I don't drink, nor does my wife, so paying to have one of these things in my vehicle will never help anyone. So paying to have it, and paying to maintain it are not pleasing ideas to me.
I have had a number of experiences with things that were engineered to not work (DRM generally speaking). On several occasions, they did what they were designed to do. Not work. All false positives.
Not being able to watch a movie or play a game that I paid for were merely annoying inconveniences.
A vehicle not working when you need it could range from annoying to disasterous (life threatening on rare occasions).
It may not start out that way, but what are the chances in the future of these things not reporting to police and insurance companies? Just what I need. Not only does a false positive keep me from driving, I get a fine, points off my license, and my insurance goes through the roof. No trial, just labeled guilty by a faulty machine.
Why? That person is the only one doing it right. That's where you are supposed to merge, and it is most efficient when everyone does it instead of merging early (unless traffic is really light). Look up the zipper merge and educate yourself. Not trying to be rude about it, most people get this wrong. Spread the word.
As for the guy who posted that picture and said he blocks both lanes? He's the real asshole, and he's slowing everyone down. Should get a ticket for obstructing traffic.
I see hard drives rated for a MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) of 1,000,000 hours (114 years), yet they only get a three year warranty. And anecdotally, I have had several fail just over the three year mark.
Apollo 18? I was on that mission. Back in those days we didn't have a lot of computing power, but it was pretty amazing what you could do with a Commodore 64.
Spielberg's argument is one of principle: the theatrical experience is different from the home experience, and the awards should be delineated by that difference. In other words, Spielberg is saying that the theater is a part of the medium for Oscar-eligible films.
Not all theaters are created equal. Some are very good, while others are mediocre. Based on that fact, some home experiences are going to be better than some theater experiences. So to me, having to be in a theater to get an award is a bit lame.
I'd also argue that if the film was shown in any substandard theaters, it should not be eligible for an award, since the theater is "part of the medium".
"rolling the dice" on future products that will just "blow you away."
"Rolling the dice on future products" is not exactly confidence inspiring.
I'd translate that to "We haven't got a clue what we're going to pull out of our ass next, but you'll be blown away by the insanely high price that we'll have the gall to charge for it!"
The personal data that may have been stolen by the intruder includes first and last names, usernames, email addresses, password hashes (i.e. not plaintext passwords), location (i.e. city, state, country), birth date, and gender.
Of those, username, email address, password hash are the only information that they should have had.
No one obeyed Do Not Track from the start. Google didn't even abide by it.
This is where it needed a minor improvement. The browser should put a big warning banner up saying "Warning: This site does not respect your Do Not Track request. It is tracking you against your will.".
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I don't drink, nor does my wife, so paying to have one of these things in my vehicle will never help anyone. So paying to have it, and paying to maintain it are not pleasing ideas to me.
I have had a number of experiences with things that were engineered to not work (DRM generally speaking). On several occasions, they did what they were designed to do. Not work. All false positives.
Not being able to watch a movie or play a game that I paid for were merely annoying inconveniences.
A vehicle not working when you need it could range from annoying to disasterous (life threatening on rare occasions).
It may not start out that way, but what are the chances in the future of these things not reporting to police and insurance companies? Just what I need. Not only does a false positive keep me from driving, I get a fine, points off my license, and my insurance goes through the roof. No trial, just labeled guilty by a faulty machine.
Could be great fun for hackers too.
Do not want.
Maybe we can give this guy a red card.
Why? That person is the only one doing it right. That's where you are supposed to merge, and it is most efficient when everyone does it instead of merging early (unless traffic is really light). Look up the zipper merge and educate yourself. Not trying to be rude about it, most people get this wrong. Spread the word.
As for the guy who posted that picture and said he blocks both lanes? He's the real asshole, and he's slowing everyone down. Should get a ticket for obstructing traffic.
You can download a game and then disconnect it from the internet. They can't revoke it without talking to your xbox.
I don't understand how Slashdot is full of people who can't understand basic technology.
So, one game per console?
Australia passes law to punish car makers for the bumper stickers drivers put on their cars?
"Finally, Walmart has a data center unofficially called Area 71 in Caverna, Missouri which holds over 460 trillion bytes of data."
Who the hell measures their storage in bytes these days?
Everyone. A byte is the base unit. Bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terrabytes and so on. All measured in bytes.
Probably using the new definition of "unlimited" popularized by ISPs/telecoms.
1 in 100,000 is not great really.
Odds of getting all six numbers in the Lotto 6/49 is 1 in 13,983,816. Yet it gets won on a semi-regular basis.
This sounds too much like the "unsinkable" Titanic.
Happened to me from time to time in Pale Moon. You can disable that terrible design idea in config. Google it.
Going forward/back always lost my post content.
Happens (for different reasons) on phone. Touch the screen the wrong way and poof it's gone.
These are very stable and dependable systems.
As has been clearly demonstrated.
I see hard drives rated for a MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) of 1,000,000 hours (114 years), yet they only get a three year warranty. And anecdotally, I have had several fail just over the three year mark.
Apollo 18 ? Really ?
Apollo 18? I was on that mission. Back in those days we didn't have a lot of computing power, but it was pretty amazing what you could do with a Commodore 64.
A restaurant told a group of us the other day that they had a one bill per table policy and didn't want to split the bill.
I'd say okay, but there will be a 10% service fee for that.
AND all the prices go up by X% due to those fees. So cash users end up paying MORE for the same items.
No they don't. They pay the same. Just the merchant gets to keep more.
A burly man will be better off than a small woman.
A burly man will be better off than a small man as well.
Spielberg's argument is one of principle: the theatrical experience is different from the home experience, and the awards should be delineated by that difference. In other words, Spielberg is saying that the theater is a part of the medium for Oscar-eligible films.
Not all theaters are created equal. Some are very good, while others are mediocre. Based on that fact, some home experiences are going to be better than some theater experiences. So to me, having to be in a theater to get an award is a bit lame.
I'd also argue that if the film was shown in any substandard theaters, it should not be eligible for an award, since the theater is "part of the medium".
"rolling the dice" on future products that will just "blow you away."
"Rolling the dice on future products" is not exactly confidence inspiring.
I'd translate that to "We haven't got a clue what we're going to pull out of our ass next, but you'll be blown away by the insanely high price that we'll have the gall to charge for it!"
My question is, when are we going to launch a mission looking for Alice?
Alice! Alice! Who the fuck is Alice!??
There are plenty of theories that are not validated, like string theory.
String THEORY!!??!
You must be joking. String is not theoretical, it's real. I have a ball of it right here.
Newsflash: 98% of violent teens play violent video games.
Not mentioned: 98% of teens play violent video games.
the superfast new generation of mobile technology called 5G.
"5G E is better. It has more E." - AT&T.
The personal data that may have been stolen by the intruder includes first and last names, usernames, email addresses, password hashes (i.e. not plaintext passwords), location (i.e. city, state, country), birth date, and gender.
Of those, username, email address, password hash are the only information that they should have had.
The latest models are marked MK followed by the number -- a tribute to comic book superhero Iron Man and his MK armor suits.
It's "Mark". "Mk" is short for "Mark". Mk I, Mk II, Mk III, Mk IV. Is Mark 1, Mark 2, Mark 3, Mark 4.
They are version numbers.
No one obeyed Do Not Track from the start. Google didn't even abide by it.
This is where it needed a minor improvement. The browser should put a big warning banner up saying "Warning: This site does not respect your Do Not Track request. It is tracking you against your will.".
Not useless.
With no "Do Not Track" flag, they can say "well, they didn't object".
With the DNT flag, yeah they can ignore it, but they can't claim that they thought everyone was okay with being tracked.
Kurzgesagt has a good explanation of what measles does to you.
https://youtu.be/y0opgc1WoS4
They need to make a new Episode VIII, and have Finn wake up in the medical bay and say "I had a this terrible dream", and go from there.