In other news today...
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Steam Direct will dispense with any kind of popularity contest. Developers will now simply fill out a form, submit their game to a basic compatibility test, pay a fee and launch the game.
In other words, they're replacing terrible quality control with zero quality control.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
Steam Direct will dispense with any kind of popularity contest. Developers will now simply fill out a form, submit their game to a basic compatibility test, pay a fee and launch the game.
In other words, they're replacing terrible quality control with zero quality control.
If your system has 1% false negatives and 99% false positives and you're spending time or money supporting it, you may as well just scrap it. 100% false positives is barely any worse and as an added bonus it has less false negatives.
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I'm worried that this may be Canadians testing our response times.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
found themselves in a sticky situation
HA HA HA HA HA
UPI made a Dad Joke
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
I never heard the term OHP before.
I am old, but I never heard it, either. And trying to look it up wasn't very helpful. Nearly all the Google results were for Oregon Health Plan, with a few for Oklahoma Highway Patrol, some weightlifting thing, and some really obscure Urban Dictionary slang. Nothing about overhead projectors.
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@PleegWat I know very well what an overhead projector is; I simply had never heard of one being called an OHP, and I didn't associate the initialism with the intended expansion.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat I know very well what an overhead projector is; I simply had never heard of one being called an OHP, and I didn't associate the initialism with the intended expansion.
agreed, epecially in context...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat I know very well what an overhead projector is; I simply had never heard of one being called an OHP, and I didn't associate the initialism with the intended expansion.
agreed, epecially in context...
If it were actually in context, we probably would have been able to figure it out w/o googling; but there was barely any context given beyond .
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
I am old, but I never heard it, either. And trying to look it up wasn't very helpful. Nearly all the Google results were for Oregon Health Plan, with a few for Oklahoma Highway Patrol, some weightlifting thing, and some really obscure Urban Dictionary slang. Nothing about overhead projectors.
Maybe it's more right-pondian
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@coldandtired said in In other news today...:
Maybe it's more right-pondian
Maybe?
In other news today, Google micro-aggresses people depending on where they are...
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@HardwareGeek Ah, so. No, I only ever heard it by full name as well, but I've never seen them communicated about in writing, and in verbal communication the abbreviation isn't much shorter.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
So that specifically is an overhead projector?
What about projectors hanging from the ceiling? What do you call them then?
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@HardwareGeek Those sort of projectors are used in pretty much every UK schools and Quite a few Universities. Note this was before the days of cheap vga projectors and laptops.
Until the late 90s, these were used in most UK schools.
Or these if the IT department didn't have the budget.
BTW RiscOS used on the Acorn Archimedes range you can download and run on a Raspberry PI (and probably clones such as the Orange Pi)
EDIT: just read back thread and Hardwear Geek just didn't know that they were called that doh!.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
So that specifically is an overhead projector?
Yes. It works by you placing a piece of transparent plastic on the glass sheet with writing or printed on text. This is then project to a wall or screen.
What about projectors hanging from the ceiling?
No
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@lucas1 said in In other news today...:
Until the late 90s, these were used in most UK schools.
Did you ever use PenDown on those? I remember some versions had text-to-speech
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@RaceProUK I remember using Pendown very vaguely. I didn't really use a "PC" for until about 2001 when I had to do AutoCad work for a particular course at University, pretty much any assignment until then was handwritten.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
So that specifically is an overhead projector?
What about projectors hanging from the ceiling? What do you call them then?Since the ceiling is over my head, I call them overhead projectors.
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@El_Heffe But they project from a cable to the side. The overhead projectors project by sitting overtop of the document, like a hat that goes over your head.
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
A Canadian man who was found not criminally responsible for beheading and cannibalizing a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus has been granted his freedom.
Understandable. Traveling by Greyhound does that to you.
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PRISON BREAK!
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Fox Lake Prison Farm Thursday
This sounds like a random word generator.
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@Fox Or the worst idea for a public holiday ever
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
@Fox Or the worst idea for a
public holidaycorporate outing everFTFY
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
I never heard the term OHP before.
I am old, but I never heard it, either. And trying to look it up wasn't very helpful. Nearly all the Google results were for Oregon Health Plan, with a few for Oklahoma Highway Patrol, some weightlifting thing, and some really obscure Urban Dictionary slang. Nothing about overhead projectors.
Think I saw a reference on the 3rd or 4th page...
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
PRISON BREAK!
What's wrong with me is different from what's wrong with all the rest of you.
I read the first word of the headline as "crows".
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@da-Doctah
Why do you farm crows?
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The sheriff in charge reported 97 missing cows. After he'd rounded them up there were 100.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
@Fox Or the worst idea for a
public holidaycorporate outing everFTFY
Mandatory Cow Wrangling Day?
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
The sheriff in charge reported 97 missing cows. After he'd rounded them up there were 100.
I rarely do this (especially since it's usually me who deserves this) but... paging @Groaner ...
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Not one for Betteridge this time (no need to read the articles - headlines and summaries are enough):
Predictably the programme and both these articles (and others) miss the easy answer: "A politician was elected."
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John Oliver’s season premiere asks: ‘How did we get a pathological liar in the White House?’
The question implies there are politicians that aren't pathological liars.
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@RaceProUK Most of them lie for sensible reasons: to get a bunch of money and power. Sometimes it seems like Trump lies just for shits and grins, like lying about the weather at his inauguration. But yeah, he did put up a graph showing how often Obama lied (about 25% of the statements politifact checked).
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Predictably the programme and both these articles (and others) miss the easy answer: "A politician was elected."
I'd say "a human" myself, tbqh.
On an unrelated note, people keep calling me cynical. No idea why.
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@Onyx Pet peeve tho: everyone lies when it benefits them, but pathological liars can't help it. That's what pathological means in this context; it's not just "super liars". The same for OCD not being "super neat-freak" and literally not meaning "excessively".
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
John Oliver’s season premiere asks: ‘How did we get a pathological liar in the White House?’
The question implies there are politicians that aren't pathological liars.
Did you miss the bit at the end of my post, since that's exactly what I implied...
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@Onyx said in In other news today...:
people keep calling me cynical
Then I shall call you cyclical ;)
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@Onyx said in In other news today...:
Plot twist: bicycle stolen by @Luhmann for the lulz.
I wish ...
Instead I'm sitting half a country away (hey, it's at least an hour driving) posting shit on the internet.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
cyclical
maybe he's cyclical cynical ... only during some days of the month or something ...
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
@Onyx said in In other news today...:
people keep calling me cynical
Then I shall call you cyclical ;)
And he shall be stolen by @Luhmann during a press conference?
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah
Why do you farm crows?I don't. But crows are smart enough to engineer a break out of jail. Cows are barely smart enough to engineer breaking wind.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
John Oliver’s season premiere asks: ‘How did we get a pathological liar in the White House?’
The question implies there are politicians that aren't pathological liars.
Most don't lie repeatedly about easily-checked shit, though. And not in such a frequency either.