When an Apple device connects to a wifi network, it checks http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html to see if the network is connected to the Internet. Unfortunately, some bozo deleted that file...
I think a lot of web apps would break if Javascript couldn't mess with the window location / back button / tab history, etc. Think of things like Gmail and Google Docs. Unlike pop-ups and so on, it does actually have a useful purpose.
You don't understand the point of self-driving cars? Really? These will revolutionize travel if they become affordable. As for saying they're too expensive, everything is too expensive for most people when it's new; technology prices have a way of coming down over time, you see.
Or, gawd forbid.. we could teach programmers how to use threading?
Who said it was an either/or proposition? People should learn to use parallel processors efficiently, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to turn down a compiler that can do a bit of it too. Otherwise, why bother having optimising compilers at all; clearly the programmer should have just programmed more efficiently!
"insecure physical locks will do little to keep the bad guys out"
I think this is unfair. The lock on my front door has a 100% record of keeping bad guys out. That's because it's intended to deter casual thieves, not secret agents. Knowing what your security is protecting against and choosing the right level is important. And I could buy the best lock in the world and someone could just smash a window...
I still don't really understand the advantage of the Pi over, say, a cheap second-hand laptop.
It's cheap, but everyone already has a computer that's many times more powerful. It's low-power, but not more much more so than a phone / tablet. And it's not portable because it doesn't have a battery.
Why should anyone actually buy one? The only use I can really think for it is as a very low power server, but if I wanted such a thing I think I would buy a new laptop and use the old one as the server.
I don't think I understand. What would you like this putative browser to do when it sees an HTML5 document? Simply refuse to render it? Considering it's the dominant standard now, you'll just be shutting yourself from more and more of the web.
Tell that to those in Gitmo. Oh wait, they're Muslims, so not real people right? A bit like those Vietnamese in My Lai.
Posting as AC because I'll probably get modded as "-1, Troll", despite calling an entire country "fucked-up" because of an email monitoring system getting "+2, Funny". Because emails are more serious than massacres and torture, right?
Why is it that Americans are so happy to queue up to mock the UK's supposed lack of liberty?
Last time I checked we could hold suspected terrorists for 28 days (maybe going up to 42 soon) with no charge. In the US, have the wrong coloured skin and you can and will be held for several years and tortured (naked human pyramids, subjected to stress positions, waterboarded, etc.) in Cuba.
Just more evidence that the supposed special relationship is entirely one way.
"Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S. We're certainly not opposed to doing more international stories, but only if we're slagging off other countries. Positive stories about anywhere other than the US are frowned upon."
Chess has become boring, like checkers or backgammon.
Then don't play it. I find it boring too, but I don't look down on people who enjoy it, just as I would hope that they wouldn't look down on me for my interests.
To even competitively play at the local club level you really need a ridiculously deep memorization of openings and endings. At the grandmaster level, they've basically memorized the tables used by computers.
Really? You mean people who put effort into learning the game are better at it?! How unfair!!!
PROTIP: You should play chess with people of similar abilities to you, not grandmasters.
Average games of chess only last around 60 moves. The depth of opening and closing books increasingly has reduced the middle game of actually interesting play. If it's not down to only 1-5 moves, it will be soon.
Just untrue. Opening books are getting bigger, but endtables can only just manage 6 pieces. It takes a lot more than five moves to get from the end of an opening to a position with only 6 men on the board.
The game will be dead--or at least not interesting enough to be seriously played--long before it is solved.
Bollocks. It might transform the way that it's played at the top level, but it will have little to no effect on two amateurs playing against each other.
P.S. You arrogant fans of Go can frak yourselves. Where do you think the scientists will go once they're done with chess. Enjoy it while it lasts.
And just in case people hadn't realised you were an arrogant wanker, you throw in an insult to another group of hobbyists! Way to go! It will be a long time before computers get good at Go and even when they do, it won't affect human players because of reasons I've given above.
look how many people buy music through iTunes, whose DRM mechanics are hardly lenient
Remo saying "iTunes is popular, so maybe you should get over DRM" is a bizarre argument. I would bet that most people who buy 128kbps tracks from iTunes wouldn't even know what filetype they were receiving and, if pushed, would probably guess mp3 because they don't know better.
I'm not having a go at non-geeks, but if iTunes had a massive warning on every page about how you'll have difficulty playing your music on anything but iTunes and an iPod, I'm sure sales would plummet.
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I'm not a parent...
... but let me go ahead and give you parenting advice.
Yeah, because it takes a parent to have good ideas about how to look after kids! It's not like anyone can have children without having to prove their competence as a parent.
I would have thought that/. of all places would be free of this kind of bizarre logic.
The Halo-hype is best understood once you look at its historical context. Yes it wasn't the first ever FPS, not the first FPS with an immersive plot (at least one other posting here compares it to Half Life, something I immediatley recognised when playing it for the first time). What it was, however, was the first FPS that Console players were drawn to en-masse.
I'll give you that.
Most of the time this is because they got the controller setup fundamentally wrong and/or wouldn't let you configure your own. Most glaringly they insisted on having Forward,Back and yaw on the left stick, very very very rarely (if ever) were you afforded Forward, Back and strafe on one stick with pitch and yaw on the other. Often (and this is true for Doom on the GBA for example, I'd waited years for hand held Doom to be sorely dissapointed!) strafe was bunged on the shoulder buttons because the developers didn't know just how important they were. Halo got the controller config exactly spot on: you could effectively circle-strafe, and as such it became the first Console FPS that anyone could actually play.
No, no, no, no. Timesplitters was released for the PS2 as a launch title over a year before Halo 1. Halo's controls are directly ripped from this. TS also had totally configurable controls, again, a year before Halo. Also, despite TS essentially being a parody of every genre of FPS (and indeed action film) ever, it manages to have more innovation than Halo has in it's exoskeleton's little finger.
Honestly, the credit Halo gets for innovation... It's like telling a load of Tolkien fans how clever J.K. Rowling was to invent all those trolls and things.
I second this. I pay a penny a day (GBP) for my account, access it by IMAP and have very, very rarely had it go down.
With a paid account you get a load of neat stuff too, like whitelists, blacklists, greylists, some cool encryption stuff, automatic labelling of spam and phishing attempts etc.
If the general public were half as smart as we give them credit for the world would have never seen Napoleian, Cesar (well actually the Romans solved that problem on their own), Castro, Hugo Chavez and more.
The others are fair enough, but what's dog food got to do with it?
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It's true. Most people who have been strapped to the electric chair never made another spelling mistake in their lives.
When an Apple device connects to a wifi network, it checks http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html to see if the network is connected to the Internet. Unfortunately, some bozo deleted that file...
I think a lot of web apps would break if Javascript couldn't mess with the window location / back button / tab history, etc. Think of things like Gmail and Google Docs. Unlike pop-ups and so on, it does actually have a useful purpose.
No, but it means that it cost money to record. Nothing is recorded for free.
You don't understand the point of self-driving cars? Really? These will revolutionize travel if they become affordable. As for saying they're too expensive, everything is too expensive for most people when it's new; technology prices have a way of coming down over time, you see.
Or, gawd forbid.. we could teach programmers how to use threading?
Who said it was an either/or proposition? People should learn to use parallel processors efficiently, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to turn down a compiler that can do a bit of it too. Otherwise, why bother having optimising compilers at all; clearly the programmer should have just programmed more efficiently!
"insecure physical locks will do little to keep the bad guys out"
I think this is unfair. The lock on my front door has a 100% record of keeping bad guys out. That's because it's intended to deter casual thieves, not secret agents. Knowing what your security is protecting against and choosing the right level is important. And I could buy the best lock in the world and someone could just smash a window...
...who also happens to Space Transport and Recovery (STAR) Systems...
I think you accidentally a word.
I still don't really understand the advantage of the Pi over, say, a cheap second-hand laptop.
It's cheap, but everyone already has a computer that's many times more powerful. It's low-power, but not more much more so than a phone / tablet. And it's not portable because it doesn't have a battery.
Why should anyone actually buy one? The only use I can really think for it is as a very low power server, but if I wanted such a thing I think I would buy a new laptop and use the old one as the server.
I don't think I understand. What would you like this putative browser to do when it sees an HTML5 document? Simply refuse to render it? Considering it's the dominant standard now, you'll just be shutting yourself from more and more of the web.
Tell that to those in Gitmo. Oh wait, they're Muslims, so not real people right? A bit like those Vietnamese in My Lai.
Posting as AC because I'll probably get modded as "-1, Troll", despite calling an entire country "fucked-up" because of an email monitoring system getting "+2, Funny". Because emails are more serious than massacres and torture, right?
Oh please. You were a colony and a war was fought. Our army didn't go around killing innocent people (like, I don't know, the US in Vietnam?).
The Real IRA attacks were true terrorism and was funded by the US, so I don't think you can hold the moral high ground.
Why is it that Americans are so happy to queue up to mock the UK's supposed lack of liberty?
Last time I checked we could hold suspected terrorists for 28 days (maybe going up to 42 soon) with no charge. In the US, have the wrong coloured skin and you can and will be held for several years and tortured (naked human pyramids, subjected to stress positions, waterboarded, etc.) in Cuba.
Just more evidence that the supposed special relationship is entirely one way.
What's more depressing is that they thought it was required to put this in their ethical guidelines.
When you have to actively point out that your employees shouldn't knowingly break the law, something must be wrong.
"Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S. We're certainly not opposed to doing more international stories, but only if we're slagging off other countries. Positive stories about anywhere other than the US are frowned upon."
I'm British, so I'm not clued-up with the American legal system, but what on Earth?
Isn't the whole point of pleading guilty to get a reduced sentence? You show remorse, apologise and hope they'll go easy on you.
Could someone also explain this "making a deal"? Surely the judge hands down whatever punishment he sees fit?
Sorry if that all seems very naive, but I'm a bit confused!
"It looks like you're installing Firefox. Please write a program which solves the halting problem."
How does this shit get modded interesting?
Chess has become boring, like checkers or backgammon.
Then don't play it. I find it boring too, but I don't look down on people who enjoy it, just as I would hope that they wouldn't look down on me for my interests.
To even competitively play at the local club level you really need a ridiculously deep memorization of openings and endings. At the grandmaster level, they've basically memorized the tables used by computers.
Really? You mean people who put effort into learning the game are better at it?! How unfair!!!
PROTIP: You should play chess with people of similar abilities to you, not grandmasters.
Average games of chess only last around 60 moves. The depth of opening and closing books increasingly has reduced the middle game of actually interesting play. If it's not down to only 1-5 moves, it will be soon.
Just untrue. Opening books are getting bigger, but endtables can only just manage 6 pieces. It takes a lot more than five moves to get from the end of an opening to a position with only 6 men on the board.
The game will be dead--or at least not interesting enough to be seriously played--long before it is solved.
Bollocks. It might transform the way that it's played at the top level, but it will have little to no effect on two amateurs playing against each other.
P.S. You arrogant fans of Go can frak yourselves. Where do you think the scientists will go once they're done with chess. Enjoy it while it lasts.
And just in case people hadn't realised you were an arrogant wanker, you throw in an insult to another group of hobbyists! Way to go! It will be a long time before computers get good at Go and even when they do, it won't affect human players because of reasons I've given above.
look how many people buy music through iTunes, whose DRM mechanics are hardly lenient
Remo saying "iTunes is popular, so maybe you should get over DRM" is a bizarre argument. I would bet that most people who buy 128kbps tracks from iTunes wouldn't even know what filetype they were receiving and, if pushed, would probably guess mp3 because they don't know better.
I'm not having a go at non-geeks, but if iTunes had a massive warning on every page about how you'll have difficulty playing your music on anything but iTunes and an iPod, I'm sure sales would plummet.
I'm not a parent...
... but let me go ahead and give you parenting advice.
Yeah, because it takes a parent to have good ideas about how to look after kids! It's not like anyone can have children without having to prove their competence as a parent.
I would have thought that /. of all places would be free of this kind of bizarre logic.
The Halo-hype is best understood once you look at its historical context. Yes it wasn't the first ever FPS, not the first FPS with an immersive plot (at least one other posting here compares it to Half Life, something I immediatley recognised when playing it for the first time). What it was, however, was the first FPS that Console players were drawn to en-masse.
I'll give you that.
Most of the time this is because they got the controller setup fundamentally wrong and/or wouldn't let you configure your own. Most glaringly they insisted on having Forward,Back and yaw on the left stick, very very very rarely (if ever) were you afforded Forward, Back and strafe on one stick with pitch and yaw on the other. Often (and this is true for Doom on the GBA for example, I'd waited years for hand held Doom to be sorely dissapointed!) strafe was bunged on the shoulder buttons because the developers didn't know just how important they were. Halo got the controller config exactly spot on: you could effectively circle-strafe, and as such it became the first Console FPS that anyone could actually play.
No, no, no, no. Timesplitters was released for the PS2 as a launch title over a year before Halo 1. Halo's controls are directly ripped from this. TS also had totally configurable controls, again, a year before Halo. Also, despite TS essentially being a parody of every genre of FPS (and indeed action film) ever, it manages to have more innovation than Halo has in it's exoskeleton's little finger.
Honestly, the credit Halo gets for innovation... It's like telling a load of Tolkien fans how clever J.K. Rowling was to invent all those trolls and things.
I second this. I pay a penny a day (GBP) for my account, access it by IMAP and have very, very rarely had it go down.
With a paid account you get a load of neat stuff too, like whitelists, blacklists, greylists, some cool encryption stuff, automatic labelling of spam and phishing attempts etc.
I know! He didn't even include the hyphen in "self-centred"!
Exactly. Everything that can be invented has been invented.
If the general public were half as smart as we give them credit for the world would have never seen Napoleian, Cesar (well actually the Romans solved that problem on their own), Castro, Hugo Chavez and more.
The others are fair enough, but what's dog food got to do with it?