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> "We can't wait to see what people, teams and businesses will do with Surface Hub"

Translation: they haven't figured out an use-case yet.

They don't need more use-cases to justify the product's existence - they just acknowledge that there are lots of possibilities they haven't thought of.

When you were in school, how often did the teacher / professor run out of space on the blackboard? And then either started writing super-small or started erasing what you were still halfway through copying down?

This is a never-ending zoomable, scrollable whiteboard that saves everything you're writing down.

How much simpler would a maths class be if the teacher could add trigonometry animations on the blackboard while they were explaining?

And if you think the specs aren't up to scratch, I'd bet it's at least powerful enough to VPN to a beefier computer nearby.

I want a pony
doesn't mean California has to give it me.

Hard to believe it's been almost ten years: http://i.imgur.com/se56NGS.gif

Seeing as this is Slashdot and there's no Cowboy Easter Egg... I'll have to go with:

sudo apt-get moo

And, because Slashdot eats the text formatting, here's a picture:
http://i.imgur.com/BGXbVxZ.png

I especially support research in nuclear energy, Thorium reactors are a great place, right on the edge of practicality.
Also, I support nuclear fusion research, and I think we should fund more of it, and this graph shows why.

If we can make energy cheaper by an order of magnitude compared to how it is today, that opens the door for some great things.

> Which has two drawbacks: an unfair accuracy advantage for player 1 compared to players 2, 3, and 4 on the same machine

Someone call the Wahbulance. How's that 30 Hz slideshow with 4 players on the same console working out?

> and the fact that movement is still digital. W, A, S, and D aren't pressure-sensitive.

And in *practice* that means jack shit as

1. good players _predict_ their enemy's intended attack direction BEFORE they commit.
2. AIM is FAR more important then STRAFING as any mouse player will you. Being a gamepad crybaby doesn't change the fact that mouse DPI precision kicks the shit out of any gamepad's.
3. Not to mention you'll be gaming at 30 FPS for shooters while us PC guys are running at 120+ Hz.
4. How's that Joystick + Throttle working out for your space games?

> How much does a gaming PC with "their favorite case" cost,

Oh noes! A player can *choose* how MUCH or how LITTLE they want to invest into their rig. How horrible!

> Wii pioneered emulation without having to break the law by downloading ROMs from shady Internet sources

1. Most emulators are ILLEGAL due to requiring the ROMS of the machine.
2. Almost everyone playing emulated games doesn't give a shit about following the Law. People have been trading ROMs _way_ before emulation.

> How is DX9, DX10, DX11, DX12 not an "artificial upgrade cycle"?

You're conflating 2 issues:

* As hardware becomes faster it exposes more _functionality_. Due to Microsoft's retarded _design_ of DirectX they intentional "break" the API to expose the new functionality. In contradistinction, in OpenGL new functionality is exposed first as an vendor extension, and once the vendors are happy with HOW to implement it, it becomes part of the standard.
* Funny how Micrsoft does the same shit with Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbone.

Funny how you *IGNORE* the advantages of PC. Let's go play Starcraft2 ? Oh wait, you can't do that on a shitty console.

Console's have their limited place for gaming. 4 Player Castle Crashers is awesome. But PC's are simply superior in just about every way. /oblg. This is how to game on consoles. :-)
http://i.imgur.com/r7sejYS.jpg

> I just don't get it.
That's because you don't manage multiple domains. Uploading files is D-O-G slow. I get ~130 Mb/s down, ~12 Mb/s up (bits) which is 16 MB/s down and 1 MB/s up (bytes) and it STILL takes ages to upload anything. Other sites upload wicked fast.

> Yahoo mail is fine
Maybe for you. But it blows for multiple reasons:

0. Ad spamfest
1. For the rest of us searching still sucks compared to Gmail. (Their Javascript rewrite was horrible for months: slow, crappy UI, etc.)
2. Their offline mail archive blows. Where the fuck is the ability to download ALL my mail FOLDERS + contents offline?? This may have changed recently -- I changed checked in years. For years they only offered folders via "mobile only" bullshit.
3. Gmail's UNDO is _awesome_.
4. You've never had to deal with all the spammers trying to hijack your account
5. You've never had to deal with technical support. Good luck even getting in touch with a live human to report an issue.
6. You've never had their mail system fail over without any explanation.

It this poll of 579 people is any indication, Yahoo sucks far more then Gmail or Hotmail.
* https://yahoomailreview.wordpr...

> why do people seem to dislike them so?
In addition to all the stuff mentioned above another reason is because of all the other bloated shit they throw on their "portal" page. I don't want nor need their crap. /Oblg. Yahoo vs Google Homepage
* http://i.imgur.com/kOjcHU5.gif

Back in the day they used to be good for custom domain + web hosting. Today they are overpriced.

Here's another opinion:
* http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/...

Of course, since we are a larger corporation, we haven't notified everyone internally yet... http://imgur.com/WfJuPUw

Shut up dipshit, it's best when you're quiet.
https://i.imgur.com/gcJEC7i.jpg

I get what you're trying to say, and it's related to the very point I tried to make. Democracy is not some ultimately stable thing; in fact it relies on a population that continually reaffirms its wish for democracy. It is possible for democratic, popular-vote processes to yield a parliamentary composition that dismantles democracy itself, e.g. subsequently transitioning toward leadership styles and political regimes experienced in many other countries with Arab and/or Islamic majority, and elements of Sharia law that contradict democratic concepts. Before you vest too much staying power in current democratic institutions, let's remember that given sufficient majority, every and all laws can be changed. It's completely possible for a currently European nation to transition into full-blown Fascism or Sharia law or whatever. Democracy _is_ an advanced point in the phylogenesis of political systems but you can't change the population and still expect that it can be taken for granted. History is rife with relapses and regressions, all former flag holders and empires eventually fell.

So the question now, is it democratic to let in immigrants en masse, knowing that it hugely increases the likelihood that democracy will evaporate once the indigenous population is crowded out? Demography changes from muslim immigration on a democratic substrate can yield Sharia law just by following the new majority's wish. The demographic tipping point is calculated to take around 2-4 decades (depending on country, variables and model parameters) but it's not like we can expect wholesale Westernization of already immigrated folks and their offspring. For much of the current problems and several terror events are caused by disgrundled second and third generation immigrants.

Western Europe is already quite islamized; the die is cast and now the gradual population shift is taking its natural course. The Balkans already has a partly Muslim population. It seems as though current migration intentionally targets Northern countries: http://i.imgur.com/BSG7Vio.png So pretty much only Eastern Europe (Visegrad countries and former European Soviet states) remains white.

Stupid immigration policies letting in people from under medieval governance, plus demography, plus democracy can literally end democracy as we know it. The result won't be a consensual, equality-based legal system, but something more reflective of the wishes of the most violent, determined group of the population, guess who they will be.

Ah, yes, the beach-side villa....three kilometres inland and 159 METRES above sealevel. Such a good argument you have there.

This is what the WSJ thinks http://i.imgur.com/bdgZa.jpg

Agreed on the RJ plug/jack combo. But I have seen failed jacks on notebooks. It's quite rare but I have seen 2 instances. Here's one example. https://i.imgur.com/D9bDecr.pn...

This cartoon tells why we shouldn't mandate labeling of them.

*No* dangers have been found. None. And these foods (well, the GMO plants that went into them) are among the most heavily tested on the planet.

Even the nutritional characteristics are the same -- and if they weren't, the FDA would require labeling, because then it would actually be different.

This labeling makes even *less* sense than the Prop 65 warnings in California -- at least there, the chemicals in question really have been found to cause cancer (though in things bearing that ubiquitous warning label usually have the chemicals in question in utterly minuscule amounts that are many orders of magnitude lower than what's been found to cause even the smallest problems, or they're in things that aren't consumed by humans at all. (You wouldn't eat a Disneyland, would you? (Note that I didn't say "eat at Disneyland", but instead "eat Disneyland itself".)

The history of the 20th century finds plenty of reasons those words were poisoned, and it has nothing to do with media bias. It has everything to do with the depraved hearts of socialists and the utterly ruthless way they went about implementing socialism. I think you really don't know your own history. You need to hit the books. For the short version, one picture is worth a thousand words.

http://imgur.com/UgaQAWv that's a screenshot I took from that businessinsider article today; a half naked buxom girl in alluring pose linked to yet another businessinsider article...

GDC promoting marxism [...]

Oh, please. Did you even read the slide? That's like saying GDC is promoting zombie hordes.

How about the other areas of GDC promoting marxism and white guilt/white oppression....

Seems slashdot likes to post the social justice side and not the hate towards whites and anti-capitalism side of the same convention...

How about the other areas of GDC promoting marxism and white guilt/white oppression....

Seems slashdot likes to post the social justice side and not the hate towards whites and anti-capitalism side of the same convention...

It's not just that - BART was simply never meant to be operating on the scale it does today. When BART was built, the creators envisioned a system that would serve about 100,000 people per week and choke points such as the Transbay Tube were built accordingly. Naturally, as the population increased, upgrades had to made. This worked for a while, but eventually lack of funding for serious overhauls caught up with the
constantly increasing ridership. Maximum capacity is heavily influenced by the fact that sections like the tube are single line, with no easy way to expand to double or triple. BART could theoretically be a 24/7 system, but as things stand now their engineers need every minute of the nightly downtime they have to service a rapidly aging rail system.

The rails already in place are almost at capacity, with a train crossing over them every 2 minutes. With the tech booms of the last decades, there's been an even bigger spike in these numbers. Over the last decade alone, passenger alightings at some stations have more than doubled. On busy days, the BART system now serves 25 times more riders than originally envisioned. There's some money for additional trains, but that can only do so much. Eventually, we are going to need to spend money on either more parallel tracks, cars, and bigger platforms or just a new system altogether.

Their administrators are simply being realistic about the situation we're in

Really.

I thought it was just a joke

Also, taking advantage of the moment, don't forget to review the both the quality of the ads on this site and also to fix the "Thank you, here, have no ads" flag that seems to unset itself all too often and, both on Desktop but also on mobile, happens to miss some ads (screenshot for reference).

About ads, it seems that now most ads on sourceforge are tech related: JumpCloud, Intel, AdWords, Gmail, etc. Slashdot, on the other hand, suffers with all kinds of unrelated ads motivating the users to block them either with the above mentioned flag or outright with adblock. On mobile it used even worse, to the point of being outrageous: autoplaying popover videos whose close button was inaccessible on mobile.

Find the area of this object:

http://imgur.com/vbnNEHS :^)

The S7 is IP68 certified which means that you can submerge it in up to 1.5 metres of water for up to 30 minutes without damage being done to the phone. Accomplishing that with a removable battery would be an absolute nightmare

No, it's not. Here's a $23 phone with a removable battery which is IP 57 rated (1 meter of water for up to 30 minutes). When you take the back cover off, there's a simple gasket that prevents water from entering into the compartment that hold the battery, SIM and memory card. It's not complicated at all and it's certainly not a nightmare.

Why is the NASA authorization bill the "rest of the story"?

Did you actually decode it or infer by the title?

I created this RGB bitmap to illustrate this Slashdot story in an attempt to see if I could create my own Nam-Shub virus that compels the human race to get out to explore and colonize the heavens, and rally technology in defense of the Earth. Try again --- put just the image up on the screen at maximum zoom and gaze into it calmly. If you do it right, you'll begin to see future things and hear voices. I'm one of dem 'space nutters' some of those high tech low ambition Earth-huggers on Slashdot rile on about.

And you my friend --- you would look especially good in space.

Uh, that's an MSN thing. You get it when browsing MSN on any browser when using a version of Windows earlier than 10. Here's a Win8.1 VM with Firefox.

http://i.imgur.com/P3gSRGf.jpg

And there's an alternative banner type ad that MSN sometimes uses in place of the overlay ad. This is on Win 8.1 with IE11.

http://i.imgur.com/wB04p0b.jpg

Both of those are only occurring on MSN, on every browser, and without the most recent updates. It appears to just be Microsoft doing basic browser detection when visiting MSN.

Uh, that's an MSN thing. You get it when browsing MSN on any browser when using a version of Windows earlier than 10. Here's a Win8.1 VM with Firefox.

http://i.imgur.com/P3gSRGf.jpg

And there's an alternative banner type ad that MSN sometimes uses in place of the overlay ad. This is on Win 8.1 with IE11.

http://i.imgur.com/wB04p0b.jpg

Both of those are only occurring on MSN, on every browser, and without the most recent updates. It appears to just be Microsoft doing basic browser detection when visiting MSN.

Wikipedia had a legit article on Cultural Marxism. Then it got deleted and turned into a redirect to that conspiracy theory... by, guess what, a Marxist editor.

Here's one data point - based on from experience migrating a pretty big system from [a major proprietary database mentioned in the article] to Postgres, I think the two biggest advantages Postgres has are:

GIST and GIN indexes (and soon BRIN indexes), and

Writeable CTEs.

We migrated a very busy, pretty large (24 CPU core, 256GB RAM, 20TB disk space) system from [a major proprietary database mentioned in the article] to Postgres about a year ago. These graphs measuring CPU and disk activity provide a nice visualization of the improvement:

http://imgur.com/a/bp2ky

Note that with [a major proprietary database mentioned in the article], all 24 CPU cores in the system were over 40% utilized (and growing) 24x7 most days a year. After a pretty naive port (November to May in the graph) the CPU load fell to an average of about 10%, and the disk array's queue length fell from painful to near zero. After adding some Postgres-specific code, we got it down to an average of near 5% (shown in the most recent month in the graph).

CPU differences seem to have been mostly related to the availability of GIN indexes in Postgres, which can be much more efficient on certain types of data (like the OpenStreetMap road network).

Disk I/O improvements seems to be mostly related to Postgres's far more compact storage of XML data. Seems SQL Server stores XML data using 2-bytes-per-character for the data itself; and on top of that adds extremely large indexes. In contrast, the "toast" feature in Postgres means the XML data takes an average of less than one byte per character for the data and its "functional index" feature allowed for far more compact indexes. One of our XML-heavy databases went from over 600GB in SQL Server down to 140GB in Postgres, with more efficient indexes.

For a few months we tried to stay database-agnostic so it'd be easy to port back if we needed to -- but after a while we started adding Postgres specific changes. The benefits of those Postgres specific changes can be seen near the end of those graphs. An enormous improvement occurred when we changed the inserts and updates to use the Writable CTE features following recommendations someone outlined here

.

In the end, Postgres looks to me like it's saving us like 5X in hardware costs as we continue to grow.

Edit: I'm told this proprietary database vendor dislikes users publishing benchmark results comparing their software to F/OSS databases. I'd argue that this is more of an anecdote than a benchmark; but just in case I edited the comment to remove the vendor and product name from the parts that talk about performance.

Disclaimer: As mentioned in a comment below, we tried to tune each the systems to the best of our team's abilities, but aren't really experts in tuning either database system. No doubt each system's results could be improved by people who were deeply available with each databases internals (which I argue is much easier to find for Postgres, since its mailing lists have thousands of people familiar with the internal code).

This, the story, forum posts from divers, etc., suggest that he was pulled into a gravity-fed pipe into a holding reservoir, not the turbine feed.

• * "Drive Up the Wall"
• * "Get On One's Nerves"
• * "Rub the Wrong Way"

It checks out!

http://i.imgur.com/9Scl3Ftl.jp...

Ban it! Math is a religion.

Oh Stan you silly man.

Read the screen grabs, http://imgur.com/a/Eb4yJ

[ This iPhone is managed by your organisation. ]

What sort of idiot would not already know this about a work phone? It is same for a work PC, and work land line, or even a room at work. Oh yeah Apple users...

"Page response time is not limited by your connection speed "

So what are they trying to get at here -- that it's like Akamai? Because this just sounds like marketing drivel.

Spade eh? http://i.imgur.com/HEOJs.gifv

That's not much fun though, is it :)

If you have realistic expectations, often you don't really need much more than a road and some trees - you can tell the country by the road signs (like, speed limits and stuff, not city names :D) and lane markings and the region by the trees. But sometimes you're unlucky and get a dirt road in the middle of a pine forest or something, then you're screwed.

One place I would expect the AI to do a better job is identifying cities. I can ID NYC, DC, Paris or Berlin, but I can't tell one anonymous shithole from another, country & region-level is probably the best I could hope for. The AI , on the other hand, would've probably seen that very city before.

I screwed up my link in the other post above, here's my last result: http://imgur.com/TqTkDYE

"SSDs do not solve any problems for data centers"

This is patently incorrect and the power bills alone prove it. Go ask any datacenter that switched over to SSD. There's a reason my box uses SSDs (lower requirement for cooling the TWELVE GPUS INSIDE.)

I design these kinds of systems for a living, among other things like owning a mine and mining gems and minerals, designing semiconductors, and much, much more.

"There is more involved in managing data center performance than simple access times or temps."

Most of that unnecessarily complex and useless. Feature creep in the name of "advancement" when nobody ever uses those features excepting maybe 0.000001% of the population.

That is impressive, though it's 10.10. I'm not sure how well 15.10 would do. Unfortunately, they seem hell bent on eating as many resources as you throw at it. I can see that as a problem for those who only have access to slower hardware. I've got fine hardware but it's unfortunate if it ends up being too bulky for older PCs.

I think Ubuntu might want to consider a super-light, but fully configured and functional, version. Take Lubuntu, strip it down a bit more, optimize it a bit more, trim out the things that don't actually get used on older hardware. Find a VERY light (but functional) graphic browser (I'm still looking for one) and run with it. Find a good, but light, email and whatnot.

I am curious as to what LXQt is going to look like in terms of resource usage. I'm sort of excited but, at the same time, visuals is not an element that I'm horribly concerned with. I *like* LXDE and I think I've made it look just fine. Here's an old image of it running on the aforementioned computer or one of similar vintage:
http://i.imgur.com/VSsDyU0.png

Hmm... Maybe I can roll my own and just make it available for people? Or at least give a list and a methodology to enable them to do so on their own. It seems like a worthy goal. DSL and Tiny Linux are both not robust enough. Something between the two might be of interest. With so many choices, the closest I've come is actually LXDE.

Someone else mentioned putting Lubuntu on a bunch of spectography machines a while back. They linked me to them but I don't appear to have saved the URL. I'm thinking something a bit lighter might actually be a decent idea for some people but I'm not sure that I'm the appropriate choice to start and maintain such a project. I'd probably build up from core and run with it from there. I'm not entirely sure how to wrap it back up but I can figure that out via Google.

Hmm... I need to get motivated. Hell, if you've got any ideas for software, let me know. ;-) Email is always an option.

People proposing more Passenger Rail in the US, don't understand a few things, and typically are comparing the US to some small European country (like Denmark).

First, the USA is quite large, compared to Europe. See: http://i.imgur.com/GML5Ei0.png

This creates huge problems for people who think France is big. Who in Europe would take a train from Madrid to Tel Aviv ? Yet these same people would be happy to tell us that we should build a rail line from LA to Atlanta. Or Seattle to New York. Or San Francisco to DC.

My first point is that people from Europe (I have French relatives) who don't have a clue how big the US actually is.

Second, we already have High Speed Rail here, they are called Airplanes. For most case scenarios, Air travel works much better than HSR does. It is less expensive, faster and more convenient than HSR. But they aren't as romantic as "trains" for some reason.

I am intrigued by the notion of a hyperloop for intermediate distance travel. Espeicially if it could incorporate travel from city centers (downtown) to suburban neighborhoods. On demand travel of intermediate distances would be a huge benefit to most cities.

I am not opposed to building out mass transit systems, but they have to make sense beyond some romantic notion or socialist utopia viewpoint.

Have you seen the inside of a hospital lately. In my area, the nurses in the hospitals spend an enormous amount of their day standing at mobile workstations, inputting patient information and documenting every little thing. I seriously believe that they are spending upwards of 60% of their time "supposedly" doing data entry. Though, for all I know they could be on Facebook or Slashdot. Regardless, the point is that in the instances that I have observed, they're only spending 40% of their time actually dealing with patients.

The mobile workstations are regular computers connected to a WiFi network, monitors(touch screen), keyboard, mouse, rechargeable battery pack, on a wheeled pole, think giant intravenous bag pole.

Sock Mystery Explained

http://i.imgur.com/SW4aP3e.gif

> built around one of the worst programming languages around (JavaScript),

. /sarcasm But it such as bastion of good design. *snicker* You mean it being written in 10 days wasn't long enough? :-)

"JavaScript: Designing a Language in 10 Days" aka Javascript: 10 days for the designer, 10 years of frustrations about fucked up design for devs
* http://www.computer.org/csdl/m...

As Douglas Crockford, inventor of JSON, said about Automatic Semi-Colon Insertion

@34:31 "Why am I betting my career on this piece of crap"

And about amateurs

"Most of the people writing in JavaScript are not programmers. They lack the training and discipline to write good programs. JavaScript has so much expressive power that they are able to do useful things in it, anyway. This has given JavaScript a reputation of being strictly for the amateurs, that it is not suitable for professional programming. This is simply not the case."

But let's keep relying on stupid shit such as this hack to turn on type safety:

"use strict";

*facepalm*

--
Why do the two shittiest languages, PHP and Javascript, power the web??

Five people clicked the aforementioned, and forgot to install Privacy Badger beforehand.

WARNING, THE REMAINING PART OF THIS COMMENT IS SPAM

For comparison, another time I linked to my blog fulldecent.blogspot.com for something that was probably more relevant (I forget what link). There were seven clicks.

For more comparison, once I posted a link to privacylog.blogspot.com and it made the front page -- about 1,000 people accessed the story.

https://imgur.com/a/Ep6Sg

Forgot the link: http://imgur.com/EPpxm3n/

Not parent but these were posted elsewhere in the thread:
https://archive.is/AR4XX/image
http://imgur.com/5WJFUAF

And I am sure it had nothing to do with her getting alcohol delivered to her while at work or bragging about making sexual jokes to the companies twitter account. It's either quite a coincidence or she knew she was in trouble and wrote the letter to try and make the company look worse.

Wow...Bulleit bourbon, delivered to her at work. And she was supposedly poor?

And I am sure it had nothing to do with her getting alcohol delivered to her while at work or bragging about making sexual jokes to the companies twitter account. It's either quite a coincidence or she knew she was in trouble and wrote the letter to try and make the company look worse.

Al Gore made a comment that sea levels would rise 20 feet in his 2006 movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," that the global warming critics like to hype to death. Any comment by Al Gore should be taken with a hefty amount of sea salt.

Just like the pro-agg like to make the claims "warmest weather since record keeping." Which in countries like Canada means 1970...most recent example? "Warmest weather in Waterloo, Ontario...since records started in 1967..."