Comment Re:Political background (Score 1) 151
Indeed, now what are you going to do with an empty submarine base?
Not pour billions of pounds down the drain into it?
Indeed, now what are you going to do with an empty submarine base?
Not pour billions of pounds down the drain into it?
that it's quite likely to lose
You appear to know something that the opinion polls don't. What is it?
probably its permanent seat on the UN security council
Where did you pull this nonsense from?
Besides, it saves me from using Creative's bloatware.
This is what comes to my mind whenever I hear of Creative. Nice enough hardware, but shockingly bad software, 80% of which no-one ever had any need for. And it would invariably all be set up to load at boot-time, sucking up resources and RAM.
If you are just starting out learning to program, you are not in a position to determine which language is best to learn by. You have to take advice, or take what you are given. If you feel 'force fed' you are either way over-opinionated for someone who knows nothing, or are an idiot who has booked themselves onto the wrong course.
This is pretty common on slashdot. A hazard of submitted stories where the person submitting it is very familiar with the people/companies/concepts/software/whatever concerned, and can't imagine anyone who isn't.
You just hope to god they don't also write documentation.
This statement is not the conclusion of the article, it's the headline of the article.
The journalist is using a basic journalistic technique of stating the position in the simpliest, bluntest and most provacative way possible. That makes it easy for the casual browser to grasp the topic, and hopefully draws them in.
The article then goes on to modify and explain.
Saying "Wiki" when you mean "Wikipedia" is like saying "internet" when you mean "slashdot".
That's simply not true.
I wasn't trying to "invalidate" anything
Can you spot where people might think you were?
"carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas tied to climate change, is being released into Earth's atmosphere on a global scale."
And here was me thinking it was being released on a inter-galactic scale.
Isn't that exactly what LG have done?
so that they can converse with other people with similar mental character and interests
It's a fair point, but what exactly is being shared? Having a shared high IQ is no guarantee at all of the shared or compatible interests, personality, life aims or values. All the kind of stuff that helps in a social club, and relationship most definitely needs.
The only thing they have in common is an interest in knowing how smart they, and other people are, by one particular yardstick. As interest go, that's pretty shallow.
To be fair, it's not just climate change deniers who do this. All manner of nutters have the same tactic.
Make a fact up because it feels right and in line with their particular agenda, state it, hope no-one notices they made it up, keep stating it, forget that they made it up, continue stating it, hey! it's almost as good as true now!
I think they work to the tactic that if they keep saying something, it gradually becomes true through repetition.
My point was more that Microsoft have tactically acknowledged that their servers are an open book to the TSA, but they think that people and companies will be keen on giving them even more to read.
Take my money now, dammit!
I'm getting a foldable car. It's going to be sweet! It must be true because it's on teh internet.
And to think that just the other day Microsoft were complaining that the NSA fallout was getting worse. Are they hoping to swamp them with simply too much data on Microsoft's servers?
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
