I don't understand your numbers. I talk in Celsius.
I talk in English myself.
NASA is US-based, Slashdot is US-based, and the US uses Fahrenheit as the common measure of temperature. As for Kelvin, it's very easy for the rest of us to convert it to Celsius.
depends on whether the primary source of the offending heat is internal or external.
(no i did not RTFA)
A real shame there. You didn't even read the summary. It's not really a source of offending heat that's the issue so much as a lack of proper cooling. The outer, secondary cooling tank is depleted. The primary one is still functional but apparently it's not enough to keep it at optimal temperature.
Well, hell hath no fury like a geek who's been mildly inconvenienced.
It saddens me how truthful your comment is.
Once, the author of a webcomic I read posted the day's comic a few hours late. When the comic eventually was posted he also posted a pissed off message saying he had received literally hundreds of emails from angry people, many of whom were threatening to sue for not posting the comic as scheduled. Apparently waiting a few hours for 30 seconds of free entertainment ruined their day.
Translation: get a jersey, hat, pennant, and bumper sticker with the logo of your local sports team. Wear all of the aforementioned items and glue your ass to a recliner for the next several hours while drinking beer, eating chips and yelling at the little men inside the TV like a normal male because that is clearly a healthier hobby.
How do you cut down the list of applicants to interview?
Throw out every resumé that has spelling errors, cutesy fonts or the phrase "references available upon request". That's your first cut. The second cut is anyone who tells you what their former job duties were instead of quantifying how well they did the job (i.e. "cashier - handled cash" vs "customer service rep - highest net sales three months in a row").
Those two steps will probably cut your list by about 90% and you have much higher odds of hiring someone who is motivated and takes pride in what they do.
...while the exploit is only used (that we know of) for the jailbreak at this point, it could potentially be used for much worse...to wait for the next more substantial update to patch the exploit would be careless on Apple's part.
If the good guys know about an exploit the bad guys have probably been exploiting it for a while. I miss the good old days when a virus just meant your hard drive was hosed.
Going to college makes a person no more educated than going to a garage makes them a car.
One of my classmates literally paid his way through school, he bought all the assignments. At the end of the day, we have the same degree. How does learning to cheat yourself factor into a successful career?
As someone who owns a motorbike... I have to say there really are times when 100KPH over the speed limit is still safe.
(and that says enough)
Don't be an idiot. Seriously.
I was driving safely under the conditions once, following the speed limit, wearing the gear, and a truck didn't stop at a stop sign. I hit that truck at highway speeds and spent nearly two years in rehab, and that was when doing everything right. The day after I landed in the hospital some kid had hit a dog in a residential zone and ended up in a coma, and from what I heard he did everything right as well. One guy I knew put his bike down and broke his leg when a bee flew into his helmet and stung his face.
Enough shit happens to those of us who ride without asking for it. People like you are the reason everybody else thinks bikers are asking for all the things that go wrong. Come back here after you've snapped your femur and tell me asking for trouble is worth it.
I LOLed. What you posted reads like the police were looking into this incident anyway and just happened to find that thread. Maybe they just punched the details into Google on the assumption the guy was stupid enough to brag about it "anonymously" and struck gold.
Most people I've seen with touchscreen phones have them literally attached to their hip at all times, they'd probably notice pretty quickly if it went missing. Besides, if someone is going through the trouble of stealing your phone in the first place I doubt having to read smudges to unlock it will be much of a hindrance.
... and at some point quitting in a spectacular way becomes worth it.
No matter how much you hate your job you should never burn a bridge. Even if you hate the job with every fiber of your being and it goes against all your morals you should still try to quit on the best terms possible because there is always a chance how you handled yourself in that situation will come back to you. You don't have to be friends with everyone when you walk out the door but you need to take the emotion out of it. Just say you can't handle the work and be ready to explain why at your next interview.
A few years ago we had someone "quit" (get fired) in a spectacular fashion. At no point did my boss say a single bad word about the person, even during the incident or well after he had left, but word still got around that he fired him. Several months later this person applied for a job at a completely different company where the owner happened to know my boss and he wouldn't hire the guy just on the fact that my boss had fired him because he must have done something bad and this guy didn't want to find out what.
Next time there's a police car behind you at a red light, once the light turns green squeal the tires and floor it until you hit the speed limit. You'll learn quickly that it is actually possible to get a fine for high acceleration.
One of my former roommates showed us all kinds of stupid stunts you can get ticketed for. I'm not sure how he managed to pay for college on top of it.
I remember a line from a eulogy I heard once: "if you're an asshole in life, you're an asshole in death". While I have no particularly strong opinion on the matter, it's a tall order to expect people to change their opinion of someone just because they died.
Whatever jokes were made about him while he was alive will continue to be made about him now that he's dead, and he will live on in peoples' memories because of it.
Look what we have here. The village idiot announcing his leetness for using adblock. What do you think would happen if everyone started using adblock? Would we have less or more intrusive ads? Would it be easier or harder to block them?
You are as smart as a guy who found a trick to get free money out of ATMs and then goes telling everyone about it when they complain about their financial hardships.
I suppose it comes down to how people use Adblock. I only block the ads that bother me (popups, popunders, eyegougers, etc.). Relevant inline ads that don't distract from the rest of the site can lead to some really interesting discoveries.
Is this a good thing for creating verifiable stats on the number of users, or a bad thing because of the "phone home" behaviour.
At least it's not doing this secretly...
I'm leaning towards thinking of this as a good thing done badly.
While it's not done secretly it's doesn't appear to be opt-in (on OEM machines) either. For that reason, the fact that it phones home doesn't sit well with me. What I'd like to see is a popup on the first boot with a message explaining what the package is, why it's a good thing, and a simple yes/no question like "do you want to help us out?". That way the user is able to make an informed decision that works for them, which is what I believe Linux in general is supposed to be about.
Not that it matters, though. I could never really understand why someone wanted to make a GNU/Linux distribution as attractive to the mainstream as possible. I can't see any benefit in doing so, other than the software becoming more and more "user-friendly" (read, inept for expert users).
Ubuntu does for Linux what Mythbusters do for science: it gets people interested. Linux shouldn't be hard, it should be exactly as difficult as you want it to be, and most users want it to be easy. That's why Ubuntu is so popular. It may not be as "real" as many people want it to be but it creates that initial spark of interest in the average person by showing them that Linux can be easy.
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I don't understand your numbers. I talk in Celsius.
I talk in English myself.
NASA is US-based, Slashdot is US-based, and the US uses Fahrenheit as the common measure of temperature. As for Kelvin, it's very easy for the rest of us to convert it to Celsius.
depends on whether the primary source of the offending heat is internal or external.
(no i did not RTFA)
A real shame there. You didn't even read the summary. It's not really a source of offending heat that's the issue so much as a lack of proper cooling. The outer, secondary cooling tank is depleted. The primary one is still functional but apparently it's not enough to keep it at optimal temperature.
So what is Slashdot's policy about death?
Pickup is on Thursdays, I believe.
Well, hell hath no fury like a geek who's been mildly inconvenienced.
It saddens me how truthful your comment is.
Once, the author of a webcomic I read posted the day's comic a few hours late. When the comic eventually was posted he also posted a pissed off message saying he had received literally hundreds of emails from angry people, many of whom were threatening to sue for not posting the comic as scheduled. Apparently waiting a few hours for 30 seconds of free entertainment ruined their day.
I post messages like that anyway, and I'm still alive! People will probably shit their pants when they see what I post after I die.
It's also one of the issues of using a text-based medium to communicate.
Translation: get a jersey, hat, pennant, and bumper sticker with the logo of your local sports team. Wear all of the aforementioned items and glue your ass to a recliner for the next several hours while drinking beer, eating chips and yelling at the little men inside the TV like a normal male because that is clearly a healthier hobby.
How do you cut down the list of applicants to interview?
Throw out every resumé that has spelling errors, cutesy fonts or the phrase "references available upon request". That's your first cut. The second cut is anyone who tells you what their former job duties were instead of quantifying how well they did the job (i.e. "cashier - handled cash" vs "customer service rep - highest net sales three months in a row").
Those two steps will probably cut your list by about 90% and you have much higher odds of hiring someone who is motivated and takes pride in what they do.
...while the exploit is only used (that we know of) for the jailbreak at this point, it could potentially be used for much worse...to wait for the next more substantial update to patch the exploit would be careless on Apple's part.
If the good guys know about an exploit the bad guys have probably been exploiting it for a while. I miss the good old days when a virus just meant your hard drive was hosed.
In current-day Russia, cosmonauts smash into asteroid.
Going to college makes a person no more educated than going to a garage makes them a car.
One of my classmates literally paid his way through school, he bought all the assignments. At the end of the day, we have the same degree. How does learning to cheat yourself factor into a successful career?
For $2,000 I'll build you one that goes to 12.
Albeit possible to find examples that violate either half, perhaps it should be forfeited entirely.
Being an atheist foreigner on Slashdot, I just had to out-pedant you. Please enjoy this post at your leisure. ;)
Fucking top-poster
, how do they work?
As someone who owns a motorbike ... I have to say there really are times when 100KPH over the speed limit is still safe.
(and that says enough)
Don't be an idiot. Seriously.
I was driving safely under the conditions once, following the speed limit, wearing the gear, and a truck didn't stop at a stop sign. I hit that truck at highway speeds and spent nearly two years in rehab, and that was when doing everything right. The day after I landed in the hospital some kid had hit a dog in a residential zone and ended up in a coma, and from what I heard he did everything right as well. One guy I knew put his bike down and broke his leg when a bee flew into his helmet and stung his face.
Enough shit happens to those of us who ride without asking for it. People like you are the reason everybody else thinks bikers are asking for all the things that go wrong. Come back here after you've snapped your femur and tell me asking for trouble is worth it.
I LOLed. What you posted reads like the police were looking into this incident anyway and just happened to find that thread. Maybe they just punched the details into Google on the assumption the guy was stupid enough to brag about it "anonymously" and struck gold.
Most people I've seen with touchscreen phones have them literally attached to their hip at all times, they'd probably notice pretty quickly if it went missing. Besides, if someone is going through the trouble of stealing your phone in the first place I doubt having to read smudges to unlock it will be much of a hindrance.
... and at some point quitting in a spectacular way becomes worth it.
No matter how much you hate your job you should never burn a bridge. Even if you hate the job with every fiber of your being and it goes against all your morals you should still try to quit on the best terms possible because there is always a chance how you handled yourself in that situation will come back to you. You don't have to be friends with everyone when you walk out the door but you need to take the emotion out of it. Just say you can't handle the work and be ready to explain why at your next interview.
A few years ago we had someone "quit" (get fired) in a spectacular fashion. At no point did my boss say a single bad word about the person, even during the incident or well after he had left, but word still got around that he fired him. Several months later this person applied for a job at a completely different company where the owner happened to know my boss and he wouldn't hire the guy just on the fact that my boss had fired him because he must have done something bad and this guy didn't want to find out what.
He should have used "AAAAAAAAAAAAA! Accident? Attorney!" to secure first place.
AC makes a good point. Here's an ASCII drawing I whipped up instead:
Next time there's a police car behind you at a red light, once the light turns green squeal the tires and floor it until you hit the speed limit. You'll learn quickly that it is actually possible to get a fine for high acceleration.
One of my former roommates showed us all kinds of stupid stunts you can get ticketed for. I'm not sure how he managed to pay for college on top of it.
I remember a line from a eulogy I heard once: "if you're an asshole in life, you're an asshole in death". While I have no particularly strong opinion on the matter, it's a tall order to expect people to change their opinion of someone just because they died.
Whatever jokes were made about him while he was alive will continue to be made about him now that he's dead, and he will live on in peoples' memories because of it.
Look what we have here. The village idiot announcing his leetness for using adblock. What do you think would happen if everyone started using adblock? Would we have less or more intrusive ads? Would it be easier or harder to block them?
You are as smart as a guy who found a trick to get free money out of ATMs and then goes telling everyone about it when they complain about their financial hardships.
I suppose it comes down to how people use Adblock. I only block the ads that bother me (popups, popunders, eyegougers, etc.). Relevant inline ads that don't distract from the rest of the site can lead to some really interesting discoveries.
Is this a good thing for creating verifiable stats on the number of users, or a bad thing because of the "phone home" behaviour.
At least it's not doing this secretly...
I'm leaning towards thinking of this as a good thing done badly.
While it's not done secretly it's doesn't appear to be opt-in (on OEM machines) either. For that reason, the fact that it phones home doesn't sit well with me. What I'd like to see is a popup on the first boot with a message explaining what the package is, why it's a good thing, and a simple yes/no question like "do you want to help us out?". That way the user is able to make an informed decision that works for them, which is what I believe Linux in general is supposed to be about.
Not that it matters, though. I could never really understand why someone wanted to make a GNU/Linux distribution as attractive to the mainstream as possible. I can't see any benefit in doing so, other than the software becoming more and more "user-friendly" (read, inept for expert users).
Ubuntu does for Linux what Mythbusters do for science: it gets people interested. Linux shouldn't be hard, it should be exactly as difficult as you want it to be, and most users want it to be easy. That's why Ubuntu is so popular. It may not be as "real" as many people want it to be but it creates that initial spark of interest in the average person by showing them that Linux can be easy.