I've seen mobile versions of sites that still do a great job, and rival some of the "site apps". I realize they can have extra bells and whistles, but it's still an unwanted complexity. I resent when so many sites want to push their apps on me.
If there is an app for one of your favorite sites that you use all the time, then I can see it having value. However, I don't want prompts to install an app every time I happen across some random site that I find in a Google search. Do you want to put an ad for your app on your site? Fine, but don't want to be nagged just because I happen to visit your site one time. That is a good way for me not to bother visiting your site again.
When I see someone with a personalized domain name for their e-mail address, I tend to think they are either a narcissist, or they are over-compensating.
There's nothing special about registering a domain, and the idea that this conveys that the person is technically competent is utter nonsense.
I've known many idiots with their own domains, and brilliant folks with GMail accounts. In fact, I've only ever personally known one brilliant and competent guy who had his own domain (and has had it for about 20 years).
Being education doesn't automatically allow Fair Use, but it is one of multiple factors (along with the nature of the use, amount used and substantiality, and the effect that the use can have on the value or marketability of the work).
I was about to write this as well. We have been using pins for credit cards in Switzerland for the last 10 years...
Yeah, why hasn't the US got on board yet with implementing technology that allows banks and issuers to absolve themselves of responsibility and push the blame onto the consumers?
If fraud happens on these new cards, it becomes up to the consumers to prove that it was fraud and that they did not compromise their PIN.
As a bonus, the consumers get to be forced to memorize a new PIN!
I don't think copyright law actually helps increase, arts literature, and even has a detrimental effect, people who create do so because the want to.
Duh?
That's why so many people are arguing that Copyright is too long. Copyright was originally "for a limited duration". That limited duration has constantly been extended because of powerful companies and interests.
Pirates aren't the thieves of intellectual property in this country. The thieves are the corporations that have stolen huge amounts of culture from the people, and locked ideas away in a Disney vault.
Works of cultural and historical significance are literally rotting away, often without a clear chain of ownership, because copyright extensions have made them off-limits.
The net effect is not far from the systematic burning down of libraries.
I said "Republican Core" because I'm not so naive to think that every sheep following the Republican Party is in favour of throwing all poor and minorities under the bus, and all the other ridiculousness that we see from the far right.
The problem with "Republicans" is that many of them actually see themselves as very moral, ethical, and compassionate people. In my experience, many of them are!
However, it's a moot point if the average "Republicans" is still backing this "Republican Core" that loudly proclaims that they are the party of "Christian values", while enacting policies that more closely reflect Ayn Rand.
no matter if it were a republican (low tax, low spend)
Ha, you're funny. As this article demonstrates, Republicans can spend (and/or waste) just as much, if not more than, Democrats. They just don't want to spend any of it on poor people or minorities.
Yeah, you were correct, right there until the last sentence, and then you had to go all MSNBC on it. It's funny to see people stereotype while pointing the finger at others.
I don't follow MSNBC. I don't consider myself a "Democrat". I dislike things done by both parties and I think that both parties play politics and work more towards sustaining themselves and their party than they are to working for the people. For me, it literally comes down to the lesser evil.
However, If you honestly believe that the Republicans core isn't actively trying to promote policies that will undermine the poor and minorities in this country, and that this is only a stereotype that comes from liberal media, then you have your head up your ass.
Both sides are hurting the poor and the minorities, but one of them actively is trying to do it.
Obviously... The reason that people think that the Bible is mistaken is because they misunderstand the meaning of a word, which clearly means something different than what people believe, because if it didn't then the Bible would be mistaken!
Or people that are too damn old to care about proving how "mature" they are by insisting on playing M-Rated games...
Nintendo's games may have cartoony aesthetics that appeal to kids, but they are also well-designed games that are meant to be played by the entire family.
I was dismissive of the Wii-U at first. I thought it was a bone-headed move.
The truth is, a year later I looked at the system again. I looked at the games that have come out, and there were a lot of interesting games!
I decided to buy one last month, and gimmick or not, it is a seriously fun console. I much prefer to play my Wii U than my friend's PS4. It's not even just the 1st party titles either.
I feel like Wii U is a disaster not because it isn't a fun game system with fun games, but because of cynical, close-minded, jaded gamers who think they are too cool to play on a console that they believe is a kiddie console.
I still have my doubts about whether the extra tablet/screen was necessary, but it has added a lot to some games.
I can't believe all the technologies out there that allow viewers to circumvent messages from advertisers. It's truly an outrage! For example, have you heard about the "toilet"? Apparently, many people use it whenever there's a commercial. How insidious!
What's the point of Aereo then? Why not stuck up my own antenna and DVR instead? What is the value? Is it just sticking the DVR into the cloud?
Well the obvious fact that antennas are not viable or effective for everyone, you also have the ability to stream to various devices.
I've been trying them out recently, and I do like the fact that I can pull up a recorded show on my phone or my tablet, even when I'm not at home.
However the viewing area is a drawback. I've spent most of the last month traveling on business, and my DVR was filling up with shows that I could not watch because I was not in the allowed viewing area... (and I was too lazy to find a proxy).
Remember, this is a prototype. 5 years ago cell phones were rather clumsy, too, and they'd been on the market for years. Expect the final (i.e., final before they start selling them) version to have a hidden controller, possibly in a belt or shirt-pocket.
In 5 years, maybe it will even support a camera too Our eyes could finally be used in order to perceive visual information. How cool is that?
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I don't think that "persecution" is the right word.
We've created a monstrosity of a system that regularly grinds up many ordinary citizens for the sake of political and financial gain. He wasn't persecuted, but rather ground by the cogs.
"Someone might follow a faith for the moral story and community, while not believing that the deity actually exists"
The term hypocrite seems to describe this pretty well.
I don't think you even know what what a hypocrite means. A hypocrite is someone espouses a belief system, but yet whose actions are contrary to that belief system.
There is nothing hypocritical about someone who prefers a belief system and community, uses that system as the foundation of his morals and ethics, but simply doesn't believe in the supernatural aspects of that belief system. I know many Jews that fall into this category. They follow out of tradition and community.
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I've seen mobile versions of sites that still do a great job, and rival some of the "site apps". I realize they can have extra bells and whistles, but it's still an unwanted complexity. I resent when so many sites want to push their apps on me.
If there is an app for one of your favorite sites that you use all the time, then I can see it having value. However, I don't want prompts to install an app every time I happen across some random site that I find in a Google search. Do you want to put an ad for your app on your site? Fine, but don't want to be nagged just because I happen to visit your site one time. That is a good way for me not to bother visiting your site again.
Developers need to further promote current and future web browser standards so we can have all the fancy functionality of the apps in a web page.
As a developer, why would I want to do that? Lots of people will pay for an app. Almost no one will pay for a web page.
As a user, why do I want to buy an app to mostly work like a browser bookmark?
When I see someone with a personalized domain name for their e-mail address, I tend to think they are either a narcissist, or they are over-compensating.
There's nothing special about registering a domain, and the idea that this conveys that the person is technically competent is utter nonsense.
I've known many idiots with their own domains, and brilliant folks with GMail accounts. In fact, I've only ever personally known one brilliant and competent guy who had his own domain (and has had it for about 20 years).
Well, it's great to hear that the algorithms are getting so good! That's awesome progress in AI.
Obviously, this AI should be given tenure!
Why are you searching for URLs?
The most obvious reasons are to determine how accurate, legitimate, honest, biased, trustworthy, or safe a site is.
I find it far more surprising that you don't see the value of googling an URL.
Just because it has the potential to be cool, doesn't mean that it also can't be a frequent annoyance that added to the price.
It'd be nice if there was a prompt during setup that asked "Are you an expert user?"
And the prompt can only be confirmed with keyboard shortcuts, and executed from a command line...
Fair Use is a good idea too, spoiled.
Being education doesn't automatically allow Fair Use, but it is one of multiple factors (along with the nature of the use, amount used and substantiality, and the effect that the use can have on the value or marketability of the work).
I was about to write this as well. We have been using pins for credit cards in Switzerland for the last 10 years...
Yeah, why hasn't the US got on board yet with implementing technology that allows banks and issuers to absolve themselves of responsibility and push the blame onto the consumers?
If fraud happens on these new cards, it becomes up to the consumers to prove that it was fraud and that they did not compromise their PIN.
As a bonus, the consumers get to be forced to memorize a new PIN!
It's Win WIn.
I don't think copyright law actually helps increase, arts literature, and even has a detrimental effect, people who create do so because the want to.
Duh?
That's why so many people are arguing that Copyright is too long. Copyright was originally "for a limited duration". That limited duration has constantly been extended because of powerful companies and interests.
Pirates aren't the thieves of intellectual property in this country. The thieves are the corporations that have stolen huge amounts of culture from the people, and locked ideas away in a Disney vault.
Works of cultural and historical significance are literally rotting away, often without a clear chain of ownership, because copyright extensions have made them off-limits.
The net effect is not far from the systematic burning down of libraries.
I said "Republican Core" because I'm not so naive to think that every sheep following the Republican Party is in favour of throwing all poor and minorities under the bus, and all the other ridiculousness that we see from the far right.
The problem with "Republicans" is that many of them actually see themselves as very moral, ethical, and compassionate people. In my experience, many of them are!
However, it's a moot point if the average "Republicans" is still backing this "Republican Core" that loudly proclaims that they are the party of "Christian values", while enacting policies that more closely reflect Ayn Rand.
no matter if it were a republican (low tax, low spend)
Ha, you're funny. As this article demonstrates, Republicans can spend (and/or waste) just as much, if not more than, Democrats. They just don't want to spend any of it on poor people or minorities.
Yeah, you were correct, right there until the last sentence, and then you had to go all MSNBC on it. It's funny to see people stereotype while pointing the finger at others.
I don't follow MSNBC. I don't consider myself a "Democrat". I dislike things done by both parties and I think that both parties play politics and work more towards sustaining themselves and their party than they are to working for the people. For me, it literally comes down to the lesser evil.
However, If you honestly believe that the Republicans core isn't actively trying to promote policies that will undermine the poor and minorities in this country, and that this is only a stereotype that comes from liberal media, then you have your head up your ass.
Both sides are hurting the poor and the minorities, but one of them actively is trying to do it.
When was the last time we heard about a 21 million dollar drug bust?
Forget that, when do we hear about billion dollar banking fraud busts?
So it fits perfectly into the MS naming scheme, you say?
To be an awful name that fits perfectly into MS naming schemes, it would have been MyDocuments.com
Obviously... The reason that people think that the Bible is mistaken is because they misunderstand the meaning of a word, which clearly means something different than what people believe, because if it didn't then the Bible would be mistaken!
Right. Children.
Or people that are too damn old to care about proving how "mature" they are by insisting on playing M-Rated games...
Nintendo's games may have cartoony aesthetics that appeal to kids, but they are also well-designed games that are meant to be played by the entire family.
FUCK, THAT, SHIT!
Agreed! I had no idea that EA was even in the car business now!
I was dismissive of the Wii-U at first. I thought it was a bone-headed move.
The truth is, a year later I looked at the system again. I looked at the games that have come out, and there were a lot of interesting games!
I decided to buy one last month, and gimmick or not, it is a seriously fun console. I much prefer to play my Wii U than my friend's PS4. It's not even just the 1st party titles either.
I feel like Wii U is a disaster not because it isn't a fun game system with fun games, but because of cynical, close-minded, jaded gamers who think they are too cool to play on a console that they believe is a kiddie console.
I still have my doubts about whether the extra tablet/screen was necessary, but it has added a lot to some games.
Nintendo's strategy was to make themselves the system you get if you're interested in Pokemon or Mario...
Or Zelda, or Pikman, or Metroid, or Smash Brothers...
I can't believe all the technologies out there that allow viewers to circumvent messages from advertisers. It's truly an outrage! For example, have you heard about the "toilet"? Apparently, many people use it whenever there's a commercial. How insidious!
What's the point of Aereo then? Why not stuck up my own antenna and DVR instead? What is the value? Is it just sticking the DVR into the cloud?
Well the obvious fact that antennas are not viable or effective for everyone, you also have the ability to stream to various devices.
I've been trying them out recently, and I do like the fact that I can pull up a recorded show on my phone or my tablet, even when I'm not at home.
However the viewing area is a drawback. I've spent most of the last month traveling on business, and my DVR was filling up with shows that I could not watch because I was not in the allowed viewing area... (and I was too lazy to find a proxy).
And, I simply don't want to trust my life to a computer program.
You already trust your life to many computer programs...
Have you seen the average human driver?! Please, replace them with software as soon as possible!
Remember, this is a prototype. 5 years ago cell phones were rather clumsy, too, and they'd been on the market for years. Expect the final (i.e., final before they start selling them) version to have a hidden controller, possibly in a belt or shirt-pocket.
In 5 years, maybe it will even support a camera too Our eyes could finally be used in order to perceive visual information. How cool is that?
I don't think that "persecution" is the right word.
We've created a monstrosity of a system that regularly grinds up many ordinary citizens for the sake of political and financial gain. He wasn't persecuted, but rather ground by the cogs.
"Someone might follow a faith for the moral story and community, while not believing that the deity actually exists"
The term hypocrite seems to describe this pretty well.
I don't think you even know what what a hypocrite means. A hypocrite is someone espouses a belief system, but yet whose actions are contrary to that belief system.
There is nothing hypocritical about someone who prefers a belief system and community, uses that system as the foundation of his morals and ethics, but simply doesn't believe in the supernatural aspects of that belief system. I know many Jews that fall into this category. They follow out of tradition and community.