The ONLY thing I have ever gotten to work reliably is the option to disable putting an icon on the desktop. Disabling automatic updates, stopping automatic updates but allowing manual update checks, disabling the upsell, disabling usage tracking, disabling the login requirement, setting the default printer path, etc. simply behave however they fucking want to. I've set options with Adobe's customization wizard, manually set registry keys with Adobe's customization wizard, manually set registry keys with GPOs, and manually set options in the MSI with Orca. None of it fucking works as Adobe says it should. Once a user launches Acrobat/Reader, or whenever an update is applied, all bets are off.
If they are going to refund everyone they must still access to $34m, so why couldn't they use that to finance the manufacturing and shipping?
When all logic fails, your assumptions must be incorrect. They are not going to refund everyone. I'd be surprised if more than 10% of that money was refunded.
Thank you for being a friend Traveled down the road and back again Your heart is true, you're a pal and a cosmonaut.
And if you threw a party Invited everyone you ever knew You would see the biggest gift would be from me And the card attached would say, thank you for being a friend.
Unless it's uncensored (and unedited), has the original Japanese audio and subs, has the original Japanese songs for the intro and outro, and has the complete series and is up to date with the Japanese broadcasts for anything that's still airing, it's going to fail.
You either have a no interest, a mild interest and just deal with what's already on Netflix / Amazon, or you care a little and you pay for Crunchyroll, or you really care and you download it uncensored, unedited, and poorly-subbed hours after it airs in Japan. (Or you pay hundreds to import every damned version they shit out of the Evangelion movie.)
Not quite. Being beneficial is not what keeps things around. More often, being detrimental is what gets them removed.
In times of extreme competition, beneficial traits can statistically outweigh the lack of that trait and become commonplace. (The lack of that trait is detrimental when competition is extremely high.)
But evolution typically results in beneficial traits leading to specialization (literally, a new species), not the destruction of the old species. It's "why we still got monkeys".
Beneficial traits have to be beneficial enough to be selected for from that start all the way up to successful reproduction for evolution to "choose" the beneficial trait. This has to be done to the widespread exclusion of the lack of the trait to make the trait universal across the species / exterminate the old species.
Alternatively, detrimental traits only have to be selected against once before reproduction (killing the organism), or during all reproduction attempts, for evolution to "choose" to remove it. Even without a widespread beneficial trait in the species putting pressure against the negative trait, other pressures (climate, predation, etc.) and will ensure it gets removed over time.
The Note 7 on the other hand is an incredibly generic device, one with a design flaw that makes it unstable. From the outside it looks just like any other smartphone, but on the inside it's something that will either catch fire or not work at all after a few years. It is what makes it in general, generic looking crap with nothing of interest.
The 1955 double die cent on the other hand is an incredibly generic coin, one with a design flaw that makes it illegible. From a glance it looks just like any other Lincoln penny, but on the head is something that will either annoy you or go unnoticed for years. It is what makes it, in general, generic-looking crap with nothing of interest.
Oh I do have a collector's mindset.
No, you don't. Anything rare, unique, or that is itself physical proof of an error committed by a powerful entity (governments, corporations, militaries, etc.) is a prime target for being a collectible.
I read the MIT article and watched the video. Please quote where they make the actual structure and test it, then compare to the futurism article and the structure shown in the video. For bonus points, compare and contrast what they actually made to what is commonly referred to as a material, and discuss the properties of materials that make them usable.
The material in question is graphene, which they did not create or unveil. The structure in question is theoretical, and they have not made it nor do they have any real plans or methodology to do so.
They made a mathematical model and then 3D printed a PLASTIC model in the same shape. They then crushed the plastic model and noted that it was pretty strong given its density, just as they predict a graphene structure in the same shape to be.
They're not creating the graphene structure, and a macro version of the structure in plastic may or may not exhibit similar properties as a true version made of ultra thin graphene.
Damn, you're dumb. I really lost it at "we can't say that they died X light-years ago". No, we certainly can't say that.
If you know distance from the astronaut to Earth and they're using a radio, you know how long ago they sent the transmission from your perspective. You'll also know how long it's been from their perspective, to a precision and accuracy that far exceed what you'd to decide if rescue is viable.
I hold my phone pretty close, also it's one of the larger phones out there. (I would've bought a Note 7 had they not been exploding.)
Even if you can't discern the individual pixels, you can see the glaring error introduced by trying to turn 3 pixels - [black][white][black] - into 4 pixels. Worst case scenario? Sure. Happens tons in graphics, text, games, etc. (I for one already hate font blurring schemes like cleartype. Simple monochrome antialiasing is far preferable as it doesn't introduce fringing.)
The trick is if the stream/file has a resolution of 1920x1080 (black bars included in the encode), then stretching it to 2880x1440 will result in black bars on all 4 sides.
Your stream/encode needs not have the black bars for you to use the full screen, or you need an additional software step to detect the black bars and crop them before resizing to full screen, or a display option to scale content to the width of the screen, then crop to the height of the screen.
The article was published after the Mach 3 (3 blades) was released. I don't know if the 4 blade razors (Quattro, from Schick) were on the radar at the time or not. The latest razors have 6 blades. There's a single blade on the top edge. Marketing says it's for precision. I say it's absolutely useless. The other 5 blades and the vibrating razor itself are pretty great. They lost a long damned time too, and replacements aren't very expensive online. They work out to be far cheaper than the dollar shave club shit in the end.
There's no provable or usable mechanism by which we can travel to any part of the Universe faster than the speed of light, so trying to make a distinction between the "light of an event reaching us" vs. "the event being observed as it happens" is semantically meaningless.
Information can't travel faster than light, and you can't currently get anywhere fast enough to prove otherwise.
It's not meaningless at all.
An astronaut stranded on a planet X distance away has enough power/water/supplies/porno to last Y time (from their perspective).
If a rescue mission is launched from Earth as soon as the message is received, how fast will it need to travel (average velocity toward the stranded astronaut) to effect rescue?
It has been ten years, and had there been a bubble, it would have popped by now.
The bubble popped a while ago, but no one wants to admit it.
Online advertising doesn't work, and people are increasingly going out of their way to block ads. All that user data is essentially worthless to anyone but scammers and spying governments. But we're Wile E. Coyoteing the situation - we've run off the cliff but we won't fall until we look down. We're pretending there's more cliff to run on with everyone resorting to clickbait bullshit to maintain view counts (and not have to hire journalists) and everyone moving their shit onto the cheapest "cloud" provider and laziest framework to lower operating costs and the big boys are doing nothing but buying out the groups actually doing shit, to the tune of $$$$$$$$$.
It's been a race to the bottom, but we bottomed out ages ago. Every time advertising rates (from lord Google) drop people do a quick glance down, see they're doomed, but find a way to keep on running as if everything is okay as the industry burns around them. Eventually the big boys will either get burned on a ridiculous overvalued buyout of some small company (remember Zynga? Oculus?) or simply run out of other companies to buy out while investors demand continued growth. It's unsustainable, fundamentally because there is little core value behind the true business of Facebook, Google, Snapchat, Twitter, etc. and no real room to grow.
Easy, let's say facebook has 1 billion users and each user is worth 5$ of marketing potential, facebook is now worth 5 billion dollars - get it?
You can't go down to the piggly wiggly and spend marketing potential.
But you can go to a bank and your investors, wave your "marketing potential" about, and then get some sum of {loan, stock, approval to spend some cash} to BUY the Piggly Wiggly outright for $100 million. You end up increasing your "marketing potential" by $200 million because of "synergy", the news of the buyout boosting the value of Piggly Wiggly, etc.
When the bank wants their loan money or your investors point to the plateauing stock price, you simply repeat the process with a new target. When you run out of targets you "spin off" prior targets into their own entities and sell their shriveled husks to some chump. If you can't find a chump, you cut the staff, burn it to the ground, and sell the IP and assets for pennies on the dollar.
If this goes on for a while, you'll end up posting successive quarters of losses and people will be calling for your head. Just jump out the window with your golden parachute and move on to the next company to repeat the process.
You're wrong. Telecine and 3:2 pulldown and all that shit is (thankfully) pretty much gone, and interlacing is a relic that only broadcast holds onto.
My cable feed gets me 720p or 1080i. Changing channels will change what I get (720p or 1080i) on the cable box. A channel will switch to 1080i when the big sport ballgame is playing and will drop to 720p when it cuts over to whatever the regular programming is, after the post-post-game show is finally over.
I've never seen 1080p on my cable feed or OTA. If I want 1080p consumer content I need to get a BluRay, watch Netflix/Amazon/whatever until it decides to feed me the 1080p stream, or just use my PC.
As an impartial observer, you do appear to be correct in calling dbill out on his bullshit. And no, it's not stalking or bullying to recall some bullshit someone posted when you see their username come up again.
Hollywood doesn't even discriminate against the dead. See dead actors/actresses being inserted into ads/movies/etc. without their consent. Most recently in Rogue One.
If Apple had the data in an accessible form, they likely wouldn't have been able to fight, and would have lost a lot of support.
You're comparing data locality to circumventing security and forcing a company (i.e., people) to do work to that end (and to severely damage their brand as a result).
They've got a law that states companies holding data on their citizens must keep that data within their own borders. This is great, and they have good reason to have such a law. The icing on the cake is that they're actually trying to enforce the law.
LinkedIn, the world's largest spam network, being the current whipping boy is a bonus. I doubt LinkedIn has much of a Russian userbase, so if it comes down to it LinkedIn can just never comply with Russia's laws and Russia can't do shit beyond try to block their website in a continual cat and mouse game.
Google and Apple care about their Russian market enough to enforce Russia's laws. This isn't news. They already bend over backwards for China. The US government and media were hypercritical of China until Trump happened, now they're just trying to flip the script and put all of that bad juju on Russia.
I agree. The IDs need to be free and easy to get (apply at any post office, for example), and available for at leas a full year before any voting ID requirement goes into effect.
And CA needs to be changed to "shall issue" for CC. And all the absurd new laws that are going into effect need to be challenged in the SC and thrown the fuck out.
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As someone who deploys Acrobat and Reader and their updates across domains, I can tell you that Adobe's documented controls are completely unreliable.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet-do...
The ONLY thing I have ever gotten to work reliably is the option to disable putting an icon on the desktop. Disabling automatic updates, stopping automatic updates but allowing manual update checks, disabling the upsell, disabling usage tracking, disabling the login requirement, setting the default printer path, etc. simply behave however they fucking want to. I've set options with Adobe's customization wizard, manually set registry keys with Adobe's customization wizard, manually set registry keys with GPOs, and manually set options in the MSI with Orca. None of it fucking works as Adobe says it should. Once a user launches Acrobat/Reader, or whenever an update is applied, all bets are off.
If they are going to refund everyone they must still access to $34m, so why couldn't they use that to finance the manufacturing and shipping?
When all logic fails, your assumptions must be incorrect. They are not going to refund everyone. I'd be surprised if more than 10% of that money was refunded.
Thank you for being a friend
Traveled down the road and back again
Your heart is true, you're a pal and a cosmonaut.
And if you threw a party
Invited everyone you ever knew
You would see the biggest gift would be from me
And the card attached would say, thank you for being a friend.
Unless it's uncensored (and unedited), has the original Japanese audio and subs, has the original Japanese songs for the intro and outro, and has the complete series and is up to date with the Japanese broadcasts for anything that's still airing, it's going to fail.
You either have a no interest, a mild interest and just deal with what's already on Netflix / Amazon, or you care a little and you pay for Crunchyroll, or you really care and you download it uncensored, unedited, and poorly-subbed hours after it airs in Japan. (Or you pay hundreds to import every damned version they shit out of the Evangelion movie.)
Not quite. Being beneficial is not what keeps things around. More often, being detrimental is what gets them removed.
In times of extreme competition, beneficial traits can statistically outweigh the lack of that trait and become commonplace. (The lack of that trait is detrimental when competition is extremely high.)
But evolution typically results in beneficial traits leading to specialization (literally, a new species), not the destruction of the old species. It's "why we still got monkeys".
Beneficial traits have to be beneficial enough to be selected for from that start all the way up to successful reproduction for evolution to "choose" the beneficial trait.
This has to be done to the widespread exclusion of the lack of the trait to make the trait universal across the species / exterminate the old species.
Alternatively, detrimental traits only have to be selected against once before reproduction (killing the organism), or during all reproduction attempts, for evolution to "choose" to remove it. Even without a widespread beneficial trait in the species putting pressure against the negative trait, other pressures (climate, predation, etc.) and will ensure it gets removed over time.
The Note 7 on the other hand is an incredibly generic device, one with a design flaw that makes it unstable. From the outside it looks just like any other smartphone, but on the inside it's something that will either catch fire or not work at all after a few years. It is what makes it in general, generic looking crap with nothing of interest.
The 1955 double die cent on the other hand is an incredibly generic coin, one with a design flaw that makes it illegible. From a glance it looks just like any other Lincoln penny, but on the head is something that will either annoy you or go unnoticed for years. It is what makes it, in general, generic-looking crap with nothing of interest.
Oh I do have a collector's mindset.
No, you don't. Anything rare, unique, or that is itself physical proof of an error committed by a powerful entity (governments, corporations, militaries, etc.) is a prime target for being a collectible.
I read the MIT article and watched the video. Please quote where they make the actual structure and test it, then compare to the futurism article and the structure shown in the video. For bonus points, compare and contrast what they actually made to what is commonly referred to as a material, and discuss the properties of materials that make them usable.
The material in question is graphene, which they did not create or unveil.
The structure in question is theoretical, and they have not made it nor do they have any real plans or methodology to do so.
They made a mathematical model and then 3D printed a PLASTIC model in the same shape.
They then crushed the plastic model and noted that it was pretty strong given its density, just as they predict a graphene structure in the same shape to be.
They're not creating the graphene structure, and a macro version of the structure in plastic may or may not exhibit similar properties as a true version made of ultra thin graphene.
https://youtu.be/VIcZdc42F0g
I'm all for improved materials, but let's not make shit up, futurism.com .
Damn, you're dumb. I really lost it at "we can't say that they died X light-years ago". No, we certainly can't say that.
If you know distance from the astronaut to Earth and they're using a radio, you know how long ago they sent the transmission from your perspective.
You'll also know how long it's been from their perspective, to a precision and accuracy that far exceed what you'd to decide if rescue is viable.
I hold my phone pretty close, also it's one of the larger phones out there. (I would've bought a Note 7 had they not been exploding.)
Even if you can't discern the individual pixels, you can see the glaring error introduced by trying to turn 3 pixels - [black][white][black] - into 4 pixels.
Worst case scenario? Sure. Happens tons in graphics, text, games, etc. (I for one already hate font blurring schemes like cleartype. Simple monochrome antialiasing is far preferable as it doesn't introduce fringing.)
This is 2017. Display scaling hasn't been an issue for any resolution in a long time.
Uh, has the math changed on 1080/480 or 1080/720 or 1440/1080 since I last checked?
If you're not scaling with integers, it's going to look like poo.
The trick is if the stream/file has a resolution of 1920x1080 (black bars included in the encode), then stretching it to 2880x1440 will result in black bars on all 4 sides.
Your stream/encode needs not have the black bars for you to use the full screen, or you need an additional software step to detect the black bars and crop them before resizing to full screen, or a display option to scale content to the width of the screen, then crop to the height of the screen.
The article was published after the Mach 3 (3 blades) was released. I don't know if the 4 blade razors (Quattro, from Schick) were on the radar at the time or not. The latest razors have 6 blades. There's a single blade on the top edge. Marketing says it's for precision. I say it's absolutely useless. The other 5 blades and the vibrating razor itself are pretty great. They lost a long damned time too, and replacements aren't very expensive online. They work out to be far cheaper than the dollar shave club shit in the end.
There's no provable or usable mechanism by which we can travel to any part of the Universe faster than the speed of light, so trying to make a distinction between the "light of an event reaching us" vs. "the event being observed as it happens" is semantically meaningless.
Information can't travel faster than light, and you can't currently get anywhere fast enough to prove otherwise.
It's not meaningless at all.
An astronaut stranded on a planet X distance away has enough power/water/supplies/porno to last Y time (from their perspective).
If a rescue mission is launched from Earth as soon as the message is received, how fast will it need to travel (average velocity toward the stranded astronaut) to effect rescue?
I already opted out of ALL updates in Windows 10 by opting out of Windows 10!
AC probably confused Git with Github, as most Github users do.
It has been ten years, and had there been a bubble, it would have popped by now.
The bubble popped a while ago, but no one wants to admit it.
Online advertising doesn't work, and people are increasingly going out of their way to block ads. All that user data is essentially worthless to anyone but scammers and spying governments. But we're Wile E. Coyoteing the situation - we've run off the cliff but we won't fall until we look down. We're pretending there's more cliff to run on with everyone resorting to clickbait bullshit to maintain view counts (and not have to hire journalists) and everyone moving their shit onto the cheapest "cloud" provider and laziest framework to lower operating costs and the big boys are doing nothing but buying out the groups actually doing shit, to the tune of $$$$$$$$$.
It's been a race to the bottom, but we bottomed out ages ago. Every time advertising rates (from lord Google) drop people do a quick glance down, see they're doomed, but find a way to keep on running as if everything is okay as the industry burns around them. Eventually the big boys will either get burned on a ridiculous overvalued buyout of some small company (remember Zynga? Oculus?) or simply run out of other companies to buy out while investors demand continued growth. It's unsustainable, fundamentally because there is little core value behind the true business of Facebook, Google, Snapchat, Twitter, etc. and no real room to grow.
Easy, let's say facebook has 1 billion users and each user is worth 5$ of marketing potential, facebook is now worth 5 billion dollars - get it?
You can't go down to the piggly wiggly and spend marketing potential.
But you can go to a bank and your investors, wave your "marketing potential" about, and then get some sum of {loan, stock, approval to spend some cash} to BUY the Piggly Wiggly outright for $100 million. You end up increasing your "marketing potential" by $200 million because of "synergy", the news of the buyout boosting the value of Piggly Wiggly, etc.
When the bank wants their loan money or your investors point to the plateauing stock price, you simply repeat the process with a new target. When you run out of targets you "spin off" prior targets into their own entities and sell their shriveled husks to some chump. If you can't find a chump, you cut the staff, burn it to the ground, and sell the IP and assets for pennies on the dollar.
If this goes on for a while, you'll end up posting successive quarters of losses and people will be calling for your head. Just jump out the window with your golden parachute and move on to the next company to repeat the process.
You're wrong. Telecine and 3:2 pulldown and all that shit is (thankfully) pretty much gone, and interlacing is a relic that only broadcast holds onto.
My cable feed gets me 720p or 1080i. Changing channels will change what I get (720p or 1080i) on the cable box. A channel will switch to 1080i when the big sport ballgame is playing and will drop to 720p when it cuts over to whatever the regular programming is, after the post-post-game show is finally over.
I've never seen 1080p on my cable feed or OTA. If I want 1080p consumer content I need to get a BluRay, watch Netflix/Amazon/whatever until it decides to feed me the 1080p stream, or just use my PC.
He's looking to smear is personal brand of BS all over /., apparently. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy doing the same.
As an impartial observer, you do appear to be correct in calling dbill out on his bullshit.
And no, it's not stalking or bullying to recall some bullshit someone posted when you see their username come up again.
Hollywood doesn't even discriminate against the dead. See dead actors/actresses being inserted into ads/movies/etc. without their consent. Most recently in Rogue One.
If Apple had the data in an accessible form, they likely wouldn't have been able to fight, and would have lost a lot of support.
You're comparing data locality to circumventing security and forcing a company (i.e., people) to do work to that end (and to severely damage their brand as a result).
They've got a law that states companies holding data on their citizens must keep that data within their own borders. This is great, and they have good reason to have such a law. The icing on the cake is that they're actually trying to enforce the law.
LinkedIn, the world's largest spam network, being the current whipping boy is a bonus. I doubt LinkedIn has much of a Russian userbase, so if it comes down to it LinkedIn can just never comply with Russia's laws and Russia can't do shit beyond try to block their website in a continual cat and mouse game.
Google and Apple care about their Russian market enough to enforce Russia's laws. This isn't news. They already bend over backwards for China. The US government and media were hypercritical of China until Trump happened, now they're just trying to flip the script and put all of that bad juju on Russia.
I agree. The IDs need to be free and easy to get (apply at any post office, for example), and available for at leas a full year before any voting ID requirement goes into effect.
And CA needs to be changed to "shall issue" for CC. And all the absurd new laws that are going into effect need to be challenged in the SC and thrown the fuck out.