I dunno, it seems to me the iPad and the PADD aren't particularly analogous. iPads are interactive application frameworks; PADDs were usually only used exactly the same way paper is - "look at this data from Omicron Persei 8!" *hands it over. *Reads. "My god. The borometric field is fluctuating!" You rarely saw data uploaded to a PADD and you never saw it running complex applications or interacting with the world; that's what Tricorders were for.
A PADD was a clipboard, just future-visioned. It served exactly the same purpose, plot-wise, as all the paper in the new Battlestar Galactica being octagonal - it show you you were in a different world.
The MP in this case was wrong to have his official e-mail address taken off the Parliamentary website.
He seems to have been following advice on how to opt-out of spam:
The reason I stopped formally advertising my actual email address is that the Information Commissioner's Office advised me that, if I do, I am putting it in the public domain and then cannot ask for it to be removed from mass e-distribution lists or automated systems.
...which would be fine if he was talking about his gmail account, but he's a government representative. His job, at its base level, is to listen to people. It comes with the territory. He can beg people to write letters or to call and talk to an aide or to come to campaign events instead of emailing him, but he can't, say, set up a spam filter to automatically delete emails from his constituents emanating from valid domains, even if they annoy the snot out of him. I'm not saying it's necessary for him to be on (or even understand) Twitter, but we're talking about email, here. It's a pretty basic form of interpersonal communication these days.
Sorry, sir, but if you don't want to hear from people, you're in the wrong line of work.
Most panhandlers, those who value their time (doesn't everybody?) ask for money at big traffic times on busy street-corners - morning rush hour, lunch, evening rush, happy hour and, if they're particularly industrious, after the bars close. Many panhandlers also dress down for the part, live in relative comfort in shelters, eat regularly and can clear a couple hundred bucks for 2 hours of work in the right spot, on the right day, with the right spiel, in the right clothes - it's in their best interests to downplay how much they make in a day when people ask
Which isn't to say that others aren't mentally ill, sleeping on subway steam vents under newspapers and spending their days yelling at clouds; there are levels to the thing.
Read "Sidewalk" by Mitch Dunnier sometime. It's a great sociological look into the lives of street people.
I now actually have yelp staffers emailing me asking me to change my reviews at the bequest of an owner
You crammed two words together, there - it's either 'behest' or 'request,' unless they demanded you change your review from their deathbed which, I'm guessing, would require you to really, really have gotten under their skin.:)
Y'all're being way too literal - whether the top fell or it didn't, the point of the last shot isn't whether the reality Cobb is in is real or not, the point is that he walked away from the top as it was spinning. He stopped trying to get home because, as far as he was concerned, he was as home as he wanted to be.
Whether the reality we, as an audience, left him in was "real" or not is completely immaterial. Home != reality, necessarily; he ended up where he needed to be.
If the Australian government was filtering internet access to its citizenry that prevented access to political party websites, that would be a problem. But that's not what this article is about - the article's about companies keyword-restricting access to potentially inappropriate websites from computers on their networks. This is a spectacularly common thing for a company to do, but who cares? It's a private network. They can admin it how they like.
The fact that the first part would be news doesn't make the second part news because they're about similar things.
CORPORATE. CORPORATE filters block access to the website from within their PRIVATE CORPORATE NETWORKS. Companies can filter the web searches of their employees however they please. How is this in any way close to news?
Think of it this way:
You have an immensely popular, copyright-violating torrent. It has 100 seeds.
You have 50 unpopular, copyright-neutral torrents. They have 2 seed apiece.
Why is the one counted and the other not? Because it's too hard to count the little ones? Fuck that.
"The total sample consisted of 1,000 torrent files--a random selection from the most active seeded files on the trackers they used."
Most Active. Charming. It's almost like saying, "of the 1,000 most illegal torrents, almost 1,000 of them are illegal." I want to know about the millions of other files on BT, not the ones most likely to be illegal. Also: 1,000 randomly selected out of how many of the most active torrents?
Bad study is bad, or at least bad press release is bad, and I can smell the spin from 5,000 miles away.
People need an outlet, and if you don't want to see it you don't have to.
It seems to me that you're talking about social mores regarding masturbation in general, and not explicitly pornographic material. I mean, back in my day, if we wanted an "outlet," we used our imaginations.
I've got nothing against porn (insert tasteless joke here. Oh, "insert." I did it myself.) but really, if people want to whack off, they're going to. Porn just makes it easier.
The real issue is education - demonizing a biological need is the issue, not how unimaginatively you do it.
From the "words I've only heard spoken, not seen in print" department: It's "death throes," not "throws". I'm not being a dick about it, I promise, I'm just teaching you a new word.:)
If it were truly used the way it should be, zip+4 ads could be actually useful - I try as much as I can to spend my money at local independent businesses, and being told about, say, a pizza place close by with online ordering would be informative. It would be like those ValPak coupons I get every so often, but (hopefully) more relevant.
The problem is, it won't be used that way. It'll be used to try and convince me that there're local hotties hungry for my junk, just waiting for me to input my credit card number. Person-to-person, individualized marketing is an amazing, appreciated thing; being hit by an adult friend finder driveby is a waste of electrons.
"the story nonetheless raises significant privacy concerns."
...How? The kid made threats of violence on a public forum, somebody called the FBI, the FBI called Scotland Yard and they apprehended the kid before he made it to school. Sounds to me like the system worked for once.
I know it's all the rage right now to automatically link Facebook with "Privacy Concerns," but in this case it's just asinine.
I work in marketing; I know it when I see it, and the razor game absolutely is a marketing triumph - Gillette has convinced you that a marginally closer shave is worth you paying a premium far, far out of line with the materials cost. Your definition of "worth it" meets their price point, and their price point nets them an insane profit. Good for you! You've found a product you like at a price you're willing to pay, everybody wins.
Personally, though, when I did shave the expensive way, I felt like I was getting hosed and, for the way my beard grows, there was no practical benefit - I'd rather be thrifty.
*shrug. Your dollar; your decision on how to spend it.
Eyeballing it, a 60 cent dual-blade bic razor comfortably lasts me 6 shaves. That's a dime a shave, though I could probably stretch it longer if I felt like it
In order for a 3 dollar Mach-3 cartridge to approach that cost effectiveness, it would have to last 30 shaves. I shave 3 times a week, and I've never had a mach-3 last two and a half months - a month in, it's like shaving with sandpaper.
And that doesn't take the cost of the damned handle into account.
I'm not debating that mach-3 blades are better. I just don't think they're worth 3 times the consumer cost, and I'm not especially interested in paying a 1200% markup for, after a month and a fresh blade, just as crappy a shave as I'd get with a 3 week old 60 cent razor that I can replace without feeling like I'm wasting money by not using it until it rusts.
Spend your money where you like, of course, but the math doesn't add up for me.
It's just like Razors and Razor Blades. That's how Gillette and Schick make their money.
USED TO. Nowadays, Gillette sells you the handle for 10 bucks and sells you the blades for 3 dollars each. The "free handle" metaphor really hasn't worked since the 70's.
(Incidentally - premium razor blades are one of THE biggest consumer ripoffs of all time. Every time you buy a Gillette Mach 3 cartridge, you're spending 3 dollars on 25 cents worth of materials that aren't really much better than a 30 cent disposable. The only thing cheap about cheap razors are the handles. The blades are as sharp as the expensive one at 1/10 the cost. Behold the power of marketing.)
Slightly off-topic, but the Post headline that has lodged itself firmly in my brain is the one that was attached to Ike Turner's obituary: "Ike "Beats" Tina to Death".
Imagine if, along with bundling Internet Explorer with Windows, Microsoft FORBID anyone from running any other browser on their OS at all, and required EVERY app to be approved by Microsoft before it could be allowed to run. Apple's doing EXACTLY THAT.
...except that Microsoft was convicted of leveraging their desktop OS monopoly into the web browser market - it was Microsoft's road or the high road for a lot of people.
Apple doesn't have a monopoly in the smart phone market. Nobody's forcing you to buy an iPhone. If you don't like it (and you clearly don't) then buy any of the other smartphones on the market.
"I call shenanigans. The official beta does not support 1vcpu."
Wrong.
Create a game. right-click on the empty opponent field. Select "Computer Opponent" or somesuch. Select a race and a team color and off you go.
Now, the computer opponent only has one difficulty setting, "very easy", which essentially means it builds bases slowly, rarely attacks your base (and never in force) and can be wiped out by a toddler mashing the keyboard, but it IS available if you want to figure out the units available to you without embarassing yourself against a real-live person.
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I dunno, it seems to me the iPad and the PADD aren't particularly analogous. iPads are interactive application frameworks; PADDs were usually only used exactly the same way paper is - "look at this data from Omicron Persei 8!" *hands it over. *Reads. "My god. The borometric field is fluctuating!" You rarely saw data uploaded to a PADD and you never saw it running complex applications or interacting with the world; that's what Tricorders were for.
A PADD was a clipboard, just future-visioned. It served exactly the same purpose, plot-wise, as all the paper in the new Battlestar Galactica being octagonal - it show you you were in a different world.
Sorry, sir, but if you don't want to hear from people, you're in the wrong line of work.
Most panhandlers, those who value their time (doesn't everybody?) ask for money at big traffic times on busy street-corners - morning rush hour, lunch, evening rush, happy hour and, if they're particularly industrious, after the bars close. Many panhandlers also dress down for the part, live in relative comfort in shelters, eat regularly and can clear a couple hundred bucks for 2 hours of work in the right spot, on the right day, with the right spiel, in the right clothes - it's in their best interests to downplay how much they make in a day when people ask
Which isn't to say that others aren't mentally ill, sleeping on subway steam vents under newspapers and spending their days yelling at clouds; there are levels to the thing.
Read "Sidewalk" by Mitch Dunnier sometime. It's a great sociological look into the lives of street people.
I now actually have yelp staffers emailing me asking me to change my reviews at the bequest of an owner
You crammed two words together, there - it's either 'behest' or 'request,' unless they demanded you change your review from their deathbed which, I'm guessing, would require you to really, really have gotten under their skin. :)
Y'all're being way too literal - whether the top fell or it didn't, the point of the last shot isn't whether the reality Cobb is in is real or not, the point is that he walked away from the top as it was spinning. He stopped trying to get home because, as far as he was concerned, he was as home as he wanted to be.
Whether the reality we, as an audience, left him in was "real" or not is completely immaterial. Home != reality, necessarily; he ended up where he needed to be.
Douchington? Nice one, but troll harder.
If the Australian government was filtering internet access to its citizenry that prevented access to political party websites, that would be a problem. But that's not what this article is about - the article's about companies keyword-restricting access to potentially inappropriate websites from computers on their networks. This is a spectacularly common thing for a company to do, but who cares? It's a private network. They can admin it how they like.
The fact that the first part would be news doesn't make the second part news because they're about similar things.
CORPORATE. CORPORATE filters block access to the website from within their PRIVATE CORPORATE NETWORKS. Companies can filter the web searches of their employees however they please. How is this in any way close to news?
Think of it this way: You have an immensely popular, copyright-violating torrent. It has 100 seeds. You have 50 unpopular, copyright-neutral torrents. They have 2 seed apiece. Why is the one counted and the other not? Because it's too hard to count the little ones? Fuck that.
"The total sample consisted of 1,000 torrent files--a random selection from the most active seeded files on the trackers they used."
Most Active. Charming. It's almost like saying, "of the 1,000 most illegal torrents, almost 1,000 of them are illegal." I want to know about the millions of other files on BT, not the ones most likely to be illegal. Also: 1,000 randomly selected out of how many of the most active torrents?
Bad study is bad, or at least bad press release is bad, and I can smell the spin from 5,000 miles away.
*Scoff.
Hands up if you saw this as happening the minute you read the original story a few days ago.
People need an outlet, and if you don't want to see it you don't have to.
It seems to me that you're talking about social mores regarding masturbation in general, and not explicitly pornographic material. I mean, back in my day, if we wanted an "outlet," we used our imaginations.
I've got nothing against porn (insert tasteless joke here. Oh, "insert." I did it myself.) but really, if people want to whack off, they're going to. Porn just makes it easier.
The real issue is education - demonizing a biological need is the issue, not how unimaginatively you do it.
From the "words I've only heard spoken, not seen in print" department: It's "death throes," not "throws". I'm not being a dick about it, I promise, I'm just teaching you a new word. :)
If it were truly used the way it should be, zip+4 ads could be actually useful - I try as much as I can to spend my money at local independent businesses, and being told about, say, a pizza place close by with online ordering would be informative. It would be like those ValPak coupons I get every so often, but (hopefully) more relevant.
The problem is, it won't be used that way. It'll be used to try and convince me that there're local hotties hungry for my junk, just waiting for me to input my credit card number. Person-to-person, individualized marketing is an amazing, appreciated thing; being hit by an adult friend finder driveby is a waste of electrons.
"the story nonetheless raises significant privacy concerns."
I know it's all the rage right now to automatically link Facebook with "Privacy Concerns," but in this case it's just asinine.
Imagine assessing employees' leadership and teamwork skills by jacking them into a virtual, multiplayer business scenario.
Sounds like the Kobayashi Maru scenario to me, just without any of the fun.
as I pointed out below (and for a sense of scale in the other direction) 1.5 trillion dollars is 10% of the US Gross Domestic Product. ...yeah.
...what the fuck are they smoking.
The current US Gross Domestic Product is in the vicinity of 14 trillion dollars.
The RIAA honestly believes that Limewire owes them 10% of all the wealth produced by the United States in a year.
The RIAA was always living in their own little fantasy world, but I didn't realize the depth of their delusion until now.
This has to stop.
I work in marketing; I know it when I see it, and the razor game absolutely is a marketing triumph - Gillette has convinced you that a marginally closer shave is worth you paying a premium far, far out of line with the materials cost. Your definition of "worth it" meets their price point, and their price point nets them an insane profit. Good for you! You've found a product you like at a price you're willing to pay, everybody wins.
Personally, though, when I did shave the expensive way, I felt like I was getting hosed and, for the way my beard grows, there was no practical benefit - I'd rather be thrifty.
*shrug. Your dollar; your decision on how to spend it.
12 shaves a month costs you $3, or $0.25 a shave.
A $0.60, dual-bladed Bic costs me $0.60 and lasts, comfortably, for 6 shaves. That's $0.10 a shave.
It isn't worth it to me to spend 150% more for the same shave. YMMV.
I don't think so.
Eyeballing it, a 60 cent dual-blade bic razor comfortably lasts me 6 shaves. That's a dime a shave, though I could probably stretch it longer if I felt like it
In order for a 3 dollar Mach-3 cartridge to approach that cost effectiveness, it would have to last 30 shaves. I shave 3 times a week, and I've never had a mach-3 last two and a half months - a month in, it's like shaving with sandpaper.
And that doesn't take the cost of the damned handle into account.
I'm not debating that mach-3 blades are better. I just don't think they're worth 3 times the consumer cost, and I'm not especially interested in paying a 1200% markup for, after a month and a fresh blade, just as crappy a shave as I'd get with a 3 week old 60 cent razor that I can replace without feeling like I'm wasting money by not using it until it rusts.
Spend your money where you like, of course, but the math doesn't add up for me.
It's just like Razors and Razor Blades. That's how Gillette and Schick make their money.
USED TO. Nowadays, Gillette sells you the handle for 10 bucks and sells you the blades for 3 dollars each. The "free handle" metaphor really hasn't worked since the 70's.
(Incidentally - premium razor blades are one of THE biggest consumer ripoffs of all time. Every time you buy a Gillette Mach 3 cartridge, you're spending 3 dollars on 25 cents worth of materials that aren't really much better than a 30 cent disposable. The only thing cheap about cheap razors are the handles. The blades are as sharp as the expensive one at 1/10 the cost. Behold the power of marketing.)
Slightly off-topic, but the Post headline that has lodged itself firmly in my brain is the one that was attached to Ike Turner's obituary: "Ike "Beats" Tina to Death".
Imagine if, along with bundling Internet Explorer with Windows, Microsoft FORBID anyone from running any other browser on their OS at all, and required EVERY app to be approved by Microsoft before it could be allowed to run. Apple's doing EXACTLY THAT.
Apple doesn't have a monopoly in the smart phone market. Nobody's forcing you to buy an iPhone. If you don't like it (and you clearly don't) then buy any of the other smartphones on the market.
"I call shenanigans. The official beta does not support 1vcpu." Wrong. Create a game. right-click on the empty opponent field. Select "Computer Opponent" or somesuch. Select a race and a team color and off you go. Now, the computer opponent only has one difficulty setting, "very easy", which essentially means it builds bases slowly, rarely attacks your base (and never in force) and can be wiped out by a toddler mashing the keyboard, but it IS available if you want to figure out the units available to you without embarassing yourself against a real-live person.