Because it's not a minor story, it's a major story.
Let me put it like this: Remember the old joke about NASA spending a billion dollars developing a "space pen" that can write in zero gravity, and then finding the soviets were just using pencils?
Now, that'd have been newsworthy if it were true, right? And here's Google doing the same thing. "I just opened seven Youtube videos in new background tabs", says Sergey Brin, "and I can't tell which one is making noise! I need to know, fast, pronto, double quick!" he says to his chief engineer, "Find a solution that's as Google like as possible, smart, simple, and brilliant!"
So a team of engineers at Youtube has sat there, seriously, for whatever time it takes figuring out options to this, and they've decided, and Google's management have endorsed, a system of Animated page icons, with presumably everyone from graphic designers to their smartest CSS guy involved to make sure that everything is just right. And they have, without shame, announced this to the world.
Cueing an international round of headslaps as the rest of us point and say "The problem is that the video is PLAYING you idiots. Why would we want the video to play in a tab we just opened in the fucking background? Here's the problem."
And "Soviet Google", whatever that is (Apple? Microsoft? Altavista?) scrolls to line 27192 of the ActionScript in YouTube.flv, and point at a line that says:
// // OK, now everything's in position, we've loaded the player object, finally let's save the user a click //
video.play();
Soviet Google would have done this:
// // OK, now everything's in position, we've loaded the player object, finally let's save the user a click // Update: 2013-AUG-05 - Users don't want the thing to autoplay, actually they hate this, disabled - sg //
That would have been way too easy and that's what everyone asked for. No, for Google, the convoluted cheesy hack that doesn't solve the underlying problem is a much better idea.
The reactor near me is on the coast, I'm pretty certain it can deal with a storm surge - it'd be insane to place one there without thinking of that.
As far as reactor cooling etc, that seems to me to be an easily solved problem - you shut down the reactor when you know a hurricane is likely to hit, and I strong suspect that's exactly what FPL does.
Hurricanes there aren't any stronger than they are on the East Coast. I've lived through a fair number of hurricanes with a reactor barely ten miles away, and while I'm a Nuclear skeptic, I've never really doubted the strength of these structures and their ability to withstand nature's fury.
For myself, I found I just didn't like the characters in regular soaps. Most were too two-dimensional, and would frequently change personality just so that some screenwriter could create another new "crisis" out of left field. By selecting a better range of characters, each easily identified with, I was able to make the soap more realistic, compelling, and just a little smarter. Was particularly proud of quite a few story arcs, including the one where Trent fooled around with his brother Brent's wife, until Trent analysed the hair sample... of his so-called son. That one was awesome.
I know (sort of, it's a wrapper FWIW, slightly different but not much) - but I wanted to indicate what app is the subject of this article.
FWIW this also answers the whole "But it's Android so not GNU/Linux which we all call Linux because Stallman's a dirty smelly hippy" crap - the web version of Office works great under Firefox under Ubuntu.
You'd be surprised how many "Social Networking Experts" (every publisher has them on staff these days) believes that the site to clone is The Huffington Post. They actually believe that the reason why people visit isn't because it's a mix of populist crap and left-of-center news, the latter of which is lacking in virtually every news source that is associated with the former, but because of all the features that mean that your machine slows to a crawl with fans on full blast every time you visit.
I think, if anything, the fact their HD Wii isn't selling as well as their regular Wii shows that Nintendo's original disinterest in HD never hurt them.
Nobody is justifying making threats. All we're saying is that Jane Austin is just awful. Which she is.
Remember that the defense posted here is "OK, you may have compared her to Jerry Seinfeld, but I'm going to ignore that and pretend you hate her because you think she writes romantic fiction." If you cannot make an argument against someone's view without misrepresenting their view (and doing so to a point that's completely absurd), then you have no argument. Like Seinfeld, she writes low grade social observation comedy, often, but not always, centered around dating and the bizarre social rules that apply. And like Seinfeld, it just isn't that funny to most of us or even insightful or informative in a way a more sober description wouldn't be.
That'll encourage the government to avoid overturning patents its already granted given it's much easier to just keep saying "Our decision stands" than it is to overhaul the system of granting patents in the first place. Hard to see how that's a better deal.
Kinda funny thing really. Most people who have opinions on JA and P&P have done some kind of English Lit course. In these courses, you're generally expected to read the articles you comment on in full before commenting on them, largely because if you just read the first few words and immediately made an answer you'd, well, look like an imbecile.
Given your responses both to my original comment and to this one, perhaps, maybe, you should take one of these courses?
If you're reading e.g. Pride and Prejudice as a romance novel then you're basically missing out on most of what's there.
Well, it's a good job I'm not then.
There's a lot more there. If you look under the surface even slightly you will see a rather bleaker and very insightful social commentary. There's more to it than that as well. There's interesting observations and reflections on family interaction too. At the most basic level, it seems that parents will never cease to be an embarrassment to teenage children and vice versa.
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I think if you're under the impression that Jerry Seinfeld writes romantic fiction, and not social commentary, then perhaps, frankly you have no idea what you're talking about. I mean seriously, watch one episode of his tedious - almost as tedious as P&P show.
I don't think there's anything wrong with your summary. The GP's criticism of it doesn't make any sense, given the entire article is about "the death of root" having already happened in 4.3
Having read the article, I don't think that's a good summary of what he's saying at all.
Kondik is saying that Android 4.3 makes it harder to obtain root, with root via ADB being the only real root available. He's also saying that this is OK, because if he needs something that would normally need root, he doesn't actually need root because he pretty much already owns the operating system - he runs CM, and has the ability to modify it to do what he wants.
Kondik's not talking about reducing the need for root, he's saying it's probably not a problem that 4.3 cannot be rooted in the conventional sense because the work that had to be done to reduce the need for it has already been done.
Why Americans aren't using their 2nd amendment rights already to get rid of all these corrupt fucks is beyond me.
Because the people obsessed with "second amendment solutions" aren't bothered by the torture and killing of American's "enemies", they're bothered about being required to buy health insurance.
Actually I see no evidence whatsoever that anyone doesn't understand that in China you can buy a cheap knock off of pretty much anything that hasn't been tested by anybody. Perhaps you could point at comments (you misreplied to mine, but as I specifically pointed to the fact that it's easier to produce crap that doesn't work within spec as a factor here, we have to assume that was a mistake on your part because literacy) that underscore your thesis that nobody understands that in China, or anywhere else, it's easy to obtain cheap dangerous knock-offfs.
It's quite possible that given they're not using USB charging (albeit they're using something that can be indirectly charged by USB), that it's easier to build a "charger" that doesn't do so safely.
Essentially what we see here, yet again, is evidence that proprietary crap is a bad idea, and Apple shouldn't be doing it.
You're in the majority. Recent surveys, FWIW, show that transit accessable neighborhoods tend to have an 80% premium on them over equivalent suburban homes. Nobody in their right mind wants to have to drive everywhere, even if they want the ability to drive everywhere.
Alas a lot of suburbanites, like the GP, get ridiculously defensive about their lifestyles. They know it's inefficient and causes excessive tax burdens, and the last thing they want to admit is that they might, actually, be happier living in a home on a street that has a convenience store on the corner and a bus stop three minutes walk away.
The interests of his constituency, not the views. The views would be near damned impossible. How do you get 43.5% of a politician to vote for a ban on abortion, and 46.1% against, with 10.4% abstaining?
There's always been some notion of formula, what I believe Slate's point was however was that it's gotten pretty much to-the-numbers in recent years, thanks to a book that wouldn't be more specific if it was a "Fill in the words to make the story" thing.
For example, you can reasonably say Star Wars (or "A New Hope" if you're a young whippersnapper who doesn't know about these things and should get off my lawn) was based upon tried and tested formulae. I'm not in any way insulting Lucas by saying this, he's pretty much said it outright, actually pointing at the research he did into everything from Beowulf to Seven Samurai. However, nothing Lucas did was based upon a system that went into such detail that it told you every event that had to happen and what pages of the screenplay these events should occur at.
I think blockbuster-style movies have become increasingly formuliac over the last few decades, but there's a strong argument that they've become ridiculously so in the last few years. This article posits a reasonable explanation as to why, and should also serve to upset anyone who enjoyed, say, the latest Star Trek movie.
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Because it's not a minor story, it's a major story.
Let me put it like this: Remember the old joke about NASA spending a billion dollars developing a "space pen" that can write in zero gravity, and then finding the soviets were just using pencils?
Now, that'd have been newsworthy if it were true, right? And here's Google doing the same thing. "I just opened seven Youtube videos in new background tabs", says Sergey Brin, "and I can't tell which one is making noise! I need to know, fast, pronto, double quick!" he says to his chief engineer, "Find a solution that's as Google like as possible, smart, simple, and brilliant!"
So a team of engineers at Youtube has sat there, seriously, for whatever time it takes figuring out options to this, and they've decided, and Google's management have endorsed, a system of Animated page icons, with presumably everyone from graphic designers to their smartest CSS guy involved to make sure that everything is just right. And they have, without shame, announced this to the world.
Cueing an international round of headslaps as the rest of us point and say "The problem is that the video is PLAYING you idiots. Why would we want the video to play in a tab we just opened in the fucking background? Here's the problem."
And "Soviet Google", whatever that is (Apple? Microsoft? Altavista?) scrolls to line 27192 of the ActionScript in YouTube.flv, and point at a line that says:
Soviet Google would have done this:
That would have been way too easy and that's what everyone asked for. No, for Google, the convoluted cheesy hack that doesn't solve the underlying problem is a much better idea.
Also disable CSS and HTML. You can never be too careful...
The reactor near me is on the coast, I'm pretty certain it can deal with a storm surge - it'd be insane to place one there without thinking of that.
As far as reactor cooling etc, that seems to me to be an easily solved problem - you shut down the reactor when you know a hurricane is likely to hit, and I strong suspect that's exactly what FPL does.
Hurricanes there aren't any stronger than they are on the East Coast. I've lived through a fair number of hurricanes with a reactor barely ten miles away, and while I'm a Nuclear skeptic, I've never really doubted the strength of these structures and their ability to withstand nature's fury.
For myself, I found I just didn't like the characters in regular soaps. Most were too two-dimensional, and would frequently change personality just so that some screenwriter could create another new "crisis" out of left field. By selecting a better range of characters, each easily identified with, I was able to make the soap more realistic, compelling, and just a little smarter. Was particularly proud of quite a few story arcs, including the one where Trent fooled around with his brother Brent's wife, until Trent analysed the hair sample... of his so-called son. That one was awesome.
I know (sort of, it's a wrapper FWIW, slightly different but not much) - but I wanted to indicate what app is the subject of this article.
FWIW this also answers the whole "But it's Android so not GNU/Linux which we all call Linux because Stallman's a dirty smelly hippy" crap - the web version of Office works great under Firefox under Ubuntu.
You'd be surprised how many "Social Networking Experts" (every publisher has them on staff these days) believes that the site to clone is The Huffington Post. They actually believe that the reason why people visit isn't because it's a mix of populist crap and left-of-center news, the latter of which is lacking in virtually every news source that is associated with the former, but because of all the features that mean that your machine slows to a crawl with fans on full blast every time you visit.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.office.officehub
I think, if anything, the fact their HD Wii isn't selling as well as their regular Wii shows that Nintendo's original disinterest in HD never hurt them.
This is America. The word "socialist" here means "Anything the government does that I don't like." GM bailout? Banksters bailout? Socialism.
Yes, but you also probably think Seinfeld is hilarious.
Nobody is justifying making threats. All we're saying is that Jane Austin is just awful. Which she is.
Remember that the defense posted here is "OK, you may have compared her to Jerry Seinfeld, but I'm going to ignore that and pretend you hate her because you think she writes romantic fiction." If you cannot make an argument against someone's view without misrepresenting their view (and doing so to a point that's completely absurd), then you have no argument. Like Seinfeld, she writes low grade social observation comedy, often, but not always, centered around dating and the bizarre social rules that apply. And like Seinfeld, it just isn't that funny to most of us or even insightful or informative in a way a more sober description wouldn't be.
That'll encourage the government to avoid overturning patents its already granted given it's much easier to just keep saying "Our decision stands" than it is to overhaul the system of granting patents in the first place. Hard to see how that's a better deal.
Kinda funny thing really. Most people who have opinions on JA and P&P have done some kind of English Lit course. In these courses, you're generally expected to read the articles you comment on in full before commenting on them, largely because if you just read the first few words and immediately made an answer you'd, well, look like an imbecile.
Given your responses both to my original comment and to this one, perhaps, maybe, you should take one of these courses?
Well, it's a good job I'm not then.
novels I think if you're under the impression that Jerry Seinfeld writes romantic fiction, and not social commentary, then perhaps, frankly you have no idea what you're talking about. I mean seriously, watch one episode of his tedious - almost as tedious as P&P show.
Then again I don't much care for Jerry Seinfeld either, and he's pretty much the 20th Century equivalent.
I don't think there's anything wrong with your summary. The GP's criticism of it doesn't make any sense, given the entire article is about "the death of root" having already happened in 4.3
Having read the article, I don't think that's a good summary of what he's saying at all.
Kondik is saying that Android 4.3 makes it harder to obtain root, with root via ADB being the only real root available. He's also saying that this is OK, because if he needs something that would normally need root, he doesn't actually need root because he pretty much already owns the operating system - he runs CM, and has the ability to modify it to do what he wants.
Kondik's not talking about reducing the need for root, he's saying it's probably not a problem that 4.3 cannot be rooted in the conventional sense because the work that had to be done to reduce the need for it has already been done.
Because the people obsessed with "second amendment solutions" aren't bothered by the torture and killing of American's "enemies", they're bothered about being required to buy health insurance.
Actually I see no evidence whatsoever that anyone doesn't understand that in China you can buy a cheap knock off of pretty much anything that hasn't been tested by anybody. Perhaps you could point at comments (you misreplied to mine, but as I specifically pointed to the fact that it's easier to produce crap that doesn't work within spec as a factor here, we have to assume that was a mistake on your part because literacy) that underscore your thesis that nobody understands that in China, or anywhere else, it's easy to obtain cheap dangerous knock-offfs.
It's quite possible that given they're not using USB charging (albeit they're using something that can be indirectly charged by USB), that it's easier to build a "charger" that doesn't do so safely.
Essentially what we see here, yet again, is evidence that proprietary crap is a bad idea, and Apple shouldn't be doing it.
You're in the majority. Recent surveys, FWIW, show that transit accessable neighborhoods tend to have an 80% premium on them over equivalent suburban homes. Nobody in their right mind wants to have to drive everywhere, even if they want the ability to drive everywhere.
Alas a lot of suburbanites, like the GP, get ridiculously defensive about their lifestyles. They know it's inefficient and causes excessive tax burdens, and the last thing they want to admit is that they might, actually, be happier living in a home on a street that has a convenience store on the corner and a bus stop three minutes walk away.
The interests of his constituency, not the views. The views would be near damned impossible. How do you get 43.5% of a politician to vote for a ban on abortion, and 46.1% against, with 10.4% abstaining?
There's always been some notion of formula, what I believe Slate's point was however was that it's gotten pretty much to-the-numbers in recent years, thanks to a book that wouldn't be more specific if it was a "Fill in the words to make the story" thing.
For example, you can reasonably say Star Wars (or "A New Hope" if you're a young whippersnapper who doesn't know about these things and should get off my lawn) was based upon tried and tested formulae. I'm not in any way insulting Lucas by saying this, he's pretty much said it outright, actually pointing at the research he did into everything from Beowulf to Seven Samurai. However, nothing Lucas did was based upon a system that went into such detail that it told you every event that had to happen and what pages of the screenplay these events should occur at.
I think blockbuster-style movies have become increasingly formuliac over the last few decades, but there's a strong argument that they've become ridiculously so in the last few years. This article posits a reasonable explanation as to why, and should also serve to upset anyone who enjoyed, say, the latest Star Trek movie.