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Dave Ray
On The Verge since Dec 31, 2011
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Maybe you missed the news that the average Google+ member visits the site for just seven minutes per month. Compared to Facebook, Tumblr, or even something like Pinterest, it’s dead in the water. The WSJ called it a ‘ghost town’ last year and it’s shown little sign of improving.
http://mashable.com/2013/05/10/google-has-20-million-u-s-monthly-mobile-users-report-says/
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YouTube has a blanket licence which I believe gives certain rights holders a 50% cut of advertising proceeds if there’s an audio Content ID match. However, there’s no way for performers to know if the original publisher of the song has agreed to the licence, because that information isn’t published anywhere. If not, your work can be taken down without notice.
There’s a good Wired article on the whole mess here:
http://www.wired.com/business/2012/05/opinion-baio-criminal-creativity/
As for the video games situation, it’s a fiasco. It’s free advertising for the games companies, akin to someone playing on a demo pod in a games shop. They should be thankful that their titles are getting wide publicity for free. That Luigi’s Mansion YouTube vid has received hundreds of thousands of views – better figures than any review I can think of.
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Yeah, because those investments in solar went so well.
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An immensely popular service.
With pretty much zero revenue.
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whooooosh!
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Yahoo! are not Facebook
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As the article mentions, the hackers were snitched on by Sabu, a LulzSec hacker turned FBI informant. More here:
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Wait, what?
I’m not allowed to be a male who disagrees with the story without being labelled a misanthrope?
I can’t engage in the discussion because I haven’t been oppressed enough? (And how dare you assume that, based on nothing but my username.)
My opinion is invalid because I dared to suggest that the single image that has caused all this discussion is not representative of the entire Brave line of merchandise?
Finally, another site has already pointed out that the image has never even been featured on the Disney Princess website, only on Target’s store and in a blog post:
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Available as a separate purchase:
http://www.target.com/p/disney-princess-brave-merida-bow-arrow-set/-/A-14005739#prodSlot=medium_1_21
;)
The majority of the Disney Princess line for Merida features her and her bow:
http://www.target.com/sb/merida-disney-princess/-/N-55phl#?lnk=Other_DisPrinV3_X0Y3W4|X0Y3W4
There are a variety of toys, some more realistic than others to appeal to the broadest range of girls.
I think there’s an eagerness to frame everything in terms of gender inequality nowadays, and it’s getting increasingly tiresome.
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You’re delusional if you think Microsoft isn’t investing in the desktop or systems layer. There were a ton of improvements in Windows 8, from vastly improved startup time to the new Task Manager to better dialogs for file operations. There’s a whole new file system (ReFS) for goodness sakes.
WinRT is OK, as it lets programmers code to a single API and launch on multiple device types, but it’s showing no signs of supplanting Win32 or any of the lower level APIs. They’re existing in a complementary relationship, and I can’t see that changing any time soon. Call me when Adobe publishes its CS suite on WinRT and we’ll talk.
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The Verge missed out the fact that you’ll need a beefy gaming rig to stream to the device – a GT650 Nvidia card or better is required.
It’s not meant for PC gaming on the go really, just for playing your PC games around the house or on the TV.
I think it’s too expensive to succeed. I predict a big price drop by Christmas when it’ll be under pressure by PS4, Xbox Infinity and discounted PSVita and 3DS.
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No, you can’t even play Temple Run – The Shield only runs games in landscape orientation.
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It’s a shame The Verge couldn’t dig up a photo of Larry from this decade. He’s been grey-haired for years.
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He’s said previously that his kids won’t inherit much (relatively speaking!) – supposedly around $10m each. The vast majority of his wealth is going to his and his wife’s charitable foundation.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/11/bill-gates-reddit-ama_n_2663872.html
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Looks like an Aeron; they have mesh backs. They’re very expensive, too, so the hacker must be making some mad stacks, yo.
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This is The Verge. Hacking stories demand shots of darkened rooms with lines of text on a PC monitor. Extra points if the text is of that Python image viewer or the keyboard is one of those light-up gaming ones.
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You suggest not having a gun in a lock box? When the OP has already said that he has multiple children? It’s a widely-held rule that firearms should be stored securely.
Good house locks don’t cost tens of thousands of dollars. You’re exaggerating to attempt to suggest that guns are a value proposition. A burglar will avoid a house with an alarm and sturdy locks and move on to a less well secured property. Even a fake alarm box is a deterrent.
Owning a gun does not protect your family – it puts them at greater risk. Nothing you’ve said in any way proves otherwise.
Finally, here’s a graph showing violent deaths by age:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/26/guns-kill-people-in-one-chilling-graph/
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Ultrabooks are a niche market. They’re expensive and costly.
This isn’t an ultrabook.
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Everyone knows that the water came from defeated Ice Giants:
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If The Verge bought a new stock image for hacker stories, there wouldn’t be all the negs. Seriously, it’s beyond a joke now.
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It’s exactly below the middle of the main keyboard, just like Lenovos and other brands. If it was exactly in the centre of the laptop’s chassis, you’d be constantly hitting it when you typed.
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Just because you don’t want an optical drive doesn’t mean that they aren’t still used by others. I have a ton of stuff on optical media because it’s dirt cheap, reasonably robust and largely supported. I also don’t want to have to carry around a portable drive and USB cables everywhere I go.
These laptops aren’t ultrabooks and a slim DVD drive hardly adds any bulk. Plus the rest of the space can be used for an extended battery or other goodies such as full-size ports etc.
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