Most of the time I would mod a post, I can't as my mod points have expired. I would say that mod points shouldn't stack, but expiring is just shitty.
Slashdot could also add in (fairly easily) a Thumb-up/Down Agree/Disagree thats entirely separate from the Moderation, that ANYONE logged in can do without using "mod points". I think an Ars system and the existing Slashdot Moderation system would likely work quite well together.
Maybe your default posting level - which I imagine for many is likely "1" would be the number of down-mods your post can 'resist' until it is reduced.
I think it would resolve the frequent (?) down-mods that are solely done because someone doesn't like what was said.
We need something better than Usenet... Oh wait, nothing has been better than usenet, as not a single damned "service" allows you to easily filter information.
Yeah, there were lots of prototype devices that likely would of only interested the geekiest (small market). So given production at the time, likely a loss all round even if brought to market.
Except, the market we have today, with 3D printing and other low-run manufacturing possibilities...it makes one wonder what Microsoft might do with all those (previously) "set-aside" hardware prototypes.
The whole thing stemmed from the standards body, creating a USB 3.0, AND a USB 3.1 Spec, along with Cables being allowed to only conform to select parts the USB 3/3.1 spec, along with the Lightning Cable coopting the USB 3.1 form-factor, The non-full spec cables will have an icon or two different on the box (if it even has a retail box) and will be visually indistinguishable from cables that actually implement the whole 3.1 spec also indistinguishable to 3.0 cables that fully implement the 3.0 spec.
It's not e-ink, but thats why I got the nook 9" (for Text Books and game PDFs). Amazon's price is a little steep for the Nook HD+ 16GB (refurbished) , a little more than I paid for the 32GB refurbished 2+ years ago. EBAY has an 8GB Nook, for a semi-reasonable price (as they all have microSD slots).
Sounds Interesting - like being able to have a USB appliance without the need of running an OS on it; piggyback on the standards compliant Host OS which would have a browser for accessing and controlling the appliance.
Aye, I was running DOS until Windows 98. With DOS-PPP or DOS-SLIP (to dialup), plus NCSA Telnet. I don't recall what the email program was.
I think I had to use a TSR to execute DOS-SLIP.
To Note: I wasn't deriding the Czech Developers. More the fact that Opera basically said FU to their Norway ones. And an observation that was made by a number of people that religiously follow the Opera releases on the Opera Blogs: "That the Opera Developer edition seemed to turn into a minor-bug-fix-polishing-edition with no real movement forward on long-overdue features. At this point there's almost no point to the Opera Developer release, it is not even a week or two ahead of Opera Beta.
Then again, Opera has done little beyond bug fixing for the last year (or more). I think they got around to adding Bookmarks ~2 years ago.
Within the last year or so Opera got rid of their Browser Developers from Norway and outsourced to Devs from the Czech Republic. At that point a number of ex-Opera devs went over to Vivaldi. Since then Opera Developer has slowed to a crawl.
I stopped giving a rats ass after Opera sold itself to China.
There's almost nothing that Vivaldi does, that Opera doesn't, except for Tab Stacks.
Unfortunately, Tab Stacks is one of the worst Tab implementations I've seen in 16 years. Opera 6 or 7 had a better Tab implementation as you could manage Windows\Tabs from the Panel. Now unless Vivaldi has pulled a rabbit out of their ass, their Panel implementation isn't anywhere near as functional as Opera 7 (from 2003).
They've also been claiming that Vivaldi was going to get an email client for about 3 years now. Hopefully no one was holding their breath.
HP locks down a large number of their "laptops" with a custom shit-bios. I believe most of their laptops have 2 ram slots. And when you put 2x8GB slots in there - the Bios says 16GB, and when your system finally boots, your OS is allowed to see and use 8GB.
What would be "liberating" is if the GNU userland was replaced with something that wasn't trying to emulate unix commands from 1960. Where apparently typing vowels in command names is taboo. Where -f means force, except when it's -F, except when -f is default implied and you need to use -q to not force -f. Or the fact that there are what at least a half-dozen different commands that have their own way to collate a list of files. Or maybe a way to use the shell reliably without having to escape the escaped escapes in case there are escapes.
Reminds me of Netscape in 2001 which was a 25MB+ download. Which didn't compare particularly favorably to Opera 5 @ 2MB, especially considering that Netscape had less features, a larger memory footprint, no tabs and crashed far more often.
Transmission: 25MB - considered a small footprint/? uTorrent is what 1 or 2MBs? And is ad-free if you support it.
Apple (Cook, Jobs) spreads FUD at all of their announcement|events. Why should that suddenly cause "loss of respect for their integrity"? They had any?
When MS released the Surface, it was non-stop FUD from Apple about how it was useless, no market for it, a pen with a tablet? ludicrous.
Is it even possible to bring a MacPro into an apple store without them telling you the problem can be fixed by replacing the Motherboard: $450.
Broken charging cable? Needs a new motherboard.
Loose phono-jack, sound doesn't work?. Needs a new motherboard... or a bobby pin, or a $25 external-usb-sound "card".
It isn't that special in monetary regards, if you will. I think you need to look at what Grand-Parent companies own it all to see the bigger picture. I also doubt your 15B figure includes music licensing - restaurants, and licensing in media (movies). Warner Bros was getting 2M a year just for Happy Birthday licensing.
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I dunno ... John McAfee is kinda awesome (JOHN MCAFEE TELLS ALL / RAW)... or at least pretty damned funny - How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus
Most of the time I would mod a post, I can't as my mod points have expired. I would say that mod points shouldn't stack, but expiring is just shitty.
Slashdot could also add in (fairly easily) a Thumb-up/Down Agree/Disagree thats entirely separate from the Moderation, that ANYONE logged in can do without using "mod points". I think an Ars system and the existing Slashdot Moderation system would likely work quite well together.
Too bad ALL of the laptops are 1080p. For Intel machines they were half-way reasonably priced.
Maybe your default posting level - which I imagine for many is likely "1" would be the number of down-mods your post can 'resist' until it is reduced.
I think it would resolve the frequent (?) down-mods that are solely done because someone doesn't like what was said.
Apparently still not allowed to mention UN... aiight.
We need something better than Usenet... Oh wait, nothing has been better than usenet, as not a single damned "service" allows you to easily filter information.
Now, if they could only adopt a law to actually allow the construction of NEW buildings.
Yeah, there were lots of prototype devices that likely would of only interested the geekiest (small market). So given production at the time, likely a loss all round even if brought to market. Except, the market we have today, with 3D printing and other low-run manufacturing possibilities...it makes one wonder what Microsoft might do with all those (previously) "set-aside" hardware prototypes.
Filed Under: Sad But True.
The whole thing stemmed from the standards body, creating a USB 3.0, AND a USB 3.1 Spec, along with Cables being allowed to only conform to select parts the USB 3/3.1 spec, along with the Lightning Cable coopting the USB 3.1 form-factor, The non-full spec cables will have an icon or two different on the box (if it even has a retail box) and will be visually indistinguishable from cables that actually implement the whole 3.1 spec also indistinguishable to 3.0 cables that fully implement the 3.0 spec.
It's not e-ink, but thats why I got the nook 9" (for Text Books and game PDFs). Amazon's price is a little steep for the Nook HD+ 16GB (refurbished) , a little more than I paid for the 32GB refurbished 2+ years ago. EBAY has an 8GB Nook, for a semi-reasonable price (as they all have microSD slots).
Sounds Interesting - like being able to have a USB appliance without the need of running an OS on it; piggyback on the standards compliant Host OS which would have a browser for accessing and controlling the appliance.
Aye, I was running DOS until Windows 98. With DOS-PPP or DOS-SLIP (to dialup), plus NCSA Telnet. I don't recall what the email program was.
I think I had to use a TSR to execute DOS-SLIP.
Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE):
---> C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell_ise.exe
Or you can launch PowerShell via the console:
---> C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
To Note: I wasn't deriding the Czech Developers. More the fact that Opera basically said FU to their Norway ones. And an observation that was made by a number of people that religiously follow the Opera releases on the Opera Blogs: "That the Opera Developer edition seemed to turn into a minor-bug-fix-polishing-edition with no real movement forward on long-overdue features. At this point there's almost no point to the Opera Developer release, it is not even a week or two ahead of Opera Beta.
Then again, Opera has done little beyond bug fixing for the last year (or more). I think they got around to adding Bookmarks ~2 years ago.
Within the last year or so Opera got rid of their Browser Developers from Norway and outsourced to Devs from the Czech Republic. At that point a number of ex-Opera devs went over to Vivaldi. Since then Opera Developer has slowed to a crawl.
I stopped giving a rats ass after Opera sold itself to China.
There's almost nothing that Vivaldi does, that Opera doesn't, except for Tab Stacks.
Unfortunately, Tab Stacks is one of the worst Tab implementations I've seen in 16 years. Opera 6 or 7 had a better Tab implementation as you could manage Windows\Tabs from the Panel. Now unless Vivaldi has pulled a rabbit out of their ass, their Panel implementation isn't anywhere near as functional as Opera 7 (from 2003).
They've also been claiming that Vivaldi was going to get an email client for about 3 years now. Hopefully no one was holding their breath.
HP locks down a large number of their "laptops" with a custom shit-bios. I believe most of their laptops have 2 ram slots. And when you put 2x8GB slots in there - the Bios says 16GB, and when your system finally boots, your OS is allowed to see and use 8GB.
The most updated release used to be on Google Code... Looks like its on Sourceforge now.
What would be "liberating" is if the GNU userland was replaced with something that wasn't trying to emulate unix commands from 1960. Where apparently typing vowels in command names is taboo. Where -f means force, except when it's -F, except when -f is default implied and you need to use -q to not force -f. Or the fact that there are what at least a half-dozen different commands that have their own way to collate a list of files. Or maybe a way to use the shell reliably without having to escape the escaped escapes in case there are escapes.
Will my AHK scripts n triggers to JS automaters be "Ok" too?
Reminds me of Netscape in 2001 which was a 25MB+ download. Which didn't compare particularly favorably to Opera 5 @ 2MB, especially considering that Netscape had less features, a larger memory footprint, no tabs and crashed far more often.
Transmission: 25MB - considered a small footprint/? uTorrent is what 1 or 2MBs? And is ad-free if you support it.
Apple (Cook, Jobs) spreads FUD at all of their announcement|events. Why should that suddenly cause "loss of respect for their integrity"? They had any?
When MS released the Surface, it was non-stop FUD from Apple about how it was useless, no market for it, a pen with a tablet? ludicrous.
Is it even possible to bring a MacPro into an apple store without them telling you the problem can be fixed by replacing the Motherboard: $450.
Broken charging cable? Needs a new motherboard.
Loose phono-jack, sound doesn't work?. Needs a new motherboard... or a bobby pin, or a $25 external-usb-sound "card".
I thought FUD was Apple's raison d'etre.
Which only concatenates the string once.
It isn't that special in monetary regards, if you will. I think you need to look at what Grand-Parent companies own it all to see the bigger picture. I also doubt your 15B figure includes music licensing - restaurants, and licensing in media (movies). Warner Bros was getting 2M a year just for Happy Birthday licensing.