Comment Re:No Vision (Score 0, Troll) 336
Oh wow. Another Apple shill modded up for no reason. I thought Slashdot was supposed to have an anti-Apple bias.
Oh wow. Another Apple shill modded up for no reason. I thought Slashdot was supposed to have an anti-Apple bias.
Yeah, except if you want a keyboard (mandatory for actual work: touch screens still suck and always will) it becomes as expensive as a good, cheap Lenovo laptop with much more power and storage, and a much better keyboard and a real OS as well.
Slightly wrong: Advertising has such an effect that the voters don't care. It's a system that makes propaganda mandatory but inaccessible outside the corporate loop, but it also makes it independent of the state, and as such it is yet another example of your great freedom. Of course the voters won't think of it as a big deal. That would be anti-American.
That might be true, but Obama is just as easy to attack from the left.
Er, the election is rigged before it gets to the vote. You can't win a U.S. election without tons of money for TV ads, and you won't get that kind of money without corporate support.
American satirists must be in a sad state if that's the best they can come up with.
Most of the West, the U.S. included, was big on this kind of "experimentation" (i.e. lobotomies as a kind of medical treatment) a few decades ago. No need for Hitler here.
On a positive note, much of our current knowledge of how the human brain works comes from destruction of various kinds, either from intentional and misguided treatment or from strokes. The side effects are often interesting.
So the major tech gaffes of the year, according to the LA Times, are mainly advertising fiascos.
Er, you just listed how you make an argument and then didn't. That makes me kinda suspicious.
Yeah, why not give the old man the gift of mod points.
Most people certainly can perceive frame rates faster than 30 FPS. The difference between 30 and 60 FPS when playing a game on a modern LCD display is huge. Stop perpetuating dumb myths.
Ah, POSIX porn. Most people never even thought it existed, yet there it is, already a standard.
Right. As if your grandmother would do anything differently when encountering problems under Linux than under Windows -- either she'd ignore it (like my parents do with their infinite number of browser toolbars bogging down their systems), or she'd come to you for help. Most people are entirely incapable of fixing problems under either Windows or OS X, as exemplified by the infinite number of hits you get when googling "repair permissions", the universal remedy for all Mac problems (which are remarkably frequent for a faultless system) that never ever works, suggested by clueless idiots to helpless computer illiterate users every day.
In the end, most users just blame themselves for their computer problems: after all, they have chosen not to learn how the system works. Perhaps that seems less irresponsible with proprietary consumer software, a sort of feel-better-factor, but don't pretend your average computer user is capable of fixing problems under Windows or OS X.
I was so looking forward to playing with Linux 3.7 this weekend.
16075 packages that work, or 16075 packages that are available? Seriously, the last time I used a Mac with Fink, so much was broken that it just wasn't funny. From the complaints I've seen, this is still true, although probably not quite as horrid as back then.
The major difference between bonds and bond traders is that the bonds will eventually mature.