What? I clearly remember the time before Google where you couldn't google anything. Back in those days, you could not access a site unless one of your friends had told you the URL. Or find it in that directory, what was it called, it had this funny name, like a joyish yell? Yihaa?
True enough. There were "Internet search" sites, but they all totally sucked. Google completely changed the way we look at the internet by producing a search engine that provided accurate, relevant, fast results in a clean, usable interface. Because of Google, URLs are all but irrelevant to most internet users. Need to find Apple innovations? Google "Apple innovations". Information about cabbage? Google "cabbage".
Hey, 1994 called, and they want their objections to apple back. "using the trash can to eject"? seriously?
Yes it's an obsolete issue, but it's mind-bogglingly non-intuitive.
Many people who understand how things work are baffled by some current Apple UI choices. Not that this means Apple's choices are wrong; they're just not intuitive to everybody.
Apple products aren't right for everyone. That's all.
Indeed. Using questions that insinuate answers, the summary attacks: 1 the TSA 2 the senator's educational credentials 3 The credibility of any lab that would run the study
One might ask: Is OverTheGeicoE qualified to write the summary for this subject?
Most significant comment I've seen so far. I'm happy to do without 3D TV. I'm not happy with the idea of buying a TV with a higher refresh rate to eliminate this annoying effect.
Hopefully the industry will settle on 60fps, instead of forcing yet another round up TV purchases.
Or... frightful thought.... is this another standards war brewing, in the style of Blu-ray versus HD-DVD? Where are the content producers other than Peter Jackson on this issue?
Uh-huh.... Thus demonstrating that it's still impossible to reconcile Episode IV with Episode V and all the crap that followed without rewriting Episode V. And, of course, all the other crap that followed.
... Don't-Be-Evil Google tries to pretend that OSM doesn't exist and pushes Android handset makers to include Google Maps instead of an OSM app (in spite of the fact OSM has more detailed maps everywhere I've tested them) and does not share any of their mapping data - including user-provided data - with the community.
1. Is there evidence that any handset makers wanted to use an OSM app, but Google prevented them from loading the OSM map? I noticed that my handset came preloaded with Google Maps and a third-party GPS app. 2. Users are free to provide their own map data to OSM. Is the problem that Google doesn't accept user data under a license that would allow Google to freely redistribute the data?
No, the bean counter understands how much he paid someone to do the job. The manager also paid, but has no idea how much and walks away thinking he got it for free.
I imagine there are several possiblities including the following:
1. Microsoft really has some defensible patents that are essential for these device manufacturers. Could be hardware-related or software-related. It's hard to tell, but so far the agreements have all been with hardware companies, haven't they? 2. Microsoft is offering reasonable licensing terms to the device makers, so the licensing agreement costs significantly less than the cost of litigating. 3. Microsoft may be using these negotiations to advance their Windows Phone OS goals, along with #2. 4. The manufacturers entering these agreements don't already have agreements with Microsoft, but actually want to do business with Microsoft in the mobile device or other areas (personal computers, TVs, etc.) 5. These manufacturers don't have the patent resources to play hardball. 6. Some combination of the above.
Musicians learn to avoid building up muscle tension, both in the muscles they use, and sympathetic tension in the muscles they aren't using. They learn to keep good posture, keep their wrists relatively straight, to breathe properly and so forth, and these skills get passed down to new musicians.
Musicians also learn to take breaks, not to play too long at a time, or (as frequently happens) they end up with injuries that are destructive to their musical careers. They cannot play all day without hurting themselves, regardless of how awesome their form, posture, and breathing is.
Touchscreens are awesome, and they are the future of a lot of human-computer interaction. They're simply not a substitute for a real keyboard, or a properly arranged physical workspace.
All our definitions are oriented around our oxygen-based atmosphere.
FTFY.
FTFY. One would not call a bottle of hydrochloric acid "water" merely because water is the largest by mass component.
Quite right. One would instead call a bottle of a hydrochloric acid solution "water-based" because water is the solvent, and also probably the largest component by number of molecules, mass, and volume.
Apparently, Google currently can't index Twitter's own real-time activity due to lack of an agreement, and now Twitter is incensed that Google has the audacity to index Google's own real-time activity. Outrageous!
The reason for limiting the ESR version as much as they propose is almost certainly resource (people) limitations.
By the way, insults to the actual developers who work on code for software that you evidently like (or presumably you just wouldn't care about this issue), only discourage those developers from being interested in your opinion.
So? That merely shows that Stradivarius violins really aren't specially wonderful sounding and throws into question their actual worth in terms of performing value. It says nothing about whether they can examine the thing and identify that it is indeed a Stradivarius as opposed to one made by some other guy.
No, it shows that there are some amazing newly-made instruments, (some of which are designed to be functional replicas of famous instruments).
The value of a genuine great Strad is ridiculously high because it is a very old, possibly historically interesting, amazing instrument.
Anonymous Coward is correct. Regardless of this particular incident, there at least two good reasons why it is bad for people to use their phones while driving: Phone use while driving slows down traffic, and drivers using their phones are more likely to be in an accident.
My read is that the drama of this incident gave the NTSB the opportunity to make a recommendation that would otherwise risk political repercussions from the 10,000-text-message-per-month set.
I think much of the outrage is due to the presumption that the content was asserted to be infringing by the judgement of an actual person working for Universal. If Universal has an automated system producing false positives, I suspect it would be much more understandable to the average Slashdotter.
The other side of this is, If Tech News Today only published through their own web site, they wouldn't have the problem of automated content takedowns due to copyright assertions. If you publish on YouTube, you have to live with the eccentricities of YouTube's automated systems, whether or not they are always fair to you.
This is an informative thread. Some Slashdotters have collected interesting data about posting behaviour. I haven't seen anything that strongly suggests a link to someone being paid for making a specific post on Slashdot, but I'd be surprised if Slashdot "crowdsourcing" wasn't an undocumented part of the expected job of various companies' employees.
In any case, I'm convinced that there's a number of Slashdotters who post from various accounts. It's not really surprising, but neither is the insistence that more evidence is needed to provie it by alleged multiSlashers. (Ah, look, I coined a dorky new term. Yay, me!)
I can understand why someone might be a multiSlasher, even without pay. This seems like a potentially effective means of increasing the mod points on posts you want more highly visible.
It may be this behaviour is inevitable in a large forum of this type. But it does seem a bit pathetic.
Aren't fracking companies still exempt from this kind of disclosure under the Energy Policy Act of 2005? In other words, isn't any disclosure by the fracking companies purely voluntary, since the state legislation is rendered moot by the federal legislation?
I know there are several states passing legislation like Colorado's, but if I understand correctly, the legislation seems to be basically for show, since the states are really powerless to enforce disclosure of their flacking fluids.
"Envirowhack" - person who goes along with the consensus reality because they can't think for themselves and have to feel guilty for taking a hot bath or washing their clothes.
Congratulations. This post looks like a demonstration of qualification to work for a Rupert Murdoch media outlet.
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What? I clearly remember the time before Google where you couldn't google anything. Back in those days, you could not access a site unless one of your friends had told you the URL. Or find it in that directory, what was it called, it had this funny name, like a joyish yell? Yihaa?
True enough. There were "Internet search" sites, but they all totally sucked. Google completely changed the way we look at the internet by producing a search engine that provided accurate, relevant, fast results in a clean, usable interface. Because of Google, URLs are all but irrelevant to most internet users. Need to find Apple innovations? Google "Apple innovations". Information about cabbage? Google "cabbage".
Hey, 1994 called, and they want their objections to apple back. "using the trash can to eject"? seriously?
Yes it's an obsolete issue, but it's mind-bogglingly non-intuitive.
Many people who understand how things work are baffled by some current Apple UI choices. Not that this means Apple's choices are wrong; they're just not intuitive to everybody.
Apple products aren't right for everyone. That's all.
Deep down inside they are suing because they don't like Gingrich. Just my guess though.
Certainly. If the composer liked Gingrich, he would have simply granted Gingrich permission to use the song for free under certain circumstances.
As it is, the composer probably thinks Gingrich is a hypocritical blowhard who is illegally reaping the benefit of someone else's labor.
Indeed. Using questions that insinuate answers, the summary attacks:
1 the TSA
2 the senator's educational credentials
3 The credibility of any lab that would run the study
One might ask: Is OverTheGeicoE qualified to write the summary for this subject?
Not a system memory issue, I'm pretty sure, I think. My 4GB RHEL 6.2 laptop's GNOME session crashed while Firefox tried to load the image.
I wouldn't be surprise if it were partly due to my ancient Firefox (3.6.24), but crashing GNOME isn't Firefox's fault.
Oh.... So the photograph should enjoy patent protection, rather than copyright?
Most significant comment I've seen so far. I'm happy to do without 3D TV. I'm not happy with the idea of buying a TV with a higher refresh rate to eliminate this annoying effect.
Hopefully the industry will settle on 60fps, instead of forcing yet another round up TV purchases.
Or... frightful thought.... is this another standards war brewing, in the style of Blu-ray versus HD-DVD? Where are the content producers other than Peter Jackson on this issue?
Uh-huh.... Thus demonstrating that it's still impossible to reconcile Episode IV with Episode V and all the crap that followed without rewriting Episode V. And, of course, all the other crap that followed.
Or, we could just turn our attention to a prequel that's not doomed to utterly suck.
... Don't-Be-Evil Google tries to pretend that OSM doesn't exist and pushes Android handset makers to include Google Maps instead of an OSM app (in spite of the fact OSM has more detailed maps everywhere I've tested them) and does not share any of their mapping data - including user-provided data - with the community.
1. Is there evidence that any handset makers wanted to use an OSM app, but Google prevented them from loading the OSM map? I noticed that my handset came preloaded with Google Maps and a third-party GPS app.
2. Users are free to provide their own map data to OSM. Is the problem that Google doesn't accept user data under a license that would allow Google to freely redistribute the data?
No, the bean counter understands how much he paid someone to do the job. The manager also paid, but has no idea how much and walks away thinking he got it for free.
I imagine there are several possiblities including the following:
1. Microsoft really has some defensible patents that are essential for these device manufacturers. Could be hardware-related or software-related. It's hard to tell, but so far the agreements have all been with hardware companies, haven't they?
2. Microsoft is offering reasonable licensing terms to the device makers, so the licensing agreement costs significantly less than the cost of litigating.
3. Microsoft may be using these negotiations to advance their Windows Phone OS goals, along with #2.
4. The manufacturers entering these agreements don't already have agreements with Microsoft, but actually want to do business with Microsoft in the mobile device or other areas (personal computers, TVs, etc.)
5. These manufacturers don't have the patent resources to play hardball.
6. Some combination of the above.
Musicians learn to avoid building up muscle tension, both in the muscles they use, and sympathetic tension in the muscles they aren't using. They learn to keep good posture, keep their wrists relatively straight, to breathe properly and so forth, and these skills get passed down to new musicians.
Musicians also learn to take breaks, not to play too long at a time, or (as frequently happens) they end up with injuries that are destructive to their musical careers. They cannot play all day without hurting themselves, regardless of how awesome their form, posture, and breathing is.
Touchscreens are awesome, and they are the future of a lot of human-computer interaction. They're simply not a substitute for a real keyboard, or a properly arranged physical workspace.
Umm.... so, your point is that you agree with the parent's advice to prevent the issues from becoming a major health problem.... Got it.
All our definitions are oriented around our oxygen-based atmosphere.
FTFY.
FTFY. One would not call a bottle of hydrochloric acid "water" merely because water is the largest by mass component.
Quite right. One would instead call a bottle of a hydrochloric acid solution "water-based" because water is the solvent, and also probably the largest component by number of molecules, mass, and volume.
If I recall correctly, Google no longer provides search of Twitter posts due to Twitter's deal to support Google's real-time search expired (presumably because Google didn't want to pay as much as Twitter wanted.)
Apparently, Google currently can't index Twitter's own real-time activity due to lack of an agreement, and now Twitter is incensed that Google has the audacity to index Google's own real-time activity. Outrageous!
The reason for limiting the ESR version as much as they propose is almost certainly resource (people) limitations.
By the way, insults to the actual developers who work on code for software that you evidently like (or presumably you just wouldn't care about this issue), only discourage those developers from being interested in your opinion.
So? That merely shows that Stradivarius violins really aren't specially wonderful sounding and throws into question their actual worth in terms of performing value. It says nothing about whether they can examine the thing and identify that it is indeed a Stradivarius as opposed to one made by some other guy.
No, it shows that there are some amazing newly-made instruments, (some of which are designed to be functional replicas of famous instruments).
The value of a genuine great Strad is ridiculously high because it is a very old, possibly historically interesting, amazing instrument.
"As much as a firearm".... Are firearms expensive? I mean, compared to a nearly ubiquitous children's plaything like a Nintendo 3DS?
Anonymous Coward is correct. Regardless of this particular incident, there at least two good reasons why it is bad for people to use their phones while driving: Phone use while driving slows down traffic, and drivers using their phones are more likely to be in an accident.
My read is that the drama of this incident gave the NTSB the opportunity to make a recommendation that would otherwise risk political repercussions from the 10,000-text-message-per-month set.
Texan #1: But you left the windows open! What's the point of locking the door?
Texan #2: Well, it keeps the Aggies out.
(I know., I shouldn't have.... My apologies to the fine folks from College Station)
I think much of the outrage is due to the presumption that the content was asserted to be infringing by the judgement of an actual person working for Universal. If Universal has an automated system producing false positives, I suspect it would be much more understandable to the average Slashdotter.
The other side of this is, If Tech News Today only published through their own web site, they wouldn't have the problem of automated content takedowns due to copyright assertions. If you publish on YouTube, you have to live with the eccentricities of YouTube's automated systems, whether or not they are always fair to you.
This is an informative thread. Some Slashdotters have collected interesting data about posting behaviour. I haven't seen anything that strongly suggests a link to someone being paid for making a specific post on Slashdot, but I'd be surprised if Slashdot "crowdsourcing" wasn't an undocumented part of the expected job of various companies' employees.
In any case, I'm convinced that there's a number of Slashdotters who post from various accounts. It's not really surprising, but neither is the insistence that more evidence is needed to provie it by alleged multiSlashers. (Ah, look, I coined a dorky new term. Yay, me!)
I can understand why someone might be a multiSlasher, even without pay. This seems like a potentially effective means of increasing the mod points on posts you want more highly visible.
It may be this behaviour is inevitable in a large forum of this type. But it does seem a bit pathetic.
Aren't fracking companies still exempt from this kind of disclosure under the Energy Policy Act of 2005? In other words, isn't any disclosure by the fracking companies purely voluntary, since the state legislation is rendered moot by the federal legislation?
I know there are several states passing legislation like Colorado's, but if I understand correctly, the legislation seems to be basically for show, since the states are really powerless to enforce disclosure of their flacking fluids.
"Envirowhack" - person who goes along with the consensus reality because they can't think for themselves and have to feel guilty for taking a hot bath or washing their clothes.
Congratulations. This post looks like a demonstration of qualification to work for a Rupert Murdoch media outlet.