Sorry, your heroes are shit and I'm not sure why I should listen to them or anyone who claims I need to listen to them.
You've conveniently listed all examples of politicians instead of PhD scientists (3 of them, in fact, and 0 scientists). The GP said "PhD scientists". How exactly are the two anything alike?
The function of one is to lie through their teeth and the function of the other is to perform fundamental research. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader which one is which.
You are full of shit. Load following works fine in nuclear reactors of appropriate design. Modern plants make one or two large changes per day, and are required to be able to cycle daily between 50% and 100% of rated capacity with a rate of change of 3-5% per minute.
Many are rated for several percent change per second.
You are waaay out of touch with technology. Read that report. Look at how often they cycle the power. Load following works fine, and they're required to be able to make these swings for 90% of the fuel cycle--at any point, unplanned.
Most of my gaming is PC only these days, but with respect to the tilde key: the lack of a tilde key is pretty much an instant "will not buy this product" for me.
The same goes for other punctuation. I know I'm not the target market for most things like tablets and smartphones (wanting my computer to compute stuff rather than blindly spit out cat videos), but if I have a computing device that makes typing special characters a real pain, chances are I won't ever use it.
They can each have their own versions, yes? At least, that seems like the sane thing to do. Typically, there's a listing around somewhere saying which versions are expected, if for no other purpose than developer reference.
It's hard to do nuance in a first post. (I'm sick of the cow thing, so I'd rather have almost anything else first.) You raise great points.
When I say, "chasing versions", I'm referring to the practice of immediately upgrading to a new release of something, without a testing (community or otherwise) period for that specific version. In my experience, that practice made me great at finding stupid bugs and weird edge cases in other peoples' code. It's a lot of time and I'd rather not be that person if I need to ship a product.
Once things have shipped and you're in maintenance mode, you can make changes that cut across the entire project, because there's less pressure on you. What you've done sounds like exactly that: moderate advancement, rather than always being on the absolute cutting edge.
That's a shame. (Really.) Dice were relatively benign overlords compared to some others who might have been even more aggressive in their attempts to monetize us.
Not that I particularly like Dice. But Slashdot is still here, mostly intact, and still the bastion of free speech that no one else wants to be. That ought to count for something.
You don't need to stick to it forever, just long enough for it to become stable and reasonably well accepted. You don't need to be the early adopter in the middle of active development. When you've got some breathing room (your stuff is relatively stable) and aren't going to waste a weeks worth of your team's money, then you can think about moving to newer versions of tools, libraries, etc..
Since it's not possible to install the just-released Visual Studio 2015 without.NET 4.6, this means developers must make the difficult choice between using the latest tools or risking crippling bugs such as this one.
If you're a dev, you shouldn't be chasing versions. Find a stable version, stick with it through your project. SE already has enough of that "stuff changing out from under me" feel without adding to the issue.
Make them send you a check. I only mention this particular instance because I received a (very small and clearly token) check for VZW crippling my Motorola V710 after advertising it as having fancy Bluetooth features.
Similarly, I bought a G1 and was subsequently disappointed by Google's handling of Android. Didn't get a check from that, though. Just stopped buying phones with Android on them.
Re:During Pluto's day - how light is it?
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Pluto's Haze
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Does it matter how dark? All our future plans for farming Pluto didn't account for plants becoming overripe and potentially explosive!
The hazes in Pluto’s atmosphere, observed by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, provide a crucial link between the sunlight-driven chemistry in the upper atmosphere and the reddish-brown hydrocarbons called tholins that rain down and darken the surface. The animation shows several steps: 1) Ultraviolet sunlight breaks apart methane in Pluto’s upper atmosphere. 2) This leads to the buildup of complex hydrocarbons, such as ethylene and acetylene
I'm sure there's a tomato joke squished in there somewhere.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sorry, I think you'd make a terrible criminal if you can't think of any solutions to the aforementioned.
I highly suggest you live a very boring life.
Tracking what exactly? If the phone/wifi has no ties to the AC, what are they going to be tracking? The local library?
And what reason do you have to prefer DuckDuckGo? Do you have access to their internal operations?
Why trust the search engines at all? You don't need to trust any of them to use them to search.
RTFA for chrissake
Whoa whoa whoa. You're going to have to take that article reading shit outside, mmkay?
We don't do that here.
Sorry, your heroes are shit and I'm not sure why I should listen to them or anyone who claims I need to listen to them.
You've conveniently listed all examples of politicians instead of PhD scientists (3 of them, in fact, and 0 scientists). The GP said "PhD scientists". How exactly are the two anything alike?
The function of one is to lie through their teeth and the function of the other is to perform fundamental research. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader which one is which.
You are full of shit. Load following works fine in nuclear reactors of appropriate design. Modern plants make one or two large changes per day, and are required to be able to cycle daily between 50% and 100% of rated capacity with a rate of change of 3-5% per minute.
Many are rated for several percent change per second.
You are waaay out of touch with technology. Read that report. Look at how often they cycle the power. Load following works fine, and they're required to be able to make these swings for 90% of the fuel cycle--at any point, unplanned.
Deleting posts (outright censorship) would ensure Slashdot goes in the toilet. As long as they don't, there's still a chance.
I don't want to show it on a console. The TV is already hooked up as a giant monitor anyway.
There are people who still subscribe to cable TV? (I guess you could use a console as a Netflix box...)
Most of my gaming is PC only these days, but with respect to the tilde key: the lack of a tilde key is pretty much an instant "will not buy this product" for me.
The same goes for other punctuation. I know I'm not the target market for most things like tablets and smartphones (wanting my computer to compute stuff rather than blindly spit out cat videos), but if I have a computing device that makes typing special characters a real pain, chances are I won't ever use it.
"We knew what they meant so big deal"
"English is an evolving language"
Oh, wait, I forgot to post AC. Does this still count?
That escalated quickly. Knee jerk much?
And then expected it would never be hacked?
Bravo.
Yep. Shit has officially hit the fan. I think we're in for a bumpy ride.
I check the Disable Advertising box. Therefore, in order to contribute ad impressions, I must start flame wars.
They can each have their own versions, yes? At least, that seems like the sane thing to do. Typically, there's a listing around somewhere saying which versions are expected, if for no other purpose than developer reference.
It's hard to do nuance in a first post. (I'm sick of the cow thing, so I'd rather have almost anything else first.) You raise great points.
When I say, "chasing versions", I'm referring to the practice of immediately upgrading to a new release of something, without a testing (community or otherwise) period for that specific version. In my experience, that practice made me great at finding stupid bugs and weird edge cases in other peoples' code. It's a lot of time and I'd rather not be that person if I need to ship a product.
Once things have shipped and you're in maintenance mode, you can make changes that cut across the entire project, because there's less pressure on you. What you've done sounds like exactly that: moderate advancement, rather than always being on the absolute cutting edge.
Okay, you ACs can make MOO cow jokes now.
That's a shame. (Really.) Dice were relatively benign overlords compared to some others who might have been even more aggressive in their attempts to monetize us.
Not that I particularly like Dice. But Slashdot is still here, mostly intact, and still the bastion of free speech that no one else wants to be. That ought to count for something.
You don't need to stick to it forever, just long enough for it to become stable and reasonably well accepted. You don't need to be the early adopter in the middle of active development. When you've got some breathing room (your stuff is relatively stable) and aren't going to waste a weeks worth of your team's money, then you can think about moving to newer versions of tools, libraries, etc..
Since it's not possible to install the just-released Visual Studio 2015 without .NET 4.6, this means developers must make the difficult choice between using the latest tools or risking crippling bugs such as this one.
If you're a dev, you shouldn't be chasing versions. Find a stable version, stick with it through your project. SE already has enough of that "stuff changing out from under me" feel without adding to the issue.
Well, I guess today's mods don't get sarcasm. This should've been +1, Funny, not Troll.
We used to ridicule other countries for that sort of behavior.
Make them send you a check. I only mention this particular instance because I received a (very small and clearly token) check for VZW crippling my Motorola V710 after advertising it as having fancy Bluetooth features.
Similarly, I bought a G1 and was subsequently disappointed by Google's handling of Android. Didn't get a check from that, though. Just stopped buying phones with Android on them.
Does it matter how dark? All our future plans for farming Pluto didn't account for plants becoming overripe and potentially explosive!
The hazes in Pluto’s atmosphere, observed by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, provide a crucial link between the sunlight-driven chemistry in the upper atmosphere and the reddish-brown hydrocarbons called tholins that rain down and darken the surface. The animation shows several steps: 1) Ultraviolet sunlight breaks apart methane in Pluto’s upper atmosphere. 2) This leads to the buildup of complex hydrocarbons, such as ethylene and acetylene
I'm sure there's a tomato joke squished in there somewhere.
Start with a blanket ban
You can always tell who the authoritarians are by whether they default to deny or allow.
Forget GP's anecdotes, I want data! That might lend credence to their statement.