopoly on.
"The fact people were able to just return the consoles free and clear means that there really isn't a cost associated with scalping..."
I dunno if I'd derive too many conclusions from the return policies of stores. This all happened around Christmas time and if it's one thing retailers won't do, it's give a lot of shit to customers during the holidays. I remember a couple of years ago game retailers were allowing returns of games little Johnny just plain didn't enjoy. Can't do that any other time of year.
"People keep saying this, but it hasn't been proven yet."
It hasn't? Well, maybe it's a matter of opinion, but it's surprising to me that a collection of mini sports games has generated all this buzz. Put Wii sports on any other console and 'ho-hum' is the best they'd generate. I'm personally satisfied with the "whole new way to play games we haven't experienced" declaration.
"So a community of people decided that your behavior was unacceptable to their community standards? I fail to see anything unjust about that..."
Community standards can be unjust. Surely somebody that has been around Slashdot as long as you would understand the dangers of Group Think.
I'm not saying the Craigs List community was wrong (or right, for that matter), I'm just having trouble with this argument you've put forth. Communities should be motivated by what's right, not by what popular opinion dictates. Otherwise policies are simply enacted to keep the noisy people quiet. Not good.
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"No. That's extra."
Oh it's not that bad. He just has to walk up to the door and press UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A Start.
Admittedly he'll be a little winded after the journey to the front door... but still.
I have a silly question that'll no doubt expose my ignorance on the matter. With this sort of power, is there a lot of electricity wasted? In other words, would my electric bill go up for the same amount of charging?
"Maybe the Dells are cheaper."
I just wanted to chime in and say that Dell offers VERY nice screens for laptops. They were one of the first to offer 1600 by 1200 on a laptop, and the viewing angles and black points are suprisingly good. Other laptop manufacturers out there have interesting hardware that not everybody else sells. (I recall that Saeger had laptops with two optical drives.. that's kinda neat, at least for some people.) For some people, it's just not as simple as "go find another retailer". They all cut corners in different places to keep the costs down. Some of those corners are very important to people.
"I just got my servers switched over from the Julien to the Gregorian calender. Now this. When will it ever end."
You think that was bad? You should have been around for the BC to AD conversion. Yikes.
"It's exactly like the season finale of episodic work - TV show, webcomic, movie series, etc..."
... except people paid full price for half a movie.
"As for porn, I cannot BELIEVE that people on /. are advocating restricting porn to people you would allow violent video games too."
The reason for this incongruity is that teen pregnancy happens far more often than teen murder. In other words: Parents remember how they spent their youth and don't want their kids making stupid mistakes. They think that by being bombarded with porn they'll run out and try to 'score', ignoring the risk of tying up the next 18 years of their lives.
Whether they're right about that or not is a seperate discussion. I'm just pointing out why sex is far more taboo than violence.
"the point m0re t4e BSD license, use the sling. TO GET SOME EYE standpoint, I don't"
Kang, you fool! Get your translator working!!
"invading mobs of Muslim youths" and airplanes crashing into skyscrapers simply are not high on the list of things likely to kill you."
Oh what short memories we have. 9-11 comes, tanks the economy, raises unemployment rates, scares the shit out of the country, and today all people can remember is the number 3,000.
"It is busy enough up there already isn't it, without aliens hogging the airways?"
Will somebody PLEASE think of the humans?
"A lot of people are willing to pay a fortune to see images of my dick."
The joke's on them. AC's camera was only 2 megapixels!
"That's the funniest thing I've heard this week."
It's not that funny to those of us that have developed a taste for Raktajino.
"This isn't a tech issue or anything, who cares about Starbucks public relations operations or their corporate policies? So they and Oxfam are having a pissing match, big whoop."
a.) Lots of nerds care about what happens to Starbucks.
b.) They used YouTube.
Slashdot isn't always going to have news you're interested in. Sorry.
"Does the submitter have some agenda against Firefox?"
Nah, it was just a gag to get ppl to RTFA.
"Good luck sending .exes in zipfiles via GMail ... unless you rename them to something other than .exe. GMail is a monstrous pain in the ass in this respect. It will not let .exes through even in a .zip or .rar file."
.ZIP and .RAR file and they came through successfully. I imagine Google got sick of complaints aobut it. I've been sending ZIP file backups to myself for several months now.
This used to be true, but it has been a while. I just sent myself both a
This just in! The new island has suddenly lurched into the air and is now headed skywards. There are unconfirmed reports that a man with a cape was seen at the bottom of this former island. It was assumed to be Superman but since the island was made of kryptonite, this is actively being debated on the internet.
"I presume you're confusing all variants of the GNU/Linux operating system with the Linux kernel, in detriment of all the good folks work, in favor of a select few kernel developers."
So are the people he's talking about.
"As long as you continue to confuse a kernel with a full operating system, then you don't even hold a credible opinion either on the matter of the adoption of Free Software: you don't even know what you're talking about!"
Considering how common it is to use Linux as an umbrella term to describe various distributions ("Microsoft's evil! Everybody should swith to Linux!") then a lot of the noisy people don't have a credible opinion, either. You've supported his point. It's hard to believe people who have dedicated so much of their energy to fighting an entity that they blindly prescribe a different OS without any objectivity that would give them pause for thought.
Microsoft may be out to get you, but you shouldn't perjure yourself to get people to move away from them. All it would take to sour somebody's opinion of Linux (excuse me, I mean Ubuntu) is for them to have a few 'dammit' moments when they try to get their games or wireless drivers to work. Who knows how long it'd be before they gave it another shot after that.
"Oh, wait, there isn't any! Nevermind."
You're the fifth person in this thread to bitch about the dupe, hypocrite.
"Why the heck does Linux have to bend over backwards to support the latest Microsoft thing?"
It hinders adoption when they don't.
"Here I thought 'upgrades' were supposed to improve performance..."
They do that by improving productivity, usually at the cost of requiring more cycles. OS's get slower with each release, not faster. The 'speed' you often get comes from taking advantage of new whiz-bang hardware.
Microsoft may be the poster child for bloat, but it is not something they have a monopoly on.
"The fact people were able to just return the consoles free and clear means that there really isn't a cost associated with scalping..."
I dunno if I'd derive too many conclusions from the return policies of stores. This all happened around Christmas time and if it's one thing retailers won't do, it's give a lot of shit to customers during the holidays. I remember a couple of years ago game retailers were allowing returns of games little Johnny just plain didn't enjoy. Can't do that any other time of year.
"People keep saying this, but it hasn't been proven yet."
It hasn't? Well, maybe it's a matter of opinion, but it's surprising to me that a collection of mini sports games has generated all this buzz. Put Wii sports on any other console and 'ho-hum' is the best they'd generate. I'm personally satisfied with the "whole new way to play games we haven't experienced" declaration.
"So a community of people decided that your behavior was unacceptable to their community standards? I fail to see anything unjust about that..."
Community standards can be unjust. Surely somebody that has been around Slashdot as long as you would understand the dangers of Group Think.
I'm not saying the Craigs List community was wrong (or right, for that matter), I'm just having trouble with this argument you've put forth. Communities should be motivated by what's right, not by what popular opinion dictates. Otherwise policies are simply enacted to keep the noisy people quiet. Not good.
"might wanna try a ctrl-f, you'll probably get better results"
Um... either way, pressing alt+f or ctrl+f and entering 'PS3' on the Constitution will get the same results.
"I wonder what the worst is?"
A PSP.
"BullShit! The Rooster came first....."
I really don't understand how on Slashdot of all places we end up spending funny mods on cock discussions.