I quit contributing when the "editors" started going completely bonkers a couple years back. Prior to that, I contributed to articles fairly frequently, and money on occasion.
That begging campaign got so annoying that I haven't been to wikipedia in the last two months. I don't think I'll go back either, so consider that my contribution -- an infinitesimal decrease in server load and bandwidth required to keep the site running.
After the amateur-hour crap that gog pulled a couple months back by taking their site offline with no explanation, I'll stick to steam and it's minimal drm. It's a personal choice to live with it, but I find their implementation acceptable; publishers that add extra drm on top of steam don't get my dollars though.
You're not entitled to it. You'd like to have it, yes, and there are (perhaps valid) reasons you'd like to have it, but wired has absolutely zero obligation to give it to you. None. Journalism has never been about being required to publish everything, and never will be.
The fact is, though, that you aren't making any decisions relating to this episode that actually matter, and won't be making any voting decisions that could possibly have an impact until 2012 at the earliest. So knowing "now" doesn't really accomplish a whole lot, does it?
I've yet to meet a salesman who will claim with a straight face that the thin-client solution works well when one is traveling and working out of hotel rooms and client sites on a regular basis.
Unashamed apple fan here. Your list is complete and utter rubbish.
10) Anyone who isn't blind wouldn't mix those. Or wear them at all, for that matter.
9) Took, and passed, three of them. Also, a course in differential equations, another in partial differential equations, and several statistics courses.
8) I do most of the work on my cars, and all the work on my motorcycle. Parts costs are actually pretty low; what people get screwed on is shop labor fees.
7) Internet radio. Why pay for or maintain your own music library, when anything you care to listen to is available in a legal stream?
6) Don't care for wine. Scotch is better.
5) How do you listen to something in an ironic way? Either you listen to it or not.
4) Don't need to move to one. I live in one, and wouldn't trade it for either coast, simply because there's too many damn people.
3) If they're getting paid, then it's a reasonable rate to someone.
2) Unless the service is crappy, I tip.
1) Having had an engagement end very badly, no, I no longer date. I've found I'm happier alone with my hobbies than I am with someone else in my life.
And while I'm busy not fitting in your preconceived notions of what an apple fan is or isn't:
I don't care what OS you use, or what phone you have.
And completely misses the fact that several seconds before the first stage goes up in a fireball, the top of the rocket falls off and collides with the first stage.
Someone forgot to apply the indian version of lok-tite to some mating ring bolts.:)
Yes, awesomebar IS that infuriating. Paralyzed by seeing options, no, but give us the option to turn off behavior we don't like. Is it THAT hard to do?
No. It isn't. It is simply the devs saying "this is a better way, and you'll use it whether you like it or not", which isn't a cool attitude if you want to keep your user base.
And yes, I've switched away from FF for that reason -- not that awesomebar chased me away, but the attitudes of the devs did.
So I am not surprised Apple gets a lot of hatred here. If they don't want that, maybe they shouldn't have such a closed, "The Apple was is the ONLY way," ecosystem. Now if you like that that's fine. I'm not telling you what you should or shouldn't want. It is perfectly ok to say "I like their system, I want my stuff locked down and controlled, because that also implies protected, I am willing to deal with higher prices and less choice in trade for what I feel to be a better overall experience." However understand that many people do not feel that way, in particular many who inhabit Slashdot. So there's gonna be a lot of Apple hate here so long as that is going on.
Then why do the majority of people that feel otherwise seem to have the attitude that people are completely wrong and are very much in your face about it? Are they that threatened by the existence of people that think differently that they have to lash out?
Search/replace apple vs microsoft with, oh, any other heated discussion here on slashdot that never seems to remain civil (gpl vs bsd, for instance, or language a vs language b, etc)
If some people want to skip 95% of a game's content, let them. It's their own money they're wasting, and their gaming skills will stay poor forever.
Some of us game to relax, and don't want frustration of having to put up with much frustration simply to unlock cars and/or tracks, and don't give a damn about our "gaming skills", whatever those are.
I "played" through Forza 2 by doing the "hire a driver" thing and proceeding to do something else while the game played itself. Once everything was unlocked, and I could just goof around with whatever car I wanted, on whatever track I wanted, then I enjoyed the game.
Keeping other cars and tracks locked up because I'm not good enough doesn't make the game more fun; on the contrary, it makes it more work, and less fun. Why game designers stick with that retarded setup, I'll never understand.
$60 / 25 hours = $2.40 / hour, which isn't that bad for entertainment. Average price for a movie ticket here is about $10, and your typical movie is about 2 hours -- or about $5 / hour.
Even a 25 hour game is a pretty good sized amount of entertainment.
As I understand it, MythBusters screwed it up. They're on round 3 or 4 of that myth. At this point they're kicking a dead horse.
And, what's so bad about a President promoting education? I'd rather they focus more on actually accomplishing things than grandstanding, campaigning, and making meaningless TV appearances.
People in this country are anti-intellectual, anti-science enough. That's nothing new, and obama's appearance on a cable-only show isn't going to change that.
Did you see the recent story about our precipitously dropping science and math scores? Flip answer: Which one? Serious answer: Honestly, no. There's been so many stories and studies over the last 10 years that show the same thing that "more of the same" is no longer newsworthy in my book.
No need to start catering to the stupid and disinterested. We are way, way, way past starting.
Take MSNBC and FOX News, etc, away. Dump MTV, VH1, BET, E!, and all their sister networks. Drop all forms of "reality" programming, and contest shows. Immediately ban every station that has ever shown "professional" wrestling, as the entire audience is retarded. Then take all the real sports off the air, since kids look up to athletes who often have no ability to do anything other than play with balls. Sitcoms, obviously, must go as well, along with most cartoons, as they've always catered to the stupid and disinterested. Ultimately, you'd pretty much have to get rid of everything except perhaps CSPAN, NASA-TV, and shows like Nova (but you'd have to can most of the rest of PBS's programming / fund-raising telethons). You might be able to keep Discovery, History, and maybe even TLC if you return them to the type of shows they carried 10 years ago. Hopefully we could salvage some decent local, national, and international reporting, but we'd probably have to fire two or three entire generations of reporters and producers to get anything other than PR pieces.
Broadcast and satellite radio, well, that can almost entirely go away as well.
None of which matters one damn bit if you don't fix the schools first. Cut all funding for school athletics outside of physical education classes. No competitive sports taking funding from academics. Start failing students again, and leaving their asses behind instead of dragging the rest of the class down with them. Teach the little idiots that sometimes doing your best still isn't good enough, and that problems have absolute right and wrong answers. Kick disruptive students out of class, but hold them responsible for the work -- fail them and make them repeat the class if they deserve it.
Sooner or later they'll figure out that it takes work to succeed in life, and that learning is the way forward.
No, it wouldn't be a fun environment. Too damn bad.
1) I don't care for career politicians, regardless of the label they wear. Having any political idiot come out and do a talking-head segment adds absolutely nothing to the program.
2) Testing this myth yet again is just f'ing stupid.
I wonder how many people will avoid watching it just because of obama's appearance, and how many will skip this one because of the repeated subject.
Meh, I'm just throwing out ideas that don't involve 2" screens -- I personally wouldn't try streaming HD at all, but I have little tolerance for things cutting out or quality degrading when bandwidth suffers. I'd rather just download the whole thing and watch it when it's done.
It does provide evidence that not all windows machines are vulnerable just by browsing. Basic logic says it only takes one example to break premises based on absolutes such as "all" or "none".
For whatever it's worth, the machine is a default XP SP3 install with just the "critical" updates applied, and with only a few portable apps (FF, Foxit, Filezilla, Putty). The only thing "protecting" it is a cheap NAT router, and the user not being a clueless "click yes on everything" idiot, though an admitted idiot when it comes to many other things.
No file association or handler for PDFs on this machine. Windows and browser both don't know what to do with them, since acrobat reader isn't installed.
I do have the ability to view them, but it's with a portable app that does not have any associations.
Since TFA was rather short on details, I get the impression that blocking/disabling third party cookies solves this, since the cookie is from facebook and I'm looking at $SITEXYZ.
It most certainly IS more outrageous. There's actually, you know, specific laws that makes smoking pot an offense you can be jailed for. Don't like the law, work to change it (with varying degrees of success around the country).
Being sexually assaulted is an administrative policy, without being specifically allowed by law. Don't like it? Too bad, you can't really do anything about it, because it's an arbitrary policy implemented by bureaucrats.
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I quit contributing when the "editors" started going completely bonkers a couple years back. Prior to that, I contributed to articles fairly frequently, and money on occasion.
But enjoy your high horse.
That begging campaign got so annoying that I haven't been to wikipedia in the last two months. I don't think I'll go back either, so consider that my contribution -- an infinitesimal decrease in server load and bandwidth required to keep the site running.
After the amateur-hour crap that gog pulled a couple months back by taking their site offline with no explanation, I'll stick to steam and it's minimal drm. It's a personal choice to live with it, but I find their implementation acceptable; publishers that add extra drm on top of steam don't get my dollars though.
You're not entitled to it. You'd like to have it, yes, and there are (perhaps valid) reasons you'd like to have it, but wired has absolutely zero obligation to give it to you. None. Journalism has never been about being required to publish everything, and never will be.
The fact is, though, that you aren't making any decisions relating to this episode that actually matter, and won't be making any voting decisions that could possibly have an impact until 2012 at the earliest. So knowing "now" doesn't really accomplish a whole lot, does it?
I've yet to meet a salesman who will claim with a straight face that the thin-client solution works well when one is traveling and working out of hotel rooms and client sites on a regular basis.
Unashamed apple fan here. Your list is complete and utter rubbish.
10) Anyone who isn't blind wouldn't mix those. Or wear them at all, for that matter.
9) Took, and passed, three of them. Also, a course in differential equations, another in partial differential equations, and several statistics courses.
8) I do most of the work on my cars, and all the work on my motorcycle. Parts costs are actually pretty low; what people get screwed on is shop labor fees.
7) Internet radio. Why pay for or maintain your own music library, when anything you care to listen to is available in a legal stream?
6) Don't care for wine. Scotch is better.
5) How do you listen to something in an ironic way? Either you listen to it or not.
4) Don't need to move to one. I live in one, and wouldn't trade it for either coast, simply because there's too many damn people.
3) If they're getting paid, then it's a reasonable rate to someone.
2) Unless the service is crappy, I tip.
1) Having had an engagement end very badly, no, I no longer date. I've found I'm happier alone with my hobbies than I am with someone else in my life.
And while I'm busy not fitting in your preconceived notions of what an apple fan is or isn't:
I don't care what OS you use, or what phone you have.
Why does it bother you so much?
And completely misses the fact that several seconds before the first stage goes up in a fireball, the top of the rocket falls off and collides with the first stage.
Someone forgot to apply the indian version of lok-tite to some mating ring bolts. :)
Yes, awesomebar IS that infuriating. Paralyzed by seeing options, no, but give us the option to turn off behavior we don't like. Is it THAT hard to do?
No. It isn't. It is simply the devs saying "this is a better way, and you'll use it whether you like it or not", which isn't a cool attitude if you want to keep your user base.
And yes, I've switched away from FF for that reason -- not that awesomebar chased me away, but the attitudes of the devs did.
Not surprised, just wondering why both sides seem to be made up of people incapable of having a civil discussion.
As for the moderation -- friend of a friend status means I see it rated as "+5 Troll" -- you're a highly rated troll. So there's that, at least. :)
So I am not surprised Apple gets a lot of hatred here. If they don't want that, maybe they shouldn't have such a closed, "The Apple was is the ONLY way," ecosystem. Now if you like that that's fine. I'm not telling you what you should or shouldn't want. It is perfectly ok to say "I like their system, I want my stuff locked down and controlled, because that also implies protected, I am willing to deal with higher prices and less choice in trade for what I feel to be a better overall experience." However understand that many people do not feel that way, in particular many who inhabit Slashdot. So there's gonna be a lot of Apple hate here so long as that is going on.
Then why do the majority of people that feel otherwise seem to have the attitude that people are completely wrong and are very much in your face about it? Are they that threatened by the existence of people that think differently that they have to lash out?
Search/replace apple vs microsoft with, oh, any other heated discussion here on slashdot that never seems to remain civil (gpl vs bsd, for instance, or language a vs language b, etc)
If some people want to skip 95% of a game's content, let them. It's their own money they're wasting, and their gaming skills will stay poor forever.
Some of us game to relax, and don't want frustration of having to put up with much frustration simply to unlock cars and/or tracks, and don't give a damn about our "gaming skills", whatever those are.
I "played" through Forza 2 by doing the "hire a driver" thing and proceeding to do something else while the game played itself. Once everything was unlocked, and I could just goof around with whatever car I wanted, on whatever track I wanted, then I enjoyed the game.
Keeping other cars and tracks locked up because I'm not good enough doesn't make the game more fun; on the contrary, it makes it more work, and less fun. Why game designers stick with that retarded setup, I'll never understand.
$60 / 25 hours = $2.40 / hour, which isn't that bad for entertainment. Average price for a movie ticket here is about $10, and your typical movie is about 2 hours -- or about $5 / hour.
Even a 25 hour game is a pretty good sized amount of entertainment.
As I understand it, MythBusters screwed it up.
They're on round 3 or 4 of that myth. At this point they're kicking a dead horse.
And, what's so bad about a President promoting education?
I'd rather they focus more on actually accomplishing things than grandstanding, campaigning, and making meaningless TV appearances.
People in this country are anti-intellectual, anti-science enough.
That's nothing new, and obama's appearance on a cable-only show isn't going to change that.
Did you see the recent story about our precipitously dropping science and math scores?
Flip answer: Which one?
Serious answer: Honestly, no. There's been so many stories and studies over the last 10 years that show the same thing that "more of the same" is no longer newsworthy in my book.
No need to start catering to the stupid and disinterested.
We are way, way, way past starting.
Take MSNBC and FOX News, etc, away. Dump MTV, VH1, BET, E!, and all their sister networks. Drop all forms of "reality" programming, and contest shows. Immediately ban every station that has ever shown "professional" wrestling, as the entire audience is retarded. Then take all the real sports off the air, since kids look up to athletes who often have no ability to do anything other than play with balls. Sitcoms, obviously, must go as well, along with most cartoons, as they've always catered to the stupid and disinterested. Ultimately, you'd pretty much have to get rid of everything except perhaps CSPAN, NASA-TV, and shows like Nova (but you'd have to can most of the rest of PBS's programming / fund-raising telethons). You might be able to keep Discovery, History, and maybe even TLC if you return them to the type of shows they carried 10 years ago. Hopefully we could salvage some decent local, national, and international reporting, but we'd probably have to fire two or three entire generations of reporters and producers to get anything other than PR pieces.
Broadcast and satellite radio, well, that can almost entirely go away as well.
None of which matters one damn bit if you don't fix the schools first. Cut all funding for school athletics outside of physical education classes. No competitive sports taking funding from academics. Start failing students again, and leaving their asses behind instead of dragging the rest of the class down with them. Teach the little idiots that sometimes doing your best still isn't good enough, and that problems have absolute right and wrong answers. Kick disruptive students out of class, but hold them responsible for the work -- fail them and make them repeat the class if they deserve it.
Sooner or later they'll figure out that it takes work to succeed in life, and that learning is the way forward.
No, it wouldn't be a fun environment. Too damn bad.
1) I don't care for career politicians, regardless of the label they wear. Having any political idiot come out and do a talking-head segment adds absolutely nothing to the program.
2) Testing this myth yet again is just f'ing stupid.
I wonder how many people will avoid watching it just because of obama's appearance, and how many will skip this one because of the repeated subject.
Except for that tiny little detail of him being on record supporting going to war in Afghanistan and Iraq.....
Meh, I'm just throwing out ideas that don't involve 2" screens -- I personally wouldn't try streaming HD at all, but I have little tolerance for things cutting out or quality degrading when bandwidth suffers. I'd rather just download the whole thing and watch it when it's done.
Maybe because it's tethered and being viewed with a laptop? Or the LTE device is a USB device, and not a phone?
It does provide evidence that not all windows machines are vulnerable just by browsing. Basic logic says it only takes one example to break premises based on absolutes such as "all" or "none".
For whatever it's worth, the machine is a default XP SP3 install with just the "critical" updates applied, and with only a few portable apps (FF, Foxit, Filezilla, Putty). The only thing "protecting" it is a cheap NAT router, and the user not being a clueless "click yes on everything" idiot, though an admitted idiot when it comes to many other things.
Not a prompt per se, but I don't see the PDFs.
No file association or handler for PDFs on this machine. Windows and browser both don't know what to do with them, since acrobat reader isn't installed.
I do have the ability to view them, but it's with a portable app that does not have any associations.
I'm prompted what I want to do with such a PDF. So no, browsing to a page with an evil PDF isn't enough.
Since TFA was rather short on details, I get the impression that blocking/disabling third party cookies solves this, since the cookie is from facebook and I'm looking at $SITEXYZ.
EMI is on the edge of defaulting on its CitiGroup loan and being foreclosed upon.
Can't happen fast enough!
exactly who is going to choose to play as Jar Jar?
Someone who's drunk enough to think that it would be funny.
And who is going to want to play multiplayer with the kind of person who would choose to play as Jar Jar?
Other drunks.
It most certainly IS more outrageous. There's actually, you know, specific laws that makes smoking pot an offense you can be jailed for. Don't like the law, work to change it (with varying degrees of success around the country).
Being sexually assaulted is an administrative policy, without being specifically allowed by law. Don't like it? Too bad, you can't really do anything about it, because it's an arbitrary policy implemented by bureaucrats.
Don't forget the eventual progression into full-body scanners and enhanced patdowns before being allowed into your server room.