So these new MacBook Pro are outselling their competition... Lenovo's Yoga 900, not Lenovo's Thinkpad [T/X/P], etcetera. So the new MacBook Pro are effectively the new Macbook AIR line, only with a misleading name.
They silently deleted and vetoed the name "Blas de Lezo" after it took the second place and it was on its way to dethrone BMcB, and now you're surprised they snubbed it as well?
No list is complete without Vernor Vinge's _True Names... and Other Dangers_. I don't care if it's a book, instead of an article, but still, it's required reading.
Shows like B5 got physics quite right when it came to Starfuries, but were purposefully ambiguous in other respects.
Sometimes "rule of drama" wins out, and it's understandable. There's no excuse, however, to bad physics becoming a pivotal plot point (I don't think I need to list any examples here).
This day is known only by the sysadmin themselves (and former sysadmins, as well), so we pat each other on the back, post a message on twitter and/or facebook and that's it.
I know well enough what Usenet is. Hell, I AM the moderator in chile.grupos.anuncios (a local equivalent to news.announce.newgroups).
But to say Usenet is *far* from its glory days is a terrible understatement. Usenet is, for its glory days purposes, pretty much dead. Not many servers remain, not many users remain, entire hierarchies are dead. BESIDES some specific still-running newsgroups, not much activity remains.
Those isolated pockets of still healthy Usenet traffic are now no different than just any other web forum.
Usenet WAS the go-to place for online discussion. As much as it pains me, that ceased to be the case.
Back in the day, there was *one* discussion forum: Usenet. It was everywhere, and all servers connected to it. Now, there are *thousands* of disconnected forums, dozens of "forum software packages", etcetera. Even systems that try to connect distinct forums (Disqus) aren't necessarily the most popular option.
I live in Chile, one of the most earthquake-prone countries. Near my city there used to be a rather popular hot spring pools place *in the Andes Mountains* (not in a close-by valley), called "Baños Morales" ("Morales' [Thermal] Baths"). An earthquake in the '50s shifted plates and the hot springs completely dried up. The place still exists, but it's been abandoned.
Now, that movie shows promise... or it would, if Mr. ObTwist weren't involved. Still, getting to see a the heroes mounting a rabbuck might be worthwhile.
I always found it odd that Mars' southern hemisphere would be so much higher than the northern one. This discovery means it might be simply a supercontinent that will be, in spite of its size, a transient[*] feature.
I'd like to hop on a time machine, go forward 200 years and read up a book on the geology of Mars. I wonder if they'll name previous continents (assuming they can be determined) by a system that uses names from famous Mars-related stories. The first bunch of continents named after features in the John Carter of Mars stories, another bunch taken straight from Bradbury's Martian Chronicles, et cetera.
What kind of bullshit logic is that? Something is broken, everyone hates it, so let's put all our efforts in making the alternatives better? How about contributing to PHP and fixing what you're bitching about instead of, well, bitching about it? You know, it's open-source and all.
An important part of fixing something is being able to recognize when it's better to throw it away and build it again. PHP has so many problems, in each layer down to the bottom, it's way past the "We can fix it if we apply ourselves": it's better to throw it away and build it again. Something like a new scripting language called PDR ("PHP Done Right").
I don't believe anything I read on reddit or slashdot. Does that mean I'm suck in an infinite loop? Does that mean I'm suck in an infinite loop? Does that mean I'm suck in an infinite loop? Does that mean I'm suck in an infinite loop? Does that mean I'm suck in an infinit stack overflow
In any case surely there are official channels to request flags and anthems and other national symbols from...
YEARS ago, Chile hosted the World Chess Championship. Players from Romania were *very* upset because the flag representing them still had the socialist coat of arms on it (the 1989 revolution had happened less than a year before). They threatened to leave unless steps were taken immediately to correct this... I guess it was solved to their satisfaction, because they didn't leave, though.
If you had to tear down a Picasso to get to a 'da Vinci', you can't make that decision on your own.
I know what your point is, but I have to say this anyway:
If you have to tear up a Picasso to get to a 'da Vinci', by all means do it! And trash some of Miró's paintings while you're at it, for an added bonus. }:->
(I'm from Catalunya, BTW, and I can't stand either of them)
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So these new MacBook Pro are outselling their competition... Lenovo's Yoga 900, not Lenovo's Thinkpad [T/X/P], etcetera. So the new MacBook Pro are effectively the new Macbook AIR line, only with a misleading name.
Sod off, Apple.
They silently deleted and vetoed the name "Blas de Lezo" after it took the second place and it was on its way to dethrone BMcB, and now you're surprised they snubbed it as well?
No list is complete without Vernor Vinge's _True Names... and Other Dangers_. I don't care if it's a book, instead of an article, but still, it's required reading.
Shows like B5 got physics quite right when it came to Starfuries, but were purposefully ambiguous in other respects.
Sometimes "rule of drama" wins out, and it's understandable. There's no excuse, however, to bad physics becoming a pivotal plot point (I don't think I need to list any examples here).
This day is known only by the sysadmin themselves (and former sysadmins, as well), so we pat each other on the back, post a message on twitter and/or facebook and that's it.
I know well enough what Usenet is. Hell, I AM the moderator in chile.grupos.anuncios (a local equivalent to news.announce.newgroups).
But to say Usenet is *far* from its glory days is a terrible understatement. Usenet is, for its glory days purposes, pretty much dead. Not many servers remain, not many users remain, entire hierarchies are dead. BESIDES some specific still-running newsgroups, not much activity remains.
Those isolated pockets of still healthy Usenet traffic are now no different than just any other web forum.
Usenet WAS the go-to place for online discussion. As much as it pains me, that ceased to be the case.
Back in the day, there was *one* discussion forum: Usenet. It was everywhere, and all servers connected to it. Now, there are *thousands* of disconnected forums, dozens of "forum software packages", etcetera. Even systems that try to connect distinct forums (Disqus) aren't necessarily the most popular option.
the one is actually easy to implement
For HTML5 audio/video, yes. For Flash/Silverlight, not necessarily.
Considering most of the others are DWIM in nature, or at least require almost an AI working inside the browser, I'd say they're easy. :-D
This feature was listed as #21 in http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_529_21-web-browser-features-we-desperately-need_p21/#21 - and, from all of them, the one is actually easy to implement. Hell, users have been wishing this kind of feature since before tabs even existed! I can only wonder what took so long for any dev team.
I hope Chrome gets this on the stable release ASAP, and Firefox and Opera follow suit, Explorer can go frack itself for all I care.
When I saw this headline coming up in my feed, I thought it was from The Onion. THEN I saw the familiar /. logo...
I live in Chile, one of the most earthquake-prone countries. Near my city there used to be a rather popular hot spring pools place *in the Andes Mountains* (not in a close-by valley), called "Baños Morales" ("Morales' [Thermal] Baths"). An earthquake in the '50s shifted plates and the hot springs completely dried up. The place still exists, but it's been abandoned.
You know, that one that was validated as authentic because of the spelling errors. :-)
I concur, except for Mel Gibson's acting. I don't think there's any director capable of slapping MG back into proper acting, at all.
After Man. My mistake.
The description of said movie makes me think it's directly inspired by Dougal Dixon's After Earth book (available at http://www.amazon.com/After-Man-A-Zoology-Future/dp/0312194331 and other stores). A *great* read, I must say.
Now, that movie shows promise... or it would, if Mr. ObTwist weren't involved. Still, getting to see a the heroes mounting a rabbuck might be worthwhile.
Sesquidecade is more like it. There.
I always found it odd that Mars' southern hemisphere would be so much higher than the northern one. This discovery means it might be simply a supercontinent that will be, in spite of its size, a transient[*] feature.
I'd like to hop on a time machine, go forward 200 years and read up a book on the geology of Mars. I wonder if they'll name previous continents (assuming they can be determined) by a system that uses names from famous Mars-related stories. The first bunch of continents named after features in the John Carter of Mars stories, another bunch taken straight from Bradbury's Martian Chronicles, et cetera.
[*] In a geological time scale, of course.
What kind of bullshit logic is that? Something is broken, everyone hates it, so let's put all our efforts in making the alternatives better? How about contributing to PHP and fixing what you're bitching about instead of, well, bitching about it? You know, it's open-source and all.
An important part of fixing something is being able to recognize when it's better to throw it away and build it again. PHP has so many problems, in each layer down to the bottom, it's way past the "We can fix it if we apply ourselves": it's better to throw it away and build it again. Something like a new scripting language called PDR ("PHP Done Right").
I don't believe anything I read on reddit or slashdot. Does that mean I'm suck in an infinite loop? Does that mean I'm suck in an infinite loop? Does that mean I'm suck in an infinite loop? Does that mean I'm suck in an infinite loop? Does that mean I'm suck in an infinit
stack overflow
Boy, have you got a short stack...
In any case surely there are official channels to request flags and anthems and other national symbols from...
YEARS ago, Chile hosted the World Chess Championship. Players from Romania were *very* upset because the flag representing them still had the socialist coat of arms on it (the 1989 revolution had happened less than a year before). They threatened to leave unless steps were taken immediately to correct this... I guess it was solved to their satisfaction, because they didn't leave, though.
Perhaps they were Yetis?
Besides Homo Sapiens, there are Neanderthals, Floresians (I ain't calling them "hobbits"), Denisovans and now these?
Pre-history is getting crowded with failed competitors. Yay us?
Pi = 3.14159265358979.......
3.14 = 3.14
22/7 = 3.14285714...
|Pi-3.14| = 0.00159265358979...
|Pi-22/7| = 0.00126448926735...
So, yeah, 22/7 is a better approximation.
For that matter, 355/113 is much better, but we don't have that many months or months that long in our calendar.
At least for everyone in the world that prefers the "day/month/year" system over the dumb "month/day/year" one.
Also, 22/7 is a better approximation to the actual pi value than 3.14.
And... on that day I will, if all goes well, on vacation, so I'll be able to actually celebrate the day.
There.
If you had to tear down a Picasso to get to a 'da Vinci', you can't make that decision on your own.
I know what your point is, but I have to say this anyway:
If you have to tear up a Picasso to get to a 'da Vinci', by all means do it! And trash some of Miró's paintings while you're at it, for an added bonus. }:->
(I'm from Catalunya, BTW, and I can't stand either of them)