It's probably about the Obama apointee Timothy Geithner, secretary of US treasury, who "forced" (if you will believe Dodd, another Obama appointee) to amend the law forbidding bailed-out companies to distribute bonuses to top executives. Now, nobody is accusing Obama of anything, directly - eccept Obama himself, when he says "The buck stops with me".
But yeah, Geithner is part of the Obama administration. Now go ahead and shout "la la la I can't hear you". Fact is, this shit did happen, and people are livid.
Really, who doesn't know that AMD is higher performance per dollar.
What he says.
Seriously: surprise? Even a moron with learning disabilities living under a rock in a country without Internet access knows that Phenoms offer the most performance per buck.
I am picturing the MS headquarters, and a worried and puzzled Ballmer asking "When did this start, that companies stopped fearing us? And people actually NOT falling in line for each and every new Windows update we shit? And IE's marketshare declining???"
Compared to FF, in Chrome those games do work better, that is, immensely more smoothly.
I must say, after seeing all the experiments, I think Microsoft has something to fear about. The browser can completely become the OS, now. I now do believe you can develop complex applications and suites - on the web. I don't know how soon, but I know for sure it will happen one day, that it will be irrelevant what OS you have, Linux, WinXP or MacOSX.
I'm a relative newcomer to Adblock (imagine that - used FF for years without it. Yeah, yeah, hand in your geek card etc.), perhaps because I wasn't bugged very often by ads. Anyhow, I decided to try it, and while I noticed that it blocks some stuff I used to see occasionally earlier, it also seems to have rendered my browser less stable, requiring more frequent restarts and generally slowing down every operation.
I think editing the hosts file does have some major advantages over Adblock, no matter how strange that assertion may sound at first.
it runs a lot slower than a conventional pic chip, (but how often do you really need full speed for a microcontroller?) Best of all, you can write your code entirely in BASIC, no need for messy assembly. (my sig should make it clear why this is a plus for me)
Since you don't even have a.sig, I am confused whether you're trying to be hilarious or are actually even more forgetful than I am - which is not good.
I've always wanted to visit Scotland (but only after Iceland). I just came back from Thailand, and I didn't just go to the beach, but saw a lot of beautiful and colorful places, temples, palaces etc. We even filmed a dozen short videos with the camera (of me eating insects, for instance), but still, it was under 1GB. I guess we're satisfied with only 3 or 5 megapixel pics. Yours is, btw. a very nice camera, and makes 10 megapixel photos. And it's probably a pelasure to use, too, compared to our Olympus. Not that I need such a great camera, but I do envy the ISO 1600.
Though I find it utterly ridicolous that the PowerShot G7 comes with a 32MB card. Aww... c'mon Canon.
A PICAXE microcontroller is a Microchip PIC microcontroller that has been pre- programmed with the PICAXE bootstrap code. The bootstrap code enables the microcontroller to be reprogrammed without the need for an (expensive) conventional programmer, making the whole download system a very low-cost simple serial cable! The bootstrap code also contains common routines (such as how to generate a pause delay or a sound output), so that each download does not have to waste time downloading this commonly required data. This makes the download time much quicker.
I'm sure this "laptop" would have been much faster if based around an AVR. But that would have required more work.
Actually, it probably isn't. It's probably not even close. The site is slashdotted badly, but I'm guessing this is an 8-bit CPU. Most microcontrollers of this sort take several clocks per instruction. And the instruction set is probably more limited in capability than x86.
Well, the site is woefully uninformative, and this "manufacturer" looks just as a repackager who has burnt a specific microcode on a PIC microcontroller.... OR an Atmel AVR. Now, what you said above is true for PIC microcontrollers, as well as the older Intel 8051 and Motorola 68HC11. But it's not true for Atmel's AVR, which are 8 bit, but with a RISC core, so each instruction is executed in one cpu clock. And AVRs are indeed pretty fast beasts. The PICs are more popular among some hobbists, but not in the industry.
I agree. I have a 2GB SD card in my camera, and try as I may, I never managed to fill it up. That's why I never went to a bigger SDHC card, I just can't seem to top this one. I guess it could be somewhat useful for those who just have to upload their pics to Facebook or something.
Since I'm not on any social networking site, I am totally not the target for this device.
I trust you all know about the TB bacteria, which in recent years has regained prominence, due mainly to the fact that (multi) resistive strains are being encountered in patients worldwide with ever increasing incidence. But, we also know that TB is not so easy to transmit and that it's killed very easily by the rays of the sun. It's susceptible to UV and this keeps a lid on TB epidemics.
Now, imagine if somehow TB could be made UV resistant.
Wet dreams of some mad dictator in his efforts to conquer the world? Or destroy humankind altogether? This could be it.
I could never tell the difference between their top-of-the-line and midrange/economy models. Maybe I miss out on a musical nirvana, or maybe I just save a lot of money, you be the judge:D
(exercise: count the Android phones on the market since it was announced in Nov 2007. Count the announced Android phones. Do the same for Symbian over the same time frame)
I admit, I can't be assed to do the homework, so I wonder if you'd be so kind and share the numbers with us:D
You know Sid's Civilization: "You found... FISHER TROPSCH in scrolls of ancient wisdom."
Because that's what Fisher Tropsch is, ancient. I don't deny the novelty of Great Point Energy's process, but why did it take 70 years between Fisher-Tropsch and this technology? Lack of lobbying^Wmotivation, I guess.
I completely agree with you, and the GP. On the point of partially home-schooling kids: I think knowledgeable, well-educated parents should do this anyway. As in, try to give as much education and encouragement to learn and study the nature around you, as you possibly can, as a parent. It worked for Einstein and Feinman, to name a few. They wentto school, but both had parents that gave their kids the stimulus and the conditions in which their intelligence could grow.
Note that the underlying autocomplete algorithm is the Firefox 3 algorithm, not the Firefox 2 algorithm. oldbar only affects the presentation of the results.
Seriously, I'm as rabidly anti-windows as they come, but isn't this a little unfair? Windows 7 is still beta, it doesn't surprise me that there are still some driver issues.
Driver issues? We're talking Vista SP3 here, there are no driver issues (apart from those inherited from Vista itself).
That would be Xandros Linux for the Eee PC. Reason: as maligned as it seems to be, it still is the one that supports the 1000H's hardware the best.
I myself use Slax, because I have the time to tweak it, and because I don't have a HD in my Eee PC (only 4GB of SSD), and do believe that for the "smaller" Eee PCs is the absolute best out there, but if I was a novice AND I had a 1000H or 1000HD, it'd go with what Asus prepared for it.
We had this same argument during the earthquake in China over the summer. If you don't want to see this on the front page, use the firehose to mod it down. If you're using the beta index, mod it down so you don't see it. It's News For Nerds. Stuff that Matters. To many, this does matter. Not all of us participate in online forums (specifically that work doesn't block during the day) and it's nice to discuss it.
First of all, I won't argue with the general point that, if one doesn't want to read a story or a thread he/she just doesn't click on it and all is fine. That said: Slashdot's motto is "News for nerds, stuff that matters". The earthquake in China is stuff that matters. The Academy Awards is bullshit that doesn't fucking matter.
And now, let me add my general view of why, while I can just scroll past this story, am slightly offended by having it on Slashdot: because I consider it a safe haven where self-absorbed pompous assholes (celebrities) have no say and no import. There are gajillion sites, shows and magazines dedicated to them - can we keep one clean of them?
It may not look bad, but I run into situations repeatedly on my Aspire One where the dialog is simply too tall to be usable. Sometimes options, and frequently the Help/Ok/Cancel buttons are below the bottom edge of the screen (even if I set both of the gnome panels to autohide) and cannot be reached.
New to Linux? Use Alt+Mouseclick to drag the window by any point in the window.
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I don't know, I can't see how a boss's personal site would make me want to consider working for them.
I can see it doing the opposite - if you find out a potential manager spends his free time hanging out with a roadie name Cocaine Dave and blogs about the white supremacy movement, then yeah, maybe you'll skip that interview. On the other hand, if their site is a well-polished advert, showing how well they get along with their employees and the awards they've won, I'm going to think it's there specifically to lure applicants. And if it's filled with regular, personal info, I'm not going to care because as great as it is to make friends at work, I'm there to make money first.
Maybe it's just the industry I work in, or maybe I'm not understanding your post correctly, but I think it's insane to pass on a potential job because somebody doesn't have a personal site you can peep at.
Excellent point! This is exactly what I was thinking about, word for word.
But I work in academia, and perhaps our criteria are different than the ones of the GP, who might be workng in the entertainment industry.
The fucking article mentions Pirate Bay as one of these "music swapping" sites. So basically, they're after torrent trackers.
I won't go into explaining the difference between a hypothetical "music swapping" site and a tracker. Insert here gun, car and other analogies.
LinkedIn is the best, and even that sucks:
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Is there a serious employer who is not aware how easy LinkedIn is to manipulate? The "Recommendation" is just one example: in 9 out of 10 cases, when X writes a recommendation of Y, Y returns the favour - often the same day!
And the number of people in the area of expertise, that are linked to you, is meaningless as well: set up a "Group", have people join, and then, just by the way, invite them in your network as well.
Still, makes more sense than Facebook, which is better called Abusebook.
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It's probably about the Obama apointee Timothy Geithner, secretary of US treasury, who "forced" (if you will believe Dodd, another Obama appointee) to amend the law forbidding bailed-out companies to distribute bonuses to top executives. Now, nobody is accusing Obama of anything, directly - eccept Obama himself, when he says "The buck stops with me".
But yeah, Geithner is part of the Obama administration. Now go ahead and shout "la la la I can't hear you". Fact is, this shit did happen, and people are livid.
More details from Associated Press
Really, who doesn't know that AMD is higher performance per dollar.
What he says.
Seriously: surprise? Even a moron with learning disabilities living under a rock in a country without Internet access knows that Phenoms offer the most performance per buck.
I am picturing the MS headquarters, and a worried and puzzled Ballmer asking "When did this start, that companies stopped fearing us? And people actually NOT falling in line for each and every new Windows update we shit? And IE's marketshare declining???"
Next scene: chair flies through window.
Compared to FF, in Chrome those games do work better, that is, immensely more smoothly.
I must say, after seeing all the experiments, I think Microsoft has something to fear about. The browser can completely become the OS, now. I now do believe you can develop complex applications and suites - on the web. I don't know how soon, but I know for sure it will happen one day, that it will be irrelevant what OS you have, Linux, WinXP or MacOSX.
I'm a relative newcomer to Adblock (imagine that - used FF for years without it. Yeah, yeah, hand in your geek card etc.), perhaps because I wasn't bugged very often by ads. Anyhow, I decided to try it, and while I noticed that it blocks some stuff I used to see occasionally earlier, it also seems to have rendered my browser less stable, requiring more frequent restarts and generally slowing down every operation.
I think editing the hosts file does have some major advantages over Adblock, no matter how strange that assertion may sound at first.
it runs a lot slower than a conventional pic chip, (but how often do you really need full speed for a microcontroller?)
Best of all, you can write your code entirely in BASIC, no need for messy assembly. (my sig should make it clear why this is a plus for me)
Since you don't even have a .sig, I am confused whether you're trying to be hilarious or are actually even more forgetful than I am - which is not good.
I've always wanted to visit Scotland (but only after Iceland). I just came back from Thailand, and I didn't just go to the beach, but saw a lot of beautiful and colorful places, temples, palaces etc. We even filmed a dozen short videos with the camera (of me eating insects, for instance), but still, it was under 1GB. I guess we're satisfied with only 3 or 5 megapixel pics. Yours is, btw. a very nice camera, and makes 10 megapixel photos. And it's probably a pelasure to use, too, compared to our Olympus. Not that I need such a great camera, but I do envy the ISO 1600.
Though I find it utterly ridicolous that the PowerShot G7 comes with a 32MB card. Aww... c'mon Canon.
I just found out that, as the name clearly suggests, it's a preprogrammed PIC microcontroller.
See for yourself at http://www.rev-ed.co.uk/picaxe/ in the Technical Frequently Asked Questions PDF file:
What is a PICAXE microcontroller?
A PICAXE microcontroller is a Microchip PIC microcontroller that has been pre-
programmed with the PICAXE bootstrap code. The bootstrap code enables the
microcontroller to be reprogrammed without the need for an (expensive)
conventional programmer, making the whole download system a very low-cost
simple serial cable!
The bootstrap code also contains common routines (such as how to generate a
pause delay or a sound output), so that each download does not have to waste time
downloading this commonly required data. This makes the download time much
quicker.
I'm sure this "laptop" would have been much faster if based around an AVR. But that would have required more work.
Actually, it probably isn't. It's probably not even close. The site is slashdotted badly, but I'm guessing this is an 8-bit CPU. Most microcontrollers of this sort take several clocks per instruction. And the instruction set is probably more limited in capability than x86.
Well, the site is woefully uninformative, and this "manufacturer" looks just as a repackager who has burnt a specific microcode on a PIC microcontroller .... OR an Atmel AVR. Now, what you said above is true for PIC microcontrollers, as well as the older Intel 8051 and Motorola 68HC11. But it's not true for Atmel's AVR, which are 8 bit, but with a RISC core, so each instruction is executed in one cpu clock. And AVRs are indeed pretty fast beasts. The PICs are more popular among some hobbists, but not in the industry.
I agree. I have a 2GB SD card in my camera, and try as I may, I never managed to fill it up. That's why I never went to a bigger SDHC card, I just can't seem to top this one. I guess it could be somewhat useful for those who just have to upload their pics to Facebook or something.
Since I'm not on any social networking site, I am totally not the target for this device.
I trust you all know about the TB bacteria, which in recent years has regained prominence, due mainly to the fact that (multi) resistive strains are being encountered in patients worldwide with ever increasing incidence. But, we also know that TB is not so easy to transmit and that it's killed very easily by the rays of the sun. It's susceptible to UV and this keeps a lid on TB epidemics.
Now, imagine if somehow TB could be made UV resistant.
Wet dreams of some mad dictator in his efforts to conquer the world? Or destroy humankind altogether? This could be it.
I could never tell the difference between their top-of-the-line and midrange/economy models. Maybe I miss out on a musical nirvana, or maybe I just save a lot of money, you be the judge :D
(exercise: count the Android phones on the market since it was announced in Nov 2007. Count the announced Android phones. Do the same for Symbian over the same time frame)
I admit, I can't be assed to do the homework, so I wonder if you'd be so kind and share the numbers with us :D
You know Sid's Civilization: "You found... FISHER TROPSCH in scrolls of ancient wisdom."
Because that's what Fisher Tropsch is, ancient. I don't deny the novelty of Great Point Energy's process, but why did it take 70 years between Fisher-Tropsch and this technology? Lack of lobbying^Wmotivation, I guess.
I completely agree with you, and the GP. On the point of partially home-schooling kids: I think knowledgeable, well-educated parents should do this anyway. As in, try to give as much education and encouragement to learn and study the nature around you, as you possibly can, as a parent. It worked for Einstein and Feinman, to name a few. They wentto school, but both had parents that gave their kids the stimulus and the conditions in which their intelligence could grow.
Unfortunately, oldbar just doesn't cut it:
Note that the underlying autocomplete algorithm is the Firefox 3 algorithm, not the Firefox 2 algorithm. oldbar only affects the presentation of the results.
I think this is a brilliant idea. I wish something like this existed to defend against patent trolls.
Seriously, I'm as rabidly anti-windows as they come, but isn't this a little unfair? Windows 7 is still beta, it doesn't surprise me that there are still some driver issues.
Driver issues? We're talking Vista SP3 here, there are no driver issues (apart from those inherited from Vista itself).
That would be Xandros Linux for the Eee PC. Reason: as maligned as it seems to be, it still is the one that supports the 1000H's hardware the best.
I myself use Slax, because I have the time to tweak it, and because I don't have a HD in my Eee PC (only 4GB of SSD), and do believe that for the "smaller" Eee PCs is the absolute best out there, but if I was a novice AND I had a 1000H or 1000HD, it'd go with what Asus prepared for it.
I won't miss their shrill, hysterical headlines and one sided stories.
I agree. AP has always been biased to the extreme political correctness.
Fuck you, AP.
We had this same argument during the earthquake in China over the summer. If you don't want to see this on the front page, use the firehose to mod it down. If you're using the beta index, mod it down so you don't see it. It's News For Nerds. Stuff that Matters. To many, this does matter. Not all of us participate in online forums (specifically that work doesn't block during the day) and it's nice to discuss it.
First of all, I won't argue with the general point that, if one doesn't want to read a story or a thread he/she just doesn't click on it and all is fine. That said: Slashdot's motto is "News for nerds, stuff that matters". The earthquake in China is stuff that matters. The Academy Awards is bullshit that doesn't fucking matter.
And now, let me add my general view of why, while I can just scroll past this story, am slightly offended by having it on Slashdot: because I consider it a safe haven where self-absorbed pompous assholes (celebrities) have no say and no import. There are gajillion sites, shows and magazines dedicated to them - can we keep one clean of them?
It may not look bad, but I run into situations repeatedly on my Aspire One where the dialog is simply too tall to be usable. Sometimes options, and frequently the Help/Ok/Cancel buttons are below the bottom edge of the screen (even if I set both of the gnome panels to autohide) and cannot be reached.
New to Linux? Use Alt+Mouseclick to drag the window by any point in the window.
I don't know, I can't see how a boss's personal site would make me want to consider working for them.
I can see it doing the opposite - if you find out a potential manager spends his free time hanging out with a roadie name Cocaine Dave and blogs about the white supremacy movement, then yeah, maybe you'll skip that interview. On the other hand, if their site is a well-polished advert, showing how well they get along with their employees and the awards they've won, I'm going to think it's there specifically to lure applicants. And if it's filled with regular, personal info, I'm not going to care because as great as it is to make friends at work, I'm there to make money first.
Maybe it's just the industry I work in, or maybe I'm not understanding your post correctly, but I think it's insane to pass on a potential job because somebody doesn't have a personal site you can peep at.
Excellent point! This is exactly what I was thinking about, word for word.
But I work in academia, and perhaps our criteria are different than the ones of the GP, who might be workng in the entertainment industry.
The fucking article mentions Pirate Bay as one of these "music swapping" sites. So basically, they're after torrent trackers.
I won't go into explaining the difference between a hypothetical "music swapping" site and a tracker. Insert here gun, car and other analogies.
Is there a serious employer who is not aware how easy LinkedIn is to manipulate? The "Recommendation" is just one example: in 9 out of 10 cases, when X writes a recommendation of Y, Y returns the favour - often the same day!
And the number of people in the area of expertise, that are linked to you, is meaningless as well: set up a "Group", have people join, and then, just by the way, invite them in your network as well.
Still, makes more sense than Facebook, which is better called Abusebook.