Comment Re:European Probes (Score 1) 104
We have GPS on Mars? I like the cafe idea, American probes are so anal.
We have GPS on Mars? I like the cafe idea, American probes are so anal.
I do not embrace change for its own sake, but I am genuinely surprised how much emotion some folks show every time Slashdot makes a change. I do not see how the new look breaks the discussion and moderation system. I am replying to a post, and I see rankings like Informative and Offtopic. It looks different, but that does not mean it has been broken.
I do have a comment. The wide column to the right is great for hosting side-bar issues, but these end long before a typical discussion thread, resulting in a significant amount of wasted screen space.
Back in the stone age when I ran a lot of FreeBSD -- say 4.x days -- there was a preference for installing ports instead of packages. The reason given was that compiling source on the target system provided maximum compatibility. Has the FreeBSD community shifted any, in favor of using packages (pre-compiled binaries)? Does the package installer pull in dependencies, and update them as needed, the way portupgrade does?
I would go back even further. Pre-WWII cars had large displacement motors that produced far more power than could be put to use on dirt roads and the fragile tires of the day. I agree with the point that the move from the 1.5L formula in 67 brought faster speeds, exactly why the change was made. Lotus introduced wings; the FIA did more to ban them than encourage their use.
Ah, yes. Grad school, Saturday night, Old Milwaukee beer and Papa Del's Pizza. Lot's of both. Ice on the sidewalk. Exploding bodies going nowhere fast.
Try to get a Republican to understand how formaldehyde and ammonia are essential to the creation of life. Go ahead, I'll stand over here and watch.
A new MMORPG?
...just let them pirate. Obviously I would like people to pay for books because that’s how I make my living, but I’d rather have piracy that leads back to a culture of literacy which leads back to more people buying books in the future. But people who are living on R2 000 a month are not going to spend R200 on a book.
"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity." - Oscar Wilde