That said though, a LOT of large corporates are several versions behind as they support critical systems and can't be upgraded that easily. So it _also_ pays to learn the differences between versions. For SQL this isn't that much of a problem, but there are MASSIVE differences between Exchange versions:(
I use an Oyster card on London public transport all the time, and I have NEVER had it trigger until I was physically wiping the big yellow sensor with my oyster card. Yes, there may have been problems when it first rolled out, but these days it's totally bedded in and a working technology.
Plus you save shedloads paying via Oyster, so it's silly not to.
US websites are the ones that end in.US. The ones that end in.org,.com,.net are GLOBAL top level domains and should not contain US centric content.
(Also, there's no tech sites worth shit for the UK because as we all know, the UK *doesn't* have a decent tech industry...:( )
Finally, wtf is wrong with you Americans that you can't accept a single negative comment aimed your country no matter how accurate? I guess tho, once you've grown up a bit, you'll be able to take constructive criticism without throwing a complete teenage strop every time.
There has actually been two attempts to make US Red Dwarf. The first one had Terry Farrell (Dax, Deep Space 9) playing the cat. There are clips on YouTube if you are brave enough.;)
If the overall effort put into micro-sizing people entertainment devices was put into 'proper' research fields then maybe we'd be much closer to:
-Sustainable energy generation that doesn't fuck the the planet. -Closer to cures for Cancer and HIV -World Peace -Proper Space Exploration -A life where you don't have to work 50 hours a week just to feed your family.
The HTC/Samsung/Apple flagship phones are great and all, but they are hardly IMPORTANT when you step back and look at the continuing [lack of] development of the human race.
It's utter, utter, rubbish and has no features other that reformatting your chosen live RSS feeds into a readable clean format.
The point is... It's perfect for me, does just what I want - no more, no less.
Instead of you all rushing to Feedly like lemmings, why not explore what's involved in creating your own? There's no innovation any more... Where did all the hobbyist coders go ?
I also used Input Director for a while, until I realised that it doesn't work if the remote/slave [Windows] machine is 'locked' or awaiting a Ctrl-Alt-Del login (which is required for Domain based machines) - real shame because I was really started to like it...
Works wonderfully, between my docked Dell Laptop (work machine) and my no-brand tower desktop (personal machine). Monitor is a Dell 24" ultrasharp, keyboard is a dell branded one, and mouse is a Logitech MX518.
This KVM just 'works' - I really am impressed with it. Hotkey is scroll-lock twice plus enter, which is an extra keypress compared to other KVMs I've used, but never fails to switch. It even comes with a proper button on a cable should you wish to use that instead of the hot-key combo.
True, but he started writing the Silmarillion BEFORE LotR as a sequel to The Hobbit, but the publisher rejected it. So he put it on the back burner, and started 'The New Hobbit' aka LotR.
Strangely, I didn't know this before about an hour ago, when co-coincidently, I was reading the Wikipedia article on The Hobbit (for some other, unconnected reason)...
Whereas I concede your point to a degree, most of us with non 20:20 vision have a set focal distance for comfortable reading, regardless of font size. I couldn't code on a 50" plasma from 8 feet away no matter how big the font was - it would give me a headache.
2560x1440 is more pixels in EVERY direction. How is that *worse* than 1600x1200? Hell, think of 2560x1440 as two 1280x1440 displays side by side... *much* better than 1600x1200.
He's talking DPI, or density of the pixels. A 15" 1600x1200 monitor will have SMALLER pixels, than a 27" 2560x1440. Yes there maybe less pixels overall, but being smaller, the fonts* will appear less jaggy, which is a big concern for serious coders who stare at text all day.
* Of course, if the font is too small, it can be sized up in the editor, and STILL not be jaggy.
I keep saying this. If enough of us get together I'm sure we could instigate a mass migration over to something else - Son of Slashdot maybe, with content and usability like/. USED be several years ago...
I was under the impression that the Windows 8 on the Surface Pro worked with something called 'Secure Boot' in the hardware, that prevented other OSs from being installed onto it?
It doesn't cost 25k to build a relatively good personal cinema, you can do it for less than 5k and still have a better experience than most local mutiplexes. Since building my cinema (2.8m screen, HD projector, top end amp, loads of speakers) I've found that I much prefer watching movies at home. In fact as the sound is optimised for where I sit. the audio experience is vastly superior.
Gatting back on topic - I wonder how scalable this subscription model is? surely if there's only says 400 seats, and i'm the 401th subscriber, I'd really pissed off if I couldn't get a set for a first night showing of a new blockbauster - how are they intending to manage that? If the demand was high then I guess a waiting list of sorts like a members only type club - but then people would be expecting a bit more than just access to the movie (proper bar area, food etc.).
Slashdot Mirror
That said though, a LOT of large corporates are several versions behind as they support critical systems and can't be upgraded that easily. So it _also_ pays to learn the differences between versions. For SQL this isn't that much of a problem, but there are MASSIVE differences between Exchange versions :(
-Jar
Good luck doing anything remotely bandwidth intensive or latency sensitive over the flaky as fuck USB-Ethernet on the B.
Flaky as what-now? I regularly stream 1080p blu-ray rips onto my Pi under RaspBMC and have never yet seen a problem...
-Jar
Absolute Rubbish.
The early PS3's YLOD failure issues are also all down to the same thing as the XBox360s RROD - cracks and whiskers in Pb-Free solder.
-Jar
I use an Oyster card on London public transport all the time, and I have NEVER had it trigger until I was physically wiping the big yellow sensor with my oyster card. Yes, there may have been problems when it first rolled out, but these days it's totally bedded in and a working technology.
Plus you save shedloads paying via Oyster, so it's silly not to.
-Jar
OK I'll bite.
US websites are the ones that end in .US. The ones that end in .org, .com, .net are GLOBAL top level domains and should not contain US centric content.
(Also, there's no tech sites worth shit for the UK because as we all know, the UK *doesn't* have a decent tech industry... :( )
Finally, wtf is wrong with you Americans that you can't accept a single negative comment aimed your country no matter how accurate? I guess tho, once you've grown up a bit, you'll be able to take constructive criticism without throwing a complete teenage strop every time.
As usual, /. completely ignores the fact there are populated regions of land mass elsewhere on this planet other than the American continent.
Global release dates for Into Darkness:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1408101/releaseinfo
The US are getting it late, it seems.
There has actually been two attempts to make US Red Dwarf. The first one had Terry Farrell (Dax, Deep Space 9) playing the cat. There are clips on YouTube if you are brave enough. ;)
-Jar
If the overall effort put into micro-sizing people entertainment devices was put into 'proper' research fields then maybe we'd be much closer to:
-Sustainable energy generation that doesn't fuck the the planet.
-Closer to cures for Cancer and HIV
-World Peace
-Proper Space Exploration
-A life where you don't have to work 50 hours a week just to feed your family.
The HTC/Samsung/Apple flagship phones are great and all, but they are hardly IMPORTANT when you step back and look at the continuing [lack of] development of the human race.
-Jar
However... an end user shouldn't have to do that though.
I tell FF to clean out all my history bar cookies when it closes - do these phantom download entries persist through that ?!
-Jar
It's called http://www.weegeeks.com/
It's utter, utter, rubbish and has no features other that reformatting your chosen live RSS feeds into a readable clean format.
The point is... It's perfect for me, does just what I want - no more, no less.
Instead of you all rushing to Feedly like lemmings, why not explore what's involved in creating your own? There's no innovation any more... Where did all the hobbyist coders go ?
-Jar
I also used Input Director for a while, until I realised that it doesn't work if the remote/slave [Windows] machine is 'locked' or awaiting a Ctrl-Alt-Del login (which is required for Domain based machines) - real shame because I was really started to like it ...
-Jar
I know your pain. I've been through many problematic KVMs. :(
However, I've recently bought one of these:
http://www.aten.co.uk/products/productItem.php?model_no=CS682
Works wonderfully, between my docked Dell Laptop (work machine) and my no-brand tower desktop (personal machine). Monitor is a Dell 24" ultrasharp, keyboard is a dell branded one, and mouse is a Logitech MX518.
This KVM just 'works' - I really am impressed with it. Hotkey is scroll-lock twice plus enter, which is an extra keypress compared to other KVMs I've used, but never fails to switch. It even comes with a proper button on a cable should you wish to use that instead of the hot-key combo.
Hope this helps.
-Jar
Bacon Number is now effectively useless now that every man and his dog will be co--starring with him on The Following :(
I shall still cling to my personal Bacon Number of #4 with pride though.
-Jar
True, but he started writing the Silmarillion BEFORE LotR as a sequel to The Hobbit, but the publisher rejected it. So he put it on the back burner, and started 'The New Hobbit' aka LotR.
Strangely, I didn't know this before about an hour ago, when co-coincidently, I was reading the Wikipedia article on The Hobbit (for some other, unconnected reason)...
-Jar
Illegal in the UK unfortunately.
Whereas I concede your point to a degree, most of us with non 20:20 vision have a set focal distance for comfortable reading, regardless of font size. I couldn't code on a 50" plasma from 8 feet away no matter how big the font was - it would give me a headache.
2560x1440 is more pixels in EVERY direction. How is that *worse* than 1600x1200? Hell, think of 2560x1440 as two 1280x1440 displays side by side... *much* better than 1600x1200.
He's talking DPI, or density of the pixels. A 15" 1600x1200 monitor will have SMALLER pixels, than a 27" 2560x1440. Yes there maybe less pixels overall, but being smaller, the fonts* will appear less jaggy, which is a big concern for serious coders who stare at text all day.
* Of course, if the font is too small, it can be sized up in the editor, and STILL not be jaggy.
-Jar
Serious response to this one. Facebook seems to have replace 90% of users need for a 'personal' webspace.
Now, if you could build Facebook2 and get people to use it, then you'd be set.
Randall Munroe, is that you?
I keep saying this. If enough of us get together I'm sure we could instigate a mass migration over to something else - Son of Slashdot maybe, with content and usability like /. USED be several years ago...
No... the 1/2inch tape reel cases. Those things flew like deadly super-frisbees that even oddjob would have have loved.
(Not that I EVER did this almost every day in a super secret government server room many moons ago....)
Image of what I'm talking about: http://i.imgur.com/phS0PGo.jpg
For younglings, you put these in to them for safe keeping: http://i.imgur.com/GntVSek.jpg
Gmail does this. first.last@gmail.com is the same as firstlast@gmail.com.
Fsck off somewhere else then, no-one is forcing you to stay.
I was under the impression that the Windows 8 on the Surface Pro worked with something called 'Secure Boot' in the hardware, that prevented other OSs from being installed onto it?
It doesn't cost 25k to build a relatively good personal cinema, you can do it for less than 5k and still have a better experience than most local mutiplexes. Since building my cinema (2.8m screen, HD projector, top end amp, loads of speakers) I've found that I much prefer watching movies at home. In fact as the sound is optimised for where I sit. the audio experience is vastly superior.
Gatting back on topic - I wonder how scalable this subscription model is? surely if there's only says 400 seats, and i'm the 401th subscriber, I'd really pissed off if I couldn't get a set for a first night showing of a new blockbauster - how are they intending to manage that? If the demand was high then I guess a waiting list of sorts like a members only type club - but then people would be expecting a bit more than just access to the movie (proper bar area, food etc.).
-Jar