They're probably not going to fully deliver anything you didn't order. What rights would they have to claim it back?
What they can do is start getting stuff closer to you - shipping it to the local warehouse, even putting it on the back of the truck before you've committed to buying it. This is probably where the free gift/discount things will kick in, as it may work out cheaper for them to do that then retract the item at such a late stage.
Alternatively, of course, like the drone thing, it could just be another publicity stunt. And oh look, it worked.
Well, you'd be wrong, about the autistic part at least, with that sweeping piece of false equivalence. Still, call me that if you wish - it's an adjective and as such is not ambiguous the way this headline is.
Analyst calls Russian teen "author of Target malware" Analyst calls "Russian teen author of Target malware"
Two different meanings from the same words. Sorry if you don't feel this is important in a news headline, but I'm not sure why it annoys you so much that I do feel it's important that you had to be a dick about it.
Man has always assumed that he is more intelligent than, for example, dolphins because he has achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins have ever done is muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins have always believed that they are far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
Using this system, the gamer is able to train themselves to recognize the stress and learn to control it, in order to make them a much more agreeable and competitive player.
If it gets to the point where you need to build a device to tell you when you're getting gamerage - and if the primary reason for wanting to control your gamerage is because you want to stop it making you suck at the game - you should probably try just gaming less.
I used to get gamerage from Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, the only FPS I ever really got into. If it started angrying me up, I just turned it off for the day.
Can you really help intercepting it in some fashion if you're mapping networks? What you can help is storing it afterwards. It should have been discarded in microseconds, not months.
I'm not sure why asking a perfectly simple - and in the light of the above example which shows there is a difference in how Glass and a hat might be positioned, still perfectly reasonable - question (to which I do not have a preconceived notion of what the answer might be) deserved to be met with such a sanctimonious response.
Have you tried Glass? Did you think it blocked your vision less severely than a baseball cap? If so, say so, and I'll be more informed than I was.
Anyone who wants to read a car number plate, a news headline, identify an individual, look in a window from a low angle, launch a missile, acquire images at better than 30cm resolution, not spend half a billion dollars...
when you have deep space telescopes pointed at the surface of the Earth?
You don't. Or if you do, you're using the wrong ones.
(b) This is an attempt at distraction from the very real problem of the NSA intensively spying on ordinary Americans without a warrant founded on probable cause.
People just don't get that (a) you don't need to shout anymore
I heard this was because mobile phones don't echo (instantly) back your own voice like a landline does. Either the echo convinces your brain that you're talking too loudly, or the fact that you don't hear it on a mobile phone convinces your brain that something's broken and you need to shout louder. I'd guess the former, given that today's young'uns still seem to be doing it, dagnabbit.
Looking at pictures of people wearing Google Glass, it seems to me it might block off part of your right (usually dominant) eye vision to the upper right - just where a kid might be waiting to cross the road in front of you, for example?
Slashdot Mirror
The word is boycott.
Sorry, unlike you I'm actually capable of understanding what is implied in human speech based on context.
Well, aren't you awesome. Unlike you, I actually consider how others might have trouble with things and strive to improve them for all.
Maybe one day there will be a cure and you will no longer have to live with a defective brain.
Maybe one day there'll be a cure for being a dick for no reason.
They're probably not going to fully deliver anything you didn't order. What rights would they have to claim it back?
What they can do is start getting stuff closer to you - shipping it to the local warehouse, even putting it on the back of the truck before you've committed to buying it. This is probably where the free gift/discount things will kick in, as it may work out cheaper for them to do that then retract the item at such a late stage.
Alternatively, of course, like the drone thing, it could just be another publicity stunt. And oh look, it worked.
...decides it hasn't recovered from the weekend yet, calls in sick, goes back to sleep and rolls in on Tuesday at about 09:30.
Well, you'd be wrong, about the autistic part at least, with that sweeping piece of false equivalence. Still, call me that if you wish - it's an adjective and as such is not ambiguous the way this headline is.
Analyst calls Russian teen "author of Target malware"
Analyst calls "Russian teen author of Target malware"
Two different meanings from the same words. Sorry if you don't feel this is important in a news headline, but I'm not sure why it annoys you so much that I do feel it's important that you had to be a dick about it.
For the code in question, let's set a lower limit of 3 consecutive lines.
You have failed to adhere to the asker's arbitrary criteria! Goodnight!
At the risk of a "whoosh," none of that actually runs, though, does it?
Insightful? Come off it. It's a pun.
Analyst Calls Russian Teen Author of Target Malware
"Calls" as in calls him on the phone? Or "calls" in the more casual sense of "identifies"? Because there's a word for that - "identifies."
That's so evolution can weed out all the really stupid ones before they get to procreate.
It doesn't seem to be working these days...
Fucking geniuses, how do they work?
Man has always assumed that he is more intelligent than, for example, dolphins because he has achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins have ever done is muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins have always believed that they are far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
-Douglas Adams (slightly paraphrased)
Using this system, the gamer is able to train themselves to recognize the stress and learn to control it, in order to make them a much more agreeable and competitive player.
If it gets to the point where you need to build a device to tell you when you're getting gamerage - and if the primary reason for wanting to control your gamerage is because you want to stop it making you suck at the game - you should probably try just gaming less.
I used to get gamerage from Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, the only FPS I ever really got into. If it started angrying me up, I just turned it off for the day.
Computer runs computer program, minor inconvenience required to do so
Can you really help intercepting it in some fashion if you're mapping networks? What you can help is storing it afterwards. It should have been discarded in microseconds, not months.
So long as you're hosting your ads off-site
So maybe they're not doing that.
or even on a local (ad.example.com) server
So maybe they're not doing that either.
Baseball cap
Google Glass
I'm not sure why asking a perfectly simple - and in the light of the above example which shows there is a difference in how Glass and a hat might be positioned, still perfectly reasonable - question (to which I do not have a preconceived notion of what the answer might be) deserved to be met with such a sanctimonious response.
Have you tried Glass? Did you think it blocked your vision less severely than a baseball cap? If so, say so, and I'll be more informed than I was.
Why do we call the people who put Slashdot stories up "editors"?
Google's recent acquisitiona
Four words in and you've already a word.
they've posted their code on Github. The article...
What article would that be? Oh, if only there was a way of providing easy access to it via some kind of clickable "link"!
It really annoys me that everybody is calling these things drones. THEY ARE NOT. They are remotely piloted vehicles.
In this case, it was apparently a toy. So, only pretty loosely an RPV.
(a) Who needs drones
Anyone who wants to read a car number plate, a news headline, identify an individual, look in a window from a low angle, launch a missile, acquire images at better than 30cm resolution, not spend half a billion dollars...
when you have deep space telescopes pointed at the surface of the Earth?
You don't. Or if you do, you're using the wrong ones.
(b) This is an attempt at distraction from the very real problem of the NSA intensively spying on ordinary Americans without a warrant founded on probable cause.
No, it's just some crazy lady.
one person concluded their letter with the word 'no' with letter 'o' repeated 213 times.
Ah. The voice of reason.
People just don't get that (a) you don't need to shout anymore
I heard this was because mobile phones don't echo (instantly) back your own voice like a landline does. Either the echo convinces your brain that you're talking too loudly, or the fact that you don't hear it on a mobile phone convinces your brain that something's broken and you need to shout louder. I'd guess the former, given that today's young'uns still seem to be doing it, dagnabbit.
The biology workbook used in these schools actually reads, "In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth."
This sort of thing is why everyone thinks you're dumb.
I hope the next one said "You fools! You'll destroy us all!"
Looking at pictures of people wearing Google Glass, it seems to me it might block off part of your right (usually dominant) eye vision to the upper right - just where a kid might be waiting to cross the road in front of you, for example?