I have heard that they translated the games for European french countries but won't bother putting these games in an north american version of the consome.
France has a population of 67M. Quebec has a population of 8M, and about 20% of those don't speak French as their first language. About 40% of Quebecois can speak English, and among younger people likely to buy this game the percentage is even higher. People willing to play it in English can order on-line, so the amount of lost retail sales is not high.
unless they have normal, good food the Vegan place will go broke.
Not in California. My city (San Jose) have several 100% vegan restaurants.
Loving Hut is a restaurant chain that serves only vegan food. They seem to be doing well. I have eaten there many times with my vegan daughter, and the food is pretty good.
Veganism and "gluten-free" are two different things. Gluten comes from wheat, not animals, Being vegan is a choice driven mainly by philosophical and ethical considerations. For most people, going "gluten-free" is just idiotic pseudoscience. Unless you have Celiacs disease or some other gluten related digestive disorder, there is no rational reason to avoid gluten.
Indeed. My company regularly hires high school students as interns, and quite a few of them choose to work full time for a few years after graduating from HS but before starting college. There is nothing uncommon about this at all. He is white and male, so this "story" doesn't even have an SJW angle.
"it just works.... so long as you only do what we explicitly allow you to and never want to actually USE your computer."
Hogwash. A MacBook comes with a full development stack preinstalled, and no limit on "what you can do with it" other than your own ability. An out-of-the-box MacBook is more capable than an out-of-the-box Windows computer, and roughly equivalent to Linux.
Also, the fewer reviews, the more likely those reviews are FAKE. Most of the statistical claims made in TFA are based on the implicit assumption that all the reviews are equally valid. So the real problem here is not dumb customers but dumb researchers.
Actually, the opposite is true. The Chinese government is more interested in intimidation than censorship. They try to emphasize the thuggery rather than hide it. Instead of just subtly deleting offending social media posts, the posts are often edited to replace or modify violations with warnings, to send a clear message to both posters and readers that "we are watching you".
The Chinese government has limited interest in monitoring private individual-to-individual and commercial communications that would use this technology. They are mostly concerned with one-to-many platforms such as social media, that can be used to spread incorrect thinking, rile up the masses, and promote disharmony.
even when great swaths of the tech community manage to boycott/complain
A tiny sliver of the tech community complains and even fewer boycott.
Google tracks me. In exchange I get a really nice search engine, free email, free cloud storage, a great browser, and a full suite of office applications. I also see more interesting ads that are at least somewhat correlated with my interests. Why should I complain?
Both sides are violent, but in different ways. In the last century, the left killed more than the right, but most of those deaths were due to economic incompetence rather than intentional actions. Killing out of hate is far more common on the right. Stalin allowed millions of Ukrainian kulaks to starve, not because he hated them, but because he saw them as a threat to his power. But the Jews were not a threat to Hitler, they had supported the Kaiser in WW1, and they got along with Fascists like Franco, who did not share the Nazi's anti-semitism.
The same is true today. In Charlottesville, the alt-left directed their anger at their opponents on the alt-right. The alt-right chanted against leftists, but also blacks, Jews, gays, etc.
Hitman is a bit of a different trade than Engineer.
In either case, if he knew what he was told to do was illegal, then he can't get off by using the "Nuremberg Defense" that he was "just following orders".
Sure. I'm sure they will disappear right after real estate agents do.
Bad analogy. You can sell or buy a house without a RE agent. There are no laws preventing you from doing that. But in many states, it is illegal to sell a new car if you are not a government sanctioned dealer.
Comparing real estate agents to car dealers is like comparing making love to rape. In either case you get fucked, but the difference is consent.
The internet is a series of connections that require physical wires. The owners of those wires will always be an authority
This is nonsense. Sure Comcast and Spectrum/TWC are a near duopoly, but that has nothing to do with the dominance of Google and Facebook on the content side. If you want to set up a website, no vast conspiracy of ISPs is going to stop you.
But why should I have to mute each site individually? Why can't "no autoplay sound" be turned off globally? I never want any site to autoplay (either audio or video). There used to be plugins that disable autoplay, but apparently none of them work anymore because Google changed Chrome to intentionally break them, which seems... evil.
When I was your age we had to "transfer data" over a radio
You had RADIOS??? We used to dream about having a radio. We had to send our packets with pigeons. There were times when our ping times were a fortnight.
My internet is just barely faster than a T1. How ever will I cope?!?!?
A T1 was plenty back before Youtube and Netflix, but is not enough to handle video. I need enough bandwidth so that my wife and daughter can watch two different movies and I can still get work done.
Because then this wouldn't be on Slashdot. The only reason this story is interesting is the porn angle. Look at the posts so far: 90% are about porn and maybe 5% are about cloud storage.
I would trust autonomous driving in a setting if most if not all other cars are autonomous
That is specious reasoning. As a nerd you should use the scientific method: Instead of going with your gut feeling, you should trust SDCs when the evidence shows they are safer than HDCs. Until that evidence exists, it is highly unlikely that they will be available to the general public.
If a branch in the road will cause the car to completely shut down, no, I'm not missing a meeting for that shit.
If a branch in the road will cause the car to completely shut down, then there is no way in heck that they will available to the general public.
My wife has a Tesla with autopilot. It doesn't stop when the road branches. It knows which branch to take by using a super advanced technology known to navigation experts as a "map".
Knowing which fork in the road to take is a solved problem.
I've been programming in javascript for 18 years and it's not nearly as slow or buggy as you think it is.
There are plenty of problems with JavaScript. Jshint can catch a lot of them, and Closure can catch even more, but those tools require a lot of self-discipline, and they still don't fix all the problems. Of course my wife refuses to use either.
But I wasn't talking about debugging JavaScript in a browser, which is bad enough, but debugging embedded JavaScript inside a WebView where there is no console and no debugger. Many of the problems are "Heisenbugs" that only occur in the WebView, but disappear when the same code is run in a browser (which has a console and debugger).
Then it gets even worse when she starts using one bloated framework on top of another. Many of them rely on tags in the HTML so I can't even see the problem by looking at just the JavaScript. So then she tells me if that I am sleeping on the couch until the bug is fixed... ARRRRGGGGGHHH!!!
Lesson learned: Do a thorough code review before you marry someone. A pair programming session to test development style compatibility is also advisable.
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I have heard that they translated the games for European french countries but won't bother putting these games in an north american version of the consome.
France has a population of 67M. Quebec has a population of 8M, and about 20% of those don't speak French as their first language. About 40% of Quebecois can speak English, and among younger people likely to buy this game the percentage is even higher. People willing to play it in English can order on-line, so the amount of lost retail sales is not high.
All farming (not just animal) destroys natural habitat for wild animals so don't be so smug.
But growing meat requires a lot more.
unless they have normal, good food the Vegan place will go broke.
Not in California. My city (San Jose) have several 100% vegan restaurants.
Loving Hut is a restaurant chain that serves only vegan food. They seem to be doing well. I have eaten there many times with my vegan daughter, and the food is pretty good.
Veganism and "gluten-free" are two different things. Gluten comes from wheat, not animals, Being vegan is a choice driven mainly by philosophical and ethical considerations. For most people, going "gluten-free" is just idiotic pseudoscience. Unless you have Celiacs disease or some other gluten related digestive disorder, there is no rational reason to avoid gluten.
Indeed. My company regularly hires high school students as interns, and quite a few of them choose to work full time for a few years after graduating from HS but before starting college. There is nothing uncommon about this at all. He is white and male, so this "story" doesn't even have an SJW angle.
"it just works.... so long as you only do what we explicitly allow you to and never want to actually USE your computer."
Hogwash. A MacBook comes with a full development stack preinstalled, and no limit on "what you can do with it" other than your own ability. An out-of-the-box MacBook is more capable than an out-of-the-box Windows computer, and roughly equivalent to Linux.
Also, the fewer reviews, the more likely those reviews are FAKE. Most of the statistical claims made in TFA are based on the implicit assumption that all the reviews are equally valid. So the real problem here is not dumb customers but dumb researchers.
Actually, the opposite is true. The Chinese government is more interested in intimidation than censorship. They try to emphasize the thuggery rather than hide it. Instead of just subtly deleting offending social media posts, the posts are often edited to replace or modify violations with warnings, to send a clear message to both posters and readers that "we are watching you".
that the Chinese government finally appreciates the benefit of communication free of surveillance.
The Chinese government has limited interest in monitoring private individual-to-individual and commercial communications that would use this technology. They are mostly concerned with one-to-many platforms such as social media, that can be used to spread incorrect thinking, rile up the masses, and promote disharmony.
even when great swaths of the tech community manage to boycott/complain
A tiny sliver of the tech community complains and even fewer boycott.
Google tracks me. In exchange I get a really nice search engine, free email, free cloud storage, a great browser, and a full suite of office applications. I also see more interesting ads that are at least somewhat correlated with my interests. Why should I complain?
Any one of those companies has enough money to buy an invasion of a small country (and win).
Well, there is historical precedent for corporations raising armies and waging war in the own name.
Do you think the US government would send in our military to defend East Bumfuck from Facebook's private army?
Maybe not, but Google's navy might stop Facebook's invasion fleet.
Simple choice then, when you sign up give THEM a noreply@somedomain.com address. Win/win.
Then they shut off your power/water/gas because you didn't see your bill.
You can't win a pissing contest with a monopoly.
Both sides are violent, but in different ways. In the last century, the left killed more than the right, but most of those deaths were due to economic incompetence rather than intentional actions. Killing out of hate is far more common on the right. Stalin allowed millions of Ukrainian kulaks to starve, not because he hated them, but because he saw them as a threat to his power. But the Jews were not a threat to Hitler, they had supported the Kaiser in WW1, and they got along with Fascists like Franco, who did not share the Nazi's anti-semitism.
The same is true today. In Charlottesville, the alt-left directed their anger at their opponents on the alt-right. The alt-right chanted against leftists, but also blacks, Jews, gays, etc.
Hitman is a bit of a different trade than Engineer.
In either case, if he knew what he was told to do was illegal, then he can't get off by using the "Nuremberg Defense" that he was "just following orders".
Sure. I'm sure they will disappear right after real estate agents do.
Bad analogy. You can sell or buy a house without a RE agent. There are no laws preventing you from doing that. But in many states, it is illegal to sell a new car if you are not a government sanctioned dealer.
Comparing real estate agents to car dealers is like comparing making love to rape. In either case you get fucked, but the difference is consent.
The internet is a series of connections that require physical wires. The owners of those wires will always be an authority
This is nonsense. Sure Comcast and Spectrum/TWC are a near duopoly, but that has nothing to do with the dominance of Google and Facebook on the content side. If you want to set up a website, no vast conspiracy of ISPs is going to stop you.
But why should I have to mute each site individually? Why can't "no autoplay sound" be turned off globally? I never want any site to autoplay (either audio or video). There used to be plugins that disable autoplay, but apparently none of them work anymore because Google changed Chrome to intentionally break them, which seems ... evil.
When I was your age we had to "transfer data" over a radio
You had RADIOS??? We used to dream about having a radio. We had to send our packets with pigeons. There were times when our ping times were a fortnight.
My internet is just barely faster than a T1. How ever will I cope?!?!?
A T1 was plenty back before Youtube and Netflix, but is not enough to handle video. I need enough bandwidth so that my wife and daughter can watch two different movies and I can still get work done.
You are not rich.
A household income of $115K will put you in the top 20%.
One can be rich without being filthy rich.
why not just randomly generate various files.
Because then this wouldn't be on Slashdot. The only reason this story is interesting is the porn angle. Look at the posts so far: 90% are about porn and maybe 5% are about cloud storage.
Branch: part of a tree.
Oops. Sorry. Language ambiguity parse error.
What do you do?
Well, I am going to cut a branch off my tree, and when my wife gets home from work, I am going to take her Tesla out and see what it does.
I would trust autonomous driving in a setting if most if not all other cars are autonomous
That is specious reasoning. As a nerd you should use the scientific method: Instead of going with your gut feeling, you should trust SDCs when the evidence shows they are safer than HDCs. Until that evidence exists, it is highly unlikely that they will be available to the general public.
If a branch in the road will cause the car to completely shut down, no, I'm not missing a meeting for that shit.
If a branch in the road will cause the car to completely shut down, then there is no way in heck that they will available to the general public.
My wife has a Tesla with autopilot. It doesn't stop when the road branches. It knows which branch to take by using a super advanced technology known to navigation experts as a "map".
Knowing which fork in the road to take is a solved problem.
I've been programming in javascript for 18 years and it's not nearly as slow or buggy as you think it is.
There are plenty of problems with JavaScript. Jshint can catch a lot of them, and Closure can catch even more, but those tools require a lot of self-discipline, and they still don't fix all the problems. Of course my wife refuses to use either.
But I wasn't talking about debugging JavaScript in a browser, which is bad enough, but debugging embedded JavaScript inside a WebView where there is no console and no debugger. Many of the problems are "Heisenbugs" that only occur in the WebView, but disappear when the same code is run in a browser (which has a console and debugger).
Then it gets even worse when she starts using one bloated framework on top of another. Many of them rely on tags in the HTML so I can't even see the problem by looking at just the JavaScript. So then she tells me if that I am sleeping on the couch until the bug is fixed ... ARRRRGGGGGHHH!!!
Lesson learned: Do a thorough code review before you marry someone. A pair programming session to test development style compatibility is also advisable.