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  1. Re:hardware compatability on Why Does Microsoft Still Offer a 32-bit OS? (backblaze.com) · · Score: 1

    My desktop at work is new enough for 64bit but old enough to not have the VT-X extensions (and only 2 cores as well) so while I can run 64bit apps (and do - Mint 18.1 w/ MATE) when I run VirtualBox I can only emulate 32bit machines.

  2. Re:Clinicians are probably just as inaccurate on Home Blood Pressure Monitors Are Wrong 70 Percent of the Time, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3

    Just texted one of the nursing instructors (LPN,ASN,BSN degrees/certs) and she says the way they teach to do it is to do a quick check to get an idea as to where it will be and then sloooowly release down through to take the actual measurement, for exactly the reasons you state.

  3. And of course with the right (or "wrong" I guess) explosive even static electricity can set them off - no serious amperage/voltage needed

  4. Re:Legal Advice on Bruce Perens Explains That 'GPL Is A Contract' Court Case (perens.com) · · Score: 2

    It isn't "not getting back" it is "whoever gets it next needs to have the same freedoms, as does the person they give it to and whoever they give it to and whover they give it to .... for forever."

  5. Re:I had an instructor "cheat" decades ago on As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is why I submit my homework with a copyright header and GPLv2 it. Written works like term papers are submitted and released under a CC license with no commercial use, explicitly being kept by TurnItIn.

    Honestly, I don't think it will do any good, but it makes me feel just a little tiny bit better.

  6. Re:I don't use my vacation on More Than Half of US Workers Didn't Use Up Their Time Off Last Year (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't take a week off... I take a day or two here and here, sometimes a Wednesday, sometimes a Friday or Monday to make a long weekend.

    Why?

    I already get a week off around my birthday when the college I work for closes for Spring Break, and again anywhere from 10 to 20 days when the college closes between the Fall and Spring terms (Winter break/Christmas).

  7. Re:Depends on your definition of safety on Study Finds Magic Mushrooms Are the Safest Recreational Drug (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The biggest safety issue around mushrooms for fun are related to properly identifying the "edible" ones, not getting stomped by a pissed off bull or cow, and not getting shot by Farmer Brown.

  8. Re:An unfortunate use of technology on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I grew up in the back seat of a 356 coupe. From N Florida down to Key West in the back with luggage for 3 and scuba for 2 (yes, we used the engine lid rack mount as well) in my late teens. The mid-80s 911 has WAY more room in the back. We had a '84 911 w/ the NA engine but everything else turbo (option M491), where the 356 was fun to drive (and I still have it) the 911 was just a bit much for around town driving (and it was sold a few years ago).

  9. Re:An unfortunate use of technology on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It is more fun to drive a slow car fast than it is to drive a fast car slow.

    Horsepower is for those who can't keep their speed up in the corners.

  10. Re:This should be fun. on Ask Slashdot: What Is the 'Special Appeal' of Apple Products? · · Score: 1

    I've only owned a Microsoft mouse, but it was FANTASTIC. Smooth ball movement, positive clicks on both the buttons and the wheel scrolling, nice form that was a bit thinner than normal and tapered to the back end. Liked it so much I bought 3 more, one to use at work too and a spare for both home and work. Unfortunately, that was 12 years and 2 puppies ago, and they are in some land fill some where.

    Of course, no drivers required... generic PS/2 mouse.

  11. Re:AKA "snowflake syndrome" on Report Shows Another Diversity Challenge: Retaining Employees (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 0

    Or bouncing between jobs as one of teh few qualified to do it minorities, being hired by all those companies desperate to increase their diversity quotient.

  12. Re:TRS-80 Model 1 on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 1

    Mine was the Mk IV, 32k ram and 2 disk drives, and a white (not silver/grey) case.

  13. Re:You have to want to do it for the right reason on Ask Slashdot: How Should You Launch A Software Startup? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A developer should NEVER have to deal with the business side of the crap as part of "work". Even if it is your idea, your original ground breaking code, etc. Hire someone or two someones with the proper backgrounds, give them directions and get reports.

    Why? You (probably) don't have the expertise, and you only have so many hours in a day that you can be productive - do you work on the actual product, or the business around the product.

    Do the same when it comes to marketing...

  14. Re:Rust on Ask Slashdot: Should I Move From Java To Scala? · · Score: 1

    Or worry about every language - to the point of setting up whatever dev environment and doing a few simple things like hello world, fizzbuzz, create deck of cards, shuffle, and deal a few cards, etc. Just enough to learn how to use the tool chain, basic syntax, user interaction, etc.

  15. Re:Windows devs, eh? on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Working Environment For a Developer? · · Score: 1

    Ah, the good old days.

    Unfortunately, Debian 8 64bit (amd64) has a hard time installign wtih less than 128mb of RAM via netinstall disk.

  16. Almost all schools will have someone "in the know" on ADA stuff. They may not have the budget or people power to do it (ours doesn't, 15k students and 4 people in DRC) and it is up to the instructor to provide accessible content. The good side to this is that we tell instructors about making it all ADA compliant and they change their minds on doing 45 minute talking head lectures :)

    The big issue I see here is if the plaintiffs' instructor(s) were referencing the content for a course, then *their* school's ADA folks/instructor(s) should've been responsible for making it accessible to their students. Like Open Source, if they they sent the transcripts upstream then it would've been done for *all* folks.

    If the students just happened to want to access the content on their own initiative and were able to sue because the content just happened to be provided by a university then this is just a very bad application of the law, and I'm thankful that some type of mirroring system (I couldn't figure it out....) is being set up for the content.

  17. Re:Berkley didn't do this to be jerks on 20,000 Worldclass University Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them (lbry.io) · · Score: 2

    Or, new content will be created with transcription in mind and as part of the process.

  18. Re:Why do you believe that? on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Solve the Instant Messaging Problem? · · Score: 4, Informative

    pidgin still does this. Currently connected to ICQ, Google Talk, and Office Communicator/SIPE/Office365. Guess I could flip on the AOL Instant Messenger too, but I only had one contact there and he's been dead for a few years.

  19. Re:I wish they would... on Software Goes Through Beta Testing. Should Online College Courses? (edsurge.com) · · Score: 1

    This depends on the course delivery system, and how much your instructor both knows how to use the system and its quirks and how much your instructor cares about doing a decent job.

    The platform I use (Canvas) is pretty good about a lot of stuff, but instead of entering possible answers that are an exact match of what a student might type in (for questions like "On a machine running Debian Jessie what command would you use to display the routing table?") and having to hunt down each occurrence of the question across 40 exams and check to be sure the student didn't "out think me", I simply don't enter ANY correct answers, and the system marks it as "needs grading" which lets me get to it with a single click on each exam.

  20. Re:Why is this different from traditional classes? on Software Goes Through Beta Testing. Should Online College Courses? (edsurge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. The key that our accreditation body (SACS) looked for when we did a substantiative change review to start offering online courses back in '98 was "equivalence". Did an online ENC101 course give the same experience, etc. as a F2F one? Did a student who took ENC101 online do just as well in the next course down the road compared to one who took it face to face?

    Of course my sarcastic comment about it all is "of course, they all suck equally".

  21. Probably more like "intolerant of bullshit and buzzwords"

  22. Re:It's always someone elses fault on Father of Driver In Violent Tesla Crash Blames Sedan's 'Rocket-Ship' Acceleration (autoweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. There is a reason that I wasn't allowed to drive Dad's 911 while a teenager and unsupervised. And yes, the first time I drove it I discovered scary fast acceleration - gave a little gas to get over a speed bump at "almost not moving" speed and let the clutch up, a moment later I'm at 35 and could have still been accelerating.

    And that was in a car that is considered fairly sedate

  23. Re:Most of the web sucks period... on Most of the Web Really Sucks If You Have a Slow Connection (danluu.com) · · Score: 2

    Unless you run a local dns server that spoofs a lot of those and points them to something local that responds "instantly". I use a Pi for this at home, with 1.5mb dsl it is a big saver, and even though I've finally been able to upgrade to 6mb is is still a saver.

  24. I took Latin for my foreign language credits in high school, mid-80s. It was either that or French....

  25. Re:Not horrible on Volkswagen Unveils 'ID Buzz' Electric Microbus Concept (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If you prefer the classic micro bus, the real VW bug, a Porsche 356 or 912 or 914, there is a company in Tampa that makes an electric conversion for anything that uses the 200mm clutch that all these cars have in common....