Not when we can have the government force people into change!
I work for money to provide for what my family needs and sometimes also for what we want. It's great you are in a place where you work for the betterment of others but that is not my goal - I try to help others but it's not why I work.
I am slowly transitioning from Wink to Homeassistant. Repairing everything is a pain but I agree the cloud is overblown for this and they have had several outages lately. I have read that smartthings has the same issues.
You begin to realize entire episodes have been created just to work in a specific series of product placements. p>
That sound like real life. I'd disagree if I was not constantly witnessing people pay extra money for a T-shirt simply because it has a larger Nike logo.
And listening to people complain that they can't wear that shirt to work. It's amazing how we pay to advertise for companies and will even create drama if we are no allowed to advertise for those companies (I'm wearing a Doctor Who shirt but that's different because it's cool;))
But then, they were so blatant about it and it's fans where extremely appreciative of Subway sponsoring the show for more seasons, we were cool with it:)
You're not right. People that buy the high end phones are not typically waiting for their current phone to stop working. They are buying the new phone because it's faster, has different features, or is just new and shiny.
Heck, portable batteries are so cheap and small now that - short of the charging port breaking - a new battery should never be a reason to buy a new phone.
Don't be so fricken sensitive. It was clearly a joke.
It's a pretty established one too. Simpsons and Arrested Development come to mind with several jokes on this.
Honestly, we have trouble understanding anything we are not exposed to consistently. I watch allot of Dr Who other BBC shows and have no trouble with most the accents there but get stuck hearing a US northeastern accent.
I want this. In San Antonio it's very common for people to switch to Spanish whenever they see a white person come near.
My brother and I made up a nonsensical language that we would switch to in elevators and other places when this would happen. We had no idea what we were saying but at least we helped the other people not be the only jerks in the room:)
Just having it a work would be a dream when my peers and managers switch to Spanish and start giggling and laughing, Funny thing is that they get pissed when people from Korea switch to Korean in front of them
I actually thought they dropped support for it a few years ago and that there were people complaining back then - maybe I'm thinking of Windows 95/98, though.
I'm surprised that people even think that Firefox should be building for Windows XP. Chrome and IE are able to build much more optimized browsers partly due to dropping the old.
They could've taken the typical Hollywood approach and shown a bunch of green, Matrix-like gibberish scrolling across the screen. I'm choosing to view this more as an easter egg than as a continuity issue.
How in the world would you have seen it as a continuity issue regardless of how they presented the code?
If CBS hadn't been trying to leech onto the Star Trek name I think more fans would be wiling to cut it some slack as just another "Sci-Fi" show.
This is exactly why I haven't watched it. I read an article the other day about how dark, gritty, and cynical the show is. The article was acting like this was a great thing. That's fine. I loved Farscape which was pretty cynical in nature. Even BSG was great for a good half its run. But they stood on their own so I was cool with whatever tone they wanted to take
SGU is a great example of cashing in yet betraying a franchise. It could have easily been it's own show and I probably would have loved it (or at least liked it.) But taking the stargate franchise into such a bleak, hopeless direction was unacceptable. The way the military was portrayed in the show also changed drastically. To make things worse, the creators of the show had loud disdain for the fans that did not appreciate the change and refused to make any more of SG1 or SGA movies to punish us - I forget how they worded it but basically if we didn't tune in to support SGU, they wouldn't support more SG1 or SGA
DS9 was a good middle ground for star trek. It took things darker without destroying the Trek atmosphere and feel.
> the main character that bugs me which is that she's got a way too broad range of skills
That is standard for Trek. They give lip service to specialization, but when you get down to it the lead character always knows what the technical people are doing and can micromanage them if they're not actually just doing it themselves
Except for Riker who always got annoyed when the doctors or engineers would go into lengthy technical discussions.
The funny thing is that liberals used to make fun and mock us for warning of the Russian threat claiming we were afraid of a communist hiding under every bed. Now look at them.
Making a mistake either knowingly or just because you assume it's true based on your bias and then "taking it back" after the damage is done does not make a journalist honest.
Most people will never know what he actually said because they don't go back and read old articles - why would they? And even if they do, they read the wrong stuff when they were emotionally invested in the story. In other words, they "passionately feel" the lie. The emotional impact doesn't go away once (if) the truth is read because people aren't computers
How many people know the 911 tape with George Zimmerman was edited by NBC to make him seem worse even though NBC later admitted and fired people because of it?
But that's BS. Most (loud) people never gave him a chance. And most businesses are acting loudly against them for fear of boycotts and riots. In other words, people hate him and are doing everything they can to intimidate others into either (easy route) hate him too or stay very quiet and hope not to be noticed.
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Not when we can have the government force people into change!
I work for money to provide for what my family needs and sometimes also for what we want. It's great you are in a place where you work for the betterment of others but that is not my goal - I try to help others but it's not why I work.
I am slowly transitioning from Wink to Homeassistant. Repairing everything is a pain but I agree the cloud is overblown for this and they have had several outages lately. I have read that smartthings has the same issues.
I'm enjoying
I agree if you plan on just using it instead of being a dad or mom. If used right, it is just another tool in our tool chest.
Maybe they can create something like this without the cloud aspect. This seemed like a pretty cool idea.
I sometimes leave children's bedtime music on for my baby.
It's hard to do that anyways. Where I live, timewarner services costs more without cable TV
You begin to realize entire episodes have been created just to work in a specific series of product placements. p>
That sound like real life. I'd disagree if I was not constantly witnessing people pay extra money for a T-shirt simply because it has a larger Nike logo.
And listening to people complain that they can't wear that shirt to work. It's amazing how we pay to advertise for companies and will even create drama if we are no allowed to advertise for those companies (I'm wearing a Doctor Who shirt but that's different because it's cool ;))
Chuck?
But then, they were so blatant about it and it's fans where extremely appreciative of Subway sponsoring the show for more seasons, we were cool with it :)
I enjoy coming here.
Even if it has gotten worse (and that varies), Slashdot still has the best comment layout and system out of any news site I read
You're not right. People that buy the high end phones are not typically waiting for their current phone to stop working. They are buying the new phone because it's faster, has different features, or is just new and shiny.
Heck, portable batteries are so cheap and small now that - short of the charging port breaking - a new battery should never be a reason to buy a new phone.
Don't be so fricken sensitive. It was clearly a joke.
It's a pretty established one too. Simpsons and Arrested Development come to mind with several jokes on this.
Honestly, we have trouble understanding anything we are not exposed to consistently. I watch allot of Dr Who other BBC shows and have no trouble with most the accents there but get stuck hearing a US northeastern accent.
I want this. In San Antonio it's very common for people to switch to Spanish whenever they see a white person come near.
My brother and I made up a nonsensical language that we would switch to in elevators and other places when this would happen. We had no idea what we were saying but at least we helped the other people not be the only jerks in the room :)
Just having it a work would be a dream when my peers and managers switch to Spanish and start giggling and laughing, Funny thing is that they get pissed when people from Korea switch to Korean in front of them
I actually thought they dropped support for it a few years ago and that there were people complaining back then - maybe I'm thinking of Windows 95/98, though.
I'm surprised that people even think that Firefox should be building for Windows XP. Chrome and IE are able to build much more optimized browsers partly due to dropping the old.
They could've taken the typical Hollywood approach and shown a bunch of green, Matrix-like gibberish scrolling across the screen. I'm choosing to view this more as an easter egg than as a continuity issue.
How in the world would you have seen it as a continuity issue regardless of how they presented the code?
If CBS hadn't been trying to leech onto the Star Trek name I think more fans would be wiling to cut it some slack as just another "Sci-Fi" show.
This is exactly why I haven't watched it. I read an article the other day about how dark, gritty, and cynical the show is. The article was acting like this was a great thing. That's fine. I loved Farscape which was pretty cynical in nature. Even BSG was great for a good half its run. But they stood on their own so I was cool with whatever tone they wanted to take
SGU is a great example of cashing in yet betraying a franchise. It could have easily been it's own show and I probably would have loved it (or at least liked it.) But taking the stargate franchise into such a bleak, hopeless direction was unacceptable. The way the military was portrayed in the show also changed drastically. To make things worse, the creators of the show had loud disdain for the fans that did not appreciate the change and refused to make any more of SG1 or SGA movies to punish us - I forget how they worded it but basically if we didn't tune in to support SGU, they wouldn't support more SG1 or SGA
DS9 was a good middle ground for star trek. It took things darker without destroying the Trek atmosphere and feel.
> the main character that bugs me which is that she's got a way too broad range of skills
That is standard for Trek. They give lip service to specialization, but when you get down to it the lead character always knows what the technical people are doing and can micromanage them if they're not actually just doing it themselves
Except for Riker who always got annoyed when the doctors or engineers would go into lengthy technical discussions.
Currently you can only use Alexa to lock doors.
Agreed. But instead he keeps fire those loyal to him. It's getting harder to be understanding about that
The funny thing is that liberals used to make fun and mock us for warning of the Russian threat claiming we were afraid of a communist hiding under every bed. Now look at them.
Making a mistake either knowingly or just because you assume it's true based on your bias and then "taking it back" after the damage is done does not make a journalist honest.
Most people will never know what he actually said because they don't go back and read old articles - why would they? And even if they do, they read the wrong stuff when they were emotionally invested in the story. In other words, they "passionately feel" the lie. The emotional impact doesn't go away once (if) the truth is read because people aren't computers
How many people know the 911 tape with George Zimmerman was edited by NBC to make him seem worse even though NBC later admitted and fired people because of it?
How so? Or do you think centrist = leftist?
How do you stop someone from resigning? I know you can penalize them, but I am curious how you not allow them to resign.
Agreed - the whole IT department should go to jail
But that's BS. Most (loud) people never gave him a chance. And most businesses are acting loudly against them for fear of boycotts and riots. In other words, people hate him and are doing everything they can to intimidate others into either (easy route) hate him too or stay very quiet and hope not to be noticed.
My manager tracks this. She has 4 direct reports so it's pretty easy to track me.
We did this at my last job as well (comp time).