Unix workstation, I assume? I was using 19" 1600x1200 SparcStations nearly 20 years ago. It took ages before using a Windows PC didn't feel like peeking through a keyhole.
Why decide for the user where the extra screen needs to come? Make it detachable and have some clever attachment system that lets you clip it of the left/right/top side of the laptop, or set it up as a (flimsy) stand-alone screen.
The image of Neanderthals as half apes has been obsolete for decades, if it has existed at all. Australopitheci are half apes. Neanderthals have been considered human for nearly as long as we've known about them.
The only real difference seems to be speech and exchange of ideas. When a Neanderthal invents a new tool, his tribe gets the benefit of a clever toolmaker for a generation. If a Homo Sapiens invents a new tool, in a few generations, everybody is making it too. Clearly patents and copyrights are driving us back into the stone age.
The whole point of this article is that they're still around. And not only are they still around, but they are still around in all the countries that are currently "winning" the global game of Civilization
Its not the federal government job to impose laws governing "state issues", and for whatever (stupid) reason, the issue of R18+ is considered an issue for the states.
If that were the case, then the states in favour of the R18+ rating could simply introduce it and ignore the NSW AG. But somehow states ended up with veto power over a federal issue.
"Attic" connotes unconditioned space, i.e., outside the insulation.
You mean you've got all your insulation in the floor below the attic and in the door/stairway/hatch leading to the attic, rather than in the roof above it? That seems very impractical. Not heating your attic makes sense, but not insulating it doesn't.
I think roof insulation is a much bigger factor on whether the snow melts than the color of the roof. Also, I think snow insulates, so it might not even be a good idea to remove it. But I'm not sure where that balance lies exactly. Most likely, more research is needed.
I think it costs more to cool down than to heat up,
That depends. It depends on how you cool or heat, and how much you need to. Personally I'm not a fan of A/C. I prefer just to open a few windows; usually a breeze is enough to cool the room a bit where I live. But if you live in a climate where it's often over 30 degrees, that might not work so well.
In any case, without proper insulation, the effect of living directly under a black roof is very noticeable in summer, and much less so in winter, where regular heat insulation is really what you need. Proper insulation also makes a huge difference in summer, so you're going to need that anyway. I'm pretty sure most houses in the world aren't anywhere near as well-insulated as they should be.
From what I heard, there are two things that really improved security after 9/11: reinforced cockpit doors, and passengers learning that hijackers might crash the plane.
As for the TSA nude scan and grope search, lots of security experts have pointed out that it helps nothing. In fact, turning warned and informed people back into obedient sheep could even be bad for security. And if you want to find explosives at that point, you use sniffer dogs. There is no possible way a human is ever going to be as good at it, let alone a TSA monkey.
So: doors, informed passengers, and dogs. That's all you need. Demeaning feel ups are useless or counter productive.
Exactly. I don't mean lulzsec is a force of good, but they're not really all that evil either. Certainly not compared to the organized crime that would use such break-ins for personal gain, instead of throwing the info out on the street for all to see. Lulzsec is pretty open about what they do. What they do is embarrassing, sure, but compared to real computer crime, it's only damaging to organizations who don't want to fix their security.
If they really want to do something productive, they should investigate how it's possible that government contractors are so incompetent when it comes to computer security.
I don't think microtransactions are inherently evil. They're often badly used, but in the end, it's just a tool. Like cash. Are cash transactions evil, because when you go out and spend the occasional $2 for a beer, at the end of the night it turns out you wasted $100 on stuff that just goes down the toilet?
Yes, people are foolish with money. Does that mean that more granular control over your expenses is a bad thing? It opens new opportunities. Some bad, some good.
Original vision? Lots of software never meets the original vision, especially if it comes from a particularly visionary person.
Most software actually uses release numbers like this:
1.0: It's good enough to release. It's not a test version anymore. It's not too buggy, and all the vital features are in it. Though there could still be a lot of room for improvement. + 0.1: New features were added. + 0.0.1: Bugfix release. 2.0: Thorough redesign. A significant departure from 1.0.
I appreciate your jab at Mozilla's recent Firefox version number fuck-up, though.
You're also ignoring the other possibility: that failing to license said patents, Google then intentionally worked around the patent claims (by inventing Dalvik, etc, etc).
That's exactly what I thought: if they had a license, why would they need Dalvik? As far as I understand, Dalvik's sole purpose is to avoid the JVM.
Don't forget that those lawyers are HIRED by people who create things of real value in order to protect it.
In this articular case, they're not hired to protect anything other than a potential revenue stream through patent extortion (which is of course the only thing that has real value to Oracle).
You can already choose which circles you want to see. What I want is the ability to decide what I want to see from the people in that circle. Maybe I do want to see links to TED talks and other interesting articles, but I don't want to see spam from the games they're playing, for example.
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Unix workstation, I assume? I was using 19" 1600x1200 SparcStations nearly 20 years ago. It took ages before using a Windows PC didn't feel like peeking through a keyhole.
Why decide for the user where the extra screen needs to come? Make it detachable and have some clever attachment system that lets you clip it of the left/right/top side of the laptop, or set it up as a (flimsy) stand-alone screen.
Motorola just sucks when it comes to support. My Milestone came with 2.0 and only got an update to 2.1, and that's it.
I heard that the bootloader has finally been cracked, so I guess I can finally try to get my own update.
Motorola makes awesome hardware. Too bad they choose to suck at policy, support and software.
That's why editors should actually know the language. You can't rely on technology to fix your piece of crap for you.
The image of Neanderthals as half apes has been obsolete for decades, if it has existed at all. Australopitheci are half apes. Neanderthals have been considered human for nearly as long as we've known about them.
The only real difference seems to be speech and exchange of ideas. When a Neanderthal invents a new tool, his tribe gets the benefit of a clever toolmaker for a generation. If a Homo Sapiens invents a new tool, in a few generations, everybody is making it too. Clearly patents and copyrights are driving us back into the stone age.
The whole point of this article is that they're still around. And not only are they still around, but they are still around in all the countries that are currently "winning" the global game of Civilization
You mean China and India?
Is it politically correct these days to use the phrase "Homo" in front of any words?
Why? Are the kin of other hominids likely to feel themselves excluded and discriminated against?
Sweetener? What the _fuck_ is this, kindergarten?
Yes. Many politicians and political bodies behave like selfish brats. Especially when they have too much power and perceive a threat to that.
Its not the federal government job to impose laws governing "state issues", and for whatever (stupid) reason, the issue of R18+ is considered an issue for the states.
If that were the case, then the states in favour of the R18+ rating could simply introduce it and ignore the NSW AG. But somehow states ended up with veto power over a federal issue.
"Attic" connotes unconditioned space, i.e., outside the insulation.
You mean you've got all your insulation in the floor below the attic and in the door/stairway/hatch leading to the attic, rather than in the roof above it? That seems very impractical. Not heating your attic makes sense, but not insulating it doesn't.
I think roof insulation is a much bigger factor on whether the snow melts than the color of the roof. Also, I think snow insulates, so it might not even be a good idea to remove it. But I'm not sure where that balance lies exactly. Most likely, more research is needed.
I think it costs more to cool down than to heat up,
That depends. It depends on how you cool or heat, and how much you need to. Personally I'm not a fan of A/C. I prefer just to open a few windows; usually a breeze is enough to cool the room a bit where I live. But if you live in a climate where it's often over 30 degrees, that might not work so well.
In any case, without proper insulation, the effect of living directly under a black roof is very noticeable in summer, and much less so in winter, where regular heat insulation is really what you need. Proper insulation also makes a huge difference in summer, so you're going to need that anyway. I'm pretty sure most houses in the world aren't anywhere near as well-insulated as they should be.
From what I heard, there are two things that really improved security after 9/11: reinforced cockpit doors, and passengers learning that hijackers might crash the plane.
As for the TSA nude scan and grope search, lots of security experts have pointed out that it helps nothing. In fact, turning warned and informed people back into obedient sheep could even be bad for security. And if you want to find explosives at that point, you use sniffer dogs. There is no possible way a human is ever going to be as good at it, let alone a TSA monkey.
So: doors, informed passengers, and dogs. That's all you need. Demeaning feel ups are useless or counter productive.
I believe that at night, zombies come to eat you. But people seem to consider that more of a distraction of the real fun of Minecraft.
In the world I lived in yesterday, Slashdot was about computers rather than sports. Reality is definitely a strange place today.
Exactly. I don't mean lulzsec is a force of good, but they're not really all that evil either. Certainly not compared to the organized crime that would use such break-ins for personal gain, instead of throwing the info out on the street for all to see. Lulzsec is pretty open about what they do. What they do is embarrassing, sure, but compared to real computer crime, it's only damaging to organizations who don't want to fix their security.
If they really want to do something productive, they should investigate how it's possible that government contractors are so incompetent when it comes to computer security.
I don't think microtransactions are inherently evil. They're often badly used, but in the end, it's just a tool. Like cash. Are cash transactions evil, because when you go out and spend the occasional $2 for a beer, at the end of the night it turns out you wasted $100 on stuff that just goes down the toilet?
Yes, people are foolish with money. Does that mean that more granular control over your expenses is a bad thing? It opens new opportunities. Some bad, some good.
I don't wait for 1.0, I just think it's silly to keep something in perpetual beta. Though that does seem to be the thing to do, nowadays.
Original vision? Lots of software never meets the original vision, especially if it comes from a particularly visionary person.
Most software actually uses release numbers like this:
1.0: It's good enough to release. It's not a test version anymore. It's not too buggy, and all the vital features are in it. Though there could still be a lot of room for improvement.
+ 0.1: New features were added.
+ 0.0.1: Bugfix release.
2.0: Thorough redesign. A significant departure from 1.0.
I appreciate your jab at Mozilla's recent Firefox version number fuck-up, though.
That's what I thought. Wasn't PuTTY release-ready 10 years ago? At this pace, by the time they make an official 1.0 release, it's already obsolete.
You're also ignoring the other possibility: that failing to license said patents, Google then intentionally worked around the patent claims (by inventing Dalvik, etc, etc).
That's exactly what I thought: if they had a license, why would they need Dalvik? As far as I understand, Dalvik's sole purpose is to avoid the JVM.
Don't forget that those lawyers are HIRED by people who create things of real value in order to protect it.
In this articular case, they're not hired to protect anything other than a potential revenue stream through patent extortion (which is of course the only thing that has real value to Oracle).
But a DMCA takedown is a lot easier, clearly.
Everything about this story makes me wonder if lawyers might be monkeys.
You can already choose which circles you want to see. What I want is the ability to decide what I want to see from the people in that circle. Maybe I do want to see links to TED talks and other interesting articles, but I don't want to see spam from the games they're playing, for example.