That's only because a lot of people haven't yet become as adept at ignoring the adds on social media platforms as they already are on TV and print mediums. This noted effectiveness will wear off as more and more people get used to ignoring a new form of advertising.
You're missing the point here, it will not be ads it'll be your "friends" (ie one of the thousands of people in your social network whom you have never met and can barely distinguish from a week dead chicken).
So your implied mad-skills at "ad" avoidance are not going to help you.
Remember in school you learned that peer-pressure is rubbish an you have better things to do with your life than care about what a bunch of lamebrained retards think?
Well Facebook is peer-pressure on super-steroids - but for some reason many many people believe there's NOTHING fundamentally wrong with it.
On the other hand, there are people who believe that the earth is flat, that nobody landed on the moon, and that Lady Gaga makes "good music".
The wrld is full of complete idiots, are you one of them?
As deeply enmired as I am in the Apple universe I do have to agree, this new iPhone is pretty much what we all were hoping for when they whipped out the 4S.
It *really* smells like they were hoping to deliver this but LTE-related technical issues prevented delivery so they wedged in the 4S which was nice but not truly uber.
Finally delivering LTE to outside-the-US is nice, faster CPU is nice - but given the new connector (insert hardware refresh here on all my attached devices, I don't do "adaptors") I am 100% staying in the "upgrade every other cycle, at best".
Is Apple following the tick/tock model that Intel has been touting for so many years now?
expecting Klipsch loudspeaker performance from a pair of ear buds
You say "Klipsch Loudspeaker" like they're stunningly impressive, and obviously you've never purchased a high-performance set of earbuds.
Save the pocket-money your mommy gives you for a year and buy yourself a set of Etymotic in-ear "headphones" and pay the extra for the hearing-center fitting.
Despite what all you whiners think it IS possible to get *totally awesome* (no, I'm not implying it's absolutely perfect) sound out of "earbuds", you just have to PAY REAL MONEY for them (oddly enough, cheap-as-shit loudspeakers are *also* pure crap, but you don't hear anybody whining about it)
The US Government may have lost enthusiasm and momentum but at least they've stopped putting up incessant roadblocks to commercial entities developing space travel.
Of course they're going to do EXACTLY the same thing with Space Travel that they've in the process of doing with The Internet (ie wait till it *really* gets going well then do their best to completely STIFLE it with regulations-and-taxes).
After all, the true measure of successful governance is MORE REGULATIONS AND TAXES, isn't it?
That many institutions have access to MS Source Code is kinda like instituting a needle-inna-haystack search.
Yes you might find a needle, but unless you're a needle-collector or perhaps a seamstress what in this universe d'you think you're gonna do with it?
At least with Open Source you can (1) fix the problem with the code (2) submit the code back to The Author (3) expect that The Author will either accept the fix as is or perhaps integrate the solution with more elegance
Sure not *always* but the expectation would be more-often-than-not your fix (in one form or another) reaches the wider community of users.
``In addition to creating the light pulse, he created an even faster camera to measure it, which is the Phase Retrieval by Omega Oscillation Filtering (PROOF).''
Apparently when he claimed that it was possible to image a single electron orbiting an atom his supervisor LAUGHED AT HIM and demanded PROOF.
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
Judging by the state of things (especially our relatively local state) I'd say that's someone's been FORKING THE UNIVERSE as hard as they can for quite some time now.
The Cloud is *such* a wonderful metaphor, especially good for Joe Average Citizen who never had any ph0rkin idea what went on "on the internet" in the first place.
Not only is The Cloud impacted by weather (lightning strikes, electrical failures, overheating Data Centres etc) but it also has a non-trivial impact on Global Climate.
Scientists are still debating whether it's a net INCREASE or DECREASE in global temperature (DCs can be MUCH more power efficient than individual businesses running their own server farms both thermally and electrically, economies of scale, power-efficient DCs, Green Power DCs etc).
Their result was that yes, it is less precise and takes slightly longer, but it is more fun and the average user preferred it. That's why they went with it.
FTFY
Mod Parent Up!
UI Development to tickle the fancies of Joe "Dumber-and-Dumber" Average Citizen will probably rake in bags of money until your SHIT-FOR-BRAINS interface frustrates too many people and they drop your products for the toxic bullshit they have become.
Here's a clue for EVERYONE developing User Interfaces.
Not all of your users are drooling morons, some of us NEED technically exact and specific interface elements. How about a SETTINGS binary-choice element for "Joe Average" vs "Multiple Buttons on a Mouse Does Not Scare me"... it doesn't have to be "I code brainfuck in my sleep" but seriously many UI elements these dys are *frustratingly* impossible to use despite all their cute-fluffy-ness.
Developers should remember that not all of their users are prepubescent girls foaming over Justin(e) Beiber.
People are taking bets (some people will gamble on everything) and The Money is on BILLIONS of deaths, not just millions.
Personally I think This World could do with something like 30-50% less human beings and the remainder to subsequently learn social, fiscal, ecological responsibility.
The frustrating thing is that The Climate Change Deniers insist that the BEST plan for humanity is to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING until after The Catastrophe has struck.
I, for one, fail to see the wisdom in that stance.
Sure, I fully understand that behaviours less damaging to the environment will be expensive in terms of both money and politics.
But seriously folks this is pretty much the same thing as Your Doctor telling you that you need to do a significant amount of exercise and change your diet if you want to NOT DIE OF A HEART-ATTACK in the next ten years.
The Climate Change Deniers are sitting there in the consult room saying "but PROVE ABSOLUTELY AND CONCLUSIVELY that I will have a heart-attack, and be EXACT and SPECIFIC about when".
Anyone with even half a clue knows that the bad-consequences ARE "the earth shutting-down".
- Sux To Be Us - Life (for us) will become more harsh, more distressing, less convenient - Nature / The Earth , on the other hand, doesn't give a flying fart for Human Beings, and will continue on nonetheless
I for one do not believe that things will be as bad as some scientists would claim. If nothing else give-or-take a few hundred million years and you'd never know that Human Beings Completely Screwed Up The Environment.
Yes folks, short of international thermonuclear war nothing "we" do to the environment is really *all that bad*.
Although given our current behaviour it does seem likely we're well on our way to DESTROYING ALL HUMAN LIFE on this planet.
Don't worry folks, as soon as the Climate Change Alarmists (NB not commenting on their correct-ness, just saying "them's whut 're ringing the alarm bells") are proved 100% RIGHT (in the Arctic becoming ice-free) the Wisdom Of The Deniers will suddenly perform an about-face and loudly proclaim "yeah well so what , now PROVE that this is absolutely and necessarily BAD".
The joys of being a RELIGIOUS FANATIC is that you can keep moving the goalposts in an endless "blind faith means you're never having to admit you're wrong" litany.
We're seeing EXACTLY this same behaviour here in Australia. The Glorious Leader of The Opposition INSISTED that The Carbon Tax would have an IMMEDIATE and DEVASTATING impact on the economy.
Now that he's been proved CONCLUSIVELY wrong on that specific count, he's turned about and is loudly claiming "Yeah Well trust me, I'm right and you're wrong, it'll be devastating just in the long term".
If 8 million chickens were slaughtered, we would call it......well nothing, we wouldn't even blink an eyelid at the thought.
Its amazing and disturbing how totally blasé we are at killing mammals.
You seem to have missed the fact that CHICKENS ARE NOT MAMMALS.
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That's only because a lot of people haven't yet become as adept at ignoring the adds on social media platforms as they already are on TV and print mediums. This noted effectiveness will wear off as more and more people get used to ignoring a new form of advertising.
You're missing the point here, it will not be ads it'll be your "friends" (ie one of the thousands of people in your social network whom you have never met and can barely distinguish from a week dead chicken).
So your implied mad-skills at "ad" avoidance are not going to help you.
Remember in school you learned that peer-pressure is rubbish an you have better things to do with your life than care about what a bunch of lamebrained retards think?
Well Facebook is peer-pressure on super-steroids - but for some reason many many people believe there's NOTHING fundamentally wrong with it.
On the other hand, there are people who believe that the earth is flat, that nobody landed on the moon, and that Lady Gaga makes "good music".
The wrld is full of complete idiots, are you one of them?
I will NOT be "influenced".
I do not "book my face".
I am not one of the borg.
Pretty soon it will be illegal to "think of the children".
The year is 1984, and thoughtcrime is death.
As deeply enmired as I am in the Apple universe I do have to agree, this new iPhone is pretty much what we all were hoping for when they whipped out the 4S.
It *really* smells like they were hoping to deliver this but LTE-related technical issues prevented delivery so they wedged in the 4S which was nice but not truly uber.
Finally delivering LTE to outside-the-US is nice, faster CPU is nice - but given the new connector (insert hardware refresh here on all my attached devices, I don't do "adaptors") I am 100% staying in the "upgrade every other cycle, at best".
Is Apple following the tick/tock model that Intel has been touting for so many years now?
expecting Klipsch loudspeaker performance from a pair of ear buds
You say "Klipsch Loudspeaker" like they're stunningly impressive, and obviously you've never purchased a high-performance set of earbuds.
Save the pocket-money your mommy gives you for a year and buy yourself a set of Etymotic in-ear "headphones" and pay the extra for the hearing-center fitting.
Despite what all you whiners think it IS possible to get *totally awesome* (no, I'm not implying it's absolutely perfect) sound out of "earbuds", you just have to PAY REAL MONEY for them (oddly enough, cheap-as-shit loudspeakers are *also* pure crap, but you don't hear anybody whining about it)
If they can hologram-to-life Tupac for a music concert I don't see why they cannot ditto His-Jobs-Ness for the next earth-shattering iPhone.
The US Government may have lost enthusiasm and momentum but at least they've stopped putting up incessant roadblocks to commercial entities developing space travel.
Of course they're going to do EXACTLY the same thing with Space Travel that they've in the process of doing with The Internet (ie wait till it *really* gets going well then do their best to completely STIFLE it with regulations-and-taxes).
After all, the true measure of successful governance is MORE REGULATIONS AND TAXES, isn't it?
That many institutions have access to MS Source Code is kinda like instituting a needle-inna-haystack search.
Yes you might find a needle, but unless you're a needle-collector or perhaps a seamstress what in this universe d'you think you're gonna do with it?
At least with Open Source you can
(1) fix the problem with the code
(2) submit the code back to The Author
(3) expect that The Author will either accept the fix as is or perhaps integrate the solution with more elegance
Sure not *always* but the expectation would be more-often-than-not your fix (in one form or another) reaches the wider community of users.
Erm, I'm pretty sure he used the words "have access to" not "have actually audited".
Specifically meaning that in theory they could audit the code.
As opposed to Open Source where people don't just AUDIT code, they actually FIX bugs and security failures and submit the changes back to the origin.
``In addition to creating the light pulse, he created an even faster camera to measure it, which is the Phase Retrieval by Omega Oscillation Filtering (PROOF).''
Apparently when he claimed that it was possible to image a single electron orbiting an atom his supervisor LAUGHED AT HIM and demanded PROOF.
Insert i-double-dares-ya, scientist-rising-to-a-challenge, whoomp-there-it-is.
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
Judging by the state of things (especially our relatively local state) I'd say that's someone's been FORKING THE UNIVERSE as hard as they can for quite some time now.
If the world didn't exist, nobody would be asking why it did.
Oddly enough people have made careers discussing the implication of that observation.
- Does The World Exist so that someone could ask why?
- or Does The World Exist because someone asked why (insert schrodinger-eqsue thought experiment and collapsing waveforms here)
Pure Intellectual Masturbation?
You Say That Like It's A Bad Thing - Let me just remind you where you are posting, sir.
- This Is Slashdot!
- We're all intellectuals (of one sort or another)
- if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself
The Cloud is *such* a wonderful metaphor, especially good for Joe Average Citizen who never had any ph0rkin idea what went on "on the internet" in the first place.
Not only is The Cloud impacted by weather (lightning strikes, electrical failures, overheating Data Centres etc) but it also has a non-trivial impact on Global Climate.
Scientists are still debating whether it's a net INCREASE or DECREASE in global temperature (DCs can be MUCH more power efficient than individual businesses running their own server farms both thermally and electrically, economies of scale, power-efficient DCs, Green Power DCs etc).
Their result was that yes, it is less precise and takes slightly longer, but it is more fun and the average user preferred it. That's why they went with it.
FTFY
Mod Parent Up!
... it doesn't have to be "I code brainfuck in my sleep" but seriously many UI elements these dys are *frustratingly* impossible to use despite all their cute-fluffy-ness.
UI Development to tickle the fancies of Joe "Dumber-and-Dumber" Average Citizen will probably rake in bags of money until your SHIT-FOR-BRAINS interface frustrates too many people and they drop your products for the toxic bullshit they have become.
Here's a clue for EVERYONE developing User Interfaces.
Not all of your users are drooling morons, some of us NEED technically exact and specific interface elements. How about a SETTINGS binary-choice element for "Joe Average" vs "Multiple Buttons on a Mouse Does Not Scare me"
Developers should remember that not all of their users are prepubescent girls foaming over Justin(e) Beiber.
BURN MORE OIL
My how The Times have changed.
When I was a young'un, it was all about Burn The Hippies!
hundreds of millions of people may die
People are taking bets (some people will gamble on everything) and The Money is on BILLIONS of deaths, not just millions.
Personally I think This World could do with something like 30-50% less human beings and the remainder to subsequently learn social, fiscal, ecological responsibility.
The frustrating thing is that The Climate Change Deniers insist that the BEST plan for humanity is to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING until after The Catastrophe has struck.
I, for one, fail to see the wisdom in that stance.
Sure, I fully understand that behaviours less damaging to the environment will be expensive in terms of both money and politics.
But seriously folks this is pretty much the same thing as Your Doctor telling you that you need to do a significant amount of exercise and change your diet if you want to NOT DIE OF A HEART-ATTACK in the next ten years.
The Climate Change Deniers are sitting there in the consult room saying "but PROVE ABSOLUTELY AND CONCLUSIVELY that I will have a heart-attack, and be EXACT and SPECIFIC about when".
Anyone with even half a clue knows that the bad-consequences ARE "the earth shutting-down".
- Sux To Be Us
- Life (for us) will become more harsh, more distressing, less convenient
- Nature / The Earth , on the other hand, doesn't give a flying fart for Human Beings, and will continue on nonetheless
I for one do not believe that things will be as bad as some scientists would claim. If nothing else give-or-take a few hundred million years and you'd never know that Human Beings Completely Screwed Up The Environment.
Yes folks, short of international thermonuclear war nothing "we" do to the environment is really *all that bad*.
Although given our current behaviour it does seem likely we're well on our way to DESTROYING ALL HUMAN LIFE on this planet.
Don't worry folks, as soon as the Climate Change Alarmists (NB not commenting on their correct-ness, just saying "them's whut 're ringing the alarm bells") are proved 100% RIGHT (in the Arctic becoming ice-free) the Wisdom Of The Deniers will suddenly perform an about-face and loudly proclaim "yeah well so what , now PROVE that this is absolutely and necessarily BAD".
The joys of being a RELIGIOUS FANATIC is that you can keep moving the goalposts in an endless "blind faith means you're never having to admit you're wrong" litany.
We're seeing EXACTLY this same behaviour here in Australia. The Glorious Leader of The Opposition INSISTED that The Carbon Tax would have an IMMEDIATE and DEVASTATING impact on the economy.
Now that he's been proved CONCLUSIVELY wrong on that specific count, he's turned about and is loudly claiming "Yeah Well trust me, I'm right and you're wrong, it'll be devastating just in the long term".
You sir are an important point of this website:
"it's new" implies "it's news"
and the tag line DOES say "news for nerds...."
why anyone is complaining so loudly.
This behaviour is the natural and logical outcome of the current patent system.
Did anybody seriously expect anything different?
But I was surprised to hear the countdown skiping the ONE and going straight to (ie launch).
If 8 million chickens were slaughtered, we would call it......well nothing, we wouldn't even blink an eyelid at the thought. Its amazing and disturbing how totally blasé we are at killing mammals.
You seem to have missed the fact that CHICKENS ARE NOT MAMMALS.
Your slashdot privileges have now been REVOKED.
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