Speaking of bits, Spanish colonial currency were "pieces of eight". "Shave and a Haircut, two bits" is a $0.25 cost. So, eight bits to a full unit... Coincidence for eight bits to a byte, or intentional?
Coincidence. I imagine it makes a lot of sense to keep the size of a byte as a power of two (for addressing reasons, maybe?) 4 bits isn't even enough to represent all of the characters in the Latin alphabet, and 16 bits was probably overkill at the beginning of the computer revolution.
This is all a bunch of random guesswork. I have no facts for any of this:)
How much does it cost for Nintendo to leave these services running? I hope they at least push an update to the OS so it doesn't show errors / blacked out squares on the screen where these features used to exist.
I miss the days of having consoles that didn't have retroactive feature loss.
She couldn't do what she really wanted to with the gun industry, so she sets her sites on video games. Less lobbyists = easier targets. (Puns might be intentional.)
See the current Slashdot poll about laptops. The winning request is better battery life. How much extra juice does it take to spin those platters at 7200RPM? Perhaps Seagate's manufacturing decision to use 5400 is better informed than it appears.
Speaking to the people who own a Windows phone, they are very happy with it.
Our "Desktop OS" guy absolutely, positively wants to see Windows succeed. It's his bread and butter.
He wants to see Windows 8 succeed so bad that he traded in his iPhone 5 for a high-end Windows Mobile. He sugar coats almost everything he says about Windows... but the phone? He says, "The phone just doesn't get it."
I refuse to use an Ad Blocker because I generally like to support the websites I visit. Today however, I enabled Slashdot's friendly "Disable Advertising" checkbox.
Suse is a KDE distribution that works very hard to treat Gnome as an equally supported and well-integrated DE. But I'm way too happy with KDE to ever look at Gnome...
I had great luck with the 10.x series - especially 10.3 stands out as one of my favorite versions ever, including multi-monitor support. On the other hand, I had a terrible time with the entire 11.x series until 11.4. OpenSUSE, like everyone else, started using KDE4 before they should have.
12.1 is my current production OS for my work laptop - nearly flawless but for this one pesky bug that I reported (and developed a workaround for) long ago. Multi-monitor works very well for me with the workaround, but I generally don't undock during the day just to avoid having to reconfigure resolution & monitor layout.
I've read on Slashdot and elsewhere that the KDE guys have completely redesigned the widget they use for multi-monitor support, so it could be great in 12.3 but I don't know. I probably won't upgrade until nature (a disk failure) forces me to.
The Slashvertisement isn't disguised very well. I have no problem identifying this story as an ad, just like I have no problem identifying the ads in the top-right corner of the page.
Slashdot needs revenue to continue and advertising is how they generate it. So what's your problem?
the induced earthquake was only a 4.9 on the Richter Scale (the previous was 4.5), that means the new bomb has released four times the energy of the last bomb.
No, it means the earthquake had four times the energy as the last artificial earthquake. As far as I know, there's not a 1:1 relationship between the power in the bomb and the power of the earthquake it creates.
I'm having a hard time understanding the difference between GPL and MPLv2 - can anyone help explain, or link me to a resource that's more helpful than the ones I've found?
If webmasters don't want people "stealing" photos without viewing directly on their website, they are more than welcome to instruct their web servers to not display images to freeloaders. Look at the referer header, if the request didn't originate from your site, then don't serve it.
Have you ever even tried Git for Windows? Right click anywhere and hit "Initialize" and you're done. It's ridiculously easy. Now that I think about it, I want to see what kind of integration I can get with Dolphin for KDE..
Were you around in 2001? I don't think "high quality" is a term anyone would use to describe those first versions of OS X. It was slow, user interface sluggish, riddled with kernel panics.
I remember all operating systems to behave this way in 2001. Linux and Windows were pretty much the same experience for me.
These days I think all three of them are quick and stable.
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Speaking of bits, Spanish colonial currency were "pieces of eight". "Shave and a Haircut, two bits" is a $0.25 cost. So, eight bits to a full unit... Coincidence for eight bits to a byte, or intentional?
Coincidence. I imagine it makes a lot of sense to keep the size of a byte as a power of two (for addressing reasons, maybe?) 4 bits isn't even enough to represent all of the characters in the Latin alphabet, and 16 bits was probably overkill at the beginning of the computer revolution.
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This is all a bunch of random guesswork. I have no facts for any of this
military navigators are all trained on how to navigate without GPS
I'm sure their concern is with autonomous drone navigation. Perhaps like the one that Iran captured sometime last year.
How much does it cost for Nintendo to leave these services running? I hope they at least push an update to the OS so it doesn't show errors / blacked out squares on the screen where these features used to exist.
I miss the days of having consoles that didn't have retroactive feature loss.
She couldn't do what she really wanted to with the gun industry, so she sets her sites on video games. Less lobbyists = easier targets. (Puns might be intentional.)
See the current Slashdot poll about laptops. The winning request is better battery life. How much extra juice does it take to spin those platters at 7200RPM? Perhaps Seagate's manufacturing decision to use 5400 is better informed than it appears.
Speaking to the people who own a Windows phone, they are very happy with it.
Our "Desktop OS" guy absolutely, positively wants to see Windows succeed. It's his bread and butter.
He wants to see Windows 8 succeed so bad that he traded in his iPhone 5 for a high-end Windows Mobile. He sugar coats almost everything he says about Windows... but the phone? He says, "The phone just doesn't get it."
I refuse to use an Ad Blocker because I generally like to support the websites I visit. Today however, I enabled Slashdot's friendly "Disable Advertising" checkbox.
Suse is a KDE distribution that works very hard to treat Gnome as an equally supported and well-integrated DE. But I'm way too happy with KDE to ever look at Gnome...
sed -i 's/12.2/12.3/g' /etc/zypp/repos.d/*
Thank you for sharing that trick. It's useful!
I'm in the same boat with 12.1 - I won't upgrade it until the hard disk dies!
I had great luck with the 10.x series - especially 10.3 stands out as one of my favorite versions ever, including multi-monitor support. On the other hand, I had a terrible time with the entire 11.x series until 11.4. OpenSUSE, like everyone else, started using KDE4 before they should have.
12.1 is my current production OS for my work laptop - nearly flawless but for this one pesky bug that I reported (and developed a workaround for) long ago. Multi-monitor works very well for me with the workaround, but I generally don't undock during the day just to avoid having to reconfigure resolution & monitor layout.
I've read on Slashdot and elsewhere that the KDE guys have completely redesigned the widget they use for multi-monitor support, so it could be great in 12.3 but I don't know. I probably won't upgrade until nature (a disk failure) forces me to.
I've been using OpenSUSE + KDE as my primary workhorse since 9.1. There have been some bumps along the way, but the 12.x series has been rock solid.
Thanks to everyone who contributes to OpenSUSE!
Heck, at that rate it would also make sense to simply rent a car when you need to make long distance drives.
I recently picked up an iPhone - it seems to get its time just like every other phone I've ever had: straight from the carrier.
The Slashvertisement isn't disguised very well. I have no problem identifying this story as an ad, just like I have no problem identifying the ads in the top-right corner of the page.
Slashdot needs revenue to continue and advertising is how they generate it. So what's your problem?
the induced earthquake was only a 4.9 on the Richter Scale (the previous was 4.5), that means the new bomb has released four times the energy of the last bomb.
No, it means the earthquake had four times the energy as the last artificial earthquake. As far as I know, there's not a 1:1 relationship between the power in the bomb and the power of the earthquake it creates.
I'm having a hard time understanding the difference between GPL and MPLv2 - can anyone help explain, or link me to a resource that's more helpful than the ones I've found?
If I can solve a potential employer's current issues in just an hour, just imagine what I could do for them in a month or a year.
If webmasters don't want people "stealing" photos without viewing directly on their website, they are more than welcome to instruct their web servers to not display images to freeloaders. Look at the referer header, if the request didn't originate from your site, then don't serve it.
57,885,161 bits requires nearly 7 megabytes to represent this number in binary form. Wow!
Seriously, read the manpage or search the internet. Slashdot is not your command line argument support forum.
my crappy dvd player (which can play netflix and has its own apps)
That doesn't sound very crappy to me..
Have you ever even tried Git for Windows? Right click anywhere and hit "Initialize" and you're done. It's ridiculously easy. Now that I think about it, I want to see what kind of integration I can get with Dolphin for KDE..
Were you around in 2001? I don't think "high quality" is a term anyone would use to describe those first versions of OS X. It was slow, user interface sluggish, riddled with kernel panics.
I remember all operating systems to behave this way in 2001. Linux and Windows were pretty much the same experience for me.
These days I think all three of them are quick and stable.
We've had two username collisions at our company, we avoided them by adding a middle initial.