This poll is surely a hoax. There is no CowboyNeal option. What is this Slashdot TV thing? And where the hell are Taco and Hemos? Oh - I've been asleep for a few years, btw. What happened in here???
Thanks for all the enjoyment you've given through the care and feeding of this site and all of its inhabitants and indigenous species. Whether it was +1 Insightful or +5 Funny, it's always been a great site to read, and I plan to keep reading for years to come.
I also think it is poetically ironic that I had to type this post twice since my first attempt got eaten by the current instantiation of the Slashdot machine:-)
Best of luck to you in your new full time gig defending your lawn from being trampled by young passers by!
'When you've got marklar that offer buyers the choice of buying in the marklar or directly from the vendor themselves, which is what our marklar was, there isn't a real efficient marklar.'
Why does it show it having wheels? I can't see from the demo video how/when the wheels are used. OTOH, I'd like to see how one moves this to storage (e.g. hangar.. er, garage). Maybe you tilt it and push it in, something like a utility dolly.
Maybe the focus is more on building a working prototype before worrying about such mundane details.
Maybe I should stop asking questions and end this post.
At the risk of being slightly OT, I'm thinking about several comments noting that these systems were made in China to begin with, so it got me thinking. If a ridiculous set of circumstances arose where certain organizations banned the use of computers "made in China", is it possible to obtain/assemble a system that's "made in the USA"? Or "made in <NATO_member>"?
I'm just wondering if there's a way to source all the parts domestically and what it would cost. I'm guessing the answer is "impossible", but I'm curious if anyone knows about it.
I can't believe the uproar caused by an article from the technology journalism superpower that is the Rutland Herald...
I live in NH - if you could all calm down for 2 minutes I will try to explain:
Verizon.net ISP provided a convenience site whereby Yahoo!, AOL and MSN users could read their email from a pretty, Verizon-branded portal. (Let's call this portal "Third Party Web Site".) or they could read their email directly from the sites of those webmail providers.
Starting soon, Fairpoint is taking over for Verizon in VT, NH, and ME (that's Maine, not "me"). Not suprisingly, "s/verizon/fairpoint/"
So the now *Fairpoint* customers can't keep using "Third Party Site" which is provied by Verizon.net (which still exists, just not in VT, NH, and ME)
In its place, customers can now use the new "Fairpoint Third Party Web Site" or they could use the sites of their direct webmail providers.
Now go back and RTFA again. Get it now? Not as scary?
I'm no Fairpoint fanboi by any means, but this is the worst case of Slashdot hysteria I've ever seen.
I'm wondering about the "pulled to the surface and repaired on deck" part.
I imagine a cable laying on the sea floor going more or less "straight" from A to B. Is there enough slack in the line to bring the broken ends to the surface and hold them together?
(Clearly, the answer must be 'yes'. But I'm just wondering if anyone knows more about it. Do they intentionally leave in some slack just for such a reason when they lay a cable like this?)
I've read through many of the responses so far, and I see a lot of comments like, "Dark text on a bright background is WELL KNOWN to be FAR better on the eyes." and "Light text on a dark background is OBVIOUSLY better because of the tachyion emissions..." blahblah...
But I think a major aspect to this has to do with the ambient lighting conditions in the place where you are working. Me, I work in cave-like conditions. Very little ambient lighting, monitor brightness low, color backgrounds dark and text not-as-dark. If someone turns on the overhead light in my office I can't hardly see anything on the screen. Likewise, if I had the typical bright background, dark text scheme applied, my retinas would probably be burned out staring at that in a dark work room.
I guess I'm saying I subscribe to the "match background to ambient light conditions" school of thought. Do you work in a bright place? Try dark on light. Work in a dark place? Try light on dark. Something in between? I guess gray on gray maybe.
As I'm reading the descriptions and seeing it on YouTube, I'm thinking I've SEEN something like this before. And I finally remembered; Jef Raskin's "Humane Interface". Zooming demo from several years ago that runs in Flashhere.
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NERRRRD!!
(I kid - my son is a jazz guitarist - he pulls this stuff all the time.)
It is the _MOST_ difficult language for examining someone else's code and trying to figure out what is going on.
AHEM. Perl much?
This poll is surely a hoax. There is no CowboyNeal option.
What is this Slashdot TV thing?
And where the hell are Taco and Hemos?
Oh - I've been asleep for a few years, btw.
What happened in here???
Thanks for all the enjoyment you've given through the care and feeding of this site and all of its inhabitants and indigenous species. Whether it was +1 Insightful or +5 Funny, it's always been a great site to read, and I plan to keep reading for years to come.
I also think it is poetically ironic that I had to type this post twice since my first attempt got eaten by the current instantiation of the Slashdot machine :-)
Best of luck to you in your new full time gig defending your lawn from being trampled by young passers by!
They also want an unobfuscated copy.
If obfuscation is forbidden by the GPL, there's about a gabillion Perl scripts out in the wild that are in violation.
A 10-page Powerpoint presentation (PDF)
Did anybody else kinda wince at that?
"Can you access the main system memory banks? We need to get to those files!"
"I'm trying, but it's protected by a security code. I'm attempting to override..."
(tappity-tap-tap)
"Got it! OK, we're in the system. Patching through to the satellite..."
depicting six separate species: the polar bear, snail darter, spotted owl, American burying beetle, jaguar, and coquí guajón rock frog.
What? No 'Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka'?
(Look out! He's coming right at us!!)
+1 Inciteful
'When you've got marklar that offer buyers the choice of buying in the marklar or directly from the vendor themselves, which is what our marklar was, there isn't a real efficient marklar.'
Heh?
Why does it show it having wheels? I can't see from the demo video how/when the wheels are used. .. er, garage). Maybe you tilt it and
OTOH, I'd like to see how one moves this to storage (e.g. hangar
push it in, something like a utility dolly.
Maybe the focus is more on building a working prototype before worrying about such mundane details.
Maybe I should stop asking questions and end this post.
Maybe.
Some GUI's include that sort of capability too.
At the risk of being slightly OT, I'm thinking about several comments noting that these systems were made in China to begin with, so it got me thinking.
If a ridiculous set of circumstances arose where certain organizations banned the use of computers "made in China", is it possible to obtain/assemble a system that's "made in the USA"? Or "made in <NATO_member>"?
I'm just wondering if there's a way to source all the parts domestically and what it would cost. I'm guessing the answer is "impossible", but I'm curious if anyone knows about it.
Whose the guy that keeps saying "Me"?
The one standing next to the guy that keeps saying "Him".
The mnemonic I learned was : RAID 0 - The 0 stands for the amount of bits of data that are safe in the event of a single hard drive failure.
RAID 5 may serve you better my friend.
So, RAID 5 keeps 5 bits safe? 5 bits ought to be enough for anybody, eh?
let's call it something cool, oh, say ruby++ ?
I think you mean, "ruby-2sday"...
even the evil POSIX manual of Doom
I didn't know "Doom" was POSIX-compliant. Sweet!
I can't believe the uproar caused by an article from the technology journalism superpower that is the Rutland Herald...
I live in NH - if you could all calm down for 2 minutes I will try to explain:
Verizon.net ISP provided a convenience site whereby Yahoo!, AOL and MSN users could read their email from a pretty, Verizon-branded portal. (Let's call this portal "Third Party Web Site".) or they could read their email directly from the sites of those webmail providers.
Starting soon, Fairpoint is taking over for Verizon in VT, NH, and ME (that's Maine, not "me"). Not suprisingly, "s/verizon/fairpoint/"
So the now *Fairpoint* customers can't keep using "Third Party Site" which is provied by Verizon.net (which still exists, just not in VT, NH, and ME)
In its place, customers can now use the new "Fairpoint Third Party Web Site" or they could use the sites of their direct webmail providers.
Now go back and RTFA again. Get it now? Not as scary?
I'm no Fairpoint fanboi by any means, but this is the worst case of Slashdot hysteria I've ever seen.
I'm wondering about the "pulled to the surface and repaired on deck" part.
I imagine a cable laying on the sea floor going more or less "straight"
from A to B. Is there enough slack in the line to bring the broken
ends to the surface and hold them together?
(Clearly, the answer must be 'yes'. But I'm just wondering if anyone knows
more about it. Do they intentionally leave in some slack just for such a
reason when they lay a cable like this?)
a package of the most popular licenses...
OMG, first software packages, now license packages!
You'll have to compete with Darth Harrington's Intergalactic Proton Powered Electrical Tentacled Advertising Droids!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYz3eOApCmI
* Silverlight supports 32-bit and 62-bit browsers. ...
So why all the hate?
Because it's 2 bits short. :-)
6 bit counter (2**6) ?
Just a guess...
I've read through many of the responses so far, and I see a lot of comments like,
"Dark text on a bright background is WELL KNOWN to be FAR better on the eyes."
and
"Light text on a dark background is OBVIOUSLY better because of the tachyion emissions..."
blahblah...
But I think a major aspect to this has to do with the ambient lighting conditions in the place where you are working. Me, I work in cave-like conditions. Very little ambient lighting, monitor brightness low, color backgrounds dark and text not-as-dark. If someone turns on the overhead light in my office I can't hardly see anything on the screen. Likewise, if I had the typical bright background, dark text scheme applied, my retinas would probably be burned out staring at that in a dark work room.
I guess I'm saying I subscribe to the "match background to ambient light conditions" school of thought. Do you work in a bright place? Try dark on light.
Work in a dark place? Try light on dark. Something in between? I guess gray on gray maybe.
As I'm reading the descriptions and seeing it on YouTube, I'm thinking I've SEEN something like this before.
And I finally remembered; Jef Raskin's "Humane Interface".
Zooming demo from several years ago that runs in Flash here.
Quite similar, IMHO. Hmm?