Can we all agree to just casually walk into these stores and secretly drop a paperclip on the floor each time we're in the area? I relish the idea of the guy sweeping up night after night saying "what the hell is with all of these stupid paperclips?"
Is it going to rain this afternoon, oh dear, I could go to weather dot.com, but I might encounter a pop-up. Should I do it? "Hey Frank, is it supposed to rain this afternoon?" Crap. He doesn't know. Oh, me oh my, maybe I should just look. There are hundreds of other internet weather sources available to me, but I'm hooked on weather.com's unique lack of accuracy in their forecasting. But the pop-ups, what will I do if I encounter a pop-up! Maybe I should go have lunch - ruminate on it before just wildly clicking on my bookmark. Maybe Brenda will be at lunch, maybe she will know what the forecast is....
are you kidding? 3G is beneficial for web browsing which is something people actually use their phones for. Video phones are not widely available because no one really wants them, not because apple hasn't made them. Most people don't get much out of seeing the other person talk, it just uses up more of your senses and gives you little additional information. I'd much rather pay for more memory or a faster processor than another camera slapped on my phone.
Anyone considering this kind of service should be required to watch or listen to "This American Life - Reality Check" the NPR show where a pet bull "Chance" was cloned. As much as we might miss a lost pet, I think in the grand scheme of things it's actually nice to know that this simply doesn't work - that the pet we loved was something truly unique and irreproducible.
It's not a restriction, it's an unnecessary security hazard. Let's say I bring a thumb drive with my music on it and load it on a public terminal - I'm being security conscious by not loading any personal data onto the terminal, I just want to listen to my music. Now if that system is shared by default and I just have a collection of my mp3s, so what. But the common user is victimized not knowing that he is actually sharing personal info.
Not to mention this is an exploit just waiting for some adware to take advantage of for harvesting email addresses.
I wasn't sure what you were referring to when you meant 'the duty', but after clicking on the link it became clear that this was not a euphemism for copulation. Admittedly I own that shirt as well. I have a friend that is a gynecologist that also gets more off the record requests for advice than he would like. I thought about making a similar t-shirt for him, but somehow I think that "no I will not fix your vagina" lands within a vanishingly small population of people that would get the joke without being horribly offended.
all well and good, but I'm still have a bad taste in my mouth about touch screens after my iphone didn't come with a special dialing wand even after I mashed the keypad.
I've been looking for something like this - I have this collection of weird, blurry nonsensical poloraids that I've been wanting to slightly change the size of, rotate, and punch around.
for the rest of you though, this technology seems to have far greater promise for gaming purposes. not sure why they didn't tailor their demo to that sort of application.
I'm working on a much more straightforward app that will be nearly as accurate on a large scale - it just scans your ip address and matches it against a list of known comcast ip classes - a hit means you're being throttled!
one important thing to keep in mind about profiles in netflix. although each user has individual ratings - apparently the algorithm used to make suggestions just mashes everything up and recommends films based on all ratings within an account. this is a bummer.
if you're already on 2.0, chances are you're not the careful type.
3.0b is also prone to consuming larger and larger amounts of resources and clock cycles.
while i'm sure that this is completely bill gates's fault, i would also like to attribute high gas prices and cancer to the list of societal ills he is responsible for.
That is both surprising and dissapointing. Fortunately the person i share an account with does not do much rating so i still get plenty of suggestions about samurai movies, anime, and surrealist cinema. Since the rating and suggestion system is one of my favorite features of netflix, and I'm not willing to either purchase a completely separate account that would hardly get used or to risk diluting the quality of my suggestions by ratings from the person i share the account with (I've spent the time to rate nearly 1000 films, and I feel that I am able to put quite a bit of trust into the output of the algorithm at this point), I wonder if there is a separate online (perhaps free) service that simply makes suggestions based on user ratings (not a rental service per-se)?
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Can we all agree to just casually walk into these stores and secretly drop a paperclip on the floor each time we're in the area? I relish the idea of the guy sweeping up night after night saying "what the hell is with all of these stupid paperclips?"
we would also have accepted "terrorists"
Popups are why I hesitate to go to weather.com
Is it going to rain this afternoon, oh dear, I could go to weather dot.com, but I might encounter a pop-up. Should I do it? "Hey Frank, is it supposed to rain this afternoon?" Crap. He doesn't know. Oh, me oh my, maybe I should just look. There are hundreds of other internet weather sources available to me, but I'm hooked on weather.com's unique lack of accuracy in their forecasting. But the pop-ups, what will I do if I encounter a pop-up! Maybe I should go have lunch - ruminate on it before just wildly clicking on my bookmark. Maybe Brenda will be at lunch, maybe she will know what the forecast is....
sorry, but you had it coming.
It's the most tedious, inane sport I've ever had the misfortune to tune into from time to time.
How have you managed to live in the UK and not accidentally tuned into a cricket match?
are you kidding? 3G is beneficial for web browsing which is something people actually use their phones for. Video phones are not widely available because no one really wants them, not because apple hasn't made them. Most people don't get much out of seeing the other person talk, it just uses up more of your senses and gives you little additional information. I'd much rather pay for more memory or a faster processor than another camera slapped on my phone.
Anyone considering this kind of service should be required to watch or listen to "This American Life - Reality Check" the NPR show where a pet bull "Chance" was cloned. As much as we might miss a lost pet, I think in the grand scheme of things it's actually nice to know that this simply doesn't work - that the pet we loved was something truly unique and irreproducible.
Why step 1?
John Quincy was alright. That statement seems as valid as saying never elect another president with big ears (which we already did btw).
It's not a restriction, it's an unnecessary security hazard. Let's say I bring a thumb drive with my music on it and load it on a public terminal - I'm being security conscious by not loading any personal data onto the terminal, I just want to listen to my music. Now if that system is shared by default and I just have a collection of my mp3s, so what. But the common user is victimized not knowing that he is actually sharing personal info.
Not to mention this is an exploit just waiting for some adware to take advantage of for harvesting email addresses.
Wow, sounds like Spikes Tyres Inc. has quite a Monopoly over there!
I wasn't sure what you were referring to when you meant 'the duty', but after clicking on the link it became clear that this was not a euphemism for copulation.
Admittedly I own that shirt as well.
I have a friend that is a gynecologist that also gets more off the record requests for advice than he would like. I thought about making a similar t-shirt for him, but somehow I think that "no I will not fix your vagina" lands within a vanishingly small population of people that would get the joke without being horribly offended.
or since this is slashdot, have sex with none and take care of many (c'mon, how many chicks computers have you fixed this past month alone).
Phew, I can't decide whether this should get tagged as "yee-hah" or "Giddeeup".
not so much funny "ha ha" as funny "holy crap these companies are all run by people with God complexes."
all well and good, but I'm still have a bad taste in my mouth about touch screens after my iphone didn't come with a special dialing wand even after I mashed the keypad.
You'll find, as you make sweeping generalizations about people's preferences, that they'll become annoyed and you will often be wrong.
On that note, I'm paying for more screen realestate with my large monitor, I'll be damned if I'm going to gum it up with chunky buttons.
I've been looking for something like this - I have this collection of weird, blurry nonsensical poloraids that I've been wanting to slightly change the size of, rotate, and punch around.
for the rest of you though, this technology seems to have far greater promise for gaming purposes. not sure why they didn't tailor their demo to that sort of application.
I'm working on a much more straightforward app that will be nearly as accurate on a large scale - it just scans your ip address and matches it against a list of known comcast ip classes - a hit means you're being throttled!
and since we are talking about lawyers, I'm fairly sure that "underpants" should be in there somewhere. ;-)
that's what people said when Ford released the prototype for the Focus.
don't forget Fontographer! I made several fonts (well, some of them were modifications of commercial fonts) with the old Macromedia version.
one important thing to keep in mind about profiles in netflix. although each user has individual ratings - apparently the algorithm used to make suggestions just mashes everything up and recommends films based on all ratings within an account. this is a bummer.
yes. glad to see this point brought up. it is well known that aliens built the pyramids.
if you're already on 2.0, chances are you're not the careful type.
3.0b is also prone to consuming larger and larger amounts of resources and clock cycles.
while i'm sure that this is completely bill gates's fault, i would also like to attribute high gas prices and cancer to the list of societal ills he is responsible for.
any objections? ok, good.
That is both surprising and dissapointing. Fortunately the person i share an account with does not do much rating so i still get plenty of suggestions about samurai movies, anime, and surrealist cinema. Since the rating and suggestion system is one of my favorite features of netflix, and I'm not willing to either purchase a completely separate account that would hardly get used or to risk diluting the quality of my suggestions by ratings from the person i share the account with (I've spent the time to rate nearly 1000 films, and I feel that I am able to put quite a bit of trust into the output of the algorithm at this point), I wonder if there is a separate online (perhaps free) service that simply makes suggestions based on user ratings (not a rental service per-se)?