That's true indeed. Modern compressed pop music is a very high-energy signal too, and playing that at 100% volume is something that a laptop should be able to handle.
It's just that speakers are analog, physical devices with a much higher robustness requirements when driven with an unusual, clipped signal. Why plan for that at all? There's really not much to do about that anyway. Surely you could engineer much tougher speakers that could take the torture but that would start to show in the price of the laptop already, a bit unnecessarily in my opinion. Please tell me if you know how to circumvent this problem.
First of all, they mention VLC only because it happens to have a volume-clipping feature. There's nothing "destroying" about VLC per se, and Dell acknowledges this. Secondly, by booming your speakers with high volume and high-energy audio signal is just asking for trouble. I'm sure that many small tweeters would be damaged by that. You can always find corner cases like this from hardware. Task all CPU cores and all GPU shader units at the same time and many laptops will overheat.
Nicotine does have some nootropic "smart drug" capabilities. Using nicotine therapy products (gum, e-cig...) instead of cigarettes would be far more healthy tho.
The new comment system seems to be designed to be used at full HD resolution with a maximized window. Apparently they didn't consider that with anything smaller than that, the comment are becomes a painfully narrow corridor.
If people stop complaining and start "being reasonable", they will interpret this as a sign that we will get used to beta. I actually have more respect for dice that for people like you. At least the dice people are trying to make a business work -- misguided as their action might be. But you are a fucktard. You are not willing to compromise an inch of your comfort to influence the world in the slightest way. You're a fucking sheep.
Duh. I myself have expressed clearly enough my feelings towards beta. So have many others. Slashdot has clearly seen that feedback and already said "okay, okay, we got it!" If after that people still continue to rave about the beta, that's just retarded. It's clearly not about making a point across anymore but getting excited of a good riot.
People, shut the fuck up already. I hate the beta as much as the next guy, but we have seen enough of these "fuck beta" comments at this point. They do not change the situation right now in any meaningful way. You just make yourself look like an obsessed clown.
My account is broken in a similar way. During the last couple of years I have received mod points very rarely, and for the past months I have received none.
That's kind of unfair. It does not help to rave here anymore. I'm sure that by now the Slashdot crew is perfectly aware of the disaster which the Beta is according to users. Right now we have to wait a bit and see if they actually start fixing stuff, which Timothy just tried to convince us about. They cannot add the new code overnight.
The introduction of Beta is like a nuclear power plant disaster where the site is currently a ghost town with no real discussion anymore but lamenting souls crying out the pain.
I don't like the beta either but I didn't expect this kind of chaos to ensue. No proper discussion can be had in any article as they are filled only with beta comments. Interesting situation indeed. I'm grabbing the popcorn.
I'm in the same boat. The original D1 comment system would be completely sufficient. I also ran across some bugs in it (can't remember anymore which kind of) and thus opted for D2.
Or alternatively "beta_feedback". It was with an underscore in the yellow sticker on the front page. Not sure which one is better (if they have a subject-based mailbox redirect for the beta feedback, that is).
Indeed, a company that neglects the views of a site's user community is truly clueless.
Not only clueless, but it's sheer stupidity. They release a turd site and ask feedback to improve it. Then they take none of that feedback into consideration and begin rolling that same site into live. A site which no one likes. Then no one comes here anymore. What else is this than pure stupidity?
All right. I will calmly watch this show to the end and see what the final result is. But if it resembles anything like what they are cooking now, I am left with no other options than to leave this website.
The method to block Flash in IE is a bit hidden so I'll explain it here. Open the Gear Menu, go to Safety submenu and tick ActiveX Filtering. To whitelist certain sites, use the blue icon in the address bar.
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That's true indeed. Modern compressed pop music is a very high-energy signal too, and playing that at 100% volume is something that a laptop should be able to handle.
It's just that speakers are analog, physical devices with a much higher robustness requirements when driven with an unusual, clipped signal. Why plan for that at all? There's really not much to do about that anyway. Surely you could engineer much tougher speakers that could take the torture but that would start to show in the price of the laptop already, a bit unnecessarily in my opinion. Please tell me if you know how to circumvent this problem.
Do you realize that the "fuck beta" comments are already much more annoying than the actual beta?
Fuck "fuck beta" comments.
First of all, they mention VLC only because it happens to have a volume-clipping feature. There's nothing "destroying" about VLC per se, and Dell acknowledges this. Secondly, by booming your speakers with high volume and high-energy audio signal is just asking for trouble. I'm sure that many small tweeters would be damaged by that. You can always find corner cases like this from hardware. Task all CPU cores and all GPU shader units at the same time and many laptops will overheat.
Nicotine does have some nootropic "smart drug" capabilities. Using nicotine therapy products (gum, e-cig...) instead of cigarettes would be far more healthy tho.
The 1997 layout didn't even have threaded commenting.
The new comment system seems to be designed to be used at full HD resolution with a maximized window. Apparently they didn't consider that with anything smaller than that, the comment are becomes a painfully narrow corridor.
If people stop complaining and start "being reasonable", they will interpret this as a sign that we will get used to beta. I actually have more respect for dice that for people like you. At least the dice people are trying to make a business work -- misguided as their action might be. But you are a fucktard. You are not willing to compromise an inch of your comfort to influence the world in the slightest way. You're a fucking sheep.
Duh. I myself have expressed clearly enough my feelings towards beta. So have many others. Slashdot has clearly seen that feedback and already said "okay, okay, we got it!" If after that people still continue to rave about the beta, that's just retarded. It's clearly not about making a point across anymore but getting excited of a good riot.
People, shut the fuck up already. I hate the beta as much as the next guy, but we have seen enough of these "fuck beta" comments at this point. They do not change the situation right now in any meaningful way. You just make yourself look like an obsessed clown.
My account is broken in a similar way. During the last couple of years I have received mod points very rarely, and for the past months I have received none.
That's kind of unfair. It does not help to rave here anymore. I'm sure that by now the Slashdot crew is perfectly aware of the disaster which the Beta is according to users. Right now we have to wait a bit and see if they actually start fixing stuff, which Timothy just tried to convince us about. They cannot add the new code overnight.
The introduction of Beta is like a nuclear power plant disaster where the site is currently a ghost town with no real discussion anymore but lamenting souls crying out the pain.
LXDE does not have a compositor at all. Set up Compton and your tearing should go away.
I don't like the beta either but I didn't expect this kind of chaos to ensue. No proper discussion can be had in any article as they are filled only with beta comments. Interesting situation indeed. I'm grabbing the popcorn.
It's really narrow though, so 640x480 resolution is also recommended.
Slashdot lacks Unicode support due to past vandalism.
Most websites these days support Unicode just fine. There are ways to prevent that kind of vandalism.
I'm in the same boat. The original D1 comment system would be completely sufficient. I also ran across some bugs in it (can't remember anymore which kind of) and thus opted for D2.
Or alternatively "beta_feedback". It was with an underscore in the yellow sticker on the front page. Not sure which one is better (if they have a subject-based mailbox redirect for the beta feedback, that is).
When they saw the new Slashdot Beta site at Sony engineering, they concluded that it's not worth to make computers anymore.
Can you meet us halfway and actually create a story for us to dump hatred into so that we can go back to commenting on articles we haven't read?
Actually there is a story. The problem is that it's hidden in the Slashdot Blog which most of us do not even know to exist.
Posted 3 days ago: Update on the March of Progress: How Slashdot's New Look Is Shaping Up.
Indeed, a company that neglects the views of a site's user community is truly clueless.
Not only clueless, but it's sheer stupidity. They release a turd site and ask feedback to improve it. Then they take none of that feedback into consideration and begin rolling that same site into live. A site which no one likes. Then no one comes here anymore. What else is this than pure stupidity?
All right. I will calmly watch this show to the end and see what the final result is. But if it resembles anything like what they are cooking now, I am left with no other options than to leave this website.
Not that surprising, as a lot of the people behind Wayland are the same than behind X.org anyway.
The method to block Flash in IE is a bit hidden so I'll explain it here. Open the Gear Menu, go to Safety submenu and tick ActiveX Filtering. To whitelist certain sites, use the blue icon in the address bar.
It's still better than insulting other people by calling them morons.
As long as you have 1 accessible synced device you're good.
And if you don't, you're fucked. So that's the problem.