The main disadvantage is when you "buy" your movie on Amazon you've bought a license to stream the movie under Amazon's terms and conditions, not the actual movie. You can't sell your license, you can't loan it, you can't donate it, you can't transfer it to another streaming service, you can't watch on devices not blessed with their software, you can't watch with your favourite player app. If Amazon feel like it you might be denied access to the movie (e.g. TOS violation) or because of your location. And of course you'll get a lower quality movie with no extras.
If the price were considerably lower to offset these disadvantages then it might be worth buying in this way. But digital movies are priced almost the same as their physical counterparts. I really don't understand why anybody buys media (books, music, movies, TV shows) through a streaming service - not from Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Sony or anyone else's. And of course there's the whole free download thing where you can grab a high quality product which is not tied to any store.
Subscribing to a streaming service or renting is another matter entirely. There are no issues like transferability, or ownership. If Amazon Prime's streaming service sucks then you can just cancel and there is no expectation of retaining access to your collection.
Does anyone consider the fact these sites have been taken down (in some cases more than once) and does anyone consider who may be actually running these sites?
People who like making money. The site exists because it gets a lot of eyeballs and they sell advertising space. And they don't particularly care what kind of advertising they're hosting which is why most of it is malicious (malware, trojans etc.) or a scam of one kind of another.
If someone is stupid enough to install and run software supplied by a piracy website then they deserve everything you get. Even if the TPB isn't being malicious intentionally, I'm sure one of their skeezy malvertising partners won't have qualms about exploiting users.
Personally I don't believe there is anything inherently better about using a toolbar or a ribbon. The most important thing is usability and task centric design. I think the ribbon is a shock to the system but when you get used to it and it works. It is task centric, it's far easier to set styles on text, things are nicely spacial and don't jump around depending on context such as text selection and all the common actions for the task are right there and available. The biggest failing is that loading / saving is split out as a task which is disconcerting if you wish to see the document you're saving since you lose context.
But on balance it's a good solution.
LibreOffice is also fairly usable but doesn't spend as much time on usability as it should. There are a mess of toolbars and buttons on the top, the sides and the bottom. And they appear and disappear depending on context, e.g. click on text in a bullet point and suddenly a bullet toolbar appears at the bottom. It makes the experience very disconcerting and it's very wasteful of space too. Compared to MS Office, all those toolbars mean less space for the actual document. It's philosophy seems to be small iterative changes to the existing experience rather than wondering if the existing experience is fit for purpose in the first place.
Nobody has demonstrated a single game or application for VR which could be described as a killer. Something that has mainstream appeal and is sufficiently compelling for large quantities of people to spend cash to play it. And not just at launch either when the hype overrules reason, but sustainable sales over time to drive the tech forward.
I'm sure VR could utterly awesome for flight sims, or Arma IV or whatever when it appears but they're not mainstream games. Where is the mainstream game (or app) that people will pay to play?
A person in the UK recently won a court case for something similar. He preordered a Porsche car, paid a deposit and then the dealer bumped him from the queue and sold the car to someone else. He sued for breach of contract, the judge agreed and awarded him the difference between what the car cost at the time and what it would be worth now.
I guess if someone could argue that the deposit was a contract (and better yet that losing the preorder meant a financial loss) then they could probably sue successfully.
Maybe the guy's an asshole, maybe not. Either way the event still sucked. I bet it sucked more in person being stuck there waiting nearly 2 hours for it to happen.
I watched the video of it and Musk may well have held it in a monkey enclosure. I've never seen an audience react like that, hooting and howling over every word he said. The car is nice I guess but the audience reaction was ridiculous.
Apple have tossed out a compiler and a very rudimentary stdlib. I'm sure it ticks a box but it's not a practical language that people can use for much.
The issue is that manufacturers insist on skinning the phone and filling it with their own apps. Then the network provider insists on skinning the phone and filling it with more apps.
So every time a bug fix rolls along, or Android bumps up a version, there are two additional codebases to merge, test, certify and deploy. The more the handset is customised the more painful the process will be. For every single combination of handset and network.
Best thing to do is buy a SIM free handset. That's all the network crap gone. And favour a handset which runs vanilla android, or at least has good support, and preferably aftermarket support such as cyanogenmod. Then you'll get updates for as long as the hardware is able to run the latest versions of android.
Personally I wouldn't go near anything which didn't meet this criteria.
Smoothness is not an issue since the pod won't be touching the walls on purpose. The pod would ride on a maglev track and wouldn't touch the walls. Providing the pipe has a non permeable membrane that maintains the pressure then it doesn't matter what the pipe is comprised of.
What matters is the production speed, cost, and issues such as maintenance and servicing. Concrete can certainly crack but metal expansion (and fatigue) is a thing too. If you have long lengths of steel then warping is a serious issue. A railway line incorporates expansion gaps to prevent this issue. What does a welded steel tube do to mitigate the issue?
So they'll need some kind of vehicle which can clean the surface? Some kind of street sweeping machine? Wherever will they find one of these mythical and preposterous devices?
I don't see that such a system would even have to be made of steel. Concrete pipes are used to carry water at high pressure. Why not use them at low pressure? Composite pipes could be used too where there are more than one material at work, e.g. concrete, a plastic membrane and an inner steel guide rail.
I guess the complexity is not in the standard pipe sections but how to implement junctions, parallel sections, pressure locks and all the rest that would have to be part of any practical system.
How am I meant to browse for gifts and flowers for my wife (WHICH IS ALL ANYONE EVER DOES WITH PRIVATE BROWSING) if its not actually private? Oh and in case the wife does find traces of activity, yes cumgarglingsluts.com is a site that sells flowers and gifts. Way to ruin the surprise Edge.
The BBFC has reviewed hours of excrutiatingly boring content. Training videos, craptastic straight to video movies, soft porn, religious devotionals, videos of fireplaces and fish tanks. I bet 95% of the content they view is deadly dull. But they're paid by the hour to review it and I doubt it fazes them one bit. I doubt they especially care if they're paid to watch paint dry. Big deal. It gets a rating and then onto the next thing.
Quite. Lots of straight lace movies have CG in them and people didn't even notice it. Bad CG sticks out when it's done on the cheap and fails to impart the scene with characteristics that feel "real" - natural body movements, lighting, shadow, texture, inertia, gravity etc. Even the way that the camera moves and swoops around can make it feel wrong.
The point is Mad Max had LOTS of CGI. I provided one link but there's virtually not a single part of it which hasn't got CG in it. The rock city at the beginning - CG. Crowd replication - CG. Any time there are projectiles, ropes, chains or other things being thrown around - CG. Sandstorm scene - CG. Explosions and many of the collisions - CG. Canyon in latter part of movie - CG. Digital colour balancing - CG. Night / dusk effects - CG. Robot hand - CG. Many vehicle interior shots - greenscreen CG.
It's true that many directors go totally overboard with CG but Mad Max and Star Wars Ep 7 aren't the counterpoint. They have enormous amounts in there too. They just have directors who are a bit more discerning about its use, knowing that live action and live actors are necessary to make the CG convincing. And they have the budget to hire the best digital effects companies when they need it. And something else...
The problem with many movies that use CG is not the computer graphics but sense that something is impersonal, uncanny and weird. It's okay to use CG but the laws of physics should remain consistent, and what humans are physically capable of. And you can't get an actor to produce a decent performance when he's saying his lines to a tennis ball on a stick. That's why many CG movies fail. If Mad Max & Ep 7 succeed it's because they remembered this. They still have a lot of CG though.
It's true that Mad Max in particular had lots of genuine stunts but it was also filled with CG - digital composition, green screening, added flame / explosion effects, matting, removal of of wires / safety equipment, CG sequences such as the sandstorm shots. Same too of Star Wars - lots of location shooting, but plenty of CG in there too, enormous amounts for all the battles, droids, creatures.
It might be better to say that particular directors are better at striking a balance between traditional and modern filmmaking. They know what bits look best filmed for real and which bits should be done later in a computer. J J Abrams can afford to build an external millenium falcon set (used about 4 times in the movie) but he still digitally sticks in the surroundings every time they run up and down the ramp.
I haven't used Windows 10 IoT but previous Windows Embedded versions had a thing called platform builder where you got to pick and choose what components you wanted and then you built it. e.g. if you didn't need IE, you didn't choose it. So I wouldn't be so sure that a standalone JS engine is already there.
More likely V8 drags in a bunch of open source libs and tools like gyp and porting them to work on UWP is a bother. But its a problem of Microsoft's own making and I don't see that sidestepping the issue by kludging in another engine is to Node.js's benefit so much as it is Microsoft's.
Yes but maybe it doesn't compile under UWP which is Microsoft's universal API across IoT, mobile, desktop. UWP only supports of a subset Win32 so code that compiles to Win32 may not compile to UWP without lots of patching.
I've been lead on this merry dance of bullshit before with Windows Embedded where the toolchain only supports a subset of Win32, a subset of STL classes and C headers and suddenly code that used to be portable no longer is.
I wouldn't see that as an excuse to replace the entire backend though. Microsoft should supply patches to fix V8.
Is ChakraCore measurably faster? Is it more portable? Is it more adherent to standards?
Perhaps it is or perhaps it isn't. If it's only marginally better, or not better at all, then why would Node.js want the maintenance headache of two backends with no meaningful differentiation?
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If the price were considerably lower to offset these disadvantages then it might be worth buying in this way. But digital movies are priced almost the same as their physical counterparts. I really don't understand why anybody buys media (books, music, movies, TV shows) through a streaming service - not from Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Sony or anyone else's. And of course there's the whole free download thing where you can grab a high quality product which is not tied to any store.
Subscribing to a streaming service or renting is another matter entirely. There are no issues like transferability, or ownership. If Amazon Prime's streaming service sucks then you can just cancel and there is no expectation of retaining access to your collection.
If they knew then there would be no market for this software or earlier examples like PirateBrowser. Clearly some people don't know.
Does anyone consider the fact these sites have been taken down (in some cases more than once) and does anyone consider who may be actually running these sites?
People who like making money. The site exists because it gets a lot of eyeballs and they sell advertising space. And they don't particularly care what kind of advertising they're hosting which is why most of it is malicious (malware, trojans etc.) or a scam of one kind of another.
you == they. Must learn to proofread.
If someone is stupid enough to install and run software supplied by a piracy website then they deserve everything you get. Even if the TPB isn't being malicious intentionally, I'm sure one of their skeezy malvertising partners won't have qualms about exploiting users.
But on balance it's a good solution.
LibreOffice is also fairly usable but doesn't spend as much time on usability as it should. There are a mess of toolbars and buttons on the top, the sides and the bottom. And they appear and disappear depending on context, e.g. click on text in a bullet point and suddenly a bullet toolbar appears at the bottom. It makes the experience very disconcerting and it's very wasteful of space too. Compared to MS Office, all those toolbars mean less space for the actual document. It's philosophy seems to be small iterative changes to the existing experience rather than wondering if the existing experience is fit for purpose in the first place.
I'm sure VR could utterly awesome for flight sims, or Arma IV or whatever when it appears but they're not mainstream games. Where is the mainstream game (or app) that people will pay to play?
I guess if someone could argue that the deposit was a contract (and better yet that losing the preorder meant a financial loss) then they could probably sue successfully.
Maybe the guy's an asshole, maybe not. Either way the event still sucked. I bet it sucked more in person being stuck there waiting nearly 2 hours for it to happen.
I watched the video of it and Musk may well have held it in a monkey enclosure. I've never seen an audience react like that, hooting and howling over every word he said. The car is nice I guess but the audience reaction was ridiculous.
Apple have tossed out a compiler and a very rudimentary stdlib. I'm sure it ticks a box but it's not a practical language that people can use for much.
So every time a bug fix rolls along, or Android bumps up a version, there are two additional codebases to merge, test, certify and deploy. The more the handset is customised the more painful the process will be. For every single combination of handset and network.
Best thing to do is buy a SIM free handset. That's all the network crap gone. And favour a handset which runs vanilla android, or at least has good support, and preferably aftermarket support such as cyanogenmod. Then you'll get updates for as long as the hardware is able to run the latest versions of android.
Personally I wouldn't go near anything which didn't meet this criteria.
What matters is the production speed, cost, and issues such as maintenance and servicing. Concrete can certainly crack but metal expansion (and fatigue) is a thing too. If you have long lengths of steel then warping is a serious issue. A railway line incorporates expansion gaps to prevent this issue. What does a welded steel tube do to mitigate the issue?
So they'll need some kind of vehicle which can clean the surface? Some kind of street sweeping machine? Wherever will they find one of these mythical and preposterous devices?
I guess the complexity is not in the standard pipe sections but how to implement junctions, parallel sections, pressure locks and all the rest that would have to be part of any practical system.
How am I meant to browse for gifts and flowers for my wife (WHICH IS ALL ANYONE EVER DOES WITH PRIVATE BROWSING) if its not actually private? Oh and in case the wife does find traces of activity, yes cumgarglingsluts.com is a site that sells flowers and gifts. Way to ruin the surprise Edge.
So now people can pay $100,000 to drive a really shitty sports car just because it was in a movie.
The BBFC has reviewed hours of excrutiatingly boring content. Training videos, craptastic straight to video movies, soft porn, religious devotionals, videos of fireplaces and fish tanks. I bet 95% of the content they view is deadly dull. But they're paid by the hour to review it and I doubt it fazes them one bit. I doubt they especially care if they're paid to watch paint dry. Big deal. It gets a rating and then onto the next thing.
Quite. Lots of straight lace movies have CG in them and people didn't even notice it. Bad CG sticks out when it's done on the cheap and fails to impart the scene with characteristics that feel "real" - natural body movements, lighting, shadow, texture, inertia, gravity etc. Even the way that the camera moves and swoops around can make it feel wrong.
It's true that many directors go totally overboard with CG but Mad Max and Star Wars Ep 7 aren't the counterpoint. They have enormous amounts in there too. They just have directors who are a bit more discerning about its use, knowing that live action and live actors are necessary to make the CG convincing. And they have the budget to hire the best digital effects companies when they need it. And something else...
The problem with many movies that use CG is not the computer graphics but sense that something is impersonal, uncanny and weird. It's okay to use CG but the laws of physics should remain consistent, and what humans are physically capable of. And you can't get an actor to produce a decent performance when he's saying his lines to a tennis ball on a stick. That's why many CG movies fail. If Mad Max & Ep 7 succeed it's because they remembered this. They still have a lot of CG though.
At least he's off the hook if someone wins the Loebner prize.
It might be better to say that particular directors are better at striking a balance between traditional and modern filmmaking. They know what bits look best filmed for real and which bits should be done later in a computer. J J Abrams can afford to build an external millenium falcon set (used about 4 times in the movie) but he still digitally sticks in the surroundings every time they run up and down the ramp.
More likely V8 drags in a bunch of open source libs and tools like gyp and porting them to work on UWP is a bother. But its a problem of Microsoft's own making and I don't see that sidestepping the issue by kludging in another engine is to Node.js's benefit so much as it is Microsoft's.
I've been lead on this merry dance of bullshit before with Windows Embedded where the toolchain only supports a subset of Win32, a subset of STL classes and C headers and suddenly code that used to be portable no longer is.
I wouldn't see that as an excuse to replace the entire backend though. Microsoft should supply patches to fix V8.
Perhaps it is or perhaps it isn't. If it's only marginally better, or not better at all, then why would Node.js want the maintenance headache of two backends with no meaningful differentiation?