I'm still somewhat amused by people who bought a gaming console and expected to treat it as a personal computer......if Sony ever advertised rooting the box, then they'll have to put that feature back in or face charges of false advertising. If it's hackers who advertised rooting the box, Sony doesn't owe anyone anything.
Sunglasses with HUD, Contact Lenses with onscreen displays,
Your eye can't focus on those, unless you're tragically myopic, and then you're gneeing over a flexible screen on coke-bottle glasses...
Subdermal vital signs readout
Interesting, but a bit clunky when you add in power and I/O.
Passports,
You want a passport that has a variable display? So would a lot of crooks.
Driver's Licenses and Credit Cards with really cool security features.
Which will still be summarily ignored by crooks ordering online using your stolen digits.
Ebook reader way thinner than anything we have now
The e-paper versions are already made of a flexible-display material. This will make multimedia devices way thinner, though. But really, I don't want more thinness. My Nexus One is already so narrow I feel like I have to coddle it. The flexibility will make it more durable in hyperthin applications, though.
But, actually, you missed the point of wrapping it around a pencil: Pencils that have moving displays on them. Jewelry, shirts, headwear, tablecloths, curtains, tents, blimps, flags, kites, uniforms, shoes, shoelaces, cereal boxes, taxicab seats; anything that's made of fabric can become a fabric-based output device.
And even better: a digital display device that weighs grams that you can roll up and stuff into a tube for easy portability. With OLED brightness and detail.
And since OLEDs are "printable", these things may be scalable to make gigantic, truly seamless displays. Imagine your multiplex with 40-foot OLED screens instead of projectors and silver-painted cloth. (Albeit, I'd put a plexiglass shield in front of it; because repairs are going to take more than a patch of muslin and some wallpaper paste...)
It's not opt-in for those who were using it before the system was changed to collect their information without giving them the option to opt-out.
Facebook is a bunch of unthinking script-kiddies who implement feature requests without considering how the new feature affects anyone other than the requester.
I suspect this has cost Zuckerberg about $2 or $3 billion in marketable value for his website. He'll wipe the snot away and claim he doesn't care, but if losing $3 billion doesn't make him shit his pants, he's got a lot more to lose.
It's almost disappointing when these things are "only" completely successful, instead of wildly exceeding our imaginations.
There's a sarcastic joke about the difference between the Obama and Bush administrations to be harvested from that setup, but I'll be damned if I'm going to say Bush's administration was even slightly successful at anything we actually wanted to get done...
How did the FBI find out about your hypothetical $4999 transactions? Should I assume they went to a judge and obtained a warrant?
No, you should assume that the $5k breakpoint is for determining what must be reported, not what can be reported or examined by the authorities. I'm pretty sure there's nothing in the banks' privacy agreements beyond what they'll give to merchants.
Yeah, but the cautionary films in defensive driving school will always be cooler than the safe-surfing vids...
(nb this is apocryphal and meant only as a joke. dd school no longer shows the gore. the actual view it gives of driving danger is probably less than the implied danger of surfing the web in these stories...)
I can think of a lot of reasons for demanding itemizations, but it's probably to keep them from becoming the market-maker for money-laundering schemes.
If all they got from your company were reams of $4999 charges for "merchandise" they'd have no way to fend off the FBI.
These days, anyone who fails to "see the difference" between a Democrat and a Republican is misinformed, not uninformed.
They have doubtless been propagandized into believing that they're the same thing, by people who have ideas nobody wants.
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Well, when Joss gets the chance to...and doesn't have to come back a couple of years later and do it in a movie...
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The multiseason arc in X-files wasn't just fluff. It was a 5-year plan that got derailed when the network asked for a 2-year extension about the middle of the story. Instead of sticking to the plan, Carter took the money and cannibalized the arc. Ruined the show, really. Like stretching wine by pouring water in it.
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X-Files had a plan. A 5-year plan. Then about year 3 they got extended to 7 years. The plan had to be changed, and the show started to lose focus. Carter made a mistake there. He should have turned down the extension and countered with an offer to wrap up the original arc and then immediately start a spinoff. It'd probably still be in production, like Law & Order. Lost could have been X-Files: The Island. Fucking alternate universes make you want things you can't have.
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I never watched even one episode of Lost. Maybe 60 seconds or so, once. So I haven't been suckered into it.
Same deal with The Sopranos. The mass hysteria surrounding these shows is sort of an indication it's not going to end well for the viewer.
Seinfeld I watched religiously, so its irresolute finale was a bit annoying to me. But that show's value was purely episodic, so they could have just done another regular episode and walked away, and the last was just a bad one, not necessarily a devaluation of the entire series.
Best finale of a TV show, ever? St. Elsewhere. Too bad for you if you didn't get a chance to live through that.
Africa will never be a power of any kind, much less a Superpower.
It's got some mineral wealth, but nothing like the masses of oil in other regions, and its population is surprisingly small for the land mass.
Well, perhaps that's the loophole. When land itself really does become a constricting factor in the rest of the world, Africa's undeveloped areas will be a key asset, and it will be a boomtown for a while. But not a long while. It doesn't take long to partition land to the minimal marketable parcel, and then you're done.
Because when you subtract the few cases that are obviously stress-induced (no company is homogeneous so i have no doubt some employees are being terrorized by their managers, but that's a criminal issue, not a corporate one), the suicide rate at this company is even lower still than the national average.
They did. And they grew a lot of rice and made a lot of molded plastic stuff.
Then someone at the top discovered that if they give all the profits from an operation to the guy running the operation they could make more money for themselves.
So now they do it that way, and now they make a lot of shiny glassy electronic stuff, and the people who are not at the top are making noise like they want the old system back.
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I'm still somewhat amused by people who bought a gaming console and expected to treat it as a personal computer... ...if Sony ever advertised rooting the box, then they'll have to put that feature back in or face charges of false advertising. If it's hackers who advertised rooting the box, Sony doesn't owe anyone anything.
Sunglasses with HUD, Contact Lenses with onscreen displays,
Your eye can't focus on those, unless you're tragically myopic, and then you're gneeing over a flexible screen on coke-bottle glasses...
Subdermal vital signs readout
Interesting, but a bit clunky when you add in power and I/O.
Passports,
You want a passport that has a variable display? So would a lot of crooks.
Driver's Licenses and Credit Cards with really cool security features.
Which will still be summarily ignored by crooks ordering online using your stolen digits.
Ebook reader way thinner than anything we have now
The e-paper versions are already made of a flexible-display material. This will make multimedia devices way thinner, though. But really, I don't want more thinness. My Nexus One is already so narrow I feel like I have to coddle it. The flexibility will make it more durable in hyperthin applications, though.
But, actually, you missed the point of wrapping it around a pencil: Pencils that have moving displays on them. Jewelry, shirts, headwear, tablecloths, curtains, tents, blimps, flags, kites, uniforms, shoes, shoelaces, cereal boxes, taxicab seats; anything that's made of fabric can become a fabric-based output device.
And even better: a digital display device that weighs grams that you can roll up and stuff into a tube for easy portability. With OLED brightness and detail.
And since OLEDs are "printable", these things may be scalable to make gigantic, truly seamless displays. Imagine your multiplex with 40-foot OLED screens instead of projectors and silver-painted cloth. (Albeit, I'd put a plexiglass shield in front of it; because repairs are going to take more than a patch of muslin and some wallpaper paste...)
OLED longevity has increased quite a bit since the first cell-phone displays in the early '00s.
No, actually, it's pretty fucking lame.
Take the glass off your LCD and bend it and you'll get massive distortion, too.
The idea of a breakthrough is to solve a problem, not to demonstrate it.
What he was going to do with the additional data was also worth a lot more before he pissed off his users by selling their privacy without permission.
If he'd done it right, that's another couple $billion on top.
Again, if this stuff doesn't make him crap his pants, he never knew what he was doing in the first place, and will be easy to rape in a business deal.
It's not opt-in for those who were using it before the system was changed to collect their information without giving them the option to opt-out.
Facebook is a bunch of unthinking script-kiddies who implement feature requests without considering how the new feature affects anyone other than the requester.
I suspect this has cost Zuckerberg about $2 or $3 billion in marketable value for his website. He'll wipe the snot away and claim he doesn't care, but if losing $3 billion doesn't make him shit his pants, he's got a lot more to lose.
Their anti-free-speech stance is unamerican. When do we start deporting them?
It's almost disappointing when these things are "only" completely successful, instead of wildly exceeding our imaginations.
There's a sarcastic joke about the difference between the Obama and Bush administrations to be harvested from that setup, but I'll be damned if I'm going to say Bush's administration was even slightly successful at anything we actually wanted to get done...
Just playing devil's advocate here
Does your boss know you just identified him?
How did the FBI find out about your hypothetical $4999 transactions? Should I assume they went to a judge and obtained a warrant?
No, you should assume that the $5k breakpoint is for determining what must be reported, not what can be reported or examined by the authorities. I'm pretty sure there's nothing in the banks' privacy agreements beyond what they'll give to merchants.
Then you're no kind of nerd.
Yeah, but the cautionary films in defensive driving school will always be cooler than the safe-surfing vids...
(nb this is apocryphal and meant only as a joke. dd school no longer shows the gore. the actual view it gives of driving danger is probably less than the implied danger of surfing the web in these stories...)
completely bug free engineering is hard to do
No, it's easy to do.
Once you know what constitutes a bug.
They didn't, so they got what they engineered: a shitstorm.
I can think of a lot of reasons for demanding itemizations, but it's probably to keep them from becoming the market-maker for money-laundering schemes.
If all they got from your company were reams of $4999 charges for "merchandise" they'd have no way to fend off the FBI.
would not let us carry or sell any pipettes, agar-agar or 10cc syringes that had 1.5" 18 gauge needles on them
You mean "eye droppers, jell-o, and glue applicators."
At least, next time you apply for a merchant account from them, that's what you mean.
These days, anyone who fails to "see the difference" between a Democrat and a Republican is misinformed, not uninformed.
They have doubtless been propagandized into believing that they're the same thing, by people who have ideas nobody wants.
Well, when Joss gets the chance to...and doesn't have to come back a couple of years later and do it in a movie...
The multiseason arc in X-files wasn't just fluff. It was a 5-year plan that got derailed when the network asked for a 2-year extension about the middle of the story. Instead of sticking to the plan, Carter took the money and cannibalized the arc. Ruined the show, really. Like stretching wine by pouring water in it.
X-Files had a plan. A 5-year plan. Then about year 3 they got extended to 7 years. The plan had to be changed, and the show started to lose focus. Carter made a mistake there. He should have turned down the extension and countered with an offer to wrap up the original arc and then immediately start a spinoff. It'd probably still be in production, like Law & Order. Lost could have been X-Files: The Island. Fucking alternate universes make you want things you can't have.
I never watched even one episode of Lost. Maybe 60 seconds or so, once. So I haven't been suckered into it.
Same deal with The Sopranos. The mass hysteria surrounding these shows is sort of an indication it's not going to end well for the viewer.
Seinfeld I watched religiously, so its irresolute finale was a bit annoying to me. But that show's value was purely episodic, so they could have just done another regular episode and walked away, and the last was just a bad one, not necessarily a devaluation of the entire series.
Best finale of a TV show, ever? St. Elsewhere. Too bad for you if you didn't get a chance to live through that.
The USA PATRIOT act had nothing to do with patriotism. They applied the acronym to hide the things they were doing in it to subvert freedom.
Bad news.
Africa will never be a power of any kind, much less a Superpower.
It's got some mineral wealth, but nothing like the masses of oil in other regions, and its population is surprisingly small for the land mass.
Well, perhaps that's the loophole. When land itself really does become a constricting factor in the rest of the world, Africa's undeveloped areas will be a key asset, and it will be a boomtown for a while. But not a long while. It doesn't take long to partition land to the minimal marketable parcel, and then you're done.
Nice sarcasm, but yes, it makes it okay.
Because when you subtract the few cases that are obviously stress-induced (no company is homogeneous so i have no doubt some employees are being terrorized by their managers, but that's a criminal issue, not a corporate one), the suicide rate at this company is even lower still than the national average.
Nah. I bet it's still cheaper to make this stuff in the most overpopulated country, even if it's got an oppressive government and corrupt regulators.
They did. And they grew a lot of rice and made a lot of molded plastic stuff.
Then someone at the top discovered that if they give all the profits from an operation to the guy running the operation they could make more money for themselves.
So now they do it that way, and now they make a lot of shiny glassy electronic stuff, and the people who are not at the top are making noise like they want the old system back.
Are you saying engaget faked the translation, or faked the whole article?