...then where is all the outrage over Facebook tracking you even when you're not signed in to Facebook? Why now, in other words, and why Amazon? How do they compare to what Facebook, Google, Apple, and others already do now?
I don't know, I've spent months looking for the leaked workprint of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (the wires and green screens and hastily thrown in placeholder CGI made an otherwise horrible movie hilarious) but I can't find it anywhere. Everything I've found is either the actual released film mislabeled as the workprint, a dead link on megaupload or rapidshare, or completely dead with no seeds.
I honestly think this is going to be the future method of the MPAA and RIAA in dealing with piracy. They can't stop it, but they can flood the web with fake files and other garbage and totally obfuscate the actual pirated material. The sheer number of torrents being indexed out there makes it impossible to combat. They can't compete with the efficiency of piracy as compared to the legal channels most of the time, and they never will unless they just decide to give up their rights and stream it themselves free of charge without commercials or ads of any kind. Since obviously that's never gonna happen, what option does that leave? Shit up the piracy channels and make it easier to just go buy the fucking movie, album, or game legit. People will do it. Look at the millions of people out there that do it now, and it's still a hell of a lot easier to pirate something then it is to deal with iTunes or Amazon or HBO Go or whatever service you're trying to use. Once it's not, I think we're going to see the traditional file sharing avenues collapse.
Piracy will never go away, but I could see it returning to the days when we bought our pirated movies, music, and games from shady people off of blankets on street corners and smoky flea markets. I hope not, but I can see it.
Look at Google+ and their attempt to push Facebook and others out of business because they have "the name". Thankfully, it doesn't seem like it's working
What "others"? For Social Media, what are the real competitors in the market right now? Facebook, Google+, and...uh....Twitter? Is Twitter considered a real Facebook competitor? Is Myspace still considered a competitor, or just a joke? Personally, I know a lot of hardcore Facebook users that are glad that G+ came around, if only to force Facebook to make some concessions in security. You think Zuck & Co. would have made these changes independently on their own? Even with strong consumer demand they still pretty much told people to take it or leave it...until G+, and they've only got what, 40 million users now? A lot of influence for such a tiny marketshare.
I'm all for Google getting into the music business. The more online services there are, the more they will compete for our business. I can only hope that Google's arrival to the market will have the same effect on iTunes as G+ did for FB. It may not be as good for Apple, but it will be good for consumers, and as I don't have a vested interest in any of these companies, that is my number one concern.
I've been using Google Music for about a month and a half now, and I've been quite happy with it (although uploading all of my 18,000 tracks took weeks). It's still got it's bugs, but all in all I've had good experiences. If Google can place a market on top of that without shoving it down our throats with a billion pop-ups and click-throughs, or annoyware, than I think they can take their place alongside Amazon and iTunes, and that will be better for us music consumers.
Honestly, how many people would be using iTunes if the iDevices didn't require it? Would their market share be anywhere near what it is today? I doubt it. Bring on the competition.
Hey, good deal! I, of course, wait for every other Fortune 500 company to get hit with these same investigations. It's about time ALL of these companies hiding money off-shore get nailed.
Google must have forgotten to give the appropriately sized "campaign contribution" to the right candidate...
And think of all the fun when someone figures out a way to mimic the signal with another device! We'll know the future has finally arrived when a bully can fling a kid off his bike from across the street...
I had a family of squirrels move into my air conditioner unit once. I had no idea they were in there until I went to run the air for the first time that year...it wouldn't work so I went outside and pulled the cover off to see what the story was and was literally attacked by a furious mother squirrel. No bites or broken skin, thank GOD (I did not want to have to get rabies shots) but I couldn't get anywhere near the A/C unit without getting charged by this thing. My landlord had to call Animal Control to come and remove her and her babies.
When they got rid of the squirrel family and I was able to look at the air conditioner, I was amazed. They had literally eaten everything inside the unit, turning it into a hollow box. Everything non-metal was just destroyed, the plastic fan blades were eaten down to nubs, and the resultant detritus was mixed with leaves and used for bedding at the bottom of the unit. I have no idea how they managed not to get electrocuted, they ate every damn thing in there.
I never knew how much of a pest squirrels could be. Destructive little shits...
It boggles the mind how so many people have this impossible time using noscript. I'm NOT a computer person at all and I picked it up in about 3 seconds. I mean, really, how hard is it to allow "google.com" when you're on google.com? How hard is it to understand that the script "akkdfjdskfgdfgkdjf123kjdf.net" probably does nothing good for YOU? How hard is it understand that Google Analytics should always be blocked? Or Akai.net?
After a couple days, you should have everything relevant whitelisted and you don't even need to touch it most of the time. I don't understand why people over-complicate this. Have you seen how much faster some of these websites load and react when they don't have their 27 background scripts running as well? It makes a difference, believe me.
Either you're doing something really wrong, or are one of those people that doesn't have the infinitesimal amount of patience required to whitelist the 2 or 3 scripts on a page that are actually necessary.
It's not difficult to identify which scripts are likely important to site functionality and which ones aren't. Even trial and error takes all of a second, and it will remember so you don't have to do it next time.
A long press on a selection was the equivalent of a right-click on a Windows machine. Select text, long press, select copy, place cursor in new location, long press, select paste.
The phone used a stylus, but it still used a touch screen, not the buttons (although there were buttons to open the contextual menu, too, which was nice). It technically worked with a finger, too, but I have big fat fingers so I stuck with the stylus for precision.
So what you're saying is, even when it's not winter, it's still nice and white.
Uhhh, no. Not at all, actually. I think you'll find, as you get around more, that there are retards of every color and ancestry. CA just happens to attract more of them due to it's pleasant climate.
Hey, I'm all for taking a stand, but at the end of the day, I'm gonna cover my ass by making sure the phone they search is useless anyway. Being legally in the right doesn't much matter when they can make your life miserable regardless.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. It's the people that assume their "rights" will protect them that end up losing every damn time. Better to assume they won't and leave them with nothing either way.
Fun Fact: carry a old dumbphone in your car. When police pull you over turn off and hide your smartphone and hand them the dumbphone. If the dumbphone is dead tell'em the battery died and you don't have a car charger.
Better yet, carry one of your own old phones, everyone's got at least one in a drawer somewhere. Then when they do pull it and find info from back in 2007 tell them you got worried about the whole cancer thing and haven't used it since.
Of course not, but if you wanted to make something that appealed to the largest market possible, you probably would. Unfortunately, when a 3rd party manufacturer has to decide which connectivity option they want to use with their device, I'll bet you any amount of money they're going to pick the one with the largest market share regardless of capabilities.
Niche developers making niche products will do nothing for widespread adoption of the standard, just look at Firewire.
That's like responding to someone saying they don't want a sports car with "You would if you were in a race!"
As much as a small segment of the population may want the faster transfer speeds of Thunderbolt, the majority will probably opt for the tried and true USB form factor and it's backward compatibility. Currently the few USB 3.0 devices I've seen have all worked with USB 2.0 as well, which is another big factor.
It's interesting to be sure, and I will probably opt for a thunderbolt compatible motherboard on future builds in the interests of future-proofing, but I'm not going to throw my dollars behind supporting Thunderbolt devices until it becomes more ubiquitous and a LOT more 3rd party hardware vendors start supporting it.
But in the end, I quit just like I did with Facebook a year ago. Social Networking is fucking boring when the people being the most social are retards.
Well, lucky for Alaska, they are one of the least populated states in the union and thus can afford not to charge sales taxes. Of course, the cost of goods and services are much higher there, as well. For instance, what do you pay for internet connectivity? My mother, in North Pole, pays an obscene amount of money for a 512k "high speed" connection, and she lives in a fucking suburb of Fairbanks, the second most populated city in the state. For what I spend a month on an apartment here in the lower 48, I wouldn't be able to afford a one-room cabin with running water or electricity up there...not one where I wouldn't be raped and/or murdered by a meth junkie. My mother can't even have her mail delivered to her house anymore because junkies keep stealing it, so she has to pay a ridiculously inflated price for a P.O. Box in town (the same P.O. Box that costs half as much anywhere else in the state because "LOL, price gouging in Fairbanks is awesome!").
So yeah, believe me, you guys are paying either way.
Yeah, and while we're at it let's go ahead and make lobbying illegal and directly ban the spending of any non-public funds on campaigns...as well as mandating matching funds for all qualifying candidates in any given election.
As long as the people making the rules benefit from the way they are implemented, they will never change it. It's like expecting a heroin addict to support a law making it more difficult for them to get heroin.
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...then where is all the outrage over Facebook tracking you even when you're not signed in to Facebook? Why now, in other words, and why Amazon? How do they compare to what Facebook, Google, Apple, and others already do now?
I don't know, I've spent months looking for the leaked workprint of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (the wires and green screens and hastily thrown in placeholder CGI made an otherwise horrible movie hilarious) but I can't find it anywhere. Everything I've found is either the actual released film mislabeled as the workprint, a dead link on megaupload or rapidshare, or completely dead with no seeds.
I honestly think this is going to be the future method of the MPAA and RIAA in dealing with piracy. They can't stop it, but they can flood the web with fake files and other garbage and totally obfuscate the actual pirated material. The sheer number of torrents being indexed out there makes it impossible to combat. They can't compete with the efficiency of piracy as compared to the legal channels most of the time, and they never will unless they just decide to give up their rights and stream it themselves free of charge without commercials or ads of any kind. Since obviously that's never gonna happen, what option does that leave? Shit up the piracy channels and make it easier to just go buy the fucking movie, album, or game legit. People will do it. Look at the millions of people out there that do it now, and it's still a hell of a lot easier to pirate something then it is to deal with iTunes or Amazon or HBO Go or whatever service you're trying to use. Once it's not, I think we're going to see the traditional file sharing avenues collapse.
Piracy will never go away, but I could see it returning to the days when we bought our pirated movies, music, and games from shady people off of blankets on street corners and smoky flea markets. I hope not, but I can see it.
Look at Google+ and their attempt to push Facebook and others out of business because they have "the name". Thankfully, it doesn't seem like it's working
What "others"? For Social Media, what are the real competitors in the market right now? Facebook, Google+, and...uh....Twitter? Is Twitter considered a real Facebook competitor? Is Myspace still considered a competitor, or just a joke? Personally, I know a lot of hardcore Facebook users that are glad that G+ came around, if only to force Facebook to make some concessions in security. You think Zuck & Co. would have made these changes independently on their own? Even with strong consumer demand they still pretty much told people to take it or leave it...until G+, and they've only got what, 40 million users now? A lot of influence for such a tiny marketshare.
I'm all for Google getting into the music business. The more online services there are, the more they will compete for our business. I can only hope that Google's arrival to the market will have the same effect on iTunes as G+ did for FB. It may not be as good for Apple, but it will be good for consumers, and as I don't have a vested interest in any of these companies, that is my number one concern.
I've been using Google Music for about a month and a half now, and I've been quite happy with it (although uploading all of my 18,000 tracks took weeks). It's still got it's bugs, but all in all I've had good experiences. If Google can place a market on top of that without shoving it down our throats with a billion pop-ups and click-throughs, or annoyware, than I think they can take their place alongside Amazon and iTunes, and that will be better for us music consumers.
Honestly, how many people would be using iTunes if the iDevices didn't require it? Would their market share be anywhere near what it is today? I doubt it. Bring on the competition.
Google obviously missed their monthly bribe payment. Once they get that sorted out this will disappear.
Hey, good deal! I, of course, wait for every other Fortune 500 company to get hit with these same investigations. It's about time ALL of these companies hiding money off-shore get nailed.
Google must have forgotten to give the appropriately sized "campaign contribution" to the right candidate...
And think of all the fun when someone figures out a way to mimic the signal with another device! We'll know the future has finally arrived when a bully can fling a kid off his bike from across the street...
I haven't had a head injury in a while, where do I sign up to try them out?
I had a family of squirrels move into my air conditioner unit once. I had no idea they were in there until I went to run the air for the first time that year...it wouldn't work so I went outside and pulled the cover off to see what the story was and was literally attacked by a furious mother squirrel. No bites or broken skin, thank GOD (I did not want to have to get rabies shots) but I couldn't get anywhere near the A/C unit without getting charged by this thing. My landlord had to call Animal Control to come and remove her and her babies.
When they got rid of the squirrel family and I was able to look at the air conditioner, I was amazed. They had literally eaten everything inside the unit, turning it into a hollow box. Everything non-metal was just destroyed, the plastic fan blades were eaten down to nubs, and the resultant detritus was mixed with leaves and used for bedding at the bottom of the unit. I have no idea how they managed not to get electrocuted, they ate every damn thing in there.
I never knew how much of a pest squirrels could be. Destructive little shits...
Every .exe file I have ever downloaded on Chrome comes up with a warning that it could be malicious and am I sure I want to download it.
It boggles the mind how so many people have this impossible time using noscript. I'm NOT a computer person at all and I picked it up in about 3 seconds. I mean, really, how hard is it to allow "google.com" when you're on google.com? How hard is it to understand that the script "akkdfjdskfgdfgkdjf123kjdf.net" probably does nothing good for YOU? How hard is it understand that Google Analytics should always be blocked? Or Akai.net?
After a couple days, you should have everything relevant whitelisted and you don't even need to touch it most of the time. I don't understand why people over-complicate this. Have you seen how much faster some of these websites load and react when they don't have their 27 background scripts running as well? It makes a difference, believe me.
Yes, and is pain in the ass to use
Either you're doing something really wrong, or are one of those people that doesn't have the infinitesimal amount of patience required to whitelist the 2 or 3 scripts on a page that are actually necessary.
It's not difficult to identify which scripts are likely important to site functionality and which ones aren't. Even trial and error takes all of a second, and it will remember so you don't have to do it next time.
I'm saving myself for Torchlight 2. So excited!
In this economy, you'd think they would all but roll out the red carpet for anyone with disposable income.
A long press on a selection was the equivalent of a right-click on a Windows machine. Select text, long press, select copy, place cursor in new location, long press, select paste.
The phone used a stylus, but it still used a touch screen, not the buttons (although there were buttons to open the contextual menu, too, which was nice). It technically worked with a finger, too, but I have big fat fingers so I stuck with the stylus for precision.
So what you're saying is, even when it's not winter, it's still nice and white.
Uhhh, no. Not at all, actually. I think you'll find, as you get around more, that there are retards of every color and ancestry. CA just happens to attract more of them due to it's pleasant climate.
Hey, I'm all for taking a stand, but at the end of the day, I'm gonna cover my ass by making sure the phone they search is useless anyway. Being legally in the right doesn't much matter when they can make your life miserable regardless.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. It's the people that assume their "rights" will protect them that end up losing every damn time. Better to assume they won't and leave them with nothing either way.
I had cut and paste on my XV6800 WinMo 6.0 phone back in like 2007, via a touch screen.
It's okay if Apple didn't invent everything, you know. They're still cool if you think they are.
You will when he starts smiting you guys for your mockery. Steve is one of the old Gods, he demands sacrifice...
Minnesota is much better than fucking CA, believe me. Yeah, it gets cold, but it's not predominately retards and illegals, so there's that.
Fun Fact: carry a old dumbphone in your car. When police pull you over turn off and hide your smartphone and hand them the dumbphone. If the dumbphone is dead tell'em the battery died and you don't have a car charger.
Better yet, carry one of your own old phones, everyone's got at least one in a drawer somewhere. Then when they do pull it and find info from back in 2007 tell them you got worried about the whole cancer thing and haven't used it since.
Of course not, but if you wanted to make something that appealed to the largest market possible, you probably would. Unfortunately, when a 3rd party manufacturer has to decide which connectivity option they want to use with their device, I'll bet you any amount of money they're going to pick the one with the largest market share regardless of capabilities.
Niche developers making niche products will do nothing for widespread adoption of the standard, just look at Firewire.
That's like responding to someone saying they don't want a sports car with "You would if you were in a race!"
As much as a small segment of the population may want the faster transfer speeds of Thunderbolt, the majority will probably opt for the tried and true USB form factor and it's backward compatibility. Currently the few USB 3.0 devices I've seen have all worked with USB 2.0 as well, which is another big factor.
It's interesting to be sure, and I will probably opt for a thunderbolt compatible motherboard on future builds in the interests of future-proofing, but I'm not going to throw my dollars behind supporting Thunderbolt devices until it becomes more ubiquitous and a LOT more 3rd party hardware vendors start supporting it.
But in the end, I quit just like I did with Facebook a year ago. Social Networking is fucking boring when the people being the most social are retards.
Well, lucky for Alaska, they are one of the least populated states in the union and thus can afford not to charge sales taxes. Of course, the cost of goods and services are much higher there, as well. For instance, what do you pay for internet connectivity? My mother, in North Pole, pays an obscene amount of money for a 512k "high speed" connection, and she lives in a fucking suburb of Fairbanks, the second most populated city in the state. For what I spend a month on an apartment here in the lower 48, I wouldn't be able to afford a one-room cabin with running water or electricity up there...not one where I wouldn't be raped and/or murdered by a meth junkie. My mother can't even have her mail delivered to her house anymore because junkies keep stealing it, so she has to pay a ridiculously inflated price for a P.O. Box in town (the same P.O. Box that costs half as much anywhere else in the state because "LOL, price gouging in Fairbanks is awesome!").
So yeah, believe me, you guys are paying either way.
I do envy you for the Permanent Fund though.
Yeah, and while we're at it let's go ahead and make lobbying illegal and directly ban the spending of any non-public funds on campaigns...as well as mandating matching funds for all qualifying candidates in any given election.
As long as the people making the rules benefit from the way they are implemented, they will never change it. It's like expecting a heroin addict to support a law making it more difficult for them to get heroin.