Is he over-reaching, well as we don't know what products and trademarks are involved, we don't know but it sure sounds like it.
Why do you assume that? I know it is in line with most of our pre-conceived biases, but we've been told pretty much nothing about this case. I don't know the original poster, and I have no reason to accept what he's telling me is accurate - or even true.
... plus there's the issue with basic hygiene...
Oh wait - I thought we were talking about women's studies.
I've watched enough television to know that female defense lawyers are ALWAYS married to - or at least dating - policemen.
1) Pick some rare advantageous trait (e.g. short sleepers, super multitaskers)
2) Post a story about it on Slashdot
3) Observe the large number of posters who claim to have the trait
Optionally:
4) Cross-correlate these posters against list of posters claiming to possess a different rare advantageous trait in previous Slashdot discussions
... but rubbing them with cheetah blood makes them even faster.
Maybe those "harbingers of failure" are just people who are a bit more persistent in their choices and less fickle, or they are the normal ones: people who pick stuff because they like it, not because their friends do.
You're taking this WAY too personally...
The device they thought of as the "Total Immersion Video" unit was in truth a time machine.
Nostradamus' "Hister" was clearly a foretelling of Lister. It's eerie how he knew about Red Dwarf hundreds of years before television was even invented!
The problem here isn't Bob and Alice -- that part of the scenario is working fine. The problem is Bob and Carol. There's no incentive for Bob not to make false claims against Carol. That's the bit that has to be fixed.
Bob, Carol, and Alice get along much better when Ted is added to the mix.
I'm gonna pay a whole lot of attention to that, for sure.
... but the number of TV subscribers keeps going down. If they're claiming victory, I'd say it's a Phyrric one - but really, I'm not seeing it.
On the other hand, if they're doubling capacity, then you only need half the number of cycles
I'm pretty sure I saw an episode of Red Dwarf where they made a similar trade off... It ended up with Lister playing pool with planets.
Don't be like Lister.
It's good news for Google and their advertisers - fewer unwanted clicks means lower payouts.
I'm not sure whether it's anything but neutral for end users. I don't think Google's ads are the ones with the tiny little close buttons that induce false clicks - THOSE are rather irritating. But if Google really wanted to benefit end users, they'd start screening their ad content more rigorously.
It seems like we hear this every time a new version of Windows is out (or about to come out): "Yes, $PREV_VERSION had this problem, and you are ignorant and silly for running it! $CURRENT_VERSION solves all these problems!"
And I'm sure a few years, when it turns out Windows 10 has the same issues, we'll be hearing it again.
Yes, they should just accept their neighborhoods being trashed by naked, drunken idiots. Where do they think they live, some prudish town in the U.S.?
A penny saved is a penny to squander. -- Ambrose Bierce
