"One button shitmouse." Hah. I can almost ignore anything you just said, since it's clearly not based on facts
Wait, Apple makes a two-button mouse now? Or do you just count "right click" support since you can press control? Or are you trying to pretend that the Apple "Mightily Random" Mouse isn't a shitmouse? Because the one I had would just randomly decide you're right clicking if your finger got too close to the right side, and the last time I tried one in a store they'd added this horrible multi-touch that made it so that just touching the mouse did random things.
Thankfully I can now ignore everything you said thanks to your own logic.
Also, the word is "taboo", although you did use it correctly.
"Tabu" is a legitimate alternate spelling of "taboo." Look it up.
Well, then it's Mountain Lion (the version being discussed) that removes it, not Lion. But in any case, it's being removed, and you simply won't be able to run X11 apps on Mac OS X any more. I could have sworn this was covered on Slashdot, but apparently it wasn't, since I can't find it here. But it was reported in plenty of other places.
And that would kill OS X's utility as a Unix platform.
And? They already killed Mac OS X Server and removed X11 support, I somehow doubt Apple really cares about anyone that uses Mac OS X because it's UNIX.
This has, strangely enough, next to nothing to do with Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. 38 Studios didn't make that (exactly), they took an existing game that Big Huge Games was in the process of making and basically shoehorned their existing Amalur content into it.
This is also why they're still losing money - they're trying to create a World of Warcraft killer, and they have nothing to show for it. Instead they had to buy another company's game and release it as their own.
It's also unclear how much of the DRM included was done because 38 Studios wanted to and how much was done because EA insisted on it. Especially now that it's quite clear that 38 Studios was desperate to release anything, since they're circling the drain.
In the sense that Apple fanboys were claiming that's why it was better than Android's voice commands, despite the fact it does essentially the exact same thing? Most certainly.
In that it ever actually worked like that? No.
(Strictly speaking, Siri in fact does use previous requests in a very strict set of circumstances. For example, "what's the weather like?" will get you the forecast for your current location. Following up with another location ("how about in Cupertino?") will get you weather in that location. For maximum pedanticism, there are also times Siri will ask you to confirm things ("send this message?") or for more details ("which number, home or work?"). But those are the only instances I can think of where a previous request has any bearing on future ones.)
Just to corroborate this, the original joke phrase was "What is the best cell phone?" and would get answers like "the one you're holding!"
By adding "ever" to the end, you used to trick SIRI into going further into its algorithm and could get the Wolfram Alpha answer. Apple just added "ever" to the end of the joke phrase.
I wonder if there are other words you can still add to get the query to go through again? Like "created" or "made" or things like that? I'd try, but I get very little cell reception where I am right now, which translates to SIRI failing more often than not.
When I tried "What is the best cell phone ever?" SIRI came up with a cell phone store. Apparently the SIRI algorithm is essentially:
1. Is this a built-in joke phrase? 2. Does this contain keywords like "alarm" or "weather" for various command phrases? 3. Is there something with that name nearby? 4. Did a Wolfram-Alpha search come up with something? 5. Bomb.
Which kind of demos how useless the whole thing. Especially with the ridiculous lag times. The old 3GS voice commands were perfectly usable for controlling the iPod app and making phone calls. The new SIRI-fied version is entirely useless because instead of working, you just get to wait some 5-10 seconds for the SIRI servers to process whatever it was you said. Assuming it works at all.
"Call mom." (15 seconds later) "I'm sorry, something went wrong." (sarcastically) "Most advanced cell phone ever." "I found a place matching 'cell phone' close to you." "You're useless, SIRI."
I'm trying to remember what site it was, but I remember being linked to a blog site just like that - nothing but headlines in little tiles, combined with some clip art and a single sentence. My first thought on seeing that site was "holy crap, they expect anyone to find a damned thing on that?!" and my second thought was Ctrl-W.
This new SlashBI site is "organized" the exact same way. It's completely useless!
Seriously, if you haven't taken a time to look at the thing, go and do it! It's hilariously bad.
Then you go look at halflife and see how you can not have cutscenes. The Portal series would also be good for you to check out.
Both Half-Life 2 and Portal 2 have unskippable cutscenes. Portal 2 was the most annoying when you're going back through to collect missing achievements. Yes, Wheatley, shut the fuck up and open the fucking door already!
Yay, I can move around the locked corridor, so it's not a cutscene! I guess! I just can't progress until Wheatley stops talking to me!
Then there were the fucking elevators in Portal. I'd be OK with them if they hid load times, but they didn't. You had to wait for the little animation to play, then there was a load screen, and finally the animation completed and you were allowed into the next test chamber.
Give me skippable actual cutscenes any day compared to Valve "you have to sit around and wait for the script to finish" "no cutscenes."
Note that I'm not saying the games were bad (they're not), I'm saying that, no matter how many people try and pretend otherwise, Valve games contain unskippable cutscenes. Being allowed to spin around a locked box while waiting for an NPC to finish spouting their dialog doesn't make something interactive. It's still a fucking cutscene.
And I suppose PolitiFact may be biased in some way, but as I understand it they're generally accused of having a liberal bias. Which is why I chose to use their list.
As an exercise, please re-list, indicating where the president can unilaterally act and did not, in passing said promises.
No. It's all crap that Obama promised, and you're right, a ton of it is crap that he simply has no way to actually do. Which is why he should have never promised it in the first place - especially because, as a Constitutional scholar, he had to have known some of promises were blatantly unconstitutional - but he did.
You might also want to check on why your rep voted against it. Mine voted against CISPA too.
Why?
Because it didn't go far enough. He essentially wanted it to include an Internet kill switch to stop cyber threats. He did at least mention privacy concerns but one thing is clear: We need an Internet kill switch! We need government regulation describing the exact security software you must be required to buy to place a computer online!
So check up on your reps. They may have voted "no," but you may not like the reason why.
Increase the capital gains and dividends taxes for higher-income taxpayers, expand the child and dependent care credit, create a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners, provide the option for a pre-filled-out tax form, require automatic enrollment in 401(k) plans, require automatic enrollment in IRA plans, end income tax for seniors making less than $50,000, end no-bid contracts above $25,000, repeal the Bush tax cuts for higher incomes, phase out exemptions and deductions for higher earners, sign the Employee Free Choice Act, making it easier for workers to unionize, forbid companies in bankruptcy from giving executives bonuses, allow workers to claim more in unpaid wages and benefits in bankruptcy court, allow imported prescription drugs, prevent drug companies from blocking generic drugs, allow Medicare to negotiate for cheaper drug prices, appoint federal-level coordinator to oversee all federal autism efforts, double federal funding for cancer research, direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a comprehensive study of federal cancer initiatives, provide the CDC $50 million in new funding to determine the most effective approaches for cancer patient care, fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), create a National Commission on People with Disabilities, Employment, and Social Security, change federal rules so small businesses owned by people with disabilities can get preferential treatment for federal contracts, reduce the threshhold for the Family and Medical Leave Act from companies with 50 employees to companies with 25 employees, provide a $1.5 billion fund to help states launch programs for paid family and medical leave, require employers to provide seven paid sick days per year, expand the Family Medical Leave Act to include leave for domestic violence or sexual assault, form international group to help Iraq refugees, work with Russia to move nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert, close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, develop an alternative to President Bush's Military Commissions Act on handling detainees, secure ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), seek to negotiate a political agreement on Cyprus, reinstate special envoy for the Americas, double the Peace Corps, create a public "Contracts and Influence" database, allow five days of public comment before signing bills, enforce tougher rules against revolving door for lobbyists and former officials, double funding for afterschool programs, expand the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity, urge states to treat same-sex couples with full equality in their family and adoption laws, allow bankruptcy judges to modify terms of a home mortgage, increase the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour, restore Superfund program so that polluters pay for clean-ups, re-establish the National Aeronautics and Space Council, support human mission to moon by 2020, pay for the national service plan without increasing the deficit, reduce the number of middle managers in the federal workforce, strengthen the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, limit term of director of national intelligence, give annual "State of the World" address, reduce earmarks to 1994 levels, enact windfall profits tax for oil companies, create cap and trade system with interim goals to reduce global warming, use revenue from cap and trade to support clean energy and environmental restoration, require plug-in fleet at the White House, require more flex-fuel cars for the federal government, mandate flexible fuel vehicles by 2012, provide an annual report on "state of our energy future," allow penalty-free hardship withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009, recognize the Armenian genocide, ensure no family making less than $250,000 will see "any form of tax increase," negotiate health care reform in public sessions televised on C-SPAN, create a public option health plan for a new National Health Insurance Exchange, and introduce a comprehensive immigration bill in the first year.
I've heard of this place where you can go to talk shop without fear of being overheard. They call it a cafeteria. Only Apple is arrogant enough to call it a private restaurant.
Except most cafeterias are on campus. Hell, most of them are inside the actual buildings.
This one isn't.
It's a private restaurant that's "several blocks" away. Located next to a hotel. Which is why employees need to "take the company shuttles to the cafeteria." (And these quotes are from one of those Apple-astroturfing links!)
So, in this case, cafeteria probably isn't accurate. When most people say "cafeteria" they think "inside the campus." This isn't. It really is a special private Apple restaurant.
Sony's own website makes mention of the supported devices requiring a touch screen, so, that kind of rules out the PS3:
You can develop games and applications that utilize physical buttons and touchscreen by using the integrated development environment (IDE) and simulator for the PC which are both included in the PlayStation(R)Suite SDK. [emphasis mine]
Then again, it's still in beta, and there are currently no requirements on what a game needs to support, so maybe the touchscreen support will be optional and you'll be required to support physical button controls as well, in order to support the PS3.
Plus, the FAQ explicitly says you'll still need a separate contract to develop PS3/PSP "Mini" games, so at present, it really doesn't sound like PS3 support is in the cards.
It seriously sounds like they're doing this solely to go after the cellphone games market. Apparently one of the demo games in the SDK is an Angry Birds clone, to give you an idea of the type of games they appear to be pushing.
I live in Massachusetts. Romneycare has already failed horribly, for the same reasons Obamacare will fail if it's allowed to go through. Basically, surprise-surprise, merely forcing people to have health insurance doesn't increase the rates of preventative care. So now our emergency room healthcare costs are through the roof and it's impossible to see a doctor because there aren't enough. So now instead of only people with insurance getting preventative care, no one does.
However, that doesn't mean that state-run healthcare can't work - it just means that Obamacare-style healthcare doesn't work.
Hilariously, the Democrats in Massachusetts are really pissed with the Romneycare monicker - they want to claim it all for themselves, and claim Romney had nothing to do with it. So, you heard it from the Massachusetts Democratic Party: don't blame Romney for Romneycare. Blame the Massachusetts Democratic Party. Fair enough.
On that note, I'd love to know why healthcare is a national issue. Why the fuck don't states offer healthcare on the state level? Why is Obamacare even a thing? We didn't have to wait for a big Federal Department of Fire Fighting to get fire departments (and, yes, those used to be private), why the hell do we need federal healthcare instead of state-level healthcare?!
Healthcare is a thing that's clearly within the state's power to do, it's a thing that arguably the states should be doing, why is that we as a nation have decided that the only option is to do it nationally?
I'd really love to hear an answer to this. I'm perfectly willing to accept government funded base level healthcare - on the state level, where it constitutionally belongs.
So not only do I lose all the context in all of my terminal sessions
They fixed (that much) in Lion. Now, when you quit Terminal with terminals still open, restarting it brings back those terminals and all the context with them.
It's still actually closing the shell, so if you had three terminals open, your.bash_history is still "who the fuck knows," but you'll at least still have the last page or so of terminal output, and the terminals resume in the same directory they were in. Even after reboots. It's nice.
I think they also fixed the "iTunes update requires reboot" thing, but I haven't used Lion long enough to be sure of that. I know they fixed "Safari updates require reboot." Well, at least for the few I've done so far...
Of course, I'm still using Snow Leopard at home, because my three year old MacBook isn't new enough to run Lion. And everything you said applies to that.
Because we paid for it, and then got treated to a surprise game of Sophie's Choice with OtherOS or network connectivity for the games we already owned.
Not to mention the fact that if you chose OtherOS, you can't play any game ever released after they pulled it: all PS3 games come with whatever the latest firmware was at the time they were released. If you try and play them, they'll automatically update the PS3 to the newer firmware version.
So your choice is basically "continue using OtherOS" or "be able to play games." How Sony was able to legally get away with that I'll never know.
Didn't Santorum want to censor porn online? So I guess our porn is safe. Also, Google can now safely restore "santorum" to its original forthy meaning, and we can stop hearing about some candidate no one cares about when searching for it.
That's seriously all I've got for why this would be "news for nerds" in any way.
Depends on your needs. For Mac OS X, vanilla Safari is just as good as vanilla Chrome.
If you want AdBlock and NoScript, then it's still a bit behind. Although I just discovered that there is an AdBlock for Safari (no idea how well it works) and there are extensions that provide rudimentary script blocking as well.
So, under Mac OS X at least, Safari is already nearly to Chrome levels. Under Windows, I'd have to recommend just sticking with Chrome.
This is one of my main issues with the rapid-release stuff, that it's impossible to get bug fixes without getting unwanted new features.
Or the best type of Firefox feature, the new bug!
There's a new bug in Firefox 11 that prevents tabs from reloading on startup correctly. Unfortunately it's caused by a new "feature" that's designed to restore tabs from startup more correctly.
Essentially, when Firefox 11 starts and reloads tabs from a previous session, Firefox 11 will now fire some JavaScript events that are only supposed to be fired due to user interaction. Except it A) sometimes fires these events when it shouldn't at all due to a race condition and B) is now automatically firing an event that should only ever fire due to user interaction with the webpage. Thereby completely breaking webpages that assume that events fired by a user interacting with the webpage only ever fire when the user intends to interact with the page. And not because some developer at Mozilla decided to randomly fire JavaScript events for no readily apparent reason.
Unfortunately this is a "feature" and therefore will not be fixed. Because Firefox is supposed to do that, as of Firefox 11. Despite the fact that, as far as I know, no other browser ever fires events in that fashion.
No one ever saw armed guards, for example, yet that was a prominent part of his story.
The article just says that the translator never saw any armed guards, it never says they weren't there. Again, This American Life claims they did fact check parts like this, and found that they were true. But I can't find anything else that corroborates "armed guards at the gate" without referencing Daisey so I'll concede that point.
Underage workers were also only rumors.
And if you read the article, This American Life addressed that in their original story. The found that there were, in fact, underage workers at Foxconn - but they were rare.
It's important to note that the details that were false all involve Daisey personally witnessing events. He didn't, he just learned about them. So some of the specific examples are dramatizations, but all the basic facts of the horrendous working conditions are true. He just didn't personally talk with the effected workers.
So, yes, This American Life should clarify the story and should admit that they screwed up in claiming that a dramatization was pure fact. But they did, in fact, check out all the basic facts about the working conditions, and everything claimed is based on things that really happened.
Don't try and take this as evidence that the troubles at Foxconn were fabricated or that Apple was unfairly targeted based on fake stories. They were not.
I can't wait to learn what they consider to be "copyright infringement." Watch a video on YouTube that wasn't legally licensed? Have someone post a picture on your Facebook wall that wasn't licensed from the photographer? (That's more likely than it might seem at first - think "wedding pictures.") Read a forum that has links to pirated material? Want to jailbreak your phone?
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"One button shitmouse." Hah. I can almost ignore anything you just said, since it's clearly not based on facts
Wait, Apple makes a two-button mouse now? Or do you just count "right click" support since you can press control? Or are you trying to pretend that the Apple "Mightily Random" Mouse isn't a shitmouse? Because the one I had would just randomly decide you're right clicking if your finger got too close to the right side, and the last time I tried one in a store they'd added this horrible multi-touch that made it so that just touching the mouse did random things.
Thankfully I can now ignore everything you said thanks to your own logic.
Also, the word is "taboo", although you did use it correctly.
"Tabu" is a legitimate alternate spelling of "taboo." Look it up.
Well, then it's Mountain Lion (the version being discussed) that removes it, not Lion. But in any case, it's being removed, and you simply won't be able to run X11 apps on Mac OS X any more. I could have sworn this was covered on Slashdot, but apparently it wasn't, since I can't find it here. But it was reported in plenty of other places.
And that would kill OS X's utility as a Unix platform.
And? They already killed Mac OS X Server and removed X11 support, I somehow doubt Apple really cares about anyone that uses Mac OS X because it's UNIX.
This has, strangely enough, next to nothing to do with Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. 38 Studios didn't make that (exactly), they took an existing game that Big Huge Games was in the process of making and basically shoehorned their existing Amalur content into it.
This is also why they're still losing money - they're trying to create a World of Warcraft killer, and they have nothing to show for it. Instead they had to buy another company's game and release it as their own.
It's also unclear how much of the DRM included was done because 38 Studios wanted to and how much was done because EA insisted on it. Especially now that it's quite clear that 38 Studios was desperate to release anything, since they're circling the drain.
In the sense that Apple fanboys were claiming that's why it was better than Android's voice commands, despite the fact it does essentially the exact same thing? Most certainly.
In that it ever actually worked like that? No.
(Strictly speaking, Siri in fact does use previous requests in a very strict set of circumstances. For example, "what's the weather like?" will get you the forecast for your current location. Following up with another location ("how about in Cupertino?") will get you weather in that location. For maximum pedanticism, there are also times Siri will ask you to confirm things ("send this message?") or for more details ("which number, home or work?"). But those are the only instances I can think of where a previous request has any bearing on future ones.)
Just to corroborate this, the original joke phrase was "What is the best cell phone?" and would get answers like "the one you're holding!"
By adding "ever" to the end, you used to trick SIRI into going further into its algorithm and could get the Wolfram Alpha answer. Apple just added "ever" to the end of the joke phrase.
I wonder if there are other words you can still add to get the query to go through again? Like "created" or "made" or things like that? I'd try, but I get very little cell reception where I am right now, which translates to SIRI failing more often than not.
When I tried "What is the best cell phone ever?" SIRI came up with a cell phone store. Apparently the SIRI algorithm is essentially:
1. Is this a built-in joke phrase?
2. Does this contain keywords like "alarm" or "weather" for various command phrases?
3. Is there something with that name nearby?
4. Did a Wolfram-Alpha search come up with something?
5. Bomb.
Which kind of demos how useless the whole thing. Especially with the ridiculous lag times. The old 3GS voice commands were perfectly usable for controlling the iPod app and making phone calls. The new SIRI-fied version is entirely useless because instead of working, you just get to wait some 5-10 seconds for the SIRI servers to process whatever it was you said. Assuming it works at all.
"Call mom."
(15 seconds later) "I'm sorry, something went wrong."
(sarcastically) "Most advanced cell phone ever."
"I found a place matching 'cell phone' close to you."
"You're useless, SIRI."
I'm trying to remember what site it was, but I remember being linked to a blog site just like that - nothing but headlines in little tiles, combined with some clip art and a single sentence. My first thought on seeing that site was "holy crap, they expect anyone to find a damned thing on that?!" and my second thought was Ctrl-W.
This new SlashBI site is "organized" the exact same way. It's completely useless!
Seriously, if you haven't taken a time to look at the thing, go and do it! It's hilariously bad.
Then you go look at halflife and see how you can not have cutscenes. The Portal series would also be good for you to check out.
Both Half-Life 2 and Portal 2 have unskippable cutscenes. Portal 2 was the most annoying when you're going back through to collect missing achievements. Yes, Wheatley, shut the fuck up and open the fucking door already!
Yay, I can move around the locked corridor, so it's not a cutscene! I guess! I just can't progress until Wheatley stops talking to me!
Then there were the fucking elevators in Portal. I'd be OK with them if they hid load times, but they didn't. You had to wait for the little animation to play, then there was a load screen, and finally the animation completed and you were allowed into the next test chamber.
Give me skippable actual cutscenes any day compared to Valve "you have to sit around and wait for the script to finish" "no cutscenes."
Note that I'm not saying the games were bad (they're not), I'm saying that, no matter how many people try and pretend otherwise, Valve games contain unskippable cutscenes. Being allowed to spin around a locked box while waiting for an NPC to finish spouting their dialog doesn't make something interactive. It's still a fucking cutscene.
Its obvious you copied pasted that from some politically balanced site, like FOX news.
Man, if only I had linked my source in my post. Oh, wait, I did! Here it is again: the PolitiFact Obameter.
And I suppose PolitiFact may be biased in some way, but as I understand it they're generally accused of having a liberal bias. Which is why I chose to use their list.
As an exercise, please re-list, indicating where the president can unilaterally act and did not, in passing said promises.
No. It's all crap that Obama promised, and you're right, a ton of it is crap that he simply has no way to actually do. Which is why he should have never promised it in the first place - especially because, as a Constitutional scholar, he had to have known some of promises were blatantly unconstitutional - but he did.
Not to mention that Obama specifically asked people to hold him accountable in that fashion. So, there you go, there's the list that Obama himself asked people to keep.
And again, because you apparently can't read links: The PolitiFact Obameter
You might also want to check on why your rep voted against it. Mine voted against CISPA too.
Why?
Because it didn't go far enough. He essentially wanted it to include an Internet kill switch to stop cyber threats. He did at least mention privacy concerns but one thing is clear: We need an Internet kill switch! We need government regulation describing the exact security software you must be required to buy to place a computer online!
So check up on your reps. They may have voted "no," but you may not like the reason why.
Obama also promised to:
Increase the capital gains and dividends taxes for higher-income taxpayers, expand the child and dependent care credit, create a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners, provide the option for a pre-filled-out tax form, require automatic enrollment in 401(k) plans, require automatic enrollment in IRA plans, end income tax for seniors making less than $50,000, end no-bid contracts above $25,000, repeal the Bush tax cuts for higher incomes, phase out exemptions and deductions for higher earners, sign the Employee Free Choice Act, making it easier for workers to unionize, forbid companies in bankruptcy from giving executives bonuses, allow workers to claim more in unpaid wages and benefits in bankruptcy court, allow imported prescription drugs, prevent drug companies from blocking generic drugs, allow Medicare to negotiate for cheaper drug prices, appoint federal-level coordinator to oversee all federal autism efforts, double federal funding for cancer research, direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a comprehensive study of federal cancer initiatives, provide the CDC $50 million in new funding to determine the most effective approaches for cancer patient care, fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), create a National Commission on People with Disabilities, Employment, and Social Security, change federal rules so small businesses owned by people with disabilities can get preferential treatment for federal contracts, reduce the threshhold for the Family and Medical Leave Act from companies with 50 employees to companies with 25 employees, provide a $1.5 billion fund to help states launch programs for paid family and medical leave, require employers to provide seven paid sick days per year, expand the Family Medical Leave Act to include leave for domestic violence or sexual assault, form international group to help Iraq refugees, work with Russia to move nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert, close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, develop an alternative to President Bush's Military Commissions Act on handling detainees, secure ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), seek to negotiate a political agreement on Cyprus, reinstate special envoy for the Americas, double the Peace Corps, create a public "Contracts and Influence" database, allow five days of public comment before signing bills, enforce tougher rules against revolving door for lobbyists and former officials, double funding for afterschool programs, expand the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity, urge states to treat same-sex couples with full equality in their family and adoption laws, allow bankruptcy judges to modify terms of a home mortgage, increase the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour, restore Superfund program so that polluters pay for clean-ups, re-establish the National Aeronautics and Space Council, support human mission to moon by 2020, pay for the national service plan without increasing the deficit, reduce the number of middle managers in the federal workforce, strengthen the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, limit term of director of national intelligence, give annual "State of the World" address, reduce earmarks to 1994 levels, enact windfall profits tax for oil companies, create cap and trade system with interim goals to reduce global warming, use revenue from cap and trade to support clean energy and environmental restoration, require plug-in fleet at the White House, require more flex-fuel cars for the federal government, mandate flexible fuel vehicles by 2012, provide an annual report on "state of our energy future," allow penalty-free hardship withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009, recognize the Armenian genocide, ensure no family making less than $250,000 will see "any form of tax increase," negotiate health care reform in public sessions televised on C-SPAN, create a public option health plan for a new National Health Insurance Exchange, and introduce a comprehensive immigration bill in the first year.
(From PolitiFact.)
So you'll understand if I don't take Obama at his word.
I've heard of this place where you can go to talk shop without fear of being overheard. They call it a cafeteria. Only Apple is arrogant enough to call it a private restaurant.
Except most cafeterias are on campus. Hell, most of them are inside the actual buildings.
This one isn't.
It's a private restaurant that's "several blocks" away. Located next to a hotel. Which is why employees need to "take the company shuttles to the cafeteria." (And these quotes are from one of those Apple-astroturfing links!)
So, in this case, cafeteria probably isn't accurate. When most people say "cafeteria" they think "inside the campus." This isn't. It really is a special private Apple restaurant.
Sony's own website makes mention of the supported devices requiring a touch screen, so, that kind of rules out the PS3:
You can develop games and applications that utilize physical buttons and touchscreen by using the integrated development environment (IDE) and simulator for the PC which are both included in the PlayStation(R)Suite SDK. [emphasis mine]
Then again, it's still in beta, and there are currently no requirements on what a game needs to support, so maybe the touchscreen support will be optional and you'll be required to support physical button controls as well, in order to support the PS3.
Plus, the FAQ explicitly says you'll still need a separate contract to develop PS3/PSP "Mini" games, so at present, it really doesn't sound like PS3 support is in the cards.
It seriously sounds like they're doing this solely to go after the cellphone games market. Apparently one of the demo games in the SDK is an Angry Birds clone, to give you an idea of the type of games they appear to be pushing.
and PS3
Nope! PSP Vita only. Well, PSP Vita and "PlayStation phone" devices only. And I guess some Sony tablet thingies.
This is basically Sony trying to compete with iOS and Android as far as I can tell.
I live in Massachusetts. Romneycare has already failed horribly, for the same reasons Obamacare will fail if it's allowed to go through. Basically, surprise-surprise, merely forcing people to have health insurance doesn't increase the rates of preventative care. So now our emergency room healthcare costs are through the roof and it's impossible to see a doctor because there aren't enough. So now instead of only people with insurance getting preventative care, no one does.
However, that doesn't mean that state-run healthcare can't work - it just means that Obamacare-style healthcare doesn't work.
Hilariously, the Democrats in Massachusetts are really pissed with the Romneycare monicker - they want to claim it all for themselves, and claim Romney had nothing to do with it. So, you heard it from the Massachusetts Democratic Party: don't blame Romney for Romneycare. Blame the Massachusetts Democratic Party. Fair enough.
On that note, I'd love to know why healthcare is a national issue. Why the fuck don't states offer healthcare on the state level? Why is Obamacare even a thing? We didn't have to wait for a big Federal Department of Fire Fighting to get fire departments (and, yes, those used to be private), why the hell do we need federal healthcare instead of state-level healthcare?!
Healthcare is a thing that's clearly within the state's power to do, it's a thing that arguably the states should be doing, why is that we as a nation have decided that the only option is to do it nationally?
I'd really love to hear an answer to this. I'm perfectly willing to accept government funded base level healthcare - on the state level, where it constitutionally belongs.
So not only do I lose all the context in all of my terminal sessions
They fixed (that much) in Lion. Now, when you quit Terminal with terminals still open, restarting it brings back those terminals and all the context with them.
It's still actually closing the shell, so if you had three terminals open, your .bash_history is still "who the fuck knows," but you'll at least still have the last page or so of terminal output, and the terminals resume in the same directory they were in. Even after reboots. It's nice.
I think they also fixed the "iTunes update requires reboot" thing, but I haven't used Lion long enough to be sure of that. I know they fixed "Safari updates require reboot." Well, at least for the few I've done so far...
Of course, I'm still using Snow Leopard at home, because my three year old MacBook isn't new enough to run Lion. And everything you said applies to that.
Because we paid for it, and then got treated to a surprise game of Sophie's Choice with OtherOS or network connectivity for the games we already owned.
Not to mention the fact that if you chose OtherOS, you can't play any game ever released after they pulled it: all PS3 games come with whatever the latest firmware was at the time they were released. If you try and play them, they'll automatically update the PS3 to the newer firmware version.
So your choice is basically "continue using OtherOS" or "be able to play games." How Sony was able to legally get away with that I'll never know.
Yes, but think of all the tech implications.
Such as, uh...
Didn't Santorum want to censor porn online? So I guess our porn is safe. Also, Google can now safely restore "santorum" to its original forthy meaning, and we can stop hearing about some candidate no one cares about when searching for it.
That's seriously all I've got for why this would be "news for nerds" in any way.
How long before Safari passes Firefox as well?
Depends on your needs. For Mac OS X, vanilla Safari is just as good as vanilla Chrome.
If you want AdBlock and NoScript, then it's still a bit behind. Although I just discovered that there is an AdBlock for Safari (no idea how well it works) and there are extensions that provide rudimentary script blocking as well.
So, under Mac OS X at least, Safari is already nearly to Chrome levels. Under Windows, I'd have to recommend just sticking with Chrome.
This is one of my main issues with the rapid-release stuff, that it's impossible to get bug fixes without getting unwanted new features.
Or the best type of Firefox feature, the new bug!
There's a new bug in Firefox 11 that prevents tabs from reloading on startup correctly. Unfortunately it's caused by a new "feature" that's designed to restore tabs from startup more correctly.
Essentially, when Firefox 11 starts and reloads tabs from a previous session, Firefox 11 will now fire some JavaScript events that are only supposed to be fired due to user interaction. Except it A) sometimes fires these events when it shouldn't at all due to a race condition and B) is now automatically firing an event that should only ever fire due to user interaction with the webpage. Thereby completely breaking webpages that assume that events fired by a user interacting with the webpage only ever fire when the user intends to interact with the page. And not because some developer at Mozilla decided to randomly fire JavaScript events for no readily apparent reason.
Unfortunately this is a "feature" and therefore will not be fixed. Because Firefox is supposed to do that, as of Firefox 11. Despite the fact that, as far as I know, no other browser ever fires events in that fashion.
No one ever saw armed guards, for example, yet that was a prominent part of his story.
The article just says that the translator never saw any armed guards, it never says they weren't there. Again, This American Life claims they did fact check parts like this, and found that they were true. But I can't find anything else that corroborates "armed guards at the gate" without referencing Daisey so I'll concede that point.
Underage workers were also only rumors.
And if you read the article, This American Life addressed that in their original story. The found that there were, in fact, underage workers at Foxconn - but they were rare.
It's important to note that the details that were false all involve Daisey personally witnessing events. He didn't, he just learned about them. So some of the specific examples are dramatizations, but all the basic facts of the horrendous working conditions are true. He just didn't personally talk with the effected workers.
So, yes, This American Life should clarify the story and should admit that they screwed up in claiming that a dramatization was pure fact. But they did, in fact, check out all the basic facts about the working conditions, and everything claimed is based on things that really happened.
Don't try and take this as evidence that the troubles at Foxconn were fabricated or that Apple was unfairly targeted based on fake stories. They were not.
I can't wait to learn what they consider to be "copyright infringement." Watch a video on YouTube that wasn't legally licensed? Have someone post a picture on your Facebook wall that wasn't licensed from the photographer? (That's more likely than it might seem at first - think "wedding pictures.") Read a forum that has links to pirated material? Want to jailbreak your phone?
Say goodbye to Internet access.