In a set of stories I'm writing, there's an effective speed limit of 0.1c. You can go faster than that, but then you risk sand-grain-sized particles getting through your shields. It may be a bit hand-wavey, but it keeps in-system speeds down to where it actually takes a few hours to get from one place to another. Plus, it's slow enough that you can pretty much ignore relativity which makes my brain hurt.
You are being yelled at to make money for your network, and you have two options on how to do it. You can pay a half dozen juggalos (or "real" housewives") a couple million dollars a year to act like idiots and make hundreds of millions profit. Or, you can spend hundreds of millions on a high-tech sci-fi scripted TV show that doesn't even break even.
If you don't make money for the network. You get fired.
The GP didn't say what app it was, but one of the joys of Android is that you don't need to use their store to buy apps. The app in question could be available as a download from their website.
You have to sign up with some service to pay them, but you're not forced to use Google unless the author doesn't offer it.
Back in the day, I had apache running on my main computer, so I wrote a little script to serve up images whenever it was viewed. It was a little more complicated, but think of a web "page" that is just a single tag.
I then directed all ad traffic to 127.0.0.1 and suddenly all the ad-infested websites had pictures from my art folder instead.
I have no problem with a game like this if the makers of the game were up front about it. I'd probably even play. Sounds fun. See new areas, get out in the world, get some sun and exercise, and get some cool pictures and points to boot. All the while, you're helping someone make 3-d models of real world things. Seems like a win all around.
But you secretly snap pictures with my phone and upload them to a server? No way. No fucking way.
Minecraft has (at least) 2 things going against it. First, it's hard to optimize because every cubic meter can be any of... a lot of blocks (128? 256? dunno). Plus, the world is 256 blocks tall. If you want to render a square around the player that is 256 meters from the player (which is pretty small) you need 512x512x256 data points which is 67 million blocks. You can do a LITTLE optimizing (Most of the space above 128 is empty, for example) but as players modify the world those optimizations could actually end up hurting.
So what you're saying is, if you need a smart phone, you shouldn't need a smart phone?
FTR I don't need my smart phone, but it sure is nice.
I lost a phone once. It was expensive but not all that smart. The person who found it accessed it to find my parents' phone number and call them to tell them where the phone was. I guess I won that coin toss of a chance.
I've also tried it. In fact, I'm in the middle of trying it for years, now. Not only does the schedule not bother me, I prefer it.
I have the benefit of only working 4 (10-hour) days, and I actually flip-flop my schedule naturally twice a week (So I'm a awake and active during a decent part of the day), plus I tend to only sleep 5-6 hours (without an alarm) so maybe I'm an outlier, but to suggest that this schedule that I've settled on quite well goes against some 'design' makes me chuckle.
Am I the only one who read the headline 3 times trying to figure out why the guy who made a movie over 2 decades ago has a valid opinion on smart phones?
/never heard of the game, or the developer. //I'm sure his stuff's good, I'm just out of the loop.
Could be because we use "ordinary" matter to study the phenomena?
Short answer: No.
Whether or not we are Matter or Antimatter (in which case we'd call that matter, but that's another... ahem... matter altogether) doesn't change the fact that there is a lot more of one of the two types around. Something caused that. What we don't (or do we, now?) know is WHY.
Then you are in the minority. I've been told by other Slashdot users that most people who aren't geeks appear to see a "computer" as something for a desk, or at least something not to be moved back and forth between the desk and the TV a couple times a day.
Move back and forth?
I have a computer plugged into my TV. It cost me less than 3 months of cable service, and streams Netflix (which I pay for) Hulu (which I don't. Yay Hulu Desktop), and anything else I could reasonably want without a keyboard. It also plays DVDs, locally stored videos, music via any program I want (I wrote my own, actually, to better integrate with the remote in the way I wanted).
It's only a computer in name. In function, it's a (very large) set-top box that doesn't sit on top of my set.
I will buy the first box to come out that has Hulu (not plus. Just Hulu) and SMB, plus all the other stuff that all these boxes already have.
While I'm not surprised saying people who say that he is/wants to be, I'm hugely bothered by all the liberals who are upset that he's not.
I fail to see what that has to do with what you quoted. The person above you did not voice an opinion, he stated a fact. Nowhere did he say what he wanted nor did he imply it.
Google could have lied. They could have sent a page of lawyerese that looked OK on the surface but actually said that they weren't complying. But they didn't. They provided you with a service (whatever wouldn't have worked) and openly stated while doing so that complying with the policy was idiotic.
They had at least 2 chances to be evil and failed to be both times.
Better add a red "Reserved" light in front of each spot. When lit, only the person who reserved the spot is allowed to park there until the allowed time for them to reach the reserved spot expires -- by way of the parking meter refusing to accept payment except by the party holding the reservation, and an automatic parking ticket being issued to the violator.
And a $1 (or so) charge for reserving a spot and then not parking there, or some douche will walk around the city reserving spots on his smart phone.
I don't know. I think nobody expected it to take 50 years to get back (assuming Newt can do it, which even if elected he can't/won't) or more (see previous parenthetical)
I think I fall into the realm you find so laughable. Here are my two feelings. They do not conflict in my mind.
1) You should, legally, be able to do it. 2) It's not technically feasible without DRM so I'd never do it.
Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's smart. It's legal to dance the Macarena. I feel fairly strongly that it should remain legal. However, I have no plans to ever do it.
Maybe these "schools" who offered "classes" in App Inventor should first have someone on hand who knows enough about computers to get the service up and running.
And maybe, just MAYBE they should have had that all set up already, considering they're (presumably) charging money for the class.
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WTMFingF?
What's with you always putting 'WFT' instead of 'WTF'?
Instead of assuming you and everybody from your country are idiots, I'll instead assume it was a typo.
In a set of stories I'm writing, there's an effective speed limit of 0.1c. You can go faster than that, but then you risk sand-grain-sized particles getting through your shields. It may be a bit hand-wavey, but it keeps in-system speeds down to where it actually takes a few hours to get from one place to another. Plus, it's slow enough that you can pretty much ignore relativity which makes my brain hurt.
Or as we call it in the midwestern US, "February."
Except this year. I went disc golfing yesterday and almost got sunburned.
I don't wonder at all.
You are being yelled at to make money for your network, and you have two options on how to do it. You can pay a half dozen juggalos (or "real" housewives") a couple million dollars a year to act like idiots and make hundreds of millions profit. Or, you can spend hundreds of millions on a high-tech sci-fi scripted TV show that doesn't even break even.
If you don't make money for the network. You get fired.
What do you do?
The GP didn't say what app it was, but one of the joys of Android is that you don't need to use their store to buy apps. The app in question could be available as a download from their website.
You have to sign up with some service to pay them, but you're not forced to use Google unless the author doesn't offer it.
Back in the day, I had apache running on my main computer, so I wrote a little script to serve up images whenever it was viewed. It was a little more complicated, but think of a web "page" that is just a single tag.
I then directed all ad traffic to 127.0.0.1 and suddenly all the ad-infested websites had pictures from my art folder instead.
It wasn't worth the effort, but it made me smile.
I have no problem with a game like this if the makers of the game were up front about it. I'd probably even play. Sounds fun. See new areas, get out in the world, get some sun and exercise, and get some cool pictures and points to boot. All the while, you're helping someone make 3-d models of real world things. Seems like a win all around.
But you secretly snap pictures with my phone and upload them to a server? No way. No fucking way.
are you suggesting we all have a right to grab someone's phone and destroy it because they annoy us?
In general? No.
For paparazzi?
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Damnit. No there too.
You win this time!
Sounds pretty innovative to me!
Minecraft has (at least) 2 things going against it. First, it's hard to optimize because every cubic meter can be any of ... a lot of blocks (128? 256? dunno). Plus, the world is 256 blocks tall. If you want to render a square around the player that is 256 meters from the player (which is pretty small) you need 512x512x256 data points which is 67 million blocks. You can do a LITTLE optimizing (Most of the space above 128 is empty, for example) but as players modify the world those optimizations could actually end up hurting.
Secondly, it's written in Java. Nuff said.
So what you're saying is, if you need a smart phone, you shouldn't need a smart phone?
FTR I don't need my smart phone, but it sure is nice.
I lost a phone once. It was expensive but not all that smart. The person who found it accessed it to find my parents' phone number and call them to tell them where the phone was. I guess I won that coin toss of a chance.
I've also tried it. In fact, I'm in the middle of trying it for years, now. Not only does the schedule not bother me, I prefer it.
I have the benefit of only working 4 (10-hour) days, and I actually flip-flop my schedule naturally twice a week (So I'm a awake and active during a decent part of the day), plus I tend to only sleep 5-6 hours (without an alarm) so maybe I'm an outlier, but to suggest that this schedule that I've settled on quite well goes against some 'design' makes me chuckle.
I should really check my memory with Google before I post.
/18 is over 20, right?
Am I the only one who read the headline 3 times trying to figure out why the guy who made a movie over 2 decades ago has a valid opinion on smart phones?
/never heard of the game, or the developer.
//I'm sure his stuff's good, I'm just out of the loop.
Could be because we use "ordinary" matter to study the phenomena?
Short answer: No.
Whether or not we are Matter or Antimatter (in which case we'd call that matter, but that's another... ahem... matter altogether) doesn't change the fact that there is a lot more of one of the two types around. Something caused that. What we don't (or do we, now?) know is WHY.
Then you are in the minority. I've been told by other Slashdot users that most people who aren't geeks appear to see a "computer" as something for a desk, or at least something not to be moved back and forth between the desk and the TV a couple times a day.
Move back and forth?
I have a computer plugged into my TV. It cost me less than 3 months of cable service, and streams Netflix (which I pay for) Hulu (which I don't. Yay Hulu Desktop), and anything else I could reasonably want without a keyboard. It also plays DVDs, locally stored videos, music via any program I want (I wrote my own, actually, to better integrate with the remote in the way I wanted).
It's only a computer in name. In function, it's a (very large) set-top box that doesn't sit on top of my set.
I will buy the first box to come out that has Hulu (not plus. Just Hulu) and SMB, plus all the other stuff that all these boxes already have.
Obama is president, not king.
While I'm not surprised saying people who say that he is/wants to be, I'm hugely bothered by all the liberals who are upset that he's not.
I fail to see what that has to do with what you quoted. The person above you did not voice an opinion, he stated a fact. Nowhere did he say what he wanted nor did he imply it.
Google could have lied. They could have sent a page of lawyerese that looked OK on the surface but actually said that they weren't complying. But they didn't. They provided you with a service (whatever wouldn't have worked) and openly stated while doing so that complying with the policy was idiotic.
They had at least 2 chances to be evil and failed to be both times.
Where are my mod points, damnit!?
This is the FIRST thing I thought of.
Name one innocent person who has ACTUALLY been extradited by the US on BS chages for copyright violations.
Define "Innocent"
Because one could argue that the VLC guys are not innocent, and are therefore are deserving of extradition.
Better add a red "Reserved" light in front of each spot.
When lit, only the person who reserved the spot is allowed to park there until the allowed time for them to reach the reserved spot expires -- by way of the parking meter refusing to accept payment except by the party holding the reservation, and an automatic parking ticket being issued to the violator.
And a $1 (or so) charge for reserving a spot and then not parking there, or some douche will walk around the city reserving spots on his smart phone.
I don't know. I think nobody expected it to take 50 years to get back (assuming Newt can do it, which even if elected he can't/won't) or more (see previous parenthetical)
And that thought amuses me in a sad kind of way.
Many flight attendants make you turn off MP3 players too, thinking they somehow magically emanate plane-crashing radio waves.
I think I fall into the realm you find so laughable. Here are my two feelings. They do not conflict in my mind.
1) You should, legally, be able to do it.
2) It's not technically feasible without DRM so I'd never do it.
Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's smart. It's legal to dance the Macarena. I feel fairly strongly that it should remain legal. However, I have no plans to ever do it.
Maybe these "schools" who offered "classes" in App Inventor should first have someone on hand who knows enough about computers to get the service up and running.
And maybe, just MAYBE they should have had that all set up already, considering they're (presumably) charging money for the class.
What's next classes on Minecraft? Oh wait...