No. We are talking about a well understood industry standard document format. The idea that 100 million dollar planes could be grounded over not being able to open PDF documents is simply appalling regardless of what kind of excuses you want to make for it.
If it wasn't Apple code that was directly responsible here it certainly seems that their approach to design was at the heart of all of this.
An overflowing toilet can keep a 100 million dollar plane on the ground, so I'm sure a computer can.
If you have pesos, sure. If you have dollars? Then bitcoin is a speculative currency. It's just that Argentina has such a bad situation that even a gamble is better than the sure loss of trying to hold their currency for any period of time.
If their currency is a gamble, why wouldn't they buy one that is much less risk, as in holds value vs. imported goods they might need. I don't think this is about getting out of pesos as much as it is about getting foreign money into the country cheaply.
and i see fat people drinking it all the time so it doesn't seem to be working
That's because they're usually ordering it with a Double Big Mac combo;)
I've always found it funny when people order like that. As if the diet pop is gonna counter the 2234872184732 calories of a double big mac you're about to wolf down. Not to mention the fries (which of course has been super sized!)
When I go to McDonalds, there's no pretense of nutrition or calorie reduction. I order a regular combo with a regular coke:) Diet drinks taste awful anyways.
Soda is not a small part of the picture, it can be a LOT of calories over a day, or even in one meal. Here's your medium combo, all from here, http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com...
50% 530 Big Mac 32% 340 Medium Fries 18% 200 Medium Coke... the first one... I don't care if you only drink the first one, I'm not drinking four liquid chicken McNuggets each cup and don't worry about it.
So you don't like the taste of diet, I get that, but don't let it fool you into thinking soda is an insignificant source of calories or not worth cutting. If that McDonalds is bad, your 21 oz of Coke is STILL 200 empty calories when you drink it with a 300 calorie salad.
If you're worried about dying and are American, stay out of the Middle East.
Remove the conditional statement. Stay out of the M.E., period. Meddling has produced nothing of value for us, other than a jobs program per military and DHS.
And Congress passed a law saying that they aren't needed for military action.
This is exactly my point. They passed a law which is in violation of the Constitution. Congress can't just pass a law making it illegal to vote if you are under the age of 30. They can't just pass a law to make Presbyterianism the official state religion. These things would require an amendment to the Constitution. How is this different?
The Constitution is not even remotely clear on what is required for military action, but go ahead and quote some of it here if you find anything. Today I learned why we don't have a Navy National Guard, something about the states not keeping Ships of War. That's also the only place I see "engaging in war". If the authors wanted to be more clear about article I and II powers they certainly could have.
It says the President is Commander in Chief, and it says Congress can declare War. There is shit else in-between those two powers. If Congress wants to pass an act authorizing the president to do something he could arguably already do with his powers, it just removes the need to argue.
I'm curious how would you label blockading a port, if a nation invites us to do it? When does that action become engaging in war, pretending that text was even in articles I or II. If they invite us over to drop bombs on some people, how is that different?
I largely agree, but I'm not sold on the full season release part. It pretty much ruins any opportunity to discuss the show with friends or online communities.
Before there were full seasons of new shows there were full seasons of new to me shows, so that's not new.
On the whole, I think I absolutely have seen more TV shows end to end then I ever would have without Netflix and that gives us more to talk about. SOMEDAY, my friends might catch up on Fringe, but if they had to pick between that and something else this week, it's probably not happening.
I'm only at 2560x1440 on a 27" screen from a distance of around 50cm and I can't tell individual pixels.
At that distance anything physically larger would require me to pan my head to view, so I'm happy sticking with a 27-28" screen size, so 4K might be useful but 8K doesn't seem to add any value at all.
I haven't even gone for 4K because I use my PC for gaming, and we're a card generation away from top-end 4K graphics, but I'm tempted anyway as it would be nice for photo editing.
You could get a 27" 5K then, it's double that resolution, for easy scaling.
non native resolutions have to be rescaled to fit, either by the gpu (eating performance) or by the display (usually with significant latency). If you're lucky, you'll have a smart enough panel that'll scale even multiples of lower resolutions with almost no impact on latency... most panels aren't though, and force the use of some shitty bilinear filtering that requires latency adding onboard processing.
crts actually let you configure the number of scanlines...
5k and 4k ARE even multiples of 2560x1440 and 1920x1080 So... what's everyone's problem?
The problem is Apple always saddles these machines with displays that are so high res, you cant run anything 3D at the native resolution. I wish they would match up 3D hardware to actually drive the displays they put out.
Why do you need 3D apps at native resolution? A 5k iMac for example is just their previous 27" iMac resolution doubled in both dimensions. Just half your game's resolution and forget about it.
Do you seriously believe you will see scaling artifacts running anything 2k-ish on a 8-10k display? Without a microscope? For that matter, does 1920x1080 on a native 2560x1440 display bug you THAT much? I'd take it over a native 27" 1080 display without hesitation, maybe that's just me.
Except that the app isn't open source. If it was someone probably would have spotted this sooner.
Why wouldn't anyone spot the very not-random "encrypted" data that would result from XORing the same byte over and over, like runs of consecutive bytes, just eyeballing it.
Shouldn't there have been at least as many eyes on the output as the source? Nobody tried compressing one of these files and wondered why it got such a good ratio?
If the source was available, why would that be any more likely to be checked than the above? Source is cool and all, it just doesn't mean people automatically look at or understand the implications. A program's own behavior it more likely to give it away, because that has a ton more eyeballs.
Every night? Try twice a day. Apple say it has 18 hours battery life, which in reality means if you use it much and don't like to run the battery right down to 0% all the time you will probably have to change it in the early evening after you get home from work. As the battery ages it will only get worse, and running it down to near 0% will only accelerate that process, as will repeatedly charging it.
Typically lithium ion batteries last for around 500 cycles. Most phones start feeling like the need a new one around the 2 year mark. I have a feeling smart watches in general are going to need replacements after about 1 year.
Oh you got them, if you decide to not sleep on a given night you will go without a watch for hours. What if you miss that text at 4AM because you phone was all the way back on the counter and your watch was charging, the HORROR!
Maybe I'm weird, but I could get by just fine if my SHOES only worked 18 hours a day.
Problem also when passing another car - especially when the other car accelerates a bit at that moment. Sometimes you just need to be able to gain a few mph quickly and with no condition.
"The driver can override the speed limit by pressing "firmly" on the accelerator." That's what you already have to do to make an automatic downshift. Have you driven one lately that didn't do this?
If there's multiple lanes, I have NO problem leaving the cruise control on, sliding over, and letting them fiddle with their speed for a minute. I wouldn't use this tech in the left lane though, unless it had configurable +10ish offset at highway speeds at least. And if anyone really must go variable 15+ over the posted limit, either put the siren on or add passing someone on the right to that list.
My biggest fear of this technology is that people may be investigated for no reason other than that their car was seen in close proximity to where a crime was committed.
So... you'd completely ignore that information, or what?
This is a common, but flawed, response to many types of privacy invasion. The thing is, scale matters. The aggregation of lots of data that could otherwise only be had by exerting effort (following someone, staking out a home, etc.) reduces the level of effort required to infringe someone's privacy, and greatly increases the chances that someone's privacy will be infringed. This is why forcing cops to get warrants is considered a good part of the justice system, while the mass "perusal" of aggregated information is considered bad (for privacy).
Aggregation of data is an invasion of privacy because it lowers the level of effort and increases the chances of an invasion of privacy? Nobody is going to test that tortured logic? You're fighting a losing battle against time and technology with this thinking.
Nobody needs a warrant or special permission to tail someone in public. Intuition is not a violation of privacy. Anyone can aggregate this information, and anyone can collect it. A single smartphone could sweep up thousands of plates a day, and anyone can do it.
I'm not concerned about it, because what can you do? There'll be a day when everybody's watch or glasses could do this.
I love how Mac and Linux users are constantly trying to figure out ways to make their computers run Windows applications, if not Windows itself.
Why not just run Windows, period?
If you could flip a switch and turn your commuter car into a truck to haul a couch home, why WOULDN'T you?
Take your Us vs. Them ONE OS stuff back to the 90's please. We have computers coming out our butts now, and more platforms, more competition, is welcome.
The goal is strictly marketing - if you convince people to use Windows, they'll probably stick with Windows. You may not get much money out of them, but there are long term issues to worry about - namely, platform support. If you want developers to write for your platform, you need to convince them that your platform is worth writing for. If a Chinese user is forced to choose between Windows and Linux, and they start going Linux, it hurts Windows because developers might start writing for Linux instead.
Linux distros are free because.... They also happen to need developers, users and have bills to pay, it's just totally not a marketing gimmick? The most popular distros are run by non-profits?
I see this as fair competition. We've got companies bundling every piece of software they can with their system in these enormous OS repositories, and giving it away for free, while Microsoft almost got broken up over shipping a web browser. Yup, they abused a monopoly, and hurt the software market. Look at Linux today, WHAT software "market"? MySQL gets snubbed for MariaDB, OpenOffice for LibreOffice. Microsoft has to use a browser ballot?
When will Microsoft be allowed to operate just like everybody else, bundling and dumping like they couldn't have dreamed of twenty years ago?
You mean you do exactly what the rest of the working world does with their laptop docking station?
I have an hp one at work, and a Lenovo one at home. Both have power and peripherals plugged in and I just drop my laptop into place for it all to spring to life.
Yes, a single wire is exactly what a docking station should be distilled down to. Really, screw wires.
for hd video, wifi is NO SUBSTITUTE for wired enet.
This.
And it's not necessarily the speed (bit rate) but the inherent instability and susceptibility to interference that really makes it unstable. If my wireless connection drops momentarily whilst I'm browsing/. I'm not going to notice, if it drops whilst streaming a HD video, chances are I'll notice (even buffering the video wont help too much).
If you want to send video over a network you use wires. If you're really serious or going long distances, you go straight to fibre.
No, it IS about bitrate. I'm getting ~580 Mbps over 802.11ac two rooms over right now, that's ten times the maximum bitrate of Blu-ray, or enough to buffer one at 10x. I would have to use a player that did't buffer at all, or suffer seconds of outage to have a problem.
Good AV playback is ALL about throughput, and has nothing to do with latency. Wifi isn't your problem, you're doing Wifi wrong.
If Wifi was't good enough for video, it absolutely would not be good enough for networked games, and then you're talking to a lot of people who don't have any problems...
for hd video, wifi is NO SUBSTITUTE for wired enet.
try an mkv file; oftentimes it takes 2 or even 3 minutes before vlc (on win7 ultimate) begins to play, and that is with the very latest media bridge of ac to ac wireless (2 asus routers). this is as good as wireless gets for consumers and yet I have a several minute wait time.
why? I think the protocol sucks and there is a lot of seeking or indexing on some mkv's and with wifi latency, small packets take forever (when there are lots of them needed). plug into wired enet and the video plays almost instantly.
do a backup over the net? not likely! yes, I can. but its painful.
wireless also is quite insecure. a lot of people think its ok. many of us don't trust it.
so, anyone saying 'wired is dead for end stations' knows nothing about the vast number of use-cases where wifi falls flat on its arse.
(and try running nfs over wifi. good luck with that!)
That does't make any sense, what kind of video playback is sensitive to latency - at all? You're probably not getting the throughput you think you are supposed to be getting. Go back to the drawing board and fix your network man, Wifi is plenty fast for several HD streams.
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No. We are talking about a well understood industry standard document format. The idea that 100 million dollar planes could be grounded over not being able to open PDF documents is simply appalling regardless of what kind of excuses you want to make for it.
If it wasn't Apple code that was directly responsible here it certainly seems that their approach to design was at the heart of all of this.
An overflowing toilet can keep a 100 million dollar plane on the ground, so I'm sure a computer can.
If you have pesos, sure. If you have dollars? Then bitcoin is a speculative currency. It's just that Argentina has such a bad situation that even a gamble is better than the sure loss of trying to hold their currency for any period of time.
If their currency is a gamble, why wouldn't they buy one that is much less risk, as in holds value vs. imported goods they might need.
I don't think this is about getting out of pesos as much as it is about getting foreign money into the country cheaply.
and i see fat people drinking it all the time so it doesn't seem to be working
That's because they're usually ordering it with a Double Big Mac combo ;)
I've always found it funny when people order like that. As if the diet pop is gonna counter the 2234872184732 calories of a double big mac you're about to wolf down. Not to mention the fries (which of course has been super sized!)
When I go to McDonalds, there's no pretense of nutrition or calorie reduction. I order a regular combo with a regular coke :) Diet drinks taste awful anyways.
Soda is not a small part of the picture, it can be a LOT of calories over a day, or even in one meal.
Here's your medium combo, all from here, http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com...
50% 530 Big Mac ... the first one ...
32% 340 Medium Fries
18% 200 Medium Coke
I don't care if you only drink the first one, I'm not drinking four liquid chicken McNuggets each cup and don't worry about it.
So you don't like the taste of diet, I get that, but don't let it fool you into thinking soda is an insignificant source of calories or not worth cutting.
If that McDonalds is bad, your 21 oz of Coke is STILL 200 empty calories when you drink it with a 300 calorie salad.
Remove the conditional statement. Stay out of the M.E., period. Meddling has produced nothing of value for us, other than a jobs program per military and DHS.
But our lobster is really tasty =(
Don't forget our big one: The Confederate States of America.
That one is easy, "To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;"
And Congress passed a law saying that they aren't needed for military action.
This is exactly my point. They passed a law which is in violation of the Constitution. Congress can't just pass a law making it illegal to vote if you are under the age of 30. They can't just pass a law to make Presbyterianism the official state religion. These things would require an amendment to the Constitution. How is this different?
The Constitution is not even remotely clear on what is required for military action, but go ahead and quote some of it here if you find anything.
Today I learned why we don't have a Navy National Guard, something about the states not keeping Ships of War. That's also the only place I see "engaging in war". If the authors wanted to be more clear about article I and II powers they certainly could have.
It says the President is Commander in Chief, and it says Congress can declare War. There is shit else in-between those two powers. If Congress wants to pass an act authorizing the president to do something he could arguably already do with his powers, it just removes the need to argue.
I'm curious how would you label blockading a port, if a nation invites us to do it? When does that action become engaging in war, pretending that text was even in articles I or II. If they invite us over to drop bombs on some people, how is that different?
What ARE the limits of article II powers?
I largely agree, but I'm not sold on the full season release part. It pretty much ruins any opportunity to discuss the show with friends or online communities.
Before there were full seasons of new shows there were full seasons of new to me shows, so that's not new.
On the whole, I think I absolutely have seen more TV shows end to end then I ever would have without Netflix and that gives us more to talk about.
SOMEDAY, my friends might catch up on Fringe, but if they had to pick between that and something else this week, it's probably not happening.
Ack. The post about charging $50 or $100 didn't come up until after I signed in. Naturally, I can't delete the comment I made now.
That is why people should quote the parent. It's even a button now. 150% of everything on Slashdot is read out of context, accounting for duplicates.
and how you would divide the revenues. Pretty damn simple really.
Assuming that is simple, that's the problem right there.
I'm only at 2560x1440 on a 27" screen from a distance of around 50cm and I can't tell individual pixels.
At that distance anything physically larger would require me to pan my head to view, so I'm happy sticking with a 27-28" screen size, so 4K might be useful but 8K doesn't seem to add any value at all.
I haven't even gone for 4K because I use my PC for gaming, and we're a card generation away from top-end 4K graphics, but I'm tempted anyway as it would be nice for photo editing.
You could get a 27" 5K then, it's double that resolution, for easy scaling.
non native resolutions have to be rescaled to fit, either by the gpu (eating performance) or by the display (usually with significant latency). If you're lucky, you'll have a smart enough panel that'll scale even multiples of lower resolutions with almost no impact on latency... most panels aren't though, and force the use of some shitty bilinear filtering that requires latency adding onboard processing.
crts actually let you configure the number of scanlines...
5k and 4k ARE even multiples of 2560x1440 and 1920x1080
So... what's everyone's problem?
The problem is Apple always saddles these machines with displays that are so high res, you cant run anything 3D at the native resolution. I wish they would match up 3D hardware to actually drive the displays they put out.
Why do you need 3D apps at native resolution? A 5k iMac for example is just their previous 27" iMac resolution doubled in both dimensions. Just half your game's resolution and forget about it.
Do you seriously believe you will see scaling artifacts running anything 2k-ish on a 8-10k display? Without a microscope?
For that matter, does 1920x1080 on a native 2560x1440 display bug you THAT much? I'd take it over a native 27" 1080 display without hesitation, maybe that's just me.
Except that the app isn't open source. If it was someone probably would have spotted this sooner.
Why wouldn't anyone spot the very not-random "encrypted" data that would result from XORing the same byte over and over, like runs of consecutive bytes, just eyeballing it.
Shouldn't there have been at least as many eyes on the output as the source? Nobody tried compressing one of these files and wondered why it got such a good ratio?
If the source was available, why would that be any more likely to be checked than the above? Source is cool and all, it just doesn't mean people automatically look at or understand the implications. A program's own behavior it more likely to give it away, because that has a ton more eyeballs.
No, if you want an easy and unbreakable encryption system for your text just use EBCDIC. No programmer has stayed sane long enough to implement it.
meh, dd if=ebcdic conv=acsii
Every night? Try twice a day. Apple say it has 18 hours battery life, which in reality means if you use it much and don't like to run the battery right down to 0% all the time you will probably have to change it in the early evening after you get home from work. As the battery ages it will only get worse, and running it down to near 0% will only accelerate that process, as will repeatedly charging it.
Typically lithium ion batteries last for around 500 cycles. Most phones start feeling like the need a new one around the 2 year mark. I have a feeling smart watches in general are going to need replacements after about 1 year.
Oh you got them, if you decide to not sleep on a given night you will go without a watch for hours. What if you miss that text at 4AM because you phone was all the way back on the counter and your watch was charging, the HORROR!
Maybe I'm weird, but I could get by just fine if my SHOES only worked 18 hours a day.
Problem also when passing another car - especially when the other car accelerates a bit at that moment. Sometimes you just need to be able to gain a few mph quickly and with no condition.
"The driver can override the speed limit by pressing "firmly" on the accelerator."
That's what you already have to do to make an automatic downshift. Have you driven one lately that didn't do this?
If there's multiple lanes, I have NO problem leaving the cruise control on, sliding over, and letting them fiddle with their speed for a minute.
I wouldn't use this tech in the left lane though, unless it had configurable +10ish offset at highway speeds at least. And if anyone really must go variable 15+ over the posted limit, either put the siren on or add passing someone on the right to that list.
exactly
"when it's clear"
this is not the case on the roads where/ when i drive 9-% of the time
Why would anyone need to mind the speed limit in any situation not flowing smooth enough for cruise control??
My biggest fear of this technology is that people may be investigated for no reason other than that their car was seen in close proximity to where a crime was committed.
So... you'd completely ignore that information, or what?
This is a common, but flawed, response to many types of privacy invasion. The thing is, scale matters. The aggregation of lots of data that could otherwise only be had by exerting effort (following someone, staking out a home, etc.) reduces the level of effort required to infringe someone's privacy, and greatly increases the chances that someone's privacy will be infringed. This is why forcing cops to get warrants is considered a good part of the justice system, while the mass "perusal" of aggregated information is considered bad (for privacy).
Aggregation of data is an invasion of privacy because it lowers the level of effort and increases the chances of an invasion of privacy? Nobody is going to test that tortured logic? You're fighting a losing battle against time and technology with this thinking.
Nobody needs a warrant or special permission to tail someone in public. Intuition is not a violation of privacy. Anyone can aggregate this information, and anyone can collect it. A single smartphone could sweep up thousands of plates a day, and anyone can do it.
I'm not concerned about it, because what can you do? There'll be a day when everybody's watch or glasses could do this.
Good question - does the bus speed match the ram convention, or the hard drive storage convention and all other communication speed conventions?
Um, the test - is it moving bits serially, or multiples of bytes?
I love how Mac and Linux users are constantly trying to figure out ways to make their computers run Windows applications, if not Windows itself.
Why not just run Windows, period?
If you could flip a switch and turn your commuter car into a truck to haul a couch home, why WOULDN'T you?
Take your Us vs. Them ONE OS stuff back to the 90's please. We have computers coming out our butts now, and more platforms, more competition, is welcome.
The goal is strictly marketing - if you convince people to use Windows, they'll probably stick with Windows. You may not get much money out of them, but there are long term issues to worry about - namely, platform support. If you want developers to write for your platform, you need to convince them that your platform is worth writing for. If a Chinese user is forced to choose between Windows and Linux, and they start going Linux, it hurts Windows because developers might start writing for Linux instead.
Linux distros are free because.... They also happen to need developers, users and have bills to pay, it's just totally not a marketing gimmick? The most popular distros are run by non-profits?
I see this as fair competition. We've got companies bundling every piece of software they can with their system in these enormous OS repositories, and giving it away for free, while Microsoft almost got broken up over shipping a web browser. Yup, they abused a monopoly, and hurt the software market. Look at Linux today, WHAT software "market"? MySQL gets snubbed for MariaDB, OpenOffice for LibreOffice. Microsoft has to use a browser ballot?
When will Microsoft be allowed to operate just like everybody else, bundling and dumping like they couldn't have dreamed of twenty years ago?
You mean you do exactly what the rest of the working world does with their laptop docking station?
I have an hp one at work, and a Lenovo one at home. Both have power and peripherals plugged in and I just drop my laptop into place for it all to spring to life.
Yes, a single wire is exactly what a docking station should be distilled down to. Really, screw wires.
for hd video, wifi is NO SUBSTITUTE for wired enet.
This.
And it's not necessarily the speed (bit rate) but the inherent instability and susceptibility to interference that really makes it unstable. If my wireless connection drops momentarily whilst I'm browsing /. I'm not going to notice, if it drops whilst streaming a HD video, chances are I'll notice (even buffering the video wont help too much).
If you want to send video over a network you use wires. If you're really serious or going long distances, you go straight to fibre.
No, it IS about bitrate. I'm getting ~580 Mbps over 802.11ac two rooms over right now, that's ten times the maximum bitrate of Blu-ray, or enough to buffer one at 10x. I would have to use a player that did't buffer at all, or suffer seconds of outage to have a problem.
Good AV playback is ALL about throughput, and has nothing to do with latency. Wifi isn't your problem, you're doing Wifi wrong.
If Wifi was't good enough for video, it absolutely would not be good enough for networked games, and then you're talking to a lot of people who don't have any problems...
for hd video, wifi is NO SUBSTITUTE for wired enet.
try an mkv file; oftentimes it takes 2 or even 3 minutes before vlc (on win7 ultimate) begins to play, and that is with the very latest media bridge of ac to ac wireless (2 asus routers). this is as good as wireless gets for consumers and yet I have a several minute wait time.
why? I think the protocol sucks and there is a lot of seeking or indexing on some mkv's and with wifi latency, small packets take forever (when there are lots of them needed). plug into wired enet and the video plays almost instantly.
do a backup over the net? not likely! yes, I can. but its painful.
wireless also is quite insecure. a lot of people think its ok. many of us don't trust it.
so, anyone saying 'wired is dead for end stations' knows nothing about the vast number of use-cases where wifi falls flat on its arse.
(and try running nfs over wifi. good luck with that!)
That does't make any sense, what kind of video playback is sensitive to latency - at all? You're probably not getting the throughput you think you are supposed to be getting. Go back to the drawing board and fix your network man, Wifi is plenty fast for several HD streams.