Wait.. are you saying that an Ultrabook with detachable keyboard is more functional than tablet w/mobile OS? You sir, win 1 full internet for that insightful comment.
I cannot fathom that any reader of/. would be unaware of theoretical vs real world performance, particularly in the networking space. This post is almost insulting.
Firstly, you certainly do have some balls asking something involving MS on slashdot that doesn't involve shitting on them in some way...
But really, you should find a local SQL Server user group and attend the meetings, they usually have some decent presentations and a good chance to network and likely find people looking to fill positions from Jr-Sr level, also attend any local SQL Saturdays. It's a full day of training for free or 10 bucks(for lunch) and usually has really useful sessions from 100-400 level. You can pick up a Developer edition of SQL Server, it's relatively cheap (50$) and has all the features of Enterprise, to mess with. Set it up and start using the features.. Alternatively you can check out several blogs about SQL that walk you through setting up a lab, complete with AD, DCs, SQL Servers etc all for free. That will let you try all features you could ask for in almost any configuration
You may want to pursue one or more of the certs available just to get through the HR filters as well..
Look, I know most of the folks frequenting/. are ardently anti-MS (Hence all the clever usage of a $ instead of the 'S'), but this is really an embarrassing attempt at click bait. It isn't in the realm of truth and feel sorry for the poster and the people jumping on board with it to fuel some frothing Anti-MS rage or resentment at some perceived slight. Slashdot is poorer this.
You are obviously a complete idiot. There could be no policy requiring students to wear them when not at school. Your asinine interpretation makes me embarrassed for you.
Not being in the path of the worst of the storm. When everything around you stays up and running, your DC probably will too. These guys are genius. Who interviewed these tools and why?
Well, JPEG is pretty much synonymous with image/pic for most "internet savvy" folk. But you're correct, no one, is using "gif" or 'giffing" in daily dialogue. But I think you underestimate the popularity of the short clips. For instance a fairly recent front page entry on Reddit asking "which GIF you would like to be trapped in for eternity" or "What GIF should everyone have saved?" GIFs are good for short, dumb/throw away attempts at memes, attempts at humor, russian car accidents or some quick porn clips judging by what I usually see. They are easy to make and don't require anything from adobe to make. The kids hate flash and adobe.
WOTY looks like its decided by the interwebs..which would explain the recent winners, "App", "tweet" and "occupy". Common on the web seems to be the deciding factor.
I beg to differ. I imagine many more random teens than you imagine are aware of what gifs are.. See Reddit.com Well, I guess if your random teens are all white upper middle to upper class ones..
They also protect people from corporations. See the small time inventor that comes up with some novel household product, they put in the work to get it made, work on marketing etc. then they get a meeting with say, Home Depot or Lowes to see if they would sell the object. Home Depot and Lowes look it over carefully, let their designers take a look..then decide, "no thanks, have a nice day" A month later they are selling the exact same thing, killing this persons idea and dream. If that person doesn't have a patent on this invention, they are totally fucked with no recourse. They spent months or years and thousands or tens of thousands of dollars trying to get this product to market, only to have some corporation take it with no repercussions whatsoever. But that's OK right? Everyone should do work for free for fucking multi-billion dollar corporations.
One would think that maintaining even a basic level of education for all citizens would be helpful in keeping civilization in tact, and therefore, your "civil" liberties. Since you generally don't have to worry about society devolving into 90/10 split of uneducated fucking savages deciding they like your patch of earth and taking it, your family and anything you own because really, they just happened to be there. I mean seriously, what a fucking stupid view. Please, go try and pitch your start up in countries without a public education system sometime. I'm sure you'll have a terrific sense of "civil liberty" when the fucking savages take whatever you brought with you and feed you to their fucking lizard god.
This is Slashdot, err, I mean DiceNewsAggregator, only Anti-Microsoft comments are permitted. Also to truly fit in, one must refer to Microsoft as M$- see the dollar sign is super clever and shows your OSS cred.
Re:Gizmodo has a much more interesting article...
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Come on.. Jesus D has had a hard on for Apple for a while now. He is as biased against Apple and Gruber is for Apple. I wouldn't consider either one of them a source to trust in this case.
In aggregate the reviews are generally positive.
This. The second I saw that redesign, and the immediate response by Rose et.al, I knew it was over. I really enjoyed Digg, but man they screwed the pooch on that redesign. I recall Rose's "contemporaries" (Rojas/Topolsky) defending it at first, then everyone kind of just quietly tip toed away as they saw the disaster that the Digg team had put together.
BTW..The only reason I use reddit is because I can use an app to peruse the content without the HORRID site interface. And by horrid I mean fucking terrible.
Didn't he already suggest perhaps a penny per trade fee or half a penny, something like that as a way to curb HFT? In any case, either a money or time constraint added to the mix would probably put an end to it as it is today. But that would never happen because too many people make way too much money on this scam.
This. I think T-Mobile did offer a break on a bring your own plan at one point, but none of the other carriers offer any discount for not using the subsidy. Also, are these "nexus" devices going to be cdma/gsm/evdo/hsdpa+/LTE + 8 Band units? No? What is the benefit of buying one exactly? I still can't switch carriers at will, I would only be able to switch between gsm carriers (Att/tmob) OR cdma carriers(vzw/sprint), and either VZW or Sprint could easily say no to them. It doesn't make much sense to do this unless you can buy a device with the right combo of tech/bands that will allow you to go to some shitty carrier like metro/cricket or a terrible prepaid plan on a big carrier, where the plans are cheap. If you want/need better service, ATT/VZW are your only two "real" options( Tmob/Sprint to a lesser extent), and you'd be losing money buying this type of device and not taking the subsidy.
Wait.. Apple paid ~10% in federal taxes? But I thought 'Merica had the one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world and companies were fleeing to banana republics to avoid them!!
You forgot perhaps the most important piece of the puzzle. The parents MUST be engaged in the education of their children. My local school districts provide unbelievable resources to students and bend to every shithead parent saying their kid shouldn't be graded or can't be called on in class because it damages their fragile psyche (absolutely true story btw). But if parents are involved the right way, there is almost no limit to what little Suzy or Bobby can accomplish in public schools. And while I am personally not a fan of unions in general, I can see the benefit they do provide in the school system. They protect teachers, good and bad, from the flippant child falsely accusing them of harassing them or making inappropriate comments and also lunatic parents who raised garbage kids and want to take out their frustration on someone. It's not a perfect situation, but it mostly works.*
*This is the situation local to me, I know there are many underfunded districts where resources are much more scarce. And parents are also much less involved or put a lot less of an emphasis on education.
I thought they were putting those spider genes into goats years ago to have them spin the super silk instead of milk. I guess that went nowhere.. I would have liked to seen some goat-spider beast running around...
This.
Precisely what they did when they bought Cingular. Att is generally ok, except where they fucking suck. Which is pretty much customer service, phone selection/crippling, and definitely their fucking data price gouging. Assholes. That being said, I cannot fathom going to CDMA of either flavor (Sprint/VZW). So I am stuck. I was hoping T-mobile would have gotten their shit together and actually competed, but no, ATT has found a way to fuck everyone again. Hopefully Verizon's LTE roll out cranks up and I can say good bye to those fucking asshole jackasses at ATT forever.
Skill at gaming might actually be equal, but the interface is not. I believe someone from MS said at one time they had Xbox and PC FPS shooters(i forget the game) sharing servers and found that PC gamers always smoked the console gamers. KB/M > gamepad for FPS or RPG or RTS with hotkeys/macros/accuracy via mouse vs toggling a stick to move your reticle around and limited buttons. I thought this was common knowledge..
Even if they coated it in diamond? But wait, people would complain because no one told them that rubbing it against another diamond might scratch it..never mind.. You're right..there is simply no good durable coating they could use... Better to just give up..
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Wait.. are you saying that an Ultrabook with detachable keyboard is more functional than tablet w/mobile OS? You sir, win 1 full internet for that insightful comment.
I cannot fathom that any reader of /. would be unaware of theoretical vs real world performance, particularly in the networking space. This post is almost insulting.
Firstly, you certainly do have some balls asking something involving MS on slashdot that doesn't involve shitting on them in some way... But really, you should find a local SQL Server user group and attend the meetings, they usually have some decent presentations and a good chance to network and likely find people looking to fill positions from Jr-Sr level, also attend any local SQL Saturdays. It's a full day of training for free or 10 bucks(for lunch) and usually has really useful sessions from 100-400 level. You can pick up a Developer edition of SQL Server, it's relatively cheap (50$) and has all the features of Enterprise, to mess with. Set it up and start using the features.. Alternatively you can check out several blogs about SQL that walk you through setting up a lab, complete with AD, DCs, SQL Servers etc all for free. That will let you try all features you could ask for in almost any configuration You may want to pursue one or more of the certs available just to get through the HR filters as well..
This is as recent point of contention with GMOs http://www.naturalnews.com/037249_GMO_study_cancer_tumors_organ_damage.html
Look, I know most of the folks frequenting /. are ardently anti-MS (Hence all the clever usage of a $ instead of the 'S'), but this is really an embarrassing attempt at click bait. It isn't in the realm of truth and feel sorry for the poster and the people jumping on board with it to fuel some frothing Anti-MS rage or resentment at some perceived slight. Slashdot is poorer this.
You are obviously a complete idiot. There could be no policy requiring students to wear them when not at school. Your asinine interpretation makes me embarrassed for you.
Not being in the path of the worst of the storm. When everything around you stays up and running, your DC probably will too. These guys are genius. Who interviewed these tools and why?
Well, JPEG is pretty much synonymous with image/pic for most "internet savvy" folk. But you're correct, no one, is using "gif" or 'giffing" in daily dialogue. But I think you underestimate the popularity of the short clips. For instance a fairly recent front page entry on Reddit asking "which GIF you would like to be trapped in for eternity" or "What GIF should everyone have saved?" GIFs are good for short, dumb/throw away attempts at memes, attempts at humor, russian car accidents or some quick porn clips judging by what I usually see. They are easy to make and don't require anything from adobe to make. The kids hate flash and adobe.
WOTY looks like its decided by the interwebs..which would explain the recent winners, "App", "tweet" and "occupy". Common on the web seems to be the deciding factor.
I beg to differ. I imagine many more random teens than you imagine are aware of what gifs are.. See Reddit.com Well, I guess if your random teens are all white upper middle to upper class ones..
99%? Doubtful.. But hefty discounts indeed, and Oracle is still obscenely expensive
They also protect people from corporations. See the small time inventor that comes up with some novel household product, they put in the work to get it made, work on marketing etc. then they get a meeting with say, Home Depot or Lowes to see if they would sell the object. Home Depot and Lowes look it over carefully, let their designers take a look..then decide, "no thanks, have a nice day" A month later they are selling the exact same thing, killing this persons idea and dream. If that person doesn't have a patent on this invention, they are totally fucked with no recourse. They spent months or years and thousands or tens of thousands of dollars trying to get this product to market, only to have some corporation take it with no repercussions whatsoever. But that's OK right? Everyone should do work for free for fucking multi-billion dollar corporations.
One would think that maintaining even a basic level of education for all citizens would be helpful in keeping civilization in tact, and therefore, your "civil" liberties. Since you generally don't have to worry about society devolving into 90/10 split of uneducated fucking savages deciding they like your patch of earth and taking it, your family and anything you own because really, they just happened to be there. I mean seriously, what a fucking stupid view. Please, go try and pitch your start up in countries without a public education system sometime. I'm sure you'll have a terrific sense of "civil liberty" when the fucking savages take whatever you brought with you and feed you to their fucking lizard god.
How would a jammer be effective against autonomous drones? If you had said EMP....t.
This is Slashdot, err, I mean DiceNewsAggregator, only Anti-Microsoft comments are permitted. Also to truly fit in, one must refer to Microsoft as M$- see the dollar sign is super clever and shows your OSS cred.
Come on.. Jesus D has had a hard on for Apple for a while now. He is as biased against Apple and Gruber is for Apple. I wouldn't consider either one of them a source to trust in this case. In aggregate the reviews are generally positive.
Hmm..Not sure if missing /s or just trolling..
BTW..The only reason I use reddit is because I can use an app to peruse the content without the HORRID site interface. And by horrid I mean fucking terrible.
Didn't he already suggest perhaps a penny per trade fee or half a penny, something like that as a way to curb HFT? In any case, either a money or time constraint added to the mix would probably put an end to it as it is today. But that would never happen because too many people make way too much money on this scam.
This. I think T-Mobile did offer a break on a bring your own plan at one point, but none of the other carriers offer any discount for not using the subsidy. Also, are these "nexus" devices going to be cdma/gsm/evdo/hsdpa+/LTE + 8 Band units? No? What is the benefit of buying one exactly? I still can't switch carriers at will, I would only be able to switch between gsm carriers (Att/tmob) OR cdma carriers(vzw/sprint), and either VZW or Sprint could easily say no to them. It doesn't make much sense to do this unless you can buy a device with the right combo of tech/bands that will allow you to go to some shitty carrier like metro/cricket or a terrible prepaid plan on a big carrier, where the plans are cheap. If you want/need better service, ATT/VZW are your only two "real" options( Tmob/Sprint to a lesser extent), and you'd be losing money buying this type of device and not taking the subsidy.
Wait.. Apple paid ~10% in federal taxes? But I thought 'Merica had the one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world and companies were fleeing to banana republics to avoid them!!
You forgot perhaps the most important piece of the puzzle. The parents MUST be engaged in the education of their children. My local school districts provide unbelievable resources to students and bend to every shithead parent saying their kid shouldn't be graded or can't be called on in class because it damages their fragile psyche (absolutely true story btw). But if parents are involved the right way, there is almost no limit to what little Suzy or Bobby can accomplish in public schools. And while I am personally not a fan of unions in general, I can see the benefit they do provide in the school system. They protect teachers, good and bad, from the flippant child falsely accusing them of harassing them or making inappropriate comments and also lunatic parents who raised garbage kids and want to take out their frustration on someone. It's not a perfect situation, but it mostly works.*
*This is the situation local to me, I know there are many underfunded districts where resources are much more scarce. And parents are also much less involved or put a lot less of an emphasis on education.
I thought they were putting those spider genes into goats years ago to have them spin the super silk instead of milk. I guess that went nowhere.. I would have liked to seen some goat-spider beast running around...
This. Precisely what they did when they bought Cingular. Att is generally ok, except where they fucking suck. Which is pretty much customer service, phone selection/crippling, and definitely their fucking data price gouging. Assholes. That being said, I cannot fathom going to CDMA of either flavor (Sprint/VZW). So I am stuck. I was hoping T-mobile would have gotten their shit together and actually competed, but no, ATT has found a way to fuck everyone again. Hopefully Verizon's LTE roll out cranks up and I can say good bye to those fucking asshole jackasses at ATT forever.
Skill at gaming might actually be equal, but the interface is not. I believe someone from MS said at one time they had Xbox and PC FPS shooters(i forget the game) sharing servers and found that PC gamers always smoked the console gamers. KB/M > gamepad for FPS or RPG or RTS with hotkeys/macros/accuracy via mouse vs toggling a stick to move your reticle around and limited buttons. I thought this was common knowledge..
Even if they coated it in diamond? But wait, people would complain because no one told them that rubbing it against another diamond might scratch it..never mind.. You're right..there is simply no good durable coating they could use... Better to just give up..