I don't think they can win this because ____ store has a special place in the English language (and likely trademark law) as a generic entity. Market (formerly used by Android) does as well, by the way. General store, camera store, cell phone store, shoe store, 99 cent store, clothing store, grocery store, the list goes on. App is a generic term for application that did not originate with Apple. Any generic term with "store" placed in front of it is also generic.
Now, Sony Store, Microsoft Store, Apple App Store, Amazon Appstore, Android Market, etc are all trademarkable because the non-generic company names have been affixed to the label.
and let the tiny-dicked losers who drive SUVs and pickups pick up the tab.
I'm an SUV owner. I never planned to be, and during my $500 car phase I had gas sippers, but I got into multiple activities that require lots of cargo room and a good design for heavy objects which I must push in and pull out. (or be able to do so on my back, I'm not strong) Scuba diving (with plans at the time for technical scuba diving) convinced me to get a truck or an FJ Cruiser, and I went FJ Cruiser for security reasons.
I still take public transit to work and only use my SUV on the weekends. It's two years old and the interior looks terrible (dirty, heavily scratched trunk) and the exterior is starting to wear a tiny bit. It's not a fashion or status vehicle. I head to beaches and parks with my various gear, but not much else. I've made long drives with it (I'm on one now) but I needed every square inch of it every day during those times.
Also I am not of the johnsoned half of the population to begin with and I don't have a ton of kids (or any for that matter), but I do carpool with the SUV most times when I'm not diving.
But yeah, keep the stereotypes to yourself mmkay. Some people actually use SUVs for practical reasons.
(that said, I do appreciate all the non-practical users, their volume keeps prices down)
The author mostly had me with the first half of the article, then went overboard praising the Product Safety Commission and even worse, safety-related lawsuits. I'm glad guns are exempt -- many if not most product safety lawsuits are shining examples of why we need tort reform.
The end of the world will come when a introverted former postal employee + warcraft fan writes a ReiserFS IFS driver for windows and proceeds to install mcafee on first successfull boot while listening to linkin park.
Yay! A gun control debate after a big shooting! And look, I'm in it now!
That said, I'm on the side of the gun nuts. And the problem is really inborne. It used to be that more people were packing but now there's a social stigma associated with it -- so fewer "normal people" are going to look into the gun show loophole let alone take advantage of it. This stigma is far weaker in states dominated by gun nuts.
Has anyone done a study on the frequency _and_ severity of these incidents in gun control and gun freedom states? It seems that red states are winning this one, with freak incidents like the famous incident in Texas decades ago involving high ground and a sniper rifle.
And there certainly will be no workarounds. They won't raise the volume to disproportionate levels during the commercial break cliffhangers to make louder commercials legal. Why would they do that, especially with the benefit of heightened dramatic effect that exists independent of skirting the law?
You made some good points here. I guess it's all about ease. If Netflix had no DRM, people would use widely available video/audio capture software (hell, they'd just use FRAPS) to record everything, anytime. With DVD rentals, it takes a bit more effort. (going to/from redbox, the mailbox, etc.) There are physical limitations in place which mitigate copying. You have to be a bit of a nerd to work around it.
That said, I think SOME companies (in spite of the copy nazi groups like MAFIAA) recognize this and accept it as the right balance to get maximum exposure of their products with minimal freeloading. Maybe that's why it doesn't bother me. But yeah, some of the DRM measures are just stupid. Heh...
eh, doesn't really bother me in this case. Netflix has a reasonable business model and content creators do need to get paid. Of course it has DRM: We're essentially renting. We don't pay $8 per month to Netflix for ownership of anything. We DO pay $1-$30+ for digital downloads that we own, and the DRM on that is fucked up. I still buy dvds (typically used but I keep them, sometimes new) because I can rip those easily.
Let's keep our eyes on the ball, people. I've been a big fan of their streaming video since it came out and I never had issues with it. (And it isn't them writing that tablet vs computer vs tv bullshit which is retarded and unenforcable)
And that's what humans who make their profession studying other humans do. (And what I've just done with all anthropologists, sociologists, etc. Groovy) Sadly, though, stereotypes often reign true...but they will always be stereotypes and people who are hackers in Alabama, for instance, will probably laugh at the new wave of box office hacker stereotypes to emerge from this study.
p.s. plugging my tag "labrats", seems appropriate here...
Higher resolution (or poorer compression), yes. Loads faster, absolutely not. Drives me nuts frankly -- I abandon videos on my sketchy home wifi when the ads chug on Hulu. If anything I hope they learned from this study to keep the ads' bps close to that of the content.
In before a million posts about AdBlock. I put up with the ads simply because I want this business model to succeed. Yes, I suppose that makes me stupid. Though I'll be ready for the day they can seamlessly insert ads into the same stream as the program. (Ad blocker programs will have a hard time with that) Also, I take in a lot of media via Netflix, and no I don't pay for Hulu Plus.
With a wistful sigh, yes. It's one of those times when one must defy one's principles (in my case, freedom of information, a mild bias toward pacifism and non-interventionism) for the greater good. (our spies and informants not being found out and likely detained/executed, our technological secrets not falling into enemy hands, etc) Me from 10 years ago would disagree with me from today. To steal Penguinisto's quote (which I 100% agree with):
Because sometimes, the world is a disgusting, shitty place.
Note that I am not defending the activity of the military per se, but I also refuse to go along with the naive assumption that somehow you can avoid getting your hands dirty if you're a global player.
Says the rational American who realizes that the military may do a lot of really disgusting shit, so does every military. If we can't keep secrets, we will simply fail to be effective on the world stage. Bradley should have known going into this that he would be a martyr, and only history will tell if he ends up being a hero.
Definitely a feature. If you look at it though, these apps are just a native replacement for the MSN website...which has ads. Probably always has. I don't see the controversy here. If you don't want to see Microsoft's ads, don't use the preinstall internet apps like Finance, etc...
It certainly is clever, but only to those whose brains produce a level of gamma waves -- those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory --never before reported in neuroscience
Will read your entire post on the train, but I wanted to get this in before I make another error-laden post on an old Android phone viewing the desktop version of the site. (5 second refresh time = no way in hell I'm fixing errors)
No one has hit the nail on the head yet how to use technology to properly increase a student's ability to learn. If / when that time does come, teachers / professors will need to make a carefully calculated decision how they will react to it.
I agree and disagree with this. There are many hands-on tasks that require a teacher. On the flipside, there are many professions where teacher obsolescence is already happening -- PLENTY of software engineers out there with no degree. Then there are various shades of difficulty for automating the learning of other subjects. Math is probably one of the easiest to automate, where literature-related majors would be close to impossible. Technology such as Watson is making this possible, but we'll need to have Watson on our desktop before we can come close to automating lit.
In the meantime, there is much to learn if you want to learn. I mentioned the information age earlier because I see it as a revolution, one that's more important than the literacy revolution that Gutenberg sparked. With fewer barriers to information than ever in history, any motivated individual can pull their way out of virtually any miserable hole that they're born into. (and yes, I was born into a fucking hole compared to my current "average" lifestyle, so sorry if I'm overly passionate about the subject)
Teachers in many California districts can make more than most engineers, and the majority of them get lifelong pensions. Talking about public school teachers, mind you. I agree with the thread starter. The teachers WILL take heavy casualties as the information age blossoms and is more offreely distributed, but it will take a long time because of said teachers union. I suspect the only way for it to happen is for self studiers of unaccredited online courses to enter the workforce without massive student debt, and for his to catch on.
Not even half. Everyone would be covered by a mesh network, but there would be thousands of them because there are so many rural gaps. Drive cross country, or down the coast, or whatever... needless to sayc, we would also be cut off from europe, asia, africa, australia...
There would be repeaters, surely, but the owners of these repeaters would eventually be bought out by Comcast and AT&T.:\
Unfortunately, your joke is unclear to the 99% of the population that's geogrphically challenged.
And not humorous to those that understand the joke. Except maybe for those under the age of 12.
It does seem to be a miss. Misdirection can work on an older audience, and I tried to enhance its subtlety by not mentioning California outright, but for an older audience it probably requires more setup. (versus the one liner I put out) Jimmy Kimmel does it all the time, and yet his formula still works after all these years.
Then again, you won't get A material out of a first post. Scroll down about halfway and comments get really interesting, albeit unnoticed.
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I don't think they can win this because ____ store has a special place in the English language (and likely trademark law) as a generic entity. Market (formerly used by Android) does as well, by the way. General store, camera store, cell phone store, shoe store, 99 cent store, clothing store, grocery store, the list goes on. App is a generic term for application that did not originate with Apple. Any generic term with "store" placed in front of it is also generic.
Now, Sony Store, Microsoft Store, Apple App Store, Amazon Appstore, Android Market, etc are all trademarkable because the non-generic company names have been affixed to the label.
and let the tiny-dicked losers who drive SUVs and pickups pick up the tab.
I'm an SUV owner. I never planned to be, and during my $500 car phase I had gas sippers, but I got into multiple activities that require lots of cargo room and a good design for heavy objects which I must push in and pull out. (or be able to do so on my back, I'm not strong) Scuba diving (with plans at the time for technical scuba diving) convinced me to get a truck or an FJ Cruiser, and I went FJ Cruiser for security reasons.
I still take public transit to work and only use my SUV on the weekends. It's two years old and the interior looks terrible (dirty, heavily scratched trunk) and the exterior is starting to wear a tiny bit. It's not a fashion or status vehicle. I head to beaches and parks with my various gear, but not much else. I've made long drives with it (I'm on one now) but I needed every square inch of it every day during those times.
Also I am not of the johnsoned half of the population to begin with and I don't have a ton of kids (or any for that matter), but I do carpool with the SUV most times when I'm not diving.
But yeah, keep the stereotypes to yourself mmkay. Some people actually use SUVs for practical reasons.
(that said, I do appreciate all the non-practical users, their volume keeps prices down)
The author mostly had me with the first half of the article, then went overboard praising the Product Safety Commission and even worse, safety-related lawsuits. I'm glad guns are exempt -- many if not most product safety lawsuits are shining examples of why we need tort reform.
I wonder if it ran Linux
The end of the world will come when a introverted former postal employee + warcraft fan writes a ReiserFS IFS driver for windows and proceeds to install mcafee on first successfull boot while listening to linkin park.
You forgot to mix DOOM into there.
Yay! A gun control debate after a big shooting! And look, I'm in it now!
That said, I'm on the side of the gun nuts. And the problem is really inborne. It used to be that more people were packing but now there's a social stigma associated with it -- so fewer "normal people" are going to look into the gun show loophole let alone take advantage of it. This stigma is far weaker in states dominated by gun nuts.
Has anyone done a study on the frequency _and_ severity of these incidents in gun control and gun freedom states? It seems that red states are winning this one, with freak incidents like the famous incident in Texas decades ago involving high ground and a sniper rifle.
And there certainly will be no workarounds. They won't raise the volume to disproportionate levels during the commercial break cliffhangers to make louder commercials legal. Why would they do that, especially with the benefit of heightened dramatic effect that exists independent of skirting the law?
You made some good points here. I guess it's all about ease. If Netflix had no DRM, people would use widely available video/audio capture software (hell, they'd just use FRAPS) to record everything, anytime. With DVD rentals, it takes a bit more effort. (going to/from redbox, the mailbox, etc.) There are physical limitations in place which mitigate copying. You have to be a bit of a nerd to work around it.
That said, I think SOME companies (in spite of the copy nazi groups like MAFIAA) recognize this and accept it as the right balance to get maximum exposure of their products with minimal freeloading. Maybe that's why it doesn't bother me. But yeah, some of the DRM measures are just stupid. Heh...
Conflicted...
eh, doesn't really bother me in this case. Netflix has a reasonable business model and content creators do need to get paid. Of course it has DRM: We're essentially renting. We don't pay $8 per month to Netflix for ownership of anything. We DO pay $1-$30+ for digital downloads that we own, and the DRM on that is fucked up. I still buy dvds (typically used but I keep them, sometimes new) because I can rip those easily.
Let's keep our eyes on the ball, people. I've been a big fan of their streaming video since it came out and I never had issues with it. (And it isn't them writing that tablet vs computer vs tv bullshit which is retarded and unenforcable)
It sucks on a phone. :p
And that's what humans who make their profession studying other humans do. (And what I've just done with all anthropologists, sociologists, etc. Groovy) Sadly, though, stereotypes often reign true...but they will always be stereotypes and people who are hackers in Alabama, for instance, will probably laugh at the new wave of box office hacker stereotypes to emerge from this study.
p.s. plugging my tag "labrats", seems appropriate here...
Higher resolution (or poorer compression), yes. Loads faster, absolutely not. Drives me nuts frankly -- I abandon videos on my sketchy home wifi when the ads chug on Hulu. If anything I hope they learned from this study to keep the ads' bps close to that of the content.
In before a million posts about AdBlock. I put up with the ads simply because I want this business model to succeed. Yes, I suppose that makes me stupid. Though I'll be ready for the day they can seamlessly insert ads into the same stream as the program. (Ad blocker programs will have a hard time with that) Also, I take in a lot of media via Netflix, and no I don't pay for Hulu Plus.
Huh? Building your own costs more. OEMs get huge volume discounts on hardware and software.
For a dplicate machine, yes but onl in the lower end. (Sry typos slow phone) For what you actually want, absolutely not.
TFA has annoying "you won somthing but uh err really didn't" on Android devices that can't be bypassed. Here is a better TFA:
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/google_gator/
Because sometimes, the world is a disgusting, shitty place.
Note that I am not defending the activity of the military per se, but I also refuse to go along with the naive assumption that somehow you can avoid getting your hands dirty if you're a global player.
Says the rational American who realizes that the military may do a lot of really disgusting shit, so does every military. If we can't keep secrets, we will simply fail to be effective on the world stage. Bradley should have known going into this that he would be a martyr, and only history will tell if he ends up being a hero.
Definitely a feature. If you look at it though, these apps are just a native replacement for the MSN website...which has ads. Probably always has. I don't see the controversy here. If you don't want to see Microsoft's ads, don't use the preinstall internet apps like Finance, etc...
No one here will admit to catching the reference.
It certainly is clever, but only to those whose brains produce a level of gamma waves -- those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory --never before reported in neuroscience
More importantly, why would this professional, master neo-KGB hacker expose his camera like that? I'm a nobody but even I've heard of masking tape.
No one has hit the nail on the head yet how to use technology to properly increase a student's ability to learn. If / when that time does come, teachers / professors will need to make a carefully calculated decision how they will react to it.
I agree and disagree with this. There are many hands-on tasks that require a teacher. On the flipside, there are many professions where teacher obsolescence is already happening -- PLENTY of software engineers out there with no degree. Then there are various shades of difficulty for automating the learning of other subjects. Math is probably one of the easiest to automate, where literature-related majors would be close to impossible. Technology such as Watson is making this possible, but we'll need to have Watson on our desktop before we can come close to automating lit.
In the meantime, there is much to learn if you want to learn. I mentioned the information age earlier because I see it as a revolution, one that's more important than the literacy revolution that Gutenberg sparked. With fewer barriers to information than ever in history, any motivated individual can pull their way out of virtually any miserable hole that they're born into. (and yes, I was born into a fucking hole compared to my current "average" lifestyle, so sorry if I'm overly passionate about the subject)
Teachers in many California districts can make more than most engineers, and the majority of them get lifelong pensions. Talking about public school teachers, mind you. I agree with the thread starter. The teachers WILL take heavy casualties as the information age blossoms and is more offreely distributed, but it will take a long time because of said teachers union. I suspect the only way for it to happen is for self studiers of unaccredited online courses to enter the workforce without massive student debt, and for his to catch on.
Not even half. Everyone would be covered by a mesh network, but there would be thousands of them because there are so many rural gaps. Drive cross country, or down the coast, or whatever... needless to sayc, we would also be cut off from europe, asia, africa, australia...
:\
There would be repeaters, surely, but the owners of these repeaters would eventually be bought out by Comcast and AT&T.
Unfortunately, your joke is unclear to the 99% of the population that's geogrphically challenged.
And not humorous to those that understand the joke. Except maybe for those under the age of 12.
It does seem to be a miss. Misdirection can work on an older audience, and I tried to enhance its subtlety by not mentioning California outright, but for an older audience it probably requires more setup. (versus the one liner I put out) Jimmy Kimmel does it all the time, and yet his formula still works after all these years.
Then again, you won't get A material out of a first post. Scroll down about halfway and comments get really interesting, albeit unnoticed.
I was about to reply with something like "there's a national park nearby calling you", and then the poignancy of your comment REALLY struck me...
Speaking of geographically challenged, this question.
(on the bright side, I finally get to side with all the europeans and aussies gripe and moan in the US-centric articles)