That is *awesome*. I've been doing vim with yyyymmdd in the filenames for years. I seem to be the only person in the company who can find back his notes, ever, thanks to (ack-)grep, find and xargs. But sharing my notes with others has always been a problem. I've got monospace text recognition hardwired in my brain, but the majority of you puny humans seem to think that that's hard to read.
I'm switching to markdown as of tomorrow. Thank you, and thanks to the OP for this Ask Slashdot.
Belgium, the state, has three official languages. See what you're presented with on the federal government's official portal: fgov.be.
The Brussels region, and its Flemish suburbs, hosts a lot of belligerently anti-Flemish French speakers. You have to go through a lot of hassle, and can be submitted to a lot of abuse, if you want to be addressed in anything else than French. This is, though, a flagrant violation of language laws.
The Flemish, who make up 60% of the population (not 50% as grandparent claims), speak Dutch. The existence of local variants in the language are no basis for a claim that there a multiple languages. Otherwise you'd have very few English speakers in the world.
Belgium is a trilingual country; there is a small population of German speakers.
Brussels is a bilingual region. It is geographically located in the Dutch-speaking Flanders, historically Flemish and Dutch speaking, but currently more an international city.
The math bit is about right, the rest is bullshit. I implemented a 2-way satellite modem, with VoIP, a few years back, and 600ms RTT is what I got typically. Upstream bandwidth contention is handled with QoS on the link layer and some form of traffic shaping. After that, from the ground station, it's just a fast link to the Internet like from any ISP, which means roughly 150ms to get across the Atlantic, for example. So real-life ping times are well under 1000ms.
The Slashdot crowd seriously underestimates how much engineering goes into modems to ensure that the end user experience is optimal.
They use mice and rats because testing things on people is unethical and testing things on animals a lot more like us (primates, pigs, etc) is either unethical or expensive.
Testing things on animals unlike humans is unethical too. It's just more convenient to ignore the ethical implications if they don't look at you in a manner that a human animal socially responds to.
Mod parent up! Once the copyright owner stops commercially offering a product, it should be legal to copy it. I should be legal to circumvent restrictions that prevent copying, and possibly even legally required by the owner to provide support for this. This goes not only for software, but also for music. One of my favourite CD's was not produced for 15 years until the band finally managed to convince the record company owning the rights to sell them.
No, it just means you're old.
Linux is twenty years old.
The IBM-compatible PC is a relic.
Modem handshake noise is no longer widely recognised.
Most people using computers have never seen a text screen.
And your UID has four digits, as does mine.
Now let's kick those darn youngsters off our Slashdot!
Residential networking has been booming lately, and we're only scratching the surface compared to what's about to come.
We want to make sure that the home has all the goodness of properly configured, secure, scalable networking without any of the administration overhead. I may be my family's IT department, but I shouldn't have to be. Stuff should just work. That's what this is about.
organic products (hate all you want. it is the technical term)
"Organic" is a marketing term. The word has an entirely different meaning in the context of chemistry.
The marketing term differs from language to language and possibly country to country. Here, they're called "bio"-products, an equally incorrect term, obviously.
The best name for it is "eco-"/"eko-". Because the produce is grown in an ecologically responsible manner.
Yep. Brussels is now located in a democracy with mutual respect and understanding between regions where different languages are spoken.
Well, all that will go to hell soon now the Swiss gained Brussels as a city...
That is where I disagree with all of you. I think you're all confusing being proud of a trait with despising everyone who doesn't possess that trait.
I am a patriot and a nationalist, yet I don't hate other nationalities. I'm proud of my heritage, my race, my culture and my family, yet I do not hate other races or cultures. I'm proud to be smart, but I don't think any less of people who are not gifted with the same set of skills.
I'm also proud of who I am and what I've accomplished, but what was I supposed to think of myself before I knew myself and accomplished anything? That was I just a useless child?
By using the word "ridden" are you implying that being proud of your race is a bad trait?
Yes.
It's the height of stupidity to be proud of something which (1) you had nothing to do with and cannot change and (2) which is only relevant to bigots and racists and an irrelevant detail to everyone else--it has absolutely no practical relevance. It's like having pride in your eye color. You should be ridiculed for holding such a position.
So patriotism (there go the Olympics), the aspect of female emancipation that insists that women should be proud to be women etc. are all right out? Is gay pride still OK or are you in the camp of people who theorise that you can't help being a homosexual, because if you are, draw your conclusions.
What's left of a person's self respect? Sorry pal, I respect your opinion, but I'm afraid most people on this planet disagree with you.
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That is *awesome*. I've been doing vim with yyyymmdd in the filenames for years. I seem to be the only person in the company who can find back his notes, ever, thanks to (ack-)grep, find and xargs. But sharing my notes with others has always been a problem. I've got monospace text recognition hardwired in my brain, but the majority of you puny humans seem to think that that's hard to read. I'm switching to markdown as of tomorrow. Thank you, and thanks to the OP for this Ask Slashdot.
Well, I submitted that too early. It has been released.
There's a draft of an English version, "Brainchains." Excerpts available here.
The Brussels region, and its Flemish suburbs, hosts a lot of belligerently anti-Flemish French speakers. You have to go through a lot of hassle, and can be submitted to a lot of abuse, if you want to be addressed in anything else than French. This is, though, a flagrant violation of language laws.
tell that to the Vlaams and see how long your balls last...LOL
By "the Vlaams" I assume you mean "the Flemish" or "Vlamingen." I am one, so; fail.
Also, we are not a violent people.
That proves that things really are as bad as the mockery in this cartoon suggests.
The Flemish, who make up 60% of the population (not 50% as grandparent claims), speak Dutch. The existence of local variants in the language are no basis for a claim that there a multiple languages. Otherwise you'd have very few English speakers in the world.
Belgium is a trilingual country; there is a small population of German speakers.
Brussels is a bilingual region. It is geographically located in the Dutch-speaking Flanders, historically Flemish and Dutch speaking, but currently more an international city.
The only thing you can see when flying over Scotland is the top of the rainclouds.
Why doesn't Europe set up it's own version of Facebook?
We did. It's called netlog. And then the event horizon of Facebook's socio-gravitational pull engulfed the whole planet and surrounding satellites.
The Slashdot crowd seriously underestimates how much engineering goes into modems to ensure that the end user experience is optimal.
Have you checked out the N9? The top-selling, currently highest rated smartphone? It fixes all of the N9 slowness and has awesome specs.
They use mice and rats because testing things on people is unethical and testing things on animals a lot more like us (primates, pigs, etc) is either unethical or expensive.
Testing things on animals unlike humans is unethical too. It's just more convenient to ignore the ethical implications if they don't look at you in a manner that a human animal socially responds to.
Read the other Android article published today and go for something open source instead. Maemo, Moblin, Meego, Tizen, Mer or just plain Debian.
Subsidies for European tech companies?
Mod parent up! Once the copyright owner stops commercially offering a product, it should be legal to copy it. I should be legal to circumvent restrictions that prevent copying, and possibly even legally required by the owner to provide support for this. This goes not only for software, but also for music. One of my favourite CD's was not produced for 15 years until the band finally managed to convince the record company owning the rights to sell them.
It might be better to let the youngsters have Slashdot. :/
I bet those were CmdTaco's real leaving words.
No, it just means you're old.
Linux is twenty years old.
The IBM-compatible PC is a relic.
Modem handshake noise is no longer widely recognised.
Most people using computers have never seen a text screen.
And your UID has four digits, as does mine.
Now let's kick those darn youngsters off our Slashdot!
Residential networking has been booming lately, and we're only scratching the surface compared to what's about to come. We want to make sure that the home has all the goodness of properly configured, secure, scalable networking without any of the administration overhead. I may be my family's IT department, but I shouldn't have to be. Stuff should just work. That's what this is about.
organic products (hate all you want. it is the technical term)
"Organic" is a marketing term. The word has an entirely different meaning in the context of chemistry.
The marketing term differs from language to language and possibly country to country. Here, they're called "bio"-products, an equally incorrect term, obviously.
The best name for it is "eco-"/"eko-". Because the produce is grown in an ecologically responsible manner.
Yep. Brussels is now located in a democracy with mutual respect and understanding between regions where different languages are spoken. Well, all that will go to hell soon now the Swiss gained Brussels as a city...
I think you mean 'Brussels is where the occupying force of bureaucrats presently infesting many of the nations of Europe is centered.'
Yep. Like GP said, like Washington DC.
Yep, and now the Internet routes around brain damage.
Yes, I know. That's what I'm referring to as well.
I am a patriot and a nationalist, yet I don't hate other nationalities. I'm proud of my heritage, my race, my culture and my family, yet I do not hate other races or cultures. I'm proud to be smart, but I don't think any less of people who are not gifted with the same set of skills.
I'm also proud of who I am and what I've accomplished, but what was I supposed to think of myself before I knew myself and accomplished anything? That was I just a useless child?
By using the word "ridden" are you implying that being proud of your race is a bad trait?
Yes.
It's the height of stupidity to be proud of something which (1) you had nothing to do with and cannot change and (2) which is only relevant to bigots and racists and an irrelevant detail to everyone else--it has absolutely no practical relevance. It's like having pride in your eye color. You should be ridiculed for holding such a position.
So patriotism (there go the Olympics), the aspect of female emancipation that insists that women should be proud to be women etc. are all right out? Is gay pride still OK or are you in the camp of people who theorise that you can't help being a homosexual, because if you are, draw your conclusions.
What's left of a person's self respect? Sorry pal, I respect your opinion, but I'm afraid most people on this planet disagree with you.