Alice makes an inside joke alluding to a particular work of fiction. The joke goes over Bob's head because Bob has never read it. Alice notices this and tells Bob to turn in his geek card. With which works should one be familiar in order to get jokes that geeks are expected to get?
You appear to suggest something similar to a Borda count to turn a ranking into a range vote. Doesn't a Condorcet count produce a less gameable result than a Borda count?
Is it still "free will" if one is forced into a contract under duress, such as the threat of jail if you do not agree to the terms? Jail may not be applicable in this case, but it is applicable in cases around necessities such as food, clothing, shelter, and utilities.
God heals amputees in two ways, one in the present and the other in the future. One is by leading smart men and women to develop innovative prosthetics and other means to make amputees' impairments less disabling.* The other, if prophecies in Isaiah, Revelation, and elsewhere are to be believed, is by describing his plan to resurrect the dead into rebuilt bodies to fix up the earth during the millennium after Armageddon. These rebuilt bodies would have the limbs needed for the job. This second bodily healing doesn't happen prematurely because God is busy illustrating a point to Satan.
* An "impairment" is a problem in body function; a "disability" is the consequence of an impairment on activities of daily living.
The threat of lawsuits from parents ought to be enough to discourage the sexual abuse that occurs during production of CP. Or is the majority of CP produced by parents with their own children? And what sexual abuse occurs during production of animated CP, which some jurisdictions have also banned?
Say Newsweek and nine other sites all noticed a sharp drop in advertisement revenue due to tracking blockers and responded by putting up a paywall. How many visitors would actually be willing to buy a whole month's subscription to all these sites for $40* just to read one article on each site? Or if you operated such a site, which micropayment method would you use instead to sell access to individual articles?
* Assuming each site offers the same price as WIRED ($4/mo)
In and Android-iOS universe, what the fuck does Cortana even matter?
Because Cortana is part of the operating system that ships with just about every new, inexpensive, mass-market computer on which developing Android apps is comfortable.
Its hard to imagine windows 10 getting any traction in the business world if you couldn't turn this consumer nonsense off.
Microsoft doesn't want Windows 10 "getting any traction in the business world". It wants the more expensive Windows 10 Enterprise "getting any traction in the business world".
How long does it typically take between when a Chromebook model becomes available and when a fix for "Press Space to wipe" on that model gets posted on johnlewis.ie? Then add that much time to the release date of HP's new Chromebook.
The number of people who want to download huge files for offline use and who are willing to stay up until a particular time of night to start the download
You don't have to stay up if cron or Task Scheduler stays up for you.
is similarly tiny,
When Microsoft is pushing out a new 3 GB "build" of Windows 10 to hundreds of millions of Windows Update clients, that's certainly not "tiny".
I prefer the PC because you can make a game allow for an xbox 360 joystick.
But what fraction of PC gamers are likely to actually own an Xbox 360 controller? I'm told many only have the mouse and keyboard, and I'm told PC gamers on the whole tend to be uninterested in games that work better on a joystick than on a keyboard. Am I wrong?
but I prefer the PC because you can make a game allow for an xbox 360 joystick.
Some Android games can use an Xbox 360 controller through a USB OTG adapter, which has a USB micro-A or C plug on one end and a USB standard-A receptacle on the other.
Tower defense games went from decent to impossibly hard, expecting people to pay a few bucks for powerups every game.
Likewise, arcade games used elapsed time or distance (such as number of rounds won) to set difficulty. They temporarily became slightly easier after the player bought a continue.
Bluetooth-to-3.5 mm and Bluetooth-to-tape adapters (and Bluetooth-to-FM adapters in those countries that allow unlicensed micropower operation in the FM band)
My car doesn't have an 'aux' Jack.
Does it have a cassette player? Does it have a radio? If so, which country?
We might end up seeing Bluetooth-to-3.5 mm [...] adapters
You can buy a bluetooth adapter that plugs into the aux jack of your car for as little as $40.
Exactly. But this $40 has to be added to the total cost of ownership of one's first phone not to include a 3.5 mm jack. Can they make the phone $40 cheaper to compensate?
But why in the world would you reelect him or the party when he screws up?
Presumably because he hasn't screwed up on other issues that are important to other voters. For example, a lot of voters think increasing or decreasing a woman's right to choose to kill her unborn child outweighs numerous sins in other areas.
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Apple wants to get rid of Macintosh
I'll believe that when Xcode runs on an iPad.
Humankind lost the ability to read all SF books once there were more published SF books than days in a median adult lifespan.
I'll rephrase with less embedding.
Alice makes an inside joke alluding to a particular work of fiction. The joke goes over Bob's head because Bob has never read it. Alice notices this and tells Bob to turn in his geek card. With which works should one be familiar in order to get jokes that geeks are expected to get?
You appear to suggest something similar to a Borda count to turn a ranking into a range vote. Doesn't a Condorcet count produce a less gameable result than a Borda count?
Do "works ignorance of whose details is most likely to produce a 'turn in your geek card' reaction" have a rankable metric?
TOS usually states that no changes are effective unless approved by a duly authorized representative of the service provider.
Is it still "free will" if one is forced into a contract under duress, such as the threat of jail if you do not agree to the terms? Jail may not be applicable in this case, but it is applicable in cases around necessities such as food, clothing, shelter, and utilities.
So in other words, SCIENCE, not god.
People who believe this stuff believe that God provides for his people in part by arranging for science to happen.
God heals amputees in two ways, one in the present and the other in the future. One is by leading smart men and women to develop innovative prosthetics and other means to make amputees' impairments less disabling.* The other, if prophecies in Isaiah, Revelation, and elsewhere are to be believed, is by describing his plan to resurrect the dead into rebuilt bodies to fix up the earth during the millennium after Armageddon. These rebuilt bodies would have the limbs needed for the job. This second bodily healing doesn't happen prematurely because God is busy illustrating a point to Satan.
* An "impairment" is a problem in body function; a "disability" is the consequence of an impairment on activities of daily living.
The threat of lawsuits from parents ought to be enough to discourage the sexual abuse that occurs during production of CP. Or is the majority of CP produced by parents with their own children? And what sexual abuse occurs during production of animated CP, which some jurisdictions have also banned?
Say Newsweek and nine other sites all noticed a sharp drop in advertisement revenue due to tracking blockers and responded by putting up a paywall. How many visitors would actually be willing to buy a whole month's subscription to all these sites for $40* just to read one article on each site? Or if you operated such a site, which micropayment method would you use instead to sell access to individual articles?
* Assuming each site offers the same price as WIRED ($4/mo)
In that case after 30s it boots anyhow, still in dev mode.
Unless the person who turned on the computer presses Space to wipe the drive, not knowing that he or she isn't supposed to do that.
Also if you're lending it to someone they're not going to need to power it off/on, just logon/logoff.
You'd be surprised at what novice users actually do despite not needing to.
In and Android-iOS universe, what the fuck does Cortana even matter?
Because Cortana is part of the operating system that ships with just about every new, inexpensive, mass-market computer on which developing Android apps is comfortable.
Its hard to imagine windows 10 getting any traction in the business world if you couldn't turn this consumer nonsense off.
Microsoft doesn't want Windows 10 "getting any traction in the business world". It wants the more expensive Windows 10 Enterprise "getting any traction in the business world".
How long does it typically take between when a Chromebook model becomes available and when a fix for "Press Space to wipe" on that model gets posted on johnlewis.ie? Then add that much time to the release date of HP's new Chromebook.
The number of people who want to download huge files for offline use and who are willing to stay up until a particular time of night to start the download
You don't have to stay up if cron or Task Scheduler stays up for you.
is similarly tiny,
When Microsoft is pushing out a new 3 GB "build" of Windows 10 to hundreds of millions of Windows Update clients, that's certainly not "tiny".
First of all no it doesn't, all you do is ctrl-D for chrome or ctrl-L for a bootloader
That's fine if you turn it on, not so fine if someone else power-cycles it.
Second of all, you can just remove the hardware protection and put a complete chrome free bios on it.
On all of them?
I prefer the PC because you can make a game allow for an xbox 360 joystick.
But what fraction of PC gamers are likely to actually own an Xbox 360 controller? I'm told many only have the mouse and keyboard, and I'm told PC gamers on the whole tend to be uninterested in games that work better on a joystick than on a keyboard. Am I wrong?
but I prefer the PC because you can make a game allow for an xbox 360 joystick.
Some Android games can use an Xbox 360 controller through a USB OTG adapter, which has a USB micro-A or C plug on one end and a USB standard-A receptacle on the other.
Tower defense games went from decent to impossibly hard, expecting people to pay a few bucks for powerups every game.
Likewise, arcade games used elapsed time or distance (such as number of rounds won) to set difficulty. They temporarily became slightly easier after the player bought a continue.
Until someone presses Space while the machine is booting, which disables developer mode and erases your chroot.
why could you not install your own OS?
Because every time a Chromebook is turned on, its firmware begs the user to wipe the hard drive and reinstall Chrome OS.
Bluetooth-to-3.5 mm and Bluetooth-to-tape adapters (and Bluetooth-to-FM adapters in those countries that allow unlicensed micropower operation in the FM band)
My car doesn't have an 'aux' Jack.
Does it have a cassette player? Does it have a radio? If so, which country?
We might end up seeing Bluetooth-to-3.5 mm [...] adapters
You can buy a bluetooth adapter that plugs into the aux jack of your car for as little as $40.
Exactly. But this $40 has to be added to the total cost of ownership of one's first phone not to include a 3.5 mm jack. Can they make the phone $40 cheaper to compensate?
given that you can currently buy MP3s in much higher quality already
And the industry routinely charges more for a movie's soundtrack than for the movie itself, especially once the movie hits the $5 bin at Walmart.
Fortunately in Shenzen they care little for compliance to such things!
That's why Hollywood-friendly countries have customs departments: to block import of products that violate national laws bought by Hollywood.
But why in the world would you reelect him or the party when he screws up?
Presumably because he hasn't screwed up on other issues that are important to other voters. For example, a lot of voters think increasing or decreasing a woman's right to choose to kill her unborn child outweighs numerous sins in other areas.