With a character named Sudsy and a police station 'under siege', this would make a better script for a story where Dick Tracy misplaces his wrist radio.
No, you misunderstand. They don't give a shit about Wikipedia. It is neither their responsibility, nor in their interests, to contribute to the development of what is basically a tertiary source.
They're just saying the same thing that every professor I've known has put in their syllabi: Wikipedia is a good enough stepping-off point for research (all of those tasty citations, all lined up at the bottom of the article), but directly citing a Wikipedia article is all kinds of a bad idea for reasons including it could very well be wrong, the passage quoted may not be there five minutes afterward, and the actual density of information on a scholarly topic on Wikipedia is extremely variable.
You beat me to it. They're just going to go back, move some punctuation around, then re-submit it when people are distracted. Or come up with some pretext to shove it through-- maybe illegally shutting Parliament down again.
I'll give you an answer just as soon as we have 3D printers that can handle large, mechanically and materially complex objects, and don't cost more in materials, testing and time than it would to get one that's been tested at the factory and is guaranteed for its intended purpose. Until then, this is flying cars territory: there are proofs of concept, but the reality's turned out to be a lot less exciting than people have hoped.
I wouldn't qualify myself as an expert, but the app goes from 'this is cute' to 'this is meaningless' with a side of 'he wants HOW MUCH?' in a few seconds of critical observation. I'm a DEVO fan, and I was more than happy to give it the benefit of the doubt, but the pitch pulled apart very quickly for me.
Most Kickstarters for digital or physical goods include pledge tiers that offer the item under development at a below-release cost. It's a risk either way: there's the possibility that the project won't come to fruition (and you're out twenty bucks), or it will and it'll cost you fifty post-launch.
In a lot of cases, the Kickstarter project will be their only big sale as well-- a lot of the stuff being touted is seriously boutique, to say the least.
You remember what people did with all of those AOL CDs, right? There's a world of difference between a borderline scammy service that hooked countless computer-illiterate people and an installer for a whole new operating system. Jesus Christ.
"Is you old Windows PC running slow? Replace Windows with this FREE disk and get speed and security without buying a new PC."
Imagine the backlash when Moms and Dads everywhere 'lose' all of their documents and data that's stashed in traditional silly places that Ubuntu won't look by default, like the Windows install's desktop and (god help us all) the recycling bin.
What? Amazon's entire sales regime revolves around making shopping as thoughtless as possible, hence that infamous one-click buying patent. Shilling for a branded browser is one thing, but a whole operating system? Come on. There's fantasy, there's conspiracy, and then there's utter delusion.
At the risk of wallowing in stereotypes, moving deeper and deeper into the morass, up past my pocket protector and almost to my chin...
It's what makes us special, and separates us from the jocks, and with the increasing ubiquity of programmable appliances with increasingly easy to use interfaces, our self-styled role as the high priests of high technology is losing its mysterious cachet.
When I haven't been treated like a potential thief by Ubi, I've been treated as a second-class customer. I don't care what they're publishing now, they haven't deserved my patronage for a long time.
And no, I haven't pirated any of their titles either. I prefer to undermine my arguments in an ethical manner.
No, but when one of the guys that I game with on Fridays does the same thing, I'm tempted to throttle him until I remember that he wouldn't feel a thing through the neck fat...
I imagine that a lot of us are old enough to have been through this argument at least once before, and possibly many times back to UO and EQ. If you're exploiting --and let's be honest, you know when you're pulling a fast one-- you get the hammer.
I've been using Logitech stuff for over ten years. When the charger contacts on an unfortunately designed wireless mouse/keyboard base station went awry, they exchanged the old arrangement for a completely new model KB/M. When that sadly went a few years later, they did the same.
On the other hand, my third mouse in the last year is due to be delivered by courier tomorrow. It's an M705, and I'm convinced that there's a design flaw in the primary button switches. I know the warning signs though, and there's minimal hoop-jumping for a replacement these days, so I'm happy.
Definitely going to look into a different model of Logitech mouse when the warranty finally expires, though.
I was going to mention this. SomethingAwful used to do this on vanishingly rare occasions, but it put extra load on their already heavily hacked VBulletin servers, and it didn't prevent the targets from otherwise making pests of themselves by 'Hellbumping' old threads up to the front page.
I was thinking the same thing. There's no way that the side effect they list at the end of the article isn't going to trigger all kinds of castration anxiety, even if it's perfectly safe and reversible.
Would you mind linking to neutral third-party sites that have details on some of these technologies that the Obama administration has terminated? I'm not from the States, but I'm genuinely curious, and by your own observations a strong political bent to reporting just muddles these things.
It'll probably be like the electronic mailboxes (not to be confused with regular e-mail) that they rolled out just before the 2000s. Thirteen years later, and they're just starting to half-assedly advertise the service again.
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With a character named Sudsy and a police station 'under siege', this would make a better script for a story where Dick Tracy misplaces his wrist radio.
They're just saying the same thing that every professor I've known has put in their syllabi: Wikipedia is a good enough stepping-off point for research (all of those tasty citations, all lined up at the bottom of the article), but directly citing a Wikipedia article is all kinds of a bad idea for reasons including it could very well be wrong, the passage quoted may not be there five minutes afterward, and the actual density of information on a scholarly topic on Wikipedia is extremely variable.
You beat me to it. They're just going to go back, move some punctuation around, then re-submit it when people are distracted. Or come up with some pretext to shove it through-- maybe illegally shutting Parliament down again.
Haselton ate Soulskill and absorbed his passwords!
...a strong sense of humus.
I'll give you an answer just as soon as we have 3D printers that can handle large, mechanically and materially complex objects, and don't cost more in materials, testing and time than it would to get one that's been tested at the factory and is guaranteed for its intended purpose. Until then, this is flying cars territory: there are proofs of concept, but the reality's turned out to be a lot less exciting than people have hoped.
I wouldn't qualify myself as an expert, but the app goes from 'this is cute' to 'this is meaningless' with a side of 'he wants HOW MUCH?' in a few seconds of critical observation. I'm a DEVO fan, and I was more than happy to give it the benefit of the doubt, but the pitch pulled apart very quickly for me.
Okay, two questions:
Does anyone really give a shit what this particular group has to say?
In a lot of cases, the Kickstarter project will be their only big sale as well-- a lot of the stuff being touted is seriously boutique, to say the least.
It is if you're Don Quixote of La Mancha!
Imagine the backlash when Moms and Dads everywhere 'lose' all of their documents and data that's stashed in traditional silly places that Ubuntu won't look by default, like the Windows install's desktop and (god help us all) the recycling bin.
What? Amazon's entire sales regime revolves around making shopping as thoughtless as possible, hence that infamous one-click buying patent. Shilling for a branded browser is one thing, but a whole operating system? Come on. There's fantasy, there's conspiracy, and then there's utter delusion.
"Winners will be rendered in extraordinary fashion to a quaint village in Portmeirion..."
Don't forget about the ahimatronic chimp head!
It's what makes us special, and separates us from the jocks, and with the increasing ubiquity of programmable appliances with increasingly easy to use interfaces, our self-styled role as the high priests of high technology is losing its mysterious cachet.
I'm thirsty. Could I have a sip of your Flavoraid?
Stone replacements? Saving space? You really have no idea what you're talking about, do you?
And no, I haven't pirated any of their titles either. I prefer to undermine my arguments in an ethical manner.
No, but when one of the guys that I game with on Fridays does the same thing, I'm tempted to throttle him until I remember that he wouldn't feel a thing through the neck fat...
I imagine that a lot of us are old enough to have been through this argument at least once before, and possibly many times back to UO and EQ. If you're exploiting --and let's be honest, you know when you're pulling a fast one-- you get the hammer.
On the other hand, my third mouse in the last year is due to be delivered by courier tomorrow. It's an M705, and I'm convinced that there's a design flaw in the primary button switches. I know the warning signs though, and there's minimal hoop-jumping for a replacement these days, so I'm happy.
Definitely going to look into a different model of Logitech mouse when the warranty finally expires, though.
I was going to mention this. SomethingAwful used to do this on vanishingly rare occasions, but it put extra load on their already heavily hacked VBulletin servers, and it didn't prevent the targets from otherwise making pests of themselves by 'Hellbumping' old threads up to the front page.
I was thinking the same thing. There's no way that the side effect they list at the end of the article isn't going to trigger all kinds of castration anxiety, even if it's perfectly safe and reversible.
Would you mind linking to neutral third-party sites that have details on some of these technologies that the Obama administration has terminated? I'm not from the States, but I'm genuinely curious, and by your own observations a strong political bent to reporting just muddles these things.
It'll probably be like the electronic mailboxes (not to be confused with regular e-mail) that they rolled out just before the 2000s. Thirteen years later, and they're just starting to half-assedly advertise the service again.