As far as I can tell, there's not even TFA on this "submission". La. Zy.
I have a feeling that dryriver's day job isn't paying well enough for him/her (I hope it's a him with that nickname otherwise eww) to keep his Wordpress blog up, and he's posting here in the hopes that there will be enough comments for SlashDot to make the (poor) decision to put him on the payroll. Then he can go back his quest for 100 followers on drireever.wordpress.com or wherever else it is he usually writes this drivel.
At the 90% of schools that "block" social media, I'd say around 90% of the students use a VPN to punch through that noise. I found this out after I found one of my kids, who resisted programs like "Hour of Code" and wouldn't even help his old man maintain the home network, had a system of two VPNs and related AV on his phone to get around his schools' bans on SnapChat and the like. Frankly, I was impressed.
>> 400 million registered bike-sharing users and 23 million shared bikes in China
If they were good Communists it would be 400 million shared bikes. So yeah...I'll give them "we invented bike sharing" unless the Soviets want that honor.
If you build your business on someone else's API, you're gonna have a bad day (when the API owners figure out how you're making money and decide to make it themselves). That's why "participating in an application marketplace" is usually a suckers bet unless that marketplace is OS wide (like Google Play, iTunes, (does Microsoft have a store up yet?), etc.)
>> t's time to start counting advances on multiple fronts
Hobbiests have for a while, ever since last-generation AMD stumbled and Intel slowed down the processor speed increases for a while. Now that Ryzen is out, graphics chips are ruling desktops, and no one cares about Intel in the mobile space, we're finally seeing progress get back toward Moore's Law's long-term trend line.
>> two opportunities daily to complete assignments or study for exams while on the bus
My kids went through a mix of public and private schools. Homework is barely even a thing anymore.
Let's be honest about what this will be: an extra 60-120 minutes of gaming per day on the bus, inside the closed Android/Chromebook ecosystem. (Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.)
>> even if they are found not legally at fault they don't go around feeling guilty about the incident
We often tear down buildings where mass shooting occur. Not sure about train cars; I think we generally just clean them up and put them back into service after they run someone over. Cars? Well, I'd love to be able to "run a carfax" and tell how many peds this particular jalopy's mowed down before climbing in. But I'd feel ever better if they shredded people-killers after downloading their innards and inspecting the relevant equipment.
A big reason why I'm still on this board is that no self-respecting SlashDot user would stoop to using emojis or first-generation Internet abbreviation in their posts. We generally grew out of that twenty years ago.
>> Herzberg was "pushing a bicycle laden with plastic shopping bags,"
And thus appeared to be a member of a lower caste, said police authorities. Clearly, the driver or owner, who is of higher caste, as demonstrated through auto ownership, cannot be at fault.
Yes, and I've tried it. However, outside of non-trivial applications (and perhaps internal business apps developed with Xamarin), cross-platform support for C#-based apps is pretty poor.
As a guy who has spent most of his time in Microsoft dev environments, I can tell you the momentum is going in exactly the opposite direction: "how can we dump Microsoft/Oracle/IBM and how fast can we do it" is the current direction of the smart enterprise.
I converted my whole family to the Moto X family. V4 seems to have been "good enough" - my kids finally stopped whining about the iphones I was never going to buy them - and I'm happy with my v5.
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>> AWS juiced Amazon.
AWS squeezed Amazon to release goodness in liquid form and left behind a husk? Odd that "juiced" has come to mean what it has...
>> CEOs have an advantage...because only they have a total view of the organization.
A CEO fluffer piece from an MBA diploma factory on a slow news Friday. My popcorn's ready...
#DeleteFacebook
"But, we need to do X because money."
#DeleteFacebook
"But we really don't do X."
#DeleteFacebook
Maybe someone finally really showed looking up for their "Internet money". (South Park reference that I'm too lazy to attach.)
>> Dryriver doesn't remember
As far as I can tell, there's not even TFA on this "submission". La. Zy.
I have a feeling that dryriver's day job isn't paying well enough for him/her (I hope it's a him with that nickname otherwise eww) to keep his Wordpress blog up, and he's posting here in the hopes that there will be enough comments for SlashDot to make the (poor) decision to put him on the payroll. Then he can go back his quest for 100 followers on drireever.wordpress.com or wherever else it is he usually writes this drivel.
At the 90% of schools that "block" social media, I'd say around 90% of the students use a VPN to punch through that noise. I found this out after I found one of my kids, who resisted programs like "Hour of Code" and wouldn't even help his old man maintain the home network, had a system of two VPNs and related AV on his phone to get around his schools' bans on SnapChat and the like. Frankly, I was impressed.
>> What Would Happen If Everything On the Internet Was DRM Protected?
What if all men were made of straw?
>> 400 million registered bike-sharing users and 23 million shared bikes in China
If they were good Communists it would be 400 million shared bikes. So yeah...I'll give them "we invented bike sharing" unless the Soviets want that honor.
And Al Gore invented the Internet. And ManBearPig for good measure.
If you build your business on someone else's API, you're gonna have a bad day (when the API owners figure out how you're making money and decide to make it themselves). That's why "participating in an application marketplace" is usually a suckers bet unless that marketplace is OS wide (like Google Play, iTunes, (does Microsoft have a store up yet?), etc.)
>> So how do you pronounce "hobbiests"?
The same way Gandalf did. Duh.
>> t's time to start counting advances on multiple fronts
Hobbiests have for a while, ever since last-generation AMD stumbled and Intel slowed down the processor speed increases for a while. Now that Ryzen is out, graphics chips are ruling desktops, and no one cares about Intel in the mobile space, we're finally seeing progress get back toward Moore's Law's long-term trend line.
>> two opportunities daily to complete assignments or study for exams while on the bus
My kids went through a mix of public and private schools. Homework is barely even a thing anymore.
Let's be honest about what this will be: an extra 60-120 minutes of gaming per day on the bus, inside the closed Android/Chromebook ecosystem. (Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.)
Seriously. The world has enough cat blogs.
News to me. Look at Wisconsin - just hit record low unemployment at 2.9% - well below the national average - and that's before Foxconn moves in.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/2018/03/22/wisconsin-unemployment-rate-hits-record-low-2-9-february/449748002/
>> details on YouTube's plans to actually get the movie into theaters are scarce
Payola.
>> project has a serious name attached to it: Susan Sarandon
That's only a big name if it's Bull Durham II (because I doubt there's a non-zombie version of Thelma & Louise).
>> even if they are found not legally at fault they don't go around feeling guilty about the incident
We often tear down buildings where mass shooting occur. Not sure about train cars; I think we generally just clean them up and put them back into service after they run someone over. Cars? Well, I'd love to be able to "run a carfax" and tell how many peds this particular jalopy's mowed down before climbing in. But I'd feel ever better if they shredded people-killers after downloading their innards and inspecting the relevant equipment.
A big reason why I'm still on this board is that no self-respecting SlashDot user would stoop to using emojis or first-generation Internet abbreviation in their posts. We generally grew out of that twenty years ago.
>> Score:2, Troll
Hmmm...not much of a sense of humor out here today I guess.
If you only hear the whoosh, please look up "Simpsons out of my way I'm a motorist"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HESH8U1B4o
>> Herzberg was "pushing a bicycle laden with plastic shopping bags,"
And thus appeared to be a member of a lower caste, said police authorities. Clearly, the driver or owner, who is of higher caste, as demonstrated through auto ownership, cannot be at fault.
So, lemme get this straight. The water that comes shipped in plastic, also contains plastic?! Mind. Blown.
Next you're going to tell me that piping the universal solvent through lead pipes causes it to pick up lead.
Visual Basic .NET </pedantic>
Yes, and I've tried it. However, outside of non-trivial applications (and perhaps internal business apps developed with Xamarin), cross-platform support for C#-based apps is pretty poor.
As a guy who has spent most of his time in Microsoft dev environments, I can tell you the momentum is going in exactly the opposite direction: "how can we dump Microsoft/Oracle/IBM and how fast can we do it" is the current direction of the smart enterprise.
I converted my whole family to the Moto X family. V4 seems to have been "good enough" - my kids finally stopped whining about the iphones I was never going to buy them - and I'm happy with my v5.