You laugh, but transit buses usually have keyless ignition: a big rotary switch that controls both engine and headlights (stop, run, run + headlights, stop + parking lights)! School buses based on the same platforms probably do too.
I really want to know what made some engineer back in the early days of internal combustion think that combination was a good idea...
If you didn't push the more expensive version or the extended warranty or whatever, the managers came down hard on you.
It's Best Buy credit card applications now. All the usefulness of an extended warranty for your Monster-brand dryer cord, with the added "fuck you" bonus of dinging your credit score!
That's malleable. At one time we all knew that nobody (except a geeky commercially-insignificant Slashdot-reading minority) wants a tablet computer, too. Now grandma has an iPad.
"I am sure that Moore's law can be manipulated into something that will predict how quickly things will advance."
AT&T's Law: Wired broadband technology will advance at a rate such that internet access perpetually costs $40US per month. Wireless broadband will perpetually cost $30 per month, plus $5 for unlimited texts and $20 for a voice plan, and require a 2-year contract.
Finagle's Corrolary to AT&T's Law: No, you can't get it without a voice plan.
For the really big HP ink tanks (HP 91s, they hold 775ml of ink), MSRP is $293 or about $0.38/ml. Still right in the same range as smaller cartridges...
"If you don't understand exponential math, you can't become wealthy."
Not understanding that exponential growth can't continue forever on a planet of finite mass and energy input qualifies you to be an economist, and a few of them become wealthy! (Though most toil in obscurity teaching freshman-level classes and make 1% of what the football coach does...)
...since the introduction of next-generation GPS trackers across our delivery van fleet, and subsequent dismissal of 92% of our driving staff for unauthorized GPS tampering, our labour expenditures have been reduced sharply. However, the savings are tempered by the loss of several valuable revenue streams. Due to the three remaining drivers refusing to drive within 5km of a RADAR installation or radio tower or 2km of high-voltage power lines, we have had to give up our contracts with several air freight carriers, and scale back our guaranteed same-day delivery radius considerably...
Right, the same name was on two completely different galaxies of things, one developer-facing and one consumer-facing, with no (or no effective) attempt at explaining why they were under one brand.
They tried the tactic Apple took with the iPrefix products/services, but didn't have the marketing skill to pull it off.
Combining both of these decisions under the 'Windows' brand could be disastrous, not because Microsoft is evil, but because it creates two entirely different user experiences on the basis of which ISA your CPU supports.
Microsoft has never had a clue about branding. Look at.NET, they stuck that meaningless label on everything from IDEs to websites to chat clients.
Over a 3-year period, GeRa’s advertisements and those of his referrals resulted in at least 80,000 sales of knockoff pharmaceuticals, brought SpamIt revenues of in excess of $6 million, and earned him and his pals more than $2.7 million.
...and that's why we will never be rid of spam: because at least 80,000 people are dumb enough to buy boner pills over the internet from someone who spammed their inbox with poorly-spelled sales pitches.
The airframe is a 40 year old ex-airline 707 with about ten zillion hours on it. A better analogy would be that it's like a $900 car with an $20k Oracle server in the trunk, and frame damage that would cost $2k to fix.
There was a typesetters' error in the last sentence of today's RIM article. It should have read "Thorsten Heins will now lead RIM as it slogs toward inevitable bankruptcy and asset fire sale to the likes of Apple and Google." We apologize for the error.
Shenanigans. You want to see a period of substantial depreciation in the dollar, look at the graph for 1975-85: 15% inflation, but copper prices stayed relatively flat.
Somebody's gaming the copper market, just like they gamed the oil market when oil spiked up to $140 a few years ago...
Please, this is Slashdot. "Real work" means "that which cannot be done on the device we're complaining about today".
If the article is about iPhones, real work requires BlackBerry messenger and BES integration. If the article is about tablets, real work requires a keyboard. If the article is about notebooks, real work requires three screens and a big honkin' GPU. If the article is about Linux desktops or Macintoshes, real work means a full MS Exchange client and ability to run obsolete ActiveX controls. If the article is about cloud computing services, real work requires absolute secrecy. If the article is about low-power ARM servers, real work means serving 20,000 simultaneous database clients. If the article is about a 1500TB storage array, it's "not any good for real work" because it can't hold every byte of data ever produced by the human species!
It's not the cards or the battle mat that detract from the game, it's that all the classes collapse into four "roles" in combat.
DM: You slowly pry open the last crypt door, its rusty hinges screech like fingernails on a chalkboard. Inside, you see a monstrous horned devil cloaked in smoke and flickering flames with glowing amber eyes staring back at you. It is a Balrog, summoned here by the evil cultists to protect their treasure horde! Everyone roll initiative.
Cleric: Ok, here's what we're going to do. Tank, you get in front of it and draw his aggro. DPS, you circle around and stab it in the back. I'll buff you both against fire and evil, and heal Tank when he gets below 50 life.
Rogue: So... same plan as with the cultists, and their zombies, and the dire wolves in the forest, and that ugly spiky thing from last week and...?
The difference is when the postman gets caught reading your mail, he gets fired, and possibly sent to jail.
When AT&T puts a tap in their fiber so the NSA can read any email it chooses, they're just doing their jobs, and anyone who exposes it or complains is an un-American traitor terrorist anarchocommunazi.
(That said, I still don't encrypt my email, because email is for communicating within the corporation where mail is stored on some central Exchange server in compliance with records retention policies, and with people who think it's still OK to forward kitten image macros and Dilbert comics. For the few security-conscious contacts, using Google chat with the off-the-record plugin is much easier than setting up PGP/GPG.)
Tomorrow the bank might want your password. In 30 years they won't need it. They'll use some internal app that's connected to every social network's back-end API, and the sites will be happy to share all the data they ask for... for a nominal fee. And it'll be 100% legal because there's a clause that says they can somewhere in the petabyte of dense legalese nobody downloads, let alone reads that is Facebook's 2041 user agreement.
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"Intuitive" is not a synonym for "just like Microsoft Windows".
You laugh, but transit buses usually have keyless ignition: a big rotary switch that controls both engine and headlights (stop, run, run + headlights, stop + parking lights)! School buses based on the same platforms probably do too.
I really want to know what made some engineer back in the early days of internal combustion think that combination was a good idea...
If you didn't push the more expensive version or the extended warranty or whatever, the managers came down hard on you.
It's Best Buy credit card applications now. All the usefulness of an extended warranty for your Monster-brand dryer cord, with the added "fuck you" bonus of dinging your credit score!
That's malleable. At one time we all knew that nobody (except a geeky commercially-insignificant Slashdot-reading minority) wants a tablet computer, too. Now grandma has an iPad.
"I am sure that Moore's law can be manipulated into something that will predict how quickly things will advance."
AT&T's Law: Wired broadband technology will advance at a rate such that internet access perpetually costs $40US per month. Wireless broadband will perpetually cost $30 per month, plus $5 for unlimited texts and $20 for a voice plan, and require a 2-year contract.
Finagle's Corrolary to AT&T's Law: No, you can't get it without a voice plan.
Or about $150 on the US Apple store (just checked). As usual, exchange rates in Apple land are a bit... different than elsewhere.
For the really big HP ink tanks (HP 91s, they hold 775ml of ink), MSRP is $293 or about $0.38/ml. Still right in the same range as smaller cartridges...
I guess Microsoft doesn't have a new social media pony it's pushing on everyone at the company.
...yet!
Never underestimate Microsoft's ability to be behind the curve in consumer services.
"If you don't understand exponential math, you can't become wealthy."
Not understanding that exponential growth can't continue forever on a planet of finite mass and energy input qualifies you to be an economist, and a few of them become wealthy! (Though most toil in obscurity teaching freshman-level classes and make 1% of what the football coach does...)
Wayland won't feature remote windowing. The best we can hope for is a pixel-scraper which dumps compressed bitmaps over the network.
Which is what we've got now with Xorg + any non-trivial widget set, no?
Startup > Rising Star > Established Player > Unstoppable Juggernaut > Clueless Dinosaur > Patent Troll > "Hey, remember Unisys? Whatever happened to them?"
Welcome to phase VI, Yahoo! See you at the bankruptcy liquidation auction.
...and his sig is climate change denial. Gee, ya think he might have an axe to grind W/R/T electric cars?
Expedited Delivery LLC Quarterly Report, 1Q2014
...since the introduction of next-generation GPS trackers across our delivery van fleet, and subsequent dismissal of 92% of our driving staff for unauthorized GPS tampering, our labour expenditures have been reduced sharply. However, the savings are tempered by the loss of several valuable revenue streams. Due to the three remaining drivers refusing to drive within 5km of a RADAR installation or radio tower or 2km of high-voltage power lines, we have had to give up our contracts with several air freight carriers, and scale back our guaranteed same-day delivery radius considerably...
Right, the same name was on two completely different galaxies of things, one developer-facing and one consumer-facing, with no (or no effective) attempt at explaining why they were under one brand.
They tried the tactic Apple took with the iPrefix products/services, but didn't have the marketing skill to pull it off.
Combining both of these decisions under the 'Windows' brand could be disastrous, not because Microsoft is evil, but because it creates two entirely different user experiences on the basis of which ISA your CPU supports.
Microsoft has never had a clue about branding. Look at .NET, they stuck that meaningless label on everything from IDEs to websites to chat clients.
Over a 3-year period, GeRa’s advertisements and those of his referrals resulted in at least 80,000 sales of knockoff pharmaceuticals, brought SpamIt revenues of in excess of $6 million, and earned him and his pals more than $2.7 million.
...and that's why we will never be rid of spam: because at least 80,000 people are dumb enough to buy boner pills over the internet from someone who spammed their inbox with poorly-spelled sales pitches.
The airframe is a 40 year old ex-airline 707 with about ten zillion hours on it. A better analogy would be that it's like a $900 car with an $20k Oracle server in the trunk, and frame damage that would cost $2k to fix.
There was a typesetters' error in the last sentence of today's RIM article. It should have read "Thorsten Heins will now lead RIM as it slogs toward inevitable bankruptcy and asset fire sale to the likes of Apple and Google." We apologize for the error.
Shenanigans. You want to see a period of substantial depreciation in the dollar, look at the graph for 1975-85: 15% inflation, but copper prices stayed relatively flat.
Somebody's gaming the copper market, just like they gamed the oil market when oil spiked up to $140 a few years ago...
"Sent off site for destruction and disposal" means "someone takes it home, drinks it, and recycles the bottle".
Define real work
Please, this is Slashdot. "Real work" means "that which cannot be done on the device we're complaining about today".
If the article is about iPhones, real work requires BlackBerry messenger and BES integration. If the article is about tablets, real work requires a keyboard. If the article is about notebooks, real work requires three screens and a big honkin' GPU. If the article is about Linux desktops or Macintoshes, real work means a full MS Exchange client and ability to run obsolete ActiveX controls. If the article is about cloud computing services, real work requires absolute secrecy. If the article is about low-power ARM servers, real work means serving 20,000 simultaneous database clients. If the article is about a 1500TB storage array, it's "not any good for real work" because it can't hold every byte of data ever produced by the human species!
It's not the cards or the battle mat that detract from the game, it's that all the classes collapse into four "roles" in combat.
DM: You slowly pry open the last crypt door, its rusty hinges screech like fingernails on a chalkboard. Inside, you see a monstrous horned devil cloaked in smoke and flickering flames with glowing amber eyes staring back at you. It is a Balrog, summoned here by the evil cultists to protect their treasure horde! Everyone roll initiative.
Cleric: Ok, here's what we're going to do. Tank, you get in front of it and draw his aggro. DPS, you circle around and stab it in the back. I'll buff you both against fire and evil, and heal Tank when he gets below 50 life.
Rogue: So... same plan as with the cultists, and their zombies, and the dire wolves in the forest, and that ugly spiky thing from last week and...?
Cleric: Yeah.
Rogue :I think we can handle that.
AMD's processors, for the same price, pack more power per core than Intel's
Yeah, 10+ watts per core more than Sandy Bridge at full load!
The difference is when the postman gets caught reading your mail, he gets fired, and possibly sent to jail.
When AT&T puts a tap in their fiber so the NSA can read any email it chooses, they're just doing their jobs, and anyone who exposes it or complains is an un-American traitor terrorist anarchocommunazi.
(That said, I still don't encrypt my email, because email is for communicating within the corporation where mail is stored on some central Exchange server in compliance with records retention policies, and with people who think it's still OK to forward kitten image macros and Dilbert comics. For the few security-conscious contacts, using Google chat with the off-the-record plugin is much easier than setting up PGP/GPG.)
Tomorrow the bank might want your password. In 30 years they won't need it. They'll use some internal app that's connected to every social network's back-end API, and the sites will be happy to share all the data they ask for... for a nominal fee. And it'll be 100% legal because there's a clause that says they can somewhere in the petabyte of dense legalese nobody downloads, let alone reads that is Facebook's 2041 user agreement.