I'd love.. well.. no. I'd tolerate more ads on sites if they were safe. Here in the Netherlands, we've recently had infections go via nu.nl and nrc.nl. Both very respectable news websites and perfectly safe. If it wasn't for the trojans served via the ads.
Nowadays all ads are the enemy. Flash, Java and Adobe reader seem perma-broken, coming with new 0-day attacks every time.
So adblockers aren't just a convenient way of stopping the more shady sites from popping a million blinking commercials in your face, they're part of regiment to keep your PC as healthy as possible.
(Certainly with the current trend of commercialized trojan kits, which means every noob can whip up something that nestles itself in your MBR, stays invisible and undetectable to everything you can through at, can steal your passwords and inject any banking site with redirecting iframes. No sir, the internet is a wild an dangerous place.)
Video driver support from the manufacturers should come first.
I'm running Ubuntu with Gnome, since I hate Unity. I've been trying to install the ATI drivers for my Radeon card, but it's a horrible mess. I can't get it to work and I'm a Unix sysadmin with kernel development experience so I'm not a newbie. I could probably spend a few weeks time working on it, getting to know the exact in and outs of video driver configuration under X, but honestly I don't want to. I've got other things that I'd rather spend my time on.
When video driver support becomes as easy and as solid as under Windows 7, then a huge hurdle would fall for Linux as a gaming platform.
From the excerpt, it sounds a little like wavelet compression. But that works well for lossy compression like video/audio. It's just really hard to get a formula that describes 'random-ish' data that would typically be going over WiFi.
To be honest, it smells like an infinite recursive compression story. I'd like to see proof of this before I get excited.
Guys, really? Fahrenheit? In a science article? On an international website?
I don't even advocate the usage of Celcius in this case, so why not use 33 degrees Kelvin? This at least give us _some_ idea of how close to absolute zero we are. Otherwise, why not use 'near absolute zero' and leave out the numbers completely?
If I were to buy a laptop with Windows (heavens forbid), then I'd expect installation media to go with it. I can understand NewEgg not fielding support questions on every flavor of Unix, but my grandmother should be able to restore the laptop to mint (pun intended) condition by inserting a DVD.
If NewEgg fails to deliver that, then there's the problem, not a user installing something else.
sed 's/a temporary disruption of cell phone service, under extreme circumstances where harm and destruction are imminent/anything that could be bad PR/'
1) While it's in use by a lot of people, _most_ people don't use it. 2) It's about a scientific article, so we're talking about science. It just makes sense to use celsius or kelvin in a science topic. If we're talking about the distance between planets, we use AU or light years. If we're talking temperature, fahrenheit is not the first choice.
Is it not our task to educate? If people get shielded from concepts like celsius/kelvin, will they ever learn? Also, this is Slashdot.. True, an American site, but read globally. I'm sure 99% of the audience knows about all three scales, but for science stuff, kelvin or celsius just makes more sense. Like how cocaine goes by the kilo.:)
Ok, so where I work, we have a tape library with robot arm and 5 LTO4 drives. We pay about 25 euros per tape, 800gb uncompressed. And the library itself and the drives are expensive.
My question is, could we have a library with SATA disks instead of tapes? And I don't mean they should be running 100% of the time, only when needed. That way you avoid the huge electricity bills. Also we should be able to duplicate data and store the copy drives in a remote vault. And the drives are not supposed to be in a RAID, just use them as you would tape.
Current harddisk prices are 0,048 euro cent per GB. Comes to 38.4 euros per 800GB.
However: * Prices of harddisks are currently a little high, will drop rapidly. So it's on par or cheaper then tape * No need to buy separate drives (currently E1120,- for an LTO4 drive) * No need to a robot arm in the library which is prone to breakage, just a slot which the SATA connecter clicks into * Drives are still way faster then tape (LTO4 = 120MB/s, SATA-300 = 300MB/s) * Sequential access to drives, no need to wind or rewind tape * You could theoretically hook up a drive straight onto a computer and retrieve your data if you needed to * You can turn on as many harddisks at the same time as you need, not limited as you would with how many LTO drives you have
Very promising, but before we uncork the champagne, it's important to keep in mind that mice and humans are different enough that most cures don't translate 1:1 to humans.
Yes, but patents aren't 'how-they-are-meant-to-be-used' anymore are they? Sure, you can say that's how it _should_ be, but in the end, that's not how it is. When 99% of all patents nowadays are crap, I think it's safe to go out and generalize.
Nowadays it's hard to really invent anything anyway. It's all evolutionary (computers are getting small enough to fit in my pocket, omg PocketComputer!) or discovery (Ah so when I run electricity through graphene, that's what happens).
And you made the point yourself. Apple isn't suing Samsung because Apple had a smart idea for the innards of the iPad, but suing instead because it also looked like a rectangle that somehow was reminiscent of the movie 2001).
While I'm fine with coders having their own ethical convictions, (I have a few of my own), you should keep in mind that coders are not your audience. It's the people who use your product that you should be listening too.
Say Firefox would introduce some kind of iTunes support, just some random crazy nonsense feature. As a coder I have moral objections against anything related to Apple, mainly due to their business practices. But I could see it being useful to a portion of the users of Firefox. The responsible thing to do would be to include the feature even though as a coder, I'd be against it. Simply because the user should be king.
Withholding features, be it due to moral objections or (more often) marketing, is the main reason why a lot of other commercial products suck. It's the reason why you can't have anything like an interpreter or emulator on the iPad. It's the reason why IE doesn't support web standards (although they got a lot better lately). It's the reason why a lot of software sucks. So write for your users!
"How do you expect to find an employee that will keep the companies data private when you're not hiring people who give you their password and won't even keep their own stuff private?"
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I'd love.. well.. no. I'd tolerate more ads on sites if they were safe. Here in the Netherlands, we've recently had infections go via nu.nl and nrc.nl. Both very respectable news websites and perfectly safe. If it wasn't for the trojans served via the ads.
Nowadays all ads are the enemy. Flash, Java and Adobe reader seem perma-broken, coming with new 0-day attacks every time.
So adblockers aren't just a convenient way of stopping the more shady sites from popping a million blinking commercials in your face, they're part of regiment to keep your PC as healthy as possible.
(Certainly with the current trend of commercialized trojan kits, which means every noob can whip up something that nestles itself in your MBR, stays invisible and undetectable to everything you can through at, can steal your passwords and inject any banking site with redirecting iframes. No sir, the internet is a wild an dangerous place.)
If you can't beat scientists on the F of Facts, then go by the F of Funding..
Video driver support from the manufacturers should come first.
I'm running Ubuntu with Gnome, since I hate Unity. I've been trying to install the ATI drivers for my Radeon card, but it's a horrible mess. I can't get it to work and I'm a Unix sysadmin with kernel development experience so I'm not a newbie. I could probably spend a few weeks time working on it, getting to know the exact in and outs of video driver configuration under X, but honestly I don't want to. I've got other things that I'd rather spend my time on.
When video driver support becomes as easy and as solid as under Windows 7, then a huge hurdle would fall for Linux as a gaming platform.
All your page curls be mine!
Yup, take the revolution in Egypt for example..
1) The people in Egypt revolt so they can get a democratic election.. USA: Yay!
2) They choose the Muslim Brotherhood.. USA: Boo!
Granted, it's mainly Fox News that is complaining about this and somehow blaming Obama for this, but still...
From the excerpt, it sounds a little like wavelet compression. But that works well for lossy compression like video/audio. It's just really hard to get a formula that describes 'random-ish' data that would typically be going over WiFi.
To be honest, it smells like an infinite recursive compression story. I'd like to see proof of this before I get excited.
Yes, our conclusion then was: Torque3D is already irrelevant due to the success of the Unity engine.
Guys, really? Fahrenheit? In a science article? On an international website?
I don't even advocate the usage of Celcius in this case, so why not use 33 degrees Kelvin? This at least give us _some_ idea of how close to absolute zero we are. Otherwise, why not use 'near absolute zero' and leave out the numbers completely?
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If I were to buy a laptop with Windows (heavens forbid), then I'd expect installation media to go with it. I can understand NewEgg not fielding support questions on every flavor of Unix, but my grandmother should be able to restore the laptop to mint (pun intended) condition by inserting a DVD.
If NewEgg fails to deliver that, then there's the problem, not a user installing something else.
I only clicked a handful of the actual images, but most of them give "No pages link to this file" or it links to some user's Talk page.
So it means you won't get to these images if you just use the Wiki as you normally would.
So where is the problem really?
sed 's/a temporary disruption of cell phone service, under extreme circumstances where harm and destruction are imminent/anything that could be bad PR/'
In other news, the B-52's from 'Love Shack' fame, are still going strong after 36 years..
1) While it's in use by a lot of people, _most_ people don't use it.
2) It's about a scientific article, so we're talking about science. It just makes sense to use celsius or kelvin in a science topic. If we're talking about the distance between planets, we use AU or light years. If we're talking temperature, fahrenheit is not the first choice.
Is it not our task to educate? If people get shielded from concepts like celsius/kelvin, will they ever learn? Also, this is Slashdot.. True, an American site, but read globally. I'm sure 99% of the audience knows about all three scales, but for science stuff, kelvin or celsius just makes more sense. Like how cocaine goes by the kilo. :)
Am I the only one who gets annoyed when scientific articles use archaic scales like Fahrenheit?
Ok, so where I work, we have a tape library with robot arm and 5 LTO4 drives. We pay about 25 euros per tape, 800gb uncompressed. And the library itself and the drives are expensive.
My question is, could we have a library with SATA disks instead of tapes? And I don't mean they should be running 100% of the time, only when needed. That way you avoid the huge electricity bills. Also we should be able to duplicate data and store the copy drives in a remote vault. And the drives are not supposed to be in a RAID, just use them as you would tape.
Current harddisk prices are 0,048 euro cent per GB. Comes to 38.4 euros per 800GB.
However:
* Prices of harddisks are currently a little high, will drop rapidly. So it's on par or cheaper then tape
* No need to buy separate drives (currently E1120,- for an LTO4 drive)
* No need to a robot arm in the library which is prone to breakage, just a slot which the SATA connecter clicks into
* Drives are still way faster then tape (LTO4 = 120MB/s, SATA-300 = 300MB/s)
* Sequential access to drives, no need to wind or rewind tape
* You could theoretically hook up a drive straight onto a computer and retrieve your data if you needed to
* You can turn on as many harddisks at the same time as you need, not limited as you would with how many LTO drives you have
Knowing Bonobos, this project will also have to involve some kind of teledildonics, right?
I'm all for this project.. you know.. for science!
Very promising, but before we uncork the champagne, it's important to keep in mind that mice and humans are different enough that most cures don't translate 1:1 to humans.
Yes, but patents aren't 'how-they-are-meant-to-be-used' anymore are they? Sure, you can say that's how it _should_ be, but in the end, that's not how it is. When 99% of all patents nowadays are crap, I think it's safe to go out and generalize.
Nowadays it's hard to really invent anything anyway. It's all evolutionary (computers are getting small enough to fit in my pocket, omg PocketComputer!) or discovery (Ah so when I run electricity through graphene, that's what happens).
And you made the point yourself. Apple isn't suing Samsung because Apple had a smart idea for the innards of the iPad, but suing instead because it also looked like a rectangle that somehow was reminiscent of the movie 2001).
Don't tell me this concept has never been used in SciFi before.
I'm pretty tired of companies taking all of the cool ideas people already had and stamping a patent on it. I'M LOOKING AT YOU IPAD!
Pooping in the sink,
pooping in the sink,
I'm clogging up their coolers
'cause I'm pooping in the sink!
While I'm fine with coders having their own ethical convictions, (I have a few of my own), you should keep in mind that coders are not your audience. It's the people who use your product that you should be listening too.
Say Firefox would introduce some kind of iTunes support, just some random crazy nonsense feature. As a coder I have moral objections against anything related to Apple, mainly due to their business practices. But I could see it being useful to a portion of the users of Firefox. The responsible thing to do would be to include the feature even though as a coder, I'd be against it. Simply because the user should be king.
Withholding features, be it due to moral objections or (more often) marketing, is the main reason why a lot of other commercial products suck. It's the reason why you can't have anything like an interpreter or emulator on the iPad. It's the reason why IE doesn't support web standards (although they got a lot better lately). It's the reason why a lot of software sucks. So write for your users!
"How do you expect to find an employee that will keep the companies data private when you're not hiring people who give you their password and won't even keep their own stuff private?"
I wonder if they'll have as much success as Hercules.
I did Google it, I just had no clue it had anything to do with cellular technologies. I thought it was a CPU feature, so I disregarded the 3G link..