Same thing as it was years ago. Bugs. KDE killed my GMail account and made every piece of mail sort as if it were received on the day I connected KMail when I connected KMail with Google years ago. To this day, a pristine installation of Kubuntu 12.04 will pop up messages somewhere about 6/7th of the top of the screen, while they should be locked to the taskbar.
Plasma continually resetting *everything* which is forgivable where it not for the Notes that I had there - and only there.
Give me seven days of tweaking, and I'll have a broken KDE that's only fixable with a complete reinstall.
KDE is, feature-wise, the pinnacle of a desktop experience today, IMHO. But, it's pathetically broken. And it has been the KDE way from day one, or at least from day-about-ten-years-ago when I started using it.
KDE needs to fix the horribly broken desktop before adding features, simple as that. KDE, as visioned, it not only ready for the desktop, it's a killer desktop. KDE, as functioning, is a broken piece of crap.
...patent shizzle: We need a death squad killforce to squash these patent trolls from existence. Their being here is a burdon to all, and therefore, their life grant should be revoked. ASAP.
Are we capable of processing and relating to the currently available amount of (diverging) information?
If this issue is a backwards trend, it's one that is only possible because in a reality which has been shaped by the preceding two decades where we've seen a trend with exposure us to an increasing, almost infinite, amount of information.
The core human instinct is to seek and relate to similar peers. We need a "home base" to feel safe, where the things that worry us in some way relate more directly to ourselves and the close peers we identify ourselves with. I don't think we're *really* cognitively equipped to relate to and empathize with an entire world of differing opinions, cultures, and problems.
It's an ideal that must be pursued, because I agree with Eli that we may be digging ourselves (willingly as well as unwillingly) into these "bubbles" of safe havens where we aren't questioned, provoked or adequately challenged. Especially since I believe that knowingly or unknowingly, we all seek these bubbles for the same reason that all this information exists: We simply cannot cope with the sheer magnitude of it. Processing information properly requires relating to it, be it global warming, riots in Lybia and neighboring countries, death camps in North Korea, radiation from Fukushima, US foreign policies, local elections, slaughterings in Darfur, Palestine and Israel, starving children in Africa, Indian workers killing themselves for pennies making our clothes... The list goes on and on, and just writing this fraction of events down which we're all supposed to relate to, makes me want to crawl into a bubble.
So yes, we should make sure that these algorithms don't aide us in our instinct to reclude ourselves, but a 9-minute talk is nothing but a baby step in even explaining the magnitude of the task at hand.
...the cut scene frenzy and extreme linearity of playing Assassin's Creed makes it very much like watching a movie, so it makes sense they may just as well make them full-fledged ones. Not much point in interacting anyway, when all you're doing is helping to drive a plot forward.
I know this is beating a dead horse... but the core problem here isn't Sony's epic failure... it's that the credit system is so broken that this information that was stolen is enough to seriously fuck with someones life.
I'm not trying to downplay Sony's screw up. I have a PSN account and as such am suitably nervous. This whole thing just reminds me of how messed up our system is.
Where I'm from - Denmark - companies aren't allowed to keep credit card information stored. Why is this allowed in the USA? It seems completely retarded and totally unnecessary. If you're making so many purchases that you're getting arthritis from putting in your credit card data every time, get a paypal account and put some money on that instead.
"1-click buy?" When did saving a couple of dozen of keystrokes become good reason to allow someone to store your credit card data?
Interesting. My colleague just said, "Ha! They've probably been stalking him for years, and just decided that it was time now as they couldn't benefit any longer from him being alive."
"You crazy conspiracy theorist," I said, and while going to the coffee maker I thought, "Even if that were true, why would they choose now to do this anyway?" And then I thought about how the US is bummed for money, and quite frankly cannot afford the current level of foreign military involvement, and having Osama taken out could be used to justify starting to pull troops out again.
Then I thought, "Damn - this guy's NOT gonna make me believe his crazy theories! And even still, no way Americans would be fooled by this to convince them it's valid cause to start pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan!"
And then I start checking my RSS feed, and this is comment #1:
Having to buy the target device hardware you're developing for and having to buy new hardware to provide your development platform are two different things. The argument made was not whether or not you should buy a phone (both dev environments provide emulators anyway), but if you were forced to buy a new computer.
Well, if the users are a reason not to use it, then you have a problem. That being said, I've only had problems with my latest Mint endeavor, and I'm not going there again!
How did this article make it through to my RSS feed? Is all you need these days to reach the masses produce infantile observations and deliver it with the noun, "Apple", in the heading?
Reading through this article is a genuine pain. The author clearly has no insight in half of his subject, has only limited insight in the other half, lacks journalistic education, is biased, makes wrongful and outdated "observations", and draws parallels where no parallels exist. Just to name a few. It's a class book example of misconclusions - and even that is giving it more credit than it deserves.
The aim here is not to present a subject for discussion (one must sincerely hope, anyway, because in that case, the author is beyond professional salvation), but a cheap trolling trick to mass up clicks and tweets pointing to his site. It's blatantly obvious, and I have to say, "Shame on you, slashdot, for letting this one slip through!"
Depending on your router, you may be able to use QoS (Quality of Service) directives to prioritize an IP on your network over others. I do this on mine.
This would require you to either use a static IP, or your router to be able to assign specific IPs outside of its DHCP range (usually 192.168.1.100-255) to specific network cards based on their MAC addresses. You can use this first to make sure your computer gets a specific IP address when it connects to your router, and then set up QoS afterwards to ensure that that IP gets first bids on bandwidth.
If your router supports VoIP, it should feature QoS as well.
I use this strategy on my router, and it works very well.
One thing that's particularly funny about this relocation of apps' menu bars to the "unified" bar in Unity. Mac introduced it waaay back, presumably for the same reasons as Unity are using: To release more vertical pixel space for actual app content.
These days, on Macs, we have humongous screens, up to 2560*1600 on the iMacs, and never less than 1280x800 on the 11" Air. I.e., there's plenty of vertical pixels now.
Unity was with early netbooks in mind, i.e. vertical resolutions as low as 640 pixels. Made sense. Truth is, even netbooks these days match regular notebooks' resolution. Basically, the point for moving the menu bar to a global bar is already moot. All we get is buggy behavior, because it's not yet properly implemented.
Give it a couple of years, and when netbooks have full HD resolution, they'll probably have ironed out the quirks;)
That's only helpful for the 10% or so of people who are gay. As a straight guy, I'd rather have the least attractive guy doing the pat down. At least someone less attractive then myself. That way, it's him that can feel bad about themselves, not me.
I choose the body scanners, but they are annoying. I'm not too worried about the radiation, but they are slower then metal detectors. They require you to take off your belt, watch, boarding pass etc, when I can normally get through a metal detector with those still on. But worse is thinking about how there is now one more person in the world who knows how "inadequate" you are in certain proportions. It doesn't matter if that person doesn't know who you are, it still makes YOU think about it and feel bad about yourself.
So... Not being gay, you choose the "least attractive guy" so that the more attractive guys don't know "how inadequate you are in certain proportions"?
Aw, I was so much, "Yes! Someone is talking about the purity and point of SQL" (relation algebra, etc.) until you started bashing Ruby on Rails. RoR is EXACTLY about understanding the point of leaders in a domain.
SQL is beautiful, RoR understands that.
You seem like a retarded monkey? Born in the 40s? Stopped caring in the 80s?
Buying a used satellite is like buying a used bus... the only reason someone would sell it is because it has become cheaper to buy a new one than to maintain the old one!
Tell that to the Chinese. Anyone who's ever been to China will know that the entire communal transport system is based on "left-over" buses from all parts of Europe, including Eastern Europe. They tear out the innards and replace them with electric motors, sometimes leaving stuff hanging out from the back.
Funny thing is, their buses are more frequent and more on-time than the ones in my "developed" country, Denmark, where the buses are sparkling new and never on time;)
Well, either that, or Microsoft adheres to Darwinian standards.
It's like the self-peeling, self-feeding banana. So the ape is too dumb to peel it and eat it itself? Let an ebola-diseased fungus "auto-peel" it, and if the monkey dies from it, well that's natural selection for you, right there.
Slashdot Mirror
Same thing as it was years ago. Bugs. KDE killed my GMail account and made every piece of mail sort as if it were received on the day I connected KMail when I connected KMail with Google years ago. To this day, a pristine installation of Kubuntu 12.04 will pop up messages somewhere about 6/7th of the top of the screen, while they should be locked to the taskbar.
Plasma continually resetting *everything* which is forgivable where it not for the Notes that I had there - and only there.
Give me seven days of tweaking, and I'll have a broken KDE that's only fixable with a complete reinstall.
KDE is, feature-wise, the pinnacle of a desktop experience today, IMHO. But, it's pathetically broken. And it has been the KDE way from day one, or at least from day-about-ten-years-ago when I started using it.
KDE needs to fix the horribly broken desktop before adding features, simple as that. KDE, as visioned, it not only ready for the desktop, it's a killer desktop. KDE, as functioning, is a broken piece of crap.
This is why I am a pirate.
...and also, Firefox hasn't been a primary choice for most Linuxers for a long, long time, considering the abysmal performance.
...patent shizzle: We need a death squad killforce to squash these patent trolls from existence. Their being here is a burdon to all, and therefore, their life grant should be revoked. ASAP.
Are we capable of processing and relating to the currently available amount of (diverging) information?
If this issue is a backwards trend, it's one that is only possible because in a reality which has been shaped by the preceding two decades where we've seen a trend with exposure us to an increasing, almost infinite, amount of information.
The core human instinct is to seek and relate to similar peers. We need a "home base" to feel safe, where the things that worry us in some way relate more directly to ourselves and the close peers we identify ourselves with. I don't think we're *really* cognitively equipped to relate to and empathize with an entire world of differing opinions, cultures, and problems.
It's an ideal that must be pursued, because I agree with Eli that we may be digging ourselves (willingly as well as unwillingly) into these "bubbles" of safe havens where we aren't questioned, provoked or adequately challenged. Especially since I believe that knowingly or unknowingly, we all seek these bubbles for the same reason that all this information exists: We simply cannot cope with the sheer magnitude of it. Processing information properly requires relating to it, be it global warming, riots in Lybia and neighboring countries, death camps in North Korea, radiation from Fukushima, US foreign policies, local elections, slaughterings in Darfur, Palestine and Israel, starving children in Africa, Indian workers killing themselves for pennies making our clothes... The list goes on and on, and just writing this fraction of events down which we're all supposed to relate to, makes me want to crawl into a bubble.
So yes, we should make sure that these algorithms don't aide us in our instinct to reclude ourselves, but a 9-minute talk is nothing but a baby step in even explaining the magnitude of the task at hand.
...getting strangely aroused by this thought of miniature sattelites of something-point-something cm length being launched anywhere...?
...the cut scene frenzy and extreme linearity of playing Assassin's Creed makes it very much like watching a movie, so it makes sense they may just as well make them full-fledged ones. Not much point in interacting anyway, when all you're doing is helping to drive a plot forward.
I know this is beating a dead horse... but the core problem here isn't Sony's epic failure... it's that the credit system is so broken that this information that was stolen is enough to seriously fuck with someones life.
I'm not trying to downplay Sony's screw up. I have a PSN account and as such am suitably nervous. This whole thing just reminds me of how messed up our system is.
Where I'm from - Denmark - companies aren't allowed to keep credit card information stored. Why is this allowed in the USA? It seems completely retarded and totally unnecessary. If you're making so many purchases that you're getting arthritis from putting in your credit card data every time, get a paypal account and put some money on that instead.
"1-click buy?" When did saving a couple of dozen of keystrokes become good reason to allow someone to store your credit card data?
Interesting. My colleague just said, "Ha! They've probably been stalking him for years, and just decided that it was time now as they couldn't benefit any longer from him being alive."
"You crazy conspiracy theorist," I said, and while going to the coffee maker I thought, "Even if that were true, why would they choose now to do this anyway?" And then I thought about how the US is bummed for money, and quite frankly cannot afford the current level of foreign military involvement, and having Osama taken out could be used to justify starting to pull troops out again.
Then I thought, "Damn - this guy's NOT gonna make me believe his crazy theories! And even still, no way Americans would be fooled by this to convince them it's valid cause to start pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan!"
And then I start checking my RSS feed, and this is comment #1:
Now let's bring 'em home.
Damn! :D
Having to buy the target device hardware you're developing for and having to buy new hardware to provide your development platform are two different things. The argument made was not whether or not you should buy a phone (both dev environments provide emulators anyway), but if you were forced to buy a new computer.
Then he'd use that.
Well, if the users are a reason not to use it, then you have a problem. That being said, I've only had problems with my latest Mint endeavor, and I'm not going there again!
Is Obama the new jellyfish?
Is toilet paper the new newspaper?
Is 7-Eleven the new Victoria's Secret?
Are public schools the new Wall Street?
Let's discuss this! Oh wait, let's not, because I have no arguments, and my point is retarded. Sorry!
How did this article make it through to my RSS feed? Is all you need these days to reach the masses produce infantile observations and deliver it with the noun, "Apple", in the heading?
Reading through this article is a genuine pain. The author clearly has no insight in half of his subject, has only limited insight in the other half, lacks journalistic education, is biased, makes wrongful and outdated "observations", and draws parallels where no parallels exist. Just to name a few. It's a class book example of misconclusions - and even that is giving it more credit than it deserves.
The aim here is not to present a subject for discussion (one must sincerely hope, anyway, because in that case, the author is beyond professional salvation), but a cheap trolling trick to mass up clicks and tweets pointing to his site. It's blatantly obvious, and I have to say, "Shame on you, slashdot, for letting this one slip through!"
Depending on your router, you may be able to use QoS (Quality of Service) directives to prioritize an IP on your network over others. I do this on mine.
This would require you to either use a static IP, or your router to be able to assign specific IPs outside of its DHCP range (usually 192.168.1.100-255) to specific network cards based on their MAC addresses. You can use this first to make sure your computer gets a specific IP address when it connects to your router, and then set up QoS afterwards to ensure that that IP gets first bids on bandwidth.
If your router supports VoIP, it should feature QoS as well.
I use this strategy on my router, and it works very well.
One thing that's particularly funny about this relocation of apps' menu bars to the "unified" bar in Unity. Mac introduced it waaay back, presumably for the same reasons as Unity are using: To release more vertical pixel space for actual app content.
These days, on Macs, we have humongous screens, up to 2560*1600 on the iMacs, and never less than 1280x800 on the 11" Air. I.e., there's plenty of vertical pixels now.
Unity was with early netbooks in mind, i.e. vertical resolutions as low as 640 pixels. Made sense. Truth is, even netbooks these days match regular notebooks' resolution. Basically, the point for moving the menu bar to a global bar is already moot. All we get is buggy behavior, because it's not yet properly implemented.
Give it a couple of years, and when netbooks have full HD resolution, they'll probably have ironed out the quirks ;)
While arguably 3D TVs and projectors for movies and the like are still just a gimmick, having 3D-like screens on gaming devices make a lot more sense.
Especially considering the form factor of the 3DS, it's nice. For more serious gaming, though, we still want this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
Purse mirror, eh? Right next to the credit card, eh? No problem with that extreme magnetism, eh?
Or surely, your girl friend requires only cash?
That's only helpful for the 10% or so of people who are gay. As a straight guy, I'd rather have the least attractive guy doing the pat down. At least someone less attractive then myself. That way, it's him that can feel bad about themselves, not me.
I choose the body scanners, but they are annoying. I'm not too worried about the radiation, but they are slower then metal detectors. They require you to take off your belt, watch, boarding pass etc, when I can normally get through a metal detector with those still on. But worse is thinking about how there is now one more person in the world who knows how "inadequate" you are in certain proportions. It doesn't matter if that person doesn't know who you are, it still makes YOU think about it and feel bad about yourself.
So... Not being gay, you choose the "least attractive guy" so that the more attractive guys don't know "how inadequate you are in certain proportions"?
Hmmmm...
I don't give a flying fuck how many digits are present, what do you mean? I thought we were talking about software?
You throw the banana seed, the monkeys start growing palm trees...
Aw, I was so much, "Yes! Someone is talking about the purity and point of SQL" (relation algebra, etc.) until you started bashing Ruby on Rails. RoR is EXACTLY about understanding the point of leaders in a domain.
SQL is beautiful, RoR understands that.
You seem like a retarded monkey? Born in the 40s? Stopped caring in the 80s?
Buying a used satellite is like buying a used bus... the only reason someone would sell it is because it has become cheaper to buy a new one than to maintain the old one!
Tell that to the Chinese. Anyone who's ever been to China will know that the entire communal transport system is based on "left-over" buses from all parts of Europe, including Eastern Europe. They tear out the innards and replace them with electric motors, sometimes leaving stuff hanging out from the back.
Funny thing is, their buses are more frequent and more on-time than the ones in my "developed" country, Denmark, where the buses are sparkling new and never on time ;)
Well, as I always say, "If you can't pronounce it, don't put it in your mouth."
Lemon. PASS ...and so on.
Horse. PASS
Pee. PASS
Polyethylendicarbonate. FAIL
Arnold Schwarzenegger. FAIL
Well, either that, or Microsoft adheres to Darwinian standards.
It's like the self-peeling, self-feeding banana. So the ape is too dumb to peel it and eat it itself? Let an ebola-diseased fungus "auto-peel" it, and if the monkey dies from it, well that's natural selection for you, right there.