...slashdot wouldn't trump about how few corporate users visit their site.
But then that's the Linux attitude all over - not 'our userbase is one hundredth of the world', more 'our userbase has grown by 4000%!'
Is that better or worse than Microsoft's attitude? Not "Our userbase is rapidly shrinking daily", more "Our userbase is still sorta high!". It's all relative.
And why does a tech site need corporate visitors? Am I only allowed to consider technology and follow its development if I'm working in a cube at the time? Do I need to be a shareholder or a CTO to be able to think "this is kind of cool!" or "this kind of sucks!"?
What are you talking about? Everyone knows Pi Day is clearly 21 July or March 1, depending on where you are. That's what the Indiana state legislature told me!
Now Carriers and Phone Manufacturers will blame dropped calls, phone flakiness, phone failures of malicious messages from hackers. Before, it was, "well you have to expect that with radio signals" or sunspots, or that you abused the phone.
Anything for a cell phone provider to avoid responsibility for their failure to deliver services or features they promised.
Worse. They'll start implementing some sort of filtering for this, even for phones that aren't affected. And then they'll claim they're "justified" in charging through the nose and/or teeth for SMS messages (as well as increasing the price regardless, naturally) because of all these wonderful, magical filters they're providing. The fools! Why did they have to report this? They've doomed us all!
That William Shatner has, for more than the last decade, made an entire career out of being a parody of himself?
I think it started with those Priceline commercials where he was singing "I've got two tickets to paradise..", and since then, all he's done is essentially do an SNL skit where William Shatner plays William Shatner hamming it up.
And only he could get away with it.
Yeah, I was just thinking about that. Except when it came across my mind, it was Adam West. As in the term, "Adam Westing", as it's come to be known in some circles. And how he was doing it while Shatner was still acting like an ass to his former castmates.
Not that I'm complaining; Shatner really needed to get over himself and stop taking himself so seriously, of course.
So he was in a playground, safely fenced in, with safety-inspected and groomed trees, and not out in the woods like we were. Yes, that's quite namby-pamby.
*sigh* Okay, fine, everyone, I'll ask him. So how far DID you have to walk uphill both ways in the snow while dragging your knees through lava rock just to get to school, grandpa?
I don't mean balance in the sense of providing the truth, but if you are fed left wing bias and right wing bias then somewhere in the middle lies the truth which hopefully someone could figure out.
No, that's like saying the color balance on a photograph you've taken is off, so to compensate you just oversaturate the other colors wildly and crank up the contrast. You don't wind up with a balanced middle road that produces a good picture. What you wind up with is, at best, a hideous parody of your original picture, consisting of recognizable forms, per se, but with no gradients of color and frequently the wrong colors to begin with, each of which are separated by huge gulfs of empty voids where the contrast made the borders between colors into vast divisions where they should have blended to make a better picture. You ruin the picture and nobody who actually cares about photography or art wants to look at it.
All these people saying "who cares, it's cool!" should consider whether it's still cool if all the planes fell to the ground within 100 miles of the launch point and none have yet been found.
Yes. Yes, that would still be cool. How far have YOU had a paper airplane travel lately?
Hell, the mere act of dropping a hundred paper airplanes from 122,503 feet, regardless of how far they all go, is still pretty damn awesome, all things considered.
Ah, you see, that's the genius part! Because with these, we're also introducing our brand new electric wood screws and wood glue! They combine all the usefulness of your old wood screws and glue with... um... electricity! That makes them better! It does. Shut up. But, see, without power, they don't hold themselves together, and your table will fall apart! Hence the need for energy from dead pests!
See? It all makes perfect sense! You just need to think outside the box more often!
If there is no law that requires a succession plan, then Apple should not be made to make a plan.
Whoever said anything about a law? The shareholders have stated they want to see one due to uneasiness about the situation and/or lack of faith the company has any preparations for what happens after Jobs leaves. If they don't get one, they may take their cash and leave. It's their money, they're perfectly in their rights to do so, and there's also no law that says they must keep their money with Apple.
Now, a law probably DOES enforce the part of the scenario involving the shareholders taking their money and leaving, but of course there's no law forcing Apple to provide a succession plan for their shareholders. This does not, however, mean there are no consequences for not doing so. If, for instance, you stood somebody up on a date, though there's no law against it, there certainly are still consequences for it.
Heavens, no! If he was trying to hush him up, THAT would require Forms 4229-332B/1 through 4229-335E/9.83 filled out in triplicate and notarized in accordance with Publication 90B-334A (the Bureaucrat and Civil Servant Protection Act of 1934 (as updated June 1986 (as amended September 1994))) before it could be signed off by the Chief Clerk of the Person Removal and Silence Bureau for the county at the county board meeting for the next quarter! What are you, NUTS?
x264 is not a patent trap, its patent implications are well known. WebM, on the other hand, is a patent trap - nobody knows who's going to come out of the woodwork to sue over some small piece of it that someone has a vague patent over.
"This hallway contains a series of traps. You will have spinning blades firing at your neck, boiling lava poured in, spiked walls crushing you, pillars crashing down from the ceiling to flatten you against the floor, angry poisonous snakes shot at you slingshot-style, sheer 500-foot dropoffs after blind turns, and a group of moody natives at the end who, at their whim, will force you back through the hallway once in a while for their own personal amusement and profit. Most of your popular friends chose this hallway, and you haven't heard from many of them in a while.
This other hallway is kinda empty. But, it might contain a few armed bear traps. *pause* We had a few inspectors look through it and they said it was safe, but those guys are total dweebs, y'know? I hate 'em. I mean, look at them, they're a bunch of ugly nerds. *pause* And this hallway's all boring and unpopular and nobody goes down it so what are you some kind of stupid nerd? *looks around cagily for a couple seconds* Ooo, scaaaaaary hallwaaaaaaay! What, do you want to live forever? Now, make your choice!"
(at a well-known company that makes security products involving pigs)
I'd suggest you take a good review of your company's product line. Seems all it takes to thwart your security is a ragtag group of birds with a large slingshot and good aim.
It may not matter very much, but it definitely is "news for nerds", in that nerds are the only one who would even notice. They never said it was "news for nerds && stuff that matters".
New research suggests that the clear screens and easily read fonts of e-readers makes your brain "lazy."
Given that introduction, TFA is made of epic fail if it lacks the following two elements:
Use of any phrase similar to "Researchers went on to state that, when they were the age which most E-Reader users are now, they had much more difficult paper from which to read, which, they claim, kept their minds sharp as a tack, unlike what they describe as 'you whippersnappers' get babied with these days."
A conclusion that involves the strong implication that the reader should get off the researchers' lawns.
Does Comcast simply not care about their customer satisfaction ratings, or are they on a quest to consciously plunge their ratings into the gutter?
They do not care. Period.
Back when they were the only game in town TV-wise where I grew up (that is, back when "satellite TV" meant "cumbersome gigantic dish that wouldn't fit very easily in a suburban backyard or rooftop and required some expertise to set up and maintain"), they would charge absurd amounts of money for less than 30 channels. Maybe around 20, come to think of it, most of the 30 were scrambled premium channels. Customer service stopped just short of "abusive", signals would be lost on a regular basis, and they liked pulling tricks like canceling your cable service without notice unless you coughed up extra fees for worse television. They just didn't care. What were you going to do, move? It's not like you had any other choice.
Then along came the choice of RCA's first DSS dishes (what we would now call "DirecTV"; back then, the dish had two separate services, DirecTV for the more-or-less basic channels and PPV, USSB for the premium stuff and a few owned-by-the-premium-guys basic channels). Poof! Comcast could suddenly pull 70 channels out of their ass! Wow! Where'd THOSE come from? They must've been just sitting under a couch somewhere, right? And shazam! Prices went down (not much, but slightly)! Incredible! I guess they made their riches and didn't need any more! Man! What a complete and utter coincidence that their service just improved so much at the exact same moment they had some manner of competition they couldn't legally regulate away!
Shame my parents had switched to DirecTV basically as soon as it came out. To this day, Comcast still sends out door-to-door salesdrones to try to con my dad into switching back. My dad has quite a bit of fun dealing with them verbally.
The point is, so long as they hold their monopoly, they seriously just don't care. They'll gleefully treat their customers like dirt, overcharge for their services, and treat said service like dirt, too. They know they'll keep raking in cash. And Comcast refuses to do business anywhere they CAN'T get a monopoly, so they don't even need to know HOW to deal with competition. But, put the threat of worthwhile competition in, and they'll change their tune quickly (and temporarily). Either they'll get on the local municipality's case to make the incoming competition illegal or, failing that, they'll pull concessions out of thin air and try to make you believe it was coincidence that they were treating you like shit all these years before.
Shawn Mangano, the attorney who filed the lawsuit on Righthaven's behalf, says it is the first time Righthaven has sued over use of a copyrighted illustration.
He then added, "So, immediately taking complete administrative, editorial, and publishing control of a website IS the right amount of punishment to expect for unauthorized use of one single image, right? I mean, we ARE new at this, we don't want to look like overreacting jackasses who don't know what we're talking about. That'd just be embarrassing!"
Actually, I take that back. Given what the MPAA/RIAA seem to want, that seems light of a punishment.
Slashdot Mirror
...slashdot wouldn't trump about how few corporate users visit their site.
But then that's the Linux attitude all over - not 'our userbase is one hundredth of the world', more 'our userbase has grown by 4000%!'
Is that better or worse than Microsoft's attitude? Not "Our userbase is rapidly shrinking daily", more "Our userbase is still sorta high!". It's all relative.
And why does a tech site need corporate visitors? Am I only allowed to consider technology and follow its development if I'm working in a cube at the time? Do I need to be a shareholder or a CTO to be able to think "this is kind of cool!" or "this kind of sucks!"?
What are you talking about? Everyone knows Pi Day is clearly 21 July or March 1, depending on where you are. That's what the Indiana state legislature told me!
Now Carriers and Phone Manufacturers will blame dropped calls, phone flakiness, phone failures of malicious messages from hackers. Before, it was, "well you have to expect that with radio signals" or sunspots, or that you abused the phone.
Anything for a cell phone provider to avoid responsibility for their failure to deliver services or features they promised.
Worse. They'll start implementing some sort of filtering for this, even for phones that aren't affected. And then they'll claim they're "justified" in charging through the nose and/or teeth for SMS messages (as well as increasing the price regardless, naturally) because of all these wonderful, magical filters they're providing. The fools! Why did they have to report this? They've doomed us all!
That William Shatner has, for more than the last decade, made an entire career out of being a parody of himself?
I think it started with those Priceline commercials where he was singing "I've got two tickets to paradise..", and since then, all he's done is essentially do an SNL skit where William Shatner plays William Shatner hamming it up.
And only he could get away with it.
Yeah, I was just thinking about that. Except when it came across my mind, it was Adam West. As in the term, "Adam Westing", as it's come to be known in some circles. And how he was doing it while Shatner was still acting like an ass to his former castmates.
Not that I'm complaining; Shatner really needed to get over himself and stop taking himself so seriously, of course.
So he was in a playground, safely fenced in, with safety-inspected and groomed trees, and not out in the woods like we were. Yes, that's quite namby-pamby.
*sigh* Okay, fine, everyone, I'll ask him. So how far DID you have to walk uphill both ways in the snow while dragging your knees through lava rock just to get to school, grandpa?
What? No appreciation here for the satisfaction of using your bare hands?
I don't mean balance in the sense of providing the truth, but if you are fed left wing bias and right wing bias then somewhere in the middle lies the truth which hopefully someone could figure out.
No, that's like saying the color balance on a photograph you've taken is off, so to compensate you just oversaturate the other colors wildly and crank up the contrast. You don't wind up with a balanced middle road that produces a good picture. What you wind up with is, at best, a hideous parody of your original picture, consisting of recognizable forms, per se, but with no gradients of color and frequently the wrong colors to begin with, each of which are separated by huge gulfs of empty voids where the contrast made the borders between colors into vast divisions where they should have blended to make a better picture. You ruin the picture and nobody who actually cares about photography or art wants to look at it.
All these people saying "who cares, it's cool!" should consider whether it's still cool if all the planes fell to the ground within 100 miles of the launch point and none have yet been found.
Yes. Yes, that would still be cool. How far have YOU had a paper airplane travel lately?
Hell, the mere act of dropping a hundred paper airplanes from 122,503 feet, regardless of how far they all go, is still pretty damn awesome, all things considered.
Honestly, no sense of wonder anywhere anymore.
What does a coffee table need energy FOR?!
Ah, you see, that's the genius part! Because with these, we're also introducing our brand new electric wood screws and wood glue! They combine all the usefulness of your old wood screws and glue with... um... electricity! That makes them better! It does. Shut up. But, see, without power, they don't hold themselves together, and your table will fall apart! Hence the need for energy from dead pests!
See? It all makes perfect sense! You just need to think outside the box more often!
If there is no law that requires a succession plan, then Apple should not be made to make a plan.
Whoever said anything about a law? The shareholders have stated they want to see one due to uneasiness about the situation and/or lack of faith the company has any preparations for what happens after Jobs leaves. If they don't get one, they may take their cash and leave. It's their money, they're perfectly in their rights to do so, and there's also no law that says they must keep their money with Apple.
Now, a law probably DOES enforce the part of the scenario involving the shareholders taking their money and leaving, but of course there's no law forcing Apple to provide a succession plan for their shareholders. This does not, however, mean there are no consequences for not doing so. If, for instance, you stood somebody up on a date, though there's no law against it, there certainly are still consequences for it.
Riiiight.
Typical bureaucrat.
Heavens, no! If he was trying to hush him up, THAT would require Forms 4229-332B/1 through 4229-335E/9.83 filled out in triplicate and notarized in accordance with Publication 90B-334A (the Bureaucrat and Civil Servant Protection Act of 1934 (as updated June 1986 (as amended September 1994))) before it could be signed off by the Chief Clerk of the Person Removal and Silence Bureau for the county at the county board meeting for the next quarter! What are you, NUTS?
x264 is not a patent trap, its patent implications are well known. WebM, on the other hand, is a patent trap - nobody knows who's going to come out of the woodwork to sue over some small piece of it that someone has a vague patent over.
"This hallway contains a series of traps. You will have spinning blades firing at your neck, boiling lava poured in, spiked walls crushing you, pillars crashing down from the ceiling to flatten you against the floor, angry poisonous snakes shot at you slingshot-style, sheer 500-foot dropoffs after blind turns, and a group of moody natives at the end who, at their whim, will force you back through the hallway once in a while for their own personal amusement and profit. Most of your popular friends chose this hallway, and you haven't heard from many of them in a while.
This other hallway is kinda empty. But, it might contain a few armed bear traps. *pause* We had a few inspectors look through it and they said it was safe, but those guys are total dweebs, y'know? I hate 'em. I mean, look at them, they're a bunch of ugly nerds. *pause* And this hallway's all boring and unpopular and nobody goes down it so what are you some kind of stupid nerd? *looks around cagily for a couple seconds* Ooo, scaaaaaary hallwaaaaaaay! What, do you want to live forever? Now, make your choice!"
(at a well-known company that makes security products involving pigs)
I'd suggest you take a good review of your company's product line. Seems all it takes to thwart your security is a ragtag group of birds with a large slingshot and good aim.
Microsoft has been using http://tempuri.org/ as a default namespace in webservices. So far it worked pretty good.
Let me know when they use tempura instead. That'd be a more interesting example.
It may not matter very much, but it definitely is "news for nerds", in that nerds are the only one who would even notice. They never said it was "news for nerds && stuff that matters".
I was wondering what Popcap was going to do for the sequel to Plants vs. Zombies. I guess Plants vs. Terrorists would work well enough.
Okay, okay, fine. Just have them play Paranoia instead. That oughta screw up the Court of Appeals.
How exactly is any one TLD more or less capable of being used by pirates than any other?
Because it's about music, which, as they keep reminding us, was clearly entirely an invention of the RIAA.
Ah, so what you'd have is QWOP: The FPS?
...okay, honestly, that would be hilarious.
Oh, and one more thing... (pulls out BFG and mows down audience)
Wrong series, man. :-)
New research suggests that the clear screens and easily read fonts of e-readers makes your brain "lazy."
Given that introduction, TFA is made of epic fail if it lacks the following two elements:
You talk as if the hardware would exist, without the software store
Few people remember this, but there was a time it did.
It was never really meant as a meme but rather a quick way to convey your concurrence to a statement.
Gotta be honest here: "It's an AOL-style 'me too!' for a new generation" doesn't quite endear me to it at all.
Does Comcast simply not care about their customer satisfaction ratings, or are they on a quest to consciously plunge their ratings into the gutter?
They do not care. Period.
Back when they were the only game in town TV-wise where I grew up (that is, back when "satellite TV" meant "cumbersome gigantic dish that wouldn't fit very easily in a suburban backyard or rooftop and required some expertise to set up and maintain"), they would charge absurd amounts of money for less than 30 channels. Maybe around 20, come to think of it, most of the 30 were scrambled premium channels. Customer service stopped just short of "abusive", signals would be lost on a regular basis, and they liked pulling tricks like canceling your cable service without notice unless you coughed up extra fees for worse television. They just didn't care. What were you going to do, move? It's not like you had any other choice.
Then along came the choice of RCA's first DSS dishes (what we would now call "DirecTV"; back then, the dish had two separate services, DirecTV for the more-or-less basic channels and PPV, USSB for the premium stuff and a few owned-by-the-premium-guys basic channels). Poof! Comcast could suddenly pull 70 channels out of their ass! Wow! Where'd THOSE come from? They must've been just sitting under a couch somewhere, right? And shazam! Prices went down (not much, but slightly)! Incredible! I guess they made their riches and didn't need any more! Man! What a complete and utter coincidence that their service just improved so much at the exact same moment they had some manner of competition they couldn't legally regulate away!
Shame my parents had switched to DirecTV basically as soon as it came out. To this day, Comcast still sends out door-to-door salesdrones to try to con my dad into switching back. My dad has quite a bit of fun dealing with them verbally.
The point is, so long as they hold their monopoly, they seriously just don't care. They'll gleefully treat their customers like dirt, overcharge for their services, and treat said service like dirt, too. They know they'll keep raking in cash. And Comcast refuses to do business anywhere they CAN'T get a monopoly, so they don't even need to know HOW to deal with competition. But, put the threat of worthwhile competition in, and they'll change their tune quickly (and temporarily). Either they'll get on the local municipality's case to make the incoming competition illegal or, failing that, they'll pull concessions out of thin air and try to make you believe it was coincidence that they were treating you like shit all these years before.
Shawn Mangano, the attorney who filed the lawsuit on Righthaven's behalf, says it is the first time Righthaven has sued over use of a copyrighted illustration.
He then added, "So, immediately taking complete administrative, editorial, and publishing control of a website IS the right amount of punishment to expect for unauthorized use of one single image, right? I mean, we ARE new at this, we don't want to look like overreacting jackasses who don't know what we're talking about. That'd just be embarrassing!"
Actually, I take that back. Given what the MPAA/RIAA seem to want, that seems light of a punishment.