I agree, but have a quibble with your phrasing. I think when you wrote your comment about doubting evolution, you meant that a person should keep a certain amount of skepticism; the theory shouldn't be assumed to be absolutely, unquestionably true. Fair enough. But expressed doubt often is inferred as a judgment that something is unlikely. If you 'doubt evolution is true', it could easily be interpreted that you think evolution is more likely to be false then true.
I don't think that's what you mean... hence, my quibble.
He wants it (I'm presuming) to autocomplete, but to do it in the same manner every time. I.E., he wants to type S-L-A-S-Enter and get slashdot. He doesn't want to type S-L-A-S *examine url, make decision, press enter or type more letters*.
Exactly. I'm a bit disappointed in my fellow Slashdot participants today. This is an obvious joke; Slashdot is not CNN, they can post jokes occasionally. That's a good thing. The flash video doesn't load and play automatically, so it's not a significant waste of bandwidth. If you are insulted at the mere suggestion of flash... well, you get insulted too easily.
Either wrap it in a (thin) faraday cage (which will itself be trackable from overhead if it's mass is too much, but hey), or, better, leave it at home. Do not use radio communication equipment.
How can a faraday cage be detected? Do you mean by something like active radar? How does the signature of a faraday cage differ from, say, any other block of metal?
Bad form, replying to my own post, but I wanted to add another thought...
The question of how to generate good passwords for children (or incompetent adults, for that matter) is worthwhile. And there are times when children ought to be encouraged to use security. If for nothing else, simply so they acquire good habits.
But this is something that needs to be done with the parents, not used against them. There is far more justification for locking her older brother out of the system, than there is her parents.
If either of my sons tried locking me out of their computers, the machines would end up in the trash. The cure to damn near everything wrong with kids is _more_ parental intervention, not less. Especially a seven year old girl!
There are no webfilters on their machines; just the knowledge that I can inspect them at any time. Just like their closets, under their beds, backpacks, etc... (and they are turning out great, by the way, and actually still like and respect me.)
From what I understand, Sony is manufacturing two models of the PS3. The less expensive (presumably more numerous) model has no compatibility, while the more expensive model has software compatibility. The model with 100% hardware compatibility has been discontinued.
This business of both Sony and Microsoft manufacturing numerous versions of their consoles, with slightly differing capabilities, is terrible. Who wants to do research before buying a game console? Another thing Nintendo did right.
My first reaction was to protest that the Citizen Kane of videogames has already appeared... Planescape: Torment.
But I can admit there are some problems with that comparison. Torment had classic characters, a fascinating story, and important themes. But it was still held back somewhat by technical limitations and a little bit of a clunky game engine. Maybe it is the 'Birth of a Nation' analogue... a promising glimpse at what might someday be done.
If that game had been done today, with the technical standards of something like Bioshock... wow, it really might be the Kane of videogames. Unfortunately, while we've made progress in the technical aspects of gaming, I think we've lost ground in other areas.
Nerds are often "sheltered" and have less real world (as in not-in-front-of-a-computer) experience.
Maybe because Techies and Trekies tend to be pretty smart people?
Interesting seeing those two posts consecutively, posted by two people who obviously come from opposite sides of the political spectrum. It's a good reminder that people see what they want to see. I'm not making a judgement about which of those is true; maybe they both are, maybe neither. But it's a good reminder to everybody to not unquestionably assume that people that agree with them are smart/healthy/educated/wonderful and people that disagree with them are dumb/fat/ignorant/repulsive.
Maybe somebody can tell me if this was a scam or not?
My son (age 10) went to Circuit City, alone, to buy a computer game for $10. Paid his $10, got the game, he was happy.
But when I looked over his receipt, I noticed the transaction was for a $100 payment, with $90 change. I questioned my son, who wasn't sure exactly what happened, just that the clerk made some sort of mistake, but only actually charged my son $10, no change back.
I suspect that the clerk pocketed $90, figuring he had a kid who wouldn't notice shenanigans. Maybe it was a legitimate mistake, punching in an extra zero, but in that case the transaction should have been voided and redone. I went to the store the next day and told the manager, but he couldn't have cared less.
You're completely neglecting the intentional and deliberate fraud that Best Buy perpetrated for months, breaking the law. Not to mention statutory requirements about lost consumer information, etc.
As I said in another comment, when they claim to not be responsible for lost data, that might be true in the case of destroyed data... hard drive wipe, whatever. No way does that absolve them of lost as in negligently misplaced or stolen data.
Pervasive and systemic fraud of this nature, which I'm sure Best Buy does engage in, does occasionally result in very high punitive fines. That was the nature of the oft-cited McDonalds hot-coffee incident. I believe there was a similar case against Sears Automotive. $300 fines do not always force companies to reform abusive policies.
I love business and capitalism. Free market for the win. But that doesn't mean companies should get away without penalties when they are caught doing obviously deceptive acts.
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Yeah, but the waiver is for lost as in 'destroyed'... not lost as in 'um, we're not sure where it is'.
The second is potentially much more damaging. I'm sure some geeksquad employee stole it, probably reinstalled windows, and uses it to browse 4chan all evening. But we don't know that for sure.
Preference in user interfaces are generally subjective, and shouldn't be labeled right or wrong. But that is an exception. Hiding less-used options hidden is bad, in the same way as sometimes having "Ok" on the left of "Cancel" and sometimes on the right would be.
Exactly. What the exec said in his email was what an exec should be saying. "This didn't work for me... is this impacting our customers?"
No doubt corporate leadership caused the problem in the first place... but people pointing out the issues internally are what are needed to fix it. (Well, it can't be fixed, now. Maybe it can be avoided in the future.)
I note that Mr Guo's name is mentioned nowhere in the Slashdot summary. Coincidence, or deliberate so as to not cause Slashdot's page to be temporarily blocked in China? And if so, is that bad (cowardice) or good (working around the restrictions)?
I do realize that it's not really fair to blame current Christians for the actions of people born in generations past, but neither is it fair for current Christians to condemn Muslims for their violence without also condemning the Christians of the past.
Absolutely true; but, conversely, the despicable actions of Christians from centuries ago does nothing to alleviate the blame for any despicable actions of Muslims happening now.
A Christian fanatical murderer is just as bad as an Islamic fanatical murderer. However, the fact that there seems to be many orders of magnitude more Islamic fanatical murderers should not be overlooked. It's tiring to get abortion clinic bombings trotted out as a response to the condemnation of Islamic atrocities; sometimes differences of scale do matter.
Don't forget all the thirty year olds that moved on, got married, started families, got divorced, lost their kids, and now sit alone in a dark house playing videogames, trying to recapture the feeling of their youth, before their spirit was crushed.
I'll toss out a defense of Microsoft, here. This service pack represents an amount of labor and expense that is larger than most business' entire budget. Any minor glitch is certain to turn into hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars of pain.
So, while for most of us it's a simple update, the team that put it together is justified in painstakingly making sure that every comma is in the right space, that the experience is as perfect as they can make it.
Not that it'll be bug free... I'm sure it will be ridden with mistakes and problems, accidental and deliberate. But it won't be because of lack of effort. I'm sure some Microsoft employees have poured their heart into this thing.
I bet that the majority of schools in the nation have been converted to first-person shooter maps already. I know every school in my town had been, and that was back during the Quake/Duke Nukem days.
Most people are average. But the mind is such a complicated thing, and there are so many fields of interest and complex interactions between them, that almost everybody is more talented and more knowledgeable in certain fields than... you are. Or me. Some people are terrifically talented in certain areas but may seem almost retarded in others... like correlating animated 2d radar maps to the real world.
My mother shies away from the DVD player we got her... but she can look at nearly any 3d object, such as an animal, and freehand draw a sewing pattern for it. That's not a simple task; it involves mental 3d->2d transformations that any graphics modeler would be jealous of.
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Doubt is a healthy part of critical thinking.
I agree, but have a quibble with your phrasing. I think when you wrote your comment about doubting evolution, you meant that a person should keep a certain amount of skepticism; the theory shouldn't be assumed to be absolutely, unquestionably true. Fair enough. But expressed doubt often is inferred as a judgment that something is unlikely. If you 'doubt evolution is true', it could easily be interpreted that you think evolution is more likely to be false then true.
I don't think that's what you mean... hence, my quibble.
He wants it (I'm presuming) to autocomplete, but to do it in the same manner every time. I.E., he wants to type S-L-A-S-Enter and get slashdot. He doesn't want to type S-L-A-S *examine url, make decision, press enter or type more letters*.
Adaptive menus suck pretty consistently.
Exactly. I'm a bit disappointed in my fellow Slashdot participants today. This is an obvious joke; Slashdot is not CNN, they can post jokes occasionally. That's a good thing. The flash video doesn't load and play automatically, so it's not a significant waste of bandwidth. If you are insulted at the mere suggestion of flash... well, you get insulted too easily.
Either wrap it in a (thin) faraday cage (which will itself be trackable from overhead if it's mass is too much, but hey), or, better, leave it at home. Do not use radio communication equipment.
How can a faraday cage be detected? Do you mean by something like active radar? How does the signature of a faraday cage differ from, say, any other block of metal?
Bad form, replying to my own post, but I wanted to add another thought...
The question of how to generate good passwords for children (or incompetent adults, for that matter) is worthwhile. And there are times when children ought to be encouraged to use security. If for nothing else, simply so they acquire good habits.
But this is something that needs to be done with the parents, not used against them. There is far more justification for locking her older brother out of the system, than there is her parents.
If either of my sons tried locking me out of their computers, the machines would end up in the trash. The cure to damn near everything wrong with kids is _more_ parental intervention, not less. Especially a seven year old girl!
There are no webfilters on their machines; just the knowledge that I can inspect them at any time. Just like their closets, under their beds, backpacks, etc... (and they are turning out great, by the way, and actually still like and respect me.)
At which time "Yahoo!" would be renamed "Yawho?" (or would that be "Yawhom?").
Depends on whether it's the subject or the object.
"Yawho is a search engine?
"He tried to search Yawhom?"
From what I understand, Sony is manufacturing two models of the PS3. The less expensive (presumably more numerous) model has no compatibility, while the more expensive model has software compatibility. The model with 100% hardware compatibility has been discontinued.
This business of both Sony and Microsoft manufacturing numerous versions of their consoles, with slightly differing capabilities, is terrible. Who wants to do research before buying a game console? Another thing Nintendo did right.
I know, but I wasn't talking to _just_ liberals.
My first reaction was to protest that the Citizen Kane of videogames has already appeared... Planescape: Torment.
But I can admit there are some problems with that comparison. Torment had classic characters, a fascinating story, and important themes. But it was still held back somewhat by technical limitations and a little bit of a clunky game engine. Maybe it is the 'Birth of a Nation' analogue... a promising glimpse at what might someday be done.
If that game had been done today, with the technical standards of something like Bioshock... wow, it really might be the Kane of videogames. Unfortunately, while we've made progress in the technical aspects of gaming, I think we've lost ground in other areas.
Nerds are often "sheltered" and have less real world (as in not-in-front-of-a-computer) experience.
Maybe because Techies and Trekies tend to be pretty smart people?
Interesting seeing those two posts consecutively, posted by two people who obviously come from opposite sides of the political spectrum. It's a good reminder that people see what they want to see. I'm not making a judgement about which of those is true; maybe they both are, maybe neither. But it's a good reminder to everybody to not unquestionably assume that people that agree with them are smart/healthy/educated/wonderful and people that disagree with them are dumb/fat/ignorant/repulsive.
Maybe somebody can tell me if this was a scam or not?
My son (age 10) went to Circuit City, alone, to buy a computer game for $10. Paid his $10, got the game, he was happy.
But when I looked over his receipt, I noticed the transaction was for a $100 payment, with $90 change. I questioned my son, who wasn't sure exactly what happened, just that the clerk made some sort of mistake, but only actually charged my son $10, no change back.
I suspect that the clerk pocketed $90, figuring he had a kid who wouldn't notice shenanigans. Maybe it was a legitimate mistake, punching in an extra zero, but in that case the transaction should have been voided and redone. I went to the store the next day and told the manager, but he couldn't have cared less.
You're completely neglecting the intentional and deliberate fraud that Best Buy perpetrated for months, breaking the law. Not to mention statutory requirements about lost consumer information, etc.
As I said in another comment, when they claim to not be responsible for lost data, that might be true in the case of destroyed data... hard drive wipe, whatever. No way does that absolve them of lost as in negligently misplaced or stolen data.
Pervasive and systemic fraud of this nature, which I'm sure Best Buy does engage in, does occasionally result in very high punitive fines. That was the nature of the oft-cited McDonalds hot-coffee incident. I believe there was a similar case against Sears Automotive. $300 fines do not always force companies to reform abusive policies.
I love business and capitalism. Free market for the win. But that doesn't mean companies should get away without penalties when they are caught doing obviously deceptive acts.
Yeah, but the waiver is for lost as in 'destroyed'... not lost as in 'um, we're not sure where it is'.
The second is potentially much more damaging. I'm sure some geeksquad employee stole it, probably reinstalled windows, and uses it to browse 4chan all evening. But we don't know that for sure.
Preference in user interfaces are generally subjective, and shouldn't be labeled right or wrong. But that is an exception. Hiding less-used options hidden is bad, in the same way as sometimes having "Ok" on the left of "Cancel" and sometimes on the right would be.
Exactly. What the exec said in his email was what an exec should be saying. "This didn't work for me... is this impacting our customers?"
No doubt corporate leadership caused the problem in the first place... but people pointing out the issues internally are what are needed to fix it. (Well, it can't be fixed, now. Maybe it can be avoided in the future.)
I note that Mr Guo's name is mentioned nowhere in the Slashdot summary. Coincidence, or deliberate so as to not cause Slashdot's page to be temporarily blocked in China? And if so, is that bad (cowardice) or good (working around the restrictions)?
I do realize that it's not really fair to blame current Christians for the actions of people born in generations past, but neither is it fair for current Christians to condemn Muslims for their violence without also condemning the Christians of the past.
Absolutely true; but, conversely, the despicable actions of Christians from centuries ago does nothing to alleviate the blame for any despicable actions of Muslims happening now.
A Christian fanatical murderer is just as bad as an Islamic fanatical murderer. However, the fact that there seems to be many orders of magnitude more Islamic fanatical murderers should not be overlooked. It's tiring to get abortion clinic bombings trotted out as a response to the condemnation of Islamic atrocities; sometimes differences of scale do matter.
I know, let's have an article with an animated burning US flag. It's funny. Oh wait.. that'll be censored by Pro US groups.
Will the fact that you're quickly and easily proven to be wrong keep you from making this claim in the future?
...both instances of "yourdomain" is followed by an erroneous space.
The "is" is incorrect, but the "an" is fine. Am I missing something?
I'll toss out a defense of Microsoft, here. This service pack represents an amount of labor and expense that is larger than most business' entire budget. Any minor glitch is certain to turn into hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars of pain.
So, while for most of us it's a simple update, the team that put it together is justified in painstakingly making sure that every comma is in the right space, that the experience is as perfect as they can make it.
Not that it'll be bug free... I'm sure it will be ridden with mistakes and problems, accidental and deliberate. But it won't be because of lack of effort. I'm sure some Microsoft employees have poured their heart into this thing.
I bet that the majority of schools in the nation have been converted to first-person shooter maps already. I know every school in my town had been, and that was back during the Quake/Duke Nukem days.
But don't tell the media that.
Most people are average. But the mind is such a complicated thing, and there are so many fields of interest and complex interactions between them, that almost everybody is more talented and more knowledgeable in certain fields than... you are. Or me. Some people are terrifically talented in certain areas but may seem almost retarded in others... like correlating animated 2d radar maps to the real world.
My mother shies away from the DVD player we got her... but she can look at nearly any 3d object, such as an animal, and freehand draw a sewing pattern for it. That's not a simple task; it involves mental 3d->2d transformations that any graphics modeler would be jealous of.