It amy not hae any practical value, but it does have PR value.
Did Lindbergh, or Earhart do anything practical with their feats? Did Gagarin, or Glenn, or Armstrong?
Not really. But they did keep the public's mind on things which otherwise it may not have. This can be used as a diversion, but it can also be used to help drive technology forward.
Maybe some people decide to put solar panels on their house. Maybe it drives some investors imaginations into funding the technology (or the government) and advancing the art. Maybe some kid sees it and gets inspired. Years later he goes to Harvard and makes an advance that makes solar energy more feasible as an energy source.
My point is, you cannot sit in your basement being all cynical, stroking your neckbeard, and saying it doesn't work, so there is no point. People NEED to get out and try. They need to capture imaginations.
By the way, I do not mean to say that YOU have a neckbeard or live in a basement, but am talking about that general cynical attitude often found here. An attitude that I contribute to more often than I like to admit.
My question is this. Netflix will not support Linux. They simply stonewall from what I can gather. Of course you can get it running in Wine, hell you could probably even get it running in an Android emulator.
The Roku however runs Linux and handles Netflix, TV's that run Linux internally handle Netflix. How does they accomplish this? Closed source code certainly, but Netflix is just a streaming service.
If you were trying to build a 'renegade' Netflix app for Linux, where does the problem lie? In convincing their end that you are a valid and authenticated client? Is this information sent encrypted? Surely the user info is, but that can all be done via the browser with a faked User Agent and all should be good. Or, does the problem lie on the other end in decoding the streaming video? Does Netflix use some proprietary compression or streaming protocol?
Any Netflix engineers/managers should be paying attention here. While it is beyond my skill, eventually someone will crack this problem.
You have a great business model, and people have proven willing to pay the subscription fee for streaming and not pirate. I already pay it and watch on my tablet and via windows.
Many here probably do as well. Just make a Linux client, browser based or otherwise. We won't be stealing your service any more than the asshats on Tor trading stolen/hacked accounts so they can watch on a valid client.
For me, I do not want a Roku. I have a custom HTPC/ media server in the closet in my living room. It does quite a few nice things. However, I want to ditch my windows license on it, rebuild it in Linux and Netflix is the main reason that I cannot.
The problem is not the interest rates or small amount of the loan. It is that the companies that provide them peddle to people who can ill afford it or do not understand it and wind up in worse financial strait than when they started far too often.
My solution is to try to better educate people on budgeting, personal finance, and loan structure.
If you are trying to stop poor people from spending their money unwisely you better also ban
Check cashing places (get a bank account)
Title and payday loan places (90% plus of their business preys on the disadvantaged)
Rent-To_own centers (usurious interest and crappy products all for only 99 cents a week. You can get this $300 computer for $3000 when you are paid off)
While we are at it:
Lottery tickets
Mountain Dew (hell most soda)
Malt Liquor
Fast Food
Cigarettes
Money is better spent educating those that can be.
>Opinions are cheap....cynically designed to appeal to shallow, emotional outbursts -then-
> I think this is just a natural progression of trends started in the 1990s. Hell, maybe it started a lot earlier than that, but that's when I remember things getting worse>
I was typing on a phone. I even saw my errors, but the jscript on/. makes my browser act funny when trying to select text or move the cursor. It gets fairly unresponsive and touches don't go where you would expect in the textarea box. So I decided not to fix them as it was readable enough. In real life my profundity, vocabulary, and prolixity would leave your jaw agape and your knickers twisted.
I had the pleasure of seeing and hearing a fireball meteor in the earlghty 90's. I was 13 or so and night fishing. Saw light on the trees across the lake. Thought it was headlights at first, then realized it wasnt. It streaked overhead, then it was gonee behind the trees. Then there was a flash. After came the sound. Scared me a bit at first. Gave me my love of astronmy though.
The fees will cause PP to raise fees across the board, as an excuse they may say its easier accounting. It wont matter whether the original source of the money is a CC, connected bank acct, or a wire transfer to PP from Nigeria. Ergo, it wont matter if your CC is connected or not.
Robson said the cloud-delivered software is cheaper because it doesn’t have to go through traditional distribution and retail channels. He added that Adobe would prefer selling products over the cloud.
cloud deliverrd software is cheaper because we will make more money over time with a subscription model that reaches into your pocket for a seemingly small amount, than a large upfront fee that causes everyone to pirate.
I am glad to see I am not the only one who deos not know what to say about this. We all want to bash MS, but here they actualyy did something pro-consumer/pro-society without a legal mandate to do so. What can be said? Sorry microsoft, I am still not going to reccomend windows 8 though.
Forgive typos, I'm on a touch screen. All of these issues, carrier lock, Cdma reprogramming and carrier approval of roms, and unpatchrd bugs have one root. The fact that most people do npt care as long as the can make phone calls, email, and whatever their app du jour is. We that care about security,openness and gpl, getting software updates in a timely fashion, we are a small fraction of the market and no matter how vocal we are here,we are no threat to profit. You, the earlybadopter, the bleeding edge techie, you have been marginilized by greed. Welcome to now.
Keys quite literally gave away the keys to the store, pun intended. He did this to cause problems with a specific website of his former employer this is criminal activity end of story.
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With all their loans, I suggest China is gearing towards it.
A hipster popping wood anytime a new iDevice is rumored to be in the works?
If you are going to crack water, then just use fuel cells with the H and O. Why reduce efficiency by adding another process in the middle?
Did Lindbergh, or Earhart do anything practical with their feats? Did Gagarin, or Glenn, or Armstrong?
Not really. But they did keep the public's mind on things which otherwise it may not have. This can be used as a diversion, but it can also be used to help drive technology forward.
Maybe some people decide to put solar panels on their house. Maybe it drives some investors imaginations into funding the technology (or the government) and advancing the art. Maybe some kid sees it and gets inspired. Years later he goes to Harvard and makes an advance that makes solar energy more feasible as an energy source.
My point is, you cannot sit in your basement being all cynical, stroking your neckbeard, and saying it doesn't work, so there is no point. People NEED to get out and try. They need to capture imaginations.
By the way, I do not mean to say that YOU have a neckbeard or live in a basement, but am talking about that general cynical attitude often found here. An attitude that I contribute to more often than I like to admit.
My question is this. Netflix will not support Linux. They simply stonewall from what I can gather. Of course you can get it running in Wine, hell you could probably even get it running in an Android emulator.
The Roku however runs Linux and handles Netflix, TV's that run Linux internally handle Netflix. How does they accomplish this? Closed source code certainly, but Netflix is just a streaming service.
If you were trying to build a 'renegade' Netflix app for Linux, where does the problem lie? In convincing their end that you are a valid and authenticated client? Is this information sent encrypted? Surely the user info is, but that can all be done via the browser with a faked User Agent and all should be good. Or, does the problem lie on the other end in decoding the streaming video? Does Netflix use some proprietary compression or streaming protocol?
Any Netflix engineers/managers should be paying attention here. While it is beyond my skill, eventually someone will crack this problem.
You have a great business model, and people have proven willing to pay the subscription fee for streaming and not pirate. I already pay it and watch on my tablet and via windows.
Many here probably do as well. Just make a Linux client, browser based or otherwise. We won't be stealing your service any more than the asshats on Tor trading stolen/hacked accounts so they can watch on a valid client.
For me, I do not want a Roku. I have a custom HTPC/ media server in the closet in my living room. It does quite a few nice things. However, I want to ditch my windows license on it, rebuild it in Linux and Netflix is the main reason that I cannot.
Very valid point. Care to take a wager? ;)
People who gamble others' money loathe to disclose depth and depravity of their addiction.
as-salmu alaikum wa rahmatul-lhi wa baraktuh
Sounds like a handy way to pick up goods purchased fraudulently on a stolen card or paypal account. Walmart does accept paypal.
Every time I hear that Pulp Fiction line now I think of this: http://programming-motherfucker.com/ (may be NSFW)
Yeah Yeah Yeah
You sir, make Lex Luthor seem nice.
Don't worry, be happy now!
You have to get a background check to write VBA code
The problem is not the interest rates or small amount of the loan. It is that the companies that provide them peddle to people who can ill afford it or do not understand it and wind up in worse financial strait than when they started far too often.
My solution is to try to better educate people on budgeting, personal finance, and loan structure.
If you are trying to stop poor people from spending their money unwisely you better also ban
Check cashing places (get a bank account)
Title and payday loan places (90% plus of their business preys on the disadvantaged)
Rent-To_own centers (usurious interest and crappy products all for only 99 cents a week. You can get this $300 computer for $3000 when you are paid off)
While we are at it:
Lottery tickets
Mountain Dew (hell most soda)
Malt Liquor
Fast Food
Cigarettes
Money is better spent educating those that can be.
>Opinions are cheap....cynically designed to appeal to shallow, emotional outbursts
-then-
> I think this is just a natural progression of trends started in the 1990s. Hell, maybe it started a lot earlier than that, but that's when I remember things getting worse>
Cynical, check
Opinion, check
Emotional, somewhat
Yet another cheap opinion?
I was typing on a phone. I even saw my errors, but the jscript on /. makes my browser act funny when trying to select text or move the cursor. It gets fairly unresponsive and touches don't go where you would expect in the textarea box. So I decided not to fix them as it was readable enough. In real life my profundity, vocabulary, and prolixity would leave your jaw agape and your knickers twisted.
Erode away rights, waste away privacy. You will succumb to the second law of thermodynamics like everything else.
I had the pleasure of seeing and hearing a fireball meteor in the earlghty 90's. I was 13 or so and night fishing. Saw light on the trees across the lake. Thought it was headlights at first, then realized it wasnt. It streaked overhead, then it was gonee behind the trees. Then there was a flash. After came the sound. Scared me a bit at first. Gave me my love of astronmy though.
The fees will cause PP to raise fees across the board, as an excuse they may say its easier accounting. It wont matter whether the original source of the money is a CC, connected bank acct, or a wire transfer to PP from Nigeria. Ergo, it wont matter if your CC is connected or not.
Robson said the cloud-delivered software is cheaper because it doesn’t have to go through traditional distribution and retail channels. He added that Adobe would prefer selling products over the cloud.
cloud deliverrd software is cheaper because we will make more money over time with a subscription model that reaches into your pocket for a seemingly small amount, than a large upfront fee that causes everyone to pirate.
I am glad to see I am not the only one who deos not know what to say about this. We all want to bash MS, but here they actualyy did something pro-consumer/pro-society without a legal mandate to do so. What can be said?
Sorry microsoft, I am still not going to reccomend windows 8 though.
I am currently bidding on .orgy as a TLD :)
Forgive typos, I'm on a touch screen.
All of these issues, carrier lock, Cdma reprogramming and carrier approval of roms, and unpatchrd bugs have one root. The fact that most people do npt care as long as the can make phone calls, email, and whatever their app du jour is. We that care about security,openness and gpl, getting software updates in a timely fashion, we are a small fraction of the market and no matter how vocal we are here,we are no threat to profit. You, the earlybadopter, the bleeding edge techie, you have been marginilized by greed. Welcome to now.
Keys quite literally gave away the keys to the store, pun intended. He did this to cause problems with a specific website of his former employer this is criminal activity end of story.