Yeah, the boxes idea works, but I'd like to think it could be appropriately abstracted to the point where people could actually specify the directory as a "room", "toybox" or "toolbox" if they like. The user would have control over what the representation is by the icon selection. (Then the icon select could determine the layout of the directory. ie: I select a room to store my video shelf and each of those "types" has a different layout for the contents. It feels a little "Microsoft Bob" to me right now; you wouldn't have to go that route if you like the file cabinet/folder analogy, you could also go that route.)
So it's a history mark instead of save.... seems like they are obfuscating for no other reason than "it's always been done this way" which I think falls in like with he story's point.
Templates can be handled without save. If a document is marked as a template (or heck, marked as read only) the editor wouldn't allow auto save and you'd be prompted (after opening the template) for a name for your new document. Any change thereafter goes to the new location.
I've described rolling back in other comments, but I imagine your document history like a video. You could scrub back in time to a position and edit in time if you like.
With SSDs drive spinning is going "out of style". And finding old revisions could be as simple as scrubbing back through a history bar like watching a video. (I don't know what the other reply was referring to with the Perq workstations (I never used one) but it sounds pretty neat as well.
You could potentially have a "save" button like you describe, but it wouldn't really be a save as much as a "bookmark" to quickly jump back to a previous spot in your document timeline.
I still don't understand why we have to "Save" documents in today's computer age. What's wrong with Auto-save and Undo? Undo is a simply red arrow pointing counter clockwise. Redo is green and clockwise.
Search icons are not necessary either. Have a text field with localized text "Search" that goes away when you activate the field.
As far as I'm concerned Folders/Directories can just be squares containing other squares.
Level 1: automobile traffic, garage entrances Level 2: pedestrians only (an elevated platform from building to building... plenty of room to walk)
With autonomous drivers, there's no real need for street signs/business signs. Just tell your car where to go and it takes you to the nearest garage. From there, you can walk up (or escalator/elevator) to level 2 where the storefronts are. The only problem is that the cities/buildings aren't designed for that.;)
They definitely wouldn't be one of those drivers that thinks they can travel down an alternate lane until the very last minute and cut over causing both lanes to have to accommodate, but they likely will be the cars that travel three wide going the same speed because that happens to be the speed limit and somehow the right lane was triggered to slow down causing the others to pass.
doesn't have overly paranoid users thinking that anyone who says anything positive about Microsoft or Apple, or validly criticizes Linux and FOSS
Reddit has invisible barriers. Voluntary barriers actually. If you don't follow Linux you won't subscribe to any of the Linux subreddits and you never see positive posts about Linux. (Or alternatively: Windows) However, if you express frustration or distaste for the product of topic, you'll get down modded into oblivion. Compare that to Slashdot's single facing main news page and you can see (hopefully) why. If Reddit forced every main story to the front page for every logged in user you'd get a lot of people commenting negatively on "New Microsoft app has Ribbon" stories popping up on their main page. With subscriptions though, you would likely never see this story unless you subscribe to/r/microsoft
Reddit makes for a great echo chamber. You can subscribe to your favorite topics and get all warm fuzzy news about it all day long and anything that seems too critical will be quickly shunned.
Regarding empty slot usage... I imagine the plan is to replaced failed drives with larger drives over time and have the system adapt. I've given old drives to people in kind only to have them come back a few months later because there was a problem with their machine (mostly bad clusters) and since they didn't build the machine they didn't know how to do regular disk checks or have the machine running during the schedule I set up.
Depending on your needs the remainder should be RAID-1, 5 or 6'd
Wouldn't btrfs supposedly resolve this? It's supposed to put your redundant data on multiple devices and I would assume if the device had no more space it could use another device on the array as long as it wasn't the same as the redundant data. From everything I'm reading on the FS so far it looks like it's perfectly usable now if you can schedule a regular data scrub (like a midnight cron job) to check integrity, which wouldn't be bad for a personal server (enterprise is another story.)
The problem with 1" shims is that the copper power bars are still going to be in the way of the long server chassis. The pictures I saw had the copper bars running up the middle of the rack limiting your usable depth by quite a bit. (page 5)
Eh, it does sort of solve the anonymous first posters and these shill accounts. They can be modded off-topic pretty easily and the experienced users would have a way to steer the conversations a bit more than relying on the first troll.
Maybe Slashdot needs to make an update to the posting algorithm: You may not respond directly to a story unless your karma is excellent. You can respond to other posts, but never to a story.
Solar cells I've seen are made from a series of smaller cells. You'd just need to overlay the wing structure with cells wired up and put a thin membrane over it.
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Yeah, the boxes idea works, but I'd like to think it could be appropriately abstracted to the point where people could actually specify the directory as a "room", "toybox" or "toolbox" if they like. The user would have control over what the representation is by the icon selection. (Then the icon select could determine the layout of the directory. ie: I select a room to store my video shelf and each of those "types" has a different layout for the contents. It feels a little "Microsoft Bob" to me right now; you wouldn't have to go that route if you like the file cabinet/folder analogy, you could also go that route.)
So it's a history mark instead of save.... seems like they are obfuscating for no other reason than "it's always been done this way" which I think falls in like with he story's point.
Templates can be handled without save. If a document is marked as a template (or heck, marked as read only) the editor wouldn't allow auto save and you'd be prompted (after opening the template) for a name for your new document. Any change thereafter goes to the new location.
I've described rolling back in other comments, but I imagine your document history like a video. You could scrub back in time to a position and edit in time if you like.
Rolling back could be a simple scrubber like videos use to allow you to "scroll back" in time on the video.
With SSDs drive spinning is going "out of style". And finding old revisions could be as simple as scrubbing back through a history bar like watching a video. (I don't know what the other reply was referring to with the Perq workstations (I never used one) but it sounds pretty neat as well.
You could potentially have a "save" button like you describe, but it wouldn't really be a save as much as a "bookmark" to quickly jump back to a previous spot in your document timeline.
Wow! I wake up to troll mods. I didn't know it was trollish to suggest removing save! Learn something new every day.
I still don't understand why we have to "Save" documents in today's computer age. What's wrong with Auto-save and Undo? Undo is a simply red arrow pointing counter clockwise. Redo is green and clockwise.
Search icons are not necessary either. Have a text field with localized text "Search" that goes away when you activate the field.
As far as I'm concerned Folders/Directories can just be squares containing other squares.
Level 1: automobile traffic, garage entrances
Level 2: pedestrians only (an elevated platform from building to building... plenty of room to walk)
With autonomous drivers, there's no real need for street signs/business signs. Just tell your car where to go and it takes you to the nearest garage. From there, you can walk up (or escalator/elevator) to level 2 where the storefronts are. The only problem is that the cities/buildings aren't designed for that. ;)
They definitely wouldn't be one of those drivers that thinks they can travel down an alternate lane until the very last minute and cut over causing both lanes to have to accommodate, but they likely will be the cars that travel three wide going the same speed because that happens to be the speed limit and somehow the right lane was triggered to slow down causing the others to pass.
doesn't have overly paranoid users thinking that anyone who says anything positive about Microsoft or Apple, or validly criticizes Linux and FOSS
Reddit has invisible barriers. Voluntary barriers actually. If you don't follow Linux you won't subscribe to any of the Linux subreddits and you never see positive posts about Linux. (Or alternatively: Windows) However, if you express frustration or distaste for the product of topic, you'll get down modded into oblivion. Compare that to Slashdot's single facing main news page and you can see (hopefully) why. If Reddit forced every main story to the front page for every logged in user you'd get a lot of people commenting negatively on "New Microsoft app has Ribbon" stories popping up on their main page. With subscriptions though, you would likely never see this story unless you subscribe to /r/microsoft
Reddit makes for a great echo chamber. You can subscribe to your favorite topics and get all warm fuzzy news about it all day long and anything that seems too critical will be quickly shunned.
Quick! Start throwing stones!
It makes me wonder if they would also do the same if it was a more serious offense.
Bring cash!
Are you trying to artificially inflate your monetary system with foreign money? Don't accept it. Make your own.
Yeah, but there are a vast number of people that are desk jockeys. Just because the system doesn't work for you doesn't mean it's not ready at all.
Regarding empty slot usage... I imagine the plan is to replaced failed drives with larger drives over time and have the system adapt. I've given old drives to people in kind only to have them come back a few months later because there was a problem with their machine (mostly bad clusters) and since they didn't build the machine they didn't know how to do regular disk checks or have the machine running during the schedule I set up.
RAID5 requires that all the disks be the same size and uses one drive as a parity bit drive.
btrfs works on the block level and should be able to write redundant block data on multiple drives no matter what size they are.
Depending on your needs the remainder should be RAID-1, 5 or 6'd
Wouldn't btrfs supposedly resolve this? It's supposed to put your redundant data on multiple devices and I would assume if the device had no more space it could use another device on the array as long as it wasn't the same as the redundant data. From everything I'm reading on the FS so far it looks like it's perfectly usable now if you can schedule a regular data scrub (like a midnight cron job) to check integrity, which wouldn't be bad for a personal server (enterprise is another story.)
The problem with 1" shims is that the copper power bars are still going to be in the way of the long server chassis. The pictures I saw had the copper bars running up the middle of the rack limiting your usable depth by quite a bit. (page 5)
... to remind yourself to vote on the 6th.
Technically a device where you slide a punch card in and poke a few holes in it... is a machine.
Eh, it does sort of solve the anonymous first posters and these shill accounts. They can be modded off-topic pretty easily and the experienced users would have a way to steer the conversations a bit more than relying on the first troll.
Maybe Slashdot needs to make an update to the posting algorithm:
You may not respond directly to a story unless your karma is excellent. You can respond to other posts, but never to a story.
Solar cells I've seen are made from a series of smaller cells. You'd just need to overlay the wing structure with cells wired up and put a thin membrane over it.
Why not "Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust"?
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