When you look at the least biased, most reliable source of news and analysis they tend to be the ones that are not dependent on getting views - the BBC, and agencies like Reuters and AFP.
Government funded news is going to favor government that funds news. NPR is a shining example. Yes, I love NPR, but they even acknowledge that their listenership skews Democratic, and their coverage reflects that.
Many years ago I went to what is now a top 5 university for college and followed it up by going to what is now a top 10 university for graduate school.
I can tell you the difference in education between the two was totally shocking. After what I did as an undergrad, getting a PhD at the lower ranked school was more about just spending the time to check all the boxes than any real work.
So I know there is a tremendous difference between just the top few schools. I can easily believe that after you get out of the top 10 or 20 universities, the differences are minimal, but at the top, even just a few spots in the rankings indicates a huge difference in quality of education.
Perhaps your sample size (two universities) was not adequate to draw meaningful conclusions.
At least this has the benefit of providing others a place to learn. I have no problem giving some asshat kid a free admission if he is allowing 500 other people to get an education on his dime at the same time.
No, it has the benefit of additional maintenance and upkeep in perpetuity.
The thing that gets people, is the commercials show them using Alexia to do all sorts of cool stuff, only to realize you need to spend $50 for a smart power socket or light switch, $20 for a smart bulb
If Alexa could to this without specialized sockets and plugs, then she would be Skynet.
The question you might ask is: what would do the FAA if the "problem" was affecting the Airbus fleet?
No, the question is, What is the safest response for this model of aircraft, in this situation? And perhaps that is grounding and perhaps it is not. Otherwise you are implying you are satisfied as long as the FAA responds to potential Airbus incidents in an equally unsafe manner (again assuming inaction is less safe than grounding).
Moreover, we must remember the 777. It suffered multiple near-disasters with battery packs in flames in the first few flights. This would suggest poor testing procedures.
...to tell you that if you spend a quarter of a second contemplating your navel while waiting for packets, you are likely to have a rocket shot up your ass.
I think we can all agree that players running at four frames-per-second are at a disadvantage.
All the bad press about Facebook might be catching up to the company.
Maybe it is that the attention spans of those 12-34 year olds have slidden even farther. Or maybe it's just that the platform was due to start declining anyway as people, finally, start to understand how advertising-based business models and OSINT work.
> Pretty sure the OCR will not be done on your device, but elsewhere.
C'mon, just say it already. Microsoft is only doing this because they want to look at those numbers. This is Slashdot, nobody's going to think any less of you for suggesting MS (sorry, "M$") wants to spy on you and your data like it was Google.
But I wasn't meaning to suggest that. Microsoft are far more toward the Apple side of the equation than the Google side. They really only want to look at your data to 1) Sell you more of their own products and 2) Make their products better.
Easy answer...It is HARD. OCR has been around for years but even today it is hit or miss except for the most sophisticated systems.
I'm curious how well it translates on a mobile device. I've used OCR on PDF and Word documents that were just images and even when the text was perfectly legible it had a hard time getting the letters right and the formatting was always all over the place.
Pretty sure the OCR will not be done on your device, but elsewhere.
The audience score is the only aspect of Rotten Tomatoes I find to be of value. The scores from movie critics just don't seem to have a strong relationship with whether or not I'm going to enjoy a movie. Actually, maybe that's not quite correct. It does sometimes seem like a movie with a very low critics score and a high audience score is usually great. So there may be a strong inverse relationship.
Do you read any of the reviews? Who cares whether a reviewer of any type liked or disliked a movie, what matters is why.
Can you imagine a world where you had to actually have some first-hand knowledge of something before you could express an opinion?
Me neither.
No, and this will not fix that, since there will still be audience reviews once the movie is released. We cannot devalue social media's weight in society fast enough.
Honestly, most people outside of comics fans didn't know who Iron Man was either prior to his movie. He was considered a minor hero that Marvel was trotting out to test the waters for a big movie release. They expected Iron Man to barely make a profit and just act as set up for future blockbusters. Instead, it was a huge success and now Tony Stark is a household name.
It is a decent comparison. Guardians of the Galaxy were an even less known property and have become huge due to the films. I think that's a better comparison. Iron Man at least had his own cartoon in the 90s.
With the companies following these fads, we had a lot of good games genres die out.
1. Single player Adventure Games, these were once games with state of the art graphics and sound, it made progressing to the next screen and area a real joy, you weren't playing against people, or having to keep your twitch reflex on maximum all the time. You get into a place, you then can take your time explore the area find as many hints as your can. The 2016 new Kings Quest while not getting big reviews, I found was a decent attempt of a modern version of the adventure game, however could had been much better with more budget and planning. (There was a trend in it, to make some puzzles, actual puzzles, and not organic part of the game environment)
I haven't played them but it seems like DoubleFine had been attempting to keep that tradition alive. I really used to love the KQ series, all the way back to the first. I miss them, too and I agree that it seems to be really difficult to make these kinds of games profitable recently.
2. Platform Games. Sometimes we don't need to use all the buttons on our controller. No story to figure out, no moral ambiguities, you are the hero, everyone else is the bad guy.
If you like the Metroid/Castelevania format ("Metroidvania") this is the best time to be alive. Cave Story, Steamworld Dig 1&2, Ori and the Blind Forest, Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight, Axiom Verge... there are tons. Just tons. Really, it's not just MVs, either, there are a lot of really popular variations on platformers right now.
3. Strategy Games. No rush, take your time, come up with a plan.
Also lots of options. Civ, XCom... countless 4X games, also deep stats heavy turn based games like Hearts of Iron. Only Real Time Strategy has been on the decline the last decade or so.
4. Building Simulators, no plot just keep of building and simulating
Sure they are Indy games like this, and on the mobile market they have more options. But most of the big name games are nearly all the same. It isn't that we have lost our ability to pay attention to a game, but the fact after playing a few of these types of games, there isn't much we want to pay attention too.
Minecraft? Um... there are a fair number of sandbox type games, Space Engineers et al. I'm curious what earlier examples of the genre you have in mind
Fortnite, is one of those quick to play games with a combination of many genres. You Win, then you Win, if not then you play again.
Is anybody here really looking for a new social media site to join?
Sure. I would like a SM site that provides a simple forum for group discussions with friends, families, and interest groups, without all the noise and distractions.
But Minds.com doesn't sound like that. Their point system encourages "activity" (quantity over quality) including reposts, voting, sharing links, etc. The very things that have turned Facebook into a cesspool. There will soon be bots auto-posting crap to build up points.
It looks like they used Facebook as a baseline, and figured out a way to make it worse.
Maybe go back to blogs or host your own forum/photo album site?
For just about anybody else, I'd agree with you... For Adobe, though, it kinda makes sense.
Adobe's cash cow is the media industry, and one of their biggest performance bottlenecks is video rendering. While not a particularly large market, having a premium hardware product that improves rendering speed is worth quite a lot of money to certain companies. I expect that's what Adobe is looking to capture with this push, with a model that would look very similar to how Bitcoin miners operated: Plug in an ASIC as a coprocessor, and it will handle the application workload.
I think their goal is rather to provide cloud rendering services, at which point their custom hardware makes more sense.
Bruce Schneier's analysis was that "it's an example of two systems without a security vulnerability coming together to create a security vulnerability."
I respect Bruce a lot, and I think from a practical standpoint, Gmail (Google) absolutely should make those dot-aliases opt-in. But this is still 100% Netflix's problem to solve. The problem would exist if Gmail did not allow the dot aliases, you would just need to find some other predictable pattern of email aliases (like a large organization where everybody is granted both @longcompanydomain.com and @shortcompanydomain.com email addresses).
Stop and think. If your service will be sending payment related emails to people, why would you not verify the address first? The only thing I can think of is they know this is a problem but they get more money by reducing all possible barriers to entry, and the scams are considered a cost of doing business--a cost that some of their customers pay.
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When you look at the least biased, most reliable source of news and analysis they tend to be the ones that are not dependent on getting views - the BBC, and agencies like Reuters and AFP.
Government funded news is going to favor government that funds news. NPR is a shining example. Yes, I love NPR, but they even acknowledge that their listenership skews Democratic, and their coverage reflects that.
So some kids found a creative workaround for communicating during class? And that qualifies as the "hottest chat app for teens," does it?
Release another good windows. Worked wonders with windows XP.
I like Windows 10 more than Windows 7.
Many years ago I went to what is now a top 5 university for college and followed it up by going to what is now a top 10 university for graduate school.
I can tell you the difference in education between the two was totally shocking. After what I did as an undergrad, getting a PhD at the lower ranked school was more about just spending the time to check all the boxes than any real work.
So I know there is a tremendous difference between just the top few schools. I can easily believe that after you get out of the top 10 or 20 universities, the differences are minimal, but at the top, even just a few spots in the rankings indicates a huge difference in quality of education.
Perhaps your sample size (two universities) was not adequate to draw meaningful conclusions.
At least this has the benefit of providing others a place to learn. I have no problem giving some asshat kid a free admission if he is allowing 500 other people to get an education on his dime at the same time.
No, it has the benefit of additional maintenance and upkeep in perpetuity.
The thing that gets people, is the commercials show them using Alexia to do all sorts of cool stuff, only to realize you need to spend $50 for a smart power socket or light switch, $20 for a smart bulb
If Alexa could to this without specialized sockets and plugs, then she would be Skynet.
The question you might ask is: what would do the FAA if the "problem" was affecting the Airbus fleet?
No, the question is, What is the safest response for this model of aircraft, in this situation? And perhaps that is grounding and perhaps it is not. Otherwise you are implying you are satisfied as long as the FAA responds to potential Airbus incidents in an equally unsafe manner (again assuming inaction is less safe than grounding).
Moreover, we must remember the 777. It suffered multiple near-disasters with battery packs in flames in the first few flights. This would suggest poor testing procedures.
Your post is insightful, but I believe here you are thinking of the 787.
man i wish slidden was a real word
Sigh. I was going to make a "cromulent" joke but I'm too disappointed in myself. I'll try to scrub it from my brain.
...to tell you that if you spend a quarter of a second contemplating your navel while waiting for packets, you are likely to have a rocket shot up your ass.
I think we can all agree that players running at four frames-per-second are at a disadvantage.
All the bad press about Facebook might be catching up to the company.
Maybe it is that the attention spans of those 12-34 year olds have slidden even farther. Or maybe it's just that the platform was due to start declining anyway as people, finally, start to understand how advertising-based business models and OSINT work.
The study also accounts for hours played per week. Non-serious gamers ( 5 hours a week) had an edge too.
Are they non-serious gamers or are they non-serious about that particular game?
Most folks steam their music.
Yes, we call them "steamed jams." It's an Albany expression.
> Pretty sure the OCR will not be done on your device, but elsewhere.
C'mon, just say it already. Microsoft is only doing this because they want to look at those numbers. This is Slashdot, nobody's going to think any less of you for suggesting MS (sorry, "M$") wants to spy on you and your data like it was Google.
But I wasn't meaning to suggest that. Microsoft are far more toward the Apple side of the equation than the Google side. They really only want to look at your data to 1) Sell you more of their own products and 2) Make their products better.
Easy answer...It is HARD. OCR has been around for years but even today it is hit or miss except for the most sophisticated systems. I'm curious how well it translates on a mobile device. I've used OCR on PDF and Word documents that were just images and even when the text was perfectly legible it had a hard time getting the letters right and the formatting was always all over the place.
Pretty sure the OCR will not be done on your device, but elsewhere.
The audience score is the only aspect of Rotten Tomatoes I find to be of value. The scores from movie critics just don't seem to have a strong relationship with whether or not I'm going to enjoy a movie. Actually, maybe that's not quite correct. It does sometimes seem like a movie with a very low critics score and a high audience score is usually great. So there may be a strong inverse relationship.
Do you read any of the reviews? Who cares whether a reviewer of any type liked or disliked a movie, what matters is why.
Can you imagine a world where you had to actually have some first-hand knowledge of something before you could express an opinion?
Me neither.
No, and this will not fix that, since there will still be audience reviews once the movie is released. We cannot devalue social media's weight in society fast enough.
If I were him, I'd be more careful what I post on Twitter. In fact, I wouldn't post to Twitter at all. There, problem solved.
Hush you. He posts a lot of really interesting stuff about Spacex. Way more interesting than anything to do with Tesla.
Honestly, most people outside of comics fans didn't know who Iron Man was either prior to his movie. He was considered a minor hero that Marvel was trotting out to test the waters for a big movie release. They expected Iron Man to barely make a profit and just act as set up for future blockbusters. Instead, it was a huge success and now Tony Stark is a household name.
It is a decent comparison. Guardians of the Galaxy were an even less known property and have become huge due to the films. I think that's a better comparison. Iron Man at least had his own cartoon in the 90s.
With the companies following these fads, we had a lot of good games genres die out. 1. Single player Adventure Games, these were once games with state of the art graphics and sound, it made progressing to the next screen and area a real joy, you weren't playing against people, or having to keep your twitch reflex on maximum all the time. You get into a place, you then can take your time explore the area find as many hints as your can. The 2016 new Kings Quest while not getting big reviews, I found was a decent attempt of a modern version of the adventure game, however could had been much better with more budget and planning. (There was a trend in it, to make some puzzles, actual puzzles, and not organic part of the game environment)
I haven't played them but it seems like DoubleFine had been attempting to keep that tradition alive. I really used to love the KQ series, all the way back to the first. I miss them, too and I agree that it seems to be really difficult to make these kinds of games profitable recently.
2. Platform Games. Sometimes we don't need to use all the buttons on our controller. No story to figure out, no moral ambiguities, you are the hero, everyone else is the bad guy.
If you like the Metroid/Castelevania format ("Metroidvania") this is the best time to be alive. Cave Story, Steamworld Dig 1&2, Ori and the Blind Forest, Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight, Axiom Verge... there are tons. Just tons. Really, it's not just MVs, either, there are a lot of really popular variations on platformers right now.
3. Strategy Games. No rush, take your time, come up with a plan.
Also lots of options. Civ, XCom... countless 4X games, also deep stats heavy turn based games like Hearts of Iron. Only Real Time Strategy has been on the decline the last decade or so.
4. Building Simulators, no plot just keep of building and simulating
Sure they are Indy games like this, and on the mobile market they have more options. But most of the big name games are nearly all the same. It isn't that we have lost our ability to pay attention to a game, but the fact after playing a few of these types of games, there isn't much we want to pay attention too.
Minecraft? Um... there are a fair number of sandbox type games, Space Engineers et al. I'm curious what earlier examples of the genre you have in mind
Fortnite, is one of those quick to play games with a combination of many genres. You Win, then you Win, if not then you play again.
Is anybody here really looking for a new social media site to join?
Sure. I would like a SM site that provides a simple forum for group discussions with friends, families, and interest groups, without all the noise and distractions.
But Minds.com doesn't sound like that. Their point system encourages "activity" (quantity over quality) including reposts, voting, sharing links, etc. The very things that have turned Facebook into a cesspool. There will soon be bots auto-posting crap to build up points.
It looks like they used Facebook as a baseline, and figured out a way to make it worse.
Maybe go back to blogs or host your own forum/photo album site?
Is anybody here really looking for a new social media site to join, or are they more likely looking for ways to cut it out of their lives?
Also, don't rule out good, old-fashioned conspicuous consumption as a contributor to the proliferation of premium phones.
For just about anybody else, I'd agree with you... For Adobe, though, it kinda makes sense.
Adobe's cash cow is the media industry, and one of their biggest performance bottlenecks is video rendering. While not a particularly large market, having a premium hardware product that improves rendering speed is worth quite a lot of money to certain companies. I expect that's what Adobe is looking to capture with this push, with a model that would look very similar to how Bitcoin miners operated: Plug in an ASIC as a coprocessor, and it will handle the application workload.
I think their goal is rather to provide cloud rendering services, at which point their custom hardware makes more sense.
He never explained why email verification upfront would fail to solve the issue. I still believe it is a problem of the sites or services in question.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/...
Bruce Schneier's analysis was that "it's an example of two systems without a security vulnerability coming together to create a security vulnerability."
I respect Bruce a lot, and I think from a practical standpoint, Gmail (Google) absolutely should make those dot-aliases opt-in. But this is still 100% Netflix's problem to solve. The problem would exist if Gmail did not allow the dot aliases, you would just need to find some other predictable pattern of email aliases (like a large organization where everybody is granted both @longcompanydomain.com and @shortcompanydomain.com email addresses).
Stop and think. If your service will be sending payment related emails to people, why would you not verify the address first? The only thing I can think of is they know this is a problem but they get more money by reducing all possible barriers to entry, and the scams are considered a cost of doing business--a cost that some of their customers pay.