Am I the only one who thinks these new drone images are horrific? Sure, the detail is great, but the perspective is totally whack when viewed in 2D map mode. It will probably look a lot better on the 3d Google Earth buildings when they apply the textures correctly, but for now it looks awful.
I like the way you think. I was rather kidding with the ipv6porn link, even though pr0n does drive a lot of tech, but if you look back to the roots of the internet it was the geeks who made things happen. Perhaps we should design new protocols built exclusively for ipv6 that fix longstanding ipv4 problems, requiring people to upgrade to ipv6 to alleviate the problem.
I guess it could be considered the Apple OS9 -> OS X route vs the Windows XP -> Vista -> 7 route, but with networking. Break the compatibility at the ground-level design, then code backwards support in later if you really need it.
This would make for an awesome geek comedy plot in the vein of The Big Lebowski or so, where some stupid script kiddies think this is a reliable hack to rob somebody's house, and when they show up the people are still there, but it's not who they thought it was, it's somebody far more nefarious who thinks that the script kiddies are somebody else who perhaps owes them something and then the nefarious people force the script kiddies to do awful things anyway since they are now wrapped up in the whole thing.
I have the fastest available broadband in my area(18Mbps down). To download an entire high def movie in that size would take significantly longer than I would want to wait in front of my television for it.
What, would you rather spend that time driving to the store? Sure, you can automate downloads just as well as you can automate Netflix blu-ray delivery, but when it comes to the now factor, downloading vs driving to get HD content is a moot point. HD of blu-ray quality is simply not available instantaneously.
Honestly, this is the first I'd heard about that change. I'm not Star Wars zealot, but I definitely think that is a ridiculous change. You're totally right about it being a bigger deal because it changes the character. I haven't even seen the movie in like 15 years and that bugs me.
Yeah, but neither did anybody else, nor any other army in the world, it just so happens that an army led by Napoleon did.
HP, IBM, Fujitsu, Gateway et al didn't take the tablet market by storm in the 8 years they've been selling tablets, but Apple did on their first try, with Steve Jobs at the helm.
I just watched Big for the first time in like a decade or two, and they totally had this idea in there. Funny to see this coming out in the 21st century instead of hoverboards... I'd love to see that iPad app. Strap one iPad to each foot and go!
A lot of the people who make music do not want their art to be so restricted. Even musicians these days want people to break copyright to enjoy new music that is being locked up by the corporations. A lot of copyright agreements amount to exploitation, and artists enter into these agreements not knowing they are essentially parlaying with pirates.
Step back before the CD, tape, 8-track or 33, and tell me the artists from the first half of this century could have foreseen the copyright cluster-fuck and agreed that they wanted their music to be accessible only to people with money.
And another thing, just because it's the law doesn't mean it's right. Laws get overturned every day, and the way the people make themselves heard is by disagreeing with the law and siding with what they believe is right. "The mechanism by which a creator has chosen to be compensated" is not serving the creator if that person is dead.
School ruined reading for me because I was always being forced to see particular details, then I'd be tested on it. What was the moral of the story? Oh, I must have seen a different moral or had a different opinion, because I got a bad grade. This led to me essentially trying to memorize the entire book, reading each page several times, digging for something that might be hidden. I didn't discover the joy of reading for pleasure until my mid 20's, thanks to high school and uninteresting literature classics being shoved in my face.
Now that I don't have somebody telling me what books to read, or what messages to get from the books I do read, I can enjoy fat books like Anathem, 900+ pages, and enjoy almost every minute of it. Thanks for nothing, High School.
Not taking sides here, but it is remarkable that removing the offending content and putting up a note that's just shy of an apology would make the average person relent, whereas if this were the MPAA or RIAA they'd still sue you for having violated the copyright at all, as in many file sharing lawsuits.
Which myth are you talking about? If you're talking about this myth, it's irrelevant in regard to the OP. The whole point of my post is that the high density areas are easy to service and the low density areas are hard, and the OP was talking specifically about rural areas with low density of people.
I think the ROI in rural areas is going to be pretty slim, and won't help the cause much. Places like Korea and Japan have a much higher overall population density, so when fiber gets laid there it ends up being used by more people, helping their numbers compete against our rural and suburban areas where population density is low. I think the geography of the USA is set up to fall behind in this regard.
I stand corrected, and as an IT admin I feel like an ass for not really researching it properly. I guess if it had been a mission critical feature rather than an irritation I'd have taken more time to really look into it, but at least now I know the details.
It's true though what the other reply here said about other people not setting the value. I shouldn't have to install an enterprise service that has a prerequisite cost in order to automatically get an auto-timeout to be default. I've never worked with BES because the companies I work for have never paid for it, had a big enough investment in BB to get it for free, or made it a big enough priority to give me time to install it.
I think that a simple feature like this shouldn't be buried in a place that every blackberry I've ever gotten back did not have this feature enabled because it was probably not found. I think it should be enabled by default, even if it has a long timeout. I think it should not require a password as a prerequisite feature enablement in order to get this functionality. I think it should have a less vague name than "security timeout", perhaps one that makes it obvious that the keyboard will lock.
Also, because of circular "back" loops I usually bind the convenience key to the home screen as a quick way out, otherwise that would be a great lock method which would be much more obvious than the default.
And yeah, I'm annoyed enough to rant on/. without Googling. Isn't that what this place is for? Even the editors do it.
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Maybe you could rephrase it?
Am I the only one who thinks these new drone images are horrific? Sure, the detail is great, but the perspective is totally whack when viewed in 2D map mode. It will probably look a lot better on the 3d Google Earth buildings when they apply the textures correctly, but for now it looks awful.
Just skimming made my head spin with how it was so very vague, yet so very detailed...
I can't believe you just used "fleshlight" in the same sentence as "experience and understanding"
I like the way you think. I was rather kidding with the ipv6porn link, even though pr0n does drive a lot of tech, but if you look back to the roots of the internet it was the geeks who made things happen. Perhaps we should design new protocols built exclusively for ipv6 that fix longstanding ipv4 problems, requiring people to upgrade to ipv6 to alleviate the problem.
I guess it could be considered the Apple OS9 -> OS X route vs the Windows XP -> Vista -> 7 route, but with networking. Break the compatibility at the ground-level design, then code backwards support in later if you really need it.
This would be great for pirates, who the hell would the MPAA and RIAA sue if everybody in one region shared a single IP#?
http://www.ipv6porn.co.nz/ is giving away free porn to anybody who can access it with an ipv6 address
This would make for an awesome geek comedy plot in the vein of The Big Lebowski or so, where some stupid script kiddies think this is a reliable hack to rob somebody's house, and when they show up the people are still there, but it's not who they thought it was, it's somebody far more nefarious who thinks that the script kiddies are somebody else who perhaps owes them something and then the nefarious people force the script kiddies to do awful things anyway since they are now wrapped up in the whole thing.
It's worth noting that Camino and Firefox both failed without any spiffy add-on's either.
Am I the only one doing the demo on the page and having it fail completely? I just tried it in Firefox and Camino on OS X and neither worked.
I have the fastest available broadband in my area(18Mbps down). To download an entire high def movie in that size would take significantly longer than I would want to wait in front of my television for it.
What, would you rather spend that time driving to the store? Sure, you can automate downloads just as well as you can automate Netflix blu-ray delivery, but when it comes to the now factor, downloading vs driving to get HD content is a moot point. HD of blu-ray quality is simply not available instantaneously.
What this is doing is blurring the line between casual sex and prostitution. It will make it more difficult legally and personally. Not good.
What a great description in that 2nd paragraph
I have a solution to your problem. Don't upgrade.
There will surely be an app that transcodes on the fly and streams to Apple TV.
Yeah, it's a featured album this week on iTunes, their new preferred release platform.
Honestly, this is the first I'd heard about that change. I'm not Star Wars zealot, but I definitely think that is a ridiculous change. You're totally right about it being a bigger deal because it changes the character. I haven't even seen the movie in like 15 years and that bugs me.
Yeah, but neither did anybody else, nor any other army in the world, it just so happens that an army led by Napoleon did.
HP, IBM, Fujitsu, Gateway et al didn't take the tablet market by storm in the 8 years they've been selling tablets, but Apple did on their first try, with Steve Jobs at the helm.
I just watched Big for the first time in like a decade or two, and they totally had this idea in there. Funny to see this coming out in the 21st century instead of hoverboards... I'd love to see that iPad app. Strap one iPad to each foot and go!
A lot of the people who make music do not want their art to be so restricted. Even musicians these days want people to break copyright to enjoy new music that is being locked up by the corporations. A lot of copyright agreements amount to exploitation, and artists enter into these agreements not knowing they are essentially parlaying with pirates.
Step back before the CD, tape, 8-track or 33, and tell me the artists from the first half of this century could have foreseen the copyright cluster-fuck and agreed that they wanted their music to be accessible only to people with money.
And another thing, just because it's the law doesn't mean it's right. Laws get overturned every day, and the way the people make themselves heard is by disagreeing with the law and siding with what they believe is right. "The mechanism by which a creator has chosen to be compensated" is not serving the creator if that person is dead.
School ruined reading for me because I was always being forced to see particular details, then I'd be tested on it. What was the moral of the story? Oh, I must have seen a different moral or had a different opinion, because I got a bad grade. This led to me essentially trying to memorize the entire book, reading each page several times, digging for something that might be hidden. I didn't discover the joy of reading for pleasure until my mid 20's, thanks to high school and uninteresting literature classics being shoved in my face.
Now that I don't have somebody telling me what books to read, or what messages to get from the books I do read, I can enjoy fat books like Anathem, 900+ pages, and enjoy almost every minute of it. Thanks for nothing, High School.
Not taking sides here, but it is remarkable that removing the offending content and putting up a note that's just shy of an apology would make the average person relent, whereas if this were the MPAA or RIAA they'd still sue you for having violated the copyright at all, as in many file sharing lawsuits.
Which myth are you talking about? If you're talking about this myth, it's irrelevant in regard to the OP. The whole point of my post is that the high density areas are easy to service and the low density areas are hard, and the OP was talking specifically about rural areas with low density of people.
I think the ROI in rural areas is going to be pretty slim, and won't help the cause much. Places like Korea and Japan have a much higher overall population density, so when fiber gets laid there it ends up being used by more people, helping their numbers compete against our rural and suburban areas where population density is low. I think the geography of the USA is set up to fall behind in this regard.
I stand corrected, and as an IT admin I feel like an ass for not really researching it properly. I guess if it had been a mission critical feature rather than an irritation I'd have taken more time to really look into it, but at least now I know the details.
It's true though what the other reply here said about other people not setting the value. I shouldn't have to install an enterprise service that has a prerequisite cost in order to automatically get an auto-timeout to be default. I've never worked with BES because the companies I work for have never paid for it, had a big enough investment in BB to get it for free, or made it a big enough priority to give me time to install it.
I think that a simple feature like this shouldn't be buried in a place that every blackberry I've ever gotten back did not have this feature enabled because it was probably not found.
I think it should be enabled by default, even if it has a long timeout.
I think it should not require a password as a prerequisite feature enablement in order to get this functionality.
I think it should have a less vague name than "security timeout", perhaps one that makes it obvious that the keyboard will lock.
Also, because of circular "back" loops I usually bind the convenience key to the home screen as a quick way out, otherwise that would be a great lock method which would be much more obvious than the default.
And yeah, I'm annoyed enough to rant on /. without Googling. Isn't that what this place is for? Even the editors do it.