I have different approach. I got Spotify Premium, so I have access to all the music I listen to. When Taylor Swift pulled her songs from the service I said to myself: "I'm not going to bother, I don't have to listen to her songs anymore!". I have same approach with Netflix, if a movie or TV series is not there, I don't watch. I don't feel entitled to listen/watch content that is outside of the services I pay for.
My approach costs less and keeps my free time free from stress. On the other hand if you do enjoy making a private streaming service for your friends and family then by all means, but try justifying your effort better.
They could do with a million more like you. Hand over your cash and consume whatever they shove down your throat no questions asked.
It's like saying that painting is old-hat and only digital-photography can be done from now on - why would anyone "paint" or "sketch" or "draw"? God, what heathens!
No one is saying that though. Some guy is moaning his pixel art isn't being heralded as the best thing ever.
Yeah, I can't wait for Windows to change the print subsystem in an update that causes my excessively complex multifunction printer driver suite to put my computer into a reboot loop. As an average consumer, I'd love to have to pay someone to service the machine to fix that.
The same goes for any wireless cards, or storage controllers, or USB peripherals, or...
Is this something that has happened to you in the past or just some shit example about how it's going to be end times for windows.
They don't really need you though. They have millions of people willing to pay and don't mind if you watch the grass grow. Personally I find most television is less intellectually challenging than watching the grass grow. Sadly I allowed myself to become addicted to Game of Thrones and then I got my wife hooked on it as well.
They do and that's the point. Well ESPN anyway, that's why they're shitting themselves people might be able to get cable without them getting a cut.
They were "ready with a press release within minutes" because they wrote both press releases, and read the one that fit the situation. That's how it works.
As far as I've ever heard, it is theoretically impossible to stop that kind of attack. If a user runs your code, then yeah, duh, your code can do whatever. I don't think that counts as a security vulterability.
No, definitely not a security issue when you have a piece of software that is only supposed to let the app store signed code run and then as long as there's a signature somewhere near it will run whatever the fuck you've put in this app that macuser101 has no suspicion of because 'macs are virus proof'. It will be a funny day when the first big mac virus sweeps through now that macs are numerous enough to present a valid target and casually brushes aside any token security measures.
Star Wars?! Oh, man, there are so many better examples of Disney rehashing old works. How about Maleficent (aka Sleeping Beauty from the villain's perspective)? Or running the Disney Princess angle into the ground with Brave (at least other Princess films had a legend or fairy tale background, Brave was just a complete fabrication)? Better yet, let's just talk about Disney Princess films, and how Disney takes an old legend or fairy tale, and turns it into a highly profitable film and merchandising effort? If that's not rehashing the same shit over and over, I don't know what is. The recent Star Wars acquisition doesn't have anything on the black hole of creativity that is Disney.
How about Avatar which is Pocahontas in space, which is a rip off of Dances with wolves which is no doubt a rip off of something else and so forth.
OK, I'll play. Here's an example I happened to be thinking of recently. Consider the case of a film from the silent era, 1894–1929. On a common-sense basis, it clearly should be in the public domain. After all, the people who made it are all dead - as likely are their heirs. So, who really deserves any money from something created that long ago?
However, if it's in the public domain, there is no monetary incentive to locate, digitize, and restore such a film. It either sits in a vault somewhere, decomposing (maybe even on nitrate film - egad!), or maybe it was transferred onto videotape before its copyright expired. So, it's either not available at all, or maybe isn't available in the best possible quality. But if somebody still owned a valid copyright for it, they might have a financial incentive to make it available in HD.
Don't get me wrong, though - I don't think any film from the silent era should still be protected by copyright. But at least some case can be made for that. So there's your counter-argument.
But what's to stop someone from taking those old films and digitising them and selling them on whatever medium they want. There will be no copyright so after costs it's all profit.
So there's a mysterious form of RADAR, that's been widely available since the 90s, which can shoot down stealth aircraft at will, yet we have lost only one manned stealth aircraft in combat in 20 years?
There is actually. It's called a heatseeker jackass. Also lost only one in combat. How many times have they been in combat against a foe with equal powers. Total bumf was over exaggerating a bit but it's not a silver bullet. They can't just fly wherever the want with impunity. They need to take a lot of measures to remain undetected, stealth technology is just one of them.
Can you actually explain how he did not put Americans in jeopardy, or does your aluminum hat cause you to automatically reject anything anyone from the government tells you.
By showing all the nasty baddies that the American intelligence services i.e. their enemies were too busy spying on their own people and allies to notice what shenanigans they were up to? Is that what you mean?
Not all baby boomers had kids by their mid 20's, my parents are of that generation and I turned 18 on Jan 1 2000.
Usually I hear 1982 as the demarcating line which places the current max age around 33. Then to confuse things some refer to those born in 80-84 as "cuspers" who are not entirely Gen X or Gen Y.
That would explain why I have no clue what 'gen' Im supoosed to be in. Born in '83 lol
You make it sound like it's a good thing. I hate that stuff, and I personnaly don't think that legalizing a substance that distorts reality, that can make you a veggie and slowly destroys your ability to have fun without it is just a way to make a whole generation less intelligent than the one before.
I could say the exact same thing about alcohol. You never see the stoned filling out a&e though.
No it just wasn't. It was shot down by a radar system that was modified to use a longer wavelength and was able to detect it when the bomb bay door opened. They detected, fired and shut down in about 20 seconds before any SEAD could come down on them. They say several missiles were fired but the pilot says he saw too. One passed by close enough to buffet and the second detonated. Granted it's not a great example. I'm not saying stealth is useless but it doesn't mean you can fly around with impunity. They have to know where the enemy radar sites are, fly specific corridors at specific speeds in order to avoid detection. Also F-117s don't do low altitude attacks.
I didn't say F-35 would win a VFR dogfight. I said the entire point of the damn thing was to avoid VFR dogfights. I said it had rails for air-to-air missiles, and it would be very difficult to impossible for Su-35s (or even F-22s) to get a strong enough lock on it to engage outside of VFR.
As for our allies, approximately how much do you think we're paying Canada to buy F-35 rather then upgrade the FA-18 Superhornet into a CF-18 Hornet II of some sort? The answer is $0.
You do know stealth is a total bumf? It may work with varying success against high frequency X band type radar types aircraft but get a ground or awacs based in S or L band radar in and it all goes to pot, Russia has been building these for years and sell them all over the show (see the 1999 f-117 shootdown over Yugoslavia). Combinations of all three could easily lead to the intercept and shootdown of a stealth aircraft or group of. Fun fact, if every stealth design of today was flying over the English channel in ww2 days our radar of the time would pick up every single one.
www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA515506
Over three-quarters of a TRILLION dollars on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter that,
In 2008, two analysts at the RAND Corporation, a California think-tank that works closely with the military, programmed a computer simulation to test out the F-35s fighting ability in a hypothetical air war with China. The results were startling.
“The F-35 is double-inferior,” John Stillion and Harold Scott Perdue concluded in their written summary of the war game, later leaked to the press. The new plane “can’t turn, can’t climb, can’t run,” they warned.
$59.2B for development, $261B for procurement, $590B for operations & sustainment in 2012
For something that no one in the military actually wants.
The real irony is it was supposed to be the cheap one to put up in numbers to support the F-22. The same way the F-16 is the cheap numerous one to support the F-15. Ended up costing probably more money than all the recent fighters combined.
Translations:
The Israelis are not terrorists because they use the best technology they have access to in order to target their munitions.
Hamas are terrorists because they use the best technology they have access to in order to target their munitions.
I like your double standard.
I think the logic goes Hamas are terrorists because they persistently launch unguided rockets at civilian areas from civilian areas, Israel aren't because while they are a full fledged military power they use the least amount of force they can. They drop one precision bomb from a plane onto a known target. Yes it's probably a bigger bang than needed but short of ignoring the rockets or sending in the troops what other options are there?
Can you apply the same reasoning to a Blu ray or DVD you bought and own? I didn't think so.
No, well yes, well most times. With most dvd players you can hit stop>stop>play to jump straight to the feature, they just don't tell you that. You could also skip adverts from vhs with fast forward. You can skip ads in the cinema by going in ~20 minutes after the time on the ticket. Don't know about Blu-ray, I don't bother with it.
As for Afghanistan, we didn't really do anything to them. Sure, we got Bin Laden, but by that time he was almost dead anyway and that was just for political posturing by Obama, not to stop any real threat.
Did you miss the whole war in Afghanistan? Quite a bit happened before the seals choppered into a complex then shot him and dumped his body in the ocean. Is anyone even sure that happened, if it did I doubt it did the way they say it did..
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I have different approach. I got Spotify Premium, so I have access to all the music I listen to. When Taylor Swift pulled her songs from the service I said to myself: "I'm not going to bother, I don't have to listen to her songs anymore!". I have same approach with Netflix, if a movie or TV series is not there, I don't watch. I don't feel entitled to listen/watch content that is outside of the services I pay for.
My approach costs less and keeps my free time free from stress. On the other hand if you do enjoy making a private streaming service for your friends and family then by all means, but try justifying your effort better.
They could do with a million more like you. Hand over your cash and consume whatever they shove down your throat no questions asked.
Also pirates support children terrorist's
Is that children who terrorise or people or terrorise children.
Because it's not a technology, but an art-form?
It's like saying that painting is old-hat and only digital-photography can be done from now on - why would anyone "paint" or "sketch" or "draw"? God, what heathens!
No one is saying that though. Some guy is moaning his pixel art isn't being heralded as the best thing ever.
For consumers this is likely a great thing.
Yeah, I can't wait for Windows to change the print subsystem in an update that causes my excessively complex multifunction printer driver suite to put my computer into a reboot loop. As an average consumer, I'd love to have to pay someone to service the machine to fix that. The same goes for any wireless cards, or storage controllers, or USB peripherals, or ...
Is this something that has happened to you in the past or just some shit example about how it's going to be end times for windows.
It's more like give us a whole bunch of money and we'll give you this thing we made to use in the way we specify.
Throw a pie at a fed, get life imprisonment for attempted murder of a federal agent plus a bunch of other bullshit, trumped up, double-dipped charges.
Unless you're black, in which case they'll just flat out murder you.
In Soviet Russia something something you
it seems though that you greeks have learned a lot from the turks. in terms of lying. propaganda and outright murder.
"europe" actually is a hellhole of violence, not a source of civilization.
before you ask, i am german.
Maybe, but it's one of the better hellholes on the planet.
They don't really need you though. They have millions of people willing to pay and don't mind if you watch the grass grow. Personally I find most television is less intellectually challenging than watching the grass grow. Sadly I allowed myself to become addicted to Game of Thrones and then I got my wife hooked on it as well.
They do and that's the point. Well ESPN anyway, that's why they're shitting themselves people might be able to get cable without them getting a cut.
They were "ready with a press release within minutes" because they wrote both press releases, and read the one that fit the situation. That's how it works.
You mean the government's and their own?
What is it they say about democracy being the worst type of government, except for all the other ones.
And in another beta was really good and everyone embraced it.
As far as I've ever heard, it is theoretically impossible to stop that kind of attack. If a user runs your code, then yeah, duh, your code can do whatever. I don't think that counts as a security vulterability.
No, definitely not a security issue when you have a piece of software that is only supposed to let the app store signed code run and then as long as there's a signature somewhere near it will run whatever the fuck you've put in this app that macuser101 has no suspicion of because 'macs are virus proof'. It will be a funny day when the first big mac virus sweeps through now that macs are numerous enough to present a valid target and casually brushes aside any token security measures.
Star Wars?! Oh, man, there are so many better examples of Disney rehashing old works. How about Maleficent (aka Sleeping Beauty from the villain's perspective)? Or running the Disney Princess angle into the ground with Brave (at least other Princess films had a legend or fairy tale background, Brave was just a complete fabrication)? Better yet, let's just talk about Disney Princess films, and how Disney takes an old legend or fairy tale, and turns it into a highly profitable film and merchandising effort? If that's not rehashing the same shit over and over, I don't know what is. The recent Star Wars acquisition doesn't have anything on the black hole of creativity that is Disney.
How about Avatar which is Pocahontas in space, which is a rip off of Dances with wolves which is no doubt a rip off of something else and so forth.
OK, I'll play. Here's an example I happened to be thinking of recently. Consider the case of a film from the silent era, 1894–1929. On a common-sense basis, it clearly should be in the public domain. After all, the people who made it are all dead - as likely are their heirs. So, who really deserves any money from something created that long ago?
However, if it's in the public domain, there is no monetary incentive to locate, digitize, and restore such a film. It either sits in a vault somewhere, decomposing (maybe even on nitrate film - egad!), or maybe it was transferred onto videotape before its copyright expired. So, it's either not available at all, or maybe isn't available in the best possible quality. But if somebody still owned a valid copyright for it, they might have a financial incentive to make it available in HD.
Don't get me wrong, though - I don't think any film from the silent era should still be protected by copyright. But at least some case can be made for that. So there's your counter-argument.
But what's to stop someone from taking those old films and digitising them and selling them on whatever medium they want. There will be no copyright so after costs it's all profit.
So there's a mysterious form of RADAR, that's been widely available since the 90s, which can shoot down stealth aircraft at will, yet we have lost only one manned stealth aircraft in combat in 20 years?
There is actually. It's called a heatseeker jackass. Also lost only one in combat. How many times have they been in combat against a foe with equal powers. Total bumf was over exaggerating a bit but it's not a silver bullet. They can't just fly wherever the want with impunity. They need to take a lot of measures to remain undetected, stealth technology is just one of them.
Can you actually explain how he did not put Americans in jeopardy, or does your aluminum hat cause you to automatically reject anything anyone from the government tells you.
By showing all the nasty baddies that the American intelligence services i.e. their enemies were too busy spying on their own people and allies to notice what shenanigans they were up to? Is that what you mean?
Not all baby boomers had kids by their mid 20's, my parents are of that generation and I turned 18 on Jan 1 2000.
Usually I hear 1982 as the demarcating line which places the current max age around 33. Then to confuse things some refer to those born in 80-84 as "cuspers" who are not entirely Gen X or Gen Y.
That would explain why I have no clue what 'gen' Im supoosed to be in. Born in '83 lol
[...]pot decriminalized[...]
You make it sound like it's a good thing. I hate that stuff, and I personnaly don't think that legalizing a substance that distorts reality, that can make you a veggie and slowly destroys your ability to have fun without it is just a way to make a whole generation less intelligent than the one before.
I could say the exact same thing about alcohol. You never see the stoned filling out a&e though.
No it just wasn't. It was shot down by a radar system that was modified to use a longer wavelength and was able to detect it when the bomb bay door opened. They detected, fired and shut down in about 20 seconds before any SEAD could come down on them. They say several missiles were fired but the pilot says he saw too. One passed by close enough to buffet and the second detonated. Granted it's not a great example. I'm not saying stealth is useless but it doesn't mean you can fly around with impunity. They have to know where the enemy radar sites are, fly specific corridors at specific speeds in order to avoid detection. Also F-117s don't do low altitude attacks.
I didn't say F-35 would win a VFR dogfight. I said the entire point of the damn thing was to avoid VFR dogfights. I said it had rails for air-to-air missiles, and it would be very difficult to impossible for Su-35s (or even F-22s) to get a strong enough lock on it to engage outside of VFR.
As for our allies, approximately how much do you think we're paying Canada to buy F-35 rather then upgrade the FA-18 Superhornet into a CF-18 Hornet II of some sort? The answer is $0.
You do know stealth is a total bumf? It may work with varying success against high frequency X band type radar types aircraft but get a ground or awacs based in S or L band radar in and it all goes to pot, Russia has been building these for years and sell them all over the show (see the 1999 f-117 shootdown over Yugoslavia). Combinations of all three could easily lead to the intercept and shootdown of a stealth aircraft or group of. Fun fact, if every stealth design of today was flying over the English channel in ww2 days our radar of the time would pick up every single one. www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA515506
Like this one?
http://blogs.reuters.com/great...
Over three-quarters of a TRILLION dollars on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter that,
For something that no one in the military actually wants.
The real irony is it was supposed to be the cheap one to put up in numbers to support the F-22. The same way the F-16 is the cheap numerous one to support the F-15. Ended up costing probably more money than all the recent fighters combined.
Translations: The Israelis are not terrorists because they use the best technology they have access to in order to target their munitions. Hamas are terrorists because they use the best technology they have access to in order to target their munitions. I like your double standard.
I think the logic goes Hamas are terrorists because they persistently launch unguided rockets at civilian areas from civilian areas, Israel aren't because while they are a full fledged military power they use the least amount of force they can. They drop one precision bomb from a plane onto a known target. Yes it's probably a bigger bang than needed but short of ignoring the rockets or sending in the troops what other options are there?
Can you apply the same reasoning to a Blu ray or DVD you bought and own? I didn't think so.
No, well yes, well most times. With most dvd players you can hit stop>stop>play to jump straight to the feature, they just don't tell you that. You could also skip adverts from vhs with fast forward. You can skip ads in the cinema by going in ~20 minutes after the time on the ticket. Don't know about Blu-ray, I don't bother with it.
As for Afghanistan, we didn't really do anything to them. Sure, we got Bin Laden, but by that time he was almost dead anyway and that was just for political posturing by Obama, not to stop any real threat.
Did you miss the whole war in Afghanistan? Quite a bit happened before the seals choppered into a complex then shot him and dumped his body in the ocean. Is anyone even sure that happened, if it did I doubt it did the way they say it did..