Indeed, I hate PETA as much as any right-minded individual, but these guys pulled a dick-move. They basically trolled the PETA forums with a bunch of sock-puppet accounts in order to goad them into action and to get publicity for their game, which seems, judging by the/. comments, to have not made it onto many peoples' radar. Yet again, PETA have made the world a worse place in which to live. This time by giving these tumbling tumbling dick-weeds the publicity they are so obviously desperate for.
If the content matters at all, someone should invent a technology that allows text to be tagged somehow with indicators of the MEANING of that portion of text, like 'this is a title', and let the display device render the text according to how the reader can best view it. It sounds crazy, and it may take a few decades to do, but think of the benefits.
Yes, everyone, this is possibly the richest seam of sarcasm ever discovered on/.
Firstly, that is the most misleading signature I've ever seen. Secondly, don't call me Nut.
Re:Useful? Not too difficult a question actually
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For some reason, after months of having mod points out the wazoo, I haven't had mod points for a couple of weeks, This comment deserves +15 funny. Could someone get on that while I clean coffee out of my keyboard?
He's not just a comedian though is he? Most actresses know less about foreign policy than Sarah Palin, whereas Stephen Fry knows a lot about open-ness, DRM and the importance of being able to play a DVD on the OS of your choice. Should we ignore anything Brian May has to say on the subject of Astrophysics because he's "just a musician"?
You're either a troll, or are ignorant. I saw a speech he gave a few years ago that was broadcast on BBC Parliament (or whatever it's called) on software freedom, DRM, format-shifting, P2P etc and he completely grokked the issues. He's not "just an old man", or "just a celebrity", he's actually incredibly fucking astute. He's a high-profile, highly intelligent celebrity, who actually knows what he's talking about, and exactly the kind of person people in power might actually listen to, as opposed to some AC on/. or "some beardy yank". tl;dr: He shares "our views" and communicates at a level that most British politicians respect and understand. This is a Good Thing.
I don't know how International trademark claims work but I doubt that this is going to be applicable in the UK on the basis that use of the word "face" in the title of a social networking site predates Facebook.
UK social networking site Faceparty: launched 2000
US* social networking site Facebook: launched 2004
*(later international)
Secondly, I understand how "Facebook" can be a trademark, I understand how the Facebook logo/logo-type can be a trademark, but how can "Face" be trademarked. It just seems stupid. What next? Is G.E. going to trademark the letter G? Slashdot trademark the word "Slash"? Microsoft trademark the word "Micro"?
This is the only point that I wouldn't agree with. If it's removable, you can take it with you, I've no idea why you would leave it in the car. Conversely, regular car stereos, not designed to be taken with you when you get out of the car are (or were) notoriously easy to steal. I imagine the same would be true of an aftermarket car computer or DIY car computer.
Wait, what? You can't be pulled over if a cop sees you using your phone while driving? Sorry, but: THAT'S FUCKING RIDICULOUS! Why is the idea of jamming all cell phones within cars even being entertained when they're not even doing everything they can within their current powers?? And only $200?? What the hell is wrong with your country?
I do. Of course, that's when there *were* pay phones. However, what if you're trapped in your car by an accident....or you're kidnapped in a car...or..etc. And wouldn't it be great for carjackers to know that the occupants of any post-2010 cars were unable to call 911. There are other ways to deal with the dangers caused by phone use while driving.
This isn't about some individual reckless drivers talking on the cell phone. It's a limitation of our brains.
Sorry, but that's retarded. The "reckless" part is the person using the mobile phone while driving. By definition, any drivers talking on their phones while driving are reckless. So it absolutely is about individual reckless drivers.They are the root cause. They're going to keep being reckless whether they have phones or not. They'll be putting on make-up or reading the newspaper or spilling hot coffee on their lap or any of a number of other things that distract your attention from the task at hand. The only way to stop them is to punish them when they get caught and fine them heavily, not by punishing every driver for their idiocy.
Although the Kinect is apparently not subsidised, I completely see your point. They were projecting every Kinect as including $x in additional software sales as well as the $y profit on the hardware, and I totally understand why they're pissed about not getting that $x that they were hoping for.
If it's not subsidised, then they're fucking retarded...absolutely bat-shit fucking crazy if you're right and they're pissed about that...
They are making ($y + $x) * 100,000s to owners of xbox360s...
With the advent of this hack, they are making an additional $y * 100s/1,000s of hackers/indie game developers/indie gamers/performance artists etc. etc. who would not have otherwise bought one.
If they argue that those hackers/indie gamers would have gone out and bought an xbox360 and 10 games were it not for someone providing an open driver then they are smoking crack.
For a car analogy, many boy racers like to put Lexus headlight/tail-light clusters on their cars...for...whatever reason. Microsoft's reaction is as stupid as Lexus trying to stop non-Lexus owners from buying their headlight/tail-light clusters because they want them to go out and buy a Lexus.
"View All Steps" is misleading. It's just the option to display all the steps on a single page. You can still click through each individual step. This may be because I joined way back when, but I was always able, as just a regular registered user, to "View All Steps" and download PDFs.
Instructables also rewards anyone who has their Instructable Featured with a 3 month Pro membership. If you want to, you can even transfer this to someone else as a gift.
When asked, however, what he thought it might be, the former ambassador said it could possibly have been a missile test timed as a demonstration of American military might as President Obama tours Asia.
Wait, what? Demonstrating American military might?...and yet the guvmint has denied its one of theirs.Surely, the whole point of demonstrating your military might is to let the world know that you're doing it. i.e. North Korea is Best Korea: launch missiles and broadcast the event on state TeeVee.
If it's a super-secret test and, as others have suggested, CBS talked to Naval/Air Force representatives that didn't know about it , then they're demonstrating their incompetence by having launched it in plain sight.
If they're trying to demonstrate military might, why deny it?
If it's really not one of theirs, well then boy-howdy...whose the hell was it? And how the hell were they able to fire a missile so damn close to the American coast?
...it is not my intention to troll here. I'm just saying...
...who wants to be the martyr and take a stand by sacrificing their productivity to deal with an operating system that cannot natively run 99% of software products, has compatibility issues, and bugs up the wazoo due to being a mish-mash of spaghetti code written by unorganized contributors? I just don't get it.
Not your intention to troll?...riiiight.
Linux is my primary OS for work and most play, but I do dual-boot into Windows to play the games that won't run under Linux. So yeah, Windows is the toy OS I boot to when I want to play games. If Linux is too difficult for you then try uninstalling Red Hat 3 or Mandrake 5 or whatever the hell distribution you're using and install anything released in the last couple of years. I've had more hassles getting various versions of Windows running and hunting drivers (or buying new hardware because drivers don't exist for my old hardware) than I've ever had with Linux, from Windows 95 all the way up to Windows 7.
Re:metaprogramming FTW!
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This. Who cares if it's quick and easy to write if no-one else can debug/modify the code? If it's a small enough project, in an ideal world, where one Grand Wizard passes down his arcane secrets to his apprentice before retiring, then it would be A-OK. However the world doesn't work like that. More "simplistic" languages remove ambiguity and make it easier for maintenance programmers to pick up where the last guy left off.
(no one talks about "car crime," despite the huge number of vehicular homicides, etc.), because these describe a crime according to its impact / immediate level of fear or risk, rather than on the instrumentalities used to perpetrate it. And I've never seen "gun crime" to mean "theft of lawfully owned guns," only "crimes committed with guns as instrumentality."
Umm...actually, since you mention it....in the UK the phrase "car crime" is used often. And more often than not, it's used in reference to theft of cars or theft from cars rather than speeding, death by dangerous driving or "joyriding" (though it is also used for those...sometimes).
Anyway, "cyber crime" should be reserved for such time as cyborgs start committing crime, or we will find ourselves with a crime-description gap. (Robo-crime sounds too jokey, will never take off). And what if the cyborg commits a genitals crime with a gun...in a car! How will we classify *that* for the Annual Crime Survey?
Remember how The Doctor left messages for Sally Sparrow in the...future..no..past..well, anyway...time is confusing, wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey etc.. Anyway, he hid an Easter Egg in the extra features of all the DVDs that she owned. And of course, he only knew which DVDs she owned because she gave him a list after he'd done it in her timeline, but before he'd done it in his timeline, and the only reason she had the list was because someone else had noticed the Easter Eggs, not her...
Or perhaps they could create a section of Slashdot just for all these stupid movies and "news" stories. So that you could ignore them if you wanted to...
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Do you suppose this would let you get around term limits? What if it was just Raygun's head in a jar, with a robot body?
Indeed, I hate PETA as much as any right-minded individual, but these guys pulled a dick-move. They basically trolled the PETA forums with a bunch of sock-puppet accounts in order to goad them into action and to get publicity for their game, which seems, judging by the /. comments, to have not made it onto many peoples' radar. Yet again, PETA have made the world a worse place in which to live. This time by giving these tumbling tumbling dick-weeds the publicity they are so obviously desperate for.
PHP advent 2010 (Or on twitter)
Angry Birds (Seasons) features an advent calendar with a new level released every day.
More?
If the content matters at all, someone should invent a technology that allows text to be tagged somehow with indicators of the MEANING of that portion of text, like 'this is a title', and let the display device render the text according to how the reader can best view it. It sounds crazy, and it may take a few decades to do, but think of the benefits.
Yes, everyone, this is possibly the richest seam of sarcasm ever discovered on /.
Firstly, that is the most misleading signature I've ever seen. Secondly, don't call me Nut.
For some reason, after months of having mod points out the wazoo, I haven't had mod points for a couple of weeks, This comment deserves +15 funny. Could someone get on that while I clean coffee out of my keyboard?
He's not just a comedian though is he? Most actresses know less about foreign policy than Sarah Palin, whereas Stephen Fry knows a lot about open-ness, DRM and the importance of being able to play a DVD on the OS of your choice. Should we ignore anything Brian May has to say on the subject of Astrophysics because he's "just a musician"?
You're either a troll, or are ignorant. I saw a speech he gave a few years ago that was broadcast on BBC Parliament (or whatever it's called) on software freedom, DRM, format-shifting, P2P etc and he completely grokked the issues. He's not "just an old man", or "just a celebrity", he's actually incredibly fucking astute. He's a high-profile, highly intelligent celebrity, who actually knows what he's talking about, and exactly the kind of person people in power might actually listen to, as opposed to some AC on /. or "some beardy yank". tl;dr: He shares "our views" and communicates at a level that most British politicians respect and understand. This is a Good Thing.
I don't know how International trademark claims work but I doubt that this is going to be applicable in the UK on the basis that use of the word "face" in the title of a social networking site predates Facebook.
UK social networking site Faceparty: launched 2000
US* social networking site Facebook: launched 2004
*(later international)
Secondly, I understand how "Facebook" can be a trademark, I understand how the Facebook logo/logo-type can be a trademark, but how can "Face" be trademarked. It just seems stupid. What next? Is G.E. going to trademark the letter G? Slashdot trademark the word "Slash"? Microsoft trademark the word "Micro"?
A moose once bit my sister.
8) It's easy to steal if you make it removable
This is the only point that I wouldn't agree with. If it's removable, you can take it with you, I've no idea why you would leave it in the car. Conversely, regular car stereos, not designed to be taken with you when you get out of the car are (or were) notoriously easy to steal. I imagine the same would be true of an aftermarket car computer or DIY car computer.
Wait, what? You can't be pulled over if a cop sees you using your phone while driving? Sorry, but: THAT'S FUCKING RIDICULOUS! Why is the idea of jamming all cell phones within cars even being entertained when they're not even doing everything they can within their current powers?? And only $200?? What the hell is wrong with your country?
I do. Of course, that's when there *were* pay phones. However, what if you're trapped in your car by an accident....or you're kidnapped in a car...or..etc. And wouldn't it be great for carjackers to know that the occupants of any post-2010 cars were unable to call 911. There are other ways to deal with the dangers caused by phone use while driving.
This isn't about some individual reckless drivers talking on the cell phone. It's a limitation of our brains.
Sorry, but that's retarded. The "reckless" part is the person using the mobile phone while driving. By definition, any drivers talking on their phones while driving are reckless. So it absolutely is about individual reckless drivers.They are the root cause. They're going to keep being reckless whether they have phones or not. They'll be putting on make-up or reading the newspaper or spilling hot coffee on their lap or any of a number of other things that distract your attention from the task at hand. The only way to stop them is to punish them when they get caught and fine them heavily, not by punishing every driver for their idiocy.
Forget that. I want my Biker Mice from MARS !
Score.
Although the Kinect is apparently not subsidised, I completely see your point. They were projecting every Kinect as including $x in additional software sales as well as the $y profit on the hardware, and I totally understand why they're pissed about not getting that $x that they were hoping for.
If it's not subsidised, then they're fucking retarded...absolutely bat-shit fucking crazy if you're right and they're pissed about that...
They are making ($y + $x) * 100,000s to owners of xbox360s...
With the advent of this hack, they are making an additional $y * 100s/1,000s of hackers/indie game developers/indie gamers/performance artists etc. etc. who would not have otherwise bought one.
If they argue that those hackers/indie gamers would have gone out and bought an xbox360 and 10 games were it not for someone providing an open driver then they are smoking crack.
For a car analogy, many boy racers like to put Lexus headlight/tail-light clusters on their cars...for...whatever reason. Microsoft's reaction is as stupid as Lexus trying to stop non-Lexus owners from buying their headlight/tail-light clusters because they want them to go out and buy a Lexus.
"View All Steps" is misleading. It's just the option to display all the steps on a single page. You can still click through each individual step. This may be because I joined way back when, but I was always able, as just a regular registered user, to "View All Steps" and download PDFs.
Instructables also rewards anyone who has their Instructable Featured with a 3 month Pro membership. If you want to, you can even transfer this to someone else as a gift.
Perhaps the recent unexplained "missle launch" off of LA is a DYI project?
Do You Itself?
When asked, however, what he thought it might be, the former ambassador said it could possibly have been a missile test timed as a demonstration of American military might as President Obama tours Asia.
Wait, what? Demonstrating American military might?...and yet the guvmint has denied its one of theirs.Surely, the whole point of demonstrating your military might is to let the world know that you're doing it. i.e. North Korea is Best Korea: launch missiles and broadcast the event on state TeeVee.
Not your intention to troll?...riiiight.
Linux is my primary OS for work and most play, but I do dual-boot into Windows to play the games that won't run under Linux. So yeah, Windows is the toy OS I boot to when I want to play games. If Linux is too difficult for you then try uninstalling Red Hat 3 or Mandrake 5 or whatever the hell distribution you're using and install anything released in the last couple of years. I've had more hassles getting various versions of Windows running and hunting drivers (or buying new hardware because drivers don't exist for my old hardware) than I've ever had with Linux, from Windows 95 all the way up to Windows 7.
This. Who cares if it's quick and easy to write if no-one else can debug/modify the code? If it's a small enough project, in an ideal world, where one Grand Wizard passes down his arcane secrets to his apprentice before retiring, then it would be A-OK. However the world doesn't work like that. More "simplistic" languages remove ambiguity and make it easier for maintenance programmers to pick up where the last guy left off.
(no one talks about "car crime," despite the huge number of vehicular homicides, etc.), because these describe a crime according to its impact / immediate level of fear or risk, rather than on the instrumentalities used to perpetrate it. And I've never seen "gun crime" to mean "theft of lawfully owned guns," only "crimes committed with guns as instrumentality."
Umm...actually, since you mention it....in the UK the phrase "car crime" is used often. And more often than not, it's used in reference to theft of cars or theft from cars rather than speeding, death by dangerous driving or "joyriding" (though it is also used for those...sometimes).
Anyway, "cyber crime" should be reserved for such time as cyborgs start committing crime, or we will find ourselves with a crime-description gap. (Robo-crime sounds too jokey, will never take off). And what if the cyborg commits a genitals crime with a gun...in a car! How will we classify *that* for the Annual Crime Survey?
Remember how The Doctor left messages for Sally Sparrow in the...future..no..past..well, anyway...time is confusing, wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey etc.. Anyway, he hid an Easter Egg in the extra features of all the DVDs that she owned. And of course, he only knew which DVDs she owned because she gave him a list after he'd done it in her timeline, but before he'd done it in his timeline, and the only reason she had the list was because someone else had noticed the Easter Eggs, not her...
Or perhaps they could create a section of Slashdot just for all these stupid movies and "news" stories. So that you could ignore them if you wanted to...