For about 30 minutes this morning they brought the beta Firehose thing live, and made it the default for all users.
The homepage was a stack of one-lined entries for each story, with no summaries. It looked like an RSS feed.
Truly terrible stuff. They changed it back fast, heh.
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Misuse of words it isn't. Saying rocks evolve is like saying technology evolves
That's specious. There's an obvious (and inappropriate) allusion to biological processes here. Rocks don't 'evolve' in any way, shape, or form, your weasel-words notwithstanding.
"Do you really CARE about the exact number of bytes on the drive?"
Yes, I do. In every other domain I can think of, when we say GB or TB we refer to the binary, not the decimal, equivalent (powers of 2). Disk manufacturers took it unilaterally upon themselves to pervert this for their own purposes, mostly to sell smaller drives as larger ones. It was all about money.
There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with expecting 2^40 bytes on your hard drive when it says 1TB on the box. That's the standard in use and it OUGHT to be common sense.
I have good news. I found someone who stole one of your games, and he has agreed to mail you back the bits you're missing. I just need a return address.
Light turns into heat when it hits and is absorbed by a surface.
"or have higher inductive losses"
Just inhibits the circuit and lowers the heating wattage, has absolutely no effect on efficiency.
"or use part of their power for a blower"
This is also turned into heat (eventually).
You see, I know the difference between theory and practice. There's absolutely NOTHING you can do with energy that won't eventually turn into heat, and electric heaters are always 100% efficient at what they do. Always.
Sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, sure as the earth still turns, another day brings this tired, useless question to the comment page once more.
"HOW IS THIS NEWS FOR NERDS??11~!?"
Shut your whiny fucking mouth.
Your implied aim, by hue and cry from your bitter and entitled complaining, is to turn this site into a monoculture of news that only YOU deem fit to be posted; for Slashdot's content to be wedged and crammed to fit the little box of YOUR mind's scope of idle fascinations.
IP and libel law are subjects that certain of us nerds find interesting. It's therefore news for us.
If, in the future, you feel a front-page story doesn't merit your personal seal of approval, walk on. One thing I guarantee no one on this site wants to read is your childish, gifthorse bitching.
I was at the TekSavvy Net Neutrality rally in Ottawa on May 27th. While it was a great rally, we found ourselves competing against a parliamentary sex scandal for press coverage. Sex sells. Arcane concepts like net traffic throttling don't, so much.
Let's look at reality. Customers of most ISPs in Canada are now traffic-shaped, with a few exceptions:
Videotron[Cable] (which substitutes shaping for a 50GB usage cap on a 50Mbps/1Mbps Docsis2.0 connection) Telus[DSL] A few ISPs such as Primus[DSL-wholesaler] and Colba[DSL-wholesaler] with their own equipment in Bell DSLAMS
There's a workaround to bypass Bell's throttling using MLPPP, only for subscribers to TekSavvy[DSL-wholesaler], but it requires some Linux-savvy or a modded router. To their credit, I believe Acanac[DSL-wholesaler] has set up an ssh tunnel for the same effect.
Otherwise, Bell[DSL] and Rogers[Cable] both shape encrypted traffic on their networks.
I see a lot of opposition for Net Neutrality regulations from people concerned about their impact on VOIP and such. Well, that's what exceptions in the law are for! Good on the NDP for finally stepping up to bat on this issue. That makes them the only party in parliament who can be bothered to take notice.
To anyone still opposed: Look at the massive, pervasive presence of the Internet in people's everyday lives, especially those under 30. It's about time we started treating it as an essential service. It's become one. Essential services (generally) have their quality regulated by government, and this bill is a step in the right direction.
Let's face facts. Canada is falling behind in the quality and penetration of broadband service. It's time to force the greedy telcos to invest in infrastructure instead of trying to save money by throttling their users and degrading the network for everyone!
Your body's doing a lot while sleeping. Your heart's beating, your core body temperature is maintained (this takes a reasonable amount of energy just by itself), systemic repair mechanisms are working, you're tossing and turning, etc.
NOBODY is suggesting you're gonna gain more than 1kg of mass from eating 1 kg of food. No one.
Usually the energy density of food is somewhat less than 100%, unless you're drinking olive oil. Calories are a measure of the amount of heat produced when the carbs, protein, and fat in your food are burnt under laboratory conditions. It's a measure of available energy. This energy can be stored as lipids in the body, and those lipids, or fat, have a mass. It's around 3600 calories per pound of body fat if I'm not mistaken. This correlates just fine with conservation of mass.
In the future, while you're checking up on principles of physics, check out the laws of thermodynamics too.
That's a fine opinion to share with the world from within the soapbox of your little comment, but not one fit to publish on the front page of this site. See the difference?
I don't have it and I've never known anyone who did, so here's what I know about mental illness: either it's poor psychological development, like a sociopath, or it's a chemical imbalance.
That's a false dichotomy.
People are born each and every day with brain disorders of a greater or lesser severity, from simple dyslexia to full-blown schizophrenia. Hell, some people are born without a brain at all, or with entire portions missing. All of those conditions are absolutely beyond the person's control.
So...you don't think there's any chance that a mental condition leading to suicidal tendencies could be genetic? None at all? It's either that they're pussies or they need more zoloft?
You can believe what you like; in the end, the truth cares little of men's agendas.
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For about 30 minutes this morning they brought the beta Firehose thing live, and made it the default for all users.
The homepage was a stack of one-lined entries for each story, with no summaries. It looked like an RSS feed.
Truly terrible stuff. They changed it back fast, heh.
That's specious. There's an obvious (and inappropriate) allusion to biological processes here. Rocks don't 'evolve' in any way, shape, or form, your weasel-words notwithstanding.
Who decided this site redesign was ready to go live? Because that person is fucking incompetent.
This new mainpage 'layout' is a fucking abortion.
It's also now the default for all new users, or anyone not logged in.
I guess every site has to die sometime, but I sure wasn't expecting suicide.
Slashdot's editors are merely experiencing gravitational time dilation due to their proximity to CmdrTaco's massive ego.
Time is passing more slowly in their reference frame, so it takes longer to approve the stories.
'in' takes the ablative, so let's go all the way and use the ablative plural, nucleis.
Yes, I do. In every other domain I can think of, when we say GB or TB we refer to the binary, not the decimal, equivalent (powers of 2). Disk manufacturers took it unilaterally upon themselves to pervert this for their own purposes, mostly to sell smaller drives as larger ones. It was all about money.
There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with expecting 2^40 bytes on your hard drive when it says 1TB on the box. That's the standard in use and it OUGHT to be common sense.
I have good news. I found someone who stole one of your games, and he has agreed to mail you back the bits you're missing. I just need a return address.
A heater sucks a net wattage off the line.
"And yet, they sometimes glow"
Light turns into heat when it hits and is absorbed by a surface.
"or have higher inductive losses"
Just inhibits the circuit and lowers the heating wattage, has absolutely no effect on efficiency.
"or use part of their power for a blower"
This is also turned into heat (eventually).
You see, I know the difference between theory and practice. There's absolutely NOTHING you can do with energy that won't eventually turn into heat, and electric heaters are always 100% efficient at what they do. Always.
Uh, all electric heaters are 100% efficient. Take thermodynamics sometime.
Yeah. Call them during the meeting to remind them.
I was gonna berate you for mixing up your Latin declensions, but I just realized that's Italian. It comes pre-fubared by about 2,000 years. :)
Sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, sure as the earth still turns, another day brings this tired, useless question to the comment page once more.
"HOW IS THIS NEWS FOR NERDS??11~!?"
Shut your whiny fucking mouth.
Your implied aim, by hue and cry from your bitter and entitled complaining, is to turn this site into a monoculture of news that only YOU deem fit to be posted; for Slashdot's content to be wedged and crammed to fit the little box of YOUR mind's scope of idle fascinations.
IP and libel law are subjects that certain of us nerds find interesting. It's therefore news for us.
If, in the future, you feel a front-page story doesn't merit your personal seal of approval, walk on. One thing I guarantee no one on this site wants to read is your childish, gifthorse bitching.
Or, to ignore the marketdrone cliche definition and take a step back into chemistry, Executable UML sounds like a solution of suck and fail.
Disclaimer: I'm a card-carrying NDP member.
Now on to things...
I was at the TekSavvy Net Neutrality rally in Ottawa on May 27th. While it was a great rally, we found ourselves competing against a parliamentary sex scandal for press coverage. Sex sells. Arcane concepts like net traffic throttling don't, so much.
Let's look at reality. Customers of most ISPs in Canada are now traffic-shaped, with a few exceptions:
Videotron[Cable] (which substitutes shaping for a 50GB usage cap on a 50Mbps/1Mbps Docsis2.0 connection)
Telus[DSL]
A few ISPs such as Primus[DSL-wholesaler] and Colba[DSL-wholesaler] with their own equipment in Bell DSLAMS
There's a workaround to bypass Bell's throttling using MLPPP, only for subscribers to TekSavvy[DSL-wholesaler], but it requires some Linux-savvy or a modded router. To their credit, I believe Acanac[DSL-wholesaler] has set up an ssh tunnel for the same effect.
Otherwise, Bell[DSL] and Rogers[Cable] both shape encrypted traffic on their networks.
I see a lot of opposition for Net Neutrality regulations from people concerned about their impact on VOIP and such. Well, that's what exceptions in the law are for! Good on the NDP for finally stepping up to bat on this issue. That makes them the only party in parliament who can be bothered to take notice.
To anyone still opposed: Look at the massive, pervasive presence of the Internet in people's everyday lives, especially those under 30. It's about time we started treating it as an essential service. It's become one. Essential services (generally) have their quality regulated by government, and this bill is a step in the right direction.
Let's face facts. Canada is falling behind in the quality and penetration of broadband service. It's time to force the greedy telcos to invest in infrastructure instead of trying to save money by throttling their users and degrading the network for everyone!
If you spend the entire day doing heavy physical activity, no it's not. But every bit helps.
You actually burn about 60 per hour.
Your body's doing a lot while sleeping. Your heart's beating, your core body temperature is maintained (this takes a reasonable amount of energy just by itself), systemic repair mechanisms are working, you're tossing and turning, etc.
Your post makes no sense.
NOBODY is suggesting you're gonna gain more than 1kg of mass from eating 1 kg of food. No one.
Usually the energy density of food is somewhat less than 100%, unless you're drinking olive oil. Calories are a measure of the amount of heat produced when the carbs, protein, and fat in your food are burnt under laboratory conditions. It's a measure of available energy. This energy can be stored as lipids in the body, and those lipids, or fat, have a mass. It's around 3600 calories per pound of body fat if I'm not mistaken. This correlates just fine with conservation of mass.
In the future, while you're checking up on principles of physics, check out the laws of thermodynamics too.
Be careful lest you walk before any catapults.
Why yes it has, you sound like a timid little shit. Your parents must be proud.
That's a fine opinion to share with the world from within the soapbox of your little comment, but not one fit to publish on the front page of this site. See the difference?
Except the National Post is a broadsheet, not a tabloid, even by that definition. Try again.
The National Post is one of the national dailies up here, it's not a bloody tabloid.
Your argument is retarded, sorry. There's lots of time in life to support "would-be-nice" causes. It's not the zero-sum game you make it out to be.
That's a false dichotomy.
People are born each and every day with brain disorders of a greater or lesser severity, from simple dyslexia to full-blown schizophrenia. Hell, some people are born without a brain at all, or with entire portions missing. All of those conditions are absolutely beyond the person's control.
So...you don't think there's any chance that a mental condition leading to suicidal tendencies could be genetic? None at all? It's either that they're pussies or they need more zoloft?
You can believe what you like; in the end, the truth cares little of men's agendas.