An Western European led research vessel gets stuck in the ice. A Chinese ice breaker comes to the rescue. The Chinese ice breaker gets stuck in the ice. A Russian ice breaker with an international crew comes to the rescue. The Russian ice breaker gets stuck in the Ice. Now we have a US Coast Guard ice breaker on the way to save the day. The moral of the story? When you subtract nasty international politics from the equation, we really can get along.
When the request for parts comes in, or on the bill of sale for that matter, I wonder if it says "Lockheed Martin". Or if they use another company to purchase the parts. It's not like the Chinese are building engines and navigation systems for the F-35. If they don't know what the parts are for, this might not be so bad. If they do know, that is bad. Of course, now that it's a story on the internet, I suppose the cat's out of the bag anyway - which I am not comfortable with.
a. Admit it. b. Deny it then get caught lying about it.
Either way the fallout would be both spectacular and likely productive from a citizen standpoint. If either a or b happens and it gets swept under the rug, then at least we can be certain that the United States is no longer run by the United States government. Sometimes I wonder if I will one day be answering the question, "Where were you when the Constitution and Bill of Rights were permanently suspended?"
For once I can say it and it's actually probably true: you must be new around here!
It's: News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters - not, Science and Technology News for Nerds, Nothing else Matters.
Political discussions are plenty nerdy and they matter. With that said, I am a nerd and to me this matters. You must also consider the livelihood of Slashdot itself. An article like this can get 500+ comments, a pop-sci article gets 100 - 200 comments, ultra-pure hard-core science stories top off at 50 comments. Slashdot needs a balance and by your story posting logic, this place would be a ghost town. Get over yourself.
GUIs are walled gardens in that features available in one piece of software is not available to other pieces of software.
Setting aside the fact that this statement makes no sense, I suspect it was crafted around using the term "walled garden" in a misguided effort to establish nerd street cred. Mission failed.
However, there is software out there with command-line options that can make software features accessible to power users and programmers.
Out of all of the CLI based software the submitter could have chosen, the selection demonstrates that they are neither a power user or a programmer.
Less useful but still useful are command shells.
Holy fuck. Seriously? What I am supposed to run my CLI based software in to begin with. Never mind everything else about a shell that runs deep.
The bullet points caught my eyes first, I knew right away it was going to be bad, but this? This article making the front page is an insult to the majority of Slashdot's user base and an affront to our intellect and skill sets. Also, it reads like it was written by a second-grader.
Slashdot has finally found a way to force people to read the article before posting.
In all seriousness, it's nice to see new approaches to the problem of creating a fusion reaction that produces more usable energy than it consumes. Between the National Ignition Facility (which unfortunately was largely but not entirely dedicated to military research at the first sign of success), going massive with ITER, and this piston powered approach, I believe we will one day get there. We may try and fail and try and fail, but ultimately there is no stopping humanity.
I am responding to the relatedly footnote so no, this is not off topic.
I think one reason SSDs are not going to become cheaper than HD's anytime soon is because the price on hard drives is plummeting partly in response to the more slowly lowering price on SSDs - it's just the competitive nature of the industry, even if that means sometimes companies are competing with themselves. I can get a 1 terabyte 7,200 RPM hard drive for $50 bucks, or I can get a Sandisk Extreme 2 120GB SSD for $100. I was recently faced that decision and went with the SSD. The performance is too much to pass up. Plus I already have a fast as a hard drive can get 500GB hard drive. Depending on what you put on which drive, it really is the best solution.
A lot of these devices are older and not even sold anymore. There are also a lot already on the street. If Apple really wants these evil patent infringing devices off of the street, then they should offer an official free trade in program. Perhaps at least people with the older phones would take advantage, and then only if it doesn't reset their upgrade cycle.
I would like to see a thorough scan of that guys brain compared to an average brain. It appears he is only looking at the next piece while remembering everything that came before it and their positions.
Tetris, by nature, would prove most interesting. I myself never made it past level 10, and I've never seen anyone make it past level 20. I wonder what the breaking point for this neural net would be after a few days of practice. I would love to see a video of it starting from level one and making it's way to the insanity of level 50 - if it's up to the task. I imagine a super computer would have too much latency.
I'm going to have to argue this, as it depends on the user. In 2005 I made the switch from 9 years of Linux to full-time OSX. While it is true that I took full advantage of the GUI interface features and used a lot of (really great) OSX only software, due to my background in Linux, I spent over 50% of my time in a terminal or running Open Source software in X Windows (yes, OS X comes with X) In that respect I took full advantage of it as a robust BSD system. If you want to call OSX out as being different from all the other "Unixen" your going to have to go a step further and point out how very different Linux is from FreeBSD - and they are very different. A Unix based system is a Unix based system. There is nothing more complicated about it. Also, since I used OSX for all of it's Unixy goodness, recently transitioning back to Linux and FreeBSD full time was painless, especially since Open Source software has caught up so much.
China is in a strange place right now in their development. On the one hand, they have fully embraced the digital revolution. On the other hand they are in many respects where the United States was at from the mid-1800's through the early twentieth century industrial revolution where we had even more elite vs. little guy than we do now by far. 10 years olds working 12+hour days in textile sweatshops, railroad building as virtual slavery. A substantial amount of the greatness and luxury that we have now in the United States was built on a foundation of the blood, sweat, and tears of these downtrodden people that were badly abused, and taken advantage of and not cared for with basic needs like sanitation and clean water. Make no mistake about it: China will surpass these problems and catch up... fast.
As a PR rep she can talk shit both ways in whatever context and at whatever grade level. It doesn't make her tweet darkly sympathetic with an ironic twist. It just mean she is adept at talking shit. The fact that she did it at all demonstrates she is only vacantly aware in heart and mind. Kind of like what a sociopaths sense of humor would be like if they had one.
I'm only arguing that she is not as smart as you think and nothing else related to the overall discussion.
If it's not fear of NSA snooping, it's the occasional revelation that an enterprise class router has a simple root level access username and password hard coded into it, or it's a near perfect knock-off from China with who knows what going on. The question is: were we ever able to trust commercial routers? The answer is no.
The day the American people become so many, organized, and outraged that the United States military (likely the Guard) is ordered to open fire on US citizens, your revolution will start. It will not matter whether they follow the order or not. If things don't get better and the power of the people continues to slip, I believe it's entirely possible that will happen.
and is judged a far, far superior experience by Android converts.
The experience factor may very well be true. I have had the opportunity to spend real quality time with their new OS and it really is top notch work. While the Android and iOS converts are out there, they are far and few between - but this lack of uptake has nothing to do with the quality of the product, which as I said is great. I myself as someone who is waiting for an alternative to my Android or iOS (MS, yeah right - tried that too) had great hope that this would bring BB back. The only thing stopping me is that I am far from convinced that BB will be around long enough to see this product cycle through. What is stopping a lot of people from considering the new BBs is the fully justified fear that they will end up with an unsupported device.
Some have suggested that there may be trillions of galaxies in the universe at it's not a notion to be laughed at. There is the visible universe, and then there is the the rest. There is a tremendous amount of universe that we will never be able to see or measure because light or anything else will never ever reach us. It's just that far away. There are serious theories that what lies beyond may be very exotic, including different physical laws that allow for things such as single ultra-massive objects (or at least gravitation sources) that may be as large as the visible universe itself. Another popular theory is that there is a point in such far reaching space where our universe comes into physical contact with other universes that also serve as extreme attractive forces, there are indications in the cosmic microwave background that this is true. Although there is a lot of back and forth as to whether or not the phenomenon is real (appears it most likely is), the presence of the Dark flow is an indicator that something bizarre is out there.
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Why? For situations just like this.
An Western European led research vessel gets stuck in the ice. A Chinese ice breaker comes to the rescue. The Chinese ice breaker gets stuck in the ice. A Russian ice breaker with an international crew comes to the rescue. The Russian ice breaker gets stuck in the Ice. Now we have a US Coast Guard ice breaker on the way to save the day. The moral of the story? When you subtract nasty international politics from the equation, we really can get along.
I didn't read the summary or the article, but I'm pretty sure that it explicitly stated that yes it is in fact an alien pipe.
Now.
When the request for parts comes in, or on the bill of sale for that matter, I wonder if it says "Lockheed Martin". Or if they use another company to purchase the parts. It's not like the Chinese are building engines and navigation systems for the F-35. If they don't know what the parts are for, this might not be so bad. If they do know, that is bad. Of course, now that it's a story on the internet, I suppose the cat's out of the bag anyway - which I am not comfortable with.
And if so I hope they either:
a. Admit it.
b. Deny it then get caught lying about it.
Either way the fallout would be both spectacular and likely productive from a citizen standpoint. If either a or b happens and it gets swept under the rug, then at least we can be certain that the United States is no longer run by the United States government. Sometimes I wonder if I will one day be answering the question, "Where were you when the Constitution and Bill of Rights were permanently suspended?"
For once I can say it and it's actually probably true: you must be new around here!
It's: News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters - not, Science and Technology News for Nerds, Nothing else Matters.
Political discussions are plenty nerdy and they matter. With that said, I am a nerd and to me this matters. You must also consider the livelihood of Slashdot itself. An article like this can get 500+ comments, a pop-sci article gets 100 - 200 comments, ultra-pure hard-core science stories top off at 50 comments. Slashdot needs a balance and by your story posting logic, this place would be a ghost town. Get over yourself.
Researches Using Hubble Telescope Confirm Exoplanet Has Clouds
Would have made more sense. There is a dangling something or other in there.
Researches confirm exoplanet has telescope.
Setting aside the fact that this statement makes no sense, I suspect it was crafted around using the term "walled garden" in a misguided effort to establish nerd street cred. Mission failed.
Out of all of the CLI based software the submitter could have chosen, the selection demonstrates that they are neither a power user or a programmer.
Holy fuck. Seriously? What I am supposed to run my CLI based software in to begin with. Never mind everything else about a shell that runs deep.
The bullet points caught my eyes first, I knew right away it was going to be bad, but this? This article making the front page is an insult to the majority of Slashdot's user base and an affront to our intellect and skill sets. Also, it reads like it was written by a second-grader.
The government should quietly work to have 1984 banned from schools. It will make the rest of the transition all the more less resistive.
Slashdot has finally found a way to force people to read the article before posting.
In all seriousness, it's nice to see new approaches to the problem of creating a fusion reaction that produces more usable energy than it consumes. Between the National Ignition Facility (which unfortunately was largely but not entirely dedicated to military research at the first sign of success), going massive with ITER, and this piston powered approach, I believe we will one day get there. We may try and fail and try and fail, but ultimately there is no stopping humanity.
I am responding to the relatedly footnote so no, this is not off topic.
I think one reason SSDs are not going to become cheaper than HD's anytime soon is because the price on hard drives is plummeting partly in response to the more slowly lowering price on SSDs - it's just the competitive nature of the industry, even if that means sometimes companies are competing with themselves. I can get a 1 terabyte 7,200 RPM hard drive for $50 bucks, or I can get a Sandisk Extreme 2 120GB SSD for $100. I was recently faced that decision and went with the SSD. The performance is too much to pass up. Plus I already have a fast as a hard drive can get 500GB hard drive. Depending on what you put on which drive, it really is the best solution.
A lot of these devices are older and not even sold anymore. There are also a lot already on the street. If Apple really wants these evil patent infringing devices off of the street, then they should offer an official free trade in program. Perhaps at least people with the older phones would take advantage, and then only if it doesn't reset their upgrade cycle.
I would like to see a thorough scan of that guys brain compared to an average brain. It appears he is only looking at the next piece while remembering everything that came before it and their positions.
Still, there must be an upper limit to what it can handle, I would be curious to see what that limit is.
Tetris, by nature, would prove most interesting. I myself never made it past level 10, and I've never seen anyone make it past level 20. I wonder what the breaking point for this neural net would be after a few days of practice. I would love to see a video of it starting from level one and making it's way to the insanity of level 50 - if it's up to the task. I imagine a super computer would have too much latency.
I'm going to have to argue this, as it depends on the user. In 2005 I made the switch from 9 years of Linux to full-time OSX. While it is true that I took full advantage of the GUI interface features and used a lot of (really great) OSX only software, due to my background in Linux, I spent over 50% of my time in a terminal or running Open Source software in X Windows (yes, OS X comes with X) In that respect I took full advantage of it as a robust BSD system. If you want to call OSX out as being different from all the other "Unixen" your going to have to go a step further and point out how very different Linux is from FreeBSD - and they are very different. A Unix based system is a Unix based system. There is nothing more complicated about it. Also, since I used OSX for all of it's Unixy goodness, recently transitioning back to Linux and FreeBSD full time was painless, especially since Open Source software has caught up so much.
China is in a strange place right now in their development. On the one hand, they have fully embraced the digital revolution. On the other hand they are in many respects where the United States was at from the mid-1800's through the early twentieth century industrial revolution where we had even more elite vs. little guy than we do now by far. 10 years olds working 12+hour days in textile sweatshops, railroad building as virtual slavery. A substantial amount of the greatness and luxury that we have now in the United States was built on a foundation of the blood, sweat, and tears of these downtrodden people that were badly abused, and taken advantage of and not cared for with basic needs like sanitation and clean water. Make no mistake about it: China will surpass these problems and catch up... fast.
As a PR rep she can talk shit both ways in whatever context and at whatever grade level. It doesn't make her tweet darkly sympathetic with an ironic twist. It just mean she is adept at talking shit. The fact that she did it at all demonstrates she is only vacantly aware in heart and mind. Kind of like what a sociopaths sense of humor would be like if they had one.
I'm only arguing that she is not as smart as you think and nothing else related to the overall discussion.
Just because they are spooks doesn't make them competent.
If it's not fear of NSA snooping, it's the occasional revelation that an enterprise class router has a simple root level access username and password hard coded into it, or it's a near perfect knock-off from China with who knows what going on. The question is: were we ever able to trust commercial routers? The answer is no.
The day the American people become so many, organized, and outraged that the United States military (likely the Guard) is ordered to open fire on US citizens, your revolution will start. It will not matter whether they follow the order or not. If things don't get better and the power of the people continues to slip, I believe it's entirely possible that will happen.
The experience factor may very well be true. I have had the opportunity to spend real quality time with their new OS and it really is top notch work. While the Android and iOS converts are out there, they are far and few between - but this lack of uptake has nothing to do with the quality of the product, which as I said is great. I myself as someone who is waiting for an alternative to my Android or iOS (MS, yeah right - tried that too) had great hope that this would bring BB back. The only thing stopping me is that I am far from convinced that BB will be around long enough to see this product cycle through. What is stopping a lot of people from considering the new BBs is the fully justified fear that they will end up with an unsupported device.
Some have suggested that there may be trillions of galaxies in the universe at it's not a notion to be laughed at. There is the visible universe, and then there is the the rest. There is a tremendous amount of universe that we will never be able to see or measure because light or anything else will never ever reach us. It's just that far away. There are serious theories that what lies beyond may be very exotic, including different physical laws that allow for things such as single ultra-massive objects (or at least gravitation sources) that may be as large as the visible universe itself. Another popular theory is that there is a point in such far reaching space where our universe comes into physical contact with other universes that also serve as extreme attractive forces, there are indications in the cosmic microwave background that this is true. Although there is a lot of back and forth as to whether or not the phenomenon is real (appears it most likely is), the presence of the Dark flow is an indicator that something bizarre is out there.