I'm not sure whether you should be modded funny or insightful. (I don't have any points to spare in any case, so we'll leave that to fellow slashdotters.)
But seriously, it's always annoyed me that while MySpace is never *totally* down, one out of every five pages I load gives me a "unexpected error" page, which somehow still manages to load an advertisement. I can never even tell if my MySpace messages are being sent or not. Somebody should start counting uptime in terms of successfully, fully delivered page and not just "does the page load at all?"
Sometimes it seems like an easy way for Google to get around its promise of only making us endure unobtrusive text ads. I've liked them less and less since they started doing bigger ads that call more attention to themselves. On the other hand, is there any good alternative to Google for selling text ad space?
It stands for "Hybrid Digital," according to officials at the HD Radio Alliance.
The Wikipedia article provides a nice overview of why it's really not worth it compared to traditional radio. *Worse* audio quality on FM, lower coverage, and let's not forget to mention the obsoleting of about 100 years' worth of perfectly good radio equipment, for the sake of selling a whole bunch of high-margin "cutting-edge" technology.
I find it amazing that countries are still able to act with such impunity over the Internet, just because they aren't doing these things in the physical realm.
To me, the lines became less obvious over time -- it bugged me for the first day or two of constantly using my Trinitrons, but it's been probably a week since I even looked for the lines on the screen, much less noticed them. It's a small price to pay for the sharp, bright picture, if you ask me.
Excuse me, but above the tree line, there are still plenty of small plants -- and the animals who use them for food and habitat. Life doesn't just stop at a certain altitude, and even though people may never bother to go and watch the pretty little critters, that doesn't mean their part in the ecosystem is any less important to the overall "quality of life of millions of people" when you consider how everything in this world fits together.
Not only were C64s hallowed game machines, but today with an Ethernet cartridge and Contiki, they can even become web servers. It's truly amazing what we can still do with the boxen of old.
Just be careful not to slashdot that site; it doesn't have nearly the RAM or CPU power to hold all of us at once!
Of course, if you have a cell phone, people will not understand why you would ever want to turn it off. Me, I'm cell-phone-free and quite happy about it. We need to keep pay phones.
I really wish I had modpoints to give you for that.
I myself have a 14-character password with letters, numbers, and special characters...but I tend to use it everywhere, and it's a year old. To me, you can practically have passwords that are strong, unique for each login, or changed often -- pick one.
I would agree with you. I haven't heard anything particularly appealing about Vista, but XP works fairly well by now. My big peeves with it at first were the kid's-bedroom color theme, and how damn slow it used to run. But I switched to Classic mode my first day, and last year I finally built a computer with enough CPU power and RAM (an especially big issue) so that XP even feels speedy. Why switch now that I've finally grown used to/happy with XP?
It doesn't seem to be mentioned in TFA, but I have to wonder:
Exactly how fast does it copy if it has to translate? I'm sure it's not the near-instantaneous work we've come to expect of our Xeroxes.
If the translations aren't just gibberish Engrish, its usefulness will be immense, so the time won't be so much of a concern; but I do still wonder.
If you wind up in the hell part, you're given a free Internet connection. Unfortunately, it's in a land where no one has heard of net neutrality, it's dial-up, and it's through a 300-baud modem hooked up to an old TRS-80.
It's like leaving a lawn chair out in your yard while you go out. Somebody could conceivably swipe it, but you don't have an excuse since you didn't chain it down.
I love how Slashdot is the kind of site where one can refer in a subject *and* the article summary itself to just "Linus" and we all know who the person's talking about.
Save your eyes with darker backgrounds. I keep my monitor at 75% brightness at least, often down to 50. I can barely take the full-on glow lately, although I do have to do it for looking at badly-lit pictures and while in shadowy games. Cranking it up just hurts and tires your eyes out even more than normal (at least, from my experience).
Unless it's been radioactively mutated, risen from the dead, and is now terrorizing Sydney, I really don't get why a giant squid report belongs on Slashdot.
Now, if it *is* a giant radioactive mutated zombie squid rampage in Sydney, the Slashdotting public has a right to know!:o
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6. This thing is useless without activation. If I decide I don't want Cingular, it's not even an ipod, it's a doorstop.
It's just a little bit too small to be much of an effective doorstop, I'm afraid....:P Even if it would be a classy one.
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I'm not sure whether you should be modded funny or insightful. (I don't have any points to spare in any case, so we'll leave that to fellow slashdotters.)
But seriously, it's always annoyed me that while MySpace is never *totally* down, one out of every five pages I load gives me a "unexpected error" page, which somehow still manages to load an advertisement. I can never even tell if my MySpace messages are being sent or not. Somebody should start counting uptime in terms of successfully, fully delivered page and not just "does the page load at all?"
"...an independent joint venture in partnership with..."?
Just how does that work?
Sometimes it seems like an easy way for Google to get around its promise of only making us endure unobtrusive text ads. I've liked them less and less since they started doing bigger ads that call more attention to themselves. On the other hand, is there any good alternative to Google for selling text ad space?
It stands for "Hybrid Digital," according to officials at the HD Radio Alliance.
The Wikipedia article provides a nice overview of why it's really not worth it compared to traditional radio. *Worse* audio quality on FM, lower coverage, and let's not forget to mention the obsoleting of about 100 years' worth of perfectly good radio equipment, for the sake of selling a whole bunch of high-margin "cutting-edge" technology.
On the other hand, if war becomes so easy to carry out, why think before starting it, and why bother ending it?
I find it amazing that countries are still able to act with such impunity over the Internet, just because they aren't doing these things in the physical realm.
To me, the lines became less obvious over time -- it bugged me for the first day or two of constantly using my Trinitrons, but it's been probably a week since I even looked for the lines on the screen, much less noticed them. It's a small price to pay for the sharp, bright picture, if you ask me.
Excuse me, but above the tree line, there are still plenty of small plants -- and the animals who use them for food and habitat. Life doesn't just stop at a certain altitude, and even though people may never bother to go and watch the pretty little critters, that doesn't mean their part in the ecosystem is any less important to the overall "quality of life of millions of people" when you consider how everything in this world fits together.
If they only published it monthly you could bet that 99% of those torrents would be dead by the time the magazine reached people's hands. :P
Not only were C64s hallowed game machines, but today with an Ethernet cartridge and Contiki, they can even become web servers. It's truly amazing what we can still do with the boxen of old.
Just be careful not to slashdot that site; it doesn't have nearly the RAM or CPU power to hold all of us at once!
Of course, if you have a cell phone, people will not understand why you would ever want to turn it off. Me, I'm cell-phone-free and quite happy about it. We need to keep pay phones.
Well, without the modern computing industry, we wouldn't have such modern things as Slashdot. :)
If you're really going to go NCC-1701-D-level futuristic, give us some holodecks already!
I really wish I had modpoints to give you for that.
I myself have a 14-character password with letters, numbers, and special characters...but I tend to use it everywhere, and it's a year old. To me, you can practically have passwords that are strong, unique for each login, or changed often -- pick one.
If there's only one filter, instead of hackers spread out over so many different projects, all can focus on cracking The Big One.
I would agree with you. I haven't heard anything particularly appealing about Vista, but XP works fairly well by now. My big peeves with it at first were the kid's-bedroom color theme, and how damn slow it used to run. But I switched to Classic mode my first day, and last year I finally built a computer with enough CPU power and RAM (an especially big issue) so that XP even feels speedy. Why switch now that I've finally grown used to/happy with XP?
Ah, pardon me. I'm thinking of my CP/M computer a little too fondly. :)
It doesn't seem to be mentioned in TFA, but I have to wonder: Exactly how fast does it copy if it has to translate? I'm sure it's not the near-instantaneous work we've come to expect of our Xeroxes. If the translations aren't just gibberish Engrish, its usefulness will be immense, so the time won't be so much of a concern; but I do still wonder.
If you wind up in the hell part, you're given a free Internet connection. Unfortunately, it's in a land where no one has heard of net neutrality, it's dial-up, and it's through a 300-baud modem hooked up to an old TRS-80.
It's like leaving a lawn chair out in your yard while you go out. Somebody could conceivably swipe it, but you don't have an excuse since you didn't chain it down.
I love how Slashdot is the kind of site where one can refer in a subject *and* the article summary itself to just "Linus" and we all know who the person's talking about.
Save your eyes with darker backgrounds. I keep my monitor at 75% brightness at least, often down to 50. I can barely take the full-on glow lately, although I do have to do it for looking at badly-lit pictures and while in shadowy games. Cranking it up just hurts and tires your eyes out even more than normal (at least, from my experience).
Unless it's been radioactively mutated, risen from the dead, and is now terrorizing Sydney, I really don't get why a giant squid report belongs on Slashdot. Now, if it *is* a giant radioactive mutated zombie squid rampage in Sydney, the Slashdotting public has a right to know! :o
6. This thing is useless without activation. If I decide I don't want Cingular, it's not even an ipod, it's a doorstop.
It's just a little bit too small to be much of an effective doorstop, I'm afraid.... :P Even if it would be a classy one.
Why can't we all get along?!