Bored teenagers (or close approximates) think this shit is hilarious. Yeah, online gaming is a toxic sludgefest. But (shocker), it's not really any part of "gaming". Hint: it's the "bored teenagers" part. Games are just where they hang out. Note this little detail:
“It was great,” said Haberern in an interview with The Washington Post. “I was talking [trash], they were talking [trash],” he said, adding that such antics are typical and understood to be part of the culture.
In other words, they were vigorously insulting each other, and he thought it was hilarious, and hand-waves it away as "part of the culture". Insulting strangers... what fun! Apparently, someone didn't appreciate his view of the "culture", and doxxed the dude (his gamertag was probably displayed on social media), then had some fun of their own. Hey, isn't this "part of the culture too?" "But... but... it happened to meeeeee!"
I'm not excusing any of this, especially when it's completely uncalled for by the victim, but I'm long past being surprised by any of it. And no, even this idiot doesn't deserve death threats. But now that our personal information is there for the entire world to see, anyone can probably get anyone's personal info from something as innocuous as a gametag.
I sure wish I had an answer, short of "changing human nature". Something something AI will surely solve this problem... *handwaves*
I'd definitely better than it used to be. But you're forgetting the simplest challenge: extremely wide differences in raw performance capabilities between client machines. That's a real challenge for PC developers, because while you want to target the minimum level feasible hardware, gamers with high-end PCs want to see games take advantage of the latest and greatest hardware features.
I certainly won't call it an "excuse", but that doesn't mean scalability doesn't require a significant amount of extra work to get right. I'm working on an upcoming AAA PC game, and the feature I'm working on is potentially CPU intensive, but mostly has aesthetic effects. So, I have to be careful to ensure that no matter whether someone has 2 cores or 32 cores, of various speeds, the work I'm doing never exceeds a specified threshold, which I determine based on general hardware capacity and auto-scale in real-time.
A lot of other features also fall into this category. A console game doesn't have to spend as much time on fine-grained graphics options, for example, making every little detail toggleable in case it has a performance impact. This is vastly different than a console game, which only has to worry about two performance levels these days.
we're currently up to GCN 5th gen of Radeon GPU's whilst the Xbox is still using the GCN 1st gen arch. It's hardware uniformity has become more of a curse.
The mid-cycle hardware refresh also means that people aren't necessarily stuck with older hardware if they want to upgrade.
I don't see any reason to doubt Apple on this. It's not like they aren't aware of the disasters of Windows 8 and Ubuntu's failed Unity experiment, all done in the name of trying to merge mouse+keyboard and touch-first paradigms.
As for the keyboards, I think it's probably mostly power users who hate those, and it seems evident that Apple isn't really focusing on power users these days. With their iPhone's success, they're clearly focused on the mass market, and those keyboards are (apparently) fine with most normal users.
Or, maybe some of us just see the phone as a useful tool, and aren't enslaved by the damned thing.
Seriously, how many "I'm abandoning x technology/platform/company" have we read about in the past few months? Is 2019's theme going to be tech reporters telling us how they unplugged because they don't have the mental fortitude to say "no" to whatever they're breathlessly consuming at the expense of their well-being?
But increased workloads likely can be used to increase the number of local employees of the courts, and thus indirectly affect one's power base. This is not just about the judges, but the entire mini-industry the East Texas district has set up for itself. I've heard of corporations that have gone in the opposite direction as Apple just did before the "no shopping" rule was in effect, making lucrative civic donations in an attempt to sweeten dispositions toward themselves among the local citizens. If that doesn't speak to a completely corrupt system, I'm not sure what does.
I wouldn't go in that direction, at least not for everyone. There are certainly some children who are self-starters and could make that work. I suspect I would have done far better with self-study than I did in a traditional classroom, which bored me to tears, and annoyed me with pointless make-work. Had I been able to test out, I would have done so in a heartbeat. But I'm not sure all children would flourish in such an environment.
When it comes to education, I feel it's best to be somewhat conservative, taking small, incremental steps and verifying results, so as not to accidentally destroy a generations' education with radical experiments (see: bizarre methods of learning to read/spell English).
Ultimately, I don't think the profession of "teacher" will ever go away completely. Young children need direct supervision, and older children still need guidance and advice. What may happen is that classrooms become much more virtualized as children get older, allowing fewer teachers to do supervise more students as they demonstrate more self-reliance.
There are other practical factors as well. Books are bulky, expensive, and just damned heavy to carry. I still don't think the technology for ubiquitous e-readers is cheap enough yet, but when you can buy a new tablet-like reader for the price of a book or two, many of the arguments for paper textbooks will seem a bit less compelling.
Still, I think "textbooks" as a concept, whether in printed form or electronic, will be with us for a very long time. I don't see why they'd ever become obsolete, as they're purpose-built for a student to read along with and learn in a structured way. What may change is the way we interact with them. Those little quizzes at the back of chapters? How about if a student can interactively take those quizzes right in the textbook (via the reader), and then software suggests a specialized review chapter and tailors future quizzes to help ensure they learn the proper material? That is, you keep drilling the student on the area they're weakest to ensure they learn the material, all with little to no additional work by the teacher.
This doesn't mean the end of the "textbook", but perhaps just an expansion of how it's organized and a change in how students interact with it. The simple act of a student being able to use a humble hyperlink to look up terms or concepts on the fly could be invaluable. I've already experienced this myself when looking up unfamiliar words with my Kindle.
Oh, come on. It's totally a coincidence that both would raise their rates at the exact same time, right?
Recently, the two companies along with several U.S. banks, had to pay over $6 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by merchants who accused the credit card companies of violating federal antitrust laws by forcing merchants to pay swipe fees and prohibiting them from directing consumers toward other methods of payment.
How shocking. Gosh, if you can't trust a giant, international credit merchant, who CAN you trust these days?
Any online service of noteworthy size has a never-ending stream of people claiming their account was "hacked", which inevitably means they used the same credentials on another site, or they have malware on their devices, and subsequently someone logged into their account simply using their standard login credentials.
Of course, it's entirely possible there was some hack and the company is in denial/coverup mode, but you'd think people know better than to do that at this point. I've learned not to underestimate people's idiocy over many years of hard-won experience.
> No. You overestimate the effectiveness of the vaccine.
You'll note that nearly all the people (mostly children) who got sick in Clark County were unvaccinated. Of the 53 sickened, 1 was vaccinated, 5 are unknown. Seems pretty effective to me.
Why would you care about self-hosted analytics? I don't mind if individual sites perform site-specific analytics. I just don't want any single company being able to track me across the entire web without my consent.
Most of the recent console systems in memory have introduced a "half-generation" upgrade, which typically reduces costs, reduces the console size, and tweaked features and capabilities (sometimes improved, sometimes reduced). This has also been a typical pattern for Nintendo's handhelds as well. This new Switch seems to fall in line with this general trend.
In my recollection, console refreshes have been a good deal for the consumer, precisely the opposite of what you're suggesting, because they have to attract *new* customers. The die-hard Nintendo fans already have their console. How would you expect them to win new customers by creating an objectively worse product? Going more portable seems like a reasonable way to distinguish themselves from their competitors, and plays to their systems' strengths.
Everything is just rumor and speculation at this point anyhow. I'm curious to see what they come up with. I've been holding off a Switch because I have both an Xbox One and PS4, with a backlog of games for them (not to mention a bunch of PC games). So, I'll probably just wait a while longer to see if the new Switch seems better or worse to me, and make my decision accordingly.
That's seems unlikely. In my experience, you can play any normal offline game, disc or downloaded, without an internet connection. I've seen partial outages before (being unable to sign in was the last one, I believe), and I could still play all my games just fine. I've also played games when my entire network has gone down on rare occasions.
It's no good. I can still vaguely see some shapes of some controls, and there's an unsightly pile of black text to the left. The UX designers need to keep polishing until everything is a pure, beautiful, white form, unblemished by unsightly distractions.
Their sentences will serve as a good object lesson to others considering such foolishness. And I don't think you need to justify the proper application of justice, in any case. I'm perfectly happy allocating a small portion of my taxes to pay for their prosecution and subsequent incarceration.
a) that among the estimated billions of Earth-sized planets in our galaxy, plus those among the other ten trillion galaxies, we're some rare and special one-off jewel of the universe, b) universal distances are vast, and warp drives aren't practical or even possible. As such, other intelligent aliens can't reach us, or even communicate with us.
Personally, I tend to view the "mediocrity principle" as more reasonable than "special snowflake" assumptions, and simply attribute the lack of evidence about alien life as corroboration of the difficulty in overcoming interstellar distances in any meaningful way.
Being able to legally call a product with no cocoa at all "chocolate" doesn't help, either.
According to my understanding of US regulations, you actually can't actually call a product with no cocoa "chocolate". It'll be labeled "chocolate candy", "chocolate-flavored", "chocolatey", or something like that.
There's a separate rule for "white chocolate", which contains cocoa butter instead.
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Let's just call those the "close approximates."
Bored teenagers (or close approximates) think this shit is hilarious. Yeah, online gaming is a toxic sludgefest. But (shocker), it's not really any part of "gaming". Hint: it's the "bored teenagers" part. Games are just where they hang out. Note this little detail:
“It was great,” said Haberern in an interview with The Washington Post. “I was talking [trash], they were talking [trash],” he said, adding that such antics are typical and understood to be part of the culture.
In other words, they were vigorously insulting each other, and he thought it was hilarious, and hand-waves it away as "part of the culture". Insulting strangers... what fun! Apparently, someone didn't appreciate his view of the "culture", and doxxed the dude (his gamertag was probably displayed on social media), then had some fun of their own. Hey, isn't this "part of the culture too?" "But... but... it happened to meeeeee!"
I'm not excusing any of this, especially when it's completely uncalled for by the victim, but I'm long past being surprised by any of it. And no, even this idiot doesn't deserve death threats. But now that our personal information is there for the entire world to see, anyone can probably get anyone's personal info from something as innocuous as a gametag.
I sure wish I had an answer, short of "changing human nature". Something something AI will surely solve this problem... *handwaves*
The 90's called, they want their excuses back. .
I'd definitely better than it used to be. But you're forgetting the simplest challenge: extremely wide differences in raw performance capabilities between client machines. That's a real challenge for PC developers, because while you want to target the minimum level feasible hardware, gamers with high-end PCs want to see games take advantage of the latest and greatest hardware features.
I certainly won't call it an "excuse", but that doesn't mean scalability doesn't require a significant amount of extra work to get right. I'm working on an upcoming AAA PC game, and the feature I'm working on is potentially CPU intensive, but mostly has aesthetic effects. So, I have to be careful to ensure that no matter whether someone has 2 cores or 32 cores, of various speeds, the work I'm doing never exceeds a specified threshold, which I determine based on general hardware capacity and auto-scale in real-time.
A lot of other features also fall into this category. A console game doesn't have to spend as much time on fine-grained graphics options, for example, making every little detail toggleable in case it has a performance impact. This is vastly different than a console game, which only has to worry about two performance levels these days.
we're currently up to GCN 5th gen of Radeon GPU's whilst the Xbox is still using the GCN 1st gen arch. It's hardware uniformity has become more of a curse.
The mid-cycle hardware refresh also means that people aren't necessarily stuck with older hardware if they want to upgrade.
I don't see any reason to doubt Apple on this. It's not like they aren't aware of the disasters of Windows 8 and Ubuntu's failed Unity experiment, all done in the name of trying to merge mouse+keyboard and touch-first paradigms.
As for the keyboards, I think it's probably mostly power users who hate those, and it seems evident that Apple isn't really focusing on power users these days. With their iPhone's success, they're clearly focused on the mass market, and those keyboards are (apparently) fine with most normal users.
Or, maybe some of us just see the phone as a useful tool, and aren't enslaved by the damned thing.
Seriously, how many "I'm abandoning x technology/platform/company" have we read about in the past few months? Is 2019's theme going to be tech reporters telling us how they unplugged because they don't have the mental fortitude to say "no" to whatever they're breathlessly consuming at the expense of their well-being?
But increased workloads likely can be used to increase the number of local employees of the courts, and thus indirectly affect one's power base. This is not just about the judges, but the entire mini-industry the East Texas district has set up for itself. I've heard of corporations that have gone in the opposite direction as Apple just did before the "no shopping" rule was in effect, making lucrative civic donations in an attempt to sweeten dispositions toward themselves among the local citizens. If that doesn't speak to a completely corrupt system, I'm not sure what does.
Why, there are dozens of signatures on that letter of protest. Management simply can't ignore that!
No, wait, they totally CAN ignore that, and will surely do so. Because dozens, out of ~135,000.
I'd guess the answer is "screen space". There's an argument to be made that this could increase space for apps.
I'm not really sure I buy that argument, as I use a phone with two physical buttons, and am used to that. Would have to use it for a while, I guess.
but classrooms and teachers should be phased out.
I wouldn't go in that direction, at least not for everyone. There are certainly some children who are self-starters and could make that work. I suspect I would have done far better with self-study than I did in a traditional classroom, which bored me to tears, and annoyed me with pointless make-work. Had I been able to test out, I would have done so in a heartbeat. But I'm not sure all children would flourish in such an environment.
When it comes to education, I feel it's best to be somewhat conservative, taking small, incremental steps and verifying results, so as not to accidentally destroy a generations' education with radical experiments (see: bizarre methods of learning to read/spell English).
Ultimately, I don't think the profession of "teacher" will ever go away completely. Young children need direct supervision, and older children still need guidance and advice. What may happen is that classrooms become much more virtualized as children get older, allowing fewer teachers to do supervise more students as they demonstrate more self-reliance.
There are other practical factors as well. Books are bulky, expensive, and just damned heavy to carry. I still don't think the technology for ubiquitous e-readers is cheap enough yet, but when you can buy a new tablet-like reader for the price of a book or two, many of the arguments for paper textbooks will seem a bit less compelling.
Still, I think "textbooks" as a concept, whether in printed form or electronic, will be with us for a very long time. I don't see why they'd ever become obsolete, as they're purpose-built for a student to read along with and learn in a structured way. What may change is the way we interact with them. Those little quizzes at the back of chapters? How about if a student can interactively take those quizzes right in the textbook (via the reader), and then software suggests a specialized review chapter and tailors future quizzes to help ensure they learn the proper material? That is, you keep drilling the student on the area they're weakest to ensure they learn the material, all with little to no additional work by the teacher.
This doesn't mean the end of the "textbook", but perhaps just an expansion of how it's organized and a change in how students interact with it. The simple act of a student being able to use a humble hyperlink to look up terms or concepts on the fly could be invaluable. I've already experienced this myself when looking up unfamiliar words with my Kindle.
Also, the phrase comes in three “millennial friendly” colors seems expressly designed to irritate old curmudgeons like me.
Oh, come on. It's totally a coincidence that both would raise their rates at the exact same time, right?
Recently, the two companies along with several U.S. banks, had to pay over $6 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by merchants who accused the credit card companies of violating federal antitrust laws by forcing merchants to pay swipe fees and prohibiting them from directing consumers toward other methods of payment.
How shocking. Gosh, if you can't trust a giant, international credit merchant, who CAN you trust these days?
Any online service of noteworthy size has a never-ending stream of people claiming their account was "hacked", which inevitably means they used the same credentials on another site, or they have malware on their devices, and subsequently someone logged into their account simply using their standard login credentials.
Of course, it's entirely possible there was some hack and the company is in denial/coverup mode, but you'd think people know better than to do that at this point. I've learned not to underestimate people's idiocy over many years of hard-won experience.
> No. You overestimate the effectiveness of the vaccine.
You'll note that nearly all the people (mostly children) who got sick in Clark County were unvaccinated. Of the 53 sickened, 1 was vaccinated, 5 are unknown. Seems pretty effective to me.
Source: Clark County Gov Website:
https://www.clark.wa.gov/publi...
What do you have against Dutch farmers?
Why would you care about self-hosted analytics? I don't mind if individual sites perform site-specific analytics. I just don't want any single company being able to track me across the entire web without my consent.
Most of the recent console systems in memory have introduced a "half-generation" upgrade, which typically reduces costs, reduces the console size, and tweaked features and capabilities (sometimes improved, sometimes reduced). This has also been a typical pattern for Nintendo's handhelds as well. This new Switch seems to fall in line with this general trend.
In my recollection, console refreshes have been a good deal for the consumer, precisely the opposite of what you're suggesting, because they have to attract *new* customers. The die-hard Nintendo fans already have their console. How would you expect them to win new customers by creating an objectively worse product? Going more portable seems like a reasonable way to distinguish themselves from their competitors, and plays to their systems' strengths.
Everything is just rumor and speculation at this point anyhow. I'm curious to see what they come up with. I've been holding off a Switch because I have both an Xbox One and PS4, with a backlog of games for them (not to mention a bunch of PC games). So, I'll probably just wait a while longer to see if the new Switch seems better or worse to me, and make my decision accordingly.
That's seems unlikely. In my experience, you can play any normal offline game, disc or downloaded, without an internet connection. I've seen partial outages before (being unable to sign in was the last one, I believe), and I could still play all my games just fine. I've also played games when my entire network has gone down on rare occasions.
Karma is a bitch.
It's no good. I can still vaguely see some shapes of some controls, and there's an unsightly pile of black text to the left. The UX designers need to keep polishing until everything is a pure, beautiful, white form, unblemished by unsightly distractions.
Regarding your supposition that those ill were unimmunized... yep, spot on.
Age
1 to 10 years: 21 cases
11 to 18 years: nine cases
19 to 29 years: one case
Immunization status
Unverified: four cases
Unimmunized: 27 cases
Souce: Clark County website.
TL;DR: The whole outbreak appears to have been rather preventable, but you apparently can't immunize against stupidity and willful ignorance.
Their sentences will serve as a good object lesson to others considering such foolishness. And I don't think you need to justify the proper application of justice, in any case. I'm perfectly happy allocating a small portion of my taxes to pay for their prosecution and subsequent incarceration.
What do you think the more likely explanation is:
a) that among the estimated billions of Earth-sized planets in our galaxy, plus those among the other ten trillion galaxies, we're some rare and special one-off jewel of the universe,
b) universal distances are vast, and warp drives aren't practical or even possible. As such, other intelligent aliens can't reach us, or even communicate with us.
Personally, I tend to view the "mediocrity principle" as more reasonable than "special snowflake" assumptions, and simply attribute the lack of evidence about alien life as corroboration of the difficulty in overcoming interstellar distances in any meaningful way.
Why did they call a language "Rust"?
To better fit in with all the other terrible names geeks have come up with, of course. Gimp? Ogg Vorbis? Gnu Hurd?
Being able to legally call a product with no cocoa at all "chocolate" doesn't help, either.
According to my understanding of US regulations, you actually can't actually call a product with no cocoa "chocolate". It'll be labeled "chocolate candy", "chocolate-flavored", "chocolatey", or something like that.
There's a separate rule for "white chocolate", which contains cocoa butter instead.