Can we please just get a physical controller for our phones?
It can be Bluetooth or physically plugged in, I don't care. Just make it universal, or only split Apple/Android if you absolutely must. A physical connection with a cradle dock that functions in both portrait and landscape would be ideal, but at this point I'm honestly not too picky.
The devices we keep in our pockets today have several orders of magnitude more computation power and graphical fidelity than the first few generations of home gaming consoles. The only thing we lack is a proper input device.
Fix that, and we can have actual games on our devices (tablets, if not phones) instead of this half-assed shovelware.
Take a hundred thousand people, build a spaceship big enough to house them (with room to grow) find some way to synthesize food and water (soylent green, anyone?) and point them off into the stars.
Rinse and repeat
The other option would be terraforming, but that seems a bit far fetched, doesn't it?
For games, mostly. My setup runs better than WINE...though it was a pain to get working (see my link, above)
At least now, when MS does something stupid and crashes their OS, only a small little subset of my computing goes down. Plus, I have windows at work, so it pays to keep brushed up at home. Still on Win7 at the office, but they've been talking about going to 10.
It's a website that can receive SMS. There's nothing tech about it. And they can't really even be a "major company," as they have no product. All they have are eyeballs into which ads can be jammed, and those are fickle beasts.
Took a little tweaking (you can google it) and it works perfectly for the vast majority of applications. I only found a slight degradation in the latest and greatest AAA vidya games. And even then, it's around a 10% loss in frame rate, or turning the graphics down from Ultra to Very High.
I'm waiting for a phone company to show some real courage and buck trends.
Give me a fatter phone. Use that extra space for more battery and useful ports. Maybe even make the battery removable. Add some rubberized trim around the edges for better grip and drop/impact protection.
Seriously, no one cares if it's 12.3 grams heavier, or 5.1 mm thicker. And we've long since reached a point where the internals are good enough. The incremental updates every year are nice for some top-end applications, or flexing them benchmark scores, but don't really affect a user's day to day experiences.
Have the courage to make a phone people actually want, and see what sells.
I've used stack exchange and other sites a ton to help figure out the syntax of a particular command, or how to work certain commands together... but that doesn't mean I'm going to blindly download and run the script as-is. And I definitely don't run code that tells me "trust me, you'll understand once it's over."
I'll always look through the script, line by line, and understand what it's doing. If I don't understand part of it, I remove that part or search around until I do understand it. Or better yet, create my own script using pieces and parts of the version I downloaded.
There have been a handful of "luxury cinemas" popping up in my area. Leather recliner seats, with two complete arm rests for everyone (no sharing), and the seats are even assigned. You can buy tickets online in advance and pick your seats, or when you buy tickets in the lobby, they have a screen for you to choose. No more trying to find space, or people asking you to shift down one... They also have a genuine kitchen making actual food, fresh baked cookies, and beer/wine available.
There are a few movies every year that I really do want to experience on opening night in this fashion. But for the other 95% of the pablum that Hollywood produces, just release it straight to video on demand. I'll probably pay $5-10 on opening weekend, but not much more.
How about you don't run random code that you don't understand.
Screwing up your system by running someone else's scripts is not unique to Powershell (or MS in general).
Microsoft might take the brunt of the malicious code however, because their software is designed to be easy. Any screwball can stumble their way through adding users or DNS zones in AD's GUI and call themselves a sysadmin. The mental barrier to entry is low, so you'll end up with a higher percentage of idiots running Windows systems. If those same idiots knew how to CLI, they'd be admins for *nix systems, and writing their own code for Powershell on the windows side. But they don't. So they google "How to... in Powershell," download the first.ps1 file they find and right-click Run as Admin.
You are correct: the RIAA fills a need and does provide a service.
However you seem to assume that they are the only ones who can provide this service.
If the RIAA vanished tomorrow, new mechanisms would form to help people find music they like. And those new mechanisms would be better for both the artists and listener.
There's actually only 12 minutes of genuine action during a 3-hour NFL broadcast.
The other 2 hours and 48 minutes are commercials, the crowd, commercials, the cheerleaders, commercials, pre-snap preparations (OMAHA!) and more commercials.
Yes, but with a bit of practice, you can offset enough to skip most of the commercials and still end very close to the real ending.
NFL games are probably the easiest. The broadcast is 3 hours. The actual game clock is 1 hour. Add a bit of buffer to deal with fast-forwarding commercials or going back to watch replays... you can easily skip the first hour and change.
I usually catch up to "live" with about 10-20 minutes left in the broadcast, so I can watch the finale unspoiled.
I trust old cars. I'm currently rolling around in a 93 Jeep yj. It has a ragtop that I put on a few times per year, for rain mostly. Even if someone could somehow remotely activate the locks while I had the top on, the window is operated by zipper.
For newer vehicles, I would trust a window punch (or better yet, a multi-tool with a punch, belt cutter, flashlight, etc).
Then $15 isn't enough. Seems pretty obvious. And no, that's not the greedy peasantry talking.
Taking a job incurs expenses. Travel to/from a job site, you might also need some new clothes (depending on the job), if you've got kids, now you're paying for daycare... add all that up, and $15 an hour might not cover it.
So yeah, 100,000 jobs sit vacant until your friend offers a better wage.
More recently as part of "new maths" they're told to solve these problems differently -- with techniques that are no longer the rote application of instructions, but instead require creativity and understanding of what the numbers represent. http://www.nbcwashington.com/n... [nbcwashington.com]
You know, it took me a minute, but I actually like the concepts in the "new math" subtraction.
They're trying to illustrate that subtraction is fundamentally the distance between two points. [32 - 12 = 20] because there are 20 points of difference between those two numbers. You can use "milestones" along the way to demonstrate that: From 12 to 15, from 15 to 20, from 20 to 30, and from 30 to 32. You chart a path from one end to the other, and measure the steps you took (3, 5, 10 and 2). Add up the steps to arrive at your answer.
You probably use a similar process when mathing out bigger numbers in your head. If you calculate [1000 - 432 = 568] in your head, you might figure out the big chunk, from 1000 down to 500, before sussing out the smaller part. Or you could go the other way and solve 432 up to 500, then finish out to 1000. Personally, I solved for 430, and just shaved off 2. Similar process, just taken further.
They have to start the learning on simple problems [32 - 12] to prove the concept to kids. Then work their way up to more complex stuff.
Slight tangent, but one of the problems facing several sports today is ridiculously over-inflated salaries:
-This leads to rule changes to prevent injury: can't have your bazillion dollar player getting hurt.
-And that's gonna pump up owner salaries... can't have "just" a multi-millionaire owner presiding over millionaire players... no no no
-It leads to god awful sponsorship deals by the players: "Eat Papa Johns pizza, I swear it's not garbage," (it is). Gotta keep that lifestyle rolling after you retire
-And there are even worse sponsorship deals by the teams: "Welcome to the Bank of America field in Ford Arena -built ford tough-. Now lets watch the Monster Energy Drink replay highlights sponsored by Samsung."
The list goes on and on, I could be here all day. But if we can allow non-fans to stop paying for sports packages, the ship might right itself. It'll take a while, players are going to have to stop being "the highest paid whatever" every single year, but we actually have a chance of getting back on course with players playing for the love of the game, instead of the pursuit of the money.
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Can we please just get a physical controller for our phones?
It can be Bluetooth or physically plugged in, I don't care. Just make it universal, or only split Apple/Android if you absolutely must. A physical connection with a cradle dock that functions in both portrait and landscape would be ideal, but at this point I'm honestly not too picky.
The devices we keep in our pockets today have several orders of magnitude more computation power and graphical fidelity than the first few generations of home gaming consoles. The only thing we lack is a proper input device.
Fix that, and we can have actual games on our devices (tablets, if not phones) instead of this half-assed shovelware.
Generation ships, probably.
Take a hundred thousand people, build a spaceship big enough to house them (with room to grow) find some way to synthesize food and water (soylent green, anyone?) and point them off into the stars.
Rinse and repeat
The other option would be terraforming, but that seems a bit far fetched, doesn't it?
For games, mostly. My setup runs better than WINE...though it was a pain to get working (see my link, above)
At least now, when MS does something stupid and crashes their OS, only a small little subset of my computing goes down. Plus, I have windows at work, so it pays to keep brushed up at home. Still on Win7 at the office, but they've been talking about going to 10.
It took me a week or so to get everything smoothed out, but it was a fun little experiment and it works like a charm now.
Twitter is a "major tech company." Since when??
It's a website that can receive SMS. There's nothing tech about it. And they can't really even be a "major company," as they have no product. All they have are eyeballs into which ads can be jammed, and those are fickle beasts.
Linux on the metal. Windows in a VM.
Took a little tweaking (you can google it) and it works perfectly for the vast majority of applications. I only found a slight degradation in the latest and greatest AAA vidya games. And even then, it's around a 10% loss in frame rate, or turning the graphics down from Ultra to Very High.
Is there any reason the drones couldn't stick to the roads or other "neutral" air spaces?
Slightly less efficient than a straight shot, sure, but a whole lot cheaper than replacing drones and quelling rumors of peeping into windows.
I'm waiting for a phone company to show some real courage and buck trends.
Give me a fatter phone. Use that extra space for more battery and useful ports. Maybe even make the battery removable. Add some rubberized trim around the edges for better grip and drop/impact protection.
Seriously, no one cares if it's 12.3 grams heavier, or 5.1 mm thicker. And we've long since reached a point where the internals are good enough. The incremental updates every year are nice for some top-end applications, or flexing them benchmark scores, but don't really affect a user's day to day experiences.
Have the courage to make a phone people actually want, and see what sells.
I've used stack exchange and other sites a ton to help figure out the syntax of a particular command, or how to work certain commands together ... but that doesn't mean I'm going to blindly download and run the script as-is. And I definitely don't run code that tells me "trust me, you'll understand once it's over."
I'll always look through the script, line by line, and understand what it's doing. If I don't understand part of it, I remove that part or search around until I do understand it. Or better yet, create my own script using pieces and parts of the version I downloaded.
Depends on the movie and the theater.
There have been a handful of "luxury cinemas" popping up in my area. Leather recliner seats, with two complete arm rests for everyone (no sharing), and the seats are even assigned. You can buy tickets online in advance and pick your seats, or when you buy tickets in the lobby, they have a screen for you to choose. No more trying to find space, or people asking you to shift down one... They also have a genuine kitchen making actual food, fresh baked cookies, and beer/wine available.
There are a few movies every year that I really do want to experience on opening night in this fashion. But for the other 95% of the pablum that Hollywood produces, just release it straight to video on demand. I'll probably pay $5-10 on opening weekend, but not much more.
Is any user out there clamoring for an extra 0.8 mm of screen real estate?
Is this even going to be viable when someone puts a protective case on their phone, or will the case impede on the edges of the screen?
This smacks of change for the sake of change, with little regard for improving the actual design or usability of the phone.
Removed a feature? UPGRADE
Less user friendly? UPGRADE
Harder to service? UPGRADE
How about you don't run random code that you don't understand.
Screwing up your system by running someone else's scripts is not unique to Powershell (or MS in general).
Microsoft might take the brunt of the malicious code however, because their software is designed to be easy. Any screwball can stumble their way through adding users or DNS zones in AD's GUI and call themselves a sysadmin. The mental barrier to entry is low, so you'll end up with a higher percentage of idiots running Windows systems. If those same idiots knew how to CLI, they'd be admins for *nix systems, and writing their own code for Powershell on the windows side. But they don't. So they google "How to ... in Powershell," download the first .ps1 file they find and right-click Run as Admin.
And that's just tech.
How much have we "effectively paid" oil, pharma, and defense contractors?
You are correct: the RIAA fills a need and does provide a service.
However you seem to assume that they are the only ones who can provide this service.
If the RIAA vanished tomorrow, new mechanisms would form to help people find music they like. And those new mechanisms would be better for both the artists and listener.
There's actually only 12 minutes of genuine action during a 3-hour NFL broadcast.
The other 2 hours and 48 minutes are commercials, the crowd, commercials, the cheerleaders, commercials, pre-snap preparations (OMAHA!) and more commercials.
Yes, but with a bit of practice, you can offset enough to skip most of the commercials and still end very close to the real ending.
NFL games are probably the easiest. The broadcast is 3 hours. The actual game clock is 1 hour. Add a bit of buffer to deal with fast-forwarding commercials or going back to watch replays ... you can easily skip the first hour and change.
I usually catch up to "live" with about 10-20 minutes left in the broadcast, so I can watch the finale unspoiled.
I trust old cars. I'm currently rolling around in a 93 Jeep yj. It has a ragtop that I put on a few times per year, for rain mostly. Even if someone could somehow remotely activate the locks while I had the top on, the window is operated by zipper.
For newer vehicles, I would trust a window punch (or better yet, a multi-tool with a punch, belt cutter, flashlight, etc).
Of course nature has a feedback method to automatically correct the damage we do: extinction (or a major culling at least)
Then $15 isn't enough. Seems pretty obvious. And no, that's not the greedy peasantry talking.
Taking a job incurs expenses. Travel to/from a job site, you might also need some new clothes (depending on the job), if you've got kids, now you're paying for daycare ... add all that up, and $15 an hour might not cover it.
So yeah, 100,000 jobs sit vacant until your friend offers a better wage.
As soon as Bitcoin entered common parlance, this became the obvious endgame.
As soon as you could purchase normal day-to-day goods, it became inevitable.
And as much as it sucks ... they're right. Using crypto currency does avoid taxes, even if that isn't the primary intent.
I just wish they'd found a better way to address the issue. A mass subpoena is rather inelegant, and will cause a lot of pushback.
They called it.
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I had this exact product a few months ago. It's called SlingTV (not Sling Box)
It's alright, and most channels offered some Netflix-style streaming of their shows, in addition to watching live.
But in the end, it was still too much for too little.
"Reality has a well-known liberal bias."
More recently as part of "new maths" they're told to solve these problems differently -- with techniques that are no longer the rote application of instructions, but instead require creativity and understanding of what the numbers represent. http://www.nbcwashington.com/n... [nbcwashington.com]
You know, it took me a minute, but I actually like the concepts in the "new math" subtraction.
They're trying to illustrate that subtraction is fundamentally the distance between two points. [32 - 12 = 20] because there are 20 points of difference between those two numbers. You can use "milestones" along the way to demonstrate that: From 12 to 15, from 15 to 20, from 20 to 30, and from 30 to 32. You chart a path from one end to the other, and measure the steps you took (3, 5, 10 and 2). Add up the steps to arrive at your answer.
You probably use a similar process when mathing out bigger numbers in your head. If you calculate [1000 - 432 = 568] in your head, you might figure out the big chunk, from 1000 down to 500, before sussing out the smaller part. Or you could go the other way and solve 432 up to 500, then finish out to 1000. Personally, I solved for 430, and just shaved off 2. Similar process, just taken further.
They have to start the learning on simple problems [32 - 12] to prove the concept to kids. Then work their way up to more complex stuff.
As a cord cutter, yes please.
As a sports fan, EXTRA yes please.
Slight tangent, but one of the problems facing several sports today is ridiculously over-inflated salaries:
-This leads to rule changes to prevent injury: can't have your bazillion dollar player getting hurt.
-And that's gonna pump up owner salaries... can't have "just" a multi-millionaire owner presiding over millionaire players... no no no
-It leads to god awful sponsorship deals by the players: "Eat Papa Johns pizza, I swear it's not garbage," (it is). Gotta keep that lifestyle rolling after you retire
-And there are even worse sponsorship deals by the teams: "Welcome to the Bank of America field in Ford Arena -built ford tough-. Now lets watch the Monster Energy Drink replay highlights sponsored by Samsung."
The list goes on and on, I could be here all day. But if we can allow non-fans to stop paying for sports packages, the ship might right itself. It'll take a while, players are going to have to stop being "the highest paid whatever" every single year, but we actually have a chance of getting back on course with players playing for the love of the game, instead of the pursuit of the money.