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  1. Eagles are mostly carrion eaters.

    Seen any tasty road kill recently?

  2. So you sold it? You have not made a single cent until you've sold it.

  3. Re: Maybe Apple wants out of the laptop business on The Touch Bar Could Replace the Keyboard on Future Macbooks (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple was considering buying BeOS to be their next generation OS for a time. Instead they let themselves be bought by NeXT and adopted that.

  4. The institutional investors have a tiny fraction of their total assets invested in Tesla.

    It just makes sense to have a toe dipped in the water.

  5. $2000 rent payment? $900 is a mortgage payment. Who would piss $2000 a month into the ground?

  6. And for vintage matches let's all just watch IBM Card Sorters compete for time.

  7. Macros on OpenAI's Bots Defeated Former Pro E-Sports Players At Dota 2 (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The only way to make a competition like this fair is to let the human players use as many powerful macros and software aids as they liked.

    The other alternative would be an airgap between the AI and the gaming computer in the form of electromechanical servos to drive the controllers and a camera with optical recognition software to see the screen.

    Without one of these two things, it's an uneven match and really just a joke.

  8. Re: Time for a mass boycott of Apple. on The Touch Bar Could Replace the Keyboard on Future Macbooks (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Steve was a cocaine dealer for most of the years his daughter was a child. But he was rich and white so it wasn't crack. Also, his daughter wasn't part of his life for a lot of her childhood.

  9. Re: Maybe Apple wants out of the laptop business on The Touch Bar Could Replace the Keyboard on Future Macbooks (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    They do need to maintain a development platform for their line of gadgets, though. I suppose they could port an iOS toolchain over to BeOS or some other viable platform.

  10. Re: Outstanding on The Touch Bar Could Replace the Keyboard on Future Macbooks (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    You put BSD on the Dell? Because that's not BSD on the Mac. It's a stale FreeBSD userland on top of the kernel from crochety old NeXT Step.

  11. Re: So basically... on The Touch Bar Could Replace the Keyboard on Future Macbooks (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You need the dongle in order to run MacOS.

    Though MacOS has dwindling appeal to most hackers.

  12. Re: Jobs are the only remaining social structures. on Nonmonetary Incentives and the Implications of Work as a Source of Meaning (aeaweb.org) · · Score: 1

    Right. My job is rather strictly 8-5 right now. I work for a small tech company. There is a pick-and-place machine for surface mount components and a wave soldering machine for through-hole one floor above where my workspace is. We're a small electronics device manufacturer for a niche market in the midwest.

    When I first started working there I discovered that I couldn't stay late if I wanted to. The owner wants to lock up and go home at 5.

  13. Re: Miner Miner Forty-Niner on Traders Are Talking Up Cryptocurrencies, Then Dumping Them, Costing Others Millions (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The 1849 boom happened for a different reason. President Polk has just siezed California from Mexico. They needed to rapidly rush a lot of white Americans onto the land to occupy it for the U.S.

  14. Re:Tesla bonds on Tesla's Limited-Edition Surfboards Now Selling For $6,450 (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. Penniless. He flirted with the occult toward the end. Went a little bit batshit crazy.

  15. COM Cameras on Microfilm Lasts Half a Millennium (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Around 1980 I got a job as a COM Camera Operator.

    This was a job mounting tapes on cameras, loading the job and film canister, and pulling the tape and film canister. The tapes held the data transported from a data center. The camera displayed and 'shot' the data onto 105mm film that became the master to produce microfiche from.

    We were a Service Bureau so we got tapes in from companies all over the region. Many companies had their permanent financial records shot to microfiche.

    Some jobs came in daily, weekly, or quarterly. The film masters produced on silver halide film, were then duplicated on diazo film (ammonia process, the same chemical process as used for blueprints) to produce the 'use' copies of microfiche.

    The 'dupers' were a lower tier in the labor at the COM shop.

    Some of the cameras were proprietary, but the other group of cameras (called the Betas for some reason) incorporated a PDP-8 minicomputer as their controller. The data tapes were either 800, 1600, or the new high density 6250 bpi tapes.

  16. Re: Assassination? Or Hoax? on Venezuelan President Survives Drone Assassination Attempt (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Steel-fisted Stalinism*, particularly after the purges and consolidation of power, can prove effective for a medium length duration.

    (*'Stalin' literally translates as 'steel.' Yes. A guy who adopted the name Joe Steel was in charge)

  17. Re:If by "now selling for $6500+ you mean on Tesla's Limited-Edition Surfboards Now Selling For $6,450 (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's amazing that a headline here on Slashdot is based on such an ignorance of how value is defined.

    The only way to determine the value of something is to determine what price it is actually being sold for.

    High start-price items on eBay are the ones that very specifically have NOT been sold.

    I can list my baby-AT footprint 386sx motherboard (populated with all 4MB of RAM!) on eBay for $1500. The listing fee isn't that much.

  18. Re:Not just editors. Fanboys and girls. on Tesla's Limited-Edition Surfboards Now Selling For $6,450 (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Musk is a titan, fighting for Justice, and to Save Us All!

    The stink on that is getting old.

    Better mix in a little more 'market success, aren't we all elated at market success.'

    Have you put your blue dress on eBay yet? Remember, when Elon falls, nobody will care any longer.

  19. Re:Carbon = wanker preferred. on Tesla's Limited-Edition Surfboards Now Selling For $6,450 (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Highest consumer satisfaction rating on Consumer Reports, every year.

    Consumer's Report doesn't review E-Meters. But if they did....

  20. Re:Tesla bonds on Tesla's Limited-Edition Surfboards Now Selling For $6,450 (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    The people who will REALLY get stung in the end will be the people who think they have made a Righteous investment in Tesla for Progress and Justice.

    Nicholas Tesla died in poverty, his ideals discredited. He had become a crackpot who everybody nodded their head at. Reality really did hit hard.

    Elon picked an apt name for his company.

    And no: everybody who dislikes the Tesla hype is NOT a counter-investor. It's time to get over the notion that everybody else in the world is a speculator like you.

  21. Re: Anyone else notice.... on Apple's 2018 iPhones Are Rumored To Not Include Headphone Dongle In the Box (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This is Slashdot. We nerds have always for the most part hated Apple.

    They have had some mainstream market success, and some non-nerds have infiltrated the site. Apple has always been about fashion and proprietary, and a small high-paying segment of the market.

    I remember dealing with the Apple types going back to the dinkyscreen mac era. It's always been the same.

  22. It doesn't sound like you have used any Android devices at all. What qualifies you to have such a strong position about Android?

  23. The problem is you haven't gone into the settings of your iGadget and checked the box that fixes the punctuation character bug.

  24. We had a dork intern running around at work with an earpiece a decade ago. He was 'with it' and we were old farts. He, however, was the dork with the earpiece.

  25. Rei has a spot of two month old Elon spunk on her blue dress. (bagged and put away in her closet!)