Okay, what about battery? Does it last a few weeks on a charge like a good old Nokia? If not, why not? Why this incessant focus on processing power? Having to charge my phone daily (or more frequently!) is where the pain is if you ask me.
I don't normally care for "me too" comments, but the day this slashdot beta is forced on me is the day I stop reading slashdot. And that's sad, since it's been part of my morning routine for the last 16 years or so.
But yeah, fuck the bigfonted blogified facebookie beta, pardon my french.
It's really very straight forward - simply submit whatever the current top story on/. is at the moment! Given the frequency of same-day dupes we've been seeing, you're bound to get a lot of your stories through...
The next brain-melting thing to consider is that, perhaps, everything moves at the speed of light - not through space, but through spacetime. But because most of the stuff we're familiar with - the Earth, the stars, etc - shares roughly the same path through spacetime, we don't experience it like that. All of our speed is taken up with travel into the future. We could swap a bit of it for travel through space if we accelerate.
Thank you! That's the first coherent explanation I've read that allows me to reach some sort of understanding of this!
I've got a really cool idea! We should totally get slashdot to get someone to read and tidy up the posts before they're well posted. You know, edit them to make them more readable. We could even give those people a title, say, "editor"....
This. So much this. Get the editors to, you know, edit, and improve the quality of the stories. That's what would make a positive change, not adding tons of white space and eye gouging/candy.
If this new designed is forced upon me, I will finally stop reading slashdot, even though it's been part of my morning "ritual" for the last 15+ years.
I'm sorry, but if it's available to all and sundry on the internet, it is no longer secret, let alone Top Secret. The cat is out of the bag, the genie is out of the bottle, the train's left the platform, etc.
If institutions fail to adapt to the changing world, that's their problem, not the world's.
Let's attach a tazer to each of the "editors", and hand out "tazer points" in addition to mod points using the same scheme. Apply same as usual moderation, only with more painful effects! I am quite confident this would remove the dupes in short time.
So how is anyone, courts included, meant to unpublish something? Unless a security researcher is saying "in X days I'll release the details on vulnerability Y" how would you even know to get a court injunction against said person? Once the cat is out of the bag, that's it.
Of course, I can then see the "logical" progression that all vulnerability disclosure must be outlawed - think of the children!
It's as the US is trying *really really* hard to isolate itself from the world. Sadly, I'm getting closer to the point of saying "good riddance" in response:/
Yeah if only people would write GNU/Linux... wait, most distros aren't purely made up of a Linux kernel and GNU tools. Um, SomewhatGNU/Linux? NotJustGNU/Linux? OpenAndOrFreeSource/Linux? But what about whichever distro is using the FreeBSD kernel but the same userland as their Linux-based version? FreeBSD isn't just a kernel, it's an entire OS, so what would that be then? NotJustGNU/FreeBSDKernel?
I don't know about the rest of you, but I think saying "Linux" and "Android" is about as clear as it's going to get. To non-geeks it conveys the necessary distinction, and geeks already know (and debate) the distinction. Context is a wonderful thing after all.
Don't get me wrong, Firefox is still my preferred browser, but I so wish it would slim down a bit. You know, be a browser instead of a kitchen sink. Then again, I'm a vi user, not an emacs user...;)
Digital "change" was introduced in Sweden about 14 years ago. It didn't take off, mostly (as far as I understand - and this includes personal experience) because it was cumbersome to work out how much change you had.
Without a display on the card it meant either finding your personal reader (I still have mine somewhere), or a store where you could check. This lack of convenience was the deciding factor. Sure, it didn't have the wave-or-tap ability (it was good old-fashioned swipe), and card-to-card wasn't available, but those I never had a need for. Quickly checking whether I had enough "change" to go and grab a quick snack, I most definitely had. Unless this new system solves the display issue, I don't see this going very far. TFA doesn't seem to mention this aspect at all, so I'm going to guess they haven't addressed it.
A handful of years ago I ended up switching from a custom window manager / desktop setup (WindowMaker based, if you care) to Gnome2. The driver for this was simply effort required to get something useful running in a short amount of time. As a developer I'm not getting paid to faff around with getting a desktop environment up and running. Gnome served me well, and even convinced me to switch away from xterm/uxterm. On a fresh Ubuntu install, all I needed was a few tweaks to the terminal config, a keyboard shortcut or two (launch terminal + virtual desktop switching), and I could feel "home" enough to be productive. Fantastic.
== Caution: incoming rant. ==
However, as of a few months ago I'm back to using WindowMaker. Why? Because of the unholy fustercluck which is known as Ubuntu / Unity / Gnome3. I had a perfectly fine desktop environment running on my 10.04 install. After upgrading to the next LTS release, my entire desktop was, to put it mildly, fubared. Whoever thought they were entitled to completely replace a user's desktop environment, and not provide a fallback option is worthy of being C-level at EA.
Even after manually adding "gnome-shell" back to the system to try to get my desktop environment back in a working order, I discovered that my keyboard short-cut settings were gone, as were half my panels and virtual desktops. Evicting the gnome-shell and loading up MATE didn't improve the situation (it kept missing keyboard shortcuts, amongst other issues). I tried KDE, but it was, quite frankly, far too "flashy" for me. Oh, and the screenlock refused to work. After having spent over a day trying to get my workstation back into a state where I could actually _work_, I said "stuff it" and installed WindowMaker, grabbed a few dock-apps by source, hacked my xsession to configure my dual-screen setup, set up the ssh-agent, xlock, etc etc. I really haven't missed having to do all of that manually, but by golly, right now there doesn't seem to be an easily usable alternative!
I've installed my last Ubuntu system, that's for sure.
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You're a patent lawyer, aren't you? ;)
Is the module GPL'd, or does it taint the kernel?
On second thought (and without RTFM'ing) I'll go out on a limb and say that an album taints the kernel regardless of license.
Okay, what about battery? Does it last a few weeks on a charge like a good old Nokia? If not, why not? Why this incessant focus on processing power? Having to charge my phone daily (or more frequently!) is where the pain is if you ask me.
I don't normally care for "me too" comments, but the day this slashdot beta is forced on me is the day I stop reading slashdot. And that's sad, since it's been part of my morning routine for the last 16 years or so.
But yeah, fuck the bigfonted blogified facebookie beta, pardon my french.
It's really very straight forward - simply submit whatever the current top story on /. is at the moment! Given the frequency of same-day dupes we've been seeing, you're bound to get a lot of your stories through...
It's only six stories down for heaven's sake! Note: this post is likely a dupe too, in order to keep in character with the site.
The next brain-melting thing to consider is that, perhaps, everything moves at the speed of light - not through space, but through spacetime. But because most of the stuff we're familiar with - the Earth, the stars, etc - shares roughly the same path through spacetime, we don't experience it like that. All of our speed is taken up with travel into the future. We could swap a bit of it for travel through space if we accelerate.
Thank you! That's the first coherent explanation I've read that allows me to reach some sort of understanding of this!
I've got a really cool idea! We should totally get slashdot to get someone to read and tidy up the posts before they're well posted. You know, edit them to make them more readable. We could even give those people a title, say, "editor"....
This. So much this. Get the editors to, you know, edit, and improve the quality of the stories. That's what would make a positive change, not adding tons of white space and eye gouging/candy.
If this new designed is forced upon me, I will finally stop reading slashdot, even though it's been part of my morning "ritual" for the last 15+ years.
Any name specified with a trailing dot will not have a local domain or search domain appended.
I'm sorry, but if it's available to all and sundry on the internet, it is no longer secret, let alone Top Secret. The cat is out of the bag, the genie is out of the bottle, the train's left the platform, etc.
If institutions fail to adapt to the changing world, that's their problem, not the world's.
Let's attach a tazer to each of the "editors", and hand out "tazer points" in addition to mod points using the same scheme. Apply same as usual moderation, only with more painful effects! I am quite confident this would remove the dupes in short time.
All in favor say "aye"!
So how is anyone, courts included, meant to unpublish something? Unless a security researcher is saying "in X days I'll release the details on vulnerability Y" how would you even know to get a court injunction against said person? Once the cat is out of the bag, that's it.
Of course, I can then see the "logical" progression that all vulnerability disclosure must be outlawed - think of the children!
Editor. I do not think that word means what you think it means...
It's as the US is trying *really really* hard to isolate itself from the world. Sadly, I'm getting closer to the point of saying "good riddance" in response :/
I would consider politeness an actual hundrance
Yo, you fucked up spelling "hindrance". ;)
If you have to wonder, you haven't been paying enough attention. :(
Ohmy, I'm having a hard time staying current with all these technologies. Maybe I'm getting old and resist change too much?
Yeah if only people would write GNU/Linux... wait, most distros aren't purely made up of a Linux kernel and GNU tools. Um, SomewhatGNU/Linux? NotJustGNU/Linux? OpenAndOrFreeSource/Linux? But what about whichever distro is using the FreeBSD kernel but the same userland as their Linux-based version? FreeBSD isn't just a kernel, it's an entire OS, so what would that be then? NotJustGNU/FreeBSDKernel?
I don't know about the rest of you, but I think saying "Linux" and "Android" is about as clear as it's going to get. To non-geeks it conveys the necessary distinction, and geeks already know (and debate) the distinction. Context is a wonderful thing after all.
If I had modpoints you'd get 'em!
Don't get me wrong, Firefox is still my preferred browser, but I so wish it would slim down a bit. You know, be a browser instead of a kitchen sink. Then again, I'm a vi user, not an emacs user... ;)
Digital "change" was introduced in Sweden about 14 years ago. It didn't take off, mostly (as far as I understand - and this includes personal experience) because it was cumbersome to work out how much change you had.
Without a display on the card it meant either finding your personal reader (I still have mine somewhere), or a store where you could check. This lack of convenience was the deciding factor. Sure, it didn't have the wave-or-tap ability (it was good old-fashioned swipe), and card-to-card wasn't available, but those I never had a need for. Quickly checking whether I had enough "change" to go and grab a quick snack, I most definitely had. Unless this new system solves the display issue, I don't see this going very far. TFA doesn't seem to mention this aspect at all, so I'm going to guess they haven't addressed it.
A handful of years ago I ended up switching from a custom window manager / desktop setup (WindowMaker based, if you care) to Gnome2. The driver for this was simply effort required to get something useful running in a short amount of time. As a developer I'm not getting paid to faff around with getting a desktop environment up and running. Gnome served me well, and even convinced me to switch away from xterm/uxterm. On a fresh Ubuntu install, all I needed was a few tweaks to the terminal config, a keyboard shortcut or two (launch terminal + virtual desktop switching), and I could feel "home" enough to be productive. Fantastic.
== Caution: incoming rant. ==
However, as of a few months ago I'm back to using WindowMaker. Why? Because of the unholy fustercluck which is known as Ubuntu / Unity / Gnome3. I had a perfectly fine desktop environment running on my 10.04 install. After upgrading to the next LTS release, my entire desktop was, to put it mildly, fubared. Whoever thought they were entitled to completely replace a user's desktop environment, and not provide a fallback option is worthy of being C-level at EA.
Even after manually adding "gnome-shell" back to the system to try to get my desktop environment back in a working order, I discovered that my keyboard short-cut settings were gone, as were half my panels and virtual desktops. Evicting the gnome-shell and loading up MATE didn't improve the situation (it kept missing keyboard shortcuts, amongst other issues). I tried KDE, but it was, quite frankly, far too "flashy" for me. Oh, and the screenlock refused to work. After having spent over a day trying to get my workstation back into a state where I could actually _work_, I said "stuff it" and installed WindowMaker, grabbed a few dock-apps by source, hacked my xsession to configure my dual-screen setup, set up the ssh-agent, xlock, etc etc. I really haven't missed having to do all of that manually, but by golly, right now there doesn't seem to be an easily usable alternative!
I've installed my last Ubuntu system, that's for sure.
Here endeth rant.
People seem to have a lot of faith in Wikipedia...
I don't believe that...
Where can I pre-order my opt-out of all this 3D tech?
I remember that scene from Back to the Future II all too well, thank-you-very-much! :P
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