Can you repeat that, Roman? We got that you were supposed to be frothing but didn't get the actual proper saliva-spraying effect the first time round. Thanks!
No, but they might be wondering why *fewer* people are doing so.
I wonder if anybody has actually noticed how many US and Canadian pilots are getting poached by the Chinese, whose airlines are apparently prepared to pay them what they're worth.
I did read a blog-post from someone who bought a bunch of those smart-bulbs and programmed them to follow a specific schedule, like e.g. slowly rising in brightness when it's time to wake up in the morning, turning off automatically during work-hours, automatically setting a specific mood in the workroom and so on, but all that really works only for people who have very strict schedules. It's hard to think of cases where all the hassles of keeping the things working, updated and secure is worth the trouble in our daily lives.
Or you could do like I do and buy a few outlet timers at Clas Ohlsson for about 8 bucks a pop.
Want to know what my user ID thinks is pretentious? A bunch of obnoxious rabble coming along after some bloody years, presuming to tell me what my Slashdot experience should be like, and inviting me to sod off if I don't like their circle-jerking group troll.
When Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of German physicists Max von Laue (1914) and James Franck (1925) in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from confiscating them. The German government had prohibited Germans from accepting or keeping any Nobel Prize after jailed peace activist Carl von Ossietzky had received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1935. De Hevesy placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. It was subsequently ignored by the Nazis who thought the jar—one of perhaps hundreds on the shelving—contained common chemicals. After the war, de Hevesy returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The gold was returned to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation. They re-cast the medals and again presented them to Laue and Franck.
The reason we had a fairly standard desktop interface for so long wasn't because ui developers got lazy and stopped innovating, it was because we had settled on, in general the best model for a 24+ inch screen...
You evidently do not remember the same 1990s that I do.
Indeed. I'm seldom happier than when I can focus on my content and let the toolchain worry about the presentation. Be even nicer if we could get rid of the server toolchain, just feed everybody DocBook, and let their clients sort it out on their end.
Fortunately, it turns out that I'm pretty good with XSLT, so I get to work on the toolchain as well.
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(Your turn, Smitty...)
Can you repeat that, Roman? We got that you were supposed to be frothing but didn't get the actual proper saliva-spraying effect the first time round. Thanks!
Sometimes I think you're just a sock puppet for Roman Mir, but his English is too good for that.
No, but they might be wondering why *fewer* people are doing so.
I wonder if anybody has actually noticed how many US and Canadian pilots are getting poached by the Chinese, whose airlines are apparently prepared to pay them what they're worth.
The "conflagrations" of the War Of 1812 had passed...
That's about as relevant as saying "The conflagrations of WW1 had passed..." in a piece about the US Bicentennial.
I did read a blog-post from someone who bought a bunch of those smart-bulbs and programmed them to follow a specific schedule, like e.g. slowly rising in brightness when it's time to wake up in the morning, turning off automatically during work-hours, automatically setting a specific mood in the workroom and so on, but all that really works only for people who have very strict schedules. It's hard to think of cases where all the hassles of keeping the things working, updated and secure is worth the trouble in our daily lives.
Or you could do like I do and buy a few outlet timers at Clas Ohlsson for about 8 bucks a pop.
BUCK FATE, moron.
BUCK FATE.
Want to know what my user ID thinks is pretentious? A bunch of obnoxious rabble coming along after some bloody years, presuming to tell me what my Slashdot experience should be like, and inviting me to sod off if I don't like their circle-jerking group troll.
BUCK FATE.
BUCK FATE.
That's odd, the GPL tells me pretty plainly that I get to have a nice flat, eat, and make my child-support payments, all while promoting freedom.
When Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of German physicists Max von Laue (1914) and James Franck (1925) in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from confiscating them. The German government had prohibited Germans from accepting or keeping any Nobel Prize after jailed peace activist Carl von Ossietzky had received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1935. De Hevesy placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. It was subsequently ignored by the Nazis who thought the jar—one of perhaps hundreds on the shelving—contained common chemicals. After the war, de Hevesy returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The gold was returned to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation. They re-cast the medals and again presented them to Laue and Franck.
"Destroyed", but, no, not really.
You're not one of those chemtrails nutters, are you?
You and I both know that it has been YEARS with the excuses---Fix the fucking Unicode already.
Hire a real editor. I have nearly 2 decades of experience in the field. Feel free to ask for my CV.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, hey.
Check into something called a "race to the bottom", then get back to us.
What keyboard? I am writing this post by tracing the Ietters on my tablet screen.
Hey, this handwriting recognition stuff works pretty well these days.
perl -e 'print join(", ", sort(1,5,10)) . "\n"'
You were saying...? :)
..but it does have the consistency of something cut from a bicycle innertube.
The reason we had a fairly standard desktop interface for so long wasn't because ui developers got lazy and stopped innovating, it was because we had settled on, in general the best model for a 24+ inch screen...
You evidently do not remember the same 1990s that I do.
*boggle*
I think that comment is quite revealing. Thanks for sharing.
It's telling that no actual NSA employees support him...
If by that you mean, "no actual NSA employees remaining in the wake of the subsequent agency housecleaning"--yeah, it certainly is.
...and Opera well they voluntarilu commited seppuku. What a tragic time to be an internet user.
They did? Where'd this Opera come from that I've got on 2 laptops, 2 smartphones, and a tablet, then? Pixie dust?
Update: I did not know then that Opera had tossed out their rendering engine. WTF?? What's the point of using it now?
Did you pour the bong water over your cereal this morning?
Or did you really intend to imply that sites with layout never scroll that and no-one's ever had to deal with scrolling before?
Indeed. I'm seldom happier than when I can focus on my content and let the toolchain worry about the presentation. Be even nicer if we could get rid of the server toolchain, just feed everybody DocBook, and let their clients sort it out on their end.
Fortunately, it turns out that I'm pretty good with XSLT, so I get to work on the toolchain as well.