loud-mouths attract loud-mouths, and knuckle-draggers attract knuckle-draggers. Combine all three, and you have the shitfest that is Tronald Dump's campaign.
Two reasonably hefty wires to supply power, and a fibre optic cable, (or maybe two), for data. If they're going to break with the past, they should take the opportunity to make a really good interface. Too costly? FTA:
"Intel says that such a transition may make digital headphones more expensive, as the headsets will have to include amplifiers and DACs, but scale will offset the early costs over time".
I would think the same reasoning applies to fibre optic transceivers and connectors.
I just went to the Firehose and modded as 'binspam', (many, many times), a story that has already been accepted, namely the one in which I am currently posting a comment. Fuck Slashvertisements.
Cruz strikes me as an opportunist who will engage in policy-based evidence making. It doesn't matter how good or bad the H1-B program is - he will denigrate it or support it based entirely on what will win votes and/or please major campaign contributors and/or result in some concession in some sleazy backroom deal. Cruz will do with H1-B whatever gains him the most political capital, and Carly's position is irrelevant.
Not that Cruz is much different from most of the other contenders, Democrat or Republican.
If Netflix continues its crackdown, we're likely to see more Canadians turning to piracy. That's apparently what Canadians do when we don't have easy access to cheap content. Market research analyst, Brahm Eiley calls it our "dirty little secret." He says statistics on piracy are scant but that, according to his findings, Canadians are bigger cord cutters than Americans. On the surface that seems odd because Americans have access to many more low-cost streaming services such as Amazon, HBO and Hulu. However, we find other ways to get what we desire — such as downloading unauthorized films and TV series. "Canadians are kind of more comfortable going out and finding content in whatever creative way they want," explains Eiley, president of the Toronto-based market research company, Convergence Consulting Group.
TFA talks about piracy, but relies entirely on a linked article to support its claims. The linked article is primarily about cord-cutting, but contains a little blurb titled "Canadian Pirates". That weaselly little blurb links to a 'study' that supposedly supports its contention - but the 'study' mentions NOTHING about downloading, (illegal or otherwise), nor does it mention piracy. Shitty, shoddy journalism, a tempest in a teapot, and total BS. As a Canadian, I expect better from the CBC.
So how many of you so-called geniuses ( Wiley Coyote ) have even begun to look at cryptology and math, and started to try to develop a few methods not of the usual sort?
Maybe if a few hundred new encrypton algorithms were to suddenly pop-up, the governments would be a bit behind the curve of breaking them... and thus the race will go to the prolific instead off to the analytic...
AND how many of you have begun to encrypt as much as possible? Just to ensure a good work load for the nosy buggers? ( I want my government workers to be busy...)
Somebody obviously thinks you're trolling. I suspect you are too; but I also think you're making a valid, (if somewhat exaggerated and inflammatory), argument for diversity and original research in encryption. Probably a worthwhile percentage of Slashdot members are actually capable of undertaking the work you suggest.
Also, their IS more safety in numbers - if everybody used encryption, there would be a more even balance of power between the people, and the government that is nominally of, by, and for them. Government agencies can have secure, private communications; citizens have the right to the same capability, and at the same degree of effectiveness. In fact, citizens should have the ability to pierce the government veil a lot more than is currently the case - but that's a whole 'nother argument.
Until both sides can put aside their politics and vote based on who writes great science fiction the Hugo awards are not worth paying attention to.
Until both sides can put aside their self-serving agendas and vote based on who creates great policies and shows outstanding leadership the Presidential race is not worth paying attention to.
I know this seems off-topic; but with voting being turned into a mockery of process that defies the original intent, the parallels between the Hugos and current national politics seem too obvious to ignore.
Emoji is for illiterate imbeciles who lack the skill to express themselves with text - or, at most, text-based emoticons.
Unfortunately, Emoji is also for those of us whose fucking phones automatically translate emoticons to Emojicons whether we want them to or not. I hate Emoji, and it sucks that I can't use subtle, clever emoticons without them being turned into blunt, imbecilic, overly cute little pictures. FOAD, Emoji!
As I mentioned in an earlier post, have a look at FossaMail. Forked from Thunderbird by the Pale Moon devs. Pretty much indistinguishable from Thunderbird. Download via FossaMail.org, install, (in Linux it's just an unzip-and-move process), copy the contents of your profile folder over, and you're up and running.
Fossamail is also a thing that exists. It's a fork of Thunderbird, provided by the people who brought us Pale Moon. You can get it here:
http://www.fosshub.com/FossaMail.html
From my preliminary look at it, it's indistinguishable from T-bird. And under Linux it didn't even require installation - just unpacked it, copied over the contents of my Thnderbird profile folders, and fired it up. Works just fine.
In my opinion, only one of them comes close to Windows Explorer for features and ease of use
If that is true, then you don't have much experience with file managers at all...
Not at all. It just means that I don't find multi-pane capability, tabs, and theming as important as you do. They're nice to have, but I don't miss them terribly when they're not present.
that would be Dolphin, and unfortunately it has almost all of KDE as a dependency.
Why is that even being treated as a negative? A file manager for [environment] generally requires components from that environment to provide full features (or work at all). You could just as easily complain that Windows Explorer unfortunately requires most of Windows as a dependency, too. The discussion seems to just be about the merits of various file managers in their respective environments, so complaining about dependencies on those environments is silly.
I consider Linux file managers to be just that - file managers for [environment] = Linux, not [environment] = Gnome, XFCE, etc. In the past I have taken the hit to my disk space and installed Dolphin and its deps along with XFCE, and it works just fine, aside from the expected theme mismatch. So yes, having to install hundreds of megs in support of Dolphin, when other file managers require 10 megs or so, is a definite negative. And for me, KDE's heaviness compared with XFCE, and its eye-bleeding blinginess, (which I have never been able to tone down enough for my taste no matter how much I tweak it), make it a non-starter.
And the vast majority of its citizens are employees, (and sometimes even slaves), of the vast corporation called United $tates of America. Isn't it supposed to be the other way around?
... but I think my point stands, the Windows File Explorer is just the simplest bare-bones GUI for manipulating files.
Did you have a 'golden' file manager in mind for comparison's sake when you said that Microsoft's is "simple and bare-bones"? I have no experience with Windows file management beyond XP, and none at all with Mac file management. But I do have lots of experience with lots of file managers under Linux. In my opinion, only one of them comes close to Windows Explorer for features and ease of use; that would be Dolphin, and unfortunately it has almost all of KDE as a dependency. Thunar has Bulk File Rename, which is useful, and which Explorer didn't have the last time I used it. But much more useful IMHO is integrated file search that actually does stuff like searching for text within files - Windows had that, but you won't find it in Linux unless you use Dolphin.
They were running out of money fast, so they really had no choice. AMD has been losing money every quarter for the last year and that doesn't look to change until Polaris and Zen are released. Also, Intel is as strong as ever in "what's left of the desktop market". Even when Zen reaches the market it'll be competive, but still slower than Intel's offering.
With Intel laying people off and vowing to concentrate on the server market, wouldn't AMD be better off going after what's left of the desktop market? It's shrinking to be sure, but I think there's still a lot of meat on those bones, especially now that Intel won't be vying so hard for market share in that space. It would probably be a safer bet than handing over their IP to the Chinese.
Google's search results are getting worse and worse all the time. I have to work harder and harder to exclude all the crap that Google deludes itself into thinking is relevant, including their simply awful ideas on suitable synonyms for various search terms. Now, along with all that crap, if I search for 'Malcolm X', I'll probably get to wade through TV listings for 'Malcolm in the Middle' reruns. Out-fucking-standing, Googletards!
Yes, diagnosis can be very important. I learned that during a year-long stint calibrating audiometers and tympanometers in the offices of both hearing instrument practitioners and audiologists. I also learned that some tests are very short and rudimentary; most often these are what customers get at the 'blow it out the door' hearing aid places. Most audiololgists, (and the good, competent HIP's), do in-depth testing that can diagnose problems and potential problems that might otherwise not be found.
So, in short, I agree with everything you said, and you know a lot more about hearing loss than I do. I also know that there's a degree of sophistication in modern hearing aids that simply can't be had really cheaply, both because of manufacturing costs, and because of a significant amount of original research - even in materials science.
Having said that, I still have a strong impression that hearing aids are very much over-priced. And I know that the testing equipment, (audiometers in particular), are also very over-priced. The whole industry is ripe for some major disruption, and I suspect the encroachment of cheap consumer devices is only the thin edge of the wedge.
This is a great idea with a car. But what's even the use with a cell phone? If you hold on to it for a normal length of time, a cool new cell phone will amortize to maybe a dollar a day. It's multi-purpose, acting as a phone + camera + MP3 player + computer + blah blah blah. I dunnow, why cheap out on something you use all the time that really isn't that expensive?
Maybe I LIKE the device I'm currently using, and don't want to be bothered to learn, configure, root, or customize a newer one. Maybe I find the build quality of a lot of new stuff to be not so good. Maybe I realize that the 'dollar a day' bargain is a price that's being incredibly heavily subsidized by future generations, and I don't want to contribute, any more than I already do, to the plundering of Earth for the sake of more frivolous shiny toys. Maybe I don't want to enrich the already too-powerful corporations even further. Maybe I want to do my part to put the brakes on the giant Ponzi scheme that is 'the economy'. Maybe I'm getting a new device, but want the old one to be fully functional as a backup, or because I want to give it to someone who otherwise can't afford such a device.
I could go on. There are lots of valid, even compelling, reasons for not replacing functional old tech with new tech. On the other hand, the reasons for dumping old devices in favour of new ones too often boil down to conformism and consumerism - which are mostly alternative names for 'selfishness', 'thoughtlessness', and 'emotional insecurity'.
is more and more likely to be made of silicon and steel. Automation is rendering the productive capacity of individual human beings less and less relevant. With production efficiencies at historic highs and still increasing rapidly, we should ALL have a great standard of living and a great quality of life - lots of time for creative pursuits, and friends and family, without working our fingers to the bone. But NO - workweeks are getting longer, more people have multiple jobs, and average incomes, (except for the elites), are dropping. Why do you think that is?
Fuck the "headwinds" - the clear and present danger to a healthy, happy future for most of us is extreme-and-still-growing wealth concentration. We need to tackle the truly Herculean task of re-engineering our social institutions, our cultural and historical and religious biases, our mass propag.., er, media infrastructure, and our fundamental outlook on social hierarchies. All the pearls of wisdom from all the pundits in the world are just more circuses - distractions from the job of building sane and fair societies for ourselves and our children.
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loud-mouths attract loud-mouths, and knuckle-draggers attract knuckle-draggers. Combine all three, and you have the shitfest that is Tronald Dump's campaign.
Good point. It's not a problem for me, but now that you mention it I can see lots of situations where it would be problematic.
Two reasonably hefty wires to supply power, and a fibre optic cable, (or maybe two), for data. If they're going to break with the past, they should take the opportunity to make a really good interface. Too costly? FTA:
"Intel says that such a transition may make digital headphones more expensive, as the headsets will have to include amplifiers and DACs, but scale will offset the early costs over time".
I would think the same reasoning applies to fibre optic transceivers and connectors.
I just went to the Firehose and modded as 'binspam', (many, many times), a story that has already been accepted, namely the one in which I am currently posting a comment. Fuck Slashvertisements.
Stuff that Natters.
See what I did there?
Too bad I already posted - I'd love to mod you up. Laughing my ass off! Although I'm not entirely sure whether Cruz is Waylon or Madame...
Cruz strikes me as an opportunist who will engage in policy-based evidence making. It doesn't matter how good or bad the H1-B program is - he will denigrate it or support it based entirely on what will win votes and/or please major campaign contributors and/or result in some concession in some sleazy backroom deal. Cruz will do with H1-B whatever gains him the most political capital, and Carly's position is irrelevant.
Not that Cruz is much different from most of the other contenders, Democrat or Republican.
TFS echoes TFA, which says the following:
If Netflix continues its crackdown, we're likely to see more Canadians turning to piracy. That's apparently what Canadians do when we don't have easy access to cheap content. Market research analyst, Brahm Eiley calls it our "dirty little secret." He says statistics on piracy are scant but that, according to his findings, Canadians are bigger cord cutters than Americans. On the surface that seems odd because Americans have access to many more low-cost streaming services such as Amazon, HBO and Hulu. However, we find other ways to get what we desire — such as downloading unauthorized films and TV series. "Canadians are kind of more comfortable going out and finding content in whatever creative way they want," explains Eiley, president of the Toronto-based market research company, Convergence Consulting Group.
TFA talks about piracy, but relies entirely on a linked article to support its claims. The linked article is primarily about cord-cutting, but contains a little blurb titled "Canadian Pirates". That weaselly little blurb links to a 'study' that supposedly supports its contention - but the 'study' mentions NOTHING about downloading, (illegal or otherwise), nor does it mention piracy. Shitty, shoddy journalism, a tempest in a teapot, and total BS. As a Canadian, I expect better from the CBC.
So how many of you so-called geniuses ( Wiley Coyote ) have even begun to look at cryptology and math, and started to try to develop a few methods not of the usual sort? Maybe if a few hundred new encrypton algorithms were to suddenly pop-up, the governments would be a bit behind the curve of breaking them... and thus the race will go to the prolific instead off to the analytic... AND how many of you have begun to encrypt as much as possible? Just to ensure a good work load for the nosy buggers? ( I want my government workers to be busy...)
Somebody obviously thinks you're trolling. I suspect you are too; but I also think you're making a valid, (if somewhat exaggerated and inflammatory), argument for diversity and original research in encryption. Probably a worthwhile percentage of Slashdot members are actually capable of undertaking the work you suggest.
Also, their IS more safety in numbers - if everybody used encryption, there would be a more even balance of power between the people, and the government that is nominally of, by, and for them. Government agencies can have secure, private communications; citizens have the right to the same capability, and at the same degree of effectiveness. In fact, citizens should have the ability to pierce the government veil a lot more than is currently the case - but that's a whole 'nother argument.
Until both sides can put aside their politics and vote based on who writes great science fiction the Hugo awards are not worth paying attention to.
Until both sides can put aside their self-serving agendas and vote based on who creates great policies and shows outstanding leadership the Presidential race is not worth paying attention to.
I know this seems off-topic; but with voting being turned into a mockery of process that defies the original intent, the parallels between the Hugos and current national politics seem too obvious to ignore.
Emoji is for illiterate imbeciles who lack the skill to express themselves with text - or, at most, text-based emoticons.
Unfortunately, Emoji is also for those of us whose fucking phones automatically translate emoticons to Emojicons whether we want them to or not. I hate Emoji, and it sucks that I can't use subtle, clever emoticons without them being turned into blunt, imbecilic, overly cute little pictures. FOAD, Emoji!
As I mentioned in an earlier post, have a look at FossaMail. Forked from Thunderbird by the Pale Moon devs. Pretty much indistinguishable from Thunderbird. Download via FossaMail.org, install, (in Linux it's just an unzip-and-move process), copy the contents of your profile folder over, and you're up and running.
Palemoon is a thing that exists...
Fossamail is also a thing that exists. It's a fork of Thunderbird, provided by the people who brought us Pale Moon. You can get it here:
http://www.fosshub.com/FossaMail.html
From my preliminary look at it, it's indistinguishable from T-bird. And under Linux it didn't even require installation - just unpacked it, copied over the contents of my Thnderbird profile folders, and fired it up. Works just fine.
In my opinion, only one of them comes close to Windows Explorer for features and ease of use
If that is true, then you don't have much experience with file managers at all ...
Not at all. It just means that I don't find multi-pane capability, tabs, and theming as important as you do. They're nice to have, but I don't miss them terribly when they're not present.
that would be Dolphin, and unfortunately it has almost all of KDE as a dependency.
Why is that even being treated as a negative? A file manager for [environment] generally requires components from that environment to provide full features (or work at all). You could just as easily complain that Windows Explorer unfortunately requires most of Windows as a dependency, too. The discussion seems to just be about the merits of various file managers in their respective environments, so complaining about dependencies on those environments is silly.
I consider Linux file managers to be just that - file managers for [environment] = Linux, not [environment] = Gnome, XFCE, etc. In the past I have taken the hit to my disk space and installed Dolphin and its deps along with XFCE, and it works just fine, aside from the expected theme mismatch. So yes, having to install hundreds of megs in support of Dolphin, when other file managers require 10 megs or so, is a definite negative. And for me, KDE's heaviness compared with XFCE, and its eye-bleeding blinginess, (which I have never been able to tone down enough for my taste no matter how much I tweak it), make it a non-starter.
And the vast majority of its citizens are employees, (and sometimes even slaves), of the vast corporation called United $tates of America. Isn't it supposed to be the other way around?
... but I think my point stands, the Windows File Explorer is just the simplest bare-bones GUI for manipulating files.
Did you have a 'golden' file manager in mind for comparison's sake when you said that Microsoft's is "simple and bare-bones"? I have no experience with Windows file management beyond XP, and none at all with Mac file management. But I do have lots of experience with lots of file managers under Linux. In my opinion, only one of them comes close to Windows Explorer for features and ease of use; that would be Dolphin, and unfortunately it has almost all of KDE as a dependency. Thunar has Bulk File Rename, which is useful, and which Explorer didn't have the last time I used it. But much more useful IMHO is integrated file search that actually does stuff like searching for text within files - Windows had that, but you won't find it in Linux unless you use Dolphin.
They were running out of money fast, so they really had no choice. AMD has been losing money every quarter for the last year and that doesn't look to change until Polaris and Zen are released. Also, Intel is as strong as ever in "what's left of the desktop market". Even when Zen reaches the market it'll be competive, but still slower than Intel's offering.
Good to know. Why was this downmodded?
With Intel laying people off and vowing to concentrate on the server market, wouldn't AMD be better off going after what's left of the desktop market? It's shrinking to be sure, but I think there's still a lot of meat on those bones, especially now that Intel won't be vying so hard for market share in that space. It would probably be a safer bet than handing over their IP to the Chinese.
Google's search results are getting worse and worse all the time. I have to work harder and harder to exclude all the crap that Google deludes itself into thinking is relevant, including their simply awful ideas on suitable synonyms for various search terms. Now, along with all that crap, if I search for 'Malcolm X', I'll probably get to wade through TV listings for 'Malcolm in the Middle' reruns. Out-fucking-standing, Googletards!
Yes, diagnosis can be very important. I learned that during a year-long stint calibrating audiometers and tympanometers in the offices of both hearing instrument practitioners and audiologists. I also learned that some tests are very short and rudimentary; most often these are what customers get at the 'blow it out the door' hearing aid places. Most audiololgists, (and the good, competent HIP's), do in-depth testing that can diagnose problems and potential problems that might otherwise not be found.
So, in short, I agree with everything you said, and you know a lot more about hearing loss than I do. I also know that there's a degree of sophistication in modern hearing aids that simply can't be had really cheaply, both because of manufacturing costs, and because of a significant amount of original research - even in materials science.
Having said that, I still have a strong impression that hearing aids are very much over-priced. And I know that the testing equipment, (audiometers in particular), are also very over-priced. The whole industry is ripe for some major disruption, and I suspect the encroachment of cheap consumer devices is only the thin edge of the wedge.
This is a great idea with a car. But what's even the use with a cell phone? If you hold on to it for a normal length of time, a cool new cell phone will amortize to maybe a dollar a day. It's multi-purpose, acting as a phone + camera + MP3 player + computer + blah blah blah. I dunnow, why cheap out on something you use all the time that really isn't that expensive?
Maybe I LIKE the device I'm currently using, and don't want to be bothered to learn, configure, root, or customize a newer one. Maybe I find the build quality of a lot of new stuff to be not so good. Maybe I realize that the 'dollar a day' bargain is a price that's being incredibly heavily subsidized by future generations, and I don't want to contribute, any more than I already do, to the plundering of Earth for the sake of more frivolous shiny toys. Maybe I don't want to enrich the already too-powerful corporations even further. Maybe I want to do my part to put the brakes on the giant Ponzi scheme that is 'the economy'. Maybe I'm getting a new device, but want the old one to be fully functional as a backup, or because I want to give it to someone who otherwise can't afford such a device.
I could go on. There are lots of valid, even compelling, reasons for not replacing functional old tech with new tech. On the other hand, the reasons for dumping old devices in favour of new ones too often boil down to conformism and consumerism - which are mostly alternative names for 'selfishness', 'thoughtlessness', and 'emotional insecurity'.
It's called Paypal, Millenials.
If you're trolling, then reel these in:
https://bgr.com/2015/05/20/paypal-credit-scam-25-million/
http://fortune.com/2012/02/24/ebays-got-a-paypal-problem/
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/online/paypal_02.html?page=2
That's just the tip of the iceberg. I refuse to use PayPal, and anybody who doesn't take some other means of payment, doesn't get my business.
is that anyone pays attention to anything Sarah Palin says. She's raucous as a crow and dumber than a stump - why would anyone take her seriously?
is more and more likely to be made of silicon and steel. Automation is rendering the productive capacity of individual human beings less and less relevant. With production efficiencies at historic highs and still increasing rapidly, we should ALL have a great standard of living and a great quality of life - lots of time for creative pursuits, and friends and family, without working our fingers to the bone. But NO - workweeks are getting longer, more people have multiple jobs, and average incomes, (except for the elites), are dropping. Why do you think that is?
Fuck the "headwinds" - the clear and present danger to a healthy, happy future for most of us is extreme-and-still-growing wealth concentration. We need to tackle the truly Herculean task of re-engineering our social institutions, our cultural and historical and religious biases, our mass propag.., er, media infrastructure, and our fundamental outlook on social hierarchies. All the pearls of wisdom from all the pundits in the world are just more circuses - distractions from the job of building sane and fair societies for ourselves and our children.