"Pre-release" means anything and everything can change/break with the next update. Which is why no-one who knows WTF they're doing will install pre-release software on a *production* machine. In fact, any admin who installs software on production machines which has not seen at least 90 days of *post-release* testing is an idiot and should be fired. You only install properly vetted software and updates -- that's rule number one!!!
Actually yes, pretty much. Using Fox News as a source for a story is like using Encyclopedia Dramatica as a source. It may have amusement value, but as far as finding literal truth you're probably out of luck. Of course, this is also at least partly true of nearly all the mainstream media outlets nowadays, but Fox is by far the worst. It's where people go to have their belief systems affirmed, not where they go for actual news.
Verizon doesn't have an "unlimited" (as in uncapped) data plan, at least not here in GA. You get to chose 250MB/month (!!!) or 5GB/month. I believe they do use the word "unlimited", but it's a lie -- the caps have been in place for at least the 30 months I've been with them.
Butt seriously, considering that worldwide mobile phone sales totaled 269.1 million units in the first quarter of 2009, 4 million iPads isn't that big a deal. I know an awful lot of people, and only two of them own iPads.
I never said it was, AC. Never said it was a good deal, either.
If you are going far enough out to need sat coverage either get one of these for 15 bucks a month and call it day.
Actually according to the link you provided it's $15/month access fee, plus $0.99 per minute, plus $595 for the phone itself (it's "on sale", regularly $699). I'm sure there are plenty of other charges you only find out about once you sign up too, just like every other telecommunications deal.
Yes of course I read it, that's how I know it's a troll. But it looks to me as if Oracle is on the/. shitlist, along with Apple. Pointing out that the criticism in question is a troll is now heresy. "We hate Oracle (or Apple) 'cuz they are teh suxxxorz" appears to be the extent of the average slashdotter's ability to reason these days.
No, it's a troll. Otherwise they'd point out that other obvious fact -- that RHEL's kernel is [**gasp**] "just" a custom configured 2.6.18 Linux kernel. No distro is coding their own kernel from scratch.
Yeah, it's still crap compared to BSD, Linux, or even OS X. The only real value of microsoft products is to admins, because they require many,many more paid hours to keep them working. It would be against microsoft's philosophy to build better, more secure systems. Because as billg himself once said, "you have to make them need you". And you don't do that by building a reliable system that doesn't need attention...
I'm saying that complaining that a "cowboy, wild west, unregulated" market isn't free is simply false.
Incorrect. An unregulated market will quickly be enslaved by that market's biggest players (see telecommunications, cable, Big Pharma, etc etc etc etc etc etc etc...).
Remember that the reason to like capitalism isn't for its own sake, but because it gives us a society that is over all the best for people, one where people are better off over all than any other.
No, "we" like capitalism because it glorifies being a greedy pig who can afford to overindulge while making fun of all the have-nots created by "our" hoarding. "We" just love it that those anti-materialist, unambitious scumbags have to either get with the program and sell out or become disenfranchised and do without the basics of life! Yep, that there's what "we" call justice, citizen!
For better or for worse those dispensaries are not legal
That is incorrect. It is the fed's prohibition laws which are actually illegal. The U.S. Constitution has no provision for banning "drugs", and certainly banning plants is just idiotic. The dispensaries are legal in the jurisdictions in which they operate. The federal government, OTOH, has been in operating in violation of its own charter documents for generations and is therefore illegal. While obviously this won't help you in court, it does kind of put your claim of a particular plant being "illegal" in perspective.
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You're an idiot.
And they spy on their own citizens -- savages!
The U.S. is much more similar to China than it cares to admit. Then there's the little matter of China owning enormous chunks of the U.S....
"Pre-release" means anything and everything can change/break with the next update. Which is why no-one who knows WTF they're doing will install pre-release software on a *production* machine. In fact, any admin who installs software on production machines which has not seen at least 90 days of *post-release* testing is an idiot and should be fired. You only install properly vetted software and updates -- that's rule number one!!!
Of course not. Stallman can never get FP, he has to run a daemon to laucnh wget and then emails the downloaded page to him. Duh!
Most (if not all) governments are merely the enforcement arms of cartels which are comprised of huge multi-national companies.
There was never any doubt RIM would cave. Nor any doubt that private communications are virtually nonexistent on this planet.
There's no such thing as "clean coal".
No no, you're doing it wrong -- most people who would be mules don't do math that way -- they do it more like this:
(Amount of time the trip takes me) / (toal amount of pay) = $x/hr.
Seriously, criminals are not generally known for their stellar reasoning abilities.
Actually yes, pretty much. Using Fox News as a source for a story is like using Encyclopedia Dramatica as a source. It may have amusement value, but as far as finding literal truth you're probably out of luck. Of course, this is also at least partly true of nearly all the mainstream media outlets nowadays, but Fox is by far the worst. It's where people go to have their belief systems affirmed, not where they go for actual news.
Verizon doesn't have an "unlimited" (as in uncapped) data plan, at least not here in GA. You get to chose 250MB/month (!!!) or 5GB/month. I believe they do use the word "unlimited", but it's a lie -- the caps have been in place for at least the 30 months I've been with them.
That's no capsule, it's a suppository!
Butt seriously, considering that worldwide mobile phone sales totaled 269.1 million units in the first quarter of 2009, 4 million iPads isn't that big a deal. I know an awful lot of people, and only two of them own iPads.
I never said it was, AC. Never said it was a good deal, either.
Actually according to the link you provided it's $15/month access fee, plus $0.99 per minute, plus $595 for the phone itself (it's "on sale", regularly $699). I'm sure there are plenty of other charges you only find out about once you sign up too, just like every other telecommunications deal.
I guess you missed the banner at the top of the page that indicates this is a geek site. We like technology 'round these parts, luddite.
Yes of course I read it, that's how I know it's a troll. But it looks to me as if Oracle is on the /. shitlist, along with Apple. Pointing out that the criticism in question is a troll is now heresy. "We hate Oracle (or Apple) 'cuz they are teh suxxxorz" appears to be the extent of the average slashdotter's ability to reason these days.
No, it's a troll. Otherwise they'd point out that other obvious fact -- that RHEL's kernel is [**gasp**] "just" a custom configured 2.6.18 Linux kernel. No distro is coding their own kernel from scratch.
What did you expect, that Oracle will have coded their own kernel from scratch? Every distro uses a version of the same Linux kernel. TFA is a troll.
Hey Pardo, don't make me tell you again -- if you don't clean up that potty mouth you're outta here!
***Ding ding ding***
We have a winner -- Don Pardot, tell Ms. Hudson what she's won!
Yeah, it's still crap compared to BSD, Linux, or even OS X. The only real value of microsoft products is to admins, because they require many,many more paid hours to keep them working. It would be against microsoft's philosophy to build better, more secure systems. Because as billg himself once said, "you have to make them need you". And you don't do that by building a reliable system that doesn't need attention...
Incorrect. An unregulated market will quickly be enslaved by that market's biggest players (see telecommunications, cable, Big Pharma, etc etc etc etc etc etc etc...).
What an incredibly idiotic thing to say! Let me guess, you have or are working toward an MBA?
No, "we" like capitalism because it glorifies being a greedy pig who can afford to overindulge while making fun of all the have-nots created by "our" hoarding. "We" just love it that those anti-materialist, unambitious scumbags have to either get with the program and sell out or become disenfranchised and do without the basics of life! Yep, that there's what "we" call justice, citizen!
***sigh***
The USA I grew up in no longer exists.
That is incorrect. It is the fed's prohibition laws which are actually illegal. The U.S. Constitution has no provision for banning "drugs", and certainly banning plants is just idiotic. The dispensaries are legal in the jurisdictions in which they operate. The federal government, OTOH, has been in operating in violation of its own charter documents for generations and is therefore illegal. While obviously this won't help you in court, it does kind of put your claim of a particular plant being "illegal" in perspective.
That is a truly great post -- wish I had mod points for you.
Touché!