It's a communications platform for people with the ability to be concise (or the inability to come up with a response longer than 144 characters long).
Which would be great, if it would actually show posts in chronological order by post. It doesn't. It shows things in chronological order by last comment or some other ridiculous measure, ignoring the fact that facebook notifies you about replies and comments already, and always has.
Perl used to be central to so many things (the 'glue' language for the internet), but seems to be slowly falling out of use in deference to javascript, java, python, vbscript/powershell, etc. It's the language I used in my first job as a system administrator (back around the time you gave your first interview), and I loved it.
With so many years between the announcement of Perl 6 and it's completion, many people moved on to other solutions or technologies. Perl 6 is here now, but why should I use it?
yeah, that one wouldn't work for me. I hated the wide keyboard on my original moto droid, too. I always wanted a narrow slide-down (like a hidden blackberry curve keyboard), but I'm not spending $600 on it.
That's an answer to my question that makes me very sad. Apparently, the misuse has become common enough in this context that it's now in the dictionary, so the answer to my question is "yes, we've given up".
The article was talking about acoustic vibrations (sound). Lessening vibration is called damping. Dampening has connotations related to emotion that do not apply in the same way, but the words are similar enough and dampen misused enough that now it doesn't matter, apparently.
The only problem that matters is that it's too expensive. WAY too expensive. Would I love to have a speedy android phone with a narrow-format blackberry-style physical keyboard? Yep. For over $600? You have to be kidding me. Maybe at $300 ($150 subsidized), I'd bite. I do hate onscreen keyboards, but not *that* much.
See my reply to Stolpskott. It's not about caring, its about resources. There are a huge number of videos getting posted and a huge number of takedown requests.
Which is a great idea, if you can afford to employ enough people to do that. The rightsholders should be responsible for screening their takedown requests. The problem is that there's no limit placed on the supposed rightsholders to prevent them from abusing the system for automated takedowns without reviewing them first. Again, that was forced on YouTube by the rights agencies. Again, why blame YouTube?
Apparently she's a shill for the RIAA (or so I would assume, as I have not yet RTFA). I'm guessing it doesn't affect you. I'm guessing it may not, in fact, affect Maria Schneider, depending on what her specific accusation is.
That's probably a fair statement of the general sentiment on this case. As someone who has strong feelings on why APIs *should* be non-copyrightable, I can't imagine how Oracle winning would benefit even Oracle, aside from a very short-term cash infusion.
No, they don't. They take their own VM that happens to use the same signatures for non-copyrightable API interface definitions as Java and use it as a vehicle to take control of every aspect of your life via Android. There are no winners in the real world if Oracle wins this lawsuit. Say goodbye to interoperability, web services, and the venerable hyperlink, based on the logic Oracle is using in this suit.
As someone who has dealt with cash flow issues in the past (gotta love that Army pay), I'd say that the banks would probably love to do away with cash, as they could charge customers overdraft fees more often if they don't just let them withdraw a chunk of cash once.
Way back when I was an E-4 with an ex, a toddler, and a new wife, if I needed to make it 5 days until payday, and didn't want to get charged 20-35 bucks for each thing I bought using overdraft, I would withdraw $100 in cash and get charged once. It's like a fixed-cost loan with an interest rate that gets less ridiculous the more you borrow.
If you get rid of cash, the banks do great. I guess you could still do something like the above by purchasing a reloadable mastercard or visa, though.
I'd love some empirical evidence of how pervasive that modding behavior is. I'm not worried about my karma tanking for making a post that people disagree with. If I get disagreement, then that starts a discussion, and we can hopefully come to an understanding of each others' position, if not agreement on what's "right". Modding on posts that are a part of that discussion is secondary to the discussion itself. That said, a moderation of "-1 Incorrect" would be an obvious complement to "+1 Insightful", and lead to an improved ability to metamod for abuses.
That's true, but most of those sensitive people don't continue to visit Slashdot. Additionally, many of those people only seem sensitive because they lack the means to rebut the views of others that they find objectionable. Those kinds of people don't add to the discourse anyway.
That kind of discount would be attractive, if the rate never changed (yeah, right). My main worry (and the reason I wouldn't sign up period) is that I have zero control over who connects, zero knowledge of how the device provides the service, and zero ability to ensure that it won't have adverse effects on either my service or devices on my network.
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It's a communications platform for people with the ability to be concise (or the inability to come up with a response longer than 144 characters long).
Right...hence my comment replying to a comment about High Frequency RF signals and water.
Technically, HF (shortwave, CB) and water mix just fine...EHF and water, however, do not ;)
*sigh* Truer words were never spoken.
Oh, they gave me a full refund of $0.00, but I reserve the right to bitch about software that I use.
Which would be great, if it would actually show posts in chronological order by post. It doesn't. It shows things in chronological order by last comment or some other ridiculous measure, ignoring the fact that facebook notifies you about replies and comments already, and always has.
I would spend mod points on this AC post.
Oh, I realize that Perl 5 is still there, and the nature of the schism between the two versions.
I'm really looking forward to Larry (hopefully) responding to "why should I use it?".
Perl used to be central to so many things (the 'glue' language for the internet), but seems to be slowly falling out of use in deference to javascript, java, python, vbscript/powershell, etc. It's the language I used in my first job as a system administrator (back around the time you gave your first interview), and I loved it.
With so many years between the announcement of Perl 6 and it's completion, many people moved on to other solutions or technologies. Perl 6 is here now, but why should I use it?
yeah, that one wouldn't work for me. I hated the wide keyboard on my original moto droid, too. I always wanted a narrow slide-down (like a hidden blackberry curve keyboard), but I'm not spending $600 on it.
That's an answer to my question that makes me very sad. Apparently, the misuse has become common enough in this context that it's now in the dictionary, so the answer to my question is "yes, we've given up".
The article was talking about acoustic vibrations (sound). Lessening vibration is called damping. Dampening has connotations related to emotion that do not apply in the same way, but the words are similar enough and dampen misused enough that now it doesn't matter, apparently.
Comparative graph for usage of "acoustic damping" and "acoustic dampening" since 1920
Discussion of this topic.
Is it official now? Have we given up on explaining that dampening something makes it wet? Dampened != Damped.
And Verizon is trying to sell them for $720???
The only problem that matters is that it's too expensive. WAY too expensive. Would I love to have a speedy android phone with a narrow-format blackberry-style physical keyboard? Yep. For over $600? You have to be kidding me. Maybe at $300 ($150 subsidized), I'd bite. I do hate onscreen keyboards, but not *that* much.
See my reply to Stolpskott. It's not about caring, its about resources. There are a huge number of videos getting posted and a huge number of takedown requests.
Which is a great idea, if you can afford to employ enough people to do that. The rightsholders should be responsible for screening their takedown requests. The problem is that there's no limit placed on the supposed rightsholders to prevent them from abusing the system for automated takedowns without reviewing them first. Again, that was forced on YouTube by the rights agencies. Again, why blame YouTube?
Why should YouTube also be blamed for this? Why should they be blamed for following the takedown process that the MPAA/RIAA forced upon them?
Apparently she's a shill for the RIAA (or so I would assume, as I have not yet RTFA). I'm guessing it doesn't affect you. I'm guessing it may not, in fact, affect Maria Schneider, depending on what her specific accusation is.
That's probably a fair statement of the general sentiment on this case. As someone who has strong feelings on why APIs *should* be non-copyrightable, I can't imagine how Oracle winning would benefit even Oracle, aside from a very short-term cash infusion.
No, they don't. They take their own VM that happens to use the same signatures for non-copyrightable API interface definitions as Java and use it as a vehicle to take control of every aspect of your life via Android. There are no winners in the real world if Oracle wins this lawsuit. Say goodbye to interoperability, web services, and the venerable hyperlink, based on the logic Oracle is using in this suit.
...to which the answer would be 33 1/3 %, not 25%.
As someone who has dealt with cash flow issues in the past (gotta love that Army pay), I'd say that the banks would probably love to do away with cash, as they could charge customers overdraft fees more often if they don't just let them withdraw a chunk of cash once.
Way back when I was an E-4 with an ex, a toddler, and a new wife, if I needed to make it 5 days until payday, and didn't want to get charged 20-35 bucks for each thing I bought using overdraft, I would withdraw $100 in cash and get charged once. It's like a fixed-cost loan with an interest rate that gets less ridiculous the more you borrow.
If you get rid of cash, the banks do great. I guess you could still do something like the above by purchasing a reloadable mastercard or visa, though.
I'd love some empirical evidence of how pervasive that modding behavior is. I'm not worried about my karma tanking for making a post that people disagree with. If I get disagreement, then that starts a discussion, and we can hopefully come to an understanding of each others' position, if not agreement on what's "right". Modding on posts that are a part of that discussion is secondary to the discussion itself. That said, a moderation of "-1 Incorrect" would be an obvious complement to "+1 Insightful", and lead to an improved ability to metamod for abuses.
That's true, but most of those sensitive people don't continue to visit Slashdot. Additionally, many of those people only seem sensitive because they lack the means to rebut the views of others that they find objectionable. Those kinds of people don't add to the discourse anyway.
That kind of discount would be attractive, if the rate never changed (yeah, right). My main worry (and the reason I wouldn't sign up period) is that I have zero control over who connects, zero knowledge of how the device provides the service, and zero ability to ensure that it won't have adverse effects on either my service or devices on my network.