1. I'm referencing the specific pCell technology I linked to, which apparently creates pockets of constructive interference around devices connected to the pCell, and generally destructive interference elsewhere. 2. I'm suggesting using similar technology, not to run 4G, but to run WiFi. It seems like it should reduce interference between individuals' routers, without requiring one big-brother network.
Most non-Windows O/S users generally look forward to their upgrades, Windows users suffer from anxiety of losing data, being forced into a new UX paradigm, and a general fear of doing anything "technical". If it's not broken....
Speak for yourself. I'm a Linux Mint Debian Edition XFCE edition user. Every time an Update Pack comes around, I suffer from anxiety of breaking applications. One recent update killed the pulseaudio driver I use to play Unreal Tournament '99. Also, a couple of update packs ago, they discontinued support for XFCE and dumped me on Cinnamon (a different UX paradigm). It took me awhile to figure out how to get back to XFCE, and now I just hope they don't break it by accident, since they don't support it anymore.
I've been looking for a way to compile applications for Windows and CUDA/OpenCL, without installing Windows. So I tried ReactOS a week or two ago.
So I installed the VM, fine. It loaded fine. Then I tried to insert the virtual Visual Studio Express 2008 CD. Result: ReactOS can't read ISOs with long filenames.
OK, next I extracted the relevant part (Visual C++ 2008) in the Linux host OS, and tried to access it over Samba/SMB. I entered \\192.168.my.pc\dir in ReactOS Explorer. I expected a dialog to appear asking for my username and password. What actually happened? Nothing. No dialog, no effect at all.
I haven't even tried installing any part of Visual Studio yet because Samba access is essential for what I want to do.
Once you understand the concepts then doing 100 problems is no more difficult than doing 10. It just takes 10x longer to finish them all.
I disagree completely. Repetition leads to boredom. Boredom leads to difficulty concentrating. Difficulty concentrating makes it hard.
And that is the purpose of assigning a large number of tasks. Someone who does NOT understand the concept can work through 10 problems in an hour. Someone who DOES understand the concepts can do 10 problems in a minute.
When I started being home-schooled (for health reasons, not religious reasons), my Mom bought Saxon math books. They may still have a large number of problems, e.g. 100, but they mix up old types of math problems with newly learned types. That way I didn't forget old learning and I was less bored, while still learning new material.
Well, OK, I prefer GCC too, but that doesn't make the debate as interesting. Let's say many prefer Clang and see how they fall out on the merits.
I like GVim for its regular expression support. And I don't see why Emacs should run stuff like compilers from the editor - that's what multiple xterms are for.
I actually did a science fair project once testing whether the moon's gravity led to Earth getting hit with fewer asteroids. The effect was statistically insignificant.
UX research and (more importantly) user expectations continue to evolve.
As I was making a large post farther down this story, I just noticed a big thing I wish Slashdot had: A better editor for comment posting. Entering things - particularly URLs - as HTML is jarring for me somehow. Even though I work with HTML every day, here with the limited vocabulary it's different.
Take vBulletin's editor - please! On Slashdot, to link to someplace, I have to do <a href="http://slashdot.org/">Slashdot</a>. The ends of the tags require the shift key, and the URL has to be preceded by "href" and in quotes. In BBCode, that would be [url=http://slashdot.org/]Slashdot[/url]. "url" is bigger than "a", but 2x"url" is smaller than 2x"a" plus " href". Plus, BBCode has an option for WYSIWYG post creation too. Some people - maybe many people - would like that.
Oh, yes, and one other thing BBCode has that/. doesn't: Emoticons. You don't even have to get a real set of images anymore: You can just use Emoji - if you allow Unicode.
On the other hand, I have to contrast this with the current Beta. I see a big blank title field with no indication it's a title field, a big body field, but no indication of allowed codes (HTML, BBCode, or otherwise), and no option to switch to a WYSIWYG editor (or if it is a WYSIWYG, no buttons for links and such, no emoticons, and no option to switch away.) You can do better.
I'll be honest here too. I actually could have probably lived with Beta as it is now. But it would have taken a whole lot of work with user styles.
1. That person who decided lines should be doublespaced? Their head, on a pike, to serve as a warning to others who think websites should look like a 3rd grader's book report.
Hm, I actually hadn't noticed that as a problem. But it should be easy to fix in Stylish CSS.
2. Get collapsed/abbreviated/full comments working again so the MyCleanPC troll doesn't take up 100000 screenfuls of realestate: http://beta.slashdot.org/story...
I was working on this when the good news came down that Beta is delayed. It turns out that when displaying only, say, level 2 and higher comments, all the comments are there - just hidden. Furthermore, if I forced displaying of all comment headers:
...the bodies were hidden, but clicking the header would show the body. The main problems being that the formatting was all messed up and the little arrow on the left was backwards. But these things could be fixed in time.
3. Do something to stop wasting the right side of the comments. Flow the comments around the sidebar. Pack the sidebar stuff up higher. I don't know, how the heck do comments fit below the sidebar now (I even have mod points and the modpoint sidebar), but can't with the gigantic picture and doublespaced text in the summary?
On the current Slashdot, there's a moderate-sized chunk of space on the left lost. On the Beta, there's a somewhat larger chunk lost on the right...and on the right of the comments...and on the borders on both sides of the page. I'd say the two best one-liners in my user style were to fix the borders:
.container { width: 96% !important; }
and to fix the post padding - particularly on the right side:
I have unlimited 3G internet with T-Mobile, which I think includes unlimited tethering (I've never tried it to be sure), for $50/month. It's only 1.5Mbps, but unlimited slow is better than limited fast IMHO.
First, force companies to pay H-1B workers a lot more - unless they pay for training of an American for the entire duration that the H-1B worker works for them. Then, if the American they trained does not work for that same company at least as long as the training period, penalize the company the salary difference they saved. This forces the company to pay the American what they're worth, or lose a lot of money otherwise.
And how many schools even have an AP computer science class? Mine had a programming class, but not an APCS class. Of course, this was 15 years ago; things may have changed.
I did take the APCS test, but I had to specially request it. I was the only one in the room taking the test, though there might have been one other person in my whole class who took it. Many students may not know it's available, even if you don't take an APCS class - or they may just not want to bother getting a test set up just for themselves.
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
From TFS:
Nathan Froyd adds "I think this list of reasons to upgrade misses the larger point in providing software for other people: You do not get to tell your users what to do...."
This is one of the main reasons I hate Python: It's Guido's way or the highway. But, furthermore, Python 3.0 violates this principle as well: If there was one way to do it in 2.x, that way should continue to be the only way to do it in 3.0.
You clearly have a computer capable of playing video. Why don't you just get a cheap ATSC tuner to record your shows when you're not there? Here's one for $25 at NewEgg.
Other Internet newbies like Microsoft and Google have gone out of their way to make their customer's emails illegible.
I get my email from Google over POP3. pop.gmail.com:995. But it requires SSL, which I don't know how to emulate with anything at the command line like telnet. At any rate, Thunderbird saves my emails as plain text files, and that's good enough for now.
The challenges for solar cell adoption are: Cost-effective manufacturing methods The market price of silicon Efficiency of conversion Storing the energy for when it's required (or moving it to where it is helpful) and Durability
Yeah it did (or at least, it could act that way)... it even got hacked so that enemies could view the footage in something like three different episodes.
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I'm not referring to picocells for 4G, exactly.
1. I'm referencing the specific pCell technology I linked to, which apparently creates pockets of constructive interference around devices connected to the pCell, and generally destructive interference elsewhere.
2. I'm suggesting using similar technology, not to run 4G, but to run WiFi. It seems like it should reduce interference between individuals' routers, without requiring one big-brother network.
Isn't there some way they could create pCells around each device, so nobody would interfere with anyone else?
The next question is, could that be done in each individual's router(s), or does it require the collective network described here?
Most non-Windows O/S users generally look forward to their upgrades, Windows users suffer from anxiety of losing data, being forced into a new UX paradigm, and a general fear of doing anything "technical". If it's not broken....
Speak for yourself. I'm a Linux Mint Debian Edition XFCE edition user. Every time an Update Pack comes around, I suffer from anxiety of breaking applications. One recent update killed the pulseaudio driver I use to play Unreal Tournament '99. Also, a couple of update packs ago, they discontinued support for XFCE and dumped me on Cinnamon (a different UX paradigm). It took me awhile to figure out how to get back to XFCE, and now I just hope they don't break it by accident, since they don't support it anymore.
I've been looking for a way to compile applications for Windows and CUDA/OpenCL, without installing Windows. So I tried ReactOS a week or two ago.
So I installed the VM, fine. It loaded fine. Then I tried to insert the virtual Visual Studio Express 2008 CD. Result: ReactOS can't read ISOs with long filenames.
OK, next I extracted the relevant part (Visual C++ 2008) in the Linux host OS, and tried to access it over Samba/SMB. I entered \\192.168.my.pc\dir in ReactOS Explorer. I expected a dialog to appear asking for my username and password. What actually happened? Nothing. No dialog, no effect at all.
I haven't even tried installing any part of Visual Studio yet because Samba access is essential for what I want to do.
Repetitive != Hard
Once you understand the concepts then doing 100 problems is no more difficult than doing 10. It just takes 10x longer to finish them all.
I disagree completely. Repetition leads to boredom. Boredom leads to difficulty concentrating. Difficulty concentrating makes it hard.
And that is the purpose of assigning a large number of tasks. Someone who does NOT understand the concept can work through 10 problems in an hour. Someone who DOES understand the concepts can do 10 problems in a minute.
When I started being home-schooled (for health reasons, not religious reasons), my Mom bought Saxon math books. They may still have a large number of problems, e.g. 100, but they mix up old types of math problems with newly learned types. That way I didn't forget old learning and I was less bored, while still learning new material.
I prefer GVim and Clang.
Well, OK, I prefer GCC too, but that doesn't make the debate as interesting. Let's say many prefer Clang and see how they fall out on the merits.
I like GVim for its regular expression support. And I don't see why Emacs should run stuff like compilers from the editor - that's what multiple xterms are for.
Is it really leaded gas, or just gas with a lead substitute?
Thanks for taking one for the team.
I actually did a science fair project once testing whether the moon's gravity led to Earth getting hit with fewer asteroids. The effect was statistically insignificant.
Way too many DICEes these days.
Yeah. It's a CPU-less Arcade Game Emulator. It emulates a box with a lot of wires. They should have called it CAGE.
I still play Unreal Tournament from 1999. Its graphics are simple, but sufficient, and it has so many mods.
UX research and (more importantly) user expectations continue to evolve.
As I was making a large post farther down this story, I just noticed a big thing I wish Slashdot had: A better editor for comment posting. Entering things - particularly URLs - as HTML is jarring for me somehow. Even though I work with HTML every day, here with the limited vocabulary it's different.
Take vBulletin's editor - please! On Slashdot, to link to someplace, I have to do <a href="http://slashdot.org/">Slashdot</a>. The ends of the tags require the shift key, and the URL has to be preceded by "href" and in quotes. In BBCode, that would be [url=http://slashdot.org/]Slashdot[/url]. "url" is bigger than "a", but 2x"url" is smaller than 2x"a" plus " href". Plus, BBCode has an option for WYSIWYG post creation too. Some people - maybe many people - would like that.
Oh, yes, and one other thing BBCode has that /. doesn't: Emoticons. You don't even have to get a real set of images anymore: You can just use Emoji - if you allow Unicode.
On the other hand, I have to contrast this with the current Beta. I see a big blank title field with no indication it's a title field, a big body field, but no indication of allowed codes (HTML, BBCode, or otherwise), and no option to switch to a WYSIWYG editor (or if it is a WYSIWYG, no buttons for links and such, no emoticons, and no option to switch away.) You can do better.
I'll be honest here too. I actually could have probably lived with Beta as it is now. But it would have taken a whole lot of work with user styles.
1. That person who decided lines should be doublespaced? Their head, on a pike, to serve as a warning to others who think websites should look like a 3rd grader's book report.
Hm, I actually hadn't noticed that as a problem. But it should be easy to fix in Stylish CSS.
2. Get collapsed/abbreviated/full comments working again so the MyCleanPC troll doesn't take up 100000 screenfuls of realestate: http://beta.slashdot.org/story...
I was working on this when the good news came down that Beta is delayed. It turns out that when displaying only, say, level 2 and higher comments, all the comments are there - just hidden. Furthermore, if I forced displaying of all comment headers:
article.com-hide header[style="display: none;"] { display:inline !important; }
...the bodies were hidden, but clicking the header would show the body. The main problems being that the formatting was all messed up and the little arrow on the left was backwards. But these things could be fixed in time.
3. Do something to stop wasting the right side of the comments. Flow the comments around the sidebar. Pack the sidebar stuff up higher. I don't know, how the heck do comments fit below the sidebar now (I even have mod points and the modpoint sidebar), but can't with the gigantic picture and doublespaced text in the summary?
On the current Slashdot, there's a moderate-sized chunk of space on the left lost. On the Beta, there's a somewhat larger chunk lost on the right...and on the right of the comments...and on the borders on both sides of the page. I'd say the two best one-liners in my user style were to fix the borders:
.container { width: 96% !important; }
and to fix the post padding - particularly on the right side:
.comment-article.com-show { padding: 15px 5px 10px 15px !important; }
Could the beta be better? Absolutely. But it's not the end of the world from my perspective.
This is different how?
The F22 and F35 also seem like impractical boondoggles.
So does this mean Greasemonkey and Stylish won't work on pages using this technique? I hope it doesn't spread widely.
Actually, I guess Greasemonkey scripts could be written to tease out what they need anyway, but it would be much harder.
I have unlimited 3G internet with T-Mobile, which I think includes unlimited tethering (I've never tried it to be sure), for $50/month. It's only 1.5Mbps, but unlimited slow is better than limited fast IMHO.
The heat was just moving to locations where it's hard to put a ground-based weather station. Add satellite measurements and the "pause" disappears.
Beat that, suckers.
TigerDirect does. And I hate them for it. (Example link to a TV.)
First, force companies to pay H-1B workers a lot more - unless they pay for training of an American for the entire duration that the H-1B worker works for them. Then, if the American they trained does not work for that same company at least as long as the training period, penalize the company the salary difference they saved. This forces the company to pay the American what they're worth, or lose a lot of money otherwise.
And how many schools even have an AP computer science class? Mine had a programming class, but not an APCS class. Of course, this was 15 years ago; things may have changed.
I did take the APCS test, but I had to specially request it. I was the only one in the room taking the test, though there might have been one other person in my whole class who took it. Many students may not know it's available, even if you don't take an APCS class - or they may just not want to bother getting a test set up just for themselves.
From The Zen of Python:
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
From TFS:
Nathan Froyd adds "I think this list of reasons to upgrade misses the larger point in providing software for other people: You do not get to tell your users what to do...."
This is one of the main reasons I hate Python: It's Guido's way or the highway. But, furthermore, Python 3.0 violates this principle as well: If there was one way to do it in 2.x, that way should continue to be the only way to do it in 3.0.
You clearly have a computer capable of playing video. Why don't you just get a cheap ATSC tuner to record your shows when you're not there? Here's one for $25 at NewEgg.
Other Internet newbies like Microsoft and Google have gone out of their way to make their customer's emails illegible.
I get my email from Google over POP3. pop.gmail.com:995. But it requires SSL, which I don't know how to emulate with anything at the command line like telnet. At any rate, Thunderbird saves my emails as plain text files, and that's good enough for now.
It takes more specificity than that to rule out things like Ruby slippers, Ruby Sparks, Monty Python, and, yes, Java and scripts.
If I focus on web backends, it looks like Ruby on Rails has plateaued, or is dying - although J2EE is dying faster.
The challenges for solar cell adoption are:
Cost-effective manufacturing methods
The market price of silicon
Efficiency of conversion
Storing the energy for when it's required (or moving it to where it is helpful)
and Durability
The price of silicon isn't the biggest problem now. Solar cells are already at parity with coal in India, and keep getting cheaper every year.
Efficiency is generally sufficient. A house's whole roof can generally power it.
Durability also isn't generally an issue. Solar cells usually last for upwards of 20 years.
The primary challenges now are:
Installation costs
Electrical connection costs (i.e. an inverter)
and Storage (or grid hookup costs)
Yeah it did (or at least, it could act that way)... it even got hacked so that enemies could view the footage in something like three different episodes.
So he (meaning his character) had bad experiences with VISOR-as-a-camera, and he had a bad experience with a heads-up display device. No wonder he doesn't like it!