The frivolous lawsuits are often tossed out of court relatively quickly, while the government takes forever, and often tortures and imprisons people. I'll take a bankruptcy over water boarding any day!
Google isn't trying to make money from it, rather they're attempting to drive people to their other services, such as search, that make money. This is the reason why you can't remove some apps from an Android.
I honestly don't know, hence the question. From what I can tell in the article, no rational for the auction of his personal property has been given. Was there also a civil trial that found him responsible for medical bills and such for the survivors?
GPS would need to get more precise to avoid problems with it thinking you're in the wrong lane.
Ex: You driving by a parking lot in a 45 MPH, suddenly the GPS thinks you're in the parking lot, not the road, and slows you down to 25 MPH, to the annoyance of the people behind you. I had a bit of trouble like that this weekend, with the GPS thinking I had already gone through the intersection, and giving goofy driving directions as a result.
I'm not sure this is a fixable problem, because I'm not sure if it's a result of the deliberate futzing of the GPS signal, which might be enough to pick the wrong lane or two, or to take you from the highway to a country by road, causing tons of problems.
Oh, and then there's need to compensate the police for the large drop in revenue as a result of no speeding tickets.
Sorry, there was a post yesterday about all the locked down devices and the death of tinkering, which was "clearly caused by abusive corporations". And hackerspace NYC to the rescue.
I think it's sad how companies are engaging in every manner possible to prevent people from tinkering around with their purchases. This is yet another example of this exact trend....
Oh, sure, but compare the COMPLEXITY of the act.
Old school tape player: Screw driver a bit of time
Android Phone: Computer, cable, software, understanding of Java, Android SDK, Software development, Android OS, etc.
The bar has been seriously raised.
I know my father stopped changing his own oil when it nolonger made sense for him to do so. Basically it was cheaper and easier to pay somebody else to do it.
Not sure about the home theater systems, I know lots of people who have hooked up their own, but even those are getting more complex. Original TV-> Buy a Box, done. Now you have to have the TV+VCR/DVD/Blu-Ray+Stereo+Amp+Speakers, etc. It's a lot more complex.
What caused this downfall of knowledge, I don't know, but I suspect it has something to do with Fox, American Idle, partisan politics, NIMBY, and excessive litigation.
That might have an influence, but I think it also comes down to increasing complexity and decreasing ability to actually fix things. Even as few as 20 years ago it was very possible to pull something apart, get a basic understand, and maybe fix it. With everything being shrunk down to a few chips that can't really be altered this has radically changed. You can no longer pull apart your iPod, and expect to be able to fix basic problems with it, since most of the inner workings are on a few chips. If it breaks you ONLY option is to throw it out and buy a new one. Contrast this with an old fashioned tape machine where all the parts were sized to be manipulated by a human. For the most part miniaturization has had huge boons, but it's seriously cut down on the number of things that people can tinker with.
Or maybe "Geez it would be nice to be able to spent 15 sec fixing that road segment that always results in google maps routing me around, which wastes 10 minutes of my day"
Having worked with city and county mapping services there are a lot of little mistakes on maps that a simple tweak could easily fix.
OTOH, if you don't want to, don't do it.
I have a monitor that will not work with the DRM on Blu-ray movies, since it doesn't support HDCP. (Too old) I suspect that anybody in the same situation would be majorly PO'ed that they have to replace a 24" $800 monitor to watch a movie. Luckily there's slysoft for that!
It's a bit difficult, no matter what google maps tells you, to drive from the US to the UK, even if your car is powered by a permanent nuclear reactor or something!:)
Actually I was thinking of the second approach, which in my experience is much more limited.
The ability to fool the game into going across multiple monitors by extending the desktop has existed since NT 4.0, when I put it into the NT drivers we were releasing for the Matrox G100 chips. However, having a cross hair right in the middle of the two monitors is a serious pain!:)
I think you and I disagree on the definition of the word "need".
IMHO, it's not worth it, or a "need" since it's far, far outside my normal usage, or most of the people I'm familiar with.
Unfortunately, this is a consumer electronics component, so they need more than a very few fanatic people with 3 monitor setups to sell these cards. However, in recent years the number of titles that support these extremes has grown less, shrinking the pool of people who could potentially be interested. We've gone from "You need this card to play" to "You need this card to get good quality graphics" to "You need this card to max out the settings on three monitors for a few titles" with the pool shrinking at each step. When you're down to one or two titles, which could be played on much much cheaper equipment, with little loss in quality, you've got a very very small pool.
Seems like a very poor decision when you want to sell thousands or millions of units.
I've got a $200 video card that appears to run everything on the ultra settings, including the original Crysis. That being said, even the reviewers are forced to run the same 5-6 titles again and again because there are so few titles that really stress video cards anymore. So why pay $500-1500 for less than a half dozen titles?
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The frivolous lawsuits are often tossed out of court relatively quickly, while the government takes forever, and often tortures and imprisons people. I'll take a bankruptcy over water boarding any day!
Google isn't trying to make money from it, rather they're attempting to drive people to their other services, such as search, that make money. This is the reason why you can't remove some apps from an Android.
Luckily I live in the heartland!
I honestly don't know, hence the question. From what I can tell in the article, no rational for the auction of his personal property has been given. Was there also a civil trial that found him responsible for medical bills and such for the survivors?
When did it become legal to auction of the property of convicted criminals? I understand we lost this right in drug cases, but terrorism now too?
Which is a fine response until She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed starts throwing things, including your ass out in the street. :)
Only if he can elude the eyes and hop the turbine freight.
GPS would need to get more precise to avoid problems with it thinking you're in the wrong lane. Ex: You driving by a parking lot in a 45 MPH, suddenly the GPS thinks you're in the parking lot, not the road, and slows you down to 25 MPH, to the annoyance of the people behind you. I had a bit of trouble like that this weekend, with the GPS thinking I had already gone through the intersection, and giving goofy driving directions as a result. I'm not sure this is a fixable problem, because I'm not sure if it's a result of the deliberate futzing of the GPS signal, which might be enough to pick the wrong lane or two, or to take you from the highway to a country by road, causing tons of problems. Oh, and then there's need to compensate the police for the large drop in revenue as a result of no speeding tickets.
It's not the iPad, it's the LICENSE!
Surely now that the terminally unhip people at the CDC are using zombies it means that this meme is dead, and we can move on to another right?
"What we're doing here is VERY necessary, I mean just look at these numbers we've generated to justify our existence here a Microsoft" said Jeb Haber
Sorry, there was a post yesterday about all the locked down devices and the death of tinkering, which was "clearly caused by abusive corporations". And hackerspace NYC to the rescue.
I think it's sad how companies are engaging in every manner possible to prevent people from tinkering around with their purchases. This is yet another example of this exact trend....
Oh, sure, but compare the COMPLEXITY of the act. Old school tape player: Screw driver a bit of time Android Phone: Computer, cable, software, understanding of Java, Android SDK, Software development, Android OS, etc. The bar has been seriously raised.
I know my father stopped changing his own oil when it nolonger made sense for him to do so. Basically it was cheaper and easier to pay somebody else to do it. Not sure about the home theater systems, I know lots of people who have hooked up their own, but even those are getting more complex. Original TV-> Buy a Box, done. Now you have to have the TV+VCR/DVD/Blu-Ray+Stereo+Amp+Speakers, etc. It's a lot more complex.
What caused this downfall of knowledge, I don't know, but I suspect it has something to do with Fox, American Idle, partisan politics, NIMBY, and excessive litigation. That might have an influence, but I think it also comes down to increasing complexity and decreasing ability to actually fix things. Even as few as 20 years ago it was very possible to pull something apart, get a basic understand, and maybe fix it. With everything being shrunk down to a few chips that can't really be altered this has radically changed. You can no longer pull apart your iPod, and expect to be able to fix basic problems with it, since most of the inner workings are on a few chips. If it breaks you ONLY option is to throw it out and buy a new one. Contrast this with an old fashioned tape machine where all the parts were sized to be manipulated by a human. For the most part miniaturization has had huge boons, but it's seriously cut down on the number of things that people can tinker with.
Or maybe "Geez it would be nice to be able to spent 15 sec fixing that road segment that always results in google maps routing me around, which wastes 10 minutes of my day" Having worked with city and county mapping services there are a lot of little mistakes on maps that a simple tweak could easily fix. OTOH, if you don't want to, don't do it.
I have a monitor that will not work with the DRM on Blu-ray movies, since it doesn't support HDCP. (Too old) I suspect that anybody in the same situation would be majorly PO'ed that they have to replace a 24" $800 monitor to watch a movie. Luckily there's slysoft for that!
Interesting use of a mirror. So are the people correctly oriented because of this? (IIRC everything in TV land is reverse due to the camera recording)
It's a bit difficult, no matter what google maps tells you, to drive from the US to the UK, even if your car is powered by a permanent nuclear reactor or something! :)
Sooo.... really Doctor Evil was behind the bank bailout?
Actually I was thinking of the second approach, which in my experience is much more limited. The ability to fool the game into going across multiple monitors by extending the desktop has existed since NT 4.0, when I put it into the NT drivers we were releasing for the Matrox G100 chips. However, having a cross hair right in the middle of the two monitors is a serious pain! :)
You don't have to pay $500-1500... the low end cards in this generation sell for as low as $250.
I was referring to the mythical three monitors + video card setup. As I stated earlier, I've got a $200 video card that I'm very happy with.
I think you and I disagree on the definition of the word "need".
IMHO, it's not worth it, or a "need" since it's far, far outside my normal usage, or most of the people I'm familiar with.
Unfortunately, this is a consumer electronics component, so they need more than a very few fanatic people with 3 monitor setups to sell these cards. However, in recent years the number of titles that support these extremes has grown less, shrinking the pool of people who could potentially be interested. We've gone from "You need this card to play" to "You need this card to get good quality graphics" to "You need this card to max out the settings on three monitors for a few titles" with the pool shrinking at each step. When you're down to one or two titles, which could be played on much much cheaper equipment, with little loss in quality, you've got a very very small pool.
Seems like a very poor decision when you want to sell thousands or millions of units.
I've got a $200 video card that appears to run everything on the ultra settings, including the original Crysis. That being said, even the reviewers are forced to run the same 5-6 titles again and again because there are so few titles that really stress video cards anymore. So why pay $500-1500 for less than a half dozen titles?