Is buying a mouse or trackball too expensive for your budget?
No, but I am opposed to paying for a shitty pointing device when there exist laptops on the market that have really good pointing devices. Besides, if I buy a laptop and then an additional pointing device to go with it, I then have to find a place to set said additional pointing device when I am using the laptop, which means I likely won't be able to use it on the bus, train, or airplane. The weight and space savings of their design has also just fallen dramatically when the hardware selection is so awful that I am obligated to carry something else with me to make it a productive machine.
With that silly excuse for a pointing device I'll wait for Lenovo to come up with a real mobile workstation with the same (or better) specs. Nobody can do real work with a silly touchpad, especially one that has no buttons.
If we take this claim together with the claim that the satellite passed over Levi's Stadium just after the Super Bowl ended, the North Koreans are close to accomplishing Rudy Giuliani's goal of nuking Beyonce.
That is a really good point that I overlooked. When I wrote BASIC on the C64 I didn't go nearly that far (but that says lots about how little I did with BASIC on the C64 and nothing about doing anything clever to not need those features). That said, if these were "programming for kids" type books would they go to that level?
As someone else pointed out, a C64 emulator could make the point unimportant.
I'm probably missing out on something but couldn't most of the C64 code be run on most other BASIC interpreters as well? Especially if the code was intended to be child / introductory level?
There have been some "big announcements" in other hard science fields from China in the past decade or two that have turned out to be bogus. Can someone comment on the likelihood of this being real?
Sorry, I wasn't sure if you were setting up for a joke or if you were actually asking a question because you wanted to know the answer. You just never know around here any more...
That depends on what the (human) callers are doing. If they are administering a survey or something of that sort, then they are almost always paid by the hour. However if they are doing cold-call sales, then they are more likely paid on commission. If you are wasting the time of someone who is on commission, you are lowering their wage but not significantly impacting the bottom line of their company.
Sure, most people really despise the robocalls, but wasting the caller's time doesn't really help much, either. Just like with spammers, the robo-callers are being paid to do a job - and believe it or not annoying you is not what they are paid for.
Money spent on food is always returned, shelter, transportation. Where does it stop? Marxism.
No. Marxism is not free food for all. You may want to consider reading his writings - they are easy to find freely available online - to see where you got it wrong and how far off you are with that statement.
The government doesn't make the investment, tax payers do.
That's a matter of perspective.
a crushing, wildly inefficient, mindless, uncaring government bureaucracy
In the specific case of health care - and Bernie Sanders and I are both open proponents of single-payer health care - it has been shown time and again that the system we have in the USA currently is vastly more crushing, inefficient, and uncaring of a bureaucracy than any government-run program in the world anywhere today. In fact, that corporate bureaucracy is a big part of why consumers in the USA pay more per capita for health care than any other nation on earth, and get quite nearly nothing to show for it (with the exception of some extremely wealthy health care executives).
In the case of education, there has not been a for-profit institution yet of higher education that has managed to actually manage resources more effectively than the current public and private institutions in the USA. Could they do better? Absolutely, but the for-profit groups have not found a way to do better.
Actually, the budgets generally call for just increasing the tax rates for the top 1% to equal the tax rates paid by the rest of the country. The current tax code is heavily invested in the mythology that leaving those elites alone and leaving them with more of "their" money they will create lots of jobs and opportunity for the rest of the country; we know from the past couple decades that this simply is not true.
free shit for the 99%
No, there is no promise of "free shit". It is understood that everything from a socialist structure is paid for and has limits. Free college won't mean you can spend 8 years working on a liberal arts degree. Health care will be paid for by taxes (which will actually result in a large decrease in per capita spending on health care).
For comparison, you don't think that the invasion of Iraq was provided for free, do you? Granted some of the cheerleaders back then told us that it would eventually pay for itself, but hardly anyone took them seriously.
a socialist trying to give away free everything to anybody
Sanders is not trying to "give away" anything. Nobody who supports Sanders expects to get things for "free", either. He openly states that taxes will have to go up or other parts of the budget will have to be cut. However, Sanders supporters are intelligent enough to realize that these are - absolutely and without challenge - the best investments that the government can possibly make. Money spent in prisons is never recouped. Money spent on education is recouped on average 5-10 times over (and often much more than that). Money spent on war is almost all lost. Money spent on health care is almost always returned.
The only people who think that Sanders is going to "give away" anything for "free" are the people who hate him too much to bother listening to what he actually says.
I hear a lot of people getting attention for this claim, but I see very little evidence actually supporting the claim. Yeah, there are some PC nazis on some campuses for sure, just as there are soldiers of all other stripes around as well. But the comedians who make such a stink about reactions on certain campuses are, IMHO, taking a small sample set and extending it to all of academia. No college campus I have worked at resembles this in any meaningful way, and I've been on campuses in very blue states where it would seem reasonable to expect this to be a really big prevalent matter.
I often wondered if they were ever going to release a newer version of slashcode. You likely know that what is available is several years old. Not to plug another site, but it is impressive - especially considering the age of the code - how much the guys at soylent news have accomplished with that code base once they forked it for themselves.
I'm pretty sure that is because slashdot is actively denying the bots access to certain parts of the site. Years back when the slashdot search function was broken badly enough that they allowed google to index it and users to use that instead, it was a massive improvement. Then they went back to the old way once it was "fixed" and we're back to this.
In the past people who mod-bombed were preventing from getting more mod points.
I have definitely been the target of mod-bombing before, and generally taunted the bombers in my JE afterwards. I have never myself actually committed an act of mod-bombing, which suggests there is more than one way to end up on the list.
If you want to end spam, you need to acknowledge that spam is an economic problem and spammers send out spam because they make money doing it. There is one and only one way to end spam, and that is to prevent spammers from making money off of it.
The more you tighten your grip... the only ways to do that are to really clamp down on commerce to the extent that it would cause significant harm to economic activity in a way that would actually damage GDP, or to end capitalism
Actually, no. A really great example of what I am talking about was executed a few years back in part by a team from Georgia Tech. They figured out which banks were processing payments to some big-time spammers and had those banks stop processing those payments. I believe it took a little bit of pressure from law enforcement to get the banks to cooperate but they got it done. Nonetheless, once the spammers were no longer getting paid, they stopped sending out spam for the spamvertised domains.
A similar tactic works on the end of the owner of the spamvertised domain; if you prevent them from being able to process payments, they can't pay the spammers and the spam volume falls rapidly.
More specifically, it appears that some of us (such as myself) are on a list of people who never get mod points. I have not had mod points in ~2 years IIRC. My karma is consistently excellent here. Others have reported the same.
There also have been times when people have been given differing numbers of mod points. It used to be that people would only get 5. Then some people started getting 10. Some people claimed they got as many as 15. I never heard an explanation for that, either.
This is another black eye on slashdot, IMHO. The search function has never been useful. I don't know how they managed to devise such an awful search function - it often seems to return anything but what I am actually searching for - but they did. I remember some time several years back the search function was broken enough that slashdot allowed google to index the site and the searches all went through there, which was a massive improvement.
Slashdot Mirror
Is buying a mouse or trackball too expensive for your budget?
No, but I am opposed to paying for a shitty pointing device when there exist laptops on the market that have really good pointing devices. Besides, if I buy a laptop and then an additional pointing device to go with it, I then have to find a place to set said additional pointing device when I am using the laptop, which means I likely won't be able to use it on the bus, train, or airplane. The weight and space savings of their design has also just fallen dramatically when the hardware selection is so awful that I am obligated to carry something else with me to make it a productive machine.
Oh, wait, that wasn't LEGO scientists.
With that silly excuse for a pointing device I'll wait for Lenovo to come up with a real mobile workstation with the same (or better) specs. Nobody can do real work with a silly touchpad, especially one that has no buttons.
If we take this claim together with the claim that the satellite passed over Levi's Stadium just after the Super Bowl ended, the North Koreans are close to accomplishing Rudy Giuliani's goal of nuking Beyonce.
That is a really good point that I overlooked. When I wrote BASIC on the C64 I didn't go nearly that far (but that says lots about how little I did with BASIC on the C64 and nothing about doing anything clever to not need those features). That said, if these were "programming for kids" type books would they go to that level?
As someone else pointed out, a C64 emulator could make the point unimportant.
I'm probably missing out on something but couldn't most of the C64 code be run on most other BASIC interpreters as well? Especially if the code was intended to be child / introductory level?
There have been some "big announcements" in other hard science fields from China in the past decade or two that have turned out to be bogus. Can someone comment on the likelihood of this being real?
8-core POWER8 CPU, 132 GB RAM, and open firmware.
Your interpretation of the website matches my own and for essentially the same reasons.
Sorry, I wasn't sure if you were setting up for a joke or if you were actually asking a question because you wanted to know the answer. You just never know around here any more...
It wouldn't be secure any more if it did...
Certainly it can be done, but I'm not sure why one would want to do that. Did they mean 128GB? Or 32GB?
I've clicked through the links and I can't find anything that actually says how much RAM you get on this system.
That depends on what the (human) callers are doing. If they are administering a survey or something of that sort, then they are almost always paid by the hour. However if they are doing cold-call sales, then they are more likely paid on commission. If you are wasting the time of someone who is on commission, you are lowering their wage but not significantly impacting the bottom line of their company.
Sure, most people really despise the robocalls, but wasting the caller's time doesn't really help much, either. Just like with spammers, the robo-callers are being paid to do a job - and believe it or not annoying you is not what they are paid for.
Money spent on food is always returned, shelter, transportation. Where does it stop? Marxism.
No. Marxism is not free food for all. You may want to consider reading his writings - they are easy to find freely available online - to see where you got it wrong and how far off you are with that statement.
The government doesn't make the investment, tax payers do.
That's a matter of perspective.
a crushing, wildly inefficient, mindless, uncaring government bureaucracy
In the specific case of health care - and Bernie Sanders and I are both open proponents of single-payer health care - it has been shown time and again that the system we have in the USA currently is vastly more crushing, inefficient, and uncaring of a bureaucracy than any government-run program in the world anywhere today. In fact, that corporate bureaucracy is a big part of why consumers in the USA pay more per capita for health care than any other nation on earth, and get quite nearly nothing to show for it (with the exception of some extremely wealthy health care executives).
In the case of education, there has not been a for-profit institution yet of higher education that has managed to actually manage resources more effectively than the current public and private institutions in the USA. Could they do better? Absolutely, but the for-profit groups have not found a way to do better.
let's just tax the shit out of the top 1%
Actually, the budgets generally call for just increasing the tax rates for the top 1% to equal the tax rates paid by the rest of the country. The current tax code is heavily invested in the mythology that leaving those elites alone and leaving them with more of "their" money they will create lots of jobs and opportunity for the rest of the country; we know from the past couple decades that this simply is not true.
free shit for the 99%
No, there is no promise of "free shit". It is understood that everything from a socialist structure is paid for and has limits. Free college won't mean you can spend 8 years working on a liberal arts degree. Health care will be paid for by taxes (which will actually result in a large decrease in per capita spending on health care).
For comparison, you don't think that the invasion of Iraq was provided for free, do you? Granted some of the cheerleaders back then told us that it would eventually pay for itself, but hardly anyone took them seriously.
a socialist trying to give away free everything to anybody
Sanders is not trying to "give away" anything. Nobody who supports Sanders expects to get things for "free", either. He openly states that taxes will have to go up or other parts of the budget will have to be cut. However, Sanders supporters are intelligent enough to realize that these are - absolutely and without challenge - the best investments that the government can possibly make. Money spent in prisons is never recouped. Money spent on education is recouped on average 5-10 times over (and often much more than that). Money spent on war is almost all lost. Money spent on health care is almost always returned.
The only people who think that Sanders is going to "give away" anything for "free" are the people who hate him too much to bother listening to what he actually says.
I have been on pudge's perma-hate list longer than I've been on the no-mod-points-ever list. Pudge proudly added me to his perma-hate list back in 2008, though I definitely had mod points at least as recently as 2010 (and likely quite a bit more recently than that as well).
I hear a lot of people getting attention for this claim, but I see very little evidence actually supporting the claim. Yeah, there are some PC nazis on some campuses for sure, just as there are soldiers of all other stripes around as well. But the comedians who make such a stink about reactions on certain campuses are, IMHO, taking a small sample set and extending it to all of academia. No college campus I have worked at resembles this in any meaningful way, and I've been on campuses in very blue states where it would seem reasonable to expect this to be a really big prevalent matter.
How about making Slash open source again?
I often wondered if they were ever going to release a newer version of slashcode. You likely know that what is available is several years old. Not to plug another site, but it is impressive - especially considering the age of the code - how much the guys at soylent news have accomplished with that code base once they forked it for themselves.
To be fair, Google doesn't do any better
I'm pretty sure that is because slashdot is actively denying the bots access to certain parts of the site. Years back when the slashdot search function was broken badly enough that they allowed google to index it and users to use that instead, it was a massive improvement. Then they went back to the old way once it was "fixed" and we're back to this.
In the past people who mod-bombed were preventing from getting more mod points.
I have definitely been the target of mod-bombing before, and generally taunted the bombers in my JE afterwards. I have never myself actually committed an act of mod-bombing, which suggests there is more than one way to end up on the list.
Well, I've either used all or none (depending on your concept of the solution of 0/0) of the mod points I've been given for the past 1-2 years.
If you want to end spam, you need to acknowledge that spam is an economic problem and spammers send out spam because they make money doing it. There is one and only one way to end spam, and that is to prevent spammers from making money off of it.
The more you tighten your grip... the only ways to do that are to really clamp down on commerce to the extent that it would cause significant harm to economic activity in a way that would actually damage GDP, or to end capitalism
Actually, no. A really great example of what I am talking about was executed a few years back in part by a team from Georgia Tech. They figured out which banks were processing payments to some big-time spammers and had those banks stop processing those payments. I believe it took a little bit of pressure from law enforcement to get the banks to cooperate but they got it done. Nonetheless, once the spammers were no longer getting paid, they stopped sending out spam for the spamvertised domains.
A similar tactic works on the end of the owner of the spamvertised domain; if you prevent them from being able to process payments, they can't pay the spammers and the spam volume falls rapidly.
More specifically, it appears that some of us (such as myself) are on a list of people who never get mod points. I have not had mod points in ~2 years IIRC. My karma is consistently excellent here. Others have reported the same.
There also have been times when people have been given differing numbers of mod points. It used to be that people would only get 5. Then some people started getting 10. Some people claimed they got as many as 15. I never heard an explanation for that, either.
This is another black eye on slashdot, IMHO. The search function has never been useful. I don't know how they managed to devise such an awful search function - it often seems to return anything but what I am actually searching for - but they did. I remember some time several years back the search function was broken enough that slashdot allowed google to index the site and the searches all went through there, which was a massive improvement.