Sure, you can't sell copies of them, but the important word here is copies. Unless you're trying to tell me that all these music stores that buy and sell used CDs are breaking the law?
(note there's nothing wrong with format shifting either)
No. I assume you understand the difference between a CD and an MP3?
Why is a store selling the media (the CD) at all relevant to a discussion about selling the content (MP3)?
How they got people to buy all these 360s never ceases to amaze me. If my car took a shit after a couple years I would not be buying more from that brand.
Add in the PRISM spying this console will surely be doing and you would have to be a fool to buy it.
The GP didn't day he bought them because they red-ringed. (And, if he did, he's a moron because they were covering those failures well out of warranty -- and the newer model never had the issue.)
I've bought three, also. The first one did, in fact, red ring quite a few times and it never cost me a penny to replace it. Second one was bought because my Samsung TV's component input shit the bed and it was cheaper to buy a 2nd gen 360 with HDMI than a new TV. First one is still running for streaming music in my garage. The third one was bought because my girlfriend was spending too much time playing Dance Central and things like that and it was impacting my game time.
> the used game resale options are in the hands of the game developers
Which is funny because were I live it's in the hand of the law. The law that says "I can resell my own games."
Actually, the law doesn't say that.
The law says you have a right to resell the physical media. Which you still have.
The law does *not* say you have the right to resell the experience of using the media, which is why its perfectly legal to DRM e-books, games, software, and why you can't legally resell your MP3s.
I realise that many/. readers are from the US, but out of politeness to the rest of the world, it would have been nice to provide metric units in the summary in addition to the imperial units. Yes, I can go and convert them and so can others, but such accumulated waste of time could have been easily avoided.
And/. is in the US. Note the.org domain.
The post was also not in French, German, Italian, Chinese, Thai, Mogolian, Yiddish or Aztec.
American site. American English. American units of measure.
(Although, someone should do a units of measure translator like Bing and Google Translate can do with webpages.... so those of you who can't multiply by three in your head can read the site.)
Nah. Gotta keep up the imaginary growth factor, after all it's not like banks over there are already running into issues seizing assets from companies who've taken loans out against them. You know, two, three or sometimes four times. Wish I could find the article on zero hedge again but it was up sometime last year.
Every country's growth is based on an imaginary growth factor.
At least they're getting infrastructure out of it.
Don't use IE6. Don't use IE7. Don't Use IE8. Its 2013. Use Chrome, Firefox, or IE 10+
Install chrome, chrome://plugins/ , block automatic execution of java and flash. Make it so you need to click. Install an adblocker to reduce driveby downloads. Install noscript + ghostery if you are wearing aluminum foil on your head.
Auto install security updates. If something disables it most likely you have a virus. Keep everything up to date.
Don't install toolbars or weather apps from unknown sources.
And freakin' leave the UAC on. If you turn UAC off, you also disable the running of IE at low integrity mode, and disable the UI isolation that is enabled on there. Then, don't turn off protected mode. If you have an extension that doesn't work -- don't use it. If a website won't function properly in protected mode, don't use the website.
IE9 and IE10 on Win7/8 do a damn good job of protecting from crap in your browser from doing things in a stealthy way until you're a moron and start turning all of that security off.
If it is simply a shitty GUI on an improved kernel and stack then I will deal with it.
Agreed!
For powerusers, whom I would assume make up a large portion of/.'s audience, a GUI is something that can be replaced or skinned over but a crappy backend is forever
And, more importantly if you're a power user, the hotkey support in Windows 8 is vastly better than 7. Its very easy to use it without a mouse.
And, I will switch to either OS/X or Linux (both of which I have used as my primary OS for several years).
I meant to say: I will switch to OS/X or Linux before I will accept the "new" MS infrastructure.
People said the same thing when File Manager was removed. People said the same thing when the "gummy" themed buttons in Windows XP showed up (oh, its not professional!). They said the same thing when Vista added UAC. And they're saying the same thing now.
Turns out, for Microsoft, people "saying the same thing" works out very well financially.
Because of SEC rules, people at Microsoft go to jail if they publish incorrect numbers. Because of advertising clicks, InfoWorld makes money when they they do.
Sort of like how Slashdot makes money when they whip the anti-MS zealots up.
New PCs are what isn't selling, and that has nothing to do with Windows 8, no matter what the Slashdrones like to believe. That has to do with Moore's Law finally outpacing the needs of software, the change to near universal consumption on computers.
Hardware vendors need to make upgrading hardware compelling. Microsoft can't do that -- they're selling plenty of upgrades, as it is.
those are not GMO, they grow those inside a box-shaped transparent container
Seedless watermelon are genetically engineered. Maybe not with enzymes, but they're engineered. Just like all varieties of corn, or most other commonly grown food. You hybridize a plant, you are crossing genes -- at random. And we think random crossing of genes is safe? Viruses swap genes around. We think that is safe. Bacteria do it, and we think that is safe.
Its ignorance, pure and simple, that people are concerned about "genetically modified" food. 15,000 years of agriculture has ensured that every plant and every animal that 99.999% of people eat were genetically modified. Period.
Nobody said they don't have to be replaced. Just that the vast majority of them are running much longer than expected. Only the first generation of Prius vehicles are reaching their 10 year life.
The Prius's use of the battery is fairly minimal -- most people wouldn't notice if the battery had lost 50% or more of its capacity. (The Prius gets its fuel efficiency from the Atkinson cycle engine, not from the electrics. The electrics are only there because the Atkinson engine has so little torque you'd never get the car moving without an electric "boost".)
If the battery was completely toast, you'd be stuck in a Prius, but even at 15-20% of the capacity, the car will drive just fine.
Car enthusiasts think every single one of the world's top selling cars are pokey boring machines and that doesn't matter the tiniest bit to anyone else. I can guarantee that most car enthusiasts would pan every car I've ever owned. No one gives a crap about the opinion of car enthusiasts. For that matter the primary issue that car enthusiasts have had with electric cars is that they're slow, which the Tesla still is(by car enthusiast standards anyway).
Are you high? The Model S is one of the fastest production sedans on the planet, and far and away the fastest you can jam five or seven people in.
India is keeping its ennemies close. The nukes are foremost to keep Pakistan and China under control. Why the heck are they devellooping ICBM capability? Thy really just need to be able to lob them far enough over the border...
How do you know the "I" doesn't stand for "intra"?
You didn't read the summary or the linked articles?
Here's what happened: 1) They had an idea they needed funding for to make it cloud-based 2) Based largely on Slashdot feedback, they realized that the cloud was a no-go because people wanted to run it on their own machines instead 3) So they killed they the Kickstarter funding to make it cloud based and instead are making it available now to run on your own gear
There is virtually no market I'd make a fundamental business decision in based on Slashdot comments.
Hope they're smart enough to temper the view they get from this place with a realization of how biased and myopic Slashdot is.
Terminal velocity for something person-shaped is about 120mph.
Is that terminal velocity for somebody spread out flat, or somebody coming down feet first? It can make a big difference.
Flat, although "big" isn't all that big. 100mph difference between the two... and you have a LOT of time to scrub the speed. That's why they didn't need a super-sonic capable parachute when they did the Red Bull thing -- you naturally slow back down to fairly close to terminal velocity when you get into the denser atmosphere, anyway.
Terminal velocity for something person-shaped is about 120mph.
FTA:
In real life we have Felix Baumgartner, an Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper who set a world record for skydiving an estimated 24.24 miles (39 km), reaching a speed of 843.6 mph (1,357.64 km/h), or Mach 1.25, on October 14, 2012.
So no. Actually the figure you mention, if I recall correctly, is based on reports from skydivers while spread out to catch wind and minimize speed. I'm not an expert, but it seems to me calculating the terminal velocity of a person depends on too many variables to be very accurate. If one wore an outfit meant to maximize speed for skydiving, not unlike what they use in skiing, I'd imagine you could reach even higher speeds.
Sorry, should've been more clear -- terminal velocity in the lower atmosphere.
The point is, unless you're deliberately diving at the ground, you don't have that much speed to scrub. (And even nose-diving, terminal velocity is in the 200mph range at sea-level.)
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First one did RROD 5.5years after buying. Even after the extended warranty.
But i liked having 1 in bedroom and at sisters when i visited.
If it was the one caused by overheating, you may have had luck having them cover it anyway... at least at a discount price.
There were other kinds of RROD events, though.
you can't legally resell your MP3s.
What? How so?
Sure, you can't sell copies of them, but the important word here is copies. Unless you're trying to tell me that all these music stores that buy and sell used CDs are breaking the law?
(note there's nothing wrong with format shifting either)
No. I assume you understand the difference between a CD and an MP3?
Why is a store selling the media (the CD) at all relevant to a discussion about selling the content (MP3)?
Those stores absolute do *not* sell "used" MP3s.
How they got people to buy all these 360s never ceases to amaze me. If my car took a shit after a couple years I would not be buying more from that brand.
Add in the PRISM spying this console will surely be doing and you would have to be a fool to buy it.
The GP didn't day he bought them because they red-ringed. (And, if he did, he's a moron because they were covering those failures well out of warranty -- and the newer model never had the issue.)
I've bought three, also. The first one did, in fact, red ring quite a few times and it never cost me a penny to replace it. Second one was bought because my Samsung TV's component input shit the bed and it was cheaper to buy a 2nd gen 360 with HDMI than a new TV. First one is still running for streaming music in my garage. The third one was bought because my girlfriend was spending too much time playing Dance Central and things like that and it was impacting my game time.
> the used game resale options are in the hands of the game developers
Which is funny because were I live it's in the hand of the law. The law that says "I can resell my own games."
Actually, the law doesn't say that.
The law says you have a right to resell the physical media. Which you still have.
The law does *not* say you have the right to resell the experience of using the media, which is why its perfectly legal to DRM e-books, games, software, and why you can't legally resell your MP3s.
I realise that many /. readers are from the US, but out of politeness to the rest of the world, it would have been nice to provide metric units in the summary in addition to the imperial units. Yes, I can go and convert them and so can others, but such accumulated waste of time could have been easily avoided.
And /. is in the US. Note the .org domain.
The post was also not in French, German, Italian, Chinese, Thai, Mogolian, Yiddish or Aztec.
American site. American English. American units of measure.
(Although, someone should do a units of measure translator like Bing and Google Translate can do with webpages.... so those of you who can't multiply by three in your head can read the site.)
Nah. Gotta keep up the imaginary growth factor, after all it's not like banks over there are already running into issues seizing assets from companies who've taken loans out against them. You know, two, three or sometimes four times. Wish I could find the article on zero hedge again but it was up sometime last year.
Every country's growth is based on an imaginary growth factor.
At least they're getting infrastructure out of it.
This is history in the making, humanity's first hive city. Glory to the Emperor!
There were a couple places like this one in Hong Kong, north of the city even 15 years ago.
Its the scale that is new, not the concept.
Is something to be wary of.
Ah, to be 18 again.
All this is fine, but can they make a version controllable by cat's thought?
I saw the subject of your post and thought you were looking for one you can use to control a cat.
At 4am, that is something I'd find very useful.
Don't use IE6. Don't use IE7. Don't Use IE8. Its 2013. Use Chrome, Firefox, or IE 10+
Install chrome, chrome://plugins/ , block automatic execution of java and flash. Make it so you need to click. Install an adblocker to reduce driveby downloads. Install noscript + ghostery if you are wearing aluminum foil on your head.
Auto install security updates. If something disables it most likely you have a virus. Keep everything up to date.
Don't install toolbars or weather apps from unknown sources.
And freakin' leave the UAC on. If you turn UAC off, you also disable the running of IE at low integrity mode, and disable the UI isolation that is enabled on there. Then, don't turn off protected mode. If you have an extension that doesn't work -- don't use it. If a website won't function properly in protected mode, don't use the website.
IE9 and IE10 on Win7/8 do a damn good job of protecting from crap in your browser from doing things in a stealthy way until you're a moron and start turning all of that security off.
News? TFS is flamebait.
This Fucking Site?
Apparently Vista is still ahead of Windows 8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
You mean the OS reported based on a percentage of impressions from a web browser.
If you can't intuit the ways that produces flawed information, you could always look it up in Wikipedia.
(Hint: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Accuracy)
If it is simply a shitty GUI on an improved kernel and stack then I will deal with it.
Agreed!
For powerusers, whom I would assume make up a large portion of /.'s audience, a GUI is something that can be replaced or skinned over but a crappy backend is forever
And, more importantly if you're a power user, the hotkey support in Windows 8 is vastly better than 7. Its very easy to use it without a mouse.
And, I will switch to either OS/X or Linux (both of which I have used as my primary OS for several years).
I meant to say: I will switch to OS/X or Linux before I will accept the "new" MS infrastructure.
People said the same thing when File Manager was removed. People said the same thing when the "gummy" themed buttons in Windows XP showed up (oh, its not professional!). They said the same thing when Vista added UAC. And they're saying the same thing now.
Turns out, for Microsoft, people "saying the same thing" works out very well financially.
That is if you believe them
http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/microsofts-own-numbers-show-windows-8-sales-falling-rapidly-218050
Because of SEC rules, people at Microsoft go to jail if they publish incorrect numbers.
Because of advertising clicks, InfoWorld makes money when they they do.
Sort of like how Slashdot makes money when they whip the anti-MS zealots up.
Windows 8 is selling extremely well.
New PCs are what isn't selling, and that has nothing to do with Windows 8, no matter what the Slashdrones like to believe. That has to do with Moore's Law finally outpacing the needs of software, the change to near universal consumption on computers.
Hardware vendors need to make upgrading hardware compelling. Microsoft can't do that -- they're selling plenty of upgrades, as it is.
those are not GMO, they grow those inside a box-shaped transparent container
Seedless watermelon are genetically engineered. Maybe not with enzymes, but they're engineered. Just like all varieties of corn, or most other commonly grown food. You hybridize a plant, you are crossing genes -- at random. And we think random crossing of genes is safe? Viruses swap genes around. We think that is safe. Bacteria do it, and we think that is safe.
Its ignorance, pure and simple, that people are concerned about "genetically modified" food. 15,000 years of agriculture has ensured that every plant and every animal that 99.999% of people eat were genetically modified. Period.
Nobody said they don't have to be replaced.
Just that the vast majority of them are running much longer than expected.
Only the first generation of Prius vehicles are reaching their 10 year life.
The Prius's use of the battery is fairly minimal -- most people wouldn't notice if the battery had lost 50% or more of its capacity. (The Prius gets its fuel efficiency from the Atkinson cycle engine, not from the electrics. The electrics are only there because the Atkinson engine has so little torque you'd never get the car moving without an electric "boost".)
If the battery was completely toast, you'd be stuck in a Prius, but even at 15-20% of the capacity, the car will drive just fine.
$20,000.00 for a Chevy Volt battery
$4000, if you need one today. And the price will drop again as more of their cars use that battery.
And Chevy has said their indications right now are 300k+ miles out of the battery.
Car enthusiasts think every single one of the world's top selling cars are pokey boring machines and that doesn't matter the tiniest bit to anyone else. I can guarantee that most car enthusiasts would pan every car I've ever owned. No one gives a crap about the opinion of car enthusiasts. For that matter the primary issue that car enthusiasts have had with electric cars is that they're slow, which the Tesla still is(by car enthusiast standards anyway).
Are you high? The Model S is one of the fastest production sedans on the planet, and far and away the fastest you can jam five or seven people in.
India is keeping its ennemies close. The nukes are foremost to keep Pakistan and China under control. Why the heck are they devellooping ICBM capability? Thy really just need to be able to lob them far enough over the border...
How do you know the "I" doesn't stand for "intra"?
What if we add a bunch of tassels?
That'd be one fabulous fireball.
Let me get this straight...
You didn't read the summary or the linked articles?
Here's what happened:
1) They had an idea they needed funding for to make it cloud-based
2) Based largely on Slashdot feedback, they realized that the cloud was a no-go because people wanted to run it on their own machines instead
3) So they killed they the Kickstarter funding to make it cloud based and instead are making it available now to run on your own gear
There is virtually no market I'd make a fundamental business decision in based on Slashdot comments.
Hope they're smart enough to temper the view they get from this place with a realization of how biased and myopic Slashdot is.
Terminal velocity for something person-shaped is about 120mph.
Is that terminal velocity for somebody spread out flat, or somebody coming down feet first? It can make a big difference.
Flat, although "big" isn't all that big. 100mph difference between the two... and you have a LOT of time to scrub the speed. That's why they didn't need a super-sonic capable parachute when they did the Red Bull thing -- you naturally slow back down to fairly close to terminal velocity when you get into the denser atmosphere, anyway.
Terminal velocity for something person-shaped is about 120mph.
FTA:
In real life we have Felix Baumgartner, an Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper who set a world record for skydiving an estimated 24.24 miles (39 km), reaching a speed of 843.6 mph (1,357.64 km/h), or Mach 1.25, on October 14, 2012.
So no. Actually the figure you mention, if I recall correctly, is based on reports from skydivers while spread out to catch wind and minimize speed. I'm not an expert, but it seems to me calculating the terminal velocity of a person depends on too many variables to be very accurate. If one wore an outfit meant to maximize speed for skydiving, not unlike what they use in skiing, I'd imagine you could reach even higher speeds.
Sorry, should've been more clear -- terminal velocity in the lower atmosphere.
The point is, unless you're deliberately diving at the ground, you don't have that much speed to scrub. (And even nose-diving, terminal velocity is in the 200mph range at sea-level.)