Whoever thought this was a good idea is a fucking idiot.
This has been a feature of Yahoo Web Mail for years, and I would wager it was conceived at GMail, though I don't use it so I'm only guessing.
When you paste a URL into Yahoo Mail you get a little mini menu that allows you to make it just a plain hyperlink, or even plaintext. I'm hoping Apple steals that too.
Waiting for news on how MS will monetize Minecrack.
My 12 yo son is a Minecraft addict. On weeknights and weekends he pouts if he can't play. He's even got me into playing weekends on private servers and paying for his Realms account. Waiting on news on how they're turning the game into profitable accumulated player data.
I just know they'll turn my minecraft model of the Geisel Library into profit, somehow.
One or two mistakes are to be expected among tens of thousands of people - hundreds of thousands counting subcontractors - working in unrelated projects. That's not a burn.
But everything MS embraces they turn to shit by emphasizing market share and profit over function and security. Those strategies were adopted at the highest levels of management, which Myhrvold was a member of. Therefore, it's not ad hominem, either.
The only MS product I can think of that I have respect for is Excel, and still they ruined the UI.
I worked in a company that was run by PhDs. They pretty much evenly fell into two camps: 1) people who were willing to teach you as much as you wanted to know about their area of expertise, and stuck to that area; and 2) people who thought that because they were experts in one field meant that they were experts about everything, and would be dicks about it.
The second group generally rose in the ranks to upper management.
You don't have to be a Billionaire to be a dick. But I'm sure it helps.
While you most likely do not need such a large microSD card in your life
In fact, yes, one would be rather convenient. But then I have no life.
(I have filled four 1TB hard drives with downloaded 720 and 1080p porn, and am starting on a 2TB. It would be nice to bring as much of that with me as possible when traveling.)
He's selling himself as a populist to win primary elections. But Donald Trump is about nothing but what Donald Trump wants: money, fame, and ego strokes.
The only reason the Democratic Party appears to have "slid to the far left" is because of the extreme rightward shift of the Overton Window since the Reagan era.
I'll take this Hall of Fame seriously when they induct Nethack.
I mean, really, if *any* game deserves to be in a hall of fame, it's the longest-lived and longest continually maintained game of 'em all... not to mention one of the most complex and hardcore.
Vox has a better rundown of the FDA's announced regulations.
The good news is that it's not armageddon for vapers and sellers:
the FDA is allowing companies to continue to sell their products for up to two years while they submit their applications to the agency — and for another year during the approval process.
When I smoke, I still smoke cigs. But I have lots of friends who vape. Personally, I find the propylene glycol vapor more irritating than tobacco smoke.
For those unfamiliar with California fruit vendors, allow me to describe them.
Imagine a NYC street hot dog cart, except it's an insulated ice chest instead of a steamer. On top is a plexiglass box with more ice and various peeled fruit on display. Atop this is usually an umbrella for shade.
You don't buy bulk fruit to take home. You have one choice: the number of servings you want. The vendor cuts up a variety of fruit into bite sized chunks (usually pineapple, coconut, mango, papaya, etc.) gives it a squirt of lime juice and optionally a dash of cayenne. It's served in a plastic bag and eaten with a disposable fork. It usually costs four or five dollars a serving. It's one of my wife's favorite treats.
Here in LA County, they're not regulated by the police but by the Department of Health - the same folks who inspect restaurants. (The police will politely ignore you if you call them to complain about a fruit vendor. And the Sheriff will rudely ignore you.) And AFAIK they're technically forbidden. Just like the bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors, the only time you see them is after 5pm on Fridays and on weekends when the Health Department inspectors are off duty.
It's a traditionally Hispanic practice, but you can find them in most parts of town. They generally set up on the verge between the sidewalk and the curb, in well-trafficked areas, usually in mixed-use or commercial zoned areas. I've never seen one on a purely residential street.
You have it backwards. We suck as a people is why we need regulation. Your constant rants against the tyranny of regulations is based on the libertarian fantasy of self-regulating markets operated by honest actors. But this premise is false.
It should be no surprise that honest actors are rare, and most people will lie, cheat, steal and horde given the opportunity. And some are VERY good at it. And those are usually the ones complaining about the rules intended to keep them honest.
The actual model being used is "we require stationary gas retailers to be licensed, regulated, and inspected and are applying the same standard to mobile refueling."
FTA: The Los Angeles Fire Department said it’s drafting a policy around gasoline delivery. “Our current fire code does not allow this process; however, we are exploring a way this could be allowed with some restrictions,” said Capt. Daniel Curry, a spokesman for the city’s fire department. “It’s just one of these things that nobody has really thought about before—kind of like how Uber popped up out of nowhere.” But he said it’s not a gray area: “All I can tell you at this time is it’s not allowed as per our current fire code.”
Not "government tyranny" but government just doing its damn job.
I clicked on a link to a Wired article yesterday and it let me read the first part of the story. Until I tried to scroll down. Then it demanded that I disable script blockers for wired.com in order to read the rest of the article.
So I did. I enabled wired.com in NoScript. Same message. So I enabled condenastwhatever.com. Same message. And again after enabling two cloudfront servers. The rest were advertisers and trackers.
So what they really wanted is for me to allow all their trackers and data miners and 3rd party advertisements.
Fuck that. Host your own ads. In the meantime, I'll just ignore Wired and any other Conde Nast publications.
Slashdot Mirror
run time in reverse (JUST IN THE SIMULATION)
Thanks for that clarification. Wouldn't want to get a ticket for a causality violation or anything...
Call it what it is: religiously fundamentalist motivated mass murder.
It wasn't terrorism. It was most certainly NOT intended to bring about any political or policy change, or even make a political statement.
It was lethal grade bigotry, inspired by a fundamentalist upbringing - fundamentalist Islam vs Christian is moot.
Whoever thought this was a good idea is a fucking idiot.
This has been a feature of Yahoo Web Mail for years, and I would wager it was conceived at GMail, though I don't use it so I'm only guessing.
When you paste a URL into Yahoo Mail you get a little mini menu that allows you to make it just a plain hyperlink, or even plaintext. I'm hoping Apple steals that too.
That was the first thought that popped into my mind: Great, now the girl you send a dick pic to can not look at it from any angle.
Waiting for news on how MS will monetize Minecrack.
My 12 yo son is a Minecraft addict. On weeknights and weekends he pouts if he can't play. He's even got me into playing weekends on private servers and paying for his Realms account. Waiting on news on how they're turning the game into profitable accumulated player data.
I just know they'll turn my minecraft model of the Geisel Library into profit, somehow.
Still trying to figure out how to make it dance.
It will have to involve Redstone, I'm sure...
One or two mistakes are to be expected among tens of thousands of people - hundreds of thousands counting subcontractors - working in unrelated projects. That's not a burn.
But everything MS embraces they turn to shit by emphasizing market share and profit over function and security. Those strategies were adopted at the highest levels of management, which Myhrvold was a member of. Therefore, it's not ad hominem, either.
The only MS product I can think of that I have respect for is Excel, and still they ruined the UI.
I worked in a company that was run by PhDs. They pretty much evenly fell into two camps: 1) people who were willing to teach you as much as you wanted to know about their area of expertise, and stuck to that area; and 2) people who thought that because they were experts in one field meant that they were experts about everything, and would be dicks about it.
The second group generally rose in the ranks to upper management.
You don't have to be a Billionaire to be a dick. But I'm sure it helps.
I have no idea who Maria Schneider is
Maybe you should look her up on YouTube and find out.
MRA teardrops taste so sweet in the morning
LOL. After seeing that list, I came in just to sample them.
While you most likely do not need such a large microSD card in your life
In fact, yes, one would be rather convenient. But then I have no life.
(I have filled four 1TB hard drives with downloaded 720 and 1080p porn, and am starting on a 2TB. It would be nice to bring as much of that with me as possible when traveling.)
He's selling himself as a populist to win primary elections. But Donald Trump is about nothing but what Donald Trump wants: money, fame, and ego strokes.
The only reason the Democratic Party appears to have "slid to the far left" is because of the extreme rightward shift of the Overton Window since the Reagan era.
"Unheard of"??
Get off my lawn!!
The first inductees in any real gaming HoF should have been Spacewar, Star Trek and Nethack.
I'll take this Hall of Fame seriously when they induct Nethack.
I mean, really, if *any* game deserves to be in a hall of fame, it's the longest-lived and longest continually maintained game of 'em all... not to mention one of the most complex and hardcore.
I'm a smoker, but I only smoke outdoors, even at home, and wash my hands and face afterwards because I can't stand that "ashtray" smell.
But the flavors of vape my coworkers use don't smell offensive at all. At worst it smells faintly of burnt sugar.
Vox has a better rundown of the FDA's announced regulations.
The good news is that it's not armageddon for vapers and sellers:
the FDA is allowing companies to continue to sell their products for up to two years while they submit their applications to the agency — and for another year during the approval process.
When I smoke, I still smoke cigs. But I have lots of friends who vape. Personally, I find the propylene glycol vapor more irritating than tobacco smoke.
For those unfamiliar with California fruit vendors, allow me to describe them.
Imagine a NYC street hot dog cart, except it's an insulated ice chest instead of a steamer. On top is a plexiglass box with more ice and various peeled fruit on display. Atop this is usually an umbrella for shade.
You don't buy bulk fruit to take home. You have one choice: the number of servings you want. The vendor cuts up a variety of fruit into bite sized chunks (usually pineapple, coconut, mango, papaya, etc.) gives it a squirt of lime juice and optionally a dash of cayenne. It's served in a plastic bag and eaten with a disposable fork. It usually costs four or five dollars a serving. It's one of my wife's favorite treats.
Here in LA County, they're not regulated by the police but by the Department of Health - the same folks who inspect restaurants. (The police will politely ignore you if you call them to complain about a fruit vendor. And the Sheriff will rudely ignore you.) And AFAIK they're technically forbidden. Just like the bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors, the only time you see them is after 5pm on Fridays and on weekends when the Health Department inspectors are off duty.
It's a traditionally Hispanic practice, but you can find them in most parts of town. They generally set up on the verge between the sidewalk and the curb, in well-trafficked areas, usually in mixed-use or commercial zoned areas. I've never seen one on a purely residential street.
This is why we suck as a people
You have it backwards. We suck as a people is why we need regulation. Your constant rants against the tyranny of regulations is based on the libertarian fantasy of self-regulating markets operated by honest actors. But this premise is false.
It should be no surprise that honest actors are rare, and most people will lie, cheat, steal and horde given the opportunity. And some are VERY good at it. And those are usually the ones complaining about the rules intended to keep them honest.
The actual model being used is "we require stationary gas retailers to be licensed, regulated, and inspected and are applying the same standard to mobile refueling."
FTA: The Los Angeles Fire Department said it’s drafting a policy around gasoline delivery. “Our current fire code does not allow this process; however, we are exploring a way this could be allowed with some restrictions,” said Capt. Daniel Curry, a spokesman for the city’s fire department. “It’s just one of these things that nobody has really thought about before—kind of like how Uber popped up out of nowhere.” But he said it’s not a gray area: “All I can tell you at this time is it’s not allowed as per our current fire code.”
Not "government tyranny" but government just doing its damn job.
And it sounds even more like "enhanced interrogation."
I was going to reply to the GP that it will truly be the end of humanity when machines start programming themselves.
Then you had to make it even worse...
YMBNH. This site is an all-you-can-eat buffet for trolls. It's like the frickin' Golden Corral around here.
You should comma after an introductory clause, like this:
Your sentence no predicate.
Autists are painters and sculptors from Boston.
I clicked on a link to a Wired article yesterday and it let me read the first part of the story. Until I tried to scroll down. Then it demanded that I disable script blockers for wired.com in order to read the rest of the article.
So I did. I enabled wired.com in NoScript. Same message. So I enabled condenastwhatever.com. Same message. And again after enabling two cloudfront servers. The rest were advertisers and trackers.
So what they really wanted is for me to allow all their trackers and data miners and 3rd party advertisements.
Fuck that. Host your own ads. In the meantime, I'll just ignore Wired and any other Conde Nast publications.