You take the photos of environmental hazards and tell them where they are. Then they'll bring huge glass domes to contain those environmental problems.
It doesn't have to be a boring lecture or class or anything. You can just tell them "Man, your smartphone can do more things than the best computers of my day could!" (Of course, this depends on your age. Assuming that most Slashdotters are old hackers, then this should work.)
Someone would file a patent on that program and then sue everyone else, therefore stopping people from using the program and saving our Internet! It's genius, I tells ya!
I one saw in a movie that triggering earthquakes would cause the earth's core to stop spinning, causing the magnetic shield to disappear and let in dangerous radiation that would kill us all. I think Stanley Tucci was in that movie...
They'll hide the messages in photos of Julian Assange and trollface comics. Then, when the government tries to take down the photos, Anonymous will splatter the Internet with the images, and the Streisand effect will have been used to aid and abet terrorism. The MPAA will use this to their advantage, and we'll enter the 2nd Dark Ages.
Around 2004--2006, I used to see numerous ads on TV for public telekiosks. They were basically a payphone, a Web terminal and a WiFi access point rolled into one. They were marketing toward business owners in high-traffic areas. I think the concept ultimately fizzled because portable consumer technology got more advanced, but this kinda reminds me of those telekiosks.
It think they're talking about adding a widget/toolbar/whatever or standalone executable that interfaces with facebook.
Well, a lot of users will already be familiar with widgets and toolbars that offer them cool features. They're probably enjoying their Super Smiley Packs and Free Stock Update Ticker Web Applet Widgets too much to care.
They knew how to use Steam to power an "engine" even in ancient Rome.
Unfortunately, they had to break the DRM to do that, and the ancient copyright czars had them executed. With the smartest members of the society gone, the Roman empire could not progress and it eventually collapsed.
No doubt you noticed that thousands were allowed to protest in public places for months on end, while you're allowed to bitch endlessly on slashdot about how much you hate your government, all without anyone knocking on your door and disappearing you in the middle of the night?
Try those things, just once, in China... see what happens.
And if you want something even simpler that uses straight C, look at dwm. Actually, Awesome was forked from dwm. With dwm, the configuration is a C source file, so you have to rebuild it every time you make a change.
dwm is very minimal. For one, the notification area is actually the root window's title, so you have to use xsetroot in your.xinitrc to customize it. There's no included support for graphical tray icons.
The tradeoff is convenient features for speed and reliability. dwm is about 2000 SLoC. It's blazing fast. There is no lag whatsoever.
If you want to use dwm, really the true way to do it is to get the source and build it. You can get pre-built binaries, but dwm is all about customization.
I use dwm on a laptop with a 15" wide-ratio screen. It's tiling nature is the best way to most efficiently use the screen space, IMHO. However, it also includes a fullscreen window mode and a floating window mode.
Oh man, do I love foobar2000! I use DeaDBeeF now. It's supposed to be a Linux clone of foobar2000. It's missing some functionality, but if you don't rely on a lot of foobar2000's extra features, then this would be a good lightweight music player for you.
Ultimately it'll be up to the company to decide whether an older researcher is worth it, even after reading the new data. I personally think it would be.
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You take the photos of environmental hazards and tell them where they are. Then they'll bring huge glass domes to contain those environmental problems.
It doesn't have to be a boring lecture or class or anything. You can just tell them "Man, your smartphone can do more things than the best computers of my day could!" (Of course, this depends on your age. Assuming that most Slashdotters are old hackers, then this should work.)
Someone would file a patent on that program and then sue everyone else, therefore stopping people from using the program and saving our Internet! It's genius, I tells ya!
Corporate origin. Government sponsorship. Plain and simple.
...how they grow up so fast!
I one saw in a movie that triggering earthquakes would cause the earth's core to stop spinning, causing the magnetic shield to disappear and let in dangerous radiation that would kill us all. I think Stanley Tucci was in that movie...
And then get sued into the ground.
They'll hide the messages in photos of Julian Assange and trollface comics. Then, when the government tries to take down the photos, Anonymous will splatter the Internet with the images, and the Streisand effect will have been used to aid and abet terrorism. The MPAA will use this to their advantage, and we'll enter the 2nd Dark Ages.
Real nice plan, buddy.
"Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.'' --The Tao of Programming.
If I take a dump and flush it down the toilet, can I then go to the waste treatment center and ask for it back?
I have a septic tank, you insensitive clod!
Why on earth is this dross modded as +4 informative? Slashdot is not what it once was.
You must be new here... Wait, no, you must be old here...
Aw, forget it!
Around 2004--2006, I used to see numerous ads on TV for public telekiosks. They were basically a payphone, a Web terminal and a WiFi access point rolled into one. They were marketing toward business owners in high-traffic areas. I think the concept ultimately fizzled because portable consumer technology got more advanced, but this kinda reminds me of those telekiosks.
I'm pretty sure that's what "nonreciprocal" means.
It think they're talking about adding a widget/toolbar/whatever or standalone executable that interfaces with facebook.
Well, a lot of users will already be familiar with widgets and toolbars that offer them cool features. They're probably enjoying their Super Smiley Packs and Free Stock Update Ticker Web Applet Widgets too much to care.
They knew how to use Steam to power an "engine" even in ancient Rome.
Unfortunately, they had to break the DRM to do that, and the ancient copyright czars had them executed. With the smartest members of the society gone, the Roman empire could not progress and it eventually collapsed.
No doubt you noticed that thousands were allowed to protest in public places for months on end, while you're allowed to bitch endlessly on slashdot about how much you hate your government, all without anyone knocking on your door and disappearing you in the middle of the night?
Try those things, just once, in China... see what happens.
No need to try it again to see what happens.
Because in THE REAL WORLD you will totally be paid a fair living wage for doing basic households tasks...OH WAIT NO YOU WON'T.
It could have been possible.
It's an anti-tautology!
What metric does the US government use to determine if some content is infringing that makes it worth shutting down access to the entire website?
Whatever they don't like.
Well, if the computer is configured to even let a boot CD load up, then I don't see why they can't just use Knoppix to get their files off the system.
And if you want something even simpler that uses straight C, look at dwm. Actually, Awesome was forked from dwm. With dwm, the configuration is a C source file, so you have to rebuild it every time you make a change.
dwm is very minimal. For one, the notification area is actually the root window's title, so you have to use xsetroot in your .xinitrc to customize it. There's no included support for graphical tray icons.
The tradeoff is convenient features for speed and reliability. dwm is about 2000 SLoC. It's blazing fast. There is no lag whatsoever.
If you want to use dwm, really the true way to do it is to get the source and build it. You can get pre-built binaries, but dwm is all about customization.
I use dwm on a laptop with a 15" wide-ratio screen. It's tiling nature is the best way to most efficiently use the screen space, IMHO. However, it also includes a fullscreen window mode and a floating window mode.
Here are some screenshots.
Is it that they didn't know, or that they didn't really care?
Oh man, do I love foobar2000! I use DeaDBeeF now. It's supposed to be a Linux clone of foobar2000. It's missing some functionality, but if you don't rely on a lot of foobar2000's extra features, then this would be a good lightweight music player for you.
Nah, more like Bonzi Buddy.
Ultimately it'll be up to the company to decide whether an older researcher is worth it, even after reading the new data. I personally think it would be.