Slashdot: We like Bitcoin so much that even our Non-Bitcoin stories are about Bitcoin! Go Bitcoin!:)
(It's too bad that this place doesn't have a CNBC like editorial policy that requires people to say how much of a financial stake they have in the product they are promoting)
I’d imagine that she also has a hard copy of the official IBM diversity policy telling resource managers to both hire and promote based off of ethnicity targets instead of actual skills or ability.
Of course, anyone who actually worked at IBM in the last 20 years already knows that this policy exists, but written proof of it might help start a discrimation lawsuit. Maybe.
Even that's not as easy as the Commodore 64 era, since you need to open a web browser, go to the URL, give Chrome permission to run Flash, wait for the IDE to load, and then do the tutorial.
On the Commodore, you just need to turn the computer on, and get a BASIC interpreter prompt.
Back it the day, it was as easy as typing this into your Commodore 64 when it booted up:
10 PRINT MY SISTER IS A BUTT 20 GOTO 10 RUN
Bingo, you just wrote your first program, and got the satisfaction of annoying your little sister in the process. I bet that most people's first program looked something like this as well if they started in the 1980's.
Now, you need to download and install something like Python on your Windows PC, probably getting prompted by a few scary looking security prompts along the way, and then write something with a more complex syntax to get a similar "MY SISTER IS A BUTT" result. So, yeah, the barrier to entry is higher now.
Yeah, it doesnt say much for the progress of FreeBSD development when they are focusing on the welfare of a handful a transgendered software developers instead of... you know... the actual operating system they are developing.
What I want to know is why an Operating System development mailing list would talk about such subjects? There has to be better forums for that. If I was writing a Code Of Conduct, I think that I would be telling people not to post politically charged content that has nothing to do with OS development, regardless of subject matter.
I kind of want to see what happens if FreeBSD forks into Conservative and Liberal branches. I want to see which side attracts more developers, and which distribution gets more downloads!
I figured with all of the Bitcoin exchanges that have been hacked or "hacked" (excuse for fraud), I made a separate bank account just for Coinbase transactions. There is only $10 in that account, so they aren't going to get much if they try to withdraw from it.
Yeah, I have to wonder what's a bigger waste of energy... looking for broadcasts from aliens that are probably too far away to reach us, or minting Internet funny money for drug dealers.
In terms of UI, it's kind of hard to say that Windows is worse than Linux. Almost every new Windows system is being shipped with Windows 10, which has a (more or less) consistent UI across the board.
Someone used to using a Linux system with KDE is going to have some issues using LXDE or Gnome, though. The menus and control panels are pretty different.
Sure, Windows totally screwed up their UI in Windows 8, but they learned from this mistake and haven't repeated it. If you take someone who's used to Windows XP or Windows 7, they should be able to find their way around Windows 10 without too many issues.
Sublime Text? Come on... all of the cool kids are using Atom now. Atom has so damn many development plugins that it feels more like an IDE once you're done customizing it.
Because you know that some dumbass in the home office is storing their admin passwords in cleartext for everyone to see.
The security auditors always focus on things like crazy password policies and front end security scans, but it's always something stupid like what I mentioned above that screws it up for the rest of us.
I always wondered if there were enough billionaire sci-fi fans out there to make space tourism profitable.
I think that they might need to add a luxury suite to justify the million dollar a night rate, though. I'm not sure how they're going to pull off the zero G hot tub, though. That might get messy.
You can't do Folding@Home on a ASIC miner, which is probably what the Bitcoin miners are using. Mining Bitcoin on a CPU or GPU stopped being profitable years ago.
Without cryptocurrency, those ASIC's are just overpriced electric space heaters.
Besides, if Google REALLY wanted to put some serious R&D effort into reinvigorating Android Wear, they could commission an updated SOC from the likes of Qualcomm, Samsung, or Intel. They have the money to do so if they wanted, but it seems that they also seem to be OK with letting that product line wither on the vine and focus their efforts on Cloud Hosting and Smart Speakers instead.
Of course... the companies in the top 40 can easily afford whatever additional fees the telcos will want from them. Hell... they might even appreciate the additional barrier of entry for new potential competitors.
Yeah, my crummy VDSL based Internet connection is barely reliable enough to play multiplayer PC and XBox games where the graphics processing is done locally. I can only imagine how glitchy it would be if you offloaded the rendering to the cloud. I'll pass, thanks.
I have to hand it to him... Elon has the guts to exploit his new "Internet God" status in ways never thought of before.
It was joked that back during Steve Jobs height of power (2006-2010), he could have shit in a box and his fans would have lined up in droves to spend big bucks on said box because they would have thought that it had magical restorative powers.
Steve never actually tried DOING it, though, although some Apple haters would say that The Apple Cube G4 was the closest thing to "overpriced shit in a box" that Apple ever produced.
These people have made their living reading stock charts and looking for patterns, and have likely convinced themselves that they've figured out how to track it's value.
I'm not sure how valid their metrics will be for something as volatile as Bitcoin, that has been known to go up 10X in value in a year and then lose 80% of that value in 2 days.
We can be pretty certain that documents made in Office 2019 will look like shit when viewed or edited with it. We've seen this issue before with every Office release... they make small changes to the document format that screw stuff up.
You didn't hear? Bitcoin isn't considered to be a "cryptocurrency" anymore. Now it's considered to be a "store of value", like Gold or Silver.
That might have had something to do with the fact that it now sucks to use as a currency, now that the transaction fees are insanely high and it takes forever to confirm a purchase. Even the criminal underworld has given up on it, and uses different cryptocurrency for things like drug buys and money laundering.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot: We like Bitcoin so much that even our Non-Bitcoin stories are about Bitcoin! Go Bitcoin! :)
(It's too bad that this place doesn't have a CNBC like editorial policy that requires people to say how much of a financial stake they have in the product they are promoting)
Worst. Hashrate. Ever.
Knowing IBM, they’ll somehow find a way to patent them.
I’d imagine that she also has a hard copy of the official IBM diversity policy telling resource managers to both hire and promote based off of ethnicity targets instead of actual skills or ability.
Of course, anyone who actually worked at IBM in the last 20 years already knows that this policy exists, but written proof of it might help start a discrimation lawsuit. Maybe.
Even that's not as easy as the Commodore 64 era, since you need to open a web browser, go to the URL, give Chrome permission to run Flash, wait for the IDE to load, and then do the tutorial.
On the Commodore, you just need to turn the computer on, and get a BASIC interpreter prompt.
Back it the day, it was as easy as typing this into your Commodore 64 when it booted up:
10 PRINT MY SISTER IS A BUTT
20 GOTO 10
RUN
Bingo, you just wrote your first program, and got the satisfaction of annoying your little sister in the process. I bet that most people's first program looked something like this as well if they started in the 1980's.
Now, you need to download and install something like Python on your Windows PC, probably getting prompted by a few scary looking security prompts along the way, and then write something with a more complex syntax to get a similar "MY SISTER IS A BUTT" result. So, yeah, the barrier to entry is higher now.
Yeah, it doesnt say much for the progress of FreeBSD development when they are focusing on the welfare of a handful a transgendered software developers instead of... you know... the actual operating system they are developing.
What I want to know is why an Operating System development mailing list would talk about such subjects? There has to be better forums for that. If I was writing a Code Of Conduct, I think that I would be telling people not to post politically charged content that has nothing to do with OS development, regardless of subject matter.
I kind of want to see what happens if FreeBSD forks into Conservative and Liberal branches. I want to see which side attracts more developers, and which distribution gets more downloads!
I figured with all of the Bitcoin exchanges that have been hacked or "hacked" (excuse for fraud), I made a separate bank account just for Coinbase transactions. There is only $10 in that account, so they aren't going to get much if they try to withdraw from it.
Yeah, I have to wonder what's a bigger waste of energy... looking for broadcasts from aliens that are probably too far away to reach us, or minting Internet funny money for drug dealers.
Maybe you can get Slashdot to give them a GPU every time they repost this story. So far, they would owe them two.
Yeah, I'd imagine that professional sysadmins would mostly go for CentOS or RHEL, with handful going for Ubuntu or SUSE.
In terms of UI, it's kind of hard to say that Windows is worse than Linux. Almost every new Windows system is being shipped with Windows 10, which has a (more or less) consistent UI across the board.
Someone used to using a Linux system with KDE is going to have some issues using LXDE or Gnome, though. The menus and control panels are pretty different.
Sure, Windows totally screwed up their UI in Windows 8, but they learned from this mistake and haven't repeated it. If you take someone who's used to Windows XP or Windows 7, they should be able to find their way around Windows 10 without too many issues.
Sublime Text? Come on... all of the cool kids are using Atom now. Atom has so damn many development plugins that it feels more like an IDE once you're done customizing it.
Because you know that some dumbass in the home office is storing their admin passwords in cleartext for everyone to see.
The security auditors always focus on things like crazy password policies and front end security scans, but it's always something stupid like what I mentioned above that screws it up for the rest of us.
I always wondered if there were enough billionaire sci-fi fans out there to make space tourism profitable.
I think that they might need to add a luxury suite to justify the million dollar a night rate, though. I'm not sure how they're going to pull off the zero G hot tub, though. That might get messy.
You can't do Folding@Home on a ASIC miner, which is probably what the Bitcoin miners are using. Mining Bitcoin on a CPU or GPU stopped being profitable years ago.
Without cryptocurrency, those ASIC's are just overpriced electric space heaters.
Besides, if Google REALLY wanted to put some serious R&D effort into reinvigorating Android Wear, they could commission an updated SOC from the likes of Qualcomm, Samsung, or Intel. They have the money to do so if they wanted, but it seems that they also seem to be OK with letting that product line wither on the vine and focus their efforts on Cloud Hosting and Smart Speakers instead.
Of course... the companies in the top 40 can easily afford whatever additional fees the telcos will want from them. Hell... they might even appreciate the additional barrier of entry for new potential competitors.
Yeah, my crummy VDSL based Internet connection is barely reliable enough to play multiplayer PC and XBox games where the graphics processing is done locally. I can only imagine how glitchy it would be if you offloaded the rendering to the cloud. I'll pass, thanks.
I have to hand it to him... Elon has the guts to exploit his new "Internet God" status in ways never thought of before.
It was joked that back during Steve Jobs height of power (2006-2010), he could have shit in a box and his fans would have lined up in droves to spend big bucks on said box because they would have thought that it had magical restorative powers.
Steve never actually tried DOING it, though, although some Apple haters would say that The Apple Cube G4 was the closest thing to "overpriced shit in a box" that Apple ever produced.
Elon's just taking it to the next level!
These people have made their living reading stock charts and looking for patterns, and have likely convinced themselves that they've figured out how to track it's value.
I'm not sure how valid their metrics will be for something as volatile as Bitcoin, that has been known to go up 10X in value in a year and then lose 80% of that value in 2 days.
They are designed by the non profit Pi Foundation, and are made in a Sony factory in the UK.
We can be pretty certain that documents made in Office 2019 will look like shit when viewed or edited with it. We've seen this issue before with every Office release... they make small changes to the document format that screw stuff up.
You didn't hear? Bitcoin isn't considered to be a "cryptocurrency" anymore. Now it's considered to be a "store of value", like Gold or Silver.
That might have had something to do with the fact that it now sucks to use as a currency, now that the transaction fees are insanely high and it takes forever to confirm a purchase. Even the criminal underworld has given up on it, and uses different cryptocurrency for things like drug buys and money laundering.