If there is anyone I trust, it is audiophiles from the Internet. They are the ones that prompted me to buy the $10,000 gold plated cables to hook my gear together. My music has never sounded better!
You won't need them anymore,It's wireless! Sell them and you can buy 25 AirPods and enjoy unreal surround sound. Though I would suggest 24 and a subwoofer.
You really are in denial. Are you an Apple shill or fanboi? No single speaker system can compare with two, regardless of how many little drivers it has. Furthermore, little speakers cannot reproduce low frequencies at acceptable levels. You need to move air, which they can't. Of course, in your Apple reality distortion field, the laws of physics don't matter. Nice try, shillster.
AC, word count does not imply he's a shill, and you would be well served to actually read before commenting. But, just for you: tl;dr; He actually, more than once, said that it can't hold a candle to a stereo system.
Once upon a time, people buying stock looked at a company and tried to decide the long time worth for that company. Essentially, did you, the investor, belive in the company and its products/services. For investing in it you got dividends if it was profitable.
Now, when you can trade immediately and it is more profitable, not to wait for dividends but rather selling the stock to someone else, many investors are not interested in the company itself, but the changes in the perceived value of the company. You don't care if the company goes belly up after you sell your shares, as long as you did a profit in selling them. There is very little incentive for long term investment for the good of the company.
So, now tell me, why a starting company would like those kinds of investors?
On the other side of the coin, the company has the relative freedom to focus on what should matter; the customer. Once upon a time, stock increasing in value was a side effect of a company performing well, providing viable products and service to consumers. Fast forward, and companies will do anything to increase value for the shareholder. That's backwards and damaging. You end up with short term solutions like mass layoffs, skimping on quality and offshoring, which ultimately hurt the company in the long run... but no one is in it for the long run anymore.
Microsoft still has an abusive monopoly on desktop operating systems.
I'm more concerned with their abusive monopoly on office applications. A lot of businesses might consider a different path for operating systems if not for Microsoft Office.
I think it likely there's going to be a lot of resistance to this one. There are an awful lot of perfectly good apps out there where the developers have gone away - they're just not going to make the transition to 64-bit. Apple's asking a very large number of users to take a serious a hit in terms of lost investment all at once.
The way I see it, if it's a great app that been abandoned, this is a great time for developers to modernize them. If there are apps out there that are laden with patents/copyrights and can't be modernized... there's always virtual machines, which may be a better place for these apps to live.
Not placing this type of equipment on a dedicated, protected VLAN with no external access and no untrusted internal access was always stupid. Sure, that might not provide bulletproof security, but it is pretty good for my backups.
What ratio of consumers of this product know what a VLAN is, or how to configure it? It's stupid to assume the user knows any better. The consumer has a reasonable expectation that if they are sold a "secure" product, it is actually secure.
In politics being the only person to not instantly condemn a violent and racist hate attack is pretty much defined as "support".
Being the only person to selectively condemn a violent and racist hate attacks certainly earns him said title. To wit, none of the mass violence of the past year perpetrated by a white person was labeled terrorism, where as most done by non-whites were instantly called so. Perhaps he only does so to push his "wall" and immigrant agenda, nonetheless, it's a pattern.
The underlying pattern is exactly the same as the VW scandal. A manufacturer tries to deliver the promised performance, and in order to do so fakes out an emissions test (VW) or builds in a highly insecure procedure (Intel).
At an even simpler level, it is just the battle between quality and quantity. VW and Intel cheated "a little" to provide the promised performance. We can expect a very great deal more of this.
This is not an Intel only problem; It's a fundamental design flaw (or oversight) that affects most modern processors. While Intel is taking the bulk of the blame on this, my take is this could very well be a catastrophe for smartphones, where each additional clock doesn't just affect performance. Losing a couple of hours a day of battery is pretty significant and quite possible.
I really enjoyed the new movies as well. My only problem with the story in TFA was that I could not believe that the remnants of the empire were so utterly stupid. The rebels destroyed not one, but two Death Stars. Their master plan is to build a third, even bigger one?
More than that, they've build a machine that eats stars to fire it's weapon. You know what would be far more reliable and terrifying? Flying your planet into the target system, setting up a lawn chair, grabbing some popcorn and enjoying the show while you eat their star! No firing required. And you could prevent an escape while you're there.
Sure, I like innovation but most television providers still deliver their content at 720p. The Verizon FiOS install guy quietly admitted to Verizon only offering HD content at 720p. Why in the sam hill would I pony up the money for a 10K TV when content is nowhere near ready.
Which is a pity for those who consume through that archaic model. There's all sorts of alternative methods of consuming media and many offer 4k content, for far cheaper than cable. That said, HDMI 2.1 has as much to do with cable TV and TV resolution as USB2 or 3 does.
I assume that, if you're asking why you would pony for a 10k TV, you either don't fall into the commercial category, or you didn't RTFS? I'm assuming the latter because you completely glazed over all of the other benefits.
Serious question here. What's the difference between these arguments?
1. You shouldn't ban BitTorrent. It's just a protocol. Just because some people use it to steal digital content doesn't mean BitTorrent is inherently bad.
2. You shouldn't ban guns. It's just a device. Just because some people use it to kill innocents doesn't mean guns are inherently bad.
In my pre-coffee state, it occurs to me your argument is making a false equivalence.
BitTorrent is just a protocol. It can be used to transmit copyrighted (not stolen!) material. It can be used to acquire copyrighted material. There are laws against both those actions, therefore there is not need to ban BitTorrent itself. Or to make the argument more tangible, you could transport stolen goods in a van, or sell stolen goods from a van. It doesn't follow that you should ban vans.
A gun is just a delivery system that delivers bullets. Bullets can be used to kill people. There are already several laws against that. So likewise there should be no need to ban guns. But to me it raises the question: why is there no law limiting the acquisition of bullets? Seems to be that would be far more effective than trying to ban guns, and it would be in the spirit of "Well regulated militia" that people oft gloss over.
Remember how you had to pay extra to access Slashdot, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Netflix? Remember how some websites were faster than others?
Nope. Me neither.
I remember Netflix (and others) being throttled, while the ISPs preferred (read owned) streaming service was not. I remember mobile carriers giving unlimited streaming access to one music streaming service but not others.
NN isn't necessarily about paying extra. It's absence can mean that the service to other sources is degraded to such a point you end up using the one your ISP preferred. Which one that is depends entirely on if they own it, or which other company is greasing their palms the most (and passing the expense on to the subscribers.)
This thing is just an epic fail. It is a piece of a junk. Microsoft is just not a hardware company and every attempt that it makes to develop a piece of hardware ends up a failure.
Back in the day, they made excellent keyboards (loved the original natural keyboard.) As much as I dislike Xbox, I would hardly call any of the iterations failures. "Every attempt" is a little heavy handed. A lot of their other attempts would have likely been successful if they didn't insist on running their software on it. Heck, I'd say they are much better at hardware than software.
If it weren't for shady practices (particularly in the late 80s and 90s,) their software would have been long forgotten. I suspect a lot of their hardware ventures fail because they don't have the same opportunities to compete unfairly in these spaces. Their product has to measure up on its merits alone, and often that's not enough.
Well, that used to be in fashion. But now might be a great time to consider moving your bits to data centres in Canada. For instance, there is already one AWS centre up here, with another to follow.
How about a list please, a useful list, name of company, data stolen, scripts and cookies to be killed upon a slow smouldering flame. How can you say 400 without having a list of the 400. That 400 players to add to noscript and cookiemonster.
They provide a zipped csv right on their site. Good to see I have even more reason to hate wordpress.
"I think Twitter is overstepping its bounds on determining what is offensive and what is not."
Read the fucking Constitution. Only the govenrment is barred fromcesoring.
Private companies like this just don't want to bake a wedding cake for racists, as it is their right.
Did the OP even mention the 1st? Why is it an automatic assumption that if someone mentions freedom of speech or censorship they are referring to the constitution? Furthermore, why is it an assumption that a particular Twitter (or any other social/forum based platform) user should be conversant in the Constitution of the United States, when there's a good chance they aren't from the United States? To wit: 79% of Twitter accounts are based outside the United States
One can agree with the sentiment that twitter is overstepping its bounds, while having no interest in the "fucking" constitution as you put it.
Some christian cultures, celibate Christmas on January 6th, as it is traditionally considered the Epiphany (the time where the 3 Magi had offered the gifts of Gold, Incense and Muir) so the aspect of sharing gifts during this time seems more appropriate.
If Christmas is celibate, those cultures are doing it wrong.
I usually hate PERL, always have. The "many ways to do something" is its biggest strength and worst weakness. However, I admit sometimes it's the best tool for the job. The problem is some sys admins see it as the answer any question, when a bash script would have been just as good. But if you're crunching massive logs or even need to think about a regex, PERL can't be beat.
That said, In my line of work, the tools you have are what's on the system. No CPAN, no EPEL... nothing. PERL in a base install is typically far more useable for most tasks, without including anything at all. Python is usually anaemic, ruby is no where to be seen, and no gcc to be found. So PERL is usually the only option for complex tasks.
I have the XBox One. It came with the Kinect. I can sit in front of the TV, and I get auto logged in.
Similarly with the camera for PS4. And it's about the only use I have for it. I prefer to lounge on a couch to play games, not run around the living room. Maybe Microsoft realized there's only a small subset of users that were interested in it?
Canadians get it through the Space channel with surround sound. Everyone else gets it through Netflix, presumably with surround sound.
And through CraveTV. The only reason I renewed my subscription. Of course we may have got it on Netflix if it weren't for Bell (who owns both Space and CraveTV.)
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Have you even used a gen 1 apple TV? Most everything it can do, it can do with or without the iTunes store.
If there is anyone I trust, it is audiophiles from the Internet. They are the ones that prompted me to buy the $10,000 gold plated cables to hook my gear together. My music has never sounded better!
You won't need them anymore,It's wireless! Sell them and you can buy 25 AirPods and enjoy unreal surround sound. Though I would suggest 24 and a subwoofer.
You really are in denial. Are you an Apple shill or fanboi? No single speaker system can compare with two, regardless of how many little drivers it has. Furthermore, little speakers cannot reproduce low frequencies at acceptable levels. You need to move air, which they can't. Of course, in your Apple reality distortion field, the laws of physics don't matter. Nice try, shillster.
AC, word count does not imply he's a shill, and you would be well served to actually read before commenting. But, just for you: tl;dr; He actually, more than once, said that it can't hold a candle to a stereo system.
Once upon a time, people buying stock looked at a company and tried to decide the long time worth for that company. Essentially, did you, the investor, belive in the company and its products/services. For investing in it you got dividends if it was profitable.
Now, when you can trade immediately and it is more profitable, not to wait for dividends but rather selling the stock to someone else, many investors are not interested in the company itself, but the changes in the perceived value of the company. You don't care if the company goes belly up after you sell your shares, as long as you did a profit in selling them. There is very little incentive for long term investment for the good of the company.
So, now tell me, why a starting company would like those kinds of investors?
On the other side of the coin, the company has the relative freedom to focus on what should matter; the customer. Once upon a time, stock increasing in value was a side effect of a company performing well, providing viable products and service to consumers. Fast forward, and companies will do anything to increase value for the shareholder. That's backwards and damaging. You end up with short term solutions like mass layoffs, skimping on quality and offshoring, which ultimately hurt the company in the long run... but no one is in it for the long run anymore.
If her nickname was 'Butt' ...
Lauri "Butt: Love....
LUALZ DENG!!
Didn't make it past the title to the summary I see. It would be ...His nickname.
What does Microsoft have a monopoly on?
Microsoft still has an abusive monopoly on desktop operating systems.
I'm more concerned with their abusive monopoly on office applications. A lot of businesses might consider a different path for operating systems if not for Microsoft Office.
I think it likely there's going to be a lot of resistance to this one. There are an awful lot of perfectly good apps out there where the developers have gone away - they're just not going to make the transition to 64-bit. Apple's asking a very large number of users to take a serious a hit in terms of lost investment all at once.
The way I see it, if it's a great app that been abandoned, this is a great time for developers to modernize them. If there are apps out there that are laden with patents/copyrights and can't be modernized... there's always virtual machines, which may be a better place for these apps to live.
Not placing this type of equipment on a dedicated, protected VLAN with no external access and no untrusted internal access was always stupid. Sure, that might not provide bulletproof security, but it is pretty good for my backups.
What ratio of consumers of this product know what a VLAN is, or how to configure it? It's stupid to assume the user knows any better. The consumer has a reasonable expectation that if they are sold a "secure" product, it is actually secure.
Trump has never supported any racist group.
In politics being the only person to not instantly condemn a violent and racist hate attack is pretty much defined as "support".
Being the only person to selectively condemn a violent and racist hate attacks certainly earns him said title. To wit, none of the mass violence of the past year perpetrated by a white person was labeled terrorism, where as most done by non-whites were instantly called so. Perhaps he only does so to push his "wall" and immigrant agenda, nonetheless, it's a pattern.
The underlying pattern is exactly the same as the VW scandal. A manufacturer tries to deliver the promised performance, and in order to do so fakes out an emissions test (VW) or builds in a highly insecure procedure (Intel).
At an even simpler level, it is just the battle between quality and quantity. VW and Intel cheated "a little" to provide the promised performance. We can expect a very great deal more of this.
This is not an Intel only problem; It's a fundamental design flaw (or oversight) that affects most modern processors. While Intel is taking the bulk of the blame on this, my take is this could very well be a catastrophe for smartphones, where each additional clock doesn't just affect performance. Losing a couple of hours a day of battery is pretty significant and quite possible.
Without a visionary in charge, the company cuts corners and is losing major ground in 2018.
Apple is losing major ground, one business day in to 2018? Better sell stocks stat!
... And not only is Skype crap, it's Microsoft only, and we all know where that leads (see Windows 10).
Methinks you failed to count Mac OS, iOS, Android, Linux and Skype for Web
I really enjoyed the new movies as well. My only problem with the story in TFA was that I could not believe that the remnants of the empire were so utterly stupid. The rebels destroyed not one, but two Death Stars. Their master plan is to build a third, even bigger one?
More than that, they've build a machine that eats stars to fire it's weapon. You know what would be far more reliable and terrifying? Flying your planet into the target system, setting up a lawn chair, grabbing some popcorn and enjoying the show while you eat their star! No firing required. And you could prevent an escape while you're there.
Sure, I like innovation but most television providers still deliver their content at 720p. The Verizon FiOS install guy quietly admitted to Verizon only offering HD content at 720p. Why in the sam hill would I pony up the money for a 10K TV when content is nowhere near ready.
Which is a pity for those who consume through that archaic model. There's all sorts of alternative methods of consuming media and many offer 4k content, for far cheaper than cable. That said, HDMI 2.1 has as much to do with cable TV and TV resolution as USB2 or 3 does.
I assume that, if you're asking why you would pony for a 10k TV, you either don't fall into the commercial category, or you didn't RTFS? I'm assuming the latter because you completely glazed over all of the other benefits.
What you describe make it more "gay" than "masculine"...
Slashdot is the last place I expected to see gay used as an antonym for masculine.
Serious question here. What's the difference between these arguments?
1. You shouldn't ban BitTorrent. It's just a protocol. Just because some people use it to steal digital content doesn't mean BitTorrent is inherently bad.
2. You shouldn't ban guns. It's just a device. Just because some people use it to kill innocents doesn't mean guns are inherently bad.
In my pre-coffee state, it occurs to me your argument is making a false equivalence.
BitTorrent is just a protocol. It can be used to transmit copyrighted (not stolen!) material. It can be used to acquire copyrighted material. There are laws against both those actions, therefore there is not need to ban BitTorrent itself. Or to make the argument more tangible, you could transport stolen goods in a van, or sell stolen goods from a van. It doesn't follow that you should ban vans.
A gun is just a delivery system that delivers bullets. Bullets can be used to kill people. There are already several laws against that. So likewise there should be no need to ban guns. But to me it raises the question: why is there no law limiting the acquisition of bullets? Seems to be that would be far more effective than trying to ban guns, and it would be in the spirit of "Well regulated militia" that people oft gloss over.
Remember how you had to pay extra to access Slashdot, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Netflix? Remember how some websites were faster than others?
Nope. Me neither.
I remember Netflix (and others) being throttled, while the ISPs preferred (read owned) streaming service was not. I remember mobile carriers giving unlimited streaming access to one music streaming service but not others.
NN isn't necessarily about paying extra. It's absence can mean that the service to other sources is degraded to such a point you end up using the one your ISP preferred. Which one that is depends entirely on if they own it, or which other company is greasing their palms the most (and passing the expense on to the subscribers.)
This thing is just an epic fail. It is a piece of a junk. Microsoft is just not a hardware company and every attempt that it makes to develop a piece of hardware ends up a failure.
Back in the day, they made excellent keyboards (loved the original natural keyboard.) As much as I dislike Xbox, I would hardly call any of the iterations failures. "Every attempt" is a little heavy handed. A lot of their other attempts would have likely been successful if they didn't insist on running their software on it. Heck, I'd say they are much better at hardware than software.
If it weren't for shady practices (particularly in the late 80s and 90s,) their software would have been long forgotten. I suspect a lot of their hardware ventures fail because they don't have the same opportunities to compete unfairly in these spaces. Their product has to measure up on its merits alone, and often that's not enough.
Well, that used to be in fashion. But now might be a great time to consider moving your bits to data centres in Canada. For instance, there is already one AWS centre up here, with another to follow.
How about a list please, a useful list, name of company, data stolen, scripts and cookies to be killed upon a slow smouldering flame. How can you say 400 without having a list of the 400. That 400 players to add to noscript and cookiemonster.
They provide a zipped csv right on their site. Good to see I have even more reason to hate wordpress.
"I think Twitter is overstepping its bounds on determining what is offensive and what is not."
Read the fucking Constitution. Only the govenrment is barred fromcesoring.
Private companies like this just don't want to bake a wedding cake for racists, as it is their right.
Did the OP even mention the 1st? Why is it an automatic assumption that if someone mentions freedom of speech or censorship they are referring to the constitution? Furthermore, why is it an assumption that a particular Twitter (or any other social/forum based platform) user should be conversant in the Constitution of the United States, when there's a good chance they aren't from the United States? To wit: 79% of Twitter accounts are based outside the United States
One can agree with the sentiment that twitter is overstepping its bounds, while having no interest in the "fucking" constitution as you put it.
Some christian cultures, celibate Christmas on January 6th, as it is traditionally considered the Epiphany (the time where the 3 Magi had offered the gifts of Gold, Incense and Muir) so the aspect of sharing gifts during this time seems more appropriate.
If Christmas is celibate, those cultures are doing it wrong.
I usually hate PERL, always have. The "many ways to do something" is its biggest strength and worst weakness. However, I admit sometimes it's the best tool for the job. The problem is some sys admins see it as the answer any question, when a bash script would have been just as good. But if you're crunching massive logs or even need to think about a regex, PERL can't be beat.
That said, In my line of work, the tools you have are what's on the system. No CPAN, no EPEL... nothing. PERL in a base install is typically far more useable for most tasks, without including anything at all. Python is usually anaemic, ruby is no where to be seen, and no gcc to be found. So PERL is usually the only option for complex tasks.
I have the XBox One. It came with the Kinect. I can sit in front of the TV, and I get auto logged in.
Similarly with the camera for PS4. And it's about the only use I have for it. I prefer to lounge on a couch to play games, not run around the living room. Maybe Microsoft realized there's only a small subset of users that were interested in it?
Canadians get it through the Space channel with surround sound.
Everyone else gets it through Netflix, presumably with surround sound.
And through CraveTV. The only reason I renewed my subscription. Of course we may have got it on Netflix if it weren't for Bell (who owns both Space and CraveTV.)