If you prefer, imagine a choice between two doors: behind door A is the job of your dreams, behind door B is the woman of your dreams. There isn't a right answer.
The woman in my dreams is always rich... therefore no need to even consider door A.
The are times when the BFG would come in handy... supermarket queues where everyone in front of you insists on paying by Credit Card, ATM machines where everyone *has* to check their balance first and then withdraw their cash, drivethroughs where no one can decide what they want until they reach the window etc.
So when that new TV arrived, and it wasn't tuned to ESPN, you sent it back ?
And that new car, where the seat wasn't adjusted correctly to your ample backside, you decided THAT was fucked also ?
Whether or not the defaults are ass-backward or not, anyone too lazy or inept to even dicover where they are and how to adjust them does NOT belong on a tech site.
"Believing in Father Christmas is important," says Pratchett. "It trains our imaginations on the little lies so we can blind ourselves to the fact that Slashdot signatures are limited to 121 characters."
Learn to use "nested" and order by "oldest first". Then you can follow the conversation in chronological posting order and not repeat the same dumb questions that have already been answered.
Do you also read books backwards, then ask your friends "hey, umm, what happened in chapter 1" ?
Yes, and McDo have no qualms about asking you to leave once you've finished eating... you can't sit in there leeching free wifi indefinately like you can in Starbys.
Even when MS do something right for once, the FOSS shills here will still find a way to use emotive language and completely change the meaning of the title and summary.
Yes, unfortunately, in a place like Ethiopia which is so volatile weather-wise, and so much of the basic necessities like food and clean water is dependent on having a good rainfall each year, the best (and possibly most cost effective) thing in the long run they could do is move everyone somewhere else, and cordon off the whole damn place as uninhabitable.
1. Leave a valuable possession on the ground 2. Promptly forget about it 3. And then drive over it with their car 4. ? 5. Profit !
If that is their attitude to their posessions and life in general, seems like they'd be better just getting an insurance policy for being a "accident-prone forgetful dumbass".
huge amounts of knowledge about farming, irrigation, planting techniques, home building techniques, and plumbing best practices is going to change fuck all in a place like Ethiopia when all they need is rain !
Sometimes, unfortunately, shovelling rice at them is all that can keep them alive.
How about we all go back to living in the trees and eating coconuts ?
What is with this techno-guilt-trip lately ? Everything online now has to be weighed in terms of how much energy it is using ? Google datacenters, key cracking attempts, posts to Slashdot ? (Kind of ironic his post was tl;dr;, just think of the energy he could have saved if he'd been less verbose).
You want to do something concrete to save energy ? Turn down your aircon, stop driving that 5 litre SUV, invest in a set of solar panels for your house and get off the grid etc.
Don't try to pretend your making a contribution by saving a couple of milliwatts on CPU use. For every post made online, you already saved tons more energy in not producing newspapers, not burning gas so that some truck can deliver them to paper-shop, not even having a paper-shop consuming energy to stay open and sell you yor daily news.
Everything we do consumes energy, but these sensational claims about how much we could save if we used black screens and white text are nonsense. We already saved far more energy by being online in the first place.
I'd say pulling tiles out of a bag from a typical Scrabble set would be optimal to guessing a lot of passwords.
Ever wonder why the people who win at Hangman always pick E,T,A,I,O,N first ?
So why not reverse the distributions, so that lots of Q,W,X,Y are present, and only a handful of E,T,A,I,O,N, and use that to generate a random password ?
I'd have thought One Meal Per Day Per Child might be slightly more important, but hell, at least it's something for Negroponte and his ilk to ponder over brandy and cigars at the Gentlemens Club.
I just can't help thinking that sorting out such basic problems as hunger and poverty should be slightly higher on the list than whether they can play Facebook and post on Twitter.
Slashdot Mirror
What happened to the "safe harbour" provisions for ISPs ?
It's okay to publish Scientology bullshit and bomb plans on the net, but woe betide any ISP who "assists in sharing" an mp3 ?
How many times ?
US != World !!!
If you prefer, imagine a choice between two doors: behind door A is the job of your dreams, behind door B is the woman of your dreams. There isn't a right answer.
The woman in my dreams is always rich ... therefore no need to even consider door A.
The are times when the BFG would come in handy ... supermarket queues where everyone in front of you insists on paying by Credit Card, ATM machines where everyone *has* to check their balance first and then withdraw their cash, drivethroughs where no one can decide what they want until they reach the window etc.
So when that new TV arrived, and it wasn't tuned to ESPN, you sent it back ?
And that new car, where the seat wasn't adjusted correctly to your ample backside, you decided THAT was fucked also ?
Whether or not the defaults are ass-backward or not, anyone too lazy or inept to even dicover where they are and how to adjust them does NOT belong on a tech site.
"Believing in Father Christmas is important," says Pratchett. "It trains our imaginations on the little lies so we can blind ourselves to the fact that Slashdot signatures are limited to 121 characters."
... and alienating most of the World.
FTFY
Well I never ... "salaut" is actually a word, and the definition is quite amusing.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=salaut
But my money is still on the fact that your just an ignorant fuck who can't type worth a damn.
You cannot "salaut" a third party, by definition, it's something you can only do to yourself.
It would put a whole new spin on the marketing.
"Windows Vacuum Edition really does Suck".
"2.0" could be added as a suffix, if it used Javascript
Only if it also used an obscene amount of unnecessary XML to transmit 1 byte of information !
Offtopic I know, but your sig, really ...
There is a bottle of Coca Cola on my computer desk. There is a 7-month old puppy sitting by my side.
The fact that the bottle of Coca Cola is on my desk *is* informative. Who's the source, the fucking dog ?
Here's a better point double dumbass.
Learn to use "nested" and order by "oldest first". Then you can follow the conversation in chronological posting order and not repeat the same dumb questions that have already been answered.
Do you also read books backwards, then ask your friends "hey, umm, what happened in chapter 1" ?
Yes, and McDo have no qualms about asking you to leave once you've finished eating ... you can't sit in there leeching free wifi indefinately like you can in Starbys.
Even when MS do something right for once, the FOSS shills here will still find a way to use emotive language and completely change the meaning of the title and summary.
Welcome to /.
The U.S. has the freest internet access in the WHOLE WOILD!
And the slowest. Two records at once, how proud you must all be.
Yes, unfortunately, in a place like Ethiopia which is so volatile weather-wise, and so much of the basic necessities like food and clean water is dependent on having a good rainfall each year, the best (and possibly most cost effective) thing in the long run they could do is move everyone somewhere else, and cordon off the whole damn place as uninhabitable.
I'm at a loss to understand why anyone would
1. Leave a valuable possession on the ground
2. Promptly forget about it
3. And then drive over it with their car
4. ?
5. Profit !
If that is their attitude to their posessions and life in general, seems like they'd be better just getting an insurance policy for being a "accident-prone forgetful dumbass".
Pointed Stick ?
When did you hear of a NASA project that DIDN'T go overbudget ?
huge amounts of knowledge about farming, irrigation, planting techniques, home building techniques, and plumbing best practices is going to change fuck all in a place like Ethiopia when all they need is rain !
Sometimes, unfortunately, shovelling rice at them is all that can keep them alive.
Factoring prime numbers is easy. For prime P, the factors are 1 and P.
I think you meant to say "factoring the product of two prime numbers".
How about we all go back to living in the trees and eating coconuts ?
What is with this techno-guilt-trip lately ? Everything online now has to be weighed in terms of how much energy it is using ? Google datacenters, key cracking attempts, posts to Slashdot ? (Kind of ironic his post was tl;dr;, just think of the energy he could have saved if he'd been less verbose).
You want to do something concrete to save energy ? Turn down your aircon, stop driving that 5 litre SUV, invest in a set of solar panels for your house and get off the grid etc.
Don't try to pretend your making a contribution by saving a couple of milliwatts on CPU use. For every post made online, you already saved tons more energy in not producing newspapers, not burning gas so that some truck can deliver them to paper-shop, not even having a paper-shop consuming energy to stay open and sell you yor daily news.
Everything we do consumes energy, but these sensational claims about how much we could save if we used black screens and white text are nonsense. We already saved far more energy by being online in the first place.
I'd say pulling tiles out of a bag from a typical Scrabble set would be optimal to guessing a lot of passwords.
Ever wonder why the people who win at Hangman always pick E,T,A,I,O,N first ?
So why not reverse the distributions, so that lots of Q,W,X,Y are present, and only a handful of E,T,A,I,O,N, and use that to generate a random password ?
I'd have thought One Meal Per Day Per Child might be slightly more important, but hell, at least it's something for Negroponte and his ilk to ponder over brandy and cigars at the Gentlemens Club.
I just can't help thinking that sorting out such basic problems as hunger and poverty should be slightly higher on the list than whether they can play Facebook and post on Twitter.
Yeah, we'll all need to live longer so we can foil the plans of Pinky and the Brain.