And when I raise the issue among my 40-something adult peers it's surprising how little people care and the "Where's your tinfoil hat?" look people give you.
You know, for years I've gotten looks from people that they thought I was too extreme in my views on rights, and my feeling that government is overstepping its limits. After everything that's happened, I've found that people lately have become slightly more receptive. I hope the trend continues.
But still, most people are willing to let their rights slide if it gives them the illusion of safety from terrorists, drug dealers, predators, and whatever villain we need.
How belittling it is to couple one of our most essential rights with the phrase "texting and-- you know, Instagramming".
Thank you for noticing that as well.
Our right to communicate freely without government eavesdropping isn't merely to protect inane chattering of teenagers, or to prevent embarrassing selfies to fall into the hands of government workers.
Our rights are also there in order to allow us to criticize the government, be contrariion, have unpopular viewpoints, and rabble-rouse.
Perhaps I'm over generalizing. Perhaps some bankers share your view. However, the number of lost homes and the high profits of banks seems to indicate that yours is not the prevailing view in the industry.
People very close to me lost their home because banks were completely unwilling to renegotiate their terms to allow them to keep their home. The U.S. Government helped save the ass of banks, and they returned the favor by throwing people out on theirs.
Where I live, in the metro area of a major U.S. city, I still only had 1 internet provider available to me until just over a year ago. I could get Comcast, or not have home internet. Now, AT&T is available, but their strategy appears to be offering slow internet bundled with TV and phone, for prices that seem fairly close to Comcast.
I keep seeing promotions for great deals on internet, but they only are offered by companies that don't service my area. I would love to ditch AT&T and Comcast both.
Spray painting a wall costs people time and money, and you know what, we don't drop fines that ruin peoples' lives over it.
We have zero tolerance for making companies lose money... now when companies or banks make us lose money (or homes), it just shows the system works (the way they designed it).
Yes, so can we please stop pretending that it is a travesty that few women are interested in IT?
That is assuming that these differences would make women inferior or less interested in IT and their current lack of representation is the result. Does IT favor intrahemispheric thinking?
Piloting aircraft is also a male dominated profession. I recall reading many years ago that piloting (perhaps specifically fighter piloting) tends to be a very interhemispheric brain activity. If it was simply a matter of biology and natural advantage, would women not have risen to be our best pilots?
There are those that credit Einstein's genius as being at least partially due to well connected hemispheres. If drawing from both sides of the brain allowed for the combination of analysis and creativity that made him a brilliant theoretical physicist, why aren't there more women theoretical physicists?
I assume that you mean the trouble of buying a controller, instead of the whole XBox?
why don't y ou just play xbox. pc games aren't designed for living room use.
The only difference between playing many modern games on XBox and a PC is that I have to use a mouse to start them. Even that isn't the case if I'm using the full-screen Steam launcher interface. In case you haven't noticed, many games are ported from console to PC. The biggest experience difference between my PC playing Skyrim and my friend's 360 playing it, is that mine looks a hell of a lot better.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) 32,885 people died in traffic crashes in 2010 in the United States (latest figures available), including an estimated 10,228 people who died in drunk driving crashes, accounting for 31% of all traffic deaths that year.
Clearly sober drivers are the ones responsible for most accidents. We should put up sobriety check points and arrest everyone driving sober.
Slashdot is filled with extremist Democrat socialist leaning voters and has forced this tyrannical monstrosity upon the people of the US, not single handedly of course, but you all did your part like good little drones and you all know it.
Slashdot has quite a variety of political stances and belief systems, and some who don't like being affiliated with any of them.
We also have at least a small share of idiots, as you have displayed.
I hate WASD (and keyboard focused controls in general) with a passion. It sucked in the 80's when home computer/PC developers added keyboard controls to action games for all those elitist PC guys too cheap to buy a joystick...and we still have that mess out of tradition.
The mouse is a nice pointing device, but the keyboard sucks as a movement controller.
You are clueless. You acknowledge how good the mouse is as a pointing device, and yet you think that WASD was popularized because "elitists" that were too "cheap" to buy a joystick?
The reason that these "elitists" preferred keyboard and WASD was that mouse look is so superior to joystick that it was worth the compromise of using WASD for movement (yes, an analog movement scheme would be preferable but adapting to quick taps is not hard). Also one hand on keyboard gives you easy access to a fairly large number of keys (though I often remapped WASD to ESDF for easier muscle touch-type memory).
The only "joystick" that I found worth a damn for FPS type games was the Space Orb.
Keyboards do make crappy controllers, but joysticks make crappy mice.
I wonder if anyone's done an analysys of the Amazon app store for the same sort of thing.
I haven't heard of a specific study on apps, but I have read about how the eBook side is highly saturated with people selling low quality bundles and repackaging of free and public domain works in order to make a quick buck. Given how little quality control there appears to be on the eBook side of things (and books are much part of the core of Amazon than apps) I doubt they fare any better on apps.
Openness does have it's disadvantages.
It isn't just the re-bundles. When there is a popular iOS only app, I have seen people in Play selling apps with the title and/or artwork of the iOS app, but then in fine print says "this is a fan app". There's no doubt in my mind that a lot of people (especially kids) don't read the details and download anyway.
I think Google should be more proactive about blocking and banning those that abuse the store and their customers.
"In an effort to ensure fair and honest public feedback, and to prevent the publishing of libelous content in any form, your acceptance of this sales contract prohibits you from taking any action that negatively impacts KlearGear.com, its reputation, products, services, management or employees."
If there was never a completed sale, then do the sale terms even apply even if they hadn't of changed them later?
Do the crime, serve the time! I'm totally down with that.
That is quite insightful. I've never heard that before.
Now that I've heard that, I can finally move on and forget about the fact that the US has such an absurdly high incarceration rate, disproportionate prosecution of minorities, crazy sentencing schemes, so many people arrested that our courts can't even handle them all without plea bargains (which are accomplished by stacking so many charges against a person that it can be rational for even the innocent to take the plea in order to avoid losing a gamble that destroys their entire life), for-profit organizations running prisons that lobby to create more prisoners and prison time, and...
There's no reason to go on, because you solved it all. Nothing to see here. We should move on.
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The cap is only in some markets. They are testing it. People need to express their dissatisfaction while the testing phase is still happening.
I don't think the government should tell us what to eat...
Of course. Our diet should be left up to the invisible hand, and be determined primarily by profit motive!
People have the choice to low quality unhealthy food, or they can choose to get in their time machine and shop in the past.
I will go on the record as saying I am 100% in favor of superconductors. All you anti-supercondites can chomp it!
Viva la resistance!
And when I raise the issue among my 40-something adult peers it's surprising how little people care and the "Where's your tinfoil hat?" look people give you.
You know, for years I've gotten looks from people that they thought I was too extreme in my views on rights, and my feeling that government is overstepping its limits. After everything that's happened, I've found that people lately have become slightly more receptive. I hope the trend continues.
But still, most people are willing to let their rights slide if it gives them the illusion of safety from terrorists, drug dealers, predators, and whatever villain we need.
How belittling it is to couple one of our most essential rights with the phrase "texting and-- you know, Instagramming".
Thank you for noticing that as well.
Our right to communicate freely without government eavesdropping isn't merely to protect inane chattering of teenagers, or to prevent embarrassing selfies to fall into the hands of government workers.
Our rights are also there in order to allow us to criticize the government, be contrariion, have unpopular viewpoints, and rabble-rouse.
Perhaps I'm over generalizing. Perhaps some bankers share your view. However, the number of lost homes and the high profits of banks seems to indicate that yours is not the prevailing view in the industry.
People very close to me lost their home because banks were completely unwilling to renegotiate their terms to allow them to keep their home. The U.S. Government helped save the ass of banks, and they returned the favor by throwing people out on theirs.
In case you are unknowingly ignorant or parroting this nonsense from Fox News, enlighten yourself: The Southern Strategy
If your statement was just political posturing, then simply piss off.
Where I live, in the metro area of a major U.S. city, I still only had 1 internet provider available to me until just over a year ago. I could get Comcast, or not have home internet. Now, AT&T is available, but their strategy appears to be offering slow internet bundled with TV and phone, for prices that seem fairly close to Comcast.
I keep seeing promotions for great deals on internet, but they only are offered by companies that don't service my area. I would love to ditch AT&T and Comcast both.
Spray painting a wall costs people time and money, and you know what, we don't drop fines that ruin peoples' lives over it.
We have zero tolerance for making companies lose money... now when companies or banks make us lose money (or homes), it just shows the system works (the way they designed it).
It's true. He might have really been there 2.5 hours, and stole a whole quarter.
Yes, so can we please stop pretending that it is a travesty that few women are interested in IT?
That is assuming that these differences would make women inferior or less interested in IT and their current lack of representation is the result. Does IT favor intrahemispheric thinking?
Piloting aircraft is also a male dominated profession. I recall reading many years ago that piloting (perhaps specifically fighter piloting) tends to be a very interhemispheric brain activity. If it was simply a matter of biology and natural advantage, would women not have risen to be our best pilots?
There are those that credit Einstein's genius as being at least partially due to well connected hemispheres. If drawing from both sides of the brain allowed for the combination of analysis and creativity that made him a brilliant theoretical physicist, why aren't there more women theoretical physicists?
I am skeptical of it all being nature's fault.
Yeah, then tell us why the death penalty closely corresponds with the bible belt?
Because without a death penalty, Christianity wouldn't exist.
And just FYI... I own a 360, and I still prefer many of the PC versions on a 360 controller over using the 360 itself.
once you've gone to all that trouble
I assume that you mean the trouble of buying a controller, instead of the whole XBox?
why don't y ou just play xbox. pc games aren't designed for living room use.
The only difference between playing many modern games on XBox and a PC is that I have to use a mouse to start them. Even that isn't the case if I'm using the full-screen Steam launcher interface. In case you haven't noticed, many games are ported from console to PC. The biggest experience difference between my PC playing Skyrim and my friend's 360 playing it, is that mine looks a hell of a lot better.
I bought it because it blends.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) 32,885 people died in traffic crashes in 2010 in the United States (latest figures available), including an estimated 10,228 people who died in drunk driving crashes, accounting for 31% of all traffic deaths that year.
Clearly sober drivers are the ones responsible for most accidents. We should put up sobriety check points and arrest everyone driving sober.
No.
Slashdot is filled with extremist Democrat socialist leaning voters and has forced this tyrannical monstrosity upon the people of the US, not single handedly of course, but you all did your part like good little drones and you all know it.
Slashdot has quite a variety of political stances and belief systems, and some who don't like being affiliated with any of them.
We also have at least a small share of idiots, as you have displayed.
I hate WASD (and keyboard focused controls in general) with a passion. It sucked in the 80's when home computer/PC developers added keyboard controls to action games for all those elitist PC guys too cheap to buy a joystick...and we still have that mess out of tradition.
The mouse is a nice pointing device, but the keyboard sucks as a movement controller.
You are clueless. You acknowledge how good the mouse is as a pointing device, and yet you think that WASD was popularized because "elitists" that were too "cheap" to buy a joystick?
The reason that these "elitists" preferred keyboard and WASD was that mouse look is so superior to joystick that it was worth the compromise of using WASD for movement (yes, an analog movement scheme would be preferable but adapting to quick taps is not hard). Also one hand on keyboard gives you easy access to a fairly large number of keys (though I often remapped WASD to ESDF for easier muscle touch-type memory).
The only "joystick" that I found worth a damn for FPS type games was the Space Orb.
Keyboards do make crappy controllers, but joysticks make crappy mice.
I wonder if anyone's done an analysys of the Amazon app store for the same sort of thing.
I haven't heard of a specific study on apps, but I have read about how the eBook side is highly saturated with people selling low quality bundles and repackaging of free and public domain works in order to make a quick buck. Given how little quality control there appears to be on the eBook side of things (and books are much part of the core of Amazon than apps) I doubt they fare any better on apps.
Openness does have it's disadvantages.
It isn't just the re-bundles. When there is a popular iOS only app, I have seen people in Play selling apps with the title and/or artwork of the iOS app, but then in fine print says "this is a fan app". There's no doubt in my mind that a lot of people (especially kids) don't read the details and download anyway.
I think Google should be more proactive about blocking and banning those that abuse the store and their customers.
And XB-One is at leas the 1st.
Indeed. The sale was never completed.
"In an effort to ensure fair and honest public feedback, and to prevent the publishing of libelous content in any form, your acceptance of this sales contract prohibits you from taking any action that negatively impacts KlearGear.com, its reputation, products, services, management or employees."
If there was never a completed sale, then do the sale terms even apply even if they hadn't of changed them later?
If the glove wasn't bought, she owes them... not?
Fuck you!
Do the crime, serve the time! I'm totally down with that.
That is quite insightful. I've never heard that before.
Now that I've heard that, I can finally move on and forget about the fact that the US has such an absurdly high incarceration rate, disproportionate prosecution of minorities, crazy sentencing schemes, so many people arrested that our courts can't even handle them all without plea bargains (which are accomplished by stacking so many charges against a person that it can be rational for even the innocent to take the plea in order to avoid losing a gamble that destroys their entire life), for-profit organizations running prisons that lobby to create more prisoners and prison time, and...
There's no reason to go on, because you solved it all. Nothing to see here. We should move on.
Corporations are people. In fact, they are the most important people...
I remember dialing into "You Can Call Me Ray" late at night, when long distance rates were the lowest..
There are some things that you might want in high resolution, but not too high.