It also helps to live in a small town, where everyone knows your name. And if Bob down the street suddenly gets a Macbook Air the same week mine goes missing, then the whole town knows who did what.
Listen is great advice. You can really save yourself a lot of time by going to see the bug reporter in person. While not always practical, it does increase your visibility and karma with your cow-orkers.
The first to build a Star Trek transporter . . . will be a Mexican drug cartel.
No, no they won't. When is a hydraulic elevator considered "hi-tech"? Or tunnel digging equipment? People have been building tunnels almost forever and drug cartels aren't really breaking ground in the creation of underground tunnels.
Christmas just barfed all over my neighbor's front yard. I run my house like a dictator. Too bad I don't have a proto-nuclear arsenal to threaten them with.
TV is broken because, with a few exceptions, content is tied to a specific time and location.
I want to be able to watch my favorite shows when I remember I want to watch them, not a time set by someone else. I also don't always want to watch them from home.
Take away Tivo, Slingbox, etc and these things are not possible.
Personal Computers aren't a jack of all trades and a master of none. They are a master of freedom and convertibility, the ability to do whatever you want.
I think the TFA is proof that most people really didn't need a personal computer in the first place.
You really think these compact machines use sets of chips? Quite the opposite. They're systems on a chip (SoC), often even a package on a package (PoP) i.e multiple chips layered into one package. Now, don't get smart and point out that technically a PoP is a chipset - they're used for packing an SoC with DRAM and flash memory. The multiple functions of a chipset (e.g peripheral interfaces) are all on the one chip of the SoC.
Boy, that sure puts a fine point on how spec-driven certain people are, know what I mean?
You should pick from the toolbox; the best framework or tool for the job is the most appropriate for the job, not the most buzz-word compliant or necessarily the last tool you used.
"are they just doing what's necessary to avoid getting sued"
why should they do more if it isn't required?
Doing more than required is usually what it takes to "gain back supporters" like the summary suggests.
Personally I think they should fix the slow page-turns and other problems pointed out by reviewers.
Fulfilling a GPL requirement is fine; releasing extra code is great, but that's not going to help it sell anymore devices, except perhaps to a small segment of customers.
"The Massive Ordnance Penetrator is a weapon system designed to accomplish a difficult, complicated mission of reaching and destroying our adversaries' weapons of mass destruction located in well-protected facilities," Lt. Col. Melinda F. Morgan, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said in a statement.
Despite the difficult and complicated mission, Boeing opted for a fairly simple solution: pack in more weight and explosives to blow the shit out of the target.
Could the next Slashdot Poll be to rename this new weapon system? Please, pretty please?
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Agreed. I don't even lock my "crack" car.
It also helps to live in a small town, where everyone knows your name. And if Bob down the street suddenly gets a Macbook Air the same week mine goes missing, then the whole town knows who did what.
... the terrorists hate us?
Listen is great advice. You can really save yourself a lot of time by going to see the bug reporter in person. While not always practical, it does increase your visibility and karma with your cow-orkers.
FTFY.
People who use the wrong tool when the right tool is available are called PHP programmers ;-)
"People who use the wrong tool when the right tool is available" can be abbreviated "hack".
There's a fine etymological line between someone who is a hack and hacker, but a huge real-world difference.
The first to build a Star Trek transporter . . . will be a Mexican drug cartel.
No, no they won't. When is a hydraulic elevator considered "hi-tech"? Or tunnel digging equipment? People have been building tunnels almost forever and drug cartels aren't really breaking ground in the creation of underground tunnels.
Fugal should be Frugal and should not link to an advertisement for a Dell laptop coupon.
Christmas just barfed all over my neighbor's front yard. I run my house like a dictator. Too bad I don't have a proto-nuclear arsenal to threaten them with.
Who knew there were so many food geeks here on Slashdot? When are we getting food.slashdot.org?
It charges you $25.
AGreed. I'm always confused at the month of pink worn by everyone when it is called "Breast Cancer Awareness". Really, everyone is aware of it by now.
It is boobies for goodness sakes!
Is this new functionality going to be available as a part of slashcode?
He's not wearing a seatbelt; quick, someone raise his insurance rates!
Playstation Vita: Do not want.
Not much I want from Sony/Playstation nowadays.
TV is broken because, with a few exceptions, content is tied to a specific time and location.
I want to be able to watch my favorite shows when I remember I want to watch them, not a time set by someone else. I also don't always want to watch them from home.
Take away Tivo, Slingbox, etc and these things are not possible.
Personal Computers aren't a jack of all trades and a master of none. They are a master of freedom and convertibility, the ability to do whatever you want.
I think the TFA is proof that most people really didn't need a personal computer in the first place.
You really think these compact machines use sets of chips? Quite the opposite. They're systems on a chip (SoC), often even a package on a package (PoP) i.e multiple chips layered into one package. Now, don't get smart and point out that technically a PoP is a chipset - they're used for packing an SoC with DRAM and flash memory. The multiple functions of a chipset (e.g peripheral interfaces) are all on the one chip of the SoC.
Boy, that sure puts a fine point on how spec-driven certain people are, know what I mean?
You should pick from the toolbox; the best framework or tool for the job is the most appropriate for the job, not the most buzz-word compliant or necessarily the last tool you used.
That and "Don't Reinvent the Wheel."
Why does the hacker have to be a "he"?
So really this is just an update of the definitions of IT workers; nothing to see here, time to move along.
I do appreciate that they named it the CPU Act. At least the art of naming is not lost.
If you want a good job vote this man OUT!
I think you mean, "vote this woman OUT".
Sure looks like...
There's no winning answer here.
Sure there is: the winning answer is to not use Facebook.
"are they just doing what's necessary to avoid getting sued"
why should they do more if it isn't required?
Doing more than required is usually what it takes to "gain back supporters" like the summary suggests.
Personally I think they should fix the slow page-turns and other problems pointed out by reviewers.
Fulfilling a GPL requirement is fine; releasing extra code is great, but that's not going to help it sell anymore devices, except perhaps to a small segment of customers.
I said nothing about underwear; clearly I'd be going commando.
Although, yes, you got me. I'd prefer to just be wearing the wig.
I don't care if it works or not, I just want a pic of me in front of two 10-story tall Tesla Coil towers wearing my xkcd shirt.
And perhaps a white lab coat, monocle and puffy white wig.
And pants, yes pants as well.
"The Massive Ordnance Penetrator is a weapon system designed to accomplish a difficult, complicated mission of reaching and destroying our adversaries' weapons of mass destruction located in well-protected facilities," Lt. Col. Melinda F. Morgan, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said in a statement.
Despite the difficult and complicated mission, Boeing opted for a fairly simple solution: pack in more weight and explosives to blow the shit out of the target.
Could the next Slashdot Poll be to rename this new weapon system? Please, pretty please?