Agreed. Based on the summary it sounded like a cool idea, but there's a lot of random trivial crap on that feed too. If they were basically tweeting biographies with interesting pictures of daily life from these normal people it would have interested me, but I don't need to know this:
Went to bed with wet hair. Looking very funny at the moment after a night's sleep. Playing with the thought to keep it like that for today.
or
Had vague plans to go dancing lindyhop this evening, but somehow I ended up contemplating the encounters from today.
and that seems like most of the content on the feed.
Scratch that, they're back up to $145 on Amazon now. Either a flash sale or a glitch in the matrix. Still, $145 to $295 is a huge range for an identical product.
I was looking at WD1002FAEX 1TB drives on Amazon last night and they were $150, this morning i looked again and they were $100. I'm not sure what caused the massive discount - but now would be a good time to grab some if you actually need the storage. It's a reasonable price - they were selling for $90 a year ago.
There's a huge price disparity on these drives from different places - Newegg ($240), TigerDirect ($295), Buy.com still has them at $150 like Amazon did, and now Amazon is at $100. Seems silly that one product could be sold for that huge variation.
Red light cameras also record video of a few seconds before and after the incident. So if someone is checking the video and theres some way to make out your license plate before the flash (maybe a streetlight or daytime?) - then you'd probably get a ticket for the infraction PLUS I'm sure trying to obscure your plate is ticketable.
I don't know if they changed it, but back on Android 1.5 when I first got my phone it was a direct call to 911 - I know, I tried it. I figured there would be a few more steps - I mean no developer would be stupid enough to put a direct 911 button on a lock screen that is supposed to prevent you from accidentally pressing things...
Yeah, that 'feature' made the lock screen useless for me - and at the time the only way to remove it was to pay for a special lock screen app that did the same thing without the 911 button.
Your analogy might be more apt if the licensed electrician wired certain outlets to only be compatible with a particular name brand of appliance, and stole your 60" LCD television on the way out. Sure your house may be less likely to burn down, but now you can't fully use it, plus you just lost some of your stuff. If you knew this was going to happen you might be more inclined to hire a knowledgeable but unlicensed electrician instead.
If public voting ignorance started having clear detrimental effects you might see more people start to educate themselves on the issues. Humans are selfish creatures after all - they just need a bit of motivation to look after their own interests. Yes you would have majority rule, but as long as states rights stay in place each state will have a different majority - so if people felt disenfranchised by a particular states laws they could move to another one that was more accommodating to their beliefs.
It would be more interesting if they created a solution with eye tracking that lit up counter LEDs in front of the people in the board room, or one of the monitors. That seems like it would be far more high tech and efficient, and if done right would be pretty easy to understand/use. It would also work for the remote users - not just the boardroom participants - since they'd have their LEDs light up on remote location when people were focusing on them, giving a good indication that they had the floor to talk.
The deciding factor for me was that the nook was compatible with the library lending systems around here, and the kindle was not. If you pirate your ebooks that isn't an issue obviously, but if you want to check them out online from your local library it's a good thing to look into before purchasing.
Based on that video, I should just drive close enough to the car in front of me that half or less of my license plate is readable by the camera. Thanks for increasing road safety, automated ticket systems.
Although it would be resource intensive I think they still need to do driving tests that realistically assess driving skill and assign speed limits accordingly. That's the only way I would accept the new personal electronic vehicle speed monitoring systems that are starting to hit public use. Theoretically you could automate the testing by putting people in a simulator, and letting it judge their safe reaction speed.
I would appreciate having a higher ranked license than the person with the handicapped plates driving 10 mph under the speed limit in the left lane with their right turn signal on perpetually. (I only mention handicapped plates because with only one exception every single person with them I've seen has been a terrible driver in one way or another.)
The time when I noticed it most clearly was recently flying back from a trip in Europe. The airline screening there is about the level the US screening was in the 90's - efficient, pleasant, and necessary. Coming back into the US felt like entering a prison camp - it was very odd. If you don't travel - like many Americans - then you don't really notice it much unless you live in a border state.
Most of the populace is so stupid and lethargic now that it's not really even worth the effort to try to change it via legal means since you won't get the support. On top of that the people that get voted into office, mostly on the basis of unrelated moral issues like abortion, have no interest in changing these laws and giving up power. At this point the only way it's going to change is when things get so restrictive that the common American gets inconvenienced by them.
Zediva was using actual DVDs and DVD players from what I understand, so the DMCA doesn't really apply at all in that situation - they were merely location shifting the resulting picture. The Internet was a really long HDMI cable basically. As far as I'm concerned this should be as legal as renting physical DVDs by mail - but when you get lawyers involved nothing is legal even if it's logical.
Zediva tried that and got smacked around for it - they might still be in court about it, but last I heard it wasn't looking good for them. Maybe a company with more money and clout would have better success, but that's a big risk for a profitable established company to fight the industry they rely on for content.
I wish we could look at the Netflix numbers and conclusively say - look this is how many people will pay for content if it's at X price, and this is how many will think it's worth it at Y price. Unfortunately, because of the way they handled the transition, I think there is a noticeable percentage that left because they felt they were being treated poorly - not because of the pricing alone. I know that's the way I interpreted it when they raised the 1DVD plan pricing by $1 six months ago purely for marketing reasons when they introduced the streaming-only plan, rather than grandfathering in existing users.
Well, I do agree that he should have been able to Google for a solution. That said, I'm rather tired of looking up workarounds when they screw with features in each version. This is especially true when I have to re-patch all the 'problems' on every new release. With Firefox it's at the point where the only time I actually upgrade is when I reinstall my OS. I would have switched to Chrome ages ago if they had the plugin support for features like NoScript, that's how obnoxious I feel Firefox default settings have become.
It isn't "scamming" really, but it is greedy. Because they can clearly sell the hardware for $200 (maybe slightly higher if you average the prices across versions) - so you have two people paying drastically different prices for the same hardware. The price disparity just makes it obvious that they're pulling an Apple and ripping consumers of higher end processors off to the tune of hundreds of dollars. (Price out RAM upgrades from Apple VS Newegg if you think I'm bashing them irrationally - they make hundreds of dollars reselling PC hardware)
This is basically the same as restricting supply and having a consumer auction (which I'm surprised companies haven't tried yet), making first-adopters pay premium prices until demand dies down.
I'm not sure what you expect a citation for - everything I stated as fact should be general knowledge for Netflix subscribers on the affected plans, and the rest is opinion. The info on how Netflix streaming purchasing works can be cobbled together from a bunch of sources if you care enough to Google that - some sources even give information on how much Netflix pays for streaming on specific titles (it's a blanket license - unlimited streaming of a certain title for X# months for a certain amount of money, not metered by how many times the title is watched).
I clearly did not shill anything, merely analyzed the situation. As I said, Netflix provides a good service but I find the way they handle subscriber plans lately a bit lousy.
It really feels like the Slashdot editors are shilling for Netflix lately - first a summary about how they "had" to raise prices, linking to an article without any data supporting that conclusion. Now an article about how it's "not so bad" - it's "progressive" and normal people just don't understand yet.
I think Netflix provides a good service, but less than a year ago they had a dollar or two price hike for the sole purpose of forcing people from 1DVD to streaming-only plans, when they were released. An honest company would have grandfathered in the pricing for old subscribers, and used the price difference to sell streaming-only to new customers. I see this recent price change as the exact same thing, a dishonest sales pitch to get people to switch accounts - not precipitated by rising costs or anything else. They want to make more profit and that's fine, but don't treat your customers like they're stupid.
They have a certain budget for streaming content and they rotate in and out content depending on what they feel will be popular - they can't stream everything at once because of cost, not because they can't get licenses for it. That alone makes it feel a bit devious forcing customers off plans like 1DVD+streaming where they can get any content in one way or another, to plans like streaming-only where they can only get preselected content that often doesn't include the big name titles since they're more expensive to license. (If you feel like watching a specific title and can find it on streaming you're lucky - if you just want a specific genre you can probably find something worth watching)
At an average of 2.5mm the micro snails fared much better than larger species in previous studies whose shells were severely damaged when eaten by birds.
I suspect being uncrushed is the criteria for survival. So no, only 2.25% would remain out of the original group if you had them redigest the 15% survivors.
It isn't NIMBY, yet the things you named are all NIMBY fears for Nevada. From the perspective of someone that doesn't live in any of the prospective states I think Nevada is a much better choice. We've already contaminated the underground area near there with no wide-scale radiation issues, so even with leaks it seems promising that most of the country would not be affected.
Kamps said better sites for a repository include deep granite formations in places like New Hampshire, Wisconsin or Minnesota
So instead of sticking it in a low population desert we should stick it in a hole near the source of one of our biggest rivers (one that just happens to flood a lot of land on a regular basis too...), or within spitting distance of the gulf stream?
Additionally you already pointed out the population argument - Nevada is the 16th least populated state - 5x less people than Wisconsin. A lot of the other least populated states are either northerly (head of rivers), or small east coast states. The argument that they can refuse nuclear waste since they don't have nuclear power is silly when it's cheaper and cleaner for Nevada to build huge solar farms in the barren Mojave desert. The reason they don't need nuclear power is the same reason everyone else wants to store nuclear waste there - it's low population and low risk compared to the rest of the country in the case of a catastrophe.
I'm not saying the nuclear site would be unsafe, but when you're planning for the worst and looking at leaks - why would you want any of those other sites over Nevada? A vast, largely unpopulated desert that is already partially irradiated is prime real estate for this type of thing, especially when billions of dollars have already been spent in Nevada to partially build the facility.
Regarding the reprocessing - if we ever did that on a large scale I expect the facility would be built near Yucca Mountain. The only thing they'd be shipping out would be new, usable fuel rods. It would be silly to build it far away and pay the expense to ship everything there just to reprocess it - you'd need hefty subsidies to make that possible - and I doubt nuclear reprocessing facilities are the type of project most states would heavily subsidize.
Obviously not a DIY solution - but I was wondering if a government wanting to do this on a large scale could actually use a solar updraft tower type design directly above the area that would suck hot air out and bring in a breeze and and (hopefully) cooler air from the surrounding vicinity. Bonus: you get power from it as well
Looks like a short film to me. Do theaters even show something that short? Maybe they could replace all those trailers with that, because it seems like they show half an hour of those before each movie now.
I don't like Sony as a company, but this is one time I'm not sure if the claims against them are actually true. The article gave next to no details, and the site is already down so I can't look at it to see.
It's an Italian site and one of the words in the URL apparently translates to 'holder' - which makes me wonder if it was a development site that wasn't intended to be public. I'll admit it seems weird it's on a Thailand domain, but I would like a better explanation of what hdworld.sony is before I blame them for getting hacked. Are they providing shared hosting for some service and not checking the content regularly?
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Agreed. Based on the summary it sounded like a cool idea, but there's a lot of random trivial crap on that feed too. If they were basically tweeting biographies with interesting pictures of daily life from these normal people it would have interested me, but I don't need to know this:
Went to bed with wet hair. Looking very funny at the moment after a night's sleep. Playing with the thought to keep it like that for today.
or
Had vague plans to go dancing lindyhop this evening, but somehow I ended up contemplating the encounters from today.
and that seems like most of the content on the feed.
Scratch that, they're back up to $145 on Amazon now. Either a flash sale or a glitch in the matrix. Still, $145 to $295 is a huge range for an identical product.
I was looking at WD1002FAEX 1TB drives on Amazon last night and they were $150, this morning i looked again and they were $100. I'm not sure what caused the massive discount - but now would be a good time to grab some if you actually need the storage. It's a reasonable price - they were selling for $90 a year ago.
There's a huge price disparity on these drives from different places - Newegg ($240), TigerDirect ($295), Buy.com still has them at $150 like Amazon did, and now Amazon is at $100. Seems silly that one product could be sold for that huge variation.
Red light cameras also record video of a few seconds before and after the incident. So if someone is checking the video and theres some way to make out your license plate before the flash (maybe a streetlight or daytime?) - then you'd probably get a ticket for the infraction PLUS I'm sure trying to obscure your plate is ticketable.
I don't know if they changed it, but back on Android 1.5 when I first got my phone it was a direct call to 911 - I know, I tried it. I figured there would be a few more steps - I mean no developer would be stupid enough to put a direct 911 button on a lock screen that is supposed to prevent you from accidentally pressing things...
Yeah, that 'feature' made the lock screen useless for me - and at the time the only way to remove it was to pay for a special lock screen app that did the same thing without the 911 button.
Your analogy might be more apt if the licensed electrician wired certain outlets to only be compatible with a particular name brand of appliance, and stole your 60" LCD television on the way out. Sure your house may be less likely to burn down, but now you can't fully use it, plus you just lost some of your stuff. If you knew this was going to happen you might be more inclined to hire a knowledgeable but unlicensed electrician instead.
If public voting ignorance started having clear detrimental effects you might see more people start to educate themselves on the issues. Humans are selfish creatures after all - they just need a bit of motivation to look after their own interests. Yes you would have majority rule, but as long as states rights stay in place each state will have a different majority - so if people felt disenfranchised by a particular states laws they could move to another one that was more accommodating to their beliefs.
It would be more interesting if they created a solution with eye tracking that lit up counter LEDs in front of the people in the board room, or one of the monitors. That seems like it would be far more high tech and efficient, and if done right would be pretty easy to understand/use. It would also work for the remote users - not just the boardroom participants - since they'd have their LEDs light up on remote location when people were focusing on them, giving a good indication that they had the floor to talk.
The deciding factor for me was that the nook was compatible with the library lending systems around here, and the kindle was not. If you pirate your ebooks that isn't an issue obviously, but if you want to check them out online from your local library it's a good thing to look into before purchasing.
Based on that video, I should just drive close enough to the car in front of me that half or less of my license plate is readable by the camera. Thanks for increasing road safety, automated ticket systems.
Although it would be resource intensive I think they still need to do driving tests that realistically assess driving skill and assign speed limits accordingly. That's the only way I would accept the new personal electronic vehicle speed monitoring systems that are starting to hit public use. Theoretically you could automate the testing by putting people in a simulator, and letting it judge their safe reaction speed.
I would appreciate having a higher ranked license than the person with the handicapped plates driving 10 mph under the speed limit in the left lane with their right turn signal on perpetually. (I only mention handicapped plates because with only one exception every single person with them I've seen has been a terrible driver in one way or another.)
The time when I noticed it most clearly was recently flying back from a trip in Europe. The airline screening there is about the level the US screening was in the 90's - efficient, pleasant, and necessary. Coming back into the US felt like entering a prison camp - it was very odd. If you don't travel - like many Americans - then you don't really notice it much unless you live in a border state.
Most of the populace is so stupid and lethargic now that it's not really even worth the effort to try to change it via legal means since you won't get the support. On top of that the people that get voted into office, mostly on the basis of unrelated moral issues like abortion, have no interest in changing these laws and giving up power. At this point the only way it's going to change is when things get so restrictive that the common American gets inconvenienced by them.
Zediva was using actual DVDs and DVD players from what I understand, so the DMCA doesn't really apply at all in that situation - they were merely location shifting the resulting picture. The Internet was a really long HDMI cable basically. As far as I'm concerned this should be as legal as renting physical DVDs by mail - but when you get lawyers involved nothing is legal even if it's logical.
Zediva tried that and got smacked around for it - they might still be in court about it, but last I heard it wasn't looking good for them. Maybe a company with more money and clout would have better success, but that's a big risk for a profitable established company to fight the industry they rely on for content.
I wish we could look at the Netflix numbers and conclusively say - look this is how many people will pay for content if it's at X price, and this is how many will think it's worth it at Y price. Unfortunately, because of the way they handled the transition, I think there is a noticeable percentage that left because they felt they were being treated poorly - not because of the pricing alone. I know that's the way I interpreted it when they raised the 1DVD plan pricing by $1 six months ago purely for marketing reasons when they introduced the streaming-only plan, rather than grandfathering in existing users.
Well, I do agree that he should have been able to Google for a solution. That said, I'm rather tired of looking up workarounds when they screw with features in each version. This is especially true when I have to re-patch all the 'problems' on every new release. With Firefox it's at the point where the only time I actually upgrade is when I reinstall my OS. I would have switched to Chrome ages ago if they had the plugin support for features like NoScript, that's how obnoxious I feel Firefox default settings have become.
It isn't "scamming" really, but it is greedy. Because they can clearly sell the hardware for $200 (maybe slightly higher if you average the prices across versions) - so you have two people paying drastically different prices for the same hardware. The price disparity just makes it obvious that they're pulling an Apple and ripping consumers of higher end processors off to the tune of hundreds of dollars. (Price out RAM upgrades from Apple VS Newegg if you think I'm bashing them irrationally - they make hundreds of dollars reselling PC hardware)
This is basically the same as restricting supply and having a consumer auction (which I'm surprised companies haven't tried yet), making first-adopters pay premium prices until demand dies down.
I'm not sure what you expect a citation for - everything I stated as fact should be general knowledge for Netflix subscribers on the affected plans, and the rest is opinion. The info on how Netflix streaming purchasing works can be cobbled together from a bunch of sources if you care enough to Google that - some sources even give information on how much Netflix pays for streaming on specific titles (it's a blanket license - unlimited streaming of a certain title for X# months for a certain amount of money, not metered by how many times the title is watched).
I clearly did not shill anything, merely analyzed the situation. As I said, Netflix provides a good service but I find the way they handle subscriber plans lately a bit lousy.
It really feels like the Slashdot editors are shilling for Netflix lately - first a summary about how they "had" to raise prices, linking to an article without any data supporting that conclusion. Now an article about how it's "not so bad" - it's "progressive" and normal people just don't understand yet.
I think Netflix provides a good service, but less than a year ago they had a dollar or two price hike for the sole purpose of forcing people from 1DVD to streaming-only plans, when they were released. An honest company would have grandfathered in the pricing for old subscribers, and used the price difference to sell streaming-only to new customers. I see this recent price change as the exact same thing, a dishonest sales pitch to get people to switch accounts - not precipitated by rising costs or anything else. They want to make more profit and that's fine, but don't treat your customers like they're stupid.
They have a certain budget for streaming content and they rotate in and out content depending on what they feel will be popular - they can't stream everything at once because of cost, not because they can't get licenses for it. That alone makes it feel a bit devious forcing customers off plans like 1DVD+streaming where they can get any content in one way or another, to plans like streaming-only where they can only get preselected content that often doesn't include the big name titles since they're more expensive to license. (If you feel like watching a specific title and can find it on streaming you're lucky - if you just want a specific genre you can probably find something worth watching)
Thanks, I don't think I've ever heard the singular used properly for that word. I wasn't even aware that it existed, and I'm fairly literate.
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At an average of 2.5mm the micro snails fared much better than larger species in previous studies whose shells were severely damaged when eaten by birds.
I suspect being uncrushed is the criteria for survival. So no, only 2.25% would remain out of the original group if you had them redigest the 15% survivors.
It isn't NIMBY, yet the things you named are all NIMBY fears for Nevada. From the perspective of someone that doesn't live in any of the prospective states I think Nevada is a much better choice. We've already contaminated the underground area near there with no wide-scale radiation issues, so even with leaks it seems promising that most of the country would not be affected.
Kamps said better sites for a repository include deep granite formations in places like New Hampshire, Wisconsin or Minnesota
So instead of sticking it in a low population desert we should stick it in a hole near the source of one of our biggest rivers (one that just happens to flood a lot of land on a regular basis too...), or within spitting distance of the gulf stream?
Additionally you already pointed out the population argument - Nevada is the 16th least populated state - 5x less people than Wisconsin. A lot of the other least populated states are either northerly (head of rivers), or small east coast states. The argument that they can refuse nuclear waste since they don't have nuclear power is silly when it's cheaper and cleaner for Nevada to build huge solar farms in the barren Mojave desert. The reason they don't need nuclear power is the same reason everyone else wants to store nuclear waste there - it's low population and low risk compared to the rest of the country in the case of a catastrophe.
I'm not saying the nuclear site would be unsafe, but when you're planning for the worst and looking at leaks - why would you want any of those other sites over Nevada? A vast, largely unpopulated desert that is already partially irradiated is prime real estate for this type of thing, especially when billions of dollars have already been spent in Nevada to partially build the facility.
Regarding the reprocessing - if we ever did that on a large scale I expect the facility would be built near Yucca Mountain. The only thing they'd be shipping out would be new, usable fuel rods. It would be silly to build it far away and pay the expense to ship everything there just to reprocess it - you'd need hefty subsidies to make that possible - and I doubt nuclear reprocessing facilities are the type of project most states would heavily subsidize.
App to block/sort/filter spam or unwanted senders? I'm sure there are more creative uses but that's just the most obvious one
Obviously not a DIY solution - but I was wondering if a government wanting to do this on a large scale could actually use a solar updraft tower type design directly above the area that would suck hot air out and bring in a breeze and and (hopefully) cooler air from the surrounding vicinity. Bonus: you get power from it as well
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower
http://science.slashdot.org/story/01/12/10/0610203/Thermal-Solar-Plant-To-Be-Erected-In-Australia
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Looks like a short film to me. Do theaters even show something that short? Maybe they could replace all those trailers with that, because it seems like they show half an hour of those before each movie now.
I don't like Sony as a company, but this is one time I'm not sure if the claims against them are actually true. The article gave next to no details, and the site is already down so I can't look at it to see.
It's an Italian site and one of the words in the URL apparently translates to 'holder' - which makes me wonder if it was a development site that wasn't intended to be public. I'll admit it seems weird it's on a Thailand domain, but I would like a better explanation of what hdworld.sony is before I blame them for getting hacked. Are they providing shared hosting for some service and not checking the content regularly?
There just isn't enough information on this one.