OK, I don't know much about those monitors, but you did say Sony. So my immediate assumption would be that they patented them (that's OK), but in addition made all connectors to it patented and everything had to go through Sony display drivers/cards. And they likely only accepted video data formatted in a patented Sony format that they would never open up, etc. etc. etc. bunch of Sony bullshit ad nauseam, all of which made anyone else who thought about using them say fuck that; why pay a shitload of money for something I can't use with any of my other stuff? And like a bunch of other rather good ideas Sony has had in the past, it died and withered on the vine of incompatibility.
Is this a good reason to root your device so you can put a decent firewall on it? At the least block its communication if it installs itself. Or is it known to change firewall settings too?
The other thing I hate about the mobile version of Firefox is that it puts the page title in the location bar, so I can't really tell what site I'm on. Title's can lie, I want to see the actual address. On mobile, I use Dolphin Browser. It works pretty good for the most part, some minor issues, but I can still watch flash videos with it on the newer android devices. It also isn't Chrome, I agree about the privacy issue... they all might have issues, but phoning everything home to Google is too creepy for me.
Bell Canada actively spies on what their users do on all their connections, internet and phone. They track you. They openly stated it a few years ago, 'for advertising purposes.' The major players have regional monopolies but have been transitioning to an oligarchy, with bit players allowed to piggyback if they behave. There is only one small very local company that has its own fibre backbone that is any good, and that is Novus in Vancouver. And they are only in high rise condos, which is too bad. Ten years ago they 10MB down AND up. And you only needed to plug into the wall, no modem required. And they didn't give a rats ass if you ran a server at home (and static IPs were pretty cheap). Now they are up to 50 and 100 MB. http://www.novusnow.ca/interne... I really wished I live in Vancouver still. Trying to move back right now.
And then they make Windows 10 phone home with even more personal info than ever before whenever your PC is switched on. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd say Microsoft made an OS so bad that everyone had to flock to the next one, even if it did sell all your personal data to the highest bidder and the NSA. At this point, I'll use Windows 7 till it hits end of life and just use Linux after that. I'll probably have an extra PC for games or recording but never use it.
The main Ebola drugs/vaccines that are in play were developed in Canada at the publicly funded National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Some money came from private companies, but much was public funds; and who paid for the lab in the first place? (That's a rhetorical question if you didn't get it.) Level 4-containment microbiology labs aren't cheap, it's why there are only a handful in the world and why they are publicly funded, not privately... there is normally no profit in them. I am one who has no problem pointing out the folly and poor performance (it has hurt me personally) of Canada's "public only" healthcare system. I like the public/private funding paradigm that Europe seems to have and which Obamacare seems to be moving towards, and would like to see that adopted here (that is another topic altogether). But I am very against the "private only" healthcare system that many fake Christians in the U.S. want. I have seen it hurt too many people. And this is also a case where we can see that private isn't always better either.
...Unfortunately, the past 15 years have seen everything dry up...
It's Florida, and they're on the coast. Global warming should fix this by the time a few decades are up. If I were them I'd sell everything now and get what I could, then move north to the hills in Georgia. It'll be beach front by the next century. At least their decedents can enjoy it if they can keep the property in the family.
I think part of the problem was that instead of treating it more like an experimental craft, learning from it and implementing changes based on those teachings, they treated it like a final every day working product. Like it was the end goal. There is no way you build the first 'reusable' space craft ever and it actually meets that goal. That is not wishful thinking, it's stupid. But in all the years I haven't seen or heard of much if anything that they say they could do better to improve on it. Maybe because they would have felt obliged to actually do something with it.
Cheat your customers, cover it up by suppressing reviews, and then lie about whose fault it is. Has nothing to do with properly testing your product and releasing quality software.
I wonder if they can apply this to why New Madrid Missouri had one of the biggest recorded earthquakes in US history while not being very near any fault line.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understood that some aspects of visual processing happen either in eye itself or the optic nerve. And part of this fellow's experiment involved visual recognition. Would the visual pre-processing before the signals reach the brain throw off some of the 'results' as well? It it also my understanding that the spinal column also does some pre-processing, so to speak. I'm wondering if at the least, his simple experiment didn't really 'stress-test' the system, so he might be missing a lot.
I used to think Australia was pretty cool. But with their seemingly ever increasing big brother government and internet restictions, I don't think it is all that great any more. I think it is acting like what American big brother advocates would like to get away with. Worse even than Britain's snoop on everyone approach.
Why do you think every website, from Facebook to Twitter to the crappy newspaper down the street, is trying to get a way to show video ads? It's because they make a lot of money off those things.
That is because most people don't pay to visit a web site. Other than their ISP fees.
Bullshit. Canada was using direct debit with Interac since the early 80s. It is run by a group of banks and hits your bank account directly. It doesn't go through credit card companies. It is the most common form of payment here. I could go into a mom and pop corner store and pay this way for 30 years. People like it. It is not for profit but was formed by the banks and run on a private network. People didn't and don't want single companies like Visa or Google or Mastercard or Apple having all the power doing this. Companies that are for profit that want to take an even bigger cut of your money, run on public networks, and make money selling your data. I have a debit card that is very thin. It even fits in with the rest of my ID that I take everywhere anyway, and it is only online on a private network when I make a purchase... when the card is in the machine. Please explain what is so fucking great about Apple or Google pay on phones that run all the time on public networks, open to possible hacks.
Microsoft used to be THE company that sells software that corporations need (from OS to their office suites). Used to. Now Microsoft is a company clinging onto new versions of legacy software
I agree for the most part on your points. But for major products like Office, we see people here agreeing quite often that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. And that is valid too... it is a good product even now. But sure, now they seem to be more interested in catching up and copying other companies' ideas than innovating; or even being clever and visionary enough to understand which companies have truly good new ideas and products before they buy them.
What I think is ironic in all this, is it is my understanding that Ballmer was at the helm for most of the time when this mental and innovative contraction took place. Even more interesting is that Microsoft stock went up when he finally left. My take on that is that he's not really qualified to make any judgements on other companies.
You'll feel relieved, then, to know that modern atypical antipsychotics work much better, and with far fewer side effects, than the old-school phenothiazines.
And Google gets nothing out of the relationship I hear you say. The web sites are only leaches that exist solely because of Google. As if, if Google didn't exist someone else wouldn't step in to fill the niche. Google makes money because they have a lot of sites indexed. Let them cut off whole swaths of Europe say, or North America, and another search engine will take its place. As for Amazon, sure I get cheap books. But I no longer have as many bookstores I can go to, to look at books, find something I might not have picked before, have a coffee, talk to real people. A whole bunch of my favourite bookstores have gone down in the last number of years. Everything is a trade off. And while I like Amazon for technical books, I would rather pay a higher price for a real book, if I had the opportunity to have more book stores. Unfortunately the ones that still exist are mostly big chains that only bring in what some wanker at head office sends them. Someone who probably never reads books either, never mind the genre you like.
Do you make the same argument about why your shouldn't have police departments, fire departments, schools, sewer services, etc? If so, you are an idiot.
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Depends on your definition of state.
...monkey boy!
Relatively speaking? Yes.
OK, I don't know much about those monitors, but you did say Sony. So my immediate assumption would be that they patented them (that's OK), but in addition made all connectors to it patented and everything had to go through Sony display drivers/cards. And they likely only accepted video data formatted in a patented Sony format that they would never open up, etc. etc. etc. bunch of Sony bullshit ad nauseam, all of which made anyone else who thought about using them say fuck that; why pay a shitload of money for something I can't use with any of my other stuff? And like a bunch of other rather good ideas Sony has had in the past, it died and withered on the vine of incompatibility.
Is this a good reason to root your device so you can put a decent firewall on it? At the least block its communication if it installs itself. Or is it known to change firewall settings too?
The other thing I hate about the mobile version of Firefox is that it puts the page title in the location bar, so I can't really tell what site I'm on. Title's can lie, I want to see the actual address. On mobile, I use Dolphin Browser. It works pretty good for the most part, some minor issues, but I can still watch flash videos with it on the newer android devices. It also isn't Chrome, I agree about the privacy issue... they all might have issues, but phoning everything home to Google is too creepy for me.
Bell Canada actively spies on what their users do on all their connections, internet and phone. They track you. They openly stated it a few years ago, 'for advertising purposes.' The major players have regional monopolies but have been transitioning to an oligarchy, with bit players allowed to piggyback if they behave. There is only one small very local company that has its own fibre backbone that is any good, and that is Novus in Vancouver. And they are only in high rise condos, which is too bad. Ten years ago they 10MB down AND up. And you only needed to plug into the wall, no modem required. And they didn't give a rats ass if you ran a server at home (and static IPs were pretty cheap). Now they are up to 50 and 100 MB. http://www.novusnow.ca/interne... I really wished I live in Vancouver still. Trying to move back right now.
And then they make Windows 10 phone home with even more personal info than ever before whenever your PC is switched on. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd say Microsoft made an OS so bad that everyone had to flock to the next one, even if it did sell all your personal data to the highest bidder and the NSA. At this point, I'll use Windows 7 till it hits end of life and just use Linux after that. I'll probably have an extra PC for games or recording but never use it.
The main Ebola drugs/vaccines that are in play were developed in Canada at the publicly funded National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Some money came from private companies, but much was public funds; and who paid for the lab in the first place? (That's a rhetorical question if you didn't get it.) Level 4-containment microbiology labs aren't cheap, it's why there are only a handful in the world and why they are publicly funded, not privately... there is normally no profit in them. I am one who has no problem pointing out the folly and poor performance (it has hurt me personally) of Canada's "public only" healthcare system. I like the public/private funding paradigm that Europe seems to have and which Obamacare seems to be moving towards, and would like to see that adopted here (that is another topic altogether). But I am very against the "private only" healthcare system that many fake Christians in the U.S. want. I have seen it hurt too many people. And this is also a case where we can see that private isn't always better either.
Next question?
It's Florida, and they're on the coast. Global warming should fix this by the time a few decades are up. If I were them I'd sell everything now and get what I could, then move north to the hills in Georgia. It'll be beach front by the next century. At least their decedents can enjoy it if they can keep the property in the family.
I think part of the problem was that instead of treating it more like an experimental craft, learning from it and implementing changes based on those teachings, they treated it like a final every day working product. Like it was the end goal. There is no way you build the first 'reusable' space craft ever and it actually meets that goal. That is not wishful thinking, it's stupid. But in all the years I haven't seen or heard of much if anything that they say they could do better to improve on it. Maybe because they would have felt obliged to actually do something with it.
Cheat your customers, cover it up by suppressing reviews, and then lie about whose fault it is. Has nothing to do with properly testing your product and releasing quality software.
I wonder if they can apply this to why New Madrid Missouri had one of the biggest recorded earthquakes in US history while not being very near any fault line.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understood that some aspects of visual processing happen either in eye itself or the optic nerve. And part of this fellow's experiment involved visual recognition. Would the visual pre-processing before the signals reach the brain throw off some of the 'results' as well? It it also my understanding that the spinal column also does some pre-processing, so to speak. I'm wondering if at the least, his simple experiment didn't really 'stress-test' the system, so he might be missing a lot.
I used to think Australia was pretty cool. But with their seemingly ever increasing big brother government and internet restictions, I don't think it is all that great any more. I think it is acting like what American big brother advocates would like to get away with. Worse even than Britain's snoop on everyone approach.
Fuck that.
Phil Dick, is that you?
Save the children, live in a cave, give them a bible.
That is because most people don't pay to visit a web site. Other than their ISP fees.
And at -5C, as a block of ice it would be really cool.
Bullshit. Canada was using direct debit with Interac since the early 80s. It is run by a group of banks and hits your bank account directly. It doesn't go through credit card companies. It is the most common form of payment here. I could go into a mom and pop corner store and pay this way for 30 years. People like it. It is not for profit but was formed by the banks and run on a private network. People didn't and don't want single companies like Visa or Google or Mastercard or Apple having all the power doing this. Companies that are for profit that want to take an even bigger cut of your money, run on public networks, and make money selling your data. I have a debit card that is very thin. It even fits in with the rest of my ID that I take everywhere anyway, and it is only online on a private network when I make a purchase... when the card is in the machine. Please explain what is so fucking great about Apple or Google pay on phones that run all the time on public networks, open to possible hacks.
I agree for the most part on your points. But for major products like Office, we see people here agreeing quite often that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. And that is valid too... it is a good product even now. But sure, now they seem to be more interested in catching up and copying other companies' ideas than innovating; or even being clever and visionary enough to understand which companies have truly good new ideas and products before they buy them.
What I think is ironic in all this, is it is my understanding that Ballmer was at the helm for most of the time when this mental and innovative contraction took place. Even more interesting is that Microsoft stock went up when he finally left. My take on that is that he's not really qualified to make any judgements on other companies.
Glad they're working for you.
And Google gets nothing out of the relationship I hear you say. The web sites are only leaches that exist solely because of Google. As if, if Google didn't exist someone else wouldn't step in to fill the niche. Google makes money because they have a lot of sites indexed. Let them cut off whole swaths of Europe say, or North America, and another search engine will take its place. As for Amazon, sure I get cheap books. But I no longer have as many bookstores I can go to, to look at books, find something I might not have picked before, have a coffee, talk to real people. A whole bunch of my favourite bookstores have gone down in the last number of years. Everything is a trade off. And while I like Amazon for technical books, I would rather pay a higher price for a real book, if I had the opportunity to have more book stores. Unfortunately the ones that still exist are mostly big chains that only bring in what some wanker at head office sends them. Someone who probably never reads books either, never mind the genre you like.
Do you make the same argument about why your shouldn't have police departments, fire departments, schools, sewer services, etc? If so, you are an idiot.