Housewives and little girls play World of Warcraft. Subscribers: over 12 million. 90% of the ones signed up as female are male, but about half the players are female. Did I just blow your mind?
Stop it you motherfuckers. Just fucking stop it. Stop with the ass-grabbing buzz-wording over-hyping bastardizing-jargon based marketing bullshit! I'm sick of it and you all need to police yourselves from now on because I simply don't have the resources to slap the shit out of every last one of you like you deserve.
Check my other post. I'm guessing its not a codec issue but just a simple JavaScript string comparison error (they're not expecting "Iceweasel" they're expecting "Firefox") because I was able to play the playlist file directly with VLC once I was able to isolate its URL from the asx file.
Since nobody is apparently willing or able to be helpful here I'll go myself. If you're trying to play this on Debian with Iceweasel and you, like me, are being sabotaged by the NASA website's extra-dumb client detection scripts this may work for you as well.
Anyone want to share pointers on how to watch the video if you are using Linux? I guess I shouldn't be surprised but some part of me nonetheless is having trouble believing that NASA really puts this much effort into their "Other Viewing Options" feature while still providing only proprietary formats.
Sort themselves out? Since when? Have you ever read the DMCA? We're talking about The South here. We're talking about Georgia. My prediction for the near future: dozens of arrests and convictions of college students for "illegal computing activity" that "frighteningly enough seems to be backed by a commercial organization" called "Blizzard, Inc." as well as some sort of underground mafia drug ring known variously as "Linux", "BSD", or "Open Source".
They told us "real" numbers even though it was years from completion. They top speed they said that it would have was impressive. The range they claimed it would have was unbelievable. They also claimed that it would be 100% electric. I thought to myself: "yea f-ing right."
I never once got a raise I was promised. All any employer ever did was blow smoke up my ass in the performance reviews. I never once got a salary increase that I didn't have to quit my old job for. Once or twice jumping ship for better pay got the rest of the team members *their* promised raises though.
I think he's talking about the books being "dead" in regions of the world where they were never alive to begin with. In most of the first world e-books are restrained in market share due to a fairly evolved and economical shipping infrastructure. Places like Afghanistan and Gaza have no such luxury so cheap and highly portable network-enabled tablet computers are quickly filling a long-standing gap between demand and supply.
His argument (which seems based soundly in actual experience in the field) is that in places like the article references the infrastructure for shipping (or lack thereof) makes shipping books rather costly in the quantities that an internet-connected computer can get them. I'm by no means a supporter of the tablet computer form factor but this actually makes a lot of sense to me.
1) Low-pressure/frictionless keys/touchscreens can only make so much difference. Just not hitting the thing so damned hard makes a much more significant difference.
2) Don't sleep on your wrists. Seriously, don't put your arm under your pillow while you sleep. This has a deceptively catastrophic impact on the crucial healing period an all-day typist's wrists need during the their hands' sole extended immobility period.
3) Keep your wrists straight while you type. I can't emphasize this enough. Some people say ergonomic keyboards don't help. Some people say they do. Some people say don't rest your wrists on the keyboard. Some people say it hurts not to. The important thing is that you keep your wrists straight so that the tendons have as little friction as possible passing through your carpel tunnels during long typing sessions. If you have really wide shoulders it a split-style ergonomic keyboard might help you to keep your wrists straight. If you are a bit short or a bit tall changing your desk and chair heights can help too.
By the way if you also suffer from neck/back pain your monitor is probably not close enough to head level.
Yes, despite an EULA that disavows them from any responsibility they actively market to the government, the military, and other purveyors of critical infrastructure and flat-out *lie* about its suitability for these purposes. This is criminal activity and should be addressed. At the very least there should be a warning label on the box - something like the government requires on other hazardous consumer goods like alcohol, tobacco, pesticides and household cleaners.
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Admit it, you clicked here hoping I could at least claim it was true.
Sanctuary really isn't all bad.
You got a citation on that? BTW you can't count venture capital as revenue.
You should have bought a Wii.
Housewives and little girls play World of Warcraft. Subscribers: over 12 million. 90% of the ones signed up as female are male, but about half the players are female. Did I just blow your mind?
Also, Cataclysm dropped 1 hour ago.
FOR THE HORDE!!!
Stop it you motherfuckers. Just fucking stop it. Stop with the ass-grabbing buzz-wording over-hyping bastardizing-jargon based marketing bullshit! I'm sick of it and you all need to police yourselves from now on because I simply don't have the resources to slap the shit out of every last one of you like you deserve.
FUCK.
Check my other post. I'm guessing its not a codec issue but just a simple JavaScript string comparison error (they're not expecting "Iceweasel" they're expecting "Firefox") because I was able to play the playlist file directly with VLC once I was able to isolate its URL from the asx file.
Thanks though.
Since nobody is apparently willing or able to be helpful here I'll go myself. If you're trying to play this on Debian with Iceweasel and you, like me, are being sabotaged by the NASA website's extra-dumb client detection scripts this may work for you as well.
1) Download the asx file:
$ wget http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx
2) Find the playlist file link inside the text file then wget it:
$ wget http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1369080&segment=149773
3) Play the resulting file directly with vlc:
$ vlc makeplaylist.dll\?id\=1369080
This worked for me. I hope it helps someone else, but really NASA should fix their shit.
You see a link to a flash version of the video on NASA's site??
Any guesses then about why it is failing on Debian using Iceweasel with the VLC plugin?
Anyone want to share pointers on how to watch the video if you are using Linux? I guess I shouldn't be surprised but some part of me nonetheless is having trouble believing that NASA really puts this much effort into their "Other Viewing Options" feature while still providing only proprietary formats.
Sort themselves out? Since when? Have you ever read the DMCA? We're talking about The South here. We're talking about Georgia. My prediction for the near future: dozens of arrests and convictions of college students for "illegal computing activity" that "frighteningly enough seems to be backed by a commercial organization" called "Blizzard, Inc." as well as some sort of underground mafia drug ring known variously as "Linux", "BSD", or "Open Source".
Too bad they don't have any engineers.
*rimshot*
Oh, the problem exists, I can assure you of that. The problem however lies between the keyboard and the chair.
They told us "real" numbers even though it was years from completion. They top speed they said that it would have was impressive. The range they claimed it would have was unbelievable. They also claimed that it would be 100% electric. I thought to myself: "yea f-ing right."
Or at least something useful.
Can't they just patent it anyway, and sue him instead?
Think it could work? Or would all the jobs just immediately go to India?
I never once got a raise I was promised. All any employer ever did was blow smoke up my ass in the performance reviews. I never once got a salary increase that I didn't have to quit my old job for. Once or twice jumping ship for better pay got the rest of the team members *their* promised raises though.
I think he's talking about the books being "dead" in regions of the world where they were never alive to begin with. In most of the first world e-books are restrained in market share due to a fairly evolved and economical shipping infrastructure. Places like Afghanistan and Gaza have no such luxury so cheap and highly portable network-enabled tablet computers are quickly filling a long-standing gap between demand and supply.
His argument (which seems based soundly in actual experience in the field) is that in places like the article references the infrastructure for shipping (or lack thereof) makes shipping books rather costly in the quantities that an internet-connected computer can get them. I'm by no means a supporter of the tablet computer form factor but this actually makes a lot of sense to me.
According to TFA they've already placed around 3,000 there, so... yes?
From my own experience:
1) Low-pressure/frictionless keys/touchscreens can only make so much difference. Just not hitting the thing so damned hard makes a much more significant difference.
2) Don't sleep on your wrists. Seriously, don't put your arm under your pillow while you sleep. This has a deceptively catastrophic impact on the crucial healing period an all-day typist's wrists need during the their hands' sole extended immobility period.
3) Keep your wrists straight while you type. I can't emphasize this enough. Some people say ergonomic keyboards don't help. Some people say they do. Some people say don't rest your wrists on the keyboard. Some people say it hurts not to. The important thing is that you keep your wrists straight so that the tendons have as little friction as possible passing through your carpel tunnels during long typing sessions. If you have really wide shoulders it a split-style ergonomic keyboard might help you to keep your wrists straight. If you are a bit short or a bit tall changing your desk and chair heights can help too.
By the way if you also suffer from neck/back pain your monitor is probably not close enough to head level.
Yes, despite an EULA that disavows them from any responsibility they actively market to the government, the military, and other purveyors of critical infrastructure and flat-out *lie* about its suitability for these purposes. This is criminal activity and should be addressed. At the very least there should be a warning label on the box - something like the government requires on other hazardous consumer goods like alcohol, tobacco, pesticides and household cleaners.
It's just a small criminal organization, that's it.
I think the word you're looking for is "company."