I take my cable with me. Even if it used a standard microUSB, there's no guarantee that there would be a microUSB charging cable at my destination, so I would take a charger anyway.
I never take my cable with me. Because wherever I go, somebody always has a micro-usb cable to borrow, should I need it.
This was classified in 1,2,3... in 1941, 1942, 1943. Since then, radar has been declassified.
Slashdot editors: Please add a few lines in the summary to trigger interest for futue inserts. Currently this one just says "researchers at MIT built a radar" - and what is the news in that? In the editors' defence the article doesn't say that much more, either.
That is an equally accurate description of both Israel and USA. Only for USA, the neighbours are farther away, and the terrorists seem to prefer automatic rifles.
The same question applies, though. And unlike you, I do know the answer.
There is a second, much more important distinction. But granted, that is not a technological one either: Toyota, Volvo, Mercedes vs. Ford. Spot the difference yet?
Bureaucrats from " the Department of Basic Education (DBE)". I.e. we are discussing primary and secondary school here in a country where literacy is not close to 100%. They have bigger problems than students programming in Delphi. Ignorance is not an acceptable solution. But it is damn plausible. Of course, so is corruption:)
It was intended as sarcasm, yes. That should have been clear if you had read TFA's first sentence in its entirety. (The first sentence spells out the OLED acronym. And AFAIK, the 'A' in AMOLED does not stand for 'advanced';) )
Yeah, but was it done "using advanced display technology called organic light-emitting diode"? (quote from TFA). Obviously not, this new technology would not be called "advanced".
Pure ignorance without malice surely would not explain this, yes. But ignorance with a bit of prejudice. Or laziness...?
IMHO, it is not only possible, but quite probable there is no malice involved, just ignorance. It is rather easy to lose track of what level of ignorance is needed for a decision of this type. In the end, it is not that deep. And suggesting othervise is a bit arrogant and self-centered: just because *you* (we all here) lack the ignorance, we cannot fathom others having it.
Well, this guy did it. And I bet he now has no problems getting more funding. That is point of reserving money for new work - you don't know what you might get, when building on other people's work you get the benefit of hindsight.
Hacking is very constuctive. E.g. on the PS3 you get hooked on the light stuff, like using a modified firmware. Before you knew it, you we doing your own version of a backup manager. This often lead to hacking the MFW to enable new features for your backup manager. Of course, you had to test you stuff with linux installed on one partition (hey - Sony removed it, so having it has to be cool!) In the end, unless this spiral is cut, one would become a full-fledged linux kernel hacker. Which is pretty constructive, IMHO.
Any multinational uses English exclusivly. They just cannot function any other way. In the team of 10 I work in, we have 5-6 different native tongues. Which means, half of the team doesn't even speak the local language!
The flip side of this is, that any native English speaker has an (unfair?) advantage. Sorry - zarro sympathy points from me.
How quickly people forget how the west grew from farmers to industry, with people voluntarily moving to the city for factory jobs -- and considering themselves lucky.
What history books are you reading? E.g. Marx based his entire philosophy on that not being true. There seems to be a lot of parallels in the industrual revolution of the west, and what is currently happening in Asia.
I'm sick and tired of people looking at the price tag of the phone at purchase time only, and ignoring any monthly fees and/or elevated prices for other services. Forgetting some 350$ worth of accessories when bemoaning a 899$ price tag on a phone is just one exellent case point.
Now, that is the attitude that is (or at least was) the problem in the software industry at large. When the developer has a top-notch computer connected via gigabit ethernet to the test server, the application is coded to those specs. And if the end-user's experience is flaky, its not a bug, but the end-user is expected to upgrade. Luckily, it seems that the free lunch starts to be over, and that bangs some sense into this industry.
And, no - it won't fit. I checked. 2GB is maximum:)
And where should I ram that extra RAM? My less than two years old notebook has 1 GB of RAM, and no additional slot. I hear the iPad has even less, and no upgrade slot either. Perhaps FF is not meant for everybody?
-- typed in from my Arora browser (which gobbles a whopping 400 MB RAM)
GPL is bullsh*t because it presents itself as a free license and makes a loud claim of freedom etc. etc., but it actually takes those freedoms away from your users and restricts their use of your source code
Have youever actually tried reading the preamble in GPL? It is very simple english, and nicely sums up the contents of the license, the rights it gives and takes awawy.
GPL does not IMHO make any false claims about itself. Uninformed people sometimes do, though.
But I do agree with you that when distributing my code, a short concise license is often the best option. But no, the BSD license WITH ALL THAT SHOUTING IN LAWYERESE is not short or easily understandable. I prefer the "free beer" license. Only partly because I like beer.
As a lay M.Sc., EE, radio tech., I'd have appreciated a simple block diagram of the apparatus to explain "for the rest of us" what exactly they were doing (and how it differs from e.g. plain old MIMO). Not images of Yagi antennas.
That is the problem with revolutionary ideas. People tend to call "BS" when they don't understand. And I didn't.
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I take my cable with me. Even if it used a standard microUSB, there's no guarantee that there would be a microUSB charging cable at my destination, so I would take a charger anyway.
I never take my cable with me. Because wherever I go, somebody always has a micro-usb cable to borrow, should I need it.
But I confess: I really like Qi better than USB :)
I didn't know if I should mod parent up as Funny or down as Overrated, so I left it at Score:0, and wrote this instead :)
This was classified in 1,2,3 ... in 1941, 1942, 1943.
Since then, radar has been declassified.
Slashdot editors: Please add a few lines in the summary to trigger interest for futue inserts.
Currently this one just says "researchers at MIT built a radar" - and what is the news in that?
In the editors' defence the article doesn't say that much more, either.
That is an equally accurate description of both Israel and USA. Only for USA, the neighbours are farther away, and the terrorists seem to prefer automatic rifles.
The same question applies, though. And unlike you, I do know the answer.
There is a second, much more important distinction. But granted, that is not a technological one either: Toyota, Volvo, Mercedes vs. Ford. Spot the difference yet?
or FAP-Aid for short?
Bureaucrats from " the Department of Basic Education (DBE)". :)
I.e. we are discussing primary and secondary school here in a country where literacy is not close to 100%. They have bigger problems than students programming in Delphi.
Ignorance is not an acceptable solution. But it is damn plausible.
Of course, so is corruption
It was intended as sarcasm, yes. That should have been clear if you had read TFA's first sentence in its entirety. ;) )
(The first sentence spells out the OLED acronym. And AFAIK, the 'A' in AMOLED does not stand for 'advanced'
Yeah, but was it done "using advanced display technology called organic light-emitting diode"? (quote from TFA).
Obviously not, this new technology would not be called "advanced".
I'm not required to wear "business" clothes. As long as I don't stink, or come completely naked, nobody cares.
True, I am no cubicle jockey. I sit in a open space office. Where we dream of having cubicles, and do occasional work on the side.
Pure ignorance without malice surely would not explain this, yes.
But ignorance with a bit of prejudice. Or laziness...?
IMHO, it is not only possible, but quite probable there is no malice involved, just ignorance. It is rather easy to lose track of what level of ignorance is needed for a decision of this type. In the end, it is not that deep. And suggesting othervise is a bit arrogant and self-centered: just because *you* (we all here) lack the ignorance, we cannot fathom others having it.
The other alternative is to take Sony's attitued with the PS3 and issue quite a lot of updates. Even years after sales.
I'm not sure which I prefer, actually.
"Ima gonna write a new unix". That's One Huge Task. Weird thing is - he pulled it off. Hats off to RMS. And thanks.
Well, this guy did it. And I bet he now has no problems getting more funding. That is point of reserving money for new work - you don't know what you might get, when building on other people's work you get the benefit of hindsight.
Hacking is very constuctive. E.g. on the PS3 you get hooked on the light stuff, like using a modified firmware.
Before you knew it, you we doing your own version of a backup manager.
This often lead to hacking the MFW to enable new features for your backup manager.
Of course, you had to test you stuff with linux installed on one partition (hey - Sony removed it, so having it has to be cool!)
In the end, unless this spiral is cut, one would become a full-fledged linux kernel hacker. Which is pretty constructive, IMHO.
Any multinational uses English exclusivly. They just cannot function any other way. In the team of 10 I work in, we have 5-6 different native tongues. Which means, half of the team doesn't even speak the local language!
The flip side of this is, that any native English speaker has an (unfair?) advantage. Sorry - zarro sympathy points from me.
How quickly people forget how the west grew from farmers to industry, with people voluntarily moving to the city for factory jobs -- and considering themselves lucky.
What history books are you reading? E.g. Marx based his entire philosophy on that not being true.
There seems to be a lot of parallels in the industrual revolution of the west, and what is currently happening in Asia.
I'm sick and tired of people looking at the price tag of the phone at purchase time only, and ignoring any monthly fees and/or elevated prices for other services.
Forgetting some 350$ worth of accessories when bemoaning a 899$ price tag on a phone is just one exellent case point.
Now, that is the attitude that is (or at least was) the problem in the software industry at large. When the developer has a top-notch computer connected via gigabit ethernet to the test server, the application is coded to those specs. And if the end-user's experience is flaky, its not a bug, but the end-user is expected to upgrade. Luckily, it seems that the free lunch starts to be over, and that bangs some sense into this industry.
And, no - it won't fit. I checked. 2GB is maximum :)
And where should I ram that extra RAM? My less than two years old notebook has 1 GB of RAM, and no additional slot. I hear the iPad has even less, and no upgrade slot either. Perhaps FF is not meant for everybody?
--
typed in from my Arora browser (which gobbles a whopping 400 MB RAM)
GPL is bullsh*t because it presents itself as a free license and makes a loud claim of freedom etc. etc., but it actually takes those freedoms away from your users and restricts their use of your source code
Have youever actually tried reading the preamble in GPL? It is very simple english, and nicely sums up the contents of the license, the rights it gives and takes awawy.
GPL does not IMHO make any false claims about itself. Uninformed people sometimes do, though.
But I do agree with you that when distributing my code, a short concise license is often the best option. But no, the BSD license WITH ALL THAT SHOUTING IN LAWYERESE is not short or easily understandable. I prefer the "free beer" license. Only partly because I like beer.
Here I was thinking internet would be killing TV.
Or is the tower broadcasting UDP packets, perhaps?
Autoplay? Luxury.
I dream about seeing the video in the first place.
Oh, I thought morons, incompetents and felons vote for Republicans.
But perhasp this explains it - *all* americans are morons, incompentents and felons?
Except, ofcourse, those that don't vote.
As a lay M.Sc., EE, radio tech., I'd have appreciated a simple block diagram of the apparatus to explain "for the rest of us" what exactly they were doing (and how it differs from e.g. plain old MIMO). Not images of Yagi antennas.
That is the problem with revolutionary ideas. People tend to call "BS" when they don't understand. And I didn't.