Steve Jobs discussed the problems of the TV market for high tech at D8 in 2010 (fast forward to 1:31:06). Essentially, no one will pay for more innovative product because everyone already gets near-free, subsidized hardware that's good enough and there's not enough room to make money doing something more interesting.
"Ask Tivo, ask ReplayTV...ask Google in a few months."
You probably won't believe this, but I did exactly that with Fallout 3: New Vegas.
I wasn't going to play via Steam - because I have several software titles rotting on the shelf due to software activation servers that are no longer available.
So I got a copy from Bittorrent and subsequently mailed Bethesda a money order for the retail price - less the price of the money order fee, which I thought was fair.
I sent it anonymously because I didn't trust Bethesda not to sue me. I did give them a disposable GMail email, but they never replied (though I stopped checking it after a couple months).
Indeed. After reading "I'd estimate that there's a 10% chance RSA will be useless within 20 years" I knew the poster was just a kid who'd read Crypto-Gram for the first time and wanted to sound crypto-l33t.
A single nation, US of A releases 25% of world's greenhouse gases. "Third world" is not even in the picture here. US beats everyone even in emissions per dollar of economic activity.
So you're saying 75% of the problem is the rest of the world...
If you think the third world is not part of the problem, then you're just a half-educated college student pumping your fist in the air.
You can twist stats however you want - "emissions per dollar of economic activity" is a nice one - but the reality is that the U.S. is not the sole cause of the problem.
For example, turn off every power plant and factory that is not at U.S. emissions standards (China, etc.) and the whole climate change problem simply vanishes.
Sorry for the reality check...you can now return to America-bashing and getting drunk in the dorm.
If webmasters had a clue, they'd write straight HTML and can the CSS. My phone isn't an iPhone or Android, but it will play YouTube videos just fine. However, most text only websites won't render properly -- the text goes off the screen rather than wrapping like it should.
The problem is people making web pages who don't know shit about HTML, and use one of the HTML editors. If you want to make a web site, learn HTML. If you want your site to dosplay on a phone, don't use CSS.
You apparently don't know what CSS is or what it's used for. Making a site work display well on a phone has zero to do with use of CSS (or not). In fact, it's much easier to make a site that renders nicely on all sorts of devices if you use CSS.
I can't comment on dosplay, but you do rant like someone who is still using MS-DOS.
This makes perfect sense. Almost nothing depends on mono anymore. Ditch the last holdouts, replace them with alternatives without the taint and move on.
From the article: "Make that Windows right next to the mainframe -- i.e., running on the zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension (zBX), the mainframe/open systems sidecar...First, Windows-in-a-zBX isn't Windows-in-zVM. Still less is it Windows running in a special processor, a la IBM's Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL). So Windows won't be running on non-x64 -- i.e., Big Iron -- CMOS. Nevertheless, customers will be able to manage Windows from their zEnterprise 196 or zEnterprise 114 mainframes...
Actually it is. The way these things get fixed are by making people aware of the problem. No software is absolutely bug free. As much as some people would like to stick their fingers in their ears and say "la-la-la not a problem...", there are just as many us who would like to fix the issue. So, yes this is news.
No it's not, and you didn't read what he said before you got on your little "what I learned in on security-howto-tutorials.org last week" soapbox.
you don't know what patents cover until courts declare that in litigation
Same thing is true for civil liberties.
Same thing is true for torts and liabilities.
Same thing is true for criminal law.
Etc. It's the nature of our English law system. It provides extreme flexibility at the cost of being vague.
On the other hand, various continental systems are much more exact, but less flexible.
Of course, if every time there's a question of law, it takes hours and hours to research (at $500/hr), lawyers tend to get rich. Which means the chances of reform in the US are nil.
Slashdot Mirror
First time accepted submitter
Long time listener, first time caller. Thanks for taking my call.
Come on, it is almost 2012, everyone should have understood a long time ago that people don't search for content based on the domain name.
I'm starting to think that this is not the non-profit punctuation discussion site I was l looking for...
Then how does that fit in with AppleTV?
He describes Apple TV as a "hobbyist" product.
Steve Jobs discussed the problems of the TV market for high tech at D8 in 2010 (fast forward to 1:31:06). Essentially, no one will pay for more innovative product because everyone already gets near-free, subsidized hardware that's good enough and there's not enough room to make money doing something more interesting.
"Ask Tivo, ask ReplayTV...ask Google in a few months."
LOL!
Bash Microsoft, you're Insightful.
Bash a game publisher with TEH KEWL GAMEZ and you're Troll.
You probably won't believe this, but I did exactly that with Fallout 3: New Vegas.
I wasn't going to play via Steam - because I have several software titles rotting on the shelf due to software activation servers that are no longer available.
So I got a copy from Bittorrent and subsequently mailed Bethesda a money order for the retail price - less the price of the money order fee, which I thought was fair.
I sent it anonymously because I didn't trust Bethesda not to sue me. I did give them a disposable GMail email, but they never replied (though I stopped checking it after a couple months).
The Elder Scrolls Return With Steam
Oblivion didn't have that nonsense. I bought a copy and gave two copies away as gifts.
This one mandates Steam/activation? I'll get a copy from The Pirate Bay, thanks.
No self respecting BB user
Isn't that impossible?
Indeed. After reading "I'd estimate that there's a 10% chance RSA will be useless within 20 years" I knew the poster was just a kid who'd read Crypto-Gram for the first time and wanted to sound crypto-l33t.
So again I ask: what are you going to do about it? What will you or have you changed about your lifestyle to help avert global disaster?
Wait for FTL travel. Eat beef and drive SUVs in the meantime.
No, mon ami, it is almost all US. In fact, about 25% of world greenhouse emissions, more than any other nation, even if weighted by economic activity.
You do not even understand the statistics you're quoting. It's almost all due to the U.S. because they account for 25%.
Stop taking sociology and take some math courses.
Beware of any statistics presented in English, for the publishers have an obvious incentive to skew the output for political reasons.
As you perfectly illustrate!
A single nation, US of A releases 25% of world's greenhouse gases. "Third world" is not even in the picture here. US beats everyone even in emissions per dollar of economic activity.
So you're saying 75% of the problem is the rest of the world...
If you think the third world is not part of the problem, then you're just a half-educated college student pumping your fist in the air.
You can twist stats however you want - "emissions per dollar of economic activity" is a nice one - but the reality is that the U.S. is not the sole cause of the problem.
For example, turn off every power plant and factory that is not at U.S. emissions standards (China, etc.) and the whole climate change problem simply vanishes.
Sorry for the reality check...you can now return to America-bashing and getting drunk in the dorm.
How exactly has Oracle "messed up" VirtualBox?
Adobe's products will not run on case sensitive file systems.
I thought surely this must be hyperbole, but no.
If webmasters had a clue, they'd write straight HTML and can the CSS. My phone isn't an iPhone or Android, but it will play YouTube videos just fine. However, most text only websites won't render properly -- the text goes off the screen rather than wrapping like it should.
The problem is people making web pages who don't know shit about HTML, and use one of the HTML editors. If you want to make a web site, learn HTML. If you want your site to dosplay on a phone, don't use CSS.
You apparently don't know what CSS is or what it's used for. Making a site work display well on a phone has zero to do with use of CSS (or not). In fact, it's much easier to make a site that renders nicely on all sorts of devices if you use CSS.
I can't comment on dosplay, but you do rant like someone who is still using MS-DOS.
Mobile being the future of the Web
OK, who let the Gartner fanboi in...
This makes perfect sense. Almost nothing depends on mono anymore. Ditch the last holdouts, replace them with alternatives without the taint and move on.
The "taint"? I assume WINE and Samba are next.
Well, it's not as bad as Tom Hudson changing his sex and becoming Barbara Hudson.
...because we're using desktops, not tablets.
1. Someone sits next to me.
2. I take their picture with my camera.
3. I wonder aloud if perhaps I should the picture and video of what they're watching on YouTube.
4. Profit.
From the article: "Make that Windows right next to the mainframe -- i.e., running on the zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension (zBX), the mainframe/open systems sidecar...First, Windows-in-a-zBX isn't Windows-in-zVM. Still less is it Windows running in a special processor, a la IBM's Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL). So Windows won't be running on non-x64 -- i.e., Big Iron -- CMOS. Nevertheless, customers will be able to manage Windows from their zEnterprise 196 or zEnterprise 114 mainframes...
It is a 'monster' increase that is unheard of
Which monster increases have you heard of?
> This isn't really news
Actually it is. The way these things get fixed are by making people aware of the problem. No software is absolutely bug free. As much as some people would like to stick their fingers in their ears and say "la-la-la not a problem...", there are just as many us who would like to fix the issue. So, yes this is news.
No it's not, and you didn't read what he said before you got on your little "what I learned in on security-howto-tutorials.org last week" soapbox.
...give me a way to exclude stories tagged politics from my Slashdot page.
you don't know what patents cover until courts declare that in litigation
Same thing is true for civil liberties.
Same thing is true for torts and liabilities.
Same thing is true for criminal law.
Etc. It's the nature of our English law system. It provides extreme flexibility at the cost of being vague.
On the other hand, various continental systems are much more exact, but less flexible.
Of course, if every time there's a question of law, it takes hours and hours to research (at $500/hr), lawyers tend to get rich. Which means the chances of reform in the US are nil.