I think Yahoo was completely possible to save, but the solution would have been ugly. It had a handful of products that were successes (Some big like Yahoo Mail or Flickr, some small like Yahoo Groups), and it really needed to step back and ask the question "What's needed to support and develop these products?" And unfortunately the answer isn't "Thousands of employees", "a giant campus in the middle of Silicon valley", "A me-too mobile phone operating system", etc.
It's hard for me to believe that the revenues in advertising from Yahoo Mail alone couldn't have covered the costs of maintaining Yahoo's core products, while leaving enough on the side to do the normal R&D that a start up would do.
I appreciate though that's a miserable situation to be in, both if you're an employee or if you're managing a company. But that was the only solution that would have fixed Yahoo, made them profitable, and given them paths to a future.
No, that wasn't the beginning of the end. I remember very clearly when she was hired that she was hired to "Turn Yahoo around" and other words like "Rescue", "Save", and so on were used. Yahoo was already a sinking ship.
The work-from-home thing may not have helped, but it was far from the beginning of the end. The beginning started many years before she took charge.
Wikipedia is based in Florida, so they almost certainly are not subject to the law. IMDB Pro has offices about 20 minutes from Hollywood itself.
Leaving aside anything about morals, constitutional obligations, discrimination, whatever, that, by itself, makes the California law more of a token statement than a useful effort to do what it, taken at face value, claims to do. Only Californians are liable under Californian law. Not to mention Amazon only needs to decouple IMDB from IMDB Pro and that's the end of this particular effort.
You're wrong. Telecine and 3:2 pulldown and all that shit is (thankfully) pretty much gone, and interlacing is a relic that only broadcast holds onto.
No. Pulldown is how TV networks that have chosen to broadcast in 1080i60 broadcast 1080p24 content. It's the only method available to them.
Changing channels will change what I get (720p or 1080i) on the cable box
That's not relevent to the point. Of course changing channels will change what you get. Different channels have chosen different frame rates, resolutions, and encodings.
A channel will switch to 1080i when the big sport ballgame is playing and will drop to 720p when it cuts over to whatever the regular programming is,
No, it won't. It'll stick with one framerate, resolution and encoding. FOX, for example, is 720p. CBS is 1080i60. TBS - an example of a non-broadcast station - is 1080i60. Here's a full list.
They do not change resolution dynamically. Sorry. Just doesn't happen. Resolution/frame rate changes require transport stream breaks, and that can cause all kinds of issues. It shouldn't cause issues, but it does.
I've never seen 1080p on my cable feed or OTA.
Unless you've refused to watch drama (including movies) on 1080i60 stations, then yes you have. It was transmitted using 3:2 pulldown so it looked like a 1080i60 stream, and would look OK on a CRT TV displaying 1080i60, but your LCD TV almost certainly reversed the pulldown process.
That's why when you last saw a movie on CBS or TBS, you didn't see fringing lines where-ever there was movement. Well, at least that's probably why you didn't - if you did, you need a better TV...
Nope, what you've spouted is unmitigated bullshit.
HDTV channels stick to a single resolution. They don't flip between 720p and 1080i when they switch between sports and drama - there's too much that can go wrong if they do, so they generally stick to 720p or 1080i. For the latter, pulldown is used to encode dramatic material.
Pulldown is an encoding method, saying it's a thing of the past because modern TVs are using a very high refresh method shows complete ignorance of what pulldown is. Pulldown is a way to encode a p24 (480p24, 720p24, 1080p24, etc) video in an i60 (480i60, 720i60, 1080i60) video stream. That's it. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the framerate of your output device. Your output device can ignore it, or use it to reconstruct the original 1080p24 material, for output as whole frames.
Indeed, the problem with higher framerate devices is when the content isn't using pulldown, as trying to display interlaced content on a non-interlaced device - gets ugly unless you're willing to do a lot of post processing.
And 4K TV's are just silly, it's very hard to find 1080p content (most commercial TV is only 1080i at best) nevermind 4K.
Won't disagree on the 4K thing, but the claim about 1080x is not right.
1080p and 1080i are the same resolution. The only difference is that in one the whole frame is transmitted at once, while in the other two successive half frames are shown, one with odd numbered lines, and one with even.
Additionally, there's plenty of broadcast 1080p content. The 1080p content is usually 1080p24, and is encoded as 1080i60 in a way the TV can restore back to 1080p24 (the process is called 3:2 pulldown.) Almost all movies and dramatic presentations (soap operas are a notable exception) use 1080p24, with 1080i60 usually used for news and sports.
Don't be fooled by the fact there's a 1080i intermediate form of the broadcast - the actual content, on both sides, with no related loss of information, is 1080p24.
I don't know, a wifi-enabled microwave sounds pretty good to me. Not because of any functionality, but because in order for it to work, they'd have to put in some pretty effective shielding, so at least you'd know it's a quality product...
At this point the entire thing is dubious - very vague allegations against the FSF that the FSF denies, coupled with an over broad attack on the organization that's difficult to judge.
Something happened, that much is clear, and it got back to Ms Rowe in some form that made her extremely angry. But without more information, and at least some objective facts that are verifiable, it's not easy to determine how to solve the problem.
The FSF isn't Comcast, the FSF is, to a certain extent, us. We contribute in our own small ways as developers or even as users to the ecosystem whose seed it nurtured and grew. As such, Rowe's actions, based upon her apparent anger, are understandable but not really a template for the rest of us. If there's a problem, the solution will come from discussing it and reforming to fix them. Unfortunately that discussion isn't happening.
Most major distros do. Minor distros, which make up the majority of distros but, for obvious reasons, only constitute a small percentage of use, frequently don't because it's hard to implement (kinda.) I understand, though the "You need to partition/home separately anyway because it's, uh, good practice, yeah, that's it!" excuses I find unfortunate.
I know you're kidding, but a number of others aren't and are claiming much the same thing, and I'm wondering what the point would be. The submitter doesn't name names, name the company, or produce any other identifying information. And even if we presume that the submitter is lying about something we literally will never know anything about, it's still an interesting question!
Those of us who have worked in IT long enough have met many "superstar" engineers who have worked there for decades and have a reputation for abusive behavior. Businesses tend to tolerate it because the superstar both "works hard" (that is, they put in a lot of hours), they produce results, and more importantly they're the only people who really know how their code works.
The submitter doesn't state anywhere whether they have more or less experience than the superstar, incidentally.
"Support" upgrading in place is a dubious term. They say it's possible, but they go out of their way to discourage you from doing it, and provide no instructions. Citation, for those who need one...
The Website seems fairly low on information - essentially there's a (front) page of marketing which gives no sense as to what the environment is like, and then it's support/buy/involve yourself links.
I moved from Ubuntu to Mint last year and I'm on the verge of going back, partly because Cinnamon is now well supported within Ubuntu, and partly because Mint has some horrible design decisions, from being unable to upgrade in place, to the fact core UI components run Webkit under root (including the login) (I'm not kidding about that, and they don't disable plugins either, so I regularly get to confirm I accept the Adobe Acrobat license on the lockscreen login page because I haven't accepted it under root yet and because the login page loaded Webkit which loaded the Acrobat plugin.)
But... hey, if I'm going to change distro anyway, I'd be curious to know what the distro-of-the-year is like...
They apparently already had the hardware - that scrollwheel UI is on a touch screen, it's not a "hard" wheel like the iPods.
The software? Well, the demo Jobs presented apparently had very buggy software that was prone to crashing. The demo was heavily scripted to ensure Jobs took a path through the operating system that had been shown not to crash, repeatedly.
Add to this that all the components of the operating system, with the arguable exception of the home screen (which wasn't exactly complicated) were all parts of Mac OS X, running as root, and... it's conceivable that much of the system was put together a few weeks before the event. Enough of it, at least, to demo.
Did that actually happen? The fact the OS was so bug ridden such a script was necessary suggests so, but I'm inclined to think it didn't anyway, and that Apple probably was working on the general concept before the LG Prada was announced. Most of the UI elements for a touch screen only device are fairly self evident, and it's the gestures that really made it work, and that's something Apple had been experimenting with for years.
The article is false. Wikileaks does not wish to dox anyone. They wish to create a database of influence. Politician X votes a certain way, you can check and see he was paid off by Corporation Y. Journalist A working for Publication B is owned by Corporation C, which has connections to X, Y, Z, W.
No. The original tweet says nothing about politicians or anything related to sphere's of influence. The tweet, apparently now deleted, read:
We are thinking of making an online database with all "verified" twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships.
This is what the article you're reading is about. After there was outrage, Wikileaks (or specifically https://twitter.com/WLTaskForc...) started back peddling, and then claimed everyone who interpreted the above as being a threat to dox as being liars.
Your spin doesn't match what WLTaskForce actually said, and neither does their spin. They said NOTHING about politicians. The vast majority of "verified" Twitter users aren't political at all, they're mostly actors, comedians, authors, and business people.
This was unambiguously a proposal to create a doxxing database. In an era in which Wikileaks is allied with a President-elect who ran a fascist campaign, that's terrifying.
That is out of the ordinary. You've probably got some kind of bloatware installed that is causing it. You need to investigate why it is so..
On my PC at work, on the PC I built for myself at home, on my laptop, and on my tablet? Oh, and on the demo PCs I've tested at Best Buy, Staples, and Wal-Mart? I find that improbable.
But then again, I'd be wasting my time...
Yes, you would, because you're lying about 2-10 seconds for the start menu to appear on Windows 10 being somehow unusual.
Grow up. Your favorite operating system isn't perfect, stop pretending it is.
The Intel i386 had a 32 bit address bus back in the late eighties. Nobody could afford 4Gb back then for the type of machine that would have one. I had an Amiga with 5Mb of RAM and people ooh'd and aah'd about that.
But it didn't matter. Early 32 bit machines didn't use the top bits to support more RAM, they used it to support more functionality. Flat address spaces, with VM used to locate memory exactly where it needed to be.
That might have worked once upon a time when we had simply Javascript scripts that were more or less self contained. Today you'd almost certainly get a bunch of "Allow access to audio API from cdn.google.com/oneofthreepopularplayers.js?" type requests coming from both legitimate applications and ads. At best, you'd have to include the equivalent of a stack trace within the dialog (oh! So opendashplayer.js is being called by honestads.ru huh? I'll block that!), but then you're making the dialog way more complicated. ("Always block audio by opendashplayer.js / Always block audio by opendashplayer.js called by honestads.ru / Always block audio by opendashplayer.js called by honestads.ru called by thissite-insert-ads-from-partners.js")
We do need better control, but how we go about it without essentially throwing the web out and starting again I don't know.
It'll certainly be great once the various MPEG standards are upgraded to support a color system that isn't ultimately designed to translate to and from RGB.
AMD was a second sourcer for most of the 1980s, and while they started to produce some decent stuff in the mid-nineties I'd hardly say they were King or Intel was on the verge of bankruptcy. Intel has always lead the market since the adoption of the 8088 by IBM.
AMD has precisely one feather in its cap, which dates back to the early 2000s, not the 80s or 90s: the amd64 architecture. It was a sign of Intel's dominance that Intel tried to push a new 64 bit architecture unrelated to ix86, apparently believing it had the market power to do so.
Not exactly, Lucas said that it would be too much trouble (for him) to recreate the original from the surviving prints, for a variety of reasons from film deterioration to supposed uncertainty about what exactly constituted the original version (very early versions, seen only by a few thousand people, included Luke watching the Leia's ship being captured from Tatooine for example.)
From this, because nerds are inherently unreasonable and get angry about stuff, an entire narrative was concocted along the lines of "Lucas says it's impossible for anyone to do! He's such a liar! He destroyed by childhood!" none of which was actually true. No, Lucas was saying it wasn't worth it as far as he was concerned, in much the same way as writing a kernel driver for your laptop might not be worth doing if you're a wall street trader. His values aren't the same as those of us who'd like to show our daughters the same movie we watched.
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I think Yahoo was completely possible to save, but the solution would have been ugly. It had a handful of products that were successes (Some big like Yahoo Mail or Flickr, some small like Yahoo Groups), and it really needed to step back and ask the question "What's needed to support and develop these products?" And unfortunately the answer isn't "Thousands of employees", "a giant campus in the middle of Silicon valley", "A me-too mobile phone operating system", etc.
It's hard for me to believe that the revenues in advertising from Yahoo Mail alone couldn't have covered the costs of maintaining Yahoo's core products, while leaving enough on the side to do the normal R&D that a start up would do.
I appreciate though that's a miserable situation to be in, both if you're an employee or if you're managing a company. But that was the only solution that would have fixed Yahoo, made them profitable, and given them paths to a future.
No, that wasn't the beginning of the end. I remember very clearly when she was hired that she was hired to "Turn Yahoo around" and other words like "Rescue", "Save", and so on were used. Yahoo was already a sinking ship.
The work-from-home thing may not have helped, but it was far from the beginning of the end. The beginning started many years before she took charge.
Yeah, those movie franchises aimed at women, like Twilight and Divergent, are just packed with older men... /s
Wikipedia is based in Florida, so they almost certainly are not subject to the law. IMDB Pro has offices about 20 minutes from Hollywood itself.
Leaving aside anything about morals, constitutional obligations, discrimination, whatever, that, by itself, makes the California law more of a token statement than a useful effort to do what it, taken at face value, claims to do. Only Californians are liable under Californian law. Not to mention Amazon only needs to decouple IMDB from IMDB Pro and that's the end of this particular effort.
No. Pulldown is how TV networks that have chosen to broadcast in 1080i60 broadcast 1080p24 content. It's the only method available to them.
That's not relevent to the point. Of course changing channels will change what you get. Different channels have chosen different frame rates, resolutions, and encodings.
No, it won't. It'll stick with one framerate, resolution and encoding. FOX, for example, is 720p. CBS is 1080i60. TBS - an example of a non-broadcast station - is 1080i60. Here's a full list.
They do not change resolution dynamically. Sorry. Just doesn't happen. Resolution/frame rate changes require transport stream breaks, and that can cause all kinds of issues. It shouldn't cause issues, but it does.
Unless you've refused to watch drama (including movies) on 1080i60 stations, then yes you have. It was transmitted using 3:2 pulldown so it looked like a 1080i60 stream, and would look OK on a CRT TV displaying 1080i60, but your LCD TV almost certainly reversed the pulldown process.
That's why when you last saw a movie on CBS or TBS, you didn't see fringing lines where-ever there was movement. Well, at least that's probably why you didn't - if you did, you need a better TV...
Nope, what you've spouted is unmitigated bullshit.
HDTV channels stick to a single resolution. They don't flip between 720p and 1080i when they switch between sports and drama - there's too much that can go wrong if they do, so they generally stick to 720p or 1080i. For the latter, pulldown is used to encode dramatic material.
Pulldown is an encoding method, saying it's a thing of the past because modern TVs are using a very high refresh method shows complete ignorance of what pulldown is. Pulldown is a way to encode a p24 (480p24, 720p24, 1080p24, etc) video in an i60 (480i60, 720i60, 1080i60) video stream. That's it. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the framerate of your output device. Your output device can ignore it, or use it to reconstruct the original 1080p24 material, for output as whole frames.
Indeed, the problem with higher framerate devices is when the content isn't using pulldown, as trying to display interlaced content on a non-interlaced device - gets ugly unless you're willing to do a lot of post processing.
Won't disagree on the 4K thing, but the claim about 1080x is not right.
1080p and 1080i are the same resolution. The only difference is that in one the whole frame is transmitted at once, while in the other two successive half frames are shown, one with odd numbered lines, and one with even.
Additionally, there's plenty of broadcast 1080p content. The 1080p content is usually 1080p24, and is encoded as 1080i60 in a way the TV can restore back to 1080p24 (the process is called 3:2 pulldown.) Almost all movies and dramatic presentations (soap operas are a notable exception) use 1080p24, with 1080i60 usually used for news and sports.
Don't be fooled by the fact there's a 1080i intermediate form of the broadcast - the actual content, on both sides, with no related loss of information, is 1080p24.
I don't know, a wifi-enabled microwave sounds pretty good to me. Not because of any functionality, but because in order for it to work, they'd have to put in some pretty effective shielding, so at least you'd know it's a quality product...
I don't know, they might sell some very effective toaster ovens or space heaters with that technology...
At this point the entire thing is dubious - very vague allegations against the FSF that the FSF denies, coupled with an over broad attack on the organization that's difficult to judge.
Something happened, that much is clear, and it got back to Ms Rowe in some form that made her extremely angry. But without more information, and at least some objective facts that are verifiable, it's not easy to determine how to solve the problem.
The FSF isn't Comcast, the FSF is, to a certain extent, us. We contribute in our own small ways as developers or even as users to the ecosystem whose seed it nurtured and grew. As such, Rowe's actions, based upon her apparent anger, are understandable but not really a template for the rest of us. If there's a problem, the solution will come from discussing it and reforming to fix them. Unfortunately that discussion isn't happening.
Most major distros do. Minor distros, which make up the majority of distros but, for obvious reasons, only constitute a small percentage of use, frequently don't because it's hard to implement (kinda.) I understand, though the "You need to partition /home separately anyway because it's, uh, good practice, yeah, that's it!" excuses I find unfortunate.
I know you're kidding, but a number of others aren't and are claiming much the same thing, and I'm wondering what the point would be. The submitter doesn't name names, name the company, or produce any other identifying information. And even if we presume that the submitter is lying about something we literally will never know anything about, it's still an interesting question!
Those of us who have worked in IT long enough have met many "superstar" engineers who have worked there for decades and have a reputation for abusive behavior. Businesses tend to tolerate it because the superstar both "works hard" (that is, they put in a lot of hours), they produce results, and more importantly they're the only people who really know how their code works.
The submitter doesn't state anywhere whether they have more or less experience than the superstar, incidentally.
"Support" upgrading in place is a dubious term. They say it's possible, but they go out of their way to discourage you from doing it, and provide no instructions. Citation, for those who need one...
The Website seems fairly low on information - essentially there's a (front) page of marketing which gives no sense as to what the environment is like, and then it's support/buy/involve yourself links.
I moved from Ubuntu to Mint last year and I'm on the verge of going back, partly because Cinnamon is now well supported within Ubuntu, and partly because Mint has some horrible design decisions, from being unable to upgrade in place, to the fact core UI components run Webkit under root (including the login) (I'm not kidding about that, and they don't disable plugins either, so I regularly get to confirm I accept the Adobe Acrobat license on the lockscreen login page because I haven't accepted it under root yet and because the login page loaded Webkit which loaded the Acrobat plugin.)
But... hey, if I'm going to change distro anyway, I'd be curious to know what the distro-of-the-year is like...
They apparently already had the hardware - that scrollwheel UI is on a touch screen, it's not a "hard" wheel like the iPods.
The software? Well, the demo Jobs presented apparently had very buggy software that was prone to crashing. The demo was heavily scripted to ensure Jobs took a path through the operating system that had been shown not to crash, repeatedly.
Add to this that all the components of the operating system, with the arguable exception of the home screen (which wasn't exactly complicated) were all parts of Mac OS X, running as root, and... it's conceivable that much of the system was put together a few weeks before the event. Enough of it, at least, to demo.
Did that actually happen? The fact the OS was so bug ridden such a script was necessary suggests so, but I'm inclined to think it didn't anyway, and that Apple probably was working on the general concept before the LG Prada was announced. Most of the UI elements for a touch screen only device are fairly self evident, and it's the gestures that really made it work, and that's something Apple had been experimenting with for years.
No. The original tweet says nothing about politicians or anything related to sphere's of influence. The tweet, apparently now deleted, read:
This is what the article you're reading is about. After there was outrage, Wikileaks (or specifically https://twitter.com/WLTaskForc...) started back peddling, and then claimed everyone who interpreted the above as being a threat to dox as being liars.
Your spin doesn't match what WLTaskForce actually said, and neither does their spin. They said NOTHING about politicians. The vast majority of "verified" Twitter users aren't political at all, they're mostly actors, comedians, authors, and business people.
This was unambiguously a proposal to create a doxxing database. In an era in which Wikileaks is allied with a President-elect who ran a fascist campaign, that's terrifying.
On my PC at work, on the PC I built for myself at home, on my laptop, and on my tablet? Oh, and on the demo PCs I've tested at Best Buy, Staples, and Wal-Mart? I find that improbable.
Yes, you would, because you're lying about 2-10 seconds for the start menu to appear on Windows 10 being somehow unusual.
Grow up. Your favorite operating system isn't perfect, stop pretending it is.
When I hit the Start button on Windows 7, it comes up instantly.
When I hit the Start button on Windows 10, it usually takes between 2 and 10 seconds to appear.
I'm not noticing any other performance "improvements" either.
The Intel i386 had a 32 bit address bus back in the late eighties. Nobody could afford 4Gb back then for the type of machine that would have one. I had an Amiga with 5Mb of RAM and people ooh'd and aah'd about that.
But it didn't matter. Early 32 bit machines didn't use the top bits to support more RAM, they used it to support more functionality. Flat address spaces, with VM used to locate memory exactly where it needed to be.
I suspect the aim is similar here too.
That might have worked once upon a time when we had simply Javascript scripts that were more or less self contained. Today you'd almost certainly get a bunch of "Allow access to audio API from cdn.google.com/oneofthreepopularplayers.js?" type requests coming from both legitimate applications and ads. At best, you'd have to include the equivalent of a stack trace within the dialog (oh! So opendashplayer.js is being called by honestads.ru huh? I'll block that!), but then you're making the dialog way more complicated. ("Always block audio by opendashplayer.js / Always block audio by opendashplayer.js called by honestads.ru / Always block audio by opendashplayer.js called by honestads.ru called by thissite-insert-ads-from-partners.js")
We do need better control, but how we go about it without essentially throwing the web out and starting again I don't know.
It'll certainly be great once the various MPEG standards are upgraded to support a color system that isn't ultimately designed to translate to and from RGB.
The modern engineer prefers an appreciative smile over a tawdry handout. :-)
AMD was a second sourcer for most of the 1980s, and while they started to produce some decent stuff in the mid-nineties I'd hardly say they were King or Intel was on the verge of bankruptcy. Intel has always lead the market since the adoption of the 8088 by IBM.
AMD has precisely one feather in its cap, which dates back to the early 2000s, not the 80s or 90s: the amd64 architecture. It was a sign of Intel's dominance that Intel tried to push a new 64 bit architecture unrelated to ix86, apparently believing it had the market power to do so.
Not exactly, Lucas said that it would be too much trouble (for him) to recreate the original from the surviving prints, for a variety of reasons from film deterioration to supposed uncertainty about what exactly constituted the original version (very early versions, seen only by a few thousand people, included Luke watching the Leia's ship being captured from Tatooine for example.)
From this, because nerds are inherently unreasonable and get angry about stuff, an entire narrative was concocted along the lines of "Lucas says it's impossible for anyone to do! He's such a liar! He destroyed by childhood!" none of which was actually true. No, Lucas was saying it wasn't worth it as far as he was concerned, in much the same way as writing a kernel driver for your laptop might not be worth doing if you're a wall street trader. His values aren't the same as those of us who'd like to show our daughters the same movie we watched.