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Comment Re: Cat and mouse... (Score 1) 437

no, that makes no sense at all. if either of those two, they probably "should" get their subscription location content because that's the demographic they belong to and which the agreements and financial strategy are geared toward. if netflix could easily do it that way, they certainly would; it's just that this kind of auditing (done correctly) is harder than geolocation. end of story.

Comment tangential, but who really needs that space? (Score 1) 325

How can 16GB not be enough for apps? I'm really just wondering, not meaning to troll. I have more than I need in about 2GB: maps, facebook and a few other social networks, VNC, terminal emulator, some work apps like Trello, and a few toys. Do you need to have twenty variations of Angry Birds available at all times, or what?

Further down the tangent, I also don't have trouble keeping a good supply of music without using any cloud bullshit. It's not hard to set up syncing to rotate your music often enough to keep things interesting (while maintaining a core playlist of favorites). I guess if I had to go on a sudden multi-day hike through remote wilderness, I would run out of music, but that's not really a concern. I avoid cloud/streaming shit like the plague, and still consider the SD slot to be a negative; it takes up space, is failure-prone (in my experience at least), and contributes little.

On topic, I wouldn't mind if there were a notice like (*: Operating System occupies 3GB of space. Future updates may change this capacity, see inside for details), but I still think that this falls into the "common knowledge" side of things, like knowing that a 2x4 is measured in the unprocessed size, and in reality it'll be somewhere around 1.5"x3.5".

Comment Re:Playing chess (Score 1) 107

Yeah, they both have spatial components, but go is basically nothing else. There are no distinct pieces with special rules; practically all of the strategy is from spatial arrangements without obvious shortcut heuristics. Counting material doesn't work so well and neither does combinatorially forcing your opponent.

This isn't to say that go is better than chess, and i definitely think the left/right-brain distinction is overrated, but they are not "the same."

Comment Re:Playing chess (Score 2) 107

i'd say go, probably. the rules are more minimal; the state space is larger and more connected with fewer dead-ends and "gotchas"; and it seems just as difficult/competitive. it's not unreasonable to think that games with more rules will tend to produce more specialized skills, and that specialized skills are inferior to general skills as far as "brain development" (whatever that means) is concerned.

also, dual n-back is supposedly shown to increase general intelligence rather than just skill. it's not exactly a lot of fun, but that's not the point.

Comment Re: Considering how few boys graduate at ALL (Score 5, Insightful) 355

uh, yeah, i've had extensive elite education in STEM, in the US. it's mostly a sausage fest. statistics will back this up and, no, they're not fabricated by teh feminist conspiracy.

i have to conclude that anyone who's bitterly complaining about women having taken over STEM is just a delusional loser who probably just couldn't hack it.

Comment Re:Considering how few boys graduate at ALL (Score -1, Troll) 355

sure, why not? logical fallacies only apply to logical arguments. when someone is just spewing bullshit, anything goes.

if females are dominating STEM fields by 2:1, i'll eat my shoes.

i agree that "incentive" programs are also bullshit, but why stoop to that level?

Comment Re:How is this a crime (Score 1) 69

okay, this seems like it is going to degenerate into a pointless quibble over what an "accomplice" is, since the shit article has no discussion of the evidence or lack thereof. not interested.

at least you seem to have some idea of a general duty of responsibility. for example, it would be disingenuous for a chop shop to continue to accept, daily, a number of cars exceeding the legitimate resale market and of which a large number are later reported stolen. you probably understand that, so i don't really care about the rest.

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