PROTIP: don't copy entire DVDs/BluRays to your device, encode to MKV at 720p to reduce a movie down to about 1GB. Also has the added benefit of stripping out all the pointless unskippable rubbish before the movie starts.
MKV that is Matroska, is just the container format. The video part of the movie could be encoded as H.264, but MKV allows other video formats just as well. And all kinds of audio formats, of course.
Life is not prisoner's dilemma. It's iterated prisoner's dilemma because people can actually build up reputations. It's been shown that the best stable strategy is tit-for-tat plus forgiveness.
Do you have a reference? I would be super-thankful.
One of the reasons that I enjoy programming is because you can embed little jokes into the source without end users noticing -- they're like easter eggs.
Even a powerful and flexible tool is useless if teachers don't know how to use it. I had the same experience with Multimedia Interactive Whiteboards at my daughter school: great potential, but teachers ignore the features and have no practice.
I agree, in principle, very strongly. However, I don't feel like criticizing this move very much, given the relatively low price of the device. I find it more laughable the initiative of some US schools to give iPad 2's to highschool pupils.
Is this the most idiotic patent awarded to Apple, yet?
The tragedy isn't (just) that Apple had the gull to submit this shite to the USPTO, and it's not just a tragedy that it has been awarded: the other tragic fact is, Apple is actually going to use this shit, to thwart competitors.
Reddit, Digg, YouTube, and FaceBook have a standard of comments so low that Slashdot looks like the Encyclopedia Brittanica in contrast.
Reddit is huge, and at least the sections I frequent, have very high standards in posts and replies. I mostly frequent/r/askscience/ and/r/science/ My experience is phenomenal, especially after being "trained" by the awful Slashdot editors. The replies on Slashdot are, of course, great and the only good thing about the site, but the reddit sections I most follow have a higher average quality.
I know that this is normally a forum to bash **AA, but the fact still remains that Kim Dotcom made his fortune by providing a service that was used to circumvent paying for content.
Sop do DVD and Blu-ray writer manufacturers, and blank media manufacturers. Also HD manufacturers. Also all Internet service providers. All these are used to "circumvent paying for content."
Who decides what is and what is not obscene? Shouldn't that be the decision of the shareholders?
It should, but it almost never is. Publicly traded corporations are woefully mismanaged exactly because there is no owner in direct control of what is really going on in such a company. The bonuses and salaries of top executives, including their awesome severance packages, is just such an example: these are decided by the board of directors (a bunch of corporate psychopaths connected with the CxOs) and the executives.
Mergers, acquisitions and firings of tens of thousands of employees are other such decisions that the shareholders have no actual influence on. You think there were no shareholders outraged at Stephen Elop's decision to kill both Symbian and Meego in one sweep and putting the fate of Nokia into Microsoft's hands? Ultimately, however, those shareholders could do jack, and now Nokia's marketshare AND share value are in the toilet.
Insightful? Almost every purported author of the Bible was at the lowest strung of society, many having been martyred. Exceptions include David, Solomon and Moses. The first two have some not so flattering things written about them and Moses was leader of a bunch of desert dwellers.
Emphasis mine. In fact, spreading the notion that the founders of a religion were poor and martyrs play directly into the hands of those who use religion to dominate and subjugate.
The only way to torture these criminals is while they're alive. Get to it.
Indeed. The whole idea of "heaven" and "hell" was invented by the dominant classes, to keep the little guys at bay: "yeah, we're kinda rich now, and your life sucks monkeyballs, but one day ye shall inherit the earth, the eternal life in heaven awaits you, while we are at grave risk of going to hell".
How many people use Windows in a business setting and then don't use MS Office?
A fuckton of them, actually. They're the minority, for sure, but not a small minority. We're talking millions of corporate users that have OpenOffice installed instead of MS Office.
According to some reviews, the Nexus 7 is the fastest Android tablet to date. Add the retina display, and you got yourself an expensive little piece of kit.
And this, ladies and gentlement, is why real science is done by not only performing the experiement and recording the results, but by writing up your method with sufficient clarity that your results can be replicated by independent researchers.
I had a referee rejecting my paper because, I shit you not, my description of the experiment and apparatus was too detailed. But I have not engaged in any pedantery, I described the bare minimum necessary to reproduce the results, didn't use or describe any exotic chemicals or mixtures, nothing that a person in the same community of research wouldn't have found normal and necessary to repeat my experiment.
I thought of writing a strongly-worded e-mail to the editor, but my adviser... advised against.
I'm surprised any ruling was even necessary. At least in Finland (and I know of at least a few other EU countries), it was always possible to resell "used" software. Even and especially on the Finnish version of eBay.
Yeah, I'm not surprised. I have several issues with Fedora, and stopped using it years ago. I don't think many would be using it if it weren't for the backing and implications of RedHat.
If anything, more applications should have command lines.
This. Fucking, THIS! All our scientific equipment (that is controlled by a PC, which means 90% of them) has a GUI. And a host of bugs or user errors related to the GUI. And then, contacting the vendor and getting support is a nightmare, with a GUI. My dream is that all of these devices get a CLI so I can just issue unambiguous commands of the type
set O2FLOW 65 set SF6FLOW 200 move sample TEST1 react_1 set DCPOWER 50 process 3000s start
That would be also scriptable, flexible, powerful, and as I said, unambiguous and easy to debug.
Why? Small Roman farmers were slowly outcompeted by large landowners. That prepared the Roman Empire for the coming feudal ages.
The Roman coinage inflated from 4.5 grams of silver per denarium during the Republic era to 3.8 grams during the Nero's reign. That's about 0.0005% of yearly inflation. I.e. essentially nothing. The natural influx of precious metals from mining was several magnitudes bigger. And by the time of Nero the collapse of independent farmers was well under way.
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It isn't all that much of a stretch from Pinochet to Kim Dotcom
Let's see: one is accused of copyrights infringement, the other of murdering thousands.
Yeah, not much of a stretch.
Not even by mistake.
That's true, the Nexus 7 is currently overall the fastest Android tablet (or Android device) available.
PROTIP: don't copy entire DVDs/BluRays to your device, encode to MKV at 720p to reduce a movie down to about 1GB. Also has the added benefit of stripping out all the pointless unskippable rubbish before the movie starts.
MKV that is Matroska, is just the container format. The video part of the movie could be encoded as H.264, but MKV allows other video formats just as well. And all kinds of audio formats, of course.
Life is not prisoner's dilemma. It's iterated prisoner's dilemma because people can actually build up reputations. It's been shown that the best stable strategy is tit-for-tat plus forgiveness.
Do you have a reference? I would be super-thankful.
One of the reasons that I enjoy programming is because you can embed little jokes into the source without end users noticing -- they're like easter eggs.
Or vagina.
Even a powerful and flexible tool is useless if teachers don't know how to use it. I had the same experience with Multimedia Interactive Whiteboards at my daughter school: great potential, but teachers ignore the features and have no practice.
I agree, in principle, very strongly. However, I don't feel like criticizing this move very much, given the relatively low price of the device. I find it more laughable the initiative of some US schools to give iPad 2's to highschool pupils.
Is this the most idiotic patent awarded to Apple, yet?
The tragedy isn't (just) that Apple had the gull to submit this shite to the USPTO, and it's not just a tragedy that it has been awarded: the other tragic fact is, Apple is actually going to use this shit, to thwart competitors.
with the exception of r/spacedicks that place is a cesspool
Punctuation is your friend; use it.
Reddit, Digg, YouTube, and FaceBook have a standard of comments so low that Slashdot looks like the Encyclopedia Brittanica in contrast.
Reddit is huge, and at least the sections I frequent, have very high standards in posts and replies. I mostly frequent /r/askscience/ and /r/science/
My experience is phenomenal, especially after being "trained" by the awful Slashdot editors. The replies on Slashdot are, of course, great and the only good thing about the site, but the reddit sections I most follow have a higher average quality.
I know that this is normally a forum to bash **AA, but the fact still remains that Kim Dotcom made his fortune by providing a service that was used to circumvent paying for content.
Sop do DVD and Blu-ray writer manufacturers, and blank media manufacturers. Also HD manufacturers. Also all Internet service providers. All these are used to "circumvent paying for content."
Who decides what is and what is not obscene? Shouldn't that be the decision of the shareholders?
It should, but it almost never is. Publicly traded corporations are woefully mismanaged exactly because there is no owner in direct control of what is really going on in such a company. The bonuses and salaries of top executives, including their awesome severance packages, is just such an example: these are decided by the board of directors (a bunch of corporate psychopaths connected with the CxOs) and the executives.
Mergers, acquisitions and firings of tens of thousands of employees are other such decisions that the shareholders have no actual influence on. You think there were no shareholders outraged at Stephen Elop's decision to kill both Symbian and Meego in one sweep and putting the fate of Nokia into Microsoft's hands? Ultimately, however, those shareholders could do jack, and now Nokia's marketshare AND share value are in the toilet.
Insightful? Almost every purported author of the Bible was at the lowest strung of society, many having been martyred. Exceptions include David, Solomon and Moses. The first two have some not so flattering things written about them and Moses was leader of a bunch of desert dwellers.
Emphasis mine. In fact, spreading the notion that the founders of a religion were poor and martyrs play directly into the hands of those who use religion to dominate and subjugate.
There is no hell.
The only way to torture these criminals is while they're alive. Get to it.
Indeed. The whole idea of "heaven" and "hell" was invented by the dominant classes, to keep the little guys at bay: "yeah, we're kinda rich now, and your life sucks monkeyballs, but one day ye shall inherit the earth, the eternal life in heaven awaits you, while we are at grave risk of going to hell".
How many people use Windows in a business setting and then don't use MS Office?
A fuckton of them, actually. They're the minority, for sure, but not a small minority. We're talking millions of corporate users that have OpenOffice installed instead of MS Office.
According to some reviews, the Nexus 7 is the fastest Android tablet to date. Add the retina display, and you got yourself an expensive little piece of kit.
And this, ladies and gentlement, is why real science is done by not only performing the experiement and recording the results, but by writing up your method with sufficient clarity that your results can be replicated by independent researchers.
I had a referee rejecting my paper because, I shit you not, my description of the experiment and apparatus was too detailed. But I have not engaged in any pedantery, I described the bare minimum necessary to reproduce the results, didn't use or describe any exotic chemicals or mixtures, nothing that a person in the same community of research wouldn't have found normal and necessary to repeat my experiment.
I thought of writing a strongly-worded e-mail to the editor, but my adviser... advised against.
I'm surprised any ruling was even necessary. At least in Finland (and I know of at least a few other EU countries), it was always possible to resell "used" software. Even and especially on the Finnish version of eBay.
..fedora
Yeah, I'm not surprised. I have several issues with Fedora, and stopped using it years ago. I don't think many would be using it if it weren't for the backing and implications of RedHat.
Reactive ion etching. Do I win a prize?
The other AC guessed the substrate's material, too, so no, no prize for you.
Doing any reactive ion etching of silicon lately? ;D
Guilty as charged, comrade!
Just the other day a Linux distro decided that they want to do away with "Upgrade Kernel Without Reboot" feature of Linux
Which distro is that?
If anything, more applications should have command lines.
This. Fucking, THIS!
All our scientific equipment (that is controlled by a PC, which means 90% of them) has a GUI. And a host of bugs or user errors related to the GUI. And then, contacting the vendor and getting support is a nightmare, with a GUI. My dream is that all of these devices get a CLI so I can just issue unambiguous commands of the type
That would be also scriptable, flexible, powerful, and as I said, unambiguous and easy to debug.
Why? Small Roman farmers were slowly outcompeted by large landowners. That prepared the Roman Empire for the coming feudal ages.
The Roman coinage inflated from 4.5 grams of silver per denarium during the Republic era to 3.8 grams during the Nero's reign. That's about 0.0005% of yearly inflation. I.e. essentially nothing. The natural influx of precious metals from mining was several magnitudes bigger. And by the time of Nero the collapse of independent farmers was well under way.
Correct! All of it.
All that is true and accurate. However, Type I diabetes has typically a much more devastating outcome.