Another wall of text. Don't you tire of hearing yourself talk? Here's an English word for you to research: brevity.
Just because you are too fucking lazy or incompetent to read more than 3 paragraphs at a time, doesn't mean there's something wrong with the content.
To recap, you and another person took cheap thread hijacking shots at people who think it's more appropriate to regulate certain items at the State level. The original post was informative and apolitical, adding value to the headline story. You two hijacked it in order to share an unrelated and ill-informed political opinion.
When confronted with that opinion I simply pointed out what American law actually says about the regulation of alcohol. You then dismissed this simple fact as "irrelevant" and accused me of contributing noise to the thread that you hijacked.
You are hilarious. You recognize and dismiss the concept of thread hijacking, yet completely fail to see how that is exactly what my initial reply in this thread was about and what I've been accusing you of all along.
Go away, you clearly have nothing interesting to add to this discussion.
The 21st Amendment is hardly irrelevant in a conversation about the regulation of alcohol in the United States. Why don't you go read it?
Because it is irrelevant. You changed the subject from 'the hypocrisy of ostensibly libertarian conservatives in drug regulation' to 'this is what the Constitution says about the level at which alcohol should be regulated'.
It's like talking about morning dew when somebody says "rain makes you wet" and then argues that rain is very relevant to wetness.
At what level should the Chinese, the Russians or the Europeans regulate drugs?
That's not for me to decide.
I wasn't asking you to decide anything, dickwad. I was making the point that your wat of thinking is extremely limited and therefore ultimately useless.
I don't interject myself into the domestic political debate of other countries. Why don't you show me the same courtesy?
Because I am not intellectually lazy. I compare and criticize the systems employed by countries on their merits and reasoning instead of limiting my view to my own little island. Also, technically that was a loaded question (fallacy) and a straw man, considering that you implied that it is a courtesy to 'not interject yourself into a domestic political debate of other countries', which it isn't.
Do you even understand the meaning of the word arbitrary?
Yes I do. Amazingly enough, English is my native language. Do you understand the concept of Federalism in the United States of America? That's a rhetorical question, obviously you don't, if you did you would not claim that the States are an "arbitrary level" of Government.
Your grasp of the English language is saddening. I'll explain it in simple terms:
Consider an elevator in a building with five floors. Is floor two in itself an 'arbitrary floor'? No, no, it is not.
Now imagine that you have to lay carpet on all floors. Which floor do you go to first? Which one second? That, my friend, is arbitrary. Unless there is sensible reasoning to make a distinction, for the decision at hand the individual choices are equivalent. Comparing floor 1 to floor 3 is as irrelevant as comparing floor 2 to floor 3. You can choose an arbitrary floor and compare it to another arbitrary floor.
Get it yet?
Protip: "It's in the 21st Amendment" is not sensible reasoning. It is an appeal to authority (fallacy).
Nice wall of text. I stopped reading around the second paragraph.
Sentences like these really put your ignorance on display.
Government control on [arbitrary level] == TYRANNY Government control on [slightly lower arbitrary level] == THE WAY IT IS AND WAS ALWAYS MEANT TO BE
On the issue at hand, i.e., the regulation of alcohol, this is the way that it is and was always meant to be.
Do you even understand the meaning of the word arbitrary? Are you able to think outside of your national box? At what level should the Chinese, the Russians or the Europeans regulate drugs?
You see, the issue of whether to regulate drugs at all and to what extent is something the entire fucking planet struggles with. Along comes somebody who notes that so called 'small government' conservatives hypocritically want to regulate the shit out of drug consumption and inevitably some Constitution-beating asshole like yourself feels the need to derail the thread by injecting irrelevant shortsighted crap about said Constitution into it, precluding any chance of a meaningful and constructive discussion on the virtues and vices of drug regulation in general.
Which is still the most interesting part here. Do you believe drugs should be government regulated? Please don't say: 'yes, at the state level', or I will be forced to weep uncontrollably for this world. If you do believe they should be, based on what criteria? Also which limitations should there be?
I'm sorry that you can't understand that. Why don't you bugger off and join a political conversation about whatever shit hole country it is that you call home?
Weak. Notice how I haven't slammed the USA at any point in this thread. If you want to talk shit, direct it at me, not my country. Also: you might believe in American Exceptionalism, but apart from military power the USA hasn't exactly been the number one in many positive lists for a while now. I would definitely not call the USA a shit hole, but let's just say there are at least 20 countries I'd rather live in than in the USA.
You obviously can't be bothered to learn about mine.
False and a straw man. Whether I wish to learn about the USA has no influence on the fact that your contribution to this thread was irrelevant and thus noise. For the record: I probably know more about the judicial system of the USA than its average inhabitant (which is mostly a sad reality).
Firstly: Nice reasoning there, asshole. Progressives championed the Prohibition. Whoopty-fucking-doo. That completely and definitively proves that 'small government' Conservatives don't want to regulate more than they claim. Because fuck logic. (It's called a 'tu quoque', a fallacy most commonly committed on school playgrounds)
I'll explain it to you: even if 'Progressives' were or are the evilest, nastiest scum-sucking Nazi bastards that have ever existed, that says nothing about conservative people.
Let me make it even clearer: If I say 'You have a tiny dick' and you say 'Well, your dick is smaller', your dick will not have grown. It is still tiny.
Secondly: I wasn't equating anything. I was urging you to let go of your knee-jerk 'look-at-my-knowledge-of-the-Holy-Constitution' reaction to the combination of the words 'regulate' and 'state'. Which, again, was a completely irrelevant reaction.
Let's look at this again. Your reaction was this: "Have you read the 21st Amendment? You don't have to make some theoretical "States rights" argument when it comes to alcohol; the control of "intoxicating liquors" is very clearly delegated to the States."
To this: "It is always a valid discussion at what level certain executive and legislative decisions should be made, but don't pretend that shifting them a level up or down changes anything meaningful in the appraisal of 'small ~' versus 'big government'."
Your reaction is a complete non sequitur. It supports nor discredits what I said and is thus irrelevant. QED.
The point was and is that many of those who cry for 'small government' show that their clamoring is disingenuous by showing their hypocrisy in wanting to regulate the shit out of the things that do not align with their conservative world view. There are very surely a number of truly libertarian ('liberal' in the rest of the world) people out there to whom this does not apply, but they are quite certainly a small minority.
In this thread, I don't give a shit about the laws in your specific country, because they are irrelevant. interkin3tic was making a point about how those who clamor 'small government' at every fucking turn want to regulate the shit out of a lot of things.
Put in simpler terms, they say: "We don't want to limit your freedom, like those other guys. Well.. Except for your freedom in consuming drugs. Drugs are bad, mmkay. Oh, and abortion. Don't do that. Or love a man if you are one."
Now do you understand that pointing this out says nothing about the governmental level on which such things are regulated? Nothing.
If you still do not understand, replace the word 'States' with the word 'Areas' in interkin3tic's post and then look at how nonsensical the bullshit-replies about the Constitution are.
You people are hilarious. Government control on [arbitrary level] == TYRANNY Government control on [slightly lower arbitrary level] == THE WAY IT IS AND WAS ALWAYS MEANT TO BE
Just accept that some things should be dealt with collectively, regardless of the exact level. It is always a valid discussion at what level certain executive and legislative decisions should be made, but don't pretend that shifting them a level up or down changes anything meaningful in the appraisal of 'small ~' versus 'big government'.
Also: muscles just aren't amazing as springs. They're ok, but not as good as proper springs (ask the IAAF and Oscar Pistorius -- Philosoraptor: "Maybe we should give the elderly these blades instead of lower legs? Will old people lead the cybernetic revolution?").
It's like comparing a car with regenerative braking to one without (yes, also a car analogy). It's easy to see that the energetic cost of any added weight is easily offset by the reduced loss of energy to friction.
The answer is simple and consists of two questions: 1. How stable is the entity behind what you are going to learn? (Protip: Google and Apple are going to be around for a bit longer than most loosely associated groups of hipster developers) 2. Which of the choices has the most answered questions online (yes, probably on stackoverflow)?
(1) can alternatively be written as 'how stable is the framework/language you are learning?' (2) can also be seen as 'Which of the choices has the most supportive and/or largest community?' They boil down to the same, though.
My advice: do it native. Android and iOS devving is really quite easy if you don't want to do anything fancy and do it properly. If you do want to do anything fancy, you're going to have to go pretty deep anyway and hybrid frameworks are just going to get in your way.
I (single handedly) spent about 5-6 months creating a PHP backend and a native Android app, whilst the specs were changing. I had to design and implement the structure of the app and that of the backend, etc. I've started working on the iOS version 1 month ago and it is about done (maybe two more weeks). Mind you: this is not because iOS development is easier than Android development (they both have their quirks), but already having a stable backend and a proven structure of the app code allows me to basically translate the Android code to Objective C without much thinking. The core issues in the system design have already been dealt with. It's just implementing a stable design based on stable specs, which we all know is the easiest part of software development.
Exactly. Can we stop calling everybody who posts something bad on the internet a 'troll'? It's bad enough that the luddites are doing it, but Slashdot should keep true to the meaning of the word 'trolling'.
Maybe that's true for a lot of people, but the frustration, general bad temper inducing, sheer passive-aggressive baulkiness of the damn thing made me very glad I don't have to deal with it regularly.
Maybe there will never be much understanding either way, but the silly finger-pointing name-calling from one camp to the other is childish, tribal and idiotic.
Developing complex drivers can cost millions, but the testing isn't nearly as costly. Much of it is automated. Do you think that Intel, AMD and Nvidia spend millions of dollars a month just on testing?
No, they just release them as betas and wait for the bug reports to roll in. Why pay for testers if so many people will test for you for free?
I started writing this post going for funny, but this actually sounds pretty insightful.
#1: De managing company should have made sure that the "failure" messages would reach them without the intervention of a human. Maybe by just emailing them.
Exactly, if you need to rely on end users for receiving failure messages for an absolutely essential service, you have failed horribly.
I've also used PDroid and LBE Privacy Guard: https://play.google.com/store/... The latter seems to have gone to shit, though. It always was ran at a layer too high to allow it to catch everything reliably anyway.
PDroid was great if your ROM supported it. The original version isn't maintained anymore, but replacements seem to have popped up: https://play.google.com/store/...
In general though, using a CyanogenMod ROM with privacy features is definitely the easiest route. Which is what I do.
Many monitors already support 24000/1001Hz refresh rates.
But yes, playing video with the FreeSync technology is going to be a possibility. For the sub-R290 AMD cards it will actually be the only supported mode (i.e. no FreeSync gaming support).
This is a 'fad' that has been going strong for (at least!) two decades. If you want to limit it to the FPS-genre, the multiplayer aspect has been extremely popular ever since it was an option. If you take Quake (1996) as the start of (serious) multiplayer FPS-gaming and Wolfenstein 3D (1992) as the start of the FPS-genre, multiplayer FPS-gaming has been (again: extremely) popular for the last 19 years out of the 23 years of existence of the FPS-genre.
I have to work for a living and I have a wife & kids.... which means I don't hide in my Mommy's basement every night
Such a mature thing to say. You've really added to this discussion by generalizing and deriding everybody who plays multiplayer FPSs and the concept of multiplayer FPS in general.
Very weird, either my memory is failing me hard (although I can vividly remember the setting in which I typed on the keyboard), or I'm mixing up the K750 with another solar powered Logitech keyboard, or the K750 has changed over the years.
The K750 I can find on the web does seem to have the (awesome) incurve keys and the 'PerfectStroke' mechanism. The keys also seem to be of the slightly soft smooth plastic I was talking about. If that is indeed the case, then I guess we've been lauding the same sort of keyboard from the start of this thread (although the key separation and key size seem slightly different between the K750 and the K800).
I've typed on the K750 and its keys are absolutely dreadful compared to the ones on the K800, and I'm not exaggerating here.
The keys on the K750 are completely flat, save for a little bit of microrelief, and made of hard plastic. That combination makes it very easy for your fingers to slide off them and onto keys you don't want to press or just tilting them if you don't hit them in the middle. The keys of the K800 are much more forgiving: I can jab at them at a ridiculously acute angle and/or hit them on the corners and still have accurate keystrokes.
I will add a disclaimer, though: I don't bash the keys very hard as some people like to do (what are they trying to accomplish?) and I don't (often) play any high-stress games that make me apply a large amount of force to the keys. I could imagine that the K800 wouldn't survive such treatment for long (although many keyboards wouldn't, I guess).
The Logitech K800 is an absolutely awesome keyboard. - Wireless, but charges via microUSB. - Accepts regular rechargeable NiMH AA batteries. - Has a proper numeric keypad - Has just the right set of media keys - The keys are low-profile, slightly curved inwards and slightly soft, making for very pleasant, silent, light and accurate strokes. - Proximity activated variable intensity backlight - Bog-standard layout (large enter key, 2x3 normally sized insert, del, etc.)
But again, mainly: the typing experience is the best I've ever experienced, including my experiences with the IBM Model M.
Mine has been going strong since 2011 and looks and feels like I just bought it, even though I use it intensively for 12h+ a workday (working from home as a programmer).
Accuracy tells us very, very little, without information on the number of false positives. In short, we need to know what the chance is that you have cancer if the dog indicates you do, which is TP / (TP + FP). It's easy to see that the number of FPs has a big influence.
You should see it more in terms of power. Let me provide you with a car analogy: 1080p is like 1080hp and 200p is like 200hp.
Now do you understand why resolution is so important?! POWERRRR! An Xbox game with 720hp is obviously inferior to a Playstation game with 900hp!
On a serious note: in an FPS, the difference between 320x200 and 1920x1080 does make for a difference in the ability to play the game (remember going back to Quake in 320x200 after having played GLQuake?). The same can be said for interface-heavy games or games where a high 'depth of field' (overview with details visible) is required, such as an RTS or (MMO)RPG. I agree that a high resolution is not necessary to make a good game, but some good games do require or benefit from a high resolution.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure that learning Visual Basic and 'programming' in Excel will actually give you an edge on your business professional peers.
Last time I checked, Excel was the hammer of choice for most businesses (maybe combined with SPSS), not R (I'm not sure if any business even uses it).
Ironically, if you focus on Google Spreadsheets, learning Javascript (and the Google APIs) is what is required if you want to do more advanced stuff.
It's a shame that GP got modded up instead of you.
If Slashdot is to remain interesting, it needs to lay off retarded 'news' like this and keep providing proper news. I saw the headline and the phrase that came to mind was: "Jesus Christ, what the fuck, Slashdot. You're not even trying anymore."
The sad part is as you described: The same arguments. Every year. I know we all like redundancy, but I'm pretty sure the DST-discussion doesn't need annual copies.
Exactly, 'a split second' is actually a well defined thing called 'reaction time', which ranges in the tens to hundreds of milliseconds and is provably related to the distance between brain and the origin of the signal in the body.
'Quantum [whatever]' really brings out the Dunning-Kruger in the comment section.
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Another wall of text. Don't you tire of hearing yourself talk? Here's an English word for you to research: brevity.
Just because you are too fucking lazy or incompetent to read more than 3 paragraphs at a time, doesn't mean there's something wrong with the content.
To recap, you and another person took cheap thread hijacking shots at people who think it's more appropriate to regulate certain items at the State level. The original post was informative and apolitical, adding value to the headline story. You two hijacked it in order to share an unrelated and ill-informed political opinion.
When confronted with that opinion I simply pointed out what American law actually says about the regulation of alcohol. You then dismissed this simple fact as "irrelevant" and accused me of contributing noise to the thread that you hijacked.
You are hilarious. You recognize and dismiss the concept of thread hijacking, yet completely fail to see how that is exactly what my initial reply in this thread was about and what I've been accusing you of all along.
Go away, you clearly have nothing interesting to add to this discussion.
The 21st Amendment is hardly irrelevant in a conversation about the regulation of alcohol in the United States. Why don't you go read it?
Because it is irrelevant. You changed the subject from 'the hypocrisy of ostensibly libertarian conservatives in drug regulation' to 'this is what the Constitution says about the level at which alcohol should be regulated'.
It's like talking about morning dew when somebody says "rain makes you wet" and then argues that rain is very relevant to wetness.
At what level should the Chinese, the Russians or the Europeans regulate drugs?
That's not for me to decide.
I wasn't asking you to decide anything, dickwad. I was making the point that your wat of thinking is extremely limited and therefore ultimately useless.
I don't interject myself into the domestic political debate of other countries. Why don't you show me the same courtesy?
Because I am not intellectually lazy. I compare and criticize the systems employed by countries on their merits and reasoning instead of limiting my view to my own little island.
Also, technically that was a loaded question (fallacy) and a straw man, considering that you implied that it is a courtesy to 'not interject yourself into a domestic political debate of other countries', which it isn't.
Do you even understand the meaning of the word arbitrary?
Yes I do. Amazingly enough, English is my native language. Do you understand the concept of Federalism in the United States of America? That's a rhetorical question, obviously you don't, if you did you would not claim that the States are an "arbitrary level" of Government.
Your grasp of the English language is saddening. I'll explain it in simple terms:
Consider an elevator in a building with five floors.
Is floor two in itself an 'arbitrary floor'?
No, no, it is not.
Now imagine that you have to lay carpet on all floors. Which floor do you go to first? Which one second?
That, my friend, is arbitrary.
Unless there is sensible reasoning to make a distinction, for the decision at hand the individual choices are equivalent. Comparing floor 1 to floor 3 is as irrelevant as comparing floor 2 to floor 3. You can choose an arbitrary floor and compare it to another arbitrary floor.
Get it yet?
Protip: "It's in the 21st Amendment" is not sensible reasoning. It is an appeal to authority (fallacy).
Nice wall of text. I stopped reading around the second paragraph.
Sentences like these really put your ignorance on display.
Government control on [arbitrary level] == TYRANNY
Government control on [slightly lower arbitrary level] == THE WAY IT IS AND WAS ALWAYS MEANT TO BE
On the issue at hand, i.e., the regulation of alcohol, this is the way that it is and was always meant to be.
Do you even understand the meaning of the word arbitrary?
Are you able to think outside of your national box? At what level should the Chinese, the Russians or the Europeans regulate drugs?
You see, the issue of whether to regulate drugs at all and to what extent is something the entire fucking planet struggles with. Along comes somebody who notes that so called 'small government' conservatives hypocritically want to regulate the shit out of drug consumption and inevitably some Constitution-beating asshole like yourself feels the need to derail the thread by injecting irrelevant shortsighted crap about said Constitution into it, precluding any chance of a meaningful and constructive discussion on the virtues and vices of drug regulation in general.
Which is still the most interesting part here. Do you believe drugs should be government regulated? Please don't say: 'yes, at the state level', or I will be forced to weep uncontrollably for this world.
If you do believe they should be, based on what criteria? Also which limitations should there be?
I'm sorry that you can't understand that. Why don't you bugger off and join a political conversation about whatever shit hole country it is that you call home?
Weak. Notice how I haven't slammed the USA at any point in this thread. If you want to talk shit, direct it at me, not my country. Also: you might believe in American Exceptionalism, but apart from military power the USA hasn't exactly been the number one in many positive lists for a while now. I would definitely not call the USA a shit hole, but let's just say there are at least 20 countries I'd rather live in than in the USA.
You obviously can't be bothered to learn about mine.
False and a straw man. Whether I wish to learn about the USA has no influence on the fact that your contribution to this thread was irrelevant and thus noise. For the record: I probably know more about the judicial system of the USA than its average inhabitant (which is mostly a sad reality).
Firstly: Nice reasoning there, asshole. Progressives championed the Prohibition. Whoopty-fucking-doo. That completely and definitively proves that 'small government' Conservatives don't want to regulate more than they claim. Because fuck logic.
(It's called a 'tu quoque', a fallacy most commonly committed on school playgrounds)
I'll explain it to you: even if 'Progressives' were or are the evilest, nastiest scum-sucking Nazi bastards that have ever existed, that says nothing about conservative people.
Let me make it even clearer: If I say 'You have a tiny dick' and you say 'Well, your dick is smaller', your dick will not have grown. It is still tiny.
Secondly: I wasn't equating anything. I was urging you to let go of your knee-jerk 'look-at-my-knowledge-of-the-Holy-Constitution' reaction to the combination of the words 'regulate' and 'state'. Which, again, was a completely irrelevant reaction.
Let's look at this again. Your reaction was this:
"Have you read the 21st Amendment? You don't have to make some theoretical "States rights" argument when it comes to alcohol; the control of "intoxicating liquors" is very clearly delegated to the States."
To this:
"It is always a valid discussion at what level certain executive and legislative decisions should be made, but don't pretend that shifting them a level up or down changes anything meaningful in the appraisal of 'small ~' versus 'big government'."
Your reaction is a complete non sequitur. It supports nor discredits what I said and is thus irrelevant. QED.
The point was and is that many of those who cry for 'small government' show that their clamoring is disingenuous by showing their hypocrisy in wanting to regulate the shit out of the things that do not align with their conservative world view. There are very surely a number of truly libertarian ('liberal' in the rest of the world) people out there to whom this does not apply, but they are quite certainly a small minority.
In this thread, I don't give a shit about the laws in your specific country, because they are irrelevant. interkin3tic was making a point about how those who clamor 'small government' at every fucking turn want to regulate the shit out of a lot of things.
Put in simpler terms, they say: "We don't want to limit your freedom, like those other guys. Well.. Except for your freedom in consuming drugs. Drugs are bad, mmkay. Oh, and abortion. Don't do that. Or love a man if you are one."
Now do you understand that pointing this out says nothing about the governmental level on which such things are regulated? Nothing.
If you still do not understand, replace the word 'States' with the word 'Areas' in interkin3tic's post and then look at how nonsensical the bullshit-replies about the Constitution are.
You people are hilarious.
Government control on [arbitrary level] == TYRANNY
Government control on [slightly lower arbitrary level] == THE WAY IT IS AND WAS ALWAYS MEANT TO BE
Just accept that some things should be dealt with collectively, regardless of the exact level.
It is always a valid discussion at what level certain executive and legislative decisions should be made, but don't pretend that shifting them a level up or down changes anything meaningful in the appraisal of 'small ~' versus 'big government'.
Also: muscles just aren't amazing as springs.
They're ok, but not as good as proper springs (ask the IAAF and Oscar Pistorius -- Philosoraptor: "Maybe we should give the elderly these blades instead of lower legs? Will old people lead the cybernetic revolution?").
It's like comparing a car with regenerative braking to one without (yes, also a car analogy). It's easy to see that the energetic cost of any added weight is easily offset by the reduced loss of energy to friction.
The answer is simple and consists of two questions:
1. How stable is the entity behind what you are going to learn? (Protip: Google and Apple are going to be around for a bit longer than most loosely associated groups of hipster developers)
2. Which of the choices has the most answered questions online (yes, probably on stackoverflow)?
(1) can alternatively be written as 'how stable is the framework/language you are learning?'
(2) can also be seen as 'Which of the choices has the most supportive and/or largest community?'
They boil down to the same, though.
My advice: do it native. Android and iOS devving is really quite easy if you don't want to do anything fancy and do it properly. If you do want to do anything fancy, you're going to have to go pretty deep anyway and hybrid frameworks are just going to get in your way.
I (single handedly) spent about 5-6 months creating a PHP backend and a native Android app, whilst the specs were changing. I had to design and implement the structure of the app and that of the backend, etc. I've started working on the iOS version 1 month ago and it is about done (maybe two more weeks). Mind you: this is not because iOS development is easier than Android development (they both have their quirks), but already having a stable backend and a proven structure of the app code allows me to basically translate the Android code to Objective C without much thinking. The core issues in the system design have already been dealt with. It's just implementing a stable design based on stable specs, which we all know is the easiest part of software development.
Exactly. Can we stop calling everybody who posts something bad on the internet a 'troll'?
It's bad enough that the luddites are doing it, but Slashdot should keep true to the meaning of the word 'trolling'.
Maybe that's true for a lot of people, but the frustration, general bad temper inducing, sheer passive-aggressive baulkiness of the damn thing made me very glad I don't have to deal with it regularly.
Maybe there will never be much understanding either way, but the silly finger-pointing name-calling from one camp to the other is childish, tribal and idiotic.
Developing complex drivers can cost millions, but the testing isn't nearly as costly. Much of it is automated. Do you think that Intel, AMD and Nvidia spend millions of dollars a month just on testing?
No, they just release them as betas and wait for the bug reports to roll in. Why pay for testers if so many people will test for you for free?
I started writing this post going for funny, but this actually sounds pretty insightful.
GP is still right, though. The wavelength encodes which channel the photon is on and is thus information contained in a single photon.
Apparently about 160 channels is today's upper limit for fiber: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
That's 8 bits, right there.
#1: De managing company should have made sure that the "failure" messages would reach them without the intervention of a human. Maybe by just emailing them.
Exactly, if you need to rely on end users for receiving failure messages for an absolutely essential service, you have failed horribly.
There are more answers: https://github.com/M66B/XPriva...
I've also used PDroid and LBE Privacy Guard: https://play.google.com/store/...
The latter seems to have gone to shit, though. It always was ran at a layer too high to allow it to catch everything reliably anyway.
PDroid was great if your ROM supported it. The original version isn't maintained anymore, but replacements seem to have popped up:
https://play.google.com/store/...
In general though, using a CyanogenMod ROM with privacy features is definitely the easiest route. Which is what I do.
Many monitors already support 24000/1001Hz refresh rates.
But yes, playing video with the FreeSync technology is going to be a possibility. For the sub-R290 AMD cards it will actually be the only supported mode (i.e. no FreeSync gaming support).
the multiplayer fad
This is a 'fad' that has been going strong for (at least!) two decades. If you want to limit it to the FPS-genre, the multiplayer aspect has been extremely popular ever since it was an option. If you take Quake (1996) as the start of (serious) multiplayer FPS-gaming and Wolfenstein 3D (1992) as the start of the FPS-genre, multiplayer FPS-gaming has been (again: extremely) popular for the last 19 years out of the 23 years of existence of the FPS-genre.
I have to work for a living and I have a wife & kids.... which means I don't hide in my Mommy's basement every night
Such a mature thing to say.
You've really added to this discussion by generalizing and deriding everybody who plays multiplayer FPSs and the concept of multiplayer FPS in general.
Go be a complaining old asshole somewhere else.
Very weird, either my memory is failing me hard (although I can vividly remember the setting in which I typed on the keyboard), or I'm mixing up the K750 with another solar powered Logitech keyboard, or the K750 has changed over the years.
The K750 I can find on the web does seem to have the (awesome) incurve keys and the 'PerfectStroke' mechanism. The keys also seem to be of the slightly soft smooth plastic I was talking about. If that is indeed the case, then I guess we've been lauding the same sort of keyboard from the start of this thread (although the key separation and key size seem slightly different between the K750 and the K800).
I've typed on the K750 and its keys are absolutely dreadful compared to the ones on the K800, and I'm not exaggerating here.
The keys on the K750 are completely flat, save for a little bit of microrelief, and made of hard plastic. That combination makes it very easy for your fingers to slide off them and onto keys you don't want to press or just tilting them if you don't hit them in the middle. The keys of the K800 are much more forgiving: I can jab at them at a ridiculously acute angle and/or hit them on the corners and still have accurate keystrokes.
I will add a disclaimer, though: I don't bash the keys very hard as some people like to do (what are they trying to accomplish?) and I don't (often) play any high-stress games that make me apply a large amount of force to the keys. I could imagine that the K800 wouldn't survive such treatment for long (although many keyboards wouldn't, I guess).
The Logitech K800 is an absolutely awesome keyboard.
- Wireless, but charges via microUSB.
- Accepts regular rechargeable NiMH AA batteries.
- Has a proper numeric keypad
- Has just the right set of media keys
- The keys are low-profile, slightly curved inwards and slightly soft, making for very pleasant, silent, light and accurate strokes.
- Proximity activated variable intensity backlight
- Bog-standard layout (large enter key, 2x3 normally sized insert, del, etc.)
But again, mainly: the typing experience is the best I've ever experienced, including my experiences with the IBM Model M.
Mine has been going strong since 2011 and looks and feels like I just bought it, even though I use it intensively for 12h+ a workday (working from home as a programmer).
Accuracy tells us very, very little, without information on the number of false positives. In short, we need to know what the chance is that you have cancer if the dog indicates you do, which is TP / (TP + FP). It's easy to see that the number of FPs has a big influence.
Explained further here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
This is one of the best visualizations of it: http://ampp3d.mirror.co.uk/201...
See also this Wikipedia page for a good overview of different measures like accuracy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
You should see it more in terms of power. Let me provide you with a car analogy:
1080p is like 1080hp and 200p is like 200hp.
Now do you understand why resolution is so important?! POWERRRR!
An Xbox game with 720hp is obviously inferior to a Playstation game with 900hp!
On a serious note: in an FPS, the difference between 320x200 and 1920x1080 does make for a difference in the ability to play the game (remember going back to Quake in 320x200 after having played GLQuake?). The same can be said for interface-heavy games or games where a high 'depth of field' (overview with details visible) is required, such as an RTS or (MMO)RPG. I agree that a high resolution is not necessary to make a good game, but some good games do require or benefit from a high resolution.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that learning Visual Basic and 'programming' in Excel will actually give you an edge on your business professional peers.
Last time I checked, Excel was the hammer of choice for most businesses (maybe combined with SPSS), not R (I'm not sure if any business even uses it).
Ironically, if you focus on Google Spreadsheets, learning Javascript (and the Google APIs) is what is required if you want to do more advanced stuff.
It's a shame that GP got modded up instead of you.
If Slashdot is to remain interesting, it needs to lay off retarded 'news' like this and keep providing proper news. I saw the headline and the phrase that came to mind was: "Jesus Christ, what the fuck, Slashdot. You're not even trying anymore."
The sad part is as you described: The same arguments. Every year. I know we all like redundancy, but I'm pretty sure the DST-discussion doesn't need annual copies.
and each of them lived in 4-5 different time zones.
There is a 'yo mamma' joke in here somewhere.
Exactly, 'a split second' is actually a well defined thing called 'reaction time', which ranges in the tens to hundreds of milliseconds and is provably related to the distance between brain and the origin of the signal in the body.
'Quantum [whatever]' really brings out the Dunning-Kruger in the comment section.