Mostly we tolerate it because it funds things we want. We like TV shows and websites enough to put up with the intrusion. A sign floating in space pays for nothing.
If I'm ever involved in this sort of thing, I will insist that the sign is configured as a secondary display.
Aside from looking better when things go wrong (since dialogs usually appear on the primary screen), it also gives you a local display that can be used for a settings window or something. Given the cost of these things, one more monitor is not going to break the bank.
I'm not talking about detailed testing. Just running and checking during develop. It takes long enough to upload to a device that the wait becomes tedious. And generally I just want to do a few basic checks when I develop. Are the UI components in the right place and the right colour? If I press a button does it do what I expect it to? Does it crash in a simple use-case?
"An out of date obsolete format pressed into a use it was never designed for"
Honestly, it only supports up to 256 colours. It uses LZW compression which is only useful for images created in a pixel based paint program. It can be used for poor quality animations, but its lack of worthwhile compression means we end up with huge files.
Automation has been a thing since Marc Brunel automated pulley block production in 1802. Henry Ford's massive increase in automation made cars so much cheaper that employment increased. Automation does not replace people. It increases productivity.
But it should replace people. After 200 years of automation, I'm still working an 8 hour day. why? Why can't we cut our hours down. Split every job in two, and let people do a 20 hour week. We have the technology. Why are we still selling hours of our lives to faceless corporations?
I can see that being the case with the adaptive cruise control. Constant adjustments to speed can be tiring after a time, and the car in front abruptly stopping is a potential risk that the car can deal with better than a human driver.
Lane keeping though - the tiring part of that would surely be the need to pay attention to the road. Something that you have to do anyway, and are less likely to do if the car is steering. The linked dashcam video illustrates this. A properly attentive driver would not have allowed the car to drift that far from the lane.
The option that ties us to the EU but without the opportunity to change that relationship (May's deal), or the one that completely screws us over as a nation (No deal)?
I can't help thinking that the majority of those who voted leave would not want either option. The reason being most of them aren't complete fuckwits, but simply people having a hard time in life, voting in the belief that any change at least gives an opportunity.
A system that produces an audible warning if the driver drifts away from the middle of the lane makes some degree of sense. I think if you need that, the correct response is to find an exit and take a break; so I guess these have a purpose as a tired driver alert system.
What is the purpose of automatically staying in the lane? The driver is still obliged to pay attention. There doesn't seem to be any more cognitive load to actually turning the steering wheel. All this does is remove that warning that you might be too tired.
What wasn't part of the vote, or the manifestos of the parties (neither of which gained a majority) were any specifics of the deal.
We now have a specific deal. Parliament doesn't believe this is what the people want, and have voted against it twice.
So, I propose this decision is handed to the people.
If this is what the people want, the referendum will pass. We will leave on the terms that you know doubt want. If this is not what the people want, the referendum will return a "no" result. This is probably not what you want but you do seem keen that the democratic wishes of the UK population are upheld, so I don't see any reason for objection should this be the case.
British citizens do live in other countries. Including North Korea (we have an embassy there) and Russia. Signatures from other countries seem to be reasonably consistent with the number of British ex-pats in those countries.
Gaming is a mainstream activity though. Sure, there are enthusiast gamers who will spend comparable amounts to motor sport enthusiasts, but they're hardly the mainstream. Most gamers would consider $450 to be a bit of an extravagance.
I'd be surprised if someone who does paintball on occasion spent a similar amount on a single piece of paintball equipment. I'd expect most slashdotters to be in the casual hobby region rather than the hardcore enthusiast when it comes to video games.
Sure, it allows for super-realistic reflections and shadows, but we can fake those, and spend the resources on other effects or simply a higher resolution and better frame rate.
I will agree to an extent. One of my main criticisms of D&D is that it's very rules heavy, and does generally encourage a monster bash, especially with its heavy emphasis on combat stats.
However, a good Dungeon Master can come up with a more detailed setting with much more abstract problems to solve. Our DM has a background in theatre so understands this concept a lot better.
This is not an attempt to sell you on D&D. You clearly have found a lot of games you enjoy and personally I think people are too fixated on D&D. Just feel that the game deserves at least some defence on this point.
Is it? I mean that just applies to the courts. It went to trial and they failed to prove his guilt, so he is considered innocent.
It probably shouldn't have gone that far, but the police are allowed to arrest when there is reasonable evidence of a crime and prosecutors will prosecute if they think they can win.
I've certainly stopped using two companies because customer service was absolutely appalling. Rather a shame really since one of them used to have pretty good telephone support.
I don't know how many I'm sticking with because I never had cause to complain though.
Seems to be an expectation that people will download Multi gigabyte updates. A lot of the numbers on that list are in the 10's of gigabytes, with "Halo 5: Guardians" being over 50GB.
Honestly this seems like quite a substantial wait, even with a very fast connection you'll be waiting over an hour, but people will put up with it, it seems.
It will be a self driving vehicle being used on public roads for genuine transport purposes. Dealing with potential unpredictable hazards on the road is still a problem that needs to be dealt with. If they believe this is adequately solved, then this is a milestone.
They just worked out the cost per GB of all plans, and averaged them. So the crappy cheap, and not very popular 500MB of £5 plans are given the same weight as the much more popular 12GB for £15.
The map lists worst deals ($56.87 in the UK), which I assume was something like an obscure 100MB/month plan for £4.50 or something.
And seriously slashdot - this is a tech site! I should not have to type "£" when unicode is a thing!
This is an average of the cost per megabyte of all offerings.This doesn't indicate how much people actually pay for a gigabyte.
A country might have multiple providers offering ultra-cheap packages. These are going to offer rubbish value for money, but hardly anyone actually uses the, except a handful of people who use their phones for emergencies only.
Pretty much nobody in the UK is paying a fiver per gigabyte. It takes no time at all to find packages offering 4GB for £11 a month from Three.co.uk. But the people who use most data are the ones on the higher data plans,
Unless you can find the amount of data used, and the total amount paid, your statistics are worthless.
This is information for people who are interested - collectors, fans of the franchise, sci-fi and horror fans with high end home cinema systems etc. Casual movie fans are not the target audience of a special edition.
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Mostly we tolerate it because it funds things we want. We like TV shows and websites enough to put up with the intrusion. A sign floating in space pays for nothing.
If I'm ever involved in this sort of thing, I will insist that the sign is configured as a secondary display.
Aside from looking better when things go wrong (since dialogs usually appear on the primary screen), it also gives you a local display that can be used for a settings window or something. Given the cost of these things, one more monitor is not going to break the bank.
Google have never had a "do no evil" policy. They had "Don't be evil" as an unofficial motto, but this is subtly different.
I'm not talking about detailed testing. Just running and checking during develop. It takes long enough to upload to a device that the wait becomes tedious. And generally I just want to do a few basic checks when I develop. Are the UI components in the right place and the right colour? If I press a button does it do what I expect it to? Does it crash in a simple use-case?
As an android developer, I can see this is potentially quicker for testing than an emulator or a connected phone.
It's a bit of a niche use, but it's a use.
"An out of date obsolete format pressed into a use it was never designed for"
Honestly, it only supports up to 256 colours. It uses LZW compression which is only useful for images created in a pixel based paint program. It can be used for poor quality animations, but its lack of worthwhile compression means we end up with huge files.
Automation has been a thing since Marc Brunel automated pulley block production in 1802. Henry Ford's massive increase in automation made cars so much cheaper that employment increased. Automation does not replace people. It increases productivity.
But it should replace people. After 200 years of automation, I'm still working an 8 hour day. why? Why can't we cut our hours down. Split every job in two, and let people do a 20 hour week. We have the technology. Why are we still selling hours of our lives to faceless corporations?
Yes. They want you to watch 30 minutes.
Although this will only appeal to the demographic who don't have much disposable income. Not sure how good they are for advertisiers.
Some people are broke but disapprove of piracy.
I can see that being the case with the adaptive cruise control. Constant adjustments to speed can be tiring after a time, and the car in front abruptly stopping is a potential risk that the car can deal with better than a human driver.
Lane keeping though - the tiring part of that would surely be the need to pay attention to the road. Something that you have to do anyway, and are less likely to do if the car is steering. The linked dashcam video illustrates this. A properly attentive driver would not have allowed the car to drift that far from the lane.
Okay. That's not exactly a democratic mandate though is it. 46% is less than 50%. It's less than the 48% who supported remain.
Which would you vote for?
The option that ties us to the EU but without the opportunity to change that relationship (May's deal), or the one that completely screws us over as a nation (No deal)?
I can't help thinking that the majority of those who voted leave would not want either option. The reason being most of them aren't complete fuckwits, but simply people having a hard time in life, voting in the belief that any change at least gives an opportunity.
A system that produces an audible warning if the driver drifts away from the middle of the lane makes some degree of sense. I think if you need that, the correct response is to find an exit and take a break; so I guess these have a purpose as a tired driver alert system.
What is the purpose of automatically staying in the lane? The driver is still obliged to pay attention. There doesn't seem to be any more cognitive load to actually turning the steering wheel. All this does is remove that warning that you might be too tired.
What wasn't part of the vote, or the manifestos of the parties (neither of which gained a majority) were any specifics of the deal.
We now have a specific deal. Parliament doesn't believe this is what the people want, and have voted against it twice.
So, I propose this decision is handed to the people.
If this is what the people want, the referendum will pass. We will leave on the terms that you know doubt want. If this is not what the people want, the referendum will return a "no" result. This is probably not what you want but you do seem keen that the democratic wishes of the UK population are upheld, so I don't see any reason for objection should this be the case.
British citizens do live in other countries. Including North Korea (we have an embassy there) and Russia. Signatures from other countries seem to be reasonably consistent with the number of British ex-pats in those countries.
Gaming is a mainstream activity though. Sure, there are enthusiast gamers who will spend comparable amounts to motor sport enthusiasts, but they're hardly the mainstream. Most gamers would consider $450 to be a bit of an extravagance.
I'd be surprised if someone who does paintball on occasion spent a similar amount on a single piece of paintball equipment. I'd expect most slashdotters to be in the casual hobby region rather than the hardcore enthusiast when it comes to video games.
Sure, it allows for super-realistic reflections and shadows, but we can fake those, and spend the resources on other effects or simply a higher resolution and better frame rate.
It depends on how you play it.
I will agree to an extent. One of my main criticisms of D&D is that it's very rules heavy, and does generally encourage a monster bash, especially with its heavy emphasis on combat stats.
However, a good Dungeon Master can come up with a more detailed setting with much more abstract problems to solve. Our DM has a background in theatre so understands this concept a lot better.
This is not an attempt to sell you on D&D. You clearly have found a lot of games you enjoy and personally I think people are too fixated on D&D. Just feel that the game deserves at least some defence on this point.
Is it? I mean that just applies to the courts. It went to trial and they failed to prove his guilt, so he is considered innocent.
It probably shouldn't have gone that far, but the police are allowed to arrest when there is reasonable evidence of a crime and prosecutors will prosecute if they think they can win.
They're not getting any money from you though. And presumably never will. I think it's a mutual separation.
I've certainly stopped using two companies because customer service was absolutely appalling. Rather a shame really since one of them used to have pretty good telephone support.
I don't know how many I'm sticking with because I never had cause to complain though.
Seems to be an expectation that people will download Multi gigabyte updates. A lot of the numbers on that list are in the 10's of gigabytes, with "Halo 5: Guardians" being over 50GB.
Honestly this seems like quite a substantial wait, even with a very fast connection you'll be waiting over an hour, but people will put up with it, it seems.
It will be a self driving vehicle being used on public roads for genuine transport purposes. Dealing with potential unpredictable hazards on the road is still a problem that needs to be dealt with. If they believe this is adequately solved, then this is a milestone.
They just worked out the cost per GB of all plans, and averaged them. So the crappy cheap, and not very popular 500MB of £5 plans are given the same weight as the much more popular 12GB for £15.
The map lists worst deals ($56.87 in the UK), which I assume was something like an obscure 100MB/month plan for £4.50 or something.
And seriously slashdot - this is a tech site! I should not have to type "£" when unicode is a thing!
This is an average of the cost per megabyte of all offerings.This doesn't indicate how much people actually pay for a gigabyte.
A country might have multiple providers offering ultra-cheap packages. These are going to offer rubbish value for money, but hardly anyone actually uses the, except a handful of people who use their phones for emergencies only.
Pretty much nobody in the UK is paying a fiver per gigabyte. It takes no time at all to find packages offering 4GB for £11 a month from Three.co.uk. But the people who use most data are the ones on the higher data plans,
Unless you can find the amount of data used, and the total amount paid, your statistics are worthless.
You wouldn't. Obviously.
This is information for people who are interested - collectors, fans of the franchise, sci-fi and horror fans with high end home cinema systems etc. Casual movie fans are not the target audience of a special edition.