You will have free newspapers, with basic stories, handed out to commuters paid for by advertising
We already have this up here in Toronto. There's a few free basic newspapers that are readily available on street corners, as well as in our subway stations. I see people reading them on the subway all the time. Hell, I find them sitting on the seats on the way home from work because people leave them there. There's a daily general news one called 24H (formerly 24 Hours), as well as a weekly tabloid called Now Magazine which my wife likes because it details local events going on in different areas of the city, and they're big on environmental stuff. There's also a free weekly competitor to Now called Eye Weekly that was setup by the Toronto Star but Now is by far the more popular one. Anyway, my point is we're already getting to that point where people just expect their news to be free and are already getting it handed to them.
I'm sorry, but that is crap. Lobbyists get paid to influence politicians as a day job, with resources for wining and dining senators and lots of fancy charts and graphs to "prove" their point. We have to do it in our spare time, after putting in 8+ hour work days. We're expected to compete with that? Politicians need to recognize this and give more weight to actual public feedback. If somebody actually took the time to write you a letter on a certain issue in their spare time, that took far more effort than a three piece suit taking you to a fancy lunch.
I like the other useful tip I found for skipping those trailers and warnings: Rip the damn disc, or torrent a copy of a movie I already own because it's less hassle than ripping and encoding it.
I'm a big fan of Python (we use it for 99% of the internal code we write in my company), and I'm even fooling around with learning some game programming using it. I think it's an incredibly awesome language, and honestly a really good one to teach people programming basics if they've never programmed before...mostly. You hit the nail on the head with the dynamic typing. It can be really useful, but you need to keep track of what types your variables currently are, and that can confuse a lot of newbies. Still my favourite language to work in, by far, though.
Okay, technically you're correct, but practically speaking this has next to no impact on how your average consumer actually uses a game console. They want to put the game it, turn it on, and it works. What I meant to convey was that your average consumer actually expects a walled garden when it comes to consoles. I'm not saying that's a good thing, just how people perceive it.
When Hollywood stops abusing the copyright system, we'll talk. Until then, it's lobbying and legal BS vs. human nature, advancing technology and the combined resources and intellect of every nerd on the planet. Which one do you think is going to win?
Possibly because there's no free/open alternative in the console market. The PC is an open platform by comparison (depending on your OS/hardware obviously, but there are standards like USB HIDs, OpenGL, etc.) The console market has never been like this. One advantage is that it's a simpler platform, because it's fixed. This is the downside.
Mark Goldberg has a nice analysis of the decision. Note that Bell must first apply this usage based billing for all their existing retail customers before they are able to do so for third party ISPs leasing lines from them. This means they risk losing existing retail customers who have legacy unlimited plans, i.e. the ones who have been around the longest. In addition, their tariffs are actually being lowered, which will improve the profit margin of the independent ISPs. In other words, this isn't happening in the short term.
Side note: If you're a Teksavvy customer like me, they are also launching a cable-based service through leasing lines from Rogers as well. The details are up on their site, however I believe it's limited to the GTA only right now. You can get faster speeds, but lower caps. However, if the Bell usage-based plan eventually goes through, the caps will actually be about the same. I'm not affiliated with Teksavvy, I just happen to use them for Internet and home phone service and think they're awesome.
Amusing anecdote about how awesome they are: I have a Linksys WRT54GL router and flashed it with the Tomato/MLPPP firmware in order to bypass Bell's throttling when we signed up for Teksavvy. Eight months later, I convince my wife's parents to switch over (from Rogers, ironically) and they can now actually buy this same router along with the modem when they sign up for the service. So they do this, and I come over to set everything up along with the Tomato/MLPPP firmware on my USB stick so I can flash the router. After setting everything up, I discovered that they've already done exactly this. They've put the Tomato firmware on their, configured the modem for passthrough mode, set up all the login info on the router, and turned on single-link MLPPP to get around Bell's throttling. I literally had to do nothing but plug the wires in. Now that is what I call good customer service!
Yes, that's what I meant; the current papal high command in modern day. Obviously, I'm working on the assumption that we got over the Crusades a while ago.
Yes, but there haven't been any open threats or thinly-veiled "warnings" either. There also isn't a recent precedent of non-believers being threatened and/or murdered over such depictions either. Bottom line, religious fundamentalists are assholes in general, but only one particular religion's fundamentalists have gone this far in recent memory.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I don't even pay attention to the ads on the sites I visit, let alone click them. At least with me personally, the only thing the advertisers would see is me loading the ad image or not. If they're measuring click-throughs, it wouldn't affect me in the first place. I don't know if they could possibly tell that people are loading the ads but not looking at them.
But the downside of this is that the ads never get viewed so the site misses out. At least with Chrome's approach, you're not actually taking ad revenue away from the site. That seems like a reasonable middle ground to me. Then again, if you disagree with that, then you can just use FF.
Well to me, that shows perhaps an out of date mentality about what is common knowledge and what isn't about tech-related topics. However, that's an anomaly from what I've seen of the show over the years.
Why do you say that? It seems to me that Jeopardy is the one game show where you actually have to be extremely knowledgeable if you want to win any kind of money. It took them years to even double the old dollar values just to adjust for inflation. Compare answering the (multiple choice) $1000 question in Millionaire vs. a Jeopardy $1000 question in the first round. Not even close.
The fact is it's still a feature that was removed. You can blame Sony for making their console architecture so damn complicated that it's a PITA for them to emulate it in software on the machine, which is exactly what the 360 does with Xbox games.
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You will have free newspapers, with basic stories, handed out to commuters paid for by advertising
We already have this up here in Toronto. There's a few free basic newspapers that are readily available on street corners, as well as in our subway stations. I see people reading them on the subway all the time. Hell, I find them sitting on the seats on the way home from work because people leave them there. There's a daily general news one called 24H (formerly 24 Hours), as well as a weekly tabloid called Now Magazine which my wife likes because it details local events going on in different areas of the city, and they're big on environmental stuff. There's also a free weekly competitor to Now called Eye Weekly that was setup by the Toronto Star but Now is by far the more popular one. Anyway, my point is we're already getting to that point where people just expect their news to be free and are already getting it handed to them.
I'm sorry, but that is crap. Lobbyists get paid to influence politicians as a day job, with resources for wining and dining senators and lots of fancy charts and graphs to "prove" their point. We have to do it in our spare time, after putting in 8+ hour work days. We're expected to compete with that? Politicians need to recognize this and give more weight to actual public feedback. If somebody actually took the time to write you a letter on a certain issue in their spare time, that took far more effort than a three piece suit taking you to a fancy lunch.
The kicker is there's even a kill screen after stage 255. That's some serious dedication right there.
I like the other useful tip I found for skipping those trailers and warnings: Rip the damn disc, or torrent a copy of a movie I already own because it's less hassle than ripping and encoding it.
Precisely. This is exactly like making it illegal to leave your door unlocked. Whether that's a good idea or not is up for debate.
I'm a big fan of Python (we use it for 99% of the internal code we write in my company), and I'm even fooling around with learning some game programming using it. I think it's an incredibly awesome language, and honestly a really good one to teach people programming basics if they've never programmed before...mostly. You hit the nail on the head with the dynamic typing. It can be really useful, but you need to keep track of what types your variables currently are, and that can confuse a lot of newbies. Still my favourite language to work in, by far, though.
Okay, technically you're correct, but practically speaking this has next to no impact on how your average consumer actually uses a game console. They want to put the game it, turn it on, and it works. What I meant to convey was that your average consumer actually expects a walled garden when it comes to consoles. I'm not saying that's a good thing, just how people perceive it.
When Hollywood stops abusing the copyright system, we'll talk. Until then, it's lobbying and legal BS vs. human nature, advancing technology and the combined resources and intellect of every nerd on the planet. Which one do you think is going to win?
Possibly because there's no free/open alternative in the console market. The PC is an open platform by comparison (depending on your OS/hardware obviously, but there are standards like USB HIDs, OpenGL, etc.) The console market has never been like this. One advantage is that it's a simpler platform, because it's fixed. This is the downside.
Telus gave us this really crappy DSL/Wireless router. I never changed the admin password (admin/telus) on it, but I put a wireless password on it.
To quote the Mythbusters, "Well there's your problem!"
Mark Goldberg has a nice analysis of the decision. Note that Bell must first apply this usage based billing for all their existing retail customers before they are able to do so for third party ISPs leasing lines from them. This means they risk losing existing retail customers who have legacy unlimited plans, i.e. the ones who have been around the longest. In addition, their tariffs are actually being lowered, which will improve the profit margin of the independent ISPs. In other words, this isn't happening in the short term.
Side note: If you're a Teksavvy customer like me, they are also launching a cable-based service through leasing lines from Rogers as well. The details are up on their site, however I believe it's limited to the GTA only right now. You can get faster speeds, but lower caps. However, if the Bell usage-based plan eventually goes through, the caps will actually be about the same. I'm not affiliated with Teksavvy, I just happen to use them for Internet and home phone service and think they're awesome.
Amusing anecdote about how awesome they are: I have a Linksys WRT54GL router and flashed it with the Tomato/MLPPP firmware in order to bypass Bell's throttling when we signed up for Teksavvy. Eight months later, I convince my wife's parents to switch over (from Rogers, ironically) and they can now actually buy this same router along with the modem when they sign up for the service. So they do this, and I come over to set everything up along with the Tomato/MLPPP firmware on my USB stick so I can flash the router. After setting everything up, I discovered that they've already done exactly this. They've put the Tomato firmware on their, configured the modem for passthrough mode, set up all the login info on the router, and turned on single-link MLPPP to get around Bell's throttling. I literally had to do nothing but plug the wires in. Now that is what I call good customer service!
Maybe he hasn't, but at least they won't kill him.
Yes, that's what I meant; the current papal high command in modern day. Obviously, I'm working on the assumption that we got over the Crusades a while ago.
Yes, but there haven't been any open threats or thinly-veiled "warnings" either. There also isn't a recent precedent of non-believers being threatened and/or murdered over such depictions either. Bottom line, religious fundamentalists are assholes in general, but only one particular religion's fundamentalists have gone this far in recent memory.
Uh, no we don't, but the Pope doesn't threaten non-believers with death if they don't follow his rules.
I think you mean something sad.
Did you explain the experiment before she called or after? If you told her before she called, you tainted the result.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I don't even pay attention to the ads on the sites I visit, let alone click them. At least with me personally, the only thing the advertisers would see is me loading the ad image or not. If they're measuring click-throughs, it wouldn't affect me in the first place. I don't know if they could possibly tell that people are loading the ads but not looking at them.
But the downside of this is that the ads never get viewed so the site misses out. At least with Chrome's approach, you're not actually taking ad revenue away from the site. That seems like a reasonable middle ground to me. Then again, if you disagree with that, then you can just use FF.
We ain't found shit!
Well to me, that shows perhaps an out of date mentality about what is common knowledge and what isn't about tech-related topics. However, that's an anomaly from what I've seen of the show over the years.
Why do you say that? It seems to me that Jeopardy is the one game show where you actually have to be extremely knowledgeable if you want to win any kind of money. It took them years to even double the old dollar values just to adjust for inflation. Compare answering the (multiple choice) $1000 question in Millionaire vs. a Jeopardy $1000 question in the first round. Not even close.
Uh, I think you're thinking of Canada. One of the things I actually love about our system, actually.
The fact is it's still a feature that was removed. You can blame Sony for making their console architecture so damn complicated that it's a PITA for them to emulate it in software on the machine, which is exactly what the 360 does with Xbox games.