The other problem is that users do not pick new random passwords, but just modify the old one.
E.g., let's say your password is "Password" 90 days later, you can bet it will be "Password1". Then "Password2"... "Password9" and "Password0", finally probably cycling around to "Password1" again. (FYI - that password now gets you lower case, upper case and number).
That's the real problem - password security goes down faster than the benefits of frequent password accrue. After all, if someone broke in with "Password5" then can't get in anymore, chances are, they'd try "Password6" and continue on - the password change has deterred the evil hacker by what, 2 seconds?
The benefit of frequent password changes is so unknown attackers will be locked out. In theory, that's true - change your password and they'd have to break in again. If the time to crack the password is greater than the password change interval, your systems as secured.
In practice... not so much. Not only do passwords suffer, but the system gets so rigged that the "hackers can't crack password" time drops from long to practically nil.
Hell, a website suddenly demanded lower case, upper case, and a number. I made a password that met those criteria. Not a strong one, because it's only a bloody web forum. Then they announced the password will change yearly. Personally, I'm just going to make the password even easier to remember by using the year as the number component. (Not only that policy asinine, it doesn't even protect against the reason for all the security...).
And, how many times they have illegally learned of something bad(tm) that was about to go down and did nothing, because they had "bigger fish to fry"? (A la Enigma intelligence, letting ships go down...)
In the Enigma case, it's not "bigger fish to fry", it's "let's not alert the enemy that we can break their codes". After all, if you have a supposedly unbreakable encryption, and everyone's using it, and yet you start finding the enemy blockading your path everywhere you go, you'll get suspicious. At this point you might change your code protocols suspecting they can break your encryption.
And yes, the intelligence agencies have huge tables showing how many times they can exploit the information before it starts getting less random dumb luck and more like intelligence is being exposed.
Likewise, the FBI would probably have to do the same. Funny thing is, it probably takes the eggheads at the NSA to calculate how many times such intelligence can be used before it's obvious there's something foul going on.
Not exactly. Take a look at their web page and their "pod" design. They have jammed in drives where they will fit but they have very different loads to a normal data center so can get away with it most of the time. Unlike a normal data center they will never be running all the drives in a "pod" flat out so something that would be a smoking mess elsewhere merely has drives in the middle that cannot shed heat properly. That's not to excuse Seagate, it's just to point out why failure rates are higher than what the rest of us experience and probably with a different mode of failure as well.
Backblaze is a cloud backup provider. They sell you online storage to backup your data, and I think they maybe one of those where you pay a fixed price for unlimited storage.
The storage pods they use are designed for one thing - maximizing the bytes per cube unit of volume. So they're going to pack as many drives as possible. It's why they use SATA multiplexers - each multiplexer is limited to the upstream speed, so if you have a 3Gbps SATA uplink, you're limited to 3Gbps total speed even though you're driving 4+ drives. So its clear from this layout that throughput is not the key factor. Given I think their pods only have GigE interfaces, that too means it's not for general data center high-speed storage.
But given their customers are limited in upload and download speeds, it's probably more than sufficient.
It gets rather ridiculous when you realize that movies like "The Martian" were finished in 2.5K, even in the biggest theaters I don't think you see anyone calling it blurry.
Actually, The Martian used Red cameras and was filmed in 5K. However, the VFX was done in 2K only, and the final printdown was 2K DI (digital intermediate - basically the final format used in digital theatres).
The vast majority of movies released in theatres today are down in 2K DI - even Star Wars The Force Awakens was 2K DI. There are a few films done in 4K DI though, but it isn't common. 4K VFX takes a lot more space and a lot longer to render, so it depends on the amount of CGI.
So far, if you go with UHD Blu-Ray, you may see "UHD Premium" which is more that that disc supports HDR, and you need an HDR display to actually see it.
Terminology - 2K DI - 2048x1080, and 4K DI = 4096x2160. This is the final print down format before anamorphic lens. Unlike Blu-Ray, there is no letterboxing to keep the aspect ratio - so even a 2K DI will have more vertical information than 1080p (because the letterboxing consumes lines - a standard anamorphic presentation would have around 900-950 lines with the rest being the black bars). In a normal theatre protection, the image is then stretched horizontally with a special anamorphic lens so what happens is the 2048x1080 frame is widened. You technically have rectangular pixels that are wider than they are tall in this format, but it follows from the standard film anamorphic lens expansion.
Just hope there is no incident that happens where some really needs to make a call.
I'm sure the bar has a phone you can use in emergencies. Heck, the bar tender might already be on the phone by the time you ask them for emergency services.
And that phone may even be available for regular customer use if they need call home to talk to the sitter or something as a courtesy (not even a payphone).
If you're desperate to use your phone, you could always do the polite thing and step outside too..
They've lost the market to Sony already, so their answer is to try to support 3 platforms no one wants that are almost identical except you'll need to re-purchase 99% of your stuff... good luck with that. i'm just as pissed with Sony before you call me a fanboy, both companies can such a chode for shortening the console life cycle.
Wow. Just wow.
In any other industry, if they sold as many units as Microsoft sold Xbones, they're be cheering.
Sony has sold roughly 40M PS4s, and Microsoft, 20M Xbones. 20M units is a "failure".
Sure it may be a failure if we're talking iPhones, or Galaxy S7 phones, but I'm sure Google and LG/Huawei would love to sell 20M Nexus 5X/6P phones.
Hell, by this time in its life, the PS3 was not so successful... and yet no one asked Sony to give it up (three years in, the Xbox360 sold less than 20M units. The PS3 was the worst seller in the early part of its life, rendered a laughingstock).
Yeah, there's a lot of Sony fanboys, but still. (I have both consoles, with both PS+ and Xbox Live Gold service to tie me in.). So far though, I have to say Sony's dropping the ball with the PS+ stuff - the free games seem to be just all indie games now...
I'd like to know how nature solved the problem. Hawk eyes have no problem achieving a very impressive acuity in a package not much bigger. Something to do with the use of a lens with varying index of refraction? It's beyond me.
Probably very powerful wetware. Eyes suck. Human eyes typically are around 2Mpixels, but they're not evenly distributed - about 1Mpixels are concentrated through a very narrow part of your vision (your central vision), while the rest of it is peripheral. You can easily demonstrate this lack of resolution by having people stand a few meters apart, looking at one of them directly, then trying to identify the other one - even something as simple as identifying if they are male or female. It's virtually impossible to do so using peripheral vision.
To increase the usable vision in humans, the brain moves the eyes around slightly, allowing for the central vision to have a wider field of view, while simultaneously engaging the wetware to composite the views into a higher resolution image than what was achievable by hardware.
To aid us, peripheral vision has a motion detection capability - if ti detects motion, it alerts the brain to check it out. Central vision is quite poor at this motion detection so off-axis viewing is often preferred when trying to detect moving objects at night.
I would be highly surprised if raptors did not evolve a more sophisticated version of this - if not ability to detect beyond visual range and into IR. I don't think they have (much) higher resolution eyes or better optics, but wider spectrum eyes, better peripheral vision , etc, plus better vision wetware
Probably "unpatched" because some big customer of MS is using this "feature".
Though, why they wouldn't just determine the internal vs. external links by using site-and-services and/or IE zone profiles... I don't know.
You just answered the question. Probably the same big company using the bug is probably the same one that has many internal sites marked as external sites for whatever reason.
One of the features of the latest update is improved accessibility. All operating systems have a long way to go in this area.
Perhaps, though some are a lot better than others - iOS is apparently recommended by a lot of groups for the disabled because of its extensive accessibility features (especially the blind). As is OS X. This is because of their general architecture that provides a lot of it "for free" with no developer involvement. So every time Apple makes an improvement, all applications get it as well. Heck, some games even support a lot of the accessibility features, either inheriting what the OS provides for free, or because the developer deliberately added accessibility support.
Windows comes next - a lot of it also comes "for free" if you use standard widgets, but there's fair bit more that one needs to add to be fully accessible
Linux is... laughable, unfortunately. Spotty at best - accessibility is generally provided by the underlying toolkit like GNOME, but no one's actually hooked anything up, because that takes work and is an itch fire a
b) Gawker did an abysmal job of defending themselves.
That's putting it mildly. Basically Gawker though themselves above the law and defended themselves as holier than thou (Your Honor, Gawker does not have to obey your "laws" or "judgements", for we are a Journalistic company and Freedom of the Press trumps all).
Openly defying a court order to take down the video (of which there was no public interest in, so even whistleblower defense won't work) is but one of the transgressions they did during their "defense".
It's not the lawyer's fault they lost. It's basically Gawker themselves disrespecting the court. The lawyers had little they could work with.
I hate Comcast as much as anyone and no longer use their service but in this instance it is hard to see clear cut deception. The Comcast service plan doesn't cover wiring _INSIDE_ the walls (read the OP). But the repair service will cover all of the wiring from the wall outlet, across the floor, the tangle of wiring behind the entertainment center, etc. Oh, and before everyone gets too snarky on me, most utility services, even your electric company, provide repairs only up to the exterior wall of your residence, anything inside is at your expense and has been for decades.
That point is the called the Demarc (short for demarcation, as it splits the division from "we take card of this part" and "you take card of that part").
It's a box that really is an outdoor version of what you see inside the house - a POTS demark box ends in a RJ11 socket. Your house "plugs" into the RJ11 with a standard silver satin cord to wherever the phone line service is distributed (a break out block, normally).
Same for your cable - it terminates in an F connector, and your house screws into that for cable service. If your wiring is good enough, satellite providers put a diplexer right there so you can use your internal house wiring for the satellite. (The cable splitter is then replaced with a multi-switch).
Electricity is somewhat different, but the demarc is almost always the meter socket - just downstream of the meter. Depending on your electric company, the meter may or may be part of your responsibility, and to confuse matters more, the actual meter socket itself may or may not be your responsibility (even though the power company pretty much replaces it for you). It's a tricky thing, because electric meters are supposed to be replaced every 10 years (their calibration expires), and because the socket is exposed to the elements, the meter and socket generally corrode together. It is not unusual for a replaced meter to cause a house to burn down if the socket was not replaced as well - it doesn't happen much, but it does happen and it's usually because of corrosion causing a high resistance connection.
If I turn it on I will then have to set the time again and wait while it downloads the fifteen updates that occurred between now and the last time I turned it on a couple of years ago.
Updates? I think that would require someone within Sony to actually remember that it existed, and that's *really* stretching credibility.;-)
In fact, rumour has it they only continue to manufacture and sell the PS Vita because management forgot it existed so completely that none of them called the factory to cancel production.
Nah. It's actually decently popular in Japan, where handhelds besides the 3DS still hold sway. It's a niche product in the US now, but still gets a lot of import and JRPG-style releases. Fez was pretty fun on it to, and if you have a PS4 and enjoy the occasional Remote Play it's a no-brainer.
The problem was Sony bet the farm that the Vita would succeed on one of those Metal Gear Solid titles, which bombed horribly in the US. With that, basically SCEA gave up on the Vita. In fact, I think Sony gave up on the Vita faster than they gave up on the PSP. From then on, SCEA's interest in Vita games diminished as did developer interest and while popular in Japan, it was basically forgotten about everywhere else.
For a long time, the only reason for the Vita's existence (and the PS TV) was remote play - to be able to play the PS4 remotely on a handheld or on another TV.
But now, it appears SCEA has forgotten about it completely - major retailers no longer carry it - they're just burning through existing inventory.
In the meantime, sure it does well in Japan, but the rest of the world is forgotten and there's no longer anymore handhelds from Sony, leaving the field open for Nintendo's NX console, which is supposed to have a home console part (yes, obsoleting the Wii U after only a few years), and a handheld part.
Perhaps Nintendo is seeing the field as wide open because Sony Japan is too interested in the Vita to release another handheld console (and SCEA/SCEE aren't interested at all in another Vita with no developer interest...).
1366x768 is very much on it's way out. (THANK GOD)
No it's not, unfortunately. It's just that people stopped trying to race to the bottom and produce only sub-$500 laptops that we have more options now (i.e., try to make more than a couple of bucks on a PC).
If you hunt for cheap laptops, 1366x768 is very much a common resolution. But now you can pay a little more, like say $1000, and get a laptop with a 1080p screen.
It's just that a few years ago, $1000 laptops weren't an option because few people were making one, save Apple.
I never know when I should swipe vs insert the chip, I have never been asked for a pin, sometimes I have to sign and sometimes I don't (there doesn't seem to be a clear limit), and there's no tap-to-pay.
Easy. Swipe first always. If your card and reader are compatible with chip, the screen will change from "Please swipe or insert card" to "Please insert card" or "Use chip". There's a bit in the magstripe that identifies the card as a chip-compatible card, and terminals will refuse to allow the swipe if they can do chip instead.
As for signature or pin, well, you follow the screen - if it wants a pin, it'll tell you. If not, signature.
And tapping works just fine, though some retailers needed some convincing to turn on their tap readers. But hey, not all tap to pay works in Canada either (I never use it, but I see enough "tap non-functional" signs on the readers to know). It should be increasing, with the popularity of other tap systems like Apple Pay.
Seriously, Slashdot, how low will you go? This is a straight smear and as much as I dislike how Thiel has chosen to wield his power, this paints you pretty desperate.
Look at the source. Gawker.
Read any Gawker web site and they're all be posting the same drivel in an attempt to remain relevant and portray themselves as an "honest web site providing news with integrity".
I'm serious - after the court case every Gawker site was running news articles that show all the "positive things" that Gawker has done, or heavily slanted versions of such. Likewise, every little piece of dirt, rumors, innuendo they can bring up about the court case, Hulk Hogan, Peter Thiel, they posted, true or not.
And yes, they completely "forget" the fact that they actively defied a court order to take down the video that started it all - every other site took it down, but Gawker not only kept it up, but admitted to defying it on purpose "for the public interest".
I don't really give a crap about emojis but it seems so asinine for them to waste thought and effort on something so totally meaningless. They're obsessed with triviality instead of actually doing something to improve their product.
Well, it was probably just under a day's work for their font designers. And it probably didn't even warrant any news post for Apple. Except some third party noticed it and made a big deal about it.
There are probably dozens of things they're doing to "improve the product", but most are hidden from the user and really affect developers.
And therein lies the problem - people put way too much weight on appearance and superficial changes than fundamental changes.
(Spoiler: the banks and lawyers "win" so Hogan will probably get jack, although I suppose Peter Thiel already got what he wanted
It really depends.
The general bankruptcy order first is secured creditors (lenders who have collateral), followed by unsecured creditors. The banks normally win because they lend securely - if you own a house with a mortgage, the mortgage is a secured loan. If you have a credit card with the same bank, the bank lines up again in the unsecured lineup to get the amount on the credit card.
BUT, and this is really a case of your jurisdiction, certain assets are "safe" from forced liquidation, and likewise certain creditors are "safe" from having to settle. This can include primary residence (i.e., your house may be safe from liquidation so you'll have a place to stay), it may extend to a primary mode of transportation (i.e., a car). Likewise, certain loans may not discharged, including student loans, mortgages (on primary residence), court judgements, child support, etc.
Of course, there are exceptions, and this really is a case of it depends on where you claim you live.
Even if a loan can't be discharged, usually what happens is the loan terms are re-negotiated - perhaps a different interest rate, a longer repayment period, etc. This may apply to court judgements as well - instead of having to pay the $140M immediately, he may be able to pay in installments.
1) How MS was going to try to control the used game market (though they later backed off), I went for a PS4 instead of an XboxOne.
I like your overall post, but going with Sony instead of Microsoft? One of those will stab you in the back, the other in the front.
Yeah, and now we have neither. The used game market is dying because disc sales are way down over digital sales. And while the old Xbone scheme would've allowed digital "used" game sales, the status quo meant no, that's no longer possible.
So yeah, we kinda-sorta screwed ourselves because Sony and Microsoft are very happy to sell us games digitally, knowing that they cannot be transferred or re-sold. And the kicker is, people are paying full price for them.
So we can say Microsoft sucks for even introducing an idea like that, but then realize that in arguing for the status quo, we won the battle, but lost the war.
Disc sales are down, new games often come out on digital ahead of disc (midnight store openings to get the game? Rarer and rarer - but pre-downloads and midnight unlockings are becoming more and more common). It's only a matter of time before a digital game is released a week or more ahead of the physical.
Yes, Microsoft's scheme sucked. But it gave us the option of status quo (no resales) or a new option - we can re-sell games.
Start the timer. Apple becomes a hardware-only company, running mostly microsoft software. One decade or two?
Or minus half-decade. Ever since Apple went Intel and started supported running Windows (and indirectly, Linux), that has been true.
And Apple has traditionally been a hardware company - their money is selling hardware.
Less so these days as PC hardware designs have caught up to Apple, Apple has started to neglect their Mac line (though, apparently it's because Intel has been dropping the ball with the kind of parts Apple wants).
Anyway, when are they going to enable add-ons for mobile Chrome? It badly needs uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger. I guess they need to come up with a UI but it doesn't seem to be getting any attention.
So, you want Google, a company whose revenue comes mainly from online advertising, and who released Android in order to ensure Apple will not cut it out of the lucrative online mobile advertising business, to enable the ability for users to impact its revenue stream? uBlock to kill ads, and Privacy Badger to satop the data collection...
No, its not a UI problem - Apple has done it. It's closer to a fundamental business decision.
That's a large part of it. Upper management listens to the offshore companies telling them how much experience their people have in the area. Labor rates are cheap and there are tax advantages to contractors vs. employees. But when the contractors show up and start asking questions which make it obvious that they have no experience at all it's too late. I've seen it happen multiple times.
And you know why? The people who are good get hired.
Our company has hired a number of Indians the past couple of years - all very competent people. Thing is, we didn't hire them under the Canadian equivalent of the H-1B program (Temporary Foreign Worker). We hired them under standard work permits for eventual immigration into Canada as a full Canadian citizen (we're sponsoring them).
Yes, they can technically leave and find another job, but then they lose our sponsorship and will need to find a new sponsor (and restart the immigration process - it takes a few years).
They're all very competent people - and it's not like we aren't trying to hire people (everyone we hired came through internal employee referrals, and we still have listings online for jobs).
So we're effectively skimming the best of the best out of India - which makes you wonder what we're leaving behind. We're not advertising jobs in India (only within Canada seeking Canadians first), but the people we hire are people who know each other and are extremely knowledgeable, intelligent, smart, and competent. And yes, we have to pay regular Canadian salary because they are living here and thus have to pay regular housing costs.
So yeah. We've been hiring the best away. Which leaves the question of who's left. If you offshore, you realize that other companies have hired away and are retaining the best.
I used to love going to the theater but it sucks now. It's too expensive, too crowded, and I don't want to watch 15 minutes of product endorsements followed by 20 minutes of spoilers for upcoming films before they get around to showing the feature.
Mr. Cameron, you say you want to "preserve the theater experience as something special" but it hasn't been "special" in twenty years. It's the entertainment industry's version of going to the airport. It's only a matter of time before they start adding backscatter body scanners and abusive TSA (Theater Security Agency) officers.
I believe Cameron isn't saying that things are good now. He's saying things need to be improved if you want to cut down on piracy.
As in the theatre experience sucks now that people don't want to go, so that creates an opportunity for pirates. Instead, theatres need to reinvent themselves to be destinations where people want to go, which would have an impact on piracy - why would I want to see it on a small crappy screen when I can see it on a large screen and everything's better.
So ditch the crappy uncomfortable seats and replace them with nice ones that won't cause your back to ache after an hour, have special no-kids screenings or adult-only theatres, serve adult beverages and even hot food service with better food, etc.
Some theatres already do that, and they're popular. They're expensive, but you're getting a movie experience free for annoyances like screaming kids, people on cellphones (you pay for premium tickets, people frown on such antisocial behavior), you can have beer, wine, champagne, cocktails, etc delivered to your seat, the seats are not packed sardine style, etc. Dinner/movie/date/whatever.
Basically get rid of the crap that people hate which drive them away from the theatre, and make it more appealing to those who want a social "night out" experience where you can enjoy a meal, a drink, and wrap your arm around your significant other.
And if you buy the Game Pak and a Kazzo or Retrode dumper, you have a defense under 17 USC 117(a)(1) (or foreign counterparts) if someone does sue you, so long as you can afford a lawyer and don't distribute the dumps.
Actually, no. That defense doesn't work because you're format-shifting. More specifically, you're going from a format that doesn't have copyright to one that does - you are not allowed to dump ROMs, period, without a legitimate developmental reason.
It's a funny thing, but a mask programmed ROM is actually not copyrighted. It's Mask-protected (it's a M in a circle, similar to how copyright is C in a circle). Mask works have higher protections, and even though you can easily dump it, the conversion from physical to software is actually completely illegal.
The one exception to that, is for developmental reasons - you're developing something that requires the data in the ROM. In which case you are allowed to have it only for that reason for the duration necessary. (Sony v. Bleem confirmed this when Bleem had Sony BIOS dumps of the PSX - it was determined that Bleem had the legal right to have those dumps, as they were necessary for the development of the Bleem emulator. But Bleem could not distribute those dumps, and must destroy them when complete).
It's one of the reasons why Nintendo kept cartridges around - there are plenty of legal protections for software embedded inside of a ROM (more generally, any IC) that aren't available on more traditionally available media.
The traditional stations are working for advertisers while netflix is working more for the viewer. The traditional media can produce crap and put it on Prime Time to make the advertisers happy (Which is in part of the story quality of the Netflix originals). But for the movies, traditional media wants people to buy BlueRays and DVDs not streaming if possible. Unless they get a good TV Deal, or Pay per view. I expect Netflix licensing agreement is too risky for many of these companies, so if they are slightly interested they just push out their B Movies to judge the waters. Or they rotate their shows so they feel like they have a cable deal. I notice this with the Star Trek Movies where they have a couple available (Especially the Odd ones) for a month or so then they go away and replace them with an other one.
No, home movies are incidental. The movie industry produces movies to get asses in seats. That's it. Beyond theatrical release is considered "bonus" and not really counted for anything. In fact, purchasing movies for home viewing is a relatively new concept, having only come out in the 80s with the popularity of the VCR and the video rental store.
It's still traditionally for theatrical only - anything else is a bonus on top. It changes way too fast for them to plan on anything - video rentals now make up such a tiny proportion of the mix it's not separated out, and disc sales are way down. Digital sales are up (streaming and "purchase").
And in fact, movie studios push their own purchases first - Netflix pays peanuts compared to what they can get per digital rental. Then comes purchase from likes of iTunes which still pay more than Netflix.
Netflix gets it at the very end - around the same time it hits TV. By this time it's not expected ot make any revenue. so Netflix paying a few cents per stream is just cream.
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Actually, that's half the problem.
The other problem is that users do not pick new random passwords, but just modify the old one.
E.g., let's say your password is "Password" 90 days later, you can bet it will be "Password1". Then "Password2" ... "Password9" and "Password0", finally probably cycling around to "Password1" again. (FYI - that password now gets you lower case, upper case and number).
That's the real problem - password security goes down faster than the benefits of frequent password accrue. After all, if someone broke in with "Password5" then can't get in anymore, chances are, they'd try "Password6" and continue on - the password change has deterred the evil hacker by what, 2 seconds?
The benefit of frequent password changes is so unknown attackers will be locked out. In theory, that's true - change your password and they'd have to break in again. If the time to crack the password is greater than the password change interval, your systems as secured.
In practice... not so much. Not only do passwords suffer, but the system gets so rigged that the "hackers can't crack password" time drops from long to practically nil.
Hell, a website suddenly demanded lower case, upper case, and a number. I made a password that met those criteria. Not a strong one, because it's only a bloody web forum. Then they announced the password will change yearly. Personally, I'm just going to make the password even easier to remember by using the year as the number component. (Not only that policy asinine, it doesn't even protect against the reason for all the security...).
In the Enigma case, it's not "bigger fish to fry", it's "let's not alert the enemy that we can break their codes". After all, if you have a supposedly unbreakable encryption, and everyone's using it, and yet you start finding the enemy blockading your path everywhere you go, you'll get suspicious. At this point you might change your code protocols suspecting they can break your encryption.
And yes, the intelligence agencies have huge tables showing how many times they can exploit the information before it starts getting less random dumb luck and more like intelligence is being exposed.
Likewise, the FBI would probably have to do the same. Funny thing is, it probably takes the eggheads at the NSA to calculate how many times such intelligence can be used before it's obvious there's something foul going on.
Backblaze is a cloud backup provider. They sell you online storage to backup your data, and I think they maybe one of those where you pay a fixed price for unlimited storage.
The storage pods they use are designed for one thing - maximizing the bytes per cube unit of volume. So they're going to pack as many drives as possible. It's why they use SATA multiplexers - each multiplexer is limited to the upstream speed, so if you have a 3Gbps SATA uplink, you're limited to 3Gbps total speed even though you're driving 4+ drives. So its clear from this layout that throughput is not the key factor. Given I think their pods only have GigE interfaces, that too means it's not for general data center high-speed storage.
But given their customers are limited in upload and download speeds, it's probably more than sufficient.
Actually, The Martian used Red cameras and was filmed in 5K. However, the VFX was done in 2K only, and the final printdown was 2K DI (digital intermediate - basically the final format used in digital theatres).
The vast majority of movies released in theatres today are down in 2K DI - even Star Wars The Force Awakens was 2K DI. There are a few films done in 4K DI though, but it isn't common. 4K VFX takes a lot more space and a lot longer to render, so it depends on the amount of CGI.
So far, if you go with UHD Blu-Ray, you may see "UHD Premium" which is more that that disc supports HDR, and you need an HDR display to actually see it.
Terminology - 2K DI - 2048x1080, and 4K DI = 4096x2160. This is the final print down format before anamorphic lens. Unlike Blu-Ray, there is no letterboxing to keep the aspect ratio - so even a 2K DI will have more vertical information than 1080p (because the letterboxing consumes lines - a standard anamorphic presentation would have around 900-950 lines with the rest being the black bars). In a normal theatre protection, the image is then stretched horizontally with a special anamorphic lens so what happens is the 2048x1080 frame is widened. You technically have rectangular pixels that are wider than they are tall in this format, but it follows from the standard film anamorphic lens expansion.
I'm sure the bar has a phone you can use in emergencies. Heck, the bar tender might already be on the phone by the time you ask them for emergency services.
And that phone may even be available for regular customer use if they need call home to talk to the sitter or something as a courtesy (not even a payphone).
If you're desperate to use your phone, you could always do the polite thing and step outside too..
Wow. Just wow.
In any other industry, if they sold as many units as Microsoft sold Xbones, they're be cheering.
Sony has sold roughly 40M PS4s, and Microsoft, 20M Xbones. 20M units is a "failure".
Sure it may be a failure if we're talking iPhones, or Galaxy S7 phones, but I'm sure Google and LG/Huawei would love to sell 20M Nexus 5X/6P phones.
Hell, by this time in its life, the PS3 was not so successful... and yet no one asked Sony to give it up (three years in, the Xbox360 sold less than 20M units. The PS3 was the worst seller in the early part of its life, rendered a laughingstock).
Yeah, there's a lot of Sony fanboys, but still. (I have both consoles, with both PS+ and Xbox Live Gold service to tie me in.). So far though, I have to say Sony's dropping the ball with the PS+ stuff - the free games seem to be just all indie games now...
Probably very powerful wetware. Eyes suck. Human eyes typically are around 2Mpixels, but they're not evenly distributed - about 1Mpixels are concentrated through a very narrow part of your vision (your central vision), while the rest of it is peripheral. You can easily demonstrate this lack of resolution by having people stand a few meters apart, looking at one of them directly, then trying to identify the other one - even something as simple as identifying if they are male or female. It's virtually impossible to do so using peripheral vision.
To increase the usable vision in humans, the brain moves the eyes around slightly, allowing for the central vision to have a wider field of view, while simultaneously engaging the wetware to composite the views into a higher resolution image than what was achievable by hardware.
To aid us, peripheral vision has a motion detection capability - if ti detects motion, it alerts the brain to check it out. Central vision is quite poor at this motion detection so off-axis viewing is often preferred when trying to detect moving objects at night.
I would be highly surprised if raptors did not evolve a more sophisticated version of this - if not ability to detect beyond visual range and into IR. I don't think they have (much) higher resolution eyes or better optics, but wider spectrum eyes, better peripheral vision , etc, plus better vision wetware
You just answered the question. Probably the same big company using the bug is probably the same one that has many internal sites marked as external sites for whatever reason.
Perhaps, though some are a lot better than others - iOS is apparently recommended by a lot of groups for the disabled because of its extensive accessibility features (especially the blind). As is OS X. This is because of their general architecture that provides a lot of it "for free" with no developer involvement. So every time Apple makes an improvement, all applications get it as well. Heck, some games even support a lot of the accessibility features, either inheriting what the OS provides for free, or because the developer deliberately added accessibility support.
Windows comes next - a lot of it also comes "for free" if you use standard widgets, but there's fair bit more that one needs to add to be fully accessible
Linux is... laughable, unfortunately. Spotty at best - accessibility is generally provided by the underlying toolkit like GNOME, but no one's actually hooked anything up, because that takes work and is an itch fire a
That's putting it mildly. Basically Gawker though themselves above the law and defended themselves as holier than thou (Your Honor, Gawker does not have to obey your "laws" or "judgements", for we are a Journalistic company and Freedom of the Press trumps all).
Openly defying a court order to take down the video (of which there was no public interest in, so even whistleblower defense won't work) is but one of the transgressions they did during their "defense".
It's not the lawyer's fault they lost. It's basically Gawker themselves disrespecting the court. The lawyers had little they could work with.
That point is the called the Demarc (short for demarcation, as it splits the division from "we take card of this part" and "you take card of that part").
It's a box that really is an outdoor version of what you see inside the house - a POTS demark box ends in a RJ11 socket. Your house "plugs" into the RJ11 with a standard silver satin cord to wherever the phone line service is distributed (a break out block, normally).
Same for your cable - it terminates in an F connector, and your house screws into that for cable service. If your wiring is good enough, satellite providers put a diplexer right there so you can use your internal house wiring for the satellite. (The cable splitter is then replaced with a multi-switch).
Electricity is somewhat different, but the demarc is almost always the meter socket - just downstream of the meter. Depending on your electric company, the meter may or may be part of your responsibility, and to confuse matters more, the actual meter socket itself may or may not be your responsibility (even though the power company pretty much replaces it for you). It's a tricky thing, because electric meters are supposed to be replaced every 10 years (their calibration expires), and because the socket is exposed to the elements, the meter and socket generally corrode together. It is not unusual for a replaced meter to cause a house to burn down if the socket was not replaced as well - it doesn't happen much, but it does happen and it's usually because of corrosion causing a high resistance connection.
The problem was Sony bet the farm that the Vita would succeed on one of those Metal Gear Solid titles, which bombed horribly in the US. With that, basically SCEA gave up on the Vita. In fact, I think Sony gave up on the Vita faster than they gave up on the PSP. From then on, SCEA's interest in Vita games diminished as did developer interest and while popular in Japan, it was basically forgotten about everywhere else.
For a long time, the only reason for the Vita's existence (and the PS TV) was remote play - to be able to play the PS4 remotely on a handheld or on another TV.
But now, it appears SCEA has forgotten about it completely - major retailers no longer carry it - they're just burning through existing inventory.
In the meantime, sure it does well in Japan, but the rest of the world is forgotten and there's no longer anymore handhelds from Sony, leaving the field open for Nintendo's NX console, which is supposed to have a home console part (yes, obsoleting the Wii U after only a few years), and a handheld part.
Perhaps Nintendo is seeing the field as wide open because Sony Japan is too interested in the Vita to release another handheld console (and SCEA/SCEE aren't interested at all in another Vita with no developer interest...).
No it's not, unfortunately. It's just that people stopped trying to race to the bottom and produce only sub-$500 laptops that we have more options now (i.e., try to make more than a couple of bucks on a PC).
If you hunt for cheap laptops, 1366x768 is very much a common resolution. But now you can pay a little more, like say $1000, and get a laptop with a 1080p screen.
It's just that a few years ago, $1000 laptops weren't an option because few people were making one, save Apple.
Easy. Swipe first always. If your card and reader are compatible with chip, the screen will change from "Please swipe or insert card" to "Please insert card" or "Use chip". There's a bit in the magstripe that identifies the card as a chip-compatible card, and terminals will refuse to allow the swipe if they can do chip instead.
As for signature or pin, well, you follow the screen - if it wants a pin, it'll tell you. If not, signature.
And tapping works just fine, though some retailers needed some convincing to turn on their tap readers. But hey, not all tap to pay works in Canada either (I never use it, but I see enough "tap non-functional" signs on the readers to know). It should be increasing, with the popularity of other tap systems like Apple Pay.
Look at the source. Gawker.
Read any Gawker web site and they're all be posting the same drivel in an attempt to remain relevant and portray themselves as an "honest web site providing news with integrity".
I'm serious - after the court case every Gawker site was running news articles that show all the "positive things" that Gawker has done, or heavily slanted versions of such. Likewise, every little piece of dirt, rumors, innuendo they can bring up about the court case, Hulk Hogan, Peter Thiel, they posted, true or not.
And yes, they completely "forget" the fact that they actively defied a court order to take down the video that started it all - every other site took it down, but Gawker not only kept it up, but admitted to defying it on purpose "for the public interest".
Well, it was probably just under a day's work for their font designers. And it probably didn't even warrant any news post for Apple. Except some third party noticed it and made a big deal about it.
There are probably dozens of things they're doing to "improve the product", but most are hidden from the user and really affect developers.
And therein lies the problem - people put way too much weight on appearance and superficial changes than fundamental changes.
It really depends.
The general bankruptcy order first is secured creditors (lenders who have collateral), followed by unsecured creditors. The banks normally win because they lend securely - if you own a house with a mortgage, the mortgage is a secured loan. If you have a credit card with the same bank, the bank lines up again in the unsecured lineup to get the amount on the credit card.
BUT, and this is really a case of your jurisdiction, certain assets are "safe" from forced liquidation, and likewise certain creditors are "safe" from having to settle. This can include primary residence (i.e., your house may be safe from liquidation so you'll have a place to stay), it may extend to a primary mode of transportation (i.e., a car). Likewise, certain loans may not discharged, including student loans, mortgages (on primary residence), court judgements, child support, etc.
Of course, there are exceptions, and this really is a case of it depends on where you claim you live.
Even if a loan can't be discharged, usually what happens is the loan terms are re-negotiated - perhaps a different interest rate, a longer repayment period, etc. This may apply to court judgements as well - instead of having to pay the $140M immediately, he may be able to pay in installments.
Yeah, and now we have neither. The used game market is dying because disc sales are way down over digital sales. And while the old Xbone scheme would've allowed digital "used" game sales, the status quo meant no, that's no longer possible.
So yeah, we kinda-sorta screwed ourselves because Sony and Microsoft are very happy to sell us games digitally, knowing that they cannot be transferred or re-sold. And the kicker is, people are paying full price for them.
So we can say Microsoft sucks for even introducing an idea like that, but then realize that in arguing for the status quo, we won the battle, but lost the war.
Disc sales are down, new games often come out on digital ahead of disc (midnight store openings to get the game? Rarer and rarer - but pre-downloads and midnight unlockings are becoming more and more common). It's only a matter of time before a digital game is released a week or more ahead of the physical.
Yes, Microsoft's scheme sucked. But it gave us the option of status quo (no resales) or a new option - we can re-sell games.
Or minus half-decade. Ever since Apple went Intel and started supported running Windows (and indirectly, Linux), that has been true.
And Apple has traditionally been a hardware company - their money is selling hardware.
Less so these days as PC hardware designs have caught up to Apple, Apple has started to neglect their Mac line (though, apparently it's because Intel has been dropping the ball with the kind of parts Apple wants).
So, you want Google, a company whose revenue comes mainly from online advertising, and who released Android in order to ensure Apple will not cut it out of the lucrative online mobile advertising business, to enable the ability for users to impact its revenue stream? uBlock to kill ads, and Privacy Badger to satop the data collection...
No, its not a UI problem - Apple has done it. It's closer to a fundamental business decision.
And you know why? The people who are good get hired.
Our company has hired a number of Indians the past couple of years - all very competent people. Thing is, we didn't hire them under the Canadian equivalent of the H-1B program (Temporary Foreign Worker). We hired them under standard work permits for eventual immigration into Canada as a full Canadian citizen (we're sponsoring them).
Yes, they can technically leave and find another job, but then they lose our sponsorship and will need to find a new sponsor (and restart the immigration process - it takes a few years).
They're all very competent people - and it's not like we aren't trying to hire people (everyone we hired came through internal employee referrals, and we still have listings online for jobs).
So we're effectively skimming the best of the best out of India - which makes you wonder what we're leaving behind. We're not advertising jobs in India (only within Canada seeking Canadians first), but the people we hire are people who know each other and are extremely knowledgeable, intelligent, smart, and competent. And yes, we have to pay regular Canadian salary because they are living here and thus have to pay regular housing costs.
So yeah. We've been hiring the best away. Which leaves the question of who's left. If you offshore, you realize that other companies have hired away and are retaining the best.
I believe Cameron isn't saying that things are good now. He's saying things need to be improved if you want to cut down on piracy.
As in the theatre experience sucks now that people don't want to go, so that creates an opportunity for pirates. Instead, theatres need to reinvent themselves to be destinations where people want to go, which would have an impact on piracy - why would I want to see it on a small crappy screen when I can see it on a large screen and everything's better.
So ditch the crappy uncomfortable seats and replace them with nice ones that won't cause your back to ache after an hour, have special no-kids screenings or adult-only theatres, serve adult beverages and even hot food service with better food, etc.
Some theatres already do that, and they're popular. They're expensive, but you're getting a movie experience free for annoyances like screaming kids, people on cellphones (you pay for premium tickets, people frown on such antisocial behavior), you can have beer, wine, champagne, cocktails, etc delivered to your seat, the seats are not packed sardine style, etc. Dinner/movie/date/whatever.
Basically get rid of the crap that people hate which drive them away from the theatre, and make it more appealing to those who want a social "night out" experience where you can enjoy a meal, a drink, and wrap your arm around your significant other.
Actually, no. That defense doesn't work because you're format-shifting. More specifically, you're going from a format that doesn't have copyright to one that does - you are not allowed to dump ROMs, period, without a legitimate developmental reason.
It's a funny thing, but a mask programmed ROM is actually not copyrighted. It's Mask-protected (it's a M in a circle, similar to how copyright is C in a circle). Mask works have higher protections, and even though you can easily dump it, the conversion from physical to software is actually completely illegal.
The one exception to that, is for developmental reasons - you're developing something that requires the data in the ROM. In which case you are allowed to have it only for that reason for the duration necessary. (Sony v. Bleem confirmed this when Bleem had Sony BIOS dumps of the PSX - it was determined that Bleem had the legal right to have those dumps, as they were necessary for the development of the Bleem emulator. But Bleem could not distribute those dumps, and must destroy them when complete).
It's one of the reasons why Nintendo kept cartridges around - there are plenty of legal protections for software embedded inside of a ROM (more generally, any IC) that aren't available on more traditionally available media.
Why would anyone want a Motorola/Lenovo anyways? After all, they're dropping the headphone jack too...
(Some "innovation" Apple. You got out-innovated by the competition over a rumor).
No, home movies are incidental. The movie industry produces movies to get asses in seats. That's it. Beyond theatrical release is considered "bonus" and not really counted for anything. In fact, purchasing movies for home viewing is a relatively new concept, having only come out in the 80s with the popularity of the VCR and the video rental store.
It's still traditionally for theatrical only - anything else is a bonus on top. It changes way too fast for them to plan on anything - video rentals now make up such a tiny proportion of the mix it's not separated out, and disc sales are way down. Digital sales are up (streaming and "purchase").
And in fact, movie studios push their own purchases first - Netflix pays peanuts compared to what they can get per digital rental. Then comes purchase from likes of iTunes which still pay more than Netflix.
Netflix gets it at the very end - around the same time it hits TV. By this time it's not expected ot make any revenue. so Netflix paying a few cents per stream is just cream.