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@magus said in In other news today...:
People complained they didn't have apps over a year after they had just about all the major apps people cared about, and would have had more if people had wanted them. But people just didn't buy them.
It's been observed for quite a while that the mobile market is basically big enough for just two ecosystems. Android and iOS are those two (at the moment).
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@boner said in In other news today...:
Huge rock fall kills 1 , injures 1 at Yosemite's El Capitan
Never would've happened if they updated to High Sierra
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"What we learned with [the 911R] is that we in America are carrying the flag for the manual transmission. It’s still very, very relevant and there’s a huge demand for it," Joe Lawrence, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Porsche Cars North America, told me at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
That's ironic, given the prevalence of automatic transmissions in general here.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
That's ironic, given the prevalence of automatic transmissions in general here.
I'm sure that if you look only at high-performance sport cars, the ratio of automatic vs manual is very different.
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@timebandit For sure. But apparently Europeans (I'm assuming Porsche sells a lot of cars there) don't wan't the manual transmissions. That's really what's surprising about this.
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Facial recognition...to ration toilet paper?
Why not just reuse all the electronics that are used in motion activated paper towel dispensers?
It is like a Rube Goldberg machine to solve the problem of toilet paper theft. Look at the tiny amount of toilet paper it dispenses. What if someone had Mexican food for lunch?
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@boomzilla I think Europeans don't buy Porsche anyway since the engine is too big
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla I think Europeans don't buy Porsche anyway since the engine is too big
Heh. Nevertheless...
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@dkf That makes no sense at all. People just like simple X or Y decisions. It's why american politics are so broken, and why nothing good can ever happen in the mobile space ever again.
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
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@rhywden said in In other news today...:
You guys really have a problem with this whole sex stuff.
Under Texas' version of the law, if a young adult over the age of 17 has consensual sexual relations with someone under the age of 17, but at least 15 years old, with no more than a four-year age difference between the two, the new law will not require the older party to register as a sex offender if convicted of statutory rape.
...under the 3rd full moon after Harvest Festival, while holding a chicken, during a month with the letter R.
And you thought "half your age plus seven" was complicated...
In case anyone misunderstands what that originally was: that used to be the folk advice for the ideal age for a wedding: The woman should be half the age plus 7 of the man. In recent years, I have seen young folks think it was the greatest difference in age for a man and a woman to date.
Hmmm.....
Male Female newborn 7 1 7.5 2 8 3 8.5 4 9 5 9.5 6 10 7 10.5 8 11 9 11.5 10 12 11 12.5 12 13 13 13.5 14 14 15 14.5 16 15 17 15.5 18 16 19 16.5 20 17 30 22 40 27 50 32 60 37 70 42 80 47 90 52 100 57
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
Facial recognition...to ration toilet paper?
Sure that one was mentioned back in March when it was actually new News:
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Is it really that difficult to tell if a dogs' testicals are removed?
It is if they get Neuticles.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Is it really that difficult to tell if a dogs' testicals are removed?
It is if they get Neuticles.
A site designed in early 2000's, but of course there would be something like this...
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@boomzilla Now, if he could be sorry for Windows
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@boomzilla Now if only Tim Buckley would apologize for same.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@chozang said in In other news today...:
@pjh said in In other news today...:
@rhywden said in In other news today...:
You guys really have a problem with this whole sex stuff.
Under Texas' version of the law, if a young adult over the age of 17 has consensual sexual relations with someone under the age of 17, but at least 15 years old, with no more than a four-year age difference between the two, the new law will not require the older party to register as a sex offender if convicted of statutory rape.
...under the 3rd full moon after Harvest Festival, while holding a chicken, during a month with the letter R.
And you thought "half your age plus seven" was complicated...
In case anyone misunderstands what that originally was: that used to be the folk advice for the ideal age for a wedding: The woman should be half the age plus 7 of the man. In recent years, I have seen young folks think it was the greatest difference in age for a man and a woman to date.
Hmmm.....
Male Female newborn 7 1 7.5 2 8 3 8.5 4 9 5 9.5 6 10 7 10.5 8 11 9 11.5 10 12 11 12.5 12 13 13 13.5 14 14 15 14.5 16 15 17 15.5 18 16 19 16.5 20 17 30 22 40 27 50 32 60 37 70 42 80 47 90 52 100 57 This is what I like about this site. It's the only place anyone would create a table to illustrate the ramifications of a statement like that.
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
the ramifications of a statement like that.
How many social norms and societal expectations are going to completely break down in our society once a few medical advancements bring life expectancy to 200+ years?
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
More importantly, the backers of several alt-right groups are also backers of some of evangelical groups, in particular groups which adhere to the premise of "Prosperity Christianity", which asserts that the poor are poor because they are Bad People, while the rich are rich because they have favor in the eyes of God. It is a rather crass outgrowth of the older Calvinist concept of Predestination, but it goes a lot further in equating wealth with divine blessing.
This is not a position held by all or even most Christian denominations, but it is held by many of the more rapidly growing sects - sects which, on the whole, preach to the poor, with the argument that if they convert they will get rich (no, seriously), while being propped up by their wealthy members who think its just grand that everyone else in their church see them as divinely protected.Wow, that's kind of repulsive, when I was raised on stuff like the following passage from the Book of Mormon:
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The Bible also has passages about caring for the poor and needy. James touches on it, the Psalms talk a lot about it, Jesus encourages doing it with the right purpose (actually caring for them, not virtue signalling about one's generosity), and even as far back as Deuteronomy commands caring for the poor:
7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: 8 but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth. 9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee. 10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto. 11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Where do ideas like that come from? :o
Watch a "sermon" by Joel Osteen (or his wife) sometime. "Prosperity Gospel" is all about twisting the Bible out of context to say what they want it to (and to make money). (The end of Deuteronomy 15:10 above is an example of one excerpt that they wrest to try to make it say more than it does.) Somewhat related are the "cargo cults".
As for Mike Pence, from what I can tell from his church's website, he's as much of an adherent to the teachings of Prosperity Gospel as I am. That is to say, not at all.
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@laoc said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Where do ideas like that come from? :o
Not quite. Both your link and the reference are different topics.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
As for Mike Pence, from what I can tell from his church's website, he's as much of an adherent to the teachings of Prosperity Gospel as I am. That is to say, not at all.
If this is the case, then I retract my statement.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@boner said in In other news today...:
Huge rock fall kills 1 , injures 1 at Yosemite's El Capitan
Never would've happened if they updated to High Sierra
In the high Sierra mountains came an SP passenger train.
The hobos tried to ride it, but they found it was all in vain:
The conductor took the tickets, and he counted every soul.
The engineer looked straight ahead, and the fireman shoveled coal.Now this fireman was a cowboy, and though you may think it strange,
He could earn more money shovelin' coal than ridin' on the range.
But though he was a fireman, and though he had to sweat,
He still remained a western lad and kept his lariat.Now the train was way behind time, and the passengers all were wild,
When on the track of a sudden, there strolled a little child.
Her hair in golden ringlets was hangin' down her back,
And she little knew of her danger great as she strolled along the track."Oh, my!" the hogshead shouted, as he threw on all the brakes.
"I'll never stop this train in time, 'cause I ain't got what it takes."
Then up spoke the cowboy fireman (and a handsome lad was he).
He said, "I will save that wee tot, though it mean the death of me."He climbed out on the running board, and with tears his eyes were wet.
And in his hand our hero had his trusty lariat.
He quickly dropped a fast loop on a pole beside the track
And tied the other end of it around the big smokestack.He stopped that train right where it stood and caused an awful wreck.
Our hero lay there in the ditch with the engine on his neck.Oh, we will all remember, that 45th of May,
For many a brave and gallant heart was filled with fear that day.
We buried the cowboy fireman where the prairie winds blow wild.
He killed three hundred passengers, but he saved that child.
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@magus said in In other news today...:
It was the best mobile platform for developers and users
No, it wasn't.
It had some technical advantages. The decision to go all COM was a good one, because that allows technology mixing unlike iOS and Android that tie you to the authors preferred language.
However, they tried to pull off some of the control crap that Apple does, which works for Apple because it has fanbois and because it was first, but couldn't work for them. The developer store account was relatively expensive (at least in the early time for WP8 where it mattered most), there was also the review hassle (though less than with Apple).
And then there was the porting. While the base is Win32API, graphics is DirectX-only and there are many other things to port.
And then there was the problem with the level of jailing. I remember there was no way to create a service that would run on background, so integration between applications was basically impossible. Which in my previous job was the biggest issue because integrating our application—and willingness to support the third parties that wanted to do it—was our important selling point.
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@brisingraerowing said in In other news today...:
What they thought was a conic disease was actually only an acute toy.
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@pjh He's a hero but I have to sleep in the spare room.
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Meanwhile, in today's episode of "Bad Parenting"...
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@magus said in In other news today...:
That makes no sense at all.
It makes lots of sense. Yes, there are lots of users so you might think that it'd be easy to support more, but no, the network effects of all the app stores and so on still make it utterly brutal when you're not #1 or #2. This stuff was observed years ago (IIRC, I saw it in the Economist when Blackberry dropped to #3 and started losing money fast as a consequence), and it remains true today.
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@bulb said in In other news today...:
However, they tried to pull off some of the control crap that Apple does, which works for Apple because it has fanbois and because it was first, but couldn't work for them. The developer store account was relatively expensive (at least in the early time for WP8 where it mattered most), there was also the review hassle (though less than with Apple).
Developers were (and are) far more willing to put up with the hassle of the Apple and Google app stores on the simple grounds that that's what it takes to get to the majority of users. Big publishers can handle the overheads of going to other places, but smaller developers really can't; there's simply not enough hours in the day to do anything other than focus on where the users actually are.
It's brutal and inescapable logic.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
hassle of the Apple and Google app
The thing is that publishing on Google is several magnitudes easier and cheaper than on Apple. Developers put up with it for Apple, because there are users already. But Microsoft was late and to bootstrap they would have had to make it super-easy. Which they didn't. It was closer to the Apple level than the Google level.
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@hungrier I was so confused by this reference to Tim Buckley that it made me Happy/Sad
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Sharknado wasn't that unrealistic after all
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
If all it takes to be called a hero is wear clothes maybe I'll just wear these prosthetic wings...
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Is this enough for people to finally see that he is nuts?
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@dragoon Imagine you're boarding the wrong rocket. "Oops, this one's going to Mars! Sure hope they got something to do during the flight."
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I don't know, could be great for quickly transporting nuclear warheads between cities.
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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
Is this enough for people to finally see that he is nuts?
Most people? Yes.
One forum member in particular...probably not.
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@dragoon He is just hyping investors. The value of stocks is inflated with what investors believe the company can do in a distant future, so he can make a lot of money today selling something he may be able to achieve 100 years from now. I just don't believe it will match the price of a normal airline like he claims.
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
@dragoon He is just hyping investors. The value of stocks is inflated with what investors believe the company can do in a distant future, so he can make a lot of money today selling something he may be able to achieve 100 years from now. I just don't believe it will match the price of a normal airline like he claims.
If a statement like that does not drive his stock prices down, then his investors need to be beaten with a rusty pipe.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
If a statement like that does not drive his stock prices down, then his investors need to be beaten with a rusty pipe.
That's what short selling was made for.
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/09/27/bad-news-but-not-the-unexpected-kind
tl;dr Fund manager buys failed drug candidate and lots of people get excited about it. Chemist blog author rolls his eyes, goes short on the stock at $19.60, reaps profits as FDA re-rejects the drug and covers his short sale at $6.475.
However, Musk has enjoyed significant government subsidies and you never know when more of those will appear to reinflate a leaky bubble.
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@dragoon TIL that a
publicly-tradedprivately owned but backed with tons of VC corporation officially codenamed a multi-million dollar aerospace project "Big Fucking Rocket".Seriously, I don't care about the rest, the fact that they did this and got away with it rocks.
EDIT: Damn it, Chip! You're supposed to check these things ahead of time!
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
@dragoon He is just hyping investors. The value of stocks is inflated with what investors believe the company can do in a distant future, so he can make a lot of money today selling something he may be able to achieve 100 years from now. I just don't believe it will match the price of a normal airline like he claims.
If a statement like that does not drive his stock prices down, then his investors need to be beaten with a rusty pipe.