One of the most annoying things I have found in Bugzilla is that "WON'T FIX" tag.
This came up at work when I was telling my boss that I hated having to use that sometimes. However brusque, though, sometimes it's perfectly reasonable and accurate. Every now and then I get bugs along the lines of "I wish our intranet site were available in Mandarin", knowing that all 50 people working here speak native English and that they just wanted to see if they could learn their way around it.
It's so hard to tell which ones are too stupid to be true and so stupid they probably are true.
So far it's been the best April Fools I've ever seen on Slashdot. The stories are usually painfully bad, but I've done a few double-takes this morning. Well done, editors!
For a number of years I've wanted a slashdot greasemonkey extension called something like "slashback" which would restrict all comments to people with UID lower than your own
So the only people who could see your comments are "younger" than you, and you can't see their replies.
Every single person in my company. Most of our people are doing the actual work that earns us money rather than reading or writing word processor documents and spreadsheets. For us, the choice was between OO.o or nothing at all. There are still a few legacy installations of Office for people who actually need a few obscure features, but all employees have OpenOffice.
In "The Singularity Is Near", Ray Kurzweil explores some of the implications of artificial oxygen carrying fluid. Assume that it actually works as advertised:
Red blood cells are pretty big for the amount of O2 they carry; the artificial version could be much more efficient per volume.
More efficient == less volume for the same carrying capacity.
Less volume == much less demand on the circulatory system. Imagine distributed, low-volume hearts.
...and on and on, in much more detail (and far more convincingly) than I can muster. Basically, such a thing could utterly revolutionize our idea of what is required to keep a human brain alive, that being the ultimate goal of our project.
I've played with a few IM apps on my iPod Touch, but the common arrangement seems to be that you register with a service that stores all your login data and handles the connections for you. I'm not terribly thrilled with that arrangement. Has anyone found an IM that they're particularly comfortable with?
Yes!!! We should not blindly accept gravity as a fact.
Gravity is a fact. The point in question is exactly how it works. Same with evolution: it is a fact, even if there are (extremely) minor quibbles with the precise mechanisms.
To clarify, because people seem to have misunderstood what I was saying, I found that quote to be absolutely horrifying. I'd prefer that people not make fun of my religious beliefs, but I'd never illegalize it. My point was that people get behind such horrific laws, not realizing that they also apply to other groups they likely disagree with.
"Defamation of religious is a serious affront to human dignity leading to a restriction on the freedom of their adherents and incitement to religious violence," the adopted text read, adding that "Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism."
In related news, Tom Cruise and the Topeka School Board hosted a Sharia-themed gala.
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So conservatives would be okay with a gay couple deciding to get married? Or with decriminalizing marijuana? Or legalizing liquor sales on sundays?
I am. Conservatives aren't the sole owners of "anti-freedom", you know.
One of the most annoying things I have found in Bugzilla is that "WON'T FIX" tag.
This came up at work when I was telling my boss that I hated having to use that sometimes. However brusque, though, sometimes it's perfectly reasonable and accurate. Every now and then I get bugs along the lines of "I wish our intranet site were available in Mandarin", knowing that all 50 people working here speak native English and that they just wanted to see if they could learn their way around it.
OK, have fun with that!
You have 25 achievements. It says so right at the top of the list.
Yep, where $achievementvalue = log2($achievementthreshold)
Those aren't exponents.
Yeah, they are. I promise you that I've read Slashdot for more than a month straight at times, and that I have more than 256 +5 comments.
Alternatively, you could master head. I hear there's demand for it in certain log processing circles.
(That was an allusion to Joy Division.)
I can't believe that they left out "UID as a prime". I would have had it.
3*13*31*71
Made you look.
It's so hard to tell which ones are too stupid to be true and so stupid they probably are true.
So far it's been the best April Fools I've ever seen on Slashdot. The stories are usually painfully bad, but I've done a few double-takes this morning. Well done, editors!
For a number of years I've wanted a slashdot greasemonkey extension called something like "slashback" which would restrict all comments to people with UID lower than your own
So the only people who could see your comments are "younger" than you, and you can't see their replies.
You might want to keep thinking about that.
I'm your counterexample.
Congrats on getting "Bitched at a new Slashdot feature".
I've got about 2^6 of those myself.
I recently read about bottled water containers also not being refillable.
Nope.
That's up there with Parental Attention Deficit Disorder, as in "punish the little monsters and they'll stop being terrors in school."
Its a shame the editors ran it into the ground and stomped on the corpse... if they had not, I'd still be a subscriber.
There are good alternatives, such as 16 pages of weekly ad-sparse science coverage.
Who runs OO on Windows?
Every single person in my company. Most of our people are doing the actual work that earns us money rather than reading or writing word processor documents and spreadsheets. For us, the choice was between OO.o or nothing at all. There are still a few legacy installations of Office for people who actually need a few obscure features, but all employees have OpenOffice.
Star Division (good band name, eh?)
No joy.
In "The Singularity Is Near", Ray Kurzweil explores some of the implications of artificial oxygen carrying fluid. Assume that it actually works as advertised:
...and on and on, in much more detail (and far more convincingly) than I can muster. Basically, such a thing could utterly revolutionize our idea of what is required to keep a human brain alive, that being the ultimate goal of our project.
True dat.
I've played with a few IM apps on my iPod Touch, but the common arrangement seems to be that you register with a service that stores all your login data and handles the connections for you. I'm not terribly thrilled with that arrangement. Has anyone found an IM that they're particularly comfortable with?
Yes!!! We should not blindly accept gravity as a fact.
Gravity is a fact. The point in question is exactly how it works. Same with evolution: it is a fact, even if there are (extremely) minor quibbles with the precise mechanisms.
Yes, Jayson.
To clarify, because people seem to have misunderstood what I was saying, I found that quote to be absolutely horrifying. I'd prefer that people not make fun of my religious beliefs, but I'd never illegalize it. My point was that people get behind such horrific laws, not realizing that they also apply to other groups they likely disagree with.
Bzzzzt. Pick some other idiot celebrity. One who isn't a Scientologist.
That's the whole point. If that resolution had teeth, there would be penalties for making fun of his pseudoreligion and the other groups I mentioned.
Quoth the resolution:
In related news, Tom Cruise and the Topeka School Board hosted a Sharia-themed gala.