Everything tries to kill in Australia. Apple is just trying to fit in. I mean, even on the nice beaches there are warning signs about crocodiles. I already have to worry about the sharks and now I have to worry about crocodiles too.
Australia has ocean-going crocodiles? Goes along with the supersonic flying spiders and venomous drop bears I suppose.
The funny thing is that I've never bought anything based on an online ad. Whenever I see ads, they are 90% for stuff I've already looked at, and 10% for stuff I don't care about.
Although your personal experience is of course important, it is just possible that some people have in fact bought things based on seeing an ad.
It might perhaps explain the multi billion dollar advertising industry.
Remember when satellite navigation was expensive and you had to pay for yearly updates? And those updates were poor quality, and POIs were extra, and live traffic was extra, and it only worked for driving directions...
That's the benefit of having Google show you ads.
There is a belief on slashdot that companies like Google should provide entirely free (as in beer and speech), unlimited services out of the goodness of their hearts. Presumably they are expected to make a profit by selling action figures.
Are you being paid for this blatant advertising or are you just a useful idiot?
A lot of people here genuinely love Uber purely because they are disruptive and anti-government. I imagine the crossover with Trump voters is pretty high.
I have never understood this mindset, about how life would be paradise in the Gilded Age, which Libertarians talk about.
The thing is, it was pretty much like paradise. If you were rich. As a member of (say) the aristocracy in Victorian England, you could do pretty much what you wanted.
Libertarians always assume they would have been one of the millionaires, not somebody born into back-breaking poverty and condemned to die there too.
The Brexiters got round that technical difficulty by declaring that Turkey was about to be given full membership of the EU with Sharia law following shortly after.
I'll bet 10 to 1 the lightfield technology they keep blabbing about but not giving any detail about is a laser projector (or a 2D array of laser projectors) shooting photons directly into your retina. It's obvious that this is the only effective way to do the job.
A technology that depends on shooting laser beams into your eyes? What could possibly go wrong?
That's crazy, I'm in the UK and I've never seen a glass that size outside of a novelty catalog. I'll concede that wine glass sizes have increased (they used to be sold in 125ml measures, nowadays it's usually 175ml or 250ml) but I've never seen a restaurant or pub selling a measure larger than 250ml, and I drink a lot of wine!
If you're at home, having a glass that you can get a whole bottle into saves a lot of getting up and down when you could be spending the time relaxing in front of the TV.
It's a 21oz+ glass. (0.6L) But see the picture... that's about how full you full them. You can swirl the wine in them, see the legs, and enjoy the 'bouquet'.
Nobody would ever fill them, even halfway would be pretty absurd.
Exactly. The first thing I thought was "besides alcoholics, who fills up their cup all the way!?". The most I do when I drink a glass of wine is about 1" (guestimating here). Also, unlike water, the informal definition of 'a glass of wine' means they drank one 1/6 full glass of wine, not the whole thing. To assume that people drink a full glass is just plain stupid....or I'm really doing it wrong.
While Samuel Adams et. al. were considered leftist, they were not leftist of the "present day type" i.e. sexually confused, Christian hating, name calling, snowflakes who are so afraid of different ideas they want to stifle free speech. I am sure leftist of the "present day type" would not survive living under the conditions of life back than.
You, my good sir, are a cockwomble, a notorious bludgerman and most foul fuckturnip.
In that case it would have made more sense if it was made as an adult entertainment movie. Maybe there's a spoof of Twilight out there though, I haven't checked.
Wasn't '50 Shades Of Grey' originally some sort of shitty Twilight fanfic?
my guess is they're counting each visit/session as a separate person?
Genius! I've been sitting here reading all the comments about how it must be aliens viewing porn because there aren't that many people on Earth, and I have to say things were getting pretty fucking scary.
Thank god you have shone a light into the encroaching darkness.
Slashdot Mirror
Having never used either one, I can't specifically comment on their differences.
YMBNH
Everything tries to kill in Australia. Apple is just trying to fit in. I mean, even on the nice beaches there are warning signs about crocodiles. I already have to worry about the sharks and now I have to worry about crocodiles too.
Australia has ocean-going crocodiles? Goes along with the supersonic flying spiders and venomous drop bears I suppose.
"It's a feature, not a bug". Right?
They sell ADS that are targeted using the data.
The funny thing is that I've never bought anything based on an online ad. Whenever I see ads, they are 90% for stuff I've already looked at, and 10% for stuff I don't care about.
Although your personal experience is of course important, it is just possible that some people have in fact bought things based on seeing an ad.
It might perhaps explain the multi billion dollar advertising industry.
Remember when satellite navigation was expensive and you had to pay for yearly updates? And those updates were poor quality, and POIs were extra, and live traffic was extra, and it only worked for driving directions...
That's the benefit of having Google show you ads.
There is a belief on slashdot that companies like Google should provide entirely free (as in beer and speech), unlimited services out of the goodness of their hearts. Presumably they are expected to make a profit by selling action figures.
Now try again in English.
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Do you have any evidence for this? And what are the taxi companies supposedly getting out of those alleged bribes?
They are a part of the alien lizard people/muslim atheist/ZOG conspiracy. They don't need a reason other than being evil.
Uber is attempting to reduce its costs illegally.
Why is a nerd tech website so obsessed with taxi's?
People like the idea that by coding an app you can overthrow the government and become a billionaire. Technological Randism.
Are you being paid for this blatant advertising or are you just a useful idiot?
A lot of people here genuinely love Uber purely because they are disruptive and anti-government. I imagine the crossover with Trump voters is pretty high.
I have never understood this mindset, about how life would be paradise in the Gilded Age, which Libertarians talk about.
The thing is, it was pretty much like paradise. If you were rich. As a member of (say) the aristocracy in Victorian England, you could do pretty much what you wanted.
Libertarians always assume they would have been one of the millionaires, not somebody born into back-breaking poverty and condemned to die there too.
The EU has no mainly muslime countries.
The Brexiters got round that technical difficulty by declaring that Turkey was about to be given full membership of the EU with Sharia law following shortly after.
The guys in the UK that are concerned about foreigners are not concerned about brown people. The brown people come from the commonwealth.
They are concerned about EU citizens coming from Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Romania etc.
You are making the fundamental mistake of assuming that racists are rational.
I'll bet 10 to 1 the lightfield technology they keep blabbing about but not giving any detail about is a laser projector (or a 2D array of laser projectors) shooting photons directly into your retina. It's obvious that this is the only effective way to do the job.
A technology that depends on shooting laser beams into your eyes? What could possibly go wrong?
No one is really arguing that VR/AR aren't a great idea, it's just that the reality doesn't match up to the hype yet.
objects that can ONLY be used for self defense... sprays...extensible batons
You don't think I could use a CS spray and a police asp baton to attack you with?
Whatever the rights and wrongs of banning guns, knives etc, it is pretty meaningless to call something a 'purely defensive' weapon.
That's crazy, I'm in the UK and I've never seen a glass that size outside of a novelty catalog. I'll concede that wine glass sizes have increased (they used to be sold in 125ml measures, nowadays it's usually 175ml or 250ml) but I've never seen a restaurant or pub selling a measure larger than 250ml, and I drink a lot of wine!
If you're at home, having a glass that you can get a whole bottle into saves a lot of getting up and down when you could be spending the time relaxing in front of the TV.
It's a 21oz+ glass. (0.6L) But see the picture... that's about how full you full them. You can swirl the wine in them, see the legs, and enjoy the 'bouquet'.
Nobody would ever fill them, even halfway would be pretty absurd.
Well just call me Mr Absurd then.
You just described you and your wife as alcoholics. Congratulations.
You just described yourself as an American. Congratulations.
Exactly. The first thing I thought was "besides alcoholics, who fills up their cup all the way!?". The most I do when I drink a glass of wine is about 1" (guestimating here). Also, unlike water, the informal definition of 'a glass of wine' means they drank one 1/6 full glass of wine, not the whole thing. To assume that people drink a full glass is just plain stupid....or I'm really doing it wrong.
No, you really are doing it wrong.
While Samuel Adams et. al. were considered leftist, they were not leftist of the "present day type" i.e. sexually confused, Christian hating, name calling, snowflakes who are so afraid of different ideas they want to stifle free speech. I am sure leftist of the "present day type" would not survive living under the conditions of life back than.
You, my good sir, are a cockwomble, a notorious bludgerman and most foul fuckturnip.
In that case it would have made more sense if it was made as an adult entertainment movie. Maybe there's a spoof of Twilight out there though, I haven't checked.
Wasn't '50 Shades Of Grey' originally some sort of shitty Twilight fanfic?
The phone won't fit in the front pockets of the jeans
I have never had a pair of jeans (or any other trousers) where the back pocket is smaller than the front/side ones.
The only reason people carry phones in their back jeans pocket is to show off the phone and/or their cute arse.
I have no idea what you mean by "scanning a QR code on the kiosk screen and then using the plain ol' cellular network to complete the transaction".
my guess is they're counting each visit/session as a separate person?
Genius! I've been sitting here reading all the comments about how it must be aliens viewing porn because there aren't that many people on Earth, and I have to say things were getting pretty fucking scary.
Thank god you have shone a light into the encroaching darkness.