Wow... there are three responses to your post (four, if you count mine), and not a single one bothered to address your question. In fact, one of the posters (two, if you count me) decided to attack you instead.
Well, I'm not going to be left out. I think you hog the left lane, and you're an inconsiderate driver. You're a jerk, a complete kneebiter. Just shut up already with your "fact" and "figures" and "evidence", dickhead. We have no use for them on slashdot.
How about carrying all major sides to every divisive issue
In American, every major divisive issue has about 280,000,000 sides.
The strangest part of American thought is the misguided idea that issues have "sides." It's like the whole country learned everything they know about the world in a junior high debate class.
FYI, most moderators are common users selected out of the user base at random times.
Punative down-moderations like this are done by the admins, not regular readers. Regular moderators get five points at a time, not the twenty or so that would have been required to reduce all the spelling flames so far so quickly.
It's obvious to anyone who's read this site for a while that an admin just burned 20 or 30 of his unlimited mod points to bitch slap all of the "you spelled it wrong" posts. It wasn't regular readers with mod points.
Wow... more than five "you spelled it wrong" posts got modded down "offtopic" at exactly the same time, yet no-one has bothered to fix the error.
It really says a lot about the maturity and professionalism of the admins here that they would punish the people who point out the mistake, instead of actually fixing the mistake.
As I type this, my mechanic is replacing the brakes on my car. He said he could change the oil at the same time, but it would cost an extra $25. I called my friend bob, and he said that he could change my oil for only $10!!!
So, as long as the car is up on the lift anyhow, I think I'll just remove the engine from the car and take it to my friend bob's house, so he can change the oil for me. Then, I'll bring the engine back to the shop and re-install it in the car. After all, there's only one engine, so I should be able to get the engine removed and re-installed much faster than my mechanic can replace four brakes.
I once compiled my own linux kernel, so I figure engine removal should be easy to do. However, I'm hoping someone can point me at a good howto guide...
Why the hell can't he just talk to his primary doctor, and ask him how medical professionals share x-rays with each other?
What kind of fucking moron with absolutely no radiology experience whatsoever thinks he can just scan a fucking x-ray and get something acceptable to a radiologist?
Could someone post some techniques to record changes to database records that don't involve a lot of overhead yet allow one to revisit any prior state of the data? I suppose this sort of duplicates the functions of a transaction log but I don't know if a transaction log is queryable.
The easiest technique is to buy a database with a queryable transaction log.
The second easiest technique is create a table that contains all prior states of the data plus timestamps, and create a view that contains the current state. Then, only allow inserts, updates, and deletes through stored procedures (possibly as event triggers on your view).
Almost every database available will allow you to partition the historical table onto multiple file groups, if you're worried about filling your expensive storage with historical data.
If you say that you "can only recommend it to someone specifically looking for a shooter with a western or horror theme," doesn't it deserve a rating of 3/10? Or is an "average" game worth 8/10?
You get 5/10 if the game installs and displays a splash screen. You get 4/10 if the game won't install, but the screen shots on the box are cool. I think 3/10 is reserved for games that won't install, and the box is made from poison ivy.
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I carefully measured the amount of coal my computer used yesterday, and the amount of coal the Titanic used yesterday. And... he's absolutely correct. My computer used 75% more coal than the Titanic.
A catalyst a small amount of some compound or element, that either allows a reaction to occur, or improves an existing chemical reaction. Usually very little is needed to make a very big improvement in the reaction.
Catalysts increase the rate of a reaction, but they don't increase the amount of energy released.
I would be very, every surprised if increasing the rate of combustion in a modern internal combustion engine in turn increased the efficiency of that engine.
And if you're wondering if it's true that H increases combustion efficiency, just type "adding hydrogen to fuel" into Google, and you will see that this is old news.
Could you provide a link? As I'm certain you're aware, your google suggestion wasn't fruitful.
I'm not sure what you mean by "increase combustion efficiency." Can you give a definition for that? Also, I'm not a petroleum engineer, but I suspect that "adding hydrogen to the fuel" is would be done during the refining process, and chemically is unlikely to have even a passing resemblance to to whatever this guy's device does.
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As it turns out, 1.25 Titanics worth of coal would run your computer for millions of years.
I can't figure out how you came up with this number. I looked it up, and for 19 of the last 20 years the Titanic has used an average of 0 kilograms of coal per day.(*)
(*) according to wikipedia, the titanic burned approximately 1.4 kilograms of coal on July 14th, 1978.
The responses to this article have proven something I've long suspected -- the average Slashdot poster is really, really fucking stupid.
This article screams snake oil and junk science. It's not even funny junk science, it's just sad and depressing. The article describes people who are sinking their life savings into these scams. And a full 3/4 of the posts so far on slashdot are just dipshits with absolutely no understanding of basic high school physics trying to defend the most outrageous claims in the article.
It was one thing when this article hit fark at 3am last night, and the tin-foil hat crowd started on their "acetone" crap. You can forgive the bad science on a website full of drunk people asking "what would happen if I drank poison ivy?" But it's just not excusable here.
Can anyone recommend a decent website for technology news and science reporting?
So he offered my coworker(who was dealing with him) the laptop in exchange for the ticket. The ticket was about 60$ and the laptop is probably worth something like 1200$... According to the majority here my coworker is a criminal scumbag now
He is a criminal scumbag. That computer was stolen, and you know it, and your co-worker knows it.
You're trying to justify it because apparently the guy who sold the stolen computer to your friend took the time to install a bunch of warez before reselling it. Frankly, that doesn't make any damned sense to me. Why the hell would a stolen computer full of warez be more morally right than a blank computer without warez?
Is this such a good deal that someone who looks for great deals for a living would pass it by?
Every single person I've ever met who look for "great deals" for a living was either a fence or a con artists. Every. Single. One.
There is a huge difference between people who routinely buy used goods at a reasonable discount and people who routinely buying used goods at an unreasonable discount. And, the people who buy used goods at an unreasonable discount usually go to jail.
In Apache 1.x, you could use mod_perl to customize some phases of the Apache configuration process during startup. It's extremely useful, but it falls far, far short of the IIS MetaBase.
Unfortunately, there just isn't anything similar to COM in Linux, so there's really no way to do with Apache all of the stuff that's trivial with IIS.
No kidding. I'm really not sure what kind of professional job this guy has, or exactly what his constraints are. If he has a job where the dress code actually matters, nothing short of renting a locker at the gym where he can keep clean and laundered clothes will help. You're not going to keep your shirt pressed in a backpack, never mind pants, tie, and jacket. I've never had much luck with shoes, either, but I"m a damned careless hippy.
On the other hand, this is slashdot. The guy probably works as a telemarketer, where "professional" means "I can't wear the rollerskates at my desk, and I can't a backpack to carry a pair of shoes."
Postings of articles about AJAX on/. seems to be getting very popular these days. Is AJAX important or just another fad?
You've probably noticed that Slashdot itself now has a rich AJAX-based comment browser. It's actually very innovative -- you've probably noticed the improvement.
Some people like how it downloads the latest comments without uselessly refreshing the entire page. But, my favorite is when I click on "x comments below your current threshold." The animation as the new content slides into the page is realllly cool.
Of course, I suspect it's also reduced a lot of load on the servers, but that's not really my bag, baby.
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They'll solve the "hibernation" problem the same way dell and microsoft have solved it -- every single laptop they sell will come with a clipboard.
Wow... there are three responses to your post (four, if you count mine), and not a single one bothered to address your question. In fact, one of the posters (two, if you count me) decided to attack you instead.
Well, I'm not going to be left out. I think you hog the left lane, and you're an inconsiderate driver. You're a jerk, a complete kneebiter. Just shut up already with your "fact" and "figures" and "evidence", dickhead. We have no use for them on slashdot.
What? Since when did 9,631,000 sqkm (US) become larger than 9,938,000 sqkm (Europe)?
Europe is smaller because it's measured in metric square kilometers.
How about carrying all major sides to every divisive issue
In American, every major divisive issue has about 280,000,000 sides.
The strangest part of American thought is the misguided idea that issues have "sides." It's like the whole country learned everything they know about the world in a junior high debate class.
FYI, most moderators are common users selected out of the user base at random times.
Punative down-moderations like this are done by the admins, not regular readers. Regular moderators get five points at a time, not the twenty or so that would have been required to reduce all the spelling flames so far so quickly.
It's obvious to anyone who's read this site for a while that an admin just burned 20 or 30 of his unlimited mod points to bitch slap all of the "you spelled it wrong" posts. It wasn't regular readers with mod points.
Wow... more than five "you spelled it wrong" posts got modded down "offtopic" at exactly the same time, yet no-one has bothered to fix the error.
It really says a lot about the maturity and professionalism of the admins here that they would punish the people who point out the mistake, instead of actually fixing the mistake.
AJAX was invented by Microsoft in 1998 so they could write a decent Outlook web client.
So technically, it's only 7 years old.
(shhh... don't tell taco... his head will explode if he learned that Google didn't invent it)
How do I remove the engine from my car?
As I type this, my mechanic is replacing the brakes on my car. He said he could change the oil at the same time, but it would cost an extra $25. I called my friend bob, and he said that he could change my oil for only $10!!!
So, as long as the car is up on the lift anyhow, I think I'll just remove the engine from the car and take it to my friend bob's house, so he can change the oil for me. Then, I'll bring the engine back to the shop and re-install it in the car. After all, there's only one engine, so I should be able to get the engine removed and re-installed much faster than my mechanic can replace four brakes.
I once compiled my own linux kernel, so I figure engine removal should be easy to do. However, I'm hoping someone can point me at a good howto guide...
Why the hell can't he just talk to his primary doctor, and ask him how medical professionals share x-rays with each other?
What kind of fucking moron with absolutely no radiology experience whatsoever thinks he can just scan a fucking x-ray and get something acceptable to a radiologist?
Could someone post some techniques to record changes to database records that don't involve a lot of overhead yet allow one to revisit any prior state of the data? I suppose this sort of duplicates the functions of a transaction log but I don't know if a transaction log is queryable.
The easiest technique is to buy a database with a queryable transaction log.
The second easiest technique is create a table that contains all prior states of the data plus timestamps, and create a view that contains the current state. Then, only allow inserts, updates, and deletes through stored procedures (possibly as event triggers on your view).
Almost every database available will allow you to partition the historical table onto multiple file groups, if you're worried about filling your expensive storage with historical data.
If you say that you "can only recommend it to someone specifically looking for a shooter with a western or horror theme," doesn't it deserve a rating of 3/10? Or is an "average" game worth 8/10?
You get 5/10 if the game installs and displays a splash screen. You get 4/10 if the game won't install, but the screen shots on the box are cool. I think 3/10 is reserved for games that won't install, and the box is made from poison ivy.
I carefully measured the amount of coal my computer used yesterday, and the amount of coal the Titanic used yesterday. And... he's absolutely correct. My computer used 75% more coal than the Titanic.
A catalyst a small amount of some compound or element, that either allows a reaction to occur, or improves an existing chemical reaction. Usually very little is needed to make a very big improvement in the reaction.
Catalysts increase the rate of a reaction, but they don't increase the amount of energy released.
I would be very, every surprised if increasing the rate of combustion in a modern internal combustion engine in turn increased the efficiency of that engine.
And if you're wondering if it's true that H increases combustion efficiency, just type "adding hydrogen to fuel" into Google, and you will see that this is old news.
Could you provide a link? As I'm certain you're aware, your google suggestion wasn't fruitful.
I'm not sure what you mean by "increase combustion efficiency." Can you give a definition for that? Also, I'm not a petroleum engineer, but I suspect that "adding hydrogen to the fuel" is would be done during the refining process, and chemically is unlikely to have even a passing resemblance to to whatever this guy's device does.
As it turns out, 1.25 Titanics worth of coal would run your computer for millions of years.
I can't figure out how you came up with this number. I looked it up, and for 19 of the last 20 years the Titanic has used an average of 0 kilograms of coal per day.(*)
(*) according to wikipedia, the titanic burned approximately 1.4 kilograms of coal on July 14th, 1978.
The responses to this article have proven something I've long suspected -- the average Slashdot poster is really, really fucking stupid.
This article screams snake oil and junk science. It's not even funny junk science, it's just sad and depressing. The article describes people who are sinking their life savings into these scams. And a full 3/4 of the posts so far on slashdot are just dipshits with absolutely no understanding of basic high school physics trying to defend the most outrageous claims in the article.
It was one thing when this article hit fark at 3am last night, and the tin-foil hat crowd started on their "acetone" crap. You can forgive the bad science on a website full of drunk people asking "what would happen if I drank poison ivy?" But it's just not excusable here.
Can anyone recommend a decent website for technology news and science reporting?
Then it depends on you definition of "con artist" Is someone who buys new at $750 and resells new at $1250 a con artist, I'd say no.
He is a scumbag. And, if he's doing it enough to make a living at it, full time, then he's probably breaking a few laws...
So he offered my coworker(who was dealing with him) the laptop in exchange for the ticket. The ticket was about 60$ and the laptop is probably worth something like 1200$... According to the majority here my coworker is a criminal scumbag now
He is a criminal scumbag. That computer was stolen, and you know it, and your co-worker knows it.
You're trying to justify it because apparently the guy who sold the stolen computer to your friend took the time to install a bunch of warez before reselling it. Frankly, that doesn't make any damned sense to me. Why the hell would a stolen computer full of warez be more morally right than a blank computer without warez?
Is this such a good deal that someone who looks for great deals for a living would pass it by?
Every single person I've ever met who look for "great deals" for a living was either a fence or a con artists. Every. Single. One.
There is a huge difference between people who routinely buy used goods at a reasonable discount and people who routinely buying used goods at an unreasonable discount. And, the people who buy used goods at an unreasonable discount usually go to jail.
No, not really.
In Apache 1.x, you could use mod_perl to customize some phases of the Apache configuration process during startup. It's extremely useful, but it falls far, far short of the IIS MetaBase.
Unfortunately, there just isn't anything similar to COM in Linux, so there's really no way to do with Apache all of the stuff that's trivial with IIS.
Am I the only person who thinks that taking a 10 million clock cycles or more for a dual core chip to respond to an interupt seems like a long time?
No kidding. I'm really not sure what kind of professional job this guy has, or exactly what his constraints are. If he has a job where the dress code actually matters, nothing short of renting a locker at the gym where he can keep clean and laundered clothes will help. You're not going to keep your shirt pressed in a backpack, never mind pants, tie, and jacket. I've never had much luck with shoes, either, but I"m a damned careless hippy.
On the other hand, this is slashdot. The guy probably works as a telemarketer, where "professional" means "I can't wear the rollerskates at my desk, and I can't a backpack to carry a pair of shoes."
I am a rat infested closet in the Bronx!
Postings of articles about AJAX on /. seems to be getting very popular these days. Is AJAX important or just another fad?
You've probably noticed that Slashdot itself now has a rich AJAX-based comment browser. It's actually very innovative -- you've probably noticed the improvement.
Some people like how it downloads the latest comments without uselessly refreshing the entire page. But, my favorite is when I click on "x comments below your current threshold." The animation as the new content slides into the page is realllly cool.
Of course, I suspect it's also reduced a lot of load on the servers, but that's not really my bag, baby.
I heard the same thing. You can trust me, because I'm on the internet.
Also, I heard that you huff spray paint.