I don't think this says as much about the users as it does the usability of our computers.
... or user interface design. The user is presented with a dialog with one button; user clicks the "Sod off" button. How is this surprising? It would have been more enlightening to offer the user two options, e.g. "Cancel or Allow?", and then see how the user reacts. Always "Allow"? Always "Cancel"? Always the default? Varying depending on what the dialog says?
The "gritty, dark" look was there for a reason: True evil and it's effects are not clean, nor are they pretty.
The more likely reason: CRT monitors and gamma settings. Try playing Diablo II on a modern, bright (sometimes too bright) LCD monitor and it might not seem so "gritty, dark" any more.
Just because it's been blinged up doesn't make the underlying mechanical mechanism any less impressive. Who says science can't be beautiful?
Yes, the LEDs are blue - but what other colour would you combine with gold? The bank of LEDs just provide a constant light source; the light show at the front (which could be mistaken for electronics) is achieved using vernier slits and lenses - that's genius.
I think that if an artist creates a brilliant work of art, and wants to live off the royalties of that work for the rest of their life, they should have that right.
Real artists should be able to produce at least one brilliant work of art, or several acceptable ones, every 14 years.
Hibernate (an ORM solution) is a dark art. Get the basics done first. Write JDBC DAOs yourself and learn why you'd need ORM before you dive into it.
I've inherited a misbehaving piece of Java/Hibernate code. I'm hoping the cloud has a silver lining, because otherwise it has the stench of Mordor on it...
I don't know Java (two courses cancelled due to lack of numbers), but I still can't fathom why Hibernate was chosen over a few SQL statements - it's a simple database.
Maybe that's why there are so many Java jobs going - evil, unmaintained/able apps. that the original author has fled?
Parallax make a variety of low-cost micro-controllers, with education kits available. Their Propeller micro-controller sounds intiguing - 8 cores running at 80MHz - but the venerable Basic Stamp series is probably more mature and easier to learn. (I haven't tried either, but I'm tempted to get a Propeller kit just to see what it is capable of.)
Here is a Propeller being tortured at 190 deg. C - don't try this at home, kids.:D
I stand corrected. If not RoHS compliant, eutectic solder is a step towards adopting lead-free solder - and as stated, nothing to do with the alleged overheating problems.
Charlie at The Inquirer has no credibility when it comes to nVidia.
From TFA, nVidia is changing from high lead to eutectic (tin) solder - for RoHS compliance - and has issues a PCN to that effect. Charlie has latched onto this as "proof" of his claim that all nVidia chips are faulty and overheat.
What Charlie doesn't explain is how switching from high-lead solder (5/95 Sn/Pb) to eutectic solder (63/37 Sn/Pb) - which has the lowest melting point of all tin-lead solders - is supposed to help if the chips are overheating.
Nor does he explain how changing the solder material has any relationship to changing the underfill material on some mobile chips (other than they were both PCNs.) But hey, why let facts get in the way of a conspiracy theory/page hits?
"Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology."
Plug his exoskeleton into an exercise program and he'll be buffed in no time.
Heck, you don't even need the exoskeleton if you have a "Superman bicycle".
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Okay, I'm a born and raised American, and -453 Fahrenheit means nothing to me.
I'm sure Sarah Palin will tell ya all about it if you ask nicely.
I don't think this says as much about the users as it does the usability of our computers.
... or user interface design. The user is presented with a dialog with one button; user clicks the "Sod off" button. How is this surprising? It would have been more enlightening to offer the user two options, e.g. "Cancel or Allow?", and then see how the user reacts. Always "Allow"? Always "Cancel"? Always the default? Varying depending on what the dialog says?
The "gritty, dark" look was there for a reason: True evil and it's effects are not clean, nor are they pretty.
The more likely reason: CRT monitors and gamma settings. Try playing Diablo II on a modern, bright (sometimes too bright) LCD monitor and it might not seem so "gritty, dark" any more.
Who tagged this "technology"? This is 100% art.
Just because it's been blinged up doesn't make the underlying mechanical mechanism any less impressive. Who says science can't be beautiful?
Yes, the LEDs are blue - but what other colour would you combine with gold? The bank of LEDs just provide a constant light source; the light show at the front (which could be mistaken for electronics) is achieved using vernier slits and lenses - that's genius.
Sshhh... You'll wake the editors.
Apparently two wrongs do make a right.
Obligatory: LHC webcam.
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Arr, this be like Pirate Radio in days of yore.
I think that if an artist creates a brilliant work of art, and wants to live off the royalties of that work for the rest of their life, they should have that right.
Real artists should be able to produce at least one brilliant work of art, or several acceptable ones, every 14 years.
When in China, you need an interpreter.
Microsoft can afford their own satellite.
Hibernate (an ORM solution) is a dark art. Get the basics done first. Write JDBC DAOs yourself and learn why you'd need ORM before you dive into it.
I've inherited a misbehaving piece of Java/Hibernate code. I'm hoping the cloud has a silver lining, because otherwise it has the stench of Mordor on it...
I don't know Java (two courses cancelled due to lack of numbers), but I still can't fathom why Hibernate was chosen over a few SQL statements - it's a simple database.
Maybe that's why there are so many Java jobs going - evil, unmaintained/able apps. that the original author has fled?
Parallax make a variety of low-cost micro-controllers, with education kits available. Their Propeller micro-controller sounds intiguing - 8 cores running at 80MHz - but the venerable Basic Stamp series is probably more mature and easier to learn. (I haven't tried either, but I'm tempted to get a Propeller kit just to see what it is capable of.)
:D
Here is a Propeller being tortured at 190 deg. C - don't try this at home, kids.
... are credit card companies pants?
I stand corrected. If not RoHS compliant, eutectic solder is a step towards adopting lead-free solder - and as stated, nothing to do with the alleged overheating problems.
"88% of IT Admins Would Steal Passwords If Lai..." Laid? Yeah, that figures. So who is this cyber Mata Hari?
No, dogs are best friends around here. What women read /.?
Dogs read Slashdot?!
Charlie at The Inquirer has no credibility when it comes to nVidia.
From TFA, nVidia is changing from high lead to eutectic (tin) solder - for RoHS compliance - and has issues a PCN to that effect. Charlie has latched onto this as "proof" of his claim that all nVidia chips are faulty and overheat.
What Charlie doesn't explain is how switching from high-lead solder (5/95 Sn/Pb) to eutectic solder (63/37 Sn/Pb) - which has the lowest melting point of all tin-lead solders - is supposed to help if the chips are overheating. Nor does he explain how changing the solder material has any relationship to changing the underfill material on some mobile chips (other than they were both PCNs.) But hey, why let facts get in the way of a conspiracy theory/page hits?
"A cynic is what an optimist calls a realist." -- Sir Humphrey Appleby, Yes Minister.
"Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology."
Plug his exoskeleton into an exercise program and he'll be buffed in no time.
Heck, you don't even need the exoskeleton if you have a "Superman bicycle".
1: Find 3 or more VPN/proxy services located in different countries. Look for ones which claim to not keep any logs.
They're the ones run by the NSA/magical imps.
In some cases, I'd rather deal with the wetware. If they think golden shallots are brown onions, who am I to argue?
That'd be the universe where Slashdot moderators live, right?
A human instinctively knows when something looks "right" or "wrong".
For example, where is the reflection of the photographer?