Programmers love nothing more than reinventing the wheel, preferably in an entirely new language using bold new paradigms. Newer is better! The new language will be more efficient and bug -free, and all our code will achieve perfection once we rewrite it all again. Lather, rinse, and repeat.
Great. So it's like German Spanish, with absurd compound words. If people actually used it, it would still not seem mildly attractive. Get back to your Latin, you twit.
Maybe what has been said here applies only to huge corporations. In almost all of the companies I've worked for, the boss was very happy to hear my ideas. We might argue over some of them but, generally, he was entirely happy to steal them outright. My code, my policies, my naming schemes... or should I say, "his". I got paid for it. I'm only mildly miffed. I have more where that came from. Still, I was the engine in his company, and the one before it, and the one before that. That's kind've why I got the jobs, though, so this had an adequate payout. They did always listen.
I expect I should not feed the troll. However, Daggerfall was never a good game. Its largely computer-generated dungeons were insanely repetitive, and the game exploded every time you sneezed. You'd probably die trying to take the elevators, you'd fall through the world in any number of ways, and you'd get arrested by magical police for taking a nap in an entirely empty building... although there was a way to pass loot through the dungeon wall to your horse.
Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim have various issues, but they are considerably more stable and playable.
Does Slashdot need to repost everything on Reddit a few days later? Mother of God. This site is increasingly obsolescent. I love it, but I think that's just nostalgia talking.
I reload pages because they are broken, generally due to an excess of advertising. Yes, I could filter out advertising but, I often get paid for having it there. Not that I look at it.
But with this kind of research we get contradicting results every other year. First milk was important for you, now milk is harmful. Eggs used to be the way to an early grave, now eggs are the fountain of youth. Cholesterol was deadly, now we need it like a drug.
We don't, really. The foundation of a lot of the confusion was the U.S. government recommendations of 1977, which were often not based on any science. I suspect corruption, but incompetence might have been a factor. There were some voodoo notions about calcium, cholesterol, sodium and fiber. Even the Feds have since retracted the idea that dietary cholesterol is meaningful.
Milk is fine in reasonable amounts, if you can digest it; probably 1/3-1/2 of the recommendations. You don't need the skim crap. Eggs have always been fine. Sodium is fine up to at least three times the U.S. recommended maximum. You probably want only half of the recommended fiber intake. That's what my research suggests but, bodies differ, and experiment for yourself.
Yeah. Am I the only one seeing "âoeResurgence"? Do I need to adjust my browser settings, or are the editors just clueless... idiots... ok, forget that. It's not like "Slashdot editor" has ever been more or less than an honorary title for "underpaid overseas intern who barely knows English."
This is not an antiquated newspaper or Twitter. "Microbiome Changes Drive the Dieting Yo-Yo Effect, Study Finds"... are you kidding me? Either drop the "study finds" or put it in front where it belongs, and please stop with the camel case.
I know. When my Mom died, the keys to the kingdom were lost. She's the only one who could have identified a lot of my relatives. I have some small hopes that AI image matching may identify a few but... lost. Information lost. Horrifying. Just gone.
I will preserve it. A lot of it will go unlabeled. Someone, somewhere, sometime may find a use for it; and I have a lot of relatives who have been out of contact for a long time who may just know that was Great-Aunt Alfreda.
I wanted to rebuild a friend a long time ago. It really wasn't going to happen on a 386, but I figured I'd anyway get to know him better. He was not exactly excited at the prospect. Well, privacy issues, plus the fact that the whole project was not remotely plausible.
It still isn't . The AI isn't anywhere near close to being able to mimic a real person, yet. But I understand why you would try that, and... go for it.
We may not be able to live forever. It's possible that some semblance of who we were can. Call them poems of humanity.
Contrariwise... my family has left an immense amount of information. Boxes and boxes of pictures, some films (!), postcards, letters, college studies... I am planning to digitize all of it. In physical form, it takes an immense amount of room, can only be held by one person, and is not backed up. It will be much more flexible, useful, and safe as computer data.
I think Slashdot would be raking in more of that sweet advertising revenue if it posted these ads at the same time as the rest of the internet, instead of a day or two later.
'Can fold up into roughly the "size of a standard water bottle," DJI says.' For the benefit of us rich people who have running water in their houses, what is the size of a standard water bottle in (A) inches, (B) centimeters, (C) beer bottles, (D) Libraries of Congress, (E), football fields, (F) car analogies, or (G) Cowboy Neil? You know. Standard measurements.
There are a surprising number of these "angry old man" rants on Slashies. We all get that the devices are insecure but, they're incredibly handy, and they will sweep the world. If you still want to keep your old TV with a dial on it for tuning, go right ahead, grandpa. The rest of us will be asking the air for a new show and don't much care if the world knows it.
I had the original Nexus 7. It just stopped working. It wasn't much missed, as I had the second version also... which dropped a few feet and decided to stop working. Looked perfect. Wouldn't turn on.
Sanctimonious bullshit is what the whackos who call people SJWs do best. Old chickenshit white guys who are terrified of change, inventing some bizarre cant with its own specialized nomenclature. Is SJW supposed to be so similar to saying "Jew"?
What we know about the U.S. intelligence community is that they always get things utterly wrong. They have done so for easily 60 years, since they grossly overestimated the Soviet military threat in size, science, and capacity.
What we know about North Korea is that it loves to make bold boasts about having advanced technologies that turn out to either explode at the launchpad or to be photoshopped cardboard boxes.
Fear level: 3. I'm modestly worried that the U.S. will do something insanely stupid, again, after having been persuaded that someone, somewhere, might have a Weapon of Mass Destruction. (As I recall, the few that were eventually found in Iraq turned out to be long-defunct weapons that the U.S. had supplied.)
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It's always interesting how the Media guys consider themselves as part of the government. "It's our money! How dare the people keep it!"
>"It's estimated that somewhere between about $3.5 and $5 billion in Australia every year is lost in tax revenue due to the sort of cash economy,"
"Lost in tax revenue". That is, it's the government's money, and the citizens are just thieves who are stealing it.
Let's correct that, shall we?
"It's estimated that somewhere between about $3.5 and $5 billion in Australia every year is saved by the people..."
Programmers love nothing more than reinventing the wheel, preferably in an entirely new language using bold new paradigms. Newer is better! The new language will be more efficient and bug -free, and all our code will achieve perfection once we rewrite it all again. Lather, rinse, and repeat.
Great. So it's like German Spanish, with absurd compound words. If people actually used it, it would still not seem mildly attractive. Get back to your Latin, you twit.
You'd much rather sit in a bath with thin, muscular young men? Tell us more.
Maybe what has been said here applies only to huge corporations. In almost all of the companies I've worked for, the boss was very happy to hear my ideas. We might argue over some of them but, generally, he was entirely happy to steal them outright. My code, my policies, my naming schemes... or should I say, "his". I got paid for it. I'm only mildly miffed. I have more where that came from. Still, I was the engine in his company, and the one before it, and the one before that. That's kind've why I got the jobs, though, so this had an adequate payout. They did always listen.
I expect I should not feed the troll. However, Daggerfall was never a good game. Its largely computer-generated dungeons were insanely repetitive, and the game exploded every time you sneezed. You'd probably die trying to take the elevators, you'd fall through the world in any number of ways, and you'd get arrested by magical police for taking a nap in an entirely empty building... although there was a way to pass loot through the dungeon wall to your horse.
Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim have various issues, but they are considerably more stable and playable.
Does Slashdot need to repost everything on Reddit a few days later? Mother of God. This site is increasingly obsolescent. I love it, but I think that's just nostalgia talking.
That is all.
I reload pages because they are broken, generally due to an excess of advertising. Yes, I could filter out advertising but, I often get paid for having it there. Not that I look at it.
Make it President.
But with this kind of research we get contradicting results every other year. First milk was important for you, now milk is harmful. Eggs used to be the way to an early grave, now eggs are the fountain of youth. Cholesterol was deadly, now we need it like a drug.
We don't, really. The foundation of a lot of the confusion was the U.S. government recommendations of 1977, which were often not based on any science. I suspect corruption, but incompetence might have been a factor. There were some voodoo notions about calcium, cholesterol, sodium and fiber. Even the Feds have since retracted the idea that dietary cholesterol is meaningful.
Milk is fine in reasonable amounts, if you can digest it; probably 1/3-1/2 of the recommendations. You don't need the skim crap. Eggs have always been fine. Sodium is fine up to at least three times the U.S. recommended maximum. You probably want only half of the recommended fiber intake. That's what my research suggests but, bodies differ, and experiment for yourself.
Yeah. Am I the only one seeing "âoeResurgence"? Do I need to adjust my browser settings, or are the editors just clueless... idiots... ok, forget that. It's not like "Slashdot editor" has ever been more or less than an honorary title for "underpaid overseas intern who barely knows English."
This is not an antiquated newspaper or Twitter. "Microbiome Changes Drive the Dieting Yo-Yo Effect, Study Finds"... are you kidding me? Either drop the "study finds" or put it in front where it belongs, and please stop with the camel case.
>The article also suggests this effort may one day spawn fake news-fighting tech startups.
I love it! Fake tech startups that fight news! How do I get in on the ground floor? Fund me! Oooh ooh! Fund me!
I know. When my Mom died, the keys to the kingdom were lost. She's the only one who could have identified a lot of my relatives. I have some small hopes that AI image matching may identify a few but... lost. Information lost. Horrifying. Just gone.
I will preserve it. A lot of it will go unlabeled. Someone, somewhere, sometime may find a use for it; and I have a lot of relatives who have been out of contact for a long time who may just know that was Great-Aunt Alfreda.
I wanted to rebuild a friend a long time ago. It really wasn't going to happen on a 386, but I figured I'd anyway get to know him better. He was not exactly excited at the prospect. Well, privacy issues, plus the fact that the whole project was not remotely plausible.
It still isn't . The AI isn't anywhere near close to being able to mimic a real person, yet. But I understand why you would try that, and... go for it.
We may not be able to live forever. It's possible that some semblance of who we were can. Call them poems of humanity.
Contrariwise... my family has left an immense amount of information. Boxes and boxes of pictures, some films (!), postcards, letters, college studies... I am planning to digitize all of it. In physical form, it takes an immense amount of room, can only be held by one person, and is not backed up. It will be much more flexible, useful, and safe as computer data.
I am not sure what I just read. This split community joined together as... two separate companies? Is this some sort of weird attempt at Newspeak?
I think Slashdot would be raking in more of that sweet advertising revenue if it posted these ads at the same time as the rest of the internet, instead of a day or two later.
'Can fold up into roughly the "size of a standard water bottle," DJI says.' For the benefit of us rich people who have running water in their houses, what is the size of a standard water bottle in (A) inches, (B) centimeters, (C) beer bottles, (D) Libraries of Congress, (E), football fields, (F) car analogies, or (G) Cowboy Neil? You know. Standard measurements.
Yes! Let's start adding the Hitler mustache to Charlie Chaplin pictures. Bwa ha ha ha!
There are a surprising number of these "angry old man" rants on Slashies. We all get that the devices are insecure but, they're incredibly handy, and they will sweep the world. If you still want to keep your old TV with a dial on it for tuning, go right ahead, grandpa. The rest of us will be asking the air for a new show and don't much care if the world knows it.
Some days, Slashdot concerns me more than others.
Yes, fine, moderate me "off-topic".
I had the original Nexus 7. It just stopped working. It wasn't much missed, as I had the second version also... which dropped a few feet and decided to stop working. Looked perfect. Wouldn't turn on.
For $200-ish, those were mighty fragile toys.
Sanctimonious bullshit is what the whackos who call people SJWs do best. Old chickenshit white guys who are terrified of change, inventing some bizarre cant with its own specialized nomenclature. Is SJW supposed to be so similar to saying "Jew"?
What we know about the U.S. intelligence community is that they always get things utterly wrong. They have done so for easily 60 years, since they grossly overestimated the Soviet military threat in size, science, and capacity.
What we know about North Korea is that it loves to make bold boasts about having advanced technologies that turn out to either explode at the launchpad or to be photoshopped cardboard boxes.
Fear level: 3. I'm modestly worried that the U.S. will do something insanely stupid, again, after having been persuaded that someone, somewhere, might have a Weapon of Mass Destruction. (As I recall, the few that were eventually found in Iraq turned out to be long-defunct weapons that the U.S. had supplied.)