I love my arduino, its a great introduction to microcontrollers, but really? Front page of slashdot is "blink a led"? Maybe the story after this one can be "install ram in your PC"
no it hasnt, a 6 year old gaming pc could run the same software at the same quality levels and at the same resolutions. People forget this on consoles, 640P maybe 720 max no aa and very limited draw distances makes up most of the magic
what sidewalk? this is a highway not a fucking city street, within thousands of miles of back country roads which have maybe 6 cars a day vs the thousands
and where we have bike lanes, its a 5 lane highway in the middle of the city 45 miles per hour, whats next you want bicycling on the freaking interstate as well? If you want to be stupid about it dont whine when you get smacked by a box van, and if you want to ride on the sidewalk dont be suprised when you get sued for breaking an old lady's hip when YOU run them over
"Is it wrong for a small company to give away precious intellectual property like that"
no but its dumb
Open source can be good for a company, but it depends on what your company is doing. Is it helping a community gather knowledge and tools? or is it selling a product to people who could not give 2 shits about how it works?
My degree wasnt worthless and I could find a job that puts me slightly above the national average poverty line so I can buy a crackerbox house to die in... but you guys go right ahead and go fuck yourselves on your "useless ad information gathering" bubble which is just going to end up fucking our economy just a little bit more.
on the other side of this coin, where I live we have thousands of miles of quite low trafic roads, and where do the cyclist decide to do their ass wiggling? Thats right folks... right down the fucking middle of one of the most windy 2, congested 55MPH highway in the city.
please show me where this magical windows key is on my model M, and really I have no aversion to learning something new, I honestly try to every day, but its quite annoying to relearn something I don't want to while trying to learn something else.
Obviously this is becoming a problem because you don't need to be on the phone to be on the phone anymore, simple solution is to give the juror's an emergency hotline number to pass out (if the mom dies or something) and take away the damned phones during trial.
Contrary to popular belief you will not die if you are not able to operate a telephone computer device for the length of a day.
Gee for a DE that is suposta get out of your way and help you work more efficiently it sure does get in the fucking way a lot
(based on my default install)
why the hell does the top bar only show one thing at a time, its fucking annoying on my 86 mac and its still fucking annoying on my 2011 linux machine. how is me clicking on the taskbar to select a window in "old fashioned" windows style management LESS efficient than clicking on the magic corner and having to squint at reduced windows, and clicking again?
mounting filesystems, If I am in the file explorer and click on my windows partition a stupid ass popup comes up and asks me if I want to open it in the file explorer!?! and of course it does not go away unless I click in its general area.
virtual desktops? as far as I can tell by default they only appear if something is maximized, or you right click on a window and tell it to move, what if I just wanted to click on desktop 2 and open more shit up?
adding launchers to the desktop, why for the fucking love of god are modern DE designers opposed to me putting a shortcut to frequently used applications??? again how is it less efficient to double click on a icon vs clicking on the magic G spot bringing up a menu, THEN clicking on it from favorites if its even on your favorites list (which is tiny, and if its not on your favorites list add 2 more clicks and menus)? Hell before I sat down and read how to do this the only way I could get a fucking shortcut on the desktop was to log out of gnome 3 back into gnome 2, put my shit there, log back out then log back in again... fucking fail.
Now I know every single bit of this can be customized, which brings me to my final point, why the fuck do I have to install a tweaker tool and mod endless text files to get simple functionality that used to be a GOD DAMED RIGHT CLICK OPTION!
While Gnome3 is not as stupid / broken as KDE4 (which I really hate) its still stupid and broken. A computer interface should be something you really dont have to think about while using it, and ever since installing gnome 3 I have spent more time getting rid of dumb shit poping up out of everywhere impeding what I was doing.
Shit I accidentally bumped that fucking magic spot on the task bar 2 damned times writing this post, shrinking everything down, making me stop everything and select what window I was using. Even the show desktop spot on the windows taskbar goes the fuck away once you move the mouse away.
I personally am registered as independent, I tend to vote for the suit whom I think is going to fuck me in the ass the least... not that it really matters as our wonderful electoral college ensures that your vote is tossed in the trash bin if the state votes the other way. This is how you get situations like Bush vs Gore where Gore got the most votes, but Bush got the most "points"
Cause there were more hardware revisions than decent games to play on the stupid thing, and I am not going to repay you for a console and ALL NEW ACCESSORIES cause you turned up the saturation on one model or doubled the ram that no one could (commercially) use in another.
Never mind that go bullshit where you expected me to pay you for the same console, all new accessories and re-buy all my games a second time based on YOUR schedule.
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I love my arduino, its a great introduction to microcontrollers, but really? Front page of slashdot is "blink a led"? Maybe the story after this one can be "install ram in your PC"
Old rich fucks with brain damage that glided their way though school find technology scary
now they can still update their facebook status, and the world will continue to turn
hm, in the US that I live in 35 bucks a month gets you no data limited voice and unlimited sms, or at most 30 megs, so dont be a hoser
china
yes because it takes a fucking genius to put a lcd in a rectangular frame
yea arm on board is nothing magical and the world is allowed more than one (especially if it cost less than HALF of the beagleboard)
no one said it would be plugging in, its just the same size and credit card sized is so 1980's
RTFS
no it hasnt, a 6 year old gaming pc could run the same software at the same quality levels and at the same resolutions. People forget this on consoles, 640P maybe 720 max no aa and very limited draw distances makes up most of the magic
you have a locked down proprietary device, be happy you have anything even if it is shit
what sidewalk? this is a highway not a fucking city street, within thousands of miles of back country roads which have maybe 6 cars a day vs the thousands
and where we have bike lanes, its a 5 lane highway in the middle of the city 45 miles per hour, whats next you want bicycling on the freaking interstate as well? If you want to be stupid about it dont whine when you get smacked by a box van, and if you want to ride on the sidewalk dont be suprised when you get sued for breaking an old lady's hip when YOU run them over
"Is it wrong for a small company to give away precious intellectual property like that"
no but its dumb
Open source can be good for a company, but it depends on what your company is doing. Is it helping a community gather knowledge and tools? or is it selling a product to people who could not give 2 shits about how it works?
It sounds like the latter.
now we need to survive on bullshit! what a waste of government time instead of finding a real solution
My degree wasnt worthless and I could find a job that puts me slightly above the national average poverty line so I can buy a crackerbox house to die in ... but you guys go right ahead and go fuck yourselves on your "useless ad information gathering" bubble which is just going to end up fucking our economy just a little bit more.
on the other side of this coin, where I live we have thousands of miles of quite low trafic roads, and where do the cyclist decide to do their ass wiggling? Thats right folks ... right down the fucking middle of one of the most windy 2, congested 55MPH highway in the city.
Brilliant
please show me where this magical windows key is on my model M, and really I have no aversion to learning something new, I honestly try to every day, but its quite annoying to relearn something I don't want to while trying to learn something else.
And some yahoo strumming the same 4 rock chords is really any better? "Art" is subjective
Obviously this is becoming a problem because you don't need to be on the phone to be on the phone anymore, simple solution is to give the juror's an emergency hotline number to pass out (if the mom dies or something) and take away the damned phones during trial.
Contrary to popular belief you will not die if you are not able to operate a telephone computer device for the length of a day.
Gee for a DE that is suposta get out of your way and help you work more efficiently it sure does get in the fucking way a lot
(based on my default install)
why the hell does the top bar only show one thing at a time, its fucking annoying on my 86 mac and its still fucking annoying on my 2011 linux machine. how is me clicking on the taskbar to select a window in "old fashioned" windows style management LESS efficient than clicking on the magic corner and having to squint at reduced windows, and clicking again?
mounting filesystems, If I am in the file explorer and click on my windows partition a stupid ass popup comes up and asks me if I want to open it in the file explorer!?! and of course it does not go away unless I click in its general area.
virtual desktops? as far as I can tell by default they only appear if something is maximized, or you right click on a window and tell it to move, what if I just wanted to click on desktop 2 and open more shit up?
adding launchers to the desktop, why for the fucking love of god are modern DE designers opposed to me putting a shortcut to frequently used applications??? again how is it less efficient to double click on a icon vs clicking on the magic G spot bringing up a menu, THEN clicking on it from favorites if its even on your favorites list (which is tiny, and if its not on your favorites list add 2 more clicks and menus)? Hell before I sat down and read how to do this the only way I could get a fucking shortcut on the desktop was to log out of gnome 3 back into gnome 2, put my shit there, log back out then log back in again ... fucking fail.
Now I know every single bit of this can be customized, which brings me to my final point, why the fuck do I have to install a tweaker tool and mod endless text files to get simple functionality that used to be a GOD DAMED RIGHT CLICK OPTION!
While Gnome3 is not as stupid / broken as KDE4 (which I really hate) its still stupid and broken. A computer interface should be something you really dont have to think about while using it, and ever since installing gnome 3 I have spent more time getting rid of dumb shit poping up out of everywhere impeding what I was doing.
Shit I accidentally bumped that fucking magic spot on the task bar 2 damned times writing this post, shrinking everything down, making me stop everything and select what window I was using. Even the show desktop spot on the windows taskbar goes the fuck away once you move the mouse away.
Oh well guess I will just keep using XFCE
I personally am registered as independent, I tend to vote for the suit whom I think is going to fuck me in the ass the least ... not that it really matters as our wonderful electoral college ensures that your vote is tossed in the trash bin if the state votes the other way. This is how you get situations like Bush vs Gore where Gore got the most votes, but Bush got the most "points"
lol 2 grand for a computer, must be an apple user ....
> 50% of the time, yes
hm where does all that shiny apple crap come from?
Cause there were more hardware revisions than decent games to play on the stupid thing, and I am not going to repay you for a console and ALL NEW ACCESSORIES cause you turned up the saturation on one model or doubled the ram that no one could (commercially) use in another.
Never mind that go bullshit where you expected me to pay you for the same console, all new accessories and re-buy all my games a second time based on YOUR schedule.
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