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They are all images, so you will have to type the links.

http://i.imgur.com/pxx6QB3.jpg

By the way, it might be the case where showing how it behaves explains the strangeness better than trying to describe it. Have a look, and note how changes either are or aren't reflected across "copies".

Billy G is not a pioneer at that either. Home automation was already commercially available back in the 1980s. Pic related.

Not only that.
Display this at 1:1, see how far you have to back off until you can't easily tell which line has a step in what direction.
Divide that distance by your typical viewing distance, multiply by display DPI and you have a ballpark lower limit on useful resolution.
People tend to massively underestimate vernier acuity.

Here is my feeling about it (and Stewie's)...

I got it recently, and it's got 4k at 60FPS, in a 28" size - great for programming.

Review link

Just to try it, I was able to get all the single-player PC Ultima games running in about half the screen real estate:

ALL THE ULTIMAS

It's around $600 when its on sale, so I think it just about matches the model slashvertised here.

Ryan Fenton

Obligatory: http://imgur.com/gallery/XETM0...

Screenshot of the Visual Effects dialog: http://i.imgur.com/fNQJjxX.png

http://i.imgur.com/b4DHe4z.png The timing couldn't have been better. (In fact, perhaps the hack was someone taking this too literally?)

Rust is worse. Unlike DayZ, where (if I remember right) players start with a pistol, in Rust people start with a rock. The rock is a melee-only weapon with a horribly long swing time. It's deadly at close range, but it takes maybe half an hour to get a gun in Rust.

A very, very common sight in Rust is players with M4s and other military-grade weapons (which supposedly are only "placeholders" but have been in the game since its inception) killing people who have just spawned. On some servers, there are entire teams of people dedicated to camping popular spawn locations for the SOLE PURPOSE of killing anyone who dares to randomly spawn there.

There is no benefit to doing this. The rock is a useless item, not used for making anything else, and at most the new spawns might find a few wood or stone before they're killed.. neither of which are useful to the guys in metal bases with assault weapons. There is no advantage to killing like this - in fact, you're wasting precious ammo - but people do it anyway. Granted, a lot of them seem to be pre-teens with no jobs who can spend 24 hours a day grinding ammunition.

Med-kits are useful and everyone spawns with them.
That being said.......

> It proves that if you can give a corporation tax breaks and throw off the shackles of regulation, they will do better and want to hire more people. Oh...wait.

I was actually doing an Excel thingy the other day, simply looking at how company profits actually relate to employment. This information is freely available from companies' annual reports. For example:

Woolworths Limited (annual reports) graph: http://i.imgur.com/iNagiLN.gif

For companies like Woolworths, whose operations are fairly labour-intensive, profits do relate to employment though, as you can see, profits rise far more quickly than employment does.

Then take Comm Bank (I'm Australian): (annual Reports) graph: http://i.imgur.com/w6orwfi.gif

For Comm Bank, profits rise confidently, however the effect on employment is comparatively modest. Employment even drops for a period. Over the long term, the relationship between profit and employment is minor.

From the few I looked at, profits of major companies rise far more sharply than does employment, and sometimes there is little relation at all. I imagine there is a closer relationship between profit and employment in small to medium businesses. IMO, large companies should be more highly regulated (also so they can't off-shore their tax) while small-medium businesses are the ones who should be encouraged more.

> It proves that if you can give a corporation tax breaks and throw off the shackles of regulation, they will do better and want to hire more people. Oh...wait.

I was actually doing an Excel thingy the other day, simply looking at how company profits actually relate to employment. This information is freely available from companies' annual reports. For example:

Woolworths Limited (annual reports) graph: http://i.imgur.com/iNagiLN.gif

For companies like Woolworths, whose operations are fairly labour-intensive, profits do relate to employment though, as you can see, profits rise far more quickly than employment does.

Then take Comm Bank (I'm Australian): (annual Reports) graph: http://i.imgur.com/w6orwfi.gif

For Comm Bank, profits rise confidently, however the effect on employment is comparatively modest. Employment even drops for a period. Over the long term, the relationship between profit and employment is minor.

From the few I looked at, profits of major companies rise far more sharply than does employment, and sometimes there is little relation at all. I imagine there is a closer relationship between profit and employment in small to medium businesses. IMO, large companies should be more highly regulated (also so they can't off-shore their tax) while small-medium businesses are the ones who should be encouraged more.

• -It seems that, like most average folk, you're confusing respect with honor. The due respect this concept commands, in my humble opinion, is no more than the simple recognition of its place in the history and lore of our beloved internet community that you demonstrated adequately in your first paragraph. A hallmark of days past for many (like me) and an enduring habit for otherwise honorable folks not unlike yourself... To put it in terms an average person such as yourself can understand; the euro-folk above do a disservice to themselves and their national presence on the internet by putting their ignorance and/or disregard of this history on display in the form of distasteful nationalistic jokes.
• -I have plenty of respect for the written word (take a look at my other comments, if you wish), and I provided a subtle hint that even some folks with this enduring habit have enough respect for the written word to properly capitalize and pluralize acronyms. I suppose I'm not surprised you didn't make note of that.
• -Speaking of bird shit, stupid fads, and respect for the written word... I'm not entirely surprised the capitalization scheme you've chosen to hock your amateur fiction seems reveal you as a bit of a hypocrite. Let's take this down a notch, if you don't mind. I'd hate to be motivated into actually reading your books. If they suck as bad as your little burn-attempt, I might feel compelled to post a thorough literary review on amazon:
  • -"mcgrew publishing"

they could produce an electric car that people actually want. Tesla can sell at a higher price because there is actually demand, who the hell would want this?

https://imgur.com/gallery/dBEm...

But can you hack a Gibson with them?

The problem is that funding one scientist for twenty years will not yield the same results
as funding twenty scientists for one year. In other words: Progress (in any kind of research) does
not depend linearly on the accumulated amounts spent. If you spend little enough, there won't be any
progress at all, because the One Scientist will be busy documenting the status quo before he retires,
so the next One Scientist can learn the status quo before he retires, ...

There's a nice graph about that. Note the "actual funding" line.

Making it a bit darker in a gritty way would be nice. More character development. I saw this on reddit today, and I kind of agree with where that's going.

It's a troll headline. Guys, it's not a strict list. Someone just crafted a bunch of examples for guidance. A few of those are even made tongue in cheek, such as "rolling sarcophagus".

The another page of the guidelines shows the general idea: just try to use neutral and professional expressions instead of scary words.

Nothing to see here, please move on...

It's a troll headline. Guys, it's not a strict list. Someone just crafted a bunch of examples for guidance. A few of those are even made tongue in cheek, such as "rolling sarcophagus".

The another page of the guidelines shows the general idea: just try to use neutral and professional expressions instead of scary words.

Nothing to see here, please move on...

But when I do, I reformat the entire campus and SCCM http://i.imgur.com/zpMmtNw.jpg

Slashdot needs IP shadow banning, so fucktards like APK can spin their wheels with their insane posts and the rest of us can get on with it. I don't know what's gotten into him lately, but practically every single story has a flood of stupid APK's stalker "LOL EAT UR WRODS FEEB" posts. It's starting to get out of hand. Hopefully he gets back on his meds and settles down soon.

APK, before you go on your usual "LOL @UR NOT A >> LICENSED MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL SO U -> KANT KALL ME @KRAZY@" rant, I've got proof that I am and I can. Bitch.

You're making the common mistake of thinking the current hipster driven fad for some of the superficial aspects of nerd culture is the same as the real deal being actually appealing.

It's not. Nerd culture is no more popular today than it ever has been, the difference is instead of openly harassing/bullying nerds just for being nerds people are inventing a straw boogeyman that lets them pretend to be a victim in order to justify their abuse. The only difference between today and twenty years ago is the slur used. Twenty years ago it was "nerd" itself. Today it's neckbeard.

http://i.imgur.com/jrfXcAX.png

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Can't be done in the U.S. due to the 2nd Amendment; even in its current state of murkiness (what with the Drake/Moore/Peruta circuit split) mass confiscation isn't going to happen any time soon. But we can look at other countries - and there is no consistent correlation between violent crime and firearm ownership rates. Violent crime seems to correlate with other factors, e.g. socio-economics, poverty levels, corruption, etc.

http://i.imgur.com/BoxA98T.png

The number of suitable hangars with suitable runways to land on nearby is pretty limited. Maybe all of them should simply be checked.

That's been considered, and I assume the checks would already have been completed.

You can see all the known runways on this map: http://i.imgur.com/Iwa6Ali.jpg

The rest of the discussion here is interesting as well. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum...

Yes, the rate of advance is accelerating, fusion is only 40 years away, like it was 40 years ago. Although, this problem could be tackled.
Here we are talking about an antimatter reactor, in an universe where antimatter has to be 'created' at extremely high energy expenses and has to be contained in strong magnetic fields, which require high electrical currents, since there is no 'material' container for antimatter other than antimatter. A reactor that is so powerful that its energy can bend space itself, with the virtual mass of an entire star. A reactor that is very hard to control, therefore they had to invent "Dilithium", an element with magical properties, while being somewhat impervious to antimatter itself.
These things are preposterous, while other stuff from Star Trek is not. You might enjoy this one.

He bought / stole the account, and he's been spouting a lot of bullshit lately.

And you're spouting a little right now! ;-)

Suggesting this acct was stolen is just a patent falsehood. The original owner of this acct sold it for $100 in a very well publicized Ebay auction. I happened to win the auction and I felt at the time that a piece of Slashdot history (a beta account -- 2digit already) was well worth the money out of sheer novelty. A 3digit acct later sold for around $700 and another for $200-300, from what I could tell.

Love or hate the low-uid, you have to admire any piece of Slashdot history. CmdrTaco is probably the only person posting with a lower UID than me and he's not posted here in a long time (2011). I donated quite a bit of time to helping CmdrTaco on a revamp of the moderation system over several emails back and forth, and he was appreciative of my feedback. I'm a programmer and system designer so he didn't just outright reject what was said. There was a small think-tank of us working on it. But shortly after that Slashdot was sold and the changes were never implemented.

Come on man. I enjoy Slashdot. I've posted my wacky opinion here for quite a long time. My other acct was 6 digit. The one before that was a 4-digit low to mid 2000s uid. I've since lost access to both of those. A good friend was very involved with this site early on and tried to get us all into it back on the TWCTF mailing list back in the day.

So you're not wrong... except you are wrong about the stealing thing.

http://www.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comments/24jtcy/hi_im_joe_belfiore_from_the_windows_phone_team_ama/ch7vbb4

"We are doing a File Manager for WP8.1! I know a LOT of you are looking for this (thanks for the tweets, I've read them all). In fact, I've been running a build of it on two of my phones for the last week or so and it's getting to pretty good shape.

Here's what it looks like: http://imgur.com/a/hvqGD#nRuOFXp

We are expecting to get it into the store HOPEFULLY by the end of May."

Recent hack, the one that has prompted this change in policy and security issues reward process, revealed that 4chan sold about 12740 passes this year. At the price of $20 per pass, that's about $254,800 so far. And there's also a lot of revenue coming in from advertising.

If 4chan was truly unprofitable, it would have closed years ago. Seems to me that this is just an image that the owner is trying to project.

And by mazes I mean mazes that can make your Nethack/Rogue happy bits twitch. Out of boredom I started making a cave and dungeon generator like the one Nethack/Rogue has. Here's the resources I used to put together what I have so far in Java.

Topic in General
http://www.roguebasin.com/inde...

Caves
http://www.roguebasin.com/inde...

Dungeons
http://www.roguebasin.com/?tit...

Procedural Content Generation Wiki
http://pcg.wikidot.com/

BSP Dungeon Generation
http://doryen.eptalys.net/arti...

Use one of the examples those places provides or do like I did and strike out on your own method to solve the problem of cave and dungeon building. I got a cave screen shot of one test generation.

My Cave Generator Output
http://imgur.com/9O9Niae

This is what it looks like. It doesn't always show up on the front page, but it's in the right sidebar when it does.

Oh, and to add on to this, I'm 150 and right now I'm tossing around 70+ pound 4x4 posts and 2x12 planks in Texas building a demo hydro shed. And yes, when someone says 'Throw me that...' on a code-exempt agricultural site, shit gets THROWN.

http://imgur.com/jx7FleE

Back to school with your poor understanding of classical physics.

Flying in this plane was definitely about the vehicle, not the destination.

Thanks for the tip. I just installed Multiling Keyboard, and it looks like it is similarly invasive in terms of permissions, but since it doesn't need network permissions, I guess it should be okay.

You might be talking about this copypasta:

Boy, I thought, the Beechcraft really must think he is dazzling his Cessna brethren. Then out of the blue, a navy F-18 pilot out of NAS Lemoore came up on frequency. You knew right away it was a Navy jock because he sounded very cool on the radios. “Center, Dusty 52 ground speed check.” Before Center could reply, I'm thinking to myself, hey, Dusty 52 has a ground speed indicator in that million-dollar cockpit, so why is he asking Center for a read-out? Then I got it, ol' Dusty here is making sure that every bug smasher from Mount Whitney to the Mojave knows what true speed is. He's the fastest dude in the valley today, and he just wants everyone to know how much fun he is having in his new Hornet. And the reply, always with that same, calm, voice, with more distinct alliteration than emotion: “Dusty 52, Center, we have you at 620 on the ground.”

And I thought to myself, is this a ripe situation, or what? As my hand instinctively reached for the mic button, I had to remind myself that Walt was in control of the radios. Still, I thought, it must be done - in mere seconds we'll be out of the sector and the opportunity will be lost. That Hornet must die, and die now. I thought about all of our Sim training and how important it was that we developed well as a crew and knew that to jump in on the radios now would destroy the integrity of all that we had worked toward becoming. I was torn. Somewhere, 13 miles above Arizona, there was a pilot screaming inside his space helmet. Then, I heard it - the click of the mic button from the back seat. That was the very moment that I knew Walter and I had become a crew. Very professionally, and with no emotion, Walter spoke: “Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?” There was no hesitation, and the replay came as if was an everyday request. “Aspen 20, I show you at one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots, across the ground.”

I think it was the forty-two knots that I liked the best, so accurate and proud was Center to deliver that information without hesitation, and you just knew he was smiling. But the precise point at which I knew that Walt and I were going to be really good friends for a long time was when he keyed the mic once again to say, in his most fighter-pilot-like voice: “Ah, Center, much thanks, we're showing closer to nineteen hundred on the money.” For a moment Walter was a god. And we finally heard a little crack in the armor of the Houston Center voice, when L.A. came back with, “Roger that Aspen. Your equipment is probably more accurate than ours. You boys have a good one.”

It all had lasted for just moments, but in that short, memorable sprint across the southwest, the Navy had been flamed, all mortal airplanes on freq were forced to bow before the King of Speed, and more importantly, Walter and I had crossed the threshold of being a crew. A fine day's work. We never heard another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast. For just one day, it truly was fun being the fastest guys out there.

From here and here.

https://imgur.com/gallery/1tBx...

https://imgur.com/gallery/dBEm...

What we really need to do is cure cancer. We need to solve the cancer problem, because that very problem is what is affecting our world at a global level too. When we learn to cure that disease symptomatically identified as bloating of cancer cells, we will learn to stop the cycle of economic bloat, corruption and oligarchy.

Which "cancer problem"? There are over what, 200 different diseases all under the umbrella of "cancer," each requiring a different cure or preventative measure. Yeah, we need to figure out how some of the base line errors occur in cell replication et all, which will help prevent quite a few types of cancer, but there's never going to be a magic bullet -- a "cure" for "cancer."

Whenever you have a system predicated on the decision that a person need only say yes to whatever garbage is being sold, you need a hot-button and 3d is that precise hot-button at the moment. 3d movies, 3d printing, and soon enough 3d homemade robot companions engineered to last one year or less only before joining the last model at the dump.

What we really need to do is cure cancer. We need to solve the cancer problem, because that very problem is what is affecting our world at a global level too. When we learn to cure that disease symptomatically identified as bloating of cancer cells, we will learn to stop the cycle of economic bloat, corruption and oligarchy.

The Windows Update site has not worked on XP for a couple years now, although I can't remember when it officially happened.

That's not accurate at all, Windows Update works just fine on XP SP3. You can install a fresh copy of XP today and patch it all the way "current" via Windows Update. You need SP3 either slipstreamed or as a manual download, but both are widely available. Once SP3 is installed, Windows Update will bring you all the way up to date (April 8, and then some).

Automatic updates turned off, going through the "Custom" button at windowsupdate.microsoft.com, guess what just showed up today on an XP SP3 machine running IE8? That's right.

According to their link as of this posting:

Pages matching "1313802" in Launchpad
Bug #1313802 “Ubuntu for Android described as "must-have feature...
3 days ago ... describes Ubuntu for Android as "the must-have feature for late-2012 high-end Android phones". Ubuntu for Android is no longer in...

Since neither them nor Slashdot won't pick up the full content, here is the page content:
Text: Pastebin
Site: imgur

Also, in the new version it's no longer possible to use a master password... if you want to use sync all your password will be in plaintext (well, obfuscated) in FF's password file. Any malicious or vulnerable application can get access to ALL your passwords. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...

My reaction when reading this

For many people still using an RSS Reader on the web.. and whom loved Google Reader.. AOL Reader is the only reason to have an AOL email account. (with a simple greasemonkey script to hide the ad bar).. It is a well featured, well done product. And I will have to change my (strong, unique) password now, which is a slight bummer.

But this news brings up another issue. The main competitor in the RSS world now is Feedly, but with them deciding to forgo the risk/expense of an authentication system altogether and only allowing OAuth logins via Twitter/Facebook/Google/Microsoft ..with no login system of their own, many people are just uncomfortable giving the Feedly people access to their contacts list and other personal info that they get when using their service.. The info they get access to can be seen in screenshots here: http://imgur.com/a/jsXfT

Perhaps Feedly (and others) have a bright idea there, avoiding rolling their own auth and letting the inevitable data breach land on the hands of the likes of twitter and Microsoft instead of Feedly itself.. .. That certainly may have been a good idea for Adobe, who lost 1.2 million accounts.

Even 2% makes me a little worried about the product that is pretty great in AOL Reader.. and I am gonna probably fire up the locally run Tiny Tiny RSS reader this weekend to make sure I have a backup.

I guess I was lucky, for not using Windows or Mac OS and because of luck with my GTK theme. But I'm now somehow liking the UI.
I knew what was coming so I was prepared to see some new styling and loss of features. But first thing is, it kept the classic menu bar after upgrading (File, Edit, View etc.). Title bar is intact too. Same deal as I got when running Firefox >= 4 on linux.
Then, perhaps because my background for menu bar was gray, the "background", inactivated tabs are on light gray as well. So I don't have high contrast between tabs at all! That's funny as it was one of the main points in screenshots and video.

All my extensions still work (a handful ones, but they're vital). My zooming buttons on toolbar (from the browser's stock featureset) were even still there. Customization is as every bit as easy as promised, within the limitations of course.
Here how it was almost out of the box (bookmark buttons removed and maybe some minor things)
http://i.imgur.com/kZ50vQJ.png

I then learnt you can put icons besides the classic menu bar, and they will be smaller than on the navigation bar. So I did. (zooming buttons are smaller and easier to use there.)
I do have a few usability improvements (gained an icon for an extension, can zoom to 100% with one click, moved some stuff to the top bar. Current tab is somewhat easier to find with the curve)

"Sandwich menu" can't be moved or removed (I assume it's a sandwich with a slice of bread in the middle. Bread sandwich!) but can be cleaned up a little and ignored 99% of the time. I was lucky, won't go back to older versions.. I don't want to be an apologist, just wanted to share my experience of having it easy (this time?)
It's still full of features not found in the Google Chrome UI. (such as middle-click scrolling and regular menus)

http://i.imgur.com/TNz9k9G.jpg

"I think the ideal would be for most road conditions, detours, and traffic issues to be kept up-to-date on a database that could allow for dynamic routing instead of the car relying completely on markers."

*Crowdsourcing long-term knowledge*
Unlike humans, the cars will already know where the road markings are, even when theyâ(TM)re covered: "Collaborative 3D Scanning with Paracosm and Project Tango" â" âoemultiple entities scan different parts of same the space, and join the data to create a 3-D modelâ: http://i.imgur.com/Y4OOdRe.gif.

*Crowdsourcing real-time knowledge*
Now in terms of real-time conditions, and winter driving, autonomous cars could constantly refresh each other with new information. Thereâ(TM)s a four-way stop thatâ(TM)s about two blocks from my house. When there is a good sheet of black ice, youâ(TM)ll see car after car slip and slide; itâ(TM)s extremely dangerous. As soon as a driverless car detects black ice, itâ(TM)s going to alert every single other autonomous car, and update them with the new info about that location.

My method takes six steps, tops: http://i.imgur.com/Ot0mJHf.jpg

If you need something short and punchy you could try this picture: https://i.imgur.com/wrAJgjA.jp...

It's not really an explanation, but it does get the point across.

Most people weren't impressed with the first home computers, either, and couldn't see a need for one. It'll take time, better and cheaper technology, and more known use cases. Look how long it took us to get from the AT and XT and Apple II and "you can use it for recipes and Oregon Trail!" to the iPad, Facebook, and Skype.

As soon as people learn that they can print a new battery cover for a remote control, or replace a small broken part of a kid's favorite toy, or some amazing thing no one has yet thought of, they'll start picking up. Personally, I can't wait. (I mean, I can wait, and I am waiting, but I'm really looking forward to having one and I already have a bunch of things in mind for when I get one. Just waiting for them to be a bit cheaper.)

The same way you download and print random cute, funny, or pretty pictures, imagine being able to download and print random neat stuff like this. (Sample I saw from a Makerbot in a Microsoft store.)