:reads summary::looks at BBC news feed on bookmark toolbar::right-click, delete:
BBC can fuck right off. Shame too, since their news tends to be pretty good, but I refuse to support behavior like that. I've gotten to like Reuters better of late anyway.
Since we can't see the source and probably never will... the world may never know.
That said, the wine devs seem to have a fairly solid plan for (essentially) creating a DX10 emulation layer for OpenGL which has been described in detail several times in other comments. Maybe DX10 actually can't be ported, but if they can create such a workaround then it's really a moot point.
Perhaps he was implying that the people directly responsible for destroying things in spectacular fashion (read: the actual troops) are very competent at doing so, but that as one gets further away from that job description (read: officers, chain of command) one also gets further away from competence. In other words, it's a bunch of guys who are really competent at breaking stuff who are horribly mismanaged and frequently tasked to things which involve not breaking things.
That's pretty much the same story I've heard from all of my military (former and current) friends.
Capitalism is only a Good Thing (tm) when it benefits me at the cost of everyone else. Jeez, what's so hard to understand about that? Democracy works that way too, since you're apparently out of the loop.
Yeah, it always confuses me when people get all uptight about staying with the consensus. I've really only run into modbomb problems once for saying something contrary to dominant Slashdot culture, and I tend to say such things quite a bit. Not only that, but in spite of all the things I say that should put my karma through the floor, I'm at "Excellent" and have been for a fairly long time.
The groupthink here really isn't quite so bad as everyone seems to think.
Once every three days... wow, sucks to be you. I've never had that problem. Not after three days, not after a week, not after the better part of a month. It's worked without issue for nearly two years now, so I'm not sure what was going on with yours.
Good for you, b&w laser suits your needs. In case you missed it... my printer needs to be a) color and b) professional photo quality. IOW, b&w laser is completely out of the question for my needs.
But hey, responding to a post without even a cursory reading is about par for the course, so you aren't any dumber than the average slashbot. Congratulations!
Sure, I've got an Epson 6-color that works just great. It was the model in the middle of their home photo printer line a couple of years back.
My girlfriend is a photographer, and she actually does a lot of high-quality prints on it. In spite of this, we still get pretty good cartridge life and operating costs for the printer are fairly low. Shipping and handling to get the prints is free (read: we don't have to waste gas driving to Wal-Mart) and the print quality is noticeably better than most printers anyway (read: Wal-Mart prints aren't up to snuff for anything except snapshots from non-SLRs). My roommate has a laser printer. It's ancient, it weighs almost as much as I do (granteed I'm underweight, but still), and it serves his needs (printing up daily work schedules) perfectly, but I'm perfectly happy with my inkjet.
Guess I'm just lucky or something.
Note: I am not an Epson employee, and endorse their product only insofar as it is what I use and only to the degree which I am satisfied with it. Your experience may, and likely will, vary.
That jacking up your Ford 350 with beefier suspension, a gun rack and a big confederate flag in the bed doesn't make you classy. Well, at least that's what I say about the Bush family.
But you would be wrong. Home customers only have one point of contact, often they have already contacted a computer literate individual and this person is in fact the one calling, they are far more likely to just say "screw it" and call Geek Squad or an equivalent if it is a real emergency, the frequency of serious problems for home users is far less, and the potential for anything going wrong to have enormous negative impact is considerably lessened.
In other words: businesses need serious support and they need it about 5 minutes ago. Business support doesn't have the luxury of using minimum wage script jockeys to solve all of the PEBKACs, and the option of "we'll send you an empty box with return postage, once you ship it back, we should be able to get it back to you in 3-14 business days" isn't even on the table.
In your own flambaity, trolling, AC douchebag way... that was strangely insightful.
There's nothing wrong with trying to improve the world and make a profit at the same time, in fact, I'd go so far as to say that it's just about the best possible thing a proper capitalistic corporation can be doing. Beats the hell out of what most companies do... namely trying to make a buck by screwing over the planet and public.
I think the difference here is that there is a de facto double standard undermining the entire system. Specifically, so long as people can remain anonymous while brutally libeling others by name, it undermines everything. Anonymity needs to go out the window the second someone starts talking about another private citizen's private actions, especially when such speech is clearly intended to be detrimental to their career or obviously threatening physical harm.
Beyond that, threatening to rape and sodomize someone is not cool. Ever. I would hope that any decent admin would not only comply with the prosecution of civil criminal charges for such, but be proactive about contacting any relevant individuals or authorities. Civil liberties are not a shield for genuinely and unarguably criminal behavior.
That's because FDR created the modern Democratic party... all Democrats since have been patterned on him, all Democratic policy is an extension of his. Lest any Republicans out there start thinking they're so different, modern Republicans are generally patterned on Reagan, though with the recent failings of his political and ideological get, some of the holdout Eisenhower and Rockefeller types (see: Rudy Giuliani) are starting to come forward again.
Lincoln, as a politician of the pre-FDR era, does not fit with our current political party scheme.
really, Bechtel wasting money? Who'd have thought that the company that did all the Big Dig work would turn out to be corrupt, wasteful, incompetent and outright fraudulent? I know I'm shocked.
Nope, only the people who learn how to do modern data analysis. You can pretty much assume that anyone with a liberal arts background 9literature, history, law, psychology, etc.) has not.
"Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going off to sleep with my highly exotic, highly energetic, and as-yet-undiscovered girlfriend."
Nothing personal, and I know this is going straight to -1 troll/flamebait, but...
I think the fact that you wrote the rest of that post just might be a large part of the reason for this, I could be wrong, but it seems very unlikely that I am.
Slashdot Mirror
:reads summary: :looks at BBC news feed on bookmark toolbar: :right-click, delete:
BBC can fuck right off. Shame too, since their news tends to be pretty good, but I refuse to support behavior like that. I've gotten to like Reuters better of late anyway.
Since we can't see the source and probably never will... the world may never know.
That said, the wine devs seem to have a fairly solid plan for (essentially) creating a DX10 emulation layer for OpenGL which has been described in detail several times in other comments. Maybe DX10 actually can't be ported, but if they can create such a workaround then it's really a moot point.
...not an English major.
Yeah, tell me about it.
Perhaps he was implying that the people directly responsible for destroying things in spectacular fashion (read: the actual troops) are very competent at doing so, but that as one gets further away from that job description (read: officers, chain of command) one also gets further away from competence. In other words, it's a bunch of guys who are really competent at breaking stuff who are horribly mismanaged and frequently tasked to things which involve not breaking things.
That's pretty much the same story I've heard from all of my military (former and current) friends.
Capitalism is only a Good Thing (tm) when it benefits me at the cost of everyone else. Jeez, what's so hard to understand about that? Democracy works that way too, since you're apparently out of the loop.
Yeah, it always confuses me when people get all uptight about staying with the consensus. I've really only run into modbomb problems once for saying something contrary to dominant Slashdot culture, and I tend to say such things quite a bit. Not only that, but in spite of all the things I say that should put my karma through the floor, I'm at "Excellent" and have been for a fairly long time.
The groupthink here really isn't quite so bad as everyone seems to think.
In Soviet Russia, cookies eat computer!
You can add that to the list.
Once every three days... wow, sucks to be you. I've never had that problem. Not after three days, not after a week, not after the better part of a month. It's worked without issue for nearly two years now, so I'm not sure what was going on with yours.
Good for you, b&w laser suits your needs. In case you missed it... my printer needs to be a) color and b) professional photo quality. IOW, b&w laser is completely out of the question for my needs.
But hey, responding to a post without even a cursory reading is about par for the course, so you aren't any dumber than the average slashbot. Congratulations!
Sure, I've got an Epson 6-color that works just great. It was the model in the middle of their home photo printer line a couple of years back.
My girlfriend is a photographer, and she actually does a lot of high-quality prints on it. In spite of this, we still get pretty good cartridge life and operating costs for the printer are fairly low. Shipping and handling to get the prints is free (read: we don't have to waste gas driving to Wal-Mart) and the print quality is noticeably better than most printers anyway (read: Wal-Mart prints aren't up to snuff for anything except snapshots from non-SLRs). My roommate has a laser printer. It's ancient, it weighs almost as much as I do (granteed I'm underweight, but still), and it serves his needs (printing up daily work schedules) perfectly, but I'm perfectly happy with my inkjet.
Guess I'm just lucky or something.
Note: I am not an Epson employee, and endorse their product only insofar as it is what I use and only to the degree which I am satisfied with it. Your experience may, and likely will, vary.
That jacking up your Ford 350 with beefier suspension, a gun rack and a big confederate flag in the bed doesn't make you classy. Well, at least that's what I say about the Bush family.
But you would be wrong. Home customers only have one point of contact, often they have already contacted a computer literate individual and this person is in fact the one calling, they are far more likely to just say "screw it" and call Geek Squad or an equivalent if it is a real emergency, the frequency of serious problems for home users is far less, and the potential for anything going wrong to have enormous negative impact is considerably lessened.
In other words: businesses need serious support and they need it about 5 minutes ago. Business support doesn't have the luxury of using minimum wage script jockeys to solve all of the PEBKACs, and the option of "we'll send you an empty box with return postage, once you ship it back, we should be able to get it back to you in 3-14 business days" isn't even on the table.
In your own flambaity, trolling, AC douchebag way... that was strangely insightful.
There's nothing wrong with trying to improve the world and make a profit at the same time, in fact, I'd go so far as to say that it's just about the best possible thing a proper capitalistic corporation can be doing. Beats the hell out of what most companies do... namely trying to make a buck by screwing over the planet and public.
I think the difference here is that there is a de facto double standard undermining the entire system. Specifically, so long as people can remain anonymous while brutally libeling others by name, it undermines everything. Anonymity needs to go out the window the second someone starts talking about another private citizen's private actions, especially when such speech is clearly intended to be detrimental to their career or obviously threatening physical harm.
Beyond that, threatening to rape and sodomize someone is not cool. Ever. I would hope that any decent admin would not only comply with the prosecution of civil criminal charges for such, but be proactive about contacting any relevant individuals or authorities. Civil liberties are not a shield for genuinely and unarguably criminal behavior.
That's because FDR created the modern Democratic party... all Democrats since have been patterned on him, all Democratic policy is an extension of his. Lest any Republicans out there start thinking they're so different, modern Republicans are generally patterned on Reagan, though with the recent failings of his political and ideological get, some of the holdout Eisenhower and Rockefeller types (see: Rudy Giuliani) are starting to come forward again.
Lincoln, as a politician of the pre-FDR era, does not fit with our current political party scheme.
Yeah, I always thought Esperanto was more #2...
Actually, it's Diebold that does that.
The Republicans currently have them on bankroll, but if the Democrats gave them a better offer, don't think for a second that it would stay that way.
It's called "percussive maintenance".
really, Bechtel wasting money? Who'd have thought that the company that did all the Big Dig work would turn out to be corrupt, wasteful, incompetent and outright fraudulent? I know I'm shocked.
Shows only end with a wang on Cinemax or Asian networks.
Considering it projectile vomited hard enough to go orbital... yeah, I'd say it's at least as bad.
I dunno, is it? You've got the source, you've got the power.
Nope, only the people who learn how to do modern data analysis. You can pretty much assume that anyone with a liberal arts background 9literature, history, law, psychology, etc.) has not.
What?
All I heard was *whoosh*
Do her a favor and just block myspace.com at the firewall.
Myspace sucks.
"Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going off to sleep with my highly exotic, highly energetic, and as-yet-undiscovered girlfriend."
Nothing personal, and I know this is going straight to -1 troll/flamebait, but...
I think the fact that you wrote the rest of that post just might be a large part of the reason for this, I could be wrong, but it seems very unlikely that I am.