The point is the amount of people who don't have an opinion about LAN play (especially outside of/.) >> the amount of people who do have an opinion about LAN play and won't buy because of it.
Passively receiving broadcasts for free and paying for an internet data access plan for a mobile phone seems like a big distinction to me. I agree with you in that the argument is useless and trivial (as, dare I say, 90% of all Slashdot arguments). Yet it does irritate me the lengths to which people will go to defend a gadget which is of their liking. The iPhone does not have those features, just call a spade a spade and be done with it. And a fine day to you as well, sir.
Except the substitutes that you listed need internet access available, while the ones listed by the GP don't. So, in the end, they're just workarounds and not equivalent at all.
What? So the GGP asks for examples of features the iPhone doesn't have, the GP answers him and you just say "oh those features don't matter (to me), so who cares?". That's completely dodging the issue.
Government enforcement of dangerous perversion focuses almost entirely on child predators or people abusing their own kids.
Yeah, right. That's why they're so focused on predators that are attacking virtual children. The PROTECT Act of 2003"Prohibits computer-generated child pornography when "(B) such visual depiction is a computer image or computer-generated image that is, or appears virtually indistinguishable from that of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; (as amended by 1466A for Section 2256(8)(B) of title 18, United States Code)."
Researching the law regarding imaginary CP in Canada is left as an exercise to the reader (spoiler: it's even harsher than the PROTECT act).
Sorry for the late reply. I don't remember exactly how their website is laid out, since I bought it a few months ago, but you could customize your laptop when buying it. On the "laptop screen" or similar section, you could select from a WUXGA or another lower resolution (which I don't really recall). So your assumption that they would "ship with whatever they had in any particular day" is incorrect.
Doing some additional research, you are correct in regards to the current state of the IAU definition. My first reply was misguided and I apologize for that.
No, it is only saying that planets inside the Solar system have the following definition. This particular excerpt says nothing about planets outside the Solar system. Therefore, it does not follow from your citation that planets are only defined for the Solar system. In order for your conclusion to be valid, you'd have to prove that the IAU does not define any other conventions specifying what a planet outside the Solar system is.
This makes absolutely no sense to me. Everything in the internet, nay, everything in the world should be taken with a grain of salt, why should Wikipedia be responsible for publishing disclaimers and whatnot? If the general population is unaware of what a real research is, is it Wikipedia's job to teach them? Remember, Wikipedia itself never claimed to be authoritative nor 100% correct all of the time.
Google's unfair and skewed page ranking of that site does more harm than good.
I would speculate that a significant amount of Google's users are actually looking for the Wikipedia article in several searches. I don't think Google owes it to anybody's arbitrary standards of what should or shouldn't have a high page ranking, except in terms of finding what people are searching. And that seems to be working pretty well for them.
Since journalists can't be trusted to validate facts
That is the problem and Wikipedia can't be held responsible for it.
If I'm not mistaken, IcedTea does not support signed applets yet, which are run in untrusted mode. My bank uses them and I can't log into their website.
I would attribute that more to stupidity of buyers than anything else.
I won't argue that particular point, that is your personal preference. But the original post you replied to was talking about how buyers do want convergence. So your personal preference (and your reply) is of little relevance in that particular point (i.e. whether convergent devices will succeed or not probably has nothing to do with having actual HDs).
That makes no sense whatsoever. The Rockbox is a firmware made to allow playing music formats that are usually unsupported (such as FLAC and OGG, which by the way are free as in speech) on several players. You can also install Rockbox on iPods, so I don't get what you're saying.
Potentially, a parallel vote counting can be set up, completely contolled by the population, just using the paper trails generated at the end of the election.
Well, actually, no, because the machines themselves are the ones who print the paper trails. If the machines were rigged, why would the paper trails be trustworthy? Still, there were never any serious allegations of fraud, I think it's a pretty good system.
Ours at least has a paper tally report that gets printed at the end, so one could trace the tally on the flash drives to a tape.
The Brazilian one also does keep a report that gets printed at the end.
For example, we keep a paper tally of the number of voters, and each hour we cross-check the paper tally against the machines. If the machines show a different headcount than the paper, we investigate immediately.
There is also a (paper) list of voters which you can verify for the number. Of course, this still isn't enough accountability for the entire process.
What the hell? Citation direly needed! I AM a Brazilian (you insensitive clod). And I can tell you the election is one of the few things I can say work pretty well here in Brazil. Just throwing a bunch of horror stories around seems to work pretty well on our non-informed moderators, though.
Totally different from the rest of the world.
Actually, it's pretty similar to the rest of the world. Voters are mostly uninformed on the issues and uninterested in getting informed.
Although I agree mostly with everything in your post, I don't think Rybka's rating is representative, since it was calculated based on matches with other chess engines. We can only speculate on what Rybka's performance would be against the top GMs (there were some matches held against some GMs, but not the top ones). But seeing as Kramnik lost 4-2 against Deep Fritz, it's quite possible that the current champion Anand would also lose against Rybka.
It's the difference between driving a fun but high-maintenance sports car on the weekends and driving a reliable commuter car to work every day; everybody wants a sports car, but most people pick the commuter car.
I know it's the Slashdot Way to describe everything in a car analogy, but this is a horrible one. I'd say it's the other way round: the iPhone is the sports car: shiny, sexy, expensive. It's not optimized for "going to work every day". On the contrary, I'd wager most people prefer a real keyboard to a virtual one when doing real work on a phone (say, by ssh'ing into a server). Also, it's pretty hard to talk about developer friendliness in a car analogy.
Maybe 10% of the projects are extremely useful high-quality projects supported by a vibrant community. 90% of the projects are abandoned crap - but they're developer-friendly!
If the 10% of the high quality projects on the Android platform cover things that Apple does on the iPhone and, more than that, things that Apple doesn't, who cares about the 90% which are crap? That's why developer friendliness is important: to attract the people who will be doing things that Apple and Google never thought about doing.
Dear mods, please try to learn a bit about the game and reading at least the summary, if not the article. Although it is true that it was not an even game (9 stones is indeed a HUGE advantage), the professional himself rated the program as an amateur 2 or 3-dan, which can hardly be compared to "winning a chess game against your high school's prom queen". Also, a 9 move advantage (a 4 one, actually) in chess equals checkmate.
Simple: we don't. Future generations of OVER 9000 years from now will probably have scouters to detect radioactive power levels from the other end of the galaxy.
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The point is the amount of people who don't have an opinion about LAN play (especially outside of /.) >> the amount of people who do have an opinion about LAN play and won't buy because of it.
Passively receiving broadcasts for free and paying for an internet data access plan for a mobile phone seems like a big distinction to me. I agree with you in that the argument is useless and trivial (as, dare I say, 90% of all Slashdot arguments). Yet it does irritate me the lengths to which people will go to defend a gadget which is of their liking. The iPhone does not have those features, just call a spade a spade and be done with it. And a fine day to you as well, sir.
Except the substitutes that you listed need internet access available, while the ones listed by the GP don't. So, in the end, they're just workarounds and not equivalent at all.
What? So the GGP asks for examples of features the iPhone doesn't have, the GP answers him and you just say "oh those features don't matter (to me), so who cares?". That's completely dodging the issue.
Government enforcement of dangerous perversion focuses almost entirely on child predators or people abusing their own kids.
Yeah, right. That's why they're so focused on predators that are attacking virtual children.
The PROTECT Act of 2003 "Prohibits computer-generated child pornography when "(B) such visual depiction is a computer image or computer-generated image that is, or appears virtually indistinguishable from that of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; (as amended by 1466A for Section 2256(8)(B) of title 18, United States Code)."
Researching the law regarding imaginary CP in Canada is left as an exercise to the reader (spoiler: it's even harsher than the PROTECT act).
Don't be silly, you just set it to upload it to your home PC after finishing the downloads! Oh, wait...
Sorry for the late reply. I don't remember exactly how their website is laid out, since I bought it a few months ago, but you could customize your laptop when buying it. On the "laptop screen" or similar section, you could select from a WUXGA or another lower resolution (which I don't really recall). So your assumption that they would "ship with whatever they had in any particular day" is incorrect.
My 15" Thinkpad W500 has 1920x1200 resolution.
Doing some additional research, you are correct in regards to the current state of the IAU definition. My first reply was misguided and I apologize for that.
No, it is only saying that planets inside the Solar system have the following definition. This particular excerpt says nothing about planets outside the Solar system. Therefore, it does not follow from your citation that planets are only defined for the Solar system. In order for your conclusion to be valid, you'd have to prove that the IAU does not define any other conventions specifying what a planet outside the Solar system is.
Indeed, IBM did it first.
I would speculate that a significant amount of Google's users are actually looking for the Wikipedia article in several searches. I don't think Google owes it to anybody's arbitrary standards of what should or shouldn't have a high page ranking, except in terms of finding what people are searching. And that seems to be working pretty well for them.
That is the problem and Wikipedia can't be held responsible for it.
http://www.koreus.com/video/simpsons-tetris.html
If I'm not mistaken, IcedTea does not support signed applets yet, which are run in untrusted mode. My bank uses them and I can't log into their website.
"It was hard to have a conversation with anyone; there were so many people talking." - Yogi Berra
I would attribute that more to stupidity of buyers than anything else.
I won't argue that particular point, that is your personal preference. But the original post you replied to was talking about how buyers do want convergence. So your personal preference (and your reply) is of little relevance in that particular point (i.e. whether convergent devices will succeed or not probably has nothing to do with having actual HDs).
An MP3 player without an actual hard drive sucks.
That's why the iPod Nano tanked in sales, right?
That makes no sense whatsoever. The Rockbox is a firmware made to allow playing music formats that are usually unsupported (such as FLAC and OGG, which by the way are free as in speech) on several players. You can also install Rockbox on iPods, so I don't get what you're saying.
Potentially, a parallel vote counting can be set up, completely contolled by the population, just using the paper trails generated at the end of the election.
Well, actually, no, because the machines themselves are the ones who print the paper trails. If the machines were rigged, why would the paper trails be trustworthy? Still, there were never any serious allegations of fraud, I think it's a pretty good system.
Ours at least has a paper tally report that gets printed at the end, so one could trace the tally on the flash drives to a tape.
The Brazilian one also does keep a report that gets printed at the end.
For example, we keep a paper tally of the number of voters, and each hour we cross-check the paper tally against the machines. If the machines show a different headcount than the paper, we investigate immediately.
There is also a (paper) list of voters which you can verify for the number. Of course, this still isn't enough accountability for the entire process.
Totally different from the rest of the world.
Actually, it's pretty similar to the rest of the world. Voters are mostly uninformed on the issues and uninterested in getting informed.
Although I agree mostly with everything in your post, I don't think Rybka's rating is representative, since it was calculated based on matches with other chess engines. We can only speculate on what Rybka's performance would be against the top GMs (there were some matches held against some GMs, but not the top ones). But seeing as Kramnik lost 4-2 against Deep Fritz, it's quite possible that the current champion Anand would also lose against Rybka.
It's the difference between driving a fun but high-maintenance sports car on the weekends and driving a reliable commuter car to work every day; everybody wants a sports car, but most people pick the commuter car.
I know it's the Slashdot Way to describe everything in a car analogy, but this is a horrible one. I'd say it's the other way round: the iPhone is the sports car: shiny, sexy, expensive. It's not optimized for "going to work every day". On the contrary, I'd wager most people prefer a real keyboard to a virtual one when doing real work on a phone (say, by ssh'ing into a server). Also, it's pretty hard to talk about developer friendliness in a car analogy.
Maybe 10% of the projects are extremely useful high-quality projects supported by a vibrant community. 90% of the projects are abandoned crap - but they're developer-friendly!
If the 10% of the high quality projects on the Android platform cover things that Apple does on the iPhone and, more than that, things that Apple doesn't, who cares about the 90% which are crap? That's why developer friendliness is important: to attract the people who will be doing things that Apple and Google never thought about doing.
Dear mods, please try to learn a bit about the game and reading at least the summary, if not the article. Although it is true that it was not an even game (9 stones is indeed a HUGE advantage), the professional himself rated the program as an amateur 2 or 3-dan, which can hardly be compared to "winning a chess game against your high school's prom queen". Also, a 9 move advantage (a 4 one, actually) in chess equals checkmate.
Simple: we don't. Future generations of OVER 9000 years from now will probably have scouters to detect radioactive power levels from the other end of the galaxy.
Fixed.