People download this add-on specifically to remove ads, the presumption should be that all ads should be removed.
I disagree. Although I've known about AdBlock for years, I only recently installed it (a couple months ago). I did not want to block all ads - only the annoying ones. I believe it was an ad that started playing a loud video when I accidentally hovered the mouse over it for a second at 5am that finally got me to install ABP.
As a small business owner who has to run at least some ads to get new customers, it was a bit disheartening to see that by default, every ad on every site is blocked with ABP. I still can't find an option to only block certain types of ads - only the option to block ads from certain hosts. Since most of my customers and potential customers are computer savvy 18-30 year olds, a large percentage of them use AdBlock. I don't want to annoy anyone with ads, but if all ads are blocked by default, 95% of people would never change that setting, even if they aren't bothered by static ads.
I did three years of TIP as well, and loved each year. I got to do computer modeling, take psychology, learn several programming languages and more, years before I was to go to college. The best part though was the people. I have never been so comfortable around people I just met. It was like everyone was cool (I'm sure "lame" by someone else's definition though).
I only skimmed the article, but I didn't see any mention of watching "instead of playing" as the Slashdot article is titled. They listed 9 types of spectators, but none of them were people who liked the game for a while, but find it more enjoyable to watch than to play, due to the stress. I think part of the reason I stopped playing is because a single mistake can (and often will) cost you the game. Not many games are that unforgiving.
Eh not really. Netflix content of TV shows is at least 1 season behind what you get from cable/satellite/antenna/Hulu.
Not always. I don't keep on top of current TV shows, but I know at least some shows are released shortly after they air. Heroes episodes were on Netflix like 3 days after they were on TV (though the last time I brought this up, someone said Heroes was the only show like that...maybe Netflix has started doing more since then?)
I've been without Cable TV for 3 years, and I'm not going back until they let me get channels à la carte (and at a reasonable price). I'm not paying $100 a month for top tier digital cable just so I can get Discovery, History, National Geographic and the Science Channel. Screw the other 245 channels. I don't watch them. I don't want to pay for them.
Hell, my father does not even use bookmarks, he just goes and gets everything out of history. It freaks the shit out of me every time I see him do it.
I don't use bookmarks either, and I'm a computer engineer who's been using the web for 17 years. I guess it's that using a bookmark means I have to use the mouse. I'm more comfortable with control-L, then typing the URL than I am with going to a list of bookmarks.
There really is no scenario in which piracy does not deprive somebody of something.
Oh please, not this one again.
If you want n dollars for a movie, I have n * 0.1 dollars and I instead copy the movie, have I deprived you of n dollars? Had I offered you 0.1 * n dollars you would've spit in my face...
What if I copy your movie as an alternative to not watching it at all?
These are both perfectly reasonable and likely situations.
Not THIS argument again. People downloading movies aren't too poor to pay to watch them. They're just too cheap to pay to watch them. If something costs n dollars, and you have n*0.1 dollars, either wait until it costs less or you've saved more. It's easy to say "I wouldn't have bought it anyway," when you plan from the start to download it rather than buying it.
I was wondering if I was the only one. I can't click on them in Firefox in Windows or in Safari on my Mac. I can at least right click and copy them in Safari though (can't have any interaction in Firefox).
Since you mentioned PBS, I'm assuming it was the NOVA special. I watched that a few weeks ago, and while they did say the pilots might have had "information overload," they showed that in a flight simulator, trained pilots correctly followed procedure to avoid stalling in that situation.
Maybe they should mandate that the elderly and young have to be more visible by wearing flashing lights and sirens that go off when something large approaches them.
I've long wanted that button to report bad drivers. Bad drivers could be fined if greater than a certain percentage of drivers they were near in a month tagged them. Of course people would abuse that, tagging people simply because they don't like their car.
I have a single 2TB drive storing video from 4 surveillance cameras at 1280x960. It stores about 12 days of continuous footage from each camera. I'm sure the fast motion of driving would take a bit more space than mostly stationary surveillance cameras, but you can definitely get a good amount of footage on a standard hard drive.
I think Rock Band does this better than Guitar Hero. I can calibrate both games, but Guitar Hero never has the notes on beat, so I have to play by eye rather than by ear. In Rock Band, I look at the notes as they appear rather than when they pass the "hit area," and play them by ear.
Flash is ridiculously poorly written for Mac OS. HTML 5 video typically uses 15% of one core on my Mac Pro, while Flash often uses 100%. It's so poorly written for Mac OS that running flash in Windows in VMWare Fusion can sometimes take less total CPU than running the Mac version.
Except I think the 'e' in "eMac" stood for "education" rather than "electronic." It would be odd if Apple had sold the "internet" Mac for years before building an electronic Mac.
Hell, they buy their music on a medium where the Beatles have no place....... not that I am that big of a fan, but would you really buy music (as a real lover) in a store that doesn't have this part musichistory?
So you're saying that just because the iTunes store doesn't have The Beatles, that people shouldn't buy from there, or if they do, they aren't real music lovers? I guess if you had to get all of your music from a single source, and you needed to have The Beatles, then iTunes wouldn't be for you, but iTunes has tons of stuff that you can't find in any brick and mortar store, and even a lot that Amazon doesn't have. Any real music lover wouldn't limit themselves by not shopping at a store simply because they didn't have one artist. If they did that, they wouldn't shop anywhere, as no store has every artist.
Nothing current? Some of their shows are added just days after airing on TV. Netflix shows that I watched Heroes Season 4: "Once Upon a Time in Texas" on November 8th. That episode aired on November 2nd according to IMDB.
Same here, though mine is 23". It's funny that this was on Slashdot today, because just two days ago I posted on a forum I'm on about the lack of higher resolution monitors, and the fact that the 2048x1152 displays that appeared 18 months or so ago seem to have disappeared, despite getting really good reviews. The Samsung 2343BWX I have got something like 460 reviews on NewEgg in the year it was available, and most of those were 5 eggs. Samsung doesn't have anything to replace it. Most 23 and 24" monitors are 1920x1080 now, while two years ago they were 1920x1200. There are no higher resolution monitors until you get to the 27-30" range now.
I'm in Raleigh, but would never vote to reelect him, even though I would really like Google to bring its network trials here. If he's willing to sell his kid's names to further his career, what other shady things would he be willing to do?
I agree. There have been at least 3 nearly identical experiments posted on Slashdot in the last two years. All of them used weather balloons that got to around 100,000 feet. It's neat, but it's nothing new. There's no way NASA thought this was amazing. If someone from NASA called, it was a janitor or something, not an engineer.
Really? What other PDAs were around in 1989 when Apple started working on the Newton, or in 1992 when Apple's CEO coined the term, "Personal Digital Assistant?" The innovation of the iPod wasn't that it had a bigger hard drive, because it didn't. If I recall correctly, there were 6GB HD based players at the time. The innovation was the interface. The click wheel made scrolling through your 5GB of music so much easier than up and down arrows of other players. The Macintosh was the first widespread use of the mouse, so it's not like they "innovated" a 1 button mouse based on popular 2 button PC mice, as you seem to be implying.
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This planet is already over-populated. The TSA has no business spewing forth rays of children in all directions.
People download this add-on specifically to remove ads, the presumption should be that all ads should be removed.
I disagree. Although I've known about AdBlock for years, I only recently installed it (a couple months ago). I did not want to block all ads - only the annoying ones. I believe it was an ad that started playing a loud video when I accidentally hovered the mouse over it for a second at 5am that finally got me to install ABP.
As a small business owner who has to run at least some ads to get new customers, it was a bit disheartening to see that by default, every ad on every site is blocked with ABP. I still can't find an option to only block certain types of ads - only the option to block ads from certain hosts. Since most of my customers and potential customers are computer savvy 18-30 year olds, a large percentage of them use AdBlock. I don't want to annoy anyone with ads, but if all ads are blocked by default, 95% of people would never change that setting, even if they aren't bothered by static ads.
I did three years of TIP as well, and loved each year. I got to do computer modeling, take psychology, learn several programming languages and more, years before I was to go to college. The best part though was the people. I have never been so comfortable around people I just met. It was like everyone was cool (I'm sure "lame" by someone else's definition though).
Why wouldn't you think about the possibility of the information being harvested? That's a main part of Google's business model.
I only skimmed the article, but I didn't see any mention of watching "instead of playing" as the Slashdot article is titled. They listed 9 types of spectators, but none of them were people who liked the game for a while, but find it more enjoyable to watch than to play, due to the stress. I think part of the reason I stopped playing is because a single mistake can (and often will) cost you the game. Not many games are that unforgiving.
It just left me more confused. Why only a "freshly opened" beer bottle? Are they using bottle caps which change shape over time after being removed?
Eh not really. Netflix content of TV shows is at least 1 season behind what you get from cable/satellite/antenna/Hulu.
Not always. I don't keep on top of current TV shows, but I know at least some shows are released shortly after they air. Heroes episodes were on Netflix like 3 days after they were on TV (though the last time I brought this up, someone said Heroes was the only show like that...maybe Netflix has started doing more since then?)
I've been without Cable TV for 3 years, and I'm not going back until they let me get channels à la carte (and at a reasonable price). I'm not paying $100 a month for top tier digital cable just so I can get Discovery, History, National Geographic and the Science Channel. Screw the other 245 channels. I don't watch them. I don't want to pay for them.
Hell, my father does not even use bookmarks, he just goes and gets everything out of history. It freaks the shit out of me every time I see him do it.
I don't use bookmarks either, and I'm a computer engineer who's been using the web for 17 years. I guess it's that using a bookmark means I have to use the mouse. I'm more comfortable with control-L, then typing the URL than I am with going to a list of bookmarks.
There really is no scenario in which piracy does not deprive somebody of something.
Oh please, not this one again.
If you want n dollars for a movie, I have n * 0.1 dollars and I instead copy the movie, have I deprived you of n dollars? Had I offered you 0.1 * n dollars you would've spit in my face...
What if I copy your movie as an alternative to not watching it at all?
These are both perfectly reasonable and likely situations.
Not THIS argument again. People downloading movies aren't too poor to pay to watch them. They're just too cheap to pay to watch them. If something costs n dollars, and you have n*0.1 dollars, either wait until it costs less or you've saved more. It's easy to say "I wouldn't have bought it anyway," when you plan from the start to download it rather than buying it.
I was wondering if I was the only one. I can't click on them in Firefox in Windows or in Safari on my Mac. I can at least right click and copy them in Safari though (can't have any interaction in Firefox).
I thought that seemed off by a few orders of magnitude. lol. $1,000 a ton would be pretty good for shipping freight on a truck.
Since you mentioned PBS, I'm assuming it was the NOVA special. I watched that a few weeks ago, and while they did say the pilots might have had "information overload," they showed that in a flight simulator, trained pilots correctly followed procedure to avoid stalling in that situation.
Maybe they should mandate that the elderly and young have to be more visible by wearing flashing lights and sirens that go off when something large approaches them.
Don't forget the 4.7" LCD industry. I know a lot of cars have them already, but mandating the camera also mandates a screen.
I've long wanted that button to report bad drivers. Bad drivers could be fined if greater than a certain percentage of drivers they were near in a month tagged them. Of course people would abuse that, tagging people simply because they don't like their car.
I have a single 2TB drive storing video from 4 surveillance cameras at 1280x960. It stores about 12 days of continuous footage from each camera. I'm sure the fast motion of driving would take a bit more space than mostly stationary surveillance cameras, but you can definitely get a good amount of footage on a standard hard drive.
I think Rock Band does this better than Guitar Hero. I can calibrate both games, but Guitar Hero never has the notes on beat, so I have to play by eye rather than by ear. In Rock Band, I look at the notes as they appear rather than when they pass the "hit area," and play them by ear.
Flash is ridiculously poorly written for Mac OS. HTML 5 video typically uses 15% of one core on my Mac Pro, while Flash often uses 100%. It's so poorly written for Mac OS that running flash in Windows in VMWare Fusion can sometimes take less total CPU than running the Mac version.
Except I think the 'e' in "eMac" stood for "education" rather than "electronic." It would be odd if Apple had sold the "internet" Mac for years before building an electronic Mac.
Hell, they buy their music on a medium where the Beatles have no place....... not that I am that big of a fan, but would you really buy music (as a real lover) in a store that doesn't have this part musichistory?
So you're saying that just because the iTunes store doesn't have The Beatles, that people shouldn't buy from there, or if they do, they aren't real music lovers? I guess if you had to get all of your music from a single source, and you needed to have The Beatles, then iTunes wouldn't be for you, but iTunes has tons of stuff that you can't find in any brick and mortar store, and even a lot that Amazon doesn't have. Any real music lover wouldn't limit themselves by not shopping at a store simply because they didn't have one artist. If they did that, they wouldn't shop anywhere, as no store has every artist.
Nothing current? Some of their shows are added just days after airing on TV. Netflix shows that I watched Heroes Season 4: "Once Upon a Time in Texas" on November 8th. That episode aired on November 2nd according to IMDB.
Same here, though mine is 23". It's funny that this was on Slashdot today, because just two days ago I posted on a forum I'm on about the lack of higher resolution monitors, and the fact that the 2048x1152 displays that appeared 18 months or so ago seem to have disappeared, despite getting really good reviews. The Samsung 2343BWX I have got something like 460 reviews on NewEgg in the year it was available, and most of those were 5 eggs. Samsung doesn't have anything to replace it. Most 23 and 24" monitors are 1920x1080 now, while two years ago they were 1920x1200. There are no higher resolution monitors until you get to the 27-30" range now.
I'm in Raleigh, but would never vote to reelect him, even though I would really like Google to bring its network trials here. If he's willing to sell his kid's names to further his career, what other shady things would he be willing to do?
I agree. There have been at least 3 nearly identical experiments posted on Slashdot in the last two years. All of them used weather balloons that got to around 100,000 feet. It's neat, but it's nothing new. There's no way NASA thought this was amazing. If someone from NASA called, it was a janitor or something, not an engineer.
Really? What other PDAs were around in 1989 when Apple started working on the Newton, or in 1992 when Apple's CEO coined the term, "Personal Digital Assistant?" The innovation of the iPod wasn't that it had a bigger hard drive, because it didn't. If I recall correctly, there were 6GB HD based players at the time. The innovation was the interface. The click wheel made scrolling through your 5GB of music so much easier than up and down arrows of other players. The Macintosh was the first widespread use of the mouse, so it's not like they "innovated" a 1 button mouse based on popular 2 button PC mice, as you seem to be implying.