The article briefly mentions original content like it was their last smart move and they'll have to do something else to survive. I would disagree with that assessment.
The media cartels (MPAA etc) are trying to starve out Netflix by jacking up their licensing fees, onerous international distribution agreements, etc etc.
The Netflix back catalog of old movies has actually been shrinking. The focus on original content is to bring control to their programming so that they aren't 100% at the mercy of the cartels who want nothing more than for Netflix to die. The goal of the cartels is that Hulu or some other godforsaken corp-owned property can retain their dominance of the public eyeball.
That's why Netflix has gone all in on their original programming. I just finished watching Stranger Things and it is really good. Because Netflix developed it themselves, they don't have to negotiate an international distribution agreement and they can release it simultaneously in all the markets they offer subscriptions. That's huge. I watched past the credits and there were translation teams for about 8 languages - I think I saw French, Spanish, Japanese, German among them.
So I think their play is what they are already doing - pour money into original programming, build their own back catalog so they aren't at the mercy of greedy content providers, and keep providing great customer service.
This previous story was accurate and true, because by the developers own admission,
"[Pokemon Go] erroneously requests full access permission for the user's Google account"
They are fixing it, and kudos for fixing it, and they've confirmed with Google that they didn't access any additional information, but they still fucked up and have admitted they fucked up.
Perhaps people should be more careful about the accusations they make.
Sounds like the guy had to file a lawsuit to attain or expedite a refund, which sucks.
Notice the weasel language from the rep: "we'd be happy to buy back any unsatisfactory vehicles", not refund. Have to wonder if that means they will only refund market value of a used car.
I was an amateur boxer for a few years with no notable accomplishments. One thing I did notice was that supplement companies are COMPLETELY FULL OF SHIT. There is a particularly eye-opening documentary about steroids called "Bigger, Stronger, Faster" where the director creates his own supplement using unknown ingredients and gives it an obscene markup, and they don't even have to list their ingredients.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Is it really "epic"? Isn't really just "kinda fun"?
On a selfie scale where 1 is taken in your own bathroom mirror and 10 is with your favorite celebrity, taking a selfie in outer space with the Earth in the background while wearing a Star Trek uniform is pretty epic
I know this is a joke but I was recently reading the wikipedia article about Eunuchs and pretty much at every point in history we have had jobs that we've considered castration as a de facto requirement - harem manager, treble singer, etc.
I'm Canadian and I'm very pro-science. Not because I'm left-wing or right-wing, but because my mother was a science teacher and I've basically absorbed it. I literally have no personal attributes that I can try to commend regarding my decent scientific knowledge.
Regarding the fucking article, I'm Canadian and I have a science education. A bachelors to be technical. I hated science courses in university. They were dry and the instructors had no interest in helping me. It was a night and day difference from my high school experience.
Back to the topic of this article, Canadians understand science to be the truth. We've got less religious disruption than the Americans, and probably many European countries. I told my mother a few months ago that "I need to tell you, growing up I didn't realize that scientific beliefs would be repeatedly questioned in front of me as if there were no experimental evidence" and she went off on some other tangent as mothers do, but I was trying to tell her that she is the basis of everything I believe in the world. My parents took me to church and it was obviously bullshit. My mom told me about chemical reactions and it made sense. I hate myself for not being kinder to my mother.
I was under the impression that the Taipei geeks were fiddling with the touchpad and display screen markets, out of their niche in ATM touchscreen displays (which wealthy nations ignored), and that when they were contracted by Apple to make Ipads they said "hey, check this out, we put a screen on it. And you can attach at telephone". And Apple said "heck yah make that" but nothing kept Samsung from doing the same. But that's a general recollection, I don't want to be cited as a source.
I don't remember it happening in that way.
Apple acquired a company called FingerWorks that didn't do touchscreens, but DID do multitouch gesture systems.
Steve Job's vision for the iPhone was a phone that is a piece of glass. I believe capacitive sensors had been done before, but Apple's hardware+software expertise, combined with FingerWorks patents, created the gesture-based interface that now seems routine on smartphones.
To be able to manipulate items on the screen by touch -- incredibly responsive, intuitive gestures, it was a big breakthrough. Even tiny things like the little slider thing to unlock an iPhone was magic, it appeared like a physical latch because it followed your touch.
Swipe to scroll, pinch to zoom, etc etc, those gestures were from FingerWorks, AFAIK.
Please stop with cutesy loading messages (reticulating splines, fetching slippers, percolating coffee). You were too lazy to include an accurate bar indicating when the loading process would finish, and you are insulting our time wasted looking at your "jokes".
Any tips on how to recreate that standard 1994-1995 486 experience aside from finding an old pc and installing win95?
Chocolate doom has built-in emulation of the adlib chip that was present on the ubiquitous soundblaster cards of the 90s
Re:"legends John Carmack and John Romero"?
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that litigious asshole John Carmack
Holy crap there is a lot of bile in your post.
Doom was designed to be modded - you had the IWAD that stored the main game data, and you could load a PWAD with command line parameters. Those features were either put in by Carmack or blessed by him.
I'm intimately familiar with what the Doom community became after 1998 when Carmack released the source code (how many other companies do that?)
He was tremendously supportive of the community and personally replied to some emails I sent him over the years asking him about GPL licensing of old id stuff.
He's even got an account here on Slashdot.
The portrait you paint of him does not match anything I've seen or read about him, ever.
How does microsoft do so much user testing and have no idea these products are going to be colossal flops?
I can't imagine the reasoning that went on behind the push for Windows 8:
"Let's unify our mobile and desktop interfaces, because we have a stranglehold on the desktop, people will gravitate towards our mobile offerings"
The public responds "we hate this" and they choose to do it anyway? Don't they do focus groups? Didn't they anticipate that people are disgusted by a touch interface on their keyboard+mouse system?
I'm fascinated and horrified but I'm also pleased because I am not fond of Microsoft, but what the hell do they think they are doing?
I knew there would be at least one comment downplaying this story.
This is a tiny move on Google's part with huge ramifications.
Android has been a huge success, I read that it has something like 80% of the market share of mobile devices, but that statistic was probably made up.
When Grandma opens an email on her tablet thing that her IT grandson told her to get so that he could stop supporting her Windows computer, she's going to be opening the word attachment using Google software - and then possibly editing it and sending it back - using Google software.
Microsoft gets nothing, they are removed from the loop.
The default office suite on Android could be as important as the default web browser on Windows - and we know what a ruckus that caused.
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"Kickstarter does not guarantee projects or investigate a creator's ability to complete their project."
The article briefly mentions original content like it was their last smart move and they'll have to do something else to survive. I would disagree with that assessment.
The media cartels (MPAA etc) are trying to starve out Netflix by jacking up their licensing fees, onerous international distribution agreements, etc etc.
The Netflix back catalog of old movies has actually been shrinking. The focus on original content is to bring control to their programming so that they aren't 100% at the mercy of the cartels who want nothing more than for Netflix to die. The goal of the cartels is that Hulu or some other godforsaken corp-owned property can retain their dominance of the public eyeball.
That's why Netflix has gone all in on their original programming. I just finished watching Stranger Things and it is really good. Because Netflix developed it themselves, they don't have to negotiate an international distribution agreement and they can release it simultaneously in all the markets they offer subscriptions. That's huge. I watched past the credits and there were translation teams for about 8 languages - I think I saw French, Spanish, Japanese, German among them.
So I think their play is what they are already doing - pour money into original programming, build their own back catalog so they aren't at the mercy of greedy content providers, and keep providing great customer service.
This is awkward. Not sure if anyone told you, but the war ended, quite a while ago, actually.
The accusation was that the app had "full access" to google account data. Hence Slashdot's previous headline, PSA: Pokemon Go Has Full Access To Your Google Account Data
This previous story was accurate and true, because by the developers own admission,
They are fixing it, and kudos for fixing it, and they've confirmed with Google that they didn't access any additional information, but they still fucked up and have admitted they fucked up.
Go to hell
Sounds like the guy had to file a lawsuit to attain or expedite a refund, which sucks.
Notice the weasel language from the rep: "we'd be happy to buy back any unsatisfactory vehicles", not refund. Have to wonder if that means they will only refund market value of a used car.
Don't forget that OpenBSD lost a shitload of DARPA funding because De Raadt correctly stated the war in Iraq was wrong.
I was an amateur boxer for a few years with no notable accomplishments. One thing I did notice was that supplement companies are COMPLETELY FULL OF SHIT. There is a particularly eye-opening documentary about steroids called "Bigger, Stronger, Faster" where the director creates his own supplement using unknown ingredients and gives it an obscene markup, and they don't even have to list their ingredients. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"We are all Eric"
"There used to be 11 of us"
On a selfie scale where 1 is taken in your own bathroom mirror and 10 is with your favorite celebrity, taking a selfie in outer space with the Earth in the background while wearing a Star Trek uniform is pretty epic
I know this is a joke but I was recently reading the wikipedia article about Eunuchs and pretty much at every point in history we have had jobs that we've considered castration as a de facto requirement - harem manager, treble singer, etc.
Ahahahaha. *cough cough* Sorry, excuse me hahahaha
Bro. Not cool, bro
"Apple ruined us by trying to buy our product"
You don't deserve privacy because criminals don't deserve privacy.
I'm Canadian and I'm very pro-science. Not because I'm left-wing or right-wing, but because my mother was a science teacher and I've basically absorbed it. I literally have no personal attributes that I can try to commend regarding my decent scientific knowledge. Regarding the fucking article, I'm Canadian and I have a science education. A bachelors to be technical. I hated science courses in university. They were dry and the instructors had no interest in helping me. It was a night and day difference from my high school experience. Back to the topic of this article, Canadians understand science to be the truth. We've got less religious disruption than the Americans, and probably many European countries. I told my mother a few months ago that "I need to tell you, growing up I didn't realize that scientific beliefs would be repeatedly questioned in front of me as if there were no experimental evidence" and she went off on some other tangent as mothers do, but I was trying to tell her that she is the basis of everything I believe in the world. My parents took me to church and it was obviously bullshit. My mom told me about chemical reactions and it made sense. I hate myself for not being kinder to my mother.
They'll get to it. Right after they switch to metric
I don't remember it happening in that way.
Apple acquired a company called FingerWorks that didn't do touchscreens, but DID do multitouch gesture systems.
Steve Job's vision for the iPhone was a phone that is a piece of glass. I believe capacitive sensors had been done before, but Apple's hardware+software expertise, combined with FingerWorks patents, created the gesture-based interface that now seems routine on smartphones.
To be able to manipulate items on the screen by touch -- incredibly responsive, intuitive gestures, it was a big breakthrough. Even tiny things like the little slider thing to unlock an iPhone was magic, it appeared like a physical latch because it followed your touch.
Swipe to scroll, pinch to zoom, etc etc, those gestures were from FingerWorks, AFAIK.
Please stop with cutesy loading messages (reticulating splines, fetching slippers, percolating coffee). You were too lazy to include an accurate bar indicating when the loading process would finish, and you are insulting our time wasted looking at your "jokes".
Chocolate doom has built-in emulation of the adlib chip that was present on the ubiquitous soundblaster cards of the 90s
Holy crap there is a lot of bile in your post.
Doom was designed to be modded - you had the IWAD that stored the main game data, and you could load a PWAD with command line parameters. Those features were either put in by Carmack or blessed by him.
I'm intimately familiar with what the Doom community became after 1998 when Carmack released the source code (how many other companies do that?)
He was tremendously supportive of the community and personally replied to some emails I sent him over the years asking him about GPL licensing of old id stuff.
He's even got an account here on Slashdot.
The portrait you paint of him does not match anything I've seen or read about him, ever.
How does microsoft do so much user testing and have no idea these products are going to be colossal flops?
I can't imagine the reasoning that went on behind the push for Windows 8:
"Let's unify our mobile and desktop interfaces, because we have a stranglehold on the desktop, people will gravitate towards our mobile offerings"
The public responds "we hate this" and they choose to do it anyway? Don't they do focus groups? Didn't they anticipate that people are disgusted by a touch interface on their keyboard+mouse system?
I'm fascinated and horrified but I'm also pleased because I am not fond of Microsoft, but what the hell do they think they are doing?
What happens at the nazi themed BDSM orgy stays at the nazi themed BDSM orgy!!!
I knew there would be at least one comment downplaying this story.
This is a tiny move on Google's part with huge ramifications.
Android has been a huge success, I read that it has something like 80% of the market share of mobile devices, but that statistic was probably made up.
When Grandma opens an email on her tablet thing that her IT grandson told her to get so that he could stop supporting her Windows computer, she's going to be opening the word attachment using Google software - and then possibly editing it and sending it back - using Google software.
Microsoft gets nothing, they are removed from the loop.
The default office suite on Android could be as important as the default web browser on Windows - and we know what a ruckus that caused.
How is a $200 board a raspberry pi competitor?
26*26*26*26 = 456976
That's basically half a million four letter combinations that companies are able to choose from, all nimbly-bimbly. Yet these assholes decide to use an existing term and mutilate the wikipedia page that was around for four and a half years because of their arrogance