No, generally not. This is a semi-automated crowd sourced news aggregation site not a tech news magazine. Spend some time at firehose.pl to understand how it works and how stories get voted onto the front page, typically more verbatim* than not.
* if that made you cringe then comfort yourself in knowing that it was only a partially unique experience.
the/. editor is not doing his job, which makes the site a worse place to visit.
You must be new here.
I can expect, and even respect, a healthy amount of slack at a site where the users tend to take things way too seriously. But at some point the untended community garden turns into an abandoned lot, and it's feeling a lot more like that these days.
> or programming and testing happens quicker, so patches are > release quicker? I don't see how that's a bad thing.
More untested and buggy patches make it into the hands of thousands of innocent end users thus causing lack of faith and loss of reputation, leading to the widespread abandonment of the distribution as a suitable platform for running your business?
If FF did not sync, the OS might delay writes for hours, which means a computer crash leads to lost hours of browsing history for the user.
For kernels tweaked into "laptop mode" this may be different, but for stock modern Linux the maximum time delay for disk cache writes is 30+5=35 seconds, not hours.
blah blah blah ok, you want to invoke ad hominem then drop a non sequitur in the next sentence? In that case the full Baloney Kit is on the table: Adding -gate to some random fluff-up is a form of call to authority, and therefore as one of Sagan's classic fatal fallacies is to be avoided at costs.
It borrows from a real scandal (in this case no less than the subversion of democracy by its leader) to lend credibility to something modern which is (most commonly) entirely trivial in nature. The more trivial the more likely you are to see a -gate added to it. It's a sleazy rhetorical trick to make the "scandal" sound important (or to beg that it is a scandal at all), and should be treated as just that -- a sleazy rhetorical trick.
I do the same thing with the tape, as I've never actually bothered to open the thing up and add a resistor in series. The farthest I've got is to take out the LED and grind the plastic housing so that it is flatter and rougher, to make it a bit more diffuse.
> This makes me wonder why they didn't team up with a firm > that is known globally and can handle traffic
umm, outside the USA those companies are the equivalent and size of DigiKey. Not small outfits. I am pleasantly dumbfounded that they got slashdotted by this release.
the videos are excellent (and that's a big understatement), but if you are in a hurry just have a look at the section talking about contact angles in the film notes: http://web.mit.edu/hml/ncfmf/04STFM.pdf
> We know the person who obtained whatever genuine documents > are there is dishonest and has an agenda.*.. > *I know some people say the same thing about the institute itself.
"some people say"?? it's their entire reason for existence and they've never tried particularly hard to hide it!
some people also say the pope is catholic.. there is a time for choosing your words carefully, and there are other times to call a spade a spade.
after intel's backhand deals nearly put them under, they had no choice. they had to sell the fabs or go bankrupt. not much of a choice, and hardly something you can later say was a bad decision on their part. you think they wanted to sell off the family jewels?
Don't be ashamed to be Canadian, be furious that the current excuse for a government is sitting back while the local bully is freely wandering around destroying your town (and if they are in cahoots with said bully it's time to organize the neighbors to run them all out of town come next election).
> Android apps will not run on Linux because there is no Android > runtime environment for Linux.At some point I expect we'll see > an open source "Android player", but nobody has done it yet
seeing how simple it is to set up the Android qemu/kvm based SDK in a virtual machine on Linux, I don't know if that itch is really very scratchy.
> Command line Linux apps will run on Android, but you will > usually have to recompile them if nobody else has (you can > cheat though, and say, run Debian in a chroot)
please tell us more about this debian chroot solution.the idea intrigues me and I wish to subscribe to the newsletter.
Slashdot Mirror
Unless of course you're one of the 150 million people who live in Bangladesh.
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/maps/v.php?id=7513
Better stated, it's a rich person's problem to ignore.
modded to hell parent is +1 insightful.
> There are editors somewhere aren't there?
No, generally not. This is a semi-automated crowd sourced news aggregation site not a tech news magazine. Spend some time at firehose.pl to understand how it works and how stories get voted onto the front page, typically more verbatim* than not.
* if that made you cringe then comfort yourself in knowing that it was only a partially unique experience.
> Nope, it is densest at 4C.
that is only true for fresh water.
I can expect, and even respect, a healthy amount of slack at a site where the users tend to take things way too seriously. But at some point the untended community garden turns into an abandoned lot, and it's feeling a lot more like that these days.
the /. editor is not doing his job, which makes the site a worse place to visit.
> or programming and testing happens quicker, so patches are
> release quicker? I don't see how that's a bad thing.
More untested and buggy patches make it into the hands of thousands of innocent end users thus causing lack of faith and loss of reputation, leading to the widespread abandonment of the distribution as a suitable platform for running your business?
no, they're not trolls. but this story is.
> I'm sorry to say that
why?
For kernels tweaked into "laptop mode" this may be different, but for stock modern Linux the maximum time delay for disk cache writes is 30+5=35 seconds, not hours.
$ cat
$ cat
$ cat
It wasn't Stalin, it was (supposedly) Czar Nicholas and the Verebinsky bypass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_%E2%80%93_Saint_Petersburg_Railway#Myths
blah blah blah ok, you want to invoke ad hominem then drop a non sequitur in the next sentence? In that case the full Baloney Kit is on the table: Adding -gate to some random fluff-up is a form of call to authority, and therefore as one of Sagan's classic fatal fallacies is to be avoided at costs.
It borrows from a real scandal (in this case no less than the subversion of democracy by its leader) to lend credibility to something modern which is (most commonly) entirely trivial in nature. The more trivial the more likely you are to see a -gate added to it. It's a sleazy rhetorical trick to make the "scandal" sound important (or to beg that it is a scandal at all), and should be treated as just that -- a sleazy rhetorical trick.
> You will need an undergraduate degree before an MBA.
no, actually you don't, if you can prove enough experience. whch this guy can.
+1 to what he said.
actually, +20
I do the same thing with the tape, as I've never actually bothered to open the thing up and add a resistor in series. The farthest I've got is to take out the LED and grind the plastic housing so that it is flatter and rougher, to make it a bit more diffuse.
> This makes me wonder why they didn't team up with a firm
> that is known globally and can handle traffic
umm, outside the USA those companies are the equivalent and size of DigiKey. Not small outfits. I am pleasantly dumbfounded that they got slashdotted by this release.
hear, hear
ps- bazinga
I said it was a manifestation of it, not that the two were equivalent terms.
I highly recommend the MIT video series by Asher Shapiro on the subject:
http://web.mit.edu/hml/ncfmf.html
"Surface Tension in Fluid Mechanics"
the videos are excellent (and that's a big understatement), but if you are in a hurry just have a look at the section talking about contact angles in the film notes: http://web.mit.edu/hml/ncfmf/04STFM.pdf
capillary action is a manifestation of surface tension
> We know the person who obtained whatever genuine documents ..
> are there is dishonest and has an agenda.*
> *I know some people say the same thing about the institute itself.
"some people say"?? it's their entire reason for existence and they've never tried particularly hard to hide it!
some people also say the pope is catholic.. there is a time for
choosing your words carefully, and there are other times to call
a spade a spade.
after intel's backhand deals nearly put them under, they had no choice. they had to sell the fabs or go bankrupt. not much of a choice, and hardly something you can later say was a bad decision on their part. you think they wanted to sell off the family jewels?
Don't be ashamed to be Canadian, be furious that the current excuse for a government is sitting back while the local bully is freely wandering around destroying your town (and if they are in cahoots with said bully it's time to organize the neighbors to run them all out of town come next election).
> Android apps will not run on Linux because there is no Android
> runtime environment for Linux.At some point I expect we'll see
> an open source "Android player", but nobody has done it yet
seeing how simple it is to set up the Android qemu/kvm based SDK in a virtual machine on Linux, I don't know if that itch is really very scratchy.
> Command line Linux apps will run on Android, but you will
> usually have to recompile them if nobody else has (you can
> cheat though, and say, run Debian in a chroot)
please tell us more about this debian chroot solution.the idea intrigues me and I wish to subscribe to the newsletter.
> I believe that LibreOffice will never
ponder the chronistic implication of the word "never" for a moment, and which direction on the time-axis it applies to.
> make it in the corporate world for one single reason: It doesn't
> include a program that can use MAPI to connect to Exchange.
now for a moment, ponder the tense of the word "doesn't", and which direction on the time-axis it applies to.
the magic word you are missing is "yet". (where in the sentence you place it depends on your view of split infinitives)