Yeah, Wii U as a "Wii Mode" where it pretty much acts like a Wii, so it connects to the older Wii Shop instead of the newer Nintendo Store (IIRC it can only use outdated wireless security protocols as well). Incidentally, it you have a Wii, there is a transfer feature for moving your Wii games to Wii U. That said, I didn't see much on Wii Ware besides the BitTrip games, and everything seemed a little overpriced for the content, but I haven't checked it out for about 2 years.
You'll need to keep your 'Cube though, as Wii U only goes down to Wii.
Canada Post does this for free. Make a message "I do not wish to receive unaddressed admail" and tape it inside your mailbox. You do still get junk mail that is addressed to you specifically though. US Post should have this if they don't already.
Those people would have no trouble identifying who Jonathan Coulton is without any example of his work. Among people who don't know who JoCo is, Still Alive is by far the most likely song to ring a bell for them.
I think kids would play it for the shock value, some politicians would complain, and it would stay on store shelves. Maybe Rockstar should make a Pakistan division and do this for the free publicity. (On that note, the CIA isn't in Grand Theft Auto AFAIK, but crooked cops, FBI agents, and the US military are).
Yes. As a basic example, imagine you're learning how to code, and you want to spend as little time as possible in the classroom. Wouldn't it be great if an AI could recognize what you're trying to do, intuitively explain why a piece of code isn't working, gently inform you when the code could be done more cleanly, create or modify blocks of code for you when you verbally ask them, etc? If it learns so much that it takes on a concept of free will and suffers for not having it, that wouldn't be so great, otherwise, very useful for a variety of things.
It sounds like web apps were the official way with the original iPhone, before the App Store existed, and they needed a selling point for their device. How altruistic of them. Then Apple made the App Store. Now they want you to use that, but they can't really justify shutting down web apps, so all they can do is ignore them and hope users do the same.
But the Death Star response was informative, and no one should draw the line of what is "nonsense". Not saying this petition system actually brings forth any change, but I do think it's a good idea and hope it's taken up by future administrations. It's nice to see them tasked to make a response if enough people demand it; even a superficial one helps clue one in to what the administration is about when a "no comment" response is off the table.
Want to make your head hurt? Try to imagine, what, exactly, Facebook was buying from Chad in the xkcd analogy, and why they thought it was worth so much.
Which raises an interesing point. In the past, depending the time and place, it was considered arrogant for something to have perfect spelling and grammar. While I don't agree that either, minor mistakes don't hurt readability much. Hopefully this comment will help test that theory one way or the other.
That sounds like more of an example of why intelligence measures don't work, just as strength measures don't. The same guy doesn't win every Strongman (etc) event. Different athletes have different kinds of strength. You can't just add together bench-press percentile with neuron-activity percentile (weighted according to how important each is) to determine who will be more likely to win the next MMA bout.
Even better, it's like seeing 079999 on and odometer and thinking that. We are heading into the 13'th b'ak'tun out of 20 (b'ak'tuns last a little less than 400 years), and after ending the 20th, we move onto the 1st bak'tun of the 2nd piktun. Oh, and after 20 piktuns are done, it's onto the 2nd kalabtun, 20 of those is a K'inchiltun and 20 of those is a Alautun. But there's nothing for 20 Alautuns, so in ~460 billion years, we might see some trouble according to the Mayan calendar.
Go to Ninite and throw on Classic Shell (along with the other apps they will need; Ninite is great for this). Hopefully that will give most people what they're looking for. Classic Shell also lets you bypass Metro on startup. Then it's just a matter of configuring the auto-login and it's mostly like Win7 by that point, with the major difference being that Win8 has flat colours and Win7 has shiny glass.
This isn't for that. It's for those who would walk to a public computer, create a Google log-in, tell Google to remember the log-in ("this is a private computer"), turn all the filters off, and leave the account logged in for the next unsuspecting person who proceeds to make an innocent search with the filters off.
In your case, your filters would already be set to moderate unless you turned them off.
In that case, they may be forced by EU law to provide a list of 3rd parties they shared to until you delete your account, but they still wouldn't need tracking data.
Metro might be ok (haven't used it enough), but there are 3 things that don't work for desktop:
1) No start button on screen and no obvious option to enable it. Makes sense on a phone where you have the Windows button. The windows key on a keyboard however doesn't cut it. (Neither does moving the mouse to the corner of the screen, which is almost the same as auto-hiding the taskbar)
2) Keeping the taskbar visible while in the Metro menu would be nice, and wouldn't take up much room. So that should be an easily enabled option.
3) (This one is really bad) right clicking on an item in Metro brings up a menu at the bottom of the screen. On a desktop.
These comments might be beating a dead horse, but that's appropriate given the story it's attached to.
Silly claim by Facebook. Facebook should already ask you before you send any of your information to a different site. If the user accepts this, FB wouldn't be on the hook for the data on other sites (assuming the EU law was made rationally), therefore they wouldn't need to "keep more tracking data". It would be the user's responsibility to knock on the door of each site they allowed FB to share information with and tell them to delete all their data. Of course, if FB is sharing your data to other sites without your permission, that's a whole other issue.
Wii is a deceptively goofy name. It's weird, but catchy, and the two "i"s look very distinctive among random text. DuckDuckGo is 3 syllables, composed of already existing words, and doesn't really stand out in a positive way.
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Yeah, Wii U as a "Wii Mode" where it pretty much acts like a Wii, so it connects to the older Wii Shop instead of the newer Nintendo Store (IIRC it can only use outdated wireless security protocols as well). Incidentally, it you have a Wii, there is a transfer feature for moving your Wii games to Wii U. That said, I didn't see much on Wii Ware besides the BitTrip games, and everything seemed a little overpriced for the content, but I haven't checked it out for about 2 years.
You'll need to keep your 'Cube though, as Wii U only goes down to Wii.
Canada Post does this for free. Make a message "I do not wish to receive unaddressed admail" and tape it inside your mailbox. You do still get junk mail that is addressed to you specifically though. US Post should have this if they don't already.
Those people would have no trouble identifying who Jonathan Coulton is without any example of his work. Among people who don't know who JoCo is, Still Alive is by far the most likely song to ring a bell for them.
"The number of women in that group was one-third of what one would expect based on female representation in the life sciences"
I think kids would play it for the shock value, some politicians would complain, and it would stay on store shelves. Maybe Rockstar should make a Pakistan division and do this for the free publicity. (On that note, the CIA isn't in Grand Theft Auto AFAIK, but crooked cops, FBI agents, and the US military are).
Too late.
"Why create AIs? To enslave them?"
Yes. As a basic example, imagine you're learning how to code, and you want to spend as little time as possible in the classroom. Wouldn't it be great if an AI could recognize what you're trying to do, intuitively explain why a piece of code isn't working, gently inform you when the code could be done more cleanly, create or modify blocks of code for you when you verbally ask them, etc? If it learns so much that it takes on a concept of free will and suffers for not having it, that wouldn't be so great, otherwise, very useful for a variety of things.
Such a system demands the highest possible complexity. Go with "Kaboom1".
Oh no, not again.
It sounds like web apps were the official way with the original iPhone, before the App Store existed, and they needed a selling point for their device. How altruistic of them. Then Apple made the App Store. Now they want you to use that, but they can't really justify shutting down web apps, so all they can do is ignore them and hope users do the same.
But the Death Star response was informative, and no one should draw the line of what is "nonsense". Not saying this petition system actually brings forth any change, but I do think it's a good idea and hope it's taken up by future administrations. It's nice to see them tasked to make a response if enough people demand it; even a superficial one helps clue one in to what the administration is about when a "no comment" response is off the table.
Pretty sure that's what the GP was demonstrating with then nailclippers comment.
Want to make your head hurt? Try to imagine, what, exactly, Facebook was buying from Chad in the xkcd analogy, and why they thought it was worth so much.
Which raises an interesing point. In the past, depending the time and place, it was considered arrogant for something to have perfect spelling and grammar. While I don't agree that either, minor mistakes don't hurt readability much. Hopefully this comment will help test that theory one way or the other.
I'm kind of impressed they didn't say Obama was to blame for global warming.
That sounds like more of an example of why intelligence measures don't work, just as strength measures don't. The same guy doesn't win every Strongman (etc) event. Different athletes have different kinds of strength. You can't just add together bench-press percentile with neuron-activity percentile (weighted according to how important each is) to determine who will be more likely to win the next MMA bout.
Except now you caused a time paradox that will manifest itself as the Earth exploding on the 21st.
Even better, it's like seeing 079999 on and odometer and thinking that. We are heading into the 13'th b'ak'tun out of 20 (b'ak'tuns last a little less than 400 years), and after ending the 20th, we move onto the 1st bak'tun of the 2nd piktun. Oh, and after 20 piktuns are done, it's onto the 2nd kalabtun, 20 of those is a K'inchiltun and 20 of those is a Alautun. But there's nothing for 20 Alautuns, so in ~460 billion years, we might see some trouble according to the Mayan calendar.
Go to Ninite and throw on Classic Shell (along with the other apps they will need; Ninite is great for this). Hopefully that will give most people what they're looking for. Classic Shell also lets you bypass Metro on startup. Then it's just a matter of configuring the auto-login and it's mostly like Win7 by that point, with the major difference being that Win8 has flat colours and Win7 has shiny glass.
This isn't for that. It's for those who would walk to a public computer, create a Google log-in, tell Google to remember the log-in ("this is a private computer"), turn all the filters off, and leave the account logged in for the next unsuspecting person who proceeds to make an innocent search with the filters off.
In your case, your filters would already be set to moderate unless you turned them off.
In that case, they may be forced by EU law to provide a list of 3rd parties they shared to until you delete your account, but they still wouldn't need tracking data.
Metro might be ok (haven't used it enough), but there are 3 things that don't work for desktop:
1) No start button on screen and no obvious option to enable it. Makes sense on a phone where you have the Windows button. The windows key on a keyboard however doesn't cut it. (Neither does moving the mouse to the corner of the screen, which is almost the same as auto-hiding the taskbar)
2) Keeping the taskbar visible while in the Metro menu would be nice, and wouldn't take up much room. So that should be an easily enabled option.
3) (This one is really bad) right clicking on an item in Metro brings up a menu at the bottom of the screen. On a desktop.
These comments might be beating a dead horse, but that's appropriate given the story it's attached to.
Silly claim by Facebook. Facebook should already ask you before you send any of your information to a different site. If the user accepts this, FB wouldn't be on the hook for the data on other sites (assuming the EU law was made rationally), therefore they wouldn't need to "keep more tracking data". It would be the user's responsibility to knock on the door of each site they allowed FB to share information with and tell them to delete all their data. Of course, if FB is sharing your data to other sites without your permission, that's a whole other issue.
They work in Win7 too. Sweet!
Wii is a deceptively goofy name. It's weird, but catchy, and the two "i"s look very distinctive among random text. DuckDuckGo is 3 syllables, composed of already existing words, and doesn't really stand out in a positive way.