Quite often Ask Slashdot questions are simple wastes of space as the answers are usually a quick Google search away. Not a chance goes by that certain slashbots don't take advantage of their ability to post and flame the submission for being so ridiculously simple as to be quite beneath the level of Slashdot gurus to answer it.
Then a question like this comes up. It is clear, direct, and most of all not at all obvious as to its solution. A simple Google search will certainly not suffice to help this submitter. No, it will require actual expertise from someone who has already done something similar or with expertise in the general area that can point the way to resources that would be overlooked by the uninitiated. This discussion would be valuable to all as a jumping point to learn about the topic at a much deeper level.
But no. For all the whining about Ask Slashdot questions being too easy, there certainly is a conspicuous lack of answers.
Ask Slashdot sucks because the questions that can be answered are generally too easy and in turn quite uninteresting, but the questions that require actual knowledge and mastery of a field are simply too far beyond the capabilities of the Slashdot population. It's quite sad.
That Dutch case is exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for in a case (though the plexiglass one isn't anything to shake a stick at). Where can I get it?
That's great and all (notice that timothy posted your link in the story writeup), but what about pictures of the hardware? Or of an actual amiga OS running something that we'd not normally see in our "oh so lacking" mainstream OSes.
Sometimes I think that the Amigo is an absurd liberal myth.
Amigo OS blows away the MacOS in almost every field. Any Amigo zealot can tell you that.
It reminds me of a story.
As I walked down the sidewalk towards the cute girl dressed in blue and yellow handing out packets of tissue, I noticed that the billboard for Profecio had been taken down and three men hung suspended in front of the empty section of wall painting over any remaining remnants of the old advertisement. I walked past the girl and shook my head, no I didn't want any tissues today.
"They're making room for a new Aeon school sign there, just so you know," came a voice from behind me. Crystal clear without a hint of accent, it caught me quite off-guard. Since I arrived here three months ago I hadn't heard English spoken out in public, much less heard someone direct it at me.
I looked over my shoulder to find no one save the cute tissue girl and her tissue-grabbing clients who looked at no one, especially a foreigner like me. She was smiling at me, though, her eyes wide and neck craned over the balding man between us. "Was that me, you were talking to?" I asked.
"Sure," she said as she handed a tiny old lady begging for tissues a fourth packet, "you seemed to be contemplating the billboard quite hard. I figured I'd let you in on the big secret."
"The big secret?"
"Yeah, you know, I told you already. The Aeon Language School has bought out that billboard right out from under Profecio and is going to put their own."
"Secret huh?" I quipped. It wasn't like I didn't know what Aeon was, I've seen their posters all over the city. With their promise to teach English through immersion and a beaming Ewan McGregor effecting a professorial stance, they have been the fastest growing English school in the city for the past year.
"Well, there's more to it than that," she continued with her perfect English, "but I can't really talk about it now. I've got to finish with these tissues before I can leave this spot or do anything. My boss will kill me if I don't empty these boxes. Are you free this evening?"
"I should be," I answered, "I've got to get to work now. I'm quite late as it is. Can I meet you somewhere around 7:00?"
"I'll be waiting underneath the empty billboard. I can fill you in on the rest of the secret then."
I nodded and gave her a big smile and turned back towards my office building. A date. Tonight! Can things get any better on a Friday morning?
I looked at my watch and saw that it was a quarter past 11. The office had already started buzzing with calls and clients and things I really didn't have any desire to take part in, not today at least. I dialed my assistant and told her I was sick and not going to make it to the office. I gave her the day off too, if she wanted.
At the intersection I turned right instead of left, towards the train station instead of the office. Awash in my own thoughts of this evening's secrets, I boarded the train and headed off to Chinatown. I can always think more clearly in Chinatown.
Honestly, I don't see what's the problem. Just get yourself a guy (or girl, if you are "that way") that either likes the smell or has no sense of smell.
Do you think bush smells all that great? No. But I was down their chewing away for hours.
Tell her to get over it.
If it really bugs you, though, try Lysol. Stay away from the lemony smell, though. It's one thing to smell mediciny, it's a whole different thing to smell like lemons.
Why not spend a little extra time and money and get a small LCD touchscreen and use that as your interface? With automatic name detection of CD tracks via the web, you shouldn't need to key in anything thus obviating the need for a clumsy keyboard.
Throughout the Iran/Iraq war, it wasn't nuclear bomb dropping tactics that the US was teaching the Iraqi army. The world's fourth-largest standing army at that time was learning conventional military techniques from the Americans.
If you fear bin Laden or Al Queda I think you're taking the threat a little too seriously. Since the attack on Tora Bora there simply haven't been any new bin Laden videos with actual new footage of the man himself.
On the other hand, America's enemies are not simply limited to crazy Arabic peoples bitter about America's hegemony. They include a very wary China, a not quite mentally stable North Korea, and a beaten but not cowed Iraq. The thing is, though, that they likely already have our secrets. So basically, it's way too late to worry about the possibility that this game is going to give away military secrets.
I have to commend Apple on one thing, it isn't their crap for kernel OSX nor is it their candy-coated, not meant for serious use user interface. The thing that really stands out about Apples is the case design.
The problem with PC cases is that it is difficult to get into and install components, at least more difficult than it has to be. Apples have the nice fold-out side panel so that opening the box means having all the components open for review right away. All cables are nicely laid so that there isn't the twisting, jumbled, leaning against the CPU and slowly melting ribbon cable problem that afflicts poorly designed PC cases.
I'm sure that such cases are available for non-Apples, but having been component shopping this past weekend, I can attest to their dearth. Why must PC cases be stuck so far in the past? Can't we learn anything from our friends (not the software people) in Mt. View?
If evolution is to have any scientific meaning whatsoever it must have predictive value. Mere retrospection is no more valuable than claiming that God created everything 6000 years ago.
If you really believe that, it's apparent the libs have already got you brainwashed. You probably think vegetables are good for you too and too much arsenic in the water is bad.
While I don't like the gummy feeling of a lot of keyboards that are apparently trying to be 'soft', I am not exactly a fan of the loud clicky types either.
The keyboard that I've found works best and feels best to me is the original Microsoft Natural keyboard. It is ergonomically designed with no extra frills like app buttons across the top. It's also larger and a little sturdier than the Natural Light keyboards Microsoft is pushing these days with their freaky arrow keys and misaligned Insert/Delete/Home/End/PageUp/PageDown key block.
Microsoft! Do something good for the users! Bring back the original Natural keyboard!
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What a colossal waste of time.
Think how many Linux drivers could have been written for as of yet unsupported hardware for all that effort.
That would be most of us, thanks.
Quite often Ask Slashdot questions are simple wastes of space as the answers are usually a quick Google search away. Not a chance goes by that certain slashbots don't take advantage of their ability to post and flame the submission for being so ridiculously simple as to be quite beneath the level of Slashdot gurus to answer it.
Then a question like this comes up. It is clear, direct, and most of all not at all obvious as to its solution. A simple Google search will certainly not suffice to help this submitter. No, it will require actual expertise from someone who has already done something similar or with expertise in the general area that can point the way to resources that would be overlooked by the uninitiated. This discussion would be valuable to all as a jumping point to learn about the topic at a much deeper level.
But no. For all the whining about Ask Slashdot questions being too easy, there certainly is a conspicuous lack of answers.
Ask Slashdot sucks because the questions that can be answered are generally too easy and in turn quite uninteresting, but the questions that require actual knowledge and mastery of a field are simply too far beyond the capabilities of the Slashdot population. It's quite sad.
You're surprised that a guy whose name is Gassee would have a bloated ego?
That Dutch case is exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for in a case (though the plexiglass one isn't anything to shake a stick at). Where can I get it?
It's all three. Really.
So Yellow Dog Linux running on an AmigoOne running an emulation of MacOS 9 is really an emulator running on an emulator running on an emulator?
The speed must be astounding.
It's just a short story. :-)
But they did tear down the Profecio billboard on the corner of Nishi-shinjuku and Shibuya-ku. This story may not be finished yet.
I don't grab the tissues anymore because I've got about 50 packets sitting on my desk at work. I've just run out of places to put them.
That's great and all (notice that timothy posted your link in the story writeup), but what about pictures of the hardware? Or of an actual amiga OS running something that we'd not normally see in our "oh so lacking" mainstream OSes.
Sometimes I think that the Amigo is an absurd liberal myth.
Amigo OS blows away the MacOS in almost every field. Any Amigo zealot can tell you that.
It reminds me of a story.
As I walked down the sidewalk towards the cute girl dressed in blue and yellow handing out packets of tissue, I noticed that the billboard for Profecio had been taken down and three men hung suspended in front of the empty section of wall painting over any remaining remnants of the old advertisement. I walked past the girl and shook my head, no I didn't want any tissues today.
"They're making room for a new Aeon school sign there, just so you know," came a voice from behind me. Crystal clear without a hint of accent, it caught me quite off-guard. Since I arrived here three months ago I hadn't heard English spoken out in public, much less heard someone direct it at me.
I looked over my shoulder to find no one save the cute tissue girl and her tissue-grabbing clients who looked at no one, especially a foreigner like me. She was smiling at me, though, her eyes wide and neck craned over the balding man between us. "Was that me, you were talking to?" I asked.
"Sure," she said as she handed a tiny old lady begging for tissues a fourth packet, "you seemed to be contemplating the billboard quite hard. I figured I'd let you in on the big secret."
"The big secret?"
"Yeah, you know, I told you already. The Aeon Language School has bought out that billboard right out from under Profecio and is going to put their own."
"Secret huh?" I quipped. It wasn't like I didn't know what Aeon was, I've seen their posters all over the city. With their promise to teach English through immersion and a beaming Ewan McGregor effecting a professorial stance, they have been the fastest growing English school in the city for the past year.
"Well, there's more to it than that," she continued with her perfect English, "but I can't really talk about it now. I've got to finish with these tissues before I can leave this spot or do anything. My boss will kill me if I don't empty these boxes. Are you free this evening?"
"I should be," I answered, "I've got to get to work now. I'm quite late as it is. Can I meet you somewhere around 7:00?"
"I'll be waiting underneath the empty billboard. I can fill you in on the rest of the secret then."
I nodded and gave her a big smile and turned back towards my office building. A date. Tonight! Can things get any better on a Friday morning?
I looked at my watch and saw that it was a quarter past 11. The office had already started buzzing with calls and clients and things I really didn't have any desire to take part in, not today at least. I dialed my assistant and told her I was sick and not going to make it to the office. I gave her the day off too, if she wanted.
At the intersection I turned right instead of left, towards the train station instead of the office. Awash in my own thoughts of this evening's secrets, I boarded the train and headed off to Chinatown. I can always think more clearly in Chinatown.
What the hell are you doing sniffing Dubyah?
Wasn't that the law? I've been doing it since 9/11.
Honestly, I don't see what's the problem. Just get yourself a guy (or girl, if you are "that way") that either likes the smell or has no sense of smell.
Do you think bush smells all that great? No. But I was down their chewing away for hours.
Tell her to get over it.
If it really bugs you, though, try Lysol. Stay away from the lemony smell, though. It's one thing to smell mediciny, it's a whole different thing to smell like lemons.
I'm sad this thread got modded down -1.
Please stop opening attachments, yanceyai. I have received at least 2 Klez worms from you in the past few days.
Thank you.
Why not spend a little extra time and money and get a small LCD touchscreen and use that as your interface? With automatic name detection of CD tracks via the web, you shouldn't need to key in anything thus obviating the need for a clumsy keyboard.
Throughout the Iran/Iraq war, it wasn't nuclear bomb dropping tactics that the US was teaching the Iraqi army. The world's fourth-largest standing army at that time was learning conventional military techniques from the Americans.
If you fear bin Laden or Al Queda I think you're taking the threat a little too seriously. Since the attack on Tora Bora there simply haven't been any new bin Laden videos with actual new footage of the man himself.
On the other hand, America's enemies are not simply limited to crazy Arabic peoples bitter about America's hegemony. They include a very wary China, a not quite mentally stable North Korea, and a beaten but not cowed Iraq. The thing is, though, that they likely already have our secrets. So basically, it's way too late to worry about the possibility that this game is going to give away military secrets.
The egg.
I have to commend Apple on one thing, it isn't their crap for kernel OSX nor is it their candy-coated, not meant for serious use user interface. The thing that really stands out about Apples is the case design.
The problem with PC cases is that it is difficult to get into and install components, at least more difficult than it has to be. Apples have the nice fold-out side panel so that opening the box means having all the components open for review right away. All cables are nicely laid so that there isn't the twisting, jumbled, leaning against the CPU and slowly melting ribbon cable problem that afflicts poorly designed PC cases.
I'm sure that such cases are available for non-Apples, but having been component shopping this past weekend, I can attest to their dearth. Why must PC cases be stuck so far in the past? Can't we learn anything from our friends (not the software people) in Mt. View?
pi == 3
God told me so
If evolution is to have any scientific meaning whatsoever it must have predictive value. Mere retrospection is no more valuable than claiming that God created everything 6000 years ago.
Is this an issue with just the decidedly bad Elite series, or is this a problem across all Microsoft keyboards?
If you really believe that, it's apparent the libs have already got you brainwashed. You probably think vegetables are good for you too and too much arsenic in the water is bad.
While I don't like the gummy feeling of a lot of keyboards that are apparently trying to be 'soft', I am not exactly a fan of the loud clicky types either.
The keyboard that I've found works best and feels best to me is the original Microsoft Natural keyboard. It is ergonomically designed with no extra frills like app buttons across the top. It's also larger and a little sturdier than the Natural Light keyboards Microsoft is pushing these days with their freaky arrow keys and misaligned Insert/Delete/Home/End/PageUp/PageDown key block.
Microsoft! Do something good for the users! Bring back the original Natural keyboard!
That fish joke was offal.