Pretty much. I know a couple of devs who found creative uses for it on PC.
For the most part I was ambivalent toward it until it became an inseparable part of the already disastrous XBox One launch platform. They practically handed Sony market share. I think the hate for it mushroomed after that point (to be fair the seeds were already planted between gamers who enjoy sitting motionless versus any kind of motion control.)
Microsoft is a frustrating company to follow around, they sometimes come up with brilliant ideas and then utterly demolish them through incompetence.
I got my Telus mobility bill just a couple days ago, it's just a few cents shy of $90 for a 1 GB data plan. I get about 300 minutes of call time (which I don't think I've ever gotten close to using) and unlimited texting nationwide (whoop de doo).
I'm really thinking about going back to a dumb phone, or at least scrapping the data plan. 99% of the time I'm on WiFi anyway.
It tries to guess what you want instead of searching for what you want. I try and exclude pinterest from image search results and I get nothing but pinterest links. Instead of one or two sponsored links per page I get 5 or more (at LEAST they still identify them as sponsored links) beyond the obvious ones there are certainly companies that game the result system clogging up legit things I'm looking for with snake oil sales (for example "calm clinic" which is a book selling scheme that preys on people who have questions about anxiety symptoms)
If Google can't deliver good search results then I have no use for it, DuckDuckGo ain't perfect but its becoming more and more useful...
I started reading in 1999 but didn't create an account until a year later or so. I got wind of the place through a college instructor who talked of things such as Linux Install Parties - which at the time was the nerdiest sounding thing I had ever heard. I remember people posting links to tiny grainy videos of the prequel Star Wars and Matrix trailers hosted on their personal servers. I remember waiting sometimes up to a day to visit sources linked in stories because they were "slashdotted". I remember spilling my guts and talking shit and having actual insightful conversations with people - or getting modded down and having to think about the dumb ass stuff I was talking about. That had a big effect about how I thought about online communication that I don't think my tiny brain had contemplated before.
I remember learning about new things, reading different points of view and growing up from a scraggly 20-something to a scraggly 40-something and watching my attitudes change over time (going back to old comments... wow).
Slashdot was everything I loved about IRC at the time but with a moderation system and some really interesting people. It's still kinda this today. I mean I still read every damn day so there's gotta be something goin' on here right? RIGHT? Anyway, when Taco left it didn't feel the same, and certainly we've had a lot more political, and slashvertisement stories than outright nerdly or technical ones but still more sedate and varied than other sources that still somehow exist.
The only thing that has really left me with chills about this place is how people saw 15+ years ago how invasive technology would become and how much more difficult privacy would be to maintain and even how most people would likely give it up for nothin'... it seemed incredibly far-fetched at the time. Man...
Anyway Happy 20th/. Thanks for filling my compile time since 1999!
I had a subscription to MLB.tv for a couple years, I'm also one of the five baseball fans in Canada (hi there) one thing that annoyed me is that they blackout the games that are shown locally, as if I'm sitting in front of my TV all the time. The whole point of me getting a subscription to the damn service was so that I could watch a game on my mobile device or at my computer on their site, but nope, if a team I follow was on TV it was blacked out on the site / app service.
So yeah, cancelled that PDQ. I understand that the MLB and the MLBPA makes cash from broadcasting rights but I'm trying to give you the money here and you lock me out anyway. Kinda pointless
Anyway, on topic, seems like a fairly specific setup you need to have in order to use this, kinda defeats the purpose really. (I'm sure somebody else has made the same comment already by now RIP)
A lot of users don't understand the purpose behind gamification of social sites; which is primarily to keep you using them.
I've seen users get extremely agitated over follower counts, number of likes, reblogs, retweets, etc. They begin to associate self worth with those statistics. It gets into their heads and makes their lives miserable, yet they continue coming back to the sites / apps to try and increase their widget counts.
I don't know if people get an endorphin rush if their post gets 20,000 [metric] and I certainly don't fully grasp the psychology behind gamification, but can't help but feel like there is something sinister at work (well, beyond the alarming amount of data-mining that is).
If I'm going to go to the theatre I want a good experience for what I'm gonna pay: time, travel, snacks, tickets... it all adds up and really there haven't been many films that were actually good vs marketed as good (again beauty/eye/beholder whatever you decide for yourself)
So what is a trailer then? Advertising to show you the film at its best or to pique your curiosity enough that you'll at least consider it, but since Everything is Bad(tm) all I see is: - Every good joke in a comedy film - 'SPLOSIONS DUDE - Jump scares - Esoteric dialog that gives the impression of depth
I'm dead to it
Everything at this point now is word of mouth (which has always been the superior way of deciding anyway) but of course this system requires those mouths be connected to eyes that have seen said movie...
Got this for about 2 hours yesterday while I was editing some video and two things immediately struck me: (This is all running Firefox with no-plugins on a Core i7 with 16 GB of memory)
1. Almost all the UI elements lagged, my suspicion is that content is loaded as needed. The comments section has been loading on demand for a while but now it seems to extend to other functions too now
2. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I beheld none; smaller lighter fonts, less contrast, burying things under modal dialogs (seriously why is a popup necessary for sharing the URL?)
Speaking of modal dialogs some of the notifications now appear under the video layer (making it impossible to interact with)
Google has a habit of testing crap like this on a subset of us and waiting for annoyed responses to fill up the Google Product Forums, I haven't checked to see what's there today but my guess is other users experienced similar behavior (unless I just got lucky in which case "go me")
1. The big screen. Ah yes the screen is big, but the projector is digital in most theatres. I can see jagged pixels and strangely jerky flow to action scenes. Yuck.
2. People everywhere. Haha no.
3. Focus. OK I see people fucking around with their phones at EVERY film, you name it, somebody has found a distraction. And their distraction becomes my distraction. At home I dim the lights (where available) and really dig into some movies. My focus at home is far more intense than in the theatre, which is why I sometimes discover a film I thought was only so-so in the theatre is actually quite brilliant when I get to really focus on it at home.
4. Relentlessness. True Story: I was watching Return of the Jedi when it went to the big screen in 1997, the line "My son is with them. Are you sure? I have felt him." some jackass in the back row yelled out at top volume "THAT'S SICK!", everyone in the theatre laughed and the tension of the scene was utterly destroyed thanks to one hilarious bastard
5. A massive speaker system. Great if its actually working and actually calibrated. Most theatres I've been to lately present blown-sounding subwoofers and barely audible mid-range. Again from experience when I saw the first Matrix sequel there was a significant short and all I could hear was interference, it was SO BAD I couldn't hear any of the speech The Architect character gave (upon home viewing I didn't miss anything)
6. Previews. Are you for fucking real? ODDLY ENOUGH from my Star Wars Special Edition story above, one of the previews was for the original Austin Powers, the trailer made it look utterly awful, turns out it was one of the funniest films of that year. Trailers are annoying and rarely if ever represent what you'll actually get. A marketing tool that serves absolutely no functional purpose. Also let's face it if you open YouTube how many videos can you go before you are hit with some movie preview?
7. Disruption. Disruption like an auditorium full of noisy easily distracted humans??
8. Alone time. ????!
9. 32 ounces of cola in the dark. When I saw Titanic (man I saw a lot of movies in 1997?) I ordered the Tubb O' Pop and was happily slurping it down and literally THE SECOND the ship hit that damned iceberg I had to piss or die. I couldn't wait, the one part of the movie I'd waded through other garbage to finally see and I HAD TO GO. So I did, and tried to rush back to my seat as quickly as possible but man, so much was missed. At home I just pause if I have to (which is rare because I don't abuse myself by cramming a liter of pop into my face over the course of one movie)
10. Bragging rights. Heeeeey! Look at meeeeee! I just spent $40 to sit in a smelly claustrophobic room full of noisy distracted people so I could watch 30 minutes of commercials and then a movie I couldn't properly hear the dialog to that was projected at just enough of an odd angle to make the pixels on the right hand side of the frame far more visible than the blur on the left.
Slashdot Mirror
Is it because it's so entrenched in Windows 10? It wouldn't surprise me.
Are you telling me Bonzi isn't my Buddy?
Pretty much. I know a couple of devs who found creative uses for it on PC.
For the most part I was ambivalent toward it until it became an inseparable part of the already disastrous XBox One launch platform. They practically handed Sony market share. I think the hate for it mushroomed after that point (to be fair the seeds were already planted between gamers who enjoy sitting motionless versus any kind of motion control.)
Microsoft is a frustrating company to follow around, they sometimes come up with brilliant ideas and then utterly demolish them through incompetence.
Also the bus gets cleaned at least once a day, if your AIUber arrives with only puke in it you're lucky.
I love Utopian shit, what a future we could have if filthy humans weren't filthy humans.
I got my Telus mobility bill just a couple days ago, it's just a few cents shy of $90 for a 1 GB data plan. I get about 300 minutes of call time (which I don't think I've ever gotten close to using) and unlimited texting nationwide (whoop de doo).
I'm really thinking about going back to a dumb phone, or at least scrapping the data plan. 99% of the time I'm on WiFi anyway.
It tries to guess what you want instead of searching for what you want. I try and exclude pinterest from image search results and I get nothing but pinterest links. Instead of one or two sponsored links per page I get 5 or more (at LEAST they still identify them as sponsored links) beyond the obvious ones there are certainly companies that game the result system clogging up legit things I'm looking for with snake oil sales (for example "calm clinic" which is a book selling scheme that preys on people who have questions about anxiety symptoms)
If Google can't deliver good search results then I have no use for it, DuckDuckGo ain't perfect but its becoming more and more useful...
iEye (Captain!)
Finally, the planet is ready for the vast herds of Gargons
'nuff said
I started reading in 1999 but didn't create an account until a year later or so. I got wind of the place through a college instructor who talked of things such as Linux Install Parties - which at the time was the nerdiest sounding thing I had ever heard. I remember people posting links to tiny grainy videos of the prequel Star Wars and Matrix trailers hosted on their personal servers. I remember waiting sometimes up to a day to visit sources linked in stories because they were "slashdotted". I remember spilling my guts and talking shit and having actual insightful conversations with people - or getting modded down and having to think about the dumb ass stuff I was talking about. That had a big effect about how I thought about online communication that I don't think my tiny brain had contemplated before.
I remember learning about new things, reading different points of view and growing up from a scraggly 20-something to a scraggly 40-something and watching my attitudes change over time (going back to old comments ... wow).
Slashdot was everything I loved about IRC at the time but with a moderation system and some really interesting people. It's still kinda this today. I mean I still read every damn day so there's gotta be something goin' on here right? RIGHT? Anyway, when Taco left it didn't feel the same, and certainly we've had a lot more political, and slashvertisement stories than outright nerdly or technical ones but still more sedate and varied than other sources that still somehow exist.
The only thing that has really left me with chills about this place is how people saw 15+ years ago how invasive technology would become and how much more difficult privacy would be to maintain and even how most people would likely give it up for nothin'... it seemed incredibly far-fetched at the time. Man...
Anyway Happy 20th /. Thanks for filling my compile time since 1999!
Ayup, I figured that out mere minutes after I posted
https://science.slashdot.org/c...
RIP me
I should have gone one click deeper:
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2...
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
~ Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of US patent office (1899)
I have Photoshop, SAI, Clip Studio, Inkscape, Paint.NET installed but nothing beats win+r mspaint ctrl+p crop save
Of all the things that Windows 10 needs un-fucking they pick on one app that's been "good enough" for more than 20 years
I had a subscription to MLB.tv for a couple years, I'm also one of the five baseball fans in Canada (hi there) one thing that annoyed me is that they blackout the games that are shown locally, as if I'm sitting in front of my TV all the time. The whole point of me getting a subscription to the damn service was so that I could watch a game on my mobile device or at my computer on their site, but nope, if a team I follow was on TV it was blacked out on the site / app service.
So yeah, cancelled that PDQ. I understand that the MLB and the MLBPA makes cash from broadcasting rights but I'm trying to give you the money here and you lock me out anyway. Kinda pointless
Anyway, on topic, seems like a fairly specific setup you need to have in order to use this, kinda defeats the purpose really. (I'm sure somebody else has made the same comment already by now RIP)
No "rutkits" - grooves are lined with a harmful magnetized metal strip that damage your pickup / cartridge
I hear the MPAA is perfecting this https://dai.ly/xt4rax
What is this "Sky Pee" you speak of?
A lot of users don't understand the purpose behind gamification of social sites; which is primarily to keep you using them.
I've seen users get extremely agitated over follower counts, number of likes, reblogs, retweets, etc. They begin to associate self worth with those statistics. It gets into their heads and makes their lives miserable, yet they continue coming back to the sites / apps to try and increase their widget counts.
I don't know if people get an endorphin rush if their post gets 20,000 [metric] and I certainly don't fully grasp the psychology behind gamification, but can't help but feel like there is something sinister at work (well, beyond the alarming amount of data-mining that is).
If I'm going to go to the theatre I want a good experience for what I'm gonna pay: time, travel, snacks, tickets... it all adds up and really there haven't been many films that were actually good vs marketed as good (again beauty/eye/beholder whatever you decide for yourself)
So what is a trailer then? Advertising to show you the film at its best or to pique your curiosity enough that you'll at least consider it, but since Everything is Bad(tm) all I see is:
- Every good joke in a comedy film
- 'SPLOSIONS DUDE
- Jump scares
- Esoteric dialog that gives the impression of depth
I'm dead to it
Everything at this point now is word of mouth (which has always been the superior way of deciding anyway) but of course this system requires those mouths be connected to eyes that have seen said movie...
Ugh
Now that's an enhancement
Keep the primary content front and centre while allowing you to interact with the rest of the site.
Got this for about 2 hours yesterday while I was editing some video and two things immediately struck me:
(This is all running Firefox with no-plugins on a Core i7 with 16 GB of memory)
1. Almost all the UI elements lagged, my suspicion is that content is loaded as needed. The comments section has been loading on demand for a while but now it seems to extend to other functions too now
2. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I beheld none; smaller lighter fonts, less contrast, burying things under modal dialogs (seriously why is a popup necessary for sharing the URL?)
Speaking of modal dialogs some of the notifications now appear under the video layer (making it impossible to interact with)
Google has a habit of testing crap like this on a subset of us and waiting for annoyed responses to fill up the Google Product Forums, I haven't checked to see what's there today but my guess is other users experienced similar behavior (unless I just got lucky in which case "go me")
Full Stop.
Oh yeah that horrible abortion nobody uses.
The real news is that there were Emulators there (I mean, I guess? Or is this a preemptive strike against having fun with Windows 10)
1. The big screen.
Ah yes the screen is big, but the projector is digital in most theatres. I can see jagged pixels and strangely jerky flow to action scenes. Yuck.
2. People everywhere.
Haha no.
3. Focus.
OK I see people fucking around with their phones at EVERY film, you name it, somebody has found a distraction. And their distraction becomes my distraction. At home I dim the lights (where available) and really dig into some movies. My focus at home is far more intense than in the theatre, which is why I sometimes discover a film I thought was only so-so in the theatre is actually quite brilliant when I get to really focus on it at home.
4. Relentlessness.
True Story: I was watching Return of the Jedi when it went to the big screen in 1997, the line "My son is with them. Are you sure? I have felt him." some jackass in the back row yelled out at top volume "THAT'S SICK!", everyone in the theatre laughed and the tension of the scene was utterly destroyed thanks to one hilarious bastard
5. A massive speaker system.
Great if its actually working and actually calibrated. Most theatres I've been to lately present blown-sounding subwoofers and barely audible mid-range. Again from experience when I saw the first Matrix sequel there was a significant short and all I could hear was interference, it was SO BAD I couldn't hear any of the speech The Architect character gave (upon home viewing I didn't miss anything)
6. Previews.
Are you for fucking real? ODDLY ENOUGH from my Star Wars Special Edition story above, one of the previews was for the original Austin Powers, the trailer made it look utterly awful, turns out it was one of the funniest films of that year. Trailers are annoying and rarely if ever represent what you'll actually get. A marketing tool that serves absolutely no functional purpose. Also let's face it if you open YouTube how many videos can you go before you are hit with some movie preview?
7. Disruption.
Disruption like an auditorium full of noisy easily distracted humans??
8. Alone time.
????!
9. 32 ounces of cola in the dark.
When I saw Titanic (man I saw a lot of movies in 1997?) I ordered the Tubb O' Pop and was happily slurping it down and literally THE SECOND the ship hit that damned iceberg I had to piss or die. I couldn't wait, the one part of the movie I'd waded through other garbage to finally see and I HAD TO GO. So I did, and tried to rush back to my seat as quickly as possible but man, so much was missed. At home I just pause if I have to (which is rare because I don't abuse myself by cramming a liter of pop into my face over the course of one movie)
10. Bragging rights.
Heeeeey! Look at meeeeee! I just spent $40 to sit in a smelly claustrophobic room full of noisy distracted people so I could watch 30 minutes of commercials and then a movie I couldn't properly hear the dialog to that was projected at just enough of an odd angle to make the pixels on the right hand side of the frame far more visible than the blur on the left.
AREN'T YOU JEALOUS!?!
Where's that meme picture...
None of these features sound good. None of them.