It has long been assumed that the size of a supermassive black hole in a galaxy's core is intimately related to the number of stars that galaxy contains
That's what I didn't get. Then I thought it was cleared up when I realised that:
people who tend to drive after using marijuana also tend to be more crash-prone in general
means "people who drug-drive tend to be in the other more crashy-crashy groups as well, like 'young males'." But then I thought, part of the reason they're more crashy-crashy might be precisely because they drug-drive...
Then I thought, well, maybe it's impossible to properly explain everything they did in one news article, and went to watch TV.
What the hell is wrong with you, Slashdot? Autoplaying video is incredibly annoying and an insult to your readers (who, by and large, know how to play a video they want to watch).
But, what's worse, you've managed to make it even more annoying than normal!
1. The video doesn't autoplay right away - there's a delay of several seconds, plenty of time for someone to scroll down to the comments only to then have the video start playing out of view. 2. With Flashblock on, the audio plays, but there's no video (mind you, in this case the video is largely superfluous) 3. There's no volume control
If you really want to know, what happens in detail is this:
You load the page. You see the massive black box which fills the entire width of the parent element. You see the still image and a play button, and you think "oh, this story has video." You might then think "I'm not interested in the video - at least it's not autoplaying! I'll scroll down and look at some of the comments."
And then, some 7-10 seconds after the page appears to have completely loaded, the video - which, by the way, has no volume control - starts to play. Or, as in my experience, the audio plays and the video remains blank, making for an even more frustrating experience as you struggle to work out where the sound is coming from.
The two paramedics (neither of whom speak Swahili) fired up Google Translate to communicate via English-Swahili and successfully delivered baby girl "Brigid" (named after an Irish Saint no less!).
There's a bit of an unwritten implication in that use of the word "and," but I suspect the paramedics would probably have been able to deliver the baby without Google's help.
And you know what, they even managed to fuck it up beyond that. I don't see any video, I only get audio. And it doesn't even have the grace to autoplay immediately, instead deciding to do so a few seconds after the page has loaded, once you've already scrolled down to see the comments, leaving you wondering where the sound is coming from.
Slashdot, please stop treating your audience like click-bait hungry idiots.
x264 video (on Windows, at least, but I'm not sure why it would be any different on another OS) stutters on playback unless you disable one of the postprocessing options, and it's been that way for ages, so I ditched it and went with MPC-HC.
It's subtle, and I think most people just don't notice it.
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See the Titan that is Javascript take on the Giant that is Java, making them both seem normal size!
It has long been assumed that the size of a supermassive black hole in a galaxy's core is intimately related to the number of stars that galaxy contains
Not by me!
What part of "extradited" did you not understand?
It wasn't the "extradited" part that the GP had a problem with.
He was arrested in The Netherlands, and the Dutch agreed to extradite him.
The absence of this from the summary is what led the GP to ask his quite reasonable question.
No, he wasn't "nabbed" without process.
The GP never implied that he might have been.
Reading. Comprehension.
That's what I didn't get. Then I thought it was cleared up when I realised that:
people who tend to drive after using marijuana also tend to be more crash-prone in general
means "people who drug-drive tend to be in the other more crashy-crashy groups as well, like 'young males'." But then I thought, part of the reason they're more crashy-crashy might be precisely because they drug-drive...
Then I thought, well, maybe it's impossible to properly explain everything they did in one news article, and went to watch TV.
What the hell is wrong with you, Slashdot? Autoplaying video is incredibly annoying and an insult to your readers (who, by and large, know how to play a video they want to watch).
But, what's worse, you've managed to make it even more annoying than normal!
1. The video doesn't autoplay right away - there's a delay of several seconds, plenty of time for someone to scroll down to the comments only to then have the video start playing out of view.
2. With Flashblock on, the audio plays, but there's no video (mind you, in this case the video is largely superfluous)
3. There's no volume control
What is the speed of light in inches per fortnight?
The physicist Freeman Dyson and the computer scientist William Press [..] have found a new solution to [...] the prisoner's dilemma
So... what you're saying is... these two guys have cooperated to call cooperation into question...
Riiight...
His more earthly endeavors have included electric cars, home solar power
Okay, so far so good.
a transportation system called the Hyperloop
If we're allowed to count things we haven't actually yet done among our endeavours, I need to rewrite my CV.
a space based Internet
That... doesn't sound very earthly.
and, most recently, a battery that can power a house.
That's another thing that's only been announced.
That might be because there was no CG in the first season of TNG.
The crystalline entity was CGI.
Argghhh!! Show me KITTENS!!!!111!!
Orb brings fire to the sky!
(yes, I know who M.C. Escher is... I just prefer to imagine him as a rapper)
You and Seth MacFarlane.
If you really want to know, what happens in detail is this:
You load the page. You see the massive black box which fills the entire width of the parent element. You see the still image and a play button, and you think "oh, this story has video." You might then think "I'm not interested in the video - at least it's not autoplaying! I'll scroll down and look at some of the comments."
And then, some 7-10 seconds after the page appears to have completely loaded, the video - which, by the way, has no volume control - starts to play. Or, as in my experience, the audio plays and the video remains blank, making for an even more frustrating experience as you struggle to work out where the sound is coming from.
The Oddball Side of CES (Fucking Auto-Fucking-Playing Video Treating Your Readers Like Idiots)
FTFY
based in a pentagonal form
"Based on" would be better, but still wouldn't be right. Molecule shapes aren't really "based on" anything, they just look like things sometimes.
resembling an common pavement
"An/a" aside, what's a "common pavement"?
in the streets of Ccairo
That's the c-capital of Egypt, right?
That's a terrible joke. Goto your room!
When did facebook become a right?
I don't think anyone's saying it should be, are they?
So, unless you roll
"People who roll" are one of the key target demographics for these devices.
The two paramedics (neither of whom speak Swahili) fired up Google Translate to communicate via English-Swahili and successfully delivered baby girl "Brigid" (named after an Irish Saint no less!).
There's a bit of an unwritten implication in that use of the word "and," but I suspect the paramedics would probably have been able to deliver the baby without Google's help.
...is addons.mozilla.org, in case you were wondering.
And you know what, they even managed to fuck it up beyond that. I don't see any video, I only get audio. And it doesn't even have the grace to autoplay immediately, instead deciding to do so a few seconds after the page has loaded, once you've already scrolled down to see the comments, leaving you wondering where the sound is coming from.
Slashdot, please stop treating your audience like click-bait hungry idiots.
That is all.
You should have added a semicolon to one of the PRINT lines, just to confuse people.
x264 video (on Windows, at least, but I'm not sure why it would be any different on another OS) stutters on playback unless you disable one of the postprocessing options, and it's been that way for ages, so I ditched it and went with MPC-HC.
It's subtle, and I think most people just don't notice it.
Aeroplanes fly because they have engines, not because they have wings.
Aeroplanes fly because they have both. Take one away, and no flying.
Plenty of things that don't have wings fly.
Yes, and they are not aeroplanes.