Reading over these comments, it's plain to see that whipslash is getting a demonstration of what you might call the "momentum of good will". If something has a bad reputation, one good move can't fix it overnight.
The flip-side of this is that I've heard stories from sales guys who say they get calls from clients they haven't spoken with in 10 years. They want to deal with the same guy because they remember the last good deal.
So. Hang in there whipslash. This is as bad as it gets, assuming you keep making the right moves.
I'd at least like to see them doing something like this contest that I suggested here a while ago.. As it stands, getting to Mars is hard enough; but unlike the Moon I don't think it's practical without a robotic "advance team" to prepare the way.
My car is almost 8 years old and it will let you set the cruise control at 25 mph. If anything it's the *older* cars that are harder to drive at slow speeds--they either wouldn't let you set cruise below 35, or they didn't even have it.
This Unicode gripe is almost as bad as the anti-aliasing gripe you used to hear from Linux people. I guess Linux has anti-aliasing now, because I haven't heard that one in ages. You know what? I hope they *never* get Unicode on Slashdot. What would we do with it? OK, the occasional accent grave or umlaut is nice, but all the emoticons that come along for the ride just aren't worth it. Yeah, they could filter it, but whatever. Slashdot without unicode is just fine. Slashdot without stories is nothing.
The tube liner by itself would probably have no trouble handling the pressure. It will almost certainly be surrounded by steel-reinforced concrete or at the very least pipeline steel because building such things is well understood. However it's built, it'll be ridiculously over-built if an M-80 or a rifle is the biggest threat. A real terrorist IED is always a threat of course, but no more so than for traditional rail.
We've both been around long enough to remember numerical Karma, I think. I know I remember building up a fairly high number, and then "spending" it with some silly trolls just for grins and giggles. Have you thought through the whole idea of gamifying it?
Anyway, I don't actively block ads on Slashdot--they're just collateral damage of script blocking. The script blocking is just there to avoid security and/or poor page performance issues. If the new owners can actually find a way to make me view ads without killing the site, they wouldn't just be fixing Slashdot--they'd be demonstrating a model that could fix the web in general.
Yes, that's a tall order and I'm skeptical. I don't know if it's the ad networks or the advertisers, or what; but the state of the art in ads is for them to be annoying as hell to end-users. You'd have to go back to regular old non-animated GIFs served from the same domain in order for me to view ads, and I think that's a tough sell to advertisers, or ad-networks, or anybody that's built a web site in the past 15 years.
This is not quite the same as gamifying Karma, but I think if they borrowed the "gold" concept from reddit and kept their hands off the moderation and Karma systems they might have something. You know how that works? Users buy "gold" for other users. Getting gold unlocks some site features, the money goes to reddit. There is a thing that tells you how much server time the gold purchase has provided.
I'm not sure how much of reddit is funded by gold, but it's probably a big chunk. I've gotten it once--it's way harder to get than a +5 comment, at least for me; but then I don't intentionally try to play to that crowd just for Internet points...
Ammendment V: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Emphasis mine. In the case of Oregon, it may have been part of the Louisiana Purchase and thus Federal land by default (not sure about the actual history of titles in that case), or it may have been a park later acquired via eminent domain. Regardless of how it was acquired, I'm pretty sure it's Constitutional for the Federal government to own land for any purpose it deems fit for public use.
The taking of land via eminent domain and then the immediate re-purposing of that land for private use is far more controversial and I think it may still be in lower courts than SCOTUS. There were some notorious cases of this back east, and that's where you'd have a strong case against eminent domain taking. As for these renegades, it sounds to me like they want to take land that was acquired by the Feds and convert it to partial private use after a considerable period of time has passed. That's an entirely different matter. Another interesting case would be where the Federal government had taken so much land in a region that they have effectively killed the private market in that region, and whether or not such a government monopoly violated some inherent right. I'm not aware of any cases being brought with such an argument being made.
At any rate, the renegades have checked the last box, and we're seeing the predictable results...
I think you mean Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2: The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.
I was highschool age. There was no school that day. I slept in. I was having a dream about this crystal perfume decanter that was one of those "don't you dare touch that because you might break it" objects in the house. In the dream, I had removed the top which is a thin 3-sided pyramid about six inches tall. I fumbled the top. I was like "oh crap, gotta get this back on". For some reason I couldn't get it back on straight. I woke up to the sound of the phone ringing. It was my Mom. She told me to turn on the TV.
My parents are both gone now. I pulled the decanter out of the estate stuff. I still have it. In fact, all I have to do is glance to the right while typing this and I can see it. It does in fact have some chips out of it now; but I have no idea how that happened. It was packed away in newspaper and/or bubblewrap for a long time.
API specifications? If the suits won't let those leave the building then yeah, it's all got to be on site like others are saying. Sounds like a nice little train wreck you've got going.
If malware forwards me my friend's browsing history, I would totally believe he went to all those sites, because there's no way a malware could possibly lie, or that a compromised machine could have been used as a proxy for some other agent./s.
Although Unix was not originally written in C (I had to look this up), it was re-written and ported using C fairly early. Arguably, Spencer's aphorism is as much about C as Unix. I think we can regard C-like languages and *NIX operating systems as "brothers".
You don't have to pop your own corn, or run to the store for beer. You can pay Wolfram to deliver, or let him regale you with a message from his sponsors while he pops the corn and pours the beer for you.
Same old stupidity, to the point of being tiresome. Litigation lotto. Shooting the messenger. Breaking the honey-pot instead of shooting the bear. Etc., etc...
Dice hate aside, it really is a pretty lame click-bait article that could have been written by a bot. It's not bad to spark a discussion on Slashdot though so I'll bite. The first thing that comes to mind is DRY. Knowing when you are RY isn't always easy though, and there are some interesting tools out there that claim to be capable of detecting patterns via static analysis. I have to confess I haven't used them though. I'm wondering how big an obstacle to reduction is found in the "prestige" of "managing millions of lines of code". If somebody came along, audited it, and told them it was really just a massive macro expansion that came from 2500 lines, they might not be so happy.
It was very common for kids to walk to school alone when I was a kid in the 70s. The biggest problem for me was that some of the student patrols were power-tripping and would do asinine things like keep their hands up and prevent you from crossing the street even when there were no cars coming. Then they'd report you if you just ran around them. Then the administrators would believe them and make you write some stupid essay and/or apologize for something you didn't do. I guess those kids grew up and are running things now. God help us.
Slashdot Mirror
They should have replaced the gearshift with Slashdot Beta.
Reading over these comments, it's plain to see that whipslash is getting a demonstration of what you might call the "momentum of good will". If something has a bad reputation, one good move can't fix it overnight.
The flip-side of this is that I've heard stories from sales guys who say they get calls from clients they haven't spoken with in 10 years. They want to deal with the same guy because they remember the last good deal.
So. Hang in there whipslash. This is as bad as it gets, assuming you keep making the right moves.
Well then. It looks like we have no choice: ARM THE ANTI-ANTI MISSILE-MISSILES.
evil laughter
I'd at least like to see them doing something like this contest that I suggested here a while ago.. As it stands, getting to Mars is hard enough; but unlike the Moon I don't think it's practical without a robotic "advance team" to prepare the way.
My car is almost 8 years old and it will let you set the cruise control at 25 mph. If anything it's the *older* cars that are harder to drive at slow speeds--they either wouldn't let you set cruise below 35, or they didn't even have it.
Apples and oranges. I'd be surprised if dealers who wanted a Saleen Mustang on their floor could get one if they were jerks with their Ford rep.
This Unicode gripe is almost as bad as the anti-aliasing gripe you used to hear from Linux people. I guess Linux has anti-aliasing now, because I haven't heard that one in ages. You know what? I hope they *never* get Unicode on Slashdot. What would we do with it? OK, the occasional accent grave or umlaut is nice, but all the emoticons that come along for the ride just aren't worth it. Yeah, they could filter it, but whatever. Slashdot without unicode is just fine. Slashdot without stories is nothing.
HUGE amount of force trying to crush the tube. 14 lbs/ square inch.
The Transbay Tube has a maximum depth in water of 41m, and according to this calculator experiences 74.4696 psi at that depth.
The tube liner by itself would probably have no trouble handling the pressure. It will almost certainly be surrounded by steel-reinforced concrete or at the very least pipeline steel because building such things is well understood. However it's built, it'll be ridiculously over-built if an M-80 or a rifle is the biggest threat. A real terrorist IED is always a threat of course, but no more so than for traditional rail.
We are all cows who have no future. Moo.
Holy shucking fit, that's brilliant.
Gamify the f--k out of Karma.
We've both been around long enough to remember numerical Karma, I think. I know I remember building up a fairly high number, and then "spending" it with some silly trolls just for grins and giggles. Have you thought through the whole idea of gamifying it?
Anyway, I don't actively block ads on Slashdot--they're just collateral damage of script blocking. The script blocking is just there to avoid security and/or poor page performance issues. If the new owners can actually find a way to make me view ads without killing the site, they wouldn't just be fixing Slashdot--they'd be demonstrating a model that could fix the web in general.
Yes, that's a tall order and I'm skeptical. I don't know if it's the ad networks or the advertisers, or what; but the state of the art in ads is for them to be annoying as hell to end-users. You'd have to go back to regular old non-animated GIFs served from the same domain in order for me to view ads, and I think that's a tough sell to advertisers, or ad-networks, or anybody that's built a web site in the past 15 years.
This is not quite the same as gamifying Karma, but I think if they borrowed the "gold" concept from reddit and kept their hands off the moderation and Karma systems they might have something. You know how that works? Users buy "gold" for other users. Getting gold unlocks some site features, the money goes to reddit. There is a thing that tells you how much server time the gold purchase has provided.
I'm not sure how much of reddit is funded by gold, but it's probably a big chunk. I've gotten it once--it's way harder to get than a +5 comment, at least for me; but then I don't intentionally try to play to that crowd just for Internet points...
Do you get the reference?
OK, we've heard from the potted plant. I wonder what the sperm whale is thinking.
Ammendment V: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Emphasis mine. In the case of Oregon, it may have been part of the Louisiana Purchase and thus Federal land by default (not sure about the actual history of titles in that case), or it may have been a park later acquired via eminent domain. Regardless of how it was acquired, I'm pretty sure it's Constitutional for the Federal government to own land for any purpose it deems fit for public use.
The taking of land via eminent domain and then the immediate re-purposing of that land for private use is far more controversial and I think it may still be in lower courts than SCOTUS. There were some notorious cases of this back east, and that's where you'd have a strong case against eminent domain taking. As for these renegades, it sounds to me like they want to take land that was acquired by the Feds and convert it to partial private use after a considerable period of time has passed. That's an entirely different matter. Another interesting case would be where the Federal government had taken so much land in a region that they have effectively killed the private market in that region, and whether or not such a government monopoly violated some inherent right. I'm not aware of any cases being brought with such an argument being made.
At any rate, the renegades have checked the last box, and we're seeing the predictable results...
I think you mean Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2: The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.
I was highschool age. There was no school that day. I slept in. I was having a dream about this crystal perfume decanter that was one of those "don't you dare touch that because you might break it" objects in the house. In the dream, I had removed the top which is a thin 3-sided pyramid about six inches tall. I fumbled the top. I was like "oh crap, gotta get this back on". For some reason I couldn't get it back on straight. I woke up to the sound of the phone ringing. It was my Mom. She told me to turn on the TV.
My parents are both gone now. I pulled the decanter out of the estate stuff. I still have it. In fact, all I have to do is glance to the right while typing this and I can see it. It does in fact have some chips out of it now; but I have no idea how that happened. It was packed away in newspaper and/or bubblewrap for a long time.
API specifications? If the suits won't let those leave the building then yeah, it's all got to be on site like others are saying. Sounds like a nice little train wreck you've got going.
If malware forwards me my friend's browsing history, I would totally believe he went to all those sites, because there's no way a malware could possibly lie, or that a compromised machine could have been used as a proxy for some other agent. /s.
I would have gone with:
Since shooting a man in Reno just to watch him die will probably get you stuck there until they throw the switch on you or the power goes out.
Although Unix was not originally written in C (I had to look this up), it was re-written and ported using C fairly early. Arguably, Spencer's aphorism is as much about C as Unix. I think we can regard C-like languages and *NIX operating systems as "brothers".
You don't have to pop your own corn, or run to the store for beer. You can pay Wolfram to deliver, or let him regale you with a message from his sponsors while he pops the corn and pours the beer for you.
Same old stupidity, to the point of being tiresome. Litigation lotto. Shooting the messenger. Breaking the honey-pot instead of shooting the bear. Etc., etc...
Dice hate aside, it really is a pretty lame click-bait article that could have been written by a bot. It's not bad to spark a discussion on Slashdot though so I'll bite. The first thing that comes to mind is DRY. Knowing when you are RY isn't always easy though, and there are some interesting tools out there that claim to be capable of detecting patterns via static analysis. I have to confess I haven't used them though. I'm wondering how big an obstacle to reduction is found in the "prestige" of "managing millions of lines of code". If somebody came along, audited it, and told them it was really just a massive macro expansion that came from 2500 lines, they might not be so happy.
Since your code is shorter, other people can read and understand it easier
Some Perl maintainers would like a word with you.
It was very common for kids to walk to school alone when I was a kid in the 70s. The biggest problem for me was that some of the student patrols were power-tripping and would do asinine things like keep their hands up and prevent you from crossing the street even when there were no cars coming. Then they'd report you if you just ran around them. Then the administrators would believe them and make you write some stupid essay and/or apologize for something you didn't do. I guess those kids grew up and are running things now. God help us.