The current assclown isn't going to change jack and/or squat. ...
He's going to die, just like everyone else before him has. Even if you don't pay taxes, death will get you.
Just looked up the glorious leader's birthday, Google says its Jan 8, 1983.
Instead of a mundane half hour offset to set NK tz to UTC+8:30, he could always be creative and set it to say UTC+8:31.8 (83/1/8) and have a reminder of his august (but in Jan) birthday for everyone that has to deal with NK time zones:-) If not Jong-Un himself, his auspicious birthday digits could lead forever!
Elop announced a shuttering of all existing platforms used (Meego, Maemo, Symbian) and talked about switching to an unused & untried platform instead (Windows Phone) - I'm surprised that people can actually think he's incompetent; to me just reading about that speech was very convincing evidence that he was a brilliant Microsoft operative.
There was iirc some talk in the articles at the time, of how Nokia & Microsoft had some common shareholders who wanted to use Nokia to prop up the MS share prices after Windows Phone had a bad initial reception. I can completely believe this theory, maybe they didn't plan to pump & dump but genuinely thought that riding on trusted Nokia's reputation would rescue WinPhone from irrelevance. Whatever the reason, they picked Elop as CEO and either lost their shirts over the next couple of years, or more likely just cashed out before the trainwreck became too obvious to investors.
Nokia was steadily losing market share due to not having any Android phones, nor a good competitor for iPhone. Their latest Maemo devices had good reviews, but were limited to high-end phones only and also were never offered for subsidized contract prices in the US (afaik).
There were many better options for them to take, like having a good upgrade path for Symbian devs to create Maemo apps and not treating smartphones as a premium-only product that should not be sold in cheaper variants. They should also have been able to strike deals with US carriers for cheap smartphones that were free after 2 year contract - the Nokia at the time was still a well respected phone giant with great industry connections.
Instead, their shareholders allowed people on the board with little interest in the company's future and more focus on getting short term gains for their portfolios. They got Elop as CEO, and the infamous 'burning bridges' speech killed off Symbian & Meego/Maemo in a single day... with no replacement coming for around a year! I'm amazed that a majority of shareholders were clueless enough to keep him around after that speech, it was clearly obvious that he'd just declared *all* of their then-current product lines as obsolete.
Right before Elop came onboard, Nokia had bought Navteq which gave them a chance to leapfrog Google Maps by offering a similarly comprehensive navigation app which also worked offline (at the time, GMaps didn't). Low cost smartphones running Maemo with Nokia Maps (now called Here) would have been an easy sell to people fond of Nokia hardware & reliability who wanted to dispose of their quickly-outdated standalone GPS devices.
I've long thought of this (removing networking from the bots) as being the best actual solution, too bad that there is no way to do so legally. Maybe use the bots to scan for 0-day vulnerabilities, and forcibly upgrade or configure security FW/AV etc. to deal with it:D
Well, I also wondered why no black hat ever tried it, but I guess all of them are busy making a lot of $$ selling exploits to various agencies rather than disrupting other black hats.
Either everyone is breaking that 100ms limit, or else it is per ad and adds up if the browser is say, loading 5 at a time on a page with 20 ads. I have noticed sluggish loading on ad-laden sites for a very long time now, I keep trying to disable AdBlock to support sites and regret it soon after.
This also happens when the site is using the originally text-based Google AdWords - which btw has become worse over time, with some video ads being served and also some rogue publishers which aren't always caught (one site I regularly visit has semi-frequent complaints from users about problematic ads when they disable ABP to support it).
I suspect that besides just the ads loading time, they are increasingly using more detailed analytics js which also contributes to site slowness, in order to market data for higher premiums.
I used to really like G+ , and was using it a bit - then Google 'redesigned' the UI to have the multi column layout, and incidentally did *something* to make it super laggy on Firefox. Maybe it works just fine on Chrome, idk - but I'm not going to switch to their browser just because they completely messed up on optimization for their new design.
Ever since, I never actively use G+ and get upset whenever I accidentally click a link that ends up there while I have to first watch my browser almost freeze and then take forever to get to the page.
nothing to do whatsoever with domestic surveillance.
Considering that American & UK anti-virus programs weren't targeted, that implies they already have in-built backdoors - which can easily be used for surveillance, whether domestic or international.
This clearly explains why the only music being pirated today is centuries-old classical music, not the top-40 rock and pop hits released last week.
Because "few people" object to granting artists a reasonable term of copyright!
The problem is that you're making people used to ignoring laws by having such unreasonable copyright terms, and when piracy becomes socially acceptable due to lobbyist-sponsored increasing copyrights and secret trade agreements - most people aren't going to finely distinguish who deserves to be paid for their efforts.
Its similar to speed limits imho, they're set based on speeds that were probably reasonable 50+ years ago with no change to account for better technology - and this has resulted in traffic usually moving at *over* the maximum speed limit on most major roads. You can argue that people are evil for speeding past hospitals or schools or bad visibility roads etc.; but once the public is desensitized to lawbreaking due to asinine rules then it becomes second nature to ignore the law in all cases.
It is also *completely* natural and acceptable for consumers to refuse to do these things, and refuse to spend their money on the product they're being asked to buy with onerous conditions attached.
Sounds good - and what are the alternatives, when the cost & potential profits in marketing & pushing perpetually copyrighted music makes it unfeasible for reasonable alternatives to exist at all? Even *finding* good alternatives consistently is a herculean task as they're completely ignored by the mainstream press. I fail to see how it can be completely natural to 'refuse' when the alternate choices wither away due to lack of exposure.
> Things like invasive DRM that stops infringers for all of about one day but annoy legitimate users until the end
So true, reading about Sony rootkit, Spore DRM etc. just made me more scared to buy legal games - meanwhile, game torrents install and run without any problems.
Of course, then I buy Diablo III, am happy the DRM isn't causing computer problems; and find out its my turn to get frustrated at game design instead:P
This sounds like a metric about as useful as LOC (lines of code) - it favors all those devs who like to make multiple 2 line changes instead of checking in all related files together without breaking a build.
why the fuck should belgium honor american intellectual property rights for example if america doesn't honor even basic property rights?
America has more economic & political influence, as well as more nukes and a vastly larger army that needs to justify its upkeep - that's why. Belgium should just be happy they aren't an oil rich country that doesn't have US oil contracts;-)
Even with very low enforcement, India has stats slightly lower than China and also comparatively lower to many countries with far higher enforcement. Which made me happy, till I realize we probably have potholes to thank for this - hard to have traffic fatalities when everyone is inching along slowly on bad roads in high traffic!
I'm guessing they are trying to show correlation before traffic enforcement and deaths per capita - wish there was also a version that showed obedience of road rules & deaths per capita, i.e. when traffic stays in its own lane and doesn't cut signals, does that significantly reduce the fatality rate? I know, its a more subjective area so there can't be any good statistics for it - but imho just staying in lane properly would greatly reduce the 'speed' related deaths atleast, and maybe for some other categories too.
They are all there, you can also zoom in the map to make it easier to see the countries. The blue dots are just for specific news stories, hovering over a country gives you its stats.
Reading MapBox's site, they stress open source a lot - their Javascript API, iOS SDK & design studio are all 'open source', and they're using OSM for the backend data. Other than a list of plans which seem very similar to other commercial offerings, I don't see any indication of which open source licenses apply here - is it one of the popular ones like GPL or BSD, or some custom version?
Anyone who gets to level 60 (or I guess its now level 70) can now work at getting Paragon levels, and use the points for Vit on ALL characters? This means that HC has far less risk for those who have a whole lot of extra Vit compared to the plebs who don't have a higher level char.
Of course, there's already big differences depending on what equipment you can afford or got lucky to find, but I wonder if this could make people lose interest in the HC scene (or conversely, some will buy the expansion just so that their alts start off with a lot of advantages)
EQ Next is going to be free 2 play, so what is the harm in trying it out? It looks really interesting, I definitely plan to play - never played EQ at all so it will be a completely new world & lore for me. If they start pushing microtransactions heavily etc., its not a big loss to stop once the game is no longer fun.
I remember randomized dungeons in D1, and good loot systems in both D1 & D2.
Unfortunately most of the 'new to D3!' stuff is a rehash of things that used to exist in the former games, but at least they are working to bring it up to par in those departments.
With low population density (i.e. user base) over a large region, its far more cost effective to run a few high bandwidth lines and provide wireless service. Cellular network bandwidth isn't that bad, e.g. people use their mobiles as hotspots - in city areas, which have a far higher density of wireless signals (leading to more interference, and also less available per person).
That 13 year old girl doubled her lifetime waiting for the net, and her laptop may be a little bit obsolete by now - they should give her an upgrade for starting all this:)
Do you really expect people to say this publicly, when the most likely consequence is imprisonment and a media circus that paints them as evil villains?
Did they get this from the dungeon addressing system in.hack series - where the right combination of 3 words teleports you to the corresponding dungeon. I'd like to know if they at least use some of those names for the studios or game companies related to hack:-)
If everyone continues to be 'smart' about such voting, it may well end up in some elections that 75% of the public would have supported a 3rd candidate but just vote for the same pair of idiots as always:-). Just vote for whichever candidate you like, are you really going to be happy if you vote for the 'lesser of two evils' and he does get elected? Ok, maybe if the other guy has proven himself to be really dangerous & way worse, but I hardly think this is true for most elections.
the compatibility between Cisco and other vendors, when using a proprietary protocols from Cisco especially, can be tedious.
So this is similar to the cries about OpenOffice not supporting.doc formats with 100% compatibility, when MSO won't support ODF or others *at all* even though they are better structured & documented?
Unlike GP, I am not emotionally attached and have (thankfully) not had any relatives murdered etc. - but I would still side with making life difficult for those guilty of really serious crimes like murder. I do agree that all the others in for minor crimes should have far better facilities, even though I do not buy the whole 'this guy is a breadwinner, so reduce his sentence' argument that defense seems to be fond of making (atleast from some of the news articles I come across, again no personal experience of this).
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The current assclown isn't going to change jack and/or squat.
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He's going to die, just like everyone else before him has. Even if you don't pay taxes, death will get you.
Just looked up the glorious leader's birthday, Google says its Jan 8, 1983.
Instead of a mundane half hour offset to set NK tz to UTC+8:30, he could always be creative and set it to say UTC+8:31.8 (83/1/8) and have a reminder of his august (but in Jan) birthday for everyone that has to deal with NK time zones :-) If not Jong-Un himself, his auspicious birthday digits could lead forever!
Elop announced a shuttering of all existing platforms used (Meego, Maemo, Symbian) and talked about switching to an unused & untried platform instead (Windows Phone) - I'm surprised that people can actually think he's incompetent; to me just reading about that speech was very convincing evidence that he was a brilliant Microsoft operative.
There was iirc some talk in the articles at the time, of how Nokia & Microsoft had some common shareholders who wanted to use Nokia to prop up the MS share prices after Windows Phone had a bad initial reception. I can completely believe this theory, maybe they didn't plan to pump & dump but genuinely thought that riding on trusted Nokia's reputation would rescue WinPhone from irrelevance. Whatever the reason, they picked Elop as CEO and either lost their shirts over the next couple of years, or more likely just cashed out before the trainwreck became too obvious to investors.
Nokia was steadily losing market share due to not having any Android phones, nor a good competitor for iPhone. Their latest Maemo devices had good reviews, but were limited to high-end phones only and also were never offered for subsidized contract prices in the US (afaik).
There were many better options for them to take, like having a good upgrade path for Symbian devs to create Maemo apps and not treating smartphones as a premium-only product that should not be sold in cheaper variants. They should also have been able to strike deals with US carriers for cheap smartphones that were free after 2 year contract - the Nokia at the time was still a well respected phone giant with great industry connections.
Instead, their shareholders allowed people on the board with little interest in the company's future and more focus on getting short term gains for their portfolios. They got Elop as CEO, and the infamous 'burning bridges' speech killed off Symbian & Meego/Maemo in a single day ... with no replacement coming for around a year! I'm amazed that a majority of shareholders were clueless enough to keep him around after that speech, it was clearly obvious that he'd just declared *all* of their then-current product lines as obsolete.
Right before Elop came onboard, Nokia had bought Navteq which gave them a chance to leapfrog Google Maps by offering a similarly comprehensive navigation app which also worked offline (at the time, GMaps didn't). Low cost smartphones running Maemo with Nokia Maps (now called Here) would have been an easy sell to people fond of Nokia hardware & reliability who wanted to dispose of their quickly-outdated standalone GPS devices.
I've long thought of this (removing networking from the bots) as being the best actual solution, too bad that there is no way to do so legally. Maybe use the bots to scan for 0-day vulnerabilities, and forcibly upgrade or configure security FW/AV etc. to deal with it :D
Well, I also wondered why no black hat ever tried it, but I guess all of them are busy making a lot of $$ selling exploits to various agencies rather than disrupting other black hats.
Either everyone is breaking that 100ms limit, or else it is per ad and adds up if the browser is say, loading 5 at a time on a page with 20 ads. I have noticed sluggish loading on ad-laden sites for a very long time now, I keep trying to disable AdBlock to support sites and regret it soon after.
This also happens when the site is using the originally text-based Google AdWords - which btw has become worse over time, with some video ads being served and also some rogue publishers which aren't always caught (one site I regularly visit has semi-frequent complaints from users about problematic ads when they disable ABP to support it).
I suspect that besides just the ads loading time, they are increasingly using more detailed analytics js which also contributes to site slowness, in order to market data for higher premiums.
I used to really like G+ , and was using it a bit - then Google 'redesigned' the UI to have the multi column layout, and incidentally did *something* to make it super laggy on Firefox. Maybe it works just fine on Chrome, idk - but I'm not going to switch to their browser just because they completely messed up on optimization for their new design.
Ever since, I never actively use G+ and get upset whenever I accidentally click a link that ends up there while I have to first watch my browser almost freeze and then take forever to get to the page.
nothing to do whatsoever with domestic surveillance.
Considering that American & UK anti-virus programs weren't targeted, that implies they already have in-built backdoors - which can easily be used for surveillance, whether domestic or international.
This clearly explains why the only music being pirated today is centuries-old classical music, not the top-40 rock and pop hits released last week.
Because "few people" object to granting artists a reasonable term of copyright!
The problem is that you're making people used to ignoring laws by having such unreasonable copyright terms, and when piracy becomes socially acceptable due to lobbyist-sponsored increasing copyrights and secret trade agreements - most people aren't going to finely distinguish who deserves to be paid for their efforts.
Its similar to speed limits imho, they're set based on speeds that were probably reasonable 50+ years ago with no change to account for better technology - and this has resulted in traffic usually moving at *over* the maximum speed limit on most major roads. You can argue that people are evil for speeding past hospitals or schools or bad visibility roads etc.; but once the public is desensitized to lawbreaking due to asinine rules then it becomes second nature to ignore the law in all cases.
It is also *completely* natural and acceptable for consumers to refuse to do these things, and refuse to spend their money on the product they're being asked to buy with onerous conditions attached.
Sounds good - and what are the alternatives, when the cost & potential profits in marketing & pushing perpetually copyrighted music makes it unfeasible for reasonable alternatives to exist at all? Even *finding* good alternatives consistently is a herculean task as they're completely ignored by the mainstream press. I fail to see how it can be completely natural to 'refuse' when the alternate choices wither away due to lack of exposure.
> Things like invasive DRM that stops infringers for all of about one day but annoy legitimate users until the end
So true, reading about Sony rootkit, Spore DRM etc. just made me more scared to buy legal games - meanwhile, game torrents install and run without any problems.
Of course, then I buy Diablo III, am happy the DRM isn't causing computer problems; and find out its my turn to get frustrated at game design instead :P
This sounds like a metric about as useful as LOC (lines of code) - it favors all those devs who like to make multiple 2 line changes instead of checking in all related files together without breaking a build.
why the fuck should belgium honor american intellectual property rights for example if america doesn't honor even basic property rights?
America has more economic & political influence, as well as more nukes and a vastly larger army that needs to justify its upkeep - that's why. Belgium should just be happy they aren't an oil rich country that doesn't have US oil contracts ;-)
> it is bad driving or other stupid behaviour on the road that kills
You mean, a lack of road skills? ;-)
Even with very low enforcement, India has stats slightly lower than China and also comparatively lower to many countries with far higher enforcement. Which made me happy, till I realize we probably have potholes to thank for this - hard to have traffic fatalities when everyone is inching along slowly on bad roads in high traffic!
I'm guessing they are trying to show correlation before traffic enforcement and deaths per capita - wish there was also a version that showed obedience of road rules & deaths per capita, i.e. when traffic stays in its own lane and doesn't cut signals, does that significantly reduce the fatality rate? I know, its a more subjective area so there can't be any good statistics for it - but imho just staying in lane properly would greatly reduce the 'speed' related deaths atleast, and maybe for some other categories too.
They are all there, you can also zoom in the map to make it easier to see the countries. The blue dots are just for specific news stories, hovering over a country gives you its stats.
Dominican Republic - 41.7
Iran - 34.1
Thailand - 38.1
Reading MapBox's site, they stress open source a lot - their Javascript API, iOS SDK & design studio are all 'open source', and they're using OSM for the backend data. Other than a list of plans which seem very similar to other commercial offerings, I don't see any indication of which open source licenses apply here - is it one of the popular ones like GPL or BSD, or some custom version?
Anyone who gets to level 60 (or I guess its now level 70) can now work at getting Paragon levels, and use the points for Vit on ALL characters? This means that HC has far less risk for those who have a whole lot of extra Vit compared to the plebs who don't have a higher level char.
Of course, there's already big differences depending on what equipment you can afford or got lucky to find, but I wonder if this could make people lose interest in the HC scene (or conversely, some will buy the expansion just so that their alts start off with a lot of advantages)
EQ Next is going to be free 2 play, so what is the harm in trying it out? It looks really interesting, I definitely plan to play - never played EQ at all so it will be a completely new world & lore for me. If they start pushing microtransactions heavily etc., its not a big loss to stop once the game is no longer fun.
I remember randomized dungeons in D1, and good loot systems in both D1 & D2.
Unfortunately most of the 'new to D3!' stuff is a rehash of things that used to exist in the former games, but at least they are working to bring it up to par in those departments.
With low population density (i.e. user base) over a large region, its far more cost effective to run a few high bandwidth lines and provide wireless service. Cellular network bandwidth isn't that bad, e.g. people use their mobiles as hotspots - in city areas, which have a far higher density of wireless signals (leading to more interference, and also less available per person).
That 13 year old girl doubled her lifetime waiting for the net, and her laptop may be a little bit obsolete by now - they should give her an upgrade for starting all this :)
Do you really expect people to say this publicly, when the most likely consequence is imprisonment and a media circus that paints them as evil villains?
Did they get this from the dungeon addressing system in .hack series - where the right combination of 3 words teleports you to the corresponding dungeon. I'd like to know if they at least use some of those names for the studios or game companies related to hack :-)
If everyone continues to be 'smart' about such voting, it may well end up in some elections that 75% of the public would have supported a 3rd candidate but just vote for the same pair of idiots as always :-). Just vote for whichever candidate you like, are you really going to be happy if you vote for the 'lesser of two evils' and he does get elected? Ok, maybe if the other guy has proven himself to be really dangerous & way worse, but I hardly think this is true for most elections.
the compatibility between Cisco and other vendors, when using a proprietary protocols from Cisco especially, can be tedious.
So this is similar to the cries about OpenOffice not supporting .doc formats with 100% compatibility, when MSO won't support ODF or others *at all* even though they are better structured & documented?
Unlike GP, I am not emotionally attached and have (thankfully) not had any relatives murdered etc. - but I would still side with making life difficult for those guilty of really serious crimes like murder. I do agree that all the others in for minor crimes should have far better facilities, even though I do not buy the whole 'this guy is a breadwinner, so reduce his sentence' argument that defense seems to be fond of making (atleast from some of the news articles I come across, again no personal experience of this).