Once upon a time Slashdot really was "news for nerds, stuff that matters" - now it's "any excuse to get the word APPLE into a story headline for the SEO bait to get ad impressions up".
Corporations are now people. Slashdot is a corporation. People have Klout scores. Slashdot is just trying to improve theirs in order to get more Klout Perks.
Vote with your feet. America is a country with 49 other options for you besides NY/NYC. Quit griping and show them that they and their unions simply aren't worth the price any longer.
Rich Liberals (Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, GE, Apple) talk a good line about how we all need to pay our fair share (i.e. always more than we're paying now), and they become Good Liberals for saying so, but they never walk the walk. Buffet has been fighting a full billion $ that he owes for the last decade. Gates doesn't write checks for above his minimum tax, but instead employs highly paid accountants to minimize his taxes. GE hides profits overseas and you just read all the twists, turns, and contortions that Apple goes through to avoid US taxes -- yet we celebrate them as a company and continue to buy their overpriced trinkets manufactured by outsourced overseas jobs.
But do we ever hear about all of that? Hell No! We only hear that ROMNEY (who is paying his lawful rate) DOESN'T PAY ENOUGH TAXES!
We are clueless as a society overall. In Pogo terms: We have met the enemy, and he is us.
Wrong, then it makes a good colonization target. Fill the barges with androids and seeds NOW!!1
But leave the sex-bot androids behind. I've been waiting for them to show up on the scene and would hate to see them all shipped off 200 light-years before I can even own one.
After reading the articles and comments it sounds to me like because we're all so inured to watching crap (because that was the best that a century old and half-century old technology could manage), when we're shown non-crap we complain that it's worse because it's not the crap that we're used to seeing.
Maybe that's how we used to "get into the movie". What we were seeing clearly wasn't real in a real-world sense and once we accepted that at some level we could treat movies as entertainment instead of an actual representation of real life. Now you've having to deal with something that seems much more real and you're confused.
Also, the need for 48fps wouldn't be nearly as bad if the camera operators of the world hadn't all simultaneously forgotten how to slow down the shutter speed during pans. Seriously, there's judder all over the movie theaters today, and while it existed thirty years ago, it wasn't nearly as frequent or as bad as today.
Why would you slow down the shutter speed during pans? That makes them even more blurry.
You know, if I was trying to play my favorite computer game at 24fps I'd be bitching and moaning and reaching for my wallet. Why is it that 24fps in the theater, and 30fps (fudged on television is considered so d@mn fine anyway? Here is someone trying to improve the state-of-the-art and all people can do is complain about it.
I've heard complaints that Suri is getting dumber over time. That for some people it used to return the results that they wanted, but now that it is building up its database of what (I'm guessing) a majority of people mean when they ask a question, that at least a minority of users no longer get the results they used to receive for the same query. If Suri gets overwhelmed by queries that can be considered in pop-culture terms to mean something other than their strict meanings, she could quickly become both useless and frustrating.
Motorola refusing to license FRAND patents under FRAND terms does no one any good. Hopefully Google won't fall into the same vein. The terms require that a patent be offered, and it should NOT require a company to offer up it's own IP in order to obtain use of a FRAND patent.
Yes, and Microsoft trying to extort both extreme license fees and an actual veto over future Android design features with absolutely crap patents does no one any good either.
Oh, excuse me, just how many shares of Microsoft do you own again?
Given Microsoft's bullying of Android - an area where they don't even compete - I'm quite happy to see them coming out on the short-end of this stick. When I buy Android it's in part because I don't want to give my money to Microsoft or Apple. Now let's see a good strong Apple defeat such that Motorola (and other Android vendors) resolve these issues through cross-licensing instead of money.
The British Authorities are just retarded when it comes to taking private photographs in public spaces and doing what you wish with them afterwards. Oh they talk a good game about the right to take pictures in public -- and a lot of photographers have been arrested on trumped up flimsy charges in the process. Truth is, the police can cause you a great deal of trouble, and destroy your pictures and cameras in the process, while being completely in the wrong from the absolute beginning.
Dividing up a cake fairly amount n people where n>2 is easy.
Sit in a circle around the cake and randomly pick a starting person. That person cuts out the size piece that he/she thinks is fair. Going around the circle anyone who thinks that it's too big can knock a piece off that goes back into the cake. When no one else will reduce the size any further the last person to reduce the size of the piece to their idea of fair gets that piece and is out of the game. Repeat until n = 2 players, at which point one person divides and the other person picks. No fancy secret encrypted system needed.
The bottom line in all of this is that you're WiFi devices are now a bit more expensive than before. Would be nicer to have worldwide standards that aren't patent encumbered.
What makes you think the police haven't already done this and found the results inconclusive.
You tards are so ready to believe.
I agree with you about too many -tards being willing to believe. Someone is trying to start a race war in this country and I'd sure like to know why.
I feel that the proper question should have started out with: Whose cellphone was the call made on? I doubt that they traded cellphones and the person making the call was probably the person screaming for help.
You'd have better luck just sitting on a corner, well-dressed, holding a sign saying "Wife won't let me spend my own money on beer."
Works even better if you have a dog with you while panhandling. But do have one that looks sad, hungry, and doesn't bite the donors. And have a water dish there so that they know that you're a caring pet owner.
You make light of this, however, Facebook would seem to have a case (disclaimer: IANAL). If bosses and companies start asking for Facebook logins people may well delete their FB accounts instead. I would. And even if you keep it, suddenly you're double-thinking everything before you post it which removes the charm (or some other more appropriate word) that is Facebook.
Facebook's value is based on the number of members that they have and how much those members use it. The National Labor Relations Board even protects some concerted employee activities on social media including FB. Anything that causes people to avoid using Facebook directly affects FB's valuation and profits, in which case FB has a case for tortious interference in their business process. This, I feel, is a stronger argument than just a violation of the FB ToS.
Even if domestic production didn't lower gasoline prices a single cent it would still be a huge boon to keep that money at home, rather than sending far away overseas to people who really don't like us very much at all.
And you're not at the whims of a single other OPEC country (Iran) who, because supply is to tightly balanced to current demand, can throw a monkey wrench into the whole world with even the threat of a cutoff.
Furthermore, this whole garbage of why drill if you're not going to see the oil for 10 years anyway? Or 5 years, if you prefer. Because if we'd started drilling 5 or 10 years ago we would be seeing that increased production now!
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Aviation gasoline is typically leaded fuel, which has been gone from motor vehicle fuel since the 1980s
How about since 1975? Or doesn't accuracy matter here?
Pathetic.
Once upon a time Slashdot really was "news for nerds, stuff that matters" - now it's "any excuse to get the word APPLE into a story headline for the SEO bait to get ad impressions up".
Corporations are now people. Slashdot is a corporation. People have Klout scores. Slashdot is just trying to improve theirs in order to get more Klout Perks.
fuck that, I'm going AWOL now.
Vote with your feet. America is a country with 49 other options for you besides NY/NYC. Quit griping and show them that they and their unions simply aren't worth the price any longer.
Rich Liberals (Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, GE, Apple) talk a good line about how we all need to pay our fair share (i.e. always more than we're paying now), and they become Good Liberals for saying so, but they never walk the walk. Buffet has been fighting a full billion $ that he owes for the last decade. Gates doesn't write checks for above his minimum tax, but instead employs highly paid accountants to minimize his taxes. GE hides profits overseas and you just read all the twists, turns, and contortions that Apple goes through to avoid US taxes -- yet we celebrate them as a company and continue to buy their overpriced trinkets manufactured by outsourced overseas jobs.
But do we ever hear about all of that? Hell No! We only hear that ROMNEY (who is paying his lawful rate) DOESN'T PAY ENOUGH TAXES!
We are clueless as a society overall. In Pogo terms: We have met the enemy, and he is us.
Close. It's our sun, but in the evil twin universe. Or are we the evil twin? Hard to say, really.
Hoping that we are the Evil Twin. The women are always better in the Evil Twin Universes.
Wrong, then it makes a good colonization target. Fill the barges with androids and seeds NOW!!1
But leave the sex-bot androids behind. I've been waiting for them to show up on the scene and would hate to see them all shipped off 200 light-years before I can even own one.
Seriously, there are 10 billions stars essentially equivalent to our Sun, but you have to go 200 light years to find the closest one?
After reading the articles and comments it sounds to me like because we're all so inured to watching crap (because that was the best that a century old and half-century old technology could manage), when we're shown non-crap we complain that it's worse because it's not the crap that we're used to seeing.
Maybe that's how we used to "get into the movie". What we were seeing clearly wasn't real in a real-world sense and once we accepted that at some level we could treat movies as entertainment instead of an actual representation of real life. Now you've having to deal with something that seems much more real and you're confused.
Also, the need for 48fps wouldn't be nearly as bad if the camera operators of the world hadn't all simultaneously forgotten how to slow down the shutter speed during pans. Seriously, there's judder all over the movie theaters today, and while it existed thirty years ago, it wasn't nearly as frequent or as bad as today.
Why would you slow down the shutter speed during pans? That makes them even more blurry.
You know, if I was trying to play my favorite computer game at 24fps I'd be bitching and moaning and reaching for my wallet. Why is it that 24fps in the theater, and 30fps (fudged on television is considered so d@mn fine anyway? Here is someone trying to improve the state-of-the-art and all people can do is complain about it.
My German Shepherd is smarter than your Siri.
I was waiting for this one.
Didn't take long either.
Now who owns the copyright on it?
I've heard complaints that Suri is getting dumber over time. That for some people it used to return the results that they wanted, but now that it is building up its database of what (I'm guessing) a majority of people mean when they ask a question, that at least a minority of users no longer get the results they used to receive for the same query. If Suri gets overwhelmed by queries that can be considered in pop-culture terms to mean something other than their strict meanings, she could quickly become both useless and frustrating.
Javascript was originally developed by Netscape, a company which no longer exists.
The fact that they no longer exist is probably the only thing that is keeping Oracle from suing them as well.
Motorola refusing to license FRAND patents under FRAND terms does no one any good. Hopefully Google won't fall into the same vein. The terms require that a patent be offered, and it should NOT require a company to offer up it's own IP in order to obtain use of a FRAND patent.
Yes, and Microsoft trying to extort both extreme license fees and an actual veto over future Android design features with absolutely crap patents does no one any good either.
Oh, excuse me, just how many shares of Microsoft do you own again?
Given Microsoft's bullying of Android - an area where they don't even compete - I'm quite happy to see them coming out on the short-end of this stick. When I buy Android it's in part because I don't want to give my money to Microsoft or Apple. Now let's see a good strong Apple defeat such that Motorola (and other Android vendors) resolve these issues through cross-licensing instead of money.
I hope that Google plays hardball, and simply blacks out Youtube for Germany. The resulting user outcry would then be turned against Gema.
They'd better do that, lest Gema resort to click-fraud/click-jacking to boost their revenues at Google's expense.
The British Authorities are just retarded when it comes to taking private photographs in public spaces and doing what you wish with them afterwards. Oh they talk a good game about the right to take pictures in public -- and a lot of photographers have been arrested on trumped up flimsy charges in the process. Truth is, the police can cause you a great deal of trouble, and destroy your pictures and cameras in the process, while being completely in the wrong from the absolute beginning.
Dividing up a cake fairly amount n people where n>2 is easy.
Sit in a circle around the cake and randomly pick a starting person. That person cuts out the size piece that he/she thinks is fair. Going around the circle anyone who thinks that it's too big can knock a piece off that goes back into the cake. When no one else will reduce the size any further the last person to reduce the size of the piece to their idea of fair gets that piece and is out of the game. Repeat until n = 2 players, at which point one person divides and the other person picks. No fancy secret encrypted system needed.
The bottom line in all of this is that you're WiFi devices are now a bit more expensive than before. Would be nicer to have worldwide standards that aren't patent encumbered.
What makes you think the police haven't already done this and found the results inconclusive.
You tards are so ready to believe.
I agree with you about too many -tards being willing to believe. Someone is trying to start a race war in this country and I'd sure like to know why.
I feel that the proper question should have started out with: Whose cellphone was the call made on? I doubt that they traded cellphones and the person making the call was probably the person screaming for help.
You'd have better luck just sitting on a corner, well-dressed, holding a sign saying "Wife won't let me spend my own money on beer."
Works even better if you have a dog with you while panhandling. But do have one that looks sad, hungry, and doesn't bite the donors. And have a water dish there so that they know that you're a caring pet owner.
i answer their questions in hopes that they will give me a job. i need beer money badly
Tell them that and they'll assume (perhaps rightly) that you're an alcoholic. Count on seeing the door after that.
Employer: ... and an extra two weeks of severance if you agree not to sue us.
Employee: Wait... I can sue you?
This should be your sig line.
it would be fun. Help me facebook.
You make light of this, however, Facebook would seem to have a case (disclaimer: IANAL). If bosses and companies start asking for Facebook logins people may well delete their FB accounts instead. I would. And even if you keep it, suddenly you're double-thinking everything before you post it which removes the charm (or some other more appropriate word) that is Facebook.
Facebook's value is based on the number of members that they have and how much those members use it. The National Labor Relations Board even protects some concerted employee activities on social media including FB. Anything that causes people to avoid using Facebook directly affects FB's valuation and profits, in which case FB has a case for tortious interference in their business process. This, I feel, is a stronger argument than just a violation of the FB ToS.
Even if domestic production didn't lower gasoline prices a single cent it would still be a huge boon to keep that money at home, rather than sending far away overseas to people who really don't like us very much at all.
And you're not at the whims of a single other OPEC country (Iran) who, because supply is to tightly balanced to current demand, can throw a monkey wrench into the whole world with even the threat of a cutoff.
Furthermore, this whole garbage of why drill if you're not going to see the oil for 10 years anyway? Or 5 years, if you prefer. Because if we'd started drilling 5 or 10 years ago we would be seeing that increased production now!
Drill here, drill now, drill yesterday!