People: when you use that font iPhones can't read your fucking post! Yes I know it's Slaahdots fault for having shitty CSS, but could you please stop going put of your way to make your posts less readable? It's a gigantic pain in the ass.
Probably (ask Amazon, not us! Duh), but it's not really designed for that kind of use. It's more designed for web/database services that need to scale up and down rapidly. You're charged for CPU time used, so if you're really slamming their CPUs, your bill goes up to match.
If you're, for example, Pixar, and you know exactly how much CPU power you'll need for 5 year blocks at a time, then this isn't going to save you any money, it'll be vastly more expensive. If you're some on-demand service that does a crazy rush of rendering one week in 30, then Amazon might be a better option. Might. You'd still have to run the numbers.
This product is worthless because you personally don't have a need for it. There is no such thing as "other people" as far as you're concerned.
America sucks, because of a ridiculously trivial complaint about tipping. Ignoring the fact that every country has entirely different tipping customs, but the US is obviously the worst. Obviously, Europe is a perfect shining light with no confusing or irrational customs.
It's for the bar, when you've had a few. Try doing that calculation after the fourth pitcher, then come back and tell me nobody should ever need a calculator for it.
If you question the wisdom of a tip calculator, I question the wisdom of your social life.
Ages ago there was a cartoon on Cartoon Network called Mission Hill. In one of the episodes, the older brother was trying to become a cartoonist for the New Yorker, and he drew a cartoon of a woman in a grocery store poking a package of hamburger and calling it "Kafkaesque." It was actually pretty funny.
(Of course in the show his younger brother changes the caption to "please don't poke the meat, ma'am!" and re-submits it.)
If it's so godawful (and it's not, but that's beside the point of this post), then why don't you write a better version of same and kick Microsoft's ass in this market space?
Obviously, you have a hundred ideas of how to make a better CMS than Sharepoint, so let's see you plop that money down where your mouth is and do it. And if your CMS is so much better, it should be no problem to sell to companies that are currently using Sharepoint, right? Go for it, you could be the next Internet Millionaire, and knock Microsoft in the teeth at the same time.
Or you could just sit here on Slashdot and bitch and moan, bitch and moan.
Huh. That's a little weird. I use the Windows Update driver, because my philosophy is "fuck I'm lazy, let Windows do it", and I've never had any performance problems with games. The Microsoft driver is a little more generic than the one you download from nVidia, so maybe that's that.
Of course, once you install Steam, Steam becomes "driver Nazi" too. There's really no shortage of ways to get drivers auto-updated anymore.
Out of curiosity, did you *have* to install a video card driver, or did you just want to install the one from nVidia's website instead of using the one on Windows Update?
Because I can guarantee Microsoft has that driver.
But I'd like to use the site, not being able to use the site because of the *log in* technology is fucking stupid. Why can't they just offer a username/password like every other site on the web? (Even those that also allow OpenID?)
Let's say I sign up to StackOverflow using a OpenID from LiveJournal, since you used that example. I post to StackOverflow faithfully for years, I build up an impressive back-log of comments, and I have tons of reputation points, and all the other stuff StackOverflow will save for me attached to that LiveJournal OpenID.
Now three years pass. LiveJournal takes a look at their infrastructure and says to themselves, "hm. We're spending a lot of money on these OpenID servers, and it gives us no benefit." They discontinue the service, LiveJournal is no longer an OpenID provider. I can open a new OpenID account, but there's no way to "merge" the data from the two accounts into a single one. (Like you can with, for example, Microsoft's Passport.)
What happens to my StackOverflow account? It's completely inaccessible! I can't log in anymore! My only option is to create a new account. But I can't even use the same name as the old account because it's still in-use by my old account!
My StackOverflow data can be made useless by a party other than me or StackOverflow!
In short, I'd much rather trust my StackOverflow data with StackOverflow, than trusting it to a completely unrelated third party like LiveJournal, or Yahoo, or some other OpenID provider. I don't see why StackOverflow can't just offer a normal username/password, and also allow OpenIDs as an option-- you know like every single other site on the web that uses OpenID.
1) Look at your car/radio manual and it probably already recommends not using the radio while in motion. Like 90% of the other instructions in there, most people just ignore it. (Or haven't even read their car manual in the first place-- I've only read the oil changing instructions and tire changing instructions, nothing else.)
2) At least (the vast majority of) radios are designed with tactile feedback in mind, so that you can use them without looking at them. Some cars have heads-up displays for the radio, or put the controls on the steering wheel, which is even better.
That number 2 problem is no excuse for in-car navigation systems, though-- they should still be designed to allow tactile feedback (or voice commands) as much as humanly possible, but in most cases they just don't bother and slap a huge touchscreen on the thing. Sigh.
Pull the fuck over first. Turn off the ignition, and you can do whatever the shit you want in your car, including entering directions into your phone. Then put your phone on the hands-free kit. Then start the car and begin driving.
Was this really a hard problem for you to solve? Please, GOD, tell me you don't have a driver's license.
One member of the pedestrian advocacy community refers to these innovations as "safe crashing". They make drivers safer, but also encourage more risky driving, putting unprotected pedestrians at disproportionate risk.
Way to be vague.
Does this "one member" of "the pedestrian advocacy community" have any statistics to back up his beliefs, or is he just pulling it out of his ass?
Regardless of how safe cars are, people don't want to hit pedestrians because: 1) They're concerned for the safety of other human beings 2) (For the extreme cynic) They don't want to damage their car
Flat bed scanners - well slow. So slow it's not even worth bothering with
Any decent mid-range multi-function copier will be able to feed its flatbed scanner from the input tray, meaning you can do 25+ pages at a time (depending on the model). And while it's not as fast as a drum scanner, it's not nearly as slow as you're implying here.
Of course you have to destroy the book to use that option. But the equipment isn't hard to find: you likely have one in your office right now.
How many times has that happened? Once that I know of. In a country of 300+ million people, with police forces of questionable capability, I think that's pretty good myself.
Was it unjust? Of course. But "all the time" is simply being alarmist.
The press release doesn't talk about time reversal, which tons of games have-- they'd be *real* frauds to claim that was new.
What they're talking about is where rewinding time creates a "ghost" of your actions before you rewound. Actions you perform the second way around might depend on the "ghost" being in a particular place, or taking a particular action. It is kind of hard to explain in text, play Braid. Braid has an entire level based on the concept, and it's an excellent game.
That may be so, but Braid is pretty fucking popular. Has a 93% aggregate review score. Was the second highest-selling Xbox Live game for 2008... etc etc, you can read the Wiki article yourself.
Whoever wrote this bullshit press release either doesn't play games at all, or is just a liar hoping that we're all too stupid to point out the lies. Shame on Slashdot for reprinting it.
No, this is a new meaning of the word "new." This meaning is actually "not new."
What's amazing to me is that the submitter (presumably) follows video games, and yet has never played Braid, one of the best indie games ever made, or any of the hundreds of Flash games that are based on this idea. How is that even possible?
Also it does work on Linux all you need is 2.6.30 and Xorg 7.5(possibly compiz too I don't remember) Just because you aren't intelligent enough figure it out doesn't mean that it doesn't work.
Yes, actually, it does. If I plug in a blender, hit the "Go" button, and it doesn't blend... yes, that means the blender doesn't work. It doesn't matter whether or not my IQ is 50 or 200, and it doesn't matter if I have a electrical engineering degree or not. Works and doesn't work is a pretty damned binary concept. And the latest Ubuntu doesn't work with a touchscreen.
Oh, here I thought we were talking about stuff people used. Silly of me.
The way language works, you have to actually read and comprehend what I type, then you can respond to that. You can't just make up bullshit, act as if I said it, then reply to the bullshit and call me wrong. I know it's complicated, but that's the way it works.
If that's the way you want to approach this, are you trying to claim that every random binary floating around on download.com is some paragon of usability?
No. If I was trying to claim that, I probably would have typed something to the effect of "every random binary floating around on download.com is a paragon of usability." Since I didn't type that, I'm not trying to claim that.
See? Now you're starting to get the hang of this "conversation" thing! Next post, I bet you'll hardly make up any bullshit (and claim I said it) at all!
To bring this back to earth, I'd bet that substantially more than half of the software (why, you might even call it a "vast majority") that's included in the Ubuntu ISO, just for instance, has had some manner of usability testing done.
I highly doubt it. I will say this: I bet it's more likely to be usability tested than software that isn't. But I can already almost guarantee that every CLI program hasn't been tested, and I wager half of the software in the ISO is CLI.
Please, when you reply? Try to not make up any bullshit this time. Thanks.
And in this case, Google replaced the entire rendering engine and Javascript engine of the browser. Lemme guess, by your hypocritical definition, that's not an "extension" either, right?
And the "Add/Remove Add-Ons" dialog is accessible from the top-level of the Tools menu, how much easier could they make it?
Look, by any reasonable definition of the term (i.e. not yours), IE supports extensions, and has for over a decade.
And when I see a dozen comments on Slashdot saying that IE doesn't have extensions, in an article about an IE extension, it really does make me feel like I've avoided a bodysnatch. I mean the FUD flies fast around here, but that's just ridiculous.
You probably shouldn't tell others that they are full of shit when you are also spouting BS. I know for a fact that Linux has multi touch support in 2.6.30.
The difference is that when I install Windows 7 on my touchscreen tablet, it FUCKING WORKS. And when I install the latest Ubuntu on it, it DOES NOT FUCKING WORK.
So while there may be some API that supports it in the Linux kernel, kudos to you, but that seems mostly academic since it doesn't actually fucking work when installed onto a tablet PC. The real point is that since Linux has so many thousands of random widgets and plug-ins, and crazy random software "stuff" made by some guy in a garage, that it supports damn near everything. (Of course, using that definition of "support", so does every other OS) But none of that matters if I install the OS on my tablet and the touchscreen doesn't work.
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People: when you use that font iPhones can't read your fucking post! Yes I know it's Slaahdots fault for having shitty CSS, but could you please stop going put of your way to make your posts less readable? It's a gigantic pain in the ass.
But disabling nodded consoles *is* addressing cheating- if you haven't nodded your console, you have no tools to cheat with.
Probably (ask Amazon, not us! Duh), but it's not really designed for that kind of use. It's more designed for web/database services that need to scale up and down rapidly. You're charged for CPU time used, so if you're really slamming their CPUs, your bill goes up to match.
If you're, for example, Pixar, and you know exactly how much CPU power you'll need for 5 year blocks at a time, then this isn't going to save you any money, it'll be vastly more expensive. If you're some on-demand service that does a crazy rush of rendering one week in 30, then Amazon might be a better option. Might. You'd still have to run the numbers.
So, to summarize:
This product is worthless because you personally don't have a need for it. There is no such thing as "other people" as far as you're concerned.
America sucks, because of a ridiculously trivial complaint about tipping. Ignoring the fact that every country has entirely different tipping customs, but the US is obviously the worst. Obviously, Europe is a perfect shining light with no confusing or irrational customs.
Does that cover the bases?
It's for the bar, when you've had a few. Try doing that calculation after the fourth pitcher, then come back and tell me nobody should ever need a calculator for it.
If you question the wisdom of a tip calculator, I question the wisdom of your social life.
Ages ago there was a cartoon on Cartoon Network called Mission Hill. In one of the episodes, the older brother was trying to become a cartoonist for the New Yorker, and he drew a cartoon of a woman in a grocery store poking a package of hamburger and calling it "Kafkaesque." It was actually pretty funny.
(Of course in the show his younger brother changes the caption to "please don't poke the meat, ma'am!" and re-submits it.)
I love Slashdot.
If it's so godawful (and it's not, but that's beside the point of this post), then why don't you write a better version of same and kick Microsoft's ass in this market space?
Obviously, you have a hundred ideas of how to make a better CMS than Sharepoint, so let's see you plop that money down where your mouth is and do it. And if your CMS is so much better, it should be no problem to sell to companies that are currently using Sharepoint, right? Go for it, you could be the next Internet Millionaire, and knock Microsoft in the teeth at the same time.
Or you could just sit here on Slashdot and bitch and moan, bitch and moan.
Huh. That's a little weird. I use the Windows Update driver, because my philosophy is "fuck I'm lazy, let Windows do it", and I've never had any performance problems with games. The Microsoft driver is a little more generic than the one you download from nVidia, so maybe that's that.
Of course, once you install Steam, Steam becomes "driver Nazi" too. There's really no shortage of ways to get drivers auto-updated anymore.
Out of curiosity, did you *have* to install a video card driver, or did you just want to install the one from nVidia's website instead of using the one on Windows Update?
Because I can guarantee Microsoft has that driver.
I don't.
But I'd like to use the site, not being able to use the site because of the *log in* technology is fucking stupid. Why can't they just offer a username/password like every other site on the web? (Even those that also allow OpenID?)
The problem is as follows:
Let's say I sign up to StackOverflow using a OpenID from LiveJournal, since you used that example. I post to StackOverflow faithfully for years, I build up an impressive back-log of comments, and I have tons of reputation points, and all the other stuff StackOverflow will save for me attached to that LiveJournal OpenID.
Now three years pass. LiveJournal takes a look at their infrastructure and says to themselves, "hm. We're spending a lot of money on these OpenID servers, and it gives us no benefit." They discontinue the service, LiveJournal is no longer an OpenID provider. I can open a new OpenID account, but there's no way to "merge" the data from the two accounts into a single one. (Like you can with, for example, Microsoft's Passport.)
What happens to my StackOverflow account? It's completely inaccessible! I can't log in anymore! My only option is to create a new account. But I can't even use the same name as the old account because it's still in-use by my old account!
My StackOverflow data can be made useless by a party other than me or StackOverflow!
In short, I'd much rather trust my StackOverflow data with StackOverflow, than trusting it to a completely unrelated third party like LiveJournal, or Yahoo, or some other OpenID provider. I don't see why StackOverflow can't just offer a normal username/password, and also allow OpenIDs as an option-- you know like every single other site on the web that uses OpenID.
Two things:
1) Look at your car/radio manual and it probably already recommends not using the radio while in motion. Like 90% of the other instructions in there, most people just ignore it. (Or haven't even read their car manual in the first place-- I've only read the oil changing instructions and tire changing instructions, nothing else.)
2) At least (the vast majority of) radios are designed with tactile feedback in mind, so that you can use them without looking at them. Some cars have heads-up displays for the radio, or put the controls on the steering wheel, which is even better.
That number 2 problem is no excuse for in-car navigation systems, though-- they should still be designed to allow tactile feedback (or voice commands) as much as humanly possible, but in most cases they just don't bother and slap a huge touchscreen on the thing. Sigh.
What are you, a retard?
Pull the fuck over first. Turn off the ignition, and you can do whatever the shit you want in your car, including entering directions into your phone. Then put your phone on the hands-free kit. Then start the car and begin driving.
Was this really a hard problem for you to solve? Please, GOD, tell me you don't have a driver's license.
One member of the pedestrian advocacy community refers to these innovations as "safe crashing". They make drivers safer, but also encourage more risky driving, putting unprotected pedestrians at disproportionate risk.
Way to be vague.
Does this "one member" of "the pedestrian advocacy community" have any statistics to back up his beliefs, or is he just pulling it out of his ass?
Regardless of how safe cars are, people don't want to hit pedestrians because:
1) They're concerned for the safety of other human beings
2) (For the extreme cynic) They don't want to damage their car
Flat bed scanners - well slow. So slow it's not even worth bothering with
Any decent mid-range multi-function copier will be able to feed its flatbed scanner from the input tray, meaning you can do 25+ pages at a time (depending on the model). And while it's not as fast as a drum scanner, it's not nearly as slow as you're implying here.
Of course you have to destroy the book to use that option. But the equipment isn't hard to find: you likely have one in your office right now.
I just wish it didn't rely on OpenID. A technology I loathe. LOATHE!
That would only apply to this persons *only* method of communicating with the outside world was that specific Gmail account. Which it isn't.
This is closer to the Fourth Amendment, about unlawful search and seizure. If it were a constitutional issue at all, which is probably isn't.
It's just a clueless judge.
"All the time?"
How many times has that happened? Once that I know of. In a country of 300+ million people, with police forces of questionable capability, I think that's pretty good myself.
Was it unjust? Of course. But "all the time" is simply being alarmist.
The press release doesn't talk about time reversal, which tons of games have-- they'd be *real* frauds to claim that was new.
What they're talking about is where rewinding time creates a "ghost" of your actions before you rewound. Actions you perform the second way around might depend on the "ghost" being in a particular place, or taking a particular action. It is kind of hard to explain in text, play Braid. Braid has an entire level based on the concept, and it's an excellent game.
That may be so, but Braid is pretty fucking popular. Has a 93% aggregate review score. Was the second highest-selling Xbox Live game for 2008... etc etc, you can read the Wiki article yourself.
Whoever wrote this bullshit press release either doesn't play games at all, or is just a liar hoping that we're all too stupid to point out the lies. Shame on Slashdot for reprinting it.
No, this is a new meaning of the word "new." This meaning is actually "not new."
What's amazing to me is that the submitter (presumably) follows video games, and yet has never played Braid, one of the best indie games ever made, or any of the hundreds of Flash games that are based on this idea. How is that even possible?
Also it does work on Linux all you need is 2.6.30 and Xorg 7.5(possibly compiz too I don't remember) Just because you aren't intelligent enough figure it out doesn't mean that it doesn't work.
Yes, actually, it does. If I plug in a blender, hit the "Go" button, and it doesn't blend... yes, that means the blender doesn't work. It doesn't matter whether or not my IQ is 50 or 200, and it doesn't matter if I have a electrical engineering degree or not. Works and doesn't work is a pretty damned binary concept. And the latest Ubuntu doesn't work with a touchscreen.
Oh, here I thought we were talking about stuff people used. Silly of me.
The way language works, you have to actually read and comprehend what I type, then you can respond to that. You can't just make up bullshit, act as if I said it, then reply to the bullshit and call me wrong. I know it's complicated, but that's the way it works.
If that's the way you want to approach this, are you trying to claim that every random binary floating around on download.com is some paragon of usability?
No. If I was trying to claim that, I probably would have typed something to the effect of "every random binary floating around on download.com is a paragon of usability." Since I didn't type that, I'm not trying to claim that.
See? Now you're starting to get the hang of this "conversation" thing! Next post, I bet you'll hardly make up any bullshit (and claim I said it) at all!
To bring this back to earth, I'd bet that substantially more than half of the software (why, you might even call it a "vast majority") that's included in the Ubuntu ISO, just for instance, has had some manner of usability testing done.
I highly doubt it. I will say this: I bet it's more likely to be usability tested than software that isn't. But I can already almost guarantee that every CLI program hasn't been tested, and I wager half of the software in the ISO is CLI.
Please, when you reply? Try to not make up any bullshit this time. Thanks.
And in this case, Google replaced the entire rendering engine and Javascript engine of the browser. Lemme guess, by your hypocritical definition, that's not an "extension" either, right?
And the "Add/Remove Add-Ons" dialog is accessible from the top-level of the Tools menu, how much easier could they make it?
Look, by any reasonable definition of the term (i.e. not yours), IE supports extensions, and has for over a decade.
And when I see a dozen comments on Slashdot saying that IE doesn't have extensions, in an article about an IE extension, it really does make me feel like I've avoided a bodysnatch. I mean the FUD flies fast around here, but that's just ridiculous.
You probably shouldn't tell others that they are full of shit when you are also spouting BS. I know for a fact that Linux has multi touch support in 2.6.30.
The difference is that when I install Windows 7 on my touchscreen tablet, it FUCKING WORKS. And when I install the latest Ubuntu on it, it DOES NOT FUCKING WORK.
So while there may be some API that supports it in the Linux kernel, kudos to you, but that seems mostly academic since it doesn't actually fucking work when installed onto a tablet PC. The real point is that since Linux has so many thousands of random widgets and plug-ins, and crazy random software "stuff" made by some guy in a garage, that it supports damn near everything. (Of course, using that definition of "support", so does every other OS) But none of that matters if I install the OS on my tablet and the touchscreen doesn't work.