Had Facebook worked on this shit a lot earlier, the current global political trend of far-right populism would probably have been prevented. Now, you have people like Duterte, Trump, Erdogan, Bolsonaro, Modi, et al, running a significant portion of the world.
1) Fabiano Caruana - Italian-American chess prodigy who once played for Italy
2) Wesley So - chess prodigy born and raised in the Philippines; So transferred to the US 4 years ago as his country's federation could not adequately support him
3) Hikaru Nakamura - Japanese-American chess prodigy who was born in Japan but moved to the US at age 2, his Sri Lankan stepfather taught him how to play
Immigration is a key factor in the recent rise of US chess.
Facebook is committed to answer to the US government as it is an American company and conducts business under its regulatory control.
But what about in countries where almost the entire citizenry relies on Facebook as its primary source of information? One of these is the Philippines, where once tabloids and tv dominated, today Facebook is THE biggest medium to disseminate information, thanks to the mobile phone and subsidized access to Facebook courtesy of the telco duopoly.
Duterte's campaign team used it to propel a known murderer into the presidency, whereby he immediately implemented his War on Drugs which has since claimed over 12,000 lives. His first two years in office has also seen the economy plummet to new lows, with inflation at its highest in close to a decade and currently the highest in asia.
And now that Duterte's social media propaganda is state-sponsored, you can then understand why his approval ratings are the highest in history. This is even if his sound bites make Trump sound like Anne Frank in comparison (even more so in the vernacular).
I am unsure if Facebook will be able to fix itself because if it doesn't, you can very well imagine what the consequences are for Filipinos.
Gamification means adding gaming elements such as badges and achievements to an otherwise unchanged mundane activity like working, learning or doing chores.
It is an old buzzword, nearing two decades now. But it definitely is _not_ just adding badges and achievements to a syllabus.
In fact, what you mentioned is the dreaded "PBL Fallacy". This is a common mistake by content developers to simply add Points, Badges, and Leaderboards to any learning module and then assume it automatically "gamifies" the content. I've seen this done wrongly so many times that it actually makes the modules worse instead of more engaging.
Short of turning the entire curriculum into a game, learning and development has had multiple schools of thought on gamification. My current favorite is the Octalysis model by SoCal developer Yu-kai Chou
ZTE will easily recoup the $1B just by the fact that its share price will certainly jump up with this news alone. Essentially, ZTE will have suffered very little penalties after all the transgressions it has done against the US. This sets a precedent that many other foreign companies with good ties to their government will surely follow.
Good proc speeds with vanilla Android and very affordable pricing wasn't a bad model, they just didn't market it well. Frankly, not having it available for consumers to buy one easily in the vast majority of the world is just plain dumb.
Don't expect Samsung's support of Tizen to be similar to how Google supports/develops Android and Nexus devices. As a former user of Bada (which Tizen supposedly evolved from), support for an OS by Samsung will be similar to how they support firmware for their phones and TV's at the moment: you will get one major update (two if you're lucky) and that's about it.
When the next Tizen release arrives, expect your device to be incompatible to it and, hence, not be supported anymore.
The Nexus 4 had inferior color rendering to the LG Optimus G, even if the screen and GPUs of both phones are exactly the same. You had to root the N4 and recalibrate the colors just to get close to the rendering quality of the G2.
I hope Kitkat gives users the capability to calibrate color settings in the same manner that LG flat panel TV's can be calibrated.
Anyway, this Bill, however bad it may be; would have helped put a stop to this.
At the cost of putting a stop to free speech. Under this law, every negative comment online (e.g. twitter, facebook) can be loosely interpreted as slander by an aggrieved party.
This assumes a blu-ray movie is 20GB, which it is not. From Wikipedia:
"Conventional (pre-BD-XL) Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs (50 GB) being the industry standard for feature-length video discs."
Hyperbole is good but should not be at the expense of the truth.
There are others who do this as a business. One of their celebrity customers is Anthony Kiedis, of Red Hot Chili Peppers fame, who had his 67 Camaro converted to run on electric power only.
Pat downs and body scanners are coming to the movie theaters.
This happens all the time in the Philippines, from office buildings to shopping malls to theme parks. Typically, any commercial establishment also has a security guard armed with at least a shotgun and a handgun; banks get to have guards with assault rifles.
And no, we don't get shooter incidents like what happens every so often in the West.
"low cost Chinese labor and looser environmental regulations"
Those aren't the only factors. The fact of the matter is that pretty much everything is clustered in SE Asia nowadays, and that the labor market is a lot more dynamic.
There are many comments regarding procs with HD video with 1080p support. Unfortunately, most of these do not come with DTS-MA or Dolby TrueHD capability. A true multimedia box should have these capabilities and more. Take a good look at Sigma proc based multimedia players like the Popcorn Hour and you'll know what I mean.
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Had Facebook worked on this shit a lot earlier, the current global political trend of far-right populism would probably have been prevented. Now, you have people like Duterte, Trump, Erdogan, Bolsonaro, Modi, et al, running a significant portion of the world.
1) Fabiano Caruana - Italian-American chess prodigy who once played for Italy
2) Wesley So - chess prodigy born and raised in the Philippines; So transferred to the US 4 years ago as his country's federation could not adequately support him
3) Hikaru Nakamura - Japanese-American chess prodigy who was born in Japan but moved to the US at age 2, his Sri Lankan stepfather taught him how to play
Immigration is a key factor in the recent rise of US chess.
Facebook is committed to answer to the US government as it is an American company and conducts business under its regulatory control.
But what about in countries where almost the entire citizenry relies on Facebook as its primary source of information? One of these is the Philippines, where once tabloids and tv dominated, today Facebook is THE biggest medium to disseminate information, thanks to the mobile phone and subsidized access to Facebook courtesy of the telco duopoly.
Duterte's campaign team used it to propel a known murderer into the presidency, whereby he immediately implemented his War on Drugs which has since claimed over 12,000 lives. His first two years in office has also seen the economy plummet to new lows, with inflation at its highest in close to a decade and currently the highest in asia.
And now that Duterte's social media propaganda is state-sponsored, you can then understand why his approval ratings are the highest in history. This is even if his sound bites make Trump sound like Anne Frank in comparison (even more so in the vernacular).
I am unsure if Facebook will be able to fix itself because if it doesn't, you can very well imagine what the consequences are for Filipinos.
Behold, our time has come!
I never would have imagined a post from SB Nation be featured on the front page of Slashdot.
Gamification means adding gaming elements such as badges and achievements to an otherwise unchanged mundane activity like working, learning or doing chores.
It is an old buzzword, nearing two decades now. But it definitely is _not_ just adding badges and achievements to a syllabus.
In fact, what you mentioned is the dreaded "PBL Fallacy". This is a common mistake by content developers to simply add Points, Badges, and Leaderboards to any learning module and then assume it automatically "gamifies" the content. I've seen this done wrongly so many times that it actually makes the modules worse instead of more engaging.
Short of turning the entire curriculum into a game, learning and development has had multiple schools of thought on gamification. My current favorite is the Octalysis model by SoCal developer Yu-kai Chou
It isn't star wars until you hear "pew pew" as you press the trigger.
It certainly pays to have friends in high places.
ZTE will easily recoup the $1B just by the fact that its share price will certainly jump up with this news alone. Essentially, ZTE will have suffered very little penalties after all the transgressions it has done against the US. This sets a precedent that many other foreign companies with good ties to their government will surely follow.
Good proc speeds with vanilla Android and very affordable pricing wasn't a bad model, they just didn't market it well. Frankly, not having it available for consumers to buy one easily in the vast majority of the world is just plain dumb.
Surprised not to see any mention of the term Slashdot effect on the history above.
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Also, what about the list of brazen copycats that got *cough* "inspired" by
"Ryan Gosling (K) wisely opts for a muted, brooding performance..."
Opts? Isn't that the only thing he can do?
Anything like this was even connected on the "internet".
Could be a red herring.
Once you get a couple of Indian folks into management positions they just tend to recruit other Indian people and gradually remove whites.
The same is true for major cities in Southeast Asia (Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Singapore, Bangkok), both in the outsourcing industry and consulting.
Was anyone actually expecting better profit margins because of the recall?
Don't expect Samsung's support of Tizen to be similar to how Google supports/develops Android and Nexus devices. As a former user of Bada (which Tizen supposedly evolved from), support for an OS by Samsung will be similar to how they support firmware for their phones and TV's at the moment: you will get one major update (two if you're lucky) and that's about it.
When the next Tizen release arrives, expect your device to be incompatible to it and, hence, not be supported anymore.
The Nexus 4 had inferior color rendering to the LG Optimus G, even if the screen and GPUs of both phones are exactly the same. You had to root the N4 and recalibrate the colors just to get close to the rendering quality of the G2.
I hope Kitkat gives users the capability to calibrate color settings in the same manner that LG flat panel TV's can be calibrated.
Anyway, this Bill, however bad it may be; would have helped put a stop to this.
At the cost of putting a stop to free speech. Under this law, every negative comment online (e.g. twitter, facebook) can be loosely interpreted as slander by an aggrieved party.
How do you shoot down something that is already nosediving?
With a laser.
An even bigger invertebrate inhabits the deep. I hope they get to film the Colossal Squid next.
This assumes a blu-ray movie is 20GB, which it is not. From Wikipedia:
"Conventional (pre-BD-XL) Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs (50 GB) being the industry standard for feature-length video discs."
Hyperbole is good but should not be at the expense of the truth.
Korea owns the top end -with Pioneer in for honorable mention on the high end.
Pioneer ceased manufacturing its vaunted "Kuro" TV's in 2009. The company fully exited the tv business in March 2010.
There are others who do this as a business. One of their celebrity customers is Anthony Kiedis, of Red Hot Chili Peppers fame, who had his 67 Camaro converted to run on electric power only.
Pat downs and body scanners are coming to the movie theaters.
This happens all the time in the Philippines, from office buildings to shopping malls to theme parks. Typically, any commercial establishment also has a security guard armed with at least a shotgun and a handgun; banks get to have guards with assault rifles.
And no, we don't get shooter incidents like what happens every so often in the West.
"low cost Chinese labor and looser environmental regulations"
Those aren't the only factors. The fact of the matter is that pretty much everything is clustered in SE Asia nowadays, and that the labor market is a lot more dynamic.
China is not in SE Asia.
There are many comments regarding procs with HD video with 1080p support. Unfortunately, most of these do not come with DTS-MA or Dolby TrueHD capability. A true multimedia box should have these capabilities and more. Take a good look at Sigma proc based multimedia players like the Popcorn Hour and you'll know what I mean.