yeah you might have a general sense of where things are supposed to be headed, but TrueBlood and Dexter are good examples of shows that don't always stay on track with the books. I get to hear my wife complain every season about how "that shit's not in the BOOK!!" Some minor characters become major, others are written out, the entire dynamic between some is changed.
unskippable content is nothing new and hasn't seemed to do squat. Childrens movies/shows are the worst. It's not just an FBI warning, its unskippable previews, unskippable ads for various crap, unskippable commercials for various childrens networks. I gave up. Every new DVD gets ripped, stripped to menus and movie and reburned before the kids ever see it. less than 10 minutes spent up front = hours saved at viewings. Of course now we've converted all our movies to MP4 and have them on a proper media server so discs are just a delivery method now days.
Anyway, I fail to see how MORE unskippable "education" is going to discourage anyone at this point.
Hang on. Are you guys actually suggesting that you sit in your living room, in front of an expensive TV and then stream movies to your iPad? Am I missing something, because I fail to see how awesome and so so so so so much better that could be?
and unfortunately this kinda of mentality breeds single issue voters. Oh hey, Joe Politician wants to revoke the constitution, legalize murder and provide kids with crack in their school lunches. Hmmm, I don't know... Oh wait! He supports gay marriage! I know I'M voting for him.
This single issue thing seems to be more common among my republican friends, but it's not exclusive to them. People that do this crap are more willfully ignorant than anyone and it drives me crazy to talk to them. Seriously, Hitler could get elected just by supporting one of these wedge issues.
"At the same time, having basic security practices still thwarted it from being installed on your system."
Do Mac users perform these basic security practices? Remember this is an OS that is specifically targeted at people for whom a PC with Windows is deemed "just too hard to use". You think they are going to change their computing habits just because they switched? As if every Apple computer comes with a free box of common sense tucked inside? More likely they will just say "whew! i can finally do whatever i want and stop worrying about malware! Thanks Apple!" Long time Apple users may do what you suggest. All those users acquired in the "switch" campaign? Not very likely.
Pretty cool project, I'd love to have one of those in the garage. I wonder if his projectors are projecting a distorted image that looks correct on the screen since they don't appear to be right in front of it.
As a warning, the article contains a link to his website under renovation. His new site has a link to his old one and when I went there I was getting a Java exploit alert from MSE. YMMV, but thought I'd mention it.
well that's a good point. I think the difference, in my experience, is that Linux people are more willing to admit when something sucks or is just plain wrong. Apple fans seem to rationalize problems as "Apple just knows best, I must have misunderstood what they meant."
Apple, its employees and its users are legendarily arrogant. I find it much more believable that a security researcher got rebuffed than that there is global conspiracy to make Apple look bad and drive American customers to purchase security products from a Russian company...An American company would likely have gotten the same response from Apple anyway.
The Apple slogan "Think Different" could just as easily be "It's Not Me, It's You". Oh they'll own up to things eventually, but not before playing some passive aggressive blame game and trying to convince their users that it's somehow their fault. In the meantime, anyone who gets hurt is just collateral damage and will probably buy the next shiny bauble Apple dangles in front of them anyway. I know some very smart people that are hopelessly addicted to Apple no matter what they do. You read about people in cults and say "how can that person be in a cult, they are so smart!". Well Apple has it figured out. We should probably be grateful Steve Jobs wasn't another Jim Jones.
"Your cheapest security system are neighbours who also have an interest in not being burgled."
yeah obviously the cheapest solution is to purchase another house or build houses near you for a bunch of people you trust ; ) over-priced security system is starting to look cheap.
I agree it sucks that taxpayers pick up the tab but I doubt there's a legal way to get at retirement funds. The alternative is they don't pay at all. I don't think that's fair either. If the cops had falsely arrested this guy and the city said "whoa! that's just wrong, you're fired" then maybe it would have been enough.
Those taxpaying citizens should be more concerned with false arrest by the people they are paying to enforce the law and by a city government that pisses away money for 5 years defending that action. Maybe some of them will be mad enough at the waste of money to vote out the retards that are in office.
To your priest example, it's completely fair that the congregation that stood by oblivious while some priest molested children for years pays for that. I just find it hard to accept that hundreds, maybe thousands of people were members of these churches and not once did someone notice or have the balls to say "About Father Bob..." It's ludicrous that someone can get away with this stuff for decades. I guarantee that any congregation that's paid out because of molestation is a hell of a lot more careful about who is in the clergy and what they are doing, especially where kids are involved. Sometimes messing with peoples money is the only way to get a change.
ridiculous for falsely arresting someone, then dragging it through the courts for years? Anyway, it says it paid damages AND legal fees. What do you want to bet that 5 years of legal fees are about $160,000? The city got of easy.
The problem is not with recognizing the externality, it's that once it's been recognized then frequently that's it. No more talking, no more solutions, just endless study and regulation. You can't damn this river unless you can PROVE that no salmon will ever die in a thousand years due to your dam. And you know what happens? Either the project gets scrapped because it's unprovable, or some genius comes up with a billion dollar solution that no one can afford and we all keep burning coal. What the environmental side is saying is that the cost of business as usual is more acceptable than potential damage to the environment. Then they say business as usual is unacceptable. You can't have it all your way and may have to choose the lesser of two evils.
hypocritical? I do what i can within my means. I have an energy efficient house and appliances. I drive energy efficient cars even if i can afford a sporty gas guzzler. I recycle, maybe not as much as I could, but i make the effort. I make compromises in my own life that benefit the environment. What I don't do is bitch about the way things are then stand in the way of them changing.
well that's the problem isn't it? The people in the middle that are willing to compromise are NOT the ones with the ear of the politicians they elected. It's the lobbies with the money yelling loudly in one ear, and the activists dropping PR bombs in the other ear.
Well sadly enough the same people that bemoan use of fossil fuels the loudest are also often the biggest obstacle to alternatives. No dams, think of the fish! No solar arrays, think of the horned toads and gila monsters you will displace! No wind farms, chopped birds are bad! No nuclear, radiation is the devil's work! For every proposal they either have a list of reasons why it can't happen or a list of restrictions that make it damn near impossible. They always seem to want a perfect solution. News flash! There is none. If you want to get off fossil fuels, you need to learn to compromise. I don't think that word exists in America anymore. "We the people" is more like "Me the people" these days...
Read on for a less rose tinted view of the state of prosthetic art and the challenges that are holding it back A True Bionic Limb Remains Far Out Of Reach. Interesting stuff.
It's so comforting to know that everyone on slashdot is a perfect driver and incredibly adept at navigating by map or reference to the stars. You guys are really amazing, your smugness is so well deserved! I feel so SAFE when I drive by one of you, map in one hand, bagel in the other and driving with your knee while valiantly resisting the spread of distracting technology!
Now, judging by most of the people I see on the road, you guys are in the overwhelming minority. Ban GPS entirely, and bad drivers will keep finding ways to be bad drivers.
2) Really? Share some examples? Are you blind? OPEN YOUR FUCKING EYES.
Wow. I'm aware of many of these and in agreement that many of them are brain-dead laws. I was just curious what other people would offer as examples besides the old favorites of drugs, prostitution, porn, booze and sex. Is there something wrong with asking? How the hell do you find out about stupid ass laws if you just wait to run into one by accident? I haven't tried buying raw milk lately. Who knew? My eyes were open just fine already. Never hurts have them opened a little more right?
Try not taking shit personally.
1) You're wrong because drugs ARE presently on their way to full legalization in the U.S. Already a majority of the population supports marijuana legalization.
Marijuana, maybe, possibly under limited and restricted circumstances, but anything else, no way it's going to happen in this country. If you envision some U.S. drug utopia where anyone is free to ingest anything, any time it's wishful thinking. Just because a few states allow medical use of marijuana doesn't mean the so called war on drugs will end. Does it really matter if 52% (norml.org) of the population supports legalizing pot? 50 something percent of the country did not elect George W. Bush, but still he made it into office. Do you think anyone in DC either cares or would risk a career by seriously pushing for legalization? There is too much money involved, too many egos involved and to many government fiefdoms involved. Too many states are hurting for money to lose federal dollars by legalizing no matter how much they could make taxing weed. Don't underestimate the sway that other 48% of puritanical America has over your local congressman.
the stock browser runs fine. but i do miss adblock.
Firefox Mobile... h.264 is not your main issue.
on
Mozilla To Support H.264
·
· Score: 1, Interesting
I was eager to use Firefox Mobile after using the desktop browser for years. I've been running it for a couple of years on Android and color me unimpressed. I do like the way they handle tabs, and I like the ability to use plugins like adblock. What I DON'T like is the terrible performance. Slow to start, laggy, prone to lock up. This is on my Galaxy S, which granted is not a brand new phone. However, FF Mobile was one of the first apps I installed and it's always been a poor performer, time and revisions haven't made it better. YMMV, but my wife has a much newer phone and it doesn't seem to run any better. I'm much more concerned about ability to browse basic websites than what video codec it uses.
yeah, i'm at a loss here. The only one that comes to mind is when Ender get's put in Bonzo's army and shares a shower with Petra (and the rest of the army). However, he's told not to do it again and that's it from then on. Jesus, Ender even says it's a stupid rule, she still looks like a boy.
If you find their chit chat during a shower, or any of the dialogue after that as "pornographic" then you should not have nor be around children because you are a perv. Seriously, these kids are what, 7 or 8 at this point in the book? I really think some people are afraid to walk by the mirror after getting out of a shower because they might see "pornography".
Slashdot Mirror
yeah you might have a general sense of where things are supposed to be headed, but TrueBlood and Dexter are good examples of shows that don't always stay on track with the books. I get to hear my wife complain every season about how "that shit's not in the BOOK!!" Some minor characters become major, others are written out, the entire dynamic between some is changed.
unskippable content is nothing new and hasn't seemed to do squat. Childrens movies/shows are the worst. It's not just an FBI warning, its unskippable previews, unskippable ads for various crap, unskippable commercials for various childrens networks. I gave up. Every new DVD gets ripped, stripped to menus and movie and reburned before the kids ever see it. less than 10 minutes spent up front = hours saved at viewings. Of course now we've converted all our movies to MP4 and have them on a proper media server so discs are just a delivery method now days.
Anyway, I fail to see how MORE unskippable "education" is going to discourage anyone at this point.
"research is directly credited with lowering (again, just one example of many) the survival rates of certain types of leukemia"
Well that doesn't sound very nice. Not sure I'd want to see survival rates LOWERED...
Hang on. Are you guys actually suggesting that you sit in your living room, in front of an expensive TV and then stream movies to your iPad? Am I missing something, because I fail to see how awesome and so so so so so much better that could be?
"The primary reason for this move is to lessen China's reliance on western intellectual property."
As if these chips won't be chock full of western IP... They've gotten what they wanted from the West, now they cut the cord. Rinse and repeat.
and unfortunately this kinda of mentality breeds single issue voters. Oh hey, Joe Politician wants to revoke the constitution, legalize murder and provide kids with crack in their school lunches. Hmmm, I don't know... Oh wait! He supports gay marriage! I know I'M voting for him.
This single issue thing seems to be more common among my republican friends, but it's not exclusive to them. People that do this crap are more willfully ignorant than anyone and it drives me crazy to talk to them. Seriously, Hitler could get elected just by supporting one of these wedge issues.
"At the same time, having basic security practices still thwarted it from being installed on your system."
Do Mac users perform these basic security practices? Remember this is an OS that is specifically targeted at people for whom a PC with Windows is deemed "just too hard to use". You think they are going to change their computing habits just because they switched? As if every Apple computer comes with a free box of common sense tucked inside? More likely they will just say "whew! i can finally do whatever i want and stop worrying about malware! Thanks Apple!" Long time Apple users may do what you suggest. All those users acquired in the "switch" campaign? Not very likely.
Pretty cool project, I'd love to have one of those in the garage. I wonder if his projectors are projecting a distorted image that looks correct on the screen since they don't appear to be right in front of it.
As a warning, the article contains a link to his website under renovation. His new site has a link to his old one and when I went there I was getting a Java exploit alert from MSE. YMMV, but thought I'd mention it.
well that's a good point. I think the difference, in my experience, is that Linux people are more willing to admit when something sucks or is just plain wrong. Apple fans seem to rationalize problems as "Apple just knows best, I must have misunderstood what they meant."
Apple, its employees and its users are legendarily arrogant. I find it much more believable that a security researcher got rebuffed than that there is global conspiracy to make Apple look bad and drive American customers to purchase security products from a Russian company...An American company would likely have gotten the same response from Apple anyway.
The Apple slogan "Think Different" could just as easily be "It's Not Me, It's You". Oh they'll own up to things eventually, but not before playing some passive aggressive blame game and trying to convince their users that it's somehow their fault. In the meantime, anyone who gets hurt is just collateral damage and will probably buy the next shiny bauble Apple dangles in front of them anyway. I know some very smart people that are hopelessly addicted to Apple no matter what they do. You read about people in cults and say "how can that person be in a cult, they are so smart!". Well Apple has it figured out. We should probably be grateful Steve Jobs wasn't another Jim Jones.
"Your cheapest security system are neighbours who also have an interest in not being burgled."
yeah obviously the cheapest solution is to purchase another house or build houses near you for a bunch of people you trust ; ) over-priced security system is starting to look cheap.
I agree it sucks that taxpayers pick up the tab but I doubt there's a legal way to get at retirement funds. The alternative is they don't pay at all. I don't think that's fair either. If the cops had falsely arrested this guy and the city said "whoa! that's just wrong, you're fired" then maybe it would have been enough. Those taxpaying citizens should be more concerned with false arrest by the people they are paying to enforce the law and by a city government that pisses away money for 5 years defending that action. Maybe some of them will be mad enough at the waste of money to vote out the retards that are in office.
To your priest example, it's completely fair that the congregation that stood by oblivious while some priest molested children for years pays for that. I just find it hard to accept that hundreds, maybe thousands of people were members of these churches and not once did someone notice or have the balls to say "About Father Bob..." It's ludicrous that someone can get away with this stuff for decades. I guarantee that any congregation that's paid out because of molestation is a hell of a lot more careful about who is in the clergy and what they are doing, especially where kids are involved. Sometimes messing with peoples money is the only way to get a change.
ridiculous for falsely arresting someone, then dragging it through the courts for years? Anyway, it says it paid damages AND legal fees. What do you want to bet that 5 years of legal fees are about $160,000? The city got of easy.
The problem is not with recognizing the externality, it's that once it's been recognized then frequently that's it. No more talking, no more solutions, just endless study and regulation. You can't damn this river unless you can PROVE that no salmon will ever die in a thousand years due to your dam. And you know what happens? Either the project gets scrapped because it's unprovable, or some genius comes up with a billion dollar solution that no one can afford and we all keep burning coal. What the environmental side is saying is that the cost of business as usual is more acceptable than potential damage to the environment. Then they say business as usual is unacceptable. You can't have it all your way and may have to choose the lesser of two evils.
hypocritical? I do what i can within my means. I have an energy efficient house and appliances. I drive energy efficient cars even if i can afford a sporty gas guzzler. I recycle, maybe not as much as I could, but i make the effort. I make compromises in my own life that benefit the environment. What I don't do is bitch about the way things are then stand in the way of them changing.
well that's the problem isn't it? The people in the middle that are willing to compromise are NOT the ones with the ear of the politicians they elected. It's the lobbies with the money yelling loudly in one ear, and the activists dropping PR bombs in the other ear.
Well sadly enough the same people that bemoan use of fossil fuels the loudest are also often the biggest obstacle to alternatives. No dams, think of the fish! No solar arrays, think of the horned toads and gila monsters you will displace! No wind farms, chopped birds are bad! No nuclear, radiation is the devil's work! For every proposal they either have a list of reasons why it can't happen or a list of restrictions that make it damn near impossible. They always seem to want a perfect solution. News flash! There is none. If you want to get off fossil fuels, you need to learn to compromise. I don't think that word exists in America anymore. "We the people" is more like "Me the people" these days...
Read on for a less rose tinted view of the state of prosthetic art and the challenges that are holding it back A True Bionic Limb Remains Far Out Of Reach. Interesting stuff.
It's so comforting to know that everyone on slashdot is a perfect driver and incredibly adept at navigating by map or reference to the stars. You guys are really amazing, your smugness is so well deserved! I feel so SAFE when I drive by one of you, map in one hand, bagel in the other and driving with your knee while valiantly resisting the spread of distracting technology!
Now, judging by most of the people I see on the road, you guys are in the overwhelming minority. Ban GPS entirely, and bad drivers will keep finding ways to be bad drivers.
2) Really? Share some examples? Are you blind? OPEN YOUR FUCKING EYES.
Wow. I'm aware of many of these and in agreement that many of them are brain-dead laws. I was just curious what other people would offer as examples besides the old favorites of drugs, prostitution, porn, booze and sex. Is there something wrong with asking? How the hell do you find out about stupid ass laws if you just wait to run into one by accident? I haven't tried buying raw milk lately. Who knew? My eyes were open just fine already. Never hurts have them opened a little more right?
Try not taking shit personally.
1) You're wrong because drugs ARE presently on their way to full legalization in the U.S. Already a majority of the population supports marijuana legalization.
Marijuana, maybe, possibly under limited and restricted circumstances, but anything else, no way it's going to happen in this country. If you envision some U.S. drug utopia where anyone is free to ingest anything, any time it's wishful thinking. Just because a few states allow medical use of marijuana doesn't mean the so called war on drugs will end. Does it really matter if 52% (norml.org) of the population supports legalizing pot? 50 something percent of the country did not elect George W. Bush, but still he made it into office. Do you think anyone in DC either cares or would risk a career by seriously pushing for legalization? There is too much money involved, too many egos involved and to many government fiefdoms involved. Too many states are hurting for money to lose federal dollars by legalizing no matter how much they could make taxing weed. Don't underestimate the sway that other 48% of puritanical America has over your local congressman.
I'm curious. Share some examples, besides drugs (because that's just not going to happen in the USA) of things that should be made legal.
thank you sir! this is why i love /. - those little nuggets of info you never know when you'll get.
the stock browser runs fine. but i do miss adblock.
I was eager to use Firefox Mobile after using the desktop browser for years. I've been running it for a couple of years on Android and color me unimpressed. I do like the way they handle tabs, and I like the ability to use plugins like adblock. What I DON'T like is the terrible performance. Slow to start, laggy, prone to lock up. This is on my Galaxy S, which granted is not a brand new phone. However, FF Mobile was one of the first apps I installed and it's always been a poor performer, time and revisions haven't made it better. YMMV, but my wife has a much newer phone and it doesn't seem to run any better. I'm much more concerned about ability to browse basic websites than what video codec it uses.
yeah, i'm at a loss here. The only one that comes to mind is when Ender get's put in Bonzo's army and shares a shower with Petra (and the rest of the army). However, he's told not to do it again and that's it from then on. Jesus, Ender even says it's a stupid rule, she still looks like a boy.
If you find their chit chat during a shower, or any of the dialogue after that as "pornographic" then you should not have nor be around children because you are a perv. Seriously, these kids are what, 7 or 8 at this point in the book? I really think some people are afraid to walk by the mirror after getting out of a shower because they might see "pornography".
Instead Apple keeps things simple for those that need it, but allows expansive access for those that really want it.
You can't be serious. The entire Apple philosophy these days is one size fits all.