And you forgot to mention that the prices are hiked up and gamed even more than urban services. My parents live up in some mountains and their 3mbs service, if it even works, crawls slower than dialup yet they pay close to $100. I understand that there needs to be a difference between urban and rural internet service due to economical reasons, but the difference is much too great.
I remember every gaming system that had a controller with a joystick having said joystick on the left side of the controller. Some also had joysticks on both sides. The DS is incredibly lefty-friendly and just because one game blows it doesn't mean the entire platform, no, the entire industry is biased towards right-handers. This article is nothing but FUD and I wish I could retract the click I gave TFA.
Holy jesus I was going to post almost an exact duplicate of yours. I lived in SLO proper for 5 years while going to school and I must say that the town is absolutely crazy. Its a great place to visit--fun shops, beaches nearby, the school, extensive bro culture (alright, that last one was a joke)--but the amount of bullshit the cops give everyone along with the ridiculous laws like the smoking ban were enough to make me move away forever.
I was once pulled over and fined $180 for riding my bike with headphones on. Three of my friends have been arrested for drunk in public just because they were stumbling a bit on their walk home. Cops show up at most every party at exactly 10:00pm to issue $300 fines for first offense, and they double every time after that (the frats full of rich white guys are immune, though). There is a vigilante program run by the police called "SNAPS" that employs students to spy on parties. The Cal Poly PD is SLOPD, yet they are allowed to make a profit off of parking and traffic violating on campus (yes, the campus is a public institution but that money should go towards the school to better the parking situation).
And every summer the town is flooded by an army of retired, driving around in their aluminum boats. They make their way the wrong way down one way streets, they drive into groups of people walking in a cross walk on an unprotected left turn, and they blow countless stop signs to the dismay of the local cyclists. Their tour buses block entire roads and the packs they travel in on foot show no regard to traffic signs (WALK or DONT WALK) but the cops don't care. The whole community doesn't care and doesn't realize that most of the money coming into the town is from the college and the young students who attend. But as long as time continues to pass and the youth inevitably become the elders, this situation wont change. Those damn kids are just rampaging around with nothing but disdain, incarcerate them all I say!
Its not a war where there is a victor and the loser is obliterated from existence. Here, the winner is simply the company/phone/OS with the most market share and the loser still exists and can even be profitable. Perhaps the phrasing needs changing, but your little gripe is moot.
...but it sure as hell is not due to Windows Phone 7... or any Microsoft product.
I work at RadioShack (yeah, only job I could find... give me a break) and it seems like the majority of people coming through are very much over the iPhone. The other cell companies are making phones that are much better than the iPhone (statistically speaking, not trying to troll some fanbois) and Google has done well with their marketing of Android OS. Apple's new releases don't bring enough new features to keep existing users on their device. When it was the only touch screen smart phone with apps, they could easily get away with it. Now that every carrier has 3-5 completely different touch screen, multitasking, Android-based phones, the new iPhone really doesn't look all that enticing (especially with the fuck-tarded price + service plan).
Now back to Windows Phone 7... nobody cares... nobody will ever care. Businesses will get suckered into using them, then realize their mistake and spend the next 10 years trying to break contract/lock-in. *Yawn*
Secondly, I hate to say that your outlook is probably optimistic at best. Sharing music tastes is great and all, but you can already do that on MySpace and Facebook. If that is all Ping really is, then absolutely nobody will be using it.
P.S. All those bands you mentioned suck. I would never use Ping just because I'd have to see Bono and those absolute doushe-fucks from Linkin Park every time I loaded it up. Ewwww...
If anything the digital devices are making people stupid because they dont have to actually work for or retain any knowlege (sic)
Remembering things does not mean you are smart, or even non-stupid. Memorization does not imply adept thinking skills and, IMO (no science done here), I think that the way we're moving will make us much smarter in general, just in a different way than we're used to. Perhaps offloading some forms of memory to computers is allowing us to concentrate on actual thinking. Maybe our education will eventually evolve and our kids wouldn't have to waste 14 years of their life (K-12) memorizing and regurgitating government-regulated information that can just be referenced, and originally was memorized from, a book or online source. I for one didn't learn how to learn from school, I learned how to memorize exactly what I needed to know to get a B or better on the next test.
I would go so far and say that we don't even have to teach anything in the "memorize-regurgitate" fashion for our youth to grow into adequate thinking machines. Teaching kids how to learn what they need to know on their own seems a lot more lucrative and efficient to me, but I'm also the kind of guy that can teach himself whatever he wants to know (read as: I know how to google). Unfortunately, a thinking majority might not bode well for the elite class that require a population of plebs to continue their way of life, and we all know who makes the rules around here...
Be sure to wave to the rest of us as the the world passes you by.
Communication is incredibly important to Humanity, and the more we have the more informed the common man is (huzzah). Having a cellphone doesn't mean you have to play Faceville on it the moment your day becomes idle.
Good idea, and they could even do it for just ONE distro (Ubuntu, obviously). They would get most of the viable Linux user base, and those that don't run Ubuntu could use the FOSS community to learn how to get Steam to work. The one thing about the Linux userbase thats different than Windows and OSX crowds is that they don't usually expect everything to work out of the box. A little hacking is actually quite fun, and theres always a tutorial somewhere online for whatever you want to do. This would not be difficult for Steam to pull off and they would be the first of their kind to cover The Big 3 (Win, OSX, Linux).
One more quick thought: Canonical would probably jump on the dev team for this port in a heartbeat. I'm sure they would see the benefit of Steam games on their OS.
Meh, sorting should be covered in about 2 hours in any programming course. I spent an entire quarter on sorting back in college and I still to this day cannot see the point of repeating the same exercise over and over again, just with a different sorting algo. But perhaps my professor was just retarded (that was the general consensus between the students anyway).
WTB New slashdot CSS/JavaScript programmer. The current one really blows.
Dwarf Fortress logs all of your activity in story form as you play. Also, you can explore your creations in Adventure Mode, which is essentially creating a game from a game. Assuming Apple is smart (stupid?) enough to patent the general concept of using the result of one form of media to create another form of media, most every game will be infringing simply due to the incredible amount of fan-content created.
If you are interested in playing Dwarf Fortress, I highly suggest watching the video tutorials. They are dated, but they give you a great start
If you are a true professional with Python or dynamic languages, you would unit test every function you wrote with many different object types which means writing a lot more code. If you didn't then it is inevitable that your application will crash, and the larger the program, the more likely you are to encounter a crash.
If you use a statically typed library you don't need to unit test your parameters because the compiler ensures that you are passing the correct value. Yes, you can still get null-pointer problems but at least you were the one that explicitly created the issue (i.e. defined a function that takes a pointer and doesn't do any sort of sanity check). In dynamic languages everything can be thought of as a pointer, so everything can be null, and if you're serious about your program, you'll have to sanity check EVERYTHING. I'm assuming this isn't all that difficult with exceptions, but I for one see the use of exceptions as last-resort debugging utilities that should never be invoked on a release build, let alone used as error checking.
So why should we should sit back and let this blow over us? I get really pissed off by people like you who just accept the status quo and figure some things will never change. Somehow I'm not surprised though; after all you do work for the prison-industrial compl... uh, I mean the public safety system.
This is a non-story. This is a public safety agency using a new medium, and so it is "scandalous". Same dog, new tricks folks.
But yet here it is, on the front of slashdot with a very active comment thread, and it *IS* scandalous. Why just DUIs? Why Facebook, not their own website? Are they trying to profit off of this service? Was going to the station to request this information too hard? No, not really. Is releasing these people's personal information before they are convicted of any crime morally okay? Absolutely fuck-tastically not. It may just be the same dog with some fancy new tricks, but I for one still want the mutt neutered.
Marriage is a concept with many variations across the world. Why is your variation better than anyone else's? I'm an Atheist so I'm probably out of my league, but my gay, Christian buddies believe they have a right to marry, in a Church, in full view of God and his ominous Spaghetti Tentacles. Are they wrong or just different? Also, why are you fighting against an act that has absolutely no effect on you? You prevent two people from achieving great happiness for no other reason but selfish, faith-induced ignorance.
I just hope some day you'll realize that marriage should follow love, not faith.
Please make your way back up Al Gore's ass. We don't need your tired rhetoric here. The US has poor people, just like China, just like Mexico, and just like every other country. SUV's and TV's don't make you rich, or even not-poor. They make you in debt.
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Hello, modders? Are you there? I don't have any points but parent needs +1. Thanks.
And you forgot to mention that the prices are hiked up and gamed even more than urban services. My parents live up in some mountains and their 3mbs service, if it even works, crawls slower than dialup yet they pay close to $100. I understand that there needs to be a difference between urban and rural internet service due to economical reasons, but the difference is much too great.
Anecdotal proofs don't hold much weight in the real world. Science on the other hand does.
I remember every gaming system that had a controller with a joystick having said joystick on the left side of the controller. Some also had joysticks on both sides. The DS is incredibly lefty-friendly and just because one game blows it doesn't mean the entire platform, no, the entire industry is biased towards right-handers. This article is nothing but FUD and I wish I could retract the click I gave TFA.
Holy jesus I was going to post almost an exact duplicate of yours. I lived in SLO proper for 5 years while going to school and I must say that the town is absolutely crazy. Its a great place to visit--fun shops, beaches nearby, the school, extensive bro culture (alright, that last one was a joke)--but the amount of bullshit the cops give everyone along with the ridiculous laws like the smoking ban were enough to make me move away forever.
I was once pulled over and fined $180 for riding my bike with headphones on. Three of my friends have been arrested for drunk in public just because they were stumbling a bit on their walk home. Cops show up at most every party at exactly 10:00pm to issue $300 fines for first offense, and they double every time after that (the frats full of rich white guys are immune, though). There is a vigilante program run by the police called "SNAPS" that employs students to spy on parties. The Cal Poly PD is SLOPD, yet they are allowed to make a profit off of parking and traffic violating on campus (yes, the campus is a public institution but that money should go towards the school to better the parking situation).
And every summer the town is flooded by an army of retired, driving around in their aluminum boats. They make their way the wrong way down one way streets, they drive into groups of people walking in a cross walk on an unprotected left turn, and they blow countless stop signs to the dismay of the local cyclists. Their tour buses block entire roads and the packs they travel in on foot show no regard to traffic signs (WALK or DONT WALK) but the cops don't care. The whole community doesn't care and doesn't realize that most of the money coming into the town is from the college and the young students who attend. But as long as time continues to pass and the youth inevitably become the elders, this situation wont change. Those damn kids are just rampaging around with nothing but disdain, incarcerate them all I say!
Ah but somewhere, somehow those names are known. Its far too late for this not to be a controversy.
Hah! Not to mention the obvious Streisand effect. Silly goverment.
Its not a war where there is a victor and the loser is obliterated from existence. Here, the winner is simply the company/phone/OS with the most market share and the loser still exists and can even be profitable. Perhaps the phrasing needs changing, but your little gripe is moot.
...but it sure as hell is not due to Windows Phone 7... or any Microsoft product.
I work at RadioShack (yeah, only job I could find... give me a break) and it seems like the majority of people coming through are very much over the iPhone. The other cell companies are making phones that are much better than the iPhone (statistically speaking, not trying to troll some fanbois) and Google has done well with their marketing of Android OS. Apple's new releases don't bring enough new features to keep existing users on their device. When it was the only touch screen smart phone with apps, they could easily get away with it. Now that every carrier has 3-5 completely different touch screen, multitasking, Android-based phones, the new iPhone really doesn't look all that enticing (especially with the fuck-tarded price + service plan).
Now back to Windows Phone 7... nobody cares... nobody will ever care. Businesses will get suckered into using them, then realize their mistake and spend the next 10 years trying to break contract/lock-in. *Yawn*
I forgot the tag on the post script. Its class was "anecdotal flaimbait."
First of all, I love your use of the sarcasm tag.
Secondly, I hate to say that your outlook is probably optimistic at best. Sharing music tastes is great and all, but you can already do that on MySpace and Facebook. If that is all Ping really is, then absolutely nobody will be using it.
P.S. All those bands you mentioned suck. I would never use Ping just because I'd have to see Bono and those absolute doushe-fucks from Linkin Park every time I loaded it up. Ewwww...
Hey, finally those religious types are putting their minds to good use.
:).
Hold off on the troll mod, I couldn't help myself
If anything the digital devices are making people stupid because they dont have to actually work for or retain any knowlege (sic)
Remembering things does not mean you are smart, or even non-stupid. Memorization does not imply adept thinking skills and, IMO (no science done here), I think that the way we're moving will make us much smarter in general, just in a different way than we're used to. Perhaps offloading some forms of memory to computers is allowing us to concentrate on actual thinking. Maybe our education will eventually evolve and our kids wouldn't have to waste 14 years of their life (K-12) memorizing and regurgitating government-regulated information that can just be referenced, and originally was memorized from, a book or online source. I for one didn't learn how to learn from school, I learned how to memorize exactly what I needed to know to get a B or better on the next test.
I would go so far and say that we don't even have to teach anything in the "memorize-regurgitate" fashion for our youth to grow into adequate thinking machines. Teaching kids how to learn what they need to know on their own seems a lot more lucrative and efficient to me, but I'm also the kind of guy that can teach himself whatever he wants to know (read as: I know how to google). Unfortunately, a thinking majority might not bode well for the elite class that require a population of plebs to continue their way of life, and we all know who makes the rules around here...
Be sure to wave to the rest of us as the the world passes you by.
Communication is incredibly important to Humanity, and the more we have the more informed the common man is (huzzah). Having a cellphone doesn't mean you have to play Faceville on it the moment your day becomes idle.
Good idea, and they could even do it for just ONE distro (Ubuntu, obviously). They would get most of the viable Linux user base, and those that don't run Ubuntu could use the FOSS community to learn how to get Steam to work. The one thing about the Linux userbase thats different than Windows and OSX crowds is that they don't usually expect everything to work out of the box. A little hacking is actually quite fun, and theres always a tutorial somewhere online for whatever you want to do. This would not be difficult for Steam to pull off and they would be the first of their kind to cover The Big 3 (Win, OSX, Linux).
One more quick thought: Canonical would probably jump on the dev team for this port in a heartbeat. I'm sure they would see the benefit of Steam games on their OS.
Meh, sorting should be covered in about 2 hours in any programming course. I spent an entire quarter on sorting back in college and I still to this day cannot see the point of repeating the same exercise over and over again, just with a different sorting algo. But perhaps my professor was just retarded (that was the general consensus between the students anyway).
WTB New slashdot CSS/JavaScript programmer. The current one really blows.
Its not a fair price when you have to buy a new version of the book every year. Fuck textbook publishers.
Dwarf Fortress logs all of your activity in story form as you play. Also, you can explore your creations in Adventure Mode, which is essentially creating a game from a game. Assuming Apple is smart (stupid?) enough to patent the general concept of using the result of one form of media to create another form of media, most every game will be infringing simply due to the incredible amount of fan-content created.
If you are interested in playing Dwarf Fortress, I highly suggest watching the video tutorials. They are dated, but they give you a great start
If you are a true professional with Python or dynamic languages, you would unit test every function you wrote with many different object types which means writing a lot more code. If you didn't then it is inevitable that your application will crash, and the larger the program, the more likely you are to encounter a crash.
If you use a statically typed library you don't need to unit test your parameters because the compiler ensures that you are passing the correct value. Yes, you can still get null-pointer problems but at least you were the one that explicitly created the issue (i.e. defined a function that takes a pointer and doesn't do any sort of sanity check). In dynamic languages everything can be thought of as a pointer, so everything can be null, and if you're serious about your program, you'll have to sanity check EVERYTHING. I'm assuming this isn't all that difficult with exceptions, but I for one see the use of exceptions as last-resort debugging utilities that should never be invoked on a release build, let alone used as error checking.
Bump for great justice. I had no idea what the equation was trying to ask until I read all the posts that explained () is notation for a variable.
This is a non-story. This is a public safety agency using a new medium, and so it is "scandalous". Same dog, new tricks folks.
But yet here it is, on the front of slashdot with a very active comment thread, and it *IS* scandalous. Why just DUIs? Why Facebook, not their own website? Are they trying to profit off of this service? Was going to the station to request this information too hard? No, not really. Is releasing these people's personal information before they are convicted of any crime morally okay? Absolutely fuck-tastically not. It may just be the same dog with some fancy new tricks, but I for one still want the mutt neutered.
Marriage is a concept with many variations across the world. Why is your variation better than anyone else's? I'm an Atheist so I'm probably out of my league, but my gay, Christian buddies believe they have a right to marry, in a Church, in full view of God and his ominous Spaghetti Tentacles. Are they wrong or just different? Also, why are you fighting against an act that has absolutely no effect on you? You prevent two people from achieving great happiness for no other reason but selfish, faith-induced ignorance.
I just hope some day you'll realize that marriage should follow love, not faith.
Please make your way back up Al Gore's ass. We don't need your tired rhetoric here. The US has poor people, just like China, just like Mexico, and just like every other country. SUV's and TV's don't make you rich, or even not-poor. They make you in debt.
Obligatory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik
Never talk to cops.
Or you could, you know, defend your networks against the obvious and inevitable attacks.