Even here in the US they're merely an extremely vocal minority. Unfortunately they do tend to end up in influential positions, since they are the ultimate rich wannabe/asskisser types, and we end up with a lot of righttards mouthing off and a lot of people who don't feel free to respond due to the minority of asshats who are in a position to make others miserable. It sucks big time and I can't fucking wait for the poli-fashion to swing the other way. Maybe the 8-year-olds of today will have a '60s-style party in 2020, 'cause right now it's like the new '50s.
Corporations are neither created nor run by robots or space aliens or zombies. They are created and run by people, with the express purpose of shielding these people from losing everything they own in event of their business failure. Corporations are merely a legal device for lowering risk of entrepreneurial activities by people.
You remind me of Al Franken as the chemical company spokesman on an old SNL skit. "Here you are, enjoy this nice, refreshing glass of H2SO4!"
I subscribe to both, last.fm and soma. At three dollars a month each, they're a fantastic bargain. With last you have to invest some time and energy into personalizing it, but in my experience it's well worth it. Just the other day I was thinking to myself, "never have I had access to so much good programming for so little money".
Oops, now watch me get modded down to hell for "trolling linux". Just in case you thought that, I was pointing out that making things idiot-proof without making them insecure is extremely hard to do.
I always knew that when they made *nix idiot-proof all hell would break loose security-wise. Android has proven that really thoroughly. It's too bad, really. I had high hopes for it once.
Maybe they'll get it together yet though.
The power of the people has been usurped by government while the power of the government has been usurped by large corporate interests, that's what happened.
In other words (from personal experience):
Slackware, Gentoo, Debian, etc - are especially great if you're a young geek who has plenty of time to enjoy debugging and playing with everything to get the simplest functionality out of your system (like sound or the right resolution to display properly on your screen).
I installed Squeeze a few weeks back, and I didn't have to touch a thing to get sound and graphics to work properly. Same with Lenny before that, actually.
Yes, he seems to be talking as if it's 2002. Any modern distro will do sound, video, and wireless pretty painlessly on most hardware nowadays. Been like that a few years now. But of course all it takes is a few people with oddball systems to have to run a command or two and the freaking sky is falling, loonix is teh suxxorz, etc... Bah -- fine with me if they want to use Ballmer's Botnet.
That's the whole reason Ubuntu exists though, for people who lack the time or ability or whatever to just install and configure Debian (which exists for people who lack the time or ability or whatever to just build gentoo, which exists for people who lack time or ability or whatever to just create their own private distro from scratch, which of course is for people who lack time or ability or whatever to just go ahead and code their own custom OS using vi or emacs...).
You're a liar and a fucking idiot. The shooter was a right wing radical, an obsessive Glenn Beck fanboi no less. Is lying all you righttards have? Sure looks that way...
The wireless providers know only this model, and their business is booming. Don't think this isn't the future of all consumer-level computing. The freedom was nice while it lasted...
The parent is correct. Compared to most of the so-called "first world" the USA is dominated by radical right-wingers. Whether or not that's a bad thing depends on your own bias, but to deny it and mod people "troll" for pointing it out just makes us look like the kind of yahoos the rest of the world thinks we are...
Slashcode was nearly perfect for awhile in 2005-6 but apparently they just kept tweaking until they pretty much ruined it. I agree the latest redesign is still difficult to navigate and painful to view. It helps to specify a custom css stylesheet just for this site in your browser's prefs, but of course that's kludgey and unsatisfying. Using elinks or lynx fixes the aesthetics; too bad they don't bother making it fully functional with any non-graphical browser.
The depressingly poor slashcode hasn't stopped me from reading, but I did drop my subscription and now participate a lot less than I used to.
So yeah, congratulations slashdot on another intrusive, semi-functional design which we now get to learn how to work around.:D
It came up so I expressed my opinion. I don't go around correcting people or interrupting them to point out their gaffes in everyday conversation, but in this discussion it's perfectly on topic.
Based on the number of mistakes with "then/than", "lose/loose", etc, I see from younger journalists and bloggers, I think spelling in general is getting worse, not better.
Way worse! Especially the last decade, many people don't even know that "then" and "than" are different words, that "ironic" doesn't mean "odd or coincidental", and how about expressions like "for all intensive purposes"? And don't get me started on "orientate"...
I think those of us who once identified as "apple geeks" have all moved on or are very close to moving on. It seems Apple doesn't care, they've got a much larger (and more annoying) market now. Of course, this could well blow up in their faces -- anything that popular will eventually be something no-one will want to be seen with, and when the day comes apple may regret that they spent the last few years alienating the people who were once apple geeks. And the funny thing is, for many of us OS X was the "gateway *nix".:-P
But yeah, I bought my first Mac in '87 and my last in '09. Can't imagine I'm the only one.
Actually, the music of Kid Chameleon strikes me as very retro. But then again, I was living a fairly avante garde life back in the 80s... Hey, isn't that a pencil neck geek in the vid?
And back doors in proprietary software.
Of course countries like Russia and Iran don't want to use software that has the NSA spy stuff built-in. Neither do I!
Why not just give every criminal something like this and completely get rid of prison. If you are a violent offender and your blood pressure goes up along with your adrenaline, the cops are called. If you are a thief and you go to the store, a cop is called. It just seems ridiculous that they spend more time and money locking up nonviolent offenders when the only thing our prison system in the US is good at is isolating people from society.
I've been saying this for years now. Of course it won't happen because Aramark won't get richer by not having a captive market to exploit.
More than 1,100 registered sex offenders live and work in Allegheny County and 43 of them are now wearing monitoring devices as a condition of their parole.
Really, I don't understand the whole "it's uncool to RTFA" thing. Reminds me of the redneck middle school I attended, where it was "uncool" to be intelligent.
Slashdot Mirror
This.
Oh see how irresponsible you are, now it'll be easier than ever to find it with google!
Even here in the US they're merely an extremely vocal minority. Unfortunately they do tend to end up in influential positions, since they are the ultimate rich wannabe/asskisser types, and we end up with a lot of righttards mouthing off and a lot of people who don't feel free to respond due to the minority of asshats who are in a position to make others miserable. It sucks big time and I can't fucking wait for the poli-fashion to swing the other way. Maybe the 8-year-olds of today will have a '60s-style party in 2020, 'cause right now it's like the new '50s.
You remind me of Al Franken as the chemical company spokesman on an old SNL skit. "Here you are, enjoy this nice, refreshing glass of H2SO4!"
I subscribe to both, last.fm and soma. At three dollars a month each, they're a fantastic bargain. With last you have to invest some time and energy into personalizing it, but in my experience it's well worth it. Just the other day I was thinking to myself, "never have I had access to so much good programming for so little money".
Brilliant! My new sig, thanks.
Yes of course, everyday right after I run "sudo rm -rf /*".
You misunderstood, I never said it did. Android was cited as another example of the pitfalls of "easy and automatic".
Oops, now watch me get modded down to hell for "trolling linux". Just in case you thought that, I was pointing out that making things idiot-proof without making them insecure is extremely hard to do.
posted via gentoo linux, BTW.
I always knew that when they made *nix idiot-proof all hell would break loose security-wise. Android has proven that really thoroughly. It's too bad, really. I had high hopes for it once. Maybe they'll get it together yet though.
The power of the people has been usurped by government while the power of the government has been usurped by large corporate interests, that's what happened.
Yes, he seems to be talking as if it's 2002. Any modern distro will do sound, video, and wireless pretty painlessly on most hardware nowadays. Been like that a few years now. But of course all it takes is a few people with oddball systems to have to run a command or two and the freaking sky is falling, loonix is teh suxxorz, etc... Bah -- fine with me if they want to use Ballmer's Botnet.
That's the whole reason Ubuntu exists though, for people who lack the time or ability or whatever to just install and configure Debian (which exists for people who lack the time or ability or whatever to just build gentoo, which exists for people who lack time or ability or whatever to just create their own private distro from scratch, which of course is for people who lack time or ability or whatever to just go ahead and code their own custom OS using vi or emacs...).
You're a liar and a fucking idiot. The shooter was a right wing radical, an obsessive Glenn Beck fanboi no less. Is lying all you righttards have? Sure looks that way...
The wireless providers know only this model, and their business is booming. Don't think this isn't the future of all consumer-level computing. The freedom was nice while it lasted...
The parent is correct. Compared to most of the so-called "first world" the USA is dominated by radical right-wingers. Whether or not that's a bad thing depends on your own bias, but to deny it and mod people "troll" for pointing it out just makes us look like the kind of yahoos the rest of the world thinks we are...
Slashcode was nearly perfect for awhile in 2005-6 but apparently they just kept tweaking until they pretty much ruined it. I agree the latest redesign is still difficult to navigate and painful to view. It helps to specify a custom css stylesheet just for this site in your browser's prefs, but of course that's kludgey and unsatisfying. Using elinks or lynx fixes the aesthetics; too bad they don't bother making it fully functional with any non-graphical browser.
:D
The depressingly poor slashcode hasn't stopped me from reading, but I did drop my subscription and now participate a lot less than I used to.
So yeah, congratulations slashdot on another intrusive, semi-functional design which we now get to learn how to work around.
It came up so I expressed my opinion. I don't go around correcting people or interrupting them to point out their gaffes in everyday conversation, but in this discussion it's perfectly on topic.
Way worse! Especially the last decade, many people don't even know that "then" and "than" are different words, that "ironic" doesn't mean "odd or coincidental", and how about expressions like "for all intensive purposes"? And don't get me started on "orientate"...
TFA is nonsense, written by an uneducated fool.
I think those of us who once identified as "apple geeks" have all moved on or are very close to moving on. It seems Apple doesn't care, they've got a much larger (and more annoying) market now. Of course, this could well blow up in their faces -- anything that popular will eventually be something no-one will want to be seen with, and when the day comes apple may regret that they spent the last few years alienating the people who were once apple geeks. And the funny thing is, for many of us OS X was the "gateway *nix". :-P
But yeah, I bought my first Mac in '87 and my last in '09. Can't imagine I'm the only one.
Okay, here you go.
Actually, the music of Kid Chameleon strikes me as very retro. But then again, I was living a fairly avante garde life back in the 80s... Hey, isn't that a pencil neck geek in the vid?
And back doors in proprietary software. Of course countries like Russia and Iran don't want to use software that has the NSA spy stuff built-in. Neither do I!
I've been saying this for years now. Of course it won't happen because Aramark won't get richer by not having a captive market to exploit.
Really, I don't understand the whole "it's uncool to RTFA" thing. Reminds me of the redneck middle school I attended, where it was "uncool" to be intelligent.