it's when situations like this occur that I can point to the flag I'm standing under, and say "This is why I am here - I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so".
Of course that's a lie. If you really hated saying "I told you so" you'd not do so. You'd simply stop after "This is why I am here".
That depends on what you watch. And, of course, how much.
Indeed, I've noticed that a DVR makes me watch less: I first record the show. Now, I am at a point where I can watch it any time I want, so it's not a priority "I'll have to see it now, or I'll miss it". Which means I might end up not watching it at all before I much later delete it to make space for something else, on the account that if I haven't watched it till then, I'll probably not watch it later either.
Affects any device and service relying on Rovi and their data.
And here's the problem: A device which relies on (instead of just uses, as an option) a specific third party service without need. Would the same device allow to directly enter the data as an option, Rovi stopping the service would be a mere annoyance instead of making the devices useless.
Actually the very first VCR my parent's owned got the programming directly from teletext. You could go to the page where the program is listed, select the page, and it would take the data directly from that page and store it (and it even got the correct VPS times that way, in cases they differed from scheduled times). That was before the invention of ShowView, the system which presumably was making programming your VCR so simple. I've never understood why entering a seemingly arbitrary number should be more easy than just selecting directly from the program table. Indeed, that was the easiest to program VCR I've ever come across, and superior to all the systems which came later, without exceptions. And it worked perfectly for more than a decade (apart from a nasty Y2K bug which you had to work around by lying about the year) until the VCR stopped working correctly (and it was not the programming part that failed)
And of course, if the stations had ever stopped to provide programming data over teletext, the VCR had also the option to enter everything manually.
Also: "Similar skirmishes have historically occurred in areas as diverse as sewing machines, winged flight, agriculture, and telegraph technology. Each marked the emergence of incredible technological advances, and each generated similar outcries about the patent system."
In other words: The patent system is getting in the way every time great new inventions come up. For a system which is designed to help with great new inventions, what could be a more clear sign of failure than that?
Schooling you is not my job. People pay good money for that service, or they learn their lessons the long, slow, expensive hard way like the rest of us did.
If you don't want to give people information (i.e. make them learn something), then why are you posting at all?
Or think of a small hardware device attached somewhere to the network (can be hidden anywhere where you can get LAN and power) which only listens (so it cannot be detected by the stuff it sends or by taking up an IP) and sends interesting things over the mobile phone network. Probably the network will have lots of interesting unencrypted information (after all, it's internal and cable, so why have encryption overhead, right?)
I don't think a realistic space travel game will be much success. Travelling from Earth to Mars: Put your space ship on course, and then wait half a year, maybe making a small course correction every now and then...
I bet those dead guys are sure glad the government was there to protect them.
I bet those non-dead guys who would additionally have been killed if law enforcement had not finally destroyed the group are very glad the government was there to protect them. And those who were killed would have been glad if the government had been there in time to protect them as well.
At least in Germany, also the non-financial benefits get taxed, if they are of a kind you'd normally pay money for ("geldwerte Leistungen"). So the CEO in your example would have to pay the tax for the rent he normally would have to pay if he were regularly renting the house (that is, the situation is treated as the company renting the house to him, and paying him the rent as benefit).
But, with increased pixal density, does that not increase power consumption.
I don't have actual data, but I think the main energy consumption is by the backlight, not the actual LCD. Therefore I think the power consumption should be dependent more on the physical screen size than the pixel density.
Only gods which want to participate in the material world need it. Think of the material representation as an avatar. The god itself is outside the universe, but to act in the universe (as opposed to just affect it), the god needs an avatar inside the world, which is then bound to the laws of the world (which the god can, of course, tweak to its liking, e.g. by introducing exotic matter which doesn't otherwise exist, but the laws cannot be completely lifted because that would mean to destroy the world that is built on the rules).
Can you smell the irony, of posting this "bring back 4:3" crap on a site whose layout takes full advantage of widescreen.
Does it? The display area of my browser window has a 4:3 format (I've decided to make other use of that extra area because for the vast majority of web sites a wider display area just means lot of wasted space left and right anyway). And even in that, the comments have overly large horizontal size.
The only part of Slashdot which "makes use" of the larger screen size is the front page where they horizontally enlarged the right column. But not because it is better that way, but because that way they could fit ads on the top of that column without breaking the layout (which regularly happened with those ads before the change, when they started to place ads at that position).
Everyone in this thread, but you. You know, it's the topic of the thread (and of the story, BTW).
Anyone who uses a laptop and bitches about screen real estate should just plug in an external monitor and shut the fuck up.
Yeah, sure. I'll carry an extra monitor around with me, sure.
At home, I've got a monitor that is large enough that I can display two A4 pages side by side in 1:1 size, so a widescreen makes sense. For my laptop that would be too large to carry around. A laptop screen is always a compromise between portability and usability. And the 4:3 screen is simply the best compromise unless you use it primarily to watch movies.
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But Sony was at least stupid, by making their device unusable without the service.
You used a cheap Chinese tablet? No wonder you didn't get your spelling right! :-)
Of course that's a lie. If you really hated saying "I told you so" you'd not do so. You'd simply stop after "This is why I am here".
That depends on what you watch. And, of course, how much.
Indeed, I've noticed that a DVR makes me watch less: I first record the show. Now, I am at a point where I can watch it any time I want, so it's not a priority "I'll have to see it now, or I'll miss it". Which means I might end up not watching it at all before I much later delete it to make space for something else, on the account that if I haven't watched it till then, I'll probably not watch it later either.
And of course: Guy who voluntarily carries a tracking device doesn't remove it in situations where he doesn't want to be tracked.
And here's the problem: A device which relies on (instead of just uses, as an option) a specific third party service without need. Would the same device allow to directly enter the data as an option, Rovi stopping the service would be a mere annoyance instead of making the devices useless.
Actually the very first VCR my parent's owned got the programming directly from teletext. You could go to the page where the program is listed, select the page, and it would take the data directly from that page and store it (and it even got the correct VPS times that way, in cases they differed from scheduled times). That was before the invention of ShowView, the system which presumably was making programming your VCR so simple. I've never understood why entering a seemingly arbitrary number should be more easy than just selecting directly from the program table. Indeed, that was the easiest to program VCR I've ever come across, and superior to all the systems which came later, without exceptions. And it worked perfectly for more than a decade (apart from a nasty Y2K bug which you had to work around by lying about the year) until the VCR stopped working correctly (and it was not the programming part that failed)
And of course, if the stations had ever stopped to provide programming data over teletext, the VCR had also the option to enter everything manually.
I don't think AMD produces enough bulldozers to make enough hills from them.
Also: "Similar skirmishes have historically occurred in areas as diverse as sewing machines, winged flight, agriculture, and telegraph technology. Each marked the emergence of incredible technological advances, and each generated similar outcries about the patent system."
In other words: The patent system is getting in the way every time great new inventions come up. For a system which is designed to help with great new inventions, what could be a more clear sign of failure than that?
Schooling you is not my job. People pay good money for that service, or they learn their lessons the long, slow, expensive hard way like the rest of us did.
If you don't want to give people information (i.e. make them learn something), then why are you posting at all?
Or think of a small hardware device attached somewhere to the network (can be hidden anywhere where you can get LAN and power) which only listens (so it cannot be detected by the stuff it sends or by taking up an IP) and sends interesting things over the mobile phone network. Probably the network will have lots of interesting unencrypted information (after all, it's internal and cable, so why have encryption overhead, right?)
Wow, that's really an useful and elaborative answer. After reading it, one really has a clue about why hypervisor VLANs won't work.
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Sometimes it is.
So 1 person has some trouble getting some old files vs our current system where we let folks with cancer die.
Yeah, what a terrible tradeoff.
You know, after they died they certainly will not ask for old pictures. Problem solved.
No, the download only seems so slow because it is sent with almost light speed, and therefore you get relativistic time dilation. ;-)
I don't think a realistic space travel game will be much success. Travelling from Earth to Mars: Put your space ship on course, and then wait half a year, maybe making a small course correction every now and then ...
The 4k display.
I bet those dead guys are sure glad the government was there to protect them.
I bet those non-dead guys who would additionally have been killed if law enforcement had not finally destroyed the group are very glad the government was there to protect them. And those who were killed would have been glad if the government had been there in time to protect them as well.
At least in Germany, also the non-financial benefits get taxed, if they are of a kind you'd normally pay money for ("geldwerte Leistungen"). So the CEO in your example would have to pay the tax for the rent he normally would have to pay if he were regularly renting the house (that is, the situation is treated as the company renting the house to him, and paying him the rent as benefit).
What if some state (say, Sealand) adopted Bitcoin as official currency?
I don't have actual data, but I think the main energy consumption is by the backlight, not the actual LCD. Therefore I think the power consumption should be dependent more on the physical screen size than the pixel density.
Only gods which want to participate in the material world need it. Think of the material representation as an avatar. The god itself is outside the universe, but to act in the universe (as opposed to just affect it), the god needs an avatar inside the world, which is then bound to the laws of the world (which the god can, of course, tweak to its liking, e.g. by introducing exotic matter which doesn't otherwise exist, but the laws cannot be completely lifted because that would mean to destroy the world that is built on the rules).
Can you smell the irony, of posting this "bring back 4:3" crap on a site whose layout takes full advantage of widescreen.
Does it? The display area of my browser window has a 4:3 format (I've decided to make other use of that extra area because for the vast majority of web sites a wider display area just means lot of wasted space left and right anyway). And even in that, the comments have overly large horizontal size.
The only part of Slashdot which "makes use" of the larger screen size is the front page where they horizontally enlarged the right column. But not because it is better that way, but because that way they could fit ads on the top of that column without breaking the layout (which regularly happened with those ads before the change, when they started to place ads at that position).
BTW, A0 has an are of 1 m^2, A(n+1) obviously has half the area of An.
So if you ever need the size of an An paper but have no chance to look it up, you can always easily calculate it from the specification.
Everyone in this thread, but you. You know, it's the topic of the thread (and of the story, BTW).
Yeah, sure. I'll carry an extra monitor around with me, sure.
At home, I've got a monitor that is large enough that I can display two A4 pages side by side in 1:1 size, so a widescreen makes sense. For my laptop that would be too large to carry around. A laptop screen is always a compromise between portability and usability. And the 4:3 screen is simply the best compromise unless you use it primarily to watch movies.