What you're actually saying is that we, the Slashdot users -- at least the ones who haven't been around long enough to have their moderating privileges arbitrarily taken away for calling a/. admin on his hypocrisy -- suck.
And you know what? You're probably right. Two-thirds of any group of people are idiots; why should this site be any different?
I recall one of the many controversies in the 2000 election in Florida was some people were staying home in the panhandle (Central Time) because they were being told by the TV talking heads that Florida was already decided (in the rest of the state, Eastern Time) and so their vote didn't count.
Except that all of Florida, even the panhandle, is located within the Eastern Time Zone.
Which is not to say the principle is not valid; if the outcome is decided by the time the last polling place in the Central Time Zone closes, as would happen if every state east of the Mississippi voted unanimously, then why should voters in Oregon or Alaska bother going to the polls?
The reason the scientists think it's okay and not dangerous is because the process of old ice melting and bacteria being reintroduced happens all the time.
Well, that and the fact that the bacteria are being revived IN A LABORATORY. If lab techs start dropping dead due to exposure to this stuff, they'll just hose down the room with bleach and the bacteria will be dead again.
By charging less for less useful subjects such as history we will end up with a surfeit of people with the wrong degrees - people not suited to the jobs that we, as a country, need.
Any person dopey enough to major in History over Electrical Engineering for no reason other than that the former costs $20K/semester and the latter $22K/semester doesn't belong at a university to begin with.
The damned article makes a point to say it is an extension to Firebug not Firefox. Whats the difference?
I cannot install YSlow as a browser extension unless I also have the Firebug extension enabled.
And since Firebug for some reason causes my browser to climb to 100% CPU and become unresponsive if I leave it enabled too long, I guess I won't be giving YSlow a try.
My right to use and change data is restricted by government intervention
No, your right to use and change data is completely unrestricted. It is only your ability to RE-PUBLISH content created by others -- or derived from content created by others -- that is limited.
And please note I did say 'ability' and not 'right'. There is no legal nor moral right to use the work of others against their wishes.
Apparently the 10 month old 8800GTX drivers are not included on the Ubuntu install disk.
Are modern graphics cards no longer compatible with the VGA standard or something? An OS installer should be able to bootstrap using a bare minimum standard hardware configuration (even if those hardware standards are 20 years old), needing no hardware-specific drivers except maybe for the network interface. Once bootstrapped, all the HW-specific drivers can be retrieved and installed over the network.
He had to decide to face Voldemort willingly, accept that he is going to die, and understand that he is doing this to save his friends.
So did every other Auror and Order of the Phoenix member to fall by Voldemort's hand. Why weren't THEY able to "come back" after a hit from the Killing Curse, too?
Favorites/bookmarks and history were standard features of web browsers by 1995 or so.
If browsers that ran on 90MHz Pentium I CPUs didn't have any performance problems due to those features, what could possibly be gained from removing them?
I don't have a problem with the gov't blocking the bank accounts of terrorists!
Me either, but I do have a problem with one branch of government unilaterally determining who is or isn't "a terrorist".
The Secretary of the Treasury wants to freeze the assets of a suspected terrorist? Fine. Get Congress to specifically empower him to do that, and get a judge to authorize the request. There needs to be checks and balances.
the simple fact that the 360's hardware is better suited for games
I don't know that this is justifiable as an opinion, much less a "simple fact".
It may be true that the 360's Xenon CPU may be more familiar to developers than the PS3's Cell, but I'm not sure that translates into being "better suited for games". There's no reason that a game written to take advantage of the Cell architecture could not be better than one written to take advantage of the Xenon.
Technical blogs, e.g., programming techniques/tips? Those are better, but aren't really blogs. They just allow someone to easily post information without organizing it into website.
Your last sentence pretty much defines what a blog is. So how are they not "really blogs"?
the world's richest economy is using the cheapest and crappiest ingredients.
As is every other competitive economy.
Believe me, if it were cheaper for Coke and Pepsi to use HFCS in their European formula too, the continent would be swilling the same stuff Americans do.
Hamburger buns contain high-fructose corn syrup. Fountain soft drinks are LOADED with the stuff. So is ketchup. I wouldn't even be surprised if fast food companies have found ways to pump the burger patties themselves full of the sweet stuff.
with Disney and others, their "property" is worth millions of dollars. So charge them 5% of the estimated value. Every year.
Who gets to estimate the value, and what formulas would they use?
Disney might look into their vaults and say "Well, 'Song of the South' hasn't earned us a single cent in over 20 years, so it can't be that valuable... still, the physical media itself must have some value... let's appraise it at a nominal value of $1, pay the five cents to the government, and keep it out of the public's hands for yet another year."
what about when I open a link in a new tab from something I am reading but don't get to it for another 20 minutes. After I get to it I notice that the link is crap and close it right away. Total time spent = 4 seconds. Total time they think spent is 20 minutes 4 seconds.
No, because the session tracker is smarter than that. When it saw that you hadn't requested another page from that site after 5 minutes -- assuming that the content of the page shouldn't take anybody more than 5 minutes to read, adjust as necessary -- it concluded that you had abandoned the site. Fifteen minutes and four seconds before you actually did.
Your session contained only one page request, so measuring the time between requests is impossible. Your session length was probably recorded as 0 seconds.
Yes, it is a big drawback of "session time"-based metrics that offline and casual browser cannot really be tracked in a meaningful way. But as far as the people who care about the metrics are concerned, those types of browsing habit are not their focus anyway. It's the users who are actively engaged with the site that they are pursuing, and those users are well-represented by the tracking method.
Why would anyone sane want to try to, basically, reinvent the page refresh in Javascript instead of using the browser's existing mechanism? No, seriously.
Why?
Because on a typical website, half of the page content is exactly the same on every single page: logo, header, footer, navigation rail, etc. The content well is the only part that's different from page to page.
Why should the client and server request and return those page elements over and over again if they never change? AJAX allows only those elements that are different from page to page -- the real content -- to have to be transferred.
Imagine how horrible Google Maps would be if you had to wait two seconds for the whole page to refresh every time you dragged the map a quarter of an inch.
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I'll say it again: the moderator pool sucks.
What you're actually saying is that we, the Slashdot users -- at least the ones who haven't been around long enough to have their moderating privileges arbitrarily taken away for calling a
And you know what? You're probably right. Two-thirds of any group of people are idiots; why should this site be any different?
I recall one of the many controversies in the 2000 election in Florida was some people were staying home in the panhandle (Central Time) because they were being told by the TV talking heads that Florida was already decided (in the rest of the state, Eastern Time) and so their vote didn't count.
Except that all of Florida, even the panhandle, is located within the Eastern Time Zone.
Which is not to say the principle is not valid; if the outcome is decided by the time the last polling place in the Central Time Zone closes, as would happen if every state east of the Mississippi voted unanimously, then why should voters in Oregon or Alaska bother going to the polls?
The reason the scientists think it's okay and not dangerous is because the process of old ice melting and bacteria being reintroduced happens all the time.
Well, that and the fact that the bacteria are being revived IN A LABORATORY. If lab techs start dropping dead due to exposure to this stuff, they'll just hose down the room with bleach and the bacteria will be dead again.
If you absolutely can't live without your web-based masterpiece being presented in point-perfect font specifivity, present it as a .gif or .pdf...
SSSH. Don't encourage them.
("Them" being former print designers who can't conceive of the web as a different medium...)
By charging less for less useful subjects such as history we will end up with a surfeit of people with the wrong degrees - people not suited to the jobs that we, as a country, need.
Any person dopey enough to major in History over Electrical Engineering for no reason other than that the former costs $20K/semester and the latter $22K/semester doesn't belong at a university to begin with.
The damned article makes a point to say it is an extension to Firebug not Firefox. Whats the difference?
I cannot install YSlow as a browser extension unless I also have the Firebug extension enabled.
And since Firebug for some reason causes my browser to climb to 100% CPU and become unresponsive if I leave it enabled too long, I guess I won't be giving YSlow a try.
My right to use and change data is restricted by government intervention
No, your right to use and change data is completely unrestricted. It is only your ability to RE-PUBLISH content created by others -- or derived from content created by others -- that is limited.
And please note I did say 'ability' and not 'right'. There is no legal nor moral right to use the work of others against their wishes.
The entertainment industry is open to anyone, male or female, black or white, and has no real barriers to entry.
P.S. no fatties and no ugly chicks.
If they failed to build their systems with a secondary site in mind it can be near impossible for the "CTO" types to pony up the dollars for it later.
A sustained service outage can often be a powerful tool for changing their minds, though.
It's cheaper to spend a million dollars building redundant infrastructure than it is to lose a million dollars in lost business.
Apparently the 10 month old 8800GTX drivers are not included on the Ubuntu install disk.
Are modern graphics cards no longer compatible with the VGA standard or something? An OS installer should be able to bootstrap using a bare minimum standard hardware configuration (even if those hardware standards are 20 years old), needing no hardware-specific drivers except maybe for the network interface. Once bootstrapped, all the HW-specific drivers can be retrieved and installed over the network.
Or the digital optical output.
Very few portable MiniDisc devices -- possibly none of the models produced by Sony -- had digital optical output.
He had to decide to face Voldemort willingly, accept that he is going to die, and understand that he is doing this to save his friends.
So did every other Auror and Order of the Phoenix member to fall by Voldemort's hand. Why weren't THEY able to "come back" after a hit from the Killing Curse, too?
Firefox without favourites? Without history?
Favorites/bookmarks and history were standard features of web browsers by 1995 or so.
If browsers that ran on 90MHz Pentium I CPUs didn't have any performance problems due to those features, what could possibly be gained from removing them?
They knew damned well they were getting $10 worth of chances for every $1.
Yes -- but did the users know that the casino didn't intend for that to be the case? Can you PROVE that they didn't know the casino's intent?
I don't have a problem with the gov't blocking the bank accounts of terrorists!
Me either, but I do have a problem with one branch of government unilaterally determining who is or isn't "a terrorist".
The Secretary of the Treasury wants to freeze the assets of a suspected terrorist? Fine. Get Congress to specifically empower him to do that, and get a judge to authorize the request. There needs to be checks and balances.
the simple fact that the 360's hardware is better suited for games
I don't know that this is justifiable as an opinion, much less a "simple fact".
It may be true that the 360's Xenon CPU may be more familiar to developers than the PS3's Cell, but I'm not sure that translates into being "better suited for games". There's no reason that a game written to take advantage of the Cell architecture could not be better than one written to take advantage of the Xenon.
Harry is gay.... ... and proud.
So he finally comes clean about his "attraction" to Ginny Weasley being merely a misdirection of his feelings for his best mate Ron?
I've known this since Harry chose Ron as his "most important person" during the lake trial of the Triwizard Tournament.
Technical blogs, e.g., programming techniques/tips? Those are better, but aren't really blogs. They just allow someone to easily post information without organizing it into website.
Your last sentence pretty much defines what a blog is. So how are they not "really blogs"?
the world's richest economy is using the cheapest and crappiest ingredients.
As is every other competitive economy.
Believe me, if it were cheaper for Coke and Pepsi to use HFCS in their European formula too, the continent would be swilling the same stuff Americans do.
But the smart money is still on "Burgers".
Hamburger buns contain high-fructose corn syrup. Fountain soft drinks are LOADED with the stuff. So is ketchup. I wouldn't even be surprised if fast food companies have found ways to pump the burger patties themselves full of the sweet stuff.
with Disney and others, their "property" is worth millions of dollars. So charge them 5% of the estimated value. Every year.
Who gets to estimate the value, and what formulas would they use?
Disney might look into their vaults and say "Well, 'Song of the South' hasn't earned us a single cent in over 20 years, so it can't be that valuable... still, the physical media itself must have some value... let's appraise it at a nominal value of $1, pay the five cents to the government, and keep it out of the public's hands for yet another year."
The laws existing before (insert grand public hysteria event here) were sufficient.
Were they?
If it's harder now to obtain a bogus nuclear license, then the pre-existing laws were insufficient, but the new laws are also insufficient.
If it's the same difficulty, then the pre-existing laws were still insufficient.
If it's easier now, there's something seriously wrong.
we had to deflect the electron beams ourselves using little magnets we had dug out of the ground with our bare fingernails.
You had an electron BEAM?
We just had a single electron, bought secondhand, which we had to use over and over...
what about when I open a link in a new tab from something I am reading but don't get to it for another 20 minutes. After I get to it I notice that the link is crap and close it right away. Total time spent = 4 seconds. Total time they think spent is 20 minutes 4 seconds.
No, because the session tracker is smarter than that. When it saw that you hadn't requested another page from that site after 5 minutes -- assuming that the content of the page shouldn't take anybody more than 5 minutes to read, adjust as necessary -- it concluded that you had abandoned the site. Fifteen minutes and four seconds before you actually did.
Your session contained only one page request, so measuring the time between requests is impossible. Your session length was probably recorded as 0 seconds.
Yes, it is a big drawback of "session time"-based metrics that offline and casual browser cannot really be tracked in a meaningful way. But as far as the people who care about the metrics are concerned, those types of browsing habit are not their focus anyway. It's the users who are actively engaged with the site that they are pursuing, and those users are well-represented by the tracking method.
Why would anyone sane want to try to, basically, reinvent the page refresh in Javascript instead of using the browser's existing mechanism? No, seriously.
Why?
Because on a typical website, half of the page content is exactly the same on every single page: logo, header, footer, navigation rail, etc. The content well is the only part that's different from page to page.
Why should the client and server request and return those page elements over and over again if they never change? AJAX allows only those elements that are different from page to page -- the real content -- to have to be transferred.
Imagine how horrible Google Maps would be if you had to wait two seconds for the whole page to refresh every time you dragged the map a quarter of an inch.