"Web 2.0" transforms so much otherwise perfectly functional hardware into environmentally-unfriendly junk
Find me a "web 2.0" site that requires anything newer than a decade and get back to me. "web 2.0" is meaningless marketing not a tech spec anyway.
Like many (most?)/.ers I have multiple machines on my desk and the experience on my oldest "secondary" box is basically identical to my newest. So it boots and starts chrome slower, who cares, once chrome starts I can't tell the difference.
Every cities got that one car repair shop where they don't care about individual customers because they've got the Big Corporate Contract or the Big Govt Contract.
Then a zillion competitors open who actually care about individual customers.
Inevitably the "all eggs in one basket" contract repair shop has an epic fail when the contract ends or the competitive competitors do so much better that the contract repair shop is left in the dust.
I used to take my car to the local.gov contract shop because my father was a friend of a friend type of deal, otherwise they would not deal with a peon like me. I actually loved it because their workers were used to contract work and had no idea how to BS regular retail customers like me, and the office people barely knew how to bill me (I must be one of the few individuals in the country who paid for CV joint replacement on a Net30 line of credit?). They didn't even have a real waiting room... it was weird yet cool. It advise try it if you get the chance. It was pretty weird, a giant lot full of cop cars and fire engines and yellow DPW service trucks surrounding my little plymouth horizon. Some places do service internally but this was one of those public-private partnerships where a campaign donor charges twice what the internal service department ever charged, etc.
Heins blames the company's downfall [partly] on LTE in the U.S
Do any customer decision makers make decisions based on LTE, or even know what LTE is beyond marketing? No.
What killed RIM was they were the first to market and became the corporate near-monopoly standard. They focused hard on F500 customers because thats the only place where the money was in the smartphone market. Until everyone and their brother bought a iphone, which tipped the overall market from being dominated by corporate to being dominated by hipsters buying iphone apps.
Its a balance thing. There are layers of markets. They focused super hard solely on the corporate sub-market of the greater smartphone market, in the early years that submarket was probably 99% of the total market so that was an excellent idea... at that time. Despite being a nearly monopoly player, they actually did a pretty good job almost outta the goodness of their heart. The problem, is years later, the individual submarket explosively grew to a large multiple of the subcorporate market, so they're now a small time player in the overall smartphone market, in a field of near natural monopoly where small time players simply go out of business.
If they could have released the iphone instead of apple... If they could have become the "android competitor equivalent" to iphone instead of the Mighty GOOG... but they didn't... so bye bye.
A good/. car analogy would be there was recently a fad of obese landwhale SUVs which were so popular they tipped the whole automotive market toward SUVs. Then the fad ended. Whoops. Companies that didn't just tilt toward the SUV side but ran as fast as they could to the extreme while ignoring the rest of the market are toast.
Don't worry about changing the $5 disposable mush-board hardware. Worry about changing software. I would imagine cursor movement in VI or nethack is pretty agonizing on dvorak layout.
I've been hearing this stuff since I saw ads for dvorak replacement keyboards in 1982. Probably has been around longer. Nothing WRT this argument has really changed since then. Unimpressed.
McLagen has not responded to requests for comments on the relaunched site.
Now that would be an epic/. interview article. Unless one of the ground rules was "the first rule about fight club is we don't talk about standard linux, err fight club"
Oh and I forgot another step of my exten.conf script.
Certain numbers get a GOTO to line 100 where I ring every phone in the house plus an analog adapter with a weird phone ringer on it. Mom, Granny, auntie, workplace, friends, coworkers, neighbors, you get the idea, basically if we know them, we get a special ring.
However unknown numbers fall thru to line 50 or so and only ring the regular phones.
You can do multiple lines with voip and selective ringtones and such, but it turns out to be simpler and cheaper to just do some analog weirdness to a special extension.
When I was single and living alone I shut off my ringer and did not accept incoming calls. Message service only... I enjoyed my freedom.
Then you end up with political party A reporting political party B and vice versa. And naughty high school kids reporting each other and/or the truancy reporting office. You need a meta moderation system like/.
one thing I'm working on is a hardware device that will use
Not trying to rain on your parade, and hey, if it works for you, go and do it, but once you have an asterisk PBX and voip working, setting up some caller ID routing rules is almost terminally simple as shown below.
So in/etc/asterisk/exten.conf you'll have a stanza for incoming calls
[provider-in]
Now inside that start if/then routing kicking junk out. Now please be patient with me, I'm old, tired, and this is from memory, and asterisk config language is like F-ing LISP but ten times worse in how even something "simple" needs endless nested parens, brackets, and curlies.
I also have a line 300 termination that simply hangs up on certain blacklisted numbers. and a "ZapaTeller" or whatever its called that squirts SIT (disconnected) tones. And I believe I have a milliwatt termination, and a music on hold termination in there somewhere.
Now as a practical matter this is an excellent way to learn who blocks caller ID and who doesn't. I've made some weird discoveries like one of my kids doctors categorically blocks outgoing caller ID every time he calls (annoying). Also the school. Other than that, no problemo.
Whenever I mention this, I get breathless FUD about how the world might end because a CIA agent can't call me to tell me to hack into NORAD and block the missile launch. Oh wait that was the movie "Wargames" again. Well anyway the point is ignore the FUDders they aren't worth it.
Now that you've invited Slashdot, you'll have grumpy people, awkward silence, and a whole bunch of sweaty fat men staring at pictures of Natalie Portman and hot grits.
Look on the bright side, that's better than goatse or 2G1C
(insert theoretical creepiness in some sports here)
The gymnastics chicks are already fully pedo bear compatible, so at least with some events its not like they could possibly get any creepier. I dated a gymnast chick in high school and she was informed that she was looking "too old" to compete, because the judges only like the preteen look and she looked like a normal girl her age. So she was thinking about going into coaching because she didn't look pre-teen enough anymore yet she was pretty skilled. Some events are already maxed out freaky icky and completely unappealing so at least with some events its not like it could get any worse.
Could we clone the Olympics and have an event with the same questionable "sports" but no corporate sponsorship, no control-freaks, no rules-lawyers, no TV commercials by the winners, no idiotic sports announcers (at least in the USA; compare "ninja warrior" as imported from Japan to the tired formulaic coverage on the locally produced shows). Basically clone the olympics, flush the trash down the drain, and try the new improved cleaned up version?
Just a international group getting together and flinging javelins for the heck of it? I'd much rather see a "renn-faire re-enactment of real olympics" than see the trashy modern TV version.
Also could we get rid of non-Olympic events? The ancient Greek biathlon in the winter games complete with high powered target rifles? The ancient greek triathlon in the summer games with bicycling? Come on, get real, just because it involves people sweating doesn't mean its a sport, or I'm going to demand the "oil change competition" or the "lawn mowing competition" be inaugurated next time. OK we can stop slavering olive oil on the athletes, and some "sports" really are safer with clothing, but other than those minor concessions to modernity I think the shot put is more "olympic" than synchronized swimming.
To sum: If the graphics server crashes, I'd like to see it automatically restart with Upstart, and then the clients automatically reconnect.
I encourage my competitors to implement this, etc etc. You know what would be hilarious? Your buggy hardware (I haven't had a X crash in, I don't even know, certainly more than a decade) combined with root logged in and doing some admin GUI thing. X crashes. Logs itself back in. Before the user gets to interact, the GUI admin thing crashes X again. Repeat infinitely. Oh no problemo just log in as root to break that loop... errr... thats not gonna work because its root who's stuck in the loop. Wipe the hard drive and reinstall?
In ye dark ages of firefox I have run into this, where bringing up some cruddy coded web page full of cruft crashed FF (which admittedly should have failed gracefully, but still, cruft is cruft) and then on restart FF asks if I wanna restore my session. Oh heck no, that's just gonna crash FF again!
On the other hand, given basically bug free client and server software, you've just described the behavior of NFS, AFS, probably a couple other networked filesystems. I've never had to reboot a client because of a server problem in NFS or AFS. The server comes back online and all is well as if nothing happened.
Maybe its trying to be modern art? Not supposed to be useful, or appealing, or beautiful, or traditional, or deeply thought provoking, just intended to momentarily inflame some passions or inspirations as people walk by on their way to doing real work on Mint and Debian and android and osx etc? A feeling, rather than a thought? Like gastrointestinal pain feeling vs the thought of refactoring a data parsing and importation routine? Of course those two are probably more closely related than you'd wish, but the point stands?
There's nothing inherently wrong about any work of art. You can be wrong about trying to "use it" for certain tasks, or maybe wrong to use it at all to do anything. But as a piece of art it can be interesting to look at, as a... escapist form of fine art, before returning to the real world to do real stuff with real tools.
I don't particularly like Picasso's work. That it exists has no impact on the paper in my real world life, my junkmail, my reports, my old fashioned printed books...
Without X we will lose network transparency among many other great features. Let's not even mention the lack of gpu support to say the least.
VDPAU? They don't mention it, so I assume its going bye bye. Its kind of funny in that everything I use X for is everything Wayland opposes.
Just this weekend I was ssh -X into my mythtv backend to run the config program to add another capture card running X over the network, so my binary only nvidia cards using VDPAU have more to look at. I never use stupid animations and other 3-d foolishness on my desktop because I'm unimpressed; its the 2010's version of the 1980's demand that all desktop publishing projects must use a minimum of 50 different ugly fonts to show off that you can do it. I prefer my content to be my primary interest, not my window animations. Of course all of that is impossible over wayland. Thanks guys for exactly what I don't need! Maybe you could make it eink and touch screen only, just to annoy me further?
When I was young, we had text screens and you needed to basically be literate to "do stuff" with text, capable of abstract thought and reasoning. That was OK, only us elite used computers anyway. Then we had to squander processing power and programmer effort to make everything GUI graphical to make it as simple as possible for illiterate noobs and damn the productivity collapse to the literate. But, hey, at least I get a nice screen and when I'm allowed to use old fashioned "text" instead of incomprehensible icons, pretty fonts for my text. Modern display technology can be pretty nice! Now we have to cover those nice screens and pretty fonts with an encrustation of smeared finger grease. I'm not overly fond of most UI work done since the mid 1980s.
I don't think the decline of: 1) Must be able to read and write and memorize text. To: 2) Must be able to understand hieroglyphic pictograms and memorize muscle memory of GUI menus and icons. To: 3) Must be able to play with virtual playdough and virtual fingerpaints and memorize nothing because we're taking features away now is evolution. More like... de-evolution.
Would I be correct in summarizing that as if you shouldn't be doing it or it doesn't matter, outsource it, otherwise insource it?
I have seen outsourcing success in short term projects... in the telecom world if you're doing a forklift upgrade of a PBX, either you don't have enough people or you have way too many full timers (or you've only got like 50 phones... I'm talking about 1000+ phone offices).
Also I've seen outsourced cabling work go pretty well. Horrifically expensive compared to insourcing to a noob, but unlike most outsourcing that crashes and burns this merely bled cash.
"Who signs their paycheck?" is the single most important question to ask, thanks for bringing that up.
I didn't think Germany measured distances in small nukes also.
Old.mil saying I heard a long time ago. There's a lot of variations but they all rely on you wanna be at least a KM away per KT at least for small values of KT. Once you get up to 100 or so the linear scaling breaks down pretty badly. Or another way to put it is if there's a grid of cities 10 KM apart you're wasting valuable fissionables if you hit each with more than 10 KT or so since that would be about the right value to relatively evenly toast an area. Dropping multiple 9 MT on a 10KM grid would be a bit excessive...
Its an old.mil saying because the assumption was because.ru overpowered us about 10 to 1, the forces in Germany would pretty much be a speed bump during an invasion until the NCA got around to releasing the nukes, at which point things get pretty messy.
Bored? Grab your phone and run the app "GPS status" or probably a million similar apps, maybe even some free ones. Then move stuff around on your desk to see how the field changes. I can vary it about 20% by waving my steel clipboard around the phone. Now its possible with enough filtering you can assume changes are solely due to movement rather than me trying to sabotage the data gathering, and perhaps the map is actually of the 1st (or 2nd?) derivative of the field around my desk rather than just mapping the raw data so it doesn't matter if I'm IronMan and you're not, or if our phones do not have absolute calibration.
If I had more time on my hands I'd throw a fridge magnet on the floor, and try to "find the titanic" using the magnetometer and some string and graph paper and walking a grid pattern, or maybe pulling my phone along the floor on the grid pattern. Very much like the movie, I'll probably get bored halfway thru this titanic experiment. But it would probably work. Someone out there in/. land oughta try this, maybe try a big chunk of ferrous metal too, like a manhole cover (try not to get run over...)
Actually, as a geek I'm finding that the GOOG is letting me down more and more.
My son, I feel your pain, you need to restore your faith in the one, true, mighty, GOOG. Perhaps were you wantonly coveting your neighbors iPhone instead of bowing in reverence to our masters Android come down from heaven? The Mighty GOOG knows your thoughts, and shame on you. Now when our elders and ancestors suffered a shortage of mailbox diskspace quota, did not our holy master deliver us gmail, raining down disk space from the data CLOUD in the sky? Did not his mightyness roll back the google WAVE on his very command? Does he not make a data CLOUD rain RSS updates of/.s stories into his mighty goog Reader? Now step over here and let me make the sign of the goog PLUS on your forehead and sin no more. Say 50 www.google.com's while meditating on not falling into following the evil minon of shiney rounded rectanges, St Jobs, or St Gates of the UEFI apocalypse, and I suspect your images.google.com searches for the mighty cavern of goatse will once again be successful. So help us, as we kneel toward MountainView in supplication.
The reason they decided to de-emphasize Jefferson was that he coined the phrase "separation of church and state".
Well, that's the reported excuse. Journalists...
I suspect the real reason for the hatred towards Jefferson is the famous Jefferson Bible. Jefferson and his bible has gotta be a kick in the nuts for the mythological belief in the founding fathers being hard core fundamentalists.
too easy for them to accuse original, true e-copies as being false works
There's always digital notary services to timestamp something, crypto signed documents to prove who signed it, etc.
VERY unpopular (intentionally?) but hardly technologically impossible or an inherent issue with the media. If everyone used pencils with erasers, and refused to use indelible ink, that doesn't mean paper technology is at fault.
Slashdot Mirror
420,000? Is that like 100,000 people smokin' the reefer?
More like 420,000 people use(d) something I've never heard of?
I wonder if unknown websites would make up some imaginary accounts and intentionally release them to create buzz?
Its not like there's any penalty for public release of information, and all PR is good PR anyway, so..
"Web 2.0" transforms so much otherwise perfectly functional hardware into environmentally-unfriendly junk
Find me a "web 2.0" site that requires anything newer than a decade and get back to me. "web 2.0" is meaningless marketing not a tech spec anyway.
Like many (most?) /.ers I have multiple machines on my desk and the experience on my oldest "secondary" box is basically identical to my newest. So it boots and starts chrome slower, who cares, once chrome starts I can't tell the difference.
Oh oh better /. car analogy:
Every cities got that one car repair shop where they don't care about individual customers because they've got the Big Corporate Contract or the Big Govt Contract.
Then a zillion competitors open who actually care about individual customers.
Inevitably the "all eggs in one basket" contract repair shop has an epic fail when the contract ends or the competitive competitors do so much better that the contract repair shop is left in the dust.
I used to take my car to the local .gov contract shop because my father was a friend of a friend type of deal, otherwise they would not deal with a peon like me. I actually loved it because their workers were used to contract work and had no idea how to BS regular retail customers like me, and the office people barely knew how to bill me (I must be one of the few individuals in the country who paid for CV joint replacement on a Net30 line of credit?). They didn't even have a real waiting room... it was weird yet cool. It advise try it if you get the chance. It was pretty weird, a giant lot full of cop cars and fire engines and yellow DPW service trucks surrounding my little plymouth horizon. Some places do service internally but this was one of those public-private partnerships where a campaign donor charges twice what the internal service department ever charged, etc.
Heins blames the company's downfall [partly] on LTE in the U.S
Do any customer decision makers make decisions based on LTE, or even know what LTE is beyond marketing? No.
What killed RIM was they were the first to market and became the corporate near-monopoly standard. They focused hard on F500 customers because thats the only place where the money was in the smartphone market. Until everyone and their brother bought a iphone, which tipped the overall market from being dominated by corporate to being dominated by hipsters buying iphone apps.
Its a balance thing. There are layers of markets. They focused super hard solely on the corporate sub-market of the greater smartphone market, in the early years that submarket was probably 99% of the total market so that was an excellent idea... at that time. Despite being a nearly monopoly player, they actually did a pretty good job almost outta the goodness of their heart. The problem, is years later, the individual submarket explosively grew to a large multiple of the subcorporate market, so they're now a small time player in the overall smartphone market, in a field of near natural monopoly where small time players simply go out of business.
If they could have released the iphone instead of apple... If they could have become the "android competitor equivalent" to iphone instead of the Mighty GOOG ... but they didn't... so bye bye.
A good /. car analogy would be there was recently a fad of obese landwhale SUVs which were so popular they tipped the whole automotive market toward SUVs. Then the fad ended. Whoops. Companies that didn't just tilt toward the SUV side but ran as fast as they could to the extreme while ignoring the rest of the market are toast.
Don't worry about changing the $5 disposable mush-board hardware. Worry about changing software. I would imagine cursor movement in VI or nethack is pretty agonizing on dvorak layout.
I've been hearing this stuff since I saw ads for dvorak replacement keyboards in 1982. Probably has been around longer. Nothing WRT this argument has really changed since then. Unimpressed.
McLagen has not responded to requests for comments on the relaunched site.
Now that would be an epic /. interview article. Unless one of the ground rules was "the first rule about fight club is we don't talk about standard linux, err fight club"
Oh and I forgot another step of my exten.conf script.
Certain numbers get a GOTO to line 100 where I ring every phone in the house plus an analog adapter with a weird phone ringer on it. Mom, Granny, auntie, workplace, friends, coworkers, neighbors, you get the idea, basically if we know them, we get a special ring.
However unknown numbers fall thru to line 50 or so and only ring the regular phones.
You can do multiple lines with voip and selective ringtones and such, but it turns out to be simpler and cheaper to just do some analog weirdness to a special extension.
When I was single and living alone I shut off my ringer and did not accept incoming calls. Message service only... I enjoyed my freedom.
Then you end up with political party A reporting political party B and vice versa. And naughty high school kids reporting each other and/or the truancy reporting office. You need a meta moderation system like /.
one thing I'm working on is a hardware device that will use
Not trying to rain on your parade, and hey, if it works for you, go and do it, but once you have an asterisk PBX and voip working, setting up some caller ID routing rules is almost terminally simple as shown below.
So in /etc/asterisk/exten.conf you'll have a stanza for incoming calls
[provider-in]
Now inside that start if/then routing kicking junk out. Now please be patient with me, I'm old, tired, and this is from memory, and asterisk config language is like F-ing LISP but ten times worse in how even something "simple" needs endless nested parens, brackets, and curlies.
exten => _XX.,2,GotoIf($[${CALLERID(num)}" = "Unknown"]?200)
exten => _XX.,4,GotoIf($["${CALLERID(num):0:3}" = "800"]?200)
Take a wild guess what line number 200 looks like:
exten => _XX.,200,VoiceMail()
exten => _XX.,201,HangUp()
I also have a line 300 termination that simply hangs up on certain blacklisted numbers. and a "ZapaTeller" or whatever its called that squirts SIT (disconnected) tones. And I believe I have a milliwatt termination, and a music on hold termination in there somewhere.
Now as a practical matter this is an excellent way to learn who blocks caller ID and who doesn't. I've made some weird discoveries like one of my kids doctors categorically blocks outgoing caller ID every time he calls (annoying). Also the school. Other than that, no problemo.
Whenever I mention this, I get breathless FUD about how the world might end because a CIA agent can't call me to tell me to hack into NORAD and block the missile launch. Oh wait that was the movie "Wargames" again. Well anyway the point is ignore the FUDders they aren't worth it.
Now that you've invited Slashdot, you'll have grumpy people, awkward silence, and a whole bunch of sweaty fat men staring at pictures of Natalie Portman and hot grits.
Look on the bright side, that's better than goatse or 2G1C
(insert theoretical creepiness in some sports here)
The gymnastics chicks are already fully pedo bear compatible, so at least with some events its not like they could possibly get any creepier. I dated a gymnast chick in high school and she was informed that she was looking "too old" to compete, because the judges only like the preteen look and she looked like a normal girl her age. So she was thinking about going into coaching because she didn't look pre-teen enough anymore yet she was pretty skilled. Some events are already maxed out freaky icky and completely unappealing so at least with some events its not like it could get any worse.
Could we clone the Olympics and have an event with the same questionable "sports" but no corporate sponsorship, no control-freaks, no rules-lawyers, no TV commercials by the winners, no idiotic sports announcers (at least in the USA; compare "ninja warrior" as imported from Japan to the tired formulaic coverage on the locally produced shows). Basically clone the olympics, flush the trash down the drain, and try the new improved cleaned up version?
Just a international group getting together and flinging javelins for the heck of it? I'd much rather see a "renn-faire re-enactment of real olympics" than see the trashy modern TV version.
Also could we get rid of non-Olympic events? The ancient Greek biathlon in the winter games complete with high powered target rifles? The ancient greek triathlon in the summer games with bicycling? Come on, get real, just because it involves people sweating doesn't mean its a sport, or I'm going to demand the "oil change competition" or the "lawn mowing competition" be inaugurated next time. OK we can stop slavering olive oil on the athletes, and some "sports" really are safer with clothing, but other than those minor concessions to modernity I think the shot put is more "olympic" than synchronized swimming.
To sum: If the graphics server crashes, I'd like to see it automatically restart with Upstart, and then the clients automatically reconnect.
I encourage my competitors to implement this, etc etc. You know what would be hilarious? Your buggy hardware (I haven't had a X crash in, I don't even know, certainly more than a decade) combined with root logged in and doing some admin GUI thing. X crashes. Logs itself back in. Before the user gets to interact, the GUI admin thing crashes X again. Repeat infinitely. Oh no problemo just log in as root to break that loop... errr... thats not gonna work because its root who's stuck in the loop. Wipe the hard drive and reinstall?
In ye dark ages of firefox I have run into this, where bringing up some cruddy coded web page full of cruft crashed FF (which admittedly should have failed gracefully, but still, cruft is cruft) and then on restart FF asks if I wanna restore my session. Oh heck no, that's just gonna crash FF again!
On the other hand, given basically bug free client and server software, you've just described the behavior of NFS, AFS, probably a couple other networked filesystems. I've never had to reboot a client because of a server problem in NFS or AFS. The server comes back online and all is well as if nothing happened.
Maybe its trying to be modern art? Not supposed to be useful, or appealing, or beautiful, or traditional, or deeply thought provoking, just intended to momentarily inflame some passions or inspirations as people walk by on their way to doing real work on Mint and Debian and android and osx etc? A feeling, rather than a thought? Like gastrointestinal pain feeling vs the thought of refactoring a data parsing and importation routine? Of course those two are probably more closely related than you'd wish, but the point stands?
There's nothing inherently wrong about any work of art. You can be wrong about trying to "use it" for certain tasks, or maybe wrong to use it at all to do anything. But as a piece of art it can be interesting to look at, as a ... escapist form of fine art, before returning to the real world to do real stuff with real tools.
I don't particularly like Picasso's work. That it exists has no impact on the paper in my real world life, my junkmail, my reports, my old fashioned printed books...
Without X we will lose network transparency among many other great features. Let's not even mention the lack of gpu support to say the least.
VDPAU? They don't mention it, so I assume its going bye bye. Its kind of funny in that everything I use X for is everything Wayland opposes.
Just this weekend I was ssh -X into my mythtv backend to run the config program to add another capture card running X over the network, so my binary only nvidia cards using VDPAU have more to look at. I never use stupid animations and other 3-d foolishness on my desktop because I'm unimpressed; its the 2010's version of the 1980's demand that all desktop publishing projects must use a minimum of 50 different ugly fonts to show off that you can do it. I prefer my content to be my primary interest, not my window animations. Of course all of that is impossible over wayland. Thanks guys for exactly what I don't need! Maybe you could make it eink and touch screen only, just to annoy me further?
When I was young, we had text screens and you needed to basically be literate to "do stuff" with text, capable of abstract thought and reasoning. That was OK, only us elite used computers anyway.
Then we had to squander processing power and programmer effort to make everything GUI graphical to make it as simple as possible for illiterate noobs and damn the productivity collapse to the literate. But, hey, at least I get a nice screen and when I'm allowed to use old fashioned "text" instead of incomprehensible icons, pretty fonts for my text. Modern display technology can be pretty nice!
Now we have to cover those nice screens and pretty fonts with an encrustation of smeared finger grease.
I'm not overly fond of most UI work done since the mid 1980s.
I don't think the decline of: ... de-evolution.
1) Must be able to read and write and memorize text. To:
2) Must be able to understand hieroglyphic pictograms and memorize muscle memory of GUI menus and icons. To:
3) Must be able to play with virtual playdough and virtual fingerpaints and memorize nothing because we're taking features away now
is evolution. More like
Would I be correct in summarizing that as if you shouldn't be doing it or it doesn't matter, outsource it, otherwise insource it?
I have seen outsourcing success in short term projects... in the telecom world if you're doing a forklift upgrade of a PBX, either you don't have enough people or you have way too many full timers (or you've only got like 50 phones... I'm talking about 1000+ phone offices).
Also I've seen outsourced cabling work go pretty well. Horrifically expensive compared to insourcing to a noob, but unlike most outsourcing that crashes and burns this merely bled cash.
"Who signs their paycheck?" is the single most important question to ask, thanks for bringing that up.
I didn't think Germany measured distances in small nukes also.
Old .mil saying I heard a long time ago. There's a lot of variations but they all rely on you wanna be at least a KM away per KT at least for small values of KT. Once you get up to 100 or so the linear scaling breaks down pretty badly. Or another way to put it is if there's a grid of cities 10 KM apart you're wasting valuable fissionables if you hit each with more than 10 KT or so since that would be about the right value to relatively evenly toast an area. Dropping multiple 9 MT on a 10KM grid would be a bit excessive...
Its an old .mil saying because the assumption was because .ru overpowered us about 10 to 1, the forces in Germany would pretty much be a speed bump during an invasion until the NCA got around to releasing the nukes, at which point things get pretty messy.
Can't you just scrub my "achievements" off my /. account page? Tradition and all that.
Bored? Grab your phone and run the app "GPS status" or probably a million similar apps, maybe even some free ones. Then move stuff around on your desk to see how the field changes. I can vary it about 20% by waving my steel clipboard around the phone. Now its possible with enough filtering you can assume changes are solely due to movement rather than me trying to sabotage the data gathering, and perhaps the map is actually of the 1st (or 2nd?) derivative of the field around my desk rather than just mapping the raw data so it doesn't matter if I'm IronMan and you're not, or if our phones do not have absolute calibration.
If I had more time on my hands I'd throw a fridge magnet on the floor, and try to "find the titanic" using the magnetometer and some string and graph paper and walking a grid pattern, or maybe pulling my phone along the floor on the grid pattern. Very much like the movie, I'll probably get bored halfway thru this titanic experiment. But it would probably work. Someone out there in /. land oughta try this, maybe try a big chunk of ferrous metal too, like a manhole cover (try not to get run over...)
this is doing far more than telling you your orientation
And no, this isn't a dupe about that fake gaydar app either.
Actually, as a geek I'm finding that the GOOG is letting me down more and more.
My son, I feel your pain, you need to restore your faith in the one, true, mighty, GOOG. Perhaps were you wantonly coveting your neighbors iPhone instead of bowing in reverence to our masters Android come down from heaven? The Mighty GOOG knows your thoughts, and shame on you. Now when our elders and ancestors suffered a shortage of mailbox diskspace quota, did not our holy master deliver us gmail, raining down disk space from the data CLOUD in the sky? Did not his mightyness roll back the google WAVE on his very command? Does he not make a data CLOUD rain RSS updates of /.s stories into his mighty goog Reader? Now step over here and let me make the sign of the goog PLUS on your forehead and sin no more. Say 50 www.google.com's while meditating on not falling into following the evil minon of shiney rounded rectanges, St Jobs, or St Gates of the UEFI apocalypse, and I suspect your images.google.com searches for the mighty cavern of goatse will once again be successful. So help us, as we kneel toward MountainView in supplication.
The U.S. should invade Pakistan and never leave until they get their textbooks right.
Maybe we should start with Texas first.
The reason they decided to de-emphasize Jefferson was that he coined the phrase "separation of church and state".
Well, that's the reported excuse. Journalists...
I suspect the real reason for the hatred towards Jefferson is the famous Jefferson Bible. Jefferson and his bible has gotta be a kick in the nuts for the mythological belief in the founding fathers being hard core fundamentalists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible
too easy for them to accuse original, true e-copies as being false works
There's always digital notary services to timestamp something, crypto signed documents to prove who signed it, etc.
VERY unpopular (intentionally?) but hardly technologically impossible or an inherent issue with the media. If everyone used pencils with erasers, and refused to use indelible ink, that doesn't mean paper technology is at fault.