You're making the completely incorrect assumption that the US wants him dead. (Well, the US government. As an American, what I want and what the US government wants are two different things.) The US government doesn't. Dead men become martyrs for their cause.
The US policy has always been to discredit Wikileaks, by discrediting Assange himself, by placing false information on the site, and by generally doing everything they can to smear anything related to it as unreliable.
A rape charge is perfectly within the realms of what the US's policy on Wikileaks. Remember, their plans were leaked onto Wikileaks, and the plan wasn't to destroy Wikileaks outright, but rather to convince everyone that they're not trustworthy.
OK, assuming you're talking about what I think you're talking about, your GPS is probably giving you good directions, even if it doesn't seem like it is.
Something like this, I think? Note how much you cut out of your route by cutting that corner. It's generally best to get off of Route 3 at the Drumhill Clusterfuck and head south on Route 4, since you cut out a large chunk of distance. With even moderate traffic on Route 3 or 495, this is your best route.
Google Maps times the two routes (route 3-S to 495-S versus 3-S to 4-S to 495-S) as both taking around five minutes. Speaking as someone who grew up in the area, you're still, generally speaking, best off taking route 4. Somewhat less so with the, uh, "improvements" to Drumhill Circle, but still better off.
As I understand the argument, what you're saying is completely irrelevant. Here's how it works (I think):
1. A proto-chicken lays a proto-egg which contains a chicken. Because the proto-chicken lacks the protein required for the proto-egg to become a chicken egg, it isn't a chicken egg.
2. Said chicken eventually lays a proto-egg which also contains a chicken.
3. Because the chicken has the protein required to turn a proto-egg into a chicken egg, our first chicken has laid the first chicken egg.
Of course, this still doesn't really solve "which came first," because there's no way to know that this hypothetical proto-chicken doesn't also have this chicken protein, and that whatever evolutionary traits we decide are required to separate the proto-chicken from a chicken evolved later.
7. Play the game 15 years later on your modern gaming PC.
Hahaha, good one. Play the game 15 year later.
You do realize that 15 years ago puts us before the launch of Windows 95, right? (OK, not much before, but Windows 95 was released in August of 1995.) So you're talking DOS games. Remember, Windows 95 didn't launch with Direct X, but it had excellent DOS support, so PC games basically meant DOS games for quite a while after Windows 95.
Tried running a DOS game on your modern PC? Yeah, I'll bet it didn't work. Until you used DOSBox. Which is an emulator, just like what most people use to play console games that are 15 years old.
Which, incidentally, includes some PlayStation games. And PlayStation games are supported on all PS3s - via emulation, of course, but supported. So no need to run out and buy new copies.
You also left out a few steps of the typical PC game:
1. Insert disc, run installer. Wait for files to copy.
2. Run game, discover it comes with an auto-updater, and that there was a 500MB patch released three days before the game was released. Download and install that.
3. (Optional) After either the game's DRM decides you're a pirate or you get fed up with having to swap discs for a game that's taking up 20GB of disk space, hunt down the cracked version.
Of course, the great thing with the PS3 is that most PS3 games now have those first two steps. Inverted (patch runs prior to install), mind you, but they're there.
only Apple... who would design a product like the iPhone 4 and then say to your customers you are holding it wrong.
I dunno, I remember an old Samsung cellphone I had that came with an insert that instructed you on the proper way to hold the phone: two fingers and one thumb, keeping your palm as far away from the phone as possible. Otherwise, you'd block the internal antenna.
Dunno how much of an issue that actually was, but the phone definitely came with instructions on the "proper" way to hold it. And this phone predates the iPhone entirely.
There's another law on the books that says that in times of war (like, say, when we have troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan) the President can suspend limits on who can serve in the military.
You're right that to permanently removed Don't Ask, Don't Tell, a new law is needed. If Obama was serious about ending it, though, all he has to do is sign an executive order, as long as we're at war.
"Close Guantanomo within a year? Umm, no"
He tried, the Republicans shut him down.
I'll give you a pass on that one, even though it's completely wrong, but here's one he can't wriggle out of by blaming Bush: ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
All he has to do is sign an executive order. That's it. Nothing else. Doesn't need Congress's approval, doesn't need the help of anyone else in the Executive branch. He just needs to write the order and sign it.
Soccer is less interesting to most individuals in the United States than other sports.
It really is that simple. I can go into the reasons *why* soccer is less interesting than other sports to me, but it's not because of some stupid reason like "it wasn't invented here."
I would buy that, except Americans watch fucking golf, the world's most boring sport. (Thanks a lot, Scotland.)
And let's face it, baseball can be pretty freaking boring too. Throw the damned ball already! No, not to first base! And there are how many more innings of this?!
Neither does apple charge ipod when their computers are off.
Mine does, last time I tried. Well, OK, the computer wasn't off but it was in sleep mode. And the iPhone kept charging. You can't do that with the PS3, it doesn't have a sleep mode, per se, although I'm pretty sure that when it's "off" and the red light is still on, that's basically a sleep mode in a PC. You can't charge the controller while in that mode, which is annoying.
But at least with the PS3's controllers, you can plug them into any USB socket to charge them.
You can do that with the Xbox 360's "Play & Charge" kit too. Well, with a couple of caveats: you must use a custom cable, you can't just use any USB cable, the Xbox 360 controller isn't an HID device so you can't use it as a controller via USB, and it's an add-on option not present in the default controller. So, uh, yeah.
If sections of the game are not overly long, boring, and repetitive, there won't be a demand for services to skip that part of the game or play it for you.
Bullshit. If that were at all true, people wouldn't bother cheating in first person shooters.
The bottom line is that no matter what the game, as soon as it becomes multiplayer, there will be assholes who will do whatever it takes to be "better" than the rest. Even if the game is conceptually a "cooperative" game where there's absolutely nothing to "win." (Hell, it doesn't even have to be multiplayer - there are competitive assholes who will cheat to prove their superiority at single player games!)
For some people, it may be about "skipping the boring parts," but for others, it's about being "better" than everyone else. And those people will use whatever advantage they can get. It's not about "fun" for them, it's about winning.
WBZ tried to contact principal Murray to find out more about why he banned the word, but we did not hear back from him.... WBZ also reached out to the school commitee[sic], the town administrator, and the superintendent of schools for comments, but all have refused.
I guess no one wants to admit how retarded that is.
Huh, I went to school in Massachusetts, and I don't recall learning that.
Possibly because our American History teacher never made it to the Civil War, but, regardless...
Seriously, he managed to waste so much time in class that we never actually got to the Civil War itself. He did eventually get fired, but that was something like four or five years later. Which is kinda too bad, because I did like the guy. But as a teacher, he was completely incompetent.
Yeah, but the Internet can completely replace the local news stations. Come on, you must have seen a promo for a news story only to look up the story on Google News, getting the details immediately rather than waiting until 11. I know I have.
Local weather is easier to get via the Internet. Weather.gov is both free and more targeted than the local TV weather report. Live sports games can't really be done on the Internet yet, but then again, there are cable channels that fill that niche.
But I do kind of like the local news channels. Who else will keep fuckin' that chicken?
I was going to ask you how you got to it on the iPhone since by default you're sent to the Mobile Google page, but I found the "Classic" link on the bottom. And what do you know, it does in fact work on iPhone. Cool.
...Until the browser decided I double-tapped while trying to move around a couple of corners to avoid a ghost, and zoomed in to the bottom of the screen.
Oops. Deerooreeroo whoop-whoop!
(Well, without the sound on the iPhone. Since it doesn't do Flash.)
Because if they did that, they'd be forced to abide by the search Terms of Service. And they appear to be violating Section 1.4.
By using the generic web robot approach, they're allowed to scrape Google based on the same concepts that allow Google to scrape third party web pages in the first place.
His experience in that video above was it didn't work - because the video he tried to view was Theora/OGG - which the iPad/iPhone don't support.
Having tried that demo in Safari, the reason it didn't work on the iPad was... uh...
Well, I have an idea. Based on my own HTML5 tests on my iPhone, the <video> element isn't actually implemented in the browser, instead you get a little "play" button which you can press to open the video in - well, a separate video player. Kind of like how videos work in the YouTube app, you get a video window which you can touch to display controls, including a "done" button to exit the video and go back to where you were. (Although my test page is using JavaScript to embed the video, so that might screw things up.)
I have no idea if this is how it works on the iPad, but if it works the same way, that would explain why it didn't work - because HTML 5 video isn't played embedded in the page, but in the "video" app. Kind of.
I guess it's a bit much to expect Slashdot editors to actually check the links in a summary, huh?
The great thing is that's the link from the previous Slashdot story about - well, the Iceland volcano eruption. Which means that, presumably, they did check the link in the story and then managed to change it to the wrong link.
It's for apps that already have ads, such as the NPR app. ("NPR is brought to you commercial free by the partner whose banner ad is covering half the screen.")
Basically it's a unified ad service for smaller developers who don't have the resources to roll their own. You won't suddenly see ads on your iPhone unless you download ad-supported apps.
This was an advertised feature when I bought it(a few months after launch) so I don't see how Sony can do this without facing a class action suite.
IANAL, but I expect that they can get away with it legally because you can always not install the update. And the console can still play games without online portions, and I expect that the separate PSN agreement covers their ass in the case where you decide not to update the firmware for any reason. So I doubt there are any grounds for a class action lawsuit, but I really hope people try anyway since this is an incredibly dickish move.
But a backslash? The vast majority of PS3 owners don't even know about the Other OS option and the majority of those that do don't care. They might get a whole lot of whining, but I can't imagine that they're likely to see any significant change in sales. The "slim" PS3 models never supported the Other OS option in any case, and it's not like that hurt sales - the people using Other OS just aren't a large enough group for Sony to care about.
Although this move makes the "it only does everything" tag line even funnier.
PS3: It only does EVERYTHING*.
(*Except run Linux. Or reliably determine if 2010 is a leap year. Or run PS2 games, depending on model. Or do force feedback. No, wait, yes it can, despite previous claims that such a thing was impossible. Or allow you to copy save games off one console for use on another without requiring a PSN connection, except when it can. Or copy certain save games at all, depending on copy protection status. Or...)
What Viacom cares about is that in the coming decade indies will compete against it, and indies will rely upon open services to do so.
On that note, Viacom is currently showing a show called "Tosh.0" on their Comedy Central channel whose entire point is to show videos from sites like YouTube. Do you think they pay for these videos? Of course not, the host has already mentioned there are limits to what they can show via "fair use."
Viacom wants to have their cake (promoting via YouTube and free content) and to eat it too.
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If you're in the terminal anyway, you can just edit it straight from the command line:
gconftool -s /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string menu:minimize,maximize,close
And, yes, that is the way Windows lays out their window buttons.
You're making the completely incorrect assumption that the US wants him dead. (Well, the US government. As an American, what I want and what the US government wants are two different things.) The US government doesn't. Dead men become martyrs for their cause.
The US policy has always been to discredit Wikileaks, by discrediting Assange himself, by placing false information on the site, and by generally doing everything they can to smear anything related to it as unreliable.
A rape charge is perfectly within the realms of what the US's policy on Wikileaks. Remember, their plans were leaked onto Wikileaks, and the plan wasn't to destroy Wikileaks outright, but rather to convince everyone that they're not trustworthy.
How can I forgot to hit preview? It's required before you can post the comment.
N ot if you use the old posting mode.
OK, assuming you're talking about what I think you're talking about, your GPS is probably giving you good directions, even if it doesn't seem like it is.
Something like this, I think? Note how much you cut out of your route by cutting that corner. It's generally best to get off of Route 3 at the Drumhill Clusterfuck and head south on Route 4, since you cut out a large chunk of distance. With even moderate traffic on Route 3 or 495, this is your best route.
Google Maps times the two routes (route 3-S to 495-S versus 3-S to 4-S to 495-S) as both taking around five minutes. Speaking as someone who grew up in the area, you're still, generally speaking, best off taking route 4. Somewhat less so with the, uh, "improvements" to Drumhill Circle, but still better off.
As I understand the argument, what you're saying is completely irrelevant. Here's how it works (I think):
1. A proto-chicken lays a proto-egg which contains a chicken. Because the proto-chicken lacks the protein required for the proto-egg to become a chicken egg, it isn't a chicken egg.
2. Said chicken eventually lays a proto-egg which also contains a chicken.
3. Because the chicken has the protein required to turn a proto-egg into a chicken egg, our first chicken has laid the first chicken egg.
Of course, this still doesn't really solve "which came first," because there's no way to know that this hypothetical proto-chicken doesn't also have this chicken protein, and that whatever evolutionary traits we decide are required to separate the proto-chicken from a chicken evolved later.
7. Play the game 15 years later on your modern gaming PC.
Hahaha, good one. Play the game 15 year later.
You do realize that 15 years ago puts us before the launch of Windows 95, right? (OK, not much before, but Windows 95 was released in August of 1995.) So you're talking DOS games. Remember, Windows 95 didn't launch with Direct X, but it had excellent DOS support, so PC games basically meant DOS games for quite a while after Windows 95.
Tried running a DOS game on your modern PC? Yeah, I'll bet it didn't work. Until you used DOSBox. Which is an emulator, just like what most people use to play console games that are 15 years old.
Which, incidentally, includes some PlayStation games. And PlayStation games are supported on all PS3s - via emulation, of course, but supported. So no need to run out and buy new copies.
You also left out a few steps of the typical PC game:
1. Insert disc, run installer. Wait for files to copy.
2. Run game, discover it comes with an auto-updater, and that there was a 500MB patch released three days before the game was released. Download and install that.
3. (Optional) After either the game's DRM decides you're a pirate or you get fed up with having to swap discs for a game that's taking up 20GB of disk space, hunt down the cracked version.
Of course, the great thing with the PS3 is that most PS3 games now have those first two steps. Inverted (patch runs prior to install), mind you, but they're there.
only Apple ... who would design a product like the iPhone 4 and then say to your customers you are holding it wrong.
I dunno, I remember an old Samsung cellphone I had that came with an insert that instructed you on the proper way to hold the phone: two fingers and one thumb, keeping your palm as far away from the phone as possible. Otherwise, you'd block the internal antenna.
Dunno how much of an issue that actually was, but the phone definitely came with instructions on the "proper" way to hold it. And this phone predates the iPhone entirely.
uh, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is a *law*.
There's another law on the books that says that in times of war (like, say, when we have troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan) the President can suspend limits on who can serve in the military.
You're right that to permanently removed Don't Ask, Don't Tell, a new law is needed. If Obama was serious about ending it, though, all he has to do is sign an executive order, as long as we're at war.
"Close Guantanomo within a year? Umm, no"
He tried, the Republicans shut him down.
I'll give you a pass on that one, even though it's completely wrong, but here's one he can't wriggle out of by blaming Bush: ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
All he has to do is sign an executive order. That's it. Nothing else. Doesn't need Congress's approval, doesn't need the help of anyone else in the Executive branch. He just needs to write the order and sign it.
Still hasn't done it.
There's no way you can blame that one on Bush.
Soccer is less interesting to most individuals in the United States than other sports.
It really is that simple. I can go into the reasons *why* soccer is less interesting than other sports to me, but it's not because of some stupid reason like "it wasn't invented here."
I would buy that, except Americans watch fucking golf, the world's most boring sport. (Thanks a lot, Scotland.)
And let's face it, baseball can be pretty freaking boring too. Throw the damned ball already! No, not to first base! And there are how many more innings of this?!
(Disclaimer: I'm joking and American.)
Neither does apple charge ipod when their computers are off.
Mine does, last time I tried. Well, OK, the computer wasn't off but it was in sleep mode. And the iPhone kept charging. You can't do that with the PS3, it doesn't have a sleep mode, per se, although I'm pretty sure that when it's "off" and the red light is still on, that's basically a sleep mode in a PC. You can't charge the controller while in that mode, which is annoying.
But at least with the PS3's controllers, you can plug them into any USB socket to charge them.
You can do that with the Xbox 360's "Play & Charge" kit too. Well, with a couple of caveats: you must use a custom cable, you can't just use any USB cable, the Xbox 360 controller isn't an HID device so you can't use it as a controller via USB, and it's an add-on option not present in the default controller. So, uh, yeah.
Computer, wall-wart or my favorite, the DVR.
Haven't tried the DVR. That's a neat idea.
If sections of the game are not overly long, boring, and repetitive, there won't be a demand for services to skip that part of the game or play it for you.
Bullshit. If that were at all true, people wouldn't bother cheating in first person shooters.
The bottom line is that no matter what the game, as soon as it becomes multiplayer, there will be assholes who will do whatever it takes to be "better" than the rest. Even if the game is conceptually a "cooperative" game where there's absolutely nothing to "win." (Hell, it doesn't even have to be multiplayer - there are competitive assholes who will cheat to prove their superiority at single player games!)
For some people, it may be about "skipping the boring parts," but for others, it's about being "better" than everyone else. And those people will use whatever advantage they can get. It's not about "fun" for them, it's about winning.
If it's the latter, then _any_ substitution of the word still implies the word and carries the negative connotation along with it.
On that note, the word "meep" got banned in schools in Danvers, Massachusetts. Apparently enough kids were using it in situations where it could be a naughty word, so the principle banned it.
From the article I linked:
WBZ tried to contact principal Murray to find out more about why he banned the word, but we did not hear back from him. ... WBZ also reached out to the school commitee[sic], the town administrator, and the superintendent of schools for comments, but all have refused.
I guess no one wants to admit how retarded that is.
Huh, I went to school in Massachusetts, and I don't recall learning that.
Possibly because our American History teacher never made it to the Civil War, but, regardless...
Seriously, he managed to waste so much time in class that we never actually got to the Civil War itself. He did eventually get fired, but that was something like four or five years later. Which is kinda too bad, because I did like the guy. But as a teacher, he was completely incompetent.
Yeah, but the Internet can completely replace the local news stations. Come on, you must have seen a promo for a news story only to look up the story on Google News, getting the details immediately rather than waiting until 11. I know I have.
Local weather is easier to get via the Internet. Weather.gov is both free and more targeted than the local TV weather report. Live sports games can't really be done on the Internet yet, but then again, there are cable channels that fill that niche.
But I do kind of like the local news channels. Who else will keep fuckin' that chicken?
I was going to ask you how you got to it on the iPhone since by default you're sent to the Mobile Google page, but I found the "Classic" link on the bottom. And what do you know, it does in fact work on iPhone. Cool.
...Until the browser decided I double-tapped while trying to move around a couple of corners to avoid a ghost, and zoomed in to the bottom of the screen.
Oops. Deerooreeroo whoop-whoop!
(Well, without the sound on the iPhone. Since it doesn't do Flash.)
Nope, only 11 people liked this as of the time I checked.
Because don't forget, even with all the whining about Facebook on Slashdot, Slashdot is on Facebook.
Although, strangely enough, this story didn't appear in my Facebook news feed, I had to go to the Slashdot page to see it. Hmmmm...
Because if they did that, they'd be forced to abide by the search Terms of Service. And they appear to be violating Section 1.4.
By using the generic web robot approach, they're allowed to scrape Google based on the same concepts that allow Google to scrape third party web pages in the first place.
From Google's robots.txt: /ie?
User-agent: *
[snip]
Disallow:
Well, OK, so they're not obeying robots.txt in the first place. But ignoring that one pesky fact, uh...
It could have been an hour and a half playing Major League Baseball 2K10 after having spent years with earlier-year versions of the game.
According to Kotaku, this version of the game has different pitching controls from the previous versions.
Although according to the same article, he spent two weeks prior to the game's release playing the demo and practicing for the contest.
So, yeah - not like he only spent an hour and a half on this. He practiced.
His experience in that video above was it didn't work - because the video he tried to view was Theora/OGG - which the iPad/iPhone don't support.
Having tried that demo in Safari, the reason it didn't work on the iPad was... uh...
Well, I have an idea. Based on my own HTML5 tests on my iPhone, the <video> element isn't actually implemented in the browser, instead you get a little "play" button which you can press to open the video in - well, a separate video player. Kind of like how videos work in the YouTube app, you get a video window which you can touch to display controls, including a "done" button to exit the video and go back to where you were. (Although my test page is using JavaScript to embed the video, so that might screw things up.)
I have no idea if this is how it works on the iPad, but if it works the same way, that would explain why it didn't work - because HTML 5 video isn't played embedded in the page, but in the "video" app. Kind of.
I guess it's a bit much to expect Slashdot editors to actually check the links in a summary, huh?
The great thing is that's the link from the previous Slashdot story about - well, the Iceland volcano eruption. Which means that, presumably, they did check the link in the story and then managed to change it to the wrong link.
It's for apps that already have ads, such as the NPR app. ("NPR is brought to you commercial free by the partner whose banner ad is covering half the screen.")
Basically it's a unified ad service for smaller developers who don't have the resources to roll their own. You won't suddenly see ads on your iPhone unless you download ad-supported apps.
This was an advertised feature when I bought it(a few months after launch) so I don't see how Sony can do this without facing a class action suite.
IANAL, but I expect that they can get away with it legally because you can always not install the update. And the console can still play games without online portions, and I expect that the separate PSN agreement covers their ass in the case where you decide not to update the firmware for any reason. So I doubt there are any grounds for a class action lawsuit, but I really hope people try anyway since this is an incredibly dickish move.
But a backslash? The vast majority of PS3 owners don't even know about the Other OS option and the majority of those that do don't care. They might get a whole lot of whining, but I can't imagine that they're likely to see any significant change in sales. The "slim" PS3 models never supported the Other OS option in any case, and it's not like that hurt sales - the people using Other OS just aren't a large enough group for Sony to care about.
Although this move makes the "it only does everything" tag line even funnier.
PS3: It only does EVERYTHING*.
(*Except run Linux. Or reliably determine if 2010 is a leap year. Or run PS2 games, depending on model. Or do force feedback. No, wait, yes it can, despite previous claims that such a thing was impossible. Or allow you to copy save games off one console for use on another without requiring a PSN connection, except when it can. Or copy certain save games at all, depending on copy protection status. Or...)
It is down! I just tried to post a comment, and it didn't work! Time to submit the story to Slashdot, Facebook is down!
...Oh, wait. There it goes. Never mind.
(Seriously, YouTube was down? Then how did I manage to upload a video this morning?)
What Viacom cares about is that in the coming decade indies will compete against it, and indies will rely upon open services to do so.
On that note, Viacom is currently showing a show called "Tosh.0" on their Comedy Central channel whose entire point is to show videos from sites like YouTube. Do you think they pay for these videos? Of course not, the host has already mentioned there are limits to what they can show via "fair use."
Viacom wants to have their cake (promoting via YouTube and free content) and to eat it too.