USB is by far the most popular combined power/data cable standard around, micro-usb is designed to be both smaller and more robust than the previous mini-usb standard it replaced (thus micro-usb is the official usb connector), it's the blatantly obvious choice. What kind of tests do you think they should have run that wouldn't have been an absolute waste of time and money?
It was developed to be the fragile single point of failure for all manufacturers.
Actually micro-usb is designed to be more durable than previous USB designs by putting all moving parts on the cable instead of the socket, putting more wear on the cable instead of the socket.
Micro-usb socket break off the board? You can blame manufacturer cost-cutting for that, the same thing would happen if they attached a lightning connector weakly too.
Most of these phones become obsolete before the need a new cable. Usually those extra accessories will try to take advantage of a unique feature in the phone, so even if the cable fits it doesn't mean the software will work with it.
Bullshit, every single usb charger I've ever owned has worked with every single non-Apple usb device without any issues. The whole point of this standard is so that every phone does work, hassle free, with every charger (in fact the only devices I've seen complain about usb charging are Apple devices, go figure).
Also just because almost all phones come with a charger doesn't mean you won't need to either replace it or buy a 2nd charger, and if you had a previous phone you already have a perfectly good 2nd charger with no need to buy another one because your new phone is incompatible.
You know what? I count being able to borrow anyone at work's usb charging cable and have it work on my usb phone as a good thing.
The EU Law on this is just one of their Lets just find a way to stick it to the Americans law, because they had a fit that Apple took over Nokia lead.
Or maybe the EU cares about doing what's good for consumers and not just what's good for the company that pays them the most money.
If Apple "needs" a proprietary connector then they can put both a micro-usb connector and their expensive proprietary DRMd cable.
Surely it can't be or it would completely fuck up anyone using a mouse? (The pad is emulating a trackpad controlled mouse pointer, so as far as the game knows you're using a regular mouse/trackpad)
Looks around as good as using a laptop track pad for FPS games, so usable but not perfect. Of course when I'm on the couch I just use a wireless keyboard and mouse so that suites both causal gaming and "serious" FPS matches:)
Sure this GPU may be more 2D oriented than the others, but any of those other 3D SoC GPUs are just a library away from doing easy 2D sprites as either 3D planes or even simply doing pixel plotting (after all a 300mhz PC was powerful enough to emulate a SNES at full speed).
... which when combined with an Arduino ends up being something rather similar to the other single board computers I mentioned, just with considerably worse CPU spec.
I suppose you could pair it with a Arduino Tre or pcDuino for better CPU spec, but is this GPU any better than the GPUs built into those boards...
With this, Raspberry Pi, Arduino Tre, pcDuino, Beagleboard etc. the market for low-cost, bare-bones, graphics capable single-board computers is getting pretty crowded...
Well, yes, killing people is illegal, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. This case springs to mind, Akio Kashiwagi was winning big against Trump's casinos. Trump managed to tempt Akio into playing a high stakes game that he lost big time. Before Trump got his money the Yakuza murdered Akio, presumably because they were bank-rolling him.
Large televised poker games use a glass table so that viewers and commentators can see the players' cards. This may even be true of all large games regardless of whether they're televised to try and catch unusual betting behaviour (as was the case here).
If it was a big game then it may have been televised, as they have glass sections on the tables to allow viewers and commentators to see what cards the players have. This may even be true of all large games regardless of whether they're televised to try and catch unusual betting behaviour (as was the case here).
What are you, some kind of resolution hipster (720p is sooooo last year)?
The Nexus 4 has a 1280x768 display on a 4.7" screen and it's more than enough, the only way I can see individual pixels is holding it uncomfortably close to my face. An extra 0.2" isn't going to turn a 720p display into some kind of unusable pixelated mess, and I challenge anyone to spot the difference between a 5" 720p and 1080p display at normal usage distance
're incorrect. It's unchanging the meaning back to something that makes sense. "Original" only has meaning in a crafts and arts context
Now you're just nit-picking over semantics. Discs created and sold by movie studios' authorised sellers are selling them on the original creators' behalf, so money from the sale is going back to the original creators. The discs themselves aren't literally original works themselves, but they are sold for the original creators.
Genuine is another term whose actual meaning was distorted by copyrightists' marketing efforts. In the case, Microsoft. And it took them years and millions of dollars to ingrain in the minds of the unsuspecting sheep this new meaning. It's another word that needs rescuing.
Are you kidding? Never head the term "genuine leather" etc.? Genuine has meant "really proceeding from its reputed source" since the 1660s, what did you think it meant??
Nope. They'd be genuine copies of the copies of the original made by the 1st party.
If they were expressly sold as copies not created by/for the original creators of the film then that would be a genuine 3rd party copy, likewise now any illegal copy sold explicitly as pirated would be a genuine pirate copy. It's when something is sold as something else (eg. a copy made independently from a studio but sold as coming from that studio) then it is, by definition, no-longer genuine.
Changing the commonly understood meaning of a word just to suite your argument is disingenuous at best. Ask anyone on the street whether an unauthorised copy created by a 3rd party sold as created by the 1st party is genuine and they'll say no.
You can argue that people should be allowed to make and sell these 3rd party versions, but if they were sold as being created by the 1st party then they still wouldn't be genuine.
As always the answer is "it depends". The disk is original from its manufacturer. The service of copying is the copier's original service. The contents is the software house's compiler's original output. What isn't original in all of this?
No it doesn't depend, you can't just make up your own definition of "genuine" and the ship of Theseus has nothing to do with it. Genuine, in this context, is about trade descriptions.
If you have a movie that is being sold as new from the studio's official distributors (eg. the film studio is getting the money) but actually it was copied by someone in their basement then it's not genuine no matter how close to the real thing it's made. If you buy a copy of Windows that is sold as coming from Microsoft but is actually a forgery then it's not genuine even if contains the same data on the disk. Of course the customer who bought the counterfeit Windows disk will find that out as soon as they enter their licence key.
Talking of licence keys even if a genuine OEM copy of Windows was repackaged as the (more expensive) retail version it wouldn't be genuine because it's not what it was advertised as.
Seriously, read the definition of genuine again: "possessing the claimed or attributed character, quality, or origin; not counterfeit; authentic; real: genuine sympathy; a genuine antique." If something isn't of the claimed origin then it's not genuine, end of story.
By the way I don't agree with this usage of the term "genuine". Unless the contents was in some way altered it's as much "genuine" as one sold by an official licensee
Genuine doesn't mean "identical", it means that it is what it's claimed to be (the dictionary definition is "possessing the claimed or attributed character, quality, or origin; not counterfeit; authentic; real: genuine sympathy; a genuine antique.")
A counterfeit disk can have 100% identical data to a real copy, but if the seller claims that counterfeit disk came from the official distributor when it didn't then by definition it's not genuine.
Also you can't have something that is "almost genuine", either the item is as described or it isn't. If you buy Windows disk that was claimed to have come from an official distributor but didn't then how is that "almost genuine"?
Yes, it is. They're finding the data, burning it into a disc, packaging, perhaps offering warranty so that they'll replace the disk if it doesn't work etc. That's a service. The same service the original publisher does mind you, even if the original publisher puts more quality in the end result. As service providers both are certainly entitled to charge whatever they want for said service, provided of course they don't lie about what they're selling to their customers. It's mere competition.
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By the way: I always purchase the official version if it's available (if it isn't I pirate). I don't do this because some idiotic anti-private property law demands from me to obey a government mandated monopoly, but because *I* want to support official licensees whenever *they* support me. My money, my morals, my choice.
You do know that these men were arrested for selling counterfeit copies as genuine copies right?
What is this trash doing on Slashdot? Seriously the whole article is utter crap, there are no plans for any kind of speed limiters to be fitted to vehicles.
Here's the full quote from the EU commission in question:
The Commission has not tabled – and does not have in the pipeline – even a non-binding Recommendation, let alone anything more.
The Commission has supported past research into ISA. There is a current stakeholder consultation and study focusing on speed limiting technology already fitted to HGVs and buses. One aspect of that is whether ISA could in the long-term be an alternative.
This is just standard right-wing anti-EU drivel. I think Reddit user Dwilip put it best:
Standard Tory playbook by unknown junior minister looking for some cheap column inches. Find EU report Make up something ridiculous Claim you are going to block it Get your mate at the Torygraph to write about It never happens Say you personally stopped it Print it in you leaflets, cite Torygraph article as evidence
Here you go: Malware infestation running amok on Android
And what percentage of those are due to OS vulnerabilities rather than users simply installing malware disguised as apps downloaded from untrustworthy websites?
Or do you count being able to install arbitrary apps as an OS vulnerability?
Just make me pay when I get new plates. I have to get new plates every X years anyhow
But this is the thing I don't get, because you wouldn't need new plates at all if they weren't used for tax purposes (UK/European plates generally last the lifetime of the vehicle). It seems so wasteful to throw perfectly good stamped metal plates away when you could just use a little piece of paper to show your vehicle is taxed.
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USB is by far the most popular combined power/data cable standard around, micro-usb is designed to be both smaller and more robust than the previous mini-usb standard it replaced (thus micro-usb is the official usb connector), it's the blatantly obvious choice. What kind of tests do you think they should have run that wouldn't have been an absolute waste of time and money?
It was developed to be the fragile single point of failure for all manufacturers.
Actually micro-usb is designed to be more durable than previous USB designs by putting all moving parts on the cable instead of the socket, putting more wear on the cable instead of the socket.
Micro-usb socket break off the board? You can blame manufacturer cost-cutting for that, the same thing would happen if they attached a lightning connector weakly too.
Most of these phones become obsolete before the need a new cable. Usually those extra accessories will try to take advantage of a unique feature in the phone, so even if the cable fits it doesn't mean the software will work with it.
Bullshit, every single usb charger I've ever owned has worked with every single non-Apple usb device without any issues. The whole point of this standard is so that every phone does work, hassle free, with every charger (in fact the only devices I've seen complain about usb charging are Apple devices, go figure).
Also just because almost all phones come with a charger doesn't mean you won't need to either replace it or buy a 2nd charger, and if you had a previous phone you already have a perfectly good 2nd charger with no need to buy another one because your new phone is incompatible.
You know what? I count being able to borrow anyone at work's usb charging cable and have it work on my usb phone as a good thing.
The EU Law on this is just one of their Lets just find a way to stick it to the Americans law, because they had a fit that Apple took over Nokia lead.
Or maybe the EU cares about doing what's good for consumers and not just what's good for the company that pays them the most money.
If Apple "needs" a proprietary connector then they can put both a micro-usb connector and their expensive proprietary DRMd cable.
That's built into the game
Surely it can't be or it would completely fuck up anyone using a mouse? (The pad is emulating a trackpad controlled mouse pointer, so as far as the game knows you're using a regular mouse/trackpad)
Looks around as good as using a laptop track pad for FPS games, so usable but not perfect. Of course when I'm on the couch I just use a wireless keyboard and mouse so that suites both causal gaming and "serious" FPS matches :)
Sure this GPU may be more 2D oriented than the others, but any of those other 3D SoC GPUs are just a library away from doing easy 2D sprites as either 3D planes or even simply doing pixel plotting (after all a 300mhz PC was powerful enough to emulate a SNES at full speed).
... which when combined with an Arduino ends up being something rather similar to the other single board computers I mentioned, just with considerably worse CPU spec.
I suppose you could pair it with a Arduino Tre or pcDuino for better CPU spec, but is this GPU any better than the GPUs built into those boards...
With this, Raspberry Pi, Arduino Tre, pcDuino, Beagleboard etc. the market for low-cost, bare-bones, graphics capable single-board computers is getting pretty crowded...
Damn, when did Gamecube become "retro"? Am I really that old?
You're thinking of deflation, not inflation which is the opposite.
Well, yes, killing people is illegal, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. This case springs to mind, Akio Kashiwagi was winning big against Trump's casinos. Trump managed to tempt Akio into playing a high stakes game that he lost big time. Before Trump got his money the Yakuza murdered Akio, presumably because they were bank-rolling him.
Large televised poker games use a glass table so that viewers and commentators can see the players' cards. This may even be true of all large games regardless of whether they're televised to try and catch unusual betting behaviour (as was the case here).
If it was a big game then it may have been televised, as they have glass sections on the tables to allow viewers and commentators to see what cards the players have. This may even be true of all large games regardless of whether they're televised to try and catch unusual betting behaviour (as was the case here).
What are you, some kind of resolution hipster (720p is sooooo last year)?
The Nexus 4 has a 1280x768 display on a 4.7" screen and it's more than enough, the only way I can see individual pixels is holding it uncomfortably close to my face. An extra 0.2" isn't going to turn a 720p display into some kind of unusable pixelated mess, and I challenge anyone to spot the difference between a 5" 720p and 1080p display at normal usage distance
're incorrect. It's unchanging the meaning back to something that makes sense. "Original" only has meaning in a crafts and arts context
Now you're just nit-picking over semantics. Discs created and sold by movie studios' authorised sellers are selling them on the original creators' behalf, so money from the sale is going back to the original creators. The discs themselves aren't literally original works themselves, but they are sold for the original creators.
Genuine is another term whose actual meaning was distorted by copyrightists' marketing efforts. In the case, Microsoft. And it took them years and millions of dollars to ingrain in the minds of the unsuspecting sheep this new meaning. It's another word that needs rescuing.
Are you kidding? Never head the term "genuine leather" etc.? Genuine has meant "really proceeding from its reputed source" since the 1660s, what did you think it meant??
Nope. They'd be genuine copies of the copies of the original made by the 1st party.
If they were expressly sold as copies not created by/for the original creators of the film then that would be a genuine 3rd party copy, likewise now any illegal copy sold explicitly as pirated would be a genuine pirate copy. It's when something is sold as something else (eg. a copy made independently from a studio but sold as coming from that studio) then it is, by definition, no-longer genuine.
Changing the commonly understood meaning of a word just to suite your argument is disingenuous at best. Ask anyone on the street whether an unauthorised copy created by a 3rd party sold as created by the 1st party is genuine and they'll say no.
You can argue that people should be allowed to make and sell these 3rd party versions, but if they were sold as being created by the 1st party then they still wouldn't be genuine.
As always the answer is "it depends". The disk is original from its manufacturer. The service of copying is the copier's original service. The contents is the software house's compiler's original output. What isn't original in all of this?
No it doesn't depend, you can't just make up your own definition of "genuine" and the ship of Theseus has nothing to do with it. Genuine, in this context, is about trade descriptions.
If you have a movie that is being sold as new from the studio's official distributors (eg. the film studio is getting the money) but actually it was copied by someone in their basement then it's not genuine no matter how close to the real thing it's made. If you buy a copy of Windows that is sold as coming from Microsoft but is actually a forgery then it's not genuine even if contains the same data on the disk. Of course the customer who bought the counterfeit Windows disk will find that out as soon as they enter their licence key.
Talking of licence keys even if a genuine OEM copy of Windows was repackaged as the (more expensive) retail version it wouldn't be genuine because it's not what it was advertised as.
Seriously, read the definition of genuine again: "possessing the claimed or attributed character, quality, or origin; not counterfeit; authentic; real: genuine sympathy; a genuine antique." If something isn't of the claimed origin then it's not genuine, end of story.
By the way I don't agree with this usage of the term "genuine". Unless the contents was in some way altered it's as much "genuine" as one sold by an official licensee
Genuine doesn't mean "identical", it means that it is what it's claimed to be (the dictionary definition is "possessing the claimed or attributed character, quality, or origin; not counterfeit; authentic; real: genuine sympathy; a genuine antique.")
A counterfeit disk can have 100% identical data to a real copy, but if the seller claims that counterfeit disk came from the official distributor when it didn't then by definition it's not genuine.
Also you can't have something that is "almost genuine", either the item is as described or it isn't. If you buy Windows disk that was claimed to have come from an official distributor but didn't then how is that "almost genuine"?
Yes, it is. They're finding the data, burning it into a disc, packaging, perhaps offering warranty so that they'll replace the disk if it doesn't work etc. That's a service. The same service the original publisher does mind you, even if the original publisher puts more quality in the end result. As service providers both are certainly entitled to charge whatever they want for said service, provided of course they don't lie about what they're selling to their customers. It's mere competition.
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By the way: I always purchase the official version if it's available (if it isn't I pirate). I don't do this because some idiotic anti-private property law demands from me to obey a government mandated monopoly, but because *I* want to support official licensees whenever *they* support me. My money, my morals, my choice.
You do know that these men were arrested for selling counterfeit copies as genuine copies right?
No, it's not. Saboteurs break machines and bring them to a halt. Check the etymology.
How about using the modern definition instead? Sabotage: "the act of destroying or damaging something deliberately so that it does not work correctly"
I mean, the NSA sabotaged an encryption standard, so it seems like this would be similarly sabotaging a batch of CPUs.
What is this trash doing on Slashdot? Seriously the whole article is utter crap, there are no plans for any kind of speed limiters to be fitted to vehicles.
Here's the full quote from the EU commission in question:
The Commission has not tabled – and does not have in the pipeline – even a non-binding Recommendation, let alone anything more.
The Commission has supported past research into ISA. There is a current stakeholder consultation and study focusing on speed limiting technology already fitted to HGVs and buses. One aspect of that is whether ISA could in the long-term be an alternative.
This is just standard right-wing anti-EU drivel. I think Reddit user Dwilip put it best:
Standard Tory playbook by unknown junior minister looking for some cheap column inches.
Find EU report
Make up something ridiculous
Claim you are going to block it
Get your mate at the Torygraph to write about
It never happens
Say you personally stopped it
Print it in you leaflets, cite Torygraph article as evidence
"flying while brown".
Here you go: Malware infestation running amok on Android
And what percentage of those are due to OS vulnerabilities rather than users simply installing malware disguised as apps downloaded from untrustworthy websites?
Or do you count being able to install arbitrary apps as an OS vulnerability?
if you're going to make race-baiting jokes, at least get the pronunciation right
And the language too; Those are clearly Chinese names </colbert>
Just make me pay when I get new plates. I have to get new plates every X years anyhow
But this is the thing I don't get, because you wouldn't need new plates at all if they weren't used for tax purposes (UK/European plates generally last the lifetime of the vehicle). It seems so wasteful to throw perfectly good stamped metal plates away when you could just use a little piece of paper to show your vehicle is taxed.