This doesn't work because retailers have retailer-specific UPCs to prevent it. Sure, you can always scan a can of Coke, but lots of items you need to make decisions about have retailer-specific UPCs. It's much easier and more reliable to search for via text. You also get to see if there's a newer model/version or other models/versions in the same line.
>No one in the history of mankind has every wanted to scan barcodes.
What I think you mean is that no one wants to scan someone else's barcodes when English is so much more effective when conveying information to strangers.
I've used barcodes to track feeding of my Ball Pythons for many years. Click on a rodent, and scan the barcode, and a snake is logged as fed. Scan the barcode again if the snake doesn't eat the rodent, and problem eaters are logged. A once complex process totally automated by simple barcodes.
Complex? Clipboard near the enclosure.
Snake Name: ______ Species: ___________ Date Fed: _____ - Ate? Y / N - Notes:_____ Date Fed: _____ - Ate? Y / N - Notes:_____ Date Fed: _____ - Ate? Y / N - Notes:_____
Right. Apple. Just because they don't tell you and they deny it doesn't mean they're not doing it. They even got caught doing it and had to push a special "patch" to encry^W fix^W hide this problem with their OS.
To scan a barcode, you need an app. To do voice and video chat, you need an app. To play a game with 3D graphics, you need an app. The capabilities to do these (getUserMedia, WebRTC, and WebGL) are fairly new to HTML5, and mobile web browsers haven't caught up yet
No one in the history of mankind has every wanted to scan barcodes. No, QR codes aren't any different. It's like no one learned from the fucking CueCat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... .
I don't want to open an app to scan an image to load a URL (and let's face it - that's all that shit is used for, fucking URLs). Just show me the URL. If I can't be assed to type in company.com/promo1 I can't be assed to scan your code either. company.com/promo1 has the benefit of me being able to fucking remember it and check it out later. A barcode / QR code requires me to stand there like a goob pointing my phone at your product/display.
Mobile versions of web sites that "helpfully" add an overlay that reappears every time you scroll, blocking up to 40% of scarce real estate, which you cannot close, or piece of shit mobile sites like Washington Post that put up a smaller circle right in the middle of the fucking text, these programmers, who would be ashamed to show their face in 1978, should have their mother fucking brains splattered against a wall.
Die like pigs in Hell!!!!!
Seriously. Every fucking mobile site ever is trash. How about you just give me the full fucking site and my browser will fucking handle the details? Maybe I'll need to zoom in or pan horizontally instead of just vertically, but it's still a million times better than dealing with "mobile" or "responsive design" horseshit.
Welcome to computer software in the 10s. We've got all of the shovelware and hype of the 80s, but on your phone! With modern flashy graphics!!! !If you want to get something done, you'll have to wade through a Mos Eisley of shit to find something useful.
If they company was worth 400,000,000 dollars I'm sure it was "profitable" already, or at least was at some point. Just being realistic here. You don't get your company value to half a billion dollars without either having a huge amount of assets or having some kind of user/client base. If Google just wanted their tech, they'd could have just licensed it or picked up a watsonesque open-source project.
I think a-lot of the "we're trying to let people live forever in a virtual world" rhetoric is mostly just "good PR"... Look at it this way. IBM Watson gets IBM some business right? Google wants in on that market (that already exists).
How profitable was Youtube when Google bought it? How profitable was Instagram? What about Zynga? Hell, what about the Facebook IPO?
I just want to see you socialist jerks fall all over yourselves trying to justify this.
Go for it.
"[W]hen circumstances occur after birth such that they would have justified abortion, what we call after-birth abortion should be permissible. [W]e propose to call this practice ‘after-birth abortion’, rather than ‘infanticide,’ to emphasize that the moral status of the individual killed is comparable with that of a fetus rather than to that of a child. Therefore, we claim that killing a newborn could be ethically permissible in all the circumstances where abortion would be. Such circumstances include cases where the newborn has the potential to have an (at least) acceptable life, but the well-being of the family is at risk."
The only thing in there that upsets me is calling it "after-birth abortion" instead of calling it infanticide.
Look at those states fighting evolution, look at those states fighting climate change. Think of all the times in high school that it was obvious the teacher had no real knowledge of the subject matter and was just reading out of a book and relying on pre-prepared material.
Who's fighting evolution? How? I thought you WANTED people to fight slimate change. Now you're all for it? Make up your mind! And what the fuck does "pre-prepared" mean? Does it perhaps mean "prepared"?
It's sort of unnecessary. Most high schools have classes in home economics, or straight up business classes that teach skills like making a household budget, managing credit, how to calculate interest for a car loan, etc. Given the sponsors of the OCEE, I have a feeling this is going to be part instructional courses and part corporate propaganda.
Where have you been the past 30 years? Home economics, wood/metal/auto shop, gym/PE, and driver's ed with actual driving training are all but gone. Some dipshits convinced people that those skills wouldn't be necessary anymore, that home ec was offensive, that gym made Bily feel bad for being a fatty, and that training kids to drive on the school parking lot was too much of a liability, so they just let them mow their classmates down at the prom. (Don't worry, they've worked it out so the prom is held after school hours, not on school grounds, and is technically organized by the senior class reps not the school administration, so the school can't get sued.)
Today's high schools have kids discussing feelings more than they have them learning anything useful, and we're shitting out kids who can't cope with reality. This has been going on so long now that those kids are having their own kids come out of the same schools, equally useless. (Hell, they're often still in school when they have their kids.)
What kind of standard gets set again and again on a local level?
Flexible, relevant, competitive standards developed by the people they will directly impact.
I bet you have a standard routine for wiping your anus. It gets set again and again on a local level. Everyone has their own particular method, but guess what, it works for them. Now once in a while you'll get the retard who just fails and smears shit everywhere, but thankfully they're only impacting themselves. You get to wipe they way you see fit for yourself. If you're ever dissatisfied in your wiping technique, you can poll your peers and see how they wipe. Do any of them use bidets? Or those moist towelette things? You can borrow from them, or you can keep on doing whatever you do. The bottom line is that you handle your shit how you want to handle it.
Get one of the ceramic piggy banks that does not have a cork stopper, so you have to break it open with a hammer.
You hold it upside down and insert a butter knife into the slot at an angle, then shake gently. Coins come out with a bit of doing, and you don't have to spend those coins on a new piggy bank.
There's nothing progressive or liberal about the dolt that wrote that - that's just leftist statism/fascism talking. One wonders where such a moron learned that freedom is something to be given up for her perverted idea of "justice".
Holy shit that link contains a lot of stupid. Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
If a tool to assign privileges requires 144 manual pages to operate it, it is either broken by design or addressing an audience which won't be able to make secure use of it, anyway.
Of fuck off. Assigning privileges in non-trivial scenarios is complex and often non-intuitive, regardless of the tool used to do it. A complex system is necessary. A fully-functional/covering tool is necessary. A detailed manual for that tool is a good thing.
Because that would eradicate 90% of the TSA bureaucracy.
The inside joke is that the TSA is simply an employment program for the Federal Government. It's about hiring hundreds of people at all the big airports. It's not about security (it may have started with that intent, but no longer) - it's a jobs program, pure and simple.
Inside joke? I'm on the outside and it's painfully apparent to me how the utterly unemployable (and only them) land jobs in positions at the TSA, the DMV, or some other state-run shithole designed to make my life a living hell.
Didn't 9/11 happen due to box cutters? Not even bombs or guns, or big knives. Of course, there are the shoe bomber's now. But those horrific tragedies were able to happen due to lowly box cutters. Recently, I traveled across my state for work with a co-worker. We had to rack some servers at the DR site. His bag had numerous tools like pliers and screw drivers in it. My bag had an unopened Arrowhead water bottle. I was pulled aside and received a personal screening while my co-worker waited for me, putting his shoes on, and holding his bag of pointy metal objects.
If it was simple it'd be done. Bomb/weapon detection isn't so simple. What if I had a vacuumed sealed container (plastic of course) stuffed into my luggage?
The dog will still get you. The container, your luggage, and yourself will reek of explosives/drugs/whatever. You can't wash that shit off. Attempting to do so just makes it worse, actually. And your use of a plastic container makes it worse as well. Plastics are notorious for absorbing and retaining odors.
What if I brought on a ceramic knife/sword?
Your luggage is inaccessible during the flight, as usual. Your carry-on is x-rayed, as usual. Your sword is going to be plainly obvious on your person. Your concealed knife won't get you into the cockpit - it'll get you bum rushed by passengers.
9/11 ticked off a LOT of people and they questioned why the government didn't stop this at the airport or before hence all of this overreaching.
Who the fuck are these "LOT of people" that question why the government didn't stop box cutters at the airport? Hint: They don't exist. People did complain that the government fucking knew about the individuals and did nothing. They should have been stopped before the airport, not at it. It has nothing to do with airport screening.
GMail Google Voice Google Maps Google Earth Picasa etc. etc. Whatever they call this DeepMind aquisition
What does Google intend to do with DeepMind? TFS says "Google has big plans in the artificial-intelligence arena", yet when you click on the link you'll read a lot of fluff about Kurzweil and Watson, with a quote by Billy G thrown in, and absolutely nothing of substance about what DeepMind did or does, and what Google intends to do with DeepMind. My guess: Nothing of value.
Google has about a 40% track record of actually doing anything worth a damn with the companies they buy up. Most of the shit they buy gets trotted out for a year or two, then quietly shot in the head out back. Paying $400,000,000 for DeepMind (a company which has done nothing worthwhile) is a colossal folly. Either that, or the person who pushed for it at Google is ultimately holding a big chunk of DeepMind, standing to profit handsomely.
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This doesn't work because retailers have retailer-specific UPCs to prevent it. Sure, you can always scan a can of Coke, but lots of items you need to make decisions about have retailer-specific UPCs.
It's much easier and more reliable to search for via text. You also get to see if there's a newer model/version or other models/versions in the same line.
>No one in the history of mankind has every wanted to scan barcodes.
What I think you mean is that no one wants to scan someone else's barcodes when English is so much more effective when conveying information to strangers.
I've used barcodes to track feeding of my Ball Pythons for many years. Click on a rodent, and scan the barcode, and a snake is logged as fed. Scan the barcode again if the snake doesn't eat the rodent, and problem eaters are logged. A once complex process totally automated by simple barcodes.
Complex? Clipboard near the enclosure.
Snake Name: ______ Species: ___________
Date Fed: _____ - Ate? Y / N - Notes:_____
Date Fed: _____ - Ate? Y / N - Notes:_____
Date Fed: _____ - Ate? Y / N - Notes:_____
Right. Apple. Just because they don't tell you and they deny it doesn't mean they're not doing it. They even got caught doing it and had to push a special "patch" to encry^W fix^W hide this problem with their OS.
Fixed
To scan a barcode, you need an app. To do voice and video chat, you need an app. To play a game with 3D graphics, you need an app. The capabilities to do these (getUserMedia, WebRTC, and WebGL) are fairly new to HTML5, and mobile web browsers haven't caught up yet
No one in the history of mankind has every wanted to scan barcodes. No, QR codes aren't any different.
It's like no one learned from the fucking CueCat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... .
I don't want to open an app to scan an image to load a URL (and let's face it - that's all that shit is used for, fucking URLs). Just show me the URL.
If I can't be assed to type in company.com/promo1 I can't be assed to scan your code either. company.com/promo1 has the benefit of me being able to fucking remember it and check it out later. A barcode / QR code requires me to stand there like a goob pointing my phone at your product/display.
Mobile versions of web sites that "helpfully" add an overlay that reappears every time you scroll, blocking up to 40% of scarce real estate, which you cannot close, or piece of shit mobile sites like Washington Post that put up a smaller circle right in the middle of the fucking text, these programmers, who would be ashamed to show their face in 1978, should have their mother fucking brains splattered against a wall.
Die like pigs in Hell!!!!!
Seriously. Every fucking mobile site ever is trash.
How about you just give me the full fucking site and my browser will fucking handle the details? Maybe I'll need to zoom in or pan horizontally instead of just vertically, but it's still a million times better than dealing with "mobile" or "responsive design" horseshit.
TL;DR: "Apps" suck.
Welcome to computer software in the 10s. We've got all of the shovelware and hype of the 80s, but on your phone! With modern flashy graphics!!!
!If you want to get something done, you'll have to wade through a Mos Eisley of shit to find something useful.
If they company was worth 400,000,000 dollars I'm sure it was "profitable" already, or at least was at some point. Just being realistic here. You don't get your company value to half a billion dollars without either having a huge amount of assets or having some kind of user/client base. If Google just wanted their tech, they'd could have just licensed it or picked up a watsonesque open-source project.
I think a-lot of the "we're trying to let people live forever in a virtual world" rhetoric is mostly just "good PR"... Look at it this way. IBM Watson gets IBM some business right? Google wants in on that market (that already exists).
How profitable was Youtube when Google bought it?
How profitable was Instagram?
What about Zynga?
Hell, what about the Facebook IPO?
Silicon Valley is run by hype.
Maybe I should stop right there in case someone gets a bright fucking idea.
Too late. I already patented the computer-generated patent.
Oh yes this is real. after-birth abortion.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2012/03/after_birth_abortion_the_pro_choice_case_for_infanticide_.html
I just want to see you socialist jerks fall all over yourselves trying to justify this.
Go for it.
"[W]hen circumstances occur after birth such that they would have justified abortion, what we call after-birth abortion should be permissible. [W]e propose to call this practice ‘after-birth abortion’, rather than ‘infanticide,’ to emphasize that the moral status of the individual killed is comparable with that of a fetus rather than to that of a child. Therefore, we claim that killing a newborn could be ethically permissible in all the circumstances where abortion would be. Such circumstances include cases where the newborn has the potential to have an (at least) acceptable life, but the well-being of the family is at risk."
The only thing in there that upsets me is calling it "after-birth abortion" instead of calling it infanticide.
Liar. That's not a fact. Are you trying to be ironic?
Facts don't have to be true. They just have to be objective statements.
Look at those states fighting evolution, look at those states fighting climate change. Think of all the times in high school that it was obvious the teacher had no real knowledge of the subject matter and was just reading out of a book and relying on pre-prepared material.
Who's fighting evolution? How?
I thought you WANTED people to fight slimate change. Now you're all for it? Make up your mind!
And what the fuck does "pre-prepared" mean? Does it perhaps mean "prepared"?
It's sort of unnecessary. Most high schools have classes in home economics, or straight up business classes that teach skills like making a household budget, managing credit, how to calculate interest for a car loan, etc. Given the sponsors of the OCEE, I have a feeling this is going to be part instructional courses and part corporate propaganda.
Where have you been the past 30 years? Home economics, wood/metal/auto shop, gym/PE, and driver's ed with actual driving training are all but gone. Some dipshits convinced people that those skills wouldn't be necessary anymore, that home ec was offensive, that gym made Bily feel bad for being a fatty, and that training kids to drive on the school parking lot was too much of a liability, so they just let them mow their classmates down at the prom. (Don't worry, they've worked it out so the prom is held after school hours, not on school grounds, and is technically organized by the senior class reps not the school administration, so the school can't get sued.)
Today's high schools have kids discussing feelings more than they have them learning anything useful, and we're shitting out kids who can't cope with reality. This has been going on so long now that those kids are having their own kids come out of the same schools, equally useless. (Hell, they're often still in school when they have their kids.)
They should teach both sides of the Bitcoin controversy.
Side A: Bitcoins are great.
Side B: Bitcoins are great, and Doge coins are Bitcoins + fun!
What kind of standard gets set again and again on a local level?
Flexible, relevant, competitive standards developed by the people they will directly impact.
I bet you have a standard routine for wiping your anus. It gets set again and again on a local level. Everyone has their own particular method, but guess what, it works for them. Now once in a while you'll get the retard who just fails and smears shit everywhere, but thankfully they're only impacting themselves. You get to wipe they way you see fit for yourself. If you're ever dissatisfied in your wiping technique, you can poll your peers and see how they wipe. Do any of them use bidets? Or those moist towelette things? You can borrow from them, or you can keep on doing whatever you do. The bottom line is that you handle your shit how you want to handle it.
Get one of the ceramic piggy banks that does not have a cork stopper, so you have to break it open with a hammer.
You hold it upside down and insert a butter knife into the slot at an angle, then shake gently. Coins come out with a bit of doing, and you don't have to spend those coins on a new piggy bank.
Hey, why can't California or New York or Massachusetts have this?
Maybe they're too busy with stupid shit?
Let’s give up on academic freedom in favor of justice
There's nothing progressive or liberal about the dolt that wrote that - that's just leftist statism/fascism talking. One wonders where such a moron learned that freedom is something to be given up for her perverted idea of "justice".
Holy shit that link contains a lot of stupid.
Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
One can't win at a game unless they know the rules.
False. Some people win at Baccarat.
If a tool to assign privileges requires 144 manual pages to operate it, it is either broken by design or addressing an audience which won't be able to make secure use of it, anyway.
Of fuck off. Assigning privileges in non-trivial scenarios is complex and often non-intuitive, regardless of the tool used to do it.
A complex system is necessary. A fully-functional/covering tool is necessary. A detailed manual for that tool is a good thing.
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Why not return to the pre-9/11 security?
Because that would eradicate 90% of the TSA bureaucracy.
The inside joke is that the TSA is simply an employment program for the Federal Government. It's about hiring hundreds of people at all the big airports. It's not about security (it may have started with that intent, but no longer) - it's a jobs program, pure and simple.
Inside joke? I'm on the outside and it's painfully apparent to me how the utterly unemployable (and only them) land jobs in positions at the TSA, the DMV, or some other state-run shithole designed to make my life a living hell.
Cause you might have a gun inside your uretra!
My penis gun has a hair trigger once it's cocked, but after a few shots I'll need a few minutes and a tuna sandwich to reload.
Didn't 9/11 happen due to box cutters? Not even bombs or guns, or big knives. Of course, there are the shoe bomber's now. But those horrific tragedies were able to happen due to lowly box cutters. Recently, I traveled across my state for work with a co-worker. We had to rack some servers at the DR site. His bag had numerous tools like pliers and screw drivers in it. My bag had an unopened Arrowhead water bottle. I was pulled aside and received a personal screening while my co-worker waited for me, putting his shoes on, and holding his bag of pointy metal objects.
Be honest: Are you browner or hairier than him?
If it was simple it'd be done. Bomb/weapon detection isn't so simple. What if I had a vacuumed sealed container (plastic of course) stuffed into my luggage?
The dog will still get you. The container, your luggage, and yourself will reek of explosives/drugs/whatever. You can't wash that shit off. Attempting to do so just makes it worse, actually. And your use of a plastic container makes it worse as well. Plastics are notorious for absorbing and retaining odors.
What if I brought on a ceramic knife/sword?
Your luggage is inaccessible during the flight, as usual.
Your carry-on is x-rayed, as usual.
Your sword is going to be plainly obvious on your person.
Your concealed knife won't get you into the cockpit - it'll get you bum rushed by passengers.
9/11 ticked off a LOT of people and they questioned why the government didn't stop this at the airport or before hence all of this overreaching.
Who the fuck are these "LOT of people" that question why the government didn't stop box cutters at the airport? Hint: They don't exist.
People did complain that the government fucking knew about the individuals and did nothing. They should have been stopped before the airport, not at it. It has nothing to do with airport screening.
- out with soap!
It seems that Watson learned some bad words when IBM turned it on to the Urban Dictionary.
There goes our only chance to find out what a "holla back girl" is.
Buy a company and rebrand its product/service.
GMail
Google Voice
Google Maps
Google Earth
Picasa
etc.
etc.
Whatever they call this DeepMind aquisition
What does Google intend to do with DeepMind? TFS says "Google has big plans in the artificial-intelligence arena", yet when you click on the link you'll read a lot of fluff about Kurzweil and Watson, with a quote by Billy G thrown in, and absolutely nothing of substance about what DeepMind did or does, and what Google intends to do with DeepMind. My guess: Nothing of value.
Google has about a 40% track record of actually doing anything worth a damn with the companies they buy up. Most of the shit they buy gets trotted out for a year or two, then quietly shot in the head out back. Paying $400,000,000 for DeepMind (a company which has done nothing worthwhile) is a colossal folly. Either that, or the person who pushed for it at Google is ultimately holding a big chunk of DeepMind, standing to profit handsomely.