Comment Re:Peak 3d printer (Score 2) 177
Looks like we've hit peak 3d printer
If we hit peak 3d printer articles then that'd be a good result.
MakerBot Lays Off 20 Percent of Its Employees 177
Jason Koebler writes MakerBot fired roughly 20 percent of its staff Friday. Figures from 2014 placed the company's ranks at 500, meaning the cuts could equate to roughly 100 employees. The orders came from new CEO Jonathan Jaglom, Motherboard was told. Employees are apparently being led out of the company's Brooklyn office by security today. "It's about 20 percent of staff," a MakerBot representative, who asked not to be identified because she had not received approval to speak to the press, told Motherboard. "Everyone suspected that something would be coming with the new CEO, and that there would be restructuring coming."
Comment Re:Calm down about the screenshot in TFA (Score 1) 64
But with a right-click you can switch to the greatest-ever rendition of the classic KDE Menu
Joe Sixpack & Granny Cookiebaker aren't going to do that.
Comment Re:Ouhhh, that hurts! (Score 1) 64
Back in the days of Redhat 7, wasn't KDE good and gnome crap? I'll have to dust off that old machine that I use as a footrest and see what's on it.
Comment Re:Ouhhh, that hurts! (Score 1) 64
When support for XP ended I tried various flavours of Kali linux plus most of the "spice rack". KDE wouldn't let me change anything, for some unknown reason, and most of the others were pretty restrictive in one way or another. I did keep brief notes, but I can't find them right now.
In the end I went with mate; it works by default pretty much like gnome 2, which I was used to from CentOS 5 & 6.
Comment Re:Royal Mail - Doing it in London years ago (Score 1) 117
If you were using the sewers you'd presumably need some kind of submarine. There's also the minor problem of it getting totally covered in shite to contend with.
Comment Confucius say ... (Score 1) 192
My enemy's enemy is not my friend.
See also: Hitler, Stalin.
Comment Re: Why do people dislike systemd so much? (Score 2) 229
Maintaining init spaghetti scripts is no fun, not easy either.
Been a while since I had to do it, but I don't recall it being that hard. I did have to look at a book.
But that's not the point. If systemd was just an init system and nothing but an init system, so help it God, people could either take it or leave it. They'd have the choice, one way or the other.
The problem is that when it has dependencies on your window manager, microwave & healthcare plan you can't simply unplug it and replace it with something else.
Comment Re:Wow. Just wow. (Score 1) 325
I always thought the choice of name was stupid, given that it was already in use for something else. The fact that you linked to the wrong one hasn't convinced me otherwise.
Having found and read the correct article, I think the name is the least of its problems.
Anyone here applied for job requiring it, only to find they meant the other one? And did HR even notice?
Comment I remember this guy (Score 1) 26
Wasn't he in "Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!" and "Man vs. Nature: The Road to Victory"?
Comment Yo dawg ... (Score 1) 85
This is a selfselfie. Or a selfie 2.0, if you prefer.
Comment Re:Self powered camera or array of solar cells? (Score 1) 85
You sound like a grumpy old man.
To hipsters, all non-hipsters do.
Comment Re:Wow, an array of photovoltaic cells. (Score 1) 85
The surface of the cylindrical part, however, is available.
You mean the bit that, in the old days, used to have textured rubber on so you could twist it to focus?
I thought light doesn't go through that bit.
A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest Person Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen 313
merbs writes: After losing a long battle with brain cancer, 2-year-old Matheryn Naovaratpong became the first minor ever to be cryogenically frozen. This article is the story of how a Thai girl was frozen in Bangkok and shipped to Arizona to have her brain preserved in liquid nitrogen, while medical science works on a cure. "Typically we’d move the head from the trunk of the body. We didn't know what their reaction would be from the family, the mortuary, from border officials; this has to go through a number of shipping venues, customs, the TSA and so on. To see a frozen head in a box might have raised a number of red flags. In the U.S. that’s not a big deal, but there, they may not be accustomed."
Comment Re:Wow. Just wow. (Score 5, Funny) 325
Testing is what those square old mainframe daddies - the ones who witter on about aida and cowbell and 4tran - do.
It's not agile.
