One of my largest pet peeves of internet trends is the posting of a tutorial, review, hands on, or just a small bit of useful information, in a 15 minute video padded by intro, random babbling, and outro, when a couple paragraphs and a few photos would have done.
Count this right up there with 'clean design' filled with useless white space and large typeface and design features.
Is it so hard to ask for nicely laid-out information dense pages that are quickly absorb-able without some annoying person babbling or needing to scroll all over the page? Bah
This isn't the first time that Blizz has went server emulation. They shut-down bnetd years ago, which has since been succeeded by PVPGN. I'm not sure what makes PVPGN less of a target than bnetd, as far as I can tell it's an updated fork.
Doesn't this seem the better option if you're able to get your mitts on it?
No Edge, Store/Apps, Cortana, and telemetry (even the extra bits) all stoppable. Essentially a clean desktop edition of Windows 10 that gets all major bug-fixes and security updates without all the extra cruft for a period of 3-5 years (depending on when they choose to integrate the current branch features and release the next LTSB).
Now, I've looked around online and people seem to proclaim the end of the world if you would like to use this as a desktop OS: 'Oh you can disable all of that crap yourself and spend hours gutting and tweaking it to suit your needs. LTSB is meant for ATMs and nuclear subs and you won't get any of the new features, why wouldn't you want them? Blah blah blah'... Frankly in techminded circles that sort of reasoning flabbergasts me, it's spouting off of ideology on no basis of reality. (Though you see the same end-of-the-worlders rear their head when you talk about the pros/cons of disabling UAC.)
If you can legally acquire it, I'm really not seeing the downsides as you get many of the little quality of life updates from Win 8/8.1/10 (task manager, DX12, file copy dialogue) without many of the obnoxious ones (lockscreen ads, Candy Crush, 'helpful suggestions'). Not to mention nothing like the 'fall update fiasco' bulldozing your settings whenever MS pleases by providing and presenting an OS in-place upgrade as a normal Windows update.
I was referring to Vancouver. I'll admit though, I have been out of the country for a couple years and due to return home in Feb.
That article does look like there may be something interesting happening now, but ultimately in the past years a lot of it has just been show. I am keen on the market entry of Wind Mobile, and the effect it will have on the cellular services. Little off topic, but as Canadians, our mobile market isn't very nice either.
And yeah, I always have been glad that I don't need to use Bell/Rogers/Cogeco, like the rest of the poor saps in the east. Though, it doesn't mean I need to be happy about what I do have available!
Don't forget the West Coast Shaw and Telus duopoly.
There are agreements in place to not step over their bounds and go east. Of course they also collude on pricing and packages, so there is no real competition in their respective areas anyways.
Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. It is widely used to convert books and documents into electronic files, to computerize a record-keeping system in an office, or to publish the text on a website. OCR makes it possible to edit the text, search for a word or phrase, store it more compactly, display or print a copy free of scanning artifacts, and apply techniques such as machine translation, text-to-speech and text mining to it. OCR is a field of research in pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and computer vision.
Does it seem with the wording of the cable that Canada is expected to fall into line with whatever the US would like?
There also seems to be a minor tone of irritation when 'the public' and 'Michael Geist' is mentioned.
Damn you pesky citizens of a sovereign nation, getting in the way of our plans for your country...
Seeing it explicitly laid out like that is just, well, disturbing.
I recently discovered the option on the last redesign that disabled all the rubbish.
I LIKED having a functional "Back" button on my browser. If I quickly want to take a look at an article from two days ago, I would much rather click it and hit back, rather than opening up a new tab for it behind all the other tabs I opened for interesting articles. It is also nicer than clicking "Back" and then needing to skip the main page back two days because it bloody resets on me.
What did the back button ever do to you?
What did individual links for each day's posts and pages ever do to you?
Why the hell does it need to default to the front page of slashdot.org everytime I click back?
Now it's worse, because I have to scroll down and wait for this fucking Ajax shit to load after I click a button... Argh.
Slashdot Mirror
They're painful, and I hate them.
One of my largest pet peeves of internet trends is the posting of a tutorial, review, hands on, or just a small bit of useful information, in a 15 minute video padded by intro, random babbling, and outro, when a couple paragraphs and a few photos would have done.
Count this right up there with 'clean design' filled with useless white space and large typeface and design features.
Is it so hard to ask for nicely laid-out information dense pages that are quickly absorb-able without some annoying person babbling or needing to scroll all over the page? Bah
Slashdot article here:
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
This isn't the first time that Blizz has went server emulation. They shut-down bnetd years ago, which has since been succeeded by PVPGN. I'm not sure what makes PVPGN less of a target than bnetd, as far as I can tell it's an updated fork.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Doesn't this seem the better option if you're able to get your mitts on it?
No Edge, Store/Apps, Cortana, and telemetry (even the extra bits) all stoppable. Essentially a clean desktop edition of Windows 10 that gets all major bug-fixes and security updates without all the extra cruft for a period of 3-5 years (depending on when they choose to integrate the current branch features and release the next LTSB).
Here's a couple links:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/ukt...
http://www.techworld.com/secur...
Now, I've looked around online and people seem to proclaim the end of the world if you would like to use this as a desktop OS: 'Oh you can disable all of that crap yourself and spend hours gutting and tweaking it to suit your needs. LTSB is meant for ATMs and nuclear subs and you won't get any of the new features, why wouldn't you want them? Blah blah blah'... Frankly in techminded circles that sort of reasoning flabbergasts me, it's spouting off of ideology on no basis of reality. (Though you see the same end-of-the-worlders rear their head when you talk about the pros/cons of disabling UAC.)
If you can legally acquire it, I'm really not seeing the downsides as you get many of the little quality of life updates from Win 8/8.1/10 (task manager, DX12, file copy dialogue) without many of the obnoxious ones (lockscreen ads, Candy Crush, 'helpful suggestions'). Not to mention nothing like the 'fall update fiasco' bulldozing your settings whenever MS pleases by providing and presenting an OS in-place upgrade as a normal Windows update.
'Never' I can't take it anymore.
Time lapse of city growth always looks quite like time lapse of mould... Just saying.
I need to comment to undo a bad mod on my part. Whoopsy!
I just took a look a Gizmodo, and at least you managed to figure out how to read it.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/02/13/2039222/twisted-radio-beams-could-untangle-the-airwaves Well, at least it was more than a couple hours apart!
Aye, I've always been glad that I've not been subjected to Bell/Rogers/Cogeco, but it doesn't mean I need to be happy with what I do have.
It's like having a choice between genital herpes, and facial herpes. I'd much rather just not have either!
I was referring to Vancouver. I'll admit though, I have been out of the country for a couple years and due to return home in Feb.
That article does look like there may be something interesting happening now, but ultimately in the past years a lot of it has just been show. I am keen on the market entry of Wind Mobile, and the effect it will have on the cellular services. Little off topic, but as Canadians, our mobile market isn't very nice either.
And yeah, I always have been glad that I don't need to use Bell/Rogers/Cogeco, like the rest of the poor saps in the east. Though, it doesn't mean I need to be happy about what I do have available!
I swear Nickelback only gets so much play due to the depreciated content laws.
Don't forget the West Coast Shaw and Telus duopoly.
There are agreements in place to not step over their bounds and go east. Of course they also collude on pricing and packages, so there is no real competition in their respective areas anyways.
The TSA are doing something! This is proof!
I like how the Gizmodo comments devolved into ganging up on someone's choice to post their penis online.
I'm glad something similar would never happen on Slashdot...
There is no shortage of douche-bags to fill his place.
Wikipedia says:
Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. It is widely used to convert books and documents into electronic files, to computerize a record-keeping system in an office, or to publish the text on a website. OCR makes it possible to edit the text, search for a word or phrase, store it more compactly, display or print a copy free of scanning artifacts, and apply techniques such as machine translation, text-to-speech and text mining to it. OCR is a field of research in pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and computer vision.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition
Does it seem with the wording of the cable that Canada is expected to fall into line with whatever the US would like?
There also seems to be a minor tone of irritation when 'the public' and 'Michael Geist' is mentioned.
Damn you pesky citizens of a sovereign nation, getting in the way of our plans for your country...
Seeing it explicitly laid out like that is just, well, disturbing.
Who wants to RTFA?
...or any part of the Middle East?
Time to update your sig.
I recently discovered the option on the last redesign that disabled all the rubbish. I LIKED having a functional "Back" button on my browser. If I quickly want to take a look at an article from two days ago, I would much rather click it and hit back, rather than opening up a new tab for it behind all the other tabs I opened for interesting articles. It is also nicer than clicking "Back" and then needing to skip the main page back two days because it bloody resets on me. What did the back button ever do to you? What did individual links for each day's posts and pages ever do to you? Why the hell does it need to default to the front page of slashdot.org everytime I click back? Now it's worse, because I have to scroll down and wait for this fucking Ajax shit to load after I click a button... Argh.
Microsoft's Kin?
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... That's not the point.