I think there's something to the theory that YT would rather have a yes-man on top. Pretty good analysis by Sargon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Before the internet (and, ironically, Youtube itself) this kind of smear campaign would have worked without a hitch, and I'm sure it galls the MSM that he has a platform to respond at all.
Disagreement is now harrassment.
Mockery is now hate speech.
Offense is now trauma.
Criticism is now abuse.
Compelling criticism is now violence.
Anyone who talks about subjects the MSM wants to suppress is now a troll. Anyone at random is a racist/sexist/white supremacist/nazi/etc if they say so.
The use of this alarmist (and usually, simply wrong) language is ubiquitous and deliberate. It's all a pretense to justify a disproportionate censorial "response," especially when they know no response is warranted at all. It's also a brazenly transparent tactic, especially since Twitter/Reddit/etc rarely seem to use it against users that properly align with their politics.
This video is an excellent illustration of how the media lies about "online abuse" (and how even the crumbs that are true are exaggerated for false impact): https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
P.S. It's also entertaining as Hell cuz Milo's a riot.
I was thinking more like "impossible to print or save as a jpeg" from the locked-down Surface app, but "You can order prints starting at $4.99 (PS filters and effects available for a small extra fee)!"
They "think they have a franchise" based on an Emoji Movie. Jesus.
Sounds goofy to me too, but Angry Birds was a smash hit for them (definitely their biggest of the year): http://www.boxofficemojo.com/y...
$349.8M The Angry Birds Movie
$239.1M Passengers (2016)
$229.1M Ghostbusters (2016)
$220.0M Inferno
$160.4M The Magnificent Seven (2016)
$140.7M Sausage Party
$119.1M The Shallows
$109.9M The 5th Wave
$46.1M Risen
$25.2M The Brothers Grimsby
It clobbered Ghostbusters (and Passengers) with less than half the budget (maybe worse after you account for marketing). The execs may not understand how horribly Ghostbusters was marketed (by openly trashing the fans), so they may well come to the conclusion (because they do understand profit loud and clear) that silly interweb franchises are way more valuable to them than beloved classic franchises (or original stories).
As someone who doesn't use Facebook, the only time I hear of Facebook Live video is when someone happens to livestream their suicide, fatal car accident, or racist kidnap and torture of a white kid.
If the computer dies, the monitor is still just fine and dandy, and can quite often be swapped into another bezel (or be ballsy and build a custom PC case with the monitor as a side-panel. Kits exist for this exact thing and they're like $30.)
Technically that's a valid point, and I just found this video which admittedly makes it look like a productive (and fun!) project for the right sort of person. I even kind of want to tear apart one of my retired laptops now and do it (thx for the idea btw).
But practically, it will almost never happen, and this epitome of vendor lock-in will pay off (and the vendors know it). I mean, the same is true of laptops, but I've never known anyone who's done this; have you?
One of the most expensive components of your computer is your monitor, but it is also one of the most standardized and longest-lasting. Think about it: pretty much any monitor bought in the last 20+ years* (including CRTs) can be used with any computer or video card on the market, requiring at most a super cheap adapter.
But with an AIO, you lose this major advatage desktop systems have over laptops. You're still paying for the monitor, but have little to no choice in which model it will be, and you will only ever use it with this one computer. And when the computer dies, the monitor is finished too (even if it's in working condition).
* Yeah, I know analog/VGA is starting to go away. I still holds for digital.
Added post counts in case anyone else is interested:
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55 - Microsoft Live Account Credentials Leaking From Windows 8 And Above 364 - Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone 348 - Google Chrome To Disallow Backspace As a 'Back' Button 190 - Can Cow Backpacks Reduce Global Methane Emissions? 179 - Confirmed: In an Unprecedented Move, Samsung Recalls All Galaxy Note 7 1718 - World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History 1145 - The Case Against a Universal Basic Income 982 - Ask Slashdot: Would You Recommend Updating To Windows 10? 733 - FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton 167 - The Slashdot Interview With Larry Wall
The MSM aren't against fake news. We know this because of how they reacted to it (and helped spread it) when it helped their establishment candidate. http://observer.com/2016/11/be...
I'm sure most here already knew that, but he really lays out how MS doesn't seem to care about the customer experience or competing with Steam (just muscling them out through lock-in). It's sad that Valve can't seem to make the Steambox concept work, but if MS's platform is the one that succeeds, then we all lose.
The Japanese Agricultural Association (JA) is a very powerfull association that distorts vast amounts of money from the Japanese farmers like Italian mobsters.
Money that the government wants to have but it did not have any means to take on the JA.
Of course not, because the goverment Agricultural Ministry is not in charge of Gundam. We might have finally found out who is, though.
Hillary lost because of real news about how she was a terrible candidate, not because of fake news or hate speech or the Russians or any other conspiracy theory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Can't admit that HIllary lost because of real news (like her rigging the primary) reported by Wikileaks, and that CNN/etc exposed themselves as fake news outlets by trying to bury that story (and a hundred others).
He's not on the list, but I've always been a fan Vilanur Ramachandran. This is a long but nice lecture on how we appreciate art (and other things):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That's around 700 kbs. He probably just left a telnet session open on an older, slower machine, "collecting" (NOT searching or tapping) the internet in case of terrorism.
The emails reportedly document Turkey's use of pro-government trolls on Twitter -- though ironically, it's Twitter that's now being used to document the censorship.
They have a long way to fall before they outdo the old/. regime in promoting people who don't deserve it.
Remember when they brought back the Beanies and slipped an Anita Sarkeesian nomination in, trying to put her on the same level as Malala (the same year she won the peace prize) and Snowden? The comments rejected the idea so harshly that there wasn't even a follow-up submission naming a winner.
The old regime also did an Ask Slashdot for Brianna Wu for no reason, and unquestionably hyped Zoe Quinn's and Randi Harper's scams (CON and OAPI).
Say what you want about the current editors letting Shkreli answer questions here, but at least they're not going out of their way to spin everything he does as positive (like the old editors did with those other folks), or to avoid posting negative stories about him.
So the mainstream press really never did come up with a way to spin the DNC Leaks.
They've repeatedly shown they had NO answer except to try to ignore the real story (like with Snowden), and pretend that the source of the info is more important than the fact that the DNC was nothing but a branch of Hillary's campaign, colluding to push Bernie to the side at all costs.
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I think there's something to the theory that YT would rather have a yes-man on top.
Pretty good analysis by Sargon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Before the internet (and, ironically, Youtube itself) this kind of smear campaign would have worked without a hitch, and I'm sure it galls the MSM that he has a platform to respond at all.
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Nerds care about politics when it's this fucked up. Therefore political news is nerd news.
If that were the standard then we would've surely had a post about the Berkely Riots.
Disagreement is now harrassment.
Mockery is now hate speech.
Offense is now trauma.
Criticism is now abuse.
Compelling criticism is now violence.
Anyone who talks about subjects the MSM wants to suppress is now a troll.
Anyone at random is a racist/sexist/white supremacist/nazi/etc if they say so.
The use of this alarmist (and usually, simply wrong) language is ubiquitous and deliberate. It's all a pretense to justify a disproportionate censorial "response," especially when they know no response is warranted at all. It's also a brazenly transparent tactic, especially since Twitter/Reddit/etc rarely seem to use it against users that properly align with their politics.
This video is an excellent illustration of how the media lies about "online abuse" (and how even the crumbs that are true are exaggerated for false impact):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
P.S. It's also entertaining as Hell cuz Milo's a riot.
I was thinking more like "impossible to print or save as a jpeg" from the locked-down Surface app, but "You can order prints starting at $4.99 (PS filters and effects available for a small extra fee)!"
They "think they have a franchise" based on an Emoji Movie. Jesus.
Sounds goofy to me too, but Angry Birds was a smash hit for them (definitely their biggest of the year):
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/y...
$349.8M The Angry Birds Movie
$239.1M Passengers (2016)
$229.1M Ghostbusters (2016)
$220.0M Inferno
$160.4M The Magnificent Seven (2016)
$140.7M Sausage Party
$119.1M The Shallows
$109.9M The 5th Wave
$46.1M Risen
$25.2M The Brothers Grimsby
It clobbered Ghostbusters (and Passengers) with less than half the budget (maybe worse after you account for marketing). The execs may not understand how horribly Ghostbusters was marketed (by openly trashing the fans), so they may well come to the conclusion (because they do understand profit loud and clear) that silly interweb franchises are way more valuable to them than beloved classic franchises (or original stories).
As someone who doesn't use Facebook, the only time I hear of Facebook Live video is when someone happens to livestream their suicide, fatal car accident, or racist kidnap and torture of a white kid.
If the computer dies, the monitor is still just fine and dandy, and can quite often be swapped into another bezel (or be ballsy and build a custom PC case with the monitor as a side-panel. Kits exist for this exact thing and they're like $30.)
Technically that's a valid point, and I just found this video which admittedly makes it look like a productive (and fun!) project for the right sort of person. I even kind of want to tear apart one of my retired laptops now and do it (thx for the idea btw).
But practically, it will almost never happen, and this epitome of vendor lock-in will pay off (and the vendors know it). I mean, the same is true of laptops, but I've never known anyone who's done this; have you?
One of the most expensive components of your computer is your monitor, but it is also one of the most standardized and longest-lasting. Think about it: pretty much any monitor bought in the last 20+ years* (including CRTs) can be used with any computer or video card on the market, requiring at most a super cheap adapter.
But with an AIO, you lose this major advatage desktop systems have over laptops. You're still paying for the monitor, but have little to no choice in which model it will be, and you will only ever use it with this one computer. And when the computer dies, the monitor is finished too (even if it's in working condition).
* Yeah, I know analog/VGA is starting to go away. I still holds for digital.
Here's our 10 most-visited stories for 2016.
55 - Microsoft Live Account Credentials Leaking From Windows 8 And Above
364 - Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone
348 - Google Chrome To Disallow Backspace As a 'Back' Button
190 - Can Cow Backpacks Reduce Global Methane Emissions?
179 - Confirmed: In an Unprecedented Move, Samsung Recalls All Galaxy Note 7
1718 - World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History
1145 - The Case Against a Universal Basic Income
982 - Ask Slashdot: Would You Recommend Updating To Windows 10?
733 - FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton
167 - The Slashdot Interview With Larry Wall
Not so fast, comrades! We'll teach you to inform our electorate!
We know how to deal with their kind around here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The MSM aren't against fake news. We know this because of how they reacted to it (and helped spread it) when it helped their establishment candidate.
http://observer.com/2016/11/be...
Two great articles by Shamus Young show just what a trainwreck the Windows Store is:
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twe...
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twe...
I'm sure most here already knew that, but he really lays out how MS doesn't seem to care about the customer experience or competing with Steam (just muscling them out through lock-in). It's sad that Valve can't seem to make the Steambox concept work, but if MS's platform is the one that succeeds, then we all lose.
The Japanese Agricultural Association (JA) is a very powerfull association that distorts vast amounts of money from the Japanese farmers like Italian mobsters. Money that the government wants to have but it did not have any means to take on the JA.
Of course not, because the goverment Agricultural Ministry is not in charge of Gundam. We might have finally found out who is, though.
Hillary lost because of real news about how she was a terrible candidate, not because of fake news or hate speech or the Russians or any other conspiracy theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Can't admit that HIllary lost because of real news (like her rigging the primary) reported by Wikileaks, and that CNN/etc exposed themselves as fake news outlets by trying to bury that story (and a hundred others).
Restricting free speech is what the "hate speech" designation is all about.
They'll now call everything they don't like (and want to censor) "alt-right"; they've already tried it with Gamergate.
He's not on the list, but I've always been a fan Vilanur Ramachandran. This is a long but nice lecture on how we appreciate art (and other things): https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That's around 700 kbs. He probably just left a telnet session open on an older, slower machine, "collecting" (NOT searching or tapping) the internet in case of terrorism.
The emails reportedly document Turkey's use of pro-government trolls on Twitter -- though ironically, it's Twitter that's now being used to document the censorship.
According to a Turkish journalist, Twitter is also helping out with the censorship:
https://twitter.com/MahirZeyna...
At the request of Turkey, Twitter decided to block my Turkish account within Turkey.
I'm not the only journalist whose Twitter feed is restricted in Turkey. The process is simple: Turkey asks, Twitter shuts down.
And lists a few more who have been banned.
They have a long way to fall before they outdo the old /. regime in promoting people who don't deserve it.
Remember when they brought back the Beanies and slipped an Anita Sarkeesian nomination in, trying to put her on the same level as Malala (the same year she won the peace prize) and Snowden? The comments rejected the idea so harshly that there wasn't even a follow-up submission naming a winner.
The old regime also did an Ask Slashdot for Brianna Wu for no reason, and unquestionably hyped Zoe Quinn's and Randi Harper's scams (CON and OAPI).
Say what you want about the current editors letting Shkreli answer questions here, but at least they're not going out of their way to spin everything he does as positive (like the old editors did with those other folks), or to avoid posting negative stories about him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
So the mainstream press really never did come up with a way to spin the DNC Leaks.
They've repeatedly shown they had NO answer except to try to ignore the real story (like with Snowden), and pretend that the source of the info is more important than the fact that the DNC was nothing but a branch of Hillary's campaign, colluding to push Bernie to the side at all costs.