On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:49 AM, *********** wrote:
I'm sure this email will be read and responded to by an automated system, as apparently automated systems handle most customer-facing touch-points at Rumblefish.
Let me mention a few keywords that your text-mining software might include in the next monthly report as a word cloud that a human looks at for a few seconds before deciding everything is hunky dory:
Yeah it looked like the Dungeon Master had a seperate screen to control certain aspects of the game, so maybe they could also "override" the strict rules there without anyone being the wiser?
People should reinstall their Windows from scratch at least once a year.
I think that's a matter of opinion. I find that I'm pretty good at keeping the malware off and my disk defragged. I'm not a sys admin, so I only have to deal with my machines and my family's, but still...
I'm sick of people calling this a "successful reboot of the Star Trek franchise". They made one cotton-picking movie, for crying out loud. You can call it a successful reboot after they've made maybe a couple of movies, or gotten a second highly rated season of TV out of it. Until then, it is just marketing hype
I'm sick of people endlessly making sequels. I watched Rambo: First Blood a couple of months ago and was shocked at how good it was.
They were idiots, they may be normal people. That's OK, normal people can be idiots too. But they were idiots.
It's really easy to call people idiots while having the benefit of hindsight, not to mention reading all the comments that have already been made on the topic.
Put yourself in their shoes: burglaries are a big problem in their neighborhood; a car with a big camera drives by "casing" your neighborhood. What do you do?
You probably wouldn't do anything, most people are apathetic about their own futures. I applaud the person who noticed the car, drew a quick conclusion, and decided to take action. That's leadership.
if you patch the game, uninstall, and reinstall the unpatched version, IT WILL NOT WORK, and the only component I can think of that would cause this is the DRM. Thanks EA, for making your paying customers prefer the pirated versions of your programs.
Sorry, how confident are you that the DRM is to blame here? Uninstallers often leave behind old libraries, which can cause problems during a re-install.
I don't think a pipe on the bottom of the ocean is your biggest concern when you put hundreds of thousands of computers on a man made island, exposed to possible tsunamis and hurricanes.
Remembering all the science channel shows about tsunamis that came out after the 2004 quake: Tsunamis are mild events at sea. It's only as the wave reaches shore and hits bottom that the wave starts to rise.
I think it would be really interesting if these barges, rigs, or whatever they decide to put out there also had sensors that act as early-warning systems for tsunamis. Or maybe they could "rent space" for deep ocean research crews?
Most of our parents are addicted to television; I don't see any hysteria or treatment programs for them
One thing I've noticed about the difference between video games and TV especially since becoming a parent:
Video games isolate you from the people around you, and while TV is less "interactive" it is at least a shared experience.
I do play video games ~2-4 hours a week, down from ~20-30 when I was single. I bet that having a family (which your parents did) would change how you spend your time.
Can someone explain to me, in all seriousness, why this is bad for security? I'm not a scientist, I have no in-depth knowledge of x-rays, I've never sat behind an x-ray machine, but here's my impression:
Current situation: I have a laptop which contains metal pieces which will be picked up by an x-ray machine. Taking the laptop out of my bag currently allows TSA to separate my laptop from the rest of what I'm carrying on, so that there's no confusion from a scanning standpoint around if the metal is inside the laptop or not.
Proposed situation: This proposal seems to ensure that 0 metal will ever appear above/below or directly to the side of the laptop (I see the laptop pouch as a flip-out design, but I could be wrong), which maintains the fidelity of the scan. Because no pouches will be allowed on the fold-out pocket nobody will accidentally put their blackberry in there which would be a problem.
Can someone explain exactly what is wrong with this proposal? I see this as innovation, personally, but I'm open to a reasoned explanation to the contrary.
Waste of money because the sample size was too small? Maybe. Sample size is not nearly as important as the process used to select sample. The Gallup Poll has said that a sample of 1000 properly selected people typically allows them to generalize their findings back to the US population with +/-3% error:
http://media.gallup.com/PDF/FAQ/HowArePolls.pdf
Is there any effective defense against a robot army (other than a larger robot army, or maybe an EMP)? Absolutely: Kill the command ship with photon torpedoes. All robots instantly power down. My understanding is that they won't fix this design flaw for at least another millennium, at which time they will start cloning soldiers.
Frivolous cases, of all kinds, are often struck down with costs.
Disagree. From the article:
"In 42 years of litigation, I've never seen a judge set aside a verdict, then award fees to opposing counsel," said local attorney Robert Miller, of Perkins Coie LLP. "There are times when a verdict is set aside, and times when lawyers are sanctioned. But I've never heard of them happening in one case.
In other words the judge called the jury on a bad decision, and took the additional step of penalizing the lawyers who brought the case to court. Apparently that's quite rare (but I'm no lawyer).
Actually, if you vote you have no right to complain, because you essentially agree to participate in a democratic system that is utterly, completely, hopelessly corrupt.
What do you hope to accomplish by not participating? Do you think that any elected official looks at the number of people who don't vote and thinks "ah, I better change the system because people aren't voting"? In politics as in life, if you don't have an opinion you tend to be ignored.
At the same time, I vote and I do complain about policies that are put into effect (not always about the candidates themselves). Are you saying that you can take away this right? How would you accomplish that?
Please define "worse." When using a mapping application, I'd consider the ability to correctly locate the start address as critical. Doesn't matter what other bells and whistles an application might have if it can't meet core competency.
What specific things have you found about MS Live that bother you so much?
I'm not so sure about that. When I type my home address into Google Maps, it returns an address 2 cities west. I used to love google maps, but I stopped using it and I know from reading the forums that others have found similar problems. Now I've started playing around with MS Live... which is a total rip-off I realize but at least it works.
That's fine, MythTV could analyze how often volume is reaching the peak to put it in the commercial/show bucket.
Audio volume would be a pretty accurate indicator, in my opinion.
Hybrid cars do make a difference, compared to buses, when you consider MPG. However also consider:
of people who commute to work, how many also own cars?
how many natural resources went into building that car?
how many trees were ripped up to pave (and expand) the road, reducing natural c02 reclycling
how many square feet of parking needs to be provided for each car owned - at home, work, and other destinations such as stores and malls
I'm no expert, but having grown up in the sun belt and moved around quite a bit you begin to realize how much time/energy/% of my take-home goes into car upkeep... it really blows the mind. I prefer trains, personally.
Here is my favorite (non-scientific) green-city article, posted a few weeks back on \.: http://www.walkablestreets.com/manhattan.htm I don't agree with the utopian view of NYC, but it may provide an alternative way to think about cities.
Public transportation is about energy efficiency. How much energy is required for me to drive to work, cool my car. There are ~150 other people on my floor who might drive to work as well. That's a lot of energy. Comare that to a bus, and you'd see a bit of savings - lugging more people about in a less energy-efficient vehicle results in a net gain. Comare that to a train, and... well you get my point.
Now about cities. Don't think of a city as a cesspool of garbage (I lived in NY for awhile, I know it can be). Think of a city as giving citizens better energy eficiency per person. For instance, when you heat your house, even if it's well insulated, heat will leak out. Multiply that by the number of people on your block and you get quite a bit of wasted heat per person. Now imagine an apartment building, which differs from a house in that when heat escapes it doesn't all go to waste, much of it will drift up into the upper levels, providing more heat to the unit above, allowing persons on upper levels to turn down their furnace.
The amount of energy you or I waste per person may be minimal, but when you think about how all that adds up the argument that living in less populated areas is more eco-friendly becomes less plausable. We might *feel* closer to the earth with nobody else around, but we increase our impact.
Agreed. Do people in Europe find the ad offensive? Is this a case of Americans telling non-American consumers of non-American products how they should feel?
I for one love racy European television, drinking (and driving) laws, and education systems. Yes, Europe is not as hung up on racism as we are, but is that a bad thing? I'd rather be a black man in London than a black man in New York.
Disclaimer: I'm white, lived all over the US and visited Europe occassionally.
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:49 AM, *********** wrote:
I'm sure this email will be read and responded to by an automated system, as apparently automated systems handle most customer-facing touch-points at Rumblefish.
Let me mention a few keywords that your text-mining software might include in the next monthly report as a word cloud that a human looks at for a few seconds before deciding everything is hunky dory:
idiocy
greed
repugnant
careless
bullying
Great job! Does your system recognize sarcasm?
- MadJeff
Yeah it looked like the Dungeon Master had a seperate screen to control certain aspects of the game, so maybe they could also "override" the strict rules there without anyone being the wiser?
Jeff
you do realize that Spore is as creationist as you can get?
Sorry, are you confused about creationism or have you not played Spore?
People should reinstall their Windows from scratch at least once a year.
I think that's a matter of opinion. I find that I'm pretty good at keeping the malware off and my disk defragged. I'm not a sys admin, so I only have to deal with my machines and my family's, but still ...
I suppose thats our job as 'informed' citizens though.. to constantly second guess our government.
Nah, it's our job as avid /. readers to constantly second guess our government. :)
I'm sick of people calling this a "successful reboot of the Star Trek franchise". They made one cotton-picking movie, for crying out loud. You can call it a successful reboot after they've made maybe a couple of movies, or gotten a second highly rated season of TV out of it. Until then, it is just marketing hype
I'm sick of people endlessly making sequels. I watched Rambo: First Blood a couple of months ago and was shocked at how good it was.
They were idiots, they may be normal people. That's OK, normal people can be idiots too. But they were idiots.
It's really easy to call people idiots while having the benefit of hindsight, not to mention reading all the comments that have already been made on the topic.
Put yourself in their shoes: burglaries are a big problem in their neighborhood; a car with a big camera drives by "casing" your neighborhood. What do you do?
You probably wouldn't do anything, most people are apathetic about their own futures. I applaud the person who noticed the car, drew a quick conclusion, and decided to take action. That's leadership.
Why, exactly, do we need bendy computer screens?
So that Val Kilmer can navigate the surface of Mars, of course.
if you patch the game, uninstall, and reinstall the unpatched version, IT WILL NOT WORK, and the only component I can think of that would cause this is the DRM. Thanks EA, for making your paying customers prefer the pirated versions of your programs.
Sorry, how confident are you that the DRM is to blame here? Uninstallers often leave behind old libraries, which can cause problems during a re-install.
I'm no fan of DRM either but still ...
I don't think a pipe on the bottom of the ocean is your biggest concern when you put hundreds of thousands of computers on a man made island, exposed to possible tsunamis and hurricanes.
Remembering all the science channel shows about tsunamis that came out after the 2004 quake: Tsunamis are mild events at sea. It's only as the wave reaches shore and hits bottom that the wave starts to rise.
I think it would be really interesting if these barges, rigs, or whatever they decide to put out there also had sensors that act as early-warning systems for tsunamis. Or maybe they could "rent space" for deep ocean research crews?
Forget moving day, real friends help you demo and haul.
Better friends chip in for movers.
Most of our parents are addicted to television; I don't see any hysteria or treatment programs for them
One thing I've noticed about the difference between video games and TV especially since becoming a parent:
Video games isolate you from the people around you, and while TV is less "interactive" it is at least a shared experience.
I do play video games ~2-4 hours a week, down from ~20-30 when I was single. I bet that having a family (which your parents did) would change how you spend your time.
If I recall correctly (also from memory):
Dad: Oooh I hate the Colonel with his wee beady eyes and that smart look on his face that says "ohh, you gonna buy my chicken!"
Charlie: Dad, how can you hate The Colonel?
Dad: Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly smarta$$!
6 buckets later (2 laptops, the laptop bag, my carryon, my shoes, and the Xbox 360) ...
I'm very sorry about your travel delays, but seriously, can't you check your luggage? Not the electronics, of course ...
Can someone explain to me, in all seriousness, why this is bad for security? I'm not a scientist, I have no in-depth knowledge of x-rays, I've never sat behind an x-ray machine, but here's my impression:
Current situation: I have a laptop which contains metal pieces which will be picked up by an x-ray machine. Taking the laptop out of my bag currently allows TSA to separate my laptop from the rest of what I'm carrying on, so that there's no confusion from a scanning standpoint around if the metal is inside the laptop or not.
Proposed situation: This proposal seems to ensure that 0 metal will ever appear above/below or directly to the side of the laptop (I see the laptop pouch as a flip-out design, but I could be wrong), which maintains the fidelity of the scan. Because no pouches will be allowed on the fold-out pocket nobody will accidentally put their blackberry in there which would be a problem.
Can someone explain exactly what is wrong with this proposal? I see this as innovation, personally, but I'm open to a reasoned explanation to the contrary.
What do you hope to accomplish by not participating? Do you think that any elected official looks at the number of people who don't vote and thinks "ah, I better change the system because people aren't voting"? In politics as in life, if you don't have an opinion you tend to be ignored.
At the same time, I vote and I do complain about policies that are put into effect (not always about the candidates themselves). Are you saying that you can take away this right? How would you accomplish that?
Please define "worse." When using a mapping application, I'd consider the ability to correctly locate the start address as critical. Doesn't matter what other bells and whistles an application might have if it can't meet core competency. What specific things have you found about MS Live that bother you so much?
I'm not so sure about that. When I type my home address into Google Maps, it returns an address 2 cities west. I used to love google maps, but I stopped using it and I know from reading the forums that others have found similar problems. Now I've started playing around with MS Live ... which is a total rip-off I realize but at least it works.
That's fine, MythTV could analyze how often volume is reaching the peak to put it in the commercial/show bucket. Audio volume would be a pretty accurate indicator, in my opinion.
- of people who commute to work, how many also own cars?
- how many natural resources went into building that car?
- how many trees were ripped up to pave (and expand) the road, reducing natural c02 reclycling
- how many square feet of parking needs to be provided for each car owned - at home, work, and other destinations such as stores and malls
I'm no expert, but having grown up in the sun belt and moved around quite a bit you begin to realize how much time/energy/% of my take-home goes into car upkeepHere is my favorite (non-scientific) green-city article, posted a few weeks back on \.: http://www.walkablestreets.com/manhattan.htm I don't agree with the utopian view of NYC, but it may provide an alternative way to think about cities.
Now about cities. Don't think of a city as a cesspool of garbage (I lived in NY for awhile, I know it can be). Think of a city as giving citizens better energy eficiency per person. For instance, when you heat your house, even if it's well insulated, heat will leak out. Multiply that by the number of people on your block and you get quite a bit of wasted heat per person. Now imagine an apartment building, which differs from a house in that when heat escapes it doesn't all go to waste, much of it will drift up into the upper levels, providing more heat to the unit above, allowing persons on upper levels to turn down their furnace.
The amount of energy you or I waste per person may be minimal, but when you think about how all that adds up the argument that living in less populated areas is more eco-friendly becomes less plausable. We might *feel* closer to the earth with nobody else around, but we increase our impact.
Agreed. Do people in Europe find the ad offensive? Is this a case of Americans telling non-American consumers of non-American products how they should feel? I for one love racy European television, drinking (and driving) laws, and education systems. Yes, Europe is not as hung up on racism as we are, but is that a bad thing? I'd rather be a black man in London than a black man in New York. Disclaimer: I'm white, lived all over the US and visited Europe occassionally.