Blu-ray has proven that the MPAA can unite their studios under one format if they wanted. Too bad most people can't play the damn things. Hollywood risks an entire generation growing up and thinking Netflix, Amazon Prime and piracy are the best ways to get paid content. This is why Netflix and Amazon buy up the best writers. They are the new big studios. Soon the MPAA will be the new Edison Trust without any patents, aka irrelevant.
Seems better than the average level of customer service people should expect from this fine banking institution. At least those people didn't find themselves with new bank accounts and new mortgage applications opened on their names without consent. What's the complaint again?
They can, but there is a monetary cost involved because programmers don't work for AutoDesk for free. Generally, there is a cost with every API migration, it's time for FOSS projects and money for proprietary software. It's the reason VLC didn't work right on PulseAudio Linux distros for quite a while. So AutoDesk decided the cost isn't worth it for the amount of Mac OS X customers they have. Most people who really need AutoDesk software don't spend the majority of their time lubricating their guts with lattes and flat whites at Starbucks, so they have no reason to own a Mac anyway.
Modern smartphone camera software can process the image (utilizing the on-board DSP) and produce a clean but lower-resolution image at low light conditions while producing a high resolution image at daylight conditions, so you get the best the small lens can do every time (yes, most of us don't like carrying thick lenses in our pockets or smartphones with thich lenses) . Which is why HTC ditched their 4 megapixel chip despite having dropped quite a mint on it. The "ultrapixel" was emulated in software. But hey, keep harping about how megapixels don't matter as if it's 2012...
And yet in Android you can have an alternative to every Google app. Even the Play Store. You will still need Play Services (if you want stuff like location to work for most apps) but it's not as bad as iOS...
Every time I hear someone say that Desktop Linux or BSD will relegate Windows to the dustbin of history I remember that the latest VLC cannot be easily installed on Ubuntu 16.04 but can in a 10-year old Windows 7 PC and think "nope". Chrome OS might, but Google won't let go of it's supposed "cloudiness" (supposed because every semi-functional Chrome OS app is a local app.
You didn't read the article right? They also mine credit card information, so if you don't favor cash for most of your transactions, you are being tracked. Keep that in mind the next time the word "cashless" falls out of some politician's mouth.
There is a bidding war for your information, which means you are being compensated according to what the market thinks the information you provide is worth. People walked away from Hotmail and went to Gmail because Google paid more (aka provided more or better services) for the user's information, simple as that. Even this site you are browsing now (Slashdot) gives you a slice of their server bandwidth for free, in exchange for whatever information you provide to them.
You are being paid in kind. Try setting up a server which can serve 1080p videos at 9Mbit/s bitrate to anyone who wants to view the video (like YouTube does) and also has enough storage to store all your videos, and you will understand how much your information buys you. Similarly when you are viewing someone else's YouTube video, you are still enjoying a free streaming service. If you don't like the deal, walk away and don't use the online service.
Yeah information wants to be free, but the people who created it want to get paid for their time, which is why the copying of information can be artificially restricted by the people who created it. In the legal sense at least.
Why recreate a horrible "object oriented" language which flattens your objects into a continuous hexadecimal sludge and doesn't have garbage collection or even safe arrays, all in the name of backwards compatibility with an even worse language? The world has moved on.
Because trademark law offers no "fair use" provisions, which means that a company has to aggressively hunt down anybody who uses their trademarked characters or risk losing the trademarks altogether. If they allow a festival of a certain size to use their trademarks, the another slightly bigger one will want to do the same, then a bigger one, and I think you are smart enough to know where this is going.
Browser exploit kits are not profitable anymore because browsers auto-update, it's that simple. OSes on the other hand don't always auto-update (or update at all for the case of mobile devices and IoT ) which is where the exploit underground has moved...
Which of course highlights the futility of modern antivirus software. Malware writers will keep tweaking their code 'till Norton, Avast and McAfee check out. This makes the malware undetectable for most users. I just use Windows Defender (solely because it doesn't install any nasty kernel drivers that mess up the OS) and I just don't download unsigned junk or stuff from dubious vendors... Yes I pay for software now...
And this event is so notable because of its rarity. Every sufficiently big financial institution should be able to absorb the loss. Shorting is for big players only that can absorb such rare events.
That said, I am sure that there will be several investors of the types I mentioned in the previous comment who will scramble to buy Tesla stock the day before their stock lease ends and suffer losses not bounded upper by any amount, but this is because they are dumb and don't know when to cut their loses or how to calculate exposure, it's not an inherent risk of short selling (despicable the act of short selling itself may be, which is). My point is that many of those $1 billion worth of stocks that have been shorted have been covered by stock purchases by short sellers that have already decided to cut their losses.
Any short seller worth his salt should closely monitor the stock and should have a spreadsheet telling him exactly how much he stands to lose or gain every minute for the current stock price, lease fees and expected increase in price during the buyback attempt included with some margin of error. So, if ACME stock hypothetically shot up to by 50% and the short seller didn't notice he was either not monitoring the stock or if it happened overnight he bought into overly volatile stock, or he was a pathological gambler-in-denial holding out to the bitter end hoping to get even. Not that there aren't types of investors fitting into these categories, but that's not how short selling is properly done by the smart money.
Again, anyone who shorts a stock can cut his losses any moment he wants by re-buying the stock he sold at whatever the current price is that moment. He doesn't have to wait to buy back the stock a day before the stock lease agreement ends.
The smart money who sorted Tesla have decided to cut their loses and have already bought enough stock to cover their short positions, only the pathological-gambler-in-denial type of investor will wait to break even 'till the end. Also, how do you plan to codify in law a ban on short selling that cannot be circumvented trivially and can be enforced? Many lawmakers have tried and failed.
What makes you think that the coal miners and the people who voted for Trump because they are disappointed at globalism shipping their jobs to China and Mexico will vote for Hilary in 2020? Why should "the map" change?
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Should have used Bitnet. eDonkey is not old enough.
Any manufacturer doing this will be dead. Such a thing can only be enforced by law. This would need regulation that is not politically feasible.
Blu-ray has proven that the MPAA can unite their studios under one format if they wanted. Too bad most people can't play the damn things. Hollywood risks an entire generation growing up and thinking Netflix, Amazon Prime and piracy are the best ways to get paid content. This is why Netflix and Amazon buy up the best writers. They are the new big studios. Soon the MPAA will be the new Edison Trust without any patents, aka irrelevant.
OnePlus phones are not status symbols. Because that's what these phones are. It's high-tech luxury.
No.
Seems better than the average level of customer service people should expect from this fine banking institution. At least those people didn't find themselves with new bank accounts and new mortgage applications opened on their names without consent. What's the complaint again?
They can, but there is a monetary cost involved because programmers don't work for AutoDesk for free. Generally, there is a cost with every API migration, it's time for FOSS projects and money for proprietary software. It's the reason VLC didn't work right on PulseAudio Linux distros for quite a while. So AutoDesk decided the cost isn't worth it for the amount of Mac OS X customers they have. Most people who really need AutoDesk software don't spend the majority of their time lubricating their guts with lattes and flat whites at Starbucks, so they have no reason to own a Mac anyway.
Modern smartphone camera software can process the image (utilizing the on-board DSP) and produce a clean but lower-resolution image at low light conditions while producing a high resolution image at daylight conditions, so you get the best the small lens can do every time (yes, most of us don't like carrying thick lenses in our pockets or smartphones with thich lenses) . Which is why HTC ditched their 4 megapixel chip despite having dropped quite a mint on it. The "ultrapixel" was emulated in software. But hey, keep harping about how megapixels don't matter as if it's 2012...
And yet in Android you can have an alternative to every Google app. Even the Play Store. You will still need Play Services (if you want stuff like location to work for most apps) but it's not as bad as iOS...
Every time I hear someone say that Desktop Linux or BSD will relegate Windows to the dustbin of history I remember that the latest VLC cannot be easily installed on Ubuntu 16.04 but can in a 10-year old Windows 7 PC and think "nope". Chrome OS might, but Google won't let go of it's supposed "cloudiness" (supposed because every semi-functional Chrome OS app is a local app.
You didn't read the article right? They also mine credit card information, so if you don't favor cash for most of your transactions, you are being tracked. Keep that in mind the next time the word "cashless" falls out of some politician's mouth.
There is a bidding war for your information, which means you are being compensated according to what the market thinks the information you provide is worth. People walked away from Hotmail and went to Gmail because Google paid more (aka provided more or better services) for the user's information, simple as that. Even this site you are browsing now (Slashdot) gives you a slice of their server bandwidth for free, in exchange for whatever information you provide to them.
You are being paid in kind. Try setting up a server which can serve 1080p videos at 9Mbit/s bitrate to anyone who wants to view the video (like YouTube does) and also has enough storage to store all your videos, and you will understand how much your information buys you. Similarly when you are viewing someone else's YouTube video, you are still enjoying a free streaming service. If you don't like the deal, walk away and don't use the online service.
Yeah information wants to be free, but the people who created it want to get paid for their time, which is why the copying of information can be artificially restricted by the people who created it. In the legal sense at least.
I think they meant "authoritarian".
Why recreate a horrible "object oriented" language which flattens your objects into a continuous hexadecimal sludge and doesn't have garbage collection or even safe arrays, all in the name of backwards compatibility with an even worse language? The world has moved on.
Because trademark law offers no "fair use" provisions, which means that a company has to aggressively hunt down anybody who uses their trademarked characters or risk losing the trademarks altogether. If they allow a festival of a certain size to use their trademarks, the another slightly bigger one will want to do the same, then a bigger one, and I think you are smart enough to know where this is going.
Browser exploit kits are not profitable anymore because browsers auto-update, it's that simple. OSes on the other hand don't always auto-update (or update at all for the case of mobile devices and IoT ) which is where the exploit underground has moved...
Which of course highlights the futility of modern antivirus software. Malware writers will keep tweaking their code 'till Norton, Avast and McAfee check out. This makes the malware undetectable for most users. I just use Windows Defender (solely because it doesn't install any nasty kernel drivers that mess up the OS) and I just don't download unsigned junk or stuff from dubious vendors... Yes I pay for software now...
And this event is so notable because of its rarity. Every sufficiently big financial institution should be able to absorb the loss. Shorting is for big players only that can absorb such rare events.
That said, I am sure that there will be several investors of the types I mentioned in the previous comment who will scramble to buy Tesla stock the day before their stock lease ends and suffer losses not bounded upper by any amount, but this is because they are dumb and don't know when to cut their loses or how to calculate exposure, it's not an inherent risk of short selling (despicable the act of short selling itself may be, which is). My point is that many of those $1 billion worth of stocks that have been shorted have been covered by stock purchases by short sellers that have already decided to cut their losses.
Any short seller worth his salt should closely monitor the stock and should have a spreadsheet telling him exactly how much he stands to lose or gain every minute for the current stock price, lease fees and expected increase in price during the buyback attempt included with some margin of error. So, if ACME stock hypothetically shot up to by 50% and the short seller didn't notice he was either not monitoring the stock or if it happened overnight he bought into overly volatile stock, or he was a pathological gambler-in-denial holding out to the bitter end hoping to get even. Not that there aren't types of investors fitting into these categories, but that's not how short selling is properly done by the smart money.
Again, anyone who shorts a stock can cut his losses any moment he wants by re-buying the stock he sold at whatever the current price is that moment. He doesn't have to wait to buy back the stock a day before the stock lease agreement ends.
The smart money who sorted Tesla have decided to cut their loses and have already bought enough stock to cover their short positions, only the pathological-gambler-in-denial type of investor will wait to break even 'till the end. Also, how do you plan to codify in law a ban on short selling that cannot be circumvented trivially and can be enforced? Many lawmakers have tried and failed.
What makes you think that the coal miners and the people who voted for Trump because they are disappointed at globalism shipping their jobs to China and Mexico will vote for Hilary in 2020? Why should "the map" change?