Sounds like Nintendo's buying up all those panels that didn't pass muster for other companies' standards. Pretty cheap of them, considering the price of the unit.
I haven't seen a dead pixel on a screen in years. I can't believe Nintendo would stoop so low to essentially buying up rejects to save a couple bucks per unit.
You'd think at some point a Lenovo engineer would go "This looks kinda like USB. We should make sure it won't fry anything if someone tries to shove it into a USB port."
There's competition in the airline industry (Boeing, Airbus being two big players) so they can't do that.
If Boeing raises prices, customers will to go Airbus. And vice versa.
If anything they may even LOWER prices to retain customers as waiting lists get longer. "Sure, you have to wait longer for your aircraft but you save 20% going with us over Airbus!"
I grew up in the 80s and 90s and cassettes were my main music format at the time.
The hiss. The tape becoming damaged now and then resulting in parts of your songs being screwed up. The poor speed regulation on many tape decks. The felt pad under the tape becoming damaged or falling out and having to replace it, hoping not to damage the tape in the process. The tape getting "eaten" by the deck. The fact that almost all prerecorded tapes were made with the lowest quality tape possible (low bias, non-metal), so you didn't even get the best quality tape could provided from your music purchases.
Heck, the technology itself was a hack. Cassettes were originally meant for low fidelity voice dictation.
Cassettes have literally NOTHING to offer except the nostalgia. If you want a physical copy of your music, CDs are the way to go. If you want to be retro-hipster, vinyl is far better in audio quality and durability. Tapes are a clusterfuck and I remember RELISHING the day I got a CD player and didn't have to deal with them for my new music purchases.
I specifically said "persecute" not "prosecute" because the former sorta encompasses the latter, and it's not always "prosecution" per-say. It's sometimes suspension, firing, etc...
How are people even doing this? Are they running their entire house through hotspot tethering or something? I rarely use that much on my hardline cable modem, the idea of using it over cellular boggles the mind!
Maybe people in rural areas who can't get better Internet are taking advantage of this...but then rural areas don't have high contention for cellular access, so Verizon really shouldn't be dicks to them.
I've heard many cases of somebody reporting a security issue, then getting fired, sued, or arrested as a result. In the case of kids in school, suspended or expelled.
They were HONEST here! They found a security problem and rather than exploit it for personal gain, they reported it, and then get in TROUBLE for it??
It's absurd. It means when people hear of this and find security problems in the future, they'll keep quiet about them because they don't want to get in trouble too.
I should upload such footage to my Facebook account. Let them threaten to delete the account, and upload some more.
When they delete my account I can finally tell people that I don't have Facebook because it was deleted by copyright nazis. I'll have something legitimate to say after the inevitable "I don't use Facebook." "Why?" conversation!
There needs to be a time limit for editing tweets. Five minutes is good. This keeps someone from going back and changing what they said long after they said it.
There also needs to be a flag that tells people that the tweet was edited. This prevents modifying a tweet after people have already agreed with it, etc.
You don't have to cull anyone. Just encourage people to have less kids.
And STOP SOCIALLY OSTRACIZING PEOPLE WHO DECIDE NOT TO HAVE KIDS. Especially women. They're doing the world a favor and you have people calling them "selfish" or treating them as second class citizens for not joining the parental cult.
My girlfriend and are voluntarily childfree and get bullshit like this from time to time.
And no offense to parents who don't behave this way. Ya'll are awesome. There's just way too many who do.
It's really sad how fear of lawsuits has forced property owners to fence in fields that would otherwise serve as open space for kids to play in urban areas. I so often see a nice field of grass fenced in with nothing on it, that no one can use. The property owner probably doesn't care if kids play on his land, he's just worried about a lawsuit if those kids get hurt on that land.
Same thing with school athletic fields. When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s the fields were open to the public. There was usually a gate with some posts to keep vehicles out, but us kids could go in and play ball or do whatever on the field when school was out. Now it's all locked down because the school is afraid of lawsuits.
I was a kid at the time, but I remember my mother pumping gas in the 80s and those old analog pumps with the rotating numbers were about twice as fast as the modern ones. You'd think the technology to move a liquid at a higher rate wouldn't be complicated.
A well designed site would detect that someone is giving nothing but 1-star reviews, and determine that maybe this person is a problem customer, or has standards set unrealistically way too high, rather than a legitimate reviewer. Especially if the same restaurants have otherwise average reviews.
There's a lot of algorithms that can be used to find this issue and give serial negative reviewers less weight in the overall rating.
There was a point in time when you could only use the startrek.com website if you were on a specific ISP. I don't remember which ISP it was; this was *EONS* ago, probably in the 90s. I vaguely remember getting angry about it and writing a ranty post on Usenet, though I can't find it now in Google Groups.
This is the kind of crap we might see again if Net Neutrality is tossed to the wind.
Whoah! I just remembered. It was the Star Trek Continuum site, and it only worked on MSN. Here's a link:
>All that will happen is that one second your computer will think it's on time, and a couple seconds later your computer will think that it's a second behind and correct itself against the NTP server.
The problem here is that not all systems adjust at the same rate. So once all the systems are a second off, they will all be slightly out of sync with each other as they skew their clocks until they're all correct again.
For us, clocks being under a second out of sync is not a big deal. But for software that has to be well synchronized between hosts, it's a huge deal. So it's better to do it Google's way to keep their infrastructure working reliably.
All they do is apply neat special effects to video. How does that make them a competitor? If it encourages people to share nifty videos to Facebook, you'd think that would make them an ally.
On a side note, my mother bought a TiVo recently to watch broadcast TV. She thinks it's the most amazing thing ever. I helped her set it up and it's funny how little TiVo has changed in over a decade.
And she watches Netflix and HBO Now too, so it's not like she doesn't do things the modern way as well. There's just too much stuff on broadcast TV she still watches and the TiVo is like God Mode for that.
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Sounds like Nintendo's buying up all those panels that didn't pass muster for other companies' standards. Pretty cheap of them, considering the price of the unit.
I haven't seen a dead pixel on a screen in years. I can't believe Nintendo would stoop so low to essentially buying up rejects to save a couple bucks per unit.
You'd think at some point a Lenovo engineer would go "This looks kinda like USB. We should make sure it won't fry anything if someone tries to shove it into a USB port."
>plugged the power cable into a USB slot because he wasn't paying attention
How??!
There's competition in the airline industry (Boeing, Airbus being two big players) so they can't do that.
If Boeing raises prices, customers will to go Airbus. And vice versa.
If anything they may even LOWER prices to retain customers as waiting lists get longer. "Sure, you have to wait longer for your aircraft but you save 20% going with us over Airbus!"
All devices capable of FaceTime supported iOS 7. Apple didn't leave any devices behind when they did this.
Not only that, but a company cannot be expected to support unnecessary legacy infrastructure forever.
My memory is hazy, but Flash was a subset of Shockwave that was optimized for the web.
I vaguely remember it being called "Shockwave Flash" for a brief time.
Of course, it's been a while so I could be wrong. :)
It's funny because it was a fad for a bit in the 1950s, but similarly died when the novelty wore off.
History has an amusing way of repeating itself. Nobody liked having to wear glasses to watch a movie in the 1950s, and the same is true today.
What is it about having money that turns people into such assholes?
I mean really, 700 acres? How can someone not find sufficient privacy for their family on 700 acres, even if it contains a few parcels he doesn't own?
Oh gods this is so true.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s and cassettes were my main music format at the time.
The hiss. The tape becoming damaged now and then resulting in parts of your songs being screwed up. The poor speed regulation on many tape decks. The felt pad under the tape becoming damaged or falling out and having to replace it, hoping not to damage the tape in the process. The tape getting "eaten" by the deck. The fact that almost all prerecorded tapes were made with the lowest quality tape possible (low bias, non-metal), so you didn't even get the best quality tape could provided from your music purchases.
Heck, the technology itself was a hack. Cassettes were originally meant for low fidelity voice dictation.
Cassettes have literally NOTHING to offer except the nostalgia. If you want a physical copy of your music, CDs are the way to go. If you want to be retro-hipster, vinyl is far better in audio quality and durability. Tapes are a clusterfuck and I remember RELISHING the day I got a CD player and didn't have to deal with them for my new music purchases.
I specifically said "persecute" not "prosecute" because the former sorta encompasses the latter, and it's not always "prosecution" per-say. It's sometimes suspension, firing, etc...
Just clearing that up!
How are people even doing this? Are they running their entire house through hotspot tethering or something? I rarely use that much on my hardline cable modem, the idea of using it over cellular boggles the mind!
Maybe people in rural areas who can't get better Internet are taking advantage of this...but then rural areas don't have high contention for cellular access, so Verizon really shouldn't be dicks to them.
I've heard many cases of somebody reporting a security issue, then getting fired, sued, or arrested as a result. In the case of kids in school, suspended or expelled.
They were HONEST here! They found a security problem and rather than exploit it for personal gain, they reported it, and then get in TROUBLE for it??
It's absurd. It means when people hear of this and find security problems in the future, they'll keep quiet about them because they don't want to get in trouble too.
I should upload such footage to my Facebook account. Let them threaten to delete the account, and upload some more.
When they delete my account I can finally tell people that I don't have Facebook because it was deleted by copyright nazis. I'll have something legitimate to say after the inevitable "I don't use Facebook." "Why?" conversation!
There needs to be a time limit for editing tweets. Five minutes is good. This keeps someone from going back and changing what they said long after they said it.
There also needs to be a flag that tells people that the tweet was edited. This prevents modifying a tweet after people have already agreed with it, etc.
You don't have to cull anyone. Just encourage people to have less kids.
And STOP SOCIALLY OSTRACIZING PEOPLE WHO DECIDE NOT TO HAVE KIDS. Especially women. They're doing the world a favor and you have people calling them "selfish" or treating them as second class citizens for not joining the parental cult.
My girlfriend and are voluntarily childfree and get bullshit like this from time to time.
And no offense to parents who don't behave this way. Ya'll are awesome. There's just way too many who do.
What about us educated atheists? I'll just assume you were going to say "Happy Holidays.". You're awesome man! :)
>all those fields have been fenced in
It's really sad how fear of lawsuits has forced property owners to fence in fields that would otherwise serve as open space for kids to play in urban areas. I so often see a nice field of grass fenced in with nothing on it, that no one can use. The property owner probably doesn't care if kids play on his land, he's just worried about a lawsuit if those kids get hurt on that land.
Same thing with school athletic fields. When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s the fields were open to the public. There was usually a gate with some posts to keep vehicles out, but us kids could go in and play ball or do whatever on the field when school was out. Now it's all locked down because the school is afraid of lawsuits.
Paranoia has made life less fun for kids. :(
Why are modern gas pumps so slow anyway?
I was a kid at the time, but I remember my mother pumping gas in the 80s and those old analog pumps with the rotating numbers were about twice as fast as the modern ones. You'd think the technology to move a liquid at a higher rate wouldn't be complicated.
A well designed site would detect that someone is giving nothing but 1-star reviews, and determine that maybe this person is a problem customer, or has standards set unrealistically way too high, rather than a legitimate reviewer. Especially if the same restaurants have otherwise average reviews.
There's a lot of algorithms that can be used to find this issue and give serial negative reviewers less weight in the overall rating.
There was a point in time when you could only use the startrek.com website if you were on a specific ISP. I don't remember which ISP it was; this was *EONS* ago, probably in the 90s. I vaguely remember getting angry about it and writing a ranty post on Usenet, though I can't find it now in Google Groups.
This is the kind of crap we might see again if Net Neutrality is tossed to the wind.
Whoah! I just remembered. It was the Star Trek Continuum site, and it only worked on MSN. Here's a link:
http://www.trektoday.com/colum...
The idea of this crap happening again really bothers me.
>All that will happen is that one second your computer will think it's on time, and a couple seconds later your computer will think that it's a second behind and correct itself against the NTP server.
The problem here is that not all systems adjust at the same rate. So once all the systems are a second off, they will all be slightly out of sync with each other as they skew their clocks until they're all correct again.
For us, clocks being under a second out of sync is not a big deal. But for software that has to be well synchronized between hosts, it's a huge deal. So it's better to do it Google's way to keep their infrastructure working reliably.
Yep, the Tivo Roamio OTA units. They're no longer being manufactured, so you can get good deals on them and they have lifetime service included.
All they do is apply neat special effects to video. How does that make them a competitor? If it encourages people to share nifty videos to Facebook, you'd think that would make them an ally.
Bwahahhaa, great analogy.
On a side note, my mother bought a TiVo recently to watch broadcast TV. She thinks it's the most amazing thing ever. I helped her set it up and it's funny how little TiVo has changed in over a decade.
And she watches Netflix and HBO Now too, so it's not like she doesn't do things the modern way as well. There's just too much stuff on broadcast TV she still watches and the TiVo is like God Mode for that.
Pretty much, yep.