They could be useful in a few small circumstances, but for the vast majority of cases, I'd be interested in how a speed payoff is going to be beneficial given you don't know whether you got the correct answer. You could run a check to see whether it's correct, but then you can't trust the check to give you the right answer either... so you could run a third check...
They would in the name of 'Security'. There are some things being worked on like that. Google operates as (still under ICANN) unfiltered DNS on 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and there is the starts of an open DNS being implemented at www.opendns.com
Unfortunately they've been trying that tactic for the past decade and it just doesn't work. Everyone with a braincell agrees that banning random sections of the internet just makes the site in question move or a proxy be set up. Unfortunately (for them) they can't stop it and suing individuals just doesn't work either, so they have had to resort to bribing officials to get a search engine blocked from the internet. A change of DNS name and it all starts working again.
Oh that's hillarious. I knew of http://thepiratebay.se.proxy.piratenpartij.nl/ but it's nice to have another proxy run so blatantly on UK soil. Let's all wait for the imminent banning of the proxy, only for another one to spring up.
Seriously. Just because the child is young and grandma makes an emotional plea we should let her go through security checks unimpeded? I know that TSA-bashing is en-vogue at the moment but if you just let everyone under a certain age go through without security checks then the terrorists will quite quickly cotton on to this fact and start using children as mules for the security checks.
... then move to the new Mozilla release schedule and release versions 13, 14, 15 and 16 all within 2 months and no noticeable improvement between them.
No - I had it turned on for a bit and that made it even worse. I've had the same choppy interaction with iTunes UI for about the last 4 years (which is way before WIFI syncing got added)
How did you manage that? I've installed it on multiple machines (all fairly decent ones) and it's never been 'snappy'. 'Dog slow' is how I'd describe it. Admittedly I have about 60G of music on there, but it normally takes about 15s to load up and frequently locks up when doing anything with an iphone for about 20s before the UI will become responsive again. It's as if Apple devs never heard of multithreading or windows message loops to allow UI interaction whilst doing background processing.
Neither LSD nor ecstacy is a narcotic, so this is obviously nonsense.
Really? I thought they were. Wikipedia states "When used in a legal context in the US, a narcotic drug is simply one that is totally prohibited, or one that is used in violation of strict governmental regulation, such as heroin or morphine.". Does LSD/ecstacy not fall under this definition?
That implies that the Feds used Tor to shut down a narcotics store, which is not what is meant. It is meant that there was a narcotics store that used Tor that the Feds have now shut down.
I personally prefer the experience of a movie theatre to the small screen. I suspect others might also. So producers should learn to budget to profit from theatre shows, and sell downloads for a dollar or $2 as additional profit.
It depends on the theatre. Where I live there are a couple of theatres that offer better sound/picture/seating than my living room but there are some (the Odeon/Cineworld) that are horrible - there is not enough leg room and the seats are less comfy than my cinema. In that case I prefer my living room even though the picture isn't as big and the sound isn't as good. Plus I don't have to put up with rustling packets of crisps from other people etc throughout the film.
So not only do you want total freedom for your music to be able play it on any device, you want every vendor to hand-hold you through the procedure of moving it from one device to another? If you can't figure out for yourself how to copy music from your iPad to another machine then I wonder how you found a site like slashdot and signed up to post comments.
Yes, they did. It went on a bit and eventually got dropped. The only active case (echostar) was found in favour of NDS a few weeks ago (http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2012/03/19/nds-receives-18m-in-echostar-damages/).
Will a million people tweeting and facebooking about it actually do anything useful? Or will the Twats of Hollywood just go "lots of people are complaining but done are actually doing anything so stop us - send in the lawyers and close the case"
I'm an advocate of the pen-and-paper method too. Beer should be about the experience, the feel and the art of it. Too much technology takes the fun out of brewing for me.
That said, my scales broke before the last brew I did. I had to guess at all the quantities - also I didn't have my standardised grist hopper (B&Q bucket) so my estimates were a bit off. The beer turned out at 1.074OG! Oops.
There are advantages and disadvantages to all forms of services and applications. One thing I have noticed about Google maps - even in my small town, literally WEEKS after a new construction project was finished, their maps were updated to reflect the change in the streets.
That's pretty good for Google. I've had map errors that I've submitted to them that have taken months to fix, but you've obviously had a better experience than I have. That said, for major new roads (such as the A3 tunnel past the Devil's Punchbowl in the UK), the OSM map data was up-to-date within MINUTES of the road opening.
Google is up-to-date, but in some cases it's completely wrong. They've recently changed from buying in map data from one source to amalgamating it from many many sources. This provides a headache for google as they can't manually fix things that are wrong as the fixes will be overwritten by the automated amalgamation in a week's time or so.
Take for example Normansland. There is no place in the New Forest called Normansland. There is one up the road called Nomansland (without the 'r') but for some reason Google has this mythical 'Normansland' in its dataset (in a different place from Nomansland!) and can't easily get rid of it. Their mapping data will get better as the work on it, but in the last year or so it has actually gone downhill.
this is supposedly needed to make the Siri UX good enough for Apple's standards.
As long as Apple have an excuse they'll use it to try and persuade people to upgrade. Siri would have worked on the iPhone 4. Yes, it would have worked better on the 4S but I'd be astonished if the reason it was not on the 3G/3GS/4S was technical and not marketing.
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Similarly "my SS#" takes only 3.82 seconds.
"SS#" is a rubbish password with just three characters. It takes only 0.00000209 seconds to crack it according to the tool.
They could be useful in a few small circumstances, but for the vast majority of cases, I'd be interested in how a speed payoff is going to be beneficial given you don't know whether you got the correct answer. You could run a check to see whether it's correct, but then you can't trust the check to give you the right answer either... so you could run a third check...
They would in the name of 'Security'. There are some things being worked on like that. Google operates as (still under ICANN) unfiltered DNS on 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and there is the starts of an open DNS being implemented at www.opendns.com
Unfortunately they've been trying that tactic for the past decade and it just doesn't work. Everyone with a braincell agrees that banning random sections of the internet just makes the site in question move or a proxy be set up. Unfortunately (for them) they can't stop it and suing individuals just doesn't work either, so they have had to resort to bribing officials to get a search engine blocked from the internet. A change of DNS name and it all starts working again.
Oh that's hillarious. I knew of http://thepiratebay.se.proxy.piratenpartij.nl/ but it's nice to have another proxy run so blatantly on UK soil. Let's all wait for the imminent banning of the proxy, only for another one to spring up.
The BBC headline sounds more entertaining if you read it aloud.
Seriously. Just because the child is young and grandma makes an emotional plea we should let her go through security checks unimpeded? I know that TSA-bashing is en-vogue at the moment but if you just let everyone under a certain age go through without security checks then the terrorists will quite quickly cotton on to this fact and start using children as mules for the security checks.
Thanks. I'd never really needed to know what 'narcotic' meant, but now I do. I'd always used it synonymously as 'illegal drug'
... then move to the new Mozilla release schedule and release versions 13, 14, 15 and 16 all within 2 months and no noticeable improvement between them.
No - I had it turned on for a bit and that made it even worse. I've had the same choppy interaction with iTunes UI for about the last 4 years (which is way before WIFI syncing got added)
The app is snappy
How did you manage that? I've installed it on multiple machines (all fairly decent ones) and it's never been 'snappy'. 'Dog slow' is how I'd describe it. Admittedly I have about 60G of music on there, but it normally takes about 15s to load up and frequently locks up when doing anything with an iphone for about 20s before the UI will become responsive again. It's as if Apple devs never heard of multithreading or windows message loops to allow UI interaction whilst doing background processing.
Neither LSD nor ecstacy is a narcotic, so this is obviously nonsense.
Really? I thought they were. Wikipedia states "When used in a legal context in the US, a narcotic drug is simply one that is totally prohibited, or one that is used in violation of strict governmental regulation, such as heroin or morphine.". Does LSD/ecstacy not fall under this definition?
That implies that the Feds used Tor to shut down a narcotics store, which is not what is meant. It is meant that there was a narcotics store that used Tor that the Feds have now shut down.
I personally prefer the experience of a movie theatre to the small screen. I suspect others might also. So producers should learn to budget to profit from theatre shows, and sell downloads for a dollar or $2 as additional profit.
It depends on the theatre. Where I live there are a couple of theatres that offer better sound/picture/seating than my living room but there are some (the Odeon/Cineworld) that are horrible - there is not enough leg room and the seats are less comfy than my cinema. In that case I prefer my living room even though the picture isn't as big and the sound isn't as good. Plus I don't have to put up with rustling packets of crisps from other people etc throughout the film.
So not only do you want total freedom for your music to be able play it on any device, you want every vendor to hand-hold you through the procedure of moving it from one device to another? If you can't figure out for yourself how to copy music from your iPad to another machine then I wonder how you found a site like slashdot and signed up to post comments.
Yes, they did. It went on a bit and eventually got dropped. The only active case (echostar) was found in favour of NDS a few weeks ago (http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2012/03/19/nds-receives-18m-in-echostar-damages/).
Yeah, I thought this had come and gone already. There were even lawsuits over it IIRC.
Yeah, there were. Two were dropped when NewsCorp acquired the parent companies many years later and the third closed a couple of weeks ago finding NDS guilty on just one technicality and cleared of the rest. Echostar (Dish) won $1,000 in damages and were forced to pay $18M in costs, but when has the outcome of a court-case been as sensational as exposés? Strange that the BBC/guardian articles about this fail to mention the court cases that have been ongoing for a decade.
Will a million people tweeting and facebooking about it actually do anything useful? Or will the Twats of Hollywood just go "lots of people are complaining but done are actually doing anything so stop us - send in the lawyers and close the case"
I'm an advocate of the pen-and-paper method too. Beer should be about the experience, the feel and the art of it. Too much technology takes the fun out of brewing for me.
That said, my scales broke before the last brew I did. I had to guess at all the quantities - also I didn't have my standardised grist hopper (B&Q bucket) so my estimates were a bit off. The beer turned out at 1.074OG! Oops.
I get it. They're following the Wii model:
Rapid gesticulation to control device
Accidentally throw device across room
Have to buy new device to replace broken one
Profit!
There are advantages and disadvantages to all forms of services and applications. One thing I have noticed about Google maps - even in my small town, literally WEEKS after a new construction project was finished, their maps were updated to reflect the change in the streets.
That's pretty good for Google. I've had map errors that I've submitted to them that have taken months to fix, but you've obviously had a better experience than I have. That said, for major new roads (such as the A3 tunnel past the Devil's Punchbowl in the UK), the OSM map data was up-to-date within MINUTES of the road opening.
Did it not automatically reroute when you discovered the.... oh... nevermind.
Google is up-to-date, but in some cases it's completely wrong. They've recently changed from buying in map data from one source to amalgamating it from many many sources. This provides a headache for google as they can't manually fix things that are wrong as the fixes will be overwritten by the automated amalgamation in a week's time or so.
Take for example Normansland. There is no place in the New Forest called Normansland. There is one up the road called Nomansland (without the 'r') but for some reason Google has this mythical 'Normansland' in its dataset (in a different place from Nomansland!) and can't easily get rid of it. Their mapping data will get better as the work on it, but in the last year or so it has actually gone downhill.
this is supposedly needed to make the Siri UX good enough for Apple's standards.
As long as Apple have an excuse they'll use it to try and persuade people to upgrade. Siri would have worked on the iPhone 4. Yes, it would have worked better on the 4S but I'd be astonished if the reason it was not on the 3G/3GS/4S was technical and not marketing.