3) I too find the idea of a great acdc song blasting out of some gen z tiny earphones right next to some gawdaful pop track by my chemical romance sick that I wouldn't want to see it on itunes either.
Thank you for informing us that only teens purchase and consume music in digital format, and that music in such a format can only be heard through crappy earphones. If you're too old and stubborn to appreciate the convenience and quality of digital music, that's fine, but do us all a favor and stop pretending that you know better than us or are on to something.
4) Itunes killed the record store. Which sucks.
Obviously the record store was an inferior business model. That's called progress.
I used to be a programmer for the Air Force, and I can tell you that the development process is not agile at all. The Air Force, because it's primarily lead by people who used to fly planes, treats every product development as though they were developing an airframe or weapon. Until people who understand software are put in charge of such matters, we'll continue to see stupid stuff like this happen. This type of thing happens more often than you may expect, just not quite to this incredible scale (by which I mean it is not that uncommon for a piece of software to be contracted out, only to get it back way past schedule and way over budget in a completely crippled and useless state, at which point it becomes the job of Air Force programmers to try to hammer it into a useful form).
Maybe it's been over-adjusted. Granted, this is an extreme case of a bus driver with a lot of seniority and a lot of overtime, but even his base salary is probably more than you would expect for a bus driver.
Many U.S. citizens are forced to own motor vehicles or rely on someone who owns one to transport them where they need to go
It takes me ~20 minutes to commute to/from work if I drive a POV. If I take the bus, a one-way commute is ~1.5 hours because there are no convenient bus routes between where I live and where I work, so I need to go out of my way to make connections. I also live in a city that has a pretty good public transportation system for a city of ~500k residents. If a bus commute could get knocked down to even ~45 minutes, I would prefer it to driving myself to work, but until then, the cost in time lost is just not worth it.
If companies don't start treating the Used market as competition, it will kill them
They are competing by moving to digital sales and by dis-incentivising used game purchases by requiring one-use activation codes to gain access to online features. In other words, they're either too stubborn or too lacking in creativity to develop a real model of competition, so they're just trying to use their weight to crush used sales.
The Ouya is kind of cool, and I may even purchase one when it comes up, but it looks severely under-powered and my main interest in it is as a hackable device. Do you really care about playing cell-phone games on your TV?
Yes, but more importantly, anyone who gave Sony their information allowed it to be compromised. Why would you willingly give even the most trivial of data to a company with no ethical or moral qualm towards installing rootkits on your computer as a reward for purchasing their products?
You're creating a false dichotomy. I said it's not the business of a private to determine when and when not to disseminate classified information. If the generals and staff officers are withholding information, then it's congress's job to remove them from their post and punish them as is fit.
Allowing actions like this, even in the spirit of whistleblowing, would severely undermine the necessary order and discipline an effective military needs. It is certainly not the business of a private to determine what type of classified information should or should not be distributed.
Sure, if you're the only patient the hospital has. The storage of the records is probably not as significant as the organizing and retrievability of specific records for specific patients in a system with thousands or hundreds of thousands of patients.
My wife hates watching military movies with me because even just the 4 years I did in the USAF allows me to spot tons of inaccuracies that are typical in movies (the way actors salute is probably the most obvious and annoying one). On the other hand, it's fun to watch those movies with a group of prior military folks because the plot falls aside while we poke fun at the poor representations of military personnel and operations.
I live in Madison and we've had the president here twice in about a month. It makes getting home after work a terrible experience, since at least one or two major roads have to be shut down. I'm so glad this is almost over!
I can see the benefit of cloud services for non-critical applications without strict security requirements. If business doesn't stop if it goes down and getting hacked has trivial consequences, I think it's ok to dump it in the cloud.
The only thing I can think of is that I'm working on someone else's computer and can't install anything locally, but even then this won't work because you still have to download it. I guess this is just a "because I can" sort of project.
I'm pretty sure Linux was created to offer a free Unix OS for personal computers. Linux may have been Microsoft's enemy, but I don't think it worked the other way around, even despite MS's funding of SCO and the whole Halloween document leaks ordeal.
If Matlab disclosed to you that this could happen before you purchased it, then it would not be infringing on your rights because you willingly made the purchase while aware of the caveats.
Selling proprietary software does not infringe on someone else's rights (no matter how hard Stallman tries to suggest it does), while maiming and killing someone certainly does.
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3) I too find the idea of a great acdc song blasting out of some gen z tiny earphones right next to some gawdaful pop track by my chemical romance sick that I wouldn't want to see it on itunes either.
Thank you for informing us that only teens purchase and consume music in digital format, and that music in such a format can only be heard through crappy earphones. If you're too old and stubborn to appreciate the convenience and quality of digital music, that's fine, but do us all a favor and stop pretending that you know better than us or are on to something.
4) Itunes killed the record store. Which sucks.
Obviously the record store was an inferior business model. That's called progress.
Yep, because a Republican president didn't sign the PATRIOT Act into law.
You can only create so much shit before you need to find something to do with it!
They're pretty popular on places like Imgur and Reddit, I believe.
I used to be a programmer for the Air Force, and I can tell you that the development process is not agile at all. The Air Force, because it's primarily lead by people who used to fly planes, treats every product development as though they were developing an airframe or weapon. Until people who understand software are put in charge of such matters, we'll continue to see stupid stuff like this happen. This type of thing happens more often than you may expect, just not quite to this incredible scale (by which I mean it is not that uncommon for a piece of software to be contracted out, only to get it back way past schedule and way over budget in a completely crippled and useless state, at which point it becomes the job of Air Force programmers to try to hammer it into a useful form).
Maybe it's been over-adjusted. Granted, this is an extreme case of a bus driver with a lot of seniority and a lot of overtime, but even his base salary is probably more than you would expect for a bus driver.
Many U.S. citizens are forced to own motor vehicles or rely on someone who owns one to transport them where they need to go
It takes me ~20 minutes to commute to/from work if I drive a POV. If I take the bus, a one-way commute is ~1.5 hours because there are no convenient bus routes between where I live and where I work, so I need to go out of my way to make connections. I also live in a city that has a pretty good public transportation system for a city of ~500k residents. If a bus commute could get knocked down to even ~45 minutes, I would prefer it to driving myself to work, but until then, the cost in time lost is just not worth it.
It's a good point, but gouging your customers is probably also not a good business move
You mean like what Apple does to its customers?
If companies don't start treating the Used market as competition, it will kill them
They are competing by moving to digital sales and by dis-incentivising used game purchases by requiring one-use activation codes to gain access to online features. In other words, they're either too stubborn or too lacking in creativity to develop a real model of competition, so they're just trying to use their weight to crush used sales.
The Ouya is kind of cool, and I may even purchase one when it comes up, but it looks severely under-powered and my main interest in it is as a hackable device. Do you really care about playing cell-phone games on your TV?
They allowed our data to be compromised
Yes, but more importantly, anyone who gave Sony their information allowed it to be compromised. Why would you willingly give even the most trivial of data to a company with no ethical or moral qualm towards installing rootkits on your computer as a reward for purchasing their products?
You're creating a false dichotomy. I said it's not the business of a private to determine when and when not to disseminate classified information. If the generals and staff officers are withholding information, then it's congress's job to remove them from their post and punish them as is fit.
Allowing actions like this, even in the spirit of whistleblowing, would severely undermine the necessary order and discipline an effective military needs. It is certainly not the business of a private to determine what type of classified information should or should not be distributed.
Storing a png of this record costs near nothing.
Sure, if you're the only patient the hospital has. The storage of the records is probably not as significant as the organizing and retrievability of specific records for specific patients in a system with thousands or hundreds of thousands of patients.
My wife hates watching military movies with me because even just the 4 years I did in the USAF allows me to spot tons of inaccuracies that are typical in movies (the way actors salute is probably the most obvious and annoying one). On the other hand, it's fun to watch those movies with a group of prior military folks because the plot falls aside while we poke fun at the poor representations of military personnel and operations.
I live in Madison and we've had the president here twice in about a month. It makes getting home after work a terrible experience, since at least one or two major roads have to be shut down. I'm so glad this is almost over!
I can see the benefit of cloud services for non-critical applications without strict security requirements. If business doesn't stop if it goes down and getting hacked has trivial consequences, I think it's ok to dump it in the cloud.
The only thing I can think of is that I'm working on someone else's computer and can't install anything locally, but even then this won't work because you still have to download it. I guess this is just a "because I can" sort of project.
MS has been an enemy of linux since the beginning
I'm pretty sure Linux was created to offer a free Unix OS for personal computers. Linux may have been Microsoft's enemy, but I don't think it worked the other way around, even despite MS's funding of SCO and the whole Halloween document leaks ordeal.
If Matlab disclosed to you that this could happen before you purchased it, then it would not be infringing on your rights because you willingly made the purchase while aware of the caveats.
Selling proprietary software does not infringe on someone else's rights (no matter how hard Stallman tries to suggest it does), while maiming and killing someone certainly does.
Of course what I have said will anger many people
Nope, I'm too busy being happy!
This really seems to be something we should work into our lives like physical fitness and eating healthy.
Well damn! I haven't done well at including those in my life, either!
No doubt you are too much of a pussy to call me Teabagger to my face
Says the AC.
use a wired connection
From GP:
then find out they're on wifi
Let me make this more clear for you:
then find out they're on wifi
Don't participate in the conversation if you lack reading comprehension.