i ride the train with people less well off than me and i see them with iphones and all other kinds of toys
Have you seen all those articles where folks complain about not being able to lock or track stolen iPhones . . . ? There you are.
Maybe Sprint needs to redirect their GPS tracker from that guy's house in Arizona to your train?
And Kindles do not have the same bling for poor folks, as iPhones. It's more of a pity that a lot of folks just aren't interested in reading at all. Watching stuff on YouTube is easier.
For the same reason that there are a lot of weed stories on/. Apparently,/.ers like to talk about weed and guns.
I personally applaud this new image of computer geeks as weed-smoking gun owners. Computer users coming to the help desk will treat us more politely now, if they think we are stoned and armed.
"I have an idea for an app" is exactly what riles up programmers.
Actually, what really riles me up, is when someone who has no idea about programming, states confidently, "It can't be too difficult to program this . . . "
This guy might as well save trips to the dentist, as well. All he needs is a Black & Decker power drill, a can of spackle and a mirror.
Even worse are folks who have just a little bit of computer knowledge, and start playing armchair system quarterback architect with it. Then you hear bizarre statements, like: "Well, all you need to do, is grep a yacc by the tail. It can't be too difficult to program this . .."
However, I do encourage all people to try some programming. Then when they find it so frustrating, they have more appreciation and understanding for what programmers really do. But most ordinary people can't even grasp the concept of an algorithm or basic logic. When I explain, "IF you have no milk, THEN go to the supermarket, ELSE watch TV, they are lost already.
The Administration got the best chance for some free PR to associate itself with one of the most popular movie franchises in history.
The franchise is now owned by the Disney Corporation. Let them pay for it and build it. $850 quadrillion is chump change to Disney. This is just keeping in line with the new policy of letting private industry finance space endeavors.
The US government would have been Forced to mint Triskelion Quatloo coins to finance this.
Lenovo is on a roll. It is number one in five of the seven biggest PC markets, including Japan and Germany. Its mobile division is poised to leapfrog Samsung to grab the top spot in China, the world’s biggest smartphone market. This week it made a splash at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with what PC World called “bullish bravado and a seemingly bottomless trunk” of enticing new products.
To focus on PCs, Mr Yang’s [CEO] predecessor sold Lenovo’s smartphone arm for $100m in 2008. Mr Yang bought it back for twice as much the next year. He believes that PCs and other devices will converge, so knowledge of one area will breed expertise in the other. He may be right. Smartphone sales are red hot in China, and Lenovo is now selling mobiles and tablets in several emerging markets
He also thinks Lenovo has a secret weapon. It has kept a lot of manufacturing in-house (why outsource to Foxconn when you already pay Chinese wages?). Mr Yang believes this in-house expertise gives his firm an edge in product development. But Lenovo must exploit that edge better than it has done so far if it is to compete with a technology powerhouse like Samsung and build a global brand anything like Apple’s.
Has anyone seen one of these Lenovo phone critters yet . . . ?
Or, irony will be that kids want to get their hands on this game now . . . just because it has an R18+ rating. Doing anything that is illegal or a sin is more fun. Like, sex before you are married, sneaking into a movie with an adult rating, buying beer when you are under aged, etc.
The R18+ sticker is a big red, blinking "Buy Me!" sticker on the box for kids.
The bottom line is we need to identify these people before they snap and get them off the streets and into treatment, not take guns away from law abiding citizens.
That would require us to take a long, hard look at ourselves, and think about how we humanely deal with mentally ill in our society. These have serious implications about deciding who is dangerous, and gets locked up. And who is responsible for enforcing it.
It is easier to blame an inanimate object.
The crazy New York subway pusher didn't need a gun. Someone foaming at the mouth won't need a gun to break into a kindergarten, douse the kids with gasoline, and set them alight.
Mental illness is the problem. But we are ill-equipped to deal with it.
What these tyrants fail to realize, is that nobody takes anything anyone states on social media seriously. The Internet is a community of screwballs, nitwits and the outright bat-shit crazy.
On the Internet, folks will say to you stuff like, "Your mother's muff is astroturf!" and "Heidi Klum is actually an investment-grade Lego Mindstorms collectors' edition set!"
So what? "Twits and stones will break your bones . . . ?"
I don't understand how this is even/. related news.
All Slashdot topics are there because we don't understand. Like things that are so cold, that they have negative temperature and might be actually hot again. We don't understand, so we discuss it here.
Nobody is better than Slashdotters, at discussing things that they don't understand.
Dating, is something that we definitely don't understand.
Yeah, I'm sure a top marginal rate of 75% would apply to a lot of astronomers,
It would have been enough to put Jacques Cousteau out business. But he was looking for stars in the other direction. He financed his hobby with his family fortune. Granted, not all rich folks are so altruistic.
It sends messages with the MQTT protocol on to an IBM Intelligent Operations Center. I test it by blowing on it . . . to measure my bad breath(on topic) . . . or I just smoke a Cuban cigar . . . and I take it into meetings . . . when the LED turns red, the meeting has been going too long.
And I learned about the wonders of OpenWrt . . . on Slashdot . . .
"Hunger never saw bad bread." -- Benjamin Franklin
Yucky food is the inspiration for fine home cookin'. Slaves in the US were given the throw-away parts of animals that their masters did not want to eat. So the slaves developed recipes with spices to make the yucky food very tasty. The same thing could happen with this meat.
If you are really hungry, you will eat whatever you can. If it tastes good, you will eat it, even though you think it is yucky.
Slashdot Mirror
i ride the train with people less well off than me and i see them with iphones and all other kinds of toys
Have you seen all those articles where folks complain about not being able to lock or track stolen iPhones . . . ? There you are.
Maybe Sprint needs to redirect their GPS tracker from that guy's house in Arizona to your train?
And Kindles do not have the same bling for poor folks, as iPhones. It's more of a pity that a lot of folks just aren't interested in reading at all. Watching stuff on YouTube is easier.
And why is this on /. he asks?
For the same reason that there are a lot of weed stories on /. Apparently, /.ers like to talk about weed and guns.
I personally applaud this new image of computer geeks as weed-smoking gun owners. Computer users coming to the help desk will treat us more politely now, if they think we are stoned and armed.
I have a feeling gun shops will hoard "assault weapons" and higher cap clips before the law goes into effect
Guns shops can't hoard anything right now. Everything is flying off the shelves. Everywhere.
The real question is, how the fuck yet another mental case shooting up a school automatically the result of video games
It wasn't the video games, man. It was the briefcase. That kid carried a briefcase. We should be, like, taxing them. Briefcases are the problem, man.
It's briefcases, all the way down . . .
"I have an idea for an app" is exactly what riles up programmers.
Actually, what really riles me up, is when someone who has no idea about programming, states confidently, "It can't be too difficult to program this . . . "
This guy might as well save trips to the dentist, as well. All he needs is a Black & Decker power drill, a can of spackle and a mirror.
Even worse are folks who have just a little bit of computer knowledge, and start playing armchair system quarterback architect with it. Then you hear bizarre statements, like: "Well, all you need to do, is grep a yacc by the tail. It can't be too difficult to program this . . ."
However, I do encourage all people to try some programming. Then when they find it so frustrating, they have more appreciation and understanding for what programmers really do. But most ordinary people can't even grasp the concept of an algorithm or basic logic. When I explain, "IF you have no milk, THEN go to the supermarket, ELSE watch TV, they are lost already.
Well, isn't that them doing their job then, to spread propaganda?
As to the Education part, well, they're thinking of the children, as well. You know, filling their propaganda needs . . . ?
At least it's not Re-Education any more. That was nasty, to say the least.
The Administration got the best chance for some free PR to associate itself with one of the most popular movie franchises in history.
The franchise is now owned by the Disney Corporation. Let them pay for it and build it. $850 quadrillion is chump change to Disney. This is just keeping in line with the new policy of letting private industry finance space endeavors.
The US government would have been Forced to mint Triskelion Quatloo coins to finance this.
Straight from this week's The Economist, http://www.economist.com/news/business/21569398-how-did-lenovo-become-worlds-biggest-computer-company-guard-shack-global-giant
Lenovo is on a roll. It is number one in five of the seven biggest PC markets, including Japan and Germany. Its mobile division is poised to leapfrog Samsung to grab the top spot in China, the world’s biggest smartphone market. This week it made a splash at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with what PC World called “bullish bravado and a seemingly bottomless trunk” of enticing new products.
To focus on PCs, Mr Yang’s [CEO] predecessor sold Lenovo’s smartphone arm for $100m in 2008. Mr Yang bought it back for twice as much the next year. He believes that PCs and other devices will converge, so knowledge of one area will breed expertise in the other. He may be right. Smartphone sales are red hot in China, and Lenovo is now selling mobiles and tablets in several emerging markets
He also thinks Lenovo has a secret weapon. It has kept a lot of manufacturing in-house (why outsource to Foxconn when you already pay Chinese wages?). Mr Yang believes this in-house expertise gives his firm an edge in product development. But Lenovo must exploit that edge better than it has done so far if it is to compete with a technology powerhouse like Samsung and build a global brand anything like Apple’s.
Has anyone seen one of these Lenovo phone critters yet . . . ?
Or, irony will be that kids want to get their hands on this game now . . . just because it has an R18+ rating. Doing anything that is illegal or a sin is more fun. Like, sex before you are married, sneaking into a movie with an adult rating, buying beer when you are under aged, etc.
The R18+ sticker is a big red, blinking "Buy Me!" sticker on the box for kids.
Each company seems to be valuing employees as assets . . . instead of liabilities.
Usually companies only sue each other over patents, not over people.
He called it egoless programming back in the 90's (no idea how old your book is)
The psychology of computer programming, Gerald M. Weinberg, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1971
The concept was first propounded by Jerry Weinberg in his seminal book, The Psychology of Computer Programming -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egoless_programming
I'll skip the lawn comments . . . :-)
. . . are really just not satisfied with themselves.
Give him a copy of "The Psychology of Computer Programming", and tell him to read the bit about egoless programming . . .
The bottom line is we need to identify these people before they snap and get them off the streets and into treatment, not take guns away from law abiding citizens.
That would require us to take a long, hard look at ourselves, and think about how we humanely deal with mentally ill in our society. These have serious implications about deciding who is dangerous, and gets locked up. And who is responsible for enforcing it.
It is easier to blame an inanimate object.
The crazy New York subway pusher didn't need a gun. Someone foaming at the mouth won't need a gun to break into a kindergarten, douse the kids with gasoline, and set them alight.
Mental illness is the problem. But we are ill-equipped to deal with it.
Invent a new colour?
Well, you can try to trademark it . . . the next insane level of Intellectual Property madness . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_trademark
What these tyrants fail to realize, is that nobody takes anything anyone states on social media seriously. The Internet is a community of screwballs, nitwits and the outright bat-shit crazy.
On the Internet, folks will say to you stuff like, "Your mother's muff is astroturf!" and "Heidi Klum is actually an investment-grade Lego Mindstorms collectors' edition set!"
So what? "Twits and stones will break your bones . . . ?"
I don't understand how this is even /. related news.
All Slashdot topics are there because we don't understand. Like things that are so cold, that they have negative temperature and might be actually hot again. We don't understand, so we discuss it here.
Nobody is better than Slashdotters, at discussing things that they don't understand.
Dating, is something that we definitely don't understand.
In Western Pennsylvania, football trumps justice. See the Penn State / Sandusky case for another example.
Yeah, I'm sure a top marginal rate of 75% would apply to a lot of astronomers,
It would have been enough to put Jacques Cousteau out business. But he was looking for stars in the other direction. He financed his hobby with his family fortune. Granted, not all rich folks are so altruistic.
Actually, since the boy has stated in interviews that he wants to leave France and go to college abroad, the press is not that ecstatic.
He just wants to leave France to avoid high income taxes, like the rest: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-07/depardieu-checks-out-new-russian-homeland/4454706
France, top rate: 75%. Russia, flat rate: 13%.
It seems that Russia has the last laugh on all of our "In Soviet Russia . . ." jokes.
Used astronaut suits? Training centrifuges? That would make a killer amusement park ride. Miscellaneous special-purpose rocket building tools?
They must have a warehouse full of junk that would find a happy new home in a geek's mother's basement.
We even found a V2 rocket wreck hidden in the bushes.
Live from Peenemünde:
"Herr von Braun, our last lauch went a little bit off course . . . we think it landed somewhere west of London . . . and England, actually."
"And Ireland, as well . . ."
I know, the first rockets we launched were made by our German scientists, and the Russians' were made by their German scientists.
Well, there's more here: http://www.produktinfo.conrad.com/datenblaetter/100000-124999/101316-in-01-de-VOLTCRAFT_CO20_USB_LUFTQUALITAETSFUEHLER.pdf
How's your German? Otherwise . . . ask the almighty Google . . .
I have one hooked up to a mini-router, flashed with OpenWrt: http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-Portable-802-11n-Wireless-TL-MR3020/dp/B006DEBXD0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357496964&sr=8-1&keywords=tp-link+mr3020
It sends messages with the MQTT protocol on to an IBM Intelligent Operations Center. I test it by blowing on it . . . to measure my bad breath(on topic) . . . or I just smoke a Cuban cigar . . . and I take it into meetings . . . when the LED turns red, the meeting has been going too long.
And I learned about the wonders of OpenWrt . . . on Slashdot . . .
Neither do I, but I'm interested in a usable 2,000 chemical sensor package for under $100.
Well, you could start with one of these: http://www.conrad.com/Voltcraft-CO-20-USB-Air-Quality-Sensor.htm?websale7=conrad-int&pi=101316
I'm about to start writing Android USB support for it, by coincidence. There's a googlable Linux driver with source available, too.
I don't understand the yuck-factor.
"Hunger never saw bad bread." -- Benjamin Franklin
Yucky food is the inspiration for fine home cookin'. Slaves in the US were given the throw-away parts of animals that their masters did not want to eat. So the slaves developed recipes with spices to make the yucky food very tasty. The same thing could happen with this meat.
If you are really hungry, you will eat whatever you can. If it tastes good, you will eat it, even though you think it is yucky.
Confiscating water bottles,
The Constitution of the United States of America, guarantees your Right to Bear Arms, not to Bear Water.
But an organization such as the TSA would have been as welcome as a loud fart in church during the silent prayer to the Founder Fathers.