Even Google Chrome fails to capitalize on the most useful feature they could have with a separate process per tab: the ability to SLEEP any tab you want until you view it!
I keep all my frequent pages open in Firefox tabs (Facebook, Myspace, Digg, etc...), and they all hog my processing time, even when I'm not viewing them! I want to be able to COMPLETELY STOP all Javascript and Flash processes in that tab if I'm not looking at it, so it doesn't waste my CPU fetching updates when I don't care. When I click on the tab, THEN and ONLY THEN will the JS and Flash be able to run! How could they overlook this feature? It seems like that's the whole point of having separate processes!
"Take the girl who very, very selfishly whined about the earthquake in China. Does she really deserve the same punishment as a convicted criminal?"
No, she doesn't. That's why she was not punished like a criminal. She was shamed and humiliated by the community, which she obviously deserved. She could have done the same thing WITHOUT posting it to YouTube, such as saying it in front of her family or close friends, and those people around her should have done the exact same thing. This is how society works, but on the internet it works at a much larger scale. (And BTW, that's why she was thrown in jail. She was inciting the public to riot, much like yelling "bomb" in an airplane or something.)
His point is that the iPhone software isn't sophisticated enough to detect "which one you were actually closer to." I've tried typing on my friend's iPhone before, and it's horrible. I'm sure all the fanboys will scoff because they've trained themselves to be much more precise (in fact I learned quickly that it's all about the lift-off, not the push-on: you just slap your finger down haphazardly but then slide it to where the correct key is selected before you take it off), but this keyboard has a better design so you don't need to correct it in software. That's something I think Apple would jizz their pants over and so I hope to see this guy making money soon.
Your first sentence, "micropayments as the thing that will save the Internet, despite the fact that they've been tried several times before and have been a dismal failure" contradicts your later sentence, "since iPhone users tend to be used to shelling out small amounts of money frequently anyway with iTunes and the App store."
Obviously, micropayments did not work in the few terrible implementations that were tried that you are referring to, but Apple is big enough and visible enough to make them work. And they are working INCREDIBLY well. A successful iPhone app (also usually the stupidest and simplest ones, like lighting a cigarette with your iPhone), rakes in tens of thousands of dollars a week because $1 is definitely nothing you're going to miss if you already paid $300 for your phone and $99 for a data plan. If you don't think $1 for a song or app is a micropayment, just do the comparison. Yeah, the original micropayments idea started with things costing a nickel, or a fraction of a cent, but Apple has the right idea here and the smarts to make it work. It's only a matter of time before everything can be bought online for less than the cost of a cup of coffee.
I'm not trying to be anti-Slashdot here by not automatically bashing Microsoft, but the search results are pretty nice. On the left you can mouse over to see a preview of the page... seems to be helpful since Google *always* manages to cut off the description right before the part you need! The video search is awesome! I can mouse over and see if it's really the video I was looking for or just a poser. Also works great for porn.
The definition showing up right in the results is nice, instead of having to always click "define" and wait for another slow-ass dictionary site to load. However, their spell check sucks. I tried typing "pthisis" when I meant "phthisis" and then I had to go to Google to find the correct spelling!
Obviously it's not completely ready yet to compete with Google, but they have some pretty good interface improvements which I hope Google will copy one day.
It's called the SHOW WX, not SHOW WV. FTFA: "WX stands for "wide experience", referring to the wide image format, wide color range and wide always in-focus operation."
As a VJ, I could really use one of these instead of hauling around my huge HD projector, since I only project at 320x240 anyway (to keep real-time video mixing fast). Hopefully the battery really lasts as long as a movie though!
Seriously! When are they going to change the Finder into an ACTUAL WORKING FILE MANAGER? Right now I can manage my files better with a twig and some duct tape.
Does Android *always* have to be connected to the internet? What if you only want to use available WiFi and don't want to pay the extra $35 for a data plan? Does your phone stop working/suck?
Actually, as an experienced ex-stoner, Sativa and Indica can both be very powerful strains, although they have different effects:
Sativa gives a more heady, energetic high which is best for creative work (art/music) and social interaction.
Indica gives more of a body-high, which is a good painkiller but also makes you very sluggish, tired and mentally slow.
Generally, Sativa strains are better for daytime or social use, whereas Indica strains are better for medicinal use, sleep aids, or getting hella baked and playing video games on the couch.
However, most strains are a combination of Sativa and Indica, not only to get the best effects of both, but because in the 1960's, when everyone was homegrowing indoors, they mixed the traditional Sativa strains with Indica because Indica grows shorter and fatter than Sativa, thus making it ideal for high-yields in small spaces like closets. (source: The Anarchist's Cookbook, Ch 2. [Yes that's right, I cited an actual paper book on Slashdot. Mod as you wish.])
When I used to buy weed, (and I bought a lot, since we have medical here in California), I usually requested Sativa so I could still interact with people and use my brain in a normal manner without falling asleep. The media's common depiction of a "stoner" is of one who smokes a lot of Indica, thus the droopy eyelids, slow talking, and general unresponsiveness which is probably what you're thinking of.
Science IS faith, but it's just faith in a bunch of other people's observations of their world. Try to say with a straight face that you understand how a microprocessor (or a brain cell, or a nuclear reaction) ACTUALLY works. You can understand the words that other people use to describe it, but you have never actually SEEN an electron jump from one state to another, you've never SEEN an atom split, you've never SEEN DNA proteins combine to start a chemical reaction which creates another cell. You are just taking these things on faith. I doubt you could find one scientist that ABSOLUTELY KNOWS EVERYTHING and doesn't take at least part of his science on faith of what others have come up with based on their faith on what people came up with before them... it's an endless cycle that all boils down to just believing: a.k.a. faith.
He can see them. They are being projected on to a semi-clear sheet of plastic. If you've ever done this with a projector, or projected on to a sheet, you know you can see it from both sides.
Seriously, all the companies, schools, libraries, houses, etc. I've ever set foot in have a bunch of old Pentiums that just take up space. Eventually everyone ends up throwing them away.
Why make a NEW $12 computer when you could find used computers that are a hell of a lot better and cheaper/free/people pay to have them taken away? Maybe MIT should spend their time creating a giant used-computer catapult to launch our unwanted technology across the Atlantic to Africa.
Actually, no, it doesn't overwrite your third-party bootloader, it just fails to make the update. FTA:
"it's actually a very good thing that the update and the servicing fail in this scenario, because you can just imagine the implications if the update automatically reinstalled the Vista MBR to restore boot integrity - we'd be flooded with complaints."
WTF? How is this Origin comic make sense? I thought Wolverine's claws were an experiment by the government, but the Wiki article says that the claws are part of his innate powers. That's stupid IMHO.
"Charlie, here, I want you to take this perfect sphere and count the number of atoms in it. Better do it twice just to be accurate. Here's a pencil and paper and a magnifying glass. Have it on my desk tomorrow morning."
What I hate is Flash's damn keybindings. Even on a Mac you have to press CTRL-C to copy instead of CMD-C. Even that doesn't work all the time! You have to actually right-click on the text and click "Copy"! I'm a Mac user, I can't be bothered with this right-click nonsense! More than one of anything confuses me!
Social networking is incredibly useful in general because it provides a level of communication with your friends that was not possible before. The technology connects people and brings them closer together more easily.
For example, a lot of my friends are musicians and the way I find out about when they are playing shows is through MySpace bulletins or Facebook events. Facebook events are especially useful since you can make a centralized repository of information that all your friends can see, and when they invite their friends your event can get more exposure than old-fashioned word-of-mouth or flyering or newspaper ads or whatever. Most the bands I know don't even put up physical flyers anymore, only digital ones on social networks, and their turnouts are usually way better because the people who actually care (or are socially connected to ones who care) are the ones who get informed, not just randoms on the street.
The news feed also offers another level of exposure that was not possible before. You can automatically see who is going to a show and decide if you want to go too... another reason why Facebook is so successful, IMHO.
Obviously, to someone of your generation who doesn't go to events and parties all the time it may not seem so useful, but this is the future and Zuckerberg saw it early and ran with it.
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Even Google Chrome fails to capitalize on the most useful feature they could have with a separate process per tab: the ability to SLEEP any tab you want until you view it!
I keep all my frequent pages open in Firefox tabs (Facebook, Myspace, Digg, etc...), and they all hog my processing time, even when I'm not viewing them! I want to be able to COMPLETELY STOP all Javascript and Flash processes in that tab if I'm not looking at it, so it doesn't waste my CPU fetching updates when I don't care. When I click on the tab, THEN and ONLY THEN will the JS and Flash be able to run! How could they overlook this feature? It seems like that's the whole point of having separate processes!
"Take the girl who very, very selfishly whined about the earthquake in China. Does she really deserve the same punishment as a convicted criminal?"
No, she doesn't. That's why she was not punished like a criminal. She was shamed and humiliated by the community, which she obviously deserved. She could have done the same thing WITHOUT posting it to YouTube, such as saying it in front of her family or close friends, and those people around her should have done the exact same thing. This is how society works, but on the internet it works at a much larger scale. (And BTW, that's why she was thrown in jail. She was inciting the public to riot, much like yelling "bomb" in an airplane or something.)
His point is that the iPhone software isn't sophisticated enough to detect "which one you were actually closer to." I've tried typing on my friend's iPhone before, and it's horrible. I'm sure all the fanboys will scoff because they've trained themselves to be much more precise (in fact I learned quickly that it's all about the lift-off, not the push-on: you just slap your finger down haphazardly but then slide it to where the correct key is selected before you take it off), but this keyboard has a better design so you don't need to correct it in software. That's something I think Apple would jizz their pants over and so I hope to see this guy making money soon.
Your first sentence, "micropayments as the thing that will save the Internet, despite the fact that they've been tried several times before and have been a dismal failure" contradicts your later sentence, "since iPhone users tend to be used to shelling out small amounts of money frequently anyway with iTunes and the App store." Obviously, micropayments did not work in the few terrible implementations that were tried that you are referring to, but Apple is big enough and visible enough to make them work. And they are working INCREDIBLY well. A successful iPhone app (also usually the stupidest and simplest ones, like lighting a cigarette with your iPhone), rakes in tens of thousands of dollars a week because $1 is definitely nothing you're going to miss if you already paid $300 for your phone and $99 for a data plan. If you don't think $1 for a song or app is a micropayment, just do the comparison. Yeah, the original micropayments idea started with things costing a nickel, or a fraction of a cent, but Apple has the right idea here and the smarts to make it work. It's only a matter of time before everything can be bought online for less than the cost of a cup of coffee.
I'm not trying to be anti-Slashdot here by not automatically bashing Microsoft, but the search results are pretty nice. On the left you can mouse over to see a preview of the page... seems to be helpful since Google *always* manages to cut off the description right before the part you need! The video search is awesome! I can mouse over and see if it's really the video I was looking for or just a poser. Also works great for porn.
The definition showing up right in the results is nice, instead of having to always click "define" and wait for another slow-ass dictionary site to load. However, their spell check sucks. I tried typing "pthisis" when I meant "phthisis" and then I had to go to Google to find the correct spelling!
Obviously it's not completely ready yet to compete with Google, but they have some pretty good interface improvements which I hope Google will copy one day.
It's called the SHOW WX, not SHOW WV. FTFA: "WX stands for "wide experience", referring to the wide image format, wide color range and wide always in-focus operation."
As a VJ, I could really use one of these instead of hauling around my huge HD projector, since I only project at 320x240 anyway (to keep real-time video mixing fast). Hopefully the battery really lasts as long as a movie though!
Seriously! When are they going to change the Finder into an ACTUAL WORKING FILE MANAGER? Right now I can manage my files better with a twig and some duct tape.
There is no selling point for MS-PL because it's not for sale. It's free.
Um, I'm pretty sure Myspace was originally written in ColdFusion and then later they switched to ASP.NET. Not PHP.
Does Android *always* have to be connected to the internet? What if you only want to use available WiFi and don't want to pay the extra $35 for a data plan? Does your phone stop working/suck?
No big deal. At my university (University of California, Santa Cruz) we had a class called "Queer and Transgendered Issues in the Star Trek Universe."
Makes you wonder why Kirk and Spock were always so chummy...
When I used to buy weed, (and I bought a lot, since we have medical here in California), I usually requested Sativa so I could still interact with people and use my brain in a normal manner without falling asleep. The media's common depiction of a "stoner" is of one who smokes a lot of Indica, thus the droopy eyelids, slow talking, and general unresponsiveness which is probably what you're thinking of.
This is Slashdot. Please stick to car analogies so we can understand.
Oh wait...
Science IS faith, but it's just faith in a bunch of other people's observations of their world. Try to say with a straight face that you understand how a microprocessor (or a brain cell, or a nuclear reaction) ACTUALLY works. You can understand the words that other people use to describe it, but you have never actually SEEN an electron jump from one state to another, you've never SEEN an atom split, you've never SEEN DNA proteins combine to start a chemical reaction which creates another cell. You are just taking these things on faith. I doubt you could find one scientist that ABSOLUTELY KNOWS EVERYTHING and doesn't take at least part of his science on faith of what others have come up with based on their faith on what people came up with before them... it's an endless cycle that all boils down to just believing: a.k.a. faith.
You can take the crack out of the pot but it won't stop this guy from smoking it.
This actually has more literary content than the rest of this thread. Genius! Pure genius!
He can see them. They are being projected on to a semi-clear sheet of plastic. If you've ever done this with a projector, or projected on to a sheet, you know you can see it from both sides.
Seriously, all the companies, schools, libraries, houses, etc. I've ever set foot in have a bunch of old Pentiums that just take up space. Eventually everyone ends up throwing them away.
Why make a NEW $12 computer when you could find used computers that are a hell of a lot better and cheaper/free/people pay to have them taken away? Maybe MIT should spend their time creating a giant used-computer catapult to launch our unwanted technology across the Atlantic to Africa.
Actually, no, it doesn't overwrite your third-party bootloader, it just fails to make the update. FTA:
"it's actually a very good thing that the update and the servicing fail in this scenario, because you can just imagine the implications if the update automatically reinstalled the Vista MBR to restore boot integrity - we'd be flooded with complaints."
WTF? How is this Origin comic make sense? I thought Wolverine's claws were an experiment by the government, but the Wiki article says that the claws are part of his innate powers. That's stupid IMHO.
Aww, you've become creative in your trolling now! You've even learned how to rhyme? Good job! You get a gold star.
"Charlie, here, I want you to take this perfect sphere and count the number of atoms in it. Better do it twice just to be accurate. Here's a pencil and paper and a magnifying glass. Have it on my desk tomorrow morning."
What I hate is Flash's damn keybindings. Even on a Mac you have to press CTRL-C to copy instead of CMD-C. Even that doesn't work all the time! You have to actually right-click on the text and click "Copy"! I'm a Mac user, I can't be bothered with this right-click nonsense! More than one of anything confuses me!
Social networking is incredibly useful in general because it provides a level of communication with your friends that was not possible before. The technology connects people and brings them closer together more easily.
For example, a lot of my friends are musicians and the way I find out about when they are playing shows is through MySpace bulletins or Facebook events. Facebook events are especially useful since you can make a centralized repository of information that all your friends can see, and when they invite their friends your event can get more exposure than old-fashioned word-of-mouth or flyering or newspaper ads or whatever. Most the bands I know don't even put up physical flyers anymore, only digital ones on social networks, and their turnouts are usually way better because the people who actually care (or are socially connected to ones who care) are the ones who get informed, not just randoms on the street.
The news feed also offers another level of exposure that was not possible before. You can automatically see who is going to a show and decide if you want to go too... another reason why Facebook is so successful, IMHO.
Obviously, to someone of your generation who doesn't go to events and parties all the time it may not seem so useful, but this is the future and Zuckerberg saw it early and ran with it.
"Can we all agree..." wait, stop right there. You're new here, aren't you?