I agree this is likely but who among us is going to argue that the Window UI can't use some improvements?
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I'm fine with the UI from XP. In fact, i put my Windows 7 in classic mode. But they still fucked that up.
Like making apps go fullscreen if you move them towards the top of the screen, wtf? If i wanted it full screen, I have 2 ways to do it. I got a fucking box in the right hand corner and I can double click on the top of the app. But no, if I get within 1/2 inch of the top of the screen, it wants to go fullscreen.
Which i find funny, considering how back when monitors where really small (1024x768), it was all about you can multitask and have more then 1 window up at a time and be productive!! Now, with 1920x1080 monitors they try to fullscreen everything? Serious?
UI don't need to be pretty or have gadgets. UI's need to be functional, fast and easy to use. Logical helps, but rarely is that the case. Relearning UI's is stupid to do, as it makes the OS look really shitty. Maybe it's a part of "Get off my lawn" but redoing UI's isn't the best solution.
Now, if MS had been smart, they would of made a UI for tablets and phones, that worked on computers, but kept the OLD UI as default unless the people wanted to change it. Forcing the new UI is going to get us a Windows 9 that is back to how XP/Vista/7 is.
Yea. Replacing the start button with a full screen is a REAL BIG Deal.
Get over it man!
We don't see car with game controllers, because we still get road feedback. However. The key in the ignition is going away with a power button. Dashboard displays are becoming more digital, and can change their displays for you. Cars are also getting more automated such as sensing cruse control where the car will slow down if the car in front of them is a bit slower.... We have been getting a lot of changes in the car. Sure we still have 4 wheels, a steering wheel and pedals... But other things have changed. And some of these changes change how we drive.
Your hate Windows 8 either because you in general don't like microsoft windows. Or you are just too old to get enjoyment in learning something new.
Crappy car analogy dude.
Windows 8 is like changing the dashboard around, so where normally the MPH is, isn't. Where the other things normally are, aren't. None of the button are labled the same. The shift is missing (in both stick and auto), and the pedals are reversed.
Oh, and you dont' use a steering wheel anymore, it's touch control on the windshield.
And this is exactly the reason why Julian Assange is so (wisely) set against being extradited to Sweden.
Right, to avoid due process. That doesn't make him a hero.
but it's not about due process, it's about not getting extradited to the USA, which most everyone agrees Sweden will hand him over to the USA if they get their hands on him.
Dude is a hero. He took a stand against the thieving corporations who are raping cultural for profit.
Corporations have been buying up governments, 1 official at a time since they first formed. Worse, we now have Movie and Music companies who do not want to accept the new market, and instead have spend billions of dollars buying up politicians in the last 20+ years trying to get a strangled hold on keeping their monopoly on profits from Music and Movies. They would prefer that we had no rights at all, that we are monitored at all times just to make sure we do NOT view/listen to ANYTHING without them getting a cut of the profits, preferably, the biggest cut.
And please note, the Music and Movie industry has been raping our heritage, our myths, our public domain, all to make a profit and want a lock on it so you can't do anything with out paying them first.
So ya, I'd tell them to fuck off, and I'd even suggest what sort of toys they can use when they fuck off. And people like you who are too stupid to see the big picture, can fuck off also.
So a man is languishing in solitary confinement for years, not allowed visitors, and is mistreated to a degree that if he were a prisoner of war it would be considered a war crime under the Geneva convention, without being charged, given a trial, or given an opportunity to defend himself... and when this man is finally released, they'll be sending him back to jail because he enabled people to download music and movies... and he's only in that country because of the aforementioned.
Does that seem right to you?
That would never happen in The United States of America....
I wondered if there was more to the story than the summary indicates. I find it hard to believe a country like Italy would convict based on not having the ability to predict an earthquake.
I did some reading, and the charges have more to do with creating a perception that the earthquake risk was remote and being negligent in their duty to keep the people educated about earthquake preparation and vigilance.
Whether you agree that the scientist were negligent or not, the article title and summary are misleading and flamebait.
Ya, but earthquakes are an act of god.
Italy is the seat of the Pope.
The Pope is considered very holy, a Man of God.
Yet, this scientist is getting blamed because he didn't correctly predict an Act of God.
Seems to me, when it comes to God, it's the Pope's job to says whats up, not the scientist.
If I, as an engineer, certify that a plant is safe when it may be not, I can be jailed. I can't see why the same can't apply to this case.
That would be because are not among those who replaced the term "God" with "Science". It's amusing how many on Slashdot scorn the "backwards bible-thumpers" who blindly stick to their faith, yet employ that same blindness because someone happens to be a diploma-carrying scientist. In essence, they have become that which they hate.
To clarify, the problem isn't "God" or "Science", the problem is willful blindness.
Yes, but people that believe in "God" tend to be blind on purpose. Easy to get them to believe in the unreal since they already have blind faith in something.
They were found guilty not primarily for failing to predict the earthquake, but for releasing a statement saying there was probably not going to be one. They are accused of giving people a false sense of security resulting in them not taking necessary precautions.
text analytics, social network/media analysis, web personalization, computational advertising, and online experiments & testing
What the fuck does any of these even mean?
If you scrap facebook to send out targeted spam, then just say so.
Don't we all pad our resume with important sounding titles for normal everyday jobs?
text analytics means he reads what people type. social network/media analysis means he goes online. web personalization means he knows how to upload an avatar to a forum. computational advertising means he posts his resume online. online experiments means you sell sex via a webcam.
Over 3 years I'd imagine a greater density of wifi devices all sharing the same spectrum to have appeared. Perhaps the signal level is the same, but the noise floor has increased substantially, degrading performance.
Exactly, 6 years ago i moved into my apartment, top floor, no one else had wifi going. Now? At least 20 different wifi's are findable in my apartment, I go down to street level, dang, double that.
Granted I use wifi sometimes (my router has wifi going), but honestly, I'd prefer the speed of a network cable in something.
Italy needs to get some clean water or something, they are seriously retarded. Probably has to do with having the Pope in their country.
People want to blame bad stuff happening on everything but the truth. Bad shit happens. That dude got a tumor. Would he have a tumor if there was no cell phones? Most likely. Would he blame something else? Definitely. Probably on a mp3 player because he wears it when he works out or something stupid like that.
Sure, there are people who get sick because they spend time exposed to stuff, and that sucks and is preventable, but mostly when people get sick they blame it on shit, other then life.
Some of us are going to be lucky, some of us are going to be unlucky. Some of us will get cancer, some of us will not get cancer. It's called life, take your blows and deal with it. I have.
If a judge wants to take something of mine, he'll send a cop to come and take it. Why isn't that happening here? Do the banks wait for a house to be 'turned over' when they forecloses on it?
No, the judge will order you to hand it over. If you don't, then the judge will issue an arrest warrent and probably a search warrent and arrest you and then search for the item. If they don't find it, you probably stay in jail for awhile. If they do, then it depends on how much you suck up to the judge on how long he keeps you for obstruction or whatever they call when you don't do what the court/judge ordered you to.
Ya, you got some fans who can't get out of the past, need to relieve their younger years in old TV sets.
Star Trek TNG is meh. At best. I liked the show back when, I like Star Trek, and I tried to watch TNG again recently, and it sucks. The acting is shitty, the sets look crappy, and the stories are stupid. Reminds me of Blake's 7. I loved the show back in the 80's, but once i saw it again, i saw how bad the acting was in it, and it was bad, and it ruined the show for me.
It's not even the original set. Anyone can make a Star Trek TNG set and put it somewhere and think it's cool.
I like to save stuff, and I end up throwing most of it out later because what was cool at one time, become junk later.
The copyright on a non-protected derivative work automatically reverts to the original copyright holder. In this case, if I transcribe the dialogue to a movie, the dialogue still clearly belongs to whoever owns the copyright on the movie. If they license Netflix to use the dialogue as subtitles, then Netflix are within their rights to take it from transcriptions done without license.
Also, it's hypocrisy on the part of Netflix, since Netflix opposes piracy. Instead of sending out s press release commending Netflix, they should ask Netflix to send out a press release saying that piracy is good because it's nothing more than what Netflix does themselves.
Does Netflix oppose piracy? They don't produce anything, they only stream stuff that other people made, so it would seem to me piracy isn't a big concern of theirs. Getting decent prices from the studios would be there concern, other online streaming/DVD rentals would be their concern, but pirating? They probably care less.
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I agree this is likely but who among us is going to argue that the Window UI can't use some improvements?
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I'm fine with the UI from XP. In fact, i put my Windows 7 in classic mode. But they still fucked that up.
Like making apps go fullscreen if you move them towards the top of the screen, wtf? If i wanted it full screen, I have 2 ways to do it. I got a fucking box in the right hand corner and I can double click on the top of the app. But no, if I get within 1/2 inch of the top of the screen, it wants to go fullscreen.
Which i find funny, considering how back when monitors where really small (1024x768), it was all about you can multitask and have more then 1 window up at a time and be productive!! Now, with 1920x1080 monitors they try to fullscreen everything? Serious?
UI don't need to be pretty or have gadgets. UI's need to be functional, fast and easy to use. Logical helps, but rarely is that the case. Relearning UI's is stupid to do, as it makes the OS look really shitty. Maybe it's a part of "Get off my lawn" but redoing UI's isn't the best solution.
Now, if MS had been smart, they would of made a UI for tablets and phones, that worked on computers, but kept the OLD UI as default unless the people wanted to change it. Forcing the new UI is going to get us a Windows 9 that is back to how XP/Vista/7 is.
Yea. Replacing the start button with a full screen is a REAL BIG Deal.
Get over it man!
We don't see car with game controllers, because we still get road feedback. However. The key in the ignition is going away with a power button. Dashboard displays are becoming more digital, and can change their displays for you. Cars are also getting more automated such as sensing cruse control where the car will slow down if the car in front of them is a bit slower.... We have been getting a lot of changes in the car. Sure we still have 4 wheels, a steering wheel and pedals... But other things have changed. And some of these changes change how we drive.
Your hate Windows 8 either because you in general don't like microsoft windows. Or you are just too old to get enjoyment in learning something new.
Crappy car analogy dude.
Windows 8 is like changing the dashboard around, so where normally the MPH is, isn't. Where the other things normally are, aren't. None of the button are labled the same. The shift is missing (in both stick and auto), and the pedals are reversed.
Oh, and you dont' use a steering wheel anymore, it's touch control on the windshield.
That fails to explain why a three-year-old has no problems using it ... on a standard desktop PC. Like what the summary describes.
Three year old also has no problems with eating dog shit picked up from the ground.
Wow, you must have had a shitty life. I don't know of any other 3 year olds that do that.
Let me see. He's talking about 1 OS that can run any app from any device that runs that OS. Doesn't matter the CPU, just the OS.
Damn, Linux should of done that.
is where i watch the president debates. They seem to be more real.
And this is exactly the reason why Julian Assange is so (wisely) set against being extradited to Sweden.
Right, to avoid due process. That doesn't make him a hero.
but it's not about due process, it's about not getting extradited to the USA, which most everyone agrees Sweden will hand him over to the USA if they get their hands on him.
Dude is a hero. He took a stand against the thieving corporations who are raping cultural for profit.
Corporations have been buying up governments, 1 official at a time since they first formed. Worse, we now have Movie and Music companies who do not want to accept the new market, and instead have spend billions of dollars buying up politicians in the last 20+ years trying to get a strangled hold on keeping their monopoly on profits from Music and Movies. They would prefer that we had no rights at all, that we are monitored at all times just to make sure we do NOT view/listen to ANYTHING without them getting a cut of the profits, preferably, the biggest cut.
And please note, the Music and Movie industry has been raping our heritage, our myths, our public domain, all to make a profit and want a lock on it so you can't do anything with out paying them first.
So ya, I'd tell them to fuck off, and I'd even suggest what sort of toys they can use when they fuck off. And people like you who are too stupid to see the big picture, can fuck off also.
So a man is languishing in solitary confinement for years, not allowed visitors, and is mistreated to a degree that if he were a prisoner of war it would be considered a war crime under the Geneva convention, without being charged, given a trial, or given an opportunity to defend himself... and when this man is finally released, they'll be sending him back to jail because he enabled people to download music and movies... and he's only in that country because of the aforementioned.
Does that seem right to you?
That would never happen in The United States of America....
Look. Quakes are an act of God.
The Pope is the Main Man when it comes to God.
The Pope didn't warn them.
The Pope is guilty of murder.
I wondered if there was more to the story than the summary indicates. I find it hard to believe a country like Italy would convict based on not having the ability to predict an earthquake.
I did some reading, and the charges have more to do with creating a perception that the earthquake risk was remote and being negligent in their duty to keep the people educated about earthquake preparation and vigilance.
Whether you agree that the scientist were negligent or not, the article title and summary are misleading and flamebait.
Ya, but earthquakes are an act of god.
Italy is the seat of the Pope.
The Pope is considered very holy, a Man of God.
Yet, this scientist is getting blamed because he didn't correctly predict an Act of God.
Seems to me, when it comes to God, it's the Pope's job to says whats up, not the scientist.
Why isn't the Pope on trial?
If I, as an engineer, certify that a plant is safe when it may be not, I can be jailed. I can't see why the same can't apply to this case.
That would be because are not among those who replaced the term "God" with "Science". It's amusing how many on Slashdot scorn the "backwards bible-thumpers" who blindly stick to their faith, yet employ that same blindness because someone happens to be a diploma-carrying scientist. In essence, they have become that which they hate.
To clarify, the problem isn't "God" or "Science", the problem is willful blindness.
Yes, but people that believe in "God" tend to be blind on purpose. Easy to get them to believe in the unreal since they already have blind faith in something.
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But in real life, the underling takes the blame and the boss gets a promotion for finding the culprit and seeing that justice is done.
r.
You forgot to mention the boss gets a big ass bonus also.
The lesson is to not ever go to italy at all, ever, no matter who you are. They have a judicial system that produces results that are clearly insane.
Yes, Amanda Knox learned that lesson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Knox
that radio dude
Paul Harvey
Dude rocked. hmm, i wonder if i can download his shows?
Oh yes, I can. Legally. Got to love the Internet Archive.
http://archive.org/details/TheRestOfTheStory
Woot!
They were found guilty not primarily for failing to predict the earthquake, but for releasing a statement saying there was probably not going to be one. They are accused of giving people a false sense of security resulting in them not taking necessary precautions.
If that's the case, why isn't the Pope in jail?
text analytics, social network/media analysis, web personalization, computational advertising, and online experiments & testing
What the fuck does any of these even mean?
If you scrap facebook to send out targeted spam, then just say so.
Don't we all pad our resume with important sounding titles for normal everyday jobs?
text analytics means he reads what people type.
social network/media analysis means he goes online.
web personalization means he knows how to upload an avatar to a forum.
computational advertising means he posts his resume online.
online experiments means you sell sex via a webcam.
Over 3 years I'd imagine a greater density of wifi devices all sharing the same spectrum to have appeared. Perhaps the signal level is the same, but the noise floor has increased substantially, degrading performance.
Exactly, 6 years ago i moved into my apartment, top floor, no one else had wifi going. Now? At least 20 different wifi's are findable in my apartment, I go down to street level, dang, double that.
Granted I use wifi sometimes (my router has wifi going), but honestly, I'd prefer the speed of a network cable in something.
Considering it wasn't too long ago that Italy put geologists on trial for failing to predict an earthquake, it's a bit difficult to give this latest development anything more than "there they go again...."
Italy needs to get some clean water or something, they are seriously retarded. Probably has to do with having the Pope in their country.
People want to blame bad stuff happening on everything but the truth. Bad shit happens. That dude got a tumor. Would he have a tumor if there was no cell phones? Most likely. Would he blame something else? Definitely. Probably on a mp3 player because he wears it when he works out or something stupid like that.
Sure, there are people who get sick because they spend time exposed to stuff, and that sucks and is preventable, but mostly when people get sick they blame it on shit, other then life.
Some of us are going to be lucky, some of us are going to be unlucky. Some of us will get cancer, some of us will not get cancer. It's called life, take your blows and deal with it. I have.
... but a url which starts with "1.usa.gov" doesn't strike me as particularly trustworthy.
I just don't trust anything from the government, so I'm safe.
Plus, the gov doesn't have my email address unless it been harvesting them.
If a judge wants to take something of mine, he'll send a cop to come and take it. Why isn't that happening here? Do the banks wait for a house to be 'turned over' when they forecloses on it?
No, the judge will order you to hand it over. If you don't, then the judge will issue an arrest warrent and probably a search warrent and arrest you and then search for the item. If they don't find it, you probably stay in jail for awhile. If they do, then it depends on how much you suck up to the judge on how long he keeps you for obstruction or whatever they call when you don't do what the court/judge ordered you to.
Ya, you got some fans who can't get out of the past, need to relieve their younger years in old TV sets.
Star Trek TNG is meh. At best. I liked the show back when, I like Star Trek, and I tried to watch TNG again recently, and it sucks. The acting is shitty, the sets look crappy, and the stories are stupid. Reminds me of Blake's 7. I loved the show back in the 80's, but once i saw it again, i saw how bad the acting was in it, and it was bad, and it ruined the show for me.
It's not even the original set. Anyone can make a Star Trek TNG set and put it somewhere and think it's cool.
I like to save stuff, and I end up throwing most of it out later because what was cool at one time, become junk later.
I live in Seattle and this is the first i heard of the SF museum, no wonder it went bust.
The copyright on a non-protected derivative work automatically reverts to the original copyright holder. In this case, if I transcribe the dialogue to a movie, the dialogue still clearly belongs to whoever owns the copyright on the movie. If they license Netflix to use the dialogue as subtitles, then Netflix are within their rights to take it from transcriptions done without license.
Seriously? You sure about that?
Also, it's hypocrisy on the part of Netflix, since Netflix opposes piracy. Instead of sending out s press release commending Netflix, they should ask Netflix to send out a press release saying that piracy is good because it's nothing more than what Netflix does themselves.
Does Netflix oppose piracy? They don't produce anything, they only stream stuff that other people made, so it would seem to me piracy isn't a big concern of theirs. Getting decent prices from the studios would be there concern, other online streaming/DVD rentals would be their concern, but pirating? They probably care less.
C'mon - Verizon and Comcast likely wrote that provision themselves. After all, why treat it as a procedure when you can treat it as a profit center?
Just wait until they feel that profits aren't high enough...
They are a corporation, profits are never high enough...