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  1. 1. Send controversial post to some co-workers. 2. It get out to larger audience. 3. I'm toast. It's all so baffling to me too!

  2. I wonder how many people are like me. For years I had no home phone. They I signed up for Charter (now Spectrum) Internet and Cable service. I wound up having to let them give me a landline or else I would have had to pay a higher price. I don't use the landline. In fact, I tried to use it, and received a large number of spam calls from...Charter! They were trying to collect money from the previous owner of the phone number they gave me. There was no way to convince them that I am the sad new recipient of the number, and not the old person they took it away from. Weird! So I am probably counted among Land Line users even though I didn't want it and they forced me not to actually use it by spam calling me. 'Murica!

  3. Use a browser like Opera Mini on your phone. Use the browser with an Amazon tablet. Both user cloud technology to cache pages, greatly enhancing the loading of pages. Similar solutions are available on the desktop. Adblock helps reduce page load time also.So...with just a little work you can find your own solution.

  4. Actually, this is what keeps so many developers employed. When software becomes overwhelmingly difficult to maintain due to sloppy development and project management practices, managers come to believe that the solution is switching to the latest cool technology, and a rewrite begins. Eventually, since the underlying sloppy methodologies remain in place, the cycle repeats. What drives this cycle? Managers, team leaders, customers, stakeholders never want to admit that they are the problem. It's human nature. So, c'mon Micro-services, heal us!

  5. A is to B as C is to D on ISP To FCC: Using The Internet Is Like Eating Oreos (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    A is to B as C is to D - in a logical world, no information is given about the relationship of A to C. In the media, even the "techy" media or the "nerdy" media, an analogy is ALL about the relationship of A to C. Hence we see scads of NOLO's (non-logicals) screaming - They're comparing the internet to double-stuffed Oreos! They're comparing Immigrants to Skittles! Just take a logic 110 course - PUH-lease!

  6. This greatly simplifies the score tracking in Death Race.

  7. Couldn't find on Sue Googe Uses Google's Font To Run For US Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I tried to Googe this article, but couldn't find anything. Is it real??

  8. It things like this that make you think on Netflix Creates DIY Smart Socks That Pause Your Show When You Fall Asleep (netflix.com) · · Score: 1

    All my life I have been wearing dumb socks.

  9. Makes Sense on World Health Organization Has New Rules For Avoiding Offensive Names · · Score: 1
    Pulomary Diseases:
    • Respiratory Inflammation Disease
    • Inflammatory Respiratory Disease
    • Moderate Atypical Respiratory Syndrome
    • Respiratory Distress Atypical Inflammatory Disease
    • Global Atypical Inflammatory Respiratory Syndrome
    • Recurrent Respiratory Distress Syndrome
    • Pulmonary Respiratory Inflammation Syndrome
  10. Truman on Intel's Core M Performance Is Erratic Between Devices · · Score: 1

    If you can't take the heat, get out of the laptop.

  11. AAAA - All Acronyms Are Awful

  12. Hopefully on NASA's Chief Scientist Predicts Evidence For Life Beyond Earth By 2025 · · Score: 1

    Hopefully we will find intelligent life on Earth by then.

  13. Get your razor out on How Ubiquiti Networks Is Creatively Violating the GPL · · Score: 2

    Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

  14. Pretty much on Scientists Insert a Synthetic Memory Into the Brain of a Sleeping Mouse · · Score: 1

    That pretty much sums up my dating life.

  15. How I see it. on Google Now Automatically Converts Flash Ads To HTML5 · · Score: 1

    All you ad-base are belong to us!

  16. Hang'em high, I say.

    Sorry, they are too big to fail.

  17. Re: This is Texas! on Texas Boy Suspended For "Threatening" Classmate With the One Ring · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've personally do not know of ANY unemployed invisible people. Now that's math!

  18. Re:What's the Difference? on Amazon Goes After Oracle (Again) With New Aurora Database · · Score: 2

    Oracle - MySQL = PL/SQL. PL/SQL is a full-blown programming language apart from ANSI SQL. There are objects, table variables, maps, arrays, etc. This is what makes it very hard to switch from Oracle. Once you have been bitten by the PL/SQL bug, it is very expensive to move away from.

  19. Okay, I'll bite on Xerox Alto Source Code Released To Public · · Score: 2

    What on earth is "An interesting look at retro-future"?

  20. Let me be the first to say on No Nobel For Nick Holonyak Jr, Father of the LED · · Score: 2

    WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH - I hear the whambulance coming. Do you want some cheese with that wine?

  21. Re:When will it work in Seamonkey and Firefox on Native Netflix Support Is Coming To Linux · · Score: 1, Funny

    When will it work in Seamonkey and Firefox; that is what I care about, Chrome's interface sucks! and I don't want to run two browsers.

    I'm waiting on Lynx support using ASCII. Damn!

  22. Re:Well, we call them... on Errata Prompts Intel To Disable TSX In Haswell, Early Broadwell CPUs · · Score: 1

    I predict there will be future problems in this area - futurrata.

  23. Re:Excellent! on HP Gives OpenVMS New Life and Path To X86 Port · · Score: 2

    HP's plans are an exciting development for me and my colleagues!

    I assumed it was "me and my colleague". More than that sounds a little ambitious.

  24. I've used OrbForms - it's a pretty easy to use IDE with simple GUI development. It is much easier than CodeWarrior (which I have also used). www.orbworks.com

  25. Adam Sandler on Android Needs a Simulator, Not an Emulator · · Score: 1

    Or as Adam Sandler calls it, a "shimulator".