Because honestly, if not even the adblockers will be able to do something about that, then it's bye bye Firefox on my part - I've been a loyal "customer" for the longest time, but hey - this gives the other lesser known browsers on the market some much needed attention, are you listening "insert-unknown-up-and-coming-popular-browser-team"?
First, massive monitoring of your citizens with country wide CCTV, that didn't help crime statistics at all, so you extended that with the worlds most advanced facial recognition system.
Second, laws on what you look at, what you view and thought crimes, congratulations, you're now only ONE step away from draconian laws Orwellian surveillance state.
Third phase, Brexit - no one comes in, no one goes out. We decide who does what in OUR country, the mindless sheeple will do what WE say. Sip your tea and shut up sir. Pomeroy.
Fourth and FINAL phase - Total monitoring of every citizen, forbid all encryption, have anything to hide? You are hereby found guilty by the court of LAW until WE say otherwise.
How did you guys manage to let all that slip past you? Are you this desperate? My God - England! You're letting them take every ounce of dignity and freedom you had left.
Not the actual electricity itself. The Electricity has been rock bottom cheap here in Sweden for YEARS now.
But the EL-companys lobbyists have successfully lobbied away the roof on network/electricity transportation fee's, so there is no longer any roof on that.
This means the EL-Companies are working together to charge SKY high prices for transportation of the electricity, it's technically a fee they take to repair and maintain the network, but it's also an obligatory fee to be connected to them, it's insanely high, and they just yet again warned us of much higher prices.
In fact, our network prices are so crazy high that we pay roughly 40 cents per KWH just for transportation AND taxes on transportation. Yes, that's nearly half a dollar per KWH!
So all the sensationalist BS about negative EL-prices is just headline clickbait, it has no real life implication for any citizen.
...that's what Sony needs to do to repair their image.
There are some of us that are still bitter after the PS3 lie (We won't touch your Linux partition, a month later - we'll you better erase that if you want to continue enjoying updates). And the CD rom malware scandal, not to forget the numerous times they've chosen to be proprietary with every thing they create, make and do - leaving the users forced to pay premium prices for stuff they could get for a 1/3rd of the price with better performance.
They have tons of CCTV cameras literally everywhere, they want the U.K. to be truly isolated from the rest of the world, Brexit...and of course, now - total control and obedience of all their citizens.
Even last summer I noticed the absence of insects. I live out on the country side. For a while I thought it might be my basement spiders (which I do have a lot of, they can get quite big, up to 15 CM long, yes, the fuel of nightmares for some), and I was grateful for them keeping the insect population to a minimum around here.
But somethings odd...we have knatts (do you call them that in your neck of the woods?), those are the smaller biting bugs that likes to hang out in the thuja trees or bushes that I have a lot of, we have had relatively mild winters here now, around 0 - 9c which is unusual for this area. But we've had this kind of weather since like 4 years ago, and sometimes before that as well, very unusual according to the natives around here.
I even made huge insect nets for my upper floor windows, I've hardly had any use for these the last 2-3 years as the insects have been almost non-existent here lately, I like it of course, but...the lack of birds - is disturbing and sad, of course it is all connected, I'm not the alarmist type, but this makes me go "hmm... " a little.
It's nearly summer here, we got 23C today, and most of the leaves have sprung everywhere. But indeed - where are the insects? Yes, there are the odd bumblebee here and there, but this place (right in the middle of mother nature) is usually buzzing with insects this time of the year, but there is hardly any.
Of course - I can't say that I miss the Mosquito, in fact - it's my sworn enemy, but the rest of the insect hordes seems to be gone as well, I hardly see any banana flies, moths or any common insects here out in the wilderness any more. Maybe there is something going on here?
Where Conan and his "staff" walked away with 45 Million dollars for "doing nothing". Just pure negotiations about a cancellation of a contract. And another 1.5million$ score: http://www.nydailynews.com/ent...
And we could go on, Conan...he's in love with the money, and at best - a very mediocre comedian.
Today it's all about who you ARE and WHO YOU KNOW.
This is a very unfortunate trend, today you're basically invisible to the entire industry unless you got 20+ years experience + are the same age as your experience, plus have amazing references and are willing to work overtime without extra compensation.
Doesn't matter if you can code their socks off, doesn't matter if you even won prizes and awards for your skills, the only thing that matters if you have some papers from your accredited school, and some networked friends that can vouch for you.
And god forbid if you're over 40, you're doomed buddy.
>The World's Most Valuable Resource is No Longer Oil, But Data.
I'd like to see you drive a car based on data fuel, oh...I mean...plastic...I mean. Data...
Bah, bullshit - when shit hits the fan, your data on my health history or the neighbors criminal history means diddley squat - only resources means something, something you can eat, use and consume. Data is whatever you think of, resources is what you need to survive.
I live in Sweden, I've been invited to those so called scratch introductory courses, because I sometimes work as a substitute teacher, and now - Scratch has been introduced to the Swedish learning institution because the government has finally realized we need to get kids to code (which I fully agree with BTW.)
But scratch?
Not sure about that. I tried introducing the kids at my school to Arduino - and they went NUTS with happiness and excitement. Why? Because it was that much cooler. The kids are not idiots, they immediately recognized scratch as some 4 year old pedagogical learning tool made to be a "learning tool" instead of something cool they would actually use in their everyday life. Arduino on the other hand, when they could plug some 2 dollar electrical device into their laptops and code on it, and leave the code on the device to perform interesting functions like sensing light, moving a motor around, checking a switch or displaying something cool on an oled display - now THIS is what got the kids, not that pedagogical "make that flash-like-cat-thing-move-on-the-screen" stuff.
Reminds me of the butter crisis in Norway a few years ago, the neighboring country Sweden would have Swedes smuggle butter into Norway and actually sell these for as much as 1.000 NOK (roughly 116 USD) per half kilo. Don't believe it? Well - check out the sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , http://gawker.com/5869463/norw...
I remember when I spent so much of my savings as a kid to purchase that expensive 1200/2400/4800/9600 multimodem. Not to mention when I got two phonelines into my bedroom. My parents thought I was completely nuts, they complained about the "iiiiiii...ryryryryryryr....shhhhh" sounds at night, and I remember waking up to that music thinking, oh boy - someone is logging onto my computer.
Sometimes they just called the BBS system just to chat with Sysop....Paging sysop....
Sysop Coming Online...
Ah, the memories.
Just for the same reason I have my Commodore 64 next to me, I don't actually use it, and when I do - it's frightfully slow, but fun to do raster-interrupts and simple code challenges on anyway.
We only do this because we are still remember the good times, they have very little to any good use today, but it's really just for the nostalgia.
One minute. we're to believe that some browser has overtaken the market as a whole, the next minute we'll believe that Linux is the most used (perhaps in server environments), Next minute we'll know that Windows still is used by 90% of the worlds population as a whole...so, all of a sudden Lin...I mean Android is the most used, oooh on the INTERNET, right right! So...that means that a whole lot doesn't have internet and still use windows, oooor?
What I am trying to say, these statistics means BUBKIS!
One of the reasons I opted for the HTC Vive back then, was the promise of Oculus users being tracked by facebook at any time, whatever you watched and did.
Sounds like you wish VR an early death. We don't even have proper AAA titles for it yet, just tons of weird "Look ma! I can create an Unity VR game in less than a day!" games.
...aka people who SIGNED up for it when it was offered for free as a Beta download (like me), and who never got around to installing it or using it.
Later, I actually bought an OEM Windows 10 on an USB install memory key (official, from Microsoft), just so I could use my HTC VIVE (I'm a Linux guy in general). But microsoft kept mailing me on the "insider program", and I had so much trouble with it, I had to try to "opt out" again so I could stop having beta features on my new "officially purchased" license, strangely enough MS treated my license as if it was a beta license, despite never using the Beta license key.
There was a time when I really enjoyed browsing youtube videos. And I didn't really mind a little advertisement break here and there.
But what killed youtube for me - was the now forced (unskippable) ads that often last well into 30 seconds or more, just for checking out a video. I like seeing if I want to watch this or not, now there's a forced ad on every second video I decide to check.
Now, before my dear Slashdotters say "well, you can use adblocker" etc, please keep in mind that a lot of us watch youtube on our "smart-tv" devices, Nintendos, Xbox's Youtube app etc.
And if there is ONE thing I've learned, is that the lower you bid, the slower it ships. Doesn't matter if the two promises the same shipping times. Also, the cheaper you go - the lower quality you'll get at the exact same product range. Because a lot of them will ship the lowest bidders the shittiest quality of the batch (kind of logical, don't ya think?).
And a above 90% seller success rate sounds nice, right? Wrong! You'd be amazed how many problems you'll have with sellers under 96% even at 97% good feedback. The trick is to look at their negative feedback, or / and their neutral feedback and see what happens for each individual product. The product is important here, because the same seller could earn a 100% feedback reputation on selling socks, but sell shoddy factory rejected production Arduinos with a feedback of 20% and less - and still earn a pretty penny. Many of the Chinese sellers just sells these by the thousands because it sells - they have NO clue what they're actually selling besides fake shoe brands etc.
The thing you need to watch out for - is the sellers that will tell you "please wait 40+ days because of your customs" etc... You know as well as I do that your customs don't give a hoot about your 2 dollar arduino, so if it takes 40+ days, and the seller says, please be patient, it's because the nickel-and-dime croock only wants to hoist good feedback while your complaint expires. Never accept this. Complain immediately. Down the bad sellers now, do not delay!
I believe you. This device isn't powerful enough yet. But imagine when the network speed is fast enough, and the real-time image processing happens online in the cloud, maybe this will be improved over time.
Still find google "Goggles" quite useful when looking up famous artwork.
Slashdot Mirror
...attention.
Because honestly, if not even the adblockers will be able to do something about that, then it's bye bye Firefox on my part - I've been a loyal "customer" for the longest time, but hey - this gives the other lesser known browsers on the market some much needed attention, are you listening "insert-unknown-up-and-coming-popular-browser-team"?
Well, you did it U.K.
First, massive monitoring of your citizens with country wide CCTV, that didn't help crime statistics at all, so you extended that with the worlds most advanced facial recognition system.
Second, laws on what you look at, what you view and thought crimes, congratulations, you're now only ONE step away from draconian laws Orwellian surveillance state.
Third phase, Brexit - no one comes in, no one goes out. We decide who does what in OUR country, the mindless sheeple will do what WE say. Sip your tea and shut up sir. Pomeroy.
Fourth and FINAL phase - Total monitoring of every citizen, forbid all encryption, have anything to hide? You are hereby found guilty by the court of LAW until WE say otherwise.
How did you guys manage to let all that slip past you? Are you this desperate? My God - England! You're letting them take every ounce of dignity and freedom you had left.
Not the actual electricity itself. The Electricity has been rock bottom cheap here in Sweden for YEARS now.
But the EL-companys lobbyists have successfully lobbied away the roof on network/electricity transportation fee's, so there is no longer any roof on that.
This means the EL-Companies are working together to charge SKY high prices for transportation of the electricity, it's technically a fee they take to repair and maintain the network, but it's also an obligatory fee to be connected to them, it's insanely high, and they just yet again warned us of much higher prices.
In fact, our network prices are so crazy high that we pay roughly 40 cents per KWH just for transportation AND taxes on transportation. Yes, that's nearly half a dollar per KWH!
So all the sensationalist BS about negative EL-prices is just headline clickbait, it has no real life implication for any citizen.
>I'm not saying ditch Windows. I'm saying let's fix this. If we can't fix it, then we ditch Windows.
Well, maybe you can do what I do... ...I run Windows 10 on a separate SSD, and run Linux daily on my Main M2. NVMe.
...that's what Sony needs to do to repair their image.
There are some of us that are still bitter after the PS3 lie (We won't touch your Linux partition, a month later - we'll you better erase that if you want to continue enjoying updates). And the CD rom malware scandal, not to forget the numerous times they've chosen to be proprietary with every thing they create, make and do - leaving the users forced to pay premium prices for stuff they could get for a 1/3rd of the price with better performance.
Yes, Sony has LOT of recovery to do.
UK never cease to amaze me.
They have tons of CCTV cameras literally everywhere, they want the U.K. to be truly isolated from the rest of the world, Brexit...and of course, now - total control and obedience of all their citizens.
...Elon Musk, Bill gates...
If you want to perform for these guys, you gotta give it all. Sometimes - that price is just too high.
You bring up some good points (about the farms).
Albeit you made me chuckle a little this morning:
"Also, farms are potent sources of many kinds of lies."
Yes, I'm sure that holds some truth to it, it's all good - we know what you meant, but anyway, thanks for the chuckle. ;)
But it's so weird for all the other insects.
Even last summer I noticed the absence of insects. I live out on the country side. For a while I thought it might be my basement spiders (which I do have a lot of, they can get quite big, up to 15 CM long, yes, the fuel of nightmares for some), and I was grateful for them keeping the insect population to a minimum around here.
But somethings odd...we have knatts (do you call them that in your neck of the woods?), those are the smaller biting bugs that likes to hang out in the thuja trees or bushes that I have a lot of, we have had relatively mild winters here now, around 0 - 9c which is unusual for this area. But we've had this kind of weather since like 4 years ago, and sometimes before that as well, very unusual according to the natives around here.
I even made huge insect nets for my upper floor windows, I've hardly had any use for these the last 2-3 years as the insects have been almost non-existent here lately, I like it of course, but ...the lack of birds - is disturbing and sad, of course it is all connected, I'm not the alarmist type, but this makes me go "hmm... " a little.
It's nearly summer here, we got 23C today, and most of the leaves have sprung everywhere. But indeed - where are the insects? Yes, there are the odd bumblebee here and there, but this place (right in the middle of mother nature) is usually buzzing with insects this time of the year, but there is hardly any.
Of course - I can't say that I miss the Mosquito, in fact - it's my sworn enemy, but the rest of the insect hordes seems to be gone as well, I hardly see any banana flies, moths or any common insects here out in the wilderness any more. Maybe there is something going on here?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Where Conan and his "staff" walked away with 45 Million dollars for "doing nothing". Just pure negotiations about a cancellation of a contract. And another 1.5million$ score: http://www.nydailynews.com/ent...
And we could go on, Conan...he's in love with the money, and at best - a very mediocre comedian.
Today it's all about who you ARE and WHO YOU KNOW.
This is a very unfortunate trend, today you're basically invisible to the entire industry unless you got 20+ years experience + are the same age as your experience, plus have amazing references and are willing to work overtime without extra compensation.
Doesn't matter if you can code their socks off, doesn't matter if you even won prizes and awards for your skills, the only thing that matters if you have some papers from your accredited school, and some networked friends that can vouch for you.
And god forbid if you're over 40, you're doomed buddy.
>The World's Most Valuable Resource is No Longer Oil, But Data.
I'd like to see you drive a car based on data fuel, oh...I mean ...plastic...I mean. Data...
Bah, bullshit - when shit hits the fan, your data on my health history or the neighbors criminal history means diddley squat - only resources means something, something you can eat, use and consume. Data is whatever you think of, resources is what you need to survive.
I live in Sweden, I've been invited to those so called scratch introductory courses, because I sometimes work as a substitute teacher, and now - Scratch has been introduced to the Swedish learning institution because the government has finally realized we need to get kids to code (which I fully agree with BTW.)
But scratch?
Not sure about that. I tried introducing the kids at my school to Arduino - and they went NUTS with happiness and excitement. Why? Because it was that much cooler. The kids are not idiots, they immediately recognized scratch as some 4 year old pedagogical learning tool made to be a "learning tool" instead of something cool they would actually use in their everyday life. Arduino on the other hand, when they could plug some 2 dollar electrical device into their laptops and code on it, and leave the code on the device to perform interesting functions like sensing light, moving a motor around, checking a switch or displaying something cool on an oled display - now THIS is what got the kids, not that pedagogical "make that flash-like-cat-thing-move-on-the-screen" stuff.
Reminds me of the butter crisis in Norway a few years ago, the neighboring country Sweden would have Swedes smuggle butter into Norway and actually sell these for as much as 1.000 NOK (roughly 116 USD) per half kilo. Don't believe it? Well - check out the sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , http://gawker.com/5869463/norw...
...Got a piece of Russia, thanks Nasa! _ . _
...We remember them with fond memories.
I remember when I spent so much of my savings as a kid to purchase that expensive 1200/2400/4800/9600 multimodem. Not to mention when I got two phonelines into my bedroom. My parents thought I was completely nuts, they complained about the "iiiiiii...ryryryryryryr....shhhhh" sounds at night, and I remember waking up to that music thinking, oh boy - someone is logging onto my computer.
Sometimes they just called the BBS system just to chat with Sysop. ...Paging sysop....
Sysop Coming Online...
Ah, the memories.
Just for the same reason I have my Commodore 64 next to me, I don't actually use it, and when I do - it's frightfully slow, but fun to do raster-interrupts and simple code challenges on anyway.
We only do this because we are still remember the good times, they have very little to any good use today, but it's really just for the nostalgia.
GOOD TIMES!
I've seen so many statistics on this on SD.
One minute. we're to believe that some browser has overtaken the market as a whole, the next minute we'll believe that Linux is the most used (perhaps in server environments), Next minute we'll know that Windows still is used by 90% of the worlds population as a whole...so, all of a sudden Lin...I mean Android is the most used, oooh on the INTERNET, right right! So...that means that a whole lot doesn't have internet and still use windows, oooor?
What I am trying to say, these statistics means BUBKIS!
...so good luck with that.
One of the reasons I opted for the HTC Vive back then, was the promise of Oculus users being tracked by facebook at any time, whatever you watched and did.
Sounds like you wish VR an early death. We don't even have proper AAA titles for it yet, just tons of weird "Look ma! I can create an Unity VR game in less than a day!" games.
This is exactly what I did...
Doesn't work, tried over 5 months on the settings screen, debated it in the bugs forums etc...
...aka people who SIGNED up for it when it was offered for free as a Beta download (like me), and who never got around to installing it or using it.
Later, I actually bought an OEM Windows 10 on an USB install memory key (official, from Microsoft), just so I could use my HTC VIVE (I'm a Linux guy in general). But microsoft kept mailing me on the "insider program", and I had so much trouble with it, I had to try to "opt out" again so I could stop having beta features on my new "officially purchased" license, strangely enough MS treated my license as if it was a beta license, despite never using the Beta license key.
Go figure...
But MS STILL thinks I'm one of the insiders.
This is actually a good idea, thanks - I'll look into this.
There was a time when I really enjoyed browsing youtube videos. And I didn't really mind a little advertisement break here and there.
But what killed youtube for me - was the now forced (unskippable) ads that often last well into 30 seconds or more, just for checking out a video. I like seeing if I want to watch this or not, now there's a forced ad on every second video I decide to check.
Now, before my dear Slashdotters say "well, you can use adblocker" etc, please keep in mind that a lot of us watch youtube on our "smart-tv" devices, Nintendos, Xbox's Youtube app etc.
I've been doing eBay shopping since 1998.
And if there is ONE thing I've learned, is that the lower you bid, the slower it ships. Doesn't matter if the two promises the same shipping times.
Also, the cheaper you go - the lower quality you'll get at the exact same product range. Because a lot of them will ship the lowest bidders the shittiest quality of the batch (kind of logical, don't ya think?).
And a above 90% seller success rate sounds nice, right? Wrong! You'd be amazed how many problems you'll have with sellers under 96% even at 97% good feedback. The trick is to look at their negative feedback, or / and their neutral feedback and see what happens for each individual product. The product is important here, because the same seller could earn a 100% feedback reputation on selling socks, but sell shoddy factory rejected production Arduinos with a feedback of 20% and less - and still earn a pretty penny. Many of the Chinese sellers just sells these by the thousands because it sells - they have NO clue what they're actually selling besides fake shoe brands etc.
The thing you need to watch out for - is the sellers that will tell you "please wait 40+ days because of your customs" etc... You know as well as I do that your customs don't give a hoot about your 2 dollar arduino, so if it takes 40+ days, and the seller says, please be patient, it's because the nickel-and-dime croock only wants to hoist good feedback while your complaint expires. Never accept this. Complain immediately. Down the bad sellers now, do not delay!
I believe you. This device isn't powerful enough yet. But imagine when the network speed is fast enough, and the real-time image processing happens online in the cloud, maybe this will be improved over time.
Still find google "Goggles" quite useful when looking up famous artwork.