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I think this close up of the cockpit makes it clear that that static display isn't functional. The video looked a lot like an RC.

The dimpling on the surfaces you can see in that pic looks like the crappy fiberglass repair job on my boat with a coat of paint smeared on it.

I think this close up of the cockpit makes it clear that that static display isn't functional. The video looked a lot like an RC.

http://i.imgur.com/Xa99lgw.jpg

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yea innovation like new supermario world zelda quest 387

How many COD games are there again?

This is only relevant if one assumes the discussion is a fanboy/partisan pointscoring exercise where the "least worst" side wins.

In truth, the fact that there have been 234 Call of Duty games (or whatever) doesn't negate the fact that Nintendo's reliance on the 142nd Zelda game ("Zelda Gets Really Old"), or Super Mario Land 379 1/2 are exploiting the same old properties, and hardly "innovative".

(Yes, they *could* in theory do something innovative featuring Mario, but (e.g.) "New Super Mario Bros U" isn't, it's just another version of the sidescrolling, token-collecting, SNES-ish formula relying on the nostalgia of people now in their 30s who grew up with the NES and SNES).

And yet, you didn't link to any images which would support your contention. In fact, a quick Google images search for "coffee lounge in Soma" disproves it.

http://grupthinkpro.s3.amazonaws.com/grupthinklive80240347b2eab6b15fd4935656ba50e8

Nobody will ever top Florida "A55 RGY" with the big orange in the middle serving as the letter "O."

A55 O RGY

Step aside, Slashdot... *puts on shades*... I got this.

Your new 'best plate ever'.

Thanks, Bay Area!

Saw this one at a Marilyn Manson concert, thought it took a lot of balls to pull off. It's a pretty innocuous word in German, but has negative connotations in other languages.

Apple vs Braun: http://i.imgur.com/Nd4JI.jpg

And another one:

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

Are you uneduCated? I think this image might explain things in terms you can understand: http://i.imgur.com/XTexx.jpg

Print these out as big as you like and stand behind the Scientologist staff pointing to their script as you follow along with what they say:
Front side
Back side

Print these out as big as you like and stand behind the Scientologist staff pointing to their script as you follow along with what they say:
Front side
Back side

OK, here: http://imgur.com/dPB4LmA is a picture from the park next to (north of) the Forbidden City in Beijing. Beyond 1.5km it's impossible to see anything, not even the shape of the buildings.

The photo is from October 2012. Can you see anything like that for an American city in 1990?

Also, it's like that much of the time in many Chinese cities. It's even worse when the weather doesn't cooperate (where it might cause smog for a day or two in present-day LA).

Yeah, totally, except... no. http://imgur.com/hVRB7Zl

Here you go.

See Braun's pocket radio from the 1960s.
- the ipod Vs Braun's portable radio
- Apple's all-around ripoff of Braun's product line design

The only thing original about Apple is charging small fortunes for their gear.

Who needs hotswap when you have a GRID!

Really, in these "highly distributed" systems, the price of redundancy is much lower than custom hardware.

A while ago I had to put together this server: http://i.imgur.com/iII52.jpg
That's an IBM x3450 or 3650, I don't remember. The specs are pretty much "meh". It's a 20kg box with a HUGE motherboard in an oversized case, with 3 120mm fans (with the ability to add 3 more in "stand by"). It has a socketed CPU, and to the left of it you can see a black cap - that's where the secondary CPU plugs in a special daughterboard (!) The rest is PCI Express, RAM ("only" 8 slots), 5 gigabit eth interfaces, 2 power supplies, etc.

When putting it together I figured: this server is not about raw performance. It's about reliability. It's the "good ol" IBM kind, the kind you'll stick in a closet and it will keep on working 20 years from now, like those 486 BSD mailservers still on the wild. This is the complete opposite to facebook: the eternal search of high performance, low cost, where power costs alone justify replacement of thousands of servers every couple of years.

The price? "Modest" configuration on top of the base system (16GB RAM, 2 300G SAS drives and 1 extra dual gigabit ethernet interface), nearly $4000 (this is Argentina price which is a bit higher). For $4K you could build at least 5 similar systems that won't give you the simplicity and reliability of this box, but will surely outperform it.

When you scale this to the thousands, and have own programmers developing "grid" architectures for it, the savings of "off the shelf" hardware become much more evident. Google doesn't use off the shelf motherboards anymore. But they use their own system, which replaces the PSU with a single 12V channel and an onboard lead-acid battery. The rest is pretty much a standard ATX board.

I think the following link is highly relevant to this discussion: http://imgur.com/gallery/Qi3u2

Yes, it is has been declining since Oct 26. Here is how the data looks on a daily basis: http://i.imgur.com/hNPSv.png

The blue line is before Windows 8 launch, the red line is after. Windows 7 was at an all time weekly high the week of Oct 26, when Windows 8 was launched. It's been going down steadily since then (minus some distortion due to holidays, but it's now just about back on the original trajectory started on Oct 26).

As for Windows 8, the stats are broken down when you download the CSV data.

I took a screenshot for the rest of you to enjoy: http://imgur.com/nriJ3

Obligatory: http://i.imgur.com/YF3Iu.jpg

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

Phone quality? You must have one hell of a phone!

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

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

Looks like much of the USA in winter. Maybe not everyday, but at least several times a week.

I'm sure there're places in the USA where you have such conditions for months on end just like in Lappland, in Wyoming or Minnesota, say, and Alaska is of course even worse. Looks like USA has lots more sunshine though:

http://imgur.com/vYpbh

http://i.imgur.com/2Zp0G.jpg

Need any more proof? Best part is I took the screenshot on the Ubuntu machine, moved it onto the phone via drag and drop, then uploaded it to imgur using an app.

Also, it is very amusing to me that you imply my post is a shill, when all I'm doing is pointing out *factual errors* you somehow managed to get modded up as informative. I can manage my Lumia 920 just fine on my Ubuntu machines. By all means though, keep plugging your ears.

Inevitable when a company grows too big for its own good, when productivity takes a back seat to showing off how much money you have.

Sorry, replying to my own post, but I decided to take a screenshot from the source I mentioned:

http://i.imgur.com/myOi3.jpg

First off it is to be expected that gas/petrol prices will raise year on year it has done for the past decade and will continue to do so. Was it really such a big surprise to find out that 2012 was the most expensive year for petrol in the USA? Secondly, this highly USA-centric story doesn't compare to the UK, Europe and other regions of the planet. All stories like this do is make some people want to slap Americans for whining about the cost of petrol when in Europe we are more often than not paying double for petrol as referenced in this map. How this made it to the front page I don't know, it's common sense and does not require a notice to the people who actually drive cars as well as being incredibly whiny to the rest of the world.

Well said! In my area of Scotland petrol (gas) averages the equivalent of USD 8.10 per US gallon for unleaded or USD 8.75 for less refined Diesel - and we are supposed to be an oil producing nation. Unfortunately, in the 1970s our wonderful government in London sold off the rights to extract the oil to mostly American oil companies who now sell it back to us at a premium while our government then then taxes it punitively on top.

First off it is to be expected that gas/petrol prices will raise year on year it has done for the past decade and will continue to do so. Was it really such a big surprise to find out that 2012 was the most expensive year for petrol in the USA?
Secondly, this highly USA-centric story doesn't compare to the UK, Europe and other regions of the planet. All stories like this do is make some people want to slap Americans for whining about the cost of petrol when in Europe we are more often than not paying double for petrol as referenced in this map.
How this made it to the front page I don't know, it's common sense and does not require a notice to the people who actually drive cars as well as being incredibly whiny to the rest of the world.

you have cheap fuel. Really. http://imgur.com/r/MapPorn/YIpi5

How can this NOT make people want to invite these things into their homes? (CAPTCHA was creeps, it's already on to us). Think of it standing over your bed, waking you up saying, "Why won't you love me?"

Take a look at this screen grab. I've circled the left turn control signals. They're clearly red as the car is coming into the intersection.

Can such a device offer any proof that the resulting image (and in particular screen grabs) have not been tampered with? Changing that light from green to red would be a few minutes work with any decent image manipulation software.

Take a look at this screen grab. I've circled the left turn control signals. They're clearly red as the car is coming into the intersection.

Why not switching to celcius? Except for the US and Jamaica, the whole world has... http://i.imgur.com/ucOQh.jpg

Liberia, Myanmar, and the U.S. actually. Jamaica uses Celcius for temperature (definitely when I was there in the 1980s and 1990s).

Why not switching to celcius? Except for the US and Jamaica, the whole world has...
http://i.imgur.com/ucOQh.jpg

Visual Studio 2012 will...

relevant

I, like another poster here (dreamchaser -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3322527&cid=42320943 ), have "polydactyl" 6 toed cats (4 of them, 1 male, 3 female - the male is just like his, almost a clone in fact -> http://i.imgur.com/NjdkT.jpg , only front paws that way, like his late now deceased mother, & the females have them on all 4 feet...)

Yes, just like Ernest Hemmingway did (he favored them, & even setup a "habitat" of sorts for them to THIS VERY DAY):

They display AMAZING dexterity!

E.G.-> They "grab" things no differently than you or I do in fact, where other normal footed cats, cannot... it is truly something to see!

However, my point?

An opposable thumb (which we too have along with other primates) ALLOWS FOR TECHNOLOGY imo... eventually @ least (Of course, also providing the brain evolves enough & the need presents itself as well).

* Yes, it helps them in fights too... extra "blades" on each paw... & a LARGER heavier one to strike blows with!

E.G./I.E.-> It is amazing how much MORE "striking power" the 6 toed cats have, vs. ordinary cats (of which I have those too). You can hear a "thud"/"thump" when the pop other cats in the head... lol!

It was the same with a feral cat my family adopted in the 80's too... same extra striking force, AND, the ability to literally hold objects as we do.

It is hilarious watching them pickup food & put it to their mouths, when the other cats, cannot, in fact.

APK

P.S.=> As dreamchaser called them? LMAO - "Felis Catus Erectus" (I would've used "polydactus", but the point's there)...

... apk

For comparison, here's how 4chan is being handled (sorry for image rather than text).

TL;DR: there is not only thorough infiltration, but even the servers themselves have been physically moved to a rack owned by the spooks. With the amount of CP being posted to 4chan, it's not that surprising - what is interesting is that instead of playing whack-a-mole with chan sites, the biggest site itself has been partially subverted. At the cost of site quality (no moderation is done other than CP), but for the ease of government agents.

They use baseball bats: http://i.imgur.com/CmHDQ.jpg

Speaking of baseball bats: http://i.imgur.com/CmHDQ.jpg

Kind of interesting when you factor all this in.

It is going to be a rebellion by bipedal cats with opposable thumbs. I give you...Felis Catus Erectus

I replied to one of Liz's comments this morning (last one), but it was never approved and instead it was removed.

It's unfortunate that she's a front person for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, I'm not a fan of how she handles things. The more I read her posts and replies the less I like the project.

As requested: http://imgur.com/nq4a2

Screenshot:

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

Wow, this is really depressing. In contrast here is the result from Google Germany (with Safesearch disabled): http://i.imgur.com/er23K.jpg (you would probably consider this NSFW. Thank god I'm a.) not living in a country which has a problem with sexuality and b.) I'm self employed):

No problem.

This is a search for blowjobs. http://i.imgur.com/R5mjw.jpg Feel free to click at work, it's work safe. That's the problem. Fisting, rape, etc., all had the same tame results.

http://imgur.com/AiBKG