Since when did Slashdot start doing real journalism?

Bootstrap: CSS made simple!

It makes a lot more sense if you interpret "simple" to mean "generic".

Well, there's one big object will all of the functions in it.

That's OO right?

I guess I don't mind because I think I spent weeks getting Wing Commander Privateer to run on my computer from with a floppy with custom config.sys & autoexe.bat files. There were others, but Privateer was the one I remember the most frustration with.

This. I remember a group of 3 of us sitting over a 486 fiddling with config.sys and autoexec.bat files for hours on end. Adding and removing HIMEM.SYS, EMM386. Rearranging the order things were loaded to squeeze the last bit of memory out of the machine.

It was like that scene in Apollo 13. But with snacks.

Ah right, well I'm with you on that one.

I never liked the woman but I still find comments along the lines of "at last, shes gone!" a bit strange since - as you say - she's been irrelevant for a long time not to mention incapacitated by Alzheimers. She was 'gone' when she lost power. I guess we can recognise the end of her as a living political icon (both positive and negative) but that's just paving the way for even more mythologising of who she was.

North Korea is far more interesting, I'll grant you that.

Top quote so far from John Major: "She made the wind".

Ah right, I get you. I didn't realise the folder support might not be there - it would probably cause more trouble than it's worth pulling individual folders separately and trying to remove duplications (multiple-tagged). Since they've apparently already copied over the All Mail folder for all their users you're right that the simplest fix would be pull the Trash and remove anything that is in there from the user's accounts.

Seems like the sort of thing you'd test before migrating all your live user accounts.

What does Yvonne Lee, Community Manager at Dice.com think about all this?

Haven't heard from her in a while.

I was a bit surprised to see it here too - but find it hard to believe you can't see it being newsworthy "anywhere". Not even in the UK?

Would you really prefer another story about Bitcoins?

Can't see her without seeing the Spitting Image puppet of her. Enjoy.

"When those bills come rolling in; we're gonna throw them in the bin.

Maggie! Out!
Maggie! Out!
Maggie, Maggie, Maggie!
Out! Out! Out!"

I was at an anti-Poll Tax march with my mum, at the tender age of 9. Seems like an age away now.

Surely they could just opt to sync every folder except the "[Gmail]/All Mail" folder. Doing that, and syncing [Gmail]/Trash to the Yahoo! deleted mail equivalent would sort it all out.

I think you're right though. Sounds like the people handling the migration just aren't very familiar with the Google IMAP interface.

Huh? That's the correct way to pronounce Linux.

Well I never... Everyone I've ever heard saying it in person has pronounced it 'Lyenux' but even Wikipedia now lists 'Linnux' as the correct pronunciation (I didn't edit it. Honest).

For many, many years, Linux was only spoken about on-line, and if you actually ran across a conversation in real life, it was in some sort of deep-tech/troubleshooting capacity.

Which has rather unfortunately left me pronouncing it 'Linnux' in my head and having to consciously translate it whenever I say it out loud.

I had a similar experience in primary school computer club where I pronounced 'data' da-ta. Oh, how everyone laughed. I hid in a cupboard.

Kids can be so cruel.

Isn't this whole article a bit of a strawman? When discussion open government people are - in my experience at least - more commonly referring to improved representation, accountability, and a role in policy making. This article (unless I've misunderstood) is instead arguing against open-as-in-free-enterprise. Which yes, I think is a pretty daft approach to governance.

What I would like to see (personal soapbox; feel free to skip) is an approach to voting that allows for delegation of particular 'voting powers' to different individuals (e.g. a local representative, a public figure) with the option to reserve the self-same to yourself - with the associated obligation to actually vote in a given debate. Debates would still be held, televised, videoconferenced, etc. and voting on legislation would happen as it does (although more likely remotely). Yet, we get finer control of our vote on issues of particular interest. While the disinterested can still nominate someone else to vote on their behalf.

Put that online, make it all web2.0 with voting records on issues/breakdown. There you have it: Open governance (* at least more open and immune to lobbying that it currently is).

I've wondered about this before, maybe someone more enlightened on the physics can clear it up.

If you add shock absorbers (I'm hypothetically imagining a giant spring mechanism to keep it simple). As the fusion reaction provides forward force, the spring will compress absorbing the impact and lessening the discomfort for the crew module. Then it un-compresses releasing the energy.

But half that energy is going back in the direction of the fusion reaction (assuming it's a short-lived pop). Aren't you losing half your efficiency to dampen the impact? Is there an alternative?

...Doh!!!