1. Somewhere in corporate America, a worker has Windows installed on their work machine. Windows wasn't their idea, they were just issued it. Everybody in the department has the same computer. It's fine, whatever.
2. The worker runs into some problem on the Windows machine.
3. They notify their assigned IT representative about it.
4. Their IT representative gives them a solution that only works on Linux, because all the IT guys use Linux.
5. That solution doesn't work on Windows.
6. IT representative shrugs.
So at the very least, maybe the advent of Powershell on Linux will give these people something to countertroll with.
Won't this still require fiber optic connections between equipment?
Sure it will. So even if this thing was twice as amazing as the hype wants it to be, we'd still be at the mercy of the telecommunications companies to actually incorporate it into their networks, which they have zero incentive to do, which means that we probably won't see this thing in the wild for decades.
On the other hand, I suppose there's no reason they couldn't put this thing in some sort of freespace optical system. But all that would accomplish is to put us all at the mercy of Big Mountaintop instead of Big Fiber.
Lake Hillier is red; now all we need to do is find some way to transport weird microbes from Australia to Brazil:
"Your grant request is denied. In fact, we established this fund specifically to find ways to prevent the transport of weird microbes from country to country. We've reported this exchange to Interpol."
Your Political Facebook Posts Aren't Changing How Your Friends Think
This study is just a rip-off of earlier research into human psychology--specifically, of all previous research into human psychology--which has proven pretty conclusively that nothing anyone says has ever changed anyone's mind about anything ever.
Seen from a historical perspective, video chat is frankly miraculous, and it's amazing that it works at all. But sure, okay. I can be jaded and take things for granted with the best of them.
The biggest issue is fragmentation... Facetime... third-party options... Skype.
Okay, so your thesis is that there are too many competing, non-standardized solutions. Cool, I'll buy that. How can we solve this dilemma? With some sort of open, universal standard that can be agreed upon, however grudgingly, by the major players?
Google is aiming to solve this dilemma with its 'Duo' video chat app.
Uh. Won't that just mean more fragmentation? And therefore, by your own logic, doesn't that just make the problem worse?
Twitter provides a block feature, a mute feature, the ability to report harassment, and various features to control how public your tweets are. If someone is harassing you, why don't you block them?
Because they don't really want you to stop being mean, they want you to want to stop being mean. I find it's easiest to imagine Twitter trolls as ten million redneck/frat dudes being loudly racist and throwing beer bottles on the sidewalk, while the would-be censors are their ten million girlfriends who think that Chad has great potential, and they can fix him.
Speaking as someone who performs even the most simple everyday tasks by way of giant machines that invariably incorporate a bowling ball, a funnel, a teakettle, a feather duster, my uncle sleeping in an armchair, and a live hen, this attack vector seems very relevant and concerning to me.
Too many people lie and claim they see meteors when they really don't. They're delusional.
Totally, dude. I thought I saw a Perseid one time. I got really excited and told all my friends about it. It turns out it was just a crummy Leonid. What a rip-off.
Why comment on this? Who gives a shit? It is a single line of an article summary, which is just a quote of TFA itself. Why draw more attention to what is little more than just an opinion on "a really great computer"? I really don't understand why some slashdotters take time out of their day to complain about this. I mean, if something that could be called "advertising" offends you, why not just ignore it? Why let it bother you so much?
Because they feel that if they let it pass without comment, then it will move the bar of what's acceptable, which will cause more of that sort of thing in the future. It's the "first they came for the Communists, and I said nothing because I wasn't a Communist" argument.
Whether that attitude is justified, or whether complaining about it will actually have any effect, are separate questions.
"It doesn't matter how badly you want something, if nature/physics says no, then all you can do is stamp your foot and execute some generals."
...or become a Space Nutter and cry about the Species and This Rock and how important it is to colonize Mars...
Lies and slander! Nothing is beyond our Dear Leader! He will crush the necks of these vile imperialist oppressors, so-called "Nature" and "Physics", by launching the nuclear missiles that he has personally and lovingly assembled out of the People's natural and inviolable plutonium reserves.
On the other hand, the brave intelligent correct man who points out how foolish it is to wish for the People to escape Earth and colonize Mars is brave and intelligent and correct. Why would anyone want to leave Earth? If the People leave Earth, how will they bask in the glorious light of our Dear Leader's Thousand-Year Summer, after he righteously annihilates the Western pigs?
After spending $379 billion dollars, delivering a handful of jets seven years late does not count as an "achievement". If someone gave my stupidest cousin $379 billion dollars and 15 years, there's at least a fair chance that he might cure cancer or something by accident.
Self-driving cars, for example, must have infinitesimally precise location data to avoid accidents.
Somehow I suspect it's a matter of centimeters rather than nanometers. Need less hyperbole and more accuracy!
Good collar, Pedant Police, but move over now. I'm with the Pedant FBI. I'm taking charge of this investigation.
Nanometers may be small, but they're not infinitely small, which is what infinitesimal means. They're barely even any closer to infinitely small than centimeters. Also, we wanted to be more precise here, not less, so what you'd really want in this situation is infinite precision, not infinitesimal precision.
A model rocket is an unhealthfully skinny rocket paid to display the latest paint jobs at "launchpad" shows. Sometimes they fall over during the shows.
Yes, in model rocketry there's a lot of pressure to lower your mass fraction, which leads to unhealthy behaviors like covert propellant dumping, but only a few of the models are actually clinically hypergolic.
Prostate jokes are not funny. Now get offa my lawn!
Yeah, that really pissed me off, too. Granted, at my age, getting pissed off takes a full minute just to get started. But I make up for it in frequency.
I don't know from unobtainium, but doesn't it bother anyone else that the Hyperloop is not really a loop?
A loop is more like a circle than a line, and if you take it in one direction you'll eventually arrive back at your starting point. Everything I've ever heard about the hyperloop just has it running directly from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
I mean, I guess you could ride it from Los Angeles to San Francisco and then back, but there's a bunch of roads that do the same thing, and we don't call them loops. They're just, I don't know, duplexed. Like regular roads are.
I think that the term "Model Rocket" is the problem. What is it a model of?
In fact the Saturn V at nearly 3000 tons is the largest model rocket. It is a 1:1 scale model of itself.
I agree. If something accelerates itself by spraying some sort of propellant out its backside without sucking it in from the outside first, it's an actual rocket, no matter how small it may be. A model rocket, by contrast, might be whittled out of wood, or molded out of plasticine.
Of course, an actual rocket might also happen to be a model of something, mostly likely another rocket. In that case, it'd be a rocket model and a model rocket.
Advocates of e-cigarettes say emissions are much lower than from conventional cigarettes, so you're better off using e-cigarettes. I would say, that may be true for certain users -- for example, long-time smokers that cannot quit -- but the problem is, it doesn't mean that they're healthier. Regular cigarettes are super unhealthy. E-cigarettes are just unhealthy.
Dude, if they're less unhealthy, that means that they're healthier. You just contradicted yourself.
Well, I guess he's from Berkeley, so they wouldn't have released it if it didn't involve at least some doublethink.
I too think e-cigarettes are an annoying and asinine way for people to keep doing something they know they shouldn't. And who knows what further problems we may eventually figure out they may cause. But that doesn't mean we get to lie about them. It makes it really hard to get behind a movement when its participants are spewing propaganda along with their actual science.
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Here's a phenomenon I've never fully understood:
1. Somewhere in corporate America, a worker has Windows installed on their work machine. Windows wasn't their idea, they were just issued it. Everybody in the department has the same computer. It's fine, whatever.
2. The worker runs into some problem on the Windows machine.
3. They notify their assigned IT representative about it.
4. Their IT representative gives them a solution that only works on Linux, because all the IT guys use Linux.
5. That solution doesn't work on Windows.
6. IT representative shrugs.
So at the very least, maybe the advent of Powershell on Linux will give these people something to countertroll with.
Won't this still require fiber optic connections between equipment?
Sure it will. So even if this thing was twice as amazing as the hype wants it to be, we'd still be at the mercy of the telecommunications companies to actually incorporate it into their networks, which they have zero incentive to do, which means that we probably won't see this thing in the wild for decades.
On the other hand, I suppose there's no reason they couldn't put this thing in some sort of freespace optical system. But all that would accomplish is to put us all at the mercy of Big Mountaintop instead of Big Fiber.
Lake Hillier is red; now all we need to do is find some way to transport weird microbes from Australia to Brazil:
"Your grant request is denied. In fact, we established this fund specifically to find ways to prevent the transport of weird microbes from country to country. We've reported this exchange to Interpol."
Your Political Facebook Posts Aren't Changing How Your Friends Think
This study is just a rip-off of earlier research into human psychology--specifically, of all previous research into human psychology--which has proven pretty conclusively that nothing anyone says has ever changed anyone's mind about anything ever.
Video chat should be simple, but it is not.
Seen from a historical perspective, video chat is frankly miraculous, and it's amazing that it works at all. But sure, okay. I can be jaded and take things for granted with the best of them.
The biggest issue is fragmentation... Facetime... third-party options... Skype.
Okay, so your thesis is that there are too many competing, non-standardized solutions. Cool, I'll buy that. How can we solve this dilemma? With some sort of open, universal standard that can be agreed upon, however grudgingly, by the major players?
Google is aiming to solve this dilemma with its 'Duo' video chat app.
Uh. Won't that just mean more fragmentation? And therefore, by your own logic, doesn't that just make the problem worse?
Twitter provides a block feature, a mute feature, the ability to report harassment, and various features to control how public your tweets are. If someone is harassing you, why don't you block them?
Because they don't really want you to stop being mean, they want you to want to stop being mean. I find it's easiest to imagine Twitter trolls as ten million redneck/frat dudes being loudly racist and throwing beer bottles on the sidewalk, while the would-be censors are their ten million girlfriends who think that Chad has great potential, and they can fix him.
Speaking as someone who performs even the most simple everyday tasks by way of giant machines that invariably incorporate a bowling ball, a funnel, a teakettle, a feather duster, my uncle sleeping in an armchair, and a live hen, this attack vector seems very relevant and concerning to me.
When Skynet finally comes on line, this ad-blocking-blocking-blocking-blocking code will form the basis of its immune system.
Too many people lie and claim they see meteors when they really don't. They're delusional.
Totally, dude. I thought I saw a Perseid one time. I got really excited and told all my friends about it. It turns out it was just a crummy Leonid. What a rip-off.
Yvoregr, rtnyvgr, sengreavgr!
"Imagine they tried to do it automatically. How do you program that AI? "
And if they were able to develop such an AI, it would be the greatest investigative weapon against terrorists the world has ever seen.
And, shortly thereafter, the greatest weapon for terrorists the world has ever seen.
Why is VLC so hideously bloated, slow, sluggish, compared to premium offerings like MPlayerX or MPV?
Seconded. Corollary: Why would anyone need VLC, or indeed any other program, when they have vi?
So why not simply use the default hotkeys CTRL-right arrow ALT-right arrow SHIFT-right arrow which do jumps of different lengths in the video?
Because pressing two keys takes just a bit more effort than pressing one. And because I'm just that lazy.
Why comment on this? Who gives a shit? It is a single line of an article summary, which is just a quote of TFA itself. Why draw more attention to what is little more than just an opinion on "a really great computer"? I really don't understand why some slashdotters take time out of their day to complain about this. I mean, if something that could be called "advertising" offends you, why not just ignore it? Why let it bother you so much?
Because they feel that if they let it pass without comment, then it will move the bar of what's acceptable, which will cause more of that sort of thing in the future. It's the "first they came for the Communists, and I said nothing because I wasn't a Communist" argument.
Whether that attitude is justified, or whether complaining about it will actually have any effect, are separate questions.
While many Linux users dislike Microsoft...
"Don't mention the war!"
...some of them undoubtedly envy Windows hardware.
"I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it all right."
"It doesn't matter how badly you want something, if nature/physics says no, then all you can do is stamp your foot and execute some generals."
Lies and slander! Nothing is beyond our Dear Leader! He will crush the necks of these vile imperialist oppressors, so-called "Nature" and "Physics", by launching the nuclear missiles that he has personally and lovingly assembled out of the People's natural and inviolable plutonium reserves.
On the other hand, the brave intelligent correct man who points out how foolish it is to wish for the People to escape Earth and colonize Mars is brave and intelligent and correct. Why would anyone want to leave Earth? If the People leave Earth, how will they bask in the glorious light of our Dear Leader's Thousand-Year Summer, after he righteously annihilates the Western pigs?
another achievement for the $379 billion program
After spending $379 billion dollars, delivering a handful of jets seven years late does not count as an "achievement". If someone gave my stupidest cousin $379 billion dollars and 15 years, there's at least a fair chance that he might cure cancer or something by accident.
Come to think about it, I first heard about planking videos as a fad in Australia. I wonder if they might get us started with Plancking videos next.
If there is any such trend, it will likely be too small to measure.
Now I can get back to the normal update cycle without worrying about getting Windows 10 accidentally on my part.
"Would you like to upgrade to Windows 11 Alpha Preview?"
Somehow I suspect it's a matter of centimeters rather than nanometers. Need less hyperbole and more accuracy!
Good collar, Pedant Police, but move over now. I'm with the Pedant FBI. I'm taking charge of this investigation.
Nanometers may be small, but they're not infinitely small, which is what infinitesimal means. They're barely even any closer to infinitely small than centimeters. Also, we wanted to be more precise here, not less, so what you'd really want in this situation is infinite precision, not infinitesimal precision.
Let's keep it pedantic out there, citizens.
A model rocket is an unhealthfully skinny rocket paid to display the latest paint jobs at "launchpad" shows. Sometimes they fall over during the shows.
Yes, in model rocketry there's a lot of pressure to lower your mass fraction, which leads to unhealthy behaviors like covert propellant dumping, but only a few of the models are actually clinically hypergolic.
Prostate jokes are not funny. Now get offa my lawn!
Yeah, that really pissed me off, too. Granted, at my age, getting pissed off takes a full minute just to get started. But I make up for it in frequency.
I don't know from unobtainium, but doesn't it bother anyone else that the Hyperloop is not really a loop?
A loop is more like a circle than a line, and if you take it in one direction you'll eventually arrive back at your starting point. Everything I've ever heard about the hyperloop just has it running directly from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
I mean, I guess you could ride it from Los Angeles to San Francisco and then back, but there's a bunch of roads that do the same thing, and we don't call them loops. They're just, I don't know, duplexed. Like regular roads are.
I think that the term "Model Rocket" is the problem. What is it a model of?
In fact the Saturn V at nearly 3000 tons is the largest model rocket. It is a 1:1 scale model of itself.
I agree. If something accelerates itself by spraying some sort of propellant out its backside without sucking it in from the outside first, it's an actual rocket, no matter how small it may be. A model rocket, by contrast, might be whittled out of wood, or molded out of plasticine.
Of course, an actual rocket might also happen to be a model of something, mostly likely another rocket. In that case, it'd be a rocket model and a model rocket.
Advocates of e-cigarettes say emissions are much lower than from conventional cigarettes, so you're better off using e-cigarettes. I would say, that may be true for certain users -- for example, long-time smokers that cannot quit -- but the problem is, it doesn't mean that they're healthier. Regular cigarettes are super unhealthy. E-cigarettes are just unhealthy.
Dude, if they're less unhealthy, that means that they're healthier. You just contradicted yourself.
Well, I guess he's from Berkeley, so they wouldn't have released it if it didn't involve at least some doublethink.
I too think e-cigarettes are an annoying and asinine way for people to keep doing something they know they shouldn't. And who knows what further problems we may eventually figure out they may cause. But that doesn't mean we get to lie about them. It makes it really hard to get behind a movement when its participants are spewing propaganda along with their actual science.