Last I did business with [Verizon], they signed me up for another year of contact when I simply asked for a paper bill (for which they also charged me $1.99).
I had the same thing happen. I dropped them forst opportunity I got. My cell phone bill went down too. Not only does verizon charge more they have higher fees larded on top. And their customer service sucks compared to t-mobile.
I regret that with the Iphone coming out I will be having to switch back to them. Grrrrrr. But I want an iphone. Android going in the trash.
But this seems to say it requires a special server. In which case it seems like this is just an encoded version of the 2008 service "feed-my-email". it still has to have a special server that the user must communicate with.
I'm puzzled how this works. the description does not make sense to me:
"FOE is different from the average feed reader in that it's able to fetch content from censored sites without requiring the user to visit those sites to set up the feed. Once FOE fetches the content, it encrypts it and sends it via e-mail much like an attached file. The user's client gets decrypts the feed once it's arrived and displays it on the local machine. Ho adds that FOE should be easy for activists to set up and maintain because it uses existing infrastructure."
Is there some proxy that does the encryption? How does the site know to send an e-mail. very confusing.
Would you buy a game called Bionic Commando Rear Med? It sounds like a Hemorrhoid Medicine or Mechanized Prostate exam. I bet this is referes to the advanced rectal cancer screening practiced by Goatse. Perhaps it a deranged euphemism for some sexual assualt. perhaps the game "turd burgular 2" was taken.
The argument seems to be that people want a proliferation of new sources. Yes I'm sure that's why fox news and CNN and MS nbc all are watched by the same people eager for a proliferation of points of view. Or why readers of Huffpo also hang on the words of powerline blog and littel green footballs. Or how the readers of Hagee and the middle easter armageddonist news sources are widely read in the Slashdot crowd.
People do not channle surf these days. they find a few news aggregators they like, say huffpo, boingboing, andrew sullivan, fark nad slashdot, and then they follow the links one deep from there. But it's the aggregators that they come back too. A well constructued newsmag stands a chance. But if it is no more than the New york times or newsweek then it will also have plenty of competition.
The Slashdot story is wrong. It's nearly right but there is a subtle, crucial difference: "“We are now requiring that if an app offers customers the ability to purchase books outside of the app, that the same option is also available to customers from within the app,” Trudy Muller, an Apple spokeswoman, said in a statement. "
This does not force amazon to offer all its wares inside the apple store. But it will prevent Amazon from advertising those wares inside the apple store if it does not offer the through apple.
What they are saying is that if you advertise a route to purchase something in the app then there has to be a way to purchase it through the apple store. Their idea is that free apps should not be used for marketing. Their rationale is that free apps are a burden on apple since they run the apple store. If the free app is generating revenue it has to pay.
Do I agree with this? No. It's my phone and my apps. I don't like apple deciding what apps get offered.
It seems like a reasonable compromise would be to allow app developers who want to offer free apps that are conduits to their own stores to pay a "service fee" to apple for the app. That's justified for added value apple brings to an orderly app store. The problem with this is that unless the service fee is pro-rated to the value of the external sales then it means smaller stores get pinched more by a flat service fee than larger stores that amortize it over many purchases. This brings us back to a per-sale fee which is apple's position.
I think the real problem here is not sales commission but the size of the commission. 30% seems like an exorbitant commission.
Wrong,
Chemical changes can happen in seconds. Just your fingers typing on the keyboard has produced the turn over of countless molecules. How quickly can you smell something that makes your gut wretch?. How quickly can you suffocate? these are all biochemical reactions. Many proteins have a lifetime of minutes.
Well obviously the Epoch switch delayed processing of your story. Moreover I suspect it also explains why the slashdot's look changed and now seems to be a broken interface, only showing some of the comments.
Wow a long post and you missed the major point. After all the reasons he gives he get's to Murch. And Murch's key techicnical observations is this: because the silver screen is a scattering device not a hologram your eyes must be focused on the screens surface. But the stereoscopic convergence point of objects in the seen may far in front or behind the screen. In real life humans never see things in which the object they are focusing on is not at the convernce point. it takes effort to do that. Ergo 3d movies have a problem.
Now holograms and volumetric displays of course would solve that but it's absurd to propose that for a movie theater at this point in time.
While Murch is technically right, he is also ignorant of another well know effect that erases that. It's the hyper focal effect. What this means is that as long as the blur size of a defocused point is smaller than the resolution limit of your vision or any optical system (the blur circle of a perfectly focused spot) then the point is effectively in focus. In practice this happens for any object located far from you. For human eyes in a darkened room this might be something like 30 to 30 feet. so if you are that far from the screen then if your eyes focus on the convergence zone behind the screen, the screen itself is effectively in focus.
This will break down for case of people sitting close to the screen and a convergence zone far in front of the screen. But other than that Murch is right for first order optics, and moot for second order optics.
Talk about insensitive. Goat Urine in the national drink of Elbonia. The diabetic goat produces the sweet effluent we revere in our village. It is easily caramelized into cakes and turned into a hearty liqueur with an infectiously alluring aroma. The idea of a hot milk drink approaching this ambrosia is blasphemy.
"The reason people hated it was because people who like physics based sci-fi are not comfortable with meta-physics and fantasy sci-fi..."
The idea of an ultra-sophisticated system able to enslave the human race that can only be defeated by virtual-reality karate fighting was what did it for me.
Yes it would be much better to have computers that spit sparks and say things like "This does not compute" before they explode. C'mon this is hollywood. Like always have to assume that what you see on screen is just some insane metaphor or the retelling of a legend filtered through error prone retelling for 1000 years.
On top of this, it's an action comic. Of course computers systems must have karate fight. it would be pretty boring to watch otherwise.
Woah there Mr Crabbypants. 3D is a whole lot of entertaining fun. I imagine that people said the same things when they made the transition to talkies.
I guess one could argue that CGI is good because it makes things so real that you believe the story more and lets more fanciful story telling reach its full impact. 3D of course doesn't really help with the story telling but it does help with conveying sensations. And of course it's just plain fun.
We've only touched the surface of 3D. Most movies to date are 2D movies with depth. But I think JAmes Cameron has pointed the way on how to capture stories that live in 3D.
The matrix left high concept Sci Fi and became more comic gothic and set piece action oriented as it went along. The reason people hated it was because people who like physics based sci-fi are not comfortable with meta-physics and fantasy sci-fi or at least don't like it when expecting one and get served the other.
The original compelling mystery and challenge were exposed so new meta physical plots and myth had to be injected. Perhaps the problem was they invented these in a way that tried to hold the patinia of hard core physical sci-fi but was utterly transparent and ill fitting. For example I like Larry Niven and I liked watching Lord of the RIngs. But I'd not like both in the same soup.
People had similar complaints about the evolution of Battelstar gallactica, though there it the conversion was not so complete.
But if you stand back and just look at these gloriously filmed movies all you can say is Wow. No matter how the story morphed the results were just screen filling action mayhem. And I want to see more for sure. I'll still complain the Reeves is a wooden pole of an actor, though to be fair he's hamstrung now by the deification. We all liked him better when he was less of a god and more of a confused apprentice. But he's just a prop. I don't have to like him to like the movie.
I found my mother was being billed $50/month by earthlink even though she had service through another ISP. The phone number earthlink claimed they were providing service to was not only in another area code but did not even exist in that area code. When I complained to earthlink that they had stolen thousands of dollars from her over the years they just said "Earrthlink is not a usage based service". Of course not, especially when they supply service to telephone numbers that don't exist.
It get's worse. actually. I had canceled her service. but it turns out they called her back aftrwards and asked if she was unsatisfied and would she like to continue the service. They then told her that given her usage patterns they reccomended she buy extra space! Extra space on an account that she could not even use if she wanted to.
Never got any money back. Thieves. Boycott Earthlink.
The main reason I hope this happens is that then maybe a greedy MicroHP would stop making drivers for other Operating systems besides windows. The worst software on my mac for the past decade has always been, bar none, HP scanner software. it's like toenail fungus. it gets into your system and spreads from user to user. Then it curses you for trying to run multiple instances of itself.
but wouldn't it better serve consumers and Apple if they just put a cheap sticker on the fragile areas that said "Yo if you can't solder things back together, you don't wanna open this"
Well in my experience the screw types are really helplful guides. When I'm trying to reach a certain part the first time it is usually not obvious what exactly I need to remove to get there. I don't think that stickers would really help me know which screws to undo first.
You can think of cases where one or the other approach would be better. I'm just saying the screw Zen is useful.
As for the iphone, well obviously they are not going to put a sticker on the outside. Or even on the inside.
I'm also at a loss to understand why people who never buy apple products are worried about a choice of screw. The long term evolution of things is that as devices become commodities and appliances more and more sub components get glued shut. Do people complain that they use IC chips rather than individual transistors.
Or that the video GPU and CPU are on the same chip in the new Tegra and AMD sets? You might laugh at that but back in the 80s people scoffed at apple and comodore for making non-replaceable built in video on the motherboard rather than having a user replacable daughter card. That was a completely serious objection at the time by the homebrew community even though 99.999% of users never replaced the video.
really? screws. And the tool to open it exists? what's the argument?
Apple likes speed bump security. They did it on the music system. THey create technical obstacles to casual piracy but don't worry about locking it down. I noticed in my imac and powerbook computers the clever use of different screw types for regions that should be easy for a user to access and ones that it would likely not be neccessary for a user to access or might contain fragile parts. very smart.
I've also admites the way apple, unlike Dell and others, minimizes the number of screw types in use so I usually only need 2 tools to get in. this nice detail has become more consistent with each generation of mac.
SO now we have a 5 sided screw. So it discourages casual opening but prevents absolutely no one from getting inside if they want to.
Slashdot Mirror
It's plausible. It's been done for toxins. But the moment anyone uses this in Pigs to protect them it will be worthless in a few years.
Last I did business with [Verizon], they signed me up for another year of contact when I simply asked for a paper bill (for which they also charged me $1.99).
I had the same thing happen. I dropped them forst opportunity I got. My cell phone bill went down too. Not only does verizon charge more they have higher fees larded on top. And their customer service sucks compared to t-mobile.
I regret that with the Iphone coming out I will be having to switch back to them. Grrrrrr. But I want an iphone. Android going in the trash.
The only article I've found so far that explains this mystery is this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6028780/What-is-the-Feed-over-Email-system.html
But this seems to say it requires a special server. In which case it seems like this is just an encoded version of the 2008 service "feed-my-email". it still has to have a special server that the user must communicate with.
I'm puzzled how this works. the description does not make sense to me:
"FOE is different from the average feed reader in that it's able to fetch content from censored sites without requiring the user to visit those sites to set up the feed. Once FOE fetches the content, it encrypts it and sends it via e-mail much like an attached file. The user's client gets decrypts the feed once it's arrived and displays it on the local machine. Ho adds that FOE should be easy for activists to set up and maintain because it uses existing infrastructure."
Is there some proxy that does the encryption? How does the site know to send an e-mail. very confusing.
Would you buy a game called Bionic Commando Rear Med? It sounds like a Hemorrhoid Medicine or Mechanized Prostate exam. I bet this is referes to the advanced rectal cancer screening practiced by Goatse. Perhaps it a deranged euphemism for some sexual assualt. perhaps the game "turd burgular 2" was taken.
snore.
The argument seems to be that people want a proliferation of new sources. Yes I'm sure that's why fox news and CNN and MS nbc all are watched by the same people eager for a proliferation of points of view. Or why readers of Huffpo also hang on the words of powerline blog and littel green footballs. Or how the readers of Hagee and the middle easter armageddonist news sources are widely read in the Slashdot crowd.
People do not channle surf these days. they find a few news aggregators they like, say huffpo, boingboing, andrew sullivan, fark nad slashdot, and then they follow the links one deep from there. But it's the aggregators that they come back too. A well constructued newsmag stands a chance. But if it is no more than the New york times or newsweek then it will also have plenty of competition.
The Slashdot story is wrong. It's nearly right but there is a subtle, crucial difference:
"“We are now requiring that if an app offers customers the ability to purchase books outside of the app, that the same option is also available to customers from within the app,” Trudy Muller, an Apple spokeswoman, said in a statement. "
This does not force amazon to offer all its wares inside the apple store. But it will prevent Amazon from advertising those wares inside the apple store if it does not offer the through apple.
What they are saying is that if you advertise a route to purchase something in the app then there has to be a way to purchase it through the apple store. Their idea is that free apps should not be used for marketing. Their rationale is that free apps are a burden on apple since they run the apple store. If the free app is generating revenue it has to pay.
Do I agree with this? No. It's my phone and my apps. I don't like apple deciding what apps get offered.
It seems like a reasonable compromise would be to allow app developers who want to offer free apps that are conduits to their own stores to pay a "service fee" to apple for the app. That's justified for added value apple brings to an orderly app store. The problem with this is that unless the service fee is pro-rated to the value of the external sales then it means smaller stores get pinched more by a flat service fee than larger stores that amortize it over many purchases. This brings us back to a per-sale fee which is apple's position.
I think the real problem here is not sales commission but the size of the commission. 30% seems like an exorbitant commission.
While morse code and telegraph keys still exist, the telegraph transmission system is long gone. Unless you count the T in AT&T
How about a pen knife. Oh sure they still make things called pen knives but none of them are much good for actually cutting a quill to make a pen nib.
How about those head clamps early photographers used to use to hold the subjects still for a long duration exposure.
How about a postal mail perforator (used to infuse mail with fumugants to kill dread diseases).
magnetic bubble memory and paper tape readers.
Wrong,
Chemical changes can happen in seconds. Just your fingers typing on the keyboard has produced the turn over of countless molecules. How quickly can you smell something that makes your gut wretch?. How quickly can you suffocate? these are all biochemical reactions. Many proteins have a lifetime of minutes.
Well obviously the Epoch switch delayed processing of your story. Moreover I suspect it also explains why the slashdot's look changed and now seems to be a broken interface, only showing some of the comments.
hyper focal distance defined.
Wow a long post and you missed the major point.
After all the reasons he gives he get's to Murch. And Murch's key techicnical observations is this: because the silver screen is a scattering device not a hologram your eyes must be focused on the screens surface. But the stereoscopic convergence point of objects in the seen may far in front or behind the screen. In real life humans never see things in which the object they are focusing on is not at the convernce point. it takes effort to do that. Ergo 3d movies have a problem.
Now holograms and volumetric displays of course would solve that but it's absurd to propose that for a movie theater at this point in time.
While Murch is technically right, he is also ignorant of another well know effect that erases that. It's the hyper focal effect. What this means is that as long as the blur size of a defocused point is smaller than the resolution limit of your vision or any optical system (the blur circle of a perfectly focused spot) then the point is effectively in focus. In practice this happens for any object located far from you. For human eyes in a darkened room this might be something like 30 to 30 feet. so if you are that far from the screen then if your eyes focus on the convergence zone behind the screen, the screen itself is effectively in focus.
This will break down for case of people sitting close to the screen and a convergence zone far in front of the screen. But other than that Murch is right for first order optics, and moot for second order optics.
Talk about insensitive. Goat Urine in the national drink of Elbonia. The diabetic goat produces the sweet effluent we revere in our village. It is easily caramelized into cakes and turned into a hearty liqueur with an infectiously alluring aroma. The idea of a hot milk drink approaching this ambrosia is blasphemy.
"The reason people hated it was because people who like physics based sci-fi are not comfortable with meta-physics and fantasy sci-fi..."
The idea of an ultra-sophisticated system able to enslave the human race that can only be defeated by virtual-reality karate fighting was what did it for me.
Yes it would be much better to have computers that spit sparks and say things like "This does not compute" before they explode. C'mon this is hollywood. Like always have to assume that what you see on screen is just some insane metaphor or the retelling of a legend filtered through error prone retelling for 1000 years.
On top of this, it's an action comic. Of course computers systems must have karate fight. it would be pretty boring to watch otherwise.
Dang. I was going to go see it.
Woah there Mr Crabbypants. 3D is a whole lot of entertaining fun. I imagine that people said the same things when they made the transition to talkies.
I guess one could argue that CGI is good because it makes things so real that you believe the story more and lets more fanciful story telling reach its full impact. 3D of course doesn't really help with the story telling but it does help with conveying sensations. And of course it's just plain fun.
We've only touched the surface of 3D. Most movies to date are 2D movies with depth. But I think JAmes Cameron has pointed the way on how to capture stories that live in 3D.
The matrix left high concept Sci Fi and became more comic gothic and set piece action oriented as it went along. The reason people hated it was because people who like physics based sci-fi are not comfortable with meta-physics and fantasy sci-fi or at least don't like it when expecting one and get served the other.
The original compelling mystery and challenge were exposed so new meta physical plots and myth had to be injected. Perhaps the problem was they invented these in a way that tried to hold the patinia of hard core physical sci-fi but was utterly transparent and ill fitting. For example I like Larry Niven and I liked watching Lord of the RIngs. But I'd not like both in the same soup.
People had similar complaints about the evolution of Battelstar gallactica, though there it the conversion was not so complete.
But if you stand back and just look at these gloriously filmed movies all you can say is Wow. No matter how the story morphed the results were just screen filling action mayhem. And I want to see more for sure. I'll still complain the Reeves is a wooden pole of an actor, though to be fair he's hamstrung now by the deification. We all liked him better when he was less of a god and more of a confused apprentice. But he's just a prop. I don't have to like him to like the movie.
These will be fantastic in 3D.
I found my mother was being billed $50/month by earthlink even though she had service through another ISP. The phone number earthlink claimed they were providing service to was not only in another area code but did not even exist in that area code. When I complained to earthlink that they had stolen thousands of dollars from her over the years they just said "Earrthlink is not a usage based service". Of course not, especially when they supply service to telephone numbers that don't exist.
It get's worse. actually. I had canceled her service. but it turns out they called her back aftrwards and asked if she was unsatisfied and would she like to continue the service. They then told her that given her usage patterns they reccomended she buy extra space! Extra space on an account that she could not even use if she wanted to.
Never got any money back. Thieves. Boycott Earthlink.
MSHP = Mash Up?
Plus Microsoft would get a Phone OS.
The main reason I hope this happens is that then maybe a greedy MicroHP would stop making drivers for other Operating systems besides windows. The worst software on my mac for the past decade has always been, bar none, HP scanner software. it's like toenail fungus. it gets into your system and spreads from user to user. Then it curses you for trying to run multiple instances of itself.
but wouldn't it better serve consumers and Apple if they just put a cheap sticker on the fragile areas that said "Yo if you can't solder things back together, you don't wanna open this"
Well in my experience the screw types are really helplful guides. When I'm trying to reach a certain part the first time it is usually not obvious what exactly I need to remove to get there. I don't think that stickers would really help me know which screws to undo first.
You can think of cases where one or the other approach would be better. I'm just saying the screw Zen is useful.
As for the iphone, well obviously they are not going to put a sticker on the outside. Or even on the inside.
I'm also at a loss to understand why people who never buy apple products are worried about a choice of screw. The long term evolution of things is that as devices become commodities and appliances more and more sub components get glued shut. Do people complain that they use IC chips rather than individual transistors.
Or that the video GPU and CPU are on the same chip in the new Tegra and AMD sets? You might laugh at that but back in the 80s people scoffed at apple and comodore for making non-replaceable built in video on the motherboard rather than having a user replacable daughter card. That was a completely serious objection at the time by the homebrew community even though 99.999% of users never replaced the video.
really? screws. And the tool to open it exists? what's the argument?
Apple likes speed bump security. They did it on the music system. THey create technical obstacles to casual piracy but don't worry about locking it down. I noticed in my imac and powerbook computers the clever use of different screw types for regions that should be easy for a user to access and ones that it would likely not be neccessary for a user to access or might contain fragile parts. very smart.
I've also admites the way apple, unlike Dell and others, minimizes the number of screw types in use so I usually only need 2 tools to get in. this nice detail has become more consistent with each generation of mac.
SO now we have a 5 sided screw. So it discourages casual opening but prevents absolutely no one from getting inside if they want to.
I expectorated you'd say that. Tough Schmidt, the Page has turned.
I hear that after the success of The Social Network, they are making a movie about Google called "Crazy Larry and Dirty Brin".