yes and again in 100 years nobody will give a shit about you me or anybody else for that matter
Not necessarily: if you did stuff remarkable enough, you'll be remembered by some people (be it your offsprings or others). It should be an incentive to live better lives than being driven only by greed like most people are.
There already exist one foolproof way to increase life expectancy: have children later in life. If everybody does it (that is, those who didn't die of disease or drove recklessly while drunk), then after a few generations you indeed increase life expectancy as you weed out the genetic factors involved in those diseases or behaviors. But obviously everybody is screaming "I don't want my descendants to live longer thanks to me, _I_ want to live longer". Selfish bastards the whole lot of them, otherwise having children after 40 would be mandatory
Everyone needs to get off their asses and enable https.
The https-everywhere plugin is great, but as a small website writer, am I supposed to $hell for a certificate or am I supposed to explain to my readers that, yes, the self-signed certificate is not a sign of viral attack onto their browser from my parts. Good luck with that.
Interesting. The only ones who have voted against were some UK representatives. Nobody from another country voted against it. Incredible. As much as it pains me to say this as a frenchman, those brits have balls.
I'll just add one last thing, I'm not averse to upgrading sound quality as I just got an interesting device, the Asus uBoom, to get rid of the wifi-induced noise of the embedded sound card on my old laptop. Easy to move along with the laptop (within my home!) as it's only one piece (and 2 cables) and contains the USB sound card. Not a revolution though.
I mean, let's give it some perspective here. If there was a cleaning product called Nigger-n-Span I get the feeling there would be protests. We cannot have a truly colorblind society where everybody is equal if one group is defended more than another group.
I haven't for the last 24 years, actively or passively. I'd rather listen to music.
Now, we don't even care that there's the nastiest autotune on vocals
Which is why I prefer atrocious death-metal 'singers' to autotuned pop crap any day.
My point in all of this is that, music should not be the bastard child of urbanization, used only to block out the sounds of the world around you
Which takes me kind of off-topic about fake motor sounds being added to recent models of electric cars. We had a chance of getting the cities a little more quiet, but now, we'd rather pile on the crap. Why not make electric cars stink of petrol fumes while we are at it ?!?
most have never heard music on anything better than crappy cheap earbuds or, at best, a poorly configured home theater system
I could certainly afford a much better sound system than what I use, but I can't because:
1 - in a car or public transportation it's not worth it with the amount of noise going on. Better isolation of earbuds and active noise cancellation make a difference though.
2 - I live in an appartment so I cannot push the volume up. And at low volume there's not much difference.
3 - how often do you actively listen to music? Me, almost never, I usually put it on while doing something. So I'm not concentrating on the fine details of the highs or whatever
In other words, you are right but that's not how it works.
I've recently been asked if it was possible to do data acquisition using a sound card. My guess was that the noise would be trouble, as you state, but still I'd like to know more about the potential problems, like timing delays, max sampling freq, jittering, what API to use on Linux (with the mess of Alsa vs PulseAudio etc I wouldn't even know where to start), if it's possible to get more than 2 channels simultaneously (I need at least 3), using external trigger, external reference clock, etc... Maybe that's a potential ask slashdot.
These are the responses I look forward to reading in the 'Ask Slashdot' threads. Not the banal accusations of 'OP just wants/. to do my job for me'. This is thoughtful, informative and should provide some sort of direction for getting to a reasonable starting point.
Thank you.
Yeah, I always like the 'ask slashdot' because even very stupid questions (and this one isn't, or superficially) get insightful answers, often off the beaten tracks.
OK, someone needs to ask this, because that's exactly the kind of netbook/tablet I've been waiting for for years, except for the fact that it runs Windows. Usually Dell products handle Linux pretty well (on my Latitude E6410 I only had to fiddle the microphone). So how well does Linux run on that thing ? In particular Ubuntu Netbook edition (or whatever it's called now)...
I'm dead serious about that. If it will run something I can install KDE onto, I'm sold.
As much as I like (and use daily) KDE, I don't see how that would work. When in tablet mode you want 'single-click' actions and plenty of specific gestures (double-finger, flick...) that are not present in KDE. And I don't see how they could be built-in easily. I used a netbook/tablet for a while with Ubuntu netbook edition (or whatever it's called now) and the simplified Gnome interface was better for that purpose. Still there were many defects or missing features that made it far from a convenient Android use. Still, I agree with you, I would want it too. If it worked.
He also was insane and committed massive fraud. I'd stick with Einstein before pushing nutters like Tesla.
I'm surprised you are the only one who've pushed the great Albert so far. During his great year, when he was only 25, he published 3 papers which changed how the world sees space, time, and matter. Each one of them should have earned him a Nobel: the photoelectric effect (launched quantum mechanics), Brownian motion (relaunched thermodynamics) and the special theory of relativity. Guess which one did.
My 8 year old daughter's idol is Buzz Aldran. I totally respect the guy too. Aside from obviously being the second guy on the moon - he was (I think) #1 in his class at MIT after doing his thesis on Orbital Docking manuvers - before any such thing was actually done.
here's a nice plagiarism tip: use a source that's in another language than the one you're submitting in, then just translate. it's a method many many many songwriters, book authors, reporters, national heros etc have used with great success. the less has been translated to any given language the easier it is.
Yup, and the most well-known french 'rocker' who became famous cloning all the rock songs of the 50s is now the leading campaigner of DMCA-like campaigns in France against copyright infringement. Dishonesty doesn't kill and it pays very well indeed.
I second the namecheap recommendation as a lowly user. I've had to deal with registrations from other registrars, and each time my main thought was: "I wish this had been done on namecheap, it would have been easier".
Two six-digit accounts talking about the good ol' days of Slashdot. Precious!
I started reading slashdot within months of its going online, but I registered only about 5 years later because I didn't think I'd have anything to contribute back then. At the time I came to read the articles, not the comments. So it's entirely possible to talk about the 'good old days' of/. with a high ID.
Slashdot Mirror
Ahhh, the man who introduced me to the full-body condom, which I still use to this day.
You mean... your personality ?
"I want to die at 101, shot by a jealous husband..."
yes and again in 100 years nobody will give a shit about you me or anybody else for that matter
Not necessarily: if you did stuff remarkable enough, you'll be remembered by some people (be it your offsprings or others). It should be an incentive to live better lives than being driven only by greed like most people are.
There already exist one foolproof way to increase life expectancy: have children later in life. If everybody does it (that is, those who didn't die of disease or drove recklessly while drunk), then after a few generations you indeed increase life expectancy as you weed out the genetic factors involved in those diseases or behaviors. But obviously everybody is screaming "I don't want my descendants to live longer thanks to me, _I_ want to live longer". Selfish bastards the whole lot of them, otherwise having children after 40 would be mandatory
Everyone needs to get off their asses and enable https.
The https-everywhere plugin is great, but as a small website writer, am I supposed to $hell for a certificate or am I supposed to explain to my readers that, yes, the self-signed certificate is not a sign of viral attack onto their browser from my parts. Good luck with that.
I wonder if those nuke warheads even work.
Better wish that they don't...
Interesting. The only ones who have voted against were some UK representatives. Nobody from another country voted against it. Incredible. As much as it pains me to say this as a frenchman, those brits have balls.
I'll just add one last thing, I'm not averse to upgrading sound quality as I just got an interesting device, the Asus uBoom, to get rid of the wifi-induced noise of the embedded sound card on my old laptop. Easy to move along with the laptop (within my home!) as it's only one piece (and 2 cables) and contains the USB sound card. Not a revolution though.
I mean, let's give it some perspective here. If there was a cleaning product called Nigger-n-Span I get the feeling there would be protests. We cannot have a truly colorblind society where everybody is equal if one group is defended more than another group.
There you go
And how often do you actively watch TV?
I haven't for the last 24 years, actively or passively. I'd rather listen to music.
Now, we don't even care that there's the nastiest autotune on vocals
Which is why I prefer atrocious death-metal 'singers' to autotuned pop crap any day.
My point in all of this is that, music should not be the bastard child of urbanization, used only to block out the sounds of the world around you
Which takes me kind of off-topic about fake motor sounds being added to recent models of electric cars. We had a chance of getting the cities a little more quiet, but now, we'd rather pile on the crap. Why not make electric cars stink of petrol fumes while we are at it ?!?
most have never heard music on anything better than crappy cheap earbuds or, at best, a poorly configured home theater system
I could certainly afford a much better sound system than what I use, but I can't because:
1 - in a car or public transportation it's not worth it with the amount of noise going on. Better isolation of earbuds and active noise cancellation make a difference though.
2 - I live in an appartment so I cannot push the volume up. And at low volume there's not much difference.
3 - how often do you actively listen to music? Me, almost never, I usually put it on while doing something. So I'm not concentrating on the fine details of the highs or whatever
In other words, you are right but that's not how it works.
I've recently been asked if it was possible to do data acquisition using a sound card. My guess was that the noise would be trouble, as you state, but still I'd like to know more about the potential problems, like timing delays, max sampling freq, jittering, what API to use on Linux (with the mess of Alsa vs PulseAudio etc I wouldn't even know where to start), if it's possible to get more than 2 channels simultaneously (I need at least 3), using external trigger, external reference clock, etc... Maybe that's a potential ask slashdot.
I'll add one: Don't support IEEE (that is, don't be a member, and boycott their conferences). IEEE supports software patents.
Or better yet, be a member and apply pressure from within to change their stance away from software patents.
These are the responses I look forward to reading in the 'Ask Slashdot' threads. Not the banal accusations of 'OP just wants /. to do my job for me'. This is thoughtful, informative and should provide some sort of direction for getting to a reasonable starting point.
Thank you.
Yeah, I always like the 'ask slashdot' because even very stupid questions (and this one isn't, or superficially) get insightful answers, often off the beaten tracks.
OK, someone needs to ask this, because that's exactly the kind of netbook/tablet I've been waiting for for years, except for the fact that it runs Windows. Usually Dell products handle Linux pretty well (on my Latitude E6410 I only had to fiddle the microphone). So how well does Linux run on that thing ? In particular Ubuntu Netbook edition (or whatever it's called now)...
I'm dead serious about that. If it will run something I can install KDE onto, I'm sold.
As much as I like (and use daily) KDE, I don't see how that would work. When in tablet mode you want 'single-click' actions and plenty of specific gestures (double-finger, flick...) that are not present in KDE. And I don't see how they could be built-in easily. I used a netbook/tablet for a while with Ubuntu netbook edition (or whatever it's called now) and the simplified Gnome interface was better for that purpose. Still there were many defects or missing features that made it far from a convenient Android use. Still, I agree with you, I would want it too. If it worked.
He also was insane and committed massive fraud. I'd stick with Einstein before pushing nutters like Tesla.
I'm surprised you are the only one who've pushed the great Albert so far. During his great year, when he was only 25, he published 3 papers which changed how the world sees space, time, and matter. Each one of them should have earned him a Nobel: the photoelectric effect (launched quantum mechanics), Brownian motion (relaunched thermodynamics) and the special theory of relativity. Guess which one did.
Christa McAuliffe
Meh... School teacher only put there for PR reasons.
My 8 year old daughter's idol is Buzz Aldran. I totally respect the guy too. Aside from obviously being the second guy on the moon - he was (I think) #1 in his class at MIT after doing his thesis on Orbital Docking manuvers - before any such thing was actually done.
And he punches idiots in the face at 80 !!!
The mother of all long takes. Will leave you squirming in your seat.
I used OpenMosix at about 2002~2003, it was buggy but a nice idea. But the project has now been abandoned for a few years.
Except he can't release evidence because that would get the non-authors in trouble.
Which would be great...
here's a nice plagiarism tip: use a source that's in another language than the one you're submitting in, then just translate. it's a method many many many songwriters, book authors, reporters, national heros etc have used with great success. the less has been translated to any given language the easier it is.
Yup, and the most well-known french 'rocker' who became famous cloning all the rock songs of the 50s is now the leading campaigner of DMCA-like campaigns in France against copyright infringement. Dishonesty doesn't kill and it pays very well indeed.
So let's ask him to publish extracts of 'his' multiple theses...
I second the namecheap recommendation as a lowly user. I've had to deal with registrations from other registrars, and each time my main thought was: "I wish this had been done on namecheap, it would have been easier".
Two six-digit accounts talking about the good ol' days of Slashdot. Precious!
I started reading slashdot within months of its going online, but I registered only about 5 years later because I didn't think I'd have anything to contribute back then. At the time I came to read the articles, not the comments. So it's entirely possible to talk about the 'good old days' of /. with a high ID.