literalusername's comments

I read this and thought, "At long last, Lenovo has realized that they've destroyed ThinkPad keyboards in recent years, and now they're celebrating the ThinkPad's return to its stature as the world's greatest programmer's laptop by restoring the Ctrl key to its traditional position!"

No. No, no, no, that would not be what they have done.

[0] http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/thinkp... o_0

https://github.com/kristoffer-marshall/XScreensaver-RFID-Unl...

Anyone who may be logged on to multiple TTYs should prefer `vlock -an` over `xscreensaver-command --lock`.

I wonder where the author got the idea that the [-] button at the top-left was a close icon. It was the "Control Box", a menu icon. AFAIK it's still there, just invisible -- hit alt+space to open it.

Disclaimer: I'm currently unable to test that.

"Caltrans employees and U.S. contractors who supervised the job lived fulltime in Shanghai, and top officials flew there often. Tony Anziano, toll bridge program manager, alone spent more than $300,000 on travel.

"Part of that cost was for Anziano’s room at the five-star JW Marriott Shanghai Tomorrow Square for up to $470 per night, according to his expense reports."

The travel costs are an obscene waste of American tax dollars. Moreover, the fact that so many tax dollars were paid to a foreign company is offensive. Even if that company was at all competent, it shows a disregard for the American economy. For a project that puts American lives at risk, a demonstrated concern for the wellbeing of Americans is rather important.

    “Are you happy with the $15 wage?” I asked the full-time cleaning
    lady.

    “It sounds good, but it’s not good,” the woman said.

    “Why?” I asked.

    “I lost my 401k, health insurance, paid holiday, and vacation,”
    she responded. “No more free food,” she added.

    The hotel used to feed her. Now, she has to bring her own food.
    Also, no overtime, she said. She used to work extra hours and
    received overtime pay.

    What else? I asked.

    “I have to pay for parking,” she said.

    I then asked the part-time waitress, who was part of 
    the catering staff.

    “Yes, I’ve got $15 an hour, but all my tips are now much less,”
    she said. Before the new wage law was implemented, her hourly
    wage was $7. But her tips added to more than $15 an hour. Yes,
    she used to receive free food and parking. Now, she has to
    bring her own food and pay for parking.

The cartoon characters strike me as misguided though. Their target demographic is not children.

I normally use Webster's 1913 from the command line, since I usually have a terminal in front of me. I keep this in my .zshrc:

    function dict () {
        if [[ $1 == (d|m) ]]; then
                curl dict://dict.org/$1:$2 | $PAGER
        else
            echo 'Unknown command. Use (d)efine or (m)atch.'
        fi
    }

Such a league would appear unplayable or non-fun to those players who abide by the traditional rule-set. So it's important to segregate players by skill-range. I wouldn't have much fun trying to play football against cyborgs, but I'd love to watch them compete against each other.

Pro sports leagues are run by technophobes who don't even want to run lasers down the field to augment the referees' abilities, so we won't see cyborg sports any time soon. But online games are hardly run by technophobes, so we ought to see more and more of this insightful approach.

All games should accept that players choose their own level of rule conformance. Place players in competitions based on their skill level, and and the games will be playable and fun for everyone.

Care to elaborate? I thought tel stores no more than phonebook data. How could you use it to serve a web app?