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http://i.imgur.com/y7Hm9.jpg Seems fitting for here. ;)

http://imgur.com/WFQKn

If it was clearly presented as an option, I would agree. Alas, all too often, it is not.

[citation needed] ?

The ones I'm used to seeing are like that in Piriform's Defraggler:
http://download.piriform.com/dfsetup206.exe

Its typical flow is a little like this:
1. Select installer language
2. Welcome page. Action button: "Next"
3. EULA
4. Options (Desktop / Start Menu shortcuts, context menu entry, replace windows defrag, automatically check for updates. All checked by default)
5. FREE! Google Chrome, a faster way to browse the web. Options: Include Google Chrome (checked by default), Make Google Chrome my default browser (checked by default). Action button is now "Install". *
6. Installation progress
7. Finish page. Option: Run defraggler (Checked by default). Action button is now "Finish".

* Screenshot of step 5, which is the Google browser inclusion thing:
http://i.imgur.com/qvdhp.png

Rather, it is presented in a fashion that can only be described, charitably, as sneaky, and that is bullshit.

So I'm guessing that you wouldn't qualify the above as 'sneaky'. It's pretty darn obvious for anybody who doesn't just try pressing the 'next' button like a brainless monkey.

So what's a more sneaky example?

What a shameless load of BS.

1) "Innovative iPhone" Nokia Maemo, 2007: http://www.engadget.com/photos/nokia-n810-hands-on/#443985

2) "Innovative iPad" (yep, rounded corners, rectangular shape, large screen, it's such a hard concept...)

Seriously?

Did you even read what you linked to?

Did you look at what was sitting next to it in the review photo? Did you look at the date of the review (9-10 months after the iPhone was shown to the world, and long after rumours of an Apple phone started)? Did you bother to click as far as this link in which you can clearly see that it looks nothing like an iDevice.? As well as the slide out-keyboard and built in stand (which at least shows a bit of thinking different), it has a wide, raised bezel and an inset screen - nothing like the iPhone/iPad's totally flat glass front.

And it seems this is a standard practice at Apple, they aren't afraid of blatantly lying in ads as well: http://i.imgur.com/huWri.jpg [imgur.com]

You think that Apple grabbed a still from their Star Trek DVD, pimped it, and stuck it in their ad? Not a chance - it would look like crap (by professional typesetting standards, MPEG grabs always do - see the left-hand imgaes) and the studio wouldn't tolerate that.

Far more likely it was one of a pack of publicity stills sent out by the studio to multiple TV/computer manufacturers, retail stores, catalog firms who were in on a product placement deal, and you can bet that the 4:3 version was pimped to look good before it left the studio. Note the position of the "Star Trek" logo (again, the studios wouldn't trust licensees to do that right) - that's not a crop & zoom on a widescreen still.

So, yeah, that picture will have been pimped to hell, but not necessarily by Apple. Everything in adverts has been manipulated to look good (there will have been a "simulated image" disclaimer somewhere on the page) deal with it.

Yes, Apple have had their wrists slapped for false advertising in the past (they were banged to rights when they said the iPhone could access "all of the web" conveniently ignoring the bits that were in Flash or Java). Did anybody say they were angels?

What a shameless load of BS.

1) "Innovative iPhone"
Nokia Maemo, 2007:
http://www.engadget.com/photos/nokia-n810-hands-on/#443985

2) "Innovative iPad" (yep, rounded corners, rectangular shape, large screen, it's such a hard concept...)
StarTrek, ages ago:
http://www.inventinginteractive.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Sarah_Sisko_reconstruction.jpg
IBM, 1990
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10453664-64.html

3) "(when the sizes of the devices are given accurately elsewhere..."
Nope. They are shown at different angles. And there, where it really matters, it is blatantly photoshoped.
And it seems this is a standard practice at Apple, they aren't afraid of blatantly lying in ads as well:
http://i.imgur.com/huWri.jpg

4) "...anybody who describes merely re-sizing an image as "Photoshopping"..."
is easily understood.

They did it for their iPad Star-Trek ads: http://i.imgur.com/huWri.jpg

They probably figure if it's subtle enough, they can get away with it, but most people won't notice.

But what if he just doesn't age in either direction?

Despite what the commentards are saying here, there are plenty of pictures in that filing showing the different aspect ratios. The picture called out here (page 28) has scaled the two tablets to be the same height, though this results in the Galaxy Tab 10.0 being narrower in both the screen and total device width -- it's just not obvious unless you line them up vertically.

It just so happens that page 28 has the only full frontal that isn't at an angle. It seems whoever put this together was very careful to avoid comparisons that showed any differences. The closest we get to a picture showing how different the aspect ratio makes them appear is on page 39, even there, the angle makes it less obvious. The picture on page 28 isn't just scaled vertically, the aspect ratio of the screen is 1.5 in this doctored picture, the actual aspect ratio is 1.6. In a proper comparison the width difference is clearly evident.

Screenshot from CS:GO -- http://i.imgur.com/PMAqD.jpg

It doesn't do it all the time. Sometimes it may just be a glitch. But it happens to me in Firefox and Chrome on multiple computers in multiple countries, and it happens with random things all the time... most often more than once a day.

I was actually explaining my problem to someone else when I tried "united states weather radar" as an example and it worked. I took a screenshot that time.
http://i.imgur.com/d0wNX.png

And these four guys.

And I present the following countering evidence to the idea that real names do anything to increase civility: http://imgur.com/ub51D

Michael Jackson behaving admirably... http://i.imgur.com/Okk86.jpg

Sure there's things related to this that aren't hoaxes, but is there any reason to think this specific company isn't a hoax designed to suck up VC money with whatever crap they can cobble together?

As has been mentioned elsewhere, they've been shilling this for a long time: http://imgur.com/g0gXt

I never thought I'd have to read about My Little Pony here. Today is a sad day for me.

What do you have against the Hurd?

GNAA Endorses Construction of "Ground Zero Mosque"

Leonard K. Isler - New York, NY

New York, NY - GNAA today announced its endorsement of the
construction of the now-infamous "Ground Zero Mosque"
that is planned to be built two blocks away from the site of the September 11th
World Trade Center Zionist attacks.

The construction of the mosque community center is mainly opposed
by the Zionist hate group "Stop Islamization of America" and its Jewish
supporters, who argue that the construction of a mosque community
center would be a "victory for Islam against America".

What SIOA fails to mention is that the September 11th attacks were, in fact,
not carried out by Muslims, but by Zionist Jews. To combat this misconception,
GNAA has endorsed the construction of the mosque community center.

"Ms. Geller is a known Jewish sympathizer", explains GNAA associate Klerck,
"she is more than happy to spread these lies through fearmongering and the
exploitation of public ignorance, using this Zionist hate group as a mouthpiece.
It's not even a mosque, it's a community center. There was no other way to
combat these Zionist lies, we simply had to endorse the construction of the
community center."

"The community center is a much-needed thing in the Muslim community of New
York", explains GNAA operative Jmax, "what other location would be the ideal
place to pray for the extermination of the Jewish race five times a day?
Insha'Allah!"

Ms. Geller declined to comment in person, speaking only in a brief interview
conducted over the phone. The Jewish mouthpiece merely said "we must secure the
existence of our people and a future for white children", wiping humus from her
mouth while dining at a Bruegger's in lower Manhattan, and dialing her cell
phone with her nose.

SIOA has declined to comment on the synagogue that is planned to be built on
Ground Zero.

About Ms. Geller

Hates darkies.

About SIOA

Supporters of the inhuman ideology known as "Zionism" that
slaughtered 3,000
precious souls on September 11, 2001, and funded by the Mossad.

About Jews

Did WTC.

About GNAA:

GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first
organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one
common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?

Are you a NIGGER ?

Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!

Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy
all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.

GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing
GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of
America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join
today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNA

I really love the ergonomic excellence of this one...

"Yo. dudes, as a stopgap until you get get some sort of 3D gesture-based 'cyber-space' interface up and running, go find 6 or 8 of the l33t3st looking network monitoring programs, then run them all on a big screen at the front of the room, far enough away from all the operators that nobody can read any of the text without intense eyestrain..."

This is an overfunded government department. That huge video screen exists to look high tech, make managers feel good and justify their huge budget for next year.

If they had any sense they would buy two normal widescreens per desk and spend the savings on employing someone who can fix those nagios errors on the bottom right.

I really love the ergonomic excellence of this one...

"Yo. dudes, as a stopgap until you get get some sort of 3D gesture-based 'cyber-space' interface up and running, go find 6 or 8 of the l33t3st looking network monitoring programs, then run them all on a big screen at the front of the room, far enough away from all the operators that nobody can read any of the text without intense eyestrain..."

This corrupted organization gathered all the evidence from the seized property of suspected computer professional entertainers and utilized it over many years to conduct illegal operations with foreign intelligence agencies and oligarchy to facilitate their lust for power and money, they never used obtained evidence to really support ongoing investigations.

Also, it's nice to see that CNAIPIC subscribes to the "big useless video wall" school of command center design. (there are also diagrams of their network architecture in that album)

It's probably fine.

The list lies. I tried merging two identically named folders and I was never given the option to merge. :(

http://i.imgur.com/6PXTJ.png

http://i.imgur.com/MS85W.jpg

I'm not sure if the video is doctored or not or if it's iOS5, why would they do an experiment like this on a non-production OS? background for anon

Probably because it's the new version of the OS and that even if they introduce this feature of masking the keys completely there is still a vulnerability. Anyway it seems you're just trying to pull this article apart with whatever you can, albiet with no actual facts. First it's the keyboard (incorrect), then the password showing up (which is likely in the next OS version) and also the fact that they state in the article that you can do this over long distances where obviously the spatial position of a blue keyboard flash can be calculated even when the key could not possibly be read.

I'm not sure if the video is doctored or not or if it's iOS5, why would they do an experiment like this on a non-production OS? background for anon

No, that's not how it works. If you are observing the iPad, you can easily figure out what is typed by looking at the key that is being pressed, let me demonstrate (see the h). For some reason their iPad is not doing this :) Which is the case for the rest of their experiment.

And you are just running to the assumption that it is doctored video as opposed to say iOS5?

No, that's not how it works. If you are observing the iPad, you can easily figure out what is typed by looking at the key that is being pressed, let me demonstrate (see the h). For some reason their iPad is not doing this :) Which is the case for the rest of their experiment.

Well, yes it does, but look at this: http://i.imgur.com/WrYNa.png
There's nothing else, CPU is barely a blip on the radar when it's working, and it indexes on background, but you won't notice it even when the system is under load. It's really well optimized.

This is with almost all plugins enabled, several 1000+ file folders indexed for quick access, firefox bookmarks and opensearch plugins, gmail contacts, clipboard manager, recent file indexing, a few homebrew plugins for controlling zim and editing text (using a yad wrapper), some playlists, several favorites, etc. I also delegated all my hotkeys to kupfer so I can change DEs anytime and keep them.
Also you can do some minor automation with kupfer, such as automatically translating any text in any program, or pass such text though any script or tool you'd like, via one simple key combo.
Oh, and it also looks quite good, IMO. And you can also choose a cute ASCII icon theme.

Other launchers use more memory and CPU and offer less plugins that I can use, or require compiling code to write plugins on your own, which is doable but nowhere as convenient. That's why I choose Kupfer.

Here is a British landline phone + ADSL bill (though the ADSL isn't explicitly mentioned, it's part of the "Max Unlimited Plus Free Weekend Part II" package). It's complete, apart from the page containing two lines saying payment will be taken from my account automatically on a particular day unless I tell them not to, before some other day. The whole thing was four sides of A4.

It's a little old, as I don't have a phone line any more. We didn't use the phone much, so the call detail isn't very long, but it's still clear what each call is.
Usually, I could look at the summary by call type, see that nothing was over £1, and ignore the rest.

(I kept that one because of the £11 call to New Zealand. Up to 60 minute calls were free to NZ (and many other countries), but someone else in the student house made a 64 minute call. Normally, we were paying £14/month for phone + 8Mbit/s ADSL + unlimited UK landline calls + evening/weekend up-to-1hr international calls to western Europe, the US, NZ etc.)

Done!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFgjGaIhkUs

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Johanna Blakley gives a TED Talk about fashion's free culture where she compares it to the music and movie industries (slides here, PDF).

They say that pictures are worth a thousand words, so here's a simple chart displaying the relative gross sales of each industry.

http://i.imgur.com/uwPEt.jpg

I was thinking more along the lines of this. (It's not a fucking goatse)
But whatever.

I'm guessing you're modded Funny because - sadly - this hasn't been true of PDF in a long time now.

Even between desktop PDF readers there's now too much of a difference to even remotely be able to 'rely' on it. Even bitmaps are getting less and less reliable with applications choosing to either respect or ignore gamma tags, let alone color profile information.

As it is, I used to use FoxIt, but that started to get bloaty and including oddball toolbars. So I switched to PDF-Xchange. I'm about to switch again (Sumatra, maybe?) because PDF-Xchange takes far too long to render pages with lots of graphics. And neither FoxIt nor PDF-Xchange render vector content with anti-aliasing correctly.
http://i.imgur.com/f8udg.png
( original image source: sinfest.net . Note that left image was at 172% zoom, right image was at 150% zoom, to get the same on-screen size. wtf? )

I'm going to guess that Sumatra really won't be any much better and maybe I'll have to go back to FoxIt.
Either way, it looks like Adobe Reader will have to remain installed for when these alternatives don't quite get things right.

Going by your logic Apple clearly copied Samsung F700 which was shown to the public a whole year before the Iphone came out.

look at my screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/vJMbA.png
its a yellow bar.

90+ percent of math for U.S. citizens goes like this:

Eat 7 twinkies
plus 4 cheeseburgers
plus 3 pounds of french fries
plus 6 fried pies
and 1 super-jumbo diet soda
_______________
equals your big fat ass riding
a trolley through Wal-Mart

http://i.imgur.com/3N3v6.jpg

lawyers come up with this just to save this guy's Ass

It depends how severe it is.

Ass Burgers? http://i.imgur.com/N8Igz.jpg

If Opera users are below 200 million, it's users' fault, not Opera's. Show me any browser that can do this, and I will repeat what you say on my twitter. My browser is pumped yo! http://imgur.com/8TxLk

I have uploaded some pics of the bacteria in the Martian atmosphere:

http://i.imgur.com/WRO02.jpg [SFW - not goatse]

Enjoy.

But only to morons. Every week some Obama onion article makes the rounds on Facebook with conservatives screaming "ZOMG OBAMA IS BUILDING AN ABORTIONPLEX!!"

The Onion is almost as cynical and hysterically funny as Fox News. Almost.

nevermind here is an image: http://i.imgur.com/53QrK.gif

Problem being if YOU actually do pay attention to the sun, it's blindingly obvious that there has to be something else going on, in addition to the sun.

Reason being is that since the 1970's or so, solar output has been averaging flat-to-decreasing.
http://i.imgur.com/E2ijh.png
http://i.imgur.com/XbgJM.png

Meanwhile, if you look at the incoming sunlight, the outgoing heat, and the returning heat. It's pretty damned obvious to see that nearly all the increase in returning heat is in the wavelengths you'd expect CO2 and CH4 to block.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-co2-enhanced-greenhouse-effect-advanced.htm

How much more obvious does it need to be?

__

(And incase your sunspot headlines are still stuck in the year 2009, here's what it's currently doing)
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/sunspot.gif

Problem being if YOU actually do pay attention to the sun, it's blindingly obvious that there has to be something else going on, in addition to the sun.

Reason being is that since the 1970's or so, solar output has been averaging flat-to-decreasing.
http://i.imgur.com/E2ijh.png
http://i.imgur.com/XbgJM.png

Meanwhile, if you look at the incoming sunlight, the outgoing heat, and the returning heat. It's pretty damned obvious to see that nearly all the increase in returning heat is in the wavelengths you'd expect CO2 and CH4 to block.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-co2-enhanced-greenhouse-effect-advanced.htm

How much more obvious does it need to be?

__

(And incase your sunspot headlines are still stuck in the year 2009, here's what it's currently doing)
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/sunspot.gif

out of 3D glasses, white LEDs and an Arduino (you know, for blog cred)

People care about hockey? And enough to riot?

Different people, different worries

LOL, I thought it was going to be the only Canuck to score last night in Vancouver: Different people, different goals.

People care about hockey? And enough to riot?

Different people, different worries

LOL, I thought it was going to be the only Canuck to score last night in Vancouver: Different people, different goals.

People care about hockey? And enough to riot?

Different people, different worries

Vancouver is similar to the worst US cities before the housing bust. It costs 11 times the average income to buy the average house. This would put servicing housing debt at 72% of your gross income. There isn't much industry and therefore job prospects aren't the greatest. The average young person is likely to live in debt their entire lives if they stay. I don't see how people can live without drawing equity from their homes to pay daily expenses. Add on top of that foreigners driving up the price of everything.

As someone mentioned about the hooligans trying to start a riot during the Olympics, it didn't work. A riot only happens when you have enough pissed off people in a large group. The end of a losing hockey playoff is just a catalyst that brought a lot of already morally defeated people together in one place.

Saying the hockey game caused the riot is like saying the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand caused World War I.

People care about hockey? And enough to riot?

Different people, different worries

It may be against the Terms of Service, but really, so what?

Related (and not a goatse, I swear.)

It's also not a Rickroll either for that matter.