LOL, a troll customised to a story is becoming an unusual thing!
Note to anyone who even takes this a little seriously: Tech support may be done by SSH'ing into the root account of a Linux machine, from there you have full control. Installing Flash, or whatever, via the command line is documented many thousands of times.
If you've never used Unix/Linux do not be afraid, the Bash etc command line is very simple and common commands are very well documented on very many websites, it's kinda similar to Command Prompt on Windows, but with loads of little programs all pre-installed (i.e. you don't have to download a bunch of stuff before a computer can do anything useful).
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"And if Slashdot agreed with you, then one way or another this would not have been posted."
Slashdot has been, and always will be, it's comments, without fail far more insightful than it's submissions or editorial.
Then there was Idle. Complete crap that just doesn't fit in. Wasn't that why Digg was invented?
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Children really need engaging and giving them some mysterious electronic box that will likely hypnotize them is a dangerous thing. This also goes for TV. Introduce the kid to other kids. Give them a normal life and not one where they spend their childhood staring at some tv screen or some computer screen. If you let children follow their own path (with some guidance of course), you tend to get some pretty amazing results.
Ugly mess with no information to let me know whether I actually want to click through to a story. As stated above, go to User Preferences and de-select 'Use Beta Index'.
New features are nice, but not when imposed instead of being made available to choose. In particular I saw no message or story about this - perhaps it'd be nice to put something at the top of the page.
I may get modded down, I only intend these as suggestions to help us user Slashdot in the great way we're used to.
What is a number? We have Real, Integers, etc. But what was a number 1000 years ago to someone for whom counting was about all numbers were useful? It was a set. 0 was an empty set. Babylonian mathematics had no symbol for 0, just a space, the Sanskrit word 0 was 'void' - going way back in India numbers were represented by dots within in a circle up to 10 (my old maths teacher always posited this was because we had 10 fingers).
When we speak about 0 and the very human nature of counting, I dispute that 0 is a number, simple an absence. When we look at number theory 0 has to be a number, when we delve into CS we get a crossover between something is counted as 0 (and therefore 0) or whether something is null/void, where it is empty but thousands of years ago would have been considered analogous with 0 - perhaps complimented with an adjective to suggest it was counted or absent, that I don't know.
Progression of education and science is a great thing.
When I was opening my first bank account (independently opening, back in 1995) I wrote a similar response on the form to Mother's Maiden Name as you stated above - a little more secure. Only to have the bank call my home to tell me that could not be a maiden name, please state her maiden name. Either HSBC or Natwest, I forget now which. 1995. I hope awareness over security has increased.
No Adblock and no Noscript, not allowed to be installed (though I can have such things as Chinese Pera-kun...). A further, when on the redirected page and pressed Refresh my browser attempted to print the page. Yeah, ironic for a print advert.
When clicking on this story I'm presented with the assigned advert and nothing else. Looks like when the page is loading it comes through but when the ad has fully loaded it kicks me to blocking all content other than the advert (hitting back on the browser I can see the same advert and the page doesn't blank out in a similar way). The advert is for Samsung printers and requests me to press Ctrl+P. FF3 XP SP3 (yeah, work computer, at least I get FF). Anyone else?
In 2001 I travelled from London to Hong Kong on a KLM 747 (well, the second longer leg). I was upgraded to business class, row 1 first deck where the deck narrowed towards the nose of the plane. And they had American Psycho as part of the on-demand movies. It was awesome. I was unaware if it ran Linux, it just worked, which is what all components of an aeroplane should do.
Are you illiterate? Why do you use 'where' in place of 'were'? Is this some meme I'm not getting? At the most simple level 'where' refers to a place while 'were' refers to the past (if... going to...).
Oh how times have changed. When in Imperial (1997, FK Hall in Southside, now raised to the ground and re-built, a great shame) we'd have 3 floors of rooms, 8 rooms per floor, around a central spiral staircase (there were 16 such staircase units, 8 across and two up, 8 coming off (above) the 1st floor communal area and 8 above the 5th floor communal area - this particular design was devised in the late 50s/early 60s and made rioting students easier to compartmentalise and contain the rioting, there were no riots but it made a really nice 'community' feel between the 23 fellow staircasers).
I digress. About 4 of us in one staircase had a computer, yet there was no Internet connection and no telephone lines. In the end we got together and ran a phone line from the 1st floor communal area up the staircase and devised a switch to allow each computer to connect. It didn't always work and WinSock was a real pain.
Damn, how things have changed, Southside sucked in so many regards but it was fun 'hacking' the building, underground passages and more. Are the computer labs (I used EEE, CS and Maths) still 24 hour?
Depends on the scale, but on larger scales ball bearings have become decidedly uncommon over the past 5 decades, instead replaced by roller bearings and their load balancing variants.
Human's are fascinated with Rube Goldberg-type machines. It would be even better if there were balls rolling around an endless track as part of the process...
Do you refer to Sneakernet?
Back in the day it was only 1.44MB bandwidth but the latency sucked. Not bandwidth it 4GB plus but latency is not much better.
Pretty soon Mother Nature will be doing the same to the animal known as Homo sapiens... the food shortage will be caused by idle farming equipment, and the 'insert less sophisticated race' will no longer be able to sustain their 250 and 500 million citizens.
Isn't that a well regarded theory how Homosapiens adapted and became? Stick around for another 10,000 years and see what we have? It's either going to be Idiocracy or something I've not thought of.
Complaint about the misuse of irony in the original comment, even thought there was a good chance it was used correctly. Something about karma whoring. Also request other users do not post AC.
I really don't think this is a bad idea. As for the personal dating thing, have some video link on their Jabber server and make the 'first date' an online chat for the first date.
Brings together what Google is good at - data search, and a good platform for selling ads on.
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LOL, a troll customised to a story is becoming an unusual thing! Note to anyone who even takes this a little seriously: Tech support may be done by SSH'ing into the root account of a Linux machine, from there you have full control. Installing Flash, or whatever, via the command line is documented many thousands of times. If you've never used Unix/Linux do not be afraid, the Bash etc command line is very simple and common commands are very well documented on very many websites, it's kinda similar to Command Prompt on Windows, but with loads of little programs all pre-installed (i.e. you don't have to download a bunch of stuff before a computer can do anything useful). This post was brought to you by 'It just (just!) might be a troll financed by an MS FUD campaign, therefore deserves a response.'
A bit like Star Trek meets Matrix meets Stargate?
You so wasted 3 minutes writing that response!
Change.gov is owned by a charity foundation chaired by Obama and Biden, it's not a Federal website.
"And if Slashdot agreed with you, then one way or another this would not have been posted." Slashdot has been, and always will be, it's comments, without fail far more insightful than it's submissions or editorial. Then there was Idle. Complete crap that just doesn't fit in. Wasn't that why Digg was invented?
Bravo Sir, well said.
Ugly mess with no information to let me know whether I actually want to click through to a story. As stated above, go to User Preferences and de-select 'Use Beta Index'.
New features are nice, but not when imposed instead of being made available to choose. In particular I saw no message or story about this - perhaps it'd be nice to put something at the top of the page.
I may get modded down, I only intend these as suggestions to help us user Slashdot in the great way we're used to.
What is a number? We have Real, Integers, etc. But what was a number 1000 years ago to someone for whom counting was about all numbers were useful? It was a set. 0 was an empty set. Babylonian mathematics had no symbol for 0, just a space, the Sanskrit word 0 was 'void' - going way back in India numbers were represented by dots within in a circle up to 10 (my old maths teacher always posited this was because we had 10 fingers).
When we speak about 0 and the very human nature of counting, I dispute that 0 is a number, simple an absence. When we look at number theory 0 has to be a number, when we delve into CS we get a crossover between something is counted as 0 (and therefore 0) or whether something is null/void, where it is empty but thousands of years ago would have been considered analogous with 0 - perhaps complimented with an adjective to suggest it was counted or absent, that I don't know.
Progression of education and science is a great thing.
When I was opening my first bank account (independently opening, back in 1995) I wrote a similar response on the form to Mother's Maiden Name as you stated above - a little more secure. Only to have the bank call my home to tell me that could not be a maiden name, please state her maiden name. Either HSBC or Natwest, I forget now which. 1995. I hope awareness over security has increased.
No Adblock and no Noscript, not allowed to be installed (though I can have such things as Chinese Pera-kun...). A further, when on the redirected page and pressed Refresh my browser attempted to print the page. Yeah, ironic for a print advert.
When clicking on this story I'm presented with the assigned advert and nothing else. Looks like when the page is loading it comes through but when the ad has fully loaded it kicks me to blocking all content other than the advert (hitting back on the browser I can see the same advert and the page doesn't blank out in a similar way). The advert is for Samsung printers and requests me to press Ctrl+P. FF3 XP SP3 (yeah, work computer, at least I get FF). Anyone else?
In 2001 I travelled from London to Hong Kong on a KLM 747 (well, the second longer leg). I was upgraded to business class, row 1 first deck where the deck narrowed towards the nose of the plane. And they had American Psycho as part of the on-demand movies. It was awesome. I was unaware if it ran Linux, it just worked, which is what all components of an aeroplane should do.
Are you illiterate? Why do you use 'where' in place of 'were'? Is this some meme I'm not getting? At the most simple level 'where' refers to a place while 'were' refers to the past (if... going to...).
The "known knowns and known unknowns" speech now seems a major contribution to modern philosophy.
Oh how times have changed. When in Imperial (1997, FK Hall in Southside, now raised to the ground and re-built, a great shame) we'd have 3 floors of rooms, 8 rooms per floor, around a central spiral staircase (there were 16 such staircase units, 8 across and two up, 8 coming off (above) the 1st floor communal area and 8 above the 5th floor communal area - this particular design was devised in the late 50s/early 60s and made rioting students easier to compartmentalise and contain the rioting, there were no riots but it made a really nice 'community' feel between the 23 fellow staircasers).
I digress. About 4 of us in one staircase had a computer, yet there was no Internet connection and no telephone lines. In the end we got together and ran a phone line from the 1st floor communal area up the staircase and devised a switch to allow each computer to connect. It didn't always work and WinSock was a real pain.
Damn, how things have changed, Southside sucked in so many regards but it was fun 'hacking' the building, underground passages and more. Are the computer labs (I used EEE, CS and Maths) still 24 hour?
Depends on the scale, but on larger scales ball bearings have become decidedly uncommon over the past 5 decades, instead replaced by roller bearings and their load balancing variants.
WINE is as to Windows as Mono is as to .NET
This is basic logical reasoning.
Human's are fascinated with Rube Goldberg-type machines. It would be even better if there were balls rolling around an endless track as part of the process...
You mean it might contain bearings?
What efficiency level are we speaking? $0.50/TCE?
Do you refer to Sneakernet? Back in the day it was only 1.44MB bandwidth but the latency sucked. Not bandwidth it 4GB plus but latency is not much better.
Isn't that a well regarded theory how Homosapiens adapted and became? Stick around for another 10,000 years and see what we have? It's either going to be Idiocracy or something I've not thought of.
That further post made be someone else in the thread replying to the wrong post.
Complaint about the misuse of irony in the original comment, even thought there was a good chance it was used correctly. Something about karma whoring. Also request other users do not post AC.
Comment to complain about grammer and spelling promlem's that the very reply also exhibits.
I really don't think this is a bad idea. As for the personal dating thing, have some video link on their Jabber server and make the 'first date' an online chat for the first date.
Brings together what Google is good at - data search, and a good platform for selling ads on.