Comment Re:In a word, DON'T (Score 1) 118
Everything people do is something of a Faustian bargain. That's the whole point of the story.
The moral is to be wise and strive to choose incontrovertible good as the target of all your actions...
Everything people do is something of a Faustian bargain. That's the whole point of the story.
The moral is to be wise and strive to choose incontrovertible good as the target of all your actions...
Hmmm... robots
I see the Dice-a-matic automated headline generator is beginning to learn how to assemble the component parts of a Slashdot-centric clickbait story with minimal intelligent oversight.
On the downside, the human editors will soon be replaced by robots.
On the upside, Timothy & Soulseek will soon be replaced by robots.
Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation? Fluoridation of water?
... time to download all the interesting DoD sites, data, and documentation I've bookmarked over the years. Probably the rest of the government stuff (e.g. USDA) too, while I'm at it...
Confirmation bias. Asimov didn't write stories about the billions of robots who didn't jump their programming rails and cause problems, because that would've been boring.
Most of the ones he wrote about, with only a few exceptions (admittedly the most famous e.g. Daneel, Giskard, Andrew Martin, etc) were experimental or otherwise non-standard models.
Exactly, The evol libertarians are destroying americans with all their small government and individual freedoms
FTFY.
"So someone gets a slashvertisment on the front page and the first thing Slashdot can do is take the piss of his his foreign name."
FTFY.
SMD (If you can solder DIL & through hole parts you can solder SOIC & 1206 surface mount) would make that thing 1/3 of the size, allow you to have 3 (e.g. red, yellow, & green) or more LEDs, and might make it worth the asking price.
Or, for the same price or less, you could build a USB 2x16 or 2x20 LCD display.
Subscription TV is delivered by satellite in virtually all areas of Australia, save for small sections of urban Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
And Perth.
I only add this becase there's a whackjob on one of the Australian tech forums who - despite living in Perth himself, repeatedly being presented with lists of suburbs that are cabled, and provided with first-hand information from customers connected to it - likes to claim there's no Foxtel cable in Perth.
He's such a whackjob that he's likely to use your comment as a citiation to support his claim in one of his forum posts - or, worse, one of his frequent submissions to the regulator ACMA.
"But the protest was allowed
"Allowed? I eventually had to go across town to find it!"
"That's the free-speech zone"
"I had to walk!"
"Ah, well, the buses were probably out"
"So were the taxis"
"But, look, you found the protest didn't you?"
"Yes, yes I did. It was in a fenced off park stuck in the middle of a derelict industrial area with a sign on the fence saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."
The USB licencing agreement mandates that, for a product with an A or B cable to be USB-compliant, the USB trident logo must be on the upper face of the plug (i.e. the side opposite the contacts).
You'd be surprised how many major manufacturers are shipping devices with cables that have the trident logo on the other side and, strictly speaking at least, can't be called USB. WD & Logitech are just the first two examples that come to mind.
(The other old-wive's tale / rule of thumb - that the "up" face of an A plug is the one without the seam - works until you find one of the many plugs that has the seam on the "up" side...)
But yes, the current mini/micro/fucked-up-bastard-son-of-USB-with-a-conjoined-foetus-on-the-side connecters are stupidly flimsy.
This was a solved problem with the original telco 1/4" plugs - the tip (and rings on more complicated versions) were narrower than the sleeve, and the insulating rings between segments had high shoulders. The design made it impossible to short the plug when jacking in/out (although you could still short a live plug tip to a live socket sleeve e.g. when plugging one piece of powered equipment into another separately-powered piece of equipment - later socket designs solved this problem too).
This basic common-sense feature was forgotton somewhere along the evolutionary line between the telco versions & the familiar consumer 1/4", 3.5mm, & 2.5mm versions. But the telco versions continued to have the sensible design (at least right up until at least the 80's).
But anyone who designs a device using a live consumer-style phone plug for power deserves all the warranty & incidental damages claims they'll inevitably get...
[See, this is kinda what I meant] when I said you don't need an oscilloscope anymore.
And, if you only consider the tiny sub-set of 'electronics' that is 'dicking around writing software for pre-built toys', you were right.
Fortunately, real electronics engineers and technicians are designing and building those toys for you. And, even more fortunately, they know when oscilloscopes are still useful.
Dude, it doesn't count as a slashvertisement unless it's mentioned in an article approved by an 'editor'.
In order of increasing difficulty, it goes
Almost any fool can mention their own app in a comment...
Posted by timothy on Fri Nov 15, '13 10:04 PM
Go figure. I would accuse Dice of firing the editors and replacing them with ESL wage slaves but that would probably be an improvement.
It was posted 9:34AM Saturday, Indian time.
Just sayin'...
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