I would just like to point out that not one person challenged Star Wars' scifi-ness until after the prequels came out. Face it, this whole topic is about geek chic.
Heh. I remember ejecting once to get past one of those missions. I thought I was smart until I did it again on another hard mission and, instead of moving on to the next mission, I was dishonorably discharged.
It depends on the data, but many formats compress really well when using WinRAR. Many of my files, for example, that reach nearly 10:1 compression. Unless we are in the same profession, I wouldn't set your expectations that high, but I imagine on average you could get your data usage down to 40%. If I'm right, maybe you could winRAR several folders from the failing drive to the smaller drives, and not necessarily need to get more space available.
That said, I really do think the suggestion of buying another drive is spot on. I saw a 2 terrabyte drive for $120 at Best Buy yesterday.
Localized? Well, I suppose, it only affects 300 million people. You have to admit, though, it was nice of us to contain it at the northern border so it won't affec Canada.
I mostly come here to see the zealots and fanboys...
Same. There is definitely something entertaining about winding up somebody with too much of an opinion.
I'm disappointed, though, that the reports of the new iPads overheating hasn't made it here. It seems like a 'duh' story to me, it's yet another reason to rag about Apple. What bugs me, though, is that's actually an important issue for the people who bought those iPads needs to know about. Slashdot could be fanning the flames and being informative at the same time.
Oh well, at least we got to revisit Microsoft hate today. Pity it's not as effective as it would have been a few years ago, most of the responses came from people that actually read the article.
I don't have kids so I don't really know what's going through these people's heads. I've always suspected that everybody hopes that if nobody brings it up, it'll never occur to the teenagers to get up to mischief. It becomes a perpetual "no it cannot be a problem right now, maybe next year" sort of thing. So if something like sex-ed comes along, it causes the issue to come up at an inopportune time (note: There is no opportune time...) , so they get frustrated that this particular problem is coming up right now. The result? People don't want their kids exposed to things that'll make them think about sex. I'd like to think I'm right, but the thing that baffles me the most about this is all these parents, for some reason, don't remember what being a teenager was like. Remember Back to the Future? Remember Marty's Mom? "I never did things like call boys or park in a car with a boy" and all that other stuff? That's the image I get in my head when I think about these people.
Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong, I don't know. Whatever their motivations, I agree that trying to keep their kids as pure as the Flanders family is not a useful solution. I just don't see why they'd even have violence on their radar until they start seeing their kids actually hurting each other. Until then, there actually is some sense in being offended by pornographic imagery and turning a blind eye to violence on TV. It's a non-argument, sorry.
They are ok with literal genocide committed by a child soldier, but the moment the kid has to take a shower (and fight a bully), NOW it's pornographic?
Having gone to a high school where no less than ten of the students I saw everyday became mommies long before graduation, but no attempts at xeno/genocide, it doesn't really come as a big surprise to me.
If someone loses "all" their data in the cloud, their problem has nothing to do with the cloud. If you lose all your data, it's because you kept all your data in one place, with no backups in a different place, and all fault lands on you, not the cloud, not your cloud provider, and not on any given piece of technology.
It's worth noting that a lot of the bitching about the cloud stems from creating content ON the cloud. Google Docs, for example, you create your docs and write them directly to the server. You have to go out of your way to get your content back out of Google. Unfortunately Google Docs came out several years before DropBox, SpiderOak, and iCloud, services that require you to send your files to them, so that little distinction hasn't percolated up into the conscience of the '+5, Insightful' chasers yet.
I used to have productivity problems when working from home. Sometimes it was just to easy to get distracted with Youtube, or maybe it was watching people walk past my window, or even my cat deciding that was the right time to bug me for attention. To my surprise it turned out the problem was simply not having strong goals.
Usually when I'm working from home I'm doing scripting and sometimes these projects take several days to complete. It was a little too easy to get to the end of the day and feel like I hadn't accomplished anything. (Which often made me work longer throughout the day.. something I wasn't getting paid for.) I finally got a handle on it by doing things like saying "Okay, I've got to get this functionality done by noon. Then, by the end of the day, I have to have these things done." By working towards that goal, distractions were not as distracty and sometimes I'd get done even a little ahead of time. By that point it was a lot easier to put the mouse down and say "okay, I'm done for the day." I could even treat myself to being done a little early on Friday!
I think this is the sort of thing people have been saying all along, but I didn't realize just how important that was until I tried it myself.
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I would just like to point out that not one person challenged Star Wars' scifi-ness until after the prequels came out. Face it, this whole topic is about geek chic.
Pardon the dumb question, but how does Amazon make money?
Unless CBS has plans for the script, this certainly wasn't the smartest way to resolve it fro their company. That's a different matter.
Well, I'll put it this way: Several episodes of the first season of TNG were Phase II scripts.
I just wanted to say your post was helpful, thank you. :)
Have a good week.
If you are that angry about it, don't buy the game.
Or, you could do something effectual, and not buy the game AND tell them why... just like 'whining' on a forum like Slashdot is accomplishing.
Millions of people don't buy games, just a little over a thousand got EA to change its DRM policy. Look up Spore.
Heh. I remember ejecting once to get past one of those missions. I thought I was smart until I did it again on another hard mission and, instead of moving on to the next mission, I was dishonorably discharged.
I loved the attention to detail with those games.
It depends on the data, but many formats compress really well when using WinRAR. Many of my files, for example, that reach nearly 10:1 compression. Unless we are in the same profession, I wouldn't set your expectations that high, but I imagine on average you could get your data usage down to 40%. If I'm right, maybe you could winRAR several folders from the failing drive to the smaller drives, and not necessarily need to get more space available.
That said, I really do think the suggestion of buying another drive is spot on. I saw a 2 terrabyte drive for $120 at Best Buy yesterday.
When I get a reply like that I can tell I've struck a nerve. I'm sorry.
Localized? Well, I suppose, it only affects 300 million people. You have to admit, though, it was nice of us to contain it at the northern border so it won't affec Canada.
Maybe Android users aren't in debt because they don't spend much money on dating.
I mostly come here to see the zealots and fanboys...
Same. There is definitely something entertaining about winding up somebody with too much of an opinion.
I'm disappointed, though, that the reports of the new iPads overheating hasn't made it here. It seems like a 'duh' story to me, it's yet another reason to rag about Apple. What bugs me, though, is that's actually an important issue for the people who bought those iPads needs to know about. Slashdot could be fanning the flames and being informative at the same time.
Oh well, at least we got to revisit Microsoft hate today. Pity it's not as effective as it would have been a few years ago, most of the responses came from people that actually read the article.
That's odd, I always associated Linux with birth control.
Video game popularity rises, violent crime drops.
I don't have kids so I don't really know what's going through these people's heads. I've always suspected that everybody hopes that if nobody brings it up, it'll never occur to the teenagers to get up to mischief. It becomes a perpetual "no it cannot be a problem right now, maybe next year" sort of thing. So if something like sex-ed comes along, it causes the issue to come up at an inopportune time (note: There is no opportune time...) , so they get frustrated that this particular problem is coming up right now. The result? People don't want their kids exposed to things that'll make them think about sex. I'd like to think I'm right, but the thing that baffles me the most about this is all these parents, for some reason, don't remember what being a teenager was like. Remember Back to the Future? Remember Marty's Mom? "I never did things like call boys or park in a car with a boy" and all that other stuff? That's the image I get in my head when I think about these people.
Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong, I don't know. Whatever their motivations, I agree that trying to keep their kids as pure as the Flanders family is not a useful solution. I just don't see why they'd even have violence on their radar until they start seeing their kids actually hurting each other. Until then, there actually is some sense in being offended by pornographic imagery and turning a blind eye to violence on TV. It's a non-argument, sorry.
They are ok with literal genocide committed by a child soldier, but the moment the kid has to take a shower (and fight a bully), NOW it's pornographic?
Having gone to a high school where no less than ten of the students I saw everyday became mommies long before graduation, but no attempts at xeno/genocide, it doesn't really come as a big surprise to me.
If someone loses "all" their data in the cloud, their problem has nothing to do with the cloud. If you lose all your data, it's because you kept all your data in one place, with no backups in a different place, and all fault lands on you, not the cloud, not your cloud provider, and not on any given piece of technology.
It's worth noting that a lot of the bitching about the cloud stems from creating content ON the cloud. Google Docs, for example, you create your docs and write them directly to the server. You have to go out of your way to get your content back out of Google. Unfortunately Google Docs came out several years before DropBox, SpiderOak, and iCloud, services that require you to send your files to them, so that little distinction hasn't percolated up into the conscience of the '+5, Insightful' chasers yet.
Do you have a statistic on that? My own experience paints a different picture.
How do you break an anonymous coward's prosthetic thumb?
Kick him in the stomach!
I used to have productivity problems when working from home. Sometimes it was just to easy to get distracted with Youtube, or maybe it was watching people walk past my window, or even my cat deciding that was the right time to bug me for attention. To my surprise it turned out the problem was simply not having strong goals.
Usually when I'm working from home I'm doing scripting and sometimes these projects take several days to complete. It was a little too easy to get to the end of the day and feel like I hadn't accomplished anything. (Which often made me work longer throughout the day.. something I wasn't getting paid for.) I finally got a handle on it by doing things like saying "Okay, I've got to get this functionality done by noon. Then, by the end of the day, I have to have these things done." By working towards that goal, distractions were not as distracty and sometimes I'd get done even a little ahead of time. By that point it was a lot easier to put the mouse down and say "okay, I'm done for the day." I could even treat myself to being done a little early on Friday!
I think this is the sort of thing people have been saying all along, but I didn't realize just how important that was until I tried it myself.
Yeah, I wonder what they'd call the effect of having lots of Slashdotters preventing other sites from working.
If this malware resides exclusively in RAM without any footprint on the HDD or BIOS, then how does it survive a cold boot?
I didn't RTFA, so feel free to heckle me at whim:
1. How often do cold reboots really happen these days?
2. If Slashdot, for example, was a site that used this exploit, well there ya go.
Despite the cliche, history doesn't predict the future, just gives it an easily observable option.
I'm genuinely surprised nobody has yet to pose for an Insightful mod by quoting Jeff Goldblum.
I'm guessing an early Xbox360 out of the box is very different than the one you'ld buy today.
The one you bought on launch day will still play the new games.
Which is fine until people use this story to pose as a humanitarian.