Guess I'm naïve & behind the times (I don't find time to consume the legal free material I want to watch in the UK), and they may be everywhere, but I was suprised to see one at a family member's house, bought it 'from a guy'. They were genuinely surprised when I told them that it was illegal to use (yes, I didn't expect them to be that naïve either), and that it was torrenting (therefore they were sharing material), so they might expect a notice from their ISP at the least.
It was a modded Amazon fire TV stick, extremely easy to use. As somebody who hasn't seen TAFKAXMBC for a few years it has gave a very impressive UX, and the legal apps were much better than my chromecast legal apps and (admittedly couple of years old) smart Blu-ray box. The film they put on (Nice Guys) also helped with my Spanish, due to the burnt-in subtitles, but the media companies are going to have a real problem fighting this out-of-the-box easy entrance to illegal sharing.
The main language in our house isn't English. I'm guessing that Amazon's cloud processing isn't going to get beyond 5-6 languages for a few years. Not sure what my point is, but this magic future (for what it's worth) isn't going to happen for everybody.
Does it take long? I'm on FF on linux, and on a sane site but with lots of elements (eg BBC News in the UK, I get that abroad you get the ad version) it's pretty much instantaneous. Which points to the problems that everybody's pointing out - 3rd party content. eg try http://newspapers.library.wale... (shameless plug) opening search results in new tabs is fast - the slowest part is fetching our image tiles (which we'll improve!) - not a browser problem.
This is my feeling as well, however I've also aways had the feeling that the situation over there in archive land may not be so professional and seems to have grown up from a basement project.
Brewster Kahle has just been awarded the Digital Preservation Coalition's first Fellowship Award tonight. The DPC and the "archive land" has more been thinking a lot more about digital preservation than you might imagine, and that community's idea of 'long term preservation' is a whole lot more rigorous than most any commercial thinking you'll encounter. They have smart people working there.
Growing up from a 'basement project' is a good description of amazon, wikimedia and a whole lot of other disruptive ventures of the last 20 years, I wouldn't hold that against anybody. That they don't have oodles of cash to ensure multi-continent distributed content is a reflection of their funding, not of their lack of forethought. That they can leverage the anti-Trump sentiment to raise money to create the Canada copy is a smart move.
If you don't think Internet Archive have much expertise in data integrity and digital preservation, then you're not really following what they're doing.
From my quick skimming, this is an add-on available to all, yes? This is an offer of a burst of true unlimited data volume for a (limited) time period. Is the grief about it not being utterly unlimited, because there's a time limit? Or is it about the price?
It's a new offer, people can either try it if they have a need to download a ton of data occasionally, or not. If people don't take it, they may remove it, or lower the price to attract more takeup.
I can understand (being from the UK, where the mobile market seems more competitive, and it seems that we can get better deals) hate on Verizon pricing in general, but hating on this optional add-on seems strange. Is it just that you feel it's massively over-priced, or that unlimited data should be an affordable option all the time, or something else?
Genuinue question, I'd appreciate answers. It may be that I've missed something obvious about this announcement.
Many, many sites don't, and this doesn't grab your card details server-side, it serves up some JS that makes your browser send the card details to $BADIP as you enter it.
Sorry to hijack a story to go on a tangent, but this may be one read by people I'd like to query:
I'd be very interested to know how older (35+) IT workers (ops & dev) in the UK are feeling at the moment, eg:
* My long experience gives me more confidence in my employability * I've kept up with trends, so I'm OK * My experience counts against me (eg "you know C", "you know UNIX", so you must be past it) * My age counts against me * There are no jobs going for my skillset * I'm doing fine, thanks! * Jobs I can do standing on my head don't pay enough * Where I choose to live (family or other ties) are scarce/don't pay enough. * I'd move for a job
Please give some additional details if you reply. (yes, I do employ!)
Late to the party, but for those asking about ZFS & apple, Adam Leventha (dtrace Sun engineer)l posted an exceptionally informative post about the history of this mess earlier this week:
The problem here is that Blackberry has deliberately built their system in such a way as they will always have access to, and subsequently the ability to divulge, your secrets.
Really? Wasn't there BES (enterprise server) which was secure, and didn't use BB's own infrastructure?
It is extremely unlikely that they reverse the turbins (and they likely don't even use turbins for power generation) More likely they have real pumps for that.
The first large-scale pumped storage facility uses reversible turbines:
It's highly unlikely that any other implementation would use separate pumps and turbines - why on earth would you duplicate massive machines which do much the same job in both directions?
I visited the chambers in Llanberis before the machinery was installed, the turbine chamber is immense.
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Guess I'm naïve & behind the times (I don't find time to consume the legal free material I want to watch in the UK), and they may be everywhere, but I was suprised to see one at a family member's house, bought it 'from a guy'. They were genuinely surprised when I told them that it was illegal to use (yes, I didn't expect them to be that naïve either), and that it was torrenting (therefore they were sharing material), so they might expect a notice from their ISP at the least.
It was a modded Amazon fire TV stick, extremely easy to use. As somebody who hasn't seen TAFKAXMBC for a few years it has gave a very impressive UX, and the legal apps were much better than my chromecast legal apps and (admittedly couple of years old) smart Blu-ray box. The film they put on (Nice Guys) also helped with my Spanish, due to the burnt-in subtitles, but the media companies are going to have a real problem fighting this out-of-the-box easy entrance to illegal sharing.
Phew. Elon Musk has taken my suggestion and is playing out Watchmen to avert the Trumpocalypse.
The main language in our house isn't English. I'm guessing that Amazon's cloud processing isn't going to get beyond 5-6 languages for a few years. Not sure what my point is, but this magic future (for what it's worth) isn't going to happen for everybody.
But Main Street's still all cracked and broken
Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken
Monorail!
Does it take long? I'm on FF on linux, and on a sane site but with lots of elements (eg BBC News in the UK, I get that abroad you get the ad version) it's pretty much instantaneous. Which points to the problems that everybody's pointing out - 3rd party content. eg try http://newspapers.library.wale... (shameless plug) opening search results in new tabs is fast - the slowest part is fetching our image tiles (which we'll improve!) - not a browser problem.
Don't smoke pop, kids.
This is my feeling as well, however I've also aways had the feeling that the situation over there in archive land may not be so professional and seems to have grown up from a basement project.
Brewster Kahle has just been awarded the Digital Preservation Coalition's first Fellowship Award tonight. The DPC and the "archive land" has more been thinking a lot more about digital preservation than you might imagine, and that community's idea of 'long term preservation' is a whole lot more rigorous than most any commercial thinking you'll encounter. They have smart people working there.
Growing up from a 'basement project' is a good description of amazon, wikimedia and a whole lot of other disruptive ventures of the last 20 years, I wouldn't hold that against anybody. That they don't have oodles of cash to ensure multi-continent distributed content is a reflection of their funding, not of their lack of forethought. That they can leverage the anti-Trump sentiment to raise money to create the Canada copy is a smart move.
If you don't think Internet Archive have much expertise in data integrity and digital preservation, then you're not really following what they're doing.
This, much.
https://ourworldindata.org/the...
From my quick skimming, this is an add-on available to all, yes? This is an offer of a burst of true unlimited data volume for a (limited) time period. Is the grief about it not being utterly unlimited, because there's a time limit? Or is it about the price?
It's a new offer, people can either try it if they have a need to download a ton of data occasionally, or not. If people don't take it, they may remove it, or lower the price to attract more takeup.
I can understand (being from the UK, where the mobile market seems more competitive, and it seems that we can get better deals) hate on Verizon pricing in general, but hating on this optional add-on seems strange. Is it just that you feel it's massively over-priced, or that unlimited data should be an affordable option all the time, or something else?
Genuinue question, I'd appreciate answers. It may be that I've missed something obvious about this announcement.
Many, many sites don't, and this doesn't grab your card details server-side, it serves up some JS that makes your browser send the card details to $BADIP as you enter it.
Sorry to hijack a story to go on a tangent, but this may be one read by people I'd like to query:
I'd be very interested to know how older (35+) IT workers (ops & dev) in the UK are feeling at the moment, eg:
* My long experience gives me more confidence in my employability
* I've kept up with trends, so I'm OK
* My experience counts against me (eg "you know C", "you know UNIX", so you must be past it)
* My age counts against me
* There are no jobs going for my skillset
* I'm doing fine, thanks!
* Jobs I can do standing on my head don't pay enough
* Where I choose to live (family or other ties) are scarce/don't pay enough.
* I'd move for a job
Please give some additional details if you reply. (yes, I do employ!)
mlts, re ZFS, see my post at the end of this story.
AC, re ZFS, see my post at the end of this story.
MachineShedFred, re ZFS, see my post at the end of this story.
re ZFS, see my post at the end of this story.
Late to the party, but for those asking about ZFS & apple, Adam Leventha (dtrace Sun engineer)l posted an exceptionally informative post about the history of this mess earlier this week:
http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/20...
Day two was trying to fix that same setup they broke while you were gone in very subtle ways under a time deadline and knowing how it was broken.
Did you miss out a 'not' there?
The problem here is that Blackberry has deliberately built their system in such a way as they will always have access to, and subsequently the ability to divulge, your secrets.
Really? Wasn't there BES (enterprise server) which was secure, and didn't use BB's own infrastructure?
Many people here might not remember that at one time Novell built the absolute best LAN server software around.
Netware 3.12? I hear you. IPX was a bitch (yes, you could do Netware on IP), but the higher layers were so much sweeter than what we had to move to.
Why does this topic have a Digital Electronics logo ? Did I miss something ?
You must be new here.
They've been abusing that logo for a while. Kids eh?
It is extremely unlikely that they reverse the turbins (and they likely don't even use turbins for power generation)
More likely they have real pumps for that.
The first large-scale pumped storage facility uses reversible turbines:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's highly unlikely that any other implementation would use separate pumps and turbines - why on earth would you duplicate massive machines which do much the same job in both directions?
I visited the chambers in Llanberis before the machinery was installed, the turbine chamber is immense.
...or some other commerical OCR? (sorry, didn't mean to imply that there were only those two choices)
Some of the last barriers (decent OCR in my case) have fallen.
I'm interested - http://ocr4linux.com/ or a Free Software solution?