First they said butter is bad for you and actually recommended margarine. And now some say butter is bad for you but margarine is worse. And others say butter is ok. They said consume more carbs. Now some say less. They said eggs and high cholesterol stuff were bad for you. Now some say eggs are OK. I'm betting more will change their minds about this, especially on stuff like squid (which is high cholesterol but low in saturated fats).
Eating vegetables has always been a good thing. If you at least eat salads regularly, you cannot screw up your life too badly.
Give me an SSD within the same power-of-ten size as a hard drive for the same cost and we'll talk.
Seriously. Give me a 1Tb SSD for the cost of the cheapest XTb hard drive and I'll buy it. But if hard drives get to 10Tb in that time, guess what happens? You then have to give me a 10Tb drive for the same price.
Keep dreaming, buddy-boy. We won't "give you" anything like that for a very long time. The main point in moving to SSDs is R/W performance. Just put an SSD (any size) as your system drive and feel the mindblowing speed difference. In a modern computer, the mechanical hard disk drive is a huge bottleneck: processes spend a lot of time spinning thumbs in "I/O wait" state.
Then a few hours later, he tweeted that the issue had to do with a bad 12-volt battery. Turns out Tesla had already called the owner of the affected car and sent a service tech to his house to replace that battery — and also install a newer build of the car's software.
So, it seems to be solved, but Tesla may either need to fix some software, or start sending a few new 12-volt batteries out to the folks still experiencing the issue.
Well, just to be accurate here. As far as we know, the problem was tracked to be a bad battery. Thus it does not make sense to suggest that they "may need to some software". During servicing, the faulty car's software was possibly just upgraded "while we are at it", without the upgrade necessarily having to do anything with the battery.
The psychoacoustic model of your old cables is completely wrong. To really get a musical experience, there will be rolled out a product just for your needs soon. Starting at the low, low price of $999.
All apps that I have seen written in.NET have been awfully slow: Microsoft Mathematics (written by...Microsoft!), MathCad and AMD Catalyst Configuration Center.
Vim also has an introductory message which suggests to donate for poor children in Uganda. That's probably not a bad idea, but it's a bit awkward to have that text at that spot.
And I bet Microsoft will just hand over the encryption keys / passwords to the NSA.
Things like these are still a step forward, as NSA has to actually ask for the keys from companies, instead of just passively snooping everywhere it wants to.
If the NSA revelations have taught us anything, it is that journalists, governments, schools, advocacy organizations, companies, and individuals, must be using operating systems whose code can be reviewed and modified without Microsoft or any other third party's blessing. When we don't have that, back doors and privacy violations are inevitable.
No, they have not taught us that. Most of the NSA revelations have been about snooping telecommunications networks. Using open source software would not have made it any different.
You're criticizing Bitcoin for its potential of being a useful tool for criminal activities. These kind of views are not accepted by the Slashdot robotic hive mind.
I wonder if Bitcoin is to get any more popular, will some bank executive some day bang his fist on the table and shout "we're gonna destroy Bitcoin with thermonuclear".
Nonsense. A lot of tech is finished and does not get better at all. For a common item, look at the pencil or the hammer. They are finished. They were available in the same quality decades ago. They do not get cheaper. Or take paper. Or take gate logic, foil capacitors or discrete transistors. There are countless other examples.
All the technologies you listed have seen gradual improvements all the way up to this day. The pencil is now available in different hardnesses of the graphite and you can have an eraser on the tip. The manufacturing materials for a hammer have seen various improvements and the cost has dropped tremendously. Gate logic just got an improvement when the "3D" transistor was invented. Even discrete capacitors and transistors get various tweaks and efficiency improvements all the time.
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Linux Mint users should be easy targets, as they always openly brag how they switched to it from Ubuntu.
Yes, but a typical Slashdot geek thinks that an invention has to be 100% perfect to be useful at all.
As a tool, let me actually ask why is the word "degrees" used with "celcius"?
So true. These days, failure = GTFO.
First they said butter is bad for you and actually recommended margarine. And now some say butter is bad for you but margarine is worse. And others say butter is ok. They said consume more carbs. Now some say less. They said eggs and high cholesterol stuff were bad for you. Now some say eggs are OK. I'm betting more will change their minds about this, especially on stuff like squid (which is high cholesterol but low in saturated fats).
Eating vegetables has always been a good thing. If you at least eat salads regularly, you cannot screw up your life too badly.
Everything degrades. Even the paint on the walls of your home degrades. But it's not something you have to take into account.
So: for all practical purposes, the magnetic medium of a mechanical hard drive platter does not degrade at all.
Give me an SSD within the same power-of-ten size as a hard drive for the same cost and we'll talk.
Seriously. Give me a 1Tb SSD for the cost of the cheapest XTb hard drive and I'll buy it. But if hard drives get to 10Tb in that time, guess what happens? You then have to give me a 10Tb drive for the same price.
Keep dreaming, buddy-boy. We won't "give you" anything like that for a very long time. The main point in moving to SSDs is R/W performance. Just put an SSD (any size) as your system drive and feel the mindblowing speed difference. In a modern computer, the mechanical hard disk drive is a huge bottleneck: processes spend a lot of time spinning thumbs in "I/O wait" state.
Pretty much this. With modern SSDs you can go full throttle without worrying much about the disk longevity.
Generally all platter disks have unlimited write limit. Unlike flash cells, the magnetic medium does not degrade much at all.
Exactly, that was my point. :)
Then a few hours later, he tweeted that the issue had to do with a bad 12-volt battery. Turns out Tesla had already called the owner of the affected car and sent a service tech to his house to replace that battery — and also install a newer build of the car's software.
So, it seems to be solved, but Tesla may either need to fix some software, or start sending a few new 12-volt batteries out to the folks still experiencing the issue.
Well, just to be accurate here. As far as we know, the problem was tracked to be a bad battery. Thus it does not make sense to suggest that they "may need to some software". During servicing, the faulty car's software was possibly just upgraded "while we are at it", without the upgrade necessarily having to do anything with the battery.
No it will be ignored by all those that like being fucked with closed ecosystems.
I.e. Apple and Microsoft shitheads. Everybody else will do fine.
Aww...ain't you a cute Linuxboy. ;)
The psychoacoustic model of your old cables is completely wrong. To really get a musical experience, there will be rolled out a product just for your needs soon. Starting at the low, low price of $999.
All apps that I have seen written in .NET have been awfully slow: Microsoft Mathematics (written by...Microsoft!), MathCad and AMD Catalyst Configuration Center.
Vim also has an introductory message which suggests to donate for poor children in Uganda. That's probably not a bad idea, but it's a bit awkward to have that text at that spot.
And I bet Microsoft will just hand over the encryption keys / passwords to the NSA.
Things like these are still a step forward, as NSA has to actually ask for the keys from companies, instead of just passively snooping everywhere it wants to.
If the NSA revelations have taught us anything, it is that journalists, governments, schools, advocacy organizations, companies, and individuals, must be using operating systems whose code can be reviewed and modified without Microsoft or any other third party's blessing. When we don't have that, back doors and privacy violations are inevitable.
No, they have not taught us that. Most of the NSA revelations have been about snooping telecommunications networks. Using open source software would not have made it any different.
;D
It sounds that you just need more practice. The tasks you mentioned are all doable by a seasoned assembly coder.
You're criticizing Bitcoin for its potential of being a useful tool for criminal activities. These kind of views are not accepted by the Slashdot robotic hive mind.
Stop and smell the tulips.
Ahh...the smell of old electronics...
I wonder if Bitcoin is to get any more popular, will some bank executive some day bang his fist on the table and shout "we're gonna destroy Bitcoin with thermonuclear".
In which way a bad move?
WebGL is still quite unstable even under Windows.
Nonsense. A lot of tech is finished and does not get better at all. For a common item, look at the pencil or the hammer. They are finished. They were available in the same quality decades ago. They do not get cheaper. Or take paper. Or take gate logic, foil capacitors or discrete transistors. There are countless other examples.
All the technologies you listed have seen gradual improvements all the way up to this day. The pencil is now available in different hardnesses of the graphite and you can have an eraser on the tip. The manufacturing materials for a hammer have seen various improvements and the cost has dropped tremendously. Gate logic just got an improvement when the "3D" transistor was invented. Even discrete capacitors and transistors get various tweaks and efficiency improvements all the time.