I used NetBSD for a while back in the day, and I loved the Real Unix purity and simplicity after years of desktop Linux distros, but I missed some of the userland idiosyncracies and hardware support. Then I found out about Gentoo, and to me it's been the best of both worlds, starting with Portage which obviously owes a lot to BSD Ports.
Of course, I don't recommend Gentoo to anyone, because the collective wisdom of/. says it is only for ricers. All those oldskool BSD users must be ricers too, for doing all that compiling. (Pro tip: you can share your once-built binaries across several machines...)
"Why?" is still a valid question; and science says we lack the tools to gather evidence of "why?".
IMHO, "why" questions either form an endless chain or are completely subjective, so they are far from valid in any scientific setting. For example, some say the reason god created the universe is love. Why love? What's the point of love? What's the point of that point? The only way to end this chain is by invoking some value, which is inherently subjective (even if a great number of peole share values).
Of course, the same can be said about the "what" and "how" questions of science. You can always dig deeper into nature and never find out how everything really works. However, we still do it because it's fun to know and understand things.
Do you still get the occasional partygoer who says they have connectivity, and they really really want you to play this great song from Youtube or Spotify with their phone? Because that's why DJs have all the fancy equipment and skills, to plug in someone's phone.
Connectivity is one reason why I stay away from closed systems like Spotify. Even with good signal, I wouldn't take the risk of something happening halfway, I really need the entire song on my machine. However, it's more about the principles and practice of DJing. For starters, I need the actual file for loading on the digital turntable and some analysis/planning to get a smooth mix. If someone wants to show off their 1337 Spotify skillz, then by all means do it, take my place for the rest of the night and let me hit the bottle.
I dipped my toes into the Bitcoin world, just to say I'd done it... My $0.1245 worth of bitcoin is now worth $0.0955
Yeah, that's a lot better than keeping my money in a bank...
It's a good thing they value it in dollars, because the value of a dollar never changes, and that's how we know our money is safe in a bank.
IMHO, everything that people do can be explained by the ultimate goal of enjoying. If you do something because it makes rational sense, then perhaps you're the kind of person that enjoys rationality. I certainly get a kick out of doing math and science, and I try not to make the excuse that I'm doing it for some obscure higher purpose. People also tend to feel good when they help others, it's just what has kept mankind alive. If you say you exercise to keep yourself fit for work, then perhaps it's the work/money/status that you just happen to enjoy.
It's a good point about values, though. The question "why" is generally meaningless as it only leads to other questions "why", but the chain can end at some ultimate value -- I do $x because of money/friendship/hookers/blackjack -- but values are personal, and don't necessarily mean anything more than "I happen to enjoy money/friendship/hookers/blackjack, and that's that. In fact, forget the money and the friends."
Slowing the aging process doesn't add 20 years of the worst health at the end of the life but would extend each portion of the process.
IE, if the aging process was truly slowed 30% you'd get 30% longer years at 30, 40, 50 or whatever, not 20-25 years extra in the shape you'd be at 90.
I guess it depends on when this technique is applied. If you're an old geezer now, chances are you won't enjoy any more years with the 20-year-old-you's physique.
If the boss is more interested in accumulating a set number of hours sitting down, as opposed to getting productive work done, then perhaps it's time to get a new job.
As this wasn't clear from skimming the articles, should I assume this is the old 32-bit x86 or x86-64? Because the latter has been around for 11 years, which is a geological time in computing, and we should really move on. Of course for something really embedded you'd want an ARM or a microcontroller, so there would be little point in keeping the x86 32-bit.
It's amazing how cheap and effecient microcontrollers have become... who needs a beefy computer when you can have a Beowulf cluster of controllers for less!
Bitcoin is a technology that solves real-world problems, it's not some fancy collectible. If you don't care to find out and appreciate the tech, then what are you doing on Slashdot?
It depends on what you mean by altcoins. There are several newer cryptocurrencies with a fresh start, instead of cloning the Bitcoin codebase and changing a few parameters/algos, and these take the privacy aspect to a new level. I'm mostly familiar with Boolberry and Monero, both of which share a common Cryptonote ancestry.
However, Bitcoin's cash-like privacy is probably good enough for many people. You can trace the movements of cash via serial numbers, but this in itself is a fair amount of work, and you also need to figure out connections between the serial numbers and specific people. It's pretty much the same with Bitcoin, the hard work is in finding these connections, and if you use something like Tor, or otherwise know what you're doing, you can enjoy a cash-like privacy.
Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency, released over 5 years ago, and it provides roughly cash-like privacy if you know what you're doing. In the meantime, other cryptocurrency projects have developed the privacy aspect much further, for example Boolberry and Monero.
It just might work. Hell, people once bought pet rocks.
I was going to buy some of the pet rocks, but I heard the latency really sucks when using them for international money transfer, it was, like, way over 10 minutes to other continents. The privacy and fungibility aspects were also questionable. I wonder if they would be good for beating some clue into people who don't understand Bitcoin...
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This. To put it short, Gentoo doesn't make this needless user vs. developer distinction.
Yes, I'm sure he's very upset at the rejection by all 10 people who use Gentoo.
Wouldn't it be simpler to say "both" rather than "all 10"?
what? puppies! bassline.
I used NetBSD for a while back in the day, and I loved the Real Unix purity and simplicity after years of desktop Linux distros, but I missed some of the userland idiosyncracies and hardware support. Then I found out about Gentoo, and to me it's been the best of both worlds, starting with Portage which obviously owes a lot to BSD Ports.
Of course, I don't recommend Gentoo to anyone, because the collective wisdom of /. says it is only for ricers. All those oldskool BSD users must be ricers too, for doing all that compiling. (Pro tip: you can share your once-built binaries across several machines...)
Or an app for us 1337 Linux users to bash Windows...
"Why?" is still a valid question; and science says we lack the tools to gather evidence of "why?".
IMHO, "why" questions either form an endless chain or are completely subjective, so they are far from valid in any scientific setting. For example, some say the reason god created the universe is love. Why love? What's the point of love? What's the point of that point? The only way to end this chain is by invoking some value, which is inherently subjective (even if a great number of peole share values).
Of course, the same can be said about the "what" and "how" questions of science. You can always dig deeper into nature and never find out how everything really works. However, we still do it because it's fun to know and understand things.
I'm looking at your 'roids. Happy now?
These aren't the drones you're looking for.
Do you still get the occasional partygoer who says they have connectivity, and they really really want you to play this great song from Youtube or Spotify with their phone? Because that's why DJs have all the fancy equipment and skills, to plug in someone's phone.
Connectivity is one reason why I stay away from closed systems like Spotify. Even with good signal, I wouldn't take the risk of something happening halfway, I really need the entire song on my machine. However, it's more about the principles and practice of DJing. For starters, I need the actual file for loading on the digital turntable and some analysis/planning to get a smooth mix. If someone wants to show off their 1337 Spotify skillz, then by all means do it, take my place for the rest of the night and let me hit the bottle.
You call Atom low power? ARM based boxes don't even need a heatsink. (I've run Gentoo on Buffalo Linkstations since 2009.)
Virtual desktops help me focus on one thing at a time. Having multiple monitors would be simply distracting.
It's the Dawg Star, but navigating with it will be difficult. Too dim.
Are you sirius?
Regular glass doesn't contain any ions, in the same way that regular vegetables don't contain any genes.
I dipped my toes into the Bitcoin world, just to say I'd done it... My $0.1245 worth of bitcoin is now worth $0.0955 Yeah, that's a lot better than keeping my money in a bank...
It's a good thing they value it in dollars, because the value of a dollar never changes, and that's how we know our money is safe in a bank.
Sometimes lumberjacks cut down trees, wear high heels, suspenders and a bra.
FTFY. I hope the video has it all.
Try lip reading the many wives of terr'rists.
IMHO, everything that people do can be explained by the ultimate goal of enjoying. If you do something because it makes rational sense, then perhaps you're the kind of person that enjoys rationality. I certainly get a kick out of doing math and science, and I try not to make the excuse that I'm doing it for some obscure higher purpose. People also tend to feel good when they help others, it's just what has kept mankind alive. If you say you exercise to keep yourself fit for work, then perhaps it's the work/money/status that you just happen to enjoy.
It's a good point about values, though. The question "why" is generally meaningless as it only leads to other questions "why", but the chain can end at some ultimate value -- I do $x because of money/friendship/hookers/blackjack -- but values are personal, and don't necessarily mean anything more than "I happen to enjoy money/friendship/hookers/blackjack, and that's that. In fact, forget the money and the friends."
Slowing the aging process doesn't add 20 years of the worst health at the end of the life but would extend each portion of the process.
IE, if the aging process was truly slowed 30% you'd get 30% longer years at 30, 40, 50 or whatever, not 20-25 years extra in the shape you'd be at 90.
I guess it depends on when this technique is applied. If you're an old geezer now, chances are you won't enjoy any more years with the 20-year-old-you's physique.
If the boss is more interested in accumulating a set number of hours sitting down, as opposed to getting productive work done, then perhaps it's time to get a new job.
As this wasn't clear from skimming the articles, should I assume this is the old 32-bit x86 or x86-64? Because the latter has been around for 11 years, which is a geological time in computing, and we should really move on. Of course for something really embedded you'd want an ARM or a microcontroller, so there would be little point in keeping the x86 32-bit.
It's amazing how cheap and effecient microcontrollers have become... who needs a beefy computer when you can have a Beowulf cluster of controllers for less!
FTFY.
Bitcoin is a technology that solves real-world problems, it's not some fancy collectible. If you don't care to find out and appreciate the tech, then what are you doing on Slashdot?
It depends on what you mean by altcoins. There are several newer cryptocurrencies with a fresh start, instead of cloning the Bitcoin codebase and changing a few parameters/algos, and these take the privacy aspect to a new level. I'm mostly familiar with Boolberry and Monero, both of which share a common Cryptonote ancestry.
However, Bitcoin's cash-like privacy is probably good enough for many people. You can trace the movements of cash via serial numbers, but this in itself is a fair amount of work, and you also need to figure out connections between the serial numbers and specific people. It's pretty much the same with Bitcoin, the hard work is in finding these connections, and if you use something like Tor, or otherwise know what you're doing, you can enjoy a cash-like privacy.
Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency, released over 5 years ago, and it provides roughly cash-like privacy if you know what you're doing. In the meantime, other cryptocurrency projects have developed the privacy aspect much further, for example Boolberry and Monero.
It just might work. Hell, people once bought pet rocks.
I was going to buy some of the pet rocks, but I heard the latency really sucks when using them for international money transfer, it was, like, way over 10 minutes to other continents. The privacy and fungibility aspects were also questionable. I wonder if they would be good for beating some clue into people who don't understand Bitcoin...