I am honestly disappointed, although not surprised. But I wonder if the direction ever will change..? It might be that I will go to the US for business if it is required, but for pleasure, very, very unlikely as long as this continues... I am seriously wondering if things will turn around during my lifetime, I hope so because I would like to go to the US again, just not under these circumstances.
I would like to see similar a clean slate approach for Unix as well. For example, I am interested in the question - how would Unix work differently if extended attributes were available in all Unix filesystems from the beginning. Tradition often holds back innovation, I feel
This is not what you asked for but something handy to know: middle-clicking the "Maximize" button maximizes vertically. Left-clicking it maximizes horizontally. In KDE, at least.
Firefox 2 includes the new WHATWG-specified client-side persistent storage. However, some argue it is critically flawed. Learn the arguments now and we can discuss this further on Slashdot in 2010!
This is the best suggestion so far. Buy quality controlled dictionaries for translation between many languages (not only to and from english). Build a web service that people can query from all kinds of applications. Of all things these money could be spent on, nothing will be more benefitial for communcation between people.
This is especially true for people below the age of thirty,
Age of 30? I guess you are still in your teens and can't distinguish adult ages so well:-) You could easily make that figure 40, probably quite a bit higher because I am far below the age when people did start learning english early in school (and I am a few years over 30). I would say there is no difference in English proficiency between 20 and 30 in Sweden today, it might as well be that 30-year-olds are in general are better.
The new beta has search suggestions for google. Press Ctrl-K and enter some characters. Suggestions will appear. Enter sla and slashdot will be suggested, together with slavery and slackware. However, enter sex, and nothing more will be suggested. Enter the f-word : equally silent. Enter the f-word, although in swedish, and see a long list of suggestions.
The car should be the computer, not the peripheral. Make the car stereo mp3 capable and let it read from USB storage. If you plug in a USB memory stick, or a USB hard drive, or an MP3 player that acts like USB storage, the car steroe can play the music.
What places are there to get dry ice? And while we are at it, where can I buy liquid nitrogen? Probably the places you recommend will not be available to me, but I am curious to know.
Richard Dawkins writes in The Ancestors Tale (page 43, "The Tasmanian's Tale") that roughly 80 percent of all invidiviuals of a current population will be universal ancestors to all living decendants a certain number of generations later. How many generations? That depends on the populations size: roughly the base 2 logarithm of the population size number of generations. This is more true for small, isolated populations, especially on islands (Tasmania is given as example) - you can not take the current population of people on earth today (6 billions) and trust this number.
No doubt could USA dominate football, if americans cared for it. The american market can pay bigger salaries to players playing in a single US league. There are over 250 million people to serve with matches, compared with the multitude of leagues in Europe. Football stars in Europe earn less than even ice hockey stars in the NHL do. However, I belive that would be the end of football as I care for it. As the USA gets more power in the football world, they would change the game to suit them better. Probably the rules for football as played in the USA would be changed to allow for more commercial breaks, more "action" (as defined by american taste!), and the most interesting events (between nations - such as the World Cup, the UEFA European Championships and qualification matches for these) would not as much attention and time as now.
I have heard that too. But what I always wondered - perhaps they meant during the year of 1956, or something like that. Anyone have a source for this statement?
I can agree. I have an VIA EPIA PD-Series, with Eden processor. It frequently hangs so I have to turn it off and on again. I don't trust VIA on this - I will mount a processor fan on it but that pretty much gets rid of the point of getting a fanless processor to begin with.
Norway is not part of the EU - I think that is the reason. Exactly why that should matter in turn, I can not tell. But it seems they are limiting themselves to a small number of countries, and being outside of the EU could matter.
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I am honestly disappointed, although not surprised. But I wonder if the direction ever will change..? It might be that I will go to the US for business if it is required, but for pleasure, very, very unlikely as long as this continues... I am seriously wondering if things will turn around during my lifetime, I hope so because I would like to go to the US again, just not under these circumstances.
Doesn't matter if they are since they don't deliver
I would like to see similar a clean slate approach for Unix as well. For example, I am interested in the question - how would Unix work differently if extended attributes were available in all Unix filesystems from the beginning. Tradition often holds back innovation, I feel
How is the border between US and Canada surveilled? It has to be one the of the longest borders in the world.
I think the keys in JSON needs to be strings
This is not what you asked for but something handy to know: middle-clicking the "Maximize" button maximizes vertically. Left-clicking it maximizes horizontally. In KDE, at least.
You better wait. In 2007 we will argue about Google and Ipod every day, Slashdot will be too busy for dupes on persistent storage until 2010.
Firefox 2 includes the new WHATWG-specified client-side persistent storage. However, some argue it is critically flawed. Learn the arguments now and we can discuss this further on Slashdot in 2010!
Please explain your reasoning.
This is the best suggestion so far. Buy quality controlled dictionaries for translation between many languages (not only to and from english). Build a web service that people can query from all kinds of applications. Of all things these money could be spent on, nothing will be more benefitial for communcation between people.
Healthcare is free? It is obvious that you don't live in the same Sweden as I do.
Yes because obviously the US Constitution is the best constitution there is.
This is especially true for people below the age of thirty,
:-) You could easily make that figure 40, probably quite a bit higher because I am far below the age when people did start learning english early in school (and I am a few years over 30). I would say there is no difference in English proficiency between 20 and 30 in Sweden today, it might as well be that 30-year-olds are in general are better.
Age of 30? I guess you are still in your teens and can't distinguish adult ages so well
The new beta has search suggestions for google. Press Ctrl-K and enter some characters. Suggestions will appear. Enter sla and slashdot will be suggested, together with slavery and slackware.
However, enter sex, and nothing more will be suggested. Enter the f-word : equally silent. Enter the f-word, although in swedish, and see a long list of suggestions.
The car should be the computer, not the peripheral. Make the car stereo mp3 capable and let it read from USB storage. If you plug in a USB memory stick, or a USB hard drive, or an MP3 player that acts like USB storage, the car steroe can play the music.
What places are there to get dry ice? And while we are at it, where can I buy liquid nitrogen? Probably the places you recommend will not be available to me, but I am curious to know.
Richard Dawkins writes in The Ancestors Tale (page 43, "The Tasmanian's Tale") that roughly 80 percent of all invidiviuals of a current population will be universal ancestors to all living decendants a certain number of generations later. How many generations? That depends on the populations size: roughly the base 2 logarithm of the population size number of generations. This is more true for small, isolated populations, especially on islands (Tasmania is given as example) - you can not take the current population of people on earth today (6 billions) and trust this number.
No doubt could USA dominate football, if americans cared for it. The american market can pay bigger salaries to players playing in a single
US league. There are over 250 million people to serve with matches, compared with the multitude of leagues in Europe. Football stars in Europe earn less than even ice hockey stars in the NHL do. However, I belive that would be the end of football as I care for it. As the USA gets more power in the football world, they would change the game to suit them better. Probably the rules for football as played in the USA would be changed to allow for more commercial breaks, more "action" (as defined by american taste!), and the most interesting events (between nations - such as the World Cup, the UEFA European Championships and qualification matches for these) would not as much attention and time as now.
IE leaks memory in many cases when using closures with javascript - have they fixed it?
Yes of course, because Debian releases are frequent and on time.
I have heard that too. But what I always wondered - perhaps they meant during the year of 1956, or something like that. Anyone have a source for this statement?
I am glad to see that Slashdot does not show the same disrespect to its readers and to Fedora as OSnews does. What I am thinking about is this comment: http://www.osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=14024& comment_id=105792
I am done with OSNews
I can agree. I have an VIA EPIA PD-Series, with Eden processor. It frequently hangs so I have to turn it off and on again. I don't trust VIA on this - I will mount a processor fan on it but that pretty much gets rid of the point of getting a fanless processor to begin with.
Norway is not part of the EU - I think that is the reason. Exactly why that should matter in turn, I can not tell. But it seems they are limiting themselves to a small number of countries, and being outside of the EU could matter.