The moderation system is fine, it's the metamoderation system that's completely broken in recent years. I just cannot understand what is needed to do a metamod anymore, so I've just stopped doing it. If the metamod was working fine, there wouldn't be much of the moderation abuse that you mention.
Time is involved, but not as you describe. I have always about 40~50 tabs open in 2 windows, and keep opening/closing new ones. memory grows constantly and after a few hours FF takes the whole 8Gb ! At this point the browser crawls to a halt (about 4s to acknowledge a click, several seconds gaps in flash videos every few seconds, etc)... This has been going on for the last 2 month on Linux and affects my 3 Linux machines.
Yep, locked phones, multi-year contracts with punitive termination fees, incompatible networks, rampant collusion in pricing and services. Real vicious competition there.
I don't know in the US, but here in France they also have a very well shared list of 'bad customers'. Say you refuse to pay a 4000$ bill because you forgot to turn off data roaming when you were on vacation in some other country. Then no other carrier will sell you another contract. How do you spell 'collusion' in french ?
Awesome idea. Now if I can just find a way to slip it into a soda can (work) or beer bottle (home).
I homebrew and I just made my second batch of chilly beer: I just put a small chilly in each bottle before starting the 2nd fermentation. Most people who've tried it love it, it's very good to drink as an appetizer, with olive and chips. Some people hate it tough. More for us ! I make it from a strong blond.
I've just grown by first crop of capsain-rich chillies, but I'm no specialist (I prefer them tasty, not life threatening). So if fat is so good at getting rid of the heat, why not take a mouthful of lard, or gargle with olive oil ?!?
Yeah, there are weird problems in recent FF. The problem I've had on 3 different Ubuntu computers is the last few months is that FF becomes unresponsive for about 3~4 seconds every 10~20s or so. Very annoying. Videos stop and then catch-up (the sound is okay). Clicking/scrolling anywhere is impossible during those 'hazing' phases.
The Romans had no sense of humor about sedition in the first place
You are right about that but they were also surprisingly tolerant of other religions. As soon as you accepted the equivalencies between gods such as "your Zeus is our Jupiter is their Taranis, etc", there were no problems, you were 'in'. Some think that this method precluded monotheist religions from being accepted by the romans, but that's not true they just said "well, then your god is like Jupiter and all the others are just some of his properties", and indeed many legionaries who had fought in the far east came back members of monotheistic religions such as mazdeism. No, it was only highly intolerant religions such as 'you know who' who refused to accept the others and preferred to be martyred in order to impress the populace to gain even more followers. There are accounts of christians begging to be thrown to the lions ! Yeah, I know [citation needed]. Look it up, it's not so hard.
We will eventually need to shift to a shorter work-week for the same relative pay or we'll need to find new areas for expansion in space.
I remember the science fiction stories of the golden age describing a society of upper-middle class equality, everyone working 4 hours a week and robots doing the rest... Well, here we are and robots indeed do the work, except that the owners of the robots rake in all the money, the few who can program them are the middle class, and the rest is jobless, only getting survival money in order to keep quiet. Or haven't you noticed ?
Further, that same body asserts (rightly or wrongly is anyone's guess) that the nature of the creator is not only unknown, but also unknowable. From the perspective of a scientist, this poses an intractable situation, because it would be something that no tool or process could validate as either true or fase, and thus of no profit or value to pursue. A total non-starter of an issue, and not worthy of serious discussion, since the discussion would serve no purpose.
Either the divine interacts with the physical universe or it doesn't. If it doesn't, then we can safely ignore it. If it does (miracles, etc), then there are entries that are testable (how many miracles, what kind, etc). While I agree that no matter how much a dog can concentrate, it'll never understand quantum mechanics (neither do I do that matter), the 'unknowable' part is so much bullshit, just a cop out on the part of the religions.
Maybe that's how the board makes its decisions, but the choice of CEO is certainly not how customers decide or not to buy products from said company, which is where the money comes from.
The perception is that the right CEO can increase profits by tens of millions of dollars a year.
Excuse me, but isn't it the engineers who actually produce something who give value to a company ? The CEO is like the color of the company logo: necessary, but completely accessory.
They should do it with emperor penguins (that my own pic), that's the only way they feed their chicks, so you'd gets loads of that stuff. And to add to the 'Eeeew factor', it's bright green !
But six of the top twenty-five software bestsellers at Amazon.com for the PC and the Mac are current versions of MS Office, retail boxed. That is an enormous vote of confidence in The Ribbon.
Right. And how much would that have been without the fucking ribbon ?!?
As an IT executive I refuse anything to do with 'ribbon' office nowadays, and that includes 'users'. Open/LibreOffice can do the same things a lot more simply and if you receive an unopenable docx, it's perfectly allright to tell the sender to grow up (in other words, to fuck off).
Swype is so much faster than handwriting... And after 20 years of using computers I can't even read my own handwriting anymore anyway, so how could a computer do it ?!? I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years some Swype successor gets faster than the keyboard...
This kind of thing is the direct proof that the way the stock exchange is built is deeply flawed. Why don't they try to build it on sounder bases than "the fastest takes all" ?!?
I'm more into embedded programming still using primitive C, so all that is a mouthfull, but thanks for the details. I have some colleagues who'll get a hardon with that stuff !
I did look at the link and it was to the source code and how to make the project. Now that I've read more, I still have difficulty wrapping my head around what is the point of running a webserver in javascript... I imagine it's not supposed to run in a client browser, otherwise it would be an open door to all kind of abuse.
Out of curiosity I looked at your link to Node. Then at the explanation about what the project is. It fits in half a line: "evented I/O for v8 javascript" and I have no idea what that means, even after 25 years of pro programming. Fairly typical of undocumented open-source projects, unfortunately.
Yes, I'm curious as to the use of this 'toy'. What can an amateur 'maker' do with a 1W laser ? Can you use it to cut paper / leather / plastic sheets / thin metals ? Can you use it to engrave stone ? Can you use it to sculpt object ? I guess you could build you own homemade Lidar with quite a bit of extra electronics and optics, but that'll keep you busy for a while.
Slightly different requirements here: I want A5 format, color e-ink, full CBR/CBZ support (which is the easiest thing in the world, but strangely few ebooks offer it), with SD cards, optional touch, no keyboard, no network, no music, no Windows/iOS shenanigans. For reading comic books. Now the first one will take my money, I've been waiting for a couple years.
Yes. And you call that readable ?!? Infix, postfix and prefix languages are all equivalent (well, for 2 arguments only in the case of infix). Some are easier on the brain, that is all.
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The moderation system is fine, it's the metamoderation system that's completely broken in recent years. I just cannot understand what is needed to do a metamod anymore, so I've just stopped doing it. If the metamod was working fine, there wouldn't be much of the moderation abuse that you mention.
Love or hate him, no-one can deny the guy achieved a hell of a lot in his life.
It's usual to say the above when some CEO or other dies, but that's hardly ever more true than in his case.
Time is involved, but not as you describe. I have always about 40~50 tabs open in 2 windows, and keep opening/closing new ones. memory grows constantly and after a few hours FF takes the whole 8Gb ! At this point the browser crawls to a halt (about 4s to acknowledge a click, several seconds gaps in flash videos every few seconds, etc)... This has been going on for the last 2 month on Linux and affects my 3 Linux machines.
Yep, locked phones, multi-year contracts with punitive termination fees, incompatible networks, rampant collusion in pricing and services. Real vicious competition there.
I don't know in the US, but here in France they also have a very well shared list of 'bad customers'. Say you refuse to pay a 4000$ bill because you forgot to turn off data roaming when you were on vacation in some other country. Then no other carrier will sell you another contract. How do you spell 'collusion' in french ?
Awesome idea. Now if I can just find a way to slip it into a soda can (work) or beer bottle (home).
I homebrew and I just made my second batch of chilly beer: I just put a small chilly in each bottle before starting the 2nd fermentation. Most people who've tried it love it, it's very good to drink as an appetizer, with olive and chips. Some people hate it tough. More for us ! I make it from a strong blond.
I've just grown by first crop of capsain-rich chillies, but I'm no specialist (I prefer them tasty, not life threatening). So if fat is so good at getting rid of the heat, why not take a mouthful of lard, or gargle with olive oil ?!?
Yeah, there are weird problems in recent FF. The problem I've had on 3 different Ubuntu computers is the last few months is that FF becomes unresponsive for about 3~4 seconds every 10~20s or so. Very annoying. Videos stop and then catch-up (the sound is okay). Clicking/scrolling anywhere is impossible during those 'hazing' phases.
The Romans had no sense of humor about sedition in the first place
You are right about that but they were also surprisingly tolerant of other religions. As soon as you accepted the equivalencies between gods such as "your Zeus is our Jupiter is their Taranis, etc", there were no problems, you were 'in'. Some think that this method precluded monotheist religions from being accepted by the romans, but that's not true they just said "well, then your god is like Jupiter and all the others are just some of his properties", and indeed many legionaries who had fought in the far east came back members of monotheistic religions such as mazdeism. No, it was only highly intolerant religions such as 'you know who' who refused to accept the others and preferred to be martyred in order to impress the populace to gain even more followers. There are accounts of christians begging to be thrown to the lions ! Yeah, I know [citation needed]. Look it up, it's not so hard.
We will eventually need to shift to a shorter work-week for the same relative pay or we'll need to find new areas for expansion in space.
I remember the science fiction stories of the golden age describing a society of upper-middle class equality, everyone working 4 hours a week and robots doing the rest... Well, here we are and robots indeed do the work, except that the owners of the robots rake in all the money, the few who can program them are the middle class, and the rest is jobless, only getting survival money in order to keep quiet. Or haven't you noticed ?
Further, that same body asserts (rightly or wrongly is anyone's guess) that the nature of the creator is not only unknown, but also unknowable. From the perspective of a scientist, this poses an intractable situation, because it would be something that no tool or process could validate as either true or fase, and thus of no profit or value to pursue. A total non-starter of an issue, and not worthy of serious discussion, since the discussion would serve no purpose.
Either the divine interacts with the physical universe or it doesn't. If it doesn't, then we can safely ignore it. If it does (miracles, etc), then there are entries that are testable (how many miracles, what kind, etc). While I agree that no matter how much a dog can concentrate, it'll never understand quantum mechanics (neither do I do that matter), the 'unknowable' part is so much bullshit, just a cop out on the part of the religions.
Maybe that's how the board makes its decisions, but the choice of CEO is certainly not how customers decide or not to buy products from said company, which is where the money comes from.
The perception is that the right CEO can increase profits by tens of millions of dollars a year.
Excuse me, but isn't it the engineers who actually produce something who give value to a company ? The CEO is like the color of the company logo: necessary, but completely accessory.
They should do it with emperor penguins (that my own pic), that's the only way they feed their chicks, so you'd gets loads of that stuff. And to add to the 'Eeeew factor', it's bright green !
But six of the top twenty-five software bestsellers at Amazon.com for the PC and the Mac are current versions of MS Office, retail boxed.
That is an enormous vote of confidence in The Ribbon.
Right. And how much would that have been without the fucking ribbon ?!?
As an IT executive I refuse anything to do with 'ribbon' office nowadays, and that includes 'users'. Open/LibreOffice can do the same things a lot more simply and if you receive an unopenable docx, it's perfectly allright to tell the sender to grow up (in other words, to fuck off).
And what of hybrid concepts like Swype?
Swype is so much faster than handwriting... And after 20 years of using computers I can't even read my own handwriting anymore anyway, so how could a computer do it ?!? I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years some Swype successor gets faster than the keyboard...
This kind of thing is the direct proof that the way the stock exchange is built is deeply flawed. Why don't they try to build it on sounder bases than "the fastest takes all" ?!?
You mean, is it going to be a rectangle like Apple's ? What a shame.
I'm more into embedded programming still using primitive C, so all that is a mouthfull, but thanks for the details. I have some colleagues who'll get a hardon with that stuff !
I did look at the link and it was to the source code and how to make the project. Now that I've read more, I still have difficulty wrapping my head around what is the point of running a webserver in javascript... I imagine it's not supposed to run in a client browser, otherwise it would be an open door to all kind of abuse.
Out of curiosity I looked at your link to Node. Then at the explanation about what the project is. It fits in half a line: "evented I/O for v8 javascript" and I have no idea what that means, even after 25 years of pro programming. Fairly typical of undocumented open-source projects, unfortunately.
Yes, I'm curious as to the use of this 'toy'. What can an amateur 'maker' do with a 1W laser ? Can you use it to cut paper / leather / plastic sheets / thin metals ? Can you use it to engrave stone ? Can you use it to sculpt object ? I guess you could build you own homemade Lidar with quite a bit of extra electronics and optics, but that'll keep you busy for a while.
I've got a better suggestion. Why not just make it 11.7" x 8.5" and then it could display both A4 *and* letter pages.
You mean 21x29.7cm... C:-P
Slightly different requirements here: I want A5 format, color e-ink, full CBR/CBZ support (which is the easiest thing in the world, but strangely few ebooks offer it), with SD cards, optional touch, no keyboard, no network, no music, no Windows/iOS shenanigans. For reading comic books. Now the first one will take my money, I've been waiting for a couple years.
Yes. And you call that readable ?!? Infix, postfix and prefix languages are all equivalent (well, for 2 arguments only in the case of infix). Some are easier on the brain, that is all.