Nobody assumes it's mandatory for space travellers.

Lots of people assume it's mandatory if you want to make a profit selling your space-themed video game. And they're probably right about that.

Are you switching to BSD just for ZFS?

Learning BSD is probably a good investment, but ZFS on Linux is production/stable and is excellent. I've been using on CENTOS 6 for over a year and it has been even more stable than EXT4 in a production environment.

Shoot.

Read the XP is GOD comments when stories covering eol? Mention win 7 you get moded down and the +40 year old commentors on 7 looks funny got modes up.

Yes slashdot demographic is aging

Ever have to write websites or support old java/intranet apps with +100 security exploits with the sandbox TURNED OFF?

Your opinion will change. It is a risk and hidden cost from the bone headed accountants who love stuff and fear change.

Times change

Right. I am sure IE 6 running Google Maps and Dropbox and pocket IE 6 for CE for mobile sites soo much better than on Chrome and your Android.

Go back to a non touch screen phone from 10 years ago if it's all change for the sake of change?

Seriously slashdot has become the techno phobe all change is bad from a former leading innovative site.

I bought a Dell laptop (Precision M3800) last week from the Dell business laptop dept. The sales guys assumed I'd want Win7 and the laptop (by default) comes with Win7 installed. When I asked about that, they said that it "technically included Windows 8 media" but that everybody wants one running Win7.

I find this quit interesting as Win7 has officially gone EOL. Personally, I plan on running Fedora Linux, but still....

Why? You upgrade your phone each release? Chrome too. Is your cell phone 10 years old?

  Windows 10 has a fast and slow rings. Slow is pro and upgraded every other year. Enterprise is 3 years. Running 10 year old operating systems is rediculous and puts an undue burden on Web and software developers. Internet users suffer as a result. See IE 6?

Windows 10 is designed to be upgraded via sccm and each release will be a .1 so shit won't break if rumor is true. No hell like XP to 7 migrations at all.

1. is irrelevant and wrong, the single photons have less energy, so you simply need more of them.
We have 'solar panels' for IR that are far more efficient than we have normal solar panels for visible light.

1. is irrelevant and wrong, rhe single ohotons have less energy, so you simply need more of them.
We have 'solar panels' for IR that are far more efficient than we have normal solar panels for visible light.

IMHO it is impossible to even come close to the efficinecy of a wire.
With transformation losses and heat etc. the wire is still certainly above 85% efficiency.
On the other hand, creating light is already below or at 85% efficiency and transforming it back to current with the very best 'solar cells' is at 48%. So bottom line we are minimum below 42%. That is less than half of the efficiency of a wire, without counting any further losses after the solar panel.

IE 11 you hit up or down arrow keys. Smooth as butter like a phone. Firefox mostly as smooth as its XP hooks limits hardware acceleration.

CHROME? Blip blip blip tear in image when you hit up and down. Slashdoters on Windows reading this try it? Surprised?

First Chrome had it. Then you had to go into about::flags. Now it is not even available? WTF. IE 8 in 2009 had this and Firefox in 2011. I can't even use it anymore as it feels like I am on an old computer. I hope someone from Google is reading this.

Last blink is not standard compliant. Font face, animations, and other things are not done like W3C. I have to write one site for W3C compliant browsers and one conditions for blinks way of doing things. It reminds me of IE of old

You just made a great case not to use Linux on the desktop if you use Krita and need Office 360. :-)

Web developers need to test ancient and new versions of IE as well so a VM is required anyway to test these browsers. I love virtualization on the workstation end as well. Just setup a container and go and you can have the pretty fonts XORG can not have thanks to patents and no issues with updates breaking things.

Mac OS X has no 'default tab completion'. ROFL.
Either you are running a bash, or you are not running a bash.
The OS does not matter. As long as you don't understand this simple principle you should perhaps not even considering using a shell.
I guess on your 'Mac OS', you are complaining about, your terminal is running a tcsh ... and it speaks volumes that you have not figured that yet. Should have made all yours and yous bold, but on an iPad that is a pain ...

There are various 'kinds' of memories.
Parts are 'constructed' as synaptic connections, this happens especially with physical abilities, like playing a gittar or doing sports.
Others, like mere facts, are stored as RNA ... I guess there are things in between that are stored as a combination of both.