You might want to check Google Earth there, mate. WA's coastline is huge, stretching thousands of km.
Exactly. Just as a comparison, Western Australia's coastline is roughly as long as the US Pacific coastline - including Hawaii & Alaska - or only about half as long as the entire US coastline
Hmmm... robots... technological/social crossroads... buzzwords/phrases... open vs closed source...
I see the Dice-a-matic automated headline generator is beginning to learn how to assemble the component parts of a Slashdot-centric clickbait story with minimal intelligent oversight.
On the downside, the human editors will soon be replaced by robots.
On the upside, Timothy & Soulseek will soon be replaced by robots.
... time to download all the interesting DoD sites, data, and documentation I've bookmarked over the years. Probably the rest of the government stuff (e.g. USDA) too, while I'm at it...
Confirmation bias. Asimov didn't write stories about the billions of robots who didn't jump their programming rails and cause problems, because that would've been boring.
Most of the ones he wrote about, with only a few exceptions (admittedly the most famous e.g. Daneel, Giskard, Andrew Martin, etc) were experimental or otherwise non-standard models.
"So someone gets a slashvertisment on the front page and the first thing Slashdot can do is take the piss of his his foreign name."
FTFY.
SMD (If you can solder DIL & through hole parts you can solder SOIC & 1206 surface mount) would make that thing 1/3 of the size, allow you to have 3 (e.g. red, yellow, & green) or more LEDs, and might make it worth the asking price.
Or, for the same price or less, you could build a USB 2x16 or 2x20 LCD display.
Subscription TV is delivered by satellite in virtually all areas of Australia, save for small sections of urban Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
And Perth.
I only add this becase there's a whackjob on one of the Australian tech forums who - despite living in Perth himself, repeatedly being presented with lists of suburbs that are cabled, and provided with first-hand information from customers connected to it - likes to claim there's no Foxtel cable in Perth.
He's such a whackjob that he's likely to use your comment as a citiation to support his claim in one of his forum posts - or, worse, one of his frequent submissions to the regulator ACMA.
"But the protest was allowed..." "Allowed? I eventually had to go across town to find it!" "That's the free-speech zone" "I had to walk!" "Ah, well, the buses were probably out" "So were the taxis" "But, look, you found the protest didn't you?" "Yes, yes I did. It was in a fenced off park stuck in the middle of a derelict industrial area with a sign on the fence saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."
The USB licencing agreement mandates that, for a product with an A or B cable to be USB-compliant, the USB trident logo must be on the upper face of the plug (i.e. the side opposite the contacts).
You'd be surprised how many major manufacturers are shipping devices with cables that have the trident logo on the other side and, strictly speaking at least, can't be called USB. WD & Logitech are just the first two examples that come to mind.
(The other old-wive's tale / rule of thumb - that the "up" face of an A plug is the one without the seam - works until you find one of the many plugs that has the seam on the "up" side...)
But yes, the current mini/micro/fucked-up-bastard-son-of-USB-with-a-conjoined-foetus-on-the-side connecters are stupidly flimsy.
This was a solved problem with the original telco 1/4" plugs - the tip (and rings on more complicated versions) were narrower than the sleeve, and the insulating rings between segments had high shoulders. The design made it impossible to short the plug when jacking in/out (although you could still short a live plug tip to a live socket sleeve e.g. when plugging one piece of powered equipment into another separately-powered piece of equipment - later socket designs solved this problem too).
This basic common-sense feature was forgotton somewhere along the evolutionary line between the telco versions & the familiar consumer 1/4", 3.5mm, & 2.5mm versions. But the telco versions continued to have the sensible design (at least right up until at least the 80's).
But anyone who designs a device using a live consumer-style phone plug for power deserves all the warranty & incidental damages claims they'll inevitably get...
[See, this is kinda what I meant] when I said you don't need an oscilloscope anymore.
And, if you only consider the tiny sub-set of 'electronics' that is 'dicking around writing software for pre-built toys', you were right.
Fortunately, real electronics engineers and technicians are designing and building those toys for you. And, even more fortunately, they know when oscilloscopes are still useful.
About as Orwellian as "Homeland Security".
The difference is that no-one in the UK has ever made thinly-veiled propaganda^w^w TV shows promoting the good, necessary, and important work of the honest folk who are just doing their jobs working for the Information Comissioner...
Every time Firefox comes up as a topic on/., people say they want it simpler and smaller, and follow the newest trends young browser projects bring.
I agree, it's easy to find examples where the majority on people in a/. discussion are wanting the first two.
But, Mr. Mozilla Developer, can you point to any examples where the majority of people in a/. discussion are wanting the third?
I suspect you might have a lot of trouble with that - which is why I'm just going to sit back and consider the Mozilla developers in general to be an out-of-touch autocratic cabal, and you specifically to be a liar, until there's evidence to the contrary.
She submits her own work to Slashdot, and submits work for other writers, too.
So, a shilling spammer then?
Thanks for the warning. Maybe you could investigate a few more of these professional arseholes who's actions work to destroy the utility of the ideal of free and public information flow?
And why is it that when I start after a crash or reboot, it tells me it can't restore my session, but then when I click the button it does so without fail?
Because it's not actually restoring your session - it's reaching across the void between dimensions, piercing the paper-thin veil that separates this from that, and stealing the session from another reality.
The reality Firefox has reached in may differ only in the angular momentum of a single sub-atomic particle. Ever notice that sometimes the session you get back is not quite the same as the one you 'lost'? That, for example, one tab may have subtly different content, or that it's on the page you'd been on before you clicked the link? At other times, greater divergence between realities can more profound differences. My wife - then girlfriend - once borrowed my laptop after FF had crashed on me, only to be shocked by multiple tabs full of midgets being blown by ducks.
Lucky for me she understood that my last-second scream of "no, dont!" was simply meant to stop her from seeing I'd been idly browsing wedding rings, curtains, and Michael Buble CDs, and didn't hold it against me.
You wouldn't, however, know any of this - because the Mozilla folks have never provided a useful or detailed changelog.
If they had someone might have twigged that, rather than the problem leading to a solution, what has in fact happened is that the solution leads to the problem. Your session disappeared because Otheryou stole it; however, Otheryou's session disappeared because you stole it.
There's lots of documentation and historical examples of this, as well as some good (true!) stories. Check out the backstory of G&S's The Pirates of Penzance for just one example...
Sounds less like 'piracy', and more like early America, where our forebears had little stake in maintaining the seemingly unjust control of foreign interests, but much interest in creating a large body of works that the public could use to generate culture in this new world.
Very true. And not just foreign interests either. Look at the history of the American film industry who, in the space of ~2 years, moved en mass from New York & New Jersey to Hollywood, at least partially to get as far away as possible from Edison and the heavies he sent out to threaten filmmakers & 'confiscate' cameras - all in the name of patents & intellectual property.
I think the problem with Wikipedia is basically described by Animal House. Initially conceived as a criticism of communism... Basically, Wikipedia's goal is an encyclopedia where "Everyone is equal". But as we all know the full quote is "Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others".
Slashdot Mirror
Including Atheist fundamentalism, apparently...
If by "open" you mean "closed & proprietary, but with some reverse-engineered partially-functional open-source API impementations", then you're right.
Exactly. Just as a comparison, Western Australia's coastline is roughly as long as the US Pacific coastline - including Hawaii & Alaska - or only about half as long as the entire US coastline
Everything people do is something of a Faustian bargain. That's the whole point of the story.
The moral is to be wise and strive to choose incontrovertible good as the target of all your actions...
Hmmm... robots ... technological/social crossroads ... buzzwords/phrases ... open vs closed source ...
I see the Dice-a-matic automated headline generator is beginning to learn how to assemble the component parts of a Slashdot-centric clickbait story with minimal intelligent oversight.
On the downside, the human editors will soon be replaced by robots.
On the upside, Timothy & Soulseek will soon be replaced by robots.
Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation? Fluoridation of water?
... time to download all the interesting DoD sites, data, and documentation I've bookmarked over the years. Probably the rest of the government stuff (e.g. USDA) too, while I'm at it...
Confirmation bias. Asimov didn't write stories about the billions of robots who didn't jump their programming rails and cause problems, because that would've been boring.
Most of the ones he wrote about, with only a few exceptions (admittedly the most famous e.g. Daneel, Giskard, Andrew Martin, etc) were experimental or otherwise non-standard models.
FTFY.
"So someone gets a slashvertisment on the front page and the first thing Slashdot can do is take the piss of his his foreign name."
FTFY.
SMD (If you can solder DIL & through hole parts you can solder SOIC & 1206 surface mount) would make that thing 1/3 of the size, allow you to have 3 (e.g. red, yellow, & green) or more LEDs, and might make it worth the asking price.
Or, for the same price or less, you could build a USB 2x16 or 2x20 LCD display.
And Perth.
I only add this becase there's a whackjob on one of the Australian tech forums who - despite living in Perth himself, repeatedly being presented with lists of suburbs that are cabled, and provided with first-hand information from customers connected to it - likes to claim there's no Foxtel cable in Perth.
He's such a whackjob that he's likely to use your comment as a citiation to support his claim in one of his forum posts - or, worse, one of his frequent submissions to the regulator ACMA.
"But the protest was allowed ..."
"Allowed? I eventually had to go across town to find it!"
"That's the free-speech zone"
"I had to walk!"
"Ah, well, the buses were probably out"
"So were the taxis"
"But, look, you found the protest didn't you?"
"Yes, yes I did. It was in a fenced off park stuck in the middle of a derelict industrial area with a sign on the fence saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."
The USB licencing agreement mandates that, for a product with an A or B cable to be USB-compliant, the USB trident logo must be on the upper face of the plug (i.e. the side opposite the contacts).
You'd be surprised how many major manufacturers are shipping devices with cables that have the trident logo on the other side and, strictly speaking at least, can't be called USB. WD & Logitech are just the first two examples that come to mind.
(The other old-wive's tale / rule of thumb - that the "up" face of an A plug is the one without the seam - works until you find one of the many plugs that has the seam on the "up" side...)
But yes, the current mini/micro/fucked-up-bastard-son-of-USB-with-a-conjoined-foetus-on-the-side connecters are stupidly flimsy.
This was a solved problem with the original telco 1/4" plugs - the tip (and rings on more complicated versions) were narrower than the sleeve, and the insulating rings between segments had high shoulders. The design made it impossible to short the plug when jacking in/out (although you could still short a live plug tip to a live socket sleeve e.g. when plugging one piece of powered equipment into another separately-powered piece of equipment - later socket designs solved this problem too).
This basic common-sense feature was forgotton somewhere along the evolutionary line between the telco versions & the familiar consumer 1/4", 3.5mm, & 2.5mm versions. But the telco versions continued to have the sensible design (at least right up until at least the 80's).
But anyone who designs a device using a live consumer-style phone plug for power deserves all the warranty & incidental damages claims they'll inevitably get...
And, if you only consider the tiny sub-set of 'electronics' that is 'dicking around writing software for pre-built toys', you were right.
Fortunately, real electronics engineers and technicians are designing and building those toys for you. And, even more fortunately, they know when oscilloscopes are still useful.
About as Orwellian as "Homeland Security". The difference is that no-one in the UK has ever made thinly-veiled propaganda^w^w TV shows promoting the good, necessary, and important work of the honest folk who are just doing their jobs working for the Information Comissioner...
Dude, it doesn't count as a slashvertisement unless it's mentioned in an article approved by an 'editor'.
In order of increasing difficulty, it goes
Almost any fool can mention their own app in a comment...
It was posted 9:34AM Saturday, Indian time.
Just sayin'...
I agree, it's easy to find examples where the majority on people in a /. discussion are wanting the first two.
But, Mr. Mozilla Developer, can you point to any examples where the majority of people in a /. discussion are wanting the third?
I suspect you might have a lot of trouble with that - which is why I'm just going to sit back and consider the Mozilla developers in general to be an out-of-touch autocratic cabal, and you specifically to be a liar, until there's evidence to the contrary.
So, a shilling spammer then?
Thanks for the warning. Maybe you could investigate a few more of these professional arseholes who's actions work to destroy the utility of the ideal of free and public information flow?
TIA.
Because it's not actually restoring your session - it's reaching across the void between dimensions, piercing the paper-thin veil that separates this from that, and stealing the session from another reality.
The reality Firefox has reached in may differ only in the angular momentum of a single sub-atomic particle. Ever notice that sometimes the session you get back is not quite the same as the one you 'lost'? That, for example, one tab may have subtly different content, or that it's on the page you'd been on before you clicked the link? At other times, greater divergence between realities can more profound differences. My wife - then girlfriend - once borrowed my laptop after FF had crashed on me, only to be shocked by multiple tabs full of midgets being blown by ducks.
Lucky for me she understood that my last-second scream of "no, dont!" was simply meant to stop her from seeing I'd been idly browsing wedding rings, curtains, and Michael Buble CDs, and didn't hold it against me.
You wouldn't, however, know any of this - because the Mozilla folks have never provided a useful or detailed changelog.
If they had someone might have twigged that, rather than the problem leading to a solution, what has in fact happened is that the solution leads to the problem. Your session disappeared because Otheryou stole it; however, Otheryou's session disappeared because you stole it.
Causality is fucked up, and I blame Mozilla...
Now that's just not fair.
Slashdot's 'editors' were crap and happily rubber-stamped stupid submissions like this well before Dice took over...
There's lots of documentation and historical examples of this, as well as some good (true!) stories. Check out the backstory of G&S's The Pirates of Penzance for just one example...
Very true. And not just foreign interests either. Look at the history of the American film industry who, in the space of ~2 years, moved en mass from New York & New Jersey to Hollywood, at least partially to get as far away as possible from Edison and the heavies he sent out to threaten filmmakers & 'confiscate' cameras - all in the name of patents & intellectual property.
Dude, you like totally saw the wrong movie...