If you don't think there's a pronounced and unique african-american english dialect, you need to spend more time in the city. Not everybody who's educated speaks like Harold Bloom.
You think I'm being racist? I think you're being classist. Let's split some pie.
If there was anything else in his responses that showed even a smidgen of that kind of personality or if his responses weren't so massaged by the PR department I'd believe you, but it doesn't fit with the tone of the rest of it. That feels like a snow job to me.
no one comments yet on a General's usage of "YGTBKM! LOL!"?
Okay. I will. That line was added as a blatant pandering move to the way it's assumed we communicate. He (or rather whoever he showed this to before it got to us) obviously thought that he could get in with us that way without realizing that we, as a whole, aren't anything like the cast of a Verizon commercial. It's as offensive to me as a white guy speaking "black" to a black coworker out of the blue and just as effective.
There was no content in the questions at all, but he absolutely lost me when I got to that line.
Something that adds to the value of the site would be good - paid-for "related" links to commercial sites.
Data recovery - link to services. Bridge construction - links to firms building these. Encryption - encryption software. Every single pharmaceutical - online pharmacy. Every single book or movie - amazon.com or other such. So if you're willing to pay for what you've just learned about, you know where to go to buy it or have it done, or learn more about it.
Isn't that precisely the advertising service that google sells?
Lessig wouldn't have to win. Sometimes running is enough to guide and elevate the public discourse in that it gives the voice a microphone to make sense into.
You are quite confused. If you minimize a window, cmd-tab will not bring it back. If you hide a window, you have to cmd-tab through nearly the full list of applications to get it back, as OS X moves that hidden app to the end of the list (or almost-end, if you are running certain specially treated tools like Activity Monitor).
Like most directional operations in OSX, if cmd-tab goes in one direction, cmd-SHIFT-tab goes in the other.
In fact, the brilliance on Apple's part here is the recognition (FINALLY) that there are lots of people with big honkin desktop machines who also need a portable computer for going out to meetings, travel or just reading the web (on something bigger then a 3" screen) at the local coffee shop. For us, the Air is perfect - a minimalist extension of our main work computer.
Exactly. But.
For those of us with big-honkin' computers at their desks that they spend most of their time at, what we want is a mimimalist extension of our main work computers that feels like one.
The MacBook air is over-powered. What I wanted was a well-designed, 10" laptop that I can do paperwork, answer emails, watch a movie on and not have it feel like a brick in my bag. What I want is a 12" powerbook, but smaller and lighter and without an optical drive for weight's sake, for, say, 800 bucks. The Macbook air goes for the flashier, better-heeled market and leaves me out in the cold.
Relatedly, that's the thing that drives me crazy about Apple's 17" laptops - the case is naturally large to acommodate a screen that size and there's plenty of room for a number pad but the keyboard instead is tiny.
Dell's XPS (?) gaming laptops seem to actually get that right. Not that it justifies their cost or anything.
"Engagement" was in quotes in the summary, and rightly so - it's an advertising metric. Think of it this way:
Nielsen numbers ideally measure how many people are watching a given television show based on a percentage of a demographically relevant sample, but they don't measure how much attention people are paying, so TV on in the background when a person is preparing dinner is weighted the same as someone who's involved in the show.
Engagement, usually through things like questionaires based on show content, measures how much attention people are actually paying.
Engagement is a Big Deal, big enough so that many TV networks have started factoring Engagement numbers into their formula for determining how much blocks of advertising are worth in any given show.
If you only associate positive things with your name, it can help when potential employers do a cursory check on you.
Tell that to the other guy with my name. I can't tell you how pissed off I was when that shoddy excuse for a lawyer from Florida became the focus of so much of our time and I'd load slashdot over breakfast to find headlines like, "Jack Thompson voted biggest douche on the internet."
I can't even say I was here first because he's got decades on me. Bastard.
...the equipment companies sat on billions in inventory that they were forced to write down (because no one wanted to buy it).
If that's a typo I apologize for the following, but it looks like an idiomatic misunderstanding to me so, in the interests of the free exchange of information, I feel the need to tell you that the expression is write off, not write down.:)
cnet's talkback feature appears to be broken, so I'll do the thing here:
Data's off-switch is awesome, but the dude's got it wrong - it isn't on his leg, it's in his side above his hip. If I remember right, above his right hip.
Nothing at all in that summary tells me what the Urban Challenge is; nothing in ANY of the links tells me concisely what it is, either; Wiki eventually did. How hard would it be to include "a prize competition for driverless cars" in the first sentence of that article?
Are y'all experimenting with automated posting or something, because that at least would make sense.
Okay. Seen reviews of the software, the hardware and the man behind the project. I'll pay 300-400 dollars for one Right The Hell Now. So where do I get one?
I can see at least one significant problem with this.
Let's say I upload something I don't control the copyright on, something like fansubbed anime. Let's assume it falls through youtube's copyright enforcement cracks and stays up, and youtube overlays an ad on top of it. YouTube is therefore generating a profit from copyrighted material they don't have the license to distribute. That's a helluva can of worms, wriggly legal ones, one that YouTube knows about - there aren't ads on the actual video pages for precisely that reason.
Wonder how they're gonna get around that without losing their DMCA safeharbor provisions. S'gonna be interesting to watch.
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Absolutely... obviously the Wall Street Journal was just a stepping stone before moving on Fark for Rupert Murdock.
I agree in principle, but the New York City subway and bus systems are horribly overtaxed. Train platforms get dangerously full come rush hour, and trains themselves can't usually keep up with the load. That's on a good day; on a bad day all hell breaks loose. Wasn't a fun commute, that one.
I'm salivating just thinking about this game, but there's one thing about SC and SC:BW that I hope they fix: variable rotational speeds - a Marine should be able to turn around to shoot at something behind him much, much faster than a mechanized unit could. It always bothered me to see these gorgeously animated characters whose realism (okay, not realism. They're in space, after all. 'Fluidity of Movement,' then) was disrupted by a tank that could turn on a dime and start pounding you. It'd an odd thing for Blizzard to have missed as so many other little details were right, like light air forces being unable to hold perfectly still in flight and drifting a bit, sometimes into range of SAM launchers. That particular detail was amazing; the fact they were smart enough (if I remember correctly) for it to affect fighters and capital ships differently was especially cool.
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Living in NYC, I am beholden to TimeWarner as my only cable provider.
I live in Brooklyn and I, personally, am beholden to CableVision.
It's a big city. Careful with your overarching statements.
If you don't think there's a pronounced and unique african-american english dialect, you need to spend more time in the city. Not everybody who's educated speaks like Harold Bloom.
You think I'm being racist? I think you're being classist. Let's split some pie.
If there was anything else in his responses that showed even a smidgen of that kind of personality or if his responses weren't so massaged by the PR department I'd believe you, but it doesn't fit with the tone of the rest of it. That feels like a snow job to me.
Okay. I will. That line was added as a blatant pandering move to the way it's assumed we communicate. He (or rather whoever he showed this to before it got to us) obviously thought that he could get in with us that way without realizing that we, as a whole, aren't anything like the cast of a Verizon commercial. It's as offensive to me as a white guy speaking "black" to a black coworker out of the blue and just as effective.
There was no content in the questions at all, but he absolutely lost me when I got to that line.
Not banners.
Something that adds to the value of the site would be good - paid-for "related" links to commercial sites.
Data recovery - link to services. Bridge construction - links to firms building these. Encryption - encryption software. Every single pharmaceutical - online pharmacy. Every single book or movie - amazon.com or other such. So if you're willing to pay for what you've just learned about, you know where to go to buy it or have it done, or learn more about it.
Isn't that precisely the advertising service that google sells?
Lessig wouldn't have to win. Sometimes running is enough to guide and elevate the public discourse in that it gives the voice a microphone to make sense into.
At least, that's the way it's supposed to work.
Triv
You are quite confused. If you minimize a window, cmd-tab will not bring it back. If you hide a window, you have to cmd-tab through nearly the full list of applications to get it back, as OS X moves that hidden app to the end of the list (or almost-end, if you are running certain specially treated tools like Activity Monitor).
Like most directional operations in OSX, if cmd-tab goes in one direction, cmd-SHIFT-tab goes in the other.
In fact, the brilliance on Apple's part here is the recognition (FINALLY) that there are lots of people with big honkin desktop machines who also need a portable computer for going out to meetings, travel or just reading the web (on something bigger then a 3" screen) at the local coffee shop. For us, the Air is perfect - a minimalist extension of our main work computer.
Exactly. But.
For those of us with big-honkin' computers at their desks that they spend most of their time at, what we want is a mimimalist extension of our main work computers that feels like one.
The MacBook air is over-powered. What I wanted was a well-designed, 10" laptop that I can do paperwork, answer emails, watch a movie on and not have it feel like a brick in my bag. What I want is a 12" powerbook, but smaller and lighter and without an optical drive for weight's sake, for, say, 800 bucks. The Macbook air goes for the flashier, better-heeled market and leaves me out in the cold.
Relatedly, that's the thing that drives me crazy about Apple's 17" laptops - the case is naturally large to acommodate a screen that size and there's plenty of room for a number pad but the keyboard instead is tiny.
Dell's XPS (?) gaming laptops seem to actually get that right. Not that it justifies their cost or anything.
Actually, I put it in quotes just because I didn't know what it meant and I wanted to spice up some dull news with a porn joke.
Proof positive that everything pornographic is relevant in some fashion to somebody. Hell, I've known that for years.
"Engagement" was in quotes in the summary, and rightly so - it's an advertising metric. Think of it this way:
Nielsen numbers ideally measure how many people are watching a given television show based on a percentage of a demographically relevant sample, but they don't measure how much attention people are paying, so TV on in the background when a person is preparing dinner is weighted the same as someone who's involved in the show.
Engagement, usually through things like questionaires based on show content, measures how much attention people are actually paying.
Engagement is a Big Deal, big enough so that many TV networks have started factoring Engagement numbers into their formula for determining how much blocks of advertising are worth in any given show.
--Triv
If you only associate positive things with your name, it can help when potential employers do a cursory check on you.
Tell that to the other guy with my name. I can't tell you how pissed off I was when that shoddy excuse for a lawyer from Florida became the focus of so much of our time and I'd load slashdot over breakfast to find headlines like, "Jack Thompson voted biggest douche on the internet."
I can't even say I was here first because he's got decades on me. Bastard.
If that's a typo I apologize for the following, but it looks like an idiomatic misunderstanding to me so, in the interests of the free exchange of information, I feel the need to tell you that the expression is write off, not write down. :)
Triv
cnet's talkback feature appears to be broken, so I'll do the thing here:
Data's off-switch is awesome, but the dude's got it wrong - it isn't on his leg, it's in his side above his hip. If I remember right, above his right hip.
Triv
But remember to GET OUT of the car before parking it.
Who is driving? Oh my god Bear is driving HOW CAN THAT BE?
Nothing at all in that summary tells me what the Urban Challenge is; nothing in ANY of the links tells me concisely what it is, either; Wiki eventually did. How hard would it be to include "a prize competition for driverless cars" in the first sentence of that article?
Are y'all experimenting with automated posting or something, because that at least would make sense.
Triv
Okay. Seen reviews of the software, the hardware and the man behind the project. I'll pay 300-400 dollars for one Right The Hell Now. So where do I get one?
Triv
It's a bigger deal than you might think - the Coop is operated by Barnes and Noble, as are the majority of college bookstores across the country.
Triv
We can all thank Mayor Daily for the airport distruction (I think I spelled the Mayor's name wrong, but correcting it is not worth the effort).
I can't help but laugh when people justify not making a five second google search by typing out five seconds worth of text.
(It's spelled Daley .)
Triv
Let's say I upload something I don't control the copyright on, something like fansubbed anime. Let's assume it falls through youtube's copyright enforcement cracks and stays up, and youtube overlays an ad on top of it. YouTube is therefore generating a profit from copyrighted material they don't have the license to distribute. That's a helluva can of worms, wriggly legal ones, one that YouTube knows about - there aren't ads on the actual video pages for precisely that reason.
Wonder how they're gonna get around that without losing their DMCA safeharbor provisions. S'gonna be interesting to watch.
Absolutely... obviously the Wall Street Journal was just a stepping stone before moving on Fark for Rupert Murdock.
MurdocH is this guy. MurdocK is this guy.
It's okay; I get confused by that, too.
Make it hurt to not take public transport.
I agree in principle, but the New York City subway and bus systems are horribly overtaxed. Train platforms get dangerously full come rush hour, and trains themselves can't usually keep up with the load. That's on a good day; on a bad day all hell breaks loose. Wasn't a fun commute, that one.
Triv
I'm salivating just thinking about this game, but there's one thing about SC and SC:BW that I hope they fix: variable rotational speeds - a Marine should be able to turn around to shoot at something behind him much, much faster than a mechanized unit could. It always bothered me to see these gorgeously animated characters whose realism (okay, not realism. They're in space, after all. 'Fluidity of Movement,' then) was disrupted by a tank that could turn on a dime and start pounding you. It'd an odd thing for Blizzard to have missed as so many other little details were right, like light air forces being unable to hold perfectly still in flight and drifting a bit, sometimes into range of SAM launchers. That particular detail was amazing; the fact they were smart enough (if I remember correctly) for it to affect fighters and capital ships differently was especially cool.
Yep. And what happens in inelastic pricing systems when sales drop? Prices are dropped to increase demand. Everybody wins. :)