I'm still saying I don't think it's good, because of the user facing syncing issues and such.. I just think that it's succeeded _at what they attempted to do_.
Yes, it's succeeded in annoying users (with products that don't always sync properly, and heck, taking longer to change inputs on one's TV due to the delay).. But hasn't it succeeded in (unfortunately) getting rid of the "analog hole"?
He chose to publish instead. You can't patent something you've already publicly described.
Not true, at least in the USA. It looks like the rules have gotten more complicated, but there are at least some ways in which you can publicly describe it, and still patent it within a year. See http://www.flhlaw.com/Not-YOur...
...and people are ignoring that the newspaper (yes some of us still read them) and magazines have ads in them too.
Also, as someone who really really hates ads in general (one exception is for movie previews, if the DVD lets me watch them AFTER I watch the movie, instead of forcing them on me before), for the few podcasts that I listen to that do "live read" commercials, I almost never try to skip them, because they're sometimes funny and clearly go off script.. Yet whenever they have a 'regular' commercial break, I usually skip it (unfortunately some podcast's breaks are short enough that it's hard to skip).
Its great to see electric cars to be leading, but what about the energy generation? It has to become "green" as well in order for there to be an impact.
Why? Obviously it is *better* to do that, but *even* if it were coal based, the ONE coal-based plant could have far better air cleaning capabilities than every single car on the road...
and as the energy production DOES get more green, all of the cars "magically" become greener too.
The context of the statement is that my entire post was about if I had confidence that any candidate wouldn't do much, I'd not only vote for them, but volunteer for their campaign.
The Ron Swanson character on "Parks and Recreation" said similar things. (I liked that character a lot.)
His wife spent 8 years as a senator and is now likely to become president. Why, what did she do in her 8 years in the senate? She sponsored a total of three bills in her eight years:....That's it, in eight years as a senator. Apparently that's a great senator, one who should perhaps be president. By this measure, Whiplash should at least be vice president.
"That's it" sure sound negative to me, it reads as if she should be sponsoring way more bills.
What "additional forms" are you taking about? You'll file a Schedule D ONCE, when you sell.
If they give out dividends, you'll get a 1099-DIV, which is a simple thing to fill in when you do your taxes.
You can already do paperless notifications, so you don't have "pseudo-junk-mail".
If people don't own stock in ANYTHING, then they're missing out. Putting your money in at least a S&P 500 tracking exchange traded fund and leaving it there for MANY MANY MANY years, is a way to greatly increase one's wealth.
In the US, people sometimes bring a lawyer to TRAFFIC court if they want a good chance of having the ticket dismissed.
The idea is probably much older, but I first heard the concept described within the past few years on Adam Carolla's podcast..
Many people have heard of "F You" money.. He's mentioned the concept of "F Me" money. Basically, having enough money to cost yourself more money than it would have cost to do the "easier" thing. In this case, pay the ticket.. or in other cases, pay to settle lawsuits (like the podcast patent one he was sued over).
Some people could probably argue this as "the person with the money screwing over the other guy". I see it as "wasting" money for the principle of the thing.
I bet many of the traffic court examples are smaller versions of that.
I thought the entire point of console gaming was that the hardware is always identical?
This means that:
- All games work on all hardware.
You realize there were various different versions of PS3 already, right? The first backward compatible one with hardware, another one that had partial backward compatibility via software, and at least one more..
Also, like I explained in another post, at least with Sony's upgraded PS4, this will be true.
I don't even understand why they would release a more powerful console... are we going to see games soon that are "Only Compatible with XBOX ONE 2"?
I was afraid of this sort of fragmenting too. I don't remember hearing/reading anything about the Xbox plans, but the info about Sony's requirements for their upgraded console leaked and I heard it talked about on a few podcasts. I don't remember ALL of the specifics, but IMHO the requirements are about as good as can be while doing this at all.
Sony's requirements were things like - all games have to be playable on all versions, you CAN'T add major new features to only the new console versions. You CAN do things like upgraded graphics and something like 4 person local coop play on newer console, but 2 person local coop would have to be available on the older console.
Again, I have no idea if they're doing the same thing with Xbox, but it would be good if so.
(BTW, I don't have either of them.. I have a PS3. Eventually I'll get a PS4, and the backwards compatibility of Xbox One is one of the things that makes me more curious -- yes, to be able to get cheap old exclusives for example.)
_The Congress shall have power... To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
"Young" Bill Gates in 1991? He was about 36 at the time. Yes, in some contexts that is young, but I would say not in the context of a tech article, especially since MS was about 16 years old at the time.
OS X uses extensions (even though pre-OS X relied on file types and creators) too.. But they're hidden by default, and the OS warns you when trying to change extensions, make double-extensions etc.. (but the extension isn't used for executable-ness, because of the underlying UNIX permissions for that).
I still maintain that Windows was probably _trying_ to do something similar, in hiding the "geeky" stuff, but for some reason didn't add the safety net/extra UI to prevent these confusing/security problems.
No reason? The reason is that because that's an implementation detail. There should be other ways for the user to determine what is and what isn't an executable. The filename is supposed to be the user's domain.
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But those are all "poorer copies".
I'm still saying I don't think it's good, because of the user facing syncing issues and such.. I just think that it's succeeded _at what they attempted to do_.
HDMI != HDCP.
Serious question: How has HDMI with HDCP failed?
Yes, it's succeeded in annoying users (with products that don't always sync properly, and heck, taking longer to change inputs on one's TV due to the delay).. But hasn't it succeeded in (unfortunately) getting rid of the "analog hole"?
Not that I disagree with you, but "eminent domain" exists in the USA too, and has been upheld many times by the Supreme Court.
Not true, at least in the USA. It looks like the rules have gotten more complicated, but there are at least some ways in which you can publicly describe it, and still patent it within a year. See http://www.flhlaw.com/Not-YOur...
Hell, this is true for HBO, too.
Start an On Demand episode of "Silicon Valley" for example, and I have to FF through a bit.. ARGH.
...and people are ignoring that the newspaper (yes some of us still read them) and magazines have ads in them too.
Also, as someone who really really hates ads in general (one exception is for movie previews, if the DVD lets me watch them AFTER I watch the movie, instead of forcing them on me before), for the few podcasts that I listen to that do "live read" commercials, I almost never try to skip them, because they're sometimes funny and clearly go off script.. Yet whenever they have a 'regular' commercial break, I usually skip it (unfortunately some podcast's breaks are short enough that it's hard to skip).
Why should they have to waste their time (and thus my money (--if it were in the US)) waiting for him to leave his home?
Why? Obviously it is *better* to do that, but *even* if it were coal based, the ONE coal-based plant could have far better air cleaning capabilities than every single car on the road...
and as the energy production DOES get more green, all of the cars "magically" become greener too.
The Ron Swanson character on "Parks and Recreation" said similar things. (I liked that character a lot.)
What did you do to criticize Hillary?
"That's it" sure sound negative to me, it reads as if she should be sponsoring way more bills.
You can't scrape entire articles.. But AFAIK, it's legal to web scrape facts.
Heck, don't some of the shopping comparison sites still use web scraping, if they have no API for the site?
What "additional forms" are you taking about? You'll file a Schedule D ONCE, when you sell.
If they give out dividends, you'll get a 1099-DIV, which is a simple thing to fill in when you do your taxes.
You can already do paperless notifications, so you don't have "pseudo-junk-mail".
If people don't own stock in ANYTHING, then they're missing out. Putting your money in at least a S&P 500 tracking exchange traded fund and leaving it there for MANY MANY MANY years, is a way to greatly increase one's wealth.
The idea is probably much older, but I first heard the concept described within the past few years on Adam Carolla's podcast..
Many people have heard of "F You" money.. He's mentioned the concept of "F Me" money. Basically, having enough money to cost yourself more money than it would have cost to do the "easier" thing. In this case, pay the ticket.. or in other cases, pay to settle lawsuits (like the podcast patent one he was sued over).
Some people could probably argue this as "the person with the money screwing over the other guy". I see it as "wasting" money for the principle of the thing.
I bet many of the traffic court examples are smaller versions of that.
Wait, aren't you being a hypocrite for praising Bill for (paraphrase) not doing much, yet attacking Hillary for doing the same?
MAYBE (I'm not saying she did) she successfully FOUGHT AGAINST bills you didn't like, and caused them to not be passed.
I have no idea if this info is available on web pages, or only in an app..
If it's available in web pages, couldn't they web-scrape the data as an absolute last resort?
What does his nationality have to do with anything?
Prejudice much?
You realize there were various different versions of PS3 already, right? The first backward compatible one with hardware, another one that had partial backward compatibility via software, and at least one more..
Also, like I explained in another post, at least with Sony's upgraded PS4, this will be true.
I was afraid of this sort of fragmenting too. I don't remember hearing/reading anything about the Xbox plans, but the info about Sony's requirements for their upgraded console leaked and I heard it talked about on a few podcasts. I don't remember ALL of the specifics, but IMHO the requirements are about as good as can be while doing this at all.
Sony's requirements were things like - all games have to be playable on all versions, you CAN'T add major new features to only the new console versions. You CAN do things like upgraded graphics and something like 4 person local coop play on newer console, but 2 person local coop would have to be available on the older console.
Again, I have no idea if they're doing the same thing with Xbox, but it would be good if so.
(BTW, I don't have either of them.. I have a PS3. Eventually I'll get a PS4, and the backwards compatibility of Xbox One is one of the things that makes me more curious -- yes, to be able to get cheap old exclusives for example.)
Wasn't this stuff covered on a 60 Minutes report in the past year or so?
Another example being some sort of special tool (a wrench?) being FedEx-ed between sites because some broke and they didn't have extras?
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_The Congress shall have power ... To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
"Young" Bill Gates in 1991? He was about 36 at the time. Yes, in some contexts that is young, but I would say not in the context of a tech article, especially since MS was about 16 years old at the time.
"accept[ing] the purpose" and "not being angry" are two different things.
If people weren't scumbags, we wouldn't need this (or door locks, etc..).
Yes, I understand that..
OS X uses extensions (even though pre-OS X relied on file types and creators) too.. But they're hidden by default, and the OS warns you when trying to change extensions, make double-extensions etc.. (but the extension isn't used for executable-ness, because of the underlying UNIX permissions for that).
I still maintain that Windows was probably _trying_ to do something similar, in hiding the "geeky" stuff, but for some reason didn't add the safety net/extra UI to prevent these confusing/security problems.
No reason? The reason is that because that's an implementation detail. There should be other ways for the user to determine what is and what isn't an executable. The filename is supposed to be the user's domain.
Explain what a-hole things Warren Buffett has done.
(Maybe your answer is that you're against the very idea of the stock market in the first place.)