Comment Re:It's the Commercials, Stupid (Score 1) 865
Only 10 minutes? Man, I wanna go to your theater!
Only 10 minutes? Man, I wanna go to your theater!
Alright, the Earth goes through periods of climate upheaval. Fine.
Now, knowing that, why on Earth would we NOT want to minimize our own artificial contributions to the process? Wouldn't it be in our best interest to limit our hand in climate change? If global warming is a natural phenomenon, then we may be in for hundreds to thousands of years of progressive warming. In the interest of helping our species survive, wouldn't we want to manage our resources intelligently in order to better survive what you consider an inevitable natural process?
COMPETE with Diaspora? Give me a break. Diaspora is alpha software that requires users to run their own web server. It's a fucking great concept that will nonetheless never catch on with a large enough audience to ever matter to anyone but its users.
The same could be said about desktop Linux, but Linux has found plenty of life in other markets. Until Diaspora finds that niche, there's no "competition" to speak of.
I don't know. Over the course of several days, Dave tried to very politely extract information from an increasingly unhelpful Christophoro. In the end, he triggered the Streissand-bomb. I'm willing to forgive a little bit of textual trollface, after what Christophoro pulled. Plus, Christophoro's further antics show he learned nothing, and would have carried on had it not been for the massive backlash from some very important people in the industry.
It's a controller designed for those with hand disabilities.
Yes, the Patriarca crime family.
British slang for "sucker", though it's also commonly used to refer to the average patron at a business.
You're welcome.
"Why is it that software patents specifically should be abolished?"
Because in order to hold a software patent, you're not required to actually have engineered an actual product.
Not to mention that the "products" in question are essentially applied mathematical formulae, and a software patent punishes developers who happen upon the same formula.
The Tea Party has been co-opted into Fox News' astroturfing arm.
NEVER ask for tits on Slashdot, unless you're into hairy manboobs.
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