Obviously you have never used the Facebook app on Android. Then they released Home, and it only works on something like 4 Android phones. My understanding of the HTC phone was that it officially supported all the features of Facebook, without crashing and giving you "connection errors" every few seconds. No, I am not the only one, read the reviews in Google Play for the Facebook app.
Apparently, Facebook overestimated how popular they were - as frustrated as I am with the Facebook app, it is not enough to make me want to give up my Galaxy (although 99 cents sounds like a bargain - until I saw that it was AT&T, and I will never have another cell phone on a contract again!)
It's a bit of both. Pretty much, I don't have an issue with DRM when it works. If I get authentication errors, handshaking issues, outdated firmware issues, or "can't connect to server" errors on stuff I legally bought, THEN I have an issue with DRM.
My problem isn't with DRM, but how its implemented, and whether or not that implementation works.
In other words, yes, protect your content, but not at the cost of screwing your customers.
i worked for a government subcontractor a few years back, and one of our buildings was a top-secret area. The building was constructed with certain building materials and laid out so that it blocked all wireless radio frequencies in and out of the building - especially cellular traffic. If that is not illegal, I don't see how cellular jamming wouold be illegal.
I guess I could go RTFA and see if it states WHY they were blocking said frequencies, but if you are providing landlines and / or company-provided communication devices that can make emergancy phone calls, I don't get how cellular blocking within your business or organization could be illegal. In fact, I wish more places would use cellular jamming (especially movie theaters)
raised £2.3 billion in the 4G spectrum auction when the government had hoped for £3.5 billion. Now Ofcom's auction is being investigated by the National Audit Office over whether it provided value for money for the British taxpayers
So, how much is this investigation going to cost, and for that matter, will it have a return on this investment? Let's spend money to figure out why we didn't make enough money?
I get it, there needs to be oversight and accountablility, but just wondering how this investigation, which is going to be paid for most likely with taxpayer money, is going to benefit the tax payers.
I know that people are generally opposed to DRM - shoot, I am one of them, because half the time, it doesn't work right, but if the system works.... I bought an eInk reader a few months back, and actually tried buying books through them, but the books would only stay authorized for a few days - to get them to work again, I had to delete both the book and the sql database off the tablett and resync. CD checks on games are always a bitch, and internet-verification games - shoot, I almost always download cracks for them, even though I legally own them.
But when DRM works fine - IE, I stick a DVD in my player and it plays, or I stick a Blu-Ray in and it plays, I am fine. Oh, upconverting only works over HDMI? No problem, I haven't run component in years (well, except for the XBox as I have one of the early models). What does annoy me is when you get a Blu-Ray that won't play on certain players (ie non-PS3s) until you apply some firmware update (actually, may have the issues with non-patched PS3s as well, but I normally keep it updated to stream Netflix).
I have considered jailbreaking the PS3, though, to play region-locked discs. Luckily, many Blu-Rays are region-free, or are available in the US, but I have come across a few region B locked discs that don't have US releases.
Had to replace an HDMI cable a few months ago because it was having handshake issues. Granted, HDMI cables are only a couple of bucks, but the only issue I had with this cable was that it would loose sync for about half-a-second every 30 minutes or so, didn't really even notice, until I moved and plugged that cable up to my Blu-Ray player instead of to the cable-box, and in my new area, then realizing that my new cable company DRMed everything, even free OTA channels.
Netflix is currently the only streaming video app that seems to work on my rooted Android tablet (Time Warner Cable, Hulu, and Ultraviolet in Flixster won't work on rooted devices), not sure what streaming methodology they are using on Android, but willing to bet its not silverlight. As long as I can still use it on my tablett, I am fine.
Where was I going with this? Oh yeah, so I am fine with DRM IF IT WORKS and is WELL IMPLEMENTED. I understand protecting your stuff, and I am a collector, so like to have Physical media in my hands anyways. But if I have authorization errors, handshake issues, and my legal media just doesn't work, I will break your DRM or pirate the product. I tried playing your game, but if you don't play nice....
So, as long as the HTML5 DRM works, I am fine with it.
I am not sure what all the Android crash report gathers, but the Facebook Android app is getting buggier and buggier with each release, with people screaming bloody murder in the reviews. It is possible that Facebook is gathering this data to see what might be causing people problems. Still, I don't like the idea of an app developer, even facebook, knowing what I am running. Not that I have anything to hide, but still....
Shoot, you can't even use Google Street View images on a Wikipedia page (I've tried, images were pulled for copyright violations). The Google Maps Terms of Service is not a fun read, but in a nutshell, you cannot do anything other than view their images without some type of contract with them.
The fact that he is selling this artwork - this is a huge lawsuit waiting to happen. This is not the same as a rapper sampling works, the images show that these modified images are the majority of his work. That is way different than sampling a couple of seconds to use in a song. This is blantant copyright violation, unless he has a license from Google.
Are they talking about power going to WiFi access points and routers and cell networks, or are they throwing in powering every single cell phone, tablett, and laptop used to access these networks as well. The article just doesn't specify, but I highly doubt that the energy to run a couple of dozen WiFi access points (or hundreds if you are a REALLLY large business) is ever going to be anywhere near what it costs to power servers, disc arrays, tape backup systems, routers, switches, and PBX systems.
With this being from Austrailia, for all we know, they are refering to covering the outback with cell towers and how much power that will take versus the power needed to locate a data center out there. The article is very vague.
The executive summery in the PDF pretty much states the same.
If you start digging down into the article PDF, I did find this:
This white paper presents a detailed model that estimates the energy consumption of cloud services delivered via wireless access networks in 2015 taking into account the broad range of components required to support those services, including data centres and the telecommunications networks. The model is based on the expected up-take of wireless cloud services and forecasts of the telecommunications technologies that will underpin wireless cloud services in 2015. This estimate uses an incremental energy calculation that is based on a scenario where wireless cloud traffi c is part of many other traffi c fl ows through the network and data centres. Wireless cloud traffi c is carried through a network that is already carrying a large amount of traffi c, with wireless cloud traffi c being about 20% of mobile traffi c and approximately 35% of data centre traffi c [2,4].
So this makes more sense, but is seemingly talking in circles. The power required to power cell towers, wireless networks, and the datacenters to support them is going to be greater than the power needed to support data centers. Um, thanks.
What is worse is that the white paper reads like a lazy college student's attempt to present facts without really understanding the facts. I used to throw papers like that together in college. You have facts that you know you need to present in your paper, but you have no clue what they really mean, and almost get to the point where you are copying and pasting tidbits into your paper (and just citate the hell out of it).
Sky is apparently unable to fix the problem — its best advice been to suggest users delete the old messages
I can tell you a fix to the problem in two seconds - Go back to Google. You are going to risk pissing off your customers with this, then they will discover that they have worse spam filtering, to save some money? Sounds like Sky needs to rethink a few things - that is a major issue!
Also, Google with Imap and all my mail clients that plug into it have no issues with this. Why is Yahoo having an issue with this? Sounds like someone at Yahoo is just lazy and doesn't want to be bothered to do a few hours worth of programming - meaning bad customer service they are offering to the ISP which turns around to screwing the end customer. I mean, really, that is inexcusable!
Yes, but did you install CentOS for her? I am willing to bet that she didn't go build her own computer or buy one from the store, download the CentOS iso images or do a network install by herself. It's not like you can just go down to Walmart and pick up a computer running Linux.
I know computers have sold in the past with Linux preinstalled, but I don't think any major retailer carried them.
If there are non-technical people using Linux, it is most likely because they have a technical person who installed it for them, and supports them.
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A larger fraction of the US population has college degrees than in most other industrialized nations. Encouraging more people to get college degrees will not raise the standard of living or incomes, it will simply mean that we end up with more waiters and cab drivers with college degrees. Subsidizing more college degrees with public funding or loans will mean that tuition rates will keep rising and more and more jobs will require college degrees even though they don't need it.
Where are you getting this information from? Granted, the US is like in the top 5 of nations with college graduates, but there are many European nations with free or almost-free college programs, the education is every bit as good as a US university (In some cases better - I studied abroad for a while), and it seems that there is roughly a similar ratio to college versus non-college jobs (at least you don't have to apprentince in the US).
Granted, though, many European countries have higher tax rates than the US.
I am working in a job in my field, still working on paying off student loans, so after paying my student loans every month, my income is similar to a non-college degree person. Granted, once I get those loans paid off, I will be significantly better off. I get asked all the time by friends without college degrees why I have such a such a hard time making it when I make as much as I do, to which I respond with telling them what my student loan payments are every month. Their eyes pop out of their sockets, and then come back with "Holy crap! How are you getting by at all! That's a mortgage payment!" to which I respond "why do you think I am living in a cheap, crappy one bedroom apartment"
Tuition rates are ridiculous. The university I went to and graduated from just 11 years ago has quadroupled in their tuition rates. I haven't seen income rates quadrouple, cost of living quadrouple, (gas prices have, though), food costs quadrouple, or anything else. They have benefactors and trusties who donate money to the school for new buildings and renovations. The professors salaries haven't gone up THAT much. So, the question is, what justifies the cost of the raise by that much?
Many of my relatives and acquaintances that are just now or have recently guaduated high school are electing NOT to go to college, because they have seen how I struggle, and then how much tuition rates have gone up since I graduated. Those that are going have elected to go to community colleges ($100 a semester hour versus $1000 a semester hour. Hmmm, no comparrison). No, the number of people I see entering college, at least from my demographic, has gone way down. The reason? Cost!
One of two things need to happen:1) Colleges and universities need to dramatically cut the costs of tuition, or 2) the government needs to start subsidizing education more, otherwise we are going to find ourselves as a nation of undereducated people. As a conservative, I opt for the first option, but after seeing how higher education works overseas, and with struggling myself, option two is looking pretty attractive.
Yeah, because NASA is really going to power a satellite with a coal burning power plant. And NASA has been using nuclear for 35 years in their spacecraft, so its not like they have to convince anyone.
Who's the wannabe neard? Looks like its Anonymous Coward.
Although I do hope that IE11 gets released to Windows 7.
Here is my thinking - I love WebGL, but I don't see it really taking off unless IE supports it (granted, IE is loosing market share, but that's another topic). However, Windows 8 seems to be a bigger bust for Microsoft than Vista and ME was. So, if IE11 is exclusive to Windows 8, that still means that the default webbrowser used by a good portion of the web users won't support it.
Probably why many webpages still look like they did 10 years ago, websites are writing to the lowest common denominator - ie IE (no pun intended) 6 and 7.
How about taking that money and using it on something else, like, oh, I don't know, space exploration perhaps, instead of instead of on studies to tell us something that we already know.
The problem is that you never had physical posession of the work. As its digital, you can make a perfect copy. What is to stop someone from downloading a ton of MP3s from some file-sharing site, then trying to sell them on a place like this? What is to stop you from buying music on amazon or itunes or having a streaming subscription to Rhapsody, taking the files, using the analogue hole, saving as an mp3, selling on the site, and still keeping your original files?
The only way that you could resale digital media is if it was DRMed, and in that case, the company would have to allow you to deauthorize your machine and pass it on to someone else, but even still, you can convert to another DRM free format in many cases, which, once again, allows you to keep a copy.
I can't see how the First Sale Doctorine would apply to this case. You HAVE to have some type of physical media for first sales doctorine to be able to apply, otherwise there is no way to really track if something is pirated or not.
Although I guess you could argue that I could make a copy of a DVD or CD or something, but its not in the original case with the original cover with the original pressing, so the copy really has no value.
Mine has been unbearably slow. I've called up my provider twice. Problem is, speed tests to their servers show I am gettign my advertised speed. If I do speed tests to nearby servers, I am seeing this, but if I go outside of my geographic area, speeds start taking a huge hit. Connecting to most speed test servers on the internet, I am seeing 1/20th of the speed I am paying for (I usually get close). I used to be able to stream HDX from Vudo no problem while surfing, but now, Amazon and Netflix SD buffer like crazy. No matter how much I reset stuff on my end, or have my ISP force a restart on their end, I am still seeing this.
It's even worse on my phone with 4G. I can normally stream movies or music or watch HD Youtube streams with no issue, but over the past week or two, my 4G has been practically unusable. Forget internet radio or any of the other streaming services that I normally have no issues with. A 1 minute Youtube video in SD is now taking about 3 minutes to buffer.
So yeah, I have noticed an incredible hit in speeds over the past couple of weeks.
I am going to say that it also depends on what you are listening to them on. A 192kbps MP3 on $2 earbuds is going to sound pretty darn close to the Flac version.
Even for me, a lot of times it depends on just how well it was compressed, and then listening to the original and the lossless side by side. I have had 256kbps lossless files that sound pretty darn good, and only if I listen to the original and am looking for the differences do I notice.
The same can be said for DVD audio versus lossless audio. Like 5.1 Dolby Digital at 256k really doesn't hold up that well on some giant action movie versus a Dolby TrueHD track, although if you are watching a romantic comedy, you probably won't notice much difference. The difference between a DTS soundtrack on a DVD, though, and the DTS MA track is less noticable.
And when you look at a Dolby Digital Plus track versus Dolby TrueHD, you are going to find even less people who notice the difference.
That said, I always perfer the highest quality I can get. Its not necessarially whether or not I can hear it, but that I am not left wondering if there is something going on.
the IRS is being "scolded for spending $60,000 dollars on an elaborate parody video
Just wondering how much money was spent on the auditing to find this out, then how much more was spent on the investigation into it.
When we are talking about a a debt in the trillions, a single video that cost $60,000 doesn't bother me. Now, if they were making one of these a week, or if every department in the government were doing it, THEN I would be upset.
Yeah, maybe they should get a slap on the hand for this, but seriously, when cuts need to be made in the billions or trillions of dollars range, a $60,000 one-time thing just isn't something that seems like that big of a deal for me - especially if they are using it as a training phase.
I run camera for a non-profit. Most of the camera operators, light operators and audio people are volunteers, with a few staff to support them. All of our video and audio production is done in house. About 2-3 times a month, we have training for new volunteers, as many will come in for a few months and leave. When you figure in power for that time to power lights, heating / cooling, projectors, other equipment, staff who are there to train the new people, you can get into the hundreds if not thousands of dollars each night we train people. Luckily we have staff that we don't have to retrain to do the 3D rendering and compositing and all of that, so they don't have to work with the trainies. Now, I wasn't there when we first setup our video production facilities, but I am sure that it was quite costly when they did their test videos.
Of course, now that we do everything internally, we save a fortune over what it would probably cost if we outsourced, as we are filming at least 20 live events a week, and most weeks, considerably more than that. But if it wasn't for the money that had to be spent on training, our quality would suck, with possibly some stuff not even working. Imagine the cost of outsourcing 20 live events a week, versus the costs involved in doing it internally with staff and training volunteers.
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Obviously you have never used the Facebook app on Android. Then they released Home, and it only works on something like 4 Android phones. My understanding of the HTC phone was that it officially supported all the features of Facebook, without crashing and giving you "connection errors" every few seconds. No, I am not the only one, read the reviews in Google Play for the Facebook app.
Apparently, Facebook overestimated how popular they were - as frustrated as I am with the Facebook app, it is not enough to make me want to give up my Galaxy (although 99 cents sounds like a bargain - until I saw that it was AT&T, and I will never have another cell phone on a contract again!)
It's a bit of both. Pretty much, I don't have an issue with DRM when it works. If I get authentication errors, handshaking issues, outdated firmware issues, or "can't connect to server" errors on stuff I legally bought, THEN I have an issue with DRM.
My problem isn't with DRM, but how its implemented, and whether or not that implementation works.
In other words, yes, protect your content, but not at the cost of screwing your customers.
First sentence in the fourth paragraph
Is that they cap your download speed, so you can only use your internet for about a minute a month. :-)
i worked for a government subcontractor a few years back, and one of our buildings was a top-secret area. The building was constructed with certain building materials and laid out so that it blocked all wireless radio frequencies in and out of the building - especially cellular traffic. If that is not illegal, I don't see how cellular jamming wouold be illegal.
I guess I could go RTFA and see if it states WHY they were blocking said frequencies, but if you are providing landlines and / or company-provided communication devices that can make emergancy phone calls, I don't get how cellular blocking within your business or organization could be illegal. In fact, I wish more places would use cellular jamming (especially movie theaters)
raised £2.3 billion in the 4G spectrum auction when the government had hoped for £3.5 billion. Now Ofcom's auction is being investigated by the National Audit Office over whether it provided value for money for the British taxpayers
So, how much is this investigation going to cost, and for that matter, will it have a return on this investment? Let's spend money to figure out why we didn't make enough money?
I get it, there needs to be oversight and accountablility, but just wondering how this investigation, which is going to be paid for most likely with taxpayer money, is going to benefit the tax payers.
I know that people are generally opposed to DRM - shoot, I am one of them, because half the time, it doesn't work right, but if the system works.... I bought an eInk reader a few months back, and actually tried buying books through them, but the books would only stay authorized for a few days - to get them to work again, I had to delete both the book and the sql database off the tablett and resync. CD checks on games are always a bitch, and internet-verification games - shoot, I almost always download cracks for them, even though I legally own them.
But when DRM works fine - IE, I stick a DVD in my player and it plays, or I stick a Blu-Ray in and it plays, I am fine. Oh, upconverting only works over HDMI? No problem, I haven't run component in years (well, except for the XBox as I have one of the early models). What does annoy me is when you get a Blu-Ray that won't play on certain players (ie non-PS3s) until you apply some firmware update (actually, may have the issues with non-patched PS3s as well, but I normally keep it updated to stream Netflix).
I have considered jailbreaking the PS3, though, to play region-locked discs. Luckily, many Blu-Rays are region-free, or are available in the US, but I have come across a few region B locked discs that don't have US releases.
Had to replace an HDMI cable a few months ago because it was having handshake issues. Granted, HDMI cables are only a couple of bucks, but the only issue I had with this cable was that it would loose sync for about half-a-second every 30 minutes or so, didn't really even notice, until I moved and plugged that cable up to my Blu-Ray player instead of to the cable-box, and in my new area, then realizing that my new cable company DRMed everything, even free OTA channels.
Netflix is currently the only streaming video app that seems to work on my rooted Android tablet (Time Warner Cable, Hulu, and Ultraviolet in Flixster won't work on rooted devices), not sure what streaming methodology they are using on Android, but willing to bet its not silverlight. As long as I can still use it on my tablett, I am fine.
Where was I going with this? Oh yeah, so I am fine with DRM IF IT WORKS and is WELL IMPLEMENTED. I understand protecting your stuff, and I am a collector, so like to have Physical media in my hands anyways. But if I have authorization errors, handshake issues, and my legal media just doesn't work, I will break your DRM or pirate the product. I tried playing your game, but if you don't play nice....
So, as long as the HTML5 DRM works, I am fine with it.
I am not sure what all the Android crash report gathers, but the Facebook Android app is getting buggier and buggier with each release, with people screaming bloody murder in the reviews. It is possible that Facebook is gathering this data to see what might be causing people problems. Still, I don't like the idea of an app developer, even facebook, knowing what I am running. Not that I have anything to hide, but still....
Shoot, you can't even use Google Street View images on a Wikipedia page (I've tried, images were pulled for copyright violations). The Google Maps Terms of Service is not a fun read, but in a nutshell, you cannot do anything other than view their images without some type of contract with them.
The fact that he is selling this artwork - this is a huge lawsuit waiting to happen. This is not the same as a rapper sampling works, the images show that these modified images are the majority of his work. That is way different than sampling a couple of seconds to use in a song. This is blantant copyright violation, unless he has a license from Google.
Are they talking about power going to WiFi access points and routers and cell networks, or are they throwing in powering every single cell phone, tablett, and laptop used to access these networks as well. The article just doesn't specify, but I highly doubt that the energy to run a couple of dozen WiFi access points (or hundreds if you are a REALLLY large business) is ever going to be anywhere near what it costs to power servers, disc arrays, tape backup systems, routers, switches, and PBX systems.
With this being from Austrailia, for all we know, they are refering to covering the outback with cell towers and how much power that will take versus the power needed to locate a data center out there. The article is very vague.
The executive summery in the PDF pretty much states the same.
If you start digging down into the article PDF, I did find this:
This white paper presents a detailed model that
estimates the energy consumption of cloud services
delivered via wireless access networks in 2015 taking
into account the broad range of components required to
support those services, including data centres and the
telecommunications networks. The model is based on the
expected up-take of wireless cloud services and forecasts
of the telecommunications technologies that will underpin
wireless cloud services in 2015. This estimate uses an
incremental energy calculation that is based on a scenario
where wireless cloud traffi c is part of many other traffi c
fl ows through the network and data centres. Wireless cloud
traffi c is carried through a network that is already carrying
a large amount of traffi c, with wireless cloud traffi c being
about 20% of mobile traffi c and approximately 35% of data
centre traffi c [2,4].
So this makes more sense, but is seemingly talking in circles. The power required to power cell towers, wireless networks, and the datacenters to support them is going to be greater than the power needed to support data centers. Um, thanks.
What is worse is that the white paper reads like a lazy college student's attempt to present facts without really understanding the facts. I used to throw papers like that together in college. You have facts that you know you need to present in your paper, but you have no clue what they really mean, and almost get to the point where you are copying and pasting tidbits into your paper (and just citate the hell out of it).
Sky is apparently unable to fix the problem — its best advice been to suggest users delete the old messages
I can tell you a fix to the problem in two seconds - Go back to Google. You are going to risk pissing off your customers with this, then they will discover that they have worse spam filtering, to save some money? Sounds like Sky needs to rethink a few things - that is a major issue!
Also, Google with Imap and all my mail clients that plug into it have no issues with this. Why is Yahoo having an issue with this? Sounds like someone at Yahoo is just lazy and doesn't want to be bothered to do a few hours worth of programming - meaning bad customer service they are offering to the ISP which turns around to screwing the end customer. I mean, really, that is inexcusable!
Yes, but did you install CentOS for her? I am willing to bet that she didn't go build her own computer or buy one from the store, download the CentOS iso images or do a network install by herself. It's not like you can just go down to Walmart and pick up a computer running Linux.
http://www.walmart.com/search/search-ng.do?ic=32_0&tab_value=all&search_query=linux&search_constraint=3944&Find=Find&pref_store=1801&ss=false&
Nor Best Buy
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_dynSessConf=&id=pcat17071&type=page&sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=15&sp=&qp=&list=n&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960&st=linux
I know computers have sold in the past with Linux preinstalled, but I don't think any major retailer carried them.
If there are non-technical people using Linux, it is most likely because they have a technical person who installed it for them, and supports them.
A larger fraction of the US population has college degrees than in most other industrialized nations. Encouraging more people to get college degrees will not raise the standard of living or incomes, it will simply mean that we end up with more waiters and cab drivers with college degrees. Subsidizing more college degrees with public funding or loans will mean that tuition rates will keep rising and more and more jobs will require college degrees even though they don't need it.
Where are you getting this information from? Granted, the US is like in the top 5 of nations with college graduates, but there are many European nations with free or almost-free college programs, the education is every bit as good as a US university (In some cases better - I studied abroad for a while), and it seems that there is roughly a similar ratio to college versus non-college jobs (at least you don't have to apprentince in the US).
Granted, though, many European countries have higher tax rates than the US.
I am working in a job in my field, still working on paying off student loans, so after paying my student loans every month, my income is similar to a non-college degree person. Granted, once I get those loans paid off, I will be significantly better off. I get asked all the time by friends without college degrees why I have such a such a hard time making it when I make as much as I do, to which I respond with telling them what my student loan payments are every month. Their eyes pop out of their sockets, and then come back with "Holy crap! How are you getting by at all! That's a mortgage payment!" to which I respond "why do you think I am living in a cheap, crappy one bedroom apartment"
Tuition rates are ridiculous. The university I went to and graduated from just 11 years ago has quadroupled in their tuition rates. I haven't seen income rates quadrouple, cost of living quadrouple, (gas prices have, though), food costs quadrouple, or anything else. They have benefactors and trusties who donate money to the school for new buildings and renovations. The professors salaries haven't gone up THAT much. So, the question is, what justifies the cost of the raise by that much?
Many of my relatives and acquaintances that are just now or have recently guaduated high school are electing NOT to go to college, because they have seen how I struggle, and then how much tuition rates have gone up since I graduated. Those that are going have elected to go to community colleges ($100 a semester hour versus $1000 a semester hour. Hmmm, no comparrison). No, the number of people I see entering college, at least from my demographic, has gone way down. The reason? Cost!
One of two things need to happen:1) Colleges and universities need to dramatically cut the costs of tuition, or 2) the government needs to start subsidizing education more, otherwise we are going to find ourselves as a nation of undereducated people. As a conservative, I opt for the first option, but after seeing how higher education works overseas, and with struggling myself, option two is looking pretty attractive.
Duh! Sorry sarcasm doesn't come across in text-based threads.
And remote spacecrafts using nuclear are really going to cause deaths. At least bother to read the headline of the aticle before you comment.
Yeah, because NASA is really going to power a satellite with a coal burning power plant. And NASA has been using nuclear for 35 years in their spacecraft, so its not like they have to convince anyone.
Who's the wannabe neard? Looks like its Anonymous Coward.
Although I do hope that IE11 gets released to Windows 7.
Here is my thinking - I love WebGL, but I don't see it really taking off unless IE supports it (granted, IE is loosing market share, but that's another topic). However, Windows 8 seems to be a bigger bust for Microsoft than Vista and ME was. So, if IE11 is exclusive to Windows 8, that still means that the default webbrowser used by a good portion of the web users won't support it.
Probably why many webpages still look like they did 10 years ago, websites are writing to the lowest common denominator - ie IE (no pun intended) 6 and 7.
How about taking that money and using it on something else, like, oh, I don't know, space exploration perhaps, instead of instead of on studies to tell us something that we already know.
Soooooo..... Are you saying that the French are creating weapons of mass destruction? Do we need to place a trade embargo against France?
Really? It seems that every year someone writes that Linus is leaving Linux to work for Microsoft. :-)
The problem is that you never had physical posession of the work. As its digital, you can make a perfect copy. What is to stop someone from downloading a ton of MP3s from some file-sharing site, then trying to sell them on a place like this? What is to stop you from buying music on amazon or itunes or having a streaming subscription to Rhapsody, taking the files, using the analogue hole, saving as an mp3, selling on the site, and still keeping your original files?
The only way that you could resale digital media is if it was DRMed, and in that case, the company would have to allow you to deauthorize your machine and pass it on to someone else, but even still, you can convert to another DRM free format in many cases, which, once again, allows you to keep a copy.
I can't see how the First Sale Doctorine would apply to this case. You HAVE to have some type of physical media for first sales doctorine to be able to apply, otherwise there is no way to really track if something is pirated or not.
Although I guess you could argue that I could make a copy of a DVD or CD or something, but its not in the original case with the original cover with the original pressing, so the copy really has no value.
Why do I even bother to come to Slashdot on April first?
Mine has been unbearably slow. I've called up my provider twice. Problem is, speed tests to their servers show I am gettign my advertised speed. If I do speed tests to nearby servers, I am seeing this, but if I go outside of my geographic area, speeds start taking a huge hit. Connecting to most speed test servers on the internet, I am seeing 1/20th of the speed I am paying for (I usually get close). I used to be able to stream HDX from Vudo no problem while surfing, but now, Amazon and Netflix SD buffer like crazy. No matter how much I reset stuff on my end, or have my ISP force a restart on their end, I am still seeing this.
It's even worse on my phone with 4G. I can normally stream movies or music or watch HD Youtube streams with no issue, but over the past week or two, my 4G has been practically unusable. Forget internet radio or any of the other streaming services that I normally have no issues with. A 1 minute Youtube video in SD is now taking about 3 minutes to buffer.
So yeah, I have noticed an incredible hit in speeds over the past couple of weeks.
I am going to say that it also depends on what you are listening to them on. A 192kbps MP3 on $2 earbuds is going to sound pretty darn close to the Flac version.
Even for me, a lot of times it depends on just how well it was compressed, and then listening to the original and the lossless side by side. I have had 256kbps lossless files that sound pretty darn good, and only if I listen to the original and am looking for the differences do I notice.
The same can be said for DVD audio versus lossless audio. Like 5.1 Dolby Digital at 256k really doesn't hold up that well on some giant action movie versus a Dolby TrueHD track, although if you are watching a romantic comedy, you probably won't notice much difference. The difference between a DTS soundtrack on a DVD, though, and the DTS MA track is less noticable.
And when you look at a Dolby Digital Plus track versus Dolby TrueHD, you are going to find even less people who notice the difference.
That said, I always perfer the highest quality I can get. Its not necessarially whether or not I can hear it, but that I am not left wondering if there is something going on.
Here is the bit that gets me:
the IRS is being "scolded for spending $60,000 dollars on an elaborate parody video
Just wondering how much money was spent on the auditing to find this out, then how much more was spent on the investigation into it.
When we are talking about a a debt in the trillions, a single video that cost $60,000 doesn't bother me. Now, if they were making one of these a week, or if every department in the government were doing it, THEN I would be upset.
Yeah, maybe they should get a slap on the hand for this, but seriously, when cuts need to be made in the billions or trillions of dollars range, a $60,000 one-time thing just isn't something that seems like that big of a deal for me - especially if they are using it as a training phase.
I run camera for a non-profit. Most of the camera operators, light operators and audio people are volunteers, with a few staff to support them. All of our video and audio production is done in house. About 2-3 times a month, we have training for new volunteers, as many will come in for a few months and leave. When you figure in power for that time to power lights, heating / cooling, projectors, other equipment, staff who are there to train the new people, you can get into the hundreds if not thousands of dollars each night we train people. Luckily we have staff that we don't have to retrain to do the 3D rendering and compositing and all of that, so they don't have to work with the trainies. Now, I wasn't there when we first setup our video production facilities, but I am sure that it was quite costly when they did their test videos.
Of course, now that we do everything internally, we save a fortune over what it would probably cost if we outsourced, as we are filming at least 20 live events a week, and most weeks, considerably more than that. But if it wasn't for the money that had to be spent on training, our quality would suck, with possibly some stuff not even working. Imagine the cost of outsourcing 20 live events a week, versus the costs involved in doing it internally with staff and training volunteers.