Sure, things date. I saw Fantasia just once, on the big screen at a film festival. And because the festival were good about putting the film in context of it's achievement, I could appreciate it for what an achievement it was when it was made.
It's a bit like Laurel and Hardy. It doesn't make many people laugh out loud these days. But you can still appreciate how it had people rolling in the aisles at the time.
I wonder what people will make of our best, innovative stuff in 70 years time?!
I played Harold Lloyd to my two year old and he liked it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shdzRq4BYWk that's similarly old. I think some things still have a certain sparkle if even if they are out of date.
On topic: I quite like xkcd but I dont have the attention span for this one. It might be great but.... o look bitcoins, jobs, is the galaxy note 3 actually announced yet:)
Stop asking for 100% demonstrable skills up-front. You may need to spend some time on-the-job training.
Stop paying executives so much so you can afford better workers.
Old people are not outdated. Experience is actually worth something. Use some of that money you're saving by not having golden parachutes for C-levels.
I can solve this on ten seconds. Stop asking for every stupid little skill on the job ad and people would match. A good programmer is a good programmer.
If you buy anonymously with bitcoins, you can literally have it shipped to your house. It is not illegal to receive a package you were "not expecting' - otherwise you could send contraband to people you dislike and have them arrested by immediately calling the cops when the UPS confirmation hits your inbox..
As far as I can make out it still brings attention to you. Like buying hydroponics gear might or an excessive electricity bill.
Also if you get more than 1 package that would be suspect and the average person would have a history on their PC/ISP.
Since you've almost nailed it, I'll just add one thing. Here on Slashdot we have a -1 Troll option and a -1 Flamebait option. Almost nobody here knows what either of those terms mean anymore, including right here on Slashdot. As an example, when someone is clearly making moronic statements that they actually believe, and one calls them a moron, that is neither a troll, nor is it flamebait. Wikipedia gets it completely wrong as well. Flamebait is much like trolling, where the poster says something ridiculous in order to bait people into flaming them. Ergo, if I call someone a moron when they have made it clear that they are either a moron or intending to be one, my response might be a follow up to flame bait (if the poster intended to get me to call him a moron), but is not itself flamebait. Now, I'd really like to see people read this, understand it, and start modding correctly, but let's face it: there are a lot of morons in the world;-0
I completely agree with your post. And must be a moron as I accidentally moderated it redundant. So this post will unmoderate it.
Yeah weird huh? The requirements to become an Australian citizen (which I'm well versed in, as my American wife has just obtained her Australian citizenship a few months ago) are:
- You have lived lawfully in Australia for at least 4 years; and - You have lived in Australia for at least 12 months as a permanent resident
(OR... you were born in Australia or used to have citizenship but lost it for whatever reason)
My wife moved here after we were married and lived here for 4 years. The first two she was a temporary resident (all spouse visas are temporary for the first two years, and can then be migrated to permanent). The latter two she was permanent. She qualified earlier this year, did the test, had the ceremony and voila.
Woz seems to be thinking that, if you are well-known and/or rich, you can bypass all these requirements. I am not sure that is the case. You can certainly qualify for a permanent residence visa to live here on the basis of being rich ('investing' in the country), but that isn't citizenship.
. My spouse visa is permanent straight away,it says so on the electronic visa. 4 years to get citizenship. Then you can get a passport. If you want go to Australia at age 75 or over you need a medical. Fail that and you would no longer be able to see family etc. Not so with a passport/citizenship.
Also returning resident visas are now much stricter.
I managed to break a GalaxyS(not 2), but I did so by falling with it in my back pocket right onto ice with my butt. Before that, 'tossing' it to the floor by accident was pretty much a daily occurance and no damage was done. I got an otterbox for my next phone(atrix), and managed to break the case after a year. The phone is fine. Did the case do it's job, or is the phone just that tough? I'll have to see.
I don't know the specifics of what happened in your case, but there are reports of phones surviving things like multi-story drops out of helicoptors. A less than 1 story drop is supposed to be well within their design tolerance; even onto concrete.
Given my experience I figure there was some sort of 'aggreviating factor' to the cracking of the screen of your phone - being stepped or fell on, hitting something pointy on the screen, etc...
It just fell on its corner. Where as v. Similar drops didn't result in this problem with other devices.
Like I said if it hadn't been marketed as tough I wouldn't be so annoyed.
I think Corning should put their money where their mouth is.
I guess that most peeps will believe that I centre punched it, to create a hairline crack. See my first post which got modded down. O dear slashdot you cynical place:)
o really. Then the crack in my Samsung Galaxy s2 is a figment of my imagination.
No, its user abuse.
For every user with a cracked glass I raise you 1 million users who do not abuse their phones.
The point was never that you couldn't break a alkali-aluminosilicate glass screen, its just that it breaks less easily than prior materials, and allows equal strength with less thickness.
Odd you should lash out a a key component of miniaturization in a story suggesting that phones are getting too big.
It wasn't particular user abuse.Obviously it fell on the floor, due to my son knocking it out of my hand, therefore its my fault that it fell. I have done similar things with lots of devices which I made plain, and nothing had ever happened to those, apart from scuffing. I am not a shill or astroturfing - read my posts etc. - arghh how paranoid is slashdot now.
Yeah there are millions of people who haven't cracked their screens etc.. I didn't originally say that the screens had got stronger, I was replying to a post. I am evidently annoyed that something that is advertised as better doesn't survive better than the abuse I have given previous phones/screens.
If I didn't keep seeing adverts for how good corning gorilla glass is on Dell products, mobile phones etc.. It wouldn't irritate me.
I said as much on xda devs and I got just as roasted. We shall see how well this glass handles in the future.
Modern phones have much stronger glass on the display. I've yet to scratch mine, and it has shared a pocket with keys.
o really. Then the crack in my Samsung Galaxy s2 is a figment of my imagination. I have never cracked any smartphone from an XDA 1, xda 2 etc.. through hero, desire, ipod touch until the gorilla glass on my SG2.
Don't believe the hype.
It would cost as much as a second hand phone to replace and the glass is £10 to buy. I could replace it myself if I had the skills to use a heatgun on the front of my beloved but cracked phone.
The moral - Corning Gorilla glass may well be more scratch resistant but it sure isn't stronger.
Why the hell have I been modded down? Its obviously a valid point as people have replied.
Having some replies does not represent the quality of your post, and there is not much to reply to when you make the first post either.
I posted something to do with the article and a question and I was modded down. I just don't get why. I mod all the time. It wasn't frivolous and it was on topic beats a lot of slashdot posts:)
Facebook lets them send messages to others telling them they 'like' something. So they 'like' it, then get to send the spam message advertising their viagra/rolex/whatever they're trying to sell.
Simple really. If 98% of email is spam, them likely 98% of likes are spam too.
"Earlier this year Facebook revealed that about 5-6% of its 901 million users might be fake - representing up to 54 million profiles."
If 5% of their users are fakes, that's 45 million, if each likes 5000, thats 200 billion fake likes. The bigger question is why do advertisers imagine that Facebook pages are somehow more traffic'd than Internet pages, when every facebook user is an internet user, but not every internet user is a facebook user.
It's like putting adverts in second life, remember that?
Thanks for the explanation because that was definitely not in the BBC article.
Indeed, in a city a Postcode is usually a street, part of a street, or a single block of flats. Out in the countryside a postcode can cover square miles of farmland.
UK postcodes generally identify a particular street, or even a particular section of a street if it's particularly long or has a large number of houses.
UK postcodes are just a grid 1km I think, I am on the wrong computer to check. You can always import that leaked Postcode db into a mapping software to see what I mean. This normally translates in to a part of a street.
Wrong. My postcode covers about twelve square kilometers; down in the village they have three within a hundred metres. It's based on a (rough) number of delivery addresses.
Its not based on a rough number of delivery addresses its a grid see my link above or google wikileaks postcode CSV. There are gaps in the data where there is not a lot about maybe your case covers this. Once you visualise the data it may make sense.
UK postcodes are just a grid 1km I think, I am on the wrong computer to check. You can always import that leaked Postcode db into a mapping software to see what I mean. This normally translates in to a part of a street.
Not a grid, and their size does vary, but they are generally only a few hundred yards across; Google Maps will do an outline of the approximate area that a postcode covers, but as a rule of thumb a postcode covers an average of 15 properties.
Oh, and forget using any 'leaked postcode db'. The Ordnance Survey made available a CSV file that maps postcodes to coordinates as part of their OpenData project a few years ago; usage only requires attribution, not payment.
UK postcodes generally identify a particular street, or even a particular section of a street if it's particularly long or has a large number of houses.
UK postcodes are just a grid 1km I think, I am on the wrong computer to check. You can always import that leaked Postcode db into a mapping software to see what I mean. This normally translates in to a part of a street.
Nice tip for Bing the same minute that the article was posted. Shill of not, that's bad slashdot swag, man.
I thought the same thing but I would have expected better English. It was also a bit of a convoluted argument to get to "Bing is great" don't use TomTom or OSM.
FTFA: "We harness the local knowledge of our 60 million satnav customers, who can make corrections through TomTom Map Share." So... open mapping projects are worse than their closed mapping product because their closed mapping product is collaboratively edited by the users... Nice argument.
Absolutely, and surely TomTom and openstreetmaps have some method of sorting out the rubbish that comes in. i.e. multiple entries checked against each other and any ones outside the norm are thrown out.
Please circle one of the following: * Fox news is a reliable source of information * Sorry, I was doing meth in my cousins trailer when I linked * I'm a moron * I did it for the lulz
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Sure, things date. I saw Fantasia just once, on the big screen at a film festival. And because the festival were good about putting the film in context of it's achievement, I could appreciate it for what an achievement it was when it was made.
It's a bit like Laurel and Hardy. It doesn't make many people laugh out loud these days. But you can still appreciate how it had people rolling in the aisles at the time.
I wonder what people will make of our best, innovative stuff in 70 years time?!
I played Harold Lloyd to my two year old and he liked it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shdzRq4BYWk that's similarly old. I think some things still have a certain sparkle if even if they are out of date.
On topic: I quite like xkcd but I dont have the attention span for this one. It might be great but .... o look bitcoins, jobs, is the galaxy note 3 actually announced yet :)
To expound on this:
Stop asking for 100% demonstrable skills up-front. You may need to spend some time on-the-job training.
Stop paying executives so much so you can afford better workers.
Old people are not outdated. Experience is actually worth something. Use some of that money you're saving by not having golden parachutes for C-levels.
This entire crisis is manufactured.
Thanks for the expound :)
I can solve this on ten seconds. Stop asking for every stupid little skill on the job ad and people would match. A good programmer is a good programmer.
End of rant :)
Unfortunately, he predicted 20 out of the last 2 recessions.
That was funny shame it was posted as AC :)
Huh? Why is it a shame?
Not much point in modding it up.
Unfortunately, he predicted 20 out of the last 2 recessions.
That was funny shame it was posted as AC :)
If you buy anonymously with bitcoins, you can literally have it shipped to your house. It is not illegal to receive a package you were "not expecting' - otherwise you could send contraband to people you dislike and have them arrested by immediately calling the cops when the UPS confirmation hits your inbox..
As far as I can make out it still brings attention to you. Like buying hydroponics gear might or an excessive electricity bill.
Also if you get more than 1 package that would be suspect and the average person would have a history on their PC/ISP.
Time to introduce cat 6
Is it wrong to snigger out loud to that comment ?
Since you've almost nailed it, I'll just add one thing. Here on Slashdot we have a -1 Troll option and a -1 Flamebait option. Almost nobody here knows what either of those terms mean anymore, including right here on Slashdot. As an example, when someone is clearly making moronic statements that they actually believe, and one calls them a moron, that is neither a troll, nor is it flamebait. Wikipedia gets it completely wrong as well. Flamebait is much like trolling, where the poster says something ridiculous in order to bait people into flaming them. Ergo, if I call someone a moron when they have made it clear that they are either a moron or intending to be one, my response might be a follow up to flame bait (if the poster intended to get me to call him a moron), but is not itself flamebait. Now, I'd really like to see people read this, understand it, and start modding correctly, but let's face it: there are a lot of morons in the world ;-0
I completely agree with your post. And must be a moron as I accidentally moderated it redundant. So this post will unmoderate it.
Yeah weird huh? The requirements to become an Australian citizen (which I'm well versed in, as my American wife has just obtained her Australian citizenship a few months ago) are:
- You have lived lawfully in Australia for at least 4 years; and
- You have lived in Australia for at least 12 months as a permanent resident
(OR ... you were born in Australia or used to have citizenship but lost it for whatever reason)
My wife moved here after we were married and lived here for 4 years. The first two she was a temporary resident (all spouse visas are temporary for the first two years, and can then be migrated to permanent). The latter two she was permanent. She qualified earlier this year, did the test, had the ceremony and voila.
Woz seems to be thinking that, if you are well-known and/or rich, you can bypass all these requirements. I am not sure that is the case. You can certainly qualify for a permanent residence visa to live here on the basis of being rich ('investing' in the country), but that isn't citizenship.
.
My spouse visa is permanent straight away,it says so on the electronic visa. 4 years to get citizenship. Then you can get a passport. If you want go to Australia at age 75 or over you need a medical. Fail that and you would no longer be able to see family etc. Not so with a passport/citizenship.
Also returning resident visas are now much stricter.
I managed to break a GalaxyS(not 2), but I did so by falling with it in my back pocket right onto ice with my butt. Before that, 'tossing' it to the floor by accident was pretty much a daily occurance and no damage was done. I got an otterbox for my next phone(atrix), and managed to break the case after a year. The phone is fine. Did the case do it's job, or is the phone just that tough? I'll have to see.
I don't know the specifics of what happened in your case, but there are reports of phones surviving things like multi-story drops out of helicoptors. A less than 1 story drop is supposed to be well within their design tolerance; even onto concrete.
Given my experience I figure there was some sort of 'aggreviating factor' to the cracking of the screen of your phone - being stepped or fell on, hitting something pointy on the screen, etc...
It just fell on its corner. Where as v. Similar drops didn't result in this problem with other devices.
Like I said if it hadn't been marketed as tough I wouldn't be so annoyed.
I think Corning should put their money where their mouth is.
I guess that most peeps will believe that I centre punched it, to create a hairline crack. See my first post which got modded down. O dear slashdot you cynical place :)
o really. Then the crack in my Samsung Galaxy s2 is a figment of my imagination.
No, its user abuse.
For every user with a cracked glass I raise you 1 million users who do not abuse their phones.
The point was never that you couldn't break a alkali-aluminosilicate glass screen, its just that it breaks less easily than prior materials, and allows equal strength with less thickness.
Odd you should lash out a a key component of miniaturization in a story suggesting that phones are getting too big.
It wasn't particular user abuse.Obviously it fell on the floor, due to my son knocking it out of my hand, therefore its my fault that it fell. I have done similar things with lots of devices which I made plain, and nothing had ever happened to those, apart from scuffing. I am not a shill or astroturfing - read my posts etc. - arghh how paranoid is slashdot now.
Yeah there are millions of people who haven't cracked their screens etc.. I didn't originally say that the screens had got stronger, I was replying to a post. I am evidently annoyed that something that is advertised as better doesn't survive better than the abuse I have given previous phones/screens.
If I didn't keep seeing adverts for how good corning gorilla glass is on Dell products, mobile phones etc.. It wouldn't irritate me.
I said as much on xda devs and I got just as roasted. We shall see how well this glass handles in the future.
Thanks for your time :)
Modern phones have much stronger glass on the display. I've yet to scratch mine, and it has shared a pocket with keys.
o really. Then the crack in my Samsung Galaxy s2 is a figment of my imagination. I have never cracked any smartphone from an XDA 1, xda 2 etc.. through hero, desire, ipod touch until the gorilla glass on my SG2.
Don't believe the hype.
It would cost as much as a second hand phone to replace and the glass is £10 to buy. I could replace it myself if I had the skills to use a heatgun on the front of my beloved but cracked phone.
The moral - Corning Gorilla glass may well be more scratch resistant but it sure isn't stronger.
Why the hell have I been modded down? Its obviously a valid point as people have replied.
Having some replies does not represent the quality of your post, and there is not much to reply to when you make the first post either.
I posted something to do with the article and a question and I was modded down. I just don't get why. I mod all the time. It wasn't frivolous and it was on topic beats a lot of slashdot posts :)
Facebook lets them send messages to others telling them they 'like' something. So they 'like' it, then get to send the spam message advertising their viagra/rolex/whatever they're trying to sell.
Simple really. If 98% of email is spam, them likely 98% of likes are spam too.
"Earlier this year Facebook revealed that about 5-6% of its 901 million users might be fake - representing up to 54 million profiles."
If 5% of their users are fakes, that's 45 million, if each likes 5000, thats 200 billion fake likes. The bigger question is why do advertisers imagine that Facebook pages are somehow more traffic'd than Internet pages, when every facebook user is an internet user, but not every internet user is a facebook user.
It's like putting adverts in second life, remember that?
Thanks for the explanation because that was definitely not in the BBC article.
nothing about.
I actually read the article and still dont really know what this is about.
Why would people just go around liking stuff.
Why the hell have I been modded down? Its obviously a valid point as people have replied.
nothing about.
I actually read the article and still dont really know what this is about.
Why would people just go around liking stuff.
Improved headline: Untrained rats map minefields with explosions.
LOL :)
Indeed, in a city a Postcode is usually a street, part of a street, or a single block of flats. Out in the countryside a postcode can cover square miles of farmland.
Google Maps sometimes shows postcode boundaries, here's one in Glasgow that's about 200m across
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=G2+4jq&hl=en&sll=55.86512,-4.267604&sspn=0.002071,0.004506&hnear=G2+4JQ,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=16
Wheras this one near Inverness is about 1km across
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=IV6+7XN&hl=en&ll=57.528981,-4.470577&spn=0.015852,0.036049&sll=57.529572,-4.536686&sspn=0.253622,0.576782&geocode=CZh9Pqs90U35Fd3rbQMdgOy4_ynT6PPhdwCPSDE0q-qJe8xFvw&hnear=Muir+of+Ord+IV6+7XN,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=15
Postcode boundaries are just the prefix and don't have anything to do with a grid. See the data on the wikileaks download.
UK postcodes generally identify a particular street, or even a particular section of a street if it's particularly long or has a large number of houses.
UK postcodes are just a grid 1km I think, I am on the wrong computer to check. You can always import that leaked Postcode db into a mapping software to see what I mean. This normally translates in to a part of a street.
Wrong. My postcode covers about twelve square kilometers; down in the village they have three within a hundred metres. It's based on a (rough) number of delivery addresses.
Its not based on a rough number of delivery addresses its a grid see my link above or google wikileaks postcode CSV. There are gaps in the data where there is not a lot about maybe your case covers this. Once you visualise the data it may make sense.
UK postcodes are just a grid 1km I think, I am on the wrong computer to check. You can always import that leaked Postcode db into a mapping software to see what I mean. This normally translates in to a part of a street.
Not a grid, and their size does vary, but they are generally only a few hundred yards across; Google Maps will do an outline of the approximate area that a postcode covers, but as a rule of thumb a postcode covers an average of 15 properties.
Oh, and forget using any 'leaked postcode db'. The Ordnance Survey made available a CSV file that maps postcodes to coordinates as part of their OpenData project a few years ago; usage only requires attribution, not payment.
They are a grid on the data that I got from http://wikileaks.org/wiki/UK_government_database_of_all_1,841,177_post_codes _together_with_precise_geographic_coordinates_and_other_information,_8_Jul_2009
**take out the space in the url, I got a filter error trying to post**
The only reason I found that there was a variance was due to holes like parks etc... There are just gaps in the matrix.
The opendata project doesn't have postcodes, I just checked, but it does have some good stuff - thanks.
UK postcodes generally identify a particular street, or even a particular section of a street if it's particularly long or has a large number of houses.
UK postcodes are just a grid 1km I think, I am on the wrong computer to check. You can always import that leaked Postcode db into a mapping software to see what I mean. This normally translates in to a part of a street.
Nice tip for Bing the same minute that the article was posted. Shill of not, that's bad slashdot swag, man.
I thought the same thing but I would have expected better English. It was also a bit of a convoluted argument to get to "Bing is great" don't use TomTom or OSM.
FTFA: "We harness the local knowledge of our 60 million satnav customers, who can make corrections through TomTom Map Share." So... open mapping projects are worse than their closed mapping product because their closed mapping product is collaboratively edited by the users... Nice argument.
Absolutely, and surely TomTom and openstreetmaps have some method of sorting out the rubbish that comes in. i.e. multiple entries checked against each other and any ones outside the norm are thrown out.
Please circle one of the following:
* Fox news is a reliable source of information
* Sorry, I was doing meth in my cousins trailer when I linked
* I'm a moron
* I did it for the lulz
I can't find the "circle stars" button.
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