*plastic dots aside lanes or road shoulder which are often reflective, which result in a BUDDUMP-BUDDUMP-BUDDUMP when your wheel goes over them. Common in places where regular road plowing doesn't take place.
The SEC (Slashdot Effeciency Committee) have released their findings and conclude that:
Slashdot pushed their new code to all but one app server. That one app server reposted the same Knight story as yesterday. Slashdot has been fined 12 karma.
Yahoo! has been rolling out change after ill thought out change in page layout, UI, and functionality. They're trying to be 'hip' and 'modern' and failing miserably
Just like google has been doing with gmail's so sleek it sucks UI.
I have a Samsung Charge. Getting your phone and all it's issues sounds like an upgrade to me.
Samsung may do well in other products, but they make poor quality phones.
Office 2010 - not a whole lot different from 2007, but a lot more popular now that people are familiar with the Ribbon
I'm sorry, but no. Just because people are complaining vocally anymore about something originally done five years ago and another screw-up that took place three years ago doesn't mean things are ok now.
I got use to the ribbon, but I still hate it and it is still way less productive than the file menu.
Where are mod points when I want them? People lost the choice as it was use 2003 software or use the ribbon. Businesses eventually migrate as support and features in 2003 got dropped.
I saw the same thing in Magic: The Gathering. Someone would pay hundreds of dollars for a rare first-print power card, and would rationalize it as an investment. Ha! Then -- to the surprise of only a few morons -- WotC reprinted most of these cards and made the originals next to worthless.
Wizards of the Coast has a long standing list of reserved cards which will not be reprinted.
http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/article.aspx?x=magic/products/reprintpolicy. While the company and certain pockets of players have sometimes hated this list, Wizards has honored it. Many cards on that list have actually gone up significantly in value the last few years.
Nope. Because colleges/universities are more interested in making money than educating.
Please mod the 2nd post up.
I have a junior and a freshman in the state universities. It's sickening how money grubbing the universities have become.
$10/meal meal plans. Yes, even $10 for those dry cereal breakfasts.
High fees for everything -- parking, dorm fees, application fees, gym facility fees
Dorms that cost more than 1 bedroom apartments.
Tuition that rises much higher than inflation (5-15% per year)
To get around legislatively mandated maximum tuition increases, my state universities now have a "tuiition differential fee" which according to the prepaid plans is expected to rise 20% to 40% per year. The differential fee at the state universities was $4600 this past school year.
The universities are getting in bed with the health insurance companies too. Many states now make health insurance mandatory for their university students. Not on the parents plan? Add $1000 for 9 months of health insurance that the university kindly prearranged to get you from company XYZ. I can only imagine what insurance companies kick back to be the default health insurer. Oh, prior illnesses are not covered obv.
Universities also get kicks from banks who compete to be the default bank for the university. If students want their financial aid to be direct deposited they HAVE TO get an account with the default bank, else wait an additional 2-6 weeks to get a paper check. The banks know they can make it up on students overdrafting or just monthly account fees
Since students were undercutting campus book stores by buying new and used books online, one of my state universties is now focusing on getting "university specific special edtion" publications of books. Sorry, you can't buy that Biology book off eBay/Amazon, you need the special University fo XYZ edition.
Mandatory online homework websites. $50-$100 per class. Cause the teacher can't email out a doc/pdf?
Some classes now also require eBooks for classes. One of my kids is in a class that we paid $90 to have access to the online book for 5 months. After 5 months -- nothing. Want to go back and reference something? Too bad, pay another $90
So yeah, the higher education system is nothing more than a money machine these days.
Eventually they should have it so you only need to goto classrooms for your hands on stuff and physical sciences. And all books should be fully downloadable.
I'd love to know whether there's something about the tech industry that makes it susceptible to this level of mismanagement, as so many tech companies seem to have been badly mismanaged over the years.
A lot of the people who rise up and take over get their positions due to their political positioning in the company and not due to their real business decision making ability. I've seen too many bad or even clueless managers/vices get to positions of power that way.
What is Bitcoin? For somebody whos never heard of it before, how do you describe it?
Mike Koss: Bitcoin is a digital currency. The really interesting thing about it is that it's totally decentralized. No government agency, no bank stands behind it. It was a geek by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto who started it in January 2009. He just invented a protocol and said, if you want to join me in this activity, we will all share in this new world of creating our own currency.
So how does it work, exactly? Can you give us a Bitcoin 101 on the mechanics? How do you get a Bitcoin, how is it created, and what's the economy like?
Peter Vessenes: Fundamentally, how you get a Bitcoin would be just like how you buy anything else. You could buy one online because they're digital. You can come by Startpad. Mike will sell you one, or I will sell you one. Or ten or whatever you want. The way most people are obtaining their Bitcoins is just through some economic transfer.
This sounds like a incidental headline one would see in some movie script where people get sent back in time to stop the advancement of some technology that ultimately leads to some sort of global doom or financial ruin for someone.
And who knew Jeri Ryan was living in Mexico these days?
Netbooks are still very much used and sold. They did not continue to grow as much as they were hyped up a few years ago. This is more because of Intel and Microsoft more than Apple.
Microsoft mandated that for manufacturers to be able to sell the starter version of W7 or XP (when it was available) the netbook must have only 1 GB of memory or less. More than 1 GB meant they had to pay for a more expensive MS OS license.
Intel made a great product with the Atom. Before netbooks to get a usable 12" laptop one had to spend $2K or more for a Vaio that had the same specs as a $500-$700 15" laptop. The Atom changed that. However, Intel has done little to progress the Atom or the chipset for netbooks. No competition. Think about it, they are barely talking about dual core Atom CPUs 3 years after netbooks started taking off.
With no CPU/memory upgrades, manufacturers didn't upgrade anything else. 3 years later and the standard display for netbooks is still 1024x600 with a crappy onboard GPU.
That's why netbooks didn't continue to take off. But the future looks bright.
AMD recently introduced the Brazos CPUs. While I wish the Brazos was a bit more, it is clearly better than the Atom and a step in the right direction. A 11.6" 3.2 pound machine with HDMI out, 1366x768 display, supports 1 to 8 GB DDR3 memory, USB 2.0 & 3.0 (on some models), GPU that can play WoW, watch HD video, can run Office (or Open Office) so I can write a term paper, crunch in Exel, read PDFs or other documents, and browse the net on my browser of choice, store music/videos in the DRM of my choice and with a 6 hour battery for $400? Why would I want a tablet?
Do they ever leak intelligence from China or Russia or other countries?
I understand pushing for government transparency and that there is a fine line between exposing government behaviour and causing damage to covert ops. But why is it always (or at least it seems always) US classified material they publish? Is it only the US leaks that get the headlines?
Slashdot Mirror
Who are the slashdot elite and how do I join?
Only people who read an article before posting can join. There are no actual members yet.
And make professors actually.... teach!?!
Hearthstone. It just recently went open beta too so anyone can play for free.
Am I the only one who could care less about social media integration?
Hackers can get 70K records in 4 minutes from the healthcare.gov website? Great news! That's the best performance metric the website has had yet!
Our existence is just some entity's game of Sim City.
*plastic dots aside lanes or road shoulder which are often reflective, which result in a BUDDUMP-BUDDUMP-BUDDUMP when your wheel goes over them. Common in places where regular road plowing doesn't take place.
We always called them drunk bumps.
The SEC (Slashdot Effeciency Committee) have released their findings and conclude that:
Slashdot pushed their new code to all but one app server. That one app server reposted the same Knight story as yesterday. Slashdot has been fined 12 karma.
Of course you know hipster-hating is the latest trend...be careful about following the latest trend...it might turn you into a hipster.
I've been hating hipsters since before it was hip to hate them. I'm the hippest hipster hater there is.
I think I have to go hate myself now....
Yahoo! has been rolling out change after ill thought out change in page layout, UI, and functionality. They're trying to be 'hip' and 'modern' and failing miserably
Just like google has been doing with gmail's so sleek it sucks UI.
I have a Samsung Charge. Getting your phone and all it's issues sounds like an upgrade to me. Samsung may do well in other products, but they make poor quality phones.
Office 2010 - not a whole lot different from 2007, but a lot more popular now that people are familiar with the Ribbon
I'm sorry, but no. Just because people are complaining vocally anymore about something originally done five years ago and another screw-up that took place three years ago doesn't mean things are ok now. I got use to the ribbon, but I still hate it and it is still way less productive than the file menu.
Where are mod points when I want them? People lost the choice as it was use 2003 software or use the ribbon. Businesses eventually migrate as support and features in 2003 got dropped.
Productivity wise, 2003 file menus >>>>>> ribbon.
I gave them up for %95 of my email after they started reading our email.
People got ideas from watching Shameless?
Dear Google, Stop being creepy. Love, Someone who switched to Bing
I saw the same thing in Magic: The Gathering. Someone would pay hundreds of dollars for a rare first-print power card, and would rationalize it as an investment. Ha! Then -- to the surprise of only a few morons -- WotC reprinted most of these cards and made the originals next to worthless.
Wizards of the Coast has a long standing list of reserved cards which will not be reprinted. http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/article.aspx?x=magic/products/reprintpolicy. While the company and certain pockets of players have sometimes hated this list, Wizards has honored it. Many cards on that list have actually gone up significantly in value the last few years.
Nope. Because colleges/universities are more interested in making money than educating.
Please mod the 2nd post up. I have a junior and a freshman in the state universities. It's sickening how money grubbing the universities have become.
So yeah, the higher education system is nothing more than a money machine these days.
Eventually they should have it so you only need to goto classrooms for your hands on stuff and physical sciences. And all books should be fully downloadable.
I'd love to know whether there's something about the tech industry that makes it susceptible to this level of mismanagement, as so many tech companies seem to have been badly mismanaged over the years.
A lot of the people who rise up and take over get their positions due to their political positioning in the company and not due to their real business decision making ability. I've seen too many bad or even clueless managers/vices get to positions of power that way.
What is Bitcoin? For somebody whos never heard of it before, how do you describe it?
Mike Koss: Bitcoin is a digital currency. The really interesting thing about it is that it's totally decentralized. No government agency, no bank stands behind it. It was a geek by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto who started it in January 2009. He just invented a protocol and said, if you want to join me in this activity, we will all share in this new world of creating our own currency.
So how does it work, exactly? Can you give us a Bitcoin 101 on the mechanics? How do you get a Bitcoin, how is it created, and what's the economy like?
Peter Vessenes: Fundamentally, how you get a Bitcoin would be just like how you buy anything else. You could buy one online because they're digital. You can come by Startpad. Mike will sell you one, or I will sell you one. Or ten or whatever you want. The way most people are obtaining their Bitcoins is just through some economic transfer.
http://www.geekwire.com/2011/rewind-risks-aside-seattle-startup-vets-see-potential-in-bitcoin
This sounds like a incidental headline one would see in some movie script where people get sent back in time to stop the advancement of some technology that ultimately leads to some sort of global doom or financial ruin for someone.
And who knew Jeri Ryan was living in Mexico these days?
Every kid in the US, Japan, Europe, etc has, in the last 24 hours, held one of these devices to their head.
How do you text with a phone held to your head? The younger generation spends much more time texting than actually talking on the phone.
No, no relation at all actually.
Netbooks are still very much used and sold. They did not continue to grow as much as they were hyped up a few years ago. This is more because of Intel and Microsoft more than Apple.
Microsoft mandated that for manufacturers to be able to sell the starter version of W7 or XP (when it was available) the netbook must have only 1 GB of memory or less. More than 1 GB meant they had to pay for a more expensive MS OS license.
Intel made a great product with the Atom. Before netbooks to get a usable 12" laptop one had to spend $2K or more for a Vaio that had the same specs as a $500-$700 15" laptop. The Atom changed that. However, Intel has done little to progress the Atom or the chipset for netbooks. No competition. Think about it, they are barely talking about dual core Atom CPUs 3 years after netbooks started taking off.
With no CPU/memory upgrades, manufacturers didn't upgrade anything else. 3 years later and the standard display for netbooks is still 1024x600 with a crappy onboard GPU.
That's why netbooks didn't continue to take off. But the future looks bright.
AMD recently introduced the Brazos CPUs. While I wish the Brazos was a bit more, it is clearly better than the Atom and a step in the right direction. A 11.6" 3.2 pound machine with HDMI out, 1366x768 display, supports 1 to 8 GB DDR3 memory, USB 2.0 & 3.0 (on some models), GPU that can play WoW, watch HD video, can run Office (or Open Office) so I can write a term paper, crunch in Exel, read PDFs or other documents, and browse the net on my browser of choice, store music/videos in the DRM of my choice and with a 6 hour battery for $400? Why would I want a tablet?
Can I finally use RAM for the browser's cache like Firefox to avoid frequent hits on my SSD?
Do they ever leak intelligence from China or Russia or other countries?
I understand pushing for government transparency and that there is a fine line between exposing government behaviour and causing damage to covert ops. But why is it always (or at least it seems always) US classified material they publish? Is it only the US leaks that get the headlines?
When asked what happened after I lost my last game of Scrabble, I could only say that, "I was at a loss of words."