Yes. Never order from RS. The other vendor has them in stock but RS has held my money since June 29 and wants to ship in October. I consider that "tentative" Fsck them.
After waiting for 11 weeks for my RaspberryPi to ship, then getting an email that they would need many more weeks to supply the orders, they announce a 2.0 revision? How about fulfilling your orders first? They announced to the world months ago that they are producing thousands of units per day and yet I still don't have my order. I really don't like how this company is working.
Can I connect to a wireless network without root?
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Also, has the Yast GUI been fixed to make some kind of sense?
Never leave money in Paypal's hands. Never. They WILL take it eventually. I always use CC transactions for buying and dump out any seller cash immediately.
It's like she said in the article. Using the start menu brings you back to Metro and takes you out of the context that you were working in. In the new context, the desktop that holds your work is now just one app among many. To get back to your working context, you have to push through all that new UI stuff. This is what I mean by "getting in my way"
Windows 8 is optimized for content consumption rather than content production and multitasking. Whereas content consumption can easily be done on other media (tablets and phones), production and multitasking are still best suited for PCs. Windows 8 appears to ignore that.
This is a very good insight, and probably the most concise explanation for why I don't like the Windows 8 UI. As a creator, I don't want all that extra crap getting in my way.
I wish I could get a buckling spring design without the numpad. (or with the numpad on the left) Who has room for that? Looks like you can get a keyboard with those CherryMX switches without the numpad (for substantial cost) but I've never actually tried one of those before. I wish I could give it a shot first.
I have redundant drives at home, but what about a fire, flood, or theft? Two options: (1) Put the data on an encrypted hard drive and bring it to work. This is what I do. It is safe in my desk and even if someone at work broke into my desk, they wouldn't get past the TrueCrypt. (2) Same as number 1 but use a SSD and put it in the trunk of your car if you don't work in an office. (SSD is less sensitive to vibration)
I admire their work. They've obviously done some impressive things to preserve that community. I just don't understand them. BeOS hasn't really progressed at all in the past...what? 8 years? At this point they may as well be hacking on Amiga or Plan9. by the time they're done, we're all going to be running on browser-based platforms that use the OS as a layer to support the fancy proprietary graphics drivers. I'm simplifying of course, but that would sure sap my enthusiasm for an OS project.
Just buy cable. I don't need it, but that doesn't mean you can't buy it. Also, try Buffalo Wild Wings. It's kid friendly, you can still get a beer, and the place is filled with big screen TVs with every possible game.
I will just leave my own experience here for posterity.
I canceled my Comcast cable subscription. When they ask, I say that I'm switching to broadcast television. That is mostly true. The over-the-air broadcasts come in clearly (I live just outside a city) and they are actually better quality than Comcast delivered digitally. Comcast salesman always have a competitor-neutralizing deal ready to go when they call me, but I can easily deflect whatever they have with "is it cheaper than free?"
The real reason I canceled is that there is nothing on TV! Every prime time sitcom strikes me as boring and stupid. The airwaves are full of crap with constant commercials. I can't stand it, and it just wasn't worth $100 a month. That's $1200 a year! I don't watch sports at all, and even if I did, I'd probably go to the sports bar.
I kept my high-speed internet subscription. This is what made the transition possible. The wife insists on having her collection of awful girly shows. As soon as I could prove that I could supply her fix using iTunes, network websites, or good old fashioned piracy, she was on board. I let her spend at will on iTunes -- it is still far cheaper than cable.
We also have Netflix, which is the other enabling product. The DVD by mail is key. We hardly ever use the streaming service. Nothing we want to see on a regular basis is available on streaming. I have serious doubts about the glorious future that everyone is predicting for that technology. Content licenses are a killer. Netflix needs to produce original content RIGHT NOW. HBO read the writing on the wall. Netflix had better follow suit.
For the record, Hulu is worthless. There is nothing worthwhile on that network. I may go as far as to say that anyone who loves Hulu is probably someone I'd not want to stand next to at a party. Also the commercials, while less frequent than cable, are maddeningly repetitive.
The Olympics could have brought me back to cable for a month. I decided against it because I get NBC in glorious HD over the air. However, NBC prime time coverage is just awful and I wish I could steam the events. The Olympics belong to the world. What the hell?!?
Anyway, I'm happy. I know that I'm never going back to cable. The cost is obscene and the commercial/content ratio is absurd.
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He would have finished the story but he had a cascading hardware failure that took out his network...
not really. It comes from joking about the pile of strange characters that are part of web URLs:
h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-[x]-dot-org
Where [x] is the website name. Adding "slashdot" there makes an even bigger mouthful.
How about a logo with Fonzie waterski-jumping over Slashdot while wearing a leather jacket.
Being a parent requires you to have sex at least once. This is Slashdot.
Yes, I realize now after visiting the RPi forums that RS is crap. Canceling my order.
Yes. Never order from RS. The other vendor has them in stock but RS has held my money since June 29 and wants to ship in October. I consider that "tentative" Fsck them.
Lesson learned. Don't order from RS online. Newark has over 100 in stock and RS wants to ship my Jun 29th order in October.
RS hasn't shipped it because there was a "delay in manufacturing delivery" (their words)
They charged me immediately and quoted a ship time of 11 weeks. They missed that deadline already.
After waiting for 11 weeks for my RaspberryPi to ship, then getting an email that they would need many more weeks to supply the orders, they announce a 2.0 revision? How about fulfilling your orders first? They announced to the world months ago that they are producing thousands of units per day and yet I still don't have my order. I really don't like how this company is working.
Also, has the Yast GUI been fixed to make some kind of sense?
Harvard only began admitting women in 1999
[Citation needed]
Yep. You have exposed a great example of human nature: ignore critical thinking and interpret any new information as supportive of an existing belief.
Why must humanity be so derpy-derp?
Under what conditions could they make unauthorized charges to your checking account? That seems like serious fraud to me.
How exactly are they planning to 3D print a barrel that can withstand real ammunition? How are they planning to rifle it?
Also, God help us if this ever became a reality.
Never leave money in Paypal's hands. Never. They WILL take it eventually. I always use CC transactions for buying and dump out any seller cash immediately.
It's like she said in the article. Using the start menu brings you back to Metro and takes you out of the context that you were working in. In the new context, the desktop that holds your work is now just one app among many. To get back to your working context, you have to push through all that new UI stuff. This is what I mean by "getting in my way"
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Windows 8 is optimized for content consumption rather than content production and multitasking. Whereas content consumption can easily be done on other media (tablets and phones), production and multitasking are still best suited for PCs. Windows 8 appears to ignore that.
This is a very good insight, and probably the most concise explanation for why I don't like the Windows 8 UI. As a creator, I don't want all that extra crap getting in my way.
-d
I wish I could get a buckling spring design without the numpad. (or with the numpad on the left) Who has room for that? Looks like you can get a keyboard with those CherryMX switches without the numpad (for substantial cost) but I've never actually tried one of those before. I wish I could give it a shot first.
"Real men don't back up their data. They post the source online and let the world mirror it" -Linus Torvalds.
(that's from memory, I don't know if he ever actually said that)
I have redundant drives at home, but what about a fire, flood, or theft? Two options:
(1) Put the data on an encrypted hard drive and bring it to work. This is what I do. It is safe in my desk and even if someone at work broke into my desk, they wouldn't get past the TrueCrypt.
(2) Same as number 1 but use a SSD and put it in the trunk of your car if you don't work in an office. (SSD is less sensitive to vibration)
-d
I admire their work. They've obviously done some impressive things to preserve that community. I just don't understand them. BeOS hasn't really progressed at all in the past...what? 8 years? At this point they may as well be hacking on Amiga or Plan9. by the time they're done, we're all going to be running on browser-based platforms that use the OS as a layer to support the fancy proprietary graphics drivers. I'm simplifying of course, but that would sure sap my enthusiasm for an OS project.
Just buy cable. I don't need it, but that doesn't mean you can't buy it.
Also, try Buffalo Wild Wings. It's kid friendly, you can still get a beer, and the place is filled with big screen TVs with every possible game.
I will just leave my own experience here for posterity.
I canceled my Comcast cable subscription. When they ask, I say that I'm switching to broadcast television. That is mostly true. The over-the-air broadcasts come in clearly (I live just outside a city) and they are actually better quality than Comcast delivered digitally. Comcast salesman always have a competitor-neutralizing deal ready to go when they call me, but I can easily deflect whatever they have with "is it cheaper than free?"
The real reason I canceled is that there is nothing on TV! Every prime time sitcom strikes me as boring and stupid. The airwaves are full of crap with constant commercials. I can't stand it, and it just wasn't worth $100 a month. That's $1200 a year! I don't watch sports at all, and even if I did, I'd probably go to the sports bar.
I kept my high-speed internet subscription. This is what made the transition possible. The wife insists on having her collection of awful girly shows. As soon as I could prove that I could supply her fix using iTunes, network websites, or good old fashioned piracy, she was on board. I let her spend at will on iTunes -- it is still far cheaper than cable.
We also have Netflix, which is the other enabling product. The DVD by mail is key. We hardly ever use the streaming service. Nothing we want to see on a regular basis is available on streaming. I have serious doubts about the glorious future that everyone is predicting for that technology. Content licenses are a killer. Netflix needs to produce original content RIGHT NOW. HBO read the writing on the wall. Netflix had better follow suit.
For the record, Hulu is worthless. There is nothing worthwhile on that network. I may go as far as to say that anyone who loves Hulu is probably someone I'd not want to stand next to at a party. Also the commercials, while less frequent than cable, are maddeningly repetitive.
The Olympics could have brought me back to cable for a month. I decided against it because I get NBC in glorious HD over the air. However, NBC prime time coverage is just awful and I wish I could steam the events. The Olympics belong to the world. What the hell?!?
Anyway, I'm happy. I know that I'm never going back to cable. The cost is obscene and the commercial/content ratio is absurd.
-d