. plus this has cost them what remained of their positive image amongst the rest of the tech community.
I only wish that were true. Unless you're limiting to the "community" to "Other Tech Companies" and not "Tech users who make buying decisions," there's far too much evidence to the contrary.
Even throughout this entire clusterfuck there have been no shortage of members of the tech community stroking Apple thoroughly.
Voice wreckignition is bad enough when trying to dictate a letter
People use it to dictate a letter? I can't even get it to dial my fucking phone right (and the geniuses at google took out the confirmation prompt, too)
El Al's security apparatus (behavioral profiling, interviews, luggage depressurization, and tarmac security, off the top of my head) have been said to be infeasible due to scalability in a country of over 300 million. However, I haven't seen an data to back up this claim, nor have I done the math.
Oh, the math is easy.
Doing it THAT way would require them to actually train (as opposed to simply recognizing the threat color scheme) and pay skilled-worker wages, as opposed to giving a badge to -- well, to what we have now (See? I was nice)
OT, I know, but I got that email, too. It didn't seem to have anything about GETTING the alpha. Is that still forthcoming or did my browser block something?
This exactly what Runic Games (Torchlight/Torchlight II) did, and it got them a lot of good will and a lively and loyal, if small, community around them.
Supposedly, Bethesda claimed to have done the same thing. Having tried to use the Skyrim mod tool, though, I can't imagine that the devs used it day after day and haven't strung someone up by their toenails in the breakroom yet...
Wow, you are a genius. That's a nice response... if you're 15 and haven't developed the situational awareness to realize that ethics and legality are completely orthogonal concepts.
In regard to the advertisements themselves, I don't mind small text ads that DON'T track my browsing habits. They're easy to ignore that way. In practice, I block everything.
Pretty much this. I don't even mind small graphics, if they're hosted locally (on the website, not on 127.0.0.1). But no, that's not good enough for the advertising pricks. They want to build "behavior profiles" with web bugs, javascript trackers, and all sorts of other nasty little tricks.
Now they can profile me turning on Adblock, Noscript, and Ghostery.
For that matter, I can't remember the last time I've seen a docking station, either, and desktops don't tend to have docking stations.
Hell, even if they did, where the hell are you going to get a serial terminal these days? That's the problem. I don't know where GDB comes into play on a machine that's failing to even boot...
I'll have to look. I have some Supermicros waiting for provisioning at work, but I don't remember seeing serial ports. Admittedly, I wasn't looking for them, either.
Considering that I haven't seen new hardware in the home or "prosumer" level (and only "occasionally" at the server level) with a serial port for years, I think that's a pretty poor assumption for them to make.
I'm not so sure it's irrelevant. Usage-based billing removes a lot of the incentive to have a non-neutral net. (Of course, that is why the very parties we need to adopt it, won't adopt it.)
I disagree. The biggest incentive we have for a non-neutral net is that the biggest ISPs are also content providers. Which means that you WILL get double-dipping on their part, even your own Comcast example.
forcing hospitals to treat people who are too irresponsible to get insurance is a moral hazard and raises the cost for everyone else.
I was going to mod you down, but I decided, instead to point out WHY you're a fucking idiot. As of today, Aug 21, 2012, health insurance companies can and do refuse coverage to anyone that they deem "not sufficiently profitable." To refer to those unprofitable people with the blanket statement of "irresponsible" is pretty irresponsible in itself.
And to say that they should die when hit by a bus because they weren't good for Aetna's bottom-line makes you an evil corporatist fuck.
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If you truly innovate, it's worth spending that amount of money to protect your design.
Translation: If you don't have that amount of money before you even get started, don't bother. "Innovation" is for the big boys.
Congratulations. You just proved GPs point.
. plus this has cost them what remained of their positive image amongst the rest of the tech community.
I only wish that were true. Unless you're limiting to the "community" to "Other Tech Companies" and not "Tech users who make buying decisions," there's far too much evidence to the contrary.
Even throughout this entire clusterfuck there have been no shortage of members of the tech community stroking Apple thoroughly.
Explaining can be misunderstood, boring and confusing.
So can "experiencing," and moreso.
Don't you mean a broken clo-- ohhhhh.
I see what you did there. ;)
I may be mistaken, but I think they mean "Frames per Second."
Or did the AC just "whoosh" my ass?
I believe his site, Lost Levels (lostlevels.org) in fact offers the ROM for download for preservation purposes.
There's a link, but it's a dead-end redirect =\
Voice wreckignition is bad enough when trying to dictate a letter
People use it to dictate a letter? I can't even get it to dial my fucking phone right (and the geniuses at google took out the confirmation prompt, too)
El Al's security apparatus (behavioral profiling, interviews, luggage depressurization, and tarmac security, off the top of my head) have been said to be infeasible due to scalability in a country of over 300 million. However, I haven't seen an data to back up this claim, nor have I done the math.
Oh, the math is easy.
Doing it THAT way would require them to actually train (as opposed to simply recognizing the threat color scheme) and pay skilled-worker wages, as opposed to giving a badge to -- well, to what we have now (See? I was nice)
Except that's not what happened. TSA cleared him without incident.
Except that's not true. They cleared him eventually, but not "without incident."
OT, I know, but I got that email, too. It didn't seem to have anything about GETTING the alpha. Is that still forthcoming or did my browser block something?
This exactly what Runic Games (Torchlight/Torchlight II) did, and it got them a lot of good will and a lively and loyal, if small, community around them.
Supposedly, Bethesda claimed to have done the same thing. Having tried to use the Skyrim mod tool, though, I can't imagine that the devs used it day after day and haven't strung someone up by their toenails in the breakroom yet...
You still violated the law;
Wow, you are a genius. That's a nice response... if you're 15 and haven't developed the situational awareness to realize that ethics and legality are completely orthogonal concepts.
Cool. Thanks for the heads-up, and the confirm. Much obliged.
Did they fix that? Not that I give a shit about Gizmodo, but the last time I was looking at Lifehacker, I still ran into that...
If you had $10,000 right now, where would you invest to make an "easy" 2% ?
Fuck that. The real question is where the hell he's finding an auto loan at 2%!
Christ, if you're single and not extravagant, you could probably live off 5% of $400k
I think I laughed even harder at the fact that you had to explain it three times than I did at the original joke.
In regard to the advertisements themselves, I don't mind small text ads that DON'T track my browsing habits. They're easy to ignore that way. In practice, I block everything.
Pretty much this. I don't even mind small graphics, if they're hosted locally (on the website, not on 127.0.0.1). But no, that's not good enough for the advertising pricks. They want to build "behavior profiles" with web bugs, javascript trackers, and all sorts of other nasty little tricks.
Now they can profile me turning on Adblock, Noscript, and Ghostery.
Holy shit, it's Michael Kristopeit! He's back!
For that matter, I can't remember the last time I've seen a docking station, either, and desktops don't tend to have docking stations.
Hell, even if they did, where the hell are you going to get a serial terminal these days? That's the problem. I don't know where GDB comes into play on a machine that's failing to even boot...
I'll have to look. I have some Supermicros waiting for provisioning at work, but I don't remember seeing serial ports. Admittedly, I wasn't looking for them, either.
Still, that's only one brand.
And today, we'll observe as Ms.(?) Samantha Wright learns a valuable lesson about being snarky on the internet. ;)
Considering that I haven't seen new hardware in the home or "prosumer" level (and only "occasionally" at the server level) with a serial port for years, I think that's a pretty poor assumption for them to make.
I'm not so sure it's irrelevant. Usage-based billing removes a lot of the incentive to have a non-neutral net. (Of course, that is why the very parties we need to adopt it, won't adopt it.)
I disagree. The biggest incentive we have for a non-neutral net is that the biggest ISPs are also content providers. Which means that you WILL get double-dipping on their part, even your own Comcast example.
forcing hospitals to treat people who are too irresponsible to get insurance is a moral hazard and raises the cost for everyone else.
I was going to mod you down, but I decided, instead to point out WHY you're a fucking idiot. As of today, Aug 21, 2012, health insurance companies can and do refuse coverage to anyone that they deem "not sufficiently profitable." To refer to those unprofitable people with the blanket statement of "irresponsible" is pretty irresponsible in itself.
And to say that they should die when hit by a bus because they weren't good for Aetna's bottom-line makes you an evil corporatist fuck.