if you like a service they offer, they'll/probably/ shut it down within 12 to 36 months, or they'll re-brand the product, adjust it heavily, integrate it with something else or redesign it so horrifically it's a shadow of its former self.
I think we saw that in action today. I guess Google Now has been rebranded, adjusted, integrated, and redesigned into Google Assistant?
I might believe that if I didn't already block ads in Firefox. Edge happily displays all those ads and the oodles of extra javascript that comes with them. In my experience, that makes Edge drain my battery faster than Firefox + uBlock.
Despite their godawful handling of my beloved Playstation Vita, I had been eyeing a PS4 so that I could play Final Fantasy XV this fall. I'm starting to think I shouldn't bother with a PS4 at all if they're trying to pull this cell phone upgrade every year or two bullshit.
I already have a WiiU, and with the rumors flying around that Microsoft is also thinking about these shenanigans, the WiiU might be the only console I get this generation.
Well, the Xbox One is a PC running Windows, and the original Xbox was also a PC running Windows, but the Xbox 360 was a different beast. It had a three core PowerPC chip at its heart and ran a custom non-Windows-derived (IIRC) OS.
The professor is teaching one section of a class where different sections are taught by different faculty. As all the students - regardless of which section they are enrolled in - are enrolled in the same course, they should all be studying the same material.
Yeah, and that's common. The department says that a linear algebra course should cover a list of selected topics: systems of equations, matrix algebra, vector spaces, etc. But it is straight-up stupid to require professors to all teach the same material in the same order from the same textbook the same way. The student population benefits from having a variety of perspectives. A lot of problems get solved when two people who learned the same thing in two different ways get together.
No shit. My first Motorola smartphone bricked itself after being dropped a foot onto carpet. My second Motorola phone stopped getting OTA updates a week after I bought it. My Samsung Galaxy S4 is incredibly unstable and requires daily reboots.
On the other hand, my Nexus 7 1st gen had the mysterious and completely ignored "slows to a crawl if you use more than 80% of internal storage" bug and became too slow to use after updating to lollipop.
Maybe I just won't buy smartphones or tablets anymore.
They're the only provider with decent coverage in rural areas. If I wasn't on Verizon, I'd have spotty or no signal every time I drive outside the city limits (which is often.) I hate Verizon, but they're my only choice.
There was a mathematician named R.L. Moore. He was an influential point-set topologist, but he's influential outside the realm of topology because of his teaching style. Briefly, the professor gives out definitions, axioms, and statements of theorems (as well as non-theorems) in class. The members of the class work out the theorems, important examples, and counterexamples to non-theorems on their own, and then present their results to the rest of the class.
I'm an introvert. I hate group projects. For one I find being with people mostly draining, but for another I always did the lion's share of the work. But I love Moore-style classes. I'm not afraid of presenting, and I felt I learned better working everything out on my own.
I'd love to see education move away from group projects and learning activities in favor of guided self-instruction (with accountability in the form of presentations or tests.) The introverts can work in their own solitary, contemplative fashion, and the extroverts can form study groups as they see fit. If the class isn't suitable for presentations, then something closer to a flipped classroom is IMO ideal.
Caveat: In my experience as both a student and an instructor this works best at the sophomore level of college and higher or graduate school.
he was more or less just filling time as HR director, possibly while being groomed as a potential successor.
Given that Kimishima is already 65, I wouldn't be surprised if he's only president long enough for someone else to finish being groomed. I doubt Kimishima was ever groomed himself for the job; I think he was just experienced and available after Iwata's sudden death.
I freely admit that I couldn't stand to watch the D&D movies sober, but I distinctly remember one of the heroes casting a 9th level spell at some point and bitching about it loudly until someone put more alcohol in my mouth. But regardless, you gotta admit they were doing 20th level end-of-campaign stuff by the end of the movies. Not even with a montage in a couple of them.
I'm almost 30. I know how to dress like an adult. I own several ties, even a couple bow ties. And you know what? Dressing like an adult sucks. Not having to dress like I'm attending a fucking funeral every day is a pretty great perk.
One of the problems with every D&D movie attempt up until this point is that they're always about end-of-campaign type things. But D&D is fun for the entire campaign. Especially since HBO's Game of Thrones has demonstrated strongly that gritty low-magic fantasy has a large audience, I think it would help a D&D movie to focus on low-level adventures. Like, levels 1 - 3, where Magic Missile (the bottle rocket of evocation spells) is the flashiest thing your Wizard can do, and even then just once per day.
I think a trilogy of movies, low-level, mid-level, and high-level, could actually do very well. The caveat being that the first movie would have to be very good to ensure the sequels aren't just wasted cash.
"Proven" wrong in what sense? Do you have any hard data to back that up? Note that "hated" and "wrong" are not the same thing. People just hate change.
I'm convinced that the only reason fullscreen launchers on desktop are hated is because they're different. If Windows had a fullscreen start menu back in Win95, then everyone would have been bitching about Win8's tiny start menu that doesn't display enough applications at once, Win10 would have gone back to the fullscreen launcher by default, and KDE would only just now have a non-fullscreen application launcher.
For that matter, do you have an android phone handy? Pull up your applications menu. Oh, look! A fullscreen application launcher!
I never said Win10 wasn't touch friendly, I said it wasn't touch oriented. Unlike Win8, it doesn't feel like you need a touchscreen to use it, but if you do have a touchscreen it's pretty nice.
What I meant is, I've not heard of an author submitting to multiple journals at the same time. Sometimes an author has to modify a paper based on editor feedback and resubmit.
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Why are people crowdfunding blogging platforms?
That sounds like a challenge to me.
if you like a service they offer, they'll /probably/ shut it down within 12 to 36 months, or they'll re-brand the product, adjust it heavily, integrate it with something else or redesign it so horrifically it's a shadow of its former self.
I think we saw that in action today. I guess Google Now has been rebranded, adjusted, integrated, and redesigned into Google Assistant?
I might believe that if I didn't already block ads in Firefox. Edge happily displays all those ads and the oodles of extra javascript that comes with them. In my experience, that makes Edge drain my battery faster than Firefox + uBlock.
Despite their godawful handling of my beloved Playstation Vita, I had been eyeing a PS4 so that I could play Final Fantasy XV this fall. I'm starting to think I shouldn't bother with a PS4 at all if they're trying to pull this cell phone upgrade every year or two bullshit.
I already have a WiiU, and with the rumors flying around that Microsoft is also thinking about these shenanigans, the WiiU might be the only console I get this generation.
Well, the Xbox One is a PC running Windows, and the original Xbox was also a PC running Windows, but the Xbox 360 was a different beast. It had a three core PowerPC chip at its heart and ran a custom non-Windows-derived (IIRC) OS.
Facebook is modern gossip, and I'm pretty sure > 60% of people have gotten their news through gossip for all of human history.
Sounds pretty darn handy, but we all know what's going on here.
GNU/NT is what I'd call it.
Gee, Sony, thanks for abandoning the Vita in favor of this shit. I love playing games designed for buttons on a touchscreen.
The professor is teaching one section of a class where different sections are taught by different faculty. As all the students - regardless of which section they are enrolled in - are enrolled in the same course, they should all be studying the same material.
Yeah, and that's common. The department says that a linear algebra course should cover a list of selected topics: systems of equations, matrix algebra, vector spaces, etc. But it is straight-up stupid to require professors to all teach the same material in the same order from the same textbook the same way. The student population benefits from having a variety of perspectives. A lot of problems get solved when two people who learned the same thing in two different ways get together.
No shit. My first Motorola smartphone bricked itself after being dropped a foot onto carpet. My second Motorola phone stopped getting OTA updates a week after I bought it. My Samsung Galaxy S4 is incredibly unstable and requires daily reboots.
On the other hand, my Nexus 7 1st gen had the mysterious and completely ignored "slows to a crawl if you use more than 80% of internal storage" bug and became too slow to use after updating to lollipop.
Maybe I just won't buy smartphones or tablets anymore.
Now this is news for nerds.
...is that we didn't stop evolving during the paleolithic. The Atlantic seems to forget that for the most part too.
They're the only provider with decent coverage in rural areas. If I wasn't on Verizon, I'd have spotty or no signal every time I drive outside the city limits (which is often.) I hate Verizon, but they're my only choice.
There was a mathematician named R.L. Moore. He was an influential point-set topologist, but he's influential outside the realm of topology because of his teaching style. Briefly, the professor gives out definitions, axioms, and statements of theorems (as well as non-theorems) in class. The members of the class work out the theorems, important examples, and counterexamples to non-theorems on their own, and then present their results to the rest of the class.
I'm an introvert. I hate group projects. For one I find being with people mostly draining, but for another I always did the lion's share of the work. But I love Moore-style classes. I'm not afraid of presenting, and I felt I learned better working everything out on my own.
I'd love to see education move away from group projects and learning activities in favor of guided self-instruction (with accountability in the form of presentations or tests.) The introverts can work in their own solitary, contemplative fashion, and the extroverts can form study groups as they see fit. If the class isn't suitable for presentations, then something closer to a flipped classroom is IMO ideal.
Caveat: In my experience as both a student and an instructor this works best at the sophomore level of college and higher or graduate school.
he was more or less just filling time as HR director, possibly while being groomed as a potential successor.
Given that Kimishima is already 65, I wouldn't be surprised if he's only president long enough for someone else to finish being groomed. I doubt Kimishima was ever groomed himself for the job; I think he was just experienced and available after Iwata's sudden death.
I freely admit that I couldn't stand to watch the D&D movies sober, but I distinctly remember one of the heroes casting a 9th level spell at some point and bitching about it loudly until someone put more alcohol in my mouth. But regardless, you gotta admit they were doing 20th level end-of-campaign stuff by the end of the movies. Not even with a montage in a couple of them.
I'm almost 30. I know how to dress like an adult. I own several ties, even a couple bow ties. And you know what? Dressing like an adult sucks. Not having to dress like I'm attending a fucking funeral every day is a pretty great perk.
One of the problems with every D&D movie attempt up until this point is that they're always about end-of-campaign type things. But D&D is fun for the entire campaign. Especially since HBO's Game of Thrones has demonstrated strongly that gritty low-magic fantasy has a large audience, I think it would help a D&D movie to focus on low-level adventures. Like, levels 1 - 3, where Magic Missile (the bottle rocket of evocation spells) is the flashiest thing your Wizard can do, and even then just once per day.
I think a trilogy of movies, low-level, mid-level, and high-level, could actually do very well. The caveat being that the first movie would have to be very good to ensure the sequels aren't just wasted cash.
Colorado has been added to my list of places to look for jobs. I was terrified I'd have to start dressing like an adult after graduation.
I wonder how long it will be after HUDs become standard that they start putting advertisements in HUDs.
"Proven" wrong in what sense? Do you have any hard data to back that up? Note that "hated" and "wrong" are not the same thing. People just hate change.
I'm convinced that the only reason fullscreen launchers on desktop are hated is because they're different. If Windows had a fullscreen start menu back in Win95, then everyone would have been bitching about Win8's tiny start menu that doesn't display enough applications at once, Win10 would have gone back to the fullscreen launcher by default, and KDE would only just now have a non-fullscreen application launcher.
For that matter, do you have an android phone handy? Pull up your applications menu. Oh, look! A fullscreen application launcher!
I never said Win10 wasn't touch friendly, I said it wasn't touch oriented. Unlike Win8, it doesn't feel like you need a touchscreen to use it, but if you do have a touchscreen it's pretty nice.
What I meant is, I've not heard of an author submitting to multiple journals at the same time. Sometimes an author has to modify a paper based on editor feedback and resubmit.