I will whine about self checkouts all I want. They don't work all that well, they keep setting off the alarm because I wasn't quick enough put 10 cans of soda onto the scales so they sound off an alarm because they have falsely determined I'm somehow trying to cheat the store
Reminds me of my great joy with shopping recently where it freezes and says "Help is on the way" and I look around, seeing 5 other people looking around for the attendant to come over, swipe their card, and type their number in so that the transaction can continue. Ends up taking me 10 minutes to check out because it takes 9 for the customer service person to walk over and not even look at the machine (it was bitching that I didn't put the meat in the bag / on the scale, something it didn't complain about until the second the meat was in the bag on the scale). This is also made better when the reason you are waiting is that the person is nowhere near their station, or is just talking to a fellow coworker and ignoring the line.
I look forward to great Walmart brand games. Such as Super Wal Brothers. Walmart May Cry. Wal Souls. Call of Walmart: Rollback Ops.
Though I realize, Walmart usually uses Equate or whatever..... Wal-brand is usually Walgreens.
Soon they will harness their Courage(TM) and release new models of the iPad and iPhone that have removed the next big thing...... The screen! Purchase this metal sheet with nothing more than a glowing apple on it! The iSlab.
blacking out his windows so he couldn't tell day from night
Was this for the times when he took the headset off to eat or switch to a new, non smelly one? Because I don't see why it would matter if he's seeing nothing but VR. (or did they do it as an AR thing and are just saying it was VR?)
That being said, I'd like to see them make a hot hatch. Or a smaller wagon. Similar to how WRX used to have a wagon form. I always found hatchbacks deceptively good at moving a lot of stuff. I really miss the little 2 seater hatchback that I used to have (I've moved 2 times in the past year, and will be moving again in the next month)
I wonder if some of them even know why they are skipping? Several that skipped for the gun restriction stuff didn't even know why, they just didn't want to be in class. My fiancé had to report 2 kids fighting and one saying they were going to get a gun and shoot the other. These were 2 kids that were supposedly protesting guns. Another kid at her school in the protest was pretending to shoot a machine gun at people.
Not that I don't think some are legitimately doing it. I just wonder how many are just having fun skipping?
My fiancé is a 6th grade math teacher. She has to constantly keep something up letting her know who is connected because students will just disconnect and play games so she can't see if they are doing anything else.
The funnest one though is when one kid was caught looking at anime porn. By another student. And called out in front of the entire class!
Of course our whole education is so screwed up now to make everyone feel special and smart and like they can't fail. Numerous times you can take a test/homework.... you can refuse to take a test/homework but still get to take it... and heck... even if you fail after multiple tries you're likely to just get curved up so you don't fail.
Or at her first school there was the big problem every white teacher had..... Kid breaks something, steals something, skips class, breaks rules, fails for not doing homework/test/project or scores low? Instant complaint of : "(Name of white teacher) was racist to me!"
I seem to recall there being large groups on youtube of people making atheist videos and they talked about "the atheist community" and I always thought it odd that it even existed as a focus and huge time sink. At least religions think they are getting something out of it..... What do you get out of talking about how you are an atheist? (Then again, what do you get out of talking about football, a tv show, etc..... it just seems an odd passtime)
My favorite Alexa ability is where she used to randomly laugh in the middle of the night and terrify the owner!
Also I seem to recall some story on/. a while back about someone's friend calling them and telling them that Alexa had recorded the owner's family talking, and then sent the recording to them.
Um, you do have to realize that the Chinese government are not the good guys. Saying "well, what about NSA spying??" is a whataboutism argument. Yes, the NSA is a spy agency, but that doesn't mean that Chinese spying is something we shouldn't worry about.
You say this and I immediately remember seeing, numerous times,/. posters saying they'd rather China have their any of their information than the US. Funny considering how often people get into a rage about something knowing their interests or dislikes.... yet suddenly there's no problem with China having the same and/or more?
This just reminds me of when I used to work for a bank's call center. I had someone get mad that they had to call and verify a transaction (they didn't want to respond to the text for some reason?) belonged to them. They said something along the lines of: "WHY CAN'T YOU JUST MAKE IT SO MY CARD WORKS ONLY FOR ME AND NO ONE ELSE?"..........How so.... with magic?
but it's much more secure than a PIN that someone could learn by simply looking over your shoulder as you enter it.
Also reminds me of working retail. We got new card readers that had little covers that hid the buttons. We'd have ladies come in to use their debit card go: "WHY WOULD YOU PUT THIS ON HERE IN THE WAY ITS LIKE YOU DON'T WANT ME TO SEE THE NUMBERS WHEN I TYPE THEM IN." Never mind the fact that they were also standing almost on top of the keypad when they did this.... move back 1 foot and GASP, numbers! I told some lady it was so other people couldn't look around her and steal the PIN and her response was: "Why would I care about that?"
Brie Larson has made statements objecting to white men reviewing her movies and making up too much of the press pool, such as saying about A Wrinkle In Time "I don't need a 40-year-old white dude to tell me what didn't work about A Wrinkle in Time. It wasn't made for him!".
That quote was about A Wrinkle in Time? I've barely paid attention to the crazed baby fight over Ms Marvel as all this stuff has been making my roll my eyes painfully hard for a while. I thought someone said she said that about Ms Marvel. And my thoughts on that were: "Did she write the movie? Because unless the director says that as well I don't think that the goal of the movie should be considered "ME HATE MEN"
Hell a ton of people tried to say "NO WATCH BLACK PANTHER WHITE MAN" yet the movie ended with T'Challa saying we should all treat each other as the same tribe. Some people tried to say "WONDER WOMAN FOR GIRL POWER DIE BOYS" yet no one left the movie calling it toxic feminism or whatever. This crap.
I know I've already seen people here talking about how you need to solve stupid, not scooters. But this just reminds me of seeing a girl fall off one of these recently. My fiancé and I were on a walk down a path in the city, and this girl nearby got on one and was trying to vape and ride at the same time. She ended up dropping her vape thing, and slowed down, trying to walk backwards to pick it up or something. Instead she kept one foot on the scooter while apparently still pressing whatever made it go forward.... and she just spins and slams into the ground and got hit by the scooter.
Her vaping thing also broke into a few pieces. Seems almost like a solution rather than a problem!
Sidenote, it's 20fucking19. There's a mountain of technological options available that make sorting our your bill afterwards easier and faster than having the restaurant split the bill in the first place.
This reminds me of when I worked in retail. About 10 years ago I worked at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. You could split paying the register with multiple methods. Want to pay part in cash and the rest on debit? No problem. 10 gift cards, $50 in cash, rest on credit? Sure whatever, wait while I scan all this crap in.
Then 5 years later I hear places saying "We can't take multiple payments, our system isn't able to do that. The system we had at BBB when I first worked there must been 10-15 years old in 2007! These places usually newer seeming systems. (Though I honestly doubt the system was incapable of doing it. More likely the cashier was too stupid to figure out what to do)
I did ctrl f to see if anyone else mentioned this. I think at this point it could be done. Back when the PSP Go came out people relied a lot more on brick and mortar stores. Those stores did not like being taken out of the loop and did as little to support or get the PSP Go out. At this point B&Ms seem to have realized they can't ignore and fight digital.... so they've at least embraced selling cards and codes.
I think at this point it has a lot better chance of working.... Though it might also be a little late in the console's life cycle. Rumors are already going on about the PS5. I imagine MS will announce an Xbox 540/TWO soon as well.
One additional thought is that a lot of games on PS4 and Xbone sold physically often end up drastically going down in price fairly fast. It might be preferable to some people to keep the physical option open. But I still think an all digital console still has more chance now than the PSP Go (Also the PSP never did amazing outside of people loving to pirate on it I felt like)
Slashdot Mirror
Chianti.
Were you having an old friend for dinner?
I will whine about self checkouts all I want. They don't work all that well, they keep setting off the alarm because I wasn't quick enough put 10 cans of soda onto the scales so they sound off an alarm because they have falsely determined I'm somehow trying to cheat the store
Reminds me of my great joy with shopping recently where it freezes and says "Help is on the way" and I look around, seeing 5 other people looking around for the attendant to come over, swipe their card, and type their number in so that the transaction can continue. Ends up taking me 10 minutes to check out because it takes 9 for the customer service person to walk over and not even look at the machine (it was bitching that I didn't put the meat in the bag / on the scale, something it didn't complain about until the second the meat was in the bag on the scale). This is also made better when the reason you are waiting is that the person is nowhere near their station, or is just talking to a fellow coworker and ignoring the line.
Everything else is Apple ____+. With all of them being announced at the same time I'm surprised to not see this called Apple Arcade+.
Honestly! Gosh darn it!
I look forward to great Walmart brand games. Such as Super Wal Brothers. Walmart May Cry. Wal Souls. Call of Walmart: Rollback Ops. Though I realize, Walmart usually uses Equate or whatever..... Wal-brand is usually Walgreens.
Soon they will harness their Courage(TM) and release new models of the iPad and iPhone that have removed the next big thing...... The screen! Purchase this metal sheet with nothing more than a glowing apple on it! The iSlab.
But the story was submitted to Slashdot by someone claiming to be pastor Jeff Edwards.
The 63 year old pastor suddenly joined Slashdot and shared this?
blacking out his windows so he couldn't tell day from night
Was this for the times when he took the headset off to eat or switch to a new, non smelly one? Because I don't see why it would matter if he's seeing nothing but VR. (or did they do it as an AR thing and are just saying it was VR?)
While you were saving the planet, he studied The Blade.
Mr. Anderson.
This is just a Model 3, inflated like a balloon...
This has how I've felt about most car designs for the past 10-15ish years? I really miss some of the looks from back in the 90s.
It is a hatchback. Including a power liftgate.
That being said, I'd like to see them make a hot hatch. Or a smaller wagon. Similar to how WRX used to have a wagon form. I always found hatchbacks deceptively good at moving a lot of stuff. I really miss the little 2 seater hatchback that I used to have (I've moved 2 times in the past year, and will be moving again in the next month)
I wonder if some of them even know why they are skipping? Several that skipped for the gun restriction stuff didn't even know why, they just didn't want to be in class. My fiancé had to report 2 kids fighting and one saying they were going to get a gun and shoot the other. These were 2 kids that were supposedly protesting guns. Another kid at her school in the protest was pretending to shoot a machine gun at people.
Not that I don't think some are legitimately doing it. I just wonder how many are just having fun skipping?
Is Mr. Burns trying to sell more Nuclear power again?!
My fiancé is a 6th grade math teacher. She has to constantly keep something up letting her know who is connected because students will just disconnect and play games so she can't see if they are doing anything else.
The funnest one though is when one kid was caught looking at anime porn. By another student. And called out in front of the entire class!
Of course our whole education is so screwed up now to make everyone feel special and smart and like they can't fail. Numerous times you can take a test/homework.... you can refuse to take a test/homework but still get to take it... and heck... even if you fail after multiple tries you're likely to just get curved up so you don't fail.
Or at her first school there was the big problem every white teacher had..... Kid breaks something, steals something, skips class, breaks rules, fails for not doing homework/test/project or scores low? Instant complaint of : "(Name of white teacher) was racist to me!"
I seem to recall there being large groups on youtube of people making atheist videos and they talked about "the atheist community" and I always thought it odd that it even existed as a focus and huge time sink. At least religions think they are getting something out of it..... What do you get out of talking about how you are an atheist? (Then again, what do you get out of talking about football, a tv show, etc..... it just seems an odd passtime)
(Yes atheism is a faith.
This just reminds me of that time a few years ago when people wanted to start an "Atheist Church."
My favorite Alexa ability is where she used to randomly laugh in the middle of the night and terrify the owner! Also I seem to recall some story on /. a while back about someone's friend calling them and telling them that Alexa had recorded the owner's family talking, and then sent the recording to them.
I remember back then they were like: "Do it now or lose your chance to upgrade!"
Now it's just: "DO IT NOW"
Um, you do have to realize that the Chinese government are not the good guys. Saying "well, what about NSA spying??" is a whataboutism argument. Yes, the NSA is a spy agency, but that doesn't mean that Chinese spying is something we shouldn't worry about.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/whataboutism-origin-meaning
You say this and I immediately remember seeing, numerous times, /. posters saying they'd rather China have their any of their information than the US. Funny considering how often people get into a rage about something knowing their interests or dislikes.... yet suddenly there's no problem with China having the same and/or more?
but it's much more secure than a PIN that someone could learn by simply looking over your shoulder as you enter it.
Also reminds me of working retail. We got new card readers that had little covers that hid the buttons. We'd have ladies come in to use their debit card go: "WHY WOULD YOU PUT THIS ON HERE IN THE WAY ITS LIKE YOU DON'T WANT ME TO SEE THE NUMBERS WHEN I TYPE THEM IN." Never mind the fact that they were also standing almost on top of the keypad when they did this.... move back 1 foot and GASP, numbers! I told some lady it was so other people couldn't look around her and steal the PIN and her response was: "Why would I care about that?"
Brie Larson has made statements objecting to white men reviewing her movies and making up too much of the press pool, such as saying about A Wrinkle In Time "I don't need a 40-year-old white dude to tell me what didn't work about A Wrinkle in Time. It wasn't made for him!".
That quote was about A Wrinkle in Time? I've barely paid attention to the crazed baby fight over Ms Marvel as all this stuff has been making my roll my eyes painfully hard for a while. I thought someone said she said that about Ms Marvel. And my thoughts on that were: "Did she write the movie? Because unless the director says that as well I don't think that the goal of the movie should be considered "ME HATE MEN"
Hell a ton of people tried to say "NO WATCH BLACK PANTHER WHITE MAN" yet the movie ended with T'Challa saying we should all treat each other as the same tribe. Some people tried to say "WONDER WOMAN FOR GIRL POWER DIE BOYS" yet no one left the movie calling it toxic feminism or whatever. This crap.
I know I've already seen people here talking about how you need to solve stupid, not scooters. But this just reminds me of seeing a girl fall off one of these recently. My fiancé and I were on a walk down a path in the city, and this girl nearby got on one and was trying to vape and ride at the same time. She ended up dropping her vape thing, and slowed down, trying to walk backwards to pick it up or something. Instead she kept one foot on the scooter while apparently still pressing whatever made it go forward.... and she just spins and slams into the ground and got hit by the scooter.
Her vaping thing also broke into a few pieces. Seems almost like a solution rather than a problem!
Sidenote, it's 20fucking19. There's a mountain of technological options available that make sorting our your bill afterwards easier and faster than having the restaurant split the bill in the first place.
This reminds me of when I worked in retail. About 10 years ago I worked at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. You could split paying the register with multiple methods. Want to pay part in cash and the rest on debit? No problem. 10 gift cards, $50 in cash, rest on credit? Sure whatever, wait while I scan all this crap in.
Then 5 years later I hear places saying "We can't take multiple payments, our system isn't able to do that. The system we had at BBB when I first worked there must been 10-15 years old in 2007! These places usually newer seeming systems. (Though I honestly doubt the system was incapable of doing it. More likely the cashier was too stupid to figure out what to do)
I did ctrl f to see if anyone else mentioned this. I think at this point it could be done. Back when the PSP Go came out people relied a lot more on brick and mortar stores. Those stores did not like being taken out of the loop and did as little to support or get the PSP Go out. At this point B&Ms seem to have realized they can't ignore and fight digital.... so they've at least embraced selling cards and codes.
I think at this point it has a lot better chance of working.... Though it might also be a little late in the console's life cycle. Rumors are already going on about the PS5. I imagine MS will announce an Xbox 540/TWO soon as well.
One additional thought is that a lot of games on PS4 and Xbone sold physically often end up drastically going down in price fairly fast. It might be preferable to some people to keep the physical option open. But I still think an all digital console still has more chance now than the PSP Go (Also the PSP never did amazing outside of people loving to pirate on it I felt like)