2: unlike variable names in traditiona code wires in labview typically don't have names. This makes it hard to understand what each wire is for (yes i'm pretty sure there is a way to label them, but it's something you have to do extra not something that naturally comes as part of the coding like in traditional languages)
3: I can never remember what all the little pictures on the blocks mean.
4: I find connecting the blocks very fiddly.
Having said that some people seem to like it.
That's exactly it. You find yourself going back to words. And the simplest use of words is just plain old text, maybe with colors, maybe with shades, maybe with lines joining relevant bits of text for visual guidance, but it's still text. Better still, there is a thing called a keyboard, with all the letters you'll ever want to use and cleverly designed to make use of all your fingers (as opposed to a mouse or touch screen which in practice reduces you to at most three fingers and a lot of elbow/wrist work... maybe that has appeal for some!), and spares the use of your visual cortex (large, energy intensive part of the brain) to endlessly process images and lines. I can do several lines of programming without looking at the screen but maybe looking at a spec or template before I have to look up and see if it's right. Can't imageine how you'd do that with icon dragging AFAIK.
Try Lego Mindstorms and see whether you find it quicker or slower. It's easy to make something simple but once the algorithm gets complicated it is not much easier to decipher than text code, and no faster in my experience. As soon as you want to get serious with the system, you will wish it had a low level system that lets you lay it out in text instead of images.
This is partly the reason why surviving languages use symbols representing sounds rather than images as the Egyptians used. It's faster to write, and possibly faster to read.
look forward to some other new site/wiki/blog/Fuhrerbunker/casino where I can digitally rub shoulders with y'all in the VERY near future. There are already several posts in other current threads about a possible Altslashdot.org; who knows what other new purpose-built destinations might come to be? But I truly have very little further hope for this fascinating & enlightening place that I've been visiting since before 9/11. It's a place that I miss already, if you know what I mean.
I think it would be wise to start a new site already. The worst that can happen is the new site will fail and Slashdot will bounce back and return to its roots.
If you can't compete, make your documentation open-source in the hope this will boot-strap some extra business.
Too little too late. For YEARS we have been screaming for nvidia drivers that aren't buggy, closed and unstable, to the point of writing Nuveau, an open source hack (remarkably good but still crippled). Rot in hell, NVIDIA - I have wasted enough money on your hardware.
Everything has to do with productivity. Sure we all like a bit of novelty and it's fun to tinker with new features of a desktop or user interface, but the majority of these innovations are never used (if the user has the choice), but the recent Linux desktops (Gnome mostly) have forced a new set of heuristics on a user base that increasingly uses Linux for productivity and not just tinkering.
It's a waste of time to have to learn a new way of doing everything when the existing ways work already. That is why 'classic desktop' is favored. It works, and although new things might work, they have not proven to work better.
REALLY stupid question. It is not like they are going to wave them about for everyone to see. They most likely exist.
Yes, the weaponization is built into every Intel processor, and probably most other processors and controllers. The weapons in cyber warfare start with the smart phones we point at our own heads and will shortly be the cars which can crash us into the next tree or fail to stop at the next busy intersection.
Especially when you consider that most of your neighbors (if not all) belong to a religion that forbids them from making peace with anybody who doesn't share their religion.
The comment right above, about relocating Palestinians to the moon was modded funny.
The comment right below, about relocating Israeli settlers to the moon was modded troll.
Can we meta-mod the mods?
Maybe we need a funny troll mod that equates to zero karma.
I doubt much of our honey comes from bees in the wild and bee farmers have no reason to starting using plastic nests
The bees don't ask the farmers where to find their building materials, unless the farmed bees are in an area devoid of plastic for several miles around the hive, there is nothing to say the bees won't harvest rotting plastic bags or building materials that might be lying around in the brush. Read the article!
I think it's prudent to question whether this bug in Google's browser is intentional or unintentional.
I think it is safe to assume, for any verbal discussion of importance, that all smart phones in the room have their microphones on with voice recognition running. Sure, most of the time they are not, but:
1. They are the perfect bugging tool.
2. The person you are talking to might be recording everything anyway
and 3. if you are in any kind of position that could possibly be envied, someone is bound to be doing this to you.
Javascript/jquery front ends, php/python/ruby/sql backends.
Don't forget to learn SQL and libbdb/BerkeleyDB for databases; Qt for user interfaces; Davlik for Android. Java.... Java EE... Java JUnit.... C#. C++... Objective-C OCUnit, Cedar.
Behavior-driven test tools, JBehave. Selenium framework; Cucumber, RSpec, and Capybara for testing:
Javascript jasmine; Python Lettuce or Splinter .
C# MSpec, SpecFlow, WaitN.
As an EE who is a pack rat, I can tell you that's absolutely wrong. If I could hoard jobs the way I hoard junk, I'd have at least half-a-dozen in the basement.
Ah so the jobs will turn up, eventually by chance, when you aren't actually looking for them?
How about my proposed execution method that's more likely to be painless than all other "popular" methods:
Nice method. However what is the purpose of this method? If murder means you get to die instantly and painlessly, then it's a better exit than most people get who die naturally. It will deter no one.
Actually it's not cruel at all, at least not to the subject. He would not have been conscious of his death at all
And you know this how?
'Substantial risk'? Quantify that. The guy would have felt punch drunk after 30 seconds, or even less if he was anxious, and at peace by a minute, then pretty much unable to process any meaningful thought after that, let alone lay down any memories. The appearance of his death is everybody else's problem and not his.
The 25 minute saga is because they got the opiate dose wrong. That has little to do with consciousness.
I suppose if you have a really uncommon and specific fetish, maybe? Or maybe it's a 'support the artists' thing? Show them their work is appreciated, and they'll make more.
That's an interesting fetish... maybe there should be porn where the artists are spending money on porn whilst watching porn of people spending money on porn (recurring).
Actually it's not cruel at all, at least not to the subject. He would not have been conscious of his death at all. It was cruel to the audience, yet that was also not cruel since anyone who voluntarily attended the execution went there to satisfy a perversion.
Does anyone have any speculation about why this is happening?
Well from all the electrical engineers I know, they like to collect stuff and as a result of the clutter they invariably lose stuff. So for them to collectively lose 35,000 jobs is frankly unsurprising.
Exactly this version of Tor was installed in a non-obvious and non-trivial location to get to and as a service. Microsoft asked the Tor developers "Anybody actually do this?", Answer: "Nope.". Microsoft then nuked the rogue Tor apps either through Microsoft Security Essentials or through Malicious Software Tool removal app.
Was the botnet doing anything bad? Or was it just making Tor faster for everyone?
Nonsense. Surveillance is already growing exponentially - every organization that can is doing it already. What it may instead herald is a hot war between everybody and the three letter agencies. Everybody is beginning to care about privacy, not only the few who were awake before.
Slashdot Mirror
Problem: Data Beaches
Reaction: Whitelisting
Solution: Censorship
And by the way, Beta sucks.
Try Lego Mindstorms
2: unlike variable names in traditiona code wires in labview typically don't have names. This makes it hard to understand what each wire is for (yes i'm pretty sure there is a way to label them, but it's something you have to do extra not something that naturally comes as part of the coding like in traditional languages) 3: I can never remember what all the little pictures on the blocks mean. 4: I find connecting the blocks very fiddly.
Having said that some people seem to like it.
That's exactly it. You find yourself going back to words. And the simplest use of words is just plain old text, maybe with colors, maybe with shades, maybe with lines joining relevant bits of text for visual guidance, but it's still text. Better still, there is a thing called a keyboard, with all the letters you'll ever want to use and cleverly designed to make use of all your fingers (as opposed to a mouse or touch screen which in practice reduces you to at most three fingers and a lot of elbow/wrist work ... maybe that has appeal for some!), and spares the use of your visual cortex (large, energy intensive part of the brain) to endlessly process images and lines. I can do several lines of programming without looking at the screen but maybe looking at a spec or template before I have to look up and see if it's right. Can't imageine how you'd do that with icon dragging AFAIK.
Try Lego Mindstorms and see whether you find it quicker or slower. It's easy to make something simple but once the algorithm gets complicated it is not much easier to decipher than text code, and no faster in my experience. As soon as you want to get serious with the system, you will wish it had a low level system that lets you lay it out in text instead of images.
This is partly the reason why surviving languages use symbols representing sounds rather than images as the Egyptians used. It's faster to write, and possibly faster to read.
look forward to some other new site/wiki/blog/Fuhrerbunker/casino where I can digitally rub shoulders with y'all in the VERY near future. There are already several posts in other current threads about a possible Altslashdot.org; who knows what other new purpose-built destinations might come to be? But I truly have very little further hope for this fascinating & enlightening place that I've been visiting since before 9/11. It's a place that I miss already, if you know what I mean.
Whenever it's ready! I'll subscribe too.
I think it would be wise to start a new site already. The worst that can happen is the new site will fail and Slashdot will bounce back and return to its roots.
If you can't compete, make your documentation open-source in the hope this will boot-strap some extra business.
Too little too late. For YEARS we have been screaming for nvidia drivers that aren't buggy, closed and unstable, to the point of writing Nuveau, an open source hack (remarkably good but still crippled). Rot in hell, NVIDIA - I have wasted enough money on your hardware.
Can't they repurpose the tower?
It would make for an awesome theme park.
Everything has to do with productivity. Sure we all like a bit of novelty and it's fun to tinker with new features of a desktop or user interface, but the majority of these innovations are never used (if the user has the choice), but the recent Linux desktops (Gnome mostly) have forced a new set of heuristics on a user base that increasingly uses Linux for productivity and not just tinkering.
It's a waste of time to have to learn a new way of doing everything when the existing ways work already. That is why 'classic desktop' is favored. It works, and although new things might work, they have not proven to work better.
REALLY stupid question. It is not like they are going to wave them about for everyone to see. They most likely exist.
Yes, the weaponization is built into every Intel processor, and probably most other processors and controllers. The weapons in cyber warfare start with the smart phones we point at our own heads and will shortly be the cars which can crash us into the next tree or fail to stop at the next busy intersection.
Especially when you consider that most of your neighbors (if not all) belong to a religion that forbids them from making peace with anybody who doesn't share their religion.
Which religion were you referring to?
The comment right above, about relocating Palestinians to the moon was modded funny. The comment right below, about relocating Israeli settlers to the moon was modded troll.
Can we meta-mod the mods?
Maybe we need a funny troll mod that equates to zero karma.
I doubt much of our honey comes from bees in the wild and bee farmers have no reason to starting using plastic nests
The bees don't ask the farmers where to find their building materials, unless the farmed bees are in an area devoid of plastic for several miles around the hive, there is nothing to say the bees won't harvest rotting plastic bags or building materials that might be lying around in the brush. Read the article!
The plastic microparticles will inevitably appear in our honey. The filtration currently performed on honey is mainly for visual appearance,
I think it's prudent to question whether this bug in Google's browser is intentional or unintentional.
I think it is safe to assume, for any verbal discussion of importance, that all smart phones in the room have their microphones on with voice recognition running. Sure, most of the time they are not, but:
1. They are the perfect bugging tool.
2. The person you are talking to might be recording everything anyway
and 3. if you are in any kind of position that could possibly be envied, someone is bound to be doing this to you.
Javascript/jquery front ends, php/python/ruby/sql backends.
Don't forget to learn SQL and libbdb/BerkeleyDB for databases; Qt for user interfaces; Davlik for Android. Java.... Java EE... Java JUnit.... C#. C++... Objective-C OCUnit, Cedar. Behavior-driven test tools, JBehave. Selenium framework; Cucumber, RSpec, and Capybara for testing: Javascript jasmine; Python Lettuce or Splinter . C# MSpec, SpecFlow, WaitN.
Sounds easy.
A better question is why do people in California keep re-electing her over and over. She's been there for over 20 years.
Because it doesn't matter who you vote for.
As an EE who is a pack rat, I can tell you that's absolutely wrong. If I could hoard jobs the way I hoard junk, I'd have at least half-a-dozen in the basement.
Ah so the jobs will turn up, eventually by chance, when you aren't actually looking for them?
How about my proposed execution method that's more likely to be painless than all other "popular" methods:
Nice method. However what is the purpose of this method? If murder means you get to die instantly and painlessly, then it's a better exit than most people get who die naturally. It will deter no one.
And you know this how?
'Substantial risk'? Quantify that. The guy would have felt punch drunk after 30 seconds, or even less if he was anxious, and at peace by a minute, then pretty much unable to process any meaningful thought after that, let alone lay down any memories. The appearance of his death is everybody else's problem and not his.
The 25 minute saga is because they got the opiate dose wrong. That has little to do with consciousness.
I suppose if you have a really uncommon and specific fetish, maybe? Or maybe it's a 'support the artists' thing? Show them their work is appreciated, and they'll make more.
That's an interesting fetish... maybe there should be porn where the artists are spending money on porn whilst watching porn of people spending money on porn (recurring).
At some level everybody is a "moron". Most people confuse ignorance and stupidity, and everybody is ignorant of something.
More than that; Everybody is ignorant of most everything, especially of that.
...Morons!
No crueler that what he did to his victim.
Actually it's not cruel at all, at least not to the subject. He would not have been conscious of his death at all. It was cruel to the audience, yet that was also not cruel since anyone who voluntarily attended the execution went there to satisfy a perversion.
Does anyone have any speculation about why this is happening?
Well from all the electrical engineers I know, they like to collect stuff and as a result of the clutter they invariably lose stuff. So for them to collectively lose 35,000 jobs is frankly unsurprising.
Exactly this version of Tor was installed in a non-obvious and non-trivial location to get to and as a service. Microsoft asked the Tor developers "Anybody actually do this?", Answer: "Nope.". Microsoft then nuked the rogue Tor apps either through Microsoft Security Essentials or through Malicious Software Tool removal app.
Was the botnet doing anything bad? Or was it just making Tor faster for everyone?
Nonsense. Surveillance is already growing exponentially - every organization that can is doing it already. What it may instead herald is a hot war between everybody and the three letter agencies. Everybody is beginning to care about privacy, not only the few who were awake before.