I'm not being sarcastic here, but this is why i've felt that the atrix i own is an inferior phone to the n900. In the n900, the upper corner always took you to the multi task screen where you could close the application out, and if you closed the app, it always worked. This was because it had a not-as-friendly-to-touch interface that was based of of linux guidelines. There was consistency, but if the button wasn't visible, all applications still responded to it (unless they were frozen, then a freeze popup would happen, allowing you to close).
This has been bugging me for the past few months with the android, and now i know why it just doesn't feel up to snuff. The android phone is the first phone i've ever owned that had mystery behavior.
Ok, so this is a slashvertisement for a service that specializes in angel investments, but what was the impact? How many businesses were successfully funded? How many of those continued to provide a living and way out of poverty or novel, useful product to society? How many year one businesses beat the 90% failure rate that most small businesses fall to in the first year?
What good has this service done with its 85% collected funds?
Would it matter if 25% of 188 million was collected vs 85% of 53 million? What if the collection rate was 100% of 47? Do these metrics mean anything to anybody besides kickstarter? All told, this summary leaves us with a massive case of slashdot blueballs.
Education is surprisingly easy to get if you want it bad enough. Employers and most successful users of the "educated" metric don't look at degrees as a measure of intelligence, but as a measure of willingness to stick with something. If you are willing to run through the four year paces to get a BS degree, then you will most likely be willing to sit in a cube and be productive. Education is not a method for finding an individual's potential, but instead a metric for the saturation point of information and drudgery. It is possible to get a BS without being able to formulate an analogy or think critically, but it is not possible to get a 4 year degree without putting up with an extraordinary amount of bullsh*t.
There is way to keep disallowing it, but every... single... time that an app requests your location, you will be prompted that "BLah blah blah app is requesting access to your location information" or some such message (i don't use an iphone, my wife does). The first time you click allow, that app will have rights to access your stuff forever and ever and ever. Want to find a starbucks because you're draggin? The first time you click allow to find your closest over-priced java provider will be the last time you will have the right to deny starbucks an intimate knowledge of where you spend your time.
I switched from the n900 to the motorola atrix and I'm going to say it: for a linux geek who doesn't care about an app market, the n900 (and its successor) beat the pants off of android devices. I would routinely go 3-4 days without charging vs my 36 hour android battery life, the slide out keyboard was pretty good and beats the on-screen keyboards any day, and multitasking without having applications hide in the background is still sorely missed.
Now the n900 wasn't perfect, but if it had a capacitive screen, 3g on AT&T, and a 1ghz+ chip, it would have been.
The hardest transition that most techies have to make is being bumped up into management. A good manager will absorb and deflect politics, paperwork, issues, and other items that will get in the way of a tech doing a technical job. When you first get pushed up into management, it's a surprise just how little your technical skills are valued. Even if a "technical" answer is asked by your new bosses, having a big picture view is more important than being able to click your way through aduc. A general technical knowledge is important because managers need to support the needs of those under them, but knowing how long and what it will take to create the right piece of code is more important than being able to do it. If you can get your people the time and resources they need, you are doing a far better job than if you're doing their jobs for them.
What he's playing is just a steady stream of quarter notes that get overlaid with straight eighth and sixteenth notes later on. There's absolutely nothing interesting happening from a rhythmic perspective at all. No syncopation, no rests, nothing. Just bars full of quarters, eighths, and sixteenths. Disappointing. You could do a whole lot with pi rhythmically, too.
Despite that 90% of the earliest net memes are still perfectly playable today due to their SWF composition, it's interesting that they're (indirectly) making the statement that html5 will beat flash. I can see why, flash is a bloated, update happy, buggy, insecure beast of a program, sort of like java through the years.
They played angry birds. AT&T gives you a massive (referencing size here, not price) bill with your data traffic by day (at the second to least granular setting).
So, is slashdot moving away from the reply and focusing on highly rated OP's only, or is there a good way to expand out threads without moving to a new page?
Windows 7 x64 and FF 3.6.13
Why not do it the old fashioned way with a quality pen (or pencil) and some good acid free paper. Write in your journal every day, you won't be e-famous, but at least your grand kids will get a peek into your life.
As a side note, in one of the night of the living dead movies, there's a newscast of a crashed satellite being linked to the civil unrest. So the unofficial zombie origins in the first few movies was a zombie satellite.
Wow, "Anonymous" isn't just some unemployed young adult. It's a whole army of unemployed young adults. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29
While i agree with your post at large, you shouldn't say this to anybody who has played a console newer than the ps2:
With consoles, sure you can just pop in a disk, provided it's not damaged, but if there are errors in a game.. thats it, deal with it.
Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas for the PC beg to differ. Also, i have seen far fewer bugs in 360 releases than in their corresponding PC ports. Also, 360 patches get priority and are (in my experience) released a few days before similar bug fixes are seen on the PC. This has to do with the inherent complexity of the PC environment and simplicity of the 360 monoculture.
The summary says it right there: Three shuttle missions. Unless they're talking about how they only have the atlantis, discovery, and endeavour. If that's the case, then "After this mission NASA has only three shuttles scheduled to launch" needs to be changed to "After [Columbia's destruction] NASA has only three shuttles scheduled to launch".
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I'm not being sarcastic here, but this is why i've felt that the atrix i own is an inferior phone to the n900. In the n900, the upper corner always took you to the multi task screen where you could close the application out, and if you closed the app, it always worked. This was because it had a not-as-friendly-to-touch interface that was based of of linux guidelines. There was consistency, but if the button wasn't visible, all applications still responded to it (unless they were frozen, then a freeze popup would happen, allowing you to close).
This has been bugging me for the past few months with the android, and now i know why it just doesn't feel up to snuff. The android phone is the first phone i've ever owned that had mystery behavior.
If the government paid for car repairs, we'd have lots of mechanics and lots of repairs.
That's a really long way to go for a car analogy.
Why 63? Because 64 would be just too KA-RAY-ZEE?
He accidentally the whole word.
Ok, so this is a slashvertisement for a service that specializes in angel investments, but what was the impact? How many businesses were successfully funded? How many of those continued to provide a living and way out of poverty or novel, useful product to society? How many year one businesses beat the 90% failure rate that most small businesses fall to in the first year?
What good has this service done with its 85% collected funds?
Would it matter if 25% of 188 million was collected vs 85% of 53 million? What if the collection rate was 100% of 47? Do these metrics mean anything to anybody besides kickstarter? All told, this summary leaves us with a massive case of slashdot blueballs.
http://www.dansdata.com/ifeel.htm
I had one of these circa 2002.
independent
Education is surprisingly easy to get if you want it bad enough. Employers and most successful users of the "educated" metric don't look at degrees as a measure of intelligence, but as a measure of willingness to stick with something. If you are willing to run through the four year paces to get a BS degree, then you will most likely be willing to sit in a cube and be productive. Education is not a method for finding an individual's potential, but instead a metric for the saturation point of information and drudgery. It is possible to get a BS without being able to formulate an analogy or think critically, but it is not possible to get a 4 year degree without putting up with an extraordinary amount of bullsh*t.
There is way to keep disallowing it, but every... single... time that an app requests your location, you will be prompted that "BLah blah blah app is requesting access to your location information" or some such message (i don't use an iphone, my wife does). The first time you click allow, that app will have rights to access your stuff forever and ever and ever. Want to find a starbucks because you're draggin? The first time you click allow to find your closest over-priced java provider will be the last time you will have the right to deny starbucks an intimate knowledge of where you spend your time.
I switched from the n900 to the motorola atrix and I'm going to say it: for a linux geek who doesn't care about an app market, the n900 (and its successor) beat the pants off of android devices. I would routinely go 3-4 days without charging vs my 36 hour android battery life, the slide out keyboard was pretty good and beats the on-screen keyboards any day, and multitasking without having applications hide in the background is still sorely missed.
Now the n900 wasn't perfect, but if it had a capacitive screen, 3g on AT&T, and a 1ghz+ chip, it would have been.
You had me until "military-industrial complex"
The hardest transition that most techies have to make is being bumped up into management. A good manager will absorb and deflect politics, paperwork, issues, and other items that will get in the way of a tech doing a technical job. When you first get pushed up into management, it's a surprise just how little your technical skills are valued. Even if a "technical" answer is asked by your new bosses, having a big picture view is more important than being able to click your way through aduc. A general technical knowledge is important because managers need to support the needs of those under them, but knowing how long and what it will take to create the right piece of code is more important than being able to do it. If you can get your people the time and resources they need, you are doing a far better job than if you're doing their jobs for them.
What he's playing is just a steady stream of quarter notes that get overlaid with straight eighth and sixteenth notes later on. There's absolutely nothing interesting happening from a rhythmic perspective at all. No syncopation, no rests, nothing. Just bars full of quarters, eighths, and sixteenths. Disappointing. You could do a whole lot with pi rhythmically, too.
So do it
Netcraft confirms it! Flash is dead!
Despite that 90% of the earliest net memes are still perfectly playable today due to their SWF composition, it's interesting that they're (indirectly) making the statement that html5 will beat flash. I can see why, flash is a bloated, update happy, buggy, insecure beast of a program, sort of like java through the years.
They played angry birds. AT&T gives you a massive (referencing size here, not price) bill with your data traffic by day (at the second to least granular setting).
So, is slashdot moving away from the reply and focusing on highly rated OP's only, or is there a good way to expand out threads without moving to a new page?
Windows 7 x64 and FF 3.6.13
Why not do it the old fashioned way with a quality pen (or pencil) and some good acid free paper. Write in your journal every day, you won't be e-famous, but at least your grand kids will get a peek into your life.
As a side note, in one of the night of the living dead movies, there's a newscast of a crashed satellite being linked to the civil unrest. So the unofficial zombie origins in the first few movies was a zombie satellite.
and a device that will have 100% access to your data with 100% oversight by the chinese.
Wow, "Anonymous" isn't just some unemployed young adult. It's a whole army of unemployed young adults.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29
Here ya go!
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/12/17/1943224/Stargate-Universe-Cancelled
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/06/18/batman-fan-film-city-of-scars/
http://www.starwreck.com/
http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/
http://www.pioneerone.tv/
With consoles, sure you can just pop in a disk, provided it's not damaged, but if there are errors in a game.. thats it, deal with it.
Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas for the PC beg to differ. Also, i have seen far fewer bugs in 360 releases than in their corresponding PC ports. Also, 360 patches get priority and are (in my experience) released a few days before similar bug fixes are seen on the PC. This has to do with the inherent complexity of the PC environment and simplicity of the 360 monoculture.
Need .711 gigadives to make 1.21 gigawatts!
Now does it hit 88mph?
Contracts... Pheh... Obama has already released an initiative to convert contractor positions to GS positions.
The summary says it right there: Three shuttle missions. Unless they're talking about how they only have the atlantis, discovery, and endeavour. If that's the case, then "After this mission NASA has only three shuttles scheduled to launch" needs to be changed to "After [Columbia's destruction] NASA has only three shuttles scheduled to launch".
This has been the case since what, 2003?