Xenomai is already a threat to VxWorks as it supports the VxWorks API as well as its Native API, POSIX, uITRON and a few other RTOS API's. The current version is a dual kernel system with the Xenomai kernel running at priority but the next version will integrate with PREEMPT_RT which will expose its supported API's to PREEMPT_RT so you can run either kind of system.
The reason is simple: most managers don't have a clue about IT. To them the financial success of MS and its ubiquitous products mean that they are the best. It also gives them accountability, if something goes wrong. Who do you pass the blame to when something breaks? They love to call vendors or contractors and scream at them to fix something. With OSS there is no one to scream at and who the fuck is the apache foundation anyway, some kinda hippie native american powwow? To them open source is unprofessional because there isn't a guy in a suit with billions in the bank to prove its success. They live in a different world where success is measured by money and status. OSS eschews that mentality and is looked down upon because of it.
My manager once told me that he wished MS made all of the software we needed: ERP, CRM, CAD/CAM etc. He just liked how everything was tied together and interoperated. Another thing that annoyed me was once our router crapped out, a Netgear business router with VPN and dual WAN ports. I quickly hacked together a router using PFsense and a bunch of NIC's in an older P4 desktop which worked out quite nicely. My manager saw the setup and didn't like it. Why? Because how can a computer be a router? He just couldn't get his head around it and called in our IT contractor who installed another shitty Netgear router. Even fucked up my secure automation network that was isolated from the other networks and the separate wifi network. When things broke and he asked me why I told him to call the contractor and complain to them because they broke the system I had installed. Nothing was done because as doing so would admit that he was stupid. Thankfully he no longer works for us and I relieved myself of most IT duties.
The generator is quite costly. A 12kW Kubota diesel genset costs around $8000. Instead of a Diesel engine, they are using a spark ignition engine which probably costs just as much as they are built using the same block as the diesel.
Remember when we could vote articles up or down (http://web.archive.org/web/20100612085708/http://slashdot.org/)? If tonights updates brings us to that fucking god awful beta site permanently with no option to keep classic/. then I'm done. The only exception would be if they unfuck the comment system and get rid of that emaciated layout.
Its wishful thinking if you think expensive parts will stop stupidity. If you are in an accident and a body panel costs ten grand who eats the cost? Why the insurance companies of course. The idiot driver doesn't have to worry about his ten grand door panel. In most states in the US you are required to have insurance except for Wisconsin and New Hampshire but they have stipulations regarding being able to pay for damages if you are at fault. So you are still left with shit drivers because the insurance company is a buffer to the high costs.
"I was quoted $2500 to have fixed at three separate places, so I decided the dent might make the car look ghetto and be a detente for would be thieves."
They don't want your car to drive around and look good in, they bring it to chop shops. The chop shops strip the car of all of its valuable parts and sell them to other service stations/body shops or launder then through distributors. The money is in the parts, not the appearance. That dent wont do shit to deter a crackhead car thief desperate for a fix. They get a few hundred bucks and the chop shop makes thousands off the parts. The only two reasons a car is stolen to drive around in is to move a dead body or move a large amount of drugs. The car is always torched afterwards to remove evidence. And its not like they are driving for a week its usually: steal car - immediately move the stuff FAST - torch the car. If you think it sounds far fetched consider a friend who had his car stolen with his kids christmas presents hidden in the back. At first it was obvious why the car was stolen: the christmas presents. But the car was found a week later, torched, with the remains of the presents inside. Nothing was removed and the cops said those two reasons are why cars are stolen and quickly torched.
And this brings us back to part one. If the car parts are ridiculously expensive, than cars are more valuable to car thieves. So you made a bad problem worse.
Plan 9 failed simply because it fell short of being a compelling enough improvement on Unix to displace its ancestor. Compared to Plan 9, Unix creaks and clanks and has obvious rust spots, but it gets the job done well enough to hold its position. There is a lesson here for ambitious system architects: the most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough. â"Eric S. Raymond[3]
The problem is not so much the connector but cheap shitty connectors that don't have a snug fit and lack proper latches. Connector design is an interesting field and one article I recently read was by one of the developers of Firewire: http://teener.com/what-is-firewire.html#Why_the_4-pin_connector_sucks. Summary: They purposely designed the connector so that the retention mechanism in on the plug. The reason is simple: if the plug no longer holds, throw the cable out. If the socket wears out, then what? Throw the appliance out?
Micro USB puts the retention on the plug, those two little spring tabs. Good idea, a poorly holding plug can be tossed. Standard USB did the opposite and put the retention spring tabs inside the socket, stupid. I am sure everyone out there has faced laptops with loose USB sockets.
Poorly made micro USB plugs can also damage the socket by allowing the connector to shift and place force on the blade cracking it or even deforming the housing. Better quality cables with name brands (like Belkin) have always held snug and not given me problems. Cheap car chargers however have always been a problem and Is why I choose to use a quality 12V to USB socket and buy a quality cable. People can also charge their Apple gear if they their wire on them.
"So, when I said "it was time for America to have a president who didn't grow up white," I meant it was time for someone who has other experiences in this world than all of the white candidates would have. It was time for a new perspective. This doesn't simply boil down to skin color, or I would have voted for Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton years ago."
Maybe you should have simply stated "It was time to vote for a person who did not grow up privileged and connected by wealth"
Its a softcore for an FPGA so you can get as sloppy as you want. Doesnt work? Debug, compile and re-load the bitfile into the FPGA. Then optimize in places that need it. I doubt this is going to make its way into an ASIC unless the design can compete with other embedded IP like the Mali or PowerVR. If you read the article they say specifically they will change the interface from PCI to another bus: "generic interface as well as AXI, Avalon and Wishbone". AXI, Avalon and Wishbone are embedded busses for on chip interconnects in ASICS and FPGA's (wishbone is opensource from opencores). However, the FPGA SoCs that are out there are quite capable little chips with embedded SoCs but no graphics which leaves a lot of opportunity. The Xilinx Zynq and the Altera SoCs both feature dual core ARM cpu's with their interconnect directly wired to dedicated FPGA I/O creating a bunch of dedicated AXI interfaces. In the case of the Zynq, you have 8 high speed multi gigabit transceivers to implement PCIe, HDMI, DVI or Displayport or whatever and a bunch of GPIO. So you can develop an open source GPU which is tied directly to the CPU bus and tie its outputs directly to an HDMI port and off to a monitor.
Also, how does needing beyond hobbyist PCB design software make this any more of a challenge? OrCAD isn't going to break the bank if you are working with a million dollar pledge. Also, you can do a lot of design work in the basic tools like KiCAD or Eagle (though Eagle is more comprehensive.)
The Gameduino is for the game developer and not the gamer. Gamers aren't going to run out and buy an arduino along with a gameduino and play a game. Working in a memory and CPU constrained programming environment challenges the developer to be more efficient and optimize code. Whereas with a PC, Android or iOS system you have plenty of RAM, storage and graphics capability so you can be pretty sloppy in your code and get away with it.
To be honest rent control is the only thing keeping some buildings sane and affordable for all to live there. My brother lives in a rent controlled building on the south side of prospect park, a block away. Its a nice secure building and the rent for a single bedroom apartment is $1200 and a two bedroom is $2000. The apartments are HUGE and to me the $1200 makes it well worth the cost. The bedroom is so big he can fit both his girlfriends computer desk along with his computer desk, a 46" TV, a proper dresser, queen size bed and plenty of room to walk around. My house doesn't even have bedrooms that big. The building is well cared for, clean, has elevators, features RF keycard access control as well as a 24/7 manned guard booth. It is also supposedly the first building Donald Trump ever owned.
Contrast that to the previous apartment he had in Astoria without rent control. The stairwell smelled like a public restroom, was poorly lit and painted the color of puke and some of the steps were loose creating a slip hazard. The heat barely worked and the washroom dryers would melt your clothes. No security and the apartments were refurbished in a real shoddy manner, eg cheap cabinets, snap together flooring and a thousandth coat of cheap paint. Then add to that they were charging $1550 for a "two bedroom" that was a 5th floor walkup with no elevator. The claustrophobic bedrooms were so small a queens size bed wouldn't fit in one room and the other slightly larger room was too small to fit a queen size bed and a bureau at the same time. His rent controlled apartments living room is the same size as that entire shitty apartment. He only had a one year lease and they were going to hike his rent up another hundred dollars a month to $1650 if he renewed. A shit hole for $1650 with no benefits, fuck that and he left.
Then chop em down. We had a huge maple in our yard about 8 feet from the house. At first it was nice and gave the house plenty of shade. But it grew too big, twice the height of the house. I used to be able to see it from the roof of my my old job about a mile away. After a wind storm a few years ago it ripped the roof up causing leaks and it was time to go. We quickly had the tree reduced to firewood and the roof replaced, cost was 13k total. We also have another towering giant, a nice oak tree which thankfully is quite far from the house.
The only downside is the attic now gets really hot which propagates to the bedrooms below. Another benefit is the roof now has 100% southern exposure allowing us to install solar.
Maybe program then with the John Cleese character Basil Fawlty so I can be bombarded with a barrage of sarcastic insults about my eating and fashion habits.
I am tired of this stupid argument to use horses. A machine is way easier to deal with and can be completely autonomous. Fuel wise a horse may be able to get by on as little as 15 lbs a day when hanging around a pasture. When working a horse needs about 25-35 lbs http://www.horsebarn.com/content/horse-care/how-much-horse-eat-daily.aspx. Gasoline isn't light either and a 5kw generator will suck down 30lbs of gasoline in about 6 hours. But then engine is on demand and will not use fuel when "resting". The big advantage is the fact that unlike a horse, you don't have the emotional attachments that go along with a living creature. If the horse breaks a leg then its game over http://animal.discovery.com/mammals/broken-leg-horse.htm. Many horses with broken legs are put down simply because the healing process is costly and takes a long time. Even if they are healed they are not able to go back to work and will live their lives out in a pasture or used for light riding. If a robot breaks down it can be repaired or abandoned without anyone shedding a tear or having animal rights groups protest using animals in the field. Another big advantage is unlike a horse, they don't need training and the soldiers who use them won't need training either. They can sit idle for days/weeks/months/years without feeding or care. Unpack, push the power button and give it coordinates or let it follow a group of soldiers. Simple. That is what the military wants.
In the short term these robots might be costly but in the long run they are quite cheap compared to horses and much more simple to use.
Nudes can ruin you. I had a friend who was in a situation where his GF at one point needed cash and thought it a good idea to pose naked for big naturals, a big tit porn site. He told me first in confidence but eventually everyone found out. He stayed with her for about three years and he almost proposed to her but in the end it didn't work out and he left her. One of the biggest worries he had was "what if I married her and our kids friends or classmates find those pictures?" The entire family would be disgraced. Plus I even think one of his then coworkers found her pictures.
So those nudes can easily ruin a girls life and scare off potential boyfriends or ruin relationships.
Most commercial hydrogen is produced by steam reforming natural gas, not electrolysis.
They key to a hydrogen economy (Ugh, buzzword/phrase) isn't the production of hydrogen but its storage. 3000 PSI (20.68Mpa) cylinders aren't appealing to safety advocates or consumers and other forms of storage haven't panned out. Plus the energy needed to compress hydrogen to high pressures begins to make the overall process much less efficient. Without a method to densely store hydrogen safely, effectively and efficiently, liquid fuels (including liquefied gas) will remain the preferred choice.
Yea! There should be a Mir or Wayland logo up there instead.
Though I do agree with your sentiment, X drivers for Linux and BSD are the primary audience. Sure it could help ReactOS, Illumos and Haiku developers but Linux is the main focus and BSD probably second. Windows and MacOS don't need open drivers, they are closed systems (okay OSX is somewhat open) using closed drivers.
Thank you. Wow, what a trip down memory lane. I started reading around 99 or 2000 and registered sometime around 2001 or 2002 just managing to get a 5 digit uid, 288 uids from 100,000, cutting it close. I liked the old xxxx bytes in body count as well as the beta tagging system. Man the hilarious and often vulgar tags made me crack up every time. Then it was cleaned up and now the tags are largely ignored by me.
What is interesting is how the original 97-98 main page was as narrow as the beta site. Even back then Rob Malda knew it was a shit design.
Just use Xubuntu then. Since ubuntu 11.something I have liked the interface less and less. Then that unity/gnome 3.0 mess came about and I switched to XFCE until Mate brought back the good ol days of Gnome 2.
Firewire was dead from the beginning. Apple held onto the Firewire trademark and there was a per device charge of twenty five cents (!394 cards, cameras, cable boxes, PC's or motherboards etc.). USB was inferior in many ways but was royalty free, almost as fast and available on every motherboard. After USB 2.0 came out, it was over for 1394.
I just hope Thunderbolt doesn't make the same mistake as it is a good replacement for 1394 and has plenty of bandwidth, even for video cards.
I can't even remember the 2001 design. Is there a page showing the evolution of the/. page? I didn't even notice (And I can't remember) the last update that pissed people off.
Please let us keep the old design if we wish. The new design is annoyingly narrow and looks ridiculous on large desktop monitors (the kind used by most/.'ers when we post from work, you know that time of day dedicated to/. and sometimes work.) The new design is passable as a mobile site for phones and tablets though when I browse on my tablet, I request the desktop site and read in landscape mode like god intended. I still use the old comment system layout as well. It works and is easy to read.
*Warning* Cranky, veteran/.'er rant: To be frank: it looks like a shitty blog. This is what your masters at Dice think is hip and cool? They can go fuck themselves along with everyone on the design team circle jerking each other in meetings while patting themselves on the back for doing such a "good job"../ is one of the few sites that I care to read as its uncluttered, organized and lacking in flashy bullshit that bring nothing to the table but cheap glitter. We don't need giant pictures the width of the emaciated layout to go with each article either. This isn't kindergarten where we need a picture book, we are adults looking for information. Take for example this pile of shit: http://tech-beta.slashdot.org/story/13/10/01/1521222/the-next-big-fiber-showdown-austin What the fuck is the point that picture? Please someone tell me what the FUCK this picture of someone jumping into a pool has to do with google fiber? It does NOTHING besides waste screen real estate and bandwidth. It doesn't catch my eye, it irritates it. Even the ads on the beta site appear larger and more intrusive even though they aren't simply because everything is smashed together. In summation: Fuck the new design up its ass with a creosote soaked telephone pole wrapped in barbed wire and covered in rusty nails - SIDEWAYS.
Whew! Sorry bout that but I am tired of ohhh lets make it shiny! yay! web 2.0 bullshit.
VT > NH. Just keep away from the towns bordering NY and MA and you avoid all the yuppy pussies. No concealed carry permits necessary, class 3 transfers (any gun built up until 1986 including large machine guns such as the M60 and M2.). Plenty of freedoms in VT along with plenty of land.
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Xenomai is already a threat to VxWorks as it supports the VxWorks API as well as its Native API, POSIX, uITRON and a few other RTOS API's. The current version is a dual kernel system with the Xenomai kernel running at priority but the next version will integrate with PREEMPT_RT which will expose its supported API's to PREEMPT_RT so you can run either kind of system.
...and managers don't know any better.
The reason is simple: most managers don't have a clue about IT. To them the financial success of MS and its ubiquitous products mean that they are the best. It also gives them accountability, if something goes wrong. Who do you pass the blame to when something breaks? They love to call vendors or contractors and scream at them to fix something. With OSS there is no one to scream at and who the fuck is the apache foundation anyway, some kinda hippie native american powwow? To them open source is unprofessional because there isn't a guy in a suit with billions in the bank to prove its success. They live in a different world where success is measured by money and status. OSS eschews that mentality and is looked down upon because of it.
My manager once told me that he wished MS made all of the software we needed: ERP, CRM, CAD/CAM etc. He just liked how everything was tied together and interoperated. Another thing that annoyed me was once our router crapped out, a Netgear business router with VPN and dual WAN ports. I quickly hacked together a router using PFsense and a bunch of NIC's in an older P4 desktop which worked out quite nicely. My manager saw the setup and didn't like it. Why? Because how can a computer be a router? He just couldn't get his head around it and called in our IT contractor who installed another shitty Netgear router. Even fucked up my secure automation network that was isolated from the other networks and the separate wifi network. When things broke and he asked me why I told him to call the contractor and complain to them because they broke the system I had installed. Nothing was done because as doing so would admit that he was stupid. Thankfully he no longer works for us and I relieved myself of most IT duties.
The generator is quite costly. A 12kW Kubota diesel genset costs around $8000. Instead of a Diesel engine, they are using a spark ignition engine which probably costs just as much as they are built using the same block as the diesel.
Remember when we could vote articles up or down (http://web.archive.org/web/20100612085708/http://slashdot.org/)? If tonights updates brings us to that fucking god awful beta site permanently with no option to keep classic /. then I'm done. The only exception would be if they unfuck the comment system and get rid of that emaciated layout.
Its wishful thinking if you think expensive parts will stop stupidity. If you are in an accident and a body panel costs ten grand who eats the cost? Why the insurance companies of course. The idiot driver doesn't have to worry about his ten grand door panel. In most states in the US you are required to have insurance except for Wisconsin and New Hampshire but they have stipulations regarding being able to pay for damages if you are at fault. So you are still left with shit drivers because the insurance company is a buffer to the high costs.
"I was quoted $2500 to have fixed at three separate places, so I decided the dent might make the car look ghetto and be a detente for would be thieves."
They don't want your car to drive around and look good in, they bring it to chop shops. The chop shops strip the car of all of its valuable parts and sell them to other service stations/body shops or launder then through distributors. The money is in the parts, not the appearance. That dent wont do shit to deter a crackhead car thief desperate for a fix. They get a few hundred bucks and the chop shop makes thousands off the parts. The only two reasons a car is stolen to drive around in is to move a dead body or move a large amount of drugs. The car is always torched afterwards to remove evidence. And its not like they are driving for a week its usually: steal car - immediately move the stuff FAST - torch the car. If you think it sounds far fetched consider a friend who had his car stolen with his kids christmas presents hidden in the back. At first it was obvious why the car was stolen: the christmas presents. But the car was found a week later, torched, with the remains of the presents inside. Nothing was removed and the cops said those two reasons are why cars are stolen and quickly torched.
And this brings us back to part one. If the car parts are ridiculously expensive, than cars are more valuable to car thieves. So you made a bad problem worse.
Plan 9 failed simply because it fell short of being a compelling enough improvement on Unix to displace its ancestor. Compared to Plan 9, Unix creaks and clanks and has obvious rust spots, but it gets the job done well enough to hold its position. There is a lesson here for ambitious system architects: the most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough.
â"Eric S. Raymond[3]
Maybe he was an MST3K fan and had a fondness for the invention exchange.
The problem is not so much the connector but cheap shitty connectors that don't have a snug fit and lack proper latches. Connector design is an interesting field and one article I recently read was by one of the developers of Firewire: http://teener.com/what-is-firewire.html#Why_the_4-pin_connector_sucks. Summary: They purposely designed the connector so that the retention mechanism in on the plug. The reason is simple: if the plug no longer holds, throw the cable out. If the socket wears out, then what? Throw the appliance out?
Micro USB puts the retention on the plug, those two little spring tabs. Good idea, a poorly holding plug can be tossed. Standard USB did the opposite and put the retention spring tabs inside the socket, stupid. I am sure everyone out there has faced laptops with loose USB sockets.
Poorly made micro USB plugs can also damage the socket by allowing the connector to shift and place force on the blade cracking it or even deforming the housing. Better quality cables with name brands (like Belkin) have always held snug and not given me problems. Cheap car chargers however have always been a problem and Is why I choose to use a quality 12V to USB socket and buy a quality cable. People can also charge their Apple gear if they their wire on them.
"So, when I said "it was time for America to have a president who didn't grow up white," I meant it was time for someone who has other experiences in this world than all of the white candidates would have. It was time for a new perspective. This doesn't simply boil down to skin color, or I would have voted for Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton years ago."
Maybe you should have simply stated "It was time to vote for a person who did not grow up privileged and connected by wealth"
Its a softcore for an FPGA so you can get as sloppy as you want. Doesnt work? Debug, compile and re-load the bitfile into the FPGA. Then optimize in places that need it. I doubt this is going to make its way into an ASIC unless the design can compete with other embedded IP like the Mali or PowerVR. If you read the article they say specifically they will change the interface from PCI to another bus: "generic interface as well as AXI, Avalon and Wishbone". AXI, Avalon and Wishbone are embedded busses for on chip interconnects in ASICS and FPGA's (wishbone is opensource from opencores). However, the FPGA SoCs that are out there are quite capable little chips with embedded SoCs but no graphics which leaves a lot of opportunity. The Xilinx Zynq and the Altera SoCs both feature dual core ARM cpu's with their interconnect directly wired to dedicated FPGA I/O creating a bunch of dedicated AXI interfaces. In the case of the Zynq, you have 8 high speed multi gigabit transceivers to implement PCIe, HDMI, DVI or Displayport or whatever and a bunch of GPIO. So you can develop an open source GPU which is tied directly to the CPU bus and tie its outputs directly to an HDMI port and off to a monitor.
Also, how does needing beyond hobbyist PCB design software make this any more of a challenge? OrCAD isn't going to break the bank if you are working with a million dollar pledge. Also, you can do a lot of design work in the basic tools like KiCAD or Eagle (though Eagle is more comprehensive.)
The Gameduino is for the game developer and not the gamer. Gamers aren't going to run out and buy an arduino along with a gameduino and play a game. Working in a memory and CPU constrained programming environment challenges the developer to be more efficient and optimize code. Whereas with a PC, Android or iOS system you have plenty of RAM, storage and graphics capability so you can be pretty sloppy in your code and get away with it.
To be honest rent control is the only thing keeping some buildings sane and affordable for all to live there. My brother lives in a rent controlled building on the south side of prospect park, a block away. Its a nice secure building and the rent for a single bedroom apartment is $1200 and a two bedroom is $2000. The apartments are HUGE and to me the $1200 makes it well worth the cost. The bedroom is so big he can fit both his girlfriends computer desk along with his computer desk, a 46" TV, a proper dresser, queen size bed and plenty of room to walk around. My house doesn't even have bedrooms that big. The building is well cared for, clean, has elevators, features RF keycard access control as well as a 24/7 manned guard booth. It is also supposedly the first building Donald Trump ever owned.
Contrast that to the previous apartment he had in Astoria without rent control. The stairwell smelled like a public restroom, was poorly lit and painted the color of puke and some of the steps were loose creating a slip hazard. The heat barely worked and the washroom dryers would melt your clothes. No security and the apartments were refurbished in a real shoddy manner, eg cheap cabinets, snap together flooring and a thousandth coat of cheap paint. Then add to that they were charging $1550 for a "two bedroom" that was a 5th floor walkup with no elevator. The claustrophobic bedrooms were so small a queens size bed wouldn't fit in one room and the other slightly larger room was too small to fit a queen size bed and a bureau at the same time. His rent controlled apartments living room is the same size as that entire shitty apartment. He only had a one year lease and they were going to hike his rent up another hundred dollars a month to $1650 if he renewed. A shit hole for $1650 with no benefits, fuck that and he left.
Then chop em down. We had a huge maple in our yard about 8 feet from the house. At first it was nice and gave the house plenty of shade. But it grew too big, twice the height of the house. I used to be able to see it from the roof of my my old job about a mile away. After a wind storm a few years ago it ripped the roof up causing leaks and it was time to go. We quickly had the tree reduced to firewood and the roof replaced, cost was 13k total. We also have another towering giant, a nice oak tree which thankfully is quite far from the house.
The only downside is the attic now gets really hot which propagates to the bedrooms below. Another benefit is the roof now has 100% southern exposure allowing us to install solar.
devise new kinds of home appliances
Maybe program then with the John Cleese character Basil Fawlty so I can be bombarded with a barrage of sarcastic insults about my eating and fashion habits.
I am tired of this stupid argument to use horses. A machine is way easier to deal with and can be completely autonomous. Fuel wise a horse may be able to get by on as little as 15 lbs a day when hanging around a pasture. When working a horse needs about 25-35 lbs http://www.horsebarn.com/content/horse-care/how-much-horse-eat-daily.aspx. Gasoline isn't light either and a 5kw generator will suck down 30lbs of gasoline in about 6 hours. But then engine is on demand and will not use fuel when "resting". The big advantage is the fact that unlike a horse, you don't have the emotional attachments that go along with a living creature. If the horse breaks a leg then its game over http://animal.discovery.com/mammals/broken-leg-horse.htm. Many horses with broken legs are put down simply because the healing process is costly and takes a long time. Even if they are healed they are not able to go back to work and will live their lives out in a pasture or used for light riding. If a robot breaks down it can be repaired or abandoned without anyone shedding a tear or having animal rights groups protest using animals in the field. Another big advantage is unlike a horse, they don't need training and the soldiers who use them won't need training either. They can sit idle for days/weeks/months/years without feeding or care. Unpack, push the power button and give it coordinates or let it follow a group of soldiers. Simple. That is what the military wants.
In the short term these robots might be costly but in the long run they are quite cheap compared to horses and much more simple to use.
Awesome! Now I can charge my Dell laptop using my Dell laptop. http://explodinglaptop.com/laptops.php
Nudes can ruin you. I had a friend who was in a situation where his GF at one point needed cash and thought it a good idea to pose naked for big naturals, a big tit porn site. He told me first in confidence but eventually everyone found out. He stayed with her for about three years and he almost proposed to her but in the end it didn't work out and he left her. One of the biggest worries he had was "what if I married her and our kids friends or classmates find those pictures?" The entire family would be disgraced. Plus I even think one of his then coworkers found her pictures.
So those nudes can easily ruin a girls life and scare off potential boyfriends or ruin relationships.
Most commercial hydrogen is produced by steam reforming natural gas, not electrolysis.
They key to a hydrogen economy (Ugh, buzzword/phrase) isn't the production of hydrogen but its storage. 3000 PSI (20.68Mpa) cylinders aren't appealing to safety advocates or consumers and other forms of storage haven't panned out. Plus the energy needed to compress hydrogen to high pressures begins to make the overall process much less efficient. Without a method to densely store hydrogen safely, effectively and efficiently, liquid fuels (including liquefied gas) will remain the preferred choice.
Yea! There should be a Mir or Wayland logo up there instead.
Though I do agree with your sentiment, X drivers for Linux and BSD are the primary audience. Sure it could help ReactOS, Illumos and Haiku developers but Linux is the main focus and BSD probably second. Windows and MacOS don't need open drivers, they are closed systems (okay OSX is somewhat open) using closed drivers.
Thank you. Wow, what a trip down memory lane. I started reading around 99 or 2000 and registered sometime around 2001 or 2002 just managing to get a 5 digit uid, 288 uids from 100,000, cutting it close. I liked the old xxxx bytes in body count as well as the beta tagging system. Man the hilarious and often vulgar tags made me crack up every time. Then it was cleaned up and now the tags are largely ignored by me.
What is interesting is how the original 97-98 main page was as narrow as the beta site. Even back then Rob Malda knew it was a shit design.
Just use Xubuntu then. Since ubuntu 11.something I have liked the interface less and less. Then that unity/gnome 3.0 mess came about and I switched to XFCE until Mate brought back the good ol days of Gnome 2.
Firewire was dead from the beginning. Apple held onto the Firewire trademark and there was a per device charge of twenty five cents (!394 cards, cameras, cable boxes, PC's or motherboards etc.). USB was inferior in many ways but was royalty free, almost as fast and available on every motherboard. After USB 2.0 came out, it was over for 1394.
I just hope Thunderbolt doesn't make the same mistake as it is a good replacement for 1394 and has plenty of bandwidth, even for video cards.
I can't even remember the 2001 design. Is there a page showing the evolution of the /. page? I didn't even notice (And I can't remember) the last update that pissed people off.
Please let us keep the old design if we wish. The new design is annoyingly narrow and looks ridiculous on large desktop monitors (the kind used by most /.'ers when we post from work, you know that time of day dedicated to /. and sometimes work.) The new design is passable as a mobile site for phones and tablets though when I browse on my tablet, I request the desktop site and read in landscape mode like god intended. I still use the old comment system layout as well. It works and is easy to read.
*Warning* Cranky, veteran /.'er rant: ./ is one of the few sites that I care to read as its uncluttered, organized and lacking in flashy bullshit that bring nothing to the table but cheap glitter. We don't need giant pictures the width of the emaciated layout to go with each article either. This isn't kindergarten where we need a picture book, we are adults looking for information. Take for example this pile of shit: http://tech-beta.slashdot.org/story/13/10/01/1521222/the-next-big-fiber-showdown-austin What the fuck is the point that picture? Please someone tell me what the FUCK this picture of someone jumping into a pool has to do with google fiber? It does NOTHING besides waste screen real estate and bandwidth. It doesn't catch my eye, it irritates it. Even the ads on the beta site appear larger and more intrusive even though they aren't simply because everything is smashed together. In summation: Fuck the new design up its ass with a creosote soaked telephone pole wrapped in barbed wire and covered in rusty nails - SIDEWAYS.
To be frank: it looks like a shitty blog. This is what your masters at Dice think is hip and cool? They can go fuck themselves along with everyone on the design team circle jerking each other in meetings while patting themselves on the back for doing such a "good job".
Whew! Sorry bout that but I am tired of ohhh lets make it shiny! yay! web 2.0 bullshit.
VT > NH. Just keep away from the towns bordering NY and MA and you avoid all the yuppy pussies. No concealed carry permits necessary, class 3 transfers (any gun built up until 1986 including large machine guns such as the M60 and M2.). Plenty of freedoms in VT along with plenty of land.