It would be nice that registered users, with good karma could edit summaries to fix spelling, grammar and such, or flag stories as dupes. (I'm not saying that this story has some of those, just that i would like this feature implemented in slashdot)
The more people get on the torrents, the faster they will be
That's not true. The more people get on the torrent, actually it could get slower if those people are uploading at very low speeds. To increase speed they will have to finish the download first and stay seeding.
In true/. form, i haven't RTFA. An aussie fights the final against a dutch guy, the dutch guy wins, and the article is done with the looser (just kidding! loser)?
I think some chump is getting confused about millions and billions. He probably thought the US million was a UK billion or something like that. It is now generally accepted everywhere that a billion is a 1,000 million, not a 1,000,000 million.
I read that article, but i still think 1 billion should be 1.000.000 millions. The french word millard was taken into the official spanish language as millardo, and most of the countries use that notation (except the ones linked in the article).
Once again the United States is the Microsoft of the common standards, failing to adopt such things as the metric system, dot-separated thousands and notation, promoting their own "standards"
If you write XHTML 1.1, you cannot serve it as text/html.
I know that, but afaik IE can't handle xhtml 1.1 served without text/html, and that doesn't affect rendering. It's a bug in konqueror, and a regression since it worked on older versions, and the bug is already acknowledged on the database
The Update Rollup, which replaces Windows 2000 SP5 (Service Pack 5), is a cumulative set of hot fixes, security patches and critical updates packaged together for easy deployment.
Why isn't a there a spy game where we actually get to be a real spy rather than a hallway-roving kill machine? You know, where we actually have to talk to contacts and extract information and tap phones and piece together clues, a game full of exotic locales and deception and backstabbing and subplots? A game where a gun is used as often as a real spy would use it (that is, almost never)?
I take it that he didn't play Deus Ex (the original). I think it is the best game of all time. It is rumored that you could win the game without shooting a bullet.
How's this for the ultimate conundrum: the combination of "Nobody RTFA here" and "the Slashdot Effect" taking down sites?
Why is this so hard to understand for most/. users? The answer is very simple: most people read the articles and don't post. And the few people that do post , mostly do without reading.
Who modded this funny? Parent is right. Wireless mice/keyboard/and such peripherals are stupid. You are using the thing NEXT to a computer. WHY do you need the range? Why pay more? Why have to use batteries? My intellimouse explorer keeps working after like 8 years. I guess this is a "me too", mod me redundant
Why did AOL release a browser, based on a version of firefox that had security vulnerabilities, while a fixed version was available? Don't tell me it was because they developed especifically against 1.03, because they released a patch the next day.
Why couldn't they simply wait a day? Instead of commenting back and forth about what the developer said, everyone should have asked that question.
Basically, AOL did something stupid, a developer responded to it, and now this gets taken out of context.
The language itself is just becoming mature - with big strides (generics, etc) in Java 1.5
Big strides? How is a broken design and implementation of a feature become a big stride? Generics in Java 2 version 5.0 version 1.5 suck big time. The implementation does NOT guarantee type-safety. It DOESN'T eliminate casts, they are still being done, with a processing cost, it's just syntactic sugar.
To try to somewhat fix this horrible implementation, they did autoboxing, a.k.a the worst feature in C#. You would think that adding the int value "8" to a list would make the list a list of ints. But no, they are a list of objects, and old-fashion conversions are done, very slowly.
The correct implementation would let using primitives types directly, just like C#. It is sad when a virtual clone of Java is better than Java itself, and sad also because Microsoft did it.
Back on topic, people think another language like javascript is going to succeed? It won't. Javascript works differently in all browsers. At least Java is "mostly" compatible between all vendors.
The real question is, why does Slashdot continue to accept every single one of his submissions when many of the readers see through the scam and whole-heartedly object to what he is doing?
Theory: he splits his profits with slashdot editors. He uses slashdot's users to gain money and pays a little commission in order to do that. What other explanation exists?
Slashdot Mirror
shit!
It would be nice that registered users, with good karma could edit summaries to fix spelling, grammar and such, or flag stories as dupes. (I'm not saying that this story has some of those, just that i would like this feature implemented in slashdot)
Fedora works. It has a lot of texting
I hear it's got a lot of GUing too.
The more people get on the torrents, the faster they will be
That's not true. The more people get on the torrent, actually it could get slower if those people are uploading at very low speeds. To increase speed they will have to finish the download first and stay seeding.
In true /. form, i haven't RTFA. An aussie fights the final against a dutch guy, the dutch guy wins, and the article is done with the looser (just kidding! loser)?
On this week's grammar and spelling nazi rant:
Kutaragi not Kutargai
will come not willcom
Thank you for reading another fun-packed issue of the grammar and spelling nazi rant.
"In accordance with an ISO Council decision,
the decimal sign is a comma in ISO documents."
source
I think some chump is getting confused about millions and billions. He probably thought the US million was a UK billion or something like that. It is now generally accepted everywhere that a billion is a 1,000 million, not a 1,000,000 million.
I read that article, but i still think 1 billion should be 1.000.000 millions. The french word millard was taken into the official spanish language as millardo, and most of the countries use that notation (except the ones linked in the article).
Once again the United States is the Microsoft of the common standards, failing to adopt such things as the metric system, dot-separated thousands and notation, promoting their own "standards"
I was curious to find that 5th picture, talking about using insects to control a green swirl of something that appeared somewhere.
I wish they could visit our lake. Last year it had a huge crop of lemna, shown here.
What you see is not a tennis court but a big piece of the lake being covered in the thing. This lake is lake maracaibo in venezuela.
If you write XHTML 1.1, you cannot serve it as text/html.
I know that, but afaik IE can't handle xhtml 1.1 served without text/html, and that doesn't affect rendering. It's a bug in konqueror, and a regression since it worked on older versions, and the bug is already acknowledged on the database
Konqueror is usually a better, faster, lighter browser than firefox, but is less stable and still has some weird rendering bugs.
For example, this site i developed can't center the table properly, with valid css code. On firefox it works fine.
How will they make sure MacOSX doesn't run on cheap X86 machines? Or will they use a different chip family?
The Update Rollup, which replaces Windows 2000 SP5 (Service Pack 5), is a cumulative set of hot fixes, security patches and critical updates packaged together for easy deployment.
Isn't that what service packs were pre-XP?
If i approach you on the street, and i offer you drugs, and you say no, am i not distributing it?
Meanwhile, on planet Earth, the PC gaming market shrinks every year, as even Microsoft shift focus to games consoles.
And then PC users get only console ports, which are badly done, therefore no one wants to buy PC games, making the problem worse every year.
That's because absolute belief in aliens is only slightly irrational
Remember, only the Sith deal in absolutes
Why isn't a there a spy game where we actually get to be a real spy rather than a hallway-roving kill machine? You know, where we actually have to talk to contacts and extract information and tap phones and piece together clues, a game full of exotic locales and deception and backstabbing and subplots? A game where a gun is used as often as a real spy would use it (that is, almost never)?
I take it that he didn't play Deus Ex (the original). I think it is the best game of all time. It is rumored that you could win the game without shooting a bullet.
How's this for the ultimate conundrum: the combination of "Nobody RTFA here" and "the Slashdot Effect" taking down sites?
/. users?
Why is this so hard to understand for most
The answer is very simple: most people read the articles and don't post. And the few people that do post , mostly do without reading.
Who modded this funny? Parent is right. Wireless mice/keyboard/and such peripherals are stupid. You are using the thing NEXT to a computer. WHY do you need the range? Why pay more? Why have to use batteries?
My intellimouse explorer keeps working after like 8 years. I guess this is a "me too", mod me redundant
Why did AOL release a browser, based on a version of firefox that had security vulnerabilities, while a fixed version was available? Don't tell me it was because they developed especifically against 1.03, because they released a patch the next day.
Why couldn't they simply wait a day? Instead of commenting back and forth about what the developer said, everyone should have asked that question.
Basically, AOL did something stupid, a developer responded to it, and now this gets taken out of context.
The language itself is just becoming mature - with big strides (generics, etc) in Java 1.5
Big strides? How is a broken design and implementation of a feature become a big stride? Generics in Java 2 version 5.0 version 1.5 suck big time. The implementation does NOT guarantee type-safety. It DOESN'T eliminate casts, they are still being done, with a processing cost, it's just syntactic sugar.
To try to somewhat fix this horrible implementation, they did autoboxing, a.k.a the worst feature in C#. You would think that adding the int value "8" to a list would make the list a list of ints. But no, they are a list of objects, and old-fashion conversions are done, very slowly.
The correct implementation would let using primitives types directly, just like C#. It is sad when a virtual clone of Java is better than Java itself, and sad also because Microsoft did it.
Back on topic, people think another language like javascript is going to succeed? It won't. Javascript works differently in all browsers. At least Java is "mostly" compatible between all vendors.
Intel denies help with firmware, yet they donate coders to the Linux kernel (maybe *bsd's too, haven't checked out)
I guess it's safer for them to donate developers than to give away what i guess they think they have ("trade secrets")
The real question is, why does Slashdot continue to accept every single one of his submissions when many of the readers see through the scam and whole-heartedly object to what he is doing?
Theory: he splits his profits with slashdot editors. He uses slashdot's users to gain money and pays a little commission in order to do that. What other explanation exists?
Do NOT eat IPod Shuffle!
Did someone misread that "Information Overlord Overthrown" Says Gates?
I, for one, welcome... Nah, you get the picture