Do a "rewards" program for people to find and submit news about actual discoveries and game changers. Stuff you really must know if you're working in science or IT.
Enforce somehow the focus of the site for science and IT, theres just too many blatant clickbait news that only touch IT or science tangentially but are sure to devolve in shit-sling threads about petty political nonsense that nobody really cares. Needs a Firehose 2.0
I'd focus more on science really, the place where researchers go and present their findings to be reviewed by our armchair scientists, you get awesome post from those.
The nerdgasm would be a subscription based "digest" where I can subscribe for a particular topic (eg. All Things Space) and get the best discussion from people that are actually working on the science and talented or experienced outsiders. Invite scientist and engineers from the companies that do the headlines, not rocket science really.
How about they open a few QA jobs and don't make available the stillborn of a software that is "Crimson" I was a loyal AMD fanboy since the K6 era, And and ATI loyal from around the same time, but my last CPU from them was a Phenom, I got tired of waiting for a decent replacement and went with intel, now I'm trying to camp with this old HD7750 because I love the passive cooling and don't really need much video performance for games, but the drivers are making it hard for me to keep supporting them, (yay new actual improvements in performance and such, too bad it crashes anytime you wan to switch a tab in the control panel and your settings get eaten by the grue randomly), truly Alpha quality right there.
You're right and it's an issue of America to always underestimate the agendas of it's "allies" that said, I bet the issues revolves more about the Castro's hubris, he has said it, as long as he's alive the final transition to democracy can't take place he just allowed the prep work to be started when he realized that communism is a mental wank and Cubans deserve (and have the talent) to do better, just not under his watch... what would the history books say!?
Who's using FF to manage his CP server or plot the next season of 24? FF is as bourgeois as Chrome now it's designed to be trendy and give what the "mass" of it's users expect and thats good, because the browsers wars v2 it's over now and if you have that puny expectations of privacy you should now better and use any of the imperial fuckton of browser available. The overreaction anytime FF does sometime dobious is getting old, they had its 15 minutes and all but it's time to move on.
That said I use FF as a browser for quick searches (have another session hardened for the bad hoods), blocking everything possible just because I've found that Google works better and offers better results when they don't have the chance to track you, at least in my region. I don't have complains for FF in my usage, maybe I'm doing it wrong.
Why, because they have Venezuela as a fallback for all its communications and while Venezuela is very close to get in the club of failed countries, they still can provide the little connectivity that Cuba is interested to provide to its citizens, properly filtered and controlled as they want. You would say that is Cubans what run Venezuela now, because I'm certain that the bus driver they have now as president can't fuck so throughly a country like he has done by himself.
Cubans can take a look at Puerto Rico and say DO NOT WANT and nobody would blame them really. Sometimes is better to don't know better.
Wrong, not any place that have mosquitoes have this problem because not all mosquitoes can carry the virus, the Zica uses the same vector as the "chikungunya" virus the Aedes albopictus, not original from this hemisphere. It lives below 1700 or so meters below sea level only.
The drought have been so strong here that I have not seen mosquitoes in a while and maybe thats helping to keep the mosquito in low numbers, just today it rained for the first time in 2 months, in the friggin Andean heights, but thats weather and not climate right? back on topic, and despite that we've had a couple confirmed cases of Microcephaly and GB syndrome in Colombia, so it's not something local to Brasil just that El Niño is keeping it at bay.
Could be, but that would not explain why the same "colateral damage" is present in sufferers from neighboring countries. It does not take millions of years for a virus to mutate either.
Funny how in every post about MS theres always that guy pushing you to Linux without even knowing the work you do, the software or the reliability you need in the system. Like we don't know any better and we need their condescending illumination.
Thats, if anything, is the thing that crossed the line and stopped me from trying Linux on the desktop, I don't care about the philosophical values of the rock, I need it to smash shit. I use Linux it where it works, in the server.
And no I'm not on or planning to upgrade to 10, I have 7 and I'm writing this on a Macbook. I wish I could be a fan of any IT company, all suck equally IMO.
True, just installed 7 and that update keeps coming again, If only someone could provide an app to block the download and monitor urls in DNS. So far the host file is still respected in win7, right?
Yeah, electrostatic is the holy grail of audiophiles yet it's a pretty accessible hobby if you have the tools, take a look into DIY Electrostatic Headphones:
Where entry level orthos/isos are in the range of $100 they can get as high as $3000 so not only your kids can wear what they have created, maybe they can start a local "business" Are they worth that much money? IDK I have some vintage Fostex monitors and yes the electrostatic technology is as good as it gets for audio reproduction, almost everything is subjective in audio IMO. This is more a crafts and acoustics work rather than a pure electrical one tho.
I wonder why so many in a tech savvy and marketing averse community got so burned by a company that only lived through its marketing, ignoring the writing on the wall about its reliability, which was known since almost the beginning of it's failed SSD line. I agree in that they should have used the Toshiba brand but I imagine they are using that one for the enterprise market.
Why would one buy lots of SSDs of just one brand, back in that time the most relevant info for purchasing one was the controller and the cell technology, OCZ problems were known very early in the product lifecycle, is not their fault that you didn't do your homework. After all, if it were only for brand, i had OCZ as another "gamer" focused company with no substance, history and that appeared from nowhere. Maybe I had the wrong perception of the company.. oh wait, no, they failed hard and went bankrupt.
Sample of 1 also: a Mushkin Chronos Deluxe been going nice for 4 years, after one XP install and 3 Win7 installs (with lots power failures and whatnot in between) it keeps working nicely and now it's retired to an old Macbook, just today did the "upgrade" after a Parted Magic secure erase.
Now I have an EVO 850 in the PC, hope it delivers the same value as that little SSD: best hardware upgrade ever I don't think I'm buying spinning rust again, maybe one of those caviars RED for a NAS if I ever need one. Just do your back ups and have a UPS, it's computing 101.
Off topic but, Maybe if someones could stop snorting some stuff the narcs in Mexico would not be able to buy the whole government on sale. Do you actually think the government of Mexico is free? Do you think people migrate to USA because the gov. is too inept to do shit there? No, they migrate because narcs are buying every local gov entity they can, politicians are too busy doing hookers and blow when not doing the master's will. People? Mexico's government don't give a shit about people, it's a narcocracy it's only there to keep the highest bidder dope running and pretend they are not a failed state to the world.
Are you asking impoverished and abused people to go against a mix of state and narc repression?
Nope, a wall will not fix that but you can try for the world's amusement.
Seems like they are distributing media content only since Cubans already have some access to "normal" internet through open wifi hotspots in the plazas (spotty and scheduled, but they seem to be able to do video calls with family in Miami so it must be decent enough), Cuba's internet comes through Venezuela BTW.
I fail to see how is this any different from a guy selling pirated movies in SD card, it's free and centrally organized, thats what people do usually against controlling overlords. Wonder how they got bloggers jailed several years ago when they didn't have sneaker nets. They just used Florida's 3G/2G networks, hardware provided by guess who.
Why compare a developing Nation with Cuba anyway, developing nations have free markets mostly and are only limited by the kleptocracy and lack of education. Good thing is that thanks to this discovery in networking now some subsaharian communities will be enlightened with the latests updates on the Kardashians, what a time to be alive!
You know, this makes sense since I recall watching a documentary in the early 2000's about how American Inteligence Agencies were working in creating a "network"of interconnected peers, they got the info from phone usage and emails and they were creating graphical representations of such network, you clicked over some name and it displayed all communications to and from his monitored media. Some time later, after the first boom of Facebook (when no.edu email was needed) I told myself, "well this is actually like that thing these guy were doing"
Now that you point that out, it's obviously easier to give some candy to the people so they can freely hand out their data. I don't use FB to store personal information, not under my real name that is*, but FB it's a great tool for marketing and self promotion when used wisely. So for me is neither good or bad.
-- * maybe in the our brave new future being a loner would make you a criminal
The man: Hey you! stop slacking society *bayonet bump* go back to the line and get along, or else
The battle between: Android fans and "Apple is the OCD of the tech world" and iOS fans and "Android fragmentation is teh fails" is just a kids battle for the second place.
Grown up people and their BB's just laugh all the way to the kitchen with the pizza and the keys in their pants pockets.
For the record I don't own any of them, but I'd go with BB if I need to. BB people seem to be busy doing stuff rather than commenting how cool is their $marthphone and how $other_people FAIL for not being enlightened like them.
How are the win crowd your enemy, did they do something to you or someone you love? Do your dog get kicked in the nuts every time an OEM DELL box is purchased?
I've been trying to use KDE on win since 2008 and it was not a pleasant experience, maybe now it works, which doesn't mater since I can run KDE fedora on a VM seamless mode in virtual box and get the full KDE "experience". I'd pay for a full blown KDE DE replacing Win7 DE tough, not because Win7's DE is crap but because KDE is somewhat better.
What? ITunes is the thing that have originally make me disregard iPods as a PMP, And Yes I have one lovely 4G and it's a pain to use it because:
1. Install iTunes to format/restore the iPod 2. NUKE iTunes with http://remove-it.org/tools/byetunes 3. Add songs manually trough "CopyTrans Suite" (I don't use music libraries at all so I'm happier with manual transfers) 4. Perfectly usable iPod without the PC's registry getting rammed to death by iTunes
But wait theres more!
Option I 1. Install rockbox in the iPod 2. make it actually better
Option II
1. IT'S 2011 -> Don't buy an iPod/PMP | it's so 2006
Theres really no point in PMPs when even cheap cellphones have decent mp3 players, usb ports, BT microSD cards and FM radio. I love the DAC from my 4G but I'm sure I'm not buying another PMP be it Apple or Cowon or Creative or Samsung. Generic Chinese tablets are cheaper than BRAND PMPs where I live, It just doesn't make sense.
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Do a "rewards" program for people to find and submit news about actual discoveries and game changers. Stuff you really must know if you're working in science or IT.
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Enforce somehow the focus of the site for science and IT, theres just too many blatant clickbait news that only touch IT or science tangentially but are sure to devolve in shit-sling threads about petty political nonsense that nobody really cares. Needs a Firehose 2.0
I'd focus more on science really, the place where researchers go and present their findings to be reviewed by our armchair scientists, you get awesome post from those.
The nerdgasm would be a subscription based "digest" where I can subscribe for a particular topic (eg. All Things Space) and get the best discussion from people that are actually working on the science and talented or experienced outsiders. Invite scientist and engineers from the companies that do the headlines, not rocket science really.
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How about they open a few QA jobs and don't make available the stillborn of a software that is "Crimson" I was a loyal AMD fanboy since the K6 era, And and ATI loyal from around the same time, but my last CPU from them was a Phenom, I got tired of waiting for a decent replacement and went with intel, now I'm trying to camp with this old HD7750 because I love the passive cooling and don't really need much video performance for games, but the drivers are making it hard for me to keep supporting them, (yay new actual improvements in performance and such, too bad it crashes anytime you wan to switch a tab in the control panel and your settings get eaten by the grue randomly), truly Alpha quality right there.
You're right and it's an issue of America to always underestimate the agendas of it's "allies" that said, I bet the issues revolves more about the Castro's hubris, he has said it, as long as he's alive the final transition to democracy can't take place he just allowed the prep work to be started when he realized that communism is a mental wank and Cubans deserve (and have the talent) to do better, just not under his watch... what would the history books say!?
Who's using FF to manage his CP server or plot the next season of 24? FF is as bourgeois as Chrome now it's designed to be trendy and give what the "mass" of it's users expect and thats good, because the browsers wars v2 it's over now and if you have that puny expectations of privacy you should now better and use any of the imperial fuckton of browser available. The overreaction anytime FF does sometime dobious is getting old, they had its 15 minutes and all but it's time to move on.
That said I use FF as a browser for quick searches (have another session hardened for the bad hoods), blocking everything possible just because I've found that Google works better and offers better results when they don't have the chance to track you, at least in my region. I don't have complains for FF in my usage, maybe I'm doing it wrong.
Why, because they have Venezuela as a fallback for all its communications and while Venezuela is very close to get in the club of failed countries, they still can provide the little connectivity that Cuba is interested to provide to its citizens, properly filtered and controlled as they want. You would say that is Cubans what run Venezuela now, because I'm certain that the bus driver they have now as president can't fuck so throughly a country like he has done by himself.
Cubans can take a look at Puerto Rico and say DO NOT WANT and nobody would blame them really. Sometimes is better to don't know better.
Wrong, not any place that have mosquitoes have this problem because not all mosquitoes can carry the virus, the Zica uses the same vector as the "chikungunya" virus the Aedes albopictus, not original from this hemisphere. It lives below 1700 or so meters below sea level only.
The drought have been so strong here that I have not seen mosquitoes in a while and maybe thats helping to keep the mosquito in low numbers, just today it rained for the first time in 2 months, in the friggin Andean heights, but thats weather and not climate right? back on topic, and despite that we've had a couple confirmed cases of Microcephaly and GB syndrome in Colombia, so it's not something local to Brasil just that El Niño is keeping it at bay.
Could be, but that would not explain why the same "colateral damage" is present in sufferers from neighboring countries. It does not take millions of years for a virus to mutate either.
Funny how in every post about MS theres always that guy pushing you to Linux without even knowing the work you do, the software or the reliability you need in the system. Like we don't know any better and we need their condescending illumination.
Thats, if anything, is the thing that crossed the line and stopped me from trying Linux on the desktop, I don't care about the philosophical values of the rock, I need it to smash shit. I use Linux it where it works, in the server.
And no I'm not on or planning to upgrade to 10, I have 7 and I'm writing this on a Macbook. I wish I could be a fan of any IT company, all suck equally IMO.
Love the irony of applying a crack to a legit software to prevent the forced upgrade to a free OS.
I don't think any mildly competent user has ever said that "Windows just works", more like, "the software I need works on Windows"
True, just installed 7 and that update keeps coming again, If only someone could provide an app to block the download and monitor urls in DNS. So far the host file is still respected in win7, right?
Yeah, electrostatic is the holy grail of audiophiles yet it's a pretty accessible hobby if you have the tools, take a look into DIY Electrostatic Headphones:
http://www.head-fi.org/t/49829...
Where entry level orthos/isos are in the range of $100 they can get as high as $3000 so not only your kids can wear what they have created, maybe they can start a local "business" Are they worth that much money? IDK I have some vintage Fostex monitors and yes the electrostatic technology is as good as it gets for audio reproduction, almost everything is subjective in audio IMO. This is more a crafts and acoustics work rather than a pure electrical one tho.
I wonder why so many in a tech savvy and marketing averse community got so burned by a company that only lived through its marketing, ignoring the writing on the wall about its reliability, which was known since almost the beginning of it's failed SSD line. I agree in that they should have used the Toshiba brand but I imagine they are using that one for the enterprise market.
Why would one buy lots of SSDs of just one brand, back in that time the most relevant info for purchasing one was the controller and the cell technology, OCZ problems were known very early in the product lifecycle, is not their fault that you didn't do your homework. After all, if it were only for brand, i had OCZ as another "gamer" focused company with no substance, history and that appeared from nowhere. Maybe I had the wrong perception of the company.. oh wait, no, they failed hard and went bankrupt.
Sample of 1 also: a Mushkin Chronos Deluxe been going nice for 4 years, after one XP install and 3 Win7 installs (with lots power failures and whatnot in between) it keeps working nicely and now it's retired to an old Macbook, just today did the "upgrade" after a Parted Magic secure erase.
Now I have an EVO 850 in the PC, hope it delivers the same value as that little SSD: best hardware upgrade ever I don't think I'm buying spinning rust again, maybe one of those caviars RED for a NAS if I ever need one. Just do your back ups and have a UPS, it's computing 101.
Bing actually pays people to use it: partnerships, tokens and free gift cards style.
This have been discussed before, theres not a really viable full featured alternative to TB. Try to look for it.
Off topic but, Maybe if someones could stop snorting some stuff the narcs in Mexico would not be able to buy the whole government on sale. Do you actually think the government of Mexico is free? Do you think people migrate to USA because the gov. is too inept to do shit there? No, they migrate because narcs are buying every local gov entity they can, politicians are too busy doing hookers and blow when not doing the master's will. People? Mexico's government don't give a shit about people, it's a narcocracy it's only there to keep the highest bidder dope running and pretend they are not a failed state to the world.
Are you asking impoverished and abused people to go against a mix of state and narc repression?
Nope, a wall will not fix that but you can try for the world's amusement.
Seems like they are distributing media content only since Cubans already have some access to "normal" internet through open wifi hotspots in the plazas (spotty and scheduled, but they seem to be able to do video calls with family in Miami so it must be decent enough), Cuba's internet comes through Venezuela BTW.
I fail to see how is this any different from a guy selling pirated movies in SD card, it's free and centrally organized, thats what people do usually against controlling overlords. Wonder how they got bloggers jailed several years ago when they didn't have sneaker nets. They just used Florida's 3G/2G networks, hardware provided by guess who.
Why compare a developing Nation with Cuba anyway, developing nations have free markets mostly and are only limited by the kleptocracy and lack of education. Good thing is that thanks to this discovery in networking now some subsaharian communities will be enlightened with the latests updates on the Kardashians, what a time to be alive!
You know, this makes sense since I recall watching a documentary in the early 2000's about how American Inteligence Agencies were working in creating a "network"of interconnected peers, they got the info from phone usage and emails and they were creating graphical representations of such network, you clicked over some name and it displayed all communications to and from his monitored media. Some time later, after the first boom of Facebook (when no .edu email was needed) I told myself, "well this is actually like that thing these guy were doing"
Now that you point that out, it's obviously easier to give some candy to the people so they can freely hand out their data. I don't use FB to store personal information, not under my real name that is*, but FB it's a great tool for marketing and self promotion when used wisely. So for me is neither good or bad.
--
* maybe in the our brave new future being a loner would make you a criminal
The man: Hey you! stop slacking society *bayonet bump* go back to the line and get along, or else
Blackberry? Isn't it the #1 smartphone in share?
The battle between: Android fans and "Apple is the OCD of the tech world" and iOS fans and "Android fragmentation is teh fails" is just a kids battle for the second place.
Grown up people and their BB's just laugh all the way to the kitchen with the pizza and the keys in their pants pockets.
For the record I don't own any of them, but I'd go with BB if I need to. BB people seem to be busy doing stuff rather than commenting how cool is their $marthphone and how $other_people FAIL for not being enlightened like them.
How are the win crowd your enemy, did they do something to you or someone you love? Do your dog get kicked in the nuts every time an OEM DELL box is purchased?
I've been trying to use KDE on win since 2008 and it was not a pleasant experience, maybe now it works, which doesn't mater since I can run KDE fedora on a VM seamless mode in virtual box and get the full KDE "experience". I'd pay for a full blown KDE DE replacing Win7 DE tough, not because Win7's DE is crap but because KDE is somewhat better.
Yes
You have no woman ERGO You have a huge bank account.
Samsung has a mayor advantage in cost of flash ram, because THEY FAB those parts.
SAMSUNG Semiconductor Inc.
What? ITunes is the thing that have originally make me disregard iPods as a PMP, And Yes I have one lovely 4G and it's a pain to use it because:
1. Install iTunes to format/restore the iPod
2. NUKE iTunes with http://remove-it.org/tools/byetunes
3. Add songs manually trough "CopyTrans Suite" (I don't use music libraries at all so I'm happier with manual transfers)
4. Perfectly usable iPod without the PC's registry getting rammed to death by iTunes
But wait theres more!
Option I
1. Install rockbox in the iPod
2. make it actually better
Option II
1. IT'S 2011 -> Don't buy an iPod/PMP | it's so 2006
Theres really no point in PMPs when even cheap cellphones have decent mp3 players, usb ports, BT microSD cards and FM radio. I love the DAC from my 4G but I'm sure I'm not buying another PMP be it Apple or Cowon or Creative or Samsung. Generic Chinese tablets are cheaper than BRAND PMPs where I live, It just doesn't make sense.