I guess it's a good thing I only used Dropbox to share a bunch of images that were being deleted by other image hosts. I'd been meaning to use it for actual backups (since I don't have any real backup systems), but maybe I shouldn't. Guess I'll have to RTFA to see how bad this is.
No point. Any dictionary worth mentioning, and many that aren't, has notes on the usage of a word. "Slang", "Vulgar", "Archaic" and "Alternate Spelling" are common. Some dictionaries will even note "Regional Dialect", "Technical Jargon", "Pidgin English", and even "Americanism". I don't think it would be that hard for them to add "Internet Slang", "Fictional Language" and "Marketing Speak" to that.
I was thinking how many fictional-person accounts there are. Plus every cat/dog/other pet that has an "account". Plus all the fake accounts - Fake Steve Jobs, etc.
Did it? That's what the purpose of having a trial is. Finding out the facts. Tesla claims they have strong evidence that there was no breakdown. We'll find out in court.
Between all the quadrillion-dollars-demanded-lawsuits and shut-down-everything C&Ds, it's nice to see a lawsuit that simply wants a little justice. No big demands, just a "stop lying about our product" and "say sorry". It even looks like they have a good amount of evidence, unlike many recent suits on/.
Even if they turn out to be wrong, Tesla just got a small point of favor with me for that. It's kind of sad that "not being evil" is noteworthy in a lawsuit nowadays...
Yeah. Except my paper was about the Gallic Wars. And one of my citations was De Bello Gallico, in the original Latin. Not exactly an unbiased source, but very first-hand.
Well, the fact that the label was in German was one hint. The fact that the teacher told us which camp it was from (exactly which I have forgotten) was another.
I was tolerant with them getting hacked. They had what, my username, a deliberately weak password I didn't use elsewhere, and my email address.
I was even tolerant of their new layout. It still hasn't grown on me, but I can live with it.
However, their incessant sucking of Steve Job's iCock, the fact that half their recent articles could fit inside a tweet, and even less professionalism than Slashdot's editors, means that Gizmodo is on my ignore list. I'll still get gamer news from Kotaku, and still read my Morning Spoilers for TV shows I don't watch (just to maintain my ability to converse in Nerd), but gadget news will come from elsewhere.
Honestly, these kinds of things should be mandatory for any large company with that much personal information. Regular independent audits? Sounds like the kind of oversight we need. Can't lie about how private your info is? Sounds like something that should be a law. Need to get consent again after changing the terms? Again, I'm surprised you could get away with it before.
Now let's just get these things applied everywhere else like Google. Facebook, for one, deserves even more oversight.
Nah, that teacher was just... obsessive... with history. And slightly evil - he played the Imperial March before every test, had a framed picture of Mao, used an actual Aztec skull chalice as a pencil holder, had an (empty) can of Zyklon-B from the Nazi death camps in the room, owned the sword of a convicted Japanese war criminal, and had a historic Nazi flag hanging in the back. And he had a pretty sinister laugh...
OK, yeah, the guy was evil, but it was a cool evil. Besides that one event, we got along well. I wonder if he still teaches there...
Although I have to give some thanks to whichever obsessed nerd compiled the comprehensive lists of CPU's and graphics cards. Very helpful to my current project, having a near-complete reference to thousands of both.
Agreed. The worst part is that they delete actually referential articles while allowing all kinds of fan-info pages to continue. To wit: there are 13 pages of "List of Pokemon", and 46 pages just for individual ones. Useful information? For some. However, given the rise of fandom wikis just for that type of information, it makes Wikipedia look far less professional. Especially since a good deal of it is written "in-universe", treating fiction as though it were reality.
I once had a teacher that failed me for later telling him that I used Wikipedia's "references and external links" as a basis for my research. I actually had to issue an appeal just to get them to allow Wikipedia to be used as essentially a search engine.
Be fair - he had to generate every possible combination of characters for a 883 page book, then select the optimal one to be published. Even with a really good algorithm, that's going to take a while.
I don't think it would be "broadcasting". Maybe "narrowcasting" is a better term - it's going to a small, determinable amount of endpoints, not to anything that happens to be listening in.
Why? Disk storage is cheaper than the processing power it would take to compare each new upload to the several billion files already uploaded. Something as simple as changing the ID3 tags from "Nobuo Uematsu" to "Uematsu Nobuo" would make the files different enough to require two copies. Multiply that by the millions of songs people will upload. Add in the fact that two people ripping the same audio CD (even with the same encoder and same settings) may not end up with identical files...
That "vast desert" is, in case you forgot, on Mars. That's still a thousand times more interesting than any surface feature on Earth. Maybe the novelty will wear off once we start colonizing, but until then, it's a desert on a different freaking planet, making it well worth studying.
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I guess it's a good thing I only used Dropbox to share a bunch of images that were being deleted by other image hosts. I'd been meaning to use it for actual backups (since I don't have any real backup systems), but maybe I shouldn't. Guess I'll have to RTFA to see how bad this is.
Does "doing a good deed" count for nothing?
No point. Any dictionary worth mentioning, and many that aren't, has notes on the usage of a word. "Slang", "Vulgar", "Archaic" and "Alternate Spelling" are common. Some dictionaries will even note "Regional Dialect", "Technical Jargon", "Pidgin English", and even "Americanism". I don't think it would be that hard for them to add "Internet Slang", "Fictional Language" and "Marketing Speak" to that.
Just wait until the "traditional" media catches up to us. They'll be playing it up for all it's worth.
I'd mod this one "+5 Funny".
I was thinking how many fictional-person accounts there are. Plus every cat/dog/other pet that has an "account". Plus all the fake accounts - Fake Steve Jobs, etc.
They're engineers, not TV personalities.
Did it? That's what the purpose of having a trial is. Finding out the facts. Tesla claims they have strong evidence that there was no breakdown. We'll find out in court.
Between all the quadrillion-dollars-demanded-lawsuits and shut-down-everything C&Ds, it's nice to see a lawsuit that simply wants a little justice. No big demands, just a "stop lying about our product" and "say sorry". It even looks like they have a good amount of evidence, unlike many recent suits on /.
Even if they turn out to be wrong, Tesla just got a small point of favor with me for that. It's kind of sad that "not being evil" is noteworthy in a lawsuit nowadays...
Yeah. Except my paper was about the Gallic Wars. And one of my citations was De Bello Gallico, in the original Latin. Not exactly an unbiased source, but very first-hand.
Well, the fact that the label was in German was one hint. The fact that the teacher told us which camp it was from (exactly which I have forgotten) was another.
I was tolerant with them getting hacked. They had what, my username, a deliberately weak password I didn't use elsewhere, and my email address.
I was even tolerant of their new layout. It still hasn't grown on me, but I can live with it.
However, their incessant sucking of Steve Job's iCock, the fact that half their recent articles could fit inside a tweet, and even less professionalism than Slashdot's editors, means that Gizmodo is on my ignore list. I'll still get gamer news from Kotaku, and still read my Morning Spoilers for TV shows I don't watch (just to maintain my ability to converse in Nerd), but gadget news will come from elsewhere.
Hahaha! I'd rate you +5 Funny if I could.
Honestly, these kinds of things should be mandatory for any large company with that much personal information. Regular independent audits? Sounds like the kind of oversight we need. Can't lie about how private your info is? Sounds like something that should be a law. Need to get consent again after changing the terms? Again, I'm surprised you could get away with it before.
Now let's just get these things applied everywhere else like Google. Facebook, for one, deserves even more oversight.
Nah, that teacher was just... obsessive... with history. And slightly evil - he played the Imperial March before every test, had a framed picture of Mao, used an actual Aztec skull chalice as a pencil holder, had an (empty) can of Zyklon-B from the Nazi death camps in the room, owned the sword of a convicted Japanese war criminal, and had a historic Nazi flag hanging in the back. And he had a pretty sinister laugh...
OK, yeah, the guy was evil, but it was a cool evil. Besides that one event, we got along well. I wonder if he still teaches there...
Although I have to give some thanks to whichever obsessed nerd compiled the comprehensive lists of CPU's and graphics cards. Very helpful to my current project, having a near-complete reference to thousands of both.
Agreed. The worst part is that they delete actually referential articles while allowing all kinds of fan-info pages to continue. To wit: there are 13 pages of "List of Pokemon", and 46 pages just for individual ones. Useful information? For some. However, given the rise of fandom wikis just for that type of information, it makes Wikipedia look far less professional. Especially since a good deal of it is written "in-universe", treating fiction as though it were reality.
I once had a teacher that failed me for later telling him that I used Wikipedia's "references and external links" as a basis for my research. I actually had to issue an appeal just to get them to allow Wikipedia to be used as essentially a search engine.
Be fair - he had to generate every possible combination of characters for a 883 page book, then select the optimal one to be published. Even with a really good algorithm, that's going to take a while.
Maybe they're in a district where "can't be arsed" is a federally-recognized handicap?
I don't think it would be "broadcasting". Maybe "narrowcasting" is a better term - it's going to a small, determinable amount of endpoints, not to anything that happens to be listening in.
There's also violence. America is good at that.
Why? Disk storage is cheaper than the processing power it would take to compare each new upload to the several billion files already uploaded. Something as simple as changing the ID3 tags from "Nobuo Uematsu" to "Uematsu Nobuo" would make the files different enough to require two copies. Multiply that by the millions of songs people will upload. Add in the fact that two people ripping the same audio CD (even with the same encoder and same settings) may not end up with identical files...
That "vast desert" is, in case you forgot, on Mars. That's still a thousand times more interesting than any surface feature on Earth. Maybe the novelty will wear off once we start colonizing, but until then, it's a desert on a different freaking planet, making it well worth studying.
Step one in that process, of course, being "get on the front page of /."