While what you said is true, I have stil seen nasty compression artifacts in ATSC. I can only assume it is compressed at some point in the stream prior to broadcasting (the storage medium, transmission from studio to tower, etc), then transcoded. I have also seen stations that have the aspect ratio screwed to hell, looking like it is passing through 3-4 transitions before being a 14:9 in a 4:3 in a 16:9 stream. It sucks. These stations need better engineering staff.
Herewith, the law firm of WBR1 et. al., and its controlling interests issues a cease and desist letter to Bob Goodlatte, the EFF, and all pertaining parties.
It is our contention that we hold a patent on the process of bill writing pertaining to patent reform, and also on the process of reviewing and lauding it online
WBR1 would be happy to settle now for a to be determined sum before trying this case. Checks can be made payable to Shell Account #13837888 Cayman Islands Bank
"Cloud services take all of your IT problems, give them another layer of abstraction and possible complexity, and give them to someone else who may decide not to give a crap about your (or anyone's) problems ever again." - FTFY
For what it's worth, there is some convenience in 'cloud' services. But, if I have the time and the budget it is better to roll your own. Then I can point at the IT people responsible and say fix it or else. If I hand data and servers to someone else to manage, someone who has weaseled every possible loophole into their contract and outsources support for their product to (possibly foreign) call centers that know nothing about the services and follow consistently useless scripts to try to resolve problems, I am asking for trouble.
So, when I have a honey-do list, I can say "It is getting done!, You are just not entangled enough in the processes to see it," while I continue to drink my beer?
That said, I own the original Optimus G, which is still a great phone. I have owned or had long access to many Samsungs, LG's, HTCs, and even an iPhone or two, and I consistently like the LG. I had an Optimus S, which while slow, was a consistent, strong as nails work horse. It is still sitting on my desk as a backup, despite having been thrown, dropped, etc. I had an LG marquee. Beautiful screen for a midrange, but even though it had a faster CPU than the S, felt laggier often, even with trimmed custom ROMs and kernels. I have worked on and used the HTC DINC2, EVO 4g and EVO4g. Sense is passable, and their hardware and software build are top notch as well, but I never liked the difficuly in rooting and ROMming some of them presented.
Samsung, well, hardware specs aside, I find the software build on the S3 and the Galaxy Tab to be crap. We currently have a galaxy victory (essentially a smaller screened S3), and I have had much worse specced phones run more smoothly with less crashes. The clusterfuck that is KIES pisses me off too, I cannot count the times I have tried to troubleshoot my mom's galaxy tab (and she lives on the other side of the pond and gets frustrated easy, so it is a difficult prospect.
With one miss, LG has been very consistent to me. And from what I read, it may have been a bad apple as some units in that model apparently were lemons.
All that aside, I am a geek, I use Ting, so I pay outright for my phones, no subsidies. With my Optimus G, I do not need more. Quad core, 1.5GB, accelerated Open GL 2. Runs just about any app I throw at it smoothly, and has more power than my girlfriend laptop. I do not need, nor have the budget, to drop $600-900 on something even faster, even if that cost is amortized over a contract.
When I finally break this one through carelessness, then I will buy a used model that is a year or so back on the treadmill, pay half or less what others are, and guess what, I will still be happy.
Hilary has already started by saying that we need to have an 'adult' conversation about surveillance. She is simply pandering to her future voters for 2016.
1000 Insertions is way to few. I connect my phone (for charging or data transfer, 2-3 times a day. It would be out of design spec in a year. I use my devices longer than that thank you. (Although in many I am capable of replacing the jack, most others are not).
I was thinking the same thing.. lets do the whole poem.
Three Rings for tech CEOs seeking the prize
Seven for the Congress-men sucking Apple's Bone
Nine for the hipster kids, doomed to sigh
One for the Steve Jobs in his dark home
In the land of Cupertino where the IOS lie
An iPod to snare them all, an iPhone to find them
An iPad to daze them all and in the shininess bind them
In the land of Cupertino where the IOS lie
Nice troll. Buying on a black market is never good. However, the fact that our society/governmet forces one to exist, when its existance has demonstrably caused harm, created violence, gangs, addicts, and an underclass of simple users as felons, all to feed the public a boogeyman to help rake in funds for those in power and with entrenched interests is what is horrible. The fact that you probably buy it hook, line, and sinler scares me too.
I understand the market for the Pi, arduino, et al. But this is pre-built, and presumably the dev environment is nothing portable outside its own very limited eco system. Sure you have all the IO of the arduino for toying with novel ways of having game input, but that is about it.
Now lets compare it with android. Available cheap, yes. Available with large screens, yes, available in variety's that have pretty durn snappy CPU/GPU combos, yes, large market base, yes, IO (USB, bluetooth, and even NFC, yes, robust dev tools and libraries, yes.
Please don't misunderstand me, I like the concept, but fail to see the utility. If I want to play games, my Optimus G plays better ones than this (which still looks retro! Frogger? Space invaders? Simple platformers?), and I can emulate to play whatever retro stuff I want. If I want to develop games, I have all the tools necessary as well.
Can anyone give me some really feasible use cases for this?
Let us not forget disenfranchised ex-felons that have lost civil rights. That is an ever growing, largely liberal and poor block of potential voters. But, of course they are criminals, and shoul suffer forever.
Inserting actual sales pages is far more than just link spam. I run several sites, including blogs and forums and deal with link spammers every day. This required either a software exploit, or a human one (social engineering/inside man).
fair price, and offer your product/service in convenient ways, people will buy rather than steal, for the most part.
I will openly admit to downloading and streaming new music for free. If it worth anything, I will then go pay for it. Otherwise I am not going to continue to listen, and it is undeserving of my hard earned money.
There are those that will steal regardless, but that will always be the case. However, iTunes, Amazon, et. al. are proving that an easy to use and accessible digital distribution method can work.
And then you have the networks, cable companies, and Hollywood, who still seem to want to lock you into agreements and systems that make you pay for things you do not want, and force you to use them in ways that are inconvenient. As an example, just about the only things I want to watch on cable are Game of Thrones and NASCAR (sue me). I refuse to pay for all the shit I do not want to see. I am fine with local OTA channels (I hardly even watch them except for maybe news and PBS). The majority of the content on cable is not compelling, and I do not want to pay for, subsidize, or promote them. If I was given the option, I could stream the programs I enjoy, for a lower amount, and watch them in places I could not as easily do with cable, for instance on my tablet while riding the bus/train to work. As a result, HBO, who I would be willing to pay a fair amount to (even through a third party like netflix), refuses to provide what I desire and take my willingly offered money. And then they bemoan the fact that people steal from them. Boo fucking hoo.
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While what you said is true, I have stil seen nasty compression artifacts in ATSC. I can only assume it is compressed at some point in the stream prior to broadcasting (the storage medium, transmission from studio to tower, etc), then transcoded. I have also seen stations that have the aspect ratio screwed to hell, looking like it is passing through 3-4 transitions before being a 14:9 in a 4:3 in a 16:9 stream. It sucks. These stations need better engineering staff.
Herewith, the law firm of WBR1 et. al., and its controlling interests issues a cease and desist letter to Bob Goodlatte, the EFF, and all pertaining parties.
It is our contention that we hold a patent on the process of bill writing pertaining to patent reform, and also on the process of reviewing and lauding it online
WBR1 would be happy to settle now for a to be determined sum before trying this case. Checks can be made payable to Shell Account #13837888 Cayman Islands Bank
Is something like angieslist for government contracts and a mandate to force its use. Now, who do we contract to build it?
"Cloud services take all of your IT problems, give them another layer of abstraction and possible complexity, and give them to someone else who may decide not to give a crap about your (or anyone's) problems ever again." - FTFY
For what it's worth, there is some convenience in 'cloud' services. But, if I have the time and the budget it is better to roll your own. Then I can point at the IT people responsible and say fix it or else. If I hand data and servers to someone else to manage, someone who has weaseled every possible loophole into their contract and outsources support for their product to (possibly foreign) call centers that know nothing about the services and follow consistently useless scripts to try to resolve problems, I am asking for trouble.
So, when I have a honey-do list, I can say "It is getting done!, You are just not entangled enough in the processes to see it," while I continue to drink my beer?
Samsung, well, hardware specs aside, I find the software build on the S3 and the Galaxy Tab to be crap. We currently have a galaxy victory (essentially a smaller screened S3), and I have had much worse specced phones run more smoothly with less crashes. The clusterfuck that is KIES pisses me off too, I cannot count the times I have tried to troubleshoot my mom's galaxy tab (and she lives on the other side of the pond and gets frustrated easy, so it is a difficult prospect.
With one miss, LG has been very consistent to me. And from what I read, it may have been a bad apple as some units in that model apparently were lemons.
All that aside, I am a geek, I use Ting, so I pay outright for my phones, no subsidies. With my Optimus G, I do not need more. Quad core, 1.5GB, accelerated Open GL 2. Runs just about any app I throw at it smoothly, and has more power than my girlfriend laptop. I do not need, nor have the budget, to drop $600-900 on something even faster, even if that cost is amortized over a contract.
When I finally break this one through carelessness, then I will buy a used model that is a year or so back on the treadmill, pay half or less what others are, and guess what, I will still be happy.
Posting to remove incorrect mod. Effing touchscreen.
...the either have a war on food, or legalize drugs.
Have the servers only monitor client online status,store the pictures to send on the senders device until the server repots the recipient can receive.
Hilary has already started by saying that we need to have an 'adult' conversation about surveillance. She is simply pandering to her future voters for 2016.
1000 Insertions is way to few. I connect my phone (for charging or data transfer, 2-3 times a day. It would be out of design spec in a year. I use my devices longer than that thank you. (Although in many I am capable of replacing the jack, most others are not).
I don't know about you, I am still rocking Matrox and Voodoo cards. :)
I was thinking the same thing.. lets do the whole poem.
Three Rings for tech CEOs seeking the prize
Seven for the Congress-men sucking Apple's Bone
Nine for the hipster kids, doomed to sigh
One for the Steve Jobs in his dark home
In the land of Cupertino where the IOS lie
An iPod to snare them all, an iPhone to find them
An iPad to daze them all and in the shininess bind them
In the land of Cupertino where the IOS lie
Now I need to clean my desk and get a new keyboard. There is coffee everywhere. And it burned my nose on the way out. Thanks!
Nice troll. Buying on a black market is never good. However, the fact that our society/governmet forces one to exist, when its existance has demonstrably caused harm, created violence, gangs, addicts, and an underclass of simple users as felons, all to feed the public a boogeyman to help rake in funds for those in power and with entrenched interests is what is horrible. The fact that you probably buy it hook, line, and sinler scares me too.
I knew I was old as soon as I started hearing songs I listened to in Middle/High school on the radio labeled as classic rock.
(and then my hair fell out)
Now lets compare it with android. Available cheap, yes. Available with large screens, yes, available in variety's that have pretty durn snappy CPU/GPU combos, yes, large market base, yes, IO (USB, bluetooth, and even NFC, yes, robust dev tools and libraries, yes.
Please don't misunderstand me, I like the concept, but fail to see the utility. If I want to play games, my Optimus G plays better ones than this (which still looks retro! Frogger? Space invaders? Simple platformers?), and I can emulate to play whatever retro stuff I want. If I want to develop games, I have all the tools necessary as well.
Can anyone give me some really feasible use cases for this?
Watch Serpico. Highly recommended.
Almost all chemical weapons destroyed!
Let us not forget disenfranchised ex-felons that have lost civil rights. That is an ever growing, largely liberal and poor block of potential voters. But, of course they are criminals, and shoul suffer forever.
Hazzard pay? Is our military jumping muscle cars over ditches and running from Roscoe P. Coletrain?
Inserting actual sales pages is far more than just link spam. I run several sites, including blogs and forums and deal with link spammers every day. This required either a software exploit, or a human one (social engineering/inside man).
It's our party and we'll fuck you if we want to, fuck you if we want to.
fair price, and offer your product/service in convenient ways, people will buy rather than steal, for the most part.
I will openly admit to downloading and streaming new music for free. If it worth anything, I will then go pay for it. Otherwise I am not going to continue to listen, and it is undeserving of my hard earned money.
There are those that will steal regardless, but that will always be the case. However, iTunes, Amazon, et. al. are proving that an easy to use and accessible digital distribution method can work.
And then you have the networks, cable companies, and Hollywood, who still seem to want to lock you into agreements and systems that make you pay for things you do not want, and force you to use them in ways that are inconvenient. As an example, just about the only things I want to watch on cable are Game of Thrones and NASCAR (sue me). I refuse to pay for all the shit I do not want to see. I am fine with local OTA channels (I hardly even watch them except for maybe news and PBS). The majority of the content on cable is not compelling, and I do not want to pay for, subsidize, or promote them. If I was given the option, I could stream the programs I enjoy, for a lower amount, and watch them in places I could not as easily do with cable, for instance on my tablet while riding the bus/train to work. As a result, HBO, who I would be willing to pay a fair amount to (even through a third party like netflix), refuses to provide what I desire and take my willingly offered money. And then they bemoan the fact that people steal from them. Boo fucking hoo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II1Q806wMR8