Oh god, mod this up please./. has really gone down the tubes since CmdrTaco left and DICE bought them. I really don't understand why I still come here (or even still have/. as my homepage anymore). A few more articles like this and I'm gone for good... Sad really, because/. has been my homepage since about '98-'99... Let's see if this gets deleted like some of my other posts criticizing them...
If you're in the EU, and specifically using France's Freebox, the ISPs are basically are at war with Google and neither Google or the ISPs want to pay for the pipes required to access Youtube comfortably. I have Free, and during peak times, there is definitely a slowdown in Youtube.
I believe all the features you mentioned are included in Zotero, and it can do indexing across pdfs it stores. You should check it out as they are rather responsive to updates and it is open source (and free!) Also, since it is a Firefox plugin, it can detect that you need to be behind a proxy automagically when appropriate, and so it makes adding new citations quite easy. I'm not a developer on it, but just a rather happy user! The only thing I miss from EndNote is an easy way to search Pubmed and pull citations that way, but I suspect they are working on it (or may have added it?) because I've seen other people request this feature in the forums.
Another happy Zotero user. The fact that it can typically strip citation info directly (and save/store!) pdfs is a killer feature that EndNote doesn't even have I think (at least my old version about 10). And it makes it easy to distribute whole libraries (including pdf docs) to colleagues to boot.
If the batteries are easy to swap out, it would make "recharging" much faster compared to the Tesla's current approach that requires long waits. I don't think this is a major downside if the process can be optimized; it will just be different than the current way we think about refueling a vehicle.
You are already logged in, so FYI, you just have to click on the text, "Click for a FREE PREVIEW of the decrypted version of this story!" to see the ROT13 translation.
But if you could interbreed African bees with European bees you could get the higher production of African bees in tropical environments with the docile behavior of European bees. Of course you'd want to make sure and keep them under tight wraps until you get the kinks worked out.:)
Why did I read that as "MS may push their UEFI boot-lickin' and then say bye bye to a big part of the server market then"? Oh, I guess it's because my screen is just dirty.
slashcode is smarter than you citizen. Just move along; nothing to see here. The enshrined hive-mind is not trying to keep your paranoid voice from being heard by the masses.
Oooh, one of the better Ask Slashdot's in a while IMHO.
To the OP: The Elements of Style - Makes you a better writer after reading in one sitting
How to Win Friends and Influence People" - Previously mentioned, but essential. Still, it is mostly "don't be an asshole".
The Selfish Gene - Realize the REAL power and strength of Darwin's arguments. This shows how Natural Selection 'magically' creates order in a chaotic universe.
Flatland - Also previously mentioned but really essential for breaking your brain in a good way.
War and Peace - The first big "historical fiction" I'm aware of and yet rooted in reality with a great setting to boot (the Napoleonic invasions of Russia). It would be like me writing a book on WWII. The last 100 pgs or so are good but mostly a rant though.
Madame Bovary - This book is hysterical when you realize it is just an antiquated moral justification for why woman should not read books (especially romance novels). The story's still entertaining as I recall.
1984 and Animal Farm - The usual suspects and see the next to see I'm clearly an Orwell fan.
Down and Out in Paris and London - This is where I learned that the more you pay for food at a restaurant, the more hands have touched the food (among many other things). Also, working in a Parisian kitchen in the early 20th century is like working in fast food now.
Crime and Punishment"Crime and Punishment - Get inside the mind of a thrill killer and realize even crazy people think very rationally. This is helpful when you read the latest crazy doing something inconceivable in the news and now know it seemed very logical to them at the time.
The Doors of Perception and really anything by Aldous Huxley including Brave New World - The Doors of Perception is of course where the band "The Doors" got their name and it, and the collection of associated essays I read at the time, really bring together why people like shiny things -- i.e., they associate them with god or a higher-being intuitively. I love essentially everything Huxley wrote (with Brave New World my least favorite), but his essays are fucking great!
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" - Great story, sci-fi, and allegory, a la "Star Wars", wrt to the American Revolution.
in contrast though, don't read:
Stranger in a Strange Land - Total shit, beyond the initial premise, which is good, the book is just gratuitous New Age bullshit and will rot your brain. The only value in this book is defining the term "grok" -- I know I'll get flamed for this but it's true...
I've got a few more, but I need to think about them more...
Mod parent up because the answer is GP. OP was a mercenary for the bubble times and is not interested in tech, let him burn... Programming, like many professional fields, is one you have to continue to learn because the field develops. You can't just slide by with the crappy fad info your college was spinning through you when you were an undergraduate. This OP actually disgusts me a little and is a poor excuse for a techy...uggghhhh...
How the hell is this consistent at all with, to use a buzzword, American values?
Why shouldn't I be able to cruise around in my car and offer people rides for money without City Hall's permission?
One important reason I can think of is for the rider's safety. I wouldn't knowingly get in an unlicensed tax because they could just kidnap or rob you of all your money with no ramifications. Oftentimes, people riding from airports have a lot of cash on them or other valuables and are good targets. At least with the medallions, there is some track record of the taxis and some legitimacy to them. If you were robbed you could report the taxi and potentially track it down. While just some dude in his own car could easily get away.
It sounded to me like there wasn't an electronic trace of a hacking break-in, but that someone just social-engineered their way into the accounting office, scanned the 1040s to.pdf, copied them to flash drives and walked out. I haven't RthisFA but another one that I read yesterday made it sound like that was what likely (if anything) happened. However, from most accounts, Romney's 1040s would be hundreds of papers each year, so maybe there was no scanning by the intruder at al, and they just sneakernet the stuff off someone's computer inhouse.
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Oh god, mod this up please. /. has really gone down the tubes since CmdrTaco left and DICE bought them. I really don't understand why I still come here (or even still have /. as my homepage anymore). A few more articles like this and I'm gone for good... Sad really, because /. has been my homepage since about '98-'99... Let's see if this gets deleted like some of my other posts criticizing them...
If you're in the EU, and specifically using France's Freebox, the ISPs are basically are at war with Google and neither Google or the ISPs want to pay for the pipes required to access Youtube comfortably. I have Free, and during peak times, there is definitely a slowdown in Youtube.
I believe all the features you mentioned are included in Zotero, and it can do indexing across pdfs it stores. You should check it out as they are rather responsive to updates and it is open source (and free!) Also, since it is a Firefox plugin, it can detect that you need to be behind a proxy automagically when appropriate, and so it makes adding new citations quite easy. I'm not a developer on it, but just a rather happy user! The only thing I miss from EndNote is an easy way to search Pubmed and pull citations that way, but I suspect they are working on it (or may have added it?) because I've seen other people request this feature in the forums.
Another happy Zotero user. The fact that it can typically strip citation info directly (and save/store!) pdfs is a killer feature that EndNote doesn't even have I think (at least my old version about 10). And it makes it easy to distribute whole libraries (including pdf docs) to colleagues to boot.
Could also cure breathing.
Been done many times
The Filthy Critic is back and just as good as ever. And he's always right IMHO.
If the batteries are easy to swap out, it would make "recharging" much faster compared to the Tesla's current approach that requires long waits. I don't think this is a major downside if the process can be optimized; it will just be different than the current way we think about refueling a vehicle.
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You are already logged in, so FYI, you just have to click on the text, "Click for a FREE PREVIEW of the decrypted version of this story!" to see the ROT13 translation.
I have to give kudos to /. for the most original and hilarious April fools prank. Well done! The ROT13 is genious :)
The OMG Ponies' fools day was by far the best 04/01 in /. history. This is not too horrible though.
That's rather similar to the "Frontiers" series of journals I believe.
But if you could interbreed African bees with European bees you could get the higher production of African bees in tropical environments with the docile behavior of European bees. Of course you'd want to make sure and keep them under tight wraps until you get the kinks worked out. :)
Indeed.
Miguel leaving for Mac: Action Movie Dude walking away from an explosion.
I logged in just to tell you kudos for the appropriate image in my head.
That's ok, because 75-80% of today's games are crap anyway.
Too bad they are not the same 75-80%. The games the producers expect to be popular will undoubtedly be the most draconian.
UEFI boot lock in
Why did I read that as "MS may push their UEFI boot-lickin' and then say bye bye to a big part of the server market then"? Oh, I guess it's because my screen is just dirty.
...is Linux flying off new Dell computers.
But I don't think it is random.
slashcode is smarter than you citizen. Just move along; nothing to see here. The enshrined hive-mind is not trying to keep your paranoid voice from being heard by the masses.
Recreate LyX, or clean up LyX specifically for wiki editing and make it HTML 5. What You See Is What You Mean is what wiki writing needs.
this, mod parent up.
I have no first-hand experience with this book, but it looks good, and Python is a good option for anybody IMO.
Oooh, one of the better Ask Slashdot's in a while IMHO.
To the OP:
The Elements of Style - Makes you a better writer after reading in one sitting
How to Win Friends and Influence People" - Previously mentioned, but essential. Still, it is mostly "don't be an asshole".
The Selfish Gene - Realize the REAL power and strength of Darwin's arguments. This shows how Natural Selection 'magically' creates order in a chaotic universe.
Flatland - Also previously mentioned but really essential for breaking your brain in a good way.
War and Peace - The first big "historical fiction" I'm aware of and yet rooted in reality with a great setting to boot (the Napoleonic invasions of Russia). It would be like me writing a book on WWII. The last 100 pgs or so are good but mostly a rant though.
Madame Bovary - This book is hysterical when you realize it is just an antiquated moral justification for why woman should not read books (especially romance novels). The story's still entertaining as I recall.
1984 and Animal Farm - The usual suspects and see the next to see I'm clearly an Orwell fan.
Down and Out in Paris and London - This is where I learned that the more you pay for food at a restaurant, the more hands have touched the food (among many other things). Also, working in a Parisian kitchen in the early 20th century is like working in fast food now.
Crime and Punishment"Crime and Punishment - Get inside the mind of a thrill killer and realize even crazy people think very rationally. This is helpful when you read the latest crazy doing something inconceivable in the news and now know it seemed very logical to them at the time.
The Doors of Perception and really anything by Aldous Huxley including Brave New World - The Doors of Perception is of course where the band "The Doors" got their name and it, and the collection of associated essays I read at the time, really bring together why people like shiny things -- i.e., they associate them with god or a higher-being intuitively. I love essentially everything Huxley wrote (with Brave New World my least favorite), but his essays are fucking great!
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" - Great story, sci-fi, and allegory, a la "Star Wars", wrt to the American Revolution.
in contrast though, don't read: Stranger in a Strange Land - Total shit, beyond the initial premise, which is good, the book is just gratuitous New Age bullshit and will rot your brain. The only value in this book is defining the term "grok" -- I know I'll get flamed for this but it's true...
I've got a few more, but I need to think about them more...
To the mod, how the fuck is that flamebait unless you are on the payroll of the aforementioned companies?
Mod parent up because the answer is GP. OP was a mercenary for the bubble times and is not interested in tech, let him burn... Programming, like many professional fields, is one you have to continue to learn because the field develops. You can't just slide by with the crappy fad info your college was spinning through you when you were an undergraduate. This OP actually disgusts me a little and is a poor excuse for a techy...uggghhhh...
...of the Decade in 5, 4, 3, 2...
How the hell is this consistent at all with, to use a buzzword, American values?
Why shouldn't I be able to cruise around in my car and offer people rides for money without City Hall's permission?
One important reason I can think of is for the rider's safety. I wouldn't knowingly get in an unlicensed tax because they could just kidnap or rob you of all your money with no ramifications. Oftentimes, people riding from airports have a lot of cash on them or other valuables and are good targets. At least with the medallions, there is some track record of the taxis and some legitimacy to them. If you were robbed you could report the taxi and potentially track it down. While just some dude in his own car could easily get away.
It sounded to me like there wasn't an electronic trace of a hacking break-in, but that someone just social-engineered their way into the accounting office, scanned the 1040s to .pdf, copied them to flash drives and walked out. I haven't RthisFA but another one that I read yesterday made it sound like that was what likely (if anything) happened. However, from most accounts, Romney's 1040s would be hundreds of papers each year, so maybe there was no scanning by the intruder at al, and they just sneakernet the stuff off someone's computer inhouse.