@MattSpeller said:

@g.jacobse https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/10622

oh,god.jeeze..dizzy now..
(slumps on floor)

Relevant - From Joy of Tech.

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@Hubtech said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Hubtech said:

I hate mlnews

How come? Is it that you dislike getting news here? You dislike having a user account dedicated to news to make it easier to filter? What aspect of MLNews do you not like?

Correct, I do not like to come here for my news that you deem relevant. not sure if you've noticed, but they dont normally get much traction. MLNews seems to post in a swarm pattern, and it's just annoying to me. now, if i could filter MLNews so it wouldn't show up in my feed, and aj, that'd be great!

Swarm pattern was addressed in another thread - it's when the site is slow and creating content for the people looking but not talking.

News gets posted here, getting it mostly posted by a single, obvious user seemed an improvement. The news won't stop, that's just how communities work. MLNews is not the only user posting new, it just makes it easier to filter out (visually.) If you look at SW, for example, they have an equivalent account (called Lee) posting news all day too.

Traction is not expected on news items, so that's no surprise. Sometimes there is a bit of traction, normally very little. But that is the expected pattern. If you look at news sites, they get little conversational traffic too. But that's because you don't tend to "talk about" news since it isn't an opinion, it's just the news.

Umm...wow...just wow....

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@Dashrender said:

I take it you don't game on your desktop then? or do much that wants processing power?

Don't "game" on my work machines and as I work in IT, I can't imagine what would take power on my desktop. Even development tasks are pretty good from a Chromebook. Only issue I've had there is that JetBrains stuff won't install there. But c9.io is a nice replacement.

Actually what gaming I do IS on that desktop. Seven year old desktop plays most of our games just fine. I only play games with the kids.

I WANT!!!

I should also point out that I attempt to do the news posting when there are lulls in the conversation, otherwise, rather than when things are busy. That way if people are looking for something happening they are more likely to find it. I try to use it to even out the traffic flow a tiny bit. Once it a while it prompts conversations at an odd hour.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Hubtech said:

@mlnews said:

ZDNet talks about the best bootable HDMI stick products. Anyone using any of these?

i've got one with windows 8 that is kinda awesome

Which one? That's pretty neat.

It was $100 from aliexpress. let's see, this is it

@scottalanmiller said:

Or, far better, that ReactOS and other projects like Wine could stop trying to rewrite the Windows code and could focus on replacing the components that Microsoft can't release. Piece by piece they could leverage the MS code to make the whole thing free. Much like the BSD projects did long ago to free UNIX from AT&T.

Well, I think you're just asking for the moon when it comes to a lot of people interested in Windows.

I'll definitely be upgrading to this new version and checking it out before I try a different flavour of Linux on it though

@scottalanmiller said:

Boy a year goes by quickly. This still feels very new. But, when I think about it, this happened mid-way through my time at the hedge fund and I started there in early October, 2013! Can't believe that it is April, 2015 already.

Yeah, this is pretty nuts that so much time has passed already...

@thecreativeone91 well it is already April and no release schedule given yet that I have seen so not likely to be anytime super soon.

The gist of the article though is that as soon as you impose tighter controls/credit terms the scammer gets flustered and runs away.

I know a few companies who run on a credit of trust, if you are brand new, you get no credit, so you start with the most restrictive terms.

If you are a known, reliable client, you get the more lenient credit terms.

The scammers balk at the terms, the cheapskates who will nickel and dime you to death decide to leave early and the genuine stay behind to do business with you.

@scottalanmiller pfffft, why bother considering that? It's not like stuff ever breaks.
 
There may have been sarcasm in there somewhere.

They have some great stuff.