Youtube works because I can choose when I want to watch it, and if I choose to read comments from 1 year ago they are still there to be read. Having to co-ordinate my viewing time with others is just adding an additional, much more difficult step.
Facebook has already solved this problem. You watch something interesting, share with your friends, make comments, they watch when it suits them, they comment, win win. (Note: I fucking hate facebook but the sharing videos among your friends is already done. Having to do it simultaneously adds no value, if anything it makes it much much worse.
That's because the driver is keeping it at velocity, not actively balancing it.
If by keeping it at 'velocity' it is also being 'balanced', then the rider (not driver) is the entity responsible for keep it upright. See how it works now?
I'm well aware of the forces at work, I have a degree in the stuff, I've also been riding motorcycles for 30 years. Ultimately the rider is what keeps the bike upright, and a lack of the right controls will eventuate in the the bike no longer being upright.
I bought a new PC recently, plugged it and go. Fuck me I couldn't believe what an abomination the Internet has become without adblock. I listen to commercial free radio, record all my TV shows so I can fast forward ads, and download movies to avoid ads at theatres. When you live in a relatively ad-free existence, then get dropped into the world everyone else is exposed to, it's truly an assault on your brain.
I won't be quick to dismiss this. One of the downsides of watching internet videos is that you lose out on some of the shared viewing experience..
This is the biggest benefit of the internet. The hive mind can all browse and search various content on their own and in their own time, only passing on worthy material to others in the group, thus increasing the quality of overall consumed content exponentially. This product is like trying to herd cats. It'll take you a week to find a free slot in everyone's calender only to find the video is shit and you have to start all over again. And don't even think about if one person gets interrupted, can you group pause and rewind? I can't think of anything more useless...
In the popular car analogy meme for this site, using the chip is like pressing the car door open button on your wireless car key fob; but you could also use the physical key to open the door normally, or why bother when the car is unlocked in the first place since the embossed card number is easily stolen and can be used to charge online, still without even the name or CCV2 on some merchant plugins.
I feel that the chip might be used against the consumers and merchants since when it becomes compromised or copied the card company will shift the blame to them claiming that the physical cards must have been present since their infallible security chip is uncopiable.
Maybe in the USA your paranoia is justified, but we've had such systems for years with much less issues than the system it replaced.
I think it has less to do with the technology and more to do with the political power some institutions have to avoid regulation. You want the land of the free, this the price you pay. Sometimes regulations are a good thing.
The difference is that because these cards are "fraud proof" the bank will refuse to reimburse you for the fraud, and will instead leave you on the hook for the bill. In some cases the banks have actually had people arrested for daring to say that they were the victims of fraud.
The credit card companies aren't doing this for you, they aren't doing it for security, they're doing it to shift the risk.
What a load of shit. I've had case of the bank calling me while on holiday overseas to verify it is actually me using the card in a different location. I had a friend have her card swapped by dodgy taxi driver and racked thousands which was all refunded immediately by the bank.
Maybe it's different in the US, because you're still living in the credit card dark ages, but in most advanced economies, anti-fraud systems are quite effective.
it is referred to here universally as paywave (even though that is Visa's name for it)
Thanks for speaking for the whole country, but in my monkeysphere we call it paypass, the Mastercard brand
This would likely depend on what card you have, or advertising brainwashing you have been exposed to, so maybe not so universal as you think.
Chip & PIN is a liability shift. You're expected to protect your PIN, so if your account is compromised, you're assumed to be at fault.
You sort of imply that this shouldn't be the case?
I'm no expert but just wondering how a crook could get a PIN other than lack of reasonable protection from the owner? It seems a whole lot more secure than a scribble which is extremely trivial to imitate.
Oh, there's no justification. I agree the whole process is corrupt as balls. I'm just pointing out that there was more than one job created here. However temporary, a lot more than one person got paid for this project.
of course, this depends on being in a work environment where the focus is on communication and content and where you can reasonably expect your collaborators to not act like psychotic monkeys in microsoftofficeland and produce content that can be also shared outside of that zoo, ymmv.
Unlike the psychotic monkeys is linuxland who seem to froth at the mouth every time the word Microsoft is mentioned?
So all those builders got paid though right? I mean it still a job that wasn't there before, and if the data centre building industry is growing, then there's more and more work for the people who design and build them.
So what would you consider a suitable sample size for a scientific analysis? I mean you could've used your time to suggest a better method, but instead chose to try and politicise the matter...
But DON'T DRIVE WHILE STONED. If you think it doesn't effect your ability to drive (or operate any heavy machinery or do anything else important) then you're as high as my former roommate was most of the time.
Well the presented study says otherwise, and no amount of shouting or anecdotes will convince anyone you know better.
I'll leave this space below for you to back up your claim with some science:
another radical alternative is google docs. yes, sheesh, but better than office.
If by better, you mean worse, then yes I agree. If there's one thing end users with no training love is a whole new system that does things differently and doesn't support all the features you're used to.
Did this same one person build the Data Centre? Lay the concrete, build the walls, install the Air-con, the electrical, the plumbing? I'm pretty sure there's more than 40 hours a week worth of work in constructing one of these things.
I think it's pretty well understood that there *are* terrorists and a lot of them and they're walking among us.
I disagree with this statement. If there were even a handful of real terrorists amongst us, there'd be blood in the streets. Seriously, if you really are hell bent on murdering infidels, it's not hard to drive a bus into a pack of school children, or carry a tin of petrol and a lighter into your nearest train station. That's the nature of terrorism, it is so trivial to execute that the threat is equally trivial to measure. See the history of the IRA for real world examples.
Some people might prefer an expensive suit or a fancy car to maintain a certain kind of image, and they don't seem to get the same kind of hate -- though that kind of image is usually associated with a status that attracts haters for other reasons.
Because (and the fact that I have to explain this is part of the problem) a suit or car, no matter how cool this year, will look dated in ten years. Anyone with a half a brain knows this, and will upgrade their suit and car with the times to maintain the current image. You however will be stuck with your idea of cool in 2015 for the rest of your life, and everyone else will look down their noses at your poor decision making skills for the rest of your life.
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Youtube works because I can choose when I want to watch it, and if I choose to read comments from 1 year ago they are still there to be read. Having to co-ordinate my viewing time with others is just adding an additional, much more difficult step.
Facebook has already solved this problem. You watch something interesting, share with your friends, make comments, they watch when it suits them, they comment, win win. (Note: I fucking hate facebook but the sharing videos among your friends is already done. Having to do it simultaneously adds no value, if anything it makes it much much worse.
That's because the driver is keeping it at velocity, not actively balancing it.
If by keeping it at 'velocity' it is also being 'balanced', then the rider (not driver) is the entity responsible for keep it upright. See how it works now? I'm well aware of the forces at work, I have a degree in the stuff, I've also been riding motorcycles for 30 years. Ultimately the rider is what keeps the bike upright, and a lack of the right controls will eventuate in the the bike no longer being upright.
You mug me, liability is no longer mine.
Next.
So therefore we should never ever use software? Cool story...
I bought a new PC recently, plugged it and go. Fuck me I couldn't believe what an abomination the Internet has become without adblock. I listen to commercial free radio, record all my TV shows so I can fast forward ads, and download movies to avoid ads at theatres. When you live in a relatively ad-free existence, then get dropped into the world everyone else is exposed to, it's truly an assault on your brain.
Sony's product will be just like Google's except more shit.
I won't be quick to dismiss this. One of the downsides of watching internet videos is that you lose out on some of the shared viewing experience. .
This is the biggest benefit of the internet. The hive mind can all browse and search various content on their own and in their own time, only passing on worthy material to others in the group, thus increasing the quality of overall consumed content exponentially. This product is like trying to herd cats. It'll take you a week to find a free slot in everyone's calender only to find the video is shit and you have to start all over again. And don't even think about if one person gets interrupted, can you group pause and rewind? I can't think of anything more useless...
Thanks for the tip. Fucking autoplay jerks should be strung up from the nearest tree
In the popular car analogy meme for this site, using the chip is like pressing the car door open button on your wireless car key fob; but you could also use the physical key to open the door normally, or why bother when the car is unlocked in the first place since the embossed card number is easily stolen and can be used to charge online, still without even the name or CCV2 on some merchant plugins.
I feel that the chip might be used against the consumers and merchants since when it becomes compromised or copied the card company will shift the blame to them claiming that the physical cards must have been present since their infallible security chip is uncopiable.
Maybe in the USA your paranoia is justified, but we've had such systems for years with much less issues than the system it replaced. I think it has less to do with the technology and more to do with the political power some institutions have to avoid regulation. You want the land of the free, this the price you pay. Sometimes regulations are a good thing.
The difference is that because these cards are "fraud proof" the bank will refuse to reimburse you for the fraud, and will instead leave you on the hook for the bill. In some cases the banks have actually had people arrested for daring to say that they were the victims of fraud.
The credit card companies aren't doing this for you, they aren't doing it for security, they're doing it to shift the risk.
What a load of shit. I've had case of the bank calling me while on holiday overseas to verify it is actually me using the card in a different location. I had a friend have her card swapped by dodgy taxi driver and racked thousands which was all refunded immediately by the bank.
Maybe it's different in the US, because you're still living in the credit card dark ages, but in most advanced economies, anti-fraud systems are quite effective.
it is referred to here universally as paywave (even though that is Visa's name for it)
Thanks for speaking for the whole country, but in my monkeysphere we call it paypass, the Mastercard brand This would likely depend on what card you have, or advertising brainwashing you have been exposed to, so maybe not so universal as you think.
Chip & PIN is a liability shift. You're expected to protect your PIN, so if your account is compromised, you're assumed to be at fault.
You sort of imply that this shouldn't be the case? I'm no expert but just wondering how a crook could get a PIN other than lack of reasonable protection from the owner? It seems a whole lot more secure than a scribble which is extremely trivial to imitate.
Oh, there's no justification. I agree the whole process is corrupt as balls. I'm just pointing out that there was more than one job created here. However temporary, a lot more than one person got paid for this project.
of course, this depends on being in a work environment where the focus is on communication and content and where you can reasonably expect your collaborators to not act like psychotic monkeys in microsoftofficeland and produce content that can be also shared outside of that zoo, ymmv.
Unlike the psychotic monkeys is linuxland who seem to froth at the mouth every time the word Microsoft is mentioned?
Eventually it falls over. Yet if a person were on it, it doesn't. See how it works now?
So all those builders got paid though right? I mean it still a job that wasn't there before, and if the data centre building industry is growing, then there's more and more work for the people who design and build them.
They both seem like novelty bumper stickers to me. Interesting the first time you see them, but just a gimmick every time after that.
Eh? Ride at 100mph and then just go to sleep and see if the bike still balances you.
So what would you consider a suitable sample size for a scientific analysis? I mean you could've used your time to suggest a better method, but instead chose to try and politicise the matter...
But DON'T DRIVE WHILE STONED. If you think it doesn't effect your ability to drive (or operate any heavy machinery or do anything else important) then you're as high as my former roommate was most of the time.
Well the presented study says otherwise, and no amount of shouting or anecdotes will convince anyone you know better. I'll leave this space below for you to back up your claim with some science:
another radical alternative is google docs. yes, sheesh, but better than office.
If by better, you mean worse, then yes I agree. If there's one thing end users with no training love is a whole new system that does things differently and doesn't support all the features you're used to.
Did this same one person build the Data Centre? Lay the concrete, build the walls, install the Air-con, the electrical, the plumbing? I'm pretty sure there's more than 40 hours a week worth of work in constructing one of these things.
Or a mask with someone else's face on it, Or a T-shirt with a few faces on it, or a baseball cap, or a burqha...
I think it's pretty well understood that there *are* terrorists and a lot of them and they're walking among us.
I disagree with this statement. If there were even a handful of real terrorists amongst us, there'd be blood in the streets. Seriously, if you really are hell bent on murdering infidels, it's not hard to drive a bus into a pack of school children, or carry a tin of petrol and a lighter into your nearest train station. That's the nature of terrorism, it is so trivial to execute that the threat is equally trivial to measure. See the history of the IRA for real world examples.
Some people might prefer an expensive suit or a fancy car to maintain a certain kind of image, and they don't seem to get the same kind of hate -- though that kind of image is usually associated with a status that attracts haters for other reasons.
Because (and the fact that I have to explain this is part of the problem) a suit or car, no matter how cool this year, will look dated in ten years. Anyone with a half a brain knows this, and will upgrade their suit and car with the times to maintain the current image. You however will be stuck with your idea of cool in 2015 for the rest of your life, and everyone else will look down their noses at your poor decision making skills for the rest of your life.