Everyone is using h.264. Not supporting it just makes your product inferior as it won't support as many websites as one that does.
We are just going to have to deal with it. Eventually the patents will expire and it will no longer be a problem; we just have to make the mistake of not choosing an encumbered standard NEXT TIME once h.264 is obsolete.
It's like they're taking a.50 caliber rifle, loading it with explosive ammunition, and using a calibrated scope to shoot themselves in the most critical part of their foot.
In full-auto.
What's the deal? Don't they realize alienating customers this way is a bad idea? Even APPLE, king of "our way or the highway", gives users choices when they make changes like scrolling-direction.
I searched for this because I figured someone would choose it, and you did.
I haven't read this one since High School, it was included in our literature book. It has stuck with me to this day, and I still remember the story, despite only reading it once or twice at most.
I should re-read it and see how accurate my rememberance is. I wonder if I'll still love it as much today?
Once they started acquiring every half decent game and ruining them with more ads, bloat and cross promotion for their other crap, I started to despise them. I never even played a Zynga game intentionally, they were just thrust on me when Words with Friends and Draw Something were bought out.
Well, that's completely idiotic. So basically all someone has to do is piss someone off, who would then fake-report the person's profile to get them suspended?
Hopefully it takes many multiple reportings to get someone suspended? Though that's not hard to get if you get, say, 4chan angry at you!
The problem with single sign-on is that if the company providing the single sign-on suddenly implements a crappy policy, you don't have a choice in having to follow that policy in order to use the numerous services that use that single sign-on.
For instance, if you don't like using your real name online, and suddenly the sign-on provider requires real names with identification, you're screwed; you can no longer use your favorite sites unless you surrender your information or try to create a fake account against the policy.
Right now, if some forum implements a bad policy, we can just stop using that forum, which is a much smaller loss.
We saw this effect with Google Plus; when they had their real name fiasco last year a lot of people got pissed off when suspended accounts affected their ability to use other Google services. Thankfully Google relented a bit on the policy (they still say you should use your real name, but no longer seem to enforce it unless it's a weird name like Ass McCrackpants or something) but it does drive the point home.
I still think it was done to prevent any possibility of there ever being a sequel or a continuation of the series. The rightsholders wanted it to end, and they got their wish.
Best Buy is my favorite historical example of this. Back when they started they were famous for selling music at well below the prices of their competitors.
I bought so many CDs there in those first few years. Then once they had a market, they raised the price to match everyone else.
(This was before the "MP3 revolution", when CDs were still the only good way to get music)
I remember having a ten pin USB header on my motherboard (AT style) for many months before I knew what an actual USB port even looks like.
I never ended up even using USB on that motherboard; that machine just got upgraded to a newer one that did have external ports (my first ATX motherboard!) and even then, I didn't actually USE those ports until I bought a USB optical mouse months after *that*.
USB definitely got a VERY slow start on the Wintel side. Which is ironic, because the opposite just happened recently with USB 3.0; generic whitebox PCs have had 3.0 for over a year now, whereas Macs are only just getting them right now.
Don't they still sell the Tasco microscope kits they had when I was a kid?
I had one; it was a fairly decent microscope, and it came with slides, example specimens, cover slips and other stuff you need to mount and observe your own samples. It came with a manual explaining how to look at random things you might find in nature.
I'll be sad if you can't get these anymore! They were fairly well-made, too; real metal construction, the focus control was nicely damped and greased, etc.
Even if this comes to pass for companies like Dell and HP, I doubt the "enthusiast" system builders like Asus and Gigabyte will be locking down their motherboards. After all these are machines frequently built and tweaked from the ground up, and enthusiasts won't buy them if they're locked down and they have to install a specific OS version.
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This is not a battle we can win.
Everyone is using h.264. Not supporting it just makes your product inferior as it won't support as many websites as one that does.
We are just going to have to deal with it. Eventually the patents will expire and it will no longer be a problem; we just have to make the mistake of not choosing an encumbered standard NEXT TIME once h.264 is obsolete.
It's like they're taking a .50 caliber rifle, loading it with explosive ammunition, and using a calibrated scope to shoot themselves in the most critical part of their foot.
In full-auto.
What's the deal? Don't they realize alienating customers this way is a bad idea? Even APPLE, king of "our way or the highway", gives users choices when they make changes like scrolling-direction.
You can't have my woona! Nobody can have my woona! MY WOONA!!!
I searched for this because I figured someone would choose it, and you did.
I haven't read this one since High School, it was included in our literature book. It has stuck with me to this day, and I still remember the story, despite only reading it once or twice at most.
I should re-read it and see how accurate my rememberance is. I wonder if I'll still love it as much today?
This is why I hate it when "security questions" are obvious things that anyone who knows me even slightly can figure out easily.
"What was the name of your first pet?" Hell you can find that with Google.
"What was the name of your Elementary School?" I sometimes talk about my childhood; people might know this.
Really, it's like they're asking for accounts to be hacked. There needs to be more preventing a password reset than weak "security questions".
Calculating sympathy for Zynga.........Done.
Sympathy calculated: 0
Once they started acquiring every half decent game and ruining them with more ads, bloat and cross promotion for their other crap, I started to despise them. I never even played a Zynga game intentionally, they were just thrust on me when Words with Friends and Draw Something were bought out.
Ugh, DIAF, Zynga. Please.
Well, that's completely idiotic. So basically all someone has to do is piss someone off, who would then fake-report the person's profile to get them suspended?
Hopefully it takes many multiple reportings to get someone suspended? Though that's not hard to get if you get, say, 4chan angry at you!
Ahh, that would probably explain it. I've been Zorin since 1995 at least.
But that kind of sucks too, because it means someone can't *start* a new alias on G+.
I thought Google+ stopped requiring real names a while ago?
Once I heard they had stopped this requirement I reopened my G+ account. I've hardly used it, but haven't had any problems with it being suspended.
I wonder if this user's account was hacked and the hackers decided to stir up some shit? Though he'd probably notice this if it were the case.
Either way, I've not used G+ very much. After the whole real name debacle last year, it just felt like a less friendly place.
Best Slashdot thread ever. Period. :)
How is being able to search for something "innovative"?
Apple shouldn't be able to have a monopoly on obvious features like this.
The problem with single sign-on is that if the company providing the single sign-on suddenly implements a crappy policy, you don't have a choice in having to follow that policy in order to use the numerous services that use that single sign-on.
For instance, if you don't like using your real name online, and suddenly the sign-on provider requires real names with identification, you're screwed; you can no longer use your favorite sites unless you surrender your information or try to create a fake account against the policy.
Right now, if some forum implements a bad policy, we can just stop using that forum, which is a much smaller loss.
We saw this effect with Google Plus; when they had their real name fiasco last year a lot of people got pissed off when suspended accounts affected their ability to use other Google services. Thankfully Google relented a bit on the policy (they still say you should use your real name, but no longer seem to enforce it unless it's a weird name like Ass McCrackpants or something) but it does drive the point home.
What the fuuuu? Where is this horrible place so I can make sure I never, EVER think about living there?
What will Apple call it when the next iPad comes out? It's going to need a moniker; "The New iPad" is ambiguous.
As far as I'm concerned it's the iPad 3.
...and this is precisely the sort of thinking that awesome people like Lauren Faust is trying to get rid of.
Thank you for providing an excellent example of the problem!
I still think it was done to prevent any possibility of there ever being a sequel or a continuation of the series. The rightsholders wanted it to end, and they got their wish.
Slashdot Bronies represent! *brohoof*
(I feel silly doing that but what the hay)
Why do they need the cloud? How is the cloud better than your OWN well connected servers?
Best Buy is my favorite historical example of this. Back when they started they were famous for selling music at well below the prices of their competitors.
I bought so many CDs there in those first few years. Then once they had a market, they raised the price to match everyone else.
(This was before the "MP3 revolution", when CDs were still the only good way to get music)
Oops, my bad!
This is why I save EVERYTHING that I really like. You can't count on anything online still being there tomorrow, much less ten years down the road.
Especially if it's something not many people care about. This is why people like Jason Scott (from textfiles.org) are my heroes.
I remember having a ten pin USB header on my motherboard (AT style) for many months before I knew what an actual USB port even looks like.
I never ended up even using USB on that motherboard; that machine just got upgraded to a newer one that did have external ports (my first ATX motherboard!) and even then, I didn't actually USE those ports until I bought a USB optical mouse months after *that*.
USB definitely got a VERY slow start on the Wintel side. Which is ironic, because the opposite just happened recently with USB 3.0; generic whitebox PCs have had 3.0 for over a year now, whereas Macs are only just getting them right now.
Don't they still sell the Tasco microscope kits they had when I was a kid?
I had one; it was a fairly decent microscope, and it came with slides, example specimens, cover slips and other stuff you need to mount and observe your own samples. It came with a manual explaining how to look at random things you might find in nature.
I'll be sad if you can't get these anymore! They were fairly well-made, too; real metal construction, the focus control was nicely damped and greased, etc.
In this corner, we have... ANONYMOUS COWARD!!!
And his opponent, in the other core, ANONYMOUS COWARD!!!
This is the fight of the century, gentlemen... *DINGDING!* Here we go!
Even if this comes to pass for companies like Dell and HP, I doubt the "enthusiast" system builders like Asus and Gigabyte will be locking down their motherboards. After all these are machines frequently built and tweaked from the ground up, and enthusiasts won't buy them if they're locked down and they have to install a specific OS version.