So you've basically failed to understand why they're necessary for astronomers to make sense of things?
Hubble isn't up there taking photographs with a camera.. the only way to interpret the images is with the false color stuff.
The Hubble images aren't artists conceptions, but they're not straight up camera pictures either. They're the actual real things, just processed to make humans be able to understand them.
Well, it was a concession to the music industry to make it hard to copy other people's music. So, yes, they have done it differently.
But, for me one of the best features is that special DB... I have playlists based on the metadata which only Apple keeps (as far as I know at least) across devices. Like "songs I haven't played in six months or haven't played at least five times". You practically have a query language... so you can pick all of your punk rock which isn't also Christmas (and, yes, I have that problem).
Sure, if I wanted to grab my music folder out of iTunes and import it into another player I could go back to the same level of technology I was using on FreeBSD in 2001... but honestly, I'd rather stick with iTunes and the playlists and metadata that special DB give me.
I don't ever manage my music by dragging and dropping... so while your way is good for you, I'd rather just select which playlists to sync.
Me, I just load on a half dozen playlists, put it on big random, and let the playcount cycle them out on the next pass so I can work through all my music and hear it all.:-P
For me, the massive time investment I have in iTunes means when I rip a CD and assign a genre like "cuban/hip-hop" or "punk/xmas" they magically fall into the playlists where they belong because rules put them there... and I won't hear a punk version of Silent Night in June.;-)
My playlists are almost self curating now precisely because of that DB. And when you have Cuban hip-hop and punk Christmas albums you really want that.
They just need to regroup, figure out who to buy off, and do it again.
I'm sure someone is up for re-election, or wants a cushy job in the private sector, who can be "convinced of the merits of the case" with a suitcase full of cash.
Corporations don't stop doing crap like this just because the outcome would be bad for consumers.
Drone strikes where you just decide whatever civilians are nearby deserved to die results in unintended deaths.
Who fucking knew?
Obama said that the operation was conducted after hundreds of hours of surveillance had convinced American officials that they were targeting an Al Qaeda compound where no civilians were present, and that "capturing these terrorists was not possible."
In other words, we're bumbling idiots.
Maybe your remote control warfare doesn't provide you with enough actual understanding of the situation and just deciding to bomb something without really knowing what you're doing is a bad idea?
'Collateral Damage' is military speak for "we don't actually care who we kill, but we'll pretend it's not a war crime".
If America keeps bombing Pakistan... is it OK for Pakistan to bomb America? Because the level of "because we're special" which happens here is mind boggling.
All else being equal (and when it comes to video content, it is) iTunes was the wrong choice for that reason.
Honestly, that's a stupid and trite answer.
There are NO places where you can buy legal digital copies of movies without DRM.
You can pirate them, but you can't buy them DRM free.
So what you're saying is "people should pirate, or not have digital copies of movies"... but there is no way in hell there is any other service which is providing DRM-free movies, and this is not an issue specific to iTunes.
Yes, DRM sucks... but iTunes isn't any worse than any other mechanism.
The only other one I'm even aware of is Ultraviolet... and since it was done by the movie studios it's even more restrictive and evil to use.
And what the fuck does that have to do with the question"Which "better players" lawfully support iTunes purchases? Or from which store should one have lawfully purchased movies instead?
Would that be nothing at all and the existence of Emusic doesn't solve the problem which was posed and is therefore a useless answer?
So, yes, there exists another store which isn't iTunes... and the existence of that store has not a damned thing to do with the stuff people have already purchased from iTunes.
Would you like fries with that? Because really, it's about as related to the specific question as Emusic is.
Anything can play MP3... literally hundreds of programs can play MP3... can Emusic play the movies purchased in iTunes?
If not, what you're suggesting is totally oblivious to the other media people get from iTunes.
So if for the last bunch of years I've been buying DVDs and Blu Rays which come with the digital copy from iTunes... what piece of software plays those?
Playing MP3s is the most trivial part of all of this. So if all you have to suggest is another MP3 player, you have added nothing of value, and haven't solved the problem.
And sometimes, even on a more modern OS, Apple's stuff can fail for no obvious reason.
I recently swapped out my Vista box for Windows 8 (yeah, yeah, whatever).. on both platforms I had the problem of getting an HTTP Error when trying to lookup tracks to rip the CD. No fix can be found for this which I can identify as working.
I gave up and busted out the evil Windows Media Player to rip a bunch of CDs I'd bought.. and then magically iTunes started being able to look up track names. How this could work, I have no idea.
Honestly, I'm not 100% sure Apple knows how their software works or why it fails.
I miss my old iPod classic, which didn't have an OS to update... because it would never get upgraded to the point of broken with the assumption I'll just go out and spend a few hundred bucks on a new device.
Ah, but the people suggesting moving away from both Microsoft and Apple all run DRM free ogg-vorbis, and like to build their environments from a collection of parts.
The idea of actually using software for an extended period of time and needing it to work with devices is a foreign concept.
If they want music players they build their own using a Raspberry Pi and some chewing gum.
You don't think the oil and gas industry hasn't spent millions of dollars to try to say that fracking is perfectly safe and couldn't possibly cause any harm?
Basically they've done what the tobacco industry did.. delay, obfuscate, and claim that it's up to someone else to prove it's dangerous while they assume it's safe without evidence.
You don't think a massive lobbying, PR, and fake science campaign isn't an actual conspiracy?
Because, really, what they're doing is lying to the public, reaping billions in profits, and then claiming that everything they're doing is perfectly safe.
Which, of course, is increasingly proven to be bullshit.
Yes, but all of the people who weren't diagnosed with cancer who were reporting this, enabling her to commit this scale of fraud, and otherwise completely failing to do any degree of fact checking can't claim to be desperate people.
The idiot journalists and book publishers who utterly failed to confirm a single detail of what she said... those people are clowns who were just phoning it in by being too fucking lazy to say "can we at least confirm she had cancer?"
The problem becomes when it becomes an internet meme that you can cure cancer by eating fresh fruit and people stop going fro real treatment.
I know people who help propagate this bullshit, and almost all of them need to be smacked about the head and told "stop fucking passing this stuff off as fact you ignorant moron".
Well, I can't speak for the poster... but I think you can reasonably conclude (and in fact should) that if someone comes out of the blue and claims to have a miracle cure for cancer, but no scientific evidence you should treat them with a degree of skepticism.
That absolutely nobody ever confirmed a diagnosis of cancer tells me this was a fraud which was committed with the willing complicity of the media, her publisher, and everybody else who utterly failed to do anything other than take her on face value.
Maybe everyone didn't "know"... but people sure as shit should have been saying "OK, how credible is this claim". Because, really, reading the news stories about this... there was absolutely no basis to deem her claims credible.
Just a media who wanted to show a story, and a bunch of people who lacked critical thinking skills who wanted to believe in miracles, or something which matched their existing world view.
When people make big claims about their magic healing cure which has no scientific evidence or study... they should not be taken at face value.
It never ceases to amaze me how people want so badly to believe this crap that they just blindly accept some pretty extraordinary claims without proof.
What utterly boggles the mind is absolutely nobody ever fact checked what she said... not her cancer diagnosis, not her recovery, not a damned thing... she basically said "I had cancer and now I don't, I cured it with unicorns and ponies and stuff I read on the interwebs, hey, why not buy my app?"
Hell, she published a damned book, and nobody ever checked a single fact to make sure she wasn't lying.
Sorry folks, but as usual, if someone makes an extraordinary claim, they better provide some evidence. Or you should be treating them like they're full of shit.
From the anti-vaxers to the people who think the can cure cancer with healing crystals... people should stop being so damned trusting and naive. Because generally the people making these claims are full of shit, stand to gain financially.
Hell, the great quack Atkins never did a scrap of research despite selling tens of millions of books. Which means everything he ever said or the products which sprung up around him were more or less complete bullshit.
i just don't understand why people are so willing to believe in quackery with zero evidence.
What could someone possibly do if they gain admin access to a POS?
Ummm... it's kind of the cash register, tied into what sales you've made. So, with the admin password, maybe your staff can fiddle with the numbers and rob you blind.
Hell, it could be tied to your inventory system. Oh, and don't forget credit cards details of your patrons.
At the end of the day, he successfully put a plane down on the water, and nobody died.
We can bitch about the semantics of "landing" vs "ditching"... I'm simply going with "successfully transitioned from flying to not flying on a body of water and didn't kill anybody".
That's far closer to "water landing" than anything else I've ever heard of.
Everything else is pretty much a spectacular failure.
Do a Google search, end up on some random web page. Do you trust that website? Then why the fuck is your computer letting it run scripts?
Now, take the embedded scripts linking across a dozen or so sites which also ran in that page. Do you trust any of them? Why the hell would you? Why the fuck is your computer running them, then?
The problem is that the web has been more or less set up so that you will encounter websites you neither know nor trust all the time... and unless you're fairly paranoid and proactive, your browser is set to treat them all like they can be trusted, and just run any old shit they serve up.. javascript, Flash, videos.
So, I'm sorry, but your objection to "stop going to untrusted websites in the first place" sounds as if you have never actually used the internet before.
Hell, you hit the odd website which basically gives you instructions to turn on all cookies and javascript for any website you encounter.
The problem is that people who write websites act as if they are trustworthy out of the box, and practically insist you trust everything in order to be able to make anything work.
Sorry, but the internet is full of assholes and crooks... finding yourself looking at a page containing malicious crap but having your browser trust it is pretty much the default.
The scammers and spammers have started making the call display look like a number which is similar to the one they're calling. The first six digits the same as your own number.
I wouldn't trust the call display at all, because it's pretty much fake unless you know exactly who is calling. Because the corporations who started off using these call centers got exemptions to be able to spoof it, caller ID is now almost essentially useless.
Of course, I'd trust Facefuck to be on my phone about as far as I could throw Zuckerburg, because I know damned well they're a bunch of greedy assholes I don't trust at all.
There was the pilot who pulled off the amazing landing in the Hudson a few years ago. He was a rock star.
But, yes, I used to know people who did aircraft maintenance... and almost universally they sneered at the notion of a "water landing". The floating seat cushions were affectionately referred to as "crash debris locators".
I think more of Swissair 111 when I think "water landing". As a general rule, it's not considered something you'd want to be around for.
Opposing this program is about opposing the blank check that has been given to all governmental agencies to use mass surveillance against average citizens when there is no reason to suspect they are involved in anything illegal.
And don't forget subsequently using that information to commit institutional perjury as they engage in "parallel construction" so that the information they didn't legally obtain can be laundered into making it have the semblance of being legal, and make sure when they do charge you they can hide the facts of the case.
Papers please, comrade.
Sadly, these people who are sworn to defend the Constitution need to be beaten with a hard-bound copy of it -- because they don't seem to understand what the fuck it says.
Oddly enough, I know someone who works in this sector... crash simulators for helicopters in the event they make a water landing.
While this might be good for passengers to know more than the safety card... you want to be sure your actual flight crew have had real training.
Because when it's dark, chaotic, and water is everywhere you want to be damned sure the people responsible have done these steps under something resembling real circumstances, and not a frigging video game.
So, if you work in the offshore oil industry, for instance, you MUST take this training. And your video game just isn't gonna cut it.
The other side of the Compute Stick is home to a security notch, a USB 2.0 port, a micro-USB / power port and the power button. Note that the micro-USB / power port CANNOT be used for connecting devices. That is the port where the included micro USB cable connects to provide power to the Compute Stick.
So it's purely for supplying power.
But, it's got Bluetooth, so you can get keyboards and mice easily enough.
Slashdot Mirror
Lawmakers are too fucking stupid to understand technology.
This clown is no exception.
So you've basically failed to understand why they're necessary for astronomers to make sense of things?
Hubble isn't up there taking photographs with a camera .. the only way to interpret the images is with the false color stuff.
The Hubble images aren't artists conceptions, but they're not straight up camera pictures either. They're the actual real things, just processed to make humans be able to understand them.
Well, it was a concession to the music industry to make it hard to copy other people's music. So, yes, they have done it differently.
But, for me one of the best features is that special DB ... I have playlists based on the metadata which only Apple keeps (as far as I know at least) across devices. Like "songs I haven't played in six months or haven't played at least five times". You practically have a query language ... so you can pick all of your punk rock which isn't also Christmas (and, yes, I have that problem).
Sure, if I wanted to grab my music folder out of iTunes and import it into another player I could go back to the same level of technology I was using on FreeBSD in 2001 ... but honestly, I'd rather stick with iTunes and the playlists and metadata that special DB give me.
I don't ever manage my music by dragging and dropping ... so while your way is good for you, I'd rather just select which playlists to sync.
Me, I just load on a half dozen playlists, put it on big random, and let the playcount cycle them out on the next pass so I can work through all my music and hear it all. :-P
For me, the massive time investment I have in iTunes means when I rip a CD and assign a genre like "cuban/hip-hop" or "punk/xmas" they magically fall into the playlists where they belong because rules put them there ... and I won't hear a punk version of Silent Night in June. ;-)
My playlists are almost self curating now precisely because of that DB. And when you have Cuban hip-hop and punk Christmas albums you really want that.
At least I do.
They just need to regroup, figure out who to buy off, and do it again.
I'm sure someone is up for re-election, or wants a cushy job in the private sector, who can be "convinced of the merits of the case" with a suitcase full of cash.
Corporations don't stop doing crap like this just because the outcome would be bad for consumers.
Drone strikes where you just decide whatever civilians are nearby deserved to die results in unintended deaths.
Who fucking knew?
In other words, we're bumbling idiots.
Maybe your remote control warfare doesn't provide you with enough actual understanding of the situation and just deciding to bomb something without really knowing what you're doing is a bad idea?
'Collateral Damage' is military speak for "we don't actually care who we kill, but we'll pretend it's not a war crime".
If America keeps bombing Pakistan ... is it OK for Pakistan to bomb America? Because the level of "because we're special" which happens here is mind boggling.
Honestly, that's a stupid and trite answer.
There are NO places where you can buy legal digital copies of movies without DRM.
You can pirate them, but you can't buy them DRM free.
So what you're saying is "people should pirate, or not have digital copies of movies" ... but there is no way in hell there is any other service which is providing DRM-free movies, and this is not an issue specific to iTunes.
Yes, DRM sucks ... but iTunes isn't any worse than any other mechanism.
The only other one I'm even aware of is Ultraviolet ... and since it was done by the movie studios it's even more restrictive and evil to use.
And what the fuck does that have to do with the question" Which "better players" lawfully support iTunes purchases? Or from which store should one have lawfully purchased movies instead?
Would that be nothing at all and the existence of Emusic doesn't solve the problem which was posed and is therefore a useless answer?
So, yes, there exists another store which isn't iTunes ... and the existence of that store has not a damned thing to do with the stuff people have already purchased from iTunes.
Would you like fries with that? Because really, it's about as related to the specific question as Emusic is.
Anything can play MP3 ... literally hundreds of programs can play MP3... can Emusic play the movies purchased in iTunes?
If not, what you're suggesting is totally oblivious to the other media people get from iTunes.
So if for the last bunch of years I've been buying DVDs and Blu Rays which come with the digital copy from iTunes ... what piece of software plays those?
Playing MP3s is the most trivial part of all of this. So if all you have to suggest is another MP3 player, you have added nothing of value, and haven't solved the problem.
And sometimes, even on a more modern OS, Apple's stuff can fail for no obvious reason.
I recently swapped out my Vista box for Windows 8 (yeah, yeah, whatever) .. on both platforms I had the problem of getting an HTTP Error when trying to lookup tracks to rip the CD. No fix can be found for this which I can identify as working.
I gave up and busted out the evil Windows Media Player to rip a bunch of CDs I'd bought .. and then magically iTunes started being able to look up track names. How this could work, I have no idea.
Honestly, I'm not 100% sure Apple knows how their software works or why it fails.
I miss my old iPod classic, which didn't have an OS to update ... because it would never get upgraded to the point of broken with the assumption I'll just go out and spend a few hundred bucks on a new device.
Ah, but the people suggesting moving away from both Microsoft and Apple all run DRM free ogg-vorbis, and like to build their environments from a collection of parts.
The idea of actually using software for an extended period of time and needing it to work with devices is a foreign concept.
If they want music players they build their own using a Raspberry Pi and some chewing gum.
You don't think the oil and gas industry hasn't spent millions of dollars to try to say that fracking is perfectly safe and couldn't possibly cause any harm?
Basically they've done what the tobacco industry did .. delay, obfuscate, and claim that it's up to someone else to prove it's dangerous while they assume it's safe without evidence.
You don't think a massive lobbying, PR, and fake science campaign isn't an actual conspiracy?
Because, really, what they're doing is lying to the public, reaping billions in profits, and then claiming that everything they're doing is perfectly safe.
Which, of course, is increasingly proven to be bullshit.
Yes, but all of the people who weren't diagnosed with cancer who were reporting this, enabling her to commit this scale of fraud, and otherwise completely failing to do any degree of fact checking can't claim to be desperate people.
The idiot journalists and book publishers who utterly failed to confirm a single detail of what she said ... those people are clowns who were just phoning it in by being too fucking lazy to say "can we at least confirm she had cancer?"
The problem becomes when it becomes an internet meme that you can cure cancer by eating fresh fruit and people stop going fro real treatment.
I know people who help propagate this bullshit, and almost all of them need to be smacked about the head and told "stop fucking passing this stuff off as fact you ignorant moron".
Well, I can't speak for the poster ... but I think you can reasonably conclude (and in fact should) that if someone comes out of the blue and claims to have a miracle cure for cancer, but no scientific evidence you should treat them with a degree of skepticism.
That absolutely nobody ever confirmed a diagnosis of cancer tells me this was a fraud which was committed with the willing complicity of the media, her publisher, and everybody else who utterly failed to do anything other than take her on face value.
Maybe everyone didn't "know" ... but people sure as shit should have been saying "OK, how credible is this claim". Because, really, reading the news stories about this ... there was absolutely no basis to deem her claims credible.
Just a media who wanted to show a story, and a bunch of people who lacked critical thinking skills who wanted to believe in miracles, or something which matched their existing world view.
When people make big claims about their magic healing cure which has no scientific evidence or study ... they should not be taken at face value.
It never ceases to amaze me how people want so badly to believe this crap that they just blindly accept some pretty extraordinary claims without proof.
What utterly boggles the mind is absolutely nobody ever fact checked what she said ... not her cancer diagnosis, not her recovery, not a damned thing ... she basically said "I had cancer and now I don't, I cured it with unicorns and ponies and stuff I read on the interwebs, hey, why not buy my app?"
Hell, she published a damned book, and nobody ever checked a single fact to make sure she wasn't lying.
Sorry folks, but as usual, if someone makes an extraordinary claim, they better provide some evidence. Or you should be treating them like they're full of shit.
From the anti-vaxers to the people who think the can cure cancer with healing crystals ... people should stop being so damned trusting and naive. Because generally the people making these claims are full of shit, stand to gain financially.
Hell, the great quack Atkins never did a scrap of research despite selling tens of millions of books. Which means everything he ever said or the products which sprung up around him were more or less complete bullshit.
i just don't understand why people are so willing to believe in quackery with zero evidence.
Ummm ... it's kind of the cash register, tied into what sales you've made. So, with the admin password, maybe your staff can fiddle with the numbers and rob you blind.
Hell, it could be tied to your inventory system. Oh, and don't forget credit cards details of your patrons.
Your POS is the keys to the kingdom.
Possibly a Chevy Nova.
Maybe even Aldo Nova.
At the end of the day, he successfully put a plane down on the water, and nobody died.
We can bitch about the semantics of "landing" vs "ditching" ... I'm simply going with "successfully transitioned from flying to not flying on a body of water and didn't kill anybody".
That's far closer to "water landing" than anything else I've ever heard of.
Everything else is pretty much a spectacular failure.
Do a Google search, end up on some random web page. Do you trust that website? Then why the fuck is your computer letting it run scripts?
Now, take the embedded scripts linking across a dozen or so sites which also ran in that page. Do you trust any of them? Why the hell would you? Why the fuck is your computer running them, then?
The problem is that the web has been more or less set up so that you will encounter websites you neither know nor trust all the time ... and unless you're fairly paranoid and proactive, your browser is set to treat them all like they can be trusted, and just run any old shit they serve up .. javascript, Flash, videos.
So, I'm sorry, but your objection to "stop going to untrusted websites in the first place" sounds as if you have never actually used the internet before.
Hell, you hit the odd website which basically gives you instructions to turn on all cookies and javascript for any website you encounter.
The problem is that people who write websites act as if they are trustworthy out of the box, and practically insist you trust everything in order to be able to make anything work.
Sorry, but the internet is full of assholes and crooks ... finding yourself looking at a page containing malicious crap but having your browser trust it is pretty much the default.
Have you been paying attention lately?
The scammers and spammers have started making the call display look like a number which is similar to the one they're calling. The first six digits the same as your own number.
I wouldn't trust the call display at all, because it's pretty much fake unless you know exactly who is calling. Because the corporations who started off using these call centers got exemptions to be able to spoof it, caller ID is now almost essentially useless.
Of course, I'd trust Facefuck to be on my phone about as far as I could throw Zuckerburg, because I know damned well they're a bunch of greedy assholes I don't trust at all.
There was the pilot who pulled off the amazing landing in the Hudson a few years ago. He was a rock star.
But, yes, I used to know people who did aircraft maintenance ... and almost universally they sneered at the notion of a "water landing". The floating seat cushions were affectionately referred to as "crash debris locators".
I think more of Swissair 111 when I think "water landing". As a general rule, it's not considered something you'd want to be around for.
And don't forget subsequently using that information to commit institutional perjury as they engage in "parallel construction" so that the information they didn't legally obtain can be laundered into making it have the semblance of being legal, and make sure when they do charge you they can hide the facts of the case.
Papers please, comrade.
Sadly, these people who are sworn to defend the Constitution need to be beaten with a hard-bound copy of it -- because they don't seem to understand what the fuck it says.
Oddly enough, I know someone who works in this sector ... crash simulators for helicopters in the event they make a water landing.
While this might be good for passengers to know more than the safety card ... you want to be sure your actual flight crew have had real training.
Because when it's dark, chaotic, and water is everywhere you want to be damned sure the people responsible have done these steps under something resembling real circumstances, and not a frigging video game.
So, if you work in the offshore oil industry, for instance, you MUST take this training. And your video game just isn't gonna cut it.
Oh, yes, I'm an idiot apparently.
Somehow the two USB references got mashed up in my head.
Yes, you are 100% correct ... there's a USB port you can use for devices, and one for power.
Actually, I thought the same thing initially:
So it's purely for supplying power.
But, it's got Bluetooth, so you can get keyboards and mice easily enough.
Sorry, you should refrain from bitching about this. There's a long list of things you have to bitch about before you can get to this one.
What's that? Not everybody works on the same problems or has to wait until all other problems are solved first?
Wow, who knew.