Nearly all members of Congress were never interested in serving the Common Good, only in serving their own pocketbooks and those of their friends in their own little tribal circles. There's scarcely an egalitarian in the entire bunch. It's nice to see them be blatantly honest about their true motives once in a while, as opposed to the usual doublespeak and obfuscation.
I know about beacons. They are not an adequate band-aid. You can only have five and they cannot be descriptively named.
I have more than 700 hours invested in the game. I am well qualified to critique its shortcomings. The "true lie" of the developers about this game is the advertisement that it allows "exploration" of planets, which it does not and never has. The PROCESS of exploration has always involved cartographic tools for precisely the motive I described: being able to repeatably return to significant locations discovered, much like the goal of the Scientific Method. The game offers exploration of star systems because it provides a map and a repeatable process, but it does not offer exploration of planets.
So where was Tim Berners-Lee to protect the Web from corporate interests and control when this standard was being enshrined for their benefit? Right: he was participating in the very same standards body, W3C, that did the evil deed.
... and tons of new biomes in the Visions expansion.
What the fuck is the point of adding new biomes to planets when "exploring" planets is a digital version of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey? No map. No fog of discovery. No usable compass. No location markers that can be named and placed in generous numbers. No actual functional "waypoints" in the sense that the rest of the world uses the word.
Nope, you're just left to wander blindly. If you find a bunch of noteworthy locations on a planet, good luck trying to locate them ever again except by repeating the blindfolded dumb luck that got you there in the first place.
Once you have a 38-inch 3840x1600 monitor (or comparable) at home for gaming, there's no way in hell you'd EVER want to endure trying to play your games scaled down to your phone's minuscule display or even a Web browser on a less impressive monitor at your parents' house. Maybe you can manage it at work if you're a very lucky tech guy or stock trader....
Since I don't filter for score and hide nothing, I don't know why I didn't see the other posts. There's zeroed posts, to be sure. Is there a pattern to the content of them, or am I selecting for bias? How big a cabal would it take to pull that off? I haven't bothered to moderate in an age, but a single user gets at most five moderating opportunities, right? Could half a dozen pull it it off? They'd have to build up the karma to be eligible to moderate. Are people whoring their karma to the highest bidder?
Your argument isn't entirely invalid, but I still hold Berners-Lee responsible. We all know what happens to the dog when you leave the gate open unattended.
... and Tim Berners-Lee was in the room when all those awful "bloated" corporate-backed extensions to standards were being added. This is why I call the man a hypocrite. He sold out, and now fears for his legacy.
He's the One Man who invented it. He was in an utterly unique position to shape it. He failed. Now in his waning years he's trying to rescue his legacy after decades of sleeping with the corporate enemy.
Does it integrate with Thunderbird to rejuvenate its now useless Link feature? Remember that other development project of yours, Mozilla? You know, the one you very nearly dumped in the garbage but then merely stuffed in the back of the closet instead?
Berners-Lee is so fully disconnected from reality now that he's no longer credible. He talks about the Web "saving humanity", yet he has personally participated in crafting standards for it that serve corporate interests rather than the rest of us. Under his "guidance", the Web has transitioned from a network where people participated in its development and had control over how they consumed it to one where they no longer participate, have no control, and have become passive consumers. Corporate Web developers now view their target "useless eater" audiences with the same disregard as eugenicists of the last century.
He's lamenting his own utter failure to guide his own creation in the way that he claims he really wanted it to progress, while doing the precise opposite? What a bloody hypocrite.
You're tardy, fella. I began using the ISO8601 - or "Asian" - date format way back in the (Nineteen) Eighties, likely before it was even an ISO standard. It's OBVIOUSLY the only way to store and represent dates in a fashion useful for non-human computing. Frankly, humans themselves would do well to adapt their squishy CPUs to internally represent dates in that fashion. That is still a work in progress for me, largely due to the ongoing external bombardment of non-ISO8601 insanity.
This makes possible a whole new generation of right-to-repair abuses. What happens when a smartphone's glass front (and back?) can be permanently welded to the rest of the body, not using screws nor even adhesive? Can you imagine vehicles with windshields welded directly to the frame?
There's so little objective information available to make an informed decision, and that absence is largely at the discretion of the VPN providers. Forcing people to choose randomly or base their decision on non-objective criteria serves the interests of the VPN providers. It's like voting for President these days, given how candidate campaigns are run.
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So does this mean that dual-booting both Windows 10 and Android on a smartphone is realistically possible?
Nearly all members of Congress were never interested in serving the Common Good, only in serving their own pocketbooks and those of their friends in their own little tribal circles. There's scarcely an egalitarian in the entire bunch. It's nice to see them be blatantly honest about their true motives once in a while, as opposed to the usual doublespeak and obfuscation.
I know about beacons. They are not an adequate band-aid. You can only have five and they cannot be descriptively named.
I have more than 700 hours invested in the game. I am well qualified to critique its shortcomings. The "true lie" of the developers about this game is the advertisement that it allows "exploration" of planets, which it does not and never has. The PROCESS of exploration has always involved cartographic tools for precisely the motive I described: being able to repeatably return to significant locations discovered, much like the goal of the Scientific Method. The game offers exploration of star systems because it provides a map and a repeatable process, but it does not offer exploration of planets.
So where was Tim Berners-Lee to protect the Web from corporate interests and control when this standard was being enshrined for their benefit? Right: he was participating in the very same standards body, W3C, that did the evil deed.
Fucking hypocrite.
What the fuck is the point of adding new biomes to planets when "exploring" planets is a digital version of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey? No map. No fog of discovery. No usable compass. No location markers that can be named and placed in generous numbers. No actual functional "waypoints" in the sense that the rest of the world uses the word.
Nope, you're just left to wander blindly. If you find a bunch of noteworthy locations on a planet, good luck trying to locate them ever again except by repeating the blindfolded dumb luck that got you there in the first place.
Google does to released software what the Fox TV network did to television programs.
Firefly, meet your new brother in exile: Inbox.
Once you have a 38-inch 3840x1600 monitor (or comparable) at home for gaming, there's no way in hell you'd EVER want to endure trying to play your games scaled down to your phone's minuscule display or even a Web browser on a less impressive monitor at your parents' house. Maybe you can manage it at work if you're a very lucky tech guy or stock trader....
Since I don't filter for score and hide nothing, I don't know why I didn't see the other posts. There's zeroed posts, to be sure. Is there a pattern to the content of them, or am I selecting for bias? How big a cabal would it take to pull that off? I haven't bothered to moderate in an age, but a single user gets at most five moderating opportunities, right? Could half a dozen pull it it off? They'd have to build up the karma to be eligible to moderate. Are people whoring their karma to the highest bidder?
Still waiting....
Your argument isn't entirely invalid, but I still hold Berners-Lee responsible. We all know what happens to the dog when you leave the gate open unattended.
... and Tim Berners-Lee was in the room when all those awful "bloated" corporate-backed extensions to standards were being added. This is why I call the man a hypocrite. He sold out, and now fears for his legacy.
He's the One Man who invented it. He was in an utterly unique position to shape it. He failed. Now in his waning years he's trying to rescue his legacy after decades of sleeping with the corporate enemy.
Does it integrate with Thunderbird to rejuvenate its now useless Link feature? Remember that other development project of yours, Mozilla? You know, the one you very nearly dumped in the garbage but then merely stuffed in the back of the closet instead?
Berners-Lee is so fully disconnected from reality now that he's no longer credible. He talks about the Web "saving humanity", yet he has personally participated in crafting standards for it that serve corporate interests rather than the rest of us. Under his "guidance", the Web has transitioned from a network where people participated in its development and had control over how they consumed it to one where they no longer participate, have no control, and have become passive consumers. Corporate Web developers now view their target "useless eater" audiences with the same disregard as eugenicists of the last century.
He's lamenting his own utter failure to guide his own creation in the way that he claims he really wanted it to progress, while doing the precise opposite? What a bloody hypocrite.
Your last sentence summarizes the value well enough: SORTING!
You're tardy, fella. I began using the ISO8601 - or "Asian" - date format way back in the (Nineteen) Eighties, likely before it was even an ISO standard. It's OBVIOUSLY the only way to store and represent dates in a fashion useful for non-human computing. Frankly, humans themselves would do well to adapt their squishy CPUs to internally represent dates in that fashion. That is still a work in progress for me, largely due to the ongoing external bombardment of non-ISO8601 insanity.
This makes possible a whole new generation of right-to-repair abuses. What happens when a smartphone's glass front (and back?) can be permanently welded to the rest of the body, not using screws nor even adhesive? Can you imagine vehicles with windshields welded directly to the frame?
Indeed, these careless "editors" - I use the term as loosely as possible - don't even know what they've already published just days before.
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Says the Anonymous Coward. Hmmmm....
There's so little objective information available to make an informed decision, and that absence is largely at the discretion of the VPN providers. Forcing people to choose randomly or base their decision on non-objective criteria serves the interests of the VPN providers. It's like voting for President these days, given how candidate campaigns are run.
Your garage must be crowded.
Things people used to fall from to claim worker's comp?
The Moon is a very harsh mistress.
So SkyNet's air force arrives before SkyNet proper....
Plenty of land until developers start taking you up on your foolish offer....