Yes, Slashdot does annoy Slashdotters. Heh, I get pissed off with the responses I get probably as much as you do. Today it's your turn to be argued at... most things do turn into an argument here, kind of like how MMORPGS are mostly grind, yet the users can't keep themselves from coming back for more. One day you can be disillusioned and ready to trash your account, and a few days later you barely remember that.
You know what I meant by "nobody cares what audiophiles think" in the context of my post about mp3 being one of the only 'important'* digital media formats, right? (it was strictly about that topic, not a personal slight about your opinion)
That's why everything becomes an argument here. Somehow many of the people in this incredibly homogeneous group manage to miss each other's points so cleanly that two people can argue about different things at once without realising. Insert pop psychology reference to Asperger's here.
Just noticed this comment. I said "everyone's favourite". "Everyone's favourite" is a common idiomatic phrase in English, which basically means "popular", but frames it right for use in nice sentences. It's never to be taken as a definite absolute statistic, it just states a truism: most people prefer mp3. It staggers me that you took this to mean that I believed that mp3 was the best format and literally everyone's favourite.
You're the one who took this offtopic (in a negative tone: "yeah, nope") to talk about audio formats, and a few people said that mp3 is good enough, because in the context of my comment, it is. That doesn't count as getting ripped on, and certainly isn't a flamewar.
We all agree with you that there are better formats better suited to other circumstances. Calling us idiots was uncalled for, and any "stupid shit" belongs exclusively to you in this thread.
Don't tell me what my own point is. And if you do, make some effort to be accurate, and don't just add made-up things to make your point sound more righteous like "it doesn't matter".
My point is that I don't know anything about this, and somebody who knows what they're doing will do something about it.
Sorry to ruin your world weary human bashing, but the complacent majority doesn't work like that. Though everyone cares about something, they also don't care about most other things. The only complacent majority is the one we all belong to, with no exceptions (not even you).
Yeah, but no, but yeah, but no. Any realityophile will tell you, nobody gives a shit what audiophiles think, especially not the "everyone" I'm referring to.
Are you implying that it's like some sort of spherical "bubble" structure? Yeah right...
Ooooh it's a big scary bubble, I'm so scared!! I'll just poke it with my trusty bubble identifier and...[transmission ends]
You crazy Slashdotters... bubble? burst? Humbug!
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Whereas the first case is a shameful example of government abuse of power, the second is a case of a private company applying their own rules that you have to consciously accept and sign up to. Nothing evil about that at all.
While I disagree with your comparison to Microsoft, thanks so much for the pagead2.googlesyndication.com tip!
It's in/etc/hosts now and forever, and it fucking rules! If I ever want something cool to do, I'll think of some clever thing for pagead/show_ads.js, but for now it's nice to be missing out on ads without resorting to crappy bloated Firefox extensions.
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Ah, the stock market, the zodiac of the rich...
GOOG stock holders: Beware of irresistible new offers, as the dotcom constellation will soon be heading back between Mars and Venus
MSFT stock holders: Potentially hard times are coming. It's too early to say what the outcome will be, but the proximity of Jupiter to Neptune doesn't bode well.
This is one of the most blatant, bare faced lies I've ever seen.
"The consequences of Linux not supporting DRM would be that fixed-purpose consumer electronics and Windows PCs would be the sole entertainment platforms available," Ayers said. "Linux would be further relegated to use in servers and business computers, since it would not be providing the multimedia technologies demanded by consumers."
Not only is the first sentence not the intuitive fact it's presented as, but the last one is just pure crap. We didn't bend over to have DVD protection inserted, and now Linux is a better platform for DVD than Windows. We have compatibility with everyone's favourite digital format: mp3. These are the only two things I can see mattering for several years.
Hilariously, their very greed is still the thing that holds them back. Each company jealously cautious about "licensing" its proprietary format, everyone in "talks", the whole PS3 fiasco...
I'm not even worrying about this any more. Hopefully they will continue to try to compete technologically with FOSS, because so far, it's worked out great.
I really hate to repeat this kind of stuff, since it sounds like mindless propaganda, but it's a problem for all three of those groups of people. Environmental damage... bla bla bla... one world... and... it... all we have... if... future generations... ravishing!
and China's appetite for scrap is so enormous that the shipments just keep on coming.
Responsibility is a universal thing. Importantly, the Slashdot summary seems to be the only place with the slant, with the Salon.com article dealing with the wider issue (as in the quote above). Not going to click on some fucking "sponsor logo" to read an article though.
A passworded login won't protect your files even from a Linux liveCD*. If you're worried about your files, they should at least be encrypted (I know this is what you said, but I made it more general). Myself, I just try to avoid having anything sensitive on my HDD.
*though the sort of people buying stolen laptops probably don't know that
So you're a savage primitive if you don't recycle, because of all the toxic components in computers, but if you do, you're an imperialist polluter because of all the toxic components in computers?
Why can't anything be simple? Are people really that greedy? I guess what'll happen is some certification will spring up "100% true recycling" or something. These things tend to work out in the end.
Okay, here's the problem. You seemed to me to be saying that teenagers as a whole were growing up. How the fuck did I interpret it like that? Don't know.
The problem with the Slashdot article, on the other hand, is that it should read Teens lose interest in gaming?, because without comparing the results from the ten previous studies done by this bloke, the stats in the article have nothing to do with the general trend implied by the Slashdot title.
If the figure had been much lower in all his other studies, we could start talking about "teens losing interest in gaming", but what we're given just weakly shows a trend for teens to lose interest, which I think is what you were saying.
A cash cow starts to get fat. The parasites move in. Sequels and remakes become the norm. Flashy style takes precedence over substance. Innovations move from the product itself to the maximisation of profit.
Sound familiar? It's the same thing we constantly take the piss out of Hollywood for every time movies come up. At the forefront of this are the likes of Bethesda and Bungie - flashy graphics, sequels and series, micropurchases, and universally unsatisfactory gameplay saved only by a few major strengths.
To be perfectly frank, I haven't thought it through to that point yet. Since I'm already in favour of the laptop itself, I'm inclined to be just as optimistic about its future effects as its immediate ones, and say that once the skills are there, more outsourcing will ocurr, or even better, that native IT industries will themselves grow (not that countries like Brazil don't already have IT industries, just that they're not really very strong right now).
As well as that, the developing world needs to keep up with us on more than just the basics of education. If computers are gaining all this importance in the developed world, then as countries move towards the status of "developed", they need to be up to par. Like I said though, this is likely coming from the fact that I'm in favour of the laptop. Or maybe it's a valid development of the fundamental reason that I'm in favour of it (education breeding growth)? Whatever, it's 1:30AM, and I've had my fill of this topic for a little while.
What fucking "they"? Either provide some context to work within or leave me alone. I'm talking about the value of the project itself, not its value in a specific country. Unless you have a specific country in mind, you have no business evaluating the project's worth in relation to other human needs.
If you want an answer to your rhetorical question so badly, here it is: the people this laptop is going to already have access to drinking water, in the cases that I know anything about - Latin America.
Of what value is your opinion if you think you think you can talk in generalities like "they" and yet specify something as narrow as "access to drinking water"? It's more complex than just "rich" and "poor".
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You know what I meant by "nobody cares what audiophiles think" in the context of my post about mp3 being one of the only 'important'* digital media formats, right? (it was strictly about that topic, not a personal slight about your opinion)
That's why everything becomes an argument here. Somehow many of the people in this incredibly homogeneous group manage to miss each other's points so cleanly that two people can argue about different things at once without realising. Insert pop psychology reference to Asperger's here.
*important as in for the majority
You're the one who took this offtopic (in a negative tone: "yeah, nope") to talk about audio formats, and a few people said that mp3 is good enough, because in the context of my comment, it is. That doesn't count as getting ripped on, and certainly isn't a flamewar.
We all agree with you that there are better formats better suited to other circumstances. Calling us idiots was uncalled for, and any "stupid shit" belongs exclusively to you in this thread.
On a lighter note, who does Slashdot piss off?
My point is that I don't know anything about this, and somebody who knows what they're doing will do something about it.
Sorry to ruin your world weary human bashing, but the complacent majority doesn't work like that. Though everyone cares about something, they also don't care about most other things. The only complacent majority is the one we all belong to, with no exceptions (not even you).
Yeah, but no, but yeah, but no. Any realityophile will tell you, nobody gives a shit what audiophiles think, especially not the "everyone" I'm referring to.
Whereas the first case is a shameful example of government abuse of power, the second is a case of a private company applying their own rules that you have to consciously accept and sign up to. Nothing evil about that at all.
10-38! 10-38! Outsider blabbing about auto-article system!
It's in /etc/hosts now and forever, and it fucking rules! If I ever want something cool to do, I'll think of some clever thing for pagead/show_ads.js, but for now it's nice to be missing out on ads without resorting to crappy bloated Firefox extensions.
Hilariously, their very greed is still the thing that holds them back. Each company jealously cautious about "licensing" its proprietary format, everyone in "talks", the whole PS3 fiasco...
I'm not even worrying about this any more. Hopefully they will continue to try to compete technologically with FOSS, because so far, it's worked out great.
I really hate to repeat this kind of stuff, since it sounds like mindless propaganda, but it's a problem for all three of those groups of people. Environmental damage... bla bla bla... one world... and... it... all we have... if... future generations... ravishing!
You created a new account to say this?
*though the sort of people buying stolen laptops probably don't know that
Why can't anything be simple? Are people really that greedy? I guess what'll happen is some certification will spring up "100% true recycling" or something. These things tend to work out in the end.
On the contrary, today has been a caffeine free experience. Man, what a shit username this is...
The problem with the Slashdot article, on the other hand, is that it should read Teens lose interest in gaming?, because without comparing the results from the ten previous studies done by this bloke, the stats in the article have nothing to do with the general trend implied by the Slashdot title.
If the figure had been much lower in all his other studies, we could start talking about "teens losing interest in gaming", but what we're given just weakly shows a trend for teens to lose interest, which I think is what you were saying.
Sound familiar? It's the same thing we constantly take the piss out of Hollywood for every time movies come up. At the forefront of this are the likes of Bethesda and Bungie - flashy graphics, sequels and series, micropurchases, and universally unsatisfactory gameplay saved only by a few major strengths.
Individuals grow up, but the age range of the teenagers asked remains the same.
As well as that, the developing world needs to keep up with us on more than just the basics of education. If computers are gaining all this importance in the developed world, then as countries move towards the status of "developed", they need to be up to par. Like I said though, this is likely coming from the fact that I'm in favour of the laptop. Or maybe it's a valid development of the fundamental reason that I'm in favour of it (education breeding growth)? Whatever, it's 1:30AM, and I've had my fill of this topic for a little while.
If you want an answer to your rhetorical question so badly, here it is: the people this laptop is going to already have access to drinking water, in the cases that I know anything about - Latin America.
Sounds like you're desperately clawing for a technical downside. More than one language means a few extra megs of space used. See point 1.
Of what value is your opinion if you think you think you can talk in generalities like "they" and yet specify something as narrow as "access to drinking water"? It's more complex than just "rich" and "poor".