We already did. Seemed to work out okay. Not saying we should do it to the extent you describe, but surely there's some room in there to make the whole thing suck less. People don't use services that are bad, and lots of people are using Uber, Lyft et al. There must be a middle ground between cab cartel protectionism and the the fly-by-night-itude of these services.
I'm kind of sad to see these devices fall off the market, though I can't say I didn't see it coming. They closed their "Sony Reader Store" for ebooks on the 20th of March, and sent another email detailing how to switch to Kobo. I've had a PRS-T1 for years now, and I love it. It's got a super nice feature where you could long-press a word you don't know and it would show you its meaning on its internal dictionary, or you could try searching google and wikipedia for it (if you were connected to wifi). It's so handy that when I switch back to regular books after a couple sessions with my ereader, I find myself trying to look up words in regular books by putting my finger on them. With the wifi off (or set to standby), the device supposedly will go for a month of regular (read: three or four hours daily) use. Never tested it, but boy it was nice, especially in an era of charge-nightly smartphones.
By far the best feature was that my PRS-T1 seems to be perfectly sized for my hand. I can hold it in my left hand and swipe the screen (to change pages) with my thumb, comfortably. Combined with the fact that it only weighs a couple of ounces, and it's actually possible to do extremely comfortable one-handed reading. I should go plug in the thing. And find more books for it. And read more.
You must not drive in California. Here in California, the first lane on the eight-lane freeway to come to a complete stop always seems to be the one second from the leftmost. After a few harrowing complete stops from the speed of the flow of traffic (approximately 55 MPH), I've decided it's simply not worth the trouble.
Keep in mind, when this happens all the other lanes are still happily percolating along. Even if it never slows down badly or comes to a halt, it always seems to run slower than the other three lanes. My hypothesis is that it tends to chug along so poorly because of all the arrogant California drivers diving in and out of it from the left lane (to get to an exit only 1/4 of a mile away) and from the number three lane (gotta go fast!). With the huge amount of car exchange, cars that are already in the number two lane have to create space cushions (remember, in California what other drivers call a space cushion, Californian drivers call "a space to change lanes into").
Why aren't they worth a poll? Awareness and support of NASA in the U.S. is low. Anything that NASA can do to raise awareness about themselves to the public is a Good Thing. You remember Mohawk Guy? His stupid hairdo brought a brief surge of positive public relations to NASA by way of meme. If NASA can get this (yes, silly) poll into the internet and circulating for a few weeks, they'll have gained positive PR.
Besides, this actually makes the public feel like they're involved with NASA. Directly. Even if they're not affecting anything truly material, it's a definite step up from being several dozen steps removed from influencing NASA. If NASA can increase support for themselves in the public, maybe that public will be a little more inclined to vote for candidates who support space missions.
It's all a game of perceptions. I hope NASA succeeds.
Very much this book. I personally believe that this book should be on every high school econ (and or gov't) class reading list. Comprehending this book will make you a better citizen, whatever your personal beliefs.
Steam boxes are just prebuilt PCs running the not yet released, but promised to be "free" SteamOS. The same page says it can be licensed to companies too, so I can't speak to exactly how gratis it is.
It seems the only real source of information is Valve's Living Room page and subpages, but this techradar article digests it pretty well.
On the contrary, Valve is doing approximately the same thing.
A painfully apparent fact to indie game devs is that Steam is a walled garden (as exemplified by the Not On Steam Sale). You have to get Valve's approval to get a game on Steam, which means it can't be crap "me-too shovelware" in the first place. In fact, the Greenlight program has already seen some backlash because some devs put their stuff on Greenlight, it got approved, and then it turned out they couldn't deliver what they were promising. Gamers hate that.
Furthermore, indie games on steam are generally very cheaply priced (to the point where Valve's cut of the proceeds is almost painful for some indie studios). And then there's the sales. The unending sales.
Lockdown is still a feature. It's just cheaper for the customers now, and we've a bit of say what gets put on Steam. Personally I'm happy with it, but there are plenty of indie devs who have a love/hate relationship with Steam.
As someone who's been in the fandom since the beginning, I can tell you that most "bronies" (including myself) watch it with complete sincerity. The fact that so many young adults watch the show might be memetic in itself, but actual enjoyment of it requires actually enjoying it for what it is. Colorful pastel catfaced quadrepeds that are pure of intention and completely genuine. There's almost zero parental bonus, and that's okay.
It's like watching Road Runner cartoons. There is nothing below the surface, only a purity of intention translated to onscreen slapstick.
Also, this cartoon. For reference, a "cutie mark" is an outward symbol of a pony's "special talent", i.e. job skills. Ponies literally wear their resumes on their flanks. They don't limit activity (and they're open to interpretation) but they're good indicators.
Very much this. People who complain that this or that news story isn't "news for nerds" are forgetting that the "nerds" who read Slashdot often provide more insightful commentary than any other group of private citizen commentators, and certainly more insight than what the majority of the 24 hour news-cycle organizations. Furthermore, because Slashdot has global readership we get commentary from people outside the United States. I love reading slashdot comments for the same reasons I like listening to the BBC on the radio on my local public radio station (KQED), because I hear fresh viewpoints that originate not in this country.
Slashdot's readership is one of the largest college educated and tech focused groups out there. It's clear to me that the people who read these terrible story summaries and comment here are frightfully smart, and it would be a terrible waste not to capitalize on the group intelligence present here whenever possible.
No, I'm not talking about the irritating tween idiots. I'm talking about the artists. For every groupthink mob of self-entitled screaming idiots shouting their misinformed opinions at the top of their tiny little lungs, there's an artist taking advantage of the dead simple microblogging platform.
Tumblr is the home of the Drawblog (contains art), the Ask (ask a character questions, receive drawn responses) blog, and the art compilation blog. To my knowledge, none of these things substantially exist outside of tumblr. Sure, I could follow an "art appreciation" group on facebook, but because facebook doesn't deliver stuff to me in anything resembling chronological order it's largely useless to me.
I am worried. Legitimately worried that Yahoo is gonna screw up Tumblr.
Citation provided. There was even a Slashdot article about it. In 2010 the McFarthest Spot in the contiguous 48 United States was a patch of Nevada dirt some 115 miles from the nearest McDonald's. Doubtless this has changed since then, but I can't find anything more recent.
The second is that it is shocking how many people still don't understand they have an option (or have believed the FUD that it is some horribly demeaning and invasive process). By staying in the public space you help educate those that don't know.
You don't get it, do you? It is a horribly demeaning and invasive process. I've had the patdown before (only once so far, I've been able to avoid it and the scanners since). Even though the agent who did the patdown was extremely courteous and detailed exactly what each step was before he did it, I still felt invaded and demeaned. I have nothing against the man, he was very professional about it. I felt weird and violated for the rest of the day. As Sonic says, "That's no good!"
If you're gonna opt for the patdown, wear shorts if you can. They don't have to pat down your legs if they're bare.
Does this mean google is going to stop trying to get me to change my youtube username to my "real" name? I swear, I've told google to take a flying leap about it five times already. I'm getting hot under the collar just thinking about it.
The submission quotes from the wired article, specifically the first and third paragraphs. It's not kosher to delete words from direct quotes just because they're "hype", and might even be improper in this case (because the phrasing comes from the wired article and conveys how the writer of the article feels about the device, which gives important information for the reader). Of course, that doesn't mean a clever editor could jump in anyways with ellipsis and such, but ellipsis are ugly and in this case the sentence is so short there would be no point.
For the record, omitting the second paragraph (which details pricing) from the submission and not indicating the omission with ellipsis or making it two separate quotes is bad editing.
(I'm not a "real" editor, I just have an interest in proper formatting. I may be getting something here wrong, and if I am please feel free to jump on my head and/or correct me.)
Folks will use the internet available to them, as dictated by their residence in European countries or elsewhere. They may "choose" their internet by moving to another country, and that's not a realistic solution. Your assertion that people have a choice between UN internet and "other" internet is false.
For me, adblocking is a quality of life necessity. I find any and all advertisements that I do not seek out to be irritating and distracting, and my usual response to them is an immediate visceral sense of "fuck you". I must adblock, or else I would go crazy. Any websites that I encounter that refuse to show me content without turning off adblock immediately go on my "never visit this place again" list. My frustration with ads in the in-game browser from the steam overlay led me learn about and begin using hosts files.
That said, there are two places I can think of off the top of the head where I do not mind advertising: Steam popup notices (which can be disabled with an account option at no cost) and movie theater previews (I don't watch television, so this is the only place I can find out about movies).
If adblock becomes illegal, I will become a criminal. For me, there's no other option.
Every time I use a keypad, touchscreen, or other computerized device outside of my own desktop or laptop, I use my longest finger as my pointing finger. This is a habit I picked up my father, who is a longtime computer engineer.
He and I both find that using the longest finger to control such devices is very cathartic.
Your point is incisive and thoroughly annoying to me and my worldview.
To answer as completely as I can: I do not wear a helmet all the time (for example, when walking or entering the bathtub) because I am not placing my safety in the hands of my fellow Americans when doing so. When the margin of safety is a foot and a half at best and there's nothing between me and the car passing me (like a curb would be were I pedestrian, or a grab bar in a tub) at speed differences of twenty or more miles per hour I would like to improve my chances of surviving being knocked off my bicycle cheaply and effectively.
No, my question is actually "Is spending $25-$50 for a marginal or even theoretical reduction in the chance of serious brain injury worthwhile considering the immense value I place on the spongy tissue behind my eyes?". It is rhetorical, because for me the answer is "yes".
I can't respond to number one quantitatively because I've literally never cycled without a helmet on, ever. All I know is that American drivers scare the bejesus out of me. I trust them enough to not clip me when they pass me in the bicycle lane when I stay in it and that's about it.
As for point number two I'll take your word on the studies (I can't be assed to dig anything up). I will still wear a helmet because I feel the additional protection is absolutely worthwhile.
By the by, I never suggested anywhere that I thought mandatory helmet laws for all was a good idea. I live in California where the helmet is legally required until age eighteen, and I can literally count the number of children on bicycles with helmets I've seen on two hands. I personally think you should wear one or not as it suits you. I was just explaining why I didn't understand why people would want to not protect their brains, their selves, their perception of who they are, and all the money ever spent by or for them.
I never understood people who don't wear helmets when cycling. It's the soundest investment advice ever. The way I see it, all of the money ever spent on or by me ever was invested into that spongy liquid soaked warm stuff between my ears. Every single tax dollar, every single Christmas present, even the money I gave to charity.
If I can reduce the chance of damage to literally the most valuable thing in my life by wearing a $25 helmet OF COURSE I'M GOING TO WEAR A HELMET DO YOU THINK I'M STUPID?
Yes, I'm going to become a legal vehicle driving on roads next to American drivers who zip past me at differences of twenty or thirty miles per hour with inches to spare and I'm not going to wear a helmet because I can't be bothered and/or it makes me "less cool"? I don't think so. Idiots.
Well, for one I simply don't use disguise kit and the build and destruct menus as much as I do my main weapons. I personally have no difficulty quickly hammering 4 and 5 for my build/destruct menus. You may be right about spy's knife, I absolutely never play the class and wouldn't know myself. I've rebound slot3 to "A" for easy reach, and I've never had any trouble getting out my melee weapon when I needed it, and I play no small amount of demoknight.
Ever since Valve added the automatic reload option, I've rebound R to serve as a voice menu shortcut. Hold down R, and then leftclick and rightclick become "yes" and "no" respectively. Scroll up becomes "positive" and scroll down becomes "negative". Release R, and controls are restored instantly.
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We already did. Seemed to work out okay.
Not saying we should do it to the extent you describe, but surely there's some room in there to make the whole thing suck less. People don't use services that are bad, and lots of people are using Uber, Lyft et al. There must be a middle ground between cab cartel protectionism and the the fly-by-night-itude of these services.
I'm kind of sad to see these devices fall off the market, though I can't say I didn't see it coming. They closed their "Sony Reader Store" for ebooks on the 20th of March, and sent another email detailing how to switch to Kobo. I've had a PRS-T1 for years now, and I love it. It's got a super nice feature where you could long-press a word you don't know and it would show you its meaning on its internal dictionary, or you could try searching google and wikipedia for it (if you were connected to wifi). It's so handy that when I switch back to regular books after a couple sessions with my ereader, I find myself trying to look up words in regular books by putting my finger on them. With the wifi off (or set to standby), the device supposedly will go for a month of regular (read: three or four hours daily) use. Never tested it, but boy it was nice, especially in an era of charge-nightly smartphones.
By far the best feature was that my PRS-T1 seems to be perfectly sized for my hand. I can hold it in my left hand and swipe the screen (to change pages) with my thumb, comfortably. Combined with the fact that it only weighs a couple of ounces, and it's actually possible to do extremely comfortable one-handed reading. I should go plug in the thing. And find more books for it. And read more.
Sigh.
You must not drive in California.
Here in California, the first lane on the eight-lane freeway to come to a complete stop always seems to be the one second from the leftmost. After a few harrowing complete stops from the speed of the flow of traffic (approximately 55 MPH), I've decided it's simply not worth the trouble.
Keep in mind, when this happens all the other lanes are still happily percolating along. Even if it never slows down badly or comes to a halt, it always seems to run slower than the other three lanes. My hypothesis is that it tends to chug along so poorly because of all the arrogant California drivers diving in and out of it from the left lane (to get to an exit only 1/4 of a mile away) and from the number three lane (gotta go fast!). With the huge amount of car exchange, cars that are already in the number two lane have to create space cushions (remember, in California what other drivers call a space cushion, Californian drivers call "a space to change lanes into").
I can see this as an excellent way to rid one's backyard of offending vermin.
Brings whole new meaning to the phrase "squirrel cage motor".
Why aren't they worth a poll? Awareness and support of NASA in the U.S. is low. Anything that NASA can do to raise awareness about themselves to the public is a Good Thing. You remember Mohawk Guy? His stupid hairdo brought a brief surge of positive public relations to NASA by way of meme. If NASA can get this (yes, silly) poll into the internet and circulating for a few weeks, they'll have gained positive PR.
Besides, this actually makes the public feel like they're involved with NASA. Directly. Even if they're not affecting anything truly material, it's a definite step up from being several dozen steps removed from influencing NASA. If NASA can increase support for themselves in the public, maybe that public will be a little more inclined to vote for candidates who support space missions.
It's all a game of perceptions. I hope NASA succeeds.
Very much this book. I personally believe that this book should be on every high school econ (and or gov't) class reading list. Comprehending this book will make you a better citizen, whatever your personal beliefs.
Yes. And yes.
Steam boxes are just prebuilt PCs running the not yet released, but promised to be "free" SteamOS. The same page says it can be licensed to companies too, so I can't speak to exactly how gratis it is.
It seems the only real source of information is Valve's Living Room page and subpages, but this techradar article digests it pretty well.
Valve is doing the exact opposite.
On the contrary, Valve is doing approximately the same thing.
A painfully apparent fact to indie game devs is that Steam is a walled garden (as exemplified by the Not On Steam Sale). You have to get Valve's approval to get a game on Steam, which means it can't be crap "me-too shovelware" in the first place. In fact, the Greenlight program has already seen some backlash because some devs put their stuff on Greenlight, it got approved, and then it turned out they couldn't deliver what they were promising. Gamers hate that.
Furthermore, indie games on steam are generally very cheaply priced (to the point where Valve's cut of the proceeds is almost painful for some indie studios). And then there's the sales. The unending sales.
Lockdown is still a feature. It's just cheaper for the customers now, and we've a bit of say what gets put on Steam. Personally I'm happy with it, but there are plenty of indie devs who have a love/hate relationship with Steam.
As someone who's been in the fandom since the beginning, I can tell you that most "bronies" (including myself) watch it with complete sincerity. The fact that so many young adults watch the show might be memetic in itself, but actual enjoyment of it requires actually enjoying it for what it is. Colorful pastel catfaced quadrepeds that are pure of intention and completely genuine. There's almost zero parental bonus, and that's okay.
It's like watching Road Runner cartoons. There is nothing below the surface, only a purity of intention translated to onscreen slapstick.
Also, this cartoon. For reference, a "cutie mark" is an outward symbol of a pony's "special talent", i.e. job skills. Ponies literally wear their resumes on their flanks. They don't limit activity (and they're open to interpretation) but they're good indicators.
Very much this. People who complain that this or that news story isn't "news for nerds" are forgetting that the "nerds" who read Slashdot often provide more insightful commentary than any other group of private citizen commentators, and certainly more insight than what the majority of the 24 hour news-cycle organizations. Furthermore, because Slashdot has global readership we get commentary from people outside the United States. I love reading slashdot comments for the same reasons I like listening to the BBC on the radio on my local public radio station (KQED), because I hear fresh viewpoints that originate not in this country.
Slashdot's readership is one of the largest college educated and tech focused groups out there. It's clear to me that the people who read these terrible story summaries and comment here are frightfully smart, and it would be a terrible waste not to capitalize on the group intelligence present here whenever possible.
No, I'm not talking about the irritating tween idiots. I'm talking about the artists. For every groupthink mob of self-entitled screaming idiots shouting their misinformed opinions at the top of their tiny little lungs, there's an artist taking advantage of the dead simple microblogging platform.
Tumblr is the home of the Drawblog (contains art), the Ask (ask a character questions, receive drawn responses) blog, and the art compilation blog. To my knowledge, none of these things substantially exist outside of tumblr. Sure, I could follow an "art appreciation" group on facebook, but because facebook doesn't deliver stuff to me in anything resembling chronological order it's largely useless to me.
I am worried. Legitimately worried that Yahoo is gonna screw up Tumblr.
Citation provided. There was even a Slashdot article about it.
In 2010 the McFarthest Spot in the contiguous 48 United States was a patch of Nevada dirt some 115 miles from the nearest McDonald's. Doubtless this has changed since then, but I can't find anything more recent.
The second is that it is shocking how many people still don't understand they have an option (or have believed the FUD that it is some horribly demeaning and invasive process). By staying in the public space you help educate those that don't know.
You don't get it, do you? It is a horribly demeaning and invasive process. I've had the patdown before (only once so far, I've been able to avoid it and the scanners since). Even though the agent who did the patdown was extremely courteous and detailed exactly what each step was before he did it, I still felt invaded and demeaned. I have nothing against the man, he was very professional about it. I felt weird and violated for the rest of the day. As Sonic says, "That's no good!"
If you're gonna opt for the patdown, wear shorts if you can. They don't have to pat down your legs if they're bare.
Does this mean google is going to stop trying to get me to change my youtube username to my "real" name?
I swear, I've told google to take a flying leap about it five times already. I'm getting hot under the collar just thinking about it.
The submission quotes from the wired article, specifically the first and third paragraphs. It's not kosher to delete words from direct quotes just because they're "hype", and might even be improper in this case (because the phrasing comes from the wired article and conveys how the writer of the article feels about the device, which gives important information for the reader). Of course, that doesn't mean a clever editor could jump in anyways with ellipsis and such, but ellipsis are ugly and in this case the sentence is so short there would be no point.
For the record, omitting the second paragraph (which details pricing) from the submission and not indicating the omission with ellipsis or making it two separate quotes is bad editing.
(I'm not a "real" editor, I just have an interest in proper formatting. I may be getting something here wrong, and if I am please feel free to jump on my head and/or correct me.)
Folks will use the internet available to them, as dictated by their residence in European countries or elsewhere. They may "choose" their internet by moving to another country, and that's not a realistic solution. Your assertion that people have a choice between UN internet and "other" internet is false.
For me, adblocking is a quality of life necessity. I find any and all advertisements that I do not seek out to be irritating and distracting, and my usual response to them is an immediate visceral sense of "fuck you". I must adblock, or else I would go crazy. Any websites that I encounter that refuse to show me content without turning off adblock immediately go on my "never visit this place again" list. My frustration with ads in the in-game browser from the steam overlay led me learn about and begin using hosts files.
That said, there are two places I can think of off the top of the head where I do not mind advertising: Steam popup notices (which can be disabled with an account option at no cost) and movie theater previews (I don't watch television, so this is the only place I can find out about movies).
If adblock becomes illegal, I will become a criminal. For me, there's no other option.
Every time I use a keypad, touchscreen, or other computerized device outside of my own desktop or laptop, I use my longest finger as my pointing finger. This is a habit I picked up my father, who is a longtime computer engineer.
He and I both find that using the longest finger to control such devices is very cathartic.
Your point is incisive and thoroughly annoying to me and my worldview.
To answer as completely as I can:
I do not wear a helmet all the time (for example, when walking or entering the bathtub) because I am not placing my safety in the hands of my fellow Americans when doing so. When the margin of safety is a foot and a half at best and there's nothing between me and the car passing me (like a curb would be were I pedestrian, or a grab bar in a tub) at speed differences of twenty or more miles per hour I would like to improve my chances of surviving being knocked off my bicycle cheaply and effectively.
No, my question is actually "Is spending $25-$50 for a marginal or even theoretical reduction in the chance of serious brain injury worthwhile considering the immense value I place on the spongy tissue behind my eyes?". It is rhetorical, because for me the answer is "yes".
Please, I love science! Show me more science!
I can't respond to number one quantitatively because I've literally never cycled without a helmet on, ever. All I know is that American drivers scare the bejesus out of me. I trust them enough to not clip me when they pass me in the bicycle lane when I stay in it and that's about it.
As for point number two I'll take your word on the studies (I can't be assed to dig anything up). I will still wear a helmet because I feel the additional protection is absolutely worthwhile.
By the by, I never suggested anywhere that I thought mandatory helmet laws for all was a good idea. I live in California where the helmet is legally required until age eighteen, and I can literally count the number of children on bicycles with helmets I've seen on two hands. I personally think you should wear one or not as it suits you. I was just explaining why I didn't understand why people would want to not protect their brains, their selves, their perception of who they are, and all the money ever spent by or for them.
I never understood people who don't wear helmets when cycling. It's the soundest investment advice ever. The way I see it, all of the money ever spent on or by me ever was invested into that spongy liquid soaked warm stuff between my ears. Every single tax dollar, every single Christmas present, even the money I gave to charity.
If I can reduce the chance of damage to literally the most valuable thing in my life by wearing a $25 helmet OF COURSE I'M GOING TO WEAR A HELMET DO YOU THINK I'M STUPID?
Yes, I'm going to become a legal vehicle driving on roads next to American drivers who zip past me at differences of twenty or thirty miles per hour with inches to spare and I'm not going to wear a helmet because I can't be bothered and/or it makes me "less cool"? I don't think so.
Idiots.
I live in California.
Correct. I have one.
Any idea what to spend a $25 Amazon gift card on that's not a video game, now that I have the "pleasure" of paying sales tax on it?
I mean really. What should I get? Ebooks? A life time supply of aglets?
Well, for one I simply don't use disguise kit and the build and destruct menus as much as I do my main weapons. I personally have no difficulty quickly hammering 4 and 5 for my build/destruct menus. You may be right about spy's knife, I absolutely never play the class and wouldn't know myself. I've rebound slot3 to "A" for easy reach, and I've never had any trouble getting out my melee weapon when I needed it, and I play no small amount of demoknight.
Ever since Valve added the automatic reload option, I've rebound R to serve as a voice menu shortcut. Hold down R, and then leftclick and rightclick become "yes" and "no" respectively. Scroll up becomes "positive" and scroll down becomes "negative". Release R, and controls are restored instantly.