It's the emotional hurt that kicks in when you realize that odds are high that the movie you're seeing in 3D wasn't actually filmed in 3D and instead was faked so they can rip you off for an extra 5 bucks on your movie ticket.
In my personal experience, one of the biggest downsides to working in an office of predominately women (like I am now) is that the vast majority are freezing once the temperature drops below 75F. There are people running space heaters under their desks currently because we recently got a male office manager who, in his first managerial decision, turned the air down so that all the men weren't sweating down their backs and through their shirts all day long.
Of course, in the winter, the office temp. has always been pegged at about 87F. Plants wilt, you can see heat haze when looking from one end of the office to the other...
For example, after it was discovered that George Harrison had accidentally reused four measures from "He's So Fine" in his song "My Sweet Lord", Harrison lost a lawsuit for roughly a million dollars. Yet Lady Gaga gets away with reusing much more of that: four measures from "Waterfalls" and six from "Express Yourself" in "Born This Way".
I damn near did a spit-take when I first heard "Born This Way". I honestly thought it was some sort of cover of "Express Yourself" until I listened to the lyrics.
I'm surprised that there wasn't a lawsuit over it, honestly. Michael Jackson was sued regularly for much more tenuous connections to other songs around the world and it really seems like Lady Gaga is getting a complete pass on the fact that she's pretty much built her entire career on being Madonna.
I hope this is able to transition to broadcast television broadcasts. I'm sick and tired of commercials being substantially louder than the program they're playing within. Every time a commercial break comes around I have to mute the fucking thing, which seems like the complete opposite of what they're supposed to be trying to accomplish.
"We are the United States of America. You will be assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile."
If you have someone in your circle and that person goes on your profile, it will tell them "X has you in one of their circles" or something like that. So if you add them then drop them, they will get a notification, but if they then go onto your profile after, they may be able to tell that you no longer have them in a circle. I don't know if this is stil true if you hide your circle information entirely though (there seems to be two options - either display a list of everyone in your circles, without saying who is in what circle or what circles you have - or not display who you have in any circle)
I don't think it notifies if a person is removed from a circle (I haven't actually had to remove anyone yet) but there is a notification when you add that person to a circle. It doesn't tell them what circle though, so they may think you dropped them in "friends" when in reality you dropped them in "Stupid people I wish would just shut the fuck up". The only way they could infer what circle they're in is by who else is in that circle with them, but I have mine set so that everyone can only see my "Following" circle regardless of what circle they're in, because the only people I even have in there are Felicia Day, Wil Wheaton, and the few other celebs and industry big shots that have jumped on G+.
I guess that's another thing I like about G+ that I missed in FB due to having ran from it a while ago, the Circles thing. FB has similar functionality with their groups functions, but when I left they didn't. I had serious friend bloat, since everyone had to be friends with everyone else, and unfriending people inevitably turns into a huge nightmare of hurt feelings and everything else, regardless of the reasons a person does it.
But I thought the whole point of Lion was to bring the mobile OS market and the desktop OS market closer together? Isn't Apple's general strategy to be a complete unification at some point? That's certainly what it seems like to a lay-person...
That being said, I don't see how that would be compatible with administrative requirements in the business world. Apple seems to be moving towards being completely focused on the consumer aspect where people are shopping on the App Store for all of their software, the bulk of said software being Angry Birds-esque games and ways to consume mass media. Maybe I'm wrong, I'm not in the industry at all, but it just seems like they're moving away from any real "nuts and bolts" business use outside of the Point of Sale market.
Pretty soon we're going to have Golden Retrievers with human-level intelligence running around being chased by vicious kill beasts. Who would have thought Dean Koontz could be so prophetic?
The difference is your drunk driving is illegal, Sony, the target of hackers, isn't.
Well, I think the case could be made that Sony was criminally negligent due to their lack of security (if I recall correctly, wasn't some of the customer data breached stored in plaintext completely unprotected on their servers?) and the fact that they're a multi-billion dollar organization that is in the industry, meaning they likely knew full well that they were cutting corners and leaving themselves open to these attacks, but I'm not sure if it could be proven beyond a doubt without a whistle-blower or leaked internal information.
It probably doesn't matter as the only way to really get to the bottom of this is for the people effected to get together and file a class action lawsuit against Sony, but I also seem to remember a ruling not long ago that basically gave major corporations the right to destroy any chance for a class action by including language forbidding them in their EULA's, so I doubt that will ever happen, but it should happen.
At the very least, the fact that Sony tried to squash this from getting out for 10 days or whatever before informing their customers that their credit card data had been compromised is extremely damning in itself. That in itself deserves a criminal negligence trial, if there exists any lawyers willing to take on a multibillion dollar corporation to prove it, that is.
If Sony's issues were due to their own negligence in securing their network, why should the insurance company have to pay? If I'm driving drunk my insurance company isn't going to cover my car when I get into an accident, so why the hell should an insurance company cover this?
If Sony was a person this wouldn't even be a question...
I only had an account at all so people would stop bothering me to make one, and thanks to G+ I don't use it anymore.
Yeah, that's pretty much the only reason I created one, too...I got tired of being harassed to get on FB and finally relented and it was pretty much retarded from day one. So far G+ is a lot less retarded (which I think has much more to do with the fact that all those people are on FB then anything inherently "better" about G+) so I'm torn...I know they're going to have to pick up more people if they're going to survive, but if they pick up more people I'll likely be out of there. Either that or I'm gonna need some "Annoying People" circles to put them in so I can mute their stream.
Yeah, even though they're both sources of collaboration for content, I think there's a difference between an online encyclopedia and an online message board, which is pretty much all Facebook is.
Most people on G+ (at least, most people that I come in contact with in my extended circles) assert they came to G+ to get away from the games and BS that's all over Facebook. I have a feeling if G+ tries to emulate Facebook completely in that department they're going to see people leave, whether it's blockable or not.
In my own experience, blocking the games did no good, as people just started posting directly to my wall directly about the games and harassing me to play so they could get the "X number of friends required to get the golden tractor" or whatever stupid bullshit.
Can't wait to put my computer out of commission for 8 hours while I burn one of these monstrosities. I think I'll just go ahead and stick with hard drives...
They were releasing like 3 games a year for fuck's sake, with concurrent releases of Rock Band, which was pretty much the same thing. People burned out. I'm sure it'll come back but they need to give it time and let it become novel again.
Because most slashdot users still have their first computer in a corner or in the attic.
QFT. It takes an unbelievable amount of begging, pleading, and cajoling to get me to dump old computer components, especially when said computer components still function. My garage looks like a late 90's-era Fry's exploded all over it, but dammit, at least the crap isn't rotting in a landfill, and there's still uses for it.
Hell, Just recently I donated a bunch of stuff to a friend doing an art project in her summer daycare class. The kids had a blast making little transformer-esque crap out of it...
There was a limited number of hardware changes you could make before the online activation would not work and necessitate a call to Customer Service to get an activation code manually. All this really entailed was a 10 minute phone call to a toll free number where you spoke to an Indian guy named either George or Bob and you were good to go. I had to do it many times over the years as I had a 2001-era XP disc that I used across about a dozen builds until I finally got Windows 7 about 2 years ago.
Updates sure were a bitch, though. Downloading SP1, 2 and 3 took ages even on my 10 meg connection...
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It's the emotional hurt that kicks in when you realize that odds are high that the movie you're seeing in 3D wasn't actually filmed in 3D and instead was faked so they can rip you off for an extra 5 bucks on your movie ticket.
I think.
They needed to do an experiment to figure this out? The millions of people that say it constantly wasn't proof enough?
This just in, water is wet. Film at 11.
And the homes and offices have no heating.
In my office, that would be an improvement.
In my personal experience, one of the biggest downsides to working in an office of predominately women (like I am now) is that the vast majority are freezing once the temperature drops below 75F. There are people running space heaters under their desks currently because we recently got a male office manager who, in his first managerial decision, turned the air down so that all the men weren't sweating down their backs and through their shirts all day long.
Of course, in the winter, the office temp. has always been pegged at about 87F. Plants wilt, you can see heat haze when looking from one end of the office to the other...
My PC has been doing double duty as a space heater for years.
For example, after it was discovered that George Harrison had accidentally reused four measures from "He's So Fine" in his song "My Sweet Lord", Harrison lost a lawsuit for roughly a million dollars. Yet Lady Gaga gets away with reusing much more of that: four measures from "Waterfalls" and six from "Express Yourself" in "Born This Way".
I damn near did a spit-take when I first heard "Born This Way". I honestly thought it was some sort of cover of "Express Yourself" until I listened to the lyrics.
I'm surprised that there wasn't a lawsuit over it, honestly. Michael Jackson was sued regularly for much more tenuous connections to other songs around the world and it really seems like Lady Gaga is getting a complete pass on the fact that she's pretty much built her entire career on being Madonna.
I hope this is able to transition to broadcast television broadcasts. I'm sick and tired of commercials being substantially louder than the program they're playing within. Every time a commercial break comes around I have to mute the fucking thing, which seems like the complete opposite of what they're supposed to be trying to accomplish.
"We are the United States of America. You will be assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile."
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
If you have someone in your circle and that person goes on your profile, it will tell them "X has you in one of their circles" or something like that. So if you add them then drop them, they will get a notification, but if they then go onto your profile after, they may be able to tell that you no longer have them in a circle. I don't know if this is stil true if you hide your circle information entirely though (there seems to be two options - either display a list of everyone in your circles, without saying who is in what circle or what circles you have - or not display who you have in any circle)
I don't think it notifies if a person is removed from a circle (I haven't actually had to remove anyone yet) but there is a notification when you add that person to a circle. It doesn't tell them what circle though, so they may think you dropped them in "friends" when in reality you dropped them in "Stupid people I wish would just shut the fuck up". The only way they could infer what circle they're in is by who else is in that circle with them, but I have mine set so that everyone can only see my "Following" circle regardless of what circle they're in, because the only people I even have in there are Felicia Day, Wil Wheaton, and the few other celebs and industry big shots that have jumped on G+.
I guess that's another thing I like about G+ that I missed in FB due to having ran from it a while ago, the Circles thing. FB has similar functionality with their groups functions, but when I left they didn't. I had serious friend bloat, since everyone had to be friends with everyone else, and unfriending people inevitably turns into a huge nightmare of hurt feelings and everything else, regardless of the reasons a person does it.
But I thought the whole point of Lion was to bring the mobile OS market and the desktop OS market closer together? Isn't Apple's general strategy to be a complete unification at some point? That's certainly what it seems like to a lay-person...
That being said, I don't see how that would be compatible with administrative requirements in the business world. Apple seems to be moving towards being completely focused on the consumer aspect where people are shopping on the App Store for all of their software, the bulk of said software being Angry Birds-esque games and ways to consume mass media. Maybe I'm wrong, I'm not in the industry at all, but it just seems like they're moving away from any real "nuts and bolts" business use outside of the Point of Sale market.
"We're in agreement that this should be done, but not that we should actually do it."
Wish I could mod this up higher, but it's already at max...
Pretty soon we're going to have Golden Retrievers with human-level intelligence running around being chased by vicious kill beasts. Who would have thought Dean Koontz could be so prophetic?
The difference is your drunk driving is illegal, Sony, the target of hackers, isn't.
Well, I think the case could be made that Sony was criminally negligent due to their lack of security (if I recall correctly, wasn't some of the customer data breached stored in plaintext completely unprotected on their servers?) and the fact that they're a multi-billion dollar organization that is in the industry, meaning they likely knew full well that they were cutting corners and leaving themselves open to these attacks, but I'm not sure if it could be proven beyond a doubt without a whistle-blower or leaked internal information.
It probably doesn't matter as the only way to really get to the bottom of this is for the people effected to get together and file a class action lawsuit against Sony, but I also seem to remember a ruling not long ago that basically gave major corporations the right to destroy any chance for a class action by including language forbidding them in their EULA's, so I doubt that will ever happen, but it should happen.
At the very least, the fact that Sony tried to squash this from getting out for 10 days or whatever before informing their customers that their credit card data had been compromised is extremely damning in itself. That in itself deserves a criminal negligence trial, if there exists any lawyers willing to take on a multibillion dollar corporation to prove it, that is.
Some sanity in the courts would go a long way towards imposing some sanity in the world at large.
If Sony's issues were due to their own negligence in securing their network, why should the insurance company have to pay? If I'm driving drunk my insurance company isn't going to cover my car when I get into an accident, so why the hell should an insurance company cover this?
If Sony was a person this wouldn't even be a question...
I only had an account at all so people would stop bothering me to make one, and thanks to G+ I don't use it anymore.
Yeah, that's pretty much the only reason I created one, too...I got tired of being harassed to get on FB and finally relented and it was pretty much retarded from day one. So far G+ is a lot less retarded (which I think has much more to do with the fact that all those people are on FB then anything inherently "better" about G+) so I'm torn...I know they're going to have to pick up more people if they're going to survive, but if they pick up more people I'll likely be out of there. Either that or I'm gonna need some "Annoying People" circles to put them in so I can mute their stream.
Yeah, even though they're both sources of collaboration for content, I think there's a difference between an online encyclopedia and an online message board, which is pretty much all Facebook is.
ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH
Most people on G+ (at least, most people that I come in contact with in my extended circles) assert they came to G+ to get away from the games and BS that's all over Facebook. I have a feeling if G+ tries to emulate Facebook completely in that department they're going to see people leave, whether it's blockable or not.
In my own experience, blocking the games did no good, as people just started posting directly to my wall directly about the games and harassing me to play so they could get the "X number of friends required to get the golden tractor" or whatever stupid bullshit.
I shoot for 5, but settle for 4.
Can't wait to put my computer out of commission for 8 hours while I burn one of these monstrosities. I think I'll just go ahead and stick with hard drives...
They were releasing like 3 games a year for fuck's sake, with concurrent releases of Rock Band, which was pretty much the same thing. People burned out. I'm sure it'll come back but they need to give it time and let it become novel again.
Because most slashdot users still have their first computer in a corner or in the attic.
QFT. It takes an unbelievable amount of begging, pleading, and cajoling to get me to dump old computer components, especially when said computer components still function. My garage looks like a late 90's-era Fry's exploded all over it, but dammit, at least the crap isn't rotting in a landfill, and there's still uses for it.
Hell, Just recently I donated a bunch of stuff to a friend doing an art project in her summer daycare class. The kids had a blast making little transformer-esque crap out of it...
You know, I've never spoken to this oft-mentioned "Sue". I must get the male-only call centers...
There was a limited number of hardware changes you could make before the online activation would not work and necessitate a call to Customer Service to get an activation code manually. All this really entailed was a 10 minute phone call to a toll free number where you spoke to an Indian guy named either George or Bob and you were good to go. I had to do it many times over the years as I had a 2001-era XP disc that I used across about a dozen builds until I finally got Windows 7 about 2 years ago.
Updates sure were a bitch, though. Downloading SP1, 2 and 3 took ages even on my 10 meg connection...