...it's almost like that thing experts have been screaming at the top of their lungs for a decade (or longer!) have been warning people about.
You sucked on the SaaS titty, and now you get to pay for it with your butthole.
And, as always, it always "begins" with the worst criminals. Pedophiles. Murders. "Think of the children!" they'll say, as they inch closer and closer to sticking a camera inside your anus while calling it "progress" and "freedom."
And perhaps I didn't lay on hard enough, for the average reader, how this applies to the original submission.
Some guy, talking out of his ass for ad-revenue, does not affect my view of Uber, or their financial future, in the least. (Even though I dislike them anyway.)
Honestly, I have zero (ZERO) faith in and respect for, journalists. That's not to say all journalists are terrible. It's that there are SO MANY bad ones claiming to be journalists, and "good" ones that allow businesses to throw away their sense of ethics to pay the mortgage. It's that the profession overall is dead-to-me until it decides to apologize and "Rebirth" itself from the ashes of clickbait.
Like, I don't even know to call "outing a gay manager of Google". It's not journalism. And I can't even think of a word that captures the level-of-offensiveness, and lack of perspective of what matters, in that kind of act. Ruin a man's (who isn't even a public figure) for AD-REVENUE?
And I'm not the only one. A gallup poll shows that ALL Americans are feeling this--even if not so consciously. A mere "32% saying they have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the media." Even less if you don't allow the 52% Democrat approval to scale up the average from the bottom of the barrel that the right-wing and independents think of the media.
And as a side note, when the hell did liberals stop caring about corporations? When did Starbucks become "okay"? When did 5 corporations owning over 90% of all US media become okay? (Thanks telecommunications act of 1995.) When I was raised as a "liberal", it meant dying for someone's right to say what was in their heart, and telling large corporations to go fuck themselves. I honestly have a hard time connecting the dots between my generation and the next.
> demonstrating that they're even more complex thinkers than we thought,"
If you think the only things that exist are the ones we've been able to prove exist, then you're not a very good scientist.
Occam's Razor isn't a scientific device. It's a philosophical one. In the year 1000, Occam's Razor would have suggested the world was flat. It fulfills most or all of people's expectations, based on human knowledge and logic, discovered up till that point. And yet all of human history screams that we are still living in a era of "flat world" science.
One of those blind spots is our hubris in thinking that just because we can't communicate with animals and other species, that they're not actually intelligent creatures capable of abstract thought. For example, animal not being able to pass your tests, does not mean the animal is dumb. It's also possible that the tests are designed poorly from a lack of understanding of the animal.
I use 64-character passwords generated using openssl SHA-1 being fed with/dev/random.
I'm not even kidding. After the FIFTH GODDAMN WEBSITE LEAKED MY PASSWORDS IN ONE YEAR, I became outright furious. I'm still waiting for Congress to stop sucking corporate dicks and pass a law making it explicitly illegal to lose a MILLION user accounts, let alone a fuckin' BILLION like Yahoo did.
10,000 steps is a huge amount for some people. I'm disabled, I can't make it most days.
Setting the number at 10,000 _implies_ that everyone should be doing it, which implies that everyone should be ABLE to do it.
To cut to the core of what I'm saying here: Many people see that number, see they NEVER meet it, and feel LESS motivated. People don't like failure--even if it's just a lack of "star" icon appearing on their app to remind them of their perceived failure.
Applications should stress IMPROVEMENT over previous results NOT achieving an arbitrary number. (And what if you achieve that number? Now you don't feel motivated to SURPASS that number.)
It's the damn GPA grading system all over again. (And everyone has glowing reviews of the education system, right?) Once people get an "A" on a test, _they_ _stop_ _learning_. Kids who don't have that arbitrary system never know when to stop learning (because there's nobody telling them they're "done") so they just keep going. Also, kids who never meet that "A" on the test feel demotivated into not even trying. "I've never made an A before, why should I even try?"
We're dealing with people's most subconscious habits. You can't treat this problem like a logical problem. You have to treat this like a PEOPLE problem, where people often don't make choices that are in their short or long-term best interest.
p.s. Another related topic to read up on is "point systems" for driving infractions. Researchers have shown that when people have the "count down" system (You have X points and lose them for infractions), they feel like they have "Free points" and only worry when they get close to zero points (suspension of your license). However, IIRC (it's been years), with the "rising points" system people feel better about being at, "Zero failures." And when they add points there is no "ceiling". Just like how kids at schools with fences will play AT the fence, but schools without fences, the kids play much further inland / away from the street. Working out is a psychological, motivational problem. Don't try to reduce it to mere logic.
Universities are currently where critical thinking goes to die in in many departments. So pardon my skepticism at their ability to teach something they don't PRACTICE within their halls.
That's not just an "only" complaint. That's a HUGE fuckin' complaint.
I sure-as-hell love to find out that EVERYTHING I WAS DOING the last day at work is completely wiped away. It's fucking infuriating. And I maintain Microsoft products for a living.
You mean a bunch of a smug anti-social virgins, and super-jock 1980's Wall Street-esk managers might be sexist? Nah.
The bullshit is when you extrapolate these assholes to somehow mean the rest of the staff.
We're not supposed to generalize against all Muslims, but somehow when one man does a shitty thing ALL MEN deserve to be reprimanded. That's a great way to create animosity. Force a man to be punished for something he didn't do.
You folks also love to forget that women can be sexist too.
And when you do those things, you're not doing ANYONE a favor. You're not improving the workplace or the world when you shit on innocent people. You're creating a bunch of people who are rightly bitter about being scapegoated by "the system." You're literally becoming the very systematic toxicity you claim to be fighting against. All you've done is taken the heat off of one group and used it to crush another group. Guaranteeing another generation of resentment.
If they're removing them "now", what the hell were they doing before? Results are already riddled with DMCA takedown removed results. Google has been publishing the list of these removed URLs for years:
Also, FUN FACT. They're not doing what they say because they never do what they say. If they REALLY went after copyright infringing websites they'd take down:
While I'm sure he'll find plenty of mistakes. There's one kind I don't see mentioned anywhere in this thread.
How is he supposed to KNOW that the bits in the cartridge are correct?
Radiation and high-temperatures still effect ROM memory. Otherwise, why would we need rad-hardened ROM memory on satellites? And what is space? Just a more dangerous version of what we have on Earth--but Earth still has some radiation. Now add DECADES of sitting around absorbing background radiation, with periods of sitting thrown around on top of someone's table under hot sunlight.
There's a reason super-long-term storage is not as simple as burning a CD.
Now, yes, yes, the practical cure of things like boot loaders, ROM hacks, poor early dumps, and all that crap. Sure. I'm clearly NOT debating that. But tiny artifacts in sprites? Single bit changes in code? Maybe not so much...
.. If I were to take a gander. I would say that 30 second unskippable ads and the like were HarassWare/AnnoyWare. Basically, they wanted non-YouTube Red to progressively become more and more intolerable thanks to the ads, so people would be encouraged just to get them away.
The problem is, we've been using YouTube for YEARS with almost no ads, so we're not going to just magically take a "worse" version of a service and PAY to get it back to normal. And even then YouTube Red doesn't remove ALL ads.
And that doesn't even begin to address the worst feature. YouTube Red costs a ridiculous price while having BARELY any content. Yes, yes, there's tons of content but it's not curated. You have to SEARCH for it and keep sifting through the crap. Netflix came to the game so much later and blew YouTube out of the water.
Netflix's price feels like a steal. A no-brainer.
YouTube Red's price feels like a rip-off.
Supply and demand. "The consumer is never wrong." (If you want to make money, and you're not making money, it's YOUR fault as a business--not the consumers.)
So back to the topic at hand. With these supremely annoying ads (which I would simply hit the mute button on my car and enjoy 30+ seconds of silence, because "screw you"), either accomplished their target to gain more Red exposure into the common place, or they completely failed.
Maybe I'm far out in left field and missing another key aspect. It's possible. It's possible advertisers thought the option was good at first, but thanks to people like me (and everyone else!) hating them so much (causing NEGATIVE brand reception), they're removing them. That is, they're removing them simply because it doesn't help advertisers or YouTube, compared to the cost YouTube is charging to run those ads. Someone else will have to chime in on that aspect.
I know you're kidding but adblock doesn't always work on embedded videos. Facebook videos still show, and some (all?) embedded ads on other websites.
But man, trying to use YouTube on my phone for music when I'm driving? GOOD LORD there's a ton of ads. They're so annoying (1 minute ad after a 45 second YouTube video? Suck my balls.) that I go out of my way to mentally make a note to think less of whatever company is advertised. Like that stupid mobile game that looks like a cartoon age of mythology. I'll never buy that just because I saw those damn ads so many times inbetween what I actually wanted to watch.
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This is like... the instant-karma-from-liberals copy-pasta and the funniest thing is they don't even see it.
...it's almost like that thing experts have been screaming at the top of their lungs for a decade (or longer!) have been warning people about.
You sucked on the SaaS titty, and now you get to pay for it with your butthole.
And, as always, it always "begins" with the worst criminals. Pedophiles. Murders. "Think of the children!" they'll say, as they inch closer and closer to sticking a camera inside your anus while calling it "progress" and "freedom."
What's a "Skype?" That just sounds like a really shitty, bloated version version of Discord.
I seriously miss SoftwareEtc.
>after spending 24 miserable hours on a Qatar Airways flight,
I.. I don't think that's Trump's fault that your flight sucks ass.
And hilariously, if the flight was "that bad" then it was far worse and longer than the injustice he faced at the airport.
--California
Right?
5K per eye? You can't even run twin 4K on one videocard. What you're asking isn't feasible with current technology at consumer-grade cost.
You might as well be seriously complaining "Why don't we all have flying cars yet?!"
And perhaps I didn't lay on hard enough, for the average reader, how this applies to the original submission.
Some guy, talking out of his ass for ad-revenue, does not affect my view of Uber, or their financial future, in the least. (Even though I dislike them anyway.)
...I dislike shitty journalism even more.
Honestly, I have zero (ZERO) faith in and respect for, journalists. That's not to say all journalists are terrible. It's that there are SO MANY bad ones claiming to be journalists, and "good" ones that allow businesses to throw away their sense of ethics to pay the mortgage. It's that the profession overall is dead-to-me until it decides to apologize and "Rebirth" itself from the ashes of clickbait.
Like, I don't even know to call "outing a gay manager of Google". It's not journalism. And I can't even think of a word that captures the level-of-offensiveness, and lack of perspective of what matters, in that kind of act. Ruin a man's (who isn't even a public figure) for AD-REVENUE?
And I'm not the only one. A gallup poll shows that ALL Americans are feeling this--even if not so consciously. A mere "32% saying they have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the media." Even less if you don't allow the 52% Democrat approval to scale up the average from the bottom of the barrel that the right-wing and independents think of the media.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/195...
And as a side note, when the hell did liberals stop caring about corporations? When did Starbucks become "okay"? When did 5 corporations owning over 90% of all US media become okay? (Thanks telecommunications act of 1995.) When I was raised as a "liberal", it meant dying for someone's right to say what was in their heart, and telling large corporations to go fuck themselves. I honestly have a hard time connecting the dots between my generation and the next.
> demonstrating that they're even more complex thinkers than we thought,"
If you think the only things that exist are the ones we've been able to prove exist, then you're not a very good scientist.
Occam's Razor isn't a scientific device. It's a philosophical one. In the year 1000, Occam's Razor would have suggested the world was flat. It fulfills most or all of people's expectations, based on human knowledge and logic, discovered up till that point. And yet all of human history screams that we are still living in a era of "flat world" science.
One of those blind spots is our hubris in thinking that just because we can't communicate with animals and other species, that they're not actually intelligent creatures capable of abstract thought. For example, animal not being able to pass your tests, does not mean the animal is dumb. It's also possible that the tests are designed poorly from a lack of understanding of the animal.
Pretty sure I take his opinion over yours. All he did was help create the software that the majority of the entire internet runs on.
but... liberals aid the economy was COLLAPSING from Trump's instability!
Remember that, folks?
>unique 14+ char completely random passwords
loln00b. ;)
I use 64-character passwords generated using openssl SHA-1 being fed with /dev/random.
I'm not even kidding. After the FIFTH GODDAMN WEBSITE LEAKED MY PASSWORDS IN ONE YEAR, I became outright furious. I'm still waiting for Congress to stop sucking corporate dicks and pass a law making it explicitly illegal to lose a MILLION user accounts, let alone a fuckin' BILLION like Yahoo did.
You missed the point entirely.
10,000 steps is a huge amount for some people. I'm disabled, I can't make it most days.
Setting the number at 10,000 _implies_ that everyone should be doing it, which implies that everyone should be ABLE to do it.
To cut to the core of what I'm saying here: Many people see that number, see they NEVER meet it, and feel LESS motivated. People don't like failure--even if it's just a lack of "star" icon appearing on their app to remind them of their perceived failure.
Applications should stress IMPROVEMENT over previous results NOT achieving an arbitrary number. (And what if you achieve that number? Now you don't feel motivated to SURPASS that number.)
It's the damn GPA grading system all over again. (And everyone has glowing reviews of the education system, right?) Once people get an "A" on a test, _they_ _stop_ _learning_. Kids who don't have that arbitrary system never know when to stop learning (because there's nobody telling them they're "done") so they just keep going. Also, kids who never meet that "A" on the test feel demotivated into not even trying. "I've never made an A before, why should I even try?"
We're dealing with people's most subconscious habits. You can't treat this problem like a logical problem. You have to treat this like a PEOPLE problem, where people often don't make choices that are in their short or long-term best interest.
p.s. Another related topic to read up on is "point systems" for driving infractions. Researchers have shown that when people have the "count down" system (You have X points and lose them for infractions), they feel like they have "Free points" and only worry when they get close to zero points (suspension of your license). However, IIRC (it's been years), with the "rising points" system people feel better about being at, "Zero failures." And when they add points there is no "ceiling". Just like how kids at schools with fences will play AT the fence, but schools without fences, the kids play much further inland / away from the street. Working out is a psychological, motivational problem. Don't try to reduce it to mere logic.
More like Apple switching to the "Brand new" i3 processor for their newest generation of outdated powerbooks.
Universities are currently where critical thinking goes to die in in many departments. So pardon my skepticism at their ability to teach something they don't PRACTICE within their halls.
That's not just an "only" complaint. That's a HUGE fuckin' complaint.
I sure-as-hell love to find out that EVERYTHING I WAS DOING the last day at work is completely wiped away. It's fucking infuriating. And I maintain Microsoft products for a living.
You mean a bunch of a smug anti-social virgins, and super-jock 1980's Wall Street-esk managers might be sexist? Nah.
The bullshit is when you extrapolate these assholes to somehow mean the rest of the staff.
We're not supposed to generalize against all Muslims, but somehow when one man does a shitty thing ALL MEN deserve to be reprimanded. That's a great way to create animosity. Force a man to be punished for something he didn't do.
You folks also love to forget that women can be sexist too.
And when you do those things, you're not doing ANYONE a favor. You're not improving the workplace or the world when you shit on innocent people. You're creating a bunch of people who are rightly bitter about being scapegoated by "the system." You're literally becoming the very systematic toxicity you claim to be fighting against. All you've done is taken the heat off of one group and used it to crush another group. Guaranteeing another generation of resentment.
If they're removing them "now", what the hell were they doing before? Results are already riddled with DMCA takedown removed results. Google has been publishing the list of these removed URLs for years:
https://www.google.com/transpa...
Also, FUN FACT. They're not doing what they say because they never do what they say. If they REALLY went after copyright infringing websites they'd take down:
- Google+
- Facebook
- YouTube
- Reddit
- Twitter
- Imgur
Those places are FULL of copyrighted information and nobody bats an eye.
While I'm sure he'll find plenty of mistakes. There's one kind I don't see mentioned anywhere in this thread.
How is he supposed to KNOW that the bits in the cartridge are correct?
Radiation and high-temperatures still effect ROM memory. Otherwise, why would we need rad-hardened ROM memory on satellites? And what is space? Just a more dangerous version of what we have on Earth--but Earth still has some radiation. Now add DECADES of sitting around absorbing background radiation, with periods of sitting thrown around on top of someone's table under hot sunlight.
There's a reason super-long-term storage is not as simple as burning a CD.
Now, yes, yes, the practical cure of things like boot loaders, ROM hacks, poor early dumps, and all that crap. Sure. I'm clearly NOT debating that. But tiny artifacts in sprites? Single bit changes in code? Maybe not so much...
.. If I were to take a gander. I would say that 30 second unskippable ads and the like were HarassWare/AnnoyWare. Basically, they wanted non-YouTube Red to progressively become more and more intolerable thanks to the ads, so people would be encouraged just to get them away.
The problem is, we've been using YouTube for YEARS with almost no ads, so we're not going to just magically take a "worse" version of a service and PAY to get it back to normal. And even then YouTube Red doesn't remove ALL ads.
And that doesn't even begin to address the worst feature. YouTube Red costs a ridiculous price while having BARELY any content. Yes, yes, there's tons of content but it's not curated. You have to SEARCH for it and keep sifting through the crap. Netflix came to the game so much later and blew YouTube out of the water.
Netflix's price feels like a steal. A no-brainer.
YouTube Red's price feels like a rip-off.
Supply and demand. "The consumer is never wrong." (If you want to make money, and you're not making money, it's YOUR fault as a business--not the consumers.)
So back to the topic at hand. With these supremely annoying ads (which I would simply hit the mute button on my car and enjoy 30+ seconds of silence, because "screw you"), either accomplished their target to gain more Red exposure into the common place, or they completely failed.
Maybe I'm far out in left field and missing another key aspect. It's possible. It's possible advertisers thought the option was good at first, but thanks to people like me (and everyone else!) hating them so much (causing NEGATIVE brand reception), they're removing them. That is, they're removing them simply because it doesn't help advertisers or YouTube, compared to the cost YouTube is charging to run those ads. Someone else will have to chime in on that aspect.
I know you're kidding but adblock doesn't always work on embedded videos. Facebook videos still show, and some (all?) embedded ads on other websites.
But man, trying to use YouTube on my phone for music when I'm driving? GOOD LORD there's a ton of ads. They're so annoying (1 minute ad after a 45 second YouTube video? Suck my balls.) that I go out of my way to mentally make a note to think less of whatever company is advertised. Like that stupid mobile game that looks like a cartoon age of mythology. I'll never buy that just because I saw those damn ads so many times inbetween what I actually wanted to watch.
SUPER BONUS POINTS are applied to any ad that is:
- Played WAY too many times in a row.
- Uses LOUD NOISES or other distracting sounds.
They're also illegal to snoop / copy.
A better graph tells a thousand words:
http://cdn.bgr.com/2013/03/com...
Imagine all the healthy babies aborted because they thought they had autism.