Tablets are an accessory. They are an extension of a desktop. They are not desktop computers, they are not laptops. They are NOT here to replace those. And you don't want to spend $500+ on an accessory for your computer.
Acer also understands that people don't need/want a cell phone data plan for their tablet. We got wifi, it's more then good enough.
They can simply refuse the new term of service, and their photo will not be covered by the new TOS meaning instagram/FB won't be able to use them anyway. Naturally they lose usage of their photo but hey, so is life when you trust some random company with your stuff when you are obviously the "product" of that company. But i see no cause to sue the lawsuit will prolly be rejected at judge level.
I know you're trying to make a point, but the situation isn't really comparable. For one, pirates do not claim ownership over the content, and secondly, pirates can't legally make money out of it whereas when a company imposes a ToS - change like this on its userbase they actually CAN then legally make money out of your content. That makes the whole premise of the situation quite different, with pirates mostly focusing on consuming the content themselves, and companies focusing on monetizing the content.
And that is the reason I'm indifferent to pirates. I may not like them, but they are a necessary evil in this day and age.
The author could have done some research on battery packs instead of hacking up a laptop pack as he did. There is a company called batteryspace.com that sells multi-cell Li-ion packs with a protection circuit built in. They're not cheap, but they are reasonably safe.
The author stated in the article that he worked for 10 years repairing Dell laptops, and that was why he choose a laptop battery.
actually he stated he had more then 10 years experience and owned his own Dell laptop repair shop.
The author could have done some research on battery packs instead of hacking up a laptop pack as he did. There is a company called batteryspace.com that sells multi-cell Li-ion packs with a protection circuit built in. They're not cheap, but they are reasonably safe.
The author stated in the article that he worked for 10 years repairing Dell laptops, and that was why he choose a laptop battery.
This is really, really pathetic, all this failed terror-management. These people are so afraid of death that they lose sight of what is important and miss out on life. Cowering in some hole in the underground delaying the inevitable for a while is not my idea of how to go. In fact is is pretty much a horror-vision.
Really, my preparation for doomsday are a nice bottle of something alcoholic to take the edge off, but that is it. Nothing more required. Death comes for us all, nothing to be afraid of, except maybe dying badly because you are unable to face death.
Word, my plan is to just die. If i don't die right away i'm sure someone or something will kill me.
But then he'll get a bigger stronger branch. And you'll respond by attaching sharpened flint to your branch. Then he invents a system where he can make others fight you while he is protected. So you invent a system where you personify the sun or a volcano and convince others that it's the personification that wants them to fight his defenders...
Your hands will fracture, break, bend, and sometimes emulsify... Especially the forefinger middle knuckle and the top pinky knuckle = 'the boxer break.' Over and over.
Strange, I would take this as evidence that our hands are NOT evolved for punching, but rather that our bodies are amazingly adaptable to what we put them through.
It's hard to see the thumb as an adaptation used for fighting, as the article suggests.
Really? I find the thumbs can press down into the eyes very well in a fight, and it's hard to get them out when rest of the hand is gripped about the skull.
It seems to me the only people besides those with serious mental problems that can not distinguish between reality and fantasy is the religious minded people in the world.
Video games are fantasy. They are NOT real. Sure, some people live as if their online lives in games matter in real life, but then we got people that think some invisible dude in the sky is going to let you in his big ass resort of goodness after you die. We got people that think if they set off a suicide bomb that they will get 100 virgins in Heaven.
The problem isn't video games, the problem is that acceptance of stuff that isn't real, as being real.
I never thought things on TV was real. Even as a kid, and as I kid in the 70's, the TV was my babysitter for most my growing up.
You want to help stop stuff like school shootings to happen? Then make healthcare free for everyone. including mental health. We can try to help people that have a bad grasp on reality and a better chance of seeing the warning sides. I'm not talking locking up people that are suspected they might go batshit crazy, but instead make sure those people are getting the help they need mainly in times of stress, like they lose a job, etc.
Worse, Obama talks about how kids are the future, and yet he wants to spend trillions in wars and not spend money building up our schools and giving the children the help and care they need to be.
Everyone knows what the problem is, but it's cheaper to throw money at other things (the usual scape goats, like Gun Control and Violence in Video Games, then to actually make sure American Citizens have a support system to keep this from happening.
tell that to my friend who trains search and rescue dogs.
Search and rescue dogs aren't pets, which the poster specified. While someone takes care of them, they are not pets, they are tools to be used in the rescue of humans, and thus trained accordingly.
Dogs can be trained to do a lot of things, and therefore can be very "useful". So people feed them.
Cats almost can't be trained, they sleep or play around the whole day. An yet people feed them as well.
Which is more intelligent, cats or dogs?
Cats. Because they realize that whatever you are going to teach them is going to be used against them repeatedly. Thus my cat doesn't bother to learn how to fetch because it does NOT want to run after a ball and bring it back to me. I'm sure in it's mind it's like, "you threw the ball, get it yourself fatso."
The idea is to give everyone access to crawl data. If you work at a large search company, you have access to crawl data. You can also set up crawlers to get the data yourself, but that is expensive and having countless crawlers doing duplicative work is not ideal. Our idea is that there should be one common repository for crawl data that anyone can use. Researchers are using it for NLP, IR, sentiment analysis and many other things like measuring the adoption of metadata formats http://www.webdatacommons.org/ Educators are using it as a real world dataset to teach big data techniques in the classroom. Developers and entrepreneurs are using it for startups.
Sorry I don't have a car analogy:) Feel free to email me if you have any other questions lisa at commoncrawl dot org
I didn't realize the web wasn't available to everyone, including tinkerers, hackers, activists, and new companies. Thank $(DEITY) the Common Crawlers are here to make sure that my port 80 hasn't yet been pried from my cold, dead fingers.
I have no idea what is going on here. I am stoned (I live in Washington State, it's like law or something) so I'll admit that maybe I'm not in the right state for thinking. (I did a pun there, sorry)
I did actually go to the web site, saw they were hiring, and read the FAQ.
Still have no idea why they are doing what they are doing. Hoping someone will explain the purpose of Common Crawlers in terms I can understand and maybe a car analogy.
Not only did this spider decided it needed a bigger version of itself to scare off would be predators, it knew it had to make it move to look be really effective.
Would you rather have double the detail at 30 FPS, or half the detail at 60 FPS? Considering most people can't perceive frame rates faster than 30, it makes a bit of sense to push more polygons instead.
When it comes to games, you can tell the difference between 30 fps and 60 fps. TV/Movies, No, you can't. Video games, yes you can.
I should of mentioned the reason why.
When you shoot video you capture single pictures. When people are moving in these shots, the have motion blur. How much motion blur depends on how fast they are moving and how many shots per sec you take. Our eyes see the motion blur and our mind fills in the rest, which is why we are okay with 24 & 30 fps for movies/videos.
When you do video games, each frame is smoother, doesn't have the motion blur that real life video would have. Granted, games started adding in motion blur, but it's not the same. This is why the more frames per sec generally make games look better and play better.
We did cover this in the Hobbit at 48fps submission.
Why the big jump from 30 to 60? How about you target 35 fps or 40 fps?....
LCD monitors and TV's tend to update the screen at 60 frames per sec. That is 60hz. While 30 is okay, because it goes evenly into 60, 60 is optimal because the framerate and the screen refresh (update) happend at the same time.
Would you rather have double the detail at 30 FPS, or half the detail at 60 FPS? Considering most people can't perceive frame rates faster than 30, it makes a bit of sense to push more polygons instead.
When it comes to games, you can tell the difference between 30 fps and 60 fps. TV/Movies, No, you can't. Video games, yes you can.
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Acer understands.
Tablets are an accessory. They are an extension of a desktop. They are not desktop computers, they are not laptops. They are NOT here to replace those. And you don't want to spend $500+ on an accessory for your computer.
Acer also understands that people don't need/want a cell phone data plan for their tablet. We got wifi, it's more then good enough.
Provided the FCC allows Acer to sell these in the USA (this article didn't say it, but another article i read about it did say the FCC hadn't approved those yet, here's the article: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/12/24/acer-plans-to-launch-99-tablet/)
But of course, it's about the consumers, isn't it? Is cheap good enough, or will cries of "it's not an iPad" ruin it's run?
I'd rather have a 10" to 12" screen myself, so hoping this plays out well.
... Acer may now be willing to get on the bandwagon for the sake of some short-term profits,...
Corporations will do anything for profits (short term or long term), so I would think selling cheap tablets aren't going to bother them.
They can simply refuse the new term of service, and their photo will not be covered by the new TOS meaning instagram/FB won't be able to use them anyway. Naturally they lose usage of their photo but hey, so is life when you trust some random company with your stuff when you are obviously the "product" of that company. But i see no cause to sue the lawsuit will prolly be rejected at judge level.
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/instagram.png
but what happens to the photos that are already on it?
I know you're trying to make a point, but the situation isn't really comparable. For one, pirates do not claim ownership over the content, and secondly, pirates can't legally make money out of it whereas when a company imposes a ToS - change like this on its userbase they actually CAN then legally make money out of your content. That makes the whole premise of the situation quite different, with pirates mostly focusing on consuming the content themselves, and companies focusing on monetizing the content.
And that is the reason I'm indifferent to pirates. I may not like them, but they are a necessary evil in this day and age.
I'm a pirate and it's okay, I still like you.
Seems this is more a list of who not to rob.
I want to car see car fight the ticket in court!
I want to car see car also.
The author could have done some research on battery packs instead of hacking up a laptop pack as he did. There is a company called batteryspace.com that sells multi-cell Li-ion packs with a protection circuit built in. They're not cheap, but they are reasonably safe.
The author stated in the article that he worked for 10 years repairing Dell laptops, and that was why he choose a laptop battery.
actually he stated he had more then 10 years experience and owned his own Dell laptop repair shop.
The author could have done some research on battery packs instead of hacking up a laptop pack as he did. There is a company called batteryspace.com that sells multi-cell Li-ion packs with a protection circuit built in. They're not cheap, but they are reasonably safe.
The author stated in the article that he worked for 10 years repairing Dell laptops, and that was why he choose a laptop battery.
This is really, really pathetic, all this failed terror-management. These people are so afraid of death that they lose sight of what is important and miss out on life. Cowering in some hole in the underground delaying the inevitable for a while is not my idea of how to go. In fact is is pretty much a horror-vision.
Really, my preparation for doomsday are a nice bottle of something alcoholic to take the edge off, but that is it. Nothing more required. Death comes for us all, nothing to be afraid of, except maybe dying badly because you are unable to face death.
Word, my plan is to just die. If i don't die right away i'm sure someone or something will kill me.
I don't want to live if i can' t access slashdot.
nuclear weapons exist. you might make it to your shelter.
Ya, you can name it Megaton.
There. I've said it.
Super Smashdot!
There. I expanded upon what you said.
But then he'll get a bigger stronger branch. And you'll respond by attaching sharpened flint to your branch. Then he invents a system where he can make others fight you while he is protected. So you invent a system where you personify the sun or a volcano and convince others that it's the personification that wants them to fight his defenders...
Where does it all end?
In a Quake 3 deathmatch?
Your hands will fracture, break, bend, and sometimes emulsify... Especially the forefinger middle knuckle and the top pinky knuckle = 'the boxer break.' Over and over.
Strange, I would take this as evidence that our hands are NOT evolved for punching, but rather that our bodies are amazingly adaptable to what we put them through.
It's hard to see the thumb as an adaptation used for fighting, as the article suggests.
Really? I find the thumbs can press down into the eyes very well in a fight, and it's hard to get them out when rest of the hand is gripped about the skull.
Watch the law get changed in Europe.
It seems to me the only people besides those with serious mental problems that can not distinguish between reality and fantasy is the religious minded people in the world.
Video games are fantasy. They are NOT real. Sure, some people live as if their online lives in games matter in real life, but then we got people that think some invisible dude in the sky is going to let you in his big ass resort of goodness after you die. We got people that think if they set off a suicide bomb that they will get 100 virgins in Heaven.
The problem isn't video games, the problem is that acceptance of stuff that isn't real, as being real.
I never thought things on TV was real. Even as a kid, and as I kid in the 70's, the TV was my babysitter for most my growing up.
You want to help stop stuff like school shootings to happen? Then make healthcare free for everyone. including mental health. We can try to help people that have a bad grasp on reality and a better chance of seeing the warning sides. I'm not talking locking up people that are suspected they might go batshit crazy, but instead make sure those people are getting the help they need mainly in times of stress, like they lose a job, etc.
Worse, Obama talks about how kids are the future, and yet he wants to spend trillions in wars and not spend money building up our schools and giving the children the help and care they need to be.
Everyone knows what the problem is, but it's cheaper to throw money at other things (the usual scape goats, like Gun Control and Violence in Video Games, then to actually make sure American Citizens have a support system to keep this from happening.
tell that to my friend who trains search and rescue dogs.
Search and rescue dogs aren't pets, which the poster specified. While someone takes care of them, they are not pets, they are tools to be used in the rescue of humans, and thus trained accordingly.
Let's start with something easy: cats vs. dogs.
Dogs can be trained to do a lot of things, and therefore can be very "useful". So people feed them.
Cats almost can't be trained, they sleep or play around the whole day. An yet people feed them as well.
Which is more intelligent, cats or dogs?
Cats. Because they realize that whatever you are going to teach them is going to be used against them repeatedly. Thus my cat doesn't bother to learn how to fetch because it does NOT want to run after a ball and bring it back to me. I'm sure in it's mind it's like, "you threw the ball, get it yourself fatso."
The idea is to give everyone access to crawl data. If you work at a large search company, you have access to crawl data. You can also set up crawlers to get the data yourself, but that is expensive and having countless crawlers doing duplicative work is not ideal. Our idea is that there should be one common repository for crawl data that anyone can use. Researchers are using it for NLP, IR, sentiment analysis and many other things like measuring the adoption of metadata formats http://www.webdatacommons.org/ Educators are using it as a real world dataset to teach big data techniques in the classroom. Developers and entrepreneurs are using it for startups.
Sorry I don't have a car analogy :) Feel free to email me if you have any other questions lisa at commoncrawl dot org
Thanks, that explains it better.
The game sort of works in Wine. When it starts up, it appears full screen with loads of corrupted graphics in the borders and there's no sound.
The sound can apparently be fixed by installing dsound and directmusic via winetricks, but I haven't gotten around to that yet.
The keyboard controls didn't work for me (apart from Escape), but I think it's because the game detects the plugged in joystick and prioritizes that.
Apparently the game crashes for some users when they get to the boss, but I haven't gotten to one yet (because I suck at the game).
Kubuntu 12.04
it used the WASD keys to move, once the game has started (enter will start it), you can hit F2 to config the keys.
I didn't realize the web wasn't available to everyone, including tinkerers, hackers, activists, and new companies. Thank $(DEITY) the Common Crawlers are here to make sure that my port 80 hasn't yet been pried from my cold, dead fingers.
I have no idea what is going on here. I am stoned (I live in Washington State, it's like law or something) so I'll admit that maybe I'm not in the right state for thinking. (I did a pun there, sorry)
I did actually go to the web site, saw they were hiring, and read the FAQ.
Still have no idea why they are doing what they are doing. Hoping someone will explain the purpose of Common Crawlers in terms I can understand and maybe a car analogy.
evolution.
Not only did this spider decided it needed a bigger version of itself to scare off would be predators, it knew it had to make it move to look be really effective.
I know people who aren't even this smart.
Would you rather have double the detail at 30 FPS, or half the detail at 60 FPS? Considering most people can't perceive frame rates faster than 30, it makes a bit of sense to push more polygons instead.
When it comes to games, you can tell the difference between 30 fps and 60 fps. TV/Movies, No, you can't. Video games, yes you can.
I should of mentioned the reason why.
When you shoot video you capture single pictures. When people are moving in these shots, the have motion blur. How much motion blur depends on how fast they are moving and how many shots per sec you take. Our eyes see the motion blur and our mind fills in the rest, which is why we are okay with 24 & 30 fps for movies/videos.
When you do video games, each frame is smoother, doesn't have the motion blur that real life video would have. Granted, games started adding in motion blur, but it's not the same. This is why the more frames per sec generally make games look better and play better.
We did cover this in the Hobbit at 48fps submission.
Why the big jump from 30 to 60? How about you target 35 fps or 40 fps? ....
LCD monitors and TV's tend to update the screen at 60 frames per sec. That is 60hz. While 30 is okay, because it goes evenly into 60, 60 is optimal because the framerate and the screen refresh (update) happend at the same time.
Would you rather have double the detail at 30 FPS, or half the detail at 60 FPS? Considering most people can't perceive frame rates faster than 30, it makes a bit of sense to push more polygons instead.
When it comes to games, you can tell the difference between 30 fps and 60 fps. TV/Movies, No, you can't. Video games, yes you can.
Cars kill more people then terrorist, so why aren't we having a war against them?
How about the TSA scans peeps going into car dealers?
How about the fact that I am more likely to die driving a car then to die by a terrorist act?
For the record, I do not drive, but I still am more likely to die driving a car then to die by a terrorist act.