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  1. They already have a proud history of schemes like this that stretches back over hundreds of years:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. Re:Excited to try one out! on Microsoft Announces HoloLens 2 Mixed Reality Headset For $3,500 (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame

  3. There is no evidence to suggest that. I consider it more likely that imagination develops as a result of creative play. Forcing somebody to be bored for several hours is just unnecessary.

  4. It makes a difference though. We’re sitting in a 5-hour drive back home after the weekend. My kid is sitting in the back watching Netflix on a iPad connected to personal hotspot on a 4g phone. Huge difference from staring out of the window as a kid myself...

  5. Re:Yesterday, when I was young on 'Cryptocurrencies Are Like Lottery Tickets That Might Pay Off in Future' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The cost of manufacture is adaptive: the difficulty level will track the level of processing power down as well as up.

    If the price drops -> less companies see a return on mining -> less companies mine -> difficulty level drops -> cost goes down.

  6. Re:lol...Blind Signatures on Richard Stallman Criticizes Bitcoin, Touts a GNU Project Alternative (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh dear.

    So yeah, actually I do have to perform risk assessment every time we buy in a new service or make a change that may have an impact on our legal duties.

    But unlike you, I know what I’m talking about and I use words to mean what they mean.

    It’s a shame your ego would not let you admit that you made a small mistake to begin with, bet you are a dream to work with.

  7. Re:lol...Blind Signatures on Richard Stallman Criticizes Bitcoin, Touts a GNU Project Alternative (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, I have actually. I suspect that you have never done them *properly*. No estimate is a hard deadline. Trying to muddle the two reveals a lack of clarity and/or knowledge. It is the first place that I would start digging to find out what the real picture is.

    Would you like to try an appeal to authority next? Or are you going to proceed directly to a “No real Scotsman” type of argument?

    Sometimes it easier to just stop digging and say “yeah, I said the wrong thing. This is what I meant”. But you do you, eh?

  8. Re:lol...Blind Signatures on Richard Stallman Criticizes Bitcoin, Touts a GNU Project Alternative (coindesk.com) · · Score: 2

    So, not actually a hard deadline then?

  9. Re:lol...Blind Signatures on Richard Stallman Criticizes Bitcoin, Touts a GNU Project Alternative (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    But an estimate is not a hard deadline.

  10. Tried it. Loved it.

    This is so much better than adobe premiere. Easier to use, the layout of the interface is much more logical. Seems far quicker to cut up clips and put them back together.

    I’ll be recommending that we ditch our adobe CC subscription and switch over.

  11. Wow, this looks incredible. I’ll play with the free version and if it is as good as it looks then I’ll recommend that we switch away from Adobe on the office (they are jacking up our license fees).

    Thanks for the tip.

  12. While you’re here video editing expert...

    I’ve got a copy of premiere pro running on a win10 machine at work. It’s great, but I want something similar for playing with at home. Something on linux or bsd would be fantastic but I guess there is nothing. Something on win10 that has a one-time purchase price instead of a recurring sub is my next best thing. What are the best options?

    It will be mainly for cutting up shadow play footage, splicing it together, simple transitions and mixing in audio.

  13. Re:I can actually hear him gritting his teeth on How New, Polite Linus Torvalds Points Out Bad Kernel Code (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the problem is where you are.

    After the second explosive encounter with the easily offended and mildly retarded I found that they were removed from my way. They have been less of a problem since then. Could be horses for courses, or maybe you just don’t follow through when you double down. Lame.

  14. Re:I can actually hear him gritting his teeth on How New, Polite Linus Torvalds Points Out Bad Kernel Code (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    You don’t qualify for mans gaming.

  15. Re:I can actually hear him gritting his teeth on How New, Polite Linus Torvalds Points Out Bad Kernel Code (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would this be a problem?

    The goal is not to act in such a way that it avoids the possibility for anyone to be offended by it. The goal is to be polite enough that most people would shrug and say, well that person is just overreacting. Linus was a long way from that balance before.

  16. Re:I can actually hear him gritting his teeth on How New, Polite Linus Torvalds Points Out Bad Kernel Code (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Errrrr, who hurt you child?

  17. Convergence between a laptop and a tablet would be great. Would be.

    Current attempts are compromises though, which is why I still carry two. I think we are close to the end of the line though, my ideal device should only be 2-3 generations away. I want it to fold up small enough to be as portable as a phone, but with an input device / screen combo that is as productive as a laptop. It has to be real machine - that I get a shell on and can write code for. A pen interface is great for note-taking and drawing, but I would switching to an alternative that worked as well for those tasks.

    I don’t know what shape it will take: folding screens might be part of the answer, but they are shit for typing. Augmented displays and a novel controller might be the solution but I don’t think it is a refinement of anything we have yet. There is still some invention work left to do.

  18. I carry both: the ipad pro is used for reading (web / pdf) and writing. Note-taking and image construction has become 1000x easier. But it is not a computing platform. I carry a laptop (dell xps with linux) so that I have a shell and a compiler. Together they fill all my needs, but there is no single device yet that covers all those needs as well as two separate devices.

  19. Re:Apple becomes its own grandpa on New iPad Pro Has Comparable Performance To 2018 15" MacBook Pro in Benchmarks (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So brave. Much distortion field.

  20. Re:I don't think "CCTV" means what people think on Romanian Ransomware Suspect Pleads Guilty To Hacking CCTVs in Washington DC (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The closed circuit is between the camera and the storage: i.e. it not a broadcast. It does not mean that the storage is air-gapped and cannot be accessed remotely.

  21. Re:Code of Conduct - Exact Text on Linux Community To Adopt New Code of Conduct (kernel.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No more telling people they can deep-throat Microsoft if they want then. No wonder Linus needed to go and “find himself”.

  22. Re:All the time on Slashdot Asks: Have You Ever Gotten Someone Else's Email? (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    There was another Goose once but he never recovered from that flat spin.

  23. Re:ALL THE TIME on Slashdot Asks: Have You Ever Gotten Someone Else's Email? (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Same. I didn’t realise it was such a common problem.

    The only juicy thing that arrived was the internal accounts fora company that same name was taking over as CEO. That led to some fun exchanges with lawyers.

    I regularly get emails about another same.name’s golfing dates. After dozens of requests for them to stop I just started sending snarky responses instead. It kind of backfired as instead of inviting him less they now think he is “lit” and want to hang out all the time.

    It does get a bit GTA4...

  24. Re:Never seen a patch? on EFF Defends Bruce Perens In Appeal of Open Source Security/Spengler Ruling (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok, that is a fair point. I had not seen that option before.

    So rewinding a couple of steps to the part of the argument that led here:

    Assume that a patch is created as an ed script, it does not contain any of the kernel code. Its only use is to transform the kernel source. Who owns the coyright on the transformed source that results after the patch is applied?

  25. Re:Never seen a patch? on EFF Defends Bruce Perens In Appeal of Open Source Security/Spengler Ruling (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    Please enlighten us oh great unix guru:

    What type of patch does not specify which content is being deleted as part of the edit?