Slashdot does exactly what is says it will do and is the best website ever. I have used many similar websites on the internet and this one actually is the best.
Cloud based systems are problematic in 3rd world countries. I live in the North of Johannesburg in South Africa, and often battle with smartphone apps that don't work because of connectivity issues. In rural areas the connectivity can be even worse, even though the networks are not nearly as congested there. Mady rural areas in South Africa and I assume the rest of Africa, only have EDGE (2G) data coverage, if at all.
Cloud based systems are problematic in first world countries as well. Particularly from a privacy perspective.
bitcoin will never be accepted if it's anonymous.
You realize, of course, that the US "cash" economy dwarfs the "real" economy?
Do you remember why soooo many people had trouble putting in claims for damages after the BP spill? Because people pulling in six figures had no way to prove their income (ie, they bought and sold everything cash, then rolled 300d100 to decide what to report to the government in April). I have no sympathy for that situation, but use it only to provide some context.
People have no problem with anonymous currency. Banks and governments do, but currently, people hate banks, and don't feel much warm-and-fuzzier about governments.
I don't believe I've ever met someone that spends 10k or more a year in cash. Unless they were hiding the fact. Whenever I go out (business meetings in particular) everyone uses debit or credit cards. Occasionally someone will take cash out of an ATM and use it, but that's more the exception than the norm these days. My gut feeling on someone claiming to have done $100,000 in cash transactions is that they are lying. In this case, they have a good motive to lie - a potential payout from BP!
you mean the pipe that the first half of the sentence you quoted negated? i'd have to reach for it first.
maybe you shouldn't have rolled all those joints with your reading comprehension notes:)
I think his reading comprehension is fine. You were asserting that the only reason bitcoin is not "the standard" is that people are cunts. He indicated that you must be on drugs because your assertion was very unrealistic. I agree with him.
Samsung can expect a new lawsuit from Apple after copying the "look and feel" of Apple stores. I say that as a joke, but I'm sure at this very moment Apple's lawyers are looking into the possibility of securing IP that covers elements of their store layout.
Apple has taken technology from something that only geeks used to something that is fashionable, but the fashion industry is driven by trends. Right now Apple is setting many of these trends, but it can't stay that way forever - trends are fickle by nature and someone else is bound to come up with something people want more. It will be very interesting to see how Apple and its fans react when Apple is no longer the trendsetter.
On a related note, the fashion industry cannot patent their designs. This was done deliberately, and the result is obvious. The fashion designers who do good work are not only surviving, they're thriving.
This comes on the heels of both companies claiming the other is "anticompetitive" during Tuesday’s summations in the Apple-Samsung trial.
I'm pretty sure all publicly traded companies are anticompetetive by nature. Except where they are forced to behave otherwise by a government. It's the only option unless a company is privately controlled and decisions can be made on a basis other than what is going to make shareholders the most money.
I could potentially see people dousing an old board with distilled water, or gently removing grime with a swab and alcohol / water. Maybe some specialists even have industrial washers that spray the board in a controlled way with a closed water system. I'm having a hard time believing many people would want to put a board into a dishwasher even on the lowest setting, even without a tablet, unless they wanted to totally ruin it.
Dishwashers involve powerful jets of water which would have no trouble breaking off bits of solder or loose connections, or getting inside microswitches. Even if the board wasn't damaged it would have to be dried for days at low humidity to ensure all the moisture was gone. Also it can't be good for the water waste treatment system if all that shit from pcbs ends up there.
I've run motherboards through the dishwasher without problems before.
It's not illegal now, and still bitcoin owners seem to be mostly criminals. The only significant use I've heard of for them are buying things on that online dope store.
Hmm...as a man, I've yet to be harmed by this "sex weapon". Do you need a license for it?
Most slashdotters have this problem. It can be cured by luck equivalent to that required to win the lottery, or a few hundred bucks and a trip to Nevada.
A bit tin-foil hattish, but plausible I think. The best part of that process will be the HARD sell to tech folks that you DON'T REALLY need to lock-down your personal network.
You bet it would be a hard sell. In a time when someone could sit on your street slurping up child porn or other banned materials and the cops will raid your house I certainly would not do this willingly. If emergency vehicles need backups, why not use the already mentioned ham radio or another long range radio system. Satellite phones are also an option - hell they could do both.
The bottom line is (in my opinion) the risk outweighs the potential benefit.
Last I read, they were making a lot of money selling operating systems. It's their bread and butter. They're already also making a lot of money selling other things, so why change a formula that is successful? I think most linux users and definitely most osx users are using the other operating systems for reasons other than the cost of the OS license, so I wonder how many new users a move like that would really attract.
But does this mean we're moving irresistibly into an era of 'sealed-unit computing,' even for power users?"
No, power users don't use mac's (usually). People who are into paying extra for trendy but no more functional do. Most other companies aren't making disposable iCrap.
No, the real news today is naked Republicans and "legitimate rape".
Priorities anyone?
Did you read the whole article you linked or just see the headline and take an opportunity to make a political jab?
The article goes on to mention that the biggest contributors to the layoffs are HP, Followed by Sony and Nokia. HP Has been having trouble for years, stemming from problems at the top. Right now, Meg Whitman is at the helm trying to recover from the same disaster CEO that put SAP in the drink. So far, she's not doing too great with more of the wishy-washy press releases (ahem, webos). No surprise they are shedding jobs, the company has been mismanaged for years.
Not the US government's fault. Sony has been working hard to develop a reputation for screwing over customers at every turn (rootkit, ps3 feature removal, extreme DRM etc), in addition to getting hit by a major tsunami in case you missed the news.
Not the US government's fault.
Nokia can't seem to make products that aren't complete crap. Mobile analysts have been predicting Nokia's downfall for several years now. Bad products, bad investments, and obviously short sighted exclusive partnerships were the nail in Nokia's coffin. Oh yeah, also two of the three biggest contributors to the situation you reference are NOT AMERICAN COMPANIES. I suppose you'd be happier if the POTUS gave a few hundred million to these foreign companies and the chronically mismanaged HP?
True or not, you're not going to convince many sane folks if your only evidence is from a site that makes TimeCube look reasonable by comparison.
Yeah, I've got to do something more than a quick google search and link paste heh. Having read about that situation in the past, I just entered in some of the info and that site was among many reporting on the same thing.
and just jump straight to discussing which side has more money rather than which side has valid points?
That's how politics work in America. There are hardly any politicians in existence today that give a shit about anything other than their bank account. I can't think of any offhand that aren't scumbags, but I'm sure there must be at least one out there somewhere.
Pretty much EVERYTHING you eat today is genetically modified on some level. To expect consumers to decide what genetic modifications are acceptable and which ones aren't, is a very tall order for the layman. If only we had some government group to Administrate the Food sold in this country. They could oversee medicine too. We would call them the FDA and they ALREADY EXIST.
.. and they are in the pocket of firms like monsanto. GM soybeans were approved in the us without even going through proper testing. I'm sure you don't find it interesting that outside the US (EU) for example where the testing WAS done, the gm crops were banned... hmm, wonder why that happened?
It's worse than you think. The GM soybeans were approved right after the bush administration appointed a (now former) vice president of Monsanto corporation as the head of the FDA. The GM crops were subsequently approved with no testing, and no testing is required or even allowed to be performed on them. You can read more about it here (or hundreds of other sites, use google). http://www.infowars.com/help-stop-former-monsanto-vp-from-attaining-top-position-at-the-fda/
This Monsanto scam is quite possibly one of the worst things done to the American people by it's own government... or maybe not, we'll never really know since we're not allowed to perform the necessary testing. If there was nothing to hide, then I think testing would not be banned.
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Slashdot does exactly what is says it will do and is the best website ever. I have used many similar websites on the internet and this one actually is the best.
AAA+
Yep, you're right - it works!
Does Consumer Reports still have a good reputation? If so, problem solved
Except they miss a lot of products. I used them for a time, and found that unless I was buying a car or a major appliance it wasn't all that useful.
Cloud based systems are problematic in 3rd world countries. I live in the North of Johannesburg in South Africa, and often battle with smartphone apps that don't work because of connectivity issues. In rural areas the connectivity can be even worse, even though the networks are not nearly as congested there. Mady rural areas in South Africa and I assume the rest of Africa, only have EDGE (2G) data coverage, if at all.
Cloud based systems are problematic in first world countries as well. Particularly from a privacy perspective.
What is this "hackerspace"?
"Hackerspaces are community-operated physical places, where people can meet and work on their projects. " http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hackerspaces
I think a bit different in that they let random people show up and use the gear for the most part. Also commonly referred to as a "maker space".
Linux will be ready for the desktop in 5 years time.
I hope you're right but somehow I doubt it.
You're misinformed. Read this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#Applications
bitcoin will never be accepted if it's anonymous. You realize, of course, that the US "cash" economy dwarfs the "real" economy? Do you remember why soooo many people had trouble putting in claims for damages after the BP spill? Because people pulling in six figures had no way to prove their income (ie, they bought and sold everything cash, then rolled 300d100 to decide what to report to the government in April). I have no sympathy for that situation, but use it only to provide some context. People have no problem with anonymous currency. Banks and governments do, but currently, people hate banks, and don't feel much warm-and-fuzzier about governments.
I don't believe I've ever met someone that spends 10k or more a year in cash. Unless they were hiding the fact. Whenever I go out (business meetings in particular) everyone uses debit or credit cards. Occasionally someone will take cash out of an ATM and use it, but that's more the exception than the norm these days. My gut feeling on someone claiming to have done $100,000 in cash transactions is that they are lying. In this case, they have a good motive to lie - a potential payout from BP!
you mean the pipe that the first half of the sentence you quoted negated? i'd have to reach for it first.
maybe you shouldn't have rolled all those joints with your reading comprehension notes :)
I think his reading comprehension is fine. You were asserting that the only reason bitcoin is not "the standard" is that people are cunts. He indicated that you must be on drugs because your assertion was very unrealistic. I agree with him.
Samsung can expect a new lawsuit from Apple after copying the "look and feel" of Apple stores. I say that as a joke, but I'm sure at this very moment Apple's lawyers are looking into the possibility of securing IP that covers elements of their store layout. Apple has taken technology from something that only geeks used to something that is fashionable, but the fashion industry is driven by trends. Right now Apple is setting many of these trends, but it can't stay that way forever - trends are fickle by nature and someone else is bound to come up with something people want more. It will be very interesting to see how Apple and its fans react when Apple is no longer the trendsetter.
On a related note, the fashion industry cannot patent their designs. This was done deliberately, and the result is obvious. The fashion designers who do good work are not only surviving, they're thriving.
This comes on the heels of both companies claiming the other is "anticompetitive" during Tuesday’s summations in the Apple-Samsung trial.
I'm pretty sure all publicly traded companies are anticompetetive by nature. Except where they are forced to behave otherwise by a government. It's the only option unless a company is privately controlled and decisions can be made on a basis other than what is going to make shareholders the most money.
Didn't they bother to search for any of this on Google? This Easter egg was publicized YEARS ago.
maybe in 30 years someone else will publish an article about finding data on a hard drive.
I could potentially see people dousing an old board with distilled water, or gently removing grime with a swab and alcohol / water. Maybe some specialists even have industrial washers that spray the board in a controlled way with a closed water system. I'm having a hard time believing many people would want to put a board into a dishwasher even on the lowest setting, even without a tablet, unless they wanted to totally ruin it.
Dishwashers involve powerful jets of water which would have no trouble breaking off bits of solder or loose connections, or getting inside microswitches. Even if the board wasn't damaged it would have to be dried for days at low humidity to ensure all the moisture was gone. Also it can't be good for the water waste treatment system if all that shit from pcbs ends up there.
I've run motherboards through the dishwasher without problems before.
It only affects windows and mac systems. ESXi is Linux.
Pictures (graphics, in this case) are more memorable than printed words.
Occasionally glancing at your cellphone while getting black out drunk with your idiot friends doesn't sound like work to me...
I'm a taste tester for Johnny Walker you insensitive clod! They want to know how bad my blackouts and hangovers are!
I'm going to put in an application with Trojan right now.
LOL sounds like you must make a living as an exec at one of the world's major banks!
It's not illegal now, and still bitcoin owners seem to be mostly criminals. The only significant use I've heard of for them are buying things on that online dope store.
Hmm...as a man, I've yet to be harmed by this "sex weapon". Do you need a license for it?
Most slashdotters have this problem. It can be cured by luck equivalent to that required to win the lottery, or a few hundred bucks and a trip to Nevada.
A bit tin-foil hattish, but plausible I think. The best part of that process will be the HARD sell to tech folks that you DON'T REALLY need to lock-down your personal network.
You bet it would be a hard sell. In a time when someone could sit on your street slurping up child porn or other banned materials and the cops will raid your house I certainly would not do this willingly. If emergency vehicles need backups, why not use the already mentioned ham radio or another long range radio system. Satellite phones are also an option - hell they could do both.
The bottom line is (in my opinion) the risk outweighs the potential benefit.
Last I read, they were making a lot of money selling operating systems. It's their bread and butter. They're already also making a lot of money selling other things, so why change a formula that is successful? I think most linux users and definitely most osx users are using the other operating systems for reasons other than the cost of the OS license, so I wonder how many new users a move like that would really attract.
But does this mean we're moving irresistibly into an era of 'sealed-unit computing,' even for power users?"
No, power users don't use mac's (usually). People who are into paying extra for trendy but no more functional do. Most other companies aren't making disposable iCrap.
"Slashdot: Where tyrrany, repression and genocide are cool as long as the perpertrators suck up to Assange in public."
Indeed.
And no geek here seems to want to address actual real news, such as
Maximum Leader Obama's Economy: Tech layoffs hit 3-year high of 51,529 in first
No, the real news today is naked Republicans and "legitimate rape".
Priorities anyone?
Did you read the whole article you linked or just see the headline and take an opportunity to make a political jab?
The article goes on to mention that the biggest contributors to the layoffs are HP, Followed by Sony and Nokia. HP Has been having trouble for years, stemming from problems at the top. Right now, Meg Whitman is at the helm trying to recover from the same disaster CEO that put SAP in the drink. So far, she's not doing too great with more of the wishy-washy press releases (ahem, webos). No surprise they are shedding jobs, the company has been mismanaged for years.
Not the US government's fault.
Sony has been working hard to develop a reputation for screwing over customers at every turn (rootkit, ps3 feature removal, extreme DRM etc), in addition to getting hit by a major tsunami in case you missed the news.
Not the US government's fault.
Nokia can't seem to make products that aren't complete crap. Mobile analysts have been predicting Nokia's downfall for several years now. Bad products, bad investments, and obviously short sighted exclusive partnerships were the nail in Nokia's coffin.
Oh yeah, also two of the three biggest contributors to the situation you reference are NOT AMERICAN COMPANIES. I suppose you'd be happier if the POTUS gave a few hundred million to these foreign companies and the chronically mismanaged HP?
True or not, you're not going to convince many sane folks if your only evidence is from a site that makes TimeCube look reasonable by comparison.
Yeah, I've got to do something more than a quick google search and link paste heh. Having read about that situation in the past, I just entered in some of the info and that site was among many reporting on the same thing.
and just jump straight to discussing which side has more money rather than which side has valid points?
That's how politics work in America. There are hardly any politicians in existence today that give a shit about anything other than their bank account. I can't think of any offhand that aren't scumbags, but I'm sure there must be at least one out there somewhere.
Saw this a while back, seems relevant.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/2541-Feeding-Edge
Pretty much EVERYTHING you eat today is genetically modified on some level. To expect consumers to decide what genetic modifications are acceptable and which ones aren't, is a very tall order for the layman. If only we had some government group to Administrate the Food sold in this country. They could oversee medicine too. We would call them the FDA and they ALREADY EXIST.
.. and they are in the pocket of firms like monsanto. GM soybeans were approved in the us without even going through proper testing. I'm sure you don't find it interesting that outside the US (EU) for example where the testing WAS done, the gm crops were banned... hmm, wonder why that happened?
It's worse than you think. The GM soybeans were approved right after the bush administration appointed a (now former) vice president of Monsanto corporation as the head of the FDA. The GM crops were subsequently approved with no testing, and no testing is required or even allowed to be performed on them. You can read more about it here (or hundreds of other sites, use google). http://www.infowars.com/help-stop-former-monsanto-vp-from-attaining-top-position-at-the-fda/
This Monsanto scam is quite possibly one of the worst things done to the American people by it's own government... or maybe not, we'll never really know since we're not allowed to perform the necessary testing. If there was nothing to hide, then I think testing would not be banned.
This stuff is BAD news for humans.