The fellow's point was that 99.98% of Joe Sixpacks out there *don't* need all the power that's being hyped. Just because you like running Emboss on your hi-res porn images doesn't mean that some college student in Albuquerque, a secretary in Toledo, or your Grandma needs to do it.
If you need 2GHz, get 2GHz. If not, don't do it just because the salesman told you you need it.
Am I the only person who finds it incredibly ironic that an article like this would appear on one of the most random, poorly-researched, redundant, late and haphazard news sites on the net?
Don't get me wrong, I love Slashdot, but as an example of the independent news the Net has to offer, one can't help but come to the conclusion that CNN and its TV-based family will continue to be the norm for a long, long time.
September 11th was a great example of this. When the fit really hit the shan, all the major news sites got slammed, failed, and people went back to watching CNN, MSNBC, or whatever.
Yes, there are plenty of inspirational stories of independent websites helping to feed the public's quest for more information, but these are in the minority. Joe Sixpack and his grandmother still relied on good ol' television to find out what happened.
Is the net a serious news source. Certainly not. Not yet anyway.
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It's a widely known fact in the intelligence community that Sesame Street has been a form of communication between al-Qaeda leaders and the various semi-independent cells around the world. Through sometimes cryptic phrases and symbols, unintelligible to outsiders, they have broadcast messages to all the world that can only be truly understood by a few. Some examples:
"C is for cookie, that's good enough for me."
"Seven! Seven jumping jackrabbits! Ah, ah, ah!"
"I am Captain Vegetable, with my carrots, and my celery."
The difficult that the intelligence community has had in tracking down members of these terrorists cells is partially due to the fact that these messages are broadcast worldwide, and also because the suspected terrorists are a bunch of little kids.
Yeah, because we all know a list of e-mail addresses is great for swaying the opinions of politicians. Here, let me upload my CD-ROM of 10,000 e-mail addresses...
If Microsoft restricts or makes it difficult to change what applications work with certain file or data types, they're just shooting themselves in the foot. The more they make it "Microsoft everything", and the fewer options they give people, the more frustrated people are going to become with the Windows operating system in general. It was bad enough when we couldn't choose the operating system; Now we can even choose what software runs under it?
People will start to realize this; Even your grandmother.
Hmmm...now I'm wondering about that van full of Middle Eastern terrorists from Back to the Future. I hope Osama bin Loser doesn't have any time travelling bicycles!
Makes me wonder... Anyhow, I'm sure it's a "good" thing for the families of the people that got trapped in there, at least they will get a proper ceremony and burial place...
What better and more proper burial for a sailor than in his ship at the bottom of the sea? More appropriate there than in a wooden box in a pile of dirt somewhere...
The worst terrorist incident on the US soil took place on 11th September and you're writing about something as trivial as W3C-endorsed standards!?
No, buddy, shame on you for being one of the panicked people who would rather that we live in a nation obsessed with terrorism.
Every generation of Americans has its tragedy, and this is ours; Instead of wallowing in self-pity, we need to suck it up and get back to our lives, rather than becoming obsessed with Osama bin Loser.
Get over it. This is Slashdot. If you don't want to hear about W3 standards, go back to Stileproject.
The record companies will eventually learn that Napster et al. were helping, not hurting, their sales. When they prevent people from listening to music, they're just cutting back on free marketing for their product; They'll learn eventually.
Finger print recognition has been a pain for me. We had it installed at work a few years ago, and it worked fine for the first couple of months. However, my hands start peeling due to dryness in the winter, and it soon came to the point that the system wouldn't let me in. This wouldn't have been a problem except that I was usually the first one to work in the morning, and was getting locked out.
Yeah right. You're really just worried because your fingerprints might be hard to read after those late nights reading playboy.com
"Touching" the rocks serves no useful purpose other than public relations, but what a purpose that is!
NASA needs support right now, and there are few ways to do it better than showing people a rock and saying "Look. We plucked this off a remote planet. See what we can do?"
The real question is, is this a violation of the owner's civil liberties, or a victory against spammers?
This topic should clarify a lot of the hypocrisy among the/. crowd; What's *your* opinion on this issue? And how does that opinion compare to, say, what you would feel about the court shutting down your anti-Microsoft site?
No. I post things such as a conservative viewpoint in one post and a liberal viewpoint in another. A troll is someone who posts contradictory things such as "goatse.cx" in one post and "Natalie Portman" in another.
The only reason people post passionate rants on here is because they want immediate feedback and adoration from the community; actual change is much less important.
If we could implement some kind of karma system for letters to congressmen, all the passion that goes into hour-long rants here could instead go to something useful.
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The fellow's point was that 99.98% of Joe Sixpacks out there *don't* need all the power that's being hyped. Just because you like running Emboss on your hi-res porn images doesn't mean that some college student in Albuquerque, a secretary in Toledo, or your Grandma needs to do it.
If you need 2GHz, get 2GHz. If not, don't do it just because the salesman told you you need it.
It worked for Microsoft. The world now assumes you use Windows unless you loudly proclaim otherwise.
You're right, it is a shame. Upgrade to a real browser.
Don't get me wrong, I love Slashdot, but as an example of the independent news the Net has to offer, one can't help but come to the conclusion that CNN and its TV-based family will continue to be the norm for a long, long time.
September 11th was a great example of this. When the fit really hit the shan, all the major news sites got slammed, failed, and people went back to watching CNN, MSNBC, or whatever.
Yes, there are plenty of inspirational stories of independent websites helping to feed the public's quest for more information, but these are in the minority. Joe Sixpack and his grandmother still relied on good ol' television to find out what happened.
Is the net a serious news source. Certainly not. Not yet anyway.
The difficult that the intelligence community has had in tracking down members of these terrorists cells is partially due to the fact that these messages are broadcast worldwide, and also because the suspected terrorists are a bunch of little kids.
Oh wait, maybe they *are* terrorists...
Yeah, because we all know a list of e-mail addresses is great for swaying the opinions of politicians. Here, let me upload my CD-ROM of 10,000 e-mail addresses...
People will start to realize this; Even your grandmother.
Hmmm...now I'm wondering about that van full of Middle Eastern terrorists from Back to the Future. I hope Osama bin Loser doesn't have any time travelling bicycles!
Does that mean this chip is a great candidate for Unix (eunuchs) servers?
You think that's awesome, check out the tech specs.
What better and more proper burial for a sailor than in his ship at the bottom of the sea? More appropriate there than in a wooden box in a pile of dirt somewhere...
No, buddy, shame on you for being one of the panicked people who would rather that we live in a nation obsessed with terrorism.
Every generation of Americans has its tragedy, and this is ours; Instead of wallowing in self-pity, we need to suck it up and get back to our lives, rather than becoming obsessed with Osama bin Loser.
Get over it. This is Slashdot. If you don't want to hear about W3 standards, go back to Stileproject.
It was a joke, dimturd. The link *was* broken. The fine staff at Slashdot promptly fixed it, but it was amusing for a short while there.
That "Atlas of Cyberspace" link leads to Slashdot. Isn't that a bit presumptious? ;)
The record companies will eventually learn that Napster et al. were helping, not hurting, their sales. When they prevent people from listening to music, they're just cutting back on free marketing for their product; They'll learn eventually.
Share the workload if you can. If you can't, you must be able to do it on your own.
Yeah right. You're really just worried because your fingerprints might be hard to read after those late nights reading playboy.com
NASA needs support right now, and there are few ways to do it better than showing people a rock and saying "Look. We plucked this off a remote planet. See what we can do?"
This topic should clarify a lot of the hypocrisy among the /. crowd; What's *your* opinion on this issue? And how does that opinion compare to, say, what you would feel about the court shutting down your anti-Microsoft site?
No. I post things such as a conservative viewpoint in one post and a liberal viewpoint in another. A troll is someone who posts contradictory things such as "goatse.cx" in one post and "Natalie Portman" in another.
The only reason people post passionate rants on here is because they want immediate feedback and adoration from the community; actual change is much less important.
It's a shame that a Beowulf cluster of Slashdot lobbyists would typically be found running Quake instead of using all that power for something useful.
If we could implement some kind of karma system for letters to congressmen, all the passion that goes into hour-long rants here could instead go to something useful.