The soon-to-be former chairman just resigned and is looking to sell off his 20% stake in the company. If the rest of the board adopts a similar attitude, this company will end up going the way of Circuit City.
I wasn't trying to say that the privacy issues weren't there, or that they were unimportant. I simply wanted to comment on the horrible editorial process here at/. as of late. The 'questions' in this case are bad, even for an Ask Slashdot piece. Trust me, I see the benefits (some really good) and the disadvantages (some really bad) of smart meters. I still haven't reached a verdict on whether or not I approve of them.
Can you editors please present the article submitted with a decent summary and leave off the inflammatory questions tagged onto the end? This trend has been getting worse as time goes on...and the answer to these questions is usually the same: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_Law_of_Headlines
Apple's OS is a lot of things, but it's still Unix based. If I want to do something, a terminal window is a click away. They've made the low level settings harder to get to via a settings window, to be sure; but at the end of the day, I can always issue the appropriate command. Closed might describe their mobile OS well, but that doesn't apply to their desktop OS (yet).
I copied the text from wikiquote. In true Monty Python style, the actual name of the character is 'The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't.' I won't lie, I learned something, too.:)
Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead.
Press: Here's one.
Dead Collector: That'll be ninepence.
Ron Paul Campaign That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead.
Dead Collector: What?
Press: Nothing. There's your ninepence.
Ron Paul Campaign That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead.
Dead Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
Press: Yes he is.
Ron Paul Campaign That Claims It Isn't: I'm not.
Dead Collector: He isn't.
Press: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
Ron Paul Campaign That Claims It Isn't: I'm getting better.
Press: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
At the state level, you have a point. But at the county and district level, the level at which administrators decide how to meet these mandated test standards in the classroom, it's really a toss-up (at least in this state). The two counties I've lived in in California (both on the beach, in supposedly "liberal" areas) have both had surprisingly conservative local representation while electing blue or moderate state reps. My point is that this is muddier than just "who the state is run by." The state may set the standards and issue the tests, but it's up to local school district members to set out a plan to meet those standards; those district reps may or may not be as blue as our state legislation. It's amazing how convoluted this state's politics can be.
"I used to play Elder Scrolls games like you, but then i took an MMO subscription to the knee."
Seriously, though...the ES games excel at making you feel like the lone hero in an immerse world. A bunch of heroes running around would kill the mood, not to mention ruining any ability to make long lasting effects stick based on player actions (permanently killing NPC's, etc.). If they want to do an MMO, fine; but the Elder Scrolls have too rich a world and lore that is too extensive to be left to an MMO. Bethesda, I understand that you want to cash in on this MMO goodness, but please keep making single player Elder Scrolls games.
I know that a shopper could always choose to go another platform (Android, RIM, Microsoft, etc.), but at what point will there be sufficient incentive to allow for this behavior to be investigated as anti-competitive? Apple controls the only marketplace on their very popular platform, and is using that control to dictate how other companies do business and reach out to customers who are on that platform. Microsoft tried to do something vaguely similar in the late 90s and got called out for it. At what point do our current antitrust legislation come into effect? Is it a matter of platform market-share? Perhaps somebody with a greater understanding than I could enlighten me.
We give congresscritters a lot of crap, so I wanted to give credit where credit is due. Thanks to my rep (Rep. Susan Davis(CA)) for voting no on this piece of crap legislation.
Unless you were in the desert, you didn't get to see it. We had a whole party set to go see the meteor shower; it should've been a great night for it, given the new moon. Too bad there were dense fog advisories all night. I've seen some pretty cool pictures from Arizona though.
From what I can tell, the service was providing anonymous re-mailer services, not re-mailer services to Anonymous. This being the case, they're not going after a service used by the hacker group; they're going after a service offering anonymous communications to your average citizen. Not cool, gov'mint, not cool.
At this point, it's easier to just browse\search for and buy an app or song off of the actual iDevice and then sync it back to your library than it is to use the horrible system that iTunes has turned into. The system is far better organized on Apple's mobile apps. Perhaps they'll take an opportunity to step back and take a new approach when they release Mountain Lion.
Quick question: has iTunes for windows been rewritten yet? I know they rewrote it as a 64bit cocoa application for OS X (the Lion release, at least)...is it still a steaming pile on Windows?
But REQUIRING it? I don't think Apple should be able to affect your pricing model on somebody else's store. What if Amazon (for example's sake) wants to feature a book put it book on sale to generate more purchases? If that sale price falls below Apple's pricing, the author suddenly finds himself between a rock and a hard place. I don't think it's fair to require the author to choose between taking Amazon's offer or keeping their book on iBooks.
My understanding of the issue is that the speaking point isn't that they're setting the price, but rather that they require you to sell your book for at least that price if you put your book in another book store. Basically it ensures that iBooks is on-par with the lowest price available. Is my understanding incorrect? I'm not a publisher or a writer, but stacking it so that iBooks has the lowest price available seems to be kind of shifty.
I've always found that orange hued displays are easiest on my eyes. Blue is up there on the visible wavelength, and most of the blue LEDs out there are shockingly bright. You'd think they'd go for something lower in the spectrum.
Perhaps something setup like Geek & Sundry (http://geekandsundry.com/) has going on. They have their own site going on, their youtube channel is well designed, and youtube videos are always easy to embed. Not to mention that they're HTML5 enabled, and easily viewable natively on mobile devices of all sorts. Plus, us youtube users can subscribe to the channel, making the videos more accessible and easier to play later. Perhaps switching to a medium like that might help things out. The more places to view the videos from, the better. Felicia Day's endorsement probably wouldn't hurt, either.:)
Since this is/., and since there was a recent news bit about Adobe releasing its last version of Flash for Linux, could you please dump the one-off flash player and switch to something supported by HTML5? Also, I'd rather not have to deal with a noScript shit-fit in order to watch these "amazing" videos.
Somebody did try this. Gateway opened quite a few stores with this idea in the 90s. There was one local to where I lived. The store was shiny and all, but they didn't keep any product in stock and IIRC, they preferred that you picked up their merch from the store, rather than shipping direct to your home. Needless to say, the idea failed miserably. Perhaps a modern day attempt would work for larger tech products like TVs and the like. I'm curious to see how this pans out.
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The soon-to-be former chairman just resigned and is looking to sell off his 20% stake in the company. If the rest of the board adopts a similar attitude, this company will end up going the way of Circuit City.
I was, up on the hill at USD. The sound-wave alone was AWESOME. Probably far more memorable than the actual show would have been.
I wasn't trying to say that the privacy issues weren't there, or that they were unimportant. I simply wanted to comment on the horrible editorial process here at /. as of late. The 'questions' in this case are bad, even for an Ask Slashdot piece. Trust me, I see the benefits (some really good) and the disadvantages (some really bad) of smart meters. I still haven't reached a verdict on whether or not I approve of them.
Can you editors please present the article submitted with a decent summary and leave off the inflammatory questions tagged onto the end? This trend has been getting worse as time goes on...and the answer to these questions is usually the same: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_Law_of_Headlines
...its closed, highly-secure operating system...
Apple's OS is a lot of things, but it's still Unix based. If I want to do something, a terminal window is a click away. They've made the low level settings harder to get to via a settings window, to be sure; but at the end of the day, I can always issue the appropriate command. Closed might describe their mobile OS well, but that doesn't apply to their desktop OS (yet).
Google knows how to do ads well. If you're looking for free, try their plugin: https://www.google.com/chat/video
I copied the text from wikiquote. In true Monty Python style, the actual name of the character is 'The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't.' I won't lie, I learned something, too. :)
Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead.
Press: Here's one.
Dead Collector: That'll be ninepence.
Ron Paul Campaign That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead.
Dead Collector: What?
Press: Nothing. There's your ninepence.
Ron Paul Campaign That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead.
Dead Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
Press: Yes he is.
Ron Paul Campaign That Claims It Isn't: I'm not.
Dead Collector: He isn't.
Press: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
Ron Paul Campaign That Claims It Isn't: I'm getting better.
Press: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
At the state level, you have a point. But at the county and district level, the level at which administrators decide how to meet these mandated test standards in the classroom, it's really a toss-up (at least in this state). The two counties I've lived in in California (both on the beach, in supposedly "liberal" areas) have both had surprisingly conservative local representation while electing blue or moderate state reps. My point is that this is muddier than just "who the state is run by." The state may set the standards and issue the tests, but it's up to local school district members to set out a plan to meet those standards; those district reps may or may not be as blue as our state legislation. It's amazing how convoluted this state's politics can be.
Seriously, though...the ES games excel at making you feel like the lone hero in an immerse world. A bunch of heroes running around would kill the mood, not to mention ruining any ability to make long lasting effects stick based on player actions (permanently killing NPC's, etc.). If they want to do an MMO, fine; but the Elder Scrolls have too rich a world and lore that is too extensive to be left to an MMO. Bethesda, I understand that you want to cash in on this MMO goodness, but please keep making single player Elder Scrolls games.
I know that a shopper could always choose to go another platform (Android, RIM, Microsoft, etc.), but at what point will there be sufficient incentive to allow for this behavior to be investigated as anti-competitive? Apple controls the only marketplace on their very popular platform, and is using that control to dictate how other companies do business and reach out to customers who are on that platform. Microsoft tried to do something vaguely similar in the late 90s and got called out for it. At what point do our current antitrust legislation come into effect? Is it a matter of platform market-share? Perhaps somebody with a greater understanding than I could enlighten me.
We give congresscritters a lot of crap, so I wanted to give credit where credit is due. Thanks to my rep (Rep. Susan Davis(CA)) for voting no on this piece of crap legislation.
Looks like the president is threatening to veto. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-threatens-to-veto-cispa-cybersecurity-bill-citing-privacy-concerns/2012/04/25/gIQAkS3khT_story.html
Unless you were in the desert, you didn't get to see it. We had a whole party set to go see the meteor shower; it should've been a great night for it, given the new moon. Too bad there were dense fog advisories all night. I've seen some pretty cool pictures from Arizona though.
From what I can tell, the service was providing anonymous re-mailer services, not re-mailer services to Anonymous. This being the case, they're not going after a service used by the hacker group; they're going after a service offering anonymous communications to your average citizen. Not cool, gov'mint, not cool.
Quick question: has iTunes for windows been rewritten yet? I know they rewrote it as a 64bit cocoa application for OS X (the Lion release, at least)...is it still a steaming pile on Windows?
Finally, a game so future-proof that nobody will be able to play it at its full frame-rate for at least five years.
But REQUIRING it? I don't think Apple should be able to affect your pricing model on somebody else's store. What if Amazon (for example's sake) wants to feature a book put it book on sale to generate more purchases? If that sale price falls below Apple's pricing, the author suddenly finds himself between a rock and a hard place. I don't think it's fair to require the author to choose between taking Amazon's offer or keeping their book on iBooks.
My understanding of the issue is that the speaking point isn't that they're setting the price, but rather that they require you to sell your book for at least that price if you put your book in another book store. Basically it ensures that iBooks is on-par with the lowest price available. Is my understanding incorrect? I'm not a publisher or a writer, but stacking it so that iBooks has the lowest price available seems to be kind of shifty.
I've always found that orange hued displays are easiest on my eyes. Blue is up there on the visible wavelength, and most of the blue LEDs out there are shockingly bright. You'd think they'd go for something lower in the spectrum.
Perhaps something setup like Geek & Sundry (http://geekandsundry.com/) has going on. They have their own site going on, their youtube channel is well designed, and youtube videos are always easy to embed. Not to mention that they're HTML5 enabled, and easily viewable natively on mobile devices of all sorts. Plus, us youtube users can subscribe to the channel, making the videos more accessible and easier to play later. Perhaps switching to a medium like that might help things out. The more places to view the videos from, the better. Felicia Day's endorsement probably wouldn't hurt, either. :)
Since this is /., and since there was a recent news bit about Adobe releasing its last version of Flash for Linux, could you please dump the one-off flash player and switch to something supported by HTML5? Also, I'd rather not have to deal with a noScript shit-fit in order to watch these "amazing" videos.
James wears a hat, Jeremy plays "a nice game of chess", and the Stig flies a drone! *cue intro music*
Somebody did try this. Gateway opened quite a few stores with this idea in the 90s. There was one local to where I lived. The store was shiny and all, but they didn't keep any product in stock and IIRC, they preferred that you picked up their merch from the store, rather than shipping direct to your home. Needless to say, the idea failed miserably. Perhaps a modern day attempt would work for larger tech products like TVs and the like. I'm curious to see how this pans out.
That said, a window of 21 Jan to 25 Feb...that's quite a big window...