I don't mind a console, especially one that is easy to get to, but why are we cramming everything into the address bar? Seriously if this is browser that we want Grandma to use (because it isn't getting hijacked), why are we giving her more opportunity to screw things up in there?
In the initial astroterf phase I had similar thoughts, but no, they really haven't gotten better.
The only difference is that MS has become even more entrenched in nickle and diming the consumer and in making pro-DRM decisions with content provider's approval. Until or unless Ballmer and a sea of other managers leave MS, it is destined to be nothing more than a vague R&D patent holder that survives through litigation. Even then I have my doubts.
Remember all of those credit rating sites that ended up being nothing more than access points for "bill collectors" and arbiters? Same thing repackaged. Just wait for more random calls from some guy in Buffalo.
I'm only guessing here, but it is because AT&T and Apple both footed the cost for development. If AT&T had nothing to do with this it would all be under Apple and would have been a simple software upgrade.
Not that I, as a Touch owner, am the slightest bit happy that I'd have to pay $10 just to get a feature should have already been in there. Personally I'm going to avoid the upgrade, save the $10 and get a Nokia N810. This will probably be the first and last Apple product I get myself. As if installing QuickTime wasn't bad enough.
They've been on the downhill slide for so long that I really didn't notice. As long as my girlfriend doesn't miss her Ghost Hunters I don't see how this will effect my life.
They are a long way from being the channel that showed Akira and CNet Central on Saturday mornings, but well, I don't own a 14.4 anymore. Geeks (and everyone else) have moved on.
So thanks for all the programming from back in the day, I hate that we won't be getting more things like Lexx or whatever, but we outgrew each other a long, long time ago. I think Dr. Quinn Space Woman, was the moment where both parties were just going through the motions. So, so long and good luck.
There is a big gap between Jimmy smells bad and has serious social anxiety issues and Jimmy killed 3 people on the way to work and sexually assaulted a 9 year old boy in the hallway. If someone has problems like that I'm sure the cops will be in long before HR.
OK, first there was the story about the delusional college student and now the weirdo. What next, the annoying guy who keeps talking about last night's episode of The Office or the ungrateful Russian intern who won't go out with you? Maybe we could move on to the guy whose resume didn't quite match yours, but his charisma is obviously blinding your coworkers except when you guys are having a drink at the bar and chicks come over to talk to him.
Seriously, what is with all of the "get off my lawn" or iron clad conformity stories on Slashdot? It does take all kinds.
If anyone is going to be blamed for racing to the bottom it should be commercial developers, not "cultist" open source game hobbyist.
I've played plenty of single player mods back in the HL1 days that were polished and wildly inventive and the developer's highest goal was getting recognition. The trick here is this, artists and designers need the tools to make the game they want. Valve made a ton of tools that were easy to use and gave them a cheap platform to develop for. This is what is seriously lacking, easy to use tools (sorry Blender needs a lot of work in that area, Gimp is alright and more suited as far as scripts are concerned, normal mapping, etc.) and an easily scripted game environment to work with.
Wow, I really have been programmed. As soon as I read "Fairness and Balance" I began wondering about liberal indoctrination.
I think it would also explain why I'm compelled to scream, "someday you will realize who your god really is" every time someone says the word China. Now I have this urge to buy a sniper rifle.
The first world would seem to serve as a counter-example.
Both would happen. The first world will become more stable as the third will destabilize. Kinda like what has been happening in gallium producing nations in Africa.
My real point here is that if this were in our own backyard it wouldn't even be an issue about autonomy, it would be, "Why are the Mexicans bitching about California?"
We'll do what we always to do with competition, try to farm our work out and get the rug pulled out from under us. Despite what we say, Americans don't believe in competition because competition requires two parties performing roughly the same task. We believe that we are ordained by god to serve no other function than to move money around.
I tend to look at Tibet the same way I look at the American south. Outsiders may have these romantic notions about what it is, but to the Chinese it is probably a backwards, regressive region that stands in the way of any help offered to it. Despite being a cause celebre I find myself siding more and more with the Chinese with each passing year and fuck Americans who find something spiritual in dissent.
Woah, back off the black helicopters for a sec. The problem is much simpler and it was something we saw during the last administration. We deserve a certain amount of privacy because not having it undermines the functioning principals of our republican democracy/democratic republic.
Take the problem of non-elected, non-political government employees getting sacked because their views weren't in line with towing that of the ruling party. My view on the tax code shouldn't make any difference on how we deal with child molesters, but under a compromised system agreeing with the agenda at large is the only rule. This problem that is far more frightening than having a camera on every street corner.
Here is the trick, if you took the pure peace route and had such a suit made only for firefighters, police and other high hazard workers, you would only produce less than a 10th of the number of suits you would have made for the military and have had a suit that cost 10 time as much to make.
"alleges that Craigslist maintains 21 classifications of sex-for-hire, coded as 'w4m,' 'm4m,' 'm4w,' etc." and that it has facilitated child prostitution and kidnapping and human trafficking.
Man, I knew spam bots were bad, but next they'll be into drugs and gun running.
Great news, from what I hear under previous agreements, YouTube would have owned the rights to the bailouts, Citibank, holdovers from the Bush administration, the credit crisis, tainted peanut butter and America. I don't think my Google stock could have handled that.
Slashdot Mirror
given that the entire series has been a "retelling" of the movie Jacob's Ladder.
Not that I'm knocking it. Personally I'm glad that they are at least trying to get the series back on track. It has certainly needed it.
Like bearded men in sealed trains, hatted men in ice boxes should be avoided at all costs.
iDrunk.
Ah, come one someone had to say it.
I don't mind a console, especially one that is easy to get to, but why are we cramming everything into the address bar? Seriously if this is browser that we want Grandma to use (because it isn't getting hijacked), why are we giving her more opportunity to screw things up in there?
In the initial astroterf phase I had similar thoughts, but no, they really haven't gotten better.
The only difference is that MS has become even more entrenched in nickle and diming the consumer and in making pro-DRM decisions with content provider's approval. Until or unless Ballmer and a sea of other managers leave MS, it is destined to be nothing more than a vague R&D patent holder that survives through litigation. Even then I have my doubts.
Remember all of those credit rating sites that ended up being nothing more than access points for "bill collectors" and arbiters? Same thing repackaged. Just wait for more random calls from some guy in Buffalo.
The Devs imploded before it came out the door.
I'm only guessing here, but it is because AT&T and Apple both footed the cost for development. If AT&T had nothing to do with this it would all be under Apple and would have been a simple software upgrade.
Not that I, as a Touch owner, am the slightest bit happy that I'd have to pay $10 just to get a feature should have already been in there. Personally I'm going to avoid the upgrade, save the $10 and get a Nokia N810. This will probably be the first and last Apple product I get myself. As if installing QuickTime wasn't bad enough.
They've been on the downhill slide for so long that I really didn't notice. As long as my girlfriend doesn't miss her Ghost Hunters I don't see how this will effect my life.
They are a long way from being the channel that showed Akira and CNet Central on Saturday mornings, but well, I don't own a 14.4 anymore. Geeks (and everyone else) have moved on.
So thanks for all the programming from back in the day, I hate that we won't be getting more things like Lexx or whatever, but we outgrew each other a long, long time ago. I think Dr. Quinn Space Woman, was the moment where both parties were just going through the motions. So, so long and good luck.
Fine, you win.
There is a big gap between Jimmy smells bad and has serious social anxiety issues and Jimmy killed 3 people on the way to work and sexually assaulted a 9 year old boy in the hallway. If someone has problems like that I'm sure the cops will be in long before HR.
AT&T sucks. It's why I won't buy an iPhone.
Fixed.
OK, first there was the story about the delusional college student and now the weirdo. What next, the annoying guy who keeps talking about last night's episode of The Office or the ungrateful Russian intern who won't go out with you? Maybe we could move on to the guy whose resume didn't quite match yours, but his charisma is obviously blinding your coworkers except when you guys are having a drink at the bar and chicks come over to talk to him.
Seriously, what is with all of the "get off my lawn" or iron clad conformity stories on Slashdot? It does take all kinds.
If anyone is going to be blamed for racing to the bottom it should be commercial developers, not "cultist" open source game hobbyist.
I've played plenty of single player mods back in the HL1 days that were polished and wildly inventive and the developer's highest goal was getting recognition. The trick here is this, artists and designers need the tools to make the game they want. Valve made a ton of tools that were easy to use and gave them a cheap platform to develop for. This is what is seriously lacking, easy to use tools (sorry Blender needs a lot of work in that area, Gimp is alright and more suited as far as scripts are concerned, normal mapping, etc.) and an easily scripted game environment to work with.
Really, I was thinking this guy just ripped Beck a new one.
Wow, I really have been programmed. As soon as I read "Fairness and Balance" I began wondering about liberal indoctrination.
I think it would also explain why I'm compelled to scream, "someday you will realize who your god really is" every time someone says the word China. Now I have this urge to buy a sniper rifle.
The first world would seem to serve as a counter-example.
Both would happen. The first world will become more stable as the third will destabilize. Kinda like what has been happening in gallium producing nations in Africa.
My real point here is that if this were in our own backyard it wouldn't even be an issue about autonomy, it would be, "Why are the Mexicans bitching about California?"
We'll do what we always to do with competition, try to farm our work out and get the rug pulled out from under us. Despite what we say, Americans don't believe in competition because competition requires two parties performing roughly the same task. We believe that we are ordained by god to serve no other function than to move money around.
I tend to look at Tibet the same way I look at the American south. Outsiders may have these romantic notions about what it is, but to the Chinese it is probably a backwards, regressive region that stands in the way of any help offered to it. Despite being a cause celebre I find myself siding more and more with the Chinese with each passing year and fuck Americans who find something spiritual in dissent.
Woah, back off the black helicopters for a sec. The problem is much simpler and it was something we saw during the last administration. We deserve a certain amount of privacy because not having it undermines the functioning principals of our republican democracy/democratic republic.
Take the problem of non-elected, non-political government employees getting sacked because their views weren't in line with towing that of the ruling party. My view on the tax code shouldn't make any difference on how we deal with child molesters, but under a compromised system agreeing with the agenda at large is the only rule. This problem that is far more frightening than having a camera on every street corner.
Here is the trick, if you took the pure peace route and had such a suit made only for firefighters, police and other high hazard workers, you would only produce less than a 10th of the number of suits you would have made for the military and have had a suit that cost 10 time as much to make.
"alleges that Craigslist maintains 21 classifications of sex-for-hire, coded as 'w4m,' 'm4m,' 'm4w,' etc." and that it has facilitated child prostitution and kidnapping and human trafficking.
Man, I knew spam bots were bad, but next they'll be into drugs and gun running.
You left out the part about being able to remotely log in to these machines, who in some cases had the user/pass of admin/pass.
Every step along with way, it appears to have been the most script kiddie friendly series of voting machines ever made.
Great news, from what I hear under previous agreements, YouTube would have owned the rights to the bailouts, Citibank, holdovers from the Bush administration, the credit crisis, tainted peanut butter and America. I don't think my Google stock could have handled that.