Cinematically gorgeous of course. But did it have to be so fucking depressing though? I mean really did one of the first open source movies have to be about killing your pet dragon because you didn't recognise it?
I have some optical media that's from ~2001. Most of it's just fine, even after a tortured life. I trust high quality optical media more than anything else.
Multiple copies on multiple media that is easy to transfer, and transfer them often. Nothing else will work for a human lifetime. For my family photos it's hard drives (multiple) and every couple of years I make a fresh copy or two (and don't throw away the old ones). I even keep copies off site. CDs and music, I couldn't care less about. I came to the conclusion a long time ago that to me none of it matters, but if it did I'd do the same thing. The thing that makes optical copies so insidious is that if you gather a large enough collection together it becomes very difficult to transfer them. You end up shuffling disks for months. No thanks. Only some of my oldest copies are on optical media.
I'd rather use the open source product every time but I have to admit Atlassian has some nice feature rich developer and development management tools.
JIRA's just so so and Confluence just plain sucks due to horrible Rich Text editing that destroys formatting and awful proprietary markup. (I have to use it every day. It's usable for quick notes. Anything bigger or with pics goes into a Word doc). However some of the JIRA plugins and especially their FIsheye product is awesome for code analysis and comparison (provided you have sensible management)
Gaming is my escape. I don't want harsh realities, real names, and idiotic DRM ruining my suspension of disbelief. If you create a system that brings me back to reality to resolve issues and work around bugs, I'm going to find other ways to spend my leisure time. I already have a Facebook account and rarely use it because I have better things to do.
Considering it's HR would you actually want them working on the real problems? Given the ineptitude that permeates most HR departments, I'm thankful that they're not actually in charge of anything mission critical.
Hiring the people that do the actual work isn't mission critical? Try getting your job done with the wrong people.
20 light years is millimeters of astrophysical distance.
It amazes me we have been observing space so long and yet we only now have detected this planet.
It just goes to show how incredibly likely it is to find planets like Earth everywhere in the galaxy.
According to google...
20 light years = 1.89210568 × 10^20 millimeters 1 Astronomical Unit = 1.49598 × 10^14 millimeters Earth's diameter (12,756km) is 1.2756 * 10^10 millimeters
There are 10 order of magnitude between the size of our planet (and this one is smaller) and the distance away it is. Needle in a haystack would be a terrible analogy. More like trying to locate a single grain of sand on all the beaches of planet earth.
Put another way, if you consider this a millimeter distance in astronomical terms you're looking for something a tenth of a picometer in size or in other words much smaller than an atom and within a couple of orders of magnitude of the size of an atomic nucleus.
Thank goodness for graviational effects, doppler shift and our ability to measure brightness to such an incredible accuracy. I'd say we're doing remarkably well.
I don't think that word means what you think it means. Gosling's "Relationship" with the Oracle is not that of a once loving relationship where one of them has gotten fat. It's more of the Oracle is the guy who stole his wife from him with big bags of money. They are lucky Gosling had such kind words. There Relationship calls for the spitting blood vulgarity kind of honesty.
Yeah but if Gosling wants to have a relationship with another employer he should behave better. Perhaps a better analogy would be that of a publicly denounced wife beater looking for a new girlfriend.
False dichotomy. You're telling people they should be spineless insubordinates in preference to being rude and direct.
No, I'm telling people they should be much more tactful than to go around abusing a former employer publicly. Doing that doesn't prove you've got a spine - it proves you're a moron and have no social skills.
If there is a clear example of abuse of slashdot moderation it is the above post being modded troll. There is no way in hell an honest person can mistake it for trolling. None. Zero. Zip.
I'm more amused at how people react with horror at someone actually being open and honest.
There's honesty and there's honesty. For example if your spouse puts on weight and asks you if she has you might be able to honestly answer "Yeah you've turned into a real pig honey. Lay off the chocolate and get off your arse" or "Yes, you've put on a little weight, but it's nothing you can't fix, and I still adore you". Which one do you think is better for your relationship?
I'd like to think there are employers who are more concerned with "What can he do for us?"
I'd like to think that when I get home there will be a pony and a billion dollars waiting for me. Unfortunately that doesn't match reality either. It is very important what a person with Gosling's credentials can say about a company. In the right circumstances it could literally make or break a company.
I have plenty of respect for the guy's technical prowess. He was definitely also in the right place at the right time but also undoubtedly technically brilliant. And yet he runs his career like a schoolboy. You just don't go around openly rubbishing former employers like that as it makes prospective employers wary. After all you'll probably rubbish them when you're done too. I wonder how many opportunities he's missed acting that way.
+1 troll there. I've been done for speeding a minor amount over the limit a couple of times. There's usually leeway in the form of not fining someone until they are a certain amount over the speed limit. It's adequate motivation to make me check my speed whenever I pass fixed speed cameras or see brand new cars suspiciously parked in unusual places.
They've actually removed that leeway, in both VIC and most recently in NSW. The speedometers are allowed to be up to 10% out. (Fortunately car companies take the opportunity to make them read 10% higher not lower). But now the leeway allowed is much less than that - 1-2km. I don't even know if that's within the tolerance of the equipment.
It most certainly is not a troll that forcing someone to regulate their speed so vigorously makes people concentrate on their speedo when they should be assessing the road. I have no doubt at all more lives are being lost than saved, all so that revenue can be raised.
The agency didn't secure the pages, so the government kicked up a stink about being "hacked".
Quote from your linked article: 'Campbell said he had been advised by the IT contractor building the website, Bang The Table, that "there were two days of IT attacks on the website firewall security that began on Thursday 18 February at 8.44 p.m. and continued until around midday on Friday 19 February".'
Sounds like a Cover Your Ass on behalf of the contractor and a politician. Nothing new there.
There are also circumstances where obeying a speed limit can be fatal due to the behaviour of others. I once was run off the road by a pair of semi-trailers who weren't obeying a 40 zone for roadwork. Had there been less gutter to pull into my wife and I would have been killed. Patchy enforcement to raise revenue will always be dangerous.
That is like saying that you don't understand how people can refuse to have sex with an AIDS infected whore. The internet is a very dangerous place without a lot of protection. A little inconvenience is a good trade off. I don't understand you can be on a place like Slashdot and not see this.
No, it's not a humorous article, given that it's exactly how mainstream science reporting looks like.
What do you expect? They publish horoscopes, celebrity gossip and sports results in mainstream media. How do you expect to take the science seriously when it's presented along superstition and mindless drivel. If you want to keep up with science buy a science mag - New Scientist, Scientific American, even National Geographic would serve better. If you REALLY want to know the science get your hands on the original papers and take a look at references. (Of course few people are dedicated enough to go learn the jargon and math of the field)
I'm confused - would this be the 'substandard junk' hardware that a reasonable proportion of the/. audience feels is worth buying specifically to run Linux on? Or the 'kiddie interface' OS that another reasonable proportion of the/. audience wishes would run on commodity PC hardware, and sometimes hacks to do so?
It'd be both. There's better and cheaper hardware for running Linux. Everyone knows the origins of Apple's OS is BSD.
Obvious troll is obvious. No mods for you!
There's no troll here - just a strong opinion on Apple's product. Slashdot moderration is bogus and is regularly hijacked by fanbois. I've had plenty of posts yo-yo and then get defeated because the fanbois are more persistent.
So now you're claiming Apple invented the webcast too and that anyone else who was putting up digital media is irrelevant? They may have created the term but podcasts were never exclusively Apple nor exclusive to iPods otherwise they wouldn't have ever taken off. And you've got the balls to call me a troll? Have fun. Bye.
I'll give them Mac, but what does that mean for Shakespeare's Macbeth? Or MacLisp? Or Emacs?
I wouldn't give them Mac, and I don't think the Scottish people would like to either. MacDonalds might have something to say about it, too. I won't give them Pod - or even Podcast. The whole company can go to hell. They sell themselves as some sort of supplier for the stylish literati, and the evolved artist. They just sell substandard junk with a kiddie interface to brainwashable marketting prone snobs.
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Cinematically gorgeous of course. But did it have to be so fucking depressing though? I mean really did one of the first open source movies have to be about killing your pet dragon because you didn't recognise it?
I have some optical media that's from ~2001. Most of it's just fine, even after a tortured life. I trust high quality optical media more than anything else.
Multiple copies on multiple media that is easy to transfer, and transfer them often. Nothing else will work for a human lifetime. For my family photos it's hard drives (multiple) and every couple of years I make a fresh copy or two (and don't throw away the old ones). I even keep copies off site. CDs and music, I couldn't care less about. I came to the conclusion a long time ago that to me none of it matters, but if it did I'd do the same thing. The thing that makes optical copies so insidious is that if you gather a large enough collection together it becomes very difficult to transfer them. You end up shuffling disks for months. No thanks. Only some of my oldest copies are on optical media.
How old are you? 3?
I'd rather use the open source product every time but I have to admit Atlassian has some nice feature rich developer and development management tools.
JIRA's just so so and Confluence just plain sucks due to horrible Rich Text editing that destroys formatting and awful proprietary markup. (I have to use it every day. It's usable for quick notes. Anything bigger or with pics goes into a Word doc). However some of the JIRA plugins and especially their FIsheye product is awesome for code analysis and comparison (provided you have sensible management)
Dear Blizzard,
Gaming is my escape. I don't want harsh realities, real names, and idiotic DRM ruining my suspension of disbelief. If you create a system that brings me back to reality to resolve issues and work around bugs, I'm going to find other ways to spend my leisure time. I already have a Facebook account and rarely use it because I have better things to do.
Sincerely,
A. Gamer
for nerds dammit. NERDS. Respect our authoritah.
A true nerd would know it's AUTHORITIE as in neck tie. What is this authoritah you speak of? Hand in your geek card immediately!
I am pretty sure I can find a single grain of sand on any beach.
Just like I can find a single sarcastic smartalec on any Internet forum? You knew exactly what I meant.
Considering it's HR would you actually want them working on the real problems? Given the ineptitude that permeates most HR departments, I'm thankful that they're not actually in charge of anything mission critical.
Hiring the people that do the actual work isn't mission critical? Try getting your job done with the wrong people.
The summary is incorrect. The exoplanet has "a mass three times larger than Earth's", not 20% to 50%
Disappointing. Kinda reminds you of going on a blind date...
20 light years is millimeters of astrophysical distance.
It amazes me we have been observing space so long and yet we only now have detected this planet.
It just goes to show how incredibly likely it is to find planets like Earth everywhere in the galaxy.
According to google...
20 light years = 1.89210568 × 10^20 millimeters
1 Astronomical Unit = 1.49598 × 10^14 millimeters
Earth's diameter (12,756km) is 1.2756 * 10^10 millimeters
There are 10 order of magnitude between the size of our planet (and this one is smaller) and the distance away it is. Needle in a haystack would be a terrible analogy. More like trying to locate a single grain of sand on all the beaches of planet earth.
Put another way, if you consider this a millimeter distance in astronomical terms you're looking for something a tenth of a picometer in size or in other words much smaller than an atom and within a couple of orders of magnitude of the size of an atomic nucleus.
Thank goodness for graviational effects, doppler shift and our ability to measure brightness to such an incredible accuracy. I'd say we're doing remarkably well.
I don't think that word means what you think it means. Gosling's "Relationship" with the Oracle is not that of a once loving relationship where one of them has gotten fat. It's more of the Oracle is the guy who stole his wife from him with big bags of money. They are lucky Gosling had such kind words. There Relationship calls for the spitting blood vulgarity kind of honesty.
Yeah but if Gosling wants to have a relationship with another employer he should behave better. Perhaps a better analogy would be that of a publicly denounced wife beater looking for a new girlfriend.
False dichotomy. You're telling people they should be spineless insubordinates in preference to being rude and direct.
No, I'm telling people they should be much more tactful than to go around abusing a former employer publicly. Doing that doesn't prove you've got a spine - it proves you're a moron and have no social skills.
If there is a clear example of abuse of slashdot moderation it is the above post being modded troll. There is no way in hell an honest person can mistake it for trolling. None. Zero. Zip.
I mean, yeah, what the fuck would James Gosling know, compared to you, eh?
That doesn't mean James Gosling is infallible. Anyone can be wrong. Certainly even greater minds than Gosling.
I hear nowadays you can google stuff on bing!
Yes but can you bing things on google? And is that called a badda-bing?
*sniff**2 I don't have children, you insensitive clod!
Well I do, and it means I have no spare time and am constantly sleep deprived you insensitive clod.
I'm more amused at how people react with horror at someone actually being open and honest.
There's honesty and there's honesty. For example if your spouse puts on weight and asks you if she has you might be able to honestly answer "Yeah you've turned into a real pig honey. Lay off the chocolate and get off your arse" or "Yes, you've put on a little weight, but it's nothing you can't fix, and I still adore you". Which one do you think is better for your relationship?
I'd like to think there are employers who are more concerned with "What can he do for us?"
I'd like to think that when I get home there will be a pony and a billion dollars waiting for me. Unfortunately that doesn't match reality either. It is very important what a person with Gosling's credentials can say about a company. In the right circumstances it could literally make or break a company.
I have plenty of respect for the guy's technical prowess. He was definitely also in the right place at the right time but also undoubtedly technically brilliant. And yet he runs his career like a schoolboy. You just don't go around openly rubbishing former employers like that as it makes prospective employers wary. After all you'll probably rubbish them when you're done too. I wonder how many opportunities he's missed acting that way.
+1 troll there. I've been done for speeding a minor amount over the limit a couple of times. There's usually leeway in the form of not fining someone until they are a certain amount over the speed limit. It's adequate motivation to make me check my speed whenever I pass fixed speed cameras or see brand new cars suspiciously parked in unusual places.
They've actually removed that leeway, in both VIC and most recently in NSW. The speedometers are allowed to be up to 10% out. (Fortunately car companies take the opportunity to make them read 10% higher not lower). But now the leeway allowed is much less than that - 1-2km. I don't even know if that's within the tolerance of the equipment.
It most certainly is not a troll that forcing someone to regulate their speed so vigorously makes people concentrate on their speedo when they should be assessing the road. I have no doubt at all more lives are being lost than saved, all so that revenue can be raised.
The agency didn't secure the pages, so the government kicked up a stink about being "hacked".
Quote from your linked article: 'Campbell said he had been advised by the IT contractor building the website, Bang The Table, that "there were two days of IT attacks on the website firewall security that began on Thursday 18 February at 8.44 p.m. and continued until around midday on Friday 19 February".'
Sounds like a Cover Your Ass on behalf of the contractor and a politician. Nothing new there.
There are also circumstances where obeying a speed limit can be fatal due to the behaviour of others. I once was run off the road by a pair of semi-trailers who weren't obeying a 40 zone for roadwork. Had there been less gutter to pull into my wife and I would have been killed. Patchy enforcement to raise revenue will always be dangerous.
That is like saying that you don't understand how people can refuse to have sex with an AIDS infected whore. The internet is a very dangerous place without a lot of protection. A little inconvenience is a good trade off. I don't understand you can be on a place like Slashdot and not see this.
Well at least it isn't a car analogy
Aussie govt won't lift a finger...You could've stopped right there. Well unless it's to fine the populace, cut services, or boost their own salaries.
No, it's not a humorous article, given that it's exactly how mainstream science reporting looks like.
What do you expect? They publish horoscopes, celebrity gossip and sports results in mainstream media. How do you expect to take the science seriously when it's presented along superstition and mindless drivel. If you want to keep up with science buy a science mag - New Scientist, Scientific American, even National Geographic would serve better. If you REALLY want to know the science get your hands on the original papers and take a look at references. (Of course few people are dedicated enough to go learn the jargon and math of the field)
I'm confused - would this be the 'substandard junk' hardware that a reasonable proportion of the /. audience feels is worth buying specifically to run Linux on? Or the 'kiddie interface' OS that another reasonable proportion of the /. audience wishes would run on commodity PC hardware, and sometimes hacks to do so?
It'd be both. There's better and cheaper hardware for running Linux. Everyone knows the origins of Apple's OS is BSD.
Obvious troll is obvious. No mods for you!
There's no troll here - just a strong opinion on Apple's product. Slashdot moderration is bogus and is regularly hijacked by fanbois. I've had plenty of posts yo-yo and then get defeated because the fanbois are more persistent.
FWIW, I wouldn't give them 'Pod' either - but I would give them 'Podcast'. Nobody cared about downloading 'digital media files (either audio or video) thahttp://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1799986&cid=33706608#t are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication' when they were called 'webcasts'.
So now you're claiming Apple invented the webcast too and that anyone else who was putting up digital media is irrelevant? They may have created the term but podcasts were never exclusively Apple nor exclusive to iPods otherwise they wouldn't have ever taken off. And you've got the balls to call me a troll? Have fun. Bye.
I'll give them Mac, but what does that mean for Shakespeare's Macbeth? Or MacLisp? Or Emacs?
I wouldn't give them Mac, and I don't think the Scottish people would like to either. MacDonalds might have something to say about it, too. I won't give them Pod - or even Podcast. The whole company can go to hell. They sell themselves as some sort of supplier for the stylish literati, and the evolved artist. They just sell substandard junk with a kiddie interface to brainwashable marketting prone snobs.