Slashdot Mirror


User: hamvil

hamvil's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
60
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 60

  1. Have you ever stopped for a minute and consider that for many people (like myself) a thinner and lighter laptop is much better that 32 gb? I have one of the new MacBook pro and my quality fo life during travels improved a lot.

  2. Punished for telling the truth on Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Criticizes Role of Women In Labs · · Score: 0

    I'm in the same position of this guy. Let's forget for a moment the crap about falling in love. He is right that women in science tend to take criticism rather personally. For example, I had an adult women scientist in my lab and I basically could not criticize her work in the same way I was doing with her male colleagues because she would break in tears. I am very candid with my students and if their work is nonsense or stupid I tell them so, this does not mean they are stupid. I remember telling to this student that one slide in her presentation was utter nonsense and due to that her entire presentation was useless. She started crying in front of the group and then she started telling other people that I think she is useless.

  3. Re:Placebo [Re:The spokesman for the AHA said...] on Australia Declares Homeopathy Nonsense, Urges Doctors to Inform Patients · · Score: 0

    A placebo is also used in terminally ill cases where no other treatment is available. A placebo is used by sensible doctors to avoid over prescribing, i.e. to avoid using a nuke to pursue a pickpocket. Not curing my flu could result in: 1) allowing my body to deal with the virus/bacteria on its own 2) getting pneumonia in case my body cannot deal with the infection Btw, Steve Jobs firmly belied that he could cure cancer with fruit juice, it did not go very well. So please let the doctor decide if you should get a placebo and let the doctor decide if you have to cure your flu.

  4. Re:The spokesman for the AHA said... on Australia Declares Homeopathy Nonsense, Urges Doctors to Inform Patients · · Score: 0

    I did not know that medicine was about believing... So, I'll start believing that i do not have the flu. Let's see if this works.

  5. This is not the only way on Your 60-Hour Work Week Is Not a Badge of Honor · · Score: 0

    I work 36 hours per week, I'm the only one working in the since my wife decided to concentrate on our two kids. I can afford a mortage that is buying me a 350 kEuro house in 15 years. Thanks to the local wellfare I do not have to worry about thing like health insurance and taxes for education up to the university (included). I do not own a car, but I also do not need one because public transportation is more than enough (and for holidays I can always rent one). Ok, the country is Italy, but I;m living in a region (bozen) that stills has AAA rating and sub 4% unemployment. If in you country is different, then you are doing something wrong.

  6. Re:Sure, why not on Cairo 2D Graphics May Become Part of ISO C++ · · Score: 0

    The "Someone who wants a career in programming should already be programming before they graduate." is a philosophy that applies very well to art (as in painting, music, etc.) or to some extend crafting. OTOH in real world enterprises you want the deterministic and repeatable results that you obtain trough standardized training (read classroom). Sure Leonardo was a great painter but if my business is to paint office I'd rather call a professional painter. This is particularly true in the case of Leonardo since he was spotty at delivering.

  7. Re: No Shit on More Details Emerge On How the US Is Bugging Its European Allies · · Score: 0

    Very good. Keep repeating that to yourself. At the end you will believe. China and Russia are not actively putting their nose into other countries business and your can see that there are very few terrorist attacks within their borders and most of them are for internal matters anyway. US ans US allies (UK, france, spain, italy) are the only coutries systematically under attack due to their imperialistic attitude.

  8. Re:Not in the land of the Free on Saudi Arabia Set To Ban WhatsApp, Skype · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Privacy, by the way, is the right to keep a lawful secret between you and the government.

    No, it is not. Privacy is the right to decide what to expose and to whom to expose it. Governments should find proof of unlawful behavior without having to break into an individual privacy sphere. I'm sure that with 24/7 surveillance we could find a lot of illegal behaviors such as . This does not mean that a gov of a free country should do it.

  9. Re:Not in the land of the Free on Saudi Arabia Set To Ban WhatsApp, Skype · · Score: 2

    Any land where people consider themselves free. Free of governments breaking into their privacy, free of corporations tracking their movements, free of being considered guilty until proven innocent. Fell free to run a filter on this planet's countries and check if there is any match.

  10. Not in the land of the Free on Saudi Arabia Set To Ban WhatsApp, Skype · · Score: 0, Troll

    Of course this could never happen in the land of the free

  11. Probabilistic distro on Fedora 19 Alpha Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    You will not know if it will erase your disk until you try to boot it.

  12. Re:SDN is circuit switching on Vint Cerf: SDN Is a Model For a Better Internet · · Score: 1

    Core and backbone is circuit switched since 15 years. All the optical paths are basically circuit switched (they are usually called lightpaths) and on top of this fiber lines there is an overlay for the signalling and path setup. SDN is actually fantastic in datacenters because it makes a lot easier to have multiple path and to avoid loops (spanning tree protocol are slow and error prone). I have no idea about how the big guys (google, facebook, etc.) do it, but in common datacenters you have only one spanning tree active at the time. If something fails you rely on reactive protocols. In SDN you can actually have multiple spanning trees at the same time.

  13. Re:Now to fix Android remotes... on XBMC 12.0 'Frodo' Released: PVR-Support, HD Audio and More · · Score: 1

    How does that invalidate the AC's opinion? I haven't got a 3D TV but I don't go around telling people that their opinions of them are worthless because I haven't got one.

    Because it is fair to assume that an XBMC is connected to an home (W)LAN. It is also fair to assume that an android phone running Yatse is also associated to your home WiFi network when you are at home. Using BT would instead require hardware support on the XBMC box, which is not very common for embedded platforms such as the RPI nor for recycled hardware on top of which people may decide to run XBMC. If you want something simple and that does not consume battery just buy an dedicated remote (the one for boxee is plug and play with every xbmc setup i've ever played with).

  14. Re:Now to fix Android remotes... on XBMC 12.0 'Frodo' Released: PVR-Support, HD Audio and More · · Score: 1

    Mod parent down. My raspberry does not have a BT interface. On the other hand my mobile phone is always connected to my home wifi network. The result is that in order to use yatse I had to just plug the RPI to the ethernet and start using the damn thing.

  15. Re:Stone age society develops space age technology on Iran Says It Sent Monkey Into Space and Back · · Score: 2

    I see a pattern instead. Both US and Russian governments were pretty oppressive during their space race. US against the red menace and Russian against the evil of capitalism. Likewise, Iran is obsessed by the threats of a liberal society. It seems to me that hydrogen and paranoia are two mandatory ingredients for a space race.

  16. Pressure? on Students Calculate What Hyperspace Travel Would Actually Look Like · · Score: 1
    From the article:

    Taking their investigations one step further, the students calculated that, despite being the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy, the Millennium Falcon would also need to pack some extra energy to overcome the pressure exerted from the intense X-rays from stars that would push the ship back and cause it to slow down. The students say the pressure exerted on the ship would be comparable to that felt at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

    Pressure? Really? Photons have no mass, how are they expected to apply a pressure on the hull?

  17. How this will develop in the next 10 years on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 1

    Let me tell you how an italian thinks this will develop in the next 10/20 years. People that did not study, that have no ambitions, and that dream only of the next pack of beers will work for the gov for max 2 hours per day out of 8 working hours. People that did study and worked their ass to be good at something (surgery, engineering, you name it) and that are willing to work 15 hours per day will work for the gov 10 of those hours. This is a form of slavery already very common here in Italy where being paid well for being good at something is apparently a crime. I seriously encourage you to change path. I still wonder why you of all people bought this Obama vision.

  18. 2020? on 35 Years Later, Voyager 1 Is Heading For the Stars · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In the article they say that Voyager has fuel until 2020. What is the fuel for? Communications? Or also for maneuvering? Which orbit will it follows after there is no more fuel?

  19. Re:My hint on Ask Slashdot: Ad-Hoc Wireless Mesh Network For Emergency Vehicles? · · Score: 0

    Then try one of the many mesh packages for OpenWRT: babel, batman, olsrd, wing

  20. Well done, this is just what the worlds needs, yet another wireless mesh network. Do not forget to write a LISP plugin for emacs to run the network.

  21. Re:It's a matter of workflow on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE? · · Score: 1

    No basically I just said:
    1) I did not like KDE (3&4) default behavior
    2) I did not like gnome 2 default behavior
    3) I found easier to customize gnome 2 than to customize kde 4
    4) I like the gnome 3 default behavior
    The sole exception to (4) is the shudown/suspend thing, but this is mostly due to the fact my workflow involves docking the pc in the office and when doing this there are a few glitches with the Usb hub and the serial port.

  22. Re:It's a matter of workflow on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE? · · Score: 1

    ... oh and I forgot one thing: frames, why all those frames and borders and padding?

  23. It's a matter of workflow on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE? · · Score: -1, Troll

    KDE's workflow is outdated and most of all IS WRONG. I do not want to see every moment the list of active windows. I do not want a ugly and complex application launcher. In gnome 2 the first things I did after a fresh install was to remove the bottom bar, add a dock (e.g. docky) and enable the expose-like plug-in for compiz. That is the workflow that works for me, and gnome 3 is supporting exactly that, plus the default alt-tab and alt-` is absolutely wonderfull.

  24. Re:Money on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 1

    Love is the source of all evil, for without love we would not feel, and without feeling there would be no suffering. Love for a woman sparked the troy war, love for a god sparked crusaders, love for money sparked slavery.

  25. Witch hunt on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is sad that in the USofA, you have to sped three paragraph just to state that your are not communist. This just because your are making some half positive comment on a piece of text. Witch hunt?