Remember that children can't actually control who they grow up with. I had to (and sometimes still have to) put up with people resenting me because of my family being financially well-off, particularly throughout my mid-later teenage years and on. It really grates on you after a while - it's not something you can control, at all.
It's also not like I was always given everything I wanted. Most of my earlier childhood my family was on a significantly lower (and single) income, and even as I grew older there were still significant limitations on what I could get "just by asking". I was always given an allowance, which did increase as I got older, but I was rarely given anything (aside from birthdays, Christmas, clothes, and books, essentially) that I didn't end up paying for with that money, often after saving for months.
I think that rubbed off on me significantly. Even as I was given more freedom and more disposable money, I still place serious limitations on what I buy, and only on rare occasions treat myself to something like a new game.
I believe it's default state is also off. It asks you if you want to turn it on, but if you say no it pretty much just stays out of your way (with the exception of if you go to try using a feature that requires it - it'll ask you again if you do).
No they aren't. We won the war. All music sold on iTunes is currently 256kbps AAC (which is quite nice quality, I might add), and has no DRM anywhere in it.
The two (paraphrased) statements "Wikipedia is not accurate." and "Many edits are reverted." kinda sound like the might have something to do with each other, huh?
There's a large number of under-the-hood rewrites and redesigns. The Finder is finally rewritten (so it's not using 10+ year old technologies), the major parts of the OS (kernel, most built-in apps) are 64-bit, and there's several other new things - like the new QuickTime (which serves, however terrible the app on other platforms is, as a very nice media playback framework on OS X).
Royalties? I haven't been paying any royalties... Oh wait, right, some countries actually had the sanity to render business method and software patents as invalid. This entire thing is really a result of the (known, enormous) stupidity of the USPTO.
Of course both the MPEG LA and Xiph.org make no guarantees about the codecs actually not being under patents not controlled by the respective groups. It's, from my understanding (particularly given the USPTO's tendency to act like a drunk co-ed), highly likely that both H.264 and Theora are covered by some sort of patent that isn't a currently known quantity.
They're doing it so Google doesn't monopolize the 'market' for these books - but I imagine any one of them would do the same thing in a heartbeat if they could. The only saving grace here is having all of them together means they're unlikely to ever get that chance - and having the Internet Archive involved will hopefully keep some sane control over what does happen in the end.
Traffic shaping (which is not what Comcast is actually reported to be doing) is like having a line for the buffet - at worst, it's a line that prioritizes people who haven't eaten yet, or who have eaten less. The person who's coming back for their tenth plate would be told to wait until the family of four who just arrived were finished serving themselves. What Comcast is actually doing is more akin to telling some of their patrons that there is no more buffet food (straight up lies), because they've already eaten a lot.
I *think* you're misunderstanding how this works, actually.
When a block is written to, the entire block (512KiB) has to be wiped and rewritten from a blank state. When a block is emptied entirely, it does not get touched - just marked as empty. When new data is written to it, the 'empty' block has to actually be wiped, and then the new data written on the just-blanked block.
What this seems to be proposing is to, periodically, actually wipe the blocks marked as empty, when the SSD is otherwise idle - meaning deletes are still fast, and new writes would speed up. I imagine rewrites would stay comparatively slow, though.
(I might be way off on this - someone correct me if I am.)
Most ad networks only pay the content providers if you click on the ads, not if you just view them. If you block ads or don't click on them as many times as the ad network would count (which you have to do your own research to find out, since it's often against the TOS to inform visitors of this sort of information!), then you're depriving the content providers of income.
So I block ads, since I'd only ever click on them by accident anyway, and most of them are intrusive enough to be distracting from the content I'm trying to read.
But that's not what everyone does. Asperger's is a valid diagnosis, but it's a lot rarer and harder to diagnose than the number of people having it would lead you to believe. Most of the people who are validly diagnosed with it spend more time trying to get around the social awkwardness that's one of (and only one of) the symptoms associated with it, instead of trying to use it as an excuse for bad behaviour (which is what most self-diagnosed idiots do with it).
Ahh, so it's a piece of the protocol then. Thanks, I didn't think to check if they were licensing it out to other companies.
Looks like that link's getting/.ed pretty hard right now, but I'll make a wild guess that I was right on this being a patent dispute and not some sort of copyright dispute.
They obviously did not think that one through very well. The article reads like they bought everything except the protocol, audio codec, or encryption algorithm (one or more of the three - the article isn't detailed enough to say which) - something which stops any replacement they create from being backwards compatible with any other versions of Skype. From that alone, it gives me the impression this is a patent issue, not a copyright issue. Perhaps we can "con" a large company into not supporting software patents out of this mess?;-)
I also wonder what the potential liability here is, given that portions of Skype are a paid service.
WITHOUT COPYRIGHT THE GPL WOULD BE UNENFORCEABLE. IT WOULD ALSO BE UNNECESSARY.
Unfortunately, this isn't entirely true. It would be unenforceable, but it wouldn't be unnecessary for RMS's vision - you'd still have binaries WITHOUT source code, unless we essentially introduced "GNU Copyright", in which the source material for all formerly-copyrightable works must be provided released upon request. I don't think it's very likely to either abolish copyright, nor replace it with "GNU Copyright" - though I do hope the length of copyright terms can be brought down to a reasonable level.
Coming from and targeted to aren't necessarily the same thing.
That said, I'd still be willing to bet that any figures that say most spam comes from the USA are heavily inflated by the general number of computers connected to the internet - particularly the number of computers infected with some sort of botnet connected to the internet - and not actually directly from companies, organizations, or people based in the USA.
As an aside, I think one of the issues with the ever-increasing amount of spam e-mail is that addresses don't tend to get removed from spam lists - just added to. With time, the "send-to" lists would likely grow larger and larger, with a number of the addresses on them either being no longer in use or simply no longer existing. The attempts to spam them would still clog 'the tubes', but it might not represent a proportional increase in the amount of spam that gets seen by human eyes.
...Latitude is the 'service' where Google gets to track pretty much every move you make, right? I'm still at a loss why people are so enthusiastic over this.
Furthermore, it looks like more of these are contact burns from an iPod that's overheated, than are actual sparks flying - letalone spontaneous combustion. I've had laptops that (in normal operation) get nearly hot enough to burn skin.
The name comes from the mythical chimera, but is actually an organism (humans can possibly have this) with two or more distinct types of DNA in it's body. For example, if a human had one set of DNA in their kidneys and a different set in their liver.
Mozilla doesn't even practice full disclosure. They normally hide security bugs from the public, but they missed this one, as well as not fixing it before 3.5's release.
Unless you're seriously suggesting that all bugs should be hidden from the public on the off chance they'll be exploitable, meaning a lot more duplicate bug reports, no independent confirmation of a bug's existence, and an inability for anyone else to fix the problem, except those granted permissions to read bugs.
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The Xbox360 comes with component. Works great for, at least, 720p (as that's the kind of TV I use it with).
Remember that children can't actually control who they grow up with. I had to (and sometimes still have to) put up with people resenting me because of my family being financially well-off, particularly throughout my mid-later teenage years and on. It really grates on you after a while - it's not something you can control, at all.
It's also not like I was always given everything I wanted. Most of my earlier childhood my family was on a significantly lower (and single) income, and even as I grew older there were still significant limitations on what I could get "just by asking". I was always given an allowance, which did increase as I got older, but I was rarely given anything (aside from birthdays, Christmas, clothes, and books, essentially) that I didn't end up paying for with that money, often after saving for months.
I think that rubbed off on me significantly. Even as I was given more freedom and more disposable money, I still place serious limitations on what I buy, and only on rare occasions treat myself to something like a new game.
I believe it's default state is also off. It asks you if you want to turn it on, but if you say no it pretty much just stays out of your way (with the exception of if you go to try using a feature that requires it - it'll ask you again if you do).
No they aren't. We won the war. All music sold on iTunes is currently 256kbps AAC (which is quite nice quality, I might add), and has no DRM anywhere in it.
The two (paraphrased) statements "Wikipedia is not accurate." and "Many edits are reverted." kinda sound like the might have something to do with each other, huh?
There's a large number of under-the-hood rewrites and redesigns. The Finder is finally rewritten (so it's not using 10+ year old technologies), the major parts of the OS (kernel, most built-in apps) are 64-bit, and there's several other new things - like the new QuickTime (which serves, however terrible the app on other platforms is, as a very nice media playback framework on OS X).
Royalties? I haven't been paying any royalties... Oh wait, right, some countries actually had the sanity to render business method and software patents as invalid. This entire thing is really a result of the (known, enormous) stupidity of the USPTO.
Of course both the MPEG LA and Xiph.org make no guarantees about the codecs actually not being under patents not controlled by the respective groups. It's, from my understanding (particularly given the USPTO's tendency to act like a drunk co-ed), highly likely that both H.264 and Theora are covered by some sort of patent that isn't a currently known quantity.
Right thing for the wrong reasons, in many ways.
They're doing it so Google doesn't monopolize the 'market' for these books - but I imagine any one of them would do the same thing in a heartbeat if they could. The only saving grace here is having all of them together means they're unlikely to ever get that chance - and having the Internet Archive involved will hopefully keep some sane control over what does happen in the end.
Traffic shaping (which is not what Comcast is actually reported to be doing) is like having a line for the buffet - at worst, it's a line that prioritizes people who haven't eaten yet, or who have eaten less. The person who's coming back for their tenth plate would be told to wait until the family of four who just arrived were finished serving themselves. What Comcast is actually doing is more akin to telling some of their patrons that there is no more buffet food (straight up lies), because they've already eaten a lot.
Of course, like any analogy, it's imperfect.
Also, IT has asked that you stop trying to plant "bombs" in the server room. Modeling clay with wires stuck in it will not explode.
They'd rather he planted something that would explode?
Free parts for their bombs.
Trivial things like the summaries for every single Star Trek episode in existence? ...Yeah, cause that's still there.
I *think* you're misunderstanding how this works, actually.
When a block is written to, the entire block (512KiB) has to be wiped and rewritten from a blank state. When a block is emptied entirely, it does not get touched - just marked as empty. When new data is written to it, the 'empty' block has to actually be wiped, and then the new data written on the just-blanked block.
What this seems to be proposing is to, periodically, actually wipe the blocks marked as empty, when the SSD is otherwise idle - meaning deletes are still fast, and new writes would speed up. I imagine rewrites would stay comparatively slow, though.
(I might be way off on this - someone correct me if I am.)
Most ad networks only pay the content providers if you click on the ads, not if you just view them. If you block ads or don't click on them as many times as the ad network would count (which you have to do your own research to find out, since it's often against the TOS to inform visitors of this sort of information!), then you're depriving the content providers of income.
So I block ads, since I'd only ever click on them by accident anyway, and most of them are intrusive enough to be distracting from the content I'm trying to read.
By "having it", I meant "state they have it".
That's what a large number of people do, yes.
But that's not what everyone does. Asperger's is a valid diagnosis, but it's a lot rarer and harder to diagnose than the number of people having it would lead you to believe. Most of the people who are validly diagnosed with it spend more time trying to get around the social awkwardness that's one of (and only one of) the symptoms associated with it, instead of trying to use it as an excuse for bad behaviour (which is what most self-diagnosed idiots do with it).
Ahh, so it's a piece of the protocol then. Thanks, I didn't think to check if they were licensing it out to other companies.
Looks like that link's getting /.ed pretty hard right now, but I'll make a wild guess that I was right on this being a patent dispute and not some sort of copyright dispute.
They obviously did not think that one through very well. The article reads like they bought everything except the protocol, audio codec, or encryption algorithm (one or more of the three - the article isn't detailed enough to say which) - something which stops any replacement they create from being backwards compatible with any other versions of Skype. From that alone, it gives me the impression this is a patent issue, not a copyright issue. Perhaps we can "con" a large company into not supporting software patents out of this mess? ;-)
I also wonder what the potential liability here is, given that portions of Skype are a paid service.
WITHOUT COPYRIGHT THE GPL WOULD BE UNENFORCEABLE. IT WOULD ALSO BE UNNECESSARY.
Unfortunately, this isn't entirely true. It would be unenforceable, but it wouldn't be unnecessary for RMS's vision - you'd still have binaries WITHOUT source code, unless we essentially introduced "GNU Copyright", in which the source material for all formerly-copyrightable works must be provided released upon request. I don't think it's very likely to either abolish copyright, nor replace it with "GNU Copyright" - though I do hope the length of copyright terms can be brought down to a reasonable level.
Coming from and targeted to aren't necessarily the same thing.
That said, I'd still be willing to bet that any figures that say most spam comes from the USA are heavily inflated by the general number of computers connected to the internet - particularly the number of computers infected with some sort of botnet connected to the internet - and not actually directly from companies, organizations, or people based in the USA.
As an aside, I think one of the issues with the ever-increasing amount of spam e-mail is that addresses don't tend to get removed from spam lists - just added to. With time, the "send-to" lists would likely grow larger and larger, with a number of the addresses on them either being no longer in use or simply no longer existing. The attempts to spam them would still clog 'the tubes', but it might not represent a proportional increase in the amount of spam that gets seen by human eyes.
Nah, the explanation for that is having absolutely no life to speak of.
...Latitude is the 'service' where Google gets to track pretty much every move you make, right? I'm still at a loss why people are so enthusiastic over this.
Furthermore, it looks like more of these are contact burns from an iPod that's overheated, than are actual sparks flying - letalone spontaneous combustion. I've had laptops that (in normal operation) get nearly hot enough to burn skin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)
The name comes from the mythical chimera, but is actually an organism (humans can possibly have this) with two or more distinct types of DNA in it's body. For example, if a human had one set of DNA in their kidneys and a different set in their liver.
Mozilla doesn't even practice full disclosure. They normally hide security bugs from the public, but they missed this one, as well as not fixing it before 3.5's release.
Unless you're seriously suggesting that all bugs should be hidden from the public on the off chance they'll be exploitable, meaning a lot more duplicate bug reports, no independent confirmation of a bug's existence, and an inability for anyone else to fix the problem, except those granted permissions to read bugs.
Don't worry, it's only in copyright for another 60 years in the United States.