I'm guessing he hails from one of the larger urban countries ( Los Angeles, Chicago, Detriot, New York). Police from smaller towns tend to be less corrupt, so I can understand your naiveté.
Absolutely. This is the only way I will buy anything with DRM ever again. Yahoo seems to be taking the gentlemen's approach. Which really just saves the the effort and money of the class action lawsuit I was preparing to file. This would have been a likely settlement outcome. Still, I'm not touching DRM with a ten foot pole anymore.
Mod up. The articles talk more about it being a hypervisor with each app isolated from the others in its own vm and the ability to run or move these vm's on a network (most likely a lan).
I think they mean well, but they often make up their minds based on what the situation is, before getting any of the facts. And often they rely on few sources that present a very black and white biased view, when the real situation is shades of gray.
If you had friends in college who were business majors, you'd know what LEXIS-NEXIS was. I did. That's pretty much the only work they did aside from creating power point presentations.
There was only one app mentioned in the summary that had performance problems. I thought that was clear enough, but instead of thinking that my comments about performance were about the app with performance problems, two commenters thought I was talking about the app that had no performance problems what so ever, and tried taking me to task for not reading the summary.
I don't think the number of people who understand how the internet works is in the majority. Most people ascribe it to magic. I'm willing to bet most people don't know exactly how pipes work either, for that matter.
Again, no. I was referring to the crappy performance of the Official Hasbro version. Not the removed Scrabalicious. I don't know how two people came to the same wrong conclusion. I think this is how wars get started. I guess if you make the mistake of assuming people are stupid, you're response is going to reflect that (irony intentional).
Still, the load on facebook from the US & Canada isn't insignificant. Look at Plurk and Cuil, they both failed to scale instantaneously. It could happen to anyone.
I believe a facebook app must run on its own servers, not the facebook owned ones. So its likely they didn't do a very good job handling the sudden rise in demand with their hardware. Facebook apps sometimes need to scale very quickly as they become viral. Feel free to correct me, if you have any actual experience developing for facebook, I've just read a few accounts.
Are you suggesting that someone would buy a device, make note of the number of bars, return it. Buy a competing device, note the number of bars, then return if and re-purchase the first product if the number of bars was higher for the first one? Do you think there are enough people that would do that to make a difference in sales?
Personally, if the bars do not take noise into effect its due to laziness, rather than marketing considerations. It just makes so much more sense. Although, marketing types sometimes lack a little bit in that department.
Also, keep in mind we are talking about wifi signal strength. The at&t/cingular market campaign is proof that this is most defiantly a factor for cellphones, which makes sense because people do use more frequently in a variety of places and while moving.
Yeah, but I don't think very many people have ever made a wifi purchase based upon the number of bars displayed for a particular location. Most people get a wifi router from their isp, and the wifi built in from their laptops. For an add on, the products in best buy are all based on the same couple of chipsets, which don't really make that much of a difference. Even if they did, where is the data? How can I as joe consumer, or even Mr. Smith regional tech buyer for gigantic Co find the number of bars rating for the places where I'm going to use the wifi devices?
I'm sure that's very easy to do, but is there really that much of a demand for the distributed rendering of podcasts? Are most of the killer features av related? That would make some sense.
I see your comment is interesting, but not really informative. What is the killer feature of OS X server? What one service or feature makes it worth wile?
No, I think there are still some difficult technical problems related to that. How does the consumer verify that the system he is imputing his private key into is a valid device and the software is an approved version free of back doors? How do you build in a verifiable audit trail of every decryption of the medical information? We already have the Hipa law which is a law for humans regulating what can be done with your medical records. But I don't trust that all everyone follows the laws. If we could trust everyone to always follow the law, there would be no need for encryption in the first place.
I wish I lived in your reality. Car companies are adding more features. Having more features increases the probability that one of them will fail. When it does, there is only one place you can really go to replace a tire pressure monitoring system: the dealer. They don't release the spec on how to fix all of those little gadgets. I have been driving in a car overloaded with computer controlled features when it went batshit haywire. It was not fun. I've also seen a halogen lamp start a fire and vacuum cleaners kill themselves due to overheating.
Also,I disassembled my coffee maker before I returned it. The cause of death: burned out pump.
I don't buy the cheapest products either. They're not the most expensive but I usually do opt for a mid level device by a known brand.
I agree with the other repliers that its a difficult thing to test for, but do you really think consumer electronics are highly tested for possible failures?!? I just returned a coffee maker that died on its fifth cup of coffee.
If there's a good technical solution, the problem's got to be trivial, yes?
I'm not so sure that's always the case. And in this case, the difficult part would be figuring out who has the keys and ensuring that only the right people got the right keys and they are used in the right situations ( at least part of that would have to be an automated system of verification). Not to mention the technical task of transitioning everyone's medical records systems to become compatible with the encryption system.
Very interesting. I think the answer to some of the problems is encryption. If we had the private key to decrypt the stored information and a public key for adding to it. That requires some more thought about usability and emergency situations. I think there's a real opportunity for a solution there. I'd really like like it to be FOSS. That's about the only way I would have any trust in it.
You can grow trees hydroponically. Not every tree is a redwood. A plant is a plant, the general principle is the same. If marijuana grew on trees, you can bet they'd be grown hydroponically as well.
Ok, as I revealed in my previous statement I enjoy music, which is why I would never in a gabillion years listen to top 40. Its like a German taking a trip to St. Louis just to taste Budweiser.
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Ok, I no longer understand your naiveté.
I'm guessing he hails from one of the larger urban countries ( Los Angeles, Chicago, Detriot, New York). Police from smaller towns tend to be less corrupt, so I can understand your naiveté.
Absolutely. This is the only way I will buy anything with DRM ever again. Yahoo seems to be taking the gentlemen's approach. Which really just saves the the effort and money of the class action lawsuit I was preparing to file. This would have been a likely settlement outcome. Still, I'm not touching DRM with a ten foot pole anymore.
Mod up. The articles talk more about it being a hypervisor with each app isolated from the others in its own vm and the ability to run or move these vm's on a network (most likely a lan).
I think they mean well, but they often make up their minds based on what the situation is, before getting any of the facts. And often they rely on few sources that present a very black and white biased view, when the real situation is shades of gray.
If you had friends in college who were business majors, you'd know what LEXIS-NEXIS was. I did. That's pretty much the only work they did aside from creating power point presentations.
Oh, it was too perfectly clear. In order to think otherwise, you'd have to assume I didn't read the article and have an IQ of 2.
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For this is the Internet where I am never wrong, but everyone else usually is!
There was only one app mentioned in the summary that had performance problems. I thought that was clear enough, but instead of thinking that my comments about performance were about the app with performance problems, two commenters thought I was talking about the app that had no performance problems what so ever, and tried taking me to task for not reading the summary.
I don't think the number of people who understand how the internet works is in the majority. Most people ascribe it to magic. I'm willing to bet most people don't know exactly how pipes work either, for that matter.
Interesting. I'm glad something remotely informative came from this thread. Sort of renews my hope in the human species.
Again, no. I was referring to the crappy performance of the Official Hasbro version. Not the removed Scrabalicious. I don't know how two people came to the same wrong conclusion. I think this is how wars get started. I guess if you make the mistake of assuming people are stupid, you're response is going to reflect that (irony intentional).
Yes, obviously. I don't know how someone could make that mistake.
Still, the load on facebook from the US & Canada isn't insignificant. Look at Plurk and Cuil, they both failed to scale instantaneously. It could happen to anyone.
I believe a facebook app must run on its own servers, not the facebook owned ones. So its likely they didn't do a very good job handling the sudden rise in demand with their hardware. Facebook apps sometimes need to scale very quickly as they become viral. Feel free to correct me, if you have any actual experience developing for facebook, I've just read a few accounts.
Are you suggesting that someone would buy a device, make note of the number of bars, return it. Buy a competing device, note the number of bars, then return if and re-purchase the first product if the number of bars was higher for the first one? Do you think there are enough people that would do that to make a difference in sales?
Personally, if the bars do not take noise into effect its due to laziness, rather than marketing considerations. It just makes so much more sense. Although, marketing types sometimes lack a little bit in that department.
Also, keep in mind we are talking about wifi signal strength. The at&t/cingular market campaign is proof that this is most defiantly a factor for cellphones, which makes sense because people do use more frequently in a variety of places and while moving.
Yeah, but I don't think very many people have ever made a wifi purchase based upon the number of bars displayed for a particular location. Most people get a wifi router from their isp, and the wifi built in from their laptops. For an add on, the products in best buy are all based on the same couple of chipsets, which don't really make that much of a difference. Even if they did, where is the data? How can I as joe consumer, or even Mr. Smith regional tech buyer for gigantic Co find the number of bars rating for the places where I'm going to use the wifi devices?
I'm sure that's very easy to do, but is there really that much of a demand for the distributed rendering of podcasts? Are most of the killer features av related? That would make some sense.
I see your comment is interesting, but not really informative. What is the killer feature of OS X server? What one service or feature makes it worth wile?
No, I think there are still some difficult technical problems related to that. How does the consumer verify that the system he is imputing his private key into is a valid device and the software is an approved version free of back doors? How do you build in a verifiable audit trail of every decryption of the medical information? We already have the Hipa law which is a law for humans regulating what can be done with your medical records. But I don't trust that all everyone follows the laws. If we could trust everyone to always follow the law, there would be no need for encryption in the first place.
I wish I lived in your reality. Car companies are adding more features. Having more features increases the probability that one of them will fail. When it does, there is only one place you can really go to replace a tire pressure monitoring system: the dealer. They don't release the spec on how to fix all of those little gadgets. I have been driving in a car overloaded with computer controlled features when it went batshit haywire. It was not fun. I've also seen a halogen lamp start a fire and vacuum cleaners kill themselves due to overheating.
Also,I disassembled my coffee maker before I returned it. The cause of death: burned out pump.
I don't buy the cheapest products either. They're not the most expensive but I usually do opt for a mid level device by a known brand.
I agree with the other repliers that its a difficult thing to test for, but do you really think consumer electronics are highly tested for possible failures?!? I just returned a coffee maker that died on its fifth cup of coffee.
I'm not so sure that's always the case. And in this case, the difficult part would be figuring out who has the keys and ensuring that only the right people got the right keys and they are used in the right situations ( at least part of that would have to be an automated system of verification). Not to mention the technical task of transitioning everyone's medical records systems to become compatible with the encryption system.
Very interesting. I think the answer to some of the problems is encryption. If we had the private key to decrypt the stored information and a public key for adding to it. That requires some more thought about usability and emergency situations. I think there's a real opportunity for a solution there. I'd really like like it to be FOSS. That's about the only way I would have any trust in it.
You can grow trees hydroponically. Not every tree is a redwood. A plant is a plant, the general principle is the same. If marijuana grew on trees, you can bet they'd be grown hydroponically as well.
Ok, as I revealed in my previous statement I enjoy music, which is why I would never in a gabillion years listen to top 40. Its like a German taking a trip to St. Louis just to taste Budweiser.