Comment Re:CPAN (Score 1) 192
I've been doing C++ on and off for more than 20 years (mostly on) and just for that, I'm going to have to friend you.
I've been doing C++ on and off for more than 20 years (mostly on) and just for that, I'm going to have to friend you.
Wow, so one of their major goals is to release something people actually want to upgrade to.
Way to set your sights low, Microsoft.
Perhaps you should admit that Metro was nothing other than your executives suffering from collective lust explosion over Apple taking 30% off the top of every app sale and hoping that MS could force Windows users into the same situation.
Cities are putting all kinds of things in the middle of benches to prevent the homeless from sleeping upon them. But free WiFi! Shiny shiny.
I just use "Fake GPS" on my Android stick and the phone I use around the house for SIP. It uses the simple gmaps interface to let you select a location. Whether you want to lie about your position or just don't have a GPS, it's fairly small and it works.
Nice heads up on Xprivacy though, I do have xposed on my actual phone, along with a grip of modules. App Settings is a peach.
To GM, I have this to say: faggots, faggots, FAGGOTS.
Why, is the interface based around a pink and lavender floral motif? Did the car whisper navigation directions to you as sweet nothings in your ear, through moustachioed lips? Perhaps it was the way the seat cushions cupped your ass cheeks.
Touch screen controls are pretty awful if they aren't massive, though. Almost everyone gets that horribly wrong. AFAICT Tesla is the only company to actually put a decently-sized display into a production car. I'd still rather have normal controls.
Audi wants people to trace letters on a touchpad now. Yowza. I consider myself to be fairly bright, and I'm pretty sure I would find that distracting even while driving a car with radar cruise control and lane detection.
Actually, Google is arrogant.
Well, I've seen a little evidence of that here and there, but nothing major. What's yours?
The company culture deliberately and intentionally breeds a brand of arrogance
You mean like practically every company ever, whose mantra is "we can do it better than the next guy so you should give us your money"?
always encouraging its people to look for revolutionary rather than incremental changes
Holy shit, not progress. That would be terribly forward-thinking. We must remain in the past!
to bring 10X or 100X improvements
Wow. I mean, when you said progress, I had no idea you meant orders of magnitude of improvement. That would be really, really terrible.
and works to convince them that they can succeed
...when what they should be doing is setting them up for failure because that would be less arrogant.
The comments on these articles is much ado about nothing.
Nonsense. I quit facebook for the same reason, but this is still substantively different. This was deliberate manipulation of mood solely for the purpose of study. Granted, what Facebook normally does is also horrible, maybe even moreso. After all, if the purpose is either to sell you more shit you don't need, or to manipulate political speech, either way they're being downright evil.
Of course not. But if you could just reverse the polarity, you'd hopefully deionize the plasma
And once you've done that, you can re-route it through the main EPS grid and send it straight to the deflector array.
Someone I know tried that once on a lark, to see if it works. It doesn't.
and what happens if they are finishing and some more drawings surface showing they got stuff wrong?
I imagine that they will revise anything that seems to explain a problem they've been having, or answers a question they couldn't otherwise answer. My question was along the avove lines, though. What if there have been changes since those drawings, for which there is no documentation? Heck, they might even undo something they did right. I imagine they're going to take that possibility into account, though. If they were idiots, this probably wouldn't seem interesting.
Back when I used fb what I liked most was how you'd have a page with something actually important that loaded in a snap and fb would "fail" to thumbnail it with a nondescriptive error, but if you loaded some page full of bloatshit about something stupid it would thumbnail quickly and show right up so that you could share the stupidity to your heart's content, even if it was old now-non-news.
FB has always shown people only a subset of your posts, even if they explicitly ask to see all of them. That's a big part of why I stopped using it. Why waste your time if even the people who actually want to read what you're writing won't see it? Even if you give them the benefit of the doubt, they're staggeringly incompetent and their site doesn't work.
They want to determine the most effective non-obvious way of creating filter bubbles to make the user feel well and stay longer.
Well, they want the user to stay longer. But making them feel well wouldn't actually do that. Depressed people use the internet more. If it makes you depressed, then bingo! Ad revenue!
How accurate does Cardboard track head movement?
That depends on your phone.
It's not meant for playing games for hours. It just lets you actually experience this content that is meaningless without at least that much hardware. Well, supposedly. I frankly think that even without parallax correction, a user can get a lot out of using their phone as a window on another world, and I don't see any reason to restrict these supposedly three-dimensional experiences to people who have stereoscopic displays.
In Sweden which is genrally a more civilised and better educated county than America.
Well, that is in fact my point. If it were the USA, you could be excused for thinking that they didn't have internet access.
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.
