It's like saying "we are against unjust wars" as opposed to saying "we should never go to war."
How about, "We should never go to war to enrich a subset of citizens"? "We should never go to war if it's only about depriving someone else of resources"? "We should never go to war unless the leaders (and/or family) are in the front lines"?
How about your work just change slashdot.org to 0.0.0.0 in the hosts file, I think that would increase your productivity even more so than complaining about videos.
I don't insist that all the details were exactly as reported
So, you're saying: some of it is real, and some of it is not.
I think this gets us to the same point as the end of the old joke, where the guy asks the woman if she'd have sex with him for a billion dollars, and she says yes; then he asks if she would for $100, and she asks "What kind of a woman do you think I am?"
His response? "We've already established what kind of woman you are; now we're merely negotiating the price."
Similarly, if "some of it is not real" then it's already established what kind of work of fiction it is; what remains is to determine whether anything less than 100% of it is bunk, as well.
Funny how that's pretty close to reality: Jor-el and Kal-el were so named, because the Jewish tradition is to have a word ending in "el" mean "of God" -- witness Gabriel, Ezekiel, Daniel, etc. The Superman authors wanted to ensure people got the connection, so they added a hyphen before the ending "el". So, if Kal-el is strongly against Lex Luthor, then from the authors' perspective, God is damning LL.
I was thinking the same thoughts, and came up with this solution: machine A has "computer within the computer" A1; B has B1. B controls A1, and A controls B1.
But so long as people see only the value to themselves and not to the employer, they're going to be willing to accept less pay.
Exactly. As a developer one will have more opportunity to have long "deep" thinking periods, the "flow" or "zone" as it's called, and better able to solve the more abstract problems involving keeping multiple variables in one's head. It takes a developer about 20 minutes to get back into the zone once interrupted, I read in college, and a couple years ago read that interruptions now happen every 3 minutes (in an article that also said it takes 15-20 minutes to return to the state). A developer working from home has the potential to be significantly more productive. Therefore, I will work from home and accept the 30% raise.:)
Yes. I noticed it over the weekend, and it was fixed this morning -- at any rate, tabs I opened this morning did not have the behavior -- and, the background of the preview is now yellow, showing that something else changed overnight as well.
The behavior in my case was that I would attempt to copy-and-paste from the body of a post, and it would scroll up as soon as I released the mouse. I think that there may have been an overlap with the key handler and mouse click handler? It seemed like it was going to the parent, but I didn't test the behavior, and can't now. At any rate, it was rather frustrating trying to respond to posts this weekend.
Another behavior that I saw: when I would middle-click a link in a comment, it would perform the same action as attempting to copy, and no tab would open. Fortunately I tried and succeeded at a workaround: right-click, and "Open Link in New Tab".
I did some research to see if it was public what the code change was that might have caused this, and who the author is in order to provide feedback and direction towards code reviews, staging servers, and test harnesses. I did not find much; here is Slashcode on Slashdot; click through to the site for it, and the first news item is (calling) from 2009 and says they hope to update the public repo weekly. Looking in the repo, it was also calling from 2009. So there don't seem to be any public recent commits.
Just now I tried a second search, and ended up on the "Tech" FAQ page, which had a link under Can I have your poll scripts? to Slashdot source code; when I middle-clicked on it, I got a tab with a 503 error. I closed all the tabs and was going to submit this, then thought I should report that 503 as well. I re-opened the tabs and now the behavior is different; now it appear to loop back to the page. Aha, it's to an anchor to an element (te500) that is two items below it, and the page is so short it doesn't scroll much. This is not a standard, but: if the page had a bunch of "blank lines" at the bottom then the anchor's behavior would make more sense, so that it would scroll so that section was at the top of the page. The size of the extra area could be defined via a JavaScript call to determine the height of the browser window, and add exactly one height to the end; that way, if there was an anchor on the last line of the page, it would still be shown at the top. The downside of course is the user might keep scrolling. (In fact, some pages that I opened in Slashdot over the weekend did have a bunch of extra blank space at the bottom, so perhaps someone was already thinking in that direction?)
Something else I noticed, as I was determining that the anchor above (te500) was in fact two sections away: the section between them is not in bold, and looks like a link but cannot be clicked on. Looking in the code, I see that the </a> tag, the CR, and the <h2> tag appear to be missing, after the <a name="te350" id="te350"> and before the "Can I import Slashdot headlines?"
Back to the original issue: now I see from your post that the erroneous code not only affected the entire comment body (I was finally able to copy, but what a struggle!), it also affected the header items as well (which I did not click this weekend). I hope that this provides a valuable bug(s) report.
I'm mostly agreeing with you; the disagreement was with the extension of the thought (and not what you wrote directly), that being "what Apple provides is sufficient." So when I said I disagree, I actually disagreed with that, not with what you wrote. Seriously, thanks for bringing that to my attention. What I really meant, was that I would prefer more granularity than Apple currently provides in terms of giving applications access to my data.
Personally, I'd rather have a procedure like happens when an app requests access to the location data, but this is yet another situation where Apple's "walled garden" provides value to the average user.
I disagree, and I live in that walled garden. I would much prefer each app ask me for the permissions it needs, every single one of them, before it has access to my data.
No. That's not the source. That's the current thinking. The source was, "ZOMG, I can't let that plant destroy the fortune I just invested in this forest!"
The LD50 (lethal dose at 50% probability) for alcohol is 4-10 times the effective dose. So if 4 beers gets you drunk, 16 to 40 beers will kill you. I'm with betterunixthanunix on this one; alcohol is one of the most deadly drugs known to man.
"Demon possessions"? I own a couple, running right now on this box I'm typing on. Yeah, the Internet is certainly satanic; I mean, it's mostly run by daemons!
You're absolutely right regarding the distraction. It's a lot like the game, "follow the money".
Additionally, I love their methods, and wonder about past "controversies": "This publicly-funded library system is spreading false information about our religion because it includes other religions, we should destroy the library system." Where does it end? With all the gold in the coffers at the Vatican, that's where.
There can be NO PEACE with an enemy that refuses to accept your right to exist, full stop.
Huh. They sound a lot like Scientologists, in that regard (they also believe that non-believers are scum and can be cheated, even killed). I would imagine that Elron Hoover got his ideas from these ancient books...
The article says that one pound of nanocellulose can be used to produce 100 pounds of the plastic. So what else is in it? Maybe it's a journalistic error, but it would seem that that violates physical law...
I really liked the topical Married With Children response (the other half of the raisins came from Japan?), but I think the simple answer is it's a reading comprehension, or writer overly compressing the message, issue: one pound of nanocellulose is used, but it is not the only ingredient; the important sentence ends the sixth paragraph: "These fibers can be added to other raw materials to produce reinforced plastic."
I also really liked the linked article in the fourth paragraph, about Ford exploring nanotechnology to get their vehicles' weight down. Competition will get us to the Singularity faster!
Slashdot Mirror
It's like saying "we are against unjust wars" as opposed to saying "we should never go to war."
How about, "We should never go to war to enrich a subset of citizens"? "We should never go to war if it's only about depriving someone else of resources"? "We should never go to war unless the leaders (and/or family) are in the front lines"?
The reality is that controversy sells ad impressions.
How about your work just change slashdot.org to 0.0.0.0 in the hosts file, I think that would increase your productivity even more so than complaining about videos.
That was why they didn't want you reading their damned book.
I don't insist that all the details were exactly as reported
So, you're saying: some of it is real, and some of it is not.
I think this gets us to the same point as the end of the old joke, where the guy asks the woman if she'd have sex with him for a billion dollars, and she says yes; then he asks if she would for $100, and she asks "What kind of a woman do you think I am?"
His response? "We've already established what kind of woman you are; now we're merely negotiating the price."
Similarly, if "some of it is not real" then it's already established what kind of work of fiction it is; what remains is to determine whether anything less than 100% of it is bunk, as well.
The proof of the engine is in the eating.
Goddamn you, Lex Luthor!
Funny how that's pretty close to reality: Jor-el and Kal-el were so named, because the Jewish tradition is to have a word ending in "el" mean "of God" -- witness Gabriel, Ezekiel, Daniel, etc. The Superman authors wanted to ensure people got the connection, so they added a hyphen before the ending "el". So, if Kal-el is strongly against Lex Luthor, then from the authors' perspective, God is damning LL.
Yeah I was a bit confused when I wrote it. :) I agree, that we're just going to have to agree to agree. :)
I was thinking the same thoughts, and came up with this solution: machine A has "computer within the computer" A1; B has B1. B controls A1, and A controls B1.
You dropped this: /
But so long as people see only the value to themselves and not to the employer, they're going to be willing to accept less pay.
Exactly. As a developer one will have more opportunity to have long "deep" thinking periods, the "flow" or "zone" as it's called, and better able to solve the more abstract problems involving keeping multiple variables in one's head. It takes a developer about 20 minutes to get back into the zone once interrupted, I read in college, and a couple years ago read that interruptions now happen every 3 minutes (in an article that also said it takes 15-20 minutes to return to the state). A developer working from home has the potential to be significantly more productive. Therefore, I will work from home and accept the 30% raise. :)
What is up with that? Some new Slashdot bug?
Yes. I noticed it over the weekend, and it was fixed this morning -- at any rate, tabs I opened this morning did not have the behavior -- and, the background of the preview is now yellow, showing that something else changed overnight as well.
The behavior in my case was that I would attempt to copy-and-paste from the body of a post, and it would scroll up as soon as I released the mouse. I think that there may have been an overlap with the key handler and mouse click handler? It seemed like it was going to the parent, but I didn't test the behavior, and can't now. At any rate, it was rather frustrating trying to respond to posts this weekend.
Another behavior that I saw: when I would middle-click a link in a comment, it would perform the same action as attempting to copy, and no tab would open. Fortunately I tried and succeeded at a workaround: right-click, and "Open Link in New Tab".
I did some research to see if it was public what the code change was that might have caused this, and who the author is in order to provide feedback and direction towards code reviews, staging servers, and test harnesses. I did not find much; here is Slashcode on Slashdot; click through to the site for it, and the first news item is (calling) from 2009 and says they hope to update the public repo weekly. Looking in the repo, it was also calling from 2009. So there don't seem to be any public recent commits.
Just now I tried a second search, and ended up on the "Tech" FAQ page, which had a link under Can I have your poll scripts? to Slashdot source code; when I middle-clicked on it, I got a tab with a 503 error. I closed all the tabs and was going to submit this, then thought I should report that 503 as well. I re-opened the tabs and now the behavior is different; now it appear to loop back to the page. Aha, it's to an anchor to an element (te500) that is two items below it, and the page is so short it doesn't scroll much. This is not a standard, but: if the page had a bunch of "blank lines" at the bottom then the anchor's behavior would make more sense, so that it would scroll so that section was at the top of the page. The size of the extra area could be defined via a JavaScript call to determine the height of the browser window, and add exactly one height to the end; that way, if there was an anchor on the last line of the page, it would still be shown at the top. The downside of course is the user might keep scrolling. (In fact, some pages that I opened in Slashdot over the weekend did have a bunch of extra blank space at the bottom, so perhaps someone was already thinking in that direction?)
Something else I noticed, as I was determining that the anchor above (te500) was in fact two sections away: the section between them is not in bold, and looks like a link but cannot be clicked on. Looking in the code, I see that the </a> tag, the CR, and the <h2> tag appear to be missing, after the <a name="te350" id="te350"> and before the "Can I import Slashdot headlines?"
Back to the original issue: now I see from your post that the erroneous code not only affected the entire comment body (I was finally able to copy, but what a struggle!), it also affected the header items as well (which I did not click this weekend). I hope that this provides a valuable bug(s) report.
Likewise, have fun performing simple tasks with a CLI.
Jesus, why are we having these discussions all over again? 1990 called and it wants its flamewars back.
Yeah, 2009 called also.
Or: Humor Excellence.
I'm mostly agreeing with you; the disagreement was with the extension of the thought (and not what you wrote directly), that being "what Apple provides is sufficient." So when I said I disagree, I actually disagreed with that, not with what you wrote. Seriously, thanks for bringing that to my attention. What I really meant, was that I would prefer more granularity than Apple currently provides in terms of giving applications access to my data.
Personally, I'd rather have a procedure like happens when an app requests access to the location data, but this is yet another situation where Apple's "walled garden" provides value to the average user.
I disagree, and I live in that walled garden. I would much prefer each app ask me for the permissions it needs, every single one of them, before it has access to my data.
I think we should get the FBI to ask the Internet to give them too many answers that they can't cope with real threats?
Ah, but then, we have no bananas today. Perhaps a nice turd sandwich?
No. That's not the source. That's the current thinking. The source was, "ZOMG, I can't let that plant destroy the fortune I just invested in this forest!"
The LD50 (lethal dose at 50% probability) for alcohol is 4-10 times the effective dose. So if 4 beers gets you drunk, 16 to 40 beers will kill you. I'm with betterunixthanunix on this one; alcohol is one of the most deadly drugs known to man.
I still say Gee-You-Eye. And I still say Ess-Cee-Ess-Eye instead of Scuzzy.
I'm an ultra-geek I guess.
Or a slow (verbal) communicator.
"Demon possessions"? I own a couple, running right now on this box I'm typing on. Yeah, the Internet is certainly satanic; I mean, it's mostly run by daemons!
You're absolutely right regarding the distraction. It's a lot like the game, "follow the money".
Additionally, I love their methods, and wonder about past "controversies": "This publicly-funded library system is spreading false information about our religion because it includes other religions, we should destroy the library system." Where does it end? With all the gold in the coffers at the Vatican, that's where.
There can be NO PEACE with an enemy that refuses to accept your right to exist, full stop.
Huh. They sound a lot like Scientologists, in that regard (they also believe that non-believers are scum and can be cheated, even killed). I would imagine that Elron Hoover got his ideas from these ancient books...
Hi, I like your sig, new friend.
The article says that one pound of nanocellulose can be used to produce 100 pounds of the plastic. So what else is in it? Maybe it's a journalistic error, but it would seem that that violates physical law...
I really liked the topical Married With Children response (the other half of the raisins came from Japan?), but I think the simple answer is it's a reading comprehension, or writer overly compressing the message, issue: one pound of nanocellulose is used, but it is not the only ingredient; the important sentence ends the sixth paragraph: "These fibers can be added to other raw materials to produce reinforced plastic."
I also really liked the linked article in the fourth paragraph, about Ford exploring nanotechnology to get their vehicles' weight down. Competition will get us to the Singularity faster!