I''d dispute that employers set a price point as being a differentiating factor... why can't a business decide exactly how much they want to pay a contractor before hiring them? You can allege that contractor can still "set his own price", but if he wants more than what the business was willing to offer, then he won't be working for them at all... so in the end, that's no different than if the business just sets the price they were paying in the first place.
Well, they aren't doing that.... *YET*.... For the moment, it seems that they are just downloading it. This is certainly very serious all by itself, impacting users with limited bandwidth or disk storage, but even that is nowhere near as bad as the notion that this may be making it ready to do a full install of Windows 10 without prompting the user beyond "updates are available, install and restart?"
If this is running as part of regular Windows Update, I'm curious to know whether or not this is going to just start installing the update to windows 10 without asking the user at some point.
True.... but then the point was about making 4k video.... if that kind of quality is going to matter, then it''s also generally likely that you're going to have your high end camera with you in the first place unless you were explicitly trying to make a film using a cell phone camera to establish a particular tone for the flim.
Oh, I won't dispute the usefulness of cell phone cameras, but when one is using a cell phone for such purposes, high video fidelity is not typically paramount on a person's criteria for taking the video. Thus, 4K seems pointless, at least IMO.
And when they do this, it's invariably a "because we can", not "because it's better"...
There is arguably an artiistic merit in using an iphone to shoot a video to achieve a particular tone to whatever is being shot, but that's the extent of it.... and that would quickly get old if it was overdone.
It is my sincerest belief that any people who think that any data that is relevant today genuinely needs to stay obscured for 30 years have sticks up their asses that need to be removed as soon as possible in the best interests of themselves and everyone they should ever meet.
I know my original comment was about the screen resolution, but generally speaking, the only people who are going to care about 4k for their videos are people who are really serious about it. Considering that most people that use their phones to take video don't even fucking know that they should probably turn the fucking phone on its side first if they ever intend to watch it or display it on another medium in the first place, I don't think a vast majority of people that take video with their cell phones are too worried about quality. The idea that people who are serious about filmmaking are ever going to use their cell phones to take video when they probably already have specialized equipment for that purpose is no less ludicrous than the idea of a 4k iphone screen, which is where I will admit my brain originally went on this article.
Ask nearly any serious indie filmmaker about shooting their stuff with an iphone, and they'll probably say it has merit only in the sense that it is something that might be different, and might be well appreciated on that level.... but it won't compete with any serious professional equipment.
I'm pretty sure that 4k video on an iPhone is just a reason for Apple to charge more for it rather than something that people might get any serious use out of.
My point remains that the pro's... and that includes indie filmmakers, are going to be using professional equipment to take their video, and not just using a cell phone.
Oh, my.... just think of how much money this could possibly save the movie industry, if they only used these new iPhones instead of those expensive cameras.
... at what point did the expression "begs the question" come to mean the same thing as "raises the question", and no longer mean that the proposition being claimed is assumed implicitly or explicitly in the premise?
... if the petition is something that the admiinistration wasn't already planning on doing all along, all that reaching the right number of signatures is going to do is force somebody at the whitehouse to have to spend time trying to explain why they won't be doing that.
p.
These petitions result in absolutely zero real effect... they either agree with petitions they were already intending to do anyways, or end up explaining why they won't do the things they didn't intend to do. It never actually changes their intended course of action.
. The problems occur when people start pissing around with style mid-document, which MS themselves have lost control of in binary blobs.
When the problems occur is not as important an issue as that they occur in the first place, and make the software behave in ways that the user does not necessarily expect.
... I can actually pretty easily see how a cartridge refiller could infringe on a manufacturer's patent, because the manufacturer may have also patented the method that must be used to refill their cartridges.
I may not like it very much, but I can sorta see the manufacturer winning this one, if that's the angle they take.
Of course, if the refiller uses a different technique for refilling than what the manufacturer's patent describes, then all bets are off... although an unscrupulous manufacturer may build their cartridges to self-destruct if they were refilled any other way.
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I''d dispute that employers set a price point as being a differentiating factor... why can't a business decide exactly how much they want to pay a contractor before hiring them? You can allege that contractor can still "set his own price", but if he wants more than what the business was willing to offer, then he won't be working for them at all... so in the end, that's no different than if the business just sets the price they were paying in the first place.
Well, they aren't doing that.... *YET*.... For the moment, it seems that they are just downloading it. This is certainly very serious all by itself, impacting users with limited bandwidth or disk storage, but even that is nowhere near as bad as the notion that this may be making it ready to do a full install of Windows 10 without prompting the user beyond "updates are available, install and restart?"
Do you even understand the point of citation? I'm guessing not, because what you're saying makes absolutely no sense otherwise.
Why should I cite someone who has not established credibility for their claims in the first place?
My point being that if downloading it is being done without the user asking for it, then why not the full install?
And that's relevant to the issue I was challenging how, exactly?
.... because an employer wasn't charging them, how is a former employee supposed to collect EI?
Citation, please.... or bullshit.
If this is running as part of regular Windows Update, I'm curious to know whether or not this is going to just start installing the update to windows 10 without asking the user at some point.
That will be *VERY* interesting....
True.... but then the point was about making 4k video.... if that kind of quality is going to matter, then it''s also generally likely that you're going to have your high end camera with you in the first place unless you were explicitly trying to make a film using a cell phone camera to establish a particular tone for the flim.
Oh, I won't dispute the usefulness of cell phone cameras, but when one is using a cell phone for such purposes, high video fidelity is not typically paramount on a person's criteria for taking the video. Thus, 4K seems pointless, at least IMO.
There is arguably an artiistic merit in using an iphone to shoot a video to achieve a particular tone to whatever is being shot, but that's the extent of it.... and that would quickly get old if it was overdone.
A message that can't be decrypted is useless to everyone, since even an intended receiver cannot decrypt it, by definition.
It is my sincerest belief that any people who think that any data that is relevant today genuinely needs to stay obscured for 30 years have sticks up their asses that need to be removed as soon as possible in the best interests of themselves and everyone they should ever meet.
I know my original comment was about the screen resolution, but generally speaking, the only people who are going to care about 4k for their videos are people who are really serious about it. Considering that most people that use their phones to take video don't even fucking know that they should probably turn the fucking phone on its side first if they ever intend to watch it or display it on another medium in the first place, I don't think a vast majority of people that take video with their cell phones are too worried about quality. The idea that people who are serious about filmmaking are ever going to use their cell phones to take video when they probably already have specialized equipment for that purpose is no less ludicrous than the idea of a 4k iphone screen, which is where I will admit my brain originally went on this article.
Ask nearly any serious indie filmmaker about shooting their stuff with an iphone, and they'll probably say it has merit only in the sense that it is something that might be different, and might be well appreciated on that level.... but it won't compete with any serious professional equipment.
I'm pretty sure that 4k video on an iPhone is just a reason for Apple to charge more for it rather than something that people might get any serious use out of.
True... but it's less often if only because people tend to use the same version of the software consistently wherever its available.
Of course, because everyone knows that anyone who is remotely serious about taking video always uses their phone to take it.
(facepalm)
Nothing, if you have no objection to Macgyvering.
My point remains that the pro's... and that includes indie filmmakers, are going to be using professional equipment to take their video, and not just using a cell phone.
Indie film makers tend to use video cameras, not cell phone cameras.
What the fuck good is 4k video quality when the image is shaky all to hell because the camera isn't mounted on a steadycam, or at least a tripod?
Oh, my.... just think of how much money this could possibly save the movie industry, if they only used these new iPhones instead of those expensive cameras.
(eyeroll)
I'm sure that the people who use microscopes to look at their phone displays might notice a difference, but will anyone else?
It invites the question, prompts it, provokes it even... it does not beg it.
But the question is nonetheless valid... why?
... at what point did the expression "begs the question" come to mean the same thing as "raises the question", and no longer mean that the proposition being claimed is assumed implicitly or explicitly in the premise?
When the problems occur is not as important an issue as that they occur in the first place, and make the software behave in ways that the user does not necessarily expect.
I may not like it very much, but I can sorta see the manufacturer winning this one, if that's the angle they take.
Of course, if the refiller uses a different technique for refilling than what the manufacturer's patent describes, then all bets are off... although an unscrupulous manufacturer may build their cartridges to self-destruct if they were refilled any other way.