Normally I don't advocate extreme ideology but after the constant visual pollution of ads (online, billboards, TV, movies) I'm starting to wonder if society just wouldn't be better off with a simple policy:
Ban all ads. Just ban the fuckers outright.
The world has existed for thousands of years without the modern exploitative manipulative propaganda and I'll be the first to say:
/sarcasm Because having a job is the only source of meaning in a person's life.
Devil's advocate:
Maybe economy shouldn't be the driving factor? Open Source exists regardless of financial compensation.
Animals have lived on this planet for millions of years without money. Why are humans the only stupid animal who haven't figured this out?
> We'd all love to sit around all day and just be mailed cheques for doing nothing
Speak for yourself. In my free time I'm building, creating, inventing, researching, work on my games, etc. That is a far cry from "nothing."
Yes, people can get bored doing nothing. While some will continue to due nothing, most people want to feel useful, needed, and accomplish something meaningful to THEIR life.
-- "NEVER mix business and pleasure; for someone will take pleasure in fucking your business over."
> Why would someone pay to see a film after pirating it online? That makes little sense.
Because maybe:
a) it eventually becomes legally possible to buy on BluRay / DVD in their region and they want to be legal, or b) support the content creators, or c) enjoyed it and want to see it again while still in theaters, or d) buy it as a gift for someone who doesn't pirate, or e) etc.
/sarcasm Nah, that NEVER happens.
Same reason(s) people buy a game after they pirate it.
There are also people who buy the game first THEN pirate it to remove the shitty DRM / copy protection.
But that makes "no sense", right?/sarcasm
Your myopic POV is that pirates "never" purchase anythingwhich is clearly false.
Not sure why this is even news./. even reported about this back in 2011
Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem.
-- Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve:
If people can't legally buy a copy due to bullshit artificial region locking they will resort to piracy.
If move studios want to make a dent in piracy then maybe try releasing the BluRay, DVD, digital copies the SAME DAY as the when it is released in theaters instead of making people wait. Some have the patience; those that don't will pirate.
Yup, the fact that we STILL don't have an RFC in 2019 is pretty appalling.:-/
Another tragedy:
I forgot which (web)site I was on but it restricted my password to a maximum of 8 characters.
WTF!? So I can't even _use_ a more cryptographically secure passphrase because of your bone-headed decisions??? What are you guys doing, sending the plain-text password over the internet??
*facepalm*
Maybe we need to start Naming & Shaming these companies for their idiotic security policies. That no CAPS policy is pretty fucking stupid !! (I've run into it on occasion.)
Security is seen as an inconvenience / hassle by the majority so, sadly, it gets ignored, until they get p0wned.:-/
I've posted about Inconsistent password policies for length, characters and expiry dates back in 2012
Duration depends on context. Some people need passwords that expire every second (thus the proliferation of authenticators), some every day, some every week, some every month, some every few months. I don't believe there is a "one size fits all policy."
Having a RFC to standardize length, characters and expiry dates would be a good first step.
Right now having no standard has been a complete clusterfuck as every week it seems like someone is reporting a "data breach."
> This is why the world is far better off when monopolies are simply not allowed to exist.
I'm not sure I'd go THAT far with that ideology -- the answer isn't that clear cut IMHO. I'm going to play Devil's Advocate for a minute:
Governments have a monopoly on creating and enforcing Laws and Money.Do you really every Tom, Dick, and Harry creating and enforcing new Laws? I believe THAT is called Anarchy. One of the problems with Anarchy is that it doesn't scale.
I think part of the confusion is that Monopolies and Standards go hand in hand. That is, Monopolies, at best, provide a "de facto" standard. Is a bad standard worse then no standard? Sometimes. Sometimes not.
Apple has a "monopoly" on iOS programming. Microsoft has a "monopoly" on Win32 programming. Is that a bad thing? Well that depends -- it DOES provide a standard way to access the API.
One of the problems with monopolies is that they can ignore the little guy pointing a real problem -- the little guy is screwed because there is realistically no alternative.
* IE6 had a "monopoly" on low-common-denominator web pages. One of the reasons everyone bitched about this is because IE6 didn't implement half of the HTML standards, or worse, either outright ignored them, or created their own incompatible ones. Half of the reason jQuery was invented was to work around all the stupid proprietary shit IE6 did. * WebKit has now become a "monopoly". While the days of specific web browser extensions seem to be over the drawback is that we MAY get "locked into" a bad implementation because there is no longer any incentive to see if there is a different way to solve the problem. The other problem is that one company can dictate this now the way things are done when we don't have the experience or wisdom to see the pros and cons of that approach.
You mentioned:
Google is way more dangerous as they continue to exert ownership over more and more of the stack fueled by NIH ethos.
Yes, I too share you concerns and lament about Google "hijacking" Internet protocols for their benefit. We are potentially heading into dangerous territory when/where one company can simple break half of the internet due to "forcing" changes in protocols. Do we really want to leave one company with that much power? The warning should be: Here be dragons.
What we REALLY should be pursuing are Open Standards. Any one tech company should not be trusted to defined protocols due to a potential conflict-of-interest and out-right abuse of that monopoly.
i.e. Sun had a monopoly on Java. At least now we have an OpenJDK that is the official reference implementation of Java SE.
Google "dictating" what they will or won't support needs to be taken with a grain of salt. I'm not sure how to "keep them honest" aside from industry pundits and critical analysis?
Thoughts?
-- Necessity is the mother of invention, Curiosity is the father, and some men just wanted better lives for their wives.
I agree the list is shit. Looks like someone mispelt "Most popular."
* Black Panther is ranked 1? In whose delusional universe? Most popular? Maybe? Best? LOL at all the stupid plot holes. * Mad Max: Fury Road is ranked 7?? It was meh. The Matrix was far better. * Dunkirk is ranked 20?? It is meh aside from the nice cinematography and I even went to the IMAX to see it. * Stupid Wars: The Latest Junk is ranked at 31??? Even Gladiator was better then this shit. * The Force Awakens is at 42. A crappy remake of Star Wars: A New Hope scores higher then the original not even on the list??? WTF. * Manchester by the Sea is 45 -- b-o-r-i-n-g as fuck. Can I have my 2 hours back please?
I don't see Baraka on the list. For a movie to have no dialog, no plot, no characters AND to be that moving is out of this world. The BluRay version is a real treat.
I don't see any Robin William's movies on the list: When Dreams May Come, Awakenings, The Fisher King, Mrs. Doubtfire, Good Morning Vietnam, Alladin, Dead Poet's Society, Goodwill Hunting, Bicentennial Man, etc. Any one of these is better then the tip 10 combined.
No James Cameron movies on the list?
I don't see Contact on the list? Oh wait we got crap like Baby Driver at rank 58. How silly of me to think we were listing good movies!
No Jet Li movies such as Hero?
This list is a total farce. It is a list of most popular. Most of these movies will be forgotten in a decade.
I guess McDonald's serving BILLIONS of hamburgers makes them The Best Food of All Time!/sarcasm
Thanks for the mention of the ROCKPro64! I wasn't familiar with it.
Looks like the 2 GB version is $60 while the 4GB is $80 for a hexa-core SoC CPU and quad-core GPU.
Specifications for those interested:
- Rockchip RK3399 hexa-core SOC (CPU) - quad-core Mali-T860MP4 (GPU) - and up-to 4GB of dual-channel LPDDR4 system memory. - USB 3.0 and USB type C - DP1.2 port, - full PCIe x4 - eMMC module socket. - 40pin header with I2C, SPI, UARTs and GPIOs. - ROCKPro64 4GB board designated as LTS (long Term Supply) model, PINE64 committed to supply at least for 5 years until year 2023.
Only thing seems to be missing is an RTC (Real-Time Clock.) Haven't looked if one is available.
> In January '84 the only GUIs actually on the market were... (snip)
Yup, GUI's were all the rage in the mid 80's.
> and a remarkably craptacular version of Windows
While Windows 1.0 was announced in 1983 it doesn't actually ship until November 20, 1985. Ironically a Microsoft engineer coined the term "vaporware" due to it taking so long! Who knew.
> GEMS was a year later
GEM (not GEMS), announced in 1984, was released on 28 February 1985 before Windows. Ventura Publisher, released in 1986, the first DTP on PCs used GEM. I'm not sure why it took until the March 1987 issue of Infoworld to review it (lead in time?). Technically, Aldus Pagemaker 1.0 was released in July 1985 for Mac OS but it didn't get ported over to Windows 1.0 until 1987.
Valve = game developer and publisher Vulkan = modern designed graphics API (In contrast to Open GL) Mesa = open source implementation of Open GL Gallium3D = new architecture for building 3D graphics drivers.
OT: Fucking/. editors have always been lazy. Apparently it is too much work to do more then copy-paste (and somehow they even manage to screw THAT UP!)
The typical bullshit excuse "haters gonna hate" is a pathetic attempt to dismiss another person's POV with irrational emotions instead of logically actually learning WHY somebody dislikes or ever hates it in the first place.
Fanboi Bob: (grew up watching ALL the Star Wars movies) Fanboi Bob: The Last Jedi sucks.:-/ Asshole Alice in whiny nasal voice: "Haters gonna hate" Fanboi Bob: **Facepalm** Mauler: Hold my beer
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I thought Gary Bernhardt's The Birth & Death of JavaScript talk was supposed to satire not a documentary! =P
When is the insanity going to stop?
Normally I don't advocate extreme ideology but after the constant visual pollution of ads (online, billboards, TV, movies) I'm starting to wonder if society just wouldn't be better off with a simple policy:
Ban all ads. Just ban the fuckers outright.
The world has existed for thousands of years without the modern exploitative manipulative propaganda and I'll be the first to say:
And nothing of value was lost.
A person can dream, right?
/sarcasm Because having a job is the only source of meaning in a person's life.
Devil's advocate:
Maybe economy shouldn't be the driving factor? Open Source exists regardless of financial compensation.
Animals have lived on this planet for millions of years without money. Why are humans the only stupid animal who haven't figured this out?
> We'd all love to sit around all day and just be mailed cheques for doing nothing
Speak for yourself. In my free time I'm building, creating, inventing, researching, work on my games, etc. That is a far cry from "nothing."
Yes, people can get bored doing nothing. While some will continue to due nothing, most people want to feel useful, needed, and accomplish something meaningful to THEIR life.
--
"NEVER mix business and pleasure; for someone will take pleasure in fucking your business over."
Gee, Software as a Service, aka monthly software rental fees, where Microsoft can nickel and dime you every month is a surprise?
The entire software industry is moving this direction. Adobe, JetBrains, etc.
Why is this news?
> Why would someone pay to see a film after pirating it online? That makes little sense.
Because maybe:
a) it eventually becomes legally possible to buy on BluRay / DVD in their region and they want to be legal, or
b) support the content creators, or
c) enjoyed it and want to see it again while still in theaters, or
d) buy it as a gift for someone who doesn't pirate, or
e) etc.
/sarcasm Nah, that NEVER happens.
Same reason(s) people buy a game after they pirate it.
There are also people who buy the game first THEN pirate it to remove the shitty DRM / copy protection.
But that makes "no sense", right? /sarcasm
Your myopic POV is that pirates "never" purchase anything which is clearly false.
Not sure why this is even news. /. even reported about this back in 2011
-- Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve:
If people can't legally buy a copy due to bullshit artificial region locking they will resort to piracy.
If move studios want to make a dent in piracy then maybe try releasing the BluRay, DVD, digital copies the SAME DAY as the when it is released in theaters instead of making people wait. Some have the patience; those that don't will pirate.
Wow, 6 characters!?
If that isn't *facepalm* of the century ...
Yup, the fact that we STILL don't have an RFC in 2019 is pretty appalling. :-/
Another tragedy:
I forgot which (web)site I was on but it restricted my password to a maximum of 8 characters.
WTF!? So I can't even _use_ a more cryptographically secure passphrase because of your bone-headed decisions??? What are you guys doing, sending the plain-text password over the internet??
*facepalm*
Maybe we need to start Naming & Shaming these companies for their idiotic security policies. That no CAPS policy is pretty fucking stupid !! (I've run into it on occasion.)
Security is seen as an inconvenience / hassle by the majority so, sadly, it gets ignored, until they get p0wned. :-/
I've posted about Inconsistent password policies for length, characters and expiry dates back in 2012
Duration depends on context. Some people need passwords that expire every second (thus the proliferation of authenticators), some every day, some every week, some every month, some every few months. I don't believe there is a "one size fits all policy."
Having a RFC to standardize length, characters and expiry dates would be a good first step.
Right now having no standard has been a complete clusterfuck as every week it seems like someone is reporting a "data breach."
> This is why the world is far better off when monopolies are simply not allowed to exist.
I'm not sure I'd go THAT far with that ideology -- the answer isn't that clear cut IMHO. I'm going to play Devil's Advocate for a minute:
Governments have a monopoly on creating and enforcing Laws and Money. Do you really every Tom, Dick, and Harry creating and enforcing new Laws? I believe THAT is called Anarchy. One of the problems with Anarchy is that it doesn't scale.
I think part of the confusion is that Monopolies and Standards go hand in hand. That is, Monopolies, at best, provide a "de facto" standard. Is a bad standard worse then no standard? Sometimes. Sometimes not.
Apple has a "monopoly" on iOS programming. Microsoft has a "monopoly" on Win32 programming. Is that a bad thing? Well that depends -- it DOES provide a standard way to access the API.
One of the problems with monopolies is that they can ignore the little guy pointing a real problem -- the little guy is screwed because there is realistically no alternative.
* IE6 had a "monopoly" on low-common-denominator web pages. One of the reasons everyone bitched about this is because IE6 didn't implement half of the HTML standards, or worse, either outright ignored them, or created their own incompatible ones. Half of the reason jQuery was invented was to work around all the stupid proprietary shit IE6 did.
* WebKit has now become a "monopoly". While the days of specific web browser extensions seem to be over the drawback is that we MAY get "locked into" a bad implementation because there is no longer any incentive to see if there is a different way to solve the problem. The other problem is that one company can dictate this now the way things are done when we don't have the experience or wisdom to see the pros and cons of that approach.
You mentioned:
Yes, I too share you concerns and lament about Google "hijacking" Internet protocols for their benefit. We are potentially heading into dangerous territory when/where one company can simple break half of the internet due to "forcing" changes in protocols. Do we really want to leave one company with that much power? The warning should be: Here be dragons.
What we REALLY should be pursuing are Open Standards. Any one tech company should not be trusted to defined protocols due to a potential conflict-of-interest and out-right abuse of that monopoly.
i.e.
Sun had a monopoly on Java. At least now we have an OpenJDK that is the official reference implementation of Java SE.
Google "dictating" what they will or won't support needs to be taken with a grain of salt. I'm not sure how to "keep them honest" aside from industry pundits and critical analysis?
Thoughts?
--
Necessity is the mother of invention,
Curiosity is the father, and
some men just wanted better lives for their wives.
Well played.
/sarcasm Silly me, I forgot digital hoarding is "news."
Here is a link to the list in question:
Rotten Tomatoes' Top 100 Movies of all time
I agree the list is shit. Looks like someone mispelt "Most popular."
* Black Panther is ranked 1? In whose delusional universe? Most popular? Maybe? Best? LOL at all the stupid plot holes.
* Mad Max: Fury Road is ranked 7?? It was meh. The Matrix was far better.
* Dunkirk is ranked 20?? It is meh aside from the nice cinematography and I even went to the IMAX to see it.
* Stupid Wars: The Latest Junk is ranked at 31??? Even Gladiator was better then this shit.
* The Force Awakens is at 42. A crappy remake of Star Wars: A New Hope scores higher then the original not even on the list??? WTF.
* Manchester by the Sea is 45 -- b-o-r-i-n-g as fuck. Can I have my 2 hours back please?
I don't see Baraka on the list. For a movie to have no dialog, no plot, no characters AND to be that moving is out of this world. The BluRay version is a real treat.
I don't see any Robin William's movies on the list: When Dreams May Come, Awakenings, The Fisher King, Mrs. Doubtfire, Good Morning Vietnam, Alladin, Dead Poet's Society, Goodwill Hunting, Bicentennial Man, etc. Any one of these is better then the tip 10 combined.
No James Cameron movies on the list?
I don't see Contact on the list? Oh wait we got crap like Baby Driver at rank 58. How silly of me to think we were listing good movies!
No Jet Li movies such as Hero?
This list is a total farce. It is a list of most popular. Most of these movies will be forgotten in a decade.
I guess McDonald's serving BILLIONS of hamburgers makes them The Best Food of All Time! /sarcasm
/sarcasm Shit languages (Java, Javascript, PHP) are popular because any code monkey can throw something together? No kidding! News at 10. Film at 11.
Ignoring memory management doesn't make it go away.
--
Murphy's Computer Laws
Meskimen's Law
"There is never time to do it right but there is always time to do it over."
"One man's hobby is another man's waste of time."
Why is this news?
Or are we going to get "Man has obscure collection of _x_" every week?
--
SJWB = _Stupid Juvenile Whiner Bullying_ tactics:
6. Always lie
Only a naive fool would believe someone has no biases.
Of course everyone in the entertainment business is lying -- that why it is prudent to check multiple sources.
What would you recommend in the ~$100 price point?
Not everyone wants or needs Android.
Faux News.
FTFY. :-/
It is a sad state of affairs when the MSM (Mainstream media) "News" have become comedy and comedians tell the actual news. :-/
Thanks for the mention of the ROCKPro64! I wasn't familiar with it.
Looks like the 2 GB version is $60 while the 4GB is $80 for a hexa-core SoC CPU and quad-core GPU.
Specifications for those interested:
- Rockchip RK3399 hexa-core SOC (CPU)
- quad-core Mali-T860MP4 (GPU)
- and up-to 4GB of dual-channel LPDDR4 system memory.
- USB 3.0 and USB type C
- DP1.2 port,
- full PCIe x4
- eMMC module socket.
- 40pin header with I2C, SPI, UARTs and GPIOs.
- ROCKPro64 4GB board designated as LTS (long Term Supply) model, PINE64 committed to supply at least for 5 years until year 2023.
Only thing seems to be missing is an RTC (Real-Time Clock.) Haven't looked if one is available.
> In January '84 the only GUIs actually on the market were ... (snip)
Yup, GUI's were all the rage in the mid 80's.
> and a remarkably craptacular version of Windows
While Windows 1.0 was announced in 1983 it doesn't actually ship until November 20, 1985. Ironically a Microsoft engineer coined the term "vaporware" due to it taking so long! Who knew.
> GEMS was a year later
GEM (not GEMS), announced in 1984, was released on 28 February 1985 before Windows. Ventura Publisher, released in 1986, the first DTP on PCs used GEM. I'm not sure why it took until the March 1987 issue of Infoworld to review it (lead in time?). Technically, Aldus Pagemaker 1.0 was released in July 1985 for Mac OS but it didn't get ported over to Windows 1.0 until 1987.
And in 1986 GEOS was released.
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_Which_ law(s) state that?
The _concern_ is that they will simply start deleting them.
As much as I despise Alex Jones censoring him off their platform is the "tell" of Google's intentions.
Who knows what unpopular opinion will be gone tomorrow.
In case anyone wants to download the videos mentioned before they get censored:
(2.7 million views)
Exposing the fraud of 9/11 in 22 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
(4.7 million views)
BEST 9/11 Documentary: If You Seek TRUTH, WATCH THIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
There is no opportunity to learn if you censor someone you disagree with.
--
Censorship is NEVER the solution. It is PRECISELY the PROBLEM.
Valve = game developer and publisher
Vulkan = modern designed graphics API (In contrast to Open GL)
Mesa = open source implementation of Open GL
Gallium3D = new architecture for building 3D graphics drivers.
OT: Fucking /. editors have always been lazy. Apparently it is too much work to do more then copy-paste (and somehow they even manage to screw THAT UP!)
/Oblg. And nothing of value was lost. =P
OT: Your .sig is accurate.
The typical bullshit excuse "haters gonna hate" is a pathetic attempt to dismiss another person's POV with irrational emotions instead of logically actually learning WHY somebody dislikes or ever hates it in the first place.
Fanboi Bob: (grew up watching ALL the Star Wars movies) :-/
Fanboi Bob: The Last Jedi sucks.
Asshole Alice in whiny nasal voice: "Haters gonna hate"
Fanboi Bob: **Facepalm**
Mauler: Hold my beer