I personally think that xkcd is excellent comic, however something in me constantly rings that it is so reminiscent to Calvin & Hobbes. The pacing, the drawing style, storytelling... I mean, Randall has himself said that C&H is one of his favorites, but it really shines through, maybe bit too much. Ah well...
Video is automatically "beneath" the filter too, unless using xv which, for some reason appears "above" the filter (ie is not redshifted at all).
Remember that videos are in YUV color space (instead of the desktop which is RGB). When using xv, the video frame in YUV color space is sent directly to a frame buffer in the graphics adapter for hardware-accelerated color space conversion and scaling. In that case Redshift does not get in between to make the color temperature adjustment.
With computers (blue lights destroys Melatonin and thus makes you less sleepy), days last longer and longer.
There's a neat program called f.lux which smoothly cranks down your display's color temperature when the night comes. I'm not sure if it makes any big difference in terms of melatonin production, but it can create a bit more relaxing atmosphere to the evenings. Suits also yellowish indoor lighting.
Linux the kernel is the core of both Android the operating system and GNU/Linux the operating system. If one gets pedantic, then technically Microsoft Office for Android satisfies the argument that it's supported on an OS running Linux the kernel, but when most people use "Linux", they're not referring to the kernel, but the operating system with all of its GNU and POSIX stuff.
Actually he's won using that definition too. The Linux kernel has virtualization code from Microsoft already.
That's like saying the car's engine is not important as the user is interacting with the steering wheel and pedals. Besides, I bet the user interface elements of Android could also be "replaced fairly easy". Anything can. But Linux plays many important roles in the background of an Android system.
That's exactly what I've been saying. A simple game benchmark isn't everything as the performance of the 3D stack, compositor and desktop components define the general use experience. You can easily see the difference by installing Linux to an Intel Atom or AMD Bobcat computer. Windows 7 and 8 will run like an oiled raccoon having all eye candy enabled, while at the same time on Linux any desktop effects, including a simple window minimize animation, will stutter.
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The insect thing has been brought up multiple times in the western media already. So what are we waiting for? Shouldn't someone already set up an insect farm and make a deal with a supermarket? Personally, I'm cool with the idea.
My experience is that anything created by.NET crawls along like a dog, but I'm not sure how it contributes to obfuscated code. And as.NET executes bytecode, which programming language do you mean, C#?
Or another one looking at the seek time and fragmentation:
The HDD is a car with acceptable top speed, but is slow taking turns. An SSD is a car with much higher top speed and can also make instantaneous sharp turns.
DragonFlyBSD has an excellent feature which allows you to use a SSD as filesystem cache, so you get a secondary level FS cache after the RAM FS cache. Then you could have for example 4GB RAM, 32GB SSD and 1000GB HDD.
It feels like the designer of the headline wanted to leave the possibility for misinterpretation in the sake of little trolling. The headline could have easily been Signs Point To XKCD's "Time" Series Ending to avoid any confusion.
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A lot of that can be alleviated by having Flash applets to play only when you click the plugin. You can accomplish this by following this route:
Settings > Advanced Settings > Content settings... > Plug-ins > Click to play
Of course some advertisers have started to use HTML5 to play audio, so some jingles might still get through.
Even worse if that is preceded by a race condition to the bathroom.
And this minor usability improvement on Youtube made the Slashdot front page why?????
Many have expressed here their desire to have some information on which tab is making noise.
Where do you expect this Windows 8 and Surface fiasco will ultimately take Microsoft? What will happen?
Also it would require that the lights actually represent the data going through the pipes. I think that's quite rarely the case.
Exactly. If your paranoia reaches such levels, I suggest to unwind a bit by going backpacking and making some nice food in a pressure cooker.
I personally think that xkcd is excellent comic, however something in me constantly rings that it is so reminiscent to Calvin & Hobbes. The pacing, the drawing style, storytelling... I mean, Randall has himself said that C&H is one of his favorites, but it really shines through, maybe bit too much. Ah well...
Video is automatically "beneath" the filter too, unless using xv which, for some reason appears "above" the filter (ie is not redshifted at all).
Remember that videos are in YUV color space (instead of the desktop which is RGB). When using xv, the video frame in YUV color space is sent directly to a frame buffer in the graphics adapter for hardware-accelerated color space conversion and scaling. In that case Redshift does not get in between to make the color temperature adjustment.
With computers (blue lights destroys Melatonin and thus makes you less sleepy), days last longer and longer.
There's a neat program called f.lux which smoothly cranks down your display's color temperature when the night comes. I'm not sure if it makes any big difference in terms of melatonin production, but it can create a bit more relaxing atmosphere to the evenings. Suits also yellowish indoor lighting.
Your loop needs fixing...but you also probably don't need to save the files so you can use "wget -O /dev/null".
What is the size of the smallest pixel that can currently be made using LCD technology?
Linux the kernel is the core of both Android the operating system and GNU/Linux the operating system. If one gets pedantic, then technically Microsoft Office for Android satisfies the argument that it's supported on an OS running Linux the kernel, but when most people use "Linux", they're not referring to the kernel, but the operating system with all of its GNU and POSIX stuff.
Actually he's won using that definition too. The Linux kernel has virtualization code from Microsoft already.
That's like saying the car's engine is not important as the user is interacting with the steering wheel and pedals. Besides, I bet the user interface elements of Android could also be "replaced fairly easy". Anything can. But Linux plays many important roles in the background of an Android system.
That's exactly what I've been saying. A simple game benchmark isn't everything as the performance of the 3D stack, compositor and desktop components define the general use experience. You can easily see the difference by installing Linux to an Intel Atom or AMD Bobcat computer. Windows 7 and 8 will run like an oiled raccoon having all eye candy enabled, while at the same time on Linux any desktop effects, including a simple window minimize animation, will stutter.
and I don't have to have screen real estate taken up by the quicklaunch icons (which I generally have about 15-20 of).
What do you mean with this? The quick launch icons sit in the taskbar and thus don't take up space from application windows anyway.
The old non-JS discussion system is still there. To enable it, follow these steps:
- Click your user name at the top of the page
- From the pop-up menu, click on Account
- From the pop-up dialog's top bar, click Discussions
- Select the Classic Discussion System (D1) radio button
- Click the Save button
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Then, in 50 years, we'll be eatin' insects as though we've always been eatin' insects.
FTFY: "Then, in 50 days, we'll be eatin' insects as though we've always been eatin' insects."
In modern world, just as fast as people forget things, they can also quickly adapt to new ones.
The insect thing has been brought up multiple times in the western media already. So what are we waiting for? Shouldn't someone already set up an insect farm and make a deal with a supermarket? Personally, I'm cool with the idea.
My experience is that anything created by .NET crawls along like a dog, but I'm not sure how it contributes to obfuscated code. And as .NET executes bytecode, which programming language do you mean, C#?
Can you put links to some Slashdot articles from that era (they are all archived) so we can look if there is a difference.
Aagh, this. Makes me want to jump out of window when I see those laptop reviews where the screen is described to have "vivid colors".
Or another one looking at the seek time and fragmentation:
The HDD is a car with acceptable top speed, but is slow taking turns. An SSD is a car with much higher top speed and can also make instantaneous sharp turns.
DragonFlyBSD has an excellent feature which allows you to use a SSD as filesystem cache, so you get a secondary level FS cache after the RAM FS cache. Then you could have for example 4GB RAM, 32GB SSD and 1000GB HDD.
It feels like the designer of the headline wanted to leave the possibility for misinterpretation in the sake of little trolling. The headline could have easily been Signs Point To XKCD's "Time" Series Ending to avoid any confusion.
Which is what, oh mighty priest? There's many viewpoints to XKCD, and I do not see GP's being one particularly off the bat.