Even if they wanted to use the census data for a specific ethnic round-up, at least this helps make it relatively cleaner, rather then busting down door to door and having entire neighbourhoods line up in the streets for profiling. Really though, this is paranoia, nothing less. Of course, saying such things won't placate those people that buy into this. After all, what's worse? Being paranoid, or knowing that you should be? What this fails to account for is all the useful information culled from the census. Signed, 20-year-old white (British ancestry) male college student, working in food service, Atheist, votes either way, owns 1 car he drives a bit too quickly, enjoys alternative music, BBC News, wears no underwear, uses Old Spice deodorant, wears white socks. Let me know if anything else is needed.
Good god, I was almost at the bottom of the page and was going to eat my own hat if no one mentioned this one. Easily the worst big-name port I've encountered in recent history. The game itself really isn't all that good, but try to copypasta it onto the PC, and it's like they said "Hey, we know you enjoy typing all your documents, so here's a computer where you type your documents by pressing all the keys with this pencil!" Sure, either system on its own works reasonably well, bu you can't cludge them together.
...didn't watch the Superbowl... because the cable's out? You know, they make these great pointy metal things you can plug into the back of your TV... let's you watch CBS even while the cable is out.
Imagine by how much internet security would improve if we required some sort of internet competency test, that if, to use the internet, you had to prove that you don't trust Your-E-Buddy to deliver you the finest in genital enlargement pills?
Very good point. Sure, they're be coming to a liberal arts school near you, but aside from some poofy college kids, I doubt you'll see these everywhere, like you do with iPhones and such. It's going to cost way more than an iPod, and you can't get one discounted through your cell phone provider.
Granted, the second half of the email isn't as much of a deal breaker as the first half. While I might chuckle at DaveRoberts@AOL.com, I'd afford them more respect than... animeluvr6969@gmail.com, for instance.
Besides, much of my reason for commenting was just amusement over the questions and topics people bring up to Slashdot, which is largely a very IT-friendly crowd. It's sorta like going to the Fox News website and asking if you should have your kid read the Bible or the Communist Manifesto.
At where I worked, legal, marketing, and the like, were around as often, if not more often, than IT. At the least, they were around more than two hours a day. Just look at it this way, if Employee A is 100% efficient for 8 hours per day, and Employee B is 50% efficient for 14 hours a day... who's better? I didn't mean this to be a generalization, this was just how it was where I worked, and the place was rather immature to begin with. At the least, I can say I was around as often as many of the more technical people I know, and I was getting paid less than half of what they did, while having my head down working all day. Life is life.
I really don't get how it always ends up this way. Most jobs at IT firms are like this, and so long as a majority of the employees, and their supervisors, are barely out of college, then it is going to be idle chatter, Nerf gun fights, and decorating your workspace with 4chan memes and 'amusing' motivational posters, with work getting done in between. I worked in the administration division of a large software firm, and it boggled my mind that going through the more techie areas of the company was like a playground or a dorm room, but going through legal, accounting, marketing, et al., was like going through... a real workplace. It showed, too, in the reports I'd put together, the way general work ethic was. Of course, oddly enough, our foreign offices' tech people were entirely different. It's just the culture we live in. Then again, you're bringing this up with/., where most people are going to complain that the sofa in front of the Playstation in the lounge is starting to get uncomfortable...
Game of the Year 1999? I thought we were talking about a Zelda game, not Metal Gear Solid...
Anyways, I really don't see the hoopla here. These folks made a movie using Nintendo's property. It wasn't like Nintendo sued them into oblivion, as many companies would've done, they came to an agreement with the filmmakers, and even let them ride it out through the end of the year. If anything, this should serve as an example to other companies about how to gracefully pull this kind of thing off without looking like a total wanker.
Of course, this is/., and at least 3/4ths of us will demand we go French Revolution on Nintendo's executives.
Yo dawg, we heard you like chrome, so we put some chrome on your Chrome so you... anyways, I truly don't see why you can complain about something becoming 'bloated' by add-ons. If it does, it's really your fault.
If you think about it, the greatness of tabs as they are now is to avoid clutter in your taskbar by bundling multiple iterations of the same program into one window. I could see tabbing expanding into other programs, perhaps, but the taskbar as it is now serves, essentially, as tabbing of different programs already. Tabbed windows would only be a novelty, or serve a niche market, such as people who use many, many programs at once, or people on netbooks who use a moderate number of programs at once.
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Would you have to pay the congestion charge when driving downtown?
Even if they wanted to use the census data for a specific ethnic round-up, at least this helps make it relatively cleaner, rather then busting down door to door and having entire neighbourhoods line up in the streets for profiling. Really though, this is paranoia, nothing less. Of course, saying such things won't placate those people that buy into this. After all, what's worse? Being paranoid, or knowing that you should be? What this fails to account for is all the useful information culled from the census. Signed, 20-year-old white (British ancestry) male college student, working in food service, Atheist, votes either way, owns 1 car he drives a bit too quickly, enjoys alternative music, BBC News, wears no underwear, uses Old Spice deodorant, wears white socks. Let me know if anything else is needed.
Doesn't Apple reject apps that do what the iPhone itself can already do, for better or for worse?
Going to school at 9am? Dear lord, lucky kids. Schools here start at 7:45-8:00am...
Good god, I was almost at the bottom of the page and was going to eat my own hat if no one mentioned this one. Easily the worst big-name port I've encountered in recent history. The game itself really isn't all that good, but try to copypasta it onto the PC, and it's like they said "Hey, we know you enjoy typing all your documents, so here's a computer where you type your documents by pressing all the keys with this pencil!" Sure, either system on its own works reasonably well, bu you can't cludge them together.
I think it's assumed that if you have a TV that could take an HDMI plug, it has a digital tuner.
...didn't watch the Superbowl... because the cable's out? You know, they make these great pointy metal things you can plug into the back of your TV... let's you watch CBS even while the cable is out.
Imagine by how much internet security would improve if we required some sort of internet competency test, that if, to use the internet, you had to prove that you don't trust Your-E-Buddy to deliver you the finest in genital enlargement pills?
Very good point. Sure, they're be coming to a liberal arts school near you, but aside from some poofy college kids, I doubt you'll see these everywhere, like you do with iPhones and such. It's going to cost way more than an iPod, and you can't get one discounted through your cell phone provider.
You mean I'm not getting my pancakes?!! Screw this, back to Linux for me...
Granted, the second half of the email isn't as much of a deal breaker as the first half. While I might chuckle at DaveRoberts@AOL.com, I'd afford them more respect than... animeluvr6969@gmail.com, for instance.
Raise your hand if you have ever had a hair or bit of dust get stuck to your optical mouse's sensor...
Good thing they got these out on the market. They were about to kill off DX10, just like they killed off DX9... oh wait...
Besides, much of my reason for commenting was just amusement over the questions and topics people bring up to Slashdot, which is largely a very IT-friendly crowd. It's sorta like going to the Fox News website and asking if you should have your kid read the Bible or the Communist Manifesto.
At where I worked, legal, marketing, and the like, were around as often, if not more often, than IT. At the least, they were around more than two hours a day. Just look at it this way, if Employee A is 100% efficient for 8 hours per day, and Employee B is 50% efficient for 14 hours a day... who's better? I didn't mean this to be a generalization, this was just how it was where I worked, and the place was rather immature to begin with. At the least, I can say I was around as often as many of the more technical people I know, and I was getting paid less than half of what they did, while having my head down working all day. Life is life.
That's beside the point. I'm just wondering how an overly excitable bald fellow relates to people slacking off at work.
Umm.... thanks for your relevant contribution?
I really don't get how it always ends up this way. Most jobs at IT firms are like this, and so long as a majority of the employees, and their supervisors, are barely out of college, then it is going to be idle chatter, Nerf gun fights, and decorating your workspace with 4chan memes and 'amusing' motivational posters, with work getting done in between. I worked in the administration division of a large software firm, and it boggled my mind that going through the more techie areas of the company was like a playground or a dorm room, but going through legal, accounting, marketing, et al., was like going through... a real workplace. It showed, too, in the reports I'd put together, the way general work ethic was. Of course, oddly enough, our foreign offices' tech people were entirely different. It's just the culture we live in. Then again, you're bringing this up with /., where most people are going to complain that the sofa in front of the Playstation in the lounge is starting to get uncomfortable...
Game of the Year 1999? I thought we were talking about a Zelda game, not Metal Gear Solid... Anyways, I really don't see the hoopla here. These folks made a movie using Nintendo's property. It wasn't like Nintendo sued them into oblivion, as many companies would've done, they came to an agreement with the filmmakers, and even let them ride it out through the end of the year. If anything, this should serve as an example to other companies about how to gracefully pull this kind of thing off without looking like a total wanker. Of course, this is /., and at least 3/4ths of us will demand we go French Revolution on Nintendo's executives.
You might as well go to Yahoo Answers and ask if there should be a minimum intelligence level to use the internet.
Some might say.. this hardly qualifies as news.
I think it might refer to if they're talking about the BBC as a group of people, or as an entity.
Yo dawg, we heard you like chrome, so we put some chrome on your Chrome so you... anyways, I truly don't see why you can complain about something becoming 'bloated' by add-ons. If it does, it's really your fault.
"Some might say this hardly qualifies as news."
If you think about it, the greatness of tabs as they are now is to avoid clutter in your taskbar by bundling multiple iterations of the same program into one window. I could see tabbing expanding into other programs, perhaps, but the taskbar as it is now serves, essentially, as tabbing of different programs already. Tabbed windows would only be a novelty, or serve a niche market, such as people who use many, many programs at once, or people on netbooks who use a moderate number of programs at once.