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Gaming Netflix Ratings?
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Not only this, but consider the various fanboys. Some people may like Brendon Frasier enough that they think any movie with him is great, so they vote. People - like the OP mentioned - might like the book so much, they vote the movie positive without having seen it. It's idiotic, but so are people often times.
I have yet to see a case in which this is anything other than a desperation move by a failing business.
If they're seriously changing their tactics, how is it a failing business? We still need reputable sources for the news and not the typical blogger. I know that this isn't always prevalent in news, but I prefer more fact in my daily news like we typically see in news reports than opinion typically from bloggers.
An instrumented pre-release that hasn't gone through major performance improvements is slower than the release of XP? Wow, what a revelation. Pre-release of XP wasn't all that fast, either.
But what does it mean to be politically savvy? Seriously. And with some agreement on a definition in mind, then does it matter?
IMO, politicians are often not fit to make decisions on what they do nor are their constituents, so many times it falls to the lobbyists who either make the best argument or, frankly, put the most money into their argument.
So because one person recites religious ties to animal life, you target all religions as "cramming religion" down your throats? I wasn't aware that anyone was pointing a gun to your head making you read it. I view and believe science articles and am still religious and the two actually do compliment each other in ways. But it's extremists on both sides - like you and those people "cramming" it down your throat, that hurt the argument for either side. Quit thinking in absolutes like a Sith.
But back on topic, "ethical" doesn't preclude killing an animal. There are quick ways of killing animals that are practice in, at least, most North American farms (not that many farms still kill livestock these days) and slaughter yards. I believe that animals should be treated with some respect, yes, but that's not slashing puppies' throats like happened recently in the news where I'm located. Or drowning a bunch because they came out the wrong color.
And PETA's "shock value" seems odd. It would turn a lot of people away - away from PETA as well. I'm surprised they didn't launch an all-vegetarian parody instead, showing healthy ways to get what little protein you can from a vegetarian diet.
It wasn't designed to be stomped on, but it probably should have. I'm not defending the class-action lawsuit (I think it's stupid), but the fact is that most people didn't use the drum pedal as a real drummer would (I know, since I've been drumming most of my life). Drummers don't stomp on the pedal - there's no need. Some use their toe with their heal raise, and some use their heal to press on the back of the pedal (it's a little quicker, but hard to maintain for long durations, IMO). Most people playing Rock Band and friends have no idea how to play real instruments, and these game manufacturers should know that (I'm sure they do).
Is it an offense worth a lawsuit? Hardly. The same people stomping on their pedals always seem to complain about fatigue. Well, maybe they should figure out a method (i.e., the real method) that doesn't involve as much movement and, coincidentally, is not as destructive to the pedal.
I had heard that this was "the best game of all time", "revolutionary", etc etc ad nauseum, so I had high expectations.
You fall for that? Almost every game, book, movie, etc., claims to get the best. Never hold high expectations for any of them and you won't always be disappointed. Sure you will sometimes (ex: Kgindom of the Crystal Skull) even then, but not always.
Why bother with setting marks, though? In normal mode, just type "v" to enter visual mode and select the lines (well, characters, but the end result next would act on the lines) then without leaving visual mode type:s/foo/bar/g. ViM will automatically use "'s/foo/bar/g" which replaces "foo" with "bar" over the visually selected lines.
Not sure this works that way in Vi, but I prefer ViM.
the standard collections don't have INotifyPropertyChange support across the board
Changing something in a framework that's been out for several releases is generally not good practice. You run the risk of regressing customers that might expect it to work exactly a certain way.
Exactly. And what P3P underscores is that privacy policies really only have a few variations so even the idea floating around in this thread about standardized ones is certainly possible just like Creative Commons has basically a few canned variations. P3P could help to save time, but really the sites need to hypothetically pick from some standard based on what they do / want (just like picking a CC license).
By their very nature many products cannot be ported without their foundations being ported as well. Do any forbid different platforms, though? Perhaps not. But show me one clause in the official definition (according to RMS) at http://opensource.org/docs/osd that says open source can be tied to a specific platform? It talks of products, but that's only that open source can be extract from part of a product an true open source can't forbid it. Last time I checked, CodePlex projects are part of Windows itself.
And to add to that, there are plenty of open source projects on Freshmeat that only run on linux/BSD, or even SourceForge for that matter (which also hosts Windows-only open source projects). "Open source" is that the source is made available. Various open source licenses generally allow for edits to the code but as the parent points out, those patches don't have to be accepted. Does the linux kernel take every patch? Hardly.
I wouldn't say it's just to weed out the fakers. I had a couple of certifications and, frankly, wasn't that impressed with the tests. Take MS certifications: there are several books available to help you test for them. Some "colleges" even just have you go through those when all is said and done and help you study for the test. How is that building skills? Sure, a logical person might pick up the fundamentals for some issues and solutions but I doubt many that just want to get certified to get a better job than flipping burgers at 25 are like that.
Certifications mean jack. Even some degrees mean jack. I was once forced to hire someone with a Masters (he had a Masters degree, so he had to be good, my management thought) who turned out to be utterly useless: he didn't have practical skills. And that's what you're being tested on: practical skills. Theory is great when you're designing new systems or languages but in most jobs that's not what you're supposed to be doing. Most jobs want product.
Except for those people who cheat (boost, exploit dups, etc.) which cheapen related achievements.
But I agree that achievements have made games more valuable as they increase the playthroughs for the majority of people, and have lead me to explore the game more and find interesting things, more information about the plot, etc.
And yes, UAC is poorly implemented. That's Microsoft's fault, all the freaking way.
Yes and no. UAC serves a useful purpose, even as reported on/. before: annoys users who Microsoft assumed were smart enough to blame vendors for vendors' apps that required elevation needlessly. Why UAC pops up so much for applications is the vendors' faults. Yes, at times that vendor is Microsoft but the in-box apps actually behavior pretty well.
Now, the experience / implementation was poor around things like the control panel. If a separate explorer.exe process (or some other process, like control.exe) remembered elevation, since most control panel applets are in-proc libraries elevation shouldn't be required again and again. But fortunately I don't spend that much time frequently enough modifying system settings. Heck, even most environment variables I managed are user environment variables which require no elevation to use.
Frankly, even as a developer, I rarely get UAC prompts. I think people's outward project - including commercials like Apple's - of how frequent they get UAC prompts is wrong. Even when I debug applications that don't require elevation - and most shouldn't - I don't need to elevate windbg or devenv or whatever.
UAC couldn't been implemented a slight bit better, yes, but primarily most UAC prompts people are seeing are vendors' fault.
And before you go calling me a Microsoft fanboi (yes, I like them for the most part) I also have Ubuntu installed (had Fedora, but doesn't work well enough for me in a Virtual PC). Both - and I suspect many other linux/BSD distros - have a UAC equivalent (typically built on sudo it would seem). When installed there is an app that can remember your elevation credentials for a time and that would be one UAC improvement that could be made, but it's still very UAC-ish. And I think both are generally a good idea - makes running as a normal user (RANU) easy enough but provides fairly easy elevation when required without logging out and logging back in, or switching to a different user while remaining loggedin - both which take longer than UAC/sudo.
But typically during duels or when the "good guy" is fighting a larger group. One might argue that is justified violence given the situation. As several on this post have pointed out, it very much depends on the situation. Maiming a character in order to kill it could go to far for some.
not to mention Japanese underground rape-porn
The fact that it's "underground" pretty much means that the government does care about it and doesn't want it, so your mention of it as justification is pretty absurd. That's like saying "murder still happens so the governments must allow it".
Because most settings are parsed and handled only at startup. In the base of the Awesome Bar, I don't see why they couldn't have supported switching but it's prbably just not a big priority. As for addons, the way the extension points are handled and how XUL from extensions is merged with the browser such that extensions can even complete replace standard XUL in the browser requires reparsing and merging all markup. You have to reload everything. I've often wondered about themes in FF, however, since the skinning used is fairly straight forward and is most often just CSS and images.
Of course, all this I think is moot since Firefox can restore your previous session and restarts so quick I really don't mind.
Pretty neat, but the PowerLoader didn't have hands either - just clamps. The video you linked does have a hook and while it's not quite the same thing, it does offer a similar utility.
As for your statement that 'there is no meat replacement' surely the whole point of this prize is to grow something in the lab which is nutritionally and taste equivalent to meat? And if they succeed, there *will* be a full 'meat replacement'
Doubt it. People will cling to real meat sizzling on the grill. And I certainly hope this fate doesn't befall the thousands of farmers making a living. It's bad enough commercial farms are taking over. Haven't enough people lost jobs in this country?
This research seems to miss one critical point: you have to have administrative privileges to apply the vulnerability-generating patch. That's not a success crack, since if you already have administrative privilees you own the machine. It's no different than with linux: you have root, you win. Michael Howard et. al. have been over this countless times through blogs, books, and whitepapers. Just because you can identify or even generate a vulnerability doesn't mean you can exploit it.
Now, granted, when users run as admins this does pose a problem which is one reason - and obviously not the only, based on comments made by Microsofties that have appeared as stories here on/. - that UAC exists. Not the prompts, but more to the point that administrators do even run with a full privileged token: just a normal user token with the privilege to escalate with a simple yes/no dialog.
On top of all this, IIRC it was IT administrators that wanted a consistent release schedule to avoid a fire drill of internal testing every time a patch came out.
It would be interesting to know how this would work for tablets. I'd like to see a matte effect for tablets but the writing surface has to be nearly smooth. It would certainly help, however, as nothing is worse than trying to write on your tablet and all you see is how bad your hair looks.
At times Wikipedia is biased or even wrong, but one thing people seem to fail to realize is that because "anyone" can edit it is likely - however not guaranteed - that someone authoritative will find and fix a comment, or at least tag it as containing incorrect or unconfirmed information.
But with more and more people, or at least professors, blasting Wikipedia like this fewer and fewer authoritative sources will visit and edit Wikipedia. Wikipedia could be great over time but people like those in TFA are destroying that more than I think Wikipedia's editors are.
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Not only this, but consider the various fanboys. Some people may like Brendon Frasier enough that they think any movie with him is great, so they vote. People - like the OP mentioned - might like the book so much, they vote the movie positive without having seen it. It's idiotic, but so are people often times.
If they're seriously changing their tactics, how is it a failing business? We still need reputable sources for the news and not the typical blogger. I know that this isn't always prevalent in news, but I prefer more fact in my daily news like we typically see in news reports than opinion typically from bloggers.
An instrumented pre-release that hasn't gone through major performance improvements is slower than the release of XP? Wow, what a revelation. Pre-release of XP wasn't all that fast, either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke/
Since the US is far behind being 2nd in education - most notably math - wouldn't being 2nd be an improvement?
But what does it mean to be politically savvy? Seriously. And with some agreement on a definition in mind, then does it matter?
IMO, politicians are often not fit to make decisions on what they do nor are their constituents, so many times it falls to the lobbyists who either make the best argument or, frankly, put the most money into their argument.
So because one person recites religious ties to animal life, you target all religions as "cramming religion" down your throats? I wasn't aware that anyone was pointing a gun to your head making you read it. I view and believe science articles and am still religious and the two actually do compliment each other in ways. But it's extremists on both sides - like you and those people "cramming" it down your throat, that hurt the argument for either side. Quit thinking in absolutes like a Sith.
But back on topic, "ethical" doesn't preclude killing an animal. There are quick ways of killing animals that are practice in, at least, most North American farms (not that many farms still kill livestock these days) and slaughter yards. I believe that animals should be treated with some respect, yes, but that's not slashing puppies' throats like happened recently in the news where I'm located. Or drowning a bunch because they came out the wrong color.
And PETA's "shock value" seems odd. It would turn a lot of people away - away from PETA as well. I'm surprised they didn't launch an all-vegetarian parody instead, showing healthy ways to get what little protein you can from a vegetarian diet.
It wasn't designed to be stomped on, but it probably should have. I'm not defending the class-action lawsuit (I think it's stupid), but the fact is that most people didn't use the drum pedal as a real drummer would (I know, since I've been drumming most of my life). Drummers don't stomp on the pedal - there's no need. Some use their toe with their heal raise, and some use their heal to press on the back of the pedal (it's a little quicker, but hard to maintain for long durations, IMO). Most people playing Rock Band and friends have no idea how to play real instruments, and these game manufacturers should know that (I'm sure they do).
Is it an offense worth a lawsuit? Hardly. The same people stomping on their pedals always seem to complain about fatigue. Well, maybe they should figure out a method (i.e., the real method) that doesn't involve as much movement and, coincidentally, is not as destructive to the pedal.
You fall for that? Almost every game, book, movie, etc., claims to get the best. Never hold high expectations for any of them and you won't always be disappointed. Sure you will sometimes (ex: Kgindom of the Crystal Skull) even then, but not always.
Why bother with setting marks, though? In normal mode, just type "v" to enter visual mode and select the lines (well, characters, but the end result next would act on the lines) then without leaving visual mode type :s/foo/bar/g. ViM will automatically use "'s/foo/bar/g" which replaces "foo" with "bar" over the visually selected lines.
Not sure this works that way in Vi, but I prefer ViM.
Changing something in a framework that's been out for several releases is generally not good practice. You run the risk of regressing customers that might expect it to work exactly a certain way.
Exactly. And what P3P underscores is that privacy policies really only have a few variations so even the idea floating around in this thread about standardized ones is certainly possible just like Creative Commons has basically a few canned variations. P3P could help to save time, but really the sites need to hypothetically pick from some standard based on what they do / want (just like picking a CC license).
By their very nature many products cannot be ported without their foundations being ported as well. Do any forbid different platforms, though? Perhaps not. But show me one clause in the official definition (according to RMS) at http://opensource.org/docs/osd that says open source can be tied to a specific platform? It talks of products, but that's only that open source can be extract from part of a product an true open source can't forbid it. Last time I checked, CodePlex projects are part of Windows itself.
And to add to that, there are plenty of open source projects on Freshmeat that only run on linux/BSD, or even SourceForge for that matter (which also hosts Windows-only open source projects). "Open source" is that the source is made available. Various open source licenses generally allow for edits to the code but as the parent points out, those patches don't have to be accepted. Does the linux kernel take every patch? Hardly.
I wouldn't say it's just to weed out the fakers. I had a couple of certifications and, frankly, wasn't that impressed with the tests. Take MS certifications: there are several books available to help you test for them. Some "colleges" even just have you go through those when all is said and done and help you study for the test. How is that building skills? Sure, a logical person might pick up the fundamentals for some issues and solutions but I doubt many that just want to get certified to get a better job than flipping burgers at 25 are like that.
Certifications mean jack. Even some degrees mean jack. I was once forced to hire someone with a Masters (he had a Masters degree, so he had to be good, my management thought) who turned out to be utterly useless: he didn't have practical skills. And that's what you're being tested on: practical skills. Theory is great when you're designing new systems or languages but in most jobs that's not what you're supposed to be doing. Most jobs want product.
Except for those people who cheat (boost, exploit dups, etc.) which cheapen related achievements.
But I agree that achievements have made games more valuable as they increase the playthroughs for the majority of people, and have lead me to explore the game more and find interesting things, more information about the plot, etc.
Yes and no. UAC serves a useful purpose, even as reported on /. before: annoys users who Microsoft assumed were smart enough to blame vendors for vendors' apps that required elevation needlessly. Why UAC pops up so much for applications is the vendors' faults. Yes, at times that vendor is Microsoft but the in-box apps actually behavior pretty well.
Now, the experience / implementation was poor around things like the control panel. If a separate explorer.exe process (or some other process, like control.exe) remembered elevation, since most control panel applets are in-proc libraries elevation shouldn't be required again and again. But fortunately I don't spend that much time frequently enough modifying system settings. Heck, even most environment variables I managed are user environment variables which require no elevation to use.
Frankly, even as a developer, I rarely get UAC prompts. I think people's outward project - including commercials like Apple's - of how frequent they get UAC prompts is wrong. Even when I debug applications that don't require elevation - and most shouldn't - I don't need to elevate windbg or devenv or whatever.
UAC couldn't been implemented a slight bit better, yes, but primarily most UAC prompts people are seeing are vendors' fault.
And before you go calling me a Microsoft fanboi (yes, I like them for the most part) I also have Ubuntu installed (had Fedora, but doesn't work well enough for me in a Virtual PC). Both - and I suspect many other linux/BSD distros - have a UAC equivalent (typically built on sudo it would seem). When installed there is an app that can remember your elevation credentials for a time and that would be one UAC improvement that could be made, but it's still very UAC-ish. And I think both are generally a good idea - makes running as a normal user (RANU) easy enough but provides fairly easy elevation when required without logging out and logging back in, or switching to a different user while remaining loggedin - both which take longer than UAC/sudo.
But typically during duels or when the "good guy" is fighting a larger group. One might argue that is justified violence given the situation. As several on this post have pointed out, it very much depends on the situation. Maiming a character in order to kill it could go to far for some.
The fact that it's "underground" pretty much means that the government does care about it and doesn't want it, so your mention of it as justification is pretty absurd. That's like saying "murder still happens so the governments must allow it".
Because most settings are parsed and handled only at startup. In the base of the Awesome Bar, I don't see why they couldn't have supported switching but it's prbably just not a big priority. As for addons, the way the extension points are handled and how XUL from extensions is merged with the browser such that extensions can even complete replace standard XUL in the browser requires reparsing and merging all markup. You have to reload everything. I've often wondered about themes in FF, however, since the skinning used is fairly straight forward and is most often just CSS and images. Of course, all this I think is moot since Firefox can restore your previous session and restarts so quick I really don't mind.
People aren't downloading the crap - they're stating that most of the CD is crap except for a couple of good songs.
Pretty neat, but the PowerLoader didn't have hands either - just clamps. The video you linked does have a hook and while it's not quite the same thing, it does offer a similar utility.
This research seems to miss one critical point: you have to have administrative privileges to apply the vulnerability-generating patch. That's not a success crack, since if you already have administrative privilees you own the machine. It's no different than with linux: you have root, you win. Michael Howard et. al. have been over this countless times through blogs, books, and whitepapers. Just because you can identify or even generate a vulnerability doesn't mean you can exploit it.
Now, granted, when users run as admins this does pose a problem which is one reason - and obviously not the only, based on comments made by Microsofties that have appeared as stories here on /. - that UAC exists. Not the prompts, but more to the point that administrators do even run with a full privileged token: just a normal user token with the privilege to escalate with a simple yes/no dialog.
On top of all this, IIRC it was IT administrators that wanted a consistent release schedule to avoid a fire drill of internal testing every time a patch came out.
It would be interesting to know how this would work for tablets. I'd like to see a matte effect for tablets but the writing surface has to be nearly smooth. It would certainly help, however, as nothing is worse than trying to write on your tablet and all you see is how bad your hair looks.
At times Wikipedia is biased or even wrong, but one thing people seem to fail to realize is that because "anyone" can edit it is likely - however not guaranteed - that someone authoritative will find and fix a comment, or at least tag it as containing incorrect or unconfirmed information.
But with more and more people, or at least professors, blasting Wikipedia like this fewer and fewer authoritative sources will visit and edit Wikipedia. Wikipedia could be great over time but people like those in TFA are destroying that more than I think Wikipedia's editors are.