Naa, that would be alcohol! Technology only becomes important when the beer/wine runs out.
People might think you're silly for stating such a thing but there may be a lot of truth to it. In the documentary How Beer Saved The World, there is a case being made that the demand for alcohol after we accidentally discovered it may have put pressure on improving agriculture technology. For those that don't know, (and this sounds just like humans) some human accidentally left a couple sacks of barley or wheat (can't remember) out in the rain. It fermented. When they rediscovered it, they weren't sure exactly what had happened but they smelled it and dared each other to drink it and of course there was one dude that took the dare. Fast forward to today, we have a booming alcohol business.
If you do a Google search it's easy to find the documentary.
Initially the ps4 didn't support DLNA. Last time my ps3 died, I bought another ps3 even though the ps4 was out because it still didn't support DLNA at that point in time.
I barely use it for games. I use it for Netflix, Amazon Prime, DLNA off a home file server, DVDs and Blu-rays.
I had exactly the same experience as you. It looks like Plex is available for PS4 now though!
When I retired in 2010, I moved all of my computers over to Linux and thats where they'll stay..
Kudos to you and I would do the same if it weren't for the fact that I can't use all the software I like on Linux and that is the problem. If Linux supported all the hardware and software that people commonly use, Windows would be a thing of the past.
JSON is more compact than XML, making it faster for computers to transfer and parse
Technically correct, but seriously you're going to use that as a main part of your argument? ZOMG post the benchmarks. What's the difference measured in on today's computing power, microseconds? nanoseconds? Give me a break. I'll give you points for creativity and humor.
This is an excessively abstract analysis of a fairly simple point - I thought you were a pragmatist:) Sure, ADVENT would not have been written without a healthy dose of idealism. OTOH the decision on how to license it is predominantly a practical matter revolving around the likely consequences of each choice. I'm not even sure "idealism" itself actually equates to "non-practical, theoretical consequences" - the claim is that these are practical problems you should take heed of, and I am pointing out that they're almost certainly not, and should be weighted accordingly.
Well by your logic we would be wise to plan for a Zombie Apocalypse then right? Because it can "theoretically" happen, therefore we ought to take that seriously as a logical possibility then right? In fact, with so many theoretical, logical possibilities of ways that things could go wrong, we better get really busy or we might get blind-sided. See the problem yet? You're welcome. It's your choice whether you want to keep your sanity or to play the "what if" game (called conjuring in psychology) and drive yourself nuts. Good luck!
It's difficult for me to tell who is correct here, you or the poster above.
Yes, the market is up high, so, from that perspective, it does look like we're due for a crash. At the same time, I haven't seen any gains from that "up" market. My stocks haven't really gone anywhere for the last 6000 points. Don't even need to mention my paycheck. And shortages everywhere; products, services, hours (part-time work), disposable income (side business is sales and nobody is buying), etc. I hate to say it, but if this was a boom, I'm terrified of a bust that I can't even conceive the depths of at this point.
I'm the one who's correct here. The fallacy here is that the GP is asserting that stock exchange averages like DJIA, S&P 500, are the measurement of economic health. WRONG. The usual measures of economic health are employment and GDP both of which have been limping along since the recession. The question you both ought to be asking is why are we observing an inverse relationship between stock exchange averages and these other macro-economic measurements. The answer to that is very fascinating. Do your research. I'll give you a hint. Large investment firms/banks have figured out how to game the system using statistical computer models and neural networks. It's been done in a way that's not particular beneficial to the majority of Americans. Do your homework. The truth is not always pretty.
This is puzzling. One day we are told 95% of indian engineers cannot code, and the other day India has huge number of highly skilled hackers.
They are actually not highly skilled. They are slightly elevated from "script kiddies". It's just that the rest of us are too stupid to take security seriously. Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows him?
That's because in America Gaslighting is the status quo especially in corporate America. It takes this form: "You are weak and should fear job loss if you don't work 80 hours a week." Basically, the labor shortage that was brought on by the Great Recession which was brought on by the Foreclosure crisis scared people to death. Corporate America wasted no time using this as an opportunity to terrorize the work force into being "more productive" with complete disregard for employee health. Also, this isn't really news. The good news is we are about to hit a boom cycle hopefully. Boom/bust economics folks.
Let me guess: you pirated the games. This kind of logic was an early copy protection mechanism. When you bought them, you got a little pamphlet with hints and clues for the hardest puzzles.
Oh? And I suppose that's why every computer game publication in the 80's and early 90's had a section devoted specifically to solving particularly difficult puzzles in various different games including many Infocom games?
So yes, public domain is better, and theoretical objections are not equal in weight to practical objections.
Realism vs. Idealism or Pragmatism vs. Abstract Thinking if you will. That is an argument that can't be won no matter how carefully crafted your argument is. It's been argued throughout the ages by some of the greatest minds. For example, Plato and Aristotle. I too am a realist and a pragmatist but the more you argue with a staunch idealist the more emotionally exhausting it becomes and that is because the attachment to idealism is an emotional one not a rational one. In my humble opinion, idealism is a compass whereas realism and pragmatism is how you actually take ideas and make them into a reality. Idealism is the gas that goes in the gas tank, the vehicle is how that gas is converted into something of real value. You can't have one without the other.
Awesome, thanks! It's crazy reading C code that is using goto's and labels representing line numbers to make a direct port hopefully minimizing the possibly of side effects in the port. Wow.
Window 10 does track too much, and you can't even opt out of it.
True, you can't opt out of it within Windows which is pretty much unethical in my book. There are third party tools available (like Spybot Antibeacon) where you really can turn it off.
Know what the problem is? Remember all that talk about big data being the next big thing? It's here and all this "telemetry" data is being sold because it is considered very valuable.
"but it's unclear if that correction will start from current prices of $2700 or from some place much higher."
I wish I had a job like this. There will be a correction, but it might happen today, or 10,000 years from now.
Yeah, you know, some day the world might end or it might not. If it does end it could be sooner or later, it's hard to tell. Whatever the case may be we should all be prepared for it if that day ever comes. Now that's what I call news.
I guess that's why Netflix is failing and has no subscribers right?
Non-sequitir. Netflix is a subscription based service, Playstation Plus is a subscription based service therefore if PSP would fail then Netflix should also fail. The real truth is streaming video SaaS model is very different from video game SaaS model.
"All-you-can-eat electronic monthly subscription service" versus Gamefly which would be the Netflix (DVD service) of videogames.
Don't you love it when history repeats itself? It is like Gamefly. It's also like Playstation Plus except Playstation Plus does some rather despicable things like working with game studios to ensure certain content is only accessible if you also have a Playstation Plus subscription, for example: Destiny. I think Call of Duty does this too. The adolescents don't really care because Mommy and Daddy are footing the bill. XBox subscription does that same thing.
Want to know the real root cause of all this subscription nonsense? It all started on Wall Street. There is a little thing called General Accepted Accounting Principles which is the way that publicly traded companies have to disclose their quarterly SEC filings. Investors use quarterly SEC filings in addition to other things to determine whether to buy or dump stocks. Subscription based income looks a lot better on paper than arbitrary contracts with different lengths and products being sold in inconsistent quantities over time. Investors want to know in more detail what to expect when investing their money. So, guess what? You, the consumer, get screwed so some rich investment banker can have their risk tolerance satisfied. I love America.
It would have been infinitely better to have something that was actually part of the JSON spec, but this is a second best option.
And also, I understand this to me that if XSD was not part of the XML specification that XML Validators wouldn't work nearly as good then eh? You better quit while you're ahead.
Translation: I don't really know what the fuck I'm talking about and I want to back-pedal gracefully soas not to get my ego bruised too much resulting in butt hurt. Next time, before you open your mouth, do a Google search.
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks.
You're welcome. Sometimes Truth is Stranger than Fiction :)
Naa, that would be alcohol! Technology only becomes important when the beer/wine runs out.
People might think you're silly for stating such a thing but there may be a lot of truth to it. In the documentary How Beer Saved The World, there is a case being made that the demand for alcohol after we accidentally discovered it may have put pressure on improving agriculture technology. For those that don't know, (and this sounds just like humans) some human accidentally left a couple sacks of barley or wheat (can't remember) out in the rain. It fermented. When they rediscovered it, they weren't sure exactly what had happened but they smelled it and dared each other to drink it and of course there was one dude that took the dare. Fast forward to today, we have a booming alcohol business.
If you do a Google search it's easy to find the documentary.
"I found the root cause of all of our problems. It's people. They're buggy."
My work here is done. I'll leave this as an exercise for you all: The solution to this problem is ____________.
After that it's turtles all the way down, as I keep typing in the same urls like a laboratory crack monkey seeking its next hit from the lever.
We all live in an operant conditioning chamber
:)
An operant conditioning chamber
An operant conditioning chamber
An operant conditioning chamber
We all live in an operant conditioning chamber
An operant conditioning chamber
An operant conditioning chamber
An operant conditioning chamber
Is that you mean by "turtle"?
Initially the ps4 didn't support DLNA. Last time my ps3 died, I bought another ps3 even though the ps4 was out because it still didn't support DLNA at that point in time.
I barely use it for games. I use it for Netflix, Amazon Prime, DLNA off a home file server, DVDs and Blu-rays.
I had exactly the same experience as you. It looks like Plex is available for PS4 now though!
That's called inflation. You would do well to understand its impact on your financial situation and guard against it best you can.
When I retired in 2010, I moved all of my computers over to Linux and thats where they'll stay..
Kudos to you and I would do the same if it weren't for the fact that I can't use all the software I like on Linux and that is the problem. If Linux supported all the hardware and software that people commonly use, Windows would be a thing of the past.
JSON is more compact than XML, making it faster for computers to transfer and parse
Technically correct, but seriously you're going to use that as a main part of your argument? ZOMG post the benchmarks. What's the difference measured in on today's computing power, microseconds? nanoseconds? Give me a break. I'll give you points for creativity and humor.
This is an excessively abstract analysis of a fairly simple point - I thought you were a pragmatist :) Sure, ADVENT would not have been written without a healthy dose of idealism. OTOH the decision on how to license it is predominantly a practical matter revolving around the likely consequences of each choice. I'm not even sure "idealism" itself actually equates to "non-practical, theoretical consequences" - the claim is that these are practical problems you should take heed of, and I am pointing out that they're almost certainly not, and should be weighted accordingly.
Well by your logic we would be wise to plan for a Zombie Apocalypse then right? Because it can "theoretically" happen, therefore we ought to take that seriously as a logical possibility then right? In fact, with so many theoretical, logical possibilities of ways that things could go wrong, we better get really busy or we might get blind-sided. See the problem yet? You're welcome. It's your choice whether you want to keep your sanity or to play the "what if" game (called conjuring in psychology) and drive yourself nuts. Good luck!
It's difficult for me to tell who is correct here, you or the poster above.
Yes, the market is up high, so, from that perspective, it does look like we're due for a crash. At the same time, I haven't seen any gains from that "up" market. My stocks haven't really gone anywhere for the last 6000 points. Don't even need to mention my paycheck. And shortages everywhere; products, services, hours (part-time work), disposable income (side business is sales and nobody is buying), etc. I hate to say it, but if this was a boom, I'm terrified of a bust that I can't even conceive the depths of at this point.
I'm the one who's correct here. The fallacy here is that the GP is asserting that stock exchange averages like DJIA, S&P 500, are the measurement of economic health. WRONG. The usual measures of economic health are employment and GDP both of which have been limping along since the recession. The question you both ought to be asking is why are we observing an inverse relationship between stock exchange averages and these other macro-economic measurements. The answer to that is very fascinating. Do your research. I'll give you a hint. Large investment firms/banks have figured out how to game the system using statistical computer models and neural networks. It's been done in a way that's not particular beneficial to the majority of Americans. Do your homework. The truth is not always pretty.
It is not a productivity issue. It is a control issue. Numerous studies have already shown past 40 hours, no vacation, reduces productivity.
You do realize "more productive" was in quotes right? That's called sarcasm.
This is puzzling. One day we are told 95% of indian engineers cannot code, and the other day India has huge number of highly skilled hackers.
They are actually not highly skilled. They are slightly elevated from "script kiddies". It's just that the rest of us are too stupid to take security seriously. Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows him?
That's because in America Gaslighting is the status quo especially in corporate America. It takes this form: "You are weak and should fear job loss if you don't work 80 hours a week." Basically, the labor shortage that was brought on by the Great Recession which was brought on by the Foreclosure crisis scared people to death. Corporate America wasted no time using this as an opportunity to terrorize the work force into being "more productive" with complete disregard for employee health. Also, this isn't really news. The good news is we are about to hit a boom cycle hopefully. Boom/bust economics folks.
Not to mention all the hint books that were sold for $10-15 a pop.
Let me guess: you pirated the games. This kind of logic was an early copy protection mechanism. When you bought them, you got a little pamphlet with hints and clues for the hardest puzzles.
Oh? And I suppose that's why every computer game publication in the 80's and early 90's had a section devoted specifically to solving particularly difficult puzzles in various different games including many Infocom games?
So yes, public domain is better, and theoretical objections are not equal in weight to practical objections.
Realism vs. Idealism or Pragmatism vs. Abstract Thinking if you will. That is an argument that can't be won no matter how carefully crafted your argument is. It's been argued throughout the ages by some of the greatest minds. For example, Plato and Aristotle. I too am a realist and a pragmatist but the more you argue with a staunch idealist the more emotionally exhausting it becomes and that is because the attachment to idealism is an emotional one not a rational one. In my humble opinion, idealism is a compass whereas realism and pragmatism is how you actually take ideas and make them into a reality. Idealism is the gas that goes in the gas tank, the vehicle is how that gas is converted into something of real value. You can't have one without the other.
Awesome, thanks! It's crazy reading C code that is using goto's and labels representing line numbers to make a direct port hopefully minimizing the possibly of side effects in the port. Wow.
If I doodle am I an artist? If I put air in my tires am I a mechanic? If I floss an I a dentist? If I buy plants am I a horticulturist?
It seems if merely downloading some code makes one a developer... we have a serious respectability problem as a profession.
If I'm an H-1B visa with a sketchy education background, am I really a software developer?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this essentially the definition of "defective by design?"
Nope. It was designed that way so your data could be harvested and aggregated with everyone else's to be sold. It's a very profitable business.
Window 10 does track too much, and you can't even opt out of it.
True, you can't opt out of it within Windows which is pretty much unethical in my book. There are third party tools available (like Spybot Antibeacon) where you really can turn it off.
Know what the problem is? Remember all that talk about big data being the next big thing? It's here and all this "telemetry" data is being sold because it is considered very valuable.
"but it's unclear if that correction will start from current prices of $2700 or from some place much higher." I wish I had a job like this. There will be a correction, but it might happen today, or 10,000 years from now.
Yeah, you know, some day the world might end or it might not. If it does end it could be sooner or later, it's hard to tell. Whatever the case may be we should all be prepared for it if that day ever comes. Now that's what I call news.
I guess that's why Netflix is failing and has no subscribers right?
Non-sequitir. Netflix is a subscription based service, Playstation Plus is a subscription based service therefore if PSP would fail then Netflix should also fail. The real truth is streaming video SaaS model is very different from video game SaaS model.
"All-you-can-eat electronic monthly subscription service" versus Gamefly which would be the Netflix (DVD service) of videogames.
Don't you love it when history repeats itself? It is like Gamefly. It's also like Playstation Plus except Playstation Plus does some rather despicable things like working with game studios to ensure certain content is only accessible if you also have a Playstation Plus subscription, for example: Destiny. I think Call of Duty does this too. The adolescents don't really care because Mommy and Daddy are footing the bill. XBox subscription does that same thing.
Want to know the real root cause of all this subscription nonsense? It all started on Wall Street. There is a little thing called General Accepted Accounting Principles which is the way that publicly traded companies have to disclose their quarterly SEC filings. Investors use quarterly SEC filings in addition to other things to determine whether to buy or dump stocks. Subscription based income looks a lot better on paper than arbitrary contracts with different lengths and products being sold in inconsistent quantities over time. Investors want to know in more detail what to expect when investing their money. So, guess what? You, the consumer, get screwed so some rich investment banker can have their risk tolerance satisfied. I love America.
It would have been infinitely better to have something that was actually part of the JSON spec, but this is a second best option.
And also, I understand this to me that if XSD was not part of the XML specification that XML Validators wouldn't work nearly as good then eh? You better quit while you're ahead.
Ever heard of Json Schema ?
Nope. Good to know! It would have been infinitely better to have something that was actually part of the JSON spec, but this is a second best option.
http://json-schema.org/
Translation: I don't really know what the fuck I'm talking about and I want to back-pedal gracefully soas not to get my ego bruised too much resulting in butt hurt. Next time, before you open your mouth, do a Google search.