I just committed code with unicode characters in it for the first time. I've been programming since the '80s. It was for a test. It still made me feel dirty:-)
I run up against the 16GB limit on my work laptop with multiple VMs doing cluster development. Also, it's about future-proofing. I tend to keep my laptops for 5+ years (typing on a 2010 MBP), and I'm pretty sure by 2020 16GB isn't going to be enough.
Derived from RTFM (Read the fucking manual), an exhortation from experienced computer users to newbies when they asked dumb questions. Since no one on slashdot reads TFA, there was enough similarity for it to be adopted.
That's not local media. That's remote. Local media is stored on the device, doesn't need the device to be on the network, and doesn't require your mac/windows box to be turned on and running iTunes.
WTF? So, I'd get the 64GB version so I can load 64x5 apps instead of 32x5 apps? I still have the original AppleTV because of this shit. I don't want to have to pull my Mac laptop out and wake it up to stream my music or watch my ripped movies. And no, storing all my shit in iCloud is not going to happen. I hope they at least have the brains to let iTunes sync data to them.
I bought the Seiki 39" for my computer when it was featured on Slashdot as a great programmer's monitor. So far it's just been my tv as we moved and are slowly remodeling, so I don't have an office setup yet. The plan is to upgrade to a larger tv and move the 39" to the new office.
As for Walmart stocking movies, why? Streaming is where it's all going. I admit there a paucity of 4K content, but I don't care, as that's not my use case. NTSC with a good story/plot is way more entertaining than 8K with a crap story/plot.
Starting on? Hell, I've had 4K for my TV for almost a year now and I consider myself a luddite at this point (of course that was an upgrade from a tube tv:-)
Where the hell is my affordable 8K, 40" curved monitor?
No idea why you were moderated troll. Probably someone doesn't like you. Just today at work I went to a presentation where there was a lot of talk about Shannon's law. I don't think that the "rotating and polarizing the waves" is quite so rosy as you say. The noise floor is the issue, and we (humans) are pushing up against Shannon's law with 400Gbit. Of course that's on a 75Ghz channel, and there are lots of frequencies of light, but the more you get away from the "right" frequency, the more expensive the amps and lasers and etc become...
I was greatly annoyed that at my last trip to Costco I ended up buying the disposable razors for my partner, rather than just the blades of the same brand, because the disposables, despite the added plastic and size/bulk of the package and attendant shipping costs, I could get 14 instead of 8 for approximately the same price.
The great thing about the hackability of the Dash buttons is that I can get a cheap Dash button which, when I press it, add that thing to my Costco shopping list (which is in an app on my phone).
I once got a blender. Well, it was a comforter in a blender box. Someone had obviously bought the blender, replaced it with the comforter and returned the "blender" and Amazon didn't bother to check if the blender was in the box before restocking it.
"For some people, not so much." This. This is why I (try to) never go to Costco on the weekend. Whole families clogging aisles, huge crowds around the free food, people using the trip to Costco as some sort of fucking dystopian entertainment. WTF!
Me, I'm going on a weekday on my way home from work with my list on my phone, in, out as fast as possible.
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Yeah, I have no trouble finding things to attach to my 50-pin SCSI centronics style connector.
Let's go to the desert. I'll hold the water...
Transaction fees are built into bitcoin and that's how people will get paid for signing block after the new blocks reward all run out.
Where Haley Berry takes most of her clothes off, it can't be a bad thing...
Oh wait, even with that Swordfish was a horrible horrible thing.
Never mind.
It works just as well as a sugar pill, which is better than nothing...
I think his point was, if the glyph is visually indistinguishable, why is there another character in unicode for it?
I just committed code with unicode characters in it for the first time. I've been programming since the '80s. It was for a test. It still made me feel dirty :-)
You (well, people like you) are the reason I lock my workstation every time I leave my desk.
I run up against the 16GB limit on my work laptop with multiple VMs doing cluster development. Also, it's about future-proofing. I tend to keep my laptops for 5+ years (typing on a 2010 MBP), and I'm pretty sure by 2020 16GB isn't going to be enough.
Yes, and if you read the article, you'll see they found ways around them.
You just need to do it from far enough offshore, and with enough power to still interfere :-)
Derived from RTFM (Read the fucking manual), an exhortation from experienced computer users to newbies when they asked dumb questions. Since no one on slashdot reads TFA, there was enough similarity for it to be adopted.
From the label on Larry Niven's softweapon:"Warning, do NOT use setting 7 on planets with an atmosphere!"
That's not local media. That's remote. Local media is stored on the device, doesn't need the device to be on the network, and doesn't require your mac/windows box to be turned on and running iTunes.
Kinda like the AppleTV V1 was.
WTF? So, I'd get the 64GB version so I can load 64x5 apps instead of 32x5 apps?
I still have the original AppleTV because of this shit. I don't want to have to pull my Mac laptop out and wake it up to stream my music or watch my ripped movies. And no, storing all my shit in iCloud is not going to happen.
I hope they at least have the brains to let iTunes sync data to them.
Well, Samsung & Fox just announced 4K Blu Ray, so Walmart probably won't be far behind...
I bought the Seiki 39" for my computer when it was featured on Slashdot as a great programmer's monitor. So far it's just been my tv as we moved and are slowly remodeling, so I don't have an office setup yet. The plan is to upgrade to a larger tv and move the 39" to the new office.
As for Walmart stocking movies, why? Streaming is where it's all going. I admit there a paucity of 4K content, but I don't care, as that's not my use case. NTSC with a good story/plot is way more entertaining than 8K with a crap story/plot.
Starting on? Hell, I've had 4K for my TV for almost a year now and I consider myself a luddite at this point (of course that was an upgrade from a tube tv :-)
Where the hell is my affordable 8K, 40" curved monitor?
No idea why you were moderated troll. Probably someone doesn't like you.
Just today at work I went to a presentation where there was a lot of talk about Shannon's law. I don't think that the "rotating and polarizing the waves" is quite so rosy as you say. The noise floor is the issue, and we (humans) are pushing up against Shannon's law with 400Gbit. Of course that's on a 75Ghz channel, and there are lots of frequencies of light, but the more you get away from the "right" frequency, the more expensive the amps and lasers and etc become...
Meh. I get ~3 years out of a ~$30 Costco size package of blades. But then my partner likes me scruffy...
I was greatly annoyed that at my last trip to Costco I ended up buying the disposable razors for my partner, rather than just the blades of the same brand, because the disposables, despite the added plastic and size/bulk of the package and attendant shipping costs, I could get 14 instead of 8 for approximately the same price.
The great thing about the hackability of the Dash buttons is that I can get a cheap Dash button which, when I press it, add that thing to my Costco shopping list (which is in an app on my phone).
I got mine at $0.99. At that price it was totally worth it. At $5, I'm much less interested until I actually have a use case.
I once got a blender. Well, it was a comforter in a blender box. Someone had obviously bought the blender, replaced it with the comforter and returned the "blender" and Amazon didn't bother to check if the blender was in the box before restocking it.
They made it right, aside from the delay.
"For some people, not so much."
This. This is why I (try to) never go to Costco on the weekend. Whole families clogging aisles, huge crowds around the free food, people using the trip to Costco as some sort of fucking dystopian entertainment. WTF!
Me, I'm going on a weekday on my way home from work with my list on my phone, in, out as fast as possible.