For a small fee you can pay a company to allow you to skip the line of people waiting to be scanned. This allows you to walk up directly to the screening section rather than wait 30 to 45 minutes in line with the masses. Capitalism at its best./sarcasm
This says more about the hysteria in certain industrialized markets where all nudity is considered sexual
Last week there was a "beat up" story on the local news as to how there is this church and worshippers who have services in the nude. The teasers didn't bother to mention that this church was in the middle of a nudist club.
Had a friend ask me this once. I honestly couldn't come up with an answer. You look at the nuts and bolts of O/S's both realtime and non realtime, and it's basically all the same stuff, with more emphasis given to lower transaction times. Is it just a buzzword? Not trying to troll, but if someone has a definitive answer I'd love to hear it.
You can get into all sorts of discussions about interrupts and responsiveness etc but the best definition I ever saw for a Real Time system was:
Seems like a pretty ambitious project to run on a Z80. Good thing this isn't April 1st.
Git off my lawn you young whippersnapper.
I was running OS-9 on a Tandy Colour Computer (6809E, 2MHz) back in the late '80s. A full preemptive multi-tasking multi-user unix like system in a tiny little box. I even had a GUI running on it (well for about 1/2 an hour as it was too frisking slow!). Its amazing what you can do if you avoid bloat.
No, I really have no use for the camera part. I perfer s SLR. My question is more what apps are out there?
You don't spend $1500 on a device without having a use case. And if you can't even google a list of google glass apps, then I doubt you can even formulate a use case.
In which case just send me the $1500 and we'll be both happy - you will have divested yourself of $1500 for no reason at all (which you were already going to do) and I have a use case for $1500 more of camera equipment.
Bastard. Where was the spoilers warning. I haven't watched that episode yet.
Considering that that was the opening sequence of the show I hardly consider that it needed a spoiler alert. Now you may want to shut your eyes before you read about who actually did the hacking..:D
but I'm personally glad to see that decent sc-fi is actually being made and that people don't just keep not understanding the audience.
When it comes down to it Almost Human is your basic cop/detective show. However the writers have done a pretty good job of weaving in the future implications of technology as plot points.
As an aside IMHO that article the other day asking about where is decent SciFi nowadays seemed to miss the point that for a good show character interactions and growth are what makes it good and that technology by itself is merely a prop.
The hackers got into the home security system and caused it to mis-identify the homeowners as intruders. This caused the home security system to activate its laser targeted rifle and shoot (to kill) one of the homeowners.
Ooops.. sorry.. that was last nights episode of Almost Human
(and its pretty sad when Fox has better Scif-Fi on than the Sy-Fy channel)
I wrote the article in this link, and edit a publication called The Magazine.
And regardless of your motives, the fact that you both wrote and submitted the article can open you up to accusations of self-aggrandizement, of which the Slashthink is very very suspicious.
Every time I have been through Customs and Immigration in the UK I have witnessed (or been subjected to) the agents there acting in a very demeaning manner towards travelers. To me it is SOP for the UK, to the point that I think the equivalent people in the US actually seem nicer.
So while she may have been targeted because of who she is and who she is representing, the style of the questioning is not surprising.
Pretty much all HDTVs support receiving over-the-air TV stations using an antenna, and considering NBC is one of the largest broadcast networks in the US, it shouldn't be that hard to get NBC if you don't have cable.
Do you really think that all the content is on the OTA NBC station? In my case NBC is broadcasting on 5 different channels in my Comcast region. Only one of these is OTA.
Exactly. The reason no-one RTFA is because it's usually shit, and they probably read it two days ago anyway. The comments are the interesting bit. Slashdot isn't a news site, it's a debate site.
And when you do read the comments a lot of the time you end up seeing well reasoned arguments by people who are knowledgeable about TFA but can explain it without needing to water down the information.
We want to give our current audience the space where they are comfortable.
This is the fundamental problem between how the corporate overlords think and how the community thinks. Until this difference is resolved you will get the continual complaints and the eventual mass exodus. We are a community. We are not an audience.
I submit stories. I read stories. I add comments. I moderate comments. I am the reason that there is ad revenue.
For those who haven't seen "slashdot media" yet, our beloved/. is now categorized as "Social Media for B2B Technology".
I think for the first time in my life I actually can use the statement "I threw up a little in my mouth". Now if you don't mind, I'll be in the corner crying.
What's astonishing to me is the total lack of response. That the head editor (is that timothy now?) is silently downmodding relevant discussion about the survival of the site, without himself posting anything speaks volumes to me about how the management of slashdot has changed.
I'm hoping that the poor slashdot staff are caught between a rock and a hard place. And that their lack of visible response is indicative of the corporate overlords.
BTW I have seen several accusations of mass down voting. I'm genuinely curious as to how you show that. I've seen several of my own anti-Beta posts rid up and down the moderation ladder today and I can't tell if the down mods are due to corporate influence, or just people who want o read stories without seeing "Fuck Beta"
Perhaps I don't visit Slashdot as much as I used to, but I just looked at the site through beta to see what the fuss is about. Perhaps my eyes don't move in the right way, but is it the additional ads that I ignore on the right-hand side? I'm not defending beta, I'm just asking for additional education about what makes it so bad other than being different.
Check out update-on-the-march-of-progress-how-slashdots-new-look-is-shaping-up Once you get past the Fuck Beta comments, there are a lot of people pointing out specific failings of the new site that have not been addressed. I'm no web designer, but I can appreciate what these people are saying (which is ironic as that is what/. is about - the quality of the discussion)
I am not Slashdot -- I am part of the Slashdot community, and the community can go elsewhere. Old Slashdot was pretty good (certainly not perfect), but it was mostly the people here that made it great, and they were just guided by a sensible and intelligent framework (the moderation system was special), and a common goofy culture (Soviet Russia, Natalie Portman, insensitive clods...).
Which is exactly my point. Without there community there is no slashdot, If the community moves en-masse to another location then the website that is slashdot ceases to exist. However, while that other location will be something, it will be different from Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
Ignoring the general stupidity of many TSA practices, and that this is an artificial market created by government inefficiency,
That is the whole point. And while I understand the time/money trade off, what I object to is that this market shouldn't exists in the first place.
For a small fee you can pay a company to allow you to skip the line of people waiting to be scanned. This allows you to walk up directly to the screening section rather than wait 30 to 45 minutes in line with the masses. Capitalism at its best. /sarcasm
This says more about the hysteria in certain industrialized markets where all nudity is considered sexual
Last week there was a "beat up" story on the local news as to how there is this church and worshippers who have services in the nude. The teasers didn't bother to mention that this church was in the middle of a nudist club.
Then he is brave for asking a dumb question.
No .. not brave as that is what he is paid to do. Its the slashdot version of the shock jock.
Had a friend ask me this once. I honestly couldn't come up with an answer. You look at the nuts and bolts of O/S's both realtime and non realtime, and it's basically all the same stuff, with more emphasis given to lower transaction times. Is it just a buzzword? Not trying to troll, but if someone has a definitive answer I'd love to hear it.
You can get into all sorts of discussions about interrupts and responsiveness etc but the best definition I ever saw for a Real Time system was:
It gets the work done in the time given
Seems like a pretty ambitious project to run on a Z80. Good thing this isn't April 1st.
Git off my lawn you young whippersnapper.
I was running OS-9 on a Tandy Colour Computer (6809E, 2MHz) back in the late '80s. A full preemptive multi-tasking multi-user unix like system in a tiny little box. I even had a GUI running on it (well for about 1/2 an hour as it was too frisking slow!). Its amazing what you can do if you avoid bloat.
it's a question of "Is $1500 too much for lunatik to spend on a toy."
And we can answer that how?
No, I really have no use for the camera part. I perfer s SLR. My question is more what apps are out there?
You don't spend $1500 on a device without having a use case. And if you can't even google a list of google glass apps, then I doubt you can even formulate a use case.
In which case just send me the $1500 and we'll be both happy - you will have divested yourself of $1500 for no reason at all (which you were already going to do) and I have a use case for $1500 more of camera equipment.
Take that SnapChat!
What could possibly go wrong...
Quite a lot from what I have seen
I think its pretty sad when the moderators cant keep this thread on topic..
Who are these "moderators" that you speak of? And what is the topic they should be keeping the thread on?
Bastard. Where was the spoilers warning. I haven't watched that episode yet.
Considering that that was the opening sequence of the show I hardly consider that it needed a spoiler alert. Now you may want to shut your eyes before you read about who actually did the hacking .. :D
but I'm personally glad to see that decent sc-fi is actually being made and that people don't just keep not understanding the audience.
When it comes down to it Almost Human is your basic cop/detective show. However the writers have done a pretty good job of weaving in the future implications of technology as plot points.
As an aside IMHO that article the other day asking about where is decent SciFi nowadays seemed to miss the point that for a good show character interactions and growth are what makes it good and that technology by itself is merely a prop.
The hackers got into the home security system and caused it to mis-identify the homeowners as intruders. This caused the home security system to activate its laser targeted rifle and shoot (to kill) one of the homeowners.
Ooops .. sorry .. that was last nights episode of Almost Human
(and its pretty sad when Fox has better Scif-Fi on than the Sy-Fy channel)
I wrote the article in this link, and edit a publication called The Magazine.
And regardless of your motives, the fact that you both wrote and submitted the article can open you up to accusations of self-aggrandizement, of which the Slashthink is very very suspicious.
Every time I have been through Customs and Immigration in the UK I have witnessed (or been subjected to) the agents there acting in a very demeaning manner towards travelers. To me it is SOP for the UK, to the point that I think the equivalent people in the US actually seem nicer.
So while she may have been targeted because of who she is and who she is representing, the style of the questioning is not surprising.
Pretty much all HDTVs support receiving over-the-air TV stations using an antenna, and considering NBC is one of the largest broadcast networks in the US, it shouldn't be that hard to get NBC if you don't have cable.
Do you really think that all the content is on the OTA NBC station? In my case NBC is broadcasting on 5 different channels in my Comcast region. Only one of these is OTA.
Exactly. The reason no-one RTFA is because it's usually shit, and they probably read it two days ago anyway. The comments are the interesting bit. Slashdot isn't a news site, it's a debate site.
And when you do read the comments a lot of the time you end up seeing well reasoned arguments by people who are knowledgeable about TFA but can explain it without needing to water down the information.
We want to give our current audience the space where they are comfortable.
This is the fundamental problem between how the corporate overlords think and how the community thinks. Until this difference is resolved you will get the continual complaints and the eventual mass exodus. We are a community. We are not an audience.
I submit stories. I read stories. I add comments. I moderate comments. I am the reason that there is ad revenue.
I am Slashdot.
For those who haven't seen "slashdot media" yet, our beloved /. is now categorized as "Social Media for B2B Technology".
I think for the first time in my life I actually can use the statement "I threw up a little in my mouth". Now if you don't mind, I'll be in the corner crying.
Now I see the problem. My 7 digit UID doesn't show up! How else can I prove my old-timer cred?!
Yesterday I was in awe of seeing a low 2 digit ID post in opposition of the Beta site. Unicorns do exists!
What's astonishing to me is the total lack of response. That the head editor (is that timothy now?) is silently downmodding relevant discussion about the survival of the site, without himself posting anything speaks volumes to me about how the management of slashdot has changed.
I'm hoping that the poor slashdot staff are caught between a rock and a hard place. And that their lack of visible response is indicative of the corporate overlords.
BTW I have seen several accusations of mass down voting. I'm genuinely curious as to how you show that. I've seen several of my own anti-Beta posts rid up and down the moderation ladder today and I can't tell if the down mods are due to corporate influence, or just people who want o read stories without seeing "Fuck Beta"
Well, YOU may think you're Slashdot, but Dice thinks you're "our audience"
No .. Dice thinks that I am a statistic that allows them to sell ad space.
Perhaps I don't visit Slashdot as much as I used to, but I just looked at the site through beta to see what the fuss is about. Perhaps my eyes don't move in the right way, but is it the additional ads that I ignore on the right-hand side? I'm not defending beta, I'm just asking for additional education about what makes it so bad other than being different.
Check out update-on-the-march-of-progress-how-slashdots-new-look-is-shaping-up Once you get past the Fuck Beta comments, there are a lot of people pointing out specific failings of the new site that have not been addressed. I'm no web designer, but I can appreciate what these people are saying (which is ironic as that is what /. is about - the quality of the discussion)
I am not Slashdot -- I am part of the Slashdot community, and the community can go elsewhere. Old Slashdot was pretty good (certainly not perfect), but it was mostly the people here that made it great, and they were just guided by a sensible and intelligent framework (the moderation system was special), and a common goofy culture (Soviet Russia, Natalie Portman, insensitive clods...).
Which is exactly my point. Without there community there is no slashdot, If the community moves en-masse to another location then the website that is slashdot ceases to exist. However, while that other location will be something, it will be different from Slashdot.