Good for you! And as long as you don't claim to support people's right to express their political opinions at the same time that you try to use your business to silence them, you're not a hypocrite.
No, I'm telling you they're hypocrites. If you don't like what somebody is saying and want to use your entire company's financial weight to silence them, good for you, but that is the opposite of supporting somebody's ability to espouse their opinions.
"While everyone has a right to express his or her political opinion", because the second part to that sentence always comes out being something like, "we don't think this person should be able to express theirs."
Also apparently Luckey's girlfriend has been harassed off of Twitter, and you'll get banned from NeoGaf if you suggest that maybe she shouldn't be harassed. Stay classy, internet.
Are you talking about RTK / CPGPS? I'd love it if you could show me a consumer cell phone that's capable of that. Every cell phone I've ever seen is lucky to get 3 m accuracy when it's outside and quickly degrades to >10 m indoors.
As to deets on in-building, there are tons of scientific papers on this, grandpa.
But you can't actually produce any at the moment, of course.
We can locate you within a meter based on cell tower logs, actually
Would you care to share the whitepaper describing how to get sub-meter accuracy from cell tower triangulation? As somebody who has actually done radio direction finding for a living I was under the impression that cell tower triangulation was considerably less accurate than GPS -- usually to within about 3/4 of a square mile.
If it's so accurate, why do cell phones even bother using GPS, which is accurate to about 3 meters if you're lucky?
NMS promised a lot of things you cannot possibly test in the first few hours of grind and surprise these things are missing.
That's true, but five hours is still enough time to tell whether you're having fun or not. If you force yourself to push through something you're not enjoying for five hours just because you're hoping it'll get good, you're a sucker.
50 hours is nothing,when you buy a game it is FOREVER, you are NOT LEASING IT if you think you got ripped off you are ENTITLED TO YOUR MONEY BACK!
Well, at least you're willing to admit that you're acting entitled.
Even if a game has enough content to last a thousand hours, you should be able to tell whether you're enjoying it or not within the first few. If you play a game for two hours and you want your money back, that's totally reasonable. Heck, I'd even say five; there are some games that take a while to get to the meat of them. If you spend 50 playing a game you don't like, you're a moron and should consider the $60 you spent to be the cost of the lesson you just learned.
I'm not a gamer, but the thing that interests me that no one is talking about is the fact that they apparently know how long you have played the game. Why is anyone OK with that?
Because that's very, very old news. Steam has been doing that for about twelve years now. Every game on Steam has Steam's DRM integrated into it, which makes it trivial for them to track which games you're playing, how long you've played them, who you've played them with, and so on. You can launch Steam in offline mode, but it'll sync up your stats next time you go online, which you'll have to do if you want to buy more games or play multiplayer, anyway.
As a non-gamer you might see it as a "grotesque invasion of privacy," but to most gamers it's not just fine, it's a welcome feature. They like being able to show their friends what they're playing, compare stats, and so on, and Steam facilitates that.
So, it doesn't even warrant a mention because most people like it and the ones who don't have still been used to it for over a decade now.
A pre-owned Wii from GameStop will cost you $50, and NES games from the virtual console are roughly $5 each, so you'd be looking at spending about $200 for the same set of games. If you care at all about video quality, also keep in mind that the Wii only has analog video output, and your typical fancy HD TV looks awful when upscaling analog video.
Huh, I've had a Synology NAS for over a year now and never knew they had a note app, even though I've spent time before trying to find a decent note-taking applications.
And it's actually pretty nice! And has a todo list and an Android widget!
The company also couldn't say whether customers will see the problem fix itself with another software update or if they will need to head into dealers to get it fixed. Some users on Twitter have reported success with disconnecting their battery for a few moments to force a reset of the system.
If a reset of the system can fix the problem, it's not bricked. If a software update can fix it, it's also not bricked.
"Bricked" means it is completely unrepairable and useless as anything other than a brick.
And keep a copy in your wallet in the middle of a much longer (e.g. 100 character) sequence. Your brain's pattern recognition machinery will immediately recognize the correct sequence, but nobody else will.
That seems kind of pointless. If I found that piece of paper and wanted to try to use it to break your password, it would take me about five minutes to write a script that would try every possible substring of characters in that.
You mean like the freedom not to have to make cakes for people when it's against your moral beliefs to work on their behalf? Ok then.
Does Donald Trump have a history of being discriminated against and being persecuted due to personal attributes that don't affect other people in the slightest? Ok then.
Imagezoom still works, but Google has decided the extension violates their Chrome Web Store policy, so they took the courtesy of manually disabling it for you. If you go into your settings and enable it, it'll work again.
So what you're complaining about is government intervention, not capitalism. Which makes you a conservative, or maybe a libertarian.
Unfortunately, those labels are functionally useless. The party that is supported by a majority of "conservatives" is not actually anti-government intervention at all; they are, in general, huge fans of the military industrial complex and are wholly in favor of legislating morality (see all of the recent hubbub about bathroom laws that should've never been an issue in the first place). The capital-L "Libertarian" party is fundamentally against government on principle and opposes any sort of government regulation of private industry; that seems nice until you realize that if it was up to them, we'd all still be using leaded gasoline, there'd be just a single massive monopoly that rules telecommunications, and you could be fired for joining a union.
I can't speak for the original poster, but I suspect he's not against all government intervention, just the government spending his tax money on things he doesn't like. I'll bet he's all in favor of the government subsidizing higher education, breaking up monopolies, protecting individuals from corporate abuse, and improving road infrastructure.
You can still contribute partially to a Roth IRA if you make up to $131k, or $183/$193 if you're married filing jointly. There's also no limit to contributions on a Traditional IRA, even though the rates aren't nearly as good (but still better than you'll get from a savings account).
And quite frankly, if you're already maxing out your 401(k) contributions and you make enough that you can't contribute to a Roth IRA, congratulations, you're a member of the upper middle class and you're going to be just fine (unless you make a series of terrible decisions and squander your money). You don't need simple financial advice.
And for those of us saving up to buy most of a house outright or to start a business and not storing the money for retirement?
Well, what you have to ask yourself is: Do you want your money to be easily accessible or do you want to (safely) make money off of it? There's nothing wrong with putting your money in a savings account as long as you realize that it's just a holding area and you're not going to make a significant amount off of it.
Realize the saving up to buy a house outright is something that basically nobody does, and the finance industry isn't going to help you out with that; they want you to put 20% down and take out a loan for the rest. Same with starting a business. You can withdraw up to 10k out of a Roth IRA without penalty for a first-time home purchase, so there's that.
But if you want to try to make money and your cash easily available, the stock market is probably your best option. Invest in some low-risk stocks and cross your fingers.
So I can get 0.05% at Boeing's credit union? No thanks. Why would I do that when GS pays 21 times more?
Because "savings" accounts are an awful deal if you're trying to actually make money off of the interest. If you have $10k that you can let sit in your savings account for 5 years, at a 1.05% APY you will make about $500 in that time. Tell you what, I'll give you that $500 up front if you let me hold on to that $10k for five years. Does that sound like a good deal now?
A savings/checking account is just a place to store your money on hand so that somebody can't break into your house and take it all. Go stick your money in a Roth IRA or a 401(k) instead if you actually want to save.
So basically, unless you're nice to somebody and ask them easy questions, you're a troll. I guess I was never told that you weren't allowed to ask harsh questions in an interview.
And you appear to have missed that my complaint is not "someone downmodding the obvious trolls", but that there were many questions like this that were sitting at +5 until days after the article had been posted, and they were suddenly downmodded to 0 or -1 within minutes. There are other people in that article observing it. You don't think that's odd?
Ok, so all the posters being called SJWs here on Slashdot or Reddit or elsewhere for having an opinion have such magical censorship powers? Good to know how you view your reality and people you disagree with.
Do you remember that time Slashdot interviewed Brianna Wu, and a few days after the "Ask your questions" article was posted, the majority of comments or questions that were critical of her -- several of which were at +5 -- was suddenly modded down to -1? And then every question she was asked was a total softball?
Take a look at interior, the pictures here and tell me that's not something to die for.
Actually, I was thinking about putting down the cash for it until I looked at the interior. That dashboard is awful -- there's so much wasted space, and unless I'm missing something, the entire interface is on a tablet that's just propped up in the middle. Looking away from the road to see anything is bad, and a lack of tactile feedback for any operation is even worse because it means you must look away from the road to do anything. I don't want that at all.
I can't think of more than a couple games that would have even justified purchasing it.
Bayonetta 2 Hyrule Warriors Mario Kart 8 Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate New Super Mario Bros. U Splatoon Super Mario 3D World Xenoblade Chronicles X
That's not even counting HD remakes of older games, indie games, or cross-platform games. There's also still a number of promising upcoming games (Zelda, Star Fox, Tokyo Mirage Sessions, etc). The Wii U's third-party support has been poor, but its first party titles are great. Honestly, if you only get one console from the current generation, the Wii U is the best one; all of the big cross-platform games are best on PC.
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Good for you! And as long as you don't claim to support people's right to express their political opinions at the same time that you try to use your business to silence them, you're not a hypocrite.
No, I'm telling you they're hypocrites. If you don't like what somebody is saying and want to use your entire company's financial weight to silence them, good for you, but that is the opposite of supporting somebody's ability to espouse their opinions.
"While everyone has a right to express his or her political opinion", because the second part to that sentence always comes out being something like, "we don't think this person should be able to express theirs."
Also apparently Luckey's girlfriend has been harassed off of Twitter, and you'll get banned from NeoGaf if you suggest that maybe she shouldn't be harassed. Stay classy, internet.
GPS with full spectra is accurate to 0.1 meters
Are you talking about RTK / CPGPS? I'd love it if you could show me a consumer cell phone that's capable of that. Every cell phone I've ever seen is lucky to get 3 m accuracy when it's outside and quickly degrades to >10 m indoors.
As to deets on in-building, there are tons of scientific papers on this, grandpa.
But you can't actually produce any at the moment, of course.
We can locate you within a meter based on cell tower logs, actually
Would you care to share the whitepaper describing how to get sub-meter accuracy from cell tower triangulation? As somebody who has actually done radio direction finding for a living I was under the impression that cell tower triangulation was considerably less accurate than GPS -- usually to within about 3/4 of a square mile.
If it's so accurate, why do cell phones even bother using GPS, which is accurate to about 3 meters if you're lucky?
NMS promised a lot of things you cannot possibly test in the first few hours of grind and surprise these things are missing.
That's true, but five hours is still enough time to tell whether you're having fun or not. If you force yourself to push through something you're not enjoying for five hours just because you're hoping it'll get good, you're a sucker.
50 hours is nothing,when you buy a game it is FOREVER, you are NOT LEASING IT if you think you got ripped off you are ENTITLED TO YOUR MONEY BACK!
Well, at least you're willing to admit that you're acting entitled.
Even if a game has enough content to last a thousand hours, you should be able to tell whether you're enjoying it or not within the first few. If you play a game for two hours and you want your money back, that's totally reasonable. Heck, I'd even say five; there are some games that take a while to get to the meat of them. If you spend 50 playing a game you don't like, you're a moron and should consider the $60 you spent to be the cost of the lesson you just learned.
I'm not a gamer, but the thing that interests me that no one is talking about is the fact that they apparently know how long you have played the game. Why is anyone OK with that?
Because that's very, very old news. Steam has been doing that for about twelve years now. Every game on Steam has Steam's DRM integrated into it, which makes it trivial for them to track which games you're playing, how long you've played them, who you've played them with, and so on. You can launch Steam in offline mode, but it'll sync up your stats next time you go online, which you'll have to do if you want to buy more games or play multiplayer, anyway.
As a non-gamer you might see it as a "grotesque invasion of privacy," but to most gamers it's not just fine, it's a welcome feature. They like being able to show their friends what they're playing, compare stats, and so on, and Steam facilitates that.
So, it doesn't even warrant a mention because most people like it and the ones who don't have still been used to it for over a decade now.
A pre-owned Wii from GameStop will cost you $50, and NES games from the virtual console are roughly $5 each, so you'd be looking at spending about $200 for the same set of games. If you care at all about video quality, also keep in mind that the Wii only has analog video output, and your typical fancy HD TV looks awful when upscaling analog video.
So it compares pretty favorably, I'd say.
Huh, I've had a Synology NAS for over a year now and never knew they had a note app, even though I've spent time before trying to find a decent note-taking applications.
And it's actually pretty nice! And has a todo list and an Android widget!
The company also couldn't say whether customers will see the problem fix itself with another software update or if they will need to head into dealers to get it fixed. Some users on Twitter have reported success with disconnecting their battery for a few moments to force a reset of the system.
If a reset of the system can fix the problem, it's not bricked. If a software update can fix it, it's also not bricked.
"Bricked" means it is completely unrepairable and useless as anything other than a brick.
And keep a copy in your wallet in the middle of a much longer (e.g. 100 character) sequence.
Your brain's pattern recognition machinery will immediately recognize the correct sequence, but nobody else will.
That seems kind of pointless. If I found that piece of paper and wanted to try to use it to break your password, it would take me about five minutes to write a script that would try every possible substring of characters in that.
You mean like the freedom not to have to make cakes for people when it's against your moral beliefs to work on their behalf? Ok then.
Does Donald Trump have a history of being discriminated against and being persecuted due to personal attributes that don't affect other people in the slightest? Ok then.
Imagezoom still works, but Google has decided the extension violates their Chrome Web Store policy, so they took the courtesy of manually disabling it for you. If you go into your settings and enable it, it'll work again.
So what you're complaining about is government intervention, not capitalism. Which makes you a conservative, or maybe a libertarian.
Unfortunately, those labels are functionally useless. The party that is supported by a majority of "conservatives" is not actually anti-government intervention at all; they are, in general, huge fans of the military industrial complex and are wholly in favor of legislating morality (see all of the recent hubbub about bathroom laws that should've never been an issue in the first place). The capital-L "Libertarian" party is fundamentally against government on principle and opposes any sort of government regulation of private industry; that seems nice until you realize that if it was up to them, we'd all still be using leaded gasoline, there'd be just a single massive monopoly that rules telecommunications, and you could be fired for joining a union.
I can't speak for the original poster, but I suspect he's not against all government intervention, just the government spending his tax money on things he doesn't like. I'll bet he's all in favor of the government subsidizing higher education, breaking up monopolies, protecting individuals from corporate abuse, and improving road infrastructure.
You can still contribute partially to a Roth IRA if you make up to $131k, or $183/$193 if you're married filing jointly. There's also no limit to contributions on a Traditional IRA, even though the rates aren't nearly as good (but still better than you'll get from a savings account).
And quite frankly, if you're already maxing out your 401(k) contributions and you make enough that you can't contribute to a Roth IRA, congratulations, you're a member of the upper middle class and you're going to be just fine (unless you make a series of terrible decisions and squander your money). You don't need simple financial advice.
And for those of us saving up to buy most of a house outright or to start a business and not storing the money for retirement?
Well, what you have to ask yourself is: Do you want your money to be easily accessible or do you want to (safely) make money off of it? There's nothing wrong with putting your money in a savings account as long as you realize that it's just a holding area and you're not going to make a significant amount off of it.
Realize the saving up to buy a house outright is something that basically nobody does, and the finance industry isn't going to help you out with that; they want you to put 20% down and take out a loan for the rest. Same with starting a business. You can withdraw up to 10k out of a Roth IRA without penalty for a first-time home purchase, so there's that.
But if you want to try to make money and your cash easily available, the stock market is probably your best option. Invest in some low-risk stocks and cross your fingers.
So I can get 0.05% at Boeing's credit union? No thanks. Why would I do that when GS pays 21 times more?
Because "savings" accounts are an awful deal if you're trying to actually make money off of the interest. If you have $10k that you can let sit in your savings account for 5 years, at a 1.05% APY you will make about $500 in that time. Tell you what, I'll give you that $500 up front if you let me hold on to that $10k for five years. Does that sound like a good deal now?
A savings/checking account is just a place to store your money on hand so that somebody can't break into your house and take it all. Go stick your money in a Roth IRA or a 401(k) instead if you actually want to save.
So basically, unless you're nice to somebody and ask them easy questions, you're a troll. I guess I was never told that you weren't allowed to ask harsh questions in an interview.
And you appear to have missed that my complaint is not "someone downmodding the obvious trolls", but that there were many questions like this that were sitting at +5 until days after the article had been posted, and they were suddenly downmodded to 0 or -1 within minutes. There are other people in that article observing it. You don't think that's odd?
Let me remind you, then. For example, here's a good one about why she completely ignores class privilege whenever the subject of "privilege" comes up: https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7684791&cid=50109951
Here's one questioning why she considers herself a leader in the gaming industry even though she's produced nothing noteworthy: https://interviews.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7684791&cid=50109875
How is that appropriate? The government is not suppressing anybody here.
Ok, so all the posters being called SJWs here on Slashdot or Reddit or elsewhere for having an opinion have such magical censorship powers? Good to know how you view your reality and people you disagree with.
Do you remember that time Slashdot interviewed Brianna Wu, and a few days after the "Ask your questions" article was posted, the majority of comments or questions that were critical of her -- several of which were at +5 -- was suddenly modded down to -1? And then every question she was asked was a total softball?
Take a look at interior, the pictures here and tell me that's not something to die for.
Actually, I was thinking about putting down the cash for it until I looked at the interior. That dashboard is awful -- there's so much wasted space, and unless I'm missing something, the entire interface is on a tablet that's just propped up in the middle. Looking away from the road to see anything is bad, and a lack of tactile feedback for any operation is even worse because it means you must look away from the road to do anything. I don't want that at all.
Oh, I meant to include Wonderful 101 and Super Mario Maker on that list but I forgot.
If that's not enough good games to justify buying a console then I don't even know what you want.
I can't think of more than a couple games that would have even justified purchasing it.
Bayonetta 2
Hyrule Warriors
Mario Kart 8
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
New Super Mario Bros. U
Splatoon
Super Mario 3D World
Xenoblade Chronicles X
That's not even counting HD remakes of older games, indie games, or cross-platform games. There's also still a number of promising upcoming games (Zelda, Star Fox, Tokyo Mirage Sessions, etc). The Wii U's third-party support has been poor, but its first party titles are great. Honestly, if you only get one console from the current generation, the Wii U is the best one; all of the big cross-platform games are best on PC.