It's the modern day IE6, they can do whatever they want. Doesn't mean they should, or that they'll always be able to, but it seems likely they'll continue to do so until it starts to hurt their wallet. Or they lose interest in it.
In this case- blocking autoplay videos IS the right thing to do though.
I suspect Google has learned the lesson from IE6 too. They know it is easy for a new browser to knock them off their perch if they misbehave too badly.
Who's writing video games in HTML anyway? Why would you write a game in HTML?
Flash and Java applets provides a method of writing games you could play in web browsers, and no one particularly cared when those technologies went away, because web games are universally terrible anyway.
Gemcraft was the king of Tower Defence games. Even that game is a proper game now and not some Flash monstrosity. Overall I agree though, web is a terrible way to write a game. There are much better ways.
I highly doubt Trump has any positive influence on this whatsoever. I see no evidence of him doing anything other than blustering around.
The most likely positive influence from Trump in this, is making China nervous that this incompetent buffoon might start a war, and putting more influence on NK than they otherwise would. I think South Korea deserves a lot of credit here, and North Korea does. Any positive influence from Trump has been in an Inspector Clouseau role- bumbling his way into a good result.
Do not mistake Iran for NK. The last thing China would've wanted was a war in the Korean peninsula. It was China that pressured and convinced Kim into this position. Kim is batshit crazy and he would never have come to the table like this on his own.
China and South Korea also put a lot of pressure on the US to not start a war in Korea. The US has been a lot more hawkish than SK; SK understandably don't want a war on their doorstep where 10's of thousands (if they are lucky, it's that low) of their own people will die. If it weren't for saner voices in China and SK; I've no doubt Trump would have tried military action.
That said, I'm not convinced NK will disarm itself.
I'm no fan of Trump, but honestly it's Iran that's "gearing up" for war with the West.
Can't agree there. They might have been trying in the past to get nuclear weapons. (Can you really blame them with nuclear armed enemies in the region, and the fact that US will run roughshod over any country in the region it wants- but is scared of attacking countries with nuclear arms, like N.K?) Nuclear weapons guarentees their independence and helps put them on equal terms with Israel who is always screaming at the US to give them Iranian blood.
Iran is no pleasant state. They are full of radical nutjobs and aren't too in love with us; however, they've been after peace. They've been very adamant about peace and maintaining the peace deals. This is the US rattling sabres, Iran has been consistent and calm for a while.
Israel doesn't like anyone who is Islamic. I understand why, but they're not the best neighbours to have for any country.
Not only that, they don't respect any country's sovereignty. (how often have they carried out assassinations or intelligence theft and covert ops in foreign countries that they had no jurisdiction over- even allies? )
I also think Iran would make a better ally than Saudi Arabia for the US. We share more in common with Iran than SA, and Iran is a less oppressive regime than SA. Not that either countries values align with the west very well.
Am I the only one who keeps hearing the same claim with different countries from the opponents of Trump?
Haven't' we heard the same thing about North Korea, Syria and now Iran? Where are those wars?
It's like a broken record...
If it weren't for calmer heads in OTHER countries war would have broken out. Eventually he's going to step on the wrong toes and there will be war. He's counting on the fact that no one really wants war so he can bully his way around the world. (same tactic Putin has been using for the last decade or so).
Whereas this frequently works because, it's true, no one wants war- it's playing with fire. It's true that eventually someone stands up to the bully and gives him a black eye.
Actually, even if aging and major diseases are wiped out most people wouldn't live to 2000 due to accidents and natural disasters. Stupid people presumably will live less than the average due to more accidents.
Now instead of simply mis-completeing a word it will miscomplete whole sentences. Then paragraphs. You could accidentally break up with your girl friend with a letter.
I have more faith in Google than that, in fact I'm using a beta of their e-mail auto-write on this thread, don't forget to shop at Wal-Mart today, always low prices. I don't see any problems with the auto-write programs, McDonald's, we love to see you smile. In fact, I think it is great that it is writing sentences for me, come see your neighborhood Ford dealer for a great discount.
This will save me a bunch of time, clocks on sale, visit jet.com and enter promotion code A45CRD.
"Gamification" is a concept widespread now; it's not just social media that is using this.
You could also argue that the ratings system on Slashdot are gamification-light.
Sure, they have a practical purpose, but really any score over 3 doesn't have a practical purpose- but it might satisfy some people's inner tinglings and make them want to seek out more 4s and 5s.
I can already manipulate any of Excel's data with C++, C#, VB.NET, VBScript, yes, JavaScript, and any other language that can handle scriptable COM objects. I wouldn't necessarily call this a game changer.
It's not a game changer to a programmer. It's potentially a game changer to some desk jockey in a low tech job that can copy and paste formulas from the internet and can follow it well enough to make a few simple changes.
While Dante's inferno depicts several circles of Hell with the Devil in the center/bottom circle stuck in the floor being tortured for eternity - that's really not even the limit, there's another less well-known circle of Hell smack in the center: the Devil's colon. That is where this will go. That said, it's better than VBA.
It's barely better than VBA. JavaScript is (in the 21st Century) the equivalent of VBA in the 90's. Quick, crude, and unstructured; it's the "rabble" of languages.
Only the first level of scammer is typically in Nigeria. They are the ones who mass send out the e-mails and harvest e-mails from online mailing lists, etc. Once they catch a potential target they pass the account off to someone typically who has a little better English, and frequently living in Europe. They work in teams (if you pay attention, you can catch their e-mail address changing sometime- this is when you're getting passed off to one of the better informed scammers).
There was a big hub of activity out of Amsterdam at one point for the higher level scammers. I'm not sure where they are located nowadays, but Amsterdam was a hub for the higher level scammers back when I followed this 15 years ago.
As for why Nigeria, it was popularized, one person had success and friends found out- and it spread. They also have very little enforcement to prevent people scamming. They have relatively large number of internet cafes (or had... nowadays I'm sure they have cell-phones so could do this from anywhere).
I know modern graphics and shaders are a bitch to program, but that does not compute. Especially for a relatively low poly game like Fortnight. Nice work if you can get it. But it sucks for us old timers who want single player games or at least to just buy a game and call it a day.
I still avoid multi-player games and any game that requires I pay-to-play. I will buy once and that's it. Kids these days aren't good with maths. I don't get why my son buys a game that is brand new released rather than waiting a year and getting it half-priced. Sure, if you've played all existing games you might need to jump on the latest- but odds are the game will still be good a year from now- and at a better deal.
Not sure which generation you grew up in... but I'm an early millennial(sp?) born in 85, and sports were definitely seen as just something all my friends and I "had to do" to get out of the way and keep our parents happy... but we hated every minute of it.
I imagine here in a few years you might have parents willingly signing their kids up for esports leagues without first asking the kids if that's something they want.... all because "it's what so and so's kids do, so you're going to do it too" lolol
I'm a late Gen-Xer (only avoided the ignomy of millennial status by a few years). I loved being outdoors and being active. Football (real football not American), jogging, tennis, Judo, etc... I used to do it all. After school I used to be outside. School lunches, we would be playing football on the playground.
It wasn't something to keep the parent's happy- it was something to keep us happy. Sure, played on the computer too- wrote my own games starting when I was 5 (yeah... they sucked at that age but by 8 or 9 I was writing some fairly decent games for the era) but I spent way more time on sports than computers back then. I still would if I could.
Don't you remember Saturday Night Fever? Tony Manero had to look *perfect*!!
It's been going on for decades, that's for sure. Looking "fly" has always been a major expense for boys. Even if it's not the formal elegance girls go for, boys have always been trying to rock the cool, hip, or groovy look and some spend ridiculous amounts to achieve it.
122 million cans is a lot... but not really when you consider there are what, about 370million people in the US (not sure if that number is still accurate but I'll use it).
So one can per 3 people a year. 12oz in a can. So the average person consumes 4oz of spam a year. Or one third of an ounce a month. That's a really small amount- and it's probably offset by Hawaii where it is consumed at a higher rate, and by certain poor communities.
It's probably also purchased as a gag on a semi-regular basis. Every year in the office white elephant gift exchange, a multipack of spam is in there somewhere. That spam is almost certainly never consumed. I've heard of Spam sculpture competitions. I guarantee that spam never gets consumed. I wouldn't be surprised if less than half of all spam sold isn't actually eaten.
I read a statistic once (and again, not sure how accurate I remember the statistic), but something like less than 10% of paperclips are used for their intended purpose (holding paper together). Spam might be another "Paper-clip" product.
Exactly. This is not a case of a patent troll. In this case, there is a company actually working on something, and Tesla has been poaching their employees. From the article:
Nikola unveiled its hydrogen-powered semi in December 2016. Elon Musk first showed off the Tesla Semi last December. Once you start looking at the drawings in Nikola's patents, or compare photos of concept vehicles, you'll see that there are some similarities between the trucks. Nikola also alleges that Tesla reached out to poach an employee and doesn't hold any patents for its truck design compared to Nikola's half-dozen.
This is not a patent troll. This is a company who is competing with Tesla.
And I'm not saying that they are right and will win the case.
Most trucks look more or less the same. There is no truck out there that doesn't share "some similarities" with another.
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It's the modern day IE6, they can do whatever they want. Doesn't mean they should, or that they'll always be able to, but it seems likely they'll continue to do so until it starts to hurt their wallet. Or they lose interest in it.
In this case- blocking autoplay videos IS the right thing to do though.
I suspect Google has learned the lesson from IE6 too. They know it is easy for a new browser to knock them off their perch if they misbehave too badly.
Who's writing video games in HTML anyway? Why would you write a game in HTML?
Flash and Java applets provides a method of writing games you could play in web browsers, and no one particularly cared when those technologies went away, because web games are universally terrible anyway.
Gemcraft was the king of Tower Defence games. Even that game is a proper game now and not some Flash monstrosity. Overall I agree though, web is a terrible way to write a game. There are much better ways.
I highly doubt Trump has any positive influence on this whatsoever. I see no evidence of him doing anything other than blustering around.
The most likely positive influence from Trump in this, is making China nervous that this incompetent buffoon might start a war, and putting more influence on NK than they otherwise would. I think South Korea deserves a lot of credit here, and North Korea does. Any positive influence from Trump has been in an Inspector Clouseau role- bumbling his way into a good result.
China and the two Koreas are the heroes here.
Do not mistake Iran for NK. The last thing China would've wanted was a war in the Korean peninsula. It was China that pressured and convinced Kim into this position. Kim is batshit crazy and he would never have come to the table like this on his own.
China and South Korea also put a lot of pressure on the US to not start a war in Korea. The US has been a lot more hawkish than SK; SK understandably don't want a war on their doorstep where 10's of thousands (if they are lucky, it's that low) of their own people will die. If it weren't for saner voices in China and SK; I've no doubt Trump would have tried military action.
That said, I'm not convinced NK will disarm itself.
I'm no fan of Trump, but honestly it's Iran that's "gearing up" for war with the West.
Can't agree there. They might have been trying in the past to get nuclear weapons. (Can you really blame them with nuclear armed enemies in the region, and the fact that US will run roughshod over any country in the region it wants- but is scared of attacking countries with nuclear arms, like N.K?) Nuclear weapons guarentees their independence and helps put them on equal terms with Israel who is always screaming at the US to give them Iranian blood.
Iran is no pleasant state. They are full of radical nutjobs and aren't too in love with us; however, they've been after peace. They've been very adamant about peace and maintaining the peace deals. This is the US rattling sabres, Iran has been consistent and calm for a while.
Israel doesn't like Iran to be certain
Israel doesn't like anyone who is Islamic. I understand why, but they're not the best neighbours to have for any country.
Not only that, they don't respect any country's sovereignty. (how often have they carried out assassinations or intelligence theft and covert ops in foreign countries that they had no jurisdiction over- even allies? )
I also think Iran would make a better ally than Saudi Arabia for the US. We share more in common with Iran than SA, and Iran is a less oppressive regime than SA. Not that either countries values align with the west very well.
Am I the only one who keeps hearing the same claim with different countries from the opponents of Trump?
Haven't' we heard the same thing about North Korea, Syria and now Iran? Where are those wars?
It's like a broken record...
If it weren't for calmer heads in OTHER countries war would have broken out. Eventually he's going to step on the wrong toes and there will be war. He's counting on the fact that no one really wants war so he can bully his way around the world. (same tactic Putin has been using for the last decade or so).
Whereas this frequently works because, it's true, no one wants war- it's playing with fire. It's true that eventually someone stands up to the bully and gives him a black eye.
That live forever. Exactly what we need.
Actually, even if aging and major diseases are wiped out most people wouldn't live to 2000 due to accidents and natural disasters. Stupid people presumably will live less than the average due to more accidents.
Or vampires. This is exactly how vampires get started.
I don't mind being a vampire, as long as I'm a Count Dracula erudite and classy vampire rather than one of those sissy whiny emo twilight vampires.
I wonder how much one will have toupee for this.
How do I turn it off?
There should be a power button on the side of your phone; and your PC has a button on the front of it.
Now instead of simply mis-completeing a word it will miscomplete whole sentences. Then paragraphs. You could accidentally break up with your girl friend with a letter.
I have more faith in Google than that, in fact I'm using a beta of their e-mail auto-write on this thread, don't forget to shop at Wal-Mart today, always low prices. I don't see any problems with the auto-write programs, McDonald's, we love to see you smile. In fact, I think it is great that it is writing sentences for me, come see your neighborhood Ford dealer for a great discount.
This will save me a bunch of time, clocks on sale, visit jet.com and enter promotion code A45CRD.
"Gamification" is a concept widespread now; it's not just social media that is using this.
You could also argue that the ratings system on Slashdot are gamification-light.
Sure, they have a practical purpose, but really any score over 3 doesn't have a practical purpose- but it might satisfy some people's inner tinglings and make them want to seek out more 4s and 5s.
I can already manipulate any of Excel's data with C++, C#, VB.NET, VBScript, yes, JavaScript, and any other language that can handle scriptable COM objects. I wouldn't necessarily call this a game changer.
It's not a game changer to a programmer. It's potentially a game changer to some desk jockey in a low tech job that can copy and paste formulas from the internet and can follow it well enough to make a few simple changes.
Although... they have VBA for that already.
While Dante's inferno depicts several circles of Hell with the Devil in the center/bottom circle stuck in the floor being tortured for eternity - that's really not even the limit, there's another less well-known circle of Hell smack in the center: the Devil's colon. That is where this will go. That said, it's better than VBA.
It's barely better than VBA. JavaScript is (in the 21st Century) the equivalent of VBA in the 90's. Quick, crude, and unstructured; it's the "rabble" of languages.
They outsourced that part to India.
Nah! The Uber thought the woman was it's wife, and thus was programmed to ignore her.
Surely other countries have spammers too?
Only the first level of scammer is typically in Nigeria. They are the ones who mass send out the e-mails and harvest e-mails from online mailing lists, etc. Once they catch a potential target they pass the account off to someone typically who has a little better English, and frequently living in Europe. They work in teams (if you pay attention, you can catch their e-mail address changing sometime- this is when you're getting passed off to one of the better informed scammers).
There was a big hub of activity out of Amsterdam at one point for the higher level scammers. I'm not sure where they are located nowadays, but Amsterdam was a hub for the higher level scammers back when I followed this 15 years ago.
As for why Nigeria, it was popularized, one person had success and friends found out- and it spread. They also have very little enforcement to prevent people scamming. They have relatively large number of internet cafes (or had... nowadays I'm sure they have cell-phones so could do this from anywhere).
Hey, almost half the world think there's a God because there's a 2000/1400 year old book about it. They don't even get pictures...
You can get them with pictures these days!
Plus, the stand-in pictures were "stained glass windows" in churches for centuries because the average person couldn't read the bible anyway.
I know modern graphics and shaders are a bitch to program, but that does not compute. Especially for a relatively low poly game like Fortnight. Nice work if you can get it. But it sucks for us old timers who want single player games or at least to just buy a game and call it a day.
I still avoid multi-player games and any game that requires I pay-to-play. I will buy once and that's it. Kids these days aren't good with maths. I don't get why my son buys a game that is brand new released rather than waiting a year and getting it half-priced. Sure, if you've played all existing games you might need to jump on the latest- but odds are the game will still be good a year from now- and at a better deal.
Not sure which generation you grew up in... but I'm an early millennial(sp?) born in 85, and sports were definitely seen as just something all my friends and I "had to do" to get out of the way and keep our parents happy... but we hated every minute of it.
I imagine here in a few years you might have parents willingly signing their kids up for esports leagues without first asking the kids if that's something they want.... all because "it's what so and so's kids do, so you're going to do it too" lolol
I'm a late Gen-Xer (only avoided the ignomy of millennial status by a few years). I loved being outdoors and being active. Football (real football not American), jogging, tennis, Judo, etc... I used to do it all. After school I used to be outside. School lunches, we would be playing football on the playground.
It wasn't something to keep the parent's happy- it was something to keep us happy. Sure, played on the computer too- wrote my own games starting when I was 5 (yeah... they sucked at that age but by 8 or 9 I was writing some fairly decent games for the era) but I spent way more time on sports than computers back then. I still would if I could.
Don't you remember Saturday Night Fever? Tony Manero had to look *perfect*!!
It's been going on for decades, that's for sure. Looking "fly" has always been a major expense for boys. Even if it's not the formal elegance girls go for, boys have always been trying to rock the cool, hip, or groovy look and some spend ridiculous amounts to achieve it.
Concrete is heavy, and plastic is light. So by weight, it seems reasonable that "we" produce more concrete than plastic.
Is that why there's more gold produced than concrete?
I don't think we produce any gold. The alchemists lost.
Do we really expect this building to span the Melania?
I don't think even Donald gets to span the Melania these days.
122 million cans is a lot... but not really when you consider there are what, about 370million people in the US (not sure if that number is still accurate but I'll use it).
So one can per 3 people a year. 12oz in a can. So the average person consumes 4oz of spam a year. Or one third of an ounce a month. That's a really small amount- and it's probably offset by Hawaii where it is consumed at a higher rate, and by certain poor communities.
It's probably also purchased as a gag on a semi-regular basis. Every year in the office white elephant gift exchange, a multipack of spam is in there somewhere. That spam is almost certainly never consumed. I've heard of Spam sculpture competitions. I guarantee that spam never gets consumed. I wouldn't be surprised if less than half of all spam sold isn't actually eaten.
I read a statistic once (and again, not sure how accurate I remember the statistic), but something like less than 10% of paperclips are used for their intended purpose (holding paper together). Spam might be another "Paper-clip" product.
Exactly. This is not a case of a patent troll. In this case, there is a company actually working on something, and Tesla has been poaching their employees. From the article:
Nikola unveiled its hydrogen-powered semi in December 2016. Elon Musk first showed off the Tesla Semi last December. Once you start looking at the drawings in Nikola's patents, or compare photos of concept vehicles, you'll see that there are some similarities between the trucks. Nikola also alleges that Tesla reached out to poach an employee and doesn't hold any patents for its truck design compared to Nikola's half-dozen.
This is not a patent troll. This is a company who is competing with Tesla.
And I'm not saying that they are right and will win the case.
Most trucks look more or less the same. There is no truck out there that doesn't share "some similarities" with another.