Worse than that, this guy pirated the movie as part of his official duties. If this guy's column stayed up and a representative from Donner's asked Fox, "Did you pay Mr. Friedman to illegally download, view, and review 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine'"? Technically they would have to admit to it. Another organization may have simply refused to print that specific review and adjust his pay accordingly, but Fox is special - As jwildstr points out, they make movies. If a rival company's reviewer had downloaded and reviewed Kung Fu Panda or Cloverfield before they hit the theaters, you can bet the Fox would be up at arms.
China... could cripple the us economy since we buy everything from there today.
That's not even half of the issue. They not only make everything we buy, they lend us the $$$ to buy it. If they stop buying our treasury certs, Obama can kiss his stimulus plan good-bye.
Picture this: You're on your lunch break and pass by a hot-dog vendor. You want a hot dog, but have no $$$. He offers to lend you $2 which you then give back to purchase a dog. You do the same thing the next day and the day after that. This goes on so long that the vendor needs the bizarre relationship to keep his stand open, even though most of his profit is just theoretical in the sense that you owe him money. Also, you've been borrowing money from him for so long for lunch that you no longer know any other way to feed yourself. If he stops lending you $$, you have to re-learn how to come up with food - A major adjustment. If you stop "buying" dogs, he goes out of business. If he calls in the debt that's built up... Well that's just ugly.
I haven't seen this workprint, but for the DVD screeners that they send out for award review, they often digitally watermark some portion of the frame so that they can differentiate one print from another. So, assuming that the watermark hasn't been obscured or blurred in a leaked copy, the studio can go back and see which print it was and who it was sent to.
That said, I'm not sure why they would go through the trouble of watermarking a workprint - It's not like it's being widely distributed or that you can track it back to an individual. My guess is that their "mark" is "This was the film as it stood on March 2. We can make a rough guess as to the 100-or-so people that had access to that copy."
Did you really just log into slashdot and shit-talk Natalie Portman? Really? Sure, she needed some polish back in The Professional and I cried after watching Star Wars: Episode I (and not because of the emotional scenes). But man, I could forgive Natalie for anything.
That said, overall I agree. I keep trying to like Dollhouse but I just can't get past the acting... Movies recently (Watchmen excepted) have been just as painful.
Not really. Yes, e-mail systems are paying for way too much bandwidth, but how big a percentage of Google's bandwidth do you think is used handling e-mail? And if you compare e-mail bandwidth to Internet traffic overall, I'd imagine it's pretty trivial (if anyone has actual numbers, I'm curious). Those 50 1kB ads getting filtered out by my ISP are laughable compared to the traffic I generate watching 1 show on Hulu.
It's an unnecessary expense and it's aggravating, but no way is Google paying for 17x as much bandwidth as they need because of e-mail spam.
I use fax occasionally. Mainly, it's the only way (other than snail mail) that my Flexible Health Spending submissions are accepted.
Also, we had a vendor that refused to share their API with us until we faxed them a NDA. We explained that we were just going to open the e-mail we sent them, print out the attachment we'd scanned, and then drop it in the fax but they didn't care. No fax, no business.
I'd rather not use fax, but some places are picky. So, the slowest among us set the pace if we're not willing to abandon them.
Dude that sucks. That just sucks. No good deed goes unpunished, right?
I considered posting to whine about this BS test and posting (truthful) anecdotal accounts about the guys I work with that have been subjected to it, but that would be disingenuous and would cheapen my sympathy for your plight.
Dude, even knowing nothing about your site, that just sucks.
I'm surprised the dupe isn't here. Even if it was pulled within 1 hour, posting the notorious 75 as AC on/. would guarantee a permanent home on TPB or wikileaks.
You blew it. You never admit that you're powering your perpetual motion machine. You just tell the reporters to "Pay no attention to the black box attached to the machine. It is for decoration only and does not affect the function of my miracle machine."
Yes we still have jobs but, unless your company is more generous than mine, raises aren't nearly tracking inflation. So we're keeping our jobs, but losing our income little-by-little. And, with the current economic environment, we're going to be facing either an explosion in national debt, inflation, or taxes so the trend may well continue.
Back on-topic, I have to agree with GP - The hardware out there can happily handle most browser needs unless you're running either an archaic box or FF2 without several gigs of memory. A lot of the really needy apps have just expanded specifically because of the larger hardware fishbowl rather than out of usability necessity. Browser efficiency is really nice, but I'm not sure it's a necessity for normal home use (There are always exceptions - YMMV.)
I handle all of my torrent traffic using netcat - It runs in one of the terminals on my rightmost monitor that I control using the keyboard allocated for my right hand. Isn't that how everyone does it?
I'm all for meters and grams - Those are sensible units and convenient for everyday use. But there aren't many conversions that I do regularly that demand centigrade. We're humans and temperature measurements, in most cases for most people, are used to tell us how comfortable we're going to be. Fahrenheit was made for that and does a better job than centigrade - I don't give a damn about how the local duck pond is going to feel about the weather tomorrow, I want to know whether to wear shorts or a jacket. And monitoring my PC case temp in F is no more or less difficult than in C - It's not like either scale is tuned specifically for hardware comfort.
And, like you said, what does centigrade have over Kelvin? It's not like we're making computations easier by multiplying by 0 or 100 for freezing or boiling...
What you're claiming is that there may be evidence brought up by neither the prosecution nor the defense that will affect the trial. But if that's the case, then either the prosecution or the defense has done a very terrible job, or, and this is far more likely, you or the "evidence" you've dug up are in error...
...or the evidence has been suppressed for some reason - Dismissed as hearsay, irrelevant to the case, or whatever. The guy accused of killing the hooker was the son of a hooker and she beat him while he was growing up? Likely unpresentable, but the prosecution would likely bring it up if they could. Data that is not legally admissible is still data, even though it may never make it to a jury's ears for whatever reason. It may be bad or grey-area data, but it's still data.
Note - I'm not implying that the jury should hear everything, but there are often things that one side would love to present that they cannot - And not just because they're doing "a very terrible job".
...or go home and post information about the case and the jury deliberations to blogs, etc.
Short of sequestering all juries, there's not a lot you can do to pose a substantial barrier to that.
Exactly - I'm in a situation right now that reflects that pretty well (my first time serving as a juror).
Actually the judge told us explicitly that if it was made public that Col. Mustard had even been seen with a candlestick, the whole case could be unraveled.
Face it, the average juror may not be that sharp and may not realize it until told.
I think that the bigger issue is that the average juror may just not give a shit about the judges instructions.
Frankly, if I want to know the details about a case, why would I trust the media (who are digging deep and trying to sensationalize trivial details in order to keep me from changing the channel) any more or less than the lawyers (who are digging deep and trying to distort facts to try to "persuade" me to vote in their favor)? When you're dealing with bias everywhere, you're tempted to just collect as much data as you can - Even if you're instructed not to and know that it's "wrong".
I've been rick rolled plenty, but thankfully there are no memes that involve duping people into going to NSFW sites and getting written up by HR.
Really? I've seen more than a couple of goatse links here on/. that were pretending to be something else - I'd classify that as NSFW. It's just that most of us have at one point or another run in to goatse and know to avoid it. And/. is not a place people come looking for porn - I could understand this guy's daughter noticing that her dad has "News For Nerds" bookmarked, wandering in here, and then clicking on a link that would flash some really nasty stuff in her face.
[poor-attempt-at-humor] To help out the less tech-savvy public out there, the only real solution is intelligent well-thought-out legislation. Please vote Lemon Party in the next election. [/poor-attempt-at-humor]
Disclaimer: If you are at work (or actually anywhere), do not actually google Lemon Party. I will not be held responsible for the mental trauma.
In response to your original post, I think that they're saying that, although the megapixel count is still increasing, it's becoming less important than other aspects of the camera. A 12 megapixel camera with good low-level-light capabilities may be more attractive to a consumer than a 21 megapixel camera with problems in that arena. Still, I don't totally believe that the mass market will stop just buying the camera with the biggest number. It amazes me how many people will drop $1k+ without bothering to do some basic research on what they're buying. Ignorance is bliss I guess - The handful of people I know that have done this are very happy with what they've got despite the fact that they could have possibly done much better if they'd done their homework.
Because unless you have something to gain (other than a warm feeling that you've done something nice and have helped the world), nobody wants the liability associated with writing an illegal but benevolent worm and releasing it.
And, you know, having access to the original source code saves some time picking apart obfuscated machine code.
Or printers/ink or razors/blades. The big difference with e-books is that you have to create a shortage of product while it's a natural side-effect for ink or razors. You can't just download new razors.
I'd like to just see them stop creating so much space debris - I'm still pretty pissed over the Chinese blowing up their sat and leaving junk in a useful orbit...
OK - The next person to kick a toaster out the airlock gets a month in the brig. Sorry, that's the way it has to be.
Not to mention that they couldn't figure out where the debris was headed - It missed the ISS by almost 3 miles. Whoever was tasked with knocking the thing down would have to have really good eyes to see the thing incoming and be able to throw that golf club really accurately.
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Worse than that, this guy pirated the movie as part of his official duties. If this guy's column stayed up and a representative from Donner's asked Fox, "Did you pay Mr. Friedman to illegally download, view, and review 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine'"? Technically they would have to admit to it. Another organization may have simply refused to print that specific review and adjust his pay accordingly, but Fox is special - As jwildstr points out, they make movies. If a rival company's reviewer had downloaded and reviewed Kung Fu Panda or Cloverfield before they hit the theaters, you can bet the Fox would be up at arms.
China ... could cripple the us economy since we buy everything from there today.
That's not even half of the issue. They not only make everything we buy, they lend us the $$$ to buy it. If they stop buying our treasury certs, Obama can kiss his stimulus plan good-bye.
Picture this:
You're on your lunch break and pass by a hot-dog vendor. You want a hot dog, but have no $$$. He offers to lend you $2 which you then give back to purchase a dog. You do the same thing the next day and the day after that. This goes on so long that the vendor needs the bizarre relationship to keep his stand open, even though most of his profit is just theoretical in the sense that you owe him money. Also, you've been borrowing money from him for so long for lunch that you no longer know any other way to feed yourself. If he stops lending you $$, you have to re-learn how to come up with food - A major adjustment. If you stop "buying" dogs, he goes out of business. If he calls in the debt that's built up... Well that's just ugly.
I haven't seen this workprint, but for the DVD screeners that they send out for award review, they often digitally watermark some portion of the frame so that they can differentiate one print from another. So, assuming that the watermark hasn't been obscured or blurred in a leaked copy, the studio can go back and see which print it was and who it was sent to.
That said, I'm not sure why they would go through the trouble of watermarking a workprint - It's not like it's being widely distributed or that you can track it back to an individual. My guess is that their "mark" is "This was the film as it stood on March 2. We can make a rough guess as to the 100-or-so people that had access to that copy."
Did you really just log into slashdot and shit-talk Natalie Portman? Really? Sure, she needed some polish back in The Professional and I cried after watching Star Wars: Episode I (and not because of the emotional scenes). But man, I could forgive Natalie for anything.
That said, overall I agree. I keep trying to like Dollhouse but I just can't get past the acting... Movies recently (Watchmen excepted) have been just as painful.
Not really. Yes, e-mail systems are paying for way too much bandwidth, but how big a percentage of Google's bandwidth do you think is used handling e-mail? And if you compare e-mail bandwidth to Internet traffic overall, I'd imagine it's pretty trivial (if anyone has actual numbers, I'm curious). Those 50 1kB ads getting filtered out by my ISP are laughable compared to the traffic I generate watching 1 show on Hulu.
It's an unnecessary expense and it's aggravating, but no way is Google paying for 17x as much bandwidth as they need because of e-mail spam.
I use fax occasionally. Mainly, it's the only way (other than snail mail) that my Flexible Health Spending submissions are accepted.
Also, we had a vendor that refused to share their API with us until we faxed them a NDA. We explained that we were just going to open the e-mail we sent them, print out the attachment we'd scanned, and then drop it in the fax but they didn't care. No fax, no business.
I'd rather not use fax, but some places are picky. So, the slowest among us set the pace if we're not willing to abandon them.
No, effect.
If it's slowing down networks, then it does effect you.
You see, Shihar is a genie that is invoked every time a network drags.
My memory is largely filled with things I saw on porn sites. I like it that way.
Oh, wait. Did you mean RAM? Never mind.
Dude that sucks. That just sucks. No good deed goes unpunished, right?
I considered posting to whine about this BS test and posting (truthful) anecdotal accounts about the guys I work with that have been subjected to it, but that would be disingenuous and would cheapen my sympathy for your plight.
Dude, even knowing nothing about your site, that just sucks.
I'm surprised the dupe isn't here. Even if it was pulled within 1 hour, posting the notorious 75 as AC on /. would guarantee a permanent home on TPB or wikileaks.
Not that I condone that kind of behavior...
...power my perpetual motion machine...
You blew it. You never admit that you're powering your perpetual motion machine. You just tell the reporters to "Pay no attention to the black box attached to the machine. It is for decoration only and does not affect the function of my miracle machine."
(It's been done more than once...)
Yes we still have jobs but, unless your company is more generous than mine, raises aren't nearly tracking inflation. So we're keeping our jobs, but losing our income little-by-little. And, with the current economic environment, we're going to be facing either an explosion in national debt, inflation, or taxes so the trend may well continue.
Back on-topic, I have to agree with GP - The hardware out there can happily handle most browser needs unless you're running either an archaic box or FF2 without several gigs of memory. A lot of the really needy apps have just expanded specifically because of the larger hardware fishbowl rather than out of usability necessity. Browser efficiency is really nice, but I'm not sure it's a necessity for normal home use (There are always exceptions - YMMV.)
Telnet?
I handle all of my torrent traffic using netcat - It runs in one of the terminals on my rightmost monitor that I control using the keyboard allocated for my right hand. Isn't that how everyone does it?
Hallelujah.
I'm all for meters and grams - Those are sensible units and convenient for everyday use. But there aren't many conversions that I do regularly that demand centigrade. We're humans and temperature measurements, in most cases for most people, are used to tell us how comfortable we're going to be. Fahrenheit was made for that and does a better job than centigrade - I don't give a damn about how the local duck pond is going to feel about the weather tomorrow, I want to know whether to wear shorts or a jacket. And monitoring my PC case temp in F is no more or less difficult than in C - It's not like either scale is tuned specifically for hardware comfort.
And, like you said, what does centigrade have over Kelvin? It's not like we're making computations easier by multiplying by 0 or 100 for freezing or boiling...
This is just the field marketable prototype. The money-maker won't be the jacket - It will be the boxer-briefs.
What you're claiming is that there may be evidence brought up by neither the prosecution nor the defense that will affect the trial. But if that's the case, then either the prosecution or the defense has done a very terrible job, or, and this is far more likely, you or the "evidence" you've dug up are in error...
...or the evidence has been suppressed for some reason - Dismissed as hearsay, irrelevant to the case, or whatever. The guy accused of killing the hooker was the son of a hooker and she beat him while he was growing up? Likely unpresentable, but the prosecution would likely bring it up if they could. Data that is not legally admissible is still data, even though it may never make it to a jury's ears for whatever reason. It may be bad or grey-area data, but it's still data.
Note - I'm not implying that the jury should hear everything, but there are often things that one side would love to present that they cannot - And not just because they're doing "a very terrible job".
...or go home and post information about the case and the jury deliberations to blogs, etc.
Short of sequestering all juries, there's not a lot you can do to pose a substantial barrier to that.
Exactly - I'm in a situation right now that reflects that pretty well (my first time serving as a juror).
Actually the judge told us explicitly that if it was made public that Col. Mustard had even been seen with a candlestick, the whole case could be unraveled.
Oh, wait...
Face it, the average juror may not be that sharp and may not realize it until told.
I think that the bigger issue is that the average juror may just not give a shit about the judges instructions.
Frankly, if I want to know the details about a case, why would I trust the media (who are digging deep and trying to sensationalize trivial details in order to keep me from changing the channel) any more or less than the lawyers (who are digging deep and trying to distort facts to try to "persuade" me to vote in their favor)? When you're dealing with bias everywhere, you're tempted to just collect as much data as you can - Even if you're instructed not to and know that it's "wrong".
I've been rick rolled plenty, but thankfully there are no memes that involve duping people into going to NSFW sites and getting written up by HR.
Really? I've seen more than a couple of goatse links here on /. that were pretending to be something else - I'd classify that as NSFW. It's just that most of us have at one point or another run in to goatse and know to avoid it. And /. is not a place people come looking for porn - I could understand this guy's daughter noticing that her dad has "News For Nerds" bookmarked, wandering in here, and then clicking on a link that would flash some really nasty stuff in her face.
[poor-attempt-at-humor] To help out the less tech-savvy public out there, the only real solution is intelligent well-thought-out legislation. Please vote Lemon Party in the next election. [/poor-attempt-at-humor]
Disclaimer:
If you are at work (or actually anywhere), do not actually google Lemon Party. I will not be held responsible for the mental trauma.
the special 'u' used for microns;
Its name is mu (a lower case Greek letter).
In response to your original post, I think that they're saying that, although the megapixel count is still increasing, it's becoming less important than other aspects of the camera. A 12 megapixel camera with good low-level-light capabilities may be more attractive to a consumer than a 21 megapixel camera with problems in that arena. Still, I don't totally believe that the mass market will stop just buying the camera with the biggest number. It amazes me how many people will drop $1k+ without bothering to do some basic research on what they're buying. Ignorance is bliss I guess - The handful of people I know that have done this are very happy with what they've got despite the fact that they could have possibly done much better if they'd done their homework.
Because unless you have something to gain (other than a warm feeling that you've done something nice and have helped the world), nobody wants the liability associated with writing an illegal but benevolent worm and releasing it.
And, you know, having access to the original source code saves some time picking apart obfuscated machine code.
Or printers/ink or razors/blades. The big difference with e-books is that you have to create a shortage of product while it's a natural side-effect for ink or razors. You can't just download new razors.
I'd like to just see them stop creating so much space debris - I'm still pretty pissed over the Chinese blowing up their sat and leaving junk in a useful orbit...
OK - The next person to kick a toaster out the airlock gets a month in the brig. Sorry, that's the way it has to be.
Not to mention that they couldn't figure out where the debris was headed - It missed the ISS by almost 3 miles. Whoever was tasked with knocking the thing down would have to have really good eyes to see the thing incoming and be able to throw that golf club really accurately.
So far, it's been delayed from Feb 29 to March 29.
Feb 29 would be preferable - That would leave almost 3 full years to fight this going through.