It's rare that I find user forums that any admins monitor. Opening topics on the forums.. maybe another user could help you. But often not any support staff from the company.
Electronics are easy. "Aux In" and a Bluetooth Button. $40 and your smartphone does all the work.
I've found Bluetooth interfaces to be... unreliable. Many (I suspect lower-quality) bluetooth-enabled stereos have problems syncing. Oh, the pairing part is easy. My phone will be paired, but it will take awhile for the audio to actually start going through the car speakers (until then the car display might say things like "Samsung A900 has stopped" or "Device has disconnected."). It's not as straightforward and instantaneous as just plugging in a cable into an AUX jack. Then there's the hitching. Sometimes the audio is fine, sometimes it just hitches, and it does that with both my Samsung and my husband's iphone. I've tried with an Alpine stereo I'd bought myself, as well as with the sound system built into my 2016 Nissan. It's just a hassle sometimes.
Not to mention the lighter materials used and the trend towards smaller, both of which decrease survivability
Nonsense. Cars are built like brick shithouses nowadays. My 1977 Rabbit weighed 1800-odd lb. My 1999 Golf weighs almost 2900 lb. The Rabbit had more cargo space, and about the same cabin space.
People might have driven pickup trucks in the 70s, but overall we've seen a bit of a weight arms-race in the US in the last decade. More and more people driving SUVs because they're big and they feel "safer," and they are safer -- because they have a big weight advantage in a collision with a car. So current cars trend towards smaller, but they're also engineered to survive impact with a much larger vehicle, which means heavier construction.
Since this is not a technical problem (the idea of shared cars has been around a long time), and they have never really taken off.
Yes, but the self-driving aspect certainly gets it closer to the ideal. I can understand being skeptical of how car-sharing services have worked before, but a car that can move autonomously would be a game changer. If you can make them -convenient- (car sharing never was), then people will use them. If the car is just... there when you want it, I think a lot of people will go for that. It may not entirely replace a personal car, but it might replace a number of uses for them.
No. Just pathetically no. If someone breaks into your house, you can't rightfully sue them for copyright infringement. That is just asinine.
The primary part of the lawsuit involves the DMCA's anti-circumvention section. It's difficult comparing meat-space with online actions, but this comes close.
Mate, WotLK, really? Burning Crusade cut raiding from 40/20 to 25/10, that's a bigger nono than anything after that
You sure about that? Do you know how unmanageable a 40-man raid was? Do you know how difficult it was to get that many people together, to recruit and maintain such groups? There's a reason why plenty of people had played Molten Core and Blackwing Lair, while very very few groups made it inside Naxxramas, and it wasn't just that the latter with f'n hard. At that point, most raid groups had broken down, and it was harder and harder to find people capable of doing the later content, because the barrier to entry for the earlier content was so high, and this time I don't mean content difficulty. Organizationally, it was rough trying to put together a 40-man to do earlier content. It didn't help that the 20-man raids, Zul'Gurub and Ahn'Qiraj, gave gear that was much lower in level compared to the 40-mans, and it was usually off-spec or experimental gear that wouldn't help you in the 40-mans. So there was no shortcut to the latter steps in progression as there were in later expansions. You'd get to Naxx and you'd end up starting raids with 32 people instead of 40 people because of raid attrition, but there weren't well-geared people to add. That doesn't happen nearly so often now.
I feel usually the people who say "40 man raids.. man, those were the best" were not the ones who had to organize them. Most servers only had one or two groups capable of doing Naxx, and if you didn't like your raid, well, sucks to be you! That was before server transfers, in the days when leveling to 60 took months, and when you finally got that far, you were so far behind the gear curve you'd never catch up.
Plenty of Blizzards games are subscription based, so yes: they lose sales to cheat bots.
Only World of Warcraft is subscription based. Overwatch, Diablo, Starcraft, and Heroes of the Storm are traditional subscriptionless game purchases, and Hearthstone is free-to-play with purchasable card decks.
Most of their titles in the last decade require Battle.Net, but that part is a free service.
And yet, Jimmy Savile spent half a century raping his way through nearly 600 children while the Beeb's management feigned ignorance of his depredations.
Are you sure the decision makers in both cases were the exact same individuals?
AC, that is a very very well-put-together satire. It straddles the line perfectly, getting the point across without being ridiculously over the top or hostile. Bravo.
In the old days, lots of people punched a co-worker.
Yeah, well, the old days sucked. It's better that they're in the past and you don't necessarily have to put up with the brute anymore, or the fake camaraderie of beer-drinking with an asshole.
She was a complete nobody until her appearance on the Daily Show
You keep parroting this absolute nonsense while dismissing everything that doesn't fit your narrative. For instance, a year before her first Daily Show appearance she was appointed to chair the Congressional Oversight Panel which monitored the TARP bailout.
The problem is, every single Presidential election, without fail I hear a very loud refrain: "yes, voting for your conscience is good. Sure, I support third parties. BUT THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN OUR LIFETIMES, and the candidate I don't like is SOOOO bad, so much worse than candidates from previous elections, that we have to do everything possible to stop him. So next time, vote third party, but just this time you have to vote to stop the worse candidate."
Exactly, all politics and humor and whatever aside, how did one notice bring down an entire hosting system ?
For some reason, I think of that scene from Ghostbusters where the EPA official forces out the employees and has a contractor come in and shut everything down..
A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State,
It's an explanation that justifies the directive of "the rights of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged." Most directives in the Constitution don't have an explanation, but it's not unprecedented. The Copyright Clause, for instance: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." The first phrase is nice, but it doesn't have any directive behind it. The only part that requires action on the part of the government is the "securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right" section.
Ben Carson. 9 letters. Fewer than Black Doctor at that. You could have named him. Instead you referred to him by a concept
He never had any coherent arguments, any real platform, or anything interesting to say. He was novelty and got attention because of the concept: black Republican doctor. That's pretty much how the Republican Party treated him too. Apart from that concept, there wasn't much to him.
Like the AC, I used MythTV back in the 2000s and I gave up on it around 2007 or 2008. The two big factors were copy-protected HD streams cable (you have to use proprietary systems to access HD channels through cables), and the other was that it was clear the MythTV coders had no clue how to properly decode high-definition streams, especially any with even the tiniest bit of "noise" (so goodbye HD-over-the-air!) Since I was no longer interested in low definition streams of content I had access to in HD, MythTV went bye-bye. Also, the "totally free" system always had problems getting TV listings, because that was another proprietary system.
If you can take a few million and leverage it into billions, I'm sure you could find backers to give you the seed money, too.
Of course, but you have to be able to prove it. Your average person isn't going to be able to. Donald's silver spoon let him skip that high barrier to entry.
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It's rare that I find user forums that any admins monitor. Opening topics on the forums.. maybe another user could help you. But often not any support staff from the company.
Good. Fuck Unicode. We don't need it on Slashdot, we don't want it on Slashdot.
Electronics are easy. "Aux In" and a Bluetooth Button. $40 and your smartphone does all the work.
I've found Bluetooth interfaces to be... unreliable. Many (I suspect lower-quality) bluetooth-enabled stereos have problems syncing. Oh, the pairing part is easy. My phone will be paired, but it will take awhile for the audio to actually start going through the car speakers (until then the car display might say things like "Samsung A900 has stopped" or "Device has disconnected."). It's not as straightforward and instantaneous as just plugging in a cable into an AUX jack. Then there's the hitching. Sometimes the audio is fine, sometimes it just hitches, and it does that with both my Samsung and my husband's iphone. I've tried with an Alpine stereo I'd bought myself, as well as with the sound system built into my 2016 Nissan. It's just a hassle sometimes.
Nonsense. Cars are built like brick shithouses nowadays. My 1977 Rabbit weighed 1800-odd lb. My 1999 Golf weighs almost 2900 lb. The Rabbit had more cargo space, and about the same cabin space.
People might have driven pickup trucks in the 70s, but overall we've seen a bit of a weight arms-race in the US in the last decade. More and more people driving SUVs because they're big and they feel "safer," and they are safer -- because they have a big weight advantage in a collision with a car. So current cars trend towards smaller, but they're also engineered to survive impact with a much larger vehicle, which means heavier construction.
Since this is not a technical problem (the idea of shared cars has been around a long time), and they have never really taken off.
Yes, but the self-driving aspect certainly gets it closer to the ideal. I can understand being skeptical of how car-sharing services have worked before, but a car that can move autonomously would be a game changer. If you can make them -convenient- (car sharing never was), then people will use them. If the car is just... there when you want it, I think a lot of people will go for that. It may not entirely replace a personal car, but it might replace a number of uses for them.
No. Just pathetically no. If someone breaks into your house, you can't rightfully sue them for copyright infringement. That is just asinine.
The primary part of the lawsuit involves the DMCA's anti-circumvention section. It's difficult comparing meat-space with online actions, but this comes close.
Mate, WotLK, really? Burning Crusade cut raiding from 40/20 to 25/10, that's a bigger nono than anything after that
You sure about that? Do you know how unmanageable a 40-man raid was? Do you know how difficult it was to get that many people together, to recruit and maintain such groups? There's a reason why plenty of people had played Molten Core and Blackwing Lair, while very very few groups made it inside Naxxramas, and it wasn't just that the latter with f'n hard. At that point, most raid groups had broken down, and it was harder and harder to find people capable of doing the later content, because the barrier to entry for the earlier content was so high, and this time I don't mean content difficulty. Organizationally, it was rough trying to put together a 40-man to do earlier content. It didn't help that the 20-man raids, Zul'Gurub and Ahn'Qiraj, gave gear that was much lower in level compared to the 40-mans, and it was usually off-spec or experimental gear that wouldn't help you in the 40-mans. So there was no shortcut to the latter steps in progression as there were in later expansions. You'd get to Naxx and you'd end up starting raids with 32 people instead of 40 people because of raid attrition, but there weren't well-geared people to add. That doesn't happen nearly so often now.
I feel usually the people who say "40 man raids.. man, those were the best" were not the ones who had to organize them. Most servers only had one or two groups capable of doing Naxx, and if you didn't like your raid, well, sucks to be you! That was before server transfers, in the days when leveling to 60 took months, and when you finally got that far, you were so far behind the gear curve you'd never catch up.
Plenty of Blizzards games are subscription based, so yes: they lose sales to cheat bots.
Only World of Warcraft is subscription based. Overwatch, Diablo, Starcraft, and Heroes of the Storm are traditional subscriptionless game purchases, and Hearthstone is free-to-play with purchasable card decks.
Most of their titles in the last decade require Battle.Net, but that part is a free service.
And yet, Jimmy Savile spent half a century raping his way through nearly 600 children while the Beeb's management feigned ignorance of his depredations.
Are you sure the decision makers in both cases were the exact same individuals?
And hot man on man gay snogging -- they literally can't seem to get enough of that in their TV Shows over there
GDI, there's not nearly enough of that on BBC America.
AC, that is a very very well-put-together satire. It straddles the line perfectly, getting the point across without being ridiculously over the top or hostile. Bravo.
In the old days, lots of people punched a co-worker.
Yeah, well, the old days sucked. It's better that they're in the past and you don't necessarily have to put up with the brute anymore, or the fake camaraderie of beer-drinking with an asshole.
Even more reason NOT to punch a staff member, then?
but they really need someone dry and British
Ok, fine, Piers Morgan it is. Are you happy now??
She was a complete nobody until her appearance on the Daily Show
You keep parroting this absolute nonsense while dismissing everything that doesn't fit your narrative.
For instance, a year before her first Daily Show appearance she was appointed to chair the Congressional Oversight Panel which monitored the TARP bailout.
Ah yes, the old "being a businessman is the only virtuous career" argument.
The problem is, every single Presidential election, without fail I hear a very loud refrain: "yes, voting for your conscience is good. Sure, I support third parties. BUT THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN OUR LIFETIMES, and the candidate I don't like is SOOOO bad, so much worse than candidates from previous elections, that we have to do everything possible to stop him. So next time, vote third party, but just this time you have to vote to stop the worse candidate."
Exactly, all politics and humor and whatever aside, how did one notice bring down an entire hosting system ?
For some reason, I think of that scene from Ghostbusters where the EPA official forces out the employees and has a contractor come in and shut everything down..
A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State,
It's an explanation that justifies the directive of "the rights of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged." Most directives in the Constitution don't have an explanation, but it's not unprecedented. The Copyright Clause, for instance: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." The first phrase is nice, but it doesn't have any directive behind it. The only part that requires action on the part of the government is the "securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right" section.
Ben Carson. 9 letters. Fewer than Black Doctor at that. You could have named him. Instead you referred to him by a concept
He never had any coherent arguments, any real platform, or anything interesting to say. He was novelty and got attention because of the concept: black Republican doctor. That's pretty much how the Republican Party treated him too. Apart from that concept, there wasn't much to him.
she cleared the field and kept the real competition (Biden, Warren, etc) from joining
When you say things like that, it's kindof hard to take any of your arguments seriously.
Whoops, continuing: it's a shame, because I did like some aspects of MythTV's interface over Tivo's, and I still miss being able to use a keyboard.
Like the AC, I used MythTV back in the 2000s and I gave up on it around 2007 or 2008.
The two big factors were copy-protected HD streams cable (you have to use proprietary systems to access HD channels through cables), and the other was that it was clear the MythTV coders had no clue how to properly decode high-definition streams, especially any with even the tiniest bit of "noise" (so goodbye HD-over-the-air!) Since I was no longer interested in low definition streams of content I had access to in HD, MythTV went bye-bye. Also, the "totally free" system always had problems getting TV listings, because that was another proprietary system.
If you can take a few million and leverage it into billions, I'm sure you could find backers to give you the seed money, too.
Of course, but you have to be able to prove it. Your average person isn't going to be able to. Donald's silver spoon let him skip that high barrier to entry.
"Guccifer"
It's Guccifer 2.0, dumbass! God, only rubes and non-hipsters stick with their 1.0 slave name.