A lot of us don't need powerful Core i whatever or AMD Phenom something or anothers.
Most of us could probably get buy with an ARM laptop running some oddball variant of Linux.
Most of us aren't going to because the experience sucks.
Even though my iPhone 6+ is plenty big, it's still not big enough and the form factor sucks for reading. Somehow 4:3 is really good for bashing out screeds on slashdot, reading reddit, facebook, writing email, etc. Not to mention specialized use cases like art creation tools and so forth.
Just because we don't *need* it doesn't mean that it's not worth buying. I love my iPad.
The reason why they don't just let you link to an mp4 or webm is that they're under this idea that their dynamic quality switching(which in theory should switch based on how good your connection is to youtube, but really just decides to pick between 240p and 1080p because fuck you) and their embedded player is a much better UX.
To that I say, fuck you Google. YouTube embeds on mobile give a direct mp4 stream and it beats the pants off watching it on their app or via their site's viewer.
What the hell kind of feature is, "if we let in poor countries, we could possibly make this whole thing blow up?"
It's a bug, thought of as a feature. Like the Windows 8 start menu.
Even if you give all credence to the idea that this was something that let bankers run off with as much money as possible... that's not what would happen. Bankers would run off with a lot of money... that would become incredibly devalued.
if it wasn't a public school? Sure. Don't go snooping around my shit. Even if i've got nothing to hide I have a lot to be embarrassed about or just don't want people to know about.
Because it IS a public school? Yes. The rules are and should be different. The kids all have a reasonable right to privacy. But when there's substantive claims made about bullying, harassment, threats, etc. that reasonable right to privacy shouldn't matter.
Unfortunately for all those up in arms about this, this is a safety issue. If they don't like the policy, pull out of the school district. If my kids got harassing phone calls from other students, the school is going to hear about it. Even if it's not during school hours. The fact that when at school, they're compelled to be in places where they may have to encounter someone who's made a credible threat against them.
It doesn't change because it's on the Internet. Doesn't matter if it's a phone call, a letter, Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr/WhatsApp/etc, skywriting...
If the kids have nothing to hide, then release it. If not, pull the kids from the school. They're not obligated to go, and they're certainly not obligated to be abusive assholes either. We don't need more enabling of bullying and peer enforced sociopathy.
Doing absolutely nothing and being hands off isn't making things better. If you don't think this is a problem or worth tackling, I don't think you're hooked up right. I don't know if this is the right approach, but I'm not hearing any better ideas.
It's a crazy idea. I don't think it's going to fly particularly well, but hey, if they want to try something unique and crazy, I'm not going to stop them.
I mean, ten years ago if you told me that one of the best ways to stream stuff to my TV was through a stick the size of a zagnut bar that plugged directly into my HDMI socket, I would've told you you were nuts.
Bring on the crazy ass designs. Let's see where this goes.
When people complain about how imprecise analog sticks are, one of the biggest problems is overcoming the initial tension that the return spring has on the analog nub. The thing hasn't changed in nearly 20 years. We've had hall effect sensors(Used on the Dreamcast; funny enough) and all sorts of other new ways to detect analog input. It's just two potentiometers.
We may never get to the place where analog aiming is as precise as a mouse, but we can certainly do better than what we've got now.
I remember shit like Gator and Xupiter getting bundled in with lots of things including WinAmp(Well, MUCH later in life) in the late 90's to the mid 2000's or so. I jumped ship from Windows in 2008 completely, but it's always shocking to see the same shit that kept me away from Windows is still in Windows.
Assembling a working install MSI doesn't negate my complaint that the process sucks. It's abusable, and shockingly, it is being abused.
Why is it that in 2015, to install software from the internet, I need to let someone run a privileged script that can and will write whatever it wants, where it wants? Why can't I just get some archive bundle that I can drop into a collection of other applications?
I think the OS X style application bundles are the right way to do things.
If it's one thing I've learned after playing with OS X and Linux, it's that no matter what the OS is, an install script is an awful UX.
This isn't a problem in OS X because most software installs via app bundles. Yes, there are.pkg installers that could bundle god knows what, but they're not the norm for Mac software.
Also this isn't a problem in Linux because either you're usually installing from a repo or source, of which the requirement for any repo package or code base isn't going to be libtrackingmalwarelolpwn(64 bit; of course).
Why does Windows keep this antiquated process around?
I'm not an audiophile. I would spend maybe few bucks on something nicer than lamp wire if nothing more than to have nicer insulation that looks nice when ran against the wall and in the cracks of the baseboard.
I'm just suggesting I don't think that True Believing Audiophiles would use Monster products. They're too cheap for their tastes.
Neither are a really comfy ride or even padded upholstered seats.
Necessary in terms of being a modern creature comfort in a car. Not necessary as in, "car needs to run."
As far as being a driver distraction, I don't think it's that big of a deal unless there's crazy animations on screen when doing things like changing track, returning the radio, changing volume, etc. and most of that can be done from the wheel.
In so far as I can tell, Monster cables are largely a joke in audiophile communities too. Monster cables are sold to schlubs who think they're getting audiophile quality cables at big box shops.
If you really want quality, Monster cables are too cheap.
I think the thing you're missing is that car infotainment systems need to exist as a fallback if you don't own a smart device or mp3 player or tablet or whatever.
Remote exploits and security concerns are true for any bit of software running.
Granted I'm not optimistic it'll get better soon, and what it'll take to make it better kind of frightens me.
Still, that's not the fault for the infotainment system existing. That's the fault of the crappy car maker.
The problem with Torvald's assertion is that while he's probably right(and I read a Steve Jobs kinda ethos when he says that end users are fine with 4 cores; which I like a lot), i think though that there's a pretty practical problem computing is running into.
We're kind of at the limit with how much work a single core can do. We can't make single cores faster. We can make them cheaper and lower power. Which I think overall is a huge gain for anyone who pays power bills:) But now that we can have a lot of them, we shouldn't be shy about actually using them.
I think it might be ultimately a fruitless effort, but I think the possible gains make it worth fleshing out.
I just wonder how much there is to gain by ditching legacy CPU architectures(x86, ARM, etc) and starting from the ground up. Probably not much, but I am hopeful I am wrong.
I am not part of the human race. Humanity has rejected me. The females of the human species have never wanted to mate with me, so how could I possibly consider myself part of humanity? Humanity has never accepted me among them, and now I know why. I am more than human. I am superior to them all. I am Elliot Rodger... Magnificent, glorious, supreme, eminent... Divine! I am the closest thing there is to a living god. Humanity is a disgusting, depraved, and evil species. It is my purpose to punish them all. I will purify the world of everything that is wrong with it. On the Day of Retribution, I will truly be a powerful god, punishing everyone I deem to be impure and depraved.
Maybe she's right. Because the above quote came from a mass shooting. You'd have a point that this was a wacky thing to say if the data didn't support her thesis. Which, sadly, it does. The language school shooters use when making angry as fuck disaffected manifestos is always the same spew of pseudo macho toxic masculine shit. Never mind Anders Brevik and Marc Lepine, either.
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You just watch. There is going to be a Columbine-times-10 incident, and everyone will finally get it. Either that, or some video gamer is going to go Columbine at some video game exec's expense or at E3, and then the industry will begin to realize that there is no place to hide, that it has trained a nation of Manchurian Children
Sounds identical to me. Oh wait. It doesn't. Guess which one is Anita Sarkeesian and which one is Jack fucking Thompson.
Hint it's not the reasonable statement. And if you think both are equally unreasonable there is no debate to be had.
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A lot of us don't need powerful Core i whatever or AMD Phenom something or anothers.
Most of us could probably get buy with an ARM laptop running some oddball variant of Linux.
Most of us aren't going to because the experience sucks.
Even though my iPhone 6+ is plenty big, it's still not big enough and the form factor sucks for reading. Somehow 4:3 is really good for bashing out screeds on slashdot, reading reddit, facebook, writing email, etc. Not to mention specialized use cases like art creation tools and so forth.
Just because we don't *need* it doesn't mean that it's not worth buying. I love my iPad.
The reason why they don't just let you link to an mp4 or webm is that they're under this idea that their dynamic quality switching(which in theory should switch based on how good your connection is to youtube, but really just decides to pick between 240p and 1080p because fuck you) and their embedded player is a much better UX.
To that I say, fuck you Google. YouTube embeds on mobile give a direct mp4 stream and it beats the pants off watching it on their app or via their site's viewer.
What the hell kind of feature is, "if we let in poor countries, we could possibly make this whole thing blow up?"
It's a bug, thought of as a feature. Like the Windows 8 start menu.
Even if you give all credence to the idea that this was something that let bankers run off with as much money as possible... that's not what would happen. Bankers would run off with a lot of money... that would become incredibly devalued.
if it wasn't a public school? Sure. Don't go snooping around my shit. Even if i've got nothing to hide I have a lot to be embarrassed about or just don't want people to know about.
Because it IS a public school? Yes. The rules are and should be different. The kids all have a reasonable right to privacy. But when there's substantive claims made about bullying, harassment, threats, etc. that reasonable right to privacy shouldn't matter.
Unfortunately for all those up in arms about this, this is a safety issue. If they don't like the policy, pull out of the school district. If my kids got harassing phone calls from other students, the school is going to hear about it. Even if it's not during school hours. The fact that when at school, they're compelled to be in places where they may have to encounter someone who's made a credible threat against them.
It doesn't change because it's on the Internet. Doesn't matter if it's a phone call, a letter, Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr/WhatsApp/etc, skywriting...
If the kids have nothing to hide, then release it. If not, pull the kids from the school. They're not obligated to go, and they're certainly not obligated to be abusive assholes either. We don't need more enabling of bullying and peer enforced sociopathy.
Doing absolutely nothing and being hands off isn't making things better. If you don't think this is a problem or worth tackling, I don't think you're hooked up right. I don't know if this is the right approach, but I'm not hearing any better ideas.
there's a python module for that.
import HOneB
That's a reason to not buy the bloody thing, but let's be honest here. Crazy designs are worth pursuing.
I say, "Why not?"
It's a crazy idea. I don't think it's going to fly particularly well, but hey, if they want to try something unique and crazy, I'm not going to stop them.
I mean, ten years ago if you told me that one of the best ways to stream stuff to my TV was through a stick the size of a zagnut bar that plugged directly into my HDMI socket, I would've told you you were nuts.
Bring on the crazy ass designs. Let's see where this goes.
I wish I didn't comment so I could mod this up. This is pretty much spot on.
HDMI cables are becoming this prevalent too. My cup runneth over... with a mess of cables. lots and lots of cables.
People are complaining the New 3DS isn't shipping with a charger. I'm super glad it's one less thing I need to find a shelf for.
When people complain about how imprecise analog sticks are, one of the biggest problems is overcoming the initial tension that the return spring has on the analog nub. The thing hasn't changed in nearly 20 years. We've had hall effect sensors(Used on the Dreamcast; funny enough) and all sorts of other new ways to detect analog input. It's just two potentiometers.
We may never get to the place where analog aiming is as precise as a mouse, but we can certainly do better than what we've got now.
Just glad to see Hank Green doing stuff. Glad he's got this great opportunity!
I remember shit like Gator and Xupiter getting bundled in with lots of things including WinAmp(Well, MUCH later in life) in the late 90's to the mid 2000's or so. I jumped ship from Windows in 2008 completely, but it's always shocking to see the same shit that kept me away from Windows is still in Windows.
Assembling a working install MSI doesn't negate my complaint that the process sucks. It's abusable, and shockingly, it is being abused.
it would certainly be way more honest.
that's not what I meant.
Why is it that in 2015, to install software from the internet, I need to let someone run a privileged script that can and will write whatever it wants, where it wants? Why can't I just get some archive bundle that I can drop into a collection of other applications?
I think the OS X style application bundles are the right way to do things.
If it's one thing I've learned after playing with OS X and Linux, it's that no matter what the OS is, an install script is an awful UX.
This isn't a problem in OS X because most software installs via app bundles. Yes, there are .pkg installers that could bundle god knows what, but they're not the norm for Mac software.
Also this isn't a problem in Linux because either you're usually installing from a repo or source, of which the requirement for any repo package or code base isn't going to be libtrackingmalwarelolpwn(64 bit; of course).
Why does Windows keep this antiquated process around?
I would reply with a long list of pile of poop emoji but slashdot doesn't even support UTF-8
I'm not an audiophile. I would spend maybe few bucks on something nicer than lamp wire if nothing more than to have nicer insulation that looks nice when ran against the wall and in the cracks of the baseboard.
I'm just suggesting I don't think that True Believing Audiophiles would use Monster products. They're too cheap for their tastes.
Neither are a really comfy ride or even padded upholstered seats.
Necessary in terms of being a modern creature comfort in a car. Not necessary as in, "car needs to run."
As far as being a driver distraction, I don't think it's that big of a deal unless there's crazy animations on screen when doing things like changing track, returning the radio, changing volume, etc. and most of that can be done from the wheel.
In so far as I can tell, Monster cables are largely a joke in audiophile communities too. Monster cables are sold to schlubs who think they're getting audiophile quality cables at big box shops.
If you really want quality, Monster cables are too cheap.
I think the thing you're missing is that car infotainment systems need to exist as a fallback if you don't own a smart device or mp3 player or tablet or whatever.
Remote exploits and security concerns are true for any bit of software running.
Granted I'm not optimistic it'll get better soon, and what it'll take to make it better kind of frightens me.
Still, that's not the fault for the infotainment system existing. That's the fault of the crappy car maker.
Torvalds is half wrong too.
The problem with Torvald's assertion is that while he's probably right(and I read a Steve Jobs kinda ethos when he says that end users are fine with 4 cores; which I like a lot), i think though that there's a pretty practical problem computing is running into.
We're kind of at the limit with how much work a single core can do. We can't make single cores faster. We can make them cheaper and lower power. Which I think overall is a huge gain for anyone who pays power bills :) But now that we can have a lot of them, we shouldn't be shy about actually using them.
I think it might be ultimately a fruitless effort, but I think the possible gains make it worth fleshing out.
I just wonder how much there is to gain by ditching legacy CPU architectures(x86, ARM, etc) and starting from the ground up. Probably not much, but I am hopeful I am wrong.
Cute list. Ask any of them how they feel about gamergate?
Also do you realize that the number of men in gaming vastly outnumber those women?
Citation needed.
Maybe she's right. Because the above quote came from a mass shooting. You'd have a point that this was a wacky thing to say if the data didn't support her thesis. Which, sadly, it does. The language school shooters use when making angry as fuck disaffected manifestos is always the same spew of pseudo macho toxic masculine shit. Never mind Anders Brevik and Marc Lepine, either.
It's not like she has experience with this or anything.
Sounds identical to me. Oh wait. It doesn't. Guess which one is Anita Sarkeesian and which one is Jack fucking Thompson.
Hint it's not the reasonable statement. And if you think both are equally unreasonable there is no debate to be had.