Gopher was how I expanded out on the internet beyond paying crazy fees to send internet email over Compuserv. A few local bulletin boards offered access. I was in high school, so I didn’t have anybody around to tell me what the point of Gopher was, so it was like browsing a very nerdy newsstand. Today I often miss Gopher, because it had no images, no video, no Flash, no insane page layouts trying to sell me clickbait.
Slashdot comments are just awful. It seems like a collection of bots that only exist to turn every post’s comments into a way to blame all the world‘s problems on taxes, immigrants, and women programmers. I think all the good commenters have moved to carefully moderated subreddits.
I almost never post on Slashdot because I don’t want anything to do with the comments pages. And I don’t want anything to do with the comments pages because it’s always the same tired old arguments about stuff like systemd, women programmers, immigrants taking jobs, and politics—often even when the topic has nothing to do with those things. I’d love to be able to create a list of words and have Slashdot just not show me those comments, similar to how I was able to block John Katz stories in a previous epoch.
The effect was people crowdfunding Rand Paul’s 2016 book tour, which lays the groundwork for his 2020 and 2024 book tours. He’s keeping the Paul family business alive.
India has some of the most corrupt local governments on Earth. The examiners were either bribed or just can’t be bothered to deal with this on their own. Either that or they’re the ones who got the police and media involved.
In comparison, this measure seems to have been abandoned without much fight. I can't help but wonder why.
The GOP realized that this is not a policy that’s going to help them keep the Senate in 2016. Right now the GOP is dominated by old Republicans who want the party to attract young voters, so ginning this issue up into a war wasn’t worth pissing off the young voters. The other important group in the GOP are the sham libertarians who are trying to bring wealthy techies into their camp. Going to war over net neutrality would halt Rand Paul’s advance into silicon valley. All the money the telcos and cable companies can throw at the GOP isn’t really worth pissing off all the people who want uninterrupted streams from Chaturbate and Russian pirate TV streams.
Unless you’re retired it’s almost impossible to live in the developed world and not interact with computers on a daily basis. So computer literacy is an important part of daily life in the USA. So everybody needs to know something about programming or they’ll be incapable of understanding basic and important concepts that are relevant to daily life.
But that doesn’t mean that we need to reshape our entire educational system to crank out more software developers so that tech companies can pay lower salaries, which is really what’s behind many of these big efforts to push coding into schools.
How about using talents and energies on real problems, identified using old fashioned scientific method called prioritization, in IT world knowing as function "sort".
Solving problems like war and climate change pretty much requires getting into politics. If you were a nobel laureate would you want to spend your time dealing with the idiots people vote for?
“Safety features have also been enhanced, adding "adaptive cruise control and the ability to read speed limit signs, stop itself if a crash is imminent, stay in its lane, and even park itself in a street spot or in your garage."”
I need that right now in a two ton all-wheel drive SUV so I can drive sanely while yelling at my kids in the back seat. Please Elon, hurry up and take my money!
“That means, if life is at all common in the Milky Way, astronomers could soon detect it.”
No, it means that if, thousands or even millions of years agao, some other life form happened to be broadcasting monster radio waves, in the direction of Earth, astronomers might detect it.
The $60 price point has really turned me off from gaming. Alone the $60 game might not be a killer. But combined with the game industry's obsession with pleasing hard-core gamers you have a recipe for me walking away from gaming. Why would I pay $60 for a game that requires me to unlock most of the content? Or for a game that requires lots of trial-and-error? Or for a game that was released unfinished with showstopping bugs? I'd rather stick with $10 downloads.
The 9/80 work schedule is a scam. Youâ(TM)ll have worked the 80 hours, but on Friday there will be a big meeting and youâ(TM)ll need to work. The next off Friday some important maintenance task will come up and youâ(TM)ll need to work. After that there will be a client interaction and youâ(TM)ll need to work. Your company will not pay you overtime for any of these extra Fridays because youâ(TM)re a salaried professional.
Right now is a terrible time to be looking for an entry-level niche position. Those jobs are being filled by mid and senior level workers who just got laid off and will work for an entry level salary to keep their family fed. And if you do get a niche job, youâ(TM)re likely to become the new senior technician when the more expensive hackers get laid off and their jobs are dumped on youâ"which is not a fun situation to be in.
What you need to do is get into a whatever IT job you can, keep working on security stuff at home or in test labs at work, and ride the recession out. Make connections. If you have security people on staff get to know them and show interest so that you might get promoted when something opens up. But whatever you do, donâ(TM)t sit around unemployed and hoping that the perfect niche job pops up, because in this economy thatâ(TM)s not likely to happen.
I tried Songbird, and noticed it was using up about 3 times the RAM iTunes uses. And for what? A bunch of extra crap I wonâ(TM)t use. Itâ(TM)s like these guys took notes from the OpenOffice team on how to make a crappy interface that loads slowly and then goes on a RAM eating rampage.
A party for OpenOffice 3.0 is a brilliant idea. They can start it up, go drink, pass out, and when they crawl out of bed the next day OpenOffice should just be done loading and ready to run.
These days everything electronic is slapped together on assembly lines in third-world crapholes. How are we supposed to know the difference between tin whisker failures or the device being made with adulterated materials in a factory full of former cabbage farmers?
Weren't these guys supposed to commit suicide or at least demoted and moved to a windowless office after HD-DVD? Are the standards slipping at Japanese schools resulting in businessmen who keep on trucking after dishonoring themselves?
Maybe the **AAs of the world would be less inclined to lobby for harsh copyright regulations if millions of people around the world would stop stealing copyrighted material in the first place. Content producers aren't spending millions of dollars on lawyers and lobbying every year because they enjoy it, they do it because the world is full of thieves who think nothing of stealing intellectual property and then passing it on to all their thief friends. Do something about that, and maybe the content corporations will calm down and call off their dogs.
Except that when the CIA or FSB assassinate someone, they usually make it pretty obvious. One uses unmanned drones fitted with Hellfire missiles, the other uses, well, polonium.
Is it only me, or do you see a potential weapons application for this in the future? If you're close enough to precisely target a brain with a magnetic pulse, and your target is still enough to let you do so, why not just stab him? It would cost a lot less.
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Gopher was how I expanded out on the internet beyond paying crazy fees to send internet email over Compuserv. A few local bulletin boards offered access. I was in high school, so I didn’t have anybody around to tell me what the point of Gopher was, so it was like browsing a very nerdy newsstand. Today I often miss Gopher, because it had no images, no video, no Flash, no insane page layouts trying to sell me clickbait.
The purpose of 5k is to allow people to edit 4k video at full resolution and have a UI on screen.
Slashdot comments are just awful. It seems like a collection of bots that only exist to turn every post’s comments into a way to blame all the world‘s problems on taxes, immigrants, and women programmers. I think all the good commenters have moved to carefully moderated subreddits.
I almost never post on Slashdot because I don’t want anything to do with the comments pages. And I don’t want anything to do with the comments pages because it’s always the same tired old arguments about stuff like systemd, women programmers, immigrants taking jobs, and politics—often even when the topic has nothing to do with those things. I’d love to be able to create a list of words and have Slashdot just not show me those comments, similar to how I was able to block John Katz stories in a previous epoch.
Only until the current tech bubble bursts and the unprofitable cloud providers shut down.
The effect was people crowdfunding Rand Paul’s 2016 book tour, which lays the groundwork for his 2020 and 2024 book tours. He’s keeping the Paul family business alive.
The really scary thing is that the GOP is such a clusterfuck that Fiorina is probably the best candidate they can scrounge up.
India has some of the most corrupt local governments on Earth. The examiners were either bribed or just can’t be bothered to deal with this on their own. Either that or they’re the ones who got the police and media involved.
In comparison, this measure seems to have been abandoned without much fight. I can't help but wonder why.
The GOP realized that this is not a policy that’s going to help them keep the Senate in 2016. Right now the GOP is dominated by old Republicans who want the party to attract young voters, so ginning this issue up into a war wasn’t worth pissing off the young voters. The other important group in the GOP are the sham libertarians who are trying to bring wealthy techies into their camp. Going to war over net neutrality would halt Rand Paul’s advance into silicon valley. All the money the telcos and cable companies can throw at the GOP isn’t really worth pissing off all the people who want uninterrupted streams from Chaturbate and Russian pirate TV streams.
Unless you’re retired it’s almost impossible to live in the developed world and not interact with computers on a daily basis. So computer literacy is an important part of daily life in the USA. So everybody needs to know something about programming or they’ll be incapable of understanding basic and important concepts that are relevant to daily life.
But that doesn’t mean that we need to reshape our entire educational system to crank out more software developers so that tech companies can pay lower salaries, which is really what’s behind many of these big efforts to push coding into schools.
How about using talents and energies on real problems, identified using old fashioned scientific method called prioritization, in IT world knowing as function "sort".
Solving problems like war and climate change pretty much requires getting into politics. If you were a nobel laureate would you want to spend your time dealing with the idiots people vote for?
“Safety features have also been enhanced, adding "adaptive cruise control and the ability to read speed limit signs, stop itself if a crash is imminent, stay in its lane, and even park itself in a street spot or in your garage."”
I need that right now in a two ton all-wheel drive SUV so I can drive sanely while yelling at my kids in the back seat. Please Elon, hurry up and take my money!
“That means, if life is at all common in the Milky Way, astronomers could soon detect it.”
No, it means that if, thousands or even millions of years agao, some other life form happened to be broadcasting monster radio waves, in the direction of Earth, astronomers might detect it.
Keep in mind that most movies make back some or all of their production cost before going to DVD. Video is icing, not the cake.
The $60 price point has really turned me off from gaming. Alone the $60 game might not be a killer. But combined with the game industry's obsession with pleasing hard-core gamers you have a recipe for me walking away from gaming. Why would I pay $60 for a game that requires me to unlock most of the content? Or for a game that requires lots of trial-and-error? Or for a game that was released unfinished with showstopping bugs? I'd rather stick with $10 downloads.
The 9/80 work schedule is a scam. Youâ(TM)ll have worked the 80 hours, but on Friday there will be a big meeting and youâ(TM)ll need to work. The next off Friday some important maintenance task will come up and youâ(TM)ll need to work. After that there will be a client interaction and youâ(TM)ll need to work. Your company will not pay you overtime for any of these extra Fridays because youâ(TM)re a salaried professional.
Itâ(TM)s a trap!
Right now is a terrible time to be looking for an entry-level niche position. Those jobs are being filled by mid and senior level workers who just got laid off and will work for an entry level salary to keep their family fed. And if you do get a niche job, youâ(TM)re likely to become the new senior technician when the more expensive hackers get laid off and their jobs are dumped on youâ"which is not a fun situation to be in.
What you need to do is get into a whatever IT job you can, keep working on security stuff at home or in test labs at work, and ride the recession out. Make connections. If you have security people on staff get to know them and show interest so that you might get promoted when something opens up. But whatever you do, donâ(TM)t sit around unemployed and hoping that the perfect niche job pops up, because in this economy thatâ(TM)s not likely to happen.
I tried Songbird, and noticed it was using up about 3 times the RAM iTunes uses. And for what? A bunch of extra crap I wonâ(TM)t use. Itâ(TM)s like these guys took notes from the OpenOffice team on how to make a crappy interface that loads slowly and then goes on a RAM eating rampage.
A party for OpenOffice 3.0 is a brilliant idea. They can start it up, go drink, pass out, and when they crawl out of bed the next day OpenOffice should just be done loading and ready to run.
Of course he rejected the knighthood. He'll only take a knighthood when someone else gets it, and then he'll call it a Hawkinghood.
These days everything electronic is slapped together on assembly lines in third-world crapholes. How are we supposed to know the difference between tin whisker failures or the device being made with adulterated materials in a factory full of former cabbage farmers?
Weren't these guys supposed to commit suicide or at least demoted and moved to a windowless office after HD-DVD? Are the standards slipping at Japanese schools resulting in businessmen who keep on trucking after dishonoring themselves?
Maybe the **AAs of the world would be less inclined to lobby for harsh copyright regulations if millions of people around the world would stop stealing copyrighted material in the first place. Content producers aren't spending millions of dollars on lawyers and lobbying every year because they enjoy it, they do it because the world is full of thieves who think nothing of stealing intellectual property and then passing it on to all their thief friends. Do something about that, and maybe the content corporations will calm down and call off their dogs.
Except that when the CIA or FSB assassinate someone, they usually make it pretty obvious. One uses unmanned drones fitted with Hellfire missiles, the other uses, well, polonium.