How so? His claims that "We could call notch out and prove that he's a total incompetent in a bunch of areas but we want to be nice to him" manages to deeply insult notch without actually making any technical claims…
The way the author posted the picture (used in a much earlier Euclideon article talking about how badly polygon engines render complex organic shapes) of a polygon tree and a PHOTOGRAPH of a real tree and passed it off…
Good in principle, but largely pointless in the real world. Someone with enough motivation to learn to program but no money for professional books is just going to torrent them.
American here. I get it too. In fact I get a login page on every single NY Times article that gets posted on HN. Seeing that five times a day when I expect to be seeing an interesting article is making me loathe the New…
Seven major releases and yet there's not one single compelling reason for me to stop using 3.6. Mozilla can get back to me when it un-cripples the interface.
I like wolfram but except for a few circumstances it isn't the fastest way of doing anything, for me. It doesn't make the connection that if it has to throw away 90% of the input because it doesn't understand it, then…
Back in the PDA days, there wasn't any switching involved. When you pulled the device out of your pocket or off your hip, you popped the stylus out. Maybe you'd put it back if you were reading an ebook or watching a…
The article was good, but it got a couple of things wrong. Fingers work perfectly well on resistive screens, even better than they do on capacitive ones which having gloves on doesn't matter. The reason styli were…
All real-world probabilities are like that, though. Outside the quantum world, ALL randomness is just an illusion based on human ignorance of current conditions.
Handmade knives are for people with more money than sense. If you actually USE knives in the field, then you know that the best knives are made by people who came up with brilliant designs and techniques and used them…
Good. I'm sick of paying for the same thing over, and over, and over. 1. Government taxes me. Some of that tax money funds research. 2. That research is published in a journal, which I have to pay (exorbitantly) for. 3.…
Let me get this straight. I buy a phone. Carrier locks my phone, that I bought, to restrict me from doing certain things, many of which the carrier wants me to pay an extra fee for, all of which are actually built into…
Bill Gates? Bah, how can this be relevant when we've seen tribute pages from only two of the three children Steve Jobs bought lemonade from last summer?
Exactly. Reading that whole page of specialized economic arguments while they ignore the major fact brings to mind the image of The Coneheads debating why people don't drive cars with their feet to leave their hands…
Are there really people that walk around with their phone GPS switched on all day? Security concerns aside, what a drain on battery life that must be.
How long did you spend staring at your screen in slackjawed disbelief after selecting the zoom tool and finding that instead of zooming out, right-clicking does nothing?
Modern smartphones aren't so good at it either. Think of the last time you just wanted to listen to the audio from a video file while you browsed the internet.
I am an irregular Linux user and am not deeply involved in the Ubuntu community, but over the past several months I have seen the general attitude of "random geeks" change dramatically with regards to Ubuntu. A year ago…
Agreed. Unless it's supported by a legal framework, racism is a self-defeating phenomenon. Racist individuals deprive themselves of the benefits offered by the group toward which they are racist, therefore making…
Except that kottke didn't say anything at all about Stallman's ethics, position on software, or the FSF. He just said it was ridiculous for him to put two paragraphs about parrots in his rider. Simple as that.
It is a very common flaw in reasoning that one party assumes that the opposition disagrees because they are scared or secretly agree. Atheists are all secretly christians, homophobes are all secretly gay, liberals are…
Having read only the stonehenge page and not the full slashdot article, I don't even have to be metaphorical when I ask what kind of pathetic, alarmist, lilly-livered school district would call the police over anything…
Know what would be a heck of a lot closer? A Clie TH55. http://reviews.cnet.com/sc/30733801-2-440-front-2.gif
There's already an international symbol for touchscreens: fingerprints.
The lower the understanding of the average user, the less variety there is in a given product category. Desktops came in all shapes and sizes, until everybody bought one and suddenly they were all beige boxes. If you've…
How so? His claims that "We could call notch out and prove that he's a total incompetent in a bunch of areas but we want to be nice to him" manages to deeply insult notch without actually making any technical claims…
The way the author posted the picture (used in a much earlier Euclideon article talking about how badly polygon engines render complex organic shapes) of a polygon tree and a PHOTOGRAPH of a real tree and passed it off…
Good in principle, but largely pointless in the real world. Someone with enough motivation to learn to program but no money for professional books is just going to torrent them.
American here. I get it too. In fact I get a login page on every single NY Times article that gets posted on HN. Seeing that five times a day when I expect to be seeing an interesting article is making me loathe the New…
Seven major releases and yet there's not one single compelling reason for me to stop using 3.6. Mozilla can get back to me when it un-cripples the interface.
I like wolfram but except for a few circumstances it isn't the fastest way of doing anything, for me. It doesn't make the connection that if it has to throw away 90% of the input because it doesn't understand it, then…
Back in the PDA days, there wasn't any switching involved. When you pulled the device out of your pocket or off your hip, you popped the stylus out. Maybe you'd put it back if you were reading an ebook or watching a…
The article was good, but it got a couple of things wrong. Fingers work perfectly well on resistive screens, even better than they do on capacitive ones which having gloves on doesn't matter. The reason styli were…
All real-world probabilities are like that, though. Outside the quantum world, ALL randomness is just an illusion based on human ignorance of current conditions.
Handmade knives are for people with more money than sense. If you actually USE knives in the field, then you know that the best knives are made by people who came up with brilliant designs and techniques and used them…
Good. I'm sick of paying for the same thing over, and over, and over. 1. Government taxes me. Some of that tax money funds research. 2. That research is published in a journal, which I have to pay (exorbitantly) for. 3.…
Let me get this straight. I buy a phone. Carrier locks my phone, that I bought, to restrict me from doing certain things, many of which the carrier wants me to pay an extra fee for, all of which are actually built into…
Bill Gates? Bah, how can this be relevant when we've seen tribute pages from only two of the three children Steve Jobs bought lemonade from last summer?
Exactly. Reading that whole page of specialized economic arguments while they ignore the major fact brings to mind the image of The Coneheads debating why people don't drive cars with their feet to leave their hands…
Are there really people that walk around with their phone GPS switched on all day? Security concerns aside, what a drain on battery life that must be.
How long did you spend staring at your screen in slackjawed disbelief after selecting the zoom tool and finding that instead of zooming out, right-clicking does nothing?
Modern smartphones aren't so good at it either. Think of the last time you just wanted to listen to the audio from a video file while you browsed the internet.
I am an irregular Linux user and am not deeply involved in the Ubuntu community, but over the past several months I have seen the general attitude of "random geeks" change dramatically with regards to Ubuntu. A year ago…
Agreed. Unless it's supported by a legal framework, racism is a self-defeating phenomenon. Racist individuals deprive themselves of the benefits offered by the group toward which they are racist, therefore making…
Except that kottke didn't say anything at all about Stallman's ethics, position on software, or the FSF. He just said it was ridiculous for him to put two paragraphs about parrots in his rider. Simple as that.
It is a very common flaw in reasoning that one party assumes that the opposition disagrees because they are scared or secretly agree. Atheists are all secretly christians, homophobes are all secretly gay, liberals are…
Having read only the stonehenge page and not the full slashdot article, I don't even have to be metaphorical when I ask what kind of pathetic, alarmist, lilly-livered school district would call the police over anything…
Know what would be a heck of a lot closer? A Clie TH55. http://reviews.cnet.com/sc/30733801-2-440-front-2.gif
There's already an international symbol for touchscreens: fingerprints.
The lower the understanding of the average user, the less variety there is in a given product category. Desktops came in all shapes and sizes, until everybody bought one and suddenly they were all beige boxes. If you've…