The device has one type of port, for everything. Am I right in my belief that you can plug your power supply into any of those ports? If so, Apple have solved the connector problem (well, I guess USB-C has solved the connector problem), and it's just a matter of waiting for everyone else to catch up.
Well, it's obviously a one-way trip, unless you can build another ship when you get there. Plenty of people have left on one-way trips, exploring the unknown, in the past.
Still, the fuel thing is... pesky. Is it possible to pick up material on the way somehow?
The Billboard Top 100 has always been shit. Try elsewhere if you want stuff that came out in 2006 that didn't suck
That idea that music has been going downhill is just.. well... sad really. Music has always been fantastic, and it always will be, you've just - like always - got know where to look.
The bedrock fact, or at least, the theory that they're trying to investigate, is the symmetry of the physical laws. So that, no matter where in the universe you perform an experiment, you always get the same result. This is important because the laws of the conservation of energy, and angular momentum, and so-on, can be proved mathematically if you assume this symmetry. This was proved by Emmy Noether in 1915. And yes (although that's not what Literally means, so if you'll forgive me I'll use a different word), the orbit of the earth is virtually the same place when you consider the size of the universe - but the measurements made were orders of magnitude more precise than prior experiments, so if there are any symmetry-breaking phenomena out there, then we know at they are very, very small.
and on a forum like this, perfection isn't necessary.
I think, personally, that on a forum like this, precision in language is very important. On facebook, maybe not. On youtube, certainly not. But on Slashdot - I guess I'm old-fasioned - we should strive for, if nothing else, at least spelling correctly.
That is annoying, I agree. You do get used to use Cmd+Home, even though it makes no sense. I curse fairly loudly whenever I accidentally hit 'home' and end up at the top of a source file.
Yes, I'm afraid you are. Configuration should be centrally managed, but alot of the time an infrastructure will grow past the point at which this could have been cheaply implemented, and will wind up in a situation like you describe, and will eventually need to be rebuilt from the ground up.
That's a nice argument, but taking a step back from the origin of these character codes, which aren't really that important except from the point of view of a history major, it simply doesn't make any sense to use two characters to denote the end of a line in a text file. Doing so only raises the question of what either of those characters by themselves ought to mean, to which I can't think of a sensible answer.
The main solution here seems to be to delay resource loading until there is user interaction.
Define "user interaction". Clicking? Scrolling? Touching? What? And then, once your user 'interacts', now the website is suddenly free to play/popup/advertise/ whatever?
No, the correct solution was to, (a) forsee exactly where all this HTML5+javascript+canvas+openGL was going, which was OBVIOUSLY to lead to a world that was WORSE than flash, and (b) not change the supposedly standard APIs on people.
No, being nice to each other by being nice to each other. It's funny that no-one ever answers the simple question "Which part of it do you disagree with?".
This is where we differ, and this is fundamental. I believe that everyone deserves respect, though they may also, depending on their actions, deserve punishment of one sort of another.
It used to be that you earned respect through your actions and abilities.
That's right. In the olden days people earned respect by being born into aristocracy, or by not being black, or by being a man rather than a woman. The world was better then. People knew their place. Now everybody wants respect, and reading this thread, it seems to me like there isn't going to be enough respect to go around.
Do you normally treat people with respect, in your life, irrespective of their sex/gender/race/whatever?
If you were working with someone, and they were, say, rather fat, and you found their work of a poor standard, would you raise this issue with them without bringing their obesity into it? Or would you call them, say, a "fat idiot", and revert their code?
Now, I don't know you, other than that you appear to be fairly argumentative and opinionated, neither of which I consider to be character flaws - quite the opposite in fact - but I suspect your answers to the above questions would put you on the right side of the code of conduct under discussion.
You didn't mention whether or not you can code. Here's all you rabid hideous slashdotters unable to understand basic human decency, railing against a perfectly reasonable and normal code of conduct that presents the apparently novel notion that it might be a good idea to be nice to each other for a change, and forgetting to mention the only thing that you claim should matter.
No it doesn't. It comes from people who are trying to create a world in which people are treated with respect irrespective of their sex, skin colour, social class, ethnicity, language, self-identification or any other characteristic not directly related to the work in which they are engaged. It seems staggeringly simple to me. Which part of it do you disagree with?
What if increasing it would avoid the accident entirely?
A common response from people who think they're a better driver than everyone else. Just drive (ride, whatever) safely, and not at excessive speed. It's not that hard, and you're not in a rush.
You state this is provable, but provide no evidence. The burden is on you, to provide some basis for your claim, such as a selection of female-directed movies that you feel are terrible, due to a Marxist (??) view of equality.
Or, get out of the lab, and start a new one, in which the 'assholes' are not welcome.
So you can have your lab full of 'assholes', and everybody else can start to figure out the apparently immense complexity of simultaneously writing code, and being nice to each other.
Uses 'infer' instead of 'imply', which implies that it was written by illiterates. Or at least, one might infer so.
Having used go in production, it needs a nice logo and some comprehensive and coherent brand directions, because it certainly won't get anywhere on technical merits alone.
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The device has one type of port, for everything. Am I right in my belief that you can plug your power supply into any of those ports? If so, Apple have solved the connector problem (well, I guess USB-C has solved the connector problem), and it's just a matter of waiting for everyone else to catch up.
Well, it's obviously a one-way trip, unless you can build another ship when you get there. Plenty of people have left on one-way trips, exploring the unknown, in the past.
Still, the fuel thing is... pesky. Is it possible to pick up material on the way somehow?
The Billboard Top 100 has always been shit. Try elsewhere if you want stuff that came out in 2006 that didn't suck
That idea that music has been going downhill is just.. well... sad really. Music has always been fantastic, and it always will be, you've just - like always - got know where to look.
Generation ships though, right?
Anyway, I'd posit that the idea that "the laws of physics don't change" is more of a philosophic tautology that underlies the science of physics
This isn't true. It does underly physics, in a very important way. Because of this
The bedrock fact, or at least, the theory that they're trying to investigate, is the symmetry of the physical laws. So that, no matter where in the universe you perform an experiment, you always get the same result. This is important because the laws of the conservation of energy, and angular momentum, and so-on, can be proved mathematically if you assume this symmetry. This was proved by Emmy Noether in 1915. And yes (although that's not what Literally means, so if you'll forgive me I'll use a different word), the orbit of the earth is virtually the same place when you consider the size of the universe - but the measurements made were orders of magnitude more precise than prior experiments, so if there are any symmetry-breaking phenomena out there, then we know at they are very, very small.
and on a forum like this, perfection isn't necessary.
I think, personally, that on a forum like this, precision in language is very important. On facebook, maybe not. On youtube, certainly not. But on Slashdot - I guess I'm old-fasioned - we should strive for, if nothing else, at least spelling correctly.
Two-wire ethernet might fit your 'universal data bus' idea. But the car's ECUs would still run proprietary protocols anyway.
That is annoying, I agree. You do get used to use Cmd+Home, even though it makes no sense. I curse fairly loudly whenever I accidentally hit 'home' and end up at the top of a source file.
Don't buy any brand of smartphone. Problem even more solved.
I do have to admit, blaming the Chinese for feminism is at least one I haven't heard before.
In what sense is this woman a "non-feminist?"
Yes, I'm afraid you are. Configuration should be centrally managed, but alot of the time an infrastructure will grow past the point at which this could have been cheaply implemented, and will wind up in a situation like you describe, and will eventually need to be rebuilt from the ground up.
That's a nice argument, but taking a step back from the origin of these character codes, which aren't really that important except from the point of view of a history major, it simply doesn't make any sense to use two characters to denote the end of a line in a text file. Doing so only raises the question of what either of those characters by themselves ought to mean, to which I can't think of a sensible answer.
The main solution here seems to be to delay resource loading until there is user interaction.
Define "user interaction". Clicking? Scrolling? Touching? What? And then, once your user 'interacts', now the website is suddenly free to play/popup/advertise/ whatever?
No, the correct solution was to, (a) forsee exactly where all this HTML5+javascript+canvas+openGL was going, which was OBVIOUSLY to lead to a world that was WORSE than flash, and (b) not change the supposedly standard APIs on people.
No, being nice to each other by being nice to each other. It's funny that no-one ever answers the simple question "Which part of it do you disagree with?".
This is where we differ, and this is fundamental. I believe that everyone deserves respect, though they may also, depending on their actions, deserve punishment of one sort of another.
It used to be that you earned respect through your actions and abilities.
That's right. In the olden days people earned respect by being born into aristocracy, or by not being black, or by being a man rather than a woman. The world was better then. People knew their place. Now everybody wants respect, and reading this thread, it seems to me like there isn't going to be enough respect to go around.
Are you nice to people, generally, in your life?
Do you normally treat people with respect, in your life, irrespective of their sex/gender/race/whatever?
If you were working with someone, and they were, say, rather fat, and you found their work of a poor standard, would you raise this issue with them without bringing their obesity into it? Or would you call them, say, a "fat idiot", and revert their code?
Now, I don't know you, other than that you appear to be fairly argumentative and opinionated, neither of which I consider to be character flaws - quite the opposite in fact - but I suspect your answers to the above questions would put you on the right side of the code of conduct under discussion.
Am I wrong in my assumption?
You didn't mention whether or not you can code. Here's all you rabid hideous slashdotters unable to understand basic human decency, railing against a perfectly reasonable and normal code of conduct that presents the apparently novel notion that it might be a good idea to be nice to each other for a change, and forgetting to mention the only thing that you claim should matter.
That's interesting.
All this SJW stuff comes from the stupid diligent
No it doesn't. It comes from people who are trying to create a world in which people are treated with respect irrespective of their sex, skin colour, social class, ethnicity, language, self-identification or any other characteristic not directly related to the work in which they are engaged. It seems staggeringly simple to me. Which part of it do you disagree with?
What if increasing it would avoid the accident entirely?
A common response from people who think they're a better driver than everyone else. Just drive (ride, whatever) safely, and not at excessive speed. It's not that hard, and you're not in a rush.
You state this is provable, but provide no evidence. The burden is on you, to provide some basis for your claim, such as a selection of female-directed movies that you feel are terrible, due to a Marxist (??) view of equality.
Or, get out of the lab, and start a new one, in which the 'assholes' are not welcome.
So you can have your lab full of 'assholes', and everybody else can start to figure out the apparently immense complexity of simultaneously writing code, and being nice to each other.
Uses 'infer' instead of 'imply', which implies that it was written by illiterates. Or at least, one might infer so.
Having used go in production, it needs a nice logo and some comprehensive and coherent brand directions, because it certainly won't get anywhere on technical merits alone.