This is what Bioshock was like to me, a movie that required input. Games that are too easy are not fun.
Whereas when I played Bioshock, I was usually scared out of my mind. "All I'll lose if I die is some inventory, so why not treat it casually" didn't enter into my head -- dying was still, well, dying, and avoiding it was benefit enough.
My carrier, at least, redirects HTTP connections that look like they're coming from desktop PCs unless one is paying for a tethering plan -- but they have no beef at all (at least, they make no efforts to prevent) traffic passing through the phone from my tablet (thus having an Android user-agent).
(It's also straightforward enough to evade their redirection by passing traffic over a non-HTTP port -- OpenVPN, HTTPS, tor,... -- but that's neither here nor there).
I loathe the "cloud" (and since this is a Wi-Fi-only device, it's not a viable solution anyway)
How many people carrying around a Nexus 10 won't have a Bluetooth-enabled smartphone in their pockets?
If the tablet always has connectivity when it's near your phone, why would you want to pay your carrier $30/mo (or whatever) for the privilege of having separate connectivity?
I'm waiting for a sufficiently stupid (read: not loaded up with clever bloatware) little smart phone
The Nexus line are pretty good about this; if you buy them direct from Google and not through a carrier, they won't be loaded down with much, and if you want more control than that, you can root them using manufacturer-supported (albeit warranty-voiding) tools.
The down side is that you're limited with respect to choice of pay-as-you-go carriers (as quite a lot of them resell Sprint service, and so aren't compatible with these phones).
He was responding to a post which was clearly discussing USB standards. Additionally, requiring a proprietary cable to plug into a proprietary connector to get around USB charging limitations adds nothing to an argument for standardizing on USB charging.
I quite disagree. Standardizing on USB compatibility as a lowest common denominator is a perfectly reasonable stopgap until the as-yet unreleased version of the standard makes having a stopgap unnecessary. Speaking as an end user, I'd far rather be able to charge slowly off a standard connector than to get no functionality at all without using proprietary hardware.
The practicality and utility of such a stopgap is entirely relevant in a discussion on USB charging.
There's a shop I used to work at in the past that did kernel ports to custom architectures, custom drivers, etc.
Now, you could pay us to do the work and keep it in-house... and when a new upstream kernel version came out, you could pay us to do it again.
Or, you could pay us to do the work, and pay us to do the extra work of getting it upstream once... and not have to pay for ports to every new upstream release.
We didn't have to try very hard to sell the second option.
Well, the most obvious answer would seem to be spread of disease.
That would be an argument in favor of regulation -- mandatory training (regarding barrier use and recognition of visible signs of common STDs) and testing. There's a reason it's rare enough to make news when an STD breaks out in the porn community.
I've researched. Which is "my team?" Which "team" represents the interests of the 99%? Since you're apparently relying on an erroneous/planted/compromised/imaginary codebook, allow me to offer a clue in English plaintext: NONE OF THEM.
Simply because none of the options are what you want doesn't mean it doesn't matter which one you get.
A trendy enough thing to say, but falls on its face out here in the Real World.
Speaking for myself, here -- I don't want to be chained to working for a megacorp to be able to buy decent health insurance. I've done that, and it sucked. If we can make it to 2014 without repeal of legislation scheduled to be enacted, I'll actually be able to buy a decent individual policy at a reasonable price, even if I'm working for myself.
Second -- there are groups I'm active in (one regarding transportation policy, the other focusing on marriage equality) where the difference between the parties on matters important to us is night and day. Which party controls Congress (and, to a lesser but by no means trivial extent, the executive branch) makes a serious difference in terms of what we're doing -- as in, fighting for incremental improvements vs fighting to avoid repeal of the last 20 years of progress -- so this "they're all the same" BS falls completely flat when exposed to actual practice.
How would you manage to make the micro-USB plug give you digital audio and video in HDMI?
Don't pay much attention, do you? Video-over-USB is totally a thing that exists, and there are phone companies that do this already -- my Galaxy Nexus has a dock that plugs into the USB port only and has analog and HDMI outputs.
And, err, serial? Really? Of course you can do serial over USB.
Depends on just who this is. Last time I wrote to my state senator -- with a proposal regarding traffic laws (the way state laws are written, a pair of cyclists riding two astride need to yield the lane in cases where a single cyclist is legally able to hold it for themselves) -- I got a personally researched letter back. I didn't agree with his decision (in favor of maintaining things as currently written), but he went as far as to ask the transportation department for their opinion and to make a sound, reasoned argument.
Even today, some politicians actually do their jobs.
The roads were made for cars and truck to ride on not bikes.
Wrong! Modern roadway standards were created by legislation sponsored by the League of American Wheelmen -- now the organization known as the League of American Bicyclists.
But when we share the road and cyclists do not follow the rules and still bitch about not getting what they want, sorry cyclists are not above the law.
Believe you me -- that pisses nobody off as much as the cyclists who do follow the laws and get a bad rap from the idiots who don't.
1. had there been a strong punative element to the settlement, then perhaps others would be less brazen about such willful copyright violation as google had engaged in. and let's be clear - that's exactly what it was.
I disagree -- the fair-use argument seems clear.
Yes, it was commercial. However, it was structured in such a way as to increase rather than diminish the value of the works so copied (sharing a subset calculated to advertise the value of the work while still leaving its market value intact) -- another major tenant. As for "not for any particularly educational purpose", that's hard to swallow -- web search educates the public as its primary purpose. "People who should have known better" presumes that those people view the fair-use balance the same way you do -- clearly untrue on its face.
Google's book-scanning program was calculated to serve the public good -- the same thing copyright as a whole is intended for. I find it severely disappointing that the courts failed failed to find this plainly so.
Besides, driving shouldn't be a privilege, it should be a right.
Use of the roads is a right. You're perfectly welcome to get on a bicycle (including, in almost all states, one with an electric-assist kit attached) or on your own two feet and use the roads your local sales and property taxes pay for (which is to say, city streets). Highways, by contrast, are (supposedly, in practice closer to 50%) funded by use taxes paid for by motorists... and guess what, not all highways allow pedestrians or cyclists.
Now, if you want to use them in a way that generates danger to others... well, of course that's a matter where legal restrictions are reasonable and appropriate.
Unless your perfect girl is the sort of person who sits at home alone (or with you:p), reading slashdot (or equivalent sites). In which case I recommend okcupid. (Because that's where most of the people like that hang out, assuming they're looking for a partner to be antisocial and shun the world with).
This is very much a YMMV (says the person waiting for his fiancee to get home from a rehearsal for a play coming up next month). Another interesting date from OKC was a (smoking hot) law student and serial entrepreneur -- frankly, I might have pressed more for a follow-up if it had felt more like a date and less like a competition over who had the more interesting career (and that would be her, by quite a long shot).
Back to the fiancee -- when she was first introducing me to her friends, they were utterly flabbergasted to learn that was where we met, since "nobody" finds Mr/Mrs Right on OKCupid. That said, our relationship otherwise isn't topical -- completely different fields; her various careers have included catering, jewelrymaking, acting (mostly stage and a few indie films), teaching, nannying... the closest thing we have to an overlapping skillset is entry-level DBA work.
Frankly, I quite like that we have large areas of knowledge that overlap very little -- there's a very great deal I can learn just from being around her, which is something I quite enjoy. I dated an electrical engineer for a bit in college, and found that most of the places where our knowledge bases overlapped tended to be points of friction.
well, this sounds funny, particularly since nowadays, you can get an iphone charger anywhere, but good luck trying to find a nokia, rim or samsung one...
Because Nokia, RIM and Samsung are all doing the sane thing and standardizing on MicroUSB.
I disagree - I think it's easier than ever to get started with programming. The kids of today have an entire Internet full of programming tutorials.
Tutorials that teach them how to use high-level tools with no low-level understanding of what those tools actually do. Not saying that the Pi does this entirely, but I think there's a lot of value to getting started without so many layers of abstraction in the way.
There are far too many people in software today for which everything under the JVM (or otherwise, runtime environment provided by their language of choice) is just "magic". It might be easier to get started at churning out high-level programs, but not at understanding what makes them tick.
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Whereas when I played Bioshock, I was usually scared out of my mind. "All I'll lose if I die is some inventory, so why not treat it casually" didn't enter into my head -- dying was still, well, dying, and avoiding it was benefit enough.
There's room for player-generated motivation.
Have a dictionary definition of "fuck up" handy? My colloquial understanding doesn't draw such a hard line.
Really? An investigation never reaches an inaccurate conclusion?
That's... quite a reality you live in.
My carrier, at least, redirects HTTP connections that look like they're coming from desktop PCs unless one is paying for a tethering plan -- but they have no beef at all (at least, they make no efforts to prevent) traffic passing through the phone from my tablet (thus having an Android user-agent).
(It's also straightforward enough to evade their redirection by passing traffic over a non-HTTP port -- OpenVPN, HTTPS, tor, ... -- but that's neither here nor there).
How many people carrying around a Nexus 10 won't have a Bluetooth-enabled smartphone in their pockets?
If the tablet always has connectivity when it's near your phone, why would you want to pay your carrier $30/mo (or whatever) for the privilege of having separate connectivity?
The Nexus line are pretty good about this; if you buy them direct from Google and not through a carrier, they won't be loaded down with much, and if you want more control than that, you can root them using manufacturer-supported (albeit warranty-voiding) tools.
The down side is that you're limited with respect to choice of pay-as-you-go carriers (as quite a lot of them resell Sprint service, and so aren't compatible with these phones).
I quite disagree. Standardizing on USB compatibility as a lowest common denominator is a perfectly reasonable stopgap until the as-yet unreleased version of the standard makes having a stopgap unnecessary. Speaking as an end user, I'd far rather be able to charge slowly off a standard connector than to get no functionality at all without using proprietary hardware.
The practicality and utility of such a stopgap is entirely relevant in a discussion on USB charging.
Which is why the parent said "standards compatible", as opposed to "standards compliant". Read carefully much?
There's a shop I used to work at in the past that did kernel ports to custom architectures, custom drivers, etc.
Now, you could pay us to do the work and keep it in-house... and when a new upstream kernel version came out, you could pay us to do it again.
Or, you could pay us to do the work, and pay us to do the extra work of getting it upstream once... and not have to pay for ports to every new upstream release.
We didn't have to try very hard to sell the second option.
Uhh... huh.
Me and my $3500 American-made custom-frame folder (a step down in price -- last US-made custom-frame bike was $12k before aftermarket tweaks) will just continue to boggle at your attitude there.
That would be an argument in favor of regulation -- mandatory training (regarding barrier use and recognition of visible signs of common STDs) and testing. There's a reason it's rare enough to make news when an STD breaks out in the porn community.
Simply because none of the options are what you want doesn't mean it doesn't matter which one you get.
A trendy enough thing to say, but falls on its face out here in the Real World.
Speaking for myself, here -- I don't want to be chained to working for a megacorp to be able to buy decent health insurance. I've done that, and it sucked. If we can make it to 2014 without repeal of legislation scheduled to be enacted, I'll actually be able to buy a decent individual policy at a reasonable price, even if I'm working for myself.
Second -- there are groups I'm active in (one regarding transportation policy, the other focusing on marriage equality) where the difference between the parties on matters important to us is night and day. Which party controls Congress (and, to a lesser but by no means trivial extent, the executive branch) makes a serious difference in terms of what we're doing -- as in, fighting for incremental improvements vs fighting to avoid repeal of the last 20 years of progress -- so this "they're all the same" BS falls completely flat when exposed to actual practice.
Don't pay much attention, do you? Video-over-USB is totally a thing that exists, and there are phone companies that do this already -- my Galaxy Nexus has a dock that plugs into the USB port only and has analog and HDMI outputs.
And, err, serial? Really? Of course you can do serial over USB.
Depends on just who this is. Last time I wrote to my state senator -- with a proposal regarding traffic laws (the way state laws are written, a pair of cyclists riding two astride need to yield the lane in cases where a single cyclist is legally able to hold it for themselves) -- I got a personally researched letter back. I didn't agree with his decision (in favor of maintaining things as currently written), but he went as far as to ask the transportation department for their opinion and to make a sound, reasoned argument.
Even today, some politicians actually do their jobs.
Wrong! Modern roadway standards were created by legislation sponsored by the League of American Wheelmen -- now the organization known as the League of American Bicyclists.
Believe you me -- that pisses nobody off as much as the cyclists who do follow the laws and get a bad rap from the idiots who don't.
I disagree -- the fair-use argument seems clear.
Yes, it was commercial. However, it was structured in such a way as to increase rather than diminish the value of the works so copied (sharing a subset calculated to advertise the value of the work while still leaving its market value intact) -- another major tenant. As for "not for any particularly educational purpose", that's hard to swallow -- web search educates the public as its primary purpose. "People who should have known better" presumes that those people view the fair-use balance the same way you do -- clearly untrue on its face.
Google's book-scanning program was calculated to serve the public good -- the same thing copyright as a whole is intended for. I find it severely disappointing that the courts failed failed to find this plainly so.
Use of the roads is a right. You're perfectly welcome to get on a bicycle (including, in almost all states, one with an electric-assist kit attached) or on your own two feet and use the roads your local sales and property taxes pay for (which is to say, city streets). Highways, by contrast, are (supposedly, in practice closer to 50%) funded by use taxes paid for by motorists... and guess what, not all highways allow pedestrians or cyclists.
Now, if you want to use them in a way that generates danger to others... well, of course that's a matter where legal restrictions are reasonable and appropriate.
This is very much a YMMV (says the person waiting for his fiancee to get home from a rehearsal for a play coming up next month). Another interesting date from OKC was a (smoking hot) law student and serial entrepreneur -- frankly, I might have pressed more for a follow-up if it had felt more like a date and less like a competition over who had the more interesting career (and that would be her, by quite a long shot).
Back to the fiancee -- when she was first introducing me to her friends, they were utterly flabbergasted to learn that was where we met, since "nobody" finds Mr/Mrs Right on OKCupid. That said, our relationship otherwise isn't topical -- completely different fields; her various careers have included catering, jewelrymaking, acting (mostly stage and a few indie films), teaching, nannying... the closest thing we have to an overlapping skillset is entry-level DBA work.
Frankly, I quite like that we have large areas of knowledge that overlap very little -- there's a very great deal I can learn just from being around her, which is something I quite enjoy. I dated an electrical engineer for a bit in college, and found that most of the places where our knowledge bases overlapped tended to be points of friction.
It isn't known whether there are undisclosed submarine patents for licensed codecs either.
If those licenses came with insurance against suits from non-parties to the licensing pool, then maybe it'd be worth something.
Because Nokia, RIM and Samsung are all doing the sane thing and standardizing on MicroUSB.
If an action one took was legal at the time it was done, one doesn't need an amnesty.
With a whole lot of tuning and optimization, that is -- certainly not free.
I don't remember whether the 1%-2% was requiring client-side support as well.
Tutorials that teach them how to use high-level tools with no low-level understanding of what those tools actually do. Not saying that the Pi does this entirely, but I think there's a lot of value to getting started without so many layers of abstraction in the way.
There are far too many people in software today for which everything under the JVM (or otherwise, runtime environment provided by their language of choice) is just "magic". It might be easier to get started at churning out high-level programs, but not at understanding what makes them tick.
Sure, but some actions are taken to minimize cost centers.
Like cleanup after a security breach.