Yeah I agree, jerky as hell, totally uncomfortable on the eyes.
Noting the claims above re smooth on mobile devices, has that become the answer for mobile content - screw the desktops and just look after mobiles???
God even scrolling down to the preview / submit was painful - why is it that every new feature must use up all MY electrons. Just because ms do it doesn't mean everyone else should follow...
let a = b multiply both sides by a a * a = a * b subtract b^2 a^2 - b^2 = ab - b^2 factor out a - b (a + b)(a - b) = b(a - b) cancel factor (a + b)(a - b)/(a - b) = b(a - b)/(a - b) a + b = b a + a = a 2a = a 2 = 1
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c".
Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.
The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k".
This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f".
This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expected to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the language is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords containing "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
D5 was pretty solid. There are quite a few who still use it - including me. Don't forget the platform it has to work on, and who created that platform. Every time i install vs for a look i nearly puke.
Exactly, because they know no-one is interested in their haemorrhoids...
On a more serious note, IANAL and all, but in general, contract law says that terns and conditions are part of a contract, and both parties have to agree - no agree no contract. And yet, if we are subject to an early termination penalty, and they shift the goal posts, changing the contract, and we don't agree to that, they claim they still have a right to the early termination clause...
I thought everyone knew that the man who goes around putting fluff in your belly button is the same man who goes around putting bits of carrot in your chunder, even though you haven't eaten carrots for a fortnight...
If a 7.2MW plant can power 9,000 homes, then a 150MW data center would use the equivalent of nearly 200,000 homes...
Didn't seem right so a bit of research found...
"5MW - the power consumption of a large data center today, according to Subodh Bapat, who runs Sun's energy efforts. 50MW - that's the average large datacenter in 2020, he said."
And I bet patents are blocking other companies from working together on it.
Possibly, but I reckon it is more a case of the attitude of the relevant players.
In some cultures, companies still approach their business from a "provide a quality service for a reasonable price and the customers will come" philosophy. Are you old enough to remember companies like that in western countries?
Unfortunately in our capitalism at all costs way, too many companies approach their business from a "how much can we milk em for, how do we lock em in" philosophy.
So when there is some new you beaut tech just waiting for everyone, we get a situation aptly described in TFA as
"it is completely possible nothing will happen in mobile payments in the next five years if everybody keeps thinking only about their own piece of the puzzle."
Forget the porn filters, they are just another politicians wet dream...
And forget the glitzy hey look at us and our new tech marketing.
The real issue here is Tel$tra's obscene data pricing on their mobile networks - even on their fixed line ADSL.
While the majority of ISPs in Oz shape you once you exceed your download cap, Tel$tra are still charging 15c / MB for excess on ADSL.
You think that's bad. How about 15c / KB for excess on mobile data plans. There are plans that avoid that rate, but not the stock plans that they push. So they sell you the (not so cheap anyway) base plan with a measly download limit, and the next thing those who are not aware of what they are doing (most) get a huge bill. Then they switch you to the higher per month plan to avoid the excess, making out that they are good corporate citizens. Truth is they set it up that way to deliberately catch the ignorant.
There are plenty of people here paying $130 / month for 3G mobile just to get a decent bandwidth / download connection coz they can't get ADSL. Telecoms / Internet pricing in this country sucks. All because of one dominant more or less monopoly Telco.
Rrrringgg...
ms support US: Hi this Bob. How can I help you?
Company XYZ: Hi this is Ben @ XYZ. We have an issue with our server 2008 and SUSE interop.
ms support US> Let me put you through to our tech guys. ...
ms support India: Hi this is Anand. How can I help you?
Company XYZ: Hi this is Ben @ XYZ. We have an issue with our server 2008 and SUSE interop.
ms support India: Arrh. Sir, I am thinking you are needing Novell SUSE support. Putting you through. ...
SUSE support US: Hi this Jack. How can I help you?
Company XYZ: Hi this is Ben @ XYZ. We have an issue with our server 2008 and SUSE interop.
SUSE support US: Let me put you through to our tech guys. ...
SUSE support India: Hi this is Anand. How can I help you?
Company XYZ: ??? Hi this is Ben @ XYZ. We have an issue with our server 2008 and SUSE interop.
SUSE support India> Hi Ben. Oh my golly gosh sir. I am thinking we were just talking before.
Company XYZ: ?!?:Steam: ?!?
SUSE support India: If you will be telling me the details of your problem sir I will be helping you...
Company XYZ: Our server 2008 randomly won't connect with our SUSE servers.
SUSE support India: Ah sir I am thinking you will be needing ms support. Putting you through.
Company XYZ: Click.
It's news because its unexpected but I don't understand why they are doing it either
It is quite logical really.
1. Microsoft has a lot of big customers
2. Profit
3. Big customers switch part of their show to superior but nerdy OS
4. Loss of some profit with potential of more loss unless haemorrhaging stopped
5. Looks for bandaid
6. Provide interoperability methodologies including support contracts for both platforms
7. ???
8. Bandaid peels off?
I was going to mod him down but there wasn't a suitable category - say like 'Missing The Facts'.
First off, like how much heat energy is actually present beneath the mantle? A. Big number.
Secondly, how long it will take for the magma / iron + whatever core to cool to a point where the magnetic field decreases enough? A. Another big number.
It scares me that people with so little perception of physical reality make comments as if they understand.
Just a point for you too re nuclear power. It may outlast us but Uranium reserves are not infinite either.
Now if we could only get Fusion happening...
All in all geothermal is a great idea - as mentioned in Iceland, and I think the Kiwis (New Zealand) harvest a bit for sparks and even the UK for hot water if I am not mistaken.
Slashdot Mirror
and a pretty lame dupe at that
The reviewer needs to find - and read - a few books on writing book reviews...
Isn't it:
Pot, Kettle, black?
Facebook? Facebook is telling Google not to be evil? FACEBOOK?
Exactly.
What is a 'zuckerberg' anyway???
Like a dirty iceberg or something?
Yeah I agree, jerky as hell, totally uncomfortable on the eyes.
Noting the claims above re smooth on mobile devices, has that become the answer for mobile content - screw the desktops and just look after mobiles???
God even scrolling down to the preview / submit was painful - why is it that every new feature must use up all MY electrons. Just because ms do it doesn't mean everyone else should follow...
Killing Moore's Law...
"By continuously gathering light and computing the time and distance that each pixel has traveled"
right, so pixels travel!?! wtf has happened to /. editors? have they any clue of science???
photons, depending on perspective, travel. pixels, are part of an image.
is slashdot going to become worse than the pseudo science of mythbusters????
let a = b
multiply both sides by a
a * a = a * b
subtract b^2
a^2 - b^2 = ab - b^2
factor out a - b
(a + b)(a - b) = b(a - b)
cancel factor
(a + b)(a - b)/(a - b) = b(a - b)/(a - b)
a + b = b
a + a = a
2a = a
2 = 1
same flaw - easier to follow (and remember)
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c".
Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.
The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k".
This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f".
This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expected to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the language is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords containing "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
Unt Ze drem vil kum tru.
D5 was pretty solid. There are quite a few who still use it - including me. Don't forget the platform it has to work on, and who created that platform. Every time i install vs for a look i nearly puke.
and no retarded one-button mouse (touchpad/trackpointer). but on the other hand, I'm not retarded. I want two or three mouse buttons
Cue the superior mac user...
Untold fear, tension, sweat beads. A thousand times almost, but not quite, tapping one of those new fandangled buttons.
Will it explode, what about my warranty, will she divorce me, what will my colleagues say...
So he never actually does the unthinkable, quietly switching it back to single button mode.
And that, my friends, is why there will never be more than one button on a mac...
Exactly, because they know no-one is interested in their haemorrhoids...
On a more serious note, IANAL and all, but in general, contract law says that terns and conditions are part of a contract, and both parties have to agree - no agree no contract. And yet, if we are subject to an early termination penalty, and they shift the goal posts, changing the contract, and we don't agree to that, they claim they still have a right to the early termination clause...
Would it stand up???
All your base are belong to google...
I thought everyone knew that the man who goes around putting fluff in your belly button is the same man who goes around putting bits of carrot in your chunder, even though you haven't eaten carrots for a fortnight...
150MW Data Center...
If a 7.2MW plant can power 9,000 homes, then a 150MW data center would use the equivalent of nearly 200,000 homes...
Didn't seem right so a bit of research found...
"5MW - the power consumption of a large data center today, according to Subodh Bapat, who runs Sun's energy efforts. 50MW - that's the average large datacenter in 2020, he said."
from some greentech mob
So we either have typical media numbers spin, or that's one mother of a data center they plan to build.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Or in this case, when they put pen to paper...
And I bet patents are blocking other companies from working together on it.
Possibly, but I reckon it is more a case of the attitude of the relevant players.
In some cultures, companies still approach their business from a "provide a quality service for a reasonable price and the customers will come" philosophy. Are you old enough to remember companies like that in western countries?
Unfortunately in our capitalism at all costs way, too many companies approach their business from a "how much can we milk em for, how do we lock em in" philosophy.
So when there is some new you beaut tech just waiting for everyone, we get a situation aptly described in TFA as
"it is completely possible nothing will happen in mobile payments in the next five years if everybody keeps thinking only about their own piece of the puzzle."
Read as "piece of the pie"...
The classic story was the one about the Americans spending a $million creating a pen that worked in zero gravity.
The Ruskies? - they just used a pencil...
As if on cue, from two days ago...
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20090107
You have never seen ms source code have you???
I could say something corny like "I for one bow to our new non-iterative overlords..."
But seriously, can you tell me for which languages iteration is not a core concept???
Are you a self taught vb programmer per chance?
Forget the porn filters, they are just another politicians wet dream...
And forget the glitzy hey look at us and our new tech marketing.
The real issue here is Tel$tra's obscene data pricing on their mobile networks - even on their fixed line ADSL.
While the majority of ISPs in Oz shape you once you exceed your download cap, Tel$tra are still charging 15c / MB for excess on ADSL.
You think that's bad. How about 15c / KB for excess on mobile data plans. There are plans that avoid that rate, but not the stock plans that they push. So they sell you the (not so cheap anyway) base plan with a measly download limit, and the next thing those who are not aware of what they are doing (most) get a huge bill. Then they switch you to the higher per month plan to avoid the excess, making out that they are good corporate citizens. Truth is they set it up that way to deliberately catch the ignorant.
There are plenty of people here paying $130 / month for 3G mobile just to get a decent bandwidth / download connection coz they can't get ADSL. Telecoms / Internet pricing in this country sucks. All because of one dominant more or less monopoly Telco.
Rrrringgg...
...
...
... :Steam: ?!?
ms support US: Hi this Bob. How can I help you?
Company XYZ: Hi this is Ben @ XYZ. We have an issue with our server 2008 and SUSE interop.
ms support US> Let me put you through to our tech guys.
ms support India: Hi this is Anand. How can I help you?
Company XYZ: Hi this is Ben @ XYZ. We have an issue with our server 2008 and SUSE interop.
ms support India: Arrh. Sir, I am thinking you are needing Novell SUSE support. Putting you through.
SUSE support US: Hi this Jack. How can I help you?
Company XYZ: Hi this is Ben @ XYZ. We have an issue with our server 2008 and SUSE interop.
SUSE support US: Let me put you through to our tech guys.
SUSE support India: Hi this is Anand. How can I help you?
Company XYZ: ??? Hi this is Ben @ XYZ. We have an issue with our server 2008 and SUSE interop.
SUSE support India> Hi Ben. Oh my golly gosh sir. I am thinking we were just talking before.
Company XYZ: ?!?
SUSE support India: If you will be telling me the details of your problem sir I will be helping you...
Company XYZ: Our server 2008 randomly won't connect with our SUSE servers.
SUSE support India: Ah sir I am thinking you will be needing ms support. Putting you through.
Company XYZ: Click.
It's news because its unexpected but I don't understand why they are doing it either
It is quite logical really.
1. Microsoft has a lot of big customers
2. Profit
3. Big customers switch part of their show to superior but nerdy OS
4. Loss of some profit with potential of more loss unless haemorrhaging stopped
5. Looks for bandaid
6. Provide interoperability methodologies including support contracts for both platforms
7. ???
8. Bandaid peels off?
OOOOOOh! Plasma, so exotic...
I wonder what the dead pixel return policy is???
I was going to mod him down but there wasn't a suitable category - say like 'Missing The Facts'.
First off, like how much heat energy is actually present beneath the mantle? A. Big number.
Secondly, how long it will take for the magma / iron + whatever core to cool to a point where the magnetic field decreases enough? A. Another big number.
It scares me that people with so little perception of physical reality make comments as if they understand.
Just a point for you too re nuclear power. It may outlast us but Uranium reserves are not infinite either.
Now if we could only get Fusion happening...
All in all geothermal is a great idea - as mentioned in Iceland, and I think the Kiwis (New Zealand) harvest a bit for sparks and even the UK for hot water if I am not mistaken.
No not available everywhere but whatever helps...