I was thinking: Success, Lack of Success, and Error (i.e. falsely detecting a command due to noise) Better to send a command and have nothing happen than have shit happening all by itself.
"Next is proper anchor texting. I fix the hyper text on the vast majority of submissions. People link the word 'Here' or 'Article' or 'CNN' and I find that very frustrating. I want the hypertext to be the most appropriate 2-3 words that tell you exactly what you're clicking on. I think that is absolutely essential. Every URL should matter, and every bit of hypertext should tell you exactly what it is you're going to get when you click that mouse button."
So, nobody's an idiot. You're both just very ill-mannered over something that shouldn't matter so much. Even Zonk's not an idiot - he's just not very good at his job. Cut him some slack.
Agreed. The only compelling features I've heard are the security ones. You'd likely find better products by looking for security systems rather than home automation systems.
99.97% is the success rate. The error rate is not given, but it should be some theoretical value too small to actually measure. If it's not, then I wouldn't want this system.
Do you mean these won't be the guys who come up with a cure for cancer and AIDS, as the IBM guy suggests in the article? Darn, I was sure that team speed coding was going to do it.
Two condemnations of the the GP by a couple of ACM poster boys. I'm sure those school trophies have a place of honor in your home, but do you have to get personal with someone who found to contest to be too mechanical and arbitrary with too much insider information? Can you recognize a valid argument as well as you recognize correct coding solutions? Is it the contest that inspired you to have an I'm-a-winner/You're-a-loser mentality?
First, that was a joke, there isn't a Pornography Czar. Second, why do you think that a person assigned to coordinate obscenity and pornography complaints would be the hallmark of a society in decline? You probably wouldn't even notice that they were working.
Surely you could find more important things to worry about.
"In order to enable this chat toolbar you need to move this jumper from position A to position B. Here's a photo of what it looks like. The factory incorrectly installed this, and it limits the ability of your video card to get full 3D resolution. You don't have to turn off the computer, and it will allow you to run this really cool software. All your myspace friends will love it."
Or maybe because provisions were set to expire on March 10th, and it was already temporarily extended twice. Time to deal with it at last. And the alternative might have been to extend the previous law unchanged. At least it's a majority senator saying they will revisit it. So there's a long shot that it might see more revision.
Screw that. Add a time lock to it and maybe we can talk. The door should be unopenable by any means until the time I'm scheduled to arrive. You have to learn to be punctual, but it that too high a price to pay for better security?
Razorback2 was one of the most populated servers, which allowed you to get better and faster search results - so I've heard;-)
The users will just migrate to other servers, but this will be an incovenience for users and a major hassle for the server owners that will likely last years, whether or not they eventually get charged with anything. The Sharereactor case still hasn't concluded, although I've never heard that he was ever charged with anything.
YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR (...see kid eyeing parked car) YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A HANDBAG YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A TELEVISION (...shadowy figures heisting TV from apartment) YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A DVD DOWNLOADING PIRATED FILMS IS STEALING STEALING IS AGAINST THE LAW
What a bunch of dumb bastards. I guess guilt works on a larger percentage of people than does logic, or the producers of this commercial are just telling the studio people what they want to hear. They may wish it were true, but hearing "You wouldn't steal a car" usually gets a laugh out of me. Of course, when I see that on a DVD I've bought, rather than rented, I'll probably just be pissed that I have to sit through five previews and then this shit to get to the movie I payed for!
Illegal downloaders would never buy any of the stuff that they download.
vs.
Everything illegally downloaded is lost revenue for the owner.
I think copyright owners hurt themselves by arguing the latter, but I suspect the truth is that almost all downloaders would have bought something - not much - of what they downloaded. It adds up to real lost revenue. We should be honest about that - despite their practice of ridiculously overstating it.
Benefits of DRM? Would that be the ability to pay for content? Thus increasing the amount of non-free content in the future? Are you one of those guys who paid $3 for a ring tone?
Let's not become another member of the installed base of DRM clients. Media companies don't want to offer you more. They want to charge you more for the same stuff.
Don't you hate how they make you call it classic? "Clunky" would have been a better choice. The real marketing genius however was to make the new theme hideous, thus ensuring accolades when the damn thing gets replaced.
It's not as easy as you think to generalize all free software. Did you ever try to install Firefox? Was that a lot of work for you? It had tabbed browsing and pop-up blocking when I couldn't get the same from IE. Also, the open architectures are more extendable in the long run.
On the other hand, if you only want the features a company has chosen for you, and you've got extra cash lying around, knock yourself out. I hear Photoshop is pretty good.
Honestly, this isn't Digg. Slashdot is supposed to suppress trolling, but that's all this article is. OS X and its extensive software suites are Apple's competitive advantage, and the only reason for customers to pay more for hardware than they have to. Nobody could be so ignorant as to seriously suggest this, so he's only rattling our cages for more clicks to his site.
Sadly, I see just realized that this huge thread is in Slashdot's economic interest as well. Expect more of the same.
A dirty bomb would have an immediate economic and political effect. If the goal of terrorism is to cause terror, then I'd say anything remotely nuclear is the weapon of choice. Just imagine the billions inefficiently spent as politicians fall over themselves to appear in control. Then there are the ongoing costs of increased security, which are more lost dollars producing nothing.
I'd say evacuating a significant part of a major US city is more of a big deal than you think.
it allows AOL & Yahoo to crank up the sensitivity of the spam filters
Bingo! That is the extortion scheme in a nutshell. Dial up the sensitivity of the spam filter to create a need for the new service. Keep dialing it up very slowly until you reach a critical mass of paying customers. Then, drop the hammer on the rest. Nothing gets through unless you pay.
The end result might be slightly better than what it is now, although I doubt I'll notice. Another thing I'll hardly notice is those companies passing along the cost to us by increasing the price of their services, but it'll be there.
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I was thinking: Success, Lack of Success, and Error (i.e. falsely detecting a command due to noise) Better to send a command and have nothing happen than have shit happening all by itself.
Incorrect, as CmdrTaco explained in a fairly recent discussion on editing.
"Next is proper anchor texting. I fix the hyper text on the vast majority of submissions. People link the word 'Here' or 'Article' or 'CNN' and I find that very frustrating. I want the hypertext to be the most appropriate 2-3 words that tell you exactly what you're clicking on. I think that is absolutely essential. Every URL should matter, and every bit of hypertext should tell you exactly what it is you're going to get when you click that mouse button."
So, nobody's an idiot. You're both just very ill-mannered over something that shouldn't matter so much. Even Zonk's not an idiot - he's just not very good at his job. Cut him some slack.
Agreed. The only compelling features I've heard are the security ones. You'd likely find better products by looking for security systems rather than home automation systems.
99.97% is the success rate. The error rate is not given, but it should be some theoretical value too small to actually measure. If it's not, then I wouldn't want this system.
Do you mean these won't be the guys who come up with a cure for cancer and AIDS, as the IBM guy suggests in the article? Darn, I was sure that team speed coding was going to do it.
I could see spending a semester on contest questions, instead of say... Compiler Design, would be a distinct advantage in
Category F.
Damn, I've been categorized. Please disregard my observation.
Two condemnations of the the GP by a couple of ACM poster boys. I'm sure those school trophies have a place of honor in your home, but do you have to get personal with someone who found to contest to be too mechanical and arbitrary with too much insider information? Can you recognize a valid argument as well as you recognize correct coding solutions? Is it the contest that inspired you to have an I'm-a-winner/You're-a-loser mentality?
First, that was a joke, there isn't a Pornography Czar. Second, why do you think that a person assigned to coordinate obscenity and pornography complaints would be the hallmark of a society in decline? You probably wouldn't even notice that they were working.
Surely you could find more important things to worry about.
"In order to enable this chat toolbar you need to move this jumper from position A to position B. Here's a photo of what it looks like. The factory incorrectly installed this, and it limits the ability of your video card to get full 3D resolution. You don't have to turn off the computer, and it will allow you to run this really cool software. All your myspace friends will love it."
Not a Troll, just a calling a Karma Whore a Karma Whore.
He must have used an open source spell checker ;-)
(oops, wrong crowd... I meant an M$ spell checker!)
"... - but why pass what you know is flawed?"
Or maybe because provisions were set to expire on March 10th, and it was already temporarily extended twice. Time to deal with it at last. And the alternative might have been to extend the previous law unchanged. At least it's a majority senator saying they will revisit it. So there's a long shot that it might see more revision.
Screw that. Add a time lock to it and maybe we can talk. The door should be unopenable by any means until the time I'm scheduled to arrive. You have to learn to be punctual, but it that too high a price to pay for better security?
If you are a right-thinking American, what do you have to fear ;-)
Razorback2 was one of the most populated servers, which allowed you to get better and faster search results - so I've heard ;-)
The users will just migrate to other servers, but this will be an incovenience for users and a major hassle for the server owners that will likely last years, whether or not they eventually get charged with anything. The Sharereactor case still hasn't concluded, although I've never heard that he was ever charged with anything.
YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR (...see kid eyeing parked car)
YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A HANDBAG
YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A TELEVISION (...shadowy figures heisting TV from apartment)
YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A DVD
DOWNLOADING PIRATED FILMS IS STEALING
STEALING IS AGAINST THE LAW
What a bunch of dumb bastards. I guess guilt works on a larger percentage of people than does logic, or the producers of this commercial are just telling the studio people what they want to hear. They may wish it were true, but hearing "You wouldn't steal a car" usually gets a laugh out of me. Of course, when I see that on a DVD I've bought, rather than rented, I'll probably just be pissed that I have to sit through five previews and then this shit to get to the movie I payed for!
Here are two extreme arguments:
Illegal downloaders would never buy any of the stuff that they download.
vs.
Everything illegally downloaded is lost revenue for the owner.
I think copyright owners hurt themselves by arguing the latter, but I suspect the truth is that almost all downloaders would have bought something - not much - of what they downloaded. It adds up to real lost revenue. We should be honest about that - despite their practice of ridiculously overstating it.
Benefits of DRM? Would that be the ability to pay for content? Thus increasing the amount of non-free content in the future? Are you one of those guys who paid $3 for a ring tone?
Let's not become another member of the installed base of DRM clients. Media companies don't want to offer you more. They want to charge you more for the same stuff.
The more you know.
Don't you hate how they make you call it classic? "Clunky" would have been a better choice. The real marketing genius however was to make the new theme hideous, thus ensuring accolades when the damn thing gets replaced.
It's not as easy as you think to generalize all free software. Did you ever try to install Firefox? Was that a lot of work for you? It had tabbed browsing and pop-up blocking when I couldn't get the same from IE. Also, the open architectures are more extendable in the long run.
On the other hand, if you only want the features a company has chosen for you, and you've got extra cash lying around, knock yourself out. I hear Photoshop is pretty good.
Honestly, this isn't Digg. Slashdot is supposed to suppress trolling, but that's all this article is. OS X and its extensive software suites are Apple's competitive advantage, and the only reason for customers to pay more for hardware than they have to. Nobody could be so ignorant as to seriously suggest this, so he's only rattling our cages for more clicks to his site.
Sadly, I see just realized that this huge thread is in Slashdot's economic interest as well. Expect more of the same.
A dirty bomb would have an immediate economic and political effect. If the goal of terrorism is to cause terror, then I'd say anything remotely nuclear is the weapon of choice. Just imagine the billions inefficiently spent as politicians fall over themselves to appear in control. Then there are the ongoing costs of increased security, which are more lost dollars producing nothing.
I'd say evacuating a significant part of a major US city is more of a big deal than you think.
My amazing wife
Big deal. My child is student of the month at Jefferson Junior High School!
You know how spammers hide their identities when they send, so that they can claim whatever they want....
Does that remind you of anyone?
it allows AOL & Yahoo to crank up the sensitivity of the spam filters
Bingo! That is the extortion scheme in a nutshell. Dial up the sensitivity of the spam filter to create a need for the new service. Keep dialing it up very slowly until you reach a critical mass of paying customers. Then, drop the hammer on the rest. Nothing gets through unless you pay.
The end result might be slightly better than what it is now, although I doubt I'll notice. Another thing I'll hardly notice is those companies passing along the cost to us by increasing the price of their services, but it'll be there.