As apposed to the current system where anybody that might have an understanding of an applicable technical subject is removed from the jury pool. Having all doctors is a pretty bad idea, so is removing anybody that can see through an expert witnesses BS.
Right, the goal today is to have a jury that can be manipulated. Back when Common Law was the guiding principle, a Jury of Your Peers really meant that - people who knew you personally - so that they could weigh your act with who you are as a person. If people who knew you really thought you deserved to be imprisoned, probably you did. Today, juries want to reach a verdict and get out of their enslavement as soon as possible (an understandable position). They don't have a dog in the fight and generally don't have a society to answer to for their decisions.
That's not the way it's supposed to work, but it's good for maintaining an aristocracy.
I don't get why they don't pick up on these things.I don't get why they don't pick up on these things.
They have all the metrics from addons.mozilla.org. They choose to ignore the wisdom of their masses and try to centrally plan the direction browsers should take. See TFS for how well this works out. See also Firefox v183.
Nothing on broadcast TV is guaranteed a revenue stream.
Broadcast stations are guaranteed carriage on Cable TV systems by law. They get either of a) free carriage or b) paid for carriage. They don't have to pay for carriage or earn subscribers like other stations on Cable TV.
If the advertisers don't think enough people are seeing their ads, they don't advertise. Poof goes the revenue stream. Sometimes in as little as half an hour. One show.
Agreed. But the shows only have to be good enough to earn a marginal profit. They can appeal to the least common denominator and still be guaranteed an audience because nobody has to opt-in to getting the stations. The costs of carriage are either zero or negative, so that doesn't have to figure into the shows' budgets. Put another way, the low-quality shows are subsidized by government mandate.
HBO series are not broadcast TV and fall squarely into the niche cable-package marketing paradigm.
Right. The long-tail is where real variety of programming can exist. It may not be cheaper, but it's better.
You're proving the opposite by citing the broadcast channels, which everybody has to pay for, regardless if they like the programming or not, and denouncing the result of that as crap (I assume - I don't watch those shows).
Since they're guaranteed a revenue stream they make shows as cheaply as possible, which drives a reality TV model.
Not Redhat, Fedora (Redhat is a downstream of Fedora). I got that idea from this but in context, perhaps what that's really saying is that it's a port of MeeGo onto Fedora.
Can I root it and put the Android App store on it? I know not yet but hopefully someday.
As soon as they want me to buy one. I've got a Nook Color with the Kindle app on it - they're not missing out on anything other than perhaps pushing the Amazon app store.
OMAP 4! That is a pretty hot CPU folks.
The OMAP 3 in the Nook Color does pretty well, so this should indeed be very nice.
Lack of a front facing camera is a negative. Come on this is pure skype candy folks.
yeah, you and I would gladly pay an extra $30 for a model with them in it and the OMAP part already has all the hardware built-in to control them, and Android supports it. They know all that, which tells me they must be planning something interesting coming up with A/V in a later model. Skype is a Microsoft property now - probably they (Amazon and Google and partners)'ve got an alternative in the works but it isn't quite ready yet. Don't be shocked to find webcam function strings in the Amazon code.
We cut back too - for us the best deal was Dish Network's $20/mo DishFamily package, paying a la carte for PBS ($2), with a receiver from eBay ($80) and a dish from Freecycle ($0). We also have DSL ($45), a Roku ($80) with Netflix (who can tell, $15 maybe) streaming and Amazon Prime ($0, had it before streaming video) and a few 'private' news channels ($0).
Counting the VoIP provider's fee ($8), this gets us the 'triple play' for under $100./mo (including equipment amortization), which beats the basic cable offerings by about 30% (not that cable has the streaming options that Netflix+Amazon does).
So, yeah, cable needs to compete on its fees. If everybody is paying for channels they don't watch, that's one place to trim the fat.
It's easier. Easier = more apps = more revenue for whoever's running the app store.
It seems unlikely that they'll write their own rendering engine or switch the whole project over to GTK, so probably this will be running WebKit on Qt. Perhaps even on XCB if they're feeling ambitious - Qt on X11 suffers from layering performance problems (one of the Qt devs has a good blog post on all the inefficiencies from the driver layer on up).
The Tizen developer website will be available soon providing more details, resources, guidelines, tools, and tutorials, along with developer tools.
The rest of it reads like a draft outline of a requirements spec. I was just curious to find out if this will still be a downstream of Fedora, but not even that is on there.
So, yay, some people are getting together to work on a joint OS. I suggest they get something out that people can actually install if they want to gain some traction. Meego never got that far; I thought it might be useful for my wife's laptop, but when I went to get an ISO, there was a message of roughly, "yeah, we haven't had a working installer in 9 months, check back later."
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WRONG. Broadcast channels are free.
Free like how and to whom? You mean it's not itemized on your bill?
As apposed to the current system where anybody that might have an understanding of an applicable technical subject is removed from the jury pool. Having all doctors is a pretty bad idea, so is removing anybody that can see through an expert witnesses BS.
Right, the goal today is to have a jury that can be manipulated. Back when Common Law was the guiding principle, a Jury of Your Peers really meant that - people who knew you personally - so that they could weigh your act with who you are as a person. If people who knew you really thought you deserved to be imprisoned, probably you did. Today, juries want to reach a verdict and get out of their enslavement as soon as possible (an understandable position). They don't have a dog in the fight and generally don't have a society to answer to for their decisions.
That's not the way it's supposed to work, but it's good for maintaining an aristocracy.
Science: million+
Alternative meds: 0
You forgot about all the people who have been praying for a cure!
(invoking Poe's Law now)
I don't get why they don't pick up on these things.I don't get why they don't pick up on these things.
They have all the metrics from addons.mozilla.org. They choose to ignore the wisdom of their masses and try to centrally plan the direction browsers should take. See TFS for how well this works out. See also Firefox v183.
Quick, somebody code up this exploit in Flash so Mozilla is forced to make the proper fixes, instead of blaming the kid they don't like.
Nothing on broadcast TV is guaranteed a revenue stream.
Broadcast stations are guaranteed carriage on Cable TV systems by law. They get either of a) free carriage or b) paid for carriage. They don't have to pay for carriage or earn subscribers like other stations on Cable TV.
If the advertisers don't think enough people are seeing their ads, they don't advertise. Poof goes the revenue stream. Sometimes in as little as half an hour. One show.
Agreed. But the shows only have to be good enough to earn a marginal profit. They can appeal to the least common denominator and still be guaranteed an audience because nobody has to opt-in to getting the stations. The costs of carriage are either zero or negative, so that doesn't have to figure into the shows' budgets. Put another way, the low-quality shows are subsidized by government mandate.
HBO series are not broadcast TV and fall squarely into the niche cable-package marketing paradigm.
Right. The long-tail is where real variety of programming can exist. It may not be cheaper, but it's better.
You're proving the opposite by citing the broadcast channels, which everybody has to pay for, regardless if they like the programming or not, and denouncing the result of that as crap (I assume - I don't watch those shows).
Since they're guaranteed a revenue stream they make shows as cheaply as possible, which drives a reality TV model.
Compare that with HBO series.
Hey, I'll give you Enterprise if you give me Voyager. Throw in the Animated Series for good measure.
But stims are only on Babylon 5!
And you want the people who do watch ESPN-9 to help you pay for whatever it is you watch.
No I don't - I want to pay a la carte and let the market decide what lives and dies.
MeeGo wasn't a downstream of RedHat.
Not Redhat, Fedora (Redhat is a downstream of Fedora). I got that idea from this but in context, perhaps what that's really saying is that it's a port of MeeGo onto Fedora.
Can I root it and put the Android App store on it? I know not yet but hopefully someday.
As soon as they want me to buy one. I've got a Nook Color with the Kindle app on it - they're not missing out on anything other than perhaps pushing the Amazon app store.
OMAP 4! That is a pretty hot CPU folks.
The OMAP 3 in the Nook Color does pretty well, so this should indeed be very nice.
Lack of a front facing camera is a negative. Come on this is pure skype candy folks.
yeah, you and I would gladly pay an extra $30 for a model with them in it and the OMAP part already has all the hardware built-in to control them, and Android supports it. They know all that, which tells me they must be planning something interesting coming up with A/V in a later model. Skype is a Microsoft property now - probably they (Amazon and Google and partners)'ve got an alternative in the works but it isn't quite ready yet. Don't be shocked to find webcam function strings in the Amazon code.
And more than 30 days might lead you to run up against the limited video content of Prime...
You can't watch all of Star Trek in 30 days!
Wait, that's just me?
It brings us all sorts of great stuff and it keeps getting cheaper.
In other news health "insurance" has gone up 9% in the past year.
That's because the web tablet market is heavily regulated, ensuring low prices, and the insurance industry isn't.
Sheesh, where did you go to school?
We cut back too - for us the best deal was Dish Network's $20/mo DishFamily package, paying a la carte for PBS ($2), with a receiver from eBay ($80) and a dish from Freecycle ($0). We also have DSL ($45), a Roku ($80) with Netflix (who can tell, $15 maybe) streaming and Amazon Prime ($0, had it before streaming video) and a few 'private' news channels ($0).
Counting the VoIP provider's fee ($8), this gets us the 'triple play' for under $100./mo (including equipment amortization), which beats the basic cable offerings by about 30% (not that cable has the streaming options that Netflix+Amazon does).
So, yeah, cable needs to compete on its fees. If everybody is paying for channels they don't watch, that's one place to trim the fat.
So why is this an issue? If I don't want to watch ESPN 9, why should I pay for it?
Because the people who do watch ESPN-9 want you to help them pay for it.
The only thing better would be to put out a disc that people actually wanted to buy!
Why would any developers want to write in HTML5?
It's easier. Easier = more apps = more revenue for whoever's running the app store.
It seems unlikely that they'll write their own rendering engine or switch the whole project over to GTK, so probably this will be running WebKit on Qt. Perhaps even on XCB if they're feeling ambitious - Qt on X11 suffers from layering performance problems (one of the Qt devs has a good blog post on all the inefficiencies from the driver layer on up).
The tizen.org site says:
The rest of it reads like a draft outline of a requirements spec. I was just curious to find out if this will still be a downstream of Fedora, but not even that is on there.
So, yay, some people are getting together to work on a joint OS. I suggest they get something out that people can actually install if they want to gain some traction. Meego never got that far; I thought it might be useful for my wife's laptop, but when I went to get an ISO, there was a message of roughly, "yeah, we haven't had a working installer in 9 months, check back later."
... how's that 'representative democracy' working out for 'ya? Feel represented yet?
it looked to be about 100 people from the cellphone picture I saw
A single cell phone pic doesn't have enough information. Here's a random Flickr crowdshot cropped and showing a much bigger crowd.
Maybe Friday was lighter and the weekends were more populated.
Yep. There's a video online of a moose stuck in an apple tree - too smashed to figured his way out of that one.
Sorry, no mod points, so an "amen, brother" will have to suffice.
my Ford has 268k miles on it with no major repairs
Is it an F-150?
each one has at best minor changes
For linux users, Firefox 7 was supposed to be the first release ever that uses compiler optimization for builds.
Assuming that made it in (anybody know?).