Clearly I'm out of touch with reality or fashion or consumer desires.
I'm fascinated by how deeply people covet a new gadget like a phone. Is it a status thing, or do they feel some sort of ego-deflation if they aren't carrying the latest phone/tablet/whatever? Is it a fashion thing, or do people feel like a lower caste when they aren't carrying the newest shiny rectangle?
I mean, if you want to, that's great, more power to ya, but it seems a little neurotic to me. It always astounds me that people will wait in line to buy the newest phone.
Couldn't they just wait a day or two? Do they have to buy one on the first day? Do they feel some kind of shame if the store sells out before they can buy one? I mean, yeah, the iPhone is a cool gadget and a great phone, but the attention paid to it (and other gadgets) seems to border on religious fervor.
Okay, okay, I realize I'm an outlier when it comes to this stuff. For me, when I go to buy a gadget like a phone and I find that I really like it, I'm always tempted to go buy another identical one and put it away on a shelf somewhere because I know that when the current one breaks I'll be unable to buy another one just like it. I just want to find something that works and that I like, and use it for as long as possible.
What's with the "upgradeitis" that so many people appear to be infected with?? Is the new phone or whatever really going to be that much better?
I never understood the "need" for contactless payments....is it so hard to buy stuff without pressing a confirmation button? Do you buy so much stuff that the time saved not pressing a button or whatever would really benefit you?
Seriously, I never understood this...yes, I know that at its heart it's meant to make it easier to buy something in the hopes that you'll buy more useless shit, but do people really see this as some truly beneficial feature?
Anyway, to answer the questions you asked at your link.......
Which sites & do you get paid by ads on them? Finish the answer & point them out so I can verify this...
Lol, like I would tell a scumbag like you specifically what sites I run. Thanks, but I don't need some shitbag like you trying to DDOS me or hack my sites.
To answer your second question, some some make money from ads, some some sell products.
So choke on it, baby, that's about as much info as I'll give out to a pedophile like you.
Which sites & do you get paid by ads on them? Finish the answer & point them out so I can verify this...
Lol, like I would tell a scumbag like you specifically what sites I run. Thanks, but I don't need some shitbag like you trying to DDOS me or hack my sites.
To answer your second question, some some make money from ads, some some sell products.
Interesting comment thread.So none of you were trusted at all by your parents when you were teenagers?
They trusted me, but they probably shouldn't have considering all the shit and trouble I got into. lol
But seriously, I see your point and I agree with it. This is one of those things where there are a 10000 shades of gray and no clear lines, plus every kid and every family is different. Call it 500 billion permutations of what's "right" or "fair" or "reasonable". One size definitely doesn't fit all in this kind of scenario.
There are some cases where it would absolutely be the right thing to monitor a kid's movements, in other cases, no, not so much.
It's so situationally dependent that it's hard to make any sensible statements about it, really.
The article says that the design / print software is based on an open software package and it works with other 3D printers.
The article I read said, "Users upload design files via Mattel's proprietary Design App....", so it doesn't sound open to me. (??)
But I also see that it's "based on Autodesk's Spark, an open 3D printing platform", so now I'm a bit confused....maybe some bits are open and some aren't.
As for hardware, I hope it's made from standard parts and pieces, but if not, an aftermarket will probably spring up to provide alternatives.
All in all it sounds interesting, but at $300 I'm keeping my expectations low.
Nice, but I expect it will use proprietary everything, from the feed-stock to the nozzles to the software and whatever else they can make non-standard...and my guess is that it'll all be heavily DRM-protected as well.
If I'm wrong, great, but knowing Mattel and the current state of the market I won't hold my breath.
What's incompetent is implementing a small e-commerce site which actually handles financial data. There's simply no reason to. It's almost trivial to set up a Paypal business account which handles payment processing; the e-commerce site just sends the shipping cart over and redirects the customer to Paypal, and then the customer enters their credit card info there (or logs in), pays, and gets redirected back for order confirmation.
^^^^^THIS. Get a Paypal business account or use something like Authorize.net or 2CheckOut or any of a hundred other solutions.. Ecommerce is fraught with pitfalls and if Joe and Jane Sixpack do it you can almost bet they'll do it wrong. Keeping credit card numbers (a mistake I see over and over) is just plain foolish, and can subject you to some serious penalties if you screw up (or if someone screws you up).
So I agree 100%- let a well-established company handle this stuff. I have quite a few card payment forms on various sites but I never handle the transactions- customers fill in a minimal amount of info and then get forwarded to Authorize.net or 2CheckOut for the actual processing. I never see any of their card data and so I don't have to worry about keeping it secure.
I don't have a Snapchat account. I don't have a fucking clue about what goes on over there. Those people don't exist in my world.
Same here. No twitter, no snapchat, no instagram, and no facebook. And I haven't missed anything by not using them except a lot of angst and jealousy and posturing.
The tyranny of the terminally offended special snowflakes....
Seriously, you could tweet "I like kittens" and you would probably get 1000 SJWs berating you for triggering them or appropriating "animal culture" or contributing to the objectification of animals.
The fact that a guy like Stephen Fry up and left the festering cesspool known as twitter gives me hope for the human race.
He's a hell of a nice guy, yet that was no defense against the perpetually offended crybullies that infest twitter.
It depends on whether you're treating "Mozilla" as a countable or uncountable noun, e.g. "bottles of milk" versus "milk". That is, as a collective versus an individual reference.
Leaving aside that McDonald's coffee is not fit for consumption at any temperature, it was common knowledge before this case that fast-food coffee was "designed" to be drunk at your destination, not when served.
Nonsense. No McDonald's employee ever told anyone, "Wait till you get home to drink it". The packaging doesn't say that either.
Face it: if you serve a food or beverage to a customer that will directly injure them if consumed, you're at fault and liable for damages.
If the patent has been awarded, that's a success, not a failure.
These days you could get a patent for pissing in the shower, it doesn't mean that it'll meet with widespread industry adoption or that you'll ever make a nickel off it.
Someone got a patent for a Motorized Ice Cream Cone, but I don't see it for sale anywhere. Is it a "success"?
If getting a patent is your metric for "success", perhaps you need to raise the bar a bit.
I predict this will be a colossal failure, except perhaps for business environments. And unless it's priced competitively with existing hardware offerings, I think it'll be a failure there too. I just don't see the appeal, and it's almost sure to be encumbered with proprietary stuff- connectors, interfaces, form factor, etc etc.
This kind of thing has been tried before and met with minimal success. Google even floated a phone that would be built with snap-together parts (Project Ara), and that went nowhere too. A company called Phonebloks tried it too, and I don't think it ever saw the light of day either.
1) The McDonalds coffee in question was not only hot, it was scalding -- capable of causing serious 3rd degree burns.
2) Sheila Liebeck was, in fact, very badly burned by the coffee- a vascular surgeon determined that Liebeck suffered full thickness burns (or third-degree burns) over 6 percent of her body, including her inner thighs, perineum, buttocks, and genital and groin areas. She was hospitalized for eight days, during which time she underwent skin grafting.
3) During discovery, McDonalds produced documents showing more than 700 claims by people burned by its coffee between 1982 and 1992.
4) McDonalds revealed during discovery that, based on a consultants advice, it held its coffee at between 180 and 190 degrees fahrenheit "to maintain optimum taste". Other establishments sell coffee at substantially lower temperatures, and coffee served at home is generally 135 to 140 degrees.
5) Further, McDonalds' quality assurance manager testified that the company actively enforces a requirement that coffee be held in the pot at 185 degrees, plus or minus five degrees. He also testified that a burn hazard exists with any food substance served at 140 degrees or above, and that McDonalds coffee, at the temperature at which it was poured into styrofoam cups, was not fit for consumption because it would literally burn the mouth and throat.
6) The jury awarded Liebeck $200,000 in compensatory damages (she had originally only asked for $20,000). This amount was reduced to $160,000 because the jury found Liebeck 20 percent at fault in the spill. The jury also awarded Liebeck $2.7 million in punitive damages, which equals about two days of McDonalds' coffee sales.
Anyway, can we stop with all of the anger for a minute and remember that a human being just died here? Show some respect.
He barely qualified as a human being in my book.
Sorry, but I won't show respect to a man who did his best to frustrate the application of rights and liberties to so many. He was a reprehensible person who literally believed in crazy magical stuff (demons, Satan, the End Times, etc etc etc). He compared gays to murderers. He opposed gay marriage and had said he would have opposed interracial marriage if he'd had the chance.
He was well-known as a racist and bigot who based many of his decisions on his nutty, bible-based beliefs. He said that people have no right to privacy in their bedrooms. He said "Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality (whatever that means) were freedoms?" He said that sex discrimination is constitutionally okay.
I will not shed a tear for this horrid man, nor will I pretend to respect him just because his heart stopped beating.
I was like, "Wait, what company was Hilary Clinton a CEO of?", then I remembered we're talking about Carly Fiorina here.
They're both enormously repulsive to me, and I speak as a lifelong democrat. I can't stand either of them. A couple of utter crooks and liars, just with a different logo.
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Clearly I'm out of touch with reality or fashion or consumer desires.
I'm fascinated by how deeply people covet a new gadget like a phone. Is it a status thing, or do they feel some sort of ego-deflation if they aren't carrying the latest phone/tablet/whatever? Is it a fashion thing, or do people feel like a lower caste when they aren't carrying the newest shiny rectangle?
I mean, if you want to, that's great, more power to ya, but it seems a little neurotic to me. It always astounds me that people will wait in line to buy the newest phone.
Couldn't they just wait a day or two? Do they have to buy one on the first day? Do they feel some kind of shame if the store sells out before they can buy one? I mean, yeah, the iPhone is a cool gadget and a great phone, but the attention paid to it (and other gadgets) seems to border on religious fervor.
Okay, okay, I realize I'm an outlier when it comes to this stuff. For me, when I go to buy a gadget like a phone and I find that I really like it, I'm always tempted to go buy another identical one and put it away on a shelf somewhere because I know that when the current one breaks I'll be unable to buy another one just like it. I just want to find something that works and that I like, and use it for as long as possible.
What's with the "upgradeitis" that so many people appear to be infected with?? Is the new phone or whatever really going to be that much better?
I never understood the "need" for contactless payments....is it so hard to buy stuff without pressing a confirmation button? Do you buy so much stuff that the time saved not pressing a button or whatever would really benefit you?
Seriously, I never understood this...yes, I know that at its heart it's meant to make it easier to buy something in the hopes that you'll buy more useless shit, but do people really see this as some truly beneficial feature?
Lol, it's so cute how I can push your buttons. :)
Anyway, to answer the questions you asked at your link.......
Which sites & do you get paid by ads on them? Finish the answer & point them out so I can verify this...
Lol, like I would tell a scumbag like you specifically what sites I run. Thanks, but I don't need some shitbag like you trying to DDOS me or hack my sites.
To answer your second question, some some make money from ads, some some sell products.
So choke on it, baby, that's about as much info as I'll give out to a pedophile like you.
Which sites & do you get paid by ads on them? Finish the answer & point them out so I can verify this...
Lol, like I would tell a scumbag like you specifically what sites I run. Thanks, but I don't need some shitbag like you trying to DDOS me or hack my sites.
To answer your second question, some some make money from ads, some some sell products.
Wow, a button that lets you insert a GIF. This bold innovation is almost off the scale.
Interesting comment thread.So none of you were trusted at all by your parents when you were teenagers?
They trusted me, but they probably shouldn't have considering all the shit and trouble I got into. lol
But seriously, I see your point and I agree with it. This is one of those things where there are a 10000 shades of gray and no clear lines, plus every kid and every family is different. Call it 500 billion permutations of what's "right" or "fair" or "reasonable". One size definitely doesn't fit all in this kind of scenario.
There are some cases where it would absolutely be the right thing to monitor a kid's movements, in other cases, no, not so much.
It's so situationally dependent that it's hard to make any sensible statements about it, really.
The article says that the design / print software is based on an open software package and it works with other 3D printers.
The article I read said, "Users upload design files via Mattel's proprietary Design App....", so it doesn't sound open to me. (??)
But I also see that it's "based on Autodesk's Spark, an open 3D printing platform", so now I'm a bit confused....maybe some bits are open and some aren't.
As for hardware, I hope it's made from standard parts and pieces, but if not, an aftermarket will probably spring up to provide alternatives.
All in all it sounds interesting, but at $300 I'm keeping my expectations low.
Nice, but I expect it will use proprietary everything, from the feed-stock to the nozzles to the software and whatever else they can make non-standard...and my guess is that it'll all be heavily DRM-protected as well.
If I'm wrong, great, but knowing Mattel and the current state of the market I won't hold my breath.
Haha well... have you seen any APK spam lately?
If you've managed to neuter that obnoxious scumbag (or even just slowed him way down), I salute you. Seriously.
What's incompetent is implementing a small e-commerce site which actually handles financial data. There's simply no reason to. It's almost trivial to set up a Paypal business account which handles payment processing; the e-commerce site just sends the shipping cart over and redirects the customer to Paypal, and then the customer enters their credit card info there (or logs in), pays, and gets redirected back for order confirmation.
^^^^^THIS. Get a Paypal business account or use something like Authorize.net or 2CheckOut or any of a hundred other solutions.. Ecommerce is fraught with pitfalls and if Joe and Jane Sixpack do it you can almost bet they'll do it wrong. Keeping credit card numbers (a mistake I see over and over) is just plain foolish, and can subject you to some serious penalties if you screw up (or if someone screws you up).
So I agree 100%- let a well-established company handle this stuff. I have quite a few card payment forms on various sites but I never handle the transactions- customers fill in a minimal amount of info and then get forwarded to Authorize.net or 2CheckOut for the actual processing. I never see any of their card data and so I don't have to worry about keeping it secure.
Headline Translation: "Users Don't Update Stuff, Film at 11"
If you had clicked the link, the very first major heading is, "What Is Vulkan 1.0".
Lol, where's the sport in that??
Neither "conformant" or "performant" are made up words, nor are they new words.
Actually, "conformant" is a word. It's not a word I like or would normally ever use, but yeah, it's a word.
The etymology of "performant" seems a little less clear, but I'll allow it.
Another incomprehensible, niche-interest story about some group that released a "thing" that "does stuff".
I don't have a Snapchat account. I don't have a fucking clue about what goes on over there. Those people don't exist in my world.
Same here. No twitter, no snapchat, no instagram, and no facebook. And I haven't missed anything by not using them except a lot of angst and jealousy and posturing.
The tyranny of the terminally offended special snowflakes....
Seriously, you could tweet "I like kittens" and you would probably get 1000 SJWs berating you for triggering them or appropriating "animal culture" or contributing to the objectification of animals.
The fact that a guy like Stephen Fry up and left the festering cesspool known as twitter gives me hope for the human race.
He's a hell of a nice guy, yet that was no defense against the perpetually offended crybullies that infest twitter.
Mozilla is
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Mozilli are
It depends on whether you're treating "Mozilla" as a countable or uncountable noun, e.g. "bottles of milk" versus "milk". That is, as a collective versus an individual reference.
Leaving aside that McDonald's coffee is not fit for consumption at any temperature, it was common knowledge before this case that fast-food coffee was "designed" to be drunk at your destination, not when served.
Nonsense. No McDonald's employee ever told anyone, "Wait till you get home to drink it". The packaging doesn't say that either.
Face it: if you serve a food or beverage to a customer that will directly injure them if consumed, you're at fault and liable for damages.
If the patent has been awarded, that's a success, not a failure.
These days you could get a patent for pissing in the shower, it doesn't mean that it'll meet with widespread industry adoption or that you'll ever make a nickel off it.
Someone got a patent for a Motorized Ice Cream Cone, but I don't see it for sale anywhere. Is it a "success"?
If getting a patent is your metric for "success", perhaps you need to raise the bar a bit.
I predict this will be a colossal failure, except perhaps for business environments. And unless it's priced competitively with existing hardware offerings, I think it'll be a failure there too. I just don't see the appeal, and it's almost sure to be encumbered with proprietary stuff- connectors, interfaces, form factor, etc etc.
This kind of thing has been tried before and met with minimal success. Google even floated a phone that would be built with snap-together parts (Project Ara), and that went nowhere too. A company called Phonebloks tried it too, and I don't think it ever saw the light of day either.
How about some facts?
1) The McDonalds coffee in question was not only hot, it was scalding -- capable of causing serious 3rd degree burns.
2) Sheila Liebeck was, in fact, very badly burned by the coffee- a vascular surgeon determined that Liebeck suffered full thickness burns (or third-degree burns) over 6 percent of her body, including her inner thighs, perineum, buttocks, and genital and groin areas. She was hospitalized for eight days, during which time she underwent skin grafting.
3) During discovery, McDonalds produced documents showing more than 700 claims by people burned by its coffee between 1982 and 1992.
4) McDonalds revealed during discovery that, based on a consultants advice, it held its coffee at between 180 and 190 degrees fahrenheit "to maintain optimum taste". Other establishments sell coffee at substantially lower temperatures, and coffee served at home is generally 135 to 140 degrees.
5) Further, McDonalds' quality assurance manager testified that the company actively enforces a requirement that coffee be held in the pot at 185 degrees, plus or minus five degrees. He also testified that a burn hazard exists with any food substance served at 140 degrees or above, and that McDonalds coffee, at the temperature at which it was poured into styrofoam cups, was not fit for consumption because it would literally burn the mouth and throat.
6) The jury awarded Liebeck $200,000 in compensatory damages (she had originally only asked for $20,000). This amount was reduced to $160,000 because the jury found Liebeck 20 percent at fault in the spill. The jury also awarded Liebeck $2.7 million in punitive damages, which equals about two days of McDonalds' coffee sales.
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/c...
Anyway, can we stop with all of the anger for a minute and remember that a human being just died here? Show some respect.
He barely qualified as a human being in my book.
Sorry, but I won't show respect to a man who did his best to frustrate the application of rights and liberties to so many. He was a reprehensible person who literally believed in crazy magical stuff (demons, Satan, the End Times, etc etc etc). He compared gays to murderers. He opposed gay marriage and had said he would have opposed interracial marriage if he'd had the chance.
He was well-known as a racist and bigot who based many of his decisions on his nutty, bible-based beliefs. He said that people have no right to privacy in their bedrooms. He said "Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality (whatever that means) were freedoms?" He said that sex discrimination is constitutionally okay.
I will not shed a tear for this horrid man, nor will I pretend to respect him just because his heart stopped beating.
"At Slashdot, we have standards, and we expect you not to exceed them."
This "article"....I don't even know what to say. The words look familiar, but beyond that I have no idea.
Is it saying that half the world is employed as hookers or sex workers?
Is it saying that casinos will employ robot patrons that you'll be betting against?
Or Is it saying that half the casinos are staffed by robots who will quit to become hookers...?
Fucking hell, I give up. Next "article", please.
Oh my heavens, 3 hours is waaaay too long in this fast-paced, ever-changing world.
Why not just do an automatic commit with every keystroke, like the Windows 10 telemetry does?
I was like, "Wait, what company was Hilary Clinton a CEO of?", then I remembered we're talking about Carly Fiorina here.
They're both enormously repulsive to me, and I speak as a lifelong democrat. I can't stand either of them. A couple of utter crooks and liars, just with a different logo.