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I think you maybe have some points, about the fact that video games aren't simply passive consumption, but involve active creation on the part of the 'consumer', in several ways.

But. But. I want to draw attention to your assumption that all forms of culture are about 'consumption' -- there used to be forms of culture that did not involve money exchanging hands, and that were about shared creation, not about a presenter and an audience. Say, people getting together to play music and sing songs themselves. The fact that many of us can't anymore barely even conceive of 'culture' except as a purchased commodity is telling.

It may be true that in 21st century U.S, "the vast majority of people in any culture are consumers of the fruits of that culture," but it is simply not true that ALL culture MUST be that way. One can critisize that mode of culture without thinking 'culture' is a bad thing.
Oh, lovely! I must have been mistaken then.
Ikea's (Apple inspired) marketing ad for the BookBook. [video]
You can. You can also build/buy (kickstarter project?) a PCIe brakeout box. it has been done, but it's crazy expensive for what it is. For me this was the biggest thing I loved about TB. The ability to have a laptop, but also a fast external card.

But no...
I agree with your comment, but it makes me think:

Even if we can have that kind of AI, it's not a given that it will mean any of the things that the Church Of Singularity types think it will mean.

If it turns out to be something that's due to an irreducible set of interacting natural processes, it may not be at all possible to modularize and use in a way amenable to the visions of those who imagine a world of cleanly AI that can be understand and reason about what we mean, learn to program, outperform humanity, and suddenly ... Skynet! (Or singularity. Or whatever).
Right. Then the question is: does it matter enough in performance that the user might notice it? If it's just a few ms i would be willing to trade that for better maintainability of the CSS. Or maybe you could use some kind of preprocessor that would translate the attributes to regular ids/classnames.
It will always remain cheaper and easier to treat with antibiotics, to which most people respond well. This technique will be reserved for refractory cases or the "DIY" crowd.

The technique only recently received validation by a leading journal (NEJM). It will take time and additional studies before it is widely adopted. Keep in mind that while the limited case studies have shown minimal side effects, others will be seen as the sample size grows. It is never a completely benign process to expose one's bodily fluids to another.
Hey jeremiep - check your specs against the recommended ones here. If it's seemingly an issue, hit us up at answers.unrealengine.com - https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/GettingStarted/Reco...
Lemme give you a counter example. Chinese copied Neato or irobot Roomba, their hardware was even superior and price is 30% as much, but ultimately failed as a product. Because the route planing algorithm is completely shit. You often found it stuck or running out of power.

Neato or iRobot does not sell in China, Chinese users actually pays extra to get one. And they are happily doing so.

The moral of the story? Chinese can not copy the soul of your product.
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Does this article strike anyone else as being a bit pedantic?
I don't get it. Is literature tainted, root and branch, because for much of the last 150 years it too was driven by consumption? Should we avoid Dickens, because he published in for-profit serials that carried advertising?
I have a passing interest in Gentoo, but two thing have put me off; 1) the community seems bit splintered with Gentoo, Funtoo, Exherbo, and probably others I'm not aware of. It is not really clear which one I want. 2) The "stable" repository(?) seemed to be in somewhat bad health.

Any gentooists willing to give their opinion of my (possibly quite faulty) impressions?
Samsung are positioning the Alpha very much as a flagship device and pricing it in the same region as the S and Note devices.

The plan seems to have the S series for people who want the very cutting edge in specs, The Alpha series for people who want a compact high end phone with sleek design and the Note series for people who want a phablet styled device. Three different devices for three different audiences, but all are flagship devices in their respective segments.
I cannot shot using a regular tap on the trackpad. I need to hit really hard the surface to shot, but I can get considerably fire speed using the physical button..
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Having been fortunate enough to have visited the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's Elephant Orphanage on the outskirts of Nairobi, and to have visited with an Anne K. Taylor Trust (http://annektaylorfund.org/) anti-poaching team in the Masai Mara area, I now give annually to both.

I am an animal lover - not an expert, but I am SO IMPRESSED by the work of both outfits.

Both organizations provide regular updates on their work to donors. Anne's writing is top notch, but the detailed stories that the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust provides are nothing short of truly beautiful.
It is often exactly the same people, just with a different hat and script.
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I think the point asuffield is making is that you're judging "quality" not based on how it performs, but on how it looks.
It's probably cheaper to get a loan from the Mafia in some ways because they have different ways of recovering money from those who don't pay their debts, and more incentives at their disposition than legal companies do.
Right there: the idea that the creator of an open source product could be an "impediment". The belief that you are entitled to any convenience that could flow from someone else's work.
Somehow this rubbed me the wrong way too. Not sure why really.
I feel like it has been for the past year, it is exhausting. I think there is a real term for it but at first I was in shock, and now I'm tired of hearing it, being lumped in the same category with folks doing some nasty evil stuff. I just want to play with my trains, shoot friends in CoD and explore wild fantasy worlds. I don't support the harassment or abuse of any person, I feel sorry for these people who are under attack. I don't have an answer on how to stop it, or improve the landscape. Is it even possible to stop some people from being vile? How do you say 'No, you can't think those things, you can't talk like that.' and have an impact on someone who feels completely secure and self-righteous from their position?

I don't want to feel guilt for being a man who likes video games.
I actually think we're in a gaming renaissance. The gaming world has never been more diverse, more inclusive, and more creatively challenging than ever before. It's pretty amazing. And arguably less corporate, given the number of amazing independent games out there at the moment. And democratic, given the openness of the platforms and distribution systems.

I mean, there are dud games. And cash-grab games. And misogynistic games. And misogynistic gamers. But let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater...
That's a pretty broad generalization.

I do wonder if there's a correlation with age.

Since I hit middle age and got presbyopia, I don't even really like looking at a small screen phone any more. And these crazy 500dpi new screens that are coming out are basically full of wasted pixels for someone like me.
Which one?

The Airblade db works, but not as efficiently as rubbing hands together under a World Dryer (not one of the cheaper imitators of them).

The Airblade V works extremely well, but tends to suffer from being put where old driers were, which is too damn high to be used comfortably... in motorway services where these and old traditional ones are offered you see people choose the older ones.

The tap based one I've not seen in the world.
If they really wanted to fix this, the text would read "How many rides would you like to purchase ($2.50 per ride)". Of course, this only works if every ride is $2.50.
The following is a bit rambling btw!

I make games for a living and love the art form. I regard games as trivial and a waste of time/resources however I just happen to be genuinely passionate about them and can actually manage to eke out a living making them (Unlike with music, my other passion)

Anyway I have always found references to a 'gamer culture' or other such 'cultures' to be .. nonsensical? Or, like these 'fandoms', like the my little pony fandom etc. I think these kind of fandom people will imagine some kind of 'culture' around anything and its usually really bad quality stuff, eg terrible anime, terrible derivative multiplayer games, really bad juvenile comics, crappy collectible card games etc. Basically societies slightly less mainstream cultural crap. I have no idea why this seems to be the case.

As far as I'm concerned I have always just really liked playing games, I consider myself somewhat of a connoisseur of the art form (As I would for most other media, music, film,comics,cartoons,) that does not make me a member of any particlar culture or sect imo. I also like to watch films but I dont consider myseld a 'filmer'
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No, only the live connections are counted - it's based on what address family content providers see in incoming connections.

So you are in the remaining 89% for now...

Try http://testipv6.com/helpdesk and mail me the result URL ?

EDIT: just realized we did talk some 249 days ago. Did you stay on the same ISP and DS-lite, and have an IPv6 prefix that does not allow you to ping6 towards ipv6.google.com ?

Time permitting I'll be happy to help debug this. Let's coordinate over email if you are interested, and the above assumption about your network setup is correct.
Rare video of Steve Jobs in 1980 talking about software
Questionable Scribbler pen is back after getting booted from Kickstarter
Consumption doesn't mean that they pay for it with money. You can easily consume mario cart with out ever owning the game or paying money into it. Yes someone bought it, but even those musicians had to get there instruments from somewhere.
Does it seem that staying in the corner is a good strategy?

Maybe if the canvas wrapped it would make moving around more rewarding, strategically.
I presume this does not matter if you are a regular user of the system because over time presumably the remainders would accumulate?
Hackaday has been all over this.

They changed crowd fund sites to Tilt and have a new video.

See here:
http://hackaday.com/2014/09/04/scribble-and-the-failings-of-...

Original kickstart discussion
http://hackaday.com/2014/08/14/scribble-wait-kickstarter-is-...

And Tilt CEO is looking into them:
https://twitter.com/jjbeshara/status/507025228547903488
I've been wanting a new monitor. Ideally a large, high resolution, high refresh rate monitor. Everything I've read though has lead me to hold off for precisely that fact - interconnects are currently completely insufficient to handle that kind of data, so two of three is the best you can get. Big + 4k+ = terrible refresh rate, big + 120hz = low resolution.

Hacky solutions some models use like having the monitor pretend to be multiple monitors using multiple ports (as this Dell is apparently doing) have a number of issues AFAIK.
Kirbys clean carpet & mattresses extremely well... that's the appeal. I have a really hard time believing anybody sees a Kirby as a status symbol, as "cool", as anything other than highly utilitarian. I think this is why Dyson was so successful disrupting Kirby: they sold these based on function, not looks, and Dyson came in and competed on functionality AND price.
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I very much think, in a first impression, that the author of this piece hasn't put much thought in his words beyond an urge to throw more of them in the fire. See this list:

- I'm a rock music enthusiast, I buy every CD from X band.
- I really enjoy novels, I read every book by X author
- I'm a cinema lover, I watch every film from X director
- I'm a gaming fanatic, I get every game from X studio
- I'm really into X's art, I buy all his pieces

Which one is not like the others? None. They are all forms of media consumption preference. All of them are used by people to describe and define themselves. They are all actively used and exploited by the industries for profit.

And, of course, all of them have more or less acceptable idiosyncrasies of all kinds (what outfit is acceptable for this music style, what is the proper way of interpreting this art form, what knowledge is expected from you when loving this films, you name it).

Why is someone describing himself as a "gamer" any worse than somebody describing himself to be a "romantic comedy film lover"?
That's true, although I think industry is getting better on the dev side (not as much on the corporate side), and at a faster rate than the consumer side of the culture. Developer events like GDC are worried about harassment and actively try to stop it, and a lot of developers in the current kerfuffle have actively distanced themselves from their less savory fans, e.g.: https://medium.com/@andreaszecher/open-letter-to-the-gaming-...
I think it might be instructive here to think about how notions of what kind of "build quality" and materials are best might tend to differ between:

a) a jewel-like, highly refined computer that you hold in your hand and touch gently to use

b) an industrial cleaning device designed to be banged into objects on a regular basis, scrub surfaces aggressively, and suck up dusty dirty things, without damaging what you bang it into
It's not odd. #GamerGate is the gaming community speaking out against what they perceive as corruption in gaming and games journalism. Game journalists are firing back. Everything else is a sideshow intended to distract from that.
You'll get no debate with me there. Personally, I'd be suprised if the SNP had actually made the biggest dents in those stats, I don't believe they've been in power long enough to have done so.

I do hope that something like Alcohol minimum pricing[1] will have a positive effect in Scotland, time will tell. However, I very much believe we'd never get legislation like that without a Scottish Government serving the interests of the Scottish people[2], something I neither believe Westminster nor devolution with Scottish arms of UK parties in power would get us.

[1] I generally don't like such legislation, I very much believe in flat tax and letting people spend it on what they want, but Scotland sadly us have a cultural problem and I think the pragmatic view is it's worth doing.

[2] This is obviously just an example. It's hard to quantify a feeling, and that's not thet point. I'm just trying to describe how I feel, which is basically the rUK parties cultrually will bend to big business in an attempt to have the best economy possible, which I don't believe reflects Scottish values, nor common sense unless you're already rich.
Of course, but you aren't the customer or part of the business model:

> Our aim is "affordable." Unfortunately, that's pretty subjective. So, we try to appeal to a broad audience under that umbrella.

The features of the site have to be tailored to the business objectives. Mass market aspirational as opposed to high-end.
> Of all the strands of geek culture, gamers have always seemed to be the group most likely to explode in anger at challenges to their subculture.

Of all the strands of geek culture I only dislike the social engineers like the author, who instead of focusing on technology try to analyze, criticize, categorize, and influence how other people behave.
Not sure how much that would help even.

Look at the Misfit Shine (http://store.misfit.com/), great product, beautiful device. Then a few weeks ago I get this in the email from DX: http://www.dx.com/p/otium-shine-1-1-ipx7-bluetooth-v4-0-smar...

It is obviously the same product, they are even using the same marketing photos.

Now here is the twist, they sort of did their own hacked version of the Shine App, and even released it to the AppStore.
If you missed it, we recorded the session - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAgSdSikSCc
Your FAQ took 2 minutes to load the front page, I don't see anything about canceling accounts on it, and the forums are full of other people with exactly my problem. Can't you just make it easy to cancel an account, what the hell is your problem?
Just to put this in historical context: 14745600 pixels are enough to display 230 CGA (320x200) screenshots simultaneously.
I always thought "turnstyle" and its variants ("turn-style" in this post) are misspellings of the word turnstile. However I have seen it quite a lot online in different articles. Is "turnstyle" actually a different spelling for turnstile?
With a few exceptions (i.e. the Express Buss which costs $6), every ride is $2.50.

http://web.mta.info/nyct/fare/FaresatAGlance.htm#info
This is really strange - just looking at a cop is enough to get hassled!
Because most of their users aren't technical and don't have any engagement with the concept of authentication, but do immediately know and (expensively) escalate if they lose their credentials. It's a way of reducing customer service burdens without requiring customers to think.
It's a little surreal reading about gamers. I am geek, through and through, and I have always enjoyed video games, but I don't seem to belong to gamer culture, as far as the internet is concerned.

What happened to the social aspect of gaming? Why have all the arcades faded away? There are a few around, I guess, but it doesn't seem the same. I have always played games WITH people and in COMPETITION with people. Playing is, for me, about sharing.

Maybe I'm not a gamer. Maybe the term "gamer" is too loaded to be redeemed at this point. But there is a culture of games and gaming that can (and does in some places, however few) exist without the baggage attached to the term.

DISCLAIMER: I admit, I'm not into the same type of games that constantly get talked about; I don't play CoD, I've never really played much GTA, and most modern AAA games don't hold my attention very long (partly because I'm terrible at FPS games and other mainstream offerings).
You would think then that the Republican party would be full of KKK members. But the only KKK member to be elected to the Senate, Robert Byrd, was Democrat, and he retired in 2010, not 1960. I don't know why you call them "Dixiecrats". Why don't you call them by their real name: racist southern Democrats. There is simply no evidence there was a mass conversion from Democrats to Republicans in the South. A small amount converted due to the civil rights act and Nixon's Southern strategy, but the largest shift occurred in the 1990s with the rise of evangelical Christians. I think the debate would be better served if you kept to policy arguments instead of attacking your opponents.
It's true that it's not black and white, there are matters of degree, grey areas, and different aspects of consumption/participation.

I think the basic point still stands though, that 'culture' has largely become something where it's assumed a minority produces and a majority consumes -- but this is not in fact an intrinsic aspect of culture, and it's perhaps only in the past 100 years that 'consumption' has become the dominant mode of culture at all.

I also think you can make an argument that in some cases ad ways video games are a place where this mode of culture is actually challenged _more_ than currently typical (let's talk about minecraft).
First it was feminist agenda to transform gaming into something that fit their narrow world view, but since that failed pretty hard and even the most brain washed white knights are starting to see through their ruse especially in the light of the scandal around the depression quest.

Now as a last resort all these same people are trying to paint the word "gamer" as something bad and undesirable.

I'm not really surprised if they come up with a new term that they try to define with their agenda, gamers just have to be smart enough to see through their bullshit.
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MTA doesn't mean sendmail/Postfix for anyone wondering.

MTA = Metropolitan Transportation Authority in NYC
The same could be said for Arch, or any other rolling distro.
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I think the whole point is that they don't want to fix this. It's probably specifically designed this way.
There's a bit of a revival of interest in that style of gameplay (in-person, with a focus on the social-interaction aspect). The most common current term for it, afaik, is "local multiplayer".
A semiconductor fab to make those GPUs is easily over one billion dollars.
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Okay, there’s the normal hell of moving to a new platform --
and I gotta say, Android was more hell to move to than most
consoles I’ve adopted.

Note that official Doom platforms include the Atari Jaguar, (Three CPUs! 2 MB of ram! Can't execute code stored in system ram!) Sega 32X, SNES, PS1, (No hardware support for floating-point math!!) (http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4111/dirty_coding_tric...) Sega Saturn, GBA...

I don't know how many of those ports Carmack personally worked with, (I think he did the SNES, and Jaguar ports, at least) but it's safe to say he's got experience with weird consoles. It's significant that he calls out Android for being so bad, multiple times.
I only managed to click continue two or three times before I gave up in frustration.
The funny thing is that in the US you're not allowed to have loose lithium batteries in your checked baggage, but you can carry them on the plane.
Don't know why you are getting down voted, I have (3) 3k displays (ASUS PB278Q) and I have frequent problems getting them to come back up after reboots or sleep. I've tried 5 different brands of displayport cables, a MST HUB, drivers, mixed config (DVI, Onboard Intel, ect...). The AMD driver will report that there is not enough bandwidth, the only thing I can do to get them to come back up is unplug and replug the disport cable. Research online shows this is a common problem with Hires displays.
If we're going to keep on using "misogynistic" as a synonym for "sexist", we're going to need a new word that means "hatred of women".

Can I get some examples of truly misogynistic video games? I can't think of any except for "Custer's Revenge" on the Atari 2600. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer's_Revenge
If it wouldn't be too expensive, they could put the gpu core( or cpu whichever is smaller/cheaper ) and extra batteries into the headcase, which would be designed with a heatsink.
I guess this makes sense if you're visiting NY and you're only going to use the subway a few times. If you live in the city though you're probably just refilling the same card over and over. Then the logic of filling the card up doesn't hold up. you should go for the largest "bonus" you can get and try not to lose that card!
I consider this a dark pattern. That's pretty underhanded of them.
What a disgusting dark pattern to be put to use in public transports.

I don't think this can be classified any other way than a scam. Sure, they scam you out of a couple of dollars, but they do it on a massive scale and at the expense of thousands upon thousands of people.
Absolutely! The prefix is optional (but recommended). If you're comfortable with data attributes (or, they're required for some reason), thats cool too.
Interesting reply.

> But those PEGs don't handle nested blocks cleanly.

What's the problem exactly?
> Why not just fully use computers, then?

Because that will kill interest in watching the game much more thoroughly than a more accurate strike zone. Viewers like the subtle things, like that moment's pause that leaves viewers on the edge of their seat before the ump rings the batter up on a called third strike.

Plus, imperfection causes water cooler buzz much more than perfection (people LOVE complaining about missed calls).