Yeah I've been 'happy' with the classic site, aside from the well-known bugs such as
- unicode support - i.e. mangling a person's name if they have any of those characters/accents found in continental European languages. - comment spill past 100 comments, repeats a significant number of comments on page 2. - having to zoom to read the summary with all that sidebar crap when viewing on a 4" smartphone - though reading the comments is trouble free compared to the abomination that is slashdot mobile
But given these problems have existed for a decade, they're either not fixable in the classic code base (easily) or the designers just like experimenting with fancy CSS3 layouts.
You're obviously not familiar with Java then. It's a computer program running inside a virtual machine. The JVM's maximum heap size is set at startup via a command line switch.
It sounds similar to a composting toilet, but on a larger scale. Certainly not a new idea if you've ever used a bathroom in a national park. Microbes love our excrement...
I believe it's possible to purchase a kit, at some cost, to retrofit one's house to use a self-contained system. Various environmental standards, obviously, need to be met to ensure the safety of one's backyard vegie patch.
As for toxins and pathogens, I think it's dependent on the amount of filtration, i.e. you're not pouring your poo directly on the garden, you're letting it break down for months and the composting should, in theory, kill the nasties.
Or, you know, Americans could just adapt when they come to visit.
Lots of scary things in Australia - the metric system, driving on the left, dunnies that flush the opposite direction, 240V AC, summer in February etc.
Until the boffins at Intel or ARM create a processor whose machine code is JavaScript
(Not JS but for J2ME) ARM did try embedding hardware support for VMs in the form of Jazelle and ThumbEE. That was a bust, since regular JIT compilation with more advanced VM techniques proved more performant.
I would have thought AMD would have a licensing clause as part of the sale of the Imageon (Adreno) to Qualcomm in case they ever decided to re-enter the market.
Who cares about the client API? - We're talking about a server, which depending on the quality of Microsoft's remote admin tools, should run entirely headless. (One would hope you don't *still* need to Remote Desktop into a server in 2014 to change a trivial setting)
Even if Windows RT dies a miserable death in tablet-land, all the necessary plumbing to run SQLServer, Exchange, Active Directory etc should be present.
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Yeah I've been 'happy' with the classic site, aside from the well-known bugs such as
- unicode support - i.e. mangling a person's name if they have any of those characters/accents found in continental European languages.
- comment spill past 100 comments, repeats a significant number of comments on page 2.
- having to zoom to read the summary with all that sidebar crap when viewing on a 4" smartphone - though reading the comments is trouble free compared to the abomination that is slashdot mobile
But given these problems have existed for a decade, they're either not fixable in the classic code base (easily) or the designers just like experimenting with fancy CSS3 layouts.
Since the collective have hijacked every discussion, reading slashdot in classic ain't worth the effort.
If Matt Damon says fracking is bad, it probably is...
Perhaps someone could combine the two...
Parse the feed, title, summary and comments to replicate 'Slashdot classic' as an HTML5 app for submission to Viera's appstore.
Assuming it's still Taco's Slashcode underneath...
The bit where the summary of the old discussion says the US military are hoping to increase efficiency from 20% to 50% ?
Is that you, Rupert?
Didn't I read on Slashdot not too long ago that the US military was investing in solar research? Here. Junk science, indeed?
I dunno what you're doing wrong, I'm NEVER directed to the beta site.
Motivational messages voiced by Dylan Moran:
Hey, maybe there's a little man in there who looks just like you but he's really good at running.
Well... yeah... you put one leg in front of the other over and over again really really fast.
You're obviously not familiar with Java then. It's a computer program running inside a virtual machine. The JVM's maximum heap size is set at startup via a command line switch.
memory: did you tweak your heap size in eclipse.ini?
Fitness junkies - watches with pedometers built in.
It sounds similar to a composting toilet, but on a larger scale. Certainly not a new idea if you've ever used a bathroom in a national park. Microbes love our excrement...
I believe it's possible to purchase a kit, at some cost, to retrofit one's house to use a self-contained system. Various environmental standards, obviously, need to be met to ensure the safety of one's backyard vegie patch.
As for toxins and pathogens, I think it's dependent on the amount of filtration, i.e. you're not pouring your poo directly on the garden, you're letting it break down for months and the composting should, in theory, kill the nasties.
isn't it just an iPod nano with a wrist-band?
What about tethering?
Do the 3G iPads sell? I wouldn't pay a $US130 markup over the wifi model for a device that couldn't do voice calls.
If I was an Apple customer I'd buy a wifi iPad + smart-watch combo.
Or, you know, Americans could just adapt when they come to visit.
Lots of scary things in Australia - the metric system, driving on the left, dunnies that flush the opposite direction, 240V AC, summer in February etc.
Watch the movie.
It's the story of Bob, an undercover law enforcement officer delving into drug culture.
Use of rotoscoping takes the audience themselves on a perception-altering experience. c.f. 1993's Suture.
Damn straight. World cup notwithstanding, soccer is a summer curiosity here, watched mainly by migrants from Europe and their grandchildren.
If you bothered to look at Aisen's web page, you'd see she has geek cred.
There's a copy of 'Arduino Cookbook' on her bookcase, FFS.
In Fetishist Japan scent watches YOU!
I prefer the pig latin: ooshwhay
(Not JS but for J2ME) ARM did try embedding hardware support for VMs in the form of Jazelle and ThumbEE. That was a bust, since regular JIT compilation with more advanced VM techniques proved more performant.
I would have thought AMD would have a licensing clause as part of the sale of the Imageon (Adreno) to Qualcomm in case they ever decided to re-enter the market.
Who cares about the client API? - We're talking about a server, which depending on the quality of Microsoft's remote admin tools, should run entirely headless. (One would hope you don't *still* need to Remote Desktop into a server in 2014 to change a trivial setting)
Even if Windows RT dies a miserable death in tablet-land, all the necessary plumbing to run SQLServer, Exchange, Active Directory etc should be present.
tl;dr
Something about Kermit - I think that was a networking protocol popular in the 80s.
Where I am from,
"Tesla's having"
is a perfectly cromulent contraction of
"Tesla is having".