This was probably one of the best features in CIV 4 - not having to instruct your workers *every* time. I find I don't really want to automate them, as they rarely do exactly what I want, but not being able to queue some instructions up is a real pain in the ass.
I'm not sure what to think of the turn based warnings. Basically you're forced to move every unit, adopt a new policy, and add something to the production queue before you can end the turn. This is better for efficiency, but the turns take way too long on a big map once you've got several cities on the go.
This is a pretty meaningless study without factoring in the size or weight of the "items" being purchased. I'm pretty sure that purchasing a new fridge at the local mall leaves a much smaller environmental impact than ordering one from 1000 km away, whereas a small object like a book leaves less of an impact as the mail delivery doesn't require additional work by the postal service (as opposed to burning gas driving to the store to buy a book)
The same people that never remove any programs from their desktop and agree to anything any pop up tells them to. (Oh I have to update? Ok, I'll just click yes - it must be helpful!) When your non-computer-savvy friends call you for "tech support" and you start up their computer to find out why it's running so slow - it doesn't surprise me to see all sorts of useless or ancient programs running in the background.
That's pretty much who zone alarm is after. The non-techie crowd that still happens to have their software installed that can be easily fooled into thinking they have a virus.
Sure, I probably need to RTFA, but I think maybe this is in apple.slashdot.org just because a quota needed filling.
The great plains of slashdot were somewhat unstable this Wednesday afternoon. Just a little earlier the trolls, apple fanbois and apple haters were riled up and excited with a story on schools using iPads! "Moar Apple News!" they cried, yearning for another story on Apple.
Lo and behold another story rose in the same day - only half an hour later - and it would indicate as to why Apple was named the way it was!! The fanbois drooled with excitement, knowing that the story would give a meaning explanation as to how Apple got it's great name. "Maybe it's because apples are healthy and good for you!" commented one somewhat confused fanboi. "It's because apples are shiny and alluring...AND AWESOME - just like apple products!" said another slashdot user out loud to himself, not noticing the odd glares from his co-workers in the adjacent cubicles. The haters also foamed at the mouth, equally excited to hear the stupid reason as to why Apple had it's uber-lame name. "Because they're ROTTEN TO THE CORE!" said one slashdot user, eager to post once he found the meaning... Another reminded himself of the "One bad apple ruins the bunch" saying he'd heard so long ago and scoured the comments to find the one where he could post a flamebait response that would be given a +5 insightful...
But much to their dismay, the full article opening sentence for Apple was "For a company that routinely touts its products as being magical, the origins of Apple's name are actually quite ordinary." There was no official answer, only some speculation from the Woz, and all the angry fanbois and haters were disappointed and crawled back to their caves and mother's basements to look for a microsoft or facebook article to flame..
Moore apparently wanted to show his Fort Gay pride Fort Gay has been restored to the ramparts of Medal of Honor and Call of Duty.
Ok, you've got town pride - nothing wrong there. But insisting on displaying it on your Xbox Live profile?? Call of Duty? I mean now you're just asking to get flamed every time someone sees you're from "Fort Gay". It's not exactly the most tolerant community out there. **Note that I don't know if your town is displayed to other people when you're actually playing - but in case it isn't, then it still brings up the question of why care then? If no one gets to see your town in your profile then why care what your display is?
Well if I'm the one working for microsoft and it's my job to look through user profiles to take out inflammatory names, I'd probably think that "Fort Gay" wasn't actually a real town either. Certainly sounds more like an anti / pro homosexuality name rather than an actual town name. They probably send out hundreds of suspensions or warnings each week for questionable names - this one's actually legit and it makes the news?
Why does it have to be the CIA? Either being the organization behind it (assuming someone's behind the allegations) or the organization he's referring to? Hell it could be a collaborative effort with several organizations for all we know. Wikileaks has pissed off a lot of corporations, governments and organizations - people just assume he's referring to the CIA because they have a long history of meddling in foreign affairs. The headline "Wikileaks' Assange: Pentagon may be behind rape claims" on all the conservative blogs is the real baseless accusation here. He never mentioned any organization, but somehow he's intellectually dishonest? Oh come on now.
I'd say the opposite is true as well - when your computer isn't being helpful you'd also treat it more like an annoying person. When a certain paperclip showed up on a certain program, I'd say out loud "Oh would you FUCK OFF already!!?!".
A little culture and reading would have illuminated the irony and kept me from being piqued enough to overuse italics.
Meh - you can't mod them all.
You were probably modded flamebait because your comment implies only bad people have something to hide, and that you're maybe a criminal if you want your data encrypted. I.e. the cop that asks to look around your house, and when you say no, they say "well what do you have to hide?". That won't go well with the slashdot crowd. Also, if your reference is obscure you should probably include a link in the original post.
Ladies and gentlemen, I've been to Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and I can say without hyperbole that this movie was a million times worse than all of them put together.
Bravo youtube *claps* I would have though you would have been sued into oblivion by copyright lawyers shortly after you spawned (i.e. viacomm suit). Thanks for making work a lot less dull these last few years!
Just for kicks I went to consumerwatchdog.org and used their search engine to search on microsoft . Top 20 header results:
1. There's no privacy in third world America - (anti-google article, no mention of bing)
2. Top trustbuster says DOJ watching search industry
3. Advocacy Groups Ask Facebook for More Privacy Changes
4. Critics Call on Feds to Squelch a Google Monopoly
5. Data Show Google Abuses Search Role, Group Contends
6. Watchdog Backs Google Antitrust Complaint with (More) Data
7. Google's Wi-Fi Data Harvest Facing More Probes, Lawsuits
8. Google Using Search Engine To Muscle Into Internet Businesses, Study Finds
9. Google Worth $1 Billion to Pa. Commerce
10. Google Raises Its Game In Washington
11. Google shows the way on search engine encryption; others must follow
12. FTC Clears Google Purchase of Mobile Ad Service
13. White House Reprimands Ex-Googler After Consumer Watchdog FOIA Request
14. Few Hardballs from Shareholders at Google's Annual Meeting
15. Google's Growth Markets Include Lobbying
16. Consumer Watchdog Targets Google
17. Privacy Groups, Business Firms Firing Warning Shots on New Online Ad Privacy Bill
18. Boucher's Privacy Bill Scolded by Consumer Groups
19. Google Spent $1.3 Million on Lobbying, What Are They Buying?
20. Consumer Group to Call for Google Break up
Damn, that's a lot of google mention for a search on microsoft. Hell, even on a search on facebookhas "google" in 6 of the top 10 results returned! Facebook doesn't appear until the 11th result, and is in 5 of the headers. What a joke, this site makes fox news looks fair and balanced.
similar to the Do Not Call list developed to prevent telemarketers from aggressively calling consumers.
I almost never used to get soliciting calls on my cell. Then I foolishly put my number on this "do not call" list that the article compares this to. Lo and behold, I got a call a few times a week telling me my car warranty is about to expire. Good list analogy guys - if I don't want to be tracked then I'm expected to submit some information (name, ip address, whatever) to some site that the government / public has access to? I'll get right on it!
If you recall, that movie was also leaked via torrent before it actually came out in theaters ( a good quality version too). X Men : Origins took in about 373 Million Worldwide. According to the same site, Hurt Locker made a total of 48 million. The only difference here was that hurt locker was released significantly earlier (5 months prior to release date) than X Men Origins (about a month or so, don't quote me on that). But I'm sure it had nothing to do with being a crappy movie and everything to do with being leaked online!
This feature is handy if you forgot to log out at home and log in somewhere else, but won't do much for spammers. If a spammer has your credentials, you'll know fairly soon when your friends message you and say "WTF was that message about?". Even if this allows you to remotely ban an IP address from logging in or force the other user out, how's that going to protect you? They still have your credentials and can just log in again.
Better security? Display the last time you logged in / logged out on your home page. Now you know when and if someone else has logged into your account. This is better protection against lurkers as well (i.e. snooping spouse or roommate).
I'm seeing a lot of suggestions for complex security here. First of all, if your account has been compromised and it's been sending spam to your friends won't you already know about this soon after the spambot sends some spam out? Most won't be aware of this right away but surely they'll be informed by their friends of the spam they received? I haven't had my fb account hacked, but I've gotten a couple of messages from friends that were clearly spam. I sent a message explaining what went up and no more spam appeared. Surely the vast majority of facebook users have at least one or two tech savvy friends that replay "dude, your account was hacked, change your password".
Each user is quizzed on facts about their friends that happen to be online (the account is locked to prevent you looking that stuff up) and whoever knows the least stuff about their friends gets kicked. The online friends judge which is the real user
Facebook already has something like this implemented if you log in from somewhere "unfamiliar". Not sure exactly how far you have to be from home, but when I went on vacation to another country and tried to log in I got prompted to identify 7 friends tagged in different photos. Any wrong answer would have kicked me out
Msn / hotmail just implemented something like this as well (maybe 3-6 months ago can't exactly recall when). What's so special about FB doing it that deserves an article?
Printing the expiry date would just encourage competition once the patent runs out. If your products display something on the lines of "Patent X887C2274 - Expires " that just gives other manufacturers the idea that they can make that product. They certainly don't want anyone else seeing the expiry date and thinking "ooh, patent expired! I can make that for much cheaper.."
Yes, I know you can easily look up a patent nowadays and see if it's expired, but TFA mentions the lawyer found patents that expired in the 50's. It may be easy to check it now, but back then it would take a little more effort to find out if a patent's actually expired.
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This was probably one of the best features in CIV 4 - not having to instruct your workers *every* time. I find I don't really want to automate them, as they rarely do exactly what I want, but not being able to queue some instructions up is a real pain in the ass.
I'm not sure what to think of the turn based warnings. Basically you're forced to move every unit, adopt a new policy, and add something to the production queue before you can end the turn. This is better for efficiency, but the turns take way too long on a big map once you've got several cities on the go.
I have the right to my opinion, and my opinion is that you have no right to your opinion.
This is a pretty meaningless study without factoring in the size or weight of the "items" being purchased. I'm pretty sure that purchasing a new fridge at the local mall leaves a much smaller environmental impact than ordering one from 1000 km away, whereas a small object like a book leaves less of an impact as the mail delivery doesn't require additional work by the postal service (as opposed to burning gas driving to the store to buy a book)
Seriously. What morons are using ZoneAlarm?
The same people that never remove any programs from their desktop and agree to anything any pop up tells them to. (Oh I have to update? Ok, I'll just click yes - it must be helpful!) When your non-computer-savvy friends call you for "tech support" and you start up their computer to find out why it's running so slow - it doesn't surprise me to see all sorts of useless or ancient programs running in the background.
That's pretty much who zone alarm is after. The non-techie crowd that still happens to have their software installed that can be easily fooled into thinking they have a virus.
I disagree with you, and I'm pretty sure that's something Hitler would say.
Sure, I probably need to RTFA, but I think maybe this is in apple.slashdot.org just because a quota needed filling.
The great plains of slashdot were somewhat unstable this Wednesday afternoon. Just a little earlier the trolls, apple fanbois and apple haters were riled up and excited with a story on schools using iPads! "Moar Apple News!" they cried, yearning for another story on Apple.
Lo and behold another story rose in the same day - only half an hour later - and it would indicate as to why Apple was named the way it was!! The fanbois drooled with excitement, knowing that the story would give a meaning explanation as to how Apple got it's great name. "Maybe it's because apples are healthy and good for you!" commented one somewhat confused fanboi. "It's because apples are shiny and alluring...AND AWESOME - just like apple products!" said another slashdot user out loud to himself, not noticing the odd glares from his co-workers in the adjacent cubicles. The haters also foamed at the mouth, equally excited to hear the stupid reason as to why Apple had it's uber-lame name. "Because they're ROTTEN TO THE CORE!" said one slashdot user, eager to post once he found the meaning... Another reminded himself of the "One bad apple ruins the bunch" saying he'd heard so long ago and scoured the comments to find the one where he could post a flamebait response that would be given a +5 insightful...
But much to their dismay, the full article opening sentence for Apple was "For a company that routinely touts its products as being magical, the origins of Apple's name are actually quite ordinary." There was no official answer, only some speculation from the Woz, and all the angry fanbois and haters were disappointed and crawled back to their caves and mother's basements to look for a microsoft or facebook article to flame..
Moore apparently wanted to show his Fort Gay pride
Fort Gay has been restored to the ramparts of Medal of Honor and Call of Duty.
Ok, you've got town pride - nothing wrong there. But insisting on displaying it on your Xbox Live profile?? Call of Duty? I mean now you're just asking to get flamed every time someone sees you're from "Fort Gay". It's not exactly the most tolerant community out there. **Note that I don't know if your town is displayed to other people when you're actually playing - but in case it isn't, then it still brings up the question of why care then? If no one gets to see your town in your profile then why care what your display is?
Well if I'm the one working for microsoft and it's my job to look through user profiles to take out inflammatory names, I'd probably think that "Fort Gay" wasn't actually a real town either. Certainly sounds more like an anti / pro homosexuality name rather than an actual town name. They probably send out hundreds of suspensions or warnings each week for questionable names - this one's actually legit and it makes the news?
Why does it have to be the CIA? Either being the organization behind it (assuming someone's behind the allegations) or the organization he's referring to? Hell it could be a collaborative effort with several organizations for all we know. Wikileaks has pissed off a lot of corporations, governments and organizations - people just assume he's referring to the CIA because they have a long history of meddling in foreign affairs. The headline "Wikileaks' Assange: Pentagon may be behind rape claims" on all the conservative blogs is the real baseless accusation here. He never mentioned any organization, but somehow he's intellectually dishonest? Oh come on now.
I'd say the opposite is true as well - when your computer isn't being helpful you'd also treat it more like an annoying person. When a certain paperclip showed up on a certain program, I'd say out loud "Oh would you FUCK OFF already!!?!".
This really opens things up for anyone majoring in philosophy! Now when these students graduate, they have a possibility of finding work as :
1) Philosophy professor
2) Editor on stanford.edu
over where the place the word 'the'
Well let's hope someone besides you made the final decision on that one
Flamebait?
A little culture and reading would have illuminated the irony and kept me from being piqued enough to overuse italics.
Meh - you can't mod them all.
You were probably modded flamebait because your comment implies only bad people have something to hide, and that you're maybe a criminal if you want your data encrypted. I.e. the cop that asks to look around your house, and when you say no, they say "well what do you have to hide?". That won't go well with the slashdot crowd. Also, if your reference is obscure you should probably include a link in the original post.
Ladies and gentlemen, I've been to Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and I can say without hyperbole that this movie was a million times worse than all of them put together.
Good point - I would suspect they aren't, and that the lawyers are on the general payroll for google.
Bravo youtube *claps* I would have though you would have been sued into oblivion by copyright lawyers shortly after you spawned (i.e. viacomm suit). Thanks for making work a lot less dull these last few years!
Just for kicks I went to consumerwatchdog.org and used their search engine to search on microsoft . Top 20 header results :
1. There's no privacy in third world America - (anti-google article, no mention of bing)
2. Top trustbuster says DOJ watching search industry
3. Advocacy Groups Ask Facebook for More Privacy Changes
4. Critics Call on Feds to Squelch a Google Monopoly
5. Data Show Google Abuses Search Role, Group Contends
6. Watchdog Backs Google Antitrust Complaint with (More) Data
7. Google's Wi-Fi Data Harvest Facing More Probes, Lawsuits
8. Google Using Search Engine To Muscle Into Internet Businesses, Study Finds
9. Google Worth $1 Billion to Pa. Commerce
10. Google Raises Its Game In Washington
11. Google shows the way on search engine encryption; others must follow
12. FTC Clears Google Purchase of Mobile Ad Service
13. White House Reprimands Ex-Googler After Consumer Watchdog FOIA Request
14. Few Hardballs from Shareholders at Google's Annual Meeting
15. Google's Growth Markets Include Lobbying
16. Consumer Watchdog Targets Google
17. Privacy Groups, Business Firms Firing Warning Shots on New Online Ad Privacy Bill
18. Boucher's Privacy Bill Scolded by Consumer Groups
19. Google Spent $1.3 Million on Lobbying, What Are They Buying?
20. Consumer Group to Call for Google Break up
Damn, that's a lot of google mention for a search on microsoft. Hell, even on a search on facebookhas "google" in 6 of the top 10 results returned! Facebook doesn't appear until the 11th result, and is in 5 of the headers. What a joke, this site makes fox news looks fair and balanced.
similar to the Do Not Call list developed to prevent telemarketers from aggressively calling consumers.
I almost never used to get soliciting calls on my cell. Then I foolishly put my number on this "do not call" list that the article compares this to. Lo and behold, I got a call a few times a week telling me my car warranty is about to expire. Good list analogy guys - if I don't want to be tracked then I'm expected to submit some information (name, ip address, whatever) to some site that the government / public has access to? I'll get right on it!
Lol at the firefox warning button here
"Get me our of here and upgrade"
So what, you're getting me one more 'our of browsing on this site before I have to upgrade? Allright, I'll upgrade in an hour.
If you recall, that movie was also leaked via torrent before it actually came out in theaters ( a good quality version too). X Men : Origins took in about 373 Million Worldwide . According to the same site, Hurt Locker made a total of 48 million. The only difference here was that hurt locker was released significantly earlier (5 months prior to release date) than X Men Origins (about a month or so, don't quote me on that). But I'm sure it had nothing to do with being a crappy movie and everything to do with being leaked online!
This feature is handy if you forgot to log out at home and log in somewhere else, but won't do much for spammers. If a spammer has your credentials, you'll know fairly soon when your friends message you and say "WTF was that message about?". Even if this allows you to remotely ban an IP address from logging in or force the other user out, how's that going to protect you? They still have your credentials and can just log in again.
Better security? Display the last time you logged in / logged out on your home page. Now you know when and if someone else has logged into your account. This is better protection against lurkers as well (i.e. snooping spouse or roommate).
I'm seeing a lot of suggestions for complex security here. First of all, if your account has been compromised and it's been sending spam to your friends won't you already know about this soon after the spambot sends some spam out? Most won't be aware of this right away but surely they'll be informed by their friends of the spam they received? I haven't had my fb account hacked, but I've gotten a couple of messages from friends that were clearly spam. I sent a message explaining what went up and no more spam appeared. Surely the vast majority of facebook users have at least one or two tech savvy friends that replay "dude, your account was hacked, change your password".
Each user is quizzed on facts about their friends that happen to be online (the account is locked to prevent you looking that stuff up) and whoever knows the least stuff about their friends gets kicked. The online friends judge which is the real user
Facebook already has something like this implemented if you log in from somewhere "unfamiliar". Not sure exactly how far you have to be from home, but when I went on vacation to another country and tried to log in I got prompted to identify 7 friends tagged in different photos. Any wrong answer would have kicked me out
Msn / hotmail just implemented something like this as well (maybe 3-6 months ago can't exactly recall when). What's so special about FB doing it that deserves an article?
Printing the expiry date would just encourage competition once the patent runs out. If your products display something on the lines of "Patent X887C2274 - Expires " that just gives other manufacturers the idea that they can make that product. They certainly don't want anyone else seeing the expiry date and thinking "ooh, patent expired! I can make that for much cheaper.."
Yes, I know you can easily look up a patent nowadays and see if it's expired, but TFA mentions the lawyer found patents that expired in the 50's. It may be easy to check it now, but back then it would take a little more effort to find out if a patent's actually expired.