PCs have 2 major remaining market niches:
1) Enterprise(/educational) workstations (Like, for doing WORK on.)
2) PC Gaming)
What does it say about us that we now consider "doing work" to be a niche?
But I'd argue that elections in the US are designed to give people no real choice.
It's kind of the same thing. People don't vote because they can see through the charade and figure they have more important things to do, like sort their sock drawers alphabetically according to color.
that magical wall is sometimes called a paywall
And corporations are paying the bills. Just look at the names on the fancy new buildings in every Ag department at every major university.
Please explain how universities churn out paper after paper after paper sounding the alarm on climate change in the face of the multi-trillion dollar oil/gas industry that lobbies hard against said research,
Why do you think climate change became so "controversial"? It's because it wasn't supposed to happen. That's why you have enormous butthurt on the part of the oligarchs. They just can't believe that all these scientists went off the reservation.
You know the pro-GMO people must be right, because there arguments always include copious insults. That's the sure sign of a winning argument.
As far as bitcoin being nonsense, the New York Stock Exchange and a large bank just invested in a bitcoin company:
"The New York Stock Exchange and a large bank..."
They'd invest in tulip bulbs is there were sufficient suckers. Which in the case of Bitcoin, there most certainly are.
Good luck with your GaltBucks, boyo.
Not all of us are idiots.
If you have to say that, it's probably not true.
Or my electricity is part of my rent, or people in the military who live in base housing, or I can come up with 10 other examples
This may come as a shock to you, but if your electricity is part of your rent, you are still paying for your electricity.
No matter where you live, somebody is paying for your electricity. There is no free lunch (unless Mom and Dad are paying for the electricity, in which case, have at it because your John Galt Bucks are totally going to revolutionize the world economy).
Is there some fundamental property of Bitcoin that makes proponents silly?:
So what you are telling us is that the system is so rigged that in Oregon that it is able to suppress 40% of the population from voting for the labeling initiatives?
No. I'm saying the political system you find in the United States is designed to minimize participation by the public.
I'm curious, do you happen to know what the voter turnout was for that Oregon initiative? Let's say it was 1/2 of all registered voters. Since the election came down to a few hundred votes, that means 25% made policy for the state. This is by design. Even in blue states, universal suffrage is frowned upon.
Evolution is just a theory. I demand it be labeled on textbooks.
Um, it is labeled in textbooks. It's called the "theory of evolution".
A study once found a link between vaccines and autism. I demand that parents be informed prior to vaccinating their kids.
But a study is not a fact. If a food contains GMO product, it is an undeniable fact that the food contains GMO product. The study showing the link between autism and vaccines has been disproved, but you cannot make a food that contains GMOs not contain GMOs
Thing is, a fact taken out of context and presented to those without the basic background information is deceptive.
In that case, it is incumbent upon the person selling the product to provide that "basic background information" rather than simply hide the fact. No?
If there was a service that came out with 300 characters as a limit, it would crush Twitter.
You mean like Tumblr or Blogspot or LiveJournal or just about any other blogging platform?
superior services will demolish their business if they don't listen to the number one complaint about Twitter from their users
I thought the biggest complaint about Twitter was sockpuppetry. See Twitter use thirteen different characters.
For the last 25 years, we've just called it Fortran.
But how long have you been able to PUSH START TO RICH with Fortran?
Imagine the article loading in its entirety, so you can start reading it, before there's even a single image tag on the page; then, well-written javascript popping the images in as you read. The content loads and renders faster and you have an over-all better experience, especialy if you happen to be on a mobile device or slow connection.
I have the opposite experience. Because my mobile device has no cellular Internet connection, I often load pages over Wi-Fi at home and then read them while riding public transit. If a page uses this "lazy loading" technique, none of the images will load when I get around to reading them.
I'm @PinoBatch.
But this list mentions Erris, Mactrope*, gnutoo, inTheLoo, willeyhill*, westbake*, Odder*, ibane, DeadZero, freenix, myCopyWrong, right handed, GNUChop, trimmer, and wiiiyhiii*. Or, rather, Twitter uses them. All of them. And this Twitter can post more than 140 characters.
* These are typosquatted versions of other Slashdot users' usernames.
No, but money changing hands (commerce) impacts whether it is "commercial", and requires a commercial license.
"Impacts", perhaps. But it's not definitive. Especially in California.
For instance: I bought a pickup truck, to use as a tow vehicle for my camper and my wife's boat. Then I discovered that CA requires pickup trucks to be tagged with a (VERY pricey) commercial license, regardless of whether they're used for business. (You CAN petition to tag a particular pickup truck as a personal vehicle - but are then subject to being issued a very pricey ticket if you are ever caught carrying anything in the truck bed - even if it's personal belongings or groceries, and regardless of whether you're being paid to do it. (Since part of the POINT of having a pickup truck is to carry stuff home from the store this would substantially reduce its utility.)
The one upside is that I get to park for short times in loading zones.
If we aren't going to require commercial licenses for commercial driving, then why even have them at all?
And if we ARE going to require them for clearly personal, non-commercial vehicles that happen to be "trucks", why NOT impose this requirement on putatively commercial vehicles that happen to be cars as well?
The real answer to your question is "because the state wants the tax money, and the legislators and bureaucrats will seek it in any way that doesn't threaten their reelection, reappointment, or election to higher office" - in the most jerrymandered state in the Union. The Uber case is one where an appraent public outcry arose, bringing the bureaucrats' actions, and public outcry about them, to the attention of elected officials.
The full form of the so-called "Chinese curse" is: "May you live in interesting times and come to the attention of people in high places."
Considering all the extreme places we've found life on earth, I would actually have expected to find some.
I'm not a subject matter expert; but my surprise isn't "life"(there's some sort of extremophilic bacterium cracking molecules that would make a biologist cry and only a chemist would identify as a possible energy source basically anywhere we've been able to look); but that it's big, energetic life.
These probably aren't the world's peppiest fish; but even so, a fish is a big, demanding, multicellular, operation. Some sort of spore-former bacterium that wakes up and divides a couple of times every decade or two is one thing; but fish populations mean a fair amount of active cellular metabolism swimming around in what you would expect to be a very low-energy zone.
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer
