Probably the news was on Digg earlier, resulting in a massive influx of visitors. You say that Slashdot was responsible for less visitors, but maybe that was because some Slashdot readers had already seen the story (hours) earlier via Digg?
It would be interesting to see how many people regularly visit both sites. I think that people who often check Digg, will RTFA even less often than regular/. users, because Digg often has stories faster (or so I am told, I myself only visit Slashdot).
I'm guessing that I might not be the only person here that does not know what "CAPTCHA" stands for, so here is is: "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart". And it is apparently trademarked by Carnegie Mellon University.
Of course all forms of online gambling should be banned! Things like poker chips block the tubes that make up the internets. Only lotteries and horse races gambling should be allowed, to ensure that the tubes are flushed clean regularly. Otherwise, how long do you think the gerbils on wheels that power the internet are going to run? Not long!
I own laptop with a Synaptics touchpad, and while i like it for mobile use, I always plug in an optical mouse when I can.
You don't have to use your thumb, but I find it stressful to use more than 30 minutes or so. They are just not designed for prolonged and ergonomic use, though perhaps that is different on stand alone touch pads.
I did some vacation work at a CD factory. They had machines that assembled dvds, cds and even double cds. You just had to insert the inlays, the halves of the cases and the cds and the machines assembled them and boxed them in cartons of 25.
However, they also had a number of fulltime employees that did a similar thing by hand; inserting the inlays in DVD cases and adding the disc or adding lyrics booklets to music cds for example.
The machines were run in shifts, 24 hours a day but for small runs I think manual labour is better (cheaper/easier). The assembly and shipping would not even be the most expensive/difficult thing for small runs. The making of the screens for the screen printing and the pressing/burning of the cds would most likely be the major focus points.
That way a current video gets a higher rank than an old fad that got 2 billion downloads over the years.
The why is "The MAC Gamer" in 4th place?
Because Google does not assess the content of the video. If I re-upload "an old fad that got 2 billion downloads over the years", Google does not know that it's old and if a lot of people see it, Google thinks that it's some hot new video.
Good point, but obviously the energy density should not be the criterium, otherwise we might as well use the binding energy of helium (675,000,000 MJ/kg).
Efficiency, heat production and ease of transport and storing should be equal factors. And since lithium ion batteries have been around for much longer, I assume things like efficiency are better.
But I look forward to see these alternative sources of energy become better and more common via the usual vicious circle; things become better->they become more common->they become better (research becomes more profitable)->the become cheaper->they become more common->etc.
Fuel cell laptops might last longer, but I'd think that electricity is a lot better available in most parts of the world than methanol (electricity is already needed for a lot of things in "the field" and besides, a few spare batteries for a laptop are not the militaries most hard to get resource.
"Hmmm, this passenger specifically ordered pasta, he must be a pastafarian! Let's pray that he does not hijack the plane in the name of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and that His Noodly Appendage will not harm us!"
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How the hell does percentage of similarity of DNA relate to having a soul?
Probably the news was on Digg earlier, resulting in a massive influx of visitors. You say that Slashdot was responsible for less visitors, but maybe that was because some Slashdot readers had already seen the story (hours) earlier via Digg?
/. users, because Digg often has stories faster (or so I am told, I myself only visit Slashdot).
It would be interesting to see how many people regularly visit both sites. I think that people who often check Digg, will RTFA even less often than regular
I'm guessing that I might not be the only person here that does not know what "CAPTCHA" stands for, so here is is: "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart". And it is apparently trademarked by Carnegie Mellon University.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA
But I thought that all tech men carried batteries?
Of course all forms of online gambling should be banned! Things like poker chips block the tubes that make up the internets. Only lotteries and horse races gambling should be allowed, to ensure that the tubes are flushed clean regularly. Otherwise, how long do you think the gerbils on wheels that power the internet are going to run? Not long!
He needs some updates, or doesn't he have a Genuine copy of Windows?
In other words: welcome to Slashdot and congratulations on being the millionth user, but you'll get flamed just like any other noob
Ever tried pouring beer over your router/server/computer/etc ?
And that experiment might be even more fun and exciting when all our routers and ethernet networks are replaced with guinea pigs!
Makes me wonder when there will be a new KDE network app coming out called Kuinea Pig or something...
I own laptop with a Synaptics touchpad, and while i like it for mobile use, I always plug in an optical mouse when I can. You don't have to use your thumb, but I find it stressful to use more than 30 minutes or so. They are just not designed for prolonged and ergonomic use, though perhaps that is different on stand alone touch pads.
Or you could just buy a stand alone wrist rest...
Yes, but does it make coffee?
I did some vacation work at a CD factory. They had machines that assembled dvds, cds and even double cds. You just had to insert the inlays, the halves of the cases and the cds and the machines assembled them and boxed them in cartons of 25.
However, they also had a number of fulltime employees that did a similar thing by hand; inserting the inlays in DVD cases and adding the disc or adding lyrics booklets to music cds for example.
The machines were run in shifts, 24 hours a day but for small runs I think manual labour is better (cheaper/easier). The assembly and shipping would not even be the most expensive/difficult thing for small runs. The making of the screens for the screen printing and the pressing/burning of the cds would most likely be the major focus points.
Nor "Johnson" and "Bloody", please.
Yes this helps the government, because now they can keep tabs on the users...
sorry for the obvious, but while I'm at it; In Soviet Russia, the tabs keep you!
http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/fuck/myspace-i s-a-loser-so-were-resorting-to-porn-178829.php
Space is good, spaces in URL usually are not :) .
It's the URL that sucks, it ought to be http://mac-sucks.com/ :) .
Good point, but obviously the energy density should not be the criterium, otherwise we might as well use the binding energy of helium (675,000,000 MJ/kg).
Efficiency, heat production and ease of transport and storing should be equal factors. And since lithium ion batteries have been around for much longer, I assume things like efficiency are better.
But I look forward to see these alternative sources of energy become better and more common via the usual vicious circle; things become better->they become more common->they become better (research becomes more profitable)->the become cheaper->they become more common->etc.
Fuel cell laptops might last longer, but I'd think that electricity is a lot better available in most parts of the world than methanol (electricity is already needed for a lot of things in "the field" and besides, a few spare batteries for a laptop are not the militaries most hard to get resource.
"Hmmm, this passenger specifically ordered pasta, he must be a pastafarian! Let's pray that he does not hijack the plane in the name of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and that His Noodly Appendage will not harm us!"
it's down
The IHT of this weekend also has a frontpage article about the French "iPod law" and the call for open source as the way forward.
The answer is the latter. As far as I know, the Revolution controller does not even have the possibility to register light from the TV screen.
I think that fuck.eu is going to be a very wanted domain anyway, whatever the pronunciation.