I wonder why ads bother people so much. Especially on the kindle where the ads are unobtrusive (you only see them on the power-off screensaver). My kindle came with ads disabled, and I got bored with the default images of authors, so I turned the ads on to get $50 refunded to my account.
It's on the lock screen, which means that like the eInk model, your battery life will be crippled because these ads will be displayed and cycled when in theory your device should be idle (in the case of the eInk versions) or have the screen off (in the case of the LCD versions).
I think we can all understand where Amazon is coming from here -- although given that we pay good money for the device kinda harms their case somewhat. However, I would really have preferred they find a different way to do this.
For example, a faux "loading" screen the first time you unlock the device after ~15 minutes which displays an ad. Book themed ads in the UI. That sort of thing.
Penny Arcade is a gamer webcomic, I believe the first gamer webcomic -- if not the first, then definitely the most successful.
E3 was an expo for Electronic Entertainment (games), but a few years back they decided to throw out the dirty hippies (gamers), which understandably pissed a large number of people off. On the other hand, it was completely out of control and the focus (a press event) was lost.
So, deciding that was quite absurd, the Penny Arcade guys decided to have their own Expo, and the timing was just right that all the people not allowed to go to E3, went to PAX. And it kind of exploded from there. PAX is now "the" place to get hype about your upcoming game / console / etc set up, especially among the actual consumers.
It's also a great place to trade Pokemon and Dragon Quest 9 maps.
"Rape"? The case involves him failing to use a condom. The ladies involved have recanted. The prosecutor tried to drop the charges.
This whole thing is so disgustingly shady that anyone who spends more than 5 minutes looking at it realizes it's a set up to try and get him into a US or UK controlled area so he can be disposed of properly.
Arresting a national hero like that probably wasn't the wisest thing to do. We are talking a Russian Chess Champion, something which is what we measure high end super computers against.
Yes, but from the Article:
Mr. Kasparov, a contributing editor of The Wall Street Journal, is the leader of the Russian pro-democracy group United Civil Front and chairman of the U.S.-based Human Rights Foundation. He resides in Moscow.
He may be a chess champion, but he's also a Journalist, a political rival of Putin, and a known political dissident. Given Russia's history of problems dealing with all 3, Mr. Kasparov should probably count his lucky stars he's still alive today.
This wouldnt work if the user simple opened the file (from the equivalent of Explorer in mac, by double clicking the file (which I believe is the most common way to play a video), or clicking on open from Firefox). And most of the videos in my laptop are in the same folder "Downloads". If I had to go up a directory, open Downloads under MplayerX, and wade though the videos to select the one I want to play, I would be really frustrated (and would start looking for alternative players).
Like, for example, the player that Apple makes, which presumably won't have this problem. A happy coincidence for Apple, for sure.
Please consider Barack Obama when you vote for president in November. The other guy's fans spam Slashdot first posts with far right conspiracy theories and lies. We cannot afford four more years of wingnut first post trolling and becoming reliant on -1, Offtopic moderation. It would be our undoing. Thank you for your consideration.
Worse than that, by doing this, they're showing, legally, that they CAN do this.
I bet Google will figure out they can even include sponsored links at the top of search results, too!
I know you're being snarky with this comment, but I do need to point out that they have been sued over "sponsored links." Competitors getting upset when they see the other guy at the top of the search results, for example.
Every decision after that became suspect. The drop rates, the difficulty levels, even the layouts of the maps. Everything can (and has been) designed to push people towards the RMT AH. They have a direct economic incentive to do so.
And yet they took decision that undermine RM AH significantly. In the gold AH, the 10 auctions max, 38 hours minimum wait time, means that you need a lot of time to extract maximum value from your loot. That means that you can find lots of cheap ( = 50K gold and below) that are dumped on the AH all the time. Inflation on good objects (the ones you need to kill diablo in inferno) is quite limited - I spent less than 100K gold to be fully geared for inferno act 1 and 2, that is a quantity of gold that you get by playing normally through the game (didn't do any farming, never used the AH until Act 3 hell)
You only need the real money AH to buy the very very best objects in the game, but there is really no gameplay need. Blizzard could have done a lot more if they really wanted to drive people to the real money AH.
Ah, but you're forgetting part two of Blizzard's nefarious plan:
Fill the Diablo 3 team with morons.
I have no idea how a company that has ran WOW alongside 3 WOW expansions could have forgotten to add a freaking Login Queue. And that's just the lowest of low hanging fruit. We're not talking about the story of Diablo 3 (Note to Blizzard: Go back to ripping off Games-Workshop, they have better writers than you), or the AH, or yeah, a billion different things that made that game a giant mess.
I guess my point is, them screwing up the execution does not preclude them having a really shitty "big idea" that they founded the rest of their design on.
If a search engine abandon neutrality this way. Then why not avoid violent sites? porn sites? sites with bad spelling? sites that are not political correct? where is the line here?. You must have a line, that you will never cross, because some people will push you more and more.
Worse than that, by doing this, they're showing, legally, that they CAN do this. Which means the next time some RIAA shitwaffle decides to Google for their latest "Generic Movie Content" blockbuster and finds it, welp, that means it's Google's fault now...
No, Blizzard realized there were still people selling runes 10 years after D2's release and thought: Christ, why aren't we getting a piece of that action?
Every decision after that became suspect. The drop rates, the difficulty levels, even the layouts of the maps. Everything can (and has been) designed to push people towards the RMT AH. They have a direct economic incentive to do so.
No Jeans. Ever. You're not stacking pallets. Unfortunately yes, it is the end of your days of jeans.
Slacks, not Khakis (except, perhaps, on Friday). Black. Maybe grey, depending on how it looks with the rest of your clothes. Black goes with everything, so if all else fails, go black.
Shirt: Button down, opaque, no logos. Undershirt should not be visible (white t-shirt works best). Yes, you are expected to wear two layers of shirt. I would suggest solid colors, although some of the HR and Management guys at my job look decent in plaid and other simple patterns.
The pants and shirt I have in my assigned uniform are a polyester/cotton blend. They don't breathe, at all, but they are nearly indestructible.
Shoes: Black, polishable. Not sneakers. Ask a buddy of yours in the military to help you pick out a good pair of dress shoes / boots, if nothing else. The military guys I work with always have excellent looking boots that they swear are comfortable enough to wear for 16+ hours without killing you. I'm certain some military slashdotter can reply here with suggestions for good, comfortable, decent looking boots.
Socks: Black, not white. Preferably not athletic socks, although you can usually get away with them. You can't get away with white socks. Black.
Tie: Optional for techs, usually. If not, go for a bow tie. Bow ties are cool.
For some it will be good. For some bad. The diversity of life has historically increased with warming. Coastal cities won't like a sea level rise though.
Darfur. The huge mess down there is being exasperated because traditional sources of water are drying up, forcing social and political change.
Personally, I'm less worried about the coastal cities getting submerged as I am about the majority of farmland becoming arid deserts. Combine this with peak oil also driving food prices up and we have quite the clusterfuck on our hands.
I'm sure that most of us are. It seems that our only recourse, though, is to simply not buy Apple products to show them we disapprove of their actions. Good luck getting the masses to part with their iToys though.
Similarly, those of us who think Samsung are in the wrong will avoid buying "iToy" ripoffs.
Aren't we at least two or three decades past the transitional "women coming into the workplace" period? Aren't practically all the guys that would be old enough for this to even remotely be a problem for already retired?
No, we're really not. Most IT people I know are autistic geeks who have barely ever spoken to women, yet alone worked with them.
Yes, this includes myself, thank you for pointing that out.
However, if this guy is so terrified that there will be issues (and lets be honest, he's probably right) then he needs to pull his team aside and say "Guys, if there are issues, HR is going to get involved, and no manner of silly fucking ties are going to save your jobs."
And if he's management, he probably should play it safe with a CYA meeting with HR -- "I have some concerns about my team integrating with a female employee." Because shit may roll downhill, but stench rises.
Your limited on what you can do with the tablet. This is fine if you're really, really into Amazon and don't get movies from varied sources, for example. As an Android tablet, it's severely crippled.
Point of order: The current Fire is "severely crippled." We have no idea if the Fire 2 ("Blaze" or "Ember" or whatnot) will be as crippled.
glasses bolted to ones head as it records and processes images, people seem to think that computer imaging is passive, like the computer just does things without storing it in memory first
If I need to take my glasses off I can no problem, and I actually need them
I know you're just trying to make a luddite point ("the nerd is just being a spoiled creep" style thing) but he's worn these Augmented Reality systems for over 20 years, he now literally needs them to be able to function, per the old articles on when the TSA harassed him, if he takes it off he has vision problems and becomes disoriented.
Indications are that he uses this stuff for augmentation of reality, not for regular day-to-day life.
Yes, he should have learned. That if he's different, people will assault him. And get away with it. Because he's different.... What is he supposed to have learned, exactly?
his headgears sole purpose is to record images and to process them, and he wears them 24/7
just being there he recorded every moment of the transaction, its not like he said stop a moment let me whip out my celphone, fumble with a few buttons, get out of the sunlight so we can see whats going on
the dude has a HD camera affixed to his head dumbass
Actually, it doesn't record them at all. It would be like someone being thrown out of a business because he was wearing glasses, and as we all know, lenses made out of glass are the devil's work.
Don't fall for the trolls. If you have been reading the replies en mass, you'll note there's an AC with this "Writing style" replying over and over with very similar, inflammatory points, trying to rile people up. It's just some luddite kid trying to piss off the "nerds," don't give him attention.
Weigh all the evidence before leaping to judgment. This is the last "restaurant" I would consider for any meal in Paris. Perhaps he had tastebud implants, too?
IF you are an American, perhaps Canadian tourist, McDs has a subconscious connotation in one's mind at being:
1. Fast 2. Relatively cheap 3. Somewhat filling
Which is why they place them in tourist areas. Mentally, the decision is McDs (Fast, Cheap, Filling) vs "French Food" (Good, Slow, Expensive).
i can't stop thinking that yes, his device DOES store images in long term memory.
that IS recording. so he outright lied about not taking pictures with the device.
other than that, i think that their reasons were probably that they have illegal stuff going on at that store. like illegal labor or something.
Except you are thinking wrong. It does not have a long term memory. The device was damaged and froze up, leaving the buffer (which is overwritten every few minutes) intact due to the device having been bashed by a worker trying to remove it, then the motherboard having been damaged when he had a bladder failure from their assault on his person.
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I wonder why ads bother people so much. Especially on the kindle where the ads are unobtrusive (you only see them on the power-off screensaver). My kindle came with ads disabled, and I got bored with the default images of authors, so I turned the ads on to get $50 refunded to my account.
It's on the lock screen, which means that like the eInk model, your battery life will be crippled because these ads will be displayed and cycled when in theory your device should be idle (in the case of the eInk versions) or have the screen off (in the case of the LCD versions).
I think we can all understand where Amazon is coming from here -- although given that we pay good money for the device kinda harms their case somewhat. However, I would really have preferred they find a different way to do this.
For example, a faux "loading" screen the first time you unlock the device after ~15 minutes which displays an ad. Book themed ads in the UI. That sort of thing.
Never heard of it
We're all getting old.
Penny Arcade is a gamer webcomic, I believe the first gamer webcomic -- if not the first, then definitely the most successful.
E3 was an expo for Electronic Entertainment (games), but a few years back they decided to throw out the dirty hippies (gamers), which understandably pissed a large number of people off. On the other hand, it was completely out of control and the focus (a press event) was lost.
So, deciding that was quite absurd, the Penny Arcade guys decided to have their own Expo, and the timing was just right that all the people not allowed to go to E3, went to PAX. And it kind of exploded from there. PAX is now "the" place to get hype about your upcoming game / console / etc set up, especially among the actual consumers.
It's also a great place to trade Pokemon and Dragon Quest 9 maps.
I didn't know what to tell him... the only thing I could come up with was something like "...but... what about all the bones...?"
Oh oh oh, I know this one: "They were sent there by Satan to confuse and test us."
"Rape"? The case involves him failing to use a condom. The ladies involved have recanted. The prosecutor tried to drop the charges.
This whole thing is so disgustingly shady that anyone who spends more than 5 minutes looking at it realizes it's a set up to try and get him into a US or UK controlled area so he can be disposed of properly.
You can play it several different ways.
Arresting a national hero like that probably wasn't the wisest thing to do. We are talking a Russian Chess Champion, something which is what we measure high end super computers against.
Yes, but from the Article:
Mr. Kasparov, a contributing editor of The Wall Street Journal, is the leader of the Russian pro-democracy group United Civil Front and chairman of the U.S.-based Human Rights Foundation. He resides in Moscow.
He may be a chess champion, but he's also a Journalist, a political rival of Putin, and a known political dissident. Given Russia's history of problems dealing with all 3, Mr. Kasparov should probably count his lucky stars he's still alive today.
This wouldnt work if the user simple opened the file (from the equivalent of Explorer in mac, by double clicking the file (which I believe is the most common way to play a video), or clicking on open from Firefox). And most of the videos in my laptop are in the same folder "Downloads". If I had to go up a directory, open Downloads under MplayerX, and wade though the videos to select the one I want to play, I would be really frustrated (and would start looking for alternative players).
Like, for example, the player that Apple makes, which presumably won't have this problem. A happy coincidence for Apple, for sure.
Please consider Barack Obama when you vote for president in November. The other guy's fans spam Slashdot first posts with far right conspiracy theories and lies. We cannot afford four more years of wingnut first post trolling and becoming reliant on -1, Offtopic moderation. It would be our undoing. Thank you for your consideration.
I bet Google will figure out they can even include sponsored links at the top of search results, too!
I know you're being snarky with this comment, but I do need to point out that they have been sued over "sponsored links." Competitors getting upset when they see the other guy at the top of the search results, for example.
Indeed, thank you very much!
Every decision after that became suspect. The drop rates, the difficulty levels, even the layouts of the maps. Everything can (and has been) designed to push people towards the RMT AH. They have a direct economic incentive to do so.
And yet they took decision that undermine RM AH significantly. In the gold AH, the 10 auctions max, 38 hours minimum wait time, means that you need a lot of time to extract maximum value from your loot. That means that you can find lots of cheap ( = 50K gold and below) that are dumped on the AH all the time. Inflation on good objects (the ones you need to kill diablo in inferno) is quite limited - I spent less than 100K gold to be fully geared for inferno act 1 and 2, that is a quantity of gold that you get by playing normally through the game (didn't do any farming, never used the AH until Act 3 hell)
You only need the real money AH to buy the very very best objects in the game, but there is really no gameplay need. Blizzard could have done a lot more if they really wanted to drive people to the real money AH.
Ah, but you're forgetting part two of Blizzard's nefarious plan:
Fill the Diablo 3 team with morons.
I have no idea how a company that has ran WOW alongside 3 WOW expansions could have forgotten to add a freaking Login Queue. And that's just the lowest of low hanging fruit. We're not talking about the story of Diablo 3 (Note to Blizzard: Go back to ripping off Games-Workshop, they have better writers than you), or the AH, or yeah, a billion different things that made that game a giant mess.
I guess my point is, them screwing up the execution does not preclude them having a really shitty "big idea" that they founded the rest of their design on.
If a search engine abandon neutrality this way. Then why not avoid violent sites? porn sites? sites with bad spelling? sites that are not political correct? where is the line here?. You must have a line, that you will never cross, because some people will push you more and more.
Worse than that, by doing this, they're showing, legally, that they CAN do this. Which means the next time some RIAA shitwaffle decides to Google for their latest "Generic Movie Content" blockbuster and finds it, welp, that means it's Google's fault now...
No, Blizzard realized there were still people selling runes 10 years after D2's release and thought: Christ, why aren't we getting a piece of that action?
Every decision after that became suspect. The drop rates, the difficulty levels, even the layouts of the maps. Everything can (and has been) designed to push people towards the RMT AH. They have a direct economic incentive to do so.
No, I have it from good authority that bow ties are, in fact, cool. (Bill Nye also counts as an Authority.)
No Jeans. Ever. You're not stacking pallets. Unfortunately yes, it is the end of your days of jeans.
Slacks, not Khakis (except, perhaps, on Friday). Black. Maybe grey, depending on how it looks with the rest of your clothes. Black goes with everything, so if all else fails, go black.
Shirt: Button down, opaque, no logos. Undershirt should not be visible (white t-shirt works best). Yes, you are expected to wear two layers of shirt. I would suggest solid colors, although some of the HR and Management guys at my job look decent in plaid and other simple patterns.
The pants and shirt I have in my assigned uniform are a polyester/cotton blend. They don't breathe, at all, but they are nearly indestructible.
Shoes: Black, polishable. Not sneakers. Ask a buddy of yours in the military to help you pick out a good pair of dress shoes / boots, if nothing else. The military guys I work with always have excellent looking boots that they swear are comfortable enough to wear for 16+ hours without killing you. I'm certain some military slashdotter can reply here with suggestions for good, comfortable, decent looking boots.
Socks: Black, not white. Preferably not athletic socks, although you can usually get away with them. You can't get away with white socks. Black.
Tie: Optional for techs, usually. If not, go for a bow tie. Bow ties are cool.
...is global warming good or bad.
For some it will be good. For some bad. The diversity of life has historically increased with warming. Coastal cities won't like a sea level rise though.
Darfur. The huge mess down there is being exasperated because traditional sources of water are drying up, forcing social and political change.
Personally, I'm less worried about the coastal cities getting submerged as I am about the majority of farmland becoming arid deserts. Combine this with peak oil also driving food prices up and we have quite the clusterfuck on our hands.
I'm sure that most of us are. It seems that our only recourse, though, is to simply not buy Apple products to show them we disapprove of their actions. Good luck getting the masses to part with their iToys though.
Similarly, those of us who think Samsung are in the wrong will avoid buying "iToy" ripoffs.
Aren't we at least two or three decades past the transitional "women coming into the workplace" period? Aren't practically all the guys that would be old enough for this to even remotely be a problem for already retired?
No, we're really not. Most IT people I know are autistic geeks who have barely ever spoken to women, yet alone worked with them.
Yes, this includes myself, thank you for pointing that out.
However, if this guy is so terrified that there will be issues (and lets be honest, he's probably right) then he needs to pull his team aside and say "Guys, if there are issues, HR is going to get involved, and no manner of silly fucking ties are going to save your jobs."
And if he's management, he probably should play it safe with a CYA meeting with HR -- "I have some concerns about my team integrating with a female employee." Because shit may roll downhill, but stench rises.
How do I tell my HR drone that the boss is a greedy Jew rat that's too busy counting shekels to notice that he's a curse upon the earth?
Redundant. They know he's a greedy number cruncher, that's why he was promoted.
Your limited on what you can do with the tablet. This is fine if you're really, really into Amazon and don't get movies from varied sources, for example. As an Android tablet, it's severely crippled.
Point of order: The current Fire is "severely crippled." We have no idea if the Fire 2 ("Blaze" or "Ember" or whatnot) will be as crippled.
glasses bolted to ones head as it records and processes images, people seem to think that computer imaging is passive, like the computer just does things without storing it in memory first
If I need to take my glasses off I can no problem, and I actually need them
I know you're just trying to make a luddite point ("the nerd is just being a spoiled creep" style thing) but he's worn these Augmented Reality systems for over 20 years, he now literally needs them to be able to function, per the old articles on when the TSA harassed him, if he takes it off he has vision problems and becomes disoriented.
He got attention for similar stuff in 2002 http://it.slashdot.org/story/02/03/14/2051228/airport-security-vs-cyborg-steve-mann
Indications are that he uses this stuff for augmentation of reality, not for regular day-to-day life.
Yes, he should have learned. That if he's different, people will assault him. And get away with it. Because he's different. ... What is he supposed to have learned, exactly?
his headgears sole purpose is to record images and to process them, and he wears them 24/7
just being there he recorded every moment of the transaction, its not like he said stop a moment let me whip out my celphone, fumble with a few buttons, get out of the sunlight so we can see whats going on
the dude has a HD camera affixed to his head dumbass
Actually, it doesn't record them at all. It would be like someone being thrown out of a business because he was wearing glasses, and as we all know, lenses made out of glass are the devil's work.
Don't fall for the trolls. If you have been reading the replies en mass, you'll note there's an AC with this "Writing style" replying over and over with very similar, inflammatory points, trying to rile people up. It's just some luddite kid trying to piss off the "nerds," don't give him attention.
Weigh all the evidence before leaping to judgment. This is the last "restaurant" I would consider for any meal in Paris. Perhaps he had tastebud implants, too?
IF you are an American, perhaps Canadian tourist, McDs has a subconscious connotation in one's mind at being:
1. Fast
2. Relatively cheap
3. Somewhat filling
Which is why they place them in tourist areas. Mentally, the decision is McDs (Fast, Cheap, Filling) vs "French Food" (Good, Slow, Expensive).
i can't stop thinking that yes, his device DOES store images in long term memory.
that IS recording. so he outright lied about not taking pictures with the device.
other than that, i think that their reasons were probably that they have illegal stuff going on at that store. like illegal labor or something.
Except you are thinking wrong. It does not have a long term memory. The device was damaged and froze up, leaving the buffer (which is overwritten every few minutes) intact due to the device having been bashed by a worker trying to remove it, then the motherboard having been damaged when he had a bladder failure from their assault on his person.