I get so angry about people complaining about how solar/renewable is so corrupt and is just going to make some old white guy rich. So, fucking, what?
I'd rather have some rich white asshole pissing on me and telling me it's raining than have a different rich white asshole pissing on me and telling me it's rain while I choke to death on coal fumes. Yes, someone is going to get rich. Good for them. American dream and all that. If that means that the rest of us suffer with higher taxes instead of starving to death/dying of thirst because we've burned off all the arable land and destroyed all the drinking water while fracking every last drop of oil out of the earth, so be it, I'll be better off.
If these rich white coal barons want to start raking it in by pumping out solar panels, nothing's stopping them. Fucking get on it.
As someone who intends to use Glass or something like it for GPS while driving, I really don't see that Glass will be any more distracting than having my tablet do GPS for me, or my phone, or a dedicated GPS on the dash. I recognize that it may be slightly more distracting than the dedicated GPS due to the possibility of notifications suddenly taking focus on the screen, but no more so than when the same thing happens on my phone when I'm using it for GPS.
I understand the concern about people playing on the internet, or actually watching movies on it, but should the device's usage be outlawed due to things that it is simply capable of doing?
I recognize that these aren't exactly HUDs, but HUDs have been proven to not significantly increase reaction times, and to decrease the amount of time with your eyes off-road. From every review I've read about Glass online, the display is out of the way unless you want to look at it, and easily ignored when you're focused on something else.
Maybe I'm giving other drivers too much credit. Most people probably will be facebooking on them, not simply using them as a convenient display for GPS guidance.
I'm relatively sure this is more likely the cause than anything else. A few times when I've opened a LinkedIn email invite or something akin, I've been prompted to sign in on a page that looks like a LinkedIn login page. After getting told I used the wrong password, I realized that actually the page was saying "Let us SIGN IN to your email and scrape contacts."
I'm sure it would've spammed all the no contacts I have on that email account, and I thought it was pretty scummy of them to make the "access your email" page look almost exactly like the "sign in to LinkedIn page."
But Richard Hershman, vice president of government relations at the National Association of College Stores, points out that if a student has textbooks sent to her home state and ships them back from a different state where she attends college, Amazon could easily note the new shipping location.
I'm sure Amazon will start tracking this shit. Does Amazon give a fuck where a return was sent from? Do they even look? I'm sure everything gets dumped by the truckload into their return centre by FedEx or UPS or whomever, and that's the end of anyone giving a shit about shipping in that process.
If you're not interested in making progress, why should anyone give a shit about the election rigging or journalist killing?
You seem to think that fixing government human rights abuses is probably a good thing, so we're apparently on the same side. You're just proving my point by saying you're uninterested because the exact focus of 'my' movement isn't the exact same as yours. Splintering off into a hundred laser-focused groups accomplishes nothing.
Unless your only mission is to get people to admit they don't know everything about everything, in which case, good luck accomplishing anything on either side of the divide.
Oh, for sure. But the thing about it is, even without understanding the whole issue, a movement can make great progress if they have enough people that for one reason or another buy into it.
The conservative attack on climate science is a perfect example of this. 90% of the people arguing against climate science have no idea what they're talking about, the other 10% just don't care that they're wrong. Somehow, despite the fact that they're all ignorant about it they've managed to get some kind of public debate about the legitimacy of the science going. They've been able to do this by ignoring the fact that some of them are advocating for nuclear energy, some people want more drilling, some people want more clean coal, some want to power the world by burning small children, some people think that melting ice caps aren't an issue, some people think that it's natural, some people think whatever. All of them have decided that their way of doing things doesn't matter, as long as we all understand that worrying about climate change is stupid.
This is a perfect example of why left-wing politics are so unsuccessful. We need to stop trying to one-up each other, and focus on making whatever change is possible. If there is pressure on Russia for Pussy Riot or their anti-gay laws, and that pressure is maintained, there's a chance of changing those things. If we all start whinging about 'why don't you start caring about something else!' then the pressure drops, nothing changes; 500 voices yelling different things are a lot easier to tune out than 500 voices yelling the same. Just because the progress isn't aimed at what you, and many other people (myself included), feel is a bigger issue doesn't make it wrong.
Causes need people and momentum, splintering movements destroys them. Just because it's not guided at the worst of the worst doesn't mean that the human rights violations against Pussy Riot ok.
Patched code in AOSP, not patched binaries for devices. Your GNex does not get every update contributed to the AOSP source, it needs to be compiled and sent to your phone.
Currently, the GS4, HTCOne and anything running a CM based ROM has been patched for sure; I'm not aware of what the status on anything else is because I don't care.
When I'm hanging out on the back deck drinking a beer or BBQing, the last thing I want is a gigantor floodlight attracting even more bugs, blocking the night sky, and generally being super bright and annoying. An outdoor lamp, maybe some candles as others have suggested, that's about it.
I just find it depressing that in the wake of stuff like the #1reasonwhy thing on Twitter, and a boatload of gaming sites really attacking sexism lately, a game that exemplifies what's being criticised is receiving front page attention all over the place.
Thanks for the comment on my site! Nice to know people do occasionally read it.:)
We've finally begun a dialogue about sexism in video games, finally started to create female characters (aside from Samus and a few other notable exceptions) that aren't just trophies, finally started to move away from the ridiculous adolescent focus of games and now we're remaking one of the most ridiculous teenage jackoff fantasy games?
For fucks sake, these games were never good. They were the first games a lot of us played because we were ignorant, awkward, sex starved geeks. We don't need to perpetuate this aspect of nerd culture.
The concept seems more difficult than the implementation in that case, which I don't think is the point of those lines.
I always looked at those lines as don't do result = d.x(y + l.u(v[i[m + 4*t.base(vvv)]])) when you can instead spread it out over a few more lines and make it more readable, less Perly. Either way, you're still going to need the logic figured out, but one is easy to explain and figure out at a glance, while the other is a bunch of back and forth and what the fucks.
Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts. Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity. Errors should never pass silently. Unless explicitly silenced. In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess. There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch. Now is better than never. Although never is often better than *right* now. If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea. If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
The reason there's so much fragmentation in Android is that people are still buying 3 year old phones because having a shitty smartphone is better than having a dumb phone. That's the same reason Android users pay less than iPhone users for apps.
Those people aren't going to buy the apps developers make; they're going to be fine using whatever is on their phone and never thinking anything more about it.
But many people enjoy creating things in and of itself.
The whole idea of "why build when I can buy" is why people are so much worse at making things that mostly work, fully work than they used to be. Building things is fun. If it's also significantly cheaper, and nearly as good, why not learn something on the way?
Slashdot Mirror
Prototype not behaving like a finished product, story at 11.
This, 1,000 times this.
I get so angry about people complaining about how solar/renewable is so corrupt and is just going to make some old white guy rich. So, fucking, what?
I'd rather have some rich white asshole pissing on me and telling me it's raining than have a different rich white asshole pissing on me and telling me it's rain while I choke to death on coal fumes. Yes, someone is going to get rich. Good for them. American dream and all that. If that means that the rest of us suffer with higher taxes instead of starving to death/dying of thirst because we've burned off all the arable land and destroyed all the drinking water while fracking every last drop of oil out of the earth, so be it, I'll be better off.
If these rich white coal barons want to start raking it in by pumping out solar panels, nothing's stopping them. Fucking get on it.
How can I mod a story -1 Troll?
As someone who intends to use Glass or something like it for GPS while driving, I really don't see that Glass will be any more distracting than having my tablet do GPS for me, or my phone, or a dedicated GPS on the dash. I recognize that it may be slightly more distracting than the dedicated GPS due to the possibility of notifications suddenly taking focus on the screen, but no more so than when the same thing happens on my phone when I'm using it for GPS.
I understand the concern about people playing on the internet, or actually watching movies on it, but should the device's usage be outlawed due to things that it is simply capable of doing?
I recognize that these aren't exactly HUDs, but HUDs have been proven to not significantly increase reaction times, and to decrease the amount of time with your eyes off-road. From every review I've read about Glass online, the display is out of the way unless you want to look at it, and easily ignored when you're focused on something else.
Maybe I'm giving other drivers too much credit. Most people probably will be facebooking on them, not simply using them as a convenient display for GPS guidance.
I'm relatively sure this is more likely the cause than anything else. A few times when I've opened a LinkedIn email invite or something akin, I've been prompted to sign in on a page that looks like a LinkedIn login page. After getting told I used the wrong password, I realized that actually the page was saying "Let us SIGN IN to your email and scrape contacts."
I'm sure it would've spammed all the no contacts I have on that email account, and I thought it was pretty scummy of them to make the "access your email" page look almost exactly like the "sign in to LinkedIn page."
8/10 would almost respond seriously again.
But Richard Hershman, vice president of government relations at the National Association of College Stores, points out that if a student has textbooks sent to her home state and ships them back from a different state where she attends college, Amazon could easily note the new shipping location.
I'm sure Amazon will start tracking this shit. Does Amazon give a fuck where a return was sent from? Do they even look? I'm sure everything gets dumped by the truckload into their return centre by FedEx or UPS or whomever, and that's the end of anyone giving a shit about shipping in that process.
If you're not interested in making progress, why should anyone give a shit about the election rigging or journalist killing?
You seem to think that fixing government human rights abuses is probably a good thing, so we're apparently on the same side. You're just proving my point by saying you're uninterested because the exact focus of 'my' movement isn't the exact same as yours. Splintering off into a hundred laser-focused groups accomplishes nothing.
Unless your only mission is to get people to admit they don't know everything about everything, in which case, good luck accomplishing anything on either side of the divide.
I'm less referring to governments than I am to social movements. Agreed about the soma, though.
Oh, for sure. But the thing about it is, even without understanding the whole issue, a movement can make great progress if they have enough people that for one reason or another buy into it.
The conservative attack on climate science is a perfect example of this. 90% of the people arguing against climate science have no idea what they're talking about, the other 10% just don't care that they're wrong. Somehow, despite the fact that they're all ignorant about it they've managed to get some kind of public debate about the legitimacy of the science going. They've been able to do this by ignoring the fact that some of them are advocating for nuclear energy, some people want more drilling, some people want more clean coal, some want to power the world by burning small children, some people think that melting ice caps aren't an issue, some people think that it's natural, some people think whatever. All of them have decided that their way of doing things doesn't matter, as long as we all understand that worrying about climate change is stupid.
This is a perfect example of why left-wing politics are so unsuccessful. We need to stop trying to one-up each other, and focus on making whatever change is possible. If there is pressure on Russia for Pussy Riot or their anti-gay laws, and that pressure is maintained, there's a chance of changing those things. If we all start whinging about 'why don't you start caring about something else!' then the pressure drops, nothing changes; 500 voices yelling different things are a lot easier to tune out than 500 voices yelling the same. Just because the progress isn't aimed at what you, and many other people (myself included), feel is a bigger issue doesn't make it wrong.
Causes need people and momentum, splintering movements destroys them. Just because it's not guided at the worst of the worst doesn't mean that the human rights violations against Pussy Riot ok.
Patched code in AOSP, not patched binaries for devices. Your GNex does not get every update contributed to the AOSP source, it needs to be compiled and sent to your phone.
Currently, the GS4, HTCOne and anything running a CM based ROM has been patched for sure; I'm not aware of what the status on anything else is because I don't care.
haha, yeah, the cooking is done by the lamp.
Basically, we have this, but it's a 60W bulb hooked up to the mains rather than a solar powered dealie with LEDs.
When I think floodlight, I think of 500W halogens bathing the entire yard in daylight.
When I'm hanging out on the back deck drinking a beer or BBQing, the last thing I want is a gigantor floodlight attracting even more bugs, blocking the night sky, and generally being super bright and annoying. An outdoor lamp, maybe some candles as others have suggested, that's about it.
Why do you need daylight at night?
That democracy is flawed and that those flaws need to be addressed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
I just find it depressing that in the wake of stuff like the #1reasonwhy thing on Twitter, and a boatload of gaming sites really attacking sexism lately, a game that exemplifies what's being criticised is receiving front page attention all over the place.
Thanks for the comment on my site! Nice to know people do occasionally read it. :)
We've finally begun a dialogue about sexism in video games, finally started to create female characters (aside from Samus and a few other notable exceptions) that aren't just trophies, finally started to move away from the ridiculous adolescent focus of games and now we're remaking one of the most ridiculous teenage jackoff fantasy games?
For fucks sake, these games were never good. They were the first games a lot of us played because we were ignorant, awkward, sex starved geeks. We don't need to perpetuate this aspect of nerd culture.
The concept seems more difficult than the implementation in that case, which I don't think is the point of those lines.
I always looked at those lines as don't do result = d.x(y + l.u(v[i[m + 4*t.base(vvv)]])) when you can instead spread it out over a few more lines and make it more readable, less Perly. Either way, you're still going to need the logic figured out, but one is easy to explain and figure out at a glance, while the other is a bunch of back and forth and what the fucks.
Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
As with most art-based political commentary, almost nobody will get it outside of art circles.
Everyone will think "This is stupid, why would you do that? It's hard to read; I don't get it."
The reason there's so much fragmentation in Android is that people are still buying 3 year old phones because having a shitty smartphone is better than having a dumb phone. That's the same reason Android users pay less than iPhone users for apps.
Those people aren't going to buy the apps developers make; they're going to be fine using whatever is on their phone and never thinking anything more about it.
But many people enjoy creating things in and of itself.
The whole idea of "why build when I can buy" is why people are so much worse at making things that mostly work, fully work than they used to be. Building things is fun. If it's also significantly cheaper, and nearly as good, why not learn something on the way?
Maybe it's just ridiculous nerd pedanticism, previously they allowed it; with the new version they actually support it.
But previously your dock and top menu bar were only available on your main monitor; now they move to whichever monitor you're working on.
Also previously entering fullscreen mode in any app impacted the other monitor somehow; that is no-longer the case either.