Your analogy is horrible. When installing Flash means you can no longer install an mp4 player, let me know.
To say nothing of the fact that vector-based graphics and scripting (with embedded video) is a different beast from compressed video is a different beast from compressed audio.
-Apple is not stupid. They know about the Osborne Effect - that releasing too much hype and information on new products causes immediate losses as people who would have bought the current product sit and wait for the new product's release instead.
And they explicitly want people who would buy the current product to sit and wait for the new product's release instead. Because the current product is an Android phone. It's worth losing some sales now to keep people on the iPhone instead of switching to the Android.
And these people who won't invite you to their "events" if they have to shoot you an email... You call them "friends"?
Yes. It's not because of the extra work, its because they start to forget. Then they ask why you didn't show up, never realize that their "facebook invite to all my friends" missed you.
I don't understand why they don't use e-mail lists (my preferred way), but then again I don't understand synchronous texting either.
Our society is getting all sorts of fucked up and it usually seems to center around moronic school officials and their power trips and FUD about how some kid with a Jolly Rancher will somehow turn out to be a murderous psychopath who wants to raze an entire school.
The school says "No candy because it makes a mess". Which I understand. Jolly Rancher wrappers get everywhere, gum under the desks, etc. A few bad apples (or a lot of littering kids) ruin it for the people who would be responsible, but that's the ways laws work.
No, it was totally regulated even then. AT&T was a government granted monopoly with regulation at both the State and Federal level. AT&T had just achieved regulatory capture.
Yes, monopolies are bad.
Yeah, I hated AT&T when it was a government regulated monopoly. Stupid AT&T inventing transistors and C and UNIX and discovering cosmic background radiation.
There are interesting parts of this story, essentially the rest of the apparatus is hot melt glue, yogurt lids, etc. And it's interesting to make a medical device out of what most people would consider trash. But a Salad Spinner is a centrifuge, so I don't see why we'd focus on that.
Everytime they shoot themselves in the foot like this, public awareness and knowledge of DRM goes up.
I tend to think of it as lost revenue. Because of this issue, people could be forced to return the BD+. Then some percentage of them will download it as opposed to wait for the problem to get fixed.
Hell, the people who ripped it and uploaded it may already returned it, claiming to have been affected (people who rip and upload movies not being well-known for honesty concerning disk purchases).
Performance aside, why would anyone want there to be a dominate web platform that's controlled by a single company, unless you happen to work for that single company?
Because that one company can enforce a standard, in a way that w3c cannot.
I tend to be anti-fork, because that way leads to compatibility issues. I'd rather one group be responsible for the rendering engine/Flash/what-have-you.
Seriously, does anybody besides Adobe want Flash to become the dominate platform for anything other than little browser games?
Sure. But then again, I don't want anything to do with interactive websites with the exception of video.
People bitch a lot about Flash for the same reason they bitch a lot about VB (esp. VB Macros). Non/bad programmers churn out a lot of crap, so the signal-to-noise ratio is really low. Keeping it isolated in a plugin I whitelist, as opposed to being part of every website, is great. Quite a few websites break with Javascript off. Few websites break with Flash off. Please keep all your crap code in Flash with the rest of the page isolated.
Being fired and escorted off the property is a far far better thing than going to jail for 5 years.
Being fired and escorted off the property is far far better than being fired and escorted to jail for five years. But if they were fired from a financial institution over a ethical/security breach I doubt they'll be able to get another job in that industry. For some people and for some industries, they would rather spend five years in jail and work when they got out in their chosen field then be exiled from it forever.
No, what CONSUMERS "should" do is to QUIT buying software that's subject to such prone-obsolescence systems
Because market failures are clearly superior to government interference?
Maintaining the multiplayer servers is a good anti-piracy measure; good for the company. Also, it's good for the player to know the server is trustworthy. But that means the company can pull the plug... good for the company, but bad for the consumer. Since that can be mitigated by giving the server executables to people, maybe that's a realistic thing to have forced upon the companies by the government.
And I doubt it was "planned obsolescence". The 360 has been out for over five years. How long would you expect the company to maintain the servers?
You do realization that taxation was mentioned in exactly 1 of the 29 specific grievances? There were a lot of issues that had nothing to do with taxation in the American Revolution.
"Yes, sir, we truly believe you need that, it's all for your own good!"
You buying health insurance isn't about whether its good for you. In fact, they assume it will be bad for you (hence having to be forced to buy it). However, if people can only buy insurance if it is a good deal, then that leads to market failures. This becomes especially true when pre-existing conditions are no longer able to disqualify you from getting insurance.
Many (if not most/all) religions thinks otherwise.
Judaism certainly doesn't believe everyone has to follow their tenets. They think everyone has to follow a relatively small subset (7) of their commandments, about half of which are universally acknowledged (no kidnapping, no murder, there should be some code of law for a country), one which seems humane but I don't know about its universality (no eating flesh from a live animal - kill it first), two which seek to limit polytheism but not atheism (anti-blasphemy and anti-idolatry) and one which would be heavily disputed on this board (anti-specific sex practices... some in dispute and some beyond the pale).
That said, Judaism doesn't ever claim you get a reward/punishment for following/breaking the rules. Some groups within Judaism do, but they are the minority. The religious texts are silent about it.
That argument insulates any discussion of morality or appropriateness. You can walk down the streets in a KKK hood -- it doesn't make it right or acceptable, and I should hope people would condemn you.
True, it can be a blessing. Be able to run well with older/cheaper hardware is great.
Agfa Pro Scanners you say?
The problem is with that is, really cool stuff (CNC machines, for instance) are worth keeping another OS around for or getting new drivers for, so there's nowhere cheap to pick those up.
What does color add. And who the hell wants to hear the actors talk?
It'll become a staple, and 2D movies will eventually fall by the wayside.
Also, it'll add more as directors figure out how to use it in a non-gimmicky way.
I suppose by "tastefully" you mean something like the more restrained use of 3D in Coraline
More restrained or more artistic, one or the other. I doubt we know what it'll mean to be used tastefully for 5 years or so.
In fact, the only reason I even went to see Avatar was to check out its use of 3D
Me too. That, and what someone other than Lucas would do with an unlimited CG budget and a goal of realism.
Cameron's a talented director (and whatever its other problems, Avatar is certainly well-directed) but his movies are too long, he's developed an irritating and naive moral agenda, are stories are just plain dumb
I agree his movies are too long, and his stories are stolen and then made worse. I'm not sure if he's a talented director. I don't know how to judge it. I never liked any of his characters, and I figure he's to blame.
His eco-point (what I assume you meant with morality) was just a non-point. If the planet were alive, X. But what does that say about if the planet is not alive?
And if you tighten the question to "What percentage of scanners manufactured in the past year work today in Windows 7?" I'd wager it's a much higher percentage than Linux.
I use Linux for some things, I use Windows for some things. But I don't think it's a question that if you want things with latest/greatest drivers, you're in Windows land.
Yes, it is buggy and inefficient. But that is now. As technology improves, the simple browser will serve the 95% of the needs of 95% of the population.
And by that time, any browser sufficently advanced enough will be subject to malware. I don't want to execute code on websites so I don't have to worry about trusting every idiot with my device.
To say nothing of bad code being slow. But hey, that only breaks if you have Flash/JavaScript on your websites or Java in your movies.
3 candidates won the presidency without the popular vote and I believe that's 3 too many. 3/44 = 6.8%
Well, you forgot to account for when the people didn't even directly elect their electors.
But I don't see why the popular vote is the end all be all. There is a portion of the vote allocated to the people (435 electors) and a portion allocated to the states (100 electors).
They were forced to resort to indirect democracy 200 years ago because they lacked the infrastructure for direct democracy, but that limitation is long gone now.
There are a lot of valid arguments against a direct democracy. Look at California's ballot initatives. Think about the amplifying effect of Big (Inert Bugaboo)'s spending. I say, we go back to uncommitted electors.
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Your analogy is horrible. When installing Flash means you can no longer install an mp4 player, let me know.
To say nothing of the fact that vector-based graphics and scripting (with embedded video) is a different beast from compressed video is a different beast from compressed audio.
And they explicitly want people who would buy the current product to sit and wait for the new product's release instead. Because the current product is an Android phone. It's worth losing some sales now to keep people on the iPhone instead of switching to the Android.
Yes. It's not because of the extra work, its because they start to forget. Then they ask why you didn't show up, never realize that their "facebook invite to all my friends" missed you.
I don't understand why they don't use e-mail lists (my preferred way), but then again I don't understand synchronous texting either.
The school says "No candy because it makes a mess". Which I understand. Jolly Rancher wrappers get everywhere, gum under the desks, etc. A few bad apples (or a lot of littering kids) ruin it for the people who would be responsible, but that's the ways laws work.
Yeah, I hated AT&T when it was a government regulated monopoly. Stupid AT&T inventing transistors and C and UNIX and discovering cosmic background radiation.
There are interesting parts of this story, essentially the rest of the apparatus is hot melt glue, yogurt lids, etc. And it's interesting to make a medical device out of what most people would consider trash. But a Salad Spinner is a centrifuge, so I don't see why we'd focus on that.
I tend to think of it as lost revenue. Because of this issue, people could be forced to return the BD+. Then some percentage of them will download it as opposed to wait for the problem to get fixed.
Hell, the people who ripped it and uploaded it may already returned it, claiming to have been affected (people who rip and upload movies not being well-known for honesty concerning disk purchases).
Because that one company can enforce a standard, in a way that w3c cannot.
I tend to be anti-fork, because that way leads to compatibility issues. I'd rather one group be responsible for the rendering engine/Flash/what-have-you.
Sure. But then again, I don't want anything to do with interactive websites with the exception of video.
People bitch a lot about Flash for the same reason they bitch a lot about VB (esp. VB Macros). Non/bad programmers churn out a lot of crap, so the signal-to-noise ratio is really low. Keeping it isolated in a plugin I whitelist, as opposed to being part of every website, is great. Quite a few websites break with Javascript off. Few websites break with Flash off. Please keep all your crap code in Flash with the rest of the page isolated.
Being fired and escorted off the property is far far better than being fired and escorted to jail for five years. But if they were fired from a financial institution over a ethical/security breach I doubt they'll be able to get another job in that industry. For some people and for some industries, they would rather spend five years in jail and work when they got out in their chosen field then be exiled from it forever.
Got a link or two? That's as cheap and maybe faster than out-of-warranty repairs, and I can move my HD, etc. over.
Because market failures are clearly superior to government interference?
Maintaining the multiplayer servers is a good anti-piracy measure; good for the company. Also, it's good for the player to know the server is trustworthy. But that means the company can pull the plug... good for the company, but bad for the consumer. Since that can be mitigated by giving the server executables to people, maybe that's a realistic thing to have forced upon the companies by the government.
And I doubt it was "planned obsolescence". The 360 has been out for over five years. How long would you expect the company to maintain the servers?
Microsoft. Microsoft wants my money. Google wants my personal history on file. Neither is free.
I'm fine writing a check instead of abdicating my privacy.
You do realization that taxation was mentioned in exactly 1 of the 29 specific grievances? There were a lot of issues that had nothing to do with taxation in the American Revolution.
It's exactly because of this, and the "My P3 got fired, so I replaced it with a 16-core uberputer" that McAfee had to specify "reasonable".
You buying health insurance isn't about whether its good for you. In fact, they assume it will be bad for you (hence having to be forced to buy it). However, if people can only buy insurance if it is a good deal, then that leads to market failures. This becomes especially true when pre-existing conditions are no longer able to disqualify you from getting insurance.
I cannot. That's why the government had anti-trust laws.
Judaism certainly doesn't believe everyone has to follow their tenets. They think everyone has to follow a relatively small subset (7) of their commandments, about half of which are universally acknowledged (no kidnapping, no murder, there should be some code of law for a country), one which seems humane but I don't know about its universality (no eating flesh from a live animal - kill it first), two which seek to limit polytheism but not atheism (anti-blasphemy and anti-idolatry) and one which would be heavily disputed on this board (anti-specific sex practices... some in dispute and some beyond the pale).
That said, Judaism doesn't ever claim you get a reward/punishment for following/breaking the rules. Some groups within Judaism do, but they are the minority. The religious texts are silent about it.
That argument insulates any discussion of morality or appropriateness. You can walk down the streets in a KKK hood -- it doesn't make it right or acceptable, and I should hope people would condemn you.
True, it can be a blessing. Be able to run well with older/cheaper hardware is great.
Agfa Pro Scanners you say?
The problem is with that is, really cool stuff (CNC machines, for instance) are worth keeping another OS around for or getting new drivers for, so there's nowhere cheap to pick those up.
Portable Apps + thumbdrive? Linux distro on a disc?
Not to mention, I don't know of any web app that doesn't duplicate what I would consider a ubiquitous desktop app, e.g. wordprocessing.
I've never been stymed by a lack of software on someone's computer where I knew of a reliable cloud based version.
What does color add. And who the hell wants to hear the actors talk?
It'll become a staple, and 2D movies will eventually fall by the wayside.
Also, it'll add more as directors figure out how to use it in a non-gimmicky way.
More restrained or more artistic, one or the other. I doubt we know what it'll mean to be used tastefully for 5 years or so.
Me too. That, and what someone other than Lucas would do with an unlimited CG budget and a goal of realism.
I agree his movies are too long, and his stories are stolen and then made worse. I'm not sure if he's a talented director. I don't know how to judge it. I never liked any of his characters, and I figure he's to blame.
His eco-point (what I assume you meant with morality) was just a non-point. If the planet were alive, X. But what does that say about if the planet is not alive?
And if you tighten the question to "What percentage of scanners manufactured in the past year work today in Windows 7?" I'd wager it's a much higher percentage than Linux.
I use Linux for some things, I use Windows for some things. But I don't think it's a question that if you want things with latest/greatest drivers, you're in Windows land.
And by that time, any browser sufficently advanced enough will be subject to malware. I don't want to execute code on websites so I don't have to worry about trusting every idiot with my device.
To say nothing of bad code being slow. But hey, that only breaks if you have Flash/JavaScript on your websites or Java in your movies.
Why is no one happy making content anymore?/p?
Well, you forgot to account for when the people didn't even directly elect their electors.
But I don't see why the popular vote is the end all be all. There is a portion of the vote allocated to the people (435 electors) and a portion allocated to the states (100 electors).
There are a lot of valid arguments against a direct democracy. Look at California's ballot initatives. Think about the amplifying effect of Big (Inert Bugaboo)'s spending. I say, we go back to uncommitted electors.
Bull. Barack H. Obama wasn't paid by Big Media.
He recieved payment in-kind.