Right, so instead of saying "Maybe the speed limit is low on this stretch of road. Lets question why we made it that way" the state just side-steps any potential for reform and put in speed cameras.
Kudos to them! Sure, my TomTom didn't give me a ticket today but thanks to it, I will get a ticket tomorrow. If the authorities aren't seeing increased accidents in places people speed then what the hell are they doing putting in cameras? Oh, right, the money.
We humans gave them leprosy to begin with. Leprosy was unknown in the new world before Columbus. Turns out this is just another case of mother nature wanting to kill everything.
Why is this perfectly sane? You only need my last couple hours worth of data for all the mapping functions. You don't need to cache every location since the day I booted the phone.
The grand result isn't nothing. Sure AT&T and Verizon know what towers you're on but thats not the same as storing your GPS location and now malicious apps can't read that data at all because its not there.
So wait. The cloud sales pitch is "no more servers-save money-cut IT staff" but now its:
1. Virtualized servers in zone 1 2. Virtualized servers in zone 2 3. Virtualized servers from a different company altogether.
So I went from one solid server, good backups, maybe a hot backup, and talented staff running the show to outsourced to 3 different clouds with hour-long hold times with some Amazon support monkey? Genius.
Err, the laptop its actually SITTING ON MY LAP. Opposed to a tablet which I need to hold and use my other hand to control it. I can literally use a laptop with a beer in one hand, but its a lot more tricky with a tablet. You may to rethink this one.
Sonicwall also charges for updates. If there's a vulnerability in 5.5 and you don't have a support contract with them then you can't download 5.5.1.
Its an industry problem. These companies need to offer security updates for free. If this means rolling the cost of the support contract into the device itself, then fine, but the status quo of buying something and only having 30 days of updates is terrible.
If the second monitor is not HDCP compatible then it won't play. So a VGA interface won't work. DVI will be okay but you'll need HDMI to get 1080p. Not sure what BR DVI defaults to, I think 720p.
I dont like being in the position defending that site, but you're wrong. Their content is made by their own users and they don't steal content from other sites. They have a pay mechanism, but all the answers you find via google can be found by scrolling down to the bottom of the page. No need to pay anyone.
Huh? I use FTPS all the time with Filezilla server and connect with a variety of FTPS clients and never have issues. This is through a variety of firewalls- expensive cisco's and sonicwalls and cheapo netgears and linksys.
Both FTP and FTPS require passive mode to work properly and a passive range forwarded. That's it. Once configured correctly on the server-side there's nothing else to do.
Honestly, it scares me that vanilla FTP is so widely used and the defacto way to transfers files for so many services. Its completely unencrypted. Its a shame the browser makers never supported FTPS like they did HTTPS.
Err, Apple was right in what exactly? Removing your choice?
I have flash on my phone. Its set to On Demand (something the wiliest tech reporter doesn't seem to understand). When I'm using my phone and see a video that is not hosted on youtube, I press on the green box and it magically plays. What exactly is the problem here?
Secondly, none of the flash stuff I run has been remotely optimized for mobile screen. None. Yet they tend to work.
The android crowd doesn't love it.I don't love most technologies. Its just a boring tool I use. Its the Apple set that politicizes everything and becomes emotional when Dear Leader makes a proclamation. I couldn't give a shit what Jobs or the Goolgle Twins think I should be doing. I just want tools that let me do what I want.
Insulation isn't usually put on interrior walls and I have no need to broadcast my wifi outside of my house. Those that do can position their WAP near a window.
I'm also certain this is not an a recent issue. Almost all the insulation I've seen, apart from spray insulation, has some kind of foil-like backing.
Maybe complainers should spend 2 minutes trying a different wifi channel instead of blaming their home.
I hate this anti-intellectual attitude that attacks anything that doesn't lead to a new shiny for the lowest common denominator buyer. MS Research is actually a pretty good shop. Playing up conspiracy theories is being silly. Researchers aren't supposed to be marketers.
I know you're making a smart-ass joke, but 24fps is pretty obvious to those of us who edit video and its mostly obvious to movie goers. Movies look a certain way for a reason. The "cinema" look is this very choppy experience. Its completely arbitrary, like the aesthetics of film grain, but for some reason filmmakers and audiences like it.
I'm not partial to it. I kind of like the smoother experience, but the traditionalists are going to go crazy if this catches on, the same way they complained about the digital projection showings of the recent Star Wars movies.
To be fair, one's motivations aren't exactly a face tattoo. Sure, maybe Jane gets in CS for make a killing at a startup. Maybe she wants to write apps. Maybe she does. Just because her motivation is money-based or prestige based in the beginning doesn't mean she can't do great things later.
Yes, physicists are prestige & money-based too. Talk to one. Ask them where they work and why. Ask them why they chose that particular phd program. Sure, there's perhaps more geeky love in hard sciences but there's a lot of competition for the well-paying universities, tenure, hard to get into phd programs, getting published, etc.
One of the very nice things about CS or Software Engineering or whatever is that you'll meet some really motivated guys who want to build things. They want to make new things. They have lots of ideas. In business school, law school, etc you just have drones who just care more about the big money and paying off their massive loans than the art of becoming a self-starter or making anything other than more TPS reports.
Look, all humans are greedy animals. We are just trying to maximize our cash, prestige, standing, intelligence, etc. This is how capitalism works. CS majors are no different. Don't piss on the guy who wants to run a startup, because he might and you might be calling him boss soon.
Right, his lawyer told him to settle. That's the wisest move. The law isn't like it is in the movies where the young guy challenges the status quo and wins. In real life, the status quo sues you to oblivion and 80% of your check is garnished for the rest of your days.
Corporations have too much power. Fighting them in court doesn't work as they more or less write the laws they're attacking you with. Change the laws. Regulate corporations tighter.
You're an animal. A human to be specific. You've evolved and internalized via biological functions all manner of earth-bound cycles. You are not an interstellar space spore. The idea that we can just get rid of the year as a metric because of a guy orbiting the earth is a bit silly and certainly is not "the point."
Maybe in some transhuman future where everyone lives off-planet and we control our genes and biology. But right now? Naww. Monkeyman needs a calendar.
Hacking culture is incredibly anti-authoritarian. That's not going to work in Xtianity which is nothing but an appeal to an authority (authors of the bible, jesus, etc).
Hacking is about solving problems in a quick and dirty manner. Its the "bazaar" of open ideas and religion is, you guessed it, the "cathedral" of top down closed ideas controlled by an elite and followed by an credulous public.
On the plus side, I see the Vatican's PR people are doing a good job. Front page slashdot? Nice. Gotta fill them pews.
Err, stress literally kills. The hormones it produces are toxic. A significant amount of people are stressed all the time and its only made worse by the 24/7 society.
Unlike our hunter-gatherer ancestors, we aren't sitting in the sun all day. We're not getting a short high stress event (killing an animal) and then relaxing the rest of the day. We're not getting this level of downtime anymore and chronic stress is common. Heck, Americans barely get vacation days.
Your society, your city, your processed food, your vitamin enriched food, the vaccines in your blood, etc are all technology that has nothing to do with how evolution shaped us for so long. Of course, we should be addressing stress, the same way we address horrible urban conditions with germ theory, cleaning, better sewage, soaps, and antibiotics.
Its a luddite position to think that your body and mind are well suited for modern living and anything controlling that is "unnatural." Its a luddite who says we shouldnt be playing with this. This pandora's box was opened long ago. Appeals to "the natural man" are a fallacy for this reason.
Adding relaxation techniques into your life can make such a significant change its not even funny. Its incredible how much stress we take for granted. Its not normal, its not healthy, and it is a problem. I'm very excited by this research. I hate the idea that its 100% socially acceptable to be a caffeine addict workaholic, but once we start talking about relaxation, downtime, stress, etc suddenly we're all so careful!
> Microsoft, on the other hand, relies on its software to make money.
MS doesn't often engage in legal patent action. For a giant company its pretty rare. They're much more likely to be the victims of submarine patents by firms that do nothing but buy out patents.
MS has spoken against the patent status quo a lot, especially when it is sued monthly for some obvious patent and often loses because a jury in the most conservative part of the country doesn't give two shits about technology nor will they ever understand anything past 'how to reboot your computer.'
If MS can make the billions it does by engaging mostly in defensive patents, then anyone can. Sorry, but using MS only continues to nullify your position.
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Right, so instead of saying "Maybe the speed limit is low on this stretch of road. Lets question why we made it that way" the state just side-steps any potential for reform and put in speed cameras.
Kudos to them! Sure, my TomTom didn't give me a ticket today but thanks to it, I will get a ticket tomorrow. If the authorities aren't seeing increased accidents in places people speed then what the hell are they doing putting in cameras? Oh, right, the money.
We humans gave them leprosy to begin with. Leprosy was unknown in the new world before Columbus. Turns out this is just another case of mother nature wanting to kill everything.
Skylab 1973. 4 years after the moon landing.
I really dont think its a tougher task. Its just throwing junk into LEO and calling it a day. A flight to the moon is a whole different ballgame.
Why is this perfectly sane? You only need my last couple hours worth of data for all the mapping functions. You don't need to cache every location since the day I booted the phone.
The grand result isn't nothing. Sure AT&T and Verizon know what towers you're on but thats not the same as storing your GPS location and now malicious apps can't read that data at all because its not there.
So wait. The cloud sales pitch is "no more servers-save money-cut IT staff" but now its:
1. Virtualized servers in zone 1
2. Virtualized servers in zone 2
3. Virtualized servers from a different company altogether.
So I went from one solid server, good backups, maybe a hot backup, and talented staff running the show to outsourced to 3 different clouds with hour-long hold times with some Amazon support monkey? Genius.
Err, the laptop its actually SITTING ON MY LAP. Opposed to a tablet which I need to hold and use my other hand to control it. I can literally use a laptop with a beer in one hand, but its a lot more tricky with a tablet. You may to rethink this one.
"Yes, this tablet is good but it needs a keyboard."
"Ah, yes, this keyboard is fine, but it needs a real OS."
"Whoa, this OS is killing the battery, what this needs is a big ol' battery and a charger brick to charge it."
"My hand is getting tired with all the pinching and zooming. I need a good touchpad and sometimes a good mouse."
So we're just reinventing the laptop. Great. Turns out doing something productive on a tablet is borderline impossible.
Sonicwall also charges for updates. If there's a vulnerability in 5.5 and you don't have a support contract with them then you can't download 5.5.1.
Its an industry problem. These companies need to offer security updates for free. If this means rolling the cost of the support contract into the device itself, then fine, but the status quo of buying something and only having 30 days of updates is terrible.
I think the big complaint is from people who buy laptops with only VGA out and cannot do HDCP. So they're forced to use their laptop's monitor.
Nowadays, HDMI is practically standard on laptops, so that might not be such a problem anymore.
If the second monitor is not HDCP compatible then it won't play. So a VGA interface won't work. DVI will be okay but you'll need HDMI to get 1080p. Not sure what BR DVI defaults to, I think 720p.
I dont like being in the position defending that site, but you're wrong. Their content is made by their own users and they don't steal content from other sites. They have a pay mechanism, but all the answers you find via google can be found by scrolling down to the bottom of the page. No need to pay anyone.
Its not an anonymizing proxy, its a free mirror to keep us from slashdotting the site. Info on Coral Cache here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Content_Distribution_Network
Huh? I use FTPS all the time with Filezilla server and connect with a variety of FTPS clients and never have issues. This is through a variety of firewalls- expensive cisco's and sonicwalls and cheapo netgears and linksys.
Both FTP and FTPS require passive mode to work properly and a passive range forwarded. That's it. Once configured correctly on the server-side there's nothing else to do.
Honestly, it scares me that vanilla FTP is so widely used and the defacto way to transfers files for so many services. Its completely unencrypted. Its a shame the browser makers never supported FTPS like they did HTTPS.
You're wrong. If you install flash via the market nothing happens. You need to go into the settings and enable it as always or on-demand.
The end user's phone isn't just automatically displaying flash. Its something you need to get well out of your way to do.
Err, Apple was right in what exactly? Removing your choice?
I have flash on my phone. Its set to On Demand (something the wiliest tech reporter doesn't seem to understand). When I'm using my phone and see a video that is not hosted on youtube, I press on the green box and it magically plays. What exactly is the problem here?
Secondly, none of the flash stuff I run has been remotely optimized for mobile screen. None. Yet they tend to work.
The android crowd doesn't love it.I don't love most technologies. Its just a boring tool I use. Its the Apple set that politicizes everything and becomes emotional when Dear Leader makes a proclamation. I couldn't give a shit what Jobs or the Goolgle Twins think I should be doing. I just want tools that let me do what I want.
So wait, Kotaku, a site with the worst UI design I've ever seen is criticizing MS's kinect interface? Le irony, it is too much!
Insulation isn't usually put on interrior walls and I have no need to broadcast my wifi outside of my house. Those that do can position their WAP near a window.
I'm also certain this is not an a recent issue. Almost all the insulation I've seen, apart from spray insulation, has some kind of foil-like backing.
Maybe complainers should spend 2 minutes trying a different wifi channel instead of blaming their home.
I hate this anti-intellectual attitude that attacks anything that doesn't lead to a new shiny for the lowest common denominator buyer. MS Research is actually a pretty good shop. Playing up conspiracy theories is being silly. Researchers aren't supposed to be marketers.
I know you're making a smart-ass joke, but 24fps is pretty obvious to those of us who edit video and its mostly obvious to movie goers. Movies look a certain way for a reason. The "cinema" look is this very choppy experience. Its completely arbitrary, like the aesthetics of film grain, but for some reason filmmakers and audiences like it.
I'm not partial to it. I kind of like the smoother experience, but the traditionalists are going to go crazy if this catches on, the same way they complained about the digital projection showings of the recent Star Wars movies.
To be fair, one's motivations aren't exactly a face tattoo. Sure, maybe Jane gets in CS for make a killing at a startup. Maybe she wants to write apps. Maybe she does. Just because her motivation is money-based or prestige based in the beginning doesn't mean she can't do great things later.
Yes, physicists are prestige & money-based too. Talk to one. Ask them where they work and why. Ask them why they chose that particular phd program. Sure, there's perhaps more geeky love in hard sciences but there's a lot of competition for the well-paying universities, tenure, hard to get into phd programs, getting published, etc.
One of the very nice things about CS or Software Engineering or whatever is that you'll meet some really motivated guys who want to build things. They want to make new things. They have lots of ideas. In business school, law school, etc you just have drones who just care more about the big money and paying off their massive loans than the art of becoming a self-starter or making anything other than more TPS reports.
Look, all humans are greedy animals. We are just trying to maximize our cash, prestige, standing, intelligence, etc. This is how capitalism works. CS majors are no different. Don't piss on the guy who wants to run a startup, because he might and you might be calling him boss soon.
Right, his lawyer told him to settle. That's the wisest move. The law isn't like it is in the movies where the young guy challenges the status quo and wins. In real life, the status quo sues you to oblivion and 80% of your check is garnished for the rest of your days.
Corporations have too much power. Fighting them in court doesn't work as they more or less write the laws they're attacking you with. Change the laws. Regulate corporations tighter.
You're an animal. A human to be specific. You've evolved and internalized via biological functions all manner of earth-bound cycles. You are not an interstellar space spore. The idea that we can just get rid of the year as a metric because of a guy orbiting the earth is a bit silly and certainly is not "the point."
Maybe in some transhuman future where everyone lives off-planet and we control our genes and biology. But right now? Naww. Monkeyman needs a calendar.
Except they don't understand it at all.
Hacking culture is incredibly anti-authoritarian. That's not going to work in Xtianity which is nothing but an appeal to an authority (authors of the bible, jesus, etc).
Hacking is about solving problems in a quick and dirty manner. Its the "bazaar" of open ideas and religion is, you guessed it, the "cathedral" of top down closed ideas controlled by an elite and followed by an credulous public.
On the plus side, I see the Vatican's PR people are doing a good job. Front page slashdot? Nice. Gotta fill them pews.
Err, stress literally kills. The hormones it produces are toxic. A significant amount of people are stressed all the time and its only made worse by the 24/7 society.
Unlike our hunter-gatherer ancestors, we aren't sitting in the sun all day. We're not getting a short high stress event (killing an animal) and then relaxing the rest of the day. We're not getting this level of downtime anymore and chronic stress is common. Heck, Americans barely get vacation days.
Your society, your city, your processed food, your vitamin enriched food, the vaccines in your blood, etc are all technology that has nothing to do with how evolution shaped us for so long. Of course, we should be addressing stress, the same way we address horrible urban conditions with germ theory, cleaning, better sewage, soaps, and antibiotics.
Its a luddite position to think that your body and mind are well suited for modern living and anything controlling that is "unnatural." Its a luddite who says we shouldnt be playing with this. This pandora's box was opened long ago. Appeals to "the natural man" are a fallacy for this reason.
Adding relaxation techniques into your life can make such a significant change its not even funny. Its incredible how much stress we take for granted. Its not normal, its not healthy, and it is a problem. I'm very excited by this research. I hate the idea that its 100% socially acceptable to be a caffeine addict workaholic, but once we start talking about relaxation, downtime, stress, etc suddenly we're all so careful!
> Microsoft, on the other hand, relies on its software to make money.
MS doesn't often engage in legal patent action. For a giant company its pretty rare. They're much more likely to be the victims of submarine patents by firms that do nothing but buy out patents.
MS has spoken against the patent status quo a lot, especially when it is sued monthly for some obvious patent and often loses because a jury in the most conservative part of the country doesn't give two shits about technology nor will they ever understand anything past 'how to reboot your computer.'
If MS can make the billions it does by engaging mostly in defensive patents, then anyone can. Sorry, but using MS only continues to nullify your position.