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A single 2560x1600 screen cap from a video stream over an unknown quality connection? That's your proof? It's like you're saying JPEG and MP3 don't work because they're lossy.
No, that's called an example, for someone with so much experience, you sure are pretty clueless. The proof is in the countless poor reviewers from professionals and regular users found all over the internet. This service might work well on some golden connection, but most people don't have access to that. Fantastic, bandwidth unlimited connections with low latency and lower jitter really isn't a reality for most of the world or even most of the people in their service areas.
Experience. I though that was clear. Actual experience. The thing that you don't have. This is what irks me about particular detractors, the ones talking out their asses. They make comments about the service quality without having even tried it. Maybe you can't get it at home, but go visit a friend and try it there, jeez. It's free. And then you'll be able to talk about it knowledgeably
It's not available anywhere in my country. It's available in 3 countries in the whole world. The world is a great big place. Someone with your experience should be well aware of that.
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No it's not. I've read plenty of sites where plenty of users have tried it and said they found the video quality is poor.
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not just journalists, tons of users across tons of websites. The volumes of users complaining about the quality of the video far outweighs the few who claim its fine, and I'll also take the screenshots as plenty of evidence.
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No, it's completely unavailable in my area. However, the countless articles written about it are enough. The fact that so many unconnected people and publications would report it as such vs a handful of anonymous voices that always seem to pop up to defend it via message boards and blog posts helps us determine the reality. A google search shows countless people who have used it and all complaining about the video quality. With the reporting and public opinion being heavily against you, one can only wonder what it is that helped you form you opinion. This is a screen cap one reviewer made of it running full screen on his machine: http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2011/11/08e019fb8f953a30370f6a1fa24bc8fb.jpg
. Such as forbidding negative feedback for buyers that rip-off the seller via nonpayment of goods,
Sellers brought that upon themselves by holding feedback hostage against buyers and threatening them with negative feedback unless they gave them positive feedback regardless of what they did.
Sellers who had hundreds or thousands of transactions were unaffected by a small number of negatives, a buyer who only bought a couple dozen things had their reputation greatly affected by that.
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No, reality is that it was widely reported to be muddy and blurry. That's reality.
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Latency really is an issue in single player games. It's only not an issue in turn based games. FPS, racing games, platformers all highly susceptible to latency.
it's not quite as simple as that. most websites require a realname for sign-up. you can still use an alias. It only comes into play in the case of legal action. If someone wants to sue you because of a libelous statement, then there is a real record of who made that post. this is a lot more common because South Korea has strong anti-defamation laws. So everyone in Korea can still post with an alias, and unless they make a criminal statement they can still say all kinds of ass hat like things.
Google made big waves a couple years ago when they stood up to South korea. south korea wanted google to collect real names for youtube. Google said screw you and disabled uploading and commenting "from" Korea. now, google is making big waves by insisting on youtube and google+ that people use their real names.
suddenly when you want it google, it's a good thing?
how's that whole not being evil thing working out for you?
Barring a total collapse of the world, we're unlikely to be losing a lot of important data being created now. If there is a total collapse, we've got bigger fish to fry than some old time capsule.
That said, a single hard drive should be able to hold dictionaries and language tools for every language going, as well as whatever message they want to put on it.
Sure it is, it's called actually getting something done. The deck is stacked against the common man. The US is slowly eroding any hint of freedom it once had and taking the rest of the world with it. It is essentially war at this point. If people want to protect their freedoms they have to be ready to fight for them, and that means they have to use the tools at their disposal. If that means setting up RIAA lawyers to get caught in the back of cars with underage Thai Lady boys, so be it, because there simply is no way you're going to compete with them and their mountains of endless money and a government willing to bend over backwards for them in court.
The issue here is the $100. Now he says a masters, does he mean from nothing to a masters? So is that 2 years or 6 years of schooling? Even at 2 years of schooling assuming he only had to provide website access and instructors to grade the material.
50/year 10 courses $5/course Let's say 30 students per course, $150/course/semester. Semester is 4 months, which means the instructor could get $37.50 per month per course they're running. 6 years of schooling? divide that by 3. $12/month/course they'd have to run 100 courses a month to live. Unless we're outsourcing to some destitute country where we have apparently highly trained instructors who will work for just pennies a day. What it really boils down to is that best case scenario a teacher could get at most $1.25/student/semester assuming the site took nothing. They'd need thousands of students to make it worth their while.
He's setting it up for failure here, or at least not genuine degrees that another institute would accredit.
The issue isn't necessarily developing content. The issue is creating a degree out of it. Anyone can sit down and pound out some content. How do you turn that into a degree? Well in order for it to be accredited I believe you'd have to create some standards. Tests, assessments, things like that. Someone is going to have to manage those, mark them, etc. No on is really going to respect a multiple choice masters degree, and no one is going to mark papers for a penny each. There are also issues in dealing with the practical side of some kind of learning. While literature can be discussed online as well as it could in a classroom, it might be harder to run an online chemistry course where students never do any actual chemistry.
if I only had to wait a week that'd be fine, but here in Korea the only choice is to pirate everything I want to watch. Occasionally very interesting shows do get picked up by Korean TV, but out of say all the network and cable shows out there, the amount that get picked up which aren't CSI or prison break are pretty low. it's always at least a year later, possibly longer. You've got a 1% chance you can see the show a year later at some unspecified time or I can just download what I want to watch when I want to.
The Seoul subway, not so much. The "core" is arguably the #2 line in Seoul. At it's widest point it's around 10km. one branch is 70km as the bird flies, another direction around 80km. the amount of transfers is around 40-50%
the #2 isn't fully below the city center. some parts of it are. maybe the center of seoul metro, but not seoul proper. it actually goes more around the edges of seoul proper at several points.
The facebook app is terrible for general messaging. What is more likely killing texts are apps like whatsapp, kakaotalk, and others like that. They're generally seamless where facebook is far more intrusive. not to mention you can more easily send photos and videos with the other apps than you can with facebook.
has never been to Korea. The close-up of the kids running and playing doesn't remotely begin to approach the density that is going to exist if that opens here. Not to mention when is the last time a kid played with one of those round things and a stick?
With the price of tablets really dropping, I don't see any reason we couldn't create the that kind of device. What I'd like to have in terms of functionality: Wall mounted unit with a video camera voice activated video calling via skype recipes accessible via voice (no mucky hands on the machine) weather defaults to a picture frame type slide show when not in use remotely accessible for installing pictures and administering the unit
This is mostly the kind of device I'd like to put together for my grandparents who can barely turn on their TV. The recipes aren't necessarily needed, but since I'm on the other side of the world now, the video calling and pictures are a must. Some light internet package with wifi would give them all they'd ever need since they don't even have a computer and it would let them stay in touch a lot easier. The only issue is the whole wall mounting vs camera. If you're using it as a picture frame when not in use, it's a little tricky to mount it in such a way that you could leave it wall mounted for video chat and have it look okay as a picture frame. Most people don't have their chairs facing the wall, except to face the TV if it's against a wall, but then you're sitting too far back to see a small tablet well and should go with a much larger screen.
The first speaks mainly to an oratory use, which this is not. The second doesn't seem to indicate much agreement among thread posters that a comma can replace AND, except when it comes to Asyndeton, which again is mainly oratorical usage.
The complaint here is also about the shift in stories, which would indicate a departure from normal posting. If this was the actual posting intent all along we'd always see a lot more stories like this which we did not. 9/11 was a pretty big exception because it was a pretty big event. You can't compare zimmerman to 9/11.
Since this is a departure from normal posting, it seems unlikely that this title was written using Asyndeton and instead a much more common usage of the comma indicating that the "news for nerds" that would be posted would only be "stuff that matters"
That's one way to do it. However, a website, provided in another post, clearly indicates that you can use commas to contain related information. It doesn't indicate that a comma has any business replacing "and" except in a list which has "and" before the last item. Since there are only 2 items, it would require an "and" to indicate these are two fully separate categories
Later, I need to go to the grocery store, bank
that just doesn't make sense. It's like a half-completed thought.
However:
Later I need to go to the grocery store, the one up-town
is much more readable and it's obvious "the one up-town" is related to the grocery store. Putting something else in there completely unrelated to the first part after a comma like that makes absolutely zero sense.
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No, that's called an example, for someone with so much experience, you sure are pretty clueless. The proof is in the countless poor reviewers from professionals and regular users found all over the internet. This service might work well on some golden connection, but most people don't have access to that. Fantastic, bandwidth unlimited connections with low latency and lower jitter really isn't a reality for most of the world or even most of the people in their service areas.
It's not available anywhere in my country. It's available in 3 countries in the whole world. The world is a great big place. Someone with your experience should be well aware of that.
No it's not. I've read plenty of sites where plenty of users have tried it and said they found the video quality is poor.
not just journalists, tons of users across tons of websites. The volumes of users complaining about the quality of the video far outweighs the few who claim its fine, and I'll also take the screenshots as plenty of evidence.
No, it's completely unavailable in my area. However, the countless articles written about it are enough. The fact that so many unconnected people and publications would report it as such vs a handful of anonymous voices that always seem to pop up to defend it via message boards and blog posts helps us determine the reality.
A google search shows countless people who have used it and all complaining about the video quality. With the reporting and public opinion being heavily against you, one can only wonder what it is that helped you form you opinion.
This is a screen cap one reviewer made of it running full screen on his machine:
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2011/11/08e019fb8f953a30370f6a1fa24bc8fb.jpg
Yeah.. just fine.
Sellers brought that upon themselves by holding feedback hostage against buyers and threatening them with negative feedback unless they gave them positive feedback regardless of what they did.
Sellers who had hundreds or thousands of transactions were unaffected by a small number of negatives, a buyer who only bought a couple dozen things had their reputation greatly affected by that.
No, reality is that it was widely reported to be muddy and blurry. That's reality.
Latency really is an issue in single player games. It's only not an issue in turn based games. FPS, racing games, platformers all highly susceptible to latency.
it's not quite as simple as that. most websites require a realname for sign-up. you can still use an alias. It only comes into play in the case of legal action. If someone wants to sue you because of a libelous statement, then there is a real record of who made that post. this is a lot more common because South Korea has strong anti-defamation laws. So everyone in Korea can still post with an alias, and unless they make a criminal statement they can still say all kinds of ass hat like things.
Google made big waves a couple years ago when they stood up to South korea. south korea wanted google to collect real names for youtube. Google said screw you and disabled uploading and commenting "from" Korea. now, google is making big waves by insisting on youtube and google+ that people use their real names.
suddenly when you want it google, it's a good thing?
how's that whole not being evil thing working out for you?
Barring a total collapse of the world, we're unlikely to be losing a lot of important data being created now. If there is a total collapse, we've got bigger fish to fry than some old time capsule.
That said, a single hard drive should be able to hold dictionaries and language tools for every language going, as well as whatever message they want to put on it.
Sure it is, it's called actually getting something done. The deck is stacked against the common man. The US is slowly eroding any hint of freedom it once had and taking the rest of the world with it. It is essentially war at this point. If people want to protect their freedoms they have to be ready to fight for them, and that means they have to use the tools at their disposal. If that means setting up RIAA lawyers to get caught in the back of cars with underage Thai Lady boys, so be it, because there simply is no way you're going to compete with them and their mountains of endless money and a government willing to bend over backwards for them in court.
sexy? She's cute at best..
June 7 http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/06/07/0118228/online-courses-and-the-100-graduate-degree
It's an impractical now as it was 9 days. Stellar editing timothy.
The issue here is the $100. Now he says a masters, does he mean from nothing to a masters? So is that 2 years or 6 years of schooling? Even at 2 years of schooling assuming he only had to provide website access and instructors to grade the material.
50/year
10 courses
$5/course
Let's say 30 students per course, $150/course/semester. Semester is 4 months, which means the instructor could get $37.50 per month per course they're running.
6 years of schooling?
divide that by 3. $12/month/course
they'd have to run 100 courses a month to live.
Unless we're outsourcing to some destitute country where we have apparently highly trained instructors who will work for just pennies a day.
What it really boils down to is that best case scenario a teacher could get at most $1.25/student/semester assuming the site took nothing.
They'd need thousands of students to make it worth their while.
He's setting it up for failure here, or at least not genuine degrees that another institute would accredit.
The issue isn't necessarily developing content. The issue is creating a degree out of it. Anyone can sit down and pound out some content.
How do you turn that into a degree? Well in order for it to be accredited I believe you'd have to create some standards. Tests, assessments, things like that.
Someone is going to have to manage those, mark them, etc.
No on is really going to respect a multiple choice masters degree, and no one is going to mark papers for a penny each. There are also issues in dealing with the practical side of some kind of learning. While literature can be discussed online as well as it could in a classroom, it might be harder to run an online chemistry course where students never do any actual chemistry.
http://exhibitcitynews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2471:evolving-from-booth-babe-to-exhibit-staff&catid=76:features&Itemid=142
Maybe not, but they hire from the same agency they just put nicer clothes on them.
But hey out at the medical design and manufacturing show
https://twitter.com/1TradeShowModel/statuses/206122956412289025
guess they do hire them after all.. ooops..
another "insightful" post on slashdot.
First day with the English language?
if I only had to wait a week that'd be fine, but here in Korea the only choice is to pirate everything I want to watch. Occasionally very interesting shows do get picked up by Korean TV, but out of say all the network and cable shows out there, the amount that get picked up which aren't CSI or prison break are pretty low.
it's always at least a year later, possibly longer.
You've got a 1% chance you can see the show a year later at some unspecified time or I can just download what I want to watch when I want to.
Wow. Your mother must be extremely proud.
The Seoul subway, not so much. The "core" is arguably the #2 line in Seoul.
At it's widest point it's around 10km.
one branch is 70km as the bird flies, another direction around 80km.
the amount of transfers is around 40-50%
the #2 isn't fully below the city center. some parts of it are. maybe the center of seoul metro, but not seoul proper.
it actually goes more around the edges of seoul proper at several points.
The facebook app is terrible for general messaging.
What is more likely killing texts are apps like whatsapp, kakaotalk, and others like that.
They're generally seamless where facebook is far more intrusive.
not to mention you can more easily send photos and videos with the other apps than you can with facebook.
has never been to Korea.
The close-up of the kids running and playing doesn't remotely begin to approach the density that is going to exist if that opens here. Not to mention when is the last time a kid played with one of those round things and a stick?
With the price of tablets really dropping, I don't see any reason we couldn't create the that kind of device.
What I'd like to have in terms of functionality:
Wall mounted unit with a video camera
voice activated
video calling via skype
recipes accessible via voice (no mucky hands on the machine)
weather
defaults to a picture frame type slide show when not in use
remotely accessible for installing pictures and administering the unit
This is mostly the kind of device I'd like to put together for my grandparents who can barely turn on their TV.
The recipes aren't necessarily needed, but since I'm on the other side of the world now, the video calling and pictures are a must. Some light internet package with wifi would give them all they'd ever need since they don't even have a computer and it would let them stay in touch a lot easier. The only issue is the whole wall mounting vs camera.
If you're using it as a picture frame when not in use, it's a little tricky to mount it in such a way that you could leave it wall mounted for video chat and have it look okay as a picture frame.
Most people don't have their chairs facing the wall, except to face the TV if it's against a wall, but then you're sitting too far back to see a small tablet well and should go with a much larger screen.
The first speaks mainly to an oratory use, which this is not. The second doesn't seem to indicate much agreement among thread posters that a comma can replace AND, except when it comes to Asyndeton, which again is mainly oratorical usage.
The complaint here is also about the shift in stories, which would indicate a departure from normal posting. If this was the actual posting intent all along we'd always see a lot more stories like this which we did not. 9/11 was a pretty big exception because it was a pretty big event. You can't compare zimmerman to 9/11.
Since this is a departure from normal posting, it seems unlikely that this title was written using Asyndeton and instead a much more common usage of the comma indicating that the "news for nerds" that would be posted would only be "stuff that matters"
That's one way to do it.
However, a website, provided in another post, clearly indicates that you can use commas to contain related information. It doesn't indicate that a comma has any business replacing "and" except in a list which has "and" before the last item. Since there are only 2 items, it would require an "and" to indicate these are two fully separate categories
Later, I need to go to the grocery store, bank
that just doesn't make sense.
It's like a half-completed thought.
However:
Later I need to go to the grocery store, the one up-town
is much more readable and it's obvious "the one up-town" is related to the grocery store. Putting something else in there completely unrelated to the first part after a comma like that makes absolutely zero sense.