The old Slashdot would have encouraged hackers and modders being able to have a choice in their operating system or ROM. The new Slashdot thinks it's reason to get an Apple phone.
The old Slashdot would have been happy that Android was open source. The new Slashdot thinks it's a bug rather than a feature.
In reality, it's somewhere between feature and bug. It means the manufacturers can make a large number of different phones without a Legion of employees to keep them all up to date and it gives customers choice in both hardware and os. It kinda pushes people to be involved with their phone and to start hacking on their phones. Having said that, it's annoying when you outgrow the capabilities of your cheap phone before you're eligible for an upgrade.
Axim. I was third level tech support for them and ramped up a call center to support them. I had a few Axims and a Palm device with a hard drive inside it that had wifi and bluetooth. That mofo was bad ass.
Not really. There's a whole subreddit about Android full of helpful people. Slashdot has become a backwater of curmudgeons and the number and quality of comments is really disappointing. I have such great memories of Slashdot but after a bit of a hiatus I realized why I don't visit as often.
It does take more time but it's better than throwing feces at students to see what sticks, right? People are too eager to pull the trigger without actually knowing if the bullet is going to hit the target or backfire. We shouldn't be as eager to say "Reader, fire, aim!" in the Slashdot community is really my point, I guess.
The district should have run a pilot program with some volunteer students to get an idea of the projected improvement in scores so reluctant parents would have been convinced. Run a pilot and look at the numbers and you can show parents a simple graph of scores before the program vs scores after it.
That way the parents would have had an idea how their kids were going to benefit from it. It removes all the emotion from it and all the "good kids deserve perks" or "humiliation works to make things better" which are both just big generalizations. If it worked to improve the average score, go with it.
It's also the same with other incentive programs. They ran a test between three programs and the one that performed best was paying kids to read a book. Paying them to improve scores didn't do as well because it's difficult for kids to see a direct connection between their actions and test scores. Can't find the article right now. Google is not being my friend.
This is a shitty situation for everybody. The people AMD hired to do their fulfillment didn't do proper security so AMD is left trying to figure out how to not screw over people who bought their hardware, Codemasters now has a bunch of people playing their game for free and Valve has a support nightmare. Handling transactions on the web really shouldn't be this hard but apparently it is and you have to do your due diligence when picking an agency to handle data on the web.
Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas are sandbox games. The side quests include a lot of very interesting content and are quite fun. They aren't necessary to beat the main quest but they add realism to the game world.
I guess you didn't notice water running under the street, then? Saying "not as optimized as well as they could have been" is like saying the budget deficit is a tad large.
This one is just blatant as fuck. Tessellated invisible water running under everything? Really? Nvidia has been touting their better tessellation performance for how long now? And Crysis was the benchmark of choice so they had to go muddying up Crysis 2 to try to get the advantage.
I'm betting a lot of review sites wanted to use it as a DX11 benchmark but they found out about this crap and put a stop to that. If you do see a review site using it to benchmark DX11 you know they're shady or biased or not terribly thorough.
Thanks Slashdot for posting an article that tells half the story so we can easily tell who's smart enough to look into the full story (Bush admin bought all those servers that we didn't need and Obama is saving us money by shutting them down).
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The old Slashdot would have been happy that Android was open source. The new Slashdot thinks it's a bug rather than a feature.
In reality, it's somewhere between feature and bug. It means the manufacturers can make a large number of different phones without a Legion of employees to keep them all up to date and it gives customers choice in both hardware and os. It kinda pushes people to be involved with their phone and to start hacking on their phones. Having said that, it's annoying when you outgrow the capabilities of your cheap phone before you're eligible for an upgrade.
Axim. I was third level tech support for them and ramped up a call center to support them. I had a few Axims and a Palm device with a hard drive inside it that had wifi and bluetooth. That mofo was bad ass.
Not really. There's a whole subreddit about Android full of helpful people. Slashdot has become a backwater of curmudgeons and the number and quality of comments is really disappointing. I have such great memories of Slashdot but after a bit of a hiatus I realized why I don't visit as often.
It does take more time but it's better than throwing feces at students to see what sticks, right? People are too eager to pull the trigger without actually knowing if the bullet is going to hit the target or backfire. We shouldn't be as eager to say "Reader, fire, aim!" in the Slashdot community is really my point, I guess.
The district should have run a pilot program with some volunteer students to get an idea of the projected improvement in scores so reluctant parents would have been convinced. Run a pilot and look at the numbers and you can show parents a simple graph of scores before the program vs scores after it.
That way the parents would have had an idea how their kids were going to benefit from it. It removes all the emotion from it and all the "good kids deserve perks" or "humiliation works to make things better" which are both just big generalizations. If it worked to improve the average score, go with it.
It's also the same with other incentive programs. They ran a test between three programs and the one that performed best was paying kids to read a book. Paying them to improve scores didn't do as well because it's difficult for kids to see a direct connection between their actions and test scores. Can't find the article right now. Google is not being my friend.
With twice the pay you can pay for your own benefits. They need to do a cost per employee study to see if cost savings really are being realized.
Communism and libertarianism both suffer from this. The real world is a bitch of a place for theories.
Agency. It's an agency. Look at the whois for AMD4U.com.
This is a shitty situation for everybody. The people AMD hired to do their fulfillment didn't do proper security so AMD is left trying to figure out how to not screw over people who bought their hardware, Codemasters now has a bunch of people playing their game for free and Valve has a support nightmare. Handling transactions on the web really shouldn't be this hard but apparently it is and you have to do your due diligence when picking an agency to handle data on the web.
As a fellow T-Mobile customer I wholeheartedly agree.
Intel isn't the only standard. Otherwise, you're correct.
I think I read the Slashdot article when it was ten years.
I have an Android phone with a dual core proc and 4.3" screen. This is the cheap option?
I take my full sized notebook into the shitter with me because I don't give a damn.
Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas are sandbox games. The side quests include a lot of very interesting content and are quite fun. They aren't necessary to beat the main quest but they add realism to the game world.
What part of hyperbole do you not understand?
Was their hit FarCry, FarCry 2 or Crysis?
I guess you didn't notice water running under the street, then? Saying "not as optimized as well as they could have been" is like saying the budget deficit is a tad large.
Crysis 2 is now one giant benchmark that is biased toward Nvidia.
This one is just blatant as fuck. Tessellated invisible water running under everything? Really? Nvidia has been touting their better tessellation performance for how long now? And Crysis was the benchmark of choice so they had to go muddying up Crysis 2 to try to get the advantage.
No. There's water under the ground taking up valuable GPU time. It's slowing performance everywhere. Just happens to be worse on AMD cards.
I'm betting a lot of review sites wanted to use it as a DX11 benchmark but they found out about this crap and put a stop to that. If you do see a review site using it to benchmark DX11 you know they're shady or biased or not terribly thorough.
Who funded the program?
Thanks Slashdot for posting an article that tells half the story so we can easily tell who's smart enough to look into the full story (Bush admin bought all those servers that we didn't need and Obama is saving us money by shutting them down).
535. Typing with a baby in one arm while dealing with a toddler.