I remember seeing about 3 submissions that got buried earlier this week. To hell with slashdot, I only came here because I saw this finally made it through while reading my news on itworld. So long slashdot and thanks for..... meh whatever.
Aside from the fact you are an idiot (hopefully a paid astroturfer), the one reference you provide is stuck in 2009 (that's a few years ago). Also, you reference disagrees with you: "Based on data from 2009 the US petrol emissions equivalence is 40 MPGUS (9 L/100 km), similar to a modern petrol hybrid. But at the speed US electricity is decarbonizing this figure is rising quickly."
Nobody can change your mind, that's fine, reading the blatherings of an anti EV loon made me smile today.:)
Steam has made buying games convenient and affordable, I don't even think about pirating a game anymore. Today I work along the lines of "if it's not on Steam I'm not going to bother buying / playing it". A reduction in piracy simply because a market started doing what the consumer wanted, you reading this music industry guys?
Right?! That was about the most fun to read line of comments I've seen on here in ages. Looks like nothing was happening on reddit today and a few of the funny people swung by slashdot.
Name one (affordable) video service that:
1) Let's me pre-download the full quality video in it's entirety.
2) Provides it in a format usable on almost any device.
3) Allows me to copy to another device.
4) Has every movie I want, not just select titles from specific studios.
5) Doesn't treat me like I'm a criminal.
If someone can give me that, my money is theirs. For now Netflix is still sadly the best legal service.
....unplug internet because afraid... Adblock does its job and does it well, I don't see ads. Do I care if they sell some info about my browsing, no. We've left the age where NoScript is relevant, I don't want to have to allow every other website I visit just because I'm paranoid.
I agree with the AC, your post looks like a short sighted (idiot) or troll comment to me. The 33,561 people in the U.S. that died in 2012 from an automobile related incident and their families would probably be pro self-driving car.
We can discuss (argue about) the various merits of self-driving cars all day long but I'll make it simple: I trust a computer to do complex repetitive math all day long and not make a mistake where I would expect multiple screw ups from a human. Take that same concept and apply it to a car. Will there be issues still, yes... just a whole lot less.
While they may have been the "de facto" device in 2011, it looks like they were overrun by all the various Android tables a while ago and are still in market share decline. For a single device compared against all others they may have the most share, but not by OS. With Apple just catching up to Samsung’s 2012 products this trend will probably continue.
In other news: Samsung has yet again copied Apples innovative efforts by introducing their own 5.5 inch screen device in a vain attempt to capture some of Apples newly created larger screen phone market.
In all the years I've used NO-IP for personal and business DNS management, NOT ONCE have they done anything I'd even remotely consider shady. Their service was rock solid until Micro$oft came in with a hostile takeover, hell they didn't even bother to so much as talk with NO-IP beforehand.
Gift: something voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation.
When people "Pledge" they do so with the expectation that they will 1) See the project complete and 2) get their reward. Sounds exactly like an investment to me.
you deserve to get screwed.
So you agree with me that when projects like Oculus Rift sell out they screw their pledgers. =P
1: Start a promising buzzword based Kickstarted project.
2: Sell to large company turning everyone's Kickstarter contributions into a steaming pile of....
3: (No ??? step, we've been here before) 4: PROFIT!!!
Go for No-IP. Been using them for years, personal and business. Exceedingly fast and their techs are awesome when you do have an off the wall issue. (Not affiliated with them in any way)
This statement always hits me as mind numbingly stupid. In general try / catch and other error managing statements are for the lazy that don't want to understand the environment and inputs well enough to write the proper code to manage them. You want rock solid code that will last for years, eliminate the errors, don't "handle them gracefully". The only exception to this rule should be when the native environment forces it upon you or there is a lack of some proper check "doesThisReallyExist()".
2. Only reinvents the wheel when there is a measurable benefit in doing so..
I learn more reinventing the wheel and there is no substitute to working with code you are sure of and know how it's going to perform.
Slashdot Mirror
I remember seeing about 3 submissions that got buried earlier this week. To hell with slashdot, I only came here because I saw this finally made it through while reading my news on itworld. So long slashdot and thanks for ..... meh whatever.
Aside from the fact you are an idiot (hopefully a paid astroturfer), the one reference you provide is stuck in 2009 (that's a few years ago). Also, you reference disagrees with you: "Based on data from 2009 the US petrol emissions equivalence is 40 MPGUS (9 L/100 km), similar to a modern petrol hybrid. But at the speed US electricity is decarbonizing this figure is rising quickly."
:)
Nobody can change your mind, that's fine, reading the blatherings of an anti EV loon made me smile today.
Steam has made buying games convenient and affordable, I don't even think about pirating a game anymore. Today I work along the lines of "if it's not on Steam I'm not going to bother buying / playing it". A reduction in piracy simply because a market started doing what the consumer wanted, you reading this music industry guys?
Right?! That was about the most fun to read line of comments I've seen on here in ages. Looks like nothing was happening on reddit today and a few of the funny people swung by slashdot.
Well, no.
Name one (affordable) video service that:
1) Let's me pre-download the full quality video in it's entirety.
2) Provides it in a format usable on almost any device.
3) Allows me to copy to another device.
4) Has every movie I want, not just select titles from specific studios.
5) Doesn't treat me like I'm a criminal.
If someone can give me that, my money is theirs. For now Netflix is still sadly the best legal service.
....unplug internet because afraid... Adblock does its job and does it well, I don't see ads. Do I care if they sell some info about my browsing, no. We've left the age where NoScript is relevant, I don't want to have to allow every other website I visit just because I'm paranoid.
Points for Matrix reference... wait.... ;)
Lol, this.
Like every other tool that has an "export to HTML" option: Complete unreadable garbage.
Adblock Plus... Install it, love it... no more crazy flashing ads.
News from US-CERT comes after SlashDot.... that is broken. :)
I agree with the AC, your post looks like a short sighted (idiot) or troll comment to me. The 33,561 people in the U.S. that died in 2012 from an automobile related incident and their families would probably be pro self-driving car.
We can discuss (argue about) the various merits of self-driving cars all day long but I'll make it simple: I trust a computer to do complex repetitive math all day long and not make a mistake where I would expect multiple screw ups from a human. Take that same concept and apply it to a car. Will there be issues still, yes... just a whole lot less.
*Woooooooooosh*
Disclaimer: Android Fanboy
While they may have been the "de facto" device in 2011, it looks like they were overrun by all the various Android tables a while ago and are still in market share decline. For a single device compared against all others they may have the most share, but not by OS. With Apple just catching up to Samsung’s 2012 products this trend will probably continue.
Of all the days to not have mod points... Got a good morning chuckle out of this one. :)
In other news: Samsung has yet again copied Apples innovative efforts by introducing their own 5.5 inch screen device in a vain attempt to capture some of Apples newly created larger screen phone market.
Only if they have more mod points than the rest of us. If I make it to -1 the Mac crown wins. ;)
I wish I had mod points today... although I don't know if I would have give you a +1 funny or informative. ;)
I'm glad to see Blackberry blackberry innovating a square screen phone with keyboard. Oops, that's Microsoft's failed phone... my bad.
In all the years I've used NO-IP for personal and business DNS management, NOT ONCE have they done anything I'd even remotely consider shady. Their service was rock solid until Micro$oft came in with a hostile takeover, hell they didn't even bother to so much as talk with NO-IP beforehand.
Gift: something voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation.
When people "Pledge" they do so with the expectation that they will 1) See the project complete and 2) get their reward. Sounds exactly like an investment to me.
you deserve to get screwed.
So you agree with me that when projects like Oculus Rift sell out they screw their pledgers. =P
1: Start a promising buzzword based Kickstarted project. ....
2: Sell to large company turning everyone's Kickstarter contributions into a steaming pile of
3: (No ??? step, we've been here before)
4: PROFIT!!!
Go for No-IP. Been using them for years, personal and business. Exceedingly fast and their techs are awesome when you do have an off the wall issue. (Not affiliated with them in any way)
Been using No-IP for years, love those guys!
1 Handles errors gracefully.
This statement always hits me as mind numbingly stupid. In general try / catch and other error managing statements are for the lazy that don't want to understand the environment and inputs well enough to write the proper code to manage them. You want rock solid code that will last for years, eliminate the errors, don't "handle them gracefully". The only exception to this rule should be when the native environment forces it upon you or there is a lack of some proper check "doesThisReallyExist()".
2. Only reinvents the wheel when there is a measurable benefit in doing so..
I learn more reinventing the wheel and there is no substitute to working with code you are sure of and know how it's going to perform.
I agree with the rest.