Mate, why don't you just visit a country that has a functioning public health system. It shouldn't be hard, as pretty much every other 1st and 2nd world country has one.
Corporate America has been ripping off your health system for so long that you don't want it any other way. It's like a damn abusive relationship scenario or something.
Stop being a doosh.
Having noticed exactly the same thing, I had simply suspected that as Slashdot's popularity has grown it has become inhabited by very young impressionable guys, who's only experience (with computers, but thinking about it - extend that to almost anything) has been with Windows. Being young, male, and impressionable, they need to belong to a 'group' and it's easy to hate - and Apple is a very convenient target. Bashing Apple shows that you're 'one of the crowd' even though you've probably never used any system except Windows in your life. They get hints of what's 'accepted' by the crowd with the story summaries that are often written to inflame discussion to generate page hits.
It's self-reinforcing little world, and as a happy by product, may even encourage some people to use Linux. But what is most frustrating in this theory is the enormous amount of pure blind ignorance being channeled into the Apple hate.
Most of the Apple hate is venomous rants on issues that are at their heart the result of either absolute ignorance or intentional deception. Where you see intentional manipulation, I see a young immature burning desire to be accepted by something, anything. The true trait of a young isolated nerd.
The net result is the same however, and means that Slashdot is now largely devoid of moderating voices provided by experience people who have used more than 2 different operating systems in their lives, and for whom the choice of operating system is the selection of a tool to do a job, not a religion, and who probably have other healthy interests over being a full time nerd.
For other people stumbling across this comment - I'm not trying to flame, really. It's the honest observation of an old timer. One who seriously hope that this cuts too close to the bone of some of the crowd, as opposed to Bonch being correct.
There's tons of businesses that have chosen iPhone over Blackberry (or others). Just sayin'.
You should have listened to your grandmother. When potatoes are exposed to light, they turn green (yes on the outside first) which is the result of chlorophyll production, but also this also goes hand in hand with toxin production. You can also cause this in tubers by dropping and damaging them. This is why there is a belief that you should avoid the outside of a potato. I don't think you can fault your grandmother for not having a background in toxicity and agriculture, but she had some good info. You can look it up, but here's a quick summary from the CSIRO:
Are green potatoes safe to eat?
Green potatoes may cause food poisoning and since some of the symptoms are similar to gastroenteritis it is possible that some undiagnosed cases of gastroenteritis have been caused by eating green potatoes.
Human and livestock deaths have been recorded as a result of the consumption of greened or damaged potatoes with very high glycoalkaloid levels. It should be noted that glycoalkaloids are not destroyed by cooking processes, even by frying in hot oil. Consequently potatoes with pronounced greening or with signs of damage should not be eaten.
It is advisable that green or damaged potatoes are avoided by pregnant women or women who are likely to become pregnant, as there is some evidence of possible foetal damage or loss of the foetus from glycoalkaloid poisoning in animals.
So just maybe the scientist warning about global warming are right. Or maybe they're also in on a great potato conspiracy.
You're a complete dick.
Glossy screens appear much brighter, and so have many practical advantages (including appearing more vivid). The 'want my matte' crowd are actually largely the fashion-victims, sprouting crap about colour distortions and reflections without any idea about what they are saying.
And Apple was one of the last to move towards gloss screens. Sony, HP, and Dell led the charge there you ignorant shit.
A moment of sanity, thank you. It's amazing how low Slashdot has fallen when a post like this has to actually be written.
This tells me more about the American attitude than it tells me about football (soccer).
You can:
- Buy the best players;
- Give them the best equipment;
- Be lavish with money however you desire;
- But you can still be whipped 2-0 by some upstart team from a 3rd world nation with none of your access to wealth and resources.
No wonder so many American's can't understand football!
Brilliant!
At least they'll sell 1 of them!
Watched? What about 'read'. Someone else is going to loose their nerd card too....
The CSM only really comes from the 0.0 player base anyway as the Corps and Alliances vote as blocks for their own candidates.
Therefore perhaps the CSM has a role as a 'lure'...move to 0.0 space and have the opportunity to influence your play style to your benefit.
"the idea that it could replace a desktop/laptop"
IN THE FUTURE.
Got it?
And that's where it would have stayed, except for the foresight & risk taken by Apple. Who bought it for cash & stock.
Most rare earth deposits concentrated enough for mining (which is not a lot despite conventional wisdom that rare earth's are fairly abundant) are 'contaminated' with radioactive minerals. Uranium is potentially a by-product of newer techniques in rare earth refining.
If you think that they're bad, you should see the mess that California is in...
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.
