Playing the pirated HD video on the 60" screen doesn't make you a hero.
It makes you a thief.
No, it makes you an infringer of copyright (aka 'pirate'). Please stop confusing infringement of copyright with theft as that is exactly what the copyright holders want you to do.
Based on the number of financially successful movies which rely little on dialogue, I'm going to guess you're wrong.
However, I do agree that *I* much prefer movies with dialogue and clever scripts but it would appear that the general movie-going-public doesn't give a shit about thinking.
Anyone I don't know who follows me on Google+ gets moved to "Blocked".
Anyone I don't know who follows me on Twitter, as long as they don't spam me, is ignored. I only follow people I know or I find very interesting who is being followed and is following another person I know.
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Honestly, for me, Google+ is useless and because it doesn't tie in with other applications I use (Hootsuite, etc), I have no use for it and I rarely pay attention to it.
Maybe it was simply that the app sucks. Plenty of sources are reporting that it's buggy (I wonder if that means it's better or worse than their Google Voice app which is terribly unstable). Maybe the reason for it taking so long was because Apple was deciding whether it was worth it to allow a buggy app to be released to the world.
Or, perhaps they wanted to wait for the application to be useful to more people as Google opened up the service to more and more people?
I read an article about this earlier which said it crashed JSTOR's servers on at least three occasions.
However, JSTOR didn't wan to press charges yet the feds continued to push it. Academic interests (hilarious considering the reason for JSTOR) be dammed.
1. All speed traps are video recorded and offer the ability to clock the car with a stopwatch to verify it was actually speeding. Sort of like reverse VASCAR.
2. Every interaction with a police officer will be recorded with video and audio--they're doing this in Burnsville, MN. Thing is we need to have these videos recorded to WORM discs and those need to be made available to the public in every single situation without charge.
3. Anytime a law enforcement officer tells a lie to scare someone they can be sued.
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I could continue but it's pointless. It's easier for the ISPs to simply tell them 'no'.
Or I can pay the $1 for Redbox movies three times a month and still save tons of money. I watched Instant because it was available, not because I thought the selection was worth the money.
I was a Redbox fan before Instant and now I'm going back to them. Netflix raising prices twice in one year (~60%) is fucking ridiculous and thus they've lost a customer.
Sorry, no matter what fans say and what the real reasons are, it's just not fucking worth it and anyone willing to pay it is either in an area where there aren't more than 50 Redboxes within 5 miles or they're just not thinking.
My "landline" comes over my cable connection. It has a battery backup but many times when my Internet is down so is my telephone.
So, if the mobile network is down and/or strained and my cable is out too (likely in a severe situation) what the fuck am I going to do? I guess I'd have to walk to the nearest fire station a mile away.
Yeah, as recently as April for a conference. No one 'drives' on the Strip because it's a fucking parking lot 24/7. I don't see how automated cars are going to help that.
You know what I did when I was in Vegas? Rode BRT and walked--like the apparent majority of people who were there with me.
(I was also there in December of 2006 and it was the same).
Strangely enough my home Internet connections haven't risen significantly in price since 1998 when I got my first my first DSL modem yet my bandwidth is 30x faster.
I'm not a VZW subscriber (I have AT&T unlimited data) but just with regular use alone I'm bumping up close to 2GB monthly (just e-mail, web, and social media use).
That said, I can burn through 2GB in a day in an airport watching Netflix over 3G. Hell, I've burned through half of that on the Stairmaster doing the same.
The bandwidth caps are entirely too low especially as the carriers roll out bigger pipes to the devices. This is nothing more than a money making venture for them (much like GSM networks charging for SMS) and it needs to be stopped by the people voting w/their feet to some new startup carrier that is smart enough to buck the trends.
My electricity company is totally cool with charging me at the end of the month for a very specific usage figure... and you know what? I've never complained about or felt like I was getting the raw end of a deal.
Because the electricity delivery industry (as well as many utilities) are closely controlled by the government and sometimes even require special permission to raise rates.
Mobile phone companies don't fall under those same guidelines and thus they're going to charge you how they want to charge you. I have a feeling that with the current administration and the rest of those in office, more government regulation isn't going to happen in the foreseeable future.
Adding tethering gives an additional $2 GB and an additional $20. So for example, 4 GB with tethering will cost $50/month. Additional data will cost $10/GB.
And I'm talking mostly about the hyperlocal outlets who publish weekly and concentrate more on sports scores; profiles of athletes, students, or business owners who are opening yet another chain; and exciting coverage of every single planning commission meeting.
Here, at least, the dailies have little staff, cover too-wide of areas, and are stretched too thin for me to even mention.
I post one article a day. About the average for most pros. The MONTHS part comes about due to inefficiencies in government and/or lack of desire for the info to become public. It has nothing to do with me.
Depends on the source and it depends on how they present it.
I take great time to fact check, ensure human sources are valid and have proof of their whistleblowing, and provide all documentation procured from the agencies as evidence.
Just because some bloggers don't, doesn't mean that signal to noise ratio is high, it just means you aren't paying attention to the right sources.
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As for making money and burning out. Yeah, it sucks. My site makes some money (and rarely any from political posts) but I don't do it for that. I do it because I enjoy the topic, I enjoy doing data analysis, and I like having a hobby.
Where I live the local news has rarely ever exposed anything. In fact, they gloss over the details, fail to provide links to documentation for the reader to learn for themselves, and use so many quotes from the elected officials or city staff members that no true analysis can be done.
One professional reporter suggested to me privately that the public, "read between the lines," in order to see what's really being said. While that's great for someone in the know, it doesn't work for 99.9% of the population.
What has helped are local, non-professional sources who take the time to do what reporters used to do. Researching documents, providing them to the public and going back to school to have an even better understanding of how local government is supposed to work.
While I don't want to toot my own horn or even step on the toes of the pros, the work I do actually does expose the issues in local government and shows their general incompetence when compared to how they are supposed to act.
I am going to school for Public Administration, I use my skills as a data analyst to provide crime dashboards to aggregate data, and I post public documents requested and researched for MONTHS so that the public can ignore my own analysis and do their own if they so choose.
The rise of the Internet has done nothing to change the business model of the print papers. They're still pushing out 500 word blurbs of city council meetings instead of 1000+ word analyses. They are the ones at fault here, not the Internet and shame on the FCC for stating anything else.
Does it really mean that? This is Apple after all. People are going to buy the iPad2 over the other devices for any number of reasons--mainly the OS and the applications available for it.
Personally I would much prefer an iOS device if I were to get a tablet simply because I already own an iPhone and I prefer the UI. While I don't enjoy using my Mac Mini (1st gen which really needs to be retired) simply because I prefer the application support available for Windows, nothing beats the iPhone IMO.
Now, if the Tab had come $100 cheaper and offered me something MORE than what the iPad2 does, I would be all over it. But for the same price it's just not worth it to lose the ease of use, interoperability, and application support.
Well that's your opinion and you're entitled to hold it. However you're very wrong:
1. GMOs create monocultures which could severely damage society by allowing for a majority of crop types to be of one kind. If something comes along which the plants have no resistance to and wipes out the majority of crops sold on the planet we're fucked.
2. GMOs are patented. When the GMOs seed and spread to fields which do not have GMOs the owner of the patent can sue the farmer for using a crop which they own the patent for even though it's a derivative created by natural processes. Those lawsuits are detrimental to the farmers and provide the creators of the GMO with unending amounts of cash because everyone has to use their products.
3. GMOs require more and more pesticides because they're built to only germinate when the pesticide is used. I don't care if you're hippy or not, pesticides are just as bad as the hormones and antibiotics we're finding.
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But hey, if you want to eat tasteless product created solely because it ships well and it requires pesticides to be purchased in order to grow so be it. It's your choice and I support that. However, I'll stick to my non-GMOs knowing that I'm supporting what we've used successfully for 1000s of years prior.
Is that bandwidth is being shifted from one medium to another through the same output device.
Instead of me taking up bandwidth for CATV, I'm using HSD instead because I haven't had CATV/SAT in three years. I use Netflix streaming, although I'm not sure how much bandwidth I use except over 3G, because it's better for me than what the other side of the fence offers.
When the cable companies start whining about how much bandwidth Netflix is using what they're really complaining about is their lost revenue on the CATV side.
Some people are masochists and enjoy the pain of spyware and virus removal and/or dependency issues, upgrade problems, and lack of software support.
Some people are sadists and enjoy turning the "you don't own the hardware or software" model into a real life thing which they pretend won't be like leased access to a mainframe.
Others just want to use something that works for them and don't want to have some multi-billionaire telling them what they should want.
Sergey, I'm so very glad that your staff enjoys a mix of Windows, Linux, OS X, and Chrome. I like them all, except Chrome, too. I really don't feel miserable using Windows anymore (in fact, I feel far more miserable using OS X simply because I just don't know what's going on behind the scenes--and yes, I realize that's the way most people like it) and Linux has been powering my home network/servers for more than 15 years.
So to each their own. Go back to flying your planes, driving your boats, and making great ad-supported software which I can block out using AdBlock Plus for Firefox and keep your comments about what software and hardware choices I should make to yourself. We'll all be better off for it.
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No, it makes you an infringer of copyright (aka 'pirate'). Please stop confusing infringement of copyright with theft as that is exactly what the copyright holders want you to do.
Based on the number of financially successful movies which rely little on dialogue, I'm going to guess you're wrong.
However, I do agree that *I* much prefer movies with dialogue and clever scripts but it would appear that the general movie-going-public doesn't give a shit about thinking.
Why Google+ isn't Twitter for me:
Anyone I don't know who follows me on Google+ gets moved to "Blocked".
Anyone I don't know who follows me on Twitter, as long as they don't spam me, is ignored. I only follow people I know or I find very interesting who is being followed and is following another person I know.
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Honestly, for me, Google+ is useless and because it doesn't tie in with other applications I use (Hootsuite, etc), I have no use for it and I rarely pay attention to it.
YMMV.
Maybe it was simply that the app sucks. Plenty of sources are reporting that it's buggy (I wonder if that means it's better or worse than their Google Voice app which is terribly unstable). Maybe the reason for it taking so long was because Apple was deciding whether it was worth it to allow a buggy app to be released to the world.
Or, perhaps they wanted to wait for the application to be useful to more people as Google opened up the service to more and more people?
I read an article about this earlier which said it crashed JSTOR's servers on at least three occasions.
However, JSTOR didn't wan to press charges yet the feds continued to push it. Academic interests (hilarious considering the reason for JSTOR) be dammed.
1. All speed traps are video recorded and offer the ability to clock the car with a stopwatch to verify it was actually speeding. Sort of like reverse VASCAR.
2. Every interaction with a police officer will be recorded with video and audio--they're doing this in Burnsville, MN. Thing is we need to have these videos recorded to WORM discs and those need to be made available to the public in every single situation without charge.
3. Anytime a law enforcement officer tells a lie to scare someone they can be sued.
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I could continue but it's pointless. It's easier for the ISPs to simply tell them 'no'.
Or I can pay the $1 for Redbox movies three times a month and still save tons of money. I watched Instant because it was available, not because I thought the selection was worth the money.
I was a Redbox fan before Instant and now I'm going back to them. Netflix raising prices twice in one year (~60%) is fucking ridiculous and thus they've lost a customer.
Sorry, no matter what fans say and what the real reasons are, it's just not fucking worth it and anyone willing to pay it is either in an area where there aren't more than 50 Redboxes within 5 miles or they're just not thinking.
My "landline" comes over my cable connection. It has a battery backup but many times when my Internet is down so is my telephone.
So, if the mobile network is down and/or strained and my cable is out too (likely in a severe situation) what the fuck am I going to do? I guess I'd have to walk to the nearest fire station a mile away.
I'm in my kitchen with my phone, I'd like it to tell the server to turn the lights on and then off when I leave.
geek, ATTBI (back in the 2001/2002 days) took infected computers off their network by disabling their cfg files. There's no legal liability there.
Yeah, as recently as April for a conference. No one 'drives' on the Strip because it's a fucking parking lot 24/7. I don't see how automated cars are going to help that.
You know what I did when I was in Vegas? Rode BRT and walked--like the apparent majority of people who were there with me.
(I was also there in December of 2006 and it was the same).
Strangely enough my home Internet connections haven't risen significantly in price since 1998 when I got my first my first DSL modem yet my bandwidth is 30x faster.
I'm not a VZW subscriber (I have AT&T unlimited data) but just with regular use alone I'm bumping up close to 2GB monthly (just e-mail, web, and social media use).
That said, I can burn through 2GB in a day in an airport watching Netflix over 3G. Hell, I've burned through half of that on the Stairmaster doing the same.
The bandwidth caps are entirely too low especially as the carriers roll out bigger pipes to the devices. This is nothing more than a money making venture for them (much like GSM networks charging for SMS) and it needs to be stopped by the people voting w/their feet to some new startup carrier that is smart enough to buck the trends.
Because the electricity delivery industry (as well as many utilities) are closely controlled by the government and sometimes even require special permission to raise rates.
Mobile phone companies don't fall under those same guidelines and thus they're going to charge you how they want to charge you. I have a feeling that with the current administration and the rest of those in office, more government regulation isn't going to happen in the foreseeable future.
RTFA:
They're not giving it away for free.
And I'm talking mostly about the hyperlocal outlets who publish weekly and concentrate more on sports scores; profiles of athletes, students, or business owners who are opening yet another chain; and exciting coverage of every single planning commission meeting.
Here, at least, the dailies have little staff, cover too-wide of areas, and are stretched too thin for me to even mention.
I post one article a day. About the average for most pros. The MONTHS part comes about due to inefficiencies in government and/or lack of desire for the info to become public. It has nothing to do with me.
Depends on the source and it depends on how they present it.
I take great time to fact check, ensure human sources are valid and have proof of their whistleblowing, and provide all documentation procured from the agencies as evidence.
Just because some bloggers don't, doesn't mean that signal to noise ratio is high, it just means you aren't paying attention to the right sources.
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As for making money and burning out. Yeah, it sucks. My site makes some money (and rarely any from political posts) but I don't do it for that. I do it because I enjoy the topic, I enjoy doing data analysis, and I like having a hobby.
YMMV.
Where I live the local news has rarely ever exposed anything. In fact, they gloss over the details, fail to provide links to documentation for the reader to learn for themselves, and use so many quotes from the elected officials or city staff members that no true analysis can be done.
One professional reporter suggested to me privately that the public, "read between the lines," in order to see what's really being said. While that's great for someone in the know, it doesn't work for 99.9% of the population.
What has helped are local, non-professional sources who take the time to do what reporters used to do. Researching documents, providing them to the public and going back to school to have an even better understanding of how local government is supposed to work.
While I don't want to toot my own horn or even step on the toes of the pros, the work I do actually does expose the issues in local government and shows their general incompetence when compared to how they are supposed to act.
I am going to school for Public Administration, I use my skills as a data analyst to provide crime dashboards to aggregate data, and I post public documents requested and researched for MONTHS so that the public can ignore my own analysis and do their own if they so choose.
The rise of the Internet has done nothing to change the business model of the print papers. They're still pushing out 500 word blurbs of city council meetings instead of 1000+ word analyses. They are the ones at fault here, not the Internet and shame on the FCC for stating anything else.
Does it really mean that? This is Apple after all. People are going to buy the iPad2 over the other devices for any number of reasons--mainly the OS and the applications available for it.
Personally I would much prefer an iOS device if I were to get a tablet simply because I already own an iPhone and I prefer the UI. While I don't enjoy using my Mac Mini (1st gen which really needs to be retired) simply because I prefer the application support available for Windows, nothing beats the iPhone IMO.
Now, if the Tab had come $100 cheaper and offered me something MORE than what the iPad2 does, I would be all over it. But for the same price it's just not worth it to lose the ease of use, interoperability, and application support.
YMMV.
Well that's your opinion and you're entitled to hold it. However you're very wrong:
1. GMOs create monocultures which could severely damage society by allowing for a majority of crop types to be of one kind. If something comes along which the plants have no resistance to and wipes out the majority of crops sold on the planet we're fucked.
2. GMOs are patented. When the GMOs seed and spread to fields which do not have GMOs the owner of the patent can sue the farmer for using a crop which they own the patent for even though it's a derivative created by natural processes. Those lawsuits are detrimental to the farmers and provide the creators of the GMO with unending amounts of cash because everyone has to use their products.
3. GMOs require more and more pesticides because they're built to only germinate when the pesticide is used. I don't care if you're hippy or not, pesticides are just as bad as the hormones and antibiotics we're finding.
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But hey, if you want to eat tasteless product created solely because it ships well and it requires pesticides to be purchased in order to grow so be it. It's your choice and I support that. However, I'll stick to my non-GMOs knowing that I'm supporting what we've used successfully for 1000s of years prior.
Is that bandwidth is being shifted from one medium to another through the same output device.
Instead of me taking up bandwidth for CATV, I'm using HSD instead because I haven't had CATV/SAT in three years. I use Netflix streaming, although I'm not sure how much bandwidth I use except over 3G, because it's better for me than what the other side of the fence offers.
When the cable companies start whining about how much bandwidth Netflix is using what they're really complaining about is their lost revenue on the CATV side.
I'm guessing with the surge of being able to add additional storage to many phones via SD, this is what they fear.
But yeah, I have never used an SD card for anything except my cameras.
When the machine starts up I don't see anything. A desktop appears. I don't like that.
When I change a setting in the GUI I don't know what files were modified to make that happen.
I could go on but you get the idea.
Some people are masochists and enjoy the pain of spyware and virus removal and/or dependency issues, upgrade problems, and lack of software support.
Some people are sadists and enjoy turning the "you don't own the hardware or software" model into a real life thing which they pretend won't be like leased access to a mainframe.
Others just want to use something that works for them and don't want to have some multi-billionaire telling them what they should want.
Sergey, I'm so very glad that your staff enjoys a mix of Windows, Linux, OS X, and Chrome. I like them all, except Chrome, too. I really don't feel miserable using Windows anymore (in fact, I feel far more miserable using OS X simply because I just don't know what's going on behind the scenes--and yes, I realize that's the way most people like it) and Linux has been powering my home network/servers for more than 15 years.
So to each their own. Go back to flying your planes, driving your boats, and making great ad-supported software which I can block out using AdBlock Plus for Firefox and keep your comments about what software and hardware choices I should make to yourself. We'll all be better off for it.