I saw one episode of that show, and that Red guy is clearly the smartest and most decent among them. I particularly liked his comments on the other guy's letter to home.
which fork to use during which course during a fancy dinner
Whichever fork does the job. Any smart person will realize using fork X only for dish Y is an old fad.
Wrong, because as the server comes and takes away your plate from the first course he takes the used utensils along with it. If you used table spoon for the grape fruit you'll be slicing the corners of your mouth every time you're forced to use the grapefruit spoon in another course. If you used your dessert spoon spoon for the soup, the coffee spoon for your pasta, you'll look like a fucking retard when you have to use the soup spoon for dessert and the table spoon for coffee (or vice versa) later on. Hell, a proper set may not even allow your soup or tablespoon to fit inside the sugar bowl when it comes time for coffee. That kind of gaffe is the difference between taking the evening train home and staying in the guest suite with a pleasant visit from the countess.
We're already starting the 5th season (or "series") of Downton Abbey and you fools don't know this shit?!
I think that this article is psychologically linked to the recent article about internet trolls actually being very bad people. I love a good prank but this is just wanton sadistic behaviour. My phone provides me with much joy so anyone who would take that away from me and cost me hundreds of dollars for a laugh is wired seriously wrong; I'm lucky to have enough understanding to not fall for this sort of thing but it makes it just that much meaner to prey upon those who would.
Trolls are great. It's the idiots who are the bad people.
I don't see a warning about this, so am I still good to shoot my girlfriend through the bathroom door while on drugs? -- Oscar Pistorius
Of course you are, you're in a shithole country and you're the most famous person there. You'll get away with cheating at the Olympics and with murder.
We don't need to, Mythbusters already did. Metal cutlery did nothing interesting. Foil and CDs give a light show. But they don't harm the microwave unless they are close enough to the case to arc across to it.
Trouble with technicians is that they believe their own myths.
Go ahead and put some actual steel into your microwave and turn it on, if you're so confident. Post video for proof, include a piece of paper in the video with your Slashdot user name / id.
You're a fucking moron and you don't understand how microwaves operate. Hell, I once bought a different brand of butter that had a ever-so-slightly metallic wrapper. When I put 2 Tbsp of butter in the microwave for a few seconds to soften it I ended up getting arcs that marred the pyrex turntable. There's a 1 inch gouge in the surface that is permanently black.
I fucking dare you to do as fnj suggests and throw some actual steel into your microwave oven.
Yes, melting plastic in a closed environment. Brilliant. Instead of planning for their little hobby-jump in Low Earth Orbit, let's bring a cranky, tiny toy to make coat hangers... (in free-fall LOL). I just love the armchair engineers and programmers here going on about the 3D printer will be this tool to help colonize the universe..
It's baffling to me where this nonsense comes from. I'd expect that from eight year olds, not adults.
But then again, simple math and reality in the video game generation is too much to ask for, I guess.
We don't even have the Concorde anymore, and you loons are talking about going outside the Solar System as if it's even remotely possible. The only propositions you have are decades-old fantasies.
Reality isn't going away. You're not going anywhere. Not you, not me, not your kids, not their kids, and not whatever will replace us in a hundred thousand years... Evolution is still happening, you know.
As opposed to the idiot who's pretty sure that the actual engineers and scientists involved in building the device, planning its mission and experiments on the ISS, and then putting it in an actual rocket and launching it into space...didn't consider all of this?
The only consideration done is with respect to the budget. Usefulness or purpose? Nope, they just have to sell it.
How exactly do you solve the problem of metadata on TCP/IP networks? Metadata is how these networks operate.
Every packet has an origin that will be traceable to the source ISP. If you're on your own connection, you're fucked. If you're on your own connection and you VPN to some other connection it's just a matter of how much effort the powers that be want to waste tracking you down. Any schlub can run a Tor node, so you get nothing there. And of course, you have to initiate that connection from somewhere.
The only way to truly hide is to use someone else's connection (without their knowledge), with a different spoofed MAC every time. Everything else is just obfuscation. We already know every fucking packet touching a major telecom is logged in the US, and we have damned good reason to believe it's true world-wide.
Hating things is your right. Whether or not someone is doing something wrong is a matter of opinion. You call it common decency, yet you don't realize that it's merely an opinion. Go ahead and pass out those pamphlets. I disagree, but I don't care if that's your opinion and you express it. I'm not going to cry foul and organize a hate campaign to stop you from having or expressing an opinion because I disagree with it - that's your SOP.
... would be if you walked into the company's hospitality suite at a conference, put on the VR headset, looked around you... and couldn't tell the difference.
An alien landscape is very cool and photogenic, but might be hiding flaws because we don't know what it is supposed to look like. It is a fair demonstration of immersive game worlds, which will be one of the big initial uses of VR, so the demonstration is not invalidated by this.
So, your ideal VR headset is blank glasses frame with no lenses? Works for me - VR is trash.
The original article says a "20 um hole", which is just under a thousandth of an inch. Please RTFA before commenting.
Who gives a shit? I have a false tooth with tighter tolerances than that. It's not a matter of being hard, it's a matter of being fucking pointlessly absurd.
I never liked Logitech's shit. I wish MS would go back to making keyboards again, and real mice too. They had some great shit, now it's all hyper stylized / "ergonomic" (unusable, completely non-ergonomic) trash.
oh god, I think your taking the "macfag" thing too far. It started when gay bashing was socially acceptable, and I guess continues as an anarchornism, but we are desperately trying to make macfag one word, and use the word "fag" in the south park meaning, or "obnoxious asshole burden to society", or "someone we would like to throw into a bonfire", and somehow seperate the fag in macfag from any homosexual connoations.
Its homophobic as shit to compare apple users to homosexuals in the first place.
Gay bashing is still socially acceptable. Just step outside of New York, San Francisco, and Hollywood. It's not "homophobic", either. Homophobia would be the fear of homosexuals, not the hatred or mistreatment of them. Guess what - most of the nation hates Jews, too. It's not racist, either, it's anti-Semitic.
I don't hate gays (or Jews) but I sure as shit hate fags like you that try to tell me what's acceptable and what isn't, as if you speak for the majority of the world/nation/whatever, and as if such a majority (if it existed) would be any authority on the matter that other people had to give a shit about.
Sometimes pages serves content from a different domain but that is rare enough to manage manually.
Not anymore. Far too many sites (/. included) have or use a CDN for content. And they will fetch at least half a dozen scripts for bookmarking/sharing with facebook/linkedin/tumblr/twitter/pinterest/googlehangouts/etc Then, they'll try and fetch a non-zero number of tracking/website monitoring scripts.
"Citation needed" is the internet equivalent of "Nuh-uh! PROVE IT!" and "LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!". Go look at the Wikipedia page, the kind of drivel morons like you slurp up.
The name Wine initially was an acronym for Windows emulator.[5] Its meaning later shifted to the recursive backronym, Wine is not an emulator in order to differentiate the software from CPU emulators.[6] While the name sometimes appears in the forms WINE and wine, the project developers have agreed to standardize on the form Wine.[7]
You lose.
The phrase "wine is not an emulator" is a reference to the fact that no processor code execution emulation occurs when running a Windows application under Wine. "Emulation" usually refers to the execution of compiled code intended for one processor (such as x86) by interpreting/recompiling software running on a different processor (such as PowerPC). Such emulation is almost always much slower than execution of the same code by the processor for which the code was compiled. In Wine, the Windows application's compiled x86 code runs at full native speed on the computer's x86 processor, just as it does when running under Windows. Windows system services are also supplied by Wine, in the form of wineserver.
Emulate (verb) 1 - To match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation. 2 - To imitate.
WINE is an emulator. It is not emulating hardware or an instruction set, it is emulating pieces of Windows. They initially claimed it was an emulator because it was. They later claimed it wasn't an emulator because they didn't want idiots (like yourself) to think that meant they were emulating hardware or an instruction set, and thus incurring a severe performance penalty. Emulation is absolutely not restricted to hardware or instruction sets, using recompilers, interpreters, or anything else.
and it infringes on tons of the MP3 patents held by Fraunhofer
I think you mean "infringed", as those patents have long expired.
Have they? Do I care? The point is that the LAME developers made the claim that LAME wasn't an encoder in order to skirt the patent infringement issue. First they claimed they were only releasing changes, which was true. Then they were releasing a full encoder and claimed they were only releasing source code as as an educational effort and were not actually distributing an encoder so they weren't infringing on the patents (which is obviously bullshit). I don't think they were ever really pursued by the Fraunhofer people but I don't really care either way/ The fact is LAME is in fact an MP3 encoder, despite the name.
Because I'm tacky! Wear my Ed Hardy shirt with fluorescent orange pants. Because I'm tacky! Got my new resume - it's printed in Comic Sans. Because I'm tacky! Think it's fun threatening waiters with a bad Yelp review. Because I'm tacky! If you think that's just fine, then you're probably tacky, too.
Slashdot Mirror
I've been all over their site lately, using FF, NoScript, and ABP. Saw nothing out of the ordinary.
I saw one episode of that show, and that Red guy is clearly the smartest and most decent among them. I particularly liked his comments on the other guy's letter to home.
By producing sequential photograms of different points in time.
Telegraph = machine that writes telegrams.
Photograph = machine that writes photograms.
Etc.
which fork to use during which course during a fancy dinner
Whichever fork does the job. Any smart person will realize using fork X only for dish Y is an old fad.
Wrong, because as the server comes and takes away your plate from the first course he takes the used utensils along with it.
If you used table spoon for the grape fruit you'll be slicing the corners of your mouth every time you're forced to use the grapefruit spoon in another course.
If you used your dessert spoon spoon for the soup, the coffee spoon for your pasta, you'll look like a fucking retard when you have to use the soup spoon for dessert and the table spoon for coffee (or vice versa) later on. Hell, a proper set may not even allow your soup or tablespoon to fit inside the sugar bowl when it comes time for coffee. That kind of gaffe is the difference between taking the evening train home and staying in the guest suite with a pleasant visit from the countess.
We're already starting the 5th season (or "series") of Downton Abbey and you fools don't know this shit?!
which fork to use during which course during a fancy dinner
You go from the outside to the inside as the meal progresses, you uncultured swine.
I think that this article is psychologically linked to the recent article about internet trolls actually being very bad people. I love a good prank but this is just wanton sadistic behaviour. My phone provides me with much joy so anyone who would take that away from me and cost me hundreds of dollars for a laugh is wired seriously wrong; I'm lucky to have enough understanding to not fall for this sort of thing but it makes it just that much meaner to prey upon those who would.
Trolls are great. It's the idiots who are the bad people.
I don't see a warning about this, so am I still good to shoot my girlfriend through the bathroom door while on drugs?
-- Oscar Pistorius
Of course you are, you're in a shithole country and you're the most famous person there. You'll get away with cheating at the Olympics and with murder.
We don't need to, Mythbusters already did. Metal cutlery did nothing interesting. Foil and CDs give a light show. But they don't harm the microwave unless they are close enough to the case to arc across to it.
Trouble with technicians is that they believe their own myths.
Go ahead and put some actual steel into your microwave and turn it on, if you're so confident.
Post video for proof, include a piece of paper in the video with your Slashdot user name / id.
You're a fucking moron and you don't understand how microwaves operate. Hell, I once bought a different brand of butter that had a ever-so-slightly metallic wrapper. When I put 2 Tbsp of butter in the microwave for a few seconds to soften it I ended up getting arcs that marred the pyrex turntable. There's a 1 inch gouge in the surface that is permanently black.
I fucking dare you to do as fnj suggests and throw some actual steel into your microwave oven.
You could show ads that aren't related to the thing you're reviewing.
Untargetted ads?! IS THIS 1994?!?!!?
I know several business owners who swear by Angie's List. No corruption as far as I can see from them or their customers/reviewers.
"No company can pay to be on Angie's list!" was a total crock of shit, and they got sued hard and good for it.
Angie is as corrupt as any other.
To be fair what would you expect Yelp to do if they were offering a discount for five star reviews?
I'd expect Yelp to blackmail the restaurant, as they usually do.
"The remaining five virtual machines are used for load balancing...."
There's one controller though (there's ALWAYS one controller).
Yes, melting plastic in a closed environment. Brilliant. Instead of planning for their little hobby-jump in Low Earth Orbit, let's bring a cranky, tiny toy to make coat hangers... (in free-fall LOL). I just love the armchair engineers and programmers here going on about the 3D printer will be this tool to help colonize the universe..
It's baffling to me where this nonsense comes from. I'd expect that from eight year olds, not adults.
But then again, simple math and reality in the video game generation is too much to ask for, I guess.
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the...
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the...
We don't even have the Concorde anymore, and you loons are talking about going outside the Solar System as if it's even remotely possible. The only propositions you have are decades-old fantasies.
Reality isn't going away. You're not going anywhere. Not you, not me, not your kids, not their kids, and not whatever will replace us in a hundred thousand years... Evolution is still happening, you know.
As opposed to the idiot who's pretty sure that the actual engineers and scientists involved in building the device, planning its mission and experiments on the ISS, and then putting it in an actual rocket and launching it into space...didn't consider all of this?
The only consideration done is with respect to the budget. Usefulness or purpose? Nope, they just have to sell it.
How exactly do you solve the problem of metadata on TCP/IP networks? Metadata is how these networks operate.
Every packet has an origin that will be traceable to the source ISP. If you're on your own connection, you're fucked.
If you're on your own connection and you VPN to some other connection it's just a matter of how much effort the powers that be want to waste tracking you down. Any schlub can run a Tor node, so you get nothing there. And of course, you have to initiate that connection from somewhere.
The only way to truly hide is to use someone else's connection (without their knowledge), with a different spoofed MAC every time. Everything else is just obfuscation. We already know every fucking packet touching a major telecom is logged in the US, and we have damned good reason to believe it's true world-wide.
Hating things is your right. Whether or not someone is doing something wrong is a matter of opinion.
You call it common decency, yet you don't realize that it's merely an opinion.
Go ahead and pass out those pamphlets. I disagree, but I don't care if that's your opinion and you express it. I'm not going to cry foul and organize a hate campaign to stop you from having or expressing an opinion because I disagree with it - that's your SOP.
... would be if you walked into the company's hospitality suite at a conference, put on the VR headset, looked around you ... and couldn't tell the difference.
An alien landscape is very cool and photogenic, but might be hiding flaws because we don't know what it is supposed to look like. It is a fair demonstration of immersive game worlds, which will be one of the big initial uses of VR, so the demonstration is not invalidated by this.
So, your ideal VR headset is blank glasses frame with no lenses?
Works for me - VR is trash.
The original article says a "20 um hole", which is just under a thousandth of an inch. Please RTFA before commenting.
Who gives a shit? I have a false tooth with tighter tolerances than that.
It's not a matter of being hard, it's a matter of being fucking pointlessly absurd.
I never liked Logitech's shit.
I wish MS would go back to making keyboards again, and real mice too. They had some great shit, now it's all hyper stylized / "ergonomic" (unusable, completely non-ergonomic) trash.
oh god, I think your taking the "macfag" thing too far. It started when gay bashing was socially acceptable, and I guess continues as an anarchornism, but we are desperately trying to make macfag one word, and use the word "fag" in the south park meaning, or "obnoxious asshole burden to society", or "someone we would like to throw into a bonfire", and somehow seperate the fag in macfag from any homosexual connoations.
Its homophobic as shit to compare apple users to homosexuals in the first place.
Gay bashing is still socially acceptable. Just step outside of New York, San Francisco, and Hollywood.
It's not "homophobic", either. Homophobia would be the fear of homosexuals, not the hatred or mistreatment of them.
Guess what - most of the nation hates Jews, too. It's not racist, either, it's anti-Semitic.
I don't hate gays (or Jews) but I sure as shit hate fags like you that try to tell me what's acceptable and what isn't, as if you speak for the majority of the world/nation/whatever, and as if such a majority (if it existed) would be any authority on the matter that other people had to give a shit about.
Wrong.
Right now, there are a few sites (majorgeeks) that ask you to please allow ads because that's what pays for the site and others simply refuse entry.
You will reconsider when sites tell you to disable all ad blockers and hosts files that block ad sites or you will not be able to view the content.
Wrong. The only thing I'll reconsider is visiting those sites.
Sometimes pages serves content from a different domain but that is rare enough to manage manually.
Not anymore.
Far too many sites (/. included) have or use a CDN for content.
And they will fetch at least half a dozen scripts for bookmarking/sharing with facebook/linkedin/tumblr/twitter/pinterest/googlehangouts/etc
Then, they'll try and fetch a non-zero number of tracking/website monitoring scripts.
Ghostery says http://slashdot.org/images/njs.gif is a 1x1 pixel tracker for WebTrends.
None of that shit is "content" that I want to load, and most of the time blocking it all has little to no effect on the content I want to see.
Trusted computing was always destined to be vaporware. Nobody wanted it.
"Citation needed" is the internet equivalent of "Nuh-uh! PROVE IT!" and "LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!".
Go look at the Wikipedia page, the kind of drivel morons like you slurp up.
The name Wine initially was an acronym for Windows emulator.[5] Its meaning later shifted to the recursive backronym, Wine is not an emulator in order to differentiate the software from CPU emulators.[6] While the name sometimes appears in the forms WINE and wine, the project developers have agreed to standardize on the form Wine.[7]
You lose.
The phrase "wine is not an emulator" is a reference to the fact that no processor code execution emulation occurs when running a Windows application under Wine. "Emulation" usually refers to the execution of compiled code intended for one processor (such as x86) by interpreting/recompiling software running on a different processor (such as PowerPC). Such emulation is almost always much slower than execution of the same code by the processor for which the code was compiled. In Wine, the Windows application's compiled x86 code runs at full native speed on the computer's x86 processor, just as it does when running under Windows. Windows system services are also supplied by Wine, in the form of wineserver.
Emulate (verb)
1 - To match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation.
2 - To imitate.
WINE is an emulator. It is not emulating hardware or an instruction set, it is emulating pieces of Windows. They initially claimed it was an emulator because it was. They later claimed it wasn't an emulator because they didn't want idiots (like yourself) to think that meant they were emulating hardware or an instruction set, and thus incurring a severe performance penalty. Emulation is absolutely not restricted to hardware or instruction sets, using recompilers, interpreters, or anything else.
and it infringes on tons of the MP3 patents held by Fraunhofer
I think you mean "infringed", as those patents have long expired.
Have they? Do I care?
The point is that the LAME developers made the claim that LAME wasn't an encoder in order to skirt the patent infringement issue.
First they claimed they were only releasing changes, which was true. Then they were releasing a full encoder and claimed they were only releasing source code as as an educational effort and were not actually distributing an encoder so they weren't infringing on the patents (which is obviously bullshit). I don't think they were ever really pursued by the Fraunhofer people but I don't really care either way/ The fact is LAME is in fact an MP3 encoder, despite the name.
Here's why:
Because I'm tacky!
Wear my Ed Hardy shirt with fluorescent orange pants.
Because I'm tacky!
Got my new resume - it's printed in Comic Sans.
Because I'm tacky!
Think it's fun threatening waiters with a bad Yelp review.
Because I'm tacky!
If you think that's just fine, then you're probably tacky, too.