When I get mod points, I open the level filter. You make a choice. Want to start a 1? open an account. Want to be a Coward? post and accept starting at 0. That's it. Simple.
When I get mod points, I browse at -1. As the moderator guidelines say (or used to say?) you should be on the lookout for other abusive moderators, and have the chance to repair their harm.
Falling off a bike or a scooter is not an unreasonable risk. It's user error during normal use of the device.
Safety culture disagrees! We must protect everyone from every possible injury!
I'm surprised in this dodgeball and running during recess banning age, that safety culture hasn't made using these devices illegal for anyone under 18.
Some people are slow learners when it comes to scooters and even on brands like Vespa which have had gasoline engines for 70 years or so will have new riders flop over sideways at times. It is a balance and perception problem and has nothing to do with the scooters themselves.
What I have seen on the Vespa style scooters is that the leading link suspension is a bit of a trick for the noobs to get used to. Nice once they do.
The larger wheels seen on bicycles is a myth.
It's some pretty basic physics you are arguing against. If the circumference of a tire causes it to not descend completely into a ditch, it's vertical movement is much less than a smaller tire that descends completely into the ditch, then must climb out of the same ditch.
Forcing people to browse only top rated posts *is* pushing people into submitting to groupthink, idiot.
When I get mod points, I open the level filter. You make a choice. Want to start a 1? open an account. Want to be a Coward? post and accept starting at 0. That's it. Simple. You can still pot your swastikas or homopsychosexual creepposts. But no one is obliged to see them. Groupthink.... that's funny.
Cruising Slashdot at -1 is just like browsing without adblocking. No thanks.
FTA: McGrath said if Philly can convince residents to stop tossing plastic bags in the recycling bin, that alone would be a big deal.
We're harangued about how we are dumping plastic in the ocean, how we need to ban plastic straws and other terrible plastic products, because America is destroying the oceans.
Well, I have two main thoughts on that. One is that 'Murrica could be taken out of existence tomorrow, and it wouldn't put a dent in the plastic problem, with the possible exception of microspheres.
Second, when people are being browbeat about how they are destroying the planet because of their plastics, yeah - you are going to find a lot of plastic bags in the recycling bin.
The transceiver takes the form of a magnetic bar attached to the rear of the television, given that panels themselves are too thin to house anything of this kind. It would then require a separate power transmitter (plugged into the mains) to keep the TV running.
So you'll get rid of the cord, and it'll need a clunky "base station" - which has a cord.
Sweet.
Which will *also* have the media cable (Coax/CAT) attached and *also* have to transmit the video and audio signals to the display. Won't it be fun to sit in the middle of that RF soup all night. Or... you could simply run the cables to a regular display inside the wall. This seems like a solution in search of a problem.
This is yet another digital "Bandwidth is infinite!" non-solution. I'm surprised that no one seems to notice that we are running out of RF space. And what remains is very short distance stuff.
Every single one of your posts so far has been all about how special and wonderful YOU are.
I offer an alternative. You can take it, you can ignore it, or you can get pissed off. Perhaps I am guilty of listening to people whine, bitch and moan about how terrible they have it, and mistakenly think they might want to do something different.
But yeah , I'm convinced by now, that what you are doing is bitching and moaning because that is what you want to do. Let us know how that works out for ya.
That is why you are a snowflake. You insist on trying to be special, and to try justifying your specialness.
Oh, silly lad. Here's the definition of Snowflake from Wikipedia:Generation Snowflake, or Snowflake Generation, is a neologistic term used to characterize the young adults of the 2010s as being more prone to taking offence and less resilient than previous generations, or as being too emotionally vulnerable to cope with views that challenge their own. The term is considered derogatory.
Now of course, a lot of people have politicized it to mean anyone of any age, but it remains that propensity to take offense and being unable to cope with other's views. But monchichi, that's more fitting of you than me. I haven't taken offense at one word you've said, and I've known for a long time that there are a lot of people out there with a different outlook than mine. I don't really care. Sometimes I have a little fun with y'all. That's my bad.
I am special - because I've done a lot of things, had a successful career, made good money, and am now "livin the dream as one co-worker put it.
I AM glad that you do acknowledge that your behavior is not indicative of the human norm, however-- It spares me having to listen to you preach about how good the world would be if everyone just worked a little harder, because it acknowledges that this is a total farce.
Damn - nice kid, but he don't always pay attention. If you were working with me, I would have no problems with you doing the absolute minimum. I even said as much. Why is that? Well, despite the typical slashdotter hating their employer, and believing that employers are inherently evil, they aren't. That's why I made three times as much as fellow employees with the same job title.
But okay - you've made your point, even if it isn't the one you think you made. Not much point in discussions with the unyielding. Time wasted is time lost.
As Winston Churchill noted, “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” gotta move on.
Sleep is underrated. Those who say, "Eh, I'll sleep when I'm dead" may find themselves sleeping sooner than they thought they would.
Hey - I dream solutions to problems when I'm asleep. I don't dislike it at all. My biggest issue is the concept that as a person that goes to sleep when they are sleepy, and wakes up when they are refreshed must have 8 or more hours to do so, lest they be committing slow motion suicide.
To be fair this thing is an ARM SoC, similar to a phone, so actually a lot of what it does relies on fast servers with hardware accelerated speech recognition and huge databases of knowledge to answer questions.
Good Gawd, those people deserved to go out of business. Crippling the power of the device in order to require the cloud doesn't strike me as a good way to go.
ItÃ(TM)s like how in order to fly though the literal clouds you donÃ(TM)t need to own your own airplane, you just buy a seat for a single trip.
Yes, but the plane doesn't just fall out of the sky because someone 5000 miles away decides to turn off the servers.
As well, does word processing or the like require a person to have racks of servers? This argument he gives that we need a server farm to do fairly simple work is funny, sort of. We don't, and the whole cloud concet was never about that anyway. Cloud was about 2 things. Getting people to move to the subscription model, and getting rid of as many local IT staff as possible.
Individuals losing data or money is of no consequence when people believe that there is no other way to do work other than replicate the cloud in their place.
Itâ(TM)s not magic bit and bytes. In this case it is the high end voice recognition ML. You need a cluster of machines to run these ML models in real-time. Because the robot is not interacting most of the time you can share the expensive cluster of machines with other people and save a ton of money. Itâ(TM)s like how in order to fly though the literal clouds you donâ(TM)t need to own your own airplane, you just buy a seat for a single trip. So if you have space and money for a server rack next to your social robot that would totally work but really no-one wants that.
Tell me the standard applicatinos that will not work unless they are in the cloud. Office 365? Adobe Creative Cloud?
"My single, and notedly exceptional to the rule claim obviates your statement, because I'm totally representative of the masses, except I'm not!"
Let's make this simple, I've profited mightily off of taking advantage of people with your outlook. Your laziness makes my job easier, and brings me more money. Its okay if you do as little as possible. It's how you stick it to the man.
So go take your ignorant retired snowflake self, and stop pretending that "If everyone worked just a LITTLE harder---" because that is not what happens when EVERYONE does something.
Of course, but I know human nature. And I enjoy work. A majority of people are lazy. A majority of people actualy don't want to work at all, and are happy to approach that if possible. That is my secret sauce. People aren't going to all work harder. So I bring value, and have been rewarded for it.
Snowflake? You have no idea - especially since you are the one displaying snowflake tendencies. I'm taking advantage of you lazy pups. The irony is that since I've been retired so early, my life is the one that lazy people wish they had.
Do you think that if you spend less time asleep, you will somehow get more personal time?
Do you think that if you sleep less, you will be able to do more work? If so, who actually profits from that? Do you not realize that labor is a commodity, and like any commodity that gluts the market, it suddenly being even more available will just lower its trade value?
Why exactly do you want to sleep less?
Ah here we have the unionist work as little as possible, sleep as much as possible model. Yeah, we had a few of you back in the day. Check in, then go hide in some nook and sleep most of the day. I guess in your book, they are winning.
I've never been much of a sleeper, I've also had a lot of energy. And while some of the folk I worked with would get a bit pissed that I was willing to put in more time, it showed the revers of your cheapened commodity claim, as I was paid much more then the others. And retired at 55, while they are still working.
Or here's a thought Corning, come up with glass that will last for the life of the phone instead of breaking so easily. I care less about a folding phone and more about a phone I can use without a gigantic case.
I have a lifeproof waterproof case for my iPhone 7 that isn't a lot bigger than the phone (unlike the one for my old iPhone 5. Not cheap, but I do enough stuff at and on the ocean that anything needs protection. I cringe when I see people at the beach, using their phones in the surf, often getting them submerged.
While in an ideal world, there would be no need for such a thing, but that little computer that people use to access their Facebook is still a little computer with some sensitive stuff in it.
And most people don't give a thought to the abuse they put their phones through. And it shows. I doubt there is any tech that will keep them from destroying their phones. Instead of blaming the manufacturer because they dropped their phone from the third floor of the hotel, it hit the concrete and bounced into the pool, and "the fsckin' thing don't work now!", maybe take care of the thing.
Before glass screens, phones lasted a long time and without any case needed. Now with glass on both sides of every phone, everyone needs a case, and half the phones you see have at least one corner of them cracked and shattered, the lifespan of a phone has also dropped dramatically while prices soar.
I have yet to see a screen that a young person can't destroy. So this will simply give them multiple screens to mess up.
I guess having a cell phone that opens like a paperback book increases usability/viewing area but is anybody looking at turning something the size of a USB thumb drive into a full sized cell phone by unrolling it in the vertical ("Y") direction?
In a lot of ways, that would be a lot more interesting to me - have something small that I can just use as a phone with a minimal screen for seeing who's calling and select a number to call and expand when I need to access other features/apps on the device.
Call me when we have subdermal implants for our phones, and internal retinal "screen" projection inside our eyes.
This so called high tech stuff today is so lame and primitive.
What is a less inane and useless application for this amazing technology?
As a member of the four-eyed community, I can certainly think of at least one rather obvious one.
Try opening your eyes to the world around you. Helps to not to be so shortsighted next time.
Could you just imagine glasses that can automatically adjust to where you are looking? I like my varifocals, but weird enoough, the can give neck strain because you have to hold your head in the sweet spot. I forgot what I was missing until I got prescription computer glasses that focus exactly at the distance from my eyeballs to my computer screen. Tack sharp, and I can move my head around. My neck thanks me.
...Why would anyone spend close to $1k on something that could stop working at any time?
Because like most other products, the non-cloud version (if available) would cost $15K, making the cloud version seem like a bargain.
That's why.
That's the best description of cloudthink I've ever seen. Majick bits and bytes that for some reason only run on machines that have the special cloudsprinkles applied to them by a high priestess of cloudiness.
Do you think the average person considers tyre speed rating?
I don't think the average person even knows what that is. Years ago, I was cruising down Interstate 95 in my old Nissan Pulsar. I was moving more or less with traffic, when an old 1965 Ford Station wagon passes me, bouncing up and down, a real piece of shit.
I glanced at my speedo, and about shit. I was going 105 mph, and that asshat must have been going at least 110. I somehow doubt he had speed rated tires. I let him get real far ahead.
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When I get mod points, I open the level filter. You make a choice. Want to start a 1? open an account. Want to be a Coward? post and accept starting at 0. That's it. Simple.
When I get mod points, I browse at -1. As the moderator guidelines say (or used to say?) you should be on the lookout for other abusive moderators, and have the chance to repair their harm.
I tought that was what I said.
Falling off a bike or a scooter is not an unreasonable risk. It's user error during normal use of the device.
Safety culture disagrees! We must protect everyone from every possible injury!
I'm surprised in this dodgeball and running during recess banning age, that safety culture hasn't made using these devices illegal for anyone under 18.
Some people are slow learners when it comes to scooters and even on brands like Vespa which have had gasoline engines for 70 years or so will have new riders flop over sideways at times. It is a balance and perception problem and has nothing to do with the scooters themselves.
What I have seen on the Vespa style scooters is that the leading link suspension is a bit of a trick for the noobs to get used to. Nice once they do.
The larger wheels seen on bicycles is a myth.
It's some pretty basic physics you are arguing against. If the circumference of a tire causes it to not descend completely into a ditch, it's vertical movement is much less than a smaller tire that descends completely into the ditch, then must climb out of the same ditch.
Did they measure how many designated shitting streets there are in each census block?
Where on earth did that come from?
Forcing people to browse only top rated posts *is* pushing people into submitting to groupthink, idiot.
When I get mod points, I open the level filter. You make a choice. Want to start a 1? open an account. Want to be a Coward? post and accept starting at 0. That's it. Simple. You can still pot your swastikas or homopsychosexual creepposts. But no one is obliged to see them. Groupthink.... that's funny.
Cruising Slashdot at -1 is just like browsing without adblocking. No thanks.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
Or plain old lying fits the bill as well.
Yes, I know, cockup before conspiracy. Yet I can't help but wonder if these leaks are orchestrated by insiders in the company to accomplish some goal.
1. Scrape data 2. Put it up for easy discovery 3. ??? 4. Profit.
Step 3 is what I can't figure out.
Aliens?
We're harangued about how we are dumping plastic in the ocean, how we need to ban plastic straws and other terrible plastic products, because America is destroying the oceans.
Well, I have two main thoughts on that. One is that 'Murrica could be taken out of existence tomorrow, and it wouldn't put a dent in the plastic problem, with the possible exception of microspheres.
Second, when people are being browbeat about how they are destroying the planet because of their plastics, yeah - you are going to find a lot of plastic bags in the recycling bin.
The transceiver takes the form of a magnetic bar attached to the rear of the television, given that panels themselves are too thin to house anything of this kind. It would then require a separate power transmitter (plugged into the mains) to keep the TV running.
So you'll get rid of the cord, and it'll need a clunky "base station" - which has a cord. Sweet.
Which will *also* have the media cable (Coax/CAT) attached and *also* have to transmit the video and audio signals to the display. Won't it be fun to sit in the middle of that RF soup all night. Or... you could simply run the cables to a regular display inside the wall. This seems like a solution in search of a problem.
This is yet another digital "Bandwidth is infinite!" non-solution. I'm surprised that no one seems to notice that we are running out of RF space. And what remains is very short distance stuff.
Every single one of your posts so far has been all about how special and wonderful YOU are.
I offer an alternative. You can take it, you can ignore it, or you can get pissed off. Perhaps I am guilty of listening to people whine, bitch and moan about how terrible they have it, and mistakenly think they might want to do something different.
But yeah , I'm convinced by now, that what you are doing is bitching and moaning because that is what you want to do. Let us know how that works out for ya.
That is why you are a snowflake. You insist on trying to be special, and to try justifying your specialness.
Oh, silly lad. Here's the definition of Snowflake from Wikipedia :Generation Snowflake, or Snowflake Generation, is a neologistic term used to characterize the young adults of the 2010s as being more prone to taking offence and less resilient than previous generations, or as being too emotionally vulnerable to cope with views that challenge their own. The term is considered derogatory.
Now of course, a lot of people have politicized it to mean anyone of any age, but it remains that propensity to take offense and being unable to cope with other's views. But monchichi, that's more fitting of you than me. I haven't taken offense at one word you've said, and I've known for a long time that there are a lot of people out there with a different outlook than mine. I don't really care. Sometimes I have a little fun with y'all. That's my bad.
I am special - because I've done a lot of things, had a successful career, made good money, and am now "livin the dream as one co-worker put it.
I AM glad that you do acknowledge that your behavior is not indicative of the human norm, however-- It spares me having to listen to you preach about how good the world would be if everyone just worked a little harder, because it acknowledges that this is a total farce.
Damn - nice kid, but he don't always pay attention. If you were working with me, I would have no problems with you doing the absolute minimum. I even said as much. Why is that? Well, despite the typical slashdotter hating their employer, and believing that employers are inherently evil, they aren't. That's why I made three times as much as fellow employees with the same job title.
But okay - you've made your point, even if it isn't the one you think you made. Not much point in discussions with the unyielding. Time wasted is time lost.
As Winston Churchill noted, “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” gotta move on.
Live long and prosper, my dawg.
Sleep is underrated. Those who say, "Eh, I'll sleep when I'm dead" may find themselves sleeping sooner than they thought they would.
Hey - I dream solutions to problems when I'm asleep. I don't dislike it at all. My biggest issue is the concept that as a person that goes to sleep when they are sleepy, and wakes up when they are refreshed must have 8 or more hours to do so, lest they be committing slow motion suicide.
To be fair this thing is an ARM SoC, similar to a phone, so actually a lot of what it does relies on fast servers with hardware accelerated speech recognition and huge databases of knowledge to answer questions.
Good Gawd, those people deserved to go out of business. Crippling the power of the device in order to require the cloud doesn't strike me as a good way to go.
ItÃ(TM)s like how in order to fly though the literal clouds you donÃ(TM)t need to own your own airplane, you just buy a seat for a single trip.
Yes, but the plane doesn't just fall out of the sky because someone 5000 miles away decides to turn off the servers.
As well, does word processing or the like require a person to have racks of servers? This argument he gives that we need a server farm to do fairly simple work is funny, sort of. We don't, and the whole cloud concet was never about that anyway. Cloud was about 2 things. Getting people to move to the subscription model, and getting rid of as many local IT staff as possible.
Individuals losing data or money is of no consequence when people believe that there is no other way to do work other than replicate the cloud in their place.
Itâ(TM)s not magic bit and bytes. In this case it is the high end voice recognition ML. You need a cluster of machines to run these ML models in real-time. Because the robot is not interacting most of the time you can share the expensive cluster of machines with other people and save a ton of money. Itâ(TM)s like how in order to fly though the literal clouds you donâ(TM)t need to own your own airplane, you just buy a seat for a single trip. So if you have space and money for a server rack next to your social robot that would totally work but really no-one wants that.
Tell me the standard applicatinos that will not work unless they are in the cloud. Office 365? Adobe Creative Cloud?
"My single, and notedly exceptional to the rule claim obviates your statement, because I'm totally representative of the masses, except I'm not!"
Let's make this simple, I've profited mightily off of taking advantage of people with your outlook. Your laziness makes my job easier, and brings me more money. Its okay if you do as little as possible. It's how you stick it to the man.
So go take your ignorant retired snowflake self, and stop pretending that "If everyone worked just a LITTLE harder---" because that is not what happens when EVERYONE does something.
Of course, but I know human nature. And I enjoy work. A majority of people are lazy. A majority of people actualy don't want to work at all, and are happy to approach that if possible. That is my secret sauce. People aren't going to all work harder. So I bring value, and have been rewarded for it.
Snowflake? You have no idea - especially since you are the one displaying snowflake tendencies. I'm taking advantage of you lazy pups. The irony is that since I've been retired so early, my life is the one that lazy people wish they had.
What are we doing while awake that increases the rate of damage?
Obsessing about getting the right amount of sleep.
A better question:
Why exactly, do you want to sleep less?
Do you think that if you spend less time asleep, you will somehow get more personal time?
Do you think that if you sleep less, you will be able to do more work? If so, who actually profits from that? Do you not realize that labor is a commodity, and like any commodity that gluts the market, it suddenly being even more available will just lower its trade value?
Why exactly do you want to sleep less?
Ah here we have the unionist work as little as possible, sleep as much as possible model. Yeah, we had a few of you back in the day. Check in, then go hide in some nook and sleep most of the day. I guess in your book, they are winning.
I've never been much of a sleeper, I've also had a lot of energy. And while some of the folk I worked with would get a bit pissed that I was willing to put in more time, it showed the revers of your cheapened commodity claim, as I was paid much more then the others. And retired at 55, while they are still working.
Bummer, eh?
I appreciate them being transparent about their glass.
I can see right through your agenda.
Or here's a thought Corning, come up with glass that will last for the life of the phone instead of breaking so easily. I care less about a folding phone and more about a phone I can use without a gigantic case.
I have a lifeproof waterproof case for my iPhone 7 that isn't a lot bigger than the phone (unlike the one for my old iPhone 5. Not cheap, but I do enough stuff at and on the ocean that anything needs protection. I cringe when I see people at the beach, using their phones in the surf, often getting them submerged.
While in an ideal world, there would be no need for such a thing, but that little computer that people use to access their Facebook is still a little computer with some sensitive stuff in it.
And most people don't give a thought to the abuse they put their phones through. And it shows. I doubt there is any tech that will keep them from destroying their phones. Instead of blaming the manufacturer because they dropped their phone from the third floor of the hotel, it hit the concrete and bounced into the pool, and "the fsckin' thing don't work now!", maybe take care of the thing.
Before glass screens, phones lasted a long time and without any case needed. Now with glass on both sides of every phone, everyone needs a case, and half the phones you see have at least one corner of them cracked and shattered, the lifespan of a phone has also dropped dramatically while prices soar.
I have yet to see a screen that a young person can't destroy. So this will simply give them multiple screens to mess up.
I guess having a cell phone that opens like a paperback book increases usability/viewing area but is anybody looking at turning something the size of a USB thumb drive into a full sized cell phone by unrolling it in the vertical ("Y") direction?
In a lot of ways, that would be a lot more interesting to me - have something small that I can just use as a phone with a minimal screen for seeing who's calling and select a number to call and expand when I need to access other features/apps on the device.
Call me when we have subdermal implants for our phones, and internal retinal "screen" projection inside our eyes.
This so called high tech stuff today is so lame and primitive.
What is a less inane and useless application for this amazing technology?
As a member of the four-eyed community, I can certainly think of at least one rather obvious one.
Try opening your eyes to the world around you. Helps to not to be so shortsighted next time.
Could you just imagine glasses that can automatically adjust to where you are looking? I like my varifocals, but weird enoough, the can give neck strain because you have to hold your head in the sweet spot. I forgot what I was missing until I got prescription computer glasses that focus exactly at the distance from my eyeballs to my computer screen. Tack sharp, and I can move my head around. My neck thanks me.
...Why would anyone spend close to $1k on something that could stop working at any time?
Because like most other products, the non-cloud version (if available) would cost $15K, making the cloud version seem like a bargain.
That's why.
That's the best description of cloudthink I've ever seen. Majick bits and bytes that for some reason only run on machines that have the special cloudsprinkles applied to them by a high priestess of cloudiness.
According to genotyping results, I have the HIV resistance mutation that makes this cure possible.
Quick lads- let's get him and harvest his marrow!
Then again, his social options have just expanded! I really am going to go to hell........
Do you think the average person considers tyre speed rating?
I don't think the average person even knows what that is. Years ago, I was cruising down Interstate 95 in my old Nissan Pulsar. I was moving more or less with traffic, when an old 1965 Ford Station wagon passes me, bouncing up and down, a real piece of shit.
I glanced at my speedo, and about shit. I was going 105 mph, and that asshat must have been going at least 110. I somehow doubt he had speed rated tires. I let him get real far ahead.