It's kind of unfortunate that the people that run a company into the ground are only rarely held accountable. I think a lifetime of indentured servitude as a pool boy at a Holiday Inn would probably be justice for Daryl McBride.
a)Apple deliberately made the update brick the phone if third party applications were installed.
Bricking only happens with unlocked phones, third party apps had nothing to do with it, those apps were hidden from view. The assertion of deliberate is conjecture. They may have but we might never know until people pick apart the update. It _is_ possible to reverse the "bricking" and restore it to a previous firmware, so I'm not sure if it's a true bricking or not.
It is ridiculous, but there were a myriad variations on the PS1 and PS2 as well. The PS1 was offerend in 23 model numbers that I can count.
The original PS2 didn't have a network jack but you could buy one and add a hard drive. The ability to add a hard drive was removed later, with a top-loading slimmer model, but with a network jack, I think. There's an even slimmer, lighter model that was introduced later, now available in silver and black. Then there was the Japan-only one that was also a DVR.
I wouldn't count it out completely, I remember people saying that PS2 was going to be a big flop too. Right now, it's only nine months in.
Everything is a trade-off though. Many resources may be abundant, but there always have restrictions, there will always be a limiting factor somewhere. Extracting resource A might take Y amount of work, and resource B might take X amount of work, and those resources may not be equivalent in many ways. There is also an amount of time needed to extract them. The resources that you need take energy to move from where they are to where you need them to be. How do you propose to balance all of these?
I am very skeptical that somehow a spacefaring civilization will be able to counter all of that and not have some form of currency. Even something like synthesizing elements wouldn't be very efficient because it would waste a lot of energy in the process, even with fusion power, there's a tremendous inefficiency there. As such, I think eliminating poverty would be about as easy as changing innate human nature - something that I don't think has been repeatably done or done very well.
the languages we know today have all evolved from more elaborate ones, that have been cut down over the ages for ease of use in the day to day world.
That doesn't help much. Isn't English still one of the most complicated languages, because it has the biggest vocabulary and the largest number of irregular conjugations and irregular plural forms?
You have a point, but it should go farther than "not buying". I think the point should be made to not give away or trade in this cartel's music even if the cartel doesn't get money from it. Make your own music and give it away. Boycotting does no good if people are still trading the corporate goods, because they can use that as a persuasive tool too. Most of the cartel's music is not that good anyways. I think slashdotters should take the stance that the music files aren't worth the drive space they are on and not even worth copying.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that HDMI is totally immune to signal loss, but there should be a limit in how much you need to spend on them. I paid $50 for a 50ft HDMI cable from Monoprice.com and it has worked flawlessly so far, and this is for 1080p video signal to a 1080p video projector. $60 6ft HDMI cables are simply, flat-out absurd. For runs 2 meters or less, I'd suggest buying the cheapest or next-to-cheapest ones you can get, and if you see glitching, then return them and pay a little more.
It does not make much sense to pay several dollars a foot for "future proofing" your cables. That's money spent on something that depreciates anyway, it's better to save the difference spend that money 5 years from now if you need it and not get cables now that might be replaced by different connector standard anyway. I'm very skeptical of the future for 1440p, when even the ProjectorCentral people swear that they can't tell the difference between 1080i and 1080p.
That's true. That's why GIMP has a hard time, for hobbyists, the GIMP is competing against an infringing copy of Photoshop.
Even if you do pay for it, Photoshop doesn't cost more than a whole lot of DSLR cameras, it's actually priced about the same as a base model from many brands, list price to list price.
Really, Adobe Lightroom or Apple Aperture are more suitable for photo work, and those programs are cheaper.
Unlikely. There are cheaper ways to get there, but it takes energy. Energy is not free. The amount of energy it takes to loft a craft to escape velocity is staggering, and the cost of buying that energy isn't going down.
Survey grade? Doesn't that imply letting it sit for at least a second before taking a reading? I thought GPS systems for high speed flight needs to be a specialized kind because its position changes so quickly.
My only objection to the wireless syncing idea is that a lot of people seem to not realize or at least acknowledge that it has drawbacks. The thing will still have to be charged somehow, wireless does take power where wired syncing will charge the device. Also, the speed of the syncing will be at best, twice as fast as USB 1.1 for WiFi "g", because "g" gets at most 20Mbps actual data speed. Maybe Zune has "n", but the linked story doesn't seem to say so.
If those demanding wireless syncing understand this, then go right on ahead. Those that aren't aware of these issues, then they might be in for disappointment.
I realize it's probably a joke, but we've got frozen methane hydrate, underwater, here on Earth. There was one quote that said that if the moon had gold bricks for the taking it would still be a major loss to collect them. At Titan? Forget it.
I think the GP concern of "days" is the length of when you have light, not temperature. I don't think it's that much of a concern though because there would be so much less light anyway. I think the "nights" where Titan is closer to the Sun might even be brighter than "days" because you get the diffuse reflection of sunlight off of Saturn. The times where the moon is behind Saturn are going to be extremely dark though.
That's the thing. It doesn't matter what they say they intend to do, it may even be true. But I would expect that eventually, they'll decide to take advantage of the wording. That's why it's the right thing to demand, obvious potential abuses that they are unwilling to close should basically scream that they intend to use the clase to that end.
Wasn't this dot-com all over again? Basically companies lost money to get "eyeballs" that weren't worth getting, or would never pay for the service?
Providing a service for free isn't a good idea if the income from premium services can't support it.
I use eBay a lot, but never saw any desire to use Skype. I really don't see how it would increase the typical person's willingness to up their bid, bid more or sell more.
Can someone comment how ~950kbit/s fares for HD content. For standard DVD-quality video I use at least 500-600kbps on MPEG4 derivative, so I'm doubtful.
In my opinion, 950kbps often isn't very good for SD content, even with AVC/VC-1. 1080p trailers encoded in MPEG-4 AVC need to be at least 8Mbps otherwise the screen gets messy with blocks with a lot of action. The DVD format allows for about 10Mbps max, though I usually see 3 to 5 as average values.
The problem is that it does a poor job at having a second button. There should not be a finger anywhere near the Button1 or else the click is treated as Button1 even if the pressure is in the Button2 area. This is due to the fact that they use capacitive proximity sensing rather than pressure sensing. The entire mouse basically has one microswitch.
Contrast ratio is the brightness of white vs. the brightness of black. Given equal white brightness, it should mean that the black is blacker. Unfortunately, it is a number companies plays tricks with, such as using the brightest the screen gets when all-white at its brightest setting, and the dimmest when it's all black, maybe with backlight dimmed and so on.
Frankly, I'm not missing my CRT much. I even had high end consumer displays, 21" flats. I hated how the geometry gradually shirts over time, I hated fixing geometry problems, and the brightness of black varied by how many and how bright other things are on the screen. And the local magnetic fields made it wobble, so I had to put the Hz such that it's in cadence with power because of a nearby fan in the A/C ducts. Off-angle color is dependent on the LCD substrate. The Dell Ultrasharps do use the kind of LCD that's better for that.
For entertainment, I'm using a 1080p LCD projector. There aren't any color shift issues due to off-angle viewing with that. The colors are great and the black is quite black.
I'm not getting the part why signing is required but not getting a certified signature isn't. What does signing offer when anyone can self-sign? Is the entire app encrypted or checksummed so that a non-signed party can't easily hack that app?
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It's kind of unfortunate that the people that run a company into the ground are only rarely held accountable. I think a lifetime of indentured servitude as a pool boy at a Holiday Inn would probably be justice for Daryl McBride.
a)Apple deliberately made the update brick the phone if third party applications were installed.
Bricking only happens with unlocked phones, third party apps had nothing to do with it, those apps were hidden from view. The assertion of deliberate is conjecture. They may have but we might never know until people pick apart the update. It _is_ possible to reverse the "bricking" and restore it to a previous firmware, so I'm not sure if it's a true bricking or not.
It is ridiculous, but there were a myriad variations on the PS1 and PS2 as well. The PS1 was offerend in 23 model numbers that I can count.
The original PS2 didn't have a network jack but you could buy one and add a hard drive. The ability to add a hard drive was removed later, with a top-loading slimmer model, but with a network jack, I think. There's an even slimmer, lighter model that was introduced later, now available in silver and black. Then there was the Japan-only one that was also a DVR.
I wouldn't count it out completely, I remember people saying that PS2 was going to be a big flop too. Right now, it's only nine months in.
Everything is a trade-off though. Many resources may be abundant, but there always have restrictions, there will always be a limiting factor somewhere. Extracting resource A might take Y amount of work, and resource B might take X amount of work, and those resources may not be equivalent in many ways. There is also an amount of time needed to extract them. The resources that you need take energy to move from where they are to where you need them to be. How do you propose to balance all of these?
I am very skeptical that somehow a spacefaring civilization will be able to counter all of that and not have some form of currency. Even something like synthesizing elements wouldn't be very efficient because it would waste a lot of energy in the process, even with fusion power, there's a tremendous inefficiency there. As such, I think eliminating poverty would be about as easy as changing innate human nature - something that I don't think has been repeatably done or done very well.
I think this initiative is a sad joke though.
the languages we know today have all evolved from more elaborate ones, that have been cut down over the ages for ease of use in the day to day world.
That doesn't help much. Isn't English still one of the most complicated languages, because it has the biggest vocabulary and the largest number of irregular conjugations and irregular plural forms?
You have a point, but it should go farther than "not buying". I think the point should be made to not give away or trade in this cartel's music even if the cartel doesn't get money from it. Make your own music and give it away. Boycotting does no good if people are still trading the corporate goods, because they can use that as a persuasive tool too. Most of the cartel's music is not that good anyways. I think slashdotters should take the stance that the music files aren't worth the drive space they are on and not even worth copying.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that HDMI is totally immune to signal loss, but there should be a limit in how much you need to spend on them. I paid $50 for a 50ft HDMI cable from Monoprice.com and it has worked flawlessly so far, and this is for 1080p video signal to a 1080p video projector. $60 6ft HDMI cables are simply, flat-out absurd. For runs 2 meters or less, I'd suggest buying the cheapest or next-to-cheapest ones you can get, and if you see glitching, then return them and pay a little more.
It does not make much sense to pay several dollars a foot for "future proofing" your cables. That's money spent on something that depreciates anyway, it's better to save the difference spend that money 5 years from now if you need it and not get cables now that might be replaced by different connector standard anyway. I'm very skeptical of the future for 1440p, when even the ProjectorCentral people swear that they can't tell the difference between 1080i and 1080p.
1. Burqa-wearing folk will have a field day.
They might. I don't think fabric blocks that much IR. A person wearing full-body clothing would still be warmer than a mannequin.
That makes sense. I've never heard of that before. Is the Zune even available in the UK yet?
That's true. That's why GIMP has a hard time, for hobbyists, the GIMP is competing against an infringing copy of Photoshop.
Even if you do pay for it, Photoshop doesn't cost more than a whole lot of DSLR cameras, it's actually priced about the same as a base model from many brands, list price to list price.
Really, Adobe Lightroom or Apple Aperture are more suitable for photo work, and those programs are cheaper.
Unlikely. There are cheaper ways to get there, but it takes energy. Energy is not free. The amount of energy it takes to loft a craft to escape velocity is staggering, and the cost of buying that energy isn't going down.
Survey grade? Doesn't that imply letting it sit for at least a second before taking a reading? I thought GPS systems for high speed flight needs to be a specialized kind because its position changes so quickly.
My only objection to the wireless syncing idea is that a lot of people seem to not realize or at least acknowledge that it has drawbacks. The thing will still have to be charged somehow, wireless does take power where wired syncing will charge the device. Also, the speed of the syncing will be at best, twice as fast as USB 1.1 for WiFi "g", because "g" gets at most 20Mbps actual data speed. Maybe Zune has "n", but the linked story doesn't seem to say so.
If those demanding wireless syncing understand this, then go right on ahead. Those that aren't aware of these issues, then they might be in for disappointment.
I realize it's probably a joke, but we've got frozen methane hydrate, underwater, here on Earth. There was one quote that said that if the moon had gold bricks for the taking it would still be a major loss to collect them. At Titan? Forget it.
I think the GP concern of "days" is the length of when you have light, not temperature. I don't think it's that much of a concern though because there would be so much less light anyway. I think the "nights" where Titan is closer to the Sun might even be brighter than "days" because you get the diffuse reflection of sunlight off of Saturn. The times where the moon is behind Saturn are going to be extremely dark though.
That's the thing. It doesn't matter what they say they intend to do, it may even be true. But I would expect that eventually, they'll decide to take advantage of the wording. That's why it's the right thing to demand, obvious potential abuses that they are unwilling to close should basically scream that they intend to use the clase to that end.
Wasn't this dot-com all over again? Basically companies lost money to get "eyeballs" that weren't worth getting, or would never pay for the service?
Providing a service for free isn't a good idea if the income from premium services can't support it.
I use eBay a lot, but never saw any desire to use Skype. I really don't see how it would increase the typical person's willingness to up their bid, bid more or sell more.
That would be really nice, how about making use of all the dark fiber first.
Maybe it's "dark" because the companies that own them want too much money?
Can someone comment how ~950kbit/s fares for HD content. For standard DVD-quality video I use at least 500-600kbps on MPEG4 derivative, so I'm doubtful.
In my opinion, 950kbps often isn't very good for SD content, even with AVC/VC-1. 1080p trailers encoded in MPEG-4 AVC need to be at least 8Mbps otherwise the screen gets messy with blocks with a lot of action. The DVD format allows for about 10Mbps max, though I usually see 3 to 5 as average values.
That is true, I use third party mice all the time. One of them is the one with a cheap Wacom tablet.
The problem is that it does a poor job at having a second button. There should not be a finger anywhere near the Button1 or else the click is treated as Button1 even if the pressure is in the Button2 area. This is due to the fact that they use capacitive proximity sensing rather than pressure sensing. The entire mouse basically has one microswitch.
Contrast ratio is the brightness of white vs. the brightness of black. Given equal white brightness, it should mean that the black is blacker. Unfortunately, it is a number companies plays tricks with, such as using the brightest the screen gets when all-white at its brightest setting, and the dimmest when it's all black, maybe with backlight dimmed and so on.
Frankly, I'm not missing my CRT much. I even had high end consumer displays, 21" flats. I hated how the geometry gradually shirts over time, I hated fixing geometry problems, and the brightness of black varied by how many and how bright other things are on the screen. And the local magnetic fields made it wobble, so I had to put the Hz such that it's in cadence with power because of a nearby fan in the A/C ducts. Off-angle color is dependent on the LCD substrate. The Dell Ultrasharps do use the kind of LCD that's better for that.
For entertainment, I'm using a 1080p LCD projector. There aren't any color shift issues due to off-angle viewing with that. The colors are great and the black is quite black.
I'm not getting the part why signing is required but not getting a certified signature isn't. What does signing offer when anyone can self-sign? Is the entire app encrypted or checksummed so that a non-signed party can't easily hack that app?
I think an entire 17" notebook might consume 45W and does a heck of a lot more than just display an image.
It's become easier to move around, so one has to learn the most common languages (English and French) in order to succeed.
If anything, it's probably going to be Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi and Arabic. The power that French had seems to have waned considerably.