I mean, I'm not sure I'd ever have any reason to care personally about a laptop screen better than 1920x1200... but on the other hand, I can't actually *buy* a laptop screen with 1920x1200, so no, we clearly aren't, until I can (again).
This is actually *not* a slashvertisement - it's a thing that tons of people actually do care about, whether or not you're one of them. Until the announcement yesterday, I was under the impression that TOR was the *only* nonsucky replacement for greader. Now I know inoreader is also very similar, so if TOR dies I'll just migrate myself over there, but it's still pretty big news: TOR was one of the biggest names in the immediate-post-greader era, when a lot of people were looking for a greader replacement, and TOR was the one that most closely fit the UI that people who liked greader (like myself) were accustomed to.
There's always a free alternative, but sometimes all the free alternatives blow royal chunks. I'm happy giving money to a solution that's particularly good when no just-as-good free alternatives exist. Heck, sometimes if a solution is particularly good and I care about it particularly, I'm happy to give some money even if a free solution *does* exist that's just as good, solely to support them so they keep being as awesome as they are, and don't go like TOR might. In the thread about it on their blog, you see a lot of people saying that: "are you crazy? We've been wanting to give you money this whole time. Let us give you money!"
That's basically all I need, yeah. You can already tell whether a neighborhood sucks simply by looking at it in google streetview and determining the ratio of windows with metal grills to windows that don't have them.
That said, I don't think google's image recognition is quite capable of performing that calculation by itself, so you can only perform that judgement one neighborhood at a time. If this works, it would be pretty neat.
It's really not. It's a super pretty language. And if you did ever have to leave, the migration path to Java seems pretty easy, just depressing, because Java is like C# only with all the pretty replaced with ugly.
(Though if you're doing anything web-related, it's not *really* just the Microsoft stack anyway. The backend might be Microsoft stack, but the UI still generally hits tons of Javascript. You're probably going to use tons of Javascript in any web site regardless of backend.)
No they don't. (Rather, 16:10 makes good sense, I'm happy with my 16:10 laptop screen, though I might not be as happy if it were 13 inch rather than 17. In either case, cutting off even more vertical space than that, though, doesn't really make sense from a usability standpoint. From a "spend less money because people have no choice but to buy it anyway" perspective it does, but screw them. That's the same reason our home internet connections all suck royal balls.)
Indeed. Given that we're already paying too much for our current internet, it's not like we'd all jump on the "pay twice as much for faster service" wagon, so that's a good point - we all pay for whatever crap service they deign to give us anyway, so why should they spend billions of dollars giving us better service, for no reason? It's not like we could choose someone else; there isn't anyone else.
It's about 20 times after than my current connection at 50 dollars a month, too (which, granted, also comes with a phone landline we didn't want, and aren't allowed to not pay for). Small town not required: I live in LA county, in one of the top 50 most populous cities in the US (though really, LA county is just one giant city anyway, certainly as far as laying cables would go.)
I'd never really followed other similar news aggregators before, but I've been following Consumerist for a few months, and indeed, that blog tends to post interesting news a couple days before it ends up here. In fact, it just posted a followup story, that apparently when paypal heard that upon seeing the windfall, even though he the guy knew it wasn't real, he felt compelled to donate 30 dollars to a local charity, paypal offered the guy the chance to donate an unspecified but supposedly substantial amount to the charity of his choice as compensation for the mistake.
At least if you don't know that "Linaro Connect Europe" is the name of an event, which I'd guess most of us don't. I was curious what Linaro was, and how 70 videos of it had apparently connected Europe. (Isn't most of Europe already pretty connected? At least if you include the Chunnel...)
If I incorporated, and then had my "company" start spewing out DMCA notices algorithmically to every site that responded to a curl? "Does a.com exist? No. Does b.com exist? No... Does aa.com exist? Yes? Ok, they have infringing content, take them down please. Does ab.com exist?"
Shush. You know what I mean. (Though I have watched some of old-actually-season-1. I thought it was extremely dull. I haven't gotten around to watching any of the *later* old-DW, though.)
Or just, 'Matt Smith Warns Against Face Book'. We know who Matt Smith is. I stopped watching Doctor Who after all of season 5 blew huge balls, and the first handful of episodes of season 6 (except, partially, the one written by Neil Gaiman) were even worse. Still, given they've in the past mercilessly made fun of stuff like people relying on their GPS, I would not have been at all surprised if Current Doctor Who had indeed warned against Facebook, which could have been amusing. But why should I care about the opinions of a random actor?
When you write it like that... all I can think is, "the first piece sank into the sea. The second piece burned down, fell over, *then* sank into the sea." (If only it had broken into four pieces, it would've worked better. Especially if the fourth piece had made it to shore.)
I certainly don't agree with any of his opinions on politics, philosophy or morality. I do, however, agree that one can love an author's work even while hating what else the author stands for. If Hitler himself had written Ender's Game, it would not have made the book any less good. I'm not going to boycott the movie solely because it was based on a book written by an increasingly disgustingly crazy person. (Though I no longer buy his *new* books without checking the reviews, as he has, in fact, gotten increasingly crazy.)
Nice troll. Ok, yes, most girls suck. Most guys suck too. If every girl you've ever met was a vapid celebrity worshiper, an "obsessed harpy", you should probably look elsewhere. Or don't, I mean, I don't care at all whether you do or not; in fact, women would probably be happier if you didn't. But there *are* enough females out there who don't suck, if you look in the right places (and by that, I mean "the internet". Because that's where most of them hang out, which makes sense, since it's the same place the rest of us are hanging out.)
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Maybe you just like using your own soap? Or you want to give them as gifts? Or it's just a hobby?
Why do people compile their own programs?
I just did, and I'll tell everyone in a forum I frequent to do that later today. :D
I mean, I'm not sure I'd ever have any reason to care personally about a laptop screen better than 1920x1200... but on the other hand, I can't actually *buy* a laptop screen with 1920x1200, so no, we clearly aren't, until I can (again).
Yep, that is exactly how I read it at first, too. Glad I wasn't the only one.
This is actually *not* a slashvertisement - it's a thing that tons of people actually do care about, whether or not you're one of them. Until the announcement yesterday, I was under the impression that TOR was the *only* nonsucky replacement for greader. Now I know inoreader is also very similar, so if TOR dies I'll just migrate myself over there, but it's still pretty big news: TOR was one of the biggest names in the immediate-post-greader era, when a lot of people were looking for a greader replacement, and TOR was the one that most closely fit the UI that people who liked greader (like myself) were accustomed to.
There's always a free alternative, but sometimes all the free alternatives blow royal chunks. I'm happy giving money to a solution that's particularly good when no just-as-good free alternatives exist. Heck, sometimes if a solution is particularly good and I care about it particularly, I'm happy to give some money even if a free solution *does* exist that's just as good, solely to support them so they keep being as awesome as they are, and don't go like TOR might. In the thread about it on their blog, you see a lot of people saying that: "are you crazy? We've been wanting to give you money this whole time. Let us give you money!"
That's basically all I need, yeah. You can already tell whether a neighborhood sucks simply by looking at it in google streetview and determining the ratio of windows with metal grills to windows that don't have them.
That said, I don't think google's image recognition is quite capable of performing that calculation by itself, so you can only perform that judgement one neighborhood at a time. If this works, it would be pretty neat.
It's really not. It's a super pretty language. And if you did ever have to leave, the migration path to Java seems pretty easy, just depressing, because Java is like C# only with all the pretty replaced with ugly.
(Though if you're doing anything web-related, it's not *really* just the Microsoft stack anyway. The backend might be Microsoft stack, but the UI still generally hits tons of Javascript. You're probably going to use tons of Javascript in any web site regardless of backend.)
No they don't. (Rather, 16:10 makes good sense, I'm happy with my 16:10 laptop screen, though I might not be as happy if it were 13 inch rather than 17. In either case, cutting off even more vertical space than that, though, doesn't really make sense from a usability standpoint. From a "spend less money because people have no choice but to buy it anyway" perspective it does, but screw them. That's the same reason our home internet connections all suck royal balls.)
Indeed. Given that we're already paying too much for our current internet, it's not like we'd all jump on the "pay twice as much for faster service" wagon, so that's a good point - we all pay for whatever crap service they deign to give us anyway, so why should they spend billions of dollars giving us better service, for no reason? It's not like we could choose someone else; there isn't anyone else.
Yay for monopolies!
I disagree. I'd say it's pretty clear that Hollywood is very successful at quite a lot of meth. :p
Watch Alphas, and you can too!
"You have bad breath. Yeah, Cindy Wellin, she said she'd rather lick a toilet seat than kiss you. It got 47 retweets."
It's about 20 times after than my current connection at 50 dollars a month, too (which, granted, also comes with a phone landline we didn't want, and aren't allowed to not pay for). Small town not required: I live in LA county, in one of the top 50 most populous cities in the US (though really, LA county is just one giant city anyway, certainly as far as laying cables would go.)
And that person would be marked as a terrorist and would go to jail for life, I bet you. So probably never, because they would know it too.
I'd never really followed other similar news aggregators before, but I've been following Consumerist for a few months, and indeed, that blog tends to post interesting news a couple days before it ends up here. In fact, it just posted a followup story, that apparently when paypal heard that upon seeing the windfall, even though he the guy knew it wasn't real, he felt compelled to donate 30 dollars to a local charity, paypal offered the guy the chance to donate an unspecified but supposedly substantial amount to the charity of his choice as compensation for the mistake.
At least if you don't know that "Linaro Connect Europe" is the name of an event, which I'd guess most of us don't. I was curious what Linaro was, and how 70 videos of it had apparently connected Europe. (Isn't most of Europe already pretty connected? At least if you include the Chunnel...)
If I incorporated, and then had my "company" start spewing out DMCA notices algorithmically to every site that responded to a curl? "Does a.com exist? No. Does b.com exist? No... Does aa.com exist? Yes? Ok, they have infringing content, take them down please. Does ab.com exist?"
Shush. You know what I mean. (Though I have watched some of old-actually-season-1. I thought it was extremely dull. I haven't gotten around to watching any of the *later* old-DW, though.)
Or just, 'Matt Smith Warns Against Face Book'. We know who Matt Smith is.
I stopped watching Doctor Who after all of season 5 blew huge balls, and the first handful of episodes of season 6 (except, partially, the one written by Neil Gaiman) were even worse. Still, given they've in the past mercilessly made fun of stuff like people relying on their GPS, I would not have been at all surprised if Current Doctor Who had indeed warned against Facebook, which could have been amusing. But why should I care about the opinions of a random actor?
When you write it like that... all I can think is, "the first piece sank into the sea. The second piece burned down, fell over, *then* sank into the sea." (If only it had broken into four pieces, it would've worked better. Especially if the fourth piece had made it to shore.)
Quoth: "As hollywood used to say, 'If you don't like it you know where the knob is'."
Presumably that was half of the statement, and the second half was, "and you're looking at him"?
I certainly don't agree with any of his opinions on politics, philosophy or morality. I do, however, agree that one can love an author's work even while hating what else the author stands for. If Hitler himself had written Ender's Game, it would not have made the book any less good. I'm not going to boycott the movie solely because it was based on a book written by an increasingly disgustingly crazy person. (Though I no longer buy his *new* books without checking the reviews, as he has, in fact, gotten increasingly crazy.)
Aladdin and Lion King were both pretty respectable games (both for SNES). Granted, they weren't DuckTales, but they were still pretty decent.
I think you mean kill them. Killing everyone would stop all crime. *Tons* of crime happens inside jails.
Nice troll. Ok, yes, most girls suck. Most guys suck too. If every girl you've ever met was a vapid celebrity worshiper, an "obsessed harpy", you should probably look elsewhere. Or don't, I mean, I don't care at all whether you do or not; in fact, women would probably be happier if you didn't. But there *are* enough females out there who don't suck, if you look in the right places (and by that, I mean "the internet". Because that's where most of them hang out, which makes sense, since it's the same place the rest of us are hanging out.)