IIRC, they are trying to get away from re-badging Clevo hardware. They recently built some sort of factory to manufacture some things in house. I saw them on Twitter setting up a powder-coating apparatus.
Uber is a taxi cab company. In what way does this constitute "News for Nerds?"
Are the taxi cabs self-driving Google cars? No.
Are they powered by Dilithium crystals? No.
Does Natalie Portman pour hot grits down her pants in the back seat? No.
Why is this rubbish on the Slashdot?
I took the Windows 2000 and 2003 MCSE tests. There was definitely subnetting involved. Granted, it's been 11 years, but I specifically recall things like "How many hosts can you have on network 10.10.0.0/16, what's the first, last, broadcast IP address" etc. It's not CCNA level stuff, but there's definitely more going on than just memorizing the classes.
You needed to know this stuff to setup the RRAS server IIRC.
If you read the reviews, there seem to be two categories. People who are disappointed with the out-of-the-box Tap-n-Tap interface and return it, and those who spend an hour or two updating the software and are happy with it.
I got a G tablet for Xmas. I'm in category 2. The out-of-the-box experience is utter shit. I Rooted it, downloaded a custom ROM, and now it's really awesome. It's ridiculously easy to do this.
I'm running TNTlite 4.0, and it's really snappy. It seems like it should be upgradable to Honeycomb when the time comes. It's supposedly possible to run Ubuntu on it, but I haven't tried this yet.
You can come up with whatever justifications to 'give rights' to whatever you want, but in reality 'rights' are an abstract idea defined by humans.
When in the Course of dolphin events it becomes necessary for one pod to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the sea, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of dolphinkind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Dolphins are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Herring.
[...]
The history of the Humans is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these Waters. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.
However, extending high speed rail across the US makes no economic sense now, and would place the government into direct competition with private commercial transport.
There is no such thing as private commercial transport. The highways are all built and maintained by the goverment. The airline industry gets "bailed out" with public monies every other day. Airport authorities are not private corporations, either.
Saying transport mode X can't "compete" with transport mode Y is just another way of saying that X is less heavily subsidized.
Because it is impossible to pirate books to a Kindle?
It is trivially easy to read pirated books on Kindle. Not that I have done this, mind you, but I hear that there are websites out there with ebook torrents on them, and there's this program you can get to convert them into a Kindle-readable format.
The Kindle device doesn't require DRM, the Amazon bookstore does. These are two separate things that people seem to keep mixing up.
CVT for bicycles has been around for a while now.
The infinite torque problem is usually not an issue unless you have he-man's leg muscles, or want insanely low gears.
Here's a video of a CVT bicycle hub.
In my experience, the eyestrain thing seems to be correlated with age. When I was a younger man, I read all sorts of e-books on my palm pilot with no problem. That was maybe 10 years ago. Now that I'm a wizened old geezer (35), I can only read on my droid for maybe half an hour before my eyes fee like they're starting to melt, but I can read on my Kindle for hours and hours with no problem.
The fonts on the Kindle aren't especially good, so I doubt it's font-related.
There are bike lanes everywhere. I would think that with some combination of bike lanes and side streets, you'd end up getting home faster on a bicycle even if it added a few miles to the distance.
I actually prefer reading on my Kindle to most paper books. My eyes go buggy reading on a computer screen, too, but the idea that you can't "curl up" with a Kindle is nonsense. I read my Kindle in my comfy chair, in bed, on the toilet, in the waiting room at the doctor's office, etc.
The Kindle's display does not make my eyes go buggy at all.
Really, the only advantage paper books have is that you can't "thumb through" the Kindle, and that graphics / diagrams / photos look like crap on the Kindle.
But really I want to stress that the most important "feature" is that is not Defective By Design: with the Kindle you have to send your PDF or HTML files to Amazon to be converted to the proprietary and DRM'ed format used, which will then only work on a single device,
You are entirely wrong about this. You can convert your PDF into a mobidoc on your desktop and copy the prc file to your kindle over the USB port. I do this all the time, and it works out great. No DRM, doesn't involve Amazon at all.
but it can also appear as an USB key to a PC) and most important is very open: no DRM bullshit, it runs Linux
I have a first-gen Kindle, and I am quite satisfied with it. It runs Linux too. It's a USB storage device too. It reads non-DRM ebooks just fine. There is "DRM bullshit" if and only if you buy your books from Amazon, which is not a requirement.
I bought it to read books, not to try to get root on it. If getting root is really worth spending an extra $500, be my guest, but I'll keep my money and spend it on books.
It's easier for the local pizza place to hire more cooks and delivery people if there is additional demand for pizza delivery due to the locals having more pizza money available.
No matter how rich you are, you can only eat 5 or 6 pizzas a day:-)
It would appear that the US Census Bureau also made this same mistake. The driveway is labeled as "GoldenBrooke Ln" in the TIGER dataset, also visible in OpenStreetMap.
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IT / coders need an UNION!
Union sysadmin here. Can confirm, life is good.
IIRC, they are trying to get away from re-badging Clevo hardware. They recently built some sort of factory to manufacture some things in house. I saw them on Twitter setting up a powder-coating apparatus.
Uber is a taxi cab company. In what way does this constitute "News for Nerds?"
Are the taxi cabs self-driving Google cars? No.
Are they powered by Dilithium crystals? No.
Does Natalie Portman pour hot grits down her pants in the back seat? No.
Why is this rubbish on the Slashdot?
I took the Windows 2000 and 2003 MCSE tests. There was definitely subnetting involved. Granted, it's been 11 years, but I specifically recall things like "How many hosts can you have on network 10.10.0.0/16, what's the first, last, broadcast IP address" etc. It's not CCNA level stuff, but there's definitely more going on than just memorizing the classes. You needed to know this stuff to setup the RRAS server IIRC.
I'm considering doing that. I'm 45 and my eyes ....
I'm also 45 and I'm experiencing the same thing...
I'm 45 too, am near-sighted...
God damn, /. is getting old.
I think I remember the Ubuntu UK Podcast people saying that they had special permission from Canonical to use the Ubuntu name and logo.
That's not an ARM based unit... It's got an Atom.
Ah, right you are. I should probably stay away from the computer until I'm fully caffeinated.
Also This. Starling NetBook -- Dual Core Atom N550 @ 1.50 GHz
If you read the reviews, there seem to be two categories. People who are disappointed with the out-of-the-box Tap-n-Tap interface and return it, and those who spend an hour or two updating the software and are happy with it.
I got a G tablet for Xmas. I'm in category 2. The out-of-the-box experience is utter shit. I Rooted it, downloaded a custom ROM, and now it's really awesome. It's ridiculously easy to do this.
I'm running TNTlite 4.0, and it's really snappy. It seems like it should be upgradable to Honeycomb when the time comes. It's supposedly possible to run Ubuntu on it, but I haven't tried this yet.
You can come up with whatever justifications to 'give rights' to whatever you want, but in reality 'rights' are an abstract idea defined by humans.
When in the Course of dolphin events it becomes necessary for one pod to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the sea, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of dolphinkind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Dolphins are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Herring.
[...]
The history of the Humans is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these Waters. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.
You just need the right tires to ride in the snow. I ride on carbide studded nokians, haven't fallen down yet.
However, extending high speed rail across the US makes no economic sense now, and would place the government into direct competition with private commercial transport.
There is no such thing as private commercial transport. The highways are all built and maintained by the goverment. The airline industry gets "bailed out" with public monies every other day. Airport authorities are not private corporations, either. Saying transport mode X can't "compete" with transport mode Y is just another way of saying that X is less heavily subsidized.
Because it is impossible to pirate books to a Kindle?
It is trivially easy to read pirated books on Kindle. Not that I have done this, mind you, but I hear that there are websites out there with ebook torrents on them, and there's this program you can get to convert them into a Kindle-readable format.
The Kindle device doesn't require DRM, the Amazon bookstore does. These are two separate things that people seem to keep mixing up.
CVT for bicycles has been around for a while now. The infinite torque problem is usually not an issue unless you have he-man's leg muscles, or want insanely low gears. Here's a video of a CVT bicycle hub.
In my experience, the eyestrain thing seems to be correlated with age. When I was a younger man, I read all sorts of e-books on my palm pilot with no problem. That was maybe 10 years ago. Now that I'm a wizened old geezer (35), I can only read on my droid for maybe half an hour before my eyes fee like they're starting to melt, but I can read on my Kindle for hours and hours with no problem. The fonts on the Kindle aren't especially good, so I doubt it's font-related.
There are bike lanes everywhere. I would think that with some combination of bike lanes and side streets, you'd end up getting home faster on a bicycle even if it added a few miles to the distance.
I actually prefer reading on my Kindle to most paper books. My eyes go buggy reading on a computer screen, too, but the idea that you can't "curl up" with a Kindle is nonsense. I read my Kindle in my comfy chair, in bed, on the toilet, in the waiting room at the doctor's office, etc.
The Kindle's display does not make my eyes go buggy at all.
Really, the only advantage paper books have is that you can't "thumb through" the Kindle, and that graphics / diagrams / photos look like crap on the Kindle.
But really I want to stress that the most important "feature" is that is not Defective By Design: with the Kindle you have to send your PDF or HTML files to Amazon to be converted to the proprietary and DRM'ed format used, which will then only work on a single device,
You are entirely wrong about this. You can convert your PDF into a mobidoc on your desktop and copy the prc file to your kindle over the USB port. I do this all the time, and it works out great. No DRM, doesn't involve Amazon at all.
but it can also appear as an USB key to a PC) and most important is very open: no DRM bullshit, it runs Linux
I have a first-gen Kindle, and I am quite satisfied with it. It runs Linux too. It's a USB storage device too. It reads non-DRM ebooks just fine. There is "DRM bullshit" if and only if you buy your books from Amazon, which is not a requirement.
I bought it to read books, not to try to get root on it. If getting root is really worth spending an extra $500, be my guest, but I'll keep my money and spend it on books.
No matter how rich you are, you can only eat 5 or 6 pizzas a day :-)
The fishermen in Prudhoe bay are ok because there hasn't been an oil spill yet. The fishermen in Prince William Sound sing a slightly different tune.
Risking an accident in ANWR in order to extract the last few drop of crude from the Earth doesn't seem like a sensible risk/reward ratio to me.
It would appear that the US Census Bureau also made this same mistake. The driveway is labeled as "GoldenBrooke Ln" in the TIGER dataset, also visible in OpenStreetMap.
A CEO is differentiated by registering as an insider with the SEC.
http://biz.yahoo.com/t/85/3871.html