"But Net Neutrality is about treating all services equal, it should stop this!" some will say... ignoring these very same caps came in during the NN era.
Net neutrality has zero to do with actual data caps. All it means is that my 1TB of netflix should be treated the same as your 1TB of hand-typed emails, which also means that 'exemptions' for data from 'preferered partners' from the caps are not permitted.
> It's not immediately clear whose fault this one is -- it could be Microsoft's, but it's also possible that Apple is to blame.
Nope. If an operating system breaks any userland program, it's always the operating system which should be blamed.
Not necessarily - if an application has hard-coded checks for os versions and no smarts to deal with a newer/unexpected version, that is 100% an application problem, not the OS itself.
Never, ever, ever put working video files - original footage or working copies, on an external drive. It's just too slow, especially in these days of 4K and upwards. The only things I use external drives for are backups, and transferring copies to clients.
"slowness" it not an issue anymore: a typical spinning platter hard drive will be slower than the 5Gbit/sec USB 3.0 bandwidth to begin with -- And even if it could saturate the bus, it still won't be noticably slower than an internal SATA III drive which has just 6Gbit/sec bandwidth.
(Not to mention USB 3.1, which is actually *faster* than SATA.)
Anyway -- regardless of how stupid it was for him not to have proper backups, Adobe did appear to have screwed up here, and could be held partially responsible. Although in all likelihood their liability will be capped at the cost of his copy of Premiere Pro.
The reason that US creditcard companies don't want to force their users to use pin codes is simple: no one wants to be first. In most of the world, people have a single creditcard. The average American has half a dozen or more. Forcing Americans to remember a Pin just means that a not insignificant percentage of users will simply to switch one of their other cards that's 'less inconvenient' - therefore, nothing changes since none of the card companies want to lose their users to the competition.
Yes, bring on the EV's. The more companies making EV's mean the more they have to complete with each other and the lower the price will become. That whole supply and demand thing.
...Except it may actually increase the cost, since there's only so much Lithium available to make batteries with. Almost 50% of the global lithium supply is bought up by battery manufacturers already, to handle the current demand. Not a ton of room for growth there.
Meanwhile Windows 10 not only allows Linux in the same machine it now let's me run pretty much all of my Linux dev tools in Windows, without emulation, side by side my Windows apps in one windowed shell.
Only on x86. Microsoft did enable secureboot and prevented other OSes from running on their crappy short-lived 1st gen ARM-based Windows 10 RT surface tablets as well. (And we all know the only reason they kept the x86 version "open" was to prevent another monopoly abuse lawsuit.)
Phones used to be "free" with your subscription - other than locking in for a other two year contract, there was no out-of-pocket difference between continuing to use your old phone or getting the latest & greatest.
Now, getting a new phone means your monthly rate goes up $30 a month for the next two years until you pay it off - a bigger hurdle for many people.
I'm sure they are just testing the waters replacing the function keys with that touch bar thing -- It would honestly surprise me if they don't replace their entire keyboard with a touchscreen at some point within the next 5 years, tactile feedback be damned.
I predict the proliferation of Augmented Reality keyboards, which use an AR display to show a virtual keyboard anywhere, not just on real surfaces. Your hands will be wearing haptic gloves which resist movement of your fingers, giving tactile feedback and avoiding fatigue.
Of you could just use a qwerty keyboard -- more accurate feedback, and no need to wear sweaty gloves and special glasses.
An AR keyboard sounds like a solution looking for a problem.
This is funny until a software at the border decides this is not you on the passport photo.
At that point, at best you spend the whole day explaining what is going on to custom officers.
Or worse: If you happen to lose your passport while abroad, the embassy won't issue you replacement travel papers because you can't identify yourself and you don't match the info they have on file. And without that passport or emergency travel papers, you won't even be able to board your flight home. Potentially ever.
So good luck with that -- you could really screw yourself over by messing with those records.
Thanks to near ubiquitous internet access, both hardware and software have rapidly increased update cycles compared to "back in the day", many of which can affect the user interface.
In many cases, the manual will literally be outdated before it's finished printing.
On top of that the average user is much more at ease with various hardware and software, meaning many/most people don't bother with a manual anyway. Why waste the money? The cost for including a PDF, online knowledge base or how-to is next to nothing, especially compared to printing manuals.
Plus, online manuals have one major advantage over a paper copy: it takes literally seconds to find all mentions of a specific keyword across a 1,000 page PDF file -- good luck locating even a fraction of that info in a paper manual.
The Russians don't necessarily care about net neutrality, but they do appear to be actively stirring wasps nest to cause discontent and conflict among the US population. The more unrest within the US internally, the less Americans worry about what Russia is doing on the other side of the world.
It's been a couple of years (2011), but for a couple of weeks I got multiple emails a day all originating from the Indian branch of a large global travel agency that you've most likely heard of. My gmail address happened to be similar to the name of one of their travel offices, and I guess that's what they were trying to use for their internal emails.
Not just any emails though -- it would mostly be scans of customer passports and other ID, travel visa applications, etc. Things that should NEVER be sent by email in the first place, let alone to an external free address on hosted a different continent and ESPECIALLY NOT unencrypted..
The first bunch of times I replied with a friendly message pointing out their error, and asked to please make sure to use the right address -- but they kept sending things. The next few dozen notices I sent got progressively less friendly. No change. I briefly considered just ignoring them altogether but felt bad for their customers getting screwed over and having their vacations or other travel plans fall through.
I also send a direct emails to the main email address listed on the website of the travel office explaining the situation, to no avail. The only thing that finally stopped it was sending a nastygram to their UK parent company asking them what kind of Mickey Mouse outfit they were running by their ongoing efforts to send me their confidential customer information despite my continuous reminders not to. Although the emails stopped abruptly after that, even the parent company never acknowledged or replied to my notice. No one ever did.
So... Just keep that in mind should you ever 'need to' hand over your passport to a travel agency or have them help you with a travel visa -- no guarantee that they didn't forward it to a complete stranger using a free mail account on the other side of the planet. A less morally inclined recipient could have REALLY screwed some people over.
/I immediately deleted all of these emails and their attachments immediate after sending the notice//Always check your recipient address, folks ///And don't send unencrypted JPGs of other people's passports to complete strangers on a gmail account
They did the same with Windows XP -- at a cost of $200 per computer you could get updates for the first year past the end-of-life (or pretty much the cost of a new windows install anyway), but IIRC it was $400 for year 2, and $600 for year 3 to put pressure behind companies/governments to start upgrading.
I'm sure that there would be volume discounts, but still -- unless there are software incompatibility issues, it's often cheaper in the long run to just upgrade.
(Heck, for the $1,200 it cost to drag along XP for three more years you could easily buy a new computer with new OS)
One problem is simply volume: for every single Dutch movie being produced, Hollywood cranks out hundreds. So unless you want them to meet the quota by re-streaming lowest denominator 'reality TV reruns, there's not much alternatives -- especially if Brexit goes through and UK content may no longer count as "european" in their quotas.
Case in point, according to Wikipedia:
"In 2000 the total revenue coming from box office results in the Netherlands was €128.5 million; Dutch films had a share of 5.5%, which is €7.1 million."
If you force a 30% minimum, you may actually have to reduce the catalog size to meet it since there simply isn't that much native content -- and much of what IS there isn't exactly in high demand.
At least in the Netherlands, 99% of content on TV will either be in English or Dutch --There has never been any significant demand for other 'European' content (French/German/Italian/Whatever), so it's not like these quotas are going to make any viewers happy.
They'll just be forcing the streaming company to spend licensing funds on crap no one cares about. After all, if there were demand, then there would be no need for a mandatory minimum %.
Nokia was caught in 2012 doing the same, where background reflections showed they had a full commercial camera + lighting rig shooting the supposed cellphone shot:
https://www.theverge.com/2012/...
While impressive, there have been far more valuable companies in history - the Dutch east india company (VOC, the first publicly traded company in the world) had an inflation-adjusted market cap of over 7 trillion at its height.
... But what about in 6 months, when 4 days a week becomes the new normal? People are bound to start slacking off again when the 'testing' phase is behind them, simply because it's human nature to prefer being lazy over being tired.
Except it would have been trivial for some people to grab a copy and start spreading it elsewhere, presumably even before it hit the theaters. It could very well have an impact on revenue - if nothing else, I'd expect Sony will get sued over it by the other parties involved with some Hollywood-math level of missed revenue claims.
... Perhaps office workers with less physically demanding jobs are more likely to drink coffee regularly compared to people working more strenuous professions.
Companies that do nothing but HID like Logitech have all of a single wired USB mouse I would even consider (M500). I don't understand why mice are so screwed up.
Mostly because there is little money in the segment -- The vast majority of the market is served by $2 mice with zero profit that get bundled by Dell/HP/Whatever when grandma buys a new PC or thrown in a bulk bin at Big Lots, and a good chunk of the people who are willing to pay extra for a mouse are near-impossible to please gamers. To MOST people, mice/keyboards aren't even an afterthought
Keyboards are similar: There's a lot of "could have been great" ones around, only to be completely ruined by the manufacturers decision to save $0.07 and go with a blatantly inferior type of plastic or non-standard key configuration. (e.g. no insert key, double-sized delete key -- seriously?)
Too bad these new mice have the side buttons -- personally I prefer the Microsoft Wheelmouse Optical, and I didnt' realize that they were discontinued until it was too late. At that point all I could find anymore where mislabeled Chinese knock-off versions with greatly inferior scrollwheel compared to the real version.
/Yes, I recognize the irony of being overly picky with mice/keyboards myself as well
If you look at the Amazon reviews, a common complaint is that the tracking sensor is of sub-standard quality, making it much less accurate in fast gaming. Only $21.99 though, compared to $39.99 on the Microsoft store.
Apple has been 'form over function' for a LONG time.
Just look at the ergonomic nightmare of the iMac 'hockeypuck' mice, and their decades-long insistence on single-button mice in general.
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"But Net Neutrality is about treating all services equal, it should stop this!" some will say... ignoring these very same caps came in during the NN era.
Net neutrality has zero to do with actual data caps. All it means is that my 1TB of netflix should be treated the same as your 1TB of hand-typed emails, which also means that 'exemptions' for data from 'preferered partners' from the caps are not permitted.
Data is data -- it really is that easy.
> It's not immediately clear whose fault this one is -- it could be Microsoft's, but it's also possible that Apple is to blame.
Nope. If an operating system breaks any userland program, it's always the operating system which should be blamed.
Not necessarily - if an application has hard-coded checks for os versions and no smarts to deal with a newer/unexpected version, that is 100% an application problem, not the OS itself.
"One set of rules for thee, and one for me"
Laws are for the little people.
Never, ever, ever put working video files - original footage or working copies, on an external drive. It's just too slow, especially in these days of 4K and upwards. The only things I use external drives for are backups, and transferring copies to clients.
"slowness" it not an issue anymore: a typical spinning platter hard drive will be slower than the 5Gbit/sec USB 3.0 bandwidth to begin with -- And even if it could saturate the bus, it still won't be noticably slower than an internal SATA III drive which has just 6Gbit/sec bandwidth.
(Not to mention USB 3.1, which is actually *faster* than SATA.)
Anyway -- regardless of how stupid it was for him not to have proper backups, Adobe did appear to have screwed up here, and could be held partially responsible. Although in all likelihood their liability will be capped at the cost of his copy of Premiere Pro.
The reason that US creditcard companies don't want to force their users to use pin codes is simple: no one wants to be first. In most of the world, people have a single creditcard. The average American has half a dozen or more. Forcing Americans to remember a Pin just means that a not insignificant percentage of users will simply to switch one of their other cards that's 'less inconvenient' - therefore, nothing changes since none of the card companies want to lose their users to the competition.
Yes, bring on the EV's. The more companies making EV's mean the more they have to complete with each other and the lower the price will become. That whole supply and demand thing.
...Except it may actually increase the cost, since there's only so much Lithium available to make batteries with. Almost 50% of the global lithium supply is bought up by battery manufacturers already, to handle the current demand. Not a ton of room for growth there.
Meanwhile Windows 10 not only allows Linux in the same machine it now let's me run pretty much all of my Linux dev tools in Windows, without emulation, side by side my Windows apps in one windowed shell.
Only on x86. Microsoft did enable secureboot and prevented other OSes from running on their crappy short-lived 1st gen ARM-based Windows 10 RT surface tablets as well. (And we all know the only reason they kept the x86 version "open" was to prevent another monopoly abuse lawsuit.)
Phones used to be "free" with your subscription - other than locking in for a other two year contract, there was no out-of-pocket difference between continuing to use your old phone or getting the latest & greatest. Now, getting a new phone means your monthly rate goes up $30 a month for the next two years until you pay it off - a bigger hurdle for many people.
I'm sure they are just testing the waters replacing the function keys with that touch bar thing -- It would honestly surprise me if they don't replace their entire keyboard with a touchscreen at some point within the next 5 years, tactile feedback be damned.
I predict the proliferation of Augmented Reality keyboards, which use an AR display to show a virtual keyboard anywhere, not just on real surfaces. Your hands will be wearing haptic gloves which resist movement of your fingers, giving tactile feedback and avoiding fatigue.
Of you could just use a qwerty keyboard -- more accurate feedback, and no need to wear sweaty gloves and special glasses.
An AR keyboard sounds like a solution looking for a problem.
This is funny until a software at the border decides this is not you on the passport photo.
At that point, at best you spend the whole day explaining what is going on to custom officers.
Or worse: If you happen to lose your passport while abroad, the embassy won't issue you replacement travel papers because you can't identify yourself and you don't match the info they have on file. And without that passport or emergency travel papers, you won't even be able to board your flight home. Potentially ever.
So good luck with that -- you could really screw yourself over by messing with those records.
Thanks to near ubiquitous internet access, both hardware and software have rapidly increased update cycles compared to "back in the day", many of which can affect the user interface.
In many cases, the manual will literally be outdated before it's finished printing.
On top of that the average user is much more at ease with various hardware and software, meaning many/most people don't bother with a manual anyway. Why waste the money? The cost for including a PDF, online knowledge base or how-to is next to nothing, especially compared to printing manuals.
Plus, online manuals have one major advantage over a paper copy: it takes literally seconds to find all mentions of a specific keyword across a 1,000 page PDF file -- good luck locating even a fraction of that info in a paper manual.
The Russians don't necessarily care about net neutrality, but they do appear to be actively stirring wasps nest to cause discontent and conflict among the US population. The more unrest within the US internally, the less Americans worry about what Russia is doing on the other side of the world.
It's been a couple of years (2011), but for a couple of weeks I got multiple emails a day all originating from the Indian branch of a large global travel agency that you've most likely heard of. My gmail address happened to be similar to the name of one of their travel offices, and I guess that's what they were trying to use for their internal emails.
/I immediately deleted all of these emails and their attachments immediate after sending the notice //Always check your recipient address, folks
///And don't send unencrypted JPGs of other people's passports to complete strangers on a gmail account
Not just any emails though -- it would mostly be scans of customer passports and other ID, travel visa applications, etc. Things that should NEVER be sent by email in the first place, let alone to an external free address on hosted a different continent and ESPECIALLY NOT unencrypted..
The first bunch of times I replied with a friendly message pointing out their error, and asked to please make sure to use the right address -- but they kept sending things. The next few dozen notices I sent got progressively less friendly. No change. I briefly considered just ignoring them altogether but felt bad for their customers getting screwed over and having their vacations or other travel plans fall through.
I also send a direct emails to the main email address listed on the website of the travel office explaining the situation, to no avail. The only thing that finally stopped it was sending a nastygram to their UK parent company asking them what kind of Mickey Mouse outfit they were running by their ongoing efforts to send me their confidential customer information despite my continuous reminders not to. Although the emails stopped abruptly after that, even the parent company never acknowledged or replied to my notice. No one ever did.
So... Just keep that in mind should you ever 'need to' hand over your passport to a travel agency or have them help you with a travel visa -- no guarantee that they didn't forward it to a complete stranger using a free mail account on the other side of the planet. A less morally inclined recipient could have REALLY screwed some people over.
They did the same with Windows XP -- at a cost of $200 per computer you could get updates for the first year past the end-of-life (or pretty much the cost of a new windows install anyway), but IIRC it was $400 for year 2, and $600 for year 3 to put pressure behind companies/governments to start upgrading.
I'm sure that there would be volume discounts, but still -- unless there are software incompatibility issues, it's often cheaper in the long run to just upgrade.
(Heck, for the $1,200 it cost to drag along XP for three more years you could easily buy a new computer with new OS)
One problem is simply volume: for every single Dutch movie being produced, Hollywood cranks out hundreds. So unless you want them to meet the quota by re-streaming lowest denominator 'reality TV reruns, there's not much alternatives -- especially if Brexit goes through and UK content may no longer count as "european" in their quotas.
Case in point, according to Wikipedia: "In 2000 the total revenue coming from box office results in the Netherlands was €128.5 million; Dutch films had a share of 5.5%, which is €7.1 million."
If you force a 30% minimum, you may actually have to reduce the catalog size to meet it since there simply isn't that much native content -- and much of what IS there isn't exactly in high demand.
At least in the Netherlands, 99% of content on TV will either be in English or Dutch --There has never been any significant demand for other 'European' content (French/German/Italian/Whatever), so it's not like these quotas are going to make any viewers happy.
They'll just be forcing the streaming company to spend licensing funds on crap no one cares about. After all, if there were demand, then there would be no need for a mandatory minimum %.
Everything acrobat can do for $0
Bates Numbering?
Redaction?
Adobe's Horrid user interface aside, all of the free ones I've looked at so far are all lacking some things that Acrobat Pro can do.
Same for photoshop: gimp is very nice, but it's still not in the same league.
Nokia was caught in 2012 doing the same, where background reflections showed they had a full commercial camera + lighting rig shooting the supposed cellphone shot: https://www.theverge.com/2012/...
While impressive, there have been far more valuable companies in history - the Dutch east india company (VOC, the first publicly traded company in the world) had an inflation-adjusted market cap of over 7 trillion at its height.
... But what about in 6 months, when 4 days a week becomes the new normal? People are bound to start slacking off again when the 'testing' phase is behind them, simply because it's human nature to prefer being lazy over being tired.
Except it would have been trivial for some people to grab a copy and start spreading it elsewhere, presumably even before it hit the theaters. It could very well have an impact on revenue - if nothing else, I'd expect Sony will get sued over it by the other parties involved with some Hollywood-math level of missed revenue claims.
... Perhaps office workers with less physically demanding jobs are more likely to drink coffee regularly compared to people working more strenuous professions.
Companies that do nothing but HID like Logitech have all of a single wired USB mouse I would even consider (M500). I don't understand why mice are so screwed up.
/Yes, I recognize the irony of being overly picky with mice/keyboards myself as well
Mostly because there is little money in the segment -- The vast majority of the market is served by $2 mice with zero profit that get bundled by Dell/HP/Whatever when grandma buys a new PC or thrown in a bulk bin at Big Lots, and a good chunk of the people who are willing to pay extra for a mouse are near-impossible to please gamers. To MOST people, mice/keyboards aren't even an afterthought
Keyboards are similar: There's a lot of "could have been great" ones around, only to be completely ruined by the manufacturers decision to save $0.07 and go with a blatantly inferior type of plastic or non-standard key configuration. (e.g. no insert key, double-sized delete key -- seriously?)
Too bad these new mice have the side buttons -- personally I prefer the Microsoft Wheelmouse Optical, and I didnt' realize that they were discontinued until it was too late. At that point all I could find anymore where mislabeled Chinese knock-off versions with greatly inferior scrollwheel compared to the real version.
If you look at the Amazon reviews, a common complaint is that the tracking sensor is of sub-standard quality, making it much less accurate in fast gaming. Only $21.99 though, compared to $39.99 on the Microsoft store.
Apple has been 'form over function' for a LONG time. Just look at the ergonomic nightmare of the iMac 'hockeypuck' mice, and their decades-long insistence on single-button mice in general.