I know how GPS works, and it DOES emit a signal. It doesn't emit its longitude or latitude, I know. It merely acts as a beacon, and if a GPS Satellite has it within it's range, It does it's best to calculate its distance from you in signal strength. If enough Satellites have you within range, they use the strength of the signal and their own relative positioning to calculate where you are. Thing of it like a Ven Diagram which overlaps, but also has the complexit of 3D space.
Point is, my comment above Whooshed so fast over your head your ears are still ringing.
I still haven't seen the Holiday Special, but I've heard from a very reliable source that it is so terrible that there are no words in any language on Earth that sufficiently describe it.
I can prove that Cell phones cause cancer because they are always emitting their GPS signals to the government, and they can remotely activate the voice input on your phone to listen to what you are saying. Luckily, I've got a free open source non-patentable method of keeping them out. You take some regular household tinfoil, and you wrap it around your head, so that it nicely rests on the ears. Make sure you get everything North of your eyebrows covered, and all the way around to the strange marking on that back of your neck from that one night you were abducted. (For those not abducted, just cover the entirety of your neck, to be safe).
Next, you need to take your passport and stick it in the Microwave, because the government put an RFID in there, to keep track of what terrorist states you are visiting. While you're in the kitchen, get a water filter, but not Brita, that is clearly alluding to England which is a close friend to the United States Government. Make sure you filter your water twice, and possibly even Distill it to make sure any and all drugs in the water are not present.
You should start a garden in your basement and grow some wheat (not outside! They'll see your crops on Google and poison them!). You can then turn that wheat into your own flour and use your own non-contaminated water to make dough, which you can then turn into a wide variety of foods.
Last but not least, every time you use your computer, make sure to open a text document and type in "I KNOW YOU'RE WATCHING" so that the FBI/CIA/Military Industrial Complex knows that you know and won't bother watching you. Follow these simple steps and you too can free yourself from the insanity that oppresses the sheeple into doing the corporations bidding. Maybe one day we'll rise against the new world order together, and take back what is rightfully ours **(I don't know what that is yet, but when I figure it out I'll let you know.)
That doesn't sound as bad as I thought it could be. Up here in Canada our Winters last at least 6 months anyways. And I'm far enough in land that any ocean impacts likely won't flood me, or incinerate me.
I was afraid of some Earth Shattering Kaboom, that could Shatter the Earth. With a loud bang.
I can't help laughing. No, he has no point. If in the real world, something was proven not to be very effective, why shouldn't it be effective in a game or fictional literature?
Because it ruins the immersive experience. You can take things that someone doesn't understand and put them into fantasy and the average person will take them with a grain of salt. Yes, Trolls, Magic, Fantastic creatures and such all fall into this category. They do usually however abide by the same rules that we impose on them, Gravity pulls things down, Fire burns, if it bleeds it dies, so to speak. Any exceptions to those rules are often explained.
If I know for a fact that Dual Wielding was not a very effective combat technique, because I've studied ancient and medeival history, it throws me off to think that so many fantasy realms include it in an almost mandatory fashion. In actuality, almost every warrior would wield a shield of some kind. If they didn't the second most likely thing would be a heavy enough Maul or sword that could crack or break through a shield or plated armour.
Now that I know that to be true, it doesn't matter how "Skilled" my fantastical character is. I can imagine a guy standing in plate mail, and another guy, swinging his 2 katana's around fantasticaly, unable to do much more than scrape at the sides because he doesn't have enough power or weight behind his swings to break through the armour, and if the defender has a shield it's highly unlikely he'll ever get to any of the cracks to expose a weakness.
However, in countless games, across all platforms, somehow a dual wielding rogue seems overpowered against a shield wielding tank. It takes me out of the game, making me think that it's just a game.
If I wanted to simply outwit my opponents, learn the rules of a game and exploit them, I'd go pick up Poker, make some money doing it.
I play a game to immerse myself, and fantasy games that break the fundamental laws of the universe without a good explanation don't cut it.
Yelp doesn't seem to be anything special. I haven't used them before, but it looks like just another review site, in which there are dozens out there. Perhaps because I haven't used it fully I don't see the great beauty it has to offer Google.
My Love/Hate is really with Google, not Yelp. I like Google, they provide me with a ton of free services like webmail, maps, and a decent search engine. It seems like anything they touch turns to gold and they constantly try to make the world a better place.
Then they go and do something like tracking your information, or buying out a competitor, and I kind of wonder why. I mean I know they are in it for profits but they seem to be doing very well without purchasing competitors.
Perhaps they are of the mindset its better for the starters of these smaller companies get paid a small royalty before Google inevitably dominates them with marketshare.
They wouldn't close it down, just like they didn't close down Youtube when they bought it out. Even though they have a competing business (Google Video) - its still all under the same roof generating profits for Google.
Yelp would still run, Google would just be running it, gaining all of their revenue.
Until I see a clear motive for Google doing this, It all just seems a little underhanded.
Its clearly not to acquire their technology or products, they can find a far cheaper solution (500 million is alot of bucks). The only thing remaining that I see is the user-base, and taking over competition.
Or, what am I missing? Is yelp.com offering something other than people subjectively reviewing things like food?
Yes. It's offering a social networking site for such people as well as a user-generated database of information about the restaurants (and other businesses) in their neighborhoods. It's like facebook meets wikipedia for food and drink nerds.
The problem that I have is that Google has all of this stuff already available to them, they simply haven't consolidated it into a single Application. They have social networking sites (Like Youtube even), they have a user-generated database of information about restaurants (see Google Maps for reviews on businesses).
This appears either to be "2 lazy 2 copy&paste code" or anti-competitive.
Google already has a review system built into Google Maps for Restaurants and Dentists and anything else Yelp has listed on their site.
I would put my reputation as an estimator on the line to say that Google Maps probably gets more traffic than Yelp.
Buying out the competition so you make more money is anti-competitive. I love Google as much as the next die-hard fan, but everything about this deal sounds like pure evil.
Well yeah, exactly. I wonder what the motivation is. Is it the namesake and user base? It seems like Google could pull alot more if it marketted more, instead of buying out smaller competition.
Could this be an evil act and I'm just blinded by my love for Google?
Go to Google, Enter Google Maps. Type in "Restaurants in "
Notice the Ratings and reviews all along the left bar.
Tell me, what does Yelp Offer that Google does not have already coded. (Keep in mind that Google has tons of services already built, as you can see here.
Yeah I don't know what it is. If Google pumped out their own service like this, built it into all their apps, I'm sure they could even be innovative and make it better than what Yelp has done.
Seriously, put your dev team on it for a week and you'll have a bigger base than Yelp does by the end of the quarter, without having spent half a billion dollar.
That article was a good read, though is more about the impact of Oilsands than it is about Harper.
It does not depend for its economic survival on exploiting this [oil sands] resource.
Actually, we do rely on it, quite a bit. I am not an economist, but Alberta is the only province capable of producing enough of a profit off of it's oil industry that it does not need a Provincial sales tax. Much of the revenue from the oil business in Alberta helps to support other provinces who don't have such an expensive export.
Canada NOT agreeing to an international treaty is not Unilateral. If the world agrees that Canada is destroying the planet with Oil Sands, they can choose to stop trading with us, simple as that.
Harper is not really pushing Canadian views on other countries, they are merely asking for other countries to see their side. He isn't arguing that Green reforms are bad, or shouldn't be in place, but that it would be detrimental to Canadian business. If he were being unilateral, he'd be telling the other countries that polution such as oilsands is fine, and that everyone should be doing it.
Proposing to generate fat avatars in gaming environments for individuals whose health records indicate they're overweight, limiting their game play, and even banning them
The Wii Fit does not make your avatar appear bigger or smaller than how you set it. The closest thing that comes close to any kind of discrimination is it making constructive criticism on how to improve your health, not to shame you.
Microsoft is trying to shift the blame of "Video games making people fat" by taking all the social stigma of the real world against obesity and putting it into their games.
Be careful though - they have had some amazing military strategists in the past, and they are a bit overdue in that department, so it could happen again one day soon.
The LAST thing I need is France Attacking the States, Occupying Canada, and then forcing us to put Eggs on our pizzas.
Slashdot Mirror
I know how GPS works, and it DOES emit a signal. It doesn't emit its longitude or latitude, I know. It merely acts as a beacon, and if a GPS Satellite has it within it's range, It does it's best to calculate its distance from you in signal strength. If enough Satellites have you within range, they use the strength of the signal and their own relative positioning to calculate where you are. Thing of it like a Ven Diagram which overlaps, but also has the complexit of 3D space.
Point is, my comment above Whooshed so fast over your head your ears are still ringing.
I still haven't seen the Holiday Special, but I've heard from a very reliable source that it is so terrible that there are no words in any language on Earth that sufficiently describe it.
I can prove that Cell phones cause cancer because they are always emitting their GPS signals to the government, and they can remotely activate the voice input on your phone to listen to what you are saying. Luckily, I've got a free open source non-patentable method of keeping them out. You take some regular household tinfoil, and you wrap it around your head, so that it nicely rests on the ears. Make sure you get everything North of your eyebrows covered, and all the way around to the strange marking on that back of your neck from that one night you were abducted. (For those not abducted, just cover the entirety of your neck, to be safe).
Next, you need to take your passport and stick it in the Microwave, because the government put an RFID in there, to keep track of what terrorist states you are visiting. While you're in the kitchen, get a water filter, but not Brita, that is clearly alluding to England which is a close friend to the United States Government. Make sure you filter your water twice, and possibly even Distill it to make sure any and all drugs in the water are not present.
You should start a garden in your basement and grow some wheat (not outside! They'll see your crops on Google and poison them!). You can then turn that wheat into your own flour and use your own non-contaminated water to make dough, which you can then turn into a wide variety of foods.
Last but not least, every time you use your computer, make sure to open a text document and type in "I KNOW YOU'RE WATCHING" so that the FBI/CIA/Military Industrial Complex knows that you know and won't bother watching you. Follow these simple steps and you too can free yourself from the insanity that oppresses the sheeple into doing the corporations bidding. Maybe one day we'll rise against the new world order together, and take back what is rightfully ours **(I don't know what that is yet, but when I figure it out I'll let you know.)
All over the place they have signs saying "This facility may or may not contain cancer causing chemicals".
May or May not. I'll tell ya, I HATE checking into a hotel and the first thing I see is one of those.
That doesn't sound as bad as I thought it could be. Up here in Canada our Winters last at least 6 months anyways. And I'm far enough in land that any ocean impacts likely won't flood me, or incinerate me.
I was afraid of some Earth Shattering Kaboom, that could Shatter the Earth. With a loud bang.
I can't help laughing. No, he has no point. If in the real world, something was proven not to be very effective, why shouldn't it be effective in a game or fictional literature?
Because it ruins the immersive experience. You can take things that someone doesn't understand and put them into fantasy and the average person will take them with a grain of salt. Yes, Trolls, Magic, Fantastic creatures and such all fall into this category. They do usually however abide by the same rules that we impose on them, Gravity pulls things down, Fire burns, if it bleeds it dies, so to speak. Any exceptions to those rules are often explained.
If I know for a fact that Dual Wielding was not a very effective combat technique, because I've studied ancient and medeival history, it throws me off to think that so many fantasy realms include it in an almost mandatory fashion. In actuality, almost every warrior would wield a shield of some kind. If they didn't the second most likely thing would be a heavy enough Maul or sword that could crack or break through a shield or plated armour.
Now that I know that to be true, it doesn't matter how "Skilled" my fantastical character is. I can imagine a guy standing in plate mail, and another guy, swinging his 2 katana's around fantasticaly, unable to do much more than scrape at the sides because he doesn't have enough power or weight behind his swings to break through the armour, and if the defender has a shield it's highly unlikely he'll ever get to any of the cracks to expose a weakness.
However, in countless games, across all platforms, somehow a dual wielding rogue seems overpowered against a shield wielding tank. It takes me out of the game, making me think that it's just a game.
If I wanted to simply outwit my opponents, learn the rules of a game and exploit them, I'd go pick up Poker, make some money doing it.
I play a game to immerse myself, and fantasy games that break the fundamental laws of the universe without a good explanation don't cut it.
There's something about when a girl sasses back thats oddly attractive.
What do you think: what would be the best way to cooperate?"
Easy. Github
NEXT
Yelp doesn't seem to be anything special. I haven't used them before, but it looks like just another review site, in which there are dozens out there. Perhaps because I haven't used it fully I don't see the great beauty it has to offer Google.
My Love/Hate is really with Google, not Yelp. I like Google, they provide me with a ton of free services like webmail, maps, and a decent search engine. It seems like anything they touch turns to gold and they constantly try to make the world a better place.
Then they go and do something like tracking your information, or buying out a competitor, and I kind of wonder why. I mean I know they are in it for profits but they seem to be doing very well without purchasing competitors.
Perhaps they are of the mindset its better for the starters of these smaller companies get paid a small royalty before Google inevitably dominates them with marketshare.
They wouldn't close it down, just like they didn't close down Youtube when they bought it out. Even though they have a competing business (Google Video) - its still all under the same roof generating profits for Google.
Yelp would still run, Google would just be running it, gaining all of their revenue.
Until I see a clear motive for Google doing this, It all just seems a little underhanded.
Its clearly not to acquire their technology or products, they can find a far cheaper solution (500 million is alot of bucks). The only thing remaining that I see is the user-base, and taking over competition.
Or, what am I missing? Is yelp.com offering something other than people subjectively reviewing things like food?
Yes. It's offering a social networking site for such people as well as a user-generated database of information about the restaurants (and other businesses) in their neighborhoods. It's like facebook meets wikipedia for food and drink nerds.
The problem that I have is that Google has all of this stuff already available to them, they simply haven't consolidated it into a single Application. They have social networking sites (Like Youtube even), they have a user-generated database of information about restaurants (see Google Maps for reviews on businesses).
This appears either to be "2 lazy 2 copy&paste code" or anti-competitive.
That said, I didn't get a windowsXP restore image on a SD card (yes, they gave me an optical restore disk for a device that doesn't support it!!)
That is by far the most facepalm-worthy thing I've heard this week. +1 You poor soul.
That was before I discovered that they already have the system in place. I thought they were doing it because they didn't want to do the work.
Now I see they've done the work and it's just buying out a competitor.
Google already has a review system built into Google Maps for Restaurants and Dentists and anything else Yelp has listed on their site.
I would put my reputation as an estimator on the line to say that Google Maps probably gets more traffic than Yelp.
Buying out the competition so you make more money is anti-competitive. I love Google as much as the next die-hard fan, but everything about this deal sounds like pure evil.
Well yeah, exactly. I wonder what the motivation is. Is it the namesake and user base? It seems like Google could pull alot more if it marketted more, instead of buying out smaller competition.
Could this be an evil act and I'm just blinded by my love for Google?
What else would you do with a Eee PC?
Think of how much more intelligent you could make that thing with a dual-core Processor and 2GB of DDR2 RAM!
Insert your own joke here, but please, no new overlords.
Go to Yelp. Look at what it is.
Go to Google, Enter Google Maps. Type in "Restaurants in "
Notice the Ratings and reviews all along the left bar.
Tell me, what does Yelp Offer that Google does not have already coded. (Keep in mind that Google has tons of services already built, as you can see here.
Yeah I've often wondered what the world will be like when Google has a new CEO.
One that likes profits. And instant gratification.
Yeah I don't know what it is. If Google pumped out their own service like this, built it into all their apps, I'm sure they could even be innovative and make it better than what Yelp has done.
Seriously, put your dev team on it for a week and you'll have a bigger base than Yelp does by the end of the quarter, without having spent half a billion dollar.
I refuse. There are some things an Egg is good for. Pizza is not one of them.
No, this is not my opinion, this is scientific FACT. Don't make me cite a source.
That article was a good read, though is more about the impact of Oilsands than it is about Harper.
It does not depend for its economic survival on exploiting this [oil sands] resource.
Actually, we do rely on it, quite a bit. I am not an economist, but Alberta is the only province capable of producing enough of a profit off of it's oil industry that it does not need a Provincial sales tax. Much of the revenue from the oil business in Alberta helps to support other provinces who don't have such an expensive export.
Canada NOT agreeing to an international treaty is not Unilateral. If the world agrees that Canada is destroying the planet with Oil Sands, they can choose to stop trading with us, simple as that.
Harper is not really pushing Canadian views on other countries, they are merely asking for other countries to see their side. He isn't arguing that Green reforms are bad, or shouldn't be in place, but that it would be detrimental to Canadian business. If he were being unilateral, he'd be telling the other countries that polution such as oilsands is fine, and that everyone should be doing it.
Does not Wii Fit already do this?
No. It does not.
Proposing to generate fat avatars in gaming environments for individuals whose health records indicate they're overweight, limiting their game play, and even banning them
The Wii Fit does not make your avatar appear bigger or smaller than how you set it. The closest thing that comes close to any kind of discrimination is it making constructive criticism on how to improve your health, not to shame you.
Microsoft is trying to shift the blame of "Video games making people fat" by taking all the social stigma of the real world against obesity and putting it into their games.
Cruisin' Up and down the road.
So what are they complaining about?
I'm not sure, but I think one of the extracts included something about Snape killing Dumbledore.
The French were quite upset.
Be careful though - they have had some amazing military strategists in the past, and they are a bit overdue in that department, so it could happen again one day soon.
The LAST thing I need is France Attacking the States, Occupying Canada, and then forcing us to put Eggs on our pizzas.