Which is actually the best answer in this case. No, they are not the future of the internet. No, they will not be forever a second-class citizen. They're a thing, that is useful sometimes, but not all the time, just like just about any other application paradigm/environment. There are times when you want a web app. There are times when you want a regular page. There are times when you want a thick client talking to a server. There are times when you want a thick client that works in offline mode most of the time. There are times when you want a dedicated hardware box running your embedded system.
They all have their place; it drives me crazy when someone says something is "the future", like everything else will be instantly obsolete, because new thing must be shoehorned into *everything*. Why? Because it's "the future".
If you were working for a company that treated you reasonably, why would you *want* to just randomly quit without giving notice? The whole point is if you were working for a company that *didn't* treat you reasonably, and one day you just decided you'd had enough. (Or you'd been looking for work elsewhere, finally found it, and couldn't wait to leave.) I've seen enough companies (happily, only second-hand, not first-hand) that I would run screaming from; places where you're reamed out by your boss for correctly implementing his incorrect specifications, but you're reamed out by your boss if you dare to ask whether his incorrect specifications were incorrect, because they look like they might be. Places where you're expected to get up in the middle of the night if your work phone rings, only to be told that it isn't your problem and go back to sleep, on a regular basis. Places where you feel physically sick due to lack of sleep because you're always working, but you can't complain because so is your boss, and your boss refuses to believe that you aren't overworked, because to him, if you have too much work, it just means you aren't working hard (or long) enough.
If I discovered I was working at a place like that, I would definitely not wait two weeks if I'd managed to find a more sane place that would hire me, burned bridges or not. (Thankfully, I don't work at a place like that at all. I just know people who do.)
They wasted money on that? And got it printed in a journal? *Obviously* people with any device that just *yells* out, "the internet is right here! And all your favorite time-wasting games!", are not going to pay as much attention to lectures, especially lectures that aren't very interesting. I say as someone who totally intended to take notes in all sorts of classes that I ended up playing a lot of Nethack in instead.
Headline should just read: "Goofing off in lecture and not paying as much attention lowers grades." Which, duh.
Seems pretty backassward that people would think it was a good idea to force people who want to play a game to instead do helpful things that were obviously inserted for the purpose of being helpful, rather than the purpose of making the game better.
Why not just let people help directly who want to - and then gamify *that* (only to the extent of adding xp, levels, badges, useless cosmetic rewards, etc, not to the extent of actually trying to convince people that what they're playing *is* a game, because it clearly wouldn't be...)
Most likely never, because both are legitimate definitions of the word "pirate". Language evolves, and I revel in it. Shame on *you* for being such a prescriptivist.
Heh. All you need to do is replace "cruise ship" with "air travel", and that would basically describe RyanAir with hardly any exaggeration or metaphor.:D
I got a refurb Transform Ultra from them for 78 bucks... before the 50 dollar credit they gave me. Which means I *really* got it for 28 bucks. I like telling people that when I say I'm with a little Sprint reseller, and they respond, "yeah, your bill might be cheaper, but they didn't subsidize your phone, right?" I don't think you're going to see any of the big guns in the phone service arena selling you a midrange smartphone for 28 bucks anytime soon. (Yes, it was refurb, but I haven't had any problems with it.)
Did they *say* it was practical? It doesn't sound practical, but it does sound interesting. "Interesting" UIs aren't generally good for day to day office tasks, but in addition to being springboards for other new ideas, they can also lead to more direct innovations in entertainment. For instance: I certainly wouldn't want a file manager based on DDR, but I do enjoy playing DDR, and I couldn't play it without a dance mat. That's a pretty unique interface.
Beat me to it. I would've posted the same thing. Ting is really one of a handful of companies I go out of my way to tell people about, because it is really just that good. I don't work for them or anything, I just like paying 15 dollars a month for my phone plan. (That's only because I don't send that many texts, consume that much data, or talk on it that often. I still do all three enough that I'm not going to go entirely without them, though, so no snark about how I should just not have a phone if I don't use it:p. Regardless, even if you did talk more, it'd still be cheaper than most of the other cheap Sprint resellers unless you were a pretty darn heavy user, and cheaper than Verizon unlimited unless you went *really* crazy with the data.)
I actually have no problem with that - if done right. If the response was "I'll give you free stuff, but only if you remove your review", then yes, that is super sketchy. But a lot of times it's more just "I'm sorry that happened. Would you like to give us another shot on us? It was probably a fluke." And that is exactly what customer service *should* be like. If you go back and it was a fluke, then you change your review, and everyone's happy. If you go back and it happens again, then that company clearly needs to pay their other departments as much as their customer service department, but I'd still rather that than a response of "tough luck, go away."
Want to record SNES gameplay? Too bad, that isn't a thing you can do. Not in the console hardware, anyway. Seems pretty clear that recording gameplay is an addon functionality to a game console, not part of the core functionality. It seems pretty reasonable that you might be asked to pay extra for extra functionality if you wanted it. (As opposed to "play the single-player games you already purchased without needing an internet connection", for instance, which seems like a far more core functionality.)
Of course, nothing stopped you from mounting a video recorder next to your tv to record SNES gameplay, and nothing would presumably be stopping you from doing the same thing now, either.
Californians annoyed to be woken up in the middle of the night and asked to help try to save a 16 year old girl who was about to get killed hundreds of miles away and several hours previously, about which they are quite clearly unable to do anything. Millions of dollars were spent in taxpayers money for this effort.
*What* smaller more nimble ISPs? I haven't seen any of those in like 10 years. They still exist? I'd love to get off Verizon internet, but our only other choice is Charter, which is even frelling worse. Yes, we're barraged with "better" offers every day... from Charter...
I've seen quite a number of CAPTCHAs that were so distorted they were completely impossible to deduce any actual Latin characters out of them at all. (Or the occasional CAPTCHA that actually very clearly had characters that were *not* Latin characters. Those are fun.)
I've found the best way to get rid of spambots without wonky captchas, is to have a free-form textbox field that requires the person trying to create an account to answer a simple question. For smaller sites, it can even be a static question like "what's the answer to this question: 5+6 = ?". For larger sites it can make sense to have a rotating or frequently-updated question about the site itself, something a spammer, even a non-bot spammer, wouldn't know without researching, but that someone who came to the site because they were interested in the subject would.
I would say, that would actually be totally reasonable (assuming they'd still be willing to hire the occasional crazy Hindi-speaking American white dude who just wanted to learn Hindi.) I had a friend who tried to get a job in China at the Chinese branch of the company I work for - he was told he was technically qualified, but they didn't think he spoke Mandarin quite fluently enough yet, not to mention a lot of the programmers mostly spoke Shanghai-ese, which he didn't speak at all. That would indeed present a pretty big language barrier, so they didn't hire him.
Why not just tell people to stop using the internet completely? Unplug their computers from the internet, then they'd be completely safe. And they might as well, too, if they disable javascript, given that basically everything uses it these days...
"You're talking *thousands* of years of continuous, error-free operation required just to reach a different star system, while protecting the incredibly fragile inhabitants inside from radiation, vacuum, starvation, disease, and self-inflicted violence."
Exactly! Which is why you want to start off with smaller beta-type projects with similar, but smaller difficulties. Mars is a great test case. Think of it as practice.
Yes - walking around with an Apple laptop immediately marks you as one of "those people". The sort of person who's willing to blow several hundred extra dollars on a laptop just to be seen as the sort of person who would blow several hundred extra dollars on a laptop to be seen as that sort of person.:p
Granted, if in a couple years when I'm looking for a new laptop again, Apple still makes laptops with 16:10 screens, and nobody else still does, I will certainly keep that in mind. But I do have something against Apple laptops, yes.
Seriously? I grew up there, I still visit a couple times a year, and I haven't found it to be a "crime ridden shithole" anywhere except Beach Flats, and Beach Flats has *always* been a shithole. Kind of ironic that it's so close to the biggest tourist attraction, but you just know never to walk around there. Anywhere else in the city, even downtown, has never felt particularly dangerous to me. I've never actually seen a single drug deal take place, nor been propositioned for one, anywhere in the city (which is definitely *not* true of either downtown SF or LA).
Sure, I can smell people smoking pot if I walk around downtown sometimes, but I really have no problem with people smoking pot, being as how there's no good reason for it to be illegal (given that it's less dangerous than booze, and less harmful than tobacco). I only have a problem with drug *crime*, and that has always seemed to roughly limit itself to the one tiny crappy part of town that everyone else avoids.
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Which is actually the best answer in this case. No, they are not the future of the internet. No, they will not be forever a second-class citizen. They're a thing, that is useful sometimes, but not all the time, just like just about any other application paradigm/environment. There are times when you want a web app. There are times when you want a regular page. There are times when you want a thick client talking to a server. There are times when you want a thick client that works in offline mode most of the time. There are times when you want a dedicated hardware box running your embedded system.
They all have their place; it drives me crazy when someone says something is "the future", like everything else will be instantly obsolete, because new thing must be shoehorned into *everything*. Why? Because it's "the future".
He's addicted specifically to *drunk* hookers? That's a remarkably specific addiction.
If you were working for a company that treated you reasonably, why would you *want* to just randomly quit without giving notice? The whole point is if you were working for a company that *didn't* treat you reasonably, and one day you just decided you'd had enough. (Or you'd been looking for work elsewhere, finally found it, and couldn't wait to leave.) I've seen enough companies (happily, only second-hand, not first-hand) that I would run screaming from; places where you're reamed out by your boss for correctly implementing his incorrect specifications, but you're reamed out by your boss if you dare to ask whether his incorrect specifications were incorrect, because they look like they might be. Places where you're expected to get up in the middle of the night if your work phone rings, only to be told that it isn't your problem and go back to sleep, on a regular basis. Places where you feel physically sick due to lack of sleep because you're always working, but you can't complain because so is your boss, and your boss refuses to believe that you aren't overworked, because to him, if you have too much work, it just means you aren't working hard (or long) enough.
If I discovered I was working at a place like that, I would definitely not wait two weeks if I'd managed to find a more sane place that would hire me, burned bridges or not. (Thankfully, I don't work at a place like that at all. I just know people who do.)
They wasted money on that? And got it printed in a journal? *Obviously* people with any device that just *yells* out, "the internet is right here! And all your favorite time-wasting games!", are not going to pay as much attention to lectures, especially lectures that aren't very interesting. I say as someone who totally intended to take notes in all sorts of classes that I ended up playing a lot of Nethack in instead.
Headline should just read: "Goofing off in lecture and not paying as much attention lowers grades." Which, duh.
Seems pretty backassward that people would think it was a good idea to force people who want to play a game to instead do helpful things that were obviously inserted for the purpose of being helpful, rather than the purpose of making the game better.
Why not just let people help directly who want to - and then gamify *that* (only to the extent of adding xp, levels, badges, useless cosmetic rewards, etc, not to the extent of actually trying to convince people that what they're playing *is* a game, because it clearly wouldn't be...)
Most likely never, because both are legitimate definitions of the word "pirate". Language evolves, and I revel in it. Shame on *you* for being such a prescriptivist.
Heh. All you need to do is replace "cruise ship" with "air travel", and that would basically describe RyanAir with hardly any exaggeration or metaphor. :D
I got a refurb Transform Ultra from them for 78 bucks... before the 50 dollar credit they gave me. Which means I *really* got it for 28 bucks. I like telling people that when I say I'm with a little Sprint reseller, and they respond, "yeah, your bill might be cheaper, but they didn't subsidize your phone, right?" I don't think you're going to see any of the big guns in the phone service arena selling you a midrange smartphone for 28 bucks anytime soon. (Yes, it was refurb, but I haven't had any problems with it.)
Did they *say* it was practical? It doesn't sound practical, but it does sound interesting. "Interesting" UIs aren't generally good for day to day office tasks, but in addition to being springboards for other new ideas, they can also lead to more direct innovations in entertainment. For instance: I certainly wouldn't want a file manager based on DDR, but I do enjoy playing DDR, and I couldn't play it without a dance mat. That's a pretty unique interface.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence
Who or what is "Bad Connections Dog"? Is that like the Bad Idea Bears?
Beat me to it. I would've posted the same thing. Ting is really one of a handful of companies I go out of my way to tell people about, because it is really just that good. I don't work for them or anything, I just like paying 15 dollars a month for my phone plan. (That's only because I don't send that many texts, consume that much data, or talk on it that often. I still do all three enough that I'm not going to go entirely without them, though, so no snark about how I should just not have a phone if I don't use it :p. Regardless, even if you did talk more, it'd still be cheaper than most of the other cheap Sprint resellers unless you were a pretty darn heavy user, and cheaper than Verizon unlimited unless you went *really* crazy with the data.)
According to Betteridge's Law of Headlines, this is a question, so the answer is "no". I'm not sure how well that works, though...
(Though my favorite unexpected use of that "law" was a thread a few months back titled something like "Will your computer run Crysis 3?")
I actually have no problem with that - if done right. If the response was "I'll give you free stuff, but only if you remove your review", then yes, that is super sketchy. But a lot of times it's more just "I'm sorry that happened. Would you like to give us another shot on us? It was probably a fluke." And that is exactly what customer service *should* be like. If you go back and it was a fluke, then you change your review, and everyone's happy. If you go back and it happens again, then that company clearly needs to pay their other departments as much as their customer service department, but I'd still rather that than a response of "tough luck, go away."
is the best slashdot thread we've seen all week! I love it!
Want to record SNES gameplay? Too bad, that isn't a thing you can do. Not in the console hardware, anyway. Seems pretty clear that recording gameplay is an addon functionality to a game console, not part of the core functionality. It seems pretty reasonable that you might be asked to pay extra for extra functionality if you wanted it. (As opposed to "play the single-player games you already purchased without needing an internet connection", for instance, which seems like a far more core functionality.)
Of course, nothing stopped you from mounting a video recorder next to your tv to record SNES gameplay, and nothing would presumably be stopping you from doing the same thing now, either.
You always liked your coffee like you like your women â" dark, bitter, and they make you all twitchy and irritable and agitated.
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Californians annoyed to be woken up in the middle of the night and asked to help try to save a 16 year old girl who was about to get killed hundreds of miles away and several hours previously, about which they are quite clearly unable to do anything. Millions of dollars were spent in taxpayers money for this effort.
*What* smaller more nimble ISPs? I haven't seen any of those in like 10 years. They still exist? I'd love to get off Verizon internet, but our only other choice is Charter, which is even frelling worse. Yes, we're barraged with "better" offers every day... from Charter...
I've seen quite a number of CAPTCHAs that were so distorted they were completely impossible to deduce any actual Latin characters out of them at all. (Or the occasional CAPTCHA that actually very clearly had characters that were *not* Latin characters. Those are fun.)
I've found the best way to get rid of spambots without wonky captchas, is to have a free-form textbox field that requires the person trying to create an account to answer a simple question. For smaller sites, it can even be a static question like "what's the answer to this question: 5+6 = ?". For larger sites it can make sense to have a rotating or frequently-updated question about the site itself, something a spammer, even a non-bot spammer, wouldn't know without researching, but that someone who came to the site because they were interested in the subject would.
I would say, that would actually be totally reasonable (assuming they'd still be willing to hire the occasional crazy Hindi-speaking American white dude who just wanted to learn Hindi.) I had a friend who tried to get a job in China at the Chinese branch of the company I work for - he was told he was technically qualified, but they didn't think he spoke Mandarin quite fluently enough yet, not to mention a lot of the programmers mostly spoke Shanghai-ese, which he didn't speak at all. That would indeed present a pretty big language barrier, so they didn't hire him.
Why not just tell people to stop using the internet completely? Unplug their computers from the internet, then they'd be completely safe. And they might as well, too, if they disable javascript, given that basically everything uses it these days...
"You're talking *thousands* of years of continuous, error-free operation required just to reach a different star system, while protecting the incredibly fragile inhabitants inside from radiation, vacuum, starvation, disease, and self-inflicted violence."
Exactly! Which is why you want to start off with smaller beta-type projects with similar, but smaller difficulties. Mars is a great test case. Think of it as practice.
Yes - walking around with an Apple laptop immediately marks you as one of "those people". The sort of person who's willing to blow several hundred extra dollars on a laptop just to be seen as the sort of person who would blow several hundred extra dollars on a laptop to be seen as that sort of person. :p
Granted, if in a couple years when I'm looking for a new laptop again, Apple still makes laptops with 16:10 screens, and nobody else still does, I will certainly keep that in mind. But I do have something against Apple laptops, yes.
Seriously? I grew up there, I still visit a couple times a year, and I haven't found it to be a "crime ridden shithole" anywhere except Beach Flats, and Beach Flats has *always* been a shithole. Kind of ironic that it's so close to the biggest tourist attraction, but you just know never to walk around there. Anywhere else in the city, even downtown, has never felt particularly dangerous to me. I've never actually seen a single drug deal take place, nor been propositioned for one, anywhere in the city (which is definitely *not* true of either downtown SF or LA).
Sure, I can smell people smoking pot if I walk around downtown sometimes, but I really have no problem with people smoking pot, being as how there's no good reason for it to be illegal (given that it's less dangerous than booze, and less harmful than tobacco). I only have a problem with drug *crime*, and that has always seemed to roughly limit itself to the one tiny crappy part of town that everyone else avoids.
Ok, fine, you win, those do appear to be 16:10. Now... find me one that isn't an Apple. (Even if it's expensive.)