Chill out, it's big media, they're trying to screw over EVERYONE! It just happens that Canada is the closest neighbor to their headquarters. Even here in the US they expect us to pay for YET ANOTHER pay service JUST to watch Star Trek.
It's amazing how much they keep pushing the public off the dock into the deep waters of the pirate bay while crying how awful it is that so many people are swimming in that same water.
" They've been pretty common on the big and small screens for at least the past 15 years." Yeah, but Star Trek was originally aired 1966-1969, which makes it a LONG time before "the past 15 years". Back then, gay was unthinkable, kissing someone of a different color was scandalous and even having a married couple sleeping in the same bed was too much. (Just watch some of the old shows and movies and notice the two beds in the couples bedroom.)
In many ways we've progressed, but as you pointed out, if someones name even sounds like it's from the middle east, lots of people are freaking out now. It's really sad.
It wasn't an autonomous system, it was a remotely operated device. Still it's a bad move, especially since it causes further emotional disconnection to the event and limits sensory input for operators that are already showing a tendency to murder first and not care about the questioning. Something that can only get worse with that shift. Additionally, they used EXPLOSIVES to kill him. You know, one of those rather non-targeting area effect fuck everything in range type nasties? Oh yeah, real good choice with the limited sensory input from a remotely operated device dumbass.... Ever hear of collateral damage and over use of force? Really not the right way to go, but then again, I doubt anyone expected the cops to bring any SUSPECTS in alive for this shooting. Of course, they may not have murdered the right guy, but hell, it's not like anyone can ask him questions now. There is so much wrong with this entire thing.
How about you try to correlate it with number of VR sets in those countries. That at least might give you some interesting numbers. The way that article was written, it may just be one airline pilot that was anticipating getting his vr set, and now he's finally gotten it and is really excited.
The greater good is something people can be hypothetically happy about, unless it means they have die. Nobody is going to choose to pay for a machine that would rather kill them than protect them.
Yeah, that's part of being in an organization of any kind. Resources are shifted to where they're needed. Do you really think your digestive system should give up the majority of the calcium it collects to the skeletal system?
Also the 'Free Market' is a type of economic utopia. The same as all the other utopian theories out there, none of them exist in the real world, and all attempts at creating one have failed miserably. You can easily research what an actual Free Market is, if you can get around the B.S. and marketing trash from people that either don't know what it is or don't care.
Actually a lot of companies will publicly refuse to do this simply because if their customers believe they have a backdoor in their security software, they won't buy it. Also, some of them have ethics that would also cause them to refuse to put in backdoors. You can guess which is which.
Vastly different architectures, so those comparisons, despite being in the same units, is still not worth a lot. You see, the Cell is RISC, while the Intel chips you mentioned are all CISC. If you don't know the difference, look it up. Short version, they do very different things well, so a pure measurement of flops is pretty useless to compare.
Depends on country as to whether or not it's legal. In the US for instance, media shifting is legal, but circumventing the copy protection to do so isn't, so you're still screwed.
Sure, don't watch Star Trek. Let's see, what will the studio think? Probably, hey, viewership of our syndicated reruns are down. Either we aren't advertising enough, or people are sick of it, or it's all Axanars fault. In the first case, they'll advertise more. In the second, they'll pull out of more trek projects. In the last, they'll double down on screwing the Axanar folks. And do you know why? IT'S BECAUSE THEY JUST SEE A REDUCTION IN POPULARITY AND DON'T KNOW WHY!!! That is, of course, if it ends up having a large enough effect to be even noticed by them in the first place. Here's a choice that's a THOUSAND times better...
Write them a POLITE letter indicating your displeasure at their actions, and that you support Axanar and would like to see a reasonable resolution. Whatever you do, do NOT threaten them or even imply any kind of legal actions!
That's the mostly likely to get you positive results, especially if you can get people to do it. And by the way, just to be clear, by 'write them a letter', I'm referring to dead tree format delivered by the US Post Office. I know email is quick and easy, but half those old farts running the studios don't know how to open their own email and don't pay any attention to it in the first place. On the other hand, a physical representation of your views written out is something they find much harder to ignore. (If you really want to make them think about it, make it registered mail so you have proof of receipt.)
Just to reiterate, email campaigns are watered down and of little value. Not dealing with the product is invisible to the companies, and if any dip is noticed, they assume it's the market. Actual letters still get their attention. Avoid doing things like be an asshat or threatening them with lawyers because at best that will get you ignored, at worse they'll sick their lawyers on you, but either way you fail.
Remember, you have to TELL them how you feel because they are too stupid to understand it otherwise. Thank you, and yes, you don't have to use a pen, you can print it out and sign it. (If your handwriting is as bad as mine, that might be preferable.)
He's already lied to them before, and even admitted to it when pressed. Of course, nothing happened then, and he doesn't believe anything will happen now. Kind of makes you wonder if he's got a black file on the politicians he uses for leverage.
I've gotten rather sick of 5-15 minute videos for something that can be taken care of by one simple paragraph or even just a few words of text if it had been written instead.
If we want to know how many zeni a foozle costs in Bindeels Adventures, I want a simple number, not a long ass video of some bozo fumbling around in game trying to get to vendor and then shows a fuzzy purchase window that's a bitch to read because your video compression sucks almost as bad as you do!
(Yes, some people will probably recognize zeni, I have no idea what a foozle is, and as far as I know, there is no such thing as Bindeels Adventures.)
First, that's incorrect. Stop falling for old myths that were never true to begin with. ijunk has less malware, because there are less of them. The writers of malware want to nail as many potential suckers as they can, so most of them target the big herd. Of course, there is something to be said for targeting the smaller more complacent herd that incorrectly believes it's invulnerable since almost nobody shoots at them.
Get your router tables ready, you're going to be setting up some new rules real soon! I'm to lazy to go look up the articles for other people. Today, I'm not even doing it for myself.:P
Let's mention the first 3 laws of computing:
1 - Backup
2 - BACKUP
3 - See Rules 1 & 2
On top of that, when I was in the USAF working in the missile shop, we had FIVE copies of all the records, and they were stored in different places. Losing the records to a missile would mean your ASS! More than one would crucify the entire shop! And now someone is trying to complain that the Inspector General has lost a huge amount of records because of a single database crash? Is someone incompetent running the Inspector Generals Office? Do they freaking need some of us old time computer geek veterans to come over there and show them how NOT to be a total embarrassment?!
They were also the precursors to scientists because there are a number of them that didn't 'make stuff up', but rather observed and tried to understand why, and from that develop predictions to test. How do you think a philosopher back then identified that the Earth was spherical, much less calculate it's size to a far greater accuracy level than would be expected by someone who's distance data was based on someone pacing out the distances between cities? (If you say "aliens", there's an Coast to Coast collected episodes box coming your way filled with fish heads.) (Yes, that was a joke, I don't think the post office would let you send that.) There are plenty of other examples of 'philosophers' doing lots of scientific discovery in all kinds of fields back then. You are mistaking modern philosophers who spend a lot of time lost in their own daydreams with the ancient greek philosophers that did the heavy and indepth thinking trying to figure things out way back then. It's kind of like calling a guy who wears a cowboy hat and boots to the country music club a cowboy, and then trying to equate him to the 1800s cowboy that actually herded cattle for a living.
The GPS systems need to have super accurate timeclocks, so they even have to account for relativistic variations due to orbit and all that. So of course if someone were messing around with an FTL drive, or a TARDIS or something like that, it could cause problems.... Yes, it's a joke, but I wonder how many conspiracy nuts will go off the rails on this one.;)
I'd have to look up the video clip, but I'm pretty sure he said Japan and NORTH Korea. Of course, that was just one interview, who knows what he claimed in the next.
Slashdot Mirror
Use really crappy encryption?
All of Capitol Hill?
Chill out, it's big media, they're trying to screw over EVERYONE!
It just happens that Canada is the closest neighbor to their headquarters.
Even here in the US they expect us to pay for YET ANOTHER pay service JUST to watch Star Trek.
It's amazing how much they keep pushing the public off the dock into the deep waters of the pirate bay while crying how awful it is that so many people are swimming in that same water.
" They've been pretty common on the big and small screens for at least the past 15 years."
Yeah, but Star Trek was originally aired 1966-1969, which makes it a LONG time before "the past 15 years".
Back then, gay was unthinkable, kissing someone of a different color was scandalous and even having a married couple sleeping in the same bed was too much. (Just watch some of the old shows and movies and notice the two beds in the couples bedroom.)
In many ways we've progressed, but as you pointed out, if someones name even sounds like it's from the middle east, lots of people are freaking out now. It's really sad.
It wasn't an autonomous system, it was a remotely operated device. Still it's a bad move, especially since it causes further emotional disconnection to the event and limits sensory input for operators that are already showing a tendency to murder first and not care about the questioning. Something that can only get worse with that shift. Additionally, they used EXPLOSIVES to kill him. You know, one of those rather non-targeting area effect fuck everything in range type nasties? Oh yeah, real good choice with the limited sensory input from a remotely operated device dumbass.... Ever hear of collateral damage and over use of force? Really not the right way to go, but then again, I doubt anyone expected the cops to bring any SUSPECTS in alive for this shooting. Of course, they may not have murdered the right guy, but hell, it's not like anyone can ask him questions now.
There is so much wrong with this entire thing.
How about you try to correlate it with number of VR sets in those countries.
That at least might give you some interesting numbers.
The way that article was written, it may just be one airline pilot that was anticipating getting his vr set, and now he's finally gotten it and is really excited.
The greater good is something people can be hypothetically happy about, unless it means they have die.
Nobody is going to choose to pay for a machine that would rather kill them than protect them.
Yeah, that's part of being in an organization of any kind. Resources are shifted to where they're needed.
Do you really think your digestive system should give up the majority of the calcium it collects to the skeletal system?
Also the 'Free Market' is a type of economic utopia. The same as all the other utopian theories out there, none of them exist in the real world, and all attempts at creating one have failed miserably.
You can easily research what an actual Free Market is, if you can get around the B.S. and marketing trash from people that either don't know what it is or don't care.
ROFL!
Today I really wish I had some mod points to give you!
Actually a lot of companies will publicly refuse to do this simply because if their customers believe they have a backdoor in their security software, they won't buy it. Also, some of them have ethics that would also cause them to refuse to put in backdoors. You can guess which is which.
Vastly different architectures, so those comparisons, despite being in the same units, is still not worth a lot.
You see, the Cell is RISC, while the Intel chips you mentioned are all CISC.
If you don't know the difference, look it up.
Short version, they do very different things well, so a pure measurement of flops is pretty useless to compare.
Depends on country as to whether or not it's legal.
In the US for instance, media shifting is legal, but circumventing the copy protection to do so isn't, so you're still screwed.
Sure, don't watch Star Trek.
Let's see, what will the studio think?
Probably, hey, viewership of our syndicated reruns are down. Either we aren't advertising enough, or people are sick of it, or it's all Axanars fault.
In the first case, they'll advertise more. In the second, they'll pull out of more trek projects. In the last, they'll double down on screwing the Axanar folks.
And do you know why?
IT'S BECAUSE THEY JUST SEE A REDUCTION IN POPULARITY AND DON'T KNOW WHY!!!
That is, of course, if it ends up having a large enough effect to be even noticed by them in the first place.
Here's a choice that's a THOUSAND times better...
Write them a POLITE letter indicating your displeasure at their actions, and that you support Axanar and would like to see a reasonable resolution.
Whatever you do, do NOT threaten them or even imply any kind of legal actions!
That's the mostly likely to get you positive results, especially if you can get people to do it. And by the way, just to be clear, by 'write them a letter', I'm referring to dead tree format delivered by the US Post Office. I know email is quick and easy, but half those old farts running the studios don't know how to open their own email and don't pay any attention to it in the first place. On the other hand, a physical representation of your views written out is something they find much harder to ignore. (If you really want to make them think about it, make it registered mail so you have proof of receipt.)
Just to reiterate, email campaigns are watered down and of little value. Not dealing with the product is invisible to the companies, and if any dip is noticed, they assume it's the market. Actual letters still get their attention. Avoid doing things like be an asshat or threatening them with lawyers because at best that will get you ignored, at worse they'll sick their lawyers on you, but either way you fail.
Remember, you have to TELL them how you feel because they are too stupid to understand it otherwise.
Thank you, and yes, you don't have to use a pen, you can print it out and sign it. (If your handwriting is as bad as mine, that might be preferable.)
He's already lied to them before, and even admitted to it when pressed.
Of course, nothing happened then, and he doesn't believe anything will happen now.
Kind of makes you wonder if he's got a black file on the politicians he uses for leverage.
Definitely both
I've gotten rather sick of 5-15 minute videos for something that can be taken care of by one simple paragraph or even just a few words of text if it had been written instead.
If we want to know how many zeni a foozle costs in Bindeels Adventures, I want a simple number, not a long ass video of some bozo fumbling around in game trying to get to vendor and then shows a fuzzy purchase window that's a bitch to read because your video compression sucks almost as bad as you do!
(Yes, some people will probably recognize zeni, I have no idea what a foozle is, and as far as I know, there is no such thing as Bindeels Adventures.)
First, that's incorrect. Stop falling for old myths that were never true to begin with.
ijunk has less malware, because there are less of them. The writers of malware want to nail as many potential suckers as they can, so most of them target the big herd. Of course, there is something to be said for targeting the smaller more complacent herd that incorrectly believes it's invulnerable since almost nobody shoots at them.
The stupid is already here, but they haven't been able to completely shut down the schools yet, though they do keep degrading their quality.
Get your router tables ready, you're going to be setting up some new rules real soon! :P
I'm to lazy to go look up the articles for other people. Today, I'm not even doing it for myself.
Wireless is a LOT slower than wired, so if you are a casual user of the internet I guess you could get by with just wireless.
Let's mention the first 3 laws of computing:
1 - Backup
2 - BACKUP
3 - See Rules 1 & 2
On top of that, when I was in the USAF working in the missile shop, we had FIVE copies of all the records, and they were stored in different places. Losing the records to a missile would mean your ASS! More than one would crucify the entire shop!
And now someone is trying to complain that the Inspector General has lost a huge amount of records because of a single database crash?
Is someone incompetent running the Inspector Generals Office?
Do they freaking need some of us old time computer geek veterans to come over there and show them how NOT to be a total embarrassment?!
They were also the precursors to scientists because there are a number of them that didn't 'make stuff up', but rather observed and tried to understand why, and from that develop predictions to test. How do you think a philosopher back then identified that the Earth was spherical, much less calculate it's size to a far greater accuracy level than would be expected by someone who's distance data was based on someone pacing out the distances between cities? (If you say "aliens", there's an Coast to Coast collected episodes box coming your way filled with fish heads.) (Yes, that was a joke, I don't think the post office would let you send that.)
There are plenty of other examples of 'philosophers' doing lots of scientific discovery in all kinds of fields back then. You are mistaking modern philosophers who spend a lot of time lost in their own daydreams with the ancient greek philosophers that did the heavy and indepth thinking trying to figure things out way back then.
It's kind of like calling a guy who wears a cowboy hat and boots to the country music club a cowboy, and then trying to equate him to the 1800s cowboy that actually herded cattle for a living.
The GPS systems need to have super accurate timeclocks, so they even have to account for relativistic variations due to orbit and all that. ... ;)
So of course if someone were messing around with an FTL drive, or a TARDIS or something like that, it could cause problems.
Yes, it's a joke, but I wonder how many conspiracy nuts will go off the rails on this one.
I'd have to look up the video clip, but I'm pretty sure he said Japan and NORTH Korea.
Of course, that was just one interview, who knows what he claimed in the next.