I think if all TVs had this it would be great. Built in surfing capabilities with WiFi? Who wouldn't want that, and what reason could you argue not to have it?
If it becomes a standard feature, then you could just buy a TV (with it) and not even use it if you don't want it. The only downside is devices like AppleTV will become obsolete. Well, "down side".
Which is absolute bullshit. Devices like the one in the TFA are.. kind of atrocious. I mean, look at it. It's more buttons than screen, and it looks like 1990. Why don't they just make an app for iPod touch, or a new android device, or any other of the numerous better choices, as well as schools being more lenient on the devices which can be used?
Or maybe it's because then teachers would have to actually figure out how some stuff works, instead of just reading from a prepared paper about how the TI-xx model works since every student has it.
"Just as happy people tend to see the positive in any situation, so optimistic dogs sprinted toward the bowl, expecting to find food, while pessimistic dogs hesitated or ran more slowly."
You know, it's often said that semi-depressed people see reality in a much more realistic way, whereas "normal" (if you can call it that) people see reality in an augmented way, and that's why they're more happy and optimistic. It makes me wonder if actually "normal" people should be re-classified as someone who is (by our shitty definitions) semi-depressed, because really they're just seeing reality as it is, not through rose-coloured glasses.
I feel like this is just encouraging me to use the phone and internet while driving. Awesome. Nothing more annoying than slow internet in slow traffic.
Why didn't they just put the friggin character in the summary so I didn't have to read the article?
Anyways, according to the article it's ­, which looks "identical to a regular hyphen." Are you happy now slashdot? I had to read TFA to find that out.
Judging by the pictures, it looks like you have to manually set the "length" of the mouse. When I read the description, I was picturing an amorphous blob that transformed to your grip.
I want the blob. Maybe I'll just wrap silly putty around my standard crappy mouse.
Well that's annoying, because when I posted (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1810648&cid=33809274) that it's not surprising that W3C says not to use HTML5, I got a +5 response to my comment saying we should use it anyways. So which is it?
Look, I'm going to be honest here, I didn't read the whole summary; it's long. But I did read the main part of it, at the beginning, and what it's suggesting is keeping open an HTTP connection so "real-time polling" (which is sort of an oxymoron to begin with) can occur.
I don't know how others feel about this, but to me it feels like.. putting two things together that don't belong. HTTP was never really designed for this sort of thing. Why don't they use straight sockets and TCP/IP? Why does it have to be HTTP?
So uh, what happens when your aim is a little too good, and you beam someone in the water with this 3.5kg thing? It's hard to swim when you're unconscious..
Where did this obsession with Widescreen come from anyways? I understand for "widescreen films", but why are all monitors wide now? It's weird that it kind of slowly crept into the norm..
I don't really find this surprising in the least. I've been saying this for awhile now. Why would you possibly want to build a professional application on top of what is basically a mudslide? The maintainability alone is completely shot.
Not that I don't think HTML5 will have a huge impact in the future, it's just, I don't know why anyone would make a professional application in it *at the moment*. Better to stick with something that is mature and fully adopted.
I realize they were in their "rights" legally and such to put out the neighbours fire and not his.. (from the TFA, they just sat there and made sure it didn't spread). But I mean, as a human, what the fuck. Is there so little empathy?
Why couldn't they have put it out and then billed him? He probably would have been so happy he would have paid it. This reeks of callousness. What have "we" become (I'm not american, but I am a human, I think..)
I see some arguments about Apple not wanting to get involved in the *AA legal debate with torrents, but I don't understand how that's related to them at all.
Are we so far gone that we can't even have a torrent app because we *might* pirate things with it? I'm sure there are valid use cases for having torrents on the iPhone. It should be the carriers that get angry about torrents, not your friggin OS/hardware provider. You don't see Microsoft getting angry about uTorrent, it's the ISPs. What's going on here?
So I always thought fusion would be the first thing to provide an infinite resource (electricity), but it looks like this is a more viable (read: closer) solution.
If humanity gets one resource that is in essence, infinite, it would seriously change our race. I hope, for the better.
To me, at this point, commercials are greed. We already pay subscription (cable or otherwise), and most movies/TV shows use product placement among other things to supplement the cost. What really gets me is that now movies have 10 minutes of commercials before them. Did I really just pay $10 to watch 10 minutes of commercials before the 15 minutes of movie trailers? It's odd that only a few years ago, the movie/theatre business made a nice profit without having these commercials, yet now they cannot live without them.
Mine says not found. Probably because I don't have broadcast SSID on my wireless, judging by the procedure he's using (google locator). If this is the case, why does anyone broadcast their SSID to begin with? I never really understood that. There's no benefit for home users, since chances are 99% of the devices you use on a daily basis are not new, and so you only have to take the extra 5 seconds to manually enter the SSID once.
This would make a lot of sense if the rumours about facebook making its own phone are true. This way you get a new phone, login to FB on it and it's setup. This is actually really similar to how motoblur (android) works. Except in this case, all phone calls would also be VoIP, thus potentially making the first all data phone!
Oh how I can't wait until we don't need voice plans anymore, and it's 100% data for everything. I'm also waiting for cable TV to take the big one though, and everyone just has internet, and streams what they want via that to their TV a la netflix, or something else.
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I think if all TVs had this it would be great. Built in surfing capabilities with WiFi? Who wouldn't want that, and what reason could you argue not to have it?
If it becomes a standard feature, then you could just buy a TV (with it) and not even use it if you don't want it. The only downside is devices like AppleTV will become obsolete. Well, "down side".
Which is absolute bullshit. Devices like the one in the TFA are.. kind of atrocious. I mean, look at it. It's more buttons than screen, and it looks like 1990. Why don't they just make an app for iPod touch, or a new android device, or any other of the numerous better choices, as well as schools being more lenient on the devices which can be used?
Or maybe it's because then teachers would have to actually figure out how some stuff works, instead of just reading from a prepared paper about how the TI-xx model works since every student has it.
"Just as happy people tend to see the positive in any situation, so optimistic dogs sprinted toward the bowl, expecting to find food, while pessimistic dogs hesitated or ran more slowly."
You know, it's often said that semi-depressed people see reality in a much more realistic way, whereas "normal" (if you can call it that) people see reality in an augmented way, and that's why they're more happy and optimistic. It makes me wonder if actually "normal" people should be re-classified as someone who is (by our shitty definitions) semi-depressed, because really they're just seeing reality as it is, not through rose-coloured glasses.
I don't understand how you can "find" data centers? Can someone explain that to me.
I feel like this is just encouraging me to use the phone and internet while driving. Awesome. Nothing more annoying than slow internet in slow traffic.
You can just use a chip or porcelain. Flick it at the glass and watch the fun.
Why didn't they just put the friggin character in the summary so I didn't have to read the article?
Anyways, according to the article it's ­, which looks "identical to a regular hyphen." Are you happy now slashdot? I had to read TFA to find that out.
Ebola. That'll teach 'em.
Twitter is all posts.. all useless.....
Judging by the pictures, it looks like you have to manually set the "length" of the mouse. When I read the description, I was picturing an amorphous blob that transformed to your grip.
I want the blob. Maybe I'll just wrap silly putty around my standard crappy mouse.
Well that's annoying, because when I posted (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1810648&cid=33809274) that it's not surprising that W3C says not to use HTML5, I got a +5 response to my comment saying we should use it anyways. So which is it?
Doesn't HTML5 support WebSocket? Or was this specifically speaking of HTML4?
Look, I'm going to be honest here, I didn't read the whole summary; it's long. But I did read the main part of it, at the beginning, and what it's suggesting is keeping open an HTTP connection so "real-time polling" (which is sort of an oxymoron to begin with) can occur.
I don't know how others feel about this, but to me it feels like.. putting two things together that don't belong. HTTP was never really designed for this sort of thing. Why don't they use straight sockets and TCP/IP? Why does it have to be HTTP?
So uh, what happens when your aim is a little too good, and you beam someone in the water with this 3.5kg thing? It's hard to swim when you're unconscious..
Where did this obsession with Widescreen come from anyways? I understand for "widescreen films", but why are all monitors wide now? It's weird that it kind of slowly crept into the norm..
With all the mobile companies already suing each other, this should just add more..
Awesome.
I don't really find this surprising in the least. I've been saying this for awhile now. Why would you possibly want to build a professional application on top of what is basically a mudslide? The maintainability alone is completely shot.
Not that I don't think HTML5 will have a huge impact in the future, it's just, I don't know why anyone would make a professional application in it *at the moment*. Better to stick with something that is mature and fully adopted.
Just my $0.02..
I realize they were in their "rights" legally and such to put out the neighbours fire and not his.. (from the TFA, they just sat there and made sure it didn't spread). But I mean, as a human, what the fuck. Is there so little empathy?
Why couldn't they have put it out and then billed him? He probably would have been so happy he would have paid it. This reeks of callousness. What have "we" become (I'm not american, but I am a human, I think..)
I see some arguments about Apple not wanting to get involved in the *AA legal debate with torrents, but I don't understand how that's related to them at all.
Are we so far gone that we can't even have a torrent app because we *might* pirate things with it? I'm sure there are valid use cases for having torrents on the iPhone. It should be the carriers that get angry about torrents, not your friggin OS/hardware provider. You don't see Microsoft getting angry about uTorrent, it's the ISPs. What's going on here?
So I always thought fusion would be the first thing to provide an infinite resource (electricity), but it looks like this is a more viable (read: closer) solution.
If humanity gets one resource that is in essence, infinite, it would seriously change our race. I hope, for the better.
How come there's no mention of the objective of these attacks? What could it be, why would you take out energy or communication companies?
To me, at this point, commercials are greed. We already pay subscription (cable or otherwise), and most movies/TV shows use product placement among other things to supplement the cost. What really gets me is that now movies have 10 minutes of commercials before them. Did I really just pay $10 to watch 10 minutes of commercials before the 15 minutes of movie trailers? It's odd that only a few years ago, the movie/theatre business made a nice profit without having these commercials, yet now they cannot live without them.
I hope in time commercial-less media is the norm.
Mine says not found. Probably because I don't have broadcast SSID on my wireless, judging by the procedure he's using (google locator). If this is the case, why does anyone broadcast their SSID to begin with? I never really understood that. There's no benefit for home users, since chances are 99% of the devices you use on a daily basis are not new, and so you only have to take the extra 5 seconds to manually enter the SSID once.
I'm uh, fairly certain if you live in the USA, that is already happening.
This would make a lot of sense if the rumours about facebook making its own phone are true. This way you get a new phone, login to FB on it and it's setup. This is actually really similar to how motoblur (android) works. Except in this case, all phone calls would also be VoIP, thus potentially making the first all data phone!
Oh how I can't wait until we don't need voice plans anymore, and it's 100% data for everything. I'm also waiting for cable TV to take the big one though, and everyone just has internet, and streams what they want via that to their TV a la netflix, or something else.