Just press like you used to! Jeez, they just don't want people in sensitive places getting potentially dodgy links coming up on their screens. I know when i'm at work I'd rather not have pirate sites coming up on my search result screen while I'm typing...
Of course you can opt out. Just don't use Facebook. These people act like it's a requirement of modern society to be always-on, like electricity or indoor plumbing. Either don't use it, or shut your traps.
Or of course you could get off your high-horse and understand that you can't do that because you'll end up giving up every service you use. Most practical people have to assume what they expect to be the reasonable deal is, and go ahead based on that. ie get free service, covered by adverts. When everything you do online is covered by a 10-page impenetrable EULA, you have to make assumptions. This is clearly a breach of what's reasonable and expected, and just because it doesn't affect *you* doesn't mean it's not a problem.
How long would you say someone should stay in the same job then, to 'learn' it properly? Because 2 years is a pretty long time, especially in IT. eg, my current role is Android developer, but 2 years ago Android almost didn't exist, being on only one fairly unpopular phone.
And do you not think that you stop learning precisely because you stay at the same place? Staying in the same place often means static challenges, same technology, the same people around you with the same outlook and experience. Moving gives *breadth* of experience, you can't tell me that that is valueless.
Existing workers face the option of either finding jobs elsewhere to stay within the pay curve, or staying in a comfortable environment where they know the culture and can be productive, until they get sufficiently pissed off at being rewarded for loyalty with being paid less.
Which, frankly, I think is right. As one of those people that does job-hop every couple of years, I often find I'm leaving behind perfectly competent, but comfortable, programmers. You pay in your non-increasing salary to stay somewhere where you don't *really* need to try anymore because you've proved yourself. Those that move on and take the risks, get the benefits.
Personally I think if someone totally uncovered comes into an emergency room, the hospital should put them back out on the street. Call me heartless, but if you want cover, work hard for it like I do.
Heartless, selfish, shortsighted idiot, all apply really. If you knew anything about the capitalism you'd know that unemployment is *built in to the system*. It is impossible to have full employment, because then there is no room for the economy to manoeuvre, no growth. So in your mind these people should just die.
Sort of. But that's assuming that you're likely to buy things that cost $1000 as often as things that cost $100, which is of course false. Let's say you buy $100 items ten times more often than that $1000 item, in that case the real price difference is comparing $500 to $50.
The reason for that that distinction is obvious. Price. Some people settle for second best.
Hehe, how does your Bugatti Veyron drive then? Sometimes there's a concept of 'overpriced' too, and since the difference between a HTC Desire and a iPhone 4 is nearly 50% more (just over £400 vs just over £600), I know what I decided.
Probably has helped prevent a lot of rear-end collisions, especially on the highway when cars stop suddenly for an obstruction.
Why? Do rear-view window breaklights alert the drivers behind you better, or somehow enable them to slow more quickly?
Well... er... clearly a light that is only lit when braking as opposed to those that are merely brighter when braking is going to be a more obvious alert. Was it really worth asking that question?
Of course, the massive difference is that Apple are not really in a monopoly position. It's still ridiculous, and petty, and bizarre; but I don't think actually illegal.
Which it won't. There are people touting HTML5 like it's some all conquering replacement. There's a bunch of things you can't do with HTML video, including intelligent bandwidth use (ie dropping to a lower bandwidth if you haven't got enough) and unskippable advertising (which some places will wish to serve, to, you know, pay for the content).
I don't really see why this is a particularly surprising statistic. So most Tweets are only read by users... Most Slashdot stories I don't reply to and only read, does that mean that Slashdot is somehow limited or has a large number of dead stories? Of course not, it's just that most people do lots more reading than writing.
Intriguingly (I think atleast), it is constitutionally impossible for the British government to grant independence to Canada, because it's not possible for one government to do something irreversible that the the next government can't undo. So, technically, the UK must still regard Canada as a colony...
Yes and no. Apps stay memory resident and let themselves be cleaned up by the operating system when needed, but Skype is a fair bit more annoying by keeping an icon in the notification bar (and for no real reason, even when your status is "offline").
It's a self-important move, which I expect will probably get fixed in time. I'm just happy that they've *finally* got around to making the app, it's been a long time coming.
And you're better than them because you do your ego wanking on slashdot, rather than facebook?
Oh, *good* comeback...
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Agree with you 100%. Good to know I was not and will not affected in any way. Does anything serious get done on Facebook?
Wow, what a phenomenally smug statement. Why does everything have to have a "serious" use? Social tools are useful and valid things, and 500 million users think so. Or are you more enlightened than every one of them?
While this is true, it was a bit pants to shut the site, there does seem to be a slightly worrying assumption from lots of people that you will always be able to download the game from them at any point that you want to. It's entirely possibly that GOG will fail at some point in the future like all companies can, if you buy a game then you should damn well keep your own copy. You're buying a game with no DRM, but then negating that advantage by relying on the retailer to resupply it when you want it! The whole *point* of no DRM is that you don't have to rely on a (possibly flakey) retailer / manufacturer once you have purchased the goods.
There's nothing to be gained by harassing them while they work on a fix for you, that will almost certainly be free.
Wait, you mean Apple sell a premium-priced product with a large and obvious defect, and they're going to fix it for free? Oh thankyou sweet Apple! You are so philanthropic!
Yes, *and* the fact that changing the whole world to use a different 'standard' than Skype is somewhat tricky. If you want to talk to other people you can't always make them use the software you demand.
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Just press like you used to! Jeez, they just don't want people in sensitive places getting potentially dodgy links coming up on their screens. I know when i'm at work I'd rather not have pirate sites coming up on my search result screen while I'm typing...
Of course you can opt out. Just don't use Facebook. These people act like it's a requirement of modern society to be always-on, like electricity or indoor plumbing. Either don't use it, or shut your traps.
Or of course you could get off your high-horse and understand that you can't do that because you'll end up giving up every service you use. Most practical people have to assume what they expect to be the reasonable deal is, and go ahead based on that. ie get free service, covered by adverts. When everything you do online is covered by a 10-page impenetrable EULA, you have to make assumptions.
This is clearly a breach of what's reasonable and expected, and just because it doesn't affect *you* doesn't mean it's not a problem.
I don't think statistics work the way you think they work...
How long would you say someone should stay in the same job then, to 'learn' it properly? Because 2 years is a pretty long time, especially in IT. eg, my current role is Android developer, but 2 years ago Android almost didn't exist, being on only one fairly unpopular phone.
And do you not think that you stop learning precisely because you stay at the same place? Staying in the same place often means static challenges, same technology, the same people around you with the same outlook and experience. Moving gives *breadth* of experience, you can't tell me that that is valueless.
Existing workers face the option of either finding jobs elsewhere to stay within the pay curve, or staying in a comfortable environment where they know the culture and can be productive, until they get sufficiently pissed off at being rewarded for loyalty with being paid less.
Which, frankly, I think is right. As one of those people that does job-hop every couple of years, I often find I'm leaving behind perfectly competent, but comfortable, programmers. You pay in your non-increasing salary to stay somewhere where you don't *really* need to try anymore because you've proved yourself. Those that move on and take the risks, get the benefits.
If you strech the definition of "working" to mean "practical",
Clearly you're not a programmer... something doesn't need to be practical or usable to be considered "working"...
The first stored program computer was the Manchester Baby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Small-Scale_Experimental_Machine
Personally I think if someone totally uncovered comes into an emergency room, the hospital should put them back out on the street. Call me heartless, but if you want cover, work hard for it like I do.
Heartless, selfish, shortsighted idiot, all apply really. If you knew anything about the capitalism you'd know that unemployment is *built in to the system*. It is impossible to have full employment, because then there is no room for the economy to manoeuvre, no growth. So in your mind these people should just die.
Merry Fucking Christmas.
The Register has a good writeup of the subtleties and what's *actually* going on...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/20/vaizey_filters/
Sort of. But that's assuming that you're likely to buy things that cost $1000 as often as things that cost $100, which is of course false. Let's say you buy $100 items ten times more often than that $1000 item, in that case the real price difference is comparing $500 to $50.
The reason for that that distinction is obvious. Price. Some people settle for second best.
Hehe, how does your Bugatti Veyron drive then? Sometimes there's a concept of 'overpriced' too, and since the difference between a HTC Desire and a iPhone 4 is nearly 50% more (just over £400 vs just over £600), I know what I decided.
Probably has helped prevent a lot of rear-end collisions, especially on the highway when cars stop suddenly for an obstruction.
Why? Do rear-view window breaklights alert the drivers behind you better, or somehow enable them to slow more quickly?
Well... er... clearly a light that is only lit when braking as opposed to those that are merely brighter when braking is going to be a more obvious alert. Was it really worth asking that question?
Of course, the massive difference is that Apple are not really in a monopoly position. It's still ridiculous, and petty, and bizarre; but I don't think actually illegal.
Extra Credits make a compelling case
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/extra-credits/1923-Innovation
- an inefficient way to play videos
Please, die flash, die.
Which it won't. There are people touting HTML5 like it's some all conquering replacement. There's a bunch of things you can't do with HTML video, including intelligent bandwidth use (ie dropping to a lower bandwidth if you haven't got enough) and unskippable advertising (which some places will wish to serve, to, you know, pay for the content).
Flash won't die until it can be replaced.
No matter what they do, people will complain.
Yes, but also, no matter what they do, some people will defend them...
I don't really see why this is a particularly surprising statistic. So most Tweets are only read by users... Most Slashdot stories I don't reply to and only read, does that mean that Slashdot is somehow limited or has a large number of dead stories? Of course not, it's just that most people do lots more reading than writing.
Intriguingly (I think atleast), it is constitutionally impossible for the British government to grant independence to Canada, because it's not possible for one government to do something irreversible that the the next government can't undo. So, technically, the UK must still regard Canada as a colony...
Yes and no. Apps stay memory resident and let themselves be cleaned up by the operating system when needed, but Skype is a fair bit more annoying by keeping an icon in the notification bar (and for no real reason, even when your status is "offline").
It's a self-important move, which I expect will probably get fixed in time. I'm just happy that they've *finally* got around to making the app, it's been a long time coming.
And you're better than them because you do your ego wanking on slashdot, rather than facebook?
Oh, *good* comeback...
Agree with you 100%. Good to know I was not and will not affected in any way. Does anything serious get done on Facebook?
Wow, what a phenomenally smug statement. Why does everything have to have a "serious" use? Social tools are useful and valid things, and 500 million users think so. Or are you more enlightened than every one of them?
While this is true, it was a bit pants to shut the site, there does seem to be a slightly worrying assumption from lots of people that you will always be able to download the game from them at any point that you want to. It's entirely possibly that GOG will fail at some point in the future like all companies can, if you buy a game then you should damn well keep your own copy. You're buying a game with no DRM, but then negating that advantage by relying on the retailer to resupply it when you want it! The whole *point* of no DRM is that you don't have to rely on a (possibly flakey) retailer / manufacturer once you have purchased the goods.
I'm living the best days of my life, currently. No strategy game comes close to the wonder of holding your own baby in your arms.
Sorry, I missed that, you must have overloaded my smug-filter.
There's nothing to be gained by harassing them while they work on a fix for you, that will almost certainly be free.
Wait, you mean Apple sell a premium-priced product with a large and obvious defect, and they're going to fix it for free? Oh thankyou sweet Apple! You are so philanthropic!
Yes, *and* the fact that changing the whole world to use a different 'standard' than Skype is somewhat tricky. If you want to talk to other people you can't always make them use the software you demand.