That's nice, but I was referring to the "complicated" bit, so it has everything to do with "it". Games such as LittleBigPlanet, Minecraft, GarrysMod, etc are fun, but scripting is obviously a simpler way to perform most general calculations.
With the physics engines already built into these games, then some goals may be simpler to achieve in the game world than when scripting from scratch of course.. I just think it's bizarre to think of scripting as more complicated than painstakingly recreating an arithmetic processing unit inside a virtual world.
Huh? If they're dead, what's the problem? It would be much more evil to steal the identities of living people. If he killed the infants to steal their identities, then I think you'd have a point.
(Note: I don't actually know anything about this guy or what he did)
The point is that most FF users are not Linux users. And even people who know how to do your fix, don't think they should be required to for things to work. I certainly don't want to have to go and redo all my config files any time I update a piece of software. Having to do that is a sign of poor design decisions somewhere along the line.
As someone else said, you can't have ever done any tech support. You have no idea how stupid and/or lazy people really are. Laziness is both a blessing and a curse for humanity:p
How do you know that it wasn't the board that wanted to move in this direction, and so head-hunted the guy from SAP specifically because he had good experience in the software sector?
The problem there is that there are an infinite number of things you can "ask" for in the command line. You can get a shorter list by using tab completion, but it's not exactly a very convenient way of finding things, especially if you don't know a program even exists to change the thing you want to change. What if the only way to change what you want to change is edit a config file? Again it's not exactly very obvious, especially if you are used to using a different sound subsystem, or aren't even aware that there are different sound subsystems in Linux, etc.
Your argument would hold sway for someone that has chosen to use a CLI-only environment, but for a graphical interface it's a pretty universal thing to be able to change the volume from the system tray or equivalent. I certainly wouldn't expect the whole of an OS to be configurable via GUI, but there are a few basic things like volume and display settings that should be.
I like how you think building a giant in-game circuit for this stuff is simpler than just scripting behaviour.. I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.
This thing isn't meant for playing "games of today". It's just a nice deminstration of the power of this incredibly cheap device. They were only getting about 20fps (albeit in 1080p) in the video, but it's still cool as a hobbyist project.
Obviously, the Raspberry Pi isn’t intended as a gaming platform, but it’s very satisfying to let the Broadcom BCM2835 application processor off the leash (yes, I’m allowed to give you the part number now) and see what it can do in this sphere nonetheless
I would have thought if they were "undercover" that they'd have to cut all ties off anyway. Letting people know you'd changed your face would kind of spoil the whole purpose of being undercover. If it's only for short term undercover stuff, you might as well use make-up.
Damaged in who's eyes? Slashdot's? There have been seemingly hundreds of data breaches in the news this year, and while the Sony one is the biggest, I don't think most people have been that bothered. I was a little appalled, but the only thing I had to do was phone my bank and ask for a new credit card, which took 60 seconds.
What if the criminals bribe a Facebook employee to acquire a copy of the database, or even just get a list of all the people on the list, etc? It's safer just to not have the profile at all if you are going to do serious undercover work.
The world as a web page? Now there's something which has made for more crappy (and slow) software than you can think of.
I used to hate trying to make interactive web pages when browser cross-compatibility was a complete nightmare, but these days it isn't so bad. I like that the in-house web apps I've made here work on any computer or device, and so do the users. Web apps are doing what Java should have been doing for us years ago - allowing people to use any OS they want. I think it's an important step for breaking free of the Windows monopoly.
There's no doubt that native apps are more efficient and capable, but I'm happy with the trade-off for now.
Have you ever tried using it as an eReader? I love using Kindle on my Xoom, it's better than using my actual Kindle for indoor use (outdoors, e-ink screens are obviously better). I also have Spotify for streaming music, and enjoy catching up with my YouTube subscriptions on it.
Slashdot is very slow at the moment due to the weird JS stuff they're doing, Facebook is okay though.
I have a netbook which I use if I'm going to be actually typing a lot, but it can't handle HD video playback, so rather than buy a slightly more powerful netbook, I went with the tablet so that I can choose the form factor appropriate for the job.
They're not removing his ability to post, just demoting his account from an admin account. He can still submit stories and post like the rest of us.. and he's still number 1:p
I hope you enjoy your next job as much as you've enjoyed Slashdot, Rob!:)
Out of the 4 women I've met up with so far on OKcupid (and meeting another next week), I think 3 of them contacted me first. Maybe all 4, I can't remember. Likewise I've been chatting regularly to someone who lives thousands of miles away (and would date her if the opportunity came up - she has moved around a lot with her job, and actually did her Masters degree in the city where I live right now), and she contacted me first.
The aggressive, self-confident girl of XKCD is _not_ looking for love online.
That depends on their situation. The smart, "aggressive, self-confident" girl who has just moved to a new area might find OKcupid an efficient way to meet new people.
Even the women that are "aggressive" and have an outward air of self-confidence, aren't usually like that on the inside. Most people have insecurities of some form.
Looks like I don't do any of the "bad" stuff anyway. And the last few people I've chatted to on OKcupid have contacted me first. By the sounds of what they say to me, most of the other guys on OKcupid are rather sleazy or boring.
Parkour doesn't have to involve doing backflips from rooftops.. and when it does, it's by people who know what they're doing. I don't see what you're getting at here. My knees are in much better shape than before I started doing Parkour, now that I know proper form for landing, etc.
Even if there is a chance of hurting yourself more seriously than typical people who hurt themselves just using a set of stairs or tripping on the sidewalk, accidents are very infrequent in Parkour when you take your time to build your skills gradually and only try things when you know you are ready. And you also get to have a lot of fun. If you spent your life in a bubble then you'd be very safe, but it would also be very boring. It's like having a dog and never taking it for walks. The poor thing might not know any better, but it won't be as happy as if you took it out for exercise.
It's definitely not trolling either. The gym can be fun. Sports even more so. I'm not great at competitive sports, but over the years I have enjoyed stuff like cycling, kayaking, windsurfing, SCUBA diving, climbing, and Parkour, and would recommend any of them for geeks looking to get off their asses.
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That's nice, but I was referring to the "complicated" bit, so it has everything to do with "it". Games such as LittleBigPlanet, Minecraft, GarrysMod, etc are fun, but scripting is obviously a simpler way to perform most general calculations.
With the physics engines already built into these games, then some goals may be simpler to achieve in the game world than when scripting from scratch of course.. I just think it's bizarre to think of scripting as more complicated than painstakingly recreating an arithmetic processing unit inside a virtual world.
Huh? If they're dead, what's the problem? It would be much more evil to steal the identities of living people. If he killed the infants to steal their identities, then I think you'd have a point.
(Note: I don't actually know anything about this guy or what he did)
The point is that most FF users are not Linux users. And even people who know how to do your fix, don't think they should be required to for things to work. I certainly don't want to have to go and redo all my config files any time I update a piece of software. Having to do that is a sign of poor design decisions somewhere along the line.
As someone else said, you can't have ever done any tech support. You have no idea how stupid and/or lazy people really are. Laziness is both a blessing and a curse for humanity :p
How do you know that it wasn't the board that wanted to move in this direction, and so head-hunted the guy from SAP specifically because he had good experience in the software sector?
The whole "cloud computing" fad hasn't helped the demand for hardware, either.
It's amazing how all of these new cloud hosting services are magicking their hardware out of the clouds..
Interesting, thanks. I knew alsamixer, but not apropos :p Google has always been my "apropos"..
The problem there is that there are an infinite number of things you can "ask" for in the command line. You can get a shorter list by using tab completion, but it's not exactly a very convenient way of finding things, especially if you don't know a program even exists to change the thing you want to change. What if the only way to change what you want to change is edit a config file? Again it's not exactly very obvious, especially if you are used to using a different sound subsystem, or aren't even aware that there are different sound subsystems in Linux, etc.
Your argument would hold sway for someone that has chosen to use a CLI-only environment, but for a graphical interface it's a pretty universal thing to be able to change the volume from the system tray or equivalent. I certainly wouldn't expect the whole of an OS to be configurable via GUI, but there are a few basic things like volume and display settings that should be.
I like how you think building a giant in-game circuit for this stuff is simpler than just scripting behaviour.. I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.
This thing isn't meant for playing "games of today". It's just a nice deminstration of the power of this incredibly cheap device. They were only getting about 20fps (albeit in 1080p) in the video, but it's still cool as a hobbyist project.
FTA:
Obviously, the Raspberry Pi isn’t intended as a gaming platform, but it’s very satisfying to let the Broadcom BCM2835 application processor off the leash (yes, I’m allowed to give you the part number now) and see what it can do in this sphere nonetheless
CmdrTaco Resigns From Slashdot. There was at least one post from 3 of the editors saying goodbye as well, but that's the important one.
I would have thought if they were "undercover" that they'd have to cut all ties off anyway. Letting people know you'd changed your face would kind of spoil the whole purpose of being undercover. If it's only for short term undercover stuff, you might as well use make-up.
Damaged in who's eyes? Slashdot's? There have been seemingly hundreds of data breaches in the news this year, and while the Sony one is the biggest, I don't think most people have been that bothered. I was a little appalled, but the only thing I had to do was phone my bank and ask for a new credit card, which took 60 seconds.
If your security fails and you embarrass/endanger your customers or expose your secrets to your competition you go out of business
You didn't really pay attention after all the Sony hacks etc this year, did you?
That leaves people with facial reconstruction then. If the situation is serious enough, that would be warranted, and solves the problem..
What if the criminals bribe a Facebook employee to acquire a copy of the database, or even just get a list of all the people on the list, etc? It's safer just to not have the profile at all if you are going to do serious undercover work.
The world as a web page? Now there's something which has made for more crappy (and slow) software than you can think of.
I used to hate trying to make interactive web pages when browser cross-compatibility was a complete nightmare, but these days it isn't so bad. I like that the in-house web apps I've made here work on any computer or device, and so do the users. Web apps are doing what Java should have been doing for us years ago - allowing people to use any OS they want. I think it's an important step for breaking free of the Windows monopoly.
There's no doubt that native apps are more efficient and capable, but I'm happy with the trade-off for now.
Have you ever tried using it as an eReader? I love using Kindle on my Xoom, it's better than using my actual Kindle for indoor use (outdoors, e-ink screens are obviously better). I also have Spotify for streaming music, and enjoy catching up with my YouTube subscriptions on it.
Slashdot is very slow at the moment due to the weird JS stuff they're doing, Facebook is okay though.
I have a netbook which I use if I'm going to be actually typing a lot, but it can't handle HD video playback, so rather than buy a slightly more powerful netbook, I went with the tablet so that I can choose the form factor appropriate for the job.
They're not removing his ability to post, just demoting his account from an admin account. He can still submit stories and post like the rest of us.. and he's still number 1 :p
I hope you enjoy your next job as much as you've enjoyed Slashdot, Rob! :)
Out of the 4 women I've met up with so far on OKcupid (and meeting another next week), I think 3 of them contacted me first. Maybe all 4, I can't remember. Likewise I've been chatting regularly to someone who lives thousands of miles away (and would date her if the opportunity came up - she has moved around a lot with her job, and actually did her Masters degree in the city where I live right now), and she contacted me first.
The aggressive, self-confident girl of XKCD is _not_ looking for love online.
That depends on their situation. The smart, "aggressive, self-confident" girl who has just moved to a new area might find OKcupid an efficient way to meet new people.
Even the women that are "aggressive" and have an outward air of self-confidence, aren't usually like that on the inside. Most people have insecurities of some form.
Looks like I don't do any of the "bad" stuff anyway. And the last few people I've chatted to on OKcupid have contacted me first. By the sounds of what they say to me, most of the other guys on OKcupid are rather sleazy or boring.
Parkour doesn't have to involve doing backflips from rooftops.. and when it does, it's by people who know what they're doing. I don't see what you're getting at here. My knees are in much better shape than before I started doing Parkour, now that I know proper form for landing, etc.
Even if there is a chance of hurting yourself more seriously than typical people who hurt themselves just using a set of stairs or tripping on the sidewalk, accidents are very infrequent in Parkour when you take your time to build your skills gradually and only try things when you know you are ready. And you also get to have a lot of fun. If you spent your life in a bubble then you'd be very safe, but it would also be very boring. It's like having a dog and never taking it for walks. The poor thing might not know any better, but it won't be as happy as if you took it out for exercise.
Do you mean "nyquist transformation"?
It's definitely not trolling either. The gym can be fun. Sports even more so. I'm not great at competitive sports, but over the years I have enjoyed stuff like cycling, kayaking, windsurfing, SCUBA diving, climbing, and Parkour, and would recommend any of them for geeks looking to get off their asses.