so basically, your logic is that if developers make something crappy, then they deserve to have it stolen?
Please, do point to where I said anything like that, because I cannot find such; I was talking about how people generally view shallow/crappy stuff worthless, especially if they're already priced at pennies, so the developers of such are themselves contributing to the issue. By making the apps/games/whatnot seem actually worth some money people would feel more inclined to actually pay for them. That is not the same thing as me trying to defend piracy or saying the devs "deserve" such.
Every day I send takedown notices to multiple sites, which are a problem, because I have to disclose where I live in those notices. Not exactly something I enjoy doing, and I waste time doing this instead of developing more.
Yes, and? You're doing exactly what I told you not to do: you're wasting your time trying to prevent something that you simply CANNOT prevent. Either ignore piracy and just focus on developing your stuff or start developing for something else. Sending takedown notices and using your time on that is definitely not a productive way of using it. Do you believe that piracy of your game will somehow magically stop if you just send enough notices, or that it somehow discourages pirates? Or hell, do you believe that sending those notices is somehow positive marketing for the game? No? Well, gee!
It depends on how one defines "piracy problem," like e.g. at what point does piracy become a problem and when it isn't a problem, and who is it a problem to anyways? Is it a problem if there's over 1% piracy rate? If so then iOS, Android, BB, Windows, OSX, Linux, BeOS, DOS and so on would have a "piracy problem." Or is it a problem only when popular things are being pirated? Atleast I don't see law enforcement ever going after pirates for spreading some niche product that only appeals to a small base, even if the piracy rates in that base were over 90%. Is piracy a problem to the users, is it a problem to developers who are actually still making nice profit even with 40% piracy rates, or is it a problem to publishers who cry foul even about a single pirated copy even if they're raking in cash like madmen, all just because they want every single last penny in their pockets? I don't see users complaining about piracy, and I see plenty of developers who simply ignore piracy as long as they're generating profit, I only see these money-hungry entities complaining.
Even if we just focus on the fact that there's piracy on Android-platform we have to look at its surroundings: Android is very similar to e.g. Windows in terms of end-user-oriented openness, allowing one to install and remove software freely. Only Android, however, is getting flak for piracy at the moment, piracy on PCs is being ignored. Why? Well, because people like OP like to jump on whatever happens to be the new trend, because developers these days are trained to believe that any amount of piracy whatsoever is a problem, and because, well, most Android-apps are crappy, shallow pieces of sh*t and cost mere pennies -- the general populace won't see the apps worth much if even the developers themselves don't, therefore said populace won't see it as a loss for the developer if they just pirate the things instead. Combine said arbitrary worthlessness with an open platform and it's no wonder piracy exists.
All that said the developers and publishers themselves are to blame for their problems: make your apps worth not pirating, and either develop only for walled-garden platforms or accept piracy as a fact of life and ignore it as long as you're still generating profits.
The fandroids said so!!! This is all just Apple FUD!!
No, I'm not an iShiny faggot, either.
To be honest, your sexual orientation is not relevant here nor does it reflect on your intellect in any way or form. The use of terms like "fandroids," "iShiny," and "faggot" along with multiple exclamation marks and the lack of any kind of argument whatsoever does, however. I do realize your comment was an attempt at trolling Slashdot-users and you were hoping for some enraged comments which is why I so much enjoy responding to these kinds of attempts with calm, coherent comments -- think of it as reverse trolling, if you will.
Here in Finland you can buy torx-screwdrivers from any store that sells any kinds of screwdrivers, ie. even your average small-time store has those. Hell, you'd actually be somewhat hard-pressed to find a screwdriver kit without torx. I really have a hard time believing finding torx-tools in the U.S. is that much more difficult.
Since gaygirlie claims to be pansexual, I guess that would make her qualified.
To be honest, I have so little experience with men and their dangly bits that I guess I don't really qualify, and I possibly shouldn't have said anything in the first place. Also, after reading some of the comments here I guess I do see why the size of the balls matters; to some men it is apparently a similar body-image thing as e.g. weight is for some women, and even a small change lead to depression and loss of sexual functionality/interest. Ie. I appreciate the sentiment of you popping in, but I have to admit a failure on my part of not really thinking the thing through.
That said I personally think small testes look better than large ones, and as has been said it makes the part above them look larger. Not that that really matters to me, though, as I do not care what genitals one carries -- if any. I'll have to bring the topic up with my sisters, we've only cursorily scratched it among other topics.
I have yet to meet a woman that finds big balls a turn on
Now that I think about it neither have I met anyone like that. Large, dangly balls tend to be quite nasty, in fact; it's usually the dangly thing ABOVE the balls that matters, not the balls themselves. I've never understood why men believe large balls are somehow attractive.
....inspired people to realize that desert sand doesn't really work that well for swimming practice. ....inspired one common Internet-phenomenon when one of them had scrawled the word "First!" on a nearby rock. ....inspired the invention of the term "dry humour."
I'm not a phycisist and I actually know very little of physics even in general, but, well, if it was that easy to alter the state of an electron through simple G-forces then none of the devices we make would be possible. Even a simple car tire is subjected to thousands of times stronger forces than you can generate with nothing but your arms, let alone modern fighter jets and space rockets. Basically, if you wanted to alter the state of electrons like that you would have to shake it so fast your whole body would've burst into flames long before you reach the needed speed just from nothing more than friction. I would definitely love to see you do that, would make a helluva show. Please do inform us when you do that!
I'm interested in this, too. Sure, I could just continue using uTorrent without updating it, nor would the ads really bother me anyways since I don't keep the window open, but if there's anything leaner than uTorrent then I see no reason to keep using it. My needs are as follow: must run on Windows, must support IP-blocklists, must allow me to force encryption on and reject all unencrypted connections, and must allow me to quickly adjust speed limits. So far all the commenters are only suggesting Linux-clients.
Given that there's already apps out there to let you run Android apps on desktop OSes, why not switch corporate systems to Android?
What benefit would that give them? They'd still need the underlying OS, plus there's hardly any desktop-oriented corporate-friendly software for Android. Not only that, but there is no way of remotely managing all the Android-software with proper security settings and all.
YouTube has deals with most of the copyright holders, and infringing stuff is either pulled or gets ads put on it.
On the other hand if another website had similar deals Google would still most likely mod that website down giving Google an unfair advantage. They are setting themselves up as a sort of a gate watcher and I cannot help but wonder how quickly that will backfire.
Does iTunes let you download the videos to your computer at a time of your own choosing and in a format that will play on all of your devices? If not then it clearly is not superior to pirating and/or just plain ripping your own discs.
I actually believe the idea is to force people to get accustomed to Windows 8's new UI so they'll feel more familiar with Windows 8 -based phones and tablets, too. It seems likely that Microsoft's marketing department, Ballmer et.al. believe this will lead to increased sales in the long run and ensure Microsoft a somewhat secure footing in the mobile market where they have little significance right now; they need stronger position in the mobile market and they know it. The big heads over at Microsoft do realize they still have very much significance in the desktop and laptop market so it kind of makes sense to leverage that; Average Joes and Janes who don't really know anything about Windows 8 will sooner or later end up with a new computer with it pre-loaded, whether they like it or not, simply because the name "Microsoft" or "Windows" sounds familiar to them even if they don't know what it actually is, and will end up buying familiar-sounding things.
This is to say that seeming innovative is most likely a secondary goal and getting foothold in mobile markets is the primary one. Microsoft may even count on the trickle-effect of general populace growing accustomed to Windows 8's drastic change of UI and starting to eschew other kinds of UIs, eventually leading to forced changes in corporate environments, too.
How well this strategy works for Microsoft is to be seen, but it will take a long time before we see any definite answers. While it is certainly true the general populace will eventually grow more and more accustomed to the Windows 8 UI forcing such a drastic change on them could also backfire, and if it were to backfire then the recognition is actually hurting Microsoft more than helping.
I don't think you've realized the magnitude of his insanity or trolling...
I got several replies from him -- none of them actually trying to debunk what I said and most of them trying to argue that because he has gotten modded up before he must therefore be right -- and I see what you meant!:)
I don't think you've realized the magnitude of his insanity or trolling... the smoking crater from his last post here.
As I said, I don't expect any sane reply from him. In fact, I'm not expecting a reply at all. I merely wanted the...um, "less attentive" commenters not to fall prey to his obvious attempts, other than that I don't care who he is or what he has posted before.
I know I am replying to a troll, though I am not actually expecting any kind of sane reply from him, I'm rather replying to his post so that other users would notice the obvious flaw here.
The thing is, if the hack does not actually use any of the OS-specific features to gain access to privileged data then the OS is wholly irrelevant. All the hacks and attacks mentioned by the troll have been because of faults on the Internet-facing software that runs on top of the OS and would've happened just the same if the software was running on *BSD, OSX or Windows. Operating systems simply cannot protect against stupid people or faulty software, that is merely a pipedream. As an example if there is a bug in your latest Windows-based MMORPG that lets attackers gain access to your data do you blame Windows or do you blame the MMORPG for the failure? I sure would opt for the latter. With that in mind the troll in question here is simply trying to associate bugs in 3rd-party software with the OS, shifting blame from one party to another.
You should not expect much speedup from using a 10Mbyte/s memory card in front of a standard 150 MByte/s sustained transfer drive.
You said it yourself: "sustained." The whole point with ReadyBoost is that it uses these Flash-devices for matters where low latency is more important, sustained transfer-rate is therefore not important. It doesn't even try to cache multi-megabyte files, it caches small files and details that are accessed frequently: a regular HDD is quite bad at reading dozens of small files from all over the disk due to seek times.
If the small files are stored in your cache, you might save some seek time. But you can't compare some ultra-slow USB / SDHC card to a 2-300 Mbyte/s SSD.
That's what I said.
I tried the SDHC, did not work well. A fast USB 3.0 stick in a USB 2.0 port was way better, but still does not compare to SSD.
If you were expecting SSD-level performance then you clearly didn't understand fully what you were doing in the first place. It is not meant to replace an SSD, it is simply meant to speed up your system as compared to only using a regular HDD.
That's what I use on my laptop: I've got a 16GB class10 SDHC-card formatted as NTFS and fully dedicated to ReadyBoost and I do notice some speed-up in boot and firing up applications. Nothing spectacular and obviously an SSD would be ideal, but it is still better than nothing, especially with the prices SDHC-cards go for nowadays.
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so basically, your logic is that if developers make something crappy, then they deserve to have it stolen?
Please, do point to where I said anything like that, because I cannot find such; I was talking about how people generally view shallow/crappy stuff worthless, especially if they're already priced at pennies, so the developers of such are themselves contributing to the issue. By making the apps/games/whatnot seem actually worth some money people would feel more inclined to actually pay for them. That is not the same thing as me trying to defend piracy or saying the devs "deserve" such.
Every day I send takedown notices to multiple sites, which are a problem, because I have to disclose where I live in those notices. Not exactly something I enjoy doing, and I waste time doing this instead of developing more.
Yes, and? You're doing exactly what I told you not to do: you're wasting your time trying to prevent something that you simply CANNOT prevent. Either ignore piracy and just focus on developing your stuff or start developing for something else. Sending takedown notices and using your time on that is definitely not a productive way of using it. Do you believe that piracy of your game will somehow magically stop if you just send enough notices, or that it somehow discourages pirates? Or hell, do you believe that sending those notices is somehow positive marketing for the game? No? Well, gee!
But there isn't an Android piracy problem!
It depends on how one defines "piracy problem," like e.g. at what point does piracy become a problem and when it isn't a problem, and who is it a problem to anyways? Is it a problem if there's over 1% piracy rate? If so then iOS, Android, BB, Windows, OSX, Linux, BeOS, DOS and so on would have a "piracy problem." Or is it a problem only when popular things are being pirated? Atleast I don't see law enforcement ever going after pirates for spreading some niche product that only appeals to a small base, even if the piracy rates in that base were over 90%. Is piracy a problem to the users, is it a problem to developers who are actually still making nice profit even with 40% piracy rates, or is it a problem to publishers who cry foul even about a single pirated copy even if they're raking in cash like madmen, all just because they want every single last penny in their pockets? I don't see users complaining about piracy, and I see plenty of developers who simply ignore piracy as long as they're generating profit, I only see these money-hungry entities complaining.
Even if we just focus on the fact that there's piracy on Android-platform we have to look at its surroundings: Android is very similar to e.g. Windows in terms of end-user-oriented openness, allowing one to install and remove software freely. Only Android, however, is getting flak for piracy at the moment, piracy on PCs is being ignored. Why? Well, because people like OP like to jump on whatever happens to be the new trend, because developers these days are trained to believe that any amount of piracy whatsoever is a problem, and because, well, most Android-apps are crappy, shallow pieces of sh*t and cost mere pennies -- the general populace won't see the apps worth much if even the developers themselves don't, therefore said populace won't see it as a loss for the developer if they just pirate the things instead. Combine said arbitrary worthlessness with an open platform and it's no wonder piracy exists.
All that said the developers and publishers themselves are to blame for their problems: make your apps worth not pirating, and either develop only for walled-garden platforms or accept piracy as a fact of life and ignore it as long as you're still generating profits.
The fandroids said so!!! This is all just Apple FUD!!
No, I'm not an iShiny faggot, either.
To be honest, your sexual orientation is not relevant here nor does it reflect on your intellect in any way or form. The use of terms like "fandroids," "iShiny," and "faggot" along with multiple exclamation marks and the lack of any kind of argument whatsoever does, however. I do realize your comment was an attempt at trolling Slashdot-users and you were hoping for some enraged comments which is why I so much enjoy responding to these kinds of attempts with calm, coherent comments -- think of it as reverse trolling, if you will.
Here in Finland you can buy torx-screwdrivers from any store that sells any kinds of screwdrivers, ie. even your average small-time store has those. Hell, you'd actually be somewhat hard-pressed to find a screwdriver kit without torx. I really have a hard time believing finding torx-tools in the U.S. is that much more difficult.
Since gaygirlie claims to be pansexual, I guess that would make her qualified.
To be honest, I have so little experience with men and their dangly bits that I guess I don't really qualify, and I possibly shouldn't have said anything in the first place. Also, after reading some of the comments here I guess I do see why the size of the balls matters; to some men it is apparently a similar body-image thing as e.g. weight is for some women, and even a small change lead to depression and loss of sexual functionality/interest. Ie. I appreciate the sentiment of you popping in, but I have to admit a failure on my part of not really thinking the thing through.
That said I personally think small testes look better than large ones, and as has been said it makes the part above them look larger. Not that that really matters to me, though, as I do not care what genitals one carries -- if any. I'll have to bring the topic up with my sisters, we've only cursorily scratched it among other topics.
Do you honestly not know how you come across each time you say that?
As someone who doesn't understand the issue, I suppose?
I do still have female friends and relatives, mate :)
Why would that matter? If the object ABOVE the balls doesn't shrink then I see no problem.
I have yet to meet a woman that finds big balls a turn on
Now that I think about it neither have I met anyone like that. Large, dangly balls tend to be quite nasty, in fact; it's usually the dangly thing ABOVE the balls that matters, not the balls themselves. I've never understood why men believe large balls are somehow attractive.
It's got to be someone with the same sets of goals, primarily being evil.
Ubisoft? They're just as evil and incompetent, with the exact same goals and attitude as EA.
....inspired people to realize that desert sand doesn't really work that well for swimming practice.
....inspired one common Internet-phenomenon when one of them had scrawled the word "First!" on a nearby rock.
....inspired the invention of the term "dry humour."
I'm not a phycisist and I actually know very little of physics even in general, but, well, if it was that easy to alter the state of an electron through simple G-forces then none of the devices we make would be possible. Even a simple car tire is subjected to thousands of times stronger forces than you can generate with nothing but your arms, let alone modern fighter jets and space rockets. Basically, if you wanted to alter the state of electrons like that you would have to shake it so fast your whole body would've burst into flames long before you reach the needed speed just from nothing more than friction. I would definitely love to see you do that, would make a helluva show. Please do inform us when you do that!
What alternatives do you suggest?
I'm interested in this, too. Sure, I could just continue using uTorrent without updating it, nor would the ads really bother me anyways since I don't keep the window open, but if there's anything leaner than uTorrent then I see no reason to keep using it. My needs are as follow: must run on Windows, must support IP-blocklists, must allow me to force encryption on and reject all unencrypted connections, and must allow me to quickly adjust speed limits. So far all the commenters are only suggesting Linux-clients.
Given that there's already apps out there to let you run Android apps on desktop OSes, why not switch corporate systems to Android?
What benefit would that give them? They'd still need the underlying OS, plus there's hardly any desktop-oriented corporate-friendly software for Android. Not only that, but there is no way of remotely managing all the Android-software with proper security settings and all.
YouTube has deals with most of the copyright holders, and infringing stuff is either pulled or gets ads put on it.
On the other hand if another website had similar deals Google would still most likely mod that website down giving Google an unfair advantage. They are setting themselves up as a sort of a gate watcher and I cannot help but wonder how quickly that will backfire.
Well, true enough. I should have formulated my comment better to reflect "superior format" instead, or something similar.
Taken from the iTunes FAQ at https://support.apple.com/kb/HT2729 :
Videos purchased from the iTunes Store have FairPlay digital rights management embedded in the files
Ie. the videos will only play on devices with FairPlay DRM - support.
Does iTunes let you download the videos to your computer at a time of your own choosing and in a format that will play on all of your devices? If not then it clearly is not superior to pirating and/or just plain ripping your own discs.
I actually believe the idea is to force people to get accustomed to Windows 8's new UI so they'll feel more familiar with Windows 8 -based phones and tablets, too. It seems likely that Microsoft's marketing department, Ballmer et.al. believe this will lead to increased sales in the long run and ensure Microsoft a somewhat secure footing in the mobile market where they have little significance right now; they need stronger position in the mobile market and they know it. The big heads over at Microsoft do realize they still have very much significance in the desktop and laptop market so it kind of makes sense to leverage that; Average Joes and Janes who don't really know anything about Windows 8 will sooner or later end up with a new computer with it pre-loaded, whether they like it or not, simply because the name "Microsoft" or "Windows" sounds familiar to them even if they don't know what it actually is, and will end up buying familiar-sounding things.
This is to say that seeming innovative is most likely a secondary goal and getting foothold in mobile markets is the primary one. Microsoft may even count on the trickle-effect of general populace growing accustomed to Windows 8's drastic change of UI and starting to eschew other kinds of UIs, eventually leading to forced changes in corporate environments, too.
How well this strategy works for Microsoft is to be seen, but it will take a long time before we see any definite answers. While it is certainly true the general populace will eventually grow more and more accustomed to the Windows 8 UI forcing such a drastic change on them could also backfire, and if it were to backfire then the recognition is actually hurting Microsoft more than helping.
I don't think you've realized the magnitude of his insanity or trolling...
I got several replies from him -- none of them actually trying to debunk what I said and most of them trying to argue that because he has gotten modded up before he must therefore be right -- and I see what you meant! :)
I don't think you've realized the magnitude of his insanity or trolling... the smoking crater from his last post here.
As I said, I don't expect any sane reply from him. In fact, I'm not expecting a reply at all. I merely wanted the...um, "less attentive" commenters not to fall prey to his obvious attempts, other than that I don't care who he is or what he has posted before.
I know I am replying to a troll, though I am not actually expecting any kind of sane reply from him, I'm rather replying to his post so that other users would notice the obvious flaw here.
The thing is, if the hack does not actually use any of the OS-specific features to gain access to privileged data then the OS is wholly irrelevant. All the hacks and attacks mentioned by the troll have been because of faults on the Internet-facing software that runs on top of the OS and would've happened just the same if the software was running on *BSD, OSX or Windows. Operating systems simply cannot protect against stupid people or faulty software, that is merely a pipedream. As an example if there is a bug in your latest Windows-based MMORPG that lets attackers gain access to your data do you blame Windows or do you blame the MMORPG for the failure? I sure would opt for the latter. With that in mind the troll in question here is simply trying to associate bugs in 3rd-party software with the OS, shifting blame from one party to another.
Absolute minimum latency for a fetch is 16ms on USB port.
If that were true there would be no USB-powered networking devices.
You should not expect much speedup from using a 10Mbyte/s memory card in front of a standard 150 MByte/s sustained transfer drive.
You said it yourself: "sustained." The whole point with ReadyBoost is that it uses these Flash-devices for matters where low latency is more important, sustained transfer-rate is therefore not important. It doesn't even try to cache multi-megabyte files, it caches small files and details that are accessed frequently: a regular HDD is quite bad at reading dozens of small files from all over the disk due to seek times.
If the small files are stored in your cache, you might save some seek time. But you can't compare some ultra-slow USB / SDHC card to a 2-300 Mbyte/s SSD.
That's what I said.
I tried the SDHC, did not work well. A fast USB 3.0 stick in a USB 2.0 port was way better, but still does not compare to SSD.
If you were expecting SSD-level performance then you clearly didn't understand fully what you were doing in the first place. It is not meant to replace an SSD, it is simply meant to speed up your system as compared to only using a regular HDD.
That's what I use on my laptop: I've got a 16GB class10 SDHC-card formatted as NTFS and fully dedicated to ReadyBoost and I do notice some speed-up in boot and firing up applications. Nothing spectacular and obviously an SSD would be ideal, but it is still better than nothing, especially with the prices SDHC-cards go for nowadays.