..In a world where it is ok for a restaurant to refuse to serve any TSA agents and your employer can fire you for burning a koran on your own time, why *can't* a game company revoke service from a troll?
I think all three are really shitty, but chances are most people only disagree with 1 or 2 of the above and those are the people who make it all possible.
In my experience, no one trains anyone on shit, which may be your point.
New computer, new OS, new office suite. It looks different? Tough shit, get back to work. Whether it was XP to Vista or 7. Or from Office03 to Office07 or Office2010... It may as well be OpenOffice, the same grumbling about menu items and behaviors that gradually subsides as people get back to work.
Hell, I deployed a bunch of ubuntu boxes in elementary schools for student use and purposely didn't tell anyone anything more than the logins just to see what would happen. They just figured it out, teachers and students alike. Not like they are doing VBA programming or something.
The "training" thing is a red herring MOST of the time.
Every person I know understands that there are a variety of browsers they can choose from. Just as they understand there are a variety of tire makers they can use for their cars. The few who stick with IE (which confounds me to no end), simply just like it.
It isn't the proper role of government to force companies to point out their competitors' offerings to the customer. If Suzie buys Campbell's Soup, it itsn't Campbell's problem if Suzie isn't aware of her other soup choices.
Know what is crazy? Almost everyone I know is using non-IE browsers. None of them live in the EU. OMFG, they made choices without government interference!!!!
I'm not really yelling at you. Just the constant propagation of misinformation that seems to be the rule on/. On every discussion regarding GPS and speeting tickets (of which there have been many), someone points to frequency shift, gets modded +5 because it sounds so badass, and then even more people echo it next time.
GPS position is always off, and never consistently so. Your receiver may round-off the changes, throw out the obvious outliers, etc... but GPS was never supposed to be a 1-meter accuracy system. If you can read the raw stream of positions (without your GPSR averaging them) you will find it jumps around a LOT. After the obvious outliers are thrown out, the position is averaged and given to you. The min's and max's give you a circular position error. Most consumer GPSRs don't give you the CPE, instead give you "accuracy" which is just based on the number of satellites in your horizon. Your CPE is usually much worse than you think it would be.
How sensitive would a device have to be, and how fast would it's processor need to be, to detect a 10mph difference from the frequency of a radio signal coming from space I wonder? Seems like that would be the hard part. And since you are usually moving obliquely to satellites (instead of towards or away), I wonder how much frequency difference there would be anyway.
Jesus FUCKING Christ! Quit saying that! While GPS *could* use dopler shift, most do NOT! You can't make a blanket statement that they all do. It is utter bullshit.
I emailed garmin on this question:
Dear xxxxx,
Thank you for contacting Garmin International. I'd be happy to help you with your Legend. The unit determines speed by using the track log data and calculating time/distance between those points. Please let me know if there's anything else I can assist you with.
With Best Regards, Debbie B Product Support Specialist Outdoor/Fitness Team Garmin International
It is pretty easy to show that consumer GPSR's aren't that accurate, speed-wise. I can easily break the speed limit and slow back down with my Android or eTrex being none the wiser.
So please, next time this discussion comes up, remember this conversation? It is like Groundhog Day on/. every time this comes up!
I agree with most of what you are saying, but this is a little like asking why Australopithecus afarensis bothered filling its niche if it was just going to die out.
The market existed but turned out to be an evolutionary dead end.
Having spent some time in the Army, and having had some exposure to PsyOps attempts... I have concluded that PsyOps earns its stripes at the strategic level, not the tactical level: they don't really mold minds on an individual basis.
Steering whole units OVER TIME with ruses, not a room-full of VIPs in a few afternoons with jedi mind tricks.
If you really think that PsyOps is some jedi mind trick bullshit, you've watched too many movies. At best it is some pogues in the woods with loudspeakers on thier HMMWV trying to make the enemy scouts tell their commander that they hear tanks when there really aren't any.
These aren't psychologists, hypnotists, or jedis... they operate based on very basic ideas and techniques. And already/. is filled with comments from pasty basement dwellers who love Clancy books and SciFi movies, commenting with wild-eyed amazement at the thought of such amazing intrigue.
Every large bureaucracy in the government has a public affairs arm whose job it is to convince the public and policy makers that their bureau is important and deserves some pie.
My wife, as part of her job as a wildlife biologist, is to spend time indoctrinating school children in the importance of wildlife and natural habitat.
She may not be formally trained in psyops, but being a woman she is naturally predisposed to mental manipulation. This isn't really any different.
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we usually say "bump-up" the meeting.
we only use prepone to postpone meetings that haven't even been planned yet.
uh oh.
did someone hurt your feelings today at school?
it's okay princess, you can tell us.
cure someone from listening to metal
Everything after Kill 'Em All created a lot of "former metal fans".
Ergo
Wanna know how I know you're gay?
PostgreSQL was already taken.
..In a world where it is ok for a restaurant to refuse to serve any TSA agents and your employer can fire you for burning a koran on your own time, why *can't* a game company revoke service from a troll?
I think all three are really shitty, but chances are most people only disagree with 1 or 2 of the above and those are the people who make it all possible.
Many Bothans died to bring us this information.
Pretty sweet purse though.
"orange dog on the blue globe"
LOL! I've never heard that one, I will start using that from now on!
Agreed.
Imagine an encyclopedia that only contained information you already knew.
In my experience, no one trains anyone on shit, which may be your point.
New computer, new OS, new office suite. It looks different? Tough shit, get back to work. Whether it was XP to Vista or 7. Or from Office03 to Office07 or Office2010... It may as well be OpenOffice, the same grumbling about menu items and behaviors that gradually subsides as people get back to work.
Hell, I deployed a bunch of ubuntu boxes in elementary schools for student use and purposely didn't tell anyone anything more than the logins just to see what would happen. They just figured it out, teachers and students alike. Not like they are doing VBA programming or something.
The "training" thing is a red herring MOST of the time.
Noticed I said "repair", not upgrade.
Repairing isn't really the true Apple user way, is it?
..the meteorites were intelligently designed!
Boom.
I think you just made his point.
Everyone made fun of Japanese quality, and now Japanese stuff is first-rate.
Right now, China makes shit....
So history doesn't seem irrelevant at all.
Leading to a purposefully-difficult repair to encourage overpriced Mac-Authorized shops and a throw-away society.
See also, Pwn2Own results.
Every person I know understands that there are a variety of browsers they can choose from. Just as they understand there are a variety of tire makers they can use for their cars. The few who stick with IE (which confounds me to no end), simply just like it.
It isn't the proper role of government to force companies to point out their competitors' offerings to the customer. If Suzie buys Campbell's Soup, it itsn't Campbell's problem if Suzie isn't aware of her other soup choices.
Know what is crazy?
Almost everyone I know is using non-IE browsers.
None of them live in the EU.
OMFG, they made choices without government interference!!!!
So the main goal of a for-profit company should be to develop an equal marketplace for its competitors?
This was just Europe showing a US company who was boss. If Ikea made Windows, this would never have happened.
When can we see Apple told how to conduct its business by some fascists?
I'm not really yelling at you. Just the constant propagation of misinformation that seems to be the rule on /. On every discussion regarding GPS and speeting tickets (of which there have been many), someone points to frequency shift, gets modded +5 because it sounds so badass, and then even more people echo it next time.
GPS position is always off, and never consistently so. Your receiver may round-off the changes, throw out the obvious outliers, etc... but GPS was never supposed to be a 1-meter accuracy system. If you can read the raw stream of positions (without your GPSR averaging them) you will find it jumps around a LOT. After the obvious outliers are thrown out, the position is averaged and given to you. The min's and max's give you a circular position error. Most consumer GPSRs don't give you the CPE, instead give you "accuracy" which is just based on the number of satellites in your horizon. Your CPE is usually much worse than you think it would be.
How sensitive would a device have to be, and how fast would it's processor need to be, to detect a 10mph difference from the frequency of a radio signal coming from space I wonder? Seems like that would be the hard part. And since you are usually moving obliquely to satellites (instead of towards or away), I wonder how much frequency difference there would be anyway.
Jesus FUCKING Christ!
Quit saying that!
While GPS *could* use dopler shift, most do NOT! You can't make a blanket statement that they all do. It is utter bullshit.
I emailed garmin on this question:
Dear xxxxx,
Thank you for contacting Garmin International. I'd be happy to help you with your Legend.
The unit determines speed by using the track log data and calculating time/distance between those points.
Please let me know if there's anything else I can assist you with.
With Best Regards,
Debbie B
Product Support Specialist
Outdoor/Fitness Team
Garmin International
Here is something from google groups on the issue:
http://www.mail-archive.com/android-developers@googlegroups.com/msg57902.html
It is pretty easy to show that consumer GPSR's aren't that accurate, speed-wise. I can easily break the speed limit and slow back down with my Android or eTrex being none the wiser.
So please, next time this discussion comes up, remember this conversation? It is like Groundhog Day on /. every time this comes up!
I agree with most of what you are saying, but this is a little like asking why Australopithecus afarensis bothered filling its niche if it was just going to die out.
The market existed but turned out to be an evolutionary dead end.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogue
You are still a pogue. (:
Having spent some time in the Army, and having had some exposure to PsyOps attempts... I have concluded that PsyOps earns its stripes at the strategic level, not the tactical level: they don't really mold minds on an individual basis.
Steering whole units OVER TIME with ruses, not a room-full of VIPs in a few afternoons with jedi mind tricks.
If you really think that PsyOps is some jedi mind trick bullshit, you've watched too many movies. At best it is some pogues in the woods with loudspeakers on thier HMMWV trying to make the enemy scouts tell their commander that they hear tanks when there really aren't any.
These aren't psychologists, hypnotists, or jedis... they operate based on very basic ideas and techniques. And already /. is filled with comments from pasty basement dwellers who love Clancy books and SciFi movies, commenting with wild-eyed amazement at the thought of such amazing intrigue.
Every large bureaucracy in the government has a public affairs arm whose job it is to convince the public and policy makers that their bureau is important and deserves some pie.
My wife, as part of her job as a wildlife biologist, is to spend time indoctrinating school children in the importance of wildlife and natural habitat.
She may not be formally trained in psyops, but being a woman she is naturally predisposed to mental manipulation. This isn't really any different.