The benchmark software should randomize the process name on launch
Can you even do that on Android? Generally to rename the package on Android you need to take the APK apart and rename the DEX files there.
Right now, it looks like the most impressive tests are ones done with the browser purely because to cheat three means generally it works for everyone.
(Though even then I can see why they'd cheat - an iPhone 5s dual core processor can keep up with quad core SoCs running nearly twice as fast (1.3GHz A7 vs. 2.3GHz Snapdragon).).
For many people, no car == no job. Most of the U.S. is laid out assuming that people have a car. In theory, they could move to where they don't need a car, but things are more expensive in such places to the point that it would be cheaper to get the car.
Internet is becoming increasingly a necessity in order to participate in society. Educated voters can't depend on network news to be informed anymore.
Exactly. A vehicle isn't necessarily a luxury - it's a necessity. Very few cities in North America have sufficient public transportation to be able to act as a replacement (not even talking about a 3 hour trip versus 20 minutes - just making the trip).
The internet is also rapidly becoming a necessity - a LOT of jobs require online applications - ironically, a lot of them are minimum wage jobs! But in general, the demise of newspapers and other non-internet based media means advertising and classifies are rapidly approaching internet-only.
And many schools are going to "online learning" - stuff like online lecture videos (think Kahn Academny), and MOOCs - to online assignments and forums, so to even get a basic education requires the internet. Wasn't there an article months ago about how some kids went to the library to use the WiFi, then at 6pm (when library closes), marched across the street to McDonalds for same?
As annoying as it is, doing stuff "the old way" is actually getting extremely difficult. You can still live without cellphones (yes, you can go out for dinner and a movie and not give the babysitter your cellphone number - we've done it as little as a decade and a half ago). But other things the transition to online is so quick, it's mind-blowing - the loss of traditional classifieds as job boards move online, the move to put education information online only, etc. It seems the basics are going online so fast it's not even getting unusual to have the homeless to have a computer so they can try to better themselves.
Some types of Ocean life perhaps, but not necessarily the stuff that feeds or even the stuff that isn't unpleasant to share a swim. The stuff we don't care for so much Jellyfish and tiny creatures that we mostly experiences as mats of nasty scum will probably take over.
Actually, that's what is happening right now - it's why there's a jellyfish problem to begin with. And algae blooms are common, all a direct result of ocean warming.
The stuff we like to eat from the water can't really survive - the algae de-oxygenates the water, so higher order species suffocate, and the increasing acidification means even crustaceans have difficulties as the acids attack their shells. (About the only predator to jellyfish are... turtles)
Oceans do have a way to cool themselves though - we call them hurricanes. A good big one like Sandy cools the oceans around the area about 4-5C. (They're nice heat engines - drawing energy from heat in the ocean).
We are already near 400ppm its likely positive feed back at this point with our without us. We need to be looking geoengineering and finding solutions to actively control the climate.
We aren't near 400ppm. We're above it - we crossed 400ppm a few months ago.
As for geoengineering? Well, that's the problem - we're assuming we'll invent the necessary technology long before it becomes a crisis. That's not necessarily true. In addition, there is no telling what the side effects are. For the same reason you don't believe in AGW, the climate models don't provide an answer of what can happen - the system is chaotic and who knows what a perturbation will do.
So you are claiming that the intent of the system is not to combat fraud but to simply replace an old paper-based identification (not authentication) system? That's not at all what I remember reading about the system a few years back when they were trying to justify it.
It's a bit more ambitious than that. It's to give EVERYONE an ID "card". Estimates vary but it's easily around 50% or more don't (usually people in the rural villages and such who are the ones who need the assistance, but don't get it).
In India, not everyone has an ID card, and thus even the paper based system doesn't work (the person doesn't exist, literally).
This system is in effect one of the first censuses done on the entire country - and to provide ID numbers to everyone so they can access services.
I don't know why it was modded troll. If the work was originally copyrighted in the UK with a 50 year copyright, why can't the US distributor claim 75+ years on the US copyright? If it's PD in UK, why would that require it to be PD in the US? Didn't Amazon get in trouble with Australian 1984, PD in Australia, but not the US? That indicates to me that the US rules are in effect for the US, even if the work was copyrighted outside the US.
Well, the distributor would have to make a change to make it copyrightable again - just reissuing the same thing doesn't give it any more copyright. It's why a few publishers have gotten in trouble by copyrighting the entire work when all they added was a few pages at the beginning and at the end - the new content is copyrighted, but the stuff that was PD is still PD.
So if a US distributor created a Doctor Why based on the PD episodes (but generally new content and nothing used of the old), that's a new (though derivative) work.
In the 1984 case, it's because 1984 fell into PD in Australia, but not in the US. The book was legal to be distributed by the third party in Australia, but they had no right to do it in the US, and thus had to withdraw their copies since they were infringing on copyright still.
And in general, the US imposes its copyright law on everyone else when its copyrights are at stake. (It's well known that many new countries profited by pirating copyrighted works (as the copyright isn't recognized) - including the US - in the first years of their existence before all the important priorities are settled so IP protection laws can come into play).
How many of the open access journals rely on click through advertising? Follow the money, I say.
I think they're all trying to figure out their business models.
I know some respected organizations have created open access journals, though they rely on member fees to pay for the costs. Others rely on the author to pony up some cash (some up to $1500) which pays for it.
I think the author-pays is an interesting one - and quite possibly might be a way to cut down the number of bad articles - after all, if you're not willing to pony up, you probably don't have enough belief In your research.
Some of us simply believe that if someone is going to try to impose DRM on us that it should be an inconvenient onus on them and the consuming public to do so. A fragmented non-API solution would mean that content providers choosing to implement DRM would face greater costs and suppressed demand due to the extra hurdles imposed by DRM. If both any given content provider AND their audience agreed it was worthwhile to install Flash or Silverlight in order to view the content, then that's what they would do. On the flip side, any content providers that attempt to impose DRM on an audience unwilling to install Flash or Silverlight would find their subscriber base evaporating, forcing them to release the content without DRM and find a different way to earn money. Once it's standardized and part of the browser, any moron on the web will suddenly feel like they can and should protect their content and all users will be forced to comply or stay out of the web.
Tell me something - is it better to download an app to do stuff, or to do it via the web browser? You know, like how on iOS and all that, you see sites saying "Use our mobile app!"?
Because really, that's what's happening. Now, it will be either Netflix able to deliver movies via a web browser with EME, or they'll just develop an app to do it (considering they have apps elsewhere, what's another one?).
Or the ultimate app that's on the web - iTunes, where clicking a link launches it. (I've always wondered how to use iTunes Preview - I mean the damned thing always launches iTunes instead - how does anyone actually index it?).
The web will merely end up being a collection of links that spawn various apps - your online banking will no longer be done on a website, but you click it and do it via the bank's app. YouTube may hang around but may launch a YouTube app, etc.
On mobile devices, installing new apps is relatively easy, and I expect similarly low integration hassles for Windows and OS X using their respective stores. Linux can use Steam (the ORIGINAL App Store).
About the only sites left would be shopping sites, only because they need a very low-effort mechanism to sell stuff. But once they sell you a video or movie, well, click to launch the Amazon app to watch and listen to your new content.
Things are a bit more involved than they seem from reading just the summary. The fed originally requested that LavaBit provide them with information regarding a single account (header information only, but on an ongoing basis), which they are allowed to obtain without probable cause. LavaBit refused the initial request, then stalled when given a court order to provide this information (I believe LavaBit was in the right in doing so -- I'm NOT supporting the fed's case, just providing information). The fed took LavaBit back to court, and obtained a court order requiring that LavaBit provide the SSL key, as the fed did not believe that LavaBit would comply with an order for information on a single account. The best part was when LavaBit sent them the SSL key, as a 4 point font printout:-)
In other words, when LavaBit wouldn't provide them information on a single account, the fed escalated to the nuclear option.
Slight error.
The Feds wanted a "pen register" put on an account (basically an account of destinations and origins). Lavabit refused, saying that even if they had that data, it'll be encrypted and thus useless.
The feds then asked for a key to that information, which was also refused because that would reveal unrelated users accounts.
Then the feds asked for a wiretap warrant (which is actually a VERY hard thing to get and requires a ton of manpower because you're not allowed to record unrelated conversations)
The judge granted the order because she was very unimpressed with lavabit's responses - the first she accepted just fine (ok, it's encrypted). So she allowed the second order for the encryption key to decrypt just that account.
When lavabit refused because it would reveal more information than the warrant allowed,she got a bit testy - why would you do everything based on one key? Secure email indeed...
So the feds got back with a wiretap warrant because if getting the requisite key was going to decrypt everything, then that's the only way it'll be allowed.
Basically the nuclear option was taken because the precise strike option was blocked - Lavabit said they can't do the pen register (or rather, it would be useless as that information is encrypted). But to decrypt that would require using the global site key which would unlock more accounts than just the one, so the feds have no choice but to ask for said key.
The judge couldn't see why there couldn't have been a per-account key used to guard the data per account, rather than locking it all up with one global key.
Even worse, lavabit's still on the hook for the information despite being shut down.
You got that right. Security is hard. Security is expensive. Security does not improve profits (as long as they continue to be lucky). The company that spends money on security while their competitors are not, will lose out. Therefore, who needs it? There's no sense of living dangerously without some really spectacular examples...
Security is also an inconvenience.
Seriously, consider how many times IT imposes some new "security protocol" and everyone is forced to come up with alternative ways to do stuff because IT has not provided an alternative?
E.g., IT decides stripping files off of emails is a good idea. So now users can't email attachments. What happens? Well, you'll get thumbdrive swapping, people using dropbox, or even using file lockers to send files to someone else - either internally or externally.
Another common example would be the whole change password every 30 days or so - leading to people generating algorithmic passwords (e.g., January2013, February2013,... want a special character? January2013!, February2013@, March2013#,... December2013+).
Hell, think about passcodes and PINs - you think Apple invented TouchID for coolness? Or why Andorid has pattern and face unlocks? No, it's because a good chunk of people don't protect their phones. If you're constantly checking it (and it's designed to be used that way - I believe Jeff Hawkins (of Palm and Handspring fame) did the research and discovered computers are used a lower number of times, but for a longer period of time, while portable devices like PDAs and phones are used for a large number of times, but short interactions). Well geez, entering a PIN or password gets old, quick. Hence quick entry security like face recognition and swipe codes, or fingerprint readers. Anything to encourage use of passcodes or PINs and basic security without inconveniencing the user too much.
And worse of all, you'll end up with people creating "shadow IT" where departments stop being beholden to IT departments as people and managers get around security readblocks. IT won't let you get mail on your mobile? Well, someone will cleverly discover how to forward all their mail to GMail and use groups GMail accounts for the entire team, bypassing corporate e-mail. Or if IT won't provide a test server, the project will out and buy some cheap PC from Best Buy and run production on that, etc.
This call-home DRM only makes PC gaming worse. The publishers say piracy is what is killing their market. At this point I wouldn't cry if it would finally just die. Then they might be replace by something that doesn't punish the consumer.
They call 'em consoles.
And piracy does affect the market - you're looking at 90+% piracy rates in both Android and PC markets. For some, that really kills RoI - and it leads to crappy-ass PC ports of games because there's no money in it. The two biggest (or used to be) PC only publishers - Valve and Blizzard, have compensated for piracy - the first owns well the premier distribution platform (and DRM solution), while the latter has made online play a requirement (at least until the console ports came out).
Indies do good on PCs, but that's purely because the games cost very little to make to begin with - and are fairly huge - big enough that consoles are trying to adopt indies after seeing them explode on iOS and Android.
But, the big problem is either AAA titles with online requirements (not a problem for a lot of current PC games that are basically online multiplayer, MMOs or such), or indie games (many of which deride them for "mobile" style gaming).
I think it is newsworthy. While it is inevitable from a technical perspective it seems strange to me that companies (whether Apple or Rockstar) aren't more creative at managing the demand side so that people don't have a bad experience.
Except well, Rockstar KNOWS how big demand was - GTA V was released last week, in September. GTA Online opened earlier this week.
In the first three days, it made over a billion dollars.
You have SOLID numbers of how many people have your game. You also have reasonable guesses as to how many of those people will try to sign in online at the start.
For other day 2 releases, it can be hard to tell because you won't know how well it sells, so you have to guess. Apple and others have to do this (and which turned the iPhone 3G into a fiasco). But then again, Apple didn't really have a clue how well the iPhone 3G would be accepted - it was something like a million opening weekend, when the original iPhone took 70 days to reach a million.
Microsoft had the same issue on Xbox Live and Halo 2. They had presented three different datacenter loadouts - a small, a medium, and a "let's just go hog wild and assume lots of people". It was something like Xbox Live to handle 10,000, 50,000, and 125,000 subscribers simultaneously. Surprisingly, they got approval for the hog-wild limit because 15 minutes after midnight, they were recording 50,000 players and climbing.
But of course, they were also dealing with millions of dollars of equipment - which is why they didn't expect approval (it was like $200K, $500K and $2M).
Apple's learned - there weren't any activation issues on launch weekend of the iPhone.
And Rockstar knows the GTA franchise is huge - 3 days to $1B maans you sold what, 20,000,000 copies? If you know you sold that many (and climbing), your servers better be able to handle at least 10M users clamoring, if not 15M. And if they can't, delay the launch - GTA Online wasn't ready on launch day - what's a few more days so you can rig up some Amazon AWS instances to handle the peak initial load that you know is coming. Your data center may be inadequate, which is why Amazon and other cloud services exist. It would take weeks to get the racks installed, but AWS can spin up in hours. Then shut down AWS instances as load tapers off and your data center can take over permanently.
Plenty of reasons why day 1 load estimates may be inadequat - but when you know how much sales you have, there's no more excuse.
Oh I dunno, if you get a half decent motherboard it can be pretty good.
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The board is not out of reach financially at all.
ESD protection devices protect against ESD. That's it'. Sure it may be 50,000V, but the current is absolutely tiny, so the device doesn't heat up much. However, if the device is connected to a live 110V/220V mains, those ESD protection diodes will blow pretty damn quick, and the creepage distances generally mean the AC would couple beyond the protection devices.
I like how they say it can protect against direct lightning strikes - what BS. Even the lightning rod on your house cannot protect against that - they'd vaporize. (The lightning rod is designed instead to cause dielectric breakdown of the air and conduct heavy current in an attempt to reduce the charge buildup. But if lightning hits it, it's generally a goner).
Even worse, if the AC couples the wrong way in said laptop, you could put a rather nasty voltage across the battery of your laptop...
Actually, maybe skip the AC. Put in DC - say 30V or so. That is enough to blow the protection diodes and possibly raise the bus lines to damage further components (ESD diodes prevent the USB power rails from exceeding ground and Vbus by excessive amounts by coupling them to a nearby power or ground rail at similar voltages. A driven voltage could easily cause the voltage to rise and destroy many components due to overvoltage stress - perhaps that rail was never meant to handle sustained 30V potential difference).
Don't forget the $5 they get for an "inspection fee". This was bad luck + CBS grubbing for cash.
Cheapest by far.
FedEx charges $25. UPS I've seen anywhere from 20% to 200%. $5 for mail? hell yeah. (And yes, even if it goes through FedEx or UPS it may get inspected). The 200% was from when they wanted $20 on a $10 item. But they tack on so many bogus fees and other crap you can easily look forward to a $50+ bill.
Even in 10.7 you can't extend a single wallpaper across two monitors. You can cut to images from one larger picture yourself and make it look like one wallpaper, or have the same one twice. Both of which would be fine in 1999, but not in 2013.
You can't do it in Windows easily either - you have to stitch two wallpapers together in the right order for your monitor configuration. Of course, there are tools to do this, but that's what they do in the background. Though not all of them do it "right", especially when a monitor is to the left of the primary (which means that monitor gets "negative coordinates" as top-left of the primary is (0,0), so the left monitor gets negative X values).
Most of the sequester cuts were planned in a way to have the greatest negative effect on people, and these closures are being executed in the same way. Government is not happy that it has lost it's money source, and it figures the only way to get it back is to go around kicking people in the face to get them to scream at the people who control the purse strings.
It's despicable. Instead of doing their jobs and negotiating the best possible compromise between all interested parties, they've become a bunch of extremists (on both sides) who refuse to negotiate. It's "my way or the highway."
Obama in particular ought to be ashamed of himself. He campaigned on a platform of unity and leadership, and he has exemplified NONE of it. In fact he's the biggest one going on national TV proclaiming with pride that he refuses to negotiate.
No duh.
Take a look whenever some union goes on strike. You'll notice they always negotiate and negotiate until something major is about to happen, so they stop negotiating a week earlier and put their members to a poll on whether to strike or not. The point is to get the other side to capitulate.
Likewise, management locks out workers at times when workers may need work the most.
Of course, the government does the same as well - because public outrage can get people to demand a solution.
And well, you may want to compromise, but if the other side is unwilling to do so, no amount of touchy-feely "unity" and "leadership" can get past a party that absolutely refuses to cooperate. (And Obama got burned once already, so he's already aware).
This is especially since the big Tea Party supporters like the Koch Brothers are specifically targeting ObamaCare - any R candidate who does not oppose it will find themselves out of a job - whether they're Tea Party or not. Basically to get rid of Obamacare or else. (And some other stuff was thrown in that impacts their money, like a bill to kill net neutrality and such).
You can't compromise with someone who wants "my way or the highway".
And a lot more with the coming PS4, which has moved to BSD derivative IIRC.
For the kernel at least - the devkits may have a full BSD install for debugging and development, but the "userland" of the PS4 probably won't - being it's completely self contained and exists within Sony's APIs.
Other things using a BSD kernel would be the PS3, Vita and PSP. It's easy to tell because a lot of BSD code is still running the regular BSD license (3 clause - GPL incompatible) and not the modified-BSD license (2-clause, GPL compatible).
Wow, this is quite the inflammatory response. So, it's 20 years in the US for a patent. For the kinds of patents we talk about here on/. I have to agree with the person you're calling a retard. After 20 years 'the so-called "invention" is often obsolete'. Unless, of course, it's rounded corners on a moblile electronic device. I'm sure that won't be obsolete in 20 years...
It's quite telling when people on/;. who call themselves "intelligent" and "smart" and wish computer users would learn how to code or be one with the machine instead of consumers, and yet still don't understand IP law. It's almost as if technology makes people feel superior, while being ignorant of everything else in the world since that's "less important" somehow.
There are two kinds of patents: utility patents and design patents. The former is used to describe (supposedly) novel inventions that do things. The latter describes ornamental (i.e., stuff that doesn't impact functionality) features.
Utility patents are limited to 20 years, design patents 5. And design patents much describe what parts of a design are unique to it - you cannot take a rounded corner and patent that because it doesn't make it unique among other designs.
In the specific case, it's a device consisting of rounded corners, with one flat side being a screen which displays icons in a grid, with one part of the grid static while the other part moves to reveal more icons in a grid.
Trademarks are very similar except their term is indefinite - they're valid as long as the mark is used (and a lot of arguing goes forth on whether a mark is used - see netbook, iPhone, etc). If a mark isn't used it can be invalidated since they're to protect trade. If a mark is used by unauthorized third parties, then it too is invalidated (by generalization - think escalator).
Marks can be anything - a sound, a shape, a bit of text, an object, as long as they're used and usage restrictions enforced. Besides brands like Google, Microsoft, Apple, you have the coke bottle shape that is used to uniquely identify Coca-Cola, the red lettering, etc.
In my years here, UTF-8 / Unicode support seems to have been the most requested site feature, by far. Maybe even the only requested feature. Though I myself have no need for anything beyond 7 bit ASCII, I can't help but have noticed that people want their crazy characters.
So finally, the good folks at slashdot have engaged in a massive site redesign. God only knows how much work went into this effort. The end result?
A giant middle finger. "You want UTF-8? Here's some whitespace instead. You're welcome!"
UTF-8 IS supported though.
It's just that there's a whitelist of allowed Unicode codepoints because people were using various control codepoints to f-up the site layouts. I'd give an example, but it looks like the comments have been retroactively scrubbed so you can't see how badly hosed it became.
There is not really a "soft" restriction on accuracy because none of us possess the decryption key for military carrier. Limits on accuracy is mostly caused by "ionospheric delay" from signals traveling thru charged upper atmosphere. Now that other GPS constellations are in operation it is possible to construct a receiver to concurrently examine timing/phase of multiple carrier frequencies to get an active handle on ionospheric delay and significantly improve accuracy. New civilian signals being added to GPS will also provide improved accuracy.
Timing/phase analysis is also useful if you don't need absolutely precise location information - but need rapid and high precision relative positioning information. (No one said you couldn't get your position first, then switch to timing/phase analysis to do high-resolution relative positioning).
This method has been used to study wildlife where the swooping of birds is fast enough that the GPS update rate was insufficient - the timing/phase GPS gave much faster position (or change in position) updates at the loss of absolution positioning.
While I think that NIST related crypto algorithms are probably well compromised by the NSA I suspect that there is probably not much of anything - certainly nothing on the open market - that the NSA would not already have cracked anyway.
Same thing for 'offshore data havens'. If it's visible it gives the NSA a target of interest and the fact that it's offshore isn't even going to slow them down when they attack it. People moving to such havens might find themselves being looked at all the more closely than someone keeping their data in less interesting places.
Not to mention if it's offshore, then you're spied on unless the NSA determines you're American in which case they are supposed to discontinue spying on you. (You can argue that they spy on everyone including Americans, but if that's the case, why go offshore? You're data's no safer).
An interesting side effect though - anyone with even the most basic knowledge of cryptography knows that unless you're a mathematician, you never design your own algorithm because they are for the most part going to be way weaker.
One could argue that with this movie away from industry standard and studied algorithms, you're helping the NSA by giving them an easier time to break the encryption.
I flew for the airlines up until 2005, well before the tablets in the cockpit. None of the airlines are replacing critical paper copies with an electronic version. Historically, there would be three copies of all the manuals and charts, one for the captain, one for the first officer, and one for the airplane.
The iPads replace the 40 pounds of paper that each pilot used to be required to carry.
The aviaion industry is probably the most cautious and slow moving industry out there (in response to the poster who brought up decades-old technology in the cockpit). Pilots welcome the new technology -- it usually makes their jobs easier, but it must pass an unbelievable amount of scrutiny (over the course of many many years) before it can actually completely replace an older, but proven tech.
Actually, the impetus came from the pilots themselves. When Apple released the iPad in 2010, many pilots immediately saw the possibilities - there are many, many, MANY aviation apps for iOS. And these aren't dinky calculator apps meant to help you with your flight planning, either. They included maps, moving maps with geo-referenced plates (granted, the GA cockpits were having geo-referenced plates for years before the iPad), etc.
And the big reason was - it's CHEAP. An iPad for $500, plus a GPS add on (another $500) was all you needed. Which for the pilot flying VFR, saved $25K worth of avionics upgrades and still got them what they'd use those avionics for.
Hell, these days there are GPS and ADS-B add-ins for $900, and it's still cheaper than getting ADS-B in your avionics, even if you buy an iPad solely for it.
Android's getting there, too.
Windows probably had the first EFB apps (there were people selling preconfigured tablets for $5000 (still cheap) with full EFB capabilities. This was Windows XP tablet edition, though. Of course, you had to have ship power for it as tablets rarely lased much beyond 2 hours. An iPad or Android tablet can last far longer. Even then, newer planes have USB ports for power.
The non-GA industry is being forced because a lot of commercial pilots fly recreationally, and the equipment in their GA aircraft are often a lot better than what they have in their bread and butter jets (even the latest ones). Heck, old hat things like having a plate on the MFD for reference usually doesn't exist (nevermind geo-referenced ones).
If you want to compare it to something, compare it to movies and other broadcasts being available to deaf viewers. That's why there exists Closed Captioned and Described Video and is actually mandated in many jurisdictions.
Actually, closed captioning is for deaf viewers. Described Video is for blind viewers. May seem strange, but television and movies utilize both audio and video, so if you're deaf, you can still appreciate the visual content, if you're blind, you can appreciate the audio content.
What the OP describes would be a blind and deaf person trying to watch TV or a movie.
Nielsen must be freaking out as this is data that they can't get their hands on; as this data would include almost every form of viewing, pirate, hulu, Netlfix, traditional, etc.
Not really. Neilsen does live tracking because they're the most likely to watch the ads. PVR, Hulu, pirate, Netflix results don't really matter as they don't affect ad revenues. Neilsen is about ads.
Unless you're talking about a premium channel like HBO which gets all its revenue through subscription revenue, in which case alternate viewing could be important.
In fact, if Neilsen should worry, they need to verify their figures against real time Facebook and Twitter posts. In fact, the networks and such LOVE it when people post online about shows in real time when it airs. It's the only thing the networks have to combat "cord cutting" - imagine how people who download got through today because of everyone who watched the Breaking Bad finale were spoiling it everywhere.
That sort of peer pressure has resulted in more than a few cord cutters to get back on the teat - they just were so fed up of the delay between it airing and when they watch it that they gave up. (And we're only talking about hours here between airing and when the first torrents pop up - but generally that means you schedule the download to happen overnight and try to catch it the next day, at which point everyone else has talked about it. By the time you watch it that evening, you're a day late and everyone's onto the next show).
I never watched Breaking Bad until late August, and finished the penultimate episode the very Sunday morning. It was an awful few hours between the penultimate and finale.
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Apple sales have always been about consumers liking the product rather than being marketed to.
Oh come on, Apple fanboys have an amazing ability to rationalize anything that Apple does. Apple could have come out with goddamn Windows 8 and the fanboys would be telling everyone how amazing Metro is, why tiles are are the future, how totally innovative and intuitive the whole things is, how totally awesome the colors look, and besides you don't need to run more than one application on the screen at once and you're a tool if you disagree.
Actually, no.
Marketing gets you in the door. Your sales pitch makes the sale. If it was all flash and no substance, you know what? It would've died.
You can polish a turd only so much, but it's still a turd. And the internet will call it out as a turd. No matter how much you market it, a turd's a turd and the internet will roast you for it.
Movie releases pretty much show this - you can see twitter the moment the first showing of a movie is done to see what people thought of it. No matter how flashy the marketing and advertising was, if it's a turd, you'll find out. Like say that Jobs biopic that was released. Hyped to heck and back since Jobs' death and publication of his biography, it flopped.
If the iPhone, or any Apple product is all marketing, and nothing behind it, the iPhone 3G would've been a flop because people who got burned with the original iPhone won't buy it again.
Heck, reactions to the iPad in 2010 were very negative. So much so that Jobs was willing to start discounting it if it didn't sell well. But it sold really well, because after the first people raved about it, others tried it and raved about it. Despite most tech press and mainstream press panning it.
And Apple's had their fair share of failures - including stuff like the tissue box G4 Cube Mac. It's very pretty, but no amount of marketing could fix the turds it was saddled with - it was expensive and had worse performance than a cheaper mac.
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Can you even do that on Android? Generally to rename the package on Android you need to take the APK apart and rename the DEX files there.
Right now, it looks like the most impressive tests are ones done with the browser purely because to cheat three means generally it works for everyone.
(Though even then I can see why they'd cheat - an iPhone 5s dual core processor can keep up with quad core SoCs running nearly twice as fast (1.3GHz A7 vs. 2.3GHz Snapdragon).).
Exactly. A vehicle isn't necessarily a luxury - it's a necessity. Very few cities in North America have sufficient public transportation to be able to act as a replacement (not even talking about a 3 hour trip versus 20 minutes - just making the trip).
The internet is also rapidly becoming a necessity - a LOT of jobs require online applications - ironically, a lot of them are minimum wage jobs! But in general, the demise of newspapers and other non-internet based media means advertising and classifies are rapidly approaching internet-only.
And many schools are going to "online learning" - stuff like online lecture videos (think Kahn Academny), and MOOCs - to online assignments and forums, so to even get a basic education requires the internet. Wasn't there an article months ago about how some kids went to the library to use the WiFi, then at 6pm (when library closes), marched across the street to McDonalds for same?
As annoying as it is, doing stuff "the old way" is actually getting extremely difficult. You can still live without cellphones (yes, you can go out for dinner and a movie and not give the babysitter your cellphone number - we've done it as little as a decade and a half ago). But other things the transition to online is so quick, it's mind-blowing - the loss of traditional classifieds as job boards move online, the move to put education information online only, etc. It seems the basics are going online so fast it's not even getting unusual to have the homeless to have a computer so they can try to better themselves.
Actually, that's what is happening right now - it's why there's a jellyfish problem to begin with. And algae blooms are common, all a direct result of ocean warming.
The stuff we like to eat from the water can't really survive - the algae de-oxygenates the water, so higher order species suffocate, and the increasing acidification means even crustaceans have difficulties as the acids attack their shells. (About the only predator to jellyfish are... turtles)
Oceans do have a way to cool themselves though - we call them hurricanes. A good big one like Sandy cools the oceans around the area about 4-5C. (They're nice heat engines - drawing energy from heat in the ocean).
We aren't near 400ppm. We're above it - we crossed 400ppm a few months ago.
As for geoengineering? Well, that's the problem - we're assuming we'll invent the necessary technology long before it becomes a crisis. That's not necessarily true. In addition, there is no telling what the side effects are. For the same reason you don't believe in AGW, the climate models don't provide an answer of what can happen - the system is chaotic and who knows what a perturbation will do.
It's a bit more ambitious than that. It's to give EVERYONE an ID "card". Estimates vary but it's easily around 50% or more don't (usually people in the rural villages and such who are the ones who need the assistance, but don't get it).
In India, not everyone has an ID card, and thus even the paper based system doesn't work (the person doesn't exist, literally).
This system is in effect one of the first censuses done on the entire country - and to provide ID numbers to everyone so they can access services.
Well, the distributor would have to make a change to make it copyrightable again - just reissuing the same thing doesn't give it any more copyright. It's why a few publishers have gotten in trouble by copyrighting the entire work when all they added was a few pages at the beginning and at the end - the new content is copyrighted, but the stuff that was PD is still PD.
So if a US distributor created a Doctor Why based on the PD episodes (but generally new content and nothing used of the old), that's a new (though derivative) work.
In the 1984 case, it's because 1984 fell into PD in Australia, but not in the US. The book was legal to be distributed by the third party in Australia, but they had no right to do it in the US, and thus had to withdraw their copies since they were infringing on copyright still.
And in general, the US imposes its copyright law on everyone else when its copyrights are at stake. (It's well known that many new countries profited by pirating copyrighted works (as the copyright isn't recognized) - including the US - in the first years of their existence before all the important priorities are settled so IP protection laws can come into play).
I think they're all trying to figure out their business models.
I know some respected organizations have created open access journals, though they rely on member fees to pay for the costs. Others rely on the author to pony up some cash (some up to $1500) which pays for it.
I think the author-pays is an interesting one - and quite possibly might be a way to cut down the number of bad articles - after all, if you're not willing to pony up, you probably don't have enough belief In your research.
Tell me something - is it better to download an app to do stuff, or to do it via the web browser? You know, like how on iOS and all that, you see sites saying "Use our mobile app!"?
Because really, that's what's happening. Now, it will be either Netflix able to deliver movies via a web browser with EME, or they'll just develop an app to do it (considering they have apps elsewhere, what's another one?).
Or the ultimate app that's on the web - iTunes, where clicking a link launches it. (I've always wondered how to use iTunes Preview - I mean the damned thing always launches iTunes instead - how does anyone actually index it?).
The web will merely end up being a collection of links that spawn various apps - your online banking will no longer be done on a website, but you click it and do it via the bank's app. YouTube may hang around but may launch a YouTube app, etc.
On mobile devices, installing new apps is relatively easy, and I expect similarly low integration hassles for Windows and OS X using their respective stores. Linux can use Steam (the ORIGINAL App Store).
About the only sites left would be shopping sites, only because they need a very low-effort mechanism to sell stuff. But once they sell you a video or movie, well, click to launch the Amazon app to watch and listen to your new content.
Slight error.
The Feds wanted a "pen register" put on an account (basically an account of destinations and origins). Lavabit refused, saying that even if they had that data, it'll be encrypted and thus useless.
The feds then asked for a key to that information, which was also refused because that would reveal unrelated users accounts.
Then the feds asked for a wiretap warrant (which is actually a VERY hard thing to get and requires a ton of manpower because you're not allowed to record unrelated conversations)
The judge granted the order because she was very unimpressed with lavabit's responses - the first she accepted just fine (ok, it's encrypted). So she allowed the second order for the encryption key to decrypt just that account.
When lavabit refused because it would reveal more information than the warrant allowed ,she got a bit testy - why would you do everything based on one key? Secure email indeed...
So the feds got back with a wiretap warrant because if getting the requisite key was going to decrypt everything, then that's the only way it'll be allowed.
Basically the nuclear option was taken because the precise strike option was blocked - Lavabit said they can't do the pen register (or rather, it would be useless as that information is encrypted). But to decrypt that would require using the global site key which would unlock more accounts than just the one, so the feds have no choice but to ask for said key.
The judge couldn't see why there couldn't have been a per-account key used to guard the data per account, rather than locking it all up with one global key.
Even worse, lavabit's still on the hook for the information despite being shut down.
Security is also an inconvenience.
Seriously, consider how many times IT imposes some new "security protocol" and everyone is forced to come up with alternative ways to do stuff because IT has not provided an alternative?
E.g., IT decides stripping files off of emails is a good idea. So now users can't email attachments. What happens? Well, you'll get thumbdrive swapping, people using dropbox, or even using file lockers to send files to someone else - either internally or externally.
Another common example would be the whole change password every 30 days or so - leading to people generating algorithmic passwords (e.g., January2013, February2013, ... want a special character? January2013!, February2013@, March2013#, ... December2013+).
Hell, think about passcodes and PINs - you think Apple invented TouchID for coolness? Or why Andorid has pattern and face unlocks? No, it's because a good chunk of people don't protect their phones. If you're constantly checking it (and it's designed to be used that way - I believe Jeff Hawkins (of Palm and Handspring fame) did the research and discovered computers are used a lower number of times, but for a longer period of time, while portable devices like PDAs and phones are used for a large number of times, but short interactions). Well geez, entering a PIN or password gets old, quick. Hence quick entry security like face recognition and swipe codes, or fingerprint readers. Anything to encourage use of passcodes or PINs and basic security without inconveniencing the user too much.
And worse of all, you'll end up with people creating "shadow IT" where departments stop being beholden to IT departments as people and managers get around security readblocks. IT won't let you get mail on your mobile? Well, someone will cleverly discover how to forward all their mail to GMail and use groups GMail accounts for the entire team, bypassing corporate e-mail. Or if IT won't provide a test server, the project will out and buy some cheap PC from Best Buy and run production on that, etc.
They call 'em consoles.
And piracy does affect the market - you're looking at 90+% piracy rates in both Android and PC markets. For some, that really kills RoI - and it leads to crappy-ass PC ports of games because there's no money in it. The two biggest (or used to be) PC only publishers - Valve and Blizzard, have compensated for piracy - the first owns well the premier distribution platform (and DRM solution), while the latter has made online play a requirement (at least until the console ports came out).
Indies do good on PCs, but that's purely because the games cost very little to make to begin with - and are fairly huge - big enough that consoles are trying to adopt indies after seeing them explode on iOS and Android.
But, the big problem is either AAA titles with online requirements (not a problem for a lot of current PC games that are basically online multiplayer, MMOs or such), or indie games (many of which deride them for "mobile" style gaming).
That only really gives access to your account to someone else without giving them your password.
While they're using it, someone else can't log into the same library. And if you log into your account, the other guy's game ends.
It's all or nothing, unlike say what was the original proposal for the Xbox One. (Funny how that was so derided...).
Except well, Rockstar KNOWS how big demand was - GTA V was released last week, in September. GTA Online opened earlier this week.
In the first three days, it made over a billion dollars.
You have SOLID numbers of how many people have your game. You also have reasonable guesses as to how many of those people will try to sign in online at the start.
For other day 2 releases, it can be hard to tell because you won't know how well it sells, so you have to guess. Apple and others have to do this (and which turned the iPhone 3G into a fiasco). But then again, Apple didn't really have a clue how well the iPhone 3G would be accepted - it was something like a million opening weekend, when the original iPhone took 70 days to reach a million.
Microsoft had the same issue on Xbox Live and Halo 2. They had presented three different datacenter loadouts - a small, a medium, and a "let's just go hog wild and assume lots of people". It was something like Xbox Live to handle 10,000, 50,000, and 125,000 subscribers simultaneously. Surprisingly, they got approval for the hog-wild limit because 15 minutes after midnight, they were recording 50,000 players and climbing.
But of course, they were also dealing with millions of dollars of equipment - which is why they didn't expect approval (it was like $200K, $500K and $2M).
Apple's learned - there weren't any activation issues on launch weekend of the iPhone.
And Rockstar knows the GTA franchise is huge - 3 days to $1B maans you sold what, 20,000,000 copies? If you know you sold that many (and climbing), your servers better be able to handle at least 10M users clamoring, if not 15M. And if they can't, delay the launch - GTA Online wasn't ready on launch day - what's a few more days so you can rig up some Amazon AWS instances to handle the peak initial load that you know is coming. Your data center may be inadequate, which is why Amazon and other cloud services exist. It would take weeks to get the racks installed, but AWS can spin up in hours. Then shut down AWS instances as load tapers off and your data center can take over permanently.
Plenty of reasons why day 1 load estimates may be inadequat - but when you know how much sales you have, there's no more excuse.
ESD protection devices protect against ESD. That's it'. Sure it may be 50,000V, but the current is absolutely tiny, so the device doesn't heat up much. However, if the device is connected to a live 110V/220V mains, those ESD protection diodes will blow pretty damn quick, and the creepage distances generally mean the AC would couple beyond the protection devices.
I like how they say it can protect against direct lightning strikes - what BS. Even the lightning rod on your house cannot protect against that - they'd vaporize. (The lightning rod is designed instead to cause dielectric breakdown of the air and conduct heavy current in an attempt to reduce the charge buildup. But if lightning hits it, it's generally a goner).
Even worse, if the AC couples the wrong way in said laptop, you could put a rather nasty voltage across the battery of your laptop...
Actually, maybe skip the AC. Put in DC - say 30V or so. That is enough to blow the protection diodes and possibly raise the bus lines to damage further components (ESD diodes prevent the USB power rails from exceeding ground and Vbus by excessive amounts by coupling them to a nearby power or ground rail at similar voltages. A driven voltage could easily cause the voltage to rise and destroy many components due to overvoltage stress - perhaps that rail was never meant to handle sustained 30V potential difference).
Cheapest by far.
FedEx charges $25. UPS I've seen anywhere from 20% to 200%. $5 for mail? hell yeah. (And yes, even if it goes through FedEx or UPS it may get inspected). The 200% was from when they wanted $20 on a $10 item. But they tack on so many bogus fees and other crap you can easily look forward to a $50+ bill.
And sometimes they don't even ding me.
You can't do it in Windows easily either - you have to stitch two wallpapers together in the right order for your monitor configuration. Of course, there are tools to do this, but that's what they do in the background. Though not all of them do it "right", especially when a monitor is to the left of the primary (which means that monitor gets "negative coordinates" as top-left of the primary is (0,0), so the left monitor gets negative X values).
No duh.
Take a look whenever some union goes on strike. You'll notice they always negotiate and negotiate until something major is about to happen, so they stop negotiating a week earlier and put their members to a poll on whether to strike or not. The point is to get the other side to capitulate.
Likewise, management locks out workers at times when workers may need work the most.
Of course, the government does the same as well - because public outrage can get people to demand a solution.
And well, you may want to compromise, but if the other side is unwilling to do so, no amount of touchy-feely "unity" and "leadership" can get past a party that absolutely refuses to cooperate. (And Obama got burned once already, so he's already aware).
This is especially since the big Tea Party supporters like the Koch Brothers are specifically targeting ObamaCare - any R candidate who does not oppose it will find themselves out of a job - whether they're Tea Party or not. Basically to get rid of Obamacare or else. (And some other stuff was thrown in that impacts their money, like a bill to kill net neutrality and such).
You can't compromise with someone who wants "my way or the highway".
For the kernel at least - the devkits may have a full BSD install for debugging and development, but the "userland" of the PS4 probably won't - being it's completely self contained and exists within Sony's APIs.
Other things using a BSD kernel would be the PS3, Vita and PSP. It's easy to tell because a lot of BSD code is still running the regular BSD license (3 clause - GPL incompatible) and not the modified-BSD license (2-clause, GPL compatible).
It's quite telling when people on /;. who call themselves "intelligent" and "smart" and wish computer users would learn how to code or be one with the machine instead of consumers, and yet still don't understand IP law. It's almost as if technology makes people feel superior, while being ignorant of everything else in the world since that's "less important" somehow.
There are two kinds of patents: utility patents and design patents. The former is used to describe (supposedly) novel inventions that do things. The latter describes ornamental (i.e., stuff that doesn't impact functionality) features.
Utility patents are limited to 20 years, design patents 5. And design patents much describe what parts of a design are unique to it - you cannot take a rounded corner and patent that because it doesn't make it unique among other designs.
In the specific case, it's a device consisting of rounded corners, with one flat side being a screen which displays icons in a grid, with one part of the grid static while the other part moves to reveal more icons in a grid.
Trademarks are very similar except their term is indefinite - they're valid as long as the mark is used (and a lot of arguing goes forth on whether a mark is used - see netbook, iPhone, etc). If a mark isn't used it can be invalidated since they're to protect trade. If a mark is used by unauthorized third parties, then it too is invalidated (by generalization - think escalator).
Marks can be anything - a sound, a shape, a bit of text, an object, as long as they're used and usage restrictions enforced. Besides brands like Google, Microsoft, Apple, you have the coke bottle shape that is used to uniquely identify Coca-Cola, the red lettering, etc.
UTF-8 IS supported though.
It's just that there's a whitelist of allowed Unicode codepoints because people were using various control codepoints to f-up the site layouts. I'd give an example, but it looks like the comments have been retroactively scrubbed so you can't see how badly hosed it became.
http://meta.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2769161&cid=39596105
Specifically, can you guess what (5:erocS) meant to do?
In fact, you can probably still do the trick in various web forums for great effect.
Timing/phase analysis is also useful if you don't need absolutely precise location information - but need rapid and high precision relative positioning information. (No one said you couldn't get your position first, then switch to timing/phase analysis to do high-resolution relative positioning).
This method has been used to study wildlife where the swooping of birds is fast enough that the GPS update rate was insufficient - the timing/phase GPS gave much faster position (or change in position) updates at the loss of absolution positioning.
Not to mention if it's offshore, then you're spied on unless the NSA determines you're American in which case they are supposed to discontinue spying on you. (You can argue that they spy on everyone including Americans, but if that's the case, why go offshore? You're data's no safer).
An interesting side effect though - anyone with even the most basic knowledge of cryptography knows that unless you're a mathematician, you never design your own algorithm because they are for the most part going to be way weaker.
One could argue that with this movie away from industry standard and studied algorithms, you're helping the NSA by giving them an easier time to break the encryption.
Actually, the impetus came from the pilots themselves. When Apple released the iPad in 2010, many pilots immediately saw the possibilities - there are many, many, MANY aviation apps for iOS. And these aren't dinky calculator apps meant to help you with your flight planning, either. They included maps, moving maps with geo-referenced plates (granted, the GA cockpits were having geo-referenced plates for years before the iPad), etc.
And the big reason was - it's CHEAP. An iPad for $500, plus a GPS add on (another $500) was all you needed. Which for the pilot flying VFR, saved $25K worth of avionics upgrades and still got them what they'd use those avionics for.
Hell, these days there are GPS and ADS-B add-ins for $900, and it's still cheaper than getting ADS-B in your avionics, even if you buy an iPad solely for it.
Android's getting there, too.
Windows probably had the first EFB apps (there were people selling preconfigured tablets for $5000 (still cheap) with full EFB capabilities. This was Windows XP tablet edition, though. Of course, you had to have ship power for it as tablets rarely lased much beyond 2 hours. An iPad or Android tablet can last far longer. Even then, newer planes have USB ports for power.
The non-GA industry is being forced because a lot of commercial pilots fly recreationally, and the equipment in their GA aircraft are often a lot better than what they have in their bread and butter jets (even the latest ones). Heck, old hat things like having a plate on the MFD for reference usually doesn't exist (nevermind geo-referenced ones).
Actually, closed captioning is for deaf viewers. Described Video is for blind viewers. May seem strange, but television and movies utilize both audio and video, so if you're deaf, you can still appreciate the visual content, if you're blind, you can appreciate the audio content.
What the OP describes would be a blind and deaf person trying to watch TV or a movie.
Not really. Neilsen does live tracking because they're the most likely to watch the ads. PVR, Hulu, pirate, Netflix results don't really matter as they don't affect ad revenues. Neilsen is about ads.
Unless you're talking about a premium channel like HBO which gets all its revenue through subscription revenue, in which case alternate viewing could be important.
In fact, if Neilsen should worry, they need to verify their figures against real time Facebook and Twitter posts. In fact, the networks and such LOVE it when people post online about shows in real time when it airs. It's the only thing the networks have to combat "cord cutting" - imagine how people who download got through today because of everyone who watched the Breaking Bad finale were spoiling it everywhere.
That sort of peer pressure has resulted in more than a few cord cutters to get back on the teat - they just were so fed up of the delay between it airing and when they watch it that they gave up. (And we're only talking about hours here between airing and when the first torrents pop up - but generally that means you schedule the download to happen overnight and try to catch it the next day, at which point everyone else has talked about it. By the time you watch it that evening, you're a day late and everyone's onto the next show).
I never watched Breaking Bad until late August, and finished the penultimate episode the very Sunday morning. It was an awful few hours between the penultimate and finale.
Actually, no.
Marketing gets you in the door. Your sales pitch makes the sale. If it was all flash and no substance, you know what? It would've died.
You can polish a turd only so much, but it's still a turd. And the internet will call it out as a turd. No matter how much you market it, a turd's a turd and the internet will roast you for it.
Movie releases pretty much show this - you can see twitter the moment the first showing of a movie is done to see what people thought of it. No matter how flashy the marketing and advertising was, if it's a turd, you'll find out. Like say that Jobs biopic that was released. Hyped to heck and back since Jobs' death and publication of his biography, it flopped.
If the iPhone, or any Apple product is all marketing, and nothing behind it, the iPhone 3G would've been a flop because people who got burned with the original iPhone won't buy it again.
Heck, reactions to the iPad in 2010 were very negative. So much so that Jobs was willing to start discounting it if it didn't sell well. But it sold really well, because after the first people raved about it, others tried it and raved about it. Despite most tech press and mainstream press panning it.
And Apple's had their fair share of failures - including stuff like the tissue box G4 Cube Mac. It's very pretty, but no amount of marketing could fix the turds it was saddled with - it was expensive and had worse performance than a cheaper mac.