"Not for me it made me throw up. but then again so does fake3D now."
Can only be 2 things:
1. You have an eye problem, go see a doctor.
2. You get fooled by the 3d and try to watch some detail in the background that you're no supposed to watch and your eyes try to bring it into focus until your head almost bursts. Do that for a couple of minutes and you'll be sick as a dog or have a nice headache.
If he can't see stereoscopically, he already knows he has an eye problem. Mine is lazy eye; didn't feel ill, but it was a completely flat movie for me.
Also, if the polarizing tape on the damned glasses has a bubble, you get a blurry spot that doesn't help.
We use an instant messenger product at work, and the programmers often use it to ask me questions. I will spend about 20-30 seconds to type a 4-6 sentence response. They will take 2 minutes to respond with 4-5 words. BTW, you can see when they are responding, so I know they are typing the entire time.
The fastest typing speed ever, 216 words in one minute, was achieved by Stella Pajunas in 1946 on an IBM electric.[6][7][8][9] As of 2005, writer Barbara Blackburn was the fastest English language typist in the world, according to The Guinness Book of World Records. Using the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, she has maintained 150 wpm for 50 minutes, and 170 wpm for shorter periods. She has been clocked at a peak speed of 212 wpm.
One of the most notable online records considered genuine is 256 wpm (a record caught on video) on TypeRacer by American Sean Wrona, the inaugural Ultimate Typing Championship winner, which is considered the highest legitimate score ever set on the site.
Hey, the guy wants to be the world's best secretary. He said nothing about being any good at using a search engine.
Microsoft bought off all the national bodies of ISO when they ramrodded through their undocumented and impossible to implement "document standard".
Cite please. I'm not asking for a check number, just someone else even making this accusation instead of the usual idiotic assumption that everyone in the standards bodies is all clamoring for a handout from Microsoft.
OMG! you have to remap your knowledge! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
how did Apple ever survive when they did exactly the same thing to their user base 12 years ago?
They made it worth the effort, and they also kept a lot of things at least fairly similar.
For instance, I've still never learned the Office Ribbon, I simply switched to OpenOffice which was close enough. I just don't use Office enough for it me to relearn all that stuff.
If the soldiers you know wouldn't fire on the American people, you don't need a gun. If they would you need to use the guns you have NOW. if the founders of USA were here today, they wouldn't be looking in pride at the success of their second ammendment. They would be instead saying, "who the fuck gave these niggers and scum weapons?"
I think the founders would have a lot more respect for black soldiers than white liberals who pin a maple leaf to their backpacks when they tour Europe.
People in the military really do take their oath seriously, but in a really bad scenario of a violent upheaval, it wouldn't be clear who the good guys were. There would be violent conflict, and civilians would want offensive weaponry, assault rifles, to defend innocents from the kinds of depravities you normally get during times of war.
It's not the well organized military that people would be defending themselves from as much as gangs of thugs that would take advantage of the fog of war to loot cities, rape, etc. And you don't want to just be able to shoot back, but to actually mount small counterattacks. It's that kind of slow, bloody attrition that can defeat an aggressive force.
That's why having an armed populace, in addition to a loyal military, would make it very difficult for a strongman to emerge and take control.
I am as stunned as you are. How many other localized/.s are there I wonder? Is there a slashdot in Russia? Germany? I think its neat. Sadly I don't read any Japanese at all.
I can't really see the benefit of Windows 8 over 7 at the moment though so I'm considering going back.
Then conversely I assume you can't see the benefit of Windows 7 over 8. So why bother reinstalling Windows 7?
The fact that 8 moves stuff around means you have to learn where things are.
MS seems to alternate between good and bad releases: 3.1 was, for its technology, quite solid, 95 was buggy as all hell, 98 was quite good, then ME was a mess. Similarly, NT 4 kinda sucked, then 2000 was very good, XP just added ugly window dressing, Vista was a nightmare, then 7 was quite good, and it seems like 8 is a mess.
Thanks for pointing out a minor bug in my project design. The answer, of course, is it doesn't matter. If a "tech" site is getting flooded with unemployed journalism grads posting stereotypical political talking points who cares if they're being paid or not, block the fools.
AstroturfBlock would be exactly like how I don't care if an ad account is in collections with the middlemen, or its a donation, or whatever, I just want adblock to block ads.
Okay, fair enough. The major bug, then, is that astroturf works because people buy it. Like all the fake shit *constantly* going around Facebook.
You're trying to solve the troll problem: blocking the troll is easy peasy, it's blocking all the assholes who feed the troll that's the problem.
Okay, granted, "deny: *.facebook.com", but there are a lot of false positives there.
I am going to start writing articles with headlines like "What is the average height of giraffes?" Answer: No. "How much do you plan to eat of the holidays?" Answer: No
I shall be rich!
Can't wait for the German edition. "Should I vear lederhosen or bundhosen? NEIN! Vill ve invade Russia or Poland? NEIN! Do you prefer Strauss or Wagner? NEIN!"
This would have been a lot more fun about two months ago to detect paid political astroturfers.
The ultimate AI-ish application would be an astroturfer plugin for chrome probably called "AstroturfBlock". So the site is a "tech" site, the contents are pure politics, and the text analysis system indicates an unemployed liberal arts degree holder... Go ahead and block it.
How is it going to detect whether people were paid to write something?
The Republicans effectively control the Senate and will continue to do so until either of the following happens: 1. The Democrats have 60 Senators (excluding Blue Dog Democrats) or 2. The filibuster is reformed to require actual filibustering instead of the mere threat of filibustering.
You can't filibuster a budget resolution, only a simple majority is required. That's the big lie the Dems keep pushing to avoid taking responsibility for not passing a budget. They don't want to pass one because if they do, they either have to take responsibility for the ballooning deficit *or* for cutting handouts to their constituencies.
Stokols believes this service will disrupt others such as FON, another free Wi-Fi startup. That’s because FON cuts deals with large telecommunications providers such as BT, while FreedomPop doesn’t need to. FON users do not share the majority of their access, because they are home users where others in residential areas do not need access as much, he says.
First, the military, the police and the courts literally provide no value. (And don't tell me, "I bet you wouldn't say that to a soldier" because I am a veteran.) What they do is prevent destructive behavior through greater destruction. It's necessary for a free society to exist, but you and I aren't better off because someone else is wasting away in jail, we'd be better off if they had never committed the crime. Wars do *not* generate wealth, that's the Broken Window Fallacy.
So, which 98% of the government would you scrap?
Ah, the faux-Libertarian argument.
66% of the spending (Table 11.1) is not roads military and police, it is transferring wealth, literally writing checks to individuals. People think that politicians are bought, but really, politicians have been buying voters over the years.
Now while that has grown (as a % of GDP) from 2% to 66% over the years, and look at table 15.1 from the same. Government receipts have stayed steady as a % of GDP; even when the nation was united in WWII we were not able to significantly increase receipts to cover our spending.
The reality is that we have a crisis of spending too much. Our interest payments are continuing to increase, and if we fully lose our AAA rating, our government will stop providing all the services you value so much. We will spend all our money on interest payments, instead.
So if you believe in an active government that will continue to provide services, you should support efforts to balance the budget by cutting these programs.
Always good to be reassured that the market reflects the intrinsic value of the companies instead of behaving as a high-tech casino.
There is a reason why people who need numbers that are provably random, compute a hash value of stock indexes. Wall Street has build the world's most sophisticated (P)RNG.
Cite please. And if the cite says "we use the least significant digit of stock prices", I'm calling you full of shit.
By the way, I spoke to a trader who writes these algorithms.
She (yeah, she) told me that she thought it was evil, but she is paid too well to say anything. She seriously makes a half million USD per year AND has a private account in the trading system that returns 3% PER DAY.
Hotair.com aka mouthpiece of the most delusional of fringe republicans.
They're simply quoting the Fordham institute's study, of course. But when you have no facts to fall back on, I guess accusing everyone else of being "delusional" is the best you can do.
Due credit that XKCD touched on the topic, but I actually have a cogent explanation of why it makes sense. And I'd go on about how you should think for yourself, but I had the satisfaction of modding someone else redundant when they posted a link and a blurb.
What an incredibly good idea. Here's hoping one of them does. An enormous illegal expansion of the number of TOR exit nodes would be fascinating. And possibly fantastic. Even if it is stolen resources. It would probably last a very long time, too, given that typical botnet infestations can go for years without being removed.
I would imagine they'd use a protocol that allowed them to charge for transmission. If that's not feasible, it's probably why we haven't seen it yet.
The old tautology, "if you outlaws firearms, only outlaws will have firearms" applies to Tor. (In fact, I'd go as far as to argue that many cryptographic mechanisms are covered by the second amendment, especially if you consider cryptography's military purpose, and that some ciphers have been regulated by the DOD as munitions. They cover the same role in protecting your property, identity and reputation from aggression, and as the "well regulated militia" clause demands, pseudonymous discussions are necessary tools to help people discuss political matters.)
The simple truth is you can shut down all the law-abiding people with Tor nodes, and the botnet creators will just run Tor nodes on their network. It would be absolutely trivial for botnet owners to get together and set up huge Tor networks and put access up for pay on the black market.
Slashdot Mirror
It means ur fat.
A primitive form of fat?
What will you do after your office closes due to being less productive than other workplaces?
It's probably government. And, most likely, 90% of the users just use SSH and don't tell anyone.
"Not for me it made me throw up. but then again so does fake3D now."
Can only be 2 things:
1. You have an eye problem, go see a doctor.
2. You get fooled by the 3d and try to watch some detail in the background that you're no supposed to watch and your eyes try to bring it into focus until your head almost bursts. Do that for a couple of minutes and you'll be sick as a dog or have a nice headache.
If he can't see stereoscopically, he already knows he has an eye problem. Mine is lazy eye; didn't feel ill, but it was a completely flat movie for me.
Also, if the polarizing tape on the damned glasses has a bubble, you get a blurry spot that doesn't help.
We use an instant messenger product at work, and the programmers often use it to ask me questions. I will spend about 20-30 seconds to type a 4-6 sentence response. They will take 2 minutes to respond with 4-5 words. BTW, you can see when they are responding, so I know they are typing the entire time.
It's called editing.
According to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute
The fastest typing speed ever, 216 words in one minute, was achieved by Stella Pajunas in 1946 on an IBM electric.[6][7][8][9] As of 2005, writer Barbara Blackburn was the fastest English language typist in the world, according to The Guinness Book of World Records. Using the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, she has maintained 150 wpm for 50 minutes, and 170 wpm for shorter periods. She has been clocked at a peak speed of 212 wpm.
One of the most notable online records considered genuine is 256 wpm (a record caught on video) on TypeRacer by American Sean Wrona, the inaugural Ultimate Typing Championship winner, which is considered the highest legitimate score ever set on the site.
Hey, the guy wants to be the world's best secretary. He said nothing about being any good at using a search engine.
Microsoft bought off all the national bodies of ISO when they ramrodded through their undocumented and impossible to implement "document standard".
Cite please. I'm not asking for a check number, just someone else even making this accusation instead of the usual idiotic assumption that everyone in the standards bodies is all clamoring for a handout from Microsoft.
OMG! you have to remap your knowledge! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
how did Apple ever survive when they did exactly the same thing to their user base 12 years ago?
They made it worth the effort, and they also kept a lot of things at least fairly similar.
For instance, I've still never learned the Office Ribbon, I simply switched to OpenOffice which was close enough. I just don't use Office enough for it me to relearn all that stuff.
I like how you're so insecure in your political beliefs that you have to turn any statement about the founding fathers into some anti-liberal rant.
Thanks for the lesson on insecurity in one's beliefs, Anonymous Coward.
If the soldiers you know wouldn't fire on the American people, you don't need a gun. If they would you need to use the guns you have NOW.
if the founders of USA were here today, they wouldn't be looking in pride at the success of their second ammendment.
They would be instead saying, "who the fuck gave these niggers and scum weapons?"
I think the founders would have a lot more respect for black soldiers than white liberals who pin a maple leaf to their backpacks when they tour Europe.
People in the military really do take their oath seriously, but in a really bad scenario of a violent upheaval, it wouldn't be clear who the good guys were. There would be violent conflict, and civilians would want offensive weaponry, assault rifles, to defend innocents from the kinds of depravities you normally get during times of war.
It's not the well organized military that people would be defending themselves from as much as gangs of thugs that would take advantage of the fog of war to loot cities, rape, etc. And you don't want to just be able to shoot back, but to actually mount small counterattacks. It's that kind of slow, bloody attrition that can defeat an aggressive force.
That's why having an armed populace, in addition to a loyal military, would make it very difficult for a strongman to emerge and take control.
I am as stunned as you are. How many other localized /.s are there I wonder? Is there a slashdot in Russia? Germany? I think its neat.
Sadly I don't read any Japanese at all.
Nor do I, but Chrome obliged, and soon enough I verified that it is Slashdot and definitely Japanese.
article headline: You can determine the "taste", "smell" computer years, 5 IBM?
subject: I M chairman of Japan
comment: It is not to be arrested for sample the smell of women's underwear in the train.
I know.
Then conversely I assume you can't see the benefit of Windows 7 over 8. So why bother reinstalling Windows 7?
The fact that 8 moves stuff around means you have to learn where things are.
MS seems to alternate between good and bad releases: 3.1 was, for its technology, quite solid, 95 was buggy as all hell, 98 was quite good, then ME was a mess. Similarly, NT 4 kinda sucked, then 2000 was very good, XP just added ugly window dressing, Vista was a nightmare, then 7 was quite good, and it seems like 8 is a mess.
Thanks for pointing out a minor bug in my project design. The answer, of course, is it doesn't matter. If a "tech" site is getting flooded with unemployed journalism grads posting stereotypical political talking points who cares if they're being paid or not, block the fools.
AstroturfBlock would be exactly like how I don't care if an ad account is in collections with the middlemen, or its a donation, or whatever, I just want adblock to block ads.
Okay, fair enough. The major bug, then, is that astroturf works because people buy it. Like all the fake shit *constantly* going around Facebook.
You're trying to solve the troll problem: blocking the troll is easy peasy, it's blocking all the assholes who feed the troll that's the problem.
Okay, granted, "deny: *.facebook.com", but there are a lot of false positives there.
I just had a sudden thought. A brainwave!
I am going to start writing articles with headlines like "What is the average height of giraffes?" Answer: No. "How much do you plan to eat of the holidays?" Answer: No
I shall be rich!
Can't wait for the German edition. "Should I vear lederhosen or bundhosen? NEIN! Vill ve invade Russia or Poland? NEIN! Do you prefer Strauss or Wagner? NEIN!"
This would have been a lot more fun about two months ago to detect paid political astroturfers.
The ultimate AI-ish application would be an astroturfer plugin for chrome probably called "AstroturfBlock". So the site is a "tech" site, the contents are pure politics, and the text analysis system indicates an unemployed liberal arts degree holder... Go ahead and block it.
How is it going to detect whether people were paid to write something?
"Isn't the Senate Democratic now?"
The Republicans effectively control the Senate and will continue to do so until either of the following happens: 1. The Democrats have 60 Senators (excluding Blue Dog Democrats) or 2. The filibuster is reformed to require actual filibustering instead of the mere threat of filibustering.
You can't filibuster a budget resolution, only a simple majority is required. That's the big lie the Dems keep pushing to avoid taking responsibility for not passing a budget. They don't want to pass one because if they do, they either have to take responsibility for the ballooning deficit *or* for cutting handouts to their constituencies.
FTFA:
Stokols believes this service will disrupt others such as FON, another free Wi-Fi startup. That’s because FON cuts deals with large telecommunications providers such as BT, while FreedomPop doesn’t need to. FON users do not share the majority of their access, because they are home users where others in residential areas do not need access as much, he says.
First, the military, the police and the courts literally provide no value. (And don't tell me, "I bet you wouldn't say that to a soldier" because I am a veteran.) What they do is prevent destructive behavior through greater destruction. It's necessary for a free society to exist, but you and I aren't better off because someone else is wasting away in jail, we'd be better off if they had never committed the crime. Wars do *not* generate wealth, that's the Broken Window Fallacy.
So, which 98% of the government would you scrap?
Ah, the faux-Libertarian argument.
66% of the spending (Table 11.1) is not roads military and police, it is transferring wealth, literally writing checks to individuals. People think that politicians are bought, but really, politicians have been buying voters over the years.
Now while that has grown (as a % of GDP) from 2% to 66% over the years, and look at table 15.1 from the same. Government receipts have stayed steady as a % of GDP; even when the nation was united in WWII we were not able to significantly increase receipts to cover our spending.
The reality is that we have a crisis of spending too much. Our interest payments are continuing to increase, and if we fully lose our AAA rating, our government will stop providing all the services you value so much. We will spend all our money on interest payments, instead.
So if you believe in an active government that will continue to provide services, you should support efforts to balance the budget by cutting these programs.
So true. High-frequency trading should be made illegal, like most things which just extract money from others without providing value in return.
I doubt the government is going to make 98% of itself illegal.
There is a reason why people who need numbers that are provably random, compute a hash value of stock indexes. Wall Street has build the world's most sophisticated (P)RNG.
Cite please. And if the cite says "we use the least significant digit of stock prices", I'm calling you full of shit.
By the way, I spoke to a trader who writes these algorithms.
She (yeah, she) told me that she thought it was evil, but she is paid too well to say anything. She seriously makes a half million USD per year AND has a private account in the trading system that returns 3% PER DAY.
Yikes.
You're making that up.
all other years being private schooled.
Attending a private school does not mean you're wealthy. There are plenty of private schools full of children from low and middle class families.
Oh yeah, from all walks of life. For instance, in Chicago, almost 40% of public school teachers send their kids to private schools. What it comes down to is they're just trying to get a decent education for their children.
Hotair.com aka mouthpiece of the most delusional of fringe republicans.
They're simply quoting the Fordham institute's study, of course. But when you have no facts to fall back on, I guess accusing everyone else of being "delusional" is the best you can do.
all other years being private schooled.
Attending a private school does not mean you're wealthy. There are plenty of private schools full of children from low and middle class families.
Oh yeah, from all walks of life. For instance, in Chicago, almost 40% of public school teachers send their kids to private schools. What it comes down to is they're just trying to get a decent education for their children.
Due credit that XKCD touched on the topic, but I actually have a cogent explanation of why it makes sense. And I'd go on about how you should think for yourself, but I had the satisfaction of modding someone else redundant when they posted a link and a blurb.
What an incredibly good idea. Here's hoping one of them does. An enormous illegal expansion of the number of TOR exit nodes would be fascinating. And possibly fantastic. Even if it is stolen resources. It would probably last a very long time, too, given that typical botnet infestations can go for years without being removed.
I would imagine they'd use a protocol that allowed them to charge for transmission. If that's not feasible, it's probably why we haven't seen it yet.
The old tautology, "if you outlaws firearms, only outlaws will have firearms" applies to Tor. (In fact, I'd go as far as to argue that many cryptographic mechanisms are covered by the second amendment, especially if you consider cryptography's military purpose, and that some ciphers have been regulated by the DOD as munitions. They cover the same role in protecting your property, identity and reputation from aggression, and as the "well regulated militia" clause demands, pseudonymous discussions are necessary tools to help people discuss political matters.)
The simple truth is you can shut down all the law-abiding people with Tor nodes, and the botnet creators will just run Tor nodes on their network. It would be absolutely trivial for botnet owners to get together and set up huge Tor networks and put access up for pay on the black market.