I still watch a little bit of network TV (on Hulu, of course), but I can't remember the last time I watched anything from CBS. I am definitely not going to subscribe to something for one show that I may or may not like. Looking at their plans for this show, they seem to have learned all the wrong lessons from how TV has changed in the last decade.
Well, the good news is that people have been trying to fix that flaw for decades. I get the distinct impression the average American voter has no idea how this country is supposed to work.
I was a bit overwhelmed by Git at first, but the more I learn about it, the more I'm impressed with it. Yes, it's still confusing at times, but I get the distinct impression that they (Linus and whoever else are the developers) have literally thought of everything. There are so many ways to do things, you can always find an approach that does what you need and makes sense.
The very first comment I ever made on/. was around 2000... complaining about the stupid April Fool's garbage, which was painfully tiresome 17 years ago.
And we know that while warp drive might be possible, it's not feasible and we probably won't be seeing it in our lifetimes.
The technology advances are often far more gradual than we would expect (and hope), but no less transformative. Just think (if you're old enough) how life was before the Internet became ubiquitous. Has life radically changed since then? I wouldn't say it has, but many, many parts of our lives have changed radically, things we see and do every day, and mostly for the better.
I think AI is going to be the same. It's not going to manifest in the ways we commonly expect (e.g., computers you can converse with, etc.), but will come about gradually, with software getting smarter and smarter until things we commonly see, say 10-20 years from now, would have to fall under the definition of "A.I." even though it happened gradually enough that it didn't occur to us... because we don't yet have HAL 9000.
KDE 3.5 had the best menu system for apps ever. I've been doing a similar thing for about 20 years in Windows, too. You organize the start menu yourself. I use the following categories: Converters, Development, Editors, Games, Networking, System and Viewers.
Even as we speak, dedicated fans are camping out at McDonald's all around the country waiting for the return of the McDodo, cooked in the finest hydrogenated phlogiston.
I kind of thought so too, until I tried it. Now I like it. It forces you do to do something you should be doing to make the code readable, and it's something I always do anyway. It's not brain-dead, it's just different. You might not prefer it, and if not, I think that's understandable, but it's definitely not a bad idea.
Python will immediately complain about mixing tabs and space. Other languages won't, but your code just became unreadable. I know all about that because my coworkers do it constantly. I realized tabs were a bad idea 25 years, and the company I work at now is the only place I've ever worked that uses tabs, and it's been nothing but trouble, but no one wants to change anything.
If you just assume that the US Government, from the highest levels on down, is absolutely determined to fragment and destroy American culture while running its economy into the ground, then the behavior of its agencies suddenly makes a lot of sense. In fact it becomes predictable.
This has been demonstrably true for the last 8 years. Come back in a few more to see if it continues.
I've seen more weird bugs on Windows 10 than any version of Windows in a long time, and the "flat UI" look is stupid and ugly. Some pajama boy threw out all the major R&D and UI advances that Microsoft was at the forefront of in the 80s and 90s just so he could foist his minimalist aesthetic in a place where it does absolutely no good. I know I'm personifying what is surely many, many people, but the effect is the same... throwing out 30 years of hard-won UX knowhow to turn the desktop into someone's vanity art project.
On another/. topic, I've said that if Windows was Indiana Jones, then Win7 would star Harrison Ford, and Win10 would star Lego actors.
From what I've heard the Lego movies are pretty entertaining, and I know the games are, if Windows was Indiana Jones, Windows 10 would nuke the fridge and have a third act that looks like watching someone else playing a video game.
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I still watch a little bit of network TV (on Hulu, of course), but I can't remember the last time I watched anything from CBS. I am definitely not going to subscribe to something for one show that I may or may not like. Looking at their plans for this show, they seem to have learned all the wrong lessons from how TV has changed in the last decade.
Well, the good news is that people have been trying to fix that flaw for decades. I get the distinct impression the average American voter has no idea how this country is supposed to work.
I was a bit overwhelmed by Git at first, but the more I learn about it, the more I'm impressed with it. Yes, it's still confusing at times, but I get the distinct impression that they (Linus and whoever else are the developers) have literally thought of everything. There are so many ways to do things, you can always find an approach that does what you need and makes sense.
The very first comment I ever made on /. was around 2000... complaining about the stupid April Fool's garbage, which was painfully tiresome 17 years ago.
That.
So everything is now Slashdot? I guess I'm ahead of the curve since I've been here since about 2000.
Ugh. Eddie is Tommy's other nickname. That's what I get for focusing too much on trying to be funny.
Yeah, it was all fun and games until Eddie decided to electrocute an elephant. That was gruesome and cruel.
But the barbecue was pretty good.
And we know that while warp drive might be possible, it's not feasible and we probably won't be seeing it in our lifetimes.
The technology advances are often far more gradual than we would expect (and hope), but no less transformative. Just think (if you're old enough) how life was before the Internet became ubiquitous. Has life radically changed since then? I wouldn't say it has, but many, many parts of our lives have changed radically, things we see and do every day, and mostly for the better.
I think AI is going to be the same. It's not going to manifest in the ways we commonly expect (e.g., computers you can converse with, etc.), but will come about gradually, with software getting smarter and smarter until things we commonly see, say 10-20 years from now, would have to fall under the definition of "A.I." even though it happened gradually enough that it didn't occur to us... because we don't yet have HAL 9000.
But... but... Trump is teh evil!!!1!!!!
That's a much more reasonable explanation, right?
The prime will need to have a different aspect ratio... like 19:11...
Because it's a 23-year-old joke? A significant portion of Slashdot reader weren't even born when the Pentium fiasco went down.
KDE 3.5 had the best menu system for apps ever. I've been doing a similar thing for about 20 years in Windows, too.
You organize the start menu yourself. I use the following categories: Converters, Development, Editors, Games, Networking, System and Viewers.
Every country has 11 inches in their feet. They also have a 12th inch.
Even as we speak, dedicated fans are camping out at McDonald's all around the country waiting for the return of the McDodo, cooked in the finest hydrogenated phlogiston.
You can probably find AlleyCat on the Internet Archive and run it in DOSBox.
Apple makes things people love. Microsoft makes things people tolerate.
That said, I don't own any Apple products. I do own some Microsoft products.
Gotta love how religion brings out the hate and violence in stupid people.
So does atheism. I think the real problem is stupid people.
I kind of thought so too, until I tried it. Now I like it. It forces you do to do something you should be doing to make the code readable, and it's something I always do anyway. It's not brain-dead, it's just different. You might not prefer it, and if not, I think that's understandable, but it's definitely not a bad idea.
Python will immediately complain about mixing tabs and space. Other languages won't, but your code just became unreadable. I know all about that because my coworkers do it constantly. I realized tabs were a bad idea 25 years, and the company I work at now is the only place I've ever worked that uses tabs, and it's been nothing but trouble, but no one wants to change anything.
If you just assume that the US Government, from the highest levels on down, is absolutely determined to fragment and destroy American culture while running its economy into the ground, then the behavior of its agencies suddenly makes a lot of sense. In fact it becomes predictable.
This has been demonstrably true for the last 8 years. Come back in a few more to see if it continues.
The shills are getting rather psychotic these days.
They gotta do something now that Correct The Record has laid them all off.
I've seen more weird bugs on Windows 10 than any version of Windows in a long time, and the "flat UI" look is stupid and ugly. Some pajama boy threw out all the major R&D and UI advances that Microsoft was at the forefront of in the 80s and 90s just so he could foist his minimalist aesthetic in a place where it does absolutely no good. I know I'm personifying what is surely many, many people, but the effect is the same... throwing out 30 years of hard-won UX knowhow to turn the desktop into someone's vanity art project.
On another /. topic, I've said that if Windows was Indiana Jones, then Win7 would star Harrison Ford, and Win10 would star Lego actors.
From what I've heard the Lego movies are pretty entertaining, and I know the games are, if Windows was Indiana Jones, Windows 10 would nuke the fridge and have a third act that looks like watching someone else playing a video game.
Wait, Backslashdot likes libertarian ideas? I guess I'm on the wrong website then.