I'd like it if you could just have icons or widgets though. I.e. a calendar widget would be nice, along with regular icons that show ACTUAL TEXT, unlike tiles configured to their smallest setting. The tiles are plain fugly, and you're stuck with a choice of "no text" or "too fucking big."
Yeah I was about to mention that. Kitkat lowered the hardware requirements back to what Gingerbread needed.
Honestly words can't express how much I hate Samsung's variant of Android. Every time I hear somebody say "android is slow and buggy compared to X" (be that ios/wp) the first thought that comes to my head is: "Oh, you're using a Samsung."
Jeopardy has all that too.No advance notice what the question is going to be. Quick decisions. And a even buzzer you have to race to physically push. Its still not a sport either.
How about this: When Stephen Hawking can play League of Legends, we'll stop calling it an e-sport.
I don't know anybody who competes from their couch. You're thinking of console gamers, who don't compete in anything that anybody would actually want to spectate.
So how do you define a sport then? A strenuous physical activity? Well then Golf and Skeet Shooting need not apply, yet people call those sports. What about a physical activity that involves unpredictability, making precise movements in response to quick decisions? That sounds kind of like...using a mouse to play League of Legends...
Ok go read TFS for a second, don't worry, I'll wait.
Did you do so? Good. Now, recall that Microsoft wants to make money here. The money making part of tournaments is that you get spectators to pay to watch. Spectators want to watch skilled players, not people using aim assist on a controller.
How much money do you think T-Ball tournaments make compared to Major League Baseball games? No comparison at all. That said, Microsoft isn't going to make shit if they stick to the T-Ball league of video games, which is exactly what they are doing.
If a game is played competitively, either the game/tournament allows for different controllers or not. If it does, all players will use the best controller, period. If it doesn't, well, players have to play with the allowed controller.
This is like arguing that Whiffle Ball tournaments can be every bit as lucrative as Major League Baseball. Hate to burst your bubble, but nobody made big money on tournaments dedicated to casual competitors.
I'm trying to think of what games people play competitively on consoles, and none come to mind. Keyboard and mouse flat out destroys controllers when it comes to competitive play. Sure you'll have the occasional console player swear how much better they do with a controller, but the fact is they'll get trashed if they try to compete against a legit keyboard/mouse user.
I'm sure there are, but I strongly suspect that they're getting paid much more than $21 an hour if they own and maintain their own truck. If being an indie truck driver was really that bad, I suspect they'd quickly find a job working for somebody else.
Yes, truckers are cheap because the industry has turned them into the ugliest of sharecroppers where the are paid by the mile, lease the trucks from the company and pay for upkeep on the trucks.
I've worked for and with a number of major distributors, and I haven't seen a single one of them that does this. In every case, the company owns the truck and hires people who have a CDL to drive it. Usual going rate is about $21 an hour. They also have their own in-house shops for maintenance.
Even walmart, who is notoriously cheap, does it this way.
I could see why they might do that, which is the same reason why jumbo frames only begin to be practical on gigabit networks. (There's just too much latency on anything slower than gig.)
Then again, 40gbit is typically optical, so there's practically no noise to begin with.
The reason why it's not there is because ethernet is supposed to be just a dead simple layer 2 multi-access data protocol. Adding that kind of shit just contributes to latency (any kind of error correction involves additional parity bits and more processing.) And yes, I'll grant you that the added data and processing for error correction is tiny, but multiply that by a billion in large scale networks and you can see where there's a problem
If you need error correction, use UDP and handle it at the application layer, that way you aren't negatively impacting every other application that doesn't need error correction.
The only reason that one ended up so bad was because the airplane actually hit a rock that was sticking slightly above the surface. Otherwise it could have glided along the water.
Basically. The food religion says GMO is bad until one of them happens to need insulin and also happens to be allergic to "natural" cow insulin, then GMO produced humulin (secreted by a genetically modified e. coli bacterium to be chemically similar to human insulin) is a miracle.
Which by the way, this particular GMO has been in use for 32 years now.
That's got to be the new race card these days. Don't like what they say? Call them a racist. Still don't like what they say? Mention fox news Nevermind if the person is racist or even watches a minute of fox news, we've got to make them look bad no matter how correct they might be.
Umm...you really misunderstand libertarianism, that's more along the lines of fascism, only you added the word liberty to the end.
I'm a libertarian because I'm not even certain if I know what's best for myself, let alone everybody else. So I don't believe that I (or the government) should be telling everybody else how to run their lives.
There is plenty of room on the label for a tinyurl.
Believe me I'd love it if they did this, but what you're asking for is to convince the entire food industry to do that.
I'll tell you what, pick a random food company of your choice, say frito lay, and write a letter to their CEO asking him to add that. Your letter will probably get lost in the noise. But suppose you rallied a big campaign for that purpose. Now guess what? You've got to do it with every other food manufacturer too. And there are thousands of them.
Believe me, this isn't anywhere near as easy as it sounds. I've been dealing with this problem for years now. Short of an act of congress, I'm afraid it just aint happening.
The actual label could then be simplified to a really simple "UNHEALTHY/HEALTH" number going from 1..10 as proposed previously to simplify things for the 95% of people who aren't going to read anything more detailed than that anyway.
Honestly, that kind of system wouldn't be effective at all. Not only is it highly subjective, but it also doesn't take into account what else you've eaten in the day.
Say for example that you picked a random food that most people consider very healthy to eat, such as wild Alaskan salmon. Such a system would rate it very highly, but that doesn't mean you can just eat salmon all day and meet all of your nutritional needs. Salmon alone could certainly make you last a lot longer than just about every other one food you could pick out, but it's not a good idea to eat only that, or eat only any of one given thing.
However, if this is what you're looking for, there's already a company that offers a program like that, called fooducate. You just scan a UPC code and they give you a healthy or not rating. But based on what I know about nutrition, I disagree with most of their ratings.
For example, they'll downgrade any food that has any kind of coloring or dye, and they'll downgrade food that they believe is environmentally unfriendly, regardless of how it affects YOUR nutrition. They also upgrade food that is organic, even though no research anywhere says organic food is healthier.
Sure, they could disregard these things, but I strongly suspect that their app wouldn't sell worth a damn, because the people who use it the most are food religion types.
For people like you - I'd imagine that using a phone to get vitally important data that would never fit on a label is less of an imposition.
I've never called them. Usually I just go to their website, look for a contact email, and ask them that way.
There's actually a whole field distinct from biology that studies exactly this. The changes in GMO food are so well understood, which is why they're sold commercially. And yes, it is as accurate as I claim.
but repeating the often trotted "breeding/wild mutation is the same as GMO" is stupid.
At what point did I ever say it was the same? The answer is, I didn't.
to swallow that you can breed in nature fish protein into tobaccoe plant
No GMO food actually does this. Most of them are constructed from the field of proteomics, and are usually inspired by genes of another organism, but aren't a direct copy. It's synthetic.
Those anecdotes where you've heard of this happening are geneticists swapping genes out from one species to another experimentally in order to determine how those genes work. These experiments don't end up on your plate.
and anybody can see that such very long term adaptation has a different impact on an ecosystem than immediate gene change
Actually this occurs in nature all the time, and very often. In fact the human genome itself carries some 100,000 incomplete genes from other organisms. Three of those genes are complete and at least one of them is critical to our survival. Namely, the gene for the human placenta didn't naturally evolve in humans; it came from some other animal via "natural" viral infection.
Please just don't. Refrain in future. You are just making it more difficult for us to convince the GMO fearing when you spread such obvious bad comparison.
I never made the comparisons you're accusing me of. It sounds like you're arguing just to argue.
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I'd like it if you could just have icons or widgets though. I.e. a calendar widget would be nice, along with regular icons that show ACTUAL TEXT, unlike tiles configured to their smallest setting. The tiles are plain fugly, and you're stuck with a choice of "no text" or "too fucking big."
Yeah I was about to mention that. Kitkat lowered the hardware requirements back to what Gingerbread needed.
Honestly words can't express how much I hate Samsung's variant of Android. Every time I hear somebody say "android is slow and buggy compared to X" (be that ios/wp) the first thought that comes to my head is: "Oh, you're using a Samsung."
Jeopardy has all that too.No advance notice what the question is going to be. Quick decisions. And a even buzzer you have to race to physically push. Its still not a sport either.
How about this: When Stephen Hawking can play League of Legends, we'll stop calling it an e-sport.
I don't know anybody who competes from their couch. You're thinking of console gamers, who don't compete in anything that anybody would actually want to spectate.
So how do you define a sport then? A strenuous physical activity? Well then Golf and Skeet Shooting need not apply, yet people call those sports. What about a physical activity that involves unpredictability, making precise movements in response to quick decisions? That sounds kind of like...using a mouse to play League of Legends...
They're trying to say their e-penis is bigger.
Ok go read TFS for a second, don't worry, I'll wait.
Did you do so? Good. Now, recall that Microsoft wants to make money here. The money making part of tournaments is that you get spectators to pay to watch. Spectators want to watch skilled players, not people using aim assist on a controller.
How much money do you think T-Ball tournaments make compared to Major League Baseball games? No comparison at all. That said, Microsoft isn't going to make shit if they stick to the T-Ball league of video games, which is exactly what they are doing.
If a game is played competitively, either the game/tournament allows for different controllers or not. If it does, all players will use the best controller, period. If it doesn't, well, players have to play with the allowed controller.
This is like arguing that Whiffle Ball tournaments can be every bit as lucrative as Major League Baseball. Hate to burst your bubble, but nobody made big money on tournaments dedicated to casual competitors.
Sports are games meant for entertainment of both player and spectator, just the same as video games.
I'm trying to think of what games people play competitively on consoles, and none come to mind. Keyboard and mouse flat out destroys controllers when it comes to competitive play. Sure you'll have the occasional console player swear how much better they do with a controller, but the fact is they'll get trashed if they try to compete against a legit keyboard/mouse user.
"And if you don't think that American cities are cesspools compared to their European counterparts"
Oh, I see you've never heard of this one city called London...
I'm sure there are, but I strongly suspect that they're getting paid much more than $21 an hour if they own and maintain their own truck. If being an indie truck driver was really that bad, I suspect they'd quickly find a job working for somebody else.
I'm getting ready for the mass media to shot "OMG A TOTALLY NEW THING NOBODY HAS EVER DONE BEFORE FROM APPLE!â
Forgetting of course that Apple has been trying to cripple Google Voice from running on iOS for years.
But that wouldn't be vegan.
There is literally no reasy why it's not there by reason of it being, in fact, there
No, it does not exist at layer 2.
1000 Base-T uses 5-4 trellis coding, already and the 10G over copper specs use LDPC codes.
...Which resides in Layer 1 of the OSI model.
Yes, truckers are cheap because the industry has turned them into the ugliest of sharecroppers where the are paid by the mile, lease the trucks from the company and pay for upkeep on the trucks.
I've worked for and with a number of major distributors, and I haven't seen a single one of them that does this. In every case, the company owns the truck and hires people who have a CDL to drive it. Usual going rate is about $21 an hour. They also have their own in-house shops for maintenance.
Even walmart, who is notoriously cheap, does it this way.
I could see why they might do that, which is the same reason why jumbo frames only begin to be practical on gigabit networks. (There's just too much latency on anything slower than gig.)
Then again, 40gbit is typically optical, so there's practically no noise to begin with.
The reason why it's not there is because ethernet is supposed to be just a dead simple layer 2 multi-access data protocol. Adding that kind of shit just contributes to latency (any kind of error correction involves additional parity bits and more processing.) And yes, I'll grant you that the added data and processing for error correction is tiny, but multiply that by a billion in large scale networks and you can see where there's a problem
If you need error correction, use UDP and handle it at the application layer, that way you aren't negatively impacting every other application that doesn't need error correction.
The only reason that one ended up so bad was because the airplane actually hit a rock that was sticking slightly above the surface. Otherwise it could have glided along the water.
Basically. The food religion says GMO is bad until one of them happens to need insulin and also happens to be allergic to "natural" cow insulin, then GMO produced humulin (secreted by a genetically modified e. coli bacterium to be chemically similar to human insulin) is a miracle.
Which by the way, this particular GMO has been in use for 32 years now.
That's got to be the new race card these days. Don't like what they say? Call them a racist. Still don't like what they say? Mention fox news Nevermind if the person is racist or even watches a minute of fox news, we've got to make them look bad no matter how correct they might be.
Umm...you really misunderstand libertarianism, that's more along the lines of fascism, only you added the word liberty to the end.
I'm a libertarian because I'm not even certain if I know what's best for myself, let alone everybody else. So I don't believe that I (or the government) should be telling everybody else how to run their lives.
There is plenty of room on the label for a tinyurl.
Believe me I'd love it if they did this, but what you're asking for is to convince the entire food industry to do that.
I'll tell you what, pick a random food company of your choice, say frito lay, and write a letter to their CEO asking him to add that. Your letter will probably get lost in the noise. But suppose you rallied a big campaign for that purpose. Now guess what? You've got to do it with every other food manufacturer too. And there are thousands of them.
Believe me, this isn't anywhere near as easy as it sounds. I've been dealing with this problem for years now. Short of an act of congress, I'm afraid it just aint happening.
The actual label could then be simplified to a really simple "UNHEALTHY/HEALTH" number going from 1..10 as proposed previously to simplify things for the 95% of people who aren't going to read anything more detailed than that anyway.
Honestly, that kind of system wouldn't be effective at all. Not only is it highly subjective, but it also doesn't take into account what else you've eaten in the day.
Say for example that you picked a random food that most people consider very healthy to eat, such as wild Alaskan salmon. Such a system would rate it very highly, but that doesn't mean you can just eat salmon all day and meet all of your nutritional needs. Salmon alone could certainly make you last a lot longer than just about every other one food you could pick out, but it's not a good idea to eat only that, or eat only any of one given thing.
However, if this is what you're looking for, there's already a company that offers a program like that, called fooducate. You just scan a UPC code and they give you a healthy or not rating. But based on what I know about nutrition, I disagree with most of their ratings.
For example, they'll downgrade any food that has any kind of coloring or dye, and they'll downgrade food that they believe is environmentally unfriendly, regardless of how it affects YOUR nutrition. They also upgrade food that is organic, even though no research anywhere says organic food is healthier.
Sure, they could disregard these things, but I strongly suspect that their app wouldn't sell worth a damn, because the people who use it the most are food religion types.
For people like you - I'd imagine that using a phone to get vitally important data that would never fit on a label is less of an imposition.
I've never called them. Usually I just go to their website, look for a contact email, and ask them that way.
No, they're not. Just most big box grocery stores won't carry your product unless it has one, so it's generally a good idea to do so.
There's actually a whole field distinct from biology that studies exactly this. The changes in GMO food are so well understood, which is why they're sold commercially. And yes, it is as accurate as I claim.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
but repeating the often trotted "breeding/wild mutation is the same as GMO" is stupid.
At what point did I ever say it was the same? The answer is, I didn't.
to swallow that you can breed in nature fish protein into tobaccoe plant
No GMO food actually does this. Most of them are constructed from the field of proteomics, and are usually inspired by genes of another organism, but aren't a direct copy. It's synthetic.
Those anecdotes where you've heard of this happening are geneticists swapping genes out from one species to another experimentally in order to determine how those genes work. These experiments don't end up on your plate.
and anybody can see that such very long term adaptation has a different impact on an ecosystem than immediate gene change
Actually this occurs in nature all the time, and very often. In fact the human genome itself carries some 100,000 incomplete genes from other organisms. Three of those genes are complete and at least one of them is critical to our survival. Namely, the gene for the human placenta didn't naturally evolve in humans; it came from some other animal via "natural" viral infection.
Please just don't. Refrain in future. You are just making it more difficult for us to convince the GMO fearing when you spread such obvious bad comparison.
I never made the comparisons you're accusing me of. It sounds like you're arguing just to argue.