I don't think the iPad market is as concrete as that... there are the fans, sure, but I'm sure there are a lot of people (like me) on the fence where yeah it's nice but I'm not sure about plunking down $500+ for it. If I'm able to score a $99 Touchpad I won't be in the market for an iPad anymore.
Depending on how many units HP ultimately makes it could measurably impact Apple for a quarter or two, and that could cause drama in the stock price... imagine the pandemonium if Apple misses a quarter, especially with the stock already being unstable after Jobs stepped down.
OK it appears that I kept hitting "m4p" files after looking at what they were on the desktop (can't really tell in Android DLNA what kind of file it is, it just errors out). I have enough of them that it just seemed like nothing was working. I specifically looked for a newer file which was "m4a" and it played fine.
I think I'll just have to burn/rip the m4p's and get rid of them so they are not cluttering up my media server. I wish there was a way to get "m4a" versions.
It's just frustrating... everyone says it all works fine, but that would only be the case if you've built your library recently and avoided "m4p" files.
A while back I also couldn't get music to stream to XB360 either and just gave up, perhaps it was a similar issue. It also boggled me why I couldn't play music via USB to it from an iTouch while an old iPod worked fine, but Apple apparently intentionally did that for some reason.
For music, Apple is the company that finally ended DRM. For that you should thank and support them, not curse them.
If they ended DRM why can't I play any Apple purchased music files (even recent ones) on my Windows machine outside of iTunes, or DLNA to my Android?
There is still some sort of DRM there, and it appears that the only way to remove it is to burn it to a CD and rip it back, which adds an additional round of lossy compression.
2) a reputation system, where players could rate others after playing through an instance with them, with actual consequences
Don't think that is necessary. The biggest thing they could do is to allow cross-realm grouping, friending/ignoring, and chatting outside of the instances. Doing this would tend to move randoms a bit away from the "blind-date" aspect back into social groups.
I actually loved the Random Dungeon Finder... you got to meet all sorts of interesting people. I just wish there was a way to "friend" people you meet there so that you can group with them again.
My biggest complaint with Cata was that the story/quest progression is almost completely linear. You could do Hyjal or Vashjir and there is basically a single quest chain through each zone and nothing else. You got a set of quests in each area three at a time, and you had to do all of them to proceed, otherwise you couldn't do anything. In Northrend you could pick up quest chains pretty much anywhere.
If you are spilling sensitive private info on a social web site you're doing it wrong.
I have a stripped down version of my resume online on Linkedin. I have a few cutesy photos and "likes" for some shows I watch on FaceBook. Otherwise there is nothing on either site that is even remotely sensitive.
These sites are simply tools to make it easier for people to get in touch with me.
I don' t think Linux is anywhere near 20% of game buyers.
I've never heard of the Humble Bundle before, so perhaps it is just more well known in the Linux community due to it's support of it, so it just has a disproportionate number of Linux users.
But thanks for the pointer, I'll check them out. Maybe it will inspire me to try Linux again.
MS has been pushing that "Live" thing in Win7. I don't think it would be much of a stretch at all for them to decide in Win8 or Win9 to require you to always have an internet connection so you can login to Windows using a "Live" account, for exactly the same reasons D3 requires it for single player mode: identity, DRM, security and updates.
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The only reason Clinton had a balanced budget was because they include excess Social Security contributions in the general budget. That is one of the many reasons we are in such a mess now because Social Security cashed in part of it's "trust" fund this year which made a bad deficit even worse.
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Well, for starters, let's ditch social security. And yes, I'll kick in mine. You can keep what you've taken from me so far and don't give me anything when I'm old.
You and I may be well off enough to afford to write off Social Security, but to perhaps the majority of the population out there Social Security is a welfare program. Just look at the formula they use to calculate benefits:
90% of the first $749 of AIME {average indexed monthly earnings}, plus 32% of the next $3,768, plus 15% of any excess over $4,517 {up to the cap of $8900}
Essentially it means that you get nothing from Social Security above $4517 of monthly income... between your 6.2% and your employer match, contributed over 40 or so years, you'll never get it back... it is used to pay those people who make much less.
So no, you cannot bail now, there wouldn't be enough money to subsidize the poor, especially since there is no actual "trust" fund to draw funds from... everything drawn from there goes directly to the deficit, that is one of the many reasons the budget went so far south the past year.
Difference is that fans don't really need to be dust free to work, they still move air even when dusty.
This new concept might be vulnerable to the surface of the plate getting scratched up, or even fail catastrophically if something gets wedged into the gap. It will be interesting how it works out in practice, especially in uncontrolled air conditioning applications. Throw a handful of bugs and dirt on it, or rain, or even hail and see how it works compared to an current design.
My impression is that it is just the directory and signalling information which runs through these supernodes, not voice traffic, so the load shouldn't be too high.
Your point on streaming audio is correct... it's even worse when people sit there with streaming video (CNN, ESPN) going.
About 20 years ago now... sent out code with a bug in the fault recovery code, then a problem in one node cascaded throughout the network. http://www.phworld.org/history/attcrash.htm
then YES, the american workers are charging too much
The problem is that it would be *illegal* for the company to pay the American workers one-half dollar per hour. The Federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, plus another 50 cents or so of SS match, plus UI, workmans comp and probably a few other things I'm missing at the State level. Until the USG does something like an excise tax on foreign workers employed by US companies which equalizes what they mandate those same companies pay to US workers we will continue to see jobs shipped overseas.
As far as equalizing, it will take a very, very long time as we are talking about equalizing a couple billion people against our 300 million.
It's not like you can't pull up the documents on your web browser either. If they start restricting content there, then there's something to worry about!
Why is the line there? It's their hardware, OS, and platform. If they decide that you will no longer be allowed to access Wikileaks, bittorrent, porn, etc. through Safari to make the iStuff a more streamlined user experience what is to stop them?
I don't know about this particular piece of hardware, but generally video game hardware is sold at a loss which is eventually made up by software sales. If the Kinect is repurposed and is used by software which doesn't give Microsoft a cut (e.g. a PC or Mac application) then they would probably lose money.
No, his CFO took the fall, suspended for five years.
Dell's former CEO, Kevin Rollins, and James Schneider, the company's former chief financial officer, agreed to pay fines of $4 million and $3 million, respectively. Schneider was suspended from appearing or practicing before the SEC as an accountant for five years. The SEC, as urged by the company in its settlement proposal, spared Michael Dell similar punishment.
According to SEC filings, Michael Dell owns 226,383,088 shares of Dell (worth about $3.6B). Dell is up 14 cents so far today (probably a result of the settlement news), which means that even after the fine he is up $27 million today.
Microsoft's system requirements have always be laughable. They say 64MB minimum, 128MB recommended for XP, which is a complete joke (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314865).
That said, the parent was probably exaggerating a bit with 3.1 and was really thinking of XP, which was a poor multitasker with 512MB but ran quite well with 1GB or more.
A potential flaw like the recent Apple bug that allowed jailbreaking on the iPhone is an excellent example. Apple patched their own within a few weeks. They would be completely at the mercy of Adobe if such a bug existed in Flash. Would you put yourself willingly in that position?
In that particular case it was a major security flaw in iOS itself that Apple needed to fix, regardless of the source. Flash would be no different... if a Flash game was able to jailbreak the iPhone it would point to a flaw in iOS, not in Flash.
Apple really needs to get a clue about security in iOS rather than relying upon the application gatekeeping process to do it for them.
And that makes it OK? In a perfect world no app should be able to jailbreak the iPhone... IMO any that can do so directly point to security flaws in iOS.
What do your kids use iPads for where an iTouch wouldn't work just as well? Book reading? My kids iTouch is glued to his hip... I can't imagine that he would use an iPad anywhere near as much, especially given the relative lack of portability.
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I don't think the iPad market is as concrete as that... there are the fans, sure, but I'm sure there are a lot of people (like me) on the fence where yeah it's nice but I'm not sure about plunking down $500+ for it. If I'm able to score a $99 Touchpad I won't be in the market for an iPad anymore.
Depending on how many units HP ultimately makes it could measurably impact Apple for a quarter or two, and that could cause drama in the stock price ... imagine the pandemonium if Apple misses a quarter, especially with the stock already being unstable after Jobs stepped down.
OK it appears that I kept hitting "m4p" files after looking at what they were on the desktop (can't really tell in Android DLNA what kind of file it is, it just errors out). I have enough of them that it just seemed like nothing was working. I specifically looked for a newer file which was "m4a" and it played fine.
I think I'll just have to burn/rip the m4p's and get rid of them so they are not cluttering up my media server. I wish there was a way to get "m4a" versions.
It's just frustrating... everyone says it all works fine, but that would only be the case if you've built your library recently and avoided "m4p" files.
A while back I also couldn't get music to stream to XB360 either and just gave up, perhaps it was a similar issue. It also boggled me why I couldn't play music via USB to it from an iTouch while an old iPod worked fine, but Apple apparently intentionally did that for some reason.
Thanks to all for the pointers.
For music, Apple is the company that finally ended DRM. For that you should thank and support them, not curse them.
If they ended DRM why can't I play any Apple purchased music files (even recent ones) on my Windows machine outside of iTunes, or DLNA to my Android?
There is still some sort of DRM there, and it appears that the only way to remove it is to burn it to a CD and rip it back, which adds an additional round of lossy compression.
Is there something I am missing?
2) a reputation system, where players could rate others after playing through an instance with them, with actual consequences
Don't think that is necessary. The biggest thing they could do is to allow cross-realm grouping, friending/ignoring, and chatting outside of the instances. Doing this would tend to move randoms a bit away from the "blind-date" aspect back into social groups.
Cross-realm guilds would be interesting too.
I actually loved the Random Dungeon Finder... you got to meet all sorts of interesting people. I just wish there was a way to "friend" people you meet there so that you can group with them again.
My biggest complaint with Cata was that the story/quest progression is almost completely linear. You could do Hyjal or Vashjir and there is basically a single quest chain through each zone and nothing else. You got a set of quests in each area three at a time, and you had to do all of them to proceed, otherwise you couldn't do anything. In Northrend you could pick up quest chains pretty much anywhere.
If you are spilling sensitive private info on a social web site you're doing it wrong.
I have a stripped down version of my resume online on Linkedin. I have a few cutesy photos and "likes" for some shows I watch on FaceBook. Otherwise there is nothing on either site that is even remotely sensitive.
These sites are simply tools to make it easier for people to get in touch with me.
I don' t think Linux is anywhere near 20% of game buyers.
I've never heard of the Humble Bundle before, so perhaps it is just more well known in the Linux community due to it's support of it, so it just has a disproportionate number of Linux users.
But thanks for the pointer, I'll check them out. Maybe it will inspire me to try Linux again.
The comparision may be more valid than you think.
MS has been pushing that "Live" thing in Win7. I don't think it would be much of a stretch at all for them to decide in Win8 or Win9 to require you to always have an internet connection so you can login to Windows using a "Live" account, for exactly the same reasons D3 requires it for single player mode: identity, DRM, security and updates.
The only reason Clinton had a balanced budget was because they include excess Social Security contributions in the general budget. That is one of the many reasons we are in such a mess now because Social Security cashed in part of it's "trust" fund this year which made a bad deficit even worse.
Well, for starters, let's ditch social security. And yes, I'll kick in mine. You can keep what you've taken from me so far and don't give me anything when I'm old.
You and I may be well off enough to afford to write off Social Security, but to perhaps the majority of the population out there Social Security is a welfare program. Just look at the formula they use to calculate benefits:
90% of the first $749 of AIME {average indexed monthly earnings}, plus 32% of the next $3,768, plus 15% of any excess over $4,517 {up to the cap of $8900}
Essentially it means that you get nothing from Social Security above $4517 of monthly income... between your 6.2% and your employer match, contributed over 40 or so years, you'll never get it back... it is used to pay those people who make much less.
So no, you cannot bail now, there wouldn't be enough money to subsidize the poor, especially since there is no actual "trust" fund to draw funds from... everything drawn from there goes directly to the deficit, that is one of the many reasons the budget went so far south the past year.
Yes, it's only $6 (per month), but that is a 60% increase, which is just a wee bit higher than the inflation rate.
Difference is that fans don't really need to be dust free to work, they still move air even when dusty.
This new concept might be vulnerable to the surface of the plate getting scratched up, or even fail catastrophically if something gets wedged into the gap. It will be interesting how it works out in practice, especially in uncontrolled air conditioning applications. Throw a handful of bugs and dirt on it, or rain, or even hail and see how it works compared to an current design.
My impression is that it is just the directory and signalling information which runs through these supernodes, not voice traffic, so the load shouldn't be too high.
Your point on streaming audio is correct... it's even worse when people sit there with streaming video (CNN, ESPN) going.
About 20 years ago now... sent out code with a bug in the fault recovery code, then a problem in one node cascaded throughout the network. http://www.phworld.org/history/attcrash.htm
then YES, the american workers are charging too much
The problem is that it would be *illegal* for the company to pay the American workers one-half dollar per hour. The Federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, plus another 50 cents or so of SS match, plus UI, workmans comp and probably a few other things I'm missing at the State level. Until the USG does something like an excise tax on foreign workers employed by US companies which equalizes what they mandate those same companies pay to US workers we will continue to see jobs shipped overseas.
As far as equalizing, it will take a very, very long time as we are talking about equalizing a couple billion people against our 300 million.
It's not like you can't pull up the documents on your web browser either. If they start restricting content there, then there's something to worry about!
Why is the line there? It's their hardware, OS, and platform. If they decide that you will no longer be allowed to access Wikileaks, bittorrent, porn, etc. through Safari to make the iStuff a more streamlined user experience what is to stop them?
Just because they didn't have Photoshop back then doesn't mean the image wasn't touched up. I would be surprised if her skin wasn't airbrushed.
I don't know about this particular piece of hardware, but generally video game hardware is sold at a loss which is eventually made up by software sales. If the Kinect is repurposed and is used by software which doesn't give Microsoft a cut (e.g. a PC or Mac application) then they would probably lose money.
Dell's former CEO, Kevin Rollins, and James Schneider, the company's former chief financial officer, agreed to pay fines of $4 million and $3 million, respectively. Schneider was suspended from appearing or practicing before the SEC as an accountant for five years. The SEC, as urged by the company in its settlement proposal, spared Michael Dell similar punishment.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-13/dell-s-settlement-of-sec-accounting-fraud-claims-approved-by-u-s-judge.html
According to SEC filings, Michael Dell owns 226,383,088 shares of Dell (worth about $3.6B). Dell is up 14 cents so far today (probably a result of the settlement news), which means that even after the fine he is up $27 million today.
Microsoft's system requirements have always be laughable. They say 64MB minimum, 128MB recommended for XP, which is a complete joke (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314865).
That said, the parent was probably exaggerating a bit with 3.1 and was really thinking of XP, which was a poor multitasker with 512MB but ran quite well with 1GB or more.
You can always buy phones without a plan...even the iPhone.
iPhone without a plan? In the United States?
A potential flaw like the recent Apple bug that allowed jailbreaking on the iPhone is an excellent example. Apple patched their own within a few weeks. They would be completely at the mercy of Adobe if such a bug existed in Flash. Would you put yourself willingly in that position?
In that particular case it was a major security flaw in iOS itself that Apple needed to fix, regardless of the source. Flash would be no different... if a Flash game was able to jailbreak the iPhone it would point to a flaw in iOS, not in Flash.
Apple really needs to get a clue about security in iOS rather than relying upon the application gatekeeping process to do it for them.
The exploit may, in fact, be in Adobe's code.
And that makes it OK? In a perfect world no app should be able to jailbreak the iPhone... IMO any that can do so directly point to security flaws in iOS.
What do your kids use iPads for where an iTouch wouldn't work just as well? Book reading? My kids iTouch is glued to his hip... I can't imagine that he would use an iPad anywhere near as much, especially given the relative lack of portability.