That's just the uninformed younger generation. They haven't had much opportunity to experience great science fiction, since they don't read novels and few great science fiction films have been made in their lifetime.
Using elinks is definitely the way to go when reading slashdot. Even on my screamin' new intel Mac, slashdot takes forever to load in any graphical browser.
Really wish I had mod points for you; that was the hardest I've laughed all week. On a day when too many people are trying too hard to be funny, you hit the spot.:)
On the other hand, given your claim to work for a particularly large paper, I have to be a bit sceptical. I happen to use the BBC News web site as my first news source of choice, and I don't need Google to tell me how to find them every day.
That being the case, I find it hard to believe that high-profile, high-traffic sites like the Beeb really get more benefit from occasional search hits via Google than a news aggregator would get from scraping all of the headlines from the originating site, and I find Google's argument here to be wishful thinking rather than based on any real merit.
I'm sure the big papers would rather have more readers like you. The real issue here is that google news is a sort of great equalizer, giving equal exposure and opportunity to many news sources large and small. It isn't that google is stealing their business, it's just helping to make many news sources available that people might not notice otherwise. And that's exactly what I like about it.
While you're working on the site, will you please fix meta-mod so we're *actually* modding the mods? I can't see that the current meta-mod does anything whatsoever. It doesn't mod mods, and it doesn't mod comments either. Just + or - for no particular reason, not used for anything at all. Reminds me of voting in US elections...
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Atheism isn't a religion
That's absurd -- athiesm requires faith, as it can never be proven that there is no supreme being. Therefore, it is indeed a religion. Atheists are no more interested in facts than creationists; their minds are made up.
Yeah, it's definitely the government and big business. It couldn't possibly be hundreds of millions of Americans spending hundreds of billions of dollars, demanding cheap products made in China.
Okay, so you believe supply and demand is the sole determining factor.
Then please explain the "war on drugs", the bailouts, the DMCA, and the PATRIOT act. It clearly isn't the people that decide.
Could anyone summarize what this "cloud computing" is, and why exactly is it so newsworthy?
It's a scheme to get us all back to using low resource hardware to connect to the net, which will store all our apps and data so we have to pay to access them. The idea is to eliminate privacy, "piracy", and of course FOSS.
IME xubuntu is great for booting quickly and working well with older hardware. And if you feel up to tackling a kernel recompile, you can make it boot even faster.
Perhaps this might be the thing to spark a true third-party movement in the USA?
I wish it could be so. Unfortunately government is run by big corporate interests now, and no 3rd party will get in unless they join the current power structure. It's democracy theatre we have now, not democracy at all.
The Mac has had that for years, even before EFI. On the old ones you just hold the option key while powering up, and you get a boot menu with every bootable disk available. On the new ones, Boot Camp makes it even easier.
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While there is obviously plenty of overlap, there will always be those of us who prefer the control we get with computers, and others who want an idiot-proof story telling box. It's two separate but overlapping markets.
Agreed, it's very disappointing. I guess samzenpus calling it an "artistic project" in TFS set me up to expect more. Wonder if he actually lisened to it? Here's a direct link to the stream, for sam and whomever else wants to hear.
...the media found out with Vista that "new OS by redmond monopolist sucks" makes for more headlines, better headlines, over a longer time period, than "next windos version exactly as expected".
Wait, what's the difference between those two statements again?
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Have you been offworld the past year or so? The Tesla is probably a *lot* faster than what you drive now.
But does it run SnowLeopard?
I'm currently downloading it -- at a screamin' 0.7kb/sec. That's okay, the entertainment value will doubtless be well worth it.
That's just the uninformed younger generation. They haven't had much opportunity to experience great science fiction, since they don't read novels and few great science fiction films have been made in their lifetime.
... the "hippie" aspect is only going to be as effective as it is popular.
Using elinks is definitely the way to go when reading slashdot. Even on my screamin' new intel Mac, slashdot takes forever to load in any graphical browser.
You laugh, but I tried to access my accounts using elinks. Alas, the asshats who code for my bank can barely code a site that works with Opera.
Really wish I had mod points for you; that was the hardest I've laughed all week. On a day when too many people are trying too hard to be funny, you hit the spot. :)
This would make a great prank malware target. But the days of fun malware seem to be over, it's all about the Benjamins now...
No. If the AP wants to charge Google, they are free to do so. The papers that carry AP stories have not been granted an exclusive license.
I'm sure the big papers would rather have more readers like you. The real issue here is that google news is a sort of great equalizer, giving equal exposure and opportunity to many news sources large and small. It isn't that google is stealing their business, it's just helping to make many news sources available that people might not notice otherwise. And that's exactly what I like about it.
Being a settlement rather than a judgement, it doesn't set a precedent.
most of the comments I've been asked to "meta moderate" have never been modded in the first place, so that'a a negative.
While you're working on the site, will you please fix meta-mod so we're *actually* modding the mods? I can't see that the current meta-mod does anything whatsoever. It doesn't mod mods, and it doesn't mod comments either. Just + or - for no particular reason, not used for anything at all. Reminds me of voting in US elections...
That's absurd -- athiesm requires faith, as it can never be proven that there is no supreme being. Therefore, it is indeed a religion. Atheists are no more interested in facts than creationists; their minds are made up.
Okay, so you believe supply and demand is the sole determining factor. Then please explain the "war on drugs", the bailouts, the DMCA, and the PATRIOT act. It clearly isn't the people that decide.
Sanctions against China are way overdue. Our gov't and big businesses are just feeding that monster.
It's a scheme to get us all back to using low resource hardware to connect to the net, which will store all our apps and data so we have to pay to access them. The idea is to eliminate privacy, "piracy", and of course FOSS.
IME xubuntu is great for booting quickly and working well with older hardware. And if you feel up to tackling a kernel recompile, you can make it boot even faster.
Now there's a powerful endorsement: "Microsoft Vista -- I'm not so bummed about having to use it."
The Mac has had that for years, even before EFI. On the old ones you just hold the option key while powering up, and you get a boot menu with every bootable disk available. On the new ones, Boot Camp makes it even easier.
While there is obviously plenty of overlap, there will always be those of us who prefer the control we get with computers, and others who want an idiot-proof story telling box. It's two separate but overlapping markets.
Agreed, it's very disappointing. I guess samzenpus calling it an "artistic project" in TFS set me up to expect more. Wonder if he actually lisened to it? Here's a direct link to the stream, for sam and whomever else wants to hear.
Wait, what's the difference between those two statements again?