To me the thing was that out of the box it was a super-lightweight player. It could play basic formats and had a minimal interface but could be extended to do just about anything, even esoteric stuff like chiptunes from game ROMs. It got a bit more bloated over the years till the point where I still used it but only because I had it installed and not for any real advantage over other players.
Assuming the present course of evolution selects what we favor over traits that have thus far been successful enough to be selected. We like to think that evolution inexorably leads to qualities and ideals we value; strength, intelligence, compassion, selflessness. We also have a short memory of what trials mankind has survived in the past. I suspect we will survive just fine and the truth of it will, as it tends, lie somewhere between the extremes of utopia and utter dissolution we so often like to revere or revile respectively.
The page length is the shortest document that can clearly explain $SUBJECT to $AUDIENCE with sufficient citations and references to back statements to the source material(s).
The only time I ever recall hearing of a page count in college was as a warning that if your paper was getting that long you were probably off in the weeds.
Lately I rarely post to Slashdot and seemingly out of sheer randomness I'm granted mod points which evidently have an expiration date. Gods only know I'll get some for making this post and be encouraged to "use it or lose it" on whatever whim I might follow. I try to be constructive with them, but I've never gotten the sense that were hard to obtain, just unpredictable.
Kinda like how Blackwater changed to Xe Services and currently is named Academi. Enough name changes and you can hit the reset button on a poor reputation.
I don't think anyone in this thread chain is saying it can be fixed. The analogy was contaminated heroin needles. The analogous "solution" would be use clean needles or abstain. Since abstention seems out of the question for many the alternative is tightly controlling what you share thus limiting the potential impact on yourself and the people who's information you are sharing.
"It's her life and her choice."
I don't use Facebook, but friends and family do. I try to make my feelings clear about the matter but I don't have any control over what they post about me. Not claiming I know a fix for that either. I'm only thankful that I'm old enough that my entire childhood wasn't documented online.
Why is this a problem that needs legislation to solve? As a kid I never had access to my parents credit card or accounts. If I wanted something I had to mow a lawn and decide if that was worth blowing on Magic the Gathering cards. If you don't want to spend money on games don't associate your credit card with them. If the game is honestly worth playing then let the whales pay for development and just leech off the F2P content.
And really, is the person who needs the drop rate on Malibu Darth Vader honestly going to; a) be surprised that it is abysmally small b) do anything differently with that information?
As a hobbyist, the sky is the limit with free software. In a hobby it is less about how much time a task takes and more about learning and personal development.
In a company, time is money. If I prepare doc files in Libre Office and they don't look the same when opened in MS Word then not only was my effort wasted but the person who had to fight with opening my document. Time spent compensating for a missing feature quickly adds up to the cost of a software subscription or support contract. As long as companies can be more productive and more profitable using proprietary software they will continue to do so and they'd be foolish to do otherwise. Yes, there is risk involved in that if the software companies get too greedy it will impact the bottom line, but until then productivity will trump idealism.
Agree about using Word over LO. I tried to switch a few years back and while I was impressed by LO the formatting was always screwed up if you opened the document in Word. It drives me nuts that Office has added little that I care about since the late 90s and gotten by selling a repeatedly re-skinned product but there just isn't a viable substitute.
In their words as well as actions they are limiting (not preventing) purchases in light of the shortage in hopes that more cards fall into gamers hands. Miners can still buy cards, and likely will just make multiple purchases if they want to bypass the limit. Reading any more beyond that is just groundless speculation and needless panic.
"Reading anything other than that into it is nothing more than misrepresenting translations."
I could say the same for implying that they are going to grill buyers on "gaming culture" to validate their purchases. Go to their actual webpage it says "Limit 2 per customer". The vendor part is just a request, the vendor doesn't have to comply.
"Nvidia asks retailers to only let shoppers buy two graphics cards at once, rather than selling them everything they have."
That's all. They aren't asking what you are doing with them, they only ask that vendors limit how many can be bought in an order to improve the chances that more people will be able to obtain them. Their hope is that this makes it easier for their core audience to obtain cards, but they aren't screening for gamers with "gaming culture" quizzes.
Maybe it's like how Dale Gribble lets John Redcorn teach his son Joseph about Native American stuff. John Redcorn has expertise in that area and Dale can respect that.
I could see calling it successful on the basis of being a hobby or toy language. If you are speaking Esperanto with someone, odds are it's because you were looking for an Esperanto speaker and not because you needed to have a useful conversation or even ask where the bathroom was and Esperanto happened to be the shared language between you and the person you were asking.
One of my first supervisors was super religious and it never even occurred to me until almost 9 years later when he resigned and had some private conversations with me. At the office he did his job and didn't evangelize his personal beliefs even as important as they were to him. Entirely possible that 95% of the office was in agreement with him but he still had the discipline to keep that separation.
Do your own thing after you clock out. Till then; keep the peace.
Many machines already have such features for preventing damage to the system or for user safety. Even purely mechanical systems have such safeties; an automatic transmission will prevent the user from trying to put the vehicle into reverse from drive or leave park without the brakes applied. Washing machines and microwaves have interlocks to prevent operation while they are open. If a machine stops you from doing something it's because a human designed it to.
I feel like upbringing must have something to do with simply being happier with less.
Growing up I always found it strange how many families who weren't as well off often spent much more on luxuries than my family. We had basic cable, ate out on special occasions, only got toys for Christmas / birth days, and went to the movies rarely. Families I knew who lived paycheck to paycheck none-the-less spent money on HBO, ate out frequently, bought toys / video games regularly, smoked and/or drank, and just generally made more impulse purchases.
I think that misses fluffernutter's original point. What you describe is presumably what companies want but frequently doesn't work very well. If I buy a toaster off Amazon I'll wind up getting ads for that same toaster or one of the ones I opted against while I was choosing. Out of any consumer who might buy a toaster having just purchased one I'm probably the least likely to bite and yet that is what I'll see.
That heatmap is deceptively bright considering how sparse it is when you actually zoom in to even a large city. Basically if you are in a big city you might be able to drive 20-30 minutes to buy a coffee, have your carpet cleaned, or some other novelty. Even if I could buy every-day staples nearby with it it's far too volatile to hold on to for any duration of time for anything other than speculation.
Novelty is definitely the word I'd use for VR. I was blown away by what platforms like Oculus and Vive are capable of but I always felt like my eyes were fighting with it despite assurances that I just needed to adjust things "right". Text and indicators were always somewhat challenging for me to read and an hour of gameplay was an accomplishment before I'd need a break due to eye strain. Having that much gear strapped to my head wasn't really a high point either. It was comfortable for what it was though I always felt a sense of relief removing the goggles plus headphones.
I hope to see the technology advance, but I'm not quite ready to pay several hundred dollars for it in it's current state.
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To me the thing was that out of the box it was a super-lightweight player. It could play basic formats and had a minimal interface but could be extended to do just about anything, even esoteric stuff like chiptunes from game ROMs. It got a bit more bloated over the years till the point where I still used it but only because I had it installed and not for any real advantage over other players.
Assuming the present course of evolution selects what we favor over traits that have thus far been successful enough to be selected. We like to think that evolution inexorably leads to qualities and ideals we value; strength, intelligence, compassion, selflessness. We also have a short memory of what trials mankind has survived in the past. I suspect we will survive just fine and the truth of it will, as it tends, lie somewhere between the extremes of utopia and utter dissolution we so often like to revere or revile respectively.
The page length is the shortest document that can clearly explain $SUBJECT to $AUDIENCE with sufficient citations and references to back statements to the source material(s).
The only time I ever recall hearing of a page count in college was as a warning that if your paper was getting that long you were probably off in the weeds.
Lately I rarely post to Slashdot and seemingly out of sheer randomness I'm granted mod points which evidently have an expiration date. Gods only know I'll get some for making this post and be encouraged to "use it or lose it" on whatever whim I might follow. I try to be constructive with them, but I've never gotten the sense that were hard to obtain, just unpredictable.
It is already fixed and has been so. If parents aren't using the controls available that is on them as guardians.
https://support.steampowered.c...
Kinda like how Blackwater changed to Xe Services and currently is named Academi. Enough name changes and you can hit the reset button on a poor reputation.
I don't think anyone in this thread chain is saying it can be fixed. The analogy was contaminated heroin needles. The analogous "solution" would be use clean needles or abstain. Since abstention seems out of the question for many the alternative is tightly controlling what you share thus limiting the potential impact on yourself and the people who's information you are sharing.
"It's her life and her choice."
I don't use Facebook, but friends and family do. I try to make my feelings clear about the matter but I don't have any control over what they post about me. Not claiming I know a fix for that either. I'm only thankful that I'm old enough that my entire childhood wasn't documented online.
Selective enforcement.
If that is the case I'd say they should block the header in all cases except if the domain matches the domain the request is for.
Why is this a problem that needs legislation to solve? As a kid I never had access to my parents credit card or accounts. If I wanted something I had to mow a lawn and decide if that was worth blowing on Magic the Gathering cards. If you don't want to spend money on games don't associate your credit card with them. If the game is honestly worth playing then let the whales pay for development and just leech off the F2P content.
And really, is the person who needs the drop rate on Malibu Darth Vader honestly going to; a) be surprised that it is abysmally small b) do anything differently with that information?
As a hobbyist, the sky is the limit with free software. In a hobby it is less about how much time a task takes and more about learning and personal development.
In a company, time is money. If I prepare doc files in Libre Office and they don't look the same when opened in MS Word then not only was my effort wasted but the person who had to fight with opening my document. Time spent compensating for a missing feature quickly adds up to the cost of a software subscription or support contract. As long as companies can be more productive and more profitable using proprietary software they will continue to do so and they'd be foolish to do otherwise. Yes, there is risk involved in that if the software companies get too greedy it will impact the bottom line, but until then productivity will trump idealism.
Agree about using Word over LO. I tried to switch a few years back and while I was impressed by LO the formatting was always screwed up if you opened the document in Word. It drives me nuts that Office has added little that I care about since the late 90s and gotten by selling a repeatedly re-skinned product but there just isn't a viable substitute.
In their words as well as actions they are limiting (not preventing) purchases in light of the shortage in hopes that more cards fall into gamers hands. Miners can still buy cards, and likely will just make multiple purchases if they want to bypass the limit. Reading any more beyond that is just groundless speculation and needless panic.
"Reading anything other than that into it is nothing more than misrepresenting translations."
I could say the same for implying that they are going to grill buyers on "gaming culture" to validate their purchases. Go to their actual webpage it says "Limit 2 per customer". The vendor part is just a request, the vendor doesn't have to comply.
"Nvidia asks retailers to only let shoppers buy two graphics cards at once, rather than selling them everything they have."
That's all. They aren't asking what you are doing with them, they only ask that vendors limit how many can be bought in an order to improve the chances that more people will be able to obtain them. Their hope is that this makes it easier for their core audience to obtain cards, but they aren't screening for gamers with "gaming culture" quizzes.
Maybe it's like how Dale Gribble lets John Redcorn teach his son Joseph about Native American stuff. John Redcorn has expertise in that area and Dale can respect that.
I just wear my clothes until they break down naturally and are shed in the next molting cycle.
I could see calling it successful on the basis of being a hobby or toy language. If you are speaking Esperanto with someone, odds are it's because you were looking for an Esperanto speaker and not because you needed to have a useful conversation or even ask where the bathroom was and Esperanto happened to be the shared language between you and the person you were asking.
One of my first supervisors was super religious and it never even occurred to me until almost 9 years later when he resigned and had some private conversations with me. At the office he did his job and didn't evangelize his personal beliefs even as important as they were to him. Entirely possible that 95% of the office was in agreement with him but he still had the discipline to keep that separation.
Do your own thing after you clock out. Till then; keep the peace.
Many machines already have such features for preventing damage to the system or for user safety. Even purely mechanical systems have such safeties; an automatic transmission will prevent the user from trying to put the vehicle into reverse from drive or leave park without the brakes applied. Washing machines and microwaves have interlocks to prevent operation while they are open. If a machine stops you from doing something it's because a human designed it to.
I feel like upbringing must have something to do with simply being happier with less.
Growing up I always found it strange how many families who weren't as well off often spent much more on luxuries than my family. We had basic cable, ate out on special occasions, only got toys for Christmas / birth days, and went to the movies rarely. Families I knew who lived paycheck to paycheck none-the-less spent money on HBO, ate out frequently, bought toys / video games regularly, smoked and/or drank, and just generally made more impulse purchases.
I think that misses fluffernutter's original point. What you describe is presumably what companies want but frequently doesn't work very well. If I buy a toaster off Amazon I'll wind up getting ads for that same toaster or one of the ones I opted against while I was choosing. Out of any consumer who might buy a toaster having just purchased one I'm probably the least likely to bite and yet that is what I'll see.
It looks like the fee is around $6 right now. That's pretty steep if you are treating Bitcoin as a currency that you'd use in your daily life.
That heatmap is deceptively bright considering how sparse it is when you actually zoom in to even a large city. Basically if you are in a big city you might be able to drive 20-30 minutes to buy a coffee, have your carpet cleaned, or some other novelty. Even if I could buy every-day staples nearby with it it's far too volatile to hold on to for any duration of time for anything other than speculation.
Novelty is definitely the word I'd use for VR. I was blown away by what platforms like Oculus and Vive are capable of but I always felt like my eyes were fighting with it despite assurances that I just needed to adjust things "right". Text and indicators were always somewhat challenging for me to read and an hour of gameplay was an accomplishment before I'd need a break due to eye strain. Having that much gear strapped to my head wasn't really a high point either. It was comfortable for what it was though I always felt a sense of relief removing the goggles plus headphones.
I hope to see the technology advance, but I'm not quite ready to pay several hundred dollars for it in it's current state.