Unless you happen to be in Norway (the only European country with a higher per-hour productivity than the US) you're just spewing anecdotes. As a whole, Americans work longer AND are more productive than almost any European country - at least according to the UN. http://www.news.com.au/nationa...
I won't say that this is necessarily a good thing. I will say that your arrogance appears misplaced.
The problem is that Norway has oil. You are in many ways measuring produce, not people working. And while significant, it is not exactly an accurate description of the efficiency of the workers.
Chrome has become the de facto standard at this point.
This has been a bit of a problem for a while. Web pages have been popping up which state that the page has been designed to work with Chrome. As a Firefox user this reminds me a lot of the "Please use Internet Explorer x" pages of the horrendous past.
IMO modern sci-fi has been "dumbed" down to just action flicks. Originally, "classic" Sci-Fi dealt with the _social_ issues and problems that technology created. We got some amazing stories.
You might enjoy 2312 from Kim Stanley Robinson.
You might enjoy the previous books from the Red Mars trilogy as well, but I've been having some hard time with them. I'm definitely recommending 2312, but somehow, at least reading them in this order, I feel that the trilogy feels like plethora of extras in a good movie. A history of sorts, of how the stage for 2312 was built.
Iain M. Banks also would fit the 'light our imagination with possibilities' theme. Perhaps not so much with social issues.
People buy Apple because of the way the software works without making you cough up a hairball just to move around the interface.
Bought an iPad recently. Previously had used iTunes to buy some music, so a very old acocunt with old credit card information. Tried to install some free software. The store entered an infinite loop asking if I wanted to allow 15 minutes of saved credentials when buying stuff, but because I ALSO had the old credit information, saving this information failed and resulted in another question of saving credentials. After a few tries, managed to find the setting for credentials in settings app and after that the shop asked about the outdated credit information (for the free app).
Then, I tried the Fallout shelter game. The system popped up with a question about game tag. The couple first ones were taken, so the dialog just froze, with no way of exiting. Again, managed to find this from settings and managed to set it up. Switching back to the game, the dialog was still there. Disappointing.
Cough up your software with an open source GPL license, and I'll go. Mickeysoft's crap licenses are shit. My time goes either to something that I can use as I like or share with others freely. I don't want something that I develop locked up in a vault in Redmond, and some ass hole tell me I can't use software or source code that I wrote. And that's it.
MIT is a GPL compatible license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
That's one (narrow) way to loo at it; but those who can actually envision the infinite time that lies beyond this first THREE MONTH period, actually REALIZE that this SHARED "loss leader" (keeping In Mind that Apple still has to pay for the costs of setting up and running Apple Music for those SAME THREE MONTHS), that maybe, just maybe (like 100% probability), those same "artists" (and.Apple) will be enjoying revenue for the foreseeable future, THAT THEY WOULDN'T OTHERWISE GET!
Jeezus, you people simply don't understand marketing, do you? Greedy little privileged bitches. All of you.
You do realize that many '(like 100%)' made some money before Apple started streaming music
So what about the artists with presence in Spotify and such? They will be getting 3 months of reduced income because a corporation wants free advertisement? (Did someone mention greed?)
You need an antennae/other external hardware that receives those signals properly. I'm not an antennae engineer, but you either need a separate antennae [which would totally be a non-starter] or you have to compromise the design of existing antennae, because now it has to work for more frequencies.
For a decade or so mobile phones have been using headphones as the FM antennae. (Some have an FM antenna built in?)
Any application that requires Windows XP Mode, SUA, or more than 16 GB of RAM will work only on Windows 7 Pro and Ultimate according to this table.
So... some video editing programs won't be able to access more thatn 16 GB RAM on home? Some business applications may work better on the XP virtual machine (XP Mode) than in the native 7? SUA won't be coming with Windows anymore as it has been deprecated, so perhaps that should count. However, could you not run Cygwin instead?
So does any application that is accessed remotely through Remote Desktop.
That seems rather convoluted way of stating that you cannot access the computer through Remote Desktop and would have to install vnc or something to do it...
They probably added that functionality to try to identify copies made of files borrowed from those libraries. When all you borrowed is data, there's no way to prove you didn't copy the data.
Yeah, except the DRM prevents you opening the file after it has expired. (At least for most people, I don't know if it has been cracked.)
Right, but that's not what the OP was talking about - the argument was that the iPod was inferior because you couldn't organise your music manually (even though you actually can), and that "files in in a folder" was superior to "letting the iPod handle where the files are and using a database/m3u style method" to address and play them was somehow inferior because Apple.
What you are describing with m3u files *is exactly how the iPod works*. The only difference is that the iPod also copies the music files for you, you don't have to drag them onto the iPod yourself (although you absolutely can manage them on your hard drive yourself, despite what people on slashdot will try to tell you).
OP said: "Ever noticed every MP3 player on the market can be plugged into your computer and you can browse the music files as if it were an external hard drive"
Percentage wise he made less than 0.40%!!! The Nikkei stock exchange went up 57% in 2013 in Japan but he only made 0.40% (yes, you see that correctly, less than half of one percent) so no I will not back down from my statement that he is an idiot with ADD. The article does not state how big his trading account is so I had to use the $15 billion total figure for my calculation but nonetheless I'm safely assuming that he must be trading with a few hundred million dollars alone to reach trillions in trading volume.
Why is that a safe assumption? 15000000 / 54000000 = ~278. Thus one 54 million trade a day is way more than enough to get high trade volume. 41 trades one million dollar each a day would also be enough. I would guess the actual trade amount would be somewhere between those values.
Well yes, but when you have several devices, the easy pairing is rather nice feature. And no, it's not 'whatever form of NFC', the payment video had a standard NFC capable reader.
"NFC offers a low-speed connection with extremely simple setup, and can be used to bootstrap more capable wireless connections." See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
Nah. It took a long time to get used to the flatness of Windows 8 (and still looks boring), but the level of transparency in W7 is in my opinion too high (after getting used to 8). Pity they went nuts fixing it.
Right. Which was about a third of the country, and precisely the people that would have voted the other way.
If I recall correctly, based on the polls before all this happened, more than 50% of those areas were happy to stay Ukrainian. Of course, voting while armed pro-Russians stay around the see-through ballot boxes might have skewed the final results (as happened in Crimea). However, they didn't allow the voting to happen, so the point is moot...
"Apple still wanted the infringing features extirpated from American stores, and was seeking to have phones nobody bought banned as ammo for future battles."
It may take some time for people in EU to realize their gas prices going up. When they do see the bill rise, they will blame Russia easily enough.
I think you have this backwards. I believe it is a question on how dangerous/blameful Europe sees Russia, and exactly how big the bill from switching the supplier will be...
If you read the message, you may have noticed that he called the code shit, not any person coding it. Same with all other colorful language. I wouldn't get offended.
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Unless you happen to be in Norway (the only European country with a higher per-hour productivity than the US) you're just spewing anecdotes. As a whole, Americans work longer AND are more productive than almost any European country - at least according to the UN. http://www.news.com.au/nationa...
I won't say that this is necessarily a good thing. I will say that your arrogance appears misplaced.
The problem is that Norway has oil. You are in many ways measuring produce, not people working. And while significant, it is not exactly an accurate description of the efficiency of the workers.
Chrome has become the de facto standard at this point.
This has been a bit of a problem for a while. Web pages have been popping up which state that the page has been designed to work with Chrome. As a Firefox user this reminds me a lot of the "Please use Internet Explorer x" pages of the horrendous past.
Welcome to the new old web.
I guess iTunes isn't universally reviled after all.
Just about everyone else hates it though. I wouldn't use iTunes a reason, let alone the only reason, to defend the iPod.
Updated iTunes today. It demanded me to reboot my computer. On the bright side it didn't manage to remove the headphone jack from my Lenovo.
IMO modern sci-fi has been "dumbed" down to just action flicks. Originally, "classic" Sci-Fi dealt with the _social_ issues and problems that technology created. We got some amazing stories.
You might enjoy 2312 from Kim Stanley Robinson.
You might enjoy the previous books from the Red Mars trilogy as well, but I've been having some hard time with them. I'm definitely recommending 2312, but somehow, at least reading them in this order, I feel that the trilogy feels like plethora of extras in a good movie. A history of sorts, of how the stage for 2312 was built.
Iain M. Banks also would fit the 'light our imagination with possibilities' theme. Perhaps not so much with social issues.
I hereby patent everything. Give me all your money.
I've already patented patents. You give me all of your money
I've patented money, give me all your .... umm
You will get my.... your... money over my dead body. Please don't patent my dead body.
People buy Apple because of the way the software works without making you cough up a hairball just to move around the interface.
Bought an iPad recently. Previously had used iTunes to buy some music, so a very old acocunt with old credit card information. Tried to install some free software. The store entered an infinite loop asking if I wanted to allow 15 minutes of saved credentials when buying stuff, but because I ALSO had the old credit information, saving this information failed and resulted in another question of saving credentials. After a few tries, managed to find the setting for credentials in settings app and after that the shop asked about the outdated credit information (for the free app).
Then, I tried the Fallout shelter game. The system popped up with a question about game tag. The couple first ones were taken, so the dialog just froze, with no way of exiting. Again, managed to find this from settings and managed to set it up. Switching back to the game, the dialog was still there. Disappointing.
Cough up your software with an open source GPL license, and I'll go. Mickeysoft's crap licenses are shit. My time goes either to something that I can use as I like or share with others freely. I don't want something that I develop locked up in a vault in Redmond, and some ass hole tell me I can't use software or source code that I wrote. And that's it.
MIT is a GPL compatible license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
I'm pretty sure the installer asked if I want to reset the default applications...
That's one (narrow) way to loo at it; but those who can actually envision the infinite time that lies beyond this first THREE MONTH period, actually REALIZE that this SHARED "loss leader" (keeping In Mind that Apple still has to pay for the costs of setting up and running Apple Music for those SAME THREE MONTHS), that maybe, just maybe (like 100% probability), those same "artists" (and.Apple) will be enjoying revenue for the foreseeable future, THAT THEY WOULDN'T OTHERWISE GET!
Jeezus, you people simply don't understand marketing, do you? Greedy little privileged bitches. All of you.
You do realize that many '(like 100%)' made some money before Apple started streaming music
So what about the artists with presence in Spotify and such? They will be getting 3 months of reduced income because a corporation wants free advertisement? (Did someone mention greed?)
You need an antennae/other external hardware that receives those signals properly. I'm not an antennae engineer, but you either need a separate antennae [which would totally be a non-starter] or you have to compromise the design of existing antennae, because now it has to work for more frequencies.
For a decade or so mobile phones have been using headphones as the FM antennae. (Some have an FM antenna built in?)
At least the first one, got a call a few days ago from a relative whose Gmail account in Thunderbird completely stopped working.
Any application that requires Windows XP Mode, SUA, or more than 16 GB of RAM will work only on Windows 7 Pro and Ultimate according to this table.
So... some video editing programs won't be able to access more thatn 16 GB RAM on home? Some business applications may work better on the XP virtual machine (XP Mode) than in the native 7? SUA won't be coming with Windows anymore as it has been deprecated, so perhaps that should count. However, could you not run Cygwin instead?
So does any application that is accessed remotely through Remote Desktop.
That seems rather convoluted way of stating that you cannot access the computer through Remote Desktop and would have to install vnc or something to do it...
They do sell headphones from several other manufacturers though. They only dropped Bose.
They probably added that functionality to try to identify copies made of files borrowed from those libraries. When all you borrowed is data, there's no way to prove you didn't copy the data.
Yeah, except the DRM prevents you opening the file after it has expired. (At least for most people, I don't know if it has been cracked.)
Right, but that's not what the OP was talking about - the argument was that the iPod was inferior because you couldn't organise your music manually (even though you actually can), and that "files in in a folder" was superior to "letting the iPod handle where the files are and using a database/m3u style method" to address and play them was somehow inferior because Apple.
What you are describing with m3u files *is exactly how the iPod works*. The only difference is that the iPod also copies the music files for you, you don't have to drag them onto the iPod yourself (although you absolutely can manage them on your hard drive yourself, despite what people on slashdot will try to tell you).
OP said: "Ever noticed every MP3 player on the market can be plugged into your computer and you can browse the music files as if it were an external hard drive"
Your interpretation of this is curious.
I'm pretty sure that the limit ensures that you can actually do stuff with the computer, not just run the OS.
Percentage wise he made less than 0.40%!!! The Nikkei stock exchange went up 57% in 2013 in Japan but he only made 0.40% (yes, you see that correctly, less than half of one percent) so no I will not back down from my statement that he is an idiot with ADD. The article does not state how big his trading account is so I had to use the $15 billion total figure for my calculation but nonetheless I'm safely assuming that he must be trading with a few hundred million dollars alone to reach trillions in trading volume.
Why is that a safe assumption? 15000000 / 54000000 = ~278. Thus one 54 million trade a day is way more than enough to get high trade volume. 41 trades one million dollar each a day would also be enough. I would guess the actual trade amount would be somewhere between those values.
Unless I managed to fail my calculations.
Well yes, but when you have several devices, the easy pairing is rather nice feature. And no, it's not 'whatever form of NFC', the payment video had a standard NFC capable reader.
"NFC offers a low-speed connection with extremely simple setup, and can be used to bootstrap more capable wireless connections." See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
I guess that drops iPhone from consideration, as my NFC enabled speakers and headphones would lose their point.
Nah. It took a long time to get used to the flatness of Windows 8 (and still looks boring), but the level of transparency in W7 is in my opinion too high (after getting used to 8). Pity they went nuts fixing it.
Right. Which was about a third of the country, and precisely the people that would have voted the other way.
If I recall correctly, based on the polls before all this happened, more than 50% of those areas were happy to stay Ukrainian. Of course, voting while armed pro-Russians stay around the see-through ballot boxes might have skewed the final results (as happened in Crimea). However, they didn't allow the voting to happen, so the point is moot...
"Apple still wanted the infringing features extirpated from American stores, and was seeking to have phones nobody bought banned as ammo for future battles."
"the encryption keys will be stored off-shore" is different from "the encryption keys will be stored off-shore for ever"
Indeed, as you need the key every time the data is read...
It may take some time for people in EU to realize their gas prices going up. When they do see the bill rise, they will blame Russia easily enough.
I think you have this backwards. I believe it is a question on how dangerous/blameful Europe sees Russia, and exactly how big the bill from switching the supplier will be...
His manner is coarse
It's not "coarse", it's abusive. Namecalling, mocking, ridicule, hyperbole. That's abuse.
If you read the message, you may have noticed that he called the code shit, not any person coding it. Same with all other colorful language. I wouldn't get offended.