One thing people are missing regarding YouTube inserting ads in the middle of videos, when they try to compare it to broadcast TV.
When you watched a show on TV, and they were inserting ads in the middle, those shows would be edited with the expectation that there would be commercial breaks, and the layout of the show would account for them. On YouTube, they'll break in with a commercial whenever they feel like it. Doesn't matter if you're watching a musical performance, technical presentation, whatever. The person in the video could be in mid-sentence, mid-phrase, and YT/Google will jump in and say "fuck what you were watching, here's an ad".
You know, for the most part I was willing to tolerate reasonable advertising on YT, because I realize someone has to pay for keeping the servers running. I have some clue of the economics of it. But when they start breaking into the MIDDLE of videos, at illogical and inappropriate places, then it prompts me to find a way to block ALL advertising on YT, even the ones I was willing to tolerate. Fuck 'em.
Not to mention that now they *INSIST* upon placing thumbnails of other videos on TOP of the video even before it's done playing. Seriously? Perhaps there was something at the end of that video we wanted to see. And their jackass thumbnails ruin the viewing experience. When I complained on their so-called "support" forums, some mealy-mouthed GoogleTwit(TM) said "oh, people are supposed to add extra space at the end of the video..." Really? I don't think so. Google would like to pass off the blame to OTHERS for their own bullshit mistakes. No concept of usage cases, no thought that when they *change* their shit code, it breaks things that worked before. They expect people to have to constantly revisit everything just in case Google fucked up yet something ELSE in the interim. Can't even own up to their own fuckups (then again, there are SO many of them, it must be impossible to keep track).
Sad state that the ONLY thing Google seem capable of developing without royally fucking it up is advertising. Everything else they make may turn to shit (or just outright start out as shit from the get-go), but boy can they serve ads.
Website owners will abandon direct content moderation altogether and leave it to user volunteers, who have proven historically to be much more effective defenders of the groupthink than a team of hired moderators could ever be.
Websites can then indirectly implement any desired content policies/censorship by taking measures that encourage or discourage certain types of users from participating as moderators, or just limit the "wrong" users' moderation privileges somehow. (So think 'Jim Crow', only instead of dreaming up creative ways to block blacks from voting, you're blocking wrongthinkers from expressing their opinions)
As quick as I am to get on MS, I'm not sure that this is a case of something they wanted to do. Given the timing, I wonder if this happens to have anything to do with that stupid anti-sex trafficking legislation that just passed.
Of course, they could just be dicks,...
Probably both. Why not make use of new legislation as a NEW excuse to be dicks.
Hey, come on. ReactOS is well on it's way to full WinXP-compatibility in only 10 years time.
Although I do think it could have become a usable alternative a few years back; when all those companies were panicking about the impending demise of WinXP, they could have pumped money and resources into ROS and had a drop-in rplacement for XP that wasn't dependent on MS. But instead they acted like the cowards they are, bent over and spread them for MS once again.
Hey, if people will actually PAY for the rights to names like "Circuit City" and "Crazy Eddies", some sucker will think the Palm name is still relevant. Sure, we all miss the far-greater functionality of PalmOS over the provider-locked iOS and Android ecosystems, but I miss my 1970 Ford Maverick as well (although I'm still more likely to find parts for that than I am to find something to run on PalmOS these days).
My impression is that "handhelds" have severely degraded since the market went to "smartphones" and abandoned the vastly superior PDAs. Why should I have to squirt my data half-way around the world to some dirt-floor shack in Bangalore, just to have it returned to a device no more than three feet from the source computer? That's what USB and Bluetooth is for. We need to develop a super-set of the PalmOS sync protocol and shoehorn it into Android. Then we could start regaining some sanity and usability in handhelds.
Not to mention all those ridiculous "Stop quitting your apps!" articles going around lately chastising users for force quitting apps.
Yeah, it severely pisses me onff on Android that the overwhelming majority of audio player apps think it's perfectly fine to KEEP playing audio even after you've closed the app. So you have audio playing, and NO UI to manage it or shut it off. You can't STOP playing audio, only pause it. And the fact that it is so pervasive throughough the entire gamut of Android apps, I can only presume it's an inherent defect in Android itself.
"teaching evolution AND creation"... But then you have to ask, *WHOSE* story of creation? The Abrahamic 6-days and whooping it up on the seventh day? Or perhaps Vishnu sprouting a flower in his navel? Or perhaps the Shinto Egg? That's just three right off the top of my head, I know there are many others, so in reality you'd have to teach ALL of them, otherwise you spend years in court because some group you forgot about got left out.
Granted, the whole "egg" story in Shinto sounds an awful like a "big bang" creation theory of the universe. Or, isolated semi-locally, a supernova spawning a stellar nursery.
>...as the movement seeks to share innovative hardware designs and drive down costs in the telecom arena...
. Is it coincidence they talk about reducing *costs*, but fail to mention reducing *prices*?
You defend X by talking about "network transparency" (the mating call of the X11 noob). "Network transparency" is a rarely used X11 feature which is fully supported in Wayland as an extension. So the rare few people who need it will have access to it.
and YOUR feeble excuse that network transparency may or (more likely) may not be available as an extension does NOT help if it is not always available BY DEFAULT on any system you may need to remotely connect to. If Wayland becomes widely implemented they way *you* want to see it done, it's highly likely the overwhelming majority of systems will be forever isolated and unreachable. For all that will give us, you might as well be using the Point-and-Drool MSWindows interface you seem so hot and horny to emulate. It certainly would make my job significantly more difficult.
The larger question I have, and asked many times before without getting any sort of satisfying answer is - what does Wayland provide that X cannot?
Wayland provides severe broken-ness and an inability to work on remote systems. It's designed to bring all the uselessness of MSWindows to the Unix world.
I actually wonder what the cry here is anyway. My impression was that there was not many GNOME users in/. anyway, as many of them had jumped the ship a long ago for other reasons.
Mainly because Gnome won't just remove middle-click from Gnome-shell. If they were removing it, it would be from additional apps like Gnome-Terminal, Gedit, etc. And these get used in a lot of environments even if you're running Cinnamon, etc.
But the problem is, Cinnamon is still using Gnome3 for most of it's functionality (other than the shell and the file manager). If Gnome removes middle-button finctionality, it will be through the whole gamut of component helper programmes (including Gnome-terminal). So Cinnamon would be fucked even if they didn't *want* to be fucked.
If this becomes the case with Gnome, I *ABSOLUTELY* will be removing all Gnome components. Not as a protest against their design decision, but because any Gnome application would be *BREAKING* functionality I use hundreds of times a day. It's time for ALL the Gnome developers to *stop* developing Unix software and go write for MSWindows. Leave their positions for *competent* designers and developrs to work instead. If they want to break things, go break things on MSWin, so that us folks doing *REAL* work can get on with it.
And if it's a problem with Wayland, wlll then it's yet ANOTHER reason that Wayland should die _now_. Wayland is starting to look more and more like Obamacare; a severely bad idea that will trash everything in it's path, and will prove impossibe to remove if it's ever allowed to be implented.
But then we need to start encoding communications with steganography inside those Kim Kardashin pictures (gee, could actually find something KK is useful for...)
You do realize that most of the folks in Northern california fall under standard rural demographics, which leans to republican* right?
You do realize that "Northern California" is not simply "everything north of LA" right ?
You do realize that Senators don't have districts and are elected by the entire state right?
You do realize that her power base is primarily San Francisco and the Southern California cities (LA metro, San Diego) right?
(*Other than San Francisco and Hippy Central I mean Mt Shasta City)
So California is like New York in that respect. If NY State could KICK NYC OUT (they might as well take Westchester county as well, Long Island will have to decide whether to go with NYC or CT), then NY State could become a decent place to live. Certainly more affordable.
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One thing people are missing regarding YouTube inserting ads in the middle of videos, when they try to compare it to broadcast TV.
When you watched a show on TV, and they were inserting ads in the middle, those shows would be edited with the expectation that there would be commercial breaks, and the layout of the show would account for them. On YouTube, they'll break in with a commercial whenever they feel like it. Doesn't matter if you're watching a musical performance, technical presentation, whatever. The person in the video could be in mid-sentence, mid-phrase, and YT/Google will jump in and say "fuck what you were watching, here's an ad".
You know, for the most part I was willing to tolerate reasonable advertising on YT, because I realize someone has to pay for keeping the servers running. I have some clue of the economics of it. But when they start breaking into the MIDDLE of videos, at illogical and inappropriate places, then it prompts me to find a way to block ALL advertising on YT, even the ones I was willing to tolerate. Fuck 'em.
Not to mention that now they *INSIST* upon placing thumbnails of other videos on TOP of the video even before it's done playing. Seriously? Perhaps there was something at the end of that video we wanted to see. And their jackass thumbnails ruin the viewing experience. When I complained on their so-called "support" forums, some mealy-mouthed GoogleTwit(TM) said "oh, people are supposed to add extra space at the end of the video..." Really? I don't think so. Google would like to pass off the blame to OTHERS for their own bullshit mistakes. No concept of usage cases, no thought that when they *change* their shit code, it breaks things that worked before. They expect people to have to constantly revisit everything just in case Google fucked up yet something ELSE in the interim. Can't even own up to their own fuckups (then again, there are SO many of them, it must be impossible to keep track).
Sad state that the ONLY thing Google seem capable of developing without royally fucking it up is advertising. Everything else they make may turn to shit (or just outright start out as shit from the get-go), but boy can they serve ads.
What the fucking fuckity fuck.
Going to have trouble streaming episodes of "The Thick Of It" then.
The web is mostly pirated material, porn, and everything else no government wants you to have free and easy access to.
Actually, more likely they'd *prefer* you were looking at porn, that way you'll be too busy to notice what nasty shit *they're* up to.
Website owners will abandon direct content moderation altogether and leave it to user volunteers, who have proven historically to be much more effective defenders of the groupthink than a team of hired moderators could ever be.
Websites can then indirectly implement any desired content policies/censorship by taking measures that encourage or discourage certain types of users from participating as moderators, or just limit the "wrong" users' moderation privileges somehow. (So think 'Jim Crow', only instead of dreaming up creative ways to block blacks from voting, you're blocking wrongthinkers from expressing their opinions)
Ah, you mean the StackExchange model...
As quick as I am to get on MS, I'm not sure that this is a case of something they wanted to do. Given the timing, I wonder if this happens to have anything to do with that stupid anti-sex trafficking legislation that just passed.
Of course, they could just be dicks,...
Probably both. Why not make use of new legislation as a NEW excuse to be dicks.
Everyone will just start using Cockney Rhyming Slang... Oh wait, that has the word "cock" in it; guess we'll have to call it Penis-ney Rhyming Slang.
Hey, come on. ReactOS is well on it's way to full WinXP-compatibility in only 10 years time.
Although I do think it could have become a usable alternative a few years back; when all those companies were panicking about the impending demise of WinXP, they could have pumped money and resources into ROS and had a drop-in rplacement for XP that wasn't dependent on MS. But instead they acted like the cowards they are, bent over and spread them for MS once again.
Hey, if people will actually PAY for the rights to names like "Circuit City" and "Crazy Eddies", some sucker will think the Palm name is still relevant. Sure, we all miss the far-greater functionality of PalmOS over the provider-locked iOS and Android ecosystems, but I miss my 1970 Ford Maverick as well (although I'm still more likely to find parts for that than I am to find something to run on PalmOS these days).
My impression is that "handhelds" have severely degraded since the market went to "smartphones" and abandoned the vastly superior PDAs. Why should I have to squirt my data half-way around the world to some dirt-floor shack in Bangalore, just to have it returned to a device no more than three feet from the source computer? That's what USB and Bluetooth is for. We need to develop a super-set of the PalmOS sync protocol and shoehorn it into Android. Then we could start regaining some sanity and usability in handhelds.
Not to mention all those ridiculous "Stop quitting your apps!" articles going around lately chastising users for force quitting apps.
Yeah, it severely pisses me onff on Android that the overwhelming majority of audio player apps think it's perfectly fine to KEEP playing audio even after you've closed the app. So you have audio playing, and NO UI to manage it or shut it off. You can't STOP playing audio, only pause it. And the fact that it is so pervasive throughough the entire gamut of Android apps, I can only presume it's an inherent defect in Android itself.
"teaching evolution AND creation"... But then you have to ask, *WHOSE* story of creation? The Abrahamic 6-days and whooping it up on the seventh day? Or perhaps Vishnu sprouting a flower in his navel? Or perhaps the Shinto Egg? That's just three right off the top of my head, I know there are many others, so in reality you'd have to teach ALL of them, otherwise you spend years in court because some group you forgot about got left out.
Granted, the whole "egg" story in Shinto sounds an awful like a "big bang" creation theory of the universe. Or, isolated semi-locally, a supernova spawning a stellar nursery.
Well, we probably *could* get away with slower broadbamd *IF* websites weren't loading their sites with tracking code and worthless cruft.
> ...as the movement seeks to share innovative hardware designs and drive down costs in the telecom arena...
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Is it coincidence they talk about reducing *costs*, but fail to mention reducing *prices*?
You defend X by talking about "network transparency" (the mating call of the X11 noob). "Network transparency" is a rarely used X11 feature which is fully supported in Wayland as an extension. So the rare few people who need it will have access to it.
and YOUR feeble excuse that network transparency may or (more likely) may not be available as an extension does NOT help if it is not always available BY DEFAULT on any system you may need to remotely connect to. If Wayland becomes widely implemented they way *you* want to see it done, it's highly likely the overwhelming majority of systems will be forever isolated and unreachable. For all that will give us, you might as well be using the Point-and-Drool MSWindows interface you seem so hot and horny to emulate. It certainly would make my job significantly more difficult.
The larger question I have, and asked many times before without getting any sort of satisfying answer is - what does Wayland provide that X cannot?
Wayland provides severe broken-ness and an inability to work on remote systems. It's designed to bring all the uselessness of MSWindows to the Unix world.
I actually wonder what the cry here is anyway. My impression was that there was not many GNOME users in /. anyway, as many of them had jumped the ship a long ago for other reasons.
Mainly because Gnome won't just remove middle-click from Gnome-shell. If they were removing it, it would be from additional apps like Gnome-Terminal, Gedit, etc. And these get used in a lot of environments even if you're running Cinnamon, etc.
...Just who was the Gnome team surveying anyway? Idiots?
. You mean themselves? Yeah, probably
But the problem is, Cinnamon is still using Gnome3 for most of it's functionality (other than the shell and the file manager). If Gnome removes middle-button finctionality, it will be through the whole gamut of component helper programmes (including Gnome-terminal). So Cinnamon would be fucked even if they didn't *want* to be fucked.
If this becomes the case with Gnome, I *ABSOLUTELY* will be removing all Gnome components. Not as a protest against their design decision, but because any Gnome application would be *BREAKING* functionality I use hundreds of times a day. It's time for ALL the Gnome developers to *stop* developing Unix software and go write for MSWindows. Leave their positions for *competent* designers and developrs to work instead. If they want to break things, go break things on MSWin, so that us folks doing *REAL* work can get on with it. And if it's a problem with Wayland, wlll then it's yet ANOTHER reason that Wayland should die _now_. Wayland is starting to look more and more like Obamacare; a severely bad idea that will trash everything in it's path, and will prove impossibe to remove if it's ever allowed to be implented.
But then we need to start encoding communications with steganography inside those Kim Kardashin pictures (gee, could actually find something KK is useful for...)
You do realize that most of the folks in Northern california fall under standard rural demographics, which leans to republican* right? You do realize that "Northern California" is not simply "everything north of LA" right ? You do realize that Senators don't have districts and are elected by the entire state right? You do realize that her power base is primarily San Francisco and the Southern California cities (LA metro, San Diego) right?
(*Other than San Francisco and Hippy Central I mean Mt Shasta City)
So California is like New York in that respect. If NY State could KICK NYC OUT (they might as well take Westchester county as well, Long Island will have to decide whether to go with NYC or CT), then NY State could become a decent place to live. Certainly more affordable.