Oh, get serious. The whole "superdelegate" apparatus exists only to thwart the will of the voters.
As does the electoral college. That was created because the elites (say, the Founding Fathers) realized that giving voting control to the peasants might not have been such a good idea, so the electoral college was created in order to better represent their (the elites) interests. The members are unelected and while they only have one job, they have screwed it up.
yep, and changing the oil on my motorcycle could cause scalding hot oil to burn me, but well documented processes from the vendor generally limit this risk. Repairing the power regulator for my refrigerator could have caused a shock, however repair manuals clearly instructed me to unplug and de-energize the appliance.
Tell me, grab a person off the street and ask them to say, replace the motherboard on your laptop.
That's it', you'll walk them though it, but you will not be allowed to comment on what they're doing. You'll demonstrate, they'll mimic. They are allowed to use anything they have.
Would you do it? Would you risk your computer? You can show them how to take it apart and provide all the replacement parts, they can watch you take it apart.
But they probably won't have the skill to. You tell them to use a #0 Phillips screwdriver, and they'll take their butter knife. Ask them to pry and they'll use a chisel.
If you're lucky, you'll just have a scratched up case. But more likely than not, they'll have screwed things up worse.
That's the real problem.
Would you let any driver on the road change the oil on your motorcycle? You know, perhaps the teenagers texting and pretty much oblivious to everyone else on teh road? And expect them to not get burned with hot oil?
The problem is most people are unskilled, and overestimate their skills. You tell them they can fix their phone? Chances are they'll wreck it even worse and make what was a simple $50 fix into not-economically-repairable.
It's why you have those idiotic "warranty void" stickers, moisture indicators, security screws, etc. These at least generally kept the unskilled from making things worse - if you were skilled enough to buy the right tools or brave enough to void warranty, chances are you at least had enough basic skills to not make things worse.
Warranty fraud is a big issue, and if you haven't seen someone lie straight up that it was not soaked in water despite a growing puddle of water on the counter underneath the device, you haven't seen anything. And yes, they'll demand a brand new unit replacement.
Much like Call of Duty, Microsoft is releasing far too frequently which will kill interest.
A new Call of Duty comes out every year. I think there's only two Forza titles on the Xbone, one at launch in 2013, and one that was released in 2015. Granted, they also have Forza Horizon, which is a different game altogether (Forza is a simulation game, Forza Horizon is an arcade open-world driving game). Granted, there was also two Forza Horizon games too, one in 2014 and one in 2016.
But Forza and Forza Horizon players don't overlap very well - if you're hard core into simulation, Forza Horzon is a joke on that aspect, and if you're into Forza Horizon, Forza is just plain brutal without all the assists turned on. The only overlap is if you like car driving games.
Call of Duty, though, while it's done by several different developers overlapped and pipelined to have a release yearly, generally all cater to the same player, so really, you could call it Call of Duty 2013, Call of Duty 2014, Call of Duty 2015, Call of Duty 2016, Call of Duty 2017, etc.
The Apple-branded monitors reported their resolution and physical screen size back to the Mac. The Mac then uses that info to scale the font so that a 10 point font on the screen is the same size as a 10 point font on paper, or a 10 point font on another different monitor. It's one of the features built into the Macs which made them immensely popular in the publishing industry.
Since they discontinued their monitor line (not really sure I'd call it "their" line since they just repackaged panels by LG and Samsung), I presume the whole point of Apple-approved third party monitors was that they encoded this functionality into OS X. If it recognized the approved monitor, it could look up the resolution and physical size and perform this auto-scaling.
Screen size and resolution are already supported by all displays. It's a part of the bog-standard VESA EDID block - height and width in millimetres.
Now, most PCs ignore it, and I suspect most monitors - being used by PCs that ignore it - have it improperly set, but most of the time it's pretty accurate. I guess Apple might have LG ensure their EDID block is completely accurate (Apple has a tendency to over-rely on standards - so a mis-programmed field will cause issues) so everything happens properly, but there's no reason any other monitor doesn't have that ability.
I've found a lot of TVs actually have this part of the block correct, too.
The problem is that demand for many performances is hard to forecast, and the performers want sell-out crowds. So they price the tickets low to ensure that every seat is filled. But then the scalpers come along and buy up the tickets, boost the price, and often have unsold inventory, which means empty seats.
The solution is NOT to ban scalping. Scalping is a response to a market failure, and trying to ban it is not going to work. A better solution is to put the tickets on sale at a high price with a publicly announced sliding price scale, so the price drops each day as the performance gets closer. So customers have a choice of either paying now and having a guaranteed seat, or waiting and maybe getting a cheaper ticket next week. This will maximize revenue, fill every seat, and leave no space for scalpers.
No, the problem is Ticketmaster.
You might not believe this, but the public only gets around 50% of the tickets, or less (33-50% of the tickets are general sales).
Do you remember those credit card commercials that give you "advantages"? Like "members get to see the latest shows"? Guess what? A good 33% of tickets (minimum) is reserved to these credit card companies for sale to their members. Then there are all the other reward companies that do the same - have a cellphone with us? You're a member, and can get member perks too.
The rest are "promo" tickets - some are dedicated to contests and other stuff (like you see on the news where you can enter to win tickets, etc). A lot is reserved for band members to give to family and friends (and by band members, I mean broadly, "band members" because it includes roadies as well, and likely the staff working the event get friends and family tickets). These can also include fan club tickets as well.
As for reverse auction for scalping, it won't work. The event sells out anyhow (it just increases the risk a scalper might have unsold tickets, but if they're going to be all sold, then they're all sold). And a lot of artists love cheap seats because they know there are fans who cannot afford more expensive tickets.
For example, there is no OSD, all adjustments must be made from within MacOS.
That's not an Apple-specific feature. In fact, it's a standard feature of all modern monitors. Display Data Channel / Command Interface is what's used for a computer to control the display. Granted, on PC, Microsoft has been lax on getting support for this, but on the later versions you should be able to control the brightness at least through Windows. Though some monitor manufacturers have utilities that let you configure the monitor much more than what the OSD allows you.
It's a spec since 1998, and in 2004 it was revised.
Now, this also separates consumer electronic displays (aka TVs) from computer monitors - most TVs don't support any of the commands.
First, the Mac App Store was opt-in. Then, it was opt-out. Then, it prompted when applications were run if they weren't installed from the App Store. Then it required admin access to allow sideloaded applications.
It's abundantly clear that Apple is using the winning formula from iOS and applying it to OSX. Slowly, of course, but mark my words: within the next release or two of OSX, you'll see at least a few of these: -require a terminal command to enable sideloaded apps, -prompt every time a sideloaded app is run without the ability to suppress it. -require a third party patch of some kind. -require some sort of jailbreaking procedure. -threat of voided warranty if sideloaded apps are found.
OSX isn't a walled garden yet...but Tim Cook is absolutely building a wall. And his customers are paying for it.
Nope.
For starters, there's a limit to apps in the Mac App Store. They can't install device drivers, nor can they be "demo" apps. And then those apps are sandboxed - they do not have full access to the filesystem. So this excludes a whole bunch of utilities.
Finally, Gatekeeper only pops up the message when a app is copied from "untrusted" sources. What's untrusted? Stuff downloaded from the internet. Not stuff obtained from USB sticks or optical media, or even... the compiler.
And the Mac App Store has a $1000 limit on pricing.
And there's the few developers who will never be on there - Adobe and Microsoft, in particular.
So as long as people want to use Photoshop, Office on Mac, keeps it open. As long as AutoCAD costs more than $1000, it will be open. (AutoCAD LE, though, is sold through the Mac App Store. Autodesk has said they make more per copy of AutoCAD LE than through their resellers). As long as people want to connect oddball music devices or other device to the Mac requiring a device driver, it will have to be open. As long as people want to use utilities like disk management, disk repair, etc, will keep it open.
And yes, the compiler is trusted. So even in the worst case, it would result in macOS being the first commercial OS that supports open-source over closed source applications. (Take that, RMS).
The only thing non-Mac App Store apps cannot do is access iCloud, but that's for security reasons because they don't have access to the sandbox. Otherwise, you could get a document infected with some malware, and it spreads to iCloud. Now it's practically impossible to remove. Otherwise if you install the app, the app gets infected and infects the mac. With the sandbox, it can't do this, so infecting your Mac is much harder. So persistent malware infections will be limited to just an app instead of continually re-infecting Macs and spreading to other Macs via your iCloud account. (There are limited ways to fix this, but still, it's easier to just not make it possible).
Hell, even iOS is not bound by the walled garden - open source applications can be loaded on any modern iOS device via a Mac without approval from Apple or paying $99. XCode can compile and use a sefl-signed certificate for iOS apps. Sure you have to reload them every 30 days or so, but it's an era of openness that hasn't been seen before.
People will not become "indifferent to employment", and their rights in the workplace will still matter. Basic income is a replacement of social welfare, not of the workplace.
Exactly. People think a lot of people will suddenly become lazy. In fact, they won't - a lot of people LIKE their current lifestyle.
Basic income provides a roof, three square meals and some safe environment. It doesn't mean you'll get a single family home, a private apartment, or even a room by yourself! The most basic of housing can be barracks style living where everything is shared except maybe a private locker for your personal stuff. The vast majority will want to pursue work, if nothing more than to have a private room or apartment with their own (non-shared) bathroom.
The problem might be a trade union that provides for people at the very bottom - if they didn't have to work for housing, then it's possible the union might lose a good chunk of its membership. Perhaps they've been fighting for people to stay in their jobs who really don't want to be in those jobs (and are thus terrible), but in it just to live, in which cease the union is more about welfare and the poor industry than really helping people out.
Back before PayPal was merged with eBay and CC use became common, I used this method. Only drawback is that it's slower.
Buyer sends M.O., When it arrives, go to the P.O. to mail the item. Cash the M.O. and pay the postage. If the M.O. is bad or counterfeit, you know right then before your item leaves your hands.
What's in it for the buyer? Proof of payment. Besides, using the P.O. for fraud is a bad idea (for either party).
Yeah, and that really adds a lot of friction to the whole "e-commerce" thing.
First off, the buyer now has to go to a post office and get the money order, line up, and then send off the letter. It then has to arrive at the seller's mailbox. That can easily be two weeks for domestic (assuming the buyer has to make a special trip to the post office, so they'll do it on a convenient day which may be a week later). And if it gets lost, it can easily be more weeks.
Second, having to go out to do the transaction, versus just keying in your credit card number and paying while sitting at the computer. That itself can mean if you're a seller that buyers will move on to someone more convenient, or for eBay transactions, buyers will factor in their inconvenience into the bids, making lower bids.
There's a reason Paypal is the way they are - they know they remove a lot of friction between two parties paying each other on the Internet.
eBay owning Paypal made a lot of sense, since eBay has a lot of random two parties transacting. Money orders can easily take a month or more - sellers often demand payment within 3 days of auction ending because of high volumes. If they had to deal with money orders, that easily means a buyer can delay payment for weeks (even if a letter is lost, the post office may demand 3 or more weeks to elapse before declaring it lost and suggesting you resend).
Yeah, a seller won't be willing to wait for months for payment, and yet, a buyer can easily take that long if unlucky.
Data stored on the IOS device isn't synced between devices. Is browser history?
Yes, browser history is synced between everything - Macs and iOS devices all share the browser history. So if you visit the site on your Mac, you can revisit it on the road on your iPhone or iPad by browsing your Mac's browser history.
Of course, this then raises the question of what does it show if you haven't touched the browser on your Mac in a little while? Say you last used it a month ago, and you've been referencing the month old browser history. Should it disappear all of a sudden - today you try to visit your Mac's browsing history and it's all gone? (Granted, you should look at your device's browser history for that, but habits can be hard to break).
It should be noted that only Elcomsoft's tools could access it - the tombstones were not available to devices as they never attempted to access it.
Something makes me feel like all these anti Twitter news things are hit pieces. How many times do you hear about other companies almost on a weekly basis that are doing poorly? This has been covered in all angles. They have 140 million users and are a name brand pretty much. What are you trying to accomplish by constantly reporting that they are dying? I don't care either way but its just funny how often this is reported on.
Apple is almost always in the news. And it's been bad so far - iPhone 7 sales, Mac sales, etc. Twitter ain't got anything over Apple bad news.
Of course, many people would kill to have bad news like Apple.
It is perfectly legal. When you register your new company, it has to be named sufficiently different from other companies. Apparently, "Snap" and "Snap Interactive" are sufficiently different.
So go ahead, look for high-profile companies that has not yet had an IPO, and typosquat. Keep the first word of the name the same, add a second word that seem vaguely relevant. "Interactive" certainly goes well with "Snap".
Well, it has to be "sufficiently" different that you can avoid a trademark dispute. "Snap" and "Snap Interactive" likely never heard of each other (until now) and thus had really no reason to dispute the other's listing.
Not that it matters anyways. You don't buy stock on a company's name, you buy it based on their ticker symbol, which has to be unique when combined with the exchange it uses (which is why they are prefixed like NYSE and such).
And, what on earth does Kodi have to do with that? It is free (as in free to use) software that's even open source so unless Kodi is coming after them, what's the deal?
It's boxes preloaded with Kodi and plugins to access pirated content.
Because it's casting a negative light on Kodi (the project) - the last thing they want is to be known as the "piracy player". Several developers are threatening to leave because of it, and the forums are being hounded by people angry when their plugins stop working, assuming that Kodi wrote said piracy plugin. They've resorted to banning people who ask about pirate boxes.
Seriously, wtf? When and why did gluten become an evil boogeyman? Was there a recent research that found gluten causes cancer or something? Or is it just a new age hippie thing?
It's a marketing thing.
Gluten-free foods are more expensive than gluten ones, often by 2 or more times the price.
Gluten makes dough... doughy because what happens (and why you must let dough proof) are the gluten molecules interlink and provide it that nice stretchy smooth texture. Most gluten-free foods are adapted such that it becomes less of an issue because the texture is noticeably different.
Anyhow, 99% of it is just food marketing aimed at getting people to think it's healthier and thus be willing to spend 2-10x as much money for the gluten-free version. You're paying for the marketing department nad executives more so than any health benefits.
Though, to be fair, those suffering from celiac disease are happy about the trend - they at least now get a full range of foods they can eat.
No, the big problem is it's too expensive. You spend $750 for the unit, but you also need to basically buy a brand new high-end PC - you need an i7 and a high end graphics card (GTX 970 or higher), so you're looking at another $750+ spend to buy a PC to work with it.
Now you're wondering it better be pretty damn good if you want to drop more than $1500+ on it. Initially people are wowed by the demo, but then they see the price tag and can't justify it.
What is the actual source of the broadcasts that come in from these 3rd party plugins....???
Is it traceable to the end user?
Is it coming in on something akin to bittorrent?
I don't see money being generated at all from this, so, wondering the motivation to put this "illegal" streaming out there?
Usually it's a hijacked server providing the streaming source, and whether it's tracable or not depends on the server's settings. Perhaps the owner gets advice it's been jacked and simply wipes it. Or perhaps they turn it off for a full forensic analysis and see if there's any useful information on it.
It's unlikely to be bittorrent, it's likely just hacked servers.
As for the motivation well, it's selling the plugins - for $20, get free TV "for life". Of course, once the server is gone, it's gone, But if you can sell access to those servers for a few weeks, it's good enough.
Or it's more of a reaction to Trump's travel ban. They anticipate lower attendance because lots of people can't attend, but since these events are booked a minimum of a year in advance (sometimes two years or more in advance), they are stuck - even if they wanted to hold it in a more accommodating place (like say, Canada), they need to book it way in advance and it's too late for 2017. So do this and hope maybe you can find extra people while they figure out where to go next year.
Even if the ban is revoked, it's too late and the damage has been done
Just pick a fucking connector and stick with it for a few years, you jackass fucktard shitbags.
How Apple haters love rewriting history.
FIrst, this UAC connector is not Apple's at all. In fact, accessory manufacturers asked Apple to create support for it. So Apple created the necessary cabling for Lightning (which is sticking around) to UAC. All Apple is doing is listening to accessory manufacturers who want to use this connector because it's popular and used elsewhere.
Second, Apple only used three connectors since 2001. First was FireWire, which was migrated to the 30 pin connector, and finally lightning. USB went through several as well - first was USB B (the big square connector), then mini-B, then micro-B, and now USB C. Ignoring the extra cabling you need if you want USB 3.0 versions of same since USB 3 requires a different set of cables.
Of course, I see the next Beats headphones coming with lightning to UAC (iPhone), micro USB to UAC (Android), USB-C to UAC (Android and PC), and USB-A to UAC (PC) adapters.
In the end, especially in light of the "no proof of purchase required", everyone will probably get $1.43 per drive, or less. Meanwhile, those driving the class action suit will pull in $25M, or more.
Then go file your own lawsuit for whatever money you'd get.
Class actions happen because there's a hole in the current legal system - as in "steal from many and get away scot-free". If you steal $1,000,000 from 1 person you can probably get a lawsuit to reclaim it. But if you steal $1 from 1,000,000 people, you can get away scot-free.
Think of all the times your cellphone carrier jacks up your rates - if you're on a contract, technically they're not supposed to, but they do. And what are you going to do about it? If they jack it up $5 4 months in a 2 year contract, that's $100 over the term. Are you going to sue them to reclaim that?
Probably not - between court filing fees ($25-40 typically) and having to take a day off, you're probably just going to sit there and complain and pay up. Meanwhile, the carrier makes an extra few million dollars.
And even if you do go through, they'll not show up (lawyers cost money), and take the default judgement. Then they'll pay you back your $100, because they factored that 99.99% of people wouldn't, but the few bored enough to do so, well, it's not a big deal.
They've also got a lot of more traditional stuff too - I believe WD bought over Toshiba's 3.5" hard drive business, and they also bought over Toshiba's NAND flash business very recently (a few weeks ago). (Remember, Toshiba invented NAND flash).
Not sure what happens to OCZ, Sandisk, or DiskOnChip, the first Toshiba bought to have their line of SSDs, the second Toshiba acquired cheaply (Sandisk used Toshiba NAND anyways), and ditto DiskOnChip.
In 2006 there were amps that could SWITCH HDMI, but very few that could sit between the source and TV, extract the audio, AND spoof a 5.1-capable EDID. Go to avsforums.com & read the hundreds of angry forum posts from ~2008-2010 when Blu-Ray became real, and most people with "HDMI" receivers discovered that they had broken implementations that would NEVER be allowed to work as advertised.
Then, the HDMI people turned around & fucked everyone a SECOND time with HDCP 2.2. It's madness. They literally expect people to keep throwing away perfectly good amps every 2-4 years just to continue being allowed to have surround sound.
And I can assure you, prior to ~2013, almost NO amps supported 5.1 LPCM. They could do 7.1 DD+, 7.1 DTS+, and 2.0 LPCM, but NOT 5.1 LPCM.
Even NOW, support for 5.1 LPCM is a crapshoot.
No it isn't.
In fact, I think you're confusing a lot of things, because HDMI supported LPCM from the get-go - it was in all the way when HDMI only supported 1080i.
Granted, due to the pixel clock, resolution did have an effect on the number of channels, sample rate and resolution, so if you have a low bandwidth video like 480i, you only could get 48kHz 2 channel PCM. Once you hit high-def 8 channel (7.1) 24 bit 192kHz was available - all you needed was a 720p or 1080i signal.
But 5.1 discrete PCM channels was definitely well supported. During the war, support for high def codecs like Dolby TrueHD, DTS HD, etc was iffy, and you could only really count on PCM, Dolby Digital or DTS. But by 2009, all receivers I saw were supporting PCM (it's in the basic HDMI spec), TrueHD and DTS-MA.
And by 2012, it was a non-issue.
Heck, 2012 Blu-Ray players often have multi-channel HD codec decoders, so if your receiver didn't support TrueHD or DTS-MA, you could set them and get 7.1 via LPCM. These days, no one bothers so Blu-Ray players have gotten cheap and only license a stereo decoder (with downmixer) if you try to set them to PCM only output. It's a super common problem on AVS Forums nowadays, in fact.
Sony's PS3 also only supported LPCM for surround sound gaming, and that was 2007. I still remember being disappointed when the Xbox360's HDMI out only could do encoded 5.1 and not LPCM.
Uh, disabling those protocols means the printer won't print at all, since many printers in corporate and home settings already are networked and not connected via USB or other things.
The bigger question is - how come said printers were hooked up to the Internet directly? Even the most basic firewall would fix it. For home users, said printer will be on WiFi or Ethernet, behind their NAT router, so all is good. And on a corporate network, it too should be behind the firewall and blocked.
Did some company f**k up and have their corporate network completely unfirewalled and exposed? I mean, what possible reason is there for having a printer open? Road users should VPN in (and really, on the road they don't usually need to print to a printer at corporate HQ).
So for the past 3.5 years you haven't been able to use a USB hard disk with the PS4? That seems pretty consumer-unfriendly.
Well, you could, with restrictions.
First, it was for media only, and only FAT32 was supported (no NTFS or other filesystem supporting larger than 2GB files).
You could move save games onto it, but only if it wasn't blocked.
Whereas on the Xbone, you could add an external drive and it will appear as internal storage. Thus, even if the internal drive was full, you can still use it as the Xbone can utilize external storage as internal storage. This is because the hard drive was not designed to be removable on the Xbone.
With this, it also makes switching internal hard drives easier - because you could only move save games around, if you replaced the hard drive you needed to reinstall/redownload all the games again.
One significant difference between the tools jailbreakers use versus Cellebrite's: The recent jailbreaks for iOS require that you run them on an unlocked phone. Additionally, every jailbreak I've used has required me to install an app onto the phone, and then run it from there.
I would be curious to see exactly how the Cellebrite tools get around this, even on an older iPhone.
Well, part of the reason for the app is to install the untethered jailbreak. Cellebrite doesn't need untethered jailbreaks - a tethered one is just fine.
In fact, there are a lot of jailbreaks around - the main problem has been getting them untethered.
Remember when Obama was first elected? There was plenty of whining by the right then, and that coagulated into 8 solid years of purposely obstructionist deadlock and "no compromise" bullshit rhetoric.
The response to Trump is no worse. Which is surprising really, considering how the man has reset the scale when it comes to the awfulness of political candidates.
Let's not forget Trump was one of the biggest backers of the "birther" movement, trying to get Obama's birth certificate out.
It's funny now that HIS presidency is being questioned, it's illegitimate, but it was fine when it was HIM doing the questioning.
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As does the electoral college. That was created because the elites (say, the Founding Fathers) realized that giving voting control to the peasants might not have been such a good idea, so the electoral college was created in order to better represent their (the elites) interests. The members are unelected and while they only have one job, they have screwed it up.
Tell me, grab a person off the street and ask them to say, replace the motherboard on your laptop.
That's it', you'll walk them though it, but you will not be allowed to comment on what they're doing. You'll demonstrate, they'll mimic. They are allowed to use anything they have.
Would you do it? Would you risk your computer? You can show them how to take it apart and provide all the replacement parts, they can watch you take it apart.
But they probably won't have the skill to. You tell them to use a #0 Phillips screwdriver, and they'll take their butter knife. Ask them to pry and they'll use a chisel.
If you're lucky, you'll just have a scratched up case. But more likely than not, they'll have screwed things up worse.
That's the real problem.
Would you let any driver on the road change the oil on your motorcycle? You know, perhaps the teenagers texting and pretty much oblivious to everyone else on teh road? And expect them to not get burned with hot oil?
The problem is most people are unskilled, and overestimate their skills. You tell them they can fix their phone? Chances are they'll wreck it even worse and make what was a simple $50 fix into not-economically-repairable.
It's why you have those idiotic "warranty void" stickers, moisture indicators, security screws, etc. These at least generally kept the unskilled from making things worse - if you were skilled enough to buy the right tools or brave enough to void warranty, chances are you at least had enough basic skills to not make things worse.
Warranty fraud is a big issue, and if you haven't seen someone lie straight up that it was not soaked in water despite a growing puddle of water on the counter underneath the device, you haven't seen anything. And yes, they'll demand a brand new unit replacement.
A new Call of Duty comes out every year. I think there's only two Forza titles on the Xbone, one at launch in 2013, and one that was released in 2015. Granted, they also have Forza Horizon, which is a different game altogether (Forza is a simulation game, Forza Horizon is an arcade open-world driving game). Granted, there was also two Forza Horizon games too, one in 2014 and one in 2016.
But Forza and Forza Horizon players don't overlap very well - if you're hard core into simulation, Forza Horzon is a joke on that aspect, and if you're into Forza Horizon, Forza is just plain brutal without all the assists turned on. The only overlap is if you like car driving games.
Call of Duty, though, while it's done by several different developers overlapped and pipelined to have a release yearly, generally all cater to the same player, so really, you could call it Call of Duty 2013, Call of Duty 2014, Call of Duty 2015, Call of Duty 2016, Call of Duty 2017, etc.
Screen size and resolution are already supported by all displays. It's a part of the bog-standard VESA EDID block - height and width in millimetres.
Now, most PCs ignore it, and I suspect most monitors - being used by PCs that ignore it - have it improperly set, but most of the time it's pretty accurate. I guess Apple might have LG ensure their EDID block is completely accurate (Apple has a tendency to over-rely on standards - so a mis-programmed field will cause issues) so everything happens properly, but there's no reason any other monitor doesn't have that ability.
I've found a lot of TVs actually have this part of the block correct, too.
No, the problem is Ticketmaster.
You might not believe this, but the public only gets around 50% of the tickets, or less (33-50% of the tickets are general sales).
Do you remember those credit card commercials that give you "advantages"? Like "members get to see the latest shows"? Guess what? A good 33% of tickets (minimum) is reserved to these credit card companies for sale to their members. Then there are all the other reward companies that do the same - have a cellphone with us? You're a member, and can get member perks too.
The rest are "promo" tickets - some are dedicated to contests and other stuff (like you see on the news where you can enter to win tickets, etc). A lot is reserved for band members to give to family and friends (and by band members, I mean broadly, "band members" because it includes roadies as well, and likely the staff working the event get friends and family tickets). These can also include fan club tickets as well.
As for reverse auction for scalping, it won't work. The event sells out anyhow (it just increases the risk a scalper might have unsold tickets, but if they're going to be all sold, then they're all sold). And a lot of artists love cheap seats because they know there are fans who cannot afford more expensive tickets.
That's not an Apple-specific feature. In fact, it's a standard feature of all modern monitors. Display Data Channel / Command Interface is what's used for a computer to control the display. Granted, on PC, Microsoft has been lax on getting support for this, but on the later versions you should be able to control the brightness at least through Windows. Though some monitor manufacturers have utilities that let you configure the monitor much more than what the OSD allows you.
It's a spec since 1998, and in 2004 it was revised.
Now, this also separates consumer electronic displays (aka TVs) from computer monitors - most TVs don't support any of the commands.
Nope.
For starters, there's a limit to apps in the Mac App Store. They can't install device drivers, nor can they be "demo" apps. And then those apps are sandboxed - they do not have full access to the filesystem. So this excludes a whole bunch of utilities.
Finally, Gatekeeper only pops up the message when a app is copied from "untrusted" sources. What's untrusted? Stuff downloaded from the internet. Not stuff obtained from USB sticks or optical media, or even... the compiler.
And the Mac App Store has a $1000 limit on pricing.
And there's the few developers who will never be on there - Adobe and Microsoft, in particular.
So as long as people want to use Photoshop, Office on Mac, keeps it open. As long as AutoCAD costs more than $1000, it will be open. (AutoCAD LE, though, is sold through the Mac App Store. Autodesk has said they make more per copy of AutoCAD LE than through their resellers). As long as people want to connect oddball music devices or other device to the Mac requiring a device driver, it will have to be open. As long as people want to use utilities like disk management, disk repair, etc, will keep it open.
And yes, the compiler is trusted. So even in the worst case, it would result in macOS being the first commercial OS that supports open-source over closed source applications. (Take that, RMS).
The only thing non-Mac App Store apps cannot do is access iCloud, but that's for security reasons because they don't have access to the sandbox. Otherwise, you could get a document infected with some malware, and it spreads to iCloud. Now it's practically impossible to remove. Otherwise if you install the app, the app gets infected and infects the mac. With the sandbox, it can't do this, so infecting your Mac is much harder. So persistent malware infections will be limited to just an app instead of continually re-infecting Macs and spreading to other Macs via your iCloud account. (There are limited ways to fix this, but still, it's easier to just not make it possible).
Hell, even iOS is not bound by the walled garden - open source applications can be loaded on any modern iOS device via a Mac without approval from Apple or paying $99. XCode can compile and use a sefl-signed certificate for iOS apps. Sure you have to reload them every 30 days or so, but it's an era of openness that hasn't been seen before.
Exactly. People think a lot of people will suddenly become lazy. In fact, they won't - a lot of people LIKE their current lifestyle.
Basic income provides a roof, three square meals and some safe environment. It doesn't mean you'll get a single family home, a private apartment, or even a room by yourself! The most basic of housing can be barracks style living where everything is shared except maybe a private locker for your personal stuff. The vast majority will want to pursue work, if nothing more than to have a private room or apartment with their own (non-shared) bathroom.
The problem might be a trade union that provides for people at the very bottom - if they didn't have to work for housing, then it's possible the union might lose a good chunk of its membership. Perhaps they've been fighting for people to stay in their jobs who really don't want to be in those jobs (and are thus terrible), but in it just to live, in which cease the union is more about welfare and the poor industry than really helping people out.
Yeah, and that really adds a lot of friction to the whole "e-commerce" thing.
First off, the buyer now has to go to a post office and get the money order, line up, and then send off the letter. It then has to arrive at the seller's mailbox. That can easily be two weeks for domestic (assuming the buyer has to make a special trip to the post office, so they'll do it on a convenient day which may be a week later). And if it gets lost, it can easily be more weeks.
Second, having to go out to do the transaction, versus just keying in your credit card number and paying while sitting at the computer. That itself can mean if you're a seller that buyers will move on to someone more convenient, or for eBay transactions, buyers will factor in their inconvenience into the bids, making lower bids.
There's a reason Paypal is the way they are - they know they remove a lot of friction between two parties paying each other on the Internet.
eBay owning Paypal made a lot of sense, since eBay has a lot of random two parties transacting. Money orders can easily take a month or more - sellers often demand payment within 3 days of auction ending because of high volumes. If they had to deal with money orders, that easily means a buyer can delay payment for weeks (even if a letter is lost, the post office may demand 3 or more weeks to elapse before declaring it lost and suggesting you resend).
Yeah, a seller won't be willing to wait for months for payment, and yet, a buyer can easily take that long if unlucky.
Yes, browser history is synced between everything - Macs and iOS devices all share the browser history. So if you visit the site on your Mac, you can revisit it on the road on your iPhone or iPad by browsing your Mac's browser history.
Of course, this then raises the question of what does it show if you haven't touched the browser on your Mac in a little while? Say you last used it a month ago, and you've been referencing the month old browser history. Should it disappear all of a sudden - today you try to visit your Mac's browsing history and it's all gone? (Granted, you should look at your device's browser history for that, but habits can be hard to break).
It should be noted that only Elcomsoft's tools could access it - the tombstones were not available to devices as they never attempted to access it.
Apple is almost always in the news. And it's been bad so far - iPhone 7 sales, Mac sales, etc. Twitter ain't got anything over Apple bad news.
Of course, many people would kill to have bad news like Apple.
Well, it has to be "sufficiently" different that you can avoid a trademark dispute. "Snap" and "Snap Interactive" likely never heard of each other (until now) and thus had really no reason to dispute the other's listing.
Not that it matters anyways. You don't buy stock on a company's name, you buy it based on their ticker symbol, which has to be unique when combined with the exchange it uses (which is why they are prefixed like NYSE and such).
It's boxes preloaded with Kodi and plugins to access pirated content.
And you getting confused is the reason Kodi themselves are going after them.
Because it's casting a negative light on Kodi (the project) - the last thing they want is to be known as the "piracy player". Several developers are threatening to leave because of it, and the forums are being hounded by people angry when their plugins stop working, assuming that Kodi wrote said piracy plugin. They've resorted to banning people who ask about pirate boxes.
It's a marketing thing.
Gluten-free foods are more expensive than gluten ones, often by 2 or more times the price.
Gluten makes dough ... doughy because what happens (and why you must let dough proof) are the gluten molecules interlink and provide it that nice stretchy smooth texture. Most gluten-free foods are adapted such that it becomes less of an issue because the texture is noticeably different.
Anyhow, 99% of it is just food marketing aimed at getting people to think it's healthier and thus be willing to spend 2-10x as much money for the gluten-free version. You're paying for the marketing department nad executives more so than any health benefits.
Though, to be fair, those suffering from celiac disease are happy about the trend - they at least now get a full range of foods they can eat.
No, the big problem is it's too expensive. You spend $750 for the unit, but you also need to basically buy a brand new high-end PC - you need an i7 and a high end graphics card (GTX 970 or higher), so you're looking at another $750+ spend to buy a PC to work with it.
Now you're wondering it better be pretty damn good if you want to drop more than $1500+ on it. Initially people are wowed by the demo, but then they see the price tag and can't justify it.
Usually it's a hijacked server providing the streaming source, and whether it's tracable or not depends on the server's settings. Perhaps the owner gets advice it's been jacked and simply wipes it. Or perhaps they turn it off for a full forensic analysis and see if there's any useful information on it.
It's unlikely to be bittorrent, it's likely just hacked servers.
As for the motivation well, it's selling the plugins - for $20, get free TV "for life". Of course, once the server is gone, it's gone, But if you can sell access to those servers for a few weeks, it's good enough.
Anyhow, it's likely the Kodi team is behind a lot of the busts - they are against the whole "pirate box" deal and will prosecute anyone. The alternative is to let Kodi die because it's being associated with an activity that is casting it in a negative light.
Or it's more of a reaction to Trump's travel ban. They anticipate lower attendance because lots of people can't attend, but since these events are booked a minimum of a year in advance (sometimes two years or more in advance), they are stuck - even if they wanted to hold it in a more accommodating place (like say, Canada), they need to book it way in advance and it's too late for 2017. So do this and hope maybe you can find extra people while they figure out where to go next year.
Even if the ban is revoked, it's too late and the damage has been done
How Apple haters love rewriting history.
FIrst, this UAC connector is not Apple's at all. In fact, accessory manufacturers asked Apple to create support for it. So Apple created the necessary cabling for Lightning (which is sticking around) to UAC. All Apple is doing is listening to accessory manufacturers who want to use this connector because it's popular and used elsewhere.
Second, Apple only used three connectors since 2001. First was FireWire, which was migrated to the 30 pin connector, and finally lightning. USB went through several as well - first was USB B (the big square connector), then mini-B, then micro-B, and now USB C. Ignoring the extra cabling you need if you want USB 3.0 versions of same since USB 3 requires a different set of cables.
Of course, I see the next Beats headphones coming with lightning to UAC (iPhone), micro USB to UAC (Android), USB-C to UAC (Android and PC), and USB-A to UAC (PC) adapters.
Then go file your own lawsuit for whatever money you'd get.
Class actions happen because there's a hole in the current legal system - as in "steal from many and get away scot-free". If you steal $1,000,000 from 1 person you can probably get a lawsuit to reclaim it. But if you steal $1 from 1,000,000 people, you can get away scot-free.
Think of all the times your cellphone carrier jacks up your rates - if you're on a contract, technically they're not supposed to, but they do. And what are you going to do about it? If they jack it up $5 4 months in a 2 year contract, that's $100 over the term. Are you going to sue them to reclaim that?
Probably not - between court filing fees ($25-40 typically) and having to take a day off, you're probably just going to sit there and complain and pay up. Meanwhile, the carrier makes an extra few million dollars.
And even if you do go through, they'll not show up (lawyers cost money), and take the default judgement. Then they'll pay you back your $100, because they factored that 99.99% of people wouldn't, but the few bored enough to do so, well, it's not a big deal.
They've also got a lot of more traditional stuff too - I believe WD bought over Toshiba's 3.5" hard drive business, and they also bought over Toshiba's NAND flash business very recently (a few weeks ago). (Remember, Toshiba invented NAND flash).
Not sure what happens to OCZ, Sandisk, or DiskOnChip, the first Toshiba bought to have their line of SSDs, the second Toshiba acquired cheaply (Sandisk used Toshiba NAND anyways), and ditto DiskOnChip.
No it isn't.
In fact, I think you're confusing a lot of things, because HDMI supported LPCM from the get-go - it was in all the way when HDMI only supported 1080i.
Granted, due to the pixel clock, resolution did have an effect on the number of channels, sample rate and resolution, so if you have a low bandwidth video like 480i, you only could get 48kHz 2 channel PCM. Once you hit high-def 8 channel (7.1) 24 bit 192kHz was available - all you needed was a 720p or 1080i signal.
But 5.1 discrete PCM channels was definitely well supported. During the war, support for high def codecs like Dolby TrueHD, DTS HD, etc was iffy, and you could only really count on PCM, Dolby Digital or DTS. But by 2009, all receivers I saw were supporting PCM (it's in the basic HDMI spec), TrueHD and DTS-MA.
And by 2012, it was a non-issue.
Heck, 2012 Blu-Ray players often have multi-channel HD codec decoders, so if your receiver didn't support TrueHD or DTS-MA, you could set them and get 7.1 via LPCM. These days, no one bothers so Blu-Ray players have gotten cheap and only license a stereo decoder (with downmixer) if you try to set them to PCM only output. It's a super common problem on AVS Forums nowadays, in fact.
Sony's PS3 also only supported LPCM for surround sound gaming, and that was 2007. I still remember being disappointed when the Xbox360's HDMI out only could do encoded 5.1 and not LPCM.
Uh, disabling those protocols means the printer won't print at all, since many printers in corporate and home settings already are networked and not connected via USB or other things.
The bigger question is - how come said printers were hooked up to the Internet directly? Even the most basic firewall would fix it. For home users, said printer will be on WiFi or Ethernet, behind their NAT router, so all is good. And on a corporate network, it too should be behind the firewall and blocked.
Did some company f**k up and have their corporate network completely unfirewalled and exposed? I mean, what possible reason is there for having a printer open? Road users should VPN in (and really, on the road they don't usually need to print to a printer at corporate HQ).
Well, you could, with restrictions.
First, it was for media only, and only FAT32 was supported (no NTFS or other filesystem supporting larger than 2GB files).
You could move save games onto it, but only if it wasn't blocked.
Whereas on the Xbone, you could add an external drive and it will appear as internal storage. Thus, even if the internal drive was full, you can still use it as the Xbone can utilize external storage as internal storage. This is because the hard drive was not designed to be removable on the Xbone.
With this, it also makes switching internal hard drives easier - because you could only move save games around, if you replaced the hard drive you needed to reinstall/redownload all the games again.
Well, part of the reason for the app is to install the untethered jailbreak. Cellebrite doesn't need untethered jailbreaks - a tethered one is just fine.
In fact, there are a lot of jailbreaks around - the main problem has been getting them untethered.
Remember when Obama was first elected? There was plenty of whining by the right then, and that coagulated into 8 solid years of purposely obstructionist deadlock and "no compromise" bullshit rhetoric.
The response to Trump is no worse. Which is surprising really, considering how the man has reset the scale when it comes to the awfulness of political candidates.
Let's not forget Trump was one of the biggest backers of the "birther" movement, trying to get Obama's birth certificate out.
It's funny now that HIS presidency is being questioned, it's illegitimate, but it was fine when it was HIM doing the questioning.