Twitter users probably don't have much in the way of "education", besides the ones that got sucked into the everyone-must-go-to-college thing and ended up with the empty diploma. I doubt they do much "reviewing" either - the site's purpose is to let you blast trivial, sub-140 char soundbites to as many people as possible in the hopes that someone, somewhere, might care. A platform for the vapid famous, and the wannabe famous. Speaking of which, we're about to get the first Twitter president. Somewhere in the whole ordeal there's probably a good movie plot - like Idiocracy, but actually funny - but we'll be too busy hiding in fallout shelters or working 60-hour weeks to pay for health insurance to produce it.
I have a couple of Windows XP netbooks, they definitely have the time-remaining indicator. It could be that it was added in SP1 or SP2, but that's still a long time ago.
This is just another example of Apple oversimplifying things. Anyone with a cursory knowledge of how a computer works will understand that battery life will vary depending on how you're using the computer. Or, they could have added the word "estimated" in, so any English speaker over the age of 10 could understand. But I guess they deemed it more important to protect their customers from the split-second confused dissatisfaction of "What? Apple told me it had 10 hours and now it has SIX??"
Maybe that is good marketing. Maybe it improves the emotional state of their customers, leading to a couple percentage points more reporting "satisfaction" with the product. But it does make the product less useful for intelligent people.
You aren't missing much. I'm one of the guys that pirated the Grand Tour, and I don't think it quite lives up to the hype. Yeah, Clarkson & company are in it, but what I found real easy to forget is that the last few seasons of their Top Gear weren't great either. The Grand Tour is continuing on that trajectory. More scripting, more budget, less entertaining. I'm actually more interested in what the BBC will do with Top Gear now that Chris Evans is out of the picture. They might try to turn it into something new and good instead of trying to replicate what the show was like in 2007.
Apple did buy Beats, to go after the same market segment. (Sometimes-decent, always-overpriced, super-hip sound output devices.) They haven't publicized it much though. Better to maintain Apple and Beats as separate brands, and collect the markup on both. They call it "diversifying the brand portfolio". Sensible consumers call it "a ripoff".
Looking at the source is the most useful way for a normal person to quickly assess the credibility of information. Its quickness is what makes it useful. Most people who don't have the time to personally investigate the broad range of issues that a news organization does. But, they can pick up a paper and get an overview of everything, with reasonable confidence that it's not made-up. This really is the function the press serves in our society.
Sure, the big-name organizations do occasionally make stories up - see Dan Rather. But there are enough eyes on these stories that the truth does eventually come out, and it ends the career of whosoever was involved. There is accountability on the rare occasions when the big news organizations put out total lies.
I realize that it's in vogue in certain circles to shit all over respectable news organizations, but what's the proposed replacement? None. The de-facto replacement will end up being trash from Facebook, totally unvetted web sites ran by shills, etc. A great thing, if your goal is to spread misinformation. I feel like you're either consciously complicit in this, or you've been suckered in by those who are.
I even have a vinyl release - an official release - that seems to have been mastered from MP3s judging by the spectrogram. (I also have the CD version, which tools like aucdtect confirm is mastered from an MP3. Spectrograms of both show characteristics of MP3 compression) I also have several bootleg vinyl releases that were cut from MP3s, but that's more expected.
I think the reason why bad mastering is so common throughout the entire industry, regardless of format, is that most listeners can't tell the difference between good and bad mastering. Even a lot of musicians can't, to tell you the truth. The skills used for playing an instrument, and assembling a mix of a full band for a good recording, are different. A lot of musicians get played a terrible, ruined master of their music and they OK it because it "sounds like a finished product" - that is, it sounds like the rest of the shitty CDs they're used to. (Similar logic is used by vinyl junkies.) They spend weeks, months writing and playing the music -- then they might listen to the final master 1 time. Or not at all. Often times there's just 1 engineer that is responsible for making the final mix for distribution. And the quality of those engineers varies just as widely as the quality of musicians.
Since when does the telecom industry "innovate" and "create value"? Oh yeah... innovative ways to overcharge, and creating value to the shareholders.Gotta protect that right? Let's remove these regulations that promote the free flow of information and affordable access to it. Only dangerous people want that.
7 megabytes of data takes less than half a second to load at 25 megabits per second. Even if you assume shitty latency (satellite connection) and no browser prefetching (IE6?) you're looking at about 1 whole second.
If pages "load slowly" on a 25mbit connection, it's not the 25mbit connection limiting it. It might be because the server-side PHP/MySQL takes a long time to execute - which would be a problem for all visitors regardless of their connection. It might be because the client-side Javascript takes a long time to execute. Usually, it's a combination of all these things. But unless you are talking about a 1.5 megabit connection, the speed of the visitor's connection isn't going to be the main factor influencing subjective load times.
I also remember reading on Snopes years ago about some hubbub over the "master/slave" terminology (re: IDE hard disks) and also the word "niggardly." Though, the second case, I could easily see it being a grammar nazi trying to figure out just how many hairs they could split before someone blew up.
It's the same cable... with USB-C instead of plain USB.
Not even I thought the Reality Distortion Field had such power as to superimpose two physically disparate cables upon each other.
Dear God... Apple has won. They have achieved the omnipotent powers of transfiguration. The war is lost! Open your wallets and pour out for penance!
What is it then? An extra, tiny screen for your phone? That's the most positive way I can put it, and it seems next to useless when explained that way. I haven't yet heard one feature of these devices that I'd ever use. Much less a "killer app" to justify the cost.
The only justification I can come up with for owning one of these is as a fashion accessory. The statistics in this article are telling me that yes, quite a few people did buy it for that purpose. But now, the iWatch is so 2015. Ah, the fickle flits of fashion.
I guess they see these things as revealing, which they are, to an extent. Anyone who is paying attention already knows Trump is an asshole, so there's not much to "leak" regarding that. Hilary has been a politician for decades so she has been a lot more conscious about image control which makes it more news... I guess. She never fooled me though.
I'm way more interested in what they might have on Google. I've got the feeling that the people responsible for the "Do No Evil" motto are gone, or at least subjugated. They just know too much about everything - remember the saying about absolute power corrupting? If there's something to substantiate these feelings, I'll be justified.
This piece of malware looked for Word documents, but the next one won't. Maybe it looks for image files, or it looks to see if the web browser has a significant cache built up. Or something more subtle than that. A better idea would be to create system images of used systems, periodically swapping them out, to make it a moving target.
Have you taken a college course or had to deal in a "business-to-business" interaction at all in the past 15 years? They all use the MS Word document format. I took college courses from 2007-2012 at several campuses, of course with different professors... They pretty much all used Word documents to distribute whatever documents they needed to digitally. I think there was maybe 1 course where we were given a link to a PDF. It's not about what you use, it's about what the other guys use.
Or, how many people have curiosity as an innate characteristic, but would have never tapped it to useful ends were there not voices like Hawking's in our society.
They could have, instead, become curious about the Kardashians' dinner or something.
The choice is usually "business as usual vs. business as usual", excepting a few issues that candidates (or really, parties) use to differentiate themselves. Two crappy choices, but equally crappy. Now with Trump it's more like "business as usual vs. total nation-destroying shitshow". There's still no good choice, but the stakes are higher than ever before.
I'll be voting for the first time ever this year, after having been eligible for a decade. Hillary didn't get me to vote. Ted Cruz wouldn't have got me to vote. Trump is getting me to vote... for whoever can win, that isn't him. This is the reason why I think polls are particularly useless in this election. Many of the people who vote this year aren't going to be the "likely voters" that get tracked in the polls.
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I've seen games with 50+ GB updates before. Especially MMOs - isn't that what this game is? Or is the always-on thing only for DRM?
Political boundaries DO matter to someone trying to implement policies to reduce emissions.
Twitter users probably don't have much in the way of "education", besides the ones that got sucked into the everyone-must-go-to-college thing and ended up with the empty diploma. I doubt they do much "reviewing" either - the site's purpose is to let you blast trivial, sub-140 char soundbites to as many people as possible in the hopes that someone, somewhere, might care. A platform for the vapid famous, and the wannabe famous. Speaking of which, we're about to get the first Twitter president. Somewhere in the whole ordeal there's probably a good movie plot - like Idiocracy, but actually funny - but we'll be too busy hiding in fallout shelters or working 60-hour weeks to pay for health insurance to produce it.
I have a couple of Windows XP netbooks, they definitely have the time-remaining indicator. It could be that it was added in SP1 or SP2, but that's still a long time ago.
This is just another example of Apple oversimplifying things. Anyone with a cursory knowledge of how a computer works will understand that battery life will vary depending on how you're using the computer. Or, they could have added the word "estimated" in, so any English speaker over the age of 10 could understand. But I guess they deemed it more important to protect their customers from the split-second confused dissatisfaction of "What? Apple told me it had 10 hours and now it has SIX??"
Maybe that is good marketing. Maybe it improves the emotional state of their customers, leading to a couple percentage points more reporting "satisfaction" with the product. But it does make the product less useful for intelligent people.
You aren't missing much. I'm one of the guys that pirated the Grand Tour, and I don't think it quite lives up to the hype. Yeah, Clarkson & company are in it, but what I found real easy to forget is that the last few seasons of their Top Gear weren't great either. The Grand Tour is continuing on that trajectory. More scripting, more budget, less entertaining. I'm actually more interested in what the BBC will do with Top Gear now that Chris Evans is out of the picture. They might try to turn it into something new and good instead of trying to replicate what the show was like in 2007.
(Citation needed)
Not because I doubt you, but because I'm interested in whatever else such a source might have to reveal.
Apple did buy Beats, to go after the same market segment. (Sometimes-decent, always-overpriced, super-hip sound output devices.) They haven't publicized it much though. Better to maintain Apple and Beats as separate brands, and collect the markup on both. They call it "diversifying the brand portfolio". Sensible consumers call it "a ripoff".
Exactly right, Mr. Trump. Grab em by the pussy!
Oh shit... I hadn't even considered that each earpiece would have a separate battery. Worrying about ONE battery was already too much for headphones.
Looking at the source is the most useful way for a normal person to quickly assess the credibility of information. Its quickness is what makes it useful. Most people who don't have the time to personally investigate the broad range of issues that a news organization does. But, they can pick up a paper and get an overview of everything, with reasonable confidence that it's not made-up. This really is the function the press serves in our society.
Sure, the big-name organizations do occasionally make stories up - see Dan Rather. But there are enough eyes on these stories that the truth does eventually come out, and it ends the career of whosoever was involved. There is accountability on the rare occasions when the big news organizations put out total lies.
I realize that it's in vogue in certain circles to shit all over respectable news organizations, but what's the proposed replacement? None. The de-facto replacement will end up being trash from Facebook, totally unvetted web sites ran by shills, etc. A great thing, if your goal is to spread misinformation. I feel like you're either consciously complicit in this, or you've been suckered in by those who are.
Observe that whether critical thinking is considered "PC" or "un-PC" depends on which tribe you're trying to steer away from critical thinking.
I even have a vinyl release - an official release - that seems to have been mastered from MP3s judging by the spectrogram. (I also have the CD version, which tools like aucdtect confirm is mastered from an MP3. Spectrograms of both show characteristics of MP3 compression)
I also have several bootleg vinyl releases that were cut from MP3s, but that's more expected.
I think the reason why bad mastering is so common throughout the entire industry, regardless of format, is that most listeners can't tell the difference between good and bad mastering. Even a lot of musicians can't, to tell you the truth. The skills used for playing an instrument, and assembling a mix of a full band for a good recording, are different. A lot of musicians get played a terrible, ruined master of their music and they OK it because it "sounds like a finished product" - that is, it sounds like the rest of the shitty CDs they're used to. (Similar logic is used by vinyl junkies.) They spend weeks, months writing and playing the music -- then they might listen to the final master 1 time. Or not at all. Often times there's just 1 engineer that is responsible for making the final mix for distribution. And the quality of those engineers varies just as widely as the quality of musicians.
Since when does the telecom industry "innovate" and "create value"? Oh yeah... innovative ways to overcharge, and creating value to the shareholders.Gotta protect that right? Let's remove these regulations that promote the free flow of information and affordable access to it. Only dangerous people want that.
7 megabytes of data takes less than half a second to load at 25 megabits per second. Even if you assume shitty latency (satellite connection) and no browser prefetching (IE6?) you're looking at about 1 whole second.
If pages "load slowly" on a 25mbit connection, it's not the 25mbit connection limiting it. It might be because the server-side PHP/MySQL takes a long time to execute - which would be a problem for all visitors regardless of their connection. It might be because the client-side Javascript takes a long time to execute. Usually, it's a combination of all these things. But unless you are talking about a 1.5 megabit connection, the speed of the visitor's connection isn't going to be the main factor influencing subjective load times.
...no one I knew had a meltdown over it...
You missed the whole Birther thing then?
I also remember reading on Snopes years ago about some hubbub over the "master/slave" terminology (re: IDE hard disks) and also the word "niggardly." Though, the second case, I could easily see it being a grammar nazi trying to figure out just how many hairs they could split before someone blew up.
It's the same cable... with USB-C instead of plain USB.
Not even I thought the Reality Distortion Field had such power as to superimpose two physically disparate cables upon each other.
Dear God... Apple has won. They have achieved the omnipotent powers of transfiguration. The war is lost! Open your wallets and pour out for penance!
It's not jewelry, it's not a collectible.
What is it then? An extra, tiny screen for your phone? That's the most positive way I can put it, and it seems next to useless when explained that way. I haven't yet heard one feature of these devices that I'd ever use. Much less a "killer app" to justify the cost.
The only justification I can come up with for owning one of these is as a fashion accessory. The statistics in this article are telling me that yes, quite a few people did buy it for that purpose. But now, the iWatch is so 2015. Ah, the fickle flits of fashion.
I guess they see these things as revealing, which they are, to an extent. Anyone who is paying attention already knows Trump is an asshole, so there's not much to "leak" regarding that. Hilary has been a politician for decades so she has been a lot more conscious about image control which makes it more news... I guess. She never fooled me though.
I'm way more interested in what they might have on Google. I've got the feeling that the people responsible for the "Do No Evil" motto are gone, or at least subjugated. They just know too much about everything - remember the saying about absolute power corrupting? If there's something to substantiate these feelings, I'll be justified.
This piece of malware looked for Word documents, but the next one won't. Maybe it looks for image files, or it looks to see if the web browser has a significant cache built up. Or something more subtle than that. A better idea would be to create system images of used systems, periodically swapping them out, to make it a moving target.
Have you taken a college course or had to deal in a "business-to-business" interaction at all in the past 15 years? They all use the MS Word document format. I took college courses from 2007-2012 at several campuses, of course with different professors... They pretty much all used Word documents to distribute whatever documents they needed to digitally. I think there was maybe 1 course where we were given a link to a PDF. It's not about what you use, it's about what the other guys use.
Or, how many people have curiosity as an innate characteristic, but would have never tapped it to useful ends were there not voices like Hawking's in our society.
They could have, instead, become curious about the Kardashians' dinner or something.
The choice is usually "business as usual vs. business as usual", excepting a few issues that candidates (or really, parties) use to differentiate themselves. Two crappy choices, but equally crappy. Now with Trump it's more like "business as usual vs. total nation-destroying shitshow". There's still no good choice, but the stakes are higher than ever before.
I'll be voting for the first time ever this year, after having been eligible for a decade. Hillary didn't get me to vote. Ted Cruz wouldn't have got me to vote. Trump is getting me to vote... for whoever can win, that isn't him. This is the reason why I think polls are particularly useless in this election. Many of the people who vote this year aren't going to be the "likely voters" that get tracked in the polls.
But then who's to say that all simulated-persons shouldn't be held to an equal standard?