You couldn't ignore the moon landings, they were as big a deal as the World Series - hell, all three networks pre-empted programming for them. This other stuff is just crazies out in California - you know, they got another group up in Big Sur that thinks they're travelling by Astral Projection too!
Yeah, and a bunch of bozos in Washington DC who think they understand economics.
If the poster was of 1940's Ronald Reagan dressed as a cowboy with the same quote, people probably would've been leaving flowers and candles at the door.
He is a drama professor, for Christ's sake. While this type of reaction would be not appropriate for an engineer or a nuclear plant operator, for a theater professor it is more like a professional quality. What matters is that he is right, not his reaction.
He doesn't need to stay in character all of the time. Growing up is OK, even for a college liberal arts professor.
No, no. Bucket of water means you have to stand there all night. His UID is low enough to suggest at least a passing familiarity of tech - I might suggest an electric fence charger with a couple of excellent grounding wires and some standing water. Urine streams are reasonably conductive. Bonus points for a web cam.
I say ship all the weak, ugly imbeciles off to a damn Mars colony so we can have our nice little utopia, and they can have their real-life Idiocracy. Everyone's happy then, right ?
You want to waste Mars on them?
I think you have it the other way around. Leave the bozos on this bus.
Raptors use UV vision. I read a couple of articles about birds floating in the sky, watching the ground for fresh rodent urine. The urine gives off a bright glow under UV, that is invisible in the "visible" light spectrum.
Don't tell Randall about this! He's just recently calmed down.
Perhaps, but TFA is talking about hacking SCADA and other high value targets (stuff that 'nation - states' might be interested). Persons so interested are not going to be put off by a compiler or an IDE. Besides, BASIC STAMP and similar have been around for ages, have similar capabilities, dirt cheap boards and software.
Firstly, I don't see a huge attempt to reprogram every PLC or FPGA in existence. Secondly, much of said behavior is likely script kiddy level. It is now sexy to start talking about hacking at hardware type things, even if not much comes out of it. Thirdly, remember that Ardunos are still pretty weak machines compared to a commercial PLC / FPGA system - it isn't clear how much you can actually accomplish with it.
So this guy goes to a conference and finds a couple of people playing with something. It's the next big thing....
I hope next year the Dev/Ops folks start bringing toasters to the conference. That should muck up the journalist's brain for a while.
You've broken how many mag safe connectors? You do realize they are power connectors, not belaying mounts?
Sure, the extra battery business and the lack of third party mag safe connectors is a bit of a pain, no system is perfect. I'll take the limitations so far. It's really nice to have 3 Mac Laptops in the house all using the same power brick. No fumbling in the dark to get the one that's 'close' but not quite the correct one. No screaming in agony when brainless Labrador Retriever figures out his ball is on the other side of the laptop and he charges through the power cord to get it.
Silicon Valley businesses are hardly typical of day to day businesses though are they. Walk into any corporate/government office and count how many Macs you see.
Just went to a Forest Service meeting in Juneau, Alaska. All of the laptops with only two exceptions in a crowd of 30 government employees were various flavors of MacBooks and one iPad.
"Global Equities analyst Trip Chowdry estimates that Motorola Mobility has manufactured between 500,000 and 800,000 Xooms, but has sold only 5 to 15 percent of them. Best case scenario then, according to Chowdry, is that Motorola has sold 120,000 Xooms; worse case scenario, it’s sold just 25,000."
Ah, music to my ears. Another fine tablet soon to be priced at $99.
Hey, it's still early. There is hope left in the world.
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Exactly. Unless Apple is really worried about Android (or perhaps RIM, but certainly not Nokia^HMicrosoft). And they don't seem to be that worried.
But here we are again, playing "Wack an iPhone". Apple hasn't even formally announced the damn thing yet.
You couldn't ignore the moon landings, they were as big a deal as the World Series - hell, all three networks pre-empted programming for them. This other stuff is just crazies out in California - you know, they got another group up in Big Sur that thinks they're travelling by Astral Projection too!
Yeah, and a bunch of bozos in Washington DC who think they understand economics.
Crazy talk.
Some of us were not at "work". We missed it.
That should teach you not to take weekends off.
if IT only put everything in da cloud they would spend days with their 72 virgins
Well that's a pretty large IT group, but from what I see around here, it seems that most IT staffs are largely comprised of virgins...
If the poster was of 1940's Ronald Reagan dressed as a cowboy with the same quote, people probably would've been leaving flowers and candles at the door.
This is Wisconsin. Not Wyoming.
He is a drama professor, for Christ's sake. While this type of reaction would be not appropriate for an engineer or a nuclear plant operator, for a theater professor it is more like a professional quality. What matters is that he is right, not his reaction.
He doesn't need to stay in character all of the time. Growing up is OK, even for a college liberal arts professor.
No, no. Bucket of water means you have to stand there all night. His UID is low enough to suggest at least a passing familiarity of tech - I might suggest an electric fence charger with a couple of excellent grounding wires and some standing water. Urine streams are reasonably conductive. Bonus points for a web cam.
I say ship all the weak, ugly imbeciles off to a damn Mars colony so we can have our nice little utopia, and they can have their real-life Idiocracy. Everyone's happy then, right ?
You want to waste Mars on them?
I think you have it the other way around. Leave the bozos on this bus.
Raptors use UV vision. I read a couple of articles about birds floating in the sky, watching the ground for fresh rodent urine. The urine gives off a bright glow under UV, that is invisible in the "visible" light spectrum.
Don't tell Randall about this! He's just recently calmed down.
Where is my wife?
I'm feeling lucky.
You know, there might be a business case to this yet....
Pics. Or it didn't happen.
Slapping your epenis around with ol Psycho isn't terribly entertaining. You know something? Tell us.
Amazon doesn't ship to Nigeria.
OK, Trenton, New Jersey then. Happy?
Perhaps, but TFA is talking about hacking SCADA and other high value targets (stuff that 'nation - states' might be interested). Persons so interested are not going to be put off by a compiler or an IDE. Besides, BASIC STAMP and similar have been around for ages, have similar capabilities, dirt cheap boards and software.
Firstly, I don't see a huge attempt to reprogram every PLC or FPGA in existence. Secondly, much of said behavior is likely script kiddy level. It is now sexy to start talking about hacking at hardware type things, even if not much comes out of it. Thirdly, remember that Ardunos are still pretty weak machines compared to a commercial PLC / FPGA system - it isn't clear how much you can actually accomplish with it.
So this guy goes to a conference and finds a couple of people playing with something. It's the next big thing....
I hope next year the Dev/Ops folks start bringing toasters to the conference. That should muck up the journalist's brain for a while.
Apple, of course.
You've broken how many mag safe connectors? You do realize they are power connectors, not belaying mounts?
Sure, the extra battery business and the lack of third party mag safe connectors is a bit of a pain, no system is perfect. I'll take the limitations so far. It's really nice to have 3 Mac Laptops in the house all using the same power brick. No fumbling in the dark to get the one that's 'close' but not quite the correct one. No screaming in agony when brainless Labrador Retriever figures out his ball is on the other side of the laptop and he charges through the power cord to get it.
Silicon Valley businesses are hardly typical of day to day businesses though are they. Walk into any corporate/government office and count how many Macs you see.
Just went to a Forest Service meeting in Juneau, Alaska. All of the laptops with only two exceptions in a crowd of 30 government employees were various flavors of MacBooks and one iPad.
Hmmm.
We're in boom times now? Good to know, makes me feel so much better whilst I watch my 401(K) tank.
Thanks!
A)bort R)etry F)ail
You know you want to be there when that screen shows up.
You want lit push buttons with that or will the rotary dial work OK?
Pffffft. Spoil Sport.
"Global Equities analyst Trip Chowdry estimates that Motorola Mobility has manufactured between 500,000 and 800,000 Xooms, but has sold only 5 to 15 percent of them. Best case scenario then, according to Chowdry, is that Motorola has sold 120,000 Xooms; worse case scenario, it’s sold just 25,000."
Ah, music to my ears. Another fine tablet soon to be priced at $99.
Hey, it's still early. There is hope left in the world.
Wasted a good portion of the morning hunting down a non-existent threat.
Instead of hanging out at Slashdot? Shame on you.
When Microsoft wants to undermine a competitor, they're far more subtle about it.
Yes, they sue them.
Hey Slashdot! What happened to my bullets? You indented the list, but the bullets are missing.
The Slashdot coders are waiting for the next buzz word technology concept to come along before they support unordered lists. Or Unicode.
Just be glad they've figured out ASCII. This web site would be a bitch in EBCDIC.
Exactly. Most of research is learning 'what not to do'.
Douglas Adams quote:
A learning experience is one of those things that say, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.'