Well, now, 3D printing is only scheduled as a weekly guaranteed submission. You're being thrown off by the intersection between 3D printing and guns, which is a slam dunk for the front page.
Drones are a bit more sporadic; I haven't quite figured out the cycle. It's not daily, but it's more frequent than weekly.
They sold off a specific ARM-based product, one which doesn't get much press these days.
At the time Intel owned them, StrongARM and XScale were pretty much *the* mobile processors, alongside MIPS. Nothing Intel has done with ARM since has been done at the same scale and it'd debatable whether they've made anything viable with it.
I expect Intel still dabbles in ARM like Microsoft dabbles in Linux. They "do it", but there's not a whole lot of love, and you maybe don't want to get your core business too dependent on how they approach them.
I'm really not sure how this was picked up for the front page, unless the new overlords are taking "pay-to-publish" submissions now
It has "Bitcoin" in the title. Of course it got picked up.
Don't you know the rules?
Every day, there's gotta be at least one Forbes submission make it up, one hackaday, one from whatever site itwbennett is pushing these days (I don't click those links), and one Bitcoin story.
It's like clockwork. Things are a little shaken up with week what with all the changes happening around here, but they'll get their groove back soon enough.
Not anymore. Intel sold off their ARM business a decade ago.
That being said, Intel was pretty good at ARM when they tried. I doubt they'd have technical problems getting back into it if they wanted. Marketing and branding might not go so well.
Well, fixed wireless broadband isn't *horrible* compared to some alternatives. I went from DSL to 28.8k dial-up for a few years and that was... well, I didn't worry about congestion from neighbours, that's for sure.
The only advantage of fixed wireless over DSL or cable is that I don't have to worry much about where I put holes in the ground; the only line coming onto my property that I care about is overhead.
You certainly could get something much better than DSL if your carrier could be bothered. That is your only choice because they have a monopoly or duopoly (which isn't really any better than a monopoly).
I have a choice of broadband wireless providers (two that I know of), or satellite broadband. Or I could use cellular service for the week or so before I maxed it out.
I suspect in a few years I might be able to get fiber, depending on what they're doing with those lines they ran down the highway at the edge of my yard. Unless they did that just to taunt me.
Of course you need to actually *read* some of the comments. If there are 437 comments, but 400 of them are "foobar sucks" and "why won't foobar die", maybe you *shouldn't* post more stories.
Amen. I'm consistently seeing +4/+5 moderated posts calling something spam or a bullshit topic. In other words, that's logged-in users with decent karma who care enough to moderate telling you that your editors are fucking things up. That's a feedback goldmine, there. Pay attention to it.
Actually, there's a certain amount of necessary "fucking with it". In many cases, it just amounts to rolling back braindead decisions made by the previous owners. Kill any lingering vestiges of beta and other beta-like Web 2.0 tendencies, drop anything involving video, and for the love of all that is good do not foist another idiot like Haselton on us. There are some longstanding technical issues that should be fixed (https, IPv6, mobile, etc). I'm on the fence about Unicode; quite frankly, if it's not ASCII I have no interest in writing it or reading it, but I guess there's some people who might like to write their real name or something...
The majority of changes need to be made on the content side. Editors that edit, dropping the rants^H^H^H^H^Horiginal content (cf. Haselton), video reporting, Dice.com clickbait (if the new corporate overlords want to post something, don't insult our intelligence), etc. Promoting more tech and far, far less blogspam and contentious clickbait. I'm not entirely against blogspam, but I think it should be recognized, flagged as such, and I'd like to see slashdot charge money for promoting it. The other thing is having some actually reading and acting on comments when genuine abuse is called out; readers can see patterns (i.e. Microsoft's corporate PR games a couple years ago) and aren't shy about pointing it out. Shut that stuff down.
I find Windows 10 a well-made OS, finally catching up to Linux at current. It's usable and reasonable, although I had to go into the installer and modify the boot.wim and install.wim file because it was hard-freezing my CPU at boot.
That's not catching up to Linux at current. That's catching up to Linux circa 1997.
I'm not a big "oh, this site is inherently bad!" person, but a lot of people are, and they get angry when they see links to articles on certain sites (such as, for example, Forbes, due to their adblocker policy and malware history). Be aware of what sites are unpopular and try to avoid linking them, if you can. Most news is available from multiple outlets.
This is a big one. Pay attention to the comments. The fact that these sites keep coming back, in spite of being repeatedly called out by up-modded comments, strongly suggests that nobody on staff is even paying attention to the comments. Or sharing information with each other. Or... anything.
Personally, I'd just make these corporate submitters pay, and flag them as sponsored content.
The star trek episode where they've abstracted war to the point that the sims run, and people walk into suicide booths is hard SF. You can't remove the technology from that story.
Russian Roulette is hardly hard SF, even if you scale it up to a nation. Dice rolls and cyanide pills would come close enough for storytelling purposes.
While I have no sympathy for your plight, I have to admit genuine curiosity... what, exactly, did you expect as a reaction from Slashdot commenters to that request? " marnues says he needs this, so Linus, buddy, cancel that merge." ?
Apple will be assembling productsin the US within 10 yrs, using robotics, but it won't help employment rates because it will all be robotics based.
Assembly isn't the entire story.
Routing a substantial chunk of Apple's factory supply and shipping through the US would definitely be a net positive in employment rates. Whether it would be worth it for Apple as a corporation to remain in the US is debatable.
Plus, domestic production would make the encryption debate moot; the NSA could just hack the devices at the source. </sarcasm>
Clinton replied, "That is not what I've heard. Let me leave it at that." The implications of that small comment are troubling.
The implications of that small comment are that nobody trying to get elected is going to admit they've hit a brick wall and aren't going to be able to do shit about something they think a presidential candidate should be able to do.
If you think politicians saying whatever they think it takes to get elected is troubling, you'd best turn off all external news sources for, oh, about the next 85 years.
The code isn't worth enough and the ownership is not obvious enough.
In many (most?) cases, the only reason the code could even be on Stackoverflow is that the snippet would fall under fair use.
And, in the cases where the ownership can be traced to somewhere else, why couldn't someone attribute it to the original source rather than Stackoverflow?
For composting, skull needs to be cracked open, bones ground up and soft body parts chopped into small pieces, like 2" dia, otherwise no composting, gets into stinky anaerobic process. A body, maybe 180 lbs > 60 % water, very challenging to compost, needs tons of carbon (wood) to compensate.
No problem. As part of the new burial rituals, the grieving widow pull starts the wood chipper and the pallbearers feed in the corpse, casket, and an entire bouquet of roses. It's very respectful and dignified, assuming the deceased cooperates and stays quiet through the entire service.
Oh, we get days like that (last time it hit 35C with high humidity I was out for a week with heatstroke). But those temps are abnormal, and more importantly we don't get nights like that. A/C is much more critical when the option of just closing things up until evening doesn't cut it any more.
Which is why it's a lot more important for air conditioning.
Yeah, that's the other reason I don't get the need for pre-warming/cooling. I don't have A/C. Rural southern Ontario doesn't really get that hot or humid.
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Well, now, 3D printing is only scheduled as a weekly guaranteed submission. You're being thrown off by the intersection between 3D printing and guns, which is a slam dunk for the front page.
Drones are a bit more sporadic; I haven't quite figured out the cycle. It's not daily, but it's more frequent than weekly.
At the time Intel owned them, StrongARM and XScale were pretty much *the* mobile processors, alongside MIPS. Nothing Intel has done with ARM since has been done at the same scale and it'd debatable whether they've made anything viable with it.
I expect Intel still dabbles in ARM like Microsoft dabbles in Linux. They "do it", but there's not a whole lot of love, and you maybe don't want to get your core business too dependent on how they approach them.
It has "Bitcoin" in the title. Of course it got picked up.
Don't you know the rules?
Every day, there's gotta be at least one Forbes submission make it up, one hackaday, one from whatever site itwbennett is pushing these days (I don't click those links), and one Bitcoin story.
It's like clockwork. Things are a little shaken up with week what with all the changes happening around here, but they'll get their groove back soon enough.
Not anymore. Intel sold off their ARM business a decade ago.
That being said, Intel was pretty good at ARM when they tried. I doubt they'd have technical problems getting back into it if they wanted. Marketing and branding might not go so well.
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Well, fixed wireless broadband isn't *horrible* compared to some alternatives. I went from DSL to 28.8k dial-up for a few years and that was... well, I didn't worry about congestion from neighbours, that's for sure.
The only advantage of fixed wireless over DSL or cable is that I don't have to worry much about where I put holes in the ground; the only line coming onto my property that I care about is overhead.
I have a choice of broadband wireless providers (two that I know of), or satellite broadband. Or I could use cellular service for the week or so before I maxed it out.
I suspect in a few years I might be able to get fiber, depending on what they're doing with those lines they ran down the highway at the edge of my yard. Unless they did that just to taunt me.
I'd be thrilled if I could get DSL.
Trust me on this... it doesn't work that way.
Microsoft learned a long time ago that buying stuff that people already like is far easier than creating stuff that people like.
Amen. I'm consistently seeing +4/+5 moderated posts calling something spam or a bullshit topic. In other words, that's logged-in users with decent karma who care enough to moderate telling you that your editors are fucking things up. That's a feedback goldmine, there. Pay attention to it.
Actually, there's a certain amount of necessary "fucking with it". In many cases, it just amounts to rolling back braindead decisions made by the previous owners. Kill any lingering vestiges of beta and other beta-like Web 2.0 tendencies, drop anything involving video, and for the love of all that is good do not foist another idiot like Haselton on us. There are some longstanding technical issues that should be fixed (https, IPv6, mobile, etc). I'm on the fence about Unicode; quite frankly, if it's not ASCII I have no interest in writing it or reading it, but I guess there's some people who might like to write their real name or something...
The majority of changes need to be made on the content side. Editors that edit, dropping the rants^H^H^H^H^Horiginal content (cf. Haselton), video reporting, Dice.com clickbait (if the new corporate overlords want to post something, don't insult our intelligence), etc. Promoting more tech and far, far less blogspam and contentious clickbait. I'm not entirely against blogspam, but I think it should be recognized, flagged as such, and I'd like to see slashdot charge money for promoting it. The other thing is having some actually reading and acting on comments when genuine abuse is called out; readers can see patterns (i.e. Microsoft's corporate PR games a couple years ago) and aren't shy about pointing it out. Shut that stuff down.
That's not catching up to Linux at current. That's catching up to Linux circa 1997.
When it comes to furry porn, one can't be too careful.
This is a big one. Pay attention to the comments. The fact that these sites keep coming back, in spite of being repeatedly called out by up-modded comments, strongly suggests that nobody on staff is even paying attention to the comments. Or sharing information with each other. Or... anything.
Personally, I'd just make these corporate submitters pay, and flag them as sponsored content.
Russian Roulette is hardly hard SF, even if you scale it up to a nation. Dice rolls and cyanide pills would come close enough for storytelling purposes.
Daesh is the plural/organization name. Individually, I believe they're called Daesh-bags.
While I have no sympathy for your plight, I have to admit genuine curiosity... what, exactly, did you expect as a reaction from Slashdot commenters to that request? " marnues says he needs this, so Linus, buddy, cancel that merge." ?
Assembly isn't the entire story.
Routing a substantial chunk of Apple's factory supply and shipping through the US would definitely be a net positive in employment rates. Whether it would be worth it for Apple as a corporation to remain in the US is debatable.
Plus, domestic production would make the encryption debate moot; the NSA could just hack the devices at the source. </sarcasm>
The implications of that small comment are that nobody trying to get elected is going to admit they've hit a brick wall and aren't going to be able to do shit about something they think a presidential candidate should be able to do.
If you think politicians saying whatever they think it takes to get elected is troubling, you'd best turn off all external news sources for, oh, about the next 85 years.
In many (most?) cases, the only reason the code could even be on Stackoverflow is that the snippet would fall under fair use.
And, in the cases where the ownership can be traced to somewhere else, why couldn't someone attribute it to the original source rather than Stackoverflow?
No problem. As part of the new burial rituals, the grieving widow pull starts the wood chipper and the pallbearers feed in the corpse, casket, and an entire bouquet of roses. It's very respectful and dignified, assuming the deceased cooperates and stays quiet through the entire service.
Oh, we get days like that (last time it hit 35C with high humidity I was out for a week with heatstroke). But those temps are abnormal, and more importantly we don't get nights like that. A/C is much more critical when the option of just closing things up until evening doesn't cut it any more.
Yeah, that's the other reason I don't get the need for pre-warming/cooling. I don't have A/C. Rural southern Ontario doesn't really get that hot or humid.