I think you are on the right track. This is a move to get the us vs. them mentality on the internet, so one can put border crossings on it. Firewalls all the way, and no more of this inter-country unmonitored communication shit.
And when those fucks come over on our side of the line we'll throw 'em in trucks and send their alien asses right back. 'MERICA!
In so many words others have expressed what I have summarized down to "advertisers don't respect their audience." Their approach has almost always been the capitalist "what the market will bear" approach and as people have grown accustomed to being assaulted with ever more eye-catching colors, styles, techniques and technologies, the limits of what the market will bear erode. People no longer realize they are being disrespected. Their paid-for internet connection are being utilized. Their time is being wasted. They will install software that resists being uninstalled and drains performance and stability from their computers. I see no end to what they will do.
There is a blurry and indistinguishable line between "reputable ad networks" and "the bad guys." The reputable are certainly not constrained by morals and not by law. How can we know they aren't simply being complicit?
They're disrespectful and idiots. What "targeted advertising" gets is showing people what they already have. I play EVE Online. I look up stuff on EVE Online. Going by my cookies and such, advertisers know I play EVE Online. So, what is advertised to me? To try EVE Online. They succeed in nothing.
reputable ad networks? What are those? Is he speaking of google ad-sense? or Hulu ads? Personally, I don't consider ad networks that use banner ads as anything that are reputable (this includes any of the shady ad-networks that Google purchased as well). Non-obtrusive text ads, I can deal with. Even Hulu ads, I can deal with since it's film on film. It's just that I hate banner ads, or animated ads, when I'm in reading-mode.
I've noticed more and more ads are finding ways to subtly act like they are a part of the site. Instead of the old crap that pretended to be a Windows window, now it's "Download now" or "Download Torrent Here" or "More about this here". What's even worse are one's that attempt to provide information in the middle of instructive articles misleading you.
It's all a monstrosity. There is nothing I despise more than advertising, it's the reason I stopped watching television years ago and it may yet be the reason I stop watching Hulu.
Shut the fuck up you dumb cracka before I stick my 10 inch nigga dick up yo ass.
I swear with all the intelligent and creative people on/. this has to be some kind of... encrypted message or anagram or something. I just can't figure it out though, I must just not be up to par with the rest of the crowd. Curse me and my stupid brain!
The only reason why this is practical is because aerogels are 99% air (or in this case vacuum).
My sample of aerogel collapsed a long time ago. It's not exactly the most stable stuff, but I supposed you wouldn't have to worry about humidity so much in space.
The idle fears always at the fringe of my mind broke free of their self-subjected limitations for the smallest fraction of a moment and overwhelmed my psyche in a blaze of terror, casting my will into an endless pit of despair.
Please, if you have even the smallest drop of humanity, you will never mention that catastrophe again. Now I can not help but to imagine Star Wars released in 3D with the idiot who shall not be named injected into every second of the movies he was not before.
Now if you all will excuse me I have to go suck my thumb and piss myself while I desperately attempt to be comforted by a soft pillow and blanket.
Thanks to the plasticity of the brain and modern technology (not to mention where we're apparently going), it is entirely possible to shove organic-friendly electrodes into many parts of the brain and slowly learn how to "output" to them and understand the significance of "input".
This (output) was successfully tested on a man who was completely paralyzed and given the power to use a cursor on a computer and "push" a button. It took him a while to accomplish and the "how" is a little sketchy, but it certainly can be done on an unhampered individual.
It won't be too long before people will be able to opt into networking their brain wirelessly to their peers and become meta-minds. I'm surprised no one's already trying it.
I know this is a kdawson story and all, but what is there really to discuss here? Okay, so a part in space broken down and will be repaired. Seems like a pretty routine thing to me. I can understand if this were some unorthodox procedure or novel technology that had never been tried before, but that doesn't appear to be the case here.
Back on topic: um... good luck guys!
That's exactly what I thought. There was a story that it was broken, no shit they're gonna fix it!
Pretty much all modern cell phones have standard mini-USB charging. It's bloody great. I'm surprised apple would still prevent a standard USB connection from charging one of there devices. Glad I stopped buying there stuff a couple of years ago.
Actually, most cheap USB chargers have little more to do with USB specification than their output and connector. Apple, ironically, does more to respect the specification by going through the trouble to keep their device from grabbing for current that might not be there.
Now, if iPhones/whatever actually had a mini-USB plug on the device I'd cry foul, like some cell phones do yet only charge off branded chargers.
Yeah, next their going to tell me I can't replace the battery either.
You can't because there is no battery. All Apple products are powered by a special state of mind that occurs when someone abandons any voluntary will and tune themselves to the control rays emanating from Steve Jobs himself.
Is there a practical reason that the iPhone / iPod cannot be recharged and / or synced via a simple USB mico connector interface?
Yes... Profit!
I don't know... I mean, absolutely profit but maybe not as direct as shit like licensing specific charges. The proprietary connector has amazingly and surprisingly lead to a bajillion or so products that are specifically indicated to plug iPods into.
When you have shelves lined with products all with that specific connector, many people will feel compelled into believing that iPods are the only way to go... and they are! They've become de facto, the name "iPod" has replaced "mp3 player" in many peoples' lexicon.
There's definitely alternatives, many of which are much more impressive than Apple anything, but Apple has tight, if softly padded, grip on the marketplace and out culture.
On the other hand, if an American soldier dies because of our actual freedoms, such as freedom of speech, well, thats a clear and present danger, etc, etc, bs bs bs.
Do you really believe this without qualification? That under no circumstances should the free flow of information be inhibited by the government, even if it means people will die?
I wanted to say something clever but I am a failure in that practice and the Great Big Question hit me so hard I won't see straight for hours.
That really is a massive question of ethics. Is it okay for a government of the people, et cetera, which takes responsibility for its populace while at the same time demanding oversight from the populace, to ever withhold information?
The US has had a long sequence of stupid and ineffectual presidents with little substantive difference between the two sides of the aisle. And so it continues.
I doubt anyone's "foreign policy" could have stopped the madness we're in now. It's not just the US acting/reacting, there's a lot of illusioned zealots in and out of the country letting books of magic tell them what to do.
Planes hitting skyscrapers was just an indicator of how dangerous religion can be in modern times. Worse will happen until religion (at least the kind that commands death, and destruction) is eliminated (I'm looking at you Christians, too.)
It's ideal for grandparents that simply have no need for a full blown computer but want to keep in touch. I think for a large number of non geeks it could easily be a better alternative to a laptop or desktop.
I keep hearing this but there's a lack of evidence showing that any "grandparents" (some grandparents are as young as 40 and are already quite capable of using "full blown computers") are actually using iPads for their simplicity.
Only for Americans. Obviously HDMI is digital but SCART has been a European standard for around three decades, including three channel video. Welcome to 1980!
I just checked it out on YouKnowWhatipedia and I'm impressed, especially with "daisy chaining". For a country that's the source of many technological advances, it really makes the US look ass-backwards in consumer products. It reminds me all over again that I actually have to convert Metric.
The specifics are outlined in a 38 page document on the HDMI website. At the most basic level cables are split into 'Standard' and 'High Speed' versions. Standard cables are tested to support video up to 720p/1080i. High Speed cables on the other hand are tested to 1080p resolution. Within these categories come the inevitable subcategories. Standard is split three ways into Standard HDMI Cable, Standard HDMI Cable with Ethernet and Standard Automotive HDMI cable. High Speed Cables come in two versions - High Speed HDMI Cable and High Speed HDMI Cable with Ethernet.
Oh noes, how are we possibly going to be able to tell which cable to buy?:0
With the exception of "Standard Automotive HDMI cable" they all seem rather good, self explanatory names to me. Much better names than just "HDMI 1.4 cable" anyway. Besides, the packaging probably will still say HDMI 1.4 somewhere..?
Of course they could just have one specification for a cable that promises to do all those things like before.
I still haven't see any evidence that proves this change in climate isn't some sort of natural cycle that happens every few thousand or tens of thousands of years. I think that this might be happening regardless of any impact we are having on the planet, considering that cows produce more methane than all the cars in the world and that volcanoes spew out way more pollution than all the humans combined.
Argue away but it's irrelevant, and so is the warming itself. What matters is what this means to Humanity, how we may be effected and what we can do about it if it's not a desirable thing.
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How are you supposed to bring the ballistic gel into the balloon ?
What does that have to do with anything?
Call me a person, citizen, customer, etc, but don't call me a consumer. A consumer is someone that does nothing but consume.
The word "consumer" doesn't even make sense in this case. In what sense am I "consuming" when I'm being spied on by a government?
"Consumer" is a social class these days. You're in it. Right below you at the bottom is "Immigrant".
I think you are on the right track. This is a move to get the us vs. them mentality on the internet, so one can put border crossings on it. Firewalls all the way, and no more of this inter-country unmonitored communication shit.
And when those fucks come over on our side of the line we'll throw 'em in trucks and send their alien asses right back. 'MERICA!
In so many words others have expressed what I have summarized down to "advertisers don't respect their audience." Their approach has almost always been the capitalist "what the market will bear" approach and as people have grown accustomed to being assaulted with ever more eye-catching colors, styles, techniques and technologies, the limits of what the market will bear erode. People no longer realize they are being disrespected. Their paid-for internet connection are being utilized. Their time is being wasted. They will install software that resists being uninstalled and drains performance and stability from their computers. I see no end to what they will do.
There is a blurry and indistinguishable line between "reputable ad networks" and "the bad guys." The reputable are certainly not constrained by morals and not by law. How can we know they aren't simply being complicit?
They're disrespectful and idiots. What "targeted advertising" gets is showing people what they already have. I play EVE Online. I look up stuff on EVE Online. Going by my cookies and such, advertisers know I play EVE Online. So, what is advertised to me? To try EVE Online. They succeed in nothing.
reputable ad networks? What are those? Is he speaking of google ad-sense? or Hulu ads? Personally, I don't consider ad networks that use banner ads as anything that are reputable (this includes any of the shady ad-networks that Google purchased as well). Non-obtrusive text ads, I can deal with. Even Hulu ads, I can deal with since it's film on film. It's just that I hate banner ads, or animated ads, when I'm in reading-mode.
I've noticed more and more ads are finding ways to subtly act like they are a part of the site. Instead of the old crap that pretended to be a Windows window, now it's "Download now" or "Download Torrent Here" or "More about this here". What's even worse are one's that attempt to provide information in the middle of instructive articles misleading you.
It's all a monstrosity. There is nothing I despise more than advertising, it's the reason I stopped watching television years ago and it may yet be the reason I stop watching Hulu.
"I got stung by a drive-by exploit on a work machine .. something that installed 'XP Antivirus 2010"
Run your browser from a read-only device, that way you won't ever get stung.
Pendrive
You could also just run your browser in a virtual machine and set the write-back to a file that's deleted every restart.
Shut the fuck up you dumb cracka before I stick my 10 inch nigga dick up yo ass.
I swear with all the intelligent and creative people on /. this has to be some kind of... encrypted message or anagram or something. I just can't figure it out though, I must just not be up to par with the rest of the crowd. Curse me and my stupid brain!
The only reason why this is practical is because aerogels are 99% air (or in this case vacuum).
My sample of aerogel collapsed a long time ago. It's not exactly the most stable stuff, but I supposed you wouldn't have to worry about humidity so much in space.
Because when the space junk is a bolt traveling at 10km/s relative to you, sticky doesn't quite cut it.
What if you filled the balloon with ballistics gel?
I know right? Like OMG, I can't wait to see Step It Up 3D. I hear it's like hella awesome!
I want to see that for the same reason I want to see the Star Wars Christmas special sometime.
Just ask Jar-Jar Binks.
The idle fears always at the fringe of my mind broke free of their self-subjected limitations for the smallest fraction of a moment and overwhelmed my psyche in a blaze of terror, casting my will into an endless pit of despair.
Please, if you have even the smallest drop of humanity, you will never mention that catastrophe again. Now I can not help but to imagine Star Wars released in 3D with the idiot who shall not be named injected into every second of the movies he was not before.
Now if you all will excuse me I have to go suck my thumb and piss myself while I desperately attempt to be comforted by a soft pillow and blanket.
Thanks to the plasticity of the brain and modern technology (not to mention where we're apparently going), it is entirely possible to shove organic-friendly electrodes into many parts of the brain and slowly learn how to "output" to them and understand the significance of "input".
This (output) was successfully tested on a man who was completely paralyzed and given the power to use a cursor on a computer and "push" a button. It took him a while to accomplish and the "how" is a little sketchy, but it certainly can be done on an unhampered individual.
It won't be too long before people will be able to opt into networking their brain wirelessly to their peers and become meta-minds. I'm surprised no one's already trying it.
I know this is a kdawson story and all, but what is there really to discuss here? Okay, so a part in space broken down and will be repaired. Seems like a pretty routine thing to me. I can understand if this were some unorthodox procedure or novel technology that had never been tried before, but that doesn't appear to be the case here.
Back on topic: um... good luck guys!
That's exactly what I thought. There was a story that it was broken, no shit they're gonna fix it!
Pretty much all modern cell phones have standard mini-USB charging. It's bloody great. I'm surprised apple would still prevent a standard USB connection from charging one of there devices. Glad I stopped buying there stuff a couple of years ago.
Actually, most cheap USB chargers have little more to do with USB specification than their output and connector. Apple, ironically, does more to respect the specification by going through the trouble to keep their device from grabbing for current that might not be there.
Now, if iPhones/whatever actually had a mini-USB plug on the device I'd cry foul, like some cell phones do yet only charge off branded chargers.
Yeah, next their going to tell me I can't replace the battery either.
You can't because there is no battery. All Apple products are powered by a special state of mind that occurs when someone abandons any voluntary will and tune themselves to the control rays emanating from Steve Jobs himself.
To make sure that cheap chargers don't compete with Apple's commissions.
Or break their products. Oh, wait...
Either way, that should be left up to the customer to decide with fair admonishment from Apple.
Is there a practical reason that the iPhone / iPod cannot be recharged and / or synced via a simple USB mico connector interface?
Yes... Profit!
I don't know... I mean, absolutely profit but maybe not as direct as shit like licensing specific charges. The proprietary connector has amazingly and surprisingly lead to a bajillion or so products that are specifically indicated to plug iPods into.
When you have shelves lined with products all with that specific connector, many people will feel compelled into believing that iPods are the only way to go... and they are! They've become de facto, the name "iPod" has replaced "mp3 player" in many peoples' lexicon.
There's definitely alternatives, many of which are much more impressive than Apple anything, but Apple has tight, if softly padded, grip on the marketplace and out culture.
On the other hand, if an American soldier dies because of our actual freedoms, such as freedom of speech, well, thats a clear and present danger, etc, etc, bs bs bs.
Do you really believe this without qualification? That under no circumstances should the free flow of information be inhibited by the government, even if it means people will die?
I wanted to say something clever but I am a failure in that practice and the Great Big Question hit me so hard I won't see straight for hours.
That really is a massive question of ethics. Is it okay for a government of the people, et cetera, which takes responsibility for its populace while at the same time demanding oversight from the populace, to ever withhold information?
The US has had a long sequence of stupid and ineffectual presidents with little substantive difference between the two sides of the aisle. And so it continues.
I doubt anyone's "foreign policy" could have stopped the madness we're in now. It's not just the US acting/reacting, there's a lot of illusioned zealots in and out of the country letting books of magic tell them what to do.
Planes hitting skyscrapers was just an indicator of how dangerous religion can be in modern times. Worse will happen until religion (at least the kind that commands death, and destruction) is eliminated (I'm looking at you Christians, too.)
yro=yeah right, obama
You almost had something going there but it can be read too many different ways.
It's ideal for grandparents that simply have no need for a full blown computer but want to keep in touch. I think for a large number of non geeks it could easily be a better alternative to a laptop or desktop.
I keep hearing this but there's a lack of evidence showing that any "grandparents" (some grandparents are as young as 40 and are already quite capable of using "full blown computers") are actually using iPads for their simplicity.
Only for Americans. Obviously HDMI is digital but SCART has been a European standard for around three decades, including three channel video. Welcome to 1980!
I just checked it out on YouKnowWhatipedia and I'm impressed, especially with "daisy chaining". For a country that's the source of many technological advances, it really makes the US look ass-backwards in consumer products. It reminds me all over again that I actually have to convert Metric.
You joke, but check this from TFA:
The specifics are outlined in a 38 page document on the HDMI website. At the most basic level cables are split into 'Standard' and 'High Speed' versions. Standard cables are tested to support video up to 720p/1080i. High Speed cables on the other hand are tested to 1080p resolution. Within these categories come the inevitable subcategories. Standard is split three ways into Standard HDMI Cable, Standard HDMI Cable with Ethernet and Standard Automotive HDMI cable. High Speed Cables come in two versions - High Speed HDMI Cable and High Speed HDMI Cable with Ethernet.
Oh noes, how are we possibly going to be able to tell which cable to buy? :0
With the exception of "Standard Automotive HDMI cable" they all seem rather good, self explanatory names to me. Much better names than just "HDMI 1.4 cable" anyway. Besides, the packaging probably will still say HDMI 1.4 somewhere..?
Of course they could just have one specification for a cable that promises to do all those things like before.
I still haven't see any evidence that proves this change in climate isn't some sort of natural cycle that happens every few thousand or tens of thousands of years. I think that this might be happening regardless of any impact we are having on the planet, considering that cows produce more methane than all the cars in the world and that volcanoes spew out way more pollution than all the humans combined.
Argue away but it's irrelevant, and so is the warming itself. What matters is what this means to Humanity, how we may be effected and what we can do about it if it's not a desirable thing.
...You keep thinking that.
Yes, I'm sure I'll regret it in the likely scenario that someone tries to steal my car at gunpoint at a gas station.