a) They make the biggest profit margin from their devices (indicating they could afford to spend more on addressing the conditions of employees) b) They're the most visible (people know who apple is and their "image" appears to be important to them) c) They're one of more capable of push-back on the factories to fix issues (due to their size)
The longer you wait, the more you've finished your "self development."
Young people go through a lot of stages in life. Their interests change. Their personalities often change. Their lifestyles change. With that, the type of mate you may find ideal at a young age (especially with hormones involved), is not necessarily the mate you'd be happy with later in life. As life goes on, you move apart, and eventually, divorce.
At least when meeting somebody a bit later in life, there's a decent chance that he/she has got his/her sh*t together, has some idea of plans for the future and has developed a long-term identity.
I don't see a hatred against all lawyers, but a general distrust of the industry and a hatred of bad/immoral/etc lawyers.
NYCL is fairly popular here, as are the folks at Groklaw (OK, P.J. is actually a paralegal). The others (patent troll lawyers, Jack Thompson, etc) are surely unpopular here, but IMHO in most cases their lack of popularity is rather warranted.
The article notes that he made less money than with traditional distribution channels. However, one thing to consider is that (from the sounds of the article), he setup his own distribution channel almost from scratch. That first step's the hardest, and any future endeavours along the same line would likely be able to re-use the infrastructure he's already got in place, resulting in less costs (and more profit).
I'm not sure that "no DRM" is 100% necessary, although it is getting better with time. Netflix uses DRM. The downside is it doesn't work on all devices, but that may very well be more to do with them not wanting to take time to build the client than a DRM incompatibility (especially since it *does* work on Android etc).
The industry seems to *hate* Netflix because it doesn't offer enough profit, but it seems that - for consumers - it's still a great step in the right direction. One can pay a reasonable price (very reasonable, if you consider that unlimited shows is cheaper than a single ticket to the movies) and watch whatever you want (so long you have the bandwidth) from an ever-increasing catalog. The DRM is unobtrusive and transparent. It may prevent you from capturing the video stream and recording it easily, but it doesn't hinder watching shows or movies.
The reason things aren't "successful" seems to be that those in the industry want two things: money and control. Certainly there have been many systems that *could* have been successful, but they seem to be killed off because they don't give the industry enough of both to sate their demands.
If it's what your wife wants, then fine for her. There's nothing wrong with being a house-wife/house-husband for those that want to do so.
The poster obviously is looking for something a bit more in her life than "barefoot and pregnant", which makes your suggestions rude, sexist, and unhelpful.
If you're in a scenario where "Backups are not really an option", somebody is doing something wrong...
How long did it take you to get to 0.5PB? If you use a differential backup/sync, then you should generally only need to copy *NEW* data, and the old stuff will already be there.
Given the emergent issues with Canadian mortgages and banks/etc offloading the risk onto CMHC, I'd say that us Canucks are in for an unpleasant surprise sometime in the not-too-far future as well.
My biggest peeve is the movement towards pulseaudio. It introduces a *TON* of performance issues that make Linux very non-game-friendly. Wine hates it (it lags out) VOIP apps also hate it (audio lag/sync issues).
About the only thing that it seems to be good for is having multiple outputs under a single target. It used to be useful to allow multiple input streams to mix at once without blocking, but that seems to work just fine with ALSA alone these days.
I have a PXE boot environment at home. In the PXE, I use XFCE and pulseAudio is disabled (by renaming the binary, damn thing comes back like the walking undead otherwise). In the non-PXE (booted from HDD) environment, I use gnome and thus Pulse is enabled because a bunch of gnome'ish stuff depends on it.
In XFCE, audio just *WORKS*. I can chat with friends on mumble while playing music and minecraft. The only weirdness is that my headphone auto-sensing seems off, but that may be an aspect of tweaking the soundcard driver settings.
In Gnome/w Pulseaudio, audio sucks. My headphones work, but audio stutters, lags, or doesn't work at all (especially in wine). Input and output have terrible sync issues, and quality overall sucks.
Pulseaudio needs to *DIE* - or be fixed greatly - for multimedia on linux to have a good future. Perhaps the ALSA devs and Pulse devs could work together to build a nice UI and plugin integration for the ALSA stuff (A2DP audio etc) that is also stable and functional.
On steam, there's the knowledge and expectation that your game is tied to your account. In most cases you don't buy a physical disk, you buy a license for *your* account. (except the copy of HL2 I bought way back when, that had a disk and needed steam... lame).
When I buy a physical disk in the store, I expect that everything that came with that disk originally should be available for future installs, or a used sale, whatever. Unfortunately, physical disks are often worse than online sales these days, because you end up not only with a incomplete-for-resale game (for a greater price), but also some horrible nasty DRM scheme that may eat your DVD drive etc.
And since Siri and friends all need to go to "the cloud" to get the horsepower for translating whatever you ask... what are the privacy and recording implications of that? I'd imagine that they would need to keep some form of records for tuning, so how much do they keep, for how long, and under what assurances of privacy?
Man has issues with ex-wife/girlfriend (ex-spouse).
Ex-spouse pastes a bunch of hatemail on facebook. Opens a blog calling him abuse. Maybe accuses him of child-abuse etc. Maybe she creates a few schill accounts and posts more "evidence". None of it is true, but it's "seeding" for her case
So the man gets accused of something from said ex...
The juror goes online, sees a facebook page and a bunch of blogs which basically describes the guy as an wife-beating, drug-using, child-abuser. Maybe said juror shares it with the others and they manage to *not* get caught doing so.
The man gets convicted to 5 years in child. The woman gets all his assets, and his kids. The man's life is ruined.
All because some dumbf**k couldn't stay off the 'net and believes that everything he/she saw online is true.
So yes. Judges SHOULD be wary of the ability for the web to taint juries, and juries should stay the f*** off the internet when it comes to anything related to the case.
No act works without enforcement and stiff penalties for breaching it. Right now you seem to have neither, as the best case against an unconstitutional law seems to be "oops, that law is no good so we'll remake it and try again"
So once it's been jailbroken, does anyone know what the status of unlocking is for the 4S? I believe that there have already been successful IOS5 unlocks for earlier phones, will they still work on the 4S now that it's jailbroken?
Some people jailbreak to just get 3rd-party apps etc, but a lot of people do so to install the unlock and NOT be chained in yet another way to a given carrier.
As a dreamhost customer (who doesn't store anything overly sensitive there), I've noticed that they also have a tendency to send me mail with my real password in the past, which indicates that it's stored somewhere in cleartext (which is BAD).
In the U.S., the poorest of the poor have a standard of living that outshines the majority of the rest of the world
Where on earth did you get that idea? Yes, the poor in first-world countries may be better off than the poor in third-world countries, but living in the streets/alleys/etc of New York isn't going to be much/any better than many other countries.
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Two things come to mind:
a) They make the biggest profit margin from their devices (indicating they could afford to spend more on addressing the conditions of employees)
b) They're the most visible (people know who apple is and their "image" appears to be important to them)
c) They're one of more capable of push-back on the factories to fix issues (due to their size)
Right. While they're at it, you local hospitals should make sure that all communications are sent by unencrypted broadcast as well.
Where was this? Sounds like a nice place to live.
I have an alternative to that logic.
The longer you wait, the more you've finished your "self development."
Young people go through a lot of stages in life. Their interests change. Their personalities often change. Their lifestyles change.
With that, the type of mate you may find ideal at a young age (especially with hormones involved), is not necessarily the mate you'd be happy with later in life. As life goes on, you move apart, and eventually, divorce.
At least when meeting somebody a bit later in life, there's a decent chance that he/she has got his/her sh*t together, has some idea of plans for the future and has developed a long-term identity.
Isn't angry birds available as an app on Chrome? I haven't installed it myself but don't see why that wouldn't work.
I don't see a hatred against all lawyers, but a general distrust of the industry and a hatred of bad/immoral/etc lawyers.
NYCL is fairly popular here, as are the folks at Groklaw (OK, P.J. is actually a paralegal). The others (patent troll lawyers, Jack Thompson, etc) are surely unpopular here, but IMHO in most cases their lack of popularity is rather warranted.
The article notes that he made less money than with traditional distribution channels. However, one thing to consider is that (from the sounds of the article), he setup his own distribution channel almost from scratch. That first step's the hardest, and any future endeavours along the same line would likely be able to re-use the infrastructure he's already got in place, resulting in less costs (and more profit).
I'm not sure that "no DRM" is 100% necessary, although it is getting better with time.
Netflix uses DRM. The downside is it doesn't work on all devices, but that may very well be more to do with them not wanting to take time to build the client than a DRM incompatibility (especially since it *does* work on Android etc).
The industry seems to *hate* Netflix because it doesn't offer enough profit, but it seems that - for consumers - it's still a great step in the right direction. One can pay a reasonable price (very reasonable, if you consider that unlimited shows is cheaper than a single ticket to the movies) and watch whatever you want (so long you have the bandwidth) from an ever-increasing catalog. The DRM is unobtrusive and transparent. It may prevent you from capturing the video stream and recording it easily, but it doesn't hinder watching shows or movies.
The reason things aren't "successful" seems to be that those in the industry want two things: money and control. Certainly there have been many systems that *could* have been successful, but they seem to be killed off because they don't give the industry enough of both to sate their demands.
If it's what your wife wants, then fine for her. There's nothing wrong with being a house-wife/house-husband for those that want to do so.
The poster obviously is looking for something a bit more in her life than "barefoot and pregnant", which makes your suggestions rude, sexist, and unhelpful.
Damn. That should have been "viral"... autocorrect = fail :-(
If you're in a scenario where "Backups are not really an option", somebody is doing something wrong...
How long did it take you to get to 0.5PB? If you use a differential backup/sync, then you should generally only need to copy *NEW* data, and the old stuff will already be there.
*SOMEBODY* needs to make that into a virus video!
Given the emergent issues with Canadian mortgages and banks/etc offloading the risk onto CMHC, I'd say that us Canucks are in for an unpleasant surprise sometime in the not-too-far future as well.
My biggest peeve is the movement towards pulseaudio. It introduces a *TON* of performance issues that make Linux very non-game-friendly.
Wine hates it (it lags out)
VOIP apps also hate it (audio lag/sync issues).
About the only thing that it seems to be good for is having multiple outputs under a single target. It used to be useful to allow multiple input streams to mix at once without blocking, but that seems to work just fine with ALSA alone these days.
I have a PXE boot environment at home. In the PXE, I use XFCE and pulseAudio is disabled (by renaming the binary, damn thing comes back like the walking undead otherwise). In the non-PXE (booted from HDD) environment, I use gnome and thus Pulse is enabled because a bunch of gnome'ish stuff depends on it.
In XFCE, audio just *WORKS*. I can chat with friends on mumble while playing music and minecraft. The only weirdness is that my headphone auto-sensing seems off, but that may be an aspect of tweaking the soundcard driver settings.
In Gnome /w Pulseaudio, audio sucks. My headphones work, but audio stutters, lags, or doesn't work at all (especially in wine). Input and output have terrible sync issues, and quality overall sucks.
Pulseaudio needs to *DIE* - or be fixed greatly - for multimedia on linux to have a good future. Perhaps the ALSA devs and Pulse devs could work together to build a nice UI and plugin integration for the ALSA stuff (A2DP audio etc) that is also stable and functional.
Hmm. Looks like my laptop - which is neither a Samsung nor a Mac - except thinner.
You mean the high-powered American lawyer who cut himself loose last week?
So basically what you just said is: "get back in your kitchen b****"
Wow... I feel sorry for any women in your life.
On steam, there's the knowledge and expectation that your game is tied to your account. In most cases you don't buy a physical disk, you buy a license for *your* account.
(except the copy of HL2 I bought way back when, that had a disk and needed steam... lame).
When I buy a physical disk in the store, I expect that everything that came with that disk originally should be available for future installs, or a used sale, whatever. Unfortunately, physical disks are often worse than online sales these days, because you end up not only with a incomplete-for-resale game (for a greater price), but also some horrible nasty DRM scheme that may eat your DVD drive etc.
And then there are things like Origin, which does stuff like scanning your *entire* HD so that EA can advertise to you (or possibly sue you if they find Warez or whatever on your HDD)
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.308724-EAs-Origin-is-creepy-and-watches-you-sleep
Rights are rapidly going downhill, and the "entertainment" industry wonders why people don't want their crap.
And since Siri and friends all need to go to "the cloud" to get the horsepower for translating whatever you ask... what are the privacy and recording implications of that?
I'd imagine that they would need to keep some form of records for tuning, so how much do they keep, for how long, and under what assurances of privacy?
Man has issues with ex-wife/girlfriend (ex-spouse).
Ex-spouse pastes a bunch of hatemail on facebook. Opens a blog calling him abuse. Maybe accuses him of child-abuse etc. Maybe she creates a few schill accounts and posts more "evidence". None of it is true, but it's "seeding" for her case
So the man gets accused of something from said ex...
The juror goes online, sees a facebook page and a bunch of blogs which basically describes the guy as an wife-beating, drug-using, child-abuser. Maybe said juror shares it with the others and they manage to *not* get caught doing so.
The man gets convicted to 5 years in child. The woman gets all his assets, and his kids. The man's life is ruined.
All because some dumbf**k couldn't stay off the 'net and believes that everything he/she saw online is true.
So yes. Judges SHOULD be wary of the ability for the web to taint juries, and juries should stay the f*** off the internet when it comes to anything related to the case.
You can't FORCE people to buy your product. You need to make your product desirable to buy!
No, but they can make you pay a tax on a different product based on the theoretical relation between said product and loss-of-profit of your own.
- A Canadian tired of paying extra tariffs on storage media
I believe that's called a constitution.
No act works without enforcement and stiff penalties for breaching it. Right now you seem to have neither, as the best case against an unconstitutional law seems to be "oops, that law is no good so we'll remake it and try again"
So once it's been jailbroken, does anyone know what the status of unlocking is for the 4S?
I believe that there have already been successful IOS5 unlocks for earlier phones, will they still work on the 4S now that it's jailbroken?
Some people jailbreak to just get 3rd-party apps etc, but a lot of people do so to install the unlock and NOT be chained in yet another way to a given carrier.
As a dreamhost customer (who doesn't store anything overly sensitive there), I've noticed that they also have a tendency to send me mail with my real password in the past, which indicates that it's stored somewhere in cleartext (which is BAD).
In the U.S., the poorest of the poor have a standard of living that outshines the majority of the rest of the world
Where on earth did you get that idea? Yes, the poor in first-world countries may be better off than the poor in third-world countries, but living in the streets/alleys/etc of New York isn't going to be much/any better than many other countries.