be raster anyway. Spatial data would simply make more sense even if you were creating a flat print (as long as you have the sensor/processing/memory power).
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Like many other posters have already mentioned DRM by-and-large simply doesn't work. Which makes any post-epiphany antithesis, well, rhetoric. We aren't going to have another HDMI incident with our audio and people will get it from one market or another (if paying is too restrictive and cumbersome we've already seen the results).
Maybe you haven't stepped outside the university much, but most users have those apps boot at start-up because they don't know how to disable them (or worry they'll break something if they did).
Couple that with the persistence of certain vendors installing unnecessary applications into their taskbars (and as services) and of course there's a lot of cruft that could be cleaned up.
I think it's *way* to early to speculate on what the results might be one way or the other, but Enso looks both innovative and discreet. I'm installing their software on my PC now.
Some other innovations Firefox has implemented have been fairly successful (inline spell-check, tabbed browsing, mouse gestures). And lets not forget if the changes don't improve the user experience I'm sure they can be disabled or we can remove them ourselves.
Anyway, it seems silly to be concerned about an attempt to improve and open browser. We should probably applaud it (don't a lot of people complain about OSS's lack of originality and interface design?), or at least hold our judgment for the final product.
I thought this story sounded like a fun read. Nothing better then a good-old slash/bash with a big evil company.
But if I thought about it for longer then a few seconds the practice (almost) makes sense. What if your new domain got registered or hell, was actually scooped by a front-runner? I imagine Network Solutions customers would probably be frustrated or angry.
Developing the system and as an accredited registrar, knowing the tasting policy it would almost be negligent not to do this. It costs the registrar nothing and conceivably protects their customer. The only people who might not benefit would be clients that use the service to search then attempt to use a different registrar, a small group (besides, it's released in just a few days).
Of course the test would be if the domains are truly being release (which it seems they are) and the down-side is how the idea would scale (what if someone wrote a script to perform random searches? what if *all* registrars did this?). I don't think it would scale well and I think it would be a nightmare if everybody started doing this.
The base cost of Windows Web Server is in the area of $400. This is as good as zero for the people that host 90% or more of the active hosts out there. Only hobbyists and small-time outfits that run their own hosts would mind a measly $400.
It sounds believable until your company decides to scale. Licensing like this can limit growth, especially at the earlier stages when it really counts.
Only real complaint is that the album downloader (that allows you to get the album discount) only runs on Windows & MacOS. Write a Java client and get with the program, Amazon!
Agreed. It seems like the donationware/bounty-ware would be a great way for business to get products and reward people (and generally garner that good-will stuff while expanding their own interests).
Try explaining why your neighbors music isn't accessible from device B. It's funny, because you can tell it's one of those technical explanations they almost would like to understand but long before the end of the explanation you know they've got the gist of it. There's no good reason.
That I think is the difference between digital music and movies. Everyone now has multiple music play-back devices and through the success of a limited number of formats people have begun expecting simplicity. Portability. With movies the average person doesn't carry the same expectations so the perceived limitation and resulting backlash are much more manageable.
But before Starbucks brought the masses to coffee. Working there you get accustomed to specialized drinks and I actually became too embarrassed to ask for the drink I would drink. When cappuccinos hit Hollywood is when I finally just gave up and started drinking coffee or tea. It's embarrassing when the drink you want contains 5 or more words in the name. But it's ridiculous when you see people ordering them from chain that would be lucky to make a simple pot of coffee.
This could easily be applied to anything. If it's not locked you should assume that the data is insecure. These could have been financial records or personal information.
Not everyone wants that. The NSA, CIA, FBI and Secret Service would probably prefer that you not be able to easily encrypt your data.
Ya but that only works as long as we are deluded into thinking computers operate in some kind of magical land. With increases in common theft eventually the digital haze is going to lift and we'll have to start applying real-world practices to our digital data (such as locking personal or sensitive files).
Coming to somebodies house to do a repair and snooping around. Or coming to somebodies house and snooping around, finding child pornography and not reporting it.
I mean lets face it. If the guy had any sense of security he gave that up when he gave unchecked and unlimited access to all his data.
It might not exactly be ethical but if you leave a stranger with unchecked access to your data you have no way to know what he will do. That extends to data of a personal or financial nature. It's your responsibility to take reasonable steps to protect your data.
So naturally there will be confusion about some things. I think in instances like this applying real-world logic where available works well.
Imagine this was an employee who came to his home to do the repair. Saw child pornography laying out and decided the phone the police. Leaving an unencrypted file in your computer is essentially the same. Encryption provides a closed box. It's your business as long as it's behind (relatively) closed doors, but when you service the computer and provide access you are making those files not otherwise locked public.
This extends to documents of personal or financial nature which frequently come up in cases of theft.
In real life we use locks to protect our valuables. It seems people still have some confusion regarding how this applies to the digital age, but I think it applies directly.
The thing that bugs me about games is the same thing that bugs me about software in general. 99% of the time they reinvent the wheel. Which means we, as gamers, get to explore their quirky rendition of what really is by and large a standard thing.
I play FPS myself. After years of playing them I still marvel at the idiocy that is clipping. I mean in real life I'm pretty sure if I hit my foot on a 1/4 inch raised piece of tile I won't stop dead in my tracks. If I brush against a frame I don't become immobile, reflexively, I move.
Movement (like a lot of other things) in games is remarkably 2-D.
If you think about it a game is like a lot of other things. Naturally, many things about each game will be unique and lend to the overall experience. Buy not fucking everything. Standards are good and useful and they provide a way to collect (intelligible) feedback and to make improvements.
Gameplay should be evolving and because it's not we, the consumers, are losing out.
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I'll wait and see who reacts and how. Sometimes simple ideas are revolutionary ideas and that scares the establishment.
be raster anyway. Spatial data would simply make more sense even if you were creating a flat print (as long as you have the sensor/processing/memory power).
Maybe he believes that their copious watermarking is adequate.
1) Select (hotly) debated topic.
...
2) Identify current trend or view.
3) Propose opposing view.
Profit
Like many other posters have already mentioned DRM by-and-large simply doesn't work. Which makes any post-epiphany antithesis, well, rhetoric. We aren't going to have another HDMI incident with our audio and people will get it from one market or another (if paying is too restrictive and cumbersome we've already seen the results).
But hey, he got on Slashdot.
Linksys would have to write in the cost of supporting all those users who have lost/misplaced the passwords or their technical support.
Is it just my imagination or is this post a dupe? And a positively moderated dupe at that (twice!).
Not that I mind, but suddenly I feel at least 50% less efficient.
Sure. Or someone should hold me or someone on my staff accountable.
if we hadn't ham-stringed the next few generations by embracing (or being force-fed) HDMI and DRM.
Maybe you haven't stepped outside the university much, but most users have those apps boot at start-up because they don't know how to disable them (or worry they'll break something if they did).
Couple that with the persistence of certain vendors installing unnecessary applications into their taskbars (and as services) and of course there's a lot of cruft that could be cleaned up.
I think it's *way* to early to speculate on what the results might be one way or the other, but Enso looks both innovative and discreet. I'm installing their software on my PC now.
Some other innovations Firefox has implemented have been fairly successful (inline spell-check, tabbed browsing, mouse gestures). And lets not forget if the changes don't improve the user experience I'm sure they can be disabled or we can remove them ourselves.
Anyway, it seems silly to be concerned about an attempt to improve and open browser. We should probably applaud it (don't a lot of people complain about OSS's lack of originality and interface design?), or at least hold our judgment for the final product.
I thought this story sounded like a fun read. Nothing better then a good-old slash/bash with a big evil company.
But if I thought about it for longer then a few seconds the practice (almost) makes sense. What if your new domain got registered or hell, was actually scooped by a front-runner? I imagine Network Solutions customers would probably be frustrated or angry.
Developing the system and as an accredited registrar, knowing the tasting policy it would almost be negligent not to do this. It costs the registrar nothing and conceivably protects their customer. The only people who might not benefit would be clients that use the service to search then attempt to use a different registrar, a small group (besides, it's released in just a few days).
Of course the test would be if the domains are truly being release (which it seems they are) and the down-side is how the idea would scale (what if someone wrote a script to perform random searches? what if *all* registrars did this?). I don't think it would scale well and I think it would be a nightmare if everybody started doing this.
I'm guessing you haven't used IIS6 in production. It's neither.
But a lot of companies that have made enough money to grease a lot of palms would fight it with everything they had.
Try explaining why your neighbors music isn't accessible from device B. It's funny, because you can tell it's one of those technical explanations they almost would like to understand but long before the end of the explanation you know they've got the gist of it. There's no good reason.
That I think is the difference between digital music and movies. Everyone now has multiple music play-back devices and through the success of a limited number of formats people have begun expecting simplicity. Portability. With movies the average person doesn't carry the same expectations so the perceived limitation and resulting backlash are much more manageable.
But before Starbucks brought the masses to coffee. Working there you get accustomed to specialized drinks and I actually became too embarrassed to ask for the drink I would drink. When cappuccinos hit Hollywood is when I finally just gave up and started drinking coffee or tea. It's embarrassing when the drink you want contains 5 or more words in the name. But it's ridiculous when you see people ordering them from chain that would be lucky to make a simple pot of coffee.
And you're suggesting that if Nintendo insists on a lower price they'll be convicted of price fixing?
Lock personal data.
This could easily be applied to anything. If it's not locked you should assume that the data is insecure. These could have been financial records or personal information.
Coming to somebodies house to do a repair and snooping around. Or coming to somebodies house and snooping around, finding child pornography and not reporting it.
I mean lets face it. If the guy had any sense of security he gave that up when he gave unchecked and unlimited access to all his data.
It might not exactly be ethical but if you leave a stranger with unchecked access to your data you have no way to know what he will do. That extends to data of a personal or financial nature. It's your responsibility to take reasonable steps to protect your data.
So naturally there will be confusion about some things. I think in instances like this applying real-world logic where available works well.
Imagine this was an employee who came to his home to do the repair. Saw child pornography laying out and decided the phone the police. Leaving an unencrypted file in your computer is essentially the same. Encryption provides a closed box. It's your business as long as it's behind (relatively) closed doors, but when you service the computer and provide access you are making those files not otherwise locked public.
This extends to documents of personal or financial nature which frequently come up in cases of theft.
In real life we use locks to protect our valuables. It seems people still have some confusion regarding how this applies to the digital age, but I think it applies directly.
True. I've been using
The thing that bugs me about games is the same thing that bugs me about software in general. 99% of the time they reinvent the wheel. Which means we, as gamers, get to explore their quirky rendition of what really is by and large a standard thing.
I play FPS myself. After years of playing them I still marvel at the idiocy that is clipping. I mean in real life I'm pretty sure if I hit my foot on a 1/4 inch raised piece of tile I won't stop dead in my tracks. If I brush against a frame I don't become immobile, reflexively, I move.
Movement (like a lot of other things) in games is remarkably 2-D.
If you think about it a game is like a lot of other things. Naturally, many things about each game will be unique and lend to the overall experience. Buy not fucking everything. Standards are good and useful and they provide a way to collect (intelligible) feedback and to make improvements.
Gameplay should be evolving and because it's not we, the consumers, are losing out.
this *is* and entertainment site.