I agree. I've usually found myself similarly annoyed when the bulky application loads when you just want to view a file and Preview loads instantly and is thus the natural default viewer.
Certainly the default opening command should be set to the system-wide setting, which by default would be a light weight viewer supplied with the operating system (Preview, Quicktime (well, maybe not lightweight), etc).
Right/ctrl-clicking should open a menu. There it should have "Open (with Preview)" (default application), "Open (with Photoshop)" (creator application), and then "Open with..." with all the other registered handler applications in a submenu.
You could extend this - "Open (to view)", "Open (to edit)" where viewer and editor are default viewer and editor, if different.
The article goes on about applications stealing other application's files. In actual fact they're MY files.
Of course using Windows Process Monitor to get memory usage for a application like Chrome which has different processes per tab/plugin leads to horrendously incorrect results, which the article acknowledges in an edit, without any attempt to get the correct figures. Shame really, as this functionality is built into Chrome...
Some have argued that once they buy a CD they shouldn't have to pay again and again to listen to those songs
And how is this in any way illogical? It's format-shifting. This isn't about piracy, but extracting MORE money from the people buying the music. This fits in with the music industry's assertion that we buy a license to listen to the music when we buy a CD.
This is why such fair use scenarios need to be explicitly stated in law.
This is extreme scummishness on behalf of the music industry.
The main issue with this is that SSDs gain speed by being massively parallel, across 8 - 32 flash chips.
This is a single flash chip, so to get that performance improvement, all of the parallelism has to be internal. You're talking about a flash chip that also has this complex controller and PCIe (I presume) interface on-board.
Useful for netbooks which can use it as their only layer of storage. Useful for OS installs (I guess technically it's a cache rather than a separate drive in this situation, so the OS will need to manage the storage entirely, the bootloader would need a driver if the kernel was stored on it, and so on, etc.
Yeah, well that wasn't a capability of many big PS3s either, the 40GB in Europe never had that capability. Sad, yes, but once the PS3 game library was big enough an understandable cost optimisation.
Maybe Sony will one day sort out its PS2 software emulation (not the half and half that they had in 2nd generation PS3s in some markets) so that we can load our existing games (although I suspect they would rather we rebought them in the PS Store).
And irrelevant to what we're talking about, which is consumer high-speed internet offerings that have commonly become known as "broadband". I.e., it's a different meaning to the technical term, deal with it.
Surely the job of any US government "internet quango" would be to mandate a continual year-on-year improvement in "broadband speeds", in terms of urban, extra-urban, and rural locations.
I.e., right now you could have: 10/2 for urban, 5/1 for extra-urban, and 2/0.2 for rural. In two years time that could be 50/5, 20/2 and 4/0.5. You would then have a driving force to improve offerings and ensure that something besides "market forces, aka corporate stagnation once they think things are good enough" drove the development of internet service provision.
And so is your microwave, TV, DVD player, calculator, etc.
It's not sold as a computer but as a games machine cum media box. It had the option in the past to become a computer, but with its limited memory it just doesn't make sense now.
You can probably buy a more powerful PC for the same price these days. Sure, it'll have integrated graphics, but a dual-core 2GHz Pentium or Athlon II will whip a Cell in desktop tasks - unless you need to use the SPUs, but maybe a cheap graphics card will provide an OpenCL/CUDA/etc alternative that's better. Linux on PS3 never got to use the GPU anyway...
You aren't meant to verify it. You simply take it down. The offending site can then issue a counter-notification, after you've presumably told them what has happened, and presumably sent on the legal stuff so that they can do such an action.
It's protecting the ISPs, they don't even have to make a judgement on whether the site is legal or not. That can be done by the law.
Of course there are problems - there's a cost associated with being the middle-man, taking down sites, putting them back up. In addition it is possible to be sending abusive takedown notices without specific details. There's no mediation stage, not that a counterfeiter is going to turn up to such a thing. There's no compensation stage for incorrect notices (or is there?).
I don't even know what Louis Vuitton is, but I presume it's a handbag and women's pointless apparel (sorry, "women's fashion") manufacturer. There wouldn't be a counterfeit market if the prices were reasonable for the goods in the first place instead of being massively marked up to create something "valuable because of artificial scarcity".
the new update disables support for the BBC iPlayer, which "cannot stream video or audio content but it still allows you to browse content.
It is a shame as that is pretty much all I use the Wii internet channel for. My Virgin Media cable box crashes 100% of the time when I try to access iPlayer through its interface. I also don't like watching iPlayer on my computer screen in another room when I want to be on my sofa.
To be honest, even with a Mac Pro, four and a half years is a good amount of use, and it was out of warranty. Even though it was a design fault, I'm surprised they didn't just offer you $500 off a new Mac Pro instead!
Luckily it seems that "explode" is the media term for "break" when it comes to this case.
Apple's sold millions of these devices. So far there have been a handful of these cases, not even dozens.
And in all of them, there hasn't been an explosion. It wasn't the battery either. Maybe there is a design flaw, but it would affect all large screen devices that use glass. Maybe there is some form of transparent membrane that could be stuck under the glass to keep it cohesive if it does break.
It's not like anyone would put a large, flat, bit of glass in their back pocket. Nor any slim large device. Pickpockets like back pocket items, easy to steal. Also not a lot of room in them, so putting stuff in is uncomfortable. Front pockets are much better.
What should we use for formatted capacity? A formatted block is a power of two size, but you don't necessarily have a power of two quantity of blocks.
Hard drive manufacturers have advertised capacities using 10^3 instead of 2^10 for years and years. Therefore matching that seems sensible, or you'll get support costs as people query it. There's nothing we can do about it in the end - we won't get extra capacity however it is reported, so who cares?
RAM, however, is addresses in powers of two, and should always be reported that way in software. If that means using the annoying KiB, GiB, MiB, PiB, TiB suffixes, then so be it. Maybe it's time to give up on what I considered a de-facto standard in the 80s and 90s, and just go with what is well defined.:-(
The NY Times reports on legislation in Utah which harshly penalizes people who cause fatal car accidents while texting. Instead of merely facing a fine, offenders may now get up to 15 years in jail -- the same as drunk drivers.
Good.
So what's the point of this story?
Driving is a responsibility, and if you are irresponsible because you are texting - not merely talking handsfree, not talking hand-to-ear, but typing on a fiddly keyboard, you are going to be distracted. Kill someone doing this, and it isn't an accident, what's accidental about taking your mind off the road.
If you need to text on the road (and also if you need to talk), then pull over somewhere safe and do it there. Or don't answer the phone, and give yourself some "me time" in your own car.
It's not like TiVo is a company set up to collect patents and then chase them down. They've had products on the market for years, would by many be said to have created the home digital recorder (and thus have attained many patents), still have products on the market, and other providers have created products that are now losing TiVo business.
So if the patent is valid (I haven't read it) then surely TiVo have as much right to go after infringers as any other company that has its patents on its products infringed?
This evil man, who somehow reappears in UK politics despite having been thrown out twice for being scum, has now become a Lord (!!!) and basically cares only for himself and his rich friends. He recently had chats with media companies, and suddenly he is espousing this hard line response. Coincidence... hmm...
I don't think that many people will be sad to see Labour lose in the next election. We might not be too happy with who will come in though.
Anyway, if 1 in 10 people is doing the same illegal thing, then what needs assessing? Surely the law itself!
I used to have that problem, now I don't even get the option of being disappointed as the tag disappears into tag-limbo. I think tagging is for personal use, but that common tags get elevated to everyone-sees them. But that doesn't explain why personal tags don't show up anymore.
I don't know, I literally cannot think like the Slashdot coders, as everything they do seems contrary to common sense.
How much data can you transmit in a very localised (~10cm) environment wirelessly?
How about via a high-quality optical cable? Even if the length of that cable was restricted for optimal performance, i.e., connecting a CPU to another piece of logic?
It seems I can't add my own tags to posts any more. Instead I get a grey bar with an almost invisible + and - in it, and no way to do anything. Not that I'm currently allowed to post a reply, because of the anal anti-spam system that doesn't take someone's on-going karma into account (i.e., good posters should be allowed to post more, none of this 10 minute time-out thing).
And on-topic, woo, progress marches on. Anyone care to work out how many Nehalem cores you could fit onto a 200mm^2 chip at 4nm?
I remember when entertainment media was effectively licensed for use within a person's house and/or on their person.
Now it appears that this media is now being limited to individual people (at least individual people online at the same time).
This is what happens when you don't have consumer protection agencies, or if they turn a blind eye to consumer rights for things they don't understand.
First they tried to stop resale, now they're stopping fair use within your own house. Making EULAs even more complex, stripping away user rights. Instead of simplicity, they go for penny-grabbing complexity and confusion. Consumers are not businesses, their common purchases should not require license agreements. I buy games more often than I buy furniture, but I don't get furniture usage agreements to agree to apart from 'you damage it, you pay for replacement'. Simple, short, to the point, understandable.
Someone needs to step in and sort this problem out, otherwise scummy companies like Blizzard will continue to rape the consumer.
(Of course we've accepted this for a long time for 'major' software like operating systems, where Windows is valid for one install. Arguably I would say that it is a different situation from entertainment media where you have traditionally had some rights before.)
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I agree. I've usually found myself similarly annoyed when the bulky application loads when you just want to view a file and Preview loads instantly and is thus the natural default viewer.
Certainly the default opening command should be set to the system-wide setting, which by default would be a light weight viewer supplied with the operating system (Preview, Quicktime (well, maybe not lightweight), etc).
Right/ctrl-clicking should open a menu. There it should have "Open (with Preview)" (default application), "Open (with Photoshop)" (creator application), and then "Open with..." with all the other registered handler applications in a submenu.
You could extend this - "Open (to view)", "Open (to edit)" where viewer and editor are default viewer and editor, if different.
The article goes on about applications stealing other application's files. In actual fact they're MY files.
Of course using Windows Process Monitor to get memory usage for a application like Chrome which has different processes per tab/plugin leads to horrendously incorrect results, which the article acknowledges in an edit, without any attempt to get the correct figures. Shame really, as this functionality is built into Chrome...
Ugh, graphs like this review has should start at 0.
It's incorrect to start them at higher figures, it exaggerates the actual difference in results.
It's basic stuff this, you're taught it at school early on.
Some have argued that once they buy a CD they shouldn't have to pay again and again to listen to those songs
And how is this in any way illogical? It's format-shifting. This isn't about piracy, but extracting MORE money from the people buying the music. This fits in with the music industry's assertion that we buy a license to listen to the music when we buy a CD.
This is why such fair use scenarios need to be explicitly stated in law.
This is extreme scummishness on behalf of the music industry.
That sounds as fun as using an electric power rasp to scratch my balls!
Flash memory doesn't require a battery backup.
The main issue with this is that SSDs gain speed by being massively parallel, across 8 - 32 flash chips.
This is a single flash chip, so to get that performance improvement, all of the parallelism has to be internal. You're talking about a flash chip that also has this complex controller and PCIe (I presume) interface on-board.
Useful for netbooks which can use it as their only layer of storage. Useful for OS installs (I guess technically it's a cache rather than a separate drive in this situation, so the OS will need to manage the storage entirely, the bootloader would need a driver if the kernel was stored on it, and so on, etc.
Yeah, well that wasn't a capability of many big PS3s either, the 40GB in Europe never had that capability. Sad, yes, but once the PS3 game library was big enough an understandable cost optimisation.
Maybe Sony will one day sort out its PS2 software emulation (not the half and half that they had in 2nd generation PS3s in some markets) so that we can load our existing games (although I suspect they would rather we rebought them in the PS Store).
And irrelevant to what we're talking about, which is consumer high-speed internet offerings that have commonly become known as "broadband". I.e., it's a different meaning to the technical term, deal with it.
Surely the job of any US government "internet quango" would be to mandate a continual year-on-year improvement in "broadband speeds", in terms of urban, extra-urban, and rural locations.
I.e., right now you could have: 10/2 for urban, 5/1 for extra-urban, and 2/0.2 for rural. In two years time that could be 50/5, 20/2 and 4/0.5. You would then have a driving force to improve offerings and ensure that something besides "market forces, aka corporate stagnation once they think things are good enough" drove the development of internet service provision.
And so is your microwave, TV, DVD player, calculator, etc.
It's not sold as a computer but as a games machine cum media box. It had the option in the past to become a computer, but with its limited memory it just doesn't make sense now.
You can probably buy a more powerful PC for the same price these days. Sure, it'll have integrated graphics, but a dual-core 2GHz Pentium or Athlon II will whip a Cell in desktop tasks - unless you need to use the SPUs, but maybe a cheap graphics card will provide an OpenCL/CUDA/etc alternative that's better. Linux on PS3 never got to use the GPU anyway...
You aren't meant to verify it. You simply take it down. The offending site can then issue a counter-notification, after you've presumably told them what has happened, and presumably sent on the legal stuff so that they can do such an action.
It's protecting the ISPs, they don't even have to make a judgement on whether the site is legal or not. That can be done by the law.
Of course there are problems - there's a cost associated with being the middle-man, taking down sites, putting them back up. In addition it is possible to be sending abusive takedown notices without specific details. There's no mediation stage, not that a counterfeiter is going to turn up to such a thing. There's no compensation stage for incorrect notices (or is there?).
I don't even know what Louis Vuitton is, but I presume it's a handbag and women's pointless apparel (sorry, "women's fashion") manufacturer. There wouldn't be a counterfeit market if the prices were reasonable for the goods in the first place instead of being massively marked up to create something "valuable because of artificial scarcity".
Pretty much doing anything except watch TV kills the Virgin Box dead.
Sometimes it can't change channel, instead thinking you want to view the programme guide.
Never mind the glacial speed of the interface. A-Z? Horrific, it would take a day to get to M (for Mock the Week), never mind T (for Top Gear).
the new update disables support for the BBC iPlayer, which "cannot stream video or audio content but it still allows you to browse content.
It is a shame as that is pretty much all I use the Wii internet channel for. My Virgin Media cable box crashes 100% of the time when I try to access iPlayer through its interface. I also don't like watching iPlayer on my computer screen in another room when I want to be on my sofa.
You won there, if that is true.
To be honest, even with a Mac Pro, four and a half years is a good amount of use, and it was out of warranty. Even though it was a design fault, I'm surprised they didn't just offer you $500 off a new Mac Pro instead!
You fail at arguing.
A good response would have proved that Seagate were poor. Instead you attack the person and the site. That's poor arguing.
I recommend you join a debating society to improve your debating skills.
Luckily it seems that "explode" is the media term for "break" when it comes to this case.
Apple's sold millions of these devices. So far there have been a handful of these cases, not even dozens.
And in all of them, there hasn't been an explosion. It wasn't the battery either. Maybe there is a design flaw, but it would affect all large screen devices that use glass. Maybe there is some form of transparent membrane that could be stuck under the glass to keep it cohesive if it does break.
It's not like anyone would put a large, flat, bit of glass in their back pocket. Nor any slim large device. Pickpockets like back pocket items, easy to steal. Also not a lot of room in them, so putting stuff in is uncomfortable. Front pockets are much better.
What does Windows use?
What does Linux use?
What should we use for formatted capacity? A formatted block is a power of two size, but you don't necessarily have a power of two quantity of blocks.
Hard drive manufacturers have advertised capacities using 10^3 instead of 2^10 for years and years. Therefore matching that seems sensible, or you'll get support costs as people query it. There's nothing we can do about it in the end - we won't get extra capacity however it is reported, so who cares?
RAM, however, is addresses in powers of two, and should always be reported that way in software. If that means using the annoying KiB, GiB, MiB, PiB, TiB suffixes, then so be it. Maybe it's time to give up on what I considered a de-facto standard in the 80s and 90s, and just go with what is well defined. :-(
The NY Times reports on legislation in Utah which harshly penalizes people who cause fatal car accidents while texting. Instead of merely facing a fine, offenders may now get up to 15 years in jail -- the same as drunk drivers.
Good.
So what's the point of this story?
Driving is a responsibility, and if you are irresponsible because you are texting - not merely talking handsfree, not talking hand-to-ear, but typing on a fiddly keyboard, you are going to be distracted. Kill someone doing this, and it isn't an accident, what's accidental about taking your mind off the road.
If you need to text on the road (and also if you need to talk), then pull over somewhere safe and do it there. Or don't answer the phone, and give yourself some "me time" in your own car.
It's not like TiVo is a company set up to collect patents and then chase them down. They've had products on the market for years, would by many be said to have created the home digital recorder (and thus have attained many patents), still have products on the market, and other providers have created products that are now losing TiVo business.
So if the patent is valid (I haven't read it) then surely TiVo have as much right to go after infringers as any other company that has its patents on its products infringed?
Shame you don't know what you're talking about.
A-GPS == "integrated GPS with Assited [sic] GPS"
I.e., it's GPS with Assistance, like the name suggests. Both devices are equivalent.
This evil man, who somehow reappears in UK politics despite having been thrown out twice for being scum, has now become a Lord (!!!) and basically cares only for himself and his rich friends. He recently had chats with media companies, and suddenly he is espousing this hard line response. Coincidence ... hmm ...
I don't think that many people will be sad to see Labour lose in the next election. We might not be too happy with who will come in though.
Anyway, if 1 in 10 people is doing the same illegal thing, then what needs assessing? Surely the law itself!
I used to have that problem, now I don't even get the option of being disappointed as the tag disappears into tag-limbo. I think tagging is for personal use, but that common tags get elevated to everyone-sees them. But that doesn't explain why personal tags don't show up anymore.
I don't know, I literally cannot think like the Slashdot coders, as everything they do seems contrary to common sense.
How much data can you transmit in a very localised (~10cm) environment wirelessly?
How about via a high-quality optical cable? Even if the length of that cable was restricted for optimal performance, i.e., connecting a CPU to another piece of logic?
It seems I can't add my own tags to posts any more. Instead I get a grey bar with an almost invisible + and - in it, and no way to do anything. Not that I'm currently allowed to post a reply, because of the anal anti-spam system that doesn't take someone's on-going karma into account (i.e., good posters should be allowed to post more, none of this 10 minute time-out thing).
And on-topic, woo, progress marches on. Anyone care to work out how many Nehalem cores you could fit onto a 200mm^2 chip at 4nm?
I remember when entertainment media was effectively licensed for use within a person's house and/or on their person.
Now it appears that this media is now being limited to individual people (at least individual people online at the same time).
This is what happens when you don't have consumer protection agencies, or if they turn a blind eye to consumer rights for things they don't understand.
First they tried to stop resale, now they're stopping fair use within your own house. Making EULAs even more complex, stripping away user rights. Instead of simplicity, they go for penny-grabbing complexity and confusion. Consumers are not businesses, their common purchases should not require license agreements. I buy games more often than I buy furniture, but I don't get furniture usage agreements to agree to apart from 'you damage it, you pay for replacement'. Simple, short, to the point, understandable.
Someone needs to step in and sort this problem out, otherwise scummy companies like Blizzard will continue to rape the consumer.
(Of course we've accepted this for a long time for 'major' software like operating systems, where Windows is valid for one install. Arguably I would say that it is a different situation from entertainment media where you have traditionally had some rights before.)
This is pretty much the only post that needs to exist on the topic of the "outed" blogger's plans to sue Google.