Different users have different needs. If one person wants obscure format A, and another person wants obscure format B, and a third person wants obscure format C, then the most efficient way to handle the different needs is to make a player with an input plug-in architecture. Or are you claiming that "most people would have no need for a player supporting" any obscure format?
But where's the incentive for the creative mind to write the software, bring it to market, support it, etc.? It looks like pretty hard work that isn't certain to pay off.
I understand free as in speech and free as in beer, but there is no free as in groceries. Even coders need to pay rent.
If you want to make the life of the patent shorter or non-renewable, with the goal to not stifle innovation on top of older patents, maybe. But everyone should have a shot at the brass ring.
People with creative minds have been creating things and profiting from those creations for thousands of years. This was going on long before patents of any kind existed. Patents stifle creativity and innovation. Software patents are some of the worst.
Yep, no significant software improvements have been made. No need to get better hardware. Even games aren't moving things along anymore since most big games are just console ports now days.
So what? Why does the price of bitcoin even matter? Bitcoins strength lies in its ability to be used as a payment processing network - and at a fraction of the cost of traditional payment networks (visa, mastercard, paypal, SWIFT, etc).
Everyone is obsessed with the price of bitcoin (and therefore comparing it to a ponzi scheme because of its price) and treating it as a speculative investment scheme or get rich quick scheme. This is actually very detrimental to bitcoin.
But no. Bitcoins power lies in using it as a payment processing network not its price. It does need some more price stability, however, so this crazy speculation needs to stop.
Has something changed drastically in the past few months? Last time I looked into it, buying and using bitcoins was difficult and more expensive than using my traditional credit card or paypal.
Moore's yawn... er, law. It has ended, again again. It must be the co-joined twin of Voyager which has left the solar system 78 times in the past 14 years.
Wake me up when some real news gets in.
It took me several moments to realize you weren't talking about Star Trek. I need to go rethink my life.
Well, if you needed proof of a higher power then here it is. Standard operating systems in cars are long overdue.
With google+android that means advertising and invasive monitoring in your car eventually. Are you sure you want that? I certainly don't.
With android, you can take control of your car. I have a nice hosts file on my android phone that blocks many ads. If you think there isn't already a great deal of logging going on in modern vehicles you're very mistaken. All that is missing from (some) is the ability to send that data somewhere without wires. Of course most people have cell phones, so there's the cellular location information along with possible GPS data that is being sent.
If you're old school enough not to carry a smartphone for privacy reasons then you aren't likely to be buying a car with android anyway.
I look at it like this. I bought a car in 2012 and paid around $1000 bucks extra for the "navigation" package. When I got to using it I found that the Honda navigation system is so pathetic it's easily outdone by my 5 year old garmin dash-mount gps. With android, I'd just download a different gps app.
...at how often people who work on 'Star Trek' take an extraordinarily dim view of some of the products that surround the franchise. You are not alone.
You may not be surprised at how often fans of 'Star Trek' take an extraordinarily dim view of some of the products that surround the franchise. Ever been to the star trek store in vegas? The only interesting thing there was that there was an actual woman in the store. She was alive, and appeared to be there willingly as well.
I used to be like that as well (although never liked the BlackBerry keyboards). Swype on Android changed my mind in a big way.
I use swype as well. Far superior to normal onscreen keyboards. I still would prefer a physical keyboard. That Tactus keyboard that put out some prototype videos last July looks like a good solution. I don't see a single product featuring Tactus yet, though. Seems like it's been long enough that they should be in full swing if they were going to be.
it wasnt just some band... it was van fuckin halen \m/... and it was david lee roth pretending to be a pretentious douche of a rock star by asking for the m&ms.
Take a look at Syria. There are no US troops there and they are slaughtering themselves just fine. Iraq still has weekly car bombings. Hell in Iraq the majority of all deaths were not from coalition troops but from Muslim fighters killing everyone who didn't agree with them.
Personally I say we retreat back to north america maybe keep one or two bases open and wait in 20 years the world will descend into major war. For as war hungry as the USA has been theUSA has been the person everyone can hate equally.
Of course I also believe in letting Iran have nukes. Iran is stupid enough to use them. Most likely against Saudi Arabia or Pakistan.
Syria, Iraq, and any country other than the USA is not our problem. Let them handle their own affairs.
They are already worse than China in terms of some of the human rights. After all, they destroyed one such right, right to privacy already. And they are doing it while accusing China of possibly doing it.
So that particular bridge has been burned down long, long ago.
And if you think that CIA doesn't use the "lest something happens to your family" just as much as other intelligence agencies, I have land on the moon to sell you.
We lost our Fourth Amendment rights already. Our government is working hard to eliminate our second amendment rights. We also lost our sixth amendment rights to the patriot act. In fact, complaining about the losses is risky business in light of the rights we no longer have...
I've written software for a manager that would double click links on web pages. I've also worked for managers who could be completely thwarted by an unplugged mouse.
Bob Slydel (John C. McGinley): "What you do at Initech is, you take the specifications from the customers and you bring them down to the software engineers."
Smykowski: "Yes. Y--Yes. That's-- That's right."
Bob Porter (Paul Wilson): "Well, then I just have to ask, why couldn't the customers just take them directly to the-- to the software people, huh?"
Smykowski: "Well, I'll tell you why. Uh, because... engineers are not good at dealing with customers."
Bob Slydel: "Uh-huh. So, you physically take the specs from the customer?"
Smykowski: "Well... no. M-My secretary does that, or they're faxed."
Bob Slydel: "Uh-huh."
Bob Porter: "So then you must physically bring them to the software people."
Smykowski: "Well... no. I mean, sometimes."
Bob Slydel: "What-- What would you say you do here?"
Smykowski: "Well, look, I already told you. I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?!"
I still have an external USRobotics Courrier HST Dual Standard. It has the daughterboard upgrade and the 56k flash. Got it on the "SysOp" deal so they attached a metal "not for resale" plate on the top.
Turn in your nerd card with that zoom crap. Next you'll be posting photos of zyxel gear.
The study is linked to in the story. Are you saying that the abstract (extract below) or paper give enough details for you, or didn't you read them?
Hmm, something is up. I read the summary and the article. After reading your post I re-read the article looking for the details you linked. I still don't see them. Thanks for those links, cold fjord.
It's probably a mixed bag. Although there is a lot of useful factual information posted there, there is also a lot of fiction. There is regularly some confusion about which is which, although some readers are more susceptible to failure to successfully differentiate than others. More study is needed.
In the context of this article, fact vs fiction doesn't seem to play a role. In fact, fiction may be even more effective as it could be more engaging. The question would be, is/. engaging enough to put you into the mind of someone else? I think the answer is no.
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I think there's a meme about this. It's called "First World Problems." Sheesh!
Different users have different needs. If one person wants obscure format A, and another person wants obscure format B, and a third person wants obscure format C, then the most efficient way to handle the different needs is to make a player with an input plug-in architecture. Or are you claiming that "most people would have no need for a player supporting" any obscure format?
True, but I'd hardly call FLAC obscure.
But where's the incentive for the creative mind to write the software, bring it to market, support it, etc.? It looks like pretty hard work that isn't certain to pay off.
I understand free as in speech and free as in beer, but there is no free as in groceries. Even coders need to pay rent.
If you want to make the life of the patent shorter or non-renewable, with the goal to not stifle innovation on top of older patents, maybe. But everyone should have a shot at the brass ring.
People with creative minds have been creating things and profiting from those creations for thousands of years. This was going on long before patents of any kind existed. Patents stifle creativity and innovation. Software patents are some of the worst.
The age of humans will eventually fade away much like the dinosaurs and no one will miss us.
Well, duh. Who's going to miss us if we don't exist any more?
Cockroaches, they love our scraps.
The first rule of fight club is "you don't talk about fight club."
Film at eleven.
Yep, no significant software improvements have been made. No need to get better hardware. Even games aren't moving things along anymore since most big games are just console ports now days.
Spam City, here we come. Why is this opt-out instead of opt-in? Because nobody would want it.
Yeah that and hardly anyone tends to "opt" when allowed. Why would a company bother to release a feature and make it opt in?
So what? Why does the price of bitcoin even matter? Bitcoins strength lies in its ability to be used as a payment processing network - and at a fraction of the cost of traditional payment networks (visa, mastercard, paypal, SWIFT, etc).
Everyone is obsessed with the price of bitcoin (and therefore comparing it to a ponzi scheme because of its price) and treating it as a speculative investment scheme or get rich quick scheme. This is actually very detrimental to bitcoin.
But no. Bitcoins power lies in using it as a payment processing network not its price. It does need some more price stability, however, so this crazy speculation needs to stop.
Has something changed drastically in the past few months? Last time I looked into it, buying and using bitcoins was difficult and more expensive than using my traditional credit card or paypal.
Ban mathematics. Algorithms kill, after all.
Moore's yawn ... er, law. It has ended, again again. It must be the co-joined twin of Voyager which has left the solar system 78 times in the past 14 years.
Wake me up when some real news gets in.
It took me several moments to realize you weren't talking about Star Trek. I need to go rethink my life.
Well, if you needed proof of a higher power then here it is. Standard operating systems in cars are long overdue.
With google+android that means advertising and invasive monitoring in your car eventually. Are you sure you want that? I certainly don't.
With android, you can take control of your car. I have a nice hosts file on my android phone that blocks many ads. If you think there isn't already a great deal of logging going on in modern vehicles you're very mistaken. All that is missing from (some) is the ability to send that data somewhere without wires. Of course most people have cell phones, so there's the cellular location information along with possible GPS data that is being sent.
If you're old school enough not to carry a smartphone for privacy reasons then you aren't likely to be buying a car with android anyway.
I look at it like this. I bought a car in 2012 and paid around $1000 bucks extra for the "navigation" package. When I got to using it I found that the Honda navigation system is so pathetic it's easily outdone by my 5 year old garmin dash-mount gps. With android, I'd just download a different gps app.
...at how often people who work on 'Star Trek' take an extraordinarily dim view of some of the products that surround the franchise. You are not alone.
You may not be surprised at how often fans of 'Star Trek' take an extraordinarily dim view of some of the products that surround the franchise. Ever been to the star trek store in vegas? The only interesting thing there was that there was an actual woman in the store. She was alive, and appeared to be there willingly as well.
Well, if you needed proof of a higher power then here it is. Standard operating systems in cars are long overdue.
I used to be like that as well (although never liked the BlackBerry keyboards). Swype on Android changed my mind in a big way.
I use swype as well. Far superior to normal onscreen keyboards. I still would prefer a physical keyboard. That Tactus keyboard that put out some prototype videos last July looks like a good solution. I don't see a single product featuring Tactus yet, though. Seems like it's been long enough that they should be in full swing if they were going to be.
it wasnt just some band... it was van fuckin halen \m/... and it was david lee roth pretending to be a pretentious douche of a rock star by asking for the m&ms .
Right, some oldies band. What he said originally.
Um seriously?
Take a look at Syria. There are no US troops there and they are slaughtering themselves just fine. Iraq still has weekly car bombings. Hell in Iraq the majority of all deaths were not from coalition troops but from Muslim fighters killing everyone who didn't agree with them.
Personally I say we retreat back to north america maybe keep one or two bases open and wait in 20 years the world will descend into major war. For as war hungry as the USA has been theUSA has been the person everyone can hate equally.
Of course I also believe in letting Iran have nukes. Iran is stupid enough to use them. Most likely against Saudi Arabia or Pakistan.
Syria, Iraq, and any country other than the USA is not our problem. Let them handle their own affairs.
$80 million isn't that enormous, as far as things go. That's like half of one F-22.
Exactly what I was thinking. It seems like a paltry sum for such an effort. Probably just a PR stunt of some kind.
A link to video of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odJxJRAxdFU
Thanks! Hard to believe TFA and TFS both missed including it.
They are already worse than China in terms of some of the human rights. After all, they destroyed one such right, right to privacy already. And they are doing it while accusing China of possibly doing it.
So that particular bridge has been burned down long, long ago.
And if you think that CIA doesn't use the "lest something happens to your family" just as much as other intelligence agencies, I have land on the moon to sell you.
We lost our Fourth Amendment rights already. Our government is working hard to eliminate our second amendment rights. We also lost our sixth amendment rights to the patriot act. In fact, complaining about the losses is risky business in light of the rights we no longer have...
I've written software for a manager that would double click links on web pages. I've also worked for managers who could be completely thwarted by an unplugged mouse.
In my opinion, non-technical manager == useless.
Bob Slydel (John C. McGinley): "What you do at Initech is, you take the specifications from the customers and you bring them down to the software engineers."
Smykowski: "Yes. Y--Yes. That's-- That's right."
Bob Porter (Paul Wilson): "Well, then I just have to ask, why couldn't the customers just take them directly to the-- to the software people, huh?"
Smykowski: "Well, I'll tell you why. Uh, because... engineers are not good at dealing with customers."
Bob Slydel: "Uh-huh. So, you physically take the specs from the customer?"
Smykowski: "Well... no. M-My secretary does that, or they're faxed."
Bob Slydel: "Uh-huh."
Bob Porter: "So then you must physically bring them to the software people."
Smykowski: "Well... no. I mean, sometimes."
Bob Slydel: "What-- What would you say you do here?"
Smykowski: "Well, look, I already told you. I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?!"
Best movie of all time... of all time.
I still have an external USRobotics Courrier HST Dual Standard. It has the daughterboard upgrade and the 56k flash. Got it on the "SysOp" deal so they attached a metal "not for resale" plate on the top.
Turn in your nerd card with that zoom crap. Next you'll be posting photos of zyxel gear.
There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.
Only in the same way that the earth is all dark.
What does "boosted" actually mean? Fuck all
The study is linked to in the story. Are you saying that the abstract (extract below) or paper give enough details for you, or didn't you read them?
Hmm, something is up. I read the summary and the article. After reading your post I re-read the article looking for the details you linked. I still don't see them. Thanks for those links, cold fjord.
It's probably a mixed bag. Although there is a lot of useful factual information posted there, there is also a lot of fiction. There is regularly some confusion about which is which, although some readers are more susceptible to failure to successfully differentiate than others. More study is needed.
In the context of this article, fact vs fiction doesn't seem to play a role. In fact, fiction may be even more effective as it could be more engaging. The question would be, is /. engaging enough to put you into the mind of someone else? I think the answer is no.