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  1. Re:Imaginary benefits of social media advertising on Facebook Discloses New Measurement Errors, Continues To Hone Its Math (marketingland.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't really matter how Facebook measures engagement and so on, much bigger problem is complete lack of results of all social media advertising. This is not 1-2% response ineffective, this is 10^-20 ineffective. It is quite likely that the entire Facebook advertising haven't sold a single thing today.

    Bullshit.
    My wife's store get the best result by far through Facebook advertising. Better than Google. Better than the local papers. It's measurable.

  2. Re:The human fund on Alphabet Donated Its Employees' Holiday Gifts To Charity (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    who count pennies but don't know the worth of a HAPPY EMPLOYEE

    Why wouldn't they be happy? Didn't their material goods go to help someone less fortunate who may never work for Alphabet? The Alphabet employees are paid well above the average. Let them share the wealth. Isn't that what the Sillycon Valley libs are always telling everyone else?

    They can buy an iPhone now they aren't getting a free Pixel.

  3. The response about him not integrating was the trolling statement. Try to keep up.

    I can integrate all finite polynomials.

  4. >he wouldn't be here on Slashdot complaining about how he couldn't watch The Lobster

    Your skills of comprehension are clearly limited. I was pointing out the implicit assumptions built into TFA were wrong. I don't care about watching the Lobster and I never claimed I did care. The observation about the Lobster was data to support my argument.

     

  5. Re:I guess there is demand on Bitcoin Hits Highest Levels In Almost Three Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know who wants this stuff other than the criminals who keep trying to lock up everyone's data and demand ransom. Fake money? Who wants it?

    It is quite handy as a payment token that transcend international boundaries and VISA blockades. I can buy things from for example Russia and pay with bitcoins where I cannot pay with a credit card. All perfectly legal as per the Berne convention.

    I hold about 1.8 bitcoins. The other .2 is what I spent over the past few years. I wouldn't call it a high volume thing. But it's handy.

  6. Re:For the love of God no on Transportation Department Proposes Allowing In-Flight Phone Calls (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Huh? They couldn't do that in the terminal?

    We need to make it a social norm to punch people in the face if they pull a phone out on an aircraft.

    Everyone has their phone out on planes, where have you been?

    So, what you're saying is that everyone needs a punch.

    Everyone except me.

  7. Re:For the love of God no on Transportation Department Proposes Allowing In-Flight Phone Calls (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Most people keep it short, most people keep a normal conversation volume and most of those who don't will take a hint

    You're kidding, right? Most people blab on endlessly at a louder than normal volume and remain oblivious to social cues.

    It's usually a drunk person.

  8. Re:For the love of God no on Transportation Department Proposes Allowing In-Flight Phone Calls (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Huh? They couldn't do that in the terminal?

    We need to make it a social norm to punch people in the face if they pull a phone out on an aircraft.

    Everyone has their phone out on planes, where have you been?

  9. Re: It's about time. on Transportation Department Proposes Allowing In-Flight Phone Calls (go.com) · · Score: 1

    >each cell phone would ping and try to connect to dosens of towers at once vs just a couple when used on land, with this hogging 'blob' traveling rapidly with the plane

    You are just repeating what you read somewhere. It isn't true.

  10. For someone with such an important life, you sure are invested in whining in an internet forum, you twat.

    Yet another whiney anonymous coward accusing me a whining when all the whining is coming from the anonymous cowards, whereas I am just stating how things are without whining.

  11. Re: Well, at least someone made money on Yik Yak Lays Off 60 Percent of Employees As Growth Collapses (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    In the case of my employer, lots of people got heavily burned by options when they got taxed on their value at the grant time (during the tech bubble) followed by the stock plummeting and all the options being worthless. That was the beginning of the end for options for the rank and file.

  12. Nope. I'm completely sane. You're an anonymous coward, so you are probably insane.

  13. Re:no on Slashdot Asks: Would You Like Early Access To Movies And Stop Going To Theatres? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Buy the DVD and rip it. Or Buy the DVD and take it to WalMart and have them do it for you.

    Cry more.

    How about no?

    Aspects of my life right now in approximate order of shit I care about
    1) Supporting my family
    2) Succeeding at my job
    3) Being an effective investor so I can retire soon
    4) Playing computer games
    5) Writing my book
    6) Learning a language

    Watching TV is some way down the list but I haven't reached it yet.

  14. Your excuses are terribly lame. The mail is trivial to use. A disk player is trivial to use. Your whining about wires is also lame.

    If you aren't willing to plug something into your TV, then you have to be content with "smart TV" features that suck or broadcast TV.

    But if you insist on depriving yourself, that's your own problem.

    I have no duty to live to your standards of media consumption. They aren't fucking excuses, they're facts. There's a difference.

  15. Re:no on Slashdot Asks: Would You Like Early Access To Movies And Stop Going To Theatres? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I don't give a shit what you think I am. I design the chips in your computer sonny. My kids are millennials. You should play outside in the sun some more. All that TV is rotting your brain.

  16. No blu-ray. There's a DVD player in a box in the garage somewhere, but it wouldn't work well since the TV is mounted on wall with sockets, roku and ethernet behind it and out of sight.

    We're not going to have a bunch of wires trailing across to wall to get to a DVD. We're not going to mess with mailing DVDs. Like I said, the world has moved on.

    There's a gaming PC upstairs with a DVD drive, but I'm not watching TV on that.

  17. Dot Matrix FTW on Google Cloud Print Is Turning Off Epson Printers (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I miss my FX-82., Wait, no I don't.

    Fanfold was nice for listings though.

  18. Re:no on Slashdot Asks: Would You Like Early Access To Movies And Stop Going To Theatres? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    early/late. wouldn't go anyway.

    The implication in TFS is that they are available later and making them available sooner may or may not cause people to watch them.

    They're not even available later. They're not available at all. Look at all the Netflix movies that are only on DVD. Last night I looked for The Lobster and found it was only on DVD. So it's not in the theater any more and not available streaming and I don't have a DVD player and the world has moved on from DVDs.

    So if they want me to watch, make it available sometime at least. I'm not watching it if it's not available at all.

    Pondering of the relative merits of early vs. late release timing when the current situation is there is no release at all is moot.

  19. Doesn't sound sufficiently punitive to me.

  20. Re:This works for me on China Chases Silicon Valley Talent Who Are Worried About Trump Presidency (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't dispute that there are nice mobile homes. I was just saying I never saw them in Europe. They seem to be a US thing.

  21. Re:This works for me on China Chases Silicon Valley Talent Who Are Worried About Trump Presidency (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, you have lived in Europe. We totally believe that.........

    I have. I don't remember seeing things like single-wides that people live in in the USA.

  22. Re: It's just not time yet on Why MakerBot Didn't Kickstart A 3D Printing Revolution (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    I used their service to make things which do not exist. I design them in OpenSCAD and get them to make it. You can have them make it faster but that costs more. If you can wait the extra time, you save some money relative to the faster service.

  23. Re:Unfortunately no and I have a reason on Ask Slashdot: Have You Read 'The Art of Computer Programming'? (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1

    Ah. OK. I've seen that book before. It's not as comprehensive as TAOCP, but is a better tutorial for people learning algorithmic theory.

  24. >rich base classes

    are complex.

    Machine code is simple. There's much less to know,

  25. But can you program in Z80 and 6502 machine code? You really only need to know a few instructions, because the details are in the bits.

    I wrote my own assembler and debugger for programming my Apple //e. I got fed up of typing in hex.

    https://github.com/dj-on-githu...