Does anyone sense a new Knightrider remake in the offing?
Seriously though, if I was allowed to drive on the public roads with 'normal' folks I wouldn't be ashamed of driving this thing, which is more than I can say for many (not all) other gas/energy/whatever-saving vehicles that have been developed so far.
If they can get people to actually want to own one of these instead of an obnoxious gas-guzzler then they'll come out of their niche and enter the mainstream. That would be neat.
The small matter of a lack of storage space would still put many off, I fear, but that's easily solved:)
Wow! Researching these esoteric programming languages has been more than a brainfuck - it is positively a brainfuck++. Nay, I'm sure just reading of them is causing an irreversible loss of knowledge of real programming languages - that must surely qualify as a quantum brainfuck whereby both cannot be fully comprehended at the same time.
The bad news is that my pointy haired boss has ordered that all development switch to his new favorite language. I think he may have been smoking something.
This is bad for me because he has now had to ask me to go ahead and come in on Saturday. This means I will have to cancel my date, who has real come hither eyes, and I was so confident it was going to be a real beneficial[0] night[1].
Perhaps a new UK-based (humours of course!) Linux radio show with slightly more knowledgeable (on-topic?!) hosts? Unfortunately I find the show is too long for me to back jump into nowadays.
I agree with this. While the show, I felt, has always been mostly enjoyable to listen to, the inane banter can become tedious and I found myself skipping chunks of it so as to get to the good stuff.
In the end I stopped listening to it by deferring it indefinitely. I still downloaded them though which means I now have a backlog.
The humor of Mr. Bacon et al is quite puerile which I didn't see as a bad thing initially (it was actually quite refreshing to begin with) but as time wore on it got more and more tiresome.
Nevertheless I'm still sad to see it go 'off air' but I do think it was the right decision.
Actually this BMW definitely had vanity plates which is the only reason I noticed it in anything other than passing. Well, that and the driver would drive around with shades on always and never appear to actually be heading anywhere:D
I know you're joking ("funny cos it's true" humor?), but - and maybe I'm not giving Ballmer enough credit here[0] - I really can't see Ballmer keeping Microsoft afloat in the long-term. Call it a gut feeling. The man is but an ogre really.
If anything saves Microsoft - aside from its stockpiles of cash - it will be Bill's advice imparted on his one-day-a-week-on-Microsoft-business.
I am certainly not enamored with Gates by any means, but I do recognize that (in my view) he was the brains behind the outfit: Ballmer is Robin to Gates' Batman; Cashman and Dobbin? "Holy developers, developers, developers, Cashman!"[1]
Personally unless Microsoft pull something exceptional out of the bag I expect to see them decline as 'market leaders'. I am interested in hearing others', perhaps more informed, thoughts.
Anyway that's how I see it from my point of view but IANABA (business analyst).
[0] Stop laughing, I'm trying to be impartial:) [1] That right there is why I don't write comic books.
In the BBC documentary How a Geek Changed the World, did anyone see the part where Gates leaped over a chair from a standing start? That must have been a very useful skill when working alongside Ballmer!
(I've been unable to find the clip online so I can't post a link.)
A project that is on schedule! Somebody is in for a pay rise.
Oh wait, that was a question. Nevermind, I'm sure I can bring the project to schedule if I work evenings and weekends for the next three months. I'll be in my cubicle hatching evil plans if anybody needs me.
Before I moved house I would often see a BMW driving around the area in which I lived with the registration plate "IT DRM".
I never did find out if he had anything to do with the digital shackles or if it was just some freakish coincidence. Though I did find myself shaking my head tut-tutting at him as he drove past to see if I could get a reaction. (Experiment yielded no reaction.)
Brilliant. It had been some time since I last checked for an update and wasn't aware that 2.3 had been released replete with a tabbed interface. Thanks for mentioning it.
This'll give me something to download until the Mozilla servers get back on their feet:)
As for opening PDFs inside the browser, I always found it to be too cumbersome and sluggish so I'm in the habit of modifying the Download Actions to always download the file which then I open via the Download Statusbar context menu. It is a little bit more effort to do it this way, but not much and is now enough of a habit that the inconvenience is minimized. Plus I don't run the risk of the browser crashing due to the plugin, which I found would happen a lot.
I refreshed the web page once the countdown hit zero and a million slashdotters came out of the shadows it seems; the server destroyed by madness, starting hysterically downloading.
In other news, the first prototype was unceremoniously cast aside following complaints from Women's Lib groups who feared that it wouldn't be very practical for a day out on the Moon. I tell you, it is any excuse with those people.
I don't have a lot to add to this, but to say that is an excellent thing to do and kudos to you for taking this approach.
When I was a student I often had comments returned on assignments reading "I wish you'd have more faith in my answers" (usually for multi-part questions where the answer for one part is used in the next). Sure I got a lot of questions wrong as a result - looking back, far too many:) - but it was a great way to learn and I found that I could see 'bigger pictures' better because I wasn't just taking things for granted and in isolation of one another.
A particularly good aspect of the 'nonsense approach' is precisely that I find it fleshes out the content more. Students are more likely to learn and retain the reason a certain mathematical theorem holds or a chemical process works (or whatever) because they ultimately pay more attention to the subject matter and its finer points.
This kind of informality can make lessons more enjoyable too which can only be a good thing.
Thx, I'll try to remember that next time when sitting on other browser I wasn't sure whether it was precisely what you are looking for, but it could ease the pain a little.
Might finally find some use for bookmarks... (IMHO they are, universally, badly implemented, How would you implement them differently? I'm not trying to sound trollish or anything, and I have no vested interest in knowing one way or the other; I'm simply curious. Bookmarks to me aren't too bad because I tend to put them into a well-defined hierarchy and access frequently-used ones (tech sites, docs (local and online) etc.) with the keywords feature (alt-D, enter keyword, enter).
Works pretty well for me. YMMV of course.
so I mostly just keep opened tabs... A LOT of them, currently ~400 Wow, is that even navigable? Guess that's what you mean about a browser's ability to handle that many tabs:)
From a personal point of view that would drive me crazy. I tend to keep a handful of tabs open in the background which I want to look at in the immediate future, and drop anything else into a 'bucket' folder on Fx's bookmarks toolbar, which I regularly scan through when I'm otherwise not doing much.
Perhaps I'm coming into this one a bit late, but notice at the end of TFA (which I read and I'm very, very sorry) there is mention of copyrighted songs being present also.
The RIAA are probably priming their lawyers right now, although also of interest is the following from TFA...
Even if no one downloaded the songs, just making them available might run afoul of the law, said Corynne McSherry, staff attorney at the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation, which often argues the other side of such issues. which is interesting considering this recent development.
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I suppose what I'm asking is: Can we bury these 'special' people in them and dig them up in fifty years' time?
And breathe.
Relax, I was just being facetious.
Contrary to the impression I may give, I'm not a zealous about any particular operating system; I'm far too lazy for that.
the feed is disrupted."
Does anyone sense a new Knightrider remake in the offing?
Seriously though, if I was allowed to drive on the public roads with 'normal' folks I wouldn't be ashamed of driving this thing, which is more than I can say for many (not all) other gas/energy/whatever-saving vehicles that have been developed so far.
If they can get people to actually want to own one of these instead of an obnoxious gas-guzzler then they'll come out of their niche and enter the mainstream. That would be neat.
The small matter of a lack of storage space would still put many off, I fear, but that's easily solved :)
One may dislike Bill and MS, but the foundation Bill started has really done some great things.
Like a serial killer who donates his victims' bodies to science.
Or to keep in line with the standard Slashdot analogies rules: Like a car mechanic who donates his victims' bodies to science.
Wow! Researching these esoteric programming languages has been more than a brainfuck - it is positively a brainfuck++. Nay, I'm sure just reading of them is causing an irreversible loss of knowledge of real programming languages - that must surely qualify as a quantum brainfuck whereby both cannot be fully comprehended at the same time.
Man, now I really feel like a dumbf*ck! Fuck, Fuck! Double fuck!
The bad news is that my pointy haired boss has ordered that all development switch to his new favorite language. I think he may have been smoking something.
This is bad for me because he has now had to ask me to go ahead and come in on Saturday. This means I will have to cancel my date, who has real come hither eyes, and I was so confident it was going to be a real beneficial[0] night[1].
Argh!
I wish I could get all my ducks in a row so I could give him a swift kick with my size nines so he walks funny for a week, flick him the V and leave this crummy company; that would rock!
[0] High five!
[1] Unlike the last one, on which the lady gave me an unexpected present.
Perhaps a new UK-based (humours of course!) Linux radio show with slightly more knowledgeable (on-topic?!) hosts? Unfortunately I find the show is too long for me to back jump into nowadays.
I agree with this. While the show, I felt, has always been mostly enjoyable to listen to, the inane banter can become tedious and I found myself skipping chunks of it so as to get to the good stuff.
In the end I stopped listening to it by deferring it indefinitely. I still downloaded them though which means I now have a backlog.
The humor of Mr. Bacon et al is quite puerile which I didn't see as a bad thing initially (it was actually quite refreshing to begin with) but as time wore on it got more and more tiresome.
Nevertheless I'm still sad to see it go 'off air' but I do think it was the right decision.
I wasn't insinuating anything ;)
Actually this BMW definitely had vanity plates which is the only reason I noticed it in anything other than passing. Well, that and the driver would drive around with shades on always and never appear to actually be heading anywhere :D
Good times.
Replying to myself here, but I found the clip the BBC used. That is one quintessentially geeky jump.
Really getting off-topic now, but at 3:14 in this, where is Mitch giving his interview from? The 1970s?!
I know you're joking ("funny cos it's true" humor?), but - and maybe I'm not giving Ballmer enough credit here[0] - I really can't see Ballmer keeping Microsoft afloat in the long-term. Call it a gut feeling. The man is but an ogre really.
If anything saves Microsoft - aside from its stockpiles of cash - it will be Bill's advice imparted on his one-day-a-week-on-Microsoft-business.
I am certainly not enamored with Gates by any means, but I do recognize that (in my view) he was the brains behind the outfit: Ballmer is Robin to Gates' Batman; Cashman and Dobbin? "Holy developers, developers, developers, Cashman!"[1]
Personally unless Microsoft pull something exceptional out of the bag I expect to see them decline as 'market leaders'. I am interested in hearing others', perhaps more informed, thoughts.
Anyway that's how I see it from my point of view but IANABA (business analyst).
[0] Stop laughing, I'm trying to be impartial :)
[1] That right there is why I don't write comic books.
In the BBC documentary How a Geek Changed the World, did anyone see the part where Gates leaped over a chair from a standing start? That must have been a very useful skill when working alongside Ballmer!
(I've been unable to find the clip online so I can't post a link.)
North Pole Ice On Track To Melt By September?
A project that is on schedule! Somebody is in for a pay rise.
Oh wait, that was a question. Nevermind, I'm sure I can bring the project to schedule if I work evenings and weekends for the next three months. I'll be in my cubicle hatching evil plans if anybody needs me.
100m sprint; cross-country; egg and spoon.
Free speech is a double-edged sword. If you don't want to risk getting cut, go buy a spoon instead.
Prefix with "WTF?" and that would make a good bumper sticker, in lieu of 'offensive' plates.
My license place has DRM on it
Before I moved house I would often see a BMW driving around the area in which I lived with the registration plate "IT DRM".
I never did find out if he had anything to do with the digital shackles or if it was just some freakish coincidence. Though I did find myself shaking my head tut-tutting at him as he drove past to see if I could get a reaction. (Experiment yielded no reaction.)
You may notice that anytime a police officer talks to the press he invariably uses the sentence, "We have no intelligence".
(That would be perfectly accurate as it is, but he will always then ruin it by continuing, "to suggest that...")
We're killing the Internet!
Brilliant. It had been some time since I last checked for an update and wasn't aware that 2.3 had been released replete with a tabbed interface. Thanks for mentioning it.
:)
This'll give me something to download until the Mozilla servers get back on their feet
As for opening PDFs inside the browser, I always found it to be too cumbersome and sluggish so I'm in the habit of modifying the Download Actions to always download the file which then I open via the Download Statusbar context menu. It is a little bit more effort to do it this way, but not much and is now enough of a habit that the inconvenience is minimized. Plus I don't run the risk of the browser crashing due to the plugin, which I found would happen a lot.
I refreshed the web page once the countdown hit zero and a million slashdotters came out of the shadows it seems; the server destroyed by madness, starting hysterically downloading.
Oh well. Maybe later then. Now for food.
In other news, the first prototype was unceremoniously cast aside following complaints from Women's Lib groups who feared that it wouldn't be very practical for a day out on the Moon. I tell you, it is any excuse with those people.
What wonderful times we live.
* Sorry. The post kinda fell into the pattern and I couldn't help myself. I'll get my coat.
I don't have a lot to add to this, but to say that is an excellent thing to do and kudos to you for taking this approach.
:) - but it was a great way to learn and I found that I could see 'bigger pictures' better because I wasn't just taking things for granted and in isolation of one another.
:)
When I was a student I often had comments returned on assignments reading "I wish you'd have more faith in my answers" (usually for multi-part questions where the answer for one part is used in the next). Sure I got a lot of questions wrong as a result - looking back, far too many
A particularly good aspect of the 'nonsense approach' is precisely that I find it fleshes out the content more. Students are more likely to learn and retain the reason a certain mathematical theorem holds or a chemical process works (or whatever) because they ultimately pay more attention to the subject matter and its finer points.
This kind of informality can make lessons more enjoyable too which can only be a good thing.
Hm, looks like I had more to add than I thought
Works pretty well for me. YMMV of course. so I mostly just keep opened tabs
From a personal point of view that would drive me crazy. I tend to keep a handful of tabs open in the background which I want to look at in the immediate future, and drop anything else into a 'bucket' folder on Fx's bookmarks toolbar, which I regularly scan through when I'm otherwise not doing much.
Create a Slashdot bookmark and set its keyword to '/.' (sans quotes).
The RIAA are probably priming their lawyers right now, although also of interest is the following from TFA... Even if no one downloaded the songs, just making them available might run afoul of the law, said Corynne McSherry, staff attorney at the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation, which often argues the other side of such issues. which is interesting considering this recent development.
All numbers everywhere, ever begin with 555, no?