First of all, I'm not sure why this is "news for nerds" As I noted somewhere above, it is news for nerds because it helps pay the bills at Slashdot. Political stories generate more page hits than your average Microsoft bash, or vaporware story, or the other usual stuff.
It is also important, for the marketing folks, to have an idea of what the site's readers policitcal leanings are. This helps the article selection process be more accurate by selecting articles that will generate either a lot of 'me too' comments or a lot of enraged counter commentary.
This reminds me I need to re-up my subscription.
I read the political articles more for entertainment than anything else. Slashdot has a lot of high school and college age users and I find their optimism fun to read. Most of them have been paying attention to the political world only through the W years, maybe the last of Clinton's. They just aren't ready to admit to themselves that these new guys will be just like the old guys.
I actually hope Obama wins so when he signs some new **AA sponsored bill I'll get to read all the heartbroken comments. It'll be like the Google articles, only with more page hits.
Taking up screen space is my biggest complaint about the UI for MSOffice 2007. I prefer the layout and such, but the inability to customize icon sizes and empty space and such is annoying. A lot like the Sidebar in Vista, from the little I've used it it seems to be fixed to a certain spot on the screen with fixed widget sizes.
I do prefer ribbonish UIs over menu bars though. I'd like to see more apps get on the bandwagon so some refinement can happen. Something as simple as making all of the panels quick to hide/unhide, like Adobe Lightroom, would be a big step forward. Once I get into the body of some report I'm writing in a word processor I'd like to be able to get all of the tools out of my way and concentrate on what I'm typing. The menu bar UI has less visual clutter than a ribbon UI in this situation, but a few small improvement could fix that.
And a less cartoonish icon set would be nice too.
And Ubuntu: why is the app named "OpenOffice Spreadsheet" in the Applications menu, but "OpenOffice Calc" when it opens? If all the OO apps weren't that way I'd think my launchers were screwed up.
It is often the case that transformers are kept apart from all other components And that appears to have been the case here. Had you read the article, or even the unusually accurate headline, you would know that the 9,000 servers were 'dropped' rather than 'blown apart'. They are still physically with us, they are just dropped from service because they don't have any power because the power supply blew up.
Further, the 9,000 servers were physically, geographically, isolated enough from the power supply (which is what exploded) to be protected. We know this to be the case because we read the article and headline and understood them and they indicate that the 9,000 servers were not blown up.
To put it another way, only the power supply was damaged by the explosion, the servers were not. Probably there was no way to isolate the power from its own explosion. The servers, however, we protected.
So, in summary, the 9,000 servers were not blown up. Only the power.
The power is off due to the explosion but there servers themselves are A-OK.
Since when did the monetary cost of a crime determine its punishment? Since Babylon? An eye for an eye and such. Or more directly, fines could be levied that were determined "according to the enormity of the offence".
We had that when I was going through basic in the Marine Corps, although I don't remember if it carried the 2000 tag. I was told it had been around since the 70s so it may have been upgraded recently.
A DoD contractor I worked for last year was doing some training for a group of Rangers. One of them told me they've used ShooterReady in part of their training.
Many of the photos taken during the early Apollo missions were shot with hand held Hasselblad cameras. On the first moon landing Armstrong took a fairly well known shot of Aldrin on the surface. As far as I know all our manned missions since have had Hasselblad on board.
These are more pleasing to the eye than what is being transmitted from the Phoenix lance but a little less scientifically useful. They are also limited to missions that will return, since the film has to be developed.
A good portion of the gear used now shoots photos in stereo so objects can be more accurately scaled and located. And B&W only sensors can be made more accurate in that regard than color (a quick look at any decent graphic explanation of one will illustrate why). As previous posts have noted, filters can be used to determine color.
people care more about whether they can buy the next cool thing You compared China and the US, and although I don't think any given post has to completely encompass a person's entire realm of thought on a given subject, it should be noted that the same thing applies to most governor->governed relationships not just in modern times but all throughout history.
Bread and circuses. The stuff works, and it has been refined over the course of many years. Maybe one day you tell people that they have to follow your rules so they can have life after death and the next day you dangle their credit score in front of them, but the process is the same.
Although you are trolling, or should be anyway, under most of the ISP contract terms I've read (which is maybe a half dozen) there are provisions for breach of contract that involve paying early termination fees. And this is for ISP that require contracts rather than just a Terms of Service. Appealing termination fees usually involve arbitration rather than traditional courts, so you are being a bit dramatic.
I live in a rural area that is not serviced by cable or DSL. At my studio I have a WildBlue satellite connection that is whizz fast broadband by the local dial up standards. I run an open WAP. I get a lot of farmers who pull up to use it, the UPS guy, the mail lady, every so often even an actual person who wants to actually pay me for a print. None of these people live in my parking lot and I believe most of them subscribe to one ISP or another at home, so no one is missing out on any revenue.
Am I in violation of your ethical standards with regard to theft from ISPs?
Thats the thing, nearly all of us are in the US so we have no idea what US censored sites to point you to because we can't see them either because we are in the US with you.
Probably there is this whole other internet out there, full of porno more depraved than you can imagine, and we can't get at it.
I don't recall the company names, but lately I've been finding that a lot of places advertising 'Free Wi-Fi' restrict access to 'partner' sites. To receive unfettered access to the tubes you have to pay.
A couple of months ago I tried to connect through a Starbucks and took away that impression, but they could be pay all the way now.
There was a time when the pretty much any pro-war babbling got a pass. A person could insult the entire population of France and no one called them a halfwit.
But that time is mostly passed. What I think the military needs is the opposite of what this story claims they are doing. They need someone to stand up and say that the purpose of the Army and Navy and Marines is to fight. If we are sent off somewhere we are going to fight whomever we find there and a lot of people will be killed, so think long and hard about who you put in charge of us. Codifying this stuff does no one any good. Yeah yeah, building schools is great but please remember we blew up the building that was there before it.
We USians paid a lot of money for the military we have, some of us even served in it. We should be proud that it can repel all boarders. If it has to hire PR people to manipulate the TV it is because the Commander in Chief is a shitheel.
My experience leads me to believe that you are unusual among vegans, or even among people who are fashionably vegetarian for some short period of time.
For many of your dietary bretheren giving up the opportunity to sit in coffee shop wearing pantaloons and blurt out pseudo facts about how meat eaters are killing themselves and the planet and all the animals would be too much to bear. I think they would continue to oppose in vitro meat just to preserve that pastime.
7 or 8 years ago a person would have to work a lot harder than this, and be a lot more subtle, to get this many serious replies with a troll. A consequence of the anti-trolling measures implemented with Slashcode is that the readership here has become much less Adequate at spotting trolls in the first place.
And to expand on it, much of the stuff you think of as 'yours' is not, it is theirs.
If you decide not to pay your income tax, or your property tax if you live in a state with one, you will find our very quickly how right they are. They will come for their money and if they have to sell your shit to get they'll be happy to do it. If they have to bring along someone with a rifle they'll do that as well.
Most state governments and certainly the IRS can levy a tax against a person for any reason, or no reason at all. Options for addressing a wrongful levy are limited and require strict attention to narrow windows of time. In the case of the IRS there are 2 courts in the land that can lift a wrongfully levied tax and if you happen to miss a 90 day period to request that the only way they will even hear your case is if you first pay the full amount of the tax along with any penalties and interest.
You could have the most airtight case against the IRS that anyone has ever seen and until you pay them, no one can do anything. And the penalty against the IRS for a completely invented levy? Absolutely nothing.
And I'm a white guy who was born in Africa and is now an American citizen. I have no problem referring to myself as African-American just to see the look on a person's face. Or being called white, or telling American born blacks who refer to themselves as African-Americans that they aren't 'African' enough.
I don't know that I've vocalized it but I've often wondered where the white women were at when I walked into a bar.
I have a Hasselblad (and I scan large format film) and I'm not overly concerned either.
I tend to find that the people who think they neee to process loads of images quickly are the biggest Photoshop speed freaks. Some guy who shoots 5000 RAWs at a wedding and wants to set up a print stand at the reception.
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It is also important, for the marketing folks, to have an idea of what the site's readers policitcal leanings are. This helps the article selection process be more accurate by selecting articles that will generate either a lot of 'me too' comments or a lot of enraged counter commentary.
This reminds me I need to re-up my subscription.
I read the political articles more for entertainment than anything else. Slashdot has a lot of high school and college age users and I find their optimism fun to read. Most of them have been paying attention to the political world only through the W years, maybe the last of Clinton's. They just aren't ready to admit to themselves that these new guys will be just like the old guys.
I actually hope Obama wins so when he signs some new **AA sponsored bill I'll get to read all the heartbroken comments. It'll be like the Google articles, only with more page hits.
More directly, policitical stories always generate a lot of page hits. They also afford an opportunity to study the site's demographics on the sly.
Taking up screen space is my biggest complaint about the UI for MSOffice 2007. I prefer the layout and such, but the inability to customize icon sizes and empty space and such is annoying. A lot like the Sidebar in Vista, from the little I've used it it seems to be fixed to a certain spot on the screen with fixed widget sizes.
I do prefer ribbonish UIs over menu bars though. I'd like to see more apps get on the bandwagon so some refinement can happen. Something as simple as making all of the panels quick to hide/unhide, like Adobe Lightroom, would be a big step forward. Once I get into the body of some report I'm writing in a word processor I'd like to be able to get all of the tools out of my way and concentrate on what I'm typing. The menu bar UI has less visual clutter than a ribbon UI in this situation, but a few small improvement could fix that.
And a less cartoonish icon set would be nice too.
And Ubuntu: why is the app named "OpenOffice Spreadsheet" in the Applications menu, but "OpenOffice Calc" when it opens? If all the OO apps weren't that way I'd think my launchers were screwed up.
Further, the 9,000 servers were physically, geographically, isolated enough from the power supply (which is what exploded) to be protected. We know this to be the case because we read the article and headline and understood them and they indicate that the 9,000 servers were not blown up.
To put it another way, only the power supply was damaged by the explosion, the servers were not. Probably there was no way to isolate the power from its own explosion. The servers, however, we protected.
So, in summary, the 9,000 servers were not blown up. Only the power.
The power is off due to the explosion but there servers themselves are A-OK.
Probably less traditional explosion and more Arc Flash.
Buy 2 of these and tape them together?
Yes, but what we don't have is 8GB Micro SD card vendors paying from front page Slashdot ads.
We had that when I was going through basic in the Marine Corps, although I don't remember if it carried the 2000 tag. I was told it had been around since the 70s so it may have been upgraded recently.
A DoD contractor I worked for last year was doing some training for a group of Rangers. One of them told me they've used ShooterReady in part of their training.
Many of the photos taken during the early Apollo missions were shot with hand held Hasselblad cameras. On the first moon landing Armstrong took a fairly well known shot of Aldrin on the surface. As far as I know all our manned missions since have had Hasselblad on board.
These are more pleasing to the eye than what is being transmitted from the Phoenix lance but a little less scientifically useful. They are also limited to missions that will return, since the film has to be developed.
A good portion of the gear used now shoots photos in stereo so objects can be more accurately scaled and located. And B&W only sensors can be made more accurate in that regard than color (a quick look at any decent graphic explanation of one will illustrate why). As previous posts have noted, filters can be used to determine color.
Bread and circuses. The stuff works, and it has been refined over the course of many years. Maybe one day you tell people that they have to follow your rules so they can have life after death and the next day you dangle their credit score in front of them, but the process is the same.
Shut up, do your work, and you get to buy stuff.
So which media player do you wish people would buy, and what features put it ahead of an iPod?
Although you are trolling, or should be anyway, under most of the ISP contract terms I've read (which is maybe a half dozen) there are provisions for breach of contract that involve paying early termination fees. And this is for ISP that require contracts rather than just a Terms of Service. Appealing termination fees usually involve arbitration rather than traditional courts, so you are being a bit dramatic.
I live in a rural area that is not serviced by cable or DSL. At my studio I have a WildBlue satellite connection that is whizz fast broadband by the local dial up standards. I run an open WAP. I get a lot of farmers who pull up to use it, the UPS guy, the mail lady, every so often even an actual person who wants to actually pay me for a print. None of these people live in my parking lot and I believe most of them subscribe to one ISP or another at home, so no one is missing out on any revenue.
Am I in violation of your ethical standards with regard to theft from ISPs?
And, judging by the daily updates, Iron Man has purchased quite a few front page promos.
This is a refreshing change from Apple's iPhone stories, and the ones the Ruby people bought.
Thats the thing, nearly all of us are in the US so we have no idea what US censored sites to point you to because we can't see them either because we are in the US with you.
Probably there is this whole other internet out there, full of porno more depraved than you can imagine, and we can't get at it.
I don't recall the company names, but lately I've been finding that a lot of places advertising 'Free Wi-Fi' restrict access to 'partner' sites. To receive unfettered access to the tubes you have to pay.
A couple of months ago I tried to connect through a Starbucks and took away that impression, but they could be pay all the way now.
I have no idea how many strangers know my phone number, but all my friends have it and I suspect most of them know I have an iPhone.
And I'm sure AT&T sees thousands of the same user agent running through their hotspots at any given time.
Insurance companies (in the US at least) having been doing this type of thing since shortly after 9/11.
Prior to paying a claim they have to check the recipient against a list of people associated with terrorism. The fine for a violation is 7 figures.
and the Air Force too, just because you can't see them doesn't mean you can stiff them on Slashdot.
There was a time when the pretty much any pro-war babbling got a pass. A person could insult the entire population of France and no one called them a halfwit.
But that time is mostly passed. What I think the military needs is the opposite of what this story claims they are doing. They need someone to stand up and say that the purpose of the Army and Navy and Marines is to fight. If we are sent off somewhere we are going to fight whomever we find there and a lot of people will be killed, so think long and hard about who you put in charge of us. Codifying this stuff does no one any good. Yeah yeah, building schools is great but please remember we blew up the building that was there before it.
We USians paid a lot of money for the military we have, some of us even served in it. We should be proud that it can repel all boarders. If it has to hire PR people to manipulate the TV it is because the Commander in Chief is a shitheel.
My experience leads me to believe that you are unusual among vegans, or even among people who are fashionably vegetarian for some short period of time.
For many of your dietary bretheren giving up the opportunity to sit in coffee shop wearing pantaloons and blurt out pseudo facts about how meat eaters are killing themselves and the planet and all the animals would be too much to bear. I think they would continue to oppose in vitro meat just to preserve that pastime.
7 or 8 years ago a person would have to work a lot harder than this, and be a lot more subtle, to get this many serious replies with a troll. A consequence of the anti-trolling measures implemented with Slashcode is that the readership here has become much less Adequate at spotting trolls in the first place.
And they are right.
And to expand on it, much of the stuff you think of as 'yours' is not, it is theirs.
If you decide not to pay your income tax, or your property tax if you live in a state with one, you will find our very quickly how right they are. They will come for their money and if they have to sell your shit to get they'll be happy to do it. If they have to bring along someone with a rifle they'll do that as well.
Most state governments and certainly the IRS can levy a tax against a person for any reason, or no reason at all. Options for addressing a wrongful levy are limited and require strict attention to narrow windows of time. In the case of the IRS there are 2 courts in the land that can lift a wrongfully levied tax and if you happen to miss a 90 day period to request that the only way they will even hear your case is if you first pay the full amount of the tax along with any penalties and interest.
You could have the most airtight case against the IRS that anyone has ever seen and until you pay them, no one can do anything. And the penalty against the IRS for a completely invented levy? Absolutely nothing.
And I'm a white guy who was born in Africa and is now an American citizen. I have no problem referring to myself as African-American just to see the look on a person's face. Or being called white, or telling American born blacks who refer to themselves as African-Americans that they aren't 'African' enough.
I don't know that I've vocalized it but I've often wondered where the white women were at when I walked into a bar.
I have a Hasselblad (and I scan large format film) and I'm not overly concerned either. I tend to find that the people who think they neee to process loads of images quickly are the biggest Photoshop speed freaks. Some guy who shoots 5000 RAWs at a wedding and wants to set up a print stand at the reception.