The big problem in those days was just pirated software, especially an expensive CAD package, but the big threats these days are keyloggers intercepting passwords used for email and data stored in the network...
Aw, man. I've never had need to use a library terminal for any work other than looking things up in the catalog, so I never gave it much thought. Now I'll never look at one of those public terminals the same way again.
I've used internet cafes in Europe, but even years ago those would be automatically re-imaged after each customer logs out. I don't think the libraries here do anything of the kind. Imagine how many Gmail and Facebook accounts you could gain access to, even if they re-imaged the systems once per day...
These are public terminals, by and large, user data on the local disk shouldn't be a factor at all.
From TFA, it affected their servers as well. The system that allows patrons to borrow books and other items went down. So did access to all of the thousands of digital items the libraries offer. Re-imaging the public PCs should be simple enough, but restoring access might be hard if the systems that connect the libraries to the internet are down (gateways, firewalls, DHCP and DNS servers, etc)
Yeah, that comment is silliness. The park just up the road from where I live is 78 acres. Not far off, John McClaren Park is 313 acres. And those are nowhere near as well-known as Golden Gate Park, which is over 1,000 acres and includes a couple of world-class museums, a Japanese tea garden, a botanical garden and nature conservancy, a couple of lakes, amphitheater spaces, and so on.
During my business trips to San Francisco I think there were more gay people than straight people. I constantly got propositioned by gay men every day there.
You must be devastatingly handsome. No wonder you post AC.
I moved to San Francisco in 1995 and there were plenty of artists living in converted warehouse spaces and so on. Over the last 20 years I've watched pretty much all of it disappear.
I hate to say it, but you're probably right. Thinking back to my mindset as a single-digit kid, if I found a syringe in the park, I'd probably pick it up and try to smuggle it home. Who knows what it could be useful for?
(BONUS point : this setup gives dual-viewer capabilities (viewer A and B get to watch 2 different channels thanks to the glasses) which might be popular in some market with cramped living rooms ? Japan ?)
My understanding is that it's for videogames, where two players can sit on the same couch and each will see the game from their own perspective. I don't know how many games actually support it, though.
I'm wondering why they don't do the same with blurays.
It seems like many (most?) Blu-Rays come bundled with a digital copy from Ultraviolet or somesuch. I don't really know what that is, never having looked into how it works, but it may be that Amazon doesn't bother because the studios are doing it themselves.
I think the issues are a little more complex than this. No copyrights on a recipe: sort of right. You cannot copyright a simple list of ingredients or basic instructions explaining how to put them together. Cookbooks, on the other hand, which include cute or clever language, photos of meals and so on are certainly copyrightable.
I believe you may be able to get a patent on a recipe. The reason companies don't bother -- why Coca-Cola has never patented its secret formula, for example -- is because it would be pointless, because patents are public. As soon as Coca-Cola patented its formula, everybody in the world would know exactly how it was made, and it would be trivial to create taste-alike products. Instead, Coca-Cola maintains its formula as a trade secret and does not rely on government protections such as patents.
I get various types of enjoyment out of my vinyl collection. Yes, the sound is pretty good -- in some cases better than the CD (because the CD was mastered for the "noise wars" and had to be remastered for vinyl). But there's also the enjoyment of full-sized art, lyric sheets you can read, occasional bonus artwork, colored vinyl is pretty common, have a couple of "three-sided" records where the fourth side has been etched with artwork, I have a couple of records with holograms on them... hell, one record I own even features a playable board game in the gatefold. Choosing vinyl is a fun way to interact with your music beyond just listening to it. It's a different experience even than buying CDs.
Well, yeah. What percentage of a typical user's time on his Mac is spent developing web pages? In general, very little. In many (most?) cases, none at all.
Conversely, among the web developers who use Macs (which is quite a lot of them), maybe 75 percent of their workday is spent developing web pages. What's your point?
I think everybody's jumping the gun here. What's left of Yahoo after the sale -- which will basically just be an investment holding company -- will change its name to Altbaba. I see no reason why Verizon wouldn't continue to operate Yahoo's core web businesses under the Yahoo brand. To not do so sounds like a tremendous waste of money.
I have an S7 and I quite like it. They've dialed back the TouchWiz silliness to the point that I had very little difficulty transitioning from stock Android. The keyboard is eminently usable; I have Swype installed but find myself not using it. There's some bloatware but it's easily ignored, and some of it I actually use. On the whole it doesn't bother me at all, in fact it's probably the best phone I've owned.
Hugo, Life of Pi, My Bloody Valentine (seriously -- bless it for treating the 3D like what it is, a gimmick), Great Gatsby... there have been a fair handful of movies that got the 3D right.
But only a handful. I'd say the majority of recent 3D blockbusters are just as enjoyable in 2D -- and depending on your frame of mind, even more so.
You could have opted for a passive 3D set. If I ever lose the glasses that came with mine (and I think it came with 4-6 pairs), I can just steal new ones from the local multiplex.
The ones that piss me off are the trailer montages that have voice-overs telling me all about the glory of Blu-Ray discs and why I need to start buying them. Real brains trust over there at the disc mastering company...
99% of movies has the same schema portrayed in various backdrops & settings, you have a protagonist battling an antagonist over either a princess or a treasure
You ever consider the possibility that it may just be your own personal predilection for certain types of material? Because it sure doesn't sound like you're watching a whole lot of historical dramas, biopics, horror movies, comedies, murder mysteries, documentaries, or any other categories that don't seem to fit the cookie-cutter you describe.
It's been more than 3 years. Mac Pros are not for your average consumer. It's for the professionals. While most computers don't get monumental improvement gains anymore like they did in the 90s, incremental gains are most likely wanted by the top end, the professionals.
The professionals? I've never met a doctor or lawyer who really needed anything more powerful than your typical consumer PC.
Some news sites have gone straight to embedding Tweets rather than using classic citation. Frankly, I think it's sloppy writing.
This has the advantage that you can not only have immediate visual confirmation that the tweet is genuine, but you can also click through to the original tweet to see any responses that may have been posted since the original article was written.
Believe it or not, some publications even post hyperlinks to their original sources when they're citing material from other sites. The internet: it's a mind-blower, bro, I know.
Remember they are only counting scripted shows. Another way to say that would be "fiction" shows -- dramas, soap operas, and comedies -- which does not include news broadcasts, chat shows, gameshows, sports broadcasts (of which there are many), talent contests, interviews, and so on (regardless of how scripted any of the above might actually be).
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The big problem in those days was just pirated software, especially an expensive CAD package, but the big threats these days are keyloggers intercepting passwords used for email and data stored in the network...
Aw, man. I've never had need to use a library terminal for any work other than looking things up in the catalog, so I never gave it much thought. Now I'll never look at one of those public terminals the same way again.
I've used internet cafes in Europe, but even years ago those would be automatically re-imaged after each customer logs out. I don't think the libraries here do anything of the kind. Imagine how many Gmail and Facebook accounts you could gain access to, even if they re-imaged the systems once per day...
These are public terminals, by and large, user data on the local disk shouldn't be a factor at all.
From TFA, it affected their servers as well. The system that allows patrons to borrow books and other items went down. So did access to all of the thousands of digital items the libraries offer. Re-imaging the public PCs should be simple enough, but restoring access might be hard if the systems that connect the libraries to the internet are down (gateways, firewalls, DHCP and DNS servers, etc)
Yeah, that comment is silliness. The park just up the road from where I live is 78 acres. Not far off, John McClaren Park is 313 acres. And those are nowhere near as well-known as Golden Gate Park, which is over 1,000 acres and includes a couple of world-class museums, a Japanese tea garden, a botanical garden and nature conservancy, a couple of lakes, amphitheater spaces, and so on.
During my business trips to San Francisco I think there were more gay people than straight people. I constantly got propositioned by gay men every day there.
You must be devastatingly handsome. No wonder you post AC.
I moved to San Francisco in 1995 and there were plenty of artists living in converted warehouse spaces and so on. Over the last 20 years I've watched pretty much all of it disappear.
I hate to say it, but you're probably right. Thinking back to my mindset as a single-digit kid, if I found a syringe in the park, I'd probably pick it up and try to smuggle it home. Who knows what it could be useful for?
They by definition are generally NOT REPRODUCING offspring....hence, you'd not be having many families in the area.
They still have the option of adopting children ... which they apparently are not doing so much, either.
(BONUS point : this setup gives dual-viewer capabilities (viewer A and B get to watch 2 different channels thanks to the glasses) which might be popular in some market with cramped living rooms ? Japan ?)
My understanding is that it's for videogames, where two players can sit on the same couch and each will see the game from their own perspective. I don't know how many games actually support it, though.
You should really look into how "cord" is spelled.
I have Cortana on my Android (it's on the Play Store), I can say that it is legit.
Explain, please. I have Google and a [virtual] keyboard. What do I gain from Cortana?
I'm wondering why they don't do the same with blurays.
It seems like many (most?) Blu-Rays come bundled with a digital copy from Ultraviolet or somesuch. I don't really know what that is, never having looked into how it works, but it may be that Amazon doesn't bother because the studios are doing it themselves.
You can't get patents or copyrights on a recipe.
I think the issues are a little more complex than this. No copyrights on a recipe: sort of right. You cannot copyright a simple list of ingredients or basic instructions explaining how to put them together. Cookbooks, on the other hand, which include cute or clever language, photos of meals and so on are certainly copyrightable.
I believe you may be able to get a patent on a recipe. The reason companies don't bother -- why Coca-Cola has never patented its secret formula, for example -- is because it would be pointless, because patents are public. As soon as Coca-Cola patented its formula, everybody in the world would know exactly how it was made, and it would be trivial to create taste-alike products. Instead, Coca-Cola maintains its formula as a trade secret and does not rely on government protections such as patents.
I get various types of enjoyment out of my vinyl collection. Yes, the sound is pretty good -- in some cases better than the CD (because the CD was mastered for the "noise wars" and had to be remastered for vinyl). But there's also the enjoyment of full-sized art, lyric sheets you can read, occasional bonus artwork, colored vinyl is pretty common, have a couple of "three-sided" records where the fourth side has been etched with artwork, I have a couple of records with holograms on them ... hell, one record I own even features a playable board game in the gatefold. Choosing vinyl is a fun way to interact with your music beyond just listening to it. It's a different experience even than buying CDs.
Well, yeah. What percentage of a typical user's time on his Mac is spent developing web pages? In general, very little. In many (most?) cases, none at all.
Conversely, among the web developers who use Macs (which is quite a lot of them), maybe 75 percent of their workday is spent developing web pages. What's your point?
I think everybody's jumping the gun here. What's left of Yahoo after the sale -- which will basically just be an investment holding company -- will change its name to Altbaba. I see no reason why Verizon wouldn't continue to operate Yahoo's core web businesses under the Yahoo brand. To not do so sounds like a tremendous waste of money.
I have an S7 and I quite like it. They've dialed back the TouchWiz silliness to the point that I had very little difficulty transitioning from stock Android. The keyboard is eminently usable; I have Swype installed but find myself not using it. There's some bloatware but it's easily ignored, and some of it I actually use. On the whole it doesn't bother me at all, in fact it's probably the best phone I've owned.
Hugo, Life of Pi, My Bloody Valentine (seriously -- bless it for treating the 3D like what it is, a gimmick), Great Gatsby ... there have been a fair handful of movies that got the 3D right.
But only a handful. I'd say the majority of recent 3D blockbusters are just as enjoyable in 2D -- and depending on your frame of mind, even more so.
You could have opted for a passive 3D set. If I ever lose the glasses that came with mine (and I think it came with 4-6 pairs), I can just steal new ones from the local multiplex.
Well ... since we're talking about a U.S.-only services, they're technically only forgetting about roughly 108 million Android users.
The ones that piss me off are the trailer montages that have voice-overs telling me all about the glory of Blu-Ray discs and why I need to start buying them. Real brains trust over there at the disc mastering company...
99% of movies has the same schema portrayed in various backdrops & settings, you have a protagonist battling an antagonist over either a princess or a treasure
You ever consider the possibility that it may just be your own personal predilection for certain types of material? Because it sure doesn't sound like you're watching a whole lot of historical dramas, biopics, horror movies, comedies, murder mysteries, documentaries, or any other categories that don't seem to fit the cookie-cutter you describe.
It's been more than 3 years. Mac Pros are not for your average consumer. It's for the professionals. While most computers don't get monumental improvement gains anymore like they did in the 90s, incremental gains are most likely wanted by the top end, the professionals.
The professionals? I've never met a doctor or lawyer who really needed anything more powerful than your typical consumer PC.
I call bullshit. Serif fonts are indeed less fatiguing but curly quotes are nonsense, always have been, and always will be.
What's your take on curly commas and semicolons, btw?
Personally I think a book that's typeset in a serif font with straight quotes would look really bizarre and would be really annoying to read.
Some news sites have gone straight to embedding Tweets rather than using classic citation. Frankly, I think it's sloppy writing.
This has the advantage that you can not only have immediate visual confirmation that the tweet is genuine, but you can also click through to the original tweet to see any responses that may have been posted since the original article was written.
Believe it or not, some publications even post hyperlinks to their original sources when they're citing material from other sites. The internet: it's a mind-blower, bro, I know.
Remember they are only counting scripted shows. Another way to say that would be "fiction" shows -- dramas, soap operas, and comedies -- which does not include news broadcasts, chat shows, gameshows, sports broadcasts (of which there are many), talent contests, interviews, and so on (regardless of how scripted any of the above might actually be).