They're not slow at all; April 7, 2009 was a Tuesday. Tuesday is two days from now. Therefore, Slashdot is reporting the news two days before it even happens. Far from being slow, they're faster than everyone else!
Isn't a whitelist the far superior thing to do here? Parent blocks ALL sites on computer. Child wants to view sesamestreet.com, so parent goes to that site and examines it, and if he/she approves, it is added to whitelist. This way no matter what material the parent deems offensive, the child won't access it. I guess this fails because it requires that the parent spend time parenting the child.
Yes, exactly. I wonder why the game console makers haven't capitalized on this. It's always just "next generation", in relation to the previous, which is a total "duhh". Hell, I prefer older generations of plenty of technology, since it works better (RoHS anyone?).
The worst part about this is that the average internet-surfing population will probably find this bullshit perfectly acceptable, and never know what they lost.
What does Foundrs.com have to do with slide #6? If that's part of your signature, you can put it in your Slashdot signature. One benefit of this is that people who aren't interested in signatures can disable their display.
All this activity over the definition of 4G? It's kind of interesting, because it so clearly shows the standard marketing activity of taking a word that evokes a feeling in people, and connecting that with some product. Here, 4G apparently evokes the feeling of "best phone technology", and it's a mad scramble to have particular technologies labeled with the term, so that people will feel it's the best phone technology (why? because it says so!). What does the term actually mean? Apprently very little, beyond being a historical artifact of this silly activity.
Why do you need a licensed pilot? Let a computer fly it. It's much simpler than driving a car; you just need GPS or similar and a central controller to decide the positions of the vehicles. None of this camera object recognition stay-on-the-lane, lane changes, all that garbage of roads.
Of course, the free market capitalism evangelists would claim that another store is free to open to compete. The problem with that is the barrier to entry would be beyond any realistic capability and the competitor could be easily squashed by a short term price adjustment from the monopoly.
Isn't that the buyers of the area voting with their wallet for just Wal-Mart then? Help me out with this, because I really don't understand this objection to the free market. If the local market votes for just Wal-Mart, what other system will result in competition, aside from a dictatorship?
It's one thing to research something for your own understanding, quite another to print it out and bring it into deliberations. The latter implies that you're using it to influence other jurors with something other than your own arguments.
Well I'd prefer them doing some research rather than being a clueless bunch of fucks who make their decision about my freedom based on a hunch.
Perhaps they make their decision based on all the evidence that's presented to them by both sides? It's not like they just form the jury and then ask for a verdict.
This seems to be a useful junk filter. Do your search normally. If you get too much spam, try restricting to intermediate or advanced. I'm going to be using this all the time now.
And the full-page reply as to why 810.777 K was correct is priceless (about to read through it carefully, since I have plenty to learn on the subject).
Presumably Windows 7 has a media decoding architecture that can make use of multiple cores/hardware acceleration, so this takes advantage of that. Why should a browser have to reinvent all this, when the OS provides it? But it must be evil to do this, since it only works on Windows 7. At times, the anti-Microsoft bias here is too much!
I don't have a car at all. If I buy a gasoline can and fill it regularly, will a car grow in my driveway? How much gas will it take before it can drive me around? thx
Eliminate that make-believe accuracy, as the original was probably rounded at least +/-50 F to the round 1000 figure. 800 Kelvin is plenty accurate here.
Yep, even I get annoyed by Slashdot summaries pretty often, but this one didn't even trip my detector. Had to go over carefully to see the two at the beginning. Sorry, lower your sensitivity, because you're making us intolerants look tolerant in comparison!
I use Wikipedia for its consistent, ad-free presentation. It's enjoyable to read about something in that format than some other awful format on another site. There's plenty about the moon landing that I don't know, as well as links to many OTHER Wikipedia pages about related things. I wouldn't get the latter from some other site.
All this is irrelevant, though. What matters is what their goal for the site is. Pages should fit within that goal. If the goal doesn't match what readers want, then either readers are on the wrong site, or the goal needs to be updated. I'd rather visit a site that is based on the vision of a small group of people, rather than pushed in all the odd directions random readers want it to go. Coherency has value. Maybe they have good reasons for eliminating really obscure things, I don't know.
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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
They're not slow at all; April 7, 2009 was a Tuesday. Tuesday is two days from now. Therefore, Slashdot is reporting the news two days before it even happens. Far from being slow, they're faster than everyone else!
Isn't a whitelist the far superior thing to do here? Parent blocks ALL sites on computer. Child wants to view sesamestreet.com, so parent goes to that site and examines it, and if he/she approves, it is added to whitelist. This way no matter what material the parent deems offensive, the child won't access it. I guess this fails because it requires that the parent spend time parenting the child.
Yes, exactly. I wonder why the game console makers haven't capitalized on this. It's always just "next generation", in relation to the previous, which is a total "duhh". Hell, I prefer older generations of plenty of technology, since it works better (RoHS anyone?).
Maybe that's a feature, not a bug, for when you don't want the referer header set.
The worst part about this is that the average internet-surfing population will probably find this bullshit perfectly acceptable, and never know what they lost.
What does Foundrs.com have to do with slide #6? If that's part of your signature, you can put it in your Slashdot signature. One benefit of this is that people who aren't interested in signatures can disable their display.
All this activity over the definition of 4G? It's kind of interesting, because it so clearly shows the standard marketing activity of taking a word that evokes a feeling in people, and connecting that with some product. Here, 4G apparently evokes the feeling of "best phone technology", and it's a mad scramble to have particular technologies labeled with the term, so that people will feel it's the best phone technology (why? because it says so!). What does the term actually mean? Apprently very little, beyond being a historical artifact of this silly activity.
This is a fake comment. A real one would have looked different.
Why do you need a licensed pilot? Let a computer fly it. It's much simpler than driving a car; you just need GPS or similar and a central controller to decide the positions of the vehicles. None of this camera object recognition stay-on-the-lane, lane changes, all that garbage of roads.
Isn't that the buyers of the area voting with their wallet for just Wal-Mart then? Help me out with this, because I really don't understand this objection to the free market. If the local market votes for just Wal-Mart, what other system will result in competition, aside from a dictatorship?
Yes, if it weren't for Wikipedia, there's no way she could have found similar information about the subject and printed it out.
It's one thing to research something for your own understanding, quite another to print it out and bring it into deliberations. The latter implies that you're using it to influence other jurors with something other than your own arguments.
Perhaps they make their decision based on all the evidence that's presented to them by both sides? It's not like they just form the jury and then ask for a verdict.
They already have that option, but it's labeled Images.
This seems to be a useful junk filter. Do your search normally. If you get too much spam, try restricting to intermediate or advanced. I'm going to be using this all the time now.
And the full-page reply as to why 810.777 K was correct is priceless (about to read through it carefully, since I have plenty to learn on the subject).
They should keep operating a company just because is symbolizes web searches before Google, and could have been Google (but wasn't)?
Obligatory xkcd comic about TI calculators.
Presumably Windows 7 has a media decoding architecture that can make use of multiple cores/hardware acceleration, so this takes advantage of that. Why should a browser have to reinvent all this, when the OS provides it? But it must be evil to do this, since it only works on Windows 7. At times, the anti-Microsoft bias here is too much!
Amazing, I didn't see any heat puns in the article itself. You say there were many? I need to have my eyes checked :(
I don't have a car at all. If I buy a gasoline can and fill it regularly, will a car grow in my driveway? How much gas will it take before it can drive me around? thx
Eliminate that make-believe accuracy, as the original was probably rounded at least +/-50 F to the round 1000 figure. 800 Kelvin is plenty accurate here.
Yep, even I get annoyed by Slashdot summaries pretty often, but this one didn't even trip my detector. Had to go over carefully to see the two at the beginning. Sorry, lower your sensitivity, because you're making us intolerants look tolerant in comparison!
All this is irrelevant, though. What matters is what their goal for the site is. Pages should fit within that goal. If the goal doesn't match what readers want, then either readers are on the wrong site, or the goal needs to be updated. I'd rather visit a site that is based on the vision of a small group of people, rather than pushed in all the odd directions random readers want it to go. Coherency has value. Maybe they have good reasons for eliminating really obscure things, I don't know.