I slept through most of every lecture in college. I'd listen until I got the gist of the day's topic, and then sleep on my desk – in the front row. The hub-bub after class would wake me, and I'd ask someone what the homework was. Then I'd go home and do it.
The professors didn't seem to mind, since I was usually at or near the top of every test. In fact, at the end of second freshman semester, a Professor offered me a job as a lab assistant! Great experience (despite my being a notorious sleeper in his class, sometimes dropping the book off onto the floor).
The in-class sleeping continued into graduate school, where again I'd nod off after a bit in almost every lecture, but then set the curve when it came test-time. Am I some kind of miracle? No––I studied outside of class, and did more than the assigned homework problems, when necessary. Or ask for help when needed––no professor but one ever got pissed when I came to office hours.
This was in the physical sciences and engineering. YMMV.
FTA: "Rogers said allowing the statute to expire on Dec. 31, unless Congress votes to reauthorize it, would degrade U.S. intelligence agencies' ability to provide "timely warning and insight" on a variety of criminal and national security threats."
But Mike, the statute FAILED to provide any "timely warning and insight". It did not help.
They do. I believe that they run at 0.7 atmospheres. It makes people sleepy and docile.
Even if it did (and I don't believe it does), that's not the point behind depressurizing the cabin.
Of course it's not. It's to minimize metal fatigue in the aluminum tube that encapsulates everyone.
The somnolescence is simply a convenient side-effect of this materials-engineering based decision. They don't go lower than a set value because otherwise some people would start to get altitude sickness from the sudden change in pressure after take-off.
Ever fly into Denver, CO? Unless you do it regularly, you'll feel fatigued for a day or so after arrival.
FTA: See the problem? If people begin noticing that there’s no competition, that Americans are paying too much for too little, and that the entire country is suffering as a result, that’s a big problem for Big Cable.
Really? People haven't noticed? BS.
Everybody knows.
Everybody already knows that territories have been divided up to avoid competition. Duh.
Anecdote: As president of my HOA (almost 100 units), I pushed through an opportunity we had to get every unit pre-wired with fiber from Verizon FiOS. That meant that every unit had on-order access to telephone, cable (TWC), and fiber (Verizon/Frontier). I turned my complex into a location that had actual competition between internet providers. The result has been lower prices for everyone.
And, politics being what they are, and me having spent my political capital on creating an even playing-field, I was not re-elected to the Board. Such is the nature of politics: If you do good, you will lose your elected office. I think it's a law of nature.
Why do I put my whole carry-on baggage including a laptop through x-ray anyway?
So that the occasional, random x-ray can partially absorb, kicking up a electron to a higher energy level, especially one in the field of a memory-related FET in your laptop, resulting in a latch-up in your sleeping laptop, and totally screwing-up your business presentation that you were planning to give upon arrival.
Rare, but possible, especially at the CMOS nodes we're at these days. X-rays are just mostly harmless to electronic devices. The newer your tech, the more susceptible.
Caveat: Of course, a stray cosmic ray during flight might yield the same result, while your computer sits at your feet during the flight.
One mini-display port in the laptop? Really? This thing ought to be able to drive two external monitors right out of the box (as most good laptops do), yet it only has one port for display?
Simplicity my ass.
I'm not a fan of the Surface myself, but you're wrong: you can hook up multiple monitors to the Surface, even with one Mini Display Port. You need to look up "Display Port chaining" before you continue spreading incorrect information.
I said one display port, not that the Surface couldn't support two monitors (like most any other good machine these days). If you want more, you have to buy a splitter or chain. In any case a dongle that costs extra and increases travel weight.
P.S. I'm waiting for someone to make a kit that includes two or three USB C cables (USB C on both ends) plus a bunch of adapters: USB C to USB A, USB C to Mini USB, USB C to Micro USB, USB C to USB B, USB C to Ethernet jack, etc. Plus a USB to serial and USB to parallel and USB to IDE and SATA. It would be one kit that would let you connect almost anything to your laptop.
This will come. All but the USB C to parallel. USB is serial, so a $200-300 converter box is required for that. Nature of the beast.
The problem with USB-C is that there are multiple power levels and some of the cheap cables don't correctly identify their maximum current, so end up catching fire when plugged into something that can provide the higher power levels. Unfortunately, these are typically sold on sites alongside the ones that will work fine.
Don't buy cheap no-name cables.
Similarly, don't buy a $3 USB car-charger converter to plug into your $800 smartphone! The manufacturers have "authorized" cables and converters for this very reason: They don't want you to accidentally fry your expensive toy with a cheap adapter.
Not ready for Type-C? sounds Microsoft familiar. NIH syndrome.
Is NIH == Not In-house?
If so, I agree vigorously. They've pushed PC makers to do the same, just to make Apple computers "too different" from PCs forever. As for MS doing it themselves: w/software standards and languages, it's always been the same – Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. You'd expect their venture into hardware to be no different.
Aside from Thunderbolt (which is pointless with USB 3.1).
Yep. They're roughly the same speed.
They even make external GPU enclosures that allow you to run an actual desktop GPU on a laptop if you'd like, and it works pretty well.
Whoa! So can one of these let my Mac run cutting-edge titles on my MacBook Pro with all the video goodies turned on? (I dual-boot to Win 8.1 using a Boot Camp partition on mine.) GC support the only thing my MacBook Pro is missing as far as top-end gaming capability.
FTA: the Surface Laptop features only one USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-A port, one headphone jack, one Mini DisplayPort connector, and the Surface Connect port. Simplicity.
No. Not simplicity. Complicated dongle-ville.
Most every user will have to buy a USB port, at the least. And MS is offering a big dongle for $200 that has all of the ports that the laptop should have.
One mini-display port in the laptop? Really? This thing ought to be able to drive two external monitors right out of the box (as most good laptops do), yet it only has one port for display?
The linked article mostly describes the plot-line of the last episode of Silicon Valley, complete with spoilers coming at you without warning. Poor journalistic form.
NOTE: I've never heard of this website/web-zine before. I've already forgotten their name, actually (but I hit Ctrl-K to blacklist them, so don't need to remember).
Why did this "never heard of before" outlet have an article on the front-page of/.? Much less a bad article about nothing but spoiling your fun if you haven't seen the latest Silicon Valley episode?
More candidates are happy to do video interviews in lieu of traveling to meet hiring managers in person.
Really?
Hiring someone with advanced training is a $300k to $1M decision (BS to PhD). What company would rely on a video-recorded interview to vet candidates on such a major decision?
Hiring is a major decision in other ways, too. Fit with local and company culture, and myriad other qualities that you can't suss-out without a day or two face-to-face.
Cloudflare lawyer Doug Kramer told Propublica that the company turned over the names of complainants because it is "base constitutional law that people can face their accusers."
We have reached out to Cloudflare for comment and will update this post when we have one.
A comment from their lawyer counts as a response to an inquiry to Cloudflare. I don't mean to be picking nits, but please be clear, and don't contradict yourself from sentence to the next.
Maybe not hard, but expensive. And I'm not personally real thrilled with more garbage being put up there for something completely unnecessary. I look forward when one fails causing two of them hit and creating a cascade effect blocking us from launching anything at all for several decades while we wait for it to all fall out of orbit.
Don't worry. Anything that gets bumped or fails at an orbit of 1200 km will fall back to Earth in short order. There is significant drag in LEO.
You are thinking about space junk at GEO or a LaGrange point. Those places are very far away, and far less populated due to the exponentially increased cost of getting something there. 30x high doesn't mean 30x more expensive for a launch-to-orbit. It's far higher because you have to bring all of your fuel with you. There's a standard equation, but I forget the name for it right now...
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I slept through most of every lecture in college. I'd listen until I got the gist of the day's topic, and then sleep on my desk – in the front row. The hub-bub after class would wake me, and I'd ask someone what the homework was. Then I'd go home and do it.
The professors didn't seem to mind, since I was usually at or near the top of every test. In fact, at the end of second freshman semester, a Professor offered me a job as a lab assistant! Great experience (despite my being a notorious sleeper in his class, sometimes dropping the book off onto the floor).
The in-class sleeping continued into graduate school, where again I'd nod off after a bit in almost every lecture, but then set the curve when it came test-time. Am I some kind of miracle? No––I studied outside of class, and did more than the assigned homework problems, when necessary. Or ask for help when needed––no professor but one ever got pissed when I came to office hours.
This was in the physical sciences and engineering. YMMV.
FTA: "Rogers said allowing the statute to expire on Dec. 31, unless Congress votes to reauthorize it, would degrade U.S. intelligence agencies' ability to provide "timely warning and insight" on a variety of criminal and national security threats."
But Mike, the statute FAILED to provide any "timely warning and insight". It did not help.
I use Yahoo! or AltaVista to search for websites on GeoCities or AOL.
My life is complete. I am free.
No one in the thread has said this:
Although I know that Google is not a monopoly, I am not interested in wasting my breath defining terms for you.
Just click this link.
Anyone can be framed. Anyone. Regardless of your search history, thoughts, curiosity, or innocence.
Anyone.
They do. I believe that they run at 0.7 atmospheres. It makes people sleepy and docile.
Even if it did (and I don't believe it does), that's not the point behind depressurizing the cabin.
Of course it's not. It's to minimize metal fatigue in the aluminum tube that encapsulates everyone.
The somnolescence is simply a convenient side-effect of this materials-engineering based decision. They don't go lower than a set value because otherwise some people would start to get altitude sickness from the sudden change in pressure after take-off.
Ever fly into Denver, CO? Unless you do it regularly, you'll feel fatigued for a day or so after arrival.
BAM! You nailed it.
That is the (unsaid) crux of the article.
You win one internet!
Actually the summary was so incomprehensible that I was successfully fooled into reading the article. Well played, OP!
Truly! The article sucked. Every third paragraph was incomprehensible.
"Please feel free to post your thoughts on this Slashdot article in the Comments Section..."
Correction: Oligopolies.
Monopolies are illegal under US law. Oligopolies are not.
FTA: See the problem? If people begin noticing that there’s no competition, that Americans are paying too much for too little, and that the entire country is suffering as a result, that’s a big problem for Big Cable.
Really? People haven't noticed? BS.
Everybody knows.
Everybody already knows that territories have been divided up to avoid competition. Duh.
Anecdote: As president of my HOA (almost 100 units), I pushed through an opportunity we had to get every unit pre-wired with fiber from Verizon FiOS. That meant that every unit had on-order access to telephone, cable (TWC), and fiber (Verizon/Frontier). I turned my complex into a location that had actual competition between internet providers. The result has been lower prices for everyone.
And, politics being what they are, and me having spent my political capital on creating an even playing-field, I was not re-elected to the Board. Such is the nature of politics: If you do good, you will lose your elected office. I think it's a law of nature.
Again: Everybody knows.
Why do I put my whole carry-on baggage including a laptop through x-ray anyway?
So that the occasional, random x-ray can partially absorb, kicking up a electron to a higher energy level, especially one in the field of a memory-related FET in your laptop, resulting in a latch-up in your sleeping laptop, and totally screwing-up your business presentation that you were planning to give upon arrival.
Rare, but possible, especially at the CMOS nodes we're at these days. X-rays are just mostly harmless to electronic devices. The newer your tech, the more susceptible.
Caveat: Of course, a stray cosmic ray during flight might yield the same result, while your computer sits at your feet during the flight.
Intravenous sedatives would work just fine...
Too risky... and... ouch!
Just gas them once they're seated. Or save even more money by simply depressurizing the aircraft while at altitude.
They do. I believe that they run at 0.7 atmospheres. It makes people sleepy and docile.
It would be nice if that worked. There's someone at Google who has been testing a load of cables. There isn't a correlation between price and quality.
Don't compare by price. Compare by manufacturer (brand on the label).
One mini-display port in the laptop? Really? This thing ought to be able to drive two external monitors right out of the box (as most good laptops do), yet it only has one port for display?
Simplicity my ass.
I'm not a fan of the Surface myself, but you're wrong: you can hook up multiple monitors to the Surface, even with one Mini Display Port. You need to look up "Display Port chaining" before you continue spreading incorrect information.
I said one display port, not that the Surface couldn't support two monitors (like most any other good machine these days). If you want more, you have to buy a splitter or chain. In any case a dongle that costs extra and increases travel weight.
P.S. I'm waiting for someone to make a kit that includes two or three USB C cables (USB C on both ends) plus a bunch of adapters: USB C to USB A, USB C to Mini USB, USB C to Micro USB, USB C to USB B, USB C to Ethernet jack, etc. Plus a USB to serial and USB to parallel and USB to IDE and SATA. It would be one kit that would let you connect almost anything to your laptop.
This will come. All but the USB C to parallel. USB is serial, so a $200-300 converter box is required for that. Nature of the beast.
The problem with USB-C is that there are multiple power levels and some of the cheap cables don't correctly identify their maximum current, so end up catching fire when plugged into something that can provide the higher power levels. Unfortunately, these are typically sold on sites alongside the ones that will work fine.
Don't buy cheap no-name cables.
Similarly, don't buy a $3 USB car-charger converter to plug into your $800 smartphone! The manufacturers have "authorized" cables and converters for this very reason: They don't want you to accidentally fry your expensive toy with a cheap adapter.
At least Microsoft isn't braindead and is keeping the traditional headphone jack. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
The latest Macs have a traditional headphone jack.
Not ready for Type-C? sounds Microsoft familiar. NIH syndrome.
Is NIH == Not In-house?
If so, I agree vigorously. They've pushed PC makers to do the same, just to make Apple computers "too different" from PCs forever. As for MS doing it themselves: w/software standards and languages, it's always been the same – Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. You'd expect their venture into hardware to be no different.
Aside from Thunderbolt (which is pointless with USB 3.1).
Yep. They're roughly the same speed.
They even make external GPU enclosures that allow you to run an actual desktop GPU on a laptop if you'd like, and it works pretty well.
Whoa! So can one of these let my Mac run cutting-edge titles on my MacBook Pro with all the video goodies turned on? (I dual-boot to Win 8.1 using a Boot Camp partition on mine.) GC support the only thing my MacBook Pro is missing as far as top-end gaming capability.
FTA: the Surface Laptop features only one USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-A port, one headphone jack, one Mini DisplayPort connector, and the Surface Connect port. Simplicity.
No. Not simplicity. Complicated dongle-ville.
Most every user will have to buy a USB port, at the least. And MS is offering a big dongle for $200 that has all of the ports that the laptop should have.
One mini-display port in the laptop? Really? This thing ought to be able to drive two external monitors right out of the box (as most good laptops do), yet it only has one port for display?
Simplicity my ass.
The linked article mostly describes the plot-line of the last episode of Silicon Valley, complete with spoilers coming at you without warning. Poor journalistic form.
NOTE: I've never heard of this website/web-zine before. I've already forgotten their name, actually (but I hit Ctrl-K to blacklist them, so don't need to remember).
Why did this "never heard of before" outlet have an article on the front-page of /.? Much less a bad article about nothing but spoiling your fun if you haven't seen the latest Silicon Valley episode?
... I hate that I do not receive them on my computer. ... Texts are just email only shitty.
Buy a Mac, and you'll get texts on both your computer and phone.
Kids prefer texts partially because they believe they are not logged. They are. They are legal documents, just like emails.
And never respond to an out-of-hours text from the boss – unless it comes with some overtime pay.
FTS:
More candidates are happy to do video interviews in lieu of traveling to meet hiring managers in person.
Really?
Hiring someone with advanced training is a $300k to $1M decision (BS to PhD). What company would rely on a video-recorded interview to vet candidates on such a major decision?
Hiring is a major decision in other ways, too. Fit with local and company culture, and myriad other qualities that you can't suss-out without a day or two face-to-face.
Which is it, Pro Publica?
FTA:
Cloudflare lawyer Doug Kramer told Propublica that the company turned over the names of complainants because it is "base constitutional law that people can face their accusers."
We have reached out to Cloudflare for comment and will update this post when we have one.
A comment from their lawyer counts as a response to an inquiry to Cloudflare. I don't mean to be picking nits, but please be clear, and don't contradict yourself from sentence to the next.
Maybe not hard, but expensive. And I'm not personally real thrilled with more garbage being put up there for something completely unnecessary. I look forward when one fails causing two of them hit and creating a cascade effect blocking us from launching anything at all for several decades while we wait for it to all fall out of orbit.
Don't worry. Anything that gets bumped or fails at an orbit of 1200 km will fall back to Earth in short order. There is significant drag in LEO.
You are thinking about space junk at GEO or a LaGrange point. Those places are very far away, and far less populated due to the exponentially increased cost of getting something there. 30x high doesn't mean 30x more expensive for a launch-to-orbit. It's far higher because you have to bring all of your fuel with you. There's a standard equation, but I forget the name for it right now...